OGDENSBURG â The St. Lawrence County Deputies Association will be hosting an ice fishing derby with proceeds going to Sgt. Ryan Shelly to help in his fight against salivary gland cancer.
The derby is being held Feb. 6 from daylight until 5 p.m. All participants must be signed up by Feb 3.
The derby is open boundaries within St. Lawrence County and has a $20 entry fee. The association is urging participants to follow COVID-19 guidelines implemented by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and St. Lawrence County Public Health Department.
âA lot of people have said this is not how things are traditionally done and my response is, this isnât a traditional time and we have to make some adjustments,â County Detective Rick Engle said.
Opened Jan. 18, the state-run vaccination center will enter its third week of operation on Monday.
Coming from the hamlet of Plessis in the town of Alexandria Thursday afternoon, James H. Mercer said he was initially doubtful about how organized the site would be. He said he signed up for an appointment about two weeks ago and drove more than 60 miles to St. Lawrence County.
âIt was smooth as hell,â Mr. Mercer said, patting his arm with satisfaction, after a roughly 20-minute process inside SUNY Potsdamâs Maxcy Hall.
Of New Yorkâs 13 state-run points of dispensing, or PODs, seven currently have appointment availability through mid-April. Earlier this week and into Friday morning, only SUNY Potsdam and Plattsburgh International Airport were accepting appointments, but by late Friday afternoon, the stateâs online eligibility and appointment portal updated availability at SUNY Albany, the New York State Fairgrounds, Westchester County Center, SUNY Stony Brook
Friday, January 29, 2021 - 4:55 pm
Fifty five new cases of COVID-19 were reported to the St. Lawrence County Public Health department today (Friday, Jan. 29), bringing the total number of confirmed positive COVID-19 cases to-date to 4,696.
Public Health said 894 cases are active. Visit https://www.stlawco.org/ to check out the COVID-19 Cases by Town map layouts.
To date, 3,735 cases have been released from isolation.
33 cases are hospitalized.
Sixty seven deaths have occurred; this fatality data comes from the New York State Department of Health and was last updated on Jan. 29 before 2 p.m.
Public Health reports that 179,500 COVID-19 tests have been performed as of Jan. 28 this testing data comes from the New York State Department of Health and was last updated on Jan. 29 before 2 p.m.
BRASHER FALLS â The St. Lawrence and Heuvelton school districts have joined other local districts in switching to remote instruction this week after positive cases of COVID-19 were identified in their buildings.
In a Wednesday night Facebook message, St. Lawrence Central School Superintendent Christopher Rose said they were notified at 5 p.m. that they had a positive case of COVID-19 in the high school, and middle and high school students would pivot to remote instruction for Thursday and Friday to give them time to coordinate contract tracing with the St. Lawrence County Public Health Department.
âThe person that tested positive has not been in school since last week but the timeframe falls within the ten days of mandatory quarantine for those who may have been exposed,â Mr. Rose wrote.
OGDENSBURG â Skaters from the Ogdensburg Figure Skating Club were recently welcomed back to the ice almost a month after the closing of the cityâs Lockwood Arena.
After much debate about the early reopening of the Lockwood Arena at the Ogdensburg City Council meeting Jan. 11, the arena reopened three days earlier than originally planned â Jan. 13.
âWith so much going on with the (COVID) pandemic right now, we need to think about our youthsâ mental health,â City Councilor Nichole L. Kennedy said. âKids need to be able to get out and get exercise and they need to do it in a way that is monitored by adults and responsible organizations. I see how hard it is for kids to not be in school and interact with their friends. So if they have the opportunity to do so safely outside of school, I think we need to take advantage of it.â