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Coming up on the calendar:
- Estate Planning: 5 Essential Things You Should Know at Webinar - Online Presentation
- North Jersey Card Show - The Late Night Show at Wayne PAL
- Fall Festival
... and check out 9 more events on the calendar!
Today's riddle: What is clean when it is black and dirty when it is white? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Thursday: Nice with plenty of sun, with a high of 73 and low of 45 degrees.
- Friday: Mostly sunny, temps: high: 67, low: 45.
- Saturday: Sunny to partly cloudy, with a high of 66 and low of 50 degrees.
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★ Featured events ★
- Estate Planning: 5 Essential Things You Should Know →
Webinar - Online Presentation,
2:30 pm - North Jersey Card Show - The Late Night Show at Wayne PAL →
1 Pal Dr, Wayne
5:00 pm - Fall Festival →
335 N Franklin Tpke, Ho-Ho-Kus
12:00 pm - JTCC Hackensack Culinary Medicine Kitchen →
John Theurer Cancer Center Culinary Medicine Kitchen 92 2nd St, Hackensack, New Jersey, 07601,
1:00 pm
Friday October 9
Saturday October 10
Wednesday October 21
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Other local events
- Come Paint With Us! →
Copper Tree Mall, 350 Ramapo Valley Rd, Oakland
6:45 pm - Poker Tournament at Marine Corps League Lakeland Detachment 744 / American Legion, Oakland Memorial Post 369 →
American Legion, Post 369, Oakland
7:00 pm - History of the Bergen County Courthouse →
Oakland Public Library, 2 Municipal Plaza, Oakland
2:00 pm - Murder Mystery Dinner →
335 N Franklin Tpke, Ho-Ho-Kus
6:30 pm - Wallisch Homestead Flea & Vintage Marketplace →
65 Lincoln Ave, West Milford
9:00 am - Wayne Valley H.S. Fall Craft Show, Sun. Oct. 18, Over 100 Exhibitors, 551 Valley Rd, Wayne →
Wayne Valley High School, 551 Valley Rd, Wayne
10:00 pm - North Jersey Card Show →
Wayne PAL, 1 PAL Drive, Wayne
9:00 am - Oakland Outdoor Market 2026 →
Oakland Public Library, 2 Municipal Plaza, Oakland
3:00 pm
Thursday October 8
Friday October 9
Sunday October 11
Saturday October 17
Sunday October 18
Saturday October 24
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Wayne
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-- The Patch AM Team
P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What is clean when it is black and dirty when it is white?" — A chalk board (Thank you Charlie H. for sending it in!)
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