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Skye after her surgery

HUDSON — A horse that was rescued in Greene County last month in an animal cruelty case is on its way to recovery after a procedure to remove a tissue growth from its hind leg, Columbia-Greene Humane Society President Ron Perez

said Monday.

Skye, a 14-year-old thoroughbred-type mare was found without food or water, severely underweight and with a basketball-sized injury on a hind leg. The mare underwent surgery last week at Rhinebeck Equine to remove the lump.

“The surgery went very

well,” Perez said. “We are waiting on a biopsy. We hope to hear back this week.”

Skye developed the large amount of granular tissue known as “proud flesh” because the original injury to the leg was not treated properly, Perez said.

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Chokehold officer is fired Dismissal of NYPD officer ends five-year legal battle PAGE A2

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Report: NY second-safest state for singles TONY CENICOLA/THE NEW YORK TIMES

New York has been identified as the second safest state in the country for people living alone. But police say you still need to take safety precautions, and most importantly, lock your doors.

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By Melanie Lekocevic Columbia-Greene Media

A survey of crime statistics nationwide shows New York is the second safest state in the country for people living alone.

That is according to a survey

of FBI and census data compiled by the security website asecurelife.com.

The survey looked at data from all 50 states to determine the safest and most dangerous states for people living on their own.

The No. 1 safest state in the nation is New Jersey, according to the survey, followed by New York, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

The state with the highest crime statistics for people

living alone was Alaska, followed by Maryland, New Mexico, Tennessee and Arkansas.

The survey included data on property crime rates, violent crime rates, local law enforcement presence and percentage of singles in the state.

“More and more Americans are opting to live alone nowadays,” according to the report.

“The number of people living alone in the United States has grown from 5% in the 1920s to See SINGLES A8

Cornwallville Day organizers champion community

By Sarah Trafton Columbia-Greene Media

CORNWALLVILLE — Residents will show off their community pride at the second annual Cornwallvile Day on Saturday.

The event will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. with most activities taking place at the firehouse on County Route 20. A community-wide yard sale will be held simultaneously with the event. Visitors can purchase maps for $1.

Cornwallville Day began because residents wanted to get in touch with the roots of the community, said Karen Rivers, one of the event organizers.

“We wanted to know more about the history and develop community spirit,” Rivers said.

Historically, the hamlet was all about community, Rivers said.

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Cornwallville Day began as a way to celebrate the hamlet’s history and develop community spirit. The second Cornwallville Day is Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

“When you look at the church history, people got together for social events at the church hall,” she said. “There is

nothing like that anymore.”

And the church is gone as well, Rivers said.

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“The Cornwallville Church is at the Farmers Museum in Cooperstown,” she said.

The old church was carefully dismantled and reassembled at the Farmers’ Museum by the spring of 1964.

The site chosen was at the south end of the Village Crossroads section of the Farmers’ Museum, overlooking a small pond, according to Greene County Historian David Dorpfeld.

In April 1998 it w2 moved again. The church was moved 490 feet to a more central location so as to make the historic village a more complete representation of a hamlet from 1845 upstate New York, according to Dorpfeld.

Rivers said she hopes the annual gathering will bring people together.

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NEW YORK — The New York City police officer whose chokehold was partly blamed for Eric Garner’s death in police custody in 2014 was fired from the Police Department on Monday, ending a bitter, five-year legal battle that had cast a shadow over the nation’s largest police force and the city it protects.

Police Commissioner James P. O’Neill dismissed the officer, Daniel Pantaleo, just over two weeks after a police administrative judge found him guilty of violating a department ban on chokeholds.

Garner died July 17, 2014, after Pantaleo tackled him from behind, then, along with other officers, pressed him down on the pavement. Captured on video, the arrest and Garner’s last words — “I can’t breathe” — gave impetus to the Black Lives Matter movement.

The case had defined the Police Department’s relationship with the public under Mayor Bill de Blasio, who campaigned for office on a promise to reverse the aggressive policing of low-level crimes — known as the “broken windows” strategy — that his predecessor had championed. The mayor had come under intense criticism for not pushing to have Pantaleo fired sooner.

Some elected officials and critics of the Police Department say those policies, which affected black and Latino neighborhoods disproportionately, are partly to blame for Garner’s death.

For many people across the country, Pantaleo became a symbol of long-standing problems with how the police treat people, mostly black and Latino, suspected of lowlevel crimes. Garner died as he was being arrested on charges of selling untaxed cigarettes on Staten Island.

After Garner’s death, the Police Department scaled back the heavy enforcement of low-level crimes. But Pantaleo’s continued employment on the police force still infuriated Garner’s family and their supporters.

They lobbied for the officer to be fired and stripped of his pension, and put pressure on de Blasio to make it happen.

Under the City Charter and state law, however, the decision to fire Pantaleo ultimately belonged to O’Neill, not the mayor.

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Activists holds placards on the steps of New York City Hall during a press conference about the decision by the Justice Department not to prosecute NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo and other officers involved in her son's death during a street encounter in Staten Island five years ago.

A Staten Island grand jury and federal civil rights prosecutors declined to bring criminal charges against Pantaleo, igniting protests.

Besides Pantaleo, Garner’s family has pointed out that there are at least 11 other officers who should be held accountable for their actions leading up to Garner’s death and the aftermath. Only one — Sgt. Kizzy Adonis, who was the first supervisor to arrive on the scene — faces discipline.

Pantaleo’s lawyer, Stuart London, was expected to challenge the decision in court.

London and the Police Benevolent Association have long accused de Blasio of sacrificing Pantaleo to satisfy public anger that threatens the mayor’s political ambitions.

Pantaleo had been suspended without pay since Aug. 2, when a department judge, Deputy Commissioner Rosemarie Maldonado, found him guilty of reckless assault following an administrative trial at Police Headquarters.

In 2014, police supervisors on Staten Island targeted Garner for arrest in response to orders from headquarters to address neighborhood complaints about people illegally selling untaxed, loose cigarettes.

The directive was part of an the brokenwindows policy championed by O’Neill’s predecessor, William J. Bratton, which relied

on cracking down on activities that police believed diminished the quality-of-life in order to prevent serious crime.

Maldonado affirmed in her 46-page decision what many people, including federal prosecutors, believe the video plainly showed: Pantaleo’s initial grip on Garner slipped as the two men grappled and became a chokehold, which the department banned two decades ago.

Maldonado said in her report that the video of the July 17, 2014, encounter and an autopsy that found fresh hemorrhaging in Garner’s neck muscles provided “overwhelming” evidence that Pantaleo had used a chokehold despite being trained not to.

Pantaleo’s “use of a chokehold,” she wrote, “fell so far short of objective reasonableness that this tribunal found it to be reckless — a gross deviation from the standard of conduct established for a New York City police officer.”

The judge also found Pantaleo was untruthful when he later denied to Internal Affairs investigators that he had used a chokehold, saying his explanation was “implausible and self-serving.”

But, like the local grand jury and federal prosecutors before her, she did not find evidence that the chokehold was intentional.

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The shipment of jalapeño peppers was even spicier than they expected.

At the Otay Mesa cargo facility in San Diego last week, a 37-year-old Mexican citizen attempted to drive a tractor trailer carrying heaping mounds of jalapeño peppers through a port of entry, authorities said.

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Perishable food items - or packages made to look like perishable food items - are commonly used to disguise marijuana shipments.

CBP officers have found marijuana hidden in buckets of frozen mango pulp and stuffed

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Officers have even seized thousands of pounds of weed bundled into little green balls made to look like key limes and elongated in carrot-shaped cones that were wrapped in orange tape.

The jalapeño peppers seizure on Aug. 16 came just three days after officers found 10,642 pounds of marijuana inside a shipment of plastic auto parts at the same San Diego facility.

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WASHINGTON — Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., declined to say Monday whether she opposes a comeback by former senator Al Franken, suggesting that the Minnesota Democrat should make that decision himself.

Gillibrand, who is running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, also defended her call for Franken to resign in 2017 amid allegations of sexual misconduct, saying she would make the same decision today.

Gillibrand was the first of the nearly three dozen senators to demand Franken’s resignation.

She was asked about Franken in a Washington Post Live interview that comes several weeks after the New Yorker magazine published a piece in which Franken said he “absolutely”

regrets stepping down in 2017 before he was able to take part in a hearing by the Senate Ethics Committee.

“We’re a country that believes in second chances,” Gillibrand said Monday. “We believe in someone who has humility, who comes forward to say they’re sorry and they have paid consequences and want to reemerge - that’s always there for everyone. And that’s a decision for someone to make themselves. It’s not my decision. It’s certainly not my responsibility.

It’s for someone else to make their own judgments and decisions. But there’s always a path for redemption for anybody.”

Gillibrand noted that Franken faced eight credible allegations, including two instances of alleged misconduct that took place after his election to the Senate in 2008. One of those allegations was made by a

congressional staffer. Gillibrand said she recently spoke with the staffer and that she would “stand by her today” if she had to do it all over again.

“What you’re not entitled to is the silence of your colleagues,” Gillibrand said of Franken. She said it would be “absurd” to ask for members of Congress to stay silent on the alleged misconduct of one of their colleagues and noted that 34 other senators joined her in calling for Franken to resign, although “it may not seem like that today, because I seem to stand alone.”

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CALENDAR Tuesday, Aug. 20 n Athens Village Planning Board 6:30

p.m. at Village Hall, 2 First St., Athens n Durham Town Board 7:30 p.m. at Town Hall, 7309 Route 81, East Durham n Hunter Town Board 7 p.m. at the Town Hall, 5748 Route 23A, Tannersville

Wednesday, Aug. 21 n Catskill Central School District BOE

6:30 p.m. in the High School Library, 341 West Main St., Catskill n Catskill Library Board 6:45 p.m. at either the Catskill Library, 1 Franklin St., Catskill or Palenville Library, 3303 Route 23A, Palenville n Catskill Town Board Committee 6:30 p.m. Palenville Fire House, Route 32A, Palenville n Greene County Legislature CGCC budget public hearing 6:25 p.m.; Regular Legislature Meeting No. 8 6:30 p.m.

Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill

Thursday, Aug. 22 n Greene County Legislature CWSSI

public hearing 6 p.m. Emergency Services Building, Cairo

Monday, Aug. 26 n Catskill Village Planning Board

7 p.m. at the Catskill Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill

Tuesday, Aug. 27 n Catskill Town Planning Board 7 p.m.

Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill

Wednesday, Aug. 28 n Athens Village Board 6:30 p.m. at

Village Hall, 2 First St., Athens n Catskill Village Board 7 p.m. Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill

Monday, Sept. 2 n Athens Town Hall closed for Labor

Police seek stabbing suspect

By Amanda Purcell Columbia-Greene Media

HUDSON — Police are seeking the public’s help in finding a man accused of stabbing another man on Front Street in the city on Thursday.

Police are looking for El-Shamar Thornton, 26, of Hudson, after he allegedly stabbed an unidentified 19-year-old in the abdomen, according to a statement issued by the Hudson Police Department.

Hudson police found the alleged victim on the sidewalk on Front Street near Schuyler Court Apartments after receiving a 911 call at 9:14 p.m.

Thornton has family in Hudson area and possible ties to Stottville, Hudson police Lt. David Miller said Friday.

The wounded man was taken to Columbia County Airport by Greenport Rescue Squad. He was then airlifted to Albany Medical Center for treatment.

The man, whose identity has not been released by police, was in stable condition Friday, police said.

Thornton allegedly fled on foot before police arrived on the scene. Witnesses in the area at the time of the alleged stabbing told police that the

argument began over a girlfriend.

Thornton is described as 5 feet 7 inches tall and 155 p o u n d s , El-Shamar black with Thornton brown hair.

Thornton is wanted on several arrest and bench warrants, including criminal obstruction of breathing, criminal mischief and failure to appear in court to answer a charge of resisting arrest, police said.

Most recently, Thornton was being sought in February by state police Livingston for failure to appear in court to answer a charge of fourthdegree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a class C felony.

Troopers stopped a Ford Taurus traveling on Route 9H in Kinderhook after the officer observed the vehicle swerve off the road. As the vehicle was being stopped, the trooper witnessed the occupants throw a bag from the passenger-side window onto the shoulder of the road.

Thornton allegedly threw a bag containing heroin, cocaine and crack from the vehicle prior to coming to a complete stop, police said.

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Police search for evidence after an unidentified man was allegedly stabbed on Front Street in Hudson late Thursday.

Thornton, who was driving, also was issued tickets for unlicensed operation and for failing to maintain his lane of travel, police said.

Columbia County Court issued a bench warrant for Thornton after he failed to appear to answer to the charges.

Police are asking anyone

who spots Thornton to contact police immediately at 518-828-3388. The investigation into the stabbing is continuing, police said. Anyone with further information is asked to contact the Hudson City Police Department.

The state police Bureau of Criminal Investigation in Livingston, Columbia County

Sheriff’s Office and Greenport Police Department assisted Hudson police with the investigation.

To reach reporter Amanda Purcell, call 518-828-1616 ext. 2500, or send an email to apurcell@ thedailymail.net, or tweet to @ amandajpurcell.

Day n Coxsackie Village Hall closed for Labor Day

Wednesday, Sept. 4 n Greene County Economic Development Corporation 4 p.m. Greene County Economic Development, Tourism and Planning Conference Room (Room 427), 411 Main St., Catskill.

Thursday, Sept. 5 n Cairo Town Planning Board 7 p.m. at

the Town Hall, 512 Main St., Cairo n Coxsackie Village Workshop 6 p.m. at Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

Monday, Sept. 9 n Cairo Town Board 7 p.m. at the Town

Hall, 512 Main St., Cairo n Coxsackie Village Board 7 p.m. at Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

Tuesday, Sept. 10 n Coxsackie Village Historic Preservation Committee 6 p.m. at Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

Wednesday, Sept. 11 n Athens Village Board 6:30 p.m. at

Village Hall, 2 First St., Athens n Catskill Village Board 7 p.m. Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill

Monday, Sept. 16 n Athens Town Board 6:45 p.m. at the

Town Hall, 2 First St., Athens

Tuesday, Sept. 17 n Athens Village Planning Board 6:30

p.m. at Village Hall, 2 First St., Athens

Thursday, Sept. 19 n Coxsackie Village Planning Board

Wednesday, Sept. 25 n Athens Village Board 6:30 p.m. at Village Hall, 2 First St., Athens n Catskill Village Board 7 p.m. Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill

ALBANY — New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Basil Seggos encouraged individuals interested in becoming a Forest Ranger or Environmental Conservation Police Officer (ECO) to apply for civil service exams being offered for the positions this fall. Applications are being accepted until Sept. 4.

“DEC Forest Rangers and Environmental Conservation Police Officers are instrumental in protecting wildlife, natural resources, state lands and the people who use them,” Commissioner Seggos said.

“From search and rescue operations to uncovering environmental crimes, these brave men and women are often first on the front lines of some of the most harrowing events. We encourage anyone interested in joining our ranks of admirable professionals to sign up for the exams today.”

The civil service exams will be held the weekend of Oct. 19. There are separate

exams and different qualifications for becoming an Environmental Conservation Police Officer or Forest Ranger.

Potential applicants should closely review qualifications required for each position to determine which exam they are eligible to take. Those who want to apply for both positions, and meet the required qualifications, must submit separate applications and will be required to take both exams.

A full summary of qualifications, salary, and application procedures can be found online at the New York State Department of Civil Service exam announcements web

pages for Forest Rangers and Environmental Conservation Police Officers.

Exam scores will be used to rank candidates and create eligible lists to fill openings for Environmental Conservation Police Officers or Forest Rangers. Although the exam is being offered, there is no guarantee that there will be openings. The eligibility list from this exam is expected to remain active for up to four years.

In the future, candidates selected from the list would be required to attend a 28-week residential training program at the DEC Basic Academy. Recruits must pass

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Don’t ignore the perception of favoritism The call to examine Greene County’s policy governing employment of family members opened up a new schism between Greene County lawmakers and a battle between the county Legislature and the department heads it oversees.

At issue is the May 18 provisional hiring of Matthew Seeley, son of Greene County Sheriff Greg Seeley, by the sheriff’s department.

In July, Greene County Administrator Shaun Groden said Matthew Seeley, according to current policy, could not be hired until his father retired, which is expected at the end of the year.

Matthew Seeley would also have to take the civil service exam Sept. 14 and, pending those results, he could be hired, but not by his father, Groden said.

“Matthew Seeley is employed as a provisional employee, pending his completion and successful scoring of a civil service exam,” Groden said Friday. “If he passes the exam and is reachable, meaning he must score in the top three spots, he will be appointed as a permanent employee. Provisional status is very common in governmental employment as civil service tests are only given infrequently and eligible lists have expiration dates.”

The proposal to revise the policy took some lawmakers by surprise and angered a few. And it pleased some, too.

As things now stand, the policy is under review to determine its legality, Groden said.

When it’s all said and done, there could be small changes, big changes or no changes at

all to the policy.

Important detailed questions still must be answered. Under what circumstances can the county deny employment to a job seeker?

How does the county restrict it? Or should the county restrict it at all?

Policies such as this are written to protect the ethical conduct of government, prevent conflicts of interest and eliminate the perception of favoritism, which can be harmful to the smooth running of government departments.

In government, hiring should be based on skills, not on who you know or might be related to. Matthew Seeley graduated from the Police Academy and might be highly qualified for the job. But would it matter if his hiring was held off until his father left office?

Waiting four months might have been the careful thing to do as some have suggested, but does the issue of parental connection go away when the father retires? This is also under review.

“Greene County will avoid the practice of appearance of favoritism in hiring and the assignment of employees. Therefore, an employee’s immediate relative will not be hired for or assigned to a position within the chain of command of the current employee or in the same work unit as the current employee,” according to the policy. A legal review will certainly tell the county where it stands, but the appearance of favoritism must be addressed to the satisfaction of all.

ANOTHER VIEW

Global warming is already here (c) 2019,The Washington Post

Global warming is already here, striking substantial regions of the United States with increasing severity. That is the upshot of an exhaustive Post investigation in which reporters Steven Mufson, Chris Mooney, Juliet Eilperin and John Muyskens analyzed decades of local temperature records and identified a variety of hot spots where warming has proceeded more quickly.

“A Washington Post analysis of more than a century of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration temperature data across the Lower 48 states and 3,107 counties has found that major areas are nearing or have already crossed the 2-degree Celsius mark,” The Post found. An increase of 2 degrees Celsius - 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit - is a temperature threshold that scientists warn the world, on average, should not surpass.

“Today, more than 1 in 10 Americans - 34 million people - are living in rapidly heating regions, including New York City and Los Angeles. Seventy-one counties have already hit the 2-degree Celsius mark.”

Surpassing 2 degrees locally means different things in different places. If the average world temperature were to breach the 2-degree threshold, that would mean some places would have warmed far more than 2 degrees, bringing massive changes, and some places less. But in many of the regions The Post examined, substantial negative effects were clear. Global warming’s consequences are various, pervasive and not always obvious when people consider how their lives will be directly affected - until they are.

The lobster catch around Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay is down 75 percent be-

cause of warmer waters. Toxic algae blooms are making a New Jersey lake off-limits to swimmers and boaters. The lake does not freeze like it used to, deterring ice fishermen.

Spurred by warmer temperatures, southern pine beetles are invading northern forests.

The restless ocean is washing beach homes out to sea. People who now find that their homes and businesses are far closer to the shore than when they bought them are moving them farther back - but fear they will have to move again.

Scientists offer various reasons for the temperature hot spots that have emerged across the United States. Alaska’s breakneck heating aligns with their prediction that human greenhouse-gas-driven warming strikes higher latitudes particularly hard. In the Northeast, a shifting Gulf Stream - a massive flow of water that runs from the Gulf of Mexico, up the Atlantic coast of the United States and then toward Europe, its path influenced by melting Arctic ice - seems to explain some of the temperature anomalies. The underlying cause, though, is human-caused global warming.

The warming will continue. Humanity has steadily shifted the chemistry of the atmosphere, in ways that could not be reversed quickly even if rational policy were being implemented. The carbon dioxide that emerges from smokestacks and tailpipes lingers in the air for decades. All the more reason to change behavior now. Yet, whether for political advantage or out of sheer pigheadedness or both, President Donald Trump continues to deny and ignore reality. It is beyond unforgivable.

Correction In the editorial in the Saturday-Sunday, August 10-11 edition, “Grants for local libraries are vital,” there are 66 member libraries in

the Mid-Hudson Library System. Funding for libraries comes from the local taxpayers, usually at the town level.

The Chatham Public Library

is funded directly from the school budget. The Catskill Public Library holds a vote on its tax levy separate from the school district.

Top CEOs reclaiming legitimacy by advancing a vision of what’s good for America

By Steven Pearlstein (c) 2019,The Washington Post ·

What most distinguishes America’s brand of capitalism is the widely held belief that the first duty of every business is to maximize value for shareholders.

The benign version of this credo is that there is no way to deliver maximum value to shareholders over the long term without also satisfying the needs of customers, employees and the society at large. But in its more corrosive application — the one that is inculcated in business schools, enforced by corporate lawyers and demanded by activist investors and Wall Street analysts — maximizing shareholder value has meant doing whatever is necessary to boost the share price this quarter and the next.

Over the years, it has been used to justify bamboozling customers, squeezing workers and suppliers, avoiding taxes and lavishing stock options on executives. Most of what people find so distasteful about American capitalism - the ruthlessness, the greed, the inequality — has its roots in this misguided notion about what business is all about.

Which is why Monday’s statement by the Business Roundtable disavowing shareholder primacy is so significant and so welcome. In the Roundtable’s new formulation of corporate purpose, delivering value to customers, investing in employees, dealing fairly and honestly with suppliers, supporting communities and protecting the environment all have equal billing with generating long-term value for shareholders. The statement rejects the whole idea of “maximizing” one value to the exclusion of all the others. Instead, it acknowledges the need for balance and compromise in serving all of a company’s stakeholders.

Skeptics will likely see the announcement by the country’s leading corporate executives as a public relations gimmick that will do little to change the way American corporations are managed. But the significance is not so much that it will change corporate behavior, but rather that it confirms a shift in attitude that has already occurred.

In many ways, the Roundtable’s new policy represents a return to a view of corporate

purpose that prevailed during the era of “managerial capitalism” of the 1950s and 60s.

“For years, I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors, and vice versa,” Charles Wilson, the carmaker’s chief executive, declared at his confirmation hearing to be defense secretary in 1952.

But after the decade of the 1970s — a decade during which stock prices failed to keep up with inflation and American businesses started to lose out to foreign competition — investors began demanding a new focus on profits and share prices. And executives who refused to get with the new program soon found themselves at the receiving end of a hostile takeover bid by “corporate raiders” or competitors who promised to send them packing.

Indeed, by the time the Roundtable issued a new statement of corporate purpose in 1997 declaring that “the principal objective of a business enterprise is to generate economic returns to its owners,” it was merely acknowledging what had already become the new norm. Executives had become so fixated on maximizing shareholder value that some (Remember Enron and WorldCom?) even began cooking the books to prevent those same shareholders from learning the true state of the business.

Although chief executives were happy to get fabulously rich on stock options meant to focus their minds on the share price, many chafed under regime. They resented analysts and traders who punished them for missing an earnings target and feared and loathed the plaintiff lawyers and “activist investors” who were ready to pounce at the first sign of trouble. They despaired at the loss of respect they had suffered from employees, the media and the public, as well as their own children My hunch, however, is that what finally led members of the Roundtable to jettison the idea of shareholder primacy has been the growing recognition that there is a new generation of employees and consumers who will not work for, or do business with, companies they believe to be socially irresponsible. This is one area where social media seems to have had the effect of improving norms of behavior,

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Still, while norms of business behavior can sometimes be altered by pressure from below, business institutions rarely change without leadership from above. The Roundtable’s chairman, Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase, its president, Josh Bolten, and the chairman of its governance committee, Alex Gorsky, deserve lots of credit for initiating this rethink of corporate purpose. It is also noteworthy that all but a dozen or so of the Roundtable’s 180odd members stepped forward to sign the statement.

There is, as you may imagine, a political context to all of this. Two of the leading Democratic presidential candidates — Sens. Bernie Sander, I-Vt., and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts — have made curbing corporate greed the centerpiece of their campaigns, while in the Democratic House of Representatives, much of the energy has shifted to a liberal wing that is determined to raise wages, raise taxes and strengthen environmental regulation.

With Republicans in control of Congress or the White House for most of the past 20 years, the business community has been able to achieve much of its policy agenda by playing an inside game. But with Democrats now threatening to retake the White House and possibly the Senate in 2020, and the Republican Party lining up behind a Republican president spouting populist rhetoric, business leaders feel some urgency to re-engage in the public debate.

By disavowing shareholder primacy and embracing a broader vision of corporate purpose, the Roundtable has now enhanced the political legitimacy of such efforts.

Steven Pearlstein, a Washington Post economics columnist and the Robinson professor of public affairs at George Mason University, is the author of “Can American Capitalism Survive?”

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Victor C. Olivett Delmar- Victor C. Olivett, nerals, 181 Troy Schenectady Glenmont NY, Nov 1949 – Au- Road, Watervliet, New York gust 15, 2019, born in Catskill 12189.

NY, grew up in that area, later A celebration of his life that moving to Saugerties and then was so full of great friends and to the Delmar/Glenmont area. loved ones will be celebrated Vic was the best husband a man at 3:00pm at the funeral home. could be to Melody In true Vic fashion a Burns, (lovingly known party will be held with as My Wife or that all of his favorite foods Woman) celebrating 24 at 4:30 pm at the Nayears of marital bliss. thanial Blanchard Post, He was step-father 16 W. Poplar Drive, to Richard Ward, Key Delmar NY. All are inWest FL. Vic was also vited! In lieu of flowers the loving son of JayVic would like people Marie Olivett, (LoFristo donate to a Pets Olivett co) Port Ewen NY and in Need Fund, make brother to Lisa Olivett, checks payable to Port Ewen NY. His Dad, Nicho- AVMF, and mail to Capital Dislas V Olivett predeceased him. trict Veterinary Referral HospiVic was Uncle Vic to numerous tal, 222 Troy Schenectady Rd, nieces and nephews, especially Latham, NY 12110. Please note Nicole Maynard and her daugh- on check Pets In Need Fund. ter Avy. Calling hours will be For more about Vic’s life and to held on Thursday, August 22, leave a special message for this 2019 from 1:00pm-3:00pm at family please visit, NewComerNew Comer Cremations & Fu- Albany.com.

Loretta Bender Loretta Bender, 88, of Germantown passed away Saturday August 17, 2019. Born February 5, 1931 in Poughkeepsie, shew is the daughter of William and Laura (Pells) LaDue. A lifelong area resident, Loretta graduated from Germantown High School Class of 1948. Her career was as a dedicated farmer in the family business, Lone Oak Dairy Farm in Livingston. She enjoyed being a member of the Livingston Memorial Church, and its Women’s Guild and Choir. Also, The Livingston Fire Company Auxiliary, American Legion, and Linlithgo Cemetery Association.

Loretta’s other interests and joys were traveling and camping, baking, gardening and bird watching. She loved her family, and all times they shared to-

gether, as a devoted wife, mother and grandmother. Loretta leaves to cherish her memory, her children Janet (Joe) Singler, Ray (Debbie) Bender, and William (Judy) Bender, eight grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren. In addition to her parents, Loretta was predeceased by her husband Albert Bender, and siblings Harry LaDue and Dorothy Setterlund.

Visitation hours at the Bates & Anderson-Redmond & Keeler Funeral Home are Wednesday from 6:00-8:00pm. Graveside services at the Germantown Reformed Church Cemetery are Thursday at 10:00am. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions in Loretta’s name are encouraged to be made to Whittier Nursing and Rehabilitation Activities.

Proud Boys found guilty in Antifa attempted gang assault

By Shayna Jacobs New York Daily News (TNS)

NEW YORK — A pair of Proud Boys was convicted Monday of roughing up members of an anarchist group that confronted them on the Upper East Side last year.

Maxwell Hare and John Kinsman were found guilty of attempted gang assault, riot and attempted assault after less than two days of deliberations in Manhattan Supreme Court.

Hare and Kinsman were among 10 members of the far-right nationalist organization who were charged in connection to the October 2018 brawl with several members of anti-fascist group Antifa. With the verdict, all but one — who will be tried at a later date — have been convicted. All but three pleaded guilty.

Members of Antifa — who refused to cooperate with authorities — were protesting a Metropolitan Republican Club speaking event

by Proud Boys’ founder and former leader Gavin McInnes the night of the street

fight.

The victims were referred to at the trial by nicknames based on physical attributes like “ponytail” and “shaved head.”

Kinsman was convicted on all charges but was found “justified” on two lesser counts of attempted assault in the third degree.

Justice Mark Dwyer allowed the defendants to remain free on bail pending their sentencing. They face up to 15 years on the top count. (c)2019 New York Daily News Visit New York Daily News at www.nydailynews.com Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

Barbara Ann Decker (Nielsen) May 15, 1943 – August 1, 2019 Barbara Decker, age 76, formerly of Windham, New York passed away Thursday, August 1, 2019 in Titusville, Florida. She is in peace now and has joined the angels in heaven. She was welcomed by her mother, Eva Nielsen and her mother in law Irene C Decker.

Barbara was born in New York, New York. She was a graduate from Dobbs Ferry High School, in Dobbs Ferry, NY. She went on to become a Registered Nurse. From working the Westchester Police Camp as the camp nurse to greeting patients at Dr. Maier’s office for years, Barbara found many special ways to work with people using her nursing. Barbara was very active, with her husband Fred, in the third generation fam-

ily businesses, Decker’s Am- a grandmother and a volunteer. bulance service and Decker’s She was handy at crochet, a Funeral Home. She was a mem- sharp shooter on the range and ber of the Order of the Eastern loved to make special birthday Star. Barbara is survived by her cakes for all her kids over their guardian angel and young years. Thankshusband of 49 years, giving was her holiday Frederick R. Decker, and she could make her three children, Vican amazing turkey and toria Decker Griffith, world class gravy. BarLaura Cecelia Burg bara and Fred loved to and Christian Reynolds travel the countryside Decker. Barbara was together in their “big rig” an adoring, gift giving motorhome. She had and “sparkly” granda life long relationship mother to David Burg, with pots of coffee and Decker Anneliese Burg, Nacigarettes and her TV than Decker, Lance Decker and husband would have been Leroy Cole Decker. Lastly, she leaves Jethrow Gibbs from NCIS. The behind her sweet, angel, rescue family would like to express our cat Daisy Decker. Barbara was thanks for the wonderful help a renaissance woman, from be- and care given by Vitas Hospice ing in business, a wife, a mom, of Titusville for such passionate

Erna I. Dings Buhler, KS Erna I. Dings, 85, died August 15, 2019 at Pleasant View Home, Inman, KS. She was born March 24, 1934 to Herman P. and Katie Androes Heidebrecht in Dalhart, Tx in a dug out.

Erna moved to Inman, KS with her family at the age of one.

She attended Inman schools and graduated from Inman High School in 1952. She lived in a Christian family and was baptized by Rev. William Wilkinson in 1950. She joined the Inman Mennonite Church at that time.

She held several positions in the church since then. She worked with technical writers at Sterling Winthrop Research Institute in Rensselar, NY for nine years. She married Lester C. Dings in 1977. She and her husband moved to Columbia, MO in 1990. There she worked as a sales associate for Dillard’s

and professional care in her final days and hours.

Funeral Services will be coordinated by Richards Funeral Home, 29 Bross Street, Cairo, NY. Calling hours with the family will be Friday, August 23, 2019 from 4pm to 6pm. A Catholic Mass will be officiated by Father Jay Atherton at St. Theresa’s Child of Jesus, Windham, NY on Saturday, August 24, 2019 at 2:00pm. Barbara will be buried next to her mother at Pleasant Valley cemetery following the mass. A reception will follow to celebrate her life. In Viking fashion we will raise a glass and toast “Skol”. Condolences may be sent to Fred Decker, 3206 South Hopkins Ave. #300, Titusville, FL 32780. Condolences may be made at www.richardsfuneralhomeinc.net.

Reginald F. Willcocks, Jr.

for 18 ½ years. He passed away Sept. 18, 2010. Erna is survived by her son Greg (Sigrid) Krause, Tonkawa, OK; stepchildren, Chuck (Ellen) Dings, Nassau, NY and Claudia Dings, Valatie, NY; and brothers Leo Heidebrecht, Wichita and Hank (Ann) Heidebrecht, Newton. She was preceded in death by her parents; three brothers, Marvin, Harvey, and Alva; and three sisters, Esther, Ruby, and Dorothy.

Family will receive friends from 5-7 pm Tuesday, August 20, 2019 at Buhler Mortuary.

Graveside services will be held at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, August 21, 2019 at the North Inman Cemetery. Memorial services will follow at 10:30 a.m. at the Inman Mennonite Church.

Memorial contributions may be made to the church, in care of Buhler Mortuary, 120 N. Main St.,Buhler, KS 67522.

Windham- Reginald F. Willcocks, Jr., born on October 12, 1931 and a proud veteran, passed away Saturday, August 19, 2019.

He leaves behind his adoring wife Lois, beloved son Reggie, three beautiful granddaughters, Lindsey, Carrie and Bridget and two sisters Anne Willcocks and Janice Stearn. After returning from the corporate world and moving to Windham, Reg became involved in many activities in Greene County. He was a Director of the Empire State Performing Arts Center, better known as the Egg, for 14 years, many years as the Greene County Council of Arts, 2 years as president of the Windham Chamber of Commerce, active member of the “2000 Committee” which consisted of planning long and short term goals for Greene County Legislature

contributions. Before retiring, Reg was on the Board and Executive Board of the United States Ski Team NYS Committee for 19 years, of interest he launched training program for Master Charge introduction, first charge card in the East. He was a certified Professional Ski Instructor since April 1983 and a Supervisor of the Adult Ski Program for Windham Mountain.

Reg loved golf and was a starter for the Windham Country Club.

Reg was an excellent artist in oil and water colors. He was an accomplished piano player.

Calling hours will be held on Wednesday, August 21, 2019 from 4-7PM at Decker Funeral Home, 5312 Main Street, Windham, NY. A funeral service will be held on Thursday, August 22, 2019 at 11AM at the funeral home.

Family of missing teen feels ‘extreme relief’ she is alive and an arrest has been made: ‘It was a nightmare … pure torture’

By Katherine Rosenberg-Douglas Chicago Tribune

CHICAGO — Authorities and a relative of a 16-year-old girl for whom an Amber Alert was issued by Indiana State Police said she was found safe in Arkansas about 24 hours after she was last seen in Crown Point, and an arrest has been made in connection with her abduction.

About 1:40 p.m. Sunday, state police confirmed the teenager’s safety by canceling the Amber Alert. The Lake County Sheriff’s Department is the lead investigating agency, and it was assisted by FBI offices in Indianapolis and Little Rock, Arkansas, where Madison Eddlemon, 16, was found safe Sunday morning, said FBI spokeswoman Chris Bavender, who is based in Indianapolis.

“She was recovered safely, and there is a subject in custody in connection with her disappearance,” Bavender said.

Judith Eddlemon, Madison’s grandmother, said she got word from her stepson, Madison’s father, about 11 a.m. Sunday that her granddaughter was located safe in Arkansas.

Judith Eddlemon said she and other family members were feeling “extreme relief. It was a nightmare.”

About noon, her stepson still was getting details from Lake County Sheriff’s Department detectives and the FBI, Judith Eddlemon said, but he was able to start phoning family members to let them know Madison

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An Amber Alert was issued for Madison Eddlemon (pictured), 16, of Crown Point, Indiana.

Her family said she was found safe. Police say she may have been with Alexander CurryFishtorn, 22.

was found alive.

Authorities early Sunday issued a statewide Amber Alert for Madison, which included a description of a person of interest and a vehicle description. Madison’s grandmother said she believes the teen was taken against her will by a man who previously had stalked the 16-year-old.

Authorities did not provide the name of the person who was arrested in connection with her disappearance, Bavender said.

Crown Point and Lake County, Indiana, authorities searched nearly 24 hours for the teenager, who was last seen alone in her car about 9 a.m

Saturday. A communications representative with the Lake County Sheriff’s Department said he was not in a position to comment on the investigation.

Bavender said she expected the lead agency would provide additional details.

Judith Eddlemon did not know whether Madison was found alone or who had been arrested, but she was steadfast in her belief Madison had been kidnapped.

Madison’s car was found abandoned near Magnolia and Sherwood drives in Crown Point with some of her belongings still inside, and the window was cracked, according to a Facebook post from the Crown Point Police Department.

Judith Eddlemon did not know what Madison may have left behind in the car but said it was stopped at a stop sign as if preparing to enter the intersection.

“It was still in the road, and other cars had to go around it,” Judith Eddlemon said.

The Amber Alert stated that she may have been with Alexander Curry-Fishtorn, 22.

The Police Department’s Facebook post separately went on to say Madison’s family has an order of protection against a 22-year-old man for stalking the teenager, and they believe she may have been forced to go with him.

Judith Eddlemon did not have details about the order of protection, such as when it was

Celebration of Life in honor of The family of the late Lois M. Rockefeller wish to express their deep appreciation to all those who offered such kindness, support, messages of sympathy and comfort in our bereavement. Your many acts of kindness and sympathy continue to be a great comfort to us in our time of sorrow. Words cannot express the amount of grace that Lois always had.

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She had few details about how and where her granddaughter was located.

“It’s so new. We still have so few details,” Judith Eddlemon said. “I just know that she’s alive.”

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Roots: The hidden half of the garden

By Thomas Christopher For Columbia-Greene Media

One of the most inquisitive gardeners and writers I know is Robert Kourik of Occidental, California. When he gets ahold of a topic, he’s like a terrier with a bone.

Whether it’s ways to drought-proof a garden, the design of graywater and dripirrigation systems, or the best recipe for a lavender-infused martini, he worries away at the research in the library and in the field until he gets to the root of the matter. Quite literally, too, in the case in point.

Like most of us, Robert had passed without comment the illustrations in horticultural textbooks that represented root systems as essentially subterranean mirror images of the plants’ above-ground structures. That is, if an oak tree rose to a height of 60 feet, with limbs reaching out to a similar extent, the image of the roots showed them sinking and spreading to 60 feet.

Except that Robert has a tendency to question the accepted wisdom, and one day this led him to wonder whether the profile of a plant’s roots was really so simple.

This in turn led to a

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Research indicates a misconception about root systems being subterranean mirror images of the plants’ above-ground structures.

compulsive exploration of road-side ditches and excavations to see how roots really behaved, and many hours of research in the University of California Berkeley Library, searching for actual data on exhumed root systems. What he found, and summarized in

two books, “Roots DeMystified” (Metamorphic Press, 2007), and “Understanding Roots” (Metamorphic Press, 2015), is that the conventional imagining of roots bore little relationship to the truth.

One of Robert’s greatest finds were the detailed maps

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that Professor John Weaver of the University of Nebraska made by excavating plant-root systems in the 1920s and ‘30s.

Later, Robert supplemented this with a series of German textbooks with similar illustrations of excavated tree, shrub, weed, and vegetable roots, as well as books and papers by other authors abroad and at home.

What he learned from all of this included the fact that most trees do not form tap roots, and that a shade tree growing on a clay soil is likely to grow 90-95% of its roots in the top 12 inches of soil.

What’s more, in a very heavy clay soil, the roots are likely to stretch five or more times as far from the trunk as the tip of the branches. Even on a better drained and aerated loam soil, that shade tree is likely to keep the vast majority of its roots within 36 inches of the surface and extend them half again as far as the branch tips.

These facts have obvious implications about watering and fertilizing such trees. For example, the rule-of-thumb that fertilizer should be applied around a tree’s dripline (the area under the tips of the branches) is obviously in

error.

The pictures Robert presents about vegetable roots can also change how you care for them. I had believed, for instance, the advice I was given that asparagus plants are shallow-rooted and so should never be weeded with a hoe.

Yet Robert’s German source reveals that those excavators found an asparagus’ roots to penetrate down as much as four feet into the soil.

Commonly, the visible structure of the plant gives little indication of how the roots grow. Thus, a humble beet may sink its roots four feet down into the soil. A mature horseradish’s roots may reach downward more than a dozen feet, which explains why my attempt to confine horseradish by surrounding it with a bottomless garbage barrel sunk level with the soil surface failed.

One of the most interesting chapters in “Understanding Roots” is the one about mycorrhizal fungi, fungi that inhabit the soil in association with plant roots. These fungi tap into the roots to feed on the plant’s sap, but in return, they greatly extend the roots reach, for one cubic inch of

soil may contain eight miles of mycorrhizal filaments. This extended reach not only helps the roots absorb nutrients and water, it can actually connect one plant with another, creating a sort of super-organism.

The presence of these fungi throughout the soil also creates a persuasive argument for no-till gardening as any digging causes widespread disruption of the mycorrhizal fungi’s network.

A look at either of these books will transform your gardening. Robert Kourik has also written a number of other books, most recently “LazyAss Gardening,” whose motto is “Maximize your soil; Minimize your toil.” That sounds good to me.

Be-a-Better-Gardener is a community service of Berkshire Botanical Garden, located in Stockbridge, Mass. Its mission to provide knowledge of gardening and the environment through 25 display gardens and a diverse range of classes informs and inspires thousands of students and visitors on horticultural topics every year. Thomas Christopher is the co-author of Garden Revolution and is a volunteer at Berkshire Botanical Garden.

RIP’S COUNTRY BAZAAR AND OPEN HOUSE

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The Bank of Greene County is honored to present a $4,000 donation to the Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall. The Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall will be at the Historic Catskill Point Aug. 22-25. For information about the wall, visit www.greatnortherncatskills.com/events/vietnamtraveling-memorial-wall. The Bank of Greene County presents the donation to the Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall Committee.

Rip’s Country Bazaar/Open House will be held beginning at 10 a.m. Aug. 24 at the Mountain Top Historical Society, Route 23A, Haines Falls. The MTHS campus will be filled with tents full of vendors including craftspeople, antique dealers, local food products, flea market items and more. Food for fun and food for lunch will be available for purchase. Local DJ Frankie Okie will be on hand from noon-3 p.m., the Ulster & Delaware Railroad Station will be open and Gerry Loucks will have his mobile museum of Olde Time Implements. The Visitors’ Center will be open for browsing maps, books, brochures or checking out the archives.

CommutAir celebrates 30th anniversary at Albany International ALBANY — CommutAir, a United Express partner (UAL), celebrated its 30th anniversary as a regional airline carrier on August 1 in its hangar in Albany.

“I am always in awe of amount of passion and commitment that our CommutAir family has for each other,” said Rick Hoefling, who took the helm as CommutAir’s president and CEO earlier this year. “It is the dedication and professionalism of these individuals, and their ability to see every passenger as family, that enables us to provide the safe, caring, dependable and efficient service customers deserve.”

Hoefling stated the company has grown so much that other anniversary celebrations were happening concurrently at the company’s Cleveland headquarters, bases in Newark and Dulles, as well as at the training center in Cincinnati.

Among the guests in attendance at the event were Albany County Executive Daniel

P. McCoy and Albany Airport CEO John O’Donnell.

“After three decades, CommutAir has created great opportunity and deep ties to this region,” said McCoy, who presented airline executives with a Proclamation of Recognition. “By fostering a family culture and friendly work environment, CommutAir is a well-known name throughout the industry, and to our Albany terminal. I applaud your commitment to the community by focusing on education and active involvement in the lives of families and children.

Congratulations on your anniversary!”

“The presence of CommutAir underscores the Albany County Airport Authority’s commitment to job growth and expansion in Upstate New York,” said the Rev. Kenneth Doyle, chairman of the Albany County Airport Authority. “We are committed to our partnership with CommutAir as it continues its successful operation at Albany International Airport.”

O’Donnell echoed the sentiment in his speech, explaining how the airport continues to make more room for CommutAir by expanding the area for jet parking.

The event culminated with a historical presentation from John Sullivan, CommutAir’s Chairman of the Board. Sullivan and partners Tony Von Elbe (also in attendance) and Jim Drollette were the original founders of the company in 1989.

“We envisioned that we would operate for one major carrier, and we would operate a single type of aircraft. And at that time, we operated in a small geographic area, serving New England and New York state,” Sullivan said.

CommutAir was originally headquartered in Plattsburgh, New York (where it remained until 2007) on April 8, 1989 with a fleet of just two Beech 1900s. The airline took flight on August 1, 1989, with the USAir Express livery.

In the early 2000s, CommutAir left the USAir franchise

and flew for Continental Airlines. The fleet was upgraded to 37-seat Bombardiers with pressurized cabins, lavatories, overhead storage bins, and flight attendants. As a Continental Commuter, CommutAir left Plattsburgh and moved operations to Cleveland, Ohio. Following the Continental merger with United Airlines, CommutAir flew as a United Express partner and upgraded its fleet to 50-seat Bombardiers.

A new agreement was reached with United Airlines in 2015, with the launch of the Career Path Program and the announcement that CommutAir would begin operating Embraer 145 jets. To facilitate the conversion to a jet fleet, United purchased a 40-percent ownership stake in CommutAir stock in 2016.

Now, CommutAir flies exclusively as a United Express carrier, using an all-jet fleet of nearly 40 aircraft in approximately one-third of the United States.

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GREENVILLE — Danielle Caprio of Greenville has been named to the spring 2019 Dean’s List at Adelphi University in Garden City.

ONEONTA — More than 1,000 graduates were recognized at SUNY Oneonta’s 130th Commencement on May 11, 2019. Students who completed the requirements for bachelor’s degrees, master’s degrees and certificates of advanced study were honored in the Dewar Arena of the Alumni Field House.

Aaron Amato of Delmar, Jessica Leavitt of Delmar, Erin Murray of Delmar, Alison Phelps of Delmar, Kirsten Rowe of Delmar, James Bethel of Saugerties, Michael Cruz Gonzalez of Athens, Brittany Finch of Saugerties, Megan Fiorina of Saugerties, Rowan Fitzgibbons of East Durham, Erika Gerstberger of Round Top, Kaylee Lasher of Coxsackie, Shannon Maurer of Athens, Lauren Rappleyea of Prattsville, Sarah Smith of Athens, Josephine Thoburn of Greenville, Josiah Yarger of Prattsville, Matthew Appollonia of Prattsville, Josephine Thoburn of Greenville.

HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY CATSKILL — Marcella Ferraro of Catskill graduated from Hofstra University in May, earning a Master of Arts in Speech-Language Pathology.

UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND PALENVILLE — Gina Marie Giles of Palenville received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Finance Cum Laude from the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, RI.

UNION COLLEGE SCHENECTADY — The following area students were named to the 2019 Dean’s List at Union College.

Michael Connolly of Delmar; Keegan Guinn of Delmar; Maria McQuade of Selkirk; Lilith Haig of Saugerties.

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What’s next after Tobacco 21? Columbia Memorial Health

By Karen dePeyster, Tobacco-Free Action For Columbia-Greene Media

In November, the legal age to purchase all tobacco and vape products in New York goes up from 18 to 21. Younger teens frequently get their cigarettes and vapes from older students who purchase them legally; this common sense measure removes that critical link in the supply chain. There are lots of 18 year old high school students, after all, but by 21, young adults are traveling in different social circles.

Tobacco 21 by itself, however, is not a magic wand that will prevent whole new generations from getting addicted to nicotine. More deterrents are needed, especially in light of the epidemic of teen vaping.

In the absence of meaningful action by the FDA, it’s up to states and localities to take decisive measures. These are some options: Restrict flavored tobacco and e-liquids: Flavors hook kids on nicotine, plain and simple. E-liquids and vapes come in literally thousands of flavors that magnify the “cool” factor so seductive to the young. Among teens age 12-17 who vape, more than 80% say that the primary attraction is the availability of so many flavors.

By federal regulation, menthol is the only cigarette flavor allowed, but this rule doesn’t apply to other tobacco products, such as cigars, cigarillos, and smokeless, which all come in an assortment of sweet and fruity flavors that are especially attractive to kids. Among current teen users age 12-17, over 80% say the first tobacco product they ever tried was flavored. Among young adults age 18-24 who are non-cigarette tobacco users, 85% use a flavored product.

As of January 2019, more than 200 municipalities, mostly in Massachusetts, California

and Minnesota, restrict flavors in some manner, usually by limiting them to menthol and mint for all tobacco and e-liquids. San Francisco and some other California cities ban menthol and mint as well.

Raise prices: Making tobacco use more expensive is one of the most effective ways to prevent youth smoking and motivate smokers to quit. New York already has a high cigarette tax ($4.35/pack), and a new 20% tax on all vape products will go into effect soon.

There are also non-tax policy options, such as setting a minimum price, requiring a minimum pack size, and prohibiting discounts and coupon redemption. Tobacco companies are always looking for ways of appealing to cost-conscious consumers.

Coupons and discounts lower the sticker price; no coupons means no savings. Basicbrand cigarettes are cheaper than name brands; setting a higher minimum price per pack eliminates the difference. Small quantity packaging makes a purchase affordable for someone with only a couple dollars to spend. Flavored little cigars, for example, come in packages of 3-5 and cost as low as 99 cents, making them the perfect “starter” product. Requiring 10 or more to a pack increases the cost significantly.

New York and Boston are two cities that have implemented some or all these policies. In NYC, for example, the minimum price for a pack of cigarettes is $13.00; little cigars must be sold in packs of at least 20, at the same $13.00 price. NYC also prohibits coupons, discounts and promotions.

Reduce tobacco retailer density: The more convenient it is to purchase tobacco, the

more likely it is that kids will start smoking and that smokers will consume more and have a harder time quitting.

Local regulations that cap the number of tobacco retailers, require a minimum distance between stores, or prohibit tobacco and vape sales in pharmacies and near schools all reduce visibility and accessibility.

In NYS, Rockland, Albany, Erie and Suffolk Counties and NYC ban tobacco sales in pharmacies. Six municipalities prohibit tobacco sales within 1000 feet of a school.

NYC and the City of Newburgh require a local license and cap the number that are issued.

According to our 2019 community survey data, 80% of Columbia & Greene residents think tobacco should not be sold in pharmacies (80%) or near schools (75%); in each case, 65% support a regulation to prohibit those sales.

Over 28,000 adults in NYS die each year from smoking; 750,000 live with smokingrelated illness; 27% of all cancer deaths are attributable to tobacco. An alarming 27% of high school students now use Juul and other high-nicotine vape brands. Parents and pediatricians alike are reporting nicotine addiction in teens so severe it is more like substance use disorder. These are not problems that can be ignored. Every community can do something to be part of the solution.

The Healthcare Consortium is a non-profit organization with a mission of improving access to healthcare and supporting the health and well-being of the residents in our rural community. The agency is located at 325 Columbia St. in Hudson. For more information: visit www.columbiahealthnet.org or call 518-822-8820.

Third Hudson Valley Farm and Food funding accelerator program accepting applications HUDSON — Hudson Valley AgriBusiness Development Corporation (HVADC) is now accepting applications for its third Farm and Food Funding Accelerator (FFFA) program.

For producers and makers in Orange, Sullivan, Ulster, Dutchess, Columbia, Rensselaer and Washington counties the opportunity is now open to participate in this intensive training program which has brought in nearly $1 million in outside investments to businesses that graduated from the program thus far. Applications for this exclusive program will close Sept. 16.

For local food entrepreneurs on the verge of scaling their businesses, one impediment to growth can be the access to capital. The HVADC FFFA Program is an opportunity for farm and food enterprise owners to develop the necessary skills and materials to build their businesses and approach financial sources.

Launched in 2016 with a class of nine Peers, a second FFFA program of ten Peers recently completed a seven month curriculum beginning in November 2018, and culminating with the Peer participants making final pitch presentations to potential funders on June 26.

Through a customized program, FFFA participants engage in expert instruction, one-on-one counseling and technical assistance, field visits, group interaction and industry networking events to learn how to build their refine their business models and define new market opportunities in anticipation of pitching to

potential funders and investors. As a fast track program preparing businesses to access capital, typical curriculum includes business plan writing, financial planning, management strategies, marketing, capacity building training and pitch development. Training sessions are conducted by HVADC, its industry partners, industry professionals, and institutional and retail stakeholders in the Hudson Valley food system. Peers from the prior FFFA classes also participate as mentors and counselors.

Throughout the program and in particular at the final pitch events, FFFA participants are given the opportunity to connect with the growing network of funders that support local food systems through methods such as equity, loans, grants, crowdfunding, as well as HVADC’s Hudson Valley Agriculture Loan Fund. Past Peer participants have already achieved growth, found funding and developed new markets.

Applications for the intensive FFFA training program are now being accepted at www. hvadc.org through September 16. There is no fee to participate in the FFFA program once accepted, but applicants must be a farm, food, fiber or agriculture-dependent business having their home office, farm or production facility in the Hudson Valley, and sourcing the majority of their product ingredients from the region, as well as the majority of their labor force. They must be able to make a commitment to the time and resources required

of the training program and be able to commit the same to future FFFA participants as a peer or mentor.

Participants in the just concluded 2018/2019 FFFA class were: Battenkill Valley Farms, Berle Farm, Farmer & Baker, Gray Family Farm, Gopal Farm, J.S.K. Cattle Company, Local Artisan Bakery, Miracle Springs Farm, Phoenicia Honey Co., and Veeda Holi Hydration. Those participating in the 2016/2017 class were: Argyle Cheese Factory, Balet Flowers and Design, Fishkill Farms, The Green Onion, Lavenlair Farm, les collines, Minkus Family Farms, Raspberry Fields Farm, and Soukup Farms. In addition to funding, past Peers have garnered scholarships or concessions through pitch competitions with Middletown’s Race4Space (Farmer & Baker), SUNY ADK Business Plan Competition (Lavenlair Farm and Argyle Cheese Factory), the SUNY New Paltz marketing intern completion (Gopal Farm) and the farmers market association business plan contest (Battenkill Valley Farms).

There is a nominal application fee of $15 for the FFFA program (waived for those who have served in the military’s five branches), while participation in the program is free if accepted. Applications are being accepted through Sept. 16. Accepted applicants will be notified in October.

Additional details and application information about the FFFA may be found at www.hvadc.org or by calling 518-432-5360.

primary care centers receive prestigious certification HUDSON — All 14 of Columbia Memorial Health’s primary care practices were recently recognized for meeting or exceeding the strictest standards in the nation for providing patient centered care. In total, all 12 of CMH’s adult and family primary care centers and both of its pediatric care centers were certified by the New York State Patient Centered Medical Home (NYSPCMH) program.

The NYSPCMH program is a collaboration between the state Health Department and the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), a private, not for profit organization dedicated to improving health care quality. The NCQA is the most widely adopted PCMH evaluation program in the nation.

The NYSPCMH program worked with NCQA to develop standards of certification

that are higher and more challenging than NCQA’s national standards, making the certification of all 14 of CMH’s primary care centers even more remarkable.

The PCMH model focuses on care that is comprehensive, team-based, coordinated, safe, and high quality.

It has become the medical industry standard for how primary care should be organized and delivered.

Ronald Pope, DO, CMH’s Vice President of Medical Services, Care Centers, said: “It’s an extraordinary achievement to have every one of our primary care centers earn NYSPCMH certification. It can only happen when you have a team of providers, nurses, office management staff, and organizational leadership all align to get behind the concept of providing truly patient centered,

coordinated care. There are very few health care organizations in New York State who have achieved the same level of success. I’m enormously proud of the entire care center team. Everyone played a vital role in this incredible success.”

Certification by NYSPCMH is awarded only after extensive review of processes and data collection and a proven track record of treating patients with respect, dignity and compassion, and the establishment of strong and trusted relationships between patients, providers and staff.

To earn certification, CMH met 40 core criteria and 12 New York State-specific criteria in areas that include but are not limited to team-based care, patient standards, practice leadership, data collection and care coordination.

Cumberland Farms launches 8th annual Cups for Kids fundraiser WESTBOROUGH, Mass.

— Leading coffee, convenience and gasoline retailer, Cumberland Farms launched its 8th annual Cups for Kids campaign, a month-long fundraiser that benefits pediatric care programs at five regional hospitals, including the Bernard & Millie Duker Children’s Hospital at Albany Med in Albany. Throughout the month of August, five cents from Chill Zone beverages (including HYPERFREEZE™) purchased at participating retail locations across New York will be donated directly to pediatric care programs at Albany Med. “It’s incredible to think that this is our eighth annual Cups for Kids fundraiser,” said Gwen Forman, Senior Vice President of Marketing at Cumberland Farms.

“Supporting the communities we serve has always been something we believe in, and

this campaign is a key part of our commitment. Since the beginning of the program we’ve donated a total of over $800,000 to our hospital partners and we’re looking forward to adding to that number this year. We encourage everyone to stop by their local Cumberland Farms this month to participate.”

In New York, Cumberland Farms is partnering with Albany Med, northeastern New York’s only academic health sciences center that provides excellence in medical education, biomedical research and patient care. Representing the hospital during this year’s fundraiser is 2-yearold Logan Fogg from Scotia.

At 3 months old, Logan was diagnosed with congenital glioblastoma, a malignant pediatric brain tumor so rare that there are fewer than 100 documented cases worldwide. Through the expert, compassionate care he has

received at the Melodies Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood Disorders at the Bernard & Millie Duker Children’s Hospital at Albany Med, Logan is beating the odds. After undergoing several rounds of chemotherapy and more than 15 surgeries prior to completing his treatment in September 2018, Logan’s family feels lucky to have Albany Med and its passionate team of experts right in their backyard.

“As a lifeline for our 25-county region, the Bernard & Millie Duker Children’s Hospital is dedicated to providing the best medical care to our young patients,” said Barbara E. Ostrov, M.D., the children’s hospital chief of service. “Community partners and their programs, like Cumberland Farms and Cups for Kids, help assure that we can care for the thousands of sick and injured children who seek of our care every year.”

Red Cross urgently needs blood donations before summer ends ALBANY — With many regular donors delaying giving to take final summer vacations and prepare for school to start, the American Red Cross has an emergency need for blood and platelet donations to help end a summer blood shortage.

While thousands of donors have rolled up a sleeve this summer, blood and platelet donations aren’t keeping pace with patient needs. More donations are urgently needed to replenish the blood supply and be prepared for patient emergencies.

Make an appointment to donate blood now by downloading the free Red Cross Blood Donor App, visiting RedCrossBlood.org, calling 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800733-2767) or enabling the Blood Donor Skill on any Alexa Echo device. Those who donated blood earlier this summer may be eligible to give again. Blood can be safely given every 56 days, and Power Red donations can be given every 112 days.

With the help of a generous $1 million donation from Amazon, the Red Cross is thanking those who help overcome the shortage by coming to give through Aug. 29 with a $5 Amazon.com

Gift Card via email. (Restrictions apply; see amazon. com/gc-legal. More information and details are available at RedCrossBlood.org/Together.)

Upcoming blood donation opportunities Aug. 13-31

COLUMBIA COOUNTY Hudson City Fire House, 95 North Seventh St., Hudson, 2-6 p.m. Aug. 27.

New Lebanon FirehouseCommunity Room, 520 Route 20, New Lebanon, 11:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Aug. 30.

DUTCHESS COUNTY Dutchess Junction Fire District, 75 Slocum Road, Beacon, 2-7 p.m. Aug. 30.

Millbrook Fire House, 20 Front St., Millbrook, 2-7 p.m.

Aug. 23.

Red Hook Rhinebeck Elks 2022, 7711 Albany Post Road, Red Hook, 2-6 p.m. Aug. 28.

Town Hall, 20 Middlebush Road, Wappingers Falls, noon-5 p.m. Aug. 28.

GREENE COUNTY First United Methodist Church, 103 Mansion St., Coxsackie, 12:30-7:30 p.m.

Aug. 27.

ORANGE COUNTY New Windsor Volunteer Ambulance Corp, 555 Union Ave., New Windsor, 2-7 p.m.

Aug. 29.

Trinity United Methodist Parish, 1 Owens Road, Newburgh, 2:30-7:30 p.m. Aug. 22.

Port Jervis Elks Lodge 645, Route 6, Port Jervis, 1-6 p.m.

Aug. 22.

VFW Post 8691, 44 East Main St., Washingtonville, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Aug. 24.

PUTNAM COUNTY Carmel Fire Department, 94 Gleneida Ave., Carmel, 2-6 p.m. Aug. 23.

SULLIVAN COUNTY First Presbyterian Church of Jeffersonville, 4907 Route 52, Jeffersonville, 2-7 p.m.

Aug. 21.

Monticello Government Center, 100 North St., Monticello, 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

Aug. 29.

Rock Hill Firehouse, 61 Glen Wild Road, Rock Hill, 2:30-7:30 p.m. Aug. 22.

White Sulphur Springs Firehouse, 3352 State Route 52, White Sulphur Springs, 12:45-6:30 p.m. Aug. 20.

ULSTER COUNTY Kerhonkson First Aid Squad, 6055 Route 209, Kerhonkson, 2-7 p.m. Aug. 27.

State University of New York, 1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz, 11:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m.

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“The list is quite surprising — to see that we are among the safest, yet we have New York City and other huge cities,” Volkmann said. “I would probably attribute it to law enforcement in New York state being very proactive on community needs. That has been my experience in the Capital District area and from being a police

officer in Westchester County.”

Policing in New York has changed since he first joined the police force downstate, Volkmann said, and he thinks that could have a lot to do with it.

“Starting in the 1980s, policing became very communityoriented,” Volkmann said. “So this surprises me, but it also

doesn’t — we are always looking to better ourselves, and we are working a lot on crime-prevention programs.”

But home safety — particularly for those living alone — does not come without risks.

Lt. David Miller of the Hudson Police Department said one of the things he suggests to people looking to beef up their

home security is to install a security system, such as cameras or an alarm system.

“One of the things we suggest is having a security system — these days, you can buy really inexpensive home security,” Miller said. “Because technology has become so affordable now compared to, say, 15 years ago, now it is really

inexpensive, especially if you live alone.”

Locking doors and keeping an eye on your neighbors is also important, Volkmann said.

“In Chatham, we are very community-oriented in looking out for your neighbor,” he said. “If someone sees something out of the ordinary, they will call the police so that nips things in the bud. Individuals need to have awareness — that is important in crime prevention.”

Mento offered additional tips for keeping your home safe.

“Have sensor lights around your home, and keep bushes and hedges trimmed. Doorbell cameras have also proven to be helpful,” Mento said. “Just about anyone now can put in home-security systems and with the sticker on your door, that is a deterrent. Having a dog is also a big deterrent — they are unpredictable, you don’t know what they are going to do, and they alert people.”

Leaving lights and the television on when you are not home can also be valuable in making the home look occupied. And don’t get lax in home security, Mento said.

“People think it’s safe here and they leave doors open — the front door, the back door, the garage,” Mento said. “But locking your doors is the No. 1 thing.”

For more information on the survey, visit https://www. asecurelife.com/safest-statesto-live-alone/

people stumbled upon it.”

County Route 20 is a scenic byway that people travel on the weekends, Steiner said.

The event is for all ages, Steiner said.

“We have face painting,” she said. “Last year we had alien drawing.”

The addition of the yard sale this year will attract a different crowd, Steiner said.

“We were very successful last year,” Rivers said. “We’re

hoping we get lots more people this year.”

Activities at the firehouse include Jerry Cunningham speaking about running his family’s farm since he was 18 at 11 a.m., barn dance music by David Woodin and Jonathan ByronWoodin at 12 p.m. and a foraging talk with Rob Handel, chef at Heather Ridge Farm at 1 p.m.

Tours of the Greene Bee Greenhouse gardens and the Stone House located on Strong

Road will be held 9 to 10 a.m. and 2 to 4 p.m.

All food and vendor stands, as well as the Paula Lalala Mvsevm will be open from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The yard sale will run for the duration of the event.

A new addition this year is a silent auction from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the firehouse, Steiner said.

“The proceeds from the auction support next year’s event,”

Steiner said.

The organizers also generate funds through lemonade and cookie sales, as well as a fundraising barbecue that was held prior to the event, Steiner said.

The barbecue generated over $500, Rivers said.

Additionally, the organizers received a $500 Wayne C. Speenburgh grant from the county, Rivers said.

“Our former legislator Aidan O’Connor had mentioned that

there might be funding available,” Rivers said. “After our last event, I contacted Patty Handel and asked if she knew anything about it. She was really helpful.”

Between the fundraising efforts and the grant, the organizers were in good shape for 2019, Rivers said.

“There was plenty for us to pay expenses,” she said. “We even had a banner made.”

return to her current foster home on Wednesday.

Skye’s surgery was made possible with donations from the community, Perez said.

“We raised several thousand dollars,” he said. “I’m grateful for that. I don’t have the bill yet but it’s a rather costly surgery and recovery.

We deeply appreciate all the support from the community.”

Skye has also been gaining weight, Perez said.

“She is doing quite well,” he said. “You have to do it slowly and make sure she is getting the right nutrition. Hopefully she will continue to make progress.”

When Skye first came to the Humane Society, she scored a 1.5 on their nine-point body scale.

“Nine is obese and a one is emaciated,” Perez said.

Once Skye is fully recovered, decisions about her future can be made.

“We have a criminal case coming up with the District Attorney’s office,” Perez said.

“We hope her former owner will surrender her so it will be a clean adoption.” Greene County District Attorney Joseph Stanzione will handle the case because the horse was found in Halcott.

If the owner does not surrender Skye, she will be put into a foster program while the Humane Society continues to litigate on her behalf, Perez said.

The Greene County Sheriff’s Office, Columbia-Greene Humane Society/SPCA, Town of Halcott Animal Control and Greene County District Attorney’s Office assisted with the investigation.

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27% in the latest census data.”

Coxsackie Police Chief Sam Mento said the lower crime rates could, in part, reflect stricter gun laws.

“We have a lot more laws here than they do in the Midwest. We are more regulated, and the ‘nanny state’ comes with the good and the bad — it is more regulated here and it is more difficult to get firearms.

Things are very heavily scrutinized in New York and also in New Jersey. We also have a lot of social programs, so motivation for crime is lessened because of that.”

Mento cautioned that access to weapons “doesn’t necessarily mean you will be safer or less safe.” But stricter regulations do make for better control over who has access to guns, and could impact crime rates, Mento said.

“Guns are more scrutinized here in our state with regard to doing background checks, so the availability is not there,” Mento said. “It’s not necessarily that there are more or fewer guns, it’s the way they are regulated and how we scrutinize the individuals who have access to guns.”

Chatham Police Chief Peter Volkmann said he found the survey results eye-opening, particularly because of the population density in New York state.

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“The main thing is to meet people and get a sense of where it is you live and who are your neighbors,” Rivers said.

Organizer A.L. Steiner said it is not only locals who attend.

“We had people from around the area,” Steiner said. “Other

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The mare was discovered in a metal building in Halcott in the middle of a July heat wave, Perez said.

Her owner, William Hrazanek, 73, of Fleischmanns, in Delaware County, was arrested July 24 and charged with cruelty to animals, a misdemeanor.

Thanks to the efforts of veterinarians at the clinic, Skye is on the path to a healthier life.

“The surgery took a few hours to remove the lump and suture the leg,” Perez said.

“She is still at the [clinic] to make sure the bandages can be changed and she is under observation.”

Perez expects she might

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Accountable Fitness and Nutrition offers something for everyone

By Tim Martin Columbia-Greene Media

CAIRO — Dan Hatch never envisioned himself as the part-owner of a gym. After all, a full-time sales job and serving as head coach of the Catskill/Cairo-Durham varsity football team already took up a good chunk of his time.

But when good friend and personal trainer Tom Flanagan gave him the opportunity to buy into the Accountable Fitness and Nutrition gym, Hatch jumped at the chance.

Hatch is now a business partner with Flanagan and Stephanie Toumey and the trio recently opened a new, more spacious facility at 467 Main Street in Cairo.

“It was just there, this was not on my radar at all,” Hatch said. “But when the opportunity came along and I could tie it in with the school and the kids, helping keep kids off the street, get them in the gym, give them a purpose. It just made sense.”

The idea originally came about when Hatch began working out at Flanagan’s original gym a year ago. He brought along several members of the Catskill/ See FITNESS B6

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New York Jets running back Le’Veon Bell (26) on the sideline against the Atlanta Falcons at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

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From left: Dan Hatch, Stephanie Toumey and Tom Flanagan of Accountable Fitness and Nutrition recently opened their new facility at 467 Main Street in Cairo.

New York Jets coach Adam Gase announced after Sunday night’s annual Green & White practice that tailback Le’Veon Bell, who hasn’t played in either of the first two preseason games, will miss the final two

against New Orleans and Philadelphia.

“I was about 99% sure, heading into the preseason (that Bell wouldn’t play),” Gase said. “It was all based off of how he practiced, See JETS B6

Yankees continue to dominate, but is that enough?

Bob Klapisch The New York Times News Service

NEW YORK — With 36 games remaining and the New York Yankees holding a 9 1/2 game lead in the American League East, it might seem as if the team’s dominance has dulled the edges of a successful season. But there’s been more going on in the Bronx than calisthenics in preparation for October.

At stake, in the final six weeks of the regular season, is achieving the best record in the American League and home-field advantage throughout the playoffs.

The reason for some anxiety should be obvious.

In 2017, when the Yankees lost to the Houston Astros in seven games in the AL Championship Series, they were beaten four times in Minute Maid Park. The Yankees still rue Houston’s home-field advantage to this day and wonder if the outcome might have been different had Games 6 and 7 not been played in front of a raucous Texas crowd.

The memory of squandering a 3-2 series lead is what drives the Yankees as the likelihood grows of another showdown between the two powerhouses.

That is why the Yankees’ recent surge has been so significant: Despite an 8-4 loss to the Cleveland Indians on Sunday, the Yankees won six out of eight in their homestand and 16 of

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New York Yankees right fielder Aaron Judge (99) hits an RBI double against the Cleveland Indians on Sunday at Yankee Stadium.

their past 20, while opening up a four-game advantage over the Astros for best record.

When Yankees slugger Aaron Judge says, “that’s the biggest thing right now” he means

the Yankees’ 49-20 record in their own ballpark — the best in the majors. He spoke glowingly of “how rowdy this place gets and how crazy these fans are” and the Yankees’ belief that the Astros will struggle with the wall of noise, as they did two years ago. Houston lost all three playoff games in New York in 2017.

But there are challenges ahead: The Yankees embark on a critical West Coast trip this week against the Oakland A’s, who have closed to within 6 1/2 games of the Astros, and the Los Angeles Dodgers, the National League’s best team, before finishing the swing in Seattle.

Judge said, “this will be a big test for us.” He meant that on several levels.

By the time they return home, the Yankees could be ready to raise the curtain on two critical assets to the pitching staff who have been injured, Luis Severino and Dellin Betances.

Severino’s rehab from shoulder and latissimus dorsi muscle issues took another step forward before Sunday’s game, as he threw 15 pitches to three batters. It was the first time all year the right-hander had faced anyone. He expressed optimism about returning to the rotation by September.

“It feels like it’s coming around,” Severino said. “The fastball is there, breaking pitches, too. I feel like I’m on the right track.”

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Jack Whitaker, Emmy-winning sportscaster, dies at 95 Richard Goldstein The New York Times News Service

Jack Whitaker, an Emmy-winning sports broadcaster for more than three decades whose specialty was elegant, graceful commentaries, first for CBS and later for ABC, died on Sunday at his home in Devon, Pennsylvania. He was 95.

His death was announced by CBS Sports.

Whitaker was a thoughtful white-haired figure who covered just about every niche in the sports world — from the first Super Bowl to Secretariat’s victory in the Belmont Stakes, as well as baseball, golf and the Olympics. In 1961, he became the host of the anthology series “CBS Sports Spectacular,” and he began covering the PGA Championship and the Masters in the early 1960s.

But he was perhaps best known for his essays about sports, inspired by writers he admired like Alistair Cooke and Heywood Hale Broun. He received an Emmy in 1979 as “outstanding sports personality” and a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Sports Emmy Awards in 2012. “I know that I’m regarded as The Talking Head,” he told Sports Illustrated in 1977.

“I’d like to be exactly that and say something that people will remember or get excited about. I’d like to bring sports into the thinking process.”

Whitaker reserved his greatest passion for golf.

Covering the 1982 British Open at Troon, Scotland, for ABC’s “World News Tonight,” he wove historical imagery into his account of golf’s origins on the Scottish links.

“Through all the years, the British Open has changed very little,” he said. “The biggest addition has been the tented city, looking like Henry V’s camp at the Battle of Agincourt. Here you can buy among other things lawn mowers, cashmere sweaters and Champagne, which is replacing tea as Britain’s national beverage. But basically the British Open is the same as it was in 1860 when they first played it down the road at Prestwick. Playing in the British Open is like reading American history at Independence Hall or studying opera at La Scala. It’s golf at its most simple, its most pure, its most magnificent.”

Notwithstanding his celebration of the golf world, Whitaker offended the Masters chairman, Clifford Roberts, at the 1966 tournament when he likened the spectators’ descent on the 18th green of a threeway playoff to a “mob.”

Roberts was displeased generally with Whitaker’s coverage, and as a result CBS removed him from covering the tournament.

He returned to Augusta in 1973, but never again held the prestigious anchor role on the final green.

Jack Whitaker was born on May 18, 1924, in Philadelphia. He was enthralled by college football as a teenager, attending the Penn games at Franklin Field and listening to playby-play from around the nation.

After graduating from St. Joseph’s College in Philadelphia, now St. Joseph’s University, he was hired in 1947 by a 250-watt radio station in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. At the first event he covered, a midget auto race on a dirt track, the cars threw up so much dust that he could barely see anything. But better times beckoned.

He was hired by a radio station in Allentown, Pennsylvania, then caught a glimpse of golf’s 1950 U.S. Open on a TV set in the studio and looked to a future in the new medium.

Joining WCAU-TV in Philadelphia soon afterward, he broadcast sports for the late-evening news, his colleagues including Ed McMahon, the future sidekick of Johnny Carson, and John Facenda, who would become the voice of NFL Films and who once advised Whitaker to “put a little more of yourself into your reports.”

Whitaker began doing color commentary for Philadelphia Eagles games in 1956, then became the team’s play-by-play broadcaster in 1960, when the Eagles won the NFL championship.

Whitaker became the play-by-play broadcaster for New York Giants football games in 1965, and he was part of the CBS broadcast crew at the first Super Bowl two years later. He teamed with the baseball Hall of Famer Frankie Frisch as the backup duo for baseball’s game of the week, and anchored Kentucky Derby coverage.

He covered Secretariat’s 31-length victory in the 1973 Belmont Stakes — he called it the most dominant individual sports performance he had ever seen — and witnessed the filly Ruffian’s fatal breakdown in her 1975 match race at Belmont with Foolish Pleasure. It inspired this passage: “A false step here and the years of planning and breeding and training and loving came to an end. A horse with speed and stamina and heart. A horse, like the Bible says, ‘whose neck is clothed in thunder.’”

Whitaker joined ABC in 1982, and on the eve of the Kentucky Derby, he pondered the aura surrounding the race.

“America never looks better than on a spring afternoon at the horse farms around Lexington,” he reflected on “World News Tonight.”

As he put it: “The bluegrass fields and limestonepermeated water has given strength to 81 Derby winners. Just up the road is Churchill Downs in the city of Louisville. In Louisville, America thrives. It was here that Americans discovered how to blend golden corn, barley, malt and rye into bourbon whiskey. It was here that baseball’s National League was founded and where they still make the famous Louisville sluggers. And it was in Louisville that the Kentucky Derby thrived and grew into something beyond a horse race.”

Whitaker provided sports commentary for ABC’s “20/20” and “Nightline” in addition to the evening news. He retired from the network in 1993.

In the 1990s, he joined with his second wife, Nancy Chaffee Whitaker, a tennis champion of the 1950s, in running a tennis tournament on Long Island sponsored by Cartier jewelers to benefit cancer research.

He is survived by his wife Patricia; his daughters, Marybeth Helgevold and Ann Hanan; his sons, Gerry, Jack III and Kevin; 11 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.

In his 1998 memoir, “Preferred Lies and Other Tales,” Whitaker reprised his years on the sporting map while making clear that golf held a special place.

Cedric Benson did things his way and met his problems head-on Kirk Bohls Austin American-Statesman

AUSTIN, Texas — The end came far too soon, much too sadly and probably, if we’re being honest, a little too predictably.

Cedric Benson, a true star in every sense of the word, died Saturday night in a tragic, fiery motorcycle accident in the hills of West Austin.

At age 36.

But then the outstanding Longhorns running back was always in a hurry to get somewhere and didn’t always follow the safest or best-prescribed route. He did things his way and met his problems as he did his would-be tacklers: Head-on.

And too often he paid the price. On Saturday, the ultimate one.

This was a young man who arrived in our city with as much fanfare as one would expect from a high school football superstar at Midland Lee who scored an amazing 15 touchdowns in three state championship games alone. That’s a career for most, but three games for Benson.

And he found glory in Austin as well, rushing for 5,540 yards to put himself in the same company as Earl Campbell and Ricky Williams before embarking on a pro career as a firstround draft pick of a Chicago Bears team that historically personified the same toughness he exhibited all his years.

Benson won the Doak Walker Award as the nation’s top running back as a senior in 2004.

He didn’t win the Heisman Trophy as those other two Longhorns did, but he was every bit as good. And deserving. Few have run for 1,000 yards all four seasons of their college careers.

Few have run over as many tacklers as he did. He fearlessly

stiff-armed defenders as he did precaution in life.

He was tough. He was rugged. He played with a ferocity few others have. He wasn’t holding anything back, and that’s how he lived his tragically short life as well.

Trouble, in fact, seemed to find Benson more often than not, whether he was looking for it or not.

It came in the form of frequent clashes with the law, offthe-field incidents and an NFL career that also was cut short by injury. During one of his many appearances at the courthouse, it was revealed he once was unable to recite a portion of the alphabet to an arresting officer because he said he “couldn’t because I played eight NFL seasons.”

Maybe he wasn’t thinking straight Saturday night. Or thinking at all, because he embraced recklessness.

When he was defending himself after one of his precious rottweiler dogs attacked and injured a young woman, our courthouse reporter Ryan Autullo saw both sides of his complex personality.

Autullo mentions how engaging Benson was in their friendly conversations, yet on the day that a story about his trial ran in the American-Statesman, it was an angry Benson who charged up to him.

“He walked up to me with a purpose,” Autullo recalled. “We had run a picture of him getting tackled by Troy Polamalu, and he asked, ‘Why would you run a picture of me getting tackled?’

That’s not really a negative, I told him. I don’t know how mad he was or if he just wanted to blow off steam, but he was mad.”

He played mad. And he lived mad.

Benson was accustomed to being in a courtroom. He’d been charged twice with driving while intoxicated and once with boating while intoxicated, but was never convicted any of those times. Always on the edge.

Benson just always seemed to have so much more to offer but always seemed as if he sought a rush and didn’t always use the best common sense.

He never seemed to find peace.

Or want it. That was part of his drive.

He was always pushing, whether it was legal limitations or the pile on the football field.

Cedric Benson was always a personal favorite. He had one of those irrepressible smiles that would light up a room, and he always had a little mischievous wink when you were in his presence, as if he had his own little private joke working.

When I showed up at his locker for the NFC championship game where his Bears mauled the New Orleans Saints, he lit up like a schoolkid and we talked for half an hour. We visited again in Miami the week of Super Bowl 41 in 2007, which didn’t go the Bears’ way.

As would often be the case in his too-short life, Benson suffered a knee injury in the first quarter, lost a fumble on one of his two carries and sat out the rest of the game.

Sitting out a game — or life — wasn’t Benson’s way.

He crushed it. And himself in the process.

Drama always followed him around, and he made as many headlines off the field as he did on.

He was always a little too honest, too candid for his own good. None of us will ever forget his direct answer to the question on ESPN Radio of whether he’d rather beat Oklahoma or

win the Heisman. Cedric contemplated the dilemma and answered as only Benson could.

“Personally, I’d say I’d rather take the Heisman Trophy.

Because there’s a lot of things that come along with winning a football game. You know, if I could win the football game entirely by myself, both offense and defense, punt returns, kickoffs, kicking field goals, everything, then I’d take the win over OU. But for me personally, the hard work I’ve been through growing up as a kid, and the dream I’ve had, I’d love nothing more than to win the Heisman.”

But that same week, when I followed up and asked if he’d take the Heisman over a national title, given the choice, Benson answered, “A national championship, by far. That’s the greatest thing in college, a ring that says you’re No. 1.”

He was No. 1 in candor.

I defended him then for his honesty and wrote that probably most college players would prefer the Heisman but very few would have answered the same way. Benson didn’t fret the backlash. He could take the punishment. In a shame, too much of it was self-inflicted.

In many respects, he had more promise than production.

But oh the potential he had.

Benson crushed it on the football field, but that was the easiest part.

“He was always on the edge,” said John Butler, who befriended and mentored Benson.

“It makes me feel so sad after just burying Lam (Jones in March),” said Butler, who began teaching at the University of Texas in 1974 as one of only three black professors on campus. “There’s no sense to it. Cedric was one of the family to me.

Just a huge loss.”

We’ll miss you, Cedric.

Teenage NASCAR driver is content to go slow for now Dave Caldwell The New York Times News Service

Hailie Deegan was puzzled.

She had come to stock-car racing from the rough-and-tumble world of off-road racing, where she considered herself to be just one of the guys. Off-road racers slammed into one another and knocked each other over, then left the track and laughed about it.

She found stock-car competitors, also mostly men, to be different. She would drive in a straight line down the middle of the track and be put into the wall for no apparent reason, and no one hung around after the race to laugh about it. Or even discuss it.

“I was trying to control it, but I just went from being swung at, to swinging,” Deegan said.

“That’s what stock-car racing is.

You hit someone, or you get hit.

That’s something I had to learn.

It’s a key factor in why I’m so aggressive. I don’t want to have to hit you. But if you’re going to hit me, I’m going to hit you.”

Deegan, who turned 18 in July, is the highest-profile woman driving in NASCAR since Danica Patrick. A regular in the K&N Pro Series, which is essentially the rookie league of stock-car racing, Deegan has won three of her 35 races. She also has driven in four races in the ARCA Menards Series, one step up, with two top-10 finishes.

But while her marketing potential to NASCAR is obvious, and her family’s business is racing — her father, Brian, is a professional freestyle motocross rider whose career has included forays into car and truck racing — Deegan and her parents are content to go slow with her career. For now.

“I think our biggest fear is watching what’s happened to many other drivers who have moved too quick,” said Brian

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NASCAR K&N Pro Series driver Hailie Deegan (left) and team owner Bill McAnally during the Twin 100s at Tucson Speedway.

Deegan, an X Games gold medalist. “There’s a lot of circumstances that go into that. Some drivers have only so much money, and they have to get there and take a chance. Some sponsors are only going to go so long.

Some sponsors are like, ‘We want you to go to the big show, because that’s where the value is going to be.’

“With Hailie, being a female racer and having the skills to win, we’re hoping that people can run with us at a pace where we’re saying, ‘OK, let’s hold her down and let her learn as much as she can, because there’s one shot at it when you get there,’” Brian Deegan added.

Hailie Deegan, who was home-schooled and received her high school diploma during driver introductions before a 2018 race, is already a celebrity. She has cultivated an active following on social media, and now has 468,000 followers on Instagram, the most of any NASCAR driver, and more than

64,000 on Twitter.

But she and her family know a high profile means little without results, and so, wary of moving too fast, they have kept a tight safety net around her.

Deegan is always accompanied to races by a relative, most often

by Brian but sometimes by her mother, Marissa, or Marissa’s father.

“We don’t want to see some teenage boy come in and throw her life out because, you know, they’re 17 years old,” Marissa Deegan said. “She’s worked so hard to get to this point. We want to see her make it to that level.”

Deegan says she knows she has plenty of fans who want to see her succeed, but she also knows she has detractors. Each of her K&N victories has come as a result of her nudging aside a competitor on the last lap of the race, so she has been criticized as not “racing clean.”

“You’re never going to make everyone happy,” she said.

“There’s always going to be someone who says something about you on Twitter. You just focus on all the people who do support you. With negative people, it’s not me who has the problem. It’s them.”

Besides, she said, she has had enough to worry about on the racetrack. Deegan started from the pole position in her first K&N Pro Series East race of the season, at New Smyrna Speedway in Florida, but finished 16th. She had only one top-10 finish in her first six starts.

After she pushed aside her teammate Derek Kraus in the last lap to win a K&N Pro Series West race June 8 in Dacono, Colorado, Deegan started her next race from the pole but finished eighth. She was 12th among 20 cars in a July 26 race at Iowa Speedway, and acknowledged she still has miles to go.

“I feel like I’ve been racing for so long,” Deegan said. “I’ve been racing for almost 10 years now, that’s more than half my life. I’m so used to being in this racing world. This is what I want to do. I don’t like doing anything else.”

It was not as if the Deegans did not know what to expect when Hailie moved into stock cars. Brian Deegan toyed with joining his motocross rival Travis Pastrana in stock-car racing a decade ago but decided against it. Still, for years, NASCAR drivers often stopped by the Deegan home to ride motorcycles when the Cup series made its annual West Coast swings.

The family said NASCAR and sponsors, even though they stand to benefit from Hailie’s presence and her pedigree, had been supportive about the family’s decision to have her take her time to learn the craft.

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There is no specific date set for dissolution. Purpose: to engage in any lawful activity or act.

Name and Business Address of Organizer is Adeline P. Malone, Esq., 6369 Mill Street, P.O. Box 510, Rhinebeck, NY 12572 Notice of Formation of Rosings Park, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/16/19. Office location: Columbia County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Deborah D’Arcy, 55 Liberty St, Apt 9B, NY, NY 10005. Purpose: any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TOWN OF LIVINGSTON PLANNING BOARD PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that at 7 P.M. on Wednesday September 4, 2019, the Town of Livingston Planning Board will hold a public hearing at the Livingston Town Hall, 119 County Route 19, Livingston, New York on an application for a special use permit and site plan approval by Tarpon Towers pursuant to the Livingston Town Zoning Law. The property that is the subject of the application is located at 51 Danski Road, Livingston, New York.

The applicant intends to use the property for a wireless telecommunications facility. The height of the highest appurtenance on the proposed tower is 154 feet above ground level. The tower will be capable of supporting shared use of up to four (4) collocators.

Members of the public may be heard on the application at the public hearing or may submit comments in written form. The application materials are on file with the Town of Livingston and are available for public inspection.

Tarpon Towers c/o Benjamin M. Botelho, Esq. The Murray Law Firm 10 Maxwell Drive, Suite 100 Clifton Park, New York 12065 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY First: The name of the Limited Liability Company is Local 111 Restaurant, LLC. Second: The Articles of Organization of the Company were filed with the Secretary of State on July 3, 2019.

Third: The County within the State of New York in which the office of the company is located is Columbia.

Fourth: Susan G. Baer, CPA 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 Susan G. Baer, CPA. PC, 60 Garage Place Road Ghent, NY 12075.

Fifth: This Limited Liability Company is organized for all lawful purposes, and to do any and all things necessary, convenient, or incidental to that purpose.

NOTICE OF FINDING OF NO SIGNFICANT IMPACT AND NOTICE OF INTENT TO REQUEST RELEASE OF FUNDS August 20, 2019

Columbia County 401 State Street Hudson, New York 12534 (518) 828-3375 These notices shall satisfy two separate but related procedural requirements for activities to be undertaken

by Columbia County.

REQUEST FOR RELEASE OF FUNDS On or about September 5, 2019, Columbia County will submit a request to the Office of Community Renewal for the release of CDBG funds under Title 1 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended, to undertake a project known as Hudson Valley Creamery Goat Dairy Conversion Project for the purpose of the fitting out remaining vacant space to convert the processing plant for fresh milk processing; purchasing new machinery and equipment for pasteurization, ripening, and storage; a new wastewater treatment system; and engineering and legal fees. The total project cost is $7.3 million. HVC will invest $6.4 million in intercompany loans/equity to complete the project along with the awarded $500,000 in ESD and $375,000 in CDBG funds to bridge the funding gap and assist with the purchase of the conversion equipment for the facility located at 2986 Route 9, Hudson, New York.

FINDING OF NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACT Columbia County has determined that the project will have no significant impact on the human environment. Therefore, an Environmental Impact Statement under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) is not required.

Additional project information is contained in the Environmental Review Record (ERR) on file at the Columbia County Planning Office, 401 State Street, Hudson, New York and may be examined or copied weekday’s 9 A.M to 4 P.M. PUBLIC COMMENTS Any individual, group, or agency may submit written comments on the ERR to the Columbia County Planning Office. All comments received by September 4, 2019 will be considered by Columbia County prior to authorizing submission of a request for release of funds.

Comments should specify which Notice they are addressing.

E N V I R O N M E N TA L CERTIFICATION

Columbia County certifies to the Office of Community Renewal that Patrice Perry in her capacity as Certifying Officer consents to accept the jurisdiction of the Federal Courts if an action is brought to enforce responsibilities in relation to the environmental review process and that these responsibilities have been satisfied. The Office of Community Renewal’s approval of the certification satisfies its responsibilities under NEPA and related laws and authorities and allows Hudson Valley Creamery to use Program funds.

OBJECTIONS TO RELEASE OF FUNDS The Office of Community Renewal will accept objections to its release of funds and the Columbia County’s certification for a period of fifteen days following the anticipated submission date or its actual receipt of the request (whichever is later) only if they are on one of the following bases: (a) the certification was not executed by the Certifying Officer of Columbia County; (b) Columbia County has omitted a step or failed to make a decision or finding required by HUD regulations at 24 CFR part 58; (c) Hudson Valley Creamery or other participants in the development process have committed funds, incurred costs or undertaken activities not authorized by 24 CFR Part 58 before approval of a release of funds by the Office of Community Renewal; or (d) another Federal agency acting pursuant to 40 CFR

Part 1504 has submitted a written finding that the project is unsatisfactory from the standpoint of environmental quality.

Objections must be prepared and submitted in accordance with the required procedures (24 CFR Part 58, Sec. 58.76) and shall be addressed to Christian Leo, President, at Office of Community Renewal, Hampton Plaza, 38-40 State Street, 4th Floor, Albany, NY 12207. Potential objectors should contact the Office of Community Renewal to verify the actual last day of the objection period.

Patrice Perry, Planning Director

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY First: The name of the Limited Liability Company is Gordon's Philmont, LLC. Second: The Articles of Organization of the Company were filed with the Secretary of State on July 3, 2019.

Third: The County within the State of New York in which the office of the company is located is Columbia.

Fourth: Susan G. Baer, CPA 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 Susan G. Baer, CPA. PC, 60 Garage Place Road Ghent, NY 12075.

Fifth: This Limited Liability Company is organized for all lawful purposes, and to do any and all things necessary, convenient, or incidental to that purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Name: The H.A.N.D.S. Program, L.L.C. Articles of Organization were filed with the New York Secretary of State (SSNY) on 7/2/19. Office location: Columbia County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to Andrea Neiman, PO Box 244, North Chatham, NY 12132. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company (LLC) Name: TJR HOLDINGS OF COLUMBIA, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on June 28, 2019. Office Location: Columbia County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to: 114 Prospect Hill Road, Pine Plains, New York, 12567.

Purpose: to engage in any and all business for which LLCs may be formed under the New York LLC law.

Notice of Formation of TREGARDOCK LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/11/19. Office location: Greene SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it May Be Served. SSNY Mail Process to Eleven Times Square, Room 301, New York, New York, 10036. Any lawful purpose.

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COLUMBIA-GREENE MEDIA 02/04/2019. Office location: Columbia County.

SSNY has been designated agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. Purpose: To engage in any lawful activity.

PUBLIC NOTICE OF SALE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that Greene County will sell, to the highest bidder, pursuant to General Municipal Law §215(5), a small paved portion of Tax Map ID No.: 156.78-2-38, described as follows: Deed Description: off Water Street Village of Catskill, Town of Catskill, New York All that tract of parcel of land situate in the Village of Catskill, Town of Catskill, County of Greene, and the State of New York, known and designated as Parcel A, as shown on a map entitled "Map of Subdivision of Lands Belonging to The County of Greene," filed in the Greene County Clerk's Office on August 8 2019 in Drawer EASI-K as Map No- 2019 73 bounded and described as follows: Beginning at a point in the Northwesterly corner of lands now or formerly 391 Main Street LLC (Instrument D2018-367), said point being the Northwesterly building corner; thence along the Westerly lines of said lands now or formerly 391 Main Street LLC the following 2 courses: generally along the face of the said building South 18°39'54" East 28.50 feet to a point and South 71 °35'58" West 31.14 feet to a point; thence through lands now or formerly The County of Greene (Liber 1048, cp 15) the following 6 courses: North 16°23'12" West 3.17 feet to a point, North 73°36'48" East 8.40 feet to a point, North 18°18'15" West 28.46 feet to a point, North 71 °41 '45" East 3.21 feet to a point, South 18 degree 50*53" East 2.85 feet to a point and North 71 degrees 31'33" East 19.23 feet to the point or place of beginning. Containing 0.02 of an Acre of land, more or less.

Subject to the existing easements and rightsof-way of record, if any.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that the premises are landlocked and lack ingress and egress; PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that said parcel of land may not conform to current zoning requirements.

THE MINIMUM BID WHICH THE COUNTY WILL ACCEPT SHALL NOT BE LESS THAN TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED ($2,500.00) DOLLARS. SUCCESSFUL BIDDER SHALL BE ADDITIONALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR SURVEY FEE OF EIGHT HUNDRED, FIFTY ($850.00) DOLLARS NO BID SHALL BE ACCEPTED AFTER 5:00 PM ON SEPTEMBER 5,2019 ALL BIDS SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO: GREENE COUNTY ATTORNEY 411 MAIN STREET SUITE 443 CATSKILL, NY 12414

USAA Federal Savings Bank, Plaintiff -againstCrystal Middleton a/k/a Crystal Stringham individually, as natural guardian for MES, minor and as Administrator of the Estate of Varick Stringham, III a/k/a Varick Van Wyck Stringham, III a/k/a Varick Van Wyck Stringham, deceased, Christian H. Dribusch, Esq. Guardian Ad Litem for Nolah Judith Stringham and Meribelle Elizabeth Stringham, minors, Crystal Middleton a/k/a Crystal Stringham as natural guardian for Meribelle Elizabeth Stringham, minor, Varick Stringham, Jr. as Heir at Law, Next of Kin and Distributee of the Estate of Varick Stringham III a/k/a Varick Van Wyck Stringham, III a/k/a Varick Van Wyck Stringham, Amanda Zarelli as Heir at Law, Next of Kin and Distributee of the Estate of Varick Stringham III a/k/a Varick Van Wyck Stringham, III a/k/a Varick Van Wyck Stringham, Pamela Thallner as Heir at Law, Next of Kin and Distributee of the Estate of Varick Stringham III a/k/a Varick Van Wyck Stringham, III a/k/a Varick Van Wyck Stringham, Rebecca Stringham as as Heir at Law, Next of Kin and Distributee of the Estate of Varick Stringham III a/k/a Varick Van Wyck Stringham, III a/k/a Varick Van Wyck Stringham, Internal Revenue Service-United States of America, New York State Department of Taxation and FinanceTax Compliance Division-C.O.-ATC, Defendant(s) Pursuant to a judgment of foreclosure and sale entered on June 21, 2019 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction to the highest bidder at THE COLUMBIA COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 401 UNION STREET, HUDSON, NEW YORK 12534 on August 27, 2019at 1:00 PM premises known as 448 Route 23B, Claverack, NY 12513.

SALE IS SUBJECT TO FIRST MORTGAGE ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the hamlet of Clavernack, Town of Clavernack, County of COLUMBIA and State of New York.

Section: 120.2 Block: 1 Lot: 20 Approximate amount of lien $162,244.64 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed judgment Index # 12517-18 April Forbes, Esq., REFEREE STEIN, WIENER AND ROTH, L.L.P., ATTORNEYS FOR THE PLAINTIFF ONE OLD COUNTRY ROAD, SUITE 113 CARLE PLACE, NY 11514 DATED: July 22, 2019 FILE #: USAA 71735

The Board of Fire Commissioners of the West Athens Lime Street Fire District will meet for a Budget Workshop at 6 pm on Tuesday, August 20th 2019, at the District NOTICE OF SALE Office at 921 SchohaSUPREME COURT - rie Turnpike.

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NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF COLUMBIA NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC D/B/A MR. COOPER, Plaintiff AGAINST STEPHEN ST CLAIR, ALEXIA ST CLAIR, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated June 10, 2019 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Front Steps of the Columbia County Courthouse, 401 Union Street, Hudson, NY, on August 30, 2019 at 3:00PM, premises known as 1350 COUNTY ROUTE 7, ANCRAM, NY 12502.

All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Ancram, County of Columbia and State of New York, SECTION 205.3, BLOCK 1, LOT 21. Approximate amount of judgment $163,704.90 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment for Index# 13113-18.

MAX N. ZACKER, ESQ., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 Williamsville, NY 14221

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TO: JOHN DOE and JANE ROE: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to serve a notice of appearance on Plaintiffs within (20) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the date of service (or within thirty (30) days after the service is complete of this summons if not personally delivered to you within the State of New York); and in case of your failure to appear, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the notice set forth below.

Dated: July 24, 2019 COOPER ERVING & SAVAGE LLP Albany, New York /s/ Carlo A. C. de Oliveira Carlo A. C. de Oliveira Attorney for Plaintiffs 39 North Pearl Street, 4th Floor Albany, NewYork 12207 518-449-3900 c d e o l i v e i r a @ c o o p e rerving.com NOTICE: The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of the Honorable Raymond J. Elliott, III, a Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, dated the 19th day of July, 2019, and filed with the Verified Amended Complaint and other papers, in the office of the Clerk of the County of Greene in Catskill, New York.

DESCRIPTION OF ACTION: This is an action for adverse possession of a portion of the property known as "Virginia Place," which separates Plaintiffs' property located on Joel M. Austin Road, the Town of Cairo, New York, consisting of Tax Map Number 101.00-5-18. The portion of "Virginia Place" Plaintiffs are seeking title to by adverse possession is located between the properties bearing Section, Block, Lot Numbers 101.00-5-18, to the North and south on the western end, 101.00-5-26 to the north on the eastern end, and 101.00-5-17 to the south on the eastern end.

NOTICE OF SELF STORAGE FACILITIES LIEN (§ 187(7) To: Jeanette Sutliff, 39 Lake Avenue, Apt. D, Nassau, New York 12123 1.Itemized statement of amount due (attached).

2.Property subject to lien is all items contained in storage unit.

3. Unless the amount of $1,440.00 is paid within 30 days of this notice goods will be advertised for sale and sold at public or private sale.

4.The time and place of the sale is 10:00 am on the 12th day of September, 2019 at Lebanon Springs Self Storage 14776 Route 22, Lebanon Springs, New York 12125.

Dated: June 13, 2019 Chatham, New York James Kleinbaum Attorney At Law 18 Park Row Chatham, New York SUPREME COURT OF 12037 THE STATE OF NEW (518) 794-8708 YORK - COUNTY OF Pillow Talk Beverages GREENE LLC Arts. of Org. filed U.S. BANK NATIONAL NY Sec. of State TRUST, N.A., (SSNY) 7/16/19. Office AS TRUSTEE FOR in Columbia Co. SSNY LSF9 MASTER PARdesign. Agent of LLC TICIPATION TRUST, upon whom process V. may be served. SSNY ROBIN SYLVESTER shall mail copy of pro- F/K/A ROBIN C. cess to The LLC 100 CHASE, if living, and if W. 39th ST, Apt 40D, he/she be dead, any New York, NY 10018. and all persons unPurpose: Any lawful known to plaintiff, activity. claiming, or who may claim to have an interPublication Notice: Woodman Hill LLC, a est in, or general or domestic LLC, filed specific lien upon the property dewith the SSNY on real 8/5/2019. Office loca- scribed in this action; tion: Columbia County, et al.

NY. SSNY is designat- NOTICE OF SALE ed as agent upon NOTICE IS HEREBY whom process against GIVEN pursuant to a Judgment of the LLC may be Final served.

SSNY shall Foreclosure dated Ocmail process to 43 tober 10, 2018, and Pierrepont Street, entered in the Office of Brooklyn, NY 11201. the Clerk of the County Purpose: Real Estate of Greene, wherein Management and Ren- U.S. BANK NATIONAL N.A., AS tal; General business TRUST, TRUSTEE FOR LSF9 purposes.

MASTER PARTICIPARegenernatives, LLC. TION TRUST, is the Filed 7/24/19. Office: Plaintiff and ROBIN F/K/A Columbia Co. SSNY SYLVESTER designated as agent ROBIN C. CHASE, if for process & shall mail living, and if he/she be to: 2226 County Rte dead, any and all perto 27, Hudson, NY sons unknown 12534. Purpose: Gen- plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to eral have an interest in, or WATER SHACK general or specific lien FARM, LLC filed Arts. upon the real property of Org. with the Sect'y described in this acof State of NY (SSNY) tion; et al. are the Deon 7/12/2019. Office fendant(s). I, the unlocation, County of dersigned Referee will Columbia. SSNY has sell at public auction at been designated as the GREENE COUNTY agent of the LLC upon COURTHOUSE, 320 whom process against MAIN STREET, CATSit may be served. KILL, NY 12414, on SSNY shall mail pro- August 27, 2019 at cess to: Rebeccah 9:00 AM, premises Pailes-Friedman, 595 known as 11 TOWNMadison St, Brooklyn, SEND HOLLOW NY 11221. Purpose: ROAD, HALCOTT any lawful act.

CENTER, NY 12430: Section 174, Block 2, STATE OF NEW YORK Lot 4: SUPREME COURT ALL THAT CERTAIN COUNTY OF GREENE SUMMONS WITH NO- PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, LYING TICE AND BEING IN THE Index No.: 16-0814 Summons and Amend- TOWN OF HALCOTT, ed Complaint filed: COUNTY OF GREENE, STATE OF NEW YORK March 13, 2018 CATHERINE ANNESE Premises will be sold and SONDRA MULL- subject to provisions of filed Judgment InER, dex # 597/2016. AngePlaintiffs, lo F. Scaturro, Esq. -againstJOSEPH F. KOWAL- Referee. RAS Boriskin, SKI, ROBERT M. LLC 900 Merchants KOWALSKI, THERESA Concourse, Suite 310, K O W A L S K I - W O L F E , Westbury, New York PATRICIA F. KOWAL- 11590, Attorneys for SKI-RUSSEL, CARO- Plaintiff.

LYN KOWALSKI-PALLADINO, ELIZABETH SUPREME COURT OF A. TROIANI, HAROLD THE STATE OF NEW JONES, JOHN DOE YORK - COUNTY OF and JANE ROE, COLUMBIA

ONEWEST BANK, FSB, V. STEPHEN M PICKENS, ET. AL. NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated February 2, 2019, and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Columbia, wherein ONEWEST BANK, FSB is the Plaintiff and STEPHEN M PICKENS, ET AL. are the Defendant(s).

I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the COLUMBIA COUNTY COURTHOUSE, FRONT LOB401 UNION BY, STREET, HUDSON, NY 12534, on September 6, 2019 at 2:00PM, premises known as 206 HUNT CLUB ROAD, OLD CHATHAM, NY 12136: Section 36, Block 1, Lot 32.100: ALL THOSE CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, WITH THE BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON ERECTED, SITUATE LYING AND BEING IN THE TOWN OF CHATHAM, THE COUNTY OF COLUMBIA AND THE STATE OF NEW YORK Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 4567/2012. Michael C. Howard, Esq. - Referee. RAS Boriskin, LLC 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff.

SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK - COUNTY OF GREENE DITECH FINANCIAL LLC, V. DEBORAH A. WEBB, ET AL. NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated May 29, 2019, and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Greene, wherein DITECH FINANCIAL LLC is the Plaintiff and DEBORAH A. WEBB, 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 16, 2019 at 10:00 AM, premises known as 68 SLIGO LANE, GREENVILLE, NY 12083: Section 11, Block 2, Lot 4: ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, WITH THE BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON ERECTED, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE TOWN OF GREENVILLE, COUNTY OF GREENE, STATE OF NEW YORK Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 2018-707. Robert J. White Jr., Esq. Referee. RAS Boriskin, LLC 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff.

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Cairo-Durham football team and before long, the plan was hatched.

Hatch, Flanagan and Toumey kicked around a few ideas, one of the first of which was to open a bigger facility.

“We came in in March, did all the renovations,” Hatch said. “I started working out with Tom just before last football season and we started getting more and more kids in and the place was getting packed. We got in touch with the people from the Cairo Development Foundation and asked them what they’re doing with some of their buildings and it was done real quick.”

With a growing clientele, Hatch said moving into a bigger facility was a necessity.

“We opened the new gym on April 1,” Hatch said. “Tom had a small gym up the road, about a third of the size of the new location. I started bringing the boys there for conditioning and I thought ‘this is a good business.’ I wanted to get in it for a few different reasons, but we needed a bigger spot.”

Once the new gym opened up, Hatch and Flanagan decided to give local high school athletes a unique opportunity with a big assist from the Cairo-Devlopment Foundation.

“Tom needed a bigger place, needed a business partner with it and this gave us a conduit to have the kids — from any school and in any sport — come in to the gym and workout, Hatch explained. “I took it a step farther. In the offseason, I do Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3-4, and the kids get to come in and work out for free with a trainer.

“Cairo Development Foundation is revitalizing Main Street and this works out perfectly. They’ve been very supportive and helped us out getting in here and getting us anything we need. The combination of the Cairo-Development Foundation and what we’re doing, it’s just a win-win for everybody.”

Hatch and his partners are hoping that local schools will take advantage of what they have to offer for no charge.

“This an offering to any of the schools around here, any of the Athletic Directors, any of the coaches,” Hatch exlained. “We have all the basic fundamentals that are needed for any sport and then we can find out from the coaches what they want their kids to work on and we’ll do it on Tuesdays and Thursdays and we’ll do it at no cost to the

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conditioning, those type of things. We talked about before we started. I told him we wanted to increase the reps last week. We’re going to do the same. We’ll just get him as game ready as possible.”

The season-ending knee injury suffered Thursday by linebacker Avergy Williamson only reinforced Gase’s decision to sit Bell.

“I was about 99.9% sure

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A look inside Accountable Fitness and Nutrition, located at 467 Main Street in Cairo.

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Accountable Fitness and Nutrition, located at 467 Main Street in Cairo.

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A look inside Accountable Fitness and Nutrition, located at 467 Main Street in Cairo.

schools or kids.”

Hatch explained how the new partnership works.

“Stephanie Toumey is a third partner, she has her personal trainer certificate and she’s dedicated to it,” Hatch said. She and Tom do all the personal training and I handle the financial part of it, the books, some of the advertising, contacting the schools.

“I let them do what they do. I’m in sales for a living, it’s what I’ve been doing for 35 years. It’s a good synergy between us all.”

Flanagan is pleased with how the new partnership is working out.

“It’s been going great,” Flanagan said. “When we were over at the other location everybody always said we were the best kept secret that nobody could find. Moving here, we have more exposure.

With all of the windows everybody can see us and actually know what we can do. Just the added visibility has been a big boost to what we can do.”

Flanagan described how his training program works.

“We fall under the category

what we were going to do (with Bell),” Gase said. “(Williamson’s injury) probably made it 100.”

When asked after Sunday night’s scrimmage practice at MetLife Stadium if he had any regrets about keeping Williamson in the lineup too long against the Falcons, Gase replied, “Yes, I do.”

It’s almost unheard of for a coach to take that kind of blame, and while Gase wasn’t on the field when Williamson suffered the injury late in the second quarter, the coach is second-guessing himself for not taking Williamson out

of functional training. We don’t look at the body as individual parts, we look at it as a whole. When I have an athlete come in with a chronic ankle problem, but it’s not really the ankle. We look at the body as a whole.

“If someone has an ankle problem it’s probably the alignment between the hip, the knee and the ankle. Something has to be out of whack, so we’ll look at that alignment, we’ll look at the body and the imbalances and we try to correct them. We get them to function as one whole machine and get them to run fluidly.”

Flanagan said the gym works with all ages.

We work with the high school kids, but we have 59-year-old sisters that come in here and their biggest accomplishment is to go up and down the stairs without having to put both feet on the stairs.

“For them, looking at what they’ve done, and they’ve been with us for over a year now, but they’re doing what these high school kids are

earlier.

“Just looking back on it, hindsight’s 20-20, but I wish I would have gotten him out of there a series earlier,” Gase said. “I talked with him, and it’s on me. I’m the one who has to make that call to get him out of there, and we didn’t. It’s a shame, because he was having a good camp.”

Gase said he spoke to Williamson about his regret at not taking him out sooner.

“He’s as positive as you can get right now,” Gase said of Williamson. “I know there are going to be some ups and downs, but I told him we’re

doing now. Just getting them to be able to do daily activities, for us, is a big accomplishment.

“We look at each person individually. A program I build for someone is different from one I’d build for another person because everybody is different. There hasn’t been a person that’s come in here that has had a problem that we couldn’t deal with. No matter what, we can help fix it, alleviate it and get it to where you can can deal with daily activities with less pain.”

It’s a personal touch that sets Accountable Fitness and Nutrition apart from other gyms, Flanagan said.

“We treat everybody like family here. We’re going to invest probably more in to you than you are going to invest in yourself. You’re coming into here to put in an hour worth of work, but for that hour that you put in to work I’m putting in 2-3 hours to make sure that the program that you’re getting is going to give you the results that you want.

“We’re trying to build that small community gym where

going to need him to help these young guys. We’re going to need him around everybody. We talked about a plan once he gets on his feet as far as what we want to do with him with meetings and trying to help him keep learning as a football player.”

Gase said safety Marcus Maye, who is returning from shoulder surgery, could play Saturday against the Saints on Saturday night..

“Marcus will be back this week. He’ll be full go,” Gase said. “He started today, we’ll see how this week goes.”

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you’re not lost in the numbers.

Here, you’re a person, you’re somebody.”

Flanagan feels the future is bright for the gym.

“The possibilities are endless,” he said. “I can’t even put in to words what we can accomplish here. With Dan

coming on board, it’s been a big push to where I thought I was going to be when I started this back in 2014.”

Accountable Fitness and Nutrition is open weekdays from 7 a.m.-8 p.m. and Saturdays from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. For information, call (518) 622-2200.

Yankees

to underscore how the Yankees had been sabotaged by Sabathia’s rustiness. Nursing an arthritic knee, he was making his first start in nearly three weeks and admitted he was disappointed with his effort, especially the three-run home run he allowed Mike Freeman.

“I really hung it up there,” Sabathia said of his slider.

“I’ve been doing that a lot this year, especially to left-handed hitters. I have to tighten that up.”

Despite the vow, Sabathia has no illusions of turning back the clock. His ERA stands at 5.01 and he says his knee remains as troublesome as ever.

Even with the extended stay on the injured list and a plasma-rich injection, Sabathia admitted his pain-level, on a scale of one to 10, “was about an eight” during Sunday’s game. “Eight is as good as it’s going to get,” he said, for the rest of the season.

Sabathia was no match for Mike Clevinger, who struck out 10 in five innings, and it remains to be seen how long the Yankees will stick with their veteran left-hander once Severino returns.

Manager Aaron Boone was being diplomatic when he said of Sabathia, “hopefully he can get into a good routine every fifth or sixth day and get on a good run” although the Yankees are facing a more pressing agenda: beating the Astros not just in October, but in the next six weeks, too.

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The next step for him will be a simulated game at the Yankees’ minor league complex in Tampa, Florida, followed by an appearance with one of the team’s minor league affiliates.

Barring any setback, the Yankees will have a healthy and fully-restored Severino for the final month of the season.

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Wife is edged out of man’s affections by grandson My husband, “Doug,” and I have had a long and happy marriage. We’ve raised two children, both of whom are doing well in life.

I have much to be thankful for, but I keep having to remind myself of that because I’m having trouble adjusting to my changing relationship with my husband.

We have a grandson. The boy has become the focus of DEAR ABBY my husband’s world. Because of that, Doug no longer wants to do things with me. He says he has too much to do or he is too tired to go out, so I go to social events by myself. In fact, I do everything by myself. If our grandson calls, though, Doug has all the energy in the world.

I try to interact with the two of them, but when I do, I feel like a third wheel. Doug no longer compliments me and is rarely interested in being intimate. I have worked hard to take good care of myself, and I try to look nice for him every day. He doesn’t notice.

I’m actually starting to resent my grandson — something I never thought would happen.

Do I just carry on and hope things get better?

If I should talk to Doug now, how do I do it without sounding petty and immature?

Married, But Lonely

JEANNE PHILLIPS

Something has gone wrong with your marriage. It appears your husband is using your grandson as a way to buffer himself from you.

“Too tired” and “too busy” are excuses, not reasons. If discussing this with him doesn’t change things, then it’s time to talk to a marriage and family therapist — or a clergyperson, if you have one — about what has been going on.

When my husband and I were first married, he was in the Army, stationed in North

Carolina. While we were there, his good friend and Army buddy “Mac” became a close friend of mine. There was an instant connection.

I haven’t seen Mac since he got out. It has been nine years, but we remain in touch — texting, talking on the phone, playing video games together.

Abby, I believe I may be in love with him. It’s not something that happened overnight. This is something I have just come to realize. Do I remain friends and keep this secret or tell him I believe I love him? I am not sure how to handle this.

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What do you think you have to gain by telling Mac you think you’re in love with him? If he says the feelings are mutual, do you plan on leaving your husband? For the sake of your marriage, stop texting, talking and gaming with this man and concentrate on your husband. If you keep playing with fire, your marriage may wind up in ashes.

My daughter’s third-generation, American-born fiance wants to wear a kilt to their wedding. (His late maternal grandmother was born in Scotland.) His parental ancestry claims French and Romanian roots. My daughter would prefer he wear a formal suit or tuxedo to their evening wedding ceremony and reception, which is in an upscale hotel for 100 guests. What to do?

To Kilt Or Not To Kilt

Garfield

I’m glad you asked. Your daughter should lighten up, “allow” her fiance to wear whatever he wants to their wedding and respect his reasons for wanting to do so. Look at it this way: It will make for a memorable wedding.

Blondie

Cuff should remain at heart level for accurate BP reading I have always read that when you are having your blood pressure taken, your arm should be elevated above your heart. When mine is taken this way, it is normal, around 120/70. When I go to the doctor, my blood pressure is taken with my arm hanging at my side. I often get a much higher reading taken TO YOUR this way, say, 140/90. Is there a GOOD HEALTH correct way to take it, and does it affect the reading? My doctor said the position doesn’t matter and wants to prescribe medication.

DR. KEITH ROACH

When taking the blood pressure, the goal is to approximate the blood pressure in the heart.

That means that the blood pressure cuff should be at the level of the heart. If the blood pressure cuff is above the heart, then the blood pressure reading will be artificially low. If the blood pressure cuff is dangling below the level of the heart, the reading will be high.

For every 10 cm (about 4 inches) above the heart, the blood pressure will be about 7 mm of mercury too low. If I stretch out my arm as high as I can above my heart, I can get it about 30 cm higher than my heart, which would be enough to explain the difference between the

140/90 and 120/70 you have observed. However, for most people when sitting up straight, a properly placed cuff on the arm will approximate the same level as the heart. Although you are right the position matters, it sounds like the doctor’s office is taking the reading correctly.

I should also note that the feet should be resting on the floor, not dangling, which can artificially raise the blood pressure. The arm should be supported while taking the blood pressure. I recommend taking the blood pressure three times and using the average.

Given how important blood pressure is, correct technique is essential in order to properly recommend who should get blood pressure treatment. Evidence is increasing that a 24-hour home blood pressure device is more accurate at determining who might need medication, especially in suspected white coat hypertension, where the readings are artificially high just because a person is in the office (even if they don’t feel nervous).

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Horoscope

By Stella Wilder Born today, you possess, like so many other of your Leo brothers and sisters, driving ambition and the ability and willingness to work harder than those around you to see that your aspirations are satisfied. You will do anything to succeed — and that in itself is a double-edged sword. On one hand, it ensures that you will make your dreams come true; on the other hand, it allows for the possibility that you will take advantage of and mistreat other people on your way to the top. This second option is not one that you should consciously allow, certainly!

You have a vivid imagination, and you would do well to put it to work for you whenever you have the chance — for you are likely to enjoy both inner contentment and financial success from any line of work that allows you to use your imagination to the fullest. You must not ever let it go unchecked, however, for that can be frightening!

Also born on this date are: Amy Adams, actress; Robert Plant, singer; Al Roker, TV personality; Isaac Hayes, composer; Ron Paul, politician; Benjamin Harrison, U.S. president; Don King, boxing promoter; Connie Chung, TV journalist; H.P. Lovecraft, author; Ray Wise, actor; Jacqueline Susann, author.

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.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21 LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Showing others what you’re up to today can serve a rather selfish purpose, but it may blunt the overall impact of your efforts. Think twice.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Reaching out to another may be misinterpreted or misunderstood if

the timing isn’t just right. Don’t be too much in a hurry!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Time is on your side today, but that doesn’t mean it’s a commodity that you can fritter away, certainly. Be efficient in all your dealings.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — You may have to find a substitute today when someone playing a key role in a personal drama proves unavailable.

This marks a shift.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — External forces, including the weather perhaps, are likely to influence you more than usual today. Travel may have to be restricted.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Share the wealth today and others will gladly give you what they can when you ask for it. It’s a certain kind of assistance you’ll need.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Putting yourself in another’s shoes today will give you an unusual look at a situation you thought you understood.

That’s all changed!

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — Your admiration for another’s accomplishments is undiminished at this time, despite the fact that your relationship is strained.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — You have a certain picture in your mind of what you’ll see when you get where you’re going. Where is that? Do you even know?

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — A discussion of what is right and wrong is likely to lead you down the rabbit hole today. You’ll have to make sense of the senseless!

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — An unexpected development puts you at odds with someone on your own team. In the end, a simple discussion can put to rest any conflict.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — Even your most unusual ideas can be of use today. What begins as an unpopular notion is likely to take others by storm by day’s end.

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SUPER QUIZ

THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME

By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek Get the free JUST JUMBLE app • Follow us on Twitter @PlayJumble

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

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Emily, Emmeline and Amelia Level 1

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

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

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Solution puzzle Solution to to Saturday’s Monday’s puzzle

Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit, 1 to 9.

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Each answer is a person named Emily, Emmeline or Amelia. (e.g., English singer who finished third on “The X Factor.” Answer: Amelia Lily.)

Freshman level 1. The first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

2. Author of “Wuthering Heights.”

3. American author famous for writing about etiquette.

Graduate level 4. Reclusive American who wrote “Because I could not stop for Death.”

5. Women’s rights advocate whose name is associated with an item of women’s clothing.

6. Nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for her role in “Breaking the Waves.”

PH.D. level 7. Canadian artist of the indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast.

8. Nominated for Best Supporting Actress (Golden Globe) for “The Devil Wears Prada.”

9. TIME named her one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century.

SUPER QUIZ ANSWERS 1. Amelia Earhart. 2. Emily Bronte. 3. Emily Post. 4. Emily Dickinson. 5.

Amelia Bloomer. 6. Emily Watson. 7. Emily Carr. 8. Emily Blunt. 9. Emily (Emmeline) Pankhurst.

18 points — congratulations, doctor; 15 to 17 points — honors graduate; 10 to 14 points — you’re plenty smart, but no grind; 4 to 9 points — you really should hit the books harder; 1 point to 3 points — enroll in remedial courses immediately; 0 points — who reads the questions to you?

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Crossword Puzzle ACROSS 1 Donahue or Aikman 5 McEntire’s namesakes 10 Farm machine 14 “All roads lead to __” 15 Steer clear of 16 Buddhist monk 17 Hotels 18 Harasses 20 Greek letter 21 Airflow outlet 22 Stadium 23 Arthritis symptoms 25 “I __ Rock”; Simon & Garfunkel hit 26 Woodwind player 28 __ in; inhabits 31 The “U” in UHF 32 Ethical; righteous 34 Part of TGIF 36 Seeks damages 37 “__, Jose!”

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