The budget is up three percent from last year, at $2.13 million, and includes increased health insurance costs of more than $30,000.

All class sizes in kindergarten through fifth grade were capped at 27 students.

Business owners Gary Guyette and P. J. Hognestad want to expand or start up agriculture and outdoors supply businesses along Route 308.

Four of the town board’s five members, a supermajority, would have to support the allowance.

Administrators hope to find a way to have five regular class sections rather than four for a class of 102, after parents requested the section for a third year, according to Voorheesville Superintendent Brian Hunt.

The planning board agreed to waive a public hearing for the Hilton LeVie barn site plan for the barn's foundation. 

NEW SCOTLAND — Ashley Taheri, a mental-health therapist and mother, radiated warmth and compassion, said her husband Bill Pyke. Ms. Taheri died on Monday, April 4, 2016, in a car crash. She was 55.

Will Smith, Voorheesville's public works superintendent since 1999, resigned in February. He previously served the village as assistant superintendent under new Superintendent Brett Hotaling's father, William.