Here’s a look at some of the stories we are working on today. If you have information or suggestions, please contact the reporter listed below. We also invite you to join us in a live meeting, begining at 10:30 a.m. and at 4 p.m., during which you may contribute comments and suggestions directly to the meeting. We would love to hear from you. You also can contact City Editor Helen Bennett Harvey (203-789-5730, hbennettharvey@nhregister.com), Managing Editor Mark Brackenbury (203-789-5708, mbrackenbury@nhregister.com), or Sports Editor Sean Barker (203-789-5700, sbarker@nhregister.com) with story ideas. Check back here through the day for updates.

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A Q House Community Forum, at which youth leaders with a new nonprofit called Speak Life! will discuss their reasons for wanting to reopen the building, which for 80 years served as a refuge and safe place. Abbe Smith reports.  Community Engagement editors Angela Carter and Ed Stannard also will live blog from the event. (asmith@nhregister.com)

In New Haven today, there will be a grand opening ceremony for Insomnia Cookies on Chapel Street . The business has very interesting hours of operation. (Think very late night) Pamela McLoughlin reports. (pmcloughlin@nhregister.com)

Also in New Haven, a slate of school employees is retiring. Abbe Smith reports. (asmith@nhregister.com)

There is more testimony in trial of Kevin Benefield in death of Barbara Pelkey. Randall Beach reports. (rbeach@nhregister.com)

In Branford,  environmental experts have said there is no need to worry about contamination on the 77-acre Tabor Drive property, which the Public Works Building Committee recently recommended as the new location for the Public Works Department. However, town officials, who condemned the property near a former landfill, rather than allow a housing development on it, have acknowledged the landfill was polluting part of the site. Alexandra Sanders reports (asanders@nhregister.com) Continued...

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While millions are watching “The Bachelor” to see if the Sonoma, Calif. winemaker Ben Flajnik will find true love, Jean Hill of Guilford is seeing a very different drama unfold. She’s wondering if one of the 25 contestants might end up being her new granddaughter-in-law. Sandi Shelton reports (sshelton@nhregister.com).

Sports

-- We preview first of two annual showdowns in college hockey between Yale and Quinnipiac. Chip Malafronte reports (cmalafronte@nhregister.com).

-- Jim Fuller and Chip Malafronte continue to monitor search for Yale football coach  (jfuller@nhregister.com) and (cmalafronte@nhregister.com)

Community Engagement

We are still seeking new year's resolutions through SeeClickFix for ways to improve our community. Community Engagement Editor Ed Stannard interviews Emma Richards of SCF.

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