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Festival Italiano fills Hurley with fun, friends, family

By P.J. GLISSON

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HURLEY - Saturday's Festival Italiano filled Hurley with activity as people relished a return after last year's cancellation due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Great weather helped Silver Street to hop with visitors who roamed around open-shopping options and filled up on a variety of food and spirits.

It wasn't just any food, as the festival included tradtional Italian fare such as pasta-covered meatballs, as evident in the Banca Club stall, where Shane Wyzlic of Saxon and Ethan Buccanero of Montreal were submitting their orders to Valerie Aijala.

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