Berne to ask county to set up district for dam repair

BERNE — Supervisor Joseph Giebelhaus said he plans to reach out to Albany County to see if the county will “take the lead” in helping the Helderberg Lake Community Association to form a tax district so lake residents could pay for needed repairs on the dam that had been built to form the lake a century ago.

“We do not have the bandwidth,” Giebelhaus said of the town.

George McHugh, the town’s attorney, said that the issue was larger than the 60 households in the lake association…

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