“It’s been a place of worship and it will be the same — nothing changes,” It was said of the shuttered Mountainview Evangelical Free Church. “In fact, the sign doesn’t change, only the text in the sign will change, the name will change.”

Robert Whiteman Director Voorheesville Dionysians

VOORHEESVILLE — New York Army National Guard Col. Christopher Guilmette, a Voorheesville resident, is the new commander of the 53rd Digital Liaison Detachment, headquartered at the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan.

With spending up and revenue from elsewhere thought to be down, the Voorheesville Central School District is already anticipating having to ask voters to approve the maximum levy increase allowed by the state for next school year, a 2.72-percent hike.

Janna Shillinglaw, President VCSF

The project now moves to New Scotland’s Planning Board for site-plan approval.

SLINGERLANDS — The Reverend Dr. Hugh Gould Nevin Jr. of Slingerlands died peacefully on Friday, Jan. 22, 2021— one week shy of his 88th birthday — after a battle with cancer.

Jonathan Phillips, the owner and president Phillips Hardware, said he thought that the roof began to collapse on the South Main Street barn sometime toward the end of November, and that the massive snowstorm that hit in mid-December “didn’t help,” adding, “That was probably the big factor, all that weight.”

The Voorheesville Central School District is still waiting on about $167,000 in state aid that was withheld due to the pandemic.