New York residents are voting on their school districts' proposed budgets for next year.
    
Authorities say the average proposed tax levy increase is 2.8-percent, with school spending rising about the same amount, driven by increases in contributions to employee retirement systems.
    
This is the second year school districts are working under New York's tax cap law, which generally limits tax levy increases to 2 percent or the rate of inflation, whichever is less.  Budget proposals that exceed the cap need a 60 percent supermajority of votes to pass.
    
The New York State School Boards Association says about 96 percent of districts are staying within the cap, with most of them drawing on reserve funds to be able to do that without further cuts in programs and services.
   

Yolickity, a self-serve frozen yogurt store,  has opened a location in Greece.

The new location is in Stoney Creek Center on Long Pond Road, near Bryant and Stratton College.

The store, which is owned by Rochester native Brian Mendler  and Buffalo native Jon Crabbe, is the second Yolickity location. The other location is in Webster Plaza in Webster.

The Supreme Court is taking a new case on the intersection of religion and government in a dispute over prayers used to open meetings in the Town of Greece.
    
The justices said Monday they will review an appeals court ruling that held that the town of Greece violated the Constitution by opening nearly every meeting over an 11-year span with prayers that stressed Christianity.
    
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the town should have made a greater effort to invite people from other faiths to open its monthly board meetings.
    
The town says the high court already has upheld prayers at the start of legislative meetings and that private citizens offered invocations of their own choosing.