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A visioning session for the Village of Voorheesville was held at St. Matthew’s Church in the village. A series of exercises allowed visitors to formulate their ideas into statements, which the village will use to help form a comprehensive plan.

A ribbon cutting was held in Johnsonville, in Rennselaer County, on Wednesday March 29th for the first solar farm to deliver solar power to 26 homes.

Stewart’s Shops has yet to open a store in the Hilltowns, but is set to announce a new location in either Berne or Knox by next month. Both town supervisors are vying for the spot, saying that it would help their town, while local businesses are wary of competitors.

According to his arrest records, it’s not the first time that Sand has sped up when police have tried to pull him over.

NEW SCOTLAND — On March 26, Troopers in New Scotland received a complaint that Denise A. Danz, 48, of Altamont had unlawfully entered the garage of a residence, according to a release from the State Police.

BERNE — A decision by the governor and the New York State legislature to extend the state’s current budget until May 31 has left many school districts concerned about how they will develop their own budgets without knowing the amount of state aid.

A series of arguments and face-offs appears to have led to the firing of a town employee last September by the Berne Supervisor Kevin Crosier, according to accounts from other town employees.

Three of the many conditions the planning board wants to require for Cynthia Elliott to get a special-use permit to run a party business on her property don’t sit well with her.

A Voorheesville couple is now at odds with the solar energy company Monolith Solar.

The backyard of Lawrence Mann, who lives just east of the Berne Public Library, is flooded Tuesday following rain and snow melt in the town of Berne. Mann said that the flooding has affected his property as well as other neighbors’.

The superintendent alleges the supervisor had overstepped his authority in several instances.

Voorheesville teacher Tim Mattison says, in the months his second-graders spend watching trout grow, they learn to appreciate wildlife and commitment to a project

The zoning board of appeals made decisions in March about parking boats in driveways and installing white vinyl privacy fences in side yards in a luxury neighborhood where those kinds of fences were prohibited in the purchase contracts.

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