Judy Kimes, Publicist New Scotland Historical Association

The voluntary and anonymous survey was performed during Voorheesville’s school budget and board elections, and sheds light on voter demographics, voters’ motivations, and concerns related to the recent vote. 

Voorheesville School Board members had been deliberating since at least November as to whether they should allow BusPatrol the opportunity to affix cameras to the outside of district buses to catch violators who pass a stopped bus with its stop arm extended and its red lights flashing. 

VOORHEESVILLE — Dianne Luci believes in the power of bringing people together.

“I so strongly believe if people traveled more and got to know different cultures that we wouldn’t have so much divisiveness in this country and hate,” she says in this week’s Enterprise podcast.

The Voorheesville School Board approved a new three-year contract with the district’s teachers’ union, including a 3-percent annual salary increase and increases to sick-day buyouts. While the union didn’t accomplish everything it wanted, the salary increases and other financial gains were seen as significant progress.

Jeremy Cramer, New Scotland’s building inspector, told The Enterprise on Tuesday that there had been evidence of renovations being done in the home, which did not have working smoke or carbon-monoxide detectors, meaning “there was no warning system for them to get out,” and that the work had been done without the proper town permits.

NEW SCOTLAND — Holly Cameron loves her church.

She has been the pastor of the New Scotland Presbyterian Church for 25 years.

“The church is a place to try to understand what is something larger than myself, both within that community of people, and with God,” she says in this week’s Enterprise podcast.

Nearly 100 members of the Clayton A. Bouton Class of 2023 graduated on June 23.

Len and Meg Berdan, Slingerlands

The New Scotland Planning Board on June 13 signed off on a daycare center slated for the Grove at Maple Point development and approved Meadowdale Winery’s request to shift its operation from Guilderland to the former Picard’s Grove.