Dexter celebration starts with fireworks on Thursday

Staff Report

    DEXTER — For the first time in years, there will be a Dexter 4th of July parade to go along with the traditional fireworks display.
    A spectacular fireworks display will be set off at dusk from the Dexter Regional High School athletic field on Thursday, July 3.
    The 4th of July parade will form at the Dexter Fire Department at 9:30 a.m. Friday, turn left at the Main and Church Street intersection, head downtown and proceed to Lincoln Street, then to the Watering Hole parking lot on Water Street.

    There will be a place in the parade for kids to decorate and show off their bikes as well.
    The Dexter Field Hockey Boosters will have a booth in the Fossa’s Store parking lot on Main Street with food sales and face painting, the Antioch Missionary Baptist Church will sell doughboys and popcorn, and other vendors are expected to be on hand as well.
    “We’re celebrating our first anniversary, so the Fossa’s parking lot will be hopping,” said store manager Judy Craig.
    Parade co-chair Michele Seavey said that she’s received several inquiries, but it’s hard to tell how many floats will actually show up. “We know we’ll have some businesses, nonprofits, Girl Scouts, antique cars, fire trucks and clowns,” said Seavey. “It’s been a long time since Dexter had a Fourth of July parade, so we’re hoping for the best.”
    For more information about the parade, contact Seavey at 270-1685 or Ron Grant at 717-9017 after 4 p.m. weekdays.
    There will also be a boat parade on Wassookeag Lake starting at 10 a.m. on July 4.