A dramatic increase in Voorheesville’s adopted budget is due to a one-time expense, and Albany County Comptroller Michael Conners came to the the village board’s monthly meeting to talk about what could happen to a municipality’s budget if sales-tax revenues decrease.

Lisa Fasulo of Altamont has opened her newest business, Michelangelo’s Paint Place, on Western Avenue in Guilderland.

After three residents took out petitions to run for the Voorheesville Public Library Board of Trustees, just a single one was returned with the required 25 signatures.

VOORHEESVILLE — The Voorheesville Library Board of Trustees will vote to adopt a budget for next year at its April 23 meeting. The proposed $1.18 million spending plan is up about $8,000, less than 1 percent, from this year.

If adopted by the board, residents would then vote on May 15 to approve the budget.

The board of education adopted a $24.7 million budget for next year, and, on May 15, residents in the Voorheesville Central School District will vote to whether or not to accept it as well deciding on a $7.7 million capital project, a new capital reserve fund, and two seats on the board of education.

A drunk driver, police say, took out power to New Scotland Town Hall on Friday night, causing the town office to close on Monday.

After a lifetime as a painter, Irena Frinta, at 95 years old, has added author to her résumé.

After half-century as a pastor in the Reformed Church in America, the last 27 at the Unionville Reformed Church in Delmar, Pastor Thomas Kendall has stepped down and is now considered a pastor emeritus.

The proposal is increased 29-percent from this year’s budget, which is due largely to a sidewalk capital project.

The Altamont Village Board approved to list for sale the village’s interest in the Doctor Crounse House, and adopted a draft of the restrictive covenant that would require a buyer to preserve the home’s historical features.