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Thursday, February 18, 2021 - 1:34 pm BY JIMMY LAWTON North Country This Week OGDENSBURG — Ogdensburg citizens hoping to remove four elected officials from council have reportedly raised nearly $15,000 to hire an attorney, but further details regarding their progress have not been shared publicly. A group of Ogdensburg citizens is working to remove three city councilors and the mayor after an arbitrator ruled that they violated a section of the city charter that requires forfeiture of their seats. The ruling came out of an arbitration incident between the city and the O...

Experts say about most Americans will need to be vaccinated to bring the coronavirus pandemic under control. Track California’s progress toward that goal. The state’s decision to put Blue Shield at the helm removes key decision-making on vaccine administration from the purview of counties just as California’s vaccination efforts have begun to take off. More than 6 million doses have been administered in the state, with California now averaging a million vaccines a week, Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a tweet Monday. Advertisement Kaiser Permanente, which provides healthcare services for mor...

SACRAMENTO —  Blue Shield of California will create an algorithm to determine where to allocate COVID-19 vaccines statewide with the goal of being able to administer 3 million shots a week by March 1, according to details a contract made public Monday under a contract that grants the insurance giant far-reaching powers in overseeing the state’s distribution of doses. The company will attempt to drastically scale up the number of daily doses, but that goal will largely depend on the supply sent to the state. California received a little more than 1 million vaccine doses in the last week ...

For the third budget cycle in a row, Gov. Andrew Cuomo wants to expedite the closure of more New York state prisons.

Wednesday, January 27, 2021 - 5:31 pm BY JIMMY LAWTON North Country This Week OGDENSBURG – Ogdensburg tabled a wastewater treatment center change order that would have increased costs by $5 million and would have allowed the city to accept waste from other haulers to generate revenue. Several project alternates were left out of the original project scope due to costs that exceeded engineering plans. The city borrowed enough money to cover the alternate projects, which also included repairs to city pump stations. City Manager Stephen Jellie recommended moving forward wit...