🌱 Mansfield-based state police detail fatal Tioga County house fire

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• Mansfield-based state police detail fatal Tioga County house fire

Also on today's calendar: Purcellville Music and Arts Festival.

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

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Weather forecast:

• Friday: Mostly cloudy, with a high of 70 and low of 47 degrees.
• Saturday: Decreasing clouds and windy, temps: high: 75, low: 45.
• Sunday: Rain and drizzle in the a.m., with a high of 50 and low of 27 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• Tioga County Pennsylvania man dies after house fire, state police say (eveningtribune.com) — State police based in Mansfield say a 95-year-old Gaines Township man has died from injuries suffered in an April 1 house fire that investigators determined he intentionally set. Troopers and fire investigators examined the Route 6 home the day after the blaze, and the victim later passed away at Lehigh Valley Regional Burn Center in Allentown.
   

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📸 Around Mansfield

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Mansfield

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Saturday April 25

• Purcellville Music and Arts Festival
  250 S. Nursery Ave. , Purcellville
  12:00 pm

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🗓 Events Nearby

Friday April 17

• Track @ Lock Haven Invite - TBA
  Canton Area El Sch Canton, PA 17724
  4:00 pm
• Ken Ludwig’s Comedy Play – “Leading Ladies”
  DEANE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS, INC. , 104 Main St , Wellsboro
  7:30 pm

Saturday April 18

• JH Baseball/Softball @ Athens
  Canton Area El Sch Canton, PA 17724
  10:00 am
• Baseball/Softball @ Millville
  Canton Area El Sch Canton, PA 17724
  1:00 pm
• Great Lakes Wind Symphony – Meet the Performer Concert Event
  DEANE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS, INC. , 104 Main St , Wellsboro
  6:00 pm
• Ken Ludwig's Leading Ladies
  The Warehouse Theatre , 3 Central Ave , Wellsboro
  7:30 pm

Sunday April 19

• Purse Bingo
  Canton Area Elementary School , 545 E Main St , Canton
  11:00 am

Tuesday April 21

• Track vs N Penn Mansfield and Wellsboro
  Canton Area El Sch Canton, PA 17724
  4:00 pm
• Baseball /Softball @ NEB
  Canton Area El Sch Canton, PA 17724
  4:30 pm

Thursday April 23

• Pokemon Club
  Pop's Culture Shoppe , 25 Main St , Wellsboro
  3:30 pm

Saturday April 25

• Wilson-Fairchild with Jack & Davis Reid
  Troy Fair Grounds Office - Alparon Community Park, Inc. , 436 Gate 3 Ln , Troy
  1:00 pm

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🗞 Nearby News

Tioga

• Tioga council works toward water grant (postsignal.com)
• Tioga boys take first at Region (postsignal.com)

Wellsboro

• UPMC Pain Medicine Expands Access To Wellsboro (solomonswords.net)
• Healthwatch 16: UPMC Hillman Cancer Center (wnep.com)
• Hornets Sting Tigers in Dominant Home Court Victory (thehomepagenetwork.com)

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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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