Albany County continues to experience an uptick in COVID-19 cases with 32 new cases reported on Saturday morning.

Two reports from the state comptroller’s office show that, while Wall Street is doing well in the midst of the pandemic — securities-industry profits grew by 82 percent in the first half of 2020 — Main Street is not.

Two reports from the state comptroller’s office show that, while Wall Street is doing well in the midst of the pandemic — securities-industry profits grew by 82 percent in the first half of 2020 — Main Street is not.

Albany County had 34 new cases of COVID-19 overnight since Wednesday, one of the largest single-day upticks since early August.

William D. Wilday, Constitution Party of New York, Schenectady

We need to act regionally as we rebuild. This pandemic, and the economic fallout, have shown us all how wide the gap is — in schools, in housing, in health care — between white and Black communities. We should seize this crisis, which coincides with a nationwide racial reckoning, to work together as a county to rebuild in a way that offers hope to those who most need it.

Winter is going to be the season of the vaccine,” said Governor Andrew Cuomo at Wednesday’s press conference. “That may very well be the most challenging operation government has had to perform all through COVID.”

These local students were named to the dean’s list from their college or university for the spring 2020 semester:
 

— Jack Andrew of Schenectady, at State University of New York Morrisville, with a grade-point average of 3.0 or higher; and

“The true measure of a man is in the lives he touches, the love he gives to others, his kind words, and the way he listens with a humble ear. This was our dad,” wrote Edwin Rosa’s children in a tribute.