The annual Wayne City Bean Days celebration gets underway this weekend and runs through next Saturday, September 24th. Activities are set to take place this Thursday and Friday nights starting at 6 p.m. with a full day of activities this Saturday the 24th. Among Saturday's activities are the Tractor Show starting at 7 a.m. on the Ag Building parking lot, a Car Cruise on the West School Parking Lot from 9 a.m. til noon, and the parade through Main Street starting at 10 a.m. Serving of free ham and beans starts at 11 a.m. at the Ag Building. The Marion County Health Department reported a COVID-related death in their weekly report on the virus this past week, a long-term care female resident in her 60s who had not been vaccinated. Area media reports of COVID numbers in the past week showed Wayne County with 27 cases and two new hospitalizations, Jefferson County with 72 cases and three new hospitalizations, and Clay County with 31 cases and one new hospitalization. Wayne and Marion c