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In picking a photograph for the newspaper we look for a moment, an action taking place within the captured frame that can engage our readers into the story, that something that is the why in which we took and presented the photograph. As photographers this "moment" really has no rules of composition or light – it stands on its own as the engaging idea that makes the photograph. It is even hard to define sometimes, but we know it when we see it.
Obvious moments are two friends caught in laughter seemingly unaware of others around them, less obvious is the look in a cows eye as she is being controlled by a young girl in the arena. Sometimes that moment is just in the way two children stand on a fence to watch the horses going by or the silhouette of a cowgirl texting while riding her horse.
Fair week is a busy week of work for us as we try to get to assigned stories at assigned times while, in between, we look for people doing what they do either working at or enjoying the fair. There are endless possibilities and we only touch a small amount of it with just two staff photographers at The Meadville Tribune.
This collection of photographs are some of what we consider our best pictures from fair week. These are not meant to give a well rounded view of the fair, but simply to share with our readers what we feel was our best work, those pictures that captured that moment that we strive for each day.
To view all of the slideshows from fair week we have combined them all together here in one place. Simply click on the red icon beneath each day below to see some of what we saw that day.
Pre-fair and opening Saturday
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Sunday
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Monday
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Tuesday
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Wednesday
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Thursday
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Friday
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Saturday
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SLIDESHOW: Best of the Crawford County Fair
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Area Memorial Day events
The following Memorial Day events have been reported for publication in The Tribune. All events are on Monday, except the one at Edinboro that is planned for Sunday.
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Civil War soldiers highlight Meadville Memorial Day events
A courageous Meadville man — wounded three times but remaining on a Civil War battlefield until he was too weak to continue — is being remembered this Memorial Day as the Meadville Area Memorial Day Committee continues its mission of observing the 150th anniversary of the War Between the States.
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Police: Locals admit to killing Ohio woman
Two Cochranton women were arrested and jailed on homicide charges early Thursday after allegedly admitting they killed an Ohio woman and buried her body in a shallow grave near their residence recently.
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Reader 'Faces' are coming in
Mom's car dash, Meadville, PA
Lucy Kedzierski, 12, looks at the face every morning waiting for school bus!
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North Street Project sure to be 'very disruptive'
With the preliminary traffic control plan for Pennsylvania Department of Transportation’s North Street Project complete, Meadville City Manager Joe Chriest summed up the anticipated impact of the project, which is expected to span the entire 2013 construction season. “This is going to be very, very disruptive,” he said Wednesday.
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Boat business booming in warm weather
It’s been a booming business in boats this spring, according to some area boat dealers.
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City leaders not concerned after financial downgrade
During the past five years, Moody’s Investors Service has assigned three different ratings — all within the range of “upper medium grade” to the City of Meadville’s bonds. In 2007, the city was given a rating of A3, the lowest of the trio. In 2010, the city’s bond rating was raised to A1, the highest ranking in the “upper medium” category. Monday, Moody’s gave the city’s $10,000,000 General Obligation Bonds, Series of 2012, which went on the market Monday, the middle rating of A2.
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Elderly, disabled and their caregivers have tremendous new local resource
The new Crawford County Link isn’t a place, but an information network to help people age 60 and older or those between 18 and 59 with disabilities stay living independently.
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County's median age rising as population still stable
Crawford Countians are growing older and aging in place.
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Crawford Central yearlong pay freeze plan fails
Differences over details have derailed a contract featuring a one-year pay freeze for Crawford Central School district teachers, leaving district administrators looking for ways to close an unexpectedly large 2012-13 budget gap.
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