🌱 Eastland-Pearl City's playoff run ends in a close finish
Lanark, Illinois Patch AM: a 3 min readWhat's up Lanark! Let's start this morning right by getting caught up on what's going on around town. Keep reading to stay in the loop. ☕️️
In today's newsletter:
- Eastland-Pearl City's playoff run ends in a close finish
Today's riddle: What are the two sides of a circle? 🤔 (Answer below!)
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- Wednesday: A couple of showers; cooler, with a high of 56 and low of 37 degrees.
- Thursday: Cooler with clouds and sun, temps: high: 45, low: 30.
- Friday: Chilly with periods of sun, with a high of 43 and low of 26 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Will and Grundy county-area teams go 8-1 Saturday in IHSA football playoffs: The Herald-News Weekend Rewind (shawlocal.com) — Eastland-Pearl City's playoff run ended in Lanark with a 21-16 loss to Peotone, but the outcome stayed in doubt until the final seconds. Peotone scored on its first two possessions and held on when EPC's fourth-down pass fell incomplete with nine seconds remaining. 
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HS Wrestling @ Dekalb Tourn T
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JH BBB vs Stockton
Eastland Elementary School, 601 S Chestnut St, Shannon
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ILMEA District Festival
Eastland CUSD #308, 501 W Dresser Rd, DeKalb
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🗞 Nearby News
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- ‘My aspiration was to be a Silver Streak': Why the hometown dream still matters in Galesburg (wgil.com)
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Freeport
- Freeport father wins $1 million Illinois Lottery jackpot (mystateline.com)
- Freeport, IL, Launches New City Website on the Revize Builder Platform (prlog.org)
- Free film screening explores the unique Driftless Area (journalstandard.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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