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Hamden Planning and Zoning Commission approves affordable housing project

The plan is for Hamden residents to start moving into the town’s new housing project by 2025.

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Breast cancer awareness is the focus at Hamden’s ‘Paint Hamden Pink’ 

Hamden town officials kick off October’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month Wednesday with the town’s annual “Paint Hamden Pink” event. Fire trucks, police cars, town government uniforms and more turn pink for the month of October.

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Five months after opening its doors, Wingstop has settled into Hamden

The popular franchise, Wingstop, has officially opened a new location in Hamden.

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What you need to know about the CDC’s new COVID-19 booster guidelines 

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are encouraging people to get a new COVID-19 booster shot to protect against new variants.

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Hamden

3 takeaways from Hamden’s Democratic mayoral primary

Lauren Garrett defeated Walter Morton in Tuesday’s primary, but what lies ahead for the incumbent mayor is anything but calm seas. We learned that taxes, business development, voter turnout and more remain on the minds of Hamden voters.

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Garrett or Morton? Hamden residents discuss their choices on primary Election Day

(In order) Rose Jackson, Josephine Shabbott, Fran Nelson and Bridget Grenier. (Zachary Carter/HQNN). Voters gathered Tuesday to cast their votes in the Democratic primary election– voicing their opinions on the two mayoral candidates, the most important issues facing the town and the direction they feel Hamden is headed. The polls opened at 6 a.m. giving…

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Growing together as one in Connecticut

A new and somewhat controversial business is getting ready to open up in Canton, Connecticut.  It’s a marijuana dispensary, allowed for the first time this year thanks to a new Connecticut law.  The business got off the ground with the help of Daniel Glissman, lawyer at MacDermid Reynolds and Glissman Co. who practices cannabis law…

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Wildlife sightings are up in Hamden, but experts say the real danger is to the animals

During her first summer on the job, in 2022, Hamden’s Assistant Animal Control Officer Monica Vece responded to a wildlife call regarding the death of a “very beautiful, young” red-tailed hawk.  “Unfortunately, he ate something that had (pesticide) in it and he passed away, and that’s unfortunately a lot of what we’re seeing more and…

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Hamden’s Sweet Seidner’s serves up holiday treats.

From starting in commercial kitchens creating cookie care packages to now owning a storefront and baking almost 500 cookies a day, Jodi Seidner has been baking practically all her life. Now she bakes out of Sweet Seidner’s, located in Hamden. ”We opened this location in June, and we’ve been in business since November 2015,” Seidner…

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Hamden Special Projects Sports

Youth athletes have left the field, will they come back?

Youth sports. One of the most important aspects of growing up. It’s where young children learn how to work as a team, exercise and socialize with their friends. The number of youth sport participation is not something that is typically thought about. Picture the local baseball fields, soccer pitches or basketball courts. They are typically…