candgnews.com JULY 9, 2025 Vol. 22, No. 14
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LEFT: Attendees take to Coolidge Highway to create chalk art during last year’s Berkley Street Art Fest. This year’s event will take place July 12. BELOW: This year’s Street Art Fest will see an expanded pet area and more opportunities to adopt dogs. File photos by Erin Sanchez
BY MIKE KOURY mkoury@candgnews.com
FERNDALE — A brand-new event will be hitting downtown Ferndale later this month. Ferndale Market Days will take place over the course of two days, Saturday, July 19, and Sunday, July 20, in the Ferndale Area District Library’s municipal parking lot. The event came to be after another big July event, Pig & Whiskey, canceled its plans to take place this year. With a void in the month of July, the city decided to create an event to bring visitors to Ferndale, that being Market Days.
Berkley Street Art Fest returns with expanded pet zone, dog adoptions BY MIKE KOURY mkoury@candgnews.com
BERKLEY — Berkley’s colorful art festival is back to transform the streets of the downtown with chalk. The Berkley Street Art Fest will take place from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, July 12, on Coolidge Highway, highlighted by the return of its highly anticipated chalk
art contest. Beginning as early as 8 a.m., each artist or team will create a piece of art in a 5-by-5-foot space. There will be youth, adult and team categories as part of the judging, which will occur between 2 and 3 p.m. Awards will be presented at 3:45 p.m. “We don’t know what their chalk art’s gonna look like See ART FEST on page 5A
See MARKET DAYS on page 5A
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