Candidate announces for Montgomery County executive | The Daily Gazette
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MONTGOMERY COUNTY – Hagaman resident Rita Francesa Loffredo Friday announced her intention to run as the Democratic Party candidate for Montgomery County Executive.
She said she also intends to seek the endorsement of the Conservative Party and the Working Families Party.
“I think that there are lot of issues in Montgomery County that aren’t being addressed,” she said. “Someone needs to have the courage to stand up and ask these questions. I think we need to have someone who really understands the problems of working class people.”
Loffredo, 23, is a political newcomer. She has the support of Montgomery County Democratic Committee Chairman Terry Bieniek and would be the first Democrat to run for county executive since the first election for that position in 2013 when incumbent Republican Matt Ossenfort ran against former St. Johnsville Supervisor Dominick Stagliano, a Democrat.
New panel has input on Schenectady police hires | The Daily Gazette
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Schenectady Four new recruits for the Schenectady Police Department were some of the first candidates of the department to experience a hiring process which now includes conversations with a Community Advisory Panel.
“For the first time the community has insight into this process,” said Ron Gardner, the city’s Affirmative Action Officer, who heads the panel.
The Police Department announced Wednesday in a news release it hired four recruits who will head to the academy Monday for six months of basic training, followed by 12 weeks of department supervised field training.
Foss: Vaccine process a source of frustration | The Daily Gazette
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That’s how long it took Terry Phillips to schedule an appointment to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
“I worked on it from 5:30 to 10:30 p.m. at night,” Phillips, 80, told me. “My computer kept crashing. It would take five minutes to input all the data, and then it would crash. It was very frustrating.”
It’s been several weeks since New York state expanded COVID-19 vaccine eligibility to those 65 and over, but appointments remain elusive for many.
One big barrier is supply New York needs more doses to meet the demand for a vaccine from a pandemic-weary populace eager to get inoculated.
Manager: Coronavirus angst runs high with vaccine supply low in Schenectady County
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Schenectady County Manager Rory Fluman, left, told county legislators on Monday that the county is prepared to delivered many more coronavirus vaccinations than are currently being supplied. In this photograph, Fluman and General Electric s solar product line general manager Erik Schiemann announce a partnership between the county and GE to build a network of solar farms on April 26, 2018. (John Carl D Annibale/Times Union)John Carl D Annibale
SCHENECTADY Schenectady County Manager Rory Fluman said supplies of coronavirus vaccines is not keeping up with extraordinary demand from anxious people who want to be inoculated from the deadly disease.
Numbers vary by county as NY surpasses 27M COVID tests | The Daily Gazette
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ALBANY While vaccines may be the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel in the COVID-19 pandemic, testing remains critical to controlling the virus while we’re still in that tunnel.
Hundreds of thousands of tests are now being administered each week across New York, with the dual benefit of telling individuals if they’re infected and showing public health officials where the virus is most active.
The statewide cumulative test total since March 1 surpassed 27 million late last week.
State health officials are now seeking to expand one of the busiest testing regimes in the nation even further as they deal with a post-holiday onslaught of new infections and the arrival here of a more highly contagious variant of the virus.