🌱 Patch AM: Which 2025 East Windsor decisions could shape your life in 2026?

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In today's newsletter:

• Which 2025 East Windsor decisions could shape your life in 2026?

Also on today's calendar: Five Things You Must Know About Estate Planning After 65 (Online) and 8 more events.

Today's riddle: I quit my job as a banker. 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Friday: Clouds breaking and breezy, with a high of 33 and low of 20 degrees.
• Saturday: Some sun, then clouds, temps: high: 32, low: 22.
• Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high of 37 and low of 17 degrees. ⛄️ Brr!

📰 News we're reading

• A Look Back at 10 Top Stories Around East Windsor & Hightstown in 2025 (tapinto.net) — From a packed East Windsor council showdown over a proposed data center to major Route 130 development plans and a revamped Walmart Supercenter, 2025 brought big changes close to home. Residents also saw a new Sprouts Farmers Market approved, school leadership drama, protests, and expanded food assistance, all shaping daily life in East Windsor and neighboring Hightstown.
   

📸 Around East Windsor

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🗓 Upcoming Events in East Windsor

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★ Featured events ★

Friday January 2

• Five Things You Must Know About Estate Planning After 65 (Online)
  Online,
  2:30 pm

Saturday January 3

• Hightstown's Sports Card & Collectibles Show
  St Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Church, 156 Maxwell Ave, Hightstown
  9:00 am

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Other local events

Monday January 5

• East Windsor Community Blood Drive - $10 E-gift card (redeem for a major retailer)
  Crunch Fitness - East Windsor , 761 NJ-33 , East Windsor
  1:00 pm
• Basketball: Boys JV vs. Old Bridge (Away)
  Old Bridge High School
  4:00 pm
• Basketball: Boys Freshman vs. Old Bridge (Away)
  Carl Sandberg Middle School
  4:00 pm
• Basketball: Boys Varsity vs. Old Bridge (Away)
  Old Bridge High School
  5:30 pm

Tuesday January 6

• Basketball: Boys Freshman vs. Steinert (Away)
  Steinert High School
  4:00 pm
• Basketball: Girls Varsity vs. Steinert (Home)
  Hightstown High School Main Gym Hightstown High School Main Gym
  5:30 pm
• Basketball: Boys JV vs. Steinert (Home)
  Steinert High School
  5:30 pm

Thursday January 8

• Basketball: Boys Freshman vs. Robbinsville (Away)
  Robbinsville High School
  4:00 pm
• Basketball: Boys JV vs. Robbinsville (Away)
  Robbinsville High School
  5:30 pm

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🗓 Events Nearby

Monday January 5

• Basketball: Boys JV vs. Old Bridge (Away)
  Old Bridge High School
  4:00 pm
• Basketball: Boys Freshman vs. Old Bridge (Away)
  Carl Sandberg Middle School
  4:00 pm
• Basketball: Boys Varsity vs. Old Bridge (Away)
  Old Bridge High School
  5:30 pm
• Ice Hockey: Varsity vs. Robbinsville/Allentown Ice Hockey CoOp vs. WWP Ice Hockey Coop (Away)
  Mercer County Park Ice Skating Center
  8:00 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• GUAMAN MC wish a Happy New Year!
  We're so grateful for your support in 2025. We hope to keep helping our community with our services. (Nextdoor Twin Rivers)
• Happy New Years to all.
  Please consider all the animals (lost, scared, and all the wildlife out there) before shooting off fireworks tonight, or any other time. (Nextdoor East Windsor)

🗞 Nearby News

Hightstown

• Rock On! This Week's Sound Bites... 01/02/2026 (newjerseystage.com)
• Can't-miss N.J. indoor track meets for New Year's week of the 2025-26 season (nj.com)

Robbinsville

• A Year in Review: TAPinto Hamilton/Robbinsville and the Local News that Mattered in 2025 (tapinto.net)
• University of Alabama student suffers ‘severe head injury' while on family vacation in Caribbean (wfin.com)

West Windsor

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: I just lost interest.
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