MACON - First Night Macon, a downtown New Year's Eve celebration started to provide a family night on the town, is being canceled after several years of declining attendance. <br>
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The event emphasized culture and the performing arts in a nonalcoholic environment. It will not be back to ring in 2003, ending a 12-year run. <br>
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It once attracted more than 5,000 revelers but attendance in recent years dwindled to about a thousand. <br>
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Though 200 cities across the country still host First Night events, last year 20 or so celebrations were canceled because of lost funding and fallout from September 11.
