Newsmakers: Organizers cautiously optimistic about return of summer events

APR 12

Contracts had already been finalized for the Marion Arts Festival last March when Gov. Kim Reynolds issued an order banning public gatherings for at least eight weeks — exactly the amount of time until the annual event was scheduled the third Saturday of May. 

With not enough time to transfer programming online, the festival’s organizers had no other choice but to flat-out cancel the…