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The Fair is back: six days at the Schaghticoke Fairgrounds, starting Wednesday

The Great Schaghticoke Fair opens Wednesday, September 2 and runs through Labor Day, September 7. Opening day is $2-ride day, kids 13 and under get in free all week, and 2026 brings two new free shows: a big-top circus and a live reptile show, the latter a late substitution after the sea lion act's truck crashed en route to another fair (the sea lions are fine). The tradition dates to 1819, and it is ten minutes from your driveway.

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The storms did spin: two tornadoes confirmed just north of us

Update: the National Weather Service confirmed Thursday evening's storms produced two tornadoes near Wilton in Saratoga County, an EF-1 with 110 mph winds and a brief EF-0, with no one hurt. The forecast had said "a tornado or two." Our Wednesday heads-up, and the 2020 Schaghticoke tornado history it recalled, follows as published.

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Your trash bill is going up in January. Here is what to watch, and when.

The town opened bids on its next garbage and recycling contract on August 6, and the Town Board says it will award it at the September 9 meeting — with a rate increase residents will see on their bills at the first of the year. Here is what you pay now, where that charge actually lives, and the three meetings that will set the number.

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Home Runs for Hope: a ballgame with a bigger purpose this Sunday

Rensselaer County, the Nopiates Committee and the Tri-City ValleyCats are turning Sunday's game at the Joe into Home Runs for Hope, recognizing Overdose Awareness Day and bringing the recovery community to the ballpark. Gates at 3:30, first pitch at 5, fireworks after.

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Why the sea lions aren't coming to the fair

The Sea Lion Splash show booked for the Schaghticoke Fair was cancelled after the truck carrying three of its sea lions crashed on a Missouri interstate on August 13. The animals came through unhurt, a reptile show takes their slots this year, and the fair says the sea lions are expected in 2027. Federal inspection records about the show's operator are worth knowing before then.

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Two more nights of summer at Grafton Lakes: tot time Thursday, a moonlit hike Friday

The state park up the hill is closing out August with a free toddler nature hour Thursday morning and a guided full-moon hike Friday night under the Sturgeon Moon, $5 and worth every dollar of it. Both take registration, one phone call: 518-279-1155.

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Hoosic Valley heads back September 10, with a new superintendent at the wheel

First day of classes at Hoosic Valley is Thursday, September 10, and elementary dismissal moves to 2:12. There is also a new hand on the wheel: Michelle Gabree-Huba took over as superintendent July 1, and she is asking families and neighbors to tell her what the district does well and where it can grow. Plus a 7th-grade open house September 1 and the rest of the opening week.

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About the hamlet

Speigletown is a hamlet in the Town of Schaghticoke, Rensselaer County, New York, strung along State Route 40 northeast of Troy near the Hudson River. Permanent settlement dates to the 1660s; the name traces to the early Dutch Vanderspiegel family, and the village first appeared on a 1796 survey map as "Dort."

Once a farming crossroads with hotels, a tea room, and a dairy bar, it grew into the close-knit residential community it is today. There's a lot of history here — and it's still being written.

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