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Today's riddle: Why did the cookie go to the Doctor ? 🤔 (Answer below!)
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- Thursday: Fog will lift in the morning, with a high of 81 and low of 63 degrees.
- Friday: Humid with hazy sunshine, temps: high: 88, low: 62. 🌶 Hot!
- Saturday: Humid with variable clouds, with a high of 88 and low of 67 degrees.
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🗓 Events Nearby
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Cuming County Fair Parade
Bancroft-Rosalie jr/sr High School Bancroft, NE 68004
5:00 pm -
Teacher In-Service
Scribner-Snyder Secondary Sch Scribner, NE 68057
8:00 am -
Elementary Open House
Lyons-Decatur Northeast Schs Lyons, NE 68038
5:00 pm -
Back to School - Free Meal
Lyons-Decatur Northeast Schs Lyons, NE 68038
5:00 pm -
7th-12th Computer Roll Out
Lyons-Decatur Northeast Schs Lyons, NE 68038
6:00 pm -
Open House Night
West Point Public Schools West Point-Beemer High School, West Point-Beemer Elementary Schoo
5:30 pm -
Board of Education Meeting
Scribner-Snyder Secondary Sch Scribner, NE 68057
6:30 pm -
Fremont Hispanic Festival 2026 →
John C. Fremont City Park
12:00 pm -
Aquinas at Howells-Dodge →
Howells-Dodge Consolidated Public School, 417 Center St, Howells
7:00 pm -
A Century of Fashion: 1870-1970 →
Pender Community Center, 614 Main St, Pender
5:00 pm -
County Board Meeting →
Burt County Courthouse, 111 N 13th St, Tekamah
9:00 am
Sunday August 9
Monday August 10
Wednesday August 12
Saturday August 15
Friday September 4
Saturday September 19
Wednesday December 9
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💬 Chatter
What your neighbors are talking about on social media
- Pizza Hut posted a job opening for Pizza Hut Restaurant General Manager in West Point. Apply here.
- Atlantic MEDsearch posted a job opening for Hospitalist Job Near West Point, NE in West Point. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Oakland here.
🗞 Nearby News
Fremont
- Four to Enter the Nebraska Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame (radioworld.com)
- Extension landlord-tenant workshops to cover ag leasing, risk management (thefencepost.com)
- Niehaus returns home as a physician (thebestmix1055.com)
Omaha
- Maha Festival brings music back to downtown Omaha on Saturday (omaha.com)
- LIVE: Omaha city, streetcar officials address Blackstone building foundation collapse (wowt.com)
- Sina Bavari, PhD (infectioncontroltoday.com)
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-- The Patch AM Team
P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Because he felt CRUMMY ! (Thank you Michelle S. for sending it in!)
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