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— Photo from Jerry Parmenter

To beautify the village, the Voorheesville trustees asked local landscaper Jerry Parmenter and his company, Elemental Landscapes, to create a low-maintenance design for the Community Bulletin Board at the entrance to the village near the Hannaford Plaza. There had never been any thought given to the design before, said Trustee Brett Hotaling. The village paid $1,500 for its labor, said Hotaling. Beneath the sign now stands a massive limestone boulder, 13 feet long and weighing 2.5 tons. The design was then softened, Parmenter said, with plantings of ninebark Coppertina, hydrangeas known as "Twist-n-Shout," and Siberian cypress shrubs. At work on the landscaping are Joe Corrigan, with his back to the camera, and Andrew Luyckx, raking.