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Thursday, May 6, 2021 - 6:11 pm
State Sen. Joe Griffo tours Potsdam s Garner Park earlier today. He helped secured state funding for the project. A local match for the funding included $50,000 each from St. Lawrence Health System and Clarkson University. Above are state and local officials with members of the Garner family. From left, Sen. Joe Griffo, Potsdam Mayor Reinhold Tischler, Clarkson President Tony Collins, Joan Garner, David Haggard and Margaret Garner Haggard. NCNow photo.
BY ADAM ATKINSON
North Country This Week
POTSDAM – New York State Sen. Joseph Griffo, R-I-C-Rome, today was in Potsdam to present The Clarkson Inn in Potsdam with a New York State Senate Empire Award, and to get a look at the Garner Park rehab project.
Thursday, May 6, 2021 - 6:11 pm
State Sen. Joe Griffo tours Potsdam s Garner Park earlier today. He helped secured state funding for the project. A local match for the funding included $50,000 each from St. Lawrence Health System and Clarkson University. Above are state and local officials with members of the Garner family. From left, Sen. Joe Griffo, Potsdam Mayor Reinhold Tischler, Clarkson President Tony Collins, Joan Garner, David Haggard and Margaret Garner Haggard. See story for more details. NCNow photo.
Tuesday, April 6, 2021 - 9:28 am
BY JIMMY LAWTON
North Country This Week
CANTON – Following a split vote and a heated debate, St. Lawrence County legislators voted 8-6 to give control of the county’s Department of Social Services legal team to the county attorney.
Those in favor of the transition cited past problems at the department which included a buildup of legal paperwork that county Legislator Joseph Lightfoot said was keeping kids stuck under county care, when they should have been eligible for adoption or foster care.
Lightfoot said as many as 350 children were under custody care at one time and said that numbers could rise up to 400 this year. He also said that DSS Legal had sought help from the county attorney s office in previous situations after judges raised issues and cases began piling up.
PEORIA â In a historic moment, health care workers in Chicago and Peoria on Tuesday became the first groups in Illinois to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, marking what Illinois Department of Public Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike called âthe beginning of the endâ of the pandemic.
The vaccine, developed by the drug companies Pfizer and BioNTech, was granted Emergency Use Authorization by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration last week and is now being shipped throughout the United States. Early studies have shown that after two doses that are given 21 days apart, the vaccine is 95% effective in preventing the disease.