Ridgefield News

Some area residents, including grade school students, will soon have cleaner water to drink.

It will be several weeks before the investigation of a former Ridgefield School District administrative employee is completed and likely criminal charges will be filed, officials say.

RIDGEFIELD, Conn. - Ten-year-old Tommy Weeks sat silently on the sofa next to his dad who gently explained to his young son that Mommy had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

It's a small piece of a complicated puzzle. But for opponents of the legally snarled plans to build a condominium project on the remaining Bennett's Pond land, a move by the Housatonic Valley Council of Elected Officials this month was not a good one.

Budget politics met open space this week. Budget politics won. Gov. M. Jodi Rell announced Tuesday she would veto the annual state land conveyance bill -- the bill that annually transfers small parcels of state-owned land to towns.

The ability to care for pets has reached a new level. Thanks to a bill Gov. M. Jodi Rell signed Tuesday, pet-owners can care for their pets after death.

Nor are there any tables: just a couple of town benches, sidewalk standing-room and Ballard Park across the street where customers enjoy their lunch in the open air.

The scent burgers grilling filled the air in the parking lot of the Branchville train station on Saturday.

It's always a dog-eat world at New Fairfield's newest restaurant, and that's just the way Linda and Thomas Lavardera like it.

In an ordinary season, John Holbrook would have all his tomato plants in the ground at Holbrook Farm in Bethel.

A former Ridgefield, Conn. coach has pleaded not guilty to a charge that he tried to lure a 15-year-old girl he met online into having sex with him.

Former Ridgefield resident and author Patrice Sarath will be at Books on the Common, 109 Danbury Road, Ridgefield, for a book-signing Sunday at 1 p.m. Sarath will sign copies of her well-received fantasy novel "Gordath Wood" and its sequel, "Red Gold Bridge," which was released for sale at the end of June.

The water quality of the Norwalk River continues to deteriorate due to pollution and overexploitation and the problem needs to be fixed soon, declare Wilton High School students who assisted professional environmentalists in a recent study.

Print Email June/July 2009 Industry News LMT 's Creative Director Tarol Samuelson was the featured artist at 'The Art of Caring,' a gala benefit held for Regional Hospice of Western Connecticut in June.

Chez La Bretagne has passed into culinary history, and its incredible patrone Madame Prigent is no doubt preparing food for the gods.

Gerard Hemsworth, Hidden Agenda, 2008. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin.

I was surprised and disappointed that the Ridgefield Planning and Zoning Commission allowed the expanded use of the gas station at the intersection of routes 7 and 35, which resulted in tripling the traffic from this facility during the peak morning hour.

Tom Sachs, Untitled , 2008. Courtesy of the artist and Sperone Westwater, New York.

When Rudy Marconi, Ridgefield's first selectman, looked out his office window, he saw some yellowing leaves and bare limbs on the Siberian elm outside his office.

Local police work day and night to make sure residents are safe on the road and at home.