What's up Attleboro! Let's start this morning right by getting caught up on what's going on around town. Keep reading to stay in the loop. ☀️
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Also on today's calendar: Community Concert with C + D Acoustic Artistry and 9 more events.
Today's riddle: Why do cows have hooves and not feet? 🤔 (Answer below!)
Weather forecast:
1. Dog Killed, Driver Hospitalized After Attleboro Single-Vehicle Crash (patch.com) — Attleboro residents are learning more about a serious overnight crash near Angeline and Washington streets that left a dog dead and the driver hospitalized. Firefighters used hydraulic tools to free the unresponsive man, performed CPR, and stayed on scene for over an hour while Attleboro police continued investigating the cause.
2. Attleboro Sun Chronicle to discontinue Monday printing (wpri.com) — Attleboro print subscribers will lose Monday delivery of The Sun Chronicle starting May 4, as the paper shifts to a Tuesday–Saturday print schedule while keeping full online coverage. Rising production and delivery costs, plus growing digital readership, drove the change, and subscription prices will stay the same while including unlimited digital access.
3. Sturdy Health announces over $2.6 million in community health grant funding (massnonprofit.org) — Sturdy Health is directing over $2.6 million in grants to programs that will directly benefit Attleboro students, families, and residents, from school-based stabilization to housing support. Local partners like Attleboro Public Schools, the YMCA, and the City of Attleboro will use the funding to expand behavioral health access, navigation help, and housing stability services across the community.
4. Attleboro Man Guilty in Child Pornography Case (wbsm.com) — An Attleboro resident has been convicted in Fall River Superior Court of possessing and distributing child sexual abuse material, and will serve several years in state prison followed by supervised probation. Investigators traced illegal file sharing to his home, where thousands of illicit files were found on computer equipment seized under a search warrant.
5. Local screenwriter's New England-set thriller wins national awards (northstarreporter.com) — An Attleboro native screenwriter is earning national awards for a New England–set horror thriller rooted in memories of Attleboro and nearby North Attleborough. Now living in Los Angeles, Allie Markova drew on a frightening late-night encounter off Robert Toner Boulevard and childhood time at the Attleboro Public Library to shape her screenplay, which she hopes to eventually film back in the region.
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