WOOSTER Sitting on lawn chairs in the soccer fields and swatting at mosquitoes as explosions light up the nighttime sky is a seemingly age-old tradition in the city.
Usually between 3,000 and 5,000 attendees watch fireworks every year here, and this year is projected to be no different, said Gil Ning, the event s annual organizer and president of the Wooster Fireworks Foundation.
Soon after canceling the July 4 fireworks in 2020 due to COVID-19 concerns, Ning promised to bring it in 2021. And he intends to keep that promise.
Just as Ning began planning this year s event, supply chain issues, soaring fireworks prices and a lack of funding threatened to silence the much anticipated colorful explosions.
From The Tribune staff reports
BIRMINGHAM The Jefferson County Coroner/Medical Examiner’s Office identified a woman killed in a crash on Sunday, May 30, 2021.
Julia Ann Bell, 65, of Orrville, Alabama, was a passenger in a Jeep Grand Cherokee that was involved in the two-vehicle crash, said Coroner Bill Yates.
“The decedent’s vehicle attempted to turn left across traffic and struck a red Hyundai that was traveling south on Center Point Parkway,” Yates said.
The crash happened around 8:45 p.m. in the 1200 block of Center Point Parkway.
Bell was pronounced dead on the scene.
The Birmingham Police Department is investigating.
Across the country communities commemorated the men and women of the United States Armed Forces who gave their lives for the freedoms we enjoy during Memorial Day ceremonies.