🌱 Mahjongg and 11 more events

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Weather forecast:

• Thursday: Times of clouds and sun, with a high of 44 and low of 38 degrees.
• Friday: Morning rain; cloudy, windy, temps: high: 58, low: 24.
• Saturday: Breezy and colder, with a high of 38 and low of 29 degrees.

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🗓 Events Nearby

Thursday December 18

• Mahjongg
  Coventry, CT Calendar , 172 Lake Street , Coventry
  9:30 am
• Free Strength & Balance Workout Video
  Coventry, CT Calendar Coventry, CT 06238
  10:00 am
• Open Game Time!
  Mansfield, CT Calendar , 303 Maple RoadStorrs , Mansfield
  11:00 am
• Ping Pong
  Mansfield, CT Calendar , 303 Maple RoadStorrs , Mansfield
  11:00 am
• Genealogy Club
  Booth & Dimock Memorial Library , 1134 Main St , Coventry
  11:30 am
• Bridge
  Mansfield, CT Calendar , 303 Maple RoadStorrs , Mansfield
  11:30 am
• Sewing
  Coventry, CT Calendar , 172 Lake Street , Coventry
  1:00 pm
• Jewelry Group
  Mansfield Senior Center , 303 Maple Road , Storrs Mansfield
  1:00 pm
• Mansfield Senior Center Winter Chorus Concert
  Mansfield, CT Calendar , 303 Maple RoadStorrs , Mansfield
  1:30 pm
• Mansfield Library Knitting Group
  Mansfield Public Library, Program Room , 54 Warrenville Road , Mansfield Center
  2:00 pm
• Lebanon Rec- Basketball
  Lebanon Middle School Lebanon, CT 06249
  4:00 pm
• School Building Committee
  Mansfield, CT Calendar , Virtual (Online) MeetingStorrs , Mansfield
  4:00 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Benjamin Franklin Plumbing - Tom's River posted a job opening for Septic Technician W/ Sub-Surface Sewage License in Andover. Apply here.
• Big Y Foods, Inc. posted a job opening for Produce/Floral Clerk in Mansfield Center. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Columbia here.

🗞 Nearby News

Coventry

• A Hero Americans Must Never Forget (fee.org)

Storrs

• A landmark UConn restaurant closed, making way for housing. It's not alone in Storrs (courant.com)
• CT man failed to pay $4.8M in restitution for tax fraud in favor of shopping sprees, UConn games (courant.com)
• CLASSROOM HONORS: St. John's Nikolajewski named Academic All-American (frontrowsoccer.com)

Glastonbury

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