Voters were largely in favor of the district’s $23.7 million budget and its 2-percent tax decrease, a $504,000 bus proposition. The lone board of education candidate, Lisa Joslin, will replace Randy Bashwinger, who did not seek re-election.

Knox Supervisor Vasilios Lefkaditis is not seeking re-election after serving five years in the role. Candidates now are Russell Pokorny, on the Democratic line, and Michelle Viola-Straight, on the Conservative line.

Lisa Sperry, 55, of Berne, died Tuesday after sustaining injuries in a three-vehicle crash on Sunday caused by Andrew R. Gibson, 42, of Westerlo, state police say. Gibson was charged with driving while intoxicated.

The discount program will end when the $3.2 billion fund runs dry, or six months after the end of the declared COVID-19 health emergency, says the Federal Communications Commission. 

An appraisal is the first step toward an attempt to sell the 350-acre property, and it follows a failed lawsuit brought by residents to strip the land of a conservation easement and sell it back to the Buddhist organization the town acquired it from in 2014. 

Supervisor Sean Lyons told The Enterprise that the town received fraudulent unemployment claims containing “accurate information” at an “alarming rate.”

Valerie Glover, who, with her husband, Richard, purchased the historic Picard’s Grove property and placed 80 percent of it under a conservation easement, said that virtually all the proceeds of the sale will be put back into the property, which holds a farmhouse, barn, restaurant-and-dancehall, and other structures that are in need of repair.

The funding would be secured through the United States Department of Agriculture’s ReConnect Program.

Supervisor Sean Lyons told The Enterprise that he took a federal job in April which, under the Hatch Act, precludes him from candidacy in a partisan election.

District residents will vote on the school budget on Tuesday, May 18, as well as on a bus purpose proposition and a school board candidate, who is running unopposed.