More than 100 people attended a town hall meeting, with one of the main focus areas being state mandates for children in school. State Sen. George Borrello, R-Sunset Bay, hosted the town hall meeting at the Kiantone Volunteer Fire Department that also included state Assemblyman Andy ...
Both the State University at Fredonia and Jamestown Community College are reporting very high compliance rates with the state’s requirement that all students get COVID-19 vaccinations by this past Monday. SUNY Fredonia’s president, Stephen Kolison, reported in his weekly COVID-19 campus ...
State Sen. George Borrello, R-Sunset Bay, has signed on as a co-sponsor to legislation allowing unemployment insurance to those who are jobless because they refuse to take a COVID-19 vaccine. S.7403 was introduced Wednesday by Sen. Alexis Weik, R-Patchogue, two days after a state deadline ...
NEW YORK (AP) — A group of teachers asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday for an emergency injunction blocking implementation of New York City's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for public schools staff. The city has given its roughly 148,000 school employees until 5 p.m. Friday to get at least ...
A crisis regarding staffing due to a state mandate over vaccinations for health-care workers has led Brooks-TLC Hospital System to temporarily reduce labor and delivery services starting on Monday. In a news release issued Friday afternoon, the hospital said the contingency plan was developed ...
Gov. Kathy Hochul continues to tout increasing numbers of health-care staff receiving vaccinations across New York since the mandate went into effect on Monday. But close to home, there are growing concerns about staffing in the obstetrics department at Brooks-TLC Hospital System in ...
