NEW: Starting tomorrow, New Yorkers aged 50 and over are eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine. Had been 60+

The people who miss Bryce Laughlin say he was the kind of guy who just wanted those around him to be happy. Laughlin moved to Lake Placid in March and died last month of pneumonia after contracting COVID-19. He was 22 years old. ow.ly/PtDV30rHCaI

UPDATE: Lake Placid police identify man found dead in Mirror Lake last night as a 32-year-old from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. ow.ly/7TIB30rIsDo

After avoiding a minefield of goose droppings I narrowly avoided stepping on a live snake during an interview today. That’s reporting in the Adirondacks, folks

Hundreds of lakes in U.S., Europe are losing oxygen (from The Associated Press) apnews.com/article/043d68…

The Essex County Health Department has officially added one more death from COVID-19 to its count today. Bryce Laughlin, a 22 year old living in Lake Placid, died in April but his death was not counted until today. Learn more about Laughlin in this story I wrote last month:

A California woman says it was in Lake Placid that she first met an associate of Jeffrey Epstein. She is suing the estate of the late millionaire, saying he raped her when she was a teenager and that she now has a painful bone disease as a result. ow.ly/abxQ50Fc6X2

I found this story by scrolling through Tik Tok at midnight. Thank you, bad sleeping habits

Breaking: Canada announces that vaccinated people who are already eligible to travel to Canada will be able to do so without quarantine starting July 5. But as expected, nonessential travel across the border will continue to be barred.

Lake Placid’s Main Street is packed ahead of the Fourth of July parade — starting shortly

Extraordinary entry in the NYT “Overlooked” series: Eve Adams was an outspoken gay writer and Polish Jew in an often homophobic, anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant U.S. The F.B.I. had her deported and years later, she was killed at Auschwitz. By Emily Palmer nyti.ms/3hCz4UT

BREAKING: Local officials announce Ironman contract extension despite ongoing community debate & despite supervisor & mayor needing authorization from boards before signing a contract. Tourism official said Ironman wanted an answer before race day, which is this Sunday

Good luck to the much more impressive Elizabeth Izzo, who is competing in Ironman Lake Placid on Sunday:

I work with some of the best people in the world. I’m DYING. This is everything

CDC recommends vax’d folks wear masks indoors in places with “substantial” and “high” transmission. “Substantial”: 50-100 cases per 100,000 people over seven days “High”: More than 100 cases If your county is orange or red on this map, it would qualify. covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tra…

Happy newsroom visitor today: Meet Pogi. This pup is featured in today’s Inseide Dope column in the Enterprise.