A cluster subdivision had previously been proposed for the site, but the owner hadn’t been able to get that project off the ground because of an inability to connect to the town of Bethlehem’s water system.
Deb Engel, who also received the Albany County Legislature’s Beyond the Call COVID-19 Award in May, was presented with the award by state Senator Michelle Hinchey on Sept. 10 at the Wyman Osterhout Community Center in New Salem.
Design of a village sewer project is nearing completion and “hopefully” construction would commence in 2023, Kathryn Serra, an engineer with C.T. Male Associates, said during a recent public meeting on the project.
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.
