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Health

New York to implement indoor mask mandate for public places

NEW YORK (AP) — Facing a winter surge in COVID-19 infections, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Friday that masks will be required in all indoor public places unless the businesses or venues implement a vaccine requirement. Hochul said the decision to impose a mask mandate was based on ...

Essex County reports four new COVID deaths

The Essex County Health Department recorded four new COVID-19 deaths on Wednesday, Dec. 8, and public health officials said two of these have been linked to an outbreak at the Essex Center nursing home in Elizabethtown. ECHD Program Coordinator Andrea Whitmarsh said there have been 28 cases ...

AMC limits visitation

SARANAC LAKE — Due to an increase in COVID-19 cases locally and within Adirondack Medical Center in Saranac Lake, Adirondack Health is choosing to again suspend most patient visitation in hospital and active, short-term treatment settings, starting Dec. 3, according to Adirondack Health ...

Counties report two more COVID deaths

The Essex County Health Department is warning residents that the county is currently experiencing its biggest surge of COVID-19 cases to date. Both Franklin and Essex counties reported one COVID-19 death each on Monday. The Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe says they are seeing high COVID-19 numbers, ...

AMC has highest COVID hospitalization rate yet

SARANAC LAKE — As of Monday, Nov. 29, there were 10 people hospitalized at Adirondack Medical Center in Saranac Lake who had tested positive for COVID-19, with one on a ventilator. Adirondack Health Spokesman Matt Scollin said nine of these cases came in over the weekend, and that seven of ...

Saranac Lake 6er hiking challenge bell missing again

SARANAC LAKE — The Saranac Lake 6er bell has been silenced ... again. Village Administrative Assistant Cassandra Hopkins said the bell went missing from where it hung at the Berkeley Green gazebo on Nov. 8 and has not been seen since. Ringing the bell is the cherry on top of completing ...