Meals on Wheels receives $5,000
Fairfield County Bank, a longtime supporter of Meals on Wheels, recently donated $5,000 to the organization. The gift was targeted to fund a townwide mailing of the Meals on Wheels annual newsletter....
View ArticleClassic collectibles
Baseball cards, stamps, trains. If you collect any of these items, get over to the Thrift Shop and check out what we have. There are a few thousand baseball cards from the early 1980s which are being...
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Chamber confers honors at inaugural breakfast
From left, Chamber of Commerce board of directors chair Christy Kinsman, Bonnie Leavy, Dee Strilowich, Joe Strilowich, and Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Jennifer Zinzi. — Deborah K. O’Brien...
View ArticleServing our Nation
This list includes Ridgefielders or former Ridgefielders serving in the United States military at home or abroad or as civilian contractors supporting the military. Families of deployed soldiers in the...
View ArticleBible study group offering movie night
The MidDay Home Bible Study Group of Ridgefield will host a viewing of a box office movie, Do You Believe, on Sunday, April 3, at 5:30 p.m. The movie, based on lives being confronted with an essential...
View ArticleOrthopedic talk at Laurel Ridge
Dr. Robert Daher of Orthopaedic Specialists of Connecticut will talk about diagnosis and treatment of shoulder pain, including disease and injury, at Laurel Ridge Health Care Center, 642 Danbury Road,...
View ArticleByl to lead run at Amos House breakfast
Michael Byl, a former longtime Ridgefield resident, is in charge of a run before the 22nd annual Amos House spring breakfast on Wednesday, March 23, at the Amber Room in Danbury. That morning Byl will...
View ArticleChabad assembly at residence faces opposition
An attorney representing a five-unit apartment house in front of Chabad Ridgefield asked the Planning and Zoning Commission March 15 to deny a special permit that would allow Rabbi Sholom Deitsch to...
View ArticleCross country by Amtrak
A recent business trip took me to Dallas on a crowded, turbulent three-and-one-half-hour flight from LaGuardia. But the return trip was a real treat: two days and nights on Amtrak, for free. Riding a...
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Is Uber really a bargain?
Talking Transportation is a bi-weekly column written by Jim Cameron. In the almost two years since Uber rolled into Connecticut, the state’s car/taxi service business has been rocked to its core. But...
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Snow expected Sunday night
Spring arrived early Sunday, but a sunny start is expected to give way to a snowy evening according to forecasts. The National Weather Service map showing warnings and advisories as of 8 a.m. Sunday,...
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Looking Back: Prices went down, houses went up
Jack Baldaserini Relatives of Ridgefield soldiers returning from Operation Desert Storm 25 years ago were feeling “on top of the world,” the March 21, 1991, Press reported. Among the early returnees...
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Republicans name Karsanidi chairman of town committee
Alex Karsanidi The Ridgefield Republican Town Committee held its organizational meeting last week and elected the following executive officers for the 2016-18 term: Chairman Alex Karsanidi, Vice...
View ArticleSchool board supports superintendent’s budget — next stop Board of Finance
The Board of Education had an opportunity March 14 to plan for further cuts in the 2016-17 school budget, but chose to stick to its guns and show solidarity behind the superintendent’s request. “This...
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New sign is fire engine red
The fire department recently replaced the old, aging and broken sign on the front of the historic Catoonah Street headquarters with a new, modern composite sign. EMS coordinator Michael Trenck drew...
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Freidenrich to attend U.S. Naval Academy
Theodore Freidenrich Theodore Freidenrich has received an appointment to attend the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. Freidenrich is finishing his senior year at Kent School, where he...
View ArticleChabad assembly at home faces opposition
An attorney representing a five-unit apartment house in front of Chabad Ridgefield asked the Planning and Zoning Commission March 15 to deny a special permit that would allow Rabbi Sholom Deitsch to...
View Article$500 scholarship honors memory of Anne Sheehan
A $500 “Diamond in the Rough” scholarship honoring the memory of Anne Sheehan Doughty, a 1975 Ridgefield High School graduate, will be available for the first time this year to graduating RHS seniors....
View ArticleZemo seeks ethics ruling
In hope of clearing the air, the town’s Board of Ethics has been asked to review any potential conflict of interest Selectman Steve Zemo may have when discussing or voting on matters that relate to the...
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Club seeks identity of ‘mystery garden’
The 1941 mystery garden. — Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Gardens, J. Horace McFarland Co. Collection The Ridgefield Garden Club wants to identify a 1941 Ridgefield garden that’s in...
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