GLENS FALLS Take A Bite, the annual summer weekly food and entertainment festival, starts this week, with more than 35 participants set up along downtown sidewalks from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday.

I cant believe it whoo! said Candice Frye, chairwoman of the Take A Bite organizing committee of the Glens Falls Collaborative.

Musicians perform, restaurants sell small portions of entrees, appetizers and desserts, and community organizations set up information booths.

The festival has become an informal competition among restaurants to see who can come up with the most uncommon recipe each week, said Frye, executive director of Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council.

Frye said she is excited that two new dessert vendors Sweets by Marissa and Yum, Yum Ice will participate this year.

Take A Bite continues weekly from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesdays through Aug. 16.

Restaurants will be set up along Glen Street and Maple Street, and later in the summer along Ridge Street.

There will be a lot happening on Maple Street this year, Frye said.

Most Ridge Street restaurants, with the exception of Morgan & Company, will be set up on Glen Street this Wednesday, and possibly on subsequent Wednesdays, until work on the Ridge Street infrastructure project moves past the block of Ridge Street between the Centennial Circle roundabout and The Queensbury Hotel, Frye said.

Morgan and Company will still have its tent set up in front of the restaurant at the corner of Ridge and Maple streets.

Take A Bite is a great example of the way businesses and arts organizations work together to improve the citys quality of life, said Glens Falls Mayor Jack Diamond.

Its kind of the face of the city in the summertime, he said. Were looking forward to it.

Musical entertainment this Wednesday will be Milayne Jacksons Blue Train Trio at the Centennial Circle roundabout and saxophone soloist Gavin Munoff on Glen Street, in the vicinity of Crandall Public Library.

Coinciding with Take A Bite, Crandall Public Library will kick off its Eyes to the Skies summer free astronomy program series at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the community room in the library basement.

Kevin Manning, an astronomer with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and a consultant to NASA, will speak.

The series leads up to the coast-to-coast total solar eclipse in the United States on Aug. 21.

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