1+ hour, 23+ min ago  (545+ words) Author Jill Snyder kicked off Friday's Juneteenth celebrations downtown by leading a procession around the Green " recalling the walk that Lucy Tritton and her daughter Lois were forced to take after they were sold into slavery in 1824, the last two…...

4+ hour, 22+ min ago  (875+ words) Jocelyn Jackson works hard every year to keep alive the story of her brother, John Evers Robinson, a New Haven punk rocker who was killed in his Temple Street music studio on March 12, 1990, at the age of 24. She has created…...

6+ hour, 42+ min ago  (528+ words) Why would a politician choose to cap their own campaign contributions, take on a mountain of paperwork, and submit to a higher level of expenditure oversight? A group of current and former campaign finance reform leaders convened at a panel…...

5+ hour, 49+ min ago  (94+ words) (Opinion) Community gardens starved of water. People slapped with fines " with no appeals process in place. Cars dumped in a dark hidden lot in the middle of the night. Voters casting ballots at the wrong polling places " Those items are…...

10+ hour, 35+ min ago  (312+ words) Bodies tumbling, twirling, taking flight, seemingly otherworldly yet grounded, gasp-inducing but also quietly comforting: This was Pilobolus, the dance company performing "The Other Worlds Collection" at the Shubert Thursday night as part of this year's International Festival of Arts and…...

7+ hour, 4+ min ago  (1241+ words) Fair Haven: The World's Oyster, 2026 Site Projects Grand Avenue & Ferry Street New Haven At first, the people of Fair Haven did not know what to make of the figures appearing on the wall at the corner of Grand Avenue and…...

12+ hour, 7+ min ago  (657+ words) New Haven's Deborah Rodriguez served four years in the Army. She did all her tours stateside, at Fort Bragg military base. "Peacetime vet," she said, as she settled in a beach chair overlooking the sparkling waters of Long Island Sound,…...

11+ hour, 57+ min ago  (577+ words) The city's Housing Authority is seeking $5. 54 million from the state to remediate part of the site of the old Church Street South apartments " and pave the way for a new era of environmentally-sound housing at a location once known for…...

13+ hour, 5+ min ago  (735+ words) New Haven Independent "Faith Matters" features pieces written by local religious figures. I began serving in the United Methodist Church as clergy in 2008, the year Connecticut achieved marriage equality. Soon after, a lesbian couple that had found a home in…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (976+ words) The city's parks commission voted reluctantly on Wednesday to allow a longtime carnival business to take over Kimberly Field for nearly two weeks " after expressing concerns about how heavy machinery and foot traffic might damage the public greenspace. The city's…...