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Hamden Heronettes

Team Work

Last Saturday, Hamden High School’s swimming pool was brimming with monsters. Music from the soundtrack to The Nightmare Before Christmas blasted the humid air as four swimmers clawed and danced...

Team Work

Last Saturday, Hamden High School’s swimming pool was brimming with monsters. Music from the soundtrack to The Nightmare Before Christmas blasted the humid air as four swimmers clawed and danced...

Team Esprit

Cool Kids

Two Sundays ago, it was dark by 4:30 and snowing lightly outside the Northford Ice Pavilion. Chilly gusts of wind spun snowflakes and stung noses. But running inside was no...

Cool Kids

Two Sundays ago, it was dark by 4:30 and snowing lightly outside the Northford Ice Pavilion. Chilly gusts of wind spun snowflakes and stung noses. But running inside was no...

Matt The Balloon Man

Tying Tubes

“Balloons, man. I don’t know what it is about balloons, but kids just love them,” Matt Martin says. Martin is a children’s magician and balloon twister—that’s the technical term—who performs...

Tying Tubes

“Balloons, man. I don’t know what it is about balloons, but kids just love them,” Matt Martin says. Martin is a children’s magician and balloon twister—that’s the technical term—who performs...

Figuring it Out

Figuring it Out

In a cozy attic studio in Hamden, rainbow skeins of ribbon and bolts of patterned fabric are neatly arranged. On a workbench, a linen figure lies, her pink yarn hair...

Figuring it Out

In a cozy attic studio in Hamden, rainbow skeins of ribbon and bolts of patterned fabric are neatly arranged. On a workbench, a linen figure lies, her pink yarn hair...

Out and About

Out and About

Joanne Sciulli was a student when she first came to New Haven, but now, 17 years after founding the nonprofit Solar Youth, she’s a teacher, and her classroom is nature....

Out and About

Joanne Sciulli was a student when she first came to New Haven, but now, 17 years after founding the nonprofit Solar Youth, she’s a teacher, and her classroom is nature....

Farm Candy

Farm Candy

Flux is inevitable in the orchard business. John Lyman, the executive vice president of Lyman Orchards and an eighth-generation grower, can trace the history of his family’s land to 1741,...

Farm Candy

Flux is inevitable in the orchard business. John Lyman, the executive vice president of Lyman Orchards and an eighth-generation grower, can trace the history of his family’s land to 1741,...