— Photo by Mike McCagg of BOCES

Cardell Iarusso, a Berne-Knox-Westerlo graduate who was a student in the Capital Region BOCES Career and Technical School Manufacturing and Machining program, has been hired at Altamont Spray Weld and will work there while attending the manufacturing program at Hudson Valley Community College. “It’s great. I have been hired by Altamont because of the skills I directly learned here and the internship I had there,” said Iarusso.