Plans For Halloween Activities Announced In Newtown Borough

NEWTOWN BOROUGH, PA — The Newtown Borough Recreation Board has announced plans for this year's Halloween Parade, which will take place on Saturday, October 29.

Costumed children and adults are invited to gather in the parking lot in front of the Stocking Works on South State Street for a costume judging contest beginning at 8:30 a.m.

After the judging is complete, the Council Rock High School North Marching Band will lead a parade of costumed children and adults north on State Street to Greene Street and then east on Greene to Brian Gregg Park where the band will entertain and the best costumes will be announced.

In addition, the Newtown Borough Recreation Board has announced that the parks and recreation board will host its first ever Halloween Movies in the Park featuring the film, "Hocus Pocus," on Friday, October 21 from 6:30 to 9 p.m. The free event will be held at Linton Memorial Park at Lincoln and Penn.

Other Halloween events in town include window painting on Saturday, Oct. 16. Residents and visitors to town will be able to watch individuals, families and groups “Paint the Town” for Halloween. The rain date is Sunday, Oct. 17. Prizes ‘will be awarded at the Newtown Halloween
Parade.

And mark your calendar for Oct. 30 when “Eric Mintel Investigates” brings its Paranormal Projection Room to the Newtown Theatre for a spooky Halloween Eve presentation.

During the event, Mintel and his paranormal TV crew will screen videos from their most recent cases that include Bucks County hot spots and beyond. Paranormal activity captured on video include UFOs over Doylestown, spooky spirits at the Plumsteadville Inn, historical high jinks at New Hope’s Wedgwood Inn, the upright canine known as the Beast of Bray Road in Wisconsin, disembodied voices in a haunted Georgia theater, and an encounter with Bigfoot in the New Jersey Pine Barrens.

Tickets for this event are $15 for the public and $10 for theatre members. The theatre is located at 120 N. State Street in Newtown Borough. For more information and tickets, visit www.TheNewtownTheatre.com/even... .