🌱 Patch AM: BatFest Schedule Of Events Revealed: See What's Planned This Halloween

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In today's newsletter:

• See what Batavia has planned for this year's BatFest
• Batavia parents: Is your child getting free monthly books yet?
• How Nobel-winning neutrino work ties directly back to Fermilab in Batavia

Also on today's calendar: Anniversary Sale! and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: What do you call a paper airplane that can't fly? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Wednesday: High clouds and warm, with a high of 77 and low of 49 degrees.
• Thursday: Partly sunny, temps: high: 67, low: 43.
• Friday: Pleasant with clouds and sun, with a high of 70 and low of 52 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• BatFest Schedule Of Events Revealed: See What's Planned This Halloween (patch.com) — Batavia's downtown will transform into a Halloween hub on Oct. 24 as more than 5,000 visitors are expected for the free BatFest celebration. Families can enjoy trick-or-treating at over 60 businesses, live performances, parades, contests, and hands-on activities at spots like Peg Bond Center, Batavia Public Library, and local shops throughout the city's core.
   

• Dolly Parton's Imagination Library brings literacy home (shawlocal.com) — Batavia families with children from birth to age five can sign up now for Dolly Parton's Imagination Library through Batavia United Way and receive a free book in the mail every month. The program, funded and managed locally with Fox Valley United Way, aims to build home libraries, spark a love of reading early, and smoothly transition kids into regular library use.
   

• Nobel Prize in physics awarded to Francis Halzen for groundbreaking neutrino research (fnal.gov) — Batavia's own Fermilab gets a spotlight as the Nobel Prize in physics honors a scientist whose neutrino research underpins major experiments now being built partly in town. Construction on the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment at Fermilab connects Batavia to a vast international effort to better understand mysterious high‑energy particles from space.
   

📸 Around Batavia

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Batavia

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★ Featured events ★

Friday October 9
• Anniversary Sale! →
  4054 Fox Valley Center Dr, Aurora
  10:00 am
Saturday October 17
• Escape the Mansion →
  3507 Kaneville Rd, Geneva
  12:00 pm
Sunday October 18
• The VIKINGS are Coming...and GOING! →
  Good Templar Park Association, 528 East Side Dr, Geneva
  10:00 am
Saturday October 24
• Halloween Hayday →
  BestLife Fitness at Stephen D. Persinger Recreation Center, 3507 Kaneville Rd, Geneva
  9:00 am

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Other local events

Wednesday October 7
• Batavia Art League begins 2026 -2027 session →
  Congregational Church of Batavia, 21 S Batavia Ave, Batavia
  9:30 am
Thursday October 8
• Yannis Pappas Stand Up Comedy LIVE @ The Comedy Vault! →
  Comedy Vault, 18 E Wilson St, Batavia
  7:30 pm
Friday October 9
• Yannis Pappas Stand Up Comedy LIVE @ The Comedy Vault! →
  Comedy Vault, 18 E Wilson St, Batavia
  7:00 pm
Saturday October 10
• Yannis Pappas Stand Up Comedy LIVE @ The Comedy Vault! →
  Comedy Vault, 18 E Wilson St, Batavia
  7:00 pm
Sunday October 11
• Porkchopz Stand Up Comedy LIVE @ The Comedy Vault! →
  Comedy Vault, 18 E Wilson St, Batavia
  7:30 pm
Friday October 16
• Greg Fitzsimmons Stand Up Comedy →
  Comedy Vault, 18 E Wilson St, Batavia
  7:00 pm
Saturday October 17
• Annual Prairie Seed Harvest →
  Fermilab, Pine St, Batavia
  10:00 am
• Greg Fitzsimmons Stand Up Comedy →
  Comedy Vault, 18 E Wilson St, Batavia
  7:00 pm

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💬 Chatter

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🗞 Nearby News

Geneva

• Why Regular Dental Visits Are Important, Even If Nothing Hurts (shawlocal.com)
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• Hälsa the Aromatherapy Shop & Spa: More than a massage (shawlocal.com)

St. Charles

• What To Know If You Go: St. Charles Scarecrow Festival (patch.com)

Aurora

• Prison Terms Revealed For Aurora Teen, 19, Convicted In 2023 Murder: Mosser (patch.com)
• Kane County Sheriff Will Retire To Focus On Health, Asks For Privacy (patch.com)

Ok Batavia! So now you're in the loop about what's happening today. Thanks for reading, and see you in your inbox next time! Oh -- and if you like what you're reading, invite a friend to Patch AM!

-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What do you call a paper airplane that can't fly?" — Stationary (Thank you David H. for sending it in!)
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