 The city of Prestonsburg is celebrating New Year's Eve in a big way at Archer Park. Instead of dropping the ball to ring in the new year, Star City will be raising a giant star to symbolize the bright future ahead. Anyone is welcome to come out and enjoy the lights, food and carnival. New Year's Eve, New Year's Day is kind of the grand finale of the Archer Park light spectacular. So of course every night from Thanksgiving until New Year's Day the lights are on. Over a million lights are open and available for completely free viewing here at Archer Park. And then what's awesome is come New Year's night at midnight and leading up to it. You know most places have a ball drop but we are the Star City in Prestonsburg. So we actually raised the star up during it and the carnival stays open late so you can bring the whole family out. Grab some coffee, hot chocolate, bring some snacks on down here. And it's just kind of a smaller gathering but it's a great way to get just a final little excitement with family and friends and loved ones right here in Archer Park. And also a great chance to get one more viewing. This is our favorite time. We anticipate about 50,000 cars to come through Archer Park from Thanksgiving to New Year's Day. So it's a great chance to get a last viewing of the amazing lights here. After spending the holidays with family and friends, Prestonsburg's New Year's Eve party could be a nice way to wind down. Once the party is over, the lights will go down until next year. What's really neat about this particular event is, you know, we're coming off the holiday season at that point where everybody's been from house to house to house with gatherings or greetings or whatever it might be. And it's just a great moment to get out of the house for just a little bit. It's not crazy over the top but it's a great way to engage, especially young kids with adults, to enjoy that time, have just a little bit of a refresher, a good smile, a laugh, a time out of the house and just within your community before starting the New Year fresh and bright and ready for a great year. Reporting from Outant Top News, I'm Nick Colum.