Our town had the usual in town loop (Downtown is a 4x4 block grid) all the buisnesses handing out candy a couple of the bars haning mini shots for the parents, etc, with main street closed off, a band playing, fire dept, police, and some of the bigger buisnesses without a storefront down town staging their Halloween stuff in there. There was also the usual lead in- to town (its fairly traditional for all the houses to have candy starting about 1 mile out of town on the main road in- often with the caretakers/ property manager cos doing candy on their properties on the behalf of the rich owners who only visit seasonally)
There were also 4 different neighborhoods sort of actively advertising they were ‘open’ for trick or treaters- wirh residents telling everyone to make sure to hit up their blocks. 2 of them were blocks with a sort of critical mass of young families, and 2 were somw of the larger, denser areas so better for foot traffic.
Our towns kind of difficult demographics wise though- in addition to the whole young families having trouble affording homes, and aging population problems felt everywhere, were a seasonal beach resort town, so probably 60% of the houses are closed for the season by Halloween.
She tried twisting around, but hes still winning the thumb war.