By JEN CARDINES STAFF WRITER Southington is just six weeks away from opening the 49th annual Apple Harvest Festival and officials have kicked into high gear for the final preparations. “It’s right around the corner basically,” said festival coordinator Jim…
APPLE HARVEST ROAD RACES All races are sponsored by the Southington Community YMCA. Forms are available for pre-registration (by Sept. 30 at noon) at the YMCA membership desk. All race info and on-line registration info can be found at sccymca.org/apple.…
Preparations for the 2017 Apple Harvest Festival are well underway and the Southington-Cheshire Community YMCA is tackling another feature. A Road Race T-shirt design contest is currently open for submissions through July 31, and the winning design will be announced…
By JEN CARDINES STAFF WRITER Each year around May or June, the Apple Harvest Festival committee begins to think about candidates for the Parade Grand Marshal, a person who leads hundreds of marchers through Southington’s downtown area during the big…
Are you looking for an opportunity to be more involved with community events while having fun at the same time? The Apple Harvest festival is looking for Apple Harvest hostesses for this fall’s festival. Applicants must be Southington residents going…
By JEN CARDINES STAFF WRITER It may only be January, but the Apple Harvest Festival (AHF) supervisory committee has already taken strides to make the 2017 festival a crowd pleaser. At their first meeting of the year on Jan. 19,…
By JEN CARDINES STAFF WRITER Thousands swarmed the downtown area for the second weekend of the Apple Harvest Festival (AHF) for the craft fair, good eats, carnival rides, and live entertainment. The AHF team was fighting the weather again, but…
By JEN CARDINES STAFF WRITER After the parade, entertainment shows, and contests, don’t be fooled. There’s still much more to come for the second weekend of the Apple Harvest Festival (AHF) as more than 60 vendors descend upon the town…
By BRIAN JENNINGS STAFF WRITER Weather looked very gloomy and similar to the grey skies and clouds that loomed over Columbus Boulevard last year, but a wet pavement was all that the 37th annual Southington Apple Harvest Road Races on…
By JOHN GORALSKI EDITOR Anthony Angelillo Jr., or “A.J.” as he’s known in the family, almost knocked his grandmother to the ground as she walked in the front door last Wednesday. As soon as he saw, the elementary school student…
