If approved, next year’s Voorheesville Central School District budget would represent a 6.9-percent increase over this year and a 2.5-percent increase in the property-tax levy.

The poor condition of the School Road crossing was the result of track work performed by Norfolk Southern in January. Meanwhile, Voorheesville Mayor Richard Straut said he and village attorney Rich Reilly continue to advocate for the Quiet Zone, which has been stalled over project funding. 

Christy Kraker, Voorheesville

Susan and Tim Albright, Meadowdale

Judy Kimes, New Scotland Historical Association

New Scotland Town Planner Nan Stolzenburg on March 8 told town board members that the update started with a zoning and subdivision audit that she did many years ago, which “resulted in a series of recommendations for updating and improving the zoning and the subdivision law.”

NEW SCOTLAND — When is a coat a work of art? When is a coat the center of a play?

When it is Joseph’s Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

The character Joseph wears his coat in this weekend’s school production in Voorheesville — where it takes on a life of its own, swirling in its many-splendored colors.