ROMEO – The 2026 Romeo Peach Festival kicked off on Thursday, celebrating its ninety fifth yr locally, and the enjoyable will proceed by means of Labor Day.
What started as a celebration of the tip of the peach harvest in Romeo 95 years in the past has advanced into one of many neighborhood’s most highly-anticipated occasions. The competition began again in 1931 and through the years it’s grown into an end-of-summer custom for therefore many households, with way more than simply contemporary peaches for festivalgoers to get pleasure from.
From carnival rides and reside leisure to a wide-variety of food and drinks choices, there isn’t any scarcity of actions to get pleasure from at this yr’s occasion. The competition additionally has a youngsters market the place younger entrepreneurs get the prospect to place their enterprise concepts to work.
Other points of interest deliberate for Monday embrace a kids’s parade at 10 a.m., the Hometown Parade at 1:30 p.m., reside performances from 2XL band and way more.
For a full schedule of occasions, go to romeopeachfestival.com.