Here are some of the stories and features in this week’s Ridgefield Press, out today in print and e-edition:
- The chemicals used to treat roads may have some unpleasant side effects.
- A tough winter has meant long nights, little rest, for the town’s highway crew.
- Road salt supplies are trickling in.
- Mailboxes are a routine casualty of snow.
- Sick of snow? A talk Friday focuses on spring planting.
- The schools are piloting a new state test, amid many questions from educators.
- A jazz series turns five.
- Rides for Ridgefield is looking for drivers.
- Could a Ridgefielder’s invention help prevent Lyme disease?
- Several officers have moved up the ranks at the police department.
- State Rep. John Frey discusses his legislative goals.
- A spelling bee will support nursing education.
- Real Medicine: The best health care system in the world?
- An honor student is seeking hair for cancer victims.
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Six student scientists were honored for their research.The rumors of a longtime Main Street store are just that.
- Author, journalist Fran Lebowitz, who was in The
- Wolf of Wall Street, comes to Playhouse.
- Tigers boys hockey rebounds to edge Hamden.
- Tom Belote looks back on Farmingville’s opening and some problem plantings with a big audience.
- The Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra and the Western
- Connecticut Youth Orchestra will join together for a concert on Sunday, March 2, in Wilton; the ensemble is too big for the Ridgefield High School.
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Grammy winner Kidjo comes to RidgefieldSenior Scene talks tax assistance.
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