Syracuse’s baby elephant twins get ground-breaking vaccine (Good Morning CNY for Oct. 30)

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Blood, guts, fish: The glamorous world of salmon stripping: Jen Scott is a nurse by trade, but for the last 30 years she has been cleaning salmon for anglers in Pulaski. Scott uses her vacation days — she calls it her “salmon sabbatical” — to stand in rubber boots all day, elbow deep in salmon guts, a fish she doesn’t particularly care to catch or eat. She doesn’t do it for the money, or to relax, or for the glory. So why, then? “I love the people,” Scott shrugged. “I love seeing everybody, that’s my favorite thing. They know me by name, generations.” (Video) (Steve Featherstone photo)
Syracuse-area ambulances are racing around more often as calls surge: ‘This is a problem’: Onondaga County’s ambulance system is under a growing strain as emergency calls have soared and staffing has dropped.19 ambulance providers combine to respond to an average of 275 calls a day — a 28% increase from five years ago. It’s starting to have an impact on response times, a problem exacerbated by chronic delays in Syracuse’s hospital emergency rooms, which force ambulance crews to wait around longer with patients at ERs before they can get back on the road.
Syracuse’s baby elephant twins get ground-breaking vaccine: Syracuse’s elephant twins, Yaad and Tukada, beat tremendous odds by simply surviving their birth two years ago. But A risk has quietly hung over them at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo, daily: EEHV, the elephant herpes virus. The virus is deadly to young elephants once the immunity they have acquired from their mothers wears off. But the twins were recently vaccinated against the illness. They are among just a handful of elephants in a vaccine trial.
Remember The Remedy? Legendary Syracuse dive bar location is for sale: For more than 40 years, The Remedy was the definition of a Syracuse dive bar. For the past four years, it’s attempted to carry on that tradition as The Night Drop. Now the bar in the city’s Valley neighborhood is for sale.
Brandon Williams refers to Trump’s final days as “orderly transition” in debate: Rep. Brandon Williams on Tuesday sharply criticized the impeachment of former President Donald Trump, suggesting Democrats were to blame for politicizing Trump’s role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Williams made the comments in a debate with state Sen. John Mannion, D-Geddes. Here’s what the candidates had to say.
Another store to close at Destiny: A national clothing retailer that has been at Destiny USA for nearly 10 years announced that they will close that store in early 2025, resulting in a loss of 20 jobs.
Spooky season: Halloween is almost here: What time does trick-or-treating start on Halloween? How early should kids start asking for candy, and when does it end? Here’s a guide and some safety tips.
What effect will Orange’s blowout loss at Pitt on SU’s bowl destination? Syracuse is no longer projected to a warm-weather destination by the majority of the national bowl projections following the Orange’s blowout loss to Pittsburgh over the weekend. Here’s one look at how the ACC’s postseason picture could shake out if the season ended today.
NFL Power Rankings: How high have the Bills climbed? Another convincing win — this time a 34-10 victory over the Seahawks — have the Bills moving up on some NFL Power Ranking lists. Here’s a roundup.
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