Restaurants and Food Service
Coronavirus hotspots in the area have schools turning to online learning, according to the Post-Star, and have the governor shutting down late night service to restaurants and bars (while also limiting private gatherings to 10 people).
The New York Times has a story of moonshine, prohibition and turkeys. A turkey farm in Pine Plains, N.Y., north of Poughkeepsie, was home to an underground warren of distilling prowess during Prohibition. Now, Dutch's Spirits hopes to cash in on the farm-to-distilleries Craft New York movement taking hold in the state. Using the farm's history with illegal alcohol and the owner's connection to his family farm, the new organization is turing out moonshine...legally.
Financial Services, Insurance and Banking
Commercial real estate might be in for a shelacking in the near-term economy, according to a story in the Washington Post. Large banks, according to the story, are saving money, in case of massive borrower default, and are lending less on commercial real estate. “[The contraction by banks] is something that could make a bad situation worse,” said Adam Slater, lead economist for Oxford Economics in London in the Post's story.
Environment Energy and Sustainability
A swift reply from The Fund for Lake George: The nonprofit group that dedicates itself to preserving the Queen of American Lakes writes on its website that The Jefferson Project is already studying the Harmful Algal Bloom in Harris Bay. They are studying both the water in the bloom and, as a comparison, in other points of the lake to determine the likely causes of the bloom. The Jefferson Project is a group of scientists from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Darrin Freshwater Institute who work with IBM to study lake water. No word in the statement of when they might have answers.