At Voorheesville
New plans for health and technology



VOORHEESVILLE — Spurred by demands from the federal government, the Voorheesville School District has two new plans — one for health and another for technology.

NEW SCOTLAND – The latest proposal for the much-debated future of the town’s Northeast Quadrant is a 120-unit development of homes the developer calls "modest" – priced between $250,000 and $350,000.

NEW SCOTLAND – Bar business has been in John Jeffers’s family for over 30 years. He is the last of seven in his family to run a bar.
"It’s in my blood," he says.

When your job is to drive a big yellow school bus, people notice.

VOORHEESVILLE – Voorheesville school buses, and their drivers, have been under intense scrutiny throughout the past school year.

VOORHEESVILLE — Frank Loscavo has played music for more than 40 of his 53 years.

Loscavo recently put together a CD titled: As Is, and will be hosting a free CD release party in Voorheesville on Wednesday, Aug. 2.

KNOX – The routine drive home from work to Berne turned traumatic for 23-year-old Melissa Dibble on Tuesday.

By Michelle O’Riley

NEW SCOTLAND — Voorheesville is considering building a place to skateboard in its village park. Equipment may be purchased from a park in Hudson, N. Y. that is closing.

VOORHEESVILLE — School district voters will decide in September on a $5.8 million project to upgrade Voorheesville’s schools.

Split vote
Re-zone near old railroad



NEW SCOTLAND — With only the supervisor in disagreement, the town board voted last Wednesday to re-zone one area in town and to keep another area’s zoning the same.