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In today's newsletter:

  • Was your Greenwood 50 student's data exposed in this software breach?
  • Greenwood family member mourns James Lee "Jimmy" Poole's passing

Also on today's calendar: Self Regional Healthcare Childbirth Class and 6 more events.

Today's riddle: Why do Norway's navy ships all have barcodes? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Tuesday: Mostly sunny and less humid, with a high of 78 and low of 52 degrees.
  • Wednesday: Mostly sunny and nice, temps: high: 79, low: 50.
  • Thursday: Sunny to partly cloudy, with a high of 82 and low of 57 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Upstate student data breached at third-party software provider, districts say (wspa.com) — Families in Greenwood School District 50 are being warned that a cybersecurity breach at software provider Frontline Education may have exposed data for more than 16,000 current and former students, including Medicaid IDs and contact details. District officials say the incident involved a third-party vulnerability, not their own networks, and state education and law enforcement agencies have been notified.
   

• James Lee 'Jimmy' Poole, 78 (newsdemocrat.com) — A Greenwood resident, Leslie Poole, is among the close family mourning James Lee "Jimmy" Poole, a longtime Ripley, Ohio maintenance manager, farmer, and Army Reserve veteran who died October 2. Services and visitation are set for Thursday in Ripley, with condolences accepted online.
   

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "Why do Norway's navy ships all have barcodes?" — So when they come back to port they can just scan-da-navi-an! (Thank you Jessica C. for sending it in!)
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