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‘Not good’: 40% of New Yorkers hesitate on vaccine, survey says

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

Statewide, 17 percent of hospital workers are Black but only 10 percent of hospital workers who took the COVID-19 vaccine were Black. The state is launching an advertising campaign targeted to Black New Yorkers to build trust in the vaccine.

High-risk sports delayed to protect health of residents, commissioner says

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

“We have to toe the line until we get through the worst of this,” said Albany County Health Commissioner Elizabeth Whalen.

McCoy to coaches: Educate yourselves

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

“You propose on Valentine’s Day and then you can have the wedding ceremony March 15, up to 150 people. People will actually come to your wedding because you can tell them with the testing it will be safe,” said Governor Andrew Cuomo, announcing reopening plans on Friday.

New Scotland ZBA lights the way for solar project at foot of escarpment 

by Sean Mulkerrin

The project now moves to New Scotland’s Planning Board for site-plan approval.

‘You can’t trick these people’: At Crowing Hen Coffee Company, the focus is on flavor

by Noah Zweifel

Coffee Company owners Michael Ward and Stefanie Stegman formerly operated the Knox Café, a lunch spot that relocated to Clarksville in 2019 and was renamed the Crowing Hen Cafe.

County loses another resident to COVID

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

Albany County’s infection rate is now at 6.9 percent.

AG reports more nursing home residents died of COVID-19 than state data reflects

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

Howard Zucker, the state’s health commissioner, responded, “The OAG affirms that the total number of deaths in hospitals and nursing homes is full and accurate.”

County says no, for now, to high-risk sports

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

“It will be through due diligence and science that this decision will be made,” said Albany County Health Commissioner of whether high-risk sports will be allowed.

County opens portal for Civil Service job applicants

ALBANY COUNTY — The county has opened a Civil Service portal for people to apply for local government jobs: albany-portal.mycivilservice.com.

Guilderland councilwoman alone calls for new leadership of planning board

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

While Guilderland Councilwoman Laurel Bohl sees Stephen Feeney’s planning-board chairmanship as problematic, Supervisor Peter Barber sees Feeney as not just experienced but as heroic in helping the town.

Week XLVI: To avoid The Hunger Games, Albany County launches its own vaccination sign-up

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

Health-care workers are to be vaccinated in hospitals, essential workers are to be vaccinated by city and county health departments or through unions, and people 65 or older are to be vaccinated by pharmacies and mass sites run by the state.

Bill allowing for remote caucuses passes state Senate, awaits Assembly vote

by Noah Zweifel

The proposed law was written by Senator Michelle Hinchey of the 46th District.

Biden predicts most Americans will be vaccinated by summer’s end, Cuomo says amen

by Melissa Hale-Spencer

Governor Andrew Cuomo praised President Joe Biden’s recent implementation of testing international travelers. “These new strains are 30 percent to 70 percent more transmissible. That’s a problem and that’s why you’ll see those numbers going up,” Cuomo said.

Voorheesville barn to be razed

by Sean Mulkerrin

Jonathan Phillips, the owner and president Phillips Hardware, said he thought that the roof began to collapse on the South Main Street barn sometime toward the end of November, and that the massive snowstorm that hit in mid-December “didn’t help,” adding, “That was probably the big factor, all that weight.”

Longtime clerk now leads the library in Westerlo

by Noah Zweifel

Director Amy Powarzynski had worked at the Westerlo library for nearly 10 years before her promotion. 

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