MONTAGUE Citing time and travel required by a new job, Selectboard member Michael Nelson has announced his plans to resign from the board at the end of this summer.Nelson made a formal announcement during Monday’s Selectboard meeting, but also took.
Summer events: Franklin County Fair to welcome general public this year
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Organizers of the 2021 Franklin County Fair plan to make it open to the public in an effort to provide a semblance of what the fair had offered before the COVID-19 coronavirus forced it to close to the public last year.
The fair is scheduled July 19-25 at the Franklin County Fairgrounds, 4100 Columbia St. in Hilliard.
“The board is planning a fair that will be open to the public with rides, food and entertainment,” said Gary Fellure, president of the fair board.
The fair board is working with local and state health officials to meet all health guidelines, said Stephanie Rauschenbach, owner of Simply Put PR, a public-relations firm promoting the fair.
Editorial: Ag. society inches toward erosion solution
Mike Nelson, president of the Franklin County Agricultural Society, looks into the eroded bank at the edge of the Franklin County Fairgrounds. STAFF PHOTO/PAUL FRANZ
Published: 4/28/2021 5:02:35 PM
The problem of erosion at the Franklin County Fairgrounds would daunt any lesser group of people. But board members of the Franklin County Agricultural Society are made of stern stuff, having shown their mettle over the course of countless meetings with engineers, legislators and state and local governing bodies.
Erosion problems are notoriously expensive to fix, requiring engineering expertise, large pieces of equipment and human labor. The stomach-churning saga came to a head in early 2019 with a report that pegged the cost to remediate at about $500,000. It might as well have been $500 million, so far beyond the means of the nonprofit that this estimate was.
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