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Opinion: What Is "Powder Farm" Can Be "Six Lakes"

by | Jun 23, 2023 10:39 am | Comments (8)

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Butler Street in Southern Hamden.

Since I was a small child, I have thought about the lack of access to open space in the Newhall community. Southern Hamden is, for the most part, overdeveloped with the exception of a few spots of green spaces. There are just a few places where someone could sit under a tree and get respite from the sun. 

But what if there was a 102.5‑acre oasis sitting in our backyard? What if the long-dormant Powder Farm” became a public space with walking paths?

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Hamden Mayoral Candidates Differ On Chief Process -- But Not The Chief

by | Jun 20, 2023 9:06 am | Comments (10)

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Hamden mayoral candidates Walter Morton IV, Lauren Garrett at WNHH FM.

As Hamden’s search for a police chief enters its second year, two mayoral candidates agree the acting one is doing a good job.

They won’t say if that means he should get the permanent slot.

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Anti-Semitic Leaflets Condemned

by | Apr 5, 2023 1:50 pm | Comments (8)

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Hamden Mayor Lauren Garrett with New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker: "Hamden and New Haven are places where we celebrate our diversity."

Several dozen public officials, local faith leaders, and community members gathered on the Green for the first day of Passover — not to celebrate the holiday’s onset, but to condemn hate speech following the distribution of anti-semitic leaflets around Hamden and New Haven this past week.

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Baseball Vet Swings Against Big Data

by | Mar 29, 2023 11:42 am | Comments (4)

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At the Batter's Box, with coach Bob Turcio (below): A "baseball lifer" backing a "good feel for the game," not deeper dives into stats.

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If it feels wrong, it’s right. If it feels comfortable, it’s wrong,” Bob Turcio says from behind the pitching machine.

Turcio stands on the outside of the 65-by-14-foot mesh batting cage. A net with a hole for the machine separates him from the batter. 

Turcio’s student, an older teenager, tugs the back of his flowing hair, adjusts his black Yankees cap, re-Velcroes his white batting gloves, chews his gum, and steps back into the batter’s box. He stares down the machine as if he could scare it into throwing a pitch down the heart of the plate.

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Fixes Promised Amid Animal Shelter Probe

by | Mar 2, 2023 10:50 am | Comments (14)

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Remaining pooches at city's under-investigation animal shelter.

A new HVAC system and veterinary care suite are coming to the city’s animal shelter — as ongoing investigations draw attention to the Fournier Street site’s lack of physical space for a growing number of abandoned animals, as well as to a chronic underinvestment in daily operations.

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Landlord Takes Fair Rent Commission To Court

by | Jan 5, 2023 5:01 pm | Comments (65)

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Seramonte tenant Paul Boudreau: “We started the union in hopes that it would wake somebody up.”

A large Hamden landlord has moved to overturn three rent-hike-stifling decisions — and has asked a state court to declare the town’s Fair Rent ordinance unlawful” as part of a broader pushback against growing tenants union organizing.

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Soil Power Propels Public Works Nominee

by | Oct 17, 2022 9:27 am | Comments (0)

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Colello on Friday: "I started from the bottom and went through it all."

A veteran Hamden public works employee is slated to become the town department’s next director — with plans to bring sustainability, including town-made potting soil, to the top of his agenda as well as to community members’ gardens.

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School Metal Detector Rules Drafted, Debated

by | Oct 6, 2022 9:58 am | Comments (2)

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Friends Makayla Golett and Faye Ford (pictured) disagree on whether or not metal detectors are warranted.

More than half a year after Hamden schools’ leadership first purchased metal detectors as an emergency” safety intervention, the Board of Education (BOE) is drafting protocols to govern how the security devices are used.

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Sidewalk Plan Sparks Safety Debate

by | Sep 23, 2022 6:01 pm | Comments (8)

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Town Engineer Stephen White with pup Diamond on Davis St. ...

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... which is one of four Hamden Streets slated for sidewalk repairs and additions.

New sidewalks are en route to Southern Hamden as part of a revived effort to protect pedestrians — leading some neighbors to question whether safer places to stroll are needed where not many people currently walk.

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"Digital Navigators" Trained To Take On The World

by | Sep 21, 2022 12:46 pm | Comments (1)

Jerrold Rubak: Make program permanent!

With his 65th birthday just a few months away, Jerrold Rubak was ready to sign up for Medicare — but wasn’t prepared to navigate the online application process.

Now, Rubak and more than 200 others from Hamden, New Haven and North Haven are accessing health insurance, exploring the internet, using software programs like Excel, and crossing the digital divide with the help of new library-based digital navigation” teachers offering free, individualized support to tech-wary people.

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Ribbon Cut On Health College's New Home

by | Sep 16, 2022 7:45 pm | Comments (0)

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Celebrating SCSU's new College of Health & Human Services building.

Hundreds of alumni, students and community members gathered on Southern Connecticut State University’s (SCSU) campus to tour a brand new building devoted to healthcare and human services studies — and designed to strengthen a suffering sector of the state’s workforce.

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