Thursday night the 2020 4-H hog show drew a substantial crowd, and showcased some intense competition among the youth showing off their prized pigs. Carly Dreher led the way by winning grand champion in the…

Cassidy Friend, with the Logan Pals 4-H Club, warms up her horse, Bell, before the performance events at the 4-H Horse Show Wednesday night at the Allen County Fair. The fair was scaled down this…

4-H’er Mary Brown visits with judge Eric Marr Tuesday about her photographs. Judging for photography, clothing buymanship and construction and fiber arts was held at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center as part of the Allen…

The crowd was smaller, but there was still plenty of fun to be had Sunday, to kick off the 2020 Allen County Fair. Sunday’s activities — arts and crafts and home environment judging, followed by…

The closing of this year’s Kansas State Fair — at least the public parts — will have no effect on the upcoming Allen County Fair. In fact, this year’s renditions of the county and state…

We are only a few weeks away from the start of the Allen County Fair — and I usually write an anticipatory column to incite excitement and attendance of the Fair.  Past columns have been…

A substantially smaller Allen County Fair is coming to Riverside Park in late July. Fair Board members voted last week for a pared-down version of the fair due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The fair will…

This is not the article I would have predicted to write a few months ago, and certainly not my usual educational column.  However, like many others, COVID-19 has me feeling off-balance as I navigate my…

The City Slickers 4-H Club held their post Allen County Fair meeting Aug. 11 at the Riverside Park Community Building. President Jillian Keller called the meeting to order and Ty and Shelby Shaughnessy led the…

Henry Kramer, 8, of Square B 4-H Club, manhandles his steer Monday at the 4H-FFA Livestock Auction, one of the final events of the 2019 Allen County Fair. The fair concludes Saturday with a mud…