The 61st Annual Pumpkin Festival will soon be underway.

The Belmont County staple will run from Sept. 25-28 with the fan favorite Giant Pumpkin Weigh-Off being held Wednesday, Sept. 24, starting at 6 p.m.

The “voice of the Pumpkin Festival” John Rataiczak said that the weigh-off will be livestreamed on the festival’s Facebook page. He added that a new addition to the livestream is that he will be teaming up with One JB Digital Media to go around the village to showcase the various local businesses during the livestream while the pumpkins are being removed from the scale.

“We selected 10 to 15 businesses to start this year. We’re starting off sort of small just to see how it goes,” Rataiczak said. “We’re going to do a video that’s sort of like Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, that are just s

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