NEW YORK— Indoor dining at New York City restaurants will be delayed out of fear it would cause a spike in coronavirus infections, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday. De Blasio, a Democrat, said he was concerned that if the city welcomed diners back into the ...
FORT DRUM — 2nd Lt. Shawn G. Sutter, a security manager for the 548th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, 10th Mountain Division (LI), was dining with his family on Father’s Day, Jun. 21, 2020, at a local restaurant in Watertown, when he came to the rescue of a newborn baby. “My ...
WESTPORT — Boquet Valley Central School, the new district which combined Elizabethtown/Lewis and Westport Central Schools, held its inaugural commencement Saturday with the backdrop of Lake Champlain at Westport’s Ballard Park. The ceremony featured co-valedictorians Aiden DeMuro and ...
BLUE MOUNTAIN LAKE — Adirondack Experience, the Museum on Blue Mountain Lake, will host new live, virtual programs starting this Monday, July 6 at 7:30 p.m. The Adirondack Experience will be offering programs at 7:30 pm on most Mondays. The museum is reformatting its traditional summer ...
ALBANY — New York is urging travelers from eight additional states to self-quarantine for 14 days as it awaits a decision on the reopening of indoor dining in New York City. Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office announced Tuesday that California, Georgia, Iowa, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, ...
Democratic congressional candidate Tedra Cobb says incumbent Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik has been “silent” on recent reports that Russia offered the Taliban bounties on the lives of American soldiers in Afghanistan. Stefanik did not respond to interview requests for this story, ...
OGDENSBURG — The Roman Catholic Diocese of Ogdensburg has been named in 20 additional child sexual abuse complaints under the New York Child Victims Act. The law firms of Jeff Anderson & Associates and LaFave Wein & Frament announced the lawsuits Tuesday. “I cannot comment ...
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Florida and other states across the Sunbelt are thinning out the deck chairs, turning over the barstools and rushing to line up more hospital beds as they head into the height of the summer season amid a startling surge in confirmed cases of the coronavirus. With ...
Forest rangers with the state Department of Environmental Conservation fought two fires and rescued an injured hiker in the North Country in the past week. --- Fire at Chub Lake --- On June 22 at 4:45 p.m., DEC Region 6 forest rangers received reports of a wildland forest fire ...
TICONDEROGA — Free COVID-19 testing was available here Tuesday following the report of a confirmed case of a resident who attended a religious Mass on June 21. The governor’s office announced the availability of testing by news release at about 3:30 p.m. The testing is being ...
LAKE PLACID — The Lake Placid Center for the Arts is bringing back the Free Young & Fun Performance Series, virtually. Young & Fun Anywhere can go anywhere that Zoom can go. Audience members can watch from a computer, tablet or phone. “The Young & Fun summer series of ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A company wants to use an advanced balloon to fly customers from Earth’s surface in Alaska to the highest reaches of the planet’s atmosphere. Florida-based startup firm Space Perspective plans to use the Pacific Spaceport Complex in Kodiak to serve as one of ...
The revolution is finally being televised, thank goodness. The long-awaited live-capture of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s shake-the-rafters musical “Hamilton” comes out Friday on Disney+, a chance to celebrate America’s independence with some of its Founding Fathers. The timing seems ...
ALBANY — New York is urging travelers from eight additional states to self-quarantine for 14 days as it awaits a decision on the reopening of indoor dining in New York City. Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in a Tuesday television interview that he plans to send state police and health and liquor ...
SARANAC LAKE — There has been a flood of reaction, mostly positive, to the Saranac Lake High School valedictorian’s speech about anti-Asian racism she endured. Francine “Frannie” Newman’s blunt speech came as a surprise to many. “Talking about race has never been something ...
The two candidates for New York’s 21st Congressional District seat — incumbent Republican Elise Stefanik and returning Democratic contender Tedra Cobb — support two different police reform bills passed by the House, but despite increased pressure to pass police reform legislation ...