By Chris Jamele
Buffalo, NY – Paul Schweigert of Newfane is the new pumpkin king for 2010.
The twenty-eighth World Pumpkin Confederation's weigh-off was held yesterday in Clarence, and Schweigert's entry tipped the scales at more than one thousand pounds, topping the next heaviest gourd by more than two hundred pounds. The win earned Schweigert a one thousand dollar payday.
The monstrous pumpkin will be on display until the end of the month at the Great Pumpkin Farm Fall Festival on main Street in Clarence.