Marinette and Menominee Counties are gearing up for a day filled with family fun, parades, and fireworks as July 4th comes in with a bang! If you’d like to get an early start on your holiday festivities, Stephenson will host its Fourth of July parade at 11am, and Godfrey Anderson American Legion Post 43 will host a $12 Chicken Dinner from Noon until 4pm. In Crivitz, their parade will begin at 11am along with a day of food, drinks, music, bounce houses, dunk tanks, and bingo beginning at 1pm at the Crivitz Community Veterans Park with the night ending with Fireworks at 9:30pm, and Menominee kicks off its Fourth of July Celebration at 4pm on Tuesday at the Great Lakes Memorial Marina Park on First Street with food and kids activities, crafts and face painting will follow at 6pm to 8:30pm, music by the Michigan Shivers from 5:30 to 9:30pm, with a fireworks display at 9:30pm.