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🌱 Patch AM: How Hackettstown turned a football game into a powerful Gold Star tribute

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In today's newsletter:

  • How Hackettstown turned a football game into a powerful Gold Star tribute

Also on today's calendar: AIA Newark & Suburban Architects Barkitecture and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: What do you call advice from a cow ? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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  • Wednesday: Sun, then clouds, with a high of 63 and low of 47 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Tigers Fall Short on Scoreboard, Win Big in Heart During Emotional Gold Star Tribute (tapinto.net) — Hackettstown residents packed the high school stadium Friday night for an emotional varsity football game that honored Gold Star families and their fallen service members. Players, cheerleaders, band members, and veterans all took part in a carefully planned tribute led by a local English teacher, turning a routine game into a powerful new town tradition of remembrance and unity.
   

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