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🌱 How Dixon’s softball team let an early lead slip away
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In today's newsletter:
- How Dixon’s softball team let an early lead slip away
Also on today's calendar: Little Shop of Horrors (1960) and 5 more events.
Today's riddle: What did the inventor of the knock-knock joke win? 🤔 (Answer below!)
- Friday: A severe p.m. t-storm; breezy, with a high of 82 and low of 41 degrees.
- Saturday: Clearing, windy and cooler, temps: high: 50, low: 32.
- Sunday: Lots of sun; becoming windier, with a high of 52 and low of 31 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Rock Falls' Zoey Silva pitches complete game, Julia Renner homers in 12-2 win over Dixon (shawlocal.com) — Dixon High School’s softball team fell 12-2 at Rock Falls on Thursday, with early defensive miscues undoing a quick 2-0 lead from RBI doubles by Abby Hicks and Brooklyn Arjes. Coach Candi Rogers stressed cutting down on mental mistakes as Dixon dropped to 5-5 overall and 0-3 in conference, while Rock Falls’ strong pitching and hitting seized control. 
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Upcoming Events in
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★ Featured events ★
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She's on the Verge...and It's Only Getting Worse
Dixon Stage Left, 105 S Peoria Ave, Dixon
2:00 pm
Sunday April 19
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Other local events
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Touch A Truck
Washington Elementary School
5:00 pm -
Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
The Dixon: Historic Theatre , 114 S Galena Ave , Dixon
12:30 pm -
Little Shop of Horrors
The Dixon: Historic Theatre , 114 S Galena Ave , Dixon
3:00 pm -
Bourbon Tasting at The Next Picture Show
Next Picture Show , 113 W 1st St , Dixon
5:00 pm -
Tony Danza Live
The Dixon: Historic Theatre , 114 S Galena Ave , Dixon
7:30 pm -
American Graffiti
The Dixon: Historic Theatre , 114 S Galena Ave , Dixon
12:30 pm -
42nd IL Watercolor Society National Exhibition
Next Picture Show , 113 W 1st St , Dixon
10:00 am
Wednesday April 22
Friday April 24
Saturday April 25
Friday May 1
Saturday May 2
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🗓 Events Nearby
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AHS Softball (H) Indian Creek-11:00 am
Amboy CUSD 272 Amboy, IL 61310 -
AHS Girls & Boys Track @ Hall-9:30 am
Amboy CUSD 272 Amboy, IL 61310 -
Indian Creek Varsity Softball @ Amboy
Amboy High School , 11 E Hawley St , Amboy
10:00 am -
Setting Up a Photo Shoot
Woodlawn Arts Academy , 3807 Woodlawn Rd , Sterling
10:30 am
Saturday April 18
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🗞 Nearby News
Amboy
- Amboy High School's old bleachers get new life at Lee County Fairgrounds (shawlocal.com)
- Amboy's Food Truck Mondays return April 20 (shawlocal.com)
Sterling
- Sterling property owner charged with criminal housing management (wqad.com)
- Disney's Frozen with Live Musical Performance Coming to Sterling 4/17-19 (theradar.online)
- Along the Rock: S3 Ep 58-Give Back & Get Connected (theradar.online)
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-- The Patch AM Team
P.S. The answer to today's riddle: The NO-BELL prize (Thank you Gina M. for sending it in!)
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