North Branch Beautification Association, Inc.

10/26/2026

🎄✨ Get Involved in Our 10th Annual Christmas Festival! 🎅🎁

We're gearing up for a magical celebration, and there are SO many ways to be part of the fun! ❤️💚

🎁 Event Sponsors
🎅 Christmas Parade Entrants
🛍️ Holiday Market Vendors
🍔 Food Trucks
🏠 Merry Main Street Decorating Contest

✨ We'd love to have you join us! Sign up for any of these opportunities directly on our website!

👇 Register Here:
https://nbbeautification.com/projects/christmas-fest-and-annual-parade/

🎄 Saturday, December 5th | North Branch 🎄

Let's make our 10th anniversary celebration the best one yet! ❤️

10/18/2026

🎄🎅 VENDORS & FOOD TRUCKS WANTED! 🎅🎄

The North Branch Beautification Association is celebrating 10 YEARS of Christmas celebrations in North Branch, and we're looking for vendors and food trucks to join us at our Christmas Market in Central Park on Saturday, December 5th! ❤️

📍 Central Park, North Branch
🎄 Tree Lighting Ceremony begins at 6:00 PM
✨ Christmas Market runs before the parade and festivities and continues until 7:30 PM.

Want to be part of the celebration? Register using this link:

Event: Christmas Market Vendor Registration | North Branch Beautification Association https://share.google/FH53rwIrBluwSsBQ8

Or send us a message for vendor information! Comment below or email us at [email protected]

Let's make this milestone year merry! 🎁🌟

10/14/2026

🎄✨ NORTH BRANCH, IT'S TIME TO LIGHT UP THE NIGHT! ✨🎄

We are celebrating our 10th Anniversary Christmas and filling this year with festive floats, creative displays, and holiday magic!

And we're inviting YOU to be part of it.

If you're a local business, organization, family, or group of friends, we want to see your creativity shine! Decorate a float, light up a vehicle, spread some Christmas cheer, and fill our streets with twinkling lights.

📅 Saturday, December 5th - parade starts at 5:20pm

Register your float: https://nbbeautification.com/event/light-up-the-night-christmas-parade/

🎄 The festivities continue at Central Park with our community Christmas tree lighting and a Christmas market! (looking for vendors too 😉)

📣 BUSINESSES, ORGANIZATIONS & COMMUNITY GROUPS: WE WANT YOU!

Start dreaming up your parade entry and get ready to LIGHT UP THE NIGHT!

Who's ready for the magic?! 🙋‍♀️✨

09/29/2026

Another season of beauty has come to an end. 🌸

The flower baskets have officially come down, and we want to send one BIG thank you to everyone who helped make downtown North Branch bloom this summer!

To every business, organization, family, and individual who sponsored a basket in honor or in memory, for your business, or simply because you love this community: thank you. Your generosity makes a visible difference in our downtown.

A huge thank you to the City of North Branch and our Public Works crew for hanging, watering, and caring for the baskets all season long.

We know many of you noticed the baskets came down a little earlier than usual and asked why. The City's seasonal funding that supported the work had come to an end.

We hope you enjoyed them as much as we did. And if you found yourself looking for them when you drove downtown recently… well, that's how we know they did their job. 😉

Until next year, North Branch. Thank you for helping us add a little BEAUTY to our community. 🌸💚

09/11/2026

25 years later, we pause and we remember

08/12/2026

We spy with our little eye 👀 ...

A big thank you to City of North Branch, Minnesota - Government for caring for our baskets that mean so much to our community and to the people & businesses who graciously donated to the beautification project to make our town bloom!

07/03/2026

🇺🇸This weekend, America celebrates 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

For a quarter of a millennium, generations of brave men and women have answered the call to defend the American freedoms we cherish. Some returned home to their families. Others made the ultimate sacrifice so that liberty would endure.

The Regional Veteran Circle of Honor Memorial is being built as a tribute to our veterans and to ensure their courage, sacrifice, and legacy are never forgotten.

From all of us at NBBA and on the Veterans Memorial Committee, we wish you a safe, joyful, and meaningful Independence Day.

❤️🤍💙 Happy 250th Birthday, America! ❤️🤍💙

06/14/2026

June 14 commemorates the adoption of the first U.S. flag in 1777 and remains a day to reflect on our freedoms.

Every star. Every stripe. Every name that will be etched into our Veterans Memorial tells part of the American story.

This Flag Day, we're reminded that the flag represents the courage, sacrifice, and commitment of those who have served our country throughout history.

We are honored to share this article, written in collaboration with the North Branch American Legion, exploring some facts about the American flag and why it continues to hold such a special place in our hearts.

Take a moment today to honor the flag and remember our veterans and active service men and women.

https://www.northbranchchamber.com/flag-day-june-14th/

Strong communities are built on shared traditions, local pride, and understanding the history that connects us.

As we recognize Flag Day, we're proud to feature a guest article from the North Branch American Legion and North Branch Beautification Association, Inc. exploring the meaning of our nation's flag and the importance of honoring it with respect.

Take a few minutes to read their thoughtful perspective: https://www.northbranchchamber.com/flag-day-june-14th/

06/07/2026

🌸 It takes a village... and a water truck!

While our amazing sponsors help bring the flower baskets to Main Street, the City of North Branch, Minnesota - Government Public Works crew is the team that hangs them, waters them, and keeps them looking gorgeous all summer long.

Thank you for the work behind the scenes and for being such an incredible partner and for helping North Branch bloom, one basket at a time. 💛🌼

06/05/2026

🌸 Community Pride in Bloom 🌸

A portion of the baskets are sponsored because people care deeply about North Branch and want to help make our town a little brighter and welcoming!

A heartfelt thank you to the following sponsors:

🌼 Wild Ridge
🌼 Kathy Blomquist
🌼 Jeffery Daher
🌼 Jim & Tracy Ibinger
🌼 Kim Theis
🌼 Darrel & Jane Fisk
🌼 Laura and Joe Scaramell
🌼 Rod & Bonnie Lofquist
🌼 Mike & Barb Nelson
🌼 Tom & Candace Hals
🌼 Phil Carlson
🌼 Nancy Zachrison
🌼 Keith & Katheryn Hals
🌼 Kelly Detzler
🌼 Kevin Schieber

Your generosity helps transform our downtown into a place residents and visitors can enjoy all summer long.

The flowers may be the first thing people notice, but what they're really seeing is community pride in action.

Thank you to everyone for helping North Branch bloom. 💛🌸