After a slow start, testing for COVID-19 has ramped up in recent weeks, with giant commercia…
MALONE –– North Country counties are changing the way they report the number of confirmed CO…
A Bombay woman was injured when the all-terrain vehicle she was driving struck a tree in the town of Brasher on Saturday.
ALBANY — Fewer coronavirus patients entered downstate hospitals over the weekend, but that may not be a trend, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said Monday as the state extended school and business closures.
MALONE –– Franklin County taxpayers who are having trouble paying their property tax bills will get a little relief from the county.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Saturday that New York state is “getting closer” to reaching the worst of the coronavirus crisis as 630 New Yorkers died in the past day and positive cases soared past 113,000.
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The National Rifle Association sued New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo for closing gun shops during the coronavirus pandemic, saying the restriction is unconstitutional and leaves citizens defenseless while prisoners are being released early as a result of the crisis.
NORTH BANGOR –– A woman was killed and her fiance was injured in an early-morning fire that destroyed a house on County Route 22 on Saturday.
MALONE –– A Plattsburgh man is facing felony drunk driving charges following a crash on County Route 25 Thursday evening.
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SARANAC LAKE –– The effect of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus on the finances of North County Community College has so far been small, but its impact on an already-tight 2020-21 budget remains uncertain, college leaders told the Board of Trustees on Friday.
ALBANY — The state will take ventilators and personal protective equipment from private institutions that are not using the supplies and redistribute them across New York to hospitals with the highest need to combat coronavirus COVID-19, Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared in an executive order Friday.
DICKINSON CENTER — A local corrections officer is in the intensive care unit at the Plattsburgh hospital after being diagnosed with the COVID-19 novel coronavirus.
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ALBANY — State unemployment claims this past week more than quadrupled the number filed the previous week and represented a 2,674% increase over the same week last year.
MALONE –– Franklin County is working to obtain refrigerated trucks that can be used to supplement morgue capacity at the Alice Hyde and Adirondack medical centers should the need arise as the number of deaths from the COVID-19 novel coronavirus continues to climb statewide.
MALONE –– Shifting the source of money to buy new equipment and increasing the amount of fund balance used to offset spending could result in a projected village tax rate in the coming year to less than the current year’s, village officials said Thursday.
ALBANY — After days of deliberations, lawmakers passed the state’s executive budget Thursday, including rollbacks to New York’s controversial bail reform law, about a day after the April 1 deadline.
ALBANY — The state will run out of stockpiled ventilators in six days if several hundred new COVID-19 patients continue to enter intensive care units each day, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday.
ALBANY — Experts project tens of thousands of New Yorkers will die from COVID-19 through the summer as state officials study multiple projection models to prepare for the pandemic’s impact on the state and its health care system, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday.
MALONE –– It was just a simple arrangement of sticks, spelling out a simple word, left on a path at the Malone Memorial Recreation Park. It was something BJ Noreault said she has done frequently, long before the COVID-19 novel coronavirus gave a new, more profound meaning to her efforts.
After weeks of pressure from elected officials and the union representing corrections officers, the agency that operates the state prison system has dropped its policy that prevented officers from wearing personal protection equipment while on duty.
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ALBANY — A new fiscal year started in New York on Wednesday without an executive budget.
The rate was as low as 4% in June.
MALONE –– A day after the number of confirmed cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Franklin County shot up from five to eight, that number apparently remained flat Tuesday with no additional confirmed cases reported.
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Shelley Singer has been the primary caregiver for her husband, Michael Gross, since he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease four years ago. Then came the coronavirus pandemic. “It’s very difficult to live with someone with dementia, and I know how fortunate I am to be able to have help fro…
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State police are asking for the public’s help in tracking down someone who may have been involved in a Feb. 29 home break-in on St. Regis Street in Brasher Falls.
MALONE –– A group of health care providers at the Alice Hyde Medical Center has criticized the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision for what they say is a slow and inadequate response to the COVID-19 novel coronavirus pandemic.
MALONE –– The Franklin County Local Development Corp. has established an emergency loan fund for businesses affected by the COVID-19 coronavirus and is allowing businesses with existing loans to defer their payments for 90 days without penalty or additional interest.
ALBANY — Democratic legislators blasted Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Sunday for proposing historic budget cuts to state health care and hospitals that would make New York ineligible for up to $6 billion in federal aid for COVID-19.
NEW YORK — Gov. Andrew Cuomo called for political and national unity Monday to fight the coronavirus after President Donald Trump said over the weekend he may order an enforceable quarantine for New York and surrounding areas in New Jersey and some parts of Connecticut as the pandemic contin…
MALONE –– Despite calls for people to maintain social distancing and to stay home as much as possible, the Adirondack Regional Blood Center is hosting a blood drive Tuesday from 2 to 6 p.m. at the First Congregational Church.
MALONE –– The number of confirmed cases of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus in Franklin County jumped to five Saturday, as the county Emergency Operation Center reported two new cases.
A new political contender has entered the race for New York’s 21st Congressional District seat, representing the relatively new Serve America Movement (SAM) Party –– but he may be knocked out of the race before his campaign gets underway
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PHILADELPHIA — Six women from the Iroquois Confederacy in upstate New York traveled to Philadelphia recently to reconnect with a patch of tribal land. They came to retrace the footsteps of ancestors, to feel under their feet the earth that was deeded to them by colonial leaders centuries ago.
MALONE –– A third case of COVID-19 coronavirus has been confirmed in Franklin County, and three Malone Village Police officers are in quarantine because one was in direct contact with one of the infected individuals.
NEW YORK — Schools will remain closed statewide through mid-April and the state’s first temporary hospital was completed in New York City on Friday as New York remains the nation’s epicenter for the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19.
MALONE ––The Greater Malone Area YMCA is ready to offer child care to all workers who have been deemed essential during the ongoing COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
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