Stillwater held its annual holiday Tree Lighting events Saturday night, Dec. 5 with the Village Tree in Cannon Park and then at Blockhouse Park for the lighting of the Lights of Peace, Hope & Remembrance Trees. View a Facebook Photo Gallery of this event

Stillwater held a very successful Trunk or Treat Halloween drive-thru event on Saturday in place of its annual Fall Festival during the COVID-19 pandemic. Some 60 volunteers hosted 672 attendees for this event. Click here to view a Facebook photo gallery of this event

Elected officials for Mayor and village Trustee will now have limits on the number of years they can serve in their positions, according to a new law enacted by the Stillwater Village Board on Tuesday, Oct. 20. The board voted 3-1 (with one member absent) to enact term limits following a public hearing in which …

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The Village of Stillwater may soon have a new outdoor “museum” piece to help celebrate its long, rich history with the Hudson River and Champlain Canal system. The New York Canal Corp has offered the village a retired canal buoy boat that can be refurbished and displayed in Stillwater at a location to be determined. …

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Creighton Manning Engineering, LLP (CM) has completed a traffic assessment for the proposed Colonial Apartments residential development located on Colonial Road in the Village of Stillwater. This evaluation is based on information provided in the “Concept Plan” dated March 18, 2019, prepared by Advance Engineering & Surveying, PLLC. Project Description The project includes construction of …

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Officials from the Stillwater Public Library are gauging the village’s interest in acquiring their historic building as plans move forward to relocate the library at a new and larger facility across town. Instead of selling the building to a private developer, library officials told the Village Board of Trustees at its Sept. 15 meeting that …

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They say kindness is contagious. Well, if it is a lot of people are catching the bug in the Capital Region thanks to a little girl from Stillwater. Her name is Mia Villa and she is 3-years-old. For the past two months, Mia has been very busy baking chocolate chip cookies. But these aren’t for …

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Drive-up food pantry hands out thousands of pounds of food

The Village of Stillwater held its Farmer’s Market reopening on Tuesday, June 2. The market will continue every Tuesday, 3-6 p.m., through October. View a Farmer’s Market Opening Photo Gallery