Steele County Free Fair

The list of 1960s cars that will be on display in the Wells Fargo Auto Museum during the Steele County Free Fair has been released. All but one of the 14 cars is from the Owatonna area. This year's cars include: 1965 Ford Galaxie 500 XLT from Wayne and Vivian Tischer of Mankato 1965 Chevy hard top from Bill and Sally Regan 1965 Pontiac GTO from Howard Kittleson 1965 Mustang convertible from Ken a

Monte Mitchell was Todd Hale's guest on Fair Talk this week. Monte and his wife, Bunny, have been associated with the wine judging department at the Steele County Fair for a number of years. Wine judging has quickly grown into a very popular part of the fair...

It sounds like a challenge. Ride all the rides, as often as you like, as long as can handle, for as many days as you can attend the Steele County Free Fair in Owatonna.

Todd Hale's guest on Fair Talk, which airs Thursday mornings at 9:40AM on AM 1390, included Steve Stansbury and Les Abraham of the Steele County Free Fair Auto Museum. John Simon is also working on this year's display. This year's featured vehicles are cars of the '60s...

David Smith Jr., better known as the Human Cannonball, will be returning to the 2017 Steele County Free Fair. Dave has been launched over the fairgrounds for many years and is still one of the highlights of the fair. He's scheduled to be launched over the Gold Star Midway each day of the fair at 5:30PM and 8:30PM and on Sunday at 2:30PM and 6:30PM...

The Steele County Free Fair is requesting nominations for the Livestock Hall of Fame and Livestock Service Award. The nomination deadline is May 1.

The Steele County Free Fair is giving you the option to choose a Wednesday night Grandstand show at this summer's fair. Simply go the Steele County Free Fair Facebook page and vote. The choices are a second demolition derby, an IMP Autocross, or the Big Air Show...

Probably safe to say that something is set to occur right after the conclusion of this year's Steele County Free Fair that's never happened before so close to the fair. This summer's fair runs August 15-20. There are always so many things to see, do and talk about during the fair...

Winners in the Steele County Free fair Amateur Talent Contest were as follows:

Saturday evening I was at the Steele County Fair for the KDHL Steele County Fair Southern Minnesota Ag Ambassador of the year presentation. After the program a shower moved through while the sun was shining. I noticed this beautiful double rainbow in the eastern sky...