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Mar 04, 2021 — The North Country’s Offices for Aging are helping older adults register for their COVID-19 vaccine. Michelle Breen is the Director of Franklin County’s Office for the Aging. She says they've helped register over 500 people.  “We are seeing so many that don’t have internet access or the ability to register online. So it’s sort of all hands on deck once something opens to register as many people as possible.”  If you are 65 plus, and having trouble signing up for a vaccination slot, call your County’s Office for the Aging. They’ll help with registering for an...

Feb 22, 2021 — We stopped by the first annual Potsdam ‘Snowman Festival’, to check out some of the creations made by over 20 groups, of families, students, and friends. Amy FeiereiselSnowpeople, ducks, and dragons at the Potsdam Snowman Festival Norwood artists Kris Rozelle, left, and Shelley Mae Bartlett of Team Meadow Harvest won 'Most Unique' for their “Think Spring” theme, including a Monarch butterfly snowman. NCNow photo by Cheryl Shumway.   Saturday was the first annual Potsdam Snowman Festival, organized by area arts organizations, and headed up by the North Country Childr...

EOHU public health employees preparing COVID-19 vaccine clinic at St. Jacques Nursing Home, January 13, 2021 (Embrun) From left to right: EOHU employees Charles Baseka, Darleen Séguin, and Éric Boisclair Feb 03, 2021 — Amy FeiereiselLiving in the COVID-19 era when you're immuno-compromised COVID-19 has changed everyone’s lives, making a lot of strange things normal, and a lot of normal things strange. We have new vocabulary - social distancing, pandemic fatigue, the 'rona - and new ways of doing things - like zoom cocktail hours. But for some folks, who have chronically weak immune sy...

Photo: Kevin P. Coughlin / Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo Feb 01, 2021 — The COVID-19 vaccine continues to be distributed to the 7 million New Yorkers in groups 1A and 1B. They include healthcare workers, teachers, and people over the age of 65. Getting the vaccine is a fairly simple procedure; signing up for it is proving to be a lot harder, especially for those uncomfortable with modern technology, like computers and smartphones. That’s where New York State’s Offices for the Aging are stepping in. Amy FeiereiselNYS Offices for the Aging setting up vaccine appointments for the el...

Jan 27, 2021 — There are little, independently owned movie theatres all over the North Country, and they’ve been some of the small businesses hit hardest by COVID-19. Liz and Larry Mcnamara are the owners of The Strand in Schroon Lake, in the southern Adirondacks. Normally, Schroon Lake is a bustling summer town, so they open the theatre from May through October. In 2020, because of the coronavirus pandemic, they never opened at all, says Liz. Amy FeiereiselNorth Country at Work: The Strand in Schroon Lake trying to weather the coronavirus storm “For us that meant that we lost all of t...