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Light up the neighborhood with festive displays and creative holiday themes for Gulfport\u2019s annual Holiday Decorations Contest 2025.Photo by Pixabay <\/p>\n
\t\tLight up the neighborhood with festive displays and creative holiday themes for Gulfport\u2019s annual Holiday Decorations Contest 2025.
Photo by Pixabay <\/p>\n
The City of Gulfport invites residents and business owners to celebrate the season by participating in the annual Holiday Decorations Contest. Organizers encourage the community to light up the city with festive displays and creative holiday themes.<\/p>\n
Gulfport\u2019s Annual Holiday Decorations Contest 2025<\/p>\n
The contest features two theme categories:<\/p>\n
General Theme \u2013 for single-family homes<\/p>\n
Commercial Theme \u2013 for businesses, professional offices, and home-based occupations<\/p>\n
All entries must be located within Gulfport city limits.<\/p>\n
On the night of Dec. 17, \u201cSanta and his elves\u201d will tour Gulfport to judge entries.<\/p>\n
While the exact time of their arrival remains a mystery, participants must have their decorations ready by 6 p.m. The deadline to enter the contest is noon on Wednesday, Dec. 17.<\/p>\n
Judges will select one winner in each category. The City will present commemorative plaques during the Gulfport City Council meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 6, at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n
Residents and business owners may pick up entry applications at the Gulfport Recreation Center or City Hall. For more information, call 727-893-1068<\/a>.<\/p>\n Want More Holiday News?<\/p>\n For more holiday news, subscribe to our newsletters<\/a>. Make thegabber.com<\/a> your homepage to stay up-to-date on all the news happening in Gulfport, South Pinellas, and the Beaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Light up the neighborhood with festive displays and creative holiday themes for Gulfport\u2019s annual Holiday Decorations Contest 2025.Photo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2271,7110,1186,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-75364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-gulfport-florida","tag-gulfport-florida-things-to-do","tag-holidays","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}