North Country Public Radio POTSDAM The state-run mass vaccination clinic at SUNY Potsdam has been one of the easiest places in the state for people to get an appointment. For weeks, it was one of the only places. It led to reports of people traveling for hours from downstate to get vaccinated. The Potsdam site doesn’t have a local residency requirement, and that means residents from anywhere in the state are able to get appointments. Beth Hudson and her husband live in Cohoes near Albany. She worried that she might take a vaccine from someone in Potsdam. But after seeing openings for a few weeks she decided that wasn’t the case.