The town had previously said it legally wouldn’t be able to sell the property to Albany County. The hearing was scheduled after The Enterprise reported that there would be no legal barrier to the sale.

In addition to the potential loss of more than half-a-million in state aid under the governor’s proposed executive budget, Berne-Knox-Westerlo has been designated a moderately-stressed district by the state comptroller, due to diminished reserve funds.  

Karol Harlow, East Berne

Joel Willsey, East Berne

Glenn Pulito, Youth Coordinator, Knox

Mary Beth Peterson, Christine Olmsted, Hilltowns Community Resource Center

Westerlo Supervisor Matthew Kryzak says, “Everyone knows in order to be successful you need to have a plan and work to that plan.” Everyone, that is, but the grasshopper or perhaps the sunshine politician.

The town of Berne, which recently raised property taxes over 700 percent after using up the majority of its fund balance, is late on two bills that were due to the software company Tyler Tech on Dec. 31. Berne had already been discovered as letting National Grid bills go unpaid over nearly a two-year period.

Hudson-Mohawk Bird Club President Tristan Lowery, who gave a presentation to Knox’s Conservation Advisory Council last year, told The Enterprise that the Knox wetlands is “quickly becoming a favorite destination for birders in the Capital Region,” with 125 species recorded there so far, and more expected.

The 20-acre project, which would be sited on a roughly 46-acre property at 57 Canaday Hill Road, would be Berne’s first commercial solar facility.