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How a polluted Sandy Hook site could become 20 workforce apartments
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Today's riddle: Do you know what the two sides of a circle are? 🤔 (Answer below!)
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Thursday: Times of sun and clouds, with a high of 65 and low of 49 degrees.
Friday: Some sun, then clouds; breezy, temps: high: 66, low: 51.
Saturday: Breezy with a little rain, with a high of 61 and low of 54 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Once a 'polluted and blighted eyesore,' Sandy Hook site inspires vision for 20 workforce apartments (nhregister.com) — Newtown officials have approved a zoning change that could turn a long-contaminated Sandy Hook industrial site into up to 20 below-market workforce apartments for local police and municipal workers. The town-owned brownfield at 28A Glen Road still needs additional cleanup, but economic development leaders and nearby residents see the project as a key step in Sandy Hook center's ongoing revitalization.
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💬 Chatter
What your neighbors are talking about on social media
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🗞 Nearby News
Bethel
Pine Plains developments on track after Town Board approves zoning changes (millertonnews.com)
Local Event: Poetry Rocks Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month & Features 3 Poet Laureates. (patch.com)
BBC's Towards Tomorrow Asked in 1967 Whether Humans and Robots Could Share One Culture Before the Line Between Them Vanished (techeblog.com)
Brookfield
Aw shucks: Dolly Parton corn mazes crop up in fields nationwide (newschannel9.com)
2026 Connecticut high school girls soccer coaches polls: East Hampton moves to No. 1 in M/S poll (newstimes.com)
Monroe
Monroe's Weekend Pick: Fall Fun At Benedict's (patch.com)
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