At the Berne Planning Board’s Dec. 3 meeting, town attorney Javid Afzali lost his temper with planning board member Larry Zimmerman, a former attorney who criticized the town board for breaking the law. Afzali told Zimmerman, “You can sit there and yap all you want … There’s nothing you can say that I’m interested in.” 

“Alfred Dexter Nye went to the presence of Jesus on Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2020,” his family wrote in a tribute. He was 72.

A veteran of the war in Vietnam, where his brother died, he was born on Aug. 10, 1948.

BERNE — Patricia M. Favreau, who served as Berne’s town clerk for more than three decades, was “a true people person,” her family said. She died peacefully and surrounded by family on Sunday, Nov. 29, 2020, at Albany Medical Center Hospital. She was 84. 

Superintendent Timothy Mundell said that the Berne-Knox-Westerlo secondary student and district employee who tested positive for COVID-19 were last in the school on Nov. 24.

Bonnie Kohl, Westerlo

Zenie Gladieux, Helderberg Kiwanis; Mary Beth Peterson, Hilltown Community Resource Center; Maryellen Gillis, Helderberg Family and Community Organization

Frank Brady, East Berne

 One of the great strengths of the institute has always been the way it has drawn from the community.

Concerns over the hours Knox’s building inspector spends at his Albany job are unfounded without additional evidence, Knox Supervisor Vasilios Lefkaditis told The Enterprise.

The president of the Carey Institute for Global Good says the pandemic shutdown has led the institute to list its campus for sale.