First Fridays

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Middlebury businesses are excited to keep their doors open late on the First Friday of each month!

The first one will take place on Friday, February 6, with a handful of enthusiastic businesses throwing their hats in the ring to get us started in February, staying open later TOGETHER, to provide our community with more gathering options at least one night a month. 

Participating businesses include:

• PhotoPlace Gallery & Golden Rule Mead
• Vermont’s Own
• Middleton
• Flora
• Haymaker
• Tinker & Smithy
• Cobweb Antiques
• Sparrow Art Supply
• The Marquis
• Two Brothers
• Crooked Ladle
• Sabai Sabai
• Taste of India
• Mr Ups
• American Flatbread
• The Middlebury Inn
• Jessica’s at Swift House
• Shiretown
• Retro Realm Arcade
• Satori
• – and more!

ALSO! Don’t miss the chance to enter a raffle to win a Woody Jackson painting! Tickets available at Haymaker on Feb 6, 2026 — ticket sales benefit the Addison County Parent Child Center.

These things take time to build momentum, but if we don’t make the first move, nothing happens. Our goal is clear: to be a town known for sipping and shopping, grabbing something delicious, and running into your neighbors and friends downtown. A place where people come out not just to buy things—but to see one another and support the local businesses that support us all. There’s also an important Middlebury Money piece we’re eager to rebuild. With so many new faces in town, we realize not everyone is familiar with our unique local currency. Over the coming months, we’ll be reintroducing this concept—because keeping dollars local means strengthening our local economy and creating the kind of vibrancy we all want to be part of.