Carnival rides are coming back to the Northern Maine Fairgrounds in September.

The fair association and Presque Isle’s Downtown Revitalization Committee have teamed up for Crisp Nights and Carnival Lights, slated Sept. 11 to 14.

Along with Smokey’s Greater Shows, the new four-day event will include concerts, tractor pulling, children’s activities and more. Organizers want to ring in the harvest season and give the community a last late-summer hurrah before the colder weather comes.

But even more than that, they hope to attract a crowd that’s been clamoring for a midway for six years.

“It’ll bring a group of people that maybe didn’t come to our agricultural fair. They were looking for rides,” Fair Association Past President Lynwood Winslow said. “We want to try to do something to make u

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