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Volunteer Anita McKean, of Ridgefield, picks up bags of food to be given away as the Connecticut Food Bank returned to St. Andrew's Church on Friday after stopping for months due to the pandemic. The church has been the site for the food bank's mobile food pantry for several years, coordinating the monthly food delivery with the Connecticut Food Bank and the town's social services department. Friday morning, January 15, 2021, in Ridgefield, Conn.

Food pantry truck returns to Ridgefield

Mark Robinson of Ridgefield hosts the Martin Luther King Day celebration in the Ridgefield Playhouse. Monday, Jan. 20, 2014

Ridgefield’s MLK celebration goes virtual for 25th year

A horse is seen at The New Canan Mounted Troop, (NCMT), in a previous year. The Ridgefield Parks and Recreation department has partnered with Stepping Stone Farm in Ridgefield to offer beginner, and advanced horseback riding lessons to children in kindergarten through the fifth grade.

Ridgefield Parks and Recreation offering horseback riding

Sucre Sale restaurant, in Ridgefield, Conn. January 8, 2021.

New fund aims to help restaurants and small businesses

Kimmie, a cat, is still looking for her forever family She is at the ROAR Donofrio Animal Shelter, located at 45 South Street, in Ridgefield, and can be met via an appointment by calling the shelter at (203) 438-0158.

Kimmie: Sweet mama cat still looking for her forever family

First Selectman Rudy Marconi is an advocate of mask wearing. Mosst Ridgefielders do it, he says.

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Danbury Elks Lodge #120 recently presented the Ridgefield Food Pantry with a donation of $1,750 to assist in serving people in need in the surrounding communities during the current difficult times of the coronavirus pandemic. The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, (BPOE), is a National Fraternal Organization established in 1868. It currently with 2000 lodges across the U.S. with a million members, whose mission is community welfare, and promoting American patriotism through local, and National programs, and grants. Pictured left to right are: Loyal Knight Alex Karsanidi, Ridgefield First Selectman Rudy Marconi, Exalted Ruler Ray Ward, and Director Social Services Tony Phillips.

Ridgefield Food Pantry receiver of $1,750 donation

W Bro. Walt Wieland, RW John "Jeff" Feinson, and Bro. Willard Carter (foreground). Treasurer Charles O'Neill and WM Steve Dudzic (background).

Freemasons celebrate 50-year members in Ridgefield

Sheets of $20 bills are made individual in the last step in the printing process at the U.S. Bureau of Engraving's Western Facility in the United States in a previous year. Ms President US, a girls' civic leadership program based in Ridgefield, has received a $4,200 grant from the Fairfield County Community Foundation's, (FCCF), Fund for Women and Girls to support scholarships and programming for 2020-2021 sessions.

Ms President US receiver of $4,200 grant from foundation

Avni Gupta, High School Mentor, Ms President US

Ms President US program initiative kicks off its fourth year

LETTER: Obituary for the United States

Harold Saxton

Dec. 16, 2020Updated: Dec. 16, 2020 6:35 p.m.

Ridgefielders' letters to the editor should be emailed to: news@theridgefieldpress.com. The writer of this letter gives his opinion in this letter about what he feels is the current state of the United States of America. — Ridgefielders' letters to the editor should be emailed to: news@theridgefieldpress.com. The writer of this letter gives his opinion in this letter about what he feels is the current state of the United States of America.
Macklin Reid / Hearst Connecticut Media

RIP United States of America

Born: July 4, 1776

Died: Dec. 11, 2020

Cause of death: Pestilence, corruption, deceit, subversion, dereliction, ignorance and apathy.

Harold Saxton

Peaceable St.

Ridgefield, Dec. 12