{"id":428905,"date":"2026-08-10T16:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T16:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/428905\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T16:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T16:32:11","slug":"milford-celebrates-hometown-with-festival-the-oakland-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/428905\/","title":{"rendered":"Milford celebrates hometown with festival \u2013 The Oakland Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Mallory Waligora, For the Oakland Press<\/p>\n<p>MILFORD, Mich. \u2013 The streets of downtown Milford became pedestrian-only as the community celebrated the 34th annual Milford Memories festival.<\/p>\n<p>The three-day festival brought together local businesses, vendors, artists and residents for a weekend of activities. Visitors browsed booths selling handmade goods and other items while live bands performed. Basketball, soccer, volleyball and cornhole competitions also took place throughout the grounds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a huge, massive community event,\u201d attendee Cheryl Wegner said. \u201cIt\u2019s a smaller, quaint, little hidden gem, and so this brings people in that may not necessarily come out this way and spend the day getting to know the little town.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For Wegner and other attendees, the festival offered an opportunity to spend the weekend with friends and neighbors while supporting local businesses and artists.<\/p>\n<p>You can find a gallery of images from this year\u2019s event <a href=\"https:\/\/jrc-oakland.smugmug.com\/Milford-Memories-20206\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Scenes from Milford Memories event last weekend. (MALLORY WALIGORA, FOR THE OAKLAND PRESS)\" width=\"1706\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Milford-Memories-2026-pix-2-081026.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"2962664\" \/>Scenes from Milford Memories event last weekend. (MALLORY WALIGORA, FOR THE OAKLAND PRESS)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Volunteers Elizabeth Eads, left, and Pat Booth, right, helping direct traffic for the day. (MALLORY WALIGORA, FOR THE OAKLAND PRESS)\" width=\"1486\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Milford-Memories-2026-pix-3-081026.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"2962665\" \/>Volunteers Elizabeth Eads, left, and Pat Booth, right, helping direct traffic for the day. (MALLORY WALIGORA, FOR THE OAKLAND PRESS)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Scenes from Milford Memories 2026. (MALLORY WALIGORA, FOR THE OAKLAND PRESS)\" width=\"1058\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Milford-Memories-2026-pix-5-081026.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"2962666\" \/>Scenes from Milford Memories 2026. (MALLORY WALIGORA, FOR THE OAKLAND PRESS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Mallory Waligora, For the Oakland Press MILFORD, Mich. \u2013 The streets of downtown Milford became pedestrian-only as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[181,23,795,2481,143,904,145,144],"class_list":["post-428905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-michigan","tag-milford","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-county","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}