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BUCKHANNON The West Virginia Strawberry Festival will get under way Thursday, albeit in a smaller fashion than usual.
Due to COVID-19 pandemic precautions, this year’s WVSF will feature no parades, but many events are on tap from Thursday through Sunday.
Presiding over the festival will be Queen-elect Caylie Simmons of Franklin, and Teen Queen Madison Stellato, of Morgantown.
Charli Crandall is the Queen’s First Maid, while the Teen Queen’s First Maid is Jenna Biggs and Second Maid is Ava Warner.
The WVSF Junior Royalty Court will include:
Madison Burnside was named 2021 WV Strawberry Festival Junior Royalty Queen, while Reagan Sisk was named 1st Maid and Isabella Kelley was named 2nd Maid.
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Feb 6, 2021
The COVID-19 ax fell on another local event Friday, as the 2021 Annual Ramps and Rail Festival was canceled due to health concerns surrounding large public gatherings.
This is the second year in a row that the Ramps and Rails Festival has been canceled because of COVID-19, making it one of the first local events to have suffered that fate twice. Let’s hope it doesn’t become a long list.
Already in 2021, the pandemic has forced the canceling of Fasnacht in Helvetia, and the Maple Syrup Festival in Pickens was canceled for the second straight year.
In 2020, the list of annual events that were canceled was long, including such major traditional crowdpleasers as the Mountain State Forest Festival, the West Virginia Strawberry Festival, Coalton Days and all the local county fairs.
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BUCKHANNON – City officials started marching through 2021 on the ‘right foot’ as they learned Buckhannon was selected to host an incredibly unique event – one that promises to put Buckhannon, Upshur County and West Virginia on the map.
During a virtual announcement on Friday, Robert Eklund, International President and CEO of the World Association of Marching Show Bands, announced that Buckhannon will be the site of the WAMSB Championship Event in 2023. This is only the second time in the competition’s history that the host site has been in the United States.
For The Inter-Mountain
BUCKHANNON Many public events such as the West Virginia Strawberry Festival and Festival Fridays did not happen in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, the Buckhannon Police Department’s Volunteers in Police Service found they were needed in other ways – assisting with traffic at drive-thru testing sites, flu clinics, etc.
Despite a reduced number of events, the 15 VIPS found themselves giving back 1,515 in volunteer hours, about half of what was served in 2019, according to VIPS coordinator Steve Wycoff at Thursday’s Buckhannon City Council meeting.
“The number of events we help with dropped drastically this year, simply due to the pandemic,” he said. “Normally, we assist with 120 to 130 events per year including Strawberry Festival. This year, we only assisted with 78. We had 63 events that were canceled. Twenty-seven of the 78 were public health related such as the testing clinics for COVID-19, drive thru flu shots, etc.
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