Maggie Grether
Staff Reporter
maggie.grether@yale.edu
Maggie Grether covers housing and homelessness for city desk. Originally from Pasadena, California, she is a sophomore in Ezra Stiles college.
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MAGGIE GRETHER
Families celebrate MLK Day with dance, music and storytelling at the New Haven Museum

Sunday’s event was part of the Yale Peabody Museum’s 27th annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day celebration and marked the first in-person celebration since the beginning of the pandemic.

January 16, 2023

MAGGIE GRETHER
New ordinance updates language in New Haven laws concerning people with disabilities

The ordinance, submitted by Disability Services director Gretchen Knauff, replaces terms like “handicapped person” with “person with a disability” in city laws.

December 9, 2022

MAGGIE GRETHER
Mavi finds solace in laughter on sophomore album

As an undergraduate student in 2018, the rapper Mavi helped organize a week-long takeover of Howard University’s main administrative building. During the sit-in sparked by […]

November 18, 2022

MAGGIE GRETHER
Red Cross aims to diversify blood donor pool

On Friday, the Red Cross hosted a blood drive at Yale New Haven Hospital’s St. Raphael Campus. Ahead of the drive, organizers put out a call for more donations from Black individuals to increase the blood matches for patients with sickle cell disease.

November 16, 2022

MAGGIE GRETHER & OPHELIA HE
Silversun Pickups beam SoCal alt-rock into College Street Music Hall

The Los Angeles-based rock band swung through New Haven on Friday to promote their latest album, “Physical Thrills.”

November 7, 2022

MAGGIE GRETHER
Ancestral remains in Peabody Collection repatriated to Hawaii

A group of three students led by Professor Hi’ilei Hobart trained for a week and a half to repatriate ancestral remains from the Yale Peabody Collection. The students called on Yale to take a more swift and active approach to repatriating Native remains.

October 18, 2022

MAGGIE GRETHER
College Street Music Hall draws crowds from across Connecticut

Since opening in 2015, the hall has navigated the COVID-19 pandemic and a labor dispute while solidifying its spot as one of the premiere indie rock venues in the state.

September 16, 2022

MAGGIE GRETHER
Extracurricular Bazaar kicks off busy club recruitment season 

Hundreds of students stopped by the Schwarzman Center for the bazaar, kicking off club recruitment season and prompting conversations over how to make club applications more accessible and welcoming.

September 5, 2022