GENESEO – Though a brief shower dampened Main Street for a few minutes on Friday, Summerfest is picking up steam. Happy shoppers are flitting from tent to tent, nibbling goodies and browsing through merchandise at exclusive sales and merchants. According to our news partner News10NBC, Saturday, the biggest day for the festival, has a 50 percent chance of rain, down from 60 percent on Friday. Highs for Friday were 87, with a low of 68 with … [Read more...]
Geneseo Summerfest has Most Registered Vendors in 3 Years
GENESEO – Geneseo Rotary and the Geneseo Merchants Association (GMA) are looking forward to opening Summerfest on Friday with more registered participants than in the past three years. According to GMA, nearly all available sidewalk spaces on Main Street are to be occupied by either established businesses with sidewalk specials or vendors from afar during the July 8 and 9 festival. This is in addition to 35 more vendors in the village … [Read more...]
Summerfest 2015 Grows to Include Beer Garden
Reading this on your phone or tablet? Download our new app on Google Play and the Apple store. GENESEO – This year will be the first Summerfest ever to get a taste of delicious local beers and wines at a beer tent set up at the Village Park next to the musicians' stage, which will feature diverse and colorful breweries and wineries from across the Genesee Valley and Finger Lakes region. According to the Geneseo Rotary Club, which with the … [Read more...]
GMA and Geneseo Rotary Growing Summerfest from the Roots
Reading this on your phone or tablet? Download our new app on Google Play and the Apple store. GENESEO – The Geneseo Merchant's Association (GMA) and the Rotary Club of Geneseo are again joining forces to make this July's Summerfest as vibrant and lively as ever, saying that although new local insurance requirements forced out many out of town merchants last year, they are ready to regrow Summerfest from where it started, as a weekend of … [Read more...]
EDITORIAL: Personal Interests or a Healthy Community?
Given that Geneseo is inconsolably divided over SummerFest and National Guard training in the Village, the next 500 words or so are dedicated to the state of the community, not the issues themselves. Keep in mind that the purpose of this piece is not to push one side of any issue, but to keep us all aware that what we do each and every day makes us either community builders or community destroyers. I have lived in the Village of Geneseo for 21 … [Read more...]
Skycoasters Concert Finishes Off Successful Saturday at SummerFest
GENESEO-- If the weekend at the Geneseo Summer Festival seemed like it could not get any better Saturday afternoon, Saturday night it did. The Skycoasters, a cover band well known in the Rochester area made yet another appearance in the Village Park in Geneseo and like everything else the weekend has brought, the concert was excellent. "We have been coming to the Skycoasters concert every year that they have been here." Said Tim Sparks, a … [Read more...]
Teddy Bear Parade and Dime Carnival a hit
GENESEO-- The mid-morning activities that the Geneseo Summer Festival offers on Saturday are quite popular with children that are typically shorter than most of their stuffed animals. The longstanding Teddy Bear Parade that takes place during the late morning on Saturday of the Geneseo Summer Festival was exceptionally popular on this particular day. Hundreds of children and parents flocked to St. Michael's Episcopal Church to march in the … [Read more...]
Summerfest Dropped by Geneseo Merchants Association After Village Board Battle
GENESEO - With only 6 weeks to go until Summerfest, the Geneseo Merchants Association (GMA) announced that it will not be running the festival this year in light of new charges to street vendors implemented by the Village Board. GMA took charge of the festival 2 years ago from the Welcome Center as attendance to the event continued to rise, but a Village requirement passed in 2012 demands that anyone who sets up a stand or kiosk on Main Street … [Read more...]