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🌱 Patch AM: Heading to Taste of Tucker? Here’s how to make the most

Spotted on the Tucker calendar: Wine Down Wednesdays at Katch | Richard Shaw Jr. Live Jazz | 9pm

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In today's newsletter:

  • Heading to Taste of Tucker? Here's how to make the most
  • Tucker community remembers longtime resident Jerrine Toll's life of service

Also on today's calendar: 5K Run/Walk & Free Health Fair and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: What do you call a one-legged Big Foot? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Tuesday: Plenty of sun, with a high of 85 and low of 57 degrees.
  • Wednesday: Mostly sunny and warm, temps: high: 86, low: 62. 🌶 Hot!
  • Thursday: Sunny and very warm, with a high of 88 and low of 66 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Taste of Tucker returns to Main Street with food, live music, kids zone, more, this Saturday (atlantaonthecheap.com) — Downtown Tucker's Main Street will turn into a food and music festival this Saturday, October 3, with free admission and live entertainment from 1 to 6 p.m. You'll buy $1 Taste Tickets for bite-sized dishes from local restaurants, enjoy a kids zone near LaVista Road, and find parking around the downtown area and nearby churches.
   

• Jerrine Toll (covchurch.org) — A longtime Tucker resident, Jerrine Toll is remembered for a life devoted to family, church ministry, and children's music education after she and her husband retired to Tucker in 1996. Her story spans service in churches, camps, and schools across the country, and her family suggests memorial gifts to charitable organizations in her honor.
   

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

  • Are there any junk removal services near Brockett Rd?
    Can anyone assist with picking up a few items today? (Nextdoor Brockett Heights)
  • Looking for junk removal
    Small items like desk, 2 cabinets, wooden double bed. Everything on carport ready for pick up (Nextdoor LaVista Crossing)
  • Insight Global posted a job opening for Expeditor in Tucker. Apply here.
  • Oglethorpe Power Corporation posted a job opening for Spring 2027 Billing Services Co-Op in Tucker. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Tucker here.

🗞 Nearby News

Stone Mountain

  • Confusion, uncertainty surround Stone Mountain hotel project (decaturish.com)
  • DeKalb County invites public to shape future parks in master plan update (roughdraftatlanta.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Hop Squatch! (Thank you Terri R. for sending it in!)
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