The action authorizes spending  $60,000 to cover engineering fees for completing and modifying as needed the draft renovation plan, and for preparing estimates.

Local ingredients. An accomplished chef. Youthful energy. And a  business plan to  do something more than a little different.

BERNE — The new town nature and cultural center being developed on Game Farm Road, just off Switzkilll Road,  is kicking into higher gear this summer.

Also  at the June meeting, Sheriff Craig Apple presented a roadside sign promoting awareness of bicyclists and walkers who share the road with cars.

RENSSELAERVILLE —  A flurry of resignations announced at the June 9 meeting of the town board  created two volunteer vacancies — one on  the planning board and one on the ethics board — and  a vacancy in an important town job.

A  newly appointed  member of the seven-member Rensselaerville Planning Board, Laura Bates, was not the first choice of the planning board itself

A few months into his term, Kevin McGrath cited "personal reasons" for leaving the Rensselaerville town council.

The arrest of a 30-year-old man from Voorheesville for drunk driving after a one-car accident on the Northway led to minor injury to the investigating State Trooper.  

A woman, who police say was intoxicated, falls to the bottom of a 60-foot cliff. A man, enjoying an outing with friends, slips off the top of  a dam, down a steep spillway  coated with mud and debris, and lands on rocks below the spillway,  a fall of 35 feet. Both survive. Both are rescued. But their salvation required rescuers trained in the art of “rope rescue.”

One of the most enduring and popular musicals of the last half-century — and some think one of the most meaningful — will receive a 2016 treatment in a new production staged in Rensselaerville the next three weekends.