VOORHEESVILLE The days of swapping sandwiches in the school cafeteria are over. At Voorheesville Elementary School, students are taught to "share things, not food," says the school nurse, Colleen Brackett.
KNOX - The town board unanimously adopted Knox's 2008 budget last week, which calls for a tax-rate increase of about 4 cents per $1,000 of assessed value.
ALBANY COUNTY - Having made its first appearance in the state this fall in Voorheesville, Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease has now been confirmed elsewhere in Albany County and in some neighboring counties.
GUILDERLAND - In recent years, budget hearings held by the all-Democratic town board have been short and quiet. That changed with last Tuesday's upset election by two Republicans to the board.
NEW SCOTLAND - The town is divided on choosing a new supervisor - Republican Douglas LaGrange and Democrat Thomas Dolin each received roughly half the vote on Tuesday.