Author: julie

Foodstock returns for a sixth year, bringing food and fellowship downtown

Free fes­ti­val fea­tur­ing more than 40 food and spir­it ven­dors kicks off at 11 a.m. Sat­ur­day, May 10 SOMERSET, KENTUCKY (May 5, 2025) — Som­er­set is in full bloom, and […]

Downtown Somerset’s New Year’s Eve festival is back

Light Up 2025 Bash will fea­ture all the fan favorites: Prop Drop, food ven­dors, live music and enter­tain­ment The com­mu­ni­ty asked, and the City of Som­er­set will deliv­er. After tak­ing […]

Bring your chair and your appetite: 6th annual Moonlight Festival is Saturday

Per­fect fall fore­cast expect­ed for annu­al fes­ti­val fea­tur­ing live music, art, ven­dors, food and spir­its in down­town Som­er­set SOMERSET, KENTUCKY (Octo­ber 15, 2024) — Fall tem­per­a­tures offi­cial­ly hit Som­er­set this week, […]

Ring in the New Year in downtown Somerset

In lieu of Light Up Bash, city will host show at The Vir­ginia and pro­mote all enter­tain­ment hap­pen­ing down­town SOMERSET, KENTUCKY (Novem­ber 20, 2023) — There will be plen­ty to […]

Best year on record for local tourism: $144.52 million

Som­er­set-Pulas­­ki County’s top indus­try made his­to­ry Mon­day with the announce­ment that vis­i­tors to the com­mu­ni­ty gen­er­at­ed $144.52 mil­lion in total tourism spend­ing in 2022 — the high­est amount ever record­ed. […]

That’s a wrap: Film crew finishes first Lifetime movie set in Somerset 

Pro­duc­er Dan­ny Roth and team will make six movies in the area. — TEST Film crews wrapped the first of six movies last week that will be set in Som­er­set, […]

Somerset counts down to 2023 with popular New Year festival

Light Up 2023 Bash fea­tures Prop Drop, food ven­dors, live music and new enter­tain­ment Ring­ing in the new year on Foun­tain Square has quick­ly become a Som­er­set tra­di­tion, and 2023 […]

See Somerset Tourism receives two Traverse Awards for Excellence at state conference

Moon­light Fes­ti­val, #see­my­set Art Mar­ket take bronze in expe­ri­ence devel­op­ment dur­ing KTIA’s annu­al con­fer­ence The last four years have been marked with scores of new expe­ri­ences in Som­er­set, with the […]

Grill-off competition brings new flavor to city’s Foodstock Festival in 2023

Som­er­set Smoke Show will fea­ture 12-grill com­pe­ti­tion, bar­be­cue shop class­es and bar­be­cue tast­ings by award-win­ning pit­mas­ters Back­yard rib bar­be­cuers, unite: If you think you have what it takes to win […]