When the Monroe County Fair takes place, The Monroe Evening News team spends a lot of time at the fairgrounds to get stories and photos and to staff the newspaper’s promotion booth.
I normally schedule myself to cover the Monroe County Homemaker of the Year / Ladies Day Program on Thursday.
I had never heard of a [...]

The Monroe County Homemakers of Extension have their booth, bake sale and craft sale booth in the Far West Building at the Monroe County Fair.
There is a selection of cookbooks for sale and one of them is called Money Stretching Recipes. You can buy it for only $2, so I got one.
The recipes include Seven [...]

The staff at the Thrivent Financial for Lutherans office in Monroe, Mich., has an an interesting activity at their booth in the Monroe Bank & Trust Expo Center during the Monroe County Fair this week.
There is a big white board standing on an easel with this phrase “Thriving in These Challenging Times.” Visitors to the [...]

I worked at The Monroe Evening News booth at the Monroe County Fair Wednesday night – doing double duty as a newspaper employee and as part of the BlogsMonroe team that had a meet-and-greet.
I took my own advice (of course!) by parking in the free lot and bringing my own two water bottles. I also [...]

There is no way around it. A visit to the Monroe County Fair is going to cost money.
I won’t be at the fairgrounds until Wednesday, so I don’t have any advance intelligence for you as far as ride prices and actual prices for snacks and refreshments.
What I do have available as reference material is The [...]

This post is for my readers in Monroe County, Mich.:
The Monroe Evening News booth will host its annual Meet the BlogsMonroe Bloggers at the Monroe County Fair from 6 to 10 p.m. Wednesday Aug. 5 in the Monroe County Expo Center at the Monroe County Fairgrounds.
There are eight local bloggers who have confirmed they will [...]