The city’s annual Mulchfest rang out the holiday season this year by setting a record for harvesting old Christmas trees in a ...

31—OLD ORCHARD BEACH — Scott Eccleston left a grooved trail in the sand as he dragged his old Christmas tree to a pile on ... of ash left from the town's New Year's bonfire.

“I moved here three years ago, and there in the town that I lived in, we would do a tree burning every year after Christmas, kind of to usher out the old year and in the new,” Fisher said.

Henry Sweeney and Mason Elliott said in unison. That's how long they lasted up at the front of the crowd for the Christmas tree burning. "It was sweating, super hot, and super fun," said Sweeney.

A 20-year-old was arrested after breaking into Gracie Mansion, the official residence of New York City Mayor Eric Adams, and stealing a Christmas ... Man indicted in burning death of woman inside ...

As the trees burned, those gathered balanced anxieties over the future with dreams of a bright new year ... in the sand as he dragged his old Christmas tree to a pile on Old Orchard Beach on ...