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The town's tentative 2027 budget raises the tax levy 17.8 percent. The trash district and the highway fund carry most of it.

Supervisor Salisbury's tentative budget for 2027 would raise $4,071,306 in property taxes across the town's funds and districts, up $614,240 from this year, and spend $7,029,239, up 11.6 percent. The Solid Waste district levy jumps 43 percent for the new garbage contract, about $100 more per household; the highway funds rise 15 and 46 percent for salt, health insurance and new debt; the ambulance district is up 9 percent. The public hearing is November 5 at 6 p.m.

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The county's 2027 budget cuts the tax rate 6.84 percent, a ninth straight year of cuts, while the levy edges up to $63 million

County Executive Steve McLaughlin presented his 2027 budget on October 20: an average county rate of $3.01 per $1,000, down from $3.22, on a levy of $63 million, up $1 million. Sales tax is budgeted at $130 million and state mandate costs reach $191 million. The County Legislature's hearings are November 12 and 19 at 99 Troy Road. For Schaghticoke taxpayers the county line and the town line move in opposite directions this year, though the town's share of the county levy still edges up 1.4 percent.

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Two seats on the Speigletown fire commission are on the ballot December 8. Letters to run are due November 18.

The Speigletown Fire District elects commissioners on Tuesday, December 8, from 6 to 9 p.m. at the firehouse, and this year two seats are open: a full five-year term and the balance of an unexpired term. Anyone who wants to run must file a letter with the district secretary by Wednesday, November 18. The board chose not to nominate anyone itself.

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Planning Board sets a November 4 hearing on a 71-acre timber harvest on Route 40 north of Melrose

The town has posted notice of a public hearing on Adam and Samantha Kocienski's application for a timber harvest permit on about 71 wooded acres on the west side of Route 40, opposite 2024 State Route 40. The hearing is Wednesday, November 4 at 7 p.m. at Town Hall. The board reviewed the plan at a pre-filing conference on October 7.

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Early voting opens Saturday. The nearest site is the Brunswick town office, and Saturday is also the last day to register.

Nine days of early voting in Rensselaer County run Saturday, October 24 through Sunday, November 1 at three sites, any of which a Schaghticoke voter can use. The closest is the Town of Brunswick Office Building on Town Office Road. Saturday is also the deadline to register or to request a mail ballot online. Updated with the county's running count: 5,881 voters in the first three days, up 81 percent from 2022.

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Check the hot dog and bacon drawer: Kayem, Al Fresco, McKenzie and Genoa products are recalled over a warm warehouse

Kayem Foods of Chelsea, Massachusetts has recalled about 1.58 million pounds of ready-to-eat meat and poultry, including Fenway Franks, Old Tyme franks, Al Fresco chicken sausage, McKenzie bacon, ham and turkey, and Genoa ham, after a warehouse cooler failed. No illnesses are reported. The products were shipped to stores and club warehouses nationwide and may be in your refrigerator or freezer. Here is how to check.

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Fire district adopts its 2027 budget, sets December 8 commissioner election, and weighs a new chief's vehicle

The Speigletown Fire District's Board of Fire Commissioners held its public hearing on the 2027 budget Monday night and adopted it: $714,170 in spending, up 6.4 percent, with $40,000 of carryover holding the tax levy to $674,170, up 0.40 percent. Schaghticoke's share of the levy rises 5.55 percent on the rate while Brunswick's falls. The board also took quotes from three dealers for a new chief's vehicle and set November 18 as the deadline for anyone who wants to run for one of two open commissioner seats.

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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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