With spending up and revenue from elsewhere thought to be down, the Voorheesville Central School District is already anticipating having to ask voters to approve the maximum levy increase allowed by the state for next school year, a 2.72-percent hike.

Janna Shillinglaw, President VCSF

The project now moves to New Scotland’s Planning Board for site-plan approval.

SLINGERLANDS — The Reverend Dr. Hugh Gould Nevin Jr. of Slingerlands died peacefully on Friday, Jan. 22, 2021— one week shy of his 88th birthday — after a battle with cancer.

Jonathan Phillips, the owner and president Phillips Hardware, said he thought that the roof began to collapse on the South Main Street barn sometime toward the end of November, and that the massive snowstorm that hit in mid-December “didn’t help,” adding, “That was probably the big factor, all that weight.”

The Voorheesville Central School District is still waiting on about $167,000 in state aid that was withheld due to the pandemic.  

The decision to go remote was made after a teacher at Clayton A. Bouton High School in New Scotland tested positive for COVID-19 and contact-tracing revealed that a number of teachers would have to quarantine after coming into contact with their colleague.

The Voorheesville Central School District on Monday evening notified parents of six new COVID-19 cases that it learned of over the Christmas break.

SLINGERLANDS — Robert A. Cook died peacefully and with his wife, Susan Y. Cook, at his side, on Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020, at Albany Medical Center from complications of COVID-19. He was 94.