What's new at the Franklin County Fair

• "It's small enough to feel intimate, but large enough to have everything you might want," Abby Bates, vice president of the Franklin County Agricultural Society Board of Directors, tells Axios.

If you go: 9am-10pm today-Thursday; 9am-11pm Friday-Saturday; and 9am-7pm Sunday. Fairgrounds are at 4100 Columbia St., Hilliard.

• $10 daily, $43 weeklong pass. Free for kids under 3. Free parking.
• Rides, which open at noon, cost extra ($25 for unlimited wristbands).

Pro tip: Wednesday is Family Fun Day. Rides open an hour early and wristbands are $20.

• Start with a free pancake breakfast at 8:30am featuring storybook characters. Registration required.
• Plus: Watch four food-eating contests: corn on the cob (1pm and 8pm), ice cream (3pm), pizza (4pm).

New this year, free unless noted:

🎯 Laser tag: Tactical Force Mobile brings the battlefield to you.

• Daily, hours vary.

🐶 Marvelous Mutts: An agility and stunt show featuring rescue dogs.

• Daily, hours vary.

🚜 Agriculture Day: Explore a straw maze, admire antique tractors and watch goat-milking, sheep-shearing and butter-making demonstrations.

• Thursday.

🐂 A rodeo show: See bull riding and barrel racing at the grandstand.

• 7pm Friday. Tickets $10.

A full schedule of events.