Freeport Fall Festival returns with a new tradition

The annual Freeport Fall Festival returned and was held in Woodcleft Avenue on Oct. 30. 

The Village of Freeport was thrilled with the significant number of residents who attended the event and participated in the celebrations and other festival-related activities.

Visitors were able to observe the Halloween themed parade and participate in various activities such as trick or treating, a chowder contest, and shopping at the farmer’s market.  The Board of Trustees and Mayor Kennedy expressed their gratitude to everyone who took part in the festivities.

Many children took pictures with the Freeport Memorial Library’s “Bookmonster,” a vehicle dressed to resemble a monster with eyeballs, fangs, and caution tape wrapped around it. The library’s staff distributed bookmarks, pencils, little toys, and  information about their upcoming events and programs. 

The 33rd annual Freeport Fire Expo was also held during the fall celebration, with the fire department doing live demonstrations, displaying fire apparatus, and giving away other goods.

After five years of competing at Eisenhower Park in Westbury, the Nassau Aviators and Jeremy’s Misfits finally got their big break when they were permitted to compete against each other for the first time at the Fall Festival on the municipal parking lot at the Nautical Mile. The Nassau Aviators are a wheelchair softball team made up of disabled players on wheelchairs that compete against Jeremy’s Misfits, a team of able-bodied players based in Freeport and sponsored by Jeremy’s Ale House, a restaurant and bar on the Nautical Mile. 

For years, the two teams had hoped to play a game during the Freeport annual festival. However, the pandemic proved to be a stumbling block, making staging this spectacle difficult while it was still in the planning phases.

The two teams were eventually allowed to take part in their dream match thanks to adequate organizing and outreach to the village and community, and they hope their adversarial games may become an annual Freeport festival tradition. 

The Nassau Aviators in the end, ultimately defeated Jeremys Misfits 9-5.