🌱 How close is Wareham to Purple Heart Community status?
Wareham, Massachusetts Patch AM: a 4 min readHello Wareham! Here's our latest buzz. Let's get into it. ☕️️
In today's newsletter:
- How close is Wareham to Purple Heart Community status?
- How Wareham students are turning lunch leftovers into climate lessons
- Wareham community notes the passing of Donald J. Farlin, 93
Also on today's calendar: Potters Place Spring Pottery Sale & Fundraiser and 8 more events.
Today's riddle: How do you measure a fish? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Wednesday: Mostly cloudy with a shower, with a high of 47 and low of 40 degrees.
- Thursday: Mainly cloudy, temps: high: 61, low: 37.
- Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high of 55 and low of 37 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Wareham is one step closer to becoming a Purple Heart community (theweektoday.com) — Wareham’s Select Board is moving ahead with plans to designate the town as a Purple Heart Community, honoring residents wounded or killed in combat. The proposal, backed by local veterans groups, would involve a formal proclamation and coordination with state veterans officials, and could eventually include signs at town entrances and special observances at no cost to taxpayers. 
• Old Rochester students learn about food waste in hands-on workshop (southcoasttoday.com) — Wareham elementary students are part of a regional Grow Education program that turns cafeteria scraps into a hands-on lesson about food waste and sustainability. Through sorting leftovers and discussing composting, kids see how daily choices affect landfills, soil health, and local food systems. Organizers hope the experience builds lifelong habits around smarter eating and waste reduction at school and home.
• Donald J. Farlin, 93 (theweektoday.com) — Wareham readers are informed of the passing of Donald J. Farlin, 93, a former Wareham resident and Air Force veteran whose arrangements are handled by Chapman Funerals & Cremations in town. Services will be held in Nebraska and later at Massachusetts National Cemetery in Bourne, with memorials suggested to a veterans-focused ministry.
📸 Around Wareham
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Upcoming Events in
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★ Featured events ★
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Full Plate Project – Y Community Market (Wareham)
Gleason Family YMCA, 33 Charge Pond Rd, Wareham
11:00 am
Friday April 24
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Other local events
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Beer Mug Painting at Cape Cod Coffee Wareham
Cape Cod Coffee , 2421 Cranberry Hwy #336 , Wareham
5:00 pm -
CSE Motocross Camp In Wareham, MA
Diamond Mx Wareham , 131 Atwood Farm Lane , East Wareham
4:00 pm -
Canning Speed Establishment Camp In Wareham, MA
Diamond Mx Wareham , 131 Atwood Farm Lane , East Wareham
4:00 pm -
Potters Place Spring Pottery Sale & Fundraiser
Potters Place , 6 Merchant St , Sharon
12:00 pm -
Atlantis Varsity Baseball @ Wareham
Wareham High School , 7 Viking Dr , Wareham
3:30 pm -
Potters Place Spring Pottery Sale & Fundraiser
Potters Place , 6 Merchant St , Sharon
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Potters Place Spring Pottery Sale & Fundraiser
Potters Place , 6 Merchant St , Sharon
10:00 am -
Westport Varsity Baseball @ Wareham
Wareham High School , 7 Viking Dr , Wareham
3:30 pm -
Westport Varsity Softball @ Wareham
Wareham High School , 7 Viking Dr , Wareham
3:30 pm -
Canning Speed Establishment Camp In Wareham, MA
Diamond Mx Wareham , 131 Atwood Farm Lane , East Wareham
4:00 pm
Friday April 24
Monday April 27
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Monday May 4
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🗓 Events Nearby
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Holbrook Varsity Softball @ Wareham
Wareham High School , 7 Viking Dr , Wareham
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Depolarizing Within
Wareham Free Library , 59 Marion Rd , Wareham
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Avon Varsity Softball @ Wareham
Wareham High School , 7 Viking Dr , Wareham
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Sara Achorn: Solo Acoustic | Glen Cove's 1883 Lounge
Glen Cove’s 1883 Lounge , 167 Onset Avenue Lower Level , Onset
7:00 pm
Monday April 27
Tuesday April 28
Wednesday April 29
Thursday April 30
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🗞 Nearby News
Marion
- Elementary schoolers waste no time learning about food systems (theweektoday.com)
- Pools to Phragmites, Cases Advanced (wanderer.com)
- ORR Students Attentive to Herren's Message (wanderer.com)
Rochester
- Rochester Firefighters Battle Fire at Harvey Recycling Facility (newbedfordguide.com)
- Freetown Lakeville, Rochester, Dartmouth Fire Departments respond to vehicle fire that destroys home (fallriverreporter.com)
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-- The Patch AM Team
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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