By Zach Simeone

WESTERLO — In its first meeting of the New Year, the town board sought to quench the needs of the water district, setting the fee schedule for district residents, and floating ideas on related issues.

RENSSELAERVILLE — Gary Zeh spent much of his first weekend as the town’s new highway superintendent plowing snow.

RENSSELAERVILLE — Dale Dorner, the town’s newest councilwoman, is an attorney who has a law firm in Medusa with her son. She grew up on Staten Island, and lived in Coxsackie before moving to Rensselaerville in 1976.

BERNE ¾ As his first order of business, George Gebe, Berne’s new supervisor, wished a happy New Year to those who watched him take the oath of office at the town board’s 2010 re-organizational meeting on Jan. 1.

Dems maintain control despite GOP challenge,
motocross divides town, manure affects water, seniors ride bus

Plans for sewer system progress, master plan is re-visited,
Dems sweep elections, Spargo sentenced to jail, St. Bernadette’s to close

Town hall renovations underway,
GOP’s Stevens wins board seat, flood and fire, fatal crash rock Knox

By Zach Simeone

BERNE — Former Supreme Court judge Thomas Spargo appeared unfazed Monday when he was sentenced to 27 months in prison. He said afterward that he thought the judge’s decision was fair.

EAST BERNE — Pastor Clarence Davis is back in the place where he started, ready to lead the Safe Harbor Christian Fellowship based on a lifetime of varied experiences.