To the Editor:

After eight months, the Berne Town Board has finally had a meeting! [Berne Town Board rides again,” The Altamont Enterprise, March 13, 2025]

After three members of his own party resigned and left the board without a quorum, Supervisor Dennis Palow now shows himself to be his same nasty self.

Previously, he had the county sheriff escort ex-supervisor Kevin Crosier out of an ATV hearing before he even had a chance to open his mouth and now he refuses to let members of the community speak at town board meetings because “people are often nasty.”

That’s a good example of the pot calling the kettle black.

If supervisor Palow doesn’t want to hear what his constituents have to say, perhaps he should resign just as the three board members did previously because he was impossible to work with and refused to follow protocol.

Richard J. Ronconi

Berne

Editor’s note: Former Supervisor Kevin Crosier was escorted out of the ATV public hearing by Albany County Sheriff’s deputies at Supervisor Dennis Palow’s request, not by the sheriff himself.