Faces of the fair

Neither Bailey Miller nor McKenzie Hixon every expected a brush with royalty. When Miller, a Dalton native and freshman at Leyton High School, learned she had been selected as Cheyenne County Fair Queen, she hardly believed the news.

"Oh my gosh," she gasped.

Hixon, a Sidney sophomore named as Lady in Waiting, was equally astonished.

"This is really happening to me," she decided after a moment out of breath.

The pair heard on July 12 of their appointment. They will be officially crowned on Monday, just before the NSRA rodeo, and preside over the rest of the fair.

"Everything in that," she said...