Ridgefield News Archives

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.

Thirty-two years ago, a young Andy Vargo was pounding the pavement and flipping pancakes with other Explorer scouts to raise money to buy a canteen truck for the Milford Fire Department.

During the lecture at Ridgefield High School before Saturday night's concert, someone asked music director Gerald Steichen how he selects material for the Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra.

America comes to Ridgefield next Thursday. Best known for tunes such as "A Horse with No Name," "I Need You" and "Sister Golden Hair," the band brings its pop-rock sound to the Ridgefield Playhouse for an 8 p.m. show.

Ridgefield First Selectman Rudy Marconi, who is not widely known statewide, has joined four other Democrats by entering the race for governor.

Charts, graphs and the history of the school system will guide the Board of Education during its monthlong quest to decide whether, and how, to restructure the town's schools.

It didn't take long for the owners of a new commercial building on Danbury Road in Ridgefield to find tenants to fill the first floor space.

When a kindergarten child is homesick, the advice is to have them bring a picture of Mom and Dad to school and put it on their desk.

RIDGEFIELD, Conn. - The first selectman of Ridgefield is about to join a growing list of Democrats who say they are considering a run for governor.

At 83%, the majority of individual investors are clueless about the removal of income limits on Roth IRAs next year, according to research by Fidelity Investments released today.

Harriers and half-breeds, mastiffs and mongrels will walk side by side down Main Street Sunday in a celebration of doggie democracy and a chance to help their abandoned litter-mates. The event is the 3rd Annual Paws for a Cause to benefit ROAR -- Ridgefield Operation for Animal Rescue.

Guitarist and singer Robin Trower -- who was tagged by the press as "The White Hendrix" back in the '70s -- brings his music to Ridgefield on Friday.

Ridgefield's new Cultural Festival and the second annual Art Walk are set for Saturday.

Folk-pop singer Bethany Yarrow and cellist Rufus Cappadocia, aka Bethany & Rufus , will join Peter Yarrow in concert October 17 at the Ridgefield Playhouse in Ridgefield, Connecticut.