Community Events

Community Events – Gardner MA

The City of Gardner Massachusetts has accomplished successes in offering Community Events, including, but not limited to:

As a community, the City of Gardner Massachusetts often forges unique partnerships with the private sector in helping community events occur. GardnerMagazine.com spoke with Gardner Mayor Michael Nicholson about these successes. Here is what he had to say:

Mayor Nicholson: We try to have as many community events as we can, because in those gathering spaces, when the community can come together, that’s’ where people really find the fun in the City. So we’ve done the Food Truck Festival. I was lucky enough to start that when I was in my first year as the executive aide for former Mayor Mark Hawke. And that’s continued now and just continued to grow each and every year. And then we partner with a lot of the private organizations, like Gardner Square 2, the Greater Gardner Chamber of Commerce, on different events like the sidewalk sale, the different outings that take place, the fabulous Fall Festival with the Gardner Festival Committee, the October Fest and the Chair Luge. And people just find those fun. And that’s a way for families to get out or friends to get out and just enjoy Gardner. And see Gardner in a different light than the normal I’m driving to work every day feeling that you get sometimes. And that helps people realize what we have in their backyards some days, too. One of the things that’s coming up soon is with the Kendall Pond Betterment Association, The fireworks potentially coming in the end of June. We have a concert that’ll take place on the front lawn of Gardner City Hall at the end of June (2023) with a band known as Seven Day Weekend. Well have some food trucks available as well, as well as some beverage services. Both adult and any aged drinks will be available there as well. Those are all things that were just trying to find new ways to find people to connect with the City. And when you make those fun memories here, that’s what you take with you. And that’s what makes Gardner your home rather than just the City you live in.