Hilltowns

Joel Willsey, Berne

BERNE — A Berne man is due in town court this week on charges of reckless endangerment and driving while intoxicated.

Thomas Murphy, 40, was arrested on Aug. 16 after, police say, he intentionally drove a side-by-side Utility Terrain Vehicle into a pickup truck.

Robert Holt was born a half-century after Rev. Russell Greene and, although their lives intertwined over reverence for the church, their eras and careers are markedly different.

Shawn Duncan

Shawn Duncan believes the firing was triggered by an Enterprise story in which he shared complaints about Highway Superintendent Randy Bashwinger.

“We’re calling ourselves a creative campus,” said Doug Parvis. His goal is to regularly fill the campus’s 50 rooms — with a total of 80 beds — by hosting “practical educational workshops.”

WESTERLO — Richard H. Rapp, who worked for Westerlo for more than half a century — serving as supervisor for 41 years — died on Monday, Sept. 1, 2025.

Volunteers constructed 72 timber box steps that wrap around and descend into the steep sinkhole of Knox Cave, near the hamlet of Knox. 

They replace a dilapidated series of steps made from railroad ties, pipe, and rebar in 1979.

The resolutions stemmed from an investigation of complaints centered on Town Clerk Karla Weaver that was conducted earlier this year by William J. Keniry of the law firm Tabner, Ryan, & Keniry.

Albany County has already installed new signs and pavement markings at the intersection and, with a town board resolution, the state will now conduct a study on reducing speed limits.

Hours after The Enterprise spoke to county spokeswoman Mary Rozak on Aug. 22, Pokorny received a text from Knox’s lawyer saying the county lawyer wants to schedule a meeting for next Wednesday or Thursday morning to work out a plan to share the salt shed.

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