{"id":17139,"date":"2026-02-24T09:40:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T09:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/17139\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T09:40:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T09:40:43","slug":"new-bern-kicks-off-halloween-week-with-family-friendly-festivities-and-a-witches-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/17139\/","title":{"rendered":"New Bern kicks off Halloween week with family-friendly festivities and a witches ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Halloween celebrations have already started going into this Halloween week, and in New Bern, there was fun for all ages.<\/p>\n<p>From the spooky, to the silly and everything in between, New Bern\u2019s Halloween celebration had all kinds of tricks, and treats.<\/p>\n<p>This is why we do it, for the community and for people to participate and have a good time.<\/p>\n<p>New Bern parks and recreation director Carrie Warren says the Halloween celebration is fun for the whole family, including the pups.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re having a huge Halloween party here in the park where you have the witches ride that took off at 5 pm, we just wrapped up our costume party.<\/p>\n<p>And one young witch brought home a special prize after her first time flying with the witches ride.<\/p>\n<p>It was really fun, and afterwards they had a contest for best decorated bike and Best Costume, and I got first place for best costume.<\/p>\n<p>Hannah and her family say they are looking forward to next years ride, and she has a special message for the community.<\/p>\n<p>I hope everyone has a happy Halloween and a good rest of their day.<\/p>\n<p>If you missed out on this years&#8217; Halloween celebration, it will be back around the same time next year. However, in the meantime, there are still a few photo opportunities up at Union Point Park that you don&#8217;t want to miss. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Halloween celebrations have already started going into this Halloween week, and in New Bern, there was fun&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[104,4617,11875,11873,11872,107,11876,11877,11874],"class_list":{"0":"post-17139","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bern","8":"tag-bern","9":"tag-community","10":"tag-costume-contest","11":"tag-family-friendly","12":"tag-halloween","13":"tag-new-bern","14":"tag-parks-and-recreation","15":"tag-union-point-park","16":"tag-witches-ride"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}