After a pandemic cancellation last year, the Indiana State Fair is open for a three-and-a-half-week run.
State Fair director Cynthia Hoye says it wasn’t practical to enforce social distancing at the fair, but the fair is stepping up cleaning protocols.
The fair has added more sanitizing stations, and is handing out packaged individual wipes at the entrance.
The fair will be closed Mondays and Tuesdays for cleaning crews to go through the entire property.
Governor Holcomb says the opening of the fair is important both economically and symbolically.
He says it’s a demonstration of Hoosier resilience, especially on the part of farmers, who he says stepped up to help when the state was in need.
