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Congressman Paul Tonko’s office announced that Westerlo’s ambitious broadband project was among those that will be funded largely by the federal government, but the project’s impact may shrink a bit from early projections due to rising costs.

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.

The Albany County District Attorney’s Office said that it has not yet decided whether it will charge Andrew R. Gibson, who killed Berne resident Lisa Sperry in a drunken crash last year, with bail-jumping after he failed to show up for his sentencing in February. 

Lyricist Jerome Leiber and composer Michael Stoller together wrote over 70 chart hits. All of the songs in “Smokey Joe’s Café” were written by them, songs that became staples of the 1950s and ’60s.

Albany Medical College scientists are part of a team of researchers from several institutions to receive $3.2 million from the National Institutes of Health to study why disruptions in circadian rhythms increase the risk of diabetes and heart disease.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new guidance for state and local governments, saying, “Universal case investigation and contact tracing are not recommended for COVID-19.” Rather, health departments should “prioritize specific settings and groups at increased risk,” the CDC says.