RIC Permitting Manager John Reagan told The Enterprise this week that new solar technologies will likely allow for a project with less impact than the previous one, which was spiritually approved by the Knox Planning Board but frustrated by the sudden absence of a planning board member in the middle of a critical vote. 

As it works to formally establish the Heritage Museum as its own legal entity, the Westerlo Town Board is likely to create more overlap between the museum, which is a public organization, and the local historical society, which is a private organization, by creating a unified board. 

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.