This Month: Architectural Design Standards, Traffic Studies, and More A periodic update by Commissioner Jeff Randolph. Vice Chair TPZ explaining upcoming Town Plan & Zoning issues. The views expressed are his own. Recent discussion of Fairfield’s planning efforts has become increasingly personal and partisan. I would like to change
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Early May settles into a run of small-room concerts at Fairfield Theatre Company, with one science-focused program shifting the format away from music. The schedule favors live performance in close quarters, with most events built around touring acts rather than staged productions. Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, with Hitch &
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FAIRFIELD, Conn. — Fairfield has begun a federally funded planning process to improve roadway safety, with a series of public workshops and data analysis led by the town and its consultant, Toole Design, as part of the Safe Streets and Roads for All (SS4A) program. The effort centers on the development
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Connecticut regulators have approved the proposed sale of Aquarion Water Company, but a new filing could force regulators to revisit the decision and delay the transaction. Attorney General William Tong and the Office of Consumer Counsel filed a petition on April 9, 2026 requesting that the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority
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For more than a decade, Fairfield taxpayers have been paying for what has become one of the town’s most expensive and consequential environmental scandals: the illegal dumping of contaminated soil and debris at the town’s public works yard on Richard White Way. The town has now spent approximately
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The next two weeks favor the intimate room over the grand hall: Fairfield Theatre Company carries most of the calendar, with the Quick Center stepping in for a piano program and the Glee Club’s spring pops concert. The prevailing mood is live music in close quarters, with one science-
sports
April 23, 2026 Games played April 16–April 23, 2026 The spring sports calendar reached full volume this week. Fairfield-area high school programs produced results across baseball, softball, and lacrosse on almost every day of the window, and at the college level, Fairfield University baseball won four straight heading
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2026-04-16 RTM Budget Hearings Were Held April 6–8 as $402.9 Million Proposal Moves to Final Stage Fairfield’s Representative Town Meeting held budget hearings on April 6, 7, and 8, 2026, marking the final major public step before the RTM votes on the proposed fiscal year
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Fairfield’s Town Plan and Zoning Commission is considering where to draw a new conservation and traffic mitigation district authorized under Connecticut’s 2025 housing law, November Special Session Public Act 25-1, commonly known as HB 8002. A preliminary map has been presented based on staff work and commissioner
food
April 15, 2026 The Whelk (Westport) $$$$ 575 Riverside Ave, Westport, CT 06880 Hours: Dinner Tue–Thu 4:30pm–8:30pm; Fri–Sat 4:30pm–9:30pm; Sun 4:30pm–8:30pm; Mon closed Hours listed as of publication; verify before visiting. The Whelk operates as a polished coastal dining room
music
April 16–April 29, 2026 The two weeks ahead in Fairfield are dense with live music at the Fairfield Theatre Company and a marquee theatrical event at the Quick Center that brings professional Broadway actors together with Fairfield University students for the first time. The Edgerton Center at Sacred Heart
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Fairfield is moving ahead with a school-zone speed-camera program under Connecticut’s automated traffic-enforcement law. The town’s plan received CTDOT approval in December 2025, and local police said this week that installation is underway, with activation possible as early as May or June. Once the cameras