Hamden Parents United members Lena Smith Parker, Christina Larrow, Sarah Northrop, Principal Nadine Gannon, and Melissa Atterberry-Jones.
Thursday's spread.
Hamden High School teachers, social workers, nurses, and security showed up to work at 6:30 a.m. Thursday, ready to be released into a highly anticipated week of spring break following a tough few years — then were surprised with a breakfast buffet served by smiling parents.
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Apr 14, 2022 1:12 pm
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Mayor Elicker at Thursday's presser with city, state and federal partners.
The Elicker Administration has launched a new local-state-federal partnership focused on helping formerly incarcerated adults who are at risk of being victims or perpetrators of gun violence.
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Maya McFadden |
Apr 13, 2022 11:18 am
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DeLauro with Basher Jamale at the Drop-In Center.
Basher Jamale says he would not have a job, green card, or warm cup of coffee everyday if it weren’t for the Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen (DESK) Drop-In and Resource Center.
After two years of keeping in touch through lunch dates, friends Sarah McClain and Annie Meyers returned to the Dixwell/Newhallville Senior Center — in its modern new home — ready to get back into classes, day trip outings, and bingo.
How much would buying an ice cold Corona on-scene contribute to the experience?
This year’s attendees of Hamden Fest may get to find out for themselves, thanks to a proposed amendment put forward by Hamden’s mayor to allow for the sale and distribution of alcohol at town celebrations on a case-by-case review basis.
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Apr 1, 2022 9:23 am
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City Department of Community Resilience Acting Director Carlos Sosa-Lombardo presents at Wednesday night's Finance Committee hearing.
The Elicker Administration’s long-delayed plans to set up a non-cop crisis response team inched forward, as committee alders endorsed a $3.5 million contract with Yale and receipt of a $2 million federal grant.
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Thomas Breen |
Mar 28, 2022 1:21 pm
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City community resilience director Carlos Sosa-Lombardo (second from left) with social services chief Mehul Dalal, Rev. Abraham Hernandez, and Continuum of Care CEO Patti Walker.
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New uniforms and logos for COMPASS team.
The Elicker Administration’s proposed non-cop emergency response initiative has a new name, new uniforms, a new subcontractor charged with sending out social workers to certain 911 calls — as well as $2 million of newly approved federal support.
What the long-delayed project still does not yet have, however, is a new start date for when its pilot program will actually begin.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Mar 22, 2022 5:23 pm
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Visual projection of Hamden's anticipated budget drivers.
Hamden lawmakers provisionally OK’d filling two new government positions early — but pressed for a broader discussion about whether the town should be funding new jobs while raising taxes by up to 3.68 mills.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Mar 21, 2022 5:22 pm
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Diane Brown at entrance to new Stetson Branch Library.
Diane Brown swung open the door Monday morning to a long-awaited new, enhanced neighborhood library and community anchor at the corner of Dixwell Avenue and Foote Street, with lots more room, more books, and more to do.
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Mar 21, 2022 4:18 pm
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New Public Safety Communications Director Kevin Stratton and Acting Director of Elderly Services Tomi Veale on Monday.
Mayor Justin Elicker continued filling out City Hall’s top ranks, tapping two new department heads to lead the city’s 911 call center and its programming for elderly residents.
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Mar 17, 2022 10:21 am
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Hamden's biggest expenses: Board of Education, fringe benefits, and public safety. Garrett proposed increasing the police budget by 3 percent.
A first draft of Hamden’s next annual operating budget includes a tax hike — as well as a strategy to reduce the town’s long-term liabilities and bolster efficiency within municipal government.
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Avery Mitchell |
Mar 7, 2022 9:10 am
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LEAP fundraiser attendees.
Leadership, Education and Athletics in Partnership, Inc. (LEAP) held its 27th annual LEAP Year Event, a fundraiser that brought supporters that care about New Haven’s children together.
Albert Hargrove would like to lock his door to keep safe at night — but the door doesn’t lock. So he sleeps with a metal pole besides his bed and hopes for the best.
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Feb 23, 2022 4:25 pm
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Clarion's Mariam Andino Pagán thanks a giveaway volunteer.
Supplies stored and distributed Wednesday in the Clarion basement.
Mariam Andino Pagán doesn’t earn enough money working at the Clarion Hotel to afford a place to sleep at night — but she did find clothing and supplies in the basement Wednesday, as a community rescue mission that began with a local fire expanded to more people in need.
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Thomas Breen |
Feb 22, 2022 1:47 pm
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Dalal: Take time to do it right.
The start date for a pilot program of the Elicker Administration’s non-cop emergency response initiative has been pushed back yet again — as the city looks to sign on a subcontractor to train, employ, and supervise social workers and mental-health professionals to respond to certain 911 calls.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Jan 26, 2022 10:21 am
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Departing schools chief Goeler: Conversation shifted when "citizens" became "taxpayers."
Jody Goeler has a message for his successor as they pick up the unfinished work of desegregating Hamden’s schools: Have a strong set of beliefs — and learn how to listen to others.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Jan 24, 2022 3:31 pm
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Trevor Cadhey: When is mental health day not "skipping school?"
Hamden High Freshman Trevor Cadhey knows he’s allowed to take up to two “mental health days” off from school this year, but he isn’t sure under what circumstances he should use them.
School staffers and Board of Education members are grappling with the same question facing Cadhey and his peers — what is a mental health day? — while determining how to translate new state legislation concerning kids’ psychological health into district policy.
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Maya McFadden and Nora Grace-Flood |
Jan 21, 2022 10:01 am
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Warmth is in the cards at DESK drop-in center during freeze.
Gloria came to New Haven’s drop-in center Thursday not just to stay warm during the day — but to remain overnight rather than sleep outdoors as usual, as preparations kicked into gear to keep unsheltered residents safe during an expected week-long deep freeze.
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Nora Grace-Flood |
Jan 4, 2022 1:48 pm
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Nominee Rhonda Caldwell at a 2019 rally calling for the firing of Hamden Police Officer Devin Eaton.
A new day for Hamden’s police commission has come into view after five nominees won the first of two needed votes to take over — and promised to bring heightened transparency and a more diverse outlook on public safety.
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Christian Robles |
Nov 26, 2021 12:06 pm
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Cepea “CJ” Burton with her students at Edgewood School: Remote pivot proceeds in classroom.
Schools have increasingly incorporated social-emotional learning into instruction time because of the mental health toll that the pandemic has had on students, teachers, and staff. In New Haven, where the concept was pioneered a half-century ago, that has meant going bigger on a concept that was already rooted in the district.
As was evident when morning meeting got underway in Cepea “CJ” Burton’s third-grade classroom.
