The Otsego County Special Operations Team deployed to Erie County under the state Fire Mobilization & Mutual Aid Plan Activation to aid the cleanup from the recent blizzard. The team will be working with an EMS Task Force for storm response. They will return in 3 days.
New York completes the first phase of its ConnectALL program. The network uses fiber optic infrastructure on the New York Power Authority’s existing transmission system. The Evening Sun reports the project is ahead of schedule due to the Village of Sherburne and Town of Nichols optimizing implementation plans.
New York takes action to address healthcare disparities in the LGBTQ+ community. New laws allow minors identifying as LGBTQ+ who are runaways or homeless to make their own healthcare decisions and will prepare nurse and home health aides to work with LGBTQ+ populations more effectively.
A Christmas Day fire damaged an Oneonta home. Firefighters responding to the Oneida Street home found it was fully engulfed so reinforcements were called in with a total of 8 departments deployed. There’s been no word on if anyone was injured and the fire’s cause is under investigation.
The Susquehanna SPCA puts out a call for foster families after 25 dogs were brought to the shelter late last week. 10 were from an Ohio puppy mill and the rest came from a West Edmeston home where the owner voluntarily surrendered the dogs.
A West Edmeston man faces hundreds of child sex charges from a Steuben County investigation. State Police say it happened between 2012 and 2016 when the man lived in Corning. He was arraigned then booked into the Steuben County Jail in lieu of $10,000 cash bail $20,000 property bond.
More than 220 educators are named to the New York State Master Teacher Program, a professional network of public school teachers with a passion for inspiring the next generation of STEM leaders. In the Mohawk Valley the e Master Teacher Program iis conducted at SUNY Oneonta.
Two dogs are rescued from a Christmas Day apartment fire in Pittsfield. Authorities tell News 10 an EMT who works at a nearby ambulance service rushed in when she saw the fire. The EMT went back into the burning apartment twice to make sure there were no people inside.
Minimum wage workers aren’t the only ones getting a government-mandated pay hike. The state legisature approved a $32,000 pay raise for themselves that’s effective the first of the year. Their minimum salary goes from $110,000 a year, to $142,000. Governor Kathy Hochul will need to approve the hike.
We’re getting a look at the projects the state approved for Norwich’s $10 million downtown revitalization award. They include a new Downtown boutique hotel, rehabilitating the Unguentine and Heritage Buildings plus creating a Downtown Norwich Small Project Grant Fund. Norwich won the award last year.