Kick off the fall on Main Street

The air is crisp and the leaves are falling, which means that Autumn in Moorestown is around the corner.

The annual event, run by the Moorestown Business Association (MBA), will be held on Main Street on Saturday, Oct. 10, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Public parking will be available on side streets off Main Street and in the Municipal Parking Lot adjacent to the library.

“It’s a great kick-off to fall,” said MBA President Paul Schultz. “There’s been enough time for everybody to get comfortably back into school and settle in back from the summer. The whole town gets to come together, and everybody gets to enjoy the event, see family and friends and be a part of the community.”

Autumn in Moorestown will feature its usual attractions like craft beer and wine, vendors, artists and plenty of entertainment including inflatables for the kids and a pumpkin patch to play in, live music, food trucks and more. The event is one of four coordinated by the MBA. Daffodil Day and Moorestown Day happened earlier this year and following Autumn in Moorestown will be the annual Main Street Candlelight Stroll. Typically, Autumn in Moorestown has a chair or co-chair but the board collectively planned the event so the MBA is looking for a volunteer to help assist the 2027 Autumn in Moorestown.

Schultz has been MBA president for two years. He’s been a board member since 2022 and served as vice president from 2023-’24. He stepped into his current role when former president Craig Dennin retired. He and his family decided it was a good move to relocate to Moorestown from Delran in 2019 because of the township’s excellent school system. Schultz also admires the sense of community and expressed that it’s a great place to live.

The MBA, founded in 1974 by local business owners who wanted to improve the township’s business climate, has several roles including promoting small businesses and helping them grow and be successful in the community, increasing town quality of life and resident quality of life and giving back to the school system by awarding scholarships. The organization initiated a scholarship program in 2008, and every year gives two $1,000 awards to graduating high school seniors who pursue a major in business or a related field and achieve in community or extracurricular activities. One thing about the organization is that it works every day and all year to try to improve conditions for all its businesses.

“We really want to help all our businesses – large, small, any part of the community – thrive,” Schultz said. “That’s not just on Main Street; that’s throughout the town whether it’s Main Street, whether it’s the projects going on at the Moorestown Mall, whether it’s over in Lenola, anywhere in Moorestown. We want them to thrive and we think that creates a more vibrant community. Having these businesses being able to offer all these services to the community is a benefit to the community as well, so it goes two ways and we’re very thankful because our residents are very supportive of the businesses in the community.”

For updates on Autumn in Moorestown, visit the MBA’s social media.