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Coronavirus

Petrova students go remote today

SARANAC LAKE — Students attending Petrova Elementary School are going remote Friday after a member of the school community tested positive for COVID-19 Thursday afternoon. Students are expected to return to class Tuesday, after the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday, according to Saranac ...

False availability claim spurs rush to NYC vaccine site

NEW YORK (AP) — New Yorkers lined the sidewalks and cars jammed the streets near a Brooklyn coronavirus vaccine site Thursday after false rumors spread of extra doses available to the general public. Messages spread online claimed several hundred doses had to be given out by Thursday ...

New Winter Carnival poster shows mask-wearing Doonesbury characters

SARANAC LAKE — Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau has released his poster design for the 2021 Saranac Lake Winter Carnival. Using this Carnival’s designated theme, “Mask-erade” — which Trudeau spells with the more traditional “Masquerade” — the poster shows multiple ...

Petrova students go remote Friday

SARANAC LAKE — Students attending Petrova Elementary School are going remote Friday after a member of the school community tested positive for COVID-19 Thursday afternoon. Students are expected to return to class Tuesday, after the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday, according to ...

Retired medical expert lays out story of COVID

SARANAC LAKE — As he watched the coronavirus spread throughout the United States, with this country surpassing all others in the number of cases reported, Dr. Tony Holtzman sought to answer a question. “How can it be that the wealthiest country in the world, and among the most ...

Saranac Lake grades 7-12 go remote for rest of week

SARANAC LAKE — Saranac Lake students in grades 7 through 12 are going remote Thursday and Friday, Superintendent Diane Fox said in a call to parents at around 4:15 p.m. Wednesday. Fox said a member of the middle-high school community had tested positive for COVID-19 but did not specify ...