Lockdown

This month marks five years since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. The shutdowns have long since ended, but the impacts on society are still being understood. People remember business shutdowns, lockdown requirements and seeking solitude in the Adirondacks.

Booker Prize–winning author Roddy Doyle’s latest is Life Without Children. The book is a warm and witty portrait of our pandemic lives, told in ten heartrending short stories.Love and marriage. Children and family. Death and grief. Life touches everyone the same. But living under lockdown, it changes us alone.

The Greater Amsterdam School District initiated a district-wide lock out Friday morning after a student reportedly made threats against Amsterdam High…

A lockdown was in effect today at Great Meadow Correctional Facility in Comstock, New York, in Washington County. Governor Andrew Cuomo visited with…

A lockdown at a hospital in Plattsburgh ended Friday after nearly five hours.Just before 10 a.m. Friday a bomb threat was received via the internet…

The hospital in Plattsburgh is under lockdown following a bomb threat.The main campus of the University of Vermont Health Network’s Champlain Valley…

A Warren County elementary school was put into lockdown Thursday after two guns were spotted in a parked car.Just after 3 p.m. Thursday, the Post-Star…

The Clinton Correctional Facility has been under the microscope since the escape of two prisoners from its maximum security division in June, which led to…