Schoharie County will have a grand July 4 celebration this Saturday.
Sponsored by Cobleskill Partnership Inc., the Town of Cobleskill and many area businesses, festivities will include fun at the Cobleskill Fairgrounds, a parade and fireworks.
Starting at 2pm at the Fairgrounds, there will be a family fun park that includes rides, games, food, crafts, music and dance. Anyone planning to come should bring a bathing suit and towel.
The family fun park will continue until dark.
The parade lineup will be at 4:30pm at Campus Drive. The parade will step out and march down Main Street to the Fairgrounds at 5pm.
Fireworks will begin at dark.
There is free parking.
Contact Fusion Community Church at 234-8339 to be in or help with the parade or to help at the Fairgrounds.

OLD STONE FORT

The Old Stone Fort Museum will hold its annual Independence Day celebration this Saturday, the Fourth of July from 10am-4pm.
Readings of the Declaration of Independence and other documents of the time will take place at 11am and 2pm.
Throughout the day, museum staff and historical re-enactors will engage in "living history" and visitor-interactive debates on the issues of taxation, self-government, and armed militias rebelling against the government.
The Old Stone Fort was attacked by British, Loyalist American and Native American forces in 1780, and is located near George Mann's Tavern, site of a Loyalist, or "Tory" uprising in 1777.
It houses exhibits on the American Revolutionary War, including a British cannonball that struck the building in 1780, as well as other materials of local and regional history.
The seven building complex also features a 1780 Dutch barn and an early German-style house dating from about 1786.
All Independence Day outdoor activities are admission free. The regular museum admission rates apply to indoor exhibits. The event is co-produced by the Schoharie County Historical Society and the Burning of the Valleys Military Association, a regional organization of groups and individuals portraying early American history in and around the Schoharie, Mohawk and Hudson Valleys. Stone Fort Days, a large battle re-enactment event, is scheduled for October 3-4.