SMYRNA – This year marks a huge milestone in Town of Smyrna history. The town will be celebrating its bicentennial this year, and residents have come up with multiple activities to help town celebrate its heritage.

The town didn’t discover that 2008 would be the year of their bicentennial until early in the year. Town Supervisor James Bays explained that in January or early February, Barb Marso was helping her father to organize some paperwork when she came across a program from the town’s 175th anniversary. It didn’t take long to realize that 2008 would be the year the town would celebrate its 200th anniversary.

“We felt strongly that this should be a citizen-driven event for all of the residents of the village and the town,” Bays said.