What's old is new again. Walkable communities, where businesses and homes are clustered together, can thrive again with proper zoning. The Knox Town board should approve a business district in the hamlet.

Chairman Robert Price said the planning board still has to agree on a proposed change to the buffer that would separate business districts from residential areas.

NEW SCOTLAND — Voters were definitive on Tuesday, electing the slate that ran as Team New Scotland, which is taking the victory as a mandate for a cap on the size of retail development.