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Fair vendors, food court and tractor exhibitors clash over paved display area
Summary
Members of the Fair Advisory Board and exhibitors discussed this year’s vendor layout after organizers placed many food vendors on the paved area historically used for an antique tractors display; the tractor group said it will not participate this year unless space is reclaimed.
Josh Forte, Antique Equipment superintendent, told the Fair Advisory Board he and his volunteers will not participate in this year’s fair after county staff reconfigured the paved display area and placed food vendors there. “We were not gonna participate in the fair this year,” Forte said, describing several meetings his group held after receiving the county’s revised plan.
Board members and staff responded that the paved area now offers water, power and lighting that food vendors need. A county staff member told the board that the location “is perfectly suited for the food vendors” and cautioned that the county has repeatedly struggled to provide…
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