Lisa Reisman

After "friends" group raised $140K to infuse 20-year-old playground space with new energy, purpose, and color.

For the second annual "Gala on the Avenue," at the Q House.

Amid the sea of tuxedos and gowns marking this season, the New Haven Elks Club staged a variation on a theme at the Dixwell Q House gymnasium: a literal se

Friday evening at Grill-Mon Island, with Myra, head chef Eulita Clarke, and Josiah, along with little Josiah, (left).

New Haven Academy junior Keshawn Brown and Gorilla Lemonade co-founder Kris Threatt: Paired together through NHA's internship program. Credit: Marquis Goodwin of GOODWERK visuals

Ray Boyd (pictured) took home the Man of the Year award for his work helping formerly incarcerated people.

As Newhallville Fresh Starts team feeds vets at West Haven's Surfside Apartments.

At the 6th annual Take a Vet Fishing Women's Veterans Day outing.

When she was four years old, Laricha Langley lost her father to gun violence. She now works as a pediatric nurse -- and has written a memoir about her childhood. “These kids need to hear her story,” King/Robinson's principal said at this week's 8th-grade graduation ceremony. “They need to know that they can overcome.”

If all goes according to plan, Mi’Ah Harvin, 13, will be a pediatric nurse. Marious Cromwell, who just graduated from Riverside, will have his own clothing line. And Brelyn Wooten-Harvin, 13, will wield a scalpel as a surgeon. But first, there is work to do, and that’s where the RE-CEE Youth Program comes in.