Laurie Searl, Berne

On Friday, Sept. 30, the Berne-Knox-Westerlo Athletic Department will induct the 2022 Hall of Fame Class:

— Supporters: John and Natalie Drahzal;

— Team: 1988 Softball;

— Male Athletes: Rick Flagler, Giles “John” Swint, and Donald Dewey; and

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