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Mackenzie RiggHealth, human services and immigration reporter

I’m an upstate New York native, who has worked as a newspaper reporter for over eight years. I got my start at The Recorder in Greenfield, Massachusetts, covering education, health and human services. After four years, I went to the...

I’m an upstate New York native, who has worked as a newspaper reporter for over eight years. I got my start at The Recorder in Greenfield, Massachusetts, covering education, health and human services. After four years, I went to the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where I traveled to Haiti to report on illegal detentions in the women’s prison. I also worked at Newsday on Long Island for three years, where I covered the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings and the Boston Marathon bombings. At The News-Times, I cover health, human services and education and recently had a five-part narrative series about a Connecticut doctor’s experience in Africa published in the Hearst Connecticut daily newspapers.

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Recent Stories By Mackenzie Rigg

Hector Alicea stops in one of the sleeping areas in the family center at the Open Door Shelter on Merritt Street. Hector was a resident here at 8 yrs old when he and his family were homeless.

Efforts under way to end youth homelessness in Connecticut

September 24, 2017

Former Danbury-area residents prepare for Hurricane Irma

September 8, 2017

Access Health CT attending Newtown festival to do outreach

September 8, 2017

Danbury Hospital will take part in state-wide effort to reduce early elective deliveries

September 7, 2017

Walk to End Alzheimer’s to be held in Danbury on Sunday

September 7, 2017

Lisa M. Rivas, an attorney with Cramer and Anderson, is the 2017 winner of the Pro Bono Award. The award was presented to Rivas by Attorney Dan Casagrande at the annual Law Day celebration at the state Superior Court in Danbury, Friday, May 5, 2017.

DACA decisions prompts backlash in Danbury area

September 5, 2017

Linda McCue, Memory Care Director, describes the Neary Relaxation Room dedicated in honor of Donald M. Neary at Saint John Paul II Center in Danbury. Friday, Aug. 25, 2017

Danbury nursing home dedicates room to former resident

September 2, 2017

Efforts underway to end youth homelessness in Connecticut

September 2, 2017

Americo S. Ventura, founding partner of a Danbury law firm, Monday, Dec. 5, 2016

Prominent Danbury lawyer remembered for his service to the community

September 1, 2017

Newtown Boy Scouts carry the flag in the Newtown Labor Day Parade on Main Street. Monday, Sept. 5, 2016

Federal lawmakers to march in Newtown Labor Day parade

September 1, 2017

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