In his 2019 State of the County address, Daniel McCoy announced plans to further combat the opioid epidemic, divert more youth from entering the juvenile legal system, and aid the underprivileged.

ALBANY COUNTY — Three local farms are doing their part to help the  nearly 200 federal Transportation Security Administration workers at the Albany International Airport who have continued to show up to work every day during the longest government shutdown in United States history and, as of Friday, will not have been paid in over a mo

Sterling Jewelers Inc. — doing business as Kay Jewelers, Jared The Galleria of Jewelry, and several other brands — had agreed to pay $11 million in penalties after an investigation by the state Attorney General’s Office and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau showed that Sterling signed consumers up for store credit cards without the their knowledge or consent.

Several towns in Albany County employ their own prosecutors or have town attorneys serve as prosecutors for low-level offenses or violations of local laws, though it is unclear whether this is a benefit to towns or not.

Ray Wood’s hobby of finding the fathers of Amerasians living in the United States has brought peace and contentment to local restaurant owner Van Nguyen, who was able to meet and bond with his father over the months before the older man’s death in 2018.

ROTTERDAM — Shelly Lynn Young, who loved her family and caring for others, died peacefully at home on Saturday, Dec. 29, 2018. She was 56 years old.  

ALBANY COUNTY — Dennis Grant, 44, of Knox was sentenced on Friday to 12 years to life in state prison for second-degree attempted burglary, a violent felony — the fifth in a string of burglary-related convictions. At his sentencing, Grant was classified as a mandatory persistent felon.

These local athletes are playing in college:

— Kathryn Johnston of Altamont was on the volleyball team for the State University of New York College at Oneonta;

— Katelyn McDonough of Guilderland was on the volleyball team for the State University of New York College at Oneonta;