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Wooster artisan: Today is a perfect day This is my first show in about two and a half years, and I m pretty excited, said Nancy Franck of N.E. Wear, which offers jewelry and accessories made from acrylic paint skins, flower petals, found insect wings, bicycle spokes, guitar strings and horsetail hair. She works out of her home. Today is a perfect day, and I m really excited to be down here, she said. There s lots of traffic, and I get lots of exposure, talk with lots of people and give out my cards. Tracy Hamilton of Hamilton Woodcrafting was another vendor who works out of his home in Wooster and enjoys sharing his work on the square. ....
Ohio Light Opera is back. This year, spectators can watch how they want in-person or virtual. Starting July 10, tourists and Wooster residents can attend live performances at the Wayne Center for the Arts or at venues organized by Main Street Wooster. There are three layers to it, said Laura Neil, executive of OLO. There are the outdoor performances, seven of them, that include Fantasticks and Trial by Jury that will be at Wayne Center for the Arts, Neil said. Then we have our three community-based downtown merchant events, which are going to be more like the one-hour concert of sets of cabaret music and Sinatra-type stuff. ....
For Tom and Mary Joy Lynch, Wooster was an idyllic place for their retirement. Freshly moved from Parma, they opened Lynch s Irish Imports and Gifts and the Market Street Inn bed and breakfast in 2017. For three years business boomed. Imports from Ireland arrived on time and guests regularly checked in. Then in 2020, COVID-19 struck, forcing them to close along with all other nonessential businesses. We flatlined, Tom Lynch said. Wooster s tourism scene that relies on agriculture, city and college events came to a halt in 2020 with the pandemic. This new reality forced many restaurants, stores and hotels to temporarily close or lay off employees. ....