Annual Belltown Spring Sprint is May 4

The Belltown Spring Sprint will be held Saturday, May 4, at East Hampton High School, 15 North Maple St.  The Spring Sprint is a 5K race that includes a 1 mile Kids Run to benefit East Hampton High School Project Graduation.

Now in its seventh year, last year’s race had 150 runners registered for the 5K and over 30 kids in the kids race.

The kids race begins at 9:15 a.m. and the 5K at 10 a.m. The race starts and ends at the high school and winds through local streets and around a section of the shoreline of Lake Pocotopaug.

There will be free t-shirts for runners registered by April 27th, medals for all kids race participants, awards for the top male and female runners and age group categories, food, music and for the first time this year a vendor fair with selections from local business. 

For more information e-mail BelltownSpringSprint@gmail.com or call Karen at 860-462-6760. To register online visit http://thelastmileracing.com/belltown5k.html.

The race also has a Facebook site that you can like to receive updates on the race, view pictures from last year's event and interact with other participants. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Belltown-Spring-Sprint/118001998393042.

Project Graduation is a volunteer organization with the mission to provide a fun, safe, drug and alcohol-free post-graduation celebration that East Hampton graduating seniors will remember for years to come.

The group held its first celebration in 2009 and every year since at no cost to the graduates. For more information on Project Graduation visit our website at http://ehhsprojectgraduation.com/blog/