COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – After the annual Strawberry Fest and Craft Show in downtown Coldwater was called off last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Coldwater City Council gave the City’s Recreation Department a cautious approval on Monday night to move ahead with the 2021 event which is scheduled for June 19.
City officials wanted to get City Council feedback due to the amount of planning it takes to put on a large event like Strawberry Fest.
The 2019 event attracted 163 vendors but Community Enrichment Director Julie Santure says they will have to spread the vendors out this year and they don’t know how many will show up.
Strawberry Fest had been held for 32 straight years before the 2020 cancellation.
It was one of many Branch County annual events that fell victim to the COVID-19 pandemic last year.
In other business on Monday night, the Council approved low bids for two road projects. They awarded a bid of over $268,000 to Parrish Excavating of Quincy for the resurfacing of Western Avenue and State Street from Grand Street to Bishop Avenue.
The Council also awarded a bid of just under $412,000 from Concord Excavating and Grading of Concord for the Sauk River Drive road improvement project.
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