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Veterans urged to boycott Lorain County Fair

Published on Aug. 15, 2019 | Updated 2:10 p. m.

Correction: Sam Felton is one of Lorain County's most decorated living veterans. ELYRIA — Lorain County's most decorated veteran is asking fellow veterans and elected officials to stay away from the Lorain County Fair. Sam Felton, who →

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Event protests flag at fair

Published on Aug. 13, 2019 | Updated 8:57 a. m.

A group of organizers will hold an event at a local farm to let the fair board know they hold to their position that the confederate flag should not be sold at the fair. →

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Beer garden gets OK for County Fair

Published on March 1, 2019 | Updated 6:39 a. m.

The Lorain County Fair will be serving alcohol for the first time ever this summer. →

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Granger Smith to entertain at county fair

Published on Feb. 26, 2019 | Updated Feb. 27, 2019 6:20 a. m.

WELLINGTON — The Lorain County Fair announced Granger Smith as its second entertainer for the 2019 county fair. The 174th annual Lorain County Fair is Aug. 19 to 25. Smith will perform Aug. 19, a day before →

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Foreigner to return to Lorain County Fair

Published on Feb. 16, 2019 | Updated 2:19 a. m.

WELLINGTON — Prepare to have “Double Vision” — Foreigner is returning to the Lorain County Fair this year, five years after the band’s previous appearance. Fair board directors are hoping fairgoers will be “Hot →

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Board votes to allow beer, wine sales at Lorain County Fairgrounds

Published on Nov. 14, 2018 | Updated 8:48 a. m.

WELLINGTON — The Lorain County Fair Board moved Tuesday night to allow the sale of beer and wine. During its annual meeting, the board voted in favor of amending its constitution to allow beer and wine sales, by a 19-7 vote. While the fair →

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Fair-minded Coalition continues to debate Confederate flag

Published on Oct. 20, 2018

LORAIN — What to do with the Confederate flag at the Lorain County Fair? That’s the question still on the minds of the Fair-minded Coalition of Lorain County, which said this week it wants to make the Lorain County Fair a more →

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Fair-minded Coalition holds funeral for Confederate flag (VIDEO)

Published on Aug. 27, 2018 | Updated 2:49 p. m.

WELLINGTON — While thousands flocked to the Lorain County Fair for its last day Sunday, a small group gathered in Wellington Square to lay a Confederate flag to rest. Clergy members, county residents, and community and organizational leaders →

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Another Lorain County Fair wraps up

Published on Aug. 27, 2018 | Updated 6:44 a. m.

Attendance — hampered slightly by bad weather Tuesday — still exceeded 114,000. →

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Woman protests YWCA, campaign against Confederate flag sales at fair

Published on Aug. 26, 2018 | Updated 12:56 a. m.

ELYRIA — One woman has spent the past week protesting outside the YWCA of Elyria’s building at Fourth Street and West Avenue, sporting an American flag, Confederate flag and a homemade sign displaying the words “Educate stop the →

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Veterans urged to boycott Lorain County Fair

Event protests flag at fair

Beer garden gets OK for County Fair

Granger Smith to entertain at county fair

Foreigner to return to Lorain County Fair

Board votes to allow beer, wine sales at Lorain County Fairgrounds

Fair-minded Coalition continues to debate Confederate flag

Fair-minded Coalition holds funeral for Confederate flag (VIDEO)

Another Lorain County Fair wraps up

Woman protests YWCA, campaign against Confederate flag sales at fair

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