Local Stop & Shop to donate $4,000 to New Milford Food Bank

The New Milford Food Bank will receive a $4,000 check Friday from Stop & Shop after hundreds of grocery store customers donated a few dollars at a time as they checked out.

The money was raised through the grocery store’s “Food for Friends” program which prompts customers to donate $1, $3 or $5 at registers, according to a news release. The town food bank is one of 300 Northeast. region organizations who take part in the program.

New Milford customers contributed the most money of any store in the region, the release said.

—blytton@hearstmediact.com