Caledonia County Fair Is Back

Details: Created on Wednesday, 14 April 2021 01:23; Written by John Habershaw

NEK - The Caledonia County Fair will be celebrating a belated 175th anniversary after the fair had to take a year off due to COVID-19.

The oldest fair in Vermont is making it's comeback this summer, due to COVID the county fair directors had to put a hault to last years festivities. The officials are hoping with vacinations that are being distributed and the fact that they have put a plan in place to handle mass crowds that the fair will be as normal as possible. The plan will include one way pedestrian traffic throught the fair ground, the wearing of masks, and social distanced events.

Richard Lawrence, Caledonia County Fair President spoke how the restricitons that are currently put in place may look a bit different come time for the fair, "We'll see what the restricitons are at the time, at the present time restrictions say we can have a group of up to 150 people in a limited area. If we have to go with that, then that will be fine but there are several areas up there we can work with if that restriction is still in place." The govenor has indicated that by July 4th all restrictions with the exception of wearing a face mask will be lifted. Lawrence has been president of the Caledonia County Fasir since 1986 and is excited to get back into the swing of things. The fair has a tentative date in place for August 25th until August 29th.