🌱 Softball B @ GSWB and 11 more events

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Today's riddle: Why did the cookie go to the Doctor ? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Thursday: Humid with a thunderstorm, with a high of 78 and low of 64 degrees.
• Friday: Humid with a thunderstorm, temps: high: 84, low: 66.
• Saturday: Humid with decreasing clouds, with a high of 84 and low of 65 degrees.

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🗓 Events Nearby

Thursday August 6

• Softball B @ GSWB
  Mazon-Verona-Kinsman Middle Sch VFW Park South Wilmington, 5th Avenue & Lemmon St, South Wilming
  4:30 pm
• Softball A vs GSWB
  Mazon-Verona-Kinsman Middle Sch Mazon Centennial Park, Mazon, IL 60444, USA
  4:30 pm

Friday August 7

• Music in Knudson Park - Gary Eldon →
  Knudson Park
  6:00 pm

Monday August 10

• Softball B vs Saratoga
  Mazon-Verona-Kinsman Middle Sch Mazon Centennial Park, Mazon, IL 60444, USA
  4:30 pm
• Softball A @ Saratoga
  Mazon-Verona-Kinsman Middle Sch Saratoga Elementary School, 4040 N Division St, Morris, IL 6045
  4:30 pm

Tuesday August 11

• Softball B @ Coal City
  Mazon-Verona-Kinsman Middle Sch Coal City Middle School, Northeast Illinois, 500 S Carbon Hill R
  4:30 pm

Wednesday August 12

• Baseball B vs Seneca
  Mazon-Verona-Kinsman ESD 2C Mazon Centennial Park, Mazon, IL 60444, USA
  4:30 pm
• Baseball A @ Seneca
  Mazon-Verona-Kinsman ESD 2C Seneca Grade School South Campus, 410 S Main St, Seneca, IL 613
  4:30 pm

Thursday August 13

• Baseball A @ Saratoga
  Mazon-Verona-Kinsman ESD 2C Saratoga Elementary School, 4040 N Division St, Morris, IL 6045
  4:30 pm
• Softball A vs Seneca
  Mazon-Verona-Kinsman Middle Sch Mazon Centennial Park, Mazon, IL 60444, USA
  4:30 pm
• Baseball B vs Saratoga
  Mazon-Verona-Kinsman ESD 2C Mazon Centennial Park, Mazon, IL 60444, USA
  4:30 pm
• Softball B @ Seneca
  Mazon-Verona-Kinsman Middle Sch Seneca Grade School South Campus, 410 S Main St, Seneca, IL 613
  4:30 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• GRUNDY COUNTY OUTDOOR WARNING SIREN TEST TODAY AT 10 AM - HAVE AT LEAST 3 WAYS OF RECEIVING EMERGENCY INFORMATION.
  Grundy County will be conducting the monthly test of the “Outdoor Warning Sirens” today. Illinois Law requires tests to be conducted at 10:00 am on… (Nextdoor )

• McDonald's posted a job opening for 4Gen Restaurant McDonald's Shift Manager Position in Dwight. Apply here.
• Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores posted a job opening for Retail Cashier Part Time in Dwight. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Verona here.

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🗞 Nearby News

Dwight

• Obituary – Bernard 'Barney' C. Vigna Jr., Gardner (thepaper1901.com)

Morris

• Here are 5 football storylines to watch in the Herald-News area in 2026 (shawlocal.com)
• Childcare shortage costs Grundy County businesses millions in lost productivity (shawlocal.com)
• Want to avoid Cyclospora? Cook your vegetables; maybe skip the fresh berries (shawlocal.com)

Coal City

• Everett Wengstrom (freepressnewspapers.com)

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Because he felt CRUMMY ! (Thank you Michelle S. for sending it in!)
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