Peggy Christman, Timothy Lippert, Jennifer Merrill-Fuller, Jean Guarino, Patrick Martin, Barbara Kennedy, Debra Flagler, Alan Zuk, Melanie Bunzey, Al Raymond
Tim Lippert was Berne voters’ choice for the Democratic nomination in a town board race, but Anita Clayton, who has right-wing support, won the vast majority of absentee ballots, bringing what at first looked like a blowout down to the wire.
How do you help a tree to grow? To be healthier? To live longer?
The answer lies in human history as it’s captured by Rensselaerville author and arborist William Logan in his 2019 book, “Sprout Lands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees,” which has just been awarded the John Burroughs Medal.
Superintendent Timothy Mundell handed out just under 50 diplomas to Berne-Knox-Westerlo graduates at Tawasentha Park, in Guilderland, as part of ceremony that highlighted the conviction and resilience of a graduating class that, like the one before it, had many of its senior-year rituals thwarted by the coronavirus pandemic.
Berne Town Board members Joel Willsey and Bonnie Conklin solicited advice last week from the New York State Department of Transportation on steps to take to address dangerous guardrails, narrow shoulders, and fast drivers along state routes 85 and 443.
