BERNE — "We need to set aside our fears, set aside our politics, help our residents, and save our tax dollars," Berne Supervisor Kevin Crosier said at last Wednesday night’s town board meeting.

KNOX — Glenn DiPaula knows the restaurant business. DiPaula, who recently opened The Hilltop Bistro, began his career in the food industry at an early age.

HILLTOWNS — Rural character is hard to maintain when farmlands are subdivided into residential plots.

Poetry in Motion
‘Alternative therapy to go hand-in-hand with vet care’



KNOX — Creatures on two legs and four legs, long legs and short legs, suffer from muscle aches and pains, bumps, and sprains.

For 15 years
Planning board pushes to close loophole


KNOX — For more than 15 years, the planning board has been pushing for an amendment to the town’s subdivision regulations that would eliminate the "one-cut rule" loophole.

KNOX — The bucolic landscape stretching along the Berne-Altamont Road is at the center of a development debate again.

HILLTOWNS — Raymond Luhrman stooped to pluck garlic out of its muddy field despite Saturday’s downpour.
"This stuff has to come out of the ground, you know," said Luhrman in a singsong Dutch accent.

RENSSELAERVILLE — The Rensselaerville supervisor called a special meeting of the town board Tuesday night simply so he could talk to the highway superintendent.

RENSSELAERVILLE — The town is planning two structural repairs — one of its salt shed, and the other of a storm-damaged dam.