This year, Hilltown residents will vote in a majority-number of town board members in each town, including Berne, where all five seats will be open due to the number of vacancies that need to be filled. 

Wisdom Roots Wellness, a yoga and healing studio at the Hilltown Commons, in Rensselaerville, offers private instruction and group classes alongside special events. They’ll soon welcome two instructors from India for sessions on Vedic chanting. 

The county’s Fire Service Academy, a pilot program, will teach a free 40-hour course, starting April 1, at the East Berne firehouse. 

After former Berne Supervisor Kevin Crosier showed up at the house of a woman who’s applying for one of the town’s two open town board seats, Supervisor Dennis Palow expressed concern to The Enterprise about how Crosier got that information. 

The board met for the first time in nearly a year to catch up on all the things it missed while waiting for Governor Kathy Hochul to fill a critical vacancy, as well as to handle some new business. 

According to the Rural Housing Coalition of New York, rural areas of the state are getting disproportionately less affordable-housing tax credits for the development of larger low-income housing facilities. 

The town of Rensselaerville is considering updating its fee schedule for the transfer station after the city of Albany drastically increased tipping fees for Albany’s Rapp Road landfill, where Rensselaerville sends its waste. The hearing is scheduled for March 27 at 6:45 p.m. at the town hall. 

The highway superintendent of the town of Charleston, in Montgomery County, claims that Berne Highway Superintendent Randy Bashwinger told him his friend would challenge him for that position unless he was hired as an employee. Bashwinger denies this. 

The Helderberg Family and Community Organization, in partnership with the Knox & Thompson’s Lake Reformed Church and Regional Food Bank, is setting up a new Hilltown food pantry, but needs volunteers skilled in carpentry and plumbing who can help them renovate the space.  

Within the first two weeks of President Donald Trump’s term, the United States Department of Agriculture ordered its staff to remove webpages related to climate change, prompting a lawsuit that was filed this week by various advocacy organizations. The Enterprise spoke with local experts about the impact the USDA’s new stance on climate change might have on the region’s farmers.