RENSSELAERVILLE — Just days after the town’s new comprehensive plan was adopted last month, Vernon Husek, the chairman of the committee that designed it, resigned.

The sticking point was lot size.

School elections
BKW candidates

BERNE — For the second straight year, Berne-Knox-Westerlo, which often has had unopposed races for its school board, has four candidates running.

KNOX — After operating a tattoo parlor in Daytona Beach, Fla. for 30 years, Angelo Renko said it was time to come home.

KNOX — With plans to renovate Town Hall, the town board voted Tuesday to hire a grant writer to aid in the project.

Finalized
BKW adopts $19.3M budget

WESTERLO — After passing a local law Tuesday to create a planning board, the Westerlo Town Board appointed the new board’s members.

Concerned
Cass workers speak out about their future


RENSSELAERVILLE — Cass workers are speaking out this week — in union ads and the media — telling what they call "the rest of the story" on a youth detention center.

‘Slut’
Painted on Cass rape victim’s house


RENSSELAERVILLE — "Slut" was spray-painted in large capital letters on the house of a rape victim Friday night.

Brian Perry arrived early at Albany Medical Center the morning of March 13. He knew the score. He had two healthy kidneys. His friend did not.

ALBANY COUNTY — The day after her son’s funeral, Barbara Kennedy sat at her kitchen table in East Berne and fought back tears.
"I miss him," she said. "I keep waiting for the door to open".He’s not gone yet to me."