Despite musings online, Virgil Business Association president Richard Wall says the Virgil Stampede is not officially a go — yet.

“We just haven’t had a meeting where we have officially decided that it’s happening,” Wall said in an interview Wednesday.

He noted that everyone he had spoken to is willing and wants to host the stampede, but he did not want to commit to it before the group had gotten together to formally discuss it.

He hopes an official announcement will come next week.

Meanwhile, chatter on social media is pointing toward the stampede being nigh on inevitable.

“You bet we are,” Phil Leboudec, a VBA member and owner of Phil’s The Independent Grocer in Virgil, wrote on Facebook in response to a post from Dianne Cowland asking about the stampede.

The comment garnered lots of likes and love reactions.

Leboudec wrote he had already booked the pony rides and fireworks for the beloved May long weekend event.

“The highlight of the year! Glad it’s coming back,” Nancy Vanderheide-Voogt wrote on the post.

The event was last held in 2019 before the coronavirus pandemic began.

“Fantastic. Our family will be so excited. Thx,” Carol Fawcett wrote.

Stay tuned for an official announcement from stampede organizers soon.