Hilltowns

Samantha Filkins, Debra Filkins, Westerlo Volunteer Fire Company     

Paul Scilipoti, Knox

Particular focus was given by the Westerlo Town Board to salaries and wages in the town clerk’s office which, under the tentative budget, would see a $14,500 jump overall for four employees.

The $2.5 million 2023 prliminary budget is about half-a-million dollars less than this year’s $3 million budget, but maintains the steep tax cuts that had been introduced this year.

Hilltowns

By Alyce Gibbs

Fall is in the air! Fall has made its arrival with colorful leaves and cooler air, with the evenings getting darker much earlier.

Helderberg Rescue Squad is hoping to establish a scholarship at the State University of New York College of Agriculture and Technology at Cobleskill to attract recruits from the school’s emergency medical technicians program to make up for a lack of local volunteers. 

Alan has been involved either driving school buses for Berne-Knox-Westerlo or supervising the transportation department. He has also served Berne as supervisor and as a town justice. Millie taught elementary school children for 35 years, along with coaching cross-country and track, and then went on to earn certification as an emergency medical technician to help with the Helderberg Ambulance squad.

Gudrun Bellerjeau, Knox

What would happen if the town hall went dark or the library or the senior center? What would happen without electricity at the pump station or the wastewater treatment facility or the highway garage? But equally alarming is the darkness — the black void — of no explanation for the unpaid bills.

Knox’s tentative 2o23 budget features tax increases in the town’s two fire districts, while the townwide levy stays the same.

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