Likening the uproar in Albany Saturday night to “being in battle,” Albany County Executive Daniel McCoy said, “I was as close as I felt to being in a war zone in downtown Albany — gunfire going, fireworks. It was pretty crazy. I said, ‘Man, I feel like I’m back in Iraq.’”

Going forward, after announcing 24 more deaths the county had been unaware of, Albany County Executive Daniel McCoy said on Saturday, “The nursing home is supposed to be reaching out to us …. This should never happen again.”

The new normal at Avanti Hair Studios in Guilderland will have stylists and customers in masks, staggered shifts, and vinyl curtains between workstations.

Experts reviewed New York State data before five regions got the green light to reopen Phase 2 businesses on Friday.

After the county closed its congregate-meal and adult day-care programs to stem the spread of the coronavirus, it turned to delivering meals to homebound seniors, which also served as a way to check on their welfare.

As New York State begins to reopen, the horticulture industry, which includes greenhouses, nurseries, sod farms, and arborists, has been deemed essential and these businesses are now permitted to resume business statewide, in all regions.

The county’s health commissioner said systems will be put in place so that the county is aware of deaths that nursing homes report to the state.

Acting Supreme Court Justice David A. Weinstein has ruled that the New York State Board of Elections decision to remove 46th District State Senate candidate Gary Greenberg from the ballot is valid, leaving fellow Democrat Michelle Hinchey unopposed in the primary.

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;