And we thought January was a short month! After two snow days, one two-hour delay, one scheduled day off, and five days of winter vacation, February seemed to end almost as soon as it began!

Matrix, an insurance plan widely used by retired Berne-Knox-Westerlo school employees, is to be discontinued and replaced with a new plan.

The Berne-Knox-Westerlo School Board discussed an Enterprise article that looked at the financial need in the school using reduced-price and free lunch rates as a measurement.

A survey of farmers in the Helderberg Hilltowns will be conducted by the Hill and Mountain Farming Project at the Carey Institute in Rensselaerville over the course of this month.

A Rensselaerville man was arrested by state police in the town of Bethlehem for possessing over 25 grams of marijuana, or more than would fill a sandwich bag.

Civil discourse at Knox Town board meetings would yield solutions. The board should not pass up a $12,000 grant that would lead to a $100,000 grant.

Knox’s town board held a special meeting to host a tour of its facilities, highlighting items in need of repair — some simple and some not as much.