Mack's back: Gus Macker returns for year 11
NORWICH – The City of Norwich showed signs of the hustle and bustle of Gus Macker weekend by Thursday afternoon, and the action should only build toward Sunday’s final game. Hoops will go up throughout the day today, and downtown will have come alive before Saturday’s 8 a.m. opening ceremony.
The Norwich basketball tournament that organizers expect to draw more than 10,000 visitors to the city is a tradition that is more than a decade in the making. The weekend has become more than something to watch within the 3 point line.
The three-on-three games will begin on courts set up in the middle of East Main Street at 8:30 a.m. Saturday. About 440 teams – the majority made up of 12-16 year olds – are registered to compete this year on the 25 basketball courts lined up back to back. Fifty percent of the participants hail from Chenango, Broome and Onondaga counties. The rest travel to Norwich from North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, Massachusetts and Vermont.
Norwich Family YMCA Executive Director Jamey Mullen said the basketball tradition was born of the ideas of several local individuals who wanted to “come up with some ideas that would put Norwich on the map.”
Downtown merchants take advantage of the influx of shoppers each year, and this weekend will be no different. Sidewalk sales will be ongoing throughout the weekend, Ives Cream ice cream parlor will have its grand opening Saturday, and the Colonia Theatre will offer a safe haven from any unwanted rain with 1 p.m. matinees.
Director of the Norwich City Business Improvement District Pegi LoPresti said a group of BID board members cleaned the downtown corridor Thursday morning in anticipation of shoppers. Many of the merchants, she said, had their wares at curbside by Thursday afternoon.
“The intent of the merchants starting today is really to give local people a chance to come and see the bargains before the out of town crowds get here,” she said.
The Caputo Brothers Women’s 3 point shot competition will begin tonight at 6:30 p.m.
The Norwich basketball tournament that organizers expect to draw more than 10,000 visitors to the city is a tradition that is more than a decade in the making. The weekend has become more than something to watch within the 3 point line.
The three-on-three games will begin on courts set up in the middle of East Main Street at 8:30 a.m. Saturday. About 440 teams – the majority made up of 12-16 year olds – are registered to compete this year on the 25 basketball courts lined up back to back. Fifty percent of the participants hail from Chenango, Broome and Onondaga counties. The rest travel to Norwich from North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, Massachusetts and Vermont.
Norwich Family YMCA Executive Director Jamey Mullen said the basketball tradition was born of the ideas of several local individuals who wanted to “come up with some ideas that would put Norwich on the map.”
Downtown merchants take advantage of the influx of shoppers each year, and this weekend will be no different. Sidewalk sales will be ongoing throughout the weekend, Ives Cream ice cream parlor will have its grand opening Saturday, and the Colonia Theatre will offer a safe haven from any unwanted rain with 1 p.m. matinees.
Director of the Norwich City Business Improvement District Pegi LoPresti said a group of BID board members cleaned the downtown corridor Thursday morning in anticipation of shoppers. Many of the merchants, she said, had their wares at curbside by Thursday afternoon.
“The intent of the merchants starting today is really to give local people a chance to come and see the bargains before the out of town crowds get here,” she said.
The Caputo Brothers Women’s 3 point shot competition will begin tonight at 6:30 p.m.
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