Grinchy window takes holiday decorating contest

Jan 6, 2023

MIDDLEBORO — Coffee Milano, 58 Center St., won the annual Downtown Middleboro Window Decorating Contest sponsored by the Cranberry Country Chamber of Commerce and the Middleboro Office of Economic and Community Development.

Prizes are awarded to the storefront with the most votes and there is an additional prize to the voters who are entered into a drawing for a prize. 

Coffee Milano received 44 votes to take the grand prize. Gabriella Andrews won the voter participant drawing.

Store manager Josh Rashid said he was “happy’’ and “excited’’ to win the contest. 

His windows reflected a Grinch theme, which he said was inspired by his cousin Jamie Gudmundsson and aunt DIane Gudmundsson. “We love the Grinch and the story behind it,’’ he said. 

Prizes are a $50 gift certificate from the Middleboro Gas and Electric Department that the winning business and voter can each use to pay down a winter utility bill.

Prize donations are donated by the Middleboro Gas and Electric Department and the Cranberry Country Chamber of Commerce.

The Chamber of Commerce supports shopping at local businesses. The contest is held to encourage downtown storefronts to decorate and bring some holiday cheer as well as foot traffic into the downtown area from the Middleboro Christmas Parade through the end of December.