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The annual mayoral turn on the merry-go-round with some students that has been a tradition for decades was not possible leading into Memorial Day weekend of 2020.
The ride was, again, one of the events that was canceled last year due to safety concerns surrounding the unknown nature of how the coronavirus was spread.
A year ago, municipalities were quickly closing down playgrounds, and taping off equipment after at first telling parents they should just social distance with their children and consider wiping down equipment between children using it. Basketball nets were taken down to discourage people from playing ball and getting too close and all the area’s historic carousels were shut down.
EPAC Will Hold Its Annual Summer Festival In the Park
The global pandemic is receding and as restrictions starts to lift, many organizations including the arts and entertainment field are wasting no time in planning summer events.
The Endicott Performing Arts Center has begun plans for a free Shakespeare Festival, as part of their annual Festival in the Park, to be held later this summer.
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EPAC is looking for vendors and artists to be a part of the August 22
nd event to be held from Noon to 5p at the stage in little Italy, located in George W. Johnson Park in Endicott, NY.
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Broome/Tioga 1 Year COVID Anniversary, Tioga Hits 3K Cases
It is now one year since Broome and Tioga Counties declared states of emergency in response to the start of the coronavirus pandemic and one year since the first person in New York State, an 82-year-old New York City woman, died of COVID-19.
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Both Broome Executive Jason Garnar and Tioga Legislative Chair Martha Saurbrey announced State of Emergency declarations, citing “an abundance of caution” as more and more reports of cases of the rapidly-spreading coronavirus gripped headlines.
Ironically, on the one-year anniversary of signing the emergency declaration in Broome, County Executive Jason Garnar announced he had been placed in mandatory quarantine after getting word he had been exposed to someone testing positive for COVID-19.