— Matt Cook

BERNE—The Stewart’s company is moving forward with its plan to construct a shop and gas station in the hamlet of Berne.

—Matt Cook and Maggie Gordon

— Matt Cook
BERNE—The Berne Library is out of room. On busy days, pa-trons have to squeeze by each other in the tight spaces between the shelves, "doing the dance," said Jeannette Miller, president of the Friends of the Town of Berne Free Library.

— Matt Cook

BERNE—The town has finally approved bids for the reconstruction of its transfer station.

— Matt Cook

BERNE—The Berne-Knox-Westerlo school budget was voted down by district residents Tuesday by a margin of only 17. Westerlo residents, angry about the closing of their elementary school, may have been the deciding factor in the vote.

— Maggie Gordon

KNOX — The warm weather is here, and just like clockwork, the bears are back in town.

— Matt Cook

RENSSELAERVILLE — The town board made two appointments to replace outgoing town officials at its meeting last Thursday.

GUILDERLAND—For a man interested in the cosmic inter-connectivity of things, Rich Goodhart must be impressed with how he’s come full circle.

GUILDERLAND — Misdemeanor charges against Genci Ismailaj were dismissed in Guilderland Town Court on Jan. 13, 2005.

Ismailaj, at 19, of 1 Dana Ave, Albany, had been arrested by Guilderland Police for reckless driving on Route 20.

RENSSELAERVILLE—Dianne Schanz has worked her way up the ladder. When she be-came a rural postal carrier in Berne in 1979, she thought the postal service was a good career move, she said. She turned out to be right.