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After being found with violations of 60 health codes, Pontillo’s Pizzeria in the Village of Pittsford has been temporarily closed. According to Pittsford Town Supervisor Bill Smith, code enforcement officers also found used needles in the bathroom, dining tables, and food preparation area. Source: 13 WHAM

This week, Section V announced that high risk winter sports can resume practice on Feb 1st and all wrestling events can begin a week later. They tweeted: “We have received approval from all necessary local departments of health and all have provided approval for High-Risk Sports. As anticipated some Local DOH’s have provided more restrictive […]

Officials in Albany have announced that their updated COVID-19 guidelines now include letting local health departments determine for themselves if high-risk youth sports can be played after February 1, 2021. According to Monroe County Executive Adam Bello and Public Health Commissioner Dr. Michael Mendoza, its a great idea – in fact the’ve already agreed that […]

Remember the scientist in Florida Rebekah Jones that accused the U.S. Department of Health of changing COVID-19 numbers. She said the reason they were changing the data was to keep Florida from going into a lockdown. Jones was then fired from her position with the Department of Health back in May because of the accusations. […]

Wednesday was the 11th day in a row of zero new COVID-19 cases in Monroe County. According to Department of Health Officials, there have been 297 COVID-19 related deaths to date, and 5 of those occurred after August 28th. Currently, there are 27 people in the Finger Lakes region being hospitalized for the coronavirus and […]

On Sunday, the Penfield Central School District announced that one of the members of its varsity basketball team tested positive for COVID-19 and now the entire team will enter a mandatory quarantine. The Monroe County Department of Health let the district and school know about the diagnosis as soon as it could. According to the […]