The emergency order that County Executive Daniel McCoy issued on Tuesday afternoon keeps in place county programs for “previously designated migrant families” but prohibits “foreign municipal programs that burden the County.”

In the way most of us breathe air — an essential intake to sustain life — Leonard A. Slade Jr. breathes poetry.

ALBANY COUNTY — The pandemic — or at least the government declarations of emergency it engendered — is ending not with a bang but a whimper.

Last month, the Biden administration announced that it would spend $1.1 billion to provide free COVID vaccinations to uninsured Americans after the vaccines are commercially marketed.

New York State has made $5 million in grant money available for capital projects related to local meat-processing facilities, whether new or existing, in an attempt to diversify an industry currently dominated by large corporations. 

Mark Grimm, Guilderland

These local students, representing the Capital Region BOCES, are competing in the statewide SkillsUSA event held at the state fairgrounds from April 26 to 28:

— Allyson Bates, Cosmetology Senior, Cosmetology, Berne-Knox-Westerlo;

— Sophia Berlin, Fashion Design, Global Fashion, Bethlehem;

Spring turkey season opens May 1 in all counties north of the Bronx-Westchester County boundary and, new for 2023, in Suffolk County on Long Island.

ALBANY COUNTY — The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has supported a second booster vaccine against COVID-19 for people 65 and older and for people who are immunocompromised.

The Bethlehem Central School District has joined the program and, McCoy reported, for one month in Bethlehem and for the first three months of this year in the South Colonie district, fines have totaled over $700,000. The county gets 40 percent of that, or $280,000.