What You Need To Know Before You Go To Celebrate East Lyme

If you're planning to go to Celebrate East Lyme on Saturday, here's what you need to know before you go. 

Roads will be closed in downtown Niantic on Saturday for Celebrate East Lyme, so expect detours and parking restrictions. There will be no on street parking on Main Street between Lake Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue after 11 a.m. to allow vendors time to set up. 

At noon. Route 156 (Main Street) will be closed from the intersection at Lake Avenue, East to the intersection with Route 161 (Pennsylvania Avenue). Traffic will be detoured north onto Lake Avenue and then east onto Hope Street. Traffic will then continue onto Route 161. 

There will be traffic barricades, detour signs, and police officers, police cadets, and mutual aid officers to direct traffic and pedestrians.
 
What's Happening and When?

Here's the basic schedule to help you plan your day. 

9am - Sand Castle Competition at Hole in the Wall Beach
3pm - Kick Off Celebrate East Lyme 2013
5pm - Dunk First Selectman Paul  Formica. (He'll also be dancing at Arthur Murray Dance Studio at 4:50 p.m. to benefit the American Heart Association.)
7pm - Great Niantic Bay Raft Races at Hole in the Wall Beach!
9pm - Fireworks Display over Niantic Bay! (If the weather takes a turn for the worst, the fireworks will be rescheduled to Sunday.)
10 a.m. through 9:45 p.m. - Niantic Cinemas hosts a full lineup of movies all day, call 860-739-6929 for information!

You can find out more at Celebrate East Lyme's Web Site.