Here are some of the stories and features in this week’s Ridgefield Press, out today in print and e-edition:
- Third quarter house sales and prices lagged behind figures from the same time last year.
- Ridgefield is going to the dogs — an all-breeds walk was held last week, and a Bernese Mountain Dog walk is scheduled for this weekend.
- The Community Center has new leader, with new ideas about how to run the grand Main Street mansion.
- The Class of 1964 had a reunion.
- An elephant once visited Ridgefield at a time when most people in these parts had never seen such a large animal.
- Six candidates running to represent Ridgefield at the state level debated.
- A person from Ridgefield had an audience with the pope.
- As a precautionary measure in light of the Ebola outbreak in Western Africa state officials have called for the ability to quarantine and seclude people, though there are no reported cases in the state.
- About Town looks beloved children’s author and former Ridgefielder Richard Scarry.
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