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COVID-19: New Case Reported At School In Ridgefield COVID-19: New Case Reported At School In Ridgefield
Covid-19: New Case Reported At School In Ridgefield Some 28 students and 16 staff members are in quarantine after coming into contact with a person who tested positive for COVID-19 at a school in Ridgefield. The new case, at Scotland Elementary School, brings the number of schools in the Ridgefield School district to seven of the nine schools in the district that have been affected by exposure to COVID-19, according to the district's data tracker. The latest announcement was sent by the district's head of nursing services Aaron Crook on Thursday, Nov. 5 in a letter to parents and school officials. According to Crook's letter, the …
COVID-19: New Cases Confirmed At School District In Fairfield County COVID-19: New Cases Confirmed At School District In Fairfield County
Covid-19: New Cases Confirmed At School District In Fairfield County A pair of schools in Northern Fairfield County have become the latest to deal with newly confirmed COVID-19 cases. The Ridgefield Public School District announced that Scotts Ridge Middle School and East Ridge Middle School were transitioning to remote learning on Monday, Oct. 26, after there were multiple positive cases confirmed in each school. The buildings will be closed to allow the district to complete contact tracing and to sanitize any areas that could have been exposed to the virus. There have also been confirmed cases at Ridgefield High School, which forced dozens into quarantin…
Ridgefield's Brooke Blake, 12, Remembered For Her Never-Ending Smile Ridgefield's Brooke Blake, 12, Remembered For Her Never-Ending Smile
Ridgefield's Brooke Blake, 12, Remembered For Her Never-Ending Smile A 12-year-old Northern Fairfield County girl known for her never-ending smile and brave battle against a rare form of cancer has succumbed to the disease. Brooke Blake, whose smile lifted many in Ridgefield as she fought the rare form of brain cancer, DIPG, for more than five years, died on Thursday, June 4. Brooke, who turned 12 in May, was diagnosed with the untreatable form of pediatric brain cancer in 2015 when she was 7-years-old.  For the next five years, she endured numerous brain procedures, rounds and rounds of chemotherapy, and several clinical trials, the whole time wi…