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🌱 Essex Theatre Company’s “Broadway through the Decades” and 6 more events
Happening soon: HUGE Designer Floor Sample Event! on the Essex Patch calendar

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Coming up on the calendar:
- HUGE Designer Floor Sample Event! at Ethan Allen
- Essex Theatre Company’s “Broadway through the Decades”
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- Thursday: Cloudy and breezy, with a high of 42 and low of 40 degrees.
- Friday: Rain, breezy, then flurries, temps: high: 52, low: 21.
- Saturday: Cloudy, breezy and colder, with a high of 34 and low of 32 degrees.
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🗓 Upcoming Events in Essex
★ Featured events ★
- HUGE Designer Floor Sample Event!
Ethan Allen, 2735 Shelburne Rd, Shelburne
9:00 am
Wednesday December 31
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Other local events
- Essex Theatre Company’s “Broadway through the Decades”
Essex Theatre Company , 2756 Essex - Charlotte Ferry , Essex
7:00 pm
Friday December 19
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