🌱 Overnight recycling center fire in DeForest burns scrap, spares buildings

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• Overnight recycling center fire in DeForest burns scrap, spares buildings

Today's riddle: what do you call a rabbit with fleas? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Wednesday: Mostly cloudy; breezy, cooler, with a high of 64 and low of 39 degrees.
• Thursday: Mostly sunny, temps: high: 68, low: 50.
• Friday: A shower in the a.m.; breezy, with a high of 81 and low of 56 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• Large fire breaks out at recycling center in DeForest (wmtv15news.com) — A large overnight fire at the Diehl Neumaier recycling center in DeForest sent flames and smoke into the air along Norway Grove School Road, near the Town of Vienna. Fire crews worked from just before midnight into early Tuesday morning, but no one was hurt and no buildings or equipment were damaged. Investigators are still working to determine how the fire started.
   

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📸 Around DeForest

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🗓 Upcoming Events in DeForest

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Thursday May 14

• ELEM Day 5 - IS Day 1 - HS B
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• 4K Ice Cream Social
  GT4K (4-Year-Old Kindergarten) Fireman's Park Shelter, DeForest, WI 53532, USA
  4:00 pm
• Library Board →
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  6:00 pm
• Community Development Authority →
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• DeForest Area Public Library Board →
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  6:00 pm
• DAHS Choir ( PAC )
  DeForest Area High School De Forest, WI 53532
  7:00 pm

Friday May 15

• ELEM Day 6 - IS Day 2 - HS A
  De Forest Area SD De Forest, WI 53532
• 4K Friday (Snow make up day)
  GT4K (4-Year-Old Kindergarten) Windsor, WI 53598

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🗓 Events Nearby

Wednesday May 13

• Wellness Coalition | Lunch & Learn →
  Sun Prairie Chamber of Commerce Sunshine Place 1632 W Main St | Sun Prairie
  11:30 am
• Developmental Screening
  4k Sun Prairie, WI 53590
  3:00 pm
• Trivia Night! →
  PinSocial, 6909 River Rd, DeForest
  6:00 pm
• One Community Bank-First Time Homebuyers Seminar
  Sun Prairie Chamber of Commerce, 109 E Main St, Sun Prairie
  6:30 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Kwik Trip, Inc. posted a job opening for Seasonal Material Handler - DeForest Distribution Center in Deforest. Apply here.
• Travel America / Petro - TA Operating, LLC posted a job opening for Assistant Manager - QSR in Deforest. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near DeForest here.

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🗞 Nearby News

Waunakee

• Childcare providers, families strike in Waunakee during Day Without Childcare (wmtv15news.com)
• Dane County Sheriff's Office searching for man who signed himself out of assisted living (wisn.com)

Sun Prairie

• Bank of Wisconsin™, A Branch of Bank of Sun Prairie Established with Successful Merger of Banner Banks and Bank of Sun Prairie (wisbank.com)
• Hartmann pads notebook, preps for Plymouth-Angell Park double dip (whbl.com)
• Commercial plan review requirements in Sun Prairie (madison.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Bugs Bunny ! (Thank you bruce A. for sending it in!)
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