KNOX — Marjorie Peterson, a hard-working woman with a fondness for things of the past, was giving and helpful to her large family and many friends. She died on Thursday, Dec. 27, 2018. She was 88.

Organizational meetings in Rensselaerville and Westerlo and Rensselaerville included both resignations and appointments.

A Westerlo man welding in his garage led to an explosion, causing a house fire and hospitalizing the welder.

The fire decimated the barn and killed two pigs and their piglets.

Transfer-station workers fired on New Year’s Day say it was “personal and political,” not based on how they did their work.

The Rensselaerville town board appointed a new councilman and supervisor after former supervisor Steve Pfleging admitted to embezzling town funds.

Initially planned to be completed last year, the long-awaited construction on the bridge over Fox Creek in Berne was completed this month.

DELANSON — Theresa P. Luksa spread unconditional love, to the children at the Duanesburg school where she worked and to her family and friends, her family said. She died peacefully at her home on Monday, Dec. 24, 2018. She was 89.