Berne-Knox-Westerlo

On Saturday, Oct. 9, Helderberg Valley football team, made up of students from Duanesburg and Berne-Knox-Westerlo, took on Stillwater at Duanesburg Elementary School in Delanson. Helderberg Valley couldn’t muster any offense on the powerful Stillwater defense and lost 53-to-0.

BERNE — Charlene M. Lee, who was passionate about her family, died on Friday, Oct. 8, 2021 at St. Peter’s Hospital in Albany. She was 85.

She was born on June 3, 1936 in Schoharie to the late Willard and Mabel Berner Hotaling.

The Berne-Knox-Westerlo-Duanesburg girls swim team hit the pool at Mohonasen High School on Oct. 5 to take on the Albany Academy for Girls. BKW-Duanesburg swam to a 95-to-71 win.

The Berne-Knox-Westerlo girls soccer team faced off against Western Athletic Conference’s Oppenheim-Ephratah-St. Johnsville at home on Sept. 24. The Bulldogs had their chances in the first half but one small deflection in the second helped them get a 1-0 win.

EAST BERNE — LeRoy Wellington Schoonmaker Jr. — an Army veteran and mechanic who, with his wife, raised five children — died peacefully Friday, Sept. 24, 2021. He was 82.

Known as “Sonny,” he was born in West Berne, New York on June 15, 1939 to the late LeRoy Wellington Schoonmaker Sr. and Ina (née Cook) Schoonmaker.

BERNE — The parents of Faith Marie Sisson, Paula and Bernard Sisson of Berne, announce the marriage of their daughter to Tyler James Stone.  The parents of the groom, Mr. and Mrs. Brian Stone are from Syracuse, New York.

On Thursday, Sept. 16, Berne-Knox-Westerlo girls volleyball team traveled to Mekeel Christian Academy in Scotia to face off against the Lions. The Bulldogs were short handed due to COVID quarantine. The Bulldogs fell in straight sets 15-25, 17-25, 12-25.

The Berne-Knox-Westerlo-Duanesburg boys’ soccer team faced off against Middleburgh in a kick-off tournament at Middleburgh High School on Sept. 4. The Bulldogs had a hard time breaking through the defense in a 7-to-2 loss.

On Friday, August 27, the Berne-Knox-Westerlo’s golf team traveled to Hopson Hills Golf Course in Dolgeville to take on Oppenheim-Ephratah-St. Johnsville. The Bulldogs won 13 to 2 over the small Wolves team which was cut short to six holes due to heat.

WESTERLO — Diane Wilms Figel, a devout woman who ran a dairy farm with her husband, died on Sept. 6, 2020 at the age of 78.

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