Governor Holcomb Won’t Take Part in Trick-Or-Treating This Year

Governor Eric Holcomb and First Lady Janet Holcomb dressed as basketball players to hand out candy to trick-or-treaters in 2018, while First Dog Henry Holcomb was a basketball. (Governor’s Office photo)

As the decision of whether to move ahead with trick-or-treating is mostly being left up to individual residents, Governor Eric Holcomb will be among those not taking part. “In the interest of safety, unfortunately – I have mixed feelings about this – but we’re not going to host Halloween this year at the residence, so no trick-or-treating at the Governor’s Residence this year,” Holcomb said during his COVID-19 press conference Wednesday. “We’re going to try to make that up somehow, some way, creatively, in the future.”

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