BRISTOL — A $1.5 million grant is putting a long-sought expansion of the Tapply-Thompson Community Center on the horizon. The executive board has a purchase-and-sales agreement for property at 90 Lake St., adjacent to Kelley Park, and the grant will help the TTCC begin the planning and development of a new recreation center with a full-size gymnasium, a commercial kitchen, and potential amenities like a lap pool and splash pad.

A condition of the Housing and Urban Development grant was the completion of an environmental survey of the property, with a 30-day public comment period that included a hearing at the Barbara Greenwood Town Office Building on Nov. 17.

“The bigger purpose,” said Executive Director Les Dion, “was in case somebody came forth and said, ‘No, I’m sorry, there was somet

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