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September 30, 2022
Stamford Advocate
Volunteers ‘WOW’ Stamford town clerk, come out in droves to help with voluminous ballot applications
So many Stamford residents are requesting mail-in ballots to vote in the Nov. 3 presidential election that the town clerk, who processes them, had to make space a few floors up from her lobby-level office and move the operation there.

May 9, 2022
Stamford Advocate
Stamford town clerk looks to restore city’s historic books from a vault ‘in shambles’
Historic preservation has been a priority for City and Town Clerk Lyda Ruijter. Using a state grant, she hired a professional consultant several years ago to help sift through volumes that had been kept in an abandoned former police building on Haig Avenue in Springdale.

July 16, 2021
Press Release
Stamford Wins State Democracy Cup; led by Town Clerk's Office and Registrars
The Office of the Town Clerk is proud to share that the honorable Denis Merrill, Secretary of State, has awarded Stamford the Democracy Cup for 2020. The Cup recognizes the achievement of Stamford having administered the highest number of ballots.

June 19, 2019
Stamford Advocate
Stamford piano series brings music to the people
The idea for Piano For The People came from Yury Feygin, the owner of Amadeus Piano. He contacted Stamford Town Clerk Lyda Ruijter, with whom he has organized the Music In The Park series at Czescik Marina Park in the past, and told her about his idea of temporarily placing one of his pianos inside the government building. He told her, “In your building we need some air, we need some light, some not-so-serious thoughts,” Ruijter recalled.