GREENWOOD, SC (FOX Carolina) – The Greenwood County sheriff is postponing his annual deer supper as a precaution due to coronavirus concerns.

The 32nd Annual Sheriff’s Deer Supper was to be held on Thursday March 19.

“As a whole, we have decided that it would be in the best interests of the Greenwood Community that we postpone the annual event,” GCSO spokesman Jeff Graham stated in a news release.

A new date has not been set.

“Our staff chose to err on the side of precaution regarding cancellation of postponements of mass populated public events,” Graham added.

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