🌱 Oakland City library shares in $160,000 community grant round

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• Oakland City library shares in $160,000 community grant round

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

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Weather forecast:

• Wednesday: An afternoon thunderstorm, with a high of 71 and low of 43 degrees.
• Thursday: Cooler with a passing shower, temps: high: 54, low: 36.
• Friday: Rather cloudy and chilly, with a high of 45 and low of 30 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• Gibson County Community Foundation awards $160K in local grants (pdclarion.com) — Oakland City Columbia Township Public Library will receive $1,000 in the Gibson Community Foundation’s latest round of grants. The foundation awarded $160,000 to 36 local nonprofits, with East Gibson Pantry and East Gibson Dollars for Scholars also receiving support. The report does not specify how the library will use its award.
   

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📸 Around Oakland City

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Oakland City

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Thursday November 12

• Basketball (Middle School Girls) @ Barr Reeve Junior-Senior High Sc
  Barr Reeve Junior-Senior High School
  6:30 pm
• Basketball (Middle School Boys) @ Barr Reeve Junior-Senior High Sch
  Barr Reeve Junior-Senior High School
  6:30 pm

Friday November 13

• Basketball (Girls V) - North Daviess Junior-Senior HS
  Wood Memorial Middle\/High School Wood Memorial Middle/High School
  8:00 pm

Saturday November 14

• Basketball (Girls V) - North Posey High School
  Wood Memorial Middle\/High School Wood Memorial Middle/High School
  6:30 pm

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🗓 Events Nearby

Thursday November 12

• Basketball (Middle School Girls) @ Barr Reeve Junior-Senior High Sc
  Barr Reeve Junior-Senior High School
  5:30 pm
• Basketball (Middle School Boys) @ Barr Reeve Junior-Senior High Sch
  Barr Reeve Junior-Senior High School
  5:30 pm

Friday November 13

• Basketball (Girls V) - North Daviess Junior-Senior HS
  Wood Memorial Middle\/High School Wood Memorial Middle/High School
  7:00 pm

Saturday November 14

• Basketball (Girls V) - North Posey High School
  Wood Memorial Middle\/High School Wood Memorial Middle/High School
  5:30 pm

Monday November 16

• Basketball (Middle School Girls) - Owensville Comm. School
  Wood Memorial Middle\/High School Wood Memorial Middle/High School
  5:30 pm

Tuesday November 17

• Wood Memorial Middle/High School: WMIS/WMPS Literacy Night
  Wood Memorial Primary School
  4:00 pm
• Basketball (Middle School Boys) - Holy Trinity Catholic School
  Wood Memorial Middle\/High School Wood Memorial Middle/High School
  5:30 pm
• Basketball (Intermediate School - Boys) @ BETHEL CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
  Wood Memorial Intermediate School
  6:00 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Deaconess posted a job opening for Medical Office Assistant Float in Oakland City. Apply here.
• Denny's posted a job opening for Dishwasher/Service Assistant - Franchise in Oakland City. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Oakland City here.

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🗞 Nearby News

Princeton

• TMMI to manufacture new ultra-compact utility truck (pdclarion.com)
• This Indiana Pizza Shop Makes a Massive 20-Inch Pie for People Who Think Regular Pizza Is Too Small (newsbreak.com)

Huntingburg

• Edward J. 'Ed' Bredhold, 94, Huntingburg (duboiscountyfreepress.com)
• Indiana Foot and Ankle transitions to Deaconess Health System (duboiscountyfreepress.com)
• Huntingburg awards Fourth Street reconstruction contract to Rivertown (duboiscountyfreepress.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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