“This is an opportunity in this post-pandemic world to let people know, get the skills, go into apprenticeship programs, get trained,” said Governor Kathy Hochul, speaking from the county’s airport on Monday enroute to the White House for the signing of the infrastructure bill. “There’s jobs waiting for you to help rebuild this great state after we were knocked down so far.”

On Wednesday, Governor Kathy Hochul announced that the Biden-Harris Administration’s Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will be making $750 million in additional American Rescue Plan funding available for New York’s Essential Plan.

We have to teach ourselves to understand the beauty of cultures that are unlike our own.

Last year, international visits were down 86 percent from 2019, and domestic visits fell by 37 percent, generating a nearly 55-percent loss in direct spending and an almost 50-percent drop in economic impact — estimated at $100 billion in 2019.

These new sites are part of a string of sites that the company has installed in Albany County in recent years.

The legislation would prohibit the disturbance of county-owned forests that span more than a half-acre unless the county executive places twice the value of the removed trees into a fund to be used to plant more trees.

A law just signed by Governor Kathy Hochul mandates that meeting minutes be posted online within two weeks. Minutes were already required to be made available two weeks after a meeting, but only by specific request.

At a White House press briefing on Monday, Nov. 1, Jeffrey Zients, coronavirus response coordinator, said, “As we await the CDC decision, we are not waiting on the operations and logistics ... we’ve secured enough vaccine for all 28 million kids ages 5 through 11.”

Jeffery Lee Slingerland, of Davenport, Florida, and formerly from Clarksville, died suddenly at Celebration Hospital in Celebration, Florida on Saturday, Oct. 23, 2021. He was 63.

He was the son of the late Katherine and Howard Slingerland.