Robert J. Motschmann III, Berne

Joel Willsey, Berne Town Board

RIC Energy describes almost all of the Albany County Planning Board’s conclusions as “erroneous.”

Superintendent Timothy Mundell stated at the Feb. 22 Berne-Knox-Westerlo School Board meeting that the proposed tax decrease is a result of strategic planning regarding the district’s now-complete $19.8 million capital project.

Lawrence Zimmerman, Berne

Richard Filkins, Westerlo

JoAnne Brady, Berne Public Library Board of Trustees

KNOX —  Allen F. Heath Sr. — “this big guy who was also very loving,” his daughter said — put his family first and taught her to value people over material things.

Mr. Heath died at his Knox home on Friday, Feb. 19, 2021. He was 76.

EAST BERNE — Douglas E. Michaels — a union electrician who lived in East Berne his entire life — died peacefully on Saturday, Feb. 20, 2021, at Albany Medical Center Hospital of complications from multiple myeloma.

He had been fighting the cancer since 2012. He was 66.