Yale Daily News

Updated: Sunday, November 22, 2009 11:46 a.m.

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Longtime city resident seeks Ward 22 post

Lisa Hopkins faces uphill battle for position on Elm City’s Board of Aldermen

Staff Reporter
Published Friday, March 30, 2007

Around 1990, in the midst of her college career at Skidmore University, New Haven native Danica Kelly’s phone rang. As soon as Kelly realized who was on the phone, she knew it meant business.

Lisa Hopkins, Kelly’s intense but adored childhood friend, was on the other line.

One of her classmates at Clark Atlanta University had just been murdered, Hopkins said. And to make matters worse, the shooting had occurred just outside the student housing gates. Clark Atlanta had no police force protecting students at the time, and Hopkins, now one of the four candidates for Ward 22...

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