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Middlesex County Fair Trustee Recalls Past 75 Years
From a small "Farmers Fair" to a behemoth filled with rides, dozens of food vendors, shows and demonstrations, 4-H exhibitions and livestock, and nearly 70,000 annual visitors.

John Saccenti graduated from South Brunswick High School in 1988, and from Rider College in 1992. Since then he has been a writer and editor covering much of the Central Jersey Area. His area of expertise, of course, is community news. He launched the East Brunswick Patch in 2010 and has covered South Brunswick, North Brunswick, Cranbury, Monroe, Jamesburg, the Princetons, West Windsor, Hightstown and East Windsor as a staff writer, news editor and managing editor with The Princeton Packet.
Email: John.saccenti@patch.com
Hometown: East Brunswick Birthday: Feb. 8, 1970 Bio: Married with an 14-year-old daughter. A freelance writer and journalist who has won multiple New Jersey Press Association Awards. Published writer of poems and short stories.
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From a small "Farmers Fair" to a behemoth filled with rides, dozens of food vendors, shows and demonstrations, 4-H exhibitions and livestock, and nearly 70,000 annual visitors.

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