GOOD TIMES
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Michael J. DeCicco
ou know it’s summertime in Onset when you can smell the pizza ovens of Marc Anthony’s from yards away, see the families in beachwear crowding the streets, and hear the surf, the seagulls and the laughing beachgoers at Onset Bay.
You know it’s summertime in Onset when you can smell the pizza ovens of Marc Anthony’s from yards away, see the families in beachwear crowding the streets, and hear the surf, the seagulls and the laughing beachgoers at Onset Bay. When free live music and other family-friendly events return to the waterfront, you’ll know it’s time for Onset Bay Association’s summertime event schedule. After two years of pandemic restrictions, the 2022 Onset summer schedule is the start of back-to-normal times. “I’d say this year we are about 75 percent back to normal,” said Kat Jones,
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pandemic restrictions, the 2022 Onset summer schedule is the start of back-to-normal times the Executive Director of the Onset Bay Association. “We’ve prepared the same as we normally would for what we know will be a very busy summer, though we are still cautious, with COVID still being out there. All our events are outdoors, so we are not overly worried.
JULY/AUGUST 2022
Jones is proud to note this year’s “Blessing of the Fleet” at 10 a.m. on Saturday, July 2 will return to form at Onset Pier. They will also be bringing back the kids parade and the bicycle-petdoll carriage, occurring on the Pier right after the boat blessing parade around 11 a.m. Most noteworthy is that both the Chalk Full-O-Fun Sidewalk Art and Craft Fair (to be held on Saturday, August 20 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.) and the weekly Wednesday Summer of Love Concert Series (starting July 6 and ending August 31), have been moved from the Lillian Gregerman Bandshell to the Bay View Park gazebo located at 184
