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Date: 5/16/2022
WARE – The annual Town Wide Tag Sale will take place on June 11 from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Hosted by the Proprietors of the Ware Center Meeting House Incorporated, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that owns the Meeting House, and runs the tag sale as a benefit for the Meeting House restoration.
Maps of the sale locations will available 8 a.m. at the Meeting House on 295 Belchertown Rd., Route 9 West. Residents of Ware plan to have a sale at their homes or place of business, then call the proprietors to get listed on the official map. On June 11, locals can go to the Meeting House and get the official map of all tag sales and go from sale to sale.
“Folks can sell anything that they want. However, we don’t allow fire rounds, ammunition and fireworks,” said Carol Zins, one of the coordinators of the Town Wide Tag Sale. “We’ll find anything from furniture to antiques to clothing items. I’ve already received lots of calls. I think last year people were still afraid to go outside. Now, people are more encouraged to go outside to do things and be at places and I think they really want to.”
She continued, “People have been cleaning their houses for the past couple of years and they have this stuff that they want to get rid of, so I’m thinking we’re going to have a very good sale this year.”
The Meeting House was built in 1799. It has served as the first town hall, the first school and the parish home for the First Church of Ware. In 1986, the building was nearly destroyed in a fire. The Proprietors became the owners of the building and formed the nonprofit to restore the site for future generations. In 2009, the Ware Historical Society moved into the building and opened a museum for the public to look at artifacts from the town and region.
So far, Zins said she has a dozen homes signed up. People who sign up to be on the official map pay a $15 donation and that money goes toward the Meeting House.
“We want everybody who goes through the effort to put their items out to have someone stop,” Zins replied. “We just want it to be a really good community event. We want at least 40 to 50 sales. We want people to come for the day, go to our wonderful restaurants in town, see our beautiful scenery and partake of the sale.”
To sign up a home for the Town Wide Tag Sale, call 967-8304 to sign up. For more information, go to https://warecentermeetinghouse.org/ or the Ware Center Meeting House Facebook page for more information.