🌱 Patch AM: How 1,500 new Bradley parking spaces could change your next trip

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In today's newsletter:

• How 1,500 new Bradley parking spaces could change your next trip

Also on today's calendar: $4000 Cash Bingo - St Joseph Church Vernon CT and 1 more event.

Today's riddle: What did one strawberry say to the other strawberry? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Tuesday: An afternoon shower in spots, with a high of 78 and low of 57 degrees.
• Wednesday: Mostly sunny, temps: high: 82, low: 60.
• Thursday: Times of clouds and sun, with a high of 82 and low of 67 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Bradley International Airport adding 1,500 parking spaces for travelers (fox61.com) — Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks is adding about 1,500 parking spaces by expanding Lot 3, boosting overall parking capacity by roughly 20% to ease crunch times like holidays and school vacations. While the project won't bring new flights, officials say it should make driving and parking at the airport easier for local travelers once work wraps up in early 2027.
   

📸 Around Windsor Locks

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Windsor Locks

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★ Featured events ★

Saturday August 29
• WWII Weekend at New England Air Museum →
  New England Air Museum, 36 Perimeter Rd, Windsor Locks
  9:00 am

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Other local events

Friday September 11
• $4000 Cash Bingo - St Joseph Church Vernon CT →
  St. Joseph Catholic Church, 33 West St, Vernon
  6:30 pm
Saturday September 12
• 🍺 CT Beer Tour for a Cancer-Free Future at Problem Solved Brewing Company! →
  Problem Solved Brewing Company, 2 N Rd, East Windsor
  6:00 pm
• BUILDING A LEGACY GALA →
  Ramada by Wyndham Hartford North / Bradley Airport, 383 S Center St, Windsor Locks
  6:30 pm

📣 Windsor Locks Shout Outs!

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🗓 Events Nearby

Tuesday August 25
• PTO Chalk Party
  Bugbee Elementary School W Hartford, CT 06117
  8:30 am
Wednesday August 26
• Flagpole Ceremony (Gr. 1-5)
  Bugbee Elementary School front circle
  8:35 am
Thursday August 27
• Back To School Block Party!
  Windsor School District Windsor High School, 50 Sage Park Rd, Windsor, CT 06095, USA
  4:00 pm
• PTO Ice Cream Social (8/28 is the rain date)
  Bugbee Elementary School W Hartford, CT 06117
  6:00 pm
• Coffee Talk @ Sage Park Middle School Library
  Windsor School District Sage Park Middle School, 25 Sage Park Rd, Windsor, CT 06095, U
  6:30 pm
Saturday August 29
• Gathering at Summer's Edge →
  Unicorn Meadow Farm, 1349 Spruce St, Suffield
  10:00 am
Wednesday September 2
• EHP - Back to School Picnic
  Enfield School District Enfield, CT 06082
  5:00 pm
• EHP - Open House
  Enfield School District Enfield, CT 06082
  6:00 pm

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Thank you 👏👏👏 to these businesses for making Windsor Locks PatchAM possible:

• Red Brewster Brewery — (860) 817-9933

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🪧 Patch Classifieds

• Good drivers make good friends. Join the volunteer driver team at Nutmeg Senior Rides.
  The life changing mission of Nutmeg Senior Rides is to fight isolation and depression by giving people over 50 and low vision people of any age... (More info)

💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• East Windsor Board of Selectmen Approves Property Tax Exemption —Elizabeth McGuire Read on Patch

• Southwest Air posted a job opening for Freight Agent - BDL in Windsor Locks. Apply here.
• J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc. posted a job opening for Shop Foreman in Windsor Locks. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Windsor Locks here.

🗞 Nearby News

Windsor

• East Hartford high school football preview 2026 (thehour.com)
• Find Top Grocery Helper Jobs in Portland, CT (care.com)

East Windsor

• East Windsor offers new property tax relief program for homeowners (nbcconnecticut.com)
• East Windsor property approved for 318 apartments for sale for $6.5M (darientimes.com)

Suffield

• Local Event: Suffield Real Estate Brokerage announces Grand Opening (patch.com)
• Big Crowd Delays Hearing Tied To 250-Unit Suffield Plan (patch.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: If you weren't so sweet, we wouldn't be in this jam! (Thank you Patti F. for sending it in!)
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