Travel, Tourism and Recreation
Golfing was up 14% last year over the previous year, the largest single-year increase since 1998, the Albany Business Journal is reporting. Golf had an unexpected renaissance during the pandemic, and people have joined golf clubs, or held their current memberships, into 2021, the story says. This is a boon for golfing given that the number of clubs that closed since 2006 far outpaced the number opening, the story says.
Financial Services, Insurance and Banking
The parent company of TrustCo Bank approved a 5-to-1 reverse stock split which will move the stock, trading at $7.70 a share, to about $38 a share, the Albany Business Journal reported. The reverse split and corresponding hike in the share price does not change the overall value of the company but makes its shares more attractive to big-money investors such as pension funds. The bank has $3.4 billion in local deposits, the story says.
Government, Law and Legal Services
Milton Supervisor Benny Zlotnick is abandoning the GOP after they snubbed him and picked another as their candidate for supervisor this fall, the Times-Union is reporting. The lifelong Republican was passed over for Scott Ostrander. Zlotnick will run without a party, the story says.
Health Care and Fitness
Also in the T-U: Schenectady County, MVP Healthcare and the Capital District Transportation Authority will bring a trolley full of Johnson & Johnson vaccines to underserved areas where the inoculation rate is still below surrounding areas. Communities that lack childcare or where people have a hard time getting to vaccination sites are the target, the story says.
A data breach at Adirondack Health in Saranac Lake may have released patient information for 800 people, the Adirondack Daily Enterprise is reporting. CaptureRx, a third-party vendor of prescription services to hospitals, told the healthcare system about a breach in February, the story says, adding that there were delays in reporting first to the hospitals and then to patients. There is no evidence that the information--names, addresses, medical ID numbers--was used against people in the ransomware attack, the story says. [The purpose of a ransomware attack, generally, is to freeze or steal computer information and demand a ransom to release it. They are not typically used for identity theft.]