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🌱 Park Explorer Adventure Series: Snake Tales and 11 more events
Happening soon: Chess Club at the Henagar Public Library on the Ider Patch calendar

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Today's riddle: What is clean when it is black and dirty when it is white? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Thursday: Mostly sunny and very warm, with a high of 83 and low of 56 degrees.
- Friday: Plenty of sunshine, temps: high: 78, low: 60.
- Saturday: Tropical storm, with a high of 65 and low of 61 degrees.
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🗓 Events Nearby
- Park Explorer Adventure Series: Snake Tales →
Benefield Nature Center, County Road 89, Fort Payne
10:00 am - Chess Club at the Henagar Public Library →
Henagar AL
6:00 pm - Stuart Douglas at Maters →
Maters, Fort Payne
6:00 pm - Northeast Alabama Championship →
Pisgah AL - Scottsboro BBQ Festival →
Downtown Scottsboro Mural, 413 S Broad St, Scottsboro
9:00 am - Unity Hikers Breast Cancer Awareness Hike →
Little River Canyon Preserve, 4322 Little River Trail #100, Fort Payne
11:00 am - Author Event: Scott Gould →
BOOKCLUB, 112 1st St West, Fort Payne
6:00 pm - Financing Your Business | Session 1 | Rainsville →
Northeast Alabama Community College Entrepreneurial Center, 246 McCurdy Avenue North, Rainsville
10:00 am - Becoming Loan Ready | Session 2 | Rainsville →
Northeast Alabama Community College Entrepreneurial Center, 246 McCurdy Avenue North, Rainsville
12:30 pm - 71st Annual DeKalb County V.F.W. Fair →
VFW Fairgrounds, 151 18th St., Fort Payne - Sun Print Art - Cyanotypes
Little River Canyon National Park, 4322 Little River Trail NE, Fort Payne
10:30 am - Historic DeKalb Theatre Movie Nights →
DeKalb Theatre, 306 Gault Ave N, Fort Payne
5:00 pm
Thursday October 8
Friday October 9
Saturday October 10
Monday October 12
Thursday October 15
Friday October 16
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What your neighbors are talking about on social media
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🗞 Nearby News
Fort Payne
- Made in the Mountains: Why DeKalb County Is a Magnet for Talent (livability.com)
- AHSAA football rankings ahead of Week 7 for Gadsden high school teams (tuscaloosanews.com)
- 8 Alabama Places Where Copperheads Are Showing Up More During The Fall (takingthekids.com)
Scottsboro
- Scottsboro City Schools kickstarts $70 million capital plan (waff.com)
- Man arrested after drugs found during Scottsboro traffic stop (rocketcitynow.com)
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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What is clean when it is black and dirty when it is white?" — A chalk board (Thank you Charlie H. for sending it in!)
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