Pumpkin festival News

Proposed budget cuts in Keene leave little cash for the annual pumpkin festival, which attracts thousands of visitors.

Pumpkins will be rolled, thrown, mashed and even worn at Goomeri, 78 kilometres west of Gympie, in the South Burnett on Sunday.

Organisers of this weekend's Goomeri Pumpkin Festival in Queensland's South Burnett region are expecting visitors from all over the world.

Despite the popularity of the seven-year-old family-oriented haven, featuring a market and petting zoo plus hayrides and a pumpkin festival each fall, the iconic Nanaimo business Shady Mile Market will shut down this week.

At 6:30 p.m. Tuesday evening, Mayor Kevin Parsons called the regular city council meeting of Mountain City to order.

A pumpkin, beer and cider festival will be held for the first time at a pub near Warminster.

Inspecting entries in the pumpkin-growing competition at Ardgowan School are pupils Megan McLeod and Ashleigh Weir , dressed as scarecrows.

Just about everyone except the dedicated town officials who compile them consider annual town reports a cure for insomnia.

Pumpkins are being pitted against people in Milford, N.H., where residents are deciding what the town can afford during these tough economic times.

Waterford's Pumpkinfest, which came "very, very close to dying" this week due to a shortage of volunteers, has been saved by the town's Lions and Lionesses.