🌱 Camp Point Central stays in the playoff chase amid statewide drama

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In today's newsletter:

• Camp Point Central stays in the playoff chase amid statewide drama

Today's riddle: What are the two sides of a circle? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Wednesday: Some sun, breezy and cooler, with a high of 60 and low of 38 degrees.
• Thursday: Breezy and cooler, temps: high: 45, low: 29.
• Friday: Breezy in the morning, with a high of 44 and low of 25 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• What we learned in Week 12 of high school football: Some wild conclusions in round of 16 (shawlocal.com) — Camp Point Central remains in the Illinois football postseason, joining Calhoun and Brown County as three surviving Western Illinois Valley teams. The statewide roundup also examines dramatic finishes elsewhere, including Sycamore’s disputed 32-28 win over Antioch after an inadvertent whistle wiped out an apparent game-winning touchdown.
   

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📸 Around Camp Point

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🗓 Events Nearby

Wednesday November 11

• MS BBB @ Hancock County Tournament
  Unity High School Mendon, IL 62351
  6:00 pm
• JHGB VS JACKSONVILLE
  Liberty CUSD 2 Liberty, IL 62347
  6:00 pm
• MS BBB @ Hancock County Tournament 1st place games
  Cusd 4 Mendon, IL 62351
  6:00 pm
• MS GBB Western
  Cusd 4 Mendon, IL 62351
  6:00 pm

Thursday November 12

• JH Boys Basketball @ Beardstown
  Southeastern CUSD 337 Augusta, IL 62311
  6:00 pm
• READ TO GLOW NIGHT
  Liberty Elementary School Liberty, IL 62347
  6:00 pm
• MS BBB @ LaHarpe
  Cusd 4 Mendon, IL 62351
  6:00 pm
• JHGB VS QJHS
  Liberty CUSD 2 Liberty, IL 62347
  6:00 pm

Saturday November 14

• MS BBB @ Payson-Seymour
  Cusd 4 Mendon, IL 62351
  10:00 am
• RED & WHITE NIGHT
  Liberty CUSD 2 Liberty, IL 62347
  5:00 pm

Monday November 16

• LIBERTY 7TH BOYS BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
  Liberty CUSD 2 Liberty, IL 62347
• MS GBB Brown Co.
  Cusd 4 Mendon, IL 62351
  5:30 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• First Bankers Trust Company, NA posted a job opening for Universal Banker in Mendon. Apply here.
• Hy-Vee posted a job opening for Coffee Shop Barista in Quincy. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Camp Point here.

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🗞 Nearby News

Quincy

• ‘Roadmap for the future': Quincy takes action on housing strategic task force & clay sports park (khqa.com)
• Quincy Notre Dame heads to the Wild West for 2026 Extravaganza (whig.com)
• Quincy residents invited to meet QPD police chief finalists Friday (khqa.com)

Carthage

• Carla Jo Doyle (mississippivalleypublishing.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What are the two sides of a circle?" — The inside and the outside ! (Thank you James M. for sending it in!)
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