10-09-21 Fair wide crowd

Fairgoers visit vendors stalls on Saturday. Crowds of people returned to the Fryeburg Fair this year, topping 2019 attendance records by more than 4,000 overall. (RACHEL SHARPLES PHOTO)

FRYEBURG, Maine — It was good to see it back — traffic and all.

After a pandemic year in which Maine’s eight-day Blue Ribbon Classic was held only virtually, the Fryeburg Fair returned in all of its colorful glory, Oct. 3-10, albeit with plentiful hand sanitation stations and a request fairgoers carry masks with them and don them in the expo buildings.

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