🌱 Patch AM: New Pollinator Pathway Opens Along Mother Brook In Dedham

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In today's newsletter:

• Dedham's new pollinator park invites neighbors to grow wildlife-friendly gardens
• How will 154 new Legacy Place apartments reshape Dedham's housing mix?
• How a Dedham qualifier launched this golfer back to a national stage.

Also on today's calendar: New England Fall Flower Show: Growing Together [Day 1] and 8 more events.

Today's riddle: What has a neck but no head? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Saturday: Partly sunny and less humid, with a high of 79 and low of 55 degrees.
• Sunday: Times of clouds and sun, temps: high: 85, low: 64.
• Monday: Some sun, with a high of 80 and low of 60 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• New Pollinator Pathway Opens Along Mother Brook In Dedham (patch.com) — Dedham residents now have a new one-acre Sawmill Lane Pollinator Pathway along Mother Brook, featuring native plantings, a rain garden, and a wildlife-viewing trail. Supported by a state biodiversity grant, the project includes public art organized by Mother Brook Arts & Community Center and a seed-sharing library built by a local Eagle Scout, inviting neighbors to grow pollinator-friendly gardens at home.
   

• Healey Awards $15M To Help Advance 5 Residential Conversion Projects (bisnow.com) — Dedham is set to get 154 new apartments near Legacy Place, backed by a $3 million state tax-credit award that helps demolish two commercial buildings for housing. The funding is part of Gov. Healey's $15.3 million push to convert underused commercial properties into 856 apartments across five Massachusetts communities, aiming to ease the statewide housing crunch.
   

• Florio Feeling Inspired Ahead of Return to U.S. Women's Mid-Am (golfnewsri.com) — A U.S. Women's Mid-Am competitor earned her spot by qualifying at Dedham Country & Polo Club back in June, putting the town on the path to a national golf stage. She now tees it up at Montclair Golf Club in New Jersey, balancing a Boston legal career with high‑level amateur golf and drawing inspiration from fellow women juggling life and competition.
   

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Dedham

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★ Featured events ★

Friday September 18
• New England Fall Flower Show: Growing Together [Day 1] →
  Massachusetts Horticultural Society - Garden at Elm Bank, 900 Washington St, Wellesley
  9:00 am

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Other local events

Sunday August 30
• Boston General Store Warehouse Sale →
  10:00 am
Monday August 31
• Dedham Faculty Returns
  Dedham SD Dedham, MA 02026
• Dinosaur Zen Garden
  Dedham Public Library Main Library -
• Monday Morning Music
  Dedham Public Library Endicott Branch - Back Lawn
  9:30 am
• Out of the Box Rehearsal
  Art Barn United Parish in Brookline, 15 Marion St, Brookline, MA 02446
  3:00 pm
Tuesday September 1
• Monthly Scavenger Hunt
  Dedham Public Library Endicott Branch -
• NO SCHOOL - Professional Development
  Dedham SD Dedham, MA 02026
• Out of the Box Rehearsal
  Art Barn United Parish in Brookline, 15 Marion St, Brookline, MA 02446
  3:00 pm
• Dedham Square Circle presents FREE Concerts on the Green →
  Dedham Town Green, 600 High St, Dedham
  6:00 pm
Sunday September 13
• Indie Bookfest →
  TLC Studios & Media Lab, 390 Washington St, Dedham
  11:00 am

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🗓 Events Nearby

Saturday August 29
• Henna at Norwood Day!
  Morrill Memorial Library Off Site , 33 Walpole St., Norwood, MA\
  10:30 am
• All Ages Story Time
  Mattapan Branch Library 10 Hazelton Street, Mattapan, MA 02126
  10:30 am
• Open Work-in-Progress Session for a Local Movement Collective
  Needham Free Public Library Community Room , 1139 Highland Avenue\
  10:30 am
• Chinese Storytime
  Needham Free Public Library Children's Room , 1139 Highland
  11:00 am

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Boston and Dedham Will "Make Their Mark" with International Dot Day Celebrations —Paul Reynolds Read on Patch

• Bank of America posted a job opening for Relationship Banker - Quincy - Newton Market in Dedham. Apply here.
• Indochino posted a job opening for Showroom Manager ( Legacy Place) in Dedham. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Dedham here.

🗞 Nearby News

Westwood

• Motorcyclist, 71, killed in crash involving 3 vehicles on I-95 in Westwood (boston.com)
• In generational battle, Markey and Moulton offer closing arguments to voters ahead of primary (wbur.org)
• LA Kings Training Camp Preview: Jack Hughes (yardbarker.com)

Needham

• Needham Native Crafts Mindfulness into Ceramics (needhamlocal.org)
• MWRA preparing to dig in on Needham tunnel work (needhamobserver.com)
• Franklin's Charles Bailey III Take Shot at Incumbent Rausch (town.news)

Boston

• Boston Expands Charles River Cyanobacteria Advisory (patch.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: A bottle (Thank you Netty W. for sending it in!)
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