Lea Foster, President Voorheesville Running and Cycling Club

NEW SCOTLAND — In the wake of the Maui wildfires, funds raised at the Sixth Annual Hawaiian Oktoberfest will go to the Maui Strong Fund through the Hawai’i Community Foundation.

Bonnie O’Shea, Church elder, New Scotland Presbyterian Church

Voorheesville has required that taxes be mailed in since the 2020, removing the option to pay in person, which has frustrated some people. Now, however, the district allows for online payments, which Assistant Superintendent for Finance Jim Southard says make the process easier for taxpayers. 

Sandy Slingerland, Don Slingerland, Marilyn Miles, Clarksville Historical Society’s Exhibit Committee

Judy Kimes, NSHA Publicist

Maps shared with The Enterprise, posted online with this story, indicate that the CHPE line, which mostly runs along the railroad track, will cross Youmans Road “via trenching,” will cross Game Farm Road “via horizontal directional drilling,” and will also cross West Yard Road near Route 32.

Supervisor Douglas LaGrange spoke of an unnamed man who died in a townhouse in an unnamed development in New Scotland that does not have a homeowners’ association. The man’s side of the house has been vacant “quite a while,” LaGrange said and it’s “very hard to make sure it’s kept up.”

Ed Mitzen spent much of his childhood in Voorheesville before going on to national renown as the founder of Business for Good, a not-for-profit that practices what he calls “venture philanthropy,” and which is now developing two businesses in the village where Mitzen grew up. 

“I’m not big on accepting charity,” said Tim Albright. “But we need all the help we can get … There are so many unknowns.”

Jerry Parmenter, a Voorheesville native who owns and operates the landscaping business Elemental Landscapes, was awarded the Dr. George L. Good Gold Medal of Horticulture for his contributions to landscaping.