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Beaver Lake Nature Center (Baldwinsville, NY) A weekend of old-fashioned fun, eclectic entertainment, quality arts and crafts, unique games and nature related activities await all at Beaver Lake Nature Center’s 33rd Annual Golden Harvest Festival on Saturday and Sunday, September 11, 10am-6pm, and 12, 10am-5pm. Saturday, September 11 Sunday, September 12 Main Stage Main Stage [...]
(Syracuse, NY) The 2010 Discover Clean & Safe Boat will be at the Central NY Fall Boat Show & Sale at the NYS Fairgrounds in Syracuse September 10-12. Show manager Drew Wickham says, “We are pleased to add the Discover Clean & Safe Boat to the show as an opportunity for boaters to be reminded [...]
Merry Mischief will make their final Wegmans Landing Sing-a-Long appearance on Friday, August 13 from 6pm to 8pm at Onondaga Lake Park. The performance will take place near the Wegmans Playground in the Wegmans Landing section of the park. Visitors are encouraged to bring dinner or a snack and enjoy the performance. The musical duo’s [...]
(Baldwinsville, NY) The colorful Golden Harvest Festival returns to Beaver Lake Nature Center on Saturday, September 11, 10 am – 6 pm and Sunday, September 12, 10 am – 5 pm. Now in its 33rd year, this popular, old-fashioned country fair style event has something for everyone. Hands-on nature activities, horse-drawn hayrides, free canoeing, fresh [...]
(Syracuse, NY – Aug. 7-8, 2010) There will be no snow needed when hundreds of the fastest snowmobile drag racers from across the Unites States and Canada compete in the Top Gun Shoot Out Snowmobile Grass Drags on the Moody Mile race track at the New York State Fairgrounds on Aug. 7 and 8. This [...]
The dastardly Capt. Alan Lincoln holds crew and passengers captive aboard the Judge Ben Wiles during Pirate Day 2009. Throughout the summer, Mid-Lakes Navigation will offer a variety of special events and theme cruises on Skaneateles Lake and the Erie Canal. “We’ve been in business many years, and we know that people are looking for [...]
More Than 500 Cyclists Registered for 400-Mile Trip from Buffalo to Albany The New York State Canal Corporation and Parks & Trails NY recently announced the beginning of the 12th Annual Cycling the Erie Canal, a 400-mile bicycling tour from Buffalo to Albany scheduled for July 11-18, 2010. The eight-day recreational bicycling tour will help [...]
Event organized by New Dimensions and Dazzle (Manlius, NY) A Silly Bandz buying and trading event called “Bandz-A-Palooza” will be held in Central New York on Saturday, July 17 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Silly Bandz are colorful, shaped silicone bracelets that are one of the hottest fads for children and teens in the [...]
(Liverpool, NY) One of Central New York’s premier summertime events, MVP Health Care Parkway Sundays, returns to Onondaga Lake Parkway, Sunday, July 11 for an eight week run. Every Sunday through August 29, Onondaga Lake Parkway in Liverpool will be closed to motorized traffic from 9 a.m. until 12 noon so inline skaters, joggers, walkers [...]
(Skaneateles, NY) Antique and classic boats from Florida, Michigan, Virginia, South Carolina, New Jersey, Maryland and Indiana will soon make their way to Skaneateles. As will a 1956 Lyman from Harrisburg, Pa., towed by a 1956 Buick, and a rare 1913 Matthews launch with its original Scripps engine, owned by one of four exhibitors from [...]