To the Editor:

A few numbers:

$21,921,272.oo for the 2014-15 Berne-Knox-Westerlo budget. Approximately 50 percent to be raised locally, from an estimated district population of about 6,600 residents.

To the Editor:

I am writing this letter to ask you to re-elect Vasilios Lafkaditis to the Berne-Knox-Westerlo School Board on Tuesday, May 20.

Vasilios is a hard worker for the board. He is seriously concerned about the facts and figures, maybe because he is the managing director of Shaw Funding, a hedge fund.

To the Editor:

I have attended many board of education meetings at Berne-Knox-Westerlo Central School the past year.

To the Editor:

We are neighbors of Vaslios Lefkaditis, and would like to take this opportunity to state what a good neighbor, and family man he is.

A great softball game was played between Berne-Knox-Westerlo and Mayfield last Thursday; it took extra innings to decide the winner.

BERNE — The elongated winter season already pushed back the start of the Section 2 baseball season by two weeks, and now the recent spell of rain has created more of a log-jam in the schedule.

WESTERLO — Joseph W. Rapp, a loving and dedicated family man who liked to laugh, died on April 21, 2014, surrounded by his wife and family, after a courageous battle with lung disease. He was 82.

Mr. Rapp was born in South Berne on Aug. 4, 1931, the son of the late William Rapp and Anna Mayrhofer Rapp.

March 31, was still winter. The sidewalks were very icy and we received two-inches of snow during the night.

My sister, Pat Sykala, picked up her daughter, Sondra Weingand, in Voorheesville and then me and we drove to Starkville to visit our sister-in-law, Linda Richardson.

Monday, March 24, was a cold 9-degree above day. But, it was my Zoey day and everything was warm and cozy.

My loving granddaughter, Kassi Rae Neal, came over and had lunch with us. She carried Zoey around like an airplane and Zoey giggled loudly.