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Window Contest Winners Announced

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Dec 162010

Salem Main Streets Design Committee is pleased to announce the winners of the downtown Salem Holiday Window Contest. The SMS Design Committee is comprised of Committee Chair, Gina Flynn of Eastern Bank, Shirley Walker, Real Estate, Doug Hopper, Architect and Bill Yuhas, Architect. This year’s winners are:

For Most Original: Milk and Honey Green Grocer, 32 Church Street

For Most Whimsical: Pamplemousse, 185 Essex Street

Viewer’s Choice: Witch Tees, 173 Essex Street

Runners up for Most Original: Modern Millie Vintage, 103 Washington St. and Signatures, 181 Essex Street.

Runners up for Most Whimsical: Treasures Over Time, 139 Washington St., Marketplace Quilts, 6 Front Street.

Runners up for Viewer’s Choice: Marketplace Quilts, 6 Front Street and Two Girls Shop, 320 Derby St.

All windows including the winning windows are visible now through December 25. Thank you to all businesses who decorated their windows and to all members of the public who voted in the contest this year. This year’s holiday stocking includes gifts from Caffe Grazianni, Crunchy Granola Baby, Cafe Valverde, Glass & Etc., Bella Hair Studio, Witch City Thrift & Consignment Shp, Penelope’s Pet Boutique, Modern Millie Vintage, Treasures Over Time, Roost & Beehive, Rouge Cosmetics, Fool’s Mansion, Living With Pets, The Picklepot, and Quint Essentials.

The Salem Main Streets Design Committee picked the most whimsical and most original window, while the public chose the viewer’s choice.

2010 participants and addresses:

Holiday Shopping Downtown Salem

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Dec 032010

Click here for a full downtown Shopping and Dining Guide: Downtown Salem Shopping Dining
Holiday Shopping Night December 9 – Do your holiday shopping in Salem at all your favorite local shops! Many stores are staying open late on December 9 so you can enjoy a leisurely and lovely holiday stroll along Washington and Church Streets and beyond. Stores will have treats, discounts and all shoppers will be entered into a drawing to win a terrific prize.

Participating shops include: Crunchy Granola Baby, Salem Cycle, Red Lion Smoke Shop, Salem Wine Imports, Milk & Honey, Hip Baby Gear, Penelope’s Pet Boutique, Modern Millie, Urban Elements, Mud Puddle Toys, Coon’s, Rockafellas, Mighty Aphrodite and Treasures Over Time.

– Crunchy Granola Baby is offering 15% off storewide, plus hot chocolate and yummy organic treats.
-Milk and Honey will be serving lots of cheese and crackers and other tasty samples to keep you nourished while you shop. 15% off storewide for the event.
-Mighty Aphrodite Celebrate holiday savings with 20% off our entire inventory, and enter to win a gorgeous, one-of-a-kind keepsake locket from ladedah! Sip yummy Earth Mama Angel Baby teas while you shop.
-Come over to Salem Cycle for 20% Off Any non-sale, In-Stock Item
-Stop by Treasures Over Time for hot apple cider and a free holiday ornament with every purchase over $25.00.
– and more…

Also, enjoy Men’s Shopping Night December 16. Register your wish lists now at participating stores:

Aroma Sanctum Perfumes, 5 Central Street • AromaSnactum.com, Body & Soul Massage 60 Washington Street, St. 202, BodySoulSalem.com, Hawthorne Hotel, 18 Washington Square West , HawthorneHotel.com, The House of the Seven Gables 115 Derby Street • 7Gables.org, J.Mode 17 Front Street • JModeFashions.com, Modern Millie 103 Washington Street ModernMillieShop.com, Pamplemousse 185 Essex Street • PMousse.com, Quint Essentials 96 Wharf Street • QE-Salem.com, Roost 40 Front Street • RoostSalem.com, Rouge Cosmetics 322 Derby Street • Rouge.com, Salem Theatre Co. 90 Lafayette Street • SalemTheatre.com, Salem Wine Imports 32 Church Street • SalemWineImports.com, Signatures 181 Essex Street Facebook.com/Signatures Apparel, Treasures Over Time 139 Washington Street TreasuresOverTime.com, Trolley Depot 191 Essex Street • TrolleyDepot.com, Urban Elements 230 Essex Street UrbanElementsHome.com

Holiday Window Contest

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Nov 292010

Salem is decorated beautifully for the holiday season, from a downtown holiday tree in Lappin Park to evergreen wreaths with candy cane lamp posts, Salem is dressed for the season. To top it all off almost 40 downtown businesses have decorated their windows especially for the holidays. People are encouraged to come downtown, take a look at the windows and vote at any participating business for their favorite window. All ballots will be entered into a holiday stocking contest. The winner of the ballot contest will receive a holiday stocking filled with gifts and gift certificates. Come downtown and vote!

Winners will be announced by December 17. The last day to vote in the contest is December 10.

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Local Business Weekend Nov 26 – 28

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Nov 262010

Salem celebrates Local Business Weekend November 26 – 28.

Parking will be free in both downtown garages and the Church Street parking lot November 26 – 28. Parking will also be free on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day. “With its eclectic mix of stores and cuisine from around the world, Downtown Salem has something for everyone on your holiday list,” said Mayor Kimberley Driscoll. “Offering free parking is just one way we hope to encourage more customers to see what our local businesses have to offer.”

Destination Salem and Salem Main Streets have also organized this year’s Holiday Happenings, which include fun Holiday events starting in November. To help out harried husbands – or anyone else who has trouble coming up with gift ideas – participating downtown retailers will have wish lists that shoppers can use as guides during December 16’s “Men’s Shopping Night.”

Facebook followers of Destination Salem also have the chance to win gift certificates to local businesses by tagging themselves in Destination Salem photos as part of the Tag and Shop program. For more information on Holiday Happenings; visit Salem.org/holidays, SalemMainStreets.org and facebook.com/destsalem.

For a link to the official holiday event guide for Salem click here.

Window Decorating Contest

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Nov 122010

It’s almost time for Salem Main Streets’ annual Holiday Window Contest. Every year, businesses throughout the downtown get in the spirit by creating bright, festive displays of their products and services. Holiday window displays start appearing by Thanksgiving, and the winners are announced by December 17.

The categories are Most Original, Most Whimsical, and Viewer’s Choice. Salem invites all to walk through the streets starting Thanksgiving weekend, casting votes at any participating businesses for the Viewer’s Choice window. All voters will be entered in a raffle to win a holiday stocking of gift certificates and goodies!

There is still time for interested businesses to join in the contest. Contact Jennifer at (978)744-0004×15 or jennifer@salemmainstreets.org for details. Already participating businesses include:

Awakening Guild, Beehive, Bella Hair Studio, Caffé Graziani, The Cat N The Fiddle Uniques, Coon’s, Coven, Crunchy Granola Baby, Fiddlehead, J.Mode, Living With Pets, MarketPlace Quilts, Mighty Aphrodite, Milk and Honey, Modern Millie, Pamplemousse, Penelope’s Pet Boutique, Quint Essentials, Roost, Rouge Cosmetics, Salem Cycle, Salem Wine Imports, Salemdipidty, Signatures, Sweet Anthem, The Picklepot, Treasures Over Time, Trolley Depot, Witch City Thrift and Consignment, and Witch Tees.

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