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Utility crews complete work on Main Street between Governor and Prospect in anticipation of a major realignment project set to break ground this month. Wednesday, November 17, 2021, Ridgefield, Conn.

Ridgefield replaces ‘dangerous’ trees on Main Street

The Pete Wikul band is returning to the Ridgefield Theater Barn at 8 p.m. Saturday, May 14.

Community news: Band to perform in Ridgefield and more

The rocketry team putting the rocket on the launch pad and getting it ready for launch at one of the practice flights in Durham. From left, Peter Sebestyen, Damien Seidman, Amelia Lekovic, John Paul Sebestyen, Brian Daniels, Adam Wilder. Not pictured; Adriel Lekovic.

Ridgefield team to take its model rocket to national competition

A nine-unit affordable housing project at Turner Road and Barnum Place in Ridgebury approved by Ridgefield's Planning and Zoning Commission. Ridgefield is considering a plan to encourage more affordable housing.

Ridgefield affordable housing plan faces criticism

The new, and recently opened Ridgefield Station senior living residences, and community in Ridgefield, recently hosted several introductory workshops to start their Dementia Friendly Communities initiative, in an effort to make Ridgefield a dementia friendly town. Pictured from the left to the right are: Jerry Meyers, Ridgefield Fire Chief; Tim Randall, owner of the Right at Home in home support, and assistance business, Sergeant. Mark Caswell, Ridgefield Police Department, Rita Covelli, director of adult services at the Ridgefield Library, Maureen McLam, director of community Relations at Ridgefield Station, Cindy Nesbitt, director of marketing at the Founders Hall donor supported education, and recreation center, for individuals, who are age 60, and older, Karen Holseth-Broekema, of the Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra, RSO, Alison Brown, Filosa Nursing and Rehab, Jan Triana, a board member for the Compassionate Ridgefield initiative, and organization, Nick Kilsby, a board member for the Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra; Laurie Kenegy, executive director of the Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra, Rudy Marconi, Ridgefield First Selectman; Ridgefield Selectwoman Barbara Manners; Captain Rom Duckworth of the Ridgefield Fire Department, and Michael Schaus, director of operations for senior living residences at the Ridgefield Station assisted living, and memory support senior living residences.

Community news: Dementia-friendly initiative launched and more

Events at the Ridgefield Playhouse are among several arts and cultural programs held this month in town.

Ridgefield’s Art Watch: The events to look forward to in May

Marconi

School enrollment, roads and more to drive Ridgefield town, school budgets

Ridgefield Town Hall.

Ridgefield to discuss affordable housing plan

Revolutionary War reenacters carry caskets of fallen soldiers during the Battle of Ridgefield Funeral Procession and Ceremonial Salute in Ridgefield, Conn. Sunday, May 1, 2022. The 245th anniversary of the Battle of Ridgefield was remembered with a funeral procession and ceremony, led by the 5th Connecticut Regiment and the Brigade of the American Revolution. The men who died in battle in 1777 received a formal recognition for the first time at the ceremony, which featured hundreds of Revolutionary War reenacters. Troops marched through town with two horse-drawn carriages to the cemetery, where soldiers placed four caskets in a special tribute honoring their lives.

Ridgefield event honors possible Revolutionary War soldiers

New details of the Battle of Ridgefield and the remains of soldiers found in town were revealed at an event Friday, April 30, 2022.

New details of soldiers’ remains found in Ridgefield revealed

Movies being shown at the Prospector Theater in Ridgefield

Dec. 2, 2020

Leah Wiener, of Ridgefield, and her sons Max, 5, and Owen, 3, wait for a movie to start at the Prospector Theater. Friday, March 24, 2017, in Ridgefield, Conn. — Leah Wiener, of Ridgefield, and her sons Max, 5, and Owen, 3, wait for a movie to start at the Prospector Theater. Friday, March 24, 2017, in Ridgefield, Conn.H John Voorhees III / Hearst Connecticut Media

Movies for Friday, Dec. 4-Thursday, Dec. 10, follow. Confirm showtimes at prospectortheater.org.

“All My Life,” (PG-13): Friday and Saturday, 4:30, 7:15; Sunday, 4:15, 7:15; Thursday, 4:15, 7:15;

“The Croods: A New Age” (PG): Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 4, 6:45; Thursday, 4, 6:45;

“Let Him Go” (R): Friday and Saturday, 4:15, 7; Sunday, 4:30; Thursday, 4:30;