Here are some of the stories and features in this week’s Ridgefield Press, out today in print and e-edition:
- After 28 years on the job, a Ridgefield police sergeant has lost her job.
- The first day of school was exciting for many — but some parents had trouble paying for lunches the day before.
- Town emergency officials are warning that now is the time to prepare for possible hurricanes or other serious storms.
- Hunting has cut the deer population, but the debate over future culling persists.
- Class sizes at Scotland and Veterans Park Schools are troubling the school board.
- Three Ridgefielders have been sent to the hospital after “pit bull” bites this year. Are these dogs safe to keep as pets?
- Yes, the Ridgefield Community Kindergarten is still in business.
- Jillian Reville hopes to be world champion in the women’s physique division of an Olympia meet soon in Las Vegas.
- It’s charter revision time again.
- Work is well underway on security measures in the schools.
- It will be a while before the new credit card system at the trash transfer station is running.
- A special section today covers kids’ fall fashions, a corn maze, the over-scheduled child, and fall family activities.
- The blight law talks, respectful political dialogue, a vandalism surprise, giving students choices, guns at Starbucks, Farmingville bricks, and yoga are among the topics for letter-writers this week.
- Owen Salvestrini, son of Ridgefield football star Chip Salvestrini, had gotten a major post at the Eastern College Athletic Conference.
- St. Andrew’s has begun using its new church and is inviting the public to see the Ridgefield-designed building.
- An Air Force career veteran tells why he became a Methodist minister.
- Mitch Ancona is going for a Guinness world record.
- Animal Fair has won a couple of trips, and all new uniforms.
- The First Congregational Church is getting a stained-glass restoration.
- The Nissan Xterra PRO-4X is rugged and ready, says our reviewer.
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