DSA NEWS
DOWNTOWN SHERIDAN ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCED AS 2023 GREAT AMERICAN MAIN STREET AWARD SEMIFINALISTS
Main Street America has announced Downtown Sheridan Association (DSA) as a 2023 Great American Main Street Award (GAMSA) Semifinalist. This prestigious award is the nation’s top award recognizing communities for their excellence in comprehensive preservation-based commercial district revitalization. A jury of professionals and leaders in the fields of community and economic development and historic preservation convened to review a nationwide pool of applicants. After thoughtful deliberation, the jury unanimously selected eight semifinalists that demonstrate exemplary use of the Main Street Approach™ to lead community-based transformation strategies in their downtowns. “The Great American Main Street Award is the highest honor that we grant to organizations within our network,” said Hannah White, Interim President and CEO at Main Street America. “We are proud to recognize DSA and seven fellow organizations as 2023 GAMSA Semifinalists for their excellence in transforming their downtown districts through strategically implemented economic vitality, design, promotion, and organization initiatives.” From small towns with traditional downtowns to commercial corridors within larger cities, the 2023 GAMSA represent the diversity of the Main Street America network and the power of the Main Street Approach™. Semifinalists have generated over $872 million in local reinvestment, helped open 863 net new businesses, facilitated the creation of 4,706 net new jobs, catalyzed the rehabilitation of 1,922 historic buildings, and leveraged 178,452 volunteer hours. “It’s a tremendous honor to be a semifinalist among seven other communities nationwide. Our downtown is the heart of our community and I’m thrilled to celebrate this at a national level. This designation [...]
WEEKEND HAPPENINGS | SEPTEMBER 9TH – SEPTEMBER 11TH
Tonight - Black Tooth Brewing - Sheridan is holding a benefit concert for Malik Grant. They will have food at 5:00 p.m. and music will starts a 6 p.m. Stop by have some food, beer and enjoy some music by Tris Munsick and the Innocents and The Dugan Irby Band. Story Time is back at Sheridan Stationery Books and Gifts. This month Story Reader Chelsie Bohnsack-McGowan will be reading some comical books about going back to school. Kids will also have an opportunity to do a small craft and have a treat. Story time kicks off at 10:30 a.m. Sunday Fun Day! The Paint Post will be having a Minions painting class. Reserve your spots at www.thepaintpost.com/calendar.
WEEKEND HAPPENINGS SEPTEMBER 2ND – SEPTEMBER 4TH
It's Labor Day Weekend which marks the end of summer. Come downtown tomorrow from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. and watch (or participate) as Becky with Blue Meadows, llc tries to break a World Waxing Nostrils record! Becky will set up chairs and a waxing station outside her saloon located at 138 S. Main Street. She will be waxing a minimum of 62 people's nostrils. Participants will also be entered in a change to win 1 of 3 Blue Meadows Gift certificates. Luminous Brewhouse presents their Summer's End Street Dance with Paul Bogart and special Guest Fate Williams. Get your dancing shoes or boots on and enjoy an evening of live music and beer! This is the last weekend the famous Scoops ice cream stand at Kendrick Park will be open! They will be open till Labor Day or till ice cream runs out (which ever comes first). Ice cream will be .50 cents cone day on Labor Day. They open are open from 4:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. today and 10:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Saturday - Monday.
WEEKEND HAPPENINGS AUGUST 26TH – AUGUST 28TH
It's the weekend!!! Ladies - The Paint Post is having a hat decorating class. Grab your girl friends and join them for a night of crafting with friends at the studio and create a unique one of a kind hat. Book your spot at www.thepaintpost.com/calendar. Celebrate the Arts continues! WYO Theater Performing Arts and Education Center is excited to present Gretsch Country Artist Lynda Kay of Goliath fame. Ms. Lynda Kay is known for her 4-octave voice, big hair, classic vintage style, and genre spanning songs. She has been compared to Patsy Cline, Karen Carpenter, Dusty Springfield, and Roy Orbison. LA Weekly says, "Lynda Kay’s breakthrough was recent, but her journey is the thing of which legends are made.” Kay recently released a double-album of 20 new songs titled Black & Gold, whose first song is a duet she recorded and wrote with the late great Ian “Lemmy” Kilmister of Motörhead. Select songs from Lynda Kay’s Black & Gold album are featured in the Golden-Globe Award Winning Series Goliath on Amazon Prime where Lynda Kay co-stars as herself in five of the eight Episodes with Billy Bob Thornton. Prior to her casting on Goliath, Lynda Kay appeared as herself on FX’s Justified performing her song “Jack & Coke.” Get your tickets at http://www.etix.com/.../lynda-kay-sheridan-wyo-theater. Sheridan County Chamber of Commerce presents their annual Fremont Toyota Suds n' Spurs Brewfest at Whitney Commons Park. Event kicks off at 2 p.m., stop by and check out all the breweries and sample all the beer [...]