Here's your local news at a glance for Friday, the 18th of September.
Good morning, Albany.
🏘️ Community
The Regional Food Bank is hosting a 24-hour volunteer-a-thon to pack and deliver food and harvest crops starting at 8 a.m. today.
🎭 Culture
WAMC's Jazz Host Bill McCann will share details about the upcoming season of 'A Place for Jazz' & future regional jazz events in the coming weeks.
Listeners can look forward to renewed sound on the airwaves soon.
📰 Economy
Residents outside a well-known eatery shared concerns about rising prices and inflation with midterms looming yesterday.
Reporters (Grant Ashley and Rumsha Siddiqui) gathered voices outside Stewarts on Henry Johnson Boulevard and Livingston Avenue, highlighting worries over healthcare, housing, food, gas, and electricity.
🎓 Education
UAlbany mathematician Felix Ye received a three-year, $200,000 NSF grant to create faster simulation methods for complex stochastic systems and build efficient global models.
His project will use parallel short simulations to support a doctoral student.
🌲 Environment
Leaves are beginning to change in Albany as trees show early colors and weather forecasts predict a mild winter for the Capital Region.
Gov. Hochul and the DEC announced FloodSafe NY Wednesday to expand New York’s streamgage network, helping local governments detect flood risks and plan future water management; the upgraded system will support faster emergency response and guide long-term infrastructure decisions.
🏥 Health
New York Attorney General Letitia James announced Thursday that Abbott Laboratories will pay over $384 million for unsafe baby formula production and more than $9.3 million to New York Medicaid (stemming from alleged safety issues between 2018 and 2022).
A new report from NYPIRG finds more than 12,000 school drinking water outlets, including many in Albany and Schenectady counties, exceed safe lead levels.
The report urges state lawmakers to upgrade to full water filtration systems (estimated cost $100 million) to protect students.
🏈 Sports
UAlbany’s Great Danes lost 3-0 to Purdue on Thursday evening at the Stacey Clark Classic, with set scores of 25-17, 25-11, 25-21 + the team will face UCF today at Holloway Gymnasium at 1:00 p.m.
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