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City officials are telling the Coos Bay Downtown Association to plan to host the Blackberry Arts and Fun Festivals somewhere other than Central Avenue.

Florida seasons might not be too different from one another, but where our seasons lack change, our festivals make up for it: Some standouts include garlic and mangoes.

Chamber of Commerce President Frank Ferrara thinks the organization’s two annual arts and crafts festivals deliver a huge economic thrust for the town.

Get ready for more festivals in May and a longer parking-meter season in Myrtle Beach.

Nanaimo arts groups are taking a wait-and-see approach regarding changes to provincial gaming grants.

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ROCKFORD — Mayor Larry Morrissey and Winnebago County Board Chairman Scott Christiansen today said they will move forward on a committee’s recommendation to establish a new organization responsible for the management of downtown venues, festivals and special events.

American actor John Malkovich will make his Luminato debut playing a notorious Austrian serial killer in a musical performance this June as part of the annual festival of arts and culture.

Spring cannot be far away when the giant sugar maples at Pleasantville’s Fairview Cemetery sprout spouts. Keith Klingler has tapped the graveyard maples for about a decade. He works around 50 on the Hilltop, including trees on State and Main streets.