NEW SCOTLAND — Voorheesville sixth-grade parents were notified on Thursday afternoon that children would be learning from home for a second straight day.

Nine months after Jeanne Picard Fish was declared “incapacitated” and placed in a nursing home, her property — close to 90 acres with an historic barn and house at the foot of the Helderbergs — is about to be sold for $660,000 in a way that will protect 80 percent of the land from future development.

Voorheesville has its first positive case of COVID-19 of the school year. 

In the early 1980s, the former Feura Bush school was sold and six local boys were without a place to play.

Patty Miller, Karen Klevanosky, Friends of Library

A recent general state aid payment was about $47,000 light, Voorheesville Superintendent Frank Macri said.

Voorheesville Athletic Director Joseph Sapienza updated the school board during its Sept. 14 meeting.

Could a solar farm proposed for Altamont Road in New Scotland impact the view from Thacher Park two miles away?

Hudson Valley Wireless gave the town of New Scotland “a very good price and very good deal” on a Wi-Fi contract. 

The former Clarksville Elementary School in New Scotland is already home to the sheriff’s public safety building; soon it will also house the county’s 9-1-1 call center.