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The Yonkers mayor is calling on SUNY to establish a community college campus in the city.
Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano wants SUNY to purchase the 32-acre property at human services organization Rising Ground, formerly Leake & Watts, in the southeastern portion of the city overlooking the Hudson River. He says the site could serve as a second campus for Westchester Community College, seeing as 25 percent of the college’s students are Yonkers residents. A spokeswoman says SUNY is open to any good idea to reach more New Yorkers with a SUNY education. She says, “Given this is a case of first impression, we will need to do our due diligence to make sure it could work financially and academically.” The college has six extension center locations, including in Yonkers.
Canceled appointments at White Plains vaccination site to be rescheduled
News 12 Staff
Updated on:Feb 23, 2021, 10:34am EST
Appointments are being rescheduled for patients whose second COVID-19 dose at the White Plains vaccination site on Court Street was canceled.
Health officials tell News 12 that people who had an appointment on Feb. 17, 18, 19, 20 or 22 will be rescheduled.
People should expect an email or a phone call.
New appointments will be at Westchester Community College in Valhalla.
Yonkers mayor calls for second WCC location on Rising Ground property
News 12 Staff
Updated on:Feb 20, 2021, 11:53am EST
Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano is calling on SUNY to expand and set up a second campus for Westchester Community College.
Currently, Rising Ground owns 32 sprawling acres in Yonkers. The nonprofit used to be an orphanage and now offers various services to local children.
However, it recently announced plans to sell the property, and Mayor Mike Spano says SUNY should jump at the chance to buy it and partner with WCC. This is the largest single track of land that s left in the city, he said.
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February 17, 2021
By Barrett Seaman–
It is a given that there is not enough supply of COVID-19 vaccine to meet the demand. As Governor Cuomo continues to remind New Yorkers, there are ten million of us currently eligible to get a vaccine but only enough doses being delivered to the state to inoculate some 300,000 each week. As of President’s Day, according to the governor, 92% of the doses delivered to the state have been used.
Beyond the two million residents fortunate enough to have received at least one dose, however, there is a sea of frustration born of bewilderment. All but two or three of the state’s designated vaccination sites continue to register “no appointments available,” and those that do are hundreds of miles from Westchester and more than a month away from delivery. Pharmacies are now getting shipments some directly from the federal government and some from the state, but in batches of 100 to 1,000 doses each that are snapped up in the blink of any eye. W