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  • Ridgefield High School in Ridgefield, Conn. Monday, Oct. 20, 2014.
    Education
    Ridgefield schools to add security director for $110K a year
    The district is hiring nine school security officers and exploring creating a security director position in the wake of a year-long study of school safety. 
    By Dan Nowak
  • Ridgefield High School senior Ryan Williams was one of 369 students, in the world, to have a perfect score on the Comp Sci AP exam. Monday, October 3, 2022, Ridgefield, Conn.
    News
    Ridgefield teen achieves perfect score on college level test
  • Scotts Ridge Middle School sixth grader Brody Gorgas hugs Emmy in a program at the school with dogs from Guiding Eyes. The dogs are at the school every day during recess and are felt to have a calming effect on the students and allow the students to gain self confidence through their handling of the dogs. Wednesday,September 21, 2022, Ridgefield, Conn.
    News
    Ridgefield students find comfort in handling dogs at school
  • The Ridgefield HIstorical Society recently celebrated the birthday of the Peter Parley Schoolhouse’s namesake, Peter Parley, pen name of author Samuel G. Goodrich, on Sunday afternoon, August 28, with cookies, and cake, and lemonade.
    News
    Ridgefield Historical Society celebrates schoolhouse namesake
  • Assistant Superintendent of Schools Cory Gillette and Ridgefield Superintendent of Schools Dr. Susie DaSilva.
    News
    Ridgefield Public Schools celebrates convocation
  • Employment opportunities are available in the Ridgefield Public School district.
    News
    Ridgefield Public School district offering employment...
  • John Clark, president of Western Connecticut State University, during a News Times editorial board interview on Wednesday, August 19, 2015, in Danbury, Conn.
    News
    WCSU leader is out after university’s serious financial deficits
  • Coronavirus in Connecticut
    Ridgefield school mask policy remains intact, return plan in flux
    An updated version of the district’s safe return plan was shared with Board of Education members Tuesday night, but some strategies remain in flux as officials await further guidance from the state and keep an eye on local COVID numbers. Superintendent Susie Da Silva, top right, introduced the presentation. While the district’s safe return plan remains in flux while waiting for state guidance, officials say they will require everyone to wear masks in school. By Alyssa Seidman
  • News
    Comparing CT’s superintendents: Who makes how much and where
    Exclusive: Hearst CT reviewed 153 public school superintendent contracts for 2020-21 and found that the top five highest paid work in Fairfield County. By Viktoria Sundqvist
  • News
    UConn announces CEO of UConn Health as interim president
    A file photo of UConn President Thomas C. Katsouleas. He is expected to resign as the university’s president effective June 30, 2021, and return to teaching and research. Thomas Katsouleas will return to teaching and research, he announced Wednesday. Andrew “Andy” Agwunobi, CEO of UConn Health, will take the reins in the interim. By Tara O'Neill and Cayla Bamberger
  • Coronavirus in Connecticut
    How UConn’s creamery turned to cheese during the pandemic
    Cheese made at the UConn creamery and sold at the iconic university Dairy Bar. When the pandemic closed the UConn Dairy Bar, a fixture on the Storrs campus since 1953, there was time and plenty of milk to make cheese. By Jordan Fenster
  • News
    Ridgefield students recognized for outstanding achievement
    Pictured (from left to right): Superintendent Susie Da Silva with Scotts Ridge Middle School students Aidan Mignano, Dakota Smith, Lloyd Mill and Naomi Vakil. The Ridgefield Public School Board of Education set aside time during their meeting on May 10 to honor a handful of student award-winners. By Staff
Latest News
  • Ridgefield Arts Council embraces town's art organizations
  • Police: Jewelry, laptop, cash stolen from Ridgefield home
  • Ridgefield restaurant employee loses all in house fire in NY
  • Ridgefield entrepreneur joins cast of biz owners on 'The Blox'
  • 1 district willing to accept Danbury students for Open Choice
  • Rotary Club's Taste of Ridgefield returns with 'best food around'
  • Ridgefield sisters to open Queen B coffee shop on Jan. 31
  • Ridgefield mom, vet dies at 39, leaving behind newborn son
  • Ridgefield happenings: 'Poems From the Four Corners', Iris Fund
  • Ridgefield considers selling Pond's Edge for 100 housing units
  • Coronavirus in Connecticut
    Full-time, in-person learning returns to Ridgefield schools
    Ridgefield student Sofia Cluney was all smiles as she prepared to return to Branchville Elemenrary School in person for the first time since last year. Most Ridgefield middle and high school students returned to the classrooms for full, in-person learning this week for the first time since the start of the pandemic. By Alyssa Seidman
  • Coronavirus in Connecticut
    DPH: Here are guidelines to hold proms, graduations in CT
    Guilford, Connecticut - Wednesday, June 17, 2020: Senior Rose McDermott of the Guilford H.S. Class of 2020 listens to graduation speakers while in a car during the Covid-19 pandemic induced social-distancing drive-in movie style graduation Wednesday evening at the Guilford Fairgrounds. DPH stressed the importance of mask wearing and social distancing while suggesting schools amend schedules, limit movement and hold events outside if possible. By Nicholas Rondinone
  • Coronavirus in Connecticut
    Schools adjust as teachers sick with COVID vaccine side effects
    Teachers and staff from all over Monroe's school system wait the mandatory 15 minutes to monitor for reactions after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine during a closed vaccine clinic for Monroe school staff at Masuk High School in Monroe, Conn., on Wednesday Mar. 3, 2021. School districts are trying to avoid the disruptions some have encountered when large amounts of teachers call out sick due to side effects from the COVID vaccine. By Amanda Cuda
  • Coronavirus in Connecticut
    Officials: UConn students charged in party with over 100 people
    Modern LED light bar on police cruiser flashing red and blue emergency lights. State police said they responded to a complaint of a loud party late Saturday night at a home near the UConn campus in Mansfield. By Leah Brennan
  • Coronavirus in Connecticut
    Which school & child care workers are eligible for COVID vaccine?
    Bus monitors including Tanesha Joyner help students board buses at Fox Run Elementary School Thursday, September 16, 2020. Here's who's eligible as of March 1. By Peter Yankowski

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  1. Police: $14K in jewelry, MacBook laptop, $1,000 in cash stolen from Ridgefield home; suspect sought
  2. Only 1 school district is willing to accept Danbury students in CT's Open Choice program
  3. Ridgefield mom, veterinarian dies at 39, leaving behind newborn son: 'Dr. Sobel will be missed immensely'
  4. Charter Communications to settle lawsuit over customer's murder for less than $262 million
  5. Ridgefield area rallies behind Bailey's Backyard employee who lost all in NY house fire
  6. Enterprise Products: Q4 Earnings Snapshot
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  • News
    What you need to know about new CDC school guidelines
    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new guidelines, which state teachers should be considered a “high priority” for receiving COVID vaccine. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new guidelines, which say teachers should be considered a “high priority” for receiving the COVID vaccine. By Shayla Colon
  • News
    Some CT school employees mistakenly given COVID vaccine
    A file photo of a vial of the Pfizer vaccine, taken on Friday, Dec. 18, 2020, in West Hartford, Conn. Some staff members at the Williams School in New London received the COVID-19 vaccine due to an administrative error, officials said. By Tara O'Neill
  • News
    ‘A real educator:’ Cardona’s rapid rise to Biden cabinet nominee
    Connecticut Commissioner of Education Miguel Cardona is President-elect Joe Biden’s pick for U.S. secretary of education. Miguel Cardona became Connecticut’s commissioner of education at age 44. Now at 45, he is poised to make the leap to U.S. secretary of education. By Linda Conner Lambeck
  • Coronavirus in Connecticut
    Official: Person ‘potentially infectious’ with COVID all week...
    East Ridge Middle School in Ridgefield sent "multiple" students and staff home Friday after a person tested positive for COVID-19 who had been in school all week. Some East Ridge Middle School students and staff were sent home early Friday when the COVID cases was reported, a district official said. By Macklin Reid
  • Coronavirus in Connecticut
    CT could be first to meet tech needs of at-home learners
    Some of the computers the Bridgeport Public Schools has received to allow students to learn from home Connecticut has helped get learning devices into the hands of 142,000 students since the spring. By Linda Conner Lambeck
  • Coronavirus in Connecticut
    Lamont reiterates support for in-person learning
    West Rocks Middle School principal, Adam Reynolds, and the staff welcome and check in students including Erick Valdovinos either through a questionnaire or smartphone app as the kids arrive Wednesday, November 25, 2020, in Norwalk, Conn. Schools go through a process when a students return after testing positive for COVID. Lamont’s continued support came after New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said the nation’s largest public school system will reopen beginning Dec. 7. By Peter Yankowski
  • News
    Symposium looks at education post-pandemic
    The Bridgeport Public Education Fund and Connecticut Education Association team up to hold a Zoom-based symposium for parents, educators and others. By Linda Conner Lambeck
  • News
    Jonathan Steckler new chairman of Ridgefield school board
    The Ridgefield school board’s new leadership includes vice chairman, Ken Sjoberg, left, and chairman Jonathan Steckler. Sjoberg, and Steckler are in this photo after the Democratic caucus during a previous summer. Jonathan Steckler has been elected the chairman of the Ridgefield school board, following being nominated by outgoing chairwoman Margaret Stamatis. By Macklin Reid
  • Coronavirus in Connecticut
    Lawyers fighting CT school mask mandate: What’s next, ‘space suits?’
    A teacher puts on a child's mask upon his arrival at Stark Elementary School on September 16, 2020 in Stamford, Connecticut. The lawyers claim the state Department of Education does not have the authority to require all students to wear masks in schools. By Hugh McQuaid
  • News
    Ridgefield High School first quarter honor roll released
    Elias Lichten, a 12th grade student at The Harvey School in Katonah, N.Y., has earned a Cavalier Scholar certificate from The Harvey School. Conrad Breede, a seventh grade student at the school has earned a place on the school’s honor roll. The list has students in all grades at the school along with high honors, and also honors at the start of the 2020-21 school year. By Staff
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