NYC in state of emergency
Once again, the North Country largely missed the remnants of a hurricane, but downstate did not. The Post-Star has a story, and photo of a tornado in New Jersey, that reports the city is in a state of emergency, with the subway system closed, and the National Weather Service issuing its first-ever flash-flood emergency for the area. Rain measured in Central Park reached 3.15 inches in an hour last night, the story says. The Times-Union story focuses on the Hudson Valley, reporting that Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency in the counties: Bronx, Dutchess, Kings, Nassau, New York, Orange, Putnam, Queens, Richmond, Rockland, Suffolk, Sullivan, Ulster, and Westchester. USA Today is reporting eight people dead from the storm in New York City.
COVID rent plan leads to lawsuit
The Florida-based owner of the Buca di Beppo restaurant on Wolf Road in Colonie is being sued by the landlord, 44 Platt Brothers LLC of Loudonville, which claims it is owed nearly $64,000 in rent and rent-deferral payments, the Albany Business Journal is reporting. The deferral payments were part of an agreement to help with the effects of the pandemic, the story says.
Provocateur Scott Presler event cancelled, again
"As soon as a third scheduled appearance of controversial speaker Scott Presler was scheduled for Tuesday night, it was quickly canceled,” says a story in the Times Union. The Upstate Conservative Coalition has been trying to find a location and date for Presler to speak was thwarted again by what the group calls the influence of the “socialist country we now find ourselves living in,” the story says. Presler was first ballyhooed by U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik in a tweet that was removed. He was a top strategist for an anti-Muslim group considered a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. He has spent a month downstate registering voters but "He tries to come to upstate and all hell breaks loose," a local conservative wrote to FoothillsBusinessDaily.com.
Luge racing not coming to the USA this winter
World Cup Luge will not come to North America this winter. Pandemic restrictions are keeping many foreign athletes out of the U.S. and Canada, the Adirondack Daily Enterprise is reporting. The Whistler, British Columbia, and Lake Placid meets will be held in Russia at the Sochi Olympic track, the story says. This is the second year that the International Luge Federation has pulled World Cup events in bobsled, skeleton and luge from North America.