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Students from Ridgefield's middle school and high school gay-straight alliances led a parade through ballard park on the town's first pride day, Saturday June 15.

Ridgefield to kick off Pride Month with flag ceremony

About 20 seniors from Meadow Ridge, a retirement community in Redding, dressed up on Saturday to see the “Downton Abbey” movie at the Prospector Theater in Ridgefield. Residents shown in the photo are left to right: Susan Auslander, June Lurie, Arthur Turner and Mary Madelyn Attenasio.

Community news: Ridgefield students raise $17K for well in Sudan

American Legion Post 78 Veterans Day Ceremony at Lounsbury House, Ridgefield, Conn. Wednesday, November 11, 2020. Volunteers are needed to decorate veterans’ graves for Memorial Day.

Volunteers needed to decorate veterans’ graves in Ridgefield

Scott Robert, of Ridgefield, and the Scott Robert Sextet perform intricate jazz numbers during Make Music Day at Ballard Park in Ridgefield, Conn. Monday, June 21, 2021.

Community news: Ridgefield boy wins Scrabble competition, and...

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

Alert: US attorney says FBI is investigating Buffalo shooting as both a hate crime and racially motivated violent extremism

May 14, 2022Updated: May 14, 2022 6:41 p.m.

WASHINGTON (AP) — US attorney says FBI is investigating Buffalo shooting as both a hate crime and racially motivated violent extremism.