There are also Halloween events in Jay, Raquette Lake and Wilmington.

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Tupper Lake

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St. Agnes School students march in the Halloween parade down Main Street in Lake Placid in 2019. (Enterprise photo — Elizabeth Izzo)

The Tupper Lake Chamber of Commerce is hosting its Park Street trick-or-treating event this Friday from 3 to 5 p.m.

Chamber Event Coordinator Christine Marquis said the event is still on and that businesses participating in the event will have a flyer displayed in their window.

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Saranac Lake

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On Monday, the Saranac Lake village board chose to rescind the road closure permit for the annual downtown trick-or-treating event over fears that it might lead to coronavirus-related school closures and put stress on understaffed businesses.

Trustee Kelly Brunette brought up the topic at the board meeting and apprehensively proposed the cancellation.

The village board approved the street closure earlier this month, but left a caveat to cancel it if COVID-19 cases continued to rise. They have.

Brunette said her daughter is excited to wear her witch costume to school on Friday and around the neighborhood on Sunday, “but my daughter was also recently home for 10 days on quarantine due to COVID exposure,” she added.

“Out of respect for education professionals in our community, who are doing everything they can to keep our children safe and in school, and out of respect to our downtown merchants, who are short-staffed and under economic pressures,” Brunette said. “I think a road closure and promoting an event on Friday would not be in the best interests of our community.”

Brunette said it was hard making this decision. She feels like her kids think she’s “the Halloween Grinch.”

“Halloween is not cancelled,” Brunette said. “I hope to see everyone Sunday at 33 Winona Ave. I’ll have my porch light on and candy.”

The event was scheduled for Friday from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. on Broadway and Main Street in Saranac Lake. The event is organized by a group of local organizations and businesses.

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Lake Placid

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Bethany Valenze, the Regional Office of Sustainable Tourism’s event coordinator, said there are no plans for downtown trick-or-treating this year because Main Street is still under heavy construction and it would not be safe. Individual businesses might still hand out candy, but the Lake Placid Business Association is not organizing anything formal, LPBA member Marc Galvin said.

“The LPBA is planning to contribute candy to the efforts at the horse show grounds and at St. Agnes,” Galvin wrote in an email.

St. Agnes School has a “Trunk or Treat” event planned for Friday in the school parking lot.

Lake Placid Elementary School Principal Sonja Franklin said students and teachers will hold their annual Halloween parade at the North Elba Show Grounds this year — because of construction on Main Street, not because of the coronavirus.

“We are definitely welcoming and would love to have an audience for the kids,” Franklin said. “It’s an opportunity for the kids to show off their costumes.”

The parade will be at 12:30 p.m. on Friday.

The Lake Placid Police Department has canceled its Halloween party for elementary school students and its middle-high school dance for a second year.

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Jay and Black Brook

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These towns are holding a joint Halloween event on Oct. 31, for the second year. The parade starts at the Zaumetzer Funeral Home in AuSable Forks at 6 p.m. and will travel the downtown streets before ending at the funeral home.

“Trick or Treat there IF YOU DARE,” a poster for the event taunts. “WE DOUBLE DOG DARE YA!!!”

There will be judging and awards for parade floats. People looking to add a float to the parade can call Jay Town Clerk Carol Greenley at 518-647-2204 x102. Line-up for the parade starts at 5 p.m. at the AuSable Forks Elementary School, she said.

Then, on the lawn of the Graves Mansion next door to Zaumetzer’s, Greenley said the towns are planning to show the movie “Hocus Pocus.”

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Raquette Lake

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Raquette Lake will be hosting community Halloween events at Great Camp Sagamore and the school.

On Saturday, Oct. 30, families are invited to Great Camp Sagamore for festivities starting at 5 p.m. with an adult costume contest later in the evening.

On Sunday, Oct. 31, the judging of the Halloween Scarecrow Contest will take place at 3 p.m.

“Competitors are invited to set up and decorate a scarecrow on the school fence between now and Halloween,” a press release from the hamlet reads.

Then, at 5 p.m., families are invited back to Great Camp Sagamore for the return of a party that’s been held annually for two decades.

“There will be games, a costume contest for prizes and special activities planned. Door-to-door trick or treating in the Raquette Lake community will immediately follow the ghoulish festivities at Great Camp Sagamore,” the press release says.

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Wilmington

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The Wilmington Church of the Nazarene, Wilmington Kampgrounds of America and local businesses are sponsoring a “Trunk or Treat” at the Whiteface Mountain KOA campground from 4 to 7 p.m. on Halloween. There will be 30 different decorated “Trunk or Treat” spots children can walk to through the campground.

Organizers say COVID-19 guidelines will be enforced, including social distancing, hand sanitization, mask wearing, and volunteers will be wearing gloves.