Berne has submitted documentation to the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority for three out of the four action-items needed to qualify the town for a clean-energy community designation, which allows the town to apply for certain grants.
Chance Townsend, who has been serving as Berne’s code-enforcement officer for the past year despite lacking state certification, left an order to vacate on a resident’s door one week after The Enterprise publicized his lack of qualification for the role.
At the Berne Planning Board’s Dec. 3 meeting, town attorney Javid Afzali lost his temper with planning board member Larry Zimmerman, a former attorney who criticized the town board for breaking the law. Afzali told Zimmerman, “You can sit there and yap all you want … There’s nothing you can say that I’m interested in.”
BERNE — Patricia M. Favreau, who served as Berne’s town clerk for more than three decades, was “a true people person,” her family said. She died peacefully and surrounded by family on Sunday, Nov. 29, 2020, at Albany Medical Center Hospital. She was 84.
Superintendent Timothy Mundell said that the Berne-Knox-Westerlo secondary student and district employee who tested positive for COVID-19 were last in the school on Nov. 24.
