🌱 Patch AM: Where Hackettstown families can go apple picking this fall

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• Where Hackettstown families can go apple picking this fall

Also on today's calendar: Estate Planning: 5 Essential Things You Should Know and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: Why did the girl pig break up with the boy pig? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Friday: An afternoon shower or two, with a high of 83 and low of 52 degrees.
• Saturday: Not as warm with lots of sun, temps: high: 71, low: 48.
• Sunday: Chance of a little p.m. rain, with a high of 61 and low of 51 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Apple Picking Near Hackettstown: 3 Orchards To Visit (patch.com) — If you're in Hackettstown and craving a fall apple-picking trip, three nearby orchards in Long Valley, Belvidere, and Blairstown are welcoming visitors with multiple apple varieties and weekend hayrides. Hours, prices, and picking conditions vary, so farms urge you to check their social media or call ahead before driving out.
   

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Friday October 2
• Estate Planning: 5 Essential Things You Should Know →
  Webinar - Online Presentation,
  2:30 pm
Saturday October 3
• Demo Party + Tastings with Cyrus! →
  7 Naughright Rd, Hackettstown
  10:00 am
Sunday October 4
• Hopatcong Monthly Market - NEW DATE Sunday 10/4 →
  Department of Public Works, 120 River Styx Rd, Hopatcong
  11:00 am
Sunday October 11
• AIA Newark & Suburban Architects Barkitecture →
  Czig Meister Brewing, 106 Valentine St, Hackettstown
  12:00 pm

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Other local events

Saturday October 3
• Story Craft Club →
  Hackettstown Free Public Library, 110 Church Street, Hackettstown
  11:00 am
• Fall Harvest Weekends →
  Donaldson Farms, 358 Allen Road, Hackettstown
  11:00 am
• Understanding Your Cat's Behavior →
  Hackettstown Free Public Library, 110 Church Street, Hackettstown
  12:00 pm
• Jamtoberfest '26 Brings Jam Band Legends to Morris County! →
  Swim & Sport Club, 272 Emmans Rd, Roxbury Township
  1:00 pm
• Plant Bingo →
  Donaldson Farms, 358 Allen Road, Hackettstown
  1:00 pm
Tuesday October 6
• "The Forgotten Victory Trail" →
  American Legion Blue Ridge Post 164, 494 Willow Grove St, Hackettstown, NJ, 07840
  7:00 pm
Saturday October 10
• Blessing Of The Animals →
  Gethsemane Lutheran Church, 409 East Baldwin Street, Hackettstown
  11:00 am
• Celebrate the Colors of Fall & Sounds of Brass Roots →
  Taphouse Grille, 1930 NJ-57, Hackettstown
  8:30 pm

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💬 Chatter

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🗞 Nearby News

Mount Olive

• Pumpkin Spice and Everything Fright Brings Haunted Hayrides to Turkey Brook Park in Mount Olive on Friday, October 30, 2026 (shopmorriscounty.com)
• Morris County honors 13 service members lost in connection with post-9/11 wars (wrnjradio.com)
• Morristown  Girls  Soccer Earn No. 10 Seed in the Morris County Tournament (TAPinto.net)

Long Valley

• Heroin, DWI Crash, Foot Chase Among Recent Long Valley Arrests (patch.com)

Washington

• NJ lawmaker announces she got pregnant intentionally amid facing 17 years in prison (wwmt.com)

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "Why did the girl pig break up with the boy pig?" — Because he was such a boar! (Thank you Theresa H. for sending it in!)
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