Who is excited for First Friday events to return?! We know we are! We have been busy the months of January and February, preparing for our 2015 event schedule. Our First Friday events kick-off in March, with our Culinary Tour - which is a ticketed event. Tickets will go one sale next week for this event. Please help us spread the word by sharing this schedule with your friends and family! Let them know how much fun they are missing if they miss First Fridays! You can download

Get your tickets for our March First Friday event, the Culinary Tour! Tickets are $20 each and available at Brenda's Beanery. Only 120 tickets are available for this exclusive fundraising event for Main Street Greenville! Thank you to Handshoe Design Collaborative for sponsoring the event. #events

Tickets for the Culinary Tour, our March First Friday event, have been printed and will be available for purchase at Brenda's Beanery on Monday (2/9) at 10 am. Tickets are $20 each and will feature samples from 10 of our downtown establishments: Romer's Catering & Entertainment Facilities, The Bistro Off Broadway, The Don's Pizza, D'Alessios, Janet's Broadway Bakery, The A & B Coffee & Cake Co., Danny's Place, The Coffee Pot, Brenda's Beanery, and the KitchenAid Experience Re

Starting Monday, February 9th - purchase your tickets for the March First Friday event, The Culinary Tour! This event is sponsored by Handshoe Design Collaborative. Click HERE to learn more. #events

We are THRILLED to share the following info with you. Our Win the Window contest ran from November 15th - December 15th. It included 51 participating downtown businesses. Based upon the number of ticket rolls that we started with and the number of unused tickets that were returned, we have estimated a total of 110,300 tickets were submitted for our contest! Each ticket represented at least $5 spent at a downtown business. This gives us a total of $551,500 submitted for our co

Even though the weather was not in our favor for December's First Friday, numerous individuals and families made their way downtown to enjoy an array of activities scheduled for the evening - from free horse-drawn carriage rides to visiting with Santa! Rodao Farms provided the horse-drawn carriage rides and posted the following to their facebook page: "The Greenville community was definitely supportive of the downtown business area stores. Despite the continuous moisture gath

The awesome ladies at The Ivy League will hold a FREE gift wrapping workshop during First Friday! Swing by the shop from 7:00-9:00 pm on Friday evening and get the low-down on fresh and inspired package wrapping ideas! You'll have the best dressed gift under the tree this year! #events

St. Clair Manor will hold their Christmas at the Manor event from 5-9 pm during our First Friday activities THIS Friday night! Make the short trip to the gorgeous downtown gem for the following: *FREE Horse-Drawn Carriage Rides in front of St. Clair Manor, traveling down historic Broadway (these are in addition to the FREE carriage rides that will take place in front of the courthouse!) *FREE Hot Cider and Cookies *Live String Trio by The Workshop Learning Center *Vi

Join us downtown Greenville for the last First Friday for 2014 on Friday, December 5th! Get more info here. #events

Thank you to Brittany Carol Photography for joining us on Small Business Saturday and offering a FREE family photo to those who shopped downtown Greenville! You did an awesome job and we appreciate your support! :) To those who had their photos taken, Brittany has given you permission to download the images and have your own prints made! You can download them from our Facebook page, HERE. Lots of wonderful shots taken at one of our treasured historic buildings downtown Greenv

What a busy and fun day downtown Greenville! Thank you to everyone who shopped small and local businesses to help us celebrate Small Business Saturday! We were so busy at the Darke County Welcome Center, we didn't have time to leave to take any photos! Thank you to Lauren Mott for sharing this adorable shot of her family enjoying a carriage ride after supporting local businesses! If you captured a photo today, post it to our Facebook timeline or email it to agarrett@mainst

We are thrilled to announce that the evening of our parade, we were notified by Ohio Magazine that we have been voted the BEST Parade in Ohio by their readers! The best news? We weren't the only Darke County event / business to win! Stay tuned for more info - but until then, kudos to all of the entries, volunteers, and sponsors for our annual parade and thank you to all of the readers who voted for the event! How beautiful is this photo captured by one of our volunteer p

What an absolutely gorgeous evening for the 11th Annual Hometown Holiday Horse Parade (thanks Mother Nature, I owe ya one)!!! I will post a longer post in the next few days, but for now - if you were at the parade - please share your photos with us! We would love to see them! You can share them directly to our facebook timeline or email them to agarrett@mainstreetgreenville.org. THANK YOU to everyone involved in this year's parade. It is amazing how many people come togethe

Don’t miss the last First Friday event of 2014! Main Street Greenville invites you to December's First Friday Event – A Christmas Night, scheduled for the evening of Friday, December 5th. Sponsored by GTI (Greenville Technology, Inc.), this event will feature many fun activities in the downtown district for children of all ages to enjoy! “We hope many families will join us during December’s First Friday,” said Amber Garrett, Executive Director for Main Street Greenville. “Dow

Each year, we have commemorative brass bells engraved for all of our horse parade entries. We have a few extras available for purchase! We will also have a few bells from 2013 available (in case you missed getting one last year). Bells are $8.00 each and will be available for purchase at our merchandise table set-up in the gazebo in front of the courthouse. #events

On Black Friday (November 28th) & Small Business Saturday (November 29th) from 10 am - 6:30 pm - enjoy FREE Gift Wrapping at Readmore's Hallmark! Donations will go towards the Tri-Village Schools Junior / Senior New York Trip. #events

Will you have family in town for Thanksgiving this year? Would you love to have an updated family photo? We are excited that Brittany Carol Photography will join us downtown Greenville on Small Business Saturday, which will be on Saturday, November 29th! Brittany and Katie from The Ivy League will create a beautiful Christmas set-up on the steps of our gorgeous historic Darke County Courthouse and offer a FREE family photo to each family who comes downtown to help us ce

Win the Window has begun! So, how does it work? 1. Shop at participating businesses located downtown Greenville between November 15th thru December 15th. 2. Earn a ticket to win a window full of prizes (over $3,000 worth!) for every $5 spent at participating businesses. 3. The window full of prizes can be seen at Main Street Greenville's office at the Darke County Welcome Center (421 S. Broadway), next to the KitchenAid Experience Retail Center. 4. Drawing for the winner

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Terri Flood, Director of Marketing at Wayne HealthCare with Amber Garrett, Executive Director of Main Street Greenville. GREENVILLE, Ohio- As part of its commitment to the local community, Wayne HealthCare is proud to be a Platinum Sponsor of the 11th Annual Hometown Holiday Horse Parade on Saturday, November 22nd, 2014 at 7:00 pm in downtown Greenville. The 2014 Hometown Holiday Horse Parade, hosted by Main Street Greenville, will feature entertainment leading up to the gran