A surname likely familiar to those who follow the Annual 4th of July Button Contest once again put forth the button design voted to be the overall winner for the 32nd annual competition for 2023.

Luke Daniel — a 15-year-old Mt. Hope sophomore who previously won the grade 6-8 category in 2020 and 2021, and whose brother, Evan, won the grade K-5 category in 2015, the grade 6-8 category in 2019, and designed the overall winner last year — earned the top honor this year for his impressive button design featuring a Revolutionary War soldier carrying Old Glory.

Winning the category for students in grades 6-8 was 13-year-old Kickemuit Middle School eighth grader Marissa Cabral, who also won the category last year and won the grade K-5 category in 2020. Her design featured Mr. Potato Head decked out in 4th of July garb alongside a map of Bristol streaked with the red white and blue stripe marking Hope Street.

The youngest winner this year was Kirra Lambert, a 10-year-old fifth grader at Colt Andrews. Her sister Madison won the same category in 2021.