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Parties in the Park in downtown Muskegon canceled this summer Updated 2:28 PM; Today 2:28 PM Muskegon's Parties in the Park have been canceled for 2021 due to uncertainties surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. (MLive file photo) Facebook Share MUSKEGON, MI – Muskegon’s weekly Parties in the Park in downtown won’t be happening again this year. The organization made the announcement on Facebook Friday, April 23, saying it’s hoping to hold one “large-scale” Parties in the Park event the weekend of Aug. 20. This is the second summer the Friday night parties in Hackley Park have been c...

Muskegon Summer Wine Up returns this June CNN and last updated 2021-04-23 11:23:22-04 MUSKEGON, Mich. — The second-annual Muskegon Summer Wine Up festival will happen at Hackley Park this June. It’ll be held from 2-8 p.m. on Saturday, June 12, according to a news release Friday. The wine festival pays homage to the beginning of summer and debuted in 2019 at Hackley Park with 10 different wineries. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the festival wasn’t held last year. This year’s Muskegon Summer Wine Up will feature 20 different wineries and more than 100 different wines, sa...

Muskegon July 4 fireworks show canceled due to ‘unknowns’ of COVID-19 Updated Mar 10, 2021; MUSKEGON, MI – For the second summer in a row, the city of Muskegon will not have a public Fourth of July fireworks display. The Muskegon RockStock Music Festival provides the annual fireworks show, and organizers canceled the 20,000-person event due to concerns about COVID-19. “We didn’t take it lightly,” said Brandon Baskin, a festival organizer with B. Baskin Enterprises. “It was a really hard decision. This is our baby.” Rockstock started in 2008 as a one-day event featuring local ...

Just as the title says... sorry foodies. Every summer the city of Muskegon highlights their local eats (restaurants, vendors, food trucks) with a food festival called "Taste of Muskegon." However, due to the uncertainty of COVID-19 restrictions festival organizers have decided to move the festival to this fall. The director of Taste of Muskegon told the Grand Rapids Business Journal that they made the final decision after speaking with local business owners and everyone agreed having the festival in June would hurt attendance numbers. We hope that by moving to the fall, we can gather in grea...

Grand Rapids Business Journal th year in the fall instead of the summer due to COVID-19 gathering restrictions. The Muskegon-based food festival said Monday that it will move its annual event to Sept. 24-25 this year at Hackley Park, 350 W. Webster Ave. in Muskegon, in response to the current gathering restrictions with the hope that they will be more relaxed by this fall. “We talked with many of the restaurant and food truck owners, and it was very clear that returning the event to the park was everyone’s first choice,” said Ann Meisch, director of Taste of Muskegon. “To make that ha...