🌱 Patch AM: What did Reading’s Conservation Commission decide about fields, trails, and culverts?

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In today's newsletter:

• What did Reading's Conservation Commission decide about fields, trails, and culverts?
• Did you know this noted historian once taught at Reading High School?

Also on today's calendar: Sudbury PMC Kids Ride (all riders welcome!) and 9 more events.

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

Weather forecast:

• Saturday: Sunshine and less humid, with a high of 77 and low of 57 degrees.
• Sunday: Times of clouds and sun, temps: high: 86, low: 64. 🌶 Hot!
• Monday: Partly sunny and pleasant, with a high of 78 and low of 58 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• 🏞️ Conservation Commission 8-26-26 AI Recap (readingrecap.com) — Reading's Conservation Commission just tackled several big local issues, from Parker Middle School's turf replacement and wetland protections to approvals at Forest Street, Norwood Avenue, and Johnson Woods Trail. Members also discussed MBTA culvert work near Mattera and Morgan, a sewage enforcement case on South Street, a stolen Bare Meadow sign, and elected Martha Moore as the next chair.
   

• Guide to the Charles M. Gates Papers (nps.gov) — Reading history buffs might appreciate that historian Charles M. Gates once taught at Reading High School in Reading before a long National Park Service and University of Washington career. A new National Park Service finding aid details his 1935–36 work correspondence, research, and reports on historic sites nationwide, now available to researchers at the NPS History Collection in West Virginia.
   

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★ Featured events ★

Sunday September 20
• Sudbury PMC Kids Ride (all riders welcome!) →
  Ephraim Curtis Middle School, 22 Pratts Mill Rd, Sudbury
  10:00 am

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Other local events

Saturday August 29
• Wakefield Porchfest 2026 →
  60 locations around Wakefield
  12:00 pm
Monday August 31
• first day of school K-12
  Maynard SD Maynard, MA 01754
• Green Meadow First Day of School K-3
  Green Meadow Maynard, MA 01754
• Cultural Council →
  Reading, MA Calendar Reading, MA 01867
  7:00 pm
Tuesday September 1
• PreK Meet and Greet Ms. Clark and Ms. DiLuca
  Green Meadow Maynard, MA 01754
  9:00 am
• PreK Meet and Greet Ms. Cohen and Ms. Gonsalves
  Green Meadow Maynard, MA 01754
  9:30 am
• Democracy and Why the Ideas that Built America Still Matter
  Reading Public Library -
  2:00 pm
• Reading Community Singers ~ 2 More OPEN Rehearsals ~ Come Join Us! →
  6 Salem St, Reading
  7:00 pm
Tuesday September 8
• Reading Community Singers ~ ONE More OPEN Rehearsals ~ Come Join Us! →
  6 Salem St, Reading
  7:00 pm
Wednesday September 9
• Reading Art Association September Painting Demonstration →
  First Congregational Church, 25 Woburn St, Reading
  7:30 pm
Saturday September 12
• Tango! Tango! →
  West Parish Church, 129 Reservation Rd, Andover
  4:00 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Senator Lewis, Representative Haggerty, and Mass. Legislature Pass Bill to Enhance Child Welfare Protections —Jason Lewis Read on Patch

• Tommy Bahama posted a job opening for Assistant Store Manager in Lynnfield. Apply here.
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🗞 Nearby News

Wakefield

• Details Released On Wakefield Porchfest 2026 (patch.com)
• INspire Cafe in Wakefield Is Closing (blogspot.com)
• Up And Social Narrows Focus to Family and Estate Planning Law Firms After 14 Years in General Local Marketing (businessinsider.com)

North Reading

• Teradyne Robotics ramps up fight against cobot copycats (therobotreport.com)
• 'God didn't want to separate them,' Andover man says of son and granddaughter killed in violent crash (bostonglobe.com)

Wilmington

• Charles River Laboratories International (NYSE:CRL) Director James Foster Sells 33,561 Shares (insidertrades.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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