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🌱 Tamaqua food pantry hours and location for Wednesday

Tamaqua, Pennsylvania Patch AM: a 4 min read

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In today's newsletter:

  • Tamaqua food pantry hours and location for Wednesday
  • Tamaqua's former Rite Aid gets a new life training dentists
  • Four local bridges honor Tamaqua-area servicemen lost in Vietnam

Also on today's calendar: Field House Reptile & Exotic Pet Expo.

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

Weather forecast:

  • Wednesday: Pleasant with periods of sun, with a high of 61 and low of 45 degrees.
  • Thursday: Cooler with periods of rain, temps: high: 50, low: 36.
  • Friday: Cooler with a little rain, with a high of 43 and low of 34 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

1. Calendar: Nov. 11, 2026 (republicanherald.com) — The Tamaqua Area Food Pantry is scheduled for 2 to 5 p.m. today, Nov. 11, at Tamaqua Primitive Methodist Church, 57 Hunter St. The pantry runs every second Wednesday and serves Tamaqua, McAdoo, New Ringgold and several surrounding townships, including part of West Penn Township.
   

2. Legislators, community leaders cut ribbon on Tamaqua dental clinic (shensentinel.com) — Tamaqua's former Rite Aid is now a $31 million Temple University dental education center and clinic, where leaders celebrated a ribbon-cutting Friday. The project aims to address rural dental shortages by training students in a smaller community, with one student already expressing interest in practicing in Tamaqua after graduation.
   

3. Bridges named for Tamaqua area vets who made the ultimate sacrifice (republicanherald.com) — Four bridges in the Tamaqua area now honor local servicemen who died in Vietnam, following legislation adopted in Harrisburg. Vietnam veteran Wayne Truskey proposed the tributes, which name three Tamaqua bridges and one in East Brunswick Township for David Verbilla, Howard Donald, Franklin Hosler and Gary Geiger.
   

4. 10 Picture-Perfect Main Streets In The Poconos (worldatlas.com) — Tamaqua's restored railroad station and Victorian downtown earn a place in a roundup of 10 picturesque main streets around the Poconos. The feature highlights Broad Street's ornate buildings and the historical society museum, placing the borough alongside other former coal, canal and railroad towns suited to exploring on foot.
   

5. Schuylkill County Obituaries for November 10, 2026 (skooknews.com) — Ronald F. Nelson Jr., 61, a Tamaqua pizza maker who worked at DiMaggio’s and La Casa Del Sol, died November 7. Family and friends will celebrate his life November 12 at 6 p.m. at E. Franklin Griffiths Funeral Home in Tamaqua, with visitation starting at 4 p.m.
   

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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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Stay in the loop with what's happening in Tamaqua

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