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Although it wasn’t an exact figure, New Scotland Councilman Adam Greenberg said residents could expect to pay about 12-percent to 13-percent higher than National Grid’s current grid mix.

“The president says he’s going to have a vaccine,” said Governor Andrew Cuomo on Thursday. “CDC is talking about a vaccine in early November. How convenient. It’s going to be an Election Day miracle drug. Some people are concerned that the vaccine may wind up being hydroxychloroquine.”

And a Siena poll released on Wednesday found that, despite venues being open, majorities of New Yorkers are not comfortable dining indoors in restaurants or going to gyms, bowling alleys, or bars. More than half of New Yorkers, 51 percent, say the worst of the coronavirus pandemic is yet to come, and 86 percent are concerned that New York will face a large outbreak in the fall.

The Berne Town Board voted at its Aug. 26 meeting to not take part in a regional shared-services agreement that would have formalized the already common practice of using other towns’ highway-department resources. The surprising vote appeared to be an attempt to spite the town board’s lone Democrat. 

“Whether you have signs or symptoms, please go out and get tested …,” said Albany County Executive Daniel McCoy. “It’s the only way we’re going to track this. It’s the only way we’re going to know if the virus is still lingering out there … It didn’t go away.”