The New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets says the state has achieved “Unaffected” status as part of the United States Department of Agriculture’s National Milk Testing Strategy designed to detect highly pathogenic avian influenza in dairy herds.

ALBANY COUNTY — The county will provide $100,000 in grants to school, after-school, and community-based programs curbing bullying and preventing youth violence.

Applications will be accepted through Aug. 4 with individual grants capped at $20,000.

Joanne Cunningham, who chairs the legislature and represents part of Bethlehem, introduced the bill in March after the town of Bethlehem was not immediately informed about contaminants in New Scotland wells on property close to Bethlehem’s Vly Creek Reservoir.

“The truth is — and I think we all know it — that when women are at the table of leadership, the conversation changes … policies find compassion and communities gain equity,” said Romero.

“Flare guns were never designed to be weapons, but they are now being weaponized and used to inflict destruction, panic, and pain within our communities, including right here in the Capital Region with the outrageous and unacceptable violence we saw over the Fourth of July weekend,” said Senator Patricia Fahy.

ALBANY COUNTY — American Rescue Plan Act funds totaling $950,000 have been awarded to 53 businesses in Albany County.

The recipients, announced on July 3, included local businesses RAD Soap Co. in Guilderland’s Stuyvesant Plaza and New Scotland Physical Therapy in Slingerlands.

The Mohawk Hudson Land Conservancy is celebrating the opening of its first preserve in Schenectady County on July 15.

ALBANY COUNTY — Lack of staff has constrained special-needs organizations’ ability to offer care to Albany County residents, particularly those in remote areas, forcing one mother to consider leaving her home for the sake of her children.  

ALBANY COUNTY — Albany County is expanding a program that this week got a national award for preventing drug overdose deaths.

The county’s Mobile Outreach Treatment and Overdose Response, known as MOTOR, program, launched in 2020, has received a National Association of Counties 2025 Achievement Award.

The “feels like” reading is supposed to decrease slightly on Tuesday to 107 degrees in Albany, which is still in the “danger” zone where heat cramps or heat exhaustion is likely and heat stroke is possible with physical activity, according to the Weather Service.