Foss: Efforts to get vaccine to needy ramping up | The Daily Gazette
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Carl Jackson is eager to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
“I’ll be able to rest easy once I have it,” the 87-year-old Schenectady resident told me, while volunteering at the food pantry at Schenectady Community Ministries. “I’ll feel very comfortable, having something in my body that can help me fight the disease.”
Jackson’s age places him at higher risk of developing a severe illness or dying from COVID-19, but he hasn’t tried to get a vaccine appointment yet, for a couple of reasons.
Foss: Schenectady needs a better plan for snowfall | The Daily Gazette
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How can we do this better?
This is the second December in a row that a monster snowstorm has brought the city of Schenectady to its knees, with some residents waiting days for plows to clear their streets.
What can we do to prevent this from being an annual thing?
I’ve spoken to people who believe this year’s snow response was an improvement over last year’s, especially when you consider the volume of snow dumped on the city in a fairly short period of time, and I’m inclined to agree.
Schenectady continues to dig out from snow storm | The Daily Gazette
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North Street in the Stockade in Schenectady was still unplowed Friday.
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SCHENECTADY The city is continuing to mop up after getting walloped by a severe snowstorm.
“We’re catching up,” said city Mayor Gary McCarthy on Friday afternoon. “Most of the streets are plowed at this point and we’re now getting into snow removal.”
Efforts are underway with a fleet of 24 dump trucks from the state Department of Transportation, as well as five loaders and seven city plows, as well as assistance from private subcontractors.
Yet two days after the snow storm dumped as much as 31 inches in the city, criticism continued to mount from a peeved public over the city’s response that left some streets untouched for virtually all of Thursday.