As 16 inches of snow dumped on Hamden on Monday and into Tuesday, one local college student didn’t get the day off. Matthew Bruin, a senior Quinnipiac University student and HQNN staffer, spends snow days working for his family’s snow plow company in Mendham, New Jersey. Here is his account of his last two days,…
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Many special-needs students were forced into a world of remote learning due to COVID-19, and as a result new challenges, with some positives, were introduced to the new virtual world.
Anna Yusza felt the deepening toll of COVID-19 during the spring, months before she enrolled at Quinnipiac University where strict social distancing guidelines and mask-wearing made college a less than normal experience for most students. Yet Yusza, 18, a first-year accounting major at the Hamden, Connecticut, school, knew what to expect based on her high…
John Kennedy spends much of his day next to a concrete divider in the Walmart parking lot on Dixwell Avenue in Hamden. He’s not there by choice, although passers-by may think that’s the case. That, however, may change with a partnership that evolved among the Hamden Police Department, the Hamden Community Development Department and the…
Think New Orleans, New York, Chicago, and even Washington, D.C, and jazz comes to mind. New Haven? Not so much. Yet the Connecticut city known more for Yale and pizza has a deep jazz culture that is tragically silent as of late, and COVID-19 is making matters worse. The History “I know several people that…
Local schools are responding to rising COVID-19 cases in Connecticut.
After months of uncertainty, something just became very certain. There will be MAAC basketball this season. The MAAC conference, home of Quinnipiac University men’s and women’s basketball, announced a revised schedule for the 20-2021 season. The season tips off Nov. 25, with the men’s team playing Fairleigh Dickinson and the women’s team playing Central Connecticut…
As the 2020 election comes to a close, Hamden Democrats celebrate local victories.
Quinnipiac students are facing a university-wide quarantine after a massive surge in positive cases.
The university will be holding remote classes for the remainder of the week