MAYVILLE — The annual Fourth of July parade in Mayville has been canceled for the second year in a row. During the Mayville Village Board meeting Tuesday, Mayor Ken Shearer announced the planning committee has determined they need to cancel the parade due to COVID-19 concerns. But even ...
ALBANY (AP) — Children between the ages of 12 and 15 can get vaccinated in New York effective immediately, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday, after the state's vaccine advisory task force and state health commissioner reviewed safety data. New York City health officials and national ...
Identity thefts in New York surged during the pandemic with more than 67,000 complaints filed statewide in 2020, which was 85% more than the previous year and more than four times the annual total from a decade earlier, according to a report released today by New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli. The New York City metropolitan area had the highest rate of identity theft reports to the Federal Trade Commission per capita at 403 reports per 100,000 people, followed by Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown (315) and Rochester (303) metropolitan areas. "In the midst of the stresses ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a move to send the country back toward pre-pandemic life, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday eased indoor mask-wearing guidance for fully vaccinated people, allowing them to safely stop wearing masks inside in most places. The new guidance still ...
More than 45,000 Chautauqua County residents have completed their COVID-19 vaccination series, while 51.5% of adults have received at least one shot. According to New York state’s vaccine tracker, 45,117 have completed their series in the county while 53,222 have received at least one dose to date. In Cattaraugus County, 23,022 have either received the one-dose shot or have received both of the two-dose vaccine. Further, 27,088 have received at least one shot, representing about 44.7% of adults in the county. Locally, Chautauqua County residents have several options to getting ...
WellNow Urgent Care, which has locations in Jamestown, Lakewood and Dunkirk, said Tuesday that patients will now receive COVID-19 polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, test results within 24 hours. To speed up the process, the COVID-19 tests will be processed at WellNow's in-house lab. The ...
