Dispatches from the Midway

Smartphone owners can keep the fair schedule at their fingertips with the Bloomsburg Fair app for iPhone and Android. Can't remember exactly where...
As a connoisseur of all things sweet and salty, I naturally made a beeline for the new chocolate-covered bacon stand at the Bloomsburg Fair this...
If you're planning on going to the fair's tractor pull, hold on. Because of expected rain, it's been postponed from tonight (Saturday) until noon...
Sure, the Bloomsburg Fair doesn't officially start its preview until 2 p.m. Friday, but visitors were already coursing through the grounds by 10 a.m...
Ever wonder how the agriculture judges at the Bloomsburg Fair choose the best egg at the fair when most eggs look like... well... eggs? Here's a...

Latest Fair News

Bloom man, 48, is in critical condition

BLOOMSBURG — A Bloomsburg man stricken on the fairgrounds Friday collapsed and fractured facial bones when his heart briefly stopped, but he’s still...

BLOOMSBURG — A Bloomsburg man stricken on the fairgrounds Friday collapsed and fractured facial bones when his heart briefly stopped, but he’s still...
Breast-feeding woman fights event policy, ends up with free passes, royal treatment

BLOOMSBURG — A mother was stunned when she learned she couldn’t take her breast-feeding 3-month-old to a Bloomsburg Fair grandstand show unless she...

BLOOMSBURG — A mother was stunned when she learned she couldn’t take her breast-feeding 3-month-old to a Bloomsburg Fair grandstand show unless she...
With 200+ memberships so far, staffer says booth is on pace to surpass the typical 500

BLOOMSBURG — More than 200 people have renewed or signed up for National Rifle Association memberships in the first three days of the Bloomsburg Fair...

BLOOMSBURG — More than 200 people have renewed or signed up for National Rifle Association memberships in the first three days of the Bloomsburg Fair...
No contraband seized so far, official reports

BLOOMSBURG — As fairgoers walked through Gate 5 on Monday morning, many people with bags glanced around for a table to set down their belongings....

BLOOMSBURG — As fairgoers walked through Gate 5 on Monday morning, many people with bags glanced around for a table to set down their belongings....
Security chief: Six trained

BLOOMSBURG — Bloomsburg Fair security guards now have two Tasers they can use to keep order. And six guards have been trained to use the electric...

BLOOMSBURG — Bloomsburg Fair security guards now have two Tasers they can use to keep order. And six guards have been trained to use the electric...