The Albany County District Attorney’s Office said that it has not yet decided whether it will charge Andrew R. Gibson, who killed Berne resident Lisa Sperry in a drunken crash last year, with bail-jumping after he failed to show up for his sentencing in February.
A 15-year-old Berne-Knox-Westerlo student was arrested by the Albany County Sheriff’s office and charged with making a terroristic threat, a felony, although the office does not believe the student had access to firearms.
The Berne-Knox-Westerlo Board of Education appointed one of the high school’s English teachers, Bonnie Kane, as the secondary-school principal to replace outgoing principal Mark Pitterson at the end of the current school year.
The proclamation event featured an array of honored guests, including State Senator Michelle Hinchey and Albany County legislators Jeff Perlee and Chris Smith.
BERNE — Beth Davis has fulfilled a lifetime dream.
She was one of just eight school librarians from across the United States to serve on the William C. Morris Young Adult Debut Award Committee for 2022.
“You need to be able to look in a mirror and see yourself in a book. But you also need to be able to look through a window and see others and the rest of the world and love that.”
