Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties

Winners chosen early as fair opens Friday

SAXON, Wis. - The poultry and rabbits were active with a cool north breeze drifting through their weekend home at the Iron County Fair in Saxon on Friday.

Two geese were cackling in their cage, greeting fair-goers who were checking out the poultry barn that was full of animals.

The clouds left and the skies brightened in the early afternoon as cattle judging was taking place in the livestock ring in mid-60s temperatures.

A familiar face to fair-goers, Dan Meyer, was judging cattle in the show ring, offering his comments about the animals. He said a young Hereford bull shown by Brooke Piilol...