Christmas Coming to Cherry Valley

CHERRY VALLEY - Join the celebration in Cherry Valley on Friday, December 6 for the start of the Cherry Valley Holiday Weekend with a lighted tractor parade to bring down Father Christmas to the center of the Village for a Tree Lighting. More performances and spectacle to be included as well. And as part of Cherry Valley’s First Friday, there will be an Open House for Holiday Marketplace at 25 Main Collective (21 Main Street) with food by Erich. 

The Collective artists have brought new work and holiday items. Red Shed Ale House (10 Main Street) will have live music and The Telegraph School (82 Alden Street) with have a holiday themed Open Mic. Pink Squirrel (4 Main Street), Plaide Palette (45 Main Street) and the Cherry Valley Bookstore (83 Alden Street) will be open for shopping, and restaurants: Rose & Kettle (4 Lancaster St), Tryon Inn and Backdoor Bar ( 124 Main Street), Triangle Tavern (189 Main Street) will be open as well.

Saturday and Sunday of the Cherry Valley Holiday Weekend will be filled with activity and will include an Open House at the Cherry Valley Museum (49 Main Street), and Santa will be there from 1-3 hoping to host kids of all ages. There will be an Open House at Plaide Palette (45 Main Street) both Saturday and Sunday, 10-5 with a raffle and holiday sales. The Girl Scouts will be selling donuts and holiday drinks on Saturday 10-5, and 25 Main Collective will have a Take & Make class with Maria DeAngelis on Sunday Dec 8, 11-3. All shops will be open Sat 10-5 & Sunday 10-3, and there will be the Historic Cherry Valley Business Fundraising Raffle all weekend long. Donations from local shops, artists and restaurants and community members can be yours for as little as $1 ticket! Proceeds from the raffle will be split between the group and “HQ” at Cherry Valley-Springfield School, an organization that provides personal care items, school supplies and basic necessities free to students within the school. For a special treat, there will be a closing party for the Weekend at The Limestone Mansion (33 Main Street) starting at 3 PM. Join us for music from a duet of Musicians of Ma’alwyck and the live drawing of our fundraising raffle, food & drink on the ground floor of the Mansion.

And there will be more! More information can be had at www.cherryvalley.com or by visiting the Historic Cherry Valley Businesses page on Facebook.