By Zach Simeone

BERNE — The town board approved a $2.2 million preliminary budget for 2009 at its Nov. 12 meeting, with no tax increase in next year’s spending plan.

BERNE — Attendants of last week’s forum received a summary of a recent community survey, sent to 3,467 households, which found that:

By Zach Simeone

BERNE — With the state’s financial crisis as a backdrop, the Berne-Knox-Westerlo school board surveyed its residents on the quality of the district’s schooling, and held a community forum on maintaining excellence in tough times.

By Zach Simeone

BERNE — Richard Wheeler, Berne-Knox-Westerlo’s acting high school principal, is leaving on Friday.

By Zach Simeone

RENSSELAERVILLE — After voting on a preliminary budget for 2009 on Nov. 3, and then printing three different versions for the public, the town board will meet tonight for another budget hearing.

By Zach Simeone

GOING OUT FOR BURIED TREASURE
BKW and Hilltowns Players live A Pirate’s Life, riding waves of laughter

By Zach Simeone

WESTERLO — Roof work led to a fatal plunge this week for a man from Loudonville.

David Hayes Sr., 71, was at the house of his son, David, in Westerlo on Monday, when he fell from scaffolding, police say.

KNOX — was an Air Force colonel and an environmental engineer who loved his family and the town of Knox.

By Zach Simeone

WESTERLO — Though Democrats swept elections across the country, this rural Hilltown’s new Republican Party had its first win on Tuesday. Clinton “Jack” Milner defeated his Conservative opponent Susan Walter in a landslide victory.