SAF Receives $1,000 Grant!

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Jan 222011
 

Salem Main Streets is pleased to announce that SMS has been awarded a $1,000 grant by the Salem Cultural Council for the 2011 Salem Arts Festival This will enable us to continue our goal of showcasing the talents of the arts community in a free festival downtown Salem. The Festival is June 3 – 5, 2011 downtown Salem. Applications for the 2011 festival will be available soon. Anyone interested in volunteering for the festival or festival committee should contact Jennifer at (978)744-0004 or Jennifer@salemmainstreets.org. For future updates visit the festival website http://www.salemartsfestival.com  Thank you to the Salem Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency, for their continued support of the festival.

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So Sweet Brochure Now Available

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Jan 142011
 

The Salem’s So Sweet Festival Brochure is now available! This year’s festival is the most spectacular ever – with numerous events including a Polar Plunge, 21 Ice Sculptures (a new record), and the popular Chocolate and Wine Tasting Event in Hamilton Hall.  Thank you to all businesses who are participating in the festival February 4 – 14, 2011.

For a complete festival brochure follow the links below:

Salem’s So Sweet Brochure Page 1

Salem’s So Sweet Brochure Page 2

Hard copies will be available closer to the start of the festival.

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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

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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.

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Holiday Spirit Downtown Salem

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Nov 222010
 

Have you noticed a bit more greenery downtown Salem? Are you feeling the holiday spirit? Downtown Businesses have generously sponsored the lovely green wreaths which hang throughout the downtown. Thank you to the City of Salem Department of Public Works for hanging these wreaths and for the Beautification Committee for adding candy cane ribboning on many of the lamp posts. Thank you to the following businesses which donated to Salem Main Streets holiday fund for the wreaths: Angelica of the Angels, Bernard’s Jewelers, Body and Soul Massage and Wellness Center, Caffe Graziani, Coons, Crunchy Granola Baby, Glass & Etc, Green Land Café, Gulu-Gulu Cafe, Hawthorne Hotel, Laura Lanes Skin Care, Lotus Gifts, Mighty Aphrodite, Nightmare Factory, Pamplemousse, Paul Ryan, Peabody Essex Museum Gift Shop, Penelope’s Pet Boutique, Red Lion Smoke Shop, Rouge Cosmetics, Salemdipty, Salem Inn, Signatures, Thai Place, Treasures Over Time, Trolley Depot, Witch Tees.

For more greenery, stop downtown to Lappin Park Friday, November 26 at 6:00 p.m. for the Downtown Salem Tree Lighting with Mayor Driscoll.

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