By Mid Hudson News -www.midhudsonnews.com
Feb 5, 2021
POUGHKEEPSIE – Changes to Minor League Baseball throughout the country forced the Dutchess County Legislature’s Public Works and Capital Projects Committee to vote on a bond for improvements at Dutchess Stadium that will allow minor league baseball to continue in the 30-year-old stadium. The committee approved a $1.4 million series of improvements. The full legislature will consider the proposal on Monday night.
The mandate by Minor League Baseball to stadiums across the country called for energy-efficient LED lighting to be installed in each ballpark or the league would prohibit professional baseball from being played there. In Dutchess, the upgrade also allows for more home games to be played each season in the Class A league. The season will double in length, going from 35 home games to 70.
$10 Million Worth of Upgrades Needed to Keep Yankees in HV
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On Thursday, members of the Dutchess County Legislature’s Public Works and Capital Projects Committee voted to approve a $1.4 million bond resolution to fund crucial improvements to Dutchess Stadium, a County-owned park that has been the home of the minor-league Hudson Valley Renegades baseball team since 1994.
The resolution authorizes the County to make improvements that are a major part of the Renegades’ recent agreement to become a full-season affiliate of the New York Yankees, using the stadium for 70 home games each season, beginning in April and concluding in September.
Dutchess, Orange county residents unhappy with state s COVID-19 vaccination process
News 12 Staff
Updated on:Feb 03, 2021, 5:35pm EST
There is a growing frustration coming from residents and officials in the Hudson Valley about the state s vaccination process.
Many are desperate to get the first COVID-19 dose.
Gary Graham, 66, says he is hoping the state would set up a mass vaccination site closer than Westchester and send more than a couple of hundred doses per week to Dutchess, as county appointments book up fast. Literally within 15 seconds of us both logging in, sitting at the table. They were closed, he says. I m dealing with a recent diagnosis of bladder cancer. And there s no way I can make a trip down to Westchester County and back. It s just so aggravating, to say the least.
Amid COVID vaccine rollout, Gov. Andrew Cuomo criticized for micromanaging process
New York State Team
ALBANY - In Gov. Andrew Cuomo s book last fall on New York s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, he admitted being a micromanager. My natural instinct is to be aggressive, and it doesn t always serve me well. I am a controlling personality, he wrote in
American Crisis: Leadership Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic.
But he was also unapologetic for one of his best known traits. You show me a person who is not controlling, and I ll show you a person who is probably not highly successful, he continued.
Over the summer, New York Health Commissioner Howard Zucker reported that just over 6,600 individuals in nursing homes died from COVID or COVID complications last year. But a new report