Working women and men are honored on Monday, Labor Day, kicking off with a parade. Local organized labor members will lead a parade, beginning at 10:30 a.m., circling the Expo Center and continuing down to the Iroquois Village.

The 2025 New York State Fair wraps up Monday evening with a fireworks show, having debuted the snazzy, new sheep barn, turned the Expo Center frosty, melted hearts with spunky and adorable canine antics and filled us with great food.

It was a weird weather year, mostly cool and occasionally rainy, but generally comfortable. Things went smoothly, except for one destructive storm and a couple of traffic jams caused by concerts on the other side of I-690. There is no easy explanation for so-so attendance, but count on State Fair Hound to offer some suggestions for improvement in a later post.