Be a steward of rainwater
Water and Your Garden is the topic of a new gardening class in Ridgefield Continuing Education. Participants can learn to become rain stewards. Garden and landscape can affect the quality of water...
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Rocking fashion for veterans charity
Fashion designer Lauren DiNardo with models from last year’s charity show at the Playhouse. Rock & Roll Couture fashion designer Lauren DiNardo and Women That Rock will return to the Ridgefield...
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Coulter named editor of Lewisboro Ledger
Press Sports Editor Tim Murphy, left, with reporter Steve Coulter and Editor Macklin Reid at the New England Newspaper and Press Association awards dinner at the Park Plaza Hotel in Boston in February...
View ArticleWeir participates in park weekend
Weir Farm National Historic Site will be part of National Park Weekend on April 18 and 19 from 10 to 4. “American Impressionist Julian Alden Weir not only left the world a treasure-trove of beautiful...
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Artisan Show at Keeler Tavern
Keeler Tavern Museum’s second annual Spring Artisan Show, to be held April 24 and 25 on the museum’s campus, is curated by VS Shows’ Richard Vazzana, left, and managed by the museum’s program chair,...
View ArticleHow art inspires art
For a fascinating look at how art inspires art, come hear artist Suzanne Benton describe her two-year odyssey studying the paintings that Marcel Proust referenced in his groundbreaking novel In Search...
View ArticleRidgefield numbers not bad in profiling report
Racial profiling by police appears to be a concern in a handful of Connecticut communities, according to a new state report, but Ridgefield isn’t on a list of police departments with traffic stop...
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Chief on profiling: You don’t do it
Chief John Roche “It doesn’t matter who you are,” police Chief John Roche said. “If you break the law, you break the law. If you don’t, you don’t.” Chief Roche was reacting to a state report on racial...
View ArticleArchaeology of Ridgefield
The Archaeology of Ridgefield’s Richardson Park is a new course in Ridgefield Continuing Education that focuses on the Indians who lived here in pre-Colonial times and the tools they used. People have...
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Winning the vote
Besides Alice Paul, weren’t other Ridgefielders involved in passage of the 19th Amendment? In July 1920 Laura Curie Allee got a call from the headquarters of the National American Woman’s Suffrage...
View ArticleReconciliation a topic at church Sunday
Reconciliation is a deeply personal matter, according to Carlene Demiany, who will speak from experience on the topic of healing broken, conflicted, or hurt relationships at the First Congregational...
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Tips help Playhouse
Gallo Business Manager Jeff Hennig with Allison Stockel, executive director of The Ridgefield Playhouse. At Gallo Ristorante on Wednesday, April 22, guest bartenders will be mixing, shaking and...
View ArticleBI psoriasis drugeffective in study
Boehringer Ingelheim announced Phase II data from its investigational compound BI 655066. The Ridgebury-based firm reports that nearly double the percentage of patients with moderate to severe plaque...
View ArticleEducation foundation honors school heroes
Ridgefield public schools will be soon be invaded by superheroes during Teacher Appreciation Week of May 4. The Ridgefield Education Foundation once again presents Hero Awards — honoring exceptional...
View ArticleWhose Barn Is It Anyway? tonight
The Role in the Hay Players are returning for their ever-popular night of improv comedy, Whose Barn Is It Anyway?, at the Ridgefield Theater Barn, Saturday, April 18, at 8 p.m. Featuring Cheryl Boyd,...
View ArticleClasses get folks up and moving
Tai Chi, Qi Gong, and other movement classes start soon through Ridgefield Continuing Education. Tai Chi with Gwen Roman meets on Wednesdays, April 22 through June 10 (eight sessions; $96; East Ridge...
View ArticleBands jam next weekend
Middle and high school finalists who will get a chance to show what they’ve got before a panel of industry pros — i95 DJ Ethan Carey, Broadway star Linda Eder, singer/songwriter/producer Vaneese Thomas...
View ArticleLike shopping in a boutique
It’s been such fun to watch our customers’ reactions to our new floor. “It’s like shopping in a boutique,” exclaimed one. The woman beside her responded, “It’s always been a boutique, it’s just...
View ArticleClasses cover arts and crafts
Art, jewelry, photography, and art history classes are available through Ridgefield Continuing Education. All classes provide instruction for both beginning and advanced students. Drawing for Beginners...
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Whitney Cummings in town May 15
Whitney Cummings Comedian/actor/writer/producer Whitney Cummings is arguably one of the funniest women doing stand-up today. She is best known as the creator and star of the NBC sitcom Whitney, as...
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