Berne-Knox-Westerlo valedictorian Quinn Toomey is headed to Keuka College, in Yates County, to study applied mathematics and finance and to play baseball.

WESTERLO — Rev. Robert Martin Duchow, a retired Lutheran pastor, local historian, and fifth-generation resident of the family home in Westerlo, died on Friday, June 11, 2021, in Farmington, Conn., where he had lived with his son and daughter-in-law for the last four years. He was 84.

Robert Conklin, Brian Crawford, Kevin Crosier, Kelly Martin, Jerry O’Malley, Karen Schimmer, Berne Democratic Committee

Anita C. Clayton, Berne

Peggy Christman, Timothy Lippert, Jennifer Merrill-Fuller, Jean Guarino, Patrick Martin, Barbara Kennedy, Debra Flagler, Alan Zuk, Melanie Bunzey, Al Raymond

The Westerlo Democratic Committee, in a town where voters skew Democratic, is backing three GOP town board candidates for November.

Tim Lippert was Berne voters’ choice for the Democratic nomination in a town board race, but Anita Clayton, who has right-wing support, won the vast majority of absentee ballots, bringing what at first looked like a blowout down to the wire. 

How do you help a tree to grow? To be healthier? To live longer? 

The answer lies in human history as it’s captured by Rensselaerville author and arborist William Logan in his 2019 book, “Sprout Lands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees,” which has just been awarded the John Burroughs Medal.