🌱 How Wooster Community Hospital can cut your next medical bill.

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In today's newsletter:

• How Wooster Community Hospital can cut your next medical bill.
• What Chippewa's 1% school income tax renewal would keep funding

Also on today's calendar: K-POP WARRIORS - WOOSTER, OH and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: What do you call a one-legged Big Foot? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Tuesday: Mostly sunny and pleasant, with a high of 72 and low of 53 degrees.
• Wednesday: Mostly cloudy and comfortable, temps: high: 76, low: 60.
• Thursday: Very warm with sunny spells, with a high of 80 and low of 58 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Wooster Community Hospital offers financial assistance and charity care (yourohionews.com) — Wooster residents who struggle with medical bills can tap Wooster Community Hospital's extensive financial assistance, charity care, and discounted self-pay packages for many tests and procedures. The nonprofit hospital, one of the area's largest employers, also offers free transportation, partners with The College of Wooster on preventive care, and reinvests earnings into local facilities and services.
   

• Chippewa Local Schools begin year with fall traditions (centredaily.com) — Readers in the Wooster area can see how nearby Chippewa Local Schools are kicking off the year with hands-on civics lessons, live honeybees, and a Hometown Heroes Night honoring first responders. The district is also asking voters this November to renew its existing 1% earned income tax, which funds daily operations without raising the current rate. Residents can contact the treasurer or visit the district website for details.
   

📸 Around Wooster

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Wooster

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★ Featured events ★

Wednesday September 30
• Title III Coordinators →
  Tri-County ESC Event Center, 700 Winkler Dr., Wooster

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Other local events

Wednesday September 30
• K-POP WARRIORS - WOOSTER, OH →
  Fisher Auditorium, Wooster
• HORROR CIRCUS - WOOSTER, OH →
  Fisher Auditorium, Wooster
• Triway vs Fairless →
  3205 Shreve Rd, Wooster
  5:30 pm
Thursday October 1
• High School Math Teacher Network →
  Tri-County Event Center, 700 Winkler Dr., Wooster
Friday October 2
• Grassroots Math Network →
  Tri-County Event Center, 700 Winkler Dr., Wooster
• Woosterfest 2026 →
  Downtown Wooster, 377 West Liberty Street, Wooster
  12:00 pm
• Food Truck Friday with Moto Pizza and Old Enough to Know Better →
  Lincoln Way Vineyards, 9050 W. Old Lincoln Way, Wooster
  5:00 pm
Saturday October 3
• Gregg and Farah Orthodontics Pink Out 5K and Fun Run →
  Wooster OH
• Downtown Wooster Farmers' Market →
  Downtown Wooster, 377 West Liberty Street, Wooster
  8:00 am
• Woosterfest 2026 →
  Downtown Wooster, 377 West Liberty Street, Wooster
  11:00 am
• Men's Soccer at The College of Wooster →
  Carl Dale Field, Wooster
  1:00 pm

📣 Wooster Shout Outs!

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Highest rated sitdown restaurants in Wooster, Ohio September 2026.
  -Top online restaurant positive reviews plus average cost per person. AI generated. (Nextdoor Moreland)
• Wonderful photographer!
  here is a recent article about him: https://clevelandstater.com/news/community/how-gabe-wasylko-went-one-photo-day-destination-cleveland ————————… (Nextdoor Deer Creek)

• Sprenger Health Care Systems posted a job opening for Dining Services Aide FT in Wooster. Apply here.
• Jimmy John's posted a job opening for Crew Member in shop in Wooster. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Wooster here.

🗞 Nearby News

Ashland

• Scholarship fund honors memory of Ian Atkinson (kentucky.com)
• UH Samaritan Medical Center hosts Champions of Care (times-gazette.com)
• Op-Ed: Ohio Farmers Are Getting Crushed By Our Politicians' Failure to Fight for Us (clevescene.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Hop Squatch! (Thank you Terri R. for sending it in!)
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