🌱 Patch AM: How a Hasbrouck Heights senior earned a prestigious statewide football honor

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In today's newsletter:

• How a Hasbrouck Heights senior earned a prestigious statewide football honor

Also on today's calendar: Five Things You Must Know About Estate Planning After 65 (Online) and 3 more events.

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

Weather forecast:

• Friday: Cold with clouds breaking, with a high of 31 and low of 20 degrees.
• Saturday: Some sun, then clouds, temps: high: 32, low: 23.
• Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high of 34 and low of 18 degrees. ⛄️ Brr!

📰 News we're reading

• Hasbrouck Heights' Michael Napolitano Receives the Prestigious Mini Max Award (tapinto.net) — Hasbrouck Heights residents can cheer senior running back Michael Napolitano, who just earned the prestigious Mini Max Award and a shot at New Jersey State Player of the Year honors. The Aviator standout also made the NJ Football Coaches Association’s 2025 Super 100 All-State team, with his coach praising his work ethic, leadership, and daily example on and off the field.
   

📸 Around Hasbrouck Heights

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Hasbrouck Heights

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★ Featured events ★

Friday January 2

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

Friday January 9

• Vision Board - Goal Setting
  48 Ames Ave, Rutherford
  7:30 pm

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Other local events

Monday January 5

• English Conversation Group
  Conference Room, Lodi Memorial Library Lodi -
  4:00 pm

Thursday January 8

• Thursday Night Book Club - All Creatures Great and Small
  Lodi Memorial Library Lodi - Conference Room,
  6:30 pm

Monday January 12

• English Conversation Group
  Lodi Memorial Library Lodi - Conference Room,
  4:00 pm
• Board of Education Meeting
  Wallington JR/SR High School , 234 Main Ave , Wallington
  7:30 pm

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🗓 Events Nearby

Friday January 2

• KIDZ BOP LIVE: The Concert Movie - Elizabeth
  AMC Jersey Gardens 20 , 651 Kapkowski Rd , Elizabeth
  12:00 pm

Sunday January 4

• Sensory Sunday Play
  3 University Plaza Dr , Hackensack
  3:00 pm

Monday January 5

• Schools Reopen
  Kindergarten Center , 109 Sylvan St , Rutherford
• Classes Resume
  Little Ferry Public Schools Little Ferry, NJ 07643
  8:15 am
• Public Library Visit-Mrs. Parkinson
  Kindergarten Center , 109 Sylvan St , Rutherford
  10:00 am
• Senior Total Body (Garfield)
  YWCA Bergen County , 214 State Street , Hackensack
  10:30 am
• Adult Mandala Art Workshop (Main Conference Room)
  Cliffside Park Public Library , 505 Palisade Ave , Cliffside Park
  12:30 pm
• Intermediate Adult Calligraphy Class (Main Conference Room)
  Cliffside Park Public Library , 505 Palisade Ave , Cliffside Park
  2:00 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• UPDATED She is found thank you so much.
  Appreciate you so much. Happiest New year to you and your family To our home community, I’m reaching out with a hopeful heart to ask for your help… (Nextdoor West Hasbrouck Heights)
• Ground Stop at Teterboro Airport, New Jersey.
  6:25AM on Jan 1: Inbound aircraft to Teterboro Airport (TEB) are being held at their origin due to snow and ice, with operations expected to resume… (Nextdoor )

• Dunkin' posted a job opening for Team Member in Hasbrouck Heights. Apply here.
• Allied Universal posted a job opening for Security Officer - Retail Evening Patrol in Hackensack. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Hasbrouck Heights here.

🗞 Nearby News

Lodi

• Victim Pistol-Whipped During Drug Deal In Lodi Home Invasion: Prosecutor (dailyvoice.com)

Hackensack

• Flu cases on the rise in NJ and across the U.S. A look at recent data (northjersey.com)
• 𝗪𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗺𝘂𝘀 𝗠𝗮𝗻 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗚𝘂𝗻𝘀 𝗦𝗲𝗶𝘇𝗲𝗱 𝗔𝘁 𝗙𝗮𝗶𝗿 𝗟𝗮𝘄𝗻 𝗛𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗹 (tapinto.net)
• Galaxy's Pivotal Trial of SEAL Device for Brain Aneurysms Completes Enrollment (evtoday.com)

Hoboken

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-- The Patch AM Team

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