
2025 Fall Festival of Leaves Queens Pageant Contestants
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Fourteen ladies will vie for the title of Miss Fall Festival of Leaves Thursday October 16th. The pageant begins at 8pm in the Paxton Theater at 133 East Main Street in Bainbridge. Doors opening at 7pm and admission is $5.
The festival runs October 17th through the 19th in Bainbridge.
Eight Paint Valley students and six contestants from the region will participate in the scholarship pageant, with hopes of filling the vacancy left by 2024 Miss Fall Festival of Leaves, Reagan Blackstone (pictured above with her court).
The 2025 contestants are:
- Addison Daugherty, Paint Valley HS
- MacKenzie Crum, Paint Valley Graduate
- Aubrie Rose, Western HS
- Emma Knisley, Paint Valley HS
- Avery Murphy, McClain HS
- Payton Wells, Adena HS
- Piper Martin, Western Graduate
- Adelyn Lane, Paint Valley HS
- Faith Proehl, Paint Valley HS
- Bianka Wagner, Paint Valley HS
- Sydney Bush, Unioto Graduate
- Hannah Johnson, Paint Valley HS
- Caitlyn Dyer, Paint Valley HS
- Lanie Shaw, Paint Valley HS
The top five making up the court will receive scholarship prizes totaling $2,400 and preside over the festival. Miss Fall Festival of Leaves will travel across Ohio representing Bainbridge festival throughout the next year.
For a full schedule of events and features, visit the Fall Festival of Leaves official website.

