Diane Pineiro-Zucker is reporting for the Daily Freeman an investigation into a Fri., May 7, bomb threat at the Hudson Valley Mall that forced the county’s coronavirus vaccination clinic to close for the day found no evidence of explosives, town of Ulster Police Chief Kyle Berardi said. Berardi said a caller threatened to blow up the Dick’s Sporting Goods store, which is located across a hallway from the former Best Buy store where the county operates its clinic. The threat was phoned in about 11:30 a.m., prompting the evacuation of the entire mall, Berardi said. Speaking by phone at 1:15 p.m., the chief said the mall was deemed safe after a search by state police bomb-detection dogs found nothing, allowing stores to reopen. The county's walk-in vaccination clinic began operating at 9 a.m. and was to remain open until 4:30 p.m. Dan Proctor, the county’s director of COVID response, said the clinic would not reopen Friday, but it would resume operations as scheduled from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Mon., May 10. County Executive Pat Ryan said in a prepared statement that "out of an abundance of caution, we have decided to close the ... site for the remainder of today, but will continue to operate as planned moving forward." Proctor said the 70 people staffing the clinic and approximately 20 patients had to leave the clinic space when the bomb threat was called in. Berardi said about a dozen employees of Dick’s were also evacuated. Berardi said police are taking the bomb threat seriously and are working to determine where the threat call originated. Hudson Valley Mall is located on Route 9Win the town of Ulster. Read the full story in the Daily Freeman.