Health

New Paltz Town Supervisor Neil Bettez has signed an emergency order in response to the number of coronavirus cases being...

More than 130 children in Ulster County live in foster care. These children often experience physical and/or emotional traumas that...

The five million dollars in federal ARPA money allocated for the provision of mental-health services provides the spark of creativity...

The course owners I’ve met here in the Hudson Valley – and there are a lot of them – regard...

May is Mental Health Awareness Month. You’ve heard it before; maybe you’ve even seen some of the blue-and-white ribbons hanging...

An episode of the NPR podcast Planet Money that was aired earlier this spring chronicled the attempts of volunteers in...

The new Baa Omicron subvariant is considerably more contagious than earlier Omicron, it seems to last three to five days...

New York State’s dashboard for Covid 19 deaths reports that the average New Yorker now has only a one in...

With Nuvance, the health care conglomerate, shifting the employees at its Boiceville location to its Woodstock clinic, nurse practitioner Brian...

Using New York State’s dashboard for Covid 19 deaths and assuming that the number of deaths would decrease at the...

Ulster County Executive Pat Ryan said the County is prepared to shift from two years of “pandemic” mode to managing...

For the week ending Saturday, February 26, the state's Covid dashboard recorded an average daily death total of 32, down...

The Covid pandemic continued to decline this past week, but it’s far from gone. For the week ending Saturday, there...

Sunday’s daily report from Albany of the Covid situation contained one of the clearest indicators of the rapid decrease in...

Ulster County Executive Pat Ryan announced today that he will not be extending the Public Health Emergency order that was...

Public health professor David Larsen does expect that this will not be the last surge of this pandemic. He said...

The Omicron variant seems to have run its course locally. Having made its first Ulster County appearance in early December,...

The New Paltz Central School District unveiled its voluntary Test-to-Stay program last week, which allows unvaccinated, asymptomatic close contacts exposed...

Family Services, which has behavioral health clinics in Kingston and Highland in Ulster County and Rhinebeck and Poughkeepsie in Dutchess...

Every home in the U.S. is eligible to order 4 free at-home COVID-⁠19 tests.