The Town of Schaghticoke is live at townofschaghticoke.gov

The Town of Schaghticoke has a new website, and a notable new address: townofschaghticoke.gov.

That suffix matters more than it looks. .gov domains are restricted — only verified U.S. government organizations can register one, and the request has to come from an authorized official. A resident who lands on a .gov address can trust it’s actually the town, not a look-alike. It’s the same reason the federal government pushes local governments toward .gov: it makes impersonation and phishing much harder.

It’s a real upgrade, and moving an entire municipal website is a bigger job than it sounds. Here’s what’s where now.

Old links: the front door forwards, the rest don’t

If you have townofschaghticoke.org bookmarked, you’re fine — the old domain forwards to the new one automatically.

But it only forwards to the homepage. Saved links to anything deeper — a specific document, a set of minutes, a form — didn’t carry over. They don’t show an error; they just quietly land you on the new site’s front page, and it’s up to you to hunt down whatever you’d saved. If an old link “worked” but put you somewhere that isn’t what you bookmarked, that’s why. Our own document links were rebuilt against the new site, so they go where they say.

Where things are now

• Meetings — agendas and minutes, browsable by board and year.
• News & Notices — public hearing notices and notices to bidders, including the current ProLine Power and noise ordinance hearings.
• Departments — Assessor, Building Inspector, Code Enforcement & Stormwater, Dog Control, Highway, Historian, Receiver of Taxes, Town Clerk, Water & Sewer, and Youth Commission.
• Forms, a calendar, and Laws & Codes — which now carries the filed local laws themselves, not just the Town Code. That is genuinely new, and it’s the best thing on the new site.

Town email addresses haven’t changed yet. The Clerk is still at townclerk@townofschaghticoke.org, and the phone numbers on our Town Government page are unchanged. The addresses are expected to move to the new domain eventually — we’ll update our pages when they do.

A few things got left behind

This is normal for a move this size and none of it looks deliberate. But if you’ve gone looking for something and come up empty, this is probably why.

Meetings before 2025. The new browser covers 2025 and 2026. Ask it for 2022, 2023 or 2024 and you get nothing — and the old system that hosted those years no longer answers. By our count that’s about 80 meetings.

Some documents lost their labels. A number of files are posted without what you’d need to identify them: local laws with no number, year or subject; three stormwater documents titled things like “2025” and “-03-09”; the Youth Commission registration packet filed under the name “Medical Permission Slip.” The documents themselves are fine — the labels just didn’t survive.

A few headings disagree with their own contents. One set of Planning Board minutes from January 2025 is headed “January 2024.” A Town Board set from October 2024 is headed “October 2025.” Small typos, but they’ll defeat you if you search by date.

What we’ve done about it

Wherever we could close a gap on our end, we have:

• The minutes archive runs back to 2018. Residents sent us their own files and we tracked down the rest, so there’s now an entry for nearly every meeting since 2018 — including the 2022–2024 years missing from the town’s browser.
• We built the index the local laws never had. Our Local Laws page gives every law its number, year, applicant, parcel and a plain-language summary — including the two rezonings that reshaped the Route 40 corridor here, and the four laws the town has adopted but never published.
• We note discrepancies instead of hiding them. Where a heading carries the wrong year, or a posted file is still a draft, the entry says so.
• We always link back to the town’s original. Our summaries are unofficial. When the town publishes a document we point at the town’s own copy, so you’re never more than one click from the source. For a certified copy of anything, the Town Clerk is the place to go.

We’re also sending everything we noticed to the Town Clerk for review — what we found, why it matters to a resident, and what we think would fix it. It’s a worklist offered as help, not a complaint. Nobody on the town’s small staff has time to re-read fifteen years of scanned PDFs hunting for a mistyped year. We did, because that’s the whole job here.

If you can’t find something, tell us

That’s the genuinely useful part. If you went looking for a document — on the town’s site or on ours — and couldn’t find it, we’d like to know. It’s usually a labelling problem rather than a missing file, and those are the easiest kind to fix.

Send us what you were looking for and we’ll either point you straight at it or add it to the list. You can also ask Dort, which searches the whole archive — minutes, local laws, notices, pages — and links its sources on every answer.

Sources: townofschaghticoke.gov, reviewed through July 31, 2026, and our own audit of the town’s published documents. The site is still being filled in, so some of the gaps above may close on their own.