🌱 Patch AM: Driver Hits Own Building In Stafford After Brake Failure: State Police

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In today's newsletter:

• Stafford driver’s brake failure sends car into his own building

Also on today's calendar: Tolland Farmers Market and 4 more events.

Today's riddle: Where do you learn how to make ice cream ? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Friday: Sunshine mixing with clouds, with a high of 72 and low of 47 degrees.
• Saturday: A few morning showers, temps: high: 56, low: 40.
• Sunday: Partly sunny and pleasant, with a high of 73 and low of 52 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• Driver Hits Own Building In Stafford After Brake Failure: State Police (patch.com) — Stafford residents may have noticed damage at a local building after a man’s car, reportedly suffering a brake failure, veered off his driveway from Isabella Circle and struck his own property. State police say the vehicle plowed through bushes and hit a railing, but no one was injured. A police inspection found the brake pedal was fully depressed to the floor during the incident.    

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📸 Around Stafford

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Stafford

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★ Featured events ★

Sunday May 31

• Tolland Farmers Market →
  Tolland Green, Tolland
  10:00 am

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Other local events

Friday May 29

• STAINED GLASS BEE WORKSHOP AT CRAZY COCK →
  Stafford Cidery, 68 Main St, Stafford Springs
  6:00 pm

Saturday May 30

• Country Steel @ Joanna’s →
  Joanna's Restaurant, 145 Main St, Somers
  6:30 pm

Saturday June 6

• Stillwater Grill →
  Stillwater Grill, 328 East St, Stafford Springs
  6:00 pm

Sunday June 7

• LDNE @ Wicked Big Meet 🎉 →
  Stafford Motor Speedway, 55 West St, Stafford Springs
  9:00 am

Saturday June 13

• Tolland County Ag Day →
  24 Hyde Ave, Vernon
  10:00 am
• STAINED GLASS MOON PHASES WORKSHOP AT LETS GET WIRED →
  Let's Get Wired LLC, 64 Main St, Stafford Springs
  1:00 pm

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📣 Stafford Shout Outs!

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🗓 Events Nearby

Friday May 29

• Pick Your Project Workshop →
  Board & Brush Creative Studio - Somers, 95 S Rd #7, Somers
  6:00 pm
• Gay Speed Dating Ages 21+ | Enfield, CT | Powder... →
  Powder Hollow Brewery, 504 Hazard Ave Unit 8C, Enfield
  7:00 pm
• SUPER 70'S ROCK SHOW featuring Super Trans Am →
  Broad Brook Opera House, 107 Main St, Broad Brook
  8:00 pm

Saturday May 30

• Business Fair →
  Babcock Library, 25 Pompey Hollow Rd, Ashford
  10:00 am
• Penny Guerin & Andrew Seles Gallery
  Arts of Tolland, 22 Tolland Green, Tolland
  10:00 am
• Storrs Farmers Market — DOWNTOWN STORRS →
  Audrey P. Beck Municipal Building, Mansfield Town Hall, Storrs
  3:00 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Domino's Pizza, Inc. posted a job opening for Assistant Manager(03933) - 2 Middle River Drive in Stafford. Apply here.
• TTM Technologies, Inc. posted a job opening for Assembly Operators & Assembly Inspectors - All Shifts in Stafford Springs. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Stafford here.

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🗞 Nearby News

Tolland

• Land Near Tolland Green Hits The Market (patch.com)
• Military Vehicle Crashes, Bursts Into Flames, On I-84 In Willington (patch.com)

Ellington

• Ellington Budget Vote Results Are In (patch.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Sundae School (Thank you Gary M. for sending it in!)Got a good riddle for PatchAM? Submit it here!

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