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- Yonkers Public Schools released its plan to safely welcome students back to in-person learning four days a week.
They are preparing to bring more than half of its students back into the classroom nearly fulltime starting April 12.
The plan includes rapid testing 20% of students and staff weekly, putting up plastic barriers between desks and keeping windows open when possible — among dozens of rules.
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- LeMac Pharmacy says it has COVID-19 vaccinations to give out and not enough people with appointments.
Pharmacies in New York are now able to offer COVID-19 vaccines to anyone with underlying conditions.
Up until recently, pharmacies had been limited to administering the shots to people age 60 and older and teachers.
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- New York State now allows residential gatherings with up to 25 people outdoors – that’s up from 10 people. Indoor gatherings are still limited to 10 people.
Event venues of under 10,000 patrons can reopen at up to 33% capacity with a maximum of 100 people indoors and 200 people outdoors. Those numbers are expected to increase in the next few weeks or so.
On April 5, the 11 p.m. curfew for casinos, movie theaters, pool halls, gyms, and bowling alleys will be lifted.
But, there are still requirements for wearing face coverings and practicing social distancing will remain in place as part of the guidelines.
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- Attorney General Leticia James announced a grant to assist hundreds of homeless students in Yonkers Public Schools.
At the press conference Roosevelt High School junior Gregory Llamos, of Yonkers, says he and his family became homeless amid the pandemic.
Now living in a shelter, he said he has struggled to keep up with remote learning.
Yonkers Public Schools has 440 students who are also facing homelessness and a $150,000 check was presented to the district to to provide iPads, laptops and Wi-Fi to homeless students.
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- Private school teachers who went on strike at the Andalusia School in Yonkers after their principal had been fired.
It was the Board of Trustees’ decision to fire Brother Abdel Nasser Nofal that led to the walkout.
Parents supported the strike by keeping their kids out of school and Nofal was reinstated.
The private school is located on Walnut Street and has about 300 students from kindergarten to 12th grade.
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- Across the border in Mount Vernon there was a big story this week.
A Mount Vernon city employee and her daughter have been accused of stealing more than $1.6 million meant to help struggling businesses during the pandemic.
Last summer, the defendants claimed some businesses had at least 10 employees – which prosecutors say is not true – so the federal government sent about $1.6 million to the business owners.
One of the defendants is an ordinance officer for the City of Mount Vernon, and the head of the city’s CSEA union branch.
Back in October, there was a federal and Mount Vernon city investigation into a kickback scheme involving federal loans and Mount Vernon city employees.
The city identified at least 17 employees they thought were defrauding the federal government, but no one was fired by the mayor.
None of the of the alleged co-conspirators have been arrested by the FBI, causing some to think they are cooperating with prosecutors against one city employee, close to the mayor, that was the alleged ringleader.
Those arrested this week face wire fraud and identity theft charges, and that could net them significant prison time if they’re convicted.
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