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Sturdy Shelter Brewing Hosts Third Annual Oktoberfest!
Batavia, IL., August 29, 2025. Get your lederhosen or dirndl ready, friends! Sturdy Shelter Brewing’s Third Annual Oktoberfest Celebration is September 12-14, 2025 at 10 S. Shumway Ave., Batavia. Join the festivities with live music featuring traditional Bavarian tunes, a fun brewery sing-along, authentic German favorites from our food partners, and pretzels made from our spent grain! Compete in the state-qualifying stein holding contest, costume contest, and, of course, enjoy our delicious Shelterfest
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Donate Your Peppers for the Batavia Community Hot Sauce
Batavia, IL -- The Batavia Interfaith Food Pantry and Gindo’s Spice of Life are teaming up for a third time on a Batavia community hot sauce, and we need your peppers! Gindo’s will be collecting peppers September 9 through October 1 (10am-2pm, Tuesday through Saturday), and will use these peppers to create Fire on the Fox: Three-Peat Heat . The proceeds from the sale of the hot sauce will benefit the Batavia Interfaith Food Pantry & Clothes Closet. In 2023, the first collaboration between Gindo’s and the
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New Depot Museum Exhibit Tells Batavia’s Story through Quirky and Unique Objects
Article by: Abbey MondiBATAVIA – A grenade. A foot prosthesis. A painted mannequin. These are some of the quirkier items from the Batavia Historical Society's collection now on display at the Batavia Depot Museum, a facility of Batavia Park District.The new fall exhibit “Uncovered: Quirks and Curiosities of the Batavia Historical Society” opened on July 26, and will run through Nov. 23 with an opening reception on Friday, Aug. 8, from 6 to 8 p.m. What do a wreath made of human hair and an Italian chair
