Christmas, Holiday Events In Foxboro: Tree Lighting, 'Magic Of Lights'

FOXBOROUGH, MA — There is no shortage of things to do in Foxborough to get the winter holiday season off to a rollicking good start.

Christmas and Hanukkah, the eight-day Jewish festival of lights, intersect this year, with Hanukkah running Dec. 18-26. Christmas, of course, is on Dec. 25, but you don’t have to wait to start taking in all the sights and sounds of the holidays.

Foxborough's tree lighting will be part of the annual Light Uptown event.

Everything is bigger and better this year when it comes to Foxborough's annual Light Uptown holiday event.

Scheduled for Saturday with events starting as early as 9 a.m., Foxborough officials claim that this year's event "will be the biggest and brightest Foxborough has seen."

On Saturday, Center Street will be shut down for a vendor market starting at 4 p.m.

There are over a dozen activities including a craft fair at the Senior Center, kids crafts, the vendor market, a "sl-hay-gh ride", Victorian carolers, a holiday story time, a dance performance and more, all leading up to the tree lighting.

Christmas parades — often complete with Santa Claus, festively decorated floats and marching bands — are a holiday tradition, both nationally and locally.

Several big parades are taking place this year, including the Mayor’s Annual Christmas Parade in Baltimore City, Maryland; the Target Holidazzle Parade in Minneapolis; and the Christmas Boat Parade in Newport Beach, California.