Berne-Knox-Westerlo’s proposed budget, with a 5.09 percent tax increase that required it to be passed with a 60-percent approval rate, failed to reach that threshold by a mere eight votes. The district will have to decide whether to have residents vote on a new budget in June, or move directly to a contingency budget. 

The United States Postal Service had issued flyers earlier this year about a potential relocation and was seeking input from the community about what sites might be suitable. 

The Carey Institute for Global Good had jettisoned much of its core programming during the pandemic years while it figured out its own future. It has now changed its name to Hilltown Commons, and partnered with three different local organizations that now call its Rensselaerville campus home. 

Over his nine-plus years as Berne-Knox-Westerlo’s superintendent, Timothy Mundell has led the district through significant challenges, helping to establish a much stronger foundation for the next superintendent than he had coming in. 

R’ville Stage Creations artistic director and founding board member Tara McCormick-Hostash told The Enterprise this week that she wanted the group to offer a space for people who might otherwise be uncomfortable with theater “because it’s the spot I wished I had” as a youth in Rensselaerville.

ALBANY COUNTY — On May 18, musician Wally Jones will perform at the Gallupville Methodist Church, where decades ago he played “my first-ever note in front of other people,” he told The Enterprise this week.

Dylan R. Lafave, 30, was taken into custody on May 9 after police responded to a domestic-incident call at a home along County Route 403 in Westerlo. 

Charles van Wie told The Enterprise this week, after the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets put out a notice about a batch of chocolate milk from his farm that was recalled due to improper pasteurization, that the milk is “totally perfect.”

Not long after Albany County legislators tabled a bill that would ban misinformation in anti-abortion facilities, New York State Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit against Heartbeat International and 11 anti-abortion facilities that promote an abortion pill reversal treatment that has been discredited by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. 

The Mohawk Hudson Land Conservancy, Northeastern Cave Conservancy, and Huyck Preserve will receive a combined $95,000 for various projects that help them further their separate missions.