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Watertown Daily Times The union representing New York’s corrections officers has filed suit in state Supreme Court against two state departments alleging mandatory paid sick leave was denied during the ongoing COVID-19 health crisis. Filed Friday in Albany County, the suit names the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision and the Department of Civil Service on the basis of three violations — to Paid Sick Leave Law, the Governor’s Office of Employee Relations Quarantine Leave...

PHIL DI VECE News Contributor Sun, 01/17/2021 - 8:45am A portion of the Lincoln Telegraph, an early Wiscasset newspaper that resident Steve Christiansen shared. One of the oldest photographs of Wiscasset village taken not long after the Rundlett Block shown at the right was constructed in 1871, 50 years after the final edition of the Lincoln Telegraph was printed. Let us travel back in time to before Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, television and radio. We’ll stop the clock 200 years ...

COVID surge in SLC prisons is ‘terrifying,’ says inmate’s wife WWNY COVID surge in SLC prisons is ‘terrifying,’ says inmate’s wife By Keith Benman | January 12, 2021 at 5:21 PM EST - Updated January 12 at 9:39 PM GOUVERNEUR, N.Y. (WWNY) - COVID-19 cases continue to surge at prisons in St. Lawrence County. Everyone is concerned. Some say it’s more like terrified. The total of COVID-19 cases has doubled at Gouverneur Correctional Facility in the last two we...

January 1, 2021 David Frederick Powers, 77, of Lewes, formerly of Severna Park, Md., passed away Friday, Dec. 25, 2020, at Beebe Healthcare in Lewes. He was born Aug. 15, 1943, in Freeport, Ill., son of the late Gerald S. and Anna M. (Deuth). Powers. In 1965, Mr. Powers married the love of his life, Barbara Jean Powers (Gatz) in Oregon, Ill., and they shared 55 adventurous and wonderful years together. He built a lifelong career as a senior data systems analyst for the Department of D...

Gouverneur prison has 50 inmates with COVID WWNY Gouverneur prison has 50 inmates with COVID By Keith Benman | December 29, 2020 at 4:41 PM EST - Updated December 29 at 7:11 PM TOWN OF GOUVERNEUR, N.Y. (WWNY) - Gouverneur has become a COVID-19 hotspot and an outbreak at the prison there is a big contributor. COVID-19 is spreading in the town of Gouverneur. A St. Lawrence County Public Health map shows it has 96 active cases, by far the highest of any town in the county. And there may be mo...

GOWANDA — Assemblyman Joseph Giglio, the ranking minority member of the Assembly Committee on Corrections, was critical of the governors’s plan to close three Upstate prisons — including the Gowanda Correctional Facility. Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration will close the Gowanda facility, the Clinton Correctional Facility Annex in Dannemora and the Watertown Correctional Facility by March 30 as the state’s fiscal crisis deepens and the population of inmates wanes. More ...

More state prisons to close COXSACKIE — The majority of the construction at the new Greene County Jail is expected to wrap up next month, as three more state prisons bite the dust. Gowanda Correctional Facility, Watertown Correctional Facility and the Annex at Clinton Correctional Facility will close by March 30 — an estimated savings of $89 million, according to the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision. Clinton Annex is an extension of the Clinton Correctional Fa...

PUBLISHED 4:36 PM ET Dec. 21, 2020 PUBLISHED 4:36 PM EST Dec. 21, 2020 SHARE New York state officials on Monday moved to close three prisons in upstate New York, citing a declining prison population and the cost savings of about $89 million.  The state Department of Corrections and Commnunity Supervision is moving to shutter the Watertown Correctional Facility, the Gowanda Correctional Facility and the Clinton Annex in the latest round of...

Owner Tim Boyd at Hidden Valley in 1982. Sam Leone photo. TUESDAY 26 DEC 00 - Colder than normal temperatures and earlier snowfalls combined for an early start to the skiing season at Hidden Valley Golf and Ski Resort. PHOTO BY ROBERT COHEN/PD WEDNESDAY 8 JANUARY 2003 - A sudden dose of Spring moved through the St. Louis metropolitan area, allowing Rudy Ryback of University City to go sleeveless as he went snowboarding at Hidden Valley Ski Resort in Eureka. Ryback pulled the appropriate clothin...

COVID infections rise among area prison workers COVID-19 in prisons By Lexi Bruening | December 15, 2020 at 6:10 PM EST - Updated December 16 at 6:46 AM TOWN OF WATERTOWN, N.Y. (WWNY) - There’s a rise in COVID-19 cases in north country prisons, but they aren’t coming from behind bars. It’s the staff that has come down with the virus. “It’s very concerning. I have a genuine concern for each and every one of our members,” said Michael Powers, New York State Corr...