🌱 Coed Middle School Track & Field - Outdoor vs Lincoln Magnet School and 11 more events

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Today's riddle: How do you measure a fish? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Wednesday: Very warm with some sun, with a high of 79 and low of 57 degrees.
• Thursday: Increasingly windy, temps: high: 82, low: 62.
• Friday: Cloudy, a shower and t-storm, with a high of 77 and low of 48 degrees.

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🗓 Events Nearby

Wednesday April 22

• Coed Middle School Track & Field - Outdoor vs Lincoln Magnet School
  Benjamin Franklin Middle School , 2350 E Ash St , Springfield
  4:00 pm
• Coed Middle School Track & Field - Outdoor
  Lincoln Magnet School , 2350 East Ash St , Springfield
  4:00 pm
• Coed Middle School Track & Field - Outdoor @ Franklin Middle School
  Lincoln Magnet School , 2350 E Ash St , Springfield
  4:00 pm
• Boys Varsity Baseball vs Glenwood High School
  Springfield Southeast High Sch , 2350 East Ash St , Springfield
  4:30 pm
• Boys JV Baseball vs Glenwood High School
  Springfield Southeast High Sch , 2350 East Ash St , Springfield
  4:30 pm
• Boys Varsity Baseball vs Maroa-Forsyth High School
  Springfield High School , 101 S Lewis St , Springfield
  4:30 pm
• PTO Family Movie Night - Come Join Us!
  U S Grant Middle School , 1800 W Monroe St , Springfield
  6:00 pm

Thursday April 23

• Boys Varsity Tennis vs Southeast High School
  Springfield High School , 101 S LEWIS ST , SPRINGFIELD
  4:15 pm
• Boys Varsity Tennis @ Springfield High School
  Springfield Southeast High Sch , 101 S LEWIS ST , SPRINGFIELD
  4:15 pm
• Boys Sophomore Baseball @ Glenwood High School
  Springfield High School , 1501 E Plummer Blvd , Chatham
  4:30 pm
• "Shhh! We're Writing the Constitution!" 5th Grade Chorus Performanc
  Rochester Elem EC-1 Sch , 1 Rocket Dr , Rochester
  4:30 pm
• Girls Varsity Track & Field - Outdoor @ MacArthur High School
  Springfield Southeast High Sch , 1499 W Grand Avenue , Decatur
  4:30 pm

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What your neighbors are talking about on social media

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🗞 Nearby News

Rochester

• Rochester School Dist. addresses alleged relationship between teacher, student (wcia.com)
• Highlights/scores: Central Illinois sports (04/20/26) (wcia.com)
• Charlot Cole Virden (rivercountynews.com)

Springfield

• Springfield cannabis grower lands $750,000 state equity loan (sj-r.com)
• Monzerat Garcia awarded $20,000 scholarship to attend the University of Illinois Springfield (springfieldherald.news)
• Long John Silver's unveils new restaurant on Dirksen in Springfield (springfieldherald.news)

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: By inches because they have no feet. (Thank you Gypsy S. for sending it in!)
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