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Spencer Pride’s Jonathan Balash Discusses Special Events Ordinance

The Owen County Commissioners passed an ordinance that made it harder to host special events on county property. News Director Kade Young talked to the President of Spencer Pride, an LGBTQ organization that now has to change the location of its annual festival. After the commissioners made revisions and improved the language of the special events ordinance, it passed with …

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A Tale of Two Institutions: Spencer Pride and the Owen County Commissioners

The Owen County Board of Commissioners are now reconsidering a proposed amendment that would make it harder to host special events on Owen County property. Perhaps the event that would be affected most, is the annual Spencer Pride Festival. The county commissioners decided to propose an amendment to the ordinance after a form letter they received from an online Facebook …

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