Transfer-station workers fired on New Year’s Day say it was “personal and political,” not based on how they did their work.

The Rensselaerville town board appointed a new councilman and supervisor after former supervisor Steve Pfleging admitted to embezzling town funds.

Initially planned to be completed last year, the long-awaited construction on the bridge over Fox Creek in Berne was completed this month.

DELANSON — Theresa P. Luksa spread unconditional love, to the children at the Duanesburg school where she worked and to her family and friends, her family said. She died peacefully at her home on Monday, Dec. 24, 2018. She was 89.

KNOX — After not filing annual financial reports for the last two years, the town of Knox will be audited by the state comptroller’s office.

An appointment to the planning board was interrupted with an accusation that a current member had not paid a building permit fee in May of this year; the New York State building code defines a temporary greenhouse as “specialized agricultural equipment,” and therefore is not required to have a permit.

KNOX — Irwin H. King, a man who seemed to have lived many lives in one, died surrounded by his family on Saturday, Oct. 20, 2018, at Cornerstone Hospice in The Villages, Florida. He was 85.