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Although some things will be similar like Family Night and the parade, others will be different, like the lack of a carnival.
Here is everything you need to know to enjoy the city s biggest week of the summer.
Street closures
Port Huron Downtown Development Authority Director Cynthia Cutright said although the plan was originally to just close Quay Street west and east of Huron Avenue, when organizers realized how busy the festival could be, they reconsidered.
Huron Avenue will be closed from the Military Street Bridge to Grand River Avenue and Quay Street will be closed to Michigan Street to the east and Grand River Avenue to the west, starting at 6 a.m. Thursday, July 22.
Nineteen-year-old Racquel Raska said she’s “been wanting to get a puppy for a while.”
But after she got her pure-bred golden retriever a three-month-old she’s named Bow Duke, similar to “The Dukes of Hazard” character she admitted she was recently finding a shortage of things to do with the pup in the area.
Raska lives in Capac, while her boyfriend lives in Port Huron. Sometimes, she said she takes Bow to the Fort Gratiot Pond, adding, “While he’s fishing, I’ll walk around with him.” Looking for more options, in particular a beach to welcome dogs, she took to the Port Huron Facebook page to ask.