COURIER-GAZETTE • February 24, 2022
There will be no admission charge to the 2022 Maine Lobster Festival. The organizers of the community’s largest festival have also decided to drop the carnival. “We are replacing it permanently with other greener and different kid-related things. We are revamping the layout as well,” Festival Board President Celia Crie Knight confirmed Wednesday. The festival has been canceled the past two summers because of the COVID-19 pandemic. This year’s event will be held Wednesday, Aug. 3, through Sunday, Aug. 7. As for the greener options, there will be water bottle-filling stations, no straws, and recycling of lobster bodies. The festival estimates 60,000 people will attend the five-day event.