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May 15, 2008
25 YEARS AGO: Boehringer sues over assessment
Boerhringer-Ingelheim, the town’s largest taxpayer, filed suit in
Danbury Superior Court charging that the most recent assessment of its
Ridgebury property was “grossly excessive, disproportionate, and
unlawful,” the May 12, 1983 Press reported.
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May 15, 2008
50 YEARS AGO: Firemen earn up to $4,850
Ridgefield’s annual budget meeting in the East Ridge School
Auditorium approved without change all the appropriations recommended
by the Board of Finance, the May 15, 1958 Press reported.
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Apr 24, 2008
25 YEARS AGO: Branchville won’t be needed
With the Barlow Mountain Elementary School leased to the Ridgefield
Family Y and the Branchville Elementary School scheduled to close in
June, School Superintendent Elliott Landon was asked flatly if he
thought the town would ever need Branchville as a school again, the
April 14, 1983 Press reported.
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Apr 24, 2008
50 YEARS AGO: Town children march for 250th
Karl S. Nash, chairman of Ridgefield’s 250th anniversary committee,
announced the schedule of events for the town’s observations, the April
24, 1958 reported.
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Apr 17, 2008
25 YEARS AGO: USPS snubs zoners
Plans for the construction of the long-awaited new post office on
Catoonah Street were delivered to town planning officials, the April
21, 1983 Press reported.
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Apr 17, 2008
50 YEARS AGO: Town gears up for 250th anniversary celebration
Postmaster John L. Sullivan secured approval from the Post Office
Department in Washington, D.C., for the use of a special mail
cancellation die calling attention to Ridgefield's 250th anniversary
celebration, the April 17, 1958 Press reported.
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Apr 10, 2008
25 YEARS AGO: Ridgefield restaurants are lax on smoking rules
A poll of a dozen restaurants in town indicated that, although
sensitive to non-smokers' rights, they did not set aside specific seats
for smokers and non-smokers, the April 7, 1983 Press reported.
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Apr 10, 2008
50 YEARS AGO: Bollenback, Mark and Hapke are hired
The Board of Education hired Dirk Bollenback as a high school social
studies teacher, Robert Mark as a high school physical education
teacher and Cynthia Hapke as an elementary school teacher for the
1958-59 academic year, the April 10, 1958 Press reported.
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Apr 3, 2008
25 YEARS AGO: State finds toxic waste site
An old dump site that was thought to contain toxic materials such as
pesticides, paint and solvents was named by state officials as a
potential threat to the Sugar Hollow Aquifer, the March 31, 1983 Press
reported.
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