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🌱 Patch AM: 'Beautifully Remodeled' Home Hits The Market In Meriden

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Good morning Meriden! We're back again in your inbox, keeping you updated with what's happening in and around town. ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

  • Remodeled Meriden raised ranch with modern kitchen hits the market
  • How a Meriden native's year in Vietnam will shape her classroom

Also on today's calendar: Arc Run 2026 and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: What is the difference between black eyed peas and chick peas? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

  • Wednesday: Mostly sunny and pleasant, with a high of 74 and low of 59 degrees.
  • Thursday: Humid; a shower in the p.m., temps: high: 81, low: 66.
  • Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high of 81 and low of 49 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• 'Beautifully Remodeled' Home Hits The Market In Meriden (patch.com) — House hunters in Meriden may be interested in a newly listed, fully remodeled raised ranch on Sweet Birch Drive offering over 1,900 square feet, three bedrooms, and three full baths. Priced at $449,900, the home features a bright living room with bay window and fireplace, plus an updated eat-in kitchen with quartz countertops and stainless steel appliances.
   

• A First Time Teaching Assignment Like No Other: Vietnam (uconn.edu) — A Meriden native and Fulbright scholar has just returned from a year teaching English at a university in Vietnam, where she also reconnected with her family's roots. Now settling back in Connecticut, she plans to bring lessons about curiosity, cultural humility, and student-centered learning into her new sixth-grade math classroom this fall.
   

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🗞 Nearby News

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Cheshire

  • Which Noisy Four-Door Hatch Would You Take? 2001 Subaru Forester vs 2008 Saturn Astra (theautopian.com)

Ok Meriden! 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: Black eyed peas can sing us a song but chick peas can only hummus one. (Thank you Bev H. for sending it in!)
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