“This is important because this has been something that I think we’ve discussed: How do we get more breakfast in students’ hands,” Voorheesville Superintendent Frank Macri said on Oct. 6.

For 2026, New Scotland is proposing a town-wide tax-rate increase of about 3.4 percent, from about 1.55 per $1,000 of assessed value to approximately $1.60 per $1,000.

VOORHEESVILLE —  Barring another out-of-left-field request, Voorheesville’s nearly decade-and-a-half pursuit to install a Quiet Zone in the heart of the village appears to finally have the all-clear. 

“It’s become a thing much more quickly,” Voorheesville Mayor Rich Straut said of e-bikes during the September village board of trustees meeting. “We see young people riding in the streets. We see them riding around the park. They’re very fast … We’ve had a couple of complaints about them.”

On Oct. 7, the New Scotland Planning Board will hear comments on RIC Energy’s request to place an approximately 11,300-square-foot, five-megawatt storage system on seven secluded acres of the 137-acre New Scotland Beagle Club.

“As everybody is quite aware over the last few years,” Supervisor Douglas LaGrange said during the town board’s Sept. 10 meeting, the 40-year-old Swift Road Water District system has “had a tremendous amount of leaks.”

“Did you hear anything about New Scotland getting money for broadband extension?” the town board was asked at its Sept. 10 meeting.

The 2025-26 school year started with board members being apprised of the  implementation of the state’s mandated cell-phone ban policy, the district’s multi-million-dollar capital project, and the award of two grants. 

RIC Energy is seeking permission to install a five-megawatt battery energy storage system, or BESS, on seven acres of the 137-acre New Scotland Beagle Club.

New Leaf Energy’s applications identify the properties as 37 and 128 Wormer Road — each parcel is about 13 acres — owned by New Scotland Councilman Adam Greenberg.