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We start the newsletter with today’s headlines, but the top story today is the city’s failure — for the second year in a row — to open the Red Hook Pool on schedule.

The most-serious heat wave is on its way, but kids in Red Hook will remain sweltering as the Parks Department makes repairs it could have made months ago.

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