A new heating system for the town hall and a draft solar law are vetted.

Prior to the recent school board meeting, board members and residents gathered for a tour of entrances where improvements in security are among the goals of an extensive renovation.

Work schedules have been the main obstacle in an ongoing labor dispute.

Verizon wants to close a coverage gap in the hilly rural terrain.

WESTERLO — Katherine J. “Kit” Schryver, a teacher’s aid and mother who liked to garden and cook, died peacefully at home with her family by her side on Sunday, Jan. 8, 2017. She was 61.

EAST BERNE — Rose Marie Lamorella helped people who most needed it — she helped run programs that taught prisoners, drug addicts, and the homeless how to read. She did this by understanding their individual strengths and weaknesses.

With the holiday season over and winter promising to be around for a while, the Depot Lane Singers are offering interested singers the opportunity to escape cabin fever as they begin to practice for their spring concerts.

BERNE — While far from being the oldest community theater group around  — that honor is claimed by the Footlight Club in the Boston neighborhood of Jamaica Plain (1877) — the Hilltowns Players have been a source of fun, entertainment, creative outlet, and instruction in theater arts for more than three decades now.

The last possible impediment to the placement of a controversial public safety emergency-communications tower in this town’s  rural landscape is now removed.