On Nov. 26, the newly discovered Omicron variant of COVID-19 was labeled a variant of concern by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Omicron is a new variant first reported in South Africa, though...
On Nov. 30, the West Haven community gathered together at West Haven City Hall with the newly re-elected mayor, Nancy R. Rossi, for the most recent town hall meeting. This meeting, the 6th meeting of 2021,...
The three white men who shot and killed Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man on Feb. 23, 2020, were convicted of murder on Wednesday. Gregory McMichael, 65, and his son Travis McMichael, 35, pursued...
Between Oct. 31 and Nov. 12, the UN Climate Change Conference took place in Glasgow, Scotland. This was the 26th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP26) that brought together world leaders and...
Kyle Rittenhouse, the now 18-year-old who killed two people and injured another in a shooting at an antiracism protest last year in Kenosha, Wis., was acquitted on all charges Friday afternoon.
Under...
On Oct. 28, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg held an online keynote presentation titled “Connection is Evolving and so are we.” In an hour and ten-minute presentation, he laid out the framework...
On Nov. 1, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments for major cases pertaining to both abortion and gun control.
The Court heard arguments on Texas' bill S.B.8, a law restricting women's abortion...
Mia Adduci, Contributing Writer
• November 16, 2021
Performer Travis Scott’s 2021 Astroworld Festival ran from Nov. 5 through Nov. 7 in Houston, TX. On Friday night, 50,000 people were caught in a crowd surge where 10 people died and countless more were...
Perspective
Despite dark clouds looming over the city and the cold weather, citizens of West Haven still showed up to vote during election day on Nov. 2.
At the District One polling location, the...
A recent notice in the University of New Haven dining halls saying that pans were now being sprayed by soybean oil was the only noticeable impact on campus of our current supply chain disruption. However,...
West Haven, Conn.—On Tuesday, West Haven Mayor Nancy R. Rossi was re-elected for a third term as mayor, narrowly beating Republican opponent Barry Lee Cohen by 24 votes.
Rossi's win was declared shortly...
In recent years, hiking has become a favorite hobby of many, bringing over 49.7 million out to the trails in 2019 alone. With the COVID-19 pandemic, the woods were packed with people looking to escape...
There is a common misconception about the meaning of inclusivity—that it only goes so far as to limit exclusion and ensure the involvement of every party within a particular activity.
Inclusivity...
This week, new COVID-19 vaccine recommendations have come in from an expert committee advising the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to authorize the use of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine for five...
Howard Stoffer, a national security professor at the University of New Haven, worked in the U.S. Foreign Service from 1980 to 2005, and for the next seven years worked for the United Nations, where he...
