🌱 Patch AM: How can Upper Marlboro history lovers use the new Heritage Passport?

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In today's newsletter:

• How can Upper Marlboro history lovers use the new Heritage Passport?

Also on today's calendar: Feast & Fettle Brings a New Standard of Home Dining to Upper Marlboro and 5 more events.

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

Weather forecast:

• Saturday: Some sun, then clouds, with a high of 37 and low of 28 degrees.
• Sunday: Plenty of sunshine, temps: high: 42, low: 23.
• Monday: Mostly cloudy, with a high of 36 and low of 28 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Southern Maryland Launches Heritage Passport Program to Explore Regional History (southernmarylandchronicle.com) — Upper Marlboro residents can now collect a special stamp at Darnall’s Chance House Museum as part of Southern Maryland’s new Heritage Passport Program. The passport encourages you to explore historic sites across Southern Maryland, from Civil War landmarks to early colonial settlements, while boosting local tourism and preserving regional stories. Participants are urged to check hours and stamp availability before visiting.
   

📸 Around Upper Marlboro

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Upper Marlboro

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★ Featured events ★

Saturday January 31

• Feast & Fettle Brings a New Standard of Home Dining to Upper Marlboro
  9:00 am

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Other local events

Monday January 5

• Ready 2 Read Storytime: Ages 23
  Upper Marlboro Branch Library Upper Marlboro - Large Meeting Room
  11:00 am
• Manga and Anime Club
  Largo-Kettering Branch Library Largo-Kettering - LK Program Room
  4:00 pm

Wednesday January 7

• Wrestling vs E. Roosevelt HS
  Frederick Douglass High School , 8000 Croom Rd , Upper Marlboro
  5:30 pm

Thursday January 8

• Girls’ Basketball vs College Park Academy
  Frederick Douglass High School , 8000 Croom Rd , Upper Marlboro
  5:30 pm
• Boys’ Basketball vs College Park
  Frederick Douglass High School , 8000 Croom Rd , Upper Marlboro
  5:30 pm

Saturday January 10

• Suburban Maryland Home Show
  The Show Place Arena , 14900 Pennsylvania Ave. , Upper Marlboro
  10:00 am
• Boys’ Basketball vs TBD (Hoop Buzz)
  Dr. Henry A. Wise, Jr. High School , 12650 Brooke Ln , Upper Marlboro
  4:00 pm

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🗓 Events Nearby

Saturday January 3

• Ready 2 Read Storytime: Ages 35
  Hyattsville -
  10:30 am
• Programming with Python
  850 Costley Way , Prince Frederick
  3:00 pm

Monday January 5

• Caseworker in the Library
  Oxon Hill - Author Room
  10:00 am
• Ready 2 Read Storytime: Ages 02
  Hyattsville -
  10:30 am
• Ready 2 Read Storytime: Ages 23
  Laurel - Large Meeting Room B
  10:30 am

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

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• Dollar General Corporation posted a job opening for STORE CLERK TEMPORARY in UPPER MARLBORO, MD in Upper Marlboro. Apply here.
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🗞 Nearby News

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• Beauty professionals in Maryland now join effort to help domestic violence victims (wjla.com)

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• Father Charged In Death Of Infant Son: Police (patch.com)

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Ok Upper Marlboro! So now you're in the loop about what's happening today. Thanks for reading, and see you in your inbox next time! Oh -- and if you like what you're reading, invite a friend to Patch AM!

-- The Patch AM Team

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