The Spring 2025 Highway 15 Yard Sale is just around the bend, with the event starting on Thursday, June 5 and ending on Sunday, June 8. The wide-ranging yard sale will stretch all the way from Newton, Mississippi to Maben, Mississippi and will include hundreds of sellers and vendors from the communities along Highway 15.
“It brings in a lot of revenue,” said organizer Timothy Bozeman. “It helps the economy; it helps the motels, the stores . . . the restaurants. I mean, we have people that flew down from New Hampshire last year that came to this. We get people from eight to ten different states that look forward to this year’s year sale. It’s amazing how much it’s grown through the years.” Bozeman said that there are even shop owners from out of state that come to the sale to buy inventory.
Bozeman also referred to the event’s Facebook page as a good place to find updates for the event. The event’s page, which has over fifteen thousand members currently, also serves as a means by which vendors can request for their location to be put on a map of the event, which will be posted on June 2nd, a day before the event, according to Bozeman, who said that last year there were around 200 people on the map. “We’re anticipating more than that this year,” said Bozeman.
Bozeman said the places with the most vendors are the Highway 15 Flea Market in Union, the American Legion Hut in Decatur, the Louisville Trading Company, the Good Hope community, as well as Ackerman, Mathiston, and Maben. Bozeman mentioned that many of the big locations in the sale have food vendors, such as pork rind or snow cone vendors.
“It’s just something that if you like this kind of stuff there’s so much out there that you can’t find any other time,” said Bozeman. Another Highway 15 Yard Sale will be held later this year in October.
Newton
This year marks the very first that the City of Newton will allow for free vendor setup on the parking lot of the former Pioneer Hospital in Newton found on Highway 15, provided that the vendors that wish to do so sign up at the Newton City Hall and sign a waiver before the event.
