P.M. NEWS WEDNESDAY 11-25-20
State health department tested over 173,000 New Yorkers Tuesday, with 6265 testing positive, or 3.6% of all tested. 41 died from the virus Tuesday, the state death toll is 26,482 & 2982 are hospitalized.
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Chenango County Public Health continues to see smaller increases in COVID 19 cases; they reported 72 Active Cases, 5 hospitalizations & 410 Quarantines. Chenango County reported 20 more cases since Monday, they have had 583 Confirmed Cases since March, with 503 Recoveries & over 43,400 Tests have been performed.
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Broome County Health Department reported 85 more cases of COVID 19 today; they have had a total of 4937 cases. They report 116 deaths, 4202 recoveries & about 2900 are being monitored by the department.
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State Police and local law enforcement agencies are participating in a special traffic enforcement initiative to crack down on unsafe driving behaviors during the Thanksgiving holiday, starting today through Sunday. State Police will supplement regular patrols statewide with fixed sobriety checkpoints, underage drinking enforcement, and the “Operation Hang Up” initiative, which targets distracted drivers by utilizing Concealed Identity patrols. The Governor’s Traffic Safety Committee & the STOP-DWI Foundation remind motorists that their “Have a Plan” mobile app is available, locate and call for a taxi or rideshare service.
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Rockefeller the Owl was released back into the wild early this morning. The owl made the trip from West Oneonta to New York City on the tree that will be the official Rockefeller Center Christmas tree this year, the owl was found by workers & was turned over to the Ravensbeard Wildlife Center in Saugerties, it is expected to acclimate itself to the local Owl Population.
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The Norwich City School District Board of Education announced that Scott Ryan will be the next Superintendent of the District; Ryan is expected to take over for Interim Superintendent Diana Bowers in January.
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Oswego State Supreme Court Justice Scott DelConte has ordered an injunction stopping the review of ballots in the 22nd Congressional District race between Anthony Brindisi & Claudia Tenney. Judge DelConte stated that any new motions need to be filed by the campaigns’ attorneys by 5:00 p.m. Monday, November 30th; however, the State Board of Elections set a deadline of November 28th for county boards of elections to certify and transmit their election returns to the state. Tenney was leading Brindisi by about 200 votes when the counting of absentee ballots was stopped.
A.M. NEWS WEDNESDAY 11-25-20
Otsego County Department of Health reported 21 new COVID 19 Cases reported Tuesday, 42 recent cases are linked to the Copper Fox in Oneonta, the department also reports a Potential exposure to COVID at the Red Jug Pub on Friday November 20th, patrons at that time should monitor for symptoms until December 4th. Currently, Otsego County has had 1236 total confirmed cases, with 115 active cases, 6 hospitalized; there have been 8 deaths since March. 764 cases are linked to SUNY Oneonta & 71 confirmed cases linked to Hartwick College
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Oneonta City School District announced that they have learned of a 5th staff member COVID 19 positive case & 1 confirmed case in a student. All District schools will go fully remote until Tuesday, January 19th & then return to hybrid instruction on January 19th. 81 students are in quarantine & 27 staff members are also in quarantine. Meal distribution will continue to take place at the designated meal distribution points on Wednesdays.
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Delaware County Public Health announced that they had 9 more cases of COVID 19 Tuesday, with 5 hospitalizations, 49 active cases & 222 in quarantine. Delaware County has had 324 total cases of COVID 19, with 266 recoveries & 9 deaths.
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The Sidney Central School District has been notified that 3 members of the District have tested positive for COVID-19. The Department of Health Services is conducting and completing the contact tracing. The Health Department will be contacting people impacted by a potential exposure. There will be no change to the instructional model at this time. The district is working in collaboration with local health departments to make sure all necessary procedures are followed.
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The State Department of Labor released preliminary local area unemployment rates for October, the State’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate decreased from 9.7% to 9.6%. Locally, Chenango County had 5% unemployment, Delaware County had 5.2% and Otsego County had 5.6% in October.
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State Senator Jen Metzger of the 42nd Senate District, conceded the race to Republican Michael Martucci Tuesday. There were 30,000 absentee ballots that needed to be counted in that district; the results confirmed Martucci’s Election Day lead in the race.
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The Delaware County Board of Supervisors adopted the county budget at their meeting Tuesday, several department heads received pay raises. The budget has a property tax levy increase of about 1.7%
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