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🌱 Patch AM: Voting Now Underway For 2025 'Avon Shines' Holiday Decorating Contest

And on the Avon Patch calendar - Winter Solstice - Time for a Cozy Home Designed by Ethan Allen!

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Morning Avon! We've got the scoop on the latest happenings in town. Read on to get looped in. ☀️

In today's newsletter:

  • Cast your vote for Avon's brightest holiday storefronts this year
  • See what a single Avon trail camera just uncovered at night
  • Step inside the Avon studio reshaping Connecticut’s abstract art scene

Also on today's calendar: Winter Solstice - Time for a Cozy Home Designed by Ethan Allen! and 6 more events.

Find out what's happening in Avonfor free with the latest updates from Patch.

Today's riddle: I used to work in a doughnut shop. 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

Find out what's happening in Avonfor free with the latest updates from Patch.

  • Wednesday: Turning sunny and breezy, with a high of 43 and low of 26 degrees.
  • Thursday: Some brightening, temps: high: 43, low: 17. ⛄️ Brr!
  • Friday: A little snow in the p.m., with a high of 26 and low of 19 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Voting Now Underway For 2025 'Avon Shines' Holiday Decorating Contest (patch.com) — Holiday lights and creative storefront displays are taking center stage in Avon as voting opens for the third annual Avon Shines decorating contest. Residents and visitors can use the town’s special map to tour participating local businesses, then cast a single online ballot by December 31 to help decide which shop earns the Avon Shines trophy for 2025.
   

• WATCH: Wild Creatures Invade Avon Land Trust Site (patch.com) — Trail cameras on Avon Land Trust property recently captured six coyotes moving through snowy open space, highlighting how preserved land supports local wildlife as well as quiet recreation. If you live in Avon, you’re encouraged to explore the trust’s trails and follow its Facebook page to see more of the animals sharing your town’s protected habitats.
   

• Former model and CT artist channels nature and Swedish childhood in her art (newstimes.com) — An Avon-based artist, former fashion model Mia Eriksson, is creating large, richly textured abstract paintings from her home studio that blend acrylics, oils and even bark, sand and coffee grounds. Her work, inspired by Swedish landscapes and now embraced by Connecticut galleries and an Avon interior designer, brings nature’s “perfect imperfections” into local homes and public spaces.
   

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Other local events
    Friday December 26
  • SA Homeschool Group
    Avon Free Public Library , 281 Country Club Rd , Avon
    12:00 pm
  • Teen Friday Flicks
    Avon Free Public Library , 281 Country Club Rd , Avon
    2:00 pm
    • Saturday December 27
  • Bobcats vs. Farmington Valley
    Avon Old Farms School , 500 Old Farms Rd , Avon
    3:00 pm
  • Collage Studio Gathering
    281 Country Club Rd , Avon
    3:00 pm
    • Tuesday December 30
  • Yarn and Craft Group
    281 Country Club Rd , Avon
    3:00 pm
    • Sunday January 4
  • Agaram Padasalai
    Community Room , 281 Country Club Road , Avon
    1:00 pm
    • Monday January 5
  • Teen Cultural Expansion Workshop
    Teen Room , 281 Country Club Rd , Avon
    3:00 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

  • I'm exhausted...
    worked all day, not feeling well. *Sigh* can't wait to go home and relax... Hope y'all had a good day. God bless! (Nextdoor Lovely Street)
  • Big Y posted a job opening for Custodian in Avon. Apply here.
  • Archway Dental Partners posted a job opening for Treatment Coordinator / Dental Receptionist in Avon. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Avon here.

🗞 Nearby News

Farmington

  • Farmington Celebrates Successful Giving Campaign This Holiday Season (patch.com)
  • Farmington Education Center To Transform Youths Into 'Spy Kids' (patch.com)
  • ConnectiCare gave $25K to Connecticut Foodshare in 2025, as its volunteers pack thousands of meals (fox61.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: I got tired of the hole business.
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