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Ridgefield News
January 10, 1998

All-Digital E-PhotoEssay

Site Committee Hikes


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Site Selectors Go Into Field

The newly-named School Site Selection Committee (story here) has quickly taken to the field, mapping and analyzing possible sites for the planned middle school.

Committee members plan their routeCommittee members began their survey at the High School. Here, (l-r) Gary Smith, chairman Steve Zemo, Gary Holland, Mike Violante, Laura Krebs, Joseph Heyman (in back), Becky Mucchetti and Mary Miller assemble. Before setting out, topographic maps, geological surveys, zoning maps and wetlands maps were carefully checked.

Land near High SchoolMike Violante, Mary Miller and Gary Smith, with Einstein the black lab, checking out the spectacular woods and cliffs at the park across the street from the high school.

Site Selection CommitteeDiscussion behind Scotland School, where there is land to build but many conflicting problems of deeded open space, the presence of the existing elementary school, steep slopes and the Titicus River basin. [l-r] Mike Violante, Paul Jeahnig, explaining a detail on the map to Abe Morelli (background), Steve Zemo, Joseph Heyman, and Becky Mucchetti.

Site Committe in the fieldCommittee members walk through the woods behind the Barlow Rec Center to see if the acres of open space available there might be at all suitable. Pictured are: [l. to r.] Mike Violante, Paul Jaehnig, Laura Krebs, Joseph Heyman, Steve Zemo (partially hidden), Abe Morelli (in the far back), Gary Smith, Mary Miller and Gary Holland. Enjoying the walk are Einstein, Mike Violante's black lab, and Pepper, Mike Jones' dalmatian.


Ed. Note: Technical Details. These all-electronic photos were taken with a Kodak Digital camera (no film, folks), downloaded via cable to an Apple Mac computer, transmitted over the Internet via e-mail, digitally edited with PaintShopPro (an image processing software program) on the Webmaster's IBM Aptiva computer, transmitted again over the Internet via FTP to Web-Connect of Ridgefield, and have now just been electronically downloaded over the World Wide Web to your computer, where they are digitally displayed on your monitor. If you have a printer attached to your computer, you can now make a "hard-copy", traditional paper print of the image. Quite a far cry from loading the film, taking the photo, rewinding the film, taking it to a lab to be processed, picking it up, carrying it home, going back to get extra reprints, then putting each one in an envelope and mailing them out, one at a time, to anyone you want to see them!

Thanks to Mike Jones for this story and photos.
See our comprehensive Guide to the School Site Selection Story

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