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Here are some top stories from 2014 in Fairfield:
- Fairfield Police Chief Gary MacNamara was injured after his squad car was rear-ended at a red light near the intersection of Reef Road and Route 1 in the center of town in October.
- In June, a suspicious box with a painted face found on the Unquowa Road bridge stopped Metro-North train service for more than three hours. But the box was later identified as an abandoned project by a student at nearby Tomlinson Middle School.
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The suicide of a 69-year-old man in his at 32 Clinton St. in Fairfield in April became an emergency Hazmat situation due to dangerous chemicals found inside the residence. Allan Banks drank a deadly mixture of potassium cyanide, and he left signs in the house directing first responders to where the deadly chemicals were in the home and a sign over them indicating what they were, police said.
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A Fairfield resident reported to police that her personal information -- including her Social Security number -- may have been compromised in the Sony cyberattack that temporarily derailed the Seth Rogen and James Franco movie, “The Interview.”
- In the November election, Republican Tony Hwang of Fairfield was the victor in the hard-fought battle against Kim Fawcett to replace longtime state Sen. John McKinney in the 28th District.
- Two weeks after the Board of Selectmen unanimously approved more than $4 million in bonding to rebuild and restore Penfield Pavilion on Fairfield Beach Road, which the Board of Finance refused to act on, the selectmen once again approved more than $4 million for a variation of the project.
- Fairfield Ludlowe High School and Fairfield Warde High School were named among the top high schools in Connecticut and received a silver medal rating in the annual U.S. News & World Report study.
- A 24-year-old former Sacred Heart University student was arrested on charges of setting up a fake modeling agency and using it to harass women.
- Fairfield police and fire officials launched a “significant investigation” into a blaze at the Seagrape Cafe on Reef Road that was originally believed to be accidental but now appears to be arson.
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Paolo and Clara Cavalli opened their new restaurant in Fairfield, Brick + Wood, in the location of his family's former restaurant Ponte Vecchio.
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