The top line in the $1.6 million preliminary budget proposed by Supervisor Vasilios Lefkaditis calls for a 16-percent cut in town spending compared to the 2016  budget.

The roads they travelled now honor five Hilltown men who died in the Vietnam War.

The board also recently heard town residents who live near the Helderberg Rod and Gun Club register several complaints about the club and its noise.

On Monday, the Berne-Knox-Westerlo school board voted to approve the appointment of Mark  Pitterson as the secondary school principal; Annette Landry as principal of the elementary school, and Tom Galvin as long-term substitute dean of students and athletic director.

WESTERLO — Alvin H. Latham, who was active in many facets of his community’s life, died unexpectedly on Sunday, Oct. 9, 2016. He was 83.

Joseph Boone, 49,  was appointed to occupy the seat of  Theodore Lounsbury who resigned from the board early this year.