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Coming up on the calendar:

  • Estate Planning: 5 Essential Things You Should Know at Webinar - Online Presentation
  • Find Your New Best Friend! Pet Adoption Event at Subaru World of Hackettstown
  • Billy Spanton at The Irish Cottage Inn

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Today's riddle: What is clean when it is black and dirty when it is white? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Thursday: Mostly sunny and pleasant, with a high of 74 and low of 42 degrees.
  • Friday: Mostly sunny, temps: high: 69, low: 41.
  • Saturday: Sunny to partly cloudy, with a high of 68 and low of 49 degrees.

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    Thursday October 8
  • Blood Drive [FE]
    Wallkill Valley Regional High School, 10 Grumm Road, Hardyston
    8:00 am
  • GIRLS (V) FIELD HOCKEY [H]
    Wallkill Valley Regional High School, 10 Grumm Road, Hardyston
    4:00 pm
  • BOYS (V) SOCCER [H]
    Wallkill Valley Regional High School, 10 Grumm Road, Hardyston
    4:00 pm
  • BOYS (JV) SOCCER [H]
    Wallkill Valley Regional High School, 10 Grumm Road, Hardyston
    4:00 pm
  • Montville at Sparta →
    Sparta High School, 70 W Mountain Rd, Sparta
    4:00 pm
  • Sparta vs Montville →
    Sparta NJ
    4:00 pm
  • XYZs of Retirement →
    Sparta High School Media Center, 70 West Mountain Road, Sparta
    4:30 pm
  • GIRLS (JV) FIELD HOCKEY [H]
    Wallkill Valley Regional High School, 10 Grumm Road, Hardyston
    5:15 pm
  • Environmental Commission Meeting →
    65 Main Street, Sparta
    7:00 pm
  • Friday October 9
  • GIRLS (V) SOCCER [H]
    Wallkill Valley Regional High School, 10 Grumm Road, Hardyston
    4:00 pm

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🗞 Nearby News

Sparta

  • Kean Secures $1.25 Million for Water Infrastructure Projects in Sparta – [your]NEWS (yournews.com)
  • Two Catholic Academy of Sussex County scholars honored during Mass (beaconnj.org)
  • Which North Jersey schools just got top rankings by Niche.com? (njherald.com)

Sussex

  • Bulldog Repair program teaches students hands-on skills at Sussex County school (wrnjradio.com)

Jefferson

  • Jefferson Will Consider Giving Up Public Rights To Part Of Moose Drive (patch.com)

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