P.M. NEWS THURSDAY 9-10-20
Governor Cuomo & the State Health Department announced that 76,813 COVID 19 tests were performed Wednesday statewide, with 757 or.98% testing positive. The state has had 441,911 positive test results since March, Hospitalizations were at 482, and there were 7 deaths, bringing the state wide total to 25,377. New York State has administered over 9 million tests.
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Chenango County Public Health announced that they are up to 240 total COVID 19 cases since March, they have 9 Active Cases with 1 hospitalization, 118 Active Quarantines, there has been 7 deaths, 209 recoveries and over 24,700 tests have been performed.
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The New York State Public High School Athletic Association has announced that several high-risk high school sports will be moved from this fall to the spring of 2021. Football, volleyball and competitive cheerleading will now begin on March 1st. The spring sports season has a revised start date of April 19th, 2021 due to fall sports being moved to the spring. Low and moderate risk sports are still allowed to begin on September 21st. It is up to individual school districts whether or not they will participate this fall. Several local districts are still in the process of making this decision. For the most up-to-date information regarding high school sports make sure to follow Sports Director Nate Lull on Twitter or visit WCDOSPORTS.COM.
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Delaware County Sheriff’s Deputies responded Monday Morning to a report of a 1 car roll-over accident on County Highway 16 & West Platner Brook Road in the town of Delhi. The driver was 22 year old Sean Rogers of Levittown, who was accused of operating a motor vehicle in an intoxicated condition at the time of the accident and lost control of his vehicle while negotiating a curve at an excessive speed. Rogers was not injured, he was charged with DWI, failure to keep right, moving from lane unsafely and speed not reasonable and prudent and he was released after being directed to appear in the Town of Delhi Court on a later date to answer the charges.
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State DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos announced today that the sale of big game hunting and trapping licenses has hit an all-time record in 2020, and were triple last year’s numbers. Part of the success was due to the State’s newly launched automated system for selling fishing, hunting and trapping licenses, which went live in July, and was activated for big game license sales and Deer Management Permits on August 10. More information is available at dec.ny.gov/outdoor/hunting.
A.M. NEWS Thursday 9-10-20
Delaware County is reporting no new positive test results for COVID-19 and no additional recoveries today. The known active cases in the County as of today remains 6, all are recovering at home. To date there have been 114 confirmed positive cases of COVID-19 in Delaware County, with 69 people now under mandatory quarantine, 6 people have died and 102 have fully recovered.
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Commerce Chenango will host their 2020 Virtual Sofa Soiree this evening, to honor and thank member businesses and individuals virtually this year, Commerce Chenango President & CEO Kerri Green comments:
(Kerri Green 9-10-20)
The Virtual program begins at 6:00 this evening, more information, or the link to the event can be obtained by calling 334-1400.
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State Police at Oneonta arrested 30 year old Stephen Maricle of Morris on August 29th, for Aggravated DWI. Troopers had responded to a separate incident on Draper Road in Morris Maricle arrived intoxicated, he was asked to perform standardized field sobriety tests, which he failed. Maricle was arrested, his B.A.C was .18%, and he was processed and released on appearance tickets to the town of Morris court and turned over to a sober third party.
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