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The state’s new rules, for indoors, “strongly encourage” but do not require masks for students or campers and staff who are not fully vaccinated. Outdoors, masks are not required although students, campers, and staff who are not fully vaccinated are “encouraged” to wear a mask in certain higher-risk circumstances. Both indoors and outdoors, students, campers, and staff who are fully vaccinated do not need to wear masks. Finally, schools and camps may choose to implement stricter standards.

“I don’t have the exact figures, I think it’s somewhere around $800,000, could be as high as $900,000,” said Guilderland Supervisor Peter Barber of the savings the town saw on a recent $4 million water project.

“I started my career for the village development, which is why I always felt obligated to stay here,” said Altamont Police Chief Todd Pucci, who worked concurrently for 22 years as a full-time officer in Cohoes before retiring last year.

As part of the initiative, which will focus on arts like music and theater, as well as education, caregivers for the elderly will be able to leave the people at the campus for a day or even a week when they need respite.

As of Wednesday evening, 62.2 percent of Albany County’s residents had received at least one dose of vaccine as had 73.0 percent of county residents 18 or older. The number of residents attending the large points of dispensing or PODs run by the county has greatly decreased; this week, just 12 doses were administered at the county’s POD. The county has shifted its focus to community-based PODs.