There were no flags at Friday afternoon’s ​“humanity vigil” on Yale’s downtown campus. There were only people — from New Haven and Jerusalem and Haifa and beyond — eager for a place to talk about peace in a time of death and discord.

An accumulation of feces, old clothes, and drug paraphernalia prompted the city to increase the number of portable restrooms on the New Haven Green from two to six, as city officials search for a more permanent bathroom solution. Those six units mark a small expansion of restroom options at the...

Like the rest of us, Ceschi, a.k.a. Julio Ramos, had long since emerged from the darkest days of the Covid-19 pandemic. But he hadn’t forgotten. We were hiding our faces long before pandemics arrived …. Ceschi (he performs under a familial nickname) was live on WNHH FM’s ​“Acoustic Thursday...

John Martinez School eighth grader Roselyn Sampedro’s dream to stay rooted to her middle school forever came to fruition Friday as she helped plant a crabapple tree — in honor of the Class of 2024, and to celebrate Arbor Day. That was the scene at John S. Martinez...

Thirty four percent of New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) students have missed at least 10 percent of school days — a slight decline from the district’s January peak, but still above the district’s end-of-year chronic absenteeism goal of 27.5 percent. That update was provided by schools Superintendent...

Note: Answers appear at the bottom of this story, along with links to relevant news stories from the past week. A. A Hill Central student was competing a ​“Squeeze & Guess The Veggie” contest sponsored by Gather New Haven. B. Neighbors were contributing written ​“prayers for a...

“I’ve been yours for so long / We come right back to it.”. It was a refrain I’d heard maybe hundreds of times at that point, the croon of Katie Crutchfield’s voice and the banjo backing her committed to memory. But Thursday night, as I heard it live and sang along with a crowd filling up Waxahatchee’s sold-out show at Toad’s Place, the song felt new.

As Mauro-Sheridan math teacher Sheila Lamb knocked on her seventh graders’ desks to urge them to participate in class, math coach Cortney Costa used her phone at the back of the classroom — not to play games, but to record Lamb’s model lesson. That was the scene...

Theater artist Terri Power discovered Shakespeare in high school, finding Lady Macbeth ​“extraordinarily powerful and sexual,” she said. Their teacher asked the class to memorize passages to perform in class. Power dressed in a long black turtleneck and sweater and skirt and delivered a monologue in which Lady Macbeth taunts her spouse: ​“I have given suck, and know / How tender ​’tis to love the babe that milks me. / I would, while it was smiling in my face, / Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums / And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn / As you have done to this.”

A 21-year-old member of the Exit 8 gang has admitted to murdering 22-year-old Ciera ​“CeeCee” Jones and conspiring to murder 18-year-old Tashawn Brown three years ago — and now faces up to life in prison, with a recommended sentence of up to 30 years. U.S. Attorney...

Rock to Rock is hosting its 16th annual Earth Day Ride, with the help of food trucks, live music, and community partners. The bicycle ride, which will start and end in East Rock, will raise money for local environmental projects. Participants can choose from varying routes for different distance-capabilities as well as a Family Ride.

Three of the city’s five pools should be open for swim programming this summer, while two will remain shuttered for maintenance. The three public school-housed pools expected to be open this summer for Youth and Recreation Department programming are at Conte West Hills Magnet School at 511 Chapel St., Hillhouse High School at 480 Sherman Pkwy., and John S. Martinez School at 100 James St.

Joel Schiavone, the sockless banjo-strumming real estate developer who launched New Haven’s downtown renaissance, has died at the age of 87, leaving behind a legacy that will long outlive him. In remaking the blocks in and around Chapel, College, and Crown streets, Schiavone invented ​“new urbanism” in New Haven...

“Absolutely magnificent,” eighth grader Michael Ortiz marveled at a representation of the Connecticut shoreline with its marshes, night herons snagging fish, and dozens of other labeled flora and fauna — all as part of one of the newly reopened state history dioramas at the freshly renovated Yale Peabody Museum.

“Hello several people, rap professionals, and various cool people,” said Sketch Tha Cataclysm from the Three Sheets stage, as he and fellow New Haven hip hop stalwart Mo Niklz hosted a group of touring artists from Chicago for a night of high-energy indie hip hop. A small but enthusiastic...

Seven-year-old Meklit and five-year-old Bethlehem ran around the empty rooms of 455 Howard Ave., dodging the legs of parents and realtors and city workers. This two-family home would soon be theirs. “We always wanted a big house,” Meklit said, minutes after her father won the Livable City Initiative’s (LCI’s) latest...

A state judge sentenced Qinxuan Pan to 35 years in prison after the former MIT artificial intelligence researcher pleaded guilty to the 2021 murder of Yale graduate student Kevin Jiang. State Superior Court Judge Gerald Harmon handed down that sentence on Tuesday, according to the state criminal convictions database and...

A citywide math and literacy tutoring effort has reached 1,700 New Haven elementary school students since launching nearly a year ago — and is now on the lookout for 100 more volunteer tutors this summer, on top of the 240 who are currently signed up, to keep the program growing.

Raquel Sanchez paged through recent issues of the New Haven Register and La Voz Hispana, on the lookout for opinion essays and articles about families — as part of a class teaching parents about the importance of media literacy for themselves, their kids, and others. Sanchez and her classmates...

About 30 people took a walk through Morris Cove, from Lighthouse Point Park to East Shore Park and back again, to see for themselves the route the city has proposed for the Shoreline Greenway Trail — and to see what other routes, or detours off the main route, might be possible.