Acting as Knox appeals officer for the state’s Freedom of Information law, Supervisor Vasilios Lefkaditis, as the law requires, released the name of the resident making a recent request for transfer-station videos.

“Government is the public’s business and ... the public, individually and collectively and represented by a free press, should have access to the records of government …”

A series of arguments and face-offs appears to have led to the firing of a town employee last September by the Berne Supervisor Kevin Crosier, according to accounts from other town employees.

Once said to have been given a cold-shoulder, Dianne Sefcik is now embraced for her input on the long-awaited document.

The moratorium, scheduled for July 25, says the board, now with the report, needs time to evaluate its course of action, whether it be to revise the zoning ordinance or otherwise. At the board's July 2 meeting, though, Councilman William Bichteman said the report is not in a final state and needs editing.