By Zach Simeone

WESTERLO — After swearing in its second Republican member in 70 years, the town board got down to business for the New Year on Tuesday, though old wounds were briefly re-opened.

By Zach Simeone

KNOX — For one family in Knox, the year 2008 was one of both loss and redemption.

Jonathan Francis had been arrested and jailed; his father, Pastor Jay Francis, mourned both his son’s arrest and the burning of his Rock Road Church.

By Zach Simeone

BERNE — Baby steps were taken in 2008 towards both merging the town library and senior center and completing the town’s sewer project.

Setting an example for the nation?
R’ville wants to draft wind-power law that will promote community ownership

By Zach Simeone

By Zach Simeone

BERNE — The decade-long legal battle of Thomas Spargo, a Berne resident and former State Supreme Court justice of New York, is ongoing.

By Zach Simeone

BERNE — A fire on Long Road left a family’s home completely destroyed this weekend.

On Saturday, Dec. 13, at about 1 p.m., the Berne Fire Department arrived at the home of Bonnie Krasher and Jim Loso to find it completely in flames.

By Zach Simeone

HILLTOWNS — As the Berne-Knox-Westerlo school district considers selling its 60-year-old Westerlo School, future enrollment figures are being examined, and a possible decades-old agreement is being investigated.

By Zach Simeone

BERNE — A fire on Long Road left a family’s home completely destroyed this weekend.

On Saturday, Dec. 13, at about 1 p.m., the Berne Fire Department arrived at the home of Bonnie Krasher and Jim Loso to find it completely in flames.

By Zach Simeone

HILLTOWNS — As the Berne-Knox-Westerlo school district considers selling its 60-year-old Westerlo School, future enrollment figures are being examined, and a possible decades-old agreement is being investigated.

Francis overcomes addictions in prison, returns to his family

KNOX — Laid low by a stroke at 35, the world seemed an unfair place to Jonathan Francis.