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🌱 Patch AM: How Shelton’s $300K grant shift changes your parks and high school field

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  • How Shelton's $300K grant shift changes your parks and high school field

Also on today's calendar: Medicare Market Disruptions and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: What is full of holes but still holds water? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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  • Friday: Not as warm, with a high of 76 and low of 64 degrees.
  • Saturday: Humid with showers around, temps: high: 75, low: 68.
  • Sunday: A shower and t-storm; humid, with a high of 80 and low of 62 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Shelton shifts $300K from splash pad to high school turf field (ctpost.com) — Shelton officials have shifted $300,000 in state grant money from a planned Community Center splash pad to finish the new multi-purpose turf field at Shelton High by October, supplemented with city bonding. The splash pad is now slated for a later phase alongside field lighting and a scoreboard, while separate grants will still fund Shelton Locks environmental work and a new skate park and pickleball courts.
   

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