An immigration detention facility in western New York that’s been beset by coronavirus must come up with a plan to vaccinate detainees from the disease, a.
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ALBANY The former head of MyPayrollHR, who has already admitted to committing a years-long fraud that caused more than $100 million in losses to banks, financing companies and businesses, has had his sentencing in federal court delayed until August, with the hope that in-person court will be possible by then.
Michael Mann, 50, who formerly lived in the Saratoga County town of Edinburg, was scheduled to be sentenced March 21, but Senior U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence E. Kahn last week granted a prosecution request to postpone sentencing. The sentencing will now take place Aug. 4 in U.S. District Court in Albany.
Frederick J. âHankâ Robar Sr. stands for a photo at his house in Potsdam. Sydney Schaefer/Watertown Daily Times
POTSDAM â It all began some 17 years ago, when Frederick J. âHankâ Robar Sr. asked the village for a zoning change at one of his properties on Market Street.
POTSDAM â When Morgan D. Elliott was 8 years old, the villageâs first toilet garden was seed…
When the village said no, Mr. Robar decided to put about a dozen toilets on his lot at the corner of Market and Pleasant streets. The toilets have since multiplied; there are now dozens more fixtures spread across the village.
Some regions of the country are renowned for their landscapes.
What would Florida be without its everglades? People travel from all over the world to see the cherry blossoms in Washington, D.C.
There are the Badlands in South Dakota, Mojave Desert in Nevada and redwood trees in California. And, of course, we have the Adirondack Mountains right here in Northern New York.
Itâs understandable that many in Potsdam didnât want Frederick Robarâs contribution to the communityâs topography become the talk of St. Lawrence County. But officials appear ready to accept the inevitable.
On Monday, members of the Potsdam Village Board of Trustees approved a resolution rescinding a previous order for Robar to remove his toilet gardens. This came more than four months after Senior U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence E. Kahn in Albany granted Robar a preliminary injunction against a village mandate to dismantle his gardens.
A white man who stabbed a Black college student to death at a bus stop on the University of Maryland’s campus has been sentenced to life in prison for what prosecutors claimed was a racially motivated hate crime.