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Wander away from the midway's 106 rides and plunge into the tiffany necklaces booth fray. New vendors include the vegan merchant Vigoa Cuisine and bedazzled jewelry box maker Shawn's Treasure Trove. "Anything that you want, I am sure that we have some of it," said Terri Parnell, the fair's director of sales. Up-and-coming pop country acts make their premiere fair performance at the Corndogs and Country concert at 6 p.m. in the tiffany pendants Amphitheatre. Performers include Craig Morgan, Joe Nichols, Colt Ford, Sunny Sweeney and Brett Eldredge.Inside Fairfield Center Jewelers on the Post Road, Howard Diamond stands behind the counter as the evening approaches and it's that time -- just around 4 p.m. -- when the atmosphere downtown seems to change. tiffany rings been that way ever since the brutal murder of Tim and Kim Donnelly in their jewelry store just down the block. With the details of that evening still fresh in his mind even after six years, tiffany sets doesn't need to think long for his reaction to the guilty verdict for Christopher DiMeo. "I think it's long overdue," Diamond said. "I'm just sorry the family had to go through it." The local merchants are a pretty tight-knit community. Out of all the business owners, the Donnellys "were really unassuming, nice people. They weren't bombastic, they weren't gregarious. They were just waking up to make an honest living for themselves and their family and go home and that was it," he said.