Ridgefield News

When Paul Bucha went to Vietnam, he made a promise to his men. "I told them I didn't want to get into any geopolitics,'' Bucha, then an Army captain, said.

The 10th annual Connecticut Veterans Day Parade will make its way through the city's downtown Sunday beginning at 1 p.m. as more than 4,000 marchers take to the streets near the Capitol.

Gin Blossoms go acoustic in Connecticut By KEITH LORIA Hour Correspondent For those going to see the Gin Blossoms play the Ridgefield Theatre on Nov.6, things may sound a little different than you remember.

Students at St. Joseph's School in Danbury got backpacks, new school supplies -- and a new principal -- this year.

On an empty plot of land near the northeastern corner of the Sherwood Island Connector and Greens Farm Road, some shards of artifacts excavated last month tell a story about the former site of the West Parish Meeting House.

Kevin Kinyon, 43, and Michael Caldwell, 39, feel they have a really good gig. In fact, they say they've had 80,000 of them since launching their Web site, www.GigMasters.com , in 1997.

On Halloween this Saturday, the gypsy jazz and rock band Caravan of Thieves will perform, um, dead.

The Board of Education seemed on the verge Monday of abandoning any attempt at reconfiguring its elementary and middle school classes, despite declining enrollment numbers that one board member called "pretty sobering.'' The board has been mulling over a thick book of data on its pre-K through 8th-grade classes compiled by a committee after five ...

Source: Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian Americans Iranian American Runs for the Board of Education Nina Mohadjer www.nina4boe.com October 21, 2009, Ridgefield, CT - Born in Iran, raised in Germany, and a resident of Ridgefield Connecticut since 1995, Nina Mohadjer is a candidate for the Board of Education.

Area doctors and nurses are starting to get the vaccine to fight the swine flu. But much to their consternation, they're running out of the vaccine to ward off the seasonal influenza, which should begin to flare up in a couple of months.

Firefighters rushed to an apartment complex at 100 Danbury Road on Friday after receiving reports of a fire there.

The wacky world of anything-goes insanity returns to the Ridgefield Theater Barn on Oct.

The Rev, Mark Delcuze, the rector of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church here is one of the four finalists for the position of bishop of the state's Episcopalian diocese.

A proposal for a new environmental design center in Branchville will practice what it preaches, and preach what it practices.

Weir Preserve and Weir Farm National Historic Site will host their 17th annual Halloween Owl Prowl on Friday evening, Oct.

One of the wealthiest men in America and a top IBM Corp. executive were among six financially influential people arrested by federal authorities Friday in a hedge fund insider trading case that prosecutors say reaped more than $20 million in illegal profits.

"Anything is possible," was the message behind Martin Nesbitt's words Wednesday when he spoke to about 300 students, teachers, parents and faculty members at Wooster School on Miry Brook Road.

Two human-rights documentaries will be shown Sunday afternoon, Oct. 18, at the Ridgefield Playhouse.

About the hoopla surrounding the film adaptation of "Where the Wild Things Are," Maurice Sendak is characteristically gruff.

High winds that a utility company spokesman called "an equal opportunity windstorm" raised havoc for electrical customers across the state, leaving nearly 23,000 customers without power, may of them in the greater Danbury area.