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Ridgefield's Elise Wilfinger Joins Mars Agency In Marketing Role
RIDGEFIELD, Conn. – Elise Wilfinger, of Ridgefield, has joined The Mars Agency as executive vice president, corporate strategy and brand officer, a new role reporting to Rob Rivenburgh, chief executive officer, North America.
Wilfinger will be responsible for driving strategic change at the agency, growing its industry profile and reputation, creating corporate brand and marketing strategies, and overseeing best- in-class execution.
Most recently, Wilfinger was chief strategy officer and COO at Home Team Marketing, a New York media company that connects national brands with local families …
St. Vincent's Brings Free, Low-Cost Mammography Screenings To Bridgeport
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. – The St. Vincent's SWIM Women's Imaging Center will offer free and low-cost digital mammography screenings for women age 40 and older on the following dates and times in its mobile mammography unit:
Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Sterling House, 2283 Main St., Stratford
Tuesday, May 24 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Bridgeport Medicine, 2979 Main St., Bridgeport
Tuesday, June 7 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at St. Vincent's Milford Health & Wellness Center, 199 Cherry St., Milford
The latest American Cancer Society guidelines recommend all women have a mammogram by age …
Redding Man Takes Command Of N.Y. Air National Guard's 105th Airlift Wing
REDDING, Conn. – New York Air National Guard Colonel Howard Wagner, a veteran of Operation Desert Storm and a Redding resident, has been selected to command the 105th Airlift Wing at Stewart Air National Guard Base in Newburgh, New York.
The wing, which has a strength of 1,300 men and women, operates nine C-17 Globemaster III aircraft, deploys airmen into combat zones as part of Air Force Air Expeditionary Wings, and responds to New York state emergencies when directed by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.
Wagner, who currently serves as the wing's vice commander, will take command on Monday, May 15. …
New Canaan's Silvermine Arts Center Launches Living Art Award
NEW CANAAN, Conn. – The Silvermine Arts Center will celebrate its first annual Living Art Award, honoring New Yorker cartoonist and author Roz Chast of Ridgefield, with an evening benefit at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, May 21 at the new River Building at Grace Farms.
Chast’s body of work established her as one of the greatest artistic chroniclers of the anxieties, superstitions, insecurities and surreal imaginings of modern life, and her recent book, “Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?,” a National Book Award Finalist, was the first graphic novel to win the National Book Critics Circle Awa…
