VOORHEESVILLE The school districts $19.3 million budget, an increase of 3.5 percent from this year, passed on Tuesday night, with 58 percent voting for it and 42 percent against it. There were 722 yes votes and 523 no votes.
GUILDERLAND Sean McConaghy, a Farnsworth Middle School health and physical education teacher and the Guilderland High School head coach for varsity lacrosse, was arrested on May 7 for driving while intoxicated.
GUILDERLAND In a year when the town reassessed properties, reflecting soaring values, the only budgets that residents get to vote on for school and library passed by comfortable margins.
GUILDERLAND At last Wednesday’s zoning board meeting, of the four variances the board granted, Joseph Messier’s application to build a garage attached to his home received the most deliberation.
VOORHEESVILLE A handful of first-graders parents showed up at the school board meeting Monday with 43 form letters signed by other parents of soon-to-be second-graders; they were upset about class size.
NEW SCOTLAND Mark Fiato embodied the phrase to live life and each day to its fullest, his daughter, Amy Fiato said.
Mr. Fiato died on Sunday, May 8, after a bicycling accident on Saturday afternoon. He was 53.