MIDDLETOWN—The evening was moonlit and unseasonably warm—a perfect reason for thousands of Middletown residents to come out for a parade and lighting of the city’s Christmas tree in Festival Square on Nov. 28.
The Middie high school band, football players, cheerleaders, and color guard escorted Santa on a firetruck, the Erie Bell rung out from its own truck, and the Maybrook Boy Scout glockenspiel band brought holiday cheer to the estimated two thousand onlookers watching along North Street and waiting at Festival Square.
The tree lighting brings the community together.
