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Lois Paulucci donated $3 million to create Bayfront Festival Park in its current version.

Lois Paulucci donated $3 million to create Bayfront Festival Park in its current version.

Despite challenges, SPAC reports growth | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS Shares0 On the eve of its first concert of the season, leaders at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center looked back on a challenging year in which, perhaps surprisingly, it grew. It added new facilities and ended the year with a surplus of more than $400,000. “On Monday, May 18 of 2020, SPAC did the unthinkable,” said President and CEO Elizabeth Sobol during an annual meeting on Thursday. “In the middle of glorious high spring weather, after 53 continuous years of presenting on our beloved and legendary stage, we cancele...

Bayfront Blues Festival limiting tickets for 2021 COVID-19 forced festival organizers to cancel last year's event. Author: The 32nd annual Bayfront Blues Festival in Duluth is on for this summer.  After COVID-19 forced the cancellation of last year's event, festival organizers shared last week that the 2021 festival is now confirmed for Aug. 13-15. Several blues bands are slated to perform, including headliners The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Tab Benoit and CJ Chenier and the Red Hot Louisiana Band.  Others scheduled to perform include Tommy Castro, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Jack Knife and the ...

Jordan Green For The Oklahoman SAYRE – With thick, heavy coats of brown fur, hundreds of bison roam the vast, sweeping prairie near this western Oklahoma town, grazing on the waving grass in their native land. Bison like these once numbered in the millions and covered the Midwest, providing food and resources to Native American tribes. But as settlers pushed westward in the 1800s, they killed the animals in droves. Now, a company here is working to grow the herd. Kyle Benjamin Reynolds and Austin Lee Puckett co-founded the Benjamin Lee Bison company in 2017 when they purchased land in the S...