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BERNE — An arrest for a domestic dispute in February led to the arrest this week of a 42-year-old man after, police say, he attempted to illegally purchase a firearm from a licensed dealer in town.





BERNE — Middle-school students at Berne-Knox-Westerlo have solved real-life problems with their inventions, which are being recognized at the regional Invention Convention.





KNOX – Carl Peterson can see positive in even the messiest situations.

Following morning chores on Friday at his Bozenkill Road dairy farm, he noticed fluid was pouring out of the barn, and knew that wasn’t normal.





RENSSELAERVILLE — A youth detention center that has stirred up a rural community will be closing in 2008.





BERNE — In a district where incumbents are rarely defeated, Edward Ackroyd, currently vice president of the Berne-Knox-Westerlo School Board, was not re-elected for another three-year term.





BERNE — In a landslide vote, the Berne-Knox-Westerlo school budget for next year passed late Tuesday in a district where budget defeats had been common.





NEW SCOTLAND — A hike in Thacher Park Friday went awry as two women slid down an embankment.





KNOX — History went up in smoke Thursday when a landmark barn on the Berne-Altamont Road burned in a lightning storm.





RENSSELAERVILLE — Following accusations that a former supervisor embezzled thousands of dollars from three institutions in the town, Republican trustees are contemplating giving up their salaries for the rest of the year.





RENSSELAERVILLE — Medical coverage will be reinstated for town workers today, Supervisor Jost Nickelsberg told The Enterprise yesterday.

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