On Sunday evening, the county’s health department asked anyone attending services at Life Church Albany on Sept. 13 or 20 to call the department.

ALBANY COUNTY — Of the 27 new cases of COVID-19 announced by Albany County Executive Daniel McCoy on Saturday morning, 11 are associated with the University at Albany.

Although Albany County has announced well over 100 COVID-19 cases related to the University at Albany in the past two weeks — the majority of its new cases — only cases of people working, living, or studying on campus are being counted toward the 100 that would have forced remote learning.

 “We’re 100-percent volunteer so most of us had to get home and get to work … You have to return to normalcy after helping a neighbor out all night long.”

ALBANY COUNTY — As COVID-19 cases spike in the Midwest, Governor Andrew Cuomo joined with Michigan’s governor, Gretchen Esther Whitmer — both Democrats — to call on Congress to conduct an oversight investigation into the Republican Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Nationwide, COVID-19 deaths passed the 200,000 mark on Tuesday. The autumn surge that many had feared appeared to be materializing as schools reopened and more activities took place indoors with colder weather. Statewide, the comptroller released a report showing decreases in tax receipts, and local and state officials as well as Congressman Paul Tonko continued to call for federal aid to state and local governments.

Nine months after Jeanne Picard Fish was declared “incapacitated” and placed in a nursing home, her property — close to 90 acres with an historic barn and house at the foot of the Helderbergs — is about to be sold for $660,000 in a way that will protect 80 percent of the land from future development.

“We have to be a model for our kids to deal with adversity in positive ways. That’s one of the greatest gifts we can give our kids,” said Altamont Elementary School Principal Peter Brabant who is optimistically running a school where two classes and a handful of teachers had to be quarantined.

A group of citizens dedicated to supporting the historic Schoolcraft House has disbanded but Guilderland’s supervisor says the town will continue to support the house and the town’s historian says, “The potential is there.”