Steven Schreiber, Voorheesville

Voters won’t be asked to choose a library trustee as incumbent Sarah Brunt is unopposed for her seat. 

VOORHEESVILLE — For more than a decade, the village of Voorheesville has pursued a seemingly simple goal: silence. 

The village property tax rate is set to increase 1.43 percent next year, from about $1.36 per $1,000 of assessed value this year to approximately $1.38 per $1,000 next year.

If approved, next year’s budget would represent a 0.15-percent increase over this year and a nearly 6 percent increase in the property tax levy.

Sean Fitzmaurice, 1st Lieutenant, New Salem Volunteer Fire Department

The plan will now be folded into the town’s 2018 comprehensive plan and “used as a reference tool in the development, management, and protection of New Scotland’s natural resources, and in making future land use decisions,” the resolution adopting the plan states.

“When they got here, the roof was on fire. They knocked it down fast. Nobody was home. So everybody’s safe and sound, just property damage,” Thomas Cascone, Voorheesville’s fire chief, told the media at the scene. 

Bonnie O’Shea, Church Elder, New Scotland  Presbyterian Church

Janna Shillinglaw, New Scotland Kiwanis