Connecticut residents will be running to their thermostats and pulling out their checkbooks to purchase home heating oil as experts predict a sharp price rise in fuel this winter. The Farmer’s Almanac, an unofficial, folksy weather predictor but one that people in New England swear by, predicts the coldest temperatures in Hamden, Connecticut, will be…
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Jeff Gross’ clothes matched his sporty car. He wore a fedora with a plaid ribbon, a neutral button down shirt and long, tan shorts. He looked like a golfer and his car looked like it was too small to fit his golf equipment. He left for work, a 35-mile commute, folding himself over to get…
“Being biracial in lacrosse has opened my eyes and taught me many lessons,” said Jarrod Davis. “For my opponents that don’t really know me, I may not appear to be African American so personally in college I have never received any discrimination. In high school however, I was on a team with many people with…
When John Lahey became president of what was then called Quinnipiac College in 1987, he knew the Hamden, Connecticut school had potential but not much else outside of its small campus across from a state park. Yet during the next three decades, he transformed what had become Quinnipiac University into a 10,000-student enterprise, with law…
“Even if you make the change in one person, it is worth it to do the change” Hamden, Connecticut is an East Coast, dense suburban town with more than 60,000 residents. Despite being a suburban community in the middle of the state, many residents feel the need to respond to international events. That was especially…
While the immediate effects of the COVID-19 pandemic still linger, the long-term effects are still waiting around the corner. As businesses were being shut down to limit human contact and spread of the virus, the restaurant industry was hit with a unique problem. While most businesses could function to some degree through computer screens, restaurants…
While some student-athletes play professionally, most don’t. The value of being a student-athlete is still individually great.
The COVID-19 pandemic impacted the performing arts community extremely hard. With theaters around the country going dark for nearly a year the performing arts community in New Haven Connecticut faced great financial unrest as well. Theaters across New Haven have finally begun to return to normal but that was not without the dedication of many…
It is hard to play Major League Baseball. But it might be even harder to be a Minor League Baseball player. With salaries that are less than the federal minimum wage and living conditions that have players literally stacked on top of each other when they sleep, Minor League Baseball is baseball’s darkest secret that…