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State Education Law requires a public hearing “that provides for the participation of school personnel, parents, students and any other interested parties” before a code is adopted by the school board.

The Zero Energy Nano building, known as ZEN, is a “smart” building on the SUNY Poly campus that will soon have a “digital twin” for its building-management and energy-management systems.

After spending over two of their four years attending high school amid a pandemic, members of the Clayton A. Bouton Class of 2022 are heading out into the world.   

The Berne-Knox-Westerlo 2022 graduation ceremony was held on June 25 at the Egg, in Albany — a return to pre-pandemic tradition. 

After allowing sparklers in 2016, the Albany County Legislature reversed itself in September 2020. 

Before an expected winter surge of the coronavirus, a committee of experts at the Food and Drug Administration urged on Tuesday that booster shots be geared to combat subvariants of Omicron.

ALBANY COUNTY — Several local municipalities were listed among the 75 statewide that received $178.8 million in funds to improve transportation.
Among the municipalities in the Capital Region, receiving $27.2 million, are:

The Knox Conservation Advisory Council was reconstituted in January this year, after a previous version of the council had petered out around 2018 due to lack of interest. 

A Voorheesville resident is home after a long stay in the hospital. The Albany County Sheriff’s Office says Patrick Weaver put himself there by putting his neighborhood at risk. But Weaver said there’s more to that story. 

Most of the tension centered around the proposed rule that a board chairperson “may announce rules that prescribe the time to be allotted to each speaker and the number of times each speaker may speak.”

ALBANY COUNTY — Albany County is expanding its Explorer programs — typically to involve youth in police work — to include firefighting and emergency medical services as well.

ALTAMONT — “You’re not alone,” says Keegan Prue to couples who are trying to have a child but can’t.

The most important first step, he says, “is just reach out to somebody.”

“It is truly wonderful to be here together in person,” said Superintendent Marie Wiles in the opening speech, referencing the isolation caused by the pandemic. “We will never again take for granted the gift of gathering.”

Guilderland Town Board members on Tuesday agreed that the law they passed would be amended so that it is clear dispensaries will not be allowed in residential areas.

The board had said earlier that digital signs already in place at firehouses, schools, churches, or the public library would remain despite a court ruling that allowed the neighboring town of Bethlehem to deny a school digital sign.

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