Day: July 23, 2024

Items ranging from food, furniture, paintings, wood cutting, metal work, stained glass and more were sold at the 4-H Still Project Auction held July 17.  Claire Eshler topped the sale with cinnamon rolls sold to Mark Cargill for $1,900. Abagail Bailey sold an American flag cake for $1,300.  One unique item in the sale was a handmade stained glass window made by Abigail Zeedyk and purchased by Geno and Heather

Madi Baker of Carrollton closed out her junior fair career with a win in the won the coveted Super Showmanship contest at the 2024 Carroll County Fair. Baker won the dairy showman of showmen title and earned the right to compete against eight other showman of showmen Friday morning. Contestants instructed the other participants on how to show the species they represented and then served as judge for that species

By Carol McIntire Editor Three records were broken and one was literally smashed when the champion market goats were sold during the 2024 Carroll County Junior Fair Small Animal Sale.  New marks were etched in the record books for the grand and reserve champion goats and the reserve champion market goat, but the record for the champion goat carcass was smashed with the new mark certain to stand for years

By Carol McIntire Editor Tractor pulling is a sport that spans the ages and decades. Mark Cargill, 82, and Blake McIntire, 9, proved that to be true last week at the Friday deadweight tractor pull at the 2024 Carroll County Fair.  Cargill has been a regular puller on a John Deere tractor at the county pull for about 65 years. McIntire made his first trip to the sled Thursday on