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Land Records Scanned Back To 1786 — Offline

by | Jan 25, 2019 8:39 am | Comments (2)

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Vera Morrison in the vault.

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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MLK Invoked In Call For Yale Local Hiring

by | Jan 22, 2019 9:04 am | Comments (8)

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Union leaders at Monday night’s service (clockwise from top left): N.H. Rising Director Scott Marks, Local 34 prez Laurie Kennington, Local 33 leaders Charles Decker and Sandra Sánchez, Local 34 member Rebecca Corbett.

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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Sgt. Justin Marshall Takes Over As Hill Top Cop

by | Jan 18, 2019 8:49 am | Comments (9)

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New Hill top cop Sgt. Justin Marshall.

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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Student-Shoving Principal Leaves Post

by | Jan 17, 2019 3:12 pm | Comments (50)

(Update) Morgan Barth, the school leader at Achievement First Amistad High School, has decided to step down immediately.His resignation comes hours after the Independent posted a story and a video of him shoving a student and days after a former employee criticized the working environment he fostered at Amistad in a viral video. The incidents touched off a broader community discussion about discipline practices at the nationally acclaimed Dixwell Avenue charter school.

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Clark Paid $102,797.54 Not To Sue

by | Jan 15, 2019 6:33 pm | Comments (26)

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Will Clark testifying on budget.

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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Duncan Owner: We Tried To Allow Union

by | Jan 9, 2019 9:01 am | Comments (13)

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Hotel Duncan, set to reopen in fall as “Graduate New Haven.”

Franzen: Suddenly, no calls back.

The old Hotel Duncan’s boutique successor plans to have a ground-floor restaurant, a first-floor cafe — and, at least for now, no unionized employees.

According to the new hotel’s owner, that’s not for lack of trying. On the hotel’s part, that is.

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Police Poet Puts Down Pen

by | Jan 4, 2019 1:47 pm | Comments (6)

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Hartman updates press on 2017 SWAT response to Elm Street barricaded man’s shooting of wife and 2 cops.

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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Coders, Collab Chart Economy’s Next Moves

by | Dec 6, 2018 1:08 pm | Comments (1)

Full house at State House Wednesday night for innovation pitches.

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Kim Harris presents her idea.

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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Pirelli Hotel Plan Survives Surprise Attack

by | Nov 15, 2018 8:34 am | Comments (21)

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IKEA attorney Jim Segaloff prevailing at Wednesday’s City Plan meeting.

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The Pirelli Building.

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.

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Fatherhood Made Easier

by | Nov 5, 2018 4:06 pm | Comments (0)

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Presenter Maysonet, with the Daddy Box of books and materials on fatherhood.

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.

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