Travel, Tourism and Recreation
Another event takes the coronavirus on the chin: the Lake George Winter Carnival, set for February 2021 is cancelled, the Post-Star is reporting. Current caps on meeting and travel have made the event impossible, organizers say in the story.
Restaurants and Food Service
The Open Door Mission's new soup kitchen is opening by the end of the month on Warren Street in Glens Falls. An angel donation of $400,000 made the move from their Lawrence Street location to Warren possible, officials in the Post-Star's story say.
Government, Law and Legal Services
The Small Business Administration has released data that shows more than half the recipients of the Paycheck Protection Program were large firms and not the smaller companies which were the target of the program, the Washington Post is reporting. The PPP is part of the CARES Act which tried to stem the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic.
The headline and lead in the Times-Union story is stunning: the chief of staff to Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie was part of a drug-running ring that made her rich beyond belief. The story reports on allegations from federal prosecutors that Orlando Dennis and his wife Jevonni Brooks-Dennis, the chief of staff, were part of a cocaine trafficking case. Prosecutors said they followed the cash the couple paid into accounts and at high-end retailers.
U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik supports President Donald Trump's legal challenges to the Nov. 3 election, challenges that have not made progress in U.S. courts. The Times-Union writes: "'I support the continued effort by the Trump campaign to make sure every legal ballot and only legal ballots and legal votes are counted,' Stefanik told Newsmax Tuesday."