🌱 Patch AM: How a Milton stimulus memory ties into today’s tariff-check scams

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• How a Milton stimulus memory ties into today’s tariff-check scams

Also on today's calendar: Friday Folk Coffeehouse Presents the Savin Hillbillies on Friday, 1/16! and 7 more events.

Today's riddle: After dinner, my parents asked if I could clear the table. 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a high of 47 and low of 28 degrees.
• Friday: A little afternoon rain, temps: high: 47, low: 40.
• Saturday: Cloudy with afternoon rain, with a high of 46 and low of 37 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• 2026 $2,000 Tariff Dividend ‘Stimulus Check' Update: What We Know Right Now (19fortyfive.com) — Milton residents may remember receiving federal COVID-19 stimulus checks in 2021, but a new round of $2,000 “tariff dividend” payments isn’t actually on the way yet. The piece explains that no legislation has been introduced, details how such checks would strain the federal budget, and warns about text and email scams falsely promising quick cash tied to President Trump’s tariff proposals.
   

📸 Around Milton

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Milton

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★ Featured events ★

Friday January 9

• Chris Ballerini Music
  Kilroy’s on the Square, 24 Cottage Ave, Quincy
  7:00 pm

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Other local events

Saturday January 10

• Mindfulness Meditation
  60 Adams St , Milton
  2:00 pm
• Restorative Yoga and Sacred Sound Ceremony
  Milton , 1 Adams St , Milton
  7:00 pm
• Aquarius Reunion
  Florian Hall , 55 Hallet St , Boston
  7:30 pm

Monday January 12

• Countdown to Kindergarten Playgroup
  Mattapan Branch Library , 10 Hazelton Street , Mattapan
  10:30 am

Tuesday January 13

• Boston Teachers Union: Homework Help
  Mattapan Branch Library , 10 Hazelton Street , Mattapan
  3:00 pm

Wednesday January 14

• Countdown to Kindergarten Playgroup
  Mattapan Branch Library , 10 Hazelton Street , Mattapan
  10:30 am

Thursday January 15

• Boston Teachers Union: Homework Help
  Mattapan Branch Library , 10 Hazelton Street , Mattapan
  3:00 pm

Friday January 16

• Friday Folk Coffeehouse Presents the Savin Hillbillies on Friday, 1/16!
  First Church and Parish In Dedham , 680 High St , Dedham
  7:30 pm

Monday January 19

• One-Day Writing Retreat with Memoirist Jennifer Crystal
  Eustis Estate Museum and Study Center, Historic New England , 1424 Canton Ave , Milton
  8:00 am

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🗓 Events Nearby

Thursday January 8

• Music with Friends
  Main Library - Children's Room
  10:30 am
• Memory Cafe
  Main Library - Piano Space
  1:00 pm
• Yoga Mat Class with Cathy
  Ames Building (New Dedham Town Hall & Senior Center) , 450 Washington St , Dedham
  1:00 pm
• Iron Chef: Teen Edition!! *Spring Roll Competition*
  Turner Free Library , 2 North Main Street , Randolph
  3:00 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• New Karen Read Lifetime movie premieres this week - watch the trailer here
  Source: MassLive.com https://share.newsbreak.com/go0pyqp1 (Nextdoor Green)

• Dunkin' posted a job opening for Crew Member in Milton. Apply here.
• TJX posted a job opening for Cleaning Associate Part Time in Quincy. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Milton here.

🗞 Nearby News

Quincy

• 2 organizations team up to rescue, rehabilitate endangered sea turtles as ocean temps plummet from winter conditions (nypost.com)
• Charles S. Kidney, 88 (thequincysun.com)
• 1K for \ (patriotledger.com)

Dedham

• The 1970s Fashion Store Every Dartmouth Guy Remembers (wbsm.com)

Brookline

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-- The Patch AM Team

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