COMMUNITY LIFE
SOFIA GAVIRIA PARTOW
New Haven churches plan for busy Easter Season

Churches in New Haven are offering worship services to celebrate Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday.

March 29, 2024

LILY BELLE POLING
Urban Resources Initiative plants first of 1,000 new trees

Thanks to a $2.6 million grant, the URI will be planting 1,000 trees per year for the next five years, the first of which was planted Monday morning.

March 28, 2024

ADAM MCPHAIL
Government officials celebrate opening of Peabody Museum

Mayor Elicker and Superintendent Madeline Negrón emphasized the importance of the museum’s new free entrance and expressed optimism about the collaboration between the Peabody, New Haven Public Schools and the larger New Haven community.

March 27, 2024

ADAM WALKER
PROFILE: Michael Braham’s journey from prison to law school

Through Yale Law School’s Access to Law School Program, Braham — who was incarcerated for 25 years — is set to attend law school in the fall.

March 25, 2024

LAURA OSPINA
Yale Community Kitchen faces funding shortage, concerns over long-term viability 

The head coordinators for the student service organization, which provides dinner for hundreds of New Haven residents every weekend, said that rising costs and a lack of avenues to increase Yale funding may hinder the organization’s 20-year history of serving the New Haven community.

March 8, 2024

ARIELA LOPEZ & LILY BELLE POLING
Environmental policy hearing urges new city priorities: pesticides, artificial turf, electrification

EAC Chair Laura Cahn urged the city to strengthen its policy regarding pesticides and artificial turf at the Board of Alders’ Community Services and Environmental Policy Committee meeting on Thursday. A representative from the New Haven Climate Movement and Steve Winter, director of the Office of Climate and Sustainability, also discussed the city’s progress towards electrification.

March 8, 2024

MIA CORTÉS CASTRO, NATASHA KHAZZAM & YURII STASIUK
Proposed budget rethinks city housing programs

If approved, the new proposed budget will restructure the Livable City Initiative, creating an Office of Housing and Community Development and expanding staff for both programs.

March 8, 2024

MAIA NEHME & ZACHARY SURI
State Housing Committee advances just cause eviction legislation

The legislation, backed by tenant advocates, is part of a multiyear battle to improve renter protections.

March 7, 2024

YURII STASIUK & ROMA MYKHAILEVYCH
Ukrainian church community in New Haven aids Ukraine

St. Michel’s Ukrainian Catholic Church became a hub for Ukrainian Americans and others to support the country during the war.

March 4, 2024

LILY BELLE POLING
New Haven to create new trail connecting Farmington Canal Line and East Coast Greenway

On Thursday, Feb. 29, city officials presented their plans for the New Haven Shoreline Greenway Trail, which will connect the Farmington Canal Line to the East Coast Shoreline Greenway.

March 4, 2024

VICTORIA SIEBOR
Laurel Vlock, pioneering New Haven journalist, honored at New Haven Museum

As part of its programming for Women’s History Month, the museum held an event on Sunday to honor Vlock, who co-founded Yale’s Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies.

March 4, 2024