The Community Hilltown Action Team, or CHAT, offers Berne residents a monthly meeting space to discuss local concerns and brainstorm ways to solve them, bypassing the sometimes-suffocating rules and personalities of the town board.  

The town published its 2022 water quality report on its website this week. It shows that, while better than last year’s report and below state requirements on average, the town is still struggling to regulate the levels of TTHMs and HAA5, which are potentially toxic byproducts of the disinfection process. 

Nicole Gladieux, Parade Committee Chair, Kiwanis Club of the Helderbergs

Vickie Snyder, Corresponding Secretary, Berne Volunteer Fire Company Inc.

CanCode founder and Chief Executive Officer Annmarie Lanesey said that the 30 or so people in attendance at Knox’s broadband focus group represented “probably the biggest turnout” she had seen at such an event, and was useful as CanCode works to funnel rural data to New York state so it can direct connectivity funding more effectively.

The Schoharie Valley Singers’ spring concert series, “Hope Is Still Here,” will be presented on Friday, June 9, at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Central Bridge, and on Saturday, June 10, at the Reformed Presbyterian Church in Duanesburg.

Joseph, a Democrat, had been denied his party’s line after a court ruled that many of the signatures on his Democratic nominating petition were invalid. He will nevertheless appear on his own party line, Hilltowns First, along with the Working Families line as he challenges incumbent Chris Smith, a Conservative with GOP backing. 

BERNE — Lateef Clark says that preparing food has kept him grounded as a human being.

“It evolved me as a person … raised me to be a better human, a better man … just by meeting people of different diverse backgrounds and also just by cooking for people,” he says in this week’s Enterprise podcast.

Berne Planning Board Chairman Joe Martin will be running for town board to replace Deputy Supervisor Anita Clayton, who is not seeking re-election. Town board member Al Thiem is hoping to secure his first full term on the board, and Jeff Harvey is aiming to replace Justice Al Zuk. 

RENSSELAERVILLE — Tara McCormick-Hostash says she fell in love at age 14.

This was not an ephemeral teenage crush; this was a love that started young and became an all-encompassing passion destined to last a lifetime.