According to the state’s General Municipal Law, every local government must annually file a financial report with the state’s comptroller, which is known as the Annual Update Document or AUD. A town like Knox, with a population under 5,000 has up to 60 days after the close of its fiscal year to file its AUD. Knox, however, is several years behind in filing its AUDs. 

The vagaries of New York State’s ability and willingness to involve itself in local affairs cropped up in many Enterprise stories this year, and revealed the gaps in the patchwork system of agencies that are supposed to keep the machine running. 

Holiday fires in R’ville part of a larger trend

First responders arrived at 1545 Thompsons Lake Road in Knox early Tuesday morning to find the home there completely engulfed in flames. Two bodies were recovered. 

Berne Supervisor Dennis Palow told The Enterprise that the town will pay $200,000 to Albany County for its emergency medical service, using a roughly-$320,000 revenue check he says will come in January. 

Newly released testing data from New York state shows Berne-Knox-Westerlo making strong headway in its core subjects, outranking the district’s neighboring “chase schools” in most categories. 

WESTERLO — A home caught fire on Thanksgiving evening on County Route 408 in Westerlo.

The Red Cross is helping five people displaced by the fire, according to a release from the Northeastern New York Chapter.

R’ville Stage Creations is closing out its 2024 season with Joe Landry’s imaginative adaptation of the  holiday classic, “It’s a Wonderful Life.”

The show, styled as a 1940s radio broadcast, runs from Dec. 13 to 15 at Hilltown Commons in Rensselaerville.

Alex Giebitz, of East Berne, is a certified Kobelco mechanic for Robert H. Finke and Sons and was invited to participate in Kobelco’s international technical service contest as part of the North American team last month. 

Westerlo town employees have begun the process of unionizing, a move that Supervisor Matt Kryzak says can be good for the town, so long as the negotiation process takes into account the town’s own limits.