While public hearings on masks and vaccinations have often been one-sided, against both, the Voorheesville School Board on Monday heard the other side from an authority on the constitution and from a scientist who has researched treatments for COVID-19 — both Voorheesville parents.
As newcomers move to Voorheesville and New Scotland, Alan Kowlowitz hopes they will embrace their heritage, not as a matter of genetics, a love of place handed down through family, but rather like the love that ties a marriage together.
On Monday, the Voorheesville School Board adopted layered mitigation measures for the upcoming school year.
With mask-mandate decisions being taken out of the hands of local school boards thanks to Governor Kathy Hochul, parents still voiced opposition during the Aug. 30 meeting.
Barring the county legislature voting down the project, “we anticipate putting a shovel in the ground in about 25 [to] 30 days,” said Sheriff Craig Apple of beginning work on a new county Emergency 9-1-1 Communications Center in New Scotland, at the site of the former Clarksville Elementary School.
“It’s an independent film project,” Discover Albany Film Commissioner Deb Goedeke told The Enterprise. “They will be there for a few days. I really can’t divulge any more information than that just because of confidentiality with our clients.”
