🌱 How a $15M park could transform the old Richland Mall site
Forest Acres, South Carolina Patch AM: a 3 min readHello Forest Acres! Here's our latest buzz. Let's get into it. ☀️
In today's newsletter:
- How a $15M park could transform the old Richland Mall site
- Forest Acres welfare check ends with woman dead, man in custody
Also on today's calendar: Juneteenth.
Today's riddle: Where do you learn how to make ice cream ? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Friday: A t-storm around in the p.m., with a high of 87 and low of 70 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
- Saturday: Humid with a thunderstorm, temps: high: 78, low: 63.
- Sunday: A stray thunderstorm, with a high of 74 and low of 64 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• New designs show vision for $15 million Forest Acres park project (wltx.com) — Forest Acres leaders are advancing a $15 million plan to turn the former Richland Mall site into the city’s largest park, with an amphitheater, farmers market space, playgrounds, and walking trails. Designs are being shaped by resident feedback, including opening up Pen Branch Creek, and the project could go out for bid this fall with completion targeted by late 2027. 
• Officers find woman's body on welfare check & arrest man, Forest Acres police say (thestate.com) — Forest Acres police say a woman was found dead and a man taken into custody after officers forced entry during a welfare check at a Barnes Springs Road home. Investigators believe the case involves domestic violence, and the man, who was injured before police arrived, remains hospitalized as the Richland County Coroner works to confirm the victim’s identity and cause of death.
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🗞 Nearby News
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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Sundae School (Thank you Gary M. for sending it in!)
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