Hilltowns

Remembering farming as a bloody business and the trials of the Great Depression

The Your Way Café in Schoharie was the restaurant under attack by The Old Men of The Mountain on Tuesday, Aug. 25.

Deborah Busch has been outspoken during her first four years in the legislature and became the minority whip in the Democrat-dominated legislature.

In a town of 3,400, 500 voters turned out Sept. 1 and overwhelmingly voted down a proposal to repair and replace town buildings.

_{George Langdon III, Kevin Flensted, Amie Burnside, Westerlo}

Richard Rapp, Westerlo supervisor; Keith Wright, Westerlo superintendent of highways

_{Donna Gwin, president, Friends of the Town of Berne Library}

The Old Men of the Mountain recently met at the Country Café on Main Street in Schoharie

_{Josh VonHaugg, Knox}

BERNE — Jean Elizabeth Rocker, a former Berne resident, died on Wednesday, June 3, 2015, in St. Petersberg Florida. She was 64.

Ms. Rocker was born on Dec. 19, 1951, to Betty P. Rocker and the late Frank C. Rocker.

RENSSELAERVILLE — Arthur M. Johnsen III, a wildlife biologist, died on Friday, Aug. 21, 2015, at Licking Memorial Hospital in Ohio. He was 69.

Mr. Johnsen was born on Sept. 3, 1945, in Newton, New Jersey, to Arthur M. Johnsen and the late Janice (née Larson) Johnsen.