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CAIRO — An electrical fire at the Resurrection Lutheran Church on Monday morning put an abrupt halt to the first day of Vacation Bible School. First responders were called to the scene on Route 32 at about 11:30 a.m. “The fire alarm went off prior to our arrival and the teachers were able to get everyone out,” Cairo Fire Chief Brian Feml said. “There were no injuries to the students, the teachers or firefighters.” Pastor Victor Nelson said
he recalled the power surging on and off. “I kept getting up to see what was going on,” he said. A staff member then noticed that there were sparks at the pole and on the roof and called 911, Nelson said. “We evacuated approximately 150 in about 90 seconds,” Nelson said. The fire was caused by an electrical short circuit at the pole that brings electricity into the building, Feml said. “The only fire was on a small section of roofing,”
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n NATION Democrat takes aim at policies Elizabeth Warren assails crime policies once embraced by Booker, Harris and Biden PAGE A2
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State Attorney General Letitia James on Tuesday announced a lawsuit against the Trump administration over a new, stricter interpretation of the “public charge rule,” which could deny green cards to legal immigrants who have needed or may need certain forms of public
assistance. “For generations, the United States has been a haven for immigrants seeking opportunity and upward mobility, and the Trump administration’s unlawful reinterpretation of the public charge rule turns this history on its head, excluding hundreds of thousands of immigrants — immigrants with
disabilities and immigrants with limited resources,” James said at a press conference in New York City on Tuesday. Under the administration’s policy change, announced earlier this month, legal immigrants who use public benefits such as Medicaid, food stamps or housing assistance, could have a more difficult time
obtaining a green card. “They are just trying to make things more difficult for any kind of immigrant,” David Stein, of Hudson, said. The new criteria for “Inadmissibility on Public Charge Grounds” will set new standards for applicants See SUES A8
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Kenneth Cuccinelli, acting director of the Citizenship and Immigration Services, announcing a new rule that would deny permanent residency to legal immigrants if they are judged likely to use government benefit programs. New York and three other states have sued the administration over the change.
Village borrows $5M to fix aging water system By Sarah Trafton Columbia-Greene Media
On the web www.HudsonValley360.com Twitter Follow: @CatskillDailyMail Facebook www.facebook.com/ CatskillDailyMail/ In this February 2019 file photo, Catskill Village Trustee Joseph Kozloski reads a resolution authorizing a $250,000 bond for improvements to the village’s water system. The village board voted to borrow $5 million to repair and upgrade the aging water system. To cover the debt service, village water rates will increase by 10% in the third quarter and will show up in the October bills.
CATSKILL — Village trustees authorized a bond of up to $5 million for improvements to the water plant and the water main. The funds will be used to improve filtration and replace the water main beneath Main Street. The bond is tentative, based on the results of the village’s application for a Water Infrastructure Improvement grant from the state Environmental Facilities Corporation, Trustee Joseph Kozloski said. Village officials are hoping for a 60/40 split, where $3 million of the project is covered by the grant and the remaining $2 million is the village’s
responsibility, Kozloski said. To improve the filtration of the water that comes from the Potic Mountain Reservoir in Coxsackie, which serves the village, engineers are proposing to reintroduce a settling pond at the water plant, Kozloski said. “This would give the organic material a chance to settle out and help with the filtration,” Kozloski said. “There would be less need for chlorination.” By reducing the chlorine level, you also reduce the Trihalomethanes levels, Village President Vincent Seeley said in June. “If there is less biological content in the water, it doesn’t See SYSTEM A8
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Computer systems in 23 small Texas towns have been hacked, seized and held for ransom in a widespread, coordinated cyberattack, authorities said this week. The Texas Department of Information Resources said Monday that it was racing to bring systems back online after the “ransomware attack,” in which hackers remotely block access to important data until a ransom is paid. It was unclear who was responsible for the attacks, which occurred last week. The state described the attacker only as “one single threat actor.” Elliott Sprehe, a spokesman for the department, declined to provide further specifics or release the names of the towns affected because of the “potential for further attacks.” He said the attacks largely affected specific departments within those towns. He declined to say if any of the towns had paid up. “It’s limited to just a handful of areas,” Sprehe said. “It’s not disparate throughout the state.” Allan Liska, an analyst with Recorded Future, a cybersecurity firm, said that the attack in Texas was “absolutely the largest coordinated attack” on cities he had seen in terms of the number of targets, and that “it may be the first time that we’ve seen a coordinated attack.” “If this turns out to be a new phase — because bad guys love to copycat each other — we’re
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The Texas State Capitol and state offices, where the Texas Department of Information Resources is based. The department is leading the response to the cyberattacks.
going to see a continued acceleration of these kinds of attacks,” Liska said. Ransomware attacks often begin after employees click on links or download attachments containing malicious code from seemingly harmless emails. In May, hackers seized part of the computer systems that run the city government of Baltimore, Maryland, delaying the delivery of water bills and preventing the health department from issuing critical alerts. In March 2018, a cyberattack targeted some parts of the city of Atlanta’s network for days, including systems involving police reports and employment applications. In 2018, Liska said, there were
54 publicly reported attacks on city, county and state governments, as well as court systems, emergency services and school districts. So far this year, excluding the Texas attacks, his firm has identified 61. Brian Calkin, chief technology officer at the nonprofit Center for Internet Security, said it depended on the particulars of the system, but there were essentially three choices. The first is to pay the ransom, which he said was ultimately a business decision, but also a moral one because it perpetuates the problem and the criminals behind it. The second option is to restore data from backup files that have been stored offline.
But if officials take too long to deliberate and miss the ransom deadline, or there are no backup files, the third option “is less fun,” he said. “You’re really looking at rebuilding from scratch,” he said, “which is an unenvious place to be for sure.” State and local government entities are likely to pay ransom only about 17% of the time, according to Liska’s analysis. But criminals get heightened media attention when they target cities. Earlier this summer, two Florida cities agreed to shell out almost $1 million to placate attackers. The leaders of Riviera Beach, Florida, paid the sum of nearly $600,000. And officials in Lake City, Florida, eventually paid $460,000 (or 42 Bitcoin) after the city’s computer systems were paralyzed for several days. “With your heart, you really don’t want to pay these guys,” Mayor Stephen Witt of Lake City said at the time. “But, dollars and cents, representing the citizens, that was the right thing to do.” As a precaution, officials in one Texas county took some of their systems offline over the weekend, according to the local Fox station, KXII. “We took steps to — in effect — pull in our drawbridge,” Bill Magers, the Grayson County judge, told the station. “We will continue to take all steps necessary to protect the information system used to serve our taxpayers.”
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Warren takes aim at crime policies once embraced by Biden, Harris and Booker Annie Linskey The Washington Post
WASHINGTON - Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said Tuesday that as president she would eliminate the death penalty, end the use of private prisons, curtail the cash bail system and overhaul the use of presidential pardons. The announcement was Warren’s entry into the volatile debate over criminal justice reform, an issue that is resonating especially in the African American community. Unlike earlier policy announcements, Warren did not hesitate to take implicit but unmistakable aim at policies embraced in the past by her rivals, especially former vice president Joe Biden and Sens. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and Cory Booker, D-N.J. “We will reduce incarceration and improve justice in our country by changing what we choose to criminalize, reforming police behavior and improving police-community relations, and reining in a system that preferences prosecution over justice,” Warren said. The plan is largely aimed at rooting out policies that have led to the imprisonment of a disproportionate number of black and brown Americans. Although Warren has gained political strength in recent weeks, ranking second behind Biden in many Democratic primary polls, she has yet to make major inroads among African American voters. Warren released her criminal justice plan the day after her largest rally to date, when she addressed a crowd in Minnesota that the campaign estimated at 12,000. She also plans to visit a nonprofit organization there
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D- Mass., greets a supporter after a town hall in Tempe, Ariz., in August 2019.
that helps men with a history of homelessness and incarceration, and she will host a roundtable with criminal justice activists and formerly incarcerated people. On Tuesday, Warren pledged to jettison much of the 1994 crime bill that Biden helped write and has been blamed for driving a sharp increased in incarceration in the country, especially among African Americans. “It was a mistake, and it needs to be repealed,” Warren said. Still, she added, she would preserve a portion of the law that provides more resources to pursue domestic violence. Biden has defended parts of the 1994 law while also suggesting he would take a different approach today. That law, passed at a time when fear of violent crime was a driving political force, was supported by many members of the Congressional Black Caucus, but many black leaders have come to believe it badly damaged their communities.
Warren also promised to “decriminalize truancy” for students, establishing a difference between herself and Harris. A former prosecutor and state attorney general in California, Harris has said she regrets the “unintended consequences” of a law she championed to punish the parents of students who frequently missed school. Instead, Warren said she would increase funding for mental health workers in schools. And Warren would end stop-and-frisk or “broken windows” policing, a policy that Booker has been criticized for using when he mayor of Newark. Warren said she would withhold federal funding from
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police departments that use those techniques, which involve targeting minor offenses as a way to head off bigger problems. Warren’s plan also would triple funding to the Justice Department’s civil rights division, providing additional funds to investigate local police departments that show a pattern of unconstitutional policing. Democrats and civil rights leaders have condemned the Trump administration for cutting back on efforts to monitor such police departments. Warren also said she would provide incentives for state attorneys general to launch more investigations of police departments and expand civilian oversight, establishing a federal standard for how and when law enforcement officers use force. COLUMBIA-GREENE MEDIA The Register-Star/The Daily Mail are publishedTuesday through Saturday mornings by Columbia-Greene Media (USPS 253620), One Hudson City Centre, Suite 202, Hudson, NY 12534, a subsidiary of Johnson Newspaper Corp. Periodicals postage paid at Hudson, N.Y., and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Register-Star, One Hudson City Centre, Suite 202, Hudson, NY 12534. TO SUBSCRIBE To order a subscription, call our circulation department at (800) 724-1012 or logon to www.hudsonvalley360.com SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Digital Pass is included with print subscription Daily (Newsstand) $1.50 Saturday (Newsstand) $2.50 Carrier Delivery (3 Months) $71.50 Carrier Delivery (6 Months) $143.00 Carrier Delivery (1 Year) $286.00 EZ Pay Rates: 3 months $65.00 6 months $130.00 1 year $260.00 DIGITAL PASS ONLY RATES: Includes full access to HudsonValley360.com and the e-edition. 3 Months $30.00 6 Months $60.00 1 Year $120.00 Home Delivery & Billing Inquireries Call (800) 724-1012 and reach us, live reps are available Mon.-Fri. 6 a,m - 5 p.m., Sat. 6 a.m. - noon Sun. 8 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
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CALENDAR 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
Day n Coxsackie Village Hall closed for Labor Day
Wednesday, Sept. 4 n Greene County Economic Develop-
ment 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
Gov. Cuomo launches statewide survey allowing New Yorkers to choose the state’s new license plate design ALBANY — Governor Andrew M. Cuomo launched a statewide survey to select New York State’s new license plate design. The voting — which opened today on the Governor’s website — runs through Sept. 2 and will allow New Yorkers to choose their favorite among the five proposed designs. Voting will also be available to the public at the Governor’s exhibit at the Great New York State Fair starting Aug. 21. The license plate with the most votes will become the State’s official license plate and will be available to customers beginning April 2020. “License plates are a symbol of who we are as a state and New Yorkers should have a voice and a vote in its final design,” Governor Cuomo said. “As the life span of the old plates comes to an end and we develop new ones that are as easy to read as possible, I encourage all residents to take part in choosing this piece of our state’s history and the State Fair is a perfect place to do that.” The new plates will replace the aging Empire Blue & White plates, most of which are more than 10 years old. Once the new plates become available, the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) will also stop issuing the Empire Gold plates and begin fully transitioning to the new design. Department of Motor Vehicles Commissioner Mark J. F. Schroeder said, “The time has come for New York to have a new license plate, which is why we worked hard to create design options that not only capture the heart of the Empire State, but also that our customers will be proud to put on their vehicles. I hope everyone across the state will take a few minutes to view the options and vote for their top pick.”
Tuesday, Sept. 10 n Coxsackie Village Historic Preser-
vation Committee 6 p.m. at Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie
Wednesday, Sept. 11 n Athens Village Board 6:30 p.m. at
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Monday, Sept. 16 n Athens Town Board 6:45 p.m. at the
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Monday, Sept. 23 n Catskill Village Planning Board
The contest kicks off a new 10-year license plate replacement program to ensure all New York license plates on the roadways are reflective and easy to read. Currently, over 3 million vehicles in New York State have aging plates that are 10-years-old or older. Because of their age, many of them are damaged, oxidized and peeling, making it difficult or impossible to read the license plate number. Having a license plate that is legible reduces a motorist’s risk of being pulled over and cited for having an illegible license plate. The program also supports the
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STATE POLICE n James Booten, 46, of Huntington, West Virginia, was arrested at 10:01 p.m. Aug. 14 in New Baltimore and charged with operating a motor vehicle with a bloodalcohol content greater than 0.08% and driving while intoxicated, both unclassified misdemeanors. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Michele L. Raposo, 50, of Catskill, was arrested at 3:53 p.m. Aug. 15 in Cairo and charged with petty larceny, a class A misdemeanor. She was issued an appearance ticket. n Samantha M. Pfeiffer, 25, of Catskill, was arrested at 8:38 p.m. Aug. 14 in Greenport and charged with prohibited sale of an alcoholic beverage, a class A misdemeanor. She was issued an
appearance ticket. n Kyle S. Novotny, 25, of Coxsackie, was arrested at 11:40 a.m. Aug. 16 in Cairo and charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance, a class D felony. He was released on his own recognizance. n Jessica L. Schnauber, 30, of Catskill, was arrested at 11:02 a.m. Aug. 16 in Catskill and charged with second-degree robbery, a class C felony, and fourth-degree criminal mischief, a class A misdemeanor. She was held. n Joseph M. Menzie, 68, of Elka Park, was arrested at 12:01 a.m. Aug. 17 in Hunter and charged with operating a motor vehicle with a bloodalcohol content greater than 0.08% and driving while intoxicated, both unclassified misdemeanors. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Kimberlyann T. Murphy, 47, of Acra, was arrested at 8:54 p.m. Aug. 16 in Durham and charged with operating a motor vehicle with
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Wednesday, Sept. 25 n Athens Village Board 6:30 p.m. at
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Governor’s efforts to modernize New York’s expansive transportation system. Replacing aging plates will eliminate legibility issues that hinder License Plate Readers, which are used by law enforcement, red light cameras and cashless tolling systems, from correctly identifying the registered vehicle owner. Beginning April 2020, through the plate replacement program, as customers renew their vehicle registrations over the next two years, those with license plates that are 10-years-old or older will be issued new plates. The current $25 license
plate replacement fee will be added to the cost of the vehicle owner’s registration renewal. Customers may also keep their current license plate number for an additional $20 fee. Plate issuance begins for both original issuance and renewals on April 1, 2020. In addition to the State’s official license plate, the DMV offers more than 200 custom license plates, many of which support charitable causes. A complete list of available custom plates can be found on the DMV’s website at https://dmv. ny.gov/plates/plates.
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Monday, Sept. 9 n Cairo Town Board 7 p.m. at the Town Hall, 512 Main St., Cairo n Catskill Village Planning Board 7 p.m. at the Catskill Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill n Coxsackie Village Board 7 p.m. at Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie
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a blood-alcohol content greater than 0.08% and driving while intoxicated, both unclassified misdemeanors. She was issued an appearance ticket. n Mercedes B. Wilson, 26, of Syracuse, was arrested at 10:13 p.m. Aug. 17 in Coxsackie and charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a class A misdemeanor. She was issued an appearance ticket. n John P. Kemble, 48, of Catskill, was arrested at 8:30 p.m. Aug. 17 in Catskill and charged with first-degree aggravated unlicensed operating of a motor vehicle, a class E felony; driving while intoxicated and aggravated DWI, both unclassified misdemeanors. His arrestee status is unknown. n Shawn M. Maggiore, 32, of Ruby, was arrested at 8:48 p.m. Aug. 17 in Durham and charged with aggravated DWI with a child, a class E felony; acting in a manner to
injure a child, a class A misdemeanor; and operating a motor vehicle with a bloodalcohol content greater than 0.08% and driving while intoxicated, both unclassified misdemeanors. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Khashand Branch, 19, of Catskill, was arrested at 3:28 a.m. Aug. 18 in Catskill and charged with seventhdegree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a class A misdemeanor, and unlawful possession of marijuana, a violation. He was issued an appearance ticket. n James M. Van Valkenburgh, 48, of Palenville, was arrested at 8:39 p.m. Aug. 18 in Saugerties and charged with aggravated unlicensed operating of a motor vehicle and reckless driving, both unclassified misdemeanors; third-degree fleeing an officer in a motor vehicle, a class A misdemeanor; operating a motor vehicle without a license, failure to keep right, crossing road-hazard
markings and speeding, all infractions. He was held in lieu of cash bail. n James M. Van Valkenburg, 48, of Palenville, was arrested at 8:39 p.m. Aug. 18 in Saugerties and charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a class A misdemeanor, and having a controlled substance in a non-original container, a violation. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Jessica L. Krzykowski, 38, of Acra, was arrested at 6:45 p.m. Aug. 17 in Greenport and charged with driving while intoxicated and aggravated DWI, both unclassified misdemeanors. She was issued an appearance ticket. n Kathleen Charbonneua, 63, of Maplecrest, was arrested at 8:10 p.m. Aug. 16 in Livingston and charged with driving while intoxicated, an unclassified misdemeanor; stopping on a highway and drinking alcohol in a motor vehicle, both infractions. She was released to a third party.
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Society/SPCA, which is in Columbia County. Greene County District Attorney Joseph Stanzione is expected to prosecute the case. And Skye underwent a surgical procedure at a veterinary clinic in Rhinebeck, Dutchess County. Overall, the level of involvement in Skye’s case makes it clear that when an animal is suffering, the community rallies to make it well again. Only this time, four communities, separated by hundreds of miles in some instances, are working to get Skye back in good health. Skye’s surgery — removal of a basketballsized growth of flesh around her hind leg — was made possible with donations from the community, Columbia-Greene Humane Society Execu-
tive Director Ron Perez said Monday. “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.” Ending animal abuse is a job bigger than one community, or even four communities, can handle. But the support and love Skye received offers hope that communities will continue to fight for the lives of these animals. Donations from anonymous sources, without fanfare or expectations of reward, helped make a difference. To paraphrase a now-famous aphorism, it takes a community to save the life of an abused animal.
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Right-wing extremists make a global problem that needs a global response The Washington Post
Sweden is everything white nationalists despise: a wealthy, liberal democracy that welcomed waves of immigrants and integrated them into its “folkhemmet,” or people’s home, where citizens are family. That explains why, according to The New York Times, the far right has poured resources into promoting a populist surge in the nation to turn back time and turn away outsiders. The Times’s story documents the intricate machinery that disseminates disinformation and xenophobic propaganda to the Swedish population - and helped elevate a political party with neo-Nazi roots to unprecedented influence. Russia plays a part: Call it irony, or call it hypocrisy, but activists so professedly dedicated to putting their country first are more than happy to take money from Moscow. Besides the financial aid, outlets such as RT and Sputnik also prop up racist narrativesand smears of opposing politicians. But the machine is much more
complicated than just that, and it reaches far beyond Sweden. Domestic actors eager to spread the dogma of ethno-nationalism look to like-minded U.S. groups for tips on “red-pilling” people into radicalization through “meme warfare,” or on making the most of the automated accounts they buy up to artificially inflate narratives. Those groups, in turn, give the content a boost. This is happening in Sweden, Spain, Italy, Germany and elsewhere. And influence campaigners in one country are at the ready to help their compatriots in another whenever an election rolls around. There are think tanks; there are conferences. Researchers call it the nationalist international. For years, the far right’s fragmented nature impeded its ability to amass worldwide influence. But then the Internet arrived, and subcultures that at one time were isolated figured out first how to find one another and then how to help one another. It’s
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Love and generosity saved Skye Nobody can be surprised by hearing about a case of animal abuse or neglect in this area. It doesn’t happen too often, but the incidents are frequent enough to warrant concern. What is surprising about the case of Skye, a thoroughbred mare discovered in a tin box during a July heat wave, sick and emaciated, is how farreaching the case became. The case covers four counties. Skye was found by authorities following up on a report in Halcott in Greene County. Her owner, 73-year-old William Hrazanek, has an address in Fleischmanns, which is in Delaware County. He is accused of neglecting Skye. The horse was taken in by the Columbia-Greene Humane
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not only the ideology that is noxious. It’s the tactics. The right-wing extremist conglomerate runs on flatout lies such as false news stories and dangerous distortions that trolls and bots stick in users’ faces on social media sites by gaming engagement algorithms. It runs also on death threats and on harassing anyone who dares disagree with the conversation. The goal is to drown out all dissent and to undermine democracy itself. A global problem deserves a global response, with companies, academics, civil-society organizations and, most of all, countries coordinating with the same commitment and sophistication as their adversaries. Some analogues exist in the fight against the Islamic State. Other strategies will require new research into a new threat. Any success will require leadership which may be too much to expect from a U.S. president who would rather retweet conspiracy theories than counter them.
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On the surface, it’s a small thing. The fact that a bipartisan group of US Senators agreed to a SenEDWARD ate resolution honoring the American Legion’s 100th anniversary means there’s common ground somewhere in America. Though Aug. 23 through Aug. 29, American Legion Week coincides with the Legion’s 100th anniversary convention in its hometown of Indianapolis, it is Legion Week across the country. True, it’s not an official week with parades and cookouts, and it’s a bit of a shame that positive news like this gets lost in the white noise that emanates from Washington. But it is positive, and it is symptomatic of what I see as our underlying desire as a nation to do the right things. In March, 1919, the remnants of the American Expeditionary Force of soldiers, largely responsible for turning the tide and thus ending World War I, met in Paris to explore ways to support one another in a time when there was no governmental and barely any public support of veterans. Legionnaires never looked back. One of the sponsors of this Senate resolution said, “The American Legion has been a cornerstone of American life from the local to the federal level since the beginning and serves as a constant reminder of the enormous contributions America’s armed service members have made to enrich our nation during and after their military
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Warren is the real economic threat Andy Puzder The Washington Post
In a recent online essay for Medium titled “The Coming Economic Crash - And How to Stop It,” Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren warns of an imminent “economic downturn.” As one warning sign, Warren says Americans are saddled with excessive household debt due to a “generation of stagnant wages and rising costs.” Her argument is so 2016. As talk of a looming recession has picked up steam this month, and as Warren’s poll numbers have jumped, it’s worth taking a closer look at her message about wages and costs. The Bureau of Economic Analysis on July 30 published its annual revisions to personal income data. Following meager growth in employee compensation of 2.7 percent in 2016 and 2.9 percent in 2015, the revisions show significant increases of 4.5 percent in 2017 and 5 percent in 2018. To put those numbers in context, in President Donald Trump’s first two years, employee compensation increased by $672 billion more than it did during President Barack Obama’s last two, for a whopping 42 percent improvement. In June, wages and salaries grew at an annual rate of 5.4 percent, with inflation at 1.4 percent, well below the Federal Reserve’s 2 percent target. Thanks to a U.S. economic surge over the past two years fueled by Trump’s tax cuts and deregulation, Americans’ incomes have increased dramatically, while costs - reflected in the low inflation rate - have gone up quite modestly. Rather than continuing to
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pursue this obviously successful approach, Warren, of Massachusetts, proposes increasing wages with a federally mandated $15 per hour minimum wage - up from $7.25. But in a report that came out two weeks before Warren’s July 22 essay, the Congressional Budget Office found that a proposed $15 minimum wage would actually reduce household income by $8.7 billion in the year it took effect (after a gradual annual increase). Keep in mind, that loss is for one year. How could an increase in the minimum wage undermine incomes? According to the CBO’s median estimate, the increase would have the effect of killing 1.3 million jobs, increasing consumer prices and reducing economic growth. In effect, $8.7 billion in family income would simply disappear into the progressive economic ether. A proposal that would reduce household income for everyone by $8.7 billion as a means to increase wages for some Americans is absurd. Warren’s assertion that household debt is a harbinger of doom also withers under scrutiny. She cites a Federal Reserve Bank of New York report for the fourth quarter of 2018 showing increases in auto loans, credit card balances and student loan debt. Warren curiously failed to cite the New York Fed’s more recent report for the first quarter of 2019. The more current report found “a small increase in auto loan balances.” The increase is no mystery. The Pew Research Center recently found that 55 percent of the public say national economic conditions are excellent or good, and 71
percent say they think their finances will improve next year. That optimistic Americans are buying new cars is neither a surprise nor a sign of economic distress. As for rising credit card debt, with wages increasing and tax cuts putting more money in workers’ pockets, even the New York Fed report that Warren cites found that credit inquiries - an indicator of consumer credit demand - are at “the lowest level seen in the history of the data.” The more recent report found that those inquiries declined even further, to yet another historic low - while account closings were at their highest level since 2010 and new bankruptcy filings were at a historic low. Even more encouraging, the Bureau of Economic Analysis report found that Americans’ personal savings rate was above 8 percent in each of the first two quarters of this year, for the first time since 2012. The increase in student loan debt is worrisome, but it is primarily due to the Obama administration’s 2008 effort to cut costs by removing banks from the student loan decision-making process. Absent the banks’ input, the government turned on the loan spigot, and student debt skyrocketed as colleges raised tuition, often simply to hire more administrators. Warren’s solution is simply to cancel much of this student debt, ironically foisting the burden onto taxpayers, many of whom chose not to attend college, some because of the cost. Puzder is the former chief executive of CKE Restaurants and the author of “The Capitalist Comeback.”
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service.” Another asked that during American Legion week that Americans celebrate the Legion’s accomplishments (chief among them the establishment of the GI Bill of Rights) and honor the Legion’s 100 years of service to its members, their communities and the nation. In August, news outlets bemoan the “lack of news,” and positive news always gets short shrift. As insignificant as American Legion Week seems to be in the back-to-school, back-to-work, back-to-politics-as-usual days of summer, there is an opportunity present. That is the opportunity to again thank those who have served this nation — and you. We are all around you. The signs, baseball caps, t-shirts, bumper stickers are a giveaway. They are pride in service. Take a moment and thank someone for their service. There are Legions of us out here who would like to hear from you.
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Loretta LeBlanc Hawkins passed away peacefully in Thiensville, Wisconsin on June 22, 2019 at the age of 96. Her funeral service will be held on Friday, August 23rd at 11:00 a.m. at the First Reformed Church of Hudson, New York (52 Greene Street) where she was a member for over fifty years. A reception at the church will follow the service.
Marylu Janssen Marylu Janssen, 82 of Hillsdale, NY died on Thursday August 15, 2019 at the Valley View Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Goshen, NY. Formerly of Hillsdale, she had lived the past few years with her son and daughter in law in Middletown, NY. She was born on October 27, 1936 in Hudson, NY a daughter of the late Clayton and Doris (Jones) Carl. Marylu was a retired bookkeeper for the former Craryville Chevrolet owned by her father. She then worked for Milroy Chevrolet of Hudson and Catskill. She was an avid softball and basketball player for Roe Jan High School. She loved to bowl and enjoyed camping ceramics and singing. Survivors include her son William c Janssen and wife Joan of Middletown; her brother and sister in law, Clayton (Bud) Carl and wife Fran of Craryville, NY; son in law Wayne Bergeron
and grandson Craig Bergeron of Hillsdale, NY and all of her furry grandchildren. In addition to her parents Marylu was pre deceased by her husband William H. Janssen, a daughter Cindy Bergeron and a son Brian Janssen. The family would like to thank the staff at Valley View for the care and compassion offered to Marylu. Friends are invited and may call on Friday August 23, 2019 from 10 – 11 AM at the Peck and Peck Funeral Home, Route 22 in Copake, NY. Funeral services will follow at 11 AM at the funeral home with Vicar Jackie Jefferson officiating. Interment will be in the West Copake Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be offered to your local chapter of the American Heart Association or the American Cancer Society. To send an online condolence please visit www.peckandpeck. net.
Michael A. VanAlstyne Michael A. VanAlstyne, passed away unexpectedly on August 8, 2019. He was born on January 15, 1960 in Hudson. He is survived by his 3 children; Rose, Anna, and Michael. His sister, Brenda Lawson and Brother Sean Morrison. Michael was predeceased by his mother, Rose Marie VanAlstyne,
brothers, Cary and John Morrison, and his sister Shannon Morrison. A funeral service will be held on Wednesday, August 21, 2019 at 11:00 am from the AME Zion Church, 201 State Street, Hudson. Interment will follow in Linlithgo Cemetery.
Trump questions sincerity of Tlaib’s tears as she talked about her grandmother John Wagner The Washington Post
President Donald Trump lashed out anew Tuesday at Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., questioning the sincerity of her tears at a news conference where she talked about her decision not to travel to Israel to see her elderly grandmother, who lives in the occupied West Bank. Speaking to reporters in Minnesota on Monday, Tlaib started to cry as she explained why she will not be making the visit under conditions demanded by the Israeli government, including a pledge in writing not to “promote boycotts against Israel” while there. “Sorry, I don’t buy Rep. Tlaib’s tears,” Trump said in a tweet. “I have watched her violence, craziness and, most importantly, WORDS, for far too long. Now tears? She hates Israel and all Jewish people. She is an antiSemite. She and her 3 friends are the new face of the Democrat Party. Live with it!” Trump was referring to the four minority congresswomen known on Capitol Hill as “the Squad.” Since last month, Trump has repeatedly taken aim at the four freshman lawmakers, including in a tweet in which he said they should “go back” to the “totally broken and crime infested places from which they came.” Only one of the four, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., was born outside the United States, and she became a U.S. citizen in 2000. It was unclear what Trump was referring to in his tweet Tuesday regarding violence by Tlaib. Last week, Israel
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announced that it was banning Tlaib and Omar from entering the country on a planned trip, the bulk of which was to be centered in the Palestinian territories and in East Jerusalem. Israel relented Friday on humanitarian grounds in response to a request from Tlaib to see her 90-year-old grandmother. Tlaib announced later that day that she would not make the trip after all because of the conditions Israel was seeking to impose. At Monday’s news conference, where she appeared alongside Omar, Tlaib
explained her reasoning. “My grandmother said . . . I’m her bird. She said I’m her dream manifested,” Tlaib said as she started to cry. “I’m her free bird, so why would I come back and be caged and bow down when my election rose her head up high, gave her dignity for the first time?” Israel’s initial decision to deny entry to Tlaib and Omar followed a tweet by Trump last week that said approving the visit would “show great weakness” on Israel’s part. Both women have long been fierce critics of Israel
and its treatment of Palestinians. They support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, a global protest of Israel known as BDS. Israeli law bars visitors who support the boycott from entering, one of the prime reasons Israeli officials cited for stopping the two congresswomen from visiting Israel and the neighboring Palestinian territories to learn about settlement expansion and humanitarian conditions. The Washington Post’s Rachael Bade contributed to this report.
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Plagued by the highest number of police shootings in the nation, racist Facebook posts from its officers and a viral video of a family terrified by officers while held at gunpoint, Phoenix has introduced broad changes in an effort to “modernize” its troubled department, the mayor said. Officers are now required to document every time they point weapons at a person, Mayor Kate Gallego, a Democrat, and Police Chief Jeri Williams said at a news conference Monday, and all officers on patrol will wear body cameras. “This will allow us to have a real idea of how many times our officers are able to successfully de-escalate a situation with the potential of deadly force,” Williams said. The department, which recorded a nationwide high of 44 police shootings in 2018, had pledged earlier in the year to reduce incidents that brought community relations to a boil. Then, in May, police drew guns on Dravon Ames, his visibly pregnant fiancee, Iesha Harper, and their two young children, then threatened to shoot them over an allegation that one of the children took a doll from a dollar store. The incident, which was recorded by onlookers, led to wide condemnation, including from Gallego, after a video was circulated in June, and prompted a $10 million lawsuit against the city. That encounter added to already tense relations between officers and the community.
Later in June, a watchdog group released a study that found racist, violent or otherwise problematic memes on the Facebook pages of 97 current and former Phoenix officers. Firearms Sgt. Vernon Brink told reporters Monday that officers could point their weapons at people for any number of encounters, including felony traffic stops and search warrants. Video from body cameras can be reviewed after incidents are self-reported. But simply unholstering a firearm or keeping it pointed low do not count as recorded incidents, the Arizona Republic reported. Additionally, all officers will be required to take an eight-hour course on how to handle citizens with mental health issues, Williams said, after citizens and officers both said it was a considerable yet under-resourced problem. “We want them to be able to identify when someone is in crisis and having a bad day and how to help them get to the resources they need,” said Erica Chestnut-Ramirez, the director of crisis and trauma healing services at La Frontera Arizona, a mental health resource center that will assist the department with training. The changes are a result of a $150,000 study from the National Police Foundation commissioned by the city that concluded that the increase in shooting incidents was a “statistical yet tragic anomaly,” saying officers had faced more assaults by suspects with guns than in past years. The Washington Post’s Eli Rosenberg contributed to this report.
Nestled in the Indian Himalayas, some 16,500 feet above sea level, sits Roopkund Lake. One hundred and thirty feet wide, it is frozen for much of the year, a frosty pond in a lonely, snowbound valley. But on warmer days, it delivers a macabre performance, as hundreds of human skeletons, some with flesh still attached, emerge from what has become known as Skeleton Lake. Who were these individuals, and what befell them? One leading idea was that they died simultaneously in a catastrophic event more than 1,000 years ago. An unpublished anthropological survey from several years ago studied five skeletons and estimated they were 1,200 years old. But a new genetic analysis carried out by scientists in India, the United States and Germany has upended that theory. The study, which examined DNA from 38 remains, indicates that there wasn’t just one mass dumping of the dead, but several, spread over a millennium. The report, published Tuesday in Nature Communications, has led to a “far richer view into the possible histories of this site” than previous efforts provided, said Jennifer Raff, a geneticist and anthropologist at the University of Kansas who was not involved with the work. Anthropologists have known about Roopkund Lake for several decades, but little was known about the provenance of its skeletons. Rockslides, migrating ice and even human visitors have disturbed and moved the remains, making it difficult to decipher when and how the individuals were buried, much less who they were. “In a case like this, that becomes
impossible,” said Cat Jarman, a bioarchaeologist at the University of Bristol in England who was not part of the research team. Genetic analysis has helped make some sense of the jumble of bones. The researchers, led in part by Niraj Rai, an expert in ancient DNA at the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences in India, and David Reich, a geneticist at Harvard University, extracted DNA from the remains of dozens of skeletal samples, and managed to identify 23 males and 15 females. Based on populations living today, these individuals fit into three distinct genetic groups. Twenty-three, including males and females, had ancestries typical of contemporary South Asians; their remains were deposited at the lake between the seventh and 10th centuries, and not all at once. Some skeletons were more ancient than others, suggesting that many were interred at the lake lifetimes apart. Then, perhaps 1,000 years or so later, sometime between the 17th and 20th centuries, two more genetic groups suddenly appeared within the lake: one individual of East Asian-related ancestry and, curiously, 14 people of eastern Mediterranean ancestry. How all these individuals met their end is anyone’s guess. There’s no evidence of bacterial infections, so an epidemic was probably not to blame. Perhaps the challenging high-altitude environment proved fatal. The earlier study, of five skeletal samples, found three with unhealed compression fractures, perhaps inflicted by huge hailstones, although that conclusion is open to debate. In any case, across a range of centuries “it’s hard to believe that each individual died in exactly the same
way,” said Éadaoin Harney, a doctoral student at Harvard and the lead author on the study. The individuals included children and elderly adults, but none were family relatives. Chemical signatures from the skeletons indicate that the individuals had significantly different diets, adding support to the notion that several distinct population groups are represented. If accounts of their journeys exist somewhere, none have been uncovered so far. “We have searched all the archives, but no such records were found,” Rai said. The researchers note that Roopkund Lake is situated on a route known to modernday Hindu pilgrims, so perhaps some of the South Asian individuals died while taking part. But that is less likely to explain the presence of individuals from the distant eastern Mediterranean. Perhaps they weren’t actually Mediterranean migrants, Jarman said. Their genetic ancestry resembles that of present-day people from Greece or Crete, but current distribution may not apply to ancient populations. Regardless, this group came from somewhere far from Roopkund Lake, for reasons unknown. Maybe the site held significance for groups with various religious beliefs, Jarman said. Maybe some of the skeletons were brought for burial, possibly to be left in the lake. Or maybe there were ill-fated explorers — driven by a desire to see a spectacular mountain range, killed by their own curiosity. A few answers have begun to emerge, at least. Archaeology is full of such enigmatic sites, Reich said, and when science comes along and digs in, “it enriches the story in immeasurable ways.”
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Today I am happy to presn ent a guest column by Ted Hilscher, New Baltimore Town Historian. Ted played a key n role in the Greene County Historical Society’s acquisition of a rare n 19th century hay press. The society is very grateful for his efforts and those of many n Ted mentions in this others column, particularly the donor Lynn Vanderzee Christie. n
THE VANDERZEE HAY PRESS HAS A NEW HOME n Hilscher By Ted The historic Vanderzee hay press has a new home. n The press once located at the Vanderzee farm on the New Baltimore/Coeymans line has found a permanent home on the n grounds of the Bronck House Museum. This hay press was built by Dederick Agricultural Man chine Works in Albany, and will soon be one of only two operating Dederick presses on public display in North America. n The pressing of hay for sale to the New York City market wasnonce a major source of income for Hudson Valley farmers. According to “The Horse in the n City,” by Clay McShane and Jack A. Tarr, there were 130,000 horses in Manhattan in 1900. It was estimated thatneach horse was eating 12 pounds of hay a day (plus 12
pounds of oats). The hay press was used in the pressing of hay for sale outside the farm, as compared to the modern hay baler developed to increase the amount of hay that can be stored for consumption on the farm. Hay was shipped to the metropolitan area mostly on river barges. New appreciation for hay presses has been growing in recent years. I have learned, through primary sources, of 20 presses once in use in New Baltimore and the neighboring towns of Coxsackie and Coeymans. Hay presses in New Baltimore were known to be at the Vanderzee, Lisk, Van Slyke, Cary, Dietz, Baldwin and H.T. Houghtaling farms. The Waddington brothers, whose farm was just west of town hall where the powerlines cross Route 51, traveled farm-to-farm with a hay press in 1914, according to the Coxsackie Recorder. Hay press owners pressed hay at the farms of Spencer Palmer and Augustus Conrad near Medway in the 1880s and 1890s. Hay presses often were found at railroad stations, such as Claverack, Ghent, Pulver’s Station and Rider’s Mills in Columbia County. Martin Van Buren had an early press at his farm in Kinderhook. The Vanderzee press was rescued through the efforts of many interested persons. Art Byas first became aware of the hay press and secured its gift
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The Vanderzee hay press. Lynn Vanderzee Christie, donor of the Vanderzee hay press, on the left, and New Baltimore Town Historian Ted Hilscher on the right.
from Lynn Vanderzee Christie. During the time the press was being made ready to move, Lynn transferred the farm, which had been in her family for almost 250 years, to her neighbors, the Collins family, who continued to help with the removal of the press from the barn.
One very cold winter, my sons Jack and Cole helped me remove great accumulations of manure and hay from the site of the press and get its moving parts to work for the first time in decades. The Van Etten family was the caretaker of the press for the last seven years. Lee Van Etten made
some repairs to the press, which were necessary for its stability. Rob Van Etten displayed the press each year at the New Baltimore Ag Fest, and then moved the hay press to the Bronck House grounds recently, where the Meadow Ridge Heritage Barn is literally being erected around it. Tom Satterlee and Tim Meier are the masterminds and work horses behind that end of the project. A barn that was once part of the Cornwell farm west of Earlton, built in 1913, was dismantled and is rising again at the Bronck House thanks to Tom and Tim. It is now named Meadow Ridge Heritage Barn in recognition of the strong support of the Greene County Historical Society by Meadow Ridge Farm on Route 385. The Vanderzee hay press dates from 1870, is 17 feet, 11 inches tall, and weighs 6,300 or so pounds. It was purchased that year for $78 when Lynn’s great-grandfather John Vanderzee took down an old Dutch barn and erected a modern two-level bank barn. Inscribed with a knife into a post is “S.T. Nov. 1872.” “Stephen Tompkins” is stenciled in another place on the press. The Tompkins family operated the farm where the Sycamore Golf Course is today. Hay is loaded into the top of the press, on the upper floor of the barn. Loose hay is placed into the top of a vertical
chamber with a moveable floor. The chamber is 35 inches by 57 inches. Once filled, the top of the chamber is covered with boards. The floor is moved through the use of a capstan. The capstan is almost 8 feet high, measuring from the floor, with another almost four feet beneath the floor, and is installed about 12 feet from the press. Beneath the floor boards is a chain that is attached to the base of the capstan. The other end of the chain is attached to a pair of parallel levers. A horse tethered to the capstan walks in a circle, which causes the chain to wrap around the bottom of the capstan. As the chain tightens it pulls one end of the levers from a semihorizontal position to a vertical position, so the other end of the levers push the chamber floor up, pressing the hay. The hay bale weighs 200 pounds, or more when a few rocks are mixed in with the hay. For those of you who can’t wait to see our hay press in action, the only other operating Dederick hay press on public display can be found at the Rough and Tumble Threshermen’s Reunion Aug. 14-17 this week in Kinzers, Pennsylvania. Reach columnist David Dorpfeld at gchistorian@gmail.com or visit him on Facebook at “Greene County Historian.”
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KINGSTON — SUNY Ulster will hold a series of free inforATHENS — A meeting to mation sessions 5:30-8 p.m. plann the 2019 Athens VictoAug. 21 at the Kingston Center rian Stroll will be held at 3 p.m. of SUNY Ulster, 94 Mary’s Ave., Aug. 21 at Athens Cultural Kingston. Participants can Center, 24 Second St., Athens. find out more about a number The planners are looking for of courses SUNY Ulster offers newn ideas for events for this and meet with admissions year’s Athens Victorian Stroll representatives. Ulster BOCES scheduled for Dec. 14. Unafrepresentatives will also be filiated individuals, as well as present at the event to discuss leaders of local organizations, programs. Pre-registration such as the boy scouts and girl is required for the following scouts, PTO, and youth church American Sign Language at groups, are especially encour5:30 p.m.; CASAC at 5:30 p.m.; aged to come and share their Community Music School at thoughts on the Stroll. The 5:30 p.m.; High School Equivhope is to get new ideas and alency Diploma at 5:30 p.m.; bounce them off the other atAdvanced Manufacturing at tendees. If you have any ques6:00 p.m.; Web Development tions or suggestions and are at 6:30 p.m.; Introduction unable to come, call Carol Pfisto Manufacturing at 7 p.m. ter at 518-945-1257. In addition to the KCSU info sessions, there will also be a CAIRO — Cairo Public LiCareer Step Healthcare webibrary, 15 Railroad Ave., Cairo, nar on Aug. 21. Drone Primer will hold Us a bookMake sale 9 a.m.-2 Let Your LifePersonal EZ-er... and Certified Trainer p.m. on Wednesdays through webinars are also available at Aug. 28, weather permitting, in varying times. Pre-registration the sheld behind the library. is required for all webinars. For information and to pre-regisCAIRO — Greene County ter for any of the information Public Health Department sessions or webinars, call 845will hold a rabies clinic 6-8 339-2025, visit www.sunyulp.m. Aug. 21 at the Cairo Firester.edu/ce, or email ceinfo@ house, Railroad Avenue, Cairo. sunyulster.edu. Donations are highly appreciAUG. 22 ated. Vaccination is available for cats, dogs and ferrets. Call TANNERSVILLE — Mounahead for ferrets. If you are tain Top Community Resource feeding a stray cat or dog, be Day will be held 11 a.m.-6 p.m. sure to bring in for vaccination. Aug. 22 at the Mountain Top
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Recently, the West Athens Fire House was burglarized and at least $900 was taken. Mid-Hudson is honored to support the West Athens Firehouse with a donation of $1,000 to help cover their loss. If you have any information about the robbery, contact the State Police or the West Athens Firehouse. If anyone would like to make a contribution, contact the West Athens Firehouse. Pictured are James Reynolds, CEO, Mid-Hudson Cable, left, and James Murphy, President, West Athens Fire Company.
CORNWALLVILLE — The second annual Cornwallville Day will take place 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Aug. 24 in the hamlet. The celebration (rain or shine) will be on the same day as the annual Durham Task Force community-wide yard sale from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Maps with the yard sale locations, as well as the addresses of local artists offering open studios, will be available for $1 in Cornwallville’s Village Center, County Route 20. The program, focusing on the themes of farming and agriculture, will begin at 11 a.m. at the Firehouse in the Village Center. Speakers will include Jerry Cunningham, long-time member of the Durham Town Board, who has been running his family’s farm on Cunningham Road since he was 18. Cunningham will be followed by barn dance music, provided by father-and-son team David Woodin and Jonathan Byron-Woodin, and a talk on foraging by Rob Handel, local mushroom expert and chef at Heather Ridge Farm.
ATHENS — The Greene Land Trust will host a magical adventure for families at 10 a.m. Aug. 24 at the Willows at Brandow Point, 480 County Route 385, Athens. Building a fairy house is a wonderful way for children to use their imaginations and explore the natural world. We will read a book about fairy houses and then explore the habitats at the Willows at Brandow Point where participants will gather natural materials to construct their own fanciful fairy house. While the event is free, registration is required. Call 518-731-5544 to register. TANNERSVILLE — Mountain Top Arboretum hosts Story Time in the Shade 10:3011:30 a.m. Aug. 24 at the Mountain Top Arboretum, 4 Maude Adams Road, Tannersville. Mountain Top Arboretum collaborates with Mountain Top Library for a series of summer story times. Join library staff for a story-filled hour of reading aloud in the Fairy Garden and Outdoor Amphitheater. After the stories get creative with a themed craft to match what was read. In case of inclement weather, story time will be held inside the Arboretum’s Education Center. Admission is free. For information, call 518-5893903.
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ATHENS SENIOR CITIZENS ATHENS — The Athens Senior Citizens meet at 1:15 p.m. the second and fourth Monday of the month at the Rivertown Senior Center, 39 Second St., Athens.
CAIRO GOLDEN AGERS CAIRO — The Cairo Golden Agers meet at 1:30 p.m. the second and fourth Wednesday of the month at the Acra Community Center, Route 23, Acra.
CATSKILL SILVER LININGS SENIORS CATSKILL — The Catskill Silver Linings Seniors meet at 1 p.m. the second Thursday of the month at the Robert C. Antonelli Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill.
COXSACKIE AREA SENIORS COXSACKIE — The Coxsackie Area Seniors meet at 1:30 p.m. the second and fourth Wednesday of the month in Van Heest Hall, Bethany Village, 800 Bethany
Village, West Coxsackie.
SENIOR CITIZENS OF COXSACKIE COXSACKIE — The Senior Citizens of Coxsackie meet at 1:30 p.m. the first and third Monday of the month at the Coxsackie Senior Center, 127 Mansion St., Coxsackie.
GREENVILLE GOLDEN YEARS CLUB GREENVILLE — The Greenville Golden Club meet at 1:30 p.m. the first Wednesday of the month at the American Legion Hall, 54 Maple Ave., Greenville. The Ice Cream Social will be at the Sept. 4 meeting.
MOUNTAIN TOP GOLDEN AGERS TANNERSVILLE — The Mountain Top Golden Agers meet at 1:30 p.m. the fourth Thursday of the month at Tannersville Village Hall, 1 Park Lane, Tannersville.
WAJPL GOLDEN AGERS HENSONVILLE — The WAJPL Golden Agers meet at 1:30 p.m. the first and third Monday of the month at Hensonville Town Building, 371 Route 296, Hensonville.
ACTIVE OLDER ADULT DAY WEST COXSACKIE — The Active Older Adult Day will be held 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Aug. 21 at the Greene County YMCA, 35 Route 81, Hope Plaza, West Coxsackie. A free lunch will be served at noon. RSVP for lunch by Aug. 16 at 518-731-7529 or stop by the front desk. Open
to the community. There will be screenings and resources, raffles and more.
COMMUNITY RESOURCE DAY TANNERSVILLE — Mountain Top Community Resource Day will be held 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Aug. 22 at the Mountain Top Library, 6093 Main St., Tannersville. Sponsored by the Greene County Department for Human Services RSVP. Stop in to learn how area vendors can assist you. For information, call Ruth Jones Pforte at 518-719-3555.
MOVING FOR BETTER BALANCE ACRA — Moving for Better Balance will be held 10-11 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays through Aug. 27 at the Acra Community Center, Senior Nutrition Site, Old Route 23B, Acra. Class size is limited. Preregistration is required and can be made by calling Toni Carroll, wellness coordinator at 518-731-7429.
WATERCOLOR CLASSES ATHENS — Watercolor classes taught by Regine Petrosky will be held 1-3 p.m. six Tuesdays Sept. 17 through Oct. 22 at the Rivertown Senior Center, 39 Second St., Athens. Sign up at the center for classes. Maximum 12 people. Supplies will be provided.
Tuesdays of each month at Bethany Village in Coxsackie. While the loss of a loved one is a common source of grief other reasons include the loss of a job, the death of a beloved pet, experiencing a major health challenge such as cancer and the ending of a relationship. Grief is a very personal and individual emotion. Support groups provide many benefits to those who are grieving. Those who are experiencing grief early on can connect with others in the group who have successfully managed their grief and are further along on their road to feeling happy once again. More information can be found at the face book page at Coxsackie Grief Support Group and also by contacting Jeffrey Haas at 518478-5414 or jhaasrph@aol. com. CATSKILL — The Alzheimer’s Association holds support group meetings at 3 p.m. the first Wednesday of the month at The Pines, Jefferson Heights, Catskill.
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COXSACKIE — The Alzheimer’s Association holds support group meetings at 6 p.m. the third Thursday of the month at Heermance Memorial Library, 1 Ely St., Coxsackie.
COXSACKIE — A grief support group will start meeting at 6 p.m. the second and fourth
CATSKILL — The Pines at Catskill and Columbia
Memorial Health will host a Stroke Survivor and Caregiver monthly support group at 3 p.m. the second Wednesday of the month at The Pines at Catskill Center for Nursing & Rehabilitation, 154 Jefferson Heights, Catskill. For information, call 518-943-5151.
SHOPPING BUS CATSKILL — The Greene County Department of Human Services offers a shopping bus to Greene County residents 60 and older, living in the towns of Ashland, Athens, Cairo, Catskill, Coxsackie, Greenville, Hunter, Jewett, Prattsville and Windham. Seniors are picked up at their door, driven to Catskill for shopping and then have lunch at a local senior center before returning home. Special trips are scheduled periodically. Monday: Mountain Top/ Catskill (Windham, Ashland, Prattsville, Jewett and Hunter). Tuesday: Cairo/Greenville/ Catskill. Wednesday: Athens/Coxsackie. The Shopping Bus does not run on the following holidays: New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Presidents’ Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Election Day (November), Veterans Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas. The trip to Colonie Center
will be Dec. 20. The following is the 2019 trips to Colonie Center. Trips are the third Thursday of the month. The cost is $10. Payment is due at time of departure/boarding. Sept. 19, Oct. 17, Nov. 21, Dec. 19. Reservations must be made no later than 3 p.m. of the Wednesday before the trip. In addition, during snow or ice storms, it may be necessary for us to close our senior service centers because of hazardous driving conditions. When we close the centers, we also cancel our transportation services for the day, which includes the Shopping Bus. Advance notice/reservation required for all shopping bus transportation. For information or to reserve a seat, call Janet at 518-719-3559.
COMMUNITY THANKSGIVING DINNER ATHENS — The Senior Angels’ fourth annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner will be held Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28, at the Rivertown Senior Center, 39 Second St., Athens. Open to all seniors 60 and older. Doors open 11 a.m.; lunch served noon-2 p.m. There will be music, door prizes and conversation over coffee and pie 2-4 p.m. For information, or to donate to help offset costs, contact the Department of Human Services at 518-7193555 and ask to speak to Ken.
Senior Menu CATSKILL — The following is the weekly nutrition menu offered by the Greene County Department of Human Services’ Senior Nutrition Program. Served daily with each meal are bread or alternative with Promise Spread; low fat milk, coffee or tea. All persons 60 and older and their spouses are invited. The suggested donation for each meal is $4. The menu will be the meal that is delivered to all Greene County home bound meal clients. Those wishing to receive lunch at a center are asked to call the respective location at least a day in advance. Rivertown Senior Center, 39 Second St., Athens; 518-9452700. Acra Community Center, Old Route 23B, Cairo; 518-6229898.
Jewett Municipal Building, Route 23C, Jewett; 518-2634392. Washington Irving Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill; 518-943-1343. Town of Coxsackie Senior Center, Mansion Street, Coxsackie; 518-731-8901.
AUG. 21 THROUGH AUG. 28 WEDNESDAY: Meatloaf with gravy, winter squash, mashed potatoes, banana pudding poke cake. THURSDAY: Cold salad plate, seafood pasta salad, macaroni salad, beet salad, sliced tomatoes, chocolate mousse. FRIDAY: Roast beef with gravy, green salad, baked potato, glazed carrots, local farm fresh fruit. MONDAY: Linguini with red clam sauce, spinach, lemon pudding.
TUESDAY: Pork chops with mushroom gravy, applesauce, mashed potatoes, Harvard beets, fruit cocktail. WEDNESDAY: Swedish meatballs, buttered noodles, red cabbage, tropical cake.
AUG. 28 THROUGH SEPT. 4 WEDNESDAY: Swedish meatballs, buttered noodles, red cabbage, tropical cake. THURSDAY: Chicken divan, brown rice, summer squash, fresh peaches. FRIDAY: Cold salad plate, chef’s salad, carrot raisin salad, banana. MONDAY: Closed TUESDAY: Sausage and tortellini with tomato sauce, spinach, chocolate mousse. WEDNESDAY: Roast turkey, gravy, mashed potatoes, mixed vegetables, dressing, peaches.
Fall 2019 Smart Driver course CATSKILL — The fall 2019 Smart Driver course will be held at various locations in Greene County. The cost is $20 for AARP members; $25 for non-members. Drivers must possess a valid state driver’s license. Attendance both days is mandatory. The class meets 1-4:30
p.m. both days. Rivertown Senior Center 39 Second St., Athens, Sept. 4 and Sept. 5; Oct. 23 and Oct. 24. Town of Coxsackie Senior Center, 127 Mansion St., Coxsackie, Sept. 18 and Sept. 19; Oct. 30 and Oct. 31. Acra Community Center, Old Route 23, Acra, Sept. 26
and Sept. 27. Town of Jewett Municipal Building, 3547 County Road 23C, Jewett, Oct. 2 and Oct. 4. For information and to enroll, call the instructor, Mike Pirrone at 518-945-2122; cell 917-656-0425 or kokomike@ hotmail.com.
103rd Holcomb family reunion to be held Aug. 24 in Jewett JEWETT — Opal DeLong, president, announces the 103rd year of the Holcomb Family getting together will be held beginning at 11 a.m. Aug. 24 at the Jewett Church Hall, County Route 17, Jewett. Lunch will be at noon. Members are asked to bring a covered dish to pass. Homer “Cap” and his wife Cora (Rose) were the parents
of 12 children and lived in various places on the mountain top. The many descendants married into, just to name a few, families of Smith, VanValkenburgh, Barker, Spaulding, McCumber, Goodfellow, Oliver, Tompkins, DeLong, Siddall, Lane, Roe, Albert, Cunningham, Terry, Montana, Maynard, Osborn, Murray, Kizma, Buel, Leo, Bevins,
Gossoo, Hermance, Gockel, Cole, Meddaugh, Franz, Perez, Stafford, VanDyke, Sanford, Townley, Yannone, Christiana, Schufelt, German, Brocket, Miltenberger, Snow, Sherburne and Newcomb. Family members are asked to bring any additional information. For information, call Opal at 518-750-8380.
SEPT. 4 THROUGH SEPT. 11 WEDNESDAY: Roast turkey, gravy, mashed potatoes, mixed vegetables, dressing, peaches. THURSDAY: Seafood salad on lettuce, cole slaw, potato salad, yellow cake. FRIDAY: Chef’s choice, broccoli, fresh fruit. MONDAY: Macaroni and cheese, three bean salad, stewed tomatoes, fruit cocktail. TUESDAY: Herb baked fish, red parsley potatoes, California mixed vegetables, pears. WEDNESDAY: Meatloaf, gravy, cauliflower, sweet potatoes, ambrosia.
SEPT. 11 THROUGH SEPT. 18 WEDNESDAY: Meatloaf, gravy, cauliflower, sweet potatoes, ambrosia. THURSDAY: Lemon
chicken, fresh salad, green beans, au gratin potatoes, oatmeal cookies. FRIDAY: Sweet and sour pork, brown rice, broccoli, lemon mousse. MONDAY: Mushroom and Swiss quiche, green beans, hash brown potato, peaches. TUESDAY: Fresh ham, gravy, brussels sprouts, mashed potatoes, apple crisp. WEDNESDAY: Beef pot pie, boiled potato, carrots, birthday spice cake.
SEPT. 18 THROUGH SEPT. 25. WEDNESDAY: Beef pot pie, boiled potato, carrots, birthday spice cake. THURSDAY: Salmon with dill sauce, brown rice pilaf, broccoli, butterscotch pudding. FRIDAY: Roast chicken with gravy, green salad, braised cabbage, sweet potato, fresh
farm apples. MONDAY: Chili con carne, brown rice, wax beans, lemon whip. TUESDAY: Chicken and biscuits, cold beet salad, parsley boiled potatoes, California mixed vegetables, pineapple delight. WEDNESDAY: Beef burgundy, buttered noodles, broccoli, fruit cocktail.
SEPT. 25 THROUGH OCT. 2 WEDNESDAY: Beef burgundy, buttered noodles, broccoli, fruit cocktail. THURSDAY: Meatloaf with gravy, mashed potatoes, spinach puff, fresh pears. FRIDAY: Baked ziti with cheese, fresh green salad, Italian mixed vegetables, fruited gelatin. MONDAY: Herbed fish, roasted red potatoes, carrots, mandarin oranges.
Adult Learning Institute announces August programming HUDSON — The Adult Learning Institute has announced its programs for August. All programs are held at Columbia-Greene Community College, 4400 Route 23, Hudson. Call the ALI Office 518-828-4181 ext. 3431 or email ali@sunycgcc.edu to register. Bridge Group with Bridge Lessons 1:30-4 p.m. Aug. 27 in the Faculty/Staff Lounge. The bridge group generally meets every week and is open to all members of ALI. If you are interested in learning to play bridge or just need to brush up on your skills, a “beginner” bridge class is offered. Call Barbara in the ALI
Office to register for a beginner or refresher class. Mahjongg 1:30-4 p.m. Aug. 28 in theFaculty/Staff Lounge with Barbara Troy. Mahjongg is a rummy-like game played with tiles rather than cards, and the group meets three Wednesdays each month. If you are an experienced player, just call the office and let Barbara know you will be attending. If you are interested in learning to play Mahjongg, contact the ALI Office and your name will be placed on the list for the next beginner class. Listen & Learn: Hudson Chatham Winery 10:30 a.m.noon Aug. 22 in the Faculty/
Staff Lounge with Dominque DeVito. ALI is pleased to have Dominque DeVito from The Hudson Chatham Winery on hand to educate participants about local wines. Meet the founders of Columbia County’s first winery and learn how they started growing grapes and making wine. The Hudson Chatham Winery was started in Ghent in 2006 by Carlo and Dominique DeVito. All attendees will receive a coupon for a free wine tasting at the winery. Listen and Learn is open to the public. Call 518-828-4181, Ext. 3431 or email ali@sunycgcc.edu to reserve your spot for this presentation.
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seeking legal permanent residency in the United States, criteria that will skew the process in favor of highly skilled, highincome immigrants. Under the new interpretation, wealth, education, age and English-language skills will take on greater importance in the green card review process. U.S. immigration law has longstanding provisions to screen out foreigners who might be a burden on society, but the rule change amounts to an expansion of the government’s definition of “public charge” — and who is deemed likely to become one. Kenneth Cuccinelli, acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, said at a White House briefing that his agency is seeking to bring precision to an existing tenet of law that has lacked a clear definition. “Through the public charge rule, President Trump’s administration is reinforcing the ideals of self-sufficiency and personal responsibility, ensuring that immigrants are able to support themselves and become successful here in America,” said Cuccinelli, evoking his own family’s Italian ancestry to characterize previous generations of immigrants as bootstrappullers. “This administration is promoting our shared history and encouraging the core values needed to make the American dream a reality.” “I think the president is right,” said Charlotte Williams, of Hudson. “If they want to come here, they should be willing to work
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Kenneth Cuccinelli, acting director of the Citizenship and Immigration Services, announced Aug. 12 that the administration will penalize legal immigrants who rely on public programs, such as food stamps and government-subsidized housing, as part of a sweeping new policy. New York and three other states have filed suit against the change.
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and not depend on society to take care of them.” Several states have joined New York in the lawsuit, including Connecticut and Vermont, James said Tuesday. “The public charge rule is a partisan scheme to vilify immigrants who — like generations of families before them — seek
support to lift their families out of poverty. We are talking about access to doctors, healthy food and safe housing — the most basic foundations that kids need to grow and thrive,” Connecticut Attorney General William Tong said. The three-state coalition argues that the Department
of Homeland Security’s definition of the rule “disregards clear congressional intent, and a century’s worth of case law” that stipulates immigrants who use basic, non-cash benefits are not public charges because they do not primarily depend on the government, Tong said. “It’s really critically important that we welcome to these shores immigrants of all economic statuses and it’s important that we understand that we welcome to these shores immigrants who are not just rich, but immigrants who are also poor,” James said. “This country is about equality for all individuals.” The public charge rule has applied only to individuals “primarily dependent on the government for support over the long term” for the past 130 years, James said. “We intend to uphold that standard,” James said. Hasan Shafiqullah, attorneyin-charge of the Legal Aid Society’s Immigration Law Unit, said at the press conference that the stricter interpretation of the public charge rule penalizes low-income immigrants. “The Trump administration is attempting to fundamentally transform our country from a nation that welcomes people from all backgrounds and who work hard to achieve a better life, to one that is rigged only in favor of the wealthy,” Shafiqullah said. “We must not allow this administration to demonize and punish low-income immigrants for accessing the basic benefits that they are legally entitled to.” The new rule is expected to take effect Oct. 15. The Washington Post News Service contributed to this report.
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Feml said. “Embers dripped down off the wires and caught the rubber roof on fire.” The church expressed its gratitude on its website for the quick thinking that helped keep the children safe. “[We] are thankful to God for the amazing staff that evacuated the children from the building in approximately 90 seconds,” according to the church’s statement. “[We] are thankful to the Cairo Fire Department which responded so promptly and extinguished the burning in the rubber roof. [We] are thankful to the parents who picked up their children from VBS in the middle of fire trucks.” Vacation Bible School is a five-day non-denominational program for children from age three through 6th grade to learn about God with interactive games,
songs, crafts and other activities, according to the church’s website. Youth from 7th grade and up who are members of the Resurrection Lutheran Church or other local churches can serve as teaching assistants in the program. Ironically, the fire coincided with the theme of Monday’s lesson, Nelson said. “The theme happened to be ‘Life is wild, but God is good,” Nelson said. “We had a wild first day but God was good and no one got hurt.” The roof was repaired Monday, Feml said, but restoring power to the church building may take longer. Vacation Bible School was closed Tuesday as electrical repairs were made. The church expects to hold classes again on Wednesday, according to the statement. Cairo Fire Department, Cairo Ambulance and state police responded to the scene. Round Top Fire Department was placed on stand-by.
A top House Democrat favors an impeachment inquiry Amber Phillips The Washington Post
Congress isn’t in session, but over the past month, more than two dozen House Democrats including on Monday the No. 4 House Democrat, Rep. Ben Ray Luján, N.M., - are publicly saying they support an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump. The top three leaders still haven’t. “I support moving forward with an impeachment inquiry, which will continue to uncover the facts for the American people and hold this president accountable,” Luján said in a statement Monday, citing the report by former special counsel Robert Mueller. What’s going on? To some extent, these lawmakers are getting themselves over to where reality is. An impeachment inquiry is already happening and has been for weeks, according to court filings by the House Judiciary Committee and recently confirmed by its chairman, Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y. “This is formal impeachment proceedings,” he told CNN on Aug. 8. We are still trying to figure out what that means practically for Nadler’s committee, which takes the lead on impeachment. Will they write up articles of impeachment as soon as Congress is back in session in September?
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react as much with chlorine,” Seeley said. THMs, or Trihalomethanes, form a group of four chemicals that is created from that reaction and are used as an indicator of water quality, according to water-research.net. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency guideline for THMs is 80 micrograms per liter. The grant application, which is being prepared by Delaware Engineering, is due in September, Seeley said. Due to aging infrastructure and challenging weather conditions throughout the year, the village Department of Public Works has been battling discolored water caused by a combination of heavy rainfall
Or will they continue much the same as before Nadler said the “i” word: battle with Trump over witnesses and documents to hold hearings and not ever hold a vote on impeachment? Some House Democratic aides close to the process told The Washington Post that they aren’t sure either. Of the Democrats who have recently supported an impeachment inquiry, it’s likely they also want to be where the majority of the caucus is. Of the 235 House Democrats, a Post tally finds 125 support an impeachment inquiry, which is well more than half. We reached the halfway mark just days after lawmakers went home for a month-long break a historic moment in itself that underscored just how unstoppable this movement has been since the Mueller report was released in April. For Luján, who holds a powerful position in House leadership and is someone a number of newly elected Democrats look to for guidance, there was no one thing in particular that tipped him to an impeachment inquiry. He’s been there for a while, a senior Luján aide told The Post, but he didn’t want to get out in front of moderate House Democrats he helped elect last year as head of House Democrats’ campaign arm. “Now was just the right time,” said the aide.
and water main breaks. Many of the breaks occurred in subzero temperatures. In February the board approved a $250,000 bond to replace one of the filters at the water plant and purchase new water meters and new billing software to improve service for customers. “This work is crucial to continue the development of Catskill,” Seeley said, alluding to the water main and filtration improvements. “We won’t be capable of expanding the system without making an upgrade.” The bond, which was issued through the Bank of Greene County, will be repaid in quarterly payments of $15,000 for five years. To accommodate the debt service, the village will raise water rates by 10% in the third quarter, Seeley said.
He’s the highest-ranking House Democrat to support it, but he’s also not the first member of House Democrats’ leadership to go on the record about it and thus directly oppose concerns of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. Reps. Katherine Clark, D-Mass., and David Cicilline, D-R.I., already have done so. Luján is also leaving the House to run for Senate next year. (Luján’s aide said this didn’t factor into his decision. New Mexico, a purple-blue state, isn’t necessarily clamoring for impeachment, and Luján does have a primary challenger from the left, but she isn’t well funded.) For the 26 lawmakers who
have said they support an inquiry since Congress took off in late July, going back home for an extended period and hearing from their constituents seems to have convinced them it’s the right thing to do or at least given them the confidence to say so. There’s evidence that those who support impeachment are more likely to get a hold of their lawmakers and let them know. Rep. Katie Hill, D-Calif., doesn’t (she’s a Pelosi ally) support impeachment, but The Post reported in June that her office “is drowning in calls urging her to press for impeachment, even while representing a Republican-leaning district that is home to the Ronald Reagan library.”
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HUDSON — Mother Nature intervened at Saturday’s first For the Culture Basketball Tournament at Oakdale Beach. After the first round of games were completed, rain and lightning forced cancellation of the remainder of the tournament, tourney organizer Caleb Canty said. Despite the early stoppage, Canty was pleased with the way the tournament came together. “I think the event was a success,” Canty said. “I think if the rain didn’t start, once it cooled down even more people would’ve came.” Canty admitted there were a few minor things that need to be ironed out in the future. “If I could do something different it’d definitely be planning and getting an inside gym, just in case of bad weather.” The basketball tournament was the second event in three weeks put together by former Hudson High student-athletes. Mike Alert hosted the first Hudson Kickball Showdown on August 3 at Galvan Field. “I think it means a lot to the city, especially to see two young guys who grew up here trying to do something big for the community (my brother Mike with the kickball tournament). Canty is hoping to see more events of this nature take place
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Above, Keiland Cross handles the ball during Saturday’s first For the Culture Basketball Tournament at Oakdale Beach. TIM MARTIN/COLUMBIA-GREENE MEDIA
Right, Jayshawn Williams drives to the basket during Saturday’s first For the Culture Basketball Tournament at Oakdale Beach.
in Hudson. “I feel real good about it,” Canty said. “During basketball season the whole city shows a lot of love, but the amount of love they showed for the event
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Caleb Canty drives the lane during Saturday’s first For the Culture Basketball Tournament at Oakdale Beach.
A SEASON TO REMEMBER
Al Jackson, pitching star of 1960s Mets, dies at 83 Richard Goldstein The New York Times News Service
Al Jackson, the slender left-hander whose pitching provided a semblance of hope for the historically woeful New York Mets of the early 1960s, died on Monday in Port St. Lucie, Florida. He was 83. His death was announced by the Mets, who did not specify the cause. Jackson had a stroke in 2015. The 1962 Mets, an expansion team in its first season, won 40 games and lost a record 120, but Little Al Jackson, as he was known — he was 5 feet 10 and weighed about 165 pounds — was a bright spot. He threw all four of the
Mets’ shutouts that season, among them a one-hitter. He won eight games and lost 20 for a team that finished in 10th place, but he did not lead the team in losses. The former Dodger right-hander Roger Craig, also victimized by the Mets’ dreary lineup, went 10-24. Throwing breaking balls along with fastballs, Jackson was a mainstay for the Mets through their first four seasons. He then was traded to the St. Louis Cardinals and was a member of their pennant-winning 1967 team. Jackson pitched for the Mets again in 1968 and briefly at the beginning of their “Miracle” season of 1969, when
they rose up to become World Series champions. He was later a pitching coach and instructor, mostly in the Mets organization. Jackson was a cheerful sort, but when he took part in Old-Timers’ Day at Shea Stadium in June 1972, the memory of his many frustrating outings continued to vex him. “How do I explain to my kids what losing was like?” he lamented. “Every time you put on a uniform you want to win, but something would always happen to us.” Jackson’s most remarkable outing See JACKSON B6
Michael Phelps confident he is still No. 1 Karen Crouse The New York Times News Service
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Darren Weaver was named the Hudson Little League Minor Division Most Valuable Player at the league’s annual end-of-theseason banquet on Saturday. Weaver batted .900 and struck out more than 50 batters in 22 innings pitched.
A plaintive voice on the other end of the line was clearly distraught over the loss of a cherished possession. It was late at night at the world swimming championships in Gwangju, South Korea, but the breakfast hour halfway around the world where Michael Phelps, his pregnant wife, Nicole, and their two sons, Boomer, 3, and Beckett, 1, were vacationing. I had phoned Phelps from South Korea for his reaction to losing his 100-meter butterfly world record to the American Caeleb Dressel last month. Kristof Milak, a 19-year-old from Hungary, had shattered Phelps’ world record in the 200 butterfly earlier in the meet. Phelps was once the master See PHELPS B6
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Michael Phelps comes off the block at the start of the men’s 200-meter butterfly final during the 2016 Summer Olympics at the Olympic Aquatics Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Aug. 9, 2016.
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B2 Wednesday, August 21, 2019 AMERICAN LEAGUE East W L Pct GB NY Yankees 83 43 .659 — Tampa Bay 73 53 .579 10.0 Boston 67 59 .532 16.0 Toronto 52 75 .409 31.5 Baltimore 39 86 .312 43.5 Central W L Pct GB Minnesota 76 49 .608 — Cleveland 74 51 .592 2.0 Chi. White Sox 56 68 .452 19.5 Kansas City 45 80 .360 31.0 Detroit 37 85 .303 37.5 West W L Pct GB Houston 80 46 .635 — Oakland 71 53 .573 8.0 LA Angels 62 64 .492 18.0 Texas 60 64 .484 19.0 Seattle 53 73 .421 27.0 Sunday’s games Boston 13, Baltimore 7 Cleveland 8, NY Yankees 4 Seattle 7, Toronto 0 Tampa Bay 5, Detroit 4 Minnesota 6, Texas 3 LA Angels 9, Chi. White Sox 2 Houston 4, Oakland 1 Monday’s games Kansas City 5, Baltimore 4 Seattle 9, Tampa Bay 3 LA Angels at Texas, 8:05 p.m. Houston 5, Detroit 4 Chi. White Sox 6, Minnesota 4 Tuesday’s games LA Angels (Heaney 2-3) at Texas (Burke 0-0), 2:05 p.m. Kansas City (Keller 7-13) at Baltimore (Bundy 5-13), 7:05 p.m. Seattle (TBD) at Tampa Bay (TBD), 7:10 p.m. LA Angels (TBD) at Texas (Palumbo 0-1), 8:05 p.m. Detroit (Turnbull 3-11) at Houston (Sanchez 2-0), 8:10 p.m. Chi. White Sox (Lopez 7-10) at Minnesota (Pineda 8-5), 8:10 p.m. NY Yankees (German 16-2) at Oakland (Bailey 3-2), 10:07 p.m.
NATIONAL LEAGUE East W L Pct GB Atlanta 74 52 .587 — Washington 68 56 .548 5.0 Philadelphia 64 60 .516 9.0 NY Mets 64 60 .516 9.0 Miami 45 78 .366 27.5 Central W L Pct GB St. Louis 66 57 .537 — Chi. Cubs 66 58 .532 .5 Milwaukee 64 61 .512 3.0 Cincinnati 58 66 .468 8.5 Pittsburgh 51 73 .411 15.5 West W L Pct GB LA Dodgers 82 44 .651 — San Francisco 63 62 .504 18.5 Arizona 62 63 .496 19.5 San Diego 59 65 .476 22.0 Colorado 57 67 .460 24.0 Sunday’s games San Diego 3, Philadelphia 2 St. Louis 5, Cincinnati 4 Atlanta 5, LA Dodgers 3 Washington 16, Milwaukee 8 Colorado 7, Miami 6, 10 innings Arizona 6, San Francisco 1 Chi. Cubs 7, Pittsburgh 1 Monday’s games Washington 13, Pittsburgh 0 San Diego 3, Cincinnati 2 St. Louis 3, Milwaukee 0 Colorado at Arizona, 9:40 p.m. Tuesdays’ games Washington (Strasburg 15-5) at Pittsburgh (Archer 3-9), 7:05 p.m. San Diego (Quantrill 6-3) at Cincinnati (Gray 8-6), 7:10 p.m. Miami (Hernandez 2-5) at Atlanta (Keuchel 3-5), 7:20 p.m. Milwaukee (Gonzalez 2-1) at St. Louis (Wacha 6-6), 7:45 p.m. San Francisco (Beede 3-7) at Chi. Cubs (Hamels 6-4), 8:05 p.m. Colorado (Freeland 3-10) at Arizona (Young 4-3), 9:40 p.m. Interleague Sunday’s game NY Mets 11, Kansas City 5 Tuesday’s games Philadelphia (Nola 11-3) at Boston (TBD), 7:10 p.m. Cleveland (Bieber 12-5) at NY Mets (Matz 7-7), 7:10 p.m. Toronto (Reid-Foley 2-3) at LA Dodgers (Kershaw 12-2), 10:10 p.m.
Youth baseball LITTLE LEAGUE WORLD SERIES At South Williamsport, Pa. UNITED STATES NEW ENGLAND: Barrington (R.I.); MID-ATLANTIC: Elizabeth (N.J.); SOUTHEAST: South Riding (Va.); GREAT LAKES: Bowling Green (Ky.); MIDWEST: Coon Rapids (Minn.); SOUTHWEST: River Ridge (La.); NORTHWEST: Salem (Ore.); WEST: Wailuku (Hawaii). INTERNATIONAL ASIA/PACIFIC: South Chungcheong (South Korea); AUSTRALIA: Sydney; CANADA: Coquitlam (British Columbia); CARIBBEAN: Willemstad (Curacao); EUROPE/AFRICA: Bologna (Italy); JAPAN: Chofu City; LATIN AMERICA: Maracaibo (Venezuela); MEXICO, Guadalupe Double Elimination Thursday, Aug. 15 Willemstad (Curacao) 11, Sydney (Australia) 0, 4 innings Friday, Aug. 16 South Riding (Va.) 3, Barrington (R.I.) 0 South Chungcheong (South Korea) 10, Maracaibo (Venezuela) 3 Coon Rapids (Minn.) 2, Bowling Green (Ky.) 1 Chofu City (Japan) 20, Bologna (Italy) 0, 5 innings Wailuku (Hawaii) 5, River Ridge (La.) 2 Guadalupe (Mexico) 5, Coquitlam (British Columbia) 0 Elizabeth (N.J.), 6, Salem (Ore.) 2 Saturday, Aug. 17 Maracaibo (Venezuela) 2, Sydney (Australia) 0, Sydney eliminated Barrington (R.I.) 6, Bowling Green (Ky.) 1, Bowling Green eliminated Coquitlam (British Columbia) 10, Bologna (Italy) 0, 4 innings, Bologna eliminated River Ridge (La.) 3, Salem (Ore.) 2, Salem eliminated Sunday South Chungcheong (South Korea) 4, Willemstad (Curacao) 0 South Riding (Va.) 11, Coon Rapids (Minn.) 0 Chofu City (Japan) 5, Guadalupe (Mexico) 0 Monday Bowling Green (Ky.) 4, Sydney (Australia) 1 Wailuku (Hawaii) 6, Elizabeth (N.J.) 0 Maracaibo (Venezuela) 8, Guadalupe (Mexico) 7, Mexico eliminated Willemstad (Curacao) 8, Coquitlam (British Columbia) 1, Canada eliminated Game 20: River Ridge (La.) 10, Coon Rapids (Minn.) 0, Coon Rapids eliminated Tuesday Game B: Bologna (Italy) vs. Salem (Ore.), 11 a.m. Game 21: Maracaibo (Venezuela) vs. Willemstad (Curacao), 3 p.m. Game 18: Barrington (R.I.) vs. Elizabeth (N.J.), 7:30 p.m. Wednesday Game 22: Game 18 winner vs. River Ridge (La.), 11 a.m. Game 23: South Chungcheong (South Korea) vs. Chofu City (Japan), 3 p.m. Game 24: South Riding (Va.) vs. Wailuku (Hawaii), 7:30 p.m. Thursday Game 25: Game 21 winner vs. Game 23 loser, 3 p.m. Game 26: Game 22 winner vs. Game 24 loser, 7 p.m. Saturday Game 27: Game 23 winner vs. Game 25 winner (International final), 12:30 p.m. Game 28: Game 24 winner vs. Game 26 winner (U.S. final), 3:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 25 Third Place Game 29: Game 27 loser vs. Game 28 loser, 10 a.m. Championship Game 30: Game 27 winner vs. Game 28 winner, 3 p.m.
Pro football NFL PRESEASON American Football Conference East W L T Pct PF New England 2 0 01.000 53 Buffalo 2 0 01.000 51 Miami 1 1 0 .500 48 N.Y. Jets 1 1 0 .500 44 South W L T Pct PF Houston 1 1 0 .500 56 Tennessee 1 1 0 .500 44 Indianapolis 0 2 0 .000 34 Jacksonville 0 2 0 .000 10 North
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W L T Pct PF 2 0 01.000 47 2 0 01.000 55 2 0 01.000 51 1 1 0 .500 40 West W L T Pct PF Oakland 2 0 01.000 47 Denver 1 1 0 .500 28 Kansas City 1 1 0 .500 45 L.A. Chargers 0 2 0 .000 30 National Football Conference East W L T Pct PF N.Y. Giants 2 0 01.000 63 Dallas 1 1 0 .500 23 Philadelphia 1 1 0 .500 34 Washington 0 2 0 .000 23 South W L T Pct PF Carolina 1 1 0 .500 37 New Orleans 1 1 0 .500 44 Tampa Bay 1 1 0 .500 44 Atlanta 0 3 0 .000 47 North W L T Pct PF Minnesota 2 0 01.000 59 Green Bay 1 1 0 .500 41 Chicago 0 2 0 .000 26 Detroit 0 2 0 .000 26 West W L T Pct PF Arizona 1 1 0 .500 43 San Francisco 1 0 01.000 17 Seattle 1 1 0 .500 41 L.A. Rams 0 2 0 .000 13 Preseason Week 2 Thursday, Aug. 15 Philadelphia 24, Jacksonville 10 N.Y. Jets 22, Atlanta 10 Cincinnati 23, Washington 13 Baltimore 26, Green Bay 13 Oakland 33, Arizona 26 Friday, Aug. 16 Buffalo 27, Carolina 14 N.Y. Giants 32, Chicago 13 Tampa Bay 16, Miami 14 Saturday, Aug. 17 Cleveland 21, Indianapolis 18 New England 22, Tennessee 17 Pittsburgh 17, Kansas City 7 Houston 30, Detroit 23 Dallas 14, L.A. Rams 10 Sunday’s games New Orleans 19, L.A. Chargers 17 Minnesota 25, Seattle 19 Monday’s game San Francisco 24, Denver 15
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Auto racing MONSTER ENERGY CUP SERIES POINTS LEADERS Through Saturday 1. Kyle Busch, 932 points 2. Joey Logano, 893 3. Denny Hamlin, 855 4. Martin Truex Jr., 838 5. Kevin Harvick, 830 6. Brad Keselowski, 794 7. Chase Elliott, 757 8. Kurt Busch, 741 9. Ryan Blaney, 686 10. Alex Bowman, 675 11. Kyle Larson, 665 12. William Byron, 664 13. Aric Almirola, 654 14. Erik Jones, 646 15. Ryan Newman, 603 16. Daniel Suarez, 591 17. Clint Bowyer, 589 18. Jimmie Johnson, 565 19. Paul Menard, 520 20. Chris Buescher, 506 21. Ricky Stenhouse Jr., 479 22. Matt DiBenedetto, 438 23. Austin Dillon, 427 24. Ty Dillon, 400 25. Daniel Hemric, 369 26. Ryan Preece, 318 27. Darrell Wallace Jr., 304 28. Michael McDowell, 303 29. Corey LaJoie, 279 30. David Ragan, 257 31. Matt Tifft, 253 32. Quin Houff, 71 33. Reed Sorenson, 68 34. JJ Yeley, 38 35. Jamie McMurray, 19 36. Austin Theriault, 10 37. Andy Seuss, 9 38. Stanton Barrett, 2 39. Casey Mears, 1
XFINITY SERIES POINTS LEADERS Through Saturday 1. Tyler Reddick, 978 points 2. Christopher Bell, 924 3. Cole Custer, 839 4. Justin Allgaier, 819 5. Austin Cindric, 785 6. Chase Briscoe, 742 7. Noah Gragson, 728 8. Michael Annett, 695 9. Justin Haley, 661 10. John Hunter Nemechek, 653 11. Brandon Jones, 609 12. Ryan Sieg, 591 13. Gray Gaulding, 494 14. Jeremy Clements, 454 15. Brandon Brown, 418 16. Ray Black II, 352 17. Josh Williams, 336 18. Garrett Smithley, 330 19. Stephen Leicht, 308 20. BJ McLeod, 265 21. Matt Mills, 258 22. Vinnie Miller, 254 23. David Starr, 247 24. Zane Smith, 217 25. Joey Gase, 195 26. Timmy Hill, 194 27. Jeffrey Earnhardt, 187 28. Chad Finchum, 176 29. Tommy Joe Martins, 145 30. Shane Lee, 133 31. Ryan Truex, 111 32. Josh Bilicki, 110 33. Mike Harmon, 108 34. Jeb Burton, 99 35. Landon Cassill, 99 36. Ronnie Bassett Jr, 99 37. Kaz Grala, 88 38. Jeff Green, 85 39. Alex Labbe, 72 40. Chris Cockrum, 51 41. Tyler Matthews, 45 42. AJ Allmendinger, 42 43. Stefan Parsons, 41 44. Will Rodgers, 34 45. Scott Heckert, 34 46. Dillon Bassett, 34 47. Jack Hawksworth, 32 48. Joe Graf Jr, 32 49. Cody Ware, 32 50. Max Tullman, 27
GANDER OUTDOOR TRUCK SERIES POINTS LEADERS Through Saturday 1. Grant Enfinger, 699 points 2. Brett Moffitt, 673 3. Matt Crafton, 640 4. Stewart Friesen, 639 5. Ben Rhodes, 576 6. Harrison Burton, 549 7. Todd Gilliland, 523 8. Sheldon Creed, 518 9. Austin Hill, 512 10. Johnny Sauter, 479 11. Tyler Dippel, 384 12. Tyler Ankrum, 359 13. Ross Chastain, 320 14. Jordan Anderson, 287 15. Gus Dean, 287 16. Spencer Boyd, 259 17. Brennan Poole, 248 18. Jennifer Jo Cobb, 212 19. Natalie Decker, 201 20. Austin Wayne Self, 197 21. Anthony Alfredo, 172 22. Josh Reaume, 162 23. Christian Eckes, 157 24. Cory Roper, 136 25. Jesse Little, 129 26. Austin Wayne Self, 128 27. Norm Benning, 126 28. Chandler Smith, 120 29. Joe Nemechek, 116 30. Raphael Lessard, 108
NTT DATA INDYCAR POINTS LEADERS Through Sunday 1. Josef Newgarden, 535 points 2. Alexander Rossi, 500 3. Simon Pagenaud, 495 4. Scott Dixon, 483 5. Will Power, 407 6. Ryan Hunter-Reay, 344 7. Graham Rahal, 334 8. Takuma Sato, 331 9. Felix Rosenqvist, 304 10. Sebastien Bourdais, 300 11. James Hinchcliffe, 297 12. Santino Ferrucci, 291 13. Spencer Pigot, 278 14. Colton Herta, 259 15. Marcus Ericsson, 237 16. Marco Andretti, 233 17. Tony Kanaan, 223 18. Zach Veach, 223 19. Matheus Leist, 198 20. Ed Jones, 187
Suarez back in NASCAR Playoffs mix Field Level Media
He’s back. While much of the NASCAR community has been crunching numbers, making predictions and reviewing the statistical background of veterans Ryan Newman, Clint Bowyer and Jimmie Johnson in an effort to figure out which two would earn the final positions in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs, StewartHaas Racing’s Daniel Suarez has quietly and efficiently added his name to the mix. In fact, after earning his second straight top-10 on Saturday night under the Bristol Motor Speedway lights, the 27-yearold Mexico-born driver and 2016 NASCAR Xfinity Series champion has stepped over some of these veteran favorites and assumed his position in the title hunt. After a fifth place at Michigan a week ago, followed by an eighth place at Bristol on Saturday night – plus some wellneeded stage points and some extraordinary poor luck suffered by other Playoffs hopefuls – and Suarez has found himself ranked 16th in the standings with two races remaining to set the 16-driver Playoffs field. In the last three races Suarez has outperformed and out-earned his veteran Stewart-Haas Racing teammate Clint Bowyer and seven-time champion Jimmie Johnson, who are ranked 17th and 18th respectively as the series takes an “offweek” before the final two regular season races at Darlington, S.C., on Sept. 1 and Indianapolis on Sept. 8. Suarez trails 15th-place Ryan Newman by 12 points. He has a two-point edge on teammate Bowyer and a 26-point advantage on Johnson. “I feel like that (stage points) was probably the biggest thing of the day,” Suarez said of his team’s Bristol top-10. “I feel like that was an amazing call from my crew chief Billy Scott and I’m proud of that call. We have to just keep making those decisions.” Decision-making, fast cars and decent luck will be important at the last two regular season venues – Darlington Raceway and Indianapolis Motor Speedway. They are both widely-considered among the most challenging tracks in auto racing. Suarez has had some trouble adjusting to the Darlington nuances, notching finishes of 38th and 29th in his only starts at the 1.366-mile track known as being “Too Tough To Tame.” He’s been better at Indianapolis with finishes of seventh and 18th
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NASCAR Cup Series driver Daniel Suarez (41) looks on during practice for the Consumers Energy 400 at Michigan Speedway.
in his only previous starts at the massive 2.5-mile speedway. He’s yet to lead a lap at either place. Among those in this four-driver mix, Johnson is the only driver with multiple victories at both Darlington and Indianapolis. He has three wins at Darlington and 12 top-10 finishes in 20 starts. His 551 laps led are also the most among this foursome. He suffered a DNF there last year, however. His last top 10 was a third-place finish in 2014. Johnson, driver of the No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet, has four wins at Indianapolis and seven top-10s in 17 starts. Johnson was runner-up in 2013 and third in 2016, his last top-10. Newman, driver of the No. 6 Roush-Fenway Racing Ford, is the only other driver of the four with a win at one of the final regular-season venues. He hasn’t hoisted a trophy at Darlington, but he does have an impressive 13 top-10 finishes in 20 starts there, including a runner-up finish in his second career start in 2005. He was 19th there last fall and had a pair of top-five finishes in the two races just prior. Indianapolis, however, was the site of one Newman’s most celebrated victories. He won from the pole position in 2013. He has top-10 finishes in the last two races, including a 10th last year. Bowyer, Suarez’s SHR teammate and
driver of the No. 14 Ford, is hoping for a change of fortune at Darlington, where he has only a single top-10 finish in 13 starts. He crashed and finished 36th last year and was 40th with an engine problem in 2017. He’s led 16 career laps at Darlington – all coming in the 2007 Spring race when he won the pole position and earned his only top 10 (ninth place). Indianapolis has been better for Bowyer. He has four top-10 finishes in 13 races – three of those being top-five finishes. He finished fifth last year and led 37 of his career 43 laps total. With so much expectation – personally and from his team – Suarez acknowledged that he’s managing his emotions, even as he is genuinely enthusiastic about his playoff hopes. “I try to go like my normal weeks, but there is always that little pressure, especially since (the media) are always talking about it and reminding me of the bubble and the points and all that, which I think is good,” Suarez said. “I have never been in this position before, where I actually was this close to be in the Playoffs. I don’t feel like I’ve ever been in the position where I feel as strong with my team, actually. I feel right now I really want to make the Playoffs because I feel we have a good team. We can perform strong once we are in.”
Does anyone understand the NBA salary cap? Sopan Deb The New York Times News Service
To be even a casual NBA fan in 2019 means having to become a quasi-accountant or a lawyer to decipher how the league’s salary cap works. It means understanding the difference between a soft cap and a hard cap, or the mid-level exception vs. the biannual exception. There’s the Gilbert Arenas Provision, which is not to be confused with the Derrick Rose Rule, and definitely not the Allan Houston Rule. The league’s collective bargaining agreement is arguably the most complex in professional American sports, and it spurs the most movement of elite players between teams. So if you have trouble understanding how it all happens, imagine what it’s like being in the NBA’s salary cap group, the division of roughly 10 staffers who make sure the teams follow the rules. (To that end, the NBA began investigating whether teams broke rules this summer with perks offered to free agents.) The lawyers, former consultants and data analysts who enforce the intricate system serve as a continual resource for teams looking at their own cap situation: Do we have the space to sign X player? Or trade for Y? How many picks are needed? Can we sign Z without trading X first? This pod does the front office equivalent of setting screens: their plays don’t show up on the stat sheets but are crucial to the league’s results. “It’s a 650-page agreement, and you have 30 teams who are thinking about new and interesting ways to do things,” said Katelyn Cannella West, the senior director and associate counsel for player matters. Some teams rely on the group more than others. Many used to relegate cap duties to their chief financial officer. “I felt like I had a really good grasp of the cap back in 1996,
when I was still coaching the Phoenix Suns,” said Danny Ainge, the president of basketball operations for the Boston Celtics. “Obviously, a lot of rules have changed so we consult with the league periodically.” A big misconception, members of the league’s cap group said, is that when news of a trade breaks, the transaction is complete. For a trade to be official, there must be a trade call, a conference call between the involved teams and the cap group. Sometimes, the group learns about deals weeks ahead of time as they are consulted about possible structures. “That’s unusual, but it happens,” said David Weiss, a vice president and assistant general counsel for the group. The day of the trade deadline is “a higher stress day than most days,” said Andy Taub, who has helped lead the cap group for more than two decades. Few league officials have been with the NBA as long as Taub, who is unknown to many fans but crucial in shaping how they experience the game. Having an encyclopedic knowledge of the collective bargaining agreement is less important than attention to detail, Taub said. (He happens to have both.) “If we gave the wrong advice to a team and a team acted on it, it would be on ESPN fast,” Taub said. Much of the group’s tasks delve into minutiae. For example, Tony Leotti, a senior director and lawyer for the group, tracks days off for players, who are entitled to 18 during each regular season. Leotti helps teams decide what constitutes a day off: Can a player who sits out a practice show up to the facility to shoot around on his own? Can he sit with the team on the bench? With great minutiae comes great responsibility. The cap group must police front
offices trying to game the system, while at the same time making sure the league’s decisions don’t run afoul of the players’ union. “They’ve done a very good job of it. But then people like me come along and start bunking with it because my job is different,” said Rafael Stone, the executive vice president of basketball operations for the Houston Rockets. “My job is to try and take advantage of the loopholes.” The league’s salary cap group prompted the Rockets to change how they maneuvered to bring star point guard Chris Paul to their team in 2017. The team wanted to sign Paul as a free agent, but didn’t have the cap space. One option to get it was waiving sharpshooting big man Ryan Anderson and spreading the impact of his contract over several years, called stretching or using the stretch provision. But the Rockets wanted to keep Anderson. So the front office, primarily Stone and Eli Witus, an assistant general manager, found a loophole in the collective bargaining agreement. The Rockets could stretch Anderson immediately, sign Paul when free agency began and then re-sign Anderson. A new rule barred the move, but it wasn’t set to take effect for at least a couple days. Stone said the league argued that the team’s plan violated the collective bargaining agreement in spirit. (A league spokesman said that even without the new rule, the NBA’s position was that the maneuver would have violated other regulations.) Ultimately, Houston traded for Paul instead of signing him as a free agent, and kept Anderson. Mark Cuban, who owns the Dallas Mavericks, said in an email that his disagreements with the cap group have been mostly limited to defining “likely” bonuses — payments to players based on thresholds
that have a high probability of occurring. Likely bonuses count against the cap immediately, affecting how much teams can spend elsewhere. If a player disagrees with how the cap group interprets the collective bargaining agreement, there is an arbitration process. “We’ve had a fair amount of fights,” said Ron Klempner, the senior counsel for the players union, who also said the relationship between the two factions was cordial. One dispute came during the 2011-12 season, when several prospective free agents, including Jeremy Lin and Chauncey Billups, were claimed off waivers. Under the collective bargaining agreement, teams can go over the salary cap to re-sign and give raises to their own players if the player has been on the team for three years, a cap exception known as “Bird Rights,” named after Larry Bird. If a player gets traded, he keeps those rights. The union argued the exception extended to players claimed off waivers. The league disagreed. The union won in arbitration. Player agents, who have quickly become a powerful force in shaping league dynamics, typically consult the players’ union and their own staffers rather than the cap group. Perhaps the most ironic part of all this is that the stakeholders who pay the least attention to salary cap machinations, especially during the regular season, are the players themselves, according to Richard Jefferson, who played for eight teams and was traded six times. Teammates didn’t talk much about salaries, trades or free agent possibilities until the summer, and even then, he said, most of the details were left to agents. “It’s different now, but in general, players don’t pay attention to the cap,” Jefferson said.
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Recovering Paradise High community finds healing on football field By Bill Plaschke Los Angeles Times
PARADISE, Calif. — “I’ve got a little ... flake in my eye.” The scruffy bear of a man pulls his sunglasses tight so his football team can’t see his tears. Andy Hopper, an assistant football coach at Paradise High, has a story to tell. On this August morning in a cluttered school gym, he is telling it to a group of 37 boys wearing baggy shorts and weary smiles. They are the Paradise Bobcats, teenagers who have stubbornly returned to the mountain to sift through the ashes in search of a football season. Nine months after the most destructive wildfire in California history turned their town into scorched metal and dust, they are embarking on training camp for an autumn that is as much about healing as winning. They are charged with the rebirth not only of football, but community. Their childhood sport has become a sacred mission and one of the biggest challenges of their young lives. One month from their first game and three days before their first padded practice, they have gathered to listen to the heartbeat of Coach Hopper. “Nov. 8 was hard!” he says, and the gym goes silent. “You lose everything; you think it’s the end of the world!” Sprawled across on the hardwood floor, fidgeting just moments earlier, the boys are motionless. They stare at the coach as a trickle leaks from behind those glasses. “Nov. 13, I got the first opportunity to sneak in,” he says. “I went to look for my grandma’s ashes. I didn’t find them. I keep sifting through that, and you start feeling sorry for yourself and you start thinking nothing is going to be right again.” As the coach speaks, he is being watched closely by the defensive back who was cornered by the fire before driving himself through hell to safety. And the running back whose mother told him they were going to die in the flames. And the other running back who ran from the blaze carrying only his equipment bag. “Everything you find ... you pick it up, it just crumbles, right?” Hopper says, recalling how he sifted through his destroyed home. “All that stuff that you’re trying to find, it just crumbled. And you start thinking, ‘Woe is me, it’s never going to be right, it’s never going to be the same,’ and I gave up. I couldn’t find a darn thing.” Standing behind him are coaches who lost everything and didn’t have insurance; coaches who have recently lived in half a dozen houses; a coach who lost not only his home but his business; and the fatherly head coach who was going to retire after the season but couldn’t leave his team like this. “I got pissed off, I threw the freaking netting up, I saw something fly through the air,” Hopper says of the culmination of his search. “And I looked over. And it was this.” He pulls a small black object out of his pocket and the boys gasp. It is a Paradise football championship ring from 2011. It is badly burned and barely recognizable, but its message is clear. The ring survived. The victory survives. Paradise football will survive. It must. “We don’t feel sorry for ourselves. There ain’t one damn victim in here!” Hopper roars. “I feel like God chose us. I’m not saying God created that fire; I’m saying God chose us to say, ‘You know what, I’m going to make these guys the smartest dudes on Earth, that they can go through something so horrible and come out the other end and represent to the rest of the world what a man can do.’” He is shouting, and the Paradise Bobcats are shouting back, fully ready to unleash their pain and fear and fight on the football world. “You guys want do that this
year?” “Yes coach!” “You guys want to do that this year?” “Yes coach!” Somewhere in the night, a helmet bangs. Shoulder pads crunch. A shadowy figure carries the ball into the blackness. A whistle blows. A murky huddle forms. It figures that the Paradise High football team would begin its comeback in the dark, literally, ending recent summer practices at ancient Om Wraith Field without ever turning on the lights. “It’s dark?” The guy with the keys to those lights, defensive coordinator and school landscaper Paul Orlando, says this as if he hadn’t noticed. The players can barely be seen but can somehow see one another, and they run plays crisply through the gloaming without a stumble. The action embodies the enduring consistency of 20 years of Paradise football under coach Rick Prinz, whose system is run by the children in this football-loving community from the time they are old enough to strap on a helmet. Tradition means even more this year, the players relying on one another in the wake of the devastating Nov. 8 Camp fire that vaporized their town and caused 86 fatalities. “You have to understand, we’ve all run these plays since we were 10 years old. ... We could do it with our eyes closed,” says running back Lukas Hartley. “Nobody notices that it’s dark. Even though we’re not in our houses that burned up, we all feel like we’re home.” The state of this football team was chronicled in an article published June 1 by the Los Angeles Times. The players have told harrowing tales of their escapes. They have described the pain of losing possessions, the uncertainty of temporary housing and the frustration of having a potential championship season abruptly end. When they first gathered in the spring to begin the team rebuilding process, half the players were missing, as was a key piece of equipment. They didn’t have a football. Now, with Friday’s season opener approaching, they are in the final stages of bracing for a difficult fight. Only three players actually reside in Paradise, whose population has dipped from 26,800 to around 2,000. Virtually the entire team commutes, some as long as an hour each way. They lost their league affiliation because of the enrollment dip, and they are playing a makeshift schedule against some schools twice their size. But a few key players have returned from temporary housing in distant cities. New equipment has been purchased with insurance money and donations. The campus miraculously survived the fire, and stone bleachers that line one side of the home field will be ready when the Bobcats walk through the stands to their traditional pregame song, Johnny Cash’s “God’s Gonna Cut You Down.” “There’s a lot more here than just football,” says senior running back Jeff Trinchera. “There’s the town. There’s the people in the town. What we’re trying to do, it’s personal.” There are so many emotions coursing through this team and this season, Prinz is using summer and training camp workouts to bring everything into focus. The players will purposely practice in the dark, guided only by memory, because they need to find faith. They will endure a hilly 2{-mile run through the remains of the town, a journey through twisted metal and crumbling bricks that will leave them vomiting and in tears but will build resolve. They will finish this threeday session by making public commitments of dedication, words that will confirm their focus. The statements, like the one from Hopper, strike as big
as the giant bearded man himself, and they will scream and cry and cheer. Then they will put on the pads in preparation for the season opener against Williams High, the biggest game in the program’s 61-year history. Attendance is expected to be at least double the town’s current population. The last time the Bobcats played, they were 8-2 and headed for a playoff appearance that was wiped out by the fire. “These kids have waited for this moment, our community has waited for this moment,” Prinz says. “Everybody has been so pulled apart for so long. ... This is our chance to bring everybody back together.” Somewhere under a blanket, a player laughs. Another howls. Smartphones glow. Two boys start wrestling. For two nights, the team that practices in the dark also sleeps together, retiring to the school gym to spend the night locked away from turmoil. They crowd the edges of the basketball court with air mattresses and mats and a tent, huddled amid the whirring of an air conditioner and the occasional visit by a cockroach. This is more than a slumber party. This is a homecoming _ the first nights most of the boys have spent in Paradise since the fire. “They need to feel connected to this place again,” says Prinz, a former youth pastor who shepherds his players’ emotions as carefully as he runs their offense. “They need to remember this is still their home.” By the time the clock strikes 11 p.m., the rustling has quieted, the restlessness has ended and everyone is seemingly snuggled up comfortably, with one exception. Taylor Brady, a junior receiver, is lying on the hardwood floor with just his cleat bag as a pillow and a sweatshirt as a cover. He didn’t bring a sleeping bag. He doesn’t own one. Before this camp, few of the players had sleeping bags; they’d been lost in the fire. Prinz notices Brady and brings him a wrestling mat and a blanket. Brady, who commuted an hour from his relocated home in Linda, Calif., drops down on it and is soon asleep. Several hours later, he awakens with a realization. “I don’t care about a sleeping bag, I didn’t need it,” Brady says, standing in the middle of a team on a mission. “I just needed to be here.” The morning after their final practice in the dark, the Bobcats are fed in the school cafeteria for a second straight day by parent Greg Kiefer, who was in the kitchen around the clock preparing the meals because, he says, “We’re all in this together.” The reenergized players then sprint into daylight on their annual preseason run, although this year even this simple exercise is tinged with pain. In the past, when training camp was held on junior college campuses elsewhere, the course traversed picturesque mountain trails. This time, it will be on a bike path that winds through a city filled with vacant lots, business signs standing above empty patches of cement and burned wreckage. And they will wonder, can we outrun the ruins? “Guys, we’re here, and we’re questioning ourselves maybe a little bit. Can we do it? I don’t know. ... Am I good enough? Can we get it done?” assistant coach Nino Pinocchio shouts. “Guys, all we got to do here is ... commit yourself like that where there is no option, there’s no going back, and we will do great things this year!” The run is their first act of commitment. They glide along a path through rubble, waiting for one another at the bottom of the final hill, then charge up with such passion that several lean over a nearby fence and vomit. Finishing first is Dylan Blood,
a senior running back and safety who is running for more than his team. “This means the world to me,” he says. “There’s a lot of weight on our shoulders. With the town burning down, we want to come out and make everyone proud.” Finishing last is Barrett Diaz, a junior lineman who initially slowed to a fast walk but began running again when his team wouldn’t leave his side. The Bobcats roared when he sprinted across the finish line. “I wanted to walk, they kept going, ‘Run, run, run,’” he says. “My legs hurt, my ribs hurt, everything hurts, but this is why I came here.” After his home was destroyed in the fire, Diaz’s family relocated about 30 minutes away to Oroville. But he is attending Paradise High because he couldn’t bear the thought of leaving the team. “It sucks sometimes. I really want to quit but I just can’t,” he says. “We’re a family.” A little later, the camp culminates as each player stands in front of the group to recite their personal, team and character goals for the season. Some players vow to get better grades. Others pledge to listen more closely to their coaches. But eventually the commitments are connected to the ashes. “My team goal is of course to win a state championship, but I want to do it while making history,” quarterback Danny Bettencourt shouts. “No other team has gone through what all of us have. We have a bond that no one else has.” John Wiggins, the linebackers coach, calls for no excuses. “Survivors? Screw that!” he barks. “I’m just stubborn. I ain’t gonna be laying down for nobody. Nobody!” In the middle of the ceremony, there is a cry from among
the players _ a rare certainty in the minds of these unsettled teenagers. “Not a victim but a champion!” shouts Hartley, and everyone murmurs as if in prayer. Finally, they hit. With three weeks remaining before the first game, the Bobcats are allowed to hit. And man, do they hit. Undersized linemen crash against each other in collisions that echo off the trees and burned stumps that line the field. Tiny running backs whack each other with loud pops that bounce off the partially melted scoreboard. “Every one of these players has just been itching to get back on the field to hit somebody,” says Kasten Ortiz, a senior tackle. “It’s all leading up to this, getting pads and helmets on; people getting generally pissed off, not at each other, just what we’ve been through.” The hitting is highlighted during the annual Green and Gold game, a scrimmage last week in front of about a hundred parents and friends. The players are wearing new gold helmets donated by Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who grew up in nearby Chico, but nothing else is quite so sparkling. Several of the advertising banners hanging from a chain-link fence along the field promote businesses closed because they were destroyed or damaged by the fire. Along another fence hangs the school’s 10 sectional championship plaques, but one is badly burned. “It’s a shame that microphone can’t pick up these goose bumps,” says Hartley, looking at a reporter’s tape recorder as he stands on the sidelines in glorious sweat. “This is what we’ve all been living for.” Up in the home bleachers,
it feels like a reunion. Families plop down a buck for water, 50 cents for a bag of chips, and gather together to swap recovery stories and search for the good in new beginnings. “This town needs it, the people need it, the players need it,” says Randy Hays, the team public-address announcer who has lived in eight places since the fire. “Right now, this is the best place in Paradise. Seriously, show me a better place in town!” These days, it is a place of triumph and anguish. Trudging from the field late one afternoon is Elijah Gould, a giant senior lineman who is noticeably wincing. He is playing with a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee. He was injured playing basketball in the offseason. He convinced his mother he could endure the pain to play one more football season. “CMF.” It’s an acronym that appears on the shoulders of a couple of longtime assistant coaches and has long been seen in various store windows and marquees around town. Gould drove to Reno and found someone to ink it on him before he turned the legal age of 18. He is the first player on this team to have one. He will not be the last. “CMF is a big tradition in this town,” he says. “I’m just carrying on that tradition.” The three letters mean different words to different people, but all agree on a definition so ingrained in a singular mindset that the players should slap those letters on their helmets. As they attempt to rise from the ashes, with the clock ticking toward a season they hope will resemble a resurrection, the Paradise Bobcats are truly, wondrously, Crazy Mountain Folk.
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From Nature To You, LLC. Filed 5/20/19. Office: Greene Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 7 W Bridge St, APULLUM FARMING Catskill, NY 12414. LLC, Arts. of Org. filed Purpose: General. with the SSNY on 07/03/2019. Office loc: NOTICE OF ADOPGreene County. SSNY TION OF RESOLUhas been designated TION as agent upon whom SUBJECT TO PERREFERENprocess against the MISSIVE LLC may be served. CUM SSNY shall mail pro- PLEASE TAKE NOcess to: The LLC, 5824 TICE that the Village 80th Street, Middle Vil- Board of the Village of Greene lage, NY 11379. Pur- Catskill, pose: Any Lawful Pur- County, New York, at a meeting thereof held pose. on August 14, 2019, City of Hudson Issues duly adopted a ResoRequest for Proposal lution, an abstract of for its DRI BRIDGE which follows, subject District Connectivity to permissive referendum pursuant to ArtiImprovement Project The City of Hudson is cle 9 of the Village seeking the services of Law: qualified professionals The purpose of the to design and imple- Resolution was authorment streetscape im- izing improvements to provements within the the water treatment City's Downtown Revi- plant and water mains talization Initiative (DRI) owned and operated BRIDGE District. The by the Village, estimatCity of Hudson has ing the aggregate cost to be identified a series of thereof streetscape and multi- $5,000,000.00; appromodal improvements priating said amount to be approached with therefor and authorizdesign excellence that ing the issuance of up will address pedestrian to $5,000,000.00 serial safety, enhance multi- bonds of the Village to modal transportation, finance a portion of and improve connec- said cost. tivity to adjacent Said Resolution shall neighborhoods and the not take effect until City's Downtown. This thirty days after the DRI project is funded date of its adoption; by the NYS Depart- nor until approved by ment of State (NYS- the affirmative vote of a majority of the qualiDOS). The City would like to fied electors of the Vilmore fully develop lage voting on such these concepts, select proposition for its appriority improvements proval if within thirty based on public in- days after its adoption put/stakeholder feed- there be filed with the back and advance key Village Clerk a petition components through signed and acknowlconstruction based on edged by electors of this input and the pro- the Village in number ject budget, working equal to at least twenty with the City's DRI per centum of such Committee and Grant electors in the village, Management Consul- as shown on the register of electors for the tant. In 2017, Hudson was previous general vilselected by New York lage election, protestState's Capital Region ing against such act or Regional Economic resolution and requestDevelopment Council ing that it be submitted (CREDC) as one of the to the electors of the ten DRI Round Two village for their approvcommunities. The City al or disapproval. and its local partners A full copy of the were awarded $10 mil- Resolution is on file in lion in state funding to the Village Clerk's Ofrevitalize the designat- fice at the Catskill Viled BRIDGE District lage Hall, 422 Main (Build-Renew-Invent- Street, Catskill, New D e v e l o p - G r o w - E m - York, and can be expower) located west of amined during normal the City's Downtown business hours. August 14, with Second Street Dated: forming the eastern 2019 boundary, the Hudson Melissa Ragaini River to the west, Deputy Village Clerk South Bay wetlands to the south and Dock NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED Street to the north.. The overall plan should LIABILITY COMPANY. Meadowlark improve safety, pro- NAME: vide enhanced con- Supply Co. LLC nectivity to downtown Articles of Organizaand complementary tion were filed with the DRI related invest- Secretary of State of New York on August 8, ments. An optional pre-sub- 2018. mission site tour will Office location: Columbe scheduled for Au- bia County. gust 13, 2019, pre-reg- Legal Zoom has been istration is required to designated as agent of ensure seating space the LLC upon whom available for the driving process against it may Legal tour. Following the be served. submission deadline of Zoom shall mail a copy August 27, 2019, se- of any process against lect firms may be invit- the LLC to Meadowed for interviews. RFP lark Supply Co. LLC, documents are below. PO Box 108, Hillsdale, For further information New York 12529. contact the Office of Purpose: Any lawful the Mayor, purpose. 518.828.7217. Notice of Formation of Limited Liability ComDGA RENTALS AND pany: Name: SOUND SOLUTIONS NEXTNRGY, LLC, ArtiLLC Articles of Org. cles of Organization filed NY Sec. of State filed with the Secretary (SSNY) 7/22/19. Office of State of New York in Columbia Co. SSNY (SSNY) on 06/04/2019. design. Agent of LLC Office Location: Coupon whom process lumbia County. SSNY may be served. SSNY is designated as agent shall mail copy of pro- of LLC upon whom cess to The LLC 238 process against it may Frost ST Apt 3R be served. SSNY shall Brooklyn, NY 11211. mail a copy of process Purpose: Any lawful for any lawful purpose activity. to NEXTNRGY, LLC; 20 Pond Lot Lane; FILM FRIENDLY Chatham, NY 12037. PROPERTIES LLC Ar- Latest date upon ticles of Org. filed NY which LLC is to disSec. of State (SSNY) solve: unspecified.If 7/29/19. Office in Columbia Co. SSNY de- INVITATION TO BID sign. Agent of LLC Sealed Bids will be reupon whom process ceived until 10:00 AM may be served. SSNY local time on Septemshall mail copy of pro- ber 13, 2019 at the Ofcess to The LLC 2071 fice of the County AdGreene Flatbush Ave Ste 166 ministrator. Brooklyn, NY 11234. County Office Building. Purpose: Any lawful 411Main St, Catskill. NY 12414 and then at activity.
said office publicly opened and read aloud for: TWILIGHT PARK COLOCATION COMMUNICATIONS SITE GREENE COUNTY EMERGENCY SERVICES GREENE COUNTY. NEW YORK Work shall include but is not limited to: Contract No. 1 Contract No. 1 includes the following work items: Furnishing and installation of a slab foundation for a communication equipment cabinet and standby generator. Furnishing and installation of prefabricated radio communications cabinet Furnishing and installation of an emergency generator system Furnishing and installation of new ice bridge for antenna cabling to new cabinet Installation of electrical service to new communications cabinet All associated site work and site restoration A Pre-Bid conference will be held on Wednesday. September 4. 2019 at 10:00 am at the Greene County Emergency Operations Center, 25 Volunteer Dr. Cairo, NY Bids should exclude sales and compensating use taxes on materials incorporated into the work. A bid bond in the amount equal to at least five (5%) percent of the Bid will be required with submission of each bid. The successful bidders, to whom the contracts arc awarded, will be required to provide a payment and performance bond equal to the full amount of the Contract. Bids will be received on an itemized unit price basis. The Contractor must ensure that employees and applicants for employment are not discriminated against because of their race, creed, color, religion, sex or national origin. New York State Prevailing Wage and Davis-Bacon Wage Requirements shall apply to this project. Women and Minority Owned Businesses are encouraged to Bid. Bids actually received by mail or by hand after the appointed time on the date specified shall be rejected, notwithstanding that such Bid may have been placed in a mail box or other mail receptacle regularly maintained by the United States Postal Service before such time, and ordinarily in sufficient time to have been delivered on time.
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bid documents will need to make the determination if hard copies of the addenda are required for their use. and coordinate directly with REV for hard copies of addenda to be issued. There will be no charge for registered plan holders to obtain hard copies of the bid addenda. fhc Owner reserves the right to waive any informalities or irregularities in the Bids received, or to reject any or all Bids w ithout explanation, and to select the Bid. the acceptance of w hich, in its judgment, w ill best assure the efficient performance of the work. Tammy L. Sciavillo Acting Clerk Greene County Legislature Moonmira LLC. Art.of Org. filed the SSNY on 2/13/2019. office Columbia County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 486 Martindale Rd., Craryville, 12521, NY Purpose: Any lawful purpose MY DJ CLOUD LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 6/19/19. Office in Columbia Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC PO Box 150583 Brooklyn, NY 11215. Purpose: Any lawful activity. New York Hemp Service LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 5/14/2019. Cty: Columbia. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 900 Leesville Ave., Rahway, NJ 07065. General Purpose. Nine Two Two One LLC, Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of NY on 7/9/2019. Office: Columbia County. SSNY has been designated as the LLC's agency upon whom process against it may be served. A copy of process should be mailed to the LLC at: P.O. Box 130, Hillsdale, NY 12529. Purpose: For any lawful purpose. NODE INNOVATION VENTURES LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 7/31/19. Office in Columbia Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC 71
Thompson ST 4D New York, NY 10012. Purpose: Any lawful activity. NOTICE ATHENS VILLAGE WATER USERS Residents using village water may experience some turbidity in their water due to hydrant flushing beginning August 26 and ending August 29, 2019. The turbidity may include some discoloration of water. We apologize for any inconvenience. Notice of formation of DC Seamless Gutters, LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the Secy of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/05/19. Off. Loc.: Columbia County. SSNY has been desig. as agent upon whom process against it may be served. The address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy to is: 67 Marty Rd, Elizaville, NY 12523. Purpose: Any lawful act. Notice of Formation of RRBB LLC. Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 4/3/19. Office location: Columbia County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 17 Fairview Ave, Chatham, NY 12037. Purpose: any lawful activity. TINE VOGUE COMMUNICATIONS LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 6/18/19. Office in Columbia Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC 211 E 31st ST Apt 2A New York, NY 10016. Purpose: Any lawful activity.
NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY FIRST:The name of the Limited Liability Company is The AB Richter Group LLC (hereinafter referred to as the "Company") SECOND:The Articles of Organization of the Company were filed with the Secretary of State on July 12, 2019. THIRD:The County within the State of New York in which the office of the Company is located is Columbia. FOURTH:The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process against the Company may be served. The address to which the Secretary of State shall mail process is 711 Eichybush Road, Kinderhook, NY 12106. FIFTH:The Company is organized for all lawful purposes, and to do any and all things necessary, convenient, or incidental to that purpose. Dated: August 1, 2019 Touring Teachers LLC. Filed 3/14/19. Office: Greene Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 35 Elm St, Coxsackie, NY 12051. Registered Agent: United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 13th Ave Ste 202, Bklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: General. NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF GREENE M&T Bank, Plaintiff AGAINST Lynda McNeur-McCarthy, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated 6-19-2019 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Greene County Courthouse,
320 Main Street, Catskill, NY on 9-4-2019 at 9:00AM, premises known as 27 Clum Hill Road, Haines Falls, NY 12436. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Hunter, County of Greene and State of New York, SECTION: 182.07, BLOCK: 2, LOT: 5.1. Approximate amount of judgment $38,240.46 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index #829/2017. Ian L. Crimmins, Esq., Referee Frenkel Lambert Weiss Weisman & Gordon, LLP 53 Gibson Street Bay Shore, NY 11706 01-080272-F01 64651
NOTICE OF SALESUPREME COURTCOUNTY OF GREENE BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., Plaintiff, AGAINST CAROL E. ENGELMANN AKA CAROL E. NIEVES, et al. Defendant(s) Pursuant to a judgment of foreclosure and sale duly entered on April 3, 2019. I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction at the Greene County Courthouse, 320 Main Street, Catskill, NY 12414 on September 23, 2019 at 12:00 PM premises known as 4 Snyder Lane, Cairo, NY 12413. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Village of Cairo, Town of Cairo, County of Greene and State of New York. Section 101.5, Block 1 and Lot 6.
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COLUMBIA-GREENE MEDIA Approximate amount of judgment $121,738.63 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment. Index #17-78. Matthew P. Foley, Esq., Referee, Aldridge Pite, LLP - Attorneys for Plaintiff 40 Marcus Drive, Suite 200, Melville, NY 11747 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK - COUNTY OF GREENE TOWD POINT MORTGAGE TRUST 2015-6, U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS INDENTURE TRUSTEE, V. ANN V. STANCARONE, ET. AL. NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated May 22, 2019, and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Greene, wherein TOWD POINT MORTGAGE TRUST 2015-6, U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS INDENTURE TRUSTEE is the Plaintiff and ANN V. STANCARONE, ET AL. are the Defendant(s). I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the GREENE COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 320 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL, NY 12414, on September 04, 2019 at 9:00AM, premises known as 601 CAIRO JUNCTION ROAD, CATSKILL, NY 12414: Section 136.00, Block 5, Lot 7: PARCEL I ALL THAT PIECE, PARCEL AND LOT OF LAND, SITUATE IN THE TOWN OF CATSKILL, GREENE COUNTY, NEW YORK PARCEL II ALL THAT PIECE, PARCEL AND LOT OF LAND, SITUATE IN THE TOWN OF CATSKILL, GREENE COUNTY, NEW YORK Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 17-0864. Aaron A. Louridas, Esq. Referee. RAS Boriskin, LLC 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff. Sealed bids will be received as set forth in instructions to bidders until 10:30 A.M. on
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debt, and any information obtained will be used for that purpose. To the above-named defendants: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance, on the plaintiff's attorneys within twenty (20) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service ( or within thirty (30) days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York) or within (60) days after service of this summons if it is the United States of America; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action. YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT - This is an action to foreclose a mortgage lien on the premises described herein. The object of the above captioned action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure $216,000.00 and interest, recorded in the Office of the County Clerk of Greene County on June 13, 2005 in Book 2089, Page 246, covering premises known as 274 CRYSTAL
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Boston Red Sox left-hander Chris Sale’s inflammation in his pitching elbow is just that, ESPN’s Jeff Passan reported Monday afternoon. Sale met with Dr. James Andrews in Florida on Monday, and the noted orthopedic surgeon confirmed the prior diagnosis, Passan reported, adding the left-hander “is expected to avoid Tommy John surgery.” The Red Sox later confirmed the diagnosis in a statement and noted that Sale was treated with a platelet-rich plasma injection. “Dr. Andrews also recommended a period of shutdown from throwing. Sale will be re-evaluated in six weeks by Dr. Andrews,” said Boston’s president of baseball operations, Dave Dombrowski. The 30-year-old Sale reported soreness in his elbow after his start on Wednesday against Cleveland, in which he struck out 12 Indians in 6 2/3 innings. A subsequent MRI exam could not rule out
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of the butterfly. Now, for the first time since 2001, he has no world records in his signature stroke. But Phelps, 34, wasn’t the one in mourning. He spoke with awe about the easy speed of Dressel, though he had to raise his voice to be heard over Boomer, who was very upset about having misplaced his stuffed animal, Baby Monkey. It was not that long ago that Phelps’ sense of self was tied up in those records, so his equanimity in their absence seemed worth a closer look. A week later, Phelps sat down with The New York Times at Paradise Valley Country Club in Arizona to talk about his diminished presence in the record books and his postswimming life. At the pool there he helped his good friend Allison Schmitt, an eight-time Olympic medalist and the reigning national champion in the 200-meter freestyle, with her stroke technique. After she exited the water, a man entered wearing a jammer suit from Phelps’ signature line. Phelps gave the stranger some freestyle tips, too. There was good news. Baby Monkey was back in Boomer’s possession, and Phelps is OK with his butterfly records being gone forever. This conversation has been
damage to his ulnar collateral ligament, which typically results in the surgery, so the pitcher visited Andrews for a second opinion. –The Minnesota Twins reinstated designated hitter Nelson Cruz from the 10-day injured list and sent right-hander Zack Littell to Triple-A Rochester in a corresponding move. The 39-year-old Cruz missed nine games after sustaining a left wrist strain on Aug. 8 in a loss to the Indians. He missed 19 games earlier this season after injuring the same wrist on a swing in a May 12 game against the Detroit Tigers. Cruz is hitting .294 with 19 doubles, 32 home runs and 76 RBIs in 87 games. –The Atlanta Braves claimed outfielder Billy Hamilton off waivers from the Kansas City Royals, the team announced. The Royals designated the struggling Hamilton for assignment on Friday.
edited and condensed, and some quotes came from a follow-up interview by telephone. Q: You made your first Olympic team in the 200 butterfly, set your first world record in the 200 butterfly. You held the world record in the 200 butterfly for 18 years. Did it feel as if you lost two family heirlooms when you lost both butterfly records? A: It’s just crazy because butterfly was the one stroke that meant the most to me, right? To have them both be gone in the same week was not what I was expecting, by any means. The 200 fly was especially hard because I’d had that record for more than half my life. And before I came along, it was my sister Whitney’s event. So it runs deeper than just saying, “This is my record.” That stroke has been in the Phelps family for a long time. I sent Bob (Bowman, his longtime coach) a text after the 100 fly record was broken that said, “I swear to God, if my 400 I.M. record gets broken, I’ll meet you in Colorado Springs for training.” That one I think is pretty safe for now. It’s frustrating that the records didn’t last longer, but I love being able to see kids breaking through. That is awesome. You have to have performances like that in the sport in order to see the sport continue to grow and evolve. If you have records that are completely untouchable, people will be, like, “Oh my God, why even try?” Q: You have so many other
accomplishments, starting with your record eight golds at the 2008 Beijing Games, that nobody is likely ever to surpass. Your body of work, which includes a record 28 Olympic medals, can’t be erased in one meet. Is that how you look at it? A: After Caeleb won eight medals in South Korea, I saw a headline that said, “Caeleb Dressel Surpasses Phelps.” No, he didn’t. When I won seven golds at the 2007 meet, I broke five world records. Kristof Milak broke one world record. I broke 39. So keep going. Break that record 10 more times. Hold it for 18 years. It’s about longevity. I’ve gotten a bunch of texts this week from people commenting on Olympic anniversaries: the third anniversary of when I became the first swimmer to four-peat in an event, in the 200 IM; the 11th anniversary of the 400 free relay gold in Beijing. Q: Which memory stands out more, your first Olympic gold medal, in the 400 individual medley at the 2004 Olympics, or your 23rd, in the 400 medley relay in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro? A: Without question, the last gold medal will stand out more than really any of them just because of the journey and having Booms there. That one for me is personally the most memorable, though it’s hard to leave out Beijing. Q: I’ve heard people say, “Imagine how much better Phelps could have done at the 2016 Olympics if he hadn’t had the DUI and other issues that landed him in rehab in 2014.”
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came at the Polo Grounds, the Mets’ home for their first two seasons, when he went all 15 innings against the Philadelphia Phillies, throwing 215 pitches, on the afternoon of Aug. 14, 1962. He gave up just six hits but lost, 3-1, when the Phils rallied for a pair of runs after a two-base error by first baseman Marv Throneberry, known derisively as Marvelous Marv for his fielding and base-running mishaps. Jackson got the Mets’ first victory at Shea in April 1964, shutting out the Pittsburgh Pirates, and he threw a twohitter against the Cincinnati Reds that May. He outpitched the future Hall of Famer Bob Gibson, 1-0, on the final weekend of the season, when the Cardinals were fighting for a pennant — which they nonetheless went on to win. He was a favorite of manager Casey Stengel going back to the Mets’ first spring training camp at St. Petersburg, Florida. “He’s artistic,” Stengel was quoted as saying by the sports writer Leonard Shecter in his book “Once Upon the Polo Grounds” (1970). “I know this because he was fielding the bunted balls. He’s got a chance because how many pitchers have I got? He’s very intelligent and his wife’s a schoolteacher. He looks like he’s been pitching baseball for 10 years.” “He rambles a little bit,” Jackson said of Stengel. “But I think I understand him.”
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Al Jackson, pitcher for the New York Mets, in 1962. Jackson, the slender left-hander whose pitching provided a semblance of hope for the historically woeful Mets of the early 1960s, died on Monday in Port St. Lucie, Fla. He was 83.
Alvin Neill Jackson was born on Dec. 26, 1935, in Waco, Texas, and grew up there. He was signed by the Pirates in 1955 out of historically black Wiley College in Marshall, Texas, and pitched briefly for them in 1959 and 1961. The Mets selected him for a $75,000 fee in the expansion draft. Jackson tossed 10 shutouts for the Mets from 1962 to 1965. He was 8-20 for the second time, in 1965, but that year, as in the Mets’ inaugural season, he didn’t lead the team in defeats: Jack Fisher,
like Craig, lost 24 games. Jackson was traded to the Cardinals after that season in a deal that brought them the third baseman Ken Boyer, a former National League Most Valuable Player. He posted a 13-15 record with a sparkling 2.51 earned run average for the 1966 Cardinals, then went 9-4 for their pennant-winners of 1967 and threw a one-hitter against Houston. But he was not included on the Cardinals’ World Series roster. Jackson concluded his pitching career with the Mets
Atlanta made the move after learning outfielder Ender Inciarte will likely miss more than a month due to the hamstring injury he suffered on Friday. Inciarte is batting .246 with five homers and 24 RBIs in 65 games. The 28-year-old Hamilton is batting just .211 with no homers and 12 RBIs. He has 18 steals in 93 games. –Pitcher Al Jackson, an original member of the New York Mets, has died after a long illness. He was 83. The 5-foot-10 left-hander from Waco, Texas, spent a decade in the major leagues (1959, 196169) with four teams, compiling a 67-99 record with a 3.98 ERA in 303 appearances (184 starts). After breaking into the big leagues with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1959, Jackson joined the Mets in 1962 after being the 22nd pick in the 1961 expansion draft. As New York struggled to a 40120 record in its debut campaign in 1962, Jackson
How do you respond? A: Without the lows of 2014, there is no 2016. I would have just tuned out. I would have been like, “Bye, see you later,” and I would have moved on. That DUI was not a good experience, but looking back on it, it made me be able to be where I am today, watching Boomer literally grow up by the minute, and Beckett, too, who is a full parrot right now, repeating everything we say. Looking back to 10 years ago, or eight, there’s no shot in hell I’d ever be able to even be present, be happy, really be enjoying this process of watching these little humans grow up in the world. Q: As you followed the world championships, how connected did you feel to the sport? A: I feel pretty removed from the sport, the most I’ve ever been in my life, just because of everything we have going on, everything that we’re getting ready for. Every day we walk down the hallway when we’re putting the kids to bed, and every day they see this big photo of me swimming butterfly and both the kids say, “Dada” or “Daddy.” So that’s cool. But there aren’t many active swimmers that I talk to. I’m not going to many swim meets. Q: You said in 2016 that you’re not sure you ever swam an Olympic final that didn’t include at least one swimmer who was using performanceenhancing drugs. Do you worry about the public’s perception of the sport in the wake of controversies swirling around
and the Reds in 1969. He had a career 67-99 record with 14 shutouts. He was the Boston Red Sox pitching coach from 1977 to 1979 under manager Don Zimmer, another original Met, and for the Baltimore Orioles from 1989 to 1991. He was later a bullpen coach for the Mets under Davey Johnson and a manager, pitching coach and roving instructor in their farm system. His survivors include his wife, Nadine; his sons, Reggie, who pitched in the Mets’ minor league system, and Barry; and two grandsons. Jackson threw out the first ball at Citi Field, the Mets’ current home, on April 15, 2015, a part of baseball’s annual commemorations of Jackie Robinson’s breaking of the modern major league color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers of 1947. Ron Darling, the former Met pitcher and current Met broadcaster, recalled that when he was with New York’s Tidewater farm team in the early 1980s, Jackson, then the pitching coach, taught him to throw a split-fingered fastball. More important, Darling said, was Jackson’s emphasis on the need for devotion to the craft in a serious, professional way. In his book “The Complete Game” (2009), written with Daniel Paisner, Darling related how Jackson spoke of the times when black players were barred from segregated hotels and restaurants. Darling took a lesson from that. “I had no choice but to take the gift of my situation more seriously,” he wrote. “I couldn’t take anything for granted.”
tied for second on the staff with eight wins and tied for the team lead with 118 strikeouts. He lost 20 games that season. –Major League Baseball announced the 2020 spring training schedules for all 30 teams. Three games kick things off on Feb. 21, with all 30 Cactus and Grapefruit League teams in action on Feb. 22. Notable games on the schedule include the Feb. 22 opening of CoolToday Park, the new spring home of the Braves in North Port, Fla., with the Braves hosting the Baltimore Orioles. March 23 will mark the debut of Globe Life Field, the new home ballpark for the Texas Rangers, with the St. Louis Cardinals visiting Arlington, Texas. –Nationals starter Joe Ross left Washington’s game at Pittsburgh in the fourth inning after getting hit in the right leg by a comebacker. Pirates slugger Josh Bell’s grounder struck Ross.
athletes like the Chinese freestyler Sun Yang, who was shunned on the medals podium by a couple of his world championship competitors? A: I’ve made it really clear how frustrated I am that some people choose to take a short cut and use performanceenhancing drugs instead of putting in the training and the work that it takes to be a champion. I understand the frustrations of the people taking very public stands. But by focusing on what other people are doing, they’re expending a lot of time and energy on something that is out of their control. There’s only one group of people who can really clean up the sport and that’s FINA. Q: What’s it like knowing you and Nicole, who is due with your third child in October, are soon to be outnumbered? A: I’m not really stressed. Coming out of the 2016 Olympics, it was an unknown how I’d be able to take care of myself, let alone an entire family. I had never taken care of myself before. I’ve gone from having everyone else telling me what to do in the weight room and in the swimming pool and away from the pool to now trying to figure out how to raise two children, run a household, travel globally and make sure Nicole has everything she needs and make sure she’s feeling OK and calm. We had no idea what we were doing with the first one, we had no idea what we were doing with two. We sure as hell don’t know what to do with three.
Q: What does a normal day for you look like? A: Boomer gets us up, and between 6 and 9 in the morning I’m basically hanging out with the kids. I make breakfast almost every morning. It’s usually pancakes or eggs, and there’s always fruit. Boom loves pancakes and Beckett is a machine, he’ll eat anything — oatmeal, cereal, yogurt. From 9 till noon, I’m either making calls or taking care of odds and ends around the house or running errands. Lately I’ve basically been going through the entire house, room by room, picking apart every little small corner and getting rid of stuff or reorganizing everything, getting everything in order and ready for baby No. 3 when it happens. At some point I’ll go swim. After that, I’m in the garage for an hour and a half or two hours. I’ll get on a stationary bike and ride for 50-90 minutes, then I’ll do some abs work and stretching. From time to time, I’ll play golf, and if I do that, I tee it up in the morning. A lot of nights I’ll cook dinner. I really enjoy cooking because it’s peaceful. The kids will be outside playing, so it’s quiet time. I used to have conversations and do multiple things at once, but after burning this and undercooking that, I learned that when I’m in the kitchen, I have to focus on what I’m doing if I don’t want to accidentally burn down the house or poison my family.
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was real cool. I was happy to see everyone there.” Looking ahead to next year,
Canty is already thinking of ways to improve the tournament. “Next year it’s going to be 10 times better,” Canty said. “ I don’t know what I’m going to do yet at this moment, but I have big plans for it.”
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Man betrays wife’s trust by posting nude photos of her My husband and I have been married 30 years. He is my high school sweetheart and my best friend. We enjoy each other, and I thought we had a great relationship. Occasionally, we “spice up” our sex life to keep things interesting. At his request, I have sexted him a few times with the understanding DEAR ABBY that he delete the photos once he has viewed them. Well, the other night around 3 a.m., I heard his phone dinging over and over again. He was asleep so, thinking it was our daughter trying to reach us, I looked at it. To my horror, he had put pictures of me on a porn site through an app. There were pictures of me in various, unaware stages of nudity — like in the shower or sleeping in bed — and people were commenting lewd and disgusting things. Needless to say, I feel beyond betrayed. My trust in him is broken, and I’m devastated at his behavior. His response is he is sorry and made a mistake. I don’t know what to do. I’m considering leaving him. He’s remorseful, but I don’t understand why he would do this. Help, please. Photo Finish In Ohio
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You have my sympathy. A good husband would never do what yours did. It was not only a gross invasion of your privacy and an act of deception, but embarrassing and potentially dangerous if someone views the images and recognizes you. What his motives were, I can’t guess. Everything you’re feeling is valid. If your marriage is to survive, the trust must somehow
be restored. If you plan to stay married to him, a marriage and family therapist may be able to give you more insight. It would be worth your while for the two of you to talk to someone who is licensed, and soon. My fiance and I had a horrible loss this year, and we’re having trouble dealing with and working through our grief. His ex-wife murdered three of his four children and committed suicide. We are both young and have been trying to find organizations where we can communicate with other parents who have lost their children, but a lot of group members just seem to want to one-up how tragic their loss was. Do you have any suggestions for online or in-person groups for people with similar experiences? It’s hard feeling so alone, and I’m sure there are other parents out there looking for this kind of information. Alone And Grieving I am sorry for the epic tragedy your fiance experienced, and with which you are both trying to cope. An organization that may be able to help you is The National Organization of Parents of Murdered Children (POMC). Founded in 1978, its mission is to provide support and guidance to all survivors of homicide victims, while working to create a world free of murder. It seeks to make a difference through ongoing emotional support, education, prevention, advocacy and awareness. To learn more, visit its website, which is pomc.org, or call 888-8187662 or 513-721-5683.
Raynaud’s patient curious if Viagra can save cold fingers I have scleroderma with Raynaud’s phenomenon, and friends and family members have told me that I might get help from Viagra. Frankly, I hadn’t read or heard that from either my rheumatologists or dermatologists. I already tried a short course of nifedipine TO YOUR over a decade ago (it just gave GOOD HEALTH me a headache), so I just stick with mechanical means to keep my hands warm in winter and, maybe surprisingly to some, in summer. Believe me, air-conditioned grocery stores are torture from April to October.
DR. KEITH ROACH
Raynaud’s phenomenon is an excessive response of the blood vessels in the skin to changes in temperature, and sometimes to emotional stress. While most people will get cold hands and feet when it is cold, a person with Raynaud’s can get a drastic response, even to air conditioning or freezer sections of grocery stores. The skin will turn white and then blue, then quite red on being rewarmed. Not everybody goes through all three colors, however. Raynaud’s can exist by itself, but is often seen in the presence of autoimmune conditions, such as the systemic sclerosis (scleroderma) you have. Treatment for Raynaud’s is generally the same with or without other conditions.
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Everybody with Raynaud’s should quit smoking and avoid medications that can trigger an attack (over-the-counter cold and flu remedies are the most common). The mainstay of treatment is avoiding the temperature changes wherever possible, but as you point out clearly, it’s almost impossible to do so completely. Putting your hand in a refrigerator or holding a cold drink can trigger an attack. Many people with Raynaud’s learn to keep gloves with them all the time and dress their entire body warmly. An attack can sometimes be aborted by rubbing hands in warm water or getting them into a warm place. When medication treatment is necessary, a calcium channel blocker like nifedipine is often the first choice. Headache and dizziness can limit effectiveness of this treatment. Studies have shown these medications can cut the attacks by about 50%. Sildenafil (Viagra) has been used in people with Raynaud’s, and is about as effective as calcium channel blockers. However, for people with scleroderma, ulcers and Raynaud’s, sildenafil has been shown in small trials to be very effective.
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Horoscope By Stella Wilder Born today, you are not likely ever to be overlooked at any point in your life. As a child, you are likely to have attracted attention either for breaking the rules or for following them — but in either case you will have no doubt demonstrated remarkable talents of some kind. As you mature, you will no doubt have discovered the one or two things that really turn you on and that you identify as “life pursuits” — and yet there may have been distractions keeping you from early success. Though even you must recognize that you are not “the best” at everything you choose to try, that to which you dedicate yourself is surely something that you can excel at — and your record of accomplishment is one that is not likely to be equaled for a very long time. Also born on this date are: Wilt Chamberlain, basketball player; Kenny Rogers, singer; Kim Cattrall, actress; Count Basie, musician; Aubrey Beardsley, artist; Melvin Van Peebles, actor; Clarence Williams III, actor. To see what is in store for you tomorrow, find your birthday and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your daily guide. THURSDAY, AUGUST 22 LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — You may have cause to remember an exciting adventure from your past — but you mustn’t make the mistake of thinking that you can relive it now. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You can expect a surprise to knock you off your plate today — but then, if you expect it, you can probably minimize its overall effect! LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You may not agree with the way a friend or partner is addressing a certain situation, but you can’t come up with anything better. Lend a hand.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — You’re in the mood to share something with a special someone. Toward midday a chance encounter gives you the “perfect” idea. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — You’re entering a period in which you will be certain about much, but some of what you encounter will still throw you off balance. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You’re happy with the status quo overall, but there’s one thing you want to address before you give it your stamp of approval. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Take a close look at what someone else is doing, and you’ll realize that you are on the right track yourself — despite any recent doubts. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — You may hear from someone who has a few secrets to tell — but perhaps you don’t want to be part of something that is going on “under the table.” ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Be direct and upfront about what you want or need today — that’s the only way you’re going to get it. You mustn’t beat around the bush! TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — You’ll do things in your usual way today, attracting attention because you cannot avoid “showing off” in some way. You have style, surely! GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You may wish you were somewhere else today, but the fact is that you are where you are and you must deal with certain issues head-on. CANCER (June 21-July 22) — You’ll want to count your money and make sure all of your available resources are at your disposal today. Some hard work lies ahead. COPYRIGHT 2019 UNITED FEATURE SYNDICATE, INC.
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THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek
Score 1 point for each correct answer on the Freshman Level, 2 points on the Graduate Level and 3 points on the Ph.D. Level.
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Unscramble these Jumbles, one letter to each square, to form four ordinary words.
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(e.g., The leaf of which tree is on Canada’s flag? Answer: Maple.) Freshman level 1. It may be “weeping.” 2. Lebanon has this tree on its national flag. 3. Its branch is regarded as an emblem of peace. Graduate level 4. Originally from Australia, it produces a medicinal oil. 5. It shares its name with a U.S. ski resort in Colorado. 6. The name of this tall tree contains all five vowels. PH.D. level 7. Its berries are used to flavor gin. 8. Its leaves are used for making honorary wreaths. 9. The Norway spruce is best known for what special use?
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Now arrange the circled letters to form the surprise answer, as suggested by the above cartoon.
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Solution to Tuesday’s puzzle
Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit, 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit
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SUPER QUIZ ANSWERS 1. Willow. 2. Cedar. 3. Olive. 4. Eucalyptus. 5. Aspen. 6. Sequoia. 7. Juniper. 8. Laurel. 9. Christmas tree. 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 Mother Goose & Grimm ACROSS 1 Living in the __ of luxury 4 Cross 9 __ A Sketch 13 Helvetica or Geneva 14 __ Peace Prize 15 Alone 16 Pitcher’s goals 17 Disastrous 19 As clear __ bell 20 Tiny skin openings 21 Car parker at a restaurant 22 Lab weights 24 Weather forecast 25 Stir up 27 Actor Whitaker 30 Some Scandinavians 31 Tangy 33 Casual farewells 35 Very eager 36 Kitchen utensil 37 Tree coating 38 “Amen!” 39 Say hello to 40 Stocking stuffer 41 Stowed away 43 Knight of song 44 Bekins truck 45 Beverage holder 46 Twelve 49 Natural disaster 51 Light bulb inventor’s initials 54 Conquers; defeats 56 Not at all harsh 57 “Let’s Make a __” 58 Is a breadwinner 59 Woes 60 “__ the Lonely”; Roy Orbison song 61 Full of soap lather 62 Cunning DOWN 1 Rawls & Dobbs 2 Foe; adversary 3 WWII craft 4 Money earned 5 Lion’s cries 6 Dexterous 7 Receptions 8 Dutch __
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disease; tree destroyer 9 Real __; Century 21’s business 10 Wrench or hammer 11 Detective’s tip 12 Emcee 13 Actor Barrett 18 Bar soap brand 20 Mountain road 23 Felt remorse for 24 Leave at a pawnshop 25 Forever and 26 Talks wildly 27 Clenched hand 28 At a __; not moving 29 Late for school 31 Unburden 32 Boston cream __ 34 “The __ the limit!” 36 Songbird 37 Pasture cries 39 Money for college 40 __ in; wearing 42 Excessively
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43 Shiny snapshot 45 Long dresses 46 Airhead 47 Microwave, e.g. 48 Passion 49 German wife 50 “The __ of the Rings”; Tolkien novel
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52 Friendly nation 53 Ames & Asner 55 “__ Just Not That Into You”; Ben Affleck film 56 Prefix for place or print
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