The Essex County Health Department is offering upgraded booster shots for the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines at the department’s vaccine clinics starting on Monday, Sept. 12. The updated boosters, called “bivalent boosters,” add components of recent variants of the ...

The Essex County Health Department is offering upgraded booster shots for the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines at the department’s vaccine clinics starting on Monday, Sept. 12. The updated boosters, called “bivalent boosters,” add components of recent variants of the ...

With the state Department of Health discontinuing its COVID-19 contact tracing Virtual Call Center on Friday, April 29, the Essex County Health Department is now shifting its focus from calling those who may have been exposed to COVID-19 and recording every positive case to concentrating on ...

Four Essex County supervisors tested positive for COVID-19 after attending the New York State Association of Counties annual conference in Colonie last week. A fifth, who didn’t attend the conference, is also positive. Essex County Board of Supervisors Chairman Shaun Gillilland and Moriah ...

Masks at local schools will become optional when classes start on Wednesday, March 2, following the lifting of the state mask mandate. The state is now leaving the decision of whether to keep or drop the mask mandate up to county and city governments, but the state has also given individual ...

SARANAC LAKE — Visitation hours at Adirondack Medical Center were reinstated Tuesday morning, Feb. 22, with some limitations. The Adirondack Health-run hospital is allowing one visitor per patient to visit between 9:30 and 11:30 a.m., and between 4:30 and 6:30 p.m. “The one visitor ...