Ridgefield News

Kaitlyn Heisler, 23, roasts Kona beans from Hawaii in the small-batch roaster at Redding Roasters Coffee Co., which her father, Bob O'Keefe, started eight years ago, Tuesday, May 22, 2012.

Envisioning another 40 to 80 units of state-backed housing for senior citizens, the Affordable Housing Committee came to the selectmen last week, looking for land.

Members of the Board of Education on Tuesday continued their review of a proposal by the Ridgefield High School Student Government to allow seniors at the school to have an open campus schedule.

A Westonite Philip Schaefer can be seen on the stage at the Ridgefield Theater Barn starting tomorrow night and throughout the month of June.

A Ridgefield man was charged with drunken driving last week after being pulled over for driving on three tires, police said.

The Emmy Award winner passed away at his home in Ridgefield, Connecticut on Friday , his daughter Katherine Hover tells the Associated Press.

The gripping courtroom drama, "Nuts" by Tom Topor and directed by Sherry Asch opens Friday at the Ridgefield Theater Barn on Halpin Lane in Ridgefield, CT.

Wilson Avenue Loft Artists will have an opening reception at Wilton Library for its iWords Matteri exhibition on Friday, June 1, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. The exhibition runs through June 29 with a portion of sales benefiting the library.

This piece by NCC student Mathew Hood will be on display in CCP's third biennial International Footprint exhibition, which opens June 10.

The Health Department has partnered with Dr. Neeta Connally of Ridgefield, a tick-borne disease prevention researcher and Western Connecticut State University biology professor, to assess the risk for tick-borne illnesses at Ridgefield public recreation areas.

Ivan Neville & Dumpstaphunkis "Not Just Another Girl," from Ivanis first solo album, If My Ancestors Could See Me Now, was a Top 40 Billboard hit.

A Ridgefield man was charged with drunk driving last week after being pulled over for driving on three tires, police said.

The Ridgefield Board of Selectmen last week renewed a vendor permit for Chez Lenard , the popular hot dog stand on Main Street run by town native Michael Principi .

My boys were with their father in Buffalo Saturday when I spent the morning covering Brockport's Day ofA Remembrance.

The reflection of the American flag is visible in a window above the New Milford Public Library's front portico as New Milford Veterans Committee members, from left to right, Jeff McBreairty, James Delancy and Dan Sullivan, offer a salute during the town's Memorial Day pre-parade ceremony.

Marching bands and floats, veterans and war nurses, Scouts and soccer teams, dance troops and dignitaries - even a congressman this year - will parade down Main Street on Memorial Day.

Kimberly Winter, RN, BSN, is the director of staff development at Laurel Ridge Health Care Center in Ridgefield, Conn., where she works with a variety of patients, including those with dementia.

Applications and requirements can be obtained on the State Police website www.ct.gov/despp or by contacting a State Police recruiter at 203-630-8070. The Connecticut State Police has more than 1,000 troopers and is the third largest police force in New England.

Emblematic of an age when families helped pay for their children's education by contributing firewood, the little red schoolhouse on West Lane opens for the season this weekend - for the first time under the auspices of the Ridgefield Historical Society.

From the Population Health Research Institute , McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Department of Neurology , University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany; Uppsala Clinical Research Centre , Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden; Boehringer Ingelheim , Ridgefield, CT; Lankenau Institute for Medical Research , ... (more)