EAST BERNE — Marcia J. Pangburn, a devoted and fun-loving mother, worked hard as an x-ray technician to support her children.

She died on Sunday, Jan. 7, 2018, after a short illness. She was 60.

Students at Berne-Knox-Westerlo talked about the different ways they’ve learned about agriculture in a new program.

The school board discussed a number of options for students to learn outside the classroom.

The state’s Department of Environmental Conservation is looking to create over 500 acres of young forest in the Partridge Run Wildlife Management Area.

Berne’s new supervisor, Sean Lyons, is new to politics and said he at first felt intimidated running the New Year’s Day meeting, but his confidence grew.

The former Rensselaerville Supervisor Valerie Lounsbury was appointed as an assistant to clerk and bookkeeper Linda McCormick and will work part-time for the town.

The board, while tabling appointments for several positions, named a new planning board chairman who had been rejected in the past two years by the town board.

One regular onlooker at Westerlo town board meetings said he was “thrilled” that the first meeting of the new year, on Tuesday, was “not so bitterly divided” as before, with fluid interaction between the board and audience.