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Patricia C. Bischof, as an adult, sat in a room in her mother’s house, crying, as she listened to the story of her mother’s life — a story she had never heard before.

Her mother, Ruth, was being filmed in the next room in an interview, which Bischof had set up, for the Shoah Foundation.

Albany County Executive Daniel McCoy on Friday reported two previously unreported COVID-related deaths — a man in his sixties, and a man in his seventies — bringing the county’s death toll from the virus to 533.

Edgar Tolmie, Altamont

Elaine Doremus, Albany

Arlene Shako, Schoharie

While surges are growing in other places in the world, like New Zealand and Hong Kong, and remote Pacific Islands are just now experiencing their first deaths from the virus, the United States, for the most part, is now defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as having “low” or “medium” transmission rates.

Avian flu is a highly contagious disease that afflicts all manner of birds. An outbreak seven years ago was responsible for the death of 50 million birds across the country. 

These local students were named to the fall 2021 dean’s list at Ithaca College, with a grade-point average of 3.5 or higher:

 

— Sarah DeJoy of Altamont;

— Catherine Jantson of Delmar;

— Ryan Maercklein of Schenectady;

— Owen Tobias-Wallingford of Delmar;

— Laura Van Voris of Delmar; and

 
 

These local students were named to the president's list from Western New England University in Massachusetts for the fall 2021 semester with a grade point average of 3.80 or higher:

— Angelica Fischer of Delmar, majoring in bachelor of science in mechanical engineering;

These local students were named to the president's list from State University of New York Cortland for the fall 2021 semester with a grade point average of 3.3 or higher:
 

— Dylan Bartlett of Schenectady;

— Michael Fishburn of Slingerlands;

— Danielle Kamm of Schenectady;

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