“The smaller setting really helps drive a different level of relationship-building and academics,” said Richard Shea, the new principal of Clayton A. Bouton High School, of the Voorheesville School District. 

Stewart’s Shops’ appeal of the November 2020 decision that favored the village of Voorheesville, filed in mid-January, will soon be tossed unless the company files its brief with the court.

Come November’s general election in New Scotland, Republican Erik Grissell’s name will appear on the Conservative line for supervisor after beating current Democratic Supervisor Douglas LaGrange in the party’s primary on Tuesday. In the Conservative primary for town board, Republicans Charissa Mayer and Peter Drao topped their Democratic opponents, Adam Greenberg and Dan Leinung.

During the June 22 meeting, New Scotland Zoning Board Chairman Jeffrey Baker’s first observation of the 72-unit apartment proposal for 2080 New Scotland Road was that it was a “bit of a problematic application.”

NEW SCOTLAND — Following the statewide lifting of most COVID-19 restrictions, the town board here has decided to reopen Town Hall to the vaccinated public and is also planning in-person meetings, starting on Aug. 1.

In March, internationally-owned but locally-operated Robert Wright Disposal began offering a year of free pick-up to customers in Altamont. And now, the hauler has done away with the annual fee — $55,000 — the town of New Scotland was charged to recycle residents’ discarded items. So far this year, the town has paid approximately $24,000 in recycling tipping fees.

Joy Bennett says she felt like she was home when she discovered folk music. “The sharing of music touches part of you maybe you didn’t know existed,” Bennett says in this week’s podcast.

BERNE — Rodney William Geel, a man who was passionate about his family, died peacefully at his Berne home on Monday, June 7, 2021. He was 67.

He was born on March 24, 1954 in Clarksville to Robert Geel and Shirley Martin. He attended Bethlehem School District and graduated in 1972.

When the Greylock Lane subdivision was approved, in 2011, it showed all the houses were going to be built in a line toward the back of each property on the private roadway.

Former Voorheesville varsity girls’ basketball coach Robert Baron will appeal the lower court’s ruling dismissing his case against the school school district.