The middle of Main Street Kutztown was crowded with dinner-goers on a dry, but sultry evening for the Borough’s second annual Dinner on Main on Aug. 5.
The 200 block of the street was blocked off for 3 1/2 hours and was crowded most of that time for dinner and music by four local bands. Several local restaurants offered Italian, barbecue, malt shoppe specialties as well as potato innovations and more upscale fare.
The idea for the event originated with the borough’s bicentennial committee last summer and went over so well that Mayor Green tasked a committee made up of the original bicentennial group, working with the Kutztown Community Partnership to repeat it this year.
Nancy Brooks, the Kutztown Community Partnership’s Main Street Manager, said that the crowd began arriving as soon as the street was closed off, filled the tables quickly and kept them full right to the end of the event.
“Several great events came out of the bicentennial,” she said, “and this was one of the best. It has already become a tradition in Kutztown.”