Having fun at the Patchogue Fall Festival

Gary Haber

Posted 10/24/24

Greater Patchogue Chamber of Commerce held its 11th annual Fall Festival on Saturday and its first under new executive director Silvana Aloiso.

This year’s event included a host of …

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Having fun at the Patchogue Fall Festival

Brian Hope and son Connor, 2, decorate a pumpkin at Carnegie Library.

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Gru from the “Minions” movies was one of the characters during Saturday’s costume parade.

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Marie Kropp of Marie’s Imaginative Face & Body Art paints a ghost on the cheek of Madison, 6, during Saturday’s Greater Patchogue Chamber of Commerce Fall Festival.

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Pia Finnigan, librarian assistant at Patchogue-Medford Library, holds one of the Halloween costumes the library was giving away during the festival.

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Posted Wednesday, October 23, 2024 12:00 am

Chili and chowder competition winners

Chili:

1. Whiskey Neat

2. Meetball Place

3. Standard Rec

Chowder:

1. Catch

2. Dirty Taco

(it was so close, fewer than 10 votes!)

3. Meetball Place

Gary Haber

Greater Patchogue Chamber of Commerce held its 11th annual Fall Festival on Saturday and its first under new executive director Silvana Aloiso.

This year’s event included a host of activities for kids including face painting, pumpkin decorating at Carnegie Library, and a Halloween costume parade.

“It’s going really well, and we got lucky with the weather,” Aloiso said of the sunny day in which temperatures reached the mid 70s. “It’s our 11th Fall Festival and the kids are as cute as ever.”

For the adults, the annual chili and chowder competition was a highlight.

Fifteen restaurants offered their favorite variety of chili, from Daisy Nashville Lounge’s Colorado Beef Chili to Del Fuego’s Turkey Chorizo Chili topped with a Mexican cheese blend.

Thirteen restaurants participated in the chowder competition including Whiskey Neat, which offered a corn chowder, and Catch Oyster Bar, which offered a Long Island clam chowder.