🌱 Saturnalia 2025: A Celebration of Light and 11 more events

Morning Essex Junction! We've got the scoop on the latest happenings in town. Read on to get looped in. ☕️️

Coming up on the calendar:

• HUGE Designer Floor Sample Event! at Ethan Allen
• Saturnalia 2025: A Celebration of Light at Brownell Library
• Illuminated Crowns at Brownell Library

... and check out 6 more events on the calendar!

Today's riddle: My brother swallowed a box of firecrackers. - Is he all right now? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Thursday: Variably cloudy and breezy, with a high of 44 and low of 40 degrees.
• Friday: Morning rain, then flurries, temps: high: 52, low: 18. ⛄️ Brr!
• Saturday: Cloudy, breezy and colder, with a high of 34 and low of 29 degrees.

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Essex Junction

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★ Featured events ★

Wednesday December 31

• HUGE Designer Floor Sample Event!
  Ethan Allen, 2735 Shelburne Rd, Shelburne
  9:00 am

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Other local events

Friday December 19

• Saturnalia 2025: A Celebration of Light
  Brownell Library , 6 Lincoln Street , Essex Junction
  5:00 pm

Saturday December 20

• Illuminated Crowns
  Brownell Library , 6 Lincoln Street , Essex Junction
  3:00 pm

Sunday December 21

• Winter Solstice
  Essex Westford SD Essex Junction, VT 05452
• Sheb al-Yalda/Yalda Night
  Essex Westford SD Essex Junction, VT 05452

Monday December 22

• Canceled-Tech Help with Clif
  Brownell Library , 6 Lincoln Street , Essex Junction
  1:00 pm
• Must Read Mondays - When the Emperor was Divine by J. Otsuka
  Brownell Library 6 Lincoln Street, Essex Junction, VT 05452
  6:30 pm

Tuesday December 23

• No Current Events Discussion Group - In Person
  Brownell Library 6 Lincoln Street, Essex Junction, VT 05452
  10:00 am

Wednesday December 24

• No School (Early Winter Break)
  Essex Westford SD Essex Junction, VT 05452

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🗓 Events Nearby

Thursday December 18

• Economic Development Commission Business Outreach Meeting
  Essex, VT Calendar
  8:00 am
• Afterschool Movie: Elio
  Brownell Library , 6 Lincoln Street , Essex Junction
  3:15 pm
• Trivia — Vermont Cider Lab
  Vermont Cider Lab , 25 Essex Way suite 214 , Essex
  6:00 pm
• OPEN MIC NIGHT — specs
  specs café-bar , 7 W Canal St # 1 , Winooski
  7:00 pm

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🗞 Nearby News

Essex

• Town of Essex Selectboard considers ballot questions for 80 and 90 Upper Main Street (essexreporter.com)
• Man dies by suicide during Essex police investigation (essexreporter.com)
• Top 3 on 3 for Monday, November 15th (wcax.com)

Winooski

• Letters to the Editor (12/17/25) (sevendaysvt.com)
• Convoy of Christmas kindness to roll into children's hospital (vermontdailychronicle.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

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