Good grief, it's still 12 days until Christmas, we are in the midst of a major winter storm and the Ohio Department of Agriculture has just released the schedule for Ohio's 94 county, independent and state fairs.

The fair season kicks off in Paulding County on June 13. It wraps up Oct. 15 in Fairfield County.

As for locally, Ashtabula's county fair dates are Aug. 9 through 14; Lake County's fair dates are Aug. 16 to 21; and the Great Geauga County Fair dates are Sept. 1 to 5.
All, of course, are for 2011.

Oh, one more thing. The dates for the Ohio State Fair in Columbus are July 27 to Aug. 7.

For a complete roster of fair dates visit the department's web site at www.agri.ohio.gov.

- Jeffrey L. Frischkorn
JFrischkorn@News-Herald.com