EAST BERNE — David J. Filkins — whom his family described as “a great man, husband, father, brother, uncle, cousin, and friend” — died suddenly at Albany Medical Center on Sunday, Dec. 2, 2018.

He was born in Albany and resided in East Berne. He was a Class of 1988 graduate of Berne-Knox-Westerlo.

When Deborah Rosko started as BKW’s food-services director 30 years ago, there were no computers and no email. She oversaw just one meal a day, not the many choices for breakfast, lunch, and snacks that she supervises now.

A 27-year-old Berne woman was hit, held down, and strangled by a Schoharie man and Tennessee woman at her home on Helderberg Trail on Friday, according to the Albany County Sheriff’s Office.

The land that had caused conflict over the prospect of being sold to a former Albany County legislator is on the market again.

RENSSELAERVILLE — The Clarke White Unit 589 of the American Legion Auxiliary in Rensselaerville has earned both State (Department) and National recognition for its efforts with the Finding the New York Faces project.

Richard J. Luniewski, a long-time resident of Gallupville, died on Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2018 in Vero Beach, Florida. He was 78.

BERNE — Carl Charles Leopold Stolzenburg, a lifelong dairy farmer, died unexpectedly at home on Monday, Nov. 5, 2018. He was 85.

The budget for 2019 in Knox is seeing decreased expenditures and a two-percent decrease in taxes.

Westerlo’s solar law could be amended to change the nature of how decommissioning bonds are determined in the midst of solar applications being approved over again in order to include a new type of energy-storage system.