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HUNTER — A man died in a fire that broke out early Tuesday morning at 13 Scribner Hollow Road, state police said. Jerry Meigs, 29, was pronounced dead at the scene of a fire that occurred Tuesday at about 6:44 a.m. at a townhouse at 13 Scribner Hollow Road, state police said. Investigators were unable to enter the remains of the townhouse late Tuesday afternoon because of the danger from heavy damage, state police Public Information Officer Steven Nevel said.
“We are waiting for it to be deemed safe by state fire and Greene County fire,” Nevel said. “We don’t want anything to collapse on the investigators.” Nevel was unsure if anyone lived at the residence with Meigs or if any pets perished in the fire, he said. “We don’t know yet where he was located during the fire or if he died from smoke inhalation,” Nevel said. Cause of death, as well as the cause and origin of the fire, are being investigated, Nevel
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State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli released a report on local sales tax collections, and while growth statewide is slowing, the Twin Counties experienced stronger growth than the state. Across New York state, local sales tax collections for the first two quarters of 2019 grew at a moderate pace compared to the same time period last year, according to the report. “Rising sales tax collections are very important for New York’s local government,”
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DiNapoli said in a statement. “But recently, these revenues have been growing more slowly. These latest results should remind officials to closely watch future collections and plan accordingly.” In the first three months of this year, statewide sales tax collections grew by 3.3%, and in the second quarter by 3.2% compared to 2018. But last year’s sales tax collections grew by 4.8% and 7.2%, respectively. In Greene County, the See SALES TAX A8
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Board to toughen animal control law By Sarah Trafton Columbia-Greene Media
CATSKILL — The Catskill Town Board held a public hearing to review an amendment to its animal control law. Local Law No. 4 for 2019 will provide clearer guidelines for noise complaints and for animals that chase people or harass the public. “We have had several instances where the complaint needed to be passed from Animal Control to the Code Enforcement Officer,” Town Supervisor Doreen Davis said. “We always search for efficiencies and this seemed like a good opportunity to streamline the process. With this law, Animal Control can handle a noise complaint as it
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We always search for efficiencies and this seemed like a good opportunity to streamline the process. With this law, Animal Control can handle a noise complaint as it relates to animals. — Doreen Davis Town Supervisor
relates to animals.” The revision was not motivated by an increase in complaints, Davis said. Under the new law, dogs, cats and other domesticated pets shall not “engage in habitual and loud howling, barking or whining or to conduct itself in such a manner so as to unreasonably and habitually annoy any person for a time period that is continuous and exceeds 15
continuous minutes at any time of day.” These animals are also not permitted to chase or harass people or their pets “in such a manner as reasonably to cause intimidation or to put such person, companion animal or pet in a reasonable apprehension of bodily harm or injury or to cause bodily harm or injury,” according to the draft law. The law does not apply to the
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village, Davis said. The Animal Control Law was enacted in 2010 and this is its first amendment, Davis said. Other violations named in the law include allowing dogs to be at large, damage property or defecate or urinate on someone else’s property and to habitually chase or bark at motor vehicles or bicycles. “Animal complaints can be registered with the Animal
Control Officer at 518-2910705,” Davis said. Depending on the nature of the offense and the history of the offender, Town Animal Control Officer Aaron Clause may issue an appearance ticket, Davis said. The animal may also be seized by the officer for a violation, according to the proposed law. If a person is convicted of a violation, they may be subject to a fine of up to $250 and/or imprisonment up to 15 days, according to the law. If the individual previously committed a violation, he or she will be charged with a misdemeanor and if convicted, face a fine up to $1,000 and/or imprisonment up to one year.
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SAN DIEGO — Hours after President Donald Trump called on the nation to “condemn racism, bigotry, and white supremacy” following massacres in Texas and Ohio, Democratic presidential candidates and Latino leaders did exactly that - and their condemnation was aimed at Trump himself, who they said is responsible for spreading those sentiments with his tough-on-immigration rhetoric. Many of them issued those rebukes at the annual convention for UnidosUS, the largest Latino civil rights and advocacy group in the country. Though the organization scheduled its forum for presidential candidates long before the violent weekend, it provided a venue for the discussion of racism, rhetoric and the president - and the five Democratic candidates who attended seized the moment. “The attack we saw in El Paso two days ago was the result of hate and bigotry,” said former secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro, the only Latino candidate in a Democratic field of more than 20. “For four years now, since he launched his campaign, Donald Trump has made hate and bigotry and division a political strategy,” Castro said. “The attack two days ago was an attack on the Latino community. It was an attack on immigrants. It was an attack on Mexicans and Mexican Americans. And that was no accident. That is due in part to the climate this president has set.” Castro, former vice president Joe Biden, and Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., dedicated at least a portion of their remarks to a roomful of activists from a critical voting bloc to condemning the president and tying his rhetoric to the shooting in El Paso. Trump and his supporters reject the idea that he is racist. His remarks that often come under scrutiny, they say, are policy critiques or messages on subjects such as immigration and urban affairs, not aimed at particular racial or ethnic groups. Biden, however, told the crowd that while he had
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At a “Keep America Great” rally in Cincinnati, President Donald Trump reiterated his harsh words for Baltimore and other diverse, liberal cities. Democrats “deliver poverty for their constituents,” he said.
planned to talk about a variety of issues Monday, “in light of a weekend of the grief and horror so many people had to withstand,” he was changing his message. He addressed part of his speech directly to Trump, saying it was “long past time to stand up to” what he called “white nationalism,” “white supremacy,” and “hate.” “The policies of this administration amount to nothing but an onslaught on decent, decent Americans and citizens and those who are seeking to be citizens,” Biden said. Sanders called on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to reconvene the Senate in the wake of the shootings and said McConnell should “stop allowing the NRA to dictate gun policy in America.” Then he, too, went after the president. “Today I say to Donald Trump: Stop your antiimmigrant rhetoric,” Sanders said. “Stop the hatred. Because that language, that hatred, that divisiveness creates a situation where certain people will do terrible things.” It is not unusual for candidates to criticize a president from the opposing party, but the spectacle of one party’s leaders blaming a sitting president for rhetoric that they say paved the way for a mass shooting highlights the hostile, fractured nature of this political moment. Harris at one point indicated her microphone to convey one of the presidency’s most powerful tools. That was a not-so-subtle reference to Trump’s recent remark that four
minority congresswomen should “go back” to the countries they came from. Earlier, Murguía told reporters that Trump should apologize for fostering a divisive climate, and said she believes his words motivated the El Paso shooter. “Hateful words have hateful consequences,” Murguía said. “We’re seeing the direct impact of his promotion of a climate of fear and hate and division taking hold in our country. And we want to make sure that he understands that he has to take some ownership over this.” Clarissa Martinez, vice president of civic engagement for Unidos, said Trump is not the first politician to use immigration as “a proxy” for racist politics, but she argued that he is drawing a clearer line than those before him. “I think what the president has done . . . is that he tore away the veneer under which some politicians might have been able to hide to in the past, and has made very clear what this is about,” Martinez said. The result, she added, citing the group’s polling, is that the Latino electorate - which cast 12 million votes in the 2016 presidential election and will soon pass African Americans as the largest minority group in the nation - is supporting Democrats at higher percentages than ever. “Latinos are not a monolith, which is why is actually so surprising to see the incredible level of affinity, as you have seen in all of the issues and candidate traits,” Martinez said. “Latinos care about substance. That’s one of the reasons that you
have seen across the decades a very strong ticket-splitting tendency among Latinos in any given state.” The size of the Latino electorate rivals that of the African American electorate, a bloc often considered one of the more influential groups in the Democratic primary. According to Martinez, more than 80 percent of registered Latino voters normally vote, which she argued makes them a prime target for candidates hoping to generate turnout in the primaries or general election. “We’d like to hear what they believe they can do to address [divisiveness] now and if they become president,” Murguía said. “One of the things that Latino voters are hungry for is a candidate who recognizes that diversity is a strength for this country. And they’re equally hungry for someone who can unite us as a country.” Many Democrats, including those not at the Unidos event, spent the day blaming the man they believe is dividing the country and creating a climate that helped lead to the shooting. While Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., campaigned in South Carolina on Monday, his campaign manager Addisu Demissie tweeted a text he said he received from Booker during the president’s speech. “Listening to the President. Such a bulls--- soup of ineffective words. This is so weak. We should quickly condemn his lack of a real plan,” the text said. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, DMass., tweeted a video of the speech, in which Trump suggested mental health issues were the underlying cause of mass shootings; she argued against that notion. “White supremacy is not a mental illness. We need to call it what it is: Domestic terrorism,” she wrote. “And we need to call out Donald Trump for amplifying these deadly ideologies.” Her rivals at the Unidos forum also fielded questions about their health-care plans, criminal justice overhaul, plans for Puerto Rico and other subjects. But the topic of the day was clear, and none of the five candidates strayed from that focus for long. Biden, as he concluded his remarks, said, “None of this works if we don’t get rid of Donald Trump.”
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LONDON — A teenager who is accused of throwing a 6-year-old boy off a balcony at the Tate Modern museum in London appeared in court Tuesday on a charge of attempted murder. In a five-minute hearing, a magistrate confirmed the teenager’s identity and heard a short statement from prosecutors before referring the case to a higher court, where the accused is scheduled to appear Thursday. The teenager, who is 17, cannot be identified because of British laws that restrict reporting in cases involving people younger than 18. Sian Morgan, a prosecutor, told the court Tuesday that the 6-year-old boy was with his parents on the museum’s 10th-floor viewing platform
when he was picked up “in one swift movement” and thrown over the side. He fell around 100 feet and landed on the fifth-floor roof of the museum, she said. Morgan said the boy had suffered “very serious injuries,” including fractures to the spine, legs and arms, and “a deep bleed to the brain.” London police said in a statement Tuesday that the boy was in a “stable but critical condition,” meaning his life was no longer in immediate danger. A spokesman for the French Embassy in London said Monday that the boy was a French citizen and that he had been visiting the city with his parents. The episode led to a lockdown of Tate Modern on Sunday, and visitors were unable to leave or enter the museum for around an hour. Many said
they had feared a terrorist attack. The museum has since reopened, but the viewing platform remains closed. A museum spokesman said in a telephone interview Tuesday that he did not know when it would reopen. Tate Modern is Britain’s most popular visitor attraction and the museum received almost 5.9 million visitors last year. The viewing platform, which opened in 2016, is almost as much a draw as the art inside, offering free views of some of London’s most famous landmarks.
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CALENDAR Wednesday, Aug. 7 n Greene County Economic Development Corporation 4 p.m. Greene County Economic Development, Tourism and Planning Conference Room (Room 427), 411nMain St., Catskill. n Greene County Legislature health services, county resources and public n 6 p.m. Greene County Office Buildsafety ing, 411 Main St., Catskill n Windham-Ashland-Jewett CSD BOEnaudit finance committee 4:30 p.m.; regular meeting 5 p.m. in the School Library, 5411 Route 23, Windham n
Thursday, Aug. 8 n Coxsackie Village workshop meetingn 6 p.m. at Village Hall, 119 Mansion St.,
Coxsackie n Greene County Legislature CWSSI public n hearing 6 p.m. Emergency Services Building, Cairo n
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n Ashland Town Board 7:30 p.m. at
the Town Hall, 12094 Route 23, Ashland n n Catskill Village Planning Board 7 p.m. at the Catskill Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill n Coxsackie Village Board 7 p.m. at Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie n Greene County Legislature county services and public works 6 p.m. Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill n n Greenville CSD BOE business meeting 6:30 p.m. MS/HS Library, 4976 Route 81, Greenville
Tuesday, Aug. 13
By Amanda Purcell Columbia-Greene Media
HUDSON — The trial of a Texas man accused of sexually assaulting three children under 13 years old in Columbia County in the early 1990s and 2000s began Monday. John Acklin, 55, of Bandera, Texas, faces a 32-count indictment that includes three separate charges: 11 counts of predatory sexual assault against a child, a class A-II felony; 12 counts of first-degree course of sexual conduct against a child, a class B felony;
and nine counts of aggravated sexual abuse in the second degree, a class C felony. The trial began with Columbia County Judge Jonathan Nichols hearing jury selection through Monday. Attorneys were expected to question prospective jurors Tuesday beginning at 9 a.m. The trial is expected to take about a week. Two children, a boy and girl under 13 years old, were allegedly sexually assaulted between 2004 and 2006 in Columbia County, according to the March 12 indictment. Another boy, under 11 years old,
was allegedly assaulted between 1992 and 1996. Acklin has been held in Columbia County Jail John Acklin since his arraignment March 25. State police began an investigation in 2017 into reports of sexual assaults that allegedly occurred more than a decade ago in Livingston. Acklin was initially arraigned Nov. 9, 2018, on one count of first-degree
Drug overdose leads to arrest of Windham man Staff report Columbia-Greene Media
CATSKILL — A Greene County man was arrested in connection with an overdose death that occurred on the mountaintop earlier this year, police said. Joseph Heisinger, 32, of Windham, was charged with third-degree attempted sale of
a controlled substance, a class C felony, and fourth-degree conspiracy, a class E felony. The arrest comes after an investigation into an overdose death in the town of Jewett in June, police said. Heisinger is being held on $10,000 bail after his arraignment in Catskill Town Court by Justice Richard Jacobs.
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GREENE COUNTY COURT WRAP FOR JULY Staff report Columbia-Greene Media
Wednesday, Aug. 14 n Athens Village Board 6:30 p.m. at n Hall, 2 First St., Athens Village n Catskill Town Zoning Board 6 p.m. Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill n Catskill Village Board 7 p.m. Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill n Greene County Legislature workshop 7 p.m. Greene County Office Buildn ing, 411 Main St., Catskill n Jewett Town Board 7 p.m. at the Jewett Municipal Building, 3547 County n 23C, Jewett Route
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Town Hall, 2 First St., Athens n Greene County Legislature economic development and tourism; Gov. Ops; Finance and Rep. and Dem. Caucus 6 p.m. Greene County Office Building, 411 n Main St., Catskill n Greenville Town Board 7 p.m. at the Town Hall, 11159 Route 32, Pioneer Building, Greenville
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On July 23, 2019, the following matters were handled at the Greene County Court: n Matthew Maurer was sentenced to 1 ½ years plus 7 years post-release supervision upon his conviction of attempted firstdegree sex abuse and one year in jail upon his conviction of failure to register as a sex offender. n Gaulter Garera was arraigned on two counts of first-degree promoting prison contraband and five counts of seconddegree promoting prison contraband after he allegedly possessed two homemade cutting-type instruments and five pieces of metal consistent with the metal used to make the weapons while housed at Coxsackie Correctional Facility. n Jason Johnson was convicted of second-degree burglary and failure to register as a sex offender. He will be sentenced at a later date. n Lynford Parker was sentenced to five years probation and an alcohol monitoring bracelet for felony DWI. July 16: n Koby Mangin was convicted of attempted first-degree promoting prison contraband and
will be sentenced to an additional term of state prison at a later date. n Kinard Getaw, upon defendant’s conviction for fifth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, he was sentenced to 2 ½ years state prison plus one year post-release supervision; and after his conviction for third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, he was sentenced to one to three years state prison together with an order that he attend shock incarceration. July 9: n Brian A. Daggett was convicted on felony DWI. He will be sentenced on a later date. n David Mihalko was sentenced to Drug Court, Inpatient Treatment Program and a term of five years probation upon his conviction of third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and third-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance. n Josephine Minor was sentenced to a term of three years probation and payment of restitution upon her conviction of fourth-degree grand larceny. n Joshua Campbell was convicted of the felony of aggravated family offense. An order of protection was issued and he will be sentenced at a later
date. n Michael Brosnan was convicted of felony DWI. He will be sentenced at a later date. n Michael Perry was convicted of fifth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance. He will be sentenced at a later date. July 2: n Britany Derr was sentenced to 4 ½ years state prison with three years of post-release supervision for her conviction for third-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance. n True McMurty was arraigned on the charge of first-degree promoting prison contraband after allegedly possessing a homemade cuttingtype weapon while being housed at Greene Correctional Facility. n Abdulai Sow was convicted of attempted first-degree promot ing prison contraband for possessing a cuttingtype weapon while being housed at Coxsackie Correctional Facility. He will be sentenced at a later date. n Benjamin Yanovitch was sentenced to a term of one to three years in state prison upon his conviction for felony DWI and will be required to install a vehicle-interlock system upon his release.
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criminal sex act, a class B felony, according to state police. Since Acklin’s arrest, other alleged victims have come forward, according to the indictment. Acklin was extradited back to New York on Nov. 8, 2018, with the help of the Columbia County District Attorney’s Office. Acklin was arrested as a fugitive from justice on Oct. 25, 2018, state police said. State police worked with the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Texas Rangers in Bandera County, Texas, to bring Acklin back to New York
to face the charges. Predatory sexual assault against a child carries a maximum sentence of life in prison, under New York state law. The minimum sentence is 10 to 20 years in prison without a prior criminal history. Conviction for first-degree criminal sexual act carries a minimum sentence of five years and a maximum sentence of 25 years in state prison for a first-time offender. Aggravated sexual abuse carries a maximum of 15 years and a minimum of seven years in state prison.
Andes celebrates bicentennial anniversary ANDES — The Andes Chamber of Commerce is celebrating the Town’s 200th anniversary Aug. 10 and 11 with a series of events open to all. Incorporated in 1819, the Town of Andes marks its bicentennial milestone with activities for all ages including food, music, dancing, parade and fireworks. Aug. 10: Andes Community Day Parade, Main Street, 11 a.m. Marching bands, floats, fire trucks, clowns, and street performers bring this favorite Americana tradition to Andes’ main thoroughfare. Lawn sales, vendors, and dancing outdoors at Andes Central School make this a day-in-thecountry you don’t want to miss. It’s more fun when you get involved: enter a creative rendition to the Calico Indian Contest, go hands-free at the watermelon-eating contest, or experience a paddle on the Pepacton Reservoir. 10:30 a.m. Parade line up; 11 a.m. Parade down Main Street (after Trailways bus exits town); 10:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Vendors throughout Main Street including foods and artisan crafts; noon-5 p.m. DJ Tito spins music outdoors from 55 Main St.; 12:30 p.m. 6th Annual Dancing in the Park (following the Parade) Dancers from NYC and Delaware County perform, live music, Ballantine Park; noon–5 p.m. Children’s Fun Fair at Ballantine Park, helicopter rides from Ballantine Mansion, Main Street. Andes Hotel Summer Shack activities: including a chicken barbecue at noon followed by music at 1 p.m. and a watermelon-eating contest at 2 p.m. Events at the Andes
Connection, 33 Main St., from noon-5 p.m. include Lemonade Stand, Irene’s Italian Hoagies: homemade sausage & peppers, meatballs and a vegetarian option; Jimmy’s Tibetan MoMo’s, face painting and t-shirt dyeing. Trophy and Ribbon Ceremony at 1 p.m. for winners of parade float contests at the Andes Firehouse, Main Street; Atelier Aubergine Stained Glass and Mosaics free class and demonstration, 27 Delaware Ave., at 2 p.m. Get your Andes Historical Society 2020 calendar, only $10, at Andes Thrift Store located at old Fire House, Main Street; Step into History at the Andes Hunting Tavern, Main Street. Open all day. Visit to learn all about Andes rich and unique history. Movie screening at 7 p.m., a documentary film about the Anti-Rent War, The Town That Shot the Sheriff, directed by Victoria Kupchinetsky. Filmed over 4 years throughout Andes and Delaware County, this film brings Andes history to life. After the screening, meet the director and ask questions about the film and the Anti-Rent War time period. The director, members of the creative team, and the documentary’s main characters will be on hand to answer your questions. Approximately 45 min for the screening with a 30-minute Q&A discussion. Andes Hunting Tavern, Main Street; Catskill Regional Harvest hosts a celebration event at 7 p.m. details to come. On Sunday, Aug. 11, pancake breakfast at Andes Firehouse, time capsule burial and music and fireworks at the Andes Hotel.
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How many more have to die? Ban all weapons of war. No ifs, ands or buts. Immediately. Without delay. And in spite of anything. After years of American mass shootings that have killed hundreds and wounded thousands, it’s time to keep these cruel and savage instruments of death — assault rifles, high-capacity magazines and on and on and on — out of the hands of civilians. They are for soldiers to carry into battle and police officers to stop dangerous criminals. Nobody else should have them. Nobody else needs them. Thirty-one people are dead and dozens more are wounded after back-to-
back mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio. The victims were mowed down in the innocent act of shopping and having fun at a local nightspot. They were killed in El Paso because a young man angry at immigrants walked into a Walmart with a military-style assault rifle. They were killed because a young man, motive unclear, walked into a club and opened fire with a military-style assault rifle. He killed his own sister. Mental illness makes a great prop to explain away the motives for these tragedies. So do the ritualistic thoughts and prayers that always accompany these
bloodbaths. But the easy availability of military-style weaponry has to be part of the conversation. We can’t listen to special interests anymore. Too many people are dying. We can do something about the gun violence epidemic in America without stepping on the constitutional right to bear arms. We can control the weapons people buy and own. Weapons built to kill as many people as possible as fast as possible have no place in our society. More than our rights at stake. Human lives are also at stake. How many more innocent Americans have to die before we learn that?
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Trump blamed the El Paso shooting victims for their own deaths Luke O’Neil
monly employed by the president at his rallies and on Over the weekend, a white Twitter. In fact, much of the man with a semiautomatic language overlaps with that rifle went on a shooting of the president and his suprampage at an Walmart in El porters, including repeated Paso, Texas, killing 22 people. entreaties to “send them President Donald Trump, back.” who averred that we cannot The idea here is that some let the victims “die in vain,” sort of bipartisan immigraoffered an idea for how to tion reform would stop the prevent future shootings: epidemic of white-suprem“Republicans and Demoacist violence in the United crats must come together States. But, of course, that and get strong background makes sense only if you bechecks, perhaps marrying lieve that racist killers have a this legislation with desperlegitimate complaint - that ately needed immigration we shouldn’t have Latino reform. We must have some- immigrants, and that, therething good, if not GREAT, fore, they do bear some of come out of these two tragic the blame. (Never mind that events!” people of Hispanic descent It’s a shame about the existed in El Paso long before deaths, in other words, but that region was part of the they never would have hapUnited States.) This was the pened if immigrants didn’t idea, too, behind Trump’s keep trying to come here, and common warning, reiterated if Democrats would just let last month, that if migrants me stop them. “So, this atroc- didn’t like the detention cenity,” as Nicole Hannah-Jones ters along the border, they aptly summed up his view, could simply not come. “was caused by immigraWhat’s worse, the presition.” dent in this case seems to Having essentially blamed be holding the prospect of the victims for their own modest gun reform hostage murders, the president was to his and the online screed’s happily and enthusiastically common demands. You acceding to what authorities want background checks? think are the alleged killer’s Let me stem the “infestaspecific demands. tion” first and we can talk. “This attack is a response Democrats will blanch at to the Hispanic invasion of such a devil’s bargain - a fact Texas,” says an anti-immithat Trump and Republicans grant online manifesto that will surely use to blame them authorities think the accused for not wanting to prevent gunman posted. It echoes further violence. It’s not hard the “invasion” rhetoric com- to imagine an I-told-you-so
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from the president after the next shooter posts a manifesto about “Great Replacement” theory and murders a dozen people. (As it happens, a senator from the accused shooter’s home state notso-subtly alluded to that theory a couple months ago.) Although perhaps even this modest proposal is off the table after this morning’s tweet about it, since the president didn’t mention it in his later comments today. As Jessica Winter forcefully showed last year in an essay for The New Yorker, Trump frequently falls back on the rhetoric and psychology of an abuser: Look what you made me do! This was his excuse for worsening conditions for migrants and seeking punitive measures to dissuade them from coming. It’s not his fault. It’s never his fault. Which is another way of saying there’s nothing he can do to allay the circumstances he introduced himself. It’s hard to imagine the manifesto’s author being any happier with the results of his campaign. His message - that the country is in danger of being lost in a wave of immigration - has been heard loud and clear by the man who very likely influenced his thinking in the first place, or at least supercharged it. What happens to migrants next is up to them, the president and the manifesto’s author agree. Don’t want to die? Don’t come.
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Trump doesn’t just pollute the social environment. He is the environment. “It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men.” — Eric Hoffer WASHINGTON — It is 1,218 miles from the Aaron Bessant Park Amphitheater in Panama City Beach, Florida., to the Walmart at 7101 Gateway Blvd. in El Paso. It was in that park that Donald Trump, on May 8, was amused by the answer someone in his audience shouted in response to his shouted question about would-be immigrants at the southern border. His question was, “How do you stop these people?” The shouted answer was, “Shoot them.” Trump, with a grade schooler’s delight in naughtiness, smiled and replied, “ Only in the Panhandle you can get away with that statement.” But does what happens in the Panhandle stay there? When mass shootings occur, the nation quickly returns to worthy debates about three questions. One is whether gun control measures can be both constitutional and effective in making mass shootings less likely. A second debate concerns the ability and propriety of law enforcement (in which private citizens properly have a collaborative role) attempts to identify individuals, usually young males, who might violently act out their inner turmoil. The third question, which is braided with the second, acquires special urgency because of the nature of today’s most prominent American: Can we locate causes of violence in promptings from the social atmosphere? To the first question, part of the answer is that a reasonable reading of the Supreme Court’s 2008 Heller decision, which affirmed that the Second Amendment guarantees the individual a right to bear arms, permits many measures
possible by journalism that is mesmerized by, and easily manipulated by, presidents, especially the current one, whose every bleat becomes an obsession. This president is not just one prompting from the social environment; he, in his ubiquity, thoroughly colors this environment, which becomes simultaneously more coarse and less shocking by the day. Eric Hoffer (circa 18981983), the longshoreman philosopher, said that “rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.” This anticipated the essential fact about the 45th president — Trump’s fascination with what he utterly lacks and unconvincingly emulates: strength. Hence his admiration for foreign despots, and his infantile delight in his own bad manners. It is one thing to have a president who, drawing upon his repertoire of playground insults, calls his alleged porn-star mistress “Horseface.” Polls indicate that approximately a third of Americans, disproportionately including religiously devout worriers about the coarsening of America’s culture, are more than merely content with this. It is quite another thing to have a president who does not merely pollute the social atmosphere with invectives directed at various disfavored minorities; he uses his inflated office not just to shape this atmosphere but to be this atmosphere. When Gerald Ford became president after Richard Nixon’s resignation, he told the nation: “Our long national nightmare is over.” Today’s long — and perhaps occasionally lethal — national embarrassment will continue at least until Jan. 20, 2021. If it continues longer, this will be more than an embarrassment to the nation, this will be an indictment of it.
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WILL regulating certain kinds of weapons and ammunition magazines. The second question must be informed by the third, and by science. James Q. Wilson (19312012), the most accomplished social scientist of his time, noted that genetics and neuroscience suggest that selfcontrol is more attenuated in men, and especially in young men, than in women. The part of the brain that stimulates anger and aggression is larger in men, and the part that restrains anger is smaller in men. Wilson emphasized that this does not mean that violent men are absolved of blame. It does mean that as biology and the social environment interact, this environment must be treated with care by prominent people. It is not implausible to believe that Trump’s years of sulfurous rhetoric — never mind his Monday morning reading, seemingly for the first time, of words the teleprompter told him to recite — can provoke behaviors from susceptible individuals, such as the El Paso shooter. If so, those who marked ballots for Trump — we have had quite enough exculpatory sociology about the material deprivations and status anxieties of the white working class — should have second or perhaps first thoughts. His Republican groupies, meanwhile, are complicit. The grotesquely swollen place of the presidency in governance (now that governance has become, for Congress, merely a spectator sport) and society has been made
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Greene County Legislature, shame on you To the editor: I was born and raised here in Greene County. I used to be (proud) to say that I lived in Catskill (Greene County), but not anymore. I thought I seen it all when our great Greene County Hospital was closed, and was empty for awhile up until CMH bought and made promises that were not kept. The Greene County Legislature has put aside $500,000, to demolish the old Greene County Jail, however, there’s a group of people that are willing to pay for the old jail, and put it to good use. The county administrator (Shaun Groden) stated in the (Catskill Daily Mail July 18, 2019) paper, “deemed unsafe, the showers are leaking to the offices downstairs, windows are cracked and broken, walls are falling down and the floors are cracked and pushing up,
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and not handicapped accessible.” Why didn’t Sheriff Seeley and Superintendent Spitz do their job? Let this jail go, they didn’t do their job, and when you don’t do your job up to standards, you should be fired. It has to stop right here and now, you got to stop turning the old, just to build a parking lot. I remember a sad day for Catskill when they tore down the old armory, for what, a parking lot. That’s what Mr. Groden wants to do again. Let’s keep the history alive, if there’s history to be kept alive, let the group of people buy it and turn it into a criminal justice museum, it would sure help the tourism of Greene County. I believe this new jail should have been put up for a vote by all county residents.
In closing, the present Greene County Legislature have made five main mistakes. 1. You are not listening to the people tht elected you; 2. You are putting our children and grandchildren in debt for this new jail; 3. You are leeting a free for all into the old jail and letting people take or buy things when they shouldn’t; 4. Let the people buy it and turn it into the criminal justice museum; 5. You are wasting $500,000 for demolishing the old jail, when it can be saved. In closing, I believe all you legislators just wanted your names to be remembered, well it will for putting us into debt. ELTON VANDERMARK CATSKILL
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Mary Martha Turon Mary Martha Turon of Greenville NY, widow of George Turon, Jr. passed away on Friday July 26, 2019. Martha was born in South Westerlo on August 23, 1922, daughter of the late Darius H. and Irma Cleveland Rundell. She was a wonderful cook/baker who worked for many years in the boarding houses and resorts in the Greenville area. Martha, who was a talented musician, loved her music, gardening, and crossword puzzles. She is survived by her daughter Sally Jane Carlin (Stuart) of Summerville SC, son Leland George of Greenville NY; grandchildren, Eric (Christina), Kyle, Erin, and Tara Turon, and Ryan, Brandon (Laurene) and Rhett Carlin (Michelle). She is also survived by
great grandchildren, nieces and nephews and her sister-in-law Elsie Turon. She was predeceased by her sons, Kenneth Wayne Turon and Gary Michael Turon, sister Ruth Grenci and brother Horace Rundell. The family will receive friends and relatives on Saturday, August 17th from 10am to 11am at the A.J. Cunningham Funeral Home, 4898 State Route 81, Greenville. Her Funeral service will be at 11am with interment following at the Greenville Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Columbia-Greene Humane Society, 111 Humane Society Road, Hudson, NY 12534. Condolences can be posted at ajcunninghamfh.com.
British Airways flight evacuated after cabin appears to fill with smoke Iliana Magra The New York Times News Service
LONDON — The cabin of a British Airways flight filled with what appeared to be white smoke as it prepared for landing in Spain on Monday afternoon, prompting the airline to evacuate more than 170 passengers, with three taken to the hospital. In an emailed statement Tuesday, the airline acknowledged that its flight BA422 from Heathrow Airport near London had experienced a technical issue on its landing approach into Valencia, Spain’s thirdlargest city. The statement added that three passengers had been taken to a hospital as a precaution and had since been discharged and that the airline was investigating the details of what had happened. That came as little comfort to many of those onboard the flight, some of whom posted on social media about their experience. Most passengers were barely discernible through the white smoke or vapor in a video shared on Twitter by Gayle Fitzpatrick, one of the passengers on the flight. Neither the crew — some of whom, according to passengers, put on oxygen masks
and protective fire gear — nor the airline said anything to the passengers about what happened, Fitzpatrick, a corporate governance manager at Audit Scotland, said in a message Tuesday. “We are still waiting to hear what happened,” she said. “It was very scary.” Thomas Budd, a lecturer in airport planning and management at Cranfield University in Britain, said potential causes of smoke in a plane cabin included electrical failures, overheating equipment, galley spillages and hot-air leaks from pneumatic ducts. In this case, the flight was nearing its finish when the plane started descending rapidly, and “a horrible white acrid smoke” began to fill the cabin, Fitzpatrick said. “A detector was going off,” she added. There was a smell of metal and chemicals, Lucy Brown, another passenger, said in a message Tuesday. “We covered our mouths with our clothes,” she said. “We don’t know why oxygen masks didn’t deploy.” Passengers shouted they couldn’t breathe, she added. “Felt like a horror film,” she said. “Hopefully we’ll find out what went wrong on the plane soon so it never happens again.”
Toni Morrison, 1st black woman writer to win Nobel Prize dies at 88 David Henry Bloomberg
Toni Morrison, the first black woman to win a Nobel Prize in Literature for her novels depicting the struggles of black Americans living in a white society ridden with racial discrimination, has died. She was 88. Her death was reported by the Associated Press, which cited an unidentified friend. No cause was given. The former Princeton University professor wrote novels that redefined the black American experience and portrayed social disharmony through the eyes of mainly female protagonists. From Pecola Breedlove in Morrison’s first work, “The Bluest Eye” (1970), about an 11-year-old black girl surrounded by violence and grinding poverty who prays for blue eyes that she thinks will end her loneliness, to Sethe in “Beloved” (1987), about a runaway Kentucky slave who kills her daughter to spare her a life in captivity, Morrison’s characters confront the burdens inflicted on them by a white culture. “I would like to write novels that were unmistakably mine, but nevertheless fit first into African American traditions and second of all, this whole thing called literature,” she said in a 1993 interview with the Paris Review. “It’s very important to me that my work be African American; if it assimilates into a different or larger pool, so much the better.” Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993 for “novels characterized by visionary force and poetic import,” and she “gives life to an essential aspect of American reality,” the Nobel Foundation wrote. She won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for fiction for “Beloved” and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor, in 2012. It was presented by Barack Obama, whose Facebook page lists Morrison’s “Song of Solomon” (1977) as one of his favorite books. The novel deals with a disillusioned young black man, Macon “Milkman” Dead, who reconnects with his roots and finds spiritual meaning. Morrison’s other acclaimed novels included “Sula” (1973), about a black woman who disregards social conventions, and “Jazz” (1992), a historical novel that was part of a trilogy beginning with “Beloved” and ending with “Paradise” (1997). In 2006, the New York Times Book Review cited “Beloved” as the best American novel of the past 25 years, based on the responses of several hundred writers, critics
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and editors. “Ms. Morrison’s versatility and technical and emotional range appear to know no bounds,” Margaret Atwood wrote in the book review for the New York Times. “If there were any doubts about her stature as a pre-eminent American novelist, of her own or any other generation, ‘Beloved’ will put them to rest.” Born Chloe Anthony Wofford on Feb. 18, 1931, in Lorain, Ohio, Morrison was the second of four children in a working-class family, according to the Nobel Foundation’s profile. Her parents were George and Ella Ramah Wofford. She acquired her name Toni as an abbreviation of her middle name while at school, according to a 2012 article in New York magazine. Morrison graduated from Lorain High School and in 1953 received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Howard University in Washington. Two years later, she earned a master’s degree in American literature from Cornell University. After teaching at Texas Southern University and Howard University during the mid-1950s, she married Harold Morrison, a Jamaican architect in 1958. Five years later, she became a senior editor for the
publishing company Random House in its New York headquarters. In the 1970s, Morrison began to gain recognition for her writing, receiving an American Book Award nomination for “Sula” and winning the National Book Critics’ Circle Award for “Song of Solomon.” She was named a distinguished writer by the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1978 and was appointed by President Jimmy Carter to the National Council on the Arts in 1980. In 1984, Morrison became the Albert Schweitzer professor of humanities at the State University of New York in Albany. She moved to Princeton University to take up the Robert F. Goheen Chair in humanities in 1989 and remained there until 2006. With her husband, whom she divorced in 1964, Morrison had two children, Harold and Slade, who co-wrote children’s books with his mother. Slade Morrison, an artist, died in 2010 at age 45. “We die; that may be the meaning of life,” Morrison said in her Nobel Prize lecture, citing the folktale of a wise blind woman. “But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”
Beach town utilize hawks, falcons FUNERAL and owls to scare away pesky seagulls DIRECTORS Dana Hedgpeth The Washington Post
If city leaders in Ocean City, New Jersey have their way, the days of pesky seagulls grabbing fries from beachgoers will be over and everyone will have hawks, falcons and owls to thank. The town, population around 11,000, is a popular summertime destination, but as at many resort areas, seagulls in Ocean City can get
annoying. The gulls become “dependent on an unnatural supply of food stolen from people on the boardwalk and beach,” Jay Gillian, the city’s mayor, said in a statement on the city’s website. To try to get the gulls to leave the beach area, Ocean City officials said they’ve hired a company — East Coast Falcons — to bring in falcons, hawks and owls that will scare away the gulls. They’re trying to “move
the gulls away from these areas without harming them,” Gillian said in his statement. Gulls typically leave an area and deem it unsafe at the sight of raptors. Officials said they believe their abatement program is one of the first for a seashore town along the East Coast. Last year, a shopping mall in California hired a company to bring in a hawk to get rid of pigeons.
Where the 2020 Democrats stand on gun control Matt Stevens The New York Times News Service
Former Vice President Joe Biden endorsed a national assault-weapons buyback program for the first time Monday night, joining other Democratic presidential candidates in calling for new gun control measures in the wake of two mass shootings over the weekend that left 31 people dead. In an interview on CNN, Biden also reaffirmed his support for universal background checks on new gun purchasers and for a ban on assault weapons. And Tuesday morning, Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, released his own plan aimed at curbing gun violence and extremism, proposing a nationwide gun licensing system. As the nation reels from the shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, many of the 2020 contenders are eager to explain what they would do about gun violence if elected president. While the field of two dozen hopefuls has largely agreed on a set of ideas that Democrats have been trying to advance unsuccessfully for decades, some candidates have latched onto more progressive policies that previously might not have been politically palatable. Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, who had already released a gun control plan in May, is expected to deliver a major speech on gun violence Wednesday morning. He has also called for a federal
gun licensing program, one of the more progressive proposals in the field. Also this week, former Rep. Beto O’Rourke, whose hometown is El Paso, came out in favor of gun licenses and buyback programs after having previously endorsed less stringent measures, and Gov. Jay Inslee of Washington released his own gun-safety proposal. Several other candidates, including Sen. Kamala Harris of California, former Rep. John Delaney of Maryland and selfhelp author Marianne Williamson, have already issued plans outlining how they would deal with guns. Many of the Democrats agree on policies like universal background checks, assault weapons bans and so-called redflag laws, which would allow for the confiscation of firearms from people found to be mentally ill. Here’s a quick look at some of the ideas that have been proposed and who backs them. Gun Licensing Under a gun licensing program, a person seeking to buy a firearm would need to apply for a license in much the same way one applies for a passport. Such a program would set minimum standards for gun ownership nationwide. Booker’s 14-part plan to combat gun violence has a gun licensing program as its centerpiece. His campaign has said the process would involve submitting fingerprints and sitting for an interview,
and would require applicants to complete a certified gun safety course. Each applicant would also undergo a federal background check before being issued a gun license, which would be valid for up to five years. Now Buttigieg and O’Rourke also back such a plan. Former Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado expressed his support for gun licensing in a plan he released a few weeks after Booker’s. Research has shown that background checks and assault weapons bans, when implemented at the state level, are not nearly as effective at reducing gun homicides and suicides as gun licensing programs for purchasers. A study published in 2018 found that 63% of gun owners supported requiring a person to obtain a license from a local law enforcement agency before buying a gun; support for gun licensing among people who do not own a gun was even higher. A Buyback Program Rep. Eric Swalwell of California is no longer running for the 2020 nomination. But when he was, he made gun control his signature issue and put the idea of a nationwide buyback program for assault weapons on the table. Swalwell’s buyback program would have been mandatory; his plan suggested that the government criminally prosecute anyone who refused to comply. In an interview on “Pod Save America” on Monday, O’Rourke said he would
support a mandatory buyback program. Biden, in his comments Monday night, appeared to endorse a voluntary approach. “Right now, there’s no legal way that I’m aware of that you could deny them the right” to own an assault weapon if it had been legally purchased, Biden said. Background Checks, Closing Loopholes and More Many of the candidates agree on other measures aimed at curbing gun violence. In addition to background checks, red-flag laws and an assault weapons ban, several candidates — including Buttigieg, Harris and Delaney — want to close the so-called boyfriend loophole. Doing so would bar people under a restraining order or who were convicted of abusing, assaulting or stalking a domestic partner from buying guns. Most of the candidates who have released specific plans on gun violence also support measures such as banning high-capacity magazines, funding gunviolence research and raising the age to purchase a firearm to 21. “We cannot continue to live in this reality,” Booker wrote in an email to supporters late Sunday. “There are so many steps we can take to end this uniquely American problem.”
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The J.H. Whitbeck Company in Coxsackie By David Dorpfeld, Greene County Historian For Columbia-Greene Media
A few months ago Jean Bush gave me copy of an article that appeared in the “American Journal of Commerce.” It was undated and titled “THE J.H. WHITBECK COMPANY, COXSACKIE, N.Y.” We know from other documentation that the company was a thriving enterprise in Coxsackie in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was established in 1881 by J.H. Whitbeck and he served as president. Why was this interesting to me? Because the article demonstrates how important agriculture was to Greene County during this period. Consider that in 1900 about 40% of the country’s population lived on farms and 60% lived in rural areas like Greene County. Today the respective figures are 1% and 20%.
The article leads as follows: “Owing to the location of Coxsackie, in the center of an important farming territory, there is in the village a considerable demand at certain seasons of the year for implements of agriculture, and to meet such demand ample provision is made in the town. One of the most important enterprises in the Hudson River Valley is owned and managed by the Whitbeck Company, dealers in all kinds of agricultural implements.” The article goes on to say that the company owns and occupies all of a three-story building, 60x100 feet in dimensions, and a large warehouse near the West Shore depot. The three-story frame building still stands today on the northwest corner of Mansion and Whitbeck streets in West Coxsackie. At the time it also had a freight elevator that
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Advertisement for the back cover of the 1901 Greene County Business Directory.
ran from the basement to the third floor. In the February 24, 1894 “Examiner,” the paper reported that “The J. H. Whitbeck Company … is anxious that a patronizing public shall see
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County Economic Development Corporation (GCEDC) will be holding its 2019 meetings at 4 p.m. Aug. 7, Sept. 4, Oct. 2, Nov. 6 and Dec. 4 at the Greene County Economic Development, Tourism and Planning Conference Room (Room 427), 411 Main St., Catskill. All meetings of the GCEDC are open to the public.
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CAIRO — Cairo Public Library, 15 Railroad Ave., Cairo, hosts Make It! Crafts, Beading and Building for children 4 and older, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Tuesdays. This is a drop-in program; no preregistration required but caregivers should plan to attend with children under 8. Children under 10 must have caregiver on premises. For information, call Cairo Public Library at 518-6229864.
CATSKILL — The Kiskatom Ladies Auxiliary will be holding its Nickel Social at Aug. 9 at the Kiskatom Firehouse, Route 32, Catskill. Doors open at 6 p.m. Refreshments will be available along with a 50/50 and 3 for $1 tables.
CAIRO — Cairo Public Library, 15 Railroad Ave., Cairo, presents Game On! Learn to play classic board games – and to design your own for children 5 and older, 1-2 p.m. Wednesdays. This is a drop-in program; no preregistration required but caregivers should plan to attend with children under 8. Children under 10 must have caregiver on premises. For information, call Cairo Public Library at 518-6229864. CAIRO — Cairo Public Library, 15 Railroad Ave., Cairo, presents Shake, Rattle, and Read 10:30-11:30 a.m. Fridays. Join Miss Alex for an hour of music, dance, fingerplays, stories, and open play. Designed for children 4 and younger with their caregivers. Drop-in program. No preregistration required. For information, call 518-622-9864. CAIRO — Friends of the Cairo Public Library will hold book sales 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Wednesdays in July and August at the shed behind the library, 15 Railroad Ave., Cairo. Weather permitting.
AUG. 7 NEWBURGH — Mount Saint Mary College will be hosting an information session for students looking to transfer colleges or complete their degree 4-7 p.m. Aug. 7 on campus, 330 Powell Ave., Newburgh. Follow the signs from the main gate. The event is open to prospective daytime and evening transfer students. Register now at msmc.edu/ transferevent. This is a onestop event for students interested in transferring college credits toward a bachelor’s degree. The Mount’s friendly and knowledgeable admissions team will aid you in learning more about the college’s career-focused degree programs. For questions, call 845569-3509 or email to transfer@ msmc.edu. CATSKILL — The Greene
KINGSTON — The Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills, 320 Sawkill Road, Kingston, will show “The ISIS Trial” 7-9 p.m. Aug. 9, with special guest, filmmaker Ellie Bernstein. Evidence shows that these young men had no propensity for violence. This documentary takes a look at why young men with no criminal background would be attracted to join a terrorist organization. Cosponsored by Middle East Crisis Response, Hudson Valley BDS, Jewish Voice for Peace-HV, Veterans For Peace-Catskill Mountains, and Women in Black-New Paltz. For information, mecr@ mideastcrisis.org or 845-8767906.
AUG. 10 WINDHAM — The Patchworkers Quilt Show will be held 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Aug. 10 and 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Aug. 11 at the WAJ Central School, 5411 Main St., Windham. On site parking west of school. Admission, $3; complimentary refreshments. Proceeds to benefit the food pantries. Show and sale quilts, special exhibit of award winning quilts, auction dream baskets, raffle quilt, vendor section featuring local artisans, patchwork boutique and notions.
their stock. Their store has the largest plate glass window in town.” A strange thing to boast about, but Raymond Beecher, former Greene County historian, told me that in that large window J.H. Whitbeck once displayed a gray dapple stuffed horse pulling a sleigh or wagon, depending on the season of the year. Wish we had a picture of that. The company sold an amazing array of items and Whitbeck was not shy about advertising. Of course, his audience was not just Coxsackie. The 1901 Business Directory for Greene County features a fullpage advertisement for the company’s wares. In another advertisement from 1901, the company includes a long list of items for sale. In addition to hardware of all kinds, the following are listed: wagons, sleighs, harness, robes, blankets, boots,
shoes and notions, flour, feed, grain, groceries, paints, oils, varnishes, horse-powered thrashers, hay presses (movable and stationary), harvesters, binders and reapers, hay tenders, wheel rakes, hay riggings, churns, pumps of all kinds, the latest improved grain drills, broadcast sowers, sulky and walking plows, disc harrows, riding and walking harrows and cultivators, and wire netting. That’s not all. At the bottom of the ad it states in bold type: FINE LINE OF GENTS’ FURNISHING GOODS. Was Whitbeck running the Walmart of his day? Note that he sold groceries as well. It seems that only pharmacy and ladies and children’s clothing are missing. Ray Beecher also said the late William Vincent once worked for J.H. Whitbeck as a young man for 20 cents an
hour. Vincent described Whitbeck as one of the sharpest traders in Coxsackie mercantile history. At the warehouse where traded-in equipment was stored and repaired for resale, Bill Vincent scraped and painted the old equipment for resale. He said Whitbeck would take anything in trade, including livestock, old cows, sheep, horses and pigs. I grew up on a dairy farm in the late 1940s and ‘50s. The time was at the end of the great agriculture era in Greene County. Some farmers were still farming with horses and bringing their hay in loose to the barn. I found it interesting to learn a bit more about the agriculture boom days in the county. Reach columnist David Dorpfeld at gchistorian@gmail.com or visit him on Facebook at “Greene County Historian.”
HONEYFORD MEMORIAL AMERICAN LEGION POST RECEIVES PROCLAMATION of inclement weather, story time will be held inside the Arboretum’s Education Center. For information, call 518-5893903. HUDSON — The ‘Rocky’ Romano Bocce Tournament sponsored by Columbia County Sons & Daughters of Italy 659, 27 Bridge St., Hudson, will be held Aug. 10. Registration begins at 9 a.m. with activities beginning at 10 a.m. Trophies will be awarded. Two person teams, $15 a team with registration prior to Aug. 10; $20 day of. For information, call Art Frank at 518-828-3824. CAIRO — Piecemakers of Cairo Annual Quilt & Needlework Show will be held 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Aug. 10 at the Cairo Public Library, 15 Railroad Ave., Cairo. Boutique, raffles, vendors and door prizes. Admission is $3. For information, call 518-622-2270.
AUG. 11 COXSACKIE — Nite Train performs 6-8 p.m. Aug. 11 at Coxsackie Riverside Park, Betke Boulevard, Coxsackie. Admission is free. SAUGERTIES — The Saugerties Antique Auto Club 62nd annual Car-Truck-Motorcycle Show will be held 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Aug. 11 at Cantine Memorial Field in Saugerties. The event will be held rain or shine. It will feature plaques, goodie bags, a flea market music, breakfast and lunch. More than 40 trophies will be awarded. Vehicle registration is $15 and pre-1942 stock vehicles are free. All vehicles welcome with no vehicle cut off year. Club member cars will not be judged. For information, call 845-679-6810 or 845-3378426.
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CAIRO — Cruise Nite will be held at 4 p.m. Aug. 10 at Angelo Canna Town Park, Joseph D. Spencer Lane, Cairo. Admission is free. Free T-shirt to cruiser car entrant, muffler rap contest, music sponsored by National Bank of Coxsackie, refreshments available, nostalgic awards. For information, call Bill at 518-622-3430.
CAIRO — The Cairo Public Library, 15 Railroad St., Cairo, will host a Guitar Workshop for Beginner/Intermediate players 6-8 p.m. Aug. 12 and 10 a.m.-noon Aug. 17. This workshop will cover the basics like tuning, exercises, major and minor chords and strum patterns, and learning a favorite song. The student must bring a guitar. The workshop is free to participants but preregistration is a must by calling the library at 518-622-9864.
TANNERSVILLE — Mountain Top Arboretum hosts Story Time in the Shade 10:3011:30 a.m. Aug. 10 at 4 Maude Adams Road, Tannersville. Admission is free. Mountain Top Arboretum collaborates with Mountain Top Library for a series of summer story times. Join library staff for a story-filled hour of reading aloud in the Fairy Garden and Outdoor Amphitheater. After the stories get creative with a themed craft to match what was read. In case
GREENVILLE — The Greenville Local History Group will meet at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 12 at the Greenville Library, 11177 Route 32, Greenville. Thirty Years of Greenville Local History is the program. Thirty years spans both the tenure of Town Historian Don Teator and the creation of the GLHG. Teator will narrate a timeline of the accomplishments, collections, people and highlights. The public is invited, free of charge, to the program. Light refreshments will be served.
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Commander Tom Andreassen is pictured receiving a proclamation from Assemblyman Chris Tague in honor Honeyford Memorial American Legion Post 110’s 100th anniversary on July 13.
Woodstock Artists Association & Museum announces new gallery director WOODSTOCK — The Woodstock Artists Association & Museum (WAAM) announces the appointment of Diane Dwyer as its new gallery director. Dwyer brings to the position her experience as a working artist and former gallery owner of the Imogen Holloway Gallery in Saugerties, providing a thorough understanding of running a gallery and working with artists. As gallery director, Dwyer will work with the Exhibition Committee in expanding opportunities for artists in the region and in developing new projects and programs that further engage the artists and art-appreciating community served by the WAAM.
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In accepting the position Dwyer commented, “The WAAM is wholly unique in the Hudson Valley, with its five exhibition spaces and
incredible permanent collection. An institution with such a rich cultural history deserves an equally exciting future. It’s my hope to help create a space where the historical and the contemporary can meet, and mix it up in a way that enlivens both. I’m grateful to the WAAM community for this opportunity.” The WAAM is excited to welcome Dwyer as its new gallery director. Her credentials, experience and vision are a wonderful match for the organization as the WAAM embarks on its next century, gallery officials said. Come to the next opening reception 4-6 p.m. Aug. 17 to meet and welcome Dwyer to the WAAM.
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State pension may eliminate survivor benefit Dear Rusty: Please validate or negate this dreadful information: My husband and I are recently retired and living on our combined retirement plans. I was told that when my husband dies, I will NOT be allowed to draw ANY of his hard-earned Social Security income. I cannot survive on my Louisiana teacher retirement alone. We were never informed of this until we had worked hard for 40 years and retired. Can you advise me on this dreadful turn of events. Signed: Bewildered in Louisiana Dear Bewildered: Unfortunately, I don’t have
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GLOOR good news. If your teaching career and the associated pension were in the state of Louisiana, I’m afraid that any Social Security survivor benefit you might be eligible for from your husband will be impacted by the Government Pension
Offset (GPO) — a provision of Social Security which applies to anyone with a pension from an employer who did not participate in the Social Security program. Louisiana is, unfortunately, one of 27 U.S. states whose employees may be affected by the GPO, because neither you nor the state of Louisiana contributed to the Social Security program while you were employed there. It’s unfortunate you weren’t made aware of this by your employer, but it’s well documented in the state’s “LASERS” information, which you can view at this link: https://www.lsuhsc. edu/administration/hrm/ benefits-retirement-nonss.
aspx The GPO will reduce your Social Security survivor benefit by two-thirds of the amount of your LA state pension, and if two-thirds of your LA pension is more than your SS survivor’s benefit, the Social Security survivor benefit will be eliminated. I know it’s no solace, but you are not alone in your dismay over this provision. In fact, a bill is active in Congress to eliminate the GPO (and a sister provision known as the Windfall Elimination Provision, or WEP), but that bill has made little headway despite having 195 congressional co-sponsors. The bill I’m referring to is the “Social
Security Fairness Act,” which is House bill H.R. 1205 (there is a corresponding Senate bill S.915). You can examine it at https://www.congress.gov/ bill/115th-congress/housebill/1205, but I must let you know that very little progress has been made on this bill since it was introduced almost two years ago. For the record, the Association of Mature American Citizens (AMAC) has expressed support for the bill’s passage, but to no avail in a Congress which is instead debating ways to resolve Social Security’s larger financial issues, which are now projected to deplete the Trust Fund by 2035. The only suggestion
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Tuesdays of each month at the Bethany Village in Coxsackie. While the loss of a loved one is a common source of grief other reasons include the loss of a job, the death of a beloved pet, experiencing a major health challenge such as cancer and the ending of a relationship. Grief is a very personal and individual emotion. Support groups provide many benefits to those who are grieving. Those who are experiencing grief early on can connect with others in the group who have successfully managed their grief and are further along on their road to feeling happy once again. More information can be found at the face book page at Coxsackie Grief Support Group and also by contacting Jeffrey Haas at 518478-5414 or jhaasrph@aol. com.
Memorial Health will host a Stroke Survivor and Caregiver monthly support group at 3 p.m. the second Wednesday of the month at The Pines at Catskill Center for Nursing & Rehabilitation, 154 Jefferson Heights, Catskill. For information, call 518-943-5151.
I can offer for your personal situation is to contact your congressional representatives and ask for their support and action on H.R. 1205 and S.915. This article is intended for information purposes only and does not represent legal or financial guidance. It presents the opinions and interpretations of the AMAC Foundation’s staff, trained and accredited by the National Social Security Association (NSSA). NSSA and the AMAC Foundation and its staff are not affiliated with or endorsed by the Social Security Administration or any other governmental entity. To submit a question, visit our website or email us.
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ATHENS SENIOR CITIZENS ATHENS — The Athens Senior Citizens meet at 1:15 p.m. the second and fourth Monday of the month at the Rivertown Senior Center, 39 Second St., Athens.
CAIRO GOLDEN AGERS CAIRO — The Cairo Golden Agers meet at 1:30 p.m. the second and fourth Wednesday of the month at the Acra Community Center, Route 23, Acra.
CATSKILL SILVER LININGS SENIORS CATSKILL — The Catskill Silver Linings Seniors meet at 1 p.m. the second Thursday of the month at the Robert C. Antonelli Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill.
COXSACKIE AREA SENIORS COXSACKIE — The Coxsackie Area Seniors meet at 1:30 p.m. the second and fourth Wednesday of the month in Van Heest Hall, Bethany Village, 800 Bethany
Village, West Coxsackie.
SENIOR CITIZENS OF COXSACKIE COXSACKIE — The Senior Citizens of Coxsackie meet at 1:30 p.m. the first and third Monday of the month at the Coxsackie Senior Center, 127 Mansion St., Coxsackie.
GREENVILLE GOLDEN YEARS CLUB GREENVILLE — The Greenville Golden Club meet at 1:30 p.m. the first Wednesday of the month at the American Legion Hall, 54 Maple Ave., Greenville. Aug. 7 meeting will be enjoying our ice cream after the meeting.
MOUNTAIN TOP GOLDEN AGERS TANNERSVILLE — The Mountain Top Golden Agers meet at 1:30 p.m. the fourth Thursday of the month at Tannersville Village Hall, 1 Park Lane, Tannersville.
WAJPL GOLDEN AGERS HENSONVILLE — The WAJPL Golden Agers meet at 1:30 p.m. the first and third Monday of the month at Hensonville Town Building, 371 Route 296, Hensonville.
WATERCOLOR CLASSES ATHENS — Watercolor classes taught by Regine Petrosky will be held 1-3 p.m. six Tuesdays Sept. 17 through Oct. 22 at the Rivertown Senior Center, 39 Second St., Athens. Sign up at the center for classes. Maximum 12 people. Supplies will be provided.
WEST COXSACKIE — The Active Older Adult Day will be held 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Aug. 21 at the Greene County YMCA, 35 Route 81, Hope Plaza, West Coxsackie. A free lunch will be served at noon. RSVP for lunch by Aug. 16 at 518-731-7529 or stop by the front desk. Open to the community. There will be screenings and resources, raffles and more.
COMMUNITY RESOURCE DAY TANNERSVILLE — Mountain Top Community Resource Day will be held 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Aug. 22 at the Mountain Top Library, 6093 Main St., Tannersville. Sponsored by the Greene County Department for Human Services RSVP. Stop in to learn how area vendors can assist you. For information, call Ruth Jones Pforte at 518-719-3555.
MOVING FOR BETTER BALANCE ACRA — Moving for Better Balance will be held 10-11 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays through Aug. 27 at the Acra Community Center, Senior Nutrition Site, Old Route 23B, Acra. Class size is limited. Preregistration is required and can be made by calling Toni Carroll, wellness coordinator at 518-731-7429.
CATSKILL — The Alzheimer’s Association holds support group meetings at 3 p.m. the first Wednesday of the month at The Pines, Jefferson Heights, Catskill.
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COXSACKIE — The Alzheimer’s Association holds support group meetings at 6 p.m. the third Thursday of the month at Heermance Memorial Library, 1 Ely St., Coxsackie.
COXSACKIE — A grief support group will start meeting at 6 p.m. the second and fourth
CATSKILL — The Pines at Catskill and Columbia
SHOPPING BUS CATSKILL — The Greene County Department of Human Services offers a shopping bus to Greene County residents 60 and older, living in the towns of Ashland, Athens, Cairo, Catskill, Coxsackie, Greenville, Hunter, Jewett, Prattsville and Windham. Seniors are picked up at their door, driven to Catskill for shopping and then have lunch at a local senior center before returning home. Special trips are scheduled periodically. Monday: Mountain Top/ Catskill (Windham, Ashland, Prattsville, Jewett and Hunter). Tuesday: Cairo/Greenville/ Catskill. Wednesday: Athens/Coxsackie. The Shopping Bus does not run on the following holidays: New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Presidents’ Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Election Day (November), Veterans Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas. The trip to Colonie Center
will be Dec. 20. The following is the 2019 trips to Colonie Center. Trips are the third Thursday of the month. The cost is $10. Payment is due at time of departure/boarding. Aug. 15, Sept. 19, Oct. 17, Nov. 21, Dec. 19. Reservations must be made no later than 3 p.m. of the Wednesday before the trip. In addition, during snow or ice storms, it may be necessary to close the senior service centers because of hazardous driving conditions. When centers are closed, transportation services are also cancelled for the day, which includes the shopping bus. Advance notice/reservation required for all shopping bus transportation. For information or to reserve a seat, call Janet at 518-719-3559.
COMMUNITY THANKSGIVING DINNER ATHENS — The Senior Angels’ fourth annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner will be held Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28 at the Rivertown Senior Center, 39 Second St., Athens. Open to all seniors 60 and older. Doors open 11 a.m.; lunch served noon-2 p.m. There will be music, door prizes and conversation over coffee and pie 2-4 p.m. For information, or to donate to help offset costs, contact the Department of Human Services at 518-7193555 and ask to speak to Ken.
Senior Menu CATSKILL — The following is the weekly nutrition menu offered by the Greene County Department of Human Services’ Senior Nutrition Program. Served daily with each meal are bread or alternative with Promise Spread; low fat milk, coffee or tea. All persons 60 and older and their spouses are invited. The suggested donation for each meal is $4. The menu will be the meal that is delivered to all Greene County home bound meal clients. Those wishing to receive lunch at a center are asked to call the respective location at least a day in advance. Rivertown Senior Center, 39 Second St., Athens; 518-9452700. Acra Community Center, Old Route 23B, Cairo; 518-6229898. Jewett Municipal Building, Route 23C, Jewett; 518-2634392. Washington Irving Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill; 518-943-1343. Town of Coxsackie Senior Center, Mansion Street,
Coxsackie; 518-731-8901.
AUG. 7 THROUGH AUG. 14 WEDNESDAY: Fresh ham with gravy, applesauce, braised cabbage, sweet potato, chocolate mousse. THURSDAY: Turkey burgers, butter and garlic rotini, California mixed vegetables, yogurt grape dessert. FRIDAY: Chicken salad stuffed tomato, macaroni salad, cucumber salad, watermelon. MONDAY: Herb baked fish, scalloped potatoes, California mixed vegetables, peaches. TUESDAY: Chicken Dijon, mashed potatoes, creamed spinach, banana pudding. WEDNESDAY: Sloppy Joes, brown rice, corn and lima beans, pears.
AUG. 14 THROUGH AUG. 21 WEDNESDAY: Sloppy Joes, brown rice, corn and lima beans, pears. THURSDAY: Pulled pork cole slaw, baked beans, collard greens, fresh fruit. FRIDAY: Turkey and cheese sub, potato salad, spinach
salad, oatmeal cookies. MONDAY: Sweet and sour pork, brown rice, broccoli, tropical mixed fruit. TUESDAY: Barbecue chicken, brussels sprouts, baked beans, fruited gelatin. WEDNESDAY: Meatloaf with gravy, winter squash, mashed potatoes, banana pudding poke cake.
AUG. 21 THROUGH AUG. 28 WEDNESDAY: Meatloaf with gravy, winter squash, mashed potatoes, banana pudding poke cake. THURSDAY: Cold salad plate, seafood pasta salad, macaroni salad, beet salad, sliced tomatoes, chocolate mousse. FRIDAY: Roast beef with gravy, green salad, baked potato, glazed carrots, local farm fresh fruit. MONDAY: Linguini with red clam sauce, spinach, lemon pudding. TUESDAY: Pork chops with mushroom gravy, applesauce, mashed potatoes, Harvard beets, fruit cocktail. WEDNESDAY: Swedish
meatballs, buttered noodles, red cabbage, tropical cake.
AUG. 28 THROUGH SEPT. 4 WEDNESDAY: Swedish meatballs, buttered noodles, red cabbage, tropical cake. THURSDAY: Chicken divan, brown rice, summer squash, fresh peaches. FRIDAY: Cold salad plate, chef’s salad, carrot raisin salad, banana. MONDAY: Closed TUESDAY: Sausage and tortellini with tomato sauce, spinach, chocolate mousse. WEDNESDAY: Roast turkey, gravy, mashed potatoes, mixed vegetables, dressing, peaches.
SEPT. 4 THROUGH SEPT. 11 WEDNESDAY: Roast turkey, gravy, mashed potatoes, mixed vegetables, dressing, peaches. THURSDAY: Seafood salad on lettuce, cole slaw, potato salad, yellow cake. FRIDAY: Chef’s choice, broccoli, fresh fruit. MONDAY: Macaroni and cheese, three bean salad,
stewed tomatoes, fruit cocktail. TUESDAY: Herb baked fish, red parsley potatoes, California mixed vegetables, pears. WEDNESDAY: Meatloaf, gravy, cauliflower, sweet potatoes, ambrosia.
SEPT. 11 THROUGH SEPT. 18 WEDNESDAY: Meatloaf, gravy, cauliflower, sweet potatoes, ambrosia. THURSDAY: Lemon chicken, fresh salad, green beans, au gratin potatoes, oatmeal cookies. FRIDAY: Sweet and sour pork, brown rice, broccoli, lemon mousse. MONDAY: Mushroom and Swiss quiche, green beans, hash brown potato, peaches. TUESDAY: Fresh ham, gravy, brussels sprouts, mashed potatoes, apple crisp. WEDNESDAY: Beef pot pie, boiled potato, carrots, birthday spice cake.
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percentage increase grew from the previous year. For the first half of 2019 compared to 2018, sales tax collections grew 4.9%; from 2018 to 2017 it grew 3.37%, so while the state is trending towards slower growth, Greene County’s numbers are rising. “We have had an expansion in our retail business community, which has certainly helped contribute to sales tax growth,” said Jeff Friedman, president and executive
director of the Greene County Chamber of Commerce. “We have just seen a lot of growth in our business community, with new businesses coming in and expansion of existing businesses — it shows the quality of our businesses and the strength of our economy.” In Columbia County, the rate is still growing year to year, though growth has slowed moderately — the growth rate from first half 2019 to first half 2018 was 5.3%, while last year that figure was 7.71% compared to the same time period in 2017. Though growth in sales tax collections in the county has
slowed somewhat, F. Michael Tucker, president and CEO of the Columbia Economic Development Corporation, said the trend is showing continued growth. “The most interesting thing to me is in August of 2018 the comptroller reported that Columbia County had a 7.7% increase compared to the first half of 2017. To the extent that we are now 5.3% higher [this year], the trend is as important as the actual increase from year to year,” Tucker said. He added that the figures bode well for the county. “I think that the collection
of sales tax is a reflection of people’s ability to spend money on consumer goods,” Tucker said. “But it is particularly interesting that this increase is not during the fall or summer tourist season. When you compare the increase in consumer spending resulting in increased sales tax, combined with the low unemployment rates, you are also seeing there is money in the pipeline — people are making money working and are able to spend it to improve the quality of their life in Columbia County.” Statewide, sales tax collections grew by 3.3% compared
to the first six months of last year, and the Capital District experienced a 2.8% increase. Collections in three regions grew by 1% or less — Central New York, Mohawk Valley and the North Country. Among upstate counties, the weak growth was more pronounced, according to DiNapoli’s report — sales tax collections in 15 counties, most of them upstate, actually declined. The top three counties with the strongest growth were Broome County at 9.8%, Seneca County at 7.3%, and Yates County at 6.8%. Friedman said that while
there are indications at the national level that the robust economy could be slowing — including steps the Federal Reserve has taken to try to boost the economy — those signs are not yet materializing at the local level. “We are not seeing any numbers in the county that give us pause and think there is a downturn coming. There are indications nationally, but locally we are not seeing those signs,” Friedman said. “In the near term I don’t foresee a slowdown locally, but it is not something we can totally control as the national economy can affect us.”
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Greg Stohr Bloomberg As mass shootings revive the U.S. debate over gun policy, the Supreme Court weighs whether to proceed with a Second Amendment showdown for the first time in a decade. The justices in January said they would hear a challenge to New York City rules that sharply limited where licensed handguns could be taken while locked and unloaded. Three city handgun owners said the regulations were the most extreme firearm-transportation restrictions in the country. But then the city loosened its rules -- and said the case should be dismissed because there was nothing left for the court to decide. Gun-rights advocates called the city’s move a transparent effort to avoid a ruling that would bolster the right to bear arms nationwide. The court could say this month what it will do with the case. It will be acting against the backdrop of gun massacres that killed 31 people last weekend in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio -- and ratcheted up the political acrimony in Washington. Congress has passed only incremental gun legislation despite heavy public support for some measures such as universal background checks. A decision by the Supreme Court to forge ahead with the New York case would mean a ruling next year in the heat of the presidential campaign. Ironically, a decision to drop the case could open the way to an even bigger ruling in the nine-month term that starts in October. The justices could take up a more sweeping New Jersey case they have been holding while they consider the New York City dispute. The New Jersey case centers on the right to carry a loaded handgun in public -- an issue that has divided federal
appeals courts. New Jersey is one of seven states, including California and New York, that bar most people from carrying weapons in public. New Jersey law requires people to show a “justifiable need” to get a carry permit -- a standard critics say very few people can meet. Gun-rights supporters have been pressing the court for years to take up another Second Amendment case. The court hasn’t heard one since it threw out a Chicago handgun ban in 2010, two years after it ruled for the first time that the Constitution protects individual firearm rights. The court could become more receptive to pro-gun arguments with the addition of the newest justice, Brett Kavanaugh. For now, the question is whether the court will rule in the New York case, even though the city said in court papers Monday that the challengers have received “everything they have sought in this lawsuit.” Under the New York law, people with a licensed handgun at home were allowed to take it to one of seven shooting ranges in the city, but almost nowhere else. Weapons had to be locked and unloaded during travel, and ammunition had to be put in a separate container. The residents who sued along with an advocacy group said they wanted to be able to take their handguns to more convenient target ranges outside the city and, in the case of a Staten Island man, to his second home. The city and its supporters say those things are permissible after changes to New York City’s regulations and a related state law. “There’s really no reason for the court to carry on with this issue,” said Adam Winkler, a professor at UCLA Law School who wrote a book on the fight
over the Second Amendment. The residents said even the revised regulations are too strict, forbidding a handgun owner from stopping on the way out of town, requiring written permission to take a weapon to a gunsmith and precluding transport to a summer rental house. They urged the Supreme Court not to reward New York’s “undisguised effort to avoid a precedentsetting loss.” New York state headed off a different Supreme Court clash earlier this year when it repealed a law banning socalled gravity knives -- easily opened with the flick of a wrist -- before the justices could say whether they would hear the appeal. The justices then turned away the challenge. The gun-transportation case is different because the court has already agreed to hear it, said Erik Jaffe, a Washington lawyer who filed a brief opposing the restrictions. A federal appeals court upheld the restrictions. “You’ve now wasted a whole bunch of time and forced people to write up a brief at the Supreme Court,” Jaffe said. Should the Supreme Court press ahead, arguments would probably be in December or early next year, with a decision by the end of its term in June. That timetable would push any consideration of the New Jersey case into the following term. Given the divide among federal appeals courts, Winkler said that case will be a strong candidate for review regardless of what happens with the New York fight. “There’s got to be a pretty good likelihood they take the New Jersey case at the end of the day,” Winkler said. Michael R. Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg News parent Bloomberg LP, is a donor to groups that support gun control, including Everytown for Gun Safety.
said. Nevel did not know if the fire was considered suspicious. Catskill Fire Department was among those assisting at the scene. “The fire at Scribner Hollow was burning on two floors and the attic on arrival,” according to the department’s Facebook page. “The crew worked on and off for two hours with the mountaintop fire departments before more relief arrived.” The unfortunate circumstances were a prime example of mutual aid working together, the department said. “The mountaintop is fortunate to have some hardworking fire departments to serve it,” the Catskill Fire Department. “To have firefighters from the valley and mountain standing side by side working together shows what this county is all about. Fires like these are a tough pill to swallow even for the most hard-core firefighters. We extend our sympathies to those who’s lives were touched by this tragedy.” State Police are being assisted by the Greene County Sheriff’s Office, New York
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Firefighters begin to comb through the remains of a townhouse that was destroyed by a fire early Tuesday.
State Fire and Greene County Fire Investigation Teams. Catskill, Hunter, Tannersville, Haines Falls, Hensonville, Palenville and Centerville Cedar Grove Fire Departments responded to
the scene. Hudson Fire Department sent a fire truck to Catskill to compensate for the need on the mountain top. This is an ongoing investigation.
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Saugerties, Red Hook to play for girls summer hoop title By Tim Martin Columbia-Greene Media
HUDSON — Saugerties White and Red Hook will play for the Columbia-Greene Girls Summer Basketball League title on Thursday at 5:30 p.m. at ColumbiaGreene Community College. No. 3 seed Saugerties White earned a trip to the title game by beating No. 6 Catskill, 32-24, then upsetting No. 1 seed and previously unbeaten Hudson, 4844, in the semifinals. Red Hook, the No. 2 seed, punched its ticket to the finals by defeating No. 5 seed Chatham, 4920. Chatham upended No. 4 seed Hunter-Tannersville, 39-30, in the opening round. The Saugerties White-Hudson contest was a game of runs, with Saugerties jumping out to a 6-2 lead in the first seven minutes and widening the gap to 20-12 with 7:23 remaining in the half. Hudson fought back to tie the score at 20-20 on three-pointers by Aaliyah Jones and Danaya Ragland and a bucket by Deja Beauford. The Bluehawks went on to outscore Saugerties 7-4 the remainder of the half to take a 27-24 edge at halftime. Saugerties White took control at the start of the second half, going on a 13-2 run to match it’s largest lead of the game, 37-29, with 12:35 to play. But once again, Hudson battled back and went on a 13-0 run to build a 42-37 advantage with 3:27 remaining. Shayna Coppersmith had six points and Beauford contributed four to highlight the Bluehawks’ spurt. A bucket and two free throws got Saugerties White back to within 42-41 with 1:45 to go. A Katie Jepsen basket boosted Hudson’s lead to 44-41, but Saugerties went on to score the final seven points of the game to pull out the victory. Earlier in the evening, Catskill gave Saugerties White all it could handle, building a 13-11 edge by halftime. The Cats extended their lead to 22-15 with 14 minutes remaining before going cold. Saugerties took advantage, reeling off 10 straight points to go up, 25-22, with 12:22 to go. See HOOP B3
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USA managing director Jerry Colangelo in attendance of the Phoenix Suns game against the Oklahoma City Thunder at Talking Stick Resort Arena.
Like the NBA, Team USA must adjust to new era of player empowerment Jerry Brewer The Washington Post
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Hudson’s Katie Jepsen drives to the basket during Monday’s Columbia-Greene Girls Summer Basketball League game against Saugerties White at Columbia-Greene Community College.
The latest casualty of MLB’s changing ball: Masahiro Tanaka’s splitter James Wagner The New York Times News Service
It was the split-finger fastball that helped Masahiro Tanaka become a star in his native Japan and then jump to the United States and a $155 million contract with the New York Yankees in 2014. At its best, the pitch darts sharply inward and down against right-handed batters. Its drastic late movement has
left batters whiffing a third of the time they have swung at it — managing a measly .195 batting average against Tanaka’s splitter from 2014 through last season. But like many puzzled pitchers around the majors these days, Tanaka has not been able to get his trademark pitch to behave quite the way it used to. He has clearly struggled this season — he was on
pace for a career-high walk rate and ERA (4.78) entering his start against the Baltimore Orioles on Monday. Tanaka did well early against the Orioles and took a 6-1 lead into the sixth inning, when he allowed four runs and departed with one out. The Yankees ended up with a 9-6 win even though Tanaka allowed 10 hits, walked two batters and pushed his ERA to
4.93. Analyzing his difficulties on the mound, Tanaka has identified a possible culprit, as have many other pitchers: the baseball itself. “You grip the ball, and it feels a little bit different,” Tanaka said recently through the interpreter Shingo Horie. “And then when you’re See MLB B3
At the Rio Olympics three years ago, Jerry Colangelo beamed at the sight of gold medals dangling from the necks of players on a supposedly underwhelming United States men’s basketball team. Then the USA Basketball managing director used the moment to admonish critics who had considered the squad too green in international competition and too full of secondary stars. “This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that might not otherwise have been there for them, so I’m happy for them,” Colangelo said that day. “It bothers me when some of our players are called ‘B’ players or ‘C’ players. That’s ludicrous. They’re all great players.” Funny how time and circumstances distort perspective. Back then, these were some of the names on that “Is this the best we can do?” Team USA: Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, Paul George, Klay Thompson, Jimmy Butler. You know, the same guys who helped change the NBA during this landmark offseason. If that was a B or C team, let’s just skip assigning a letter grade for the current FIBA World Cup roster. This figures to be the least accomplished collection of NBA players that the U.S. has sent to a major international competition since 1992, when the Dream Team debuted. The 2019 World Cup team has convened in Las Vegas this week to start preparing for the tournament later this month. For the casual basketball
fan, it’s a “Who’s that?” list of emerging stars and role players. Kyle Lowry, Kemba Walker and Khris Middleton are the only reigning all-stars available. Harrison Barnes and Lowry (if he’s cleared to play following thumb surgery) are the only holdovers from the 2016 Olympic team. It was once thought the team could include significant star power, but a long list of healthy stars seemingly in line to lead the team dropped out, including James Harden, Anthony Davis, Damian Lillard, Kevin Love, Bradley Beal and CJ McCollum. You have to be careful about characterizing both this roster and the overall state of USA Basketball. Since the backto-back disappointments of a sixth-place finish in the 2002 world championships and a bronze-medal showing during the 2004 Olympics, the U.S. has a much better system for team selection and player engagement, and so while the 2019 roster lacks the superstars on top, it does possess a thoughtful collection of the kind of talent and versatility that suits international competition. Gregg Popovich, a great team builder, is the right fit to coach this group because he will combine a clear and demanding standard with a clever and flexible style of play. We’re not accustomed to a true team representing the U.S. Normally, the standard is for all-stars to come together and sacrifice just enough for their overwhelming talent to take over. But this time, the See USA B3
Elliott regaining stride as NASCAR’s playoffs loom Field Level Media
Chase Elliott climbed out of his No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet on Sunday afternoon after a hard-earned win on the Watkins Glen International road course and, with a huge smile and wave, immediately offered an apology for not being able to do a proper victory lap for the boisterous grandstand crowd. His car had run out of gas. With the win – his second of the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season and fifth of his young career – the 23-year old Elliott went a long way to answering any doubters who felt that Elliott and/or his team had perhaps run out of gas after a frustrating summer swing. Instead, on Sunday, the No. 9 team proved itself poised for a bigger victory celebration – perhaps a championship burnout. The most dominating win of his young career was a resounding reminder that Elliott is ready to step up his game as the playoffs approach. Last weekend at Watkins Glen, he won the pole position, led 80 of 90 laps and picked up both stage victories along the way to the troRICH BARNES/USA TODAY phy hoist. Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series driver Chase Elliott (9) gestures to the crowd following his In doing so, Elliott became only the fifth victory in the GoBowling at The Glen at Watkins Glen International. driver in NASCAR history to win back-to-back races at the historic venue – and significantly, Stewart – and one of the sport’s all-time best series heads to Michigan International Speedthe list he joins includes three NASCAR Hall of road course drivers Marcos Ambrose. way for Sunday’s Consumers Energy 400. It’s all placed Elliott in a good position as the “We’ve never done this as a team,” said Famers – Mark Martin, Jeff Gordon and Tony
Elliott, who is eighth in the championship, only three points behind seventh-place Kurt Busch. “This was the first time we’ve ever gone somewhere and sat on the pole and led the most laps and won the race. I’ve never done that in my career and I’m sure (crew chef) Alan (Gustafson) has at some point, but as a group, we’ve never done that. “I just feel like that, to me, the biggest piece of the whole weekend, was just knowing that we’re the type of team and the caliber of team that can go and put on those kind of performances.” The victory was beyond a summer “pick-meup” for Elliott and his No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports team. It was more of a jolt. And that’s exactly what they needed. After winning at the Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway in May, Elliott had been in a bit of a tailspin. His last top-10 result prior to Sunday’s race was at Pocono (Pa.) Raceway in June – eight races ago. During that tough stretch, he suffered a 37thplace finish at Sonoma (Calif.) Raceway – the first road course of the year – and on July 28 at the second Pocono race, Elliott had his worst result of the season – a 38th-place finish after being sidelined by an accident. Those final 10 playoff venues – Las Vegas, See ELLIOTT B3
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Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE East W L Pct GB 73 39 .652 — 65 49 .570 9.0 60 55 .522 14.5 46 69 .400 28.5 38 74 .339 35.0 Central W L Pct GB Minnesota 70 42 .625 — Cleveland 66 46 .589 4.0 Chi. White Sox 49 61 .445 20.0 Kansas City 40 74 .351 31.0 Detroit 32 76 .296 36.0 West W L Pct GB Houston 73 40 .646 — Oakland 64 49 .566 9.0 Texas 58 54 .518 14.5 LA Angels 56 58 .491 17.5 Seattle 47 67 .412 26.5 Sunday’s games Baltimore 6, Toronto 5 Cleveland 6, LA Angels 2 Houston 3, Seattle 1 Minnesota 3, Kansas City 0 Texas 9, Detroit 4 NY Yankees 7, Boston 4 Monday’s games NY Yankees 9, Baltimore 6 Boston 7, Kansas City 5 Toronto 2, Tampa Bay 0 Texas 1, Cleveland 0 Chi. White Sox 7, Detroit 4 Tuesday’s games Chi. White Sox (Cease 1-4) at Detroit (Norris 3-8), 1:10 p.m. NY Yankees at Baltimore (Wojciechowski 2-4), 7:05 p.m. Kansas City (Junis 6-10) at Boston (Cashner 1-3), 7:10 p.m. Toronto (Thornton 4-7) at Tampa Bay (TBD), 7:10 p.m. Texas (Jurado 6-6) at Cleveland (Plesac 6-3), 7:10 p.m. Chi. White Sox (Santiago 0-0) at Detroit (VerHagen 1-2), 7:10 p.m. NY Yankees Tampa Bay Boston Toronto Baltimore
NATIONAL LEAGUE East W L Pct GB 66 48 .579 — 58 53 .523 6.5 58 53 .523 6.5 57 56 .504 8.5 42 69 .378 22.5 Central W L Pct GB Chi. Cubs 61 51 .545 — St. Louis 58 52 .527 2.0 Milwaukee 58 56 .509 4.0 Cincinnati 53 58 .477 7.5 Pittsburgh 48 64 .429 13.0 West W L Pct GB LA Dodgers 74 40 .649 — Arizona 56 56 .500 17.0 San Francisco 56 56 .500 17.0 Colorado 52 60 .464 21.0 San Diego 51 60 .459 21.5 Sunday’s games Cincinnati 6, Atlanta 4, 10 innings NY Mets 13, Pittsburgh 2 Chi. Cubs 7, Milwaukee 2 Colorado 6, San Francisco 2 LA Dodgers 11, San Diego 10 Arizona 7, Washington 5 Monday’s games NY Mets 6, Miami 2, first game Milwaukee 9, Pittsburgh 7 NY Mets 5, Miami 4, second game Philadelphia at Arizona, 9:40 p.m. Washington at San Francisco, 9:45 p.m. St. Louis at LA Dodgers, 10:10 p.m. Today’s games Milwaukee (Anderson 5-2) at Pittsburgh (Brault 3-1), 7:05 p.m. Miami (Yamamoto 4-2) at NY Mets (Wheeler 8-6), 7:10 p.m. Philadelphia (Arrieta 8-8) at Arizona (Leake 0-0), 9:40 p.m. Washington (Sanchez 6-6) at San Francisco (Menez 0-0), 9:45 p.m. St. Louis (Mikolas 7-11) at LA Dodgers (Kershaw 10-2), 10:10 p.m. Interleague Sunday’s games Chi. White Sox 10, Philadelphia 5 Tampa Bay 7, Miami 2 Oakland 4, St. Louis 2 Monday’s games Cincinnati 7, LA Angels 4 Chi. Cubs 6, Oakland 5 Minnesota 5, Atlanta 3 Tuesday’s games LA Angels (Suarez 2-2) at Cincinnati (DeSclafani 6-6), 7:10 p.m. Oakland (Anderson 9-7) at Chi. Cubs (Lester 9-7), 8:05 p.m. Colorado (Marquez 10-5) at Houston (Greinke 0-0), 8:10 p.m. Atlanta (Foltynewicz 2-5) at Minnesota (Berrios 10-5), 8:10 p.m. San Diego (Lamet 0-2) at Seattle (TBD), 10:10 p.m. Atlanta Washington Philadelphia NY Mets Miami
Auto racing MONSTER ENERGY CUP SERIES POINTS LEADERS Through Sunday 1. Kyle Busch, 851 points 2. Joey Logano, 838 3. Kevin Harvick, 777 4. Denny Hamlin, 771 5. Martin Truex Jr., 753 6. Brad Keselowski, 728 7. Kurt Busch, 679 8. Chase Elliott, 676 9. Aric Almirola, 640 10. Ryan Blaney, 633 11. Alex Bowman, 623 12. William Byron, 604 13. Erik Jones, 598 14. Kyle Larson, 590 15. Clint Bowyer, 556 16. Jimmie Johnson, 544 17. Ryan Newman, 544 18. Daniel Suarez, 521 19. Paul Menard, 483 20. Ricky Stenhouse Jr., 466 21. Chris Buescher, 463 22. Austin Dillon, 410 23. Matt DiBenedetto, 380 24. Ty Dillon, 357 25. Daniel Hemric, 341 26. Michael McDowell, 287 27. Darrell Wallace Jr., 271 28. Ryan Preece, 269 29. Corey LaJoie, 250 30. David Ragan, 235 31. Matt Tifft, 231 32. Reed Sorenson, 67 33. Quin Houff, 58 34. JJ Yeley, 29 35. Jamie McMurray, 19 36. Andy Seuss, 9 37. Austin Theriault, 5 38. Stanton Barrett, 2 39. Casey Mears, 1
XFINITY SERIES POINTS LEADERS Through Sunday 1. Tyler Reddick, 889 points 2. Christopher Bell, 857 3. Cole Custer, 790 4. Justin Allgaier, 742 5. Austin Cindric, 698 6. Chase Briscoe, 663 7. Noah Gragson, 661 8. Michael Annett, 629 9. Justin Haley, 627 10. John Hunter Nemechek, 605 11. Ryan Sieg, 538 12. Brandon Jones, 534 13. Gray Gaulding, 432 14. Jeremy Clements, 386 15. Brandon Brown, 380 16. Josh Williams, 312 17. Ray Black II, 312 18. Garrett Smithley, 303 19. Stephen Leicht, 285 20. BJ McLeod, 243 21. Matt Mills, 239 22. David Starr, 230 23. Vinnie Miller, 226 24. Zane Smith, 217 25. Jeffrey Earnhardt, 187 26. Joey Gase, 177 27. Chad Finchum, 174 28. Timmy Hill, 154 29. Tommy Joe Martins, 119 30. Ryan Truex, 111 31. Shane Lee, 109 32. Mike Harmon, 108 33. Ronnie Bassett Jr, 95 34. Jeb Burton, 94 35. Josh Bilicki, 89 36. Kaz Grala, 88 37. Jeff Green, 85 38. Alex Labbe, 72 39. Landon Cassill, 67 40. Chris Cockrum, 51 41. Stefan Parsons, 41 42. Tyler Matthews, 35 43. Dillon Bassett, 34 44. Joe Graf Jr, 32 45. Cody Ware, 32 46. Ryan Repko, 27 47. John Jackson, 27
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Brady finalizes contract, could be 2020 FA Field Level Media
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady finalized a contract extension on Monday that technically runs through the 2021 season, but he could become a free agent this March. The six-time Super Bowl champion will make $23 million in 2019, tied for sixth-highest among quarterbacks. According to multiple reports, the final two years automatically void at the end of the 2019 league year, and language in the deal prevents the Patriots from using the franchise or transition tag. That would make Brady a free agent, although signing another extension in New England would be an obvious option. “I have a great opportunity here,” Brady said Monday, two days after turning 42. “... I’m ready to go this year, and that’s really what matters and that’s where my focus is.” –Quarterback Andrew Luck believes playing Week 1 is a realistic expectation even after the Indianapolis Colts announced he would miss another week with a calf injury. Luck told Peter King of NBC that he is planning for be in the lineup when the regular season begins Sept. 8 in Los Angeles against the Chargers. “I certainly believe I will [be ready],” Luck told King. “That’s certainly the goal.” –Houston Texans pass rusher Jadeveon Clowney will end his camp holdout after the third game of the preseason, according to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport. “That is my understanding of when Clowney is planning to show up,” Rapoport said on Inside Training Camp Live. “(He) wouldn’t play in the fourth preseason game. Would get a week to make sure he’s all right. And I am told he’s in great shape. And the Texans don’t have any worries there.” Houston plays at the Dallas Cowboys on Aug. 24 in the third preseason game before wrapping up Aug. 29 at home against the Los Angeles Rams. –Cleveland Browns head coach
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New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady (12) hands the ball off to running back James White (28) during mandatory minicamp in June at the Gillette Stadium practice field.
Freddie Kitchens dismissed criticism from former offensive line coach Bob Wylie, telling reporters, “Bob doesn’t wear brown and orange anymore.” “I had the opportunity to hire Bob,” Kitchens added. “I didn’t want to.” Wylie, whose contract wasn’t renewed by Kitchens in January, said Saturday on CBS Sports Radio he was shocked when Kitchens was named head coach. Wylie also credited former quarterbacks coach Ken Zampese, and not Kitchens, for the Browns’ offensive turnaround in the second half of 2018. –Odell Beckham Jr. missed the Browns’ practice because of an illness. –Texans rookie cornerback Lonnie Johnson was kicked out of joint
practice with the host Green Bay Packers after delivering a pair of violent hits. Johnson, a second-round pick, first clobbered Packers tight end Jace Sternberger – knocking his helmet off – and stood over him flexing. A scrum ensued but was broken up. Sternberger was evaluated for a concussion but returned to practice. Johnson later hit Packers wideout Trevor Davis, who was injured and did not return. Texans coach Bill O’Brien sent Johnson packing. –Wide receiver Golden Tate’s appeal of his four-game suspension will be heard Tuesday, New York Giants coach Pat Shurmur said. Tate was suspended last month for violating the NFL’s policy on PEDs.
The arbitrator’s decision must be announced within three days, under terms of the CBA. –Tampa Bay Buccaneers linebacker Lavonte David underwent a procedure to repair a torn meniscus in his left knee, coach Bruce Arians said. Arians expects David to be ready for Week 1 against the San Francisco 49ers. –The Baltimore Ravens traded offensive lineman Alex Lewis to the New York Jets for a conditional seventhround pick. Lewis recently passed his physical after offseason shoulder surgery and was expected to compete to start at left guard, but he announced on Instagram that he had been cut. The Jets, however, came in with a trade offer before he was put on waivers. –Buffalo Bills offensive tackle LaAdrian Waddle tore his quad muscle and likely will miss the season, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported. Recuperation time is expected to be four to five months, Schefter said. The Bills signed Waddle to a one-year, $2 million contract in the offseason. –The Colts claimed running back D’Onta Foreman off waivers from the Texans and waived running back Keith Ford. Foreman missed nearly the entire 2018 season with a torn Achilles, an injury he suffered in November 2017. –The Raiders and Las Vegas-based airline Allegiant announced a naming rights agreement for the stadium under construction in the city. The team is scheduled to move from Oakland to Las Vegas in time for the 2020 season. UNLV football also will play in Allegiant Stadium. –The Dallas Cowboys waived tight end Rico Gathers. The Cowboys drafted Gathers, a former Baylor basketball player, in the sixth round in 2016, when he hadn’t played football since middle school. He did not appear in an NFL game until 2018, totaling three catches for 45 yards in 15 games (four starts).
Kyle Long healthy — and looking forward to what could be a special Bears season Brad Biggs Chicago Tribune
BOURBONNAIS, Ill. — Bears coach Matt Nagy issued some veteran days for the first time Tuesday, letting a handful of players skip a light practice. What stood out most was one player who didn’t rest: Kyle Long. The veteran right guard stood around enough in the previous two training camps to last a career. While the focus is on the swing-tackle position and what the team will do if indispensable left tackle Charles Leno suffers an injury, the biggest development on the offensive line is Long’s long-awaited return to health. It even overshadows the position change made next to him, with James Daniels sliding to center and Cody Whitehair kicking out to left guard. Long’s right ankle, the one that was rolled up on from behind during a road game against the Buccaneers in Week 9 of the 2016 season, is still an issue. He will need surgery, perhaps more than one, when his playing days are over. But he’s moving better than he has in a long time, and after spending the last two offseasons rehabilitating from various surgeries — ankle, neck, shoulder, elbow — this year he was free from the burden that ties a player to the training room for months at a time. Maybe it took longer than anyone expected for Long to work his way back from the original ankle injury. It was an arduous process that no doubt took him to some dark places. But he finally has emerged and looks much better. “I can play five, six more years,” Long, 30, said. “The ankle feels great. It took so long to heal. Once it heals, you have to strengthen and then once you strengthen, you have to stretch and then once you stretch, you have
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Chicago Bears offensive lineman Kyle Long (75) looks on during training camp at Olivet Nazarene University.
to strengthen it more. For a time, I really thought I would never see light at the end of the tunnel.” Finally able to move better and handle the rigors of work day after day, Long was given the green light. Remember, the Bears routinely gave him rest days last season. He participated in every spring practice and then was able to put the “off” in offseason, getting serious about his golf game this summer. He always has been optimistic, but Long is particularly upbeat while preparing for his seventh season as the longest-tenured Bears player on offense. “For me in the two years now, and I’ve heard from other people in previous years, this is the best shape, condition, strength, mental,” coach Matt Nagy said. “Where he’s at is in a good place. He’s worked hard for that. He’s allin. He’s committed.” Said right tackle Bobby Massie, who has known Long since their high school days
in Virginia: “He looks great. You have had a chance to see him since Day 1. He’s the best I have seen him since I have been a Bear (2016). He’s had a few nicks. He is a brand-new car off the lot right now.” It’s quite a transformation for Long, who early in his career represented the Bears in three straight Pro Bowls. He was the face of the franchise when the team was struggling to find its way — a young player to build around when there few other building blocks. It goes without saying that when an offensive lineman is the face of the franchise, the overall talent on the roster isn’t great — and that’s not minimizing his position. “Yeah,” Long said. “That’s fair. I didn’t want that. I took full advantage of it while I could. As a team, we’ve gone there, come back, gone there, come back, gone there and now we’re somewhere we want to stay.” Long no longer is the face of the franchise and, if anything,
he almost seems relieved, even though he did well when regularly thrust into the spotlight. “It’s great because now I can just do my job,” he said. “I don’t have to do (as much) media, unless you want to talk to me, and lay low and let Mitch (Trubisky) and Akiem (Hicks) and Danny (Trevathan) and Khalil (Mack), Tarik (Cohen), Eddie (Jackson), Allen (Robinson), all of these guys. The list goes on and on. It’s amazing. I am a football player now, not the offensive spokesman or team spokesman.” The Bears approached Long for a pay cut early in the offseason after he missed 22 games over the last three seasons, including eight last year with a right foot injury (not related to the ankle) before returning for the playoffs. “I said, ‘Take it,’” Long said of his reaction when the team asked. “I am betting on myself. If I can help the Bears while I am betting on myself,
then great. Maybe we can get some guys signed (to extensions). There are some of my good friends that need to get paid. That will happen in due time. I trust (Ryan) Pace. I trust Nagy. I trust the McCaskeys. But no one wants to give money back.” The cut reduced Long’s pay for this season from $7 million to $4.1 million. He can earn $2.5 million back if he’s voted to the Pro Bowl or is selected first team All-Pro and hits a playing-time lever. The restructuring chopped off the final year (2021) of his previous contract and made 2020 an $8.1 million club option that the Bears can execute any time before the end of this season. Don’t kid yourself: Money is important. But the Bears have paid Long a little more than $33 million, according to Spotrac.com, since former general manager Phil Emery made him a first-round pick in 2013. Long is thrilled to be preparing for a season in which the Bears have legitimate aspirations for making a deep playoff run. “The last year was really enjoyable, but I didn’t get to fully immerse myself in the enjoyment because I wasn’t fully healthy,” he said. “I’ve done every rep in the spring, no days off in camp so far, no feel-good days. I feel great and I am happy. I am happy to around a group of guys — we don’t just have a core nucleus anymore. We have a team, and it is fun to be around.” Who knows what lies ahead for Long after this season and whether the Bears will pick up the option? The only way he could traverse through the peaks and valleys — plenty more valleys than peaks — of the injuries and rehabilitation was by taking it one day at a time. So he’ll take this one day at a time — and enjoy it more than ever. “I am me now,” Long said. “I think I am the happiest guy in the locker room.”
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Chatham’s Naveah Daigle in action during Monday’s ColumbiaGreene Girls Summer Basketball League game against HunterTannersville at Columbia-Greene Community College.
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Janay Brantley scored the Cats’ first points in more than 10 minutes with a bucket at the four-minute mark, but Saugerties closed the show on a 5-0 run to ice the win. Chatham had only five girls available to play Monday night and the lack of a bench took its toll in the semifinal loss to Red Hook. In the first round, the Panthers raced out to a 7-1 lead over Hunter-Tannersville and never
Catskill’s Janay Brantley brings the ball up the floor during Monday’s Columbia-Greene Girls Summer Basketball League game against Saugerties White at Columbia-Greene Community College.
looked back. The Wildcats trailed 15-7 with 1:30 left in the half, before scoring five quick points to narrow the deficit to 15-12. A pair of Naveah Daigle free throws with :18 to go in the stanza gave Chatham a 17-12 edge at halftime. Hunter-Tannerville closed the gap to 20-18 early in the second half, but strong play from Daigle and Hailey Cascioli helped Chatham take its biggest lead, 37-24, with 5:22 remaining. The Wildcats did close to within 37-30 with two minutes left, but Chatham held on for the victory. LOGAN WEISS/COLUMBIA-GREENE MEDIA
Hudson’s Deja Beauford eyes the basket during Monday’s Columbia-Greene Girls Summer Basketball League game against Saugerties White at Columbia-Greene Community College.
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throwing with that difference in hand, obviously the movement of the ball becomes a little bit different, too.” To compensate for that unfamiliar feeling, Tanaka, 30, has begun tinkering with his grip, hoping to restore his mastery of the splitter. It’s no secret in this era of record home-run rates that many players believe the ball has changed. The Minnesota Twins are on pace to smash the season home run record of 267, which was set by the Yankees last year. And this year’s major league hitters could exceed the record 6,105 long balls hit last season by more than 600 homers. As dissent bubbled, Major League Baseball commissioned a study that was released last year and found that the ball had less drag, which allowed it to travel farther, but the researchers could not pinpoint the cause of the change. A report by The Athletic in June found that the seams of some 2019 balls were lower than those on the balls from 16 previous seasons, a change that would improve the aerodynamics. All of this led to more expressions of concern, both from established pitchers who are having stellar seasons — such as Washington’s Max Scherzer and Houston’s Justin Verlander, who claimed the balls were intentionally juiced for more
home runs — and from those who are laboring, such as Tanaka and his Yankees teammate J.A. Happ. MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred has fiercely pushed back against the notion that the balls used by the league — which are made with natural materials and handsewn in Costa Rica — had been deliberately changed. “Baseball has done nothing, given no direction, for an alteration in the baseball,” he said at the All-Star Game last month. That hasn’t appeased many pitchers. For so long, Tanaka has placed his index and middle fingers along two seams of the baseball to throw his splitter, while other pitchers spread their fingers farther out. This season, Tanaka said, he has noticed a difference in the seams, and thus the behavior of the splitter. “It’s not giving you the vertical drop,” he said. Tanaka’s splitter dips less downward and more sideways this year compared with previous seasons, according to BrooksBaseball, a pitching analytics site. “It looks more like a twoseamer,” Tanaka said, referring to an entirely different pitch. The result: Before Monday’s game, opponents were hitting .292 against Tanaka’s splitter, a career high. They hit .191 against his favorite pitch in 2017 and .220 in 2018. Of the 21 home runs Tanaka had allowed this season before Monday, eight came off splitters, more than off any of his other pitches. He managed to earn an
All-Star spot, but his performances since the break have slipped, and his confidence in the splitter has clearly wavered, too. In his July 25 start against the Boston Red Sox, Tanaka surrendered a career-high 12 runs in 3 1/3 innings. He threw only four splitters, matching a career low, and the Red Sox whiffed at none of them. Tanaka, a right-hander, has relied more on his fourseam fastball and his slider, which has been his best pitch this season and does not require him to rely on the seams. “We need to adjust to the ball,” Tanaka said. “That’s what we’re given to play, and you’ve got to find your way to get accustomed to the ball right now and be effective enough to get outs.” But change is hard. For two months, the Yankees pitching coach, Larry Rothschild, has talked with Tanaka about altering the grip on his splitter. “We’ve just got to get comfortable with it,” Rothschild said. Tanaka said he had tried tweaks, but they have been minor. In his most recent start, against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Wednesday, he used a drastically new grip for the first time, setting his index and middle fingers across the seams instead of along them. He threw 27 splitters and matched a season high by inducing six whiffs, according to BrooksBaseball. He allowed just two runs in four innings, baby steps for him and for a sputtering Yankees rotation that needed to
improve from within since no additions were made at the July 31 trade deadline. “I had to tinker a little bit here and there during the ballgame as well,” Tanaka said of the new splitter. “But I feel like it’s heading in the right direction.” Zack Britton, the Yankees relief pitcher who uses a seam to throw a mid-90s sinking fastball, said he had heard from other pitchers who have struggled to adjust to the balls and tweaked their grips as a result. “Over the years, I’ve felt like I’d had to do something a little different to make the ball move as much as maybe it did like four years ago,” Britton said. “There’s been some pitches I throw and I rip one off, and I’ll go look at the data and then look at that pitch three years ago and be like, the numbers are close, but there’s a different feeling with it, to an extent, with the baseballs.” The normally measured Tanaka offered a pointed response when asked about his feelings on the current ball. “If you changed the ball, then just say you changed it,” he said. “That would make everybody feel better, in a sense.” Then his focus turned inward. “The frustration for me is that I’m not being able to adjust well enough to the ball,” he said. “So it’s toward me right now, and it started at the beginning of the season. You want the ball to do a certain thing, but you’re not able to really make good enough adjustments to do that.”
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whole truly must be greater than the sum of its parts. There are some valid larger concerns, however. Most importantly, where are the heads of the biggest American stars? Is this a coincidental one-year issue or the start of a trend? From 2006-16, Team USA enjoyed a decade of mostly ideal commitment. Mike Krzyzewski went 88-1 as the coach during this span, with the lone loss coming to Greece in the semifinals of the 2006 world championships. Until the 2016 Olympics, the greatest players wanted to participate as much as possible, and there was a considerable waiting list of stars who couldn’t make the team but remained interested. Summer minicamps were highly attended events. The program was stronger than ever. The team was the hardest in the world to make. While it’s laughable now to look at the 2016 Olympic team and consider it lackluster, that reaction was a testament to the commitment. Remember that the 2008 Olympic squad was referred to as the Redeem Team after the U.S. had failed to win gold in three straight major events (2002 world championships, 2004 Olympics, 2006 world championships). That redemptive spirit continued for several years, and typical American dominance followed. But three years ago, the momentum started to fade. Concerns about Zika virus kept some players away from the 2016 Olympics. Others were too tired or banged up. Others were getting too old. Four first team all-NBA selections didn’t go to Rio: LeBron James, Stephen Curry, Russell Westbrook and Kawhi Leonard. In addition, Olympic veteran Chris Paul didn’t play. Carmelo Anthony was still around from the Redeem Team, and Durant was playing in his second Olympics. But there had been a shift, and it was an uneasy feeling. The U.S. went undefeated and beat Serbia by 30 in the gold medal game. However, with 10 new players, the tournament was a struggle until the team came together at the end. Three years ago, Colangelo noted the difficulty. “With 10 new people, you only have them for a few weeks, it’s not enough time,” he said. “For me, I’m glad we’re past this. It’s vindication for all that we’ve done. But we need to continue with continuity. We can’t go back again with 10 new players. That’s not going to happen.” For this World Cup, they have 10 new players. And it took more than 40 invitations to put
together this team. “Honestly, I don’t have any angst,” Colangelo said as training camp for the World Cup began. Colangelo knows not to focus on who’s absent. It’s unfair to the players who will compete. But after having an easier time managing the roster for most of the past 13 years, the World Cup will be a test of American depth. But beyond that, there’s the larger question of what motivates the overall talent pool. You have to wonder if stars have it too good right now. With the introduction of the supermax contract, they’re eligible to make ridiculous money, and even without a supermax deal, veteran franchise players make more than $30 million a season. Unlike after the 2004 Olympics failure, the quality of American basketball isn’t on trial anymore. The NBA style of play is entertaining again, and after the flurry of moves this offseason, parity may exist again, too. There’s a thought that many stars declined Team USA invitations to focus on what could be an epic 2019-20 season. It also didn’t help that the World Cup was pushed back a year, meaning aspiring 2020 Olympians would have to commit consecutive summers to the team, and that’s a huge problem in this era of load management. The tournament also ends in mid-September, just two weeks before the start of NBA training camp. Colangelo and Coach K had done a good job of getting players to believe in the system and to understand that their commitment required more than interest in competing during an Olympic year. But if the U.S. goes to China and wins this World Cup, would it cut a high number of players on this year’s team to accommodate bigger stars if they want in on the 2020 Tokyo Games? When the U.S. had something to prove, participant wasn’t a problem. But where does the urgency come from now? It’s not a big deal when Davis, during a summer in which he was traded, decides to save himself for his new team. When Julius Randle and Tobias Harris have better things to do, you grow concerned about both priorities and the effects of so much NBA player movement. As New Orleans guard JJ Redick cited in turning down the opportunity, he has to get his family settled in a new city. No matter how Team USA fares in China, a solid system is being forced to adapt. If the NBA must adjust to the whims of its greatest, power-seeking players, so, too, must Team USA. It was inevitable. You can only hope the stars are motivated to find a greater purpose during such a privileged time.
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New York Yankees starting pitcher Masahiro Tanaka (19) delivers a pitch against the Baltimore Orioles at Oriole Park at Camden Yards.
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Richmond, Charlotte ROVAL, Dover, Talladega, Kansas, Martinsville, Texas, Phoenix and Homestead – line up well for Elliott. He already won at Talladega this season and is the defending playoff race winner at Dover, where he won the pole position and led a race-best 145 laps in a fifth-place finish earlier this year. Elliott finished runner-up at Martinsville in March, leading 49 laps. Texas has always been a sentimental favorite as well, home to his first NASCAR Xfinity Series win – in 2014 en route to the Xfinity Series championship. He was 13th
there this year and led 35 laps. Elliott had top-10 finishes at Vegas (ninth) and Kansas (fourth) on the schedule’s first stop of 2019 and is the defending winner of the Kansas playoff race as well. At the ROVAL debut last year, Elliott started fourth and finished sixth. “Our speed has been decent, we just have not executed the races for mechanicals or crashes or different issues,” Gustafson said. “That’s the biggest thing I wanted to do this weekend is perform to the potential of the team and the car and get back on track. And certainly, we did that in style, which was fantastic. But yeah, we needed to get out of that rut, to get back on track and get focused on competing and improving and get some confidence back.”
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APULLUM FARMING LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 07/03/2019. Office loc: Greene County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 5824 80th Street, Middle Village, NY 11379. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose. ASHLAND SETTLEMENT HOLDING, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 02/28/19. Office: Greene County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 1108 Van Buren Place, Baldwin, NY 11510. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. LEGAL NOTICE COUNTY OF COLUMBIA NOTICE TO VENDORS PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that sealed bids will be received for Household Hazardous Waste Collection at the office of Columbia County Central Services, 401 State St., Hudson, New York 12534 until 2:00 P.M., Monday, August 26, 2019. Bids shall be contained in a sealed envelope, clearly marked " Operation of the Household Hazardous Waste Collection Bid ". Bids will be publicly opened and read at the Columbia County Office Building, Committee Room, 401 State Street, Hudson, New York, at 2:15 P.M., Monday, August 26, 2019. Bid packages can be obtained by any bidder at the Columbia County Department of Central Services, 401 State Street, Hudson, New York, and shall be prepared in accordance with the forms contained in the bid package. No bid may be withdrawn for a period of forty-five (45) days from the date of the bid opening. The County of Columbia reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Bid#: 19-013 Dated: August 7, 2019 DGA RENTALS AND SOUND SOLUTIONS LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 7/22/19. Office in Columbia Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC 238 Frost ST Apt 3R Brooklyn, NY 11211. Purpose: Any lawful activity.
City of Hudson Issues Request for Proposal for its DRI BRIDGE District Connectivity Improvement Project The City of Hudson is seeking the services of qualified professionals to design and implement streetscape improvements within the City's Downtown Revitalization Initiative (DRI) BRIDGE District. The City of Hudson has identified a series of streetscape and multimodal improvements to be approached with design excellence that will address pedestrian safety, enhance multimodal transportation, and improve connectivity to adjacent neighborhoods and the City's Downtown. This DRI project is funded by the NYS Department of State (NYSDOS). The City would like to more fully develop these concepts, select priority improvements based on public input/stakeholder feedback and advance key components through construction based on this input and the project budget, working with the City's DRI Committee and Grant Management Consultant. In 2017, Hudson was selected by New York State's Capital Region Regional Economic Development Council (CREDC) as one of the ten DRI Round Two communities. The City and its local partners were awarded $10 million in state funding to revitalize the designated BRIDGE District (Build-Renew-InventDevelop-Grow-Empower) located west of the City's Downtown with Second Street forming the eastern boundary, the Hudson River to the west, South Bay wetlands to the south and Dock Street to the north.. The overall plan should improve safety, provide enhanced connectivity to downtown and complementary DRI related investments. An optional pre-submission site tour will be scheduled for August 13, 2019, pre-registration is required to ensure seating space available for the driving tour. Following the submission deadline of August 27, 2019, select firms may be invited for interviews. RFP documents are below. For further information contact the Office of the Mayor, 518.828.7217.
Moonmira LLC. Art.of Org. filed the SSNY on 2/13/2019. office Columbia County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 486 Martindale Rd., Craryville, From Nature To You, 12521, NY LLC. Filed 5/20/19. Of- Purpose: Any lawful fice: Greene Co. SSNY purpose designated as agent for process & shall mail CITY OF HUDSON, to: 7 W Bridge St, NEW YORK PLANCatskill, NY 12414. NING BOARD NOTICE Purpose: General. OF PUBLIC HEARING
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PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Planning Board of the City of Hudson, New York will conduct a Public Hearing on August 13, 2019 at 6 p.m. in Hudson Hall, Warren Street, Hudson, New York on a special use permit application from Verizon Wireless to install and operate wireless communication equipment on the roof of 41 North Second Street (Bliss Towers), Tax ID#109.35-2-19. All those interested parties will have an opportunity at this time to be heard in connection with said application. COLUMBIA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION NOTICE OF MEETING Please take notice that there will be a meeting of the Columbia Economic Development Corporation Audit and Finance Committee held on August 14, 2019 at 10:00am, at 4303 Route 9, Hudson, NY 12534 for the purpose of discussing any matters that may be presented to the Committee for consideration. Dated: August 7, 2019 Sarah Sterling Secretary Columbia Economic Development Corporation COLUMBIA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION NOTICE OF MEETING Please take notice that there will be a meeting of the Columbia Economic Development Corporation Governance and Nominating Committee held on August 14, 2019 at 8:30am, at 4303 Route 9, Hudson, NY 12534 for the purpose of discussing any matters that may be presented to the Committee for consideration. Dated: August 7, 2019 Sarah Sterling Secretary Columbia Economic Development Corporation MY DJ CLOUD LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 6/19/19. Office in Columbia Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC PO Box 150583 Brooklyn, NY 11215. Purpose: Any lawful activity. New York Hemp Service LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 5/14/2019. Cty: Columbia. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 900 Leesville Ave., Rahway, NJ 07065. General Purpose.
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK - COUNTY OF GREENE TOWD POINT MORTGAGE TRUST 2015-6, U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS INDENTURE TRUSTEE, V. ANN V. STANCARONE, ET. AL. NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Judgment of Final Foreclosure dated May 22, 2019, and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Greene, wherein TOWD POINT MORTGAGE TRUST 2015-6, U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS INDENTURE TRUSTEE is the Plaintiff and ANN V. STANCARONE, ET AL. are the Defendant(s). I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the GREENE COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 320 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL, NY 12414, on September 04, 2019 at 9:00AM, premises known as 601 CAIRO JUNCTION ROAD, CATSKILL, NY 12414: Section 136.00, Block 5, Lot 7: PARCEL I ALL THAT PIECE, PARCEL AND LOT OF LAND, SITUATE IN THE TOWN OF CATSKILL, GREENE COUNTY, NEW YORK PARCEL II ALL THAT PIECE, PARCEL AND LOT OF LAND, SITUATE IN THE TOWN OF CATSKILL, GREENE COUNTY, NEW YORK Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 17-0864. Aaron A. Louridas, Esq. Referee. RAS Boriskin, LLC 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff. Notice of Formation of RRBB LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/3/19. Office location: Columbia County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 17 Fairview Ave, Chatham, NY 12037. Purpose: any lawful activity.
NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF GREENE M&T Bank, Plaintiff AGAINST Lynda McNeur-McCarthy, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated 6-19-2019 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Greene County Courthouse, 320 Main Street, Catskill, NY on 9-4-2019 at 9:00AM, premises known as 27 Clum Hill Road, Haines Falls, NY 12436. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Hunter, County of Greene and State of New York, SECTION: 182.07, BLOCK: 2, LOT: 5.1. Approximate amount of judgment $38,240.46 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index #829/2017. Ian L. Crimmins, Esq., Referee Frenkel Lambert Weiss Weisman & Gordon, LLP 53 Gibson Street Bay Shore, NY 11706 01-080272-F01 64651 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY FIRST:The name of the Limited Liability Company is The AB Richter Group LLC (hereinafter referred to as the "Company") SECOND:The Articles of Organization of the Company were filed with the Secretary of State on July 12, 2019. THIRD:The County within the State of New York in which the office of the Company is located is Columbia. FOURTH:The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process against the Company may be served. The address to which the Secretary of State shall mail process is 711 Eichybush Road, Kinderhook, NY 12106. FIFTH:The Company is organized for all lawful purposes, and to do any and all things necessary, convenient, or incidental to that purpose. Dated: August 1, 2019
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The Board Of Education of the Hunter-Tannersville Central School District is accepting sealed bids for: Transportation for one student from residence Jewett, NY to the Sackett Educational Center daily, 200 Schuurman Rd, Castleton-On-Hudson, NY 12033 for the 20192020 School Year, in accordance to bid specifications. Bid specifications will be available from the Tannersville High School District Office (518589-5400 X 1000). Sealed bids must be submitted to the Tannersville High School District Office, attention Amy E. Sylak, Transportation Supervisor, by Tuesday, August 13th at 10:00am at which time they will be publicly opened in the Superintendentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office. No faxed bids will be accepted. Final approval will be at 6:30 pm on Thursday, August 15th, at the BOE meeting. The BOE reserves the right to waive any informalities and to reject any or all bids. RIVERFILMS LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 6/28/19. Office in Columbia Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC 131 West 28 ST Apt 6D New York, NY 10001. Purpose: Any lawful activity. NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS Name of Project: Devil's Tombstone Campground - Water and
Electrical Improvements, Town of Hunter, Greene County Contract No(s).: GC: D011666, EC: D011667 Project Description: Furnish all labor, materials, equipment and supervision for the construction of an electrical and water distribution system. Work includes but is not limited to: clearing/grubbing; water distribution system including piping, valves, water stands, water storage tank, chlorination equipment and all associated appurtenances; primary and secondary electrical system including conductors, conduit, grounding, light fixtures and all associated appurtenances; and associated sitework in accordance with the drawings and specifications. This project is divided into two prime contracts: General and Electrical. Sealed proposals will be received by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Bureau of Procurement and Expenditure Services, 625 Broadway, 10th Floor, Albany, NY 12233-5027, until 11:00 a.m. on August 28, 2019. Drawings, specifications and proposal forms may be inspected or purchased for a non-refundable fee of $25.00 from the Bureau of Design & Construction, 625 Broadway, 3rd Floor, Albany, NY 12233-5252. Individual checks for each project shall be made payable to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. Proposals will be accepted only from bidders who purchase
contract documents from the Department. All proposals must be made on the official Proposal Form 004113 and enclosed in the envelope furnished with the contract documents. Each proposal must be accompanied by a deposit or a Bid Bond Form 004313 in the amount of 5% of the bid. The Apparent Low Bidder will be required to submit a completed NEW YORK STATE VENDOR RESPONSIBILITY QUESTIONNAIRE FOR-PROFIT CONSTRUCTION (CCA-2) and an M/WBE-EEO Utilization Plan, within 24 hours and five days respectively, of being notified that they are the Apparent Low Bidder. Pursuant to State Finance Law, §§139-j and 139-k, this Invitation for Bid includes and imposes certain restrictions on communications between a Governmental Entity and an Offerer during the procurement process. Further information about these requirements, including a copy of the new lobbying law, can be found at: http://www.ogs.state.n y.us/aboutOgs/regulations/defaultAdvisoryCouncil.html. The Contractor shall adhere to the NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION GUIDELINES REGARDING PERMISSIBLE CONTACTS DURING A PROCUREMENT AND THE PROHIBITION OF I N A P P R O P R I AT E LOBBYING INFLUENCE. All correspondence and/or questions relating to this IFB should
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NAME: Meadowlark Supply Co. LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York on August 8, 2018. Office location: Columbia County. Legal Zoom has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. Legal Zoom shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC to Meadowlark Supply Co. LLC, PO Box 108, Hillsdale, New York 12529. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. The Board Of Education of the Hunter-Tannersville Central School District is accepting sealed bids for: Transportation for two students from residences in Tannersville and Hunter, NY, to Greenville High School, daily for the 2019-2020 School Year, in accordance to bid specifications. Bid specifications will be available from the Tannersville High School District Office (518589-5400 X 1000). Sealed bids must be submitted to the Tannersville High School District Office, attention Amy E. Sylak, Transportation Supervisor, by Tuesday, August 13th at 10:00am at which time they will be publicly opened in the Superintendent’s Office. No faxed bids will be accepted. Final approval will be at 6:30 pm on Thursday, August 15th, at the BOE meeting. The BOE reserves the right to waive any informalities and to reject any or all bids. NOTICE TO BIDDERS Beverage The Board of Education of Coxsackie-Athens Central School District, Greene County, New York, hereby invites the submission of sealed bids to furnish beverages for the 2019-2020 school year. Bids will be received no later than August 21, 2019 at 1:00 PM in the District Office, 24 Sunset Boulevard, Coxsackie, NY 12051, at which time and place all bids will be publicly opened. Specifications may be obtained by calling (518) 7311715. The Board of Education reserves the right to reject any or all bids. Leslie Copleston Assistant Superintendent of School Services Coxsackie-Athens CSD TINE VOGUE COMMUNICATIONS LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 6/18/19. Office in Columbia Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC 211 E 31st ST Apt 2A New York, NY 10016. Purpose: Any lawful activity.
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Index #18-0222. Pursuant to judgment of foreclosure and sale entered Dec. 12, 2018, I will sell at public auction at the Greene County Courthouse, 320 Main St., Catskill, NY on August 28, 2019 at 9:15 a.m. prem. k/a 100 Windy Ridge Road, Elka Park a/k/a Hunter, NY, North Lake Road, Hunter, NY and 1957 Route 296, Hunter, NY a/k/a Section 182, Block 3 and Lot 19.2, Section 167, Block 2 and Lot 7.21 and Section 147.00, Block 2 and Lot 2. Parcel I - Beginning at a point marked by a stake driven into the ground on the East side of the State Highway running between the Village of Hunter and Hensonville, said point beginning being 23.4 ft. NW from a telephone pole market NYT Co. No. 542 and being nearly opposite of a farm house belonging to one Benson; Thence NE, 747.45 ft. to a point marked by an iron pipe driven into the ground with stones piled around it; Thence NW, 421.1 ft. to a point marked by a stake driven into the ground with stones piled around, and then continued NW, 39 ft. to the center of the aforesaid main State Highway; Thence along the center of the highway in a Southerly direction about 747.5 ft. to a point in the center of the Highway; Thence SE, 21 ft. and passing through a small telephone pole on the East edge of the Highway to the point and place of Beginning. Parcel II All that certain parcel of land described as "Lot 1," containing 13.346 acres of land, as depicted upon that certain Survey Map by Vanucchi Associates, dated April 30, 2006, entitled "Survey for Dale O'Bryon (Two Lot Subdivision)", which map was filed in the Greene County Clerk's Office on January 7, 2009, in EASI-J, as Map No. 2009-1. Parcel III - Beginning at a point marked by a stone on end in a wall line marking the Northwest corner of lands of James W. and Helen R. Rose and being in the East bounds of a 50 ft. right of way; Running thence along East bounds of said right of way, NE, 412.37 ft. to a point therein; Thence along the lands of Brian and Lynn Byrne SE, 226.66 ft. to a point marking Southwest corner of land of Richard W. and Frances E. Palmer; Thence along other lands of said Bryne, SW, 422.72 ft. to a point in a stonewall marking the North bounds of land of said Rose; Thence along said wall, the following 2 courses and distances: North 130.83 ft. and NW, 95.96 ft. to the point or place of Beginning. Containing 2,164 acres of land. Approx. amt. of judgment is $249,342.32 plus costs and interest. Sold subject to terms and conditions of filed judgment and terms of sale. MAX ZACKER, Referee.
CERTILMAN, BALIN, ADLER & HYMAN, LLP, Attys. for Pltf., 100 Motor Parkway, Ste. 156, Hauppauge, NY. #97352 NOTICE TO BIDDERS Snack Foods The Board of Education of Coxsackie-Athens Central School District, Greene County, New York, hereby invites the submission of sealed bids to furnish snack foods for the 2019-2020 school year. Bids will be received no later than August 21, 2019 at 1:00 PM in the District Office, 24 Sunset Boulevard, Coxsackie, NY 12051, at which time and place all bids will be publicly opened. Specifications may be obtained by calling (518) 7311715. The Board of Education reserves the right to reject any or all bids. Leslie Copleston Assistant Superintendent of School Services Coxsackie-Athens CSD Touring Teachers LLC. Filed 3/14/19. Office: Greene Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 35 Elm St, Coxsackie, NY 12051. Registered Agent: United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Ave Ste 202, Bklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: General. TOWN OF CATSKILL PLANNING BOARD Town of Catskill Town Hall 439 Main Street Catskill, New York 12414 (518) 943-2141 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE, the Town of Catskill Planning Board will hold a public hearing in accordance with Town Law § 276 and the Town of Catskill Subdivision Regulations on August 13, 2019 at 7:10 PM at Town Hall, 439-441 Main Street in the Town of Catskill, to consider a two lot minor subdivision of land located on 173-175 Cairo Junction Rd. , Catskill, proposed by Jason Menelaos & Brian Rinaldi. Written and oral comments will be accepted until the close of the public hearing.
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Extended safety netting at Wrigley Field seems inevitable Phil Rosenthal Chicago Tribune
CHICAGO — The quaint signs around Wrigley Field’s lower concourse show a cute stylized bear cub with a mitt in pursuit of a fly ball. “Be Alert for Foul Balls!” the signs warn ticket holders on the way to their seats. Thanks to amped-up exit velocities of modernday baseball, however, the old signs are no substitute for protective netting. Alert or not, that poor little bear is likely to be nailed by a scorching line drive one of these days — even if it’s not distracted by the massive video boards, a mobile phone or any of the other prevalent 2019 ballpark distractions the way flesh-andblood fans are. Every few days around the majors, it seems, some fan gets taken away for observation after being struck by a foul ball. Players such as the Cubs’ Albert Almora Jr., who in May inadvertently sent a 4-year-old at a Cubs-Astros game in Houston to the emergency room with what her family lawyer reported was a cracked skull, have called for teams to extend the safety netting, which only last year was stretched to at least the end of dugouts to prevent exactly this sort of ugliness. A really tough scene at Minute Maid Park over the last inning. Albert Almora Jr. of the Cubs hit a hard line-drive foul into the stands that hit a young child. Almora Jr. was extremely shaken up and after the next half inning, he was consoled by MMP security personnel. Yet even as some major-league teams have
announced plans to extend the netting — and the White Sox across town were the first to install it from foul pole to foul pole — the Cubs say they don’t know what they’re going to do. “We are currently exploring and researching expansion of protective netting,” team spokesman Julian Green said by email. “No decision has been made to date. “Given the pitch and slope of our field walls, which are not a straight line, there is a bit more complexity to installing and securing protective netting to the foul pole. We will review all available options to determine the safest and enjoyable environment for our fans.” It’s true the Cubs’ freshly refurbished and modernized 1914 ballpark — a relic of faster games, deader baseballs and more focused fans — isn’t as easily retrofitted for safety netting as others. Plus, some of the paying customers in the line of fire have made clear they want no such barrier between them and the action. But it’s not as though the issue of fan safety is going away. Extended netting seems inevitable — if not to the foul poles, then at least farther down the line. Even if a specific design and plan to install it can’t be finalized yet, surely it makes sense to commit to some extension of the netting, not just for the Cubs but for all of the teams that have yet to say they will increase the protection. Green noted that when the Cubs in 2018 joined every other ballclub in extending their nets at least to the far end of the dugouts at Wrigley Field and their spring training home in Arizona, Sloane Park, it resulted in a 60% reduction in foul-ball
injuries last year compared with 2017. Why not reduce the number of injuries further? Why can’t the confines of Wrigley be as safe as they are friendly? “While there are some teams that have moved faster than others,” Green explained, “we have to ensure any solution we explore at Wrigley Field can be installed and secured properly given the configuration of our field walls, which are unique given our landmark status.” The Cubs obviously don’t want their fans at risk, and the club has made so many other changes to the ballpark to marry early 20th-century nostalgia with the realities of early 21st-century sports. One more alteration can’t possibly hurt, but foul balls rocketing off the bat at 100-plus mph can. Fans throughout baseball are closer than ever to the action. Players are stronger and more powerful. Besides the balls, there are bats slipping out of players’ hands or breaking apart. An oft-cited 2014 analysis by Bloomberg News found 1,750 major-league fans are injured each year, primarily by foul balls and broken bats. That’s more than the 1,536 batters hit by pitches in 2013, according to Bloomberg, and those guys wear helmets and other protective gear. Not all fan injuries are serious, but some are absolutely gruesome, potentially fatal. Little wonder ballplayers such as Almora are left distraught. Still, there are fans who want to scramble for a souvenir baseball or think the mesh is too much of a barrier — even if it’s for their own good.
They often mention the nets pose an obstacle to interacting with players and getting autographs while warming up, although the Nationals say they will be able to raise their nets by the dugouts before games for that very purpose. Detractors say fans who are going to have their phones out and children shouldn’t sit in vulnerable areas of the ballpark, although you’ll see scores of fans of all sizes and shapes apparently on social media, texting or on MLB’s app during every baseball telecast. Pole-to-pole netting is common in Japan. MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred, however, has said he is reluctant to make extended protection mandatory at least in part because of varying ballpark designs, such as Wrigley’s. When netting finally is extended, some people will grumble. But in time they, too, will accept it as ordinary, like goalie masks in hockey and seat belts in cars. Extended netting reduces the likelihood of a fan interfering with a ball in play. Another bonus is the nets can facilitate some amazing plays, such as when Mets outfielder Jeff McNeil made an acrobatic catch of a foul ball hit by Eloy Jimenez of the White Sox the other day. McNeil flew into the net after making the grab, then bounced safely back to his feet rather than crash into the crowd. High-arcing fouls will continue to sail over netting and land in the stands, enabling grownups to vie with kids for a free baseball while they’re simultaneously shielded from the 100 mph cowhide-clad cannonballs with Manfred’s signature printed on them.
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In East, Yanks have a swollen lead to match their limbs Tyler Kepner The New York Times News Service
NEW YORK — Every day is fraught with worry for the New York Yankees. They made no trades at last week’s deadline. Their rotation is ordinary, their bullpen exhausted, their lineup crumbling. When Gio Urshela fouled a ball off his right thigh in the sixth inning Sunday night, the most predictable thing happened a few moments later: a foul off his left shin, of course. “I was going up and down the dugout saying, ‘He’s going to hit a home run right here; it’s just bound to happen,’” Aaron Judge said. “The whole crowd was chanting his name. But this whole team’s tough. We know what we’ve been through.” Urshela did not hit a home run, alas — he bounced to the pitcher — but by then he had already gone deep off David Price in a 7-4 Yankees victory that sealed a four-game sweep of the Boston Red Sox. At 73-39, the Yankees have the American League’s best record. They opened a stretch of 11 games against the lowly Baltimore Orioles and Toronto Blue Jays with a 9-6 win on Monday in Baltimore. “A little swollen,” said Urshela, whose legs were heavily bandaged after the game, “but I think I’m good.” These would not be the Yankees, though, without some kind of troubling news: All-Star infielder Gleyber Torres had a core muscle issue, manager Aaron Boone said after the game, and was taken to a hospital for tests. Torres turned out to be fine and was back in the lineup Monday — he went 0 for 5 — but the Yankees have already sent Luke Voit (sports hernia), Edwin Encarnacion (broken right wrist) and Aaron Hicks (right flexor strain) to the injured list in the past week. They have 16 players on the major league injured list, the most in the game. “It’s been a crazy year in that way, with the amount of things that have happened to guys physically,” Boone said. “But it’s also been a real rallying cry for us. It’s not just brought a level of physical toughness to the room, but it’s forced guys to be mentally tough as well. It’s part of the hunger that exists with those guys because they have the mindset of: Nothing’s going to get in our way, and nothing’s going to
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New York Yankees third baseman Gio Urshela reacts after fouling a ball off his leg for the second time in the at bat against the Boston Red Sox at Yankee Stadium.
stop us.” The Yankees would surely welcome Encarnacion, Hicks, Voit and the other injured starters, Giancarlo Stanton and Gary Sanchez, back to the offense. They would love to add Luis Severino and Dellin Betances, who have been hurt all season, to the pitching staff. Some combination of that group will return down the stretch. But the Yankees expect success either way — and while every team likes to say that, Boone’s team lives up to it. The Red Sox have their health but a middling record (60-55). The Yankees are chronically injured but soaring. In the clubhouse after Sunday’s win, the Yankees played “More Than a Feeling” — by Boston, naturally — and got a pep talk from winning pitcher J.A. Happ, the players’ pick for star of the game. “He won the belt tonight, for what a performance he did against a really good offense,” Judge said. “Anytime Jay speaks, he controls a room. He’s a veteran; he’s been around the game for a long time, done a lot of great things
in this game. ‘Keep moving forward,’ that was his biggest message, just keep moving forward no matter what.” Happ, 36, blanked the Red Sox for a while Sunday before giving up four runs in the fifth and sixth. Boston knocked him out early in the playoff opener at Fenway Park in October, but the Red Sox are sinking fast now. “A sweep is hard against any team, especially a four-game sweep and especially against these guys,” Happ said. “Anytime you can put a little distance from a team in your division, it’s huge.” After humbling Chris Sale twice in a week, the Yankees leveled Price this time. Though he buried his big-game demons with a sterling World Series last fall, Price is 1-7 with a 9.61 ERA for Boston at Yankee Stadium. The fans dialed up a classic for him after Judge’s homer in the first: “Who’s Your Daddy?”, the old Pedro Martinez salute. The Red Sox are 5 1/2 games out of a wild card spot and 14 1/2 behind the Yankees in
Dom Amore: Connecticut Tigers manager Brayan Pena leaped from Cuba to freedom, cherishes the life America, baseball has offered By Dom Amore The Hartford Courant (TNS)
The fans who gather at Dodd Stadium this summer to watch the Connecticut Tigers’ young prospects play on the broiling afternoons and steamy evenings are assured of two things. The first is that players will run, never walk on the field at any time. “No walking, that’s one of the rules,” says the manager, Brayan Pena, “But my biggest rule is that everybody has to be outside for the national anthem. Everybody. There is no excuse. Because there are so many people that sacrificed for me to be here today, for us to have this freedom, for us to pursue our dream and have democracy. We have to bring respect to them.” Pena insists upon these things because he loves America in the way someone who grew up subject to the Castros’ tyranny can love it, respects baseball in a way someone who risked his life, and his family’s lives, to play can respect it. There are no “dog days” on his calendar. Pena told his story as beautifully as anyone could on playerstribune.com in 2016. To wit: In 1999, a pudgy, 16-year-old, he trusted a friend, fooled a security guard to give him a moment of privacy and climbed out a bathroom window, leaving Cuba’s national team in Venezuela, escaping to Costa Rica and, finally, the United States. He refused to look back, certain the family that sacrificed so that he could always have enough to eat, would understand. “If you think with your heart, it’s going to be very difficult to make that decision,” Pena says. “You have to understand, if you let your heart dictate what to do, I would never make that step. Am I going to see my family again? What is going to happen to them in Cuba? What will my friends and family think to me? I’m going to miss them a lot. But when I made that decision, I said, ‘This was going to be for the best. This is going to be for my future, for my family’s future. I am going to work hard, sacrifice whatever it takes to bring them out of Cuba, to bring them out of the misery, to bring them to freedom.’ That’s why I made that decision.” All that followed has exceeded his wildest hopes, as the story continues in Norwich. Pena signed with the Braves, and in 2005 got the call to join the big league team at Fenway Park, signing his name inside The Wall. His parents both lost their teaching jobs in Havana, but he was eventually able to go back, reunite and begin the process of getting them out. “We were trying to capture all those years we lost,” he says. “In that moment and those hugs, we were trying to tell each other how much we loved and miss each other. It was an amazing feeling. I left them
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being a young boy, and I came back to them a grown man, a man who made a decision on his own.” Today, he says, 23 of his relatives are living in the United States, all in the process, most having completed the process to become citizens, as Brayan did. Along the way, Pena gained the mentor-ship of his boyhood hero, Braves catcher Javy Lopez — named his second son after him — and carved out a 12-year major league career, playing 638 precious games, a .259 hitter, earning more than $11 million, usually a backup and always an exuberant, admired teammate. When it finally came time to tear himself away from the mitt, mask and chest protector, the Tigers offered a chance to manage in 2018. Pena won a championship in the Gulf Coast League his first year and was promoted a level to short-season Class A, where the average player is 21, often a recent draftee from college, or kid who left his Latin American homeland as a teenager and is slowly working his way up the ladder. Pena played for Bobby Cox in Atlanta, Trey Hillman in Kansas City, Jim Leyland in Detroit, all important influences. But his managerial style is based on all he learned watching his parents as educators under the worst conditions. “You grew up learning how their students loved them,” he says, “and how they appreciate what they did for them. Especially in Cuba, you have to do whatever it takes for your students to get a better education. I saw my mom cry because her hands were tied. She wanted to do more.”
Pena, 37, fills the third base coaching box. His personality dominates the dugout, the clubhouse, old enough to be a father figure, young enough to be a sturdy big brother. He can empathize with the kid struggling to learn and advance in the game, but cannot be fooled. He wears his passion proudly, with the confidence of one who made the seminal choice of his life at an age most would be trying to decide which movie to see on a first date. He doesn’t tell his story to his players, though many have read it on their own. He only wants them to savor life the way he does. “Never take anything for granted,” Pena says. “Learn to appreciate every moment that you have that uniform. Learn to appreciate the Detroit Tigers organization. Learn to appreciate and respect yourself and your family. That’s why I try to create a family atmosphere, something bigger than 0-for-4 or 4-for-4, something bigger than that no-hitter we threw (July 28). It’s hard for me to get mad, because I know how hard it is to play the game, but if something will make me a little bit upset, it’s when you don’t appreciate that you’re in the lineup, you don’t appreciate the opportunity that millions of people would give up something special to be in that position.” Pena made his break for it at a time when the trail was barely blazed, so many older men back on the island wondering what they might’ve done in the major leagues. Orlando “El Duque” Hernandez made his harrowing journey by boat to the Yankees the year before. Jose Contreras and others followed. In 2019, there are more than 30 Cuban defectors active in the majors. Pena knows them all, becoming especially close friends with Aroldis Chapman, the current Yankees closer, when both were with the Reds. “We are a very small community,” Pena says, “but very powerful, because we believe in what we can bring. We believe we are doing something great. The next generation that is coming, the ‘next wave,’ I call it, they understand we are making progress, trying to open the door for them. Little by little, we’re passing the torch; a lot of them, even the younger players that I don’t know, they appreciate what I did, the way I handled myself during my playing career. That’s what you want, for them to understand the way I understand what Luis Tiant went through, what Minnie Minoso went through, what Tony Oliva, Tony Perez, went through. They are the pioneers of the movement.” Now Brayan Pena longs for the day when Cuban teenagers won’t have to crawl out of bathroom windows to pull their family out of misery, and is ever optimistic he will live to see it.
the East, with Tampa Bay in between. The Red Sox can hit, but their pitching has abandoned them. Their five starters have a combined ERA of 4.80, and only a true die-hard could name more than two Red Sox relievers. Of course, the Yankees’ pitchers looked just as vulnerable at Fenway at the end of July, when the Red Sox flattened them for 38 runs in the first three games. The Minnesota Twins and the Houston Astros, both leading their divisions, also have slugging contact hitters and present similar problems. The Astros added two starting pitchers, Zack Greinke and Aaron Sanchez, at the deadline, plus a reliever and a catcher. Sanchez was 3-14 for Toronto but fired the first six innings of a combined no-hitter in his Houston debut Saturday. The Yankees chose not to strengthen their pitching at the deadline, passing up every possible deal that could have helped the major league team. The prices were too steep, said general manager Brian Cashman, who deserves the benefit of the doubt. Without the depth Cashman and his staff have assembled since last summer, this season would be a fiasco. But you have to wonder why outfielder Clint Frazier remains in the organization. He was passed over again for a promotion when the Yankees placed Hicks on the injured list Sunday, and Boone said the Yankees did not even consider him. Frazier posted a cryptic but sadlooking photo on Instagram on Sunday night — he is hanging his head under a red hoodie, with a “Scranton Life” sign lit up in the background — but he can hit and should be on a major league roster. If the Yankees truly have no use for Frazier, they should have dealt him, if only to improve around the margins. Then again, the biggest lesson from this season is that, improbably, the Yankees really do have the answers within. Whenever one sturdy piece falls, another sprouts in its place. The questions the Yankees absorb every day are real, and in October they might struggle to overcome all the issues. But for now the evidence keeps mounting, right there in the wonloss record: With this team, in this season, the obstacles have not mattered.
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An MRI revealed a torn hamstring for New York Mets second baseman Robinson Cano, according to multiple reports Monday evening. Cano is expected to miss significant time because of the injury but will not need surgery to repair the tear, according to SportsNet New York. The 36-year-old sustained the injury during the Mets’ 13-2 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates on Sunday. He pulled up lame while rounding first. The Mets placed Cano on the 10-day injured list and called up infielder Luis Guillorme from Triple-A Syracuse to take his spot on the active roster. Cano is hitting .252 with 10 homers and 32 RBIs in 86 games, and Guillorme entered Monday with a .182 average (4-for-22) in 17 games. –The Chicago Cubs placed closer Craig Kimbrel on the 10-day injured list, retroactive to Sunday, because of right knee inflammation and called up right-hander Duane Underwood Jr. Kimbrel underwent an MRI exam after feeling discomfort on Saturday, when he pitched a scoreless inning against the Milwaukee Brewers for his ninth save of the season. The veteran right-hander, who signed with Chicago as a free agent on June 7, is 0-2 with a 5.68 ERA in 14 appearances for the Cubs. The Cubs also learned that catcher Willson Contreras, who went on the 10day injured list on Sunday, likely will miss four weeks, ESPN reported. Contreras suffered a right hamstring strain over the weekend while running out a fly ball against the Milwaukee Brewers in the seventh inning. –The Cincinnati Reds claimed right-hander Kevin Gausman off waivers
from the Atlanta Braves. Gausman, 28, pitched well down the stretch for Atlanta last season but has struggled in 2019, posting a 3-7 record and 6.19 ERA in 16 starts. He gave up five runs in 4 2/3 innings against the Reds on Friday. The Braves acquired him from the Baltimore Orioles at the 2018 trade deadline, and he went 5-3 with a 2.87 ERA in 10 starts for Atlanta. Gausman, the fourth pick in the 2012 draft, is 47-61 with a 4.30 ERA in seven career seasons. –The Washington Nationals will sign veteran infielder Asdrubal Cabrera, according to multiple reports. Cabrera, 33, recently was designated for assignment and released by the Texas Rangers. He hit .235 with 12 homers and 51 RBIs in 93 games with Texas this season. This will mark the second stint with the Nationals for Cabrera, who played 49 games with the club in 2014. He is a .267 lifetime hitter with 174 homers and 756 RBIs during parts of 13 seasons with the Cleveland Indians, Nationals, Tampa Bay Rays, New York Mets, Philadelphia Phillies and Rangers. –The 2019 baseball postseason will start Oct. 1 with the National League wild-card matchup, with the American League’s version following on Oct. 2, Major League Baseball announced in releasing its playoff schedule. Should any tie-breaker games be needed following the end of the regular season, those would be played on Sept. 30 and broadcast by ESPN. The World Series is scheduled to begin Oct. 22 at the home of the remaining team with the best regular-season record. Oct. 24 and Oct. 28 have been set as travel days, with Game 7 set for Oct. 30, if necessary.
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Longtime attraction is still stymied by age difference I have been seeing a woman who is 21 years younger than I am. She says she loves me, but I am hesitant because of our age difference. We have known each other for years. She had a crush on me when she was 16, but I was married at the time, and she was too young. We made love a couple of times when she was in her DEAR ABBY 20s because I was divorced and she was single. Now it’s 10 years later. I’m in my late 50s; she’s in her 30s. We are both single, and she wants to take care of me for the rest of my life. I worry about what other people will think, but she doesn’t care and says she wants to love me and care for me because she knows what I am about. I grew up with her uncles and aunts and am good friends with them. She’s tired of dating people her age because she says they are immature. She has three kids and has never been married. I love her and want to take care of her, too, for the rest of her life. Should I listen to my heart? Age Is A Number, In New Mexico
man who assaulted me gave me genital herpes. I’m not someone who has ever slept around. After the rape, I told no one. I didn’t go to the police. I didn’t go to the doctor to get checked right away because I was scared the doctor would report the rape to the police and my family would find out. I felt ashamed and dirty. Two months later, I finally found the courage to see a doctor. I realized I had genital herpes because I got a sore and went to get tested. I’m now friends with a guy and feel like every time I meet someone I have to tell him I have herpes because I’m not the kind of person who lies or keeps secrets. My friend seems really interested in me, and I know I need to tell him. I feel like my life is over, and I’ll never be able to have kids or marry because of this disease. It’s like the man who raped me has killed my social life and my desire to live. Please help me, Abby. I have no idea what to do. Should I just stay alone or try to get my life back? Stressed And Anxious In Puerto Rico
You have known this woman for many years. It is not as though she’s a stranger with three children who has approached you. Are the fathers of the children contributing to their support? If they are minors, what will be your role in their lives? These are important considerations. But how other people feel about your union should not affect your decision.
For heaven’s sake, take your life back! It is far from over. Go online and research the prevalence of STDs among teens and young adults in the U.S. and Puerto Rico. The statistics will be an eyeopener for you and may reassure you that you are not alone in having herpes. This information should be shared with your sexual partners before becoming intimate. Medications can lessen the chance of transmission. Your doctor or a clinic worker can advise you.
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Gluten- and grain-free foods not a marketing gimmick I have no health issues, but I’m a cheapskate. I see products labeled as “grain-free” or as “gluten-free,” but they always cost more than the regular product. Are there any health benefits to using these, or are they marketing TO YOUR gimmicks? GOOD HEALTH
DR. KEITH ROACH
They are not marketing gimmicks at all. People with celiac disease have a sensitivity to a protein in gluten, called gliadin. Even small amounts of gluten can cause longlasting damage to the intestines, and many people with celiac disease will be unable to properly absorb nutrients if they are regularly exposed to gluten. This can manifest with severe symptoms, such as weight loss, diarrhea and severe metabolic disturbance. Or it can trigger much milder ones, such as mild abdominal discomfort after eating, skin changes, anemia or joint pains. For people with diagnosed celiac disease, strict adherence to a gluten-free diet is essential, and the increasing availability of gluten-free foods has made the lives of people with celiac disease better. Many grains are gluten-free naturally. There are people with symptoms from glutencontaining foods but who do not have celiac disease. The term is “non-celiac gluten sensitivity.” Some people with this condition are sensitive to components of the food other than the gluten, although there are some people who are sensitive to gluten but do not have celiac disease. For people without NCGS and without celiac disease, avoiding gluten is not necessary.
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I am an 89-year-old man who has been taking tamsulosin (Flomax), 0.4 mg, for many years. I take it after supper in the evening. I get up at night three or four times to urinate. Would it be better to take the medication after lunch? I would be happy if I could reduce the number of times I get up to maybe only once or twice. Tamsulosin is in the class of alpha blockers, and they relax smooth muscle, a special type of muscle found in the prostate and in blood vessels (among other places). Relaxing the smooth muscle in the prostate makes the urethra, the tube that carries the urine from the bladder and through the prostate, larger. As a result, men can empty their bladders more easily. However, even though tamsulosin is better at relaxing smooth muscle in the prostate than in blood vessels, some men will get lightheaded upon standing when using it. This occurs especially on the first dose, and over time most men no longer have trouble. It is usually dosed at nighttime so that the lightheadedness on standing is minimized. You can take it at any time of the day (a half-hour after eating is recommended, at the same meal of the day), but I doubt it will work much better. Before considering another drug, be sure you avoid too many liquids at night, especially alcohol, and try voiding your bladder twice before bed to make sure it is as empty as possible.
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Horoscope By Stella Wilder Born today, you are one of the most original thinkers born under your sign — and your originality doesn’t stop there. You are willing and able to do all manner of things that have never been done before, large and small, and you are sure to leave a very large footprint when all is said and done. Despite what is likely to amount to a massive list of accomplishments, the thing you most desire in life is not to be remembered or honored for what you have done, but for how you have lived. You are independent to a fault, and insist on being allowed to do your own thing. You are curious and studious, and you will no doubt know a great deal about the world in which you live — and about the people in it. You enjoy traveling both near and far. Also born on this date are: Charlize Theron, actress; David Duchovny, actor; Billie Burke, actress; Tobin Bell, actor; Wayne Knight, actor; Louis Leakey, anthropologist; Garrison Keillor, writer and radio personality; John Glover, actor. 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. THURSDAY, AUGUST 8 LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Something new piques your interest, but you may not be feeling quite brave enough to give it a try — at least not yet, and not on your own. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Your reactions to the day’s developments may border on the overdramatic, but you have good reason to be sensitive about certain things in flux. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Don’t let anyone tell you what you should do today; if you assess a quickly evolving situation correctly, you’ll know
what you must do! SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — You may be tempted to venture further out of your comfort zone than usual today; is it the promise of a tangible reward that moves you so? SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — You’re waiting for a change that is not likely to come. Do what you can to make things happen for yourself, regardless of what others do. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Those who don’t know you all that well mustn’t be allowed to call the shots for you today. Dangers increase as you relinquish control. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — You’re likely to reach an important personal milestone today. Others will join you in a group effort — if you present your case just right. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — Someone close to you may see through the rhetoric and discover your true motives in a certain tricky situation. Is this the end of the line? ARIES (March 21-April 19) — You’re eager to enjoy something to the fullest, but you may not be willing to pay the price that is being asked. Can you negotiate a deal? TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — You may be profoundly affected by something that happens to someone else today. Your own reaction reveals a great deal about you. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Something you must get done tomorrow can be started today. Indeed, the sooner you get the preliminaries out of the way, the better for everyone. CANCER (June 21-July 22) — You don’t have to travel far to enjoy the very thing you’ve been searching for lately, as it’s actually been within reach all this time. COPYRIGHT 2019 UNITED FEATURE SYNDICATE, INC.
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THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek
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Unscramble these Jumbles, one letter to each square, to form four ordinary words.
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(e.g., Who authored “A Brief History of Time”? Answer: Stephen Hawking.) Freshman level 1. Which country’s history includes the Great Leap Forward? 2. Which country’s history includes the Great Purge? 3. Which country’s history involved the Great Trek? Graduate level 4. Christopher Marlowe authored “The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor ____.” 5. “Reconstruction” refers to the period in U.S. history following what? 6. Those who do not learn from history are doomed to do what? PH.D. level 7. Who was the first democratically elected head of state in Egyptian history? 8. Who led the only effective slave revolt in U.S. history? 9. Who was the longest-serving British prime minister in history?
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Crossword Puzzle ACROSS 1 Sorrowful 4 “The Magic Flute” or “Tosca” 9 Prefix for enemy or angel 13 City in Texas 14 Role on “M*A*S*H” 15 Outdoor feast 16 __ and for all; permanently 17 Item listed in a recipe 19 “__ Willie Winkie” 20 See eye __; agree 21 Takes a nap 22 Gramm/McGraw 24 Big __ 25 “If it’s __ thing, it’s another!” 27 Gold/Ivory 30 Demean; put down 31 “Don’t __ on me”; old flag words 33 “__-a-dub-dub, three men in a tub…” 35 Unruly crowds 36 Simpletons 37 Beckoned 38 Conger or moray 39 Wander about stealthily 40 Self-confidence 41 Whispered confidence 43 Sacrificial figure 44 Tiller 45 Freight 46 Crooked 49 __ plugs; ignition starters 51 Bakery buy 54 Cash register user 56 Nourishment 57 Up in __; angry 58 Debonair; charming 59 Pulls along 60 Reasonable bedtime 61 Aggravated 62 Nation with the most immigrants: abbr. DOWN 1 Of sound mind 2 Good enough
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3 Female animal 4 Colorful songbird 5 Window pieces 6 Uptight 7 Unusual 8 “Diamonds __ Forever”; 007 film 9 Flying saucer pilots 10 Streets of Paris 11 Quitter’s word 12 Shacks 13 Word of amazement 18 Terrible fear 20 Fork part 23 Role on “Bonanza” 24 Deadly snakes 25 New parents’ choice 26 Woodwind instruments 27 Jailbird’s quarters 28 Disloyal to one’s nation 29 Lather-topped 31 Tap the horn 32 Use an oar 34 Bar order 36 Sovereign 37 Björn of tennis
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