Rockingham Old Home Days wraps up with unforgettable enjoyable

ROCKINGHAM, Vt. – Rockingham Old Home Days 2025 has formally come to an in depth, and what a celebration it was. v, unbelievable native expertise, and a robust sense of group pleasure within the coronary heart of Bellows Falls.

From the bustling Main Street to the rocking Waypoint Center, attendees had been handled to dwell music from native favorites Milkhouse Heaters, Intercept, and MV19, battling knights in armor, strolling circus performers, and quite a few meals and craft distributors who stuffed the air with scrumptious aromas and inventive artistry. A blinding fireworks show over the Connecticut River was the grand finale of the festivities on Saturday night time.

This yr marked the inaugural Athens Pizza Hoops Contest, the place younger sharpshooters took heart stage. We’re thrilled to announce our winners. Brady, 9, and Xander, 11, each wowed the group by sinking 10 out of 10 pictures of their age divisions, and every took residence a brand-new HP laptop computer.

Runners-up Scout (underneath 10s) and Max (11 and up) hit 9 pictures every and earned AirPods for his or her stellar efficiency.

Third place winners Marcel (underneath 10s), and a tie between Kaitlin and Riley (11 and up), every acquired an Athens Pizza reward certificates and an Athens Pizza T-shirt. Huge because of Athens Pizza for sponsoring this thrilling new custom.

We additionally launched the People’s Choice Awards, the place festivalgoers voted for his or her favourite experiences, and the outcomes are in.

2025 People’s Choice Award Winners: Best Food Vendor, Bumble’s Birria, for daring, unforgettable taste that had traces all day; Best Craft Vendor, Bob Patterson Woodworking, whose attractive handcrafted creations had been true crowd-pleasers; and Best Activity, Parks Place Dunk Tank, the place the group got here collectively to make a splash for an excellent trigger.

A heartfelt thank-you to all our unbelievable distributors for making Rockingham Old Home Days 2025 one to recollect.

And congratulations to Benjamin Hewitt, winner of the 2025 Exit Survey Raffle Basket, crammed with beneficiant donations from Dari Joy, Donovan’s Bellows Falls, Jim’s Arcade, Village Square Booksellers, The Rock and Hammer, Flat Iron Cooperative, The Little Art Supply Store, Bellows Beats, and Vermont Vines.

We encourage everybody to help all of the wonderful native companies that assist make this occasion so particular. None of this is able to be potential with out the help of our unbelievable sponsors. Thank you to Best Septic, Bellows Falls Moose Lodge, Great River Hydro, Athens Pizza, Springfield Hospital, James Plumbing and Heating, Halladay’s Harvest Barn, WOOL FM, FACT TV, 802 Credit Union, The Vermont Journal, Springfield Area Parent Child Center, and Berkley & Veller. Your dedication to group shines vivid every year.

Festival attendees overwhelmingly praised Rockingham Old Home Days, with 99% of respondents saying that they’d suggest it to a good friend, and a 4.2 ranking out of 5 stars. Highlights included the scrumptious meals, dwell music, family-friendly actions like bounce homes and video games, and the sense of group spirit and togetherness that stuffed the day. Many additionally appreciated the fireworks finale as a standout second. Suggestions for enchancment included extra ongoing actions for teenagers, clearer occasion scheduling, and larger meals selection – particularly choices for various dietary wants. These invaluable observations will assist form a fair stronger occasion in 2026.

Lastly, the Great Falls Regional Chamber of Commerce want to prolong an enormous thank-you to everybody who attended, volunteered, carried out, and took part in Rockingham Old Home Days 2025. Your presence and suggestions assist us develop and enhance yearly. We’re already trying ahead to our fiftieth annual celebration in 2026.

Stay linked with us at www.gfrcc.org for photographs, updates, and future occasions.