August 1999
20 Years Ago
Chely Wright, a Nashville recording artist, opened the 106th Allen County Fair Saturday night in Riverside Park before one of the largest crowds ever at a fair country music show. As one of her openers, Iolas Tasia Cooper-Murphy teamed up with Texan Jeffrey Alan to do country western numbers. Cooper-Murphy recently made her first country western CD. She is better known to Iolans as teacher-manager of the South Street Dance Co.
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