Shelley Terry

ORWELL — Visitors to the Ashtabula County Fair will have an opportunity to support local food banks this month as the fair participates in the statewide Fight the Hunger, Stock the Trailer contest.

Members of the Pymatuning High School band perform during the 2025 Ashtabula County Fair Parade in Jefferson, Ohio.

JEFFERSON — For the first time in recent history, the Ashtabula County Fair is kicking off Tuesday morning with a youth parade, bringing hundreds of local 4-Hers, two marching bands,

From past to present the Ashtabula County Fair’s enduring legacy draws thousands of people form northeast Ohio and beyond to enjoy its agricultural shows, livestock competitions, 4-H projects fair food

JEFFERSON — Forget the tractor pull. Forget harness racing. The loudest cheers at the 180th Ashtabula County Fair will be coming from a circle of green turf, buckets of pond

JEFFERSON — Get ready to loosen your belts and indulge.

JEFFERSON — The Ferris wheel will turn before noon, the 4-H barns will smell like fresh shavings, and somewhere between the kids’ contests and harness racing, someone is going to

JEFFERSON — They line up in crooked rows, not quite behind the chalk. Helmets a little too big, sneakers laced tight, one kid still holding a half melted snow cone.

JEFFERSON — Opening day of the Ashtabula County Fair did what it is supposed to do — it made a lot of noise, crowned some new fair celebrities, and proved that a frog can get a bigger round of applause than anyone.

JEFFERSON — In what officials are calling “the most intense five seconds in Ashtabula County sports history,” the Wiener Dog Races debuted Thursday at the Ashtabula County Fair.