Letter: Mack FacebookTwitterEmail Ridgefielders' letters to the editor should be emailed to: [email protected]. The writers of this letter, who are also residents of Ridgefield, write this letter with compliments about an Editor of the newspaper in the town.Macklin Reid / Hearst Connecticut Media Letter to the Editor: More than 40 years ago, a young man who had grown up in Ridgefield joined the staff of his hometown newspaper and began a long career of telling countless stories about his town. When Macklin Reid started as a reporter in the 1970s, he wrote on an ancient typewriter, and then set about perfecting each piece with a scissors and a gluepot, cutting paragraphs here, pasting them there. By the time he turned in a story, his “copy” looked like a complex, pieced-together puzzle, but it read like a masterpiece.