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ALTAMONT — The fair is going to the dogs this week. Agile dogs, that is.

Canine Performance Events, Inc. will be holding an agility dog show at the Altamont Fair on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.





The lawn-mower racing at the Hillview Tavern in Esperance is no backyard affair.



ALTAMONT — The fair was bustling on opening day Tuesday with grandparents and their grandchildren. Another frequent sight was mothers accompanied by their toddlers.





ALTAMONT FAIR — A new generation of farmers has entered livestock and is running the show barns at the tri-county fair.





Orloff Bear vividly remembers his first trip to the Altamont Fair. It was 1923 and he was five years old.

His grandfather, who showed cattle, put six of the family’s best livestock on a train in Coxsackie.













ALTAMONT — Harold Hahn hasn’t seen a crow at the Altamont Fair since 1993. This tells him that perhaps scarecrows work, he said.





ALTAMONT — Tragedy has turned to triumph at the Altamont Fair.


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