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Watertown Daily Times The union representing New York’s corrections officers has filed suit in state Supreme Court against two state departments alleging mandatory paid sick leave was denied during the ongoing COVID-19 health crisis. Filed Friday in Albany County, the suit names the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision and the Department of Civil Service on the basis of three violations — to Paid Sick Leave Law, the Governor’s Office of Employee Relations Quarantine Leave Policy and DCS’ Leave of Quarantine policy. The New York State Corrections Officers and Police B...

PHIL DI VECE News Contributor Sun, 01/17/2021 - 8:45am A portion of the Lincoln Telegraph, an early Wiscasset newspaper that resident Steve Christiansen shared. One of the oldest photographs of Wiscasset village taken not long after the Rundlett Block shown at the right was constructed in 1871, 50 years after the final edition of the Lincoln Telegraph was printed. Let us travel back in time to before Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, television and radio. We’ll stop the clock 200 years ago at 1820. If you lived then, you got your news by word-of-mouth and from newspapers. That spring,...

COVID surge in SLC prisons is ‘terrifying,’ says inmate’s wife WWNY COVID surge in SLC prisons is ‘terrifying,’ says inmate’s wife By Keith Benman | January 12, 2021 at 5:21 PM EST - Updated January 12 at 9:39 PM GOUVERNEUR, N.Y. (WWNY) - COVID-19 cases continue to surge at prisons in St. Lawrence County. Everyone is concerned. Some say it’s more like terrified. The total of COVID-19 cases has doubled at Gouverneur Correctional Facility in the last two weeks. That has anyone there with loved ones wondering how much worse can it get? “It’s just...

January 1, 2021 David Frederick Powers, 77, of Lewes, formerly of Severna Park, Md., passed away Friday, Dec. 25, 2020, at Beebe Healthcare in Lewes. He was born Aug. 15, 1943, in Freeport, Ill., son of the late Gerald S. and Anna M. (Deuth). Powers. In 1965, Mr. Powers married the love of his life, Barbara Jean Powers (Gatz) in Oregon, Ill., and they shared 55 adventurous and wonderful years together. He built a lifelong career as a senior data systems analyst for the Department of Defense. Mr. Powers was particularly fond of travelling with his wife, family and friends, volunteeri...

Gouverneur prison has 50 inmates with COVID WWNY Gouverneur prison has 50 inmates with COVID By Keith Benman | December 29, 2020 at 4:41 PM EST - Updated December 29 at 7:11 PM TOWN OF GOUVERNEUR, N.Y. (WWNY) - Gouverneur has become a COVID-19 hotspot and an outbreak at the prison there is a big contributor. COVID-19 is spreading in the town of Gouverneur. A St. Lawrence County Public Health map shows it has 96 active cases, by far the highest of any town in the county. And there may be more ahead. “It’s the wintertime. Those are significant numbers and we haven’t hit the so-called...