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Tardiness Targeted In Principal's First Full Year

1 day ago | newhavenindependent.org | Maya McFadden

In an effort to cut into chronic absenteeism rates and make sure that teens are showing up to class on time, Hillhouse Principal Dr. Antoine Billy has started handing out business cards — including at a nearby McDonald’s — as he asks the community to keep him in the know about students who skip or aren’t in school when they should be.
33 Artists Go Plant-Based

1 day ago | newhavenindependent.org | Brian Slattery

NosegayInstitute Library847 Chapel St.Through June 23Living Magic, by Maria Citarella, is mounted unobtrusively on the front wall of the gallery, looking — at first glance, from a distance — like an orderly triptych, a study in greens. But as you approach, the lines in the piece grow more complex, and the three panels take on dimension, until you can see that the panels aren’t of paint, but of mosses and lichens. The piece comes to life, nudging over its own borders.
Columbus Statue Finds New Home

5 days ago | newhavenindependent.org | Thomas Breen

Nearly five years after the city removed the Christopher Columbus statue from Wooster Square Park amid nationwide racial justice protests, the Elicker administration announced on Friday that the memorial has a new home — at a museum of New Haven artifacts and memorabilia on Hamilton Street. That’s according to a Friday afternoon press release sent out by city spokesperson Lenny Speiller.
“Great” Record Broken

5 days ago | newhavenindependent.org | Paul Bass

New Haveners responded to a “moment of urgency” to pitch in a record amount of donations to local nonprofits in this year’s “Great Give” fundraising drive. The 16-year-old annual drive, conducted on Wednesday and Thursday by the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, has taken in more than $4.2 million, more than ever before. Foundation CEO and President Karen DuBois-Walton had set a goal of $4 million for the drive, hoping to top last year’s $3.8 million.
At Last, New Canal Trail Stretch Opens

5 days ago | newhavenindependent.org | Thomas Breen

Decades of advocacy, hard work, easement negotiations, delays, and persistence culminated Friday morning with a ribbon cutting in a tunnel under Whitney Avenue — marking the official opening of the final downtown stretch of the Farmington Canal Heritage Trail. Mayor Justin Elicker, City Plan Director Laura Brown, U.S. Rep.
From Blob To Belief

5 days ago | newhavenindependent.org | Paul Bass

Blob: A Love StoryBy Maggie SuHarperCollins PublishersIn one sense, Maggie Su’s debut novel tells an old story about a young Taiwanese-American woman who creates a human companion out of a blob she finds outside a bar. It’s a modern take on Frankenstein or of the Golem, exploring the limits of how a creator can shape a humanlike creation once it acquires agency.
Cops Probe Spitting Incident At Ben-Gvir Protest

5 days ago | newhavenindependent.org | Thomas Breen

City police are looking for a man who appeared to shout an anti-trans slur at a pro-Palestinian protester before spitting in that protester’s face. The spitting incident took place during a tense, widely covered protest of the visit to New Haven by far-right Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir — who was pelted with bottles later in the night by other protesters.
NHPS Brings Budget Plea Back To Hartford

5 days ago | newhavenindependent.org | Maya McFadden

HARTFORD – New Haven’s superintendent and 40 city students traveled to the state Capitol to press the governor to boost education funding and help the school district avoid teacher layoffs. New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) community members issued that message at a Thursday morning press conference in Hartford, where they stood side by side with superintendents and students from seven of Connecticut’s largest school districts.
From Little Rock To Connecticut

6 days ago | newhavenindependent.org | Jamil Ragland

Virtual Author Talk with Dr. Melba Pattillo BealsHartford Public Library/ The BushnellHartfordMay 7, 2025It’s not often that you get a chance to speak to a living legend, but I had that opportunity when Dr. Melba Pattillo Beals, one of the Little Rock Nine who helped to desegregate Little Rock Central High School in the late 1950s, addressed a gathering in Hartford.
2 Rescued In Fire Amid Hoarding

6 days ago | newhavenindependent.org | Paul Bass

Firefighters spotted two elderly people trying to crawl out from amid a pile of rubble — and therefore were able to pull them away from life-threatening flames. That rescue took place Thursday at 50 Salem St. in the Hill. Firefighters received a call about a fire at the property at 9:54 a.m. They arrived to find flames spreading from the porch to the top stories of the three-story duplex, according to Asst. Fire Chief Daniel Coughlin.