Adirondack Life

A New View

This spring, Joe Connelly, a paramedic with the Johnsburg Rescue Squad, described this uncertain time—the age of COVID—as bringing “the same mix of fear and confusion, sadness and elation as a months-long ambulance ride.”

Connelly would know—for decades he was a paramedic in New York City. He turned his experiences into the novel , later made into a film by Martin Scorsese. Connelly, who lives in North Creek, reported that call volume

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