After an update on presale and company picnic sales, Allegan County Fair’s midway carnival—Skerbeck Entertainment Group—set a new record in 2017, with sales up 25 percent from 2016.
A previous report showed Skerbeck’s carnival ticket sales on the final Saturday of the fair were down 3.5 percent from their record set in 2016. The additional sales numbers put them over their all-time record sales.
The 165th Allegan County Fair came to a close Saturday, Sept. 16. Overall gate attendance dipped slightly to 268,731, compared to 290,520 last year, but the 4-H Livestock auction broke an all-time record with $698,003 in sales
The all-time attendance record was in 2015, when it rolled over the 300,000 mark.
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