The governor’s office on Friday reported two virus-related deaths in Albany County as well as a statewide total so far of 178 confirmed cases of the Omicron variant.
Primark, a discount retailer that recently crossed the pond, signed a lease for around half, 45,992 square feet, of the old Lord & Taylor space, according to court filings.
Acting Health Commissioner Mary Bassett displayed a graph showing infection rates in Norway and Denmark: Once Omicron appeared, the graph lines went nearly straight up. Bassett described the two Scandinavian countries as being “highly vaccinated,” and as having populations with an age distribution more like the United States than South Africa, where the Omicron variant was first reported.
GUILDERLAND — When Pastor Kyle Delhagen writes his sermon every week, he has a prayer on his lips: Lord, your words, not mine.
“I’m in love with words,” Delhagen says in this week’s Enterprise podcast.
The positive State Environmental Quality Review Act declaration, passed at the Nov. 23 New Scotland Zoning Board of Appeal meeting, means the board thought that the 4.2-megawatt solar proposal would have had an adverse environmental impact.
Vaccination, Hochul said on Tuesday, should have been a turning point in the war against COVID-19. “We still have 30 percent of New Yorkers who are not fully vaccinated … This is a crisis of the unvaccinated. Did not have to be — totally preventable.”
Dairy farmers have until February to enroll in the United States Department of Agriculture’s Dairy Margin Coverage program, which insures farmers against thinning margins by issuing payments whenever the ratio between cost of feed and all milk prices hits a certain threshold.
“I think just because you wear a uniform that you are no more deserving of pandemic pay than people who work, like in Darci’s office,” said Supervisor Peter Barber.
Councilwoman Rosemary Centi recalled how originally town residents had not been charged for ambulance services. “We took whatever their insurance paid,” she said.
The town’s attorney, James Melita, said that waste from Guilderland’s annual Hazardous Waste Day was trucked to a site in George where it was not disposed of properly.
The Sept. 13 complaint from unnamed health-care workers said they held the sincere religious belief that they “cannot consent to be inoculated . . . with vaccines that were tested, developed or produced with fetal cell line[s] derived from procured abortions.”
On Jan. 20, the Knox Planning Board will invite town residents to give their thoughts on a proposed 5-megawatt solar project, sited at 1953 Thomspons Lake Road.
