Protests may go on across the state, but the Municipality of Anchorage won’t be giving permits to the Eagle River Bear Paw Festival — not for a July festival, anyway.
“We are announcing that we are pressing pause on the festival,” the organizers wrote tonight. Concerns over COVID-19 and the festival’s heath management plan being a match for the virus led to the decision to not proceed with the July 8-12 event, which draws thousands of people to Eagle River each summer.
The festival organizers are hoping to move the date to August, but has to coordinate with festival partners Golden Wheel Amusements and Anchorage Markets, as well and the municipality’s own reopening schedule.
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