MORNING SENTINEL • May 19, 2023
For the first time since 2019, residents, vendors and visitors flocked to the Benton Alewife Festival on Saturday to celebrate the native fish’s resurgence in recent years. The festival began in 2012, but was canceled for a few years due to the coronavirus pandemic. It celebrates the annual alewife migration, when the fish travel upstream for about a month in the spring to reach lakes and ponds to spawn.