Starting next Monday, April 26, museum and zoo capacity will be raised to 50 percent, and theater capacity will go to 33 percent. On May 19, capacity at sports arenas will be raised to 25 percent, Cuomo announced.
This weekend, Albany Medical Center announced that, starting on Monday, visitors — with restrictions — will be allowed at the hospital. The expansion from one to two visitors at a time aligns with updated guidelines from the state’s health department.
The legislation would raise the minimum wage for county employees to $15 an hour, though it wouldn’t override the union contracts that control the wages of certain employees.
Albany County officials call on residents Friday to "step up" for vaccines, and also called on the state to allow personal doctors to dispense vaccines.
The original curfew for restaurants and bars, adopted last year to stem the spread of the coronavirus, was 10 p.m.; that was pushed back to 11 p.m. in February.
“Excellent depth of reporting that goes beyond what happened to deliver insight and context,” the judges wrote of Enterprise coverage of crime, police, and courts in awarding the newspaper first place. “Readers are getting more than they bargained for with this local journalism.”
The state launched a program to vaccinate college students, at both private and state schools, and also announced graduation ceremonies can be held in-person this year as long as regulations on capacity and admittance are followed.
