🌱 What Rochester parents demanded at the tense school bathroom meeting

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• What Rochester parents demanded at the tense school bathroom meeting

Also on today's calendar: Friends of Plumb Library Savers Drive and 6 more events.

Today's riddle: What do you call a belt that is made of watches? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Thursday: Pleasant with clouds and sun, with a high of 76 and low of 63 degrees.
• Friday: Very warm with some sun, temps: high: 78, low: 56.
• Saturday: Partly sunny and less humid, with a high of 69 and low of 47 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Bathroom Incident Continues to Spur Public Comments (wanderer.com) — Rochester parents packed a recent School Committee meeting to press for more action after a bathroom privacy complaint at Rochester Memorial School, even after an investigation found no Title IX violation. The committee, which did not respond to public comments, reorganized its leadership, accepted local donations, announced a federal grant, and set its next Rochester meetings for October 1 and November 9.
   

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Friday October 2
• Friends of Plumb Library Book Sale →
  Rochester
  10:00 am

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Saturday October 3
• Friends of Plumb Library Savers Drive →
  Rochester MA
  8:00 am
• Rescheduled Woodland Walk For Mushrooms →
  Shoolman Preserve, near 204 New Bedford Road, Rochester
  10:00 am
• Friends of Plumb Library Book Sale →
  Rochester MA
  10:00 am
Monday October 5
• Knitting Group →
  Rochester MA
  6:30 pm
Tuesday October 6
• Fall Baby Storytime →
  Rochester MA
  10:30 am
• Fall Preschool Storytime →
  Rochester MA
  1:30 pm
Wednesday October 7
• Fall Family Storytime →
  Rochester MA
  10:30 am
• Lego Club →
  Rochester MA
  4:30 pm

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🗓 Events Nearby

Thursday October 1
• Readers' Group - Morning Edition →
  Acushnet Public Library, 232 Middle Road, Acushnet
  7:00 am
• Friends of the Library Fabric & Notions Sale - SPINNEY LIBRARY →
  Spinney Memorial Library, 259 Onset Ave, Onset
  9:30 am
• Toddler Storytime →
  Wareham MA
  10:00 am

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🗞 Nearby News

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• Wareham to receive federal transportation funding (theweektoday.com)
• Inaugural Fall Gala (wanderer.com)
• A few spots left in the MAC's Improv Workshop (theweektoday.com)

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• Legal Advertisements - Week of September 24, 2026 (theweektoday.com)
• Old Colony Facility Plan Coming by Year-End (wanderer.com)

Wareham

• Renita J. (Barboza) Pina, 69 (theweektoday.com)

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: A waist of time. (Thank you Martin L. for sending it in!)
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