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🌱 Patch AM: Pikesville community remembers devoted Beth Tfiloh member Elliot Louis Rank
You won't want to miss Pathways to Employment on the Pikesville Patch calendar
Morning Pikesville! We've got the scoop on the latest happenings in town. Read on to get looped in. ☕️️
In today's newsletter:
- Pikesville community remembers devoted Beth Tfiloh member Elliot Louis Rank
Also on today's calendar: Pathways to Employment.
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Today's riddle: The world champion tongue twister just got arrested! 🤔 (Answer below!)
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- Tuesday: Windy and much colder, with a high of 33 and low of 26 degrees.
- Wednesday: Some sun, temps: high: 37, low: 25.
- Thursday: Cloudy, a flurry; colder, with a high of 28 and low of 21 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Microbiologist and Beth Tfiloh Member Elliot Rank Dies at 77 (jewishtimes.com) — Longtime Pikesville resident and Beth Tfiloh member Elliot Louis Rank, a respected clinical microbiologist and frequent substitute cantor, has died at 77 after battling pancreatic cancer. For two decades he was a steady presence at Beth Tfiloh, known for his precise, humble leadership in services and his dedicated teaching of bar and bat mitzvah students, while maintaining an influential national career in microbiology and public health. 
📸 Around Pikesville
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🗓 Upcoming Events in Pikesville
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- Pathways to Employment
JCS Owings Mills Resource Room
10:00 am
Saturday January 3
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🗓 Events Nearby
- Kids Creative Crafts
Eldersburg Branch Library , 6400 Hemlock Drive , Eldersburg
10:00 am - Family and Friends Story Time
855 Sulphur Spring Rd , Arbutus
3:30 pm - Sit and Stitch
Baltimore County Public Library - Lansdowne Branch , 500 3rd Ave , Lansdowne
6:30 pm - New Year's Eve
Eldersburg Branch Library , 6400 Hemlock Drive , Eldersburg - Noon Year's Eve Party at sweetFrog Dundalk
sweetFrog , 1407 Merritt Blvd Ste B , Dundalk
11:00 am - Noon Year's Eve
Parkville Carney Business Association , 9613C Harford Rd #183 , Parkville
11:30 am - Town Offices Closed 1/2 Day - New Year's Eve
Sykesville, MD Calendar Sykesville, MD 21784
12:00 pm - ALL EVENTS AT OREGON RIDGE
Friends of Oregon Ridge
1:00 pm - Schools Reopen
Catonsville Center for Alternative Studies Catonsville, MD 21228 - Family Storytime
Eldersburg Branch Library , 6400 Hemlock Drive , Eldersburg
9:30 am - Play and Explore
Eldersburg Branch Library , 6400 Hemlock Drive , Eldersburg
10:30 am
Tuesday December 30
Wednesday December 31
Monday January 5
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💬 Chatter
What your neighbors are talking about on social media
- All lanes on I-795 Northwest Expressway southbound prior to exit 1 I-695 Baltimore Beltway are open.
11:37PM on Dec 28: All lanes on I-795 Northwest Expressway southbound prior to exit 1 I-695 Baltimore Beltway are closed due to a crash. (Nextdoor ) - Report of police activity in Towson, Maryland.
8:54PM on Dec 28: Nextdoor user reports eight police cars on Thornton Road at Thornton Ridge Road. (Nextdoor )
- Greater Baltimore Medical Center posted a job opening for Mother Baby Unit Secretary PT (24 hrs/wk) 7p-7:30a in Towson. Apply here.
- The Retail Outsource Group posted a job opening for Retail Assembly Tech in Towson. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Pikesville here.
🗞 Nearby News
Towson
- Trump's Kennedy Center honor is undeserved (baltimoresun.com)
- Actor James Ransone dies at 46 (columbian.com)
- Baltimore County Christmas tree recycling collection to begin on January 5 (nottinghammd.com)
Owings Mills
- Harbaugh hopes Jackson can return after Huntley's big win: ‘If Lamar's ready to go, he's playing.' (wjtv.com)
Ellicott City
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-- The Patch AM Team
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