🌱 Patch AM: Which 2025 Canton tragedies made Georgia’s most shocking news list?

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In today's newsletter:

• Which 2025 Canton tragedies made Georgia’s most shocking news list?

Also on today's calendar: Warehouse Liquidation FINAL Sale! 50% OFF!.

And lastly, we have a post from a neighbor, John M.!

Today's riddle: I got fired from the M&M factory. 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Saturday: Rain and a thunderstorm, with a high of 56 and low of 38 degrees.
• Sunday: Plenty of sun, temps: high: 59, low: 39.
• Monday: Plenty of sun, with a high of 59 and low of 42 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Fiery Crash Kills Family Meteorite Rocks State: GA Top News 2025 (patch.com) — A statewide roundup of 2025 Georgia news includes two especially disturbing Canton cases: a deadly fiery crash in Cherokee County and separate child abuse allegations against a Canton man. The piece surveys tragedies, crimes, crashes and unusual stories from across Georgia, putting Canton’s incidents in the context of a difficult year for public safety statewide.
   

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Friday January 9

• Warehouse Liquidation FINAL Sale! 50% OFF!
  Classic Staging LLC, 1349 Old 41 Hwy NW, Marietta
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Saturday January 3

• Compassion Center Mobile Medical Free Clinic
  Allatoona Resource Center , 6503 Glade Rd SE , Acworth
  10:00 am
• PSYCHIC & WELLNESS FAIR
  Mimms Museum of Technology and Art , 5000 Commerce Pkwy , Roswell
  12:00 pm
• Etowah Valley Hand Spinners Meet-up
  Cartersville Library Meeting Room , 429 West Main Street , Cartersville
  1:00 pm

Monday January 5

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  Cartersville-Bartow County Chamber of Commerce , 636 E Main St. , Cartersville
  8:00 am
• Ask-A-Lawyer Day: Georgia Legal Services Program
  Cartersville Public Library
  10:00 am

Tuesday January 6

• Ribbon Cutting for Cartersville Living Magazine
  Georgia Highlands College Campus Library, Student Center , 5441 GA-20 , Cartersville
  11:30 am
• BASKETBALL (ALL) v PEBBLEBROOK
  Hoya Center Kennesaw, GA 30152
  4:30 pm

Wednesday January 7

• V Wrestling Tri@Woodstock
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  9:00 am
• Gentle Yoga
  Cartersville Library Meeting Room , 429 West Main Street , Cartersville
  10:00 am

Thursday January 8

• Veteran's Coffee & Company
  Rome-Floyd County Library , 205 Riverside Parkway, 2nd Floor , Rome
  9:30 am
• Ribbon Cutting for Hilton Garden Inn's Grand Re-Opening
  Cartersville-Bartow County Chamber of Commerce , 24 Liberty Drive , Cartersville
  4:00 pm
• Called Board Meeting
  Pickens County Board of Education , 100 D. B. Carrol St , Jasper
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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• 2026, I’m ready for you!
  Wishing all my friends a year full of success, great memories, and plenty of fun. Let’s see what the year has in store (Nextdoor Butterworth Pope)
• I was driving the other day and a 3-legged chicken passed me at 70mph.
  It then slowed down, got beside me and accelerated past me again as if to challenge me. The chicken then pulled off into a farm that had dozens of 3… (Nextdoor Mills Ridge)

• Therapia Staffing posted a job opening for Local Sign Language Interpreter in Canton. Apply here.
• Burlington Stores posted a job opening for Retail Stocking Associate - Part Time in Canton. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Canton here.

🗞 Nearby News

Woodstock

• The Look Book Goes to The Carlyle Hotel (curbed.com)
• East Cobb restaurant update: Tin Lizzy's closes at Avenue (eastcobbnews.com)

Milton

• Milton City Council to tackle development code in first meeting of 2026 (appenmedia.com)
• Basketball: Ten area teams ranked heading into New Year; GVL, Rabun boys No. 1 (accesswdun.com)

Roswell

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: I kept throwing out all the W’s.
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