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| Aug 4, 2022 8:42 am |A 36-year-old Hamden pedestrian died after a collision on Dixwell Avenue.
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| Aug 4, 2022 8:42 am |A 36-year-old Hamden pedestrian died after a collision on Dixwell Avenue.
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| Aug 3, 2022 5:27 pm |Just a month after graduating from Hamden High School, Elias Hnini, a soccer player “with a heart of gold,” died in a car crash on Orchard Street.
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| Aug 3, 2022 2:40 pm |Two days after retiring from the Hamden Police Department, veteran bike patrol officer Michael Pantera lost his life in a North Branford car crash.
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| Aug 2, 2022 5:55 pm |Hamden’s Legislative Council has agreed to transfer $585,000 to the Board of Education (BOE) in order to fund school bus rides this September — reversing a previous decision that had sparked a now-shelved plan to change bus schedules.
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| Aug 1, 2022 4:06 pm |A banquet hall became a sea of pink and green as AKAs inducted a new 35th North Atlantic Regional director.
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| Jul 29, 2022 5:38 pm |Another bond rating agency has expressed optimism for Hamden’s financial future — and provided some tips on how to stay on that upward path moving forward.
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| Jul 29, 2022 7:00 am |Someone finally thinks that Hamden’s financial status is looking up — and that someone has an opinion that counts.
That someone, Fitch Ratings, announced in a July 26 report that the credit rating agency has bumped Hamden’s outlook from “negative” up to “stable.”
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and | Jul 28, 2022 10:00 am |Erik Clemons took advantage of a 20-minute audience with Gov. Ned Lamont to make a multimillion-dollar pitch — for bond money to help revive the commercial heart of New Haven’s Black community.
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| Jul 27, 2022 4:31 pm |Michael Pace decided to stop complaining about Hamden’s problems and try instead to help fix them.
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| Jul 27, 2022 4:19 pm |A proposal to raise the permitted height of sports facility lighting has generated controversy in Hamden among light sleepers, bird migration enthusiasts, and critics of Quinnipiac University’s role in the possible zoning change.
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| Jul 27, 2022 12:46 pm |Never mind.
Hamden students will start school at the same time as last year.
After two months of hand wringing and debate concerning how to rearrange student busing schedules in a last-minute move to stay within the lines of a level budget, the Board of Education voted Tuesday night to keep school start and dismissal times the same as last year — in hopes that the town will indeed steer extra funding their way.
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| Jul 25, 2022 1:11 pm |Drivers fretting about gas prices may forget their worries at a new set of pumps on the way to Dixwell Avenue — with a slice of brick-oven pizza.
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| Jul 22, 2022 2:52 pm |First, Dandre Daniels takes the laces out. He soaks them in a solution and then gets to work on the sneakers: brushing excess dirt off, spraying and scrubbing, picking all debris and rocks out from the crevices, and then, the magic moment: re-icing.
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| Jul 19, 2022 5:26 pm |Uh oh. A cop was at the door. And he was looking for Majesty Whitaker.
Bookshelves, diapers, Covid-19 tests, ellipticals, chicken dinners, alternative education classrooms and paint palettes could all be available to all Hamden residents at a one-stop, no-charge shop — if a plan to build a brand new, Dixwell Q House-style community center in Southern Hamden moves forward.
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| Jul 19, 2022 1:37 pm |The Red Cross and Hamden’s government are helping six people find temporary housing after a fire at their apartment building at 21 Plaza Terrace.
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| Jul 18, 2022 3:16 pm |Hamden’s Board of Education is revisiting a plan to change school start times — with hopes that families will weigh in on one of the district’s most “daunting” decisions yet.
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| Jul 17, 2022 10:41 am |Leli and Darcus Henry spent their Covid-19 quarantine wishing for a Hamden-based restaurant that served authentic, home-cooked Puerto Rican food. When they didn’t find one, they opened their own.
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| Jul 15, 2022 3:53 pm |Six officers were sworn into the Hamden Police Department Friday morning, filling long-open vacancies and diversifying the force — while simultaneously prompting questions about the town’s hiring procedures.
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| Jul 14, 2022 4:10 pm |A practitioner of chiropractic treatment and acupuncture is looking to break into the political arena by running to represent Hamden in the state legislature — after pinpointing high taxes and public safety concerns as local issues in need of policy adjustments.
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| Jul 14, 2022 10:38 am |Hamden storefronts, offices and housing may look a little funkier and taxpayer bills a little lower down the road — if a newly passed policy that eases municipal zoning restrictions pans out as planned.
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| Jul 13, 2022 9:39 am |In his first move as Hamden’s next superintendent of schools, Gary Highsmith is planning a reorganization of administrative responsibilities — in order to allocate more resources towards teaching and learning and heighten internal collaboration.
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| Jul 12, 2022 1:22 pm |After prevailing in a competition with over 30 classmates vying to represent Hamden schools as student members of the Board of Education, 16-year-olds Ishnan Khan and Mark Hu said they plan to use their new platform to increase the presence of student voice in community decision-making and to set a higher standard for transparency and inclusion across the board.
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| Jul 10, 2022 11:57 am |Hamden’s Space Ballroom ascended into a rainbow-splashed, psychedelic heaven Friday night after upstate New Yorker Mikaela Davis set the scene for a fourth-dimensional funk-folk-country-rock set list — with the help of a golden harp and angelic voice.
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| Jul 8, 2022 12:27 pm |When I went on my latest rounds monitoring local osprey nests, I was relieved to find the ospreys still here. The mother ospreys were guarding their nests. The fathers were out looking for the fish that make up their entire diet. The heads of some of the recently hatched osprey chicks were starting to become visible above the sides of the nest.