City of Hampton Downtown Development Authority

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Christmas Parade in Hampton!!!! Tomorrow Night. 7pm Come early get a good spot!!!!... Santa's COMING!!!!! Sat Dec9th 2017 All along East Main Street!!!

The DDA welcomes new Board members Monica Davis and Greg Nobles.

GREAT NEWS!!!! The work on Cherry street has begun. Goal: to make Cherry Street looks as beautiful and inviting as Main Street. ... To build a system of blinds that can be used to store the trash cans out of view but easily accessible for the trash company. To install brick inserts in strategic locations to boost the aesthetics. To install lamp posts with interchangeable banners. To remove all vegetation and debris making maintenance much easier. To give the buildings a fresh coat of paint on their facades. To finish things off with a fresh layer of seal coat over the asphalt. Then the lines get repainted and the final signage gets installed.... Won't be long now!!!! Thank you City Council for investing in the DDA so we can pursue these projects. Thank you business owners for partnering with us to accomplish great things. Have a great week everyone!!!! Cherry Street Project Manager Chris Moore

If you live in Hampton you know about Southern States. We are so thankful for their generous sponsorship of our festival! We love when businesses give back to their community.

We would like to thank everyone that made the festival yesterday a success- thank you!! Special thanks to our sponsors (listed below ) and FNB of Hampton for supporting our festival. Thanks to our volunteers also. Without all of you we could never have pulled this off. ... If you were a Vendor or attendee and have any ideas to make the festival better, or an activity to add in to a not so busy area, or even a complaint on how something did not work please email [email protected] so we can make it even better! We'd also love to hear anything you really enjoyed!!

If you are a vendor in the Yellow Pollen Festival your street and spot number has been emailed and/or texted to you. If you cannot locate it try doing a search for the words 'Yellow Pollen'. Not knowing this information could delay finding your spot Saturday morning. And yes... the festival is rain or shine :) Setup starts at 8:00- see you then!

Gotta give a shout out to Donnie Dunlap and his company Ink It. With little notice Donnie took the design of these shirts on and we just love them! The color is great and Donnie has been fabulous to Work with and deliver this item on time.

Come out early and support our local school at their 5K!

Hope to see you on March 18th at our Yellow Pollen Festival!

Check this guy out. Tanner saw someone doing this on the street and he started doing it himself. We are so excited he will be at the Yellow Pollen Festival doing spray paint art! Did we mention he's only 14?? How cool is that! https://youtu.be/DIH1-wBPOGc

We are so excited that Princess Moana & Spiderman will be at the Yellow Pollen Festival March 18th! Mark your calendars as your kids will definitely want you to... take a photo of them with their heroes! Did we mention this is FREE for you??? Just a little bit of the DDA giving back to our community! Meet and Greet 1:30-2:30 at the Train Depot Park.

Hope to see you there!

Check out this 5K in town right before the festival starts! Make sure to share with your friends!

Special thanks to The Sellers Law Firm, LLC for stepping in as a sponsor of the Yellow Pollen Festival this year!

We are taking preorders for t-shirts! Regular sizes- $10 2x & 3x- $12 Please let me know what you want. Local Hampton folks can get theirs a few days before so you can wear it to the festival if you like. ... Front logo pictured.

What's THE BUZZ???? It's a Hampton Trivia contest between some of our city councilman and our Mayor will be competing also. Come cheer on Marty Meeks, Mary Ann Mitcham, Chris Moore, & Steve Hutchison as they battle it out to see who really knows the most about Hampton. This event will be on the tree pad stage March 18th @ 1:30 and it will be hosted by Jason Shadden. Jason was born and raised in Hampton and is also our Middle School Principal. ... Mark your calendars! You do not want to miss this festival!

Thanks to Fulton & Kozak for sponsoring our Yellow Pollen Festival! They've been faithful sponsors for many years and we really appreciate them!

Come see some of your favorite teachers from ALL of the Hampton schools battle it out at the Yellow Pollen Festival. Who will take home the Yellow Pollen Cup? Come cheer on them... come laugh with them.. you won't want to miss this fun event hosted by Mr. Keefer at Hampton Elementary Charter School. 1:00 on the tree pad stage March 18th!

Special thanks to Rutabaga's for sponsoring our Yellow Pollen Festival in Hampton. Stop in to visit these wonderful ladies and thank them for us for giving back to their community!

We are so excited for our festival March 18th! We still need some more Vendors so please share this post with any of your friends that do home parties, make homemade arts and crafts, and any business that may want to have a promotional booth. We are looking to have about 145 booths this year and it is going to be a GREAT festival! http://www.hamptonga.gov/223/Yellow-Pollen-Street-Festival

March 18th on your calendar yet? It should be! It's Hampton's 9th Annual Yellow Pollen Festival and we are so excited that Oscar David Smith will be there!

Make sure March 18th is on your calendar! We have some great live entertainment planned that day at our Yellow Pollen Festival and we are excited to announce Cory White will be there! Times and schedules of musicians to be announced closer to time.

Special thanks to Mark Whitley and his company Whitley Engineering for being our first Queen Bee Sponsorship! Mark serves on the DDA and we just want to thank him for leading by example and giving back to the community with his generous donation! Thanks Mark! -Stephanie

This year will be our 9th year of the Yellow Pollen festival and we are so excited to announce that Tom Bonnell, bee keeper extraordinaire, will be back with educational classes for us to learn more on beekeeping! Tom's done this class every year the festival has been going on and you don't want to miss this! 11:00 & 1:00 in the Train Depot.

We are excited for the 9th Annual Yellow Pollen Festival on March 18th, 10:00am- 5:00pm. Last year we had over 100 vendors and this year we are looking to have around 130! You won't want to miss out on all the fun at our festival! We are adding some FREE live entertainment and will have some FREE character meet and greets with the new Princess Moana and Spider-Man!! And so many other special surprises! More details to come but mark your calendars as your family will not wan...t to miss this event!! We may be a small town but we are going BIG! Vendors application attached! http://www.hamptonga.gov/DocumentCenter/View/208

There is still time to decorate cookies with Mrs. Clause at the Hampton Depot. They'll be there until noon today.

This Thursday night.....Dec. 1st. The Hampton Christmas Parade is BACK!!!!!! Roads will be closed by 6 so come early. Entertainment and refreshments start at 6:30 Parade starts at 7 sharp. ... Concert and after party start right after the parade!!!! YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS IT!!!! Merry Christmas!!!!!

Hello Hampton, Looking for LIVE MUSIC??? There was a misprint in the local paper. The free concert on Tom Eason is tonight (August 19th)...not Saturday. ... Bring your lawn chairs and enjoy a fun, family friendly evening. Law enforcement will be present for saftey. This is on city property so no alcohol allowed. Come early to get a good spot. The EVENTS get better when YOU show up!

We would like to invite everyone to come out to Main Street in Hampton to enjoy an Old Fashioned Fourth of July Parade. It is a separate event from the festivities in the park on the 7th. Both events will be wonderful family friendly fun! The parade is on the 4th and will start at 10 am sharp. You can participate if you choose. Please make sure that any entries in the event are family friendly and very Patriotic! ... If you choose to be in the parade please be at Hampton Elementary Charter School NLT 9am to line up. Come on out and celebrate the land of the free, and the home of the brave!

Make your plans now to attend the 8th annual Yellow Pollen Street Festival next Saturday, March 19, in downtown City of Hampton. This year we have 110 vendors including many of your favorites returning as well as a mechanical bull. Come out 10 to 5 on Saturday.

Good news and bad news and other bad news. First the good news. We are FULL and not accepting anymore applications, even though we added several additional spaces this year. The bad news is that we have had to turn away more than 20 people so far. The other bad news is that the Labrador Retrievers are not coming. One of the dogs is sick and they have had to cancel. However, we are adding a mechanical bull this year so be prepared to show off your Cowboy talents.

An animal rescue group will be at Yellow Pollen this year so be prepared for your kids to be begging!!

This year we will have Labrador Receivers demonstrating for the treatment and prevention of cancer in dogs. They will be on the grass in front of the green house at West Main and Oak St. You can see more about them in advance at www.3dawgflite.com. or 4 Dawg Flite.

Just spent some fo the afternoon out measuring and hunting for additional spaces for the upcoming Yellow Pollen Street Festival. Filling up last year's spots and still applications coming in. Gonna be bigger this year. Make your plans to come and enjoy the day in beautiful downtown City of Hampton.

You don't have to wait for the Taste of Henry to sample many ethnic foods right in downtown Hampton GA.

Getting to be that time of year again. March 19, 2016 for the 8th version of the Yellow Pollen Street Festival on Main St. in downtown Hampton.

Received the first completed application for next year's Yellow Pollen Festival, over 4 months before the event. And, this was from a vendor who has been with us since the first year. I guess you could say we are doing something right. March 19, 2016 is the date.

We sent out our first three applications for next year's Yellow Pollen Street Festival this week. The application is also available on the City Website, www.Cityof Hampton-ga.gov. A crazy little idea catches on, who knew?