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New York State s Burn Ban Has Begun PUBLISHED 9:00 PM ET Mar. 16, 2021 PUBLISHED 9:00 PM EDT Mar. 16, 2021 SHARE What You Need To Know Spring weather brings an increased risk of wildfires The ban lasts through May 14 Violators may be fined $500 for a first offense New York first enacted strict restrictions on open burning in 2009 to help prevent wildfires and reduce air pollution. The regulations allow residential brush fires in towns with fewer than 20,000 residents during most of the year, but prohibit such burning in spring when most wildfires occur. Campfires using charcoal or untreated wood are allowed, but people should never leave these fires unattended and must extinguish them. ....
By John Camera Middletown SHARE “It’s quite clear that Governor Cuomo enacted this legislation to shut us up and get us off the streets without intending to have a true and honest dialogue,” said Luisa Fuentes, a local attorney. She, along with fellow attorney Michael Sussman, authored a letter to Cuomo. They, along with 311 others who signed it, are calling for the April 1 deadline for Executive Order 203 to be extended. “I wrote this letter with Luisa Fuentes because many of us around the region felt that communities were not doing justice to the intent of this, nor to it’s spirit, and that in fact, in the end, this would boomerang and create more anger, Sussman said. ....
By Brian Dwyer Jefferson County PUBLISHED 5:30 AM ET Mar. 17, 2021 PUBLISHED 5:30 AM EDT Mar. 17, 2021 SHARE So I got these totes. The kids have been helping me tear down. They re going to be here in a little while, Watertown Boxing Club Founder Johnny Pepe said back in 2020 when he decided he could no longer keep his gym open. What You Need To Know For many smaller, family owned businesses, COVID-19 brought some very dark days as some temporarily shut down and some closed for good Nearly 5.6 million people have filed for unemployment through COVID-19, a number significantly higher than the recession of 2008-2009 ....
PUBLISHED 11:34 AM ET Mar. 17, 2021 PUBLISHED 11:34 AM EDT Mar. 17, 2021 SHARE Gov. Andrew Cuomo received the single dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday at an event with prominent supporters of his in the Black community, and he urged New Yorkers to get whichever version of the vaccine that is made available to them. The governor received the vaccine at a church in Harlem as the state has expanded eligibility to include more people, including public-facing non-profit workers, public-facing government workers and business service employees, flanked by Black state lawmakers, clergy, and advocates. The event was closed to the press due to COVID restrictions, according to Cuomo s office, and featured prominent supporters lavishly praising the governor, including NAACP New York President Hazel Dukes and former Rep. Charlie Rangel. ....