Attendance at this year’s Nevada County Fair appears to be back to a pre-pandemic level. New CEO Andrew Trygg declined to release a specific number, saying it’s not been audited to a point that he’s confident in releasing one. But he indicated it was well-above the 91-thousand recorded for last year’s five-day event….

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Attendance for the last pre-COVID year, in 2019, hit around 100-thousand. A lack of excessive heat, and the pandemic further in the rear-view mirror, were cited by Trygg as primary factors for this year’s improvement. He also singled out the arena events…

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Trygg did say the Junior Livestock Auction raised just under last year’s record amount of one-point-two million dollars, at one-point-one million. It was 105-thousand dollars for the Ag Mechanics Auction. And he says Treat Street did break a record, with over one-million dollars in sales.