Hilltowns

Collar City Auction President Randy Passonno told the Berne Town Board what an auction of Switzkill Farm would look like for the town, which is interested in selling the property.

A persistent-felon designation would make it so that Andrew Gibson, who pleaded guilty to aggravated vehicular homicide, a class B felony, would be sentenced as though it were a class A-I felony, which carries a minimum prison sentence of 15 years and a maximum sentence of life. 

The Hilltown Seniors met Saturday with 50 members in attendance.

EAST BERNE — Lora Ricketts worked as a nutrition instructor but her nurturing went beyond foods, sustaining her family and friends, and her larger Hilltown community.

The victim was 58-year-old Mahbeer Magasa, of Guyana, Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple said. 

Virginia Salisbury

Virginia (née Long) Salisbury, a fixture in the Helderberg Hilltown community, died on Saturday, Aug. 13, 2022. She was 91.
Born to Elmer and Stella (née Winnie) Long on Oct. 7, 1930, in New Salem, she grew up on the Long Farm Dairy in East Berne.

Rita Hennemann

EAST BERNE — Rita (née Lorenz) Hennemann, a talented seamstress and a loving wife, mother, grandmother, and friend, died at her home in East Berne from cancer on Sunday, July 24, 2022.  She was 87.

Gerard “Gerry” Chartier, Helderberg Kiwanis

Mike Vincent, Frank Fuss, Berne Conservation Club

Helderberg Lake Community Association President Tom McQuade told The Enterprise this week that, after the association had its tax-district proposal rejected by the Berne Town Board, it’s hoping to secure funding for dam repairs through the New York State Environmental Bond Act, which will be voted on by state residents in November.

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