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Fire investigators are looking into the cause of a mid-day blaze Monday, August 1 that reportedly destroyed an unoccupied house in the Town of Richford.

Fire investigators are looking into the cause of a mid-day blaze Monday, August 1 that reportedly destroyed an unoccupied house in the Town of Richford.

Get our free mobile app Local governments are still waiting for a decision by the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention on resuming the single-dose shots after officials recommended April 14 that the program be paused while scientists investigate why a handful of women developed life-threatening blood clots days after getting the vaccine. Kathy Whyte/ WNBF News While waiting for the pause to be lifted, local officials are urging people to sign up for the other shots: Pfizer and Moderna, that are different formulas than the J&J vaccine. Early April 16, hundreds of appointments were open at...

While Broome County’s seven day rolling average was 2.9% at The February 24 update, below the New York State threshold for allowing visitors to return to nursing homes, it doesn’t look like many Broome County residents will be visiting their loved ones in nursing homes in the next few days. Photo: Bob Joseph/WNBF News (file) The state says visitations can resume February 26 for the first time in almost a year in counties where the positivity rate is below five percent on a rolling seven-day average but homes also must be COVID-free for 14 days.  Private nursing homes don’t report to t...