The Town of Schaghticoke is moving to a .gov website

The Town of Schaghticoke is refreshing its website — and, more notably, moving it to an official .gov domain. According to Town Clerk Emily Calhoun, the town’s site will live at townofschaghticoke.gov, with a slightly updated design and new .gov email addresses for town employees.

What’s changing

• New web address: the town website is moving to townofschaghticoke.gov.
• New staff email: town employees will get @townofschaghticoke.gov addresses.
• A refreshed look — a slightly updated design.

The existing, more dated site at townofschaghticoke.org isn’t disappearing overnight. Clerk Calhoun tells us the old address will keep receiving email and will redirect visitors to the new site for a time while the switch is completed — so existing links and messages won’t suddenly break.

Why a .gov domain matters

A .gov web address is more than cosmetic. Only verified U.S. government organizations can register one, so when you see .gov you can trust you’re on a genuine government site — not a look-alike or a scam. That makes official notices, forms, and payments safer for residents, and staff email sent from a .gov address is easier to trust and harder to spoof.

For years, .gov was far easier for federal and state agencies to obtain than for small towns. That has been changing, thanks to a broader effort — reflected in the DOTGOV Act (S.2749, 116th Congress) and an ongoing push to bring .gov domains to local governments at little or no cost — precisely so towns like Schaghticoke can offer residents a trustworthy official address.

What this means for you

Nothing you need to do today. Keep using the contacts on our Government page — Town Hall’s main line and the departments’ extensions aren’t changing. As the town completes the switch, we’ll update our links to point to townofschaghticoke.gov and note the new .gov staff email addresses.

Source: Town Clerk Emily Calhoun. Speigletown.org is a community-run site and is not affiliated with the Town of Schaghticoke.