Hilltowns

The new Berne Town Board continues to hear public comments and to adopt new policies as it learns of issues left from the previous administration.

The bonding will allow for the replacement of a cluster of aging buildings at a former shale quarry with a modern, geothermal-heated facility.

The town of Berne had removed the case to federal court but, on Dec. 11, 2025, in a nine-page decision, U.S. District Judge Anne M. Nardacci remanded the case to the Supreme Court of New York, Albany County and also ordered that fees and costs — which total about $11,000 — be covered by the town.

“Why I got into kinship care and meeting grandparents raising kids is that my home was really a broken home,” Wallace says in this week’s Enterprise podcast. “My father was an alcoholic, worked on the waterfront. He was a good person but, when he drank, it was a nightmare …. We grew up in a state of toxic stress.”