Here are some of the stories and features in this week’s Ridgefield Press, out today in print and e-edition:
- Snow storms have been taking a toll on town budgets — and on town roads.
- Ridgefielders have been cheering on Tucker West, the young Olympian.
- A Ridgefield collie will be defending his title at Westminster next week.
- Creating a sense of community will help young people with mental and emotional problems, a psychiatrist told the school board last week.
- Meanwhile, a program at the middle schools helps keep students from “falling through the cracks.”
- Health insurance costs usually jump considerably from year to year, but for the Ridgefield schools next year, the increase is zero.
- Officials agree a new police-fire-town radio system is needed, but they are concerned about the $4-million price tag and how to finance it.
- The school board is paying up to $25,000 to a search firm that will help find a new superintendent.
- Gina Wilson is retiring as executive director of the Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra.
- The Boys and Girls Club had a Martin Luther King Day program with the Hispanic Center of Danbury.
- The lost art of ice cutting has been found by two Ridgefielders.
- The Land Conservancy of Ridgefield has joined a coalition of five other conservancies to gain efficiencies and effectiveness.
- The selectmen have renewed the golf pro’s contract.
- The school budget faces a public hearing Saturday.
- Jesse Lee Memorial United Methodist Church’s expansion plans have gotten zoning approval.
- Who were the three Ridgefield kids who became national celebrities in the 1930s?
- A new fire chief is expected to be hired in the spring.
- The Ridgefield Exchange Club will be organizating future Police Officer of the Year ceremonies.
- St. Stephen’s is involved in a 300-mile bicycle ride to improve housing for the poor.
- Appreciative American soldiers have sent a flag, flown in Afghanistan, to Landmark Academy pupils.
- A Ridgefield High School graduate’s clothing business is promoting kindness to others.
- Republicans and Democrats have elected new town committees and are preparing for a busy election season.
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