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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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Ridgefield Town Hall.

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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.

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Flames engulf car on I-91 in Windsor

Peter Yankowski

April 17, 2021Updated: April 17, 2021 8:32 p.m.

WINDSOR — Flames engulfed a vehicle on the northbound side of I-91 Saturday, April 17, 2021. — WINDSOR — Flames engulfed a vehicle on the northbound side of I-91 Saturday, April 17, 2021.
Contributed / Connecticut Department of Transportation

WINDSOR — State police are at the scene of a fully-involved car fire on Interstate 91 northbound.

The crash was reported around 7:25 p.m. between exits 34 and 35, according to the Department of Transportation.

The accident has closed the right three lanes.

Traffic cam footage has been cut.

DOT reported the accident cleared at 8 p.m.