Although Float Fest is a celebration of summer where young adults enjoy music, camping, rides, cold drinks and floating down the San Marcos River, county residents who live in the area said they are miserable and cannot take another day of it — literally.
The Guadalupe County Commissioner’s Court yesterday declined a mass-gathering permit, which would allow a one day extension of the Float Fest.
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