Lucy Gellman Arts Council of greater New Haven Co-Op senior Trinity Stephens with Lauren Anderson and Erin Michaud.  In Erin Michaud’s second-floor art classroom at Cooperative Arts & Humanities High School, a kind of analog magic was unfolding. By the back windows, senior Trinity Stephens looked up from a cut paper composition, a precision blade steady in her right hand, and...

By Claire Armstrong   “We don’t need! We don’t need! We don’t need-no-billion-aaa-irrr-es!” sang Jo Wilber, dressed in a puffy blue-and-pink unicorn costume that glowed turquoise in the sunshine. A...

Lucy Gellman Arts Council of greater New Haven Co-Op senior Trinity Stephens with Lauren Anderson and Erin Michaud.  In Erin Michaud’s second-floor art classroom at Cooperative Arts & Humanities High School,...

by Maya McFadden The New Haven independent JCD preschool educator Susie Iovanne: Small treats go a long way. JCD’s Mrs. GG, Patricia McGovern, Cassandra Diaz, Asst. Principal Robert Manghnani, Principal Yesenia...

by Staff Odell Edward Stewart, Jr., of New Haven and Hamden, Connecticut, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, April 28, 2026, after a short illness. He was born in Columbia, South...

by Staff The Independent has received 13 awards from the Connecticut Society of Professional Journalists (CTSPJ) for our reporting on ICE arrests, housing, and local reverberations of national stories. The honors,...

by Thomas Breen Those two organizations are CitySeed and Fair Haven Community Health Care. They are two of more than 500 local nonprofits participating in the 17th annual New Haven “Great...

by Mona Mahadevan David Zannelli’s wife, Natasha, and their three kids — Santino, Cristina, and Michael — watched proudly from the front row. After spending the past four months leading the...

by Lisa Reisman The New Haven independent Neighbors, town officials, and project consultants came together at Hamden’s Keefe Community Center to continue carving a path forward in the decades-long struggle...

by Paul Bass The New Haven independent The 17th annual annual New Haven “Great Give” community-wide fundraising drive raised 20 percent of its $5 million goal with 31 hours to...

by Mona Mahadevan The New Haven independent Mayor Justin Elicker on Tuesday declined to comment on New Haven’s legal approach in an ongoing wrongful-conviction trial — in which a lawyer...

by Allan Appel The New Haven independent Below is Allan Appel’s latest entry in a yearlong series looking at the past 388 years of New Haven history, as America celebrates the...

by Donald Eng CTNewsJunkie HARTFORD, CT — A bill banning the sale of pistols that can be converted to full auto fire passed the Senate early Wednesday morning after four...