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Nurses Protest For New Contract At AMC
Around 20 nurses stood outside Adirondack Medical Center on Wednesday at noon, wearing red ponchos over their scrubs and chanting “Fair contract now!” in the rain. The Adirondack Daily Enterprise reports the 190-or-so nurses at Adirondack Health, which owns AMC, have been negotiating a new contract with the hospital through their union, the New York State Nurses Association, since October of last year.
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Latest On Frattolin Murder Trial
Alleged killer dad Luciano Frattolin sat emotionless in court Wednesday as the state played video evidence of his continued claims that his daughter had been abducted — even after police investigators grilled him to come clean about the grisly murder of his nine-year-old. Frattolin, 45, stared blankly at two state investigators asking him in the police interviews repeatedly to fess up to what he allegedly did to his daughter, Melina Frattolin, after he’d been shown photos of her dead body covered in mud along Paragon Brook, eight miles off of Interstate 87 in Ticonderoga.
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New York Looking To Protect Kids From Nighttime Notifications
Gov. Kathy Hochul and Attorney General Letitia James have announced the release of final rules on how social media companies must restrict addictive features on their platforms to comply with the Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for Kids Act and protect children’s mental health. New York’s pioneering SAFE for Kids Act requires social media companies to restrict algorithmically personalized feeds and nighttime notifications for users under the age of 18 unless they obtain parental consent. Algorithmic feeds and nighttime notifications are tied to depression, anxiety, eating and sleep di
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New Football Coach Says Booster Club Fund Disbursement Lacked Transparency
Newly-appointed Tupper Lake varsity football coach Brian Bennett spoke at the July 13 town board meeting over what he contended was an improper disbursement of funds and a lack of transparency from the former Tupper Lake Football Boosters when it decided to dissolve earlier this year. According to the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, Bennett said when that happened, the club was ethically, if not legally, obligated to leave all of its remaining fund balance for the Tupper Lake Central School District’s football program.
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Grandstand Accessibility Improvement Project Underway
Construction is underway on the Grandstand Accessibility Improvement Project, which will make the Essex County Fair Grandstand area wheelchair accessible in time for the opening of the 177th Essex County Fair on July 29. The Adirondack Explorer reports the project represents an investment in both historic preservation and accessibility, ensuring that visitors of all abilities can enjoy the fair’s signature events for generations to come. The project is funded through a Capital Improvement Program Grant from the Agriculture and New York State Horse Breeding Development Fund (NY Sire Stakes),