After purchasing Red-Kap Sales, a regional gasoline and convenience store company, Stewart’s Shops will take over Berne’s Mobil gas station, on the Helderberg Trail.

Mary Ann Ronconi, Berne

Zenie Gladieux, Helderberg Kiwanis; Mary Beth Peterson, Hilltown Community Resource Center; Maryellen Gillis, Helderberg Family and Community Organization 

Carolyn F. Wright, Class of 1959 Berne-Knox-Westerlo

BERNE — Supporters of the Switzkill Farm feel that the current GOP-backed town board is letting the expansive town-owned property languish and that projects beneficial to the community — from the instruction of school kids to attracting astronomers — have fallen by the wayside.

A Department of State official told The Enterprise that, although Townsend received his initial certification in October 2018, he “has not done any of the in-service training for 2019 or for 2020 (so far). 

GALLUPVILLE — For five decades, The Hudson Mohawk Chapter of the Pioneer Gas Engine Association has held its annual Gas Up show — an exhibit of antique engines — on a Gallupville property that’s privately owned and graciously lent out.

Barbara Liddle, Schoharie

Linda Mormile, Rensselaerville

RENSSELAERVILLE — “Aunt Kate,” as Katherine S. Baitsholts was known around the hamlet of Rensselaerville, died at St. Peter’s Hospice in the early morning hours of Monday, Nov. 2, 2020, after having suffered a massive brain hemorrhage the preceding Thursday afternoon. She was 99 years old.