Month: January 2017

Ray Andrewsen, general manager of WQUN-AM 1220, to receive Hamden’s Citizen of the Year Award

A native of North Haven, Andrewsen has a bachelor’s degree from Syracuse University. He has worked at WQUN for 20 years, during which time he has conducted thousands of interviews with community leaders and people of interest.

Three Freedom Riders will discuss their faith and activism Jan. 30 at Quinnipiac University

Joan C. Browning, Dion Diamond and the Rev. Reginald M. Green will discuss what it was like to be among the 436 Freedom Riders who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and the following years to challenge the nonenforcement of Supreme Court rulings that segregated buses were unconstitutional.

Yaccarino: 2017 Legislative Session

I am eager to get to work and honored to once again serve all the people of North Haven.

Quinnipiac University medical school students to gather today to call U.S. senators to block repeal of the Affordable Care Act

The students will gather in the Center for Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, MNH 204, on Quinnipiac’s North Haven Campus, 370 Bassett Road, to activate a Doctors for America phone bank.

Quinnipiac University to host biobusiness forum

The program, which runs from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., is free and open the public.

Opening Day Remarks from Senate Republican President Pro Tempore Len Fasano

Sen. Fasano was reelected to represent the 34th Senate District including the towns of Durham, East Haven, North Haven and Wallingford.

Margot Lee Shetterly, author of ‘Hidden Figures,’ to deliver Black History Month Lecture at Quinnipiac University Feb. 8

Shetterly will share the story of how black “human computers” used math to change their own lives — and America’s future.

Yaccarino

Rep. Yaccarino Assigned to Legislative Committees

Yaccarino took the oath of office and was sworn in by Secretary of State Denise Merrill in the State House Chamber.

League of Women Voters

“Breakfast with the Legislators”

This year’s Breakfast will be held Saturday, January 21, 9:00-11:00 am, Whitney Center, 200 Leeder Hill Drive, Hamden.