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CATSKILL — Lawmakers on two county committees authorized a pair of resolutions Wednesday in opposition to state gun control laws.

The County Resources Committee approved a resolution opposing an Assembly bill prohibiting firearms to be used as prizes in games of chance. The Public Safety Committee approved a resolution opposing Senate and Assembly bills that would establish state police as a point of contact for conducting background checks for pistol

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Greene County Sheriff Greg Seeley says adding state police to the background check process for pistol permits will affect residents on Wednesday.

permits and raises the age for an adult supervising a child at a gun range from 18 to 21.

The bills have not been voted on by state lawmakers.

The local Federation of Sportsmen asked the county for assistance in fighting for the right to use firearms as prizes, County Resources Committee Chairman Michael Bulich, RCatskill, said.

“It’s a huge fundraiser for them to raise money for individuals or clubs,” he said. “They sell raffles for winning a gun.”

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ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo has eliminated cash bail for most misdemeanor and nonviolent felony charges as part of the New York state budget approved by the Legislature Sunday.

The policy change was part of a set of criminal justice reforms that include steps that would strengthen the speedy trial rule as well as changes to discovery rules dictating when evidence is provided at court.

Cash bail for most misdemeanors and low-level, non-violent charges have been eliminated. The policy change would do away with bail for 90% of defendants, Cuomo said.

“When did we ever say that the decision on whether or not to release a person should be based on wealth? And that’s what the cash bail system is. If you can afford to pay bail, you leave and you go home,” Cuomo said Thursday at a meeting of the Association for a Better New York.

He went on to say that those who can’t afford bail sit in jail awaiting a court date.

Ed Fertik, of Claverack, said the bail system is unfair to low-income people.

“I think the taxpayer spends too much money incarcerating non-violent offenders, and I think there is a class discrimination element to bail — the fact that if you have a little more money than the next person, then you can keep

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The New York state budget adopted Sunday includes criminal justice reform measures, including the elimination of cash bail for low-level and nonviolent offenders. J. Emilio Flores/The New York Times

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Columbia County Bail Fund co-founder Linda Mussmann has been spearheading the bail reform movement in Hudson. A bill has been passed in Albany eliminating cash bail for 90% of defendants.

Legislators put county tobacco law on hold SARAH TRAFTON/ COLUMBIA-GREENE MEDIA

Pictured from left: Lisa Heintz, community engagement coordinator of the Tobacco-Free Action Coalition of Columbia & Greene Counties; Madeline Ping, youth engagement coordinator of the Tobacco-Free Action Coalition; and Catskill Middle School students Lauren Liberti and Emma Brown presenting last month to the county legislature proposed legislation to protect youth from the dangers of vaping.

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CATSKILL — One day after state lawmakers passed a bill to raise the age to purchase tobacco products to 21, county officials reviewed legislation to toughen local tobacco laws.

Greene County legislators Matthew Luvera, R-Catskill, and William Lawrence, R-Cairo presented a draft law Wednesday that would prohibit the sale of tobacco products within 1,000 feet of schools.

The lawmakers looked to the village of Tannersville and Ulster and Sullivan counties as templates. Their proposal comes in response to a presentation made last month

by Catskill Middle School students Lauren Liberti and Emma Brown. The two started their campaign for Family, Career and Community Leaders of America’s Students Taking Action with Recognition program. They attended the state conference in Callicoon, in Sullivan County, from March 27-29 and will go on to the national conference in Anaheim, California, June 30-July 4.

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yourself out of jail. It is not fair, especially if you haven’t done anything violent,” Fertik said.

Hudson 4th Ward Supervisor Linda Mussmann co-founded the Columbia County Bail Fund, which aids people arrested on misdemeanor charges in making bail up to $2,000. She said the bail system prior to the reforms was unfair to people with limited financial resources and that the reform is a good move for the state.

“This is a big change. People are sitting in jail for low-level misdemeanors and waiting for court dates,” Mussmann said.

“You are sitting there for a misdemeanor because you don’t have the cash to bail yourself out. This is a very good thing because it’s really about who has money and who doesn’t. If you have money, you get out of jail. If you don’t, you sit in jail.”

With the reforms, Mussmann said the bail fund’s organizers will wait to see how the specifics will work out and what direction the bail fund might take next.

Joseph Pochily, of Athens, agreed bail is detrimental to defendants with limited means.

“Poor people go to Riker’s Island and they get lost there,” Pochily said, referring to New York City’s jail complex. “They are there forever.”

Columbia County District Attorney Paul Czajka said he had concerns the legislation does

renew every five years with the state, he said.

“People will not be any safer by doing it,” Seeley said. “It’s just another attack on the Second Amendment.”

Seeley would support the bill if it meant saving lives, he said.

“I’m all for saving lives in Greene County and the state of New York,” Seeley said.

Bulich thinks the bill represents an invasion of privacy.

“I don’t think the state should have that type of control over information,” he said.

Lawrence does not believe it is the state’s job to regulate child supervision.

“It is up to the parents, who are usually over 18 or 21 anyway,

although not always,” he said.

“Supervision should be left to parents, not to the state of New York.”

Accidents do not usually occur at the firing range, Lawrence said.

“Kids find guns at home and have not been trained,” he said.

“Accidents will not be prevented by changing the age of supervision.”

State Sen. George Amedore Jr. supports the county legislature’s efforts regarding the background check and firearm prize bill.

“I join the county Legislature in their opposition to these bills,” Amedore said.

not give judges the ability to make a determination based on whether the defendant could be considered dangerous.

“The one major disappointment is that the legislation does not include a provision that we in the District Attorneys Association have been seeking for many years — a provision to authorize judges to consider a defendant’s dangerousness in determining bail,” Czajka said.

“The law currently requires that judges only consider a person’s likelihood of fleeing the jurisdiction when considering these issues.”

Greene County District Attorney Joseph Stanzione also had concerns about how the system will work once the reforms go into effect.

“This whole bail reform raises some concerns. We do what is necessary to make sure people who belong in jail are put there, and those who don’t belong there are not,” Stanzione said.

“But this seems to shift the focus — the purpose of bail is to make sure defendants return to court and that is one factor, but there are also other factors. We used to look at things like the weight of the evidence, whether they are employed, how serious a sentence can be imposed, the safety of the community, but it looks like a lot of these concerns have now fallen by the wayside.”

The elimination of cash bail could have other effects on the court system as well, Stanzione said.

“We have people who will have a DWI [driving while in-

toxicated charge] on a Friday night, and Saturday they get another DWI, and then again on Tuesday, so you can have a person who continually drinks and drives,” Stanzione said. “We need to get this person off the streets, and at the same time, get them into treatment to find out what is causing this behavior. If they are sitting in jail they will be more apt to agree to treatment.”

“Bail reform is not a bad thing, but this legislation seems to be to be a bit extreme,” he said.

The bail system should allow for individual cases rather than a blanket elimination of cash bail, Hudson Police Chief L. Edward Moore said.

“There needs to be a case-bycase review, an assessment of each case,” Moore said. “They need a procedure in place that allows for a case-by-case review that fully takes into account victims and their safety. Each case is unique and should be treated as such.”

Cash bail or no cash bail, it would have no impact on how police conduct arrests, but could affect their use of resources, Chatham Police Chief Peter Volkmann said. “I am not sure if this will be good or bad, but I do know we will continue to enforce the laws. We don’t know if not having bail will mean fewer people will return for court dates and more warrants will be issued,” Volkmann said.

If that happens, it could mean more work for police departments as they have to apprehend people who do not show

up for court, Volkmann said.

Coxsackie Police Chief Sam Mento said the elimination of cash bail makes sense in some cases, but voiced similar concerns.

“I think one of the issues is that for traditionally non-violent crimes, no cash bail is fine, but there has to be a point where the prosecutor or the judge can take a look at the potential for violence or witness intimidation and have the option of incarceration,” Mento said. “Clearly there is a backlog in the jails and it impacts a certain socioeconomic demographic and that is unfair, but on the other side, it is something we will have to see how it works out. But I think there is some tweaking that needs to be done.”

The elimination of cash bail has drawn ire from some.

“A lot of these cases are strangers who break the law, not locals,” Assemblyman Chris Tague, R-102, said. “With this reform we open the door to letting them skip town and never sit before a court. I just can’t support letting people come into our communities, break our laws and then get on a bus and not face justice.”

State Sen. George Amedore, R-46, agreed.

“Ensuring public safety should always be a top priority of public officials, but unfortunately, the so-called criminal justice reform measures stuffed into the budget at the last minute put the rights of criminals above those of law-abiding citizens,” Amedore said.

tobacco usage was 35%, in 2014 it dropped to 19.7% and in 2018 it increased to 33% because of the popularity of vaping.

Legislator Patricia Handel, RDurham, had mixed feelings.

“I am all for the health and safety of our children,” Handel said. “But it is hard to have a business in Greene County. I don’t see this as a solution.”

The law is not intended as a solution, Lawrence said.

“This is a preventative measure,” he said.

Legislation has already made a huge difference in the county, Heintz said.

“In 2008 there was one municipality in Greene County with no smoking in parks,” she said. “Now 85 percent of municipalities have restrictions in public areas.”

In 2011, the county’s health ranking was 60th out of 62nd and 28% of the population smoked, Heintz said.

Last year’s statistics showed the county is now ranked 43rd and 18% of people smoke.

“Each measure to prevent people from starting to smoke or to help them quit improves our health outcomes,” Heintz said.

Twenty-eight thousand people die from tobacco-related health complications each year, she said.

Hobart said there was a difference between restrictions on public and private property.

“Municipal and state-owned property, you can regulate,” he said. “But it is overstepping

boundaries to tell you what you can and can’t do on your private property.”

Legislator Linda Overbaugh, R-Catskill, thinks the 1,000-foot distance is inappropriate.

“A thousand feet is onerous,” she said.

Two-hundred feet, the requirement for a liquor store, might be more fitting, lawmakers said.

“Other municipalities that started lower went back to 1,000 feet,” Heintz said.

The advertising that is being targeted to school children makes them more prone to smoking, said Madeline Ping, youth engagement coordinator of the Tobacco-Free Action Coalition of Columbia & Greene Counties.

For children who are regularly subjected to tobacco ads, 60% are more likely to have tried smoking and 30% are prone to future smoking, Ping said.

A tobacco company spends around a half million in advertising per day in New York, Ping said.

“If they’re prone to doing it, they’re going to get it,” Handel said, adding that older relatives could still supply students with tobacco products.

Legislator Harry Lennon, DCairo, voiced his support for the law.

“The students made a persuasive speech,” he said. “I think it’s a good idea.”

No vote was taken on the law and the board will review it again next month, Lawrence

said.

Legislators had concerns that the law may not be necessary if Gov. Andrew Cuomo approves the bill to raise the age to 21, which has now passed both houses.

“I may eliminate the tobacco part and just say vapor,” Lawrence said. “That is what they are sneaking into school.”

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Bulich, who is an avid sportsman, supported the resolution.

“I’m fan of the state not interfering with my Second Amendment rights,” Bulich said.

Greene County Sheriff Greg Seeley did not see how the law would be helpful.

“These people have to go through all the checks and be the proper age to obtain the gun,” he said. “I have no idea what the rationale behind it is. It seems to me all it does is attack the fundraiser and whatever organization it is for. To me, it is

disheartening.”

Public Safety Committee Chairman William Lawrence, R-Cairo, does not see why the other two bills are needed, he said.

“Our local jurisdiction [the sheriff’s office] has been doing a job,” he said. “I don’t see how adding state police would improve the process.”

The state may be using the opportunity to monetize on issuing the permits, Lawrence said.

Seeley suspects the state may completely take over the checks in the future and thinks there would be a duplication of services as a result.

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end and make sure things have consequences. What’s next? Are we going to outlaw big league bubble gum?”

A typical consequence in Catskill Middle School is a fiveday suspension, Liberti said.

The law is not designed to affect businesses, said Lisa Heintz, community engagement coordinate of Tobacco-Free Action of Columbia and Greene Counties.

“Four out of six school districts don’t have retailers within 1,000 feet,” she said. “If they don’t have them now, it’s not affecting anybody.”

Additionally, these types of laws commonly grandfather in existing businesses, Heintz said.

“I’m here to offer options,” Heintz said. “I’ve seen it work in other areas.”

Greene County Sheriff Greg Seeley thinks effort should be focused on education, not legislation.

“I 100 percent agree that parents have to be held accountable,” he said.

Legislator Michael Bulich, R-Catskill, shared similar sentiments.

“I think you’re winning the battle already,” he said. “You have young people standing up to this.”

Vaping is a serious problem in schools, Heintz said. In 2000,

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the Town Hall, 12094 Route 23, Ashland n Catskill Village Planning Board 7 p.m. at the Catskill Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill n Coxsackie Village Board 7 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie n Greene County Legislature county services; public works 6 p.m. Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill n Greenville CSD BOE Business 6:30 p.m. MS/HS Library, 4976 Route 81, Greenville

Tuesday, April 9 n Catskill Town Planning Board 7 p.m.

Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill n Coxsackie Village Historic Preservation Committee 6 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

Wednesday, April 10 n Catskill Town Zoning Board 6 p.m.

Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill n Catskill Village Board 7 p.m. at the Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill n Jewett Town Board 7 p.m. at the Jewett Municipal Building, 3547 County Route 23C, Jewett

Thursday, April 11 n Coxsackie Budget Work Session 6

p.m. at Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie n Greene County Legislature finance audit 4 p.m. Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill

Police: Makeshift shotgun leads to charges Staff report Columbia-Greene Media

HUDSON — Detectives confiscated a flare gun modified into a singlebarrel shotgun from a teen who assaulted and threatened his mother at their home Wednesday, police said.

The 18 year-old, whom police did not identified, was charged with fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, fourth-degree criminal mischief and menacing with a weapon, all class A misdemeanors, according to a Hudson Police Department statement.

At 9:53 a.m. Wednesday, Hudson police received a report that a woman had just been assaulted and threatened by her son at their home on Harry Howard Avenue. The son allegedly had a gun.

The 18-year-old was at the door when city police officers arrived four minutes later. He was taken into custody without incident, according to police.

The mother told detectives that her son broke through her bedroom door, grabbed her and threatened her with a knife. During the incident he flashed the modified flare gun at

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A flare gun that was modified into a single-barrel shotgun. The gun was confiscated during a search of a home on Harry Howard Ave on Wednesday morning.

her, police said.

The mother, who sustained minor

injuries to her wrist, declined medical treatment, police said.

After obtaining a search warrant, detectives discovered drug paraphernalia, ammunition, brass knuckles, a knife and the modified flare gun inside the home, police said. A single shotgun round was found inside the makeshift weapon that was put together with an adhesive foam and black electrical tape.

The Hudson City School District instituted a shelter-in-place order at its buildings on Harry Howard Avenue on Wednesday while police were responding to the incident. The shelter-in-place warning lasted 15 minutes.

“As a precaution, Hudson city schools went into a brief “shelterin-place” given the proximity of the incident to school grounds,” Police Chief L. Edward Moore said in a statement. “While the young man is a student in the district, no threats were ever made to any student, teacher or staff member.”

Police were assisted by Columbia County District Attorney’s Office.

County Court Judge Richard Koweek issued the search warrant.

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Monday, April 15 n Athens Town Board 6:45 p.m. at the

Town Hall, 2 First St., Athens n Greene County Legislature economic development and tourism; gov. ops.; finance; Rep. and Dem. caucus 6 p.m.

Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill n Greenville Town Board 7 p.m. at the Town Hall, 11159 Route 32, Pioneer Building, Greenville

Tuesday, April 16 n Athens Village Planning Board 6:30

p.m. at Village Hall, 2 First St., Athens n Catskill Central School District BOE business, annual budget and BOCES board members vote 7 p.m. in the CHS Library, 341 West Main St., Catskill n Coxsackie-Athens Central School District BOE regular meeting 6:30 p.m.

E.J. Arthur Elementary School, 51 Third St., Athens n Durham Town Board 7:30 p.m. at Town Hall, 7309 Route 81, East Durham n Greenville CSD BOE Business and BOCES Annual Election/Vote 5 p.m. District Office, 4982 Route 81, Greenville n Hunter Town Board 7 p.m. at the Town Hall, 5748 Route 23A, Tannersville

Editor’s Note: A charge is not a conviction. All persons listed are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Charges can be amended or dismissed.

STATE POLICE n Dawn M. Seretta, 49, of Greenfield, Massachusetts, was arrested at 6 p.m. March 29 in Catskill and charged with operating a motor vehicle with a blood-alcohol content greater than 0.08 and driving while intoxicated, both unclassified misdemeanors and driving while using a portable electronic device, an infraction. She was issued an

Thursday, April 18 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

and charged with operating a motor vehicle with a bloodalcohol content greater than 0.08 and driving while

intoxicated, both unclassified misdemeanors. He was issued an appearance ticket for a future court date.

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either the Catskill Library, 1 Franklin St., Catskill or Palenville Library, 3303 Route 23A, Palenville n Catskill Town Board committee 6:30 p.m. Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill n Greene County Legislature meeting No. 4 6:30 p.m. Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill

appearance ticket for a future court date. n Antonio Fuentes, 22, of Athens, was arrested at 4:16 March 29 in Athens and charged with forcible touching, a class A misdemeanor.

He was issued an appearance ticket for a future court date.

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A rare leadership change at C-GCC The situation at Columbia-Greene Community College is one that officials have faced only five times in campus history: Selecting a new president.

The decision requires a measured, thoughtful analysis. It has to take in the nuances of personality, background, experience and educational history.

In other words, it must be carefully examined from different angles. After all, given the few times the college has gone through the search process, the Board of Trustees could well be choosing a president for life.

College President James Campion will step down in July after 19 years, the longest-tenured chief executive in C-GCC history.

In today’s go-go world,

that’s a long time in one job at one place.

Who will succeed Campion? There are three choices: n Ronald G. Cantor is special adviser to the Maine Community College System. He previously served as president of Southern Maine Community College, associate vice president and dean at Mohawk Valley Community College in Utica and associate dean for liberal arts at Jefferson Community College in Watertown. n Carlee Rader Drummer is president of Quinebaug Valley Community College in Killingly, Connecticut.

She previously served as executive director of College Advancement and was executive director of the Educational Foundation at

Oakton Community College for 13 years. n Ann Marrott served at Ulster County Community College for 28 years as director, associate dean, vice president and most recently as senior vice president for Enrollment Management and Student Services.

Coming up with a suitable successor to Campion will take hard work and an unbending commitment to excellence. It will require each candidate to understand the strengths and weaknesses of rural communities such as ours. And it is up to the search committee to examine each candidate’s approach to the problems they are likely to meet.

We think the search committee is up to the task.

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China’s new promise on fentanyl The Washington Post

There were 70,237 drug overdose deaths in the United States in 2017, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a number greater than all American deaths during the entire Vietnam War. Some 28,466 of those involved fentanyl, the highly addictive opioid that is many times more potent than heroin and, accordingly, considerably more deadly. The demand for this drug surges from the depths of despair afflicting too many individuals and communities across the United States. The supply, however, comes from abroad - mainly from the People’s Republic of China. A record seizure of 254 pounds of the stuffin January at the U.S.-Mexico border, enough to kill 115 million people, illustrated the issue.

That may now be about to change: The Beijing government, fulfilling a promise that President Xi Jinping made to President Donald Trump in December, has announced it will ban a broad category of fentanyl-like drugs - estimated at more than 1,400 variants - as opposed to

the 25 substances China had previously deigned to prohibit in piecemeal fashion. China appears to have acted as part of the broader negotiation with the Trump administration over trade issues; but Beijing also faced pressure from Congress, where Sens.

Patrick Toomey, R-Pa., and Doug Jones, D-Ala., are cosponsoring a bill that would condition foreign countries’ access to U.S. aid and Export-Import Bank loans on cooperation with U.S. anti-fentanyl efforts.

Many have noted the historical irony in opioid imports from China fueling an addiction crisis in the West: It’s a role reversal from the Victorian Age, when China faced an opium scourge fueled by British drug traders.

While of academic interest, this history was of no contemporary policy relevance and certainly no kind of reason for the current rulers in Beijing to have turned a blind eye to the problem for as long as they did. Let it be remembered that the Xi government pledged to help during the waning days of the Obama administration, which announced on Sept. 3, 2016, that there would be “enhanced mea-

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sures in conjunction with the Chinese government to combat the supply of fentanyl and its analogues to the United States.” Nothing happened.

Of course, supply interdiction cannot succeed without robust antiaddiction public-health measures in the United States (which the Trump administration has failed to fund sufficiently). There are inherent challenges to controlling supply: China’s 160,000 chemical firms are hard to regulate, and fentanyl is highly concentrated, so a lot of the drug can be shipped in relatively small containers. Also, it’s difficult legally to ban a substance that can be altered to produce a slightly different compound without changing its narcotic properties. However, China is very good at policing what its Communist leaders really want to police: free speech and disfavored religions, for example.

Compared to its immediate predecessor, the Trump administration has essentially extracted a better-quality promise from China. Now the task is to hold Beijing to it.

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Merriam-Webster defines patriotism as: love for or devotion to one’s country.

Sounds nice, as far as it goes. But it isn’t quite like being loving and devoted to family and friends, or even the smaller structure of your own town or city, county or state.

You can’t be patriotic to them because they lack an armed force. That’s the difference.

Cities, towns, and states don’t demand loyalty like a country does. The loyalty demand arises in conjunction with an armed force. True patriots agree in principle with the supreme authority of the state to decide who lives and who dies. That’s on both sides of the battle, good to recognize.

Though it’s possible for dictionary patriotism to exist in the absence of armed force, in practice patriotic urges are strongest when military force is in the bargain. So closely is the military linked to patriotism that the institution registers the most positive public trust, this at a time when, save for small business and police, all other institutions register negative trust at or near historical lows.

Not that there’s anything wrong with defending your country from attack. Self defense, even beyond its moral component, is legally justified under international law, so there’s no question here.

Yet, in the hands of the wrong person, or group of persons, the authority to use force can result in the most grievous crimes. Some of these crimes were enunciated by the victorious Allies (us) over the defeated Axis (Nazis) at the Nuremberg Trials. Among them was Crimes against Peace, War Crimes, and Crimes against Humanity. These standard-setting crimes were articulated in the full knowledge that they would apply impartially to all future violators, importantly including us, so stated chief U.S. prosecutor Robert H. Jackson. Whether or not he meant it, it sounds good on paper.

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ROTHENBERG A pertinent question: Were the ordinary German citizens of the Third Reich patriotic?

By ordinary is meant those not targeted by the state for persecution and gradual elimination, like Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, and communists. Fairness would compel us to admit that many non-targeted Germans were and remained patriots. Indeed, patriotism is the default position of the citizen.

Then you had a murky layer between patriot and dissident, the “Good German”.

The term refers to that category of people who claimed not to have supported Nazi crimes, or claimed ignorance of them, but did not actively resist. We can see from the German example the implicit danger when the citizen relinquishes individual responsibility in obeisance to the state.

The precedents established at Nuremberg are operative even when a nation’s crimes fall safely below the magnitude of industrial Nazi extermination. Our foreign policy elites are crucially aware of this threshold as a comparative, a certain and recurring feature of our war propaganda. We do war in the most humane way. Like surgeons.

The so-called Iraq War was an act of aggression, the supreme international crime against peace. We (meaning all of us, including our “Good Germans”) got away with it for the same reason that Mafia dons get away with their crimes. They’re covered on all sides. Only this was easier because our patriotic citizens didn’t have to be bribed or forced into submission.

All it took was the right kind of propaganda and the apparatus to spread it to induce a patriotic response. In the end, a majority of Americans agreed it was better to fight them over there, so we don’t have to fight them here. No mushroom clouds over us.

Should Obama have called Bush Jr. and the bunch out?

What would papa Bush have thought? He had infamously declared, “I will never apologize for the United States of America. Ever. I don’t care what the facts are.” Such strength!

In truth, no president will go after a predecessor. It might erode public trust in the office. Avoidance of this risk is part of the presidential code. You can’t have people distrusting authority.

If this is true, a contradiction can be noted. Since public trust of government is at or near historical lows, acknowledgment of and punishment for crimes might have an opposite and salutary effect.

Our government will never admit to crimes, even in the past. They’re “mistakes”and it won’t happen again. It takes a died in the wool patriot to swallow this whole because we are a little mistake prone.

For example, the mistake we are currently making in Venezuela is an actual crime.

Interfering with the government of a sovereign nation, instigating an overthrow of an elected president, economic aggression against a state, threatening the use of armed force…these are all international crimes.

The reason American patriots fail to recognize them as crimes is because they’re never directed against us. Our good luck. Racism, sexism, and religionism are on their way to the dustheap. Patriotism, the kind that places people in the stupor of blind submission to authority, would be a welcome addition.

James Rothenberg, of North Chatham, writes on U.S. social and foreign policy.

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Barbarity in Alabama prisons The Washington Post

“Horrifying” is too tame a word for the conditions documented in Alabama’s prisons by a chilling report the Justice Department released Wednesday. If conditions do not change, and soon, federal officials must force reform.

“Inadequately supervised . . . rife with violence, extortion, drugs, and weapons . . . overcrowding and understaffing,” Justice Department investigators listed.

“Prisoner-on-prisoner homicide and sexual abuse is common. Prisoners who are seriously injured or stabbed must find their way to security staff elsewhere in the facility or bang on the door of the dormitory to gain the attention of correctional officers. Prisoners have been tied up for days by other prisoners while unnoticed by security staff.”

Among the many gruesome cases they unearthed, the investigators recounted how prisoners in an undersupervised disciplinary zone watched for guards as others stabbed another inmate

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Homicide rates in Alabama prisons are far higher than the national average.

Sexual assault seems pervasive, even as it is almost certainly underreported.

Alabama correctional staffers write off claims of rape as consensual “homosexual activity.” Prison rape is torture; it should not be a condition of incarceration, and it cannot be accepted.

The list of failings continues: “Prisoners are being extorted by other prisoners without appropriate intervention of management.

Contraband is rampant. The totality of these conditions pose a substantial risk of serious harm both to prisoners and correctional officers.”

None of this should be news to Alabama officials, because the state’s prison system has been miserable for decades. “Alabama is deliberately indifferent to that harm or serious risk

of harm and it has failed to correct known systemic deficiencies that contribute to the violence,” investigators concluded. The state has engaged in a “pattern or practice” of violations of prisoners’ Eighth Amendment right to be free of cruel or unusual punishment, the report alleges.

The actions the Justice Department wants Alabama to take run from obvious to more obvious: hire more guards; set up monitoring systems to keep an eye on prisoners; do a better job documenting cases of abuse; make sure everyone entering a prison facility is screened; stop punishing inmates who come forward with abuse allegations; fix the showers; fix the toilets. If Alabama does not improve enough within 49 days, the letter warns that the attorney general may file suit in federal court.

It is good the Justice Department is paying attention. Now it must follow through. Such barbarity is not tolerable.

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Blanche Konsul (Boehlke) Blanche Konsul (Boehlke) passed away peacefully on her beloved family farm on April 4 ,2019.

Blanche is survived by her daughter Blanche Furforo, sons Anthony (Judy) and Martin (Sue), and daughter Theresa (Ken) Hales; 11 grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren.

Besides her parents, Edna and Martin Charles Boehlke, Blanche is predeceased by her loving husband Anthony who passed away on January 12, 2012.

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Dr. Glenn Arthur Folmsbee Dr. Glenn Arthur Folmsbee and loved to discuss contemof Norman, Oklahoma passed porary issues with all.

Glenn was preceded in death away on Tuesday, April 2, 2019.

Dr. Folmsbee was born on by Carolyn, his wife and partJanuary 10, 1928 in Philmont, ner of 58 years, and is survived New York to Elizabeth (Creigh- by his children, Mark (Diana), ton) and Arthur Peter Folmsbee. of Simi Valley, Ca., Paul (AnHe grew up in Philmont, and gie) of Sarasota, Fl., Martha of Long Island, N.Y., Raj graduated from Union (Lakawthra) of Moore, College, Columbia Ok., and Sue (Brooks) University, and New Kirlin of Norman; 18 York Medical College. grandchildren and four Glenn married Carolyn great grandchildren.

Stamey, R.N., on DeGlenn is also preceded cember 19, 1955. After in death by his parents; a tour in the Navy as a infant sons Michael, medical doctor, FolDavid, and John; and msbee set up a private Folmsbee great-granddaughter medical practice in Samantha.

Philmont. Beginning in A Memorial Service will be 1967, he and Carolyn served for 25 years as medical missionar- held at 2:00 p.m. Friday, 4-5ies, irst in India, and then for 20 19, at St. John’s Episcopal years in Chiapas, Mexico. He Church, Norman. In lieu of lowers, donations may be given to retired to Norman, Ok. in 1990.

Glenn was at heart a scien- the memorial fund at St. John’s tist. He liked to tinker in the ga- Episcopal Church. The family rage - ixing things, creating folk wishes to thank the loving and art & do-dads and doing experi- compassionate staff of Sooner ments. He was a deep thinker Home Health.

Victoria F. Kinzie Victoria F. Kinzie 90, of Green- cleville, OH; port, NY died peacefully on grandchildren: Jeffrey and Thursday April 4, 2019 at her (Erin) Kinzie, Andrew Kinzie, home in Greenport. Born De- Lara and Elena Martinez; greatcember 23, 1928 in Buffalo, NY grandchildren: Aiden, Joseph, she was the daughter of the late and Emilynn Kinzie. She was preAndrew and Genevieve (Pigut) deceased by her loving husband Fronckowiak. She was a former of 54 years Robert J. Kinzie as Deputy Greenport Town well as her brother DanClerk and legal secretary iel Fronckowiak and her for Rapport and Rapport sister Alice Fronkowiak. law irm of Hudson. She Calling hours will be was a devoted member Sunday April 7, 2019 and Eucharistic Minister from 4:00-6:00PM at at the Church of St. Jothe Sacco-McDonaldseph Stottville, the St. Valenti Funeral Home Joseph Rosary Society, 700 Town Hall Drive member of the GreenHudson, NY. A Mass of Kinzie port Historical SociChristian Burial will be ety, Greenport Senior Celebrated 11:00AM on Citizens and the Mental Support Monday April 8th at the Church Group. Victoria will be missed of St. Joseph Stottville with Fr. by her loving family including George Flemming officiating. her son Robert A. and (Patricia) Burial will be in Mellenville Union Kinzie of High Point, NC; daugh- Cemetery. Memorial contributers: Susan and (Javier) Martinez tions to St. Jude Children Reof West Chester, OH; Patricia search Hospital. To leave online Pierro of Hudson; 1 sister: Marie condolences visit: www.sacand (Ronald) Kazmierczak of Cir- comcdonaldvalenti.com

Man arrested for throwing water balloons at Trump rally crowd Deanna Paul The Washington Post

Thousands of people flocked to Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan, to hear President Donald Trump speak March 28. Robert Dale Truax Jr., a 20-year-old from Grand Rapids, and two friends were en route to the rally, too.

With Truax riding shotgun, he filmed the drive.

“Instead of just being a bystander and just taking everything he throws verbally at us,” Truax said into the camera, he decided to do something about it.

“We’re about to make a splash,” Truax’s friend said on the video, then Truax cursed out the president, repeating the song’s expletive-laden refrain.

“You can’t be coming on my

block supporting some Donald Trump - - - - - - . You ‘bout to go get hit.”

Soon after arriving at the arena, Truax launched two water balloons into the crowd. Then he was promptly arrested.

On Thursday, Truax, who could not be reached for a comment, pleaded guilty to creating a disturbance in a public place, according to WTVG. “I was throwing water balloons at Trump supporters,” he told the district court judge. The misdemeanor carries a sentence of up to 90 days in jail and a $500 fine.

“It’s some water balloons, bro,” he said on film.

Local police were not amused.

When interviewed by WTVG, Truax said: Sorry, he’s not sorry.

Joe Biden jokes about hugging in a speech, then offers a mixed apology Lisa Lerer The New York Times News Service

WASHINGTON — Joe Biden on Friday twice jokingly referred to complaints from several women that he had made them uncomfortable with his physical contact, and then gave a convoluted apology about their concerns and his behavior.

“I’m sorry I didn’t understand more,” he told reporters about his hugs and kisses to women over the years. “I’m not sorry for any of my intentions. I’m not sorry for anything that I have ever done. I’ve never been disrespectful intentionally to a man or a woman.”

Speaking at an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers conference in Washington, the former vice president used his first public remarks since the complaints emerged to try to push past the controversy that overtook his expected presidential campaign in the past week.

In his address, he largely stuck to his long-running political themes, highlighting the importance of uniting a divided nation and restoring the “great American middle class” — save for two notable asides.

As he took the stage, he hugged Lonnie R. Stephenson, the union’s president. “I just want you to know I had permission to hug Lonnie,” he said, and the largely male crowd burst into laughter.

The joke came as Biden was fending off criticism from some Democrats who worry the 76-year-old is out of step with the party’s mores around gender and race.

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In recent days, he has struggled to address accusations from women that his hugs, kisses and other expressions of his physically intimate style of politicking were unwelcome.

Even as Biden sought to move past the complaints, they were plainly on his mind.

Several minutes into his remarks, Biden spotted children in the audience.

After welcoming them to the stage, Biden wrapped his arm around a young boy. “By the way, he gave me permission to touch him,” he said, to laughter.

“Everyone knows I like kids more than people,” he added.

He used the bulk of his speech to critique economic inequality and partisanship, offering an argument for American renewal that could form the basis of his possible presidential campaign. He also leveled a full-throated indictment of President Donald Trump.

“This country was not built by Wall Street bankers and hedge fund managers,” he said. “It was built by the great American middle class.”

Man who falsely said he was a long-missing boy charged with lying to a federal agent Deanna Paul, Eli Rosenberg and Kyle Swenson The Washington Post

The 23-year-old man who falsely claimed to be longmissing Illinois teen Timmothy Pitzen has been charged with lying to a federal agent, officials said Friday.

Brian Michael Rini, who had recently been released from prison in Ohio, gave multiple false details to authorities about his identity and alleged abduction, including that he had been physically and sexually abused, according to an affidavit filed Friday in federal court in Ohio. Rini had been found on a street corner in Newport, Kentuckty, this week and told authorities he was Timmothy Pitzen, a child missing since 2011.

A DNA test proved otherwise, a stunning turn of events.

Rini had made a claim in a high-profile case that had attracted media attention from across the county. Even some

members of Timmothy’s family told reporters they were cautiously optimistic about the news before Rini was formally identified.

It was not the first time Rini tried to perpetrate a fraud about his identity, said Ben Glassman, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Ohio. On two prior occasions, he said, Rini claimed to be the victim of child sex trafficking.

In both cases, the truth was revealed only through fingerprint testing.

National attention has been fixed on the Pitzen case since Wednesday, when police in Newport revealed that a young man found the streets claimed he was the Aurora, Illinois, boy who had vanished after his mother’s apparent suicide in 2011. Timmothy Pitzen would be 14 now.

Based on information given

by Rini, the FBI and local law enforcement initiated a missing child and interstate sex trafficking investigation. “Given

the physical complaints and obvious trauma one would expect if one was, in fact, a child who had been missing and abducted for many years, he was taken to Cincinnati children’s hospital,” Glassman said Friday.

Rini had recently been released from prison in Ohio after a more-than-year-long sentence stemming from convictions for burglary and vandalism, according to state prison records. On Friday, he was held without bond for lying to federal agents, a felony that carries a sentence of up to eight years. He will next appear in court Tuesday.

The Pitzen missing-persons case will remain open.

In May 2011, 6-year-old Timmothy was last seen leaving his elementary school in Aurora with his mother, Amy Fry-Pitzen.

Three days later, she was found dead in a motel room from an apparent suicide.

The boy and his Spider-Man

backpack were gone. The 43-year-old mother left behind several cryptic notes about her son’s whereabouts and unanswered questions that have haunted family members and authorities with each passing year.

“My heart goes out to the family of Timmothy Pitzen,” said Glassman, the U.S. attorney. “I can only imagine the kind of pain that they have been through and that this episode has brought.”

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Trump heads to the border after backing off his threat to close it Michael D. Shear The New York Times News Service

CALEXICO, Calif. — President Donald Trump on Friday will stand in front of a 30-foottall section of border wall — the physical embodiment of his immigration agenda — just a day after retreating from his threat to shut down the entire border with Mexico.

The president’s arrival in this small border town two hours east of San Diego is intended to highlight what the president and his aides say is an out-of-control crisis caused by a surge of Central American families who have overwhelmed law enforcement facilities.

The answer, he argues, is construction of a border wall and legal changes to allow the authorities to treat illegal border-crossers and asylumseekers more strictly.

Weeks after declaring a national emergency at the border because Congress refused to fund construction of his border wall, Trump had threatened to close the legal ports of entry between Mexico and the United States — potentially disrupting billions of dollars’ worth of trade and halting the travel of a half-million people

each day.

But on the eve of his trip to the border, Trump backed down in the face of hard criticism from the business community and top officials in his own party. Sen. Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, predicted that a complete border shutdown would have a “potentially catastrophic economic impact” on the country.

Trump responded on Thursday by initially saying he would give Mexico a year to stop Central American migrants from traversing Mexico on their way to the United States. And the president said that if Mexico did not do its part, he would first impose tariffs on Mexican cars before shutting down the border.

“The only thing frankly better, but less drastic than closing the border, is to tariff the cars coming in,” Trump said in the White House. “We’re going to give them a one-year warning, and if the drugs don’t stop or largely stop, we’ll put tariffs on Mexico and products, in particular cars.”

Later Thursday, Trump denied that he had put off a border shutdown for a year, saying that it could still happen if he decided that Mexico

was not doing enough to keep migrants from traveling to the United States.

“We’ll start with the tariffs and see what happens,” he said.

In Calexico, Trump will stand in front of a section of wall made out of tall steel slats that allow border agents to see through to the other side — a far cry from the concrete slab that the president once called for. He will be presented with a plaque that commemorates “the completion of the first section of President Trump’s border wall.”

Critics argue that the wall is not a solution to the surge of families that have arrived in recent months. Most of the families are not trying to sneak into the country undetected.

On the contrary, most are seeking out border patrol agents to turn themselves in, either at the ports of entry or between them.

In addition to seeing the wall, Trump is expected to receive a briefing from border patrol officials at the agency’s Calexico station. He will also participate in a round-table discussion about the border with local politicians and others.

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BRIEFS APRIL 7 GREENVILLE — Cub Scout Pack 42 in Greenville will serve a pancake breakfast 8 a.m.-noon April 7 at the American Legion Post 291, 52 Maple Ave., Greenville. Funds raised will benefit boys going to Cub Scout summer camp. Adults, $6; children 3 and younger, free.

LIVINGSTON — The Kalicoontie Rod & Gun Club Annual Spring Ham/Turkey shoots will be held April 7 and May 5 at the Club, 333 Schneider Road, Livingston. Both shoots begin at 10 a.m. Immediately following the May 5 shoot they will draw the winners of the spring raffle. Tickets are $2 each with a chance to win one of five prizes. No hogs or turkeys will be harmed at this event, they’re a frozen prize. Competitions held using .12g and .20g birdshot, slugs, center fire rifle, .22cal rim fire pistol, and .22cal rim fire rifle. Entry is $3. Frozen hams, turkeys and pork loins awarded as first prize. Second prize is kielbasa. There are also prize tables filled with sports related gear to choose from if winners prefer. We supply .12g, .20g, and .22cal ammo. You must bring your own slugs and center fire ammo. For information or to purchase raffle tickets, call Scott at 845-758-4300 (day) or Joe at 518-537-3997. For information

on upcoming events and firearm safety training, go on the Clubs Web Page at www.Kalicoontie.com.

APRIL 8 GREENVILLE — The Greenville Local History Group’s season starts at 7:30 p.m. April 8 with a historical look at both the Far Hills Nursing Home and the Greenville Medical Center.

Using her research from the last couple years, Shelly Dobski will share her findings on two Greenville institutions — one quaintly forgotten and the other one still typifying small town life. The public is invited to learn as well as to share memories at the Greenville Library, 11177 Route 32, Greenville. Light refreshments will be served.

APRIL 9 LATHAM — The local group of The Society of American Magicians, Assembly #24, meets at 7:30 p.m. April 9 at the S. W. Pitts Hose Co. of Latham, 226 Old Loudon Road, Latham.

All persons, 16 and older, with any interest in the art of magic are welcome. For information about the organization, or for a link to a local magician, visit WWW.SAM24.SYNTHASITE. COM.

in the Community Room of the Greenville Library, 11177 Route 32, Greenville. Maxine Getty will share the story of Rebecca and James Cameron, who was Commander of the 79th NYSMV which was known as the Highlanders. Getty is retired from the U.S. Air Force. The meeting is open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. For information, call 518-966-4832.

COXSACKIE — The Heermance Memorial Library, 1 Ely St., Coxsackie, will host Guarding the Garden from Deer and Other Wildlife, 6 p.m. April 10, presented by Jean Thomas, Cornell Cooperative Extension Master Gardener Volunteer of Columbia and Greene Counties. This presentation discusses how wildlife plays an

essential role in a balanced ecosystem. However, management of wildlife damage may be necessary when too many of a particular species create economic impacts or health/safety concerns. This session will provide suggestions to help you grow vegetables, flowers and other plants where deer, groundhogs, and rabbits eat just about everything. Fencing, repellents, and wildlife resistant plants will be discussed. This presentation is part of “The Basics” programs.

The Basics: An informal forum for beginners and well planted folks interested in all topics relating to gardening and homesteading. Admission is free, registration is required and can be made by calling 518-7318084. Parking available in rear of building.

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GREENVILLE — The Greenville Library Civil War Round Table meets at 7:30 p.m. April 10

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APRIL 12 HANNACROIX — The Medway-Grapeville Fire Company Auxiliary first Nickel Social of the season will be held April 12 at the Medway-Grapeville Firehouse, 1352 County Route 51, Hannacroix. A wide assortment of both indoor and outdoor useful items will be available including a separate bake sale and special items raffle. The Firehouse will open at 6 p.m. for viewing of merchandise and early ticket sales with drawings beginning at 7 p.m. Refreshments will be available. All are welcome to attend. Early donations for the Nickel Social can be dropped off at the Firehouse.

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New tomato varieties

By Bob Beyfuss For Columbia-Greene Media

Perhaps the most popular vegetables grown in home gardens in our area are tomatoes. Right now is the time to be starting seeds for this year’s tomato crop or risk having to settle for whatever transplant varieties the big box stores decide to stock. A few local garden centers will start seeds of specific varieties for you if you are a good customer and nag them enough, but most will just go with the same varieties as the big stores do. Don’t worry if you cannot get your seeds started before April 15 or even a week later because those later plants will thrive once transplanted into soil that has warmed to 70 degrees or higher. Many local gardeners start seeds much too early, resulting in overgrown transplants that just sit and suffer in cold soil. A four inch tall transplant with just three sets of true leaves will usually out yield a 12 inch tall plant with flowers already formed in the long term.

If you had problems with “blossom end rot” last season, it is most likely because you set out overgrown transplants into cold soil. Blossom end rot causes the tomato fruit to develop a black spot on the bottom that enlarges and eventually rots the whole tomato.

This is heartbreaking when it affects the very first few tomatoes you are getting ready to eat! Despite what you might find out on the internet about BER being caused by a calcium deficiency in the plant, the reason it happens even when there is plenty of calcium in the soil is because the soil is

too cold to allow adequate root development. Plants that do not have adequate root systems will show all sorts of nutrient deficiencies early in the season not due to lack of availability, but insufficient ability to absorb.

The following new varieties are being introduced by Dr. Phillip Griffiths at Cornell. See this link for more information on the breeding program that has led to these introductions. https://cals.cornell.edu/ news/skys-limit-cornellsnew-galaxy-suite-grape-tomato-varieties/ These tomato seeds are only available from High Mowing Seeds. I would like to hear from you if you try any of these this season. I will probably stick to my old standbys, Big Beef and Sungold, but if any of you have some extra transplants of interesting new varieties, I would like to give them a try as well. I am not a huge fan of grape tomatoes in general, as I think they usually have very thick skin and are not as sweet, but they are popular and have a long shelf life. Even the ones commonly offered for sale at supermarkets are not that bad tasting.

Midnight Pear — Open pollinated. Open pollinated means you can save the seed since they are not hybrids.

Most tomatoes are self-pollinated as well, which makes them really good candidates for seed saving. The offspring will pretty much be exactly like the parental fruit.

Black pear type fruit. Indeterminate vigorous plants bear dark purple fruit weighing about a quarter of an ounce.

“Indeterminate” means they

will produce flower clusters all season long, right up until killed by frost. Resistance to cracking. About 60 days to maturity. Hmm…. a purple fruited grape tomato sounds interesting!

Starlight — Open pollinated. Yellow grape type fruit (yellow finger). Indeterminate vigorous plants bear slightly later to mature but an abundant amount of slender yellow dark fruit weighing about a quarter of an ounce. Resistance to cracking. About 70 days to maturity.

Sungrazer — F1 hybrid.

Grape type fruit. Indeterminate vigorous plants bear an abundant number of firm, orange fruit weighing about a quarter of an ounce. Resistance to cracking. About 65 days to maturity.

Comet — F1 hybrid. Grape type fruit. Indeterminate vigorous plants bear an abundant number of firm, uniform, red fruit weighing about a quarter of an ounce. Resistance to cracking. About 65 days to maturity.

Supernova — Open pollinated. Grape type fruit. Indeterminate vigorous plants bear mini roma shaped red fruit with yellow marbling inside and out, weighing about a quarter to half f an ounce.

About 65 days to maturity.

Days to maturity is from when the plants are set into the garden and will vary a good deal from location to location in our region. A 65 day to maturity variety in Kingston, may take 80 days at my home in Conesville.

Reach Bob Beyfuss at rlb14@cornell.edu.

Time to take action against the long-legged yard rats

By Dick Brooks For Columbia-Greene Media

Deer. They’re out there, they’re dangerous and their goal is to annihilate us. They hide in the bushes, ready to spring out, suicidal, willing to sacrifice life and limb. Armed with biological weapons powerful enough to make a strong man cringe, they roam our neighborhoods with absolute impunity and the government is doing nothing to protect us from this menace.

I know I sound paranoid but I’m not. I am becoming more and more of a deeraphobic, this I will admit to.

I don’t know when the cute little woodland creatures of my youth turned upon mankind, but they did.

Walt Disney probably had something to do with it. I mean you can be cute for only so long before you want to lose the saccharine image and start doing some serious damage. Having been cute for most of my life, I can understand how this condition can wear on any creature and there are those days when I want to stick on an eye patch, grab a cutlass and start slitting throats, but I have so far managed to resist the urge, mostly because The Queen says it wouldn’t be polite and what would people think?

Unfortunately Bambi has no such restraining factor in his life due to the unfortunate passing at an early age of his mother. He and his band of brigands ride

rough shod through our peaceful neighborhood, leaving nothing that flowers in their wake. After filling their stomachs with my perennials and gnawing all the needles off my evergreens, they amuse themselves scattering volumes of deer ticks where they think I’m most likely to come in contact with them, this done, they wait for cars.

I’m tired of losing sleep.

The screeching of tires, followed by the hollow tinny thump of meat against metal occurs all too frequently.

Last night I spent two hours in my yard waiting for the debris of the evening carnage to be towed away. I do not understand the herd’s love of this automotive contact sport but the rules seem to involve taking turns trying to get run over since if one of the bunch makes the crossing without becoming road kill, there’s almost always another one in line to take its turn at the dance of death.

I think it’s time for the government to take action against these long legged yard rats. It must be costing us taxpayers a fortune just to tote the daily body count away. The President could declare a federal venison festival or something.

The Department of Health could surely do something.

Let just one little case of Hoof and Mouth show up and they swoop in with a HazMat team and wipe out everything bovine for miles

around. A chicken, duck or turkey with a head cold can evoke the cry of “Bird Flu!” and get several generations of his immediate family eliminated. I’ve had Lyme Disease 14 times, where are the guys in the white suits and respirators that should be hosing my yard down with disinfectant? No National Guard helicopters, no air strikes on suspicious wooded areas, no Humvees making our roads safe for families to travel, it’s just not right.

The blame should lie with EnCon or the Department of Conservation, you know, the guys who sell the hunting licenses. If they’re making money off the deer herds, I think they should be responsible for their behavior. If I had a big bunch of animals, I couldn’t just let them run around pestering folks and destroying property, I’d get in a whole lot of trouble. So as taxpaying citizens, I think it’s our duty to write or email EnCon and tell them to keep their deer out of our gardens and off the highways. I’m going to write my letter right after I finish burning my Bambi video.

Thought for the week — If everything is under control, you are going too slow. — Mario Andretti Until next week, may you and yours be happy and well.

Reach Dick Brooks at Whittle12124@yahoo.com.

Church Briefs Serving You for Over 40 Years FOOD AND FELLOWSHIP LUNCHEON NEW BALTIMORE — The Food and Fellowship Luncheon Program at the New Baltimore Reformed Church, 52 Church St., New Baltimore, will be holding the monthly luncheon noon-2 p.m. April

10.

The luncheons are held every second Wednesday of the month through May. The menu (subject to change) is chicken cordon blue, rice pilaf, haricot green beans and assorted pastries.

Following the meal there will a showing of the movie

“April in Paris.” This luncheon is open to all members of the community.

To facilitate planning, reservations are encouraged by the Sunday before the luncheon.

To make reservations, call the church at 518-756-8764 or email them at nbrchurch@ aol.com. Include your name,

contact number and the number of reservations you are making for this meal. If you need transportation or physical assistance, leave that information as well.

Dining space is limited to 60 seats. Free will offerings are graciously accepted to offset food costs.

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House of Worship News & Services Trinity United Methodist 1311 Rte. 143, Coeymans Hollow | NY 12046 • 756-2812

Pastor Paul Meador • Sunday Worship 11:00am (all are welcome) • Church School: “Faith Builders Kids Christian Education” Wednesday at 7pm • Wednesday, Bible Study & Prayer - 7-8:30pm (all are welcome) • Food Pantry, Last Saturday of the month, 10-11am and last Monday of the month, 5-6pm, or by appointment • Thrift Shop Open April 12 - Mid Oct., Thursdays 10 - 4 Saturdays 10 - 2 and when Food Pantry is open. (Handicap Accessible) • Youth Group - Grades 6 - 12 2nd and 4th Thursdays @ 6:30pm

Riverview Missionary Baptist Church “The Church at Riverview” 11 Riverview Drive Coeymans, NY 12045 • (518) 756-2018 www.riverviewchurchcoeymans.com Rev. Antonio Booth & Rev. Dr. Roxanne Jones Booth “Being God’s family: loving, caring, supporting and encouraging one another”

• Sunday Bible School 9:30 AM • Sunday Morning Worship 11:00 AM • 2nd Tuesday of the Month – Prayer Meeting 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM • Wednesday Bible Study 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM

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Church of Saint Patrick 21 Main Street, Ravena, NY 12143 • (518) 756-3145

Pastor: Fr. Scott VanDerveer Weekly Mass: 9:00 a.m. Wed & Thurs Saturday Vigil 4:30 p.m. Sunday 9:30 a.m.

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If you don’t have a Church home, we invite you to join us.

• Sunday Morning Praise Time @ 10:00AM • Sunday School @ 10:15AM • Sunday Morning Worship @ 10:30AM • Fellowship & Refreshments following Sunday Worship Service • Weekly Bible Study @ 7:00PM Monday Evenings • Communion Sunday is the first Sunday of every Month

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” Matthew 11:28

Asbury United Methodist Church 5830 State Rte. 81, Greenville, NY 12083 518-966-4181 - Rev. Dale Ashby, Pastor www.asburyumcgreenvilleny.com • minister.asburyumcny@gmail.com secretary.asburyumcny@gmail.com • Facebook: @asbury.greenville.ny

Sunday Worship July 1-Labor Day: 9:00 am September-June: 8:00 & 10:00 am Sunday School: 10:00 am Sept. thru June Stephen Ministry Caregiving Program Weekly Bible Study - Faith-based Book Study

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SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT Food Service Establishment Inspection Summary Report

Paul’s Pzza & Pasta 11824 Route 9W • West Coxsackie, NY 12192

An explanation describing the contrast between New York State Health Inspection Code requirements versus actual inspection indings.

Code Requirement Description Code requirement from State Department of Health Inspection Report which is the only information provided by the state to the newspaper:

• Item # 15c The establishment was cited for several non-critical violations, including: Premises littered, unnecessary equipment and article present, living quarters not completely separated for food service operations, live animals, birds and pets not excluded;

Code requirement from State Department of Health Inspection Report which is the only information provided by the state to the newspaper:

Actual Health Inspector Findings Actual Inspection Findings, which is not provided by the State to the Newspaper There was an Employee’s coat lying on top of a 35 pound container of frying oil.

Actual Inspection Findings, which is not provided by the State to the Newspaper

• Item # 5 A Potentially hazardous foods are not kept at or below 45 degrees Fahrenheit during cold holding, except smoked ish not kept at or below 38 degrees Fahrenheit during cold holding.

A container of sliced tomatoes in the upper compartment of the Sandwich Bain Marie was measured to be between 49 to 51 degrees F. A discussion with the operator revealed that this container had been placed in this unit overnight. Other food items in this cooler were measured to be between 41 to 42 degrees F. The operators were unsure how long the sliced tomatoes had been in this temperature range, so they were voluntarily discarded.

Education provided.

Code requirement from State Department of Health Inspection Report which is the only information provided by the state to the newspaper:

Actual Inspection Findings, which is not provided by the State to the Newspaper

• Item # 11 C Food contact surfaces not washed, rinsed and sanitized after each use and following any time of operations when contamination may have occurred;

The dough mixer had lour on the inside of the mixing bowl and on the blades, as well as on the outside surfaces of the mixer.

Code requirement from State Department of Health Inspection Report which is the only information provided by the state to the newspaper:

Actual Inspection Findings, which is not provided by the State to the Newspaper

• Item # 10 B Non-food contact surfaces and equipment are improperly designed, constructed, installed, maintained (equipment not readily accessible for cleaning, surface not smooth inish); Code requirement from State Department of Health Inspection Report which is the only information provided by the state to the newspaper:

• Item # 15 A Floors, walls, ceilings, not smooth, properly constructed, in disrepair, dirty surface;

Canned goods and single use/disposable items storage shelves are worn on the edges and other areas so that the bare wood is showing, creating a surface that is rough and not cleanable.

Actual Inspection Findings, which is not provided by the State to the Newspaper 1. There is cardboard beneath the Kitchen loor mats next to the Mechanical Dish Washer and beneath storage items on the loor in the Walk-In Cooler. Cardboard is not a cleanable surface.

2. There are Kitchen loor tiles that are cracked, printing a surface that is not smooth and readily cleanable.

Actual Inspection Findings, which is not provided by the State to the Newspaper Code requirement from State Department of Health Inspection Report which is the only information provided by the state to the newspaper:

• Item # 8 A Food not protected during storage, preparation, display, transportation and service, from potential sources of contamination (e.g., food uncovered, mislabeled, stored on loor, missing or inadequate sneeze guards, food containers double stacked).

1. The ice machine had some rust colored debris on the inside surface.

2. Top of a large plastic storage container of what appears to be bread crumbs is cracked and there is no label on either this container or the one beneath. A bin near the Dough Mixer is also not labeled as to the contents, which appear to be lour.

3. A 50 pound bag of table salt is stored on the loor by the door to the basement.

4. There is a drain pipe directly above the soda syrup containers in the basement, which could be a potential source of contamination.

Additional Inspector Comments: All violations must be corrected and violations may result in enforcement. Food items in the upper compartment of the Sandwich Bain Marie were measured to be 43 degrees F for pepperoni and 42 degrees F for shredded mozzarella cheese. Pasta in containers in the upper compartment of another cooler were measured to be between 41 to 42 degrees F. Food in the Walk-In Cooler was measured to be 36 degrees F. Hot held food items were measured to be 193 degrees F for French Onion soup and 174 to 175 degrees F for meatballs. Chicken cooked on the grill was measured to be 167 degrees F. The drain pipe in the basement above the soda syrup containers needs to be protected so that a leak in this pipe will not result in contamination of the syrup containers. Some kind of gutter would be one means of accomplishing this. The Fire Suppression System (FSS) was tagged as having been last inspected in January 2018. The operator had a receipt from Kingston showing that they had checked this system and the Fire Extinguishers in January of this year (2019). Strongly encouraged the operators to contact this company and have them place up-to-date tags on the FSS and extinguishers. They are following their waiver for pizza, stuffed pizza, and their stuffed rolls in that they keep them at room temperature storage for no more than 4 hours. According to the operator they are discarding them after about 3 hours. They have a list of all the various kinds of pizza and rolls that they are holding according to the waiver. Had a brief conversation about the best method for recording the Start and Discard times for all of these items. Report e-mailed. Inspector: Michael Webber (michael.j.webber@health.ny.gov)

To view inspection report please visit: www.hudsonvalley360.com/article/greene-county-february-2019-restaurant-inspections

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Remove bird feeders to prevent attracting Bears

By Larry DiDonato

ing out food sources around homes.”

DEC has been getting complaints of bears knocking down bird feeders and rooting through garbage in Rensselear, Columbia, and Otsego Counties.

By the end of April, many more counties will likely experience nuisance bear problems as nuisance season could kick into high gear.

There are however, common sense practices we can take now through spring and summer to prevent human bear conflicts.

It’s pretty simple; taking down feeders, securing garbage cans and putting them out just prior to pick-up, cleaning out grease traps of barbeques, and eliminating outdoor pet foods are easy ways to keep bears from associating humans with food sources.

Unsecured dumpsters are a magnet for hungry black bears. If put on notice that a

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Last week a black bear strolled through the City of Hudson. When confronted by police patrol car headlights and flashlights, it reverted to a defensive posture by climbing a telephone pole to avoid perceived danger.

Climbing trees in the woods is a natural defense for black bears. Once left alone, the bear wandered off to its natural habitat in the surrounding wooded area. Hudson PD should be commended for their quick, appropriate action of simply allowing the bear the space to retreat.

There are things we can do to avoid close encounters with bears. DEC recently advised New Yorkers to remove bird feeders by early April to prevent attracting bears. They went on to note, “Due to poor natural food availability last fall, many black bears went into their dens with low fat reserves and as they begin to emerge from winter dens, have already begun seek-

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VALATIE — On a day when Ichabod Crane’s Tracy Nytransky earned her 300th career coaching victory, she was more than happy to share the spotlight with sophomore pitcher Isabella Milazzo.

Milazzo pitched a perfect game with 12 strikeouts to help Nytransky reach her milestone as the Riders opened the season with a convincing 20-0 victory over Colonial Council rival Holy Names on Thursday.

The 300 wins is just one of many milestones Nytransky has achieved in her 18 years as the Riders’ coach. She’s also led the team to two state championships, three state Final Fours, three Section II titles and has been named state Class B Coach of the Year twice.

“It’s a culmination of everybody in the program,” Nytransky said. “I’ve been here a long time and we’ve had great assistant coaches, great JV coaches and the kids put the time in. We’ve built the program from the ground up, pretty much and I think everybody in the community is invested in what we have here. We’re striving for a certain level and we want to keep it that way for a long time.”

The Riders lost some key personnel from last year’s

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Ichabod Crane’s Tracy Nytransky reacts after the Riders defeated Holy Names 20-0 on Thursday. The victory was the 300th of Nytransky’s coaching career.

state championship team to graduation, including state Class B Player of the Year Calista Phippen, who is now starring at Marist College,

but Nytransky doesn’t expect that much of a drop off this season.

“It’s a different team,” she said. “We didn’t have to

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Twins take two, remain undefeated

By Tim Martin Columbia-Greene Media

NEW ROCHELLE — The ColumbiaGreene Community College softball team earned two more wins on Thursday, defeating Monroe Community college 11-1 and 12-0 in non-conference action.

Both games were shortened to five innings because of the mercy rule.

In the opener, Baylee Cox had a double, single and two RBI to highlight the Twins’ 12-hit attack. Justine Albin and Holly Kleinmeier each had two singles and two RBI, Kaylee Hoffman and Calire Filak added two singles and an RBI apiece and Hannah Mawyin and Sydney Spohler both had a single and an RBI. Hoffman turned in a complete game on

the mound for C-GCC, striking out four, walking one and allowing four hits and one unearned run.

In the nightcap, Filak fired a threehit shutout with eight strikeouts and no walks to complete the sweep.

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LSI baseball comes from behind to edge ICC

By Logan Weiss Columbia-Greene Media

VALATIE – La Salle defeated Ichabod Crane, 16-13, in Thursday’s Colonial Council baseball action.

The Riders came out in the first inning, scoring 10. But La Salle was able to chip away and score 16 to win the game.

Ichabod Crane went through four pitchers in the game. Austin Walsh pitched four innings, striking out seven and allowing up four runs. Jake Siter pitched one inning and struck out two, while giving up six runs. Aidan Frick pitched one inning and had a strike out. Tylor Daley surrendered six runs.

The Riders collected nine hits, with Rama Culver, Ethan Saxby Josh Nooney and Jack Baumgartner all getting two.

Trevor Wolfe led the team in RBI with three, and had a triple.

La Salle went through six pitchers. Cole Gorleski, Deaglan Kelly, Joey Mai, Jake Martino, Frank Grasso and Christian Brennan combined to strike out three, walk 11 and allow 13 runs and nine hits.

PATROON Chatham 13,

Taconic Hills 11 CHATHAM — Chatham built up a big lead, then held off a late rally by Taconic Hills to post a 13-11 Patroon Conference baseball victory on Thursday.

The Panthers were up 13-2, but the Titans fought back in the later innings, scoring two runs in the sixth and seventh more in the seventh, only to come up short.

Curtis Buchan had a double, single and five RBI for Chatham (4-0). Thomas Van Tassel had a triple and single with three RBI, Ryan Doyle doubled, Hunter Scheriff had two singles and two RBI, Ryan Thorsen and Grayson Van Wie two singles each and Garner Boshart a single and an RBI. Zack Weaver collected a double, two singles and three RBI for Taconic Hills (3-1).

Devon Charron had two singles and three RBI, Schuyler Krzeminski a single and three RBI, Donovan Mier a single and Aspen Krzeminski an RBI. Buchan (7k,7bb,2r,3h), Zack Gregg (3bb,2r,1h), Matt Thorsen (1k,4bb,7r,1h) and Van Wie (1k,1h) all pitched for Cha-

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Ichabod Crane’s Austin Walsh in action vs. La Salle on Thursday.

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Charron (3bb,9r,9h), Schuyler Krzeminski (1bb,2r,1h) and

Ryan Nowak (2k,5bb,2r,2h) shared mound duties for the Titans.

Maple Hill 9, Cairo-Durham 1 CAIRO – Maple Hill jumped out to an early lead and went on to defeat Cairo-Durham, 9-1, in Thursday’s Patroon Conference baseball game..

Maple Hill scored three in the first inning, one in the third innings, four in the fourth and 1 in the seventh inning The Wildcats used two pitchers. Matt Jung pitched 4.2 innings and had 8 strike outs and allowed 4 hits and 1 run.

Christian Beber pitched 2.1 innings and struck out fours.

Kyle Tedford, Jung and John Russell all had two hits to lead Maple Hill’s 11-hit attack. Sean LaFalce, Tyler Hanrahan and Kyle Tedford all scored two runs. Jung led the team with three RBI. Cairo-Durham went through two pitchers. Jacob Hall was the losing pitcher, throwing 3.2 innings with three strike outs and allowing 9 hits and 8 runs. Brady Murphy pitched 3.1 innings and had three strike outs and allowed two hits and one run.

The Mustangs had four hits, one each by Armando Salva-

tore, Alek Wagor, Brady Murphy and Joey Arp. The only run scored was by Ethan Philips, who scored after an RBI double from Arp. Coxsackie-Athens 17, Greenville 11 GREENVILLE — In a high scoring Patroon Conference battle, Coxsackie-Athens pulled away for a 17-11 win over the Greenville Spartans.

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Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE East W L Pct GB Tampa Bay 5 2 .714 — Baltimore 4 3 .571 1.0 NY Yankees 3 4 .429 2.0 Toronto 3 5 .375 2.5 Boston 2 6 .250 3.5 Central W L Pct GB Minnesota 4 1 .800 — Detroit 5 3 .625 .5 Cleveland 3 3 .500 1.5 Chi. White Sox 2 3 .400 2.0 Kansas City 2 4 .333 2.5 West W L Pct GB Seattle 7 1 .875 — Texas 4 2 .667 2.0 Oakland 6 4 .600 2.0 Houston 2 5 .286 4.5 LA Angels 1 5 .167 5.0 Wednesday’s games Chi. White Sox 8, Cleveland 3 Minnesota 7, Kansas City 6 Detroit 2, NY Yankees 1 Toronto 5, Baltimore 3 Texas 4, Houston 0 Boston 6, Oakland 3 Thursday’s games Detroit 5, Kansas City 4 Seattle at Chi. White Sox, PPD NY Yankees 8, Baltimore 4 Oakland 7, Boston 3 Cleveland 4, Toronto 1 Texas at LA Angels, 10:07 p.m.

Friday’s games Seattle (Kikuchi 0-0) at Chi. White Sox (Lopez 0-1), 2:10 p.m.

Toronto (Thornton 0-0) at Cleveland (Bieber 0-0), 7:10 p.m.

Oakland (Montas 1-0) at Houston (McHugh 0-1), 8:10 p.m.

Texas (Lynn 0-0) at LA Angels (Pena 0-1), 10:07 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE East W L Pct GB Philadelphia 4 1 .800 — NY Mets 5 2 .714 — Atlanta 3 3 .500 1.5 Washington 3 3 .500 1.5 Miami 2 5 .286 3.0 Central W L Pct GB Milwaukee 6 1 .857 — St. Louis 3 3 .500 2.5 Pittsburgh 2 3 .400 3.0 Cincinnati 1 5 .167 4.5 Chi. Cubs 1 5 .167 4.5 West W L Pct GB LA Dodgers 5 2 .714 — San Diego 4 3 .571 1.0 Colorado 3 4 .429 2.0 Arizona 3 4 .429 2.0 San Francisco 2 5 .286 3.0 Wednesday’s games Milwaukee 1, Cincinnati 0 Washington 9, Philadelphia 8 San Diego 4, Arizona 1 NY Mets 6, Miami 4 St. Louis 5, Pittsburgh 4, 10 innings Atlanta 6, Chi. Cubs 4 LA Dodgers 5, San Francisco 3 Thursday’s games Washington 4, NY Mets 0 San Diego at St. Louis, PPD Pittsburgh 2, Cincinnati 0 Atlanta 9, Chi. Cubs 4 Friday’s games LA Dodgers (Maeda 1-0) at Colorado (Anderson 0-1), 4:10 p.m.

San Diego at St. Louis (Flaherty 0-0), 4:15 p.m.

Cincinnati (Gray 0-1) at Pittsburgh (Musgrove 0-0), 7:05 p.m.

Miami (Lopez 1-0) at Atlanta (Gausman 0-0), 7:20 p.m.

Chi. Cubs (Quintana 0-0) at Milwaukee (Woodruf 1-0), 8:10 p.m.

Interleague Wednesday’s game Colorado 1, Tampa Bay 0, 11 innings Friday’s games Tampa Bay (Glasnow 1-0) at San Francisco (Rodriguez 1-0), 4:35 p.m.

Minnesota (Odorizzi 0-0) at Philadelphia (Pivetta 0-0), 7:05 p.m.

Boston (Porcello 0-1) at Arizona (Godley 0-1), 7:10 p.m.

Pro basketball NBA Eastern Conference Atlantic W L Pct Toronto 56 23 .709 Philadelphia 49 29 .628 Boston 47 32 .595 Brooklyn 39 40 .494 New York 15 63 .192 Central W L Pct Milwaukee 58 20 .744 Indiana 47 32 .595 Detroit 39 39 .500 Chicago 22 57 .278 Cleveland 19 59 .244 Southeast W L Pct Orlando 39 40 .494 Miami 38 40 .487 Charlotte 36 42 .462 Washington 32 47 .405 Atlanta 29 50 .367 Western Conference Northwest W L Pct Denver 52 26 .667 Portland 50 28 .641 Utah 48 30 .615 Oklahoma City 45 33 .577 Minnesota 35 43 .449 Paciic W L Pct Golden State 53 24 .688 L.A. Clippers 47 32 .595 Sacramento 38 40 .487 L.A. Lakers 35 43 .449 Phoenix 18 61 .228 Southwest W L Pct Houston 51 28 .646 San Antonio 45 34 .570 New Orleans 32 47 .405 Memphis 31 47 .397 Dallas 31 47 .397 Thursday’s games Milwaukee at Philadelphia, 8 p.m.

Cleveland at Sacramento, 10 p.m.

Golden State at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m.

Today’s games Toronto at Charlotte, 7 p.m.

Atlanta at Orlando, 7 p.m.

San Antonio at Washington, 7 p.m.

Boston at Indiana, 8 p.m.

New York at Houston, 8 p.m.

Miami at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

Detroit at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.

Memphis at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

Sacramento at Utah, 9 p.m.

New Orleans at Phoenix, 10 p.m.

Portland at Denver, 10:30 p.m.

Cleveland at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.

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College basketball MEN’S NCAA TOURNAMENT National Semiinals Saturday U.S. Bank Stadium (Minneapolis) Auburn (30-9) vs. Virginia (33-3), 6:09 p.m.

Texas Tech (30-6) vs. Michigan St (32-6), 8:49 p.m.

MEN’S NIT Championship Thursday Texas 81, Lipscomb 66

MEN’S CBI Championship (Best of 3-Games) Frday South Florida (23-14) vs. DePaul (19-16), 7 p.m.

MEN’S CIT Championship Thursday Marshall 90, Green Bay 70

This Final Four is all about new blood, not blue bloods Michael Rand Star Tribune

MINNEAPOLIS — Forget about the blue bloods. Here comes some new blood.

If there is a mantra for the quartet of teams and fan bases descending upon Minneapolis for the NCAA men’s basketball Final Four, that is it.

For the first time since 1987, the Final Four won’t feature at least one of these six traditional power programs, often referred to as blue bloods: Duke, North Carolina, Kansas, Kentucky, UCLA and Louisville.

In their place are Virginia, Michigan State, Texas Tech and Auburn — the latter two for the first time ever and Auburn after defeating three of those storied programs on the way to the Final Four.

If that has dented the excitement of some casual fans, it has had the opposite effect on the die-hards from the nontraditional powers who are treating this weekend like it might never happen again.

Final Four teams arrived Wednesday, and on Thursday they had closed practices along with media availability at U.S. Bank Stadium.

They’re getting acclimated to a new city and the media crush — not to mention a different type of facility.

“We walked into the stadium and I really didn’t know it was a football stadium we were playing in so it definitely caught me off guard,” Auburn senior Horace Spencer said.

Virginia guard Braxton Key hit the two main national media themes in one quote Thursday, saying that it’s “cold” and that he hopes to make it to Mall of America.

Other players said they hoped to get a chance to walk around more Thursday night and get acquainted with downtown. The giant Ferris wheel is in place along Nicollet Mall, in anticipation of the public festivities kicking off Friday along with the first significant wave of out-oftown fans. Most of the gawkers Thursday looked like locals on their lunch breaks, but that will all change soon.

Minneapolis is ready for

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the spotlight and a big party said Kate Mortenson, president and CEO of the Minneapolis Local Organizing Committee.

“The teams are in town, and everyone downtown is starting to look a little taller than the average citizen,” Mortenson said. “We are really looking forward to seeing how our region responds to the invitation we’ve made to them and be a part of this.”

The absence of Duke freshman Zion Williamson, the presumed No. 1 overall pick in the upcoming NBA draft, might have dimmed the star power. But it doesn’t diminish the event, said Michigan State coach Tom Izzo, whose team knocked off Duke in the region final.

“The Final Four is bigger than a player, it’s bigger than the coach, and it’s bigger than a program,” Izzo said.

A BIG STAGE The Final Four is arguably the second-biggest neutral site team sporting event in the United States every year.

What makes this year’s event even more interesting is that just 14 months ago Minneapolis also hosted the biggest such event.

If last February’s Super Bowl is your frame of

HERE THEY COME That’s the case with Kelsey Johnson, a Texas Tech alum who is all-in on this year’s Final Four. Johnson, 31, is driving to the Twin Cities all day Friday and part of the day Saturday from Lubbock — more than 1,000 miles

Skype’s two-hitter leads Chatham past Taconic Hills Columbia-Greene Media

CHATHAM — Jenna Skype pitched a two-hit shutout as Chatham remained unbeaten with a 2-0 victory over Taconic Hills in Thursday’s Patroon Conference softball game.

Skype, struck out two, walked one and allowed just a double by Broke McComb and a single off the bat of Autumn Sachs.

Skpe helped herself with a pair of singles. Sydney Putnam and Erin Madsen both doubled and drove in a run, Shirley Harvey had two singles and Hannah Taylor and BrookeLyn Doyle one single each.

Emily Mottoshiski pitched well in defeat, striking out seven, walking just one and allowing two runs and eight hits.

“I was very pleased the way we defended because our bats struggled,” Chatham coach J.B. Brantley said. “Hats off to Emily (Mottoshiski), who pitched very well. We were glad to sneak out of this game with a victory. We will get back to work and get ready for the

rematch on Monday.”

Greenville 16, CoxsackieAthens 0 GREENVILLE — Melody Kappel tossed a four-hit shutout and helped her own cause with a home runs and three RBI as Greenville defeated Coxsackie-Athens, 16-0, in Thursday’s Patroon Conference softball game.

Kappel struck out six and walked two for the 3-0 Spartans.

Jazzmin homered and singled and drove in four runs in support of Kappel. Alexis Caprio doubled and drove in a run, Zakiyah Haque singled and drove in a run, Molly SanEmeterio, A.J. Pahl and Celina Miller all singled and Emma Haller and caila Benning each drove in a run.

Maple Hill 5, Cairo-Durham 1 CAIRO — Alysa Houghtaling scattered three hits with 11 strikeouts and no walks to spark Maple Hill to a 5-1 victory voer Cairo-Durham in Thursday’s Patroon Conference softball game.

Houghtaling and Jenna Hoffman both had a single and an RBI for the Wildcats. Emma Dugan, statia Walker and Elisabeth Brahm all singled.

Jolie Poulsen led CairoDurham with a pair of singles.

Hannah Infantino added a single and Xxaria Makely drove in a run.

Poulsen went the distance on the mound for the loss, striking out two, walking four and allowing five runs and five hits.

— with his girlfriend, Lacy Brown, and her two sons Logan, 8, and Caden, 12.

“It almost feels unreal,” said Johnson, a season-ticket holder for Texas Tech football and men’s basketball.

“But I’m sure when we start heading that direction Friday it will feel more real.”

He and Brown made a holiday trip to New York to see the Red Raiders face (and lose to) Duke, and they had their eye on a revenge game in the Final Four until Michigan State pulled the region final upset.

“But we’re not disappointed by any means. Michigan State and Virginia are very good. Auburn might be the hottest team right now,” Johnson said. “It’s a good field. I think it’s pretty even across the board. Anybody could win it, and I think that’s what gives us some optimism.”

That optimism is fueling a northward surge.

According to data from HotelTonight, Texas Tech fans have been searching for hotels in the Twin Cities at the highest rate of any of the four fan bases. StubHub, a secondary ticket marketplace, reports that outside of Minnesota, the most ticket

Ichabod Crane tennis blanks Schoharie Columbia-Greene Media

VALATIE — Ichabod Crane didn’t lose a set en route to a 7-0 victory over Schoharie in Thursday’s non-conference tennis match.

RESULTS Singles: Jan Karl Galia (IC) defeated Noah Fagnani 6-1, 6-0; Ean Lantzy (IC) defeated Landen Scofield 6-0, 6-0; Brody Chandler (IC) defeat-

ed Justice Amos 6-0, 6-0; Brett Richards (IC) defeated Griffin Sholtes 6-0, 6-1; Harrison Puckett (IC) won by forfeit.

Doubles: Sean Mueller & Spencer Bates (IC) defeated William Bond & Matthew Faas 6-0, 6-0; Anthony Malanowski & Nick Spensieri (IC) defeated Schoharie Clark Skinner & Zachary Zinzow 6-0, 6-1.

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NCAA WOMEN’S TOURNAMENT National Semiinals Friday Amalie Arena (Tampa, Fla.) Oregon (33-4) vs. Baylor (35-1), 7 p.m.

UConn (35-2) vs. Notre Dame (34-3), 9:30 p.m.

reference for huge local sporting events, though, you should know the Final Four will have a different feel.

Secondary market tickets for Saturday (both sessions) were $250 for the cheap seats, while fans could grab a pair of seats for Monday’s title game — teams TBA, of course — for a little over $100. Super Bowl tickets, meanwhile, were more like a mortgage payment (or two).

There can be a discernible shift, too, in both the atmosphere and fan bases as the Final Four is narrowed to two teams. Some fans from Saturday’s two losing teams will try to sell tickets for Monday’s championship game and leave town, while others will swoop in.

The fans who are here, though, will be emotionally invested. The Final Four tends to feel less corporate than the Super Bowl, with college pride bursting all over.

buyers on the site for the Final Four are coming from Texas — presumably to see the Red Raiders — than any other state.

Red Raiders fans have a reputation for traveling well, and they turned out in big numbers for the first two weekends of the tournament as their team continued its march to Minneapolis.

The scene in Lubbock, Johnson said, has been one big party. With three of the four fan bases unaccustomed to the Final Four — and likely to treat it as a once-in-a-lifetime experience instead of a birthright — that giddiness could extend across the Twin Cities.

“With co-workers and people around town it’s all people can talk about. I walk down the hallway at work, and there’s people talking about who have never said anything about it before,” said Johnson, the director of the local YWCA. “It’s hard to get any work done knowing what’s coming.”

Izzo has brought Michigan State to the Final Four eight times — the Spartans have by far the most experience in this setting of the four teams — including a 2001 trip in Minneapolis at the Metrodome. Back then, Izzo said, teams stayed out by the airport because the tournament rules were different.

“I think this is going to be a tremendous setting right downtown, and I’m really looking forward to it,” Izzo said.

So is everyone else — except the blue bloods.

“It’s going to be the culmination of over 1,000 days of planning,” Mortenson said.

“We’re not excited for it to be over. We’re excited for it to begin.”

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No Zion, no Duke is a loss for Minneapolis’ Final Four Sid Hartman Star Tribune

MINNEAPOLIS — As much as tournament organizers will say that having Virginia, Michigan State, Texas Tech and Auburn qualify for the Final Four is fine by them, there is no doubt that losing forward Zion Williamson and the incredible class of Duke freshmen has hurt the glamour of the big event coming to Minneapolis this weekend.

It’s hard to remember a college basketball player who made the impact Williamson did on and off the court. And this week Williamson and forward RJ Barrett made the Associated Press’ AllAmerica first team, the first freshmen teammates to unanimously make that team.

But Williamson was the star. He was as popular as any NBA player wherever he appeared and attracted huge crowds, including former President Barack Obama. I have seen a lot of college basketball stars in my reporting career and Williamson has been as popular as any of them.

At the 1992 Final Four in Minneapolis, there were standout players such as Duke’s Grant Hill, Christian Laettner and Bobby Hurley, named the tournament’s most outstanding player; and Michigan’s Chris Webber, Jalen Rose and Juwan Howard.

The 2001 Final Four, also held at the Metrodome, featured Duke’s Shane Battier, Jay

Williams and Mike Dunleavy; and Arizona’s Loren Woods and Richard Jefferson.

And while that 1992 tournament featured two iconic teams in Duke and Michigan, no single player had the star power of Williamson, not even Laettner or Webber.

As the headline in the Durham Herald Sun said this week: “Duke is done, and so is Zion Williamson, too soon for college basketball.”

During the regular season and ACC tournament, he averaged 22.1 points on 69.3 percent shooting, 8.9 rebounds, 2.2 steals, 2.1 assists and 1.8 blocks. In the NCAA Tournament, he was even more dominant. In four games he averaged 26.0 points on 61.6 percent shooting to go along with 8.5 rebounds, 1.8 blocks, 1.8 assists and 1.5 steals per game.

When the dust settles on this college basketball season, the biggest story will be Duke’s failure to reach the Final Four.

Tom Izzo’s Michigan State program is as successful as any in the country, and the stories around the Virginia, Texas Tech and Auburn teams are fantastic. But Duke was the story in college basketball this year. Their collection of talent was the best since Michigan’s “Fab Five” teams.

After Duke’s 68-67 loss to Michigan State in the East Region final, ESPN updated its NBA mock draft and ranked four of the Duke freshmen this way (presuming they decide to enter the draft):

Wooden are tied for the most Final Four appearances in NCAA history with 12. But after the loss to Michigan State, Coach K said there is no question Izzo is just as deserving of taking his team to Minneapolis after the Spartans’ great performance in the Elite Eight.

This will be Izzo’s eighth Final Four appearance, ranking him fifth all time behind Krzyzewski, Wooden, former North Carolina coach Dean Smith (11) and current Tar Heels coach Roy Williams (nine).

What Izzo has done at Michigan State is as impressive as any college basketball coach in the country, even if he sometimes flies under the radar.

“They’re going to Minneapolis, so they’re going to have a chance to cut down the nets. That’s the very first step,” Krzyzewski said. “Look, Tom has a great program. And they have terrific teams each year. And they’re always, just like us, they’re always knocking on the championship door.

“In going forward, with the system that they have, the defense they play, the rebounding and (Izzo), they have a heck of a chance. They have a heck of a chance to win it all.”

It has been 19 years since Michigan State won the NCAA championship, the last time any Big Ten team cut down the nets.

Williamson No. 1 overall, Barrett No. 2, forward Cam Reddish No. 6 and point guard and former Apple Valley star Tre Jones No. 31.

It’s hard to imagine Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski, already a basketball Hall of Famer, couldn’t get that group to the Final Four. But there had been signs the team wasn’t in for a historic season after barely beating Central Florida, 77-76, in the second round of the NCAA Tournament and Virginia Tech, 75-73, in the Sweet 16.

Next season, Duke will bring in another good recruiting class but nothing like this one. They have commitments from center Vernon Carey (ranked No. 3 overall, according to 247 Sports), forward Wendell Moore (No. 22) and guard Boogie Ellis (No. 34). Krzyzewski still is trying to land Matthew Hurt, the 6-9 Rochester John Marshall forward (No. 8), as well.

But Duke’s 2018 freshman class was unique.

Barrett was the No. 1 recruit in the country, Reddish was No. 2, Williamson was No. 5 and Jones was No. 15.

After the Michigan State game, Krzyzewski was asked about what the future holds for Duke.

“I’d rather not talk about the future right now,” he said. “Let’s deal with the moment, and also give respect to the moment, the moment of (Michigan State’s) victory and the moment of our season ending. And I’d rather just deal with that.”

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Legals CITY OF HUDSON, NEW YORK ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Zoning Board of Appeals of the City of Hudson, New York will hold Public Hearings on April 15, 2019 at 6:00 p.m. in the Common Council Chambers, City Hall, 520 Warren Street, Hudson, New York on an area variance application from Katherine and Keith Kanaga to build a single-story accessory/garage building in the rear of 230-232 Allen Street, Tax ID # 109.43-3-55, requiring 15-foot side and rear yard variances and a five percent lot coverage variance; and an area variance application from Ben Fain for nine off-street parking spaces for a cafe/restaurant at 60 South Front Street, Tax ID# 109.43-1-69. All interested parties will have an opportunity at this time to be heard in connection with said applications.

TOWN OF LEXINGTON Highway Department Seeks Bids The Town of Lexington Highway Department is soliciting bids for two highway projects.

1. Broadstreet Hollow starting at the Town line and going approximately 3,400 feet with Binder 3 inches thick and 18 feet wide. Work to be completed by June 1, 2019.

2. Beech Ridge Road North starting at County Route 2 and going approximately 3,500 feet with Binder 3 inches thick and 20 feet wide.

For more information call the Highway Superintendent at 518989-6626 or 518-5672748 All bids to be received in the Town Clerk's office by April 10, 2019.

Town Clerk's hours are 8-1 and 2-4, Monday Thursday.

Bids will be opened on April 11, 2019 at a Special Meeting of the Town Board held at the Municipal Building at 5:00 PM. The Town of Lexington Town Board may accept or reject any and all bids.

By order of Frank G. Hermance, Town of Lexington Highway Superintendent April 4, 2019 LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that sealed Bids, in triplicate, are sought and requested by the Board of Edu-

cation, Germantown Central School District (hereinafter called "Owner"), for the Additions and Alterations at the Germantown Central Schools.

Separate Bids are requested for the following Contracts: Contract 1 SC - Site Construction Work Contract 2 GC - General Construction Work Contract 3 PC Plumbing Construction Work Contract 4 MC - Mechanical Construction Work Contract 5 EC - Electrical Construction Work Contract 6 HM - Hazardous Materials Contract 7 TR - Theatrical Rigging Construction Work in accordance with the Drawings, Project Manual (including Conditions of the Contract and Specifications), and other Bidding and Contract Documents prepared by: SAMMEL ARCHITECTURE PLLC 332 Rt. 100, Somers, NY 10589 Te l : ( 9 1 4 ) 2 7 6 - 0 7 7 7 x107 A pre-bid conference for potential Bidders and other interested parties will be held on 3:30 P.M., Tuesday, April 23, 2019 at Germantown Central School District, 123 Main Street Germantown, New York 12526 Sealed Bids will be received by the Owner until 3:30 P.M., Tuesday, May 7, 2019 at the District Office Entrance at which time and place Bids received will be publicly opened and read aloud.

For the convenience of potential Bidders and other interested parties, the Bidding Documents may be examined at the following locations: Sammel Architecture PLLC, 332 Route 100, Somers, New York 10589 (914) 276 0777 Construction Manager, The Palombo Group, 6030 Route 82, Stanfordville, NY 12581 (845 868 1239).

However, the Contract Documents may only be obtained thru the office of REV, 330 Route 17A Suite #2, Goshen, New York 10924 (877-272-0216) beginning on Wednesday, April 10, 2019.

Complete digital sets of Contract Documents shall be obtained online (with a free user account) as a download for a non-refundable fee of FortyNine ($49.00) Dollars at the following website: w w w. u s i n g l e s s p a per.com under 'public projects'.

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($50.00) Dollars for each CD. Checks for deposits shall be made payable to the Germantown Central School District and may be uncertified.

All bid addenda will be transmitted to registered plan holders via email and will be available at the above website. referenced Any bidder requiring hard copies of the documents shall make arrangements with the printer and pay for all printing, packaging and shipping costs.

Plan holders who have obtained CD's or hard copies of the bid documents will need to make the determination if a CD or hard copy of the addenda are required for their use, and coordinate directly with the printer for hard copies of addenda to be issued. The bid deposit for CD's will be returned only if the CD's are returned to REV, in good condition, within thirty days of the bid opening.

As bid security, each Bid shall be accompanied by a certified check or Bid Bond made payable to the Owner, in accordance with the amounts and terms described in the Instructions to Bidders.

The Owner requires Bids comply with bidding requirements indicated in the Instructions to Bidders. The Owner may, at its discretion, waive informalities in Bids, but is not obligated to do so, nor does it represent that it will do so. The Owner also reserves the right to reject any and all Bids. The Owner will not waive informalities which would give one Bidder substantial advantage or benefit not enjoyed by all affected Bidders.

Bids may not be withdrawn before 45 days following the Bid opening thereof, unless an error is claimed by the Bidder in accordance with the Instructions to Bidders.

The Board of Education reserves the right to reject any and all bids and re-advertise.

Notice is hereby given that a license (pending number) for beer/wine/cider has been applied for by Gina Guarino to sell beer/wine/liquor at retail in a restaurant under the alcoholic beverage control law at 55 Allen Lane, Tannersville, NY 12485, Village of Tannersville, County of Greene for on premise consumption.

LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF ANNUAL DISTRICT MEETING

GERMANTOWN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT GERMANTOWN, NEW YORK 12526 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Annual Meeting and election of the inhabitants of the Germantown Central School District, Columbia County, New York, qualified to vote in the school meetings in said District, will be held on Tuesday, May 21, 2019, at the Germantown Central School, Germantown, New York, between the hours of 12:00 noon and 9:00 P.M., for the election of two (2) members of the Board of Education; the vote upon the appropriation of the necessary funds to meet the estimated expenditures for the 2019-2020 fiscal year; and the vote on all propositions involving the expenditures of money or authorizing the levy of taxes; NOTICE IS ALSO GIVEN, that a copy of the statement of the amount of money which will be required for the 2019-2020 fiscal year for school purposes, may be obtained by any residents in the district during the fourteen (14) days immediately preceding the Annual Meeting except Saturday, Sunday or holidays, at the District Office of the Germantown Central School, Germantown, New York, between 9:00 A.M. and 3:00 P.M. and on the District website; NOTICE IS ALSO GIVEN, that a tax exemption report, showing how much of the total assessed value on the final assessment roll or rolls used in that budgetary process is exempt from taxation, shall be annexed to the budget document, shall be posted on the District's website for public notices; NOTICE IS ALSO GIVEN, that a public hearing on the proposed budget will be held on Wednesday, May 8, 2019 at the Germantown Central School, Germantown, New York, beginning at 6:00 P.M.; NOTICE IS ALSO GIVEN, that petitions nominating candidates for the office of member of the Board of Education of this District must be filed in the Office of the District Clerk at the Germantown Central School, New Germantown, York, between the hours of 8:00 A.M. and 3:00 P.M., and by not later than 5:00 P.M. on April 22, 2019.

The following vacancies are to be filled:

(1) 4 year term - last incumbent - Andrea Provan (2) 4 year term - last incumbent - Teresa Repko Each petition must be directed to the Clerk of the District, shall be signed by 25 qualified voters of the District and shall state the name and residence address of the candidate and of each signer.

Two (2) vacancies for the office of the member of the Board of Education will be filled.

The vacancies to be filled shall not be considered separate specific offices, and the nominating petition shall not describe any specific vacancy upon the Board of Education for which a candidate is nominated. The two (2) candidates receiving the greatest number of votes shall be elected to fill the vacant offices.

NOTICE IS ALSO GIVEN that pursuant to Section 2014 of the Education Law, personal registration of voters is required, and no person shall be entitled to vote at said Annual District Meeting to be held on May 21, 2019, whose name does not appear on the register of said School District or who does not register as hereinafter provided, except a person who is otherwise qualified to vote and is registered to vote with the County under the provisions of Article 5 of the Election Law. The Board of Registration shall prepare a register for said Annual District Meeting which shall include all persons who shall have been previously registered with the school district or County.

NOTICE IS ALSO GIVEN that the register of the School District, so prepared, will be filed in the District Clerk's Office at Germantown Central School, Germantown, NY, where the same will be open for inspection by any qualified voter of the District between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. on each of the five (5) days prior to the said Annual School District Election and Vote, except Sundays and holidays.

NOTICE IS ALSO GIVEN, that provision is made for absentee balloting for election of members of the Board of Education and vote on the district budget.

Applications for absentee ballots may be obtained at the District Office. The application must be received by the District Clerk at least seven (7) days prior to the election if

the ballot is to be mailed to the voter or the day before the election, if the ballot will be picked up personally by the voter at the District Office.

Absentee ballots must be received at the office of the District Clerk by no later than 5:00 P.M. prevailing time, on the day of the election and vote, May 21, 2019. A list of all persons to whom absentee ballots shall have been issued will be available for inspection to qualified voters of the District at the Office of the District Clerk during regular office hours, 7:30 A.M. to 3:30 P.M. prevailing time, until the day of the Election and Vote.

Any qualified voter may file a written challenge of the qualification of a voter whose name appears on such list, stating the reasons for the challenge.

Linda Anderson Germantown Central School District District Clerk (518) 537-6281 ext.

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TOWN OF GREENVILLE GREENE COUNTY NEW YORK NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF AN AMBULANCE/EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES DISTRICT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a public hearing will be held by the Town Board of the Town of Greenville, Greene County, New York at Town Hall, 11159 State Route 32, Greenville, New York on April 15, 2019 at 6:30 o'clock PM in the evening for the purpose of establishing an extension of a townwide ambulance district in and for the Town of Greenville.

Copies of the engineering report and maps of the proposed district are available for review at the Town Clerk's Office at the Town Hall.

ALL persons interested in the matters will be heard at such time and place specified.

By order of the Town Board, Jackie Park, Town Clerk-Collector Town of Greenville March 18, TOWN OF LEXING- Dated: 2019 TON NOTICE OF SPECIAL NOTICE OF BOND MEETING RESOLUTION April 11, 2019 PLEASE TAKE NO- NOTICE IS HEREBY TICE that the Town GIVEN that the resoluBoard of the Town of tion published hereLexington shall hold a with has been adopted Special Meeting on by the Town Board of April 11, 2019 at 5:00 the Town of Cairo, pm at the Municipal Greene County, New Building, 3542 Route York on the 4th day of 42, Lexington, NY. The March, 2019. The peof time has purpose of said meet- riod ing is to open Highway elapsed for the subbids and any other mission and filing of a business that comes petition for a permisbefore the Town sive referendum and a valid petition has not Board.

By order of the Town been submitted and filed. The validity of Clerk, the obligations authorCharlotte Jaeger ized by such resolution April 4, 2019

may be hereafter contested only if such obligations were authorized for an object or purpose for which the Town of Cairo is not authorized to expend money or if the provisions of law which should have been complied with as of the date of publication of this notice were not substantially complied with, and an action, suit or proceeding contesting such validity is commenced within twenty (20) days after the date of publication of this notice; or if such obligations were authorized in violation of the provisions of the Constitution of New York.

Kayla L. Warner, Town Clerk Town of Cairo BOND RESOLUTION DATED MARCH 4, 2019 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE MULTI-USE PATHWAY AND SIDEWALK PROJECT IN AND FOR THE TOWN OF CAIRO, NEW YORK, AT AN ESTIMATED MAXIMUM COST OF $707,350, THE ISSUANCE OF SERIAL BONDS OF THE TOWN OF CAIRO, GREENE COUNTY, NEW YORK IN AN AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $669,901 PURSUANT TO THE LOCAL FINANCE LAW TO FINANCE A PORTION OF THE COST THEREOF, PROVIDING THAT THIS RESOLUTION SHALL BE SUBJECT TO A PERMISSIVE REFERENDUM, AND DELEGATING CERTAIN POWERS IN CONNECTION THEREWITH TO THE TOWN SUPERVISOR Objects or purposes: The Bond Resolution authorizes the con-

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COLUMBIA-GREENE MEDIA Town of Durham, Greene County, New York at Town Hall, 7309 Route 81, East Durham, New York on April 16, 2019 at 7:00 o'clock PM in the evening for the purpose of establishing a townwide ambulance district in and for the Town of Durham.

Copies of the engineering report and maps of the proposed district are available for review at the Town Clerk's Office at the Town Hall.

ALL persons interested in the matters will be heard at such time and place specified.

Janet Partridge, Town Clerk Town of Durham Dated: April 2, 2019

struction of a multi-use pathway and sidewalk project for County Route 23B (Main Street), Bross Street and William Dinger Street, in and for the Town of Cairo, Greene County, new York, including incidental improvements and expenses required for such purpose, at an estimated maximum cost of $707,350. The aforesaid purpose constitutes an unlisted action as defined under the State Environmental Quality Review Regulations, 6 NYCRR Part 617, which has been determined under SEQRA not to have a significant impact on the environment.

Period of Probable Usefulness: Ten (10) years, pursuant to subdivision 24 of paragraph a of Section 11.00 of the Local Finance Law. The obligations authorized by the Bond Resolution will be in excess of five years from the original date of issuance of such obligations.

Maximum Amount of Obligations to be issued: The Town Board plans to finance a portion of the cost of said purpose by the issuance of serial bonds of the Town in an amount not to exceed $669,901, hereby authorized to be issued therefor pursuant to the Local Finance Law. A portion of the project cost is expected to be

reimbursed from the proceeds of a Federal TAP Grant, DOT PIN 1760.85, in the amount of 80% of eligible project costs. A portion of the project cost is expected to be paid or reimbursed from the proceeds of a NYS DEC grant in the amount of $75,000.

Delegation: The power to authorize bond anticipation notes in anticipation of the issuance of the serial bonds authorized by this resolution, determine the form and terms of said serial bonds, and take certain other actions is delegated to the Town Supervisor, as Chief Fiscal Officer.

A complete copy of the Bond Resolution summarized above is available for public inspection during normal business hours at the office of the Town Clerk, located at the Cairo Town Hall, Main Street, Cairo, New York.

Dated: April 4, 2019 Cairo, New York Public Notice NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Republican Committee of the Town of Ancram does hereby schedule a caucus meeting to be held on April 13, 2019 at 3:00pm at the Ancram Town Hall 1416 County Route 7, Ancram, NY 12502.

The purpose of said meeting is for the nomination of candi-

dates to appear on the November 5, 2019 ballot for the following offices; Town Supervisor, two Town Councilpersons, Town Highway Superintendent, Town Clerk and Tax Collector and one Town Justice. All Republicans who are registered to vote in the Town of Ancram District One or Two are eligible to attend.

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Town of Kinderhook Planning Board PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Town of Kinderhook Planning Board will hold Public Hearing(s) pursuant to Article VII, Chapter 250-50, of the Code of the Town of Kinderhook on the following application(s): (1) 7:02 pm - Patricia and Lawrence Cavagnaro, 70 Hawley Road, Niverville - Site Plan Review.

The applicant has applied for site plan review for construction of a barn and farm worker housing on a 13.5 acre parcel of land located on Newton Hill Road, Valatie, Tax Parcel ID# 33.-1-84.

Said Hearing(s) to be held on the 18th day of April, 2019, at the Kinderhook Town Hall, 3211 Church Street, Valatie, NY, at which time all interested parties will be given the opportunity to be heard. Additional information regarding these applications can be obtained by contacting the Secretary for the Planning Board. By Order of the Board. Respectfully submitted, Nataly Dee, Secretary.

TOWN OF CLAVERACK PUBLIC NOTICE EXTENSION OF TIME FOR COLLECTION OF TAXES Upon application made to the Columbia County Treasurer, pursuant to Section #938 of the Real Property Tax Law, for an extension of time for collection of taxes; IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the time for collection of taxes remaining is hereby extended until the 1st 255 Lots & Acreage day of June 2019.

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UConn’s Auriemma and Notre Dame’s McGraw don’t much like each other Alex Putterman The Hartford Courant

HARTFORD, Conn. — With UConn set to face Notre Dame once again in the NCAA Tournament Final Four, coaches Geno Auriemma and Muffet McGraw are at it again.

The latest scrap in a decadeslong rivalry surrounded the hiring of assistant coaches. After McGraw told ThinkProgress that she didn’t plan to hire men to work on her staff, Auriemma questioned the wisdom of that approach and wondered why McGraw had felt the need to speak publicly about it.

“Muffet is entitled to hire anybody she wants,” Auriemma said. “I don’t know why she feels the need to make a statement about it. I’ve never hired a guy as one of my assistants either. I’m not going to make a statement about it.”

In a vacuum, that comment might not have meant much.

But given Auriemma and McGraw’s testy history, it seemed to enforce that these two coaches don’t much like each other.

“We don’t have a relationship,” McGraw said in 2014, just before UConn and Notre Dame met in that year’s national title game. “I think that got lost. When we were in the same conference, I think there was a modicum of it, but I think after beating them and not feeling any respect from that, we lost something.”

Ahead of the 50th career matchup between the two coaches, here is a history of the simmering tension between Auriemma’s program and McGraw’s.

January 1996-March 2011 — From Philly friends to Big East foes

McGraw and Auriemma both grew up in Pennsylvania (Norristown for Geno, Pottsville for Muffet) and coached at Philadelphia-area high schools in the late 1970s. They just missed each other as assistants at St. Joseph but met through Hawks coach Jim Foster.

Auriemma took over at UConn in 1985, and McGraw landed at Notre Dame two years later, but the schools didn’t face off until the Fighting Irish joined the Big East in 1995-96, by which point the Huskies were defending national champions.

The early years of the UConnNotre Dame rivalry were fairly one-sided with Auriemma’s team winning 28 of the first 32 matchups over 16 seasons.

One of McGraw’s victories, however, was a big one. The coach led the Fighting Irish over the Huskies in the 2001 Final Four, foreshadowing years of future battles.

April 2011-April 2013 — Revenge of the Irish For several years, during Skylar Diggins’ Notre Dame career, Auriemma could not get past McGraw.

Notre Dame beat UConn in the national semifinal in 2011 (avenging three losses earlier that year), then twice more the following regular season. The Huskies stopped the Irish in the 2012 Big East Tournament, but when the Final Four rolled back around, Diggins and company won again, this time in overtime. The Irish won both regular-season contests in 2013 as well as the Big East Tournament final.

By the spring of 2013, Notre Dame had beaten UConn in seven of the teams’ past eight matchups, and tension

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Notre Dame head coach Muffet McGraw, left, and Connecticut head coach Geno Auriemma meet prior to the start of the NCAA Tournament’s National Championship at Amalie Arena in Tampa, Fla. on April 7, 2015.

between Auriemma and McGraw appeared to be on the rise.

Auriemma seemed to guarantee victory over Notre Dame before the Big East title game, then again when the teams were set to meet in a third straight Final Four. After Diggins said she had a “distaste” for UConn, Geno stepped up the trash talk.

“If I was her, I would feel the same way,” he said. “We have seven national championships, they have one. We have 18 Big East (tournament) championships, they have none. If I was her, I’d be upset, too. I think she is telling the truth.”

At the time, McGraw declined to engage publicly, saying she generally ignored Auriemma’s comments. Then UConn beat Notre Dame in the semifinal, ending the Fighting Irish’s four-game win streak in the rivalry. By the following year, the gloves were off.

March 2014 — Fibbing

during Lent The break-up of the Big East in 2013 left UConn and Notre Dame in different leagues, meaning they would continue to face each other only if their respective coaches reached an agreement to play non-conference games. When that failed to happen in 2014, McGraw blamed UConn, suggesting Auriemma had declined to schedule the Fighting Irish.

Auriemma shot back that, “It’s not nice for Muffet to fib during Lent.”

McGraw then had Notre Dame’s athletic department release a statement that called the idea that Notre Dame would avoid UConn, “completely false, extremely disappointing and, frankly, baffling.”

As UConn and Notre Dame prepared to face each other in the national title game, both coaches acknowledged some hard feelings, though

Auriemma said sometimes that comes with the territory.

“I could sit here and list 10,000 coaches that don’t interact with each other whose rivalries are intense,” Auriemma said. “Sometimes we act like girls, like we’re supposed to go to dinner every night. We’re supposed to play each other, try to beat each other’s brains in, try to win a national championship and compete like hell, Muffet and Geno. And then we’re supposed to get together afterwards and go have a bottle of wine? That s--- is just not going to happen.”

UConn beat Notre Dame in that season’s title game as well as the next season’s, capping a stretch of five straight years that the teams met in the Final Four.

March 2018 — Ogunbowale sinks the Huskies On the eve of UConn and Notre Dame’s match-up in the national semifinal last year, McGraw said enmity between the two programs wasn’t quite as strong as it had once been, given that they no longer shared a conference.

Then again, she said, “that could change tomorrow.”

Change it did. Notre Dame guard Arike Ogunbowale sunk the Huskies with a last-second step-back jump shot, injecting new energy into the rivalry.

December 2018 — Stewart blocked, Dangerfield tripped After No. 2 UConn beat No. 1 Notre Dame this past December, former Huskies All-American Breanna Stewart tweeted something curious: McGraw had blocked her on Twitter.

The block heard ‘round the college basketball world followed a tense game in which Ogunbowale earned a technical

foul for her exchange with Auriemma and also tripped UConn’s Crystal Dangerfield to the ground.

McGraw and Ogunbowale apologized to their fans — but not to UConn.

April 2019 — Another Final Four, renewed barbs For the seventh time in nine years, UConn and Notre Dame will meet in the Final Four, and either Auriemma or McGraw will emerge with a trip to the national title game and another round of bragging rights.

Given the coaches’ history, it was no shock this week when a reporter asked Auriemma about a hot topic in women’s hoops, McGraw’s comments on not hiring men, and little surprise that Auriemma responded with snark.

“I hope she sends a thank you to all those guys that used to be on her staff that got her all those good players that won a championship,” Auriemma said. “I look at some of the top programs in America, and they seem to have pretty good coaches who happen to be men.”

Even before that barb from Geno (which McGraw let pass without response), the coaches’ relationship had been a subject of conversation surrounding the Final Four, particularly in the wake of the incident between Auriemma and Ogunbowale earlier this season.

As personal as the rivalry often seems, Geno insists it’s all in the game.

“I don’t think anybody owes anybody an apology for anything,” he said. “I’m going to do what I’m going to do. If you don’t like it, that’s your problem.”

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Yankees holding it together amid mounting injuries Dave Sheinin The Washington Post

BALTIMORE — The New York Yankees constructed a roster this winter with admirable depth, featuring all across the diamond Plan B’s and sometimes C’s and D’s that included former all-stars, highly regarded prospects or, at the very least, solid big leaguers. A $200 million payroll and some longterm vision can do that.

But any team, including the Yankees, would be exposed by the simultaneous losses of, in no particular order, their regular shortstop, third baseman, center fielder, designated hitter, top setup man, Nos. 1 and 5 starting pitchers and a handful of depth options. Put it all together, and a 3-4 record - the Yankees’ mark following an 8-4 win over the Baltimore Orioles on Thursday - is perhaps not so surprising or disappointing.

“They’re in the right frame of mind,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said of his depleted roster. “We hit a little bump in road, obviously, in getting hit with some injuries here early.

But such is the nature of a major

league season. We just happened to get hit with it a little bit early.”

Thursday began for the Yankees with another reinforcement walking through their clubhouse door - this time, infield prospect Thairo Estrada, the replacement for veteran all-star Troy Tulowitzki (calf strain), who was himself the replacement for standout shortstop Didi Gregorius (elbow surgery). Estrada, the last infielder remaining on the Yankees’ 40-man roster, is perhaps best known for being shot in an attempted robbery in his native Venezuela in January 2018.

A day earlier, Tulowitzki had become the 11th Yankee to hit the injured list this year, joining Gregorius, center fielder Aaron Hicks (back), DH Giancarlo Stanton (biceps), Miguel Andujar (shoulder), starters Luis Severino (shoulder) and CC Sabathia (heart surgery), reliever Dellin Betances (shoulder), outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury (foot) and pitchers Jordan Montgomery (elbow) and Ben Heller (elbow).

“It’s really been crazy,”

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New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone (17) in the dugout before a game against the Baltimore Orioles at Yankee Stadium.

Tulowitzki said. “I’ve never seen anything like it.”

All told, the Yankees have more than $85 million in 2019 payroll stashed on the injured list, more than the entire 2019 payroll of the Orioles, as well as a handful of other teams.

Thursday’s win over the Orioles, secured thanks to a pair of home runs by Gleyber

Torres and one each from Gary Sanchez and Luke Voit, at least temporarily calmed the sense of panic that was beginning to settle over the Bronx, in the wake of a 2-4 season-opening homestand that featured series losses to the Orioles and Detroit Tigers, two of the weakest teams in the American League.

The Yankees’ April schedule

was supposed to have insulated them from potential catastrophe, as 23 of their first 28 games were against teams that finished below .500 in 2018. But in losing two of three to the Tigers, the Yankees hit. 176 and struck out 34 times - including 18 K’s in the series-ending 2-1 loss on Sunday.

One consolation for the Yankees: The rival Boston Red Sox, with whom the Yankees were expected to contend all season for supremacy in the AL East, are off to an even worse start, going 2-6 through their first eight games (all on the road) and settling into last place in the division. The teams, whom combined for 208 wins in 2018, meet in the first of 19 head-tohead matchups April 16 at Yankee Stadium.

By then, the Yankees expect to get the first of their injured stars - most likely Betances back on the active roster. But the bulk of their missing players will be out a matter of weeks, if not months, rather than days. A rough (and best-case) timeline could see Stanton and Sabathia return toward the end of April;

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Ichabod Crane’s Jenna Downey rips a base hit during Thursday’s Colonial Council game against Holy Names.

Victory From B1

defense and our game plan changes a little bit, but we still have pretty high expectations.”

Part of the reason for Nytransky’s optimism is Milazzo, who completely shut down the Holy Names bats despite pitching in less than ideal weather conditions.

“She works real hard everyday at practice,” Nytransky said of Milazzo. “She always asks ‘what can I do to get better, how did I do, did I do OK?’Every day I don’t have an answer for her. Sometimes

Baseball From B1 RBI, Aiden Bohem a double and single with two RBI, Austin Schlenker two singles and an RBI and Joe Notabartolo a single and an RBI. Greenville went through four pitchers. Cole Flannery threw 2 innings and had three strike outs and allowed 10 hits and

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support of Filak. Jenna Poulsen had a triple, double and three RBI, Albin added a triple and single, Kleinmeier had a double and single with an RBI, Cox doubled and knocked in a run, Filak had a single and an RBI and Kelsey Taylor drove in a run.

“This was a an overall great day for us,” Columbia-Greene coach Peter Dedrick said. “For the first time all season I felt

I have to her she has to do this and she has to do that, but she’s a good learner, she pays attention, she wants to be coached. I think it’s great for her to come out in her first varsity start and make a name for herself right away.”

Milazzo isn’t the only quality arm Nytransky has on the roster as junior Marissa Wheeler will also see time on the mound.

“Isabella and Marissa (Wheeler) have been splitting all the scrimmages we’ve had and they’re both doing great, so I can pitch one of them one day and the other one another day, but they’re both going to see a lot of action,” Nytransky said.

On Thursday, Milazzo’s

10 runs, including a home run.

Clifton Drollette pitched one inning and allowed three hits and four runs. Morgan Gergan pitched 1.1 innings and had four strike outs. Jack Motta finished up and had one strikeout.

Greenville finished with 15 hits, with freshman Isaiah Edmonds leading the way with four. Drollette, Gergen, Motta, and Bobby Corrigan all had two RBI, while Keenan Mulholland and Ryan McAneny both had one.

like we clicked on all aspects.

Our pitching did a terrific job.

Our defense battled extremely tough winds and got the job done. I was extremely pleased with our offense and how we hit the ball. Our two out hitting was terrific as well.

“We go on a very tough stretch of games starting Sunday with regional power Corning CC. They are very talented and extremely well coached.

We are excited for the opportunity.”

The Twins’ Sunday doubleheader with Corning begins at 1 p.m. at the Greenport campus.

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Ichabod Crane coach Tracy Nytransky is greeted by her team after the Riders defeated Holy Names, 20-0, to give Nytransky her 300th career coaching victory.

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Ichabod Crane’s Kaili Saccento scores ahead of the tag by Holy Names catcher Mackenzie Babcock during Thursday’s Colonial Council game.

teammates gave her plenty of offensive support, despite

Bears From B1 dumpster or other unsecured garbage is attracting bears, businesses and residents can be subject to fines. That is best avoided by applying common sense preventive measures.

Bears are smart when it comes to food sources. If they to a home and get no food benefit, they will simply move on to a better opportunity.

DEC Wildlife Biologist Bureau Chief, Jeremy Hurst, advised that seeing a bear near your home isn’t necessarily a problem as long as you keep your distance and all potential food was secured. He said taking a picture of the bear if done safely may not be an issue. That’s especially true if no food was obtained during the encounter. DEC concluded in their released statement that, “Allowing bears to find food naturally keeps them out of trouble and reduces negative interactions with people and property.”

Bears and people are both much better off when they avoid close encounters.

For more information about how to reduce human/bear

Severino, Hicks and Tulowitzki sometime in May; Heller in June; Gregorius in July; and Montgomery in August. Meantime, Ellsbury’s absence remains open-ended, and Andujar could be out anywhere from a couple of months to a year or more, depending on whether the nonsurgical rehab of his shoulder works.

As Thursday’s power display at Camden Yards showed, the Yankees still have hitters capable of carrying a lineup for long stretches, and even without Betances, the best bullpen in baseball.

“We’ll be better for having gone through this,” said Boone, whose unrelenting positivity has been tested, “and we’ll come storming out of this. I’m sure of that.”

But as deep as the Yankees are, and as solid as they can still appear at times - at least in short bursts against bad teams - there is still an uneasy feeling about them, as if they are just barely holding it all together, and as if one more injury could be the one that finally breaks them.

the absence of first-team allstate selection Gabbie Cox,

conflicts, visit DEC’s website.

Happy Hunting, Fishing until next time.

NEWS AND NOTES Ham Shoots Planned for April: Kalicoontie Rod & Gun Club – April 7 Still time to attend the ham shoot on April 7 at 10 a.m. at 333 Schneider Road in Livingston. Shoot to win hams, pork loins, turkeys and table prizes. 12 and 20-gauge shotgun shells will be available but be sure to bring your own slugs. Call Scoot at 845-7572552 or Joe at 518-537-3997 for more information.

Craryville Rod & Gun Club – April 7 They are hosting their ham shoot at the same date and time, April 7 at 10 a.m. The Craryville shoot offers a student discount and is additionally hosting money shoots.

The Federation of Polish Sportsmen’s Club — April 14 The Federation of Polish Sportsmen’s Club at 400 Newman Road in Hudson is hosting its annual “all shotgun” ham shoot on April 14 beginning at 9 a.m. For more information, call the club at 518-828-0375.

Hunter Ed Class Coming to Norton Hill Wildlife Club Bill Burger of the Norton

who was out of town. The Riders banged out a total of 16 hits off of two Holy Names pitchers and put up at least two runs in every inning.

Eighth-grader Emma Scheitinger just missed a home run with a deep drive to center in the fourth inning, but the wind held the ball up and she ended up with a triple. She also singled and drove in three runs.

Kayla Walsh added a double, single and three RBI to the Riders’ attack. Mackenzie Wendelken had two singles and three RBI, Wheeler a double and single with an RBI, Brittany Futia two singles and an RBI, Kaili Saccento two singles, Cameron Phippen and Jenna Downey

a single and two RBI apiece, Kylie Rivers and Cali Ringwood a single each and Lauryn Heffner an RBI. One game certainly doesn’t make a season, but Nytransky feels the possibilities are endless with this team.

“I think we can get back,” she said. “It’s definitely going to be a little bit different, but we have six starters, a bunch of returners and a couple kids that came up last year that helped us out with the postseason and I think they’re still hungry for it and want to make it happen, so I think it’s going to be a fun season.”

Hill Wildlife Club advised they are hosting a hunter education class at their clubhouse on Big Woods Road on Friday, April 26 from 6-9 p.m., 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.

Field & Stream Outdoor Education Series: Striped Bass Fishing Seminar – Two Sessions Today, Saturday, April 6: Morning session at 10 a.m., afternoon session at 2 p.m.

Capt. Chris Leach of Harvest Sun Charters will examine techniques used to catch striped bass in the Hudson River. Topics to include all aspects of targeting and catching trophy river striped bass.

Fishing Trout in Streams April 9 from 6:30-8:30 p.m.

Perfect your skills at “reading” streams and discuss proven techniques to catch trout in streams and rivers.

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 from 6:308:30 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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Woman fed up with sisterin-law’s rude behavior I cannot stand my husband’s sister. She thinks way too much of herself. She “had” to get married to a foreigner (who NEVER works), and her three grown sons still live at home and don’t work or go to school. She works several odd jobs to support the lazy men in her life.

DEAR ABBY She’s 53, but she was always rebellious and a hell-raiser. At family events she dresses like a streetwalker. It about kills me and my children whenever she comes over to our house with her drugged-out husband. She is rude to me and makes backhanded comments.

I can’t believe that after all these years, I still tolerate this garbage. I’d love to end these get-togethers, but how do I do it, because she’s “family”?

Fed Up Sister-In-Law

JEANNE PHILLIPS

Tell your husband that because of the way his sister has treated you all these years, you are finally drawing the line. You no longer want her (or her drugged-up husband) in your home. If they drop by unexpectedly, tell them you can’t entertain them right then and suggest that in the future they call before showing up.

At family functions you must attend, limit your exposure to her. Be polite but concentrate on other relatives whose company you do enjoy. You can’t control her mouth or what she wears, but you can choose to ignore the woman.

This is in response to “Bad Idea,” (Dec. 15), the parents who don’t want their daughter to join the Peace Corps for fear she will return only to mooch off them until she’s gainfully employed again.

I agree they should voice their concerns to her before she goes, but you missed an opportunity to educate your readers. Yes, she is putting a lucrative career on hold, but she is doing it to SERVE HER COUNTRY. I doubt your response would have been the same had she been leaving her job for a military career.

The Peace Corps will train her to work in a developing nation where she will be sharing her expertise and American goodwill with others while learning a new language and culture. She will gain compassion, understanding and a world view that will influence her decisions for the rest of her life. She will learn that success is not just about the almighty dollar; it’s more about finding meaningful work you enjoy and can be proud of.

Although the Peace Corps is a volunteer organization, volunteers do receive a stipend upon completion of their service so they can ease back into the American workforce without a handout from Mom and Dad. And by the way, I nailed every job interview upon my return from my years of service because I had something unique and interesting to bring to the table.

Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (Swaziland 1980-82)

A periodic eye exam in someone with no symptoms involves a screening test for vision changes related to aging and other eye diseases, including glaucoma, TO YOUR age-related macular degenGOOD HEALTH eration and cataracts. There are several commonsense reasons for screening, but there has not been good evidence to support its use. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force does not make a recommendation for or against screening. The Canadian Task Force recommends against it.

By contrast, the American Academy of Ophthalmologists recommends a baseline exam at age 40; visits every two to four years from age 4054; every year to three years from age 55-64; and annual exams for people 65 and over.

DR. KEITH ROACH

Hi. I’m a very healthy, 68-year-old male. My only issue is almost nonexistent testosterone.

What type of doctor should I see? It seems to be a problem for many senior men.

Low testosterone is a concern for many men as they get older. In some cases, the concern is justified. Some men may have a problem making testosterone due to a condition in the brain (the

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Garfield

Volunteerism is a boon to our society as well as other societies who benefit from it. Almost 25 percent of Americans volunteer their time and talents at one time or another. Many readers besides you wrote describing the satisfaction they have derived in addition to what they learned while working in the Peace Corps. I hope your letter will allay the parents’ fears.

Reader seeks more focus on eye doctor appointments How often does a healthy person with perfect vision and no eye concerns need to see an eye doctor?

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hypothalamus and pituitary gland both need to be working properly for testosterone production) or in the testes, where testosterone is actually made. In these cases, testosterone replacement therapy is clearly indicated.

What is still controversial is whether to treat healthy older men who have a low testosterone level and no symptoms. It’s not clear that treatment of low testosterone will prevent problems in the future. It’s possible that’s the case, but I am very cautious about prescribing a drug with potential harms for someone without symptoms, when it has not been proven to be of benefit.

However, men with symptoms of low testosterone, such as low sex drive, depressed mood and loss of body hair, and who have clearly low testosterone levels may benefit from treatment, and a trial of testosterone treatment is appropriate. Men should learn about potential risk (prostate cancer remains a concern despite reassuring early studies) and have regular laboratory evaluation.

Low energy by itself is not clearly a symptom of low testosterone and may not improve with testosterone treatment.

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Readers may email questions to ToYourGoodHealth@ med.cornell.edu.

Horoscope

By Stella Wilder Born today, you are a skilled observer of other people, and you are able to determine much about them simply by watching them go about their business on a daily basis.

There is a danger inherent in this, however.

You may never become involved yourself, but rather sit back and simply let the world pass you by. This is not something you want to do, so you had better learn to use what you were taught about human nature in some kind of active manner; shape it into a line of work and you can certainly be happy.

You love praise — and who does not? You cannot abide criticism, however, and when others find fault in something you have done, no matter how small or trivial, you almost invariably shut down completely, having been rendered incapable of moving forward. This is not something that will serve you well in the real world, and it must be addressed.

Also born on this date are: Paul Rudd, actor; Michael Rooker, actor; Merle Haggard, singer; Billy Dee Williams, actor; John Ratzenberger, actor; Marilu Henner, actress; Barry Levinson, director.

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 7 ARIES (March 21-April 19) — You may be trying to push your limits too hard lately.

Today, try settling back into a groove that doesn’t demand too much of you.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — If you can’t do what you had hoped today, at least do

what you know you are able to do. Be realistic in your expectations of others as well.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You may be contacted regarding something that you are only partially connected with, but soon you’ll find yourself fully involved.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — You are able to exceed your own expectations as well as the expectations of someone who has been watching over you. A difficult time is passing.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — You may be frustrated by your inability to explain yourself effectively to someone who is unable to see what you are really doing. Be patient.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You can move ahead at an easy pace today, without making too many waves or rocking the boat in any way. It’s smooth sailing for now.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You will want to make yourself comfortable, but there is a line you must not cross. Today, you’ll have to strike a careful balance.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — You will want to observe what is happening around you with great care today, for tomorrow you may be asked to take charge in some way.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Confusion arises today when you try to do too much at any one time; limit yourself to what is required — and what you want to do.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Someone who is in a bind reaches out to you, but the help that he or she asks for may be more than you are willing to give. Be honest.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — You are on

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SUPER QUIZ

THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME

By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek

ORUDG VICEH WYNETT CTKEHS ©2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC All Rights Reserved.

Yesterday’s

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.

Get the free JUST JUMBLE app • Follow us on Twitter @PlayJumble

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

Boo Level 1

2

3

4

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

(Answers Monday) Jumbles: ALIBI DITTO FOSSIL PRIMER Answer: When Magellan rounded South America headed for the Paciic, he was in — DIRE STRAITS

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Solution to Friday’s puzzle

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

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sudoku.org.uk © 2019 The Mepham Group. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency. All rights reserved.

Each answer contains “boo.” (e.g., The Bible is an example of one. Answer: Book.)

Freshman level 1. A type of foot covering.

2. A deep sound, like an explosion.

3. An embarrassing mistake.

4. A throwing stick that returns to you.

5. A type of large monkey.

Graduate level 6. Used to represent the sound of someone crying.

7. The tallest type of grass.

8. To restart a computer.

9. The back part of a train.

10. A small shop at a fair for selling goods.

PH.D. level 11. Hard liquor.

12. To deceive by underhanded methods.

13. Banned on the grounds of morality or taste.

14. Valuable goods that are taken illegally or by force.

15. A remote and undeveloped area.

SUPER QUIZ ANSWERS 1. Boot. 2. Boom. 3. Boo-boo. 4. Boomerang. 5. Baboon. 6. Boohoo. 7. Bamboo.

8. Reboot. 9. Caboose. 10. Booth. 11. Booze. 12. Bamboozle. 13. Taboo. 14. Booty.

15. Boondocks.

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 Sulk 5 Book of maps 10 Flower stalk 14 Askew; twisted 15 Gown 16 Asian language 17 Patella’s place 18 “The Three __”; novel by Dumas 20 19th letter 21 Nabors & Belushi 22 Film holders 23 Seize power by force 25 Nourished 26 Gangster Al 28 Seashores 31 Mac maker 32 Become swollen 34 Parcel delivery svc.

36 Loafer, for one 37 Sparkle 38 Tiny bits of gravel 39 “Killing Me Softly with __ Song” 40 Vicious 41 Isle of __; Italian resort 42 Blackjack table host 44 Shooting star 45 Solemn promise 46 Hayes or Keller 47 “__ a Hot Tin Roof” 50 Make well 51 Facial twitch 54 Relentless 57 Costa __ 58 __ with; become attached to 59 Small weight 60 In a __; instantly 61 Sharp tools 62 1 of the 12 Apostles 63 Cards in royal flushes DOWN 1 Create 2 __ up; confesses 3 Assume beforehand

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4 Needle’s hole 5 Think highly of 6 2016 winner 7 Not as much 8 Inquire 9 90 degrees from ENE 10 Lively horses 11 “My Country, ’Tis of __” 12 British noble 13 Feel the loss of 19 “Trick or __!”

21 Beaver Cleaver’s mom 24 “O __ Mio” 25 Root beer topper 26 Money 27 Plant pest 28 “__ Miner’s Daughter”; Spacek film 29 Paint thinner 30 VP Agnew 32 Make obscure 33 Golfer Trevino 35 __-crazy; tired of confinement 37 Got larger

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Non Sequitur

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38 Fence opening 40 Duplicate 41 Jailbird’s room 43 Steers clear of 44 Scanty 46 Therefore 47 Gloria Estefan’s birthplace 48 Healthy as __

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49 Tim Daly’s sis 50 Suggestion 52 “__ See Clearly Now” 53 Head toppers 55 Cut off 56 Like a bill received 57 File drawer, perhaps

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