Berne has submitted documentation to the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority for three out of the four action-items needed to qualify the town for a clean-energy community designation, which allows the town to apply for certain grants.

The proposal, long-championed by Supervisor Vasilios Lefkaditis, passed by a unanimous vote at the Knox Town Board’s Dec. 8 regular meeting.

Chance Townsend, who has been serving as Berne’s code-enforcement officer for the past year despite lacking state certification, left an order to vacate on a resident’s door one week after The Enterprise publicized his lack of qualification for the role. 

At the Berne Planning Board’s Dec. 3 meeting, town attorney Javid Afzali lost his temper with planning board member Larry Zimmerman, a former attorney who criticized the town board for breaking the law. Afzali told Zimmerman, “You can sit there and yap all you want … There’s nothing you can say that I’m interested in.” 

Superintendent Timothy Mundell said that the Berne-Knox-Westerlo secondary student and district employee who tested positive for COVID-19 were last in the school on Nov. 24.

Updated 102nd Assembly District election results show Assemblyman Christopher Tague, a Republican, far ahead of newcomer challenger Democrat Betsy Kraat.

Republican Paul DeLorenzo, running for the 111th Assembly District, would need to be awarded 83 percent of the remaining Montgomery County votes to pull ahead of Democratic incumbent Angelo Santabarbara. 

Concerns over the hours Knox’s building inspector spends at his Albany job are unfounded without additional evidence, Knox Supervisor Vasilios Lefkaditis told The Enterprise.

After purchasing Red-Kap Sales, a regional gasoline and convenience store company, Stewart’s Shops will take over Berne’s Mobil gas station, on the Helderberg Trail.

BERNE — Supporters of the Switzkill Farm feel that the current GOP-backed town board is letting the expansive town-owned property languish and that projects beneficial to the community — from the instruction of school kids to attracting astronomers — have fallen by the wayside.