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The Daily Mail Copyright 2021, Columbia-Greene Media Volume 229, No. 42

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TUESDAY, MARCH 2, 2021

Car crashes into Shamrock House

nFORECAST WEATHER FOR HUDSON/CA TODAY TONIGHT WED

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Columbia-Greene Media Very windy; sunny

HIGH 30

Partly sunny Mainly clear and milder

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Fire and rescue crews examine the damage at the Shamrock house in East Durham, after a car crashed into the building Saturday night.

EAST DURHAM — Several Shamrock House patrons were injured and one man was airlifted to the hospital Saturday night after an elderly Durham man crashed a car through the front wall of the popular restaurant. The driver of the vehicle, William Condon, 88, mistakenly accelerated and crashed his car into the front of the landmark East Durham restaurant at 2388 Route 145 just before 7 p.m. Saturday, police

said. Restaurant patron Michael Reidy, 46, of Yonkers, was airlifted to Albany Medical Center, Beau Duffy, New York State Police director of public information said Monday. Reidy was listed in stable condition Monday, Duffy said. Another Shamrock House patron, Steven Murphy, 51, also of Yonkers, suffered minor injuries and was treated at the scene. Several other people were examined on site by paramedics, but refused medical

treatment, Duffy said. After smashing into the restaurant, Condon put his vehicle in reverse and drove across Route 145 where he crashed into a chain-link fence and knocked it down before coming to a stop, Duffy said. Police did not say if Condon was a patron of the restaurant, or if he was injured. No charges were filed in the accident as of Monday afternoon, Duffy said. First responders set up a landing zone for the LifeNet See CAR A8

Grim anniversary: One year later, COVID-19 persists

Boys basketball Williams leads Chatham past Taconic Hills PAGE B1

n NATION

Rewriting history GOP pushes misleading accounts of Capitol riot PAGE A2

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People with appointments still had to wait in long lines at the Gloucester County COVID-19 vaccine site at Rowan College South Jersey in Deptford, N.J., on Jan. 21, 2021.

By Kate Lisa, Natasha Vaughn and Sarah Trafton Johnson Newspaper Corp.

Woods attains dubious honor Golfer ‘s crash recalls Ben Hogan’s struggle PAGE B6

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The global pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus COVID-19 continues to be a threat, health experts said, before urging residents to continue wearing face masks and social distancing as Monday marked one year since the state’s first confirmed case. The first New Yorker tested

positive for COVID-19 on March 1, 2020 — a then39-year-old New York City health care worker who had just returned from working in Iran. She and her husband were sent to their Manhattan home to recover for 14 days. Since, more than 1,636,700 New Yorkers have become infected with the upper respiratory disease first discovered in Wuhan Province, China, in late 2019. New York

City, the surrounding metropolitan area and downstate counties quickly became the world’s epicenter for the virus late last spring. One year ago, the state Health Department’s Wadsworth Center — the research-intensive public health laboratory in Albany — partnered with hospitals to expand capacity to See COVID A8

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Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, speaks with Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar before receiving his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine at the National Institutes of Health on Dec. 22, 2020 in Bethesda, Maryland.

Athens home destroyed by fast-moving fire By Bill Williams Columbia-Greene Media

ATHENS — A fast-moving fire destroyed a one-family home in Athens early Sunday morning, Leeds First Assistant Fire Chief Cliff VanKleeck said Monday. The home was completely gutted inside, VanKleeck said, and all the family’s possessions were destroyed in the blaze. Firefighters found the home completely engulfed in flames when they arrived at 270 Green Lake Road, VanKleeck said. At about 7:06 a.m., Leeds Fire Department was sent by Greene County 911 to the residence after receiving reports that the home was on fire. Firefighters went to work to extinguish the blaze both inside and outside of the one-story wood-frame

home. Firefighters were able to keep the fire from spreading to neighboring homes. Green Lake Road was closed to traffic while fire crews worked. Central Hudson Gas and Electric was requested to the scene to disconnect power to the home. One person was at home when the fire broke out, VanKleeck said. The woman was able to get out of the structure safely. There were no reports of injuries to firefighters. The home is owned by a Queens family who uses the house as a second residence. Their daughter was staying at the home for the weekend. Fire officials believe the fire began in a barbecue grill and was started by hot coals that caught the outside of See FIRE A8

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Firefighters battle a house fire on Green Lake Road in Athens on Sunday morning.


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