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“Writers write,” said Timothy Wiles, adding that he is looking forward to the discipline of writing a poem each day as “a good way to transition from one life to another.”

A fundamental progressivism has been in the undercurrent in most of the Hilltowns this year, as Westerlo, Rensselaerville, and Knox all began or continued to work on difficult, long-term projects that nevertheless promise to benefit residents for decades to come. Berne, however, has been stuck wrestling with its past. 

“Our hope would be to help them,” Guilderland Supervisor Peter Barber said of the school district, calling it “a bit ironic” that the town would take on the task of preserving school district history.

Much as in 2017, the town is getting its regulatory ducks in a row because it’s “been approached by a couple of possible projects,” New Scotland Supervisor Douglas LaGrange said during the town board’s November meeting.

Statewide, COVID hospitalizations are far more prevalent than they have been for months. Albany is one of 20 counties labeled with a “medium” rate and, for the first time, seven of New York’s 62 counties are labeled as having a “high” rate of COVID hospitalizations.

Guilderland will strive to maintain an unrestricted fund balance of not less than 15 percent and not more than 35 percent of budgeted appropriations in each of the general, highway, water and sewer funds, the policy says.

To help get itself in place for state funding as it attempts to fix severe problems with its water system, the Rensselaerville Water and Sewer Advisory Committee has selected the engineering company C.T. Male to carry out an inspection of the system to reveal the full scope of the work that needs to be done.