It was a sad day for the city; she's been a fabric of this community for nearly 85 years.

Certainly, events like Miss America are valuable to the community. But overall, I think we've moved on.

I look at the list of headliners and I don't even recognize most of these names.

Yes, we were all shocked. I don't think anybody really knew it was coming.

We were not going to go there. We know it would have put them under.

Again, we knew they were in default, but it wasn't something we were going to blow up the contract for. We thought we could make it work.