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Zak Failla

Assistant Managing Editor

zfailla@dailyvoice.com

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Equal parts Lois Lane, J. Jonah Jameson and Vicki Vale, Zak! has traveled from coast-to-coast covering small and big town community news in both in print and online for nearly a decade since his graduation from the award-winning Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College in 2010.

Before settling into the Hudson Valley, Zak! previously spent time in the New York Daily News newsroom and worked for hyperlocal digital news outlets on Long Island. He wrote sports for The Ithacan and The Ithaca Journal before taking his talents to the Pacific Northwest, where he served as the sports editor at the Shoshone News-Press until heading back east to work with Daily Voice.

Zak Failla's Contributions

Police & Fire

Covid-19: Omicron Surge Affecting Staffing Levels For Essential Workers The spread of the more-transmissible Omicron COVID-19 variant is leading to staffing shortages for some essential employers who have been hit hardest by the winter surge of the virus. Essential employees have been forced to call out of work en masse in recent weeks due to positive Omicron infections that have led to staffing shortages for first responders, healthcare workers, supermarket workers, flight crews, and other key professions. The shortages have led to hundreds of canceled flights, closed restaurants, and short-staffed retail stores, leaving workers frustrated and fatigued af…

by Zak Failla

12/30/2021

Police & Fire

Long Island Woman Killed After Being Ejected From Vehicle In Southern State Parkway Crash A 33-year-old woman on Long Island was killed after being ejected from her vehicle during a crash on the Southern State Parkway, state police said. New York State Police troopers responded to a reported one-car crash shortly before 9 a.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 29, on the parkway in the town of Hempstead in Nassau County. Police said that the driver, Hempstead resident Iesha Maxwell, was traveling west on Southern State Parkway when she lost control, her vehicle left the roadway, and she was ejected after striking the center median. Maxwell was transported to Nassau University Medical Center a…

by Zak Failla

12/30/2021

Business

Here's How Much, When Minimum Wage Will Increase In Westchester Workers in downstate New York are all getting a holiday bonus this year, as minimum wage rates get bumped for the third straight year. As of Friday, Dec. 31, minimum wage workers in Westchester, Suffolk, and Nassau counties will see a bump in their paychecks as their hourly wages will rise to a minimum of $15, putting them on par with employees at large firms in New York City, which has been at that benchmark for three years. Minimum wage employees in those counties had previously been getting $14 an hour. Fast-food workers across New York also make $15 an hour, regardless of location, wh…

by Zak Failla

12/30/2021

Business

Here's How Much, When Minimum Wage Will Increase In CT While some neighboring states will see a rise in their minimum wage to begin the new year, Connecticut employees will have to wait a few months as it works toward Gov. Ned Lamont’s goal of $15 hourly by 2023. New York and Massachusetts both will see their minimum wage rise as of Jan. 1, 2022, but Connecticut employees will have to wait until July to see their pay hike reflected on their paychecks. On July 1, 2022, minimum wage in Connecticut will be going up a dollar, from $13 to $14 hourly, the fourth straight year that the state saw an increase as it looks to get to $15 hourly by June 202…

by Zak Failla

12/30/2021

Business

Here's How Much, When Minimum Wage Will Increase In Massachusetts Massachusetts is one of more than two dozen states that will be giving employees a holiday bonus as minimum wage is getting an increase for the beginning of 2022. As of Saturday, Jan. 1, the state’s minimum wage in Massachusetts will rise 75 cents from $13.50 an hour to $14.25. The new wage translates to $29,640 a year for employees working 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year. The minimum wage for tipped workers who make more than $20 in tips monthly will also rise to $6.15 an hour on Jan. 1. Officials noted that the Massachusetts minimum wage bill also established a paid family and medical…

by Zak Failla

12/30/2021

Police & Fire

Driver Extricated After Fairfield County Crash Charged With DUI A driver who had to be extricated from his vehicle after rolling over was allegedly drunk when he crashed in Fairfield County, police said. Officers from the Darien Police Department responded to Park Place shortly before midnight on Friday, Dec. 17, where there was a report of a one-car crash involving a rolled-over vehicle. Upon arrival, officers said that they found one person - later identified as Stamford resident Joseph Lasko III, age 44 - trapped inside the vehicle, requiring the Noroton Fire Department to extricate him. According to police, once rescued, Lasko told officers that …

by Zak Failla

12/26/2021

Police & Fire

Long Island Teen Charged After Injuring Cop With Traffic Cone, Police Say A Long Island teenager is facing a host of charges after allegedly using a traffic cone as a weapon and attacking a police officer, officials announced. Nassau County Police detectives in Freeport were conducting an investigation on Queen Street at approximately 6 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 10, when they were approached by 19-year-old Daysi Sanchez Martinez. According to police, Martinez, a Freeport resident, approached the detectives with an orange traffic cone, swung it at one, striking him in the arm and causing a minor injury. After a brief struggle, detectives were able to apprehend Martine…

by Zak Failla

12/25/2021

News

Man From Fairfield County Admits To Paying Bribes For Contracts At Colleges In NY, MA A Connecticut contractor admitted to securing deals at colleges in New York and Massachusetts in exchange for a kickback fee over the course of several years, federal officials announced. Fairfield County resident Stephen Dinapoli, age 42, of Wilton, the principal of a Connecticut environmental consulting firm in Norwalk, pleaded guilty in federal court in Springfield in Hampden County for his role in paying bribes to procure consulting contracts at educational institutions in Massachusetts and New York. Specifically, federal prosecutors said that Dinapoli pleaded guilty to one count of con…

by Zak Failla

12/24/2021

News

Warning For Severe Flu Season Issued By Health Officials; Here Are NY Counties Most Affected With all eyes on the recent surge of COVID-19, health officials are cautioning about a potentially severe flu season as several outbreaks have cropped up across the country. As the Omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus is rapidly spreading, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued an alert advising that the flu is back in full force after taking a back seat to the pandemic last winter. In the latest update from the Department of Health, New York recorded 9,023 cases of influenza out of more than 94,000 tests that were conducted, marking the “fifth week that widespread act…

by Zak Failla

12/24/2021

Lifestyle

Four CT Residents Win $100K Each In State Lottery Four lotto players in Connecticut are feeling extra lucky during the holiday season after cashing in winning CT Lottery tickets worth a six-figure prize. On Wednesday, Dec. 22, three winning $100,000 tickets were cashed in by CT Lottery players, who were among more than a dozen big winners in the week leading up to Christmas. First, New London County resident Thomas Simmons III, of Griswold cashed in a winning "CASH5" ticket that was sold to him at the Griswold Quickmart on Voluntown Road. Playing the same game, Windham County resident Shayne Simpson, of Putnam, won the same prize after ca…

by Zak Failla

12/24/2021

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