COMMUNITY LIFE
BRIAN ZHANG
Wooster Square sees thousands attend 47th annual Cherry Blossom Festival

When residents arrived in Wooster Square on Sunday afternoon for the city’s 47th annual Cherry Blossom Festival, they saw very little pink. Most of the […]

April 25, 2022

SAI RAYALA
Local organizations come together to honor park designer and writer Donald Grant Mitchell

Eight different organizations are hosting events to honor the Yalie, who remained in New Haven and designed prolific parks such as Edgewood and East Rock.

April 22, 2022

DANTE MOTLEY
Local brand Gorilla Lemonade off to a strong start

Two community leaders’ lemonade brand, Gorilla Lemonade, has been a hit in local stores, and now they are trying to bring it to Yale.

April 21, 2022

BRIAN ZHANG
Humans of New Haven: Coffee, theater and a dog Named Pepsi 

Coffee cups, evening rehearsals and a commitment to the homeless collide to make Spencer Knoll’s world as she journeys to make New Haven her home.

April 20, 2022

BRIAN ZHANG
Humans of New Haven: On the word “complex” with Elsa Holahan

Hillhouse High School junior Elsa Holahan talks New Haven’s evolving arts landscape and her social advocacy story that’s in the works.

April 15, 2022

TIM TAI & SADIE BOGRAD
GreenSkills program provides street trees, second chances

William Tisdale arrived at Gateway Community College early on a Tuesday morning to plant trees. The job was strenuous and the weather was rainy, but […]

April 14, 2022

SYLVAN LEBRUN
UP CLOSE | Buried in an “avalanche of goodness”: how emergency housing relief during the pandemic left out New Haven’s most vulnerable

The city and state struggled to distribute a flood of long-needed funding that they received to address housing insecurity amid the pandemic. These investments are now ending as part of a nationwide “return to normalcy.”

April 14, 2022

MEGAN VAZ
For the first time during pandemic, Old Campus opens gates to New Haven

Access to Yale’s historic Old Campus has been returned to New Haven residents and visitors after a drop in COVID-19 rates.

April 7, 2022

RACHEL SHIN
“If your neighbor is hungry”: The tenacity of Nieda Abbas

Abbas was born and raised in Baghdad, Iraq and was one of ten children in her family. From a young age, she wanted to support […]

April 6, 2022

BRIAN ZHANG
Humans of New Haven: Looking through photographer Roderick Topping’s lens

The Scotland-born photographer, who has been in New Haven since 1988, has seen the city change through his camera lens.

April 5, 2022

YASH ROY
New Haveners, unions, teachers demand increased funding for schools

Community advocates came together to call for an increase in public school funding for K-12 education on the heels of pandemic disruptions.

April 1, 2022