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The Enterprise — Marcello Iaia
Naming a place: Terrice Bassler, chairwoman of the recently appointed board overseeing Berne’s large property on Game Farm Road, holds a jar of stickers used for voting on names for the land listed on posters inside the lodge on June 12. All but one of the board members are Berne residents, with Charles Burgess, a land steward for the Open Space Institute that funded half of the purchase, living in Rensselaerville. Others include Mark Hohengasser, a landscape architect; Lee Jones, a former banker and Albany County purchasing agent; Frank Kunker, a managing partner at Empire Financial Associates; Richard Ronconi, a retired Spanish teacher and master beekeeper; and Mark Sengenberger, a landscape architect.