The Altamont Enterprise reports that on March 13, Acting Supreme Court Acting Justice Denise A. Hartman put Emily Vincent back on the Berne Planning Board, after she was illegally removed in January. A hearing is required before removing a planning board member, but Berne held no hearing. In the Article 78 trial, the judge nullified the resolution removing Vincent as full member of the planning board and appointing a replacement, Thomas Spargo, who had also been appointed chairperson. “It gives me a little hope that the world isn’t as crazy as I think it is,” Vincent said. Berne Supervisor Sean Lyons replaced Vincent with Spargo, a former State Supreme Court Justice, was convicted of bribery and extortion in 2009 and served 27 months in prison. “Why don’t we just hire a rapist to the youth council?” said Berne resident Barbara Kennedy at a town board meeting in January. Read more about this story in the Altamont Enterprise.