🌱 Why Grand Ledge’s Fitzgerald Park is worth a four-hour drive north

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In today's newsletter:

• Why Grand Ledge’s Fitzgerald Park is worth a four-hour drive north

Also on today's calendar: Yankee Doodle Days-Gone-By and 5 more events.

Today's riddle: What do sweet potatoes wear to bed? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Friday: Breezy in the afternoon, with a high of 78 and low of 59 degrees.
• Saturday: Breezy in the morning, temps: high: 84, low: 61.
• Sunday: A shower and thunderstorm, with a high of 68 and low of 50 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• Summer day trips worth the drive from South Bend (southbendtribune.com) — Fitzgerald Park in Grand Ledge gets a shout-out as a standout day-trip destination, thanks to its dramatic sandstone ledges along the Grand River and three miles of wooded trails. The guide, aimed at South Bend travelers, also spotlights many other Midwest parks, beaches, bridges, and scenic overlooks within a five-hour drive, but Grand Ledge offers one of the closest, most distinctive rock formations in Michigan.
   

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📸 Around Grand Ledge

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Grand Ledge

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★ Featured events ★

Saturday June 13

• Market at The Collective, Grand Ledge →
  The Collective, 216 S Bridge St, Grand Ledge
  10:00 am

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Other local events

Saturday June 13

• Yankee Doodle Day →
  Grand Ledge, MI Calendar, 525 E. River St., Grand Ledge
• Market on the Grand →
  Grand Ledge, MI Calendar, 525 E. River St., Grand Ledge
• Yankee Doodle Days-Gone-By →
  Grand Ledge Area District Library, 131 E Jefferson St, Grand Ledge
  12:00 pm
• Grand Ledge Class of 2006 20 Year Reunion →
  Grand Ledge Opera House, 121 S Bridge St, Grand Ledge
  6:00 pm

Friday June 19

• City Hall closed - Juneteenth →
  Grand Ledge, MI Calendar, 310 Greenwood Street, Grand Ledge

Saturday June 20

• Market on the Grand →
  Grand Ledge, MI Calendar, 525 E. River St., Grand Ledge

Saturday June 27

• Market at The Collective, Grand Ledge →
  The Collective, 216 S Bridge St, Grand Ledge
  10:00 am

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🗓 Events Nearby

Friday June 12

• Early Response Team (ERT) Certification
  Michigan Conference United Methodist Church Michigan Conference Center, 1011 Northcrest Rd., Lansing, MI, 48906, United States
  8:30 am
• EIBC Energy Storage Initiative
  Michigan Energy Innovation Business Council Zoom Meeting
  11:00 am
• Date night! Learn this impressive (though easy) three course meal. →
  Bradly's HG, 319 E César E. Chávez Ave, Lansing
  6:00 pm
• Texas Hippie Coalition →
  Grewal Hall at 224, 224 S Washington Square, Lansing
  7:00 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• *Sharing post of Stray dog found.
  Please share to help reunite. Please share & repost to help reunite this stray dog! FOUND on June 9, 2026 in Lansing, MI 48910 near Dunckel… (Nextdoor Wacousta Road)
• *Sharing post of LOST dog Bo Bo.
  Please share. Please share & repost to help reunite this lost dog! Bo Bo was LOST on June 9, 2026 in East Lansing, MI 48823 near Highland Ave… (Nextdoor Wacousta Road)

• 4M Building Solutions posted a job opening for General Cleaner in Grand Ledge. Apply here.
• Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores, Inc. posted a job opening for Restaurant Shift Leader in Grand Ledge. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Grand Ledge here.

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🗞 Nearby News

Lansing

• Certified Pre-Owned Lexus Gx 460 for Sale in Lansing, MI (lansingstatejournal.com)
• Anti-ICE rally in Lansing demands Whitmer ‘Fight Like Hell' against Romulus detention center • Michigan Advance (michiganadvance.com)
• Lugnuts walk off in 10 innings, top Kernels 9-8 in Lansing (kwwl.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Yammies! (Thank you Lynda S. for sending it in!)
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