🌱 Patch AM: How Wrentham’s regional 911 center is hiring and expanding its services

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• How Wrentham's regional 911 center is hiring and expanding its services

Today's riddle: What is full of holes but still holds water? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Friday: Periods of rain, with a high of 73 and low of 61 degrees.
• Saturday: Cloudy, showers around; humid, temps: high: 73, low: 66.
• Sunday: Cloudy, showers around; humid, with a high of 80 and low of 64 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Metacomet Emergency Communications Center (MECC) is hiring Public Safety Telecommunicators in Norfolk, MA (franklinmatters.org) — Wrentham residents are served by the regional Metacomet Emergency Communications Center, which is currently hiring full-time Public Safety Telecommunicators II. The center combines dispatch services for Wrentham and five neighboring towns, overseen by a regional board and director. Interested locals can apply online as a new multi-year contract is being negotiated.
   

📸 Around Wrentham

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Wrentham

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★ Featured events ★

Saturday August 22
• Watermelon Festival →
  White Barn Farm, 431 South St, Wrentham
  10:00 am

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Other local events

Sunday August 23
• Rooted in Wrentham Exhibit →
  Wrentham, MA Calendar, 55 East Street, Wrentham
  1:00 pm
• Concert on the Common - Elastic Five →
  Wrentham, MA Calendar, 1 Franklin Street, Wrentham
  6:00 pm
Monday August 24
• New Staff Orientation Unit A
  Wrentham , MA 02093
  8:30 am
• New Staff Orientation Unit B
  Wrentham , MA 02093
  8:30 am
• Out of the Box Rehearsal
  Art Barn Temple Sinai, 50 Sewall Ave, Brookline, MA 02446, USA
  9:00 am
• Cars, Trucks, and Transportation Preschool Playgroup with Self He
  Fiske Public Library Children's Program Room , 110 Randall R
  10:30 am
Tuesday August 25
• NO SCHOOL, Professional Development
  Wrentham , MA 02093

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🗓 Events Nearby

Friday August 21
• Simply Fit $4 →
  Franklin, MA Calendar Franklin, MA 02038
  9:30 am
• Fiber Art Group
  Norfolk Public Library Magazine/Reading Room , 2 Liberty Lane, No
  10:30 am
• STEM Bootcamp
  Plainville Public Library Children's Room , 198 South St
  1:00 pm
• Pokeno →
  Franklin, MA Calendar Franklin, MA 02038
  1:00 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Saia, Inc. posted a job opening for PT Dockworker - Providence, RI in Wrentham. Apply here.
• C. & J. Clark International, Ltd posted a job opening for Retail Assistant Store Manager in Wrentham. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Wrentham here.

🗞 Nearby News

Plainville

• Heavens Pic matches career best in Plainridge trot – U.S. Trotting News (ustrottingnews.com)

Franklin Town

• Yes, there can be important conversations between the generations (franklinmatters.org)
• New coach takes over after controversial football season in Smithfield (providencejournal.com)
• Franklin mailing services facility to close just three years after opening, laying off over 100 workers (boston.com)

Norfolk

• Barn completely destroyed by fire in Norfolk Wednesday morning, officials say (ctpost.com)
• GOOD DEEDS: 2026 Second Quarter Update (video) (franklinmatters.org)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: A sponge (Thank you Netty W. for sending it in!)
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