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Sam Gurwitt |
Jan 25, 2019 8:39 am
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In the vault in the town clerk’s office at the Hamden Government Center, a large red book has a page of yellow parchment recording a land transaction from July 5, 1786, the town’s first. That page, just like the records recorded on Jan. 22, 2019 and every single one in between, is now scanned and viewable on the computers along one wall of the office.
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Christopher Peak |
Jan 24, 2019 5:27 pm
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Daniel Bonet-Ojeda, the principal at John C. Daniels School of International Communication, has been removed from the building, while an internal investigation into his conduct is underway.
Parents, meanwhile, say district leaders have left them in the dark.
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Thomas Breen |
Jan 22, 2019 9:04 am
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The arc of the moral universe is long. And if local politicians, union leaders, and labor-sympathetic pastors have anything to say about it, that arc will bend directly towards New Haven’s largest employer: Yale.
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Thomas Breen |
Jan 18, 2019 8:49 am
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The Hill has a new top cop. For now.
At Wednesday night’s Hill South Community Management Team meeting at Betsy Ross Arts Magnet School at 150 Kimberly Ave., Sgt. Justin Marshall introduced himself as the neighborhood’s new temporary district commander, replacing the recently retired Lt. Jason Minardi.
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Paul Bass & Thomas Breen |
Jan 15, 2019 6:33 pm
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The Board of Education gave its chief operating officer a six-figure going-away present, in return for a promise not to file suit against it or make disparaging public statements about public officials.
He will be allowed to talk to, say, the feds if they come asking questions.
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Christopher Peak |
Jan 15, 2019 3:55 pm
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Five more school administrators plan to retire at the end of the school year, including an advocate for bilingual education and the administrators union president.
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Christopher Peak & Paul Bass |
Jan 14, 2019 9:35 pm
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Darnell Goldson went from being the subject of a vague investigation Monday to receiving a public apology from the schools superintendent — and then being reelected president of the Board of Education.
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Christopher Peak |
Jan 11, 2019 5:17 pm
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A barrier-breaking cop walked away from the job with a five-figure check and two letters of recommendation, after suing her former boss for harassment, intimidation and discrimination.
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Christopher Peak |
Jan 11, 2019 5:16 pm
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A longtime Federal Aviation Administration employee, who’s been working without pay to keep planes flying into Tweed-New Haven Airport, asked Congressional Republicans Friday to start doing their job and reopen the government.
Officer David Hartman — a public face of New Haven’s police department since 2011 — retired Friday after a quarter century in uniform and seven years of elevating law enforcement’s literary standard.
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Christopher Peak |
Dec 14, 2018 1:11 pm
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Midway through the school year, top administrators are heading for the exits, leaving decades of institutional knowledge and morale concerns in their wake.
A state judge who once issued a landmark ruling about unconstitutional funding of Connecticut’s schools has again weighed in on a controversial issue, this time about a labor dispute.
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Thomas Breen |
Dec 6, 2018 1:08 pm
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A new small business that sells portable martial arts “wooden dummies.” A new nonprofit that brings people together in Newhallville. A fireman-cum-software engineer using tech to support emergency responders. And a citywide push to teach residents how to code.
Those are a few local entrepreneurial initiatives to emerge this week as the city took next steps toward a future as an innovation economy.
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Christopher Peak |
Dec 5, 2018 9:05 am
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Dave Cicarella, the teachers union president, narrowly defeated two challengers to win reelection to a fifth term at the helm of the New Haven Federation of Teachers.
Rather than hire a new economic development chief in the near future, Mayor Toni Harp is asking Michael Piscitelli to serve in the role on an “acting basis” for a year.
A plan to convert the long-vacant and historic Pirelli Building into a 165-room hotel received approval from the City Plan Commission despite a one-hour push by labor-affiliated alders and city staff to stall the proposal.
An infant as young as ten days old, who isn’t even aware it has a face, will copy dad sticking out his own tongue, as long as the dad is holding him close and sticking out his tongue and paying full attention.
That’s why the first rule of good fathering is to be present, in the mindful sense.