Mburgh Time Capsule to be Buried on Oct 10 - 10 October 2025

Staff Capsule

MIDDLEBURGH - A time capsule with items from 2025 will be buried in Memorial Park on Main Street in Middleburgh on the afternoon of Friday, October 10, the day before the annual Fall Festival parade.

The time capsule will include pictures of local buildings, menus, the school, and other items that are similar to those in a time capsule that was unearthed last summer. The photos for both time capsules were taken by David Avitabile. Melanie Laraway, the outgoing Middleburgh village clerk, and deputy clerk Becky Kelley, the incoming village clerk, are heading the effort to find items to put in the time capsule.

The time capsule will be buried on Friday, October 10 at 3pm.

It will be buried in the same spot in the Memorial Park on upper Main Street and will duplicate what was in the original so the public to give a 50-year picture of the village. The items will include pictures of buildings, menus, and other items.

A sealer machine will be used so moisture will not get in the items. Funeral director Matt Coltrain said a new and better container could be used or the same box may be used with new sealant.

Some new technology may be buried. "Maybe a flash drive and hopefully 25 years form now we are still using flash drives," Ms. Laraway said.

The former time capsule was buried on October 11, 1997.

Last August, Middleburgh village officials traveled back in time to that date when they unearthed and opened a time capsule that was buried before the Fall Festival parade more than 26 years ago. The time capsule, a marble internment box donated by funeral director Joe Spink, had been buried in upper Memorial Park. The items are still on display at the village hall on Main Street.