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🌱 Patch AM: Planning your fall race calendar? Don’t miss Fort Lee’s scenic PBA 5K.

Be sure to catch Craft Show & Antique & Gift Corner, Sun. Aug. 23. 125 Exhibitors, Veterans Pk, Westwood on the Fort Lee Patch calendar

Friday August 21st Patch AM (Patch graphic)

Greetings Fort Lee! We're your go-to source for what's happening in town. Read on to get plugged in! ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

  • Planning your fall race calendar? Don't miss Fort Lee's scenic PBA 5K.
  • How did Fort Lee Executive Park get swept into this real estate collapse?

Also on today's calendar: Craft Show & Antique & Gift Corner, Sun. Aug. 23. 125 Exhibitors, Veterans Pk, Westwood and 6 more events.

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

Weather forecast:

  • Friday: Intervals of bright sunshine, with a high of 81 and low of 68 degrees.
  • Saturday: Humid with a few showers, temps: high: 75, low: 67.
  • Sunday: A shower and t-storm; humid, with a high of 81 and low of 66 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• A Guide to Fall 5Ks in Bergen County, New Jersey for 2026 (thelocalgirl.com) — Fort Lee runners can mark their calendars for the PBA Local 388 5K Run and 1-mile walk on Saturday, September 12, along scenic Henry Hudson Drive, supporting local police charitable efforts. It's one of many fall Bergen County 5Ks, with nearby towns hosting races that back causes from cancer research to first responders and children's programs.
   

• Chetrit Group 'Being Dissolved' As Family Turmoil Spirals (bisnow.com) — A troubled New York-based real estate empire has shed several properties, including Fort Lee Executive Park in New Jersey, amid mounting debt defaults and litigation. Court depositions detail the Chetrit Group's steep financial decline, health issues affecting co-founder Joseph Chetrit, and employees staying on despite not being paid as the company moves toward dissolution.
   

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🗓 Events Nearby

    Friday August 21
  • Storytime with Miss Emily
    Lodi Memorial Library Lodi - Children's Room
    11:00 am
  • Saturday August 22
  • Take It Or Leave It →
    Debonair Music Hall, 1409 Queen Anne Rd, Teaneck
    6:00 pm
  • Sunday August 23
  • Revolutionary War Living History
    Greenbrook Sanctuary Fort Lee Historic Park, Palisades Interstate Park Commission, 20
    10:00 am
  • French Practice Conversation Group
    Englewood Public Library Englewood - Online,
    1:00 pm
  • Monday August 24
  • Movies at the Library - Pressure
    Lodi Memorial Library Lodi - Upstairs,
    5:00 pm

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