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🌱 Patch AM: How Golden Gate Fields’ closure could reshape Albany’s waterfront and city budget

And check out The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde on the Albany Patch calendar

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Morning Albany! We've got the scoop on the latest happenings in town. Read on to get looped in. ☀️

In today's newsletter:

  • How Golden Gate Fields' closure could reshape Albany's waterfront and city budget

Also on today's calendar: The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: Why did the cookie go to the hospital? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Friday: Fog to sun, with a high of 67 and low of 59 degrees.
  • Saturday: Breezy in the afternoon, temps: high: 66, low: 52.
  • Sunday: Areas of low clouds, then sun, with a high of 66 and low of 56 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Golden Gate Fields stewards navigate hurdles to redevelopment (marinij.com) — Albany's Golden Gate Fields site is moving toward demolition and transformation into a major new bayfront park, with state funding secured but key permits from Albany and Berkeley still pending. Local leaders and residents are weighing ideas from sports fields to beaches and arts spaces, while the city also grapples with replacing about $2.2 million in lost annual tax revenue.
   

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "Why did the cookie go to the hospital?" — Because he felt crummy. (Thank you Sanda J. for sending it in!)
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