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Uptick of COVID cases over the weekend By BOB CLARK BELMONT — The Allegany County Board of Health reported three new cases of COVID-19 over the weekend, with the total at 48 as of Monday. Officials reported that 44 of the cases have been resolved with recoveries, while one COVID-19-related death was reported in late March. Three cases are active. As of early this week, 656 county residents have been in quarantine or isolation, while 15 remain isolated. Two new isolations were reported. Western New York is in Phase 1 of four for business reopening, with an announcement moving the region to Phase 2 expected today. For business reopening questions and information, visit the New York Forward website at forward. ny.gov or the Allegany County website at www.alleganyco.com/ coronavirus/reopeningallegany-county. County officials hope local businesses, nonprofits and landlords will take advantage of state assistance as the county reopens from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Allegany County planning and development officials reported that The NY Forward Loan Fund, announced on Friday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, began accepting pre-applications Wednesday. The $100 million fund is a new economic recovery loan program aimed at supporting New York State small businesses, nonprofits and small landlords as they reopen after the COVID-19 outbreak and NYS on PAUSE. The NYFLF targets the state’s small businesses with 20 or fewer full-time equivalent employees or have less than $3 million a year in gross revenues — about 90% of all businesses — nonprofits and small landlords that have seen a loss of rental income. Priority will be given to industries that have been reopened, and applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Officials stressed the program is not a first-come, first-serve program. Program information can be found on ESD’s website https:// esd.ny.gov/nyforwardloans-info, as well as on the pre-application page https://nyloanfund.com.

File photo Attendants at the 175th Allegany County Fair in 2019 queue up to ride the Zipper.

Allegany County Fair canceled for 2020

By BOB CLARK

ANGELICA — “The Fair with the Country Smile” will be back again — in 2021. Last week, officials from the Allegany County Agricultural Society, which planned the 176th Allegany County Fair for the week of July 20-25, announced via Facebook that the fair this year is canceled. “It is with a broken heart that the Allegany County Fair scheduled for July 20-25, 2020, has made the decision to cancel,” officials said in the post. “We did not make this decision lightly and please know we have tried everything we can to

bring you fair this year. Many of us having to make this decision have been coming to the fair our whole lives, never missing a year and it pains us to think it will not be here this summer.” Like others across the region, the COVID-19 pandemic — even as the state begins reopening — is the cause. “Unfortunately, fairs and festivals fall within New York State Phase IV to reopen,” the post said. “We have talked to everyone we could think of and exhausted all of our options, but unfortunately the approvals and permits that we are required to have in order to run are not expected to begin to be

approved until midJuly. That is if there are no further delays between now and then. This cuts it to potentially our opening day for the confirmation we would need to run. “Also, with the social distancing guidelines and being required to limit those on the grounds and in the grandstands it makes it impossible for us to open for everyone.” The county fair group joins dozens of others across the state to make the call to close up. The announcement comes after officials with the Cattaraugus County Fair and Erie County Fair announced that those operations will return in 2021.

On May 21, the Steuben County 4-H Board announced that there would be no in-person fair this year, but virtual exhibitions will be held. The Wyoming County Fair in Pike, set for mid-August, has also been canceled. Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced that the New York State Fair, held at the end of August, would only be held if the state has completely reopened. Across the border, officials with the Potter County Fair in Millport, Pa., and the McKean County Fair in Smethport, Pa., have not made the final determinations if they will hold their events this year.

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