KNOX — After being narrowly defeated in the November election, Deborah Liddle, Democratic candidate for Knox town clerk, says the letter she circulated during her campaign was "not of a malicious nature."

KNOX — Robert Briggs Whipple — a farmer devoted to his land, his family, and his town — died on Friday, Nov. 23, 2007, at Albany Medical Center of complications following surgery. He was 77.

Election results from absentee ballots

HILLTOWNS — Election results are in for Knox and Rensselaerville after absentee ballots were counted last week.

Hilltowns Players still a ‘strong-headed, creative, opinionated lot’ after 25 years as family

BERNE — After 25 years, the Hilltowns Players is still going strong.

KNOX - The town board unanimously adopted Knox's 2008 budget last week, which calls for a tax-rate increase of about 4 cents per $1,000 of assessed value.

BERNE - Later in his life, Harold E. Lendrum's mission was to preserve farmland, said his son, Kenneth Lendrum.

BKW proposes $12.7M in renovations



BERNE - On Dec. 18, the school district's voters will decide on a bond issue for a $12.7 million plan to renovate the Berne-Knox-Westerlo elementary and middle-high school buildings.

HILLTOWNS - A campaign ad that ran in last week's Enterprise caught a local developer off guard.
"I was shocked when I saw The Enterprise," said Jeff Thomas.

Power shifts to Dems


RENSSELAERVILLE - "We lost," said Republican Supervisor Jost Nickelsberg early Wednesday morning, after the polls had closed.