🌱 How Cabot’s volunteers just earned a major statewide honor for 2025

Hello again Cabot! We’re bringing you the latest town highlights. Don’t miss out, keep going! ☕️️

In today's newsletter:

• How Cabot’s volunteers just earned a major statewide honor for 2025
• How a Cabot graduate turned campus involvement into career-ready confidence

Also on today's calendar: LEGO Afternoon and 4 more events.

📸 Have a great pic of holiday decorations from around Cabot? Post it to Cabot photos of the day! ☃️ 🟢-🟠-🟣-🔴-🟡-🔵 ☃️

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

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Weather forecast:

• Tuesday: Increasing cloudiness, with a high of 52 and low of 39 degrees.
• Wednesday: Mostly cloudy, temps: high: 56, low: 51.
• Thursday: Windy with rain and a t-storm, with a high of 65 and low of 30 degrees.

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📰 News we're reading

• City of Cabot named a 2025 Volunteer Community of the Year (501lifemag.com) — Cabot has been named Arkansas’s 2025 “Volunteer Community of the Year” Best City, honoring residents’ strong volunteer spirit and the city’s hazardous waste round-up program. The award will be presented Jan. 15, 2026, in Little Rock, and Cabot will receive road signs recognizing this statewide honor and its ongoing commitment to service, sustainability, and community engagement.
   

• Arkansas Tech University graduates reflect on value of campus involvement (rivervalleydemocratgazette.com) — A Cabot native, Ashley Muller, is among Arkansas Tech’s newest graduates, earning dual degrees in accounting and management while leading the Accounting Club and staying deeply involved on campus. Her story, alongside fellow graduates, highlights how campus organizations, leadership roles, and close-knit communities helped them build confidence, networks, and career-ready experience.
   

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📸 Around Cabot

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Cabot

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★ Featured events ★

Wednesday December 17

• Adult Activity Time
  Nixon Library -- Central Arkansas Library System, 703 W Main St, Jacksonville
  1:00 pm

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Other local events

Wednesday December 17

• LEGO Afternoon
  Nixon Library -- Central Arkansas Library System , 703 W Main St , Jacksonville
  4:00 pm

Thursday December 18

• City Council Meeting
  Jacksonville Community Center , 5 Municipal Dr , Jacksonville
  6:00 pm

Friday December 19

• Music & Movement
  Nixon Library -- Central Arkansas Library System , 703 W Main St , Jacksonville
  10:30 am
• Bring the Hammer - Boys
  Game Time at the Grounds , 300 Champions Drive , Cabot
  3:00 pm
• Button Trading Post
  Nixon Library -- Central Arkansas Library System , 703 W Main St , Jacksonville
  4:00 pm

Tuesday December 23

• Planning Commission Meeting
  Cabot, AR Calendar , 805 West Main , Cabot
  7:00 pm

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📣 Cabot Shout Outs!

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🗓 Events Nearby

Thursday December 18

• Nixon Book Buddies Book Club
  Nixon Library -- Central Arkansas Library System , 703 W Main St , Jacksonville
  1:00 pm

Tuesday December 30

• Snackin' Round the World
  Nixon Library -- Central Arkansas Library System , 703 W Main St , Jacksonville
  5:00 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• All lanes on WB I-40 near Exit 152 in Pulaski County have been cleared following a vehicle fire.
  5:15AM on Dec 15: Vehicle fire reported on WB I-40 near Exit 152 in Pulaski County, blocking the right shoulder. (Nextdoor )
• We got new garbage cans from a new vendor.
  When do we start with the new cans and what do we do with the other vendors cans? (Nextdoor Kerr Station Road)

• Arkansas Staffing posted a job opening for Late Night Team Member in Cabot. Apply here.
• Home Depot (Retail) posted a job opening for Freight/Receiving in Cabot. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Cabot here.

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🗞 Nearby News

Jacksonville

• Ryan Silverfield still assembling first staff, adding former Hog (fox16.com)
• Secretary of the Army Visits the Army's Center of Excellence for Guns and Ammunition (soldiersystems.net)

North Little Rock

• North Little Rock brings holiday cheer with Elks Christmas Parade (kark.com)
• NLR man faces fentanyl charge (arkansasonline.com)
• 6 Arkansas school districts with failing grades vow to make improvements (arkansasonline.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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