“When they got here, the roof was on fire. They knocked it down fast. Nobody was home. So everybody’s safe and sound, just property damage,” Thomas Cascone, Voorheesville’s fire chief, told the media at the scene.
A majority of the 43 operators, laborers, and mechanics in the potential bargaining unit have signed cards choosing the Civil Service Employees Association as their bargaining representative, according to the union.
The village property tax rate is set to increase 1.43 percent next year, from about $1.36 per $1,000 of assessed value this year to approximately $1.38 per $1,000 next year.
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