The family of a Ridgefield High School graduate who died July 16 while working at a landscaping job at a private residence in South Salem, N.Y., has set up a scholarship fundraiser in his honor. The ...

Ridgefield High School was dealt a devastating blow. Brandon Gmelin, a member of the 2025 graduating class, was trying to ...

An 18-year-old high school graduate in Ridgefield has died, officials say. Brandon Gmelin was killed in an apparent landscaping accident in South Salem, New York. Police saying Gmelin was attempting ...

An 18-year-old from Ridgefield was killed in an accident involving a log splitter, according to police. The incident happened ...

Police say 18-year-old Brandon Gmelin of Connecticut was killed after a log splitter at a South Salem property rolled down a ...

Brandon Q. Gmelin, of Ridgefield, was attempting to move a log splitter around 6:30 p.m. at a home in South Salem when the ...

Brandon Gmelin, 18, of Ridgefield, Conn. died Wednesday evening in South Salem, N.Y. after being struck by a log splitter ...

An 18-year-old Connecticut resident was killed Wednesday evening, July 16, in a tragic incident involving heavy landscaping ...

His "warmth, kindness, and unwavering friendship touched the lives of many, and his loss will be felt deeply," officials from his school said.

The man was trying to move the log splitter that had been delivered for scheduled landscaping, officials said.