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New York State's Burn Ban Has Begun PUBLISHED 9:00 PM ET Mar. 16, 2021 PUBLISHED 9:00 PM EDT Mar. 16, 2021 SHARE What You Need To Know Spring weather brings an increased risk of wildfires The ban lasts through May 14 Violators may be fined $500 for a first offense New York first enacted strict restrictions on open burning in 2009 to help prevent wildfires and reduce air pollution. The regulations allow residential brush fires in towns with fewer than 20,000 residents during most of the year, but prohibit such burning in spring when most ...

By John Camera Middletown SHARE “It’s quite clear that Governor Cuomo enacted this legislation to shut us up and get us off the streets without intending to have a true and honest dialogue,” said Luisa Fuentes, a local attorney. She, along with fellow attorney Michael Sussman, authored a letter to Cuomo. They, along with 311 others who signed it, are calling for the April 1 deadline for Executive Order 203 to be extended. “I wrote this letter with Luisa Fuentes because many of us around th...

By Brian Dwyer Jefferson County PUBLISHED 5:30 AM ET Mar. 17, 2021 PUBLISHED 5:30 AM EDT Mar. 17, 2021 SHARE "So I got these totes. The kids have been helping me tear down. They're going to be here in a little while," Watertown Boxing Club Founder Johnny Pepe said back in 2020 when he decided he could no longer keep his gym open. What You Need To Know For many smaller, family owned businesses, COVID-19 brought some very dark days as some temp...

PUBLISHED 11:34 AM ET Mar. 17, 2021 PUBLISHED 11:34 AM EDT Mar. 17, 2021 SHARE Gov. Andrew Cuomo received the single dose Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday at an event with prominent supporters of his in the Black community, and he urged New Yorkers to get whichever version of the vaccine that is made available to them. The governor received the vaccine at a church in Harlem as the state has expanded eligibility to include more people, including public-facing non-profit workers, public-facing government workers and business...

The changes took a heavy toll on students, parents, and teachers.