Town of Keeseville – Essex County
On April 11, Forest Ranger Sarah Bode cited two rock climbers for Failure to Obey a DEC sign. The tickets were written to a 31-year-old man from Bernardsville, New Jersey, and a 32-year-old woman from New York City for climbing closed routes on Poke O Moonshine. DEC wildlife staff closes certain cliffs and climbing routes to allow peregrine falcons to breed, select a nesting site, and encourage the birds to return to their nesting sites. Once nesting has begun, DEC wildlife staff work with Forest Rangers and other DEC programs in notifying the climbing community and public of these closures and may open climbing routes that can be used without disturbing the nesting falcons and their young. After the young falcons have fledged, climbing routes are opened. The rock climbing community has been cooperative with DEC’s efforts and climbers have volunteered to be observers, monitoring falcons, and nesting activity. DEC last issued tickets to climbers for climbing on the closed routes in the early 2000s, and Forest Rangers continue to patrol and enforce these routes.
Posted: April 21st, 2020 under Adirondack Region News, Environmental News, Law Enforcement News, Northern NY News, State Government News.
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Sign erected when construction was scheduled to begin last month.
Photo taken at 5 p.m. today
By John T. Ryan
Peru – The old Maplefields gas station-convenience store at 654 Bear Swamp Road was demolished yesterday. Today contractors trucked away the remaining debris. The installation of the footings should begin tomorrow. Wright & Morrissey Inc. of South Burlington is the general contractor. Fuller Excavating of Keeseville is also working on the project.
Code Enforcement Officer Bob Guynup said Maplefields qualifies as an essential service under the terms of Governor Andrew Cuomo’s coronavirus March 22nd ‘PAUSE’ Executive Order. All on-site employees are required to wear masks.
The new building has been a long time coming. Planning Board and Zoning Board approvals were granted in 2017 with construction scheduled to begin that fall. Nothing happened in 2018 or 2019. Construction was expected to start 30 days ago but was delayed when the coronavirus crisis worsened. If the original construction is maintained the new store should be in operation in about 90 days.
Maplefields is a growing company operating at 44 locations. According to the company website: “Still based in St. Albans, Vermont, Maplefields strives to be the best in the business with a strong focus on community involvement, bright clean stores and the most outstanding staff you can find in any convenience store. Maplefields is best known for having a high-quality coffee program and very clean bathrooms all of which boast fresh flowers. Maplefields has locations as far west as Malone, New York and as far east as Littleton, New Hampshire.”
Link to Peru Gazette’s 2017 story with more details.
http://www.perugazette.com/…/maplefields-plans-major-expan…/
Posted: April 21st, 2020 under Business News, General News, Northern NY News, Peru News, Peru/Regional History.
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In coordination with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Red Cross is seeking people who are fully recovered from the new coronavirus to sign up to donate plasma to help current COVID-19 patients.
People who have fully recovered from COVID-19 have antibodies in their plasma that can attack the virus. This convalescent plasma is being evaluated as a treatment for patients with serious or immediately life-threatening COVID-19 infections, or those judged by a healthcare provider to be at high risk of progression to severe or life-threatening disease.
Click here for more information
Posted: April 21st, 2020 under Heathcare News.
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((Please Share)) Tomorrow If Anyone needs a hot meal let me know or inbox me your address and I will pick it up at 430pm in Peru at the Soup Kitchen and Delivery it and leave it on your doorsteps.Tomorrow between 445pm-515pm. They are having Shepherds Pie, Asparagus soup and Molasses Cookies inbox me on Facebook or text my cell # 1-518-593-3078 ((A Huge thanks goes out today to Ruth Hamilton Neil Hamilton Patti Thew Hamilton Family and to Marian Morse- Peters for the very Generous donation I will be dropping off tomorrow to the Soup Kitchen In Peru also again to Brenda A Brelia for making more Face masks again today !!!
Posted: April 21st, 2020 under Community Events.
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Assemblyman Dan Stec (R,C,I-Queensbury) today applauded the announcement by Governor Cuomo that New York State will use a regional approach to reopening New York State’s economy. This move comes on the heels of the bipartisan advocacy of Assemblyman Stec, local and regional leaders and area small business owners to abandon a one-size-fits-all approach for one that more accurately reflects the situation on the ground in different parts of the state.
“I welcome the Governor’s announcement that our state will reopen region-by-region,” Stec said. “As I’ve personally said to the Governor’s office during daily updates and heard from local business owners and elected officials, we need to acknowledge that the needs of the North Country and other parts of the state at this time are simply not the same as the needs of New York City and downstate suburbs. Today’s announcement is a sign that the Governor has listened and is responding to what I and so many upstate leaders have said and encouraged.
“By opting to move forward in this fashion, the Governor has taken a key first step in helping upstate get back on track,” he added. “Restoring our economy and coming up with new strategies to help the record amount of unemployed New Yorkers get back to work is going to take time and a lot of hard work and planning. We’ll have to proceed safely, cautiously and responsibly to ensure we continue to mitigate the spread of coronavirus in our region, but this news is a great start.
“In the days, weeks and months ahead, I look forward to working with the Governor, my colleagues in the Legislature, local business owners and our community stakeholders to help safely reopen and restore confidence in our economy,” Stec concluded.
Posted: April 21st, 2020 under Heathcare News, Political News, State Legislator News.
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Clinton County Health Department COVID-19 Case Update
Contact Tracing Vital to County’s Efforts to Control the Spread
Plattsburgh, April 21, 2020. Expansion of testing and contact tracing have been identified at both the state and national levels as key to a safe reopening of businesses and other sectors of society. Each time the Clinton County Health Department (CCHD) receives notification of a positive COVID-19 test result, contact tracing begins.
Contact tracing includes interviewing an individual who is ill or has tested positive for COVID-19; determining where they have been and who they have been in contact with, and reaching out to those contacts. The same is done for individuals who meet the criteria of a suspect case, even without a positive test result. The contact tracing team for COVID-19 also connects individuals who must remain in isolation or quarantine with community resources to help them meet the needs for food and other essential items.
“Contact tracing is a routine part of any communicable disease investigation”, according to Erin Streiff, Director of Health Care Services for the Clinton County Health Department. “What’s different with COVID-19, is the scale. There are many more people to contact and more follow-up needed as people are advised to remain in isolation or quarantine as a result of exposure to the virus. More people are needed to accomplish the task.”
The County’s contact tracing team currently consists of 15 individuals and includes Health Department staff, Sheriff’s Department representatives and additional assistance from the Department of Social Services. “The size of the contact tracing team for any disease investigation depends on the number of people who are ill or suspected of being ill,” Ms. Streiff noted. “The well-established partnerships that exist among County Departments and other community organizations allowed the team to grow as needed.”
CCHD developed a “Just in Time” training (JITT) for new additions to the contact tracing team. JITT is a term used to describe the training that quickly teaches the specific steps needed to carry out a task during an emergency or disaster. This training is another factor in the County’s ability to expand contact tracing as needed.
In the coming weeks, it is likely that more testing will become available in all areas of the state and nation. With this increased level of testing, a larger team will be needed to do contact tracing. Clinton County is anticipating the need to expand its capacity.
COVID-19 case numbers in Clinton County for Tuesday, April 21, 2020 are as follows.
Lab-confirmed positive 56 – Recovered 40 – Deaths 2
Probable 3 – Recovered 2 – Deaths 1
Suspect 42 Recovered 37 – Deaths 0
Posted: April 21st, 2020 under County Government News, Heathcare News.
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More than 180 nations worldwide have confirmed cases of the coronavirus. The following have the highest number as of 4 a.m. ET*:
- US 787,960 (+3.72%)
- Spain 200,210 (+0.77%)
- Italy 181,228 (+1.26%)
- France 156,493 (+1.55%)
- Germany 147,065 (+0.91%)
- UK 125,856 (+3.86%)
- Turkey 90,980 (+5.42%)
- China 83,849 (+0.04%)
- Iran 83,505 (+1.57%)
- Russia 47,121 (+9.96%)
Source: Johns Hopkins University
*Percentage change over 24 hours
Posted: April 21st, 2020 under Heathcare News.
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Posted: April 21st, 2020 under Regional NY-VT News.
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Clinton County Health Department afternoon 4-19-20 COVID-19 Case Update. Plattsburgh – Of the 505 tests for COVID-19 that have been conducted in Clinton County to date, Clinton County Health Department reports that 56 have come back positive for COVID-19.
Of these lab-confirmed cases, 37 have recovered. Indeterminate results have been received for three individuals, 2 of whom have recovered from their symptoms. Additionally 44 suspect cases have been identified; 36 of whom have recovered. The number of deaths associated with COVID-19 in Clinton County remains at 3 (2 lab-confirmed and one probable).
Posted: April 20th, 2020 under County Government News, Heathcare News.
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Peru – A small pile of rubble is all that remains at Maplefields on the Bear Swamp Rd. this evening. The demolition of the old building was planned for March 15th, but it was delayed by the coronavirus crisis.
Owner R. L. Vallee had hoped to construct a new building in about 90 days. The Gazette will try to determine more information tomorrow.
Click the link to learn more about the new building. It’s about twice the size of the structure demolished today.
Click here to learn more about the new Maplefields
Posted: April 20th, 2020 under Business News, General News, Peru News, Peru/Regional History.
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Chamber set to host a conversation with hospital presidents on the impact of COVID-19!
Plattsburgh, NY – On Thursday April 23rd at 10:00 AM, the North Country Chamber of Commerce will be hosting a conversation with hospital presidents to give us updates and answers to questions regarding the response by our hospitals to COVID-19 and the impacts on hospital operations.
Featuring:
MICHELLE LEBEAU, President, UVM Health Network: CVPH and Alice Hyde
SYLVIA GETMAN, President and CEO, Adirondack Health
JOHN REMILLARD, President, UVM Health Network: Elizabethtown Community Hospital
Register and ask your questions by visiting northcountrychamber.com!
Posted: April 20th, 2020 under Adirondack Region News, Heathcare News, Northern NY News.
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