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🌱 Patch AM: Which Frankfort Halloween yard haunts are worth a spooky evening drive?

Also check out Mindful Community Fall Picnic on the Frankfort Patch calendar

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Hey there, Frankfort! Let's get started with what's happening in and around town. Read on and stay in the loop. ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

  • Which Frankfort Halloween yard haunts are worth a spooky evening drive?

Also on today's calendar: Mindful Community Fall Picnic and 10 more events.

Today's riddle: What do you call somebody who crosses the ocean twice and doesn't take a bath? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Sunday: Turning sunny; warm, with a high of 78 and low of 59 degrees.
  • Monday: Mostly sunny and very warm, temps: high: 85, low: 67.
  • Tuesday: Very warm with some sun, with a high of 82 and low of 61 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Patch's Best 2026 Halloween Yard Haunts: Will, Kendall, Grundy Counties (patch.com) — Several elaborate Halloween yard displays in Frankfort are welcoming visitors nightly through Halloween, featuring animatronics, spooky cemeteries, and family-friendly inflatables. Addresses on Acorn Road, Jonquil Lane, Lakeview Estates Boulevard, Harvest Drive, and Hawthorne Lane offer walk-through experiences, jump scares, and candy on Halloween, generally lighting up from dusk until around 10 p.m., weather permitting.
   

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🗞 Nearby News

Mokena

  • Skin-and-Bones Senior Cat Abandoned in a Carrier Chats Up Every Person She Meets Like She Is Making Up for Lost Time (thenewstribune.com)

New Lenox

  • Beth Conaghan, Realtor in New Lenox, IL, Opens Permanent Office on Maple Street With Chamber Ribbon Cutting (digitalmarketreports.com)
  • Detectives seek tips in teen's 1976 unsolved murder (audacy.com)

Manhattan

  • Are We Documenting Our Way to Forgetfulness?, by Yonason Goldson (creators.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What do you call somebody who crosses the ocean twice and doesn't take a bath?" — A dirty double crosser ! (Thank you Theresia F. for sending it in!)
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