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On Monday, the Voorheesville School Board adopted layered mitigation measures for the upcoming school year. 
With mask-mandate decisions being taken out of the hands of local school boards thanks to Governor Kathy Hochul, parents still voiced opposition during the Aug. 30 meeting. 

On the heels of the New York State Department of Health’s mask mandate for schools, the Berne-Knox-Westerlo Board of Education adopted a layered-mitigation opening plan to maximize flexibility inside of an evolving health crisis. 

An unvaccinated Marin County teacher had COVID symptoms on May 19 but continued to teach, testing positive for the virus on May 21. A total of 27 cases were identified, according to a study posted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC produced a chart showing where her 24 students sat (22 of them were tested); those closest to the teacher, in the front row, were all infected.

Albany County has 142,884 households; more than a third — 52,331 households — are low-income. About the same number — 52,702 households — are rental. Nearly a quarter of Albany County’s households — 33,695 — are low-income rental households and nearly a seventh of the county’s households — 20,135 — are low-income, rent-burdened households.

BETHLEHEM — A Delmar man was arrested on Friday after, police say, he pushed to the ground a 74-year-old man who wouldn’t relinquish his bicycle.

Keaton G. Lauricella,  23, was charged with felony counts of first-degree robbery and second-degree assault.

The Berne Town Board reappointed Cheryl Baitsholts as the town’s dog-control officer, 4 to 1, but Baitsholts will reject the offer, she wrote in a letter to the Enterprise editor.