Ridgefield Morning Briefing: Friday, May 4

Good morning, Ridgefield! Today is Friday, May 4, 2012.

HEADLINES

EVENTS & REMINDERS

TODAY AT THE RIDGEFIELD PLAYHOUSE

• The Hunger Games: 4 p.m., 7 p.m. -- Set in a future where the Capitol selects a boy and girl from the twelve districts to fight to the death on live television, Katniss Everdeen volunteers to take her younger sister's place for the latest match. Rated PG.

PUBLIC/GOVERNMENT MEETINGS

• Parking Authority Meeting: 8 a.m., Town Hall
  

FORECAST as of 4 p.m. Thursday:

• Friday: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a high near 75. Southwest wind around 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
• Friday Night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 56. North wind between 3 and 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.

THIS DATE IN HISTORY (from wikipedia.org)

• Today is considered Star Wars Day by some. Why? Well, May the Fourth be with you!
• 1776 – Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III.
• 1814 – Emperor Napoleon I of France arrives at Portoferraio on the island of Elba to begin his exile.
• 1904 – The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
• 1953 – Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
• 1959 – The 1st Grammy Awards are held.
• 1972 – The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to "Greenpeace Foundation".
• 1998 – A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty.

INTERSTATE TRAFFIC CAMS

See also Ridgefield Patch’s “Commute” page.

• Danbury WB E/O Exit 6 - Rockwell Rd.
• Danbury WB Exit 6 - Rt. 37 (North St.)
• Danbury EB Exit 5 - Starr Ave.
• Danbury EB Exit 4 - Lake Ave.
• Danbury I-84 EB Exit 2 - Milestone Rd.
• Norwalk SB Exit 15 - Stuart Ave.
• Norwalk Rt 7 S/O Exit 1 - Connecticut Ave.
• Norwalk NB Exit 15 - Rt. 7
• Norwalk SB Exit 16 - East Ave.
• Norwalk NB S/O Exit 16 - S/O Saugatuck Ave.
• Stamford SB Exit 8 - Elm St.
• Stamford NB S/O Exit 9 - Lockwood Ave.
• Darien SB N/O Exit 9 - Darien Service Plaza
• Darien NB Exit 12 - Tokeneke Rd.
• Darien NB S/O Exit 13 - Darien Service Plaza
• Darien SB Exit 13 - Rt. 1 (Boston Post Rd.)

TIDES & TIMES

• Low tide: 4:30 a.m.
• Sunrise: 5:47 a.m.
• High tide: 10:28 a.m.
• Low tide: 4:42 p.m.
• Sunset: 7:54 p.m.
• High tide: 10:46 p.m.
• Moon visibility: 92 percent

Forecast obtained from the National Weather Service; tide information obtained from saltwatertides.com (calibrated to South Norwalk).