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🌱 Rocky Glen carousel horse resurfaces through Exeter auctioneer

Exeter, Pennsylvania Patch AM: a 3 min read

Hello Exeter! Stay connected with the latest updates from around town. Let's dive in! ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

  • Rocky Glen carousel horse resurfaces through Exeter auctioneer
  • Exeter property sale appears in Luzerne County transfer records
  • Exeter student brings a World War I engineer’s story to light

Today's riddle: What are the two sides of a circle? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Wednesday: Shifting clouds and sun, with a high of 58 and low of 45 degrees.
  • Thursday: Cooler with rain, temps: high: 50, low: 35.
  • Friday: Cloudy with showers, with a high of 41 and low of 32 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Merry-go-round memories: Rocky Glen park carousel horse for sale in auction (standardspeaker.com) — An Exeter auctioneer is offering a hand-carved wooden carousel horse from Rocky Glen Amusement Park in an online estate auction ending Sunday, Nov. 15. Chuck's Auction Service owner Jim Lewis says it was a spare horse purchased at the park's 1988 liquidation, giving collectors a chance to own a piece of the region's amusement-park history.
   

• Luzerne County property transfers from Sept. 22 through Sept. 24 (timesleader.com) — An Exeter Borough property sold for $143,000 to Real Estate Magnate LLC, according to Luzerne County's Sept. 22–24 property transfer list. The sellers are listed as Mark A. Parlante Jr., executor, and the estate of Darlene Swithers. No street address is provided for the Exeter transaction.
   

• You probably have never heard of Sgt. 1st Class Harold Lewis, Class of 1916. Perhaps you should have (union.edu) — Exeter student Addison Rosenko has curated a Union College exhibit tracing a World War I radio engineer’s life through rediscovered scrapbooks. Timed for Veterans Day, the display pairs Harold Lewis’s contributions to pioneering receiver technology with personal reminders of wartime loss, including his request to locate two friends’ graves.
   

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What are the two sides of a circle?" — The inside and the outside ! (Thank you James M. for sending it in!)
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