Wayne D. Miller, 24, was charged with third-degree criminal possession of a weapon and second-degree menacing after he had allegedly threatened a person with a handgun in a dispute. 

Nancy Frueh, East Berne

KNOX — Stephen Browne was a big man with a long reach — both in his work as a wildlife biologist and in his community as a father figure. He had thick hands that he used for heavy work and for gentle comforting. And, he had a deep, resonant voice, which he used to speak out for his beliefs.

State police concluded after an investigation that Anthony Moretti, a 35-year-old Albany man found dead in a wooded area in Knox, had died of cardiac arrhythmia caused by fentanyl and methamphetamine.

Authored by a newly-formed Farmland Protection Committee, the plan will identify threats to the town’s farms and farmers, as well as lay out possible solutions. 

Although the governor’s office hasn’t confirmed that appointments will be made, Governor Kathy Hochul already made appointments this year to another town board that, like Berne, lost its quorum after a majority of members resigned. 

Berne-Knox-Westerlo’s contingency budget cut the school resource officer, whom the board of education had initially refused to cut from its tax-cap-busting 2024-25 budget, playing a key role in that budget’s failure in two separate votes, leading to a contingency budget. 

An anonymous donation of $3.85 left by a child for the Westerlo Volunteer Fire Company’s new-building fund was matched 110 times by others, with some larger donations helping the surge reach a total of $523.85.

Emily Constance Rauch, an artist and former educator who lives in Rensselaerville, was awarded a grant from the Puffin Foundation that she will use to create a collage made up of trash, highlighting the reusability of commonly tossed items.

WESTERLO — “John C. Rosenthal I entered the Lord’s loving arms on Sunday, Aug. 25, 2024 at his home surrounded by his loving wife, children, and family,” his family wrote in a tribute.

Born in Albany on March 6, 1949, he was the son of the late Charles E. Rosenthal Jr. and Alberta S. (née Masa) Rosenthal.