Park on Patch a Rousing Success

Certainly the most pleasurable part of serving the Middletown community with news and information is being an integral part of the city's fabric: meeting you, hearing and telling your stories, and giving folks a place to congregate, exchange ideas, meet each other and best of all — communicate.

Thursday was Middletown's second annual — a day where free parking downtown was a welcome surprise to the hundreds who stopped by Main Street to shop, have a bite of lunch or do an errand. Patch folk manned three booths — in front of , and — and as a reward for signing up to receive our newsletter handed out coupons for complimentary coffee, cookies or cupcakes.

Plus we're ecstatic to have signed up 200 new users to our site!

A heartfelt thanks goes out to these businesses and , , and for helping make the event a success. Hundreds of people stopped by to introduce themselves, make suggestions, sign up to blog for Patch and offer story ideas.

Serving Middletown is at the heart of our mission. Thank you for keeping us going.

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