NEW SCOTLAND — The First United Methodist Church of Voorheesville at 68 Maple Ave. is holding a vacation Bible school from Aug. 12 to 14, from 5:15 to 7:30 p.m. The school’s theme this year is “Rolling River Rampage.”

The Voorheesville Central School District, after a forum on Tuesday where the audience wasn’t much larger than the district’s safety committee, continues to try to gauge community thought on hiring a sheriff’s deputy to be stationed in the schools come fall.

Faiza Salman, a native of Pakistan, was just 19 when she came to America; her father had arranged for her to marry a fellow Pakistani who had been state-side for over a decade. She experienced culture shock, but not how you’d think.

“We feel that music is a very powerful tool for evangelization; that sometimes music can move and stir the soul in directions that, maybe, something else hasn’t,” said Peggy McQuade, the pastoral associate for hospitality at Saint Matthew’s Church in Voorheesville.

At its July meeting, the Voorheesville School Board put off voting on hiring a school resource officer for September, choosing instead to give the matter further thought and discussion.

Just 7 years old, Ben Longale has endured and overcome more disease and disorder than any two people 10 times his age.

About 20 homes in the area of Crow Ridge Road were briefly without water on Saturday and Monday due to a water-main break.

Niaz Goodbee, a 2018 graduate of Clayton A. Bouton High School in Voorheesville, this year became the first African American to reach the rank of Eagle from Voorheesville’s Troop 73 of the Boy Scouts of America.

The Voorheesville Central School District has asked the court to throw out a claim of defamation made by the former girls’ varsity basketball coach, Robert Baron.