The Wayfair Outlet Date Is Finally Here

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It might still feel like Dublin’s “new” high school to some of us, but here’s a reminder of how quickly time passes: Jerome is now more than 20 years old.

And the school has changed quite a bit since then. Jerome has roughly 50% more students today than it did in its early years, while much of the weight room still dated back to around the time the school opened.

So over the summer, it got a pretty substantial upgrade.

The school renovated the space and increased the number of lifting stations from 14 to 26 — enough of a change that multiple teams can now train at the same time instead of competing for space on the schedule.

And it wasn’t just more weights. The room got new flooring, better ventilation and lighting, upgraded audiovisual equipment and five monitors that can display workouts while athletes train.

Construction started shortly after spring break and wrapped up around July 1, so Jerome athletes have actually been using the new setup for most of the summer. Dublin City Schools handled the construction, while fundraising from the Jerome community helped pay for the equipment.

For those of us who still think of Jerome as Dublin’s new high school, apparently it’s time to update that mental picture.

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Here’s one we didn’t see coming: Rocket Fizz opened at Bridge Park today.

If you’ve never been to one, think less traditional candy store and more a place designed to make you say, wait, they still make that?

Rocket Fizz specializes in the stuff you probably haven’t seen in years — old-school and hard-to-find candy, retro treats, international sweets and a pretty enormous assortment of bottled sodas. There are also retro toys, collectibles and plenty of deliberately strange stuff mixed in.

The new shop is at 4482 Bridge Park Ave., across from SpringHill Suites, and it’s the first Rocket Fizz in Dublin. There’s already one in the Short North, but the stores are independently owned and operated.

And unlike a lot of the restaurants and bigger developments we’ve been watching come together at Bridge Park for months, this one pretty much snuck up on us.

So the next time you’re walking around Bridge Park, there’s now another reason to stop — even if it’s just to see whether they still sell whatever candy you were obsessed with as a kid.

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Remember a couple weeks ago when we told you Dublin was getting its own Wayfair Outlet — and promised we’d let you know the second an actual opening date dropped?

Well, here it is: September 4.

The new store is opening at 6765 Dublin Center Drive, in the old temporary library space at Dublin Village Center.

And there’s one other detail we didn’t have last time: Wayfair says merchandise will be up to 70% off. The Dublin store will be about 22,000 square feet — less than a third the size of the big Wayfair at Polaris — and will carry a rotating selection of open-box, overstock, returned and discontinued furniture and home décor.

So if you were excited about this one when we first told you about it, you’ve only got two weeks to wait.