Downtown Hamilton streets closing for Operation Pumpkin festival

Visitors look at the giant pumpkins gathered outside the Historic Butler County Courthouse during Operation Pumpkin: Pumpkin & Art Festival in Hamilton, Friday, Oct. 5, 2012. I weigh-off was later held with the largest pumpkin expected to weigh 1600 pounds. Staff photo by Greg Lynch

Credit: Greg Lynch

Credit: Greg Lynch

Visitors look at the giant pumpkins gathered outside the Historic Butler County Courthouse during Operation Pumpkin: Pumpkin & Art Festival in Hamilton, Friday, Oct. 5, 2012. I weigh-off was later held with the largest pumpkin expected to weigh 1600 pounds. Staff photo by Greg Lynch
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Several of Hamilton’s streets downtown are closing to make way for the Operation Pumpkin festival.

At 8 a.m. Thursday, South 2nd Street was shut down between High and Court streets to help with the event’s staging.

At 8 p.m. Thursday, plans called for High Street to be closed between Front Street and Martin Luther King Boulevard (Front is the second street east of the Great Miami River). Also closing at that time were 2nd and 3rd streets, between Court and Market streets.

Traffic will be able to take detour routes that lead two blocks to the north or two blocks to the south.

Some downtown Hamilton streets will be closed to traffic this weekend for the annual Operation Pumpkin festival. PROVIDED

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Operation Pumpkin, an annual event that involves pumpkins and the arts, happens three days in the downtown area: Friday from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Saturday from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.; and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Performing during the weekend, among several others, will be Naked Karate Girls from 7-10 p.m. Friday; Free Fallin’ (A Tribute to Tom Petty) from 7:30-10 p.m. Saturday; and Dangerous Jim and the Slims, from 2-5 p.m. Sunday.

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Michael D. Pitman has been a reporter in southwest Ohio since 1999. He's covered local governments in Warren and Butler counties, as well as state and national issues. He currently covers the cities of Fairfield and Hamilton.