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Coffee in hand, Mount Pleasant? We've got the latest town updates for you. Keep reading to stay in the loop. ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

  • What does Mount Pleasant gain from Microsoft's $5 million tax reversal?
  • How Microsoft's Mount Pleasant data center is reshaping local land and water

Also on today's calendar: 75th Fall Wisconsin Antiques Dealers Assn. Show & Sale and 5 more events.

Today's riddle: What has a cap but no head? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high of 62 and low of 50 degrees.
  • Sunday: Mostly cloudy, temps: high: 68, low: 45.
  • Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high of 62 and low of 45 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Amazon Will Pay for Your Community College. Not Its Full Property Tax (businessmodelanalyst.com) — Microsoft has agreed to redirect a $5 million yearly incentive from its Mount Pleasant data center tax district back to the village, potentially boosting local budgets without raising residents' taxes. The article contrasts Microsoft's no-local-tax-break stance with Amazon's continued reliance on abatements, explaining how large data-center deals, including Mount Pleasant's, shape what communities actually receive versus what they give up.
   

• If a data center is camouflaged in the woods, will anyone hate it? (theverge.com) — Microsoft's plan to make its AI data centers blend into local environments includes a high-profile restoration project at its new Mount Pleasant campus, where it helped restore a creek and added advanced stormwater controls. The piece weighs these nature-inspired efforts against the broader environmental costs of rapidly expanding AI infrastructure, highlighting how communities like Mount Pleasant may see local ecological benefits even as global emissions rise.
   

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Other local events
    Sunday October 4
  • Safety Day →
    Mount Pleasant, WI Calendar, 8500 Campus Drive, Mount Pleasant
    10:00 am
    • Tuesday October 6
  • Chamber Check-in
    RAMAC, 300 5th Street, Mount Pleasant
    7:45 am
    • Thursday October 8
  • Forklift Training
    Elite Equipment Sturtevant
    8:30 am
  • Powder Puff @ REAL
    Walden III Hi Racine, WI 53405
    5:00 pm
    • Saturday October 10
  • MEMBER EVENT: Racine Farmers Market on the Lake
    Festival Park, 5 Fifth St., Racine
    9:00 am
  • Community Lumber Drive for Artist Thomas Dambo's Troll Sculpture →
    Mount Pleasant, WI Calendar, 12800 Louis Sorenson Road, Mount Pleasant
    10:00 am

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

  • A Dog was Lost on 2026-09-26, more info at https://petfbi.org/api/view/818200/rkx655xx
    Lost or found a pet? Report it to Pet FBI at https://petfbi.org (Nextdoor Heritage Carriage)

🗞 Nearby News

Racine

  • DNR hosting a free fish open house in Kewaunee, Racine on Saturday (wtaq.com)
  • New downtown Racine loan program offers low-interest, partly forgivable loans to fill vacant storefronts (racinecountyeye.com)
  • Meet Scrappy: Featured Pet for October 2, 2026 (racinecountyeye.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What has a cap but no head?" — A bottle (Thank you Glo M. for sending it in!)
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