“We all need to realize our individual behavior will play into what happens in the coming days and weeks,” said Albany County Health Commissioner Elizabeth Whalen at Friday morning’s press briefing.

A research program at the University at Albany is being awarded $460,281 to examine factors that cause extreme winter weather events in North America. The program, led by Dr.

Albany County sees clusters of high infection rates downstate as “a warning sign” locally.

Fighting the coronavirus outbreaks in hotspots, mostly downstate, was the governor’s focus this week while Albany County, far from being a hotspot, continued with an uptick in cases.

Gary Sutherland, External Relations Exports and Acquisitions Communication, Hydro-Québec

“We’re already behind. We have racism in every facet of life. That’s how we live,” said Wanda Willingham who represents Arbor Hill in the Albany County Legislature. She heads a task force, looking at the impact of the pandemic on local businesses.

These local students have recently earned diplomas from their college or university for the spring 2020.
 

— Heather Nelson of Delmar, earned the master of library and information science from Valdosta State University in Georgia; and

Governor Andrew announced a Cluster Action Initiative today to deal with COVID-19 hotspots in Brooklyn and Queens in New York City and in Rockland, Orange, and Broome counties.

ALBANY COUNTY — Robert G. Porter, who worked in law enforcement for the Marines for 21 years, is making his second run against incumbent Democratic Assemblywoman Patricia A. Fahy to represent the 109th District.