Berne Councilman Joel Willsey, a Democrat, voted against reappointing Cheryl Baitsholts as dog control officer despite avidly supporting her candidacy, saying that the reduced pay proposed by the GOP-backed town board is inadequate.

The 90-day extension will allow the Westerlo Town Board more time to review the town’s comprehensive plan and ensuing alternative energy laws. 

A bipartisan bill will control the deer population within the Alcove Reservoir property in Coeymans in an effort to maintain the property’s effectiveness as a carbon sink. 

Ray Carucci, Westerlo

The Berne Highway Department has corrected the seven safety violations uncovered by the New York State Department of Labor in the wake of a fatal workplace accident at the town highway garage last year, newly obtained investigation documents show.

Joel Willsey, 
Berne Town Board

Tim Lippert, Berne

Ray Carucci, the owner of Westerlo antiques store Chipped, Tarnished, and Torn, said that Instagram helped him stay in business during the COVID-19 shutdown, cementing, for Carucci, the idea that even a business that deals in antiquities needs to adapt to the modern world. 

All 10 of Congressman Paul Tonko’s requests for local capital-project funding through the federal budget have been accepted, meaning that the budget draft that just advanced through the United States House of Representatives needs only to be approved by the Senate.