The San Diego County Fair announced Tuesday the theme for next year's fair, "Once Upon a Fair."

Del Mar Fairgrounds spokesman Tristan Hallman said it's a celebration to the joys of reading.

"It's a theme that's all about storytelling, about books, about our favorite narratives jumping off the page and coming to life," he said. "So this was a theme that we're very excited about."

Meanwhile, the fair closed the book on the 2025 fair with lower revenues and lower turnouts for some grandstand concerts. Attendance for this summer's fair was 874,263, which was essentially flat from last year when attendance was 877,420, Hallman said.

Part of the reason, he said, was the federal immigration enforcement ramp-up in May, such as the raid on the Buona Forchetta restaurant in South Park a few week

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