“Our infection rate continues to rise at an alarming rate, and we are likely not detecting the full level of community spread as many at-home COVID tests go unreported,” said Albany County Executive Daniel McCoy.

The last time Albany County issued a mask advisory was in early December. It was issued jointly with Schenectady County as infection rates, after Thanksgiving gatherings, surged, topping the rates from a year ago. The Delta variant was still dominant.

“This virus continues to spread at a rapid rate, though the number of individuals in our hospitals is remaining relatively low and stable for now,” said Albany County Executive Daniel McCoy on Friday. 

Before the trial, on March 30, Watervliet had made a settlement offer in which the 2019 assessment of the main reservoir parcel would be reduced to $6 million, the 2020 assessment would be reduced to $5 million, and the 2021 assessment would be reduced to $4 million.

“He’s not gonna come in and plead guilty on an arraignment,” Jacob Klein’s lawyer told the press outside the courtroom.

New Yorkers must wear masks on buses and in bus stations, on trains and in train stations, on subways and in subway stations, and in airports. They also must mask at homeless and domestic-violence shelters, correctional facilities, and state-regulated health-care and adult-care facilities and nursing homes.

ALBANY COUNTY — Jessica Serfilippi started her groundbreaking and myth-busting research on Alexander Hamilton the way she thinks any historian should — with an open mind, she says.

“The bigger ecological story here is the fact that the beetles can damage the pine stands — that is more a symptom of an ecosystem’s health,” says Neil Gifford, the conservation director for the Albany Pine Bush Preserve.

The state’s comptroller has issued an audit showing that many school districts in New York lack sufficient staff for mental-health services.