Here are some of the stories and features in this week’s Ridgefield Press, out today in print and e-edition:
- Mental health efforts may be the real key to school security, say officials.
- Zoning officials are wary of allowing pot farms and stores in town in the wake of a new state marijuana law.
- The Little Red Schoolhouse, wounded by Sandy and closed since the storm, is about to get repaired.
- If you see smoke coming from the sewers, don’t worry.
- The planned new traffic light on Route 7 north is going out to bid.
- Can mountain bikers and hikers both enjoy our open spaces?
- RHS boys soccer, girls cross country, and girls swimming are previewed this week.
- The Independent Party has endorsed seven Republicans and nine Democrats in the fall election.
- First Selectman Rudy Marconi has apologized for the town’s treatment of Ergotech, the company that wanted to put a light industry building in a light industry zone.
- The Board of Education finished its budget year by returning $101,000 to the town.
- Ridgefielders will remember 9/11 victims next week.
- School bus drivers had a bumpy ride on the insurance front this summer.
- The Schlumberger Theater, scene of the coming Chekhov festival, has its own dramatic background.
- Whatever happened to the town’s first graveyard?
- A seven-year-old collected food for the needy instead of gifts when he had his birthday party.
- Letter-writers address undergrounding utilities, good and bad dogs, the problem of blighted properties, guns, and Syrian refugee help.
- An internationally known Lincoln scholar — and former weekly newspaper reporter — will speak here.
- The Elms multifamily plan will face its fourth hearing next week.
- Temple B’Nai Chaim has an interim rabbi.
- Ridgefield Academy opened yesterday, with a number of changes.
- A Ridgefield radio syndication firm is helping bring clean drinking water to African villages.
- Tom Belote remembers when Ridgefield required all signs to be black and white.
- The 2013 Nissan Murano SL AWD is a classy crossover, says test driver Steven Macoy.
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