retail phase 2

retail phase 2

Things from leaders at two levels of government last night, which made for about 18 very stressful hours.

Right now- phase two, including retail and professional services- is open.

Here's newschannel 2's joleen ferris.

Standie uppie 6:41 "big apple music here in new hartford didn't wait for the governor's official go ahead today.

They opened this morning.

They weren't worried about opening early; they were worried about staying closed another minute" .

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None :36 "we have to be open.

It's a do or die situation.

We are a small business and i'm not about to let 40 years of hard work go down the drain" if they waited for the green light....they'd have only had to wait about four hours 4:53 "the five regions that have been in phase one can now move to phase two" this declaration was the latest twist in a gut wrenching rollercoaster ride local business people have been on for the past 24 hours.

The :15 "are we to believe that in hte past 14 hours or so, all these figures from all these regions were collected, given to this international panel, they were able to analyze them and give us the go ahead now?

Well, you know this is another indication of the frustration.

You saw that in the county executive and the other local leaders here and i concur with them" senator joe griffo, along with the oneida county executive was blindsided by the governor's 11th hour declaration last night that the mv region would not enter phase 2 of new york's reopening until an internation panelf experts reviewed t data from phe one.

Hsays this aence of counicati isn't a oductive wato run astate.....ant communication between the highest levels of state government with local officials" allowed to open to walk in shoppers with no advanced notice, less than 24 hours after they were told they couldn't, many store parking lots are still empty.

Possibly due to the need to schedule adequate staff.

Stores in malls, but with their own entrance and exit, separate from the mall can open to shoppers....but dick's sporting goods told us today they were still curbside pickup only jf, nc2.