Written by The Ridgefield Press
Monday, 07 November 2011 05:29
Ridgefielders are lucky to have more than 30 candidates — Republicans, Democrats, an unaffiliated voter — running for office on Nov. 8, including 23 in five contested races. It takes concern and courage to run: hats off to them all.
Monday, 07 November 2011 05:29
Ridgefielders are lucky to have more than 30 candidates — Republicans, Democrats, an unaffiliated voter — running for office on Nov. 8, including 23 in five contested races. It takes concern and courage to run: hats off to them all.
Ridgefield is great place, and doing remarkably well considering how tough the economic times are — a 1% tax increase last year. The four incumbents on the Board of Selectmen deserve re-election: two Democrats, Barbara Manners, who has done so much for the arts and to enrich community life in town, and Di Masters, the community center director and a former Planning and Zoning chair; and two Republicans, Andy Bodner, the board’s house skeptic and numbers man, and Maureen Kozlark, the moderate longtime school board veteran.
That said, Jan Rifkinson, the unaffiliated petitioning candidate, deserves credit and the town’s thanks for making a contest of it and running a clean issue-oriented campaign. [...]
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