These local students have been recognized with 2020 Academic Achievement Awards, at State University of New York College in Oneonta:
 

These local students were named to the spring 2019 semester dean's list at Nazareth College comprised of students with a grade point average of 3.5 or higher;

— Alexis Anagnostopulos of Altamont;

— Alyssa Belcastro of Schenectady;

— Adriana Brusgul of Altamont;

These local students were named to the dean’s list from their college or university for the spring 2019 semester:

— Jessica Kemp of Delmar, at University of New England in Maine with a grade-point average of 3.3 or higher; 

These local students have recently distinguished themselves:

— Haley Golderman of Slingerlands, helped the University of Vermont's 6th annual student-led fundraising event RALLYTHON raise a record-breaking $140,813.29 for the UVM Children's Hospital;

As Albany County ends the 11th week since the first two cases of COVID-19 were announced on March 12, the county executive says, “We are starting to go in the right direction ….” Both statewide and in Albany County, the curve has flattened and the Capital Region has completed the first week of the reopening of Phase 1 businesses.

GUILDERLAND — Community Caregivers Inc., in cooperation with The Albany Guardian Society, is now offering a service for those seeking a productive distraction from pandemic-related matters.

The United States Department of Agriculture’s Farm Service Agency will broaden the use of its Disaster Set-Aside loan provision, normally used in the wake of natural disasters, to allow farmers with USDA farm loans who are affected by COVID-19, and are determined eligible, to have their next payment set aside.

The stock market, which reopened Tuesday, is smarter than before, the governor says, as masks are worn and distances kept. Similarly, Albany County’s executive said local businesses that reopened last week area following protocols and there have been no new COVID-19 deaths in Albany County since Thursday.

During the pandemic, New York Army National Guard duties have ranged from 300 service members helping to retrieve bodies from homes in New York City to members in Albany County distributing food to those who need it and helping at testing sites.