Hilltowns

George Bosset

BERNE — Every summer for many years, George Bosset would travel with his wife and children from their home in New Jersey to Westerlo’s Lake Onderdonk, imitating the trips he had taken with his own parents, who owned a camp there.

Milton J. Hart Jr. of Delmar, formerly a long-time resident of Berne, died on Feb. 7 with his loving family by his side.

A graveside committal service will be held in Woodlawn Cemetery in Berne on Saturday, May 7, at 11 a.m. with military honors.

Knox Supervisor Russell Pokorny made a motion this week to hire as transfer station supervisor Richard Dexter, who had been illegally fired from his job at the town’s transfer station in 2019.

Bayard Elsbree Memorial Park, in Preston Hollow, is overseen by the Preston Hollow Park Committee, which came together in 1997, per the terms of the park’s deed. Rensselaerville’s town attorney, William Ryan, advised the town board last week that the committee may need to be formally designated by the town.

Adriance V. Loucks

WESTERLO — Adriance V. Loucks of Westerlo, a contractor who loved his family, died at St. Peter’s Hospital on Wednesday, April 13, 2022, after complications from surgery. He was 74.

Adie was born on Oct. 10, 1947, in Albany. He was employed at Alside Supply company for several years before becoming an independent contractor.

Amy Lauterbach Pokorny, Kiwanis Club of  The Helderbergs

Angela Carkner, who owns several businesses, submitted an application early last summer to turn her Westerlo farm into a wedding venue and found, to her immense frustration, that the process was more complicated than she anticipated. 

The Hilltown Seniors met for their monthly meeting on Saturday, April 9, with approximately 55 eager members. The meeting started off with our reports, read from our last gathering.

Although the Helderberg Lake Dam, in Berne, had cracks and other deficiencies over the decades that it had undergone inspections by the New York State Department of Conservation, it was not considered to be out of state compliance until 2016, because of a lack of an engineering assessment due two years prior, and again in 2018, following an engineering assessment.

SOUTH WESTERLO — Gordon Homer Tuttle’s career as a mechanic was foretold by his childhood play, making motor noises, and enhanced by his Army training.
 A lifelong resident of South Westerlo, he died on Saturday, March 26, 2022, at Greene Meadows Nursing Home under hospice care. He was 87.

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