Peabody welcomes Holiday Season with annual Stroll and Tree Lighting
November 29, 2018
Community Development Director Curtis Bellavance and Peabody Main Streets President Deanne Healey ran a s’more-making station at Courthouse Plaza.
Peabody residents Joseph and Janelle Noll with their eight-month-old daughter, Gianna.
Peabody resident Matthew Bourgeois with his 11-month-old daughter, Evelyn.
Matthew and Colleen Lawless with their one-year-old daughter, Kelan.
The choir from Peabody Veterans Memorial High School sang Christmas carols on the steps of City Hall.
Santa Claus and City Council President Edward Charest.
Mayor Edward Bettencourt.
This year’s Christmas tree was donated by Peabody resident Jonathan Whittier and his family. Whittier had grown the tree since it was a sapling in 1988. The blue spruce now stands 35 feet tall and weighs 1,800 pounds.
Heather Eckman (left) and Kaitlin Hagberg of Breaking Grounds during the Holiday Stroll and Tree Lighting on Nov. 24. (Advocate Photos by Christopher Roberson)
Robert Lowell, executive director of the Torigian Family YMCA, holding a bag on reindeer food.
Stephanie Johnson, president of the Peabody Rotary Club.