Here are some of the stories and features in this week’s Ridgefield Press, out today in print and e-edition:
- The Ridgefield Visiting Nurse Association plans to build a new headquarters on the site of Governor Lounsbury’s old house on Governor Street, a stone’s throw from its current quarters.
- First Selectman Rudy Marconi looks at the challenges for 2014, including Schlumberger, a new fire chief, a bike trail, Main Street traffic, the blight law, and keeping any tax increase to a minimum.
- Both the number of houses sold — and their prices — rose in 2013 in Ridgefield, a busy year on the real estate front.
- The seemingly endless Eureka court battle may be nearing an end — and won’t go to the U.S. Supreme Court.
- Ridgefield Public Schools preschool offers special needs kids and typically developing peers a chance to learn from each other.
- Stacked with talented returnees and impressive newcomers, the RHS boys and girls ski teams could be state powers this winter.
- The town has two new firefighters — who paid for their own firefighting schooling.
- For the first time in its 18 years, the annual Martin Luther King Day celebration will take place at the Ridgefield Playhouse.
- Padre Pio School has gotten the first of the approvals it needs for a new building on Tackora Trail.
- Ridgefield was a part of early American circus history.
- The new owners of the Mobil station plan a major change.
- If Ridgefield gets a blight enforcement officer, should it also have a “sartorial specialist”?
- What are the best medical websites? The RVNA’s Theresa Santoro offers suggestions.
- A longtime Ridgefielder is heading up dispatching operations at Rides for Ridgefield.
- Priscilla Whitley of Ridgefield has a story in the newly published Chicken Soup for the Soul: Just Us Girls.
- The Youth Commission has several openings for both young and adult members.
- The 2014 BMW 328i Gran Turismo is a sporty car that can handle the snow, says test driver Steven Macoy.
- The library offers new year’s resolutions for better reading.
- Cass Gilbert’s fountain in Detroit stands little chance of being hit by a car, unlike his Ridgefield fountain.
- How’s this for a January seminar? Blasting your belly fat….
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