2020 Mushroom Festival canceled

Concerns over COVID-19, as well as the economic toll the disease has caused, has now claimed the annual Mushroom Festival in Kennett Square. In a press release issued late Friday night, the festival's Board of Directors announced there would be no festival this year. It was planned for Sept. 12 and 13. "The mushroom industry has been hurt significantly, so it was very difficult for…

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Mushroom Festival canceled

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This year's Mushroom Drop will be hybrid, with the drop carried on Facebook.

For the first time in its history, the annual Kennett Square Mushroom Festival, originally scheduled this year for Sept. 12-13, 2020, will be canceled, due to increasing safety concerns expressed by its Board of Directors in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The board’s decision to cancel this year’s festival dovetails with the nearly global cancellation of nearly all large-scale, highly-attended events of its kind…

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Governor issues business guidelines

Governor Tom Wolf announced today that Dr. Rachel Levine, under her authority as Secretary of the Department of Health to take any disease control measure appropriate to protect the public from the spread of infectious disease, signed an order directing protections for critical workers who are employed at businesses that are authorized to maintain in-person operations during the COVID-19 disaster emergency. “This order provides critical protections…

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