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Dan Medeiros, The Herald News
Published April 2, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FALL RIVER \u2014 On Blossom Road, in a 19th-century timber-frame wagon shed, a half-dozen kids from Diman Regional Vocational Technical High School<\/a> were busy building bridges connecting Fall River\u2019s past to its future. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The carpentry students under instructor Jeff Cabral were building the frames for bog bridges \u2014 lengths of pressure-treated lumber that will be topped with planks and installed in the Southeastern Massachusetts Bioreserve<\/a> to help hikers cross muddy trails.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

City forester Mike Labossiere said they\u2019ll build about 600 feet of bridge. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re at a high water mark for how much Diman has been helping us out this year,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Just outside the barn, at the Water Department\u2019s Watuppa Reservation headquarters, sat two brand-new picnic tables, also built by Diman students. Another two are at a nearby parking lot that marks the start of a series of hiking trails.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The materials for the tables were donated by the Appalachian Mountain Club\u2019s Southeastern Massachusetts chapter, which is…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Learn more about how local high school students are working to make Fall River’s Bioreserve more accessible!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_tec_requires_first_save":true,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"categories":[636],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recreation"],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26693"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32913,"href":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26693\/revisions\/32913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivafallriver.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}