00:00 Hello, this is Melissa Hale-Spencer, the editor of the Altamont Enterprise here this morning with a new author, John Hamlin Gordon. The second welcome. Thank you. I am holding in my hand a prototype of his book called Liberty's Flight and he plunges in to a war scene.

“I’ll pull out a frame and talk about what goes on inside,” said Tim Norray of how he plans to teach fair-goers about keeping bees.

A Berne-Knox-Westerlo mother says she pulled her daughter out of school after she was picked on by other students, causing her to lose a significant amount of weight. Administrators deny these allegations, but concerns about bullying were discussed by community members when reviewing the district’s code of conduct.

The Berne Public Library will receive over $17,000 in state aid designated for libraries to repair its roof and install energy-saving lights

The Westerlo Town Board moved forward Tuesday on a grant application that would help fund filtration of the chemical bromomethane from its public water supply. Levels higher than the state standard were found in the water this winter, but are not considered hazardous.

WESTERLO — Helen Gladys Sisson, a mother and nurse who was devoted to caring for others, died peacefully on Saturday, Aug. 4, 2018. She was 100 years old.

BERNE — After a social-media post and a $100 reward drew attention from angered viewers, the Albany County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a man for abandoning two dogs on Cole Hill Road in Berne.