Santa Claus is Coming to Town: Annual Ride Through the Streets Set for Tonight

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With weather predicted to be clear and unseasonally warm,  Santa Claus will be riding through the streets of Winthrop in his annual journey on Christmas Eve.  Santa is getting assistance from the Winthrop Fire Department while his reindeers take a rest getting ready for the journey around the world delivering presents to all good little boys and girls.

The route and approximate times are as follows:

4:30 p.m.**Start at Deer Island to Tafts**Tafts to Elliot**left on Elliot to Church Square**left on Shirley to Triton**down Triton to Bay View**Bay View to Shirley**left on Shirley to Crystal Cove**Crystal Cove to Park**left on Park to Beacon**right on Beacon to Beacon Circle**down Shore Drive to Tewksbury**left on Tewksbury to Shirley**

5:00 p.m.**right on Shirley to Veterans Road**right on Veterans Road to Locust Street**left on Locust Street**Locust to Revere Street**right on Revere Street to Sagamore**

5:30 p.m.**Sagamore to Grovers**left on Grovers**Grovers to Cliff** right on Cliff to Seal Harbor**Seal Harbor to Pond Street**right on Pond Street to Highland Ave**right on Highland to Nahant**Nahant to Grovers**left on Grovers**

6:00 p.m. **Grovers to Highland**right on Highland to Cliff**Cliff to Quincy Ave**left onto Quincy**Quincy to Upland Road**left on Upland to Revere Street**left on Revere Street** right on Revere to Harvard**left on Harvard to Payson**right on Payson to Main**

6:30 p.m.**right on Main to Bowdoin**left on Bowdoin to Centre**right on Centre to Hermon**left on Hermon to Belcher**Belcher to Winthrop**left on Winthrop to Atlantic**left on Atlantic to Hermon**

7:00 p.m.**right on Hermon to Main**right on Main to Winthrop**left on Winthrop to Banks**Banks to Main**right on Main to Pleasant** left on Pleasant to Lincoln**left on Lincoln to Brookfield**right on Brookfield to Pleasant**left on Pleasant to Waldemar**

7:30 p.m. **left on Waldemar to Pauline**right on Pauline to Lowell Road**Lowell to Maple**Maple to Loring**right on Loring to Court**left on Court to Johnson**Johnson to Somerset**left on Somerset

8:00 p.m.**Somerset to Pleasant** right on Pleasant to Cottage Park**right on Cottage Park to Bartlett Parkway**left on Bartlett Parkway to Orlando**Orlando to Bartlett Road**

8:30 p.m. **Bartlett to Pleasant**right on Pleasant to Plummer**right on Plummer to Frances**left on Frances to Sunnyside**left on Sunnyside to Pleasant**left on Pleasant to Bartlett**right on Bartlett to Jefferson** right on Jefferson to Putnam** right on Putnam to Buchanan**

9:00 p.m.** left on Buchanan to Winthrop**right on Winthrop to Washington**left on Washington to River Road**left on River Road to Chester**left on Chester to Bowdoin**right on Bowdoin to George**left on George to Winthrop**left on Winthrop to Jefferson**Jefferson to Freemont**right on Freemont to Pauline**right on Pauline to Fire Headquarters** 9:30 p.m.**Santa heads back to North Pole to load up his sleigh.