Donna Gwin, Amy Lauterbach Pokorny, Amy Anderson Knox

Donna Gwin, President Friends of the Berne Library

Maryellen Gillis, Helderberg Family and Community Organization

Robert Marriott, Berne

VOORHEESVILLE — Walter J. Fisher Sr. of Voorheesville, a veteran who loved his grandchildren, died suddenly on Tuesday, May 3, 2022, at St. Peter’s Hospital. He was 92.

Sarah Gordon, Rensselaerville

Diana M. Hinchcliff, Rensselaerville

Assemblyman Chris Tague, of District 102, wants New York schools to offer whole and 2-percent milk to students to, essentially, ensure that they drink milk at all. Higher-fat milks are currently restricted by federal law because milk fats have been linked to higher levels of so-called “bad” cholesterol, which in turn is linked to heart disease. 

On May 17, Berne-Knox-Westerlo voters will elect two school board candidates — both of whom are uncontested incumbents — and authorize an annual bus proposition, along with the 2022-23 budget and a proposal for the district to purchase a neighboring property for a new business office

Berne’s building inspector, Jon Heigel, has allegedly been doing work that’s authorized to be done only by certified code-enforcement officers, leading to the resignation of the only authorized code-enforcement officer on staff at the building department.