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HUDSON — The community is invited to “plant” pinwheels to raise awareness for children who are victims of abuse in Columbia and Greene counties. Community members will plant pinwheels from 2 to 5 p.m. Monday in 7th Street Park, Hudson. In Greene County, the same event will be held at the Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., on the right side of the building. From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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Pinwheels were planted in 7th Street Park in Hudson in 2018 to raise awareness for child abuse prevention during the month of April.

Population decline blamed on high taxes

The Club House, 455 Main St., will be open 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. for family fun activities and snacks. All events are free and open to the community. The events are sponsored by the Mental Health Association of Columbia and Greene Counties, the Child Advocacy Center of Columbia and Greene Counties and the REACH Center, a victim assistance program and rape crisis center. See GARDEN A8

Tearful farewell to Hudson student By Amanda Purcell Columbia-Greene Media

tion can’t afford to take on a farm to generate a living.” The problems are serious but the solutions are straightforward, Jordan said. To make New York more affordable means no new taxes and fees, cutting job-killing government red tape and creating good-paying jobs for the state’s young people. “I’ve heard from taxpayers all across my district that they oppose the radical, extreme legislation Albany’s enacting. Folks want to escape from New York — and that won’t change until Albany changes and starts putting taxpayers first,” Jordan said. Lower birth rates are also a contributing factor, Murell said. “When I graduated in 1973, I graduated with almost 300 kids,” he said. “Today there are graduating class of less than 100.” As people vacate the state in search of lower taxes, it increases the tax burden on the remaining residents, Linger said. “You are also at risk of losing representatives at the fed-

HUDSON — More than 150 men and women from the Muslim community were joined by city leaders to say goodbye to one of its most beloved daughters Friday. Fardush Sultana, a junior at SUNY Polytechnic Institute in Utica, died Wednesday at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Utica from a mysterious head injury. She was 20. “I think I have personally known her since she was in 7th grade,” principal Antonio Abitabile said after the service at Hudson High School. “She was the model student and in the top 10 of her class. She represented the very best of what we have to offer here. So it hurts our staff and students. It’s been a rough week. It was a very solemn day here yesterday.” Sultana was taken to the hospital on the evening of April 8 for an unexplained head injury while she was in her dormitory room. The incident is still under investigation by state and university police, according to a statement from the college. The Zanazah, or the Islamic funeral prayers recited in the Islamic funeral rite, was held in the gymnasium Hudson High School gymnasium, 215 Harry Howard Ave., Friday. The entire Muslim community has been very sad the past week, Second Ward Alderman Dewan Sarowar said. The entire community was welcome to attend the memorial services. Non-Muslims sat in the bleachers while prayers were recited. More than 100 men and 40 women attended the services from the Muslim community stood in 13 straight lines, with their shoes off and head bowed, to say a prayer for Sultana. The men stood in front, while the women stood behind them. The prayer was to the Almighty God, or Allah, to give her to Jannah, or heaven, Abdus Miah said. “Everybody has come together to help the family – everyone,” Miah said. “Everyone has said how good and how nice she was.” Members from the community also came out to mourn the loss, including Mayor Rick

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Population in the Twin Counties is on the decline, according to the latest report from the U.S. Census Bureau. The annual census data factors in birth, death, immigration and emigration rates from 2010 to 2018. Columbia and Greene counties ranked 14th and 31st in the state, respectively. Greene decreased at a rate of 1.59%, or 785 residents, and Columbia at 3.1%, or 1,959 residents. Local officials were not surprised by the news, saying that high taxes were to blame. “It’s no shocker that every municipal agency is strapped by the state Legislature and governor to deliver mandated services which increases property taxes,” Greene County Legislature Chairman Patrick Linger, R-New Baltimore, said. “The state needs to take responsibility for what they mandate,” Linger said. Columbia County Board of Supervisors Chairman Matt Murell agreed. “People are voting with their feet,” he said. “They

can’t afford to live here or retire after.” Cold winters in the Northeast are not to blame, Greene County Treasurer Peter Markou said.

tinations for Columbia and Greene county residents are Massachusetts and South Carolina, respectively. On the state level, state Sen. Daphne Jordan, R-43, also

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It’s no shocker that every municipal agency is strapped by the state Legislature and governor to deliver mandated services which increases property taxes.

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Patrick Linger, R-New Baltimore Greene County Legislature Chairman

“It’s not because of the snow,” he said. “It’s because the cost of doing business and living here is extremely high. People are getting older and looking to retire in a warmer climate with lower taxes.” The top 10 states that New Yorkers move to are Florida at 21.9%, New Jersey 13.6%, North Carolina 8.1%, Texas 7.4%, California 6.7%, Pennsylvania 6.4%, Connecticut 5.3%, Georgia 4.5%, South Carolina 3.4% and Virginia 3.2%, according to data from the IRS. The most common des-

thinks taxes play a role. “Recent Census Bureau estimates indicating that residents continue saying ‘I leave New York’ and that our out-migration continues isn’t a surprise,” Jordan said. “Taxes are too high. New York is unfriendly to businesses large and small. Families in my 43rd Senate District are angry about the billions in new taxes and fees imposed on them through the 2019-20 state budget,” she said. “Our hard-working family farmers are hurting and closing their doors — and the next genera-

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President Trump uses profanity to complain about the Mueller report Colby Itkowitz and John Wagner The Washington Post

Clouds Mostly breaking, a cloudy with a shower shower

A couple of showers

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Ottawa 50/44

Montreal 51/47

Massena 54/46

Bancroft 49/42

Ogdensburg 58/48

Peterborough 54/40

Malone Potsdam 58/48 60/50

Kingston 54/44

Rochester 64/47

Utica 72/50

Batavia 65/44

Albany 71/53

Syracuse 76/52

Catskill 71/52

Binghamton 70/48

Hornell 69/45

Burlington 61/53

Lake Placid 62/44

Watertown 65/48

Buffalo 61/44

Plattsburgh 54/48

Hudson 71/52

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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY Winnipeg 57/37

Seattle 61/44

Montreal 51/47 Minneapolis 73/52

Billings 63/43 San Francisco 61/50

Toronto 52/41 Detroit 50/41 New York 64/54

Chicago 62/42 Denver 79/46

Los Angeles 66/54

Washington 73/53

Kansas City 75/56

El Paso 91/63

Atlanta 55/45 Houston 79/56

Chihuahua 93/57

Miami 80/63

Monterrey 91/59

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President Donald Trump sought Friday to discredit portions of the special counsel’s report in which others described behavior that could be seen as obstruction of justice, calling their assertions “total bullshit.” On Thursday, Trump and his allies took a victory lap after the 448-page redacted report was made public, saying that the findings fully exonerate him. But in morning tweets, Trump complained about the report’s finding, arguing that because he chose not to testify during the probe, he never got to tell his side of the story. Robert Mueller tried to get the president to sit for an interview for more than a year, but Trump and his attorneys resisted. “Statements are made about me by certain people in the Crazy Mueller Report, in itself written by 18 Angry Democrat Trump Haters, which are fabricated & totally untrue,” Trump wrote. “Watch out for people that take so-called ‘notes,’ when the notes never existed until needed. Because I never agreed

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President Donald Trump, seen Thursday with the first lady, tweeted after the release of the report that it was a “great day for America!”

to testify, it was not necessary for me to respond to statements made in the ‘Report’ about me, some of which are total [expletive] & only given to make the other person look good (or me to look bad).” Tweeting from Mar-a-Lago in Florida, where he is spending Easter weekend, Trump did not specify which portions of the report he is disputing, but he was likely pushing back against descriptions of acts that Muller catalogued as possible

instances of obstruction of justice. While Mueller found no evidence of a criminal conspiracy by the Trump campaign, he did lay out 10 scenarios in which the president sought to intervene in the investigation that could be deemed criminal. Mueller chose not to draw a conclusion about that in the report, leaving it up to others to determine whether Trump’s actions amounted to crimes. In his tweet, Trump

mentions note taking, probably a reference to Donald McGahn, who plays a prominent role in the report. McGahn, who was a top lawyer in the White House, in several instances blocked Trump’s efforts to interfere in the investigation. In one account, McGahn refuses to release a statement repudiating a New York Times story that Trump had asked McGahn to have Mueller fired. The reason, according to McGahn, was that the story was accurate. McGahn said he took contemporaneous notes during his meetings with Trump, adding that it seemed to irritate the president, who told him: “Lawyers don’t take notes. I never had a lawyer who took notes.” McGahn responded that “real lawyers” do. Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, appearing on “Fox and Friends,” said the reference to note taking could also be about former FBI director James Comey. Giuliani also said that given the level of detail in the report, it’s not possible that “some of it isn’t wrong.” “They don’t give you the other side of it,” he said.

One of Alaska’s warmest springs the state has ever experienced is causing a dangerous thaw Sarah Kaplan The Washington Post

UTQIAGVIK, Alaska — Bryan Thomas doesn’t want any more “wishy-washy conversations about climate change.” For four years, he has served as station chief of the Barrow Atmospheric Baseline Observatory, America’s northernmost scientific outpost in its fastestwarming state. Each morning, after digging through snow to his office’s front door, Thomas checks the preliminary number on the observatory’s carbon dioxide monitor. On a recent Thursday it was almost 420 parts per million — nearly twice as high as the global preindustrial average. It’s just one number, he said. But there’s no question in his mind about what it means. Alaska is in the midst of one of the warmest springs the state has ever experienced — a transformation that has disrupted livelihoods and cost lives. The average temperature for March recorded at the NOAA observatory in Utquiagvik (which was known as Barrow before 2016, when the city voted to go by its traditional Inupiaq name) was 18.6 degrees Fahrenheit above normal. Fairbanks notched its first consecutive March days when the temperature never dropped below freezing. Ice roads built on frozen waterways — a vital means of transportation in the state — have become weak and unreliable. At least five people have died this spring after falling through ice that melted sooner than expected. “Climate change is happening faster than it’s ever happened before in our record,” Thomas said. “We’re right in the middle of it.” Utqiagvik set daily temperature records on 28 of the first 100 days of this year, according to the Alaska Climate Research Center. In early February, residents awoke to find that the land-fast ice that usually clings to their shore until summer had been swept out to sea by strong winds — a sign that the ice wasn’t as thick or well-grounded as it used to be.

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The view through a window at the Barrow Atmospheric Baseline Observatory in Utqiagvik, Alaska, on April 11, 2019.

“It was like, ‘Whoa, I’ve never seen that before,’” Thomas said. “It was surprising in a human way,” he added. “But not necessarily surprising in a science way.” The Barrow observatory has been monitoring climate for more than 40 years. Thomas knows where the trends are headed. Two hundred miles to the south, Marc Oggier, a graduate student at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, returned this month from conducting field work to find the city completely clear of snow. It was the shortest-lived snowpack in recent history. Oggier wrinkled his nose at the vegetal, springlike scent in the air. “It smells weird,” he said. “It smells like rain.” This time of year, he explained, “you shouldn’t be able to smell anything.” The ground should still be frozen solid. The historic warm temperatures this spring are linked to vanishing ice on the Bering and Chuchki seas west of Alaska. Both areas set records this year for their lowest amount of ice in March. When ice forms later and melts earlier, it leaves coastlines vulnerable to erosion from fall and spring storms. The shoreline on Shishmaref has retreated more than 100 feet in Erickson’s lifetime, and the town has voted to relocate to a new site farther from the sea. Residents

who subsist on seal and walrus meat must navigate an increasingly unreliable ice pack as they search for food. Unstable ice has already claimed lives. Two men died of exposure in late March when their vehicles fell through the frozen Kuskokwim River near Bethel, the Division of Alaska State Troopers said. This week, three family members — including an 11-year-old girl — were killed after crashing through ice on their way to the small village of Noatak, which can be reached only by snowmobile, boat or air. Sgt. Teague Widmier, who leads the Alaska State Troopers unit in Bethel, said authorities have urged people to stay off the increasingly weak river ice. But he acknowledged that residents have few other options for traveling in rural parts of the state. Spring “breakup,” when the Arctic defrosts, is always a dangerous time in Alaska, Widmier said. But this year it has come earlier than usual. Ice thickness this winter was below average on rivers across the state, according to the National

HUDSON RIVER TIDES Low tide: 4:32 a.m. −1.2 feet High tide: 10:43 a.m. 8.7 feet Low tide: 4:42 p.m. −1.0 feet High tide: 11:12 p.m. 9.5 feet

Weather Service. On the Kuskokwim near Bethel, where the two men died in March, it was just 19 percent of normal. Many parts of the river are already icefree — even though it usually remains frozen well into May. All of this was on Thomas’s mind as he went about his Thursday morning routine at the Utqiagvik observatory. The building is modest — just three small rooms and no bathroom (“We use a bucket,” Thomas explained) — and crowded with devices. Air samplers take continuous measurements of every problematic molecule: carbon dioxide, methane, ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons. Each of these measurements helps explain the transformation occurring outside Thomas’s window. “I think, OK, this [greenhouse gas measurement] is going to help people understand how much energy from the sun is being absorbed by the atmosphere,” he said. “There’s that visceral connection to what’s happening.” Thomas used a store-bought paintbrush to wipe ice from the instruments, making sure they continue to capture the changing climate for another day. COLUMBIA-GREENE MEDIA he Register-Star/he Daily Mail are publishedTuesday through Saturday mornings by Columbia-Greene Media (USPS 253620), One Hudson City Centre, Suite 202, Hudson, NY 12534, a subsidiary of Johnson Newspaper Corp. Periodicals postage paid at Hudson, N.Y., and additional mailing oices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to he Register-Star, One Hudson City Centre, Suite 202, Hudson, NY 12534. TO SUBSCRIBE To order a subscription, call our circulation department at (800) 724-1012 or logon to www.hudsonvalley360.com SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Digital Pass is included with print subscription Daily (Newsstand) $1.50 Saturday (Newsstand) $2.50 Carrier Delivery (3 Months) $71.50 Carrier Delivery (6 Months) $143.00 Carrier Delivery (1 Year) $286.00 EZ Pay Rates: 3 months $65.00 6 months $130.00 1 year $260.00 DIGITAL PASS ONLY RATES: Includes full access to HudsonValley360.com and the e-edition. 3 Months $30.00 6 Months $60.00 1 Year $120.00 Home Delivery & Billing Inquireries Call (800) 724-1012 and reach us, live reps are available Mon.-Fri. 6 a,m - 5 p.m., Sat. 6 a.m. - noon Sun. 8 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

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DEC announces 2019 Earth Week activities

CALENDAR Monday, April 22 n Catskill Village Planning Board 7 p.m. at the Catskill Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill

Tuesday, April 23 n Athens Village Board 6:30 p.m. at

Village Hall, 2 First St., Athens n Catskill Town Planning Board 7 p.m. Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill

Wednesday, April 24 n Catskill Village Board 7 p.m. at the

Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill

Thursday, April 25 n Windham-Ashland-Jewett CSD

Board of Education 7 p.m. in the School Library, 5411 Route 23, Windham

Thursday, May 2 n Cairo Town Planning Board 7 p.m. at the Town Hall, 512 Main St., Cairo

Monday, May 6 n Athens Town Board 6:45 p.m. at

the Town Hall, 2 First St., Athens n Cairo Town Board 7 p.m. at the Town Hall, 512 Main St., Cairo

Wednesday, May 8 n Catskill Central School District

BOE public hearing on budget 6 p.m. in the CHS Library, 341 West Main St., Catskill

Thursday, May 9 n Coxsackie Village Workshop

meeting 6 p.m. at Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

Monday, May 13 n Catskill Village Planning Board 7

p.m. at the Catskill Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill n Coxsackie Village Board 7 p.m. at Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

Tuesday, May 14 n Coxsackie Village Historic Pres-

ervation Committee 6 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

Thursday, May 16 n Coxsackie Village Planning Board

7 p.m. at Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie n Windham-Ashland-Jewett CSD Board of Education 7 p.m. in the School Library, 5411 Route 23, Windham

Monday, May 20 n Athens Town Board 6:45 p.m. at

the Town Hall, 2 First St., Athens

Tuesday, May 21 n Catskill Central School District

BOE board member and budget/proposition vote 1-9 p.m. in the CHS Gymnasium, 341 West Main St., Catskill

Wednesday, May 22 n Catskill Central School District

BOE 7 p.m. in the CHS Library, 341 West Main St., Catskill

Thursday, May 23 n Windham-Ashland-Jewett CSD

Board of Education 7 p.m. in the School Library, 5411 Route 23, Windham

Monday, May 27 n Coxsackie Village Offices closed observance of Memorial Day

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ALBANY — The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is commemorating the 49th anniversary of Earth Day with DEC-sponsored and partner events around the state from April 20 through April 28. These family-friendly activities include opportunities for New Yorkers to connect with nature by hiking, observing wildlife, planting trees, and learning about the importance of protecting the environment. “Earth Day is a perfect reminder to get outside and appreciate New York’s natural resources and to ensure that we’re all doing our part to protect and preserve our environment,” said Commissioner Basil Seggos. “I encourage all New Yorkers to participate in some of the state’s week-long activities and learn more about the programs DEC’s environmental education centers have to offer across the state.” Earth Day was founded by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin in 1970 after he toured the devastation of the massive 1969 oil spill in Santa Barbara, California. On April 22, 1970, demonstrations by an estimated 20 million Americans advocated for a healthy, sustainable environment. Later that same year, DEC and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency were established and the Clean Air Act was enacted, providing the authority for federal and state governments to limit emissions. In 1972,

FULTONHAM — Max V. Shaul State Park will host volunteers as part of more than 130 cleanup, improvement and beautification events happening statewide May 4. I Love My Park Day is an exciting statewide event to improve and enhance New York’s state parks and historic sites and bring visibility to the entire state park system and its needs. Volunteer opportunities for the day will include general clean-up, park beautification, and trail work. Volunteer crews will tidy up the day use area, cleaning up debris such as sticks and leaves, they will plant flowers and do some staining, and others will be clearing overgrowth along the path to the fishing access. Max V. Shaul State Park is a small, quiet camping area with 30 wooded tent and trailer sites. The park has shady picnic grounds, as well as playing fields and a playground. There is also a nature and hiking trail, and winter visitors can enjoy cross-county skiing. Fishing is allowed in Panther Creek and a car top boat/fishing access trail to the Schoharie Creek was established in 2011. I Love My Park Day is coordinated at the statewide level by Parks & Trails New York (PTNY) in partnership with the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation

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Five Rivers Environmental Education Center, 56 Game Farm Road, Delmar For more information call 518-475-0291, e-mail 5Rivers@ dec.ny.gov, or visit DEC’s Five Rivers Environmental Education Center webpage. Visitor center hours: Monday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Five Rivers Scavenger Hunt Stop in at the visitor center and pick up a scavenger hunt before heading out to walk the trails at Five Rivers. Visitors are encouraged to bring their imagination and observation skills, because this scavenger hunt is not about collecting things. Instead, it’s all about completing a list of activities, from gazing at clouds, to touching the earth, to taking a closer look at insects. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday April 22, 24, and 26, from 2 to 4 p.m. each day EarthQuest! DEC’s Office of Climate Change to play EarthQuest, a role-play game focused on climate change and sustainability. Appropriate for middle and high school students, the game will challenge players to think creatively about solutions for environmental problems. This version of the game will be set in New York State’s Capital District and the Upper Hudson River Estuary. Space is limited. Call Five Rivers at 518-475-0291 to register, and organize friends and bring a group.

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sweeping amendments were made to the federal Water Pollution Control Act, predecessor to the Clean Water Act. The Endangered Species Act became law in 1973. Highlighted DEC Community Earth Week 2019 Events include: Hudson Valley, Region 3 Stony Kill Farm Environmental Education Center, 79 Farmstead Lane, Wappingers Falls For more information, call 845-831-3800, email foundation@stonykill.org, or visit DEC’s Stony Kill Farm webpage. April 20 and 21, 27 and 29, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.: Open Barn Stony Kill Farm maintains a working farm housing chickens, cows, pigs, and sheep. Visit with the farm animals and find out about their care from the volunteer Livestock Caretakers. April 20, 21, 27, and 29, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.: Open Greenhouse Learn about the life cycle of a plant during your visit to the greenhouse. Visitors can touch and, in some instances, taste what is being grown in the greenhouse. Saturday, April 27, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. DEC Partner Event: Drop- In at the Drive-In National Parks Service Earth Day Celebration: Recycling and Earth Day activities for all ages at the Hyde Park Drive-In Theater. Capital District, Region 4

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and Historic Preservation (OPRHP). Park staff will oversee cleanup, improvement and beautification projects and work with volunteers. Those interested in volunteering in the project at Max V. Shaul State Park can register to volunteer by visiting www.ptny.org/ilovemypark or by calling 518827-8685. Parks & Trails New York is the leading statewide organization working to preserve and enhance a network of parks, trails and greenways for all New Yorkers for generations to come. Since 1985, our influential reports and advocacy efforts have been critical to keeping parks and historic sites open and protecting New York’s natural, recreational, cultural and historical resources. For more information, visit www.ptny. org. The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation oversees more than 250 parks, historic sites, recreational trails, golf courses, boat launches and more, which are visited by 74 million people annually. A recent study found that New York State Parks generates $5 billion in park and visitor spending, which supports nearly 54,000 jobs and over $2.8 billion in additional state GDP. For

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Monday, April 22, 1 to 3 p.m. DEC partner event: Troy Earth Day Cleanup, 594 River St, Troy A multi-location event to help clean up the North Central and Hill Side neighborhoods of Troy. Visit City of Troy’s Earth Day website for more information. Tuesday, April 23, 9:30 a.m.: DEC Fish Stocking at Six Mile Water Works Six Mile Waterworks located off Fuller Road between Washington and Central Avenues Join DEC’s Bureau of Fisheries and Bureau of Environmental Education staff as they stock Rensselaer Lake in Albany’s Pine Bush with approximately 2,000 rainbow trout. Friday, April 26 (Arbor Day) 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Partnership with Albany Goes Green (AGG),10th anniversary of Arbor Day tree plantings: Tree Planting at Stephen and Harriet Myers House: 194 Livingston Ave., Albany DEC environmental educators and foresters will join St.

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COs are last line of defense in prisons The discovery of more than half a pound of synthetic marijuana, known as K2, before it and other illegal cargo could be smuggled into the Greene Correctional Facility in Coxsackie last week is a worthy reason to be concerned about prison security here and in other counties in the state. But the people doing the worrying are the same people whose job it is to prevent contraband from getting past the metal detectors and other security barriers in the first place. Michael Mazzella, Mid-Hudson Region vice president of the New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association, or NYSCOPBA, said this week the incident demonstrates the need for a statewide vendor program. The existing vendor program for the state prison system requires visitors to

buy supplies from select online stores. “This is the second sizable seizure of synthetic marijuana in less than a month,” Mazzella said. “Officers at Green Haven Correctional Facility found over a pound of K2 in a mailed package at the end of March and now we have a similar situation at Greene. Despite the efforts of our members, not all contraband can be discovered. This is another prime example of why a secure vendor program is needed in each facility.” Wait. Despite the efforts of our members, not all contraband can be discovered? No doubt there is no such thing as a perfect system and the best correctional officers are human and they make mistakes, but if all contraband is not discovered, what is getting through to the inmates, many of whom are considered

dangerous. Mazzella sounds like he’s making a pitch for a secure vendor program, if not deflecting the contraband issue from his own COs onto vendors, but he is right when he says the current vendor system is scattershot. Walkenhorst’s Inmate Packages, Union Supply Direct, Emma’s Premium Services and Access Securepak are just some of the vendors vying for prison contracts. But even if the security of the vendor program is tightened, it still falls on the highly trained COs to halt contraband at the prison doors. Mazzella’s point about centralizing prison vendor services is noted, but at the end of the day, the COs are the last line of defense against the flow of illegal drugs and weapons into our state prisons, keeping both COs and inmates safe.

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doesn’t always cheer her hot takes on immigration. Meghan McCain is havAnd she has managed to ing a moment. The co-host avoid the Fox News track, of “The View” tweeted a where young-ish conservameme-worthy response to tive voices often get stuck. fellow conservative Denise For too long conservatives McAllister’s criticism of ignored popular culture her show: “You were at my in favor of politics, stagwedding Denise.” Then Mc- ing their battlegrounds on Cain received a collective cable news instead of dayonline scolding for getting time or primetime TV. It’s too snippy with co-host Joy what made Megyn Kelly’s Behar, and, as a result, was move to NBC’s “Today” bestowed the ultimate pop groundbreaking, albeit an culture stamp of approval eventual failure. Much like with a lampooning by “SatKelly, Roseanne Barr herself urday Night Live.” wasn’t ready for primetime Remember when everyand got the ax after a Twitter one thought she was nothing flameout. Yet McCain, the more than a politician’s kid? daytime antidote to Tomi Over more than a decade, Lahren, is still standing. the scion of the late Sen. I interviewed McCain in John McCain, R-Ariz., has 2014 when she was hostslowly but surely estabing a show on the Pivot TV lished herself as a force in network. She was turning her own right. Love or hate 30 and still attempting to her, she is the conservative escape her dad’s shadow. equivalent of an Instagram “The thing about having filter: Sometimes she makes famous parents is like, yeah, Republicans look good, and it’ll open some doors, but sometimes she doesn’t. Eiyou have to, like, break the ther way, Meghan McCain is doors down with your high always there, willing to give heel and go into it and make it a shot despite the hits she it happen,” she said at the takes. time. Today, McCain has turned a blog she penned As one of the few conservative voices on “The View,” documenting dear old Dad’s McCain is reliably right-wing 2008 presidential bid into a full-fledged media career. in a Manhattan studio that

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Another high-profile presidential election - 2016 - helped boost her career. In “Ladies Who Punch: The Explosive Inside Story of ‘The View,’ “ McCain admits that the president makes her “job a little easier.” “If Trump wasn’t president, I don’t think I would be successful here,” says McCain in the book. “For that reason, I guess I’m grateful that Trump is president.” It’s no secret that McCain isn’t a fan of Trump, who has repeatedly insulted her father, who died in August. Meghan McCain and Trump are at odds on basically everything — even “SNL,” an institution that he hates and she sees as a powerful tool. “She defies stereotypes about what it means to be a conservative and what young women are supposed to think,” says Karin Agness Lips, founder of the Network of Enlightened Women, a conservative group for college women. Indeed, McCain — an Ivy League graduate who likes high heels and fly-fishing — is clearly on the right and, like her father, her own thinker.

Supreme Court mulls citizenship question for census WASHINGTON — The oral arguments the Supreme Court will hear on Tuesday will be more decorous than the gusts of judicial testiness that blew the case up to the nation’s highest tribunal. The case, which raises arcane questions of administrative law but could have widely radiating political and policy consequences, comes from the Enlightenment mentality of the nation’s Founders, and involves this question: Does it matter that a conspicuously unenlightened member of the president’s cabinet lied in sworn testimony about why he made a decision that he arguably has the statutory power to make? Because America’s 18th century Founders were rational, empirical, inquisitive pursuers of evidence-based improvement, they placed in the Constitution’s second section after the preamble a requirement for a census. And the 14th Amendment stipulates the required actual enumeration, every 10 years, of “the whole number” of persons residing in the country. From 1820 (when Congress wanted “foreigners not naturalized” to be counted) through 1950, the census almost always included a citizenship question, and in 2018 Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross decided that the 2020 “shortform” questionnaire, the one that goes to every household, should include one. Ross has testified that he was “responding solely” to a Justice Department request for the question to provide data helpful to enforcement of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965. A federal district judge called this Ross rationale “pretextual” because Ross was justifying a decision “already made for other reasons.” This was a polite but still stinging way of saying Ross lied, which he almost certainly did: Justice officials initially rejected Commerce’s request that it ask for a citizenship question, and said such data was unnecessary for VRA enforcement. The district judge said

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WILL Commerce sought the Justice letter to “launder” the request for the citizenship question “through another agency,” this being just one of “a veritable smorgasbord” of rules violations by Ross and his aides. Ross also testified that he was “not aware” of any discussions of the citizenship questions between Commerce and the White House. But after 18 states, 15 municipalities and various immigration advocacy groups sued, he acknowledged meeting early in 2017 with then-presidential adviser Stephen Bannon, an anti-immigration zealot. The district judge also said Ross “materially mischaracterized” — translation: lied about — a conversation with a polling expert in order to obfuscate the expert’s objections to the citizenship question. Because more information is preferable to less, the citizenship question might seem sensible. However, the question might result in less information because the Census Bureau’s own experts believe that the citizenship question would cause 6.5 million people — almost one in 10 households includes one or more noncitizens — to not respond to the questionnaire for fear of law-enforcement consequences. The 6.5 million are approximately as many people as live in Indiana. Of the estimated 24 million noncitizens (about 7% of America’s population of almost 329 million), almost 11 million are here illegally. The citizenship question is, the Trump administration insists, “a wholly unremarkable demographic question.” But why, then,

was Ross so dishonest concerning its genesis? This is probably why: A substantial undercount would affect the formulas by which hundreds of billions of dollars of federal spending are dispersed, to the disadvantage of blue states and cities with large immigrant populations. Furthermore, because the 14th Amendment stipulates that seats in the House of Representatives shall be apportioned on the basis of “the whole number of persons in each state” regardless of citizenship, an undercount could cost some states, particularly blue states, congressional seats, and hence electoral votes. The district court judge was scalding about the “egregious” behavior of Ross, who “in a startling number of ways” either “ignored, cherry-picked, or badly misconstrued” evidence, and “acted irrationally … in light of that evidence.” Yet the judge professed himself “unable to determine — based on the existing record, at least — what Secretary Ross’ real reasons for adding the citizenship question were.” Perhaps the judge was precluded from coming to a conclusion about Ross’ motives; the public is not. This is another case in which Trump administration behavior (following equally indefensible Obama administration behavior) is provoking plaintiffs to ask the judiciary to police the blurry boundaries of executive discretion. The Supreme Court, however, is apt to decide that Ross’ wretched behavior does not alter the fact that Congress has granted to him sufficient discretion over the census to accommodate his decision to include the citizenship question. This, in spite of reasonable surmises about his motives that his behavior seemed designed to disguise. George Will’s email address is georgewill@washpost.com. (c) 2019, Washington Post Writers Group

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Richard S. Dippold JEWETT- Richard S. Dippold passed away suddenly on April 16, 2019. He was born on December 26, 1980. He is survived by his two children Nevaeh & Kegan and their mother Melissa Lange. He loved his children with his whole heart. He is also survived by his loving parents Sylvia Banks; Edwin “Skip” Dippold and his wife Lori (nee Becker); two step-siblings Randall Partridge Jr. and his wife Lauren Leonard, and Megan (nee Partridge) Ahrens and her husband John Ahrens; his grandmothers Marilyn Dippold and Lois Banks; many cousins, aunts and uncles. Richard was a member of the Masons Lodge

# 529 in Windham and was the Grand Master for one year. He was also a member of the Jewett Fire Co. He worked full time at CSX railroad as a train operator. He also worked many years as a carpenter. Richard enjoyed fishing and hunting with his friends, but most of all he loved spending as much time as he could with his loving children who will miss him dearly. Calling hours will be held on Saturday, April 20 from 11 am - 1 pm at Decker Funeral Home 5312 Main Street, Windham, NY with a funeral service to follow at 1pm. Interment at Westkill Cemetery.

Mark D. Rogers Mark D. Rogers, 56, of of Kevin Sullivan of Catskill Catskill passed away on and Maureen Sullivan Kinch Wednesday, April 17, 2019. He of Athens; former husband of was born in Clitheroe, Great Christine Macarelli Rogers of Britain, a son of David W. Rog- Catskill; uncle of Ryan Davi, ers and Anne Lawrenson Rog- Kate, Charlotte, Cooper and ers. Mark immigrated to the Liam Rogers, Zachary, Maggie US and graduated Catskill and Emma Kinch. Calling hours High School Class of 1980 and will be held on Monday, April Sienna College. For over 30 22, 2019 from 4-8 pm at Millyears Mark was a partspaugh Camerato Funer and C.P.A. with Alneral Home, 139 Jefexander Varga & Co., ferson Hgts, Catskill. Catskill. A member The funeral procession of Catskill Golf Club. will form at the funeral Mark was an avid golfhome on Tuesday, er, photographer, socApril 23, 2019 at 9:00 cer fan of Manchester am. A Funeral Mass United and a dry huwill be celebrated at merous. Loving father 10:00 at Holy Trinity/ of Olivia, William and St Mary’s Church, 429 Rogers Simon Rogers, all of E Allen St Hudson, Catskill; son of David W. (Nan- NY 12534. Interment will folcy) Rogers of Athens and Anne low in St. Patrick’s Cemetery, Lawrenson Rogers of Hudson; Catskill. Memorial contribubrother of Simon Rogers of tions may be made to MemoClifton Park, Ruth Davi of Clav- rial Sloan Kettering Hospital erack and her fiancé, David (giving.mskcc.org). Messages Teator, Andrew (Deyna) Rogers of condolence may be made to of Charlotte, NC; stepbrother MillspaughCamerato.com.

Edward Henry Arnold Funeral services for Edward Henry Arnold, 92, of San Antonio, TX and formerly of Kinderhook will be held on Thursday, April 25th , 2:00pm at the Kinderhook Reformed Church with

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Donald L. Hotaling Donald L. Hotaling, 78, of Jacksonville, Florida, and formerly of West Taghkanic, passed away on April 11, 2019. He was born on February 10, 1941, to the late Harold and Elizabeth (Wright) Hotaling. He worked for many years as a laborer in the maintenance department at Lake Taghkanic. On Sundays he enjoyed watching wrestling, and always enjoyed taking care of his home and property. He was a life member of the West Taghkanic Fire Company. Donald is survived by his wife; Gail (Lawson) Hotaling, his two daughters; Barbara Hotaling and her companion Tom, and Donna Williams. His four grandchildren; Rachael & Me-

gan Tuczynski, and Nicholas & Nicole Williams. Also surviving is his brother, Charles Hotaling. In addition to his parents he is also predeceased by his four siblings; Harold Jr., Leon, Betty Jane Laraway, and Kathleen Stoner. Funeral services will be held on Monday, April 22, 2019 at 2:00 pm from Bates & Anderson – Redmond & Keeler Funeral Home, 110 Green Street, Hudson. Visitation will begin at 12:00 pm also from the funeral home. A memorial service will be held on July 14, 2019 at the West Taghkanic Fire House. For directions or to leave a message of condolence please visit www.batesanderson.com

Bullies and black trench coats: Columbine shooting’s most dangerous myths Gillian Brockell The Washington Post

The headlines in major newspapers the day after the Columbine massacre were shocking - and they were wrong: “Up to 25 Die in Colorado School Shooting” (The Washington Post) Gunmen Stalk School, Killing Up to 25 and Wounding 20 (Los Angeles Times) “High School Massacre: Columbine bloodbath leaves up to 25 dead” (Denver Post) In fact, the death toll was lower - 12 students and one teacher were killed on April 20, 1999 by shooters Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who then took their own lives. Even so, Columbine remained the deadliest high school shooting in U.S. history until the attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018 that left 17 dead. Saturday will mark 20 years since the Columbine massacre. And while correcting the death toll took only a day, other aspects of early reports that turned out to be unfounded have lingered in the nation’s subconscious. “It’s frustrating because we’ve known so much for so long, but initial impressions are hard to change,” said Peter Langman, a psychologist who has studied school shootings so extensively that Sue Klebold contacted him for insight about her son Dylan while she was writing a memoir. 1. Harris and Klebold were not in the Trench Coat Maia Even as the massacre was unfolding, students told journalists that Harris and Klebold were members of a group known as the Trench Coat Maia. The Washington Post put it this way: “The shooters who turned Columbine High School into an unspeakable landscape of carnage yesterday were members of a small clique of outcasts who always wore black trench coats and spent their entire adolescence deep inside the morose subculture of Gothic fantasy, their fellow students said.” The Denver Post reported: “By several accounts, the group [was] also interested in the occult, mutilation, shockrocker Marilyn Manson and Adolf Hitler.” And The New York Times: “[I]nvestigators now believe that among the dozen or so students in the group were the people responsible for yesterday’s mass shooting at the high school.” Students and investigators did say this to reporters. But Columbine was a large school with 2,000 students. Many “did not know [Harris and Klebold], or knew them only as kids who sometimes wore trench coats,” Langman wrote in a 2008 report. “As a result, people assumed that [Harris and Klebold] were part of the Trench Coat Maia; this assumption is wrong.” The year before the shooting, when Harris and Klebold were juniors, there was a group

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of mostly senior students who sometimes referred to themselves as the Trench Coat Maia. Harris and Klebold knew a few of these students, but they were not considered core to the friend group, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Ofice later determined, and did not appear in a photo of Trench Coat Maia members in the 1998 yearbook. Most of those students had graduated the year before the shooting. Police also later determined that some students confused Klebold with another student who was in the group and resembled Klebold. 2. Harris and Klebold were not isolated outcasts or loners. In the conlation of Harris and Klebold with the Trench Coat Maia, they became synonymous with the word “outcast,” which appeared in every major newspaper report. The Post said people described them as an “isolated pair”; the Denver Post used “loners.” But a thorough look at the shooters’ lives, one not based on panicked students’ reports, refutes this, Langman said. “They both had a lot of friends. They both engaged in school activities, out-of-school activities, they worked parttime jobs with some of their buddies at a pizza shop,” Langman said. Both were in a bowling league. Harris had played on the school soccer team as a freshman and sophomore, and continued to play soccer and volleyball after school, according to the sheriff’s ofice report. Klebold was in a fantasy baseball league and had gone to prom with a female friend a few days before the massacre. 3. The attack was not revenge for being bullied. The irst articles also indicated that Harris and Klebold sought revenge against classmates who had bullied them. The New York Times said Harris and Klebold appeared to target “peers who had poked fun at the group in the past.” The Washington Post said students described them as “a constant target of derision for at least four years.” The Los Angeles Times said students considered the attack “lethal payback for old taunts and prejudices.” But a look at police records

and Harris’s and Klebold’s own writings paint a much more complex portrait, Langman said. Yes, Harris and Klebold were sometimes teased, but they were nowhere near the most bullied in the school and were much more frequently the bullies than the victims of bullies. Most students are picked on at some point, Langman said, “so in the aftermath of a shooting, if reporters ask the students, ‘Was so-and-so ever picked on,’ the answer just on average is going to be yes. The signiicance of that though is completely unknown.” In fact, Harris’s personal writings show many “reasons” for his desire to kill: He wanted to see himself as “the law”; for sadistic pleasure; because the human race is “only worth killing”; and as revenge for being teased. Revenge was only one among many reasons. More often than not, Harris expressed a desire to kill complete strangers. Harris and Klebold did not kill any of the students who had teased them; school shooters rarely do, Langman said. The two even said they knew that some of their friends might die in their attack. School shootings were not new in 1999; in the two years before Columbine, there were deadly school shootings in Pearl, Mississippi, West Paducah, Kentucky, Jonesboro, Arkansas, and Springield, Oregon. But Columbine was the irst of these events to unfold live on television. The Chicago Tribune published a story about the uniqueness of the experience; the Associated Press called it “adrenaline television.” Networks were later criticized for revealing the locations of police and of hiding and leeing students live on the air. Since Columbine, more than 226,000 students have experienced gun violence at U.S. schools, according to Washington Post data. The frequency of school shootings has spurred changes in reporting aimed at limiting inaccuracies such as those that followed the Columbine massacre. The Poynter Institute and Suicide Awareness Voice of Education urge journalists to avoid reporting secondhand witness

Biden preparing for possible 2020 announcement next week Jennifer Epstein Bloomberg

Former Vice President Joe Biden is making preparations to enter the Democratic presidential campaign with a possible announcement as soon as next Wednesday, according to three people familiar with his plans. One of the people cautioned that the plans could change, given the former Delaware senator’s its and starts around previous presidential campaigns. Biden, 76, is tentatively aiming to get into the race with the release of a video announcing his candidacy, according to the people, who asked for anonymity to discuss private conversations. Biden’s spokesman, Bill Russo, declined to comment on the plan, which was irst reported by the Atlantic. People around Biden have said for months that while he’s been all but certain to run, they would be reluctant to say so with complete conidence until he actually makes the announcement. He’s spent the irst quarter of the year weighing his inal decision on his third White House bid as 18 other would-be Democratic nominees have already begun campaigning and raising money.

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He would enter the race as the front-runner with only Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders threatening that status. Biden would offer a counterpoint in the race to Sanders, who’s running on a populist progressive platform and has a solid core of left-leaning activists behind him. Biden long has pitched himself as champion of the working class — he was spotted ilming a video at his childhood home in Scranton, Pennsylvania, this

month — and his allies believe he can win back some of the white Rust Belt voters who migrated to President Donald Trump in the 2016 election. Though his two previous tries for the Democratic nomination in 1988 and 2008 ended quickly, Biden will be able to draw on the good will generated by serving as vice president to Barack Obama, who remains very popular among Democrats. But he also would have plenty of liabilities, including his age — four years older than Trump — and a sense from some that he’s out of touch with the Democratic electorate, especially younger voters. After a career as a six-term senator from Delaware, Biden has compiled a record of stances that are unpopular with many of the party’s core voters. He’s also had to confront complaints from women who came forward last month saying they were uncomfortable with the way Biden touched them at public events. None of the women described the encounters as assault or harassment. Biden released a video earlier this month in which he said he understood that social norms have changed and that he needs to be more respectful of the personal space of others. But he offered no apologies.

statements or amplifying small details, and the Radio Television Digital News Association warns against broadcasting the locations of victims and law enforcement while shooters are still active. Others recommend avoiding the use of shooters’ names or publishing photos that glorify their crimes. This is because of another aspect of modern school shootings that started with Columbine - glorification of mass shooters on the Internet. As The Post’s Jessica Contrera reported this month, more than 150 strangers show up at the Columbine High School campus every month. Many are obsessed with the attacks, and pore over Harris’s and Klebold’s online writings and photos. This week, an 18-year-old woman described by authorities as “infatuated” with the Columbine massacre traveled from her home in Florida to Colorado. Sol Pais immediately purchased the same kind of weapon used by one of the Columbine shooters at a gun shop two miles from the school, setting off a massive manhunt. She ran from the FBI and took her own life - her case becoming another reminder of the Columbine shooting’s enduring and dangerous mythology.

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Easter plants, snakes, coyotes and critters! This is the last garden column that I will be writing from Florida for about seven months. I have had a wonderful winter here in the Sunshine State, but I am homesick for the beautiful Catskill Mountain/ Hudson Valley region that is my real home. It will be nice to return to a state where most drivers actually do use their turn signals. It seems like I stay here a week longer each year, but I do not want to miss the arrival of spring at home. For those of you living in the midHudson Valley you are already enjoying some early flowering spring bulbs and shrubs. It will still be late winter at my house in Conesville though, since my growing season is about one to two weeks behind the valley towns. This is Easter weekend and for many people it is best celebrated with flowers that signify rebirth and renewed life. Local garden centers will be chock full of Easter lilies and other plants that have been “forced” for the holiday. It would be well worth your time to visit some place such

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BEYFUSS as Story’s Nursery in Freehold, or some other local garden center to take in the sights and scents. I was in a local garden center here in Florida yesterday and I was delighted by the smell of forced hyacinths! These fragrant bulbs do not grow outdoors here in central Florida because it does not get cold enough for long enough over the winter to satisfy their chilling requirement. There are few plants with as delightful a scent as hyacinths. Several years ago my friend Lionel gifted me with some forced hyacinths that I saved and replanted near my house. They have come up for me every year since then, much to my delight!

If you receive a gift of forced spring flowering bulbs, from tulips to crocus, keep it watered and in full sun until the flowers and foliage wither and fade in a month or so. Allow the bulbs to fully dry out so you can replant the bulbs in mid-summer to fall. Easter lilies may also be replanted in your perennial border once the blossoms fade and with some luck, they may bloom again this fall and may even become permanent additions to your perennial garden. Last week I wrote about growing blueberries and I emphasized the need to prepare the site in such a manner that it can be “netted” to keep the birds from eating all the fruit. A reader pointed out that plastic bird netting sometimes ends up trapping and killing beneficial snakes, especially when it is stored in a shed or garage over the winter. Store the netting in a sack to prevent this from happening. I have also observed that it sometimes captures and kills birds as well. A better approach, particularly at ground level, is to use small mesh chicken wire to surround the bushes. You can

also make wooden frames from 2 x 2s to staple the chicken wire to and place them around and over the bushes as needed and store them in your garage with little risk of harming wildlife. Plastic netting is always difficult to work with and even a tiny tear allows birds to find their way in, but not their way out. Perhaps the biggest challenge gardeners face when trying to grow almost any type of fruit is dealing with the critters that want to eat it. Chipmunks, deer, rabbits, mice, voles and birds are a fruit gardener’s worst enemy and raccoons can also be troublesome, as can black bears. I run

a few strands of electric fence around my peach trees that seems to keep the bears, raccoons and deer at bay as the fruit ripens. Using hardware cloth guards wrapped around tree trunks will deter rodents all year long. It is also a good idea to recognize and protect the few animals that are a gardener’s friend! Snakes of all sorts are on this list, as are coyotes and foxes. Many people have an irrational fear of snakes, but they kill and eat the real threats of mice and voles as well as many insects. Some people confuse beneficial milk snakes with poisonous copperheads, as they are some-

what similar in appearance, but copperheads are extremely rare in our region and they have never been reported to kill anyone, despite their venom. I think I may write a snake identification column soon. About 95% of a coyote’s diet consists of mice and voles and they should never be killed! I strongly encourage summer residents to allow deer hunting on their property, but forbid the deer hunters from shooting any coyotes at all. Unlike deer and most other mammals, coyotes never overpopulate their range. Reach Bob Beyfuss at rlb14@cornell.edu.

C-GCC automotive technology program named one of the best HUDSON — ColumbiaGreene Community College’s Automotive Technology program has been named one of the best automotive schools in the Northeast by Trade School Future. Based on criteria including graduation rates, tuition fees, student debt and salaries offered to candidates after graduation, C-GCC was listed among only five institutions, joining Lancaster County Career and Technology Center in Willow Street, Pennsylvania, Rosedale Technical College in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, SUNY College of Technology at Alfred and Vermont Technical College of Randolph, Vermont. Trade School Future provides resources regarding trade school and career college programs, scholarships and grant opportunities, and maintains a network of schools and organizations that can both educate and employ the future workforce. C-GCC offers several options for students seeking careers or advancement in automotive technology, taught by instructors who are Master Technicians certified by the National Institute of Automo-

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The humble dandelion deserves respect I have grown tired of the overall brownness of the late winter-early spring landscape. The return of green slowly taking over my yard and the surrounding woodlands is refreshing to these old eyes. I like the fact that so many of the early spring flowers are yellow. They make a wonderful contrast to the bright green of the new grass. The crocus in our early garden are various shades mostly of purple or blue but there are some yellow ones. The daffodils are happily blowing their bright yellow horns, the forsythia is glowing golden and the tulips are showing signs of their annual openings. All these are most welcome but they aren’t my favorite spring flower. I know where to look for the crocus, the daffodils and the tulips because we planted them and they don’t tend to wander. The little flower I was looking for could be anywhere. I didn’t have to buy it or plant it or weed it. No pruning, fertilization or insect control is necessary. My favorite spring flower is the oft-maligned dandelion. I spotted the first one of the year during our daily URa-peeing tour of the yard.

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BROOKS Telly gave it a sniff and headed for one of his favorite trees. There it was on the edge of the woods, raising its fuzzy head to the rising sun. Not completely open yet, I’ll look for it tomorrow. Soon its relatives by the dozen will be smiling all over the lawn, the thought of it made me smile. There are people who don’t welcome this spring invasion. Instead of enjoying the free flowers they war against the poor little things, poisoning them, ripping them out by their roots and hacking them down as fast as they appear. They don’t remember that they are the first flowers that a child learns that can be picked without incurring an adult’s anger. Is there a mother or grandmother out there who hasn’t been presented a wilt-

ed handful of these flowers clutched in a dirty, chubby little hand, and treasured them? Our ancestors looked forward to the dandelion’s appearance. They looked forward to one of the first salad greens to appear. The leaves could be cooked like spinach and they used the oil from the plant for arthritis and joint pain. They made tea from the leaves and flowers. Dandelion jelly made its way into many kitchens and during hard times, the roots were dried and grated to make an acceptable substitute for coffee. My father loved the little yellow flowers. I spent hours in our pastures harvesting them. He then processed them into delicious wine, which was consumed on special occasions. I have four recipes for the wines he made somewhere; I may have to see if I can find them and continue the family tradition. So let’s have a little respect for this tiny sign that spring is truly here and join me in blowing on a few of the fluffy mature seed heads that send thousands of little parachutes each carrying a seed into the spring air and spread a little joy for next spring. Thought for the week — De-

Church Briefs EASTER SUNRISE SERVICE ATHENS — The Athens Churches are sponsoring an ecumenical Easter Sunrise Service at 6 a.m. April 21 at the Riverfront Park on the Hudson River in Athens. Following the service there will be a free breakfast at the First Reformed Church on Church Street.

experts from the Coxsackie Antique Center.

RUMMAGE SALE COXSACKIE — A rummage sale will be held 9 a.m.3 p.m. April 25 and April 26; and 9 a.m.-2 p.m. April 27 at Coxsackie United Methodist

Church, 103 Mansion St., Coxsackie. Lunch served Friday and Saturday with egg sandwiches served in the morning on Saturday. There will also be a food sale on Saturday. The church is handicapped accessible.

spite the high cost of living, it remains a popular item.Anonymous

Until next week, May you and yours be happy and healthy.

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The Child Advocacy Center of Columbia and Greene Counties in Hudson works with between 150 and 200 children each year who have witnessed or been victims of abuse, Child Advocacy Center and REACH Program Director Julianne Baumann said. The gardens have been planted each year since 2015. “Our hope is that by raising awareness on these topics, and providing information on resources in our community, we can empower victims and anyone who sees, experiences or suspects crime and/or abuse by increasing our efforts to take

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eral level as well,” Linger said. Populations struggling with low populations also miss out on population-based state aid, Murell said. “Greene County’s strategy for attracting visitors has been through tourism,” Linger said. “We do the best we can with the tools we have available to us. We have been successful at making this a four-season destination instead of just focusing on the mountaintop in the winter.” Tourists often fall in the love with the area, Linger said. “Many people come back and start their own businesses,” he said. Murell thinks that establishing job opportunities is key to attracting new residents. “Traditionally, this area had industry,” he said. “The econ-

action,” Baumann said in a statement. “We can accomplish this by knowing what to do when we suspect it, how to report it and who to turn to for support and services for survivors.” Child Advocacy Centers are child-friendly facilities that help abused and neglected children and their families. Representatives from law enforcement, child protective services, district attorneys offices, child and victim advocates, the mental health association and center staff work together to investigate cases and prosecute offenders. Children often meet with a trained forensic interviewer, who compassionately works with the child to obtain information. As part of each event,

the Clothesline Project will honor survivors and acts as a memorial for victims of crime and abuse with a display of hand-designed T-shirts. These victimizations occurred to our family, friends, neighbors and those we know. Since 2008 The REACH Center has displayed Clothesline Project T-shirts throughout the community, in both Columbia and Greene Counties. Individuals from the community decorated these shirts, providing the opportunity to express how the victimization affected them, and the ones they love. The REACH Center accepts shirts from women, men, and children who are survivors of crime and abuse, as well as from friends and family members of victims. There are over 350 shirts displayed

omy now is focused on the service area. Having good-paying jobs would definitely benefit the area. People would move in to take jobs.” Markou agreed. “We have to create more jobs that provide a livable income for the people who live here and for young people,” he said. “It’s a beautiful place, but where are the jobs? People go where there is opportunity.” Like Greene County, Columbia County has been targeting the tourism market. “People will visit and end up living here,” Murell said. “It’s a beautiful area.” The influx of tourists is bringing a whole new population, Markou said. “They are bringing their income and new ideas into the community,” he said. “And we can always use new ideas.” Aside from catering to tourists, offering services is critical, Catskill Town Supervisor Doreen Davis said.

“We need to make sure that we encourage people to come by providing reasonable services such as broadband,” Davis said. “It is hard to move if you can’t get appropriate service at your house.” Greene County Administrator Shaun Groden agreed that broadband expansion is a priority. “It is our goal to extend broadband to all corners of the county,” he said. Quality education is also important, Davis said. “We have to encourage teachers to come here so young families will want to live here,” she said. Groden does not foresee population trends changing soon. “New York has a reputation for being the highest taxed state in the nation from a property and income tax standpoint,” Groden said. “I don’t see that [population decline] slowing down.”

throughout the community, and more added each year. “The members of child advocacy center are highly skilled at interviewing children at young ages,” Greene County District Attorney Joseph Stanzione said. “They know the process. They know how long to question them and when to stop and when to bring them back.” When it comes to older child victims, “the child advocacy center will make sure they have proper housing, appropriate clothing and food and things of that nature. Sometimes these kids live on their own,” Stanzione said. The pinwheels are planted in a garden to raise awareness of child abuse prevention. April is known as Child

Abuse Prevention Month. “The pinwheel is a symbol of hope, safety, health and, most importantly, happiness,” according to as statement from the Child Advocacy Center. “It stands for carefree childhood we want for all children and is a call to neighbors, community members and leaders to play a role in protecting and nurturing our youngest citizens. It symbolizes our efforts to change the way our community thinks about child abuse prevention.” “There have been many advances in law enforcement during my time working as DA and judge, and I believe, with the possible exception of DNA, the creation of child advocacy centers are the most important,” Columbia County District Attorney

Paul Czajka said. In addition to all major law enforcement agencies in the county, schools also utilize and report to child advocacy centers when it comes to suspected abuse. “We do have some stragglers,” Czajka said, alluding to some school districts, which he declined to name. “When I say that, I mean there are a couple of school districts in the county, who don’t quite understand the importance of making prompt calls to the hotline and to law enforcement without conducting their own investigations.” To reach reporter Amanda Purcell, call 518-828-1616 ext. 2500, or send an email to apurcell@thedailymail.net, or tweet to @amandajpurcell.

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Rector, Fourth Ward Supervisor Linda Mussmann, Fifth Ward Alderwoman Eileen Halloran, Fourth Ward Alderman Rich Volo and First Ward Alderman Rob Bujan. As soon as the prayer is said, a burial was immediately held at the Muslim Cemetery in Wynantskill, as part of Muslim tradition, Miah said. Sultana was studying civil engineering, according to a statement from the college. Sultana was an “outstanding” student who touched many lives, college President Grace Wang said Thursday. Sultana was a member of the Hudson High School robotics team that competed in a state championship, a member of the National Honor Society and a runner on the

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track team, according to the Hudson City School District. Two weeks ago, Sultana returned to Hudson High to assist teammates on the Hudson High School Robotics Team No. 1665. “She was still helping them [the robotics teams] raise

funds and everything and still helping three years later,” Abitabile said. To reach reporter Amanda Purcell, call 518-828-1616 ext. 2500, or send an email to apurcell@thedailymail.net, or tweet to @amandajpurcell.

Couple who tortured 12 children are sentenced to life The New York Times News Service

A California couple who tortured 12 of their 13 children, starving and beating them, depriving them of sleep and sometimes shackling them to their beds with chains, were sentenced to 25 years to life in prison Friday. “My parents took my whole life from me, but now I’m taking my life back,” one of the children, a young woman who is now in college, said in a statement she read to the court. The children were rescued in January 2018 after one of the girls worked up the courage to escape by jumping from a window of the suburban Los Angeles home where they had been kept prisoner. She called 911 from a cellphone she had grabbed from the house and described the years of abuse to a police dispatcher. “I’ve never been out. I don’t go out much,” the girl told the dispatcher. She was 17, but her voice sounded like that of a much younger child, because, prosecutors said, her growth had been stunted by the abuse. Now the parents, David and Louise Turpin, are likely to spend the rest of their lives locked up. The Turpins were sentenced after pleading guilty in February in Riverside County Superior Court to torture and other abuse and neglect so severe that it left two of their daughters unable to bear children. The parents will be eligible for parole after the minimum time has elapsed, but Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin has said that unless a parole board decides otherwise, they will spend the rest of their lives in prison. After ruining the lives of their children, he said, it was fitting justice. The children ranged from 2 to 29 years old when they were found. Some were emaciated and appeared to have cognitive deficiencies from the abuse. Only the toddler did not appear to have been abused, authorities said. Since being removed from the home, the children are healing and beginning to live more normal lives, authorities said.

The seven adult children were living together and attending school in February, when their parents pleaded guilty. The parents registered the residence as a private school, called Sandcastle Day School, and so were able to avoid

questions about why their six school-aged children were not in school, authorities said. Before the children were rescued, neither law enforcement nor child protective services had had any contact with the Turpin family.

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Hudson third baseman Nisaa Cora attempts to tag Greenville’s Caila Benning during Thursday’s Patroon Conference softball game. Columbia-Greene Media

VALATIE — Marissa Wheeler pitched a perfect game with 17 strikeouts to lead Ichabod Crane to a 13-0 victory over

Cobleskill-Richmondville in Thursday’s Colonial Council softball game. “Marissa was dealing today,” Ichabod Crane coach Tracy Nytransky said. “She

struck out 17 and we made the other plays to keep them off the bases. She came out strong and shut them down all game. See SOFTBALL B6

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Jackie Schrowang of Catskill with a nice early season striper.

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sections. But, during the past few days, all indications were of a strong surge of activity just to the north of Catskill. Germantown still seems to be a hot spot for shorebound anglers.” If you do get a chance to fish the river, bloodworms and herring are the baits of choice if you can find them. Catching herring has been spotty in our area. Of course, fishing success and bait availability were severely hampered by turbid conditions from recent heavy rain with a lot of debris reported at boat launches and floating in creeks and rivers. Tom says he has both fresh dead and frozen herring at his shop in Catskill

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The spring striper run in our area has been on since the beginning of the month. It got off to a good start with 18 to 28-inch fish being caught in fair numbers well south of Catskill down just north of. Jackie Schrowang of Catskill was fishing this past Sunday and boated three nice linesiders. Larger fish are starting to be landed in the 30 plus-inch range. Tom Gentalen of River Basin Sport Shop reports a 40-incher caught in the Saugerties area earlier this week. Tom says, “Best striper catches we’ve heard about have been from Esopus Meadows, Rondout Creek/ Kingston, and Glasco

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GREENPORT — Isaiah Maines pitched a four-hitter and helped himself with the bat, going 3 for 3 with two doubles to lead Hudson to a 9-2 victory over Greenville in Thursday’s Patroon Conference baseball game at Columbia-Greene Community College. Maines struck out nine and walked three in helping the Bluehawks improve to 5-3 in the Patroon. Matt Bowes had a triple, single and two RBI in support of Maines. Tanner Race added three singles, Matt Cow had a double and an RBI, Jack Moon and Zach Bernockie a single and an RBI each and Charles Goodermote a single. Isaiah Edmonds doubled for Greenville (1-9). Travis Wilson singled and drove in a run and Clifton Drollette and Ryan

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Greenville’s Keenan Mulholland and Hudson catcher Jack Moon follow the flight of Mulholland’s fly ball during Thursday’s Patroon Conference game at Columbia-Greene Community College.

McAneny both had a single. Travis Wilson struck out

six, walked six and allowed seven runs and 11 hits. Kyle

Ichabod Crane 3, Cobleskill 2 VALATIE — Jack Baumgartner ripped a two-run single in the top of the fourth inning to break a 1-1 tie and Ichabod Crane went on to edge Cobleskill-Richmondville, 3-2, in Thursday’s Colonial Council baseball game. Baumgartner finished with two singles and two RBI for the Riders (2-3). Tyler Daley had a single and an RBI and Camdyn Ames, Jake Siter and Justice Suafoa all singled. Damon Gavett doubled and singled for Cobleskill-Richmondville.Derek Hotzler had two singles and an RBI. Siter and Aidan Frick combined for the win, allowing just See BASEBALL B6

Patroon Conference Track and Field Columbia-Greene Media

BOYS Maple Hill 121 Hudson 18 Maple Hill 106, Rensselaer 34 Rensselaer 70 Hudson 64 4x800: Maple Hill 9:30.2; 110 HH: Jacobs (MH) 15.6; 100m: Doh Kyi (R) 11.5; 1600m: Goca (R) 4:34.3; 4x100: Maple Hill 46.4; 400 IH: Jacobs (MH) 60.9; 400m: Beber (MH) 56.2; 800m: Goca (R) 2:01.5; 200m: Roberts (MH) 23.3; 3200m: Goca (R) 10:15.5; 4x400m: Maple Hill 3:42.9; Long Jump: Deyo (MH) 19-0; Pole vault: H.Pomykaj (MH) 11-0; High jump: Deyo (MH) 5-4; Shot Deyo (MH) 378.25; Triple jump: Roberts 396: Discus: Sanders(R) 94-6. Chatham 70.5, Green Tech 70.5 4x800 relay: Chatham (To. Jeralds, Ti. Jeralds, C. Jeralds,

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Runners sprint toward the finish line during the girls 100-meters at Thursday’s Patroon Conference meet in Hudson.

Case) 10:46.3; 110 hurdles: Owens (GT) :18.3; 100m: Musa (GT) :11.8; 1600m: Tobias Jeralds (Chat) 5:08.6; 4x100 relay:

Green Tech (Johnson, Garcia, Barry, Musa) :46.1; 400m: Drew (GT) :57.4; 400 hurdles: Ti. Jeralds (Chat) :69.3; 800m:

C. Jeralds (Chat) 2:38.2; 200m: A. Garcia (GT) :23.8; 3200m: See TRACK B6

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HUDSON — Hudson claimed three singles matches and won both doubles matchs to post a 5-2 victory over Coxsackie-Athens in Thursday’s Patroon Conference tennis match. The Bluehawks too two matches from Maple Hill on Wednesday, 5-2 and 6-1. Results: Hudson 5, Coxsackie-Athens 2 Singles: Ethan Hanse (CA) defeated Miftahul Hoq 6-4, 6-4; Rukon Hussain (H) defeated Myles Clark 6-0, 6-1; Refat Hoque (H) defeated Dom Bird 6-0, 6-0; Jahid Hassan (H) defeated Tyler Choinsky 6-0, 6-0; Zarib Alam (CA) won by forfeit. Doubles: Jarrett Crast & Farhan Chowdhury (H) defeated Matt Clark & Leo Woytowich 6-4, 6-4; Mutassim Foad & Rehat Miah (H) defeated Kam Harris & Josiah Decker 8-5. Hudson 5, Maple Hill 2 Singles: Tim Wochinger (MH) defeated Miftahul Hoq 10-1, 10-0; Rukon Hussan (H) defeated Evan Fink 10-9, 8-6; LAndon Flack (MH) defeated Refat Hoque 10-6; Jahid Hussan (H) defeated Josh Zimmerman 10-3; Farhan Chowdhury (H) won by forfeit. Doubles: Jarret Crast & Mutassim Foad (H) defeated Eric Rossetti & Justin Sober; Thomas Allie & Fahim Ahmed (H) won by forfeit. Hudson 6, Maple Hill 1 Singles: Tim Wochinger (MH) defeated Miftahul Hoq 8-2; Rukon Hussan (H) defeated Evan Fink 8-2 ; Refat Hoq (H) defeated Landon Flack 8-6; Jahid Fassan (H) defeated Josh Zimmeran 8-2; Farhan Chowdhury won by forfeit. Douubles: Jarrett Crast & Mutassim Foad (H) defeated Derek Rosetti & Justin Sober 8-6; Thomas Allie & Rehat Miah won by forfeit.

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Hudson’s Refat Miah competing in Thursday’s Patroon Conference match against Coxsackie-Athens.

Red Sox’ Price says he’ll skip White House visit Des Bieler The Washington Post

David Price is the latest member of the Boston Red Sox to say he won’t accompany the World Series champions when the team visits the White House. “It’s baseball season,” the veteran starting pitcher said. According to MLB Network’s Jon Heyman, who broke the news on Twitter on Thursday, that was all Price had to say about the matter. Only one of the Boston players who plan to skip the White House trip has specified that he is doing so because of an objection to President Donald Trump. That was relief pitcher Hector Velazquez, who said earlier this month that he “would rather not offend anyone” in his home country of Mexico. “The president has said a lot of stuff about Mexico,” he said through a translator. Red Sox Manager Alex Cora, who is from Puerto Rico, said

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in December that he saw the White House visit as an opportunity to advocate for the island territory, still reeling from Hurricane Maria’s destruction. However, he subsequently indicated that he wasn’t sure he would go. Other Red Sox players who have said they won’t go include reigning AL MVP Mookie Betts. As with Price, he was terse in his reported reasoning, saying in January: “I won’t be going there. I decided not to.” That was after third baseman Rafael Devers said simply, “The opportunity was presented, and I just wasn’t compelled to go.” In February, Boston outfielder Jackie Bradley Jr. wrote on Twitter that he “still wouldn’t go if Hillary [Clinton] was in office either.” He described that as “a monkey wrench thrown at the people who believe MY decision is political,” and he noted that he had “been to the White House

twice” before, including while on a championship college team. Bradley added parenthetically, “yes Obama happen [sic] to be in office both times.” Velazquez took issue with Trump’s criticism of immigrants from Mexico. “I feel like the people who do come here are people who are trying to work hard and provide for their families and not cause any trouble for anybody,” the pitcher said. A number of New England Patriots players did not attend the team’s visit to Trump’s White House in 2017 and in the wake of February’s Super Bowl win, a few have said they will skip this year’s trip. The two-time defending NBA champion Golden State Warriors have not been at all, while

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citing an antipathy to the president’s statements and policies, and after several Eagles did the same in 2018, the whole team was uninvited by Trump. When the Stanley Cupwinning Washington Capitals visited last month, three players announced they would not accompany their teammates: goaltender Braden Holtby and forwards Brett Connolly and Devante Smith-Pelly, all of whom are Canadian. Smith-Pelly said of Trump: “the things that he spews are straight-up racist and sexist.” And Holtby, an LGBT advocate, said last month: “My family and myself, we believe in a world where humans are treated with respect regardless of your stature, what you’re born into.

NEW YORK — The Yankees have taken a stand against racism for their seventh-inning stretch. For 18 years, Yankee Stadium regularly used Kate Smith’s 1939 recording of “God Bless America” in the middle of the seventh inning. But they ditched it altogether this season, replacing Smith’s rendition with different versions of the song. Why? As the Daily News learned, the Yankee were made aware of Smith’s history of potential racism. Smith was a famous singer before and during WWII who recorded the offensive jingle, “Pickaninny Heaven,” which she directed at “colored children” who should fantasize about an amazing place with “great big watermelons,” among other treats. She shot a video for that song that takes place in an orphanage for black children, and much of the imagery is startlingly racist. She also recorded, “That’s Why Darkies Were Born,” which included the lyrics, “Someone had to pick the cotton. ... That’s why darkies were born.” Smith, who died in 1986, endorsed the “Mammy Doll” in 1939, which was based on a racist caricature of a black woman in the same vein as Aunt Jemima. The Yankees are

investigating these claims and there are some conflicting notions regarding the song “That’s Why Darkies Were Born,” in particular, because it was considered satire at the time and recorded with African-American artist Paul Robeson. Still, her shocking lyrics from 1939 are neither humorous nor ironic in 2019 — and the Yankees acted swiftly. “The Yankees have been made aware of a recording that had been previously unknown to us and decided to immediately and carefully review this new information,” a club spokesman said. “The Yankees take social, racial and cultural insensitivities very seriously. And while no final conclusions have been made, we are erring on the side of sensitivity.” This isn’t the first time the Yankees pulled the plug on a potentially bigoted performer. In 2009, they cut out Ronan Tynan from his regular spot singing “God Bless America” after he allegedly made anti-Semitic remarks. Tynan later apologized for disparaging Jews, claiming he was joking. Even before cutting out Smith from the rotation, the Yankees were evaluating a change to their “God Bless America” experience — including more live performances on the field.

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For the Yankees, even the ‘Next Guy Up’ is plenty dangerous Tyler Kepner The New York Times News Service

Six franchises have won the World Series in the decade since the New York Yankees’ last title, and three of those teams appear on their schedule this month. The Kansas City Royals (2015 champions) visit the Bronx this weekend. The Houston Astros (2017) swept the Yankees last week, and this week the Yankees swept the Boston Red Sox, who have gone from pristine to pitiful since claiming the crown last fall. There is nothing quite like an emphatic sweep of their rivals — even in a two-game series — to clear away the clouds over Yankee Stadium. After a blowout Tuesday and a comeback Wednesday, the Yankees and their patchwork roster seem capable of weathering their crush of injuries and contending yet again. “There’s always a guy down and a guy up and a guy stepping in, trying to pick each other up the best we can,” starter J.A. Happ said after working 6 1/3 innings in Wednesday’s 5-3 victory. “We’re hoping we get a bunch of guys back, but at the same time, these games count the same. We’ve got to

hang in.” The best way to do that is with starting pitching. On Tuesday, James Paxton became the first Yankee since 2002 to record at least eight shutout innings and 12 strikeouts in a game. A day later Happ improvised after struggling with his four-seam fastball, using two-seamers and change-ups to keep the game close until Brett Gardner delivered the go-ahead grand slam in the seventh. With Paxton, Happ, Masahiro Tanaka, C.C. Sabathia and Domingo German in their rotation, the Yankees should keep most games close enough for the bullpen and the offense to give them a chance. Paxton and Happ — who had combined for zero quality starts in six outings before this week — showed that in vivid detail. “Those are character-builders,” manager Aaron Boone said. “Those are things in the course of the season that I think guys benefit from, when you kind of break through and are finding your way in a season.” Speaking of breaking through, Clint Frazier homered Tuesday and went 3 for 4 on Wednesday, raising his average to .333. He is capitalizing on the

absence of outfielders Aaron Hicks and Giancarlo Stanton — two of the 12 Yankees currently on the injured list — and making up for the lost season he endured in 2018 after a concussion in spring training. “I wanted to be out on that field, but no one could put their hand on my head and work on it and make it feel any better,” Frazier said. “That’s the hard part. Some of these injuries, you can go into the training room and they can do certain things, physically, to make you feel better. And for me, it was a hard one to go through because there was so much unknown with that injury. It lasted a long time, man.” Before his teammates’ injuries this season, Frazier, 24, had no clear path to playing time with the Yankees; he started the year in the minors. Now he is showing why the Cleveland Indians made him the first high school position player selected in the 2013 draft. It just might take some roster gymnastics to keep him around when his fellow outfielders return from their injuries. “I look forward to those gymnastics,” Boone said, adding later, “He’s a guy, the talent and the bat speed and the ability to impact the ball kind of

according to FanGraphs, and he is throwing more sliders than ever. But that slider is still quite effective, and he did hit 99.8 mph against his final hitter Wednesday. Chapman remains an elite closer and should be the least of the Yankees’ concerns. The biggest question is the depleted lineup, but Frazier, Torres, Luke Voit and D.J. LeMahieu seem dangerous enough behind Aaron Judge. “We’re the Yankees, so we can bolster our lineup a ton of ways,” Frazier said. “It’s hard being a young guy trying to break through. You need to catch a break sometime. You hate it to be at the expense of somebody’s ability to stay on the field, but it happens, and it’s next guy up. I want to stay here for a long time.” If he can do that, the Yankees’ injury epidemic will have led to something lasting. Frazier deserves the chance. “I sometimes even forget that I got drafted by the Indians, because I feel like it was so long ago,” he said. “That was a special moment for my family, to welcome myself into pro ball, but I’m happy that I’m here. I feel like I’ve found a good home.”

leaps off the screen. I think everyone sees that.” The Yankees saw it in July 2016, when general manager Brian Cashman acquired Frazier and Justus Sheffield from the Indians for reliever Andrew Miller — a move that came six days after extracting Gleyber Torres and Billy McKinney from the Chicago Cubs in a deal for closer Aroldis Chapman. Cashman played kingmaker that season, helping send the Indians and the Cubs to the World Series. The Yankees have not been there in a decade, but those deals keep paying off: Besides the production of Frazier and Torres, their starting shortstop, Cashman used McKinney to trade for Happ and Sheffield to trade for Paxton. Chapman, of course, returned to the Yankees after winning Game 7 of the World Series for the Cubs, retiring the Indians in order in the ninth inning after blowing the save in the eighth. That effort, under the most intense pressure possible, without his best stuff, was instructive for the evolution Chapman would eventually have to make. He was averaging a career-low 96.9 mph on his fastball before Wednesday,

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Notice is hereby given to all enrolled Democrats in the Town of Greenport that a Caucus for the purpose of nominating candidates for election to Town Offices at the General Election on November 5, 2019 will be held at the Greenport Pumper Co. #3, 322 Washington Blvd, Greenport, NY 12534 on Tuesday, May 7, 2019 at 6:00 PM. I hope to see many of you there. Please arrive by 5:45 PM so we can start in a timely manner. George P. Super Chairman Town of Greenport Democratic Committee TOWN OF ANCRAM ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Please take notice, the Town of Ancram Zoning Board of Appeals will hold a public hearing on Monday, May 6th, 2019, at 7:00 p.m. at the Ancram Town Hall, 1416 County Route 7 Ancram, New York 12502. Under consideration is the application for an area variance on parcel IDs# 197.3-1-42 owned by Steve Olyha, located at 31 Lake Shore Drive, Ancramdale, NY 12503. All persons wishing to comment on the application will have an opportunity to do so. Comments may be made at the hearing, via email, or by mail. Any person with questions concerning the application may contact the clerk, John Hoffman, by phone (518 329-6512 ext. 205), email (planningboard@townofancram.org), or in person (Wednesday and Saturday 10AM-2PM Ancram Town Hall). John Hoffman III, Planning Board Clerk PUBLIC NOTICE The Hudson Housing Authority (HHA) requests proposals from contractors for LAWN CARE and SNOW REMOVAL SERVICES at the Columbia Apartment Complex, 41 North Second Street, Hudson, NY 12534. Details of the project and insurance requirements may be obtained at the HHA's main office, 41 North Second Street, Hudson, NY 12534 on or after April 1, 2019 during normal business hours. Information is also available at w w w. h u d s o n h o u s i n gauthority.org. Proposals will be accepted up to and no later than 3pm, May 1, 2019, at the HHA's main office or via email as indicated in detailed project description. HHA is an Equal Opportunity Employer under the direction of the U.S. Dept of HUD and encourages Section 3 and Minority and Women's Business Enterprises to submit proposals. The Town of Durham, Greene County, is seeking sealed bids for Black Top in place. Approximately 1,400 US tons, type 6 12.5mm. Mill/rebate all blacktop driveways and intersections. No escalation costs in the bid. The Town Highway Dept. will supply traffic control, a water truck for a asphalt roller. Sealed bids along with a noncollusion bidding certification form, ss103d of the General Municipal Law, will be opened May 7th, 2019 at 7:30pm. Send all bids to Janet Partridge, Town Clerk, 7309 State Route 81, E Durham, NY 12423 or in person at the Town Hall. The Durham Town Board Reserves the right to reject any or all bids. Any questions call Hwy Super Joe vanHolsteyn at 518 527 1154. By order of the Town Board, Janet Partridge, Town Clerk-Collector

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2019. The vote by voting machine on election of Board members, and appropriations and resolutions involving the expenditure of money will take place on that date between the hours of 1 p.m. and 9 p.m. at the Edward J. Arthur Elementary School, Athens, New York, for Election District No. 1, and at the Coxsackie Elementary School, Coxsackie, New York, for Election District No. 2. Qualifications of Voters: A person shall be entitled to vote at any school meeting for the election of school district officers, and upon all other matters which may be brought before such meeting who is: 1. A citizen of the United States 2. Eighteen years of age 3. A resident within the district for a period of thirty days next preceding the meeting at which he offers to vote. Registration of qualified voters will be conducted by the Board of Registration in each of two election districts according to the following schedule: On Tuesday, May 7, 2019 between the hours of 5:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. at the Coxsackie Elementary School, Coxsackie, New York, for Election District No. 2. And on Thursday, May 9, 2019 between the hours of 5:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. at the Edward J. Arthur Elementary School, Athens, New York, for Election District No. 1, and at the Provision is also made for absentee balloting for election of members of the Board of Education and district budget. Applications for absentee ballots are available in the District Office, and may be requested by mail, or in person any school day between the hours of 8 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Ballots will be available on or after April 26, 2019, at the office of the District Clerk and must be received by the District Clerk no later than 5 p.m. on the day of election, May 21, 2019. The register, prepared pursuant to Section 2014 of the Education Law, will be filed in the District Office, Coxsackie, New York, and will be open for inspection by any qualified voter of the district between the hours of 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. on May 14, 15, 16, 17, and 20, 2019. Notice is also given that a copy of the statement of estimated expenses for the ensu-

ing year for school purposes, inclusive of public moneys, together with the text of any resolution then filed, to be presented to the voters, will be available to residents in the district during the fourteen days immediately preceding the Annual Meeting, except Saturday, Sunday or holidays, according to the following schedule: Coxsackie Elementary School, Coxsackie, New York, and Edward J. Arthur Elementary School, Athens, New York, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays beginning May 1, 2019. The statement of estimated expenses for the ensuing year for school purposes will also be available to residents during that same period at the public libraries in the District, Heermance Memorial Library, Coxsackie, New York and D.R. Evarts Library, Athens, New York during the regular hours of operation of each such library, and on the District's website at www.cacsd.org. The statement of estimated expenses includes an exemption report, showing how much of the total assessed value on the final assessment roll is exempt from taxation. Notice is further given that, in accordance with Section 2035 of the Education Law, all questions or propositions be placed on the voting machines shall be first filed with the District Clerk not later than April 22, 2019. Such filing signed by at least twenty-five qualified voters of the district shall serve to place such proposition or question on the voting machine, subject to the rules and regulations adopted by the Board of Education. The Board of Education reserves the right to submit its own propositions or questions to the voters. Notice is further given, in accordance with Section 1608 of the Education Law, that the District will hold budget hearings on Tuesday, May 7, 2019, 6:30 p.m. at the Coxsackie Elementary School and on Thursday, May 9, 2019, 6:30 pm. at the Edward J. Arthur Elementary School. And Notice is also given that, at that time and place the following Propositions will be submitted to the voters: Proposition 1: Energy Efficiency Capital Project Proposition: Shall the following resolution be adopted, to-wit: RESOLVED, that the Board of Education of

the Coxsackie-Athens Central School District, Greene County, New York, is hereby authorized to construct energy efficiency improvements to and reconstruction of School District buildings, including original furnishings, machinery, equipment, apparatus, appurtenances and other incidental improvements and expenses in connection therewith, at a maximum estimated cost of $2,700,000, and that said $2,700,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be raised by the levy of a tax upon the taxable property of said School District and collected in annual installments as provided by Section 415 of the Education Law; and, in anticipation of such tax, obligations of said School District shall be issued, or a lease purchase financing obligation shall be entered into therefor. Notice is also given that petitions nominating candidates for the office of member of

the Board of Education must be filed with the District Clerk on or before April 22, 2019. The following three vacancies are to be filled on the Board of Education: TERM: 3 Full three year terms NAMES OF INCUMBENTS: Michael Donahue, Joseph Garland III, Maureen Hanse Each petition must be directed to the District Clerk, must be signed by at least twenty-five qualified voters of the District, must state the residence of each signer, must state the name and residence of the candidate. Judy Zoller, District Clerk, CoxsackieAthens Central School District

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FARMWORKERS & Laborers - 4 fulltime temporary jobs available 06/10/19-11/06/19. Altobelli Family Farms, Kinderhook, NY. Manually plant, cultivate, and harvest vegetables. Use hand and power tools to till, fertilize, transplant, weed, thin, prune, apply pesticides, clean, pack, and load produce. Operate, repair, maintain tractors/implements to grow and harvest crops. Mix and apply agrichemicals, maintain irrigation. Withstand extreme temperatures, lifting 50 lbs, repetitive movements, stooping. 3 months verifiable experience. $13.25/hr, ¾ guaranteed contract; tools and supplies, housing, transportation expenses paid by employer. Transportation, subsistence paid to worker upon 50% completion of contract. Please contact (877) 466-9757 to locate nearest State Workforce Agency office and apply using NY1296188 GRESCZYK FARMS LLC, NEW HARTFORD, CT needs 6 temporary workers 4/15/2019 to 10/31/2019, work tools, supplies, equipment provided without cost to worker. Housing will be available without cost to workers who cannot reasonably return to their permanent residence at the end of the work day. Transportation reimbursement and subsistence is provided upon completion of 15 days or 50% of the work contract. Work is guaranteed for 3/4 of the workdays during the contract period. Hours offered each week may be more or less than stated in item 11 depending on weather and crop conditions. Workers not required to work extra hours offered. $13.25 per hr. or applicable piece rate. Applicants to apply contact CT Department of Labor at 860-263- 6020. Or apply for the job at the nearest local office of the SWA. Job order #213988. Plant, Cultivate, harvest various crops such as, but not limited to, vegetables, fruits, horticultural specialties, & field crops. Use hand tools. such as, but not limited to, shovels, hoes, pruning shears, knives, & ladders. Duties may include, but not limited to, tilling the soil, applying fertilizer, transplanting, weeding, thinning, pruning, apply pesticides, picking, cutting, clearing, sorting, packing, processing, & handling harvested products. May set up, operate, repair farm machinery, repair fences, and farm buildings. Also may participate in irrigation activities. May operate vehicles. Work is usually performed outdoors, sometimes under extreme hot or cold conditions. Work is physically demanding requiring workers to bend, stoop, lift, carry up to 50 pounds on a frequent basis. Duties may require working off ground at heights up to 20 feet, using ladders or climbing. Perspective employees must demonstrate the knowledge needed with at least 1 months experience in caring for, maintaining, and the growing of vegetable plants for commercial production. 415

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Beekmantown Central School District seeks the following for 9/1/19: French Teacher - MS School Counselor Elementary Teacher These are tenure track positions with health & retirement benefits. Salary range $47,230 - $52,830 (based on experience). Application & details available at www.bcsdk12.org. Deadline 5/3/19. Bulk Carrier looking for CDL-A Drivers. Will train on modern Specialized Equipment. Local positions Buffalo to Elmira. Excellent Pay/Benefits. Email for application: cscott@Lynnhscott.com or call 888-339-2900 x12 SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS ELIZABETHTOWN-LEWISWESTPORT CSD Website: http://www.elwcsd.org 459 STUDENTS - PreK-12 SALARY: $110,000 - $140,000 SDA/SDL CERTIFIED INQUIRIES: DR. MARK DAVEY P.O. BOX 455 PLATTSBURGH, NY 12901 (518) 561-0100 Ext. 211 e m a i l : Jackstadt_louise@cves.org DEADLINE: 5/1/19 START: 7/1/19 EOE/AAE Wallkill Central School District Special Education Substitute Teacher

BUILDING MAINTENANCE and Service Technician - 2 fulltime, temporary, Jobs available 05/08/19-11/30/19. Action Window Cleaning Co Inc, 33 Catherine St, Rensselaer, NY 12144. Employer will provide free transportation to and from worksites from a central point in Rensselaer, Saratoga, Albany, Washington, Greene and Columbia counties. Clean windows facades and sidewalks of commercial buildings with pressure washer and by hand. Operate lifts, pick up truck and ladders. Work days: M-F, hrs 8am to 5pm. 40 hrs/wk at $15.03/hr. OT 0-10 hrs at $22.55/hr. No education required, no experience required. Transportation (incl. meals and lodging) to place of employment provided or reimbursed by employer completing ½ contract period. Return trans. provided if contract completed or early dismissal. No tool, supply, equipment charges. Apply with candidates may contact Career Central, 175 Central Ave, Albany, NY 12206. Or by phone: 518-462-7600. Reference job order NY 1292807.

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Isles’ Trotz continues building on his legacy Mark Herrmann Newsday

NEW YORK — Any good coach seems to know what is going to happen before it does. So it was with Barry Trotz, who told the Washington Capitals back in late November that they have a shot to win another Stanley Cup but warned them, “You’ll have to go through the (expletive) Island.” Score a big one for his reputation as a clairvoyant, because if the Capitals get past the Hurricanes and proceed in the Stanley Cup playoffs, they will in fact have to get past the Islanders next (albeit in Brooklyn, but you get the drift). He saw it coming all along. Except, he said on Thursday, “I didn’t ‘know.’ “ Reflecting on the night when he was invited to the opposition locker room to receive his 2018 championship ring, Trotz said, “If anybody really listens closely to that statement, it was from my heart.” And back then his heart was saying — in the rough language that hockey players appreciate — how much he admired the Capitals, with whom he had “climbed the mountain together.” His mind was saying that they had almost all of their championship roster back. At the same time, he was adding that his heart already belonged to his new players and their fans. “I wanted to hopefully bring that same joy and that same experience to the Islanders,” he said Thursday. So this season, with its stunning first-round sweep of the Penguins, is not about his prowess as a fortune teller. It is about his legacy as a coach, which is even greater now than when he hoisted the Cup last June. It would have been understandable if Trotz had treated this job as a well-paying lifetime achievement award, a victory-lap golden parachute for having paid his dues. He could have coasted in his first year as the head of a team with low expectations and a departed superstar. Instead, he went headfirst and headlong into a new kind of challenge. What he did in reviving the Islanders was just as impressive as winning the title, maybe more so. He and his staff worked their heads off, turned the league’s worst defensive team into the best and made a hopeless situation joyful. There he was Thursday at the practice facility, talking

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New York Islanders Head Coach Barry Trotz (center) looks on from behind the bench against the Washington Capitals at Barclays Center.

about how much he loves the playoffs. He was standing in the same spot he occupied on the first day of training camp, when he did not know what he was getting himself into — especially because that very day, new goalie Robin Lehner revealed his bipolar condition and addiction issues. “Honestly, I went in with a clean slate. Perception is reality a lot of times ... as you got to know and be with guys over a length of time during the season, that perception goes away and the reality is, ‘This guy can do this’ or ‘I didn’t know this

about this guy,’ “ he said. “Or ‘I thought this guy wasn’t much of a player; he’s actually a really good player.’ “ Trotz provided an atmosphere in which everyone, particularly Lehner, was free to flourish. Obviously, the coach’s arrival was good for the whole team. But it also was good for Trotz. Just as he wanted to see his new team revel in an experience like the one he enjoyed last season, the Islanders offered him a chance to be part of a tradition. He often was mentioned in the same

breath as Al Arbour. It was cool, on the night the practice rink was named for Bill Torrey, to see Trotz blend in so well among John Tonelli, Stefan Persson, Pat LaFontaine and Patrick Flatley. That is heady company for a hockey lifer, the sort of camaraderie he could only have dreamed about when he was growing up in little Dauphin, Manitoba. His career had been terrific up until this year, but for it to be complete, he needed the taste of a heritage. He had to go through the (expletive) Island.

A step toward NASCAR’s future? 2019 All-Star race will be testing ground Brendan Marks The Charlotte Observer

Radical changes? Not quite. But a step toward NASCAR’s future? Absolutely. NASCAR and Charlotte Motor Speedway announced on Wednesday the format and rules package for the 2019 All-Star Race, scheduled for May 18. Format-wise, this year’s race will include four stages of 30, 20, 20 and 15 laps, respectively, slightly longer than last year’s event. Each stage is eligible to go into overtime, and only green-flag laps will count in the final stage.

The most significant change this year comes via the rules package, which will offer a glimpse into NASCAR’s future and its Gen-7 car, currently slated to debut in 2021. Last year’s All-Star package featured restrictor plates — normally reserved for Daytona International Speedway and Talladega Superspeedway — at CMS for the first time in the track’s history. Further additions of a 6-inch spoiler and aero ducts made the package drastically different from the Cup Series’ normal rules. The result? One of the most exciting AllStar races in years ... and NASCAR

adopting a modified version of that All-Star package for the entire 2019 Cup season. “Last year’s All-Star rules package resulted in one of the most exciting All-Star races in history,” Steve O’Donnell, NASCAR executive vice president and chief racing development officer, said in a statement. “Throughout its history, the Monster Energy NASCAR All-Star Race has provided a platform to try new and innovative ideas, some of which we have incorporated on a full-time basis.” This year’s changes won’t be as dramatic, but it should provide

NASCAR an opportunity to see how potential Gen-7 features play out on track. The two major technical changes will be a single-piece carbon fiber splitter, aimed at creating a more stable aero platform, and incorporating a radiator duct that exits through the hood to reduce engine temperatures. “This year may provide a peek into the crystal ball for the Gen 7 car,” Marcus Smith, CEO and president of Speedway Motorsports Inc., said in a statement. “Once again, fans can expect the unexpected.” The All-Star Race has long been a testing ground of sorts for NASCAR.

The sanctioning body has experimented with several aerodynamic and format changes over the years, including stage racing, that it later incorporated into the series at large. NASCAR and CMS are able to do that because, unlike in NASCAR’s other points-paying races, the AllStar Race doesn’t count toward the playoffs or impact the season whatsoever. Instead of a playoff berth, the winner earns a $1 million cash prize. “This is the proving ground,” Smith said. “While (this race is) known for memorable moments, this race has established a place in history for testing what’s best for the future.”

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Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE Tampa Bay New York Baltimore Toronto Boston Cleveland Minnesota Detroit Chicago Kansas City Houston Seattle Texas Oakland Los Angels

East W L 14 5 8 10 8 12 8 12 6 13 Central W L 11 7 9 7 9 9 7 11 7 12 West W L 12 6 13 8 10 7 11 10 8 10

Pct .737 .444 .400 .400 .316

GB — 5.5 6.5 6.5 8.5

Pct .611 .562 .500 .389 .368

GB — 1.0 2.0 4.0 4.5

Pct .667 .619 .588 .524 .444

GB — .5 1.5 2.5 4.0

NATIONAL LEAGUE East W L Pct GB 11 7 .611 — 10 8 .556 1.0 9 8 .529 1.5 9 9 .500 2.0 4 15 .211 7.5 Central W L Pct GB Pittsburgh 10 6 .625 — Milwaukee 12 8 .600 0.5 St. Louis 10 8 .556 1.0 Chicago 8 9 .471 2.5 Cincinnati 5 12 .294 5.5 West W L Pct GB Los Angeles 13 8 .619 — San Diego 11 8 .579 1 Arizona 10 9 .526 2 San Francisco 8 12 .400 4.5 Colorado 7 12 .368 5.0 AMERICAN LEAGUE Wednesday’s games Kansas City 4, Chicago White Sox 3, 10 innings N.Y. Yankees 5, Boston 3 Cleveland 1, Seattle 0 Tampa Bay 8, Baltimore 1 Minnesota 4, Toronto 1 Texas 5, L.A. Angels 4 Oakland 2, Houston 1 Thursday’s games Detroit 9, Chicago White Sox 7 Toronto 7, Minnesota 4 Kansas City 6, N.Y. Yankees 1 Baltimore 6, Tampa Bay 5, 11 innings Seattle at L.A. Angels, 10:07 p.m. Friday’s games Kansas City (Junis 1-1) at N.Y. Yankees (Sabathia 0-0), 7:05 p.m. Minnesota at Baltimore (Cobb 0-0), 7:05 p.m. Boston (Rodriguez 1-2) at Tampa Bay (TBD), 7:10 p.m. Chicago White Sox (Rodon 2-2) at Detroit (Zimmermann 0-2), 7:10 p.m. Houston (Verlander 2-0) at Texas (Smyly 0-1), 8:05 p.m. Seattle (Gonzales 4-0) at L.A. Angels (Pena 0-1), 10:07 p.m. Toronto (Stroman 0-3) at Oakland (Brooks 2-1), 10:07 p.m. NATIONAL LEAGUE Wednesday’s games Philadelphia 3, N.Y. Mets 2 St. Louis 6, Milwaukee 3 L.A. Dodgers 3, Cincinnati 2 Washington 9, San Francisco 6 Chicago Cubs 6, Miami 0 Arizona 3, Atlanta 2, 10 innings Thursday’s games Arizona 4, Atlanta 1 Washington 4, San Francisco 2 L.A. Dodgers 3, Milwaukee1 Colorado 6, Philadelphia 2 Cincinnati at San Diego, 10:10 p.m. Friday’s games Arizona (Kelly 1-1) at Chicago Cubs (Hendricks 0-3), 2:20 p.m. San Francisco (Bumgarner 1-2) at Pittsburgh (Lyles 1-0), 7:05 p.m. Washington (Sanchez 0-1) at Miami (Smith 1-0), 7:10 p.m. L.A. Dodgers (Stripling 1-1) at Milwaukee (Chacin 2-2), 8:10 p.m. N.Y. Mets (Vargas 1-0) at St. Louis (Wainwright 1-1), 8:15 p.m. Philadelphia (Velasquez 0-0) at Colorado (Marquez 2-1), 8:40 p.m. Cincinnati (DeSclafani 0-1) at San Diego (Strahm 0-2), 10:10 p.m. INTERLEAGUE Tuesday’s game Pittsburgh 5, Detroit 3, 10 innings Wednesday’s game Pittsburgh 3, Detroit 2, 10 innings Today’s game Atlanta at Cleveland (Kluber 1-2), 7:10 p.m. Philadelphia New York Washington Atlanta Miami

Pro basketball NBA PLAYOFFS Conference Quarterinals (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) Eastern Conference Milwaukee 2, Detroit 0 Sunday: Milwaukee 121, Detroit 86 Wednesday: Milwaukee 120, Detroit 99 Saturday: Milwaukee at Detroit, 8 p.m. Monday: Milwaukee at Detroit, 8 p.m. x-Wednesday, April 24: Detroit at Milwaukee, TBA x-Friday, April 26: Milwaukee at Detroit, TBA x-Sunday, April 28: Detroit at Milwaukee, TBA Orlando 1, Toronto 1 Saturday: Orlando 104, Toronto 101 Tuesday: Toronto 111, Orlando 82 Today: Toronto at Orlando, 7 p.m. Sunday: Toronto at Orlando, 7 p.m. x-Tuesday, April 23: Orlando at Toronto, TBA x-Thursday, April 25: Toronto at Orlando, TBA x-Saturday, April 27: Orlando at Toronto, TBA

Boston 1, Indiana 1 Sunday: Boston 84, Indiana 74 Wednesday: Boston 99, Indiana 91 Today: Boston at Indiana, 8:30 p.m. Sunday, April 21: Boston at Indiana, 1 p.m. x-Wednesday, April 24: Indiana at Boston, TBA x-Friday, April 26: Boston at Indiana, TBA x-Sunday, April 28: Indiana at Boston, TBA Philadelphia 2, Brooklyn 1 Saturday: Brooklyn 111, Philadelphia 102 Monday: Philadelphia 145, Brooklyn 123 Thursday: Philadelphia 131, Brooklyn 115 Saturday: Philadelphia at Brooklyn, 3 p.m. Tuesday, April 23: Brooklyn at Philadelphia, TBA x-Thursday, April 25: Philadelphia at Brooklyn, TBA x-Saturday, April 27: Brooklyn at Philadelphia, TBA Western Conference San Antonio 2, Denver 1 Saturday, April 13: San Antonio 101, Denver 96 Tuesday: Denver 114, Indiana 105 Thursday: San Antonio 118, Denver 108 Saturday: Denver at San Antonio, 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 23: San Antonio at Denver, TBA x-Thursday, April 25: Denver at San Antonio, TBA x-Saturday, April 27: San Antonio at Denver, TBA Portland 2, Oklahoma City 0 Sunday: Portland 104, Oklahoma City 99 Tuesday: Portland 114, Oklahoma City 94 Today: Portland at Oklahoma City, 9:30 p.m. Sunday: Portland at Oklahoma City, 9:30 p.m. x-Tuesday, April 23: Oklahoma City at Portland, TBA x-Thursday, April 25: Portland at Oklahoma City, TBA x-Saturday, April 27: Oklahoma City at Portland, TBA Houston 2, Utah 0 Sunday: Houston 122, Utah 90 Wednesday: Houston 118, Utah 96 Saturday: Houston at Utah, 10:30 p.m. Monday, April 22: Houston at Utah, 10:30 p.m. x-Wednesday, April 24: Utah at Houston, TBA x-Friday, April 26: Houston at Utah, TBA x-Sunday, April 28: Utah at Houston, TBA Golden State 1, L.A. Clippers 1 Saturday: Golden State 121, L.A. Clippers 104 Monday: L.A. Clippers 135, Golden State 131 Thursday: Golden State at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m. Sunday: Golden State at L.A. Clippers, 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 24: L.A. Clippers at Golden State, TBA x-Friday, April 26: Golden State at L.A. Clippers, TBA x-Sunday, April 28: L.A. Clippers at Golden State, TBA

Pro hockey NHL PLAYOFFS Conference Quarterinals (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) Eastern Conference Columbus 4, Tampa Bay 0 Wednesday, April 10: Columbus 4, Tampa Bay 3 Friday, April 12: Columbus 5, Tampa Bay 1 Sunday: Columbus 3, Tampa Bay 1 Tuesday: Columbus 7, Tampa Bay 3 N.Y. Islanders 4, Pittsburgh 0 Wednesday, April 10: N.Y. Islanders 4, Pittsburgh 3, OT Friday, April 12: N.Y. Islanders 3, Pittsburgh 1 Sunday: N.Y. Islanders 4, Pittsburgh 1 Tuesday: N.Y. Islanders 3, Pittsburgh 1 Toronto 2, Boston 2 Thursday, April 11: Toronto 4, Boston 1 Saturday, April 13: Boston 4, Toronto 1 Monday: Toronto 3, Boston 2 Wednesday: Boston 6, Toronto 4 Today: Toronto at Boston, 7 p.m. Sunday: Boston at Toronto, TBA x-Tuesday, April 23: Toronto at Boston, TBA Washington 2, Carolina 2 Thursday, April 11: Washington 4, Carolina 2 Saturday, April 13: Washington 4, Carolina 3, OT Monday: Carolina 5, Washington 0 Thursday: Carolina 2, Washington 1 Saturday: Carolina at Washington, 8 p.m. x-Monday, April 22: Washington at Carolina, TBA x-Wednesday, April 24: Carolina at Washington, TBA Western Conference Vegas 3, San Jose 1 Wednesday, April 10: San Jose 5, Vegas 2 Friday, April 12: Vegas 5, San Jose 3 Sunday, April 14: Vegas 6, San Jose 3 Tuesday: Vegas 5, San Jose 0 Thursday: Vegas at San Jose, 10 p.m. x-Sunday: San Jose at Vegas, TBA x-Tuesday, April 23: Vegas at San Jose, TBA St. Louis 3, Winnipeg 2 Wednesday, April 10: St. Louis 2, Winnipeg 1 Friday, April 12: St. Louis 4, Winnipeg 3 Sunday, April 14: Winnipeg 6, St. Louis 3 Tuesday: Winnipeg 2, St. Louis 1, OT Thursday: St. Louis 3, Winnipeg 2 Saturday: Winnipeg at St. Louis, 7 p.m. x-Monday, April 22: St. Louis at Winnipeg, TBA Nashville 2, Dallas 2 Wednesday, April 10: Dallas 3, Nashville 2 Saturday, April 13: Nashville 2, Dallas 1, OT Monday, April 15: Nashville 3, Dallas 2 Wednesday: Dallas 5, Nashville 1 Saturday: Dallas at Nashville, 3 p.m. Monday, April 22: Nashville at Dallas, TBA x-Wednesday, April 24: Dallas at Nashville, TBA Colorado 3, Calgary 1 Thursday, April 11: Calgary 4, Colorado 0 Saturday, April 13: Colorado 3, Calgary 2, OT Monday, April 15: Colorado 6, Calgary 2 Wednesday: Colorado 3, Calgary 2, OT Today: Colorado at Calgary, 10 p.m. x-Sunday, April 21: Calgary at Colorado, TBA x-Tuesday, April 23: Colorado at Calgary, TBA

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Ti. Jeralds (Chat) 12:17.4; 4x400 relay: Chatham (To. Jeralds, Case, Newton, Maxwell) 3:57.2; Discus: Oliver (GT) 94-1; Shot Put: Johnson (GT) 39-9; High Jump: Kyiretwie (GT) 5-6; Triple Jump: K. Barlow (Chat) 34-9; Long Jump: Kastner (Chat) 17-9; Pole Vault: B. Oles (Chat) 7-6. Coxsackie-Athens 114, Catskill 24 4x800: CA 10:22; 110m hurdles: Marx (CA) :17.9; 100m: Cruz (CA) :11.7; 1600m: Lynch (CA) 5:19; 4x100: CA :47.1; 400m: Tryon (CA) :59.4; 400m hurdles:Trans (Cats) :67.3; 800m: Caruso (CA) 2:31; 200m: Simmons (CA) :24.6; 3200m: Lynch (CA) 11:43; 4x400: CA 4:06; High Jump: Marx (CA) 5-8; Long jump: Myles (CA) 17-5; Triple Jump: Wolbert (CA) 3410; Shot Put: Brea (CA) 36-0; Discus: Shader (CA) 107-1; Pole Vault: DiBendetto ((CA) 9-6. Cairo Durham 60.5, Greenville 56.5 Taconic Hills 105, Cairo Durham 35 Taconic Hills 99, Greenville 40 3200m relay: TH (Hotaling, Hartman J, Howard G, Colwell) 9:29.8; 110m hurdles: Foutch (TH) :15.8; 100m: Rivenburg (CD) :12.1; 1600m: L. Philip (TH) 5:20.7; 400m relay: CD (Acker, DiGiovanni, Rivenburg, Savoia) :48.3: 400m: J. Hartman (TH) :55.8; 400m hurdles: New (TH) 1:02.5; 800m: Colwell (TH) 2:14.5; 200m: Acker (CD) :24.7; 3200m: Russo (TH) 10:54.9; 1600m relay: Taconic Hills (Langer, Howard, Colwell, Foutch) 3:51.0; Discus: Gaylord (TH) 119-10; Shot Put: Gaylord

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two runs while striking out 10, walking four and scattering five hits. Sterling Sisson and Hotzler combined for 12 strikeouts and four walks, while allowing three runs and six hits for the Bulldogs.

CHVL Germanton 17, Loudonville 4 LOUDONVILLE — Victor Ruocco went 3 for 3 with two RBI and Dan Kellenbenz had a double, single and three RBI to lead Germantown to a 174 victory over Loudonville Christian in Thursday’s

Central Hudson Valley League baseball game. The game was stopped after five inning because of the mercy rule. Shane Dunn added a triple to the Clippers’ attack. Dean Ruzich had a double and single with two RBI, Jeremy Cosenza a single and an RBI, Andrew Kellenbenz two singles and an RBI and Josh Sanzo two singles. Sanzo started on the mound for Germantown, striking out two, walking six and allowing three runs and two hits in two innings. Andrew Kellenbenz pitched the last three innings, striking out three, walking one and allowing one run and one hit.

GIRLS Maple Hill 103 ; Hudson 34 Maple Hill 92, Rensselaer 35 Hudson 71 Rensselaer 67 4x800: Maple Hill 11;19; 100m: Nelson (R) :13.4; 100 HH: Smith (MH) 18.2; 1500m: Keil (H) 5:23.1; 4x100m: Rensselaer :53.9; 400m: Pearsall (MH) :64.2; 400 IH: Jacobs (MH); 800m: Keil (H) 2:34.7; 200m: Nelson (R) 28.3; 3000m: Pusateri (MH) 11:51; 4x400: Maple Hill 4:39.7; Shot Put: Tacy (MH) 30-2; Discus: Burden (MH) 79-9; Long Jump: Pugliese (MH) 16-11; Pole Vault: Jones (H) 5-6; High

jump: Pearsall (MH) 4-10; Triple jump: Pugliese MH 33-8. Chatham 63, Albany Leadership 45 4x800 relay: Chatham (Phelps, Spock, Brennan, Gregg) 16:22.3; 100 hurdles: Barlow (Chat) 18.4; 100m: Forney (AL) :13.9; 1500m: Gregg (Chat) 5:49.7; 4x100 relay: AL (Blackmon, Nicholson, Akinwale, Forney) :56.6; 400m: Nicholson (AL) :79.5; 400 hurdles: Barlow (Chat) :80.2; 800m: Brennan (Chat) 3:34.4; 200m: Forney (AL) :29.3; 4x400 relay: Chatham (Gregg, Brennan, Newton, Shufelt) 5:32.3; Discus: Spock (Chat) 77-0; Shot put: Whitfield (AL) 25-8; High Jump: Whitfield (AL) 4-0; Triple Jump:

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We also had a lot of support at the plate. Kylie Rivers, Jenna Downey and Emma Scheitinger each had a double in the win.” Brittany Futia led the Riders’ 15-hit attack with a double, three singles and two RBI. Scheitinger had a double and two singles, Downey and Rivers each had a double and single with two RBI, Cali Ringwood had two singles and an RBI, Mackenzie Wendelken a single LOGAN WEISS/COLUMBIA-GREENE MEDIA and an RBI and Kaili Saccento Greenville’s Melody Kappel delivers a pitch to the plate during a single. Scheitinger, an eighth-grad- Thursday’s Patroon Conference softball game against Hudson. er, is now batting .611 with 11 Pfleging also had a single HUDSON – Kasey Pfleging’s hits in 18 at-bats. Four of her for the unbeaten Spartans (7solo home run highlighted a 13hits have gone for extra bases, hit attack as Greenville topped 0). Molly SanEmeterio added including three triples. Hudson, 7-2, in Thursday’s three singles and an RBI, Alexis PATROON Patroon Conference softball Caprio had three singles, Jazzgame. Greenville 7, Hudson 2 min Gibson two singles and two

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(TH) 36-9; High Jump: New (TH) 5-8; Long Jump: New (TH) 19-8.5; Triple Jump: Biernacki (G) 36-1.75.

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Hudson’s Chris Fenderson competes in the 110-meter high hurdles.

and recommends using chunk bait. Replace your bait every ten minutes or so to keep the scent strong, to make it easier for stripers to zero in in the murky depths. Most anglers chunk it in two or three sections but there’s another great way to fish dead herring; filet it and use one section with head, entrails, and one side of the skin, then filet the other half keeping just flesh, skin, and the tail. That gives you two usable baits. When fished on the bottom, tidal action will cause fluttering of the silvery sides. That in conjunction with the scent of the fresh dead or frozen herring will make a nice offering. Further North, Kevin Ryan of Hudson River Bait in Rensselear, reports the season is still just starting. Schoolies plus a few 30-inch stripers are being caught on blood and sand worms, and herring. Kevin reports some of the first schools of herring are beginning to arrive up north. Further south in Coxsackie, local fishermen are having some success scapping herring as well. A challenge facing Hudson River striper fishermen at the moment has nothing to do with the current movement or lack thereof of stripers and herring.

From April 29 through May 2 the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) will meet in Arlington Virginia which is likely to have a major impact of future stripers regulations in the Hudson River. The agenda on April 30 for its Atlantic Striped Bass Management Board includes review of their recently disclosed, “2018 Benchmark Stock Assessment,” which showed reduced stocks of striped bass along our eastern coast. One result touted was an estimated 10 percent mortality rate for released recreationally caught striped bass. The Atlantic Striped Bass Board’s Technical Committee has been tasked, “…to estimate the level of removals needed to reduce fishing mortality to the target and threshold levels by 2020 and to provide one example recreational bag and size limit combination that would achieve those conditions on the coast and in the Chesapeake Bay.” That’s regulatory speak for considering legal options to reduce the take and mortality of stripers. Of particular concern when that is the goal are regulations concerning mortality of “female spawning stock biomass” which can have a drastic impact on our local striper season and others that take place during the spawning run. The assessment includes findings pointing to a failure of previous regulations like the current slot

limit for the Hudson River, to improve striper stocks. NYS DEC has one person that serves as NY’s representative on the ASMFC, its Striped Bass Management Board and its Technical Committee. It’s premature to speculate what will come out of the commission’s spring meeting, but Hudson River Striper fisherman would do well to keep well informed as it moves forward with potential reg changes. Have a wonderful Easter and Passover, and Happy Hunting & Fishing until next time.

NEWS AND NOTES Hunter Ed Class Coming to Norton Hill Wildlife Club Bill Burger of the Norton Hill Wildlife Club is hosting a hunter education class at their clubhouse on Big Woods Road on Friday April 26th from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm, finishing on Saturday April 27 from 9 a.m.2 p.m. Pre-registration and “homework” are required. Go to www.dec.ny.gov and search for Hunter Education Classes, then register under the Greene County Course listings for Norton Hill’s event. CORRECTION: Save the Date for the NWTF Banquet: Saturday, May 18 The Northern Catskills Longbeards Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation (NWTF) is holding its annual Banquet on Saturday, May 18 at Anthony’s Banquet Hall in Leeds.

Shea (Chat) 25-9; Long Jump: Barlow (Chat) 13-4. Coxsackie-Athens 123, Catskill 14 Coxsackie-Athens 93.5, Emma Willard 44.5 Emma Willard 93, Catskill 36 4x800 Relay: Emma Willard 10:49; 100 Hurdles: Soto (C-A) :19.6; 100m: Matter (C-A) :13.6; 1500m: Hubert (C-A) 5:55; 4x100 Relay: Emma Willard :54.1; 400m: Bartels (C-A) :67.2: 400 Hurdles: Soto (C-A) :78.2; 800m: Crown (C-A) 2:43; 200m: Raji (Emma) :28.8; 3000m: Hubert (C-A) 13:06; 4x400 Relay: Coxsackie-Athens (Soto, A., Crown, H., Wolbert, M., Bartels, G.) 4:49; High Jump: Matter (CA) 4-06; Pole Vault: Josberger (C-A) 6-05; Long Jump: Bonsa (Emma) 14-10; Triple Jump: Everett (Emma) 30-03; Shot Put: Schindler (Cats) 28-02; Discus: Schindler (Cats) 72-05. Cairo Durham 83, Greenville 40 Taconic Hills 90, Cairo Durham 45 Taconic Hills 108, Greenville 26 3200m relay: CD (X. Makely, A. Myers, Ivery, G. Myers) 11:27.2: 100m hurdles: Howard (TH) :16.5; 100m: Canetto (TH) :12.2; 1500m: Fitzmaurice (G) 5:16.4; 400m relay: TH (Russo, Stackhouse, Savage, Bone) :55.4; 400m: Canetto (TH) :62.6; 400m hurdles: Rustick (TH) 1:19.7; 800m: Howard (TH) 2:34.0; 200m: Canetto (TH) :26.7; 3000m; Fitzmaurice (G) 11:02.6; 1600m relay: TH (Pulver, Yang, Beck, Bone) 4:49.5; Discus: Gajtkowski (TH) 84-10; Shot Put: Markiewicz (CD) 308; High Jump: Smith (TH) 4-8; Long Jump: Russo (TH) 15-1; Triple Jump: Canetto (TH) 3111.5.

RBI, Caila Benning and Emma Haller a single and an RBI each and A.J. Pahl a single. Nicole Conte and Deja Beauford singled fr Hudson’s only hits. Winning pitcher Melody Kappel struck out nine, walked two and allowed two runs (one earned) and two hits. Olivia Plaia pitched for Hudson and had six strike outs, while allowing seven runs and 13 hits.

NON-LEAGUE Berne-Knox 4, Cairo-Durham 2 CAIRO — Cairo-Durham suffered a 4-2 loss to Berne-KnoxWesterlo in Thursday’s nonleague softball game. Cairo’s Jolie Poulsen had a stand out game on the mound and in the batter’s box. Poulsen hit two home runs in the game and threw eight strike outs.

Field & Stream Outdoor Education Series: Turkey Calling Seminar – April 25 from 6-8 p.m. Brian Rush of “Rush Custom Callers” and Andrew Noble of the “Schoharie Ridge Runners” Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation, will demonstrate turkey calling techniques and tips in time for the coming season. After the presentation there will be a kid’s turkey calling contest! Fly Fishing in Streams & Ponds – April 30 6:30-8:30 p.m. Learn the basics of fly fishing in lakes and ponds with the professionals of “Capitol District Flyfishers.” Let past president, Paul Sinicki, convince you one of the best and most fun ways to learn how to attract, hook, and land fish using a fly rod, is to start with panfish and bass. All classes will be held at the Field & Stream store at 579 Troy Schenectady Road in Latham. All you have to do is show up on the scheduled date and time. There is no cost to attend these classes. Remember to report poaching violations by calling 1-844-DEC-ECOS. You can share any comments with our sports desk at sports@ registerstar.com *If you have a fishing or hunting report, photo, or event you would like to be considered for publication, you can send it to: huntfishreport@gmail.com

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Reunion with dad threatens to split family I am 28 and recently found my biological father through Facebook after more than 20 years of not knowing if he was still alive. Although I am happy that I found him, I’m scared to let my family — my mom, my stepdad and my sisters — know I have reconDEAR ABBY nected with him. When I asked about my dad years ago (I even had a pic of him), my stepdad felt betrayed and upset that I was even curious. I had to rip up the picture because I felt so guilty that my stepdad was hurt. I know my stepdad will manipulate the situation (that’s just how he is) and con my sisters and my mom into not speaking to me again. On the other hand, I want to create a relationship with my father and start where we left off. I have two beautiful daughters I know he will love to meet, but I am scared because I know this will divide my family. What should I do? Anonymous in the West

JEANNE PHILLIPS

I wish you had disclosed why, for more than 20 years, your birth father had no visitation with you. Whose decision was it — his? Your mother’s? If it was your birth father’s, I would question his character. That said, at the ripe old age of 28, you are an adult and should have the right to decide — without coercion — whom you wish to associate with. You shouldn’t feel guilty for wanting to get to know your birth father. Those feelings are normal. It won’t divide your family if you keep your mouth shut and your private life separate. My girlfriend, “Crystal,” recently dumped me. We were madly in love, and she would

constantly message me and tell me how I was perfect, she didn’t deserve someone as amazing as me and how I’m the only one she wants in her life. We were talking about moving in together, marriage and our future. Then all of a sudden a wellknown creep with a shady past offered her a job in another state. Crystal’s family, friends and I all told her not to take the job or talk to that guy because he’s bad news. She took the job, moved across the country and left us all behind. She has now cut me out of her life. I haven’t heard from her, and her mom told me she checks in with her family only occasionally. My question is what did I miss? I know Crystal was always hard on herself and thought she wasn’t doing enough with her life, but I was constantly reassuring and encouraging her. I believe this guy manipulated her and made her think this was her last chance at the career she was seeking. I am afraid she’s going to learn a hard lesson and get let down drastically. Is there anything we can do to help her see this? Baffled and Devastated

DR. KEITH ROACH

I read some speculation by chemists on how the contamination could have happened, and it seems to me that one company made a new process for making losartan (and the related drugs irbesartan and valsartan) that, although cheaper and more efficient, allowed contaminants to form unrecognized. Although not recognized until 2018, it could have been happening since 2012. Other companies changed their manufacturing as well, unaware of these toxic impurities. This is a real problem, not so much because of this current recall (where the contamination levels are very low), but because it shows the industry lacks enough oversight to quickly identify contamination in generic pharmaceuticals coming from multiple countries. I was prescribed prednisone 5 mg twice

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No, I am sorry to say there isn’t. You didn’t miss anything; you were misled. Crystal told you she wanted a future with you when the truth was what she really wanted was a career, and you were Plan B. There’s an old saying, “Bad pennies always turn up.” If the man who hired her is as shady as you say he is, she’ll be back. And I hope you will have moved on long before then.

How do pestiside byproducts and rocket fuel get into drugs? My blood pressure drug, losartan, was recently recalled because of contamination issues with NDEA and NDMA; one is used to make liquid rocket fuel and the other is a byproduct in the manufacture of pesticides. How does this happen? Does the drug company share manufacturing facilities with comTO YOUR panies that make these other GOOD HEALTH products?

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daily, but I had insomnia, itching and hot flashes from it. I stopped after four days but am still suffering from sleeplessness. Has the prednisone had a permanent effect on my body? Prednisone, a powerful antiinflammatory and immune system-inhibiting steroid, has many side effects on the body, especially insomnia. Hot flashes and itching are uncommon side effects. Insomnia is more common when prednisone is taken twice daily. Anytime a person gets insomnia, it can create a situation where they become worried about sleeping, which can lead to a persistent problem, even though the effect of the prednisone is gone. I recommend some routine steps for treating insomnia, such as avoiding bright lights, including any electronic screen, for two hours or so before bed; regular exercise, if the condition for which you took prednisone allows it; and a warm bath before bed. A mild sleep aid, such as melatonin 1 mg or less, may help reset your system, but daily use is not necessary.

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Horoscope By Stella Wilder Born today, you are nothing if not charismatic, and there are times in your life in which your very awareness of this fact may work against you, as you rely on your ability to capture the attention and imaginations of those around you without backing it up with actions of real substance. There is a risk, therefore, of you becoming known as something of a charlatan, one who promises but does not deliver because there is nothing behind the charismatic and often quite colorful mask you wear. Knowing that this is a very real possibility, however, can keep you from making it a reality, whether intentionally or unintentionally. You must always strive to do rather than be, for simply by being you can lead others astray — and be led astray yourself. You have some strange likes and dislikes, and matters of taste may too often come between you and your friends. You must accept the fact that there is nobody quite like you, and therefore, others are not always going to understand your own quirky personal preferences. Also born on this date are: Shemar Moore, actor; George Takei, actor; Luther Vandross, singer; Jessica Lange, actress; Crispin Glover, actor; Clint Howard, actor; Don Mattingly, baseball player. To see what is in store for you tomorrow, find your birthday and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your daily guide. SUNDAY, APRIL 21 TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — What you say and what you do may not be entirely in sync

today. This is pointed out to you by a friend — and just in time, too. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You may have to redouble your efforts today if you’re going to meet a certain deadline. You may have spent too much time planning. CANCER (June 21-July 22) — Focus on what you are doing, and not on what someone else is making you do. He or she cannot force you to act against your will. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — You may be presented with an option today that you have not considered before. This — and one other choice — opens up a world of possibilities. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Do you know which way to go today when you are faced with a decision no one else wants to make? It’s time to demonstrate awareness and confidence. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — The results you get today may surprise you, but not someone who’s been watching you for some time. He or she knows what you can really do. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Mistakes made today cannot be unmade, of course, as you cannot travel back in time. You can, however, minimize any lasting effects. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — You may find yourself in hot water today for a time until someone in charge realizes that your motives have been pure all along. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Others are looking to you as an example today, whether or not you like it. You needn’t do anything differently, however; play it cool. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — You are committed to a certain endeavor at this time, and you’re going to see it through despite any difficulties caused by bad timing.

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SUPER QUIZ

THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek

Score 1 point for each correct answer on the Freshman Level, 2 points on the Graduate Level and 3 points on the Ph.D. Level.

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Unscramble these Jumbles, one letter to each square, to form four ordinary words.

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Now arrange the circled letters to form the surprise answer, as suggested by the above cartoon.

Ans. here: Yesterday’s

(Answers Monday) Jumbles: FISHY FLUFF MATURE SCAMPI Answer: The taxidermist took a lunch break so he could — STUFF HIS FACE

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Each answer is a word that ends with “some.” (e.g., A pair who associate with one another. Answer: Twosome.) Freshman level 1. To describe a man with an attractive face. 2. Inspiring admiration or wonder. 3. Conducive to physical or moral well-being. 4. Causing problems or difficulties. 5. Willing to try new things and take risks. Graduate level 6. Involving yourself in situations that you have no right to be involved in. 7. Argumentative; contentious. 8. Shockingly repellent; inspiring horror. 9. Dejected because of a lack of companionship. 10. Causing physical or mental fatigue. PH.D. level 11. Charming, often in a childlike or naive way. 12. Large, heavy and difficult to move or carry. 13. A structure in the cell nucleus that contains DNA. 14. Causing hatred or disgust; repulsive. 15. Causing annoyance, irritation, weariness or vexation.

SUPER QUIZ ANSWERS 1. Handsome. 2. Awesome. 3. Wholesome. 4. Troublesome or worrisome. 5. Venturesome. 6. Meddlesome. 7. Quarrelsome. 8. Gruesome. 9. Lonesome. 10. Wearisome or tiresome. 11. Winsome. 12. Cumbersome. 13. Chromosome. 14. Loathsome. 15. Irksome. 24 to 30 points — congratulations, doctor; 18 to 23 points — honors graduate; 13 to 17 points — you’re plenty smart, but no grind; 5 to 12 points — you really should hit the books harder; 1 point to 4 points — enroll in remedial courses immediately; 0 points — who reads the questions to you?

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Crossword Puzzle Mother Goose & Grimm ACROSS 1 __ house; campus building 5 Side road 10 Close noisily 14 Asian staple 15 Employee’s delight 16 Suffer defeat 17 Alphabet’s opening 18 Making no sense 20 Do drugs 21 Rectangular piece of glass 22 Exhausted 23 Lions’ dens 25 Actress West 26 Votes into office 28 Total failure 31 Main artery 32 France’s dollar, once 34 Fall month: abbr. 36 “__ the night before Christmas…” 37 16 ounces 38 Part of the leg 39 All __; fully prepared 40 Warbles 41 Heathen 42 Took a siesta 44 Powerful 45 Carob or snow pea 46 Removes potato skin 47 Stomach ailment 50 Move furtively 51 Edison’s initials 54 People to be imitated 57 Neat 58 Pleased 59 Cowboy’s rope 60 Seep out 61 Large trees 62 Actor Buddy 63 Singles DOWN 1 German wife 2 Teases 3 Speed up 4 One of the Kennedys 5 Prickly plants

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41 White meat 43 Drives too fast 44 Clergyman 46 One of the vital signs 47 Egg on 48 Lounge about 49 __ up; say no more

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he only way it can end ‘GAME OF THRONES’: HBO’s epic fantasy series begins its final season Sunday night By ALYSSA ROSENBERG Washington Post

here’s a great deal at stake with the final season of “Game of Thrones,” which began last Sunday, and I don’t mean the question of who will end up sitting on Westeros’ Iron Throne. Rather, HBO’s fantasy epic is staring down the quandary that faces all true water-cooler shows, and has been especially pressing in this so-called Golden Age of television. Can showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss wrap up the story in a way that is satisfying to fans — some of whom have been longing for this conclusion since 1996 when George R.R. Martin published “A Game of Thrones” — and more importantly, in a way that is true to the show’s finest qualities? Trying to accomplish both of these sometimes-contradictory goals is a tremendously difficult task, even for the most accomplished television shows. “Sex and the City” and “Breaking Bad” both whiffed, the former by going full fairy-tale, the latter by allowing its methcooking high school teacher to reinvent himself as an action hero even after acknowledging that he was a monster. “The Shield” succeeded by delivering an incomplete reckoning to crooked cop Vic Mackey (Michael Chiklis) that highlighted both the value of his pursuers’ persistence and the difficulty of achieving accountability. And “The Sopranos” achieved immortality and launched a thousand speculations with its now-infamous cut to black. Despite the years I’ve spent reading, watching and

writing about “Game of Thrones,” I don’t know where the series is going to finish. But if the series is to conclude with integrity, I know exactly how it should end: with no one sitting on the Iron Throne. There are many ways to judge “Game of Thrones” — from the technical and logistical accomplishments that produced its stunning battle sequences and moments of magic; to the casting alchemy that brought together first-time actresses Sophie Turner and Maisie Williams as sisters Sansa and Arya Stark; to the brilliantly convoluted plotting that Martin bequeathed to Benioff and Weiss. But the reason “Game of Thrones” was worth all of the breathless discussion and internet sleuthing was revealed slowly over the first season. The dissolution of King Robert Baratheon (Mark Addy) serves as a blunt reminder that being able to bash people’s chests in with a war hammer is no guarantee that you’ll be able to run your government, love your wife or find a new way forward into dignified middle age. The stunningly casual cruelty of the king’s brother-in-law, Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) and the brooding menace of Gregor Clegane (Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson) argue that knight’s armor is decoration, not proof of good character. And the iconic moment (spoiler alert) that Ned Stark (Sean Bean), our well-meaning ostensible hero, loses his head wasn’t merely a stunning twist. It was the instant “Game of Thrones” really got started on its brutal

Who will win ‘Game of Thrones’? Here are the favorites By JEREMY EGNER New York Times

Sure there’s a big zombie battle coming soon to settle, you know, the fate of humankind. But there’s also the matter of the actual game of thrones. And there are plenty of places ready and willing to make it a little more interesting, as they say. These are the top 12 contenders to rule the realm at the end of “Game of Thrones,” in order of probability, according to the gambling site OddsShark.

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BRAN STARK (3-TO-1 ODDS) How is Bran the favorite? He can’t fight or even carry on a functional conversation — how could he possibly beat out everyone else for the throne? But couldn’t that also be an argument in his favor on a show that has consistently striven for surprise? Bran’s egoless omniscience could be just what the realm needs after years of toxically self-interested and vindictive leadership. All hail King Three-Eye, the first of his name.

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A scene from “Games of Thrones” season 1 reveals how much the characters have grown — as well as a reminder of characters who weren’t long for their world.

Jon is the New England Patriots of this contest: The obvious favorite and most boring

She has dragons and the strongest will to power, aside from perhaps the irredeemably doomed Cersei. But she’s also shown enough of her father’s crazy streak to make you wonder if she’ll self-destruct before she wins the big prize.

SANSA STARK (6-1) Once one of the most feckless people in this story, Sansa might actually be the best equipped to rule the Seven Kingdoms at this point. But given how things went for her the last time she was in King’s Landing, would she want to go back? The case in favor: She’s shown a desire to lead, in her interactions with Jon at Winterfell, and she can be ice-cold when it’s called for, as with the See WIN C2

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Men’s group aiming to redefine masculinity ‘ME TOO’ REACTION: Many members are seeking

help in healing trauma By ANERI PATTANI Philadelphia Inquirer

PLYMOUTH, Pa. — Twice a month, half a dozen men gather in Plymouth Meeting to help each other work through past traumas. Their chosen method of healing? Cuddles. It may seem odd, but members of the Men’s Therapeutic Cuddle Group say the practice has helped them cope with everything from childhood sexual abuse to the loss of family members when they were young. The two-year-old group draws men from various backgrounds: a 37-year-old Mormon who works as an airport gate agent, a 57-year-old married father of three, a 62-yearold retiree. There is a range of sexual orientations. At a time when traditional ideas of manhood are facing scrutiny and such terms as “toxic masculinity” are becoming more widely known through the MeToo movement, the group aims to provide new ways for men to express themselves. “So often, we’re taught that to be an emotional stoic is the mark of manhood,” said Scott Turner, a 46-year-old interior designer and cofounder of the group. “If you show any emotional weakness or vulnerability, that’s a failure to your title of a man.” But “if we expect men to be emotionally sensitive to the needs of others, they first need to be able to build an emotional vocabulary,” he said. Part of that involves learning that physical touch extends beyond aggression or sex. Platonic affection can be a doorway to emotional closeness. “It’s not the ends of what we’re doing,” Turner said. “It’s part of a larger toolbox of healing.” Unlike professional cuddling services, which are gaining popularity in cities across

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the United States, the group charges no fees and members are not required to undergo training. Although the meet-ups are not open to the public (members must be interviewed and approved).

A GROUP DEMONSTRATION At the beginning of the session, everyone agreed not to engage in sexual touch and to ask for consent before each action. They gathered in a huddle and breathed meditatively. The cuddling started with men pairing up to do “the motorcycle hold,” in which one man sits with his back against another man’s chest, as if they were riding together on a motorcycle. Some massaged their partner’s shoulders or hands, while others stroked the other person’s beard. Many closed their eyes as the room fell into silence. After 15 minutes, they switched to a new partner. For the second half of the session, the men cuddled as one large group in what they call a “puppy pile.” Men lay with their heads in each other’s laps, chatted, and joked. It’s meant to be a space where men feel safe sharing their innermost thoughts, said Kevin Eitzenberger, 57, who founded the group with Turner. That can be challenging in other areas of their lives, where they’re expected to be “the strong provider.” In the group, “they learn it’s OK to be a little fractured,” Eitzenberger said.

THE IMPORTANCE OF VULNERABILITY As a child, TJ McDonnell was molested by a neighbor. He didn’t tell anyone, ashamed he’d done something wrong. For years, he kept his distance from others. “I never connected with

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Men’s Therapeutic Cuddling is a meet-up group that aims to give men a safe space to ask for help or affection. From left, members Kyle Hoffman, Scott Turner, T.J. McDonell, Kevin Eitzenberger and Ryan Hancock attend a gathering.

people very well, even my siblings,” said McDonnell, now 62. Getting therapy and attending a support group helped, but McDonnell credits the men’s cuddling group for teaching him that emotional intimacy and physical touch aren’t always abusive. “It allowed me to experience what good friendships are, what brothers are,” he said. Another member, Ryan Hancock, has become like a son to McDonnell. Hancock’s children even call McDonnell grandpa. “These types of groups can be healthy and helpful for men and women,” said Chris Liang, a licensed psychologist and associate professor of counseling psychology at Lehigh University. Liang researches the effect of masculinity on health and was part of a board that helped the American Psychological Association formulate new guidelines on working with boys and men.

The guidelines highlight ways in which traditional views of masculinity — such as men are tough and never cry — harm their emotional and physical health. Studies show that men who strongly believe in masculine norms are less likely to get preventive health care, more likely to drink heavily and use tobacco, and more likely to hold negative attitudes toward seeking mental-health services. Many men never learn healthy ways to deal with stress, Liang said. Then, it can emerge in harmful ways. According to the APA, men commit 90 percent of homicides in the U.S. and represent 77 percent of homicide victims. They’re also more than three times as likely as women to die by suicide, and their life expectancy is nearly five years shorter, largely because of both violence and the health impact of stress. Liang hopes that such groups as the cuddling meet-up can help men move

beyond one restrictive definition of masculinity. Although those with more serious concerns may want to seek therapy, he said, “if this is something that’s more comfortable for men ... then it can do a whole lot of good.”

A GROWING MOVEMENT OF MEN’S SUPPORT GROUPS When Kevin Eitzenberger was 11, his 7-year-old brother died. Growing up, Eitzenberger didn’t spend much time with his father. The two had little in common. Both experiences left Eitzenberger without a role model to show him what it meant to be a man. “It led me to believe I was less than,” he said. “That I wasn’t manly.” In 2008, he discovered a group called the ManKind Project, which would help him overcome that feeling. Founded about 30 years ago, MKP is a nonprofit focused on building male community through more than 900 men’s support groups in dozens of countries.

“We want men to come in and figure out what their ideal of manhood is,” said Boysen Hodgson, communications director of MKP in the U.S. “It’s not something that can be imposed or prescribed to you.” The group doesn’t focus on cuddling, but it does promote the idea of being open and vulnerable with other men. “Asking for affection, asking for time, asking for help from other men is scary,” Hodgson said. “But it’s a very important skill for men to learn.” Studies published in 2010 and 2014 found that participating in MKP programming improved men’s psychological well-being for up to two years. For Eitzenberger, MKP helped him realize that wanting a connection with other men and seeking their acceptance was OK. It led him to start the cuddling group. Now he receives about two requests a week from people looking to join the meet-up.

A MAN AMONG MEN At the cuddling group demonstration, Ryan Hancock absentmindedly touched TJ McDonnell’s ear. Later, McDonnell squeezed in between Turner and Eitzenberger lying on the floor, calling himself “the cream in the cookie.” In this setting, touch was no more notable than asking about someone’s day. Some men teared up as they discussed their regrets as fathers. Others were playful. At the end of the session, the group huddled and took turns completing the phrase, “As a man among men, I feel. ...” “Grateful to be with all of you,” Turner said. “Worthy of connection,” Hancock said. McDonnell, going last, said, “Loved, accepted, and included.”

awakening seem destined to be a noble, gut-wrenching sacrifice?

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executions of Ramsay and Littlefinger.

LITTLEFINGER (14-1) GENDRY (7-1) He rowed for like four years and has the guns to prove it. His Baratheon blood also gives him a decent claim on the throne. But are they really going to give it to a guy who’s had maybe 11 minutes of screen time?

A theory making the rounds online maintains that the man we saw Arya kill in the Season 7 finale was not actually Littlefinger, but a Faceless Man he hired to take his place. Stranger things have happened on this show, I guess. At any rate, the interest in this has apparently been strong enough to get him on the board.

JONERYS OFFSPRING TO BE NAMED LATER (14-1)

THE NIGHT KING (10-1) The popular choice among nihilists and environmentalists who have gone all-in on the White-Walkers-as-climate-change metaphor. But George R.R. Martin has said the ending will be “bittersweet,” not “weird and deflating.”

Season 7’s finale suggested Dany might get pregnant with her nephew Jon’s child, and with that bloodline, the tyke would be one of the most powerful people in this story. But based on the reigns of Joffrey and Tommen, the show seems to take a dim view of incest baby rulers.

ARYA STARK (14-1) She’s a fighter not a ruler.

SAMWELL TARLY (14-1) TYRION LANNISTER (10-1) He’s come a long way from his drinking and knowing things days. But doesn’t the final act of his moral

He’s a writer not a ruler.

CERSEI LANNISTER (25-1) In her black heart of hearts, not even Cersei expects Cersei to survive the season.

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Sansa Stark, played by Sophie Turner, cheers during a tournament during season 1 of “Games of Thrones” during happier times.

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deconstruction — emphasis on brutal — of our Disney-fied conception of fairy tales in general and the ideals of chivalry in particular. That commitment to turning an entire genre ruthlessly topsy-turvy is the reason viewers and critics could talk about “Game of Thrones” as more than, as the actor Ian McShane memorably put it, “tits and dragons.” Yes, the series featured an awful lot of naked women, but it also had smart insights about how a person’s — and a society’s — gaze can turn from admiring to rancid. The show depicted rape frequently, but it took both an individual and systemic approach to the subject, exploring how tolerating sexual violence can upend whole societies. I understand why it’s tempting to place your bets for who

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Sansa Stark in later seasons of the show reveal the difficult journey she as tred. But will she make it all the way to the end of the series?

will occupy the Iron Throne. But if you’re rooting for a version of “Game of Thrones” that lives up to the show’s sometimes-uneven exploration of big ideas and arguments about the institutions and traditions

that shape people, the only possible happy ending is one that ends with that infernal chair either abandoned or melted into slag. If “Game of Thrones” ends with Jon Snow (Kit Harington) ruling Westeros, the series might as well go back in time and reattach Ned Stark’s head for all it will have done to undo its efforts to unsettle our expectations for how this sort of story goes. If Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke), Sansa Stark (Turner) or Cersei Lannister (Lena Headey) takes the throne, the show will be one step above that, a dark feminist retelling of a canonical story, perhaps with an antiheroine rather than a true heroine, but it would still be something we’ve seen before. Rather, for “Game of Thrones” to be true to its argument, its protagonists must be destroyed by the systems they’ve attempted to transcend or give way to something entirely new. If Daenerys follows

in the tradition of her ancestors and goes mad; Jon has to kill her; or if the messy mass of humanity can’t stand against the implacable, snowy discipline of the White Walkers, the repudiation of the dream that one good person can save us that “Game of Thrones” began in its first season will be complete. But there is one alternative. The long-announced title for Martin’s final novel in the series is “A Dream of Spring.” The book was originally supposed to be called “A Time for Wolves,” which would seem to herald a renaissance of House Stark and its direwolves. But when Martin announced the switch in 2006, he said “it gives a better sense of the book that I want to write.” A happy ending for Martin’s characters, and for the occupants of the world torn by warring kings where we’ve spent so long, might be to walk away from the Iron Throne entirely and allow a new kind of government to push forth hopeful shoots in its place.

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Nanaimo bars, a three-layer no-bake treat of humble origins in British Columbia. The Nanaimo — coconut and chopped walnuts bound together by a buttery silt of cocoa and crushed graham crackers, below yellow buttercream and a brittle chocolate — has become a national staple in Canada.

The Nanaimo bar A bite-size square of Canada’s history, culture and craving By SARA BONISTEEL New York Times

he Canadian city of Nanaimo, in British Columbia, has been a scrappy outpost of the Hudson’s Bay Co., a coal mining center and a timber town. But its place in history may be forever entwined with its culinary namesake, one of the world’s sweetest treats. The Nanaimo bar (pronounced nuh-NYEmo) is a three-layer no-bake square that for the past seven decades or so has been a steadfast source of comfort to Canadians at weddings and funerals, birthdays and bar mitzvahs. Across the country, you’ll find the sugary bars for sale at small-town gas stations and supermarkets, where they compete with Nanaimo bar baking kits. In 2017, the Tim Hortons restaurant chain created a filled doughnut with the flavors of the Nanaimo bar for the nation’s sesquicentennial, a nod to its status. Even its name is proudly Canadian. “I like to call it the Kardashian of Canadian desserts because really, if it had been named anything else, I don’t think it would have lasted,” said Lenore Newman, author of “Speaking in Cod Tongues: A Canadian Culinary Journey.” “But it’s the Nanaimo bar, so of course people make it.” The square looks something like a geological cross section. Its base is sedimentary: coconut and chopped walnuts bound together by a buttery silt of cocoa and crushed graham crackers. A middle layer of yellow buttercream teeters on the brink of liquefaction. And its top crust of chocolate, hard and brittle, thaws like the Arctic tundra the longer it lingers at room temperature. “It’s that balance of sweetness and texture that makes it just so appealing, and it looks pretty,” said Anna Olson, a pastry chef and host of the Food Network Canada show “Bake With Anna Olson.” “For the home cook, it’s an attractive dessert: It doesn’t look sloppy; it doesn’t look crafty.”

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Joyce Hardcastle makes her award-winning Nanaimo bar recipe, in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada.

The Nanaimo bar’s story begins with the so-called dainty recipes of the mid-20th century, treats engineered to be whipped up for unexpected company from pantry staples. “The base layer was one of these 1950s recipes that circulated among housewives in mill towns all around the British Empire,” said Newman, a geography professor at the University of the Fraser Valley, in British Columbia, who also noted that a New Zealand dessert, the caramel slice, has a similar base. Newman believes that the women of Nanaimo added the middle and top layers. The first mention that she and a student, Shea Wind, could find was in a 1953 recipe in The Vancouver Sun for London smog bars, which stated that they were also called Nanaimo bars. The use of custard powder — an instant custard mix, which was a pantry staple of the empire, devised for those with egg allergies — gave their new dainty its distinctive yellow belt. Around the same time, bakers in Canada’s prairie provinces were serving up a similar creation, also called the smog bar, which Jean Paré, 91, learned how to make from her mother, Ruby Elford, in Irma, Alberta, a town of 250 about 110 miles southeast of Edmonton. “I forget how many do’s I went to before I finally found that they were called Nanaimo bars by other people,” she said in a phone interview, using an oldfashioned term for a gathering. Paré (pronounced Perry) is a well-known Canadian cookbook author whose “Company’s Coming” books have sold by the millions. She included Nanaimo bars in her first book in the series, “150 Delicious Squares,” in 1981. Before she wrote cookbooks, Paré catered events. Nanaimo bars were almost always on the dessertsquare tray, which would make an appearance anytime a sweet snack was required, often at the “midnight lunch” served after the dinner and dancing at Albertan wedding receptions. “I didn’t have to bake them, and they froze so well,” she said. Only once, she said, did she decide to sub out the Nanaimo bar, and people asked for them by name: “So that was the last time I ever tried that.” Susan Mendelson was a university student in Vancouver, British Columbia, in the 1970s when she started making the bars and selling them at a local theater, using a recipe from a classmate. They were a hit, and she opened a catering company, the Lazy Gourmet, with a friend. She published the basic recipe in her first cookbook, “Mama Never Cooked Like This,” and variations in subsequent ones, including the official cookbook of the 1986 world’s fair in Vancouver, which Newman credits with helping to spread the bar’s fame. Mendelson’s version of the bar was so good that novelist Margaret Atwood included it in her “Canlit Foodbook,” which compiled writing and recipes from Canadian authors. And the city of Nanaimo finally took notice of its well-traveled square. A mascot, Nanaimo Barney, turned up at public functions, and a contest was held in the 1980s to find the ultimate Nanaimo bar recipe. Nanaimo, for its part, has designated local

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Susan Mendelson makes nanaimo bars in Vancouver, Jan. 24. Mendelson’s recipe helped make the nanaimo bar a national staple in Canada.

restaurants and cafes where people can try the bars, in the spirit of the food-tourism trails that two regions in Ontario have created for that other signature Canadian dessert: the butter tart. Despite all the variations on the Nanaimo bar — versions exist made with peanut butter, mocha and cranberry — there are still rules to be followed, said Olson, the pastry chef. “You’re allowed to change it and alter it, but you still have to respect the crust, filling, chocolate topping,” she said. “You can still call it a Nanaimo bar by changing up the flavors.” The buttercream takes well to flavorings, and you can experiment with the nuts in the base layer. (Though Atwood, a purist, prefers walnuts.) If you do change up the nuts, you want a tender choice, like almonds or pecans. “A hazelnut might show its texture and be too crunchy,” Olson said. Custard powder may be one reason the Nanaimo bar hasn’t spread farther south. While it is available online and at some specialty stores in the United States, it remains a relatively obscure ingredient to Americans. Some recipes say instant vanilla pudding can be used as a substitute, but that makes the buttercream clumpy, and the finished bar lacks that essential yellow hue. “I have a container of Bird’s Custard Powder that sits in my pantry because its only function is for Nanaimo bars,” Olson said. “I wouldn’t use it for anything else. I make my own custard for any other See NANAIMO C6

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Books & authors When Jews under Nazi terror pleaded for help

and America ignored them

By JANE EISNER Washington Post

The Unwanted: America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught in Between By Michael Dobbs Knopf. 346 pp. $29.95 Americans by and large do not deny that the Holocaust happened. They just are frighteningly fuzzy on the details. A national poll conducted last year found that nearly onethird of the respondents believed that 2 million or fewer Jews had died during the Nazi genocide, when the actual number is closer to 6 million. Millennials display an even more shocking ignorance. Two-thirds could not identify Auschwitz as a concentration camp or an extermination camp; 22 percent had not heard of or weren’t sure they had heard of the Holocaust at all. Most Americans (80 percent) said they had not visited a Holocaust museum, even though there are nearly 70 such museums and monuments in states across the country. I don’t fit into those categories. I belong to that sliver of American Jews who could be criticized as too preoccupied with the Holocaust, periodically anxious that Germany 1938 could be just around the corner instead of a tragic moment consigned to history. I’ve read numerous accounts of the Nazis’ attempts to exterminate European Jews, with the vicious acquiescence of their neighbors. I’ve watched cinematic treatments of the Holocaust and listened to survivors’ stories. I have visited the haunting remains of Bergen-Belsen and Theresienstadt, and seen the displays of human hair at Auschwitz, and trudged along the grim paths that led so many to their deaths. But even for someone immersed in the catastrophe of what happened to the Jews in World War II, Michael Dobbs’ new book, “The Unwanted: America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught in Between,” will still be a heartbreaking and timely read. With a reporter’s eye for narrative and a historian’s attention to detail and context, Dobbs re-creates Jewish life in Kippenheim, a German village near the French border, on the eve of the Nazi onslaught. Then, thanks to a trove of carefully assembled archival material, photographs and oral histories, he follows these Jewish families through harrowing cycles of deportation and desperation as they attempt to flee to safety. That is only part of the story, however. An equally important — and infuriating — narrative unfolds in the halls of American power, where President Franklin D. Roosevelt is presented again and again with the opportunity

to take in these Jewish refugees but, more often than not, accedes to political expediency and public pressure by doing nothing. Even first lady Eleanor Roosevelt’s valiant efforts to persuade her husband to sign a refugee bill for children alone were rebuffed. And this was before the full horrors of the Holocaust began. Dobbs opens his story in November 1938 as 14-year-old Hedy Wachenheimer cycles to school in a nearby village on a day that would change her life forever. Caught in an avalanche of anti-Jewish violence, she is finally able to return to Kippenheim only to find her parents gone, as Nazi thugs ravaged Jewish homes and businesses. Her father and other men were arrested and sent to Dachau. She is eventually reunited with her mother and an aunt, who wait in fear for the violence to subside and her father to be released. Though Jews had lived in Kippenheim peacefully with their neighbors for centuries, from then on, Hedy wanted only to leave Germany. “Tens of thousands of Jews squeezed into cupboards in attics and basements, or cowering under beds

and bathtubs, in villages and towns across the Third Reich had precisely the same thought,” Dobbs writes. “Any doubts about what they should do were swept away in an instant. A single hope remained: emigration.” That hope would be dashed as often as it was realized. “There were simply not enough visas available to satisfy the overwhelming demand,” Dobbs writes. “By early 1939, half the Jews in the Third Reich had applied for an American visa.” Some Kippenheimers believed they had found salvation on a ship, St. Louis, which ended up sailing across the Atlantic and then back to Germany, as Cuba and the United States refused to accept the heartbroken refugees. A few, like Hedy, were able to escape to Britain through the Kindertransport program, which allowed persecuted children to enter on temporary visas. Then, in October 1940, Hedy’s parents and the other remaining Jews in Kippenheim were abruptly herded onto police trucks and driven across the border to Gurs, France, to a muddy, isolated encampment crammed with more than 10,000

dispossessed Germans. We often think of Nazi concentration camps in Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland. Here was a concentration camp in what was supposedly “free” France, with conditions so dehumanizing that every day, 20 inmates died of disease and malnutrition. Still, the Jews could not leave. Dobbs skillfully shows the dignity with which they confronted the mind-numbing bureaucracy and arbitrary cruelty of the French and German authorities. “However desperate their circumstances, the asylum seekers always took care to arrive for their long-awaited appointments in their best clothes,” he writes. There are times when Dobbs’ precise recounting of the byzantine immigration process becomes tedious — but, of course, that was the point. As the world went to war and Western nations shut their doors, this is what the trapped Jews of Kippenheim faced, until the Nazis decided to exterminate them. In the end, Hedy’s parents, Hugo and Bella Wachenheimer, and others from their village died in Auschwitz in 1942. It’s not possible to read “The Unwanted” without hearing its echoes today. So afraid were Americans of a “fifth column” of Nazi and communist refugees infiltrating our shores that an anti-immigrant U.S. senator said: “If I had my way, I would today build a wall about the United States so high and so secure that not a single alien or foreign refugee from any country upon the face of the Earth could possibly scale or ascend it!” I hear its echoes, too, in the troubling resurgence of violent antiSemitism in France, where its roots are so evidently deep and virulent. When I learn of how ignorant some Americans are about the Holocaust, I want them to read the story of Kippenheim’s Jews, to confront the fact that a supposedly civilized nation can commit acts of genocide. Some of the Jews of Kippenheim survived by pure luck. Others survived because of the moral courage of those who risked all to help them. And that is why their story must be remembered — and repeated — today. At the end of his historical account, Dobbs returns to the village with one of those survivors and sees, on the street across from the synagogue, the home of the Valfers, another Jewish couple who were deported to Gurs and died in Auschwitz. It turns out that their house now belongs to a family of Kurdish refugees from Syria, who had fled their homeland during the brutal civil war. The story continues. Eisner is the Forward’s writer at large and the Koeppel fellow in journalism at Wesleyan University.

‘Next Year in Havana’ gets a worthy sequel By KAMRUN NESA Washington Post

When We Left Cuba By Chanel Cleeton Berkley. 368 pp. $16 Chanel Cleeton’s “Next Year in Havana” got a huge boost when Reese Witherspoon selected it for her book club in 2018, and it was rightfully singled out. The novel balanced a lesson in Cuba’s volatile history with an emotionally affecting story. Its sequel “When We Left Cuba” delivers some of the same — including plenty of heartache — with a very different narrative. The perspective in “When We Left Cuba” shifts from Elisa Perez to her older sister Beatriz. Here are the best-sellers for the week that ended Saturday, April 6, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by NPD BookScan.

HARDCOVER FICTION 1. Where the Crawdads Sing. Delia Owens. Putnam 2. The Cornwalls Are Gone. Patterson/ DuBois. Little, Brown 3. The Savior. J.R. Ward. Gallery 4. Run Away. Harlan Coben. Grand Central 5. Celtic Empire. Cussler/Cussler. Putnam 6. Wolf Pack. C.J. Box. Putnam

It’s 1959, and the plucky, rebellious 22-year-old is outraged her family was forced to uproot from her beloved Cuba and move to Florida because of Fidel Castro. “It isn’t just politics to me. It’s my life. It was my brother’s life. He died fighting for a better future for Cuba. How do I turn my back on that?” she argues. As she gets older, she grapples with how to fight for her home country while simultaneously figuring out who she is without it. So she approaches the CIA, assuming that the agency is desperate to take down Castro, and offers her services as a spy. It’s not long before she becomes embroiled in various plots to end Castro’s regime.

Unlike her sisters, two of whom eventually marry and lead quiet lives, Beatriz harnesses her anger to seek retribution for her fellow Cubans, gaining an agency uncommon for women during that time period. What she doesn’t anticipate is falling hard for engaged U.S. Senator Nicholas Preston, who is American royalty with political ambitions that a relationship with Beatriz could jeopardize. They are a dangerous match from the beginning but launch into an affair anyway. Other than being betrothed to another woman (at least initially), Nick couldn’t be a better match for Beatriz; they’re both passionate about politics and

Publisher’s Weekly best-sellers 7. Cemetery Road. Greg Iles. Morrow 8. The Chef. Patterson/DiLallo. Little, Brown 9. The Silent Patient. Alex Michaelides. Celadon 10. Wild Card. Stuart Woods. Putnam

HARDCOVER NONFICTION 1. Becoming. Michelle Obama. Crown 2. Girl, Stop Apologizing. Rachel Hollis. HarperCollins Leadership 3. The Matriarch. Susan Page. Twelve

4. The Right Side of History. Ben Shapiro. Broadside 5. The Path Made Clear. Oprah Winfrey. Flatiron 6. A Love Letter Life. Roloff/Roloff. Zondervan 7. The Next Right Thing. Emily P. Freeman. Revell 8. IMomSoHard. Hensley/Smedley. HarperOne 9. Maybe You Should Talk to Someone. Lori Gottlieb. HMH

making a difference, and he treats her like an equal. And yet, the romance — for all its careful construction and emotional impact — is not Cleeton’s main concern. After all, Beatriz has understandable reservations toward commitment. In Cuba, she was raised to believe that her main goal was to marry well — “our success tied to the men we catch rather than our own merits,” she laments — but now she has the freedom to reject that institution and pursue a career, creating her own identity. Her pursuit of Castro is the true heart of the story, even if the success of the mission is moot. The journey is what matters: Beatriz’s growth and

resilience in taking on a risky job of such magnitude, especially as a woman during the 1960s. “When We Left Cuba” is both a hard-earned love story and a visceral account of history. Cleeton’s writing pulsates with passion and intimacy, even as she gives us a panoramic vision of life during that tumultuous era. She’s long since established herself as a remarkable writer, but with “When We Left Cuba,” she’s written with a sublime force that keeps us tethered to her words.

10. Ladies Who Punch. Ramin Setoodeh. St. Martin’s/Dunne

Johnstone. Pinnacle 9. The Forbidden Door. Dean Koontz. Bantam 10. The Sixth Day. Coulter/Ellison. Pocket

MASS MARKET 1. The Good Fight. Danielle Steel. Dell 2. Come Sundown. Nora Roberts. St. Martin’s 3. Twisted Prey. John Sandford. Putnam 4. The 17th Suspect. James Patterson. Vision 5. The Wyoming Kid. Debbie Macomber. Harlequin 6. The Fallen. David Baldacci. Vision 7. Marrying My Cowboy. Palmer/ McKenna/Pearce. Zebra 8. Dig Your Own Grave. William W.

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TRADE PAPERBACK 1. Supermarket. Bobby Hall. Simon & Schuster 2. A Gentleman in Moscow. Amor Towles. Penguin Books 3. The Woman in the Window. A.J. Finn. Morrow 4. The First Lady. Patterson/DuBois. Grand Central 5. The Tattooist of Auschwitz. Heather Morris. Harper

NOTEWORTHY PAPERBACKS Summaries from The New York Times Book Review:

I AM, I AM, I AM: SEVENTEEN BRUSHES WITH DEATH By Maggie O’Farrell. (Vintage, $16.) A mugging, a near drowning, a nightmarish childbirth: The Northern Irish novelist shares her neardeath experiences and what it means to know her life could have turned out very differently. The memoir is particularly strong on how her relationship to risk-taking evolved after becoming a mother, and her fears about not doing enough to protect her children.

THE OVERSTORY By Richard Powers. (Norton, $18.95.) In this series of interconnected stories, the human characters are just the underbrush; the true protagonists are the trees that they encounter. Powers combines botany and storytelling in this majestic novel. Times reviewer Barbara Kingsolver praised the book, calling it “delightfully choreographed, ultimately breathtaking.”

ATOM LAND: A GUIDED TOUR THROUGH THE STRANGE (AND IMPOSSIBLY SMALL) WORLD OF PARTICLE PHYSICS By Jon Butterworth. (The Experiment, $14.95.) The author, a leading physicist at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, is an entertaining guide, and his book helps answer the question that has intrigued scientists for generations: “What is the universe made of, really, when you get right down to it?”

SPEAK NO EVIL By Uzodinma Iweala. (Harper Perennial, $15.99.) The second book by Iweala, the author of “Beasts of No Nation,” follows a teenager in Washington, D.C., as he reconciles his comingof-age with the expectations of his Nigerian parents and their church. Niru, the Harvardbound protagonist, was raised in a loving home, but after his father discovers he is gay, their relationship becomes strained. The book skillfully deals with generational conlict and what it means to be a young black man in America.

PATRIOT NUMBER ONE: A CHINESE REBEL COMES TO AMERICA By Lauren Hilgers. (Broadway, $16.) Hilgers proiles Chinese dissident Zhuang Liehong and his wife, Little Yan, who came to the United States in 2014 to avoid a government crackdown. Hilgers, a journalist who spent years living in China, follows the couple as they forge a new life in Queens and navigate the U.S. immigration system.

COUNTRY DARK By Chris Offutt. (Grove, $16.) In Offutt’s longawaited novel, a Korean War veteran comes back to Kentucky, tangles with bootleggers and grapples with diiculties at home. But there is an undercurrent of ierce love: As Times reviewer Smith Henderson put it, “winsome twinkles shine through the blackness throughout, thanks in no small part to Ofutt’s keen ear and eye.”

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Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit, 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit sudoku.org.uk © 2019 The Mepham Group. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency. All rights reserved.

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Opening lead: Nine of ♣ South in today’s deal was Philadelphia expert Ken Cohen. The contract looks impossible, but Cohen found a way home. He assumed that the opening lead was a singleton. Why else would anyone

lead a club after this auction? Cohen won the opening club lead in hand with the 10, cashed the king of hearts, and led a heart to dummy’s ace. He led a low spade from the dummy and inserted his 10 when East played low! Cohen cashed the ace of spades and then the queen of hearts, drawing the last outstanding trump. East had trouble finding a discard on the third trump and did the best he could by shedding a low diamond. Cohen led a club to the ace and ruffed a spade. When West showed out, Cohen knew that East had started with 4-2-2-5 distribution. Cohen led a diamond to dummy’s ace, extracting East’s last diamond, the king, and exited with a spade to East, while discarding a club from his hand. East was forced to lead a club away from his queen in this three-card ending and Cohen took the marked finesse to make his slam. Had East put up his jack of spades on the first round of the suit, Cohen would have won with his ace, drawn the last trump, and led the 10 of spades. East couldn’t defeat the contract whether he won this with his king or ducked. Well played! (Bob Jones welcomes readers’ responses sent in care of this paper. Please send your e-mail responses to tcaeditors@ tribpub.com)

By Stella Wilder Born today, you are nothing if not charismatic, and there are times in your life in which your very awareness of this fact may work against you, as you rely on your ability to capture the attention and imaginations of those around you without backing it up with actions of real substance. There is a risk, therefore, of you becoming known as something of a charlatan, one who promises but does not deliver because there is nothing behind the charismatic and often quite colorful mask you wear. Knowing that this is a very real possibility, however, can keep you from making it a reality, whether intentionally or unintentionally. You must always strive to do rather than be, for simply by being you can lead others astray — and be led astray yourself. You have some strange likes and dislikes, and matters of taste may too often come between you and your friends. You must accept the fact that there is nobody quite like you, and therefore, others are not always going to understand your own quirky personal preferences. Also born on this date are: Shemar Moore, actor; George Takei, actor; Luther Vandross, singer; Jessica Lange, actress; Crispin Glover, actor; Clint Howard, actor; Don Mattingly, baseball player. To see what is in store for you tomorrow, find your birthday and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your daily guide. SUNDAY, APRIL 21 TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — What you say and what you do may not be entirely in sync today. This is pointed out to you by a friend — and just in time, too. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You may have to redouble your efforts today if you’re going to meet a certain deadline. You may have spent too much time planning.

doing, and not on what someone else is making you do. He or she cannot force you to act against your will. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — You may be presented with an option today that you have not considered before. This — and one other choice — opens up a world of possibilities. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Do you know which way to go today when you are faced with a decision no one else wants to make? It’s time to demonstrate awareness and confidence. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — The results you get today may surprise you, but not someone who’s been watching you for some time. He or she knows what you can really do. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Mistakes made today cannot be unmade, of course, as you cannot travel back in time. You can, however, minimize any lasting effects. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — You may find yourself in hot water today for a time until someone in charge realizes that your motives have been pure all along. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Others are looking to you as an example today, whether or not you like it. You needn’t do anything differently, however; play it cool. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — You are committed to a certain endeavor at this time, and you’re going to see it through despite any difficulties caused by bad timing. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — No matter what you may hear from a friend or loved one, you know you’re on the right track. A certain difficulty works in your favor. ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Only you can provide yourself with the creative outlet that will allow you to make the most of a certain unexpected situation. COPYRIGHT 2019 UNITED FEATURE SYNDICATE, INC.

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Netflix’s “Our Planet” features scenes of the rarest cat on Earth, the Amur leopard.

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destruction wrought by climate change By JAMES PONIEWOZIK New York Times

‘OUR PLANET’

One of the hallmarks of a past generation’s nature documentaries was the animal-inperil scene: the cub hunted by the jungle cat, the fledgling teetering at the edge of its nest. It was like the terror of a thrill-park ride, one that usually came with the implicit knowledge of safeguards and constraints. In the end, the adorable creature would survive. This was the compact. The animal that you liked would be OK. After all, this was TV. There is one of those scenes in the second episode of “Our Planet,” the remarkable docuseries on Netflix. But now the compact is gone. A teeming colony of walruses is crammed at the edge of 80-meter cliffs along the coast of Russia, where climate change has melted away the sea ice. Not evolved to navigate the precarious surfaces, one walrus falls, and another, and another, their massive bodies slamming onto the rocky beach. They do not, most of them, get up and shake it off. Their broken bodies litter the shore. This is the resounding message of “Our Planet”: It will not, necessarily, be OK. And humans — the unpictured

The eight-part series narrated by David Attenborough is available on Netlix.

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but omnipresent part of “our” in “Our Planet” — are the reason. “Our Planet” is the latest in a series of big-budget nature spectacles (“Planet Earth,” “The Blue Planet”) that use technology, enormous crews and patient observation to capture stunning, lapidary images from around the world. They’re the sort of color-saturated landscape art that makes your TV into a wonder box, the kind of video just begging to pulse from a wall of new model flat screens in a big-box appliance store. These series are often conservation-minded. Certainly, they’re meant to inspire an awe for Earth’s delicate systems. But intentionally or not, they may have had a kind of palliative, denial-enhancing effect, offering adults a version of the reassurance that older films offered children: The planet that you like will be OK. Yes, climate change is real, forests are being razed, the Earth is slowly braising — but there’s still so much beauty out there! We’re fine! pecans (or a mixture) For the buttercream: 4 cup unsalted butter (2 stick), at room temperature 3 tablespoons heavy cream 2 tablespoons custard powder, such as Bird’s 2 cups powdered (icing) sugar For the chocolate topping: 4 ounces semisweet chocolate, broken into 2-inch pieces 2 tablespoons unsalted butter Flaky sea salt, for sprinkling (optional) 1. Line an 8-by-8-inch (20-by-20-centimeter) metal baking pan with parchment, allowing parchment to overhang by about 2 inches (5 centimeters) on two sides.

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Walruses are precariously perched on a cliffside on the Russian coast, where many have fallen to their deaths after climate change melted away the sea ice.

The revolutionary thing about “Our Planet” is how it subverts this genre by following its structure and expectations. It’s organized on a familiar pattern. After an introductory episode, the following seven each explores a different type of ecosystem (forests, desert, the high seas), from the tiniest creature to the apex predators. “One Planet” appeals to the sense of wonder as viscerally as any of its predecessors, but to a purpose. Here is this beautiful, rare thing, each episode says. It didn’t used to be rare! But it is now. Here is how we’re responsible. And here is a tangible thing we might do to fix

it. The arc of each installment runs from beauty to loss to a concrete, hopeful example of a battered ecosystem that’s recovered. The series steers between didacticism and denialism with the narration of David Attenborough, the 92-year-old veteran of nature filmmaking. The familiar wonder and mirthfulness of his voice has a note of rueful loss. He carries his kindly-professor authority quietly. He’s not angry with us, just disappointed. The understatement is potent. Attenborough describes a mating scene in a lush Madagascar jungle with typical verve, then drops a bomb:

2. Prepare the base: In a double boiler, or a heatproof bowl placed over a saucepan of boiling water, whisk butter with granulated sugar, egg, cocoa powder and vanilla until melted. Continue whisking until mixture thickens slightly, 1 to 2 minutes. Remove from heat. 3. Stir in crumbs, coconut and nuts until the mixture is well-combined and resembles wet sand. 4. Transfer mixture to the parchment-lined pan and use your fingers to press it into an even layer. Transfer pan to the refrigerator to chill until firm, at least 15 minutes. 5. Meanwhile, prepare the buttercream: In a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, cream butter on

medium speed for about 1 minute. Add heavy cream and custard powder and mix until combined, scraping sides and bottom of the work bowl as needed. Add 1 cup powdered sugar and mix on low until incorporated. Add remaining powdered sugar and mix on low until combined, scraping the bottom of the bowl as needed, then mix on mediumhigh speed until smooth, light and fluffy, 2 to 3 minutes. 6. Remove pan from refrigerator. Dollop the buttercream on top of the base layer then gently spread it evenly on top using an offset spatula. Transfer pan to the refrigerator to chill until buttercream is set, about 30 minutes. 7. Prepare the topping: In a small, heavy saucepan or a double boiler, heat the chocolate and butter over low, stirring often, until melted and evenly combined, 2 to 3 minutes. Remove from heat. Take pan from refrigerator and pour chocolate on top of buttercream layer. Working quickly and carefully, spread the chocolate evenly over the buttercream using an offset

“Since these pictures were recorded, this forest, and the unique life it once contained, have disappeared altogether.” That celebration of life you thought you were just watching was, in fact, a funeral. His voice-over is paired with images of destruction that are as breathtaking in scale as any mass migration footage. Satellite images of verdant green shrink to desiccated brown over and over. The rainforests episode closes with an aerial image of the wild Amazon tree canopy butting up against a homogeneous sea of agricultural palms, as sterile and monotonous as a computer-generated pattern.

It’s something I can hardly recall seeing in any TV wildlife spectacle: images used not just for the gee-whiz factor but for dry commentary and damning visual irony. And it all builds to a series-ending sequence — I’m not used to saying “spoiler alert” for nature films, but I feel I should here — that I suspect will haunt me for a long time. The last episode, “Forests,” winds up, of all places, in the ruins of Chernobyl, still depopulated after the 1986 nuclear disaster. The accident was a catastrophe, of course, for humans. But not for everyone. The camera pulls back from an empty building, and there are trees growing from the roof. Everywhere in this desolated settlement, the forest, whose decline the episode had just detailed, is reclaiming its space. Hares and lizards scamper about the ruins. A fox creeps through an open entryway. A moose strides past a sign marked with the radiation symbol. Herds of endangered Przewalski’s horses roam wild. I laughed. This vista was horrible, of course, apocalyptic. And it was amazing. We were gone, and life was springing back without us. This was the happy ending. Whether a happy ending is still possible with us is the question “Our Planet” will leave you to sit with long after it ends.

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Joyce Hardcastle, whose recipe won a national Nanaimo bar competition, in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. The nanaimo bar — coconut and chopped walnuts bound together by a buttery silt of cocoa and crushed graham crackers, below yellow buttercream and a brittle chocolate — has become a national staple in Canada.

spatula. Sprinkle with flaky sea salt, if using. 8. Return pan to refrigerator and chill until chocolate hardens, about 25 minutes. 9. To serve the bars: Lift excess parchment to remove Nanaimo square from

the pan. Cut into 16 2-inch (5-centimeter) squares. Store bars in the refrigerator until ready to serve. Bring to room temperature before serving. Store remaining bars in the refrigerator for a few days, or wrap well and freeze.