Voorheesville’s high school was recognized with one of the most prestigious awards in education. 

Borrego Solar Systems is seeking to install 20 acres of solar panels on a vacant 27-acre site along Altamont Road in New Scotland. The New Scotland Zoning Board set an Oct. 27 public hearing for the project. 

John Griffin, New Scotland

NEW SCOTLAND — Voorheesville sixth-grade parents were notified on Thursday afternoon that children would be learning from home for a second straight day.

Nine months after Jeanne Picard Fish was declared “incapacitated” and placed in a nursing home, her property — close to 90 acres with an historic barn and house at the foot of the Helderbergs — is about to be sold for $660,000 in a way that will protect 80 percent of the land from future development.

Voorheesville has its first positive case of COVID-19 of the school year. 

In the early 1980s, the former Feura Bush school was sold and six local boys were without a place to play.

Patty Miller, Karen Klevanosky, Friends of Library

A recent general state aid payment was about $47,000 light, Voorheesville Superintendent Frank Macri said.

Voorheesville Athletic Director Joseph Sapienza updated the school board during its Sept. 14 meeting.