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Springfield Utility Board has canceled its annual Light of Liberty celebration and fireworks show for this year due to roadwork on Mill Street, which the community would need to use to access the event, the utility announced.
The Mill Street construction will not have progressed enough by July 4 to ensure pedestrians can safely enter Island Park, where the event is held, according to a post on SUB’s website.
The utility stated it is considering hosting a late-summer event, which would feature live music, food vendors and kids’ activities like the Fourth of July celebration. Fireworks, however, would not be part of that event because of fire risk. If that event happens, it will benefit the utility’s Project SHARE program, which the Fourth of July event has benefited in the past. That program helps Springfield families who need assistance paying past-due utility bills.
A spokesperson for SUB, Meredith Clark, said the utility is working with community partners to offer $5 general admission tickets to the Springfield Drifters game on July 3, which will include a fireworks show…