Rensselaerville fires highway deputy

Wednesday, March 26, 2025 - 18:44

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Rensselaerville Town Hall and highway garage

RENSSELAERVILLE — The town of Rensselaerville has a new deputy superintendent after the former one was fired for reasons town officials would not discuss. 

The town board appointed Jason Wood to be the deputy highway superintendent under Jason Rauf at its meeting earlier this month. Warren Bashwinger had previously been the deputy.

The town board would not answer a question from a woman in the audience at that meeting about Bashwinger’s situation, with town attorney William Ryan stating that it was a personnel issue.

“We can’t; it’s not that we won’t,” Supervisor John Dolce added.

Rauf told The Enterprise he also would not discuss personnel matters, but was at least willing to rule out that Bashwinger had committed theft or any other crime. 

Bashwinger could not be reached for comment. 

Warren Bashwinger is the cousin of Berne Highway Superintendent Randy Bashwinger, Randy Bashwinger told The Enterprise last week, though they are not close, he said. 

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