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🌱 Patch AM: How SNAP cuts are hitting one New Port Richey cancer patient

Also, don't miss 9/11 Memorial Ceremony on the New Port Richey Patch calendar

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Hi there, New Port Richey! We've got your morning read ready! Read on to stay connected. ☀️

In today's newsletter:

  • How SNAP cuts are hitting one New Port Richey cancer patient

Also on today's calendar: 9/11 Memorial Ceremony and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: I'm a rock group with 4 members; one member was assassinated. What am I? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Friday: Humid; a stray p.m. t-storm, with a high of 89 and low of 76 degrees. 🌶 Hot!
  • Saturday: Humid with a thunderstorm, temps: high: 88, low: 76.
  • Sunday: Humid; an afternoon t-storm, with a high of 90 and low of 77 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• As SNAP Shrinks, What's the Future of Food Aid in America? (tradeoffs.org) — A New Port Richey free senior clinic and one of its cancer patients are at the center of a national look at shrinking SNAP food benefits. The story follows their struggle with new federal rules that delay or deny aid, then broadens to experts debating whether recent reforms threaten the future of food assistance programs nationwide. Local readers see how national policy changes hit neighbors directly.
   

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What your neighbors are talking about on social media

  • Good afternoon all!
    Why did the lifeguards keep kicking the elephants out of the pool? Because they kept dropping their trunks. Have a good one! (Nextdoor Keystone Estates)
  • Good evening all!
    I added something green tonight! Lol! Y'all have a goid night! (Nextdoor Keystone Estates)
  • RaceTrac Petroleum, Inc. posted a job opening for Store Associate in New Port Richey. Apply here.

🗞 Nearby News

Port Richey

  • Trulieve Dispensary Associate-Full-Time in Port Richey, FL (mlive.com)
  • 9 ways to honor the 25th anniversary of 9/11 across Tampa Bay (wusf.org)
  • Bond revoked for Villager's son charged in woman's death in drug-fueled sexcapade (villages-news.com)

Tarpon Springs

  • 799 E Klosterman Rd Lot 73, Tarpon Springs, FL 34689 (zillow.com)
  • Local maritime businesses refurbish and upgrade Tampa Bay ferry boats (fox13news.com)
  • Watch Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi (disneyplus.com)

Ok New Port Richey! 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: Mount Rushmore (Thank you J.J. W. for sending it in!)
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