By Zach Simeone

BERNE — With the town’s 20-year-old comprehensive land-use plan in review, the town board recently took a step to diversify the committee charged with this re-examination.

By Zach Simeone

WESTERLO — With help from the neighboring town of Rensselaerville, Westerlo will soon have a transportation system in place for its elderly and disabled residents.

By Zach Simeone

BERNE — The Berne-Knox-Westerlo School District may be revamping its infrastructure with an energy performance contract, and might include a 150-foot, on-campus wind turbine in its plans.

By Zach Simeone

KNOX — A year after he was talked down from a cliff’s edge at Thacher Park, Christopher David burned down his family’s home on Suto Road in Knox yesterday, police say.

BERNE — Dylan Germani’s grandmother broke her leg.

The wide-eyed sixth-grader at Berne-Knox-Westerlo watched as she struggled to use a wheelchair and her canes.

By Zach Simeone

By Zach Simeone

By Zach Simeone and Anne Hayden

BERNE — As Hilltown membership in the Lutheran Church declines, forcing a consolidation next week, membership in Africa is growing.

Knox boy killed in off-road rollover

By Zach Simeone

KNOX — A Berne-Knox-Westerlo seventh-grade boy died last Thursday, after his new off-road vehicle rolled on top of him, police say.

By Zach Simeone

BERNE — Cell-phone service came to the Berne-Knox-Westerlo School District last month, so the school board adopted a policy this Monday that governs cell-phone use and text messaging.