Niskayuna H.S. Outing Club promotes new hiker challenge go local | The Daily Gazette
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When the Niskayuna High School Outing Club was hit with pandemic restrictions, they had no choice but to stay inside.
“What are we going to do if we can’t get together?” said Tom Caffrey, a Niskayuna High School Latin teacher and one of two advisers to the outing club.
The club had done a couple of hikes last school year before the pandemic shut their outdoor excursions down. But Caffrey, his co-adviser Jeff Ormsbee and some of the club’s students wanted to find a project to keep them connected to one another and their passion for hiking.
Vaccination rates vary greatly within Schenectady County; database shows large differences across ZIP codes | The Daily Gazette
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May 2, 2021
Myasia Page receives her Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination from Holly Vacca, RN, Nurse Manager of the Schenectady City School District, at a COVID-19 vaccination clinic at Schenectady High School on April 25. Right: COVID vaccination rates by ZIP code.
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But not all parts of the county are vaccinating at an equal rate.
Nationwide, the generalization has been that rural white Republicans and urban minority communities have been among the slowest to vaccinate, and the same pattern has developed in Schenectady County.
A ZIP code-based database provided by county Public Health Services indicates that only 36% of residents age 15 and older in the Hamilton Hill and Vale neighborhoods have received at least one dose of vaccine, compared with 73% in Niskayuna.
Glenville, Scotia moving forward with school sidewalk project | The Daily Gazette
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When Glenn Warnock walks his second grader to Sacandaga Elementary School, the two have to bob and weave through cars on the street, scrambling to make it across the road without being hit.
Warnock, who is also co-president of the Sacandaga Elementary School Parent Teacher Association, was elated to hear a project to construct sidewalks on Broad Street in front of the school was moving forward this month.
“It’s bad enough when there’s good weather because at least then we can go up on lawns to go around but when there’s snow there’s big banks up on the side of the road, so you can’t get up on anybody’s lawn, so you’re actually squeezing in,” he said.