The Beallsville Fall Festival with vendors, food, games and more will take place this weekend for fall, family fun.
The festival will begin at 11 a.m. Saturday at Washington Street in Beallsville.
The Barnesville Hutton Memorial Library prepares for its Storybook Park event, which features interactive stories and crafts for families.
Storybook Park will be from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at the park. It will be located at Barnesville Middle School if inclement weather.
The Barnesville Pumpkin Festival Antique and Classic Car Show will return Sunday from cars across the region.
The Barnesville Pumpkin Festival, a tradition loved by area residents, reaches people worldwide, including a couple from Italy who joined the festival Friday evening.
Italy natives Ricardo Zanini and Marta Raffaello, who are key contributors at Pietro Fiorentini in Weirton, WV, traveled to the Barnesville Pumpkin Festival for an evening.
The auction of the King Pumpkin along with the carved pumpkin and six handblown glass pumpkins Saturday afternoon following the parade netted over $20,000 for the festival.
Once again, Guy Smithhisler, professional pumpkin carver and food artist from Columbus, came to Barnesville to share his artistic talents with festivalgoers.
Pumpkin Festival goers spent Wednesday night seeing friends, watching the weigh-off and eating food.
Early Thursday evening, Belmont County Tourism Director Jackee Pugh cut the ribbon to officially open the 61st annual Barnesville Pumpkin Festival. Pugh was joined by pumpkin festival committee members, John Rataiczak, “official voice of the festival”, and the festival royalty, Queen Ella Keller, Festival Princess Maggie Schnegg and Mini Miss Rose Jefferis. WTOV Meteorologist Nathan […]
The Pumpkin Festival weigh-in brought in 21 entries, top 10 winners and Bill Neptune winning the King Pumpkin title.
Five-time winner Bill Neptune, from New Concord, said it felt amazing to win the King Pumpkin title. Initially he thought his pumpkin would only weigh around 1,700 lbs, and after losing three of his pumpkins during growing, he brought his one pumpkin left, which brought him the winning title.
Wednesday afternoon as activities for the pumpkin festival were gearing up, members and supporters of the Barnesville State Theater Company celebrated achieving a $50,000 fund drive match raising $100,000 in the “100 days of summer” for renovations of the theater.