RESIDENTS AND REVELERS trooped into San Joaquin County Fairgrounds over the weekend to relish and celebrate the three-day revival of a summer fair that reaches back 163 years.

The fair returned to Stockton last year after being canceled in 2020 and 2021 because of the COVID pandemic. Daniel Castillo, the fair’s chief executive officer, said the aim is to help local businesses emerge from such challenges.

Jeremy the Juggler entertains the line of people waiting to get into the San Joaquin County Fair. (Ray Saint Germain/Bay City News)
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“We’re trying to highlight the key pieces of our communities and ensure they have a platform,” Castillo said. “That’s what this is supposed to be — a showcase of the greatest parts of our county.”

A ribbon cutting kicked off the fair Friday morning. Castillo and members of the San Joaquin County fair board read messages of congratulation from state Sen. Susan Talamantes Eggman and state Assemblymember Carlos Villapudua.

“Today marks the continued and renewed effort to ensure residents of San Joaquin County may long enjoy local events” at the fairgrounds, Eggman wrote.

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Lydia Sidhom is a rising third-year at UC Berkeley studying Data Science and Political Science. She is a Dow Jones News Fund intern for Bay City News. Lydia was a lead beat reporter, deputy news editor and projects developer for The Daily Californian and will be a deputy projects editor there this fall. She enjoys telling stories through data. In her free time, Lydia loves to read, bake and travel. 

Charles is a Knight Foundation intern at Bay City News and a Master of Journalist candidate at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. He freelanced for Oakland Side and Oakland North on race, equity, and health outcomes in the Bay Area. Before his graduate studies, Charles worked as a Business reporter in Ghana, West Africa, covering financial markets and rising startups. At Bay City News, he is interested in reporting on public health and the intersections of race and equity in the Bay Area.