Berne-Knox-Westerlo

Free masks for Knox residents

KNOX — Free masks will be given to Knox residents on Saturday, May 2, from 9 a.m. to noon or while supplies last.

Residents may drive through at the town hall, at 2192 Berne-Altamont Road, and receive a free mask without having to leave their vehicle.

Baptist church holds drive-in services

WESTERLO — The First Baptist Church of Westerlo is hosting an Outdoor Drive-In Worship Service in its parking lot on Sunday, May 3, and Sunday, May 10. Both services will start at 10 a.m.

The church is located at 618 Route 143 in Westerlo.

Photo: Automotive Lift certified

Automotive Lift Institute Lifting it Right Certification despite having to learn from home with schools shut for pandemic precautions.

Photo: Reading, Writing — and Gaming

Berne-Knox-Westerlo's new gaming club is meant to engage students in what Dergosits called "the hidden demographic" — students who are not necessarily enticed by the traditional extracurricular offerings of sports or theater.

Egeziaca ‘Jessica’ Rufa

WESTERLO — Egeziaca Rufa, known also as Jessica, was a tough mother who brought four children to the United States from Italy and raised them alone after her husband’s death a year later.

BOCES Schoharie Construction/Heavy Equipment program

A Berne-Knox-Westerlo senior in the Construction/Heavy Equipment program on the BOCES Schoharie campus will attend Hudson Valley Community College. Reagan Smith, has consistently been on the honor roll, earned induction into the National Technical Honor Society​

Alexis Wright and Tom Galvin

Photo: Wright Makes History

Alexis Wright became the first sophomore in Berne-Knox-Westerlo history to score 1,000 career points in a recent game against Heatly. 

Photo: Hosts Sought for Foreign Students

Chasity McGivern, the Capital Region area representative for the ASSE International Student Exchange, interviewing families for the 2020-21 school year to host high school students from Europe, Asia, the Americas, Australia, or Africa.

Photo: Building for Bluebirds

The Kiwanis Club of the Helderbergs met in Mike Hammond’s workshop in Knox on Tuesday morning to build bluebird houses, which will be sold for $12 each to raise funds for Kiwanis projects that support local youth.

Lasalle earns Eagle rank, following family tradition

BERNE — Jared Lasselle, 16, of East Berne, has achieved the highest rank offered by the Boy Scouts of America, the rank of Eagle Scout. He is a member of Altamont Reformed Church and is a junior at Guilderland High School.

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