June 4, 2015
Here’s a look at what’s in this week’s Ridgefield Press:
- It’s hurricane season, and although it’s been some time since the town was battered by tropical storms, emergency planners are making sure we’re ready.
- With full-time enforcement, parking tickets are more plentiful.
- The town’s population has gone up.
- Ridgefield has a much higher density of ash trees than the statewide average, and an invasive beetle that’s been identified in Connecticut could pose a threat to them.
- An RHS grad’s internship has her marketing an art contest for a young adult book.
- Many letter writers are opining on comments made over special education and a call for oversight.
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- Stuffed animals are sleeping over at the library.
- Two temples plan to merge.
- A donation will help keep Ridgefield’s K9 officer safe.
- Many students have made honor roll at RHS.
- Parks and Rec is ready for summer.
- A land lease for a non-profit that would bring a group home to the village heads to a voters June 10, a new date after a past meeting was scrapped over a bureaucratic goof.
- Police will be carrying the Special Olympics torch through town Friday.
- A task force has begun its work studying the future of Branchville with a $250,000 grant.
- In sports: Lacrosse loss, track win, field hockey, volleyball and wrestling.
- A new centenarian recalls tea and cookies with Eleanor Roosevelt.
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