New Scotland

The Voorheesville School Board hopes to fill the seat vacated by Michael Canfora by Jan. 27.

In a Colonial Council matchup Friday afternoon, the Voorheesville girls’ basketball team traveled to Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk High School where the Blackbirds had a tough time against the Indians’ defense and fell, 69 to 39.

The Voorheesville Blackbirds kicked off the 2019-20 indoor track season on Saturday morning at Union College. The non-scoring event was a good start for the Birds to see what they were made of.

Dennis Sullivan describes a grand gathering in 1917 — a fundraiser for the Red Cross during World War I, which attracted 2,000 people to the Bender farm, where Charles’s wife, Elizabeth Bender, had hit upon the idea of serving slices of melon topped with ice cream.

New apartments could soon be coming to New Scotland.

Voorheesville will hold a public hearing on the proposed Historic Preservation Law on Tuesday, Dec. 17, at 6 p.m., at village hall. 

New Scotland is one of 10 local municipalities looking band together to lower the cost that their residents’ pay for power. 

New Scotland’s adopted budget for 2020 is down from 2019, but, for the third year in a row, the town has increased taxes albeit by a few pennies.

The Voorheesville Blackbirds boys’ soccer and girls’ volleyball teams went full bore this week. The soccer team on Saturday afternoon battled Lake George at Colonie High School for the section 2 Class C championship.

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