Print Email link Send news tip Report error Post comment BENTON, Mo. -- For more than 50 years, the annual Benton Neighbor Days celebration has been providing families and friends with good food and fun over the Labor Day weekend. From Thursday, Aug. 31, to Saturday, Sept. 2, the 54th annual Benton Neighbor Days Festival will return for to provide good food, drinks, live music, carnival rides, games, a parade and more. According to Jim Wade, president of Benton Chamber of Commerce, the first Neighbor Days took place in 1925, However, after September 1943, due to restrictions imposed by war, it shut down for some time.

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