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ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed an order Thursday that will allow children between the ages of 2 and 18 to receive flu shots from pharmacists.The executive order suspends regulations that prevent pharmacists from administering flu shots to children younger than 18.

The agency that oversees the Adirondack Forest Preserve is offering what stakeholders say is a compromise regarding the extent of wilderness that should be in a 20,530-acre tract of land the state acquired in 2016.Under the deal proposed by the Adirondack Park Agency, the Boreas Ponds tract, which includes mountains, forest land and three scenic ponds, would be split between wilderness and wild forest designations.

A Staten Island woman is charged with passing counterfeit $100 bills at a Clifton Park hotel, State Police said.

Scholarships of up to $2,500 are being offered to eligible city residents pursuing a licensing program or professional/technical certification that will lead to full-time employment as part of Albany's Poverty Reduction Initiative.

The license, included in a proposal in the 2019 budget, would allow farm meaderies to make and sell mead made from honey produced in New York, the top honey producer in the Northeast. In 2016 the state produced more than 3.6 million pounds of honey, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

The average price of a Capital Region home climbed 4 percent in 2017 to $230,992, the Greater Capital Association of Realtors reported Wednesday. The number of homes sold, meanwhile, was flat. In the 11-county region, 11,878 single-family homes were sold, compared to 11,908 in 2016.

NORTH GREENBUSH - Vital Vio in Troy, which makes LED lights that kill harmful bacteria, has closed on a new round of funding from investors.

An event put on by Relentless Awareness and Slidin' Dirty on Wednesday raised more than $2,000 for Puerto Rico relief.—

A student at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute said he found a fragment of the meteorite that landed in Michigan last week.An inveterate meteor fan, Brandon Weller keeps tabs on the American Meteor Society for news of fireballs, according to mlive.com, a collection of newspapers in Michigan.

Corinth Central School District in rural Saratoga County and Hudson Falls Central School District in Washington County were among 26 districts identified as in some state of fiscal stress under Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli's fiscal stress monitoring system this year.