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NY budget: Towns, villages face 20% cut, Syracuse to lose $1.8M Updated Jan 21, 2021; Syracuse, N.Y. – Towns and villages across New York face losing 20% of the state aid they get each year under the proposed state budget from Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The proposal would mean some towns and villages in Onondaga County would lose tens of thousands of dollars this year in state money. Statewide, Cuomo said this week, the cuts in “aid to municipalities” would be about 5%. Yet that’s just the ove...

Queensland evacuating the hotel where a cluster of the highly infectious UK strain of the virus emerged has put the spotlight on WA which has three of those cases in hotel quarantine.

While you may not agree that every song deserves a spot on this list, we hope you'll agree that alt-country deserves its place cemented in the history books.

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Village of Fayetteville mayor tests positive for Covid-19 Updated Jan 07, 2021; Facebook Share Fayetteville, N.Y. — Village of Fayetteville Mayor Mark Olson has tested positive for Covid-19. The village announced Wednesday that Olson tested positive on Sunday after beginning to feel ill last weekend. He and his family, who also tested positive, are quarantining at home. Olson will continue to work from home, though Deputy Mayor Dan Kinsella is helping with some duties, according to the annou...

Dive Brief: The North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) expects there to be sufficient resource adequacy across most of the electric grid for the next decade, but also concluded in its 2020 Long-Term Reliability Assessment that there is a growing risk related to the high penetration of renewables in some regions. "Nearly all parts" of the Western Interconnection, Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) and Midcontinent ISO (MISO) demonstrate "increased risk over the next five yea...

A lot has been canceled in 2020 and while theres plenty to lament about, one silver lining — whether welcomed or not — is theres more time to rest and connect with those near us.  For many of us, theres newfound time to pick up the hobby we always wondered about, spend more time with loved ones or experiment in the kitchen with new recipes (remember when it seemed everyone was making sourdough bread?).  Some of us may find ourselves picking up the spatula or plugging in the elec...

The flowering tree. incredibly, both dogs independently of one another gave their cadaver alert. >> the dog handler said this is an indication that possibly the scent is coming up through the tree. she did say that the body could be ten feet down here or 30 feet in that direction if indeed there was a body there. >> detective wilson had a new theory. maybe mike snyder had never actually left home after all. was this the big break the case needed? the detective discussed it with mikes sister. >> ...

Crushed. the detective was deflated. >> i had to think that, well, theres a possibility that maybe his body was somewhere else. i did have a feeling that michael snyder was dead somewhere. >> digging here was over, but metaphorically at least detective wilson still held a shovel. he was trying to get to the bottom of what ellen snyder had been doing around the time her husband mysteriously disappeared. it wasnt long before he found someone ellen worked with who had offered some very unusual help...

>> he could have a successful job anywhere in the country. >> one that would have showed up in your search. >> right, yes. >> there was no trace of him. not anywhere. it was as if the master mechanic had simply vanished. >> there wasnt any indication of anything that would match up. >> but mike snyder had filed income tax returns in 2004 and 2005. years after he disappeared. it was quite simply, very, very odd. with the investigation seeming to stall, detective wilson called the local paper, the...