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Noir Creators Space Spotlights Black Owned Businesses, Creatives Patch 2 hrs ago Claudia Alvarez © Rachel Nunes/Patch The outdoor, open air market will feature 30 Pflugerville BIPOC-owned businesses offering a range of great products and unique goods. PFLUGERVILLE, TX—The Pflugerville community will have an opportunity to support local and BIPOC-owned businesses offering a range of products and goods from hair care, beauty, wellness and more! Noir Creators Space Open Market is a new vendor market highlighting historic Pflugerville's Colored Addition featuring local blac...

5 Towns, 1 Book: Sound Shore Libraries Join Forces For Book Club Patch 2 hrs ago Jeff Edwards © Rachel Nunes/Patch The selection for the Five Towns: One Book events will be Caste by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson. Westchester County, NY — Five Sound Shore towns in Westchester are joining together to read a single book this month. A virtual discussion of the book will include library cardholders from New Rochelle, Larchmont, Mamaroneck, Harrison and Rye during five book-club-style events. This month, the multi-town book club will explore Caste: The Origin...

Crosstown Upper East Side Bike Lanes Stump Community Board Again Patch 2 days ago Nick Garber © Department of Transportation Temporary bike lanes have been in place on East 61st and 62nd streets since September, running between Fifth and York avenues. The city is seeking to make them permanent. UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — The city's wish to permanently install two crosstown bike lanes on the Upper East Side left a community board panel divided this week for the second time, further delaying a decision and frustrating transit advocates. Staffers from the Department of Transpor...

Ashley HomeStore Helps Make New Home For Disabled Veteran Patch 6 hrs ago Morgan Reddekopp © Beth Dalbey/Patch The project is through Tunnels to Towers, which has provided hundreds of mortgage free homes to families of fallen first responders and military throughout the U.S. WOODBURY, MN— Ashley Homestore in Woodbury helped a disabled veteran and his family make a home, the store's news release said. The store's manager Susan Jacquart knew she had to help out as soon as she heard about the project, the store said. US Army Specialist John Mullen and his family will get t...

Brookline Turkeys To Be Featured In Documentary On Turkey Town Patch 2 hrs ago Jenna Fisher © Jenna Fisher/Patch The film will examine human-animal relationships with the natural world and how people adjust as that evolves, said the Brookline filmmmaker. BROOKLINE, MA — If you've lived in Brookline for any amount of time you've likely had an encounter with them, or know someone who has: The wild flock of Brookline turkeys has attacked mail carriers, the animals have stood guard on street corners, attacking passing cars or anyone that dare get too close. The flock has it...