BERNE — Mace Everett Porter of Berne, a proud veteran and family man, died peacefully at home on July 28, 2020. He was 91.

The Berne Town Board has spent more than $15,000 on investigations according to documents received by The Enterprise through a Freedom of Information Law request. All the investigations appear to have been of Democratic town board members. One recently led to a censure by partisan vote; the others were unsubstantiated.

Lawrence Zimmerman, East Berne

Dawn Jordan, Berne

Karen Schimmer, Berne

Sarah Gordon, Rensselaerville

Robert Jarvenpa, East Berne

Vickie Snyder, Corresponding Secretary, Berne Volunteer Fire Company Inc.

The Berne Town Board voted, with the needed majority of 3, to formalize the town’s planning board, which Councilman Mathew Harris said in May was illegitimate. 

Rensselaerville resident Sarah Gordon is calling on local businesses to take a stand against racism by pledging — on a public, digital spreadsheet — to call out racist behavior that occurs on professional property and to denounce the slogan “all lives matter,” which exists to diminish the anti-racist “Black lives matter” slogan.