Here are some of the stories and features in this week’s Ridgefield Press, out today:
- Property values have decreased an average of 18% in the past few years: An examination of the new revaluation and its effects.
- Why does CHIRP want a six-passenger golf cart?
- Both the disabled and the elderly will benefit from a new bus acquired by SPHERE.
- Murph recalls the top 10 events in Ridgefield sports in 2012.
- Getting federal aid to help pay for storm damage is no easy task, the town has learned through experience.
- What are all those cute little faces doing on the front page?
- Ridgefield Boy Scout Alex Fish and his friends fixed up a basketball court at a Danbury affordable housing project.
- Many recall Ed Brennan and the work he did for youth sports.
- In the wake of Sandy Hook, several readers offer their thoughts on weapons.
- A group of Ridgefielders plans to create 1,000 paper cranes as a gift of sympathy to the library in Newtown.
- The Playhouse is planning special benefits for Sandy Hook families.
- The Boys & Girls Club is going purple.
- RHS student columnist Dani Blum weighs in on the school closing issue.
- The Golf Performance Center on Route 7 is now bigger and offers more services.
- Robert Riche of Ridgefield has a new comic novel out.
- New Year’s Eve events in Danbury and Westport offer families a chance to celebrate the new year.
- Scouts will be collecting Christmas trees again.
- Five houses sold last week — three of them for more than $1 million each and one for nearly $3 million.
- Ridgefield Physical Therapy has turned 10.
- The 2013 Mazda3 i 5-door GT shows a big jump in fuel economy.
- The Keeler Tavern won a big grant to help with its roof project.
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