🌱 2025 Lantern Tours and 11 more events

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Today's riddle: Can February March? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Tuesday: Partly sunny and not as cold, with a high of 43 and low of 30 degrees.
• Wednesday: Clouds yielding to sun, temps: high: 54, low: 27.
• Thursday: A shower in the p.m.; breezy, with a high of 51 and low of 40 degrees.

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🗓 Events Nearby

Tuesday December 16

• 2025 Lantern Tours
  Frontier Culture Museum , 1290 Richmond Ave , Staunton
  5:30 pm
• Paint Workshop
  Valley Pike Farm Market , 3494 Lee Hwy , Weyers Cave
  5:30 pm

Wednesday December 17

• Circle Time for Kids at the Library
  Grottoes Branch Library , 601 Dogwood Ave , Grottoes
  10:00 am
• CircleTime @Grottoes Branch Library
  Grottoes Branch Library , 601 Dogwood Ave , Grottoes
  10:00 am
• Wine Down Wednesdays with Mike McCray! 🎶🍷
  Barren Ridge Vineyards , 984 Barrenridge Rd , Fishersville
  4:00 pm
• Wreath Making Class 12/17
  Friendly City Food Co-op , 150 E Wolfe St , Harrisonburg
  5:30 pm
• Geeks Who Drink Trivia
  Pale Fire Brewing Co. , 217 S Liberty St #105 , Harrisonburg
  8:00 pm

Thursday December 18

• Memory Café
  Staunton Public Library , 1 Churchville Ave , Staunton
  2:00 pm
• Trivia at Sage Bird Ciderworks
  Sage Bird , 325 N Liberty St , Harrisonburg
  8:00 pm

Friday December 19

• Paint & Sip
  Sage Bird , 325 N Liberty St , Harrisonburg
  5:00 pm
• The Warped Band
  The Foundry , 1010 E Main St Suite 112 , Waynesboro
  7:00 pm

Saturday December 20

• Vietnam Veterans Breakfast
  Wood Grill Buffet , 1711 Reservoir St , Harrisonburg
  9:00 am

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• A crash has been cleared on the westbound side of VA-256, 1.7 miles east of VA-276 in Augusta County.
  12:11PM on Dec 14: All westbound travel lanes on VA-256 at 1.7 miles east of VA-276 in Augusta County are closed due to a crash. (Nextdoor )

• Arby's posted a job opening for Team Member in Verona. Apply here.
• Wieland Rolled Products North America posted a job opening for Machine Operator in Verona. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Mount Sidney here.

🗞 Nearby News

Verona

• Augusta County deputies arrest Verona man after foot pursuit (whsv.com)

Staunton

• In praise of Angela Iannone as Charles Dickens in ‘A Christmas Carol' (dctheaterarts.org)
• Traffic delays for the week of December 15, 2025 (rocktownnow.com)
• Will students have to make up snow days? We asked school officials. (newsleader.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: I don't know, but April May!
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