When Jan Van Etten’s daughter submitted her mother’s obituary last week, she told me, “It is the end of an era and she was truly one of a kind.”

Both of these things are true.

RIC Energy has tentatively agreed to the Knox Town Board’s request for $30,000 annually as a payment in lieu of taxes. Construction of the company’s 5-megawatt solar farm will begin once the agreement is formalized. Meanwhile, Supervisor Russell Pokorny says he hopes another array — an 80 kilowatt array being built by the town with grant money, on Street Road — will be finished later this year. 

KNOX — Citizens Financial Group has contributed $20,000 to the Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York to support the operation of the Patroon Land Farm.

Becky Waldenmaier, Berne

Ralph Miller, Berne

Helene Goldberger, Esq., Berne

Following a June inspection, Nolan Engineering determined that the Knox transfer station is in poor condition and cannot be renovated, meaning the town has to figure out whether it will build a new transfer station or figure out some alternative.

Mary Edna Clickman Conde, Westerlo

East Berne resident Brittni Abriel, a former teacher, and her husband run educational programs for kids from ages 3 to 12 at Henrieka Farm Center on Beaver Dam Road in the hamlet, teaching them the value of farm work and a life spent outdoors.

The Albany County Soil and Water Conservation District will spend approximately two weeks analyzing the trees at Rensselaerville’s two town parks and issuing each tree a rating based on its condition and the impact it might have on structures and passersby.