Voorheesville teachers frustrated with negotiations



VOORHEESVILLE — Teachers here packed the school-board meeting hall Monday night as the union president expressed their frustration with an unsettled contract.

"There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man."

— Winston Churchill

Cigarette thieves collared, broke into Westerlo store

WESTERLO — Two Greene County residents were arrested this week for stealing over $1,000 worth of cigarettes from M & B’s Stop ’n’ Shop in Westerlo.

Dolin wins, replaces retired Clark,
town turned 175, tower OK’d, senior-housing law delayed



NEW SCOTLAND — The town turned 175 this year. Its supervisor marked the occasion by cutting a cake during the annual Heritage Day in Clarksville.

Our newspaper was young — just five years old — when Isabel Haverly in 1889 painted the New Scotland winter scene that graces our front page this week. The back of the gilt-framed picture says, "For George Joslin from Sister Kate."

GUILDERLAND — The wall outside the library at Westmere Elementary School is plastered with memories and love — heartfelt words and poignant art created by students to honor Micki Nevett.

The snow is banked high by the sides of the road. It is not bicycling weather. Yet we have another letter this week in an ongoing saga on cyclists’ rights.

New post proposed, $10K grant for literacy bestowed

VOORHEESVILLE — "We don’t need to bring our kids up to the bar," says the Voorheesville schools superintendent, Linda Langevin. "What we need to do is break through the ceiling."

"No physician, insofar as he is a physician, considers his own good in what he prescribes, but the good of his patient; for the true physician is also a ruler having the human body as a subject, and is not a mere moneymaker."