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🌱 Book Club: Book Buzz & Beyond and 10 more events
Coming up: First Baptist Church Surviving the Holidays on the Swansea Patch calendar

What's up Swansea! Let's start this morning right by getting caught up on what's going on around town. Keep reading to stay in the loop. ☕️️
Coming up on the calendar:
- Book Club: Book Buzz & Beyond
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Today's riddle: Can February March? 🤔 (Answer below!)
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- Tuesday: Plenty of sunshine, with a high of 57 and low of 29 degrees.
- Wednesday: Times of clouds and sun, temps: high: 61, low: 44.
- Thursday: A shower; breezy in the p.m., with a high of 66 and low of 51 degrees.
📸 Around Swansea
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🗓 Upcoming Events in Swansea
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★ Featured events ★
- First Baptist Church Surviving the Holidays
1344 Mack St, Gaston
8:00 pm
Saturday December 20
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Other local events
- Book Club: Book Buzz & Beyond
Gaston Branch Library , 214 S Main St , Gaston
1:00 pm
Wednesday December 31
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🗓 Events Nearby
- Board Of Zoning Appeals December Meeting
Orangeburg County, SC Calendar Orangeburg, SC 29115
5:30 pm - Hunter-Kinard-Tyler Boys Varsity Basketball @ Wagener-Salley
Wagener-Salley High School , 272 Main St S , Wagener
8:00 pm - Veterans Alumni Council: Holiday Happy Hour
Steel Hands Brewing , 2350 Foreman St , Cayce
5:30 pm - Teacher Talent Show
Brookland Cayce High School , 1300 State St , Cayce
12:27 pm - Corbett Middle vs Schofield Middle
A L Corbett Middle School , 10 A L Corbett Cir , Wagener
5:30 pm - Men’s Luncheon
3 Brother's Pizza , 830 Main St , Pelion
11:30 am - Eyes of the Eagle Showdown tournament
Cyril B Busbee Middle School , 501 Bulldog Blvd , Cayce
5:00 pm - Columbia Boys Varsity Basketball @ Hunter-Kinard-Tyler
Hunter-Kinard-Tyler Elementary School , 7066 Norway Rd , Neeses
3:30 pm - Wagener-Salley War Eagles vs Branchville Yellow Jackets
Wagener-Salley High School , 272 Main St S , Wagener
6:00 pm - IS Wild At Heart Survival School
750 Boy Scout Rd , Gaston
11:00 pm
Tuesday December 16
Wednesday December 17
Thursday December 18
Friday December 19
Monday December 22
Monday December 29
Thursday April 30
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💬 Chatter
What your neighbors are talking about on social media
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🗞 Nearby News
Cayce
- We the People: Cayce's 12,000-Year Trail offers walk through history (wistv.com)
- Scratch-N-Spin, Meeting Street Artisan Market, D's Wings, State of the Art Pottery, and Steel Hands Brewery were stops on the C-WC Chamber's Parade Day Trolley (westmetronews.com)
- Cold Weather Advisory issued for all of Lexington County Sunday night and Monday night (westmetronews.com)
West Columbia
- Gray Collegiate Teachers Earn More than $70,000 in State Performance Bonuses (westmetronews.com)
- Built in the 1920s, is Gervais Street bridge wide enough by today's standards? (thestate.com)
- UPDATE: Lake wind advisory issued for Inland Berkeley for Sunday and Monday (thestate.com)
Ok Swansea! 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 don't know, but April May!
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