Read Article
The Wilton Blueberry Festival has been postponed until Aug. 6 and 7, 2021 because of COVID-19. Rep. Scott Landry (D-Farmington) and Wilton Blueberry Festival Organizer Shannon Chase Smith greeted one another prior to the parade last year.
File photo
WILTON There will be no parades, no blueberry bake-off, no chili contest and no fireworks in Wilton this summer.
Those and other activities associated with the annual Wilton Blueberry Festival have been postponed a year. The new dates are Aug. 6 and 7, 2021.
The decision came Wednesday, April 29, the day after Gov. Janet Mills extended the stay-at-home order to slow the spread of the coronavirus through May 31.
2 hours ago in Local Photo: 560 WGAN Newsradio
The 2021 Maine Lobster Festival is a no-go and now another festival celebrating a Maine staple has been nixed for a second year because of the pandemic.
The Wilton Blueberry Festival was called off because of concerns over coronavirus.
According to CBS 13, Wilton Blueberry Festival Board chairman Shannon Smith says it was impossible to manage current COVID-19 restrictions in a public setting.
Refunds will be issued to those who made contributions to the festival in 2020.
Though that festival and several others are cancelled for a second year, organizers with the Fryeburg Fair announced this week that event will take place as planned this fall.
Read Article
WILTON The budget committee convened on Monday, March 29, to hear from nonprofit representatives asking the town to incorporate funding into the 2021-2022 budget to support resident services.
Tina Chapman from Kennebec Behavioral Health which has not been funded by Wilton in the past, asked for $300. The nonprofit has been serving Franklin County for the past five years with an office at 115 Mt. Blue Circle in Farmington.
“For folks who live in Wilton, we’ve served over the last fiscal year, we’ve served 52 people,” Chapman said. “We served them almost 900 times, so those are the number of visits; sometimes they’re units that are then in 15- minute increments and sometimes they’re by the hour.”