Board OKs proposition for nine new school buses

GUILDERLAND — The school board here approved a pared down proposition for bus purchases Tuesday night.

GCSD plans $86M budget, adding full-day K

GUILDERLAND — With federal funds to replace the aid to schools that New York’s governor had planned to cut, Guilderland is now proposing an $85.6 million budget that would raise taxes 1.5 percent.

NEW SCOTLAND — Size-cap buttons flooded the American Legion Hall in Voorheesville last night as New Scotlanders 4 Sound Economic Development held a forum to discuss the increasingly divisive issue of a potential retail development.

BKW play is about “kids coming into their own”

By Zach Simeone

BERNE — Coriellen Travis is working on her seventh musical at Berne-Knox-Westerlo High School, with kids she has been directing since they were in seventh grade.

Local municipalities are among those that have so far submitted $100 billion in requests for New York’s infrastructure stimulus funds but the state has just $4 billion to spend on these projects, according to the governor’s office.

The surgeon’s hands are gloved, his eyes glued to the screen above the inert form on the table. He guides his instruments through the abdomen and points out, on the screen, the ovaries, which he is removing.

By Jordan J. Michael

VOORHEESVILLE –– Berne-Knox-Westerlo and Voorheesville baseball squared off in an early season non-league game on Tuesday.

A shepherd who built bridges to make the mundane marvelous

Illustration by Forest Byrd

Coffin, Dozier to run for board

VOORHEESVILLE — Both school board members whose terms are up will be seeking re-election on May 19.