2021 Newspaper Picture Editor of the Year: Team (Less than 100,000 circulation)

Oklahoma City bombing memories remain vivd 25 years later for survivors, and relatives.

Oklahoma City bombing memories remain vivd 25 years later for survivors, and relatives.

Hish School Sports feature

Doctors, nurses and other first responders worked tirelessly to treat patients, some on the brink of death, and worked tirelessly to protect themselves and co-workers from the virus ravaging Western New York.Inside area hospitals where Covid-19 patients are being treated: Buffalo General, which was then treating 55 patients who tested positive for Covid-19; Catholic Health’s Covid-19 facility, which had 80 patients; and Erie County Medical Center, which had 41 people with confirmed cases of Covid-19. At each hospital we donned personal protective equipment and shadowed doctors and nurses as they made rounds on the Covid-19 floors, all of which were busy, and on the verge of being overrun.

What we saw in each place was a deep sense of calmness, candor and urgency. We met people who, because they work in medical ICUs, are accustomed to treating patients who are very ill. But now they have more of them, and they are grappling with a disease that isn’t fully understood.

“Nothing prepares you for the first time you walk into the ICU and you see so many sick patients and everybody is dressed like this,” said Jessica Visser, a registered nurse who is vice president of patient care services for Catholic Health’s Sisters of Charity Hospital and its St. Joseph Campus Covid-19 facility.

Visser, like everyone around her, was wearing a fitted N95 mask, covered by a surgical mask. She also wore a hair covering, goggles, gloves and scrubs. Visser was standing in the so-called “red zone” at the COVID-19 Treatment Facility, where full personal protective equipment is required. The facility also has a cautionary “yellow zone,” where procedure masks and gloves are required, and a safe “green zone,” where protective equipment typically is not worn and street clothes are allowed.

Inside area hospitals where Covid-19 patients are being treated: Buffalo General, which was then treating 55 patients who tested positive for Covid-19; Catholic Health’s Covid-19 facility, which had 80 patients; and Erie County Medical Center, which had 41 people with confirmed cases of Covid-19. At each hospital we donned personal protective equipment and shadowed doctors and nurses as they made rounds on the Covid-19 floors, all of which were busy, but not overrun.

What we saw in each place was a deep sense of calmness, candor and urgency. We met people who, because they work in medical ICUs, are accustomed to treating patients who are very ill. But now they have more of them, and they are grappling with a disease that isn’t fully understood.

“Nothing prepares you for the first time you walk into the ICU and you see so many sick patients and everybody is dressed like this,” said Jessica Visser, a registered nurse who is vice president of patient care services for Catholic Health’s Sisters of Charity Hospital and its St. Joseph Campus Covid-19 facility.

Visser, like everyone around her, was wearing a fitted N95 mask, covered by a surgical mask. She also wore a hair covering, goggles, gloves and scrubs. Visser was standing in the so-called “red zone” at the COVID-19 Treatment Facility, where full personal protective equipment is required. The facility also has a cautionary “yellow zone,” where procedure masks and gloves are required, and a safe “green zone,” where protective equipment typically is not worn and street clothes are allowed.

Inside area hospitals where Covid-19 patients are being treated: Buffalo General, which was then treating 55 patients who tested positive for Covid-19; Catholic Health’s Covid-19 facility, which had 80 patients; and Erie County Medical Center, which had 41 people with confirmed cases of Covid-19. At each hospital we donned personal protective equipment and shadowed doctors and nurses as they made rounds on the Covid-19 floors, all of which were busy, but not overrun.

What we saw in each place was a deep sense of calmness, candor and urgency. We met people who, because they work in medical ICUs, are accustomed to treating patients who are very ill. But now they have more of them, and they are grappling with a disease that isn’t fully understood.

“Nothing prepares you for the first time you walk into the ICU and you see so many sick patients and everybody is dressed like this,” said Jessica Visser, a registered nurse who is vice president of patient care services for Catholic Health’s Sisters of Charity Hospital and its St. Joseph Campus Covid-19 facility.

Visser, like everyone around her, was wearing a fitted N95 mask, covered by a surgical mask. She also wore a hair covering, goggles, gloves and scrubs. Visser was standing in the so-called “red zone” at the COVID-19 Treatment Facility, where full personal protective equipment is required. The facility also has a cautionary “yellow zone,” where procedure masks and gloves are required, and a safe “green zone,” where protective equipment typically is not worn and street clothes are allowed.

With Covid-19 lockdowns and fear of shopping, Bradley Hellet, owner of Hillside Diary, came out of retirement. The old truck started right up and Hillert started to work delivering milk and other essentials to customers through out western new york

Niagara Wheatfield cheerleaders perform during the section VI Championships at Starpoint High School.

Oklahoma City bombing memories remain vivd 25 years later for survivors, and relatives.

Oklahoma City bombing memories remain vivd 25 years later for survivors, and relatives.

Hish School Sports feature

Doctors, nurses and other first responders worked tirelessly to treat patients, some on the brink of death, and worked tirelessly to protect themselves and co-workers from the virus ravaging Western New York.Inside area hospitals where Covid-19 patients are being treated: Buffalo General, which was then treating 55 patients who tested positive for Covid-19; Catholic Health’s Covid-19 facility, which had 80 patients; and Erie County Medical Center, which had 41 people with confirmed cases of Covid-19. At each hospital we donned personal protective equipment and shadowed doctors and nurses as they made rounds on the Covid-19 floors, all of which were busy, and on the verge of being overrun.

What we saw in each place was a deep sense of calmness, candor and urgency. We met people who, because they work in medical ICUs, are accustomed to treating patients who are very ill. But now they have more of them, and they are grappling with a disease that isn’t fully understood.

“Nothing prepares you for the first time you walk into the ICU and you see so many sick patients and everybody is dressed like this,” said Jessica Visser, a registered nurse who is vice president of patient care services for Catholic Health’s Sisters of Charity Hospital and its St. Joseph Campus Covid-19 facility.

Visser, like everyone around her, was wearing a fitted N95 mask, covered by a surgical mask. She also wore a hair covering, goggles, gloves and scrubs. Visser was standing in the so-called “red zone” at the COVID-19 Treatment Facility, where full personal protective equipment is required. The facility also has a cautionary “yellow zone,” where procedure masks and gloves are required, and a safe “green zone,” where protective equipment typically is not worn and street clothes are allowed.

Inside area hospitals where Covid-19 patients are being treated: Buffalo General, which was then treating 55 patients who tested positive for Covid-19; Catholic Health’s Covid-19 facility, which had 80 patients; and Erie County Medical Center, which had 41 people with confirmed cases of Covid-19. At each hospital we donned personal protective equipment and shadowed doctors and nurses as they made rounds on the Covid-19 floors, all of which were busy, but not overrun.

What we saw in each place was a deep sense of calmness, candor and urgency. We met people who, because they work in medical ICUs, are accustomed to treating patients who are very ill. But now they have more of them, and they are grappling with a disease that isn’t fully understood.

“Nothing prepares you for the first time you walk into the ICU and you see so many sick patients and everybody is dressed like this,” said Jessica Visser, a registered nurse who is vice president of patient care services for Catholic Health’s Sisters of Charity Hospital and its St. Joseph Campus Covid-19 facility.

Visser, like everyone around her, was wearing a fitted N95 mask, covered by a surgical mask. She also wore a hair covering, goggles, gloves and scrubs. Visser was standing in the so-called “red zone” at the COVID-19 Treatment Facility, where full personal protective equipment is required. The facility also has a cautionary “yellow zone,” where procedure masks and gloves are required, and a safe “green zone,” where protective equipment typically is not worn and street clothes are allowed.

Inside area hospitals where Covid-19 patients are being treated: Buffalo General, which was then treating 55 patients who tested positive for Covid-19; Catholic Health’s Covid-19 facility, which had 80 patients; and Erie County Medical Center, which had 41 people with confirmed cases of Covid-19. At each hospital we donned personal protective equipment and shadowed doctors and nurses as they made rounds on the Covid-19 floors, all of which were busy, but not overrun.

What we saw in each place was a deep sense of calmness, candor and urgency. We met people who, because they work in medical ICUs, are accustomed to treating patients who are very ill. But now they have more of them, and they are grappling with a disease that isn’t fully understood.

“Nothing prepares you for the first time you walk into the ICU and you see so many sick patients and everybody is dressed like this,” said Jessica Visser, a registered nurse who is vice president of patient care services for Catholic Health’s Sisters of Charity Hospital and its St. Joseph Campus Covid-19 facility.

Visser, like everyone around her, was wearing a fitted N95 mask, covered by a surgical mask. She also wore a hair covering, goggles, gloves and scrubs. Visser was standing in the so-called “red zone” at the COVID-19 Treatment Facility, where full personal protective equipment is required. The facility also has a cautionary “yellow zone,” where procedure masks and gloves are required, and a safe “green zone,” where protective equipment typically is not worn and street clothes are allowed.

With Covid-19 lockdowns and fear of shopping, Bradley Hellet, owner of Hillside Diary, came out of retirement. The old truck started right up and Hillert started to work delivering milk and other essentials to customers through out western new york

Niagara Wheatfield cheerleaders perform during the section VI Championships at Starpoint High School.