Weekend News Brief
Written by Tom Tharp on June 12, 2021
The New York State Department of Health has announced new testing guidelines for nursing home workers. Workers who are fully vaccinated no longer need to be tested weekly for COVID. Before today they were getting tested at least twice a week. Those who are unvaccinated will still need to get tested weekly. This also applies to group homes.
The New York Assembly has passed the Less Is More Bill which makes it less likely that parole violators will face jail time for technical violations such as missing parole meetings, being late for curfew or testing positive for drugs and alcohol. It also applies the bail reform legislation to the parolees and caps any new jail time for parole violation at 30 days unless a new crime is committed.
COVID Update From Friday at 4pm: Since Tuesday there have been 7 new cases of COVID 19 in Genesee county and 7 people have recovered. In Orleans county there are 2 new cases and 2 people have recovered. There are 8 active cases in Genesee county and 3 in Orleans. GO Health has announced that this is the last update they will be sending out as cases continue to drop and more and more people are vaccinated against coronavirus. The information on positivity rates, case numbers and recoveries will be available on the GO Health Website.
The new Quicklee’s gas station and convenience store planning on being put in on the corner of Oak and Noonan will have a Tim Hortons if all goes as planned. Louis Terragnoli, director of real estate and development for Quicklee’s, was on the Zoom call of the meeting of the Genesee County Planning Board, which approved a site plan and area variances for a 2,771-square-foot convenience store with 1,000-square-foot drive-thru and a four-pump fuel station. Quicklee’s is in negotiations with Tim Hortons for what would be the third location in the Batavia Area.
There is free fishing at Dewitt park on June 26th. The Oakfield Alabama Lions club is sponsoring the Kendra Haacke Memorial fishing Derby for kids up to age 16 from 10-1. If you don’t have fishing gear it can be provided for free and fishing guides will be there to help you learn the sport.
