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Winterfest will return this year

As long as the weather plays nice, Sundance is set to once again welcome ski joring to the downtown area this year.

Organizer Tony Barton confirmed last week that plans are underway for the Sundance Winter Festival, which will be hosted on Main Street as usual.

At time of speaking, this area had not exactly been blessed with an abundance of the material needed to build the course. With that in mind, Barton said he was looking into the possibility of establishing the county fairgrounds as a back-up plan.

The rodeo arena would require significantly less snow to build the track, he said. It would...