Food + Beverage

Ridgefield Organics & Specialty Market

Inside Mark Hill’s Vibrant Market Where the Produce Is Perfection Article by Katie Parry | Photography by New Light Photography Ridgefield Organics looks less like a market and more like a gallery where nature’s most vibrant creations are on display. Sunset-colored melons. Pineapple, kiwi, and apples with rose-hued flesh. Figs and Brussels sprouts still clinging to their vines and stalks. Juices lined up like Pantone swatches. But the shop is anything but solemn or austere. It hums with...

Wellness

Keystone Place at Wooster Heights

A Life-Fulfilling Senior Living Community Where Care, Connection, and Joy Shape Every Day Article by Katie Parry | Photography by Natasha Fleming Photography Stepping through the doors of Keystone Place at Wooster Heights, guests are greeted with an immediate feeling of comfort and warmth.  “When people think about moving into a senior living community, they’re afraid of losing their independence,” says Eluisa Callanan, Senior Living Counselor. “But when they come here, it becomes home. That...

Health + Wellness

The Chi Chi Life

Lauren Chiarello Mika on Resilience, Movement, and Joy Article by Katie Parry Lauren Chiarello Mika is a two-time thriver of Hodgkin’s lymphoma and mom of identical twin boys, but her story is defined just as much by joy as by resilience. With two decades of experience in fundraising, event planning, cancer advocacy, and community building, she brings heart, humor, and human connection to everything she touches. She is the Founder of Chi Chi Life, a community rooted in connection and shared...

Food + Beverage

The Spirit of Branchville

Three Generations of Anconas Have Built More Than a Business Article by Katie Parry In 1870, the Danbury and Norwalk line of the Metro-North Railroad extended a branch line up to the center of town. The surrounding area, once known as “Ridgefield Station” or “Beers Station,” soon took on a new nickname: Branchville. For the last century, no one family has helped shape Branchville’s story more than the Anconas. Giuseppe “Joseph” Ancona was born in 1890 in Palma di Montechiaro, Agrigento...