New York State Fair

There’s one exhibit that’s returned to the New York State Fair after a break that had nothing to do with COVID-19. The World of Horses lets fairgoers interact with all types and breeds of equines.

State Police are seeing the number of drug overdoses at the State Fair on the rise this year.

Law enforcement officers in New York are making up for missing two years of remembrance ceremonies, usually held a the New York State Fair.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul celebrated the one year anniversary of becoming governor Wednesday at the New York State Fair near Syracuse.

The New York State Fair opens its gates Wednesday and will be fully operational for the first time since the pandemic. The Fair was cancelled in 2020, and the 2021 version was scaled back dramatically.

New York State Fair officials are banning all outdoor smoking on the fairgrounds starting next summer. The move follows the first ever year that smoking cannabis was legal outdoors on much of the 375 acre fairgrounds.

Plans for an indoor fair are underway at the New York State Fairgrounds near Syracuse for February. The Nave Law Winter Fair is the latest event that’s meant to bring the community out of the shadow of the pandemic.

Gov. Kathy Hochul said Thursday that the New York State Fair will return to 13 days, after the fair ran for 18 days for the first time this year.

The books are closed on the 2021 edition of the New York State Fair. While the average daily attendance this year was less than half of what it was in 2019, it was to be expected, as COVID-19 cases rise and the fair for the first time became an 18-day affair.

Wade Shows, the operation that runs the midway at the New York State Fair, has been able to meet the challenge of running a carnival in the pandemic, but it hasn’t been easy.