New York State is working with the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to identify additional sites outside of New York City to launch targeted efforts focused on vaccine equity and improving access to socially vulnerable populations; each site is to vaccinate 1,000 New Yorkers per day. 

The intent of the new legislation is clear, said Jeff Perlee, who represents Altamont in the county legislature, when the county planning board has jurisdiction, it is now “obliged” to consider the proposed development’s impact on the “critical viewshed” of the Helderberg Escarpment.

These local students were named to the fall 2020 dean’s list at Ithaca College, with a grade-point average of 3.5 or higher:

— Samuel Kinum of Delmar;

— Kaitlyn Coffey of Delmar;

— Nathaniel Finke of Schenectady;

— Zachary Islam of Delmar;

— Catherine Jantson of Delmar;

These local students were named to the dean’s list from their college or university for the Fall 2020 semester:

— Ann-Marie Kolberg of Delmar, earning Highest Honors at University of New Hampshire with a grade point average of 3.85 or higher;

New York along with a score of other states is now below the 5-percent threshold that the World Health Organization advised governments to reach, and hold for 14 days, before reopening.

With the addition of people with comorbidities, about 10 million New Yorkers are now eligible for COVID-19 vaccinations. The state gets about 300,000 doses each week and the vaccines require two doses.

The drive will be held on Thursday, Feb. 11, at two locations: The Albany County Department of Health and Mental Health Complex parking lot at 175 Green St. from 10 a.m. till noon; and the Stewart’s Shop at 875 New Scotland Ave, between 3 and 5 p.m. 

ALBANY COUNTY — Pavement restoration projects in the Capital Region resurfaced and restriped 127.3 miles on 30 state highways in Albany, Greene, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Warren, and Washington counties.  

The Hudson Estuary Trees for Tribs Program, run by the state’s Department of Environmental Conservation, is accepting applications for spring streamside planting projects.

ALBANY COUNTY — Patients who have recovered from the acute phase of COVID-19 but who are experiencing lingering symptoms can now be treated by a team of specialists at the Post-COVID Care Clinic at Albany Medical Center.