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  • How a polluted Sandy Hook site could become 20 workforce apartments

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  • Thursday: Times of sun and clouds, with a high of 65 and low of 49 degrees.
  • Friday: Some sun, then clouds; breezy, temps: high: 66, low: 51.
  • Saturday: Breezy with a little rain, with a high of 61 and low of 54 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Once a 'polluted and blighted eyesore,' Sandy Hook site inspires vision for 20 workforce apartments (nhregister.com) — Newtown officials have approved a zoning change that could turn a long-contaminated Sandy Hook industrial site into up to 20 below-market workforce apartments for local police and municipal workers. The town-owned brownfield at 28A Glen Road still needs additional cleanup, but economic development leaders and nearby residents see the project as a key step in Sandy Hook center's ongoing revitalization.
   

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🗞 Nearby News

Bethel

  • Pine Plains developments on track after Town Board approves zoning changes (millertonnews.com)
  • Local Event: Poetry Rocks Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month & Features 3 Poet Laureates. (patch.com)
  • BBC's Towards Tomorrow Asked in 1967 Whether Humans and Robots Could Share One Culture Before the Line Between Them Vanished (techeblog.com)

Brookfield

  • Aw shucks: Dolly Parton corn mazes crop up in fields nationwide (newschannel9.com)
  • 2026 Connecticut high school girls soccer coaches polls: East Hampton moves to No. 1 in M/S poll (newstimes.com)

Monroe

  • Monroe's Weekend Pick: Fall Fun At Benedict's (patch.com)

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: The inside and the outside ! (Thank you James M. for sending it in!)
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