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PHOTOS: Ridgeway Cantaloupe Festival 2024

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9 months ago

July 30, 2024

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Ridgeway Cantaloupes / Crystal Myrick (Warrenist)

With live music, great vendors, horseback rides, and of course, cantaloupes, what more can you ask for at the Ridgeway Cantaloupe Festival?
Insert helicopter rides.

Check out photos from the Ridgeway Cantaloupe Festival 2024 (7/13/2024):

Ridgeway Cantaloupe Festival 2024

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Crystal Myrick has always been curious by nature and enjoys sharing discoveries with her audience. As the creator and editor of The Warrenist, an engaging and emerging hyperlocal digital media outlet centered on her rural community, her content is in celebration of the art, culture, lifestyle, and people of Warren County, North Carolina as well as bring awareness to local and national issues. Website | Facebook | Instagram

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PHOTOS: National Day of Prayer 2025

National Day of Prayer in Warrenton, NC

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3 hours ago

May 2, 2025

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Rev. Hilda Davis Cordell praying over businesses at National Day of Prayer in Warrenton, NC. / Crystal Myrick (Warrenist)

Sponsored locally by Warren Ministries United, National Day of Prayer is an annual day of observance designated by the United States Congress and held on the first Thursday of May, when people are asked “to turn to God in prayer and meditation.”

National Day of Prayer 2025

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Culture

PHOTOS: Eastern Bluebird Festival 2025

Hundreds flocked to the heart of downtown Warrenton for the second annual Eastern Bluebird Festival.

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4 days ago

April 29, 2025

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Painted Eastern Bluebird Houses / Crystal Myrick (Warrenist)

Hundreds flocked to the heart of downtown Warrenton for the second annual Eastern Bluebird Festival and was treated to live entertainment, great food, vendors, a mural ribbon-cutting ceremony and so much more! (April 26, 2025)

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Eastern Bluebird Mural Celebrated with Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony

North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper proclaimed Warrenton, NC as the National Eastern Bluebird Capital.

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4 days ago

April 28, 2025

Crystal

Joined by the Lake Gaston Regional Chamber of Commerce, the Town of Warrenton, and mural artist Tom Lang, residents and friends from afar celebrated the new Eastern Bluebird Mural with a ribbon-cutting ceremony during the Eastern Bluebird Festival on Saturday, April 26th in downtown Warrenton.

Ahead of last year’s festival, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper proclaimed Warrenton, NC as the National Eastern Bluebird Capital because the town has the highest concentration of them.