Unless local governments can demonstrate raising pigs is a threat to public health and safety, farms in an agricultural district are protected under state law from unreasonable regulations, a state official said.

Acting as Knox appeals officer for the state’s Freedom of Information law, Supervisor Vasilios Lefkaditis, as the law requires, released the name of the resident making a recent request for transfer-station videos.

Violations issued against Shaw Funding between May 2017 and July 2018 are still unresolved, with over $30,000 in penalties due.

Dana Sherman, who is enrolled in the Independence Party, said he is campaigning to represent himself, rather than a party’s values.

“Government is the public’s business and ... the public, individually and collectively and represented by a free press, should have access to the records of government …”

The number of employees allowed to work at a home business would increase in both Berne and Knox should proposed amendments pass.

The property at 22 Hammond Road, which a former county legislator wanted to buy for $60,000, was sold for $66,500 to a couple who has lived on adjacent property for years.

Justin Maxwell had been a college basketball coach when he decided he wanted a career change after helping his uncle in his job as an assessor one summer.

While the only Knox candidates on the ballot for the June 25 primary are those nominated by Knox’s Democratic Committee, there is also the option to write in a candidate, which a Democrat running on the Republican line says she may campaign to do.