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What's up Middletown! Let's start this morning right by getting caught up on what's going on around town. Keep reading to stay in the loop. ☕️️

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  • Could Middletown soon allow more duplexes and less required parking?
  • See what Middletown homes just sold and for how much.

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Today's riddle: What is clean when it is black and dirty when it is white? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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📰 News we're reading

• Middletown Planning Board Hears Plan to Ease Housing Zoning (upriseri.com) — Middletown's Planning Board spent a special meeting debating big zoning ideas that could eventually reshape local housing, from ending parking minimums to allowing duplexes by right in sewered areas. Members raised questions about traffic, neighborhood impacts, and property values, while the town planner drafts multifamily ordinance changes and housing is expected back on an upcoming agenda for possible next steps.
   

• Real Estate: September 21 to September 25 (newportthisweek.com) — Several Middletown homes, including 55 Mixter Street and 10 Ludlow Road, changed hands recently, with sale prices ranging from just over $500,000 to $650,000. The roundup also lists notable transactions in nearby Newport and Portsmouth, giving a snapshot of Aquidneck Island's late-September housing market and the kinds of properties attracting buyers right now.
   

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  • Rhode Island has been experiencing a recent increase in mpox cases.
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Warwick

  • Warwick Man Charged With Receiving Stolen Goods: Cops (patch.com)

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What is clean when it is black and dirty when it is white?" — A chalk board (Thank you Charlie H. for sending it in!)
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