BERNE — The class of 2005 valedictorian for Berne-Knox-Westerlo High School is Kendall Bunzey, of Berne. The salutatorian is Kristopher Geist, of East Berne.

Kendall Bunzey

By Maggie Gordon

Not long ago, I was in their shoes — mine killed my feet by the way. In fact, it was only a year ago that I graduated from Berne-Knox-Westerlo with the class of 2004.

"I don't know a soul who's not been battered/ I don't have a friend who feels at ease/ I don't know a dream that's not been shattered/ or driven to its knees."
-Paul Simon, "American Tune"

BERNE—After months of bitter protests from citizens who objected both to new zoning and to a Stewart’s in the hamlet, the Stewart’s company has withdrawn its proposal to build a convenience store and gas station in Berne.

By Maggie Gordon
BERNE — Gordon "Gordy" Clapper regularly drives the Berne-Knox-Westerlo late bus — always with his wife, Sharon, in the front seat of the bus.

KNOX—Knox town workers are getting a pay raise.

BERNE—For the second year in a row, the Berne-Knox-Westerlo School District’s budget was approved on a second vote. This time, the margin was larger: 63 votes.

BERNE—If a Stewart’s gas station and convenience store is built in Berne, few people will be as directly affected as Kenneth Bunzey. Bunzey and his family live at 1713 Helderberg Trail in Berne, right next to the proposed Stewart’s site.