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ALBANY Nearly a quarter of the New Yorkers eligible to receive the COVID-19 vaccine in this phase of the campaign have received the first dose of the two-shot vaccination.
The total Monday morning stood at 2.23 million first doses and 1.32 million second doses. Roughly 10 million New Yorkers are eligible because of age, ailment or occupation.
The percentage of vaccinated residents varies greatly from one county to the next, though. This can be due to unique local factors; that and erratic supply of vaccine from the state and federal governments; an overwhelmed appointment-scheduling system; and a network of vaccination sites that is huge but inadequately supplied and not evenly located.
SCHENECTADY – Schenectady County Public Health Services Thursday issued a COVID advisory related to Broadway Lunch in Schenectady after an employee tested…
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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.
Ice cream dreams: Stella’s on State Street in Schenectady will be a family affair; At former Bumpy’s site | The Daily Gazette
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Ice cream dreams: Stella’s on State Street in Schenectady will be a family affair; At former Bumpy’s site
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Over 10 years ago, Ashley Viscariello worked at an ice cream shop on State Street.
And like any high schooler, she had a dream, albeit a very specific one: One day, she’d own the place.
She didn’t know when, or how, but she had a feeling she’d eventually be able to set up shop inside the big building with the brick pillars, one that’s sat there for over 20 years.
More of Schenectady Officer Pommer’s file released under Freedom of Information Law | The Daily Gazette
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Erica Miller and Peter R. Barber
Yugeshwar Gaindarpersaud is pictured in left photo; Officer Brian Pommer is pictured in 2018 in right photo.
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SCHENECTADY The Schenectady police officer involved in a controversial arrest last year that led to discipline had a separate disciplinary proceeding and also a counseling memo issued to him within the seven months before that.
Newly released Schenectady Police Department internal records show that Officer Brian Pommer, an eight-year veteran of the force, was given a counseling memo for discourtesy and using profanity following his response to a domestic call on Nov. 11, 2019.