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🌱 What Gardner’s DPW cuts could mean for winter and your streets

Gardner, Massachusetts Patch AM: a 4 min read

Cheers Gardner! We’re back, helping you stay up to date with what’s happening. Let's take on the day together! ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

  • What Gardner’s DPW cuts could mean for winter and your streets
  • How new funding shifts will change key Gardner projects this year

Also on today's calendar: Fall Open House and 9 more events.

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

Weather forecast:

  • Saturday: Sunny and not as warm, with a high of 67 and low of 40 degrees.
  • Sunday: Mostly cloudy, temps: high: 61, low: 49.
  • Monday: Breezy with a stray shower, with a high of 64 and low of 39 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Public Service 10-1-26 (gardnermagazine.com) — Gardner’s Department of Public Works is warning of a six-figure budget shortfall and operating with one-third of its positions cut or vacant, raising concerns about winter plowing, road repairs, and playground upkeep. A recent Public Service Committee meeting also reviewed water and sewer abatements, major state and federal compliance projects, and a multimillion-dollar wastewater plant upgrade that will rely partly on new borrowing.
   

• Economic Development 10-2-26 (gardnermagazine.com) — Major funding and infrastructure decisions in Gardner are reshaping projects at the Waterford Community Center, Rear Main Street, and downtown parking through 2029. Residents should know CDBG money has shifted to asbestos abatement at the Senior Center, National Grid delays are squeezing construction timelines, and federal changes have trimmed green features from a key RAISE grant while city staff shortages strain planning work.
   

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

  • Marathon Staffing posted a job opening for Production Helper in Gardner. Apply here.
  • Spectrum Health Systems, Inc. posted a job opening for Recovery Support Navigator in Gardner. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Gardner here.

🗞 Nearby News

Westminster

  • 88 W Princeton Rd, Westminster, MA 01473 (redfin.com)
  • Now Open: A New Home Depot Flatbed Delivery Center in Westminster, MA (homedepot.com)
  • An artillery shell is detonated, a hippo gets lucky, and a wild chase ends in a cornfield (bostonglobe.com)

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Ok Gardner! So now you're in the loop about what's happening today. Thanks for reading, and see you in your inbox next time! Oh -- and if you like what you're reading, invite a friend to Patch AM!

-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What has a cap but no head?" — A bottle (Thank you Glo M. for sending it in!)
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Stay in the loop with what's happening in Gardner

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