acerbone@adirondackdailyenterprise.com SARANAC LAKE The Saranac Lake village board has declared today as a COVID-19 Memorial Day, a day to commemorate those who died during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. This follows a grassroots nationwide movement to make March 1 a national day of remembrance. It has been around a year since the pandemic first took hold in the U.S. as it spread around the globe, and in that time the virus has claimed the lives of more than 500,000 in this country alone. This huge loss of human life has led several activist groups to seek a specific day to collectively mourn the dead and reflect on the loss.
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Paul Maroun, a Tupper Lake volunteer firefighter, village mayor and Franklin County legislator, gets the first dose of his Moderna vaccination Monday as a member of the Tupper Lake Volunteer Fire Department.
(Enterprise photo â Aaron Cerbone) SARANAC LAKE Dozens of emergency medical service workers and first responders received their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine at Adirondack Medical Center’s in-house clinic over the weekend. Select EMS workers, firefighters and police officers are eligible for the vaccine in the first phase of the state’s distribution plan. In Franklin County, all first responders have been deemed eligible for a vaccine even if they don’t have EMS certification. That’s because in this rural county most first responders have direct contact with patients when they respond to calls for help, according to Franklin County Emergency Services Coordinator R