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WATERTOWN — The total number of COVID-19 cases reported among inmates in the five state prisons across Jefferson and St. Lawrence counties has more than doubled in the past week.

Jan 11, 2021 — Adirondack Daily Enterprise RAY BROOK — Three inmates at Adirondack Correctional Facility are suing the state — notably the governor and the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision — for allegedly endangering older inmates at the prison during the COVID-19 pandemic. The plaintiffs are represented by attorneys employed by Relman Colfax PLLC and the Prisoners’ Rights Project of the Legal Aid Society. The Release Aging People in Prison Campaign joins them as a...

GOUVERNEUR — Two north country correctional facilities that have managed to evade the novel coronavirus since its onset nearly a year ago have now confirmed cases among inmate populations. According to updated figures released at 3 p.m. Monday by the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision, Ogdensburg and Cape Vincent correctional facilities have each logged their first case of COVID-19 among inmates. Both facilities were some of the few in the state untouched by the viru...

WESTVILLE — State police continue their investigation into an 18-year-old homicide of a Franklin County woman.

acerbone@adirondackdailyenterprise.com The Federal Correctional Institute at Ray Brook is seen in April 2016. The buildings were originally built to house athletes for the 1980 Winter Olympics in nearby Lake Placid. Converting it to a prison afterward was part of the original plan. (Enterprise file photo — Antonio Olivero) RAY BROOK — The federal Bureau of Prisons reported Tuesday that 34 inmates at the Federal Correctional Institute at Ray Brook have tested positive for COVID-19, the m...

acerbone@adirondackdailyenterprise.com The Bloomingdale Post Office is closed to all but P.O. box mail delivery currently, and the USPS plans to reopen it Jan. 4. (Enterprise photo — Aaron Cerbone) Post offices in Ray Brook, Bloomingdale, Rainbow Lake and Paul Smiths plan to reopen window, retail and package pick-up services Jan. 4, as long as they have enough healthy staff to do so. “Of course, this is always contingent upon the good health of all parties involved,” Maureen Marion, ...

Outdoornews December 24, 2020 (Dutchess County) • On Dec. 4, ECO Eyler questioned a hunter about details of a buck he had posted on a social media site. The hunter reported that the deer was harvested in Connecticut, just over the state border, and brought the ECO to the deer hanging in his brother’s shed about a mile way. The deer was hanging in the shed, replete with a Connecticut deer tag and half gutted. ECO Eyler informed the hunter of DEC’s chronic wasting disease regulations that p...

Outdoor Journal: Making some out-of-season sightings while out rabbit hunting | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS By Ed Noonan/For The Daily Gazette | December 23, 2020 Earlier this month, I decided to bundle up and head out to do a little small game hunting to see if I could kick up a few rabbits using my new Heritage Rough Rider .22 revolver. I was slowly stopping and going when I saw movement coming up from a gully. I sat down quickly in the bushes and out from me about 10-15 steps from me were two...

acerbone@adirondackdailyenterprise.com On Sunday, Dec. 20 two postal workers from the Watertown area handle holiday packages on the Saranac Lake Post Office loading dock. The packages were driven over from the Ray Brook Post Office, which suspended package pick-up due to a COVID-19-related staff shortage on Monday, Dec. 21. (News photo — Aaron Cerbone) Post offices in Ray Brook, Bloomingdale, Rainbow Lake and Paul Smiths suspended window, retail and package pick-up services Monday, Dec. 21 du...

acerbone@adirondackdailyenterprise.com On Sunday two postal workers from the Watertown area handle holiday packages on the Saranac Lake Post Office loading dock. The packages were driven over from the Ray Brook Post Office, which suspended package pick-up due to a COVID-19-related staff shortage today. (Enterprise photo — Aaron Cerbone) The Bloomingdale Post Office is one of four suspending package, window and retail services through the end of the year, due to COVID-19-related sta...