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Rangeley, ME
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2025
Project Category: Public Places Other
Description: Deteriorating trail conditions made parts of the museum's public trail system difficult and unsafe for older adults who rely on the paths for low-cost outdoor activity. The Wilhelm Reich Museum replaced bog bridging with wider cedar planks, added a new resting bench, and placed a picnic table along the trails. Clearer signage, trimmed undergrowth and a new gravel pull-off with a kiosk further improved access and navigation. The changes restored confidence for older adults returning to the trails. During a guided walk, one participant said she had avoided the paths for years after getting lost and was relieved to feel comfortable again.
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New Milford, CT
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2018
Project Category: Park enhancements
Description: To create social opportunities for people of all ages, the Town of New Milford added benches and game top tables along the walkway to the Young's Field Park. Town employees installed the tables, which can host chess and checkers games. Project organizers say they hope the tables encourage intergenerational activities in the riverfront park. Today, teens from a New Milford High School after-school club use the table for regular games with players from the New Milford Senior Center.
Woodbury, CT
AARP Community Challenge Grant Year: 2026
Project Category: Public safety interventions
Description: A heavily used dirt walkway will be improved with gravel, lighting and benches. The upgrade will increase safety and comfort for events, programs and visitors.
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