First Friday Fall Festival & Main Street Ribbon-Cutting

The festivities include a 5:30 PM ribbon-cutting ceremony marking the completion of infrastructure repairs and sidewalk reconstruction along Main Street. The ceremony will take place at the head of Main Street, between Catskill Chocolate Co. and Loomie’s Luncheonette. Main Street will be closed to traffic from the intersection of Main and Water streets to the traffic light from 5–9 PM for the celebration.

The celebration includes: 

• Live entertainment by Lex Grey and The Urban Pioneers
• Puppy Pub Crawl. 2 rescued puppies will be leading the crawl with Precious Pound Pups as the handler.
  • Route: Meet at La Conca D’Oro – 6pm; Hemlock – 6:20pm; Left Bank Ciders – 6:45pm; Phos – 7:15pm; End at Chemistry Wine Bar – 7:30pm.
• Pumpkin rolling contest
• Mr. Twisty will be making balloon animals
• Scarecrow entertainer
• Silent Disco
• 50/50 raffles
• Merchant passports and swag bags: When you purchase a signature drink, your name goes into a door prize for a merchant gift card.
  • Specials include La Conca D’Oro’s Lemontini, Hemlock’s “Worst in Show” bourbon cocktail with fresh lemon, honey and cinnamon, Left Bank Ciders’ “Pick ’em” aronia berry and black currant cider co-ferment, Chemistry’s Cotton Candy Prosecco, and Phos’s “Athens After Dark” Walnut Old Fashioned, plus nonalcoholic hot spiced cider outside.
• Merchants & restaurants will have specials/discounts.

Shop, dine, and explore downtown as we celebrate the completion of the major infrastructure project and the renewed beauty of our historic merchant district.