🌱 Patch AM: Into The Woods and 11 more events

Hi Lorton! We have the latest buzz right here. Let's keep you in the loop and get this morning started right! ☀️

Coming up on the calendar:

• Merritt Academy Winter Open Campus/Open House
• Into The Woods at Workhouse Arts Center

Today's riddle: What did one elevator say to the other? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high of 48 and low of 26 degrees.
• Tuesday: Breezy in the afternoon, temps: high: 51, low: 38.
• Wednesday: Cloudy, with a high of 52 and low of 36 degrees.

📸 Around Lorton

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Lorton

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★ Featured events ★

Saturday January 24

• Merritt Academy Winter Open Campus/Open House
  9211 Arlington Blvd, Fairfax
  9:30 am

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Other local events

Sunday January 25

• Into The Woods
  Workhouse Arts Center , 9518 Workhouse Wy , Lorton
  2:00 pm

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🗓 Events Nearby

Monday January 12

• Little Makers
  Central Library - Community Room
  10:30 am
• Mommy and Me Creative Movement
  Haymarket Gainesville Library - Haymarket Gainesville Community Room
  10:30 am
• Family Story Time
  Potomac Library - Potomac Community Room
  10:30 am
• PWC Tech Help
  Potomac Library -
  10:30 am
• Craft and Chat: Open Craft
  Potomac Library -
  1:00 pm
• County Resource Table
  Dumfries Library -
  2:00 pm
• Preschool Skill Builders
  Potomac Library - Potomac Community Room
  2:00 pm
• Tween STEAM Club
  Manassas City Library -
  4:30 pm
• Reading to Dogs
  Independent Hill Library -
  4:30 pm
• Open Enrollment for Virginia Marketplace
  Central Library - Group Study Room A
  5:00 pm
• Chess Club - Elementary Edition
  Montclair Library - Montclair Community Room
  5:00 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Two southbound travel lanes on VA-28 in Fairfax County are closed due to a crash, and a westbound crash on I-66 at VA-245 Exit 31 in Fauquier County has been cleared.
  1:01PM on Jan 10: Three southbound travel lanes on VA-28 are closed due to a crash 0.6 miles north of I-66 in Fairfax County. (Nextdoor )

• Clark Construction Group posted a job opening for Carpenter in Lorton. Apply here.
• Johnston & Murphy posted a job opening for Full-Time Stock Associate in Woodbridge. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Lorton here.

🗞 Nearby News

Woodbridge

• Sarah Everhardt places fifth at U.S. Figure Skating Nationals (insidenova.com)
• The Erol's Video Club Locations Many Maryland and Northern VA Kids Grew Up With (mocoshow.com)

Fort Belvoir

• Child in Northern Virginia diagnosed with measles after international travel (13newsnow.com)
• Skater Maxim Naumov Makes U.S. Olympic Team One Year After Parents' Fatal D.C. Plane Crash (eonline.com)

Springfield

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-- The Patch AM Team

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