12/30/2025
✨🥂 A toast to the journey 🥂✨
Proud of what was built, grounded in what was learned, and mindful that progress is always a shared effort—2025 was shaped by community 🌱
As we step into 2026, we do so with steady confidence and purpose—uplifting our youth 🌟, honoring our seniors 🤍, and strengthening the connections that hold our community together. Looking forward to creating even more opportunity, care, and momentum for everyone. 🧙♀️🪄
At Sandusky Witches Walk, we believe everyone deserves to rise.
It's the Best of Sandusky 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣5️⃣! From the Today Show shining a national spotlight on Sandusky for Tommy Boy Fest to expanding access with SNAP & Senior benefits at the Sandusky Farmers Market, 2025 was a year full of fun, growth, and hometown pride.
Here are 10 moments that made Sandusky shine in 2025 👇
1️⃣ Sandusky Witches' Walk earned not one, but TWO Guinness World Records 🧙♀️🏆
2️⃣ Columbus Avenue Streetscape reopened, transforming downtown with wider sidewalks, outdoor dining space, overhead string lights, and modernized underground utilities
3️⃣ Tommy Boy Fest celebrated the film’s 30th anniversary, bringing national attention and celebrity guests to Sandusky, along with a lot of laughs
4️⃣ SNAP & Senior benefits were added to the Sandusky Farmers Market, a goal many years in the making
5️⃣ The Sandusky Christmas Market grew bigger and more festive than ever, with additional huts and vendors, and downtown businesses getting into the holiday spirit too
6️⃣ New businesses opened (hello Sandusky Scoops, The Emporium at West Market Street, Cheekz Burgers, Wild Thistle, Sandusky Pedal Company, Sora & Oak Sushi & Whiskey Bar, and Toast at the Sandusky Wine Merchant) alongside expansions and continued success for longtime favorites
7️⃣ The launch of Sandusky Sunset Celebrations, giving us a weekly reason to gather and admire our world-class Sandusky Bay sunsets 🌅
8️⃣ Northern lights sightings… in Sandusky, Ohio (yes really, and it was magical!)
9️⃣ Bonus events like the Waffle Iron Run, allowing young athletes to be part of Ironman 70.3 Ohio activites
🔟 Strongman Champions League made its U.S.A. debut in Sandusky, Ohio AND was filmed and released onto Amazon Prime (really, go check it out!) 💪🎥
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Here’s to a city that keeps showing up, moving forward, and working together. Cheers to the final days of 2025 and may 2026 be even better. 🫶🏾
City of Sandusky Greater Sandusky Partnership Shores & Islands Ohio