Objects outlive the people who assemble them and so will be dispersed again.

When Joy Hamlin visited a family of refugees from war-torn Myanmar living in Albany’s Arbor Hill, “She found them huddled in the middle of a room, freezing to death,” said her husband, Shawn.

ALBANY COUNTY — In the course of two decades, from 1998 to 2018, the Albany County Traffic Safety Program has held child safety-seat checkup events to help parents and caregivers protect children in motor vehicles; 2,147 seats have been checked and only 91 of those were correctly instaled.

H. Rose Schneider, who covers the Helderberg Hilltowns for The Altamont Enterprise, has been named a fellow for the 2018 John Jay Reporting Fellowship on Rural Justice.

Albany County’s jail is one of 17 county jails in New York State that will receive funds for treating substance use disorder and for transition services, according to a release from the Heroin Task Force, which advocated for, and secured, $3.75 million in the 2018-19 state budget.

The Albany County Land Bank has launched a pilot program to create more opportunities for individuals and families to become homeowners.

These local members of the New York Army National Guard have recently been promoted:

— Alicia Avery from Delmar, assigned to the Battery C, 1-258th Field Artillery received a promotion to the rank of sergeant; and

ALBANY COUNTY — The trail to Albany will soon be smoother.

A tick recently removed from a child in South Glens Falls has tested positive for the pathogens, Borrelia burgdorferi, which causes Lyme disease, and for Borrelia miyamotoi, a more recently discovered form of Borrelia, according to a release from the Lyme Action Network.

Albany County’s economy would be more robust if workers had access to paid sick leave.