Chris and Richard Howard, Voorheesville

“Sometimes when you present a number, it gets fixated on and it comes up meeting after meeting,” VCSD Interim business official Lissa Jilek told the school board at its January meeting. 

Voorheesville continues to deal with the fallout from incidents of racism and antisemitism at its middle school in the past year.

A school should be a place where a child can make a mistake, be corrected, take responsibility for that mistake, learn from it, and carry on with his life. The health and safety not just of individual students but of our society as a whole depends on it.

The district’s lawyer, Ryan Mullahy, was on hand at the board’s Jan. 6 meeting to talk about student discipline.

The tavern, which was built by philanthropist and village native Ed Mitzen, is now run by the Druthers Brewing Company, which operates five other restaurants in the Capital Region. 

 The town is looking to balance its books and make taxpayers whole by allocating its remaining portion of American Rescue Plan Act funding to the Hilton Barn project. 

While the school district dealt with a social-media mess and incidents of antisemitism, it welcomed new leadership at its middle school and high school and proceeded with its $25 million capital project. The town continued to fine-tune itself, and new projects and resolutions to long-term ones have and will change the face of the village. 

Marguerite Teuten, Development Coordinator, New Scotland Community Food Pantry

The Voorheesville Central School District in a Dec. 18 post on its website said, “On the afternoon of December 17, 2024, our safety monitor discovered vandalism during routine bathroom checks on our MS/HS campus.”