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Fire & Ice returns this weEkend with new thrilLs BY MARY BETH ALMOND
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ROCHESTER — The Fire & Ice Festival is making a comeback this weekend in downtown Rochester. “We’re excited to bring it back,” said Jenna O’Dell, events coordinator for downtown Rochester. “We were able to get a little bit of a larger budget, and the merchants in town really appreciated the event the last time we hosted it in 2023.” Sponsored by Chief Financial Credit Union, this year’s Fire & Ice Festival kicks off with frosty fun, food and entertainment 5-9 p.m. Jan. 16. The activities continue 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Jan. 17. “People like to get out after Christmas, when there is that weird lull, so this is a great event for them to head back into town and do some fun things with their family and friends,” O’Dell said. See FIRE & ICE on page 18A
Fireworks light up the sky during a past Fire & Ice Festival.
Photo provided by the Rochester DDA
Cranberry Lake Farm Historic District receives signage grant OAKLAND TOWNSHIP — Cranberry Lake Farm Historic District will soon get some new signage, thanks to a placemaking grant from the Greater Metropolitan Association of Realtors.
Local Realtor Lana Mangiapane, who has been a commissioner on the Historic District Commission, sponsored the Greater Metropolitan Association of Realtors’ $3,250 grant for the improvements, which include six custom cedar signs. “They are going to be placed in the historic district in locations that will tell a little bit of directions — where you
might be traveling to — and we would like to incorporate the signage to include some of the history of the buildings and the importance of the beehives,” said Barb Barber, Oakland Township’s historic preservation planner. Fred Oates & Sons made the new cedar signs using a template from a sign that had been located at the historic See CRANBERRY on page 6A
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