First Town Days Festival

08/21/2026

A productive morning spent with Michele Spring, Dale Denham and Tyler King discussing one of the communities events, First Town Days.

07/07/2026

Jr Superstars Results
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(In order of finish)

8-9 year old boys - Reid Evans, Warren Stephenson, Bray Stephenson
8-9 year old girls - Evelyn Stephenson, Molly Hostetler, Harper Haas

10-11 year old boys - Bram Buehler, Liam Evans, Bryson Cristian
10-11 year old girls - Clara Delahunty, Blair Stephenson

12-13 year old boys - Gus Miller, Lincoln Haas
12-13 year old girls - Evie Sergent, Mila Hostetler

07/07/2026

Men’s Legs Contest 🦵🏻
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Ugliest - JJ Slasor
Muscular - Jose Ramos
Artwork - Jeremy Slasor
Hairiest - Ross Slasor-Watkins
Tannest - Pablo Balbezar
Whitest - Terry Snyder
Overall - Joe Lowery

Congratulations to all the winners!!

07/07/2026

The 2026 First Town Days Festival Parade was once again sponsored by 99.9FM WTUZ and WJER. It is always an honor to help with this community festival and parade. We love to see the smiling faces of the Valley's residents that line the New Philadelphia streets. Thank you for coming out. It was a HOT one!!

07/07/2026

Pie Eating Contest Results
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13 & Under - 1st - Sara Nye, 2nd - Avery Bloom

14 & Over - 1st - Terry Snyder, 2nd - JJ Slasor 3rd - Ross Slasor

07/06/2026

07/06/2026

We know fireworks on Thursday July 2nd is not traditional, but we are so thankful for the sponsors that stepped up! What a show!! We had a great 250th celebration! Thank you so much to every sponsor for all our events and everyone who showed up this year in the heat to celebrate everyday and support First Town Days 49th year! We couldn’t do this without all of you, we hope to see you next year. ♥️🤍💙

07/05/2026

Congratulations to our winners in today’s Simpson Salute Amateur Talent Show!! With 23 acts, it was the biggest show in at least a decade!! Special thanks to judges WJER’s Michele Spring, Little Theatre’s Kait Gallagher-Wilsterman, Simpson Salute’s Drexel Weber, and NPCS teacher Christa Roberts for lending their time to help judge the competition!

13 and under
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1st - Mia Brinkley, Dance to “The Champion”
2nd - Aubrey Snider, Dance to “Heads Shoulders Knees and Toes”
3rd - Eve Dunlap and Alyce Douglas, Tap dance routine to “The Cat in the Hat”.

14 and over
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1st - Aria and Isla Dotts, fiddle/guitar duet “Cowboy Take Me Away.”
2nd - Kay Lorsen, fiddle solo to “Benny and Bea’s Waltz” and “Arkansas Traveler.”
3rd - Adriann Young, accompanied self on guitar to “Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses”

Special shout-out to Chad Roberts and Hitchcock Sound for running sound!

07/05/2026

Car show today! Come on out, the weather is holding off but the even is rain or shine 🚘☀️

07/05/2026

Attn Talent Show Participants: We are eyeing the weather situation and plans are to try to run the show as scheduled.
1) We are moving the show to the picnic shelter near the stage so we can at least be out of the rain should it come.
2) Asking for flexibility as depending on how things go, we may have to make changes which may include limiting performance lengths to fit us all in or possibly foregoing sound check depending on weather.
3) You May want to park over by the stadium if you can. Should we need to have a delay, you may want your vehicles to be close by…
4) If you are not feeling comfortable with the weather situation, it is ok to choose not to attend. No worries…

Thanks for your attention and let’s hope for no rain!! 🙂