A school should be a place where a child can make a mistake, be corrected, take responsibility for that mistake, learn from it, and carry on with his life. The health and safety not just of individual students but of our society as a whole depends on it.

The district’s lawyer, Ryan Mullahy, was on hand at the board’s Jan. 6 meeting to talk about student discipline.

The tavern, which was built by philanthropist and village native Ed Mitzen, is now run by the Druthers Brewing Company, which operates five other restaurants in the Capital Region. 

 The town is looking to balance its books and make taxpayers whole by allocating its remaining portion of American Rescue Plan Act funding to the Hilton Barn project. 

While the school district dealt with a social-media mess and incidents of antisemitism, it welcomed new leadership at its middle school and high school and proceeded with its $25 million capital project. The town continued to fine-tune itself, and new projects and resolutions to long-term ones have and will change the face of the village. 

Marguerite Teuten, Development Coordinator, New Scotland Community Food Pantry

The Voorheesville Central School District in a Dec. 18 post on its website said, “On the afternoon of December 17, 2024, our safety monitor discovered vandalism during routine bathroom checks on our MS/HS campus.”

NEW SCOTLAND — Collar City Mushrooms has moved from Troy to Indian Ladder Farms.

It will sell mushrooms at the Farm Store, which is to reopen on March 15 after being closed because of a fire last September.

Public comment during the Dec. 9 meeting largely centered on two issues: calls for accountability regarding board member Matthew Bergeron's post-election social media comments and renewed demands, driven in part by bullying allegations, for a school resource officer

Richard Rubin, Slingerlands