Amid distrust in the police at both a local and national level, leaders from the Hamden government, police department and Board of Education spent months drafting an updated memorandum of understanding for school resource officers in Hamden’s public schools. SROs are police officers that are stationed in schools in case there is a potential threat.…
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After the stabbings at Hamden high school last year and the violent carjacking this past July, juvenile crime has been a steadily increasing concern among Hamden residents, and debates about youth incarceration have been ongoing for years. The Children’s Defense Fund, which focuses on child advocacy and research, reported that 1,909 children are arrested in…
In the early 2000s, Andrew Peralta knew he was gay, but he remembers clearly the five students at Hamden High that had come out. “It was very distressing and confusing because if you felt you were different, or that you were possibly gay, you certainly couldn’t be out at all,” he recalled. “Being gay was…
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…
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…