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Chamber starts planning for Festival Ironwood

By TOM LAVENTURE

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IRONWOOD — The Ironwood Chamber of Commerce is starting plans for the 2021 Festival Ironwood that is scheduled for July 14-17.

The chamber board’s Festival Ironwood Organizing Committee agreed to start planning at its Feb. 8 meeting. The event may be modified or potentially canceled depending on COVID-19 restrictions guidelines or orders from the Western Upper Peninsula Health Department and the state of Michigan in place at that time.

“We are just being cautiously optimistic to get the whole thing going again,” said Will Corcoran, a Festival Iron...