While the annual Halloween parade may not be on, that gave throngs of ghouls, ghosts, superheroes and princesses all the more reason to head downtown for the annual trick-or-treating event on this afternoon on Main street in Oneonta. Above, Brendan DeFalco, a brother with Chi Phi fraternity, hands out candy outside Tokyo Japanese Cuisine to Oneonta’s Reese Robinson and Rowan and Wyatt Keto. At right, Benjamin Reese shows how to walk like a robot in his homemade robot costume. College students were invited downtown to help hand out the candy in front of local businesses as part of the renewed Town-Gown work groups, part of the city’s Survive, Then Thrive initiative. (Ian Austin/AllOTSEGO.com)
Erratic rain throughout the evening led to the cancellation of Oneonta’s annual Halloween parade, but all manner of ghouls and ghosts made their treat-seeking rounds at local homes and businesses this afternoon and evening. Above, Devin El, Leilani El and Ziyen Giles passed City Hall on their treat-hunting mission, with Lizzette Hopkins and Edward Giles, Maryland, in tow. Inset at right, Oneonta’s Jessica and Paul Benzaleski arrive downtown with their children Adalia and Reilly ready to take home some sweets.(Ian Austin/AllOTSEGO.com)
You’d be hard pressed to figure out if there were more people in the parade or watching it! Spectators of the annual Oneonta Halloween Parade cheer and wave as the Riverside School float makes it’s way through the heart of downtown this evening. (Ian Austin/AllOTSEGO.com)Queen Amidala (Shayla Truesdel), Darth Vader (Declan Truesdell), and Princess Leia (Brigha Truesdell) were able to set aside their galactic differences for some trick-or-treating in downtown Oneonta this afternoon before the parade. (Ian Austin/AllOTSEGO.com)
Over 500 children and their families packed the halls of the Southside Mall this afternoon during the annual Mall-O-Ween event. Here, Harlow Foster, Nyah Stanley and her sister Draya, dressed as two gnomes and a strawberry, all of Oneonta, march down the halls in search of holiday treats. (Ian Austin/AllOTSEGO.com)
