![A Sycamore Pumpkin Fest sign being displayed over the weekend at the intersection of West State street and Somonauk Street. (Mingda Wu | Northern Star)](https://northernstar.info/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/MG_3904-2-900x600.jpg)
IN PICTURES: Sycamore’s 50th annual ‘Pumpkin Fest’
By Mingda Wu, Photographer
| October 30, 2022
![Lee County Resident and owner of Sweet Earth, Roseann Para hands and DeKalb county resident Sue Lederer hand out candy to 9 year old Justice Dueringer, a resident of Sycamore.](https://northernstar.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/b0b1128f43e323209587c633d947edae-900x600.jpg)
Pumpkin Fest builds excitement
By Cris Rojo
| October 26, 2017
![The Darth Vader carved pumpkin display won the President’s Award, the highest ranking award at the 54th Annual Pumpkin Festival on Thursday.](https://northernstar.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/21c746dfc217b2ded3e6f0fc03691528-675x900.jpg)
Pumpkin Fest unifies Sycamore community
By Jessica Plessner
| October 26, 2015
![Wally Thurow, known as Mr. Pumpkin, poses in the mid-1990s during the Sycamore Pumpkin Festival. A statue of Thurow, who helped found the festival, will be unveiled today to help start this year’s Pumpkin Festival.](https://northernstar.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/700d4d3fca9c34f46afa31b152c61c89.jpg)
‘Mr. Pumpkin’ memorial to be unveiled
By Mitchell Spence
| October 22, 2014
Pumpkin Fest combines Halloween, science lab
By Arthur Aumann
| October 21, 2014
Music programs, classes open to community
By Keisha Howerth
| January 22, 2014
Parade marks 52 years of Pumpkin Fest
By Deanna Frances
| October 28, 2013
Zombie golf aids library
By Hany Abdel
| October 27, 2013
Historic home tour shows strength in community
By Hany Abdel
| October 27, 2013
Pumpkins roll into Sycamore
By Lark Lewis
| October 24, 2013
Local man memorialized in new book
By Northern Star Staff
| October 11, 2012
Pumpkin Fest takes over Sycamore
October 26, 2011
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