Halfmoon Fall Festival – by M. LeMay

Celebrations Committee Annual Fall Festival:
HALFMOON - It was a beautiful, but breezy fall afternoon at the Halfmoon Town Park on Saturday, were the Halfmoon Celebrations Committee held its 6th Annual Fall Festival. More than 30 organizations, town councilmen, businesses and fire departments kicked of the celebrations with a parade down RT. 236 starting at Knox Woods and ending in the Town Park. The Halfmoon Celebrations committee this year went with the Wizard of Oz theme; it was a big hit with the kids and helping doing a little sing along to get the crowd into was done by The Clifton Park Halfmoon Fire Department’s Chief Arthur Hunsinger. Grand Marshal this year was Norma Morris life-long resident and supporter of the Town of Halfmoon.

Read the entire article in the Sept. 25th issue of the Express.

Halfmoon Turns 225/Parade & Festival – By Melissa LeMay

HALFMOON - It was a beautiful fall afternoon at the Halfmoon Town Park on Saturday,
Halfmoon Celebrations Committee held their 5th Annual Fall Festival. It also marked Halfmoon’s 225th Anniversary of the formation of the Town. More than 30 organizations, Councilman, businesses and Fire Departments kicked off the celebration with a parade down RT. 236 between Knox Woods and ended in the Town Park.

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Halfmoon to Celebrate 225th – By Michael Bielawski

Halfmoon - The town of Half-Moon will have its fifth annual Fall Festival and Parade on Saturday the 21st.  However more significant, it will be the town's 225th anniversary, which we know largely thanks to the recovery and restoration of old town records.  Most of Half-Moon's records were destroyed in a fire in 1853, but not the minutes of the very first official town meeting of April 1st, 1788.

Here's what was written for the first meeting:

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