{"id":197200,"date":"2025-09-16T21:14:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T02:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=197200"},"modified":"2025-09-16T21:14:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T02:14:32","slug":"harvest-moon-festival-is-this-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/09\/16\/harvest-moon-festival-is-this-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Harvest Moon Festival is this Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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The seventh annual Harvest Moon Festival is back and better than ever, and will transform Main Street in downtown Van Wert into a celebration of all things fall this Saturday, September 20.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Thanks to Cooper Farms, this year\u2019s lead sponsor, the festival will once again bring the community together for a night of music, food, and fun \u2013 all set against the backdrop of the courthouse and the beautiful autumn moon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Festivities kick off at 4 p.m. with over 10 food trucks and more than 20 market vendors ready to serve up incredible eats and unique finds. Families won\u2019t want to miss the Kids Zone, open from 4-8 p.m. featuring pumpkin painting, face painting, and bounce houses for hours of fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the sun sets, the City Lights Band will take the stage at 6 p.m., rocking downtown until 10 p.m. with crowd favorites. Guests can also enjoy a car show, Kids Zone and seasonal treats throughout the evening \u2013 the perfect recipe for a small-town fall night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Main Street Van Wert Executive Director Mitch Price thanked all of the sponsors who are making the traditional festival possible: Cooper Farms, Van Wert County Foundation, Greenway Bank, OhioHealth, State Farm, Citizens National Bank, Tekni-Plex, First Financial Bank, Superior Credit Union, and Danfoss.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Submitted information The seventh annual Harvest Moon Festival is back and better than ever, and will transform Main Street in downtown Van Wert into a celebration of all things fall this Saturday, September 20. Thanks to Cooper Farms, this year\u2019s lead sponsor, the festival will once again bring the community together for a night of music, food, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 16:15:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197202,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197200\/revisions\/197202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}