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Spring Fest in Burgaw to take place first weekend in May

Burgaw Courthouse Square will have spring festival taking place the weekend of May 3. (Courtesy photo)

BURGAW — A spring festival will take place in a quaint Pender County town the first weekend in May.

Pender Spring Festival is celebrating 46 years in Burgaw Courthouse Square. Local makers and artisans will vend homemade, handgrown and homegrown products. Plus there will be live performances from area dance and school groups, musicians and more. Kids’ activities and games will be available and artwork from school-aged children will be on display.

The free festival takes place May 3, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and the Friday night before, on May 2 at 6 p.m., the town square will open for a street dance.

“Spring Fest is one of the highlights of our year,” Olivia Dawson, mayor of Burgaw, said in a release. “It’s a celebration of tradition and everything that makes Pender County a special place to call home.”


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Shea Carver
Shea Carver
Shea Carver is the editor in chief at Port City Daily. A UNCW alumna, Shea worked in the print media business in Wilmington for 22 years before joining the PCD team in October 2020. She specializes in arts coverage — music, film, literature, theatre — the dining scene, and can often be tapped on where to go, what to do and who to see in Wilmington. When she isn’t hanging with her pup, Shadow Wolf, tending the garden or spinning vinyl, she’s attending concerts and live theater.

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