Daily Digest: The Great Schaghticoke Fair opens for 206th year August 27

Also: RITTNER: Happy 192 years, Vanderheyden, Part 1 • Children’s Museum at Saratoga and GlobalFoundries celebrate successful first year of Summer Meals Collaborative

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Saturday, August 23, 2025

Happy Saturday! Hope everyone has a great weekend. Before you head out or enjoy that morning cup of coffee or tea, check out some of the top stories on our website. Be safe and enjoy the day. — Ron Rosner, Senior Editor e-edition                            obituaries The Great Schaghticoke Fair opens for 206th year August 27 SCHAGHTICOKE, N.Y. — Fairgoers will have another fair to attend beginning next week at The Great Schaghticoke Fair. The Great Schaghticoke Fair announced its 206th annual celebration, running from … Read more → RITTNER: Happy 192 years, Vanderheyden, Part 1 Vanderheyden, formerly Vanderheyden Hall, and before that Troy Orphan Asylum, is one of the oldest social service agencies in America. Vanderheyden's history began on February 24, 1800, when Troy's 'Ladies' Society' formed "The Benevolent Society of Troy" that would help indigent women and children for "Alleviating the distresses of their bodies and cultivating their minds […] Read more → Children's Museum at Saratoga and GlobalFoundries celebrate successful first year of Summer Meals Collaborative SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — GlobalFoundries and the Children's Museum at Saratoga celebrated the end of their first year of The Summer Meals Collaborative, which helped provide food and STEM education… Read more → FRONTIER LEAGUE: Tri-City right-handed pitcher Connor Wilford reflects on 2025 season, ValleyCats playoff berth TROY, N.Y. — On Thursday, the Tri-City ValleyCats clinched the Frontier League playoffs for the second consecutive season with two wins in a doubleheader against the New York Boulders at Joseph L. … Read more → Tour bus rollover kills 5 on interstate highway in western New York By ED WHITE and DAVE COLLINS A tour bus returning to New York City from Niagara Falls with 54 people aboard crashed and rolled on its side Friday on an interstate highway, killing five passengers and injuring many others, authorities said. The driver apparently became distracted, lost control and overcorrected before the bus went into the right shoulder and flipped over shortly before 12:30 p.m. on the eastbound side of Interstate 90 in Pembroke, New York, about 25 miles east of Buffalo, state police Maj. Andre Ray said at an evening news conference. He did not say how the driver […] Read more → Trump visits a DC gift shop and the Kennedy Center during military crackdown Trump said he'd seek $2 billion from Congress to beautify Washington. Read more → FACT FOCUS: Posts overestimate number of noncitizens living in US by tens of millions Experts say the estimates spreading online are highly inflated. Read more → US releases Emmett Till investigation records ahead of 70th anniversary of his killing Friday's release includes materials from the Justice Department, FBI and U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Read more → Apply safety rules to more trains carrying flammable cargo, lawmakers urge Over the last decade, at least six trains considered high-hazard flammable have derailed. Read more → Being Muslim and American in the nation's heartland The Muslim community that founded the "Mother Mosque" keeps growing. Read more →

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