🌱 Patch AM: Why F. Gilbert Hills in Foxborough might be your new favorite escape

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In today's newsletter:

• Why F. Gilbert Hills in Foxborough might be your new favorite escape
• Former Foxborough fan favorite QB suddenly back on the market

Also on today's calendar: Wrentham Electronics Recycling Event ♻️ and 7 more events.

Today's riddle: What gets bigger the more you take away? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Sunday: A stray afternoon shower, with a high of 86 and low of 61 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
• Monday: Sunny to partly cloudy, temps: high: 80, low: 62.
• Tuesday: A shower and thunderstorm, with a high of 74 and low of 61 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Where To Escape In Massachusetts When You Need Fresh Air And A Little Peace (takingthekids.com) — Foxborough's own F. Gilbert Hills State Forest gets top billing as a quiet, pine‑shaded escape with 23 miles of hiking and biking trails, picnic spots, and free parking on Mill Street. The guide then rounds up other scenic parks across Massachusetts, offering options from waterfall hikes to wildlife sanctuaries for whenever you need fresh air and a reset.
   

• Patriots' Former Starting QB Cut by Jets as NFL Roster Deadline Nears (heavy.com) — Patriots fans in Foxborough will recognize Bailey Zappe's name as the former fan-favorite quarterback has been released by the New York Jets after a shaky preseason. The onetime popular figure at Gillette Stadium, who started eight games for New England, now hits free agency again as NFL teams finalize their rosters.
   

📸 Around Foxborough

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Foxborough

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★ Featured events ★

Saturday September 5
• Wrentham Electronics Recycling Event ♻️ →
  St. Mary Catholic Church, Wrentham, 130 South St, Wrentham
  9:00 am

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Other local events

Monday August 31
• Zoom with a Law Librarian
  Boyden Library Zoom
  1:00 pm
• Dungeons & Dragons, Ages 18-25
  Boyden Library Mezzanine Conference Room , 2 Baker Street, Foxbor
  5:00 pm
• Teenwork Partners
  Boyden Library Fuller Conference Room , 2 Baker Street, Foxboroug
  6:30 pm
Tuesday September 1
• Soothing Sensory Time Ages: 3-5
  Boyden Library Story & Craft Room , 2 Baker Street, Foxborou
  10:30 am
• The Democracy We Must Keep: Why the Ideas that Built America Still
  Boyden Library Online
  2:00 pm
• Rock Hill Cemetery Web Design Meeting →
  Boyden Library Fuller Conference Room , 2 Baker Street, Foxboroug
  6:30 pm
Wednesday September 2
• Friends of Boyden Library Meeting
  Boyden Library Community Meeting Room , 2 Baker Street, Foxboroug
  7:00 pm
Thursday September 3
• Silly with Storytime, Ages 3-5
  Boyden Library Youth Services Circulation Desk , 2 Baker Street
  10:30 am
Sunday September 6
• TWO DAYS LEFT for tickets | Pigskin Pigout for KP Football →
  American Legion, 592 South St, Wrentham
  2:00 pm

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🗓 Events Nearby

Sunday August 30
• (Classroom, 7yd) Archambault - BOPS
  Mansfield Fish & Game 510 East St, Mansfield, MA 02048
  8:00 am
• SALT-N-PEPA & TLC WITH EN VOGUE - IT'S ICONIC →
  The Xfinity Center, 885 S Main St, Mansfield
  7:30 pm
• TLC, Salt-N-Pepa, En Vogue →
  The Xfinity Center, 885 S Main St, Mansfield
  7:30 pm
• TLC, Salt-N-Pepa & En Vogue →
  The Xfinity Center, 885 S Main St, Mansfield
  7:30 pm

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🗞 Nearby News

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• Kearney Volleyball begins season on right foot (centralnebraskatoday.com)
• Editorial: The Herald endorses Craig MacLellan for Norfolk DA (bostonherald.com)
• After town's search for a dusty 1914 will, court order frees up $3 million in scholarship funds for BHS students (brookline.news)

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-- The Patch AM Team

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