NEW SCOTLAND — A slate of unanimous votes followed the swearing in of two new town board members who campaigned with sitting board members on a platform promising cooperation on the recently divided board.

NEW SCOTLAND — The town will pay more than $10,000 to the state for a nearly 40-year-old error in its retirement system payments.

NEW SCOTLAND — Having just been sworn in to his ninth two-year term as the town’s highway superintendent, Darrell Duncan will likely take a post as the county’s commissioner of public works.

NEW SCOTLAND — Jean M. Cesar, 41, a Haitian national who has the same first and last name as his deceased brother, was arrested last Thursday after a traffic stop on Route 443.

VOORHEESVILLE — A teacher who bit a fifth-grade student in the midst of a classroom commotion is on paid leave pending the outcome of an investigation by the state’s commissioner of education.

NEW SCOTLAND — Last week’s story about an unsolved home burglary on Route 156 in town was all too familiar for another New Scotland resident.

NEW SCOTLAND — On Monday, an elderly couple returned from a two-hour shopping trip at Stuyvesant Plaza to find their New Scotland home burglarized.

Their home is located on a main road, Route 156, between the Voorheesville firehouse and Indian ladder Farms.

Board looks at retrofitting Village Hall