🌱 Christine Passig: Deep Roots | Hollywood Sports Complex, Watertown and 11 more events

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Today's riddle: What did the inventor of the knock-knock joke win? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Friday: Mostly cloudy; breezy, cooler, with a high of 66 and low of 28 degrees.
• Saturday: Very windy; cloudy and chilly, temps: high: 44, low: 25.
• Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high of 51 and low of 28 degrees.

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🗓 Events Nearby

Friday April 17

• Christine Passig: Deep Roots | Hollywood Sports Complex, Watertown
  Hollywood Sports Complex , 15950 County Rd 122 , Watertown
  7:00 pm

Saturday April 18

• Sand Art Saturday
  Norwood Young America Public Library Norwood Young America
  1:30 pm
• Taste of Rotary
  Crow River Golf Club , 915 Colorado St NW , Hutchinson
  5:30 pm

Monday April 20

• Litchfield vs Norwood Young America
  Norwood Young America Sports Complex , 417 Elm St W , Norwood Young America
  4:30 pm

Tuesday April 21

• Family Storytime
  Norwood Young America Public Library Children's area, Norwood Young America
  10:30 am

Thursday April 23

• Rockford vs Glencoe-Silver Lake
  Glencoe - Silver Lake Junior/Senior High School , 1825 16th St E , Glencoe
  9:30 am
• Legacy Christian vs Watertown-Mayer
  Watertown-Mayer High School , 1001 MN-25 , Watertown
  9:30 am
• Dassel-Cokato vs Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted
  Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted High School , 8700 County Rd 6 SW , Howard Lake
  9:30 am

Friday April 24

• Annandale vs Norwood Young America
  Norwood Young America Sports Complex , 417 Elm St W , Norwood Young America
  4:30 pm
• Free Sh!t Friday & Meet Raffle
  Bobbing Bobber Brewing Company , 900 MN-15 , Hutchinson
  5:00 pm

Saturday April 25

• Spring Event — Christ Community Lutheran School
  Christ Community Lutheran School , 512 County Rd 10 , Watertown
  9:00 am
• SAT 4/25 Youth Showcase Open House — Hutchinson Center for the Arts
  Hutchinson Center for the Arts , 218 Main St S Suite 100 , Hutchinson
  10:00 am

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Before I cleaned out the lean to and after.
  Then the pile of wood in the little tool shed. Those chunks of wood were really heavy a lot of them. This is going to be our FUTURE COMMUNITY KITTIES… (Nextdoor Lester Prairie)

• Coborn's, Inc. posted a job opening for Shift Manager in Glencoe. Apply here.
• Cadence Education, Inc. posted a job opening for Preschool Teacher in Waconia. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Lester Prairie here.

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🗞 Nearby News

Mayer

• Mayer Lutheran theater department presents Roald Dahl's ‘Matilda The Musical' (herald-journal.com)
• Mayer council pivots to soybean-based ‘bio seal' for 2026 street maintenance (herald-journal.com)
• Zion Mayer dartball team wins tournament (herald-journal.com)

Glencoe

• Winchester challenges rural myths, highlights housing, workforce realities in McLeod County (glencoenews.com)
• Carolyn Lange, 77, Obituary – 4/5/2026 (glencoenews.com)

Watertown

• Red hot Twins blank Boston 6-0; Abel strikes out career high 10 (gowatertown.net)

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: The NO-BELL prize (Thank you Gina M. for sending it in!)
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