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🌱 How could new hospital generators affect air quality near Sunnyside Road?
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- How could new hospital generators affect air quality near Sunnyside Road?
Also on today's calendar: Yellow Brick Road and 7 more events.
Today's riddle: When geese fly, one side is longer than the other. do you know why that is ? 🤔 (Answer below!)
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- Thursday: Humid with periods of sun, with a high of 85 and low of 70 degrees.
- Friday: Times of clouds and sun, temps: high: 84, low: 62.
- Saturday: Beautiful with clouds and sun, with a high of 78 and low of 67 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• DNREC – Division of Air Quality LEGAL NOTICE 7 DE Admin. Code 1102 NATURAL MINOR PERMIT APPLICATIONS Notice has been given that: Delaware Hospital for the Chronically Ill (DHCI) requests permission fo (lakeonews.com) — Residents should know that Delaware's environmental regulators are reviewing a permit for four new emergency generators at the Delaware Hospital for the Chronically Ill on Sunnyside Road in Smyrna. You can review the application online and submit written comments or request a public hearing by October 1 if you have concerns about possible local air-quality or neighborhood impacts. 
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💬 Chatter
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- Diverse selection of items available at a local garage sale on Saturday, 9/19, from 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM.
The event is located at 95 Loder Drive, Smyrna, DE. Inventory includes clothes, shoes, home decor, kitchen items, and many new items in their… (Nextdoor Timber Mills) - Ai………..
let's be careful with this! As Mr T use to say "use your brain fool!" (Nextdoor Bon Ayre)
- GPM Investments posted a job opening for Assistant Manager - Store 260 in Townsend. Apply here.
- Redner's Markets, Inc. posted a job opening for Bakery Manager in Dover. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Smyrna here.
🗞 Nearby News
Dover
- Harmony at Kent to dedicate Wall of Honor for Dover-area veterans (delawarelive.com)
- Dover braces for 30,000 Zach Bryan fans daily. Here are road closures (delawareonline.com)
- Bally's Dover Casino Resort in Dover, Delaware (aaa.com)
Middletown
- Find Oktoberfest 2026 events in Delaware, starting with Saengerbund (delawareonline.com)
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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: because there are more geese on that side (Thank you jo L. for sending it in!)
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