Long Time Area Assemblyman Cliff Crouch announced earlier this year that he would retire at the end of this session, and has endorsed former Norwich Police Chief Joe Angelino for his Assembly Seat. Crouch announced today that he has filed a lawsuit against Assembly Republican Candidate Nick Libous:
(Crouch 5-20-20)
The Primary for the Republican nomination for the 122nd district will be held on June 23rd, candidates include Angelino, Libous, Vic Fuhrman & Jim Powers, the only Democratic Candidate for the seat is Richard Shaw.
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Governor Cuomo gave his Daily Coronavirus briefing in Albany today. Cuomo stated that his idea of “Reimagining Education” has been misunderstood:
(Cuomo 5-20-20)
The state is now up to 354,000 positive Coronavirus cases, there were another 112 deaths Tuesday, the State death toll is up to 22,976, Hospitalizations & Intubations continue to decrease statewide.
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The State Department of Labor today announced that the backlog of pending unemployment benefit applications has been reduced to 7,580, following the crush of applications since March 1st because of the COVID 19 pandemic. & state shutdown. Lingering unprocessed applications includes those that are missing critical federally mandated information and cannot be processed, as well as duplicates, abandoned claims & those that are being investigated for potential fraud. So far more than 2 million unemployment benefit applications have been processed, and those New Yorkers have received over $10 billion in benefits.
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State Police at Troop C in Sidney held their annual Memorial Ceremony today. Each May, each Troop honors the members of the State Police who have given their lives in the line of duty. Acting Troop Commander, Captain Jeffrey VanAuken addressed the troops. The ceremony was small and private due to the COVID pandemic.
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Officials with the 2020 summer Otsenango PONY League program announced today that they will postpone baseball activities, as they do not foresee high school athletic facilities becoming available for June and July due to mass gathering issues with the Coronavirus pandemic. This will be the 1st time in over 50 years that they will not have the summer baseball program, they have discussed the possibility of a Fall league that would start the weekend after Labor Day and run for 6 weekends, playing two games on either Saturday or Sunday.
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State Police received a 911 call at approximately 5:50 Tuesday afternoon that 79-year-old Beverly Golembeski was missing from a seasonal residence on Reed Road in the town of Kortright. The call to 911 was made by Golembeski’s husband; Police were told that Mrs. Golembeski suffers from dementia. Last night at about 10:49 pm, she was located by a forest ranger approximately half a mile from her residence; she was in good condition but was checked out by EMS as a precaution.
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The Broome County Health Department announced that they are now up to 431 cases of the Coronavirus, and they now report 32 deaths from the virus. 245 patients are being monitored by the Health department; they have had 326 recoveries and have conducted over 7500 tests.
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Chenango County Public Health updates their COVID 19 numbers today. They have 118 positive cases, with 4 deaths, 31 Mandatory Quarantines, 3 are currently hospitalized, 85 have Recovered, and they have performed 2032 tests so far.
The Otsego County Department of Health reported their 5th death Tuesday related to coronavirus. The Department has not had a new case to report since April 30th, they have had 62 total confirmed cases, there are no hospitalizations, 57 have recovered, 4 people are quarantined, and 279 people have been released from quarantine.
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Delaware County Public Health received no positive lab reports for COVID-19 Tuesday, they’ve had 65 Positive Results, 53 have recovered, 5 are Isolating at Home, 3 are Hospitalized, 4 are Deceased, 8 are in Mandatory Quarantine, 2 are in Precautionary Quarantine.
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