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7-Year-Old Boy Hospitalized with ‘Serious’ Injuries After Falling 35 Feet Off Ski Lift People 1/26/2021 © Provided by People Canton Fire Department/Twitter A 7-year-old boy was seriously injured after he fell approximately 35 feet from a ski lift in Massachusetts, authorities said. The Canton Fire Department responded just before 4:30 p.m. on Monday to the Blue Hills Ski Area following a report that a child had fallen from the lift, Chief Charles Doody said in a press release. "His injuries are serious, but are not believed to be life-threatening," the release said. Blue Hills Ski Ar...

Couple hurt in blaze in the Adirondacks pronounced dead at Syracuse hospital Updated Jan 25, 2021; Pierrepont, N.Y. — A couple carried out of a burning home Sunday in the Adirondacks have died at a Syracuse hospital. A fire trapped Ricky A. Gollinger and Lena A. Gollinger inside a house around 10:30 p.m. yesterday in St. Lawrence County, said the New York State Police. After they were rescued from the blaze, the critically injured Gollingers were rushed to Upstate University Hospital in Syracuse. The two were pronounced dead at the hospital, troopers said. Ricky Gollinger was 64. Lena Goll...

Jackson Township Fire Chief Tracy Hogue said his arm wasn't even sore after he received a COVID-19 vaccine shot. "It was easy, and I would encourage people to take it," he said. "I think it could be the beginning of the end of this."  Hogue and several other local health and fire officials said the number of first responders who opted to receive the initial shot in the past few weeks has been better than expected.  The Jackson Township Fire Department had 60 people — about 66% — opt to participate in the two-shot Moderna vaccine administered by local health departments. Only one em...

Gusty winds, warm temperatures knock out power, melt snow across the state Christmas morning Matt Berg © Josh Reynolds for The Boston Globe A woman walks past a giant tree ornament in Copley Square on Christmas as rain, high winds, and unseasonably warm temperatures removed the blanket of snow that was present on Christmas Eve. Massachusetts experienced gusty winds and abnormally warm temperatures Friday morning, causing minor power outages and snow melt in many areas. Temperatures in Boston lingered just below 60 degrees throughout the morning. Despite the spring-like cond...

Monday, December 21, 2020 - 6:29 pm Josephine “Jo” P. Swift, 89, of Baldwinsville peacefully passed away on December 20, 2020. She was the youngest of six children born on March 4, 1931, to the late Joseph and Sophia Swiech Powroznik of New York Mills. It was at St. Mary’s Church in New York Mills where she married her husband of 71 years, George M. Swift. In addition to her parents, she was pre-deceased by a son, George Merrill, Jr., who died in infancy, as well as her brothers Stanley and Walter Powroznik, and sisters Genievive Winnicki, Ceceilia Chrabas and Leocadia (Lee) Mitsler...