The search for a Guilderland man missing in Thacher Park has switched to periodic spot searches.

VOORHEESVILLE — James Leonard Jr. was a “good man, a family man, who worked hard all his life,” said his wife, Theresa Femia-Leonard.

James Henry Leonard Jr. died on Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018, at Good Samaritan Hospice in Delmar. He was 79.

Crews continue to search for Bruce L. Decker, a 71-year-old Guilderland resident, who has been lost in Thacher State Park for over a week.

The New Scotland Town Board is delaying a vote on the proposed creation of a hamlet zoning district after receiving mostly negative feedback from a familiar few.

Edie Abrams, New Scotland

On Feb. 12, the Voorheesville Board of Education was presented with the district’s first draft of next year’s budget for $24,759,000.

VOORHEESVILLE — The Voorheesville Community and School Foundation has awarded $3,000 in grant funding to local performing arts programs, renewing a long-standing commitment to school and community-based theater.

VOORHEESVILLE — To the outside observer without small children, the Library Tots program at the Voorheesville Public Library may look like chaos being controlled through song and rhyme, but for parents Library Tots is preparing their children’s cognitive and linguistic development so that they will be ready to learn how to re