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CATSKILL — Community members are fighting to keep Howard Street Park clean, after talk of removing the park’s benches arose recently. The park and its four benches are maintained by Cultivate Catskill. By day, residents enjoy the grounds during lunch hours but by night the park is home to littering and criminal activity, residents say. “The park is a great asset of the village,” Cultivate Catskill member Hudson Talbott said. “It gets abused by other people, especially

at night. Possibly even drug situations or exchanges occur there. There is a huge amount of litter. Volunteers are constantly cleaning up.” Howard Street’s problem is relatively unique, Talbott said. “At Leggio Park there’s benches and we don’t have this problem,” he said. The village board proposed to eliminate the benches to discourage loitering, Talbott said. “In some cases, our pocket parks are not being treated with the respect they deserve,” Village President Vincent Seeley said.

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THE DAY WE WATCHED IN AWE TH 8-10s top Albany Albany National 8-10 year-old All-Star Isiah Bickley slides safely in to third base. PAGE B1

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In a photo provided by NASA, Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin stands on the surface of the moon on July 20, 1969. Saturday is the 50th anniversary of the moon landing.

‘Send her back’ repudiated Nervous Republicans urge President Trump to disavow the “send her back” chant in N.C. PAGE A2

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In a photo provided by NASA, Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin stands on the surface of the moon on July 20, 1969. Though Neil Armstrong took many photos during the moonwalk, he appears in only a handful, such as this one, where he is reflected in Aldrin’s visor.

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In a photo provided by NASA, the Apollo 11 lunar lander Eagle, carrying Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin after a walk on the moon, returns to the command module Columbia carrying Michael Collins, who took this photo, for the journey back to Earth on July 21, 1969.

It was exactly 50 years ago today that the world reached a watershed moment — when astronauts set foot on the moon and changed the way we view the universe forever. On July 20, 1969, the Apollo 11 mission completed what some thought would never be possible when astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin safely landed on the moon and planted the flag of the United States as the third member of the crew, Michael Collins, orbited above them in the command module Columbia. For many, it was a moment they will never forget. “At that time, I was in college in Indiana and we all stayed up to watch it,” Greene County Historian David Dorpfeld recalled. “It was after midnight and it was a thrilling thing. I can’t think of anyone who wouldn’t stay up to watch that.” Dorpfeld said living through an event as monumental as the moon landing was something he will never forget. “We sat on lawn chairs and gazed up at the moon and we were just in awe thinking someone was landing on the moon,” Dorpfeld said. “It was an incredible event. It was unbelievable. Everybody was on the lawn looking up at the moon and dashed into the house to watch on TV when they actually touched down.” Hudson Mayor Rick Rector remembers watching the astronauts and being in awe. “I was a high school student attending a summer program at Illinois State University and I was glued to the television for one of the most fascinating aspects of my young life. I still See AWE A8

Tobacco age bill gets green-lighted By Melanie Lekocevic Columbia-Greene Media

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed legislation raising the age to purchase tobacco products from 18 to 21. The new law applies to both traditional tobacco products and e-cigarettes. “New York is taking aggressive action to stamp out smoking among teens and children, but tobacco and e-cigarette use still persists thanks to irresponsible corporate marketing campaigns targeting young people,” Cuomo said. “By raising the smoking age from 18 to 21, we can stop cigarettes and e-cigarettes from getting into the hands of young people in the first place and prevent an entire generation of New Yorkers from forming costly and potentially deadly addictions.” The bill will take effect in November, and makes New York the 17th state in the

nation to raise the age to 21. Smoking is the leading cause of preventable deaths in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. E-cigarette use, in particular, is rising among young people, with 20.8% of them using e-cigarettes, compared to 8.1% using traditional cigarettes, according to the CDC website. A study by the U.S. Surgeon General indicated e-cigarette use among high school students rose 78% from 2017 to 2018. Tobacco-Free Action of Columbia-Greene Counties Community Engagement Coordinator Lisa Heintz said e-cigarettes and vaping have seen a sharp rise in use among teenagers. From 2014 to 2018, there was a 160% increase in high school students using ecigarettes. Young people between the

ages of 18 and 21 purchasing tobacco products for younger teens in many cases help them start the habit, Heintz said. “Too many younger teens get cigarettes and vapes from older students who buy them legally,” Heintz said. “This law will go a long way to stopping that, especially in schools.” Assemblywoman Didi Barrett, D-106, voted for the legislation, but said she wants to see more done to combat the skyrocketing rates of vaping. “Raising the age to purchase tobacco products to 21 is an important step in keeping tobacco away from young people, and I was proud to support the legislation to do so this year,” Barrett said. “However, we still must do more to combat the epidemic of teen vaping. These products, with their candy-like flavors and marketing, have significantly See TOBACCO A8

Caroline Tompkins/The New York Times

The age to purchase both traditional cigarettes and e-cigarettes is being raised from 18 to 21 after Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the Tobacco 21 law this week.

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Pressed by Republicans, Donald Trump disavows ‘send her back’ Julie Hirschfeld Davis, Maggie Haberman and Michael Crowley

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WASHINGTON — Nervous Republicans, from senior members of Congress to his own daughter Ivanka, urged President Donald Trump on Thursday to repudiate the “send her back” chant directed at a Somali-born congresswoman during his speech the night before at a rally in North Carolina, amid widespread fears that the rally had veered into territory that could hurt their party in 2020. In response, Trump disavowed the behavior of his own supporters in comments to reporters at the White House and claimed that he had tried to contain it, an assertion clearly contradicted by video of the event. Trump said he was “not happy” with the chant directed at Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, D-Minn. At the rally Wednesday evening, the president had been in the middle of denouncing her as an antiAmerican leftist who has spoken in “vicious, anti-Semitic screeds,” when the chant was taken up by the crowd. Pressed on why he did not stop it, Trump said, “I think I did — I started speaking very quickly.” In fact, as the crowd roared “send her back,” Trump paused and looked around silently for more than 10 seconds as the scene unfolded in front of him, doing nothing to halt the chorus. “I didn’t say that,” he added. “They did.” Trump’s cleanup attempt reflected the misgivings of political allies who have warned him privately that however much his hard-core supporters in the arena might have enjoyed the moment, the president was playing with political fire, according to people briefed on the conversations. Among them were House Republican leaders, who pleaded with Vice President Mike Pence to distance the party from the message embraced by the crowd in Greenville, North Carolina. Pence conveyed that message directly to Trump, according to people familiar with the exchange. “That does not need to be our campaign call, like we did the ‘lock her up’ last time,” said Rep. Mark Walker, RN.C., a top official in the party’s messaging arm, referring to the chant that has broken out virtually every time Trump has mentioned Hillary Clinton at gatherings of his supporters since the 2016 campaign. Midway through that campaign, Trump told reporters he did not approve of that chant but he never intervened on the many occasions it occurred. Walker, who attended the rally Wednesday night, later posted on Twitter that he had “struggled” with the chant. “We cannot be defined by this,” he said. Trump’s inner circle immediately appreciated the gravity of the rally scene and quickly urged him to repudiate the chant. Ivanka Trump, his elder daughter and senior adviser, spoke to the president about it Thursday morning before he left the White House residence, the people familiar with the discussions said, speaking on condition of anonymity. The retreat by Trump reflects a larger issue for Republicans as they devise a strategy

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July 15, 2019, Washington, District of Columbia, USA — U.S. Rep. ILHAN OMAR (D-MN) speaks at a press conference and Reps. RASHIDA TLAIB (D-MI), ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ (D-NY), AYANNA PRESSLEY (D-MA) listen. Four Democratic progressive Congresswomen make a statement during a press conference at the U.S. Capitol about President Trump’s remarks telling them to ‘go back’ to their home countries which they deemed blatantly racist attacks.

for the election. There is wide agreement in the party that branding Democrats as radicals in favor of open borders and grandiose proposals like the Green New Deal could be a powerful argument in their attempt to hold the White House and make further inroads in Congress. But while Omar and her fellow liberal freshmen who make up “the squad” — Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan — are particularly good embodiments of that radicalism for Republicans, there is also concern that suggesting they leave the country makes the argument too personal and could backfire. Trump’s freewheeling campaign rallies — at which he aims for maximum entertainment value by testing boundaries and breaking taboos, all while his enthusiastic supporters egg him on with cheers and chants — encourage that kind of language. The feedback loop is so familiar by now that Trump’s staff, fearing something like what wound up happening Wednesday night, explicitly warned him before the rally that the crowd would follow his lead as he spoke about Omar and to be careful not to let things spin out of control. Even before Wednesday’s rally, his aides and advisers had spent days trying to manage the fallout from the president’s initial Sunday tweets calling on the four Democratic congresswomen, who he said “originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe,” to “go back” and “help fix” them. All of them are U.S. citizens, and all but Omar, a Somali refugee, were born in the United States. After the rally, Trump made no mention of any concern. “Just returned to the White House from the Great State of North Carolina. What a crowd, and what great people,” he tweeted. Congressional Republicans, who offered only muted protest over the president’s initial remarks about the congresswomen, gave a more vocal response to the spectacle in Greenville. Some suggested that the episode, with its intimations of political persecution and even physical force, had violated sacred democratic norms. “Those chants have no

place in our party or our country,” Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California, the Republican leader, told reporters. Even as they denounced the crowd’s chant, however, Republican leaders Thursday declined to criticize Trump personally. “There’s no place for that kind of talk,” Rep. Tom Emmer of Minnesota said to reporters in Washington after being asked about the chant. But, he added, “There’s not a racist bone in the president’s body.” Walker said he had raised the issue with Pence at a breakfast Thursday, saying the chant was “something that we want to address early,” before it became a staple of the president’s arena-style rallies. “We felt like this was going to be part of our discussion, to make sure that we are not defined by that.” Some of Trump’s Republican allies defended him against charges of racism while justifying his attacks on Omar. “I don’t think it’s racist to say,” Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina told reporters. “I don’t think a Somali refugee embracing Trump would be asked to go back. If you’re racist, you want everybody to go back because they are black or Muslim. That’s not what this is about. What this is about to me is that these four congresswoman, in their own way, have been incredibly provocative.” Omar responded Thursday by calling Trump a “fascist” but said there was nothing new about his behavior or the response of his supporters. She cited his years of false claims that Barack Obama was not born in the United States. “He does that every single day, and it’s no different,” Omar said at the Capitol. “What I’m going to be busy doing is uplifting people, and making sure they understand: Here in this country we are all Americans, we are all welcome, regardless of what he says.” House Democratic leaders said they were working to develop higher-level security protocols for Omar and her three colleagues, especially given an onslaught of

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threatening material on social media, where white nationalists have praised the president’s statements and the hashtag #SendHerBack was trending Thursday on Twitter. Ocasio-Cortez told reporters Thursday she was worried for her safety. Omar did not express concern for her own safety but worried aloud about fellow Muslim immigrants. “What I am scared for is the safety of people who share my identity,” said Omar, a Muslim who has stood out in Congress with colorful head coverings. “When you have a president who clearly thinks someone like me should go back, the message that he is sending is not for me, it is for every single person who shares my identity.” The latest criticism of Trump’s language comes two days after the House took the remarkable step of passing a resolution condemning his tweets and asserting that they were “racist comments that legitimized and increased hatred of new Americans and people of color.” Only four Republicans voted yes. All others, including Emmer and Walker, voted no. Hours before the president’s rally, the House killed an attempt to impeach Trump for the statements. But Thursday morning, his race- and ethnicity-based insults were cited by Rep. Peter Welch of Vermont, the latest Democrat to call for impeachment, as one piece of evidence that his presidency has “wrought an unprecedented and unrelenting assault on the pillars and guardrails of our democracy.” 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 Monday, July 22 n Catskill Village Planning Board 7 p.m. at the Catskill Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill

Tuesday, July 23 n Catskill Town Planning Board 7 p.m.

Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill

Wednesday, July 24

Kudish to present The Burn Index at the Catskill Center ARKVILLE — The Catskill Center will host Michael Kudish for an original presentation on Catskill forest history as part of the Catskill Center’s Member Program Series 7-8:30 p.m. July 20. Burn Index: A new way of looking at Catskills land use history, will be presented at the Catskill Center, 43355 Route 28, Arkville.

Via his new and unique analysis, Kudish examines Catskills locations where Native Americans and Europeans burned and farmed and where they did not. Participants will be among the first to see his most recent hand-drawn maps, which identify specific locations of this human activity over the centuries.

The map set represents the likelihood of any location being burned — from those places that did not burn at all, to those places that might have had an occasional fire, to those places that were repeatedly burned for millennia. The Catskill Center’s Member Program Series includes five, top-shelf

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n Athens Village Board 6:30 p.m. at Vil-

lage Hall, 2 First St., Athens n Catskill Village Board 7 p.m. at the Senior Center, Academy Street, Catskill n Greene County Legislature workshop regarding old jail 6 p.m. at the Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill

Thursday, Aug.1 n Cairo Town Planning Board 7 p.m. at the Town Hall, 512 Main St., Cairo

Monday, Aug.5 n Athens Town Board 6:45 p.m. at the Town Hall, 2 First St., Athens n Cairo Town Board 7 p.m. at the Town Hall, 512 Main St., Cairo n Greene County Board of Electrical Examiners 1 p.m.at the Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., 4th Floor, Room 469, Catskill

Thursday, Aug.8 n Coxsackie Village workshop meet-

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

Monday, Aug.12 n Catskill Village Planning Board 7 p.m.

at the Catskill Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill n Coxsackie Village Board 7 p.m. at Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie n Greenville CSD BOE business meeting public hearing district-wide school safety plan 6:30 p.m. MS/HS Library, 4976 Route 81, Greenville

Tuesday, Aug.13 n Coxsackie Village Preservation Committee 6 p.m. at Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

Wednesday, Aug.14 n Athens Village Board 6:30 p.m. at Vil-

lage Hall, 2 First St., Athens

Thursday, Aug.15 n Coxsackie Village Planning Board 7

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

Monday, Aug.19 n Athens Town Board 6:45 p.m. at the Town Hall, 2 First St., Athens

education programs designed exclusively for members. This program is open to the public and while membership is not required to attend, it is suggested that attendees take advantage of the membership special offered at the presentation. For information, call 845-586-2611 or email cccd@catskillcenter.org.

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

STATE POLICE n Anthony J. Fiorello, 23, of Bethpage, was arrested at 9:09 p.m. July 14 in Hunter and charged with seconddegree vehicular assault, a class E felony; operating a motor vehicle while impaired by drugs and reckless driving, both unclassified misdemeanors. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Brian R. Romero, 27, of Germantown, was arrested at 11:06 a.m. July 15 in New Baltimore and charged with first-degree criminal contempt, a class E felony. His arrestee status is unknown. n Frederick C. Zindell, 56, of East Durham, was arrested at 12:35 p.m. July 15 in Durham and charged with second-degree menacing, second-degree reckless endangerment and endangering the welfare of a child, all class A misdemeanors. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Thomas F. Bobb, 69, of East Durham, was arrested at 9:04 p.m. July 15 in Durham and charged with operating a motor vehicle with a blood-alcohol content greater than 0.08% and driving while intoxicated, both unclassified misdemeanors. He was issued an appearance ticket.

n Joseph L. Wenk, 39, of Purling, was arrested at 6:01 p.m. July 16 in Cairo and charged with third-degree unauthorized use of a vehicle, a class A misdemeanor. He was issued an appearance ticket. n William P. McGoorty, 66, of Wappingers Falls, was arrested at 10:31 p.m. in Durham and charged with operating a motor vehicle with a blood-alcohol content greater than 0.08% and driving while intoxicated, both unclassified misdemeanors. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Jeffrey Blanche, 14, of Albany, was arrested at 7:17

p.m. July 16 in Coxsackie and charged with operating a motor vehicle with a blood-alcohol content greater than 0.08% and driving while intoxicated, both unclassified misdemeanors. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Joseph Apuzzi, 27, of Catskill, was arrested at 11:18 p.m. July 16 in Athens and charged with seconddegree obstruction of governmental administration, a class A misdemeanor, and driving while intoxicated, an unclassified misdemeanor. He was held in lieu of cash bail.

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‘One giant leap for mankind’ In 1950, George Pal’s groundbreaking adventure film “Destination Moon” took a crew of astronautscientists to the lunar surface. Nineteen years later, the United States sent men to the moon, and sciencefiction became science-fact. At 8:17 p.m. on July 20, 1969, millions of people watched on television as Commander Neil Armstrong took that famous hop off the ladder of the lunar module Eagle and said, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” It was a moment unlike any other in human history. Men broke the bounds of their world and visited another. Seeing those dark, fuzzy images of the moon gave us a sense of peace and unlimited opportunity in

contrast to an Earth torn by the Vietnam War, assassinations and a ripping of the social fabric. The moon landing remains a tribute to American ingenuity and resourcefulness. Viewing it from today’s vantage point of the internet, powerful high-speed computers and digital prowess, it’s difficult to believe the astronauts made this journey in a tin-can capsule guided by NASA technicians making calculations with slide-rules and clunky, behemoth-sized computers. For a brief time, the moon landing helped transform the world. Much of the technology we use — and take for granted — today have grown out of the post-Apollo era, including high-definition flat-screen televisions, com-

puters we hold in the palm of our hands and the rapid communication of information that is the hallmark of life in 21st century America. It’s sad to think the generations that came of age after the moon landing didn’t get the chance to share in that rush of pride and emotion on the evening of July 20, 1969. It’s possible that we have become so jaded by the neverending waves of information on our cell phones that we’ve lost sight of the scientists and technicians who achieved history with primitive instruments by today’s standards. To forget what happened 50 years ago is to forget that we sent men to another world and brought them back. That is nothing short of miraculous.

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Italy has callous and cynical disregard for asylum seekers The Washington Post

On July 7, 41 asylum seekers disembarked at the Italian port of Lampedusa after a rescue boat picked them up off the coast of Libya. The Alex was the second charity vessel to defy the “closed ports” decree of Italy’s interior minister, Matteo Salvini, sparking outrage from the far-right populist government. The ship’s captain is being investigated for abetting illegal immigration - the result of a security decree passed last month that threatens nongovernment rescue vessels with seizures and fines of up to $57,000 for bringing unauthorized refugees into territorial waters. Salvini’s crackdown on asylum seekers is part of a larger trend. The number of people fleeing to Europe from Africa and the Middle East has fallen dramatically since the 2015 migratory crisis peak, but European countries are becoming increasingly draconian in their refugee policies - in some respects, even more so than the Trump administration. This month’s events in

Italy closely follow the arrest of rescue ship captain Carola Rackete on June 28 under similar circumstances. Both boats spent days stranded at sea before eventually docking, and both of their organizations were fined. Fortunately, the Italian judge overseeing Rackete’s case lifted her house arrest, arguing that she was fulfilling her duty to protect life and should not be detained as prosecutors continue to investigate. A third charity ship, the Alan Kurdi, was also denied permission to enter Italian waters last week. The vessel, carrying 65 refugees shipwrecked off the coast of Libya, eventually had to change course to Malta as conditions on board reached a point of emergency. In 2018, 116,647 people crossed the Mediterranean Sea to Europe, compared with more than 1 million three years earlier. In barring rescuers from transporting the comparatively few migrants who still seek refuge on Italian shores, Salvini is asking refugee

organizations to break longstanding international laws, including an obligation under the Law of the Sea treaty to help any person in danger at sea. Philanthropic organizations should not be prevented from offering salvation in life-threatening situations. Italy should withdraw last month’s decree and end the penalizing of charity vessels that are protecting vulnerable lives. Salvini should allow asylum seekers to disembark and relocate safely. The European Union is also complicit as it supports the Libyan coast guard in returning refugees and migrants to Libya when they are discovered at sea. An airstrike on the Tajoura detention center outside Tripoli on July 2, which killed at least 53 migrants, tragically demonstrated that the migrants are being forced to return to an unsafe area. The EU should be protecting those fleeing war-torn nations by taking responsibility for rescue missions instead of colluding to have refugees returned.

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The puzzling problem of vaping SAN FRANCISCO — A 29-story office building at 123 Mission St. illustrates the policy puzzles that fester because of these facts: For centuries, tobacco has been a widely used legal consumer good that does serious and often lethal harm when used as it is intended to be used. And its harmfulness has been a well-established and widely publicized scientific proposition for generations. The building is the headquarters of Juul, a large company that markets vaping products — electronic cigarettes — that has been running fullpage ads in major newspapers ostensibly attempting to limit sales of its product: “Youth vaping is a serious problem” that justifies “cracking down on underage sales at retail stores” and removing from stores “flavored products.” Juul’s flavors include mint, mango, fruit and cucumber. Other companies’ flavors have included “Unicorn Puke” and “Zombie Juice.” The target audience is not mature. This city, Juul’s host, recently banned such products from being sold in stores or online and delivered to city addresses. Its purpose is to limit cigarette smoking, the nation’s foremost cause of preventable death. Well. In 2016, cigarette companies spent $8.7 billion advertising and otherwise promoting their products, 34% more than the total spending by all presidential and congressional campaigns ($6.5 billion) in the 2016 cycle. The companies claim that their primary aim is to enlarge market share, not enlarge the market by creating new smokers, and especially not young ones. However, the companies know that few people begin smoking after 21, so if there is to be a future market for the companies’ products … . Altria, maker of Marlboro and other brands, has invested $12.8 billion in Juul. Some smokers who cannot

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WILL quit can transition to e-cigarettes, which deliver large doses of nicotine but are less harmful than inhaling smoke from burning tobacco. More people under 18 vape than smoke. For some, e-cigarettes will be a gateway to real ones: Data show that vapers are more likely than non-vapers to become smokers, but that although teen smoking has stopped declining, it remains at a historic low. More than three million high school pupils (one in five) and half a million middle school pupils vape. America is in a rapidly expanding mass experiment with a new product, and it will be a while before there is sufficient data to estimate whether it will be a net public health benefit. In 1906 — 302 years after King James I called smoking “harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs,” and 299 years after he planted Jamestown in Virginia, whose tobacco enhanced his treasury — a character in an O. Henry short story said, “Say, sport, have you got a coffin nail on you?” This was long before the surgeon general declared tobacco carcinogenic (1964) and addictive (1988). Today, cigarettes are stigmatized by common sense, social disparagement and government, whose best cost-benefit ratio involves the dissemination of public health warnings. When vaping among high schoolers increases 78% in one year (from 2017 to 2018), it has become a fashion fad that is

flourishing in the absence of credible frightening information. But, then, after more than half a century of the aggressive dissemination of such information, 16% of American adults still smoke. In “The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer,” Siddhartha Mukherjee, an oncologist, writes, “In the turbulent century between 1850 and 1950, the world offered conflict, atomization, and disorientation. The cigarette offered its equal and opposite salve: camaraderie, a sense of belonging, and the familiarity of habits. If cancer is the quintessential product of modernity, then so, too, is its principal preventable cause: tobacco.” So, perhaps some causes of increased vaping resemble those of the current opioid epidemic, which echoes the alcohol crisis that accompanied the mass movement of Americans from farms to cities early in the 20th century. But while San Francisco anathematizes vaping, what Mukherjee says remains true: “One of the most potent and common carcinogens known to humans can be freely bought and sold at every corner store for a few dollars.” More cigarettes might be sold because of bans on vaping products — because smokers cannot use e-cigarettes to stop smoking, or because teenaged vapers will move on to readily available cigarettes. Perhaps instead of bans California should revive the anti-smoking ads that three decades ago reduced the number of smokers 17% in three years: “I tried it once and I, ah, got all red in the face and I couldn’t inhale and I felt like a jerk and, ah, never tried it again which is the same as what happened to me with sex.” George Will’s email address is georgewill@washpost.com. (c) 2019, Washington Post Writers Group

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Trump, GOP sneak a Trojan horse into 2020 dialogue: Democrats are ‘anti-American’ Aaron Blake The Washington Post

One byproduct of President Donald Trump’s norm-busting presidency is that what used to be regarded as beyond the pale is suddenly normalized. With the envelope being pushed so far and the larger provocations dominating the news, lesser ones slip by largely unnoticed. Such is the case with Trump’s “go back” rhetoric and the “send her back” chants it spawned. While our focus has been trained on whether it’s OK to hint that political opponents should leave the country, Trump and his fellow Republicans have sneaked a Trojan horse of a talking point into the 2020 debate. That talking point: that their Democratic opponents are anti-American. One of the first members to criticize the “send her back” chants about Somali American Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) Wednesday night in North Carolina was Rep. Mark Walker, RN.C. But even while he tweeted that the chants were “painful to our friends in the minority communities,” he qualified it by saying that Omar’s “history, words & actions reveal her great disdain for both America & Israel.” Calling for the deportation of lawful American citizens who

have committed no crimes? That’s bad. Saying they hate this country? That’s apparently OK — even in the same breath. Trump laid the groundwork in his tweets Sunday that launched the current controversy, labeling the four nonwhite Democratic freshman congresswomen “anti-Semitic” and “anti-America.” By Monday morning, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., suggested Trump should “aim higher” and not attack people personally, but he also said these members “hate our own country” and are “antiAmerica.” Some have been more careful to label the members comments and positions as antiAmerican, rather than them personally. Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said “many of the things that has come out of the mouths of these four freshman congresswomen is offensive, it is anti-American.” Rep. Sean Duffy, R-Wis., caused a stir on the House floor by mentioning the “anti-American” portion of Trump’s tweet, which Democrats argued violated rules against personal attacks. He later clarified that he was referring to “anti-American comments.” “I’ve never called them anti-American,” Duffy assured. “The people of Alabama have had enough watching the

anti-Semitic, anti-American, socialist Dems degrade our nation,” Rep. Bradley Byrne, RAla., tweeted. “Montanans are sick and tired of listening to anti-American, anti-Semite, radical Democrats trash our country and our ideals,” Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., added in a tweet that earned a retweet from Trump. Back in 2008, then-Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., suggested Barack Obama “may have anti-American views.” It was such a big deal that Bachmann apologized, apparently fearing for her reelection. And that was just talking about Obama’s views — not him personally. By 2015, Rudy Giuliani was barking up a similar tree, saying he didn’t believe Obama “loves America.” Many top Republicans raised concerns, including top potential 2016 presidential candidates. Among them? Now-Vice President Mike Pence, who said, “I don’t think it helps to question the president’s patriotism or motives,” and Graham, who defended Obama by saying, “I have no doubt that he loves his country, I have no doubt that he’s a patriot.” Apparently that doesn’t apply to Omar and the Democrats in 2019.

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Albert P. Brousseau Albert P. Brousseau (1928- He was an avid skier and well 2019) known season pass holder at PHILMONT - Albert P. Brous- Catamount Ski Area, skiing right seau. 90, of Philmont died peace- up until his late 80’s. He passed fully with family by his side on on his love of the sport to his sons Wednesday, July 17, 2019. and grandchildren. Born on September 17, 1928 Albert also enjoyed being asin Worcester, Massachusetts, sociated with the many activison of Leo and Lillian Brous- ties related to his family’s raising seau, he attended Southbridge of sheep and other livestock on High School. He enlisted in the the family farm since 1970. He U.S. Army directly from high enjoyed attending local county school as World War II fairs with his wife and was ending and was a watching his grandchilveteran of the Korean dren show their prized War. He went on to atanimals at both the Cotend Cushing Academy lumbia and Dutchess and then St. Anselm’s County Fairs for many College in Manchester, years. Survivors include New Hampshire earning his four sons: Kevin his Bachelor’s degree Brousseau (Linda) of Sain Business Adminisranac Lake, NY, Robert tration. He married his Brousseau Brousseau (Joanne) of beloved wife, Nancy in 1953. Albert, his wife and young Philmont, Jay Brousseau (Leah) family moved to Philmont in of Ghent, and Kerry Brousseau 1964 where he became the Vice (Cynda) of Philmont. He was very President of Charter Supply and proud of his grandchildren: Brenwas a member of the Society of dan, Corey, KC, Ashley, Chris, Plastic Engineers. He joined the Dustin, Ryan, Kyle, Collin, Megan Philmont Volunteer Fire Com- and his great-grandchildren. He pany serving the fire department was pre-deceased by his lovin various positions and on many ing wife, Nancy and only sibling, committees for over 50 years. He Raymond. There are no calling hours and was a former Village Board member, local Boy Scout Troop lead- services are private at the request er and an active member of the of the family. Arrangements are Claverack Republican Commit- with the Bates & Anderson Futee as well as the Minkler-Seery neral Home. A memorial to celeAmerican Legion Post 252. He brate Albert’s life and service as a enjoyed marching in the annual U.S. veteran will be held at a later Philmont Memorial Day parade date to be determined. Memorial and was recently recognized for donations may be made to the his five decades of participation. Philmont Fire Company.

Richard E. Heath Richard E. Heath of Philmont died Sunday July 14, 2019 at his home. He was 62. Born in Arlington, VA, he was the son of Kenneth Heath of Philmont and the late Betty Lou (Wasner) Heath. After High School, Richard earned his Bachelor Degree in Electrical Engineering. Richard was an Electrical Engineer for Bell Laboratories in Chicago, IL and Siemens International. He loved his feline friends including his cat (Beautiful). In addition to his father he is survived by 3 sis-

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Paul T. Kubler Paul T. Kubler, age 68 years, of South Cairo, N.Y. passed away on July 18, 2019, at Albany Medical Center, Albany, N.Y. He was born on November 21, 1950, in Catskill, N.Y. and is the son of the late Paul Eugene and Ellen Mary (Cole) Kubler. Besides his parents, he is predeceased by his aunts Johanna Kubler and Mary Orrin. Survivors include his loving wife of 48 years Joan M. (Barber)Kubler, his stepsons Donald and Robert Mudge, his cousin Alex Orin and his wife Barbara and dear friends Donald Thorne Jr. and Colleen O’Connell. During his lifetime, he loved classic cars, and spending time with his wife and Seniors on Sunday. Paul proudly served in The United States Army and The Army National Guard. He was employed by The Greene County Highway Department, was a heavy equipment operator and did snow plowing for the county.

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Four Chicago police officers fired for cover-up of shooting Mitch Smith The New York Times News Service

CHICAGO — On an autumn night in 2014, a black teenager named Laquan McDonald was shot dead by a Chicago police officer. Nearly five years later, on Thursday, a city oversight board voted to fire four other officers accused of covering up the circumstances of Laquan’s death. In Chicago, Laquan McDonald’s death touched off years of political upheaval and led to promises to overhaul the Police

Department. On Thursday, the Chicago Police Board voted to fire four other officers for their actions after the shooting: Sgt. Stephen Franko and Officers Ricardo Viramontes, Janet Mondragon and Daphne Sebastian. The Police Board found that Franko signed off on false reports about what happened and that Officers Viramontes, Mondragon and Sebastian provided accounts of the shooting that were contradicted by video.

Arctic summer melt shows ice is disappearing faster than normal Jeremy Hodges Bloomberg

Ice covering the Arctic Ocean reached the second-lowest level recorded for this time of year after July temperatures spiked in areas around the North Pole. The rate of ice loss in the region is a crucial indicator for the world’s climate and a closely-watched metric by bordering nations jostling for resources and trade routes. This month’s melt is tracking close to the record set in July 2012, the Coloradobased National Snow & Ice Data Center said in a statement. This year’s heatwave in the Arctic Circle

has led to record temperatures in areas of Alaska, Canada and Greenland, extending long-term trends of more ice disappearing. Ice flows are melting faster than average rates observed over the last three decades, losing an additional 20,000 square kilometers (12,427 miles) of cover per day -- an area about the size of Wales. Ice begins melting in the Arctic as spring approaches in the northern hemisphere, and then it usually starts building again toward the end of September as the days grow shorter and cooler. The U.K.’s Met Office said that the chance of a record low by September “is higher than it has been in

the previous few years.” This summer, several dramatic images showing the pace and extent of Arctic ice melt have been seen around the world underlining the harsh reality of global warming and the struggle governments face in trying to slow it down. Globally, June was the hottest year on record, according to the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. The satellite service said that an “unprecedented” number of wild fires are currently raging in the Arctic Circle with over 100 burning in the last few weeks in the Sakha Republic of Siberia and Alaska.

Hong Kong protesters who stormed legislative building seek asylum in Taiwan, report says Iain Marlow and Adela Lin Bloomberg

Dozens of Hong Kong protesters involved in the ransacking of the city’s Legislative Council this month have arrived in Taiwan to seek asylum, the Apple Daily newspaper reported. About 30 protesters have already landed in Taiwan, while as many as 30 others - and possibly more - are planning to try soon, the Hong Kong newspaper said, citing unidentified people who assisted them. The fleeing activists were part of the group that smashed into the legislature on July 1, the paper said. The people who assisted the protesters told the paper they had been in contact with Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council, which handles the island’s relations with Beijing, to seek help. The council hasn’t received any formal asylum applications from Taiwan’s National Immigration Agency, its deputy minister Chiu Chui-cheng said in a text message. If Taiwan receives any applications, authorities will handle them appropriately based on existing regulations and the principle of protecting human rights, Chiu added. A flight to Taiwan by Hong Kong asylum seekers would be fraught with geopolitical risk. It threatens to raise tensions between the administration of Taiwanese President Tsai IngWen, a China critic who’s up for re-election in January, and

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Demonstrators break into the Legislative Council building during a protest on July 1, 2019.

Chinese President Xi Jinping, who has already faced embarrassment over the global attention paid to Hong Kong’s antigovernment protests. Hong Kong’s historic demonstrations over legislation that would allow extraditions to the mainland for the first time have resonated widely in democratically run Taiwan, which China considers a wayward province. The Taiwan Association for Human Rights, a top local non-governmental organization, wouldn’t comment on the case. “We cannot divulge any information regarding any individual case,” said

Secretary-General, Chiu Eling. “If there are individuals who approach us for help, we’ll interview these people and help them get in touch with government officials if that is what they wish.” Protesters used a metal cart as a battering ram to break their way into the legislative building on the anniversary of Hong Kong’s return from British rule, spray-painting slogans on its chamber’s walls and draping a Union Jack-emblazoned colonial flag across the dais. At the time, Hong Kong’s leader Carrie Lam condemned the “extreme use of violence and vandalism” and

Murderer deemed too old for violence was convicted of another killing Adeel Hassan The New York Times News Service

A murderer with a long history of violence against women — but who had been freed from prison and deemed unlikely to hurt anyone again because of his advancing age — was convicted by a jury in Maine this week in the stabbing death of a mother of twin boys. It took the jury less than an hour to convict Albert Flick, 77, for the 2018 murder of Kimberly Dobbie, 48, who was slain in front of her 11-year-old twins outside a laundromat in Lewiston, Maine, a city of 36,000. The killing itself was shocking but so was Flick’s violent past, leaving Dobbie’s family and others in the town to question why he was ever allowed to be freed. “There is no age that is ‘too old’ to commit murder,” Elsie Kimball Clement, daughter of Sandra Flick, said last year. “He never should have been on the streets.” Forty years ago, Albert Flick was living in Westbrook, Maine, working at a doughnut shop and facing the end of his marriage. His wife, Sandra Flick, served him with divorce papers and had police officers remove him from their apartment. But, when he came to get his belongings, he was armed with a jackknife. Sandra Flick’s daughter from an earlier marriage, Elsie, hid in a bedroom and watched as Albert Flick bent

her mother’s arm behind her back and covered her mouth with his hand. The daughter fled the apartment. When a neighbor went up to check on Sandra Flick, he saw Albert Flick on the stairs, covered in blood, and found Sandra Flick stabbed four times in the neck and chest, and once through her heart. Flick was convicted in his wife’s murder and spent 25 years in prison. But the violence continued after his release: He was convicted of punching and stabbing a woman — who a prosecutor said was a girlfriend — with a fork in 2007, and of assaulting and threatening another woman with whom, a prosecutor said, he had a sexual relationship, in 2010. A prosecutor then urged a judge to sentence Flick to about eight years in prison, calling him a danger to society and women. Despite his age — then in his late 60s — she told the judge that he was not about to stop. Judge Robert E. Crowley cut that recommendation in half, sending Flick back to prison for less than four years. “At some point Mr. Flick is going to age out of his capacity to engage in this conduct,” Crowley said, “and incarceration beyond the time he ages out doesn’t seem to me to make good sense from a criminological or fiscal perspective.” Crowley retired as a judge shortly afterward, and he now

works in alternative dispute resolution at a law firm in Portland. Last July, Flick killed Dobbie in a nearly identical stabbing attack to the one on his wife. Prosecutors said that Flick was obsessed with Dobbie, 48, who was homeless and living in a shelter. She would go to the library during the day, when the shelter required residents to be out of the building. That is where Flick met her and began following her, even eating meals at the shelter. Flick offered to buy her sons the healthy lunches she could not always afford. “She was just plain out of money,” Katharyn Cormier, a resident at the shelter told The Times last year, “and any mother’s going to accept that.” Dobbie’s friends said that he followed her everywhere, despite being asked to leave her alone. She also spurned his romantic overtures. She and her sons had just been awarded an apartment of their own, outside Lewiston before her death. The day before caseworkers were going to take them to their new home, Dobbie was stabbed to death. In court, Flick wore black headphones, to help him hear the proceedings. Flick faces 25 years to life in prison during his sentencing hearing, set for Aug. 9. Maine has no death penalty. This time the prosecutor will seek a life term.

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Dogs love dens. They go together like kids and candy. They’re meant for each other. My wolfy babies love to stretch out under tables and scrunch under bureaus and beds if they can squeeze in. When outside, they curl up under trees with low-hanging branches, big bushes, and the small space under the back stoop. When my pups are three weeks old, I put chairs and small, doorless crates in the play room, and consistently find the kids snuggled under and in these “man-made” dens. In my family room, a Great Dane crate with the door open is a permanent fixture. When the gang comes in after dinner, my new-to-the-household guests are amused and fascinated to watch four adult German Shepherd Dogs trying to cram into the crate first, to claim ownership. Many years past, the advent of the crate as a housebreaking tool revolutionized early potty training. Most “raised in the home” breeders like myself, introduced the little ones to nighttime crating at seven to eight weeks of age. My pups were put to bed on newspapers and a soft towel, accompanied by their bite-sized shank bones. Each animal had his or her own “den.” Whimpers alerting us to “the call” were responded to by lights on, followed by the potty run. With luck, we’d all settle in for another 2 to 3 hours of shut-eye. Occasionally there was a “miss,” the misses were ignored, the not-so-silent signal to go was consistently rewarded, and our overachieving canine kids were well on their way to learning the intricacies of bowel and bladder control; i.e., to hold it! Complementing this bedtime management system, were occasional brief stints in crates during the day. Canine professionals were always quick to point out that in addition to a positive and effective housebreaking tool, most crate-trained pups grew up to be relaxed and reliable housedogs, with or without access to

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their youthful, cherished dens. Unless — and here comes the inevitable “unless” — this practice was carried to the extreme: the old “too much of a good thing” motto. Like the delicate juggling act which must be rehearsed daily for us to maintain balance in all things, responsibility must be assumed by us for our beloved companions, especially where crating and time decisions are concerned. Those beautiful, accurate, visual images of a den of wolves, coyotes, foxes and more, instinctual by nature, can be tainted by inappropriate and excessive confinement decisions made on behalf of our domesticated dogs. God’s blessings to all the generous souls who opened their homes to 10 dogs and 17 cats at our open house in June. What a fabulous group of adopters approved who blessed both our halls, and the lives of so many deserving

felines and canines. Thank you! Feel free to call us with any questions at 518-828-6044 or visit www.cghs.org. Stop down and see us at 111 Humane Society Road, off Route 66 (about a mile south of the intersection with Route 9H) in Hudson. Our hours are 11:30 a.m.-4 p.m. every day. The Food Bank is open to any from the public in need of pet food or for those wishing to donate food anytime during business hours. All of our cats and kittens are “Furrever Free” with all expenses paid. Spay/ neuter clinics for cats are $76 male or female, including a rabies vaccination and a 5-in-1 feline distemper combination vaccination. Nail clipping services are available 10-11 a.m. every Saturday at the shelter, no appointment necessary, for a donation of $5 for cats and $10 for dogs. Charlene Marchand is the Chairperson of the Columbia-Greene Humane Society/SPCA Board of Directors. She may be contacted at cghsaaron@gmail.com.

Dunkin’ representatives present a nearly $32,000 donation to the Bernard & Millie Duker Children’s Hospital at Albany Med during an event at the hospital in Albany on June 27. The donation is the result of Dunkin’s recent Iced Coffee Day campaign during which Dunkin’ franchisees donated $1 from every cup of Iced Coffee sold at participating Dunkin’ restaurants in the Capital Region to the children’s hospital. Iced Coffee Day has generated more than $245,000 for the Bernard & Millie Duker Children’s Hospital at Albany Med since 2012. From left are twoyear-old Logan Fogg; Logan’s mother, Jennifer Fogg; Dunkin’ Integrated Marketing Manager Eric Stensland; Dunkin’ Franchisee Kevin Wright; Dunkin’ Brands Operations Manager Tom Juers; Director of the Bernard & Millie Duker Children’s Hospital at Albany Med Dr. Barbara Ostrov; Dunkin’ Franchisee Nicole Teixeira; Dunkin’ Franchisee Christina Teixeira; and Dunkin’ Franchisee Al Prudencio.

College Corner ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROCHESTER — The following local residents made the Dean’s List at Rochester Institute of Technology for the 2019 spring semester. Lance Malone of Freehold, Mason Chase of Prattsville, Colleen Hazelton of Selkirk, Michaela Cohen of Saugerties, Nicholas Hummer of Saugerties, Michael Jones of Selkirk, Johan Melanson of Delmar, Zach Burns of Ravena, Samantha Smith of Delmar, Aine Tobin of Delmar, Lucy Zhang of Ravena, Zach Libby of Delmar, Sean Lewis of Delmar, Nate Sunderhaft of Delmar.

CATSKILL — Darrel Gumbs of Catskill graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology in May 2019 with an AAS in laboratory science technology.

SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — Springfield College has named the following area students to the Dean’s List for academic excellence for the 2019 Spring Semester. Samantha Scott of Athens, Cormac Tolan of Greenville.

SUNY OSWEGO OSWEGO — Students earning a grade point average of 3.3 to 3.79 appear on SUNY Oswego’s spring 2019 Deans’ List,

including several from the area. Jacob E. Sheingold of Delmar, Lillian C. Talmage of Delmar, Grace A. Casscles of Catskill, Ryan A. Zampella of Coeymans Hollow, Olivia L. Colon of East Durham, Carley R. Estep of Preston Hollow. OSWEGO — SUNY Oswego has named high-performing students to the President’s List for spring 2019. Mike D. Lemieux of Delmar, Christian P. DiBiase of Ravena, Christopher S. Wallace of Coxsackie, Kain A. Coffey of Purling, Nicole A. Frisbie of Saugerties, Alexandra M. Millham of Saugerties, Sam D. Waldron of Saugerties.

Delgado announces town halls in Dutchess and Greene counties WASHINGTON, DC — Representative Antonio Delgado announced he will hold his 15th and 16th town halls in NY-19 in Dutchess and Greene counties. Delgado held his first town hall in Dutchess County in Pine Plains, and recently held a youth town hall with students from Arlington High School. Monday’s town hall will be Rep. Delgado’s second town hall in Greene County, he previously held a

town hall in Tannersville. “Talking to folks, hearing their concerns and using my position as their elected representative to address them is the most important part of my job. I look forward to holding my fifteenth and sixteenth town halls in my home county of Dutchess on Saturday and in Greene County on Monday,” said Delgado. “Despite all of the noise going on in Washington, I am squarely

focused on doing the work, and I’m looking forward to hearing from everyone.” Details for Rep. Delgado’s upcoming town halls can be found below: Dutchess County Town Hall, Amenia Town Hall, 4988 Route 22, Amenia, 5-6 p.m. July 20. Greene County Town Hall, Subversive Malting + Brewing’s Beer Café, 414 Main St., Catskill, 6:30–7:30 p.m. July 22. D O I N G I T R I G H T. D O I N G I T G R E E N . D O I N G I T N OW.

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Church Briefs CHICKEN BARBECUE COEYMANS HOLLOW — Trinity United Methodist Church, 1313 Route 143, Coeymans Hollow, will be having a chicken barbecue 4-7 p.m. July 20 in the parking lot. Menu includes half chicken, potato, corn on cob, cole slaw and dessert. The cost is $12. Also Christmas in July with many beautiful decorations on display and for sale. For information, call 518-756-2091 the day of.

HEALING FESTIVAL GREENWICH — Veterans, first responders, firemen or emergency medical technicians who have suffered trauma in the line of duty — or those who have experienced sexual or physical abuse at some point in their life — are invited to attend a Healing Festival 4-8 p.m. July 20 at the Christ the King Center, 575 Burton Road in Greenwich. Held outside under a large outdoor tent with idyllic vistas of Southern Washington County, the event will begin at 4 p.m. with a community chicken barbecue and pig roast featuring folk/Christian music by This Time Around. Dr. Mike Hutchings, director of education for Global Awakening, an evangelistic ministry in Mechanicsburg, PA, will then give a keynote presentation at 7 p.m. A prayer service will follow with musical accompaniment provided by the Hoosic Valley Community Church Worship Band. To register or for more information including lodging opportunities, contact Deacon Marian Sive at 518-6929550 or email msive@ctkcenter.org.

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in Our Country presents Mega Gospel Celebration will be held 5-8 p.m. July 20 at the Columbia County Fairgrounds, 182 Hudson Ave., Chatham. Free tickets are available by registering on Eventbrite@ megagospel. For information, text 518-653-2008 or klsomic@ aol.com.

TALK AND MEDITATION HUNTER — “The Wisdom of Love,” free public program featuring Charlie Hogg, National Coordinator of Brahma Kumaris Australia, 4:30-6 p.m. July 21 at Peace Village Retreat Center, Route 23A, Haines Falls. Talk, meditation and refreshments. For information and to register, call 518-5895000 or email events@peacevillageretreat.org.

ANNUAL RUMMAGE SALE CATSKILL — Temple Israel of Catskill, 220 Spring St., Catskill, will hold their annual rummage sale 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. July 21. Furniture, household goods, leather goods, garden supplies, and brand new shoes and clothing will be available at incredible prices. Also on July 21, a pancake breakfast will run concurrently with the tag sale. Delicious plain, chocolate chip, or blueberry pancakes will be served from 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. The cost of the breakfast for adults is $7 and $4 for children 10 and younger. For information, call 518-943-5758.

TENT MEETINGS WINDHAM — Hope Restoration Christian Fellowship, 117 Route 296, Windham, will hold a tent meeting at 11 a.m. July 21. Gene Caropreso will be the speaker. He graduated from WAJ in 2001 and after receiving his Masters degree from Ithaca College, moved to NYC and started a career in

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FAMILY GAME NIGHT WINDHAM — Hope Restoration Christian Fellowship, 117 Route 296, Windham, will hold Family Game Night 6-8 p.m. July 26, Aug. 9 and Aug. 23. In addition to free pizza, there will be board games, word games corn hole and more. Families are encouraged to bring their favorite games. Game night will be held rain or shine.

ICE CREAM SOCIAL GREENVILLE — St. John the Baptist Church, 4987 Route 81, Greenville, will be hosting an Ice Cream Social 4-7 p.m. July 30 at St. John’s Hall. A free-will offering will be accepted.

WOMEN’S EXPO WINDHAM — The Women’s Expo will be held 10 a.m.4 p.m. Aug. 17 at St. Theresa’s, 5188 Route 23, Windham. Admission by donation. Listen to country, folk, rock’n’roll and blue grass music while you have a delicious sandwich or more at Karen’s Country Kitchen. Browse a wide variety of vendors, have a free chair massage or acupressure treatment, enter the putting contest, learn about beekeeping or knitting, or enter a raffle. Treat yourself to a free fitness class. Talk to WRIP 97.9FM broadcast co-hosts Jay Fink and Sonny Ochs. And much more. Something for everyone. All ages. Girls and women. Boys and men. Then head on down Main Street to the car show or up Main Street to the Greek Festival.

It has been a long time since I have said “we could use some rain” as I write this on July 17. The weather pattern we have settled into with warm, muggy, days triggering late afternoon thunderstorms may or may not provide some much needed precipitation, depending on where you live. Make sure you have some rain barrels set up to capture any brief showers that may occur. Quick downpours contribute little to soil moisture if it runs off before the soil is saturated. I still have a 55 gallon barrel and a half to use for irrigation of my potted plants and my window box. I am concerned about bacteria growing in my rain barrels as the water is now quite stagnant. I did a search and learned that it only requires about 2 teaspoons of household bleach to disinfect 55 gallons of water. That just does not seem like enough, but I will do it anyway. There is still plenty of time to plant some vegetables that can be harvested this fall. By now there may be some space in the garden where your zucchini plants have died or perhaps you have harvested all the peas, beans, radishes and lettuce that you can stand for a while. A fall crop of turnips, beets, spinach, carrots or even more salad greens is achievable if you plant right now. You can actually plant lettuce and greens well into August. Lettuce seed does not germinate well when the soil surface temperature is over 80 degrees. To solve this problem, lay a wooden board such as a 2 by 6 on top of the seeded area

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BEYFUSS and check underneath it every few days. The board will keep the soil cool and moist. As soon as the seed germinates, remove the board. You can also plant greens in the shade cast by taller crops, such as tomatoes or corn. Until last year I had never grown carrots in my garden because. 1. I am not all that fond of carrots as a vegetable, in general; 2. I have never had soil that was suitable, in my opinion, for growing carrots. Turns out I was wrong about that. Carrots grow quite well even in heavy, clay soil if it is well tilled, especially in a raised bed, such as I employ. After talking to a few other gardeners, who grow carrots faithfully every year, I decided to give them a try. I had been told that fresh carrots from the garden taste totally unlike any store bought ones and that intrigued me. Well, that turned out to be the truth and now carrots will be planted every year in the space that becomes available after I harvest my garlic. They really do taste different than supermarket produce. Right now is also a good time to plant ornamentals,

including perennials, trees and shrubs. They will require a little extra care, especially watering, but there is plenty of time for them to establish a good root system before cold weather sets in. In fact the shorter days and cool nights we will soon be experiencing put less overall stress on them in general. Roots will continue to grow well into the fall, even after the foliage fades and drops. Local garden centers and nurseries will soon be having sales that you should take advantage of. Container grown plants at the garden center may look a little “ratty” right now, especially spring flowering perennials and shrubs, but they will look great next year in your yard. Before you buy, if the garden center allows it, pop the plant out of its pot to examine the roots. If they are white in color and tightly wound in circles in the pot, it is fine. If the root system is missing or sparse, don’t buy it. When you plant them, take a knife and slice the roots vertically and tease them out so they grow outward and not in a circle as they did in the pot. This is not a great time to establish a new lawn since grass seed also does not germinate well when soil temperature is this warm. Wait until late August or early September. Finally, avoid spraying or applying any weed killers right now. Many of these chemicals volatize in hot weather and may end up damaging your vegetable garden 50 yards away. Reach Bob Beyfuss at rlb14@cornell.edu.

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consider it a milestone in our history,” Rector said. The event drew the attention of people across the globe. Around 600 million people — a fifth of the world’s population — saw Armstrong set foot on the moon, a viewership record that stood until Lady Diana Spencer married Prince Charles in 1981. All three major American broadcast networks — CBS, NBC and ABC — covered the Apollo 11 mission, and in the United States, 94% of people watching television were tuned in to the event. People who did not own TV sets or found themselves away from

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increased nicotine use among teenagers after decades of decline, and it is harming young people’s developing brains. I’ll keep working with my Assembly colleagues to craft additional legislation to address this public health crisis.” Assemblyman Chris Tague, R-102, voted for the bill — dubbed “Tobacco 21” — when it was in the Assembly. “My vote on raising the tobacco age to 21 speaks for itself,” Tague said. “We need to be encouraging good decision-making in our young folks. Setting the age at 21 will help to pull tobacco products out of high schools and limit

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“We are getting complaints from visitors, residents and business owners that they are finding everything from cigarette butts to beer cans in the parks.” Seeley is also concerned about people staying in the parks for extended periods of time, he said. “More concerning to me is that some of the transients parking themselves on the benches for hours at a time are being a menace to people walking by or trying to use the parks,” he said. “Last time I checked, holding down a park bench for hours at a time is not typically a skill you put on a job application.” Talbott feels that removing the benches would do more harm then good. “The other side of this is that community members sit there for their lunch hour, which was our original intent,” he said. “The litter mars it and diminishes the pleasure for other people.” The community has also

home kept up with the coverage in bars, town squares and department stores, said David Meerman Scott, co-author of the 2014 book, “Marketing the Moon.” Tim Broder, of Freehold, remembers attending the wedding of his future sister-in-law and “the entire wedding reception was in the bar watching Neil Armstrong’s first step on the moon,” Broder recalled. At the time, he was in the U.S. Navy. “We all never felt so proud of being Americans as at that moment,” Broder said. “I was never so proud to be wearing the uniform of the Navy SeeBee than at that moment, already knowing I was destined for Vietnam, for which I volunteered. It was one of the many moments that I could not have

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been more proud to be wearing a uniform and so proud of the United States of America

than when Neil Armstrong stepped on the lunar surface.” Sylvia Hasenkopf, president

the spread through social circles in that age group. I’m always in favor of creating a healthy and productive environment for our students and young people, and this is no different.” State Sen. Daphne Jordan, R-43, said the legislation is a bipartisan effort to protect the health and safety of young people. “Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death, which is why this law was so necessary,” Jordan said. “I have heard a strong outcry from school districts and parents about the urgent need to raise the age for tobacco use, especially as it relates to vaping. On this issue, our message needs to be clear, nonpartisan and unambiguous: Tobacco use is a dead end.” Raising the age to purchase

tobacco products is just common sense, state Sen. George Amedore Jr., R-46, said. “With the negative health effects caused by tobacco use, it is common sense that we make every effort possible to discourage tobacco use among our next generation of young people,” Amedore said. Assemblyman Jake Ashby supported the intent of the legislation but voted against the bill because it did not provide a carve-out for military personnel on base, according to a spokesman. Ashby was pushing for an amendment that would maintain the age at 18 on military bases. Representatives from the American Cancer Society called the new law a “life-saving measure.” “Gov. Cuomo and the state Legislature have returned

New York state to a position of national leadership in standing up to Big Tobacco to save lives and protect health,” said Julie Hart, New York’s government relations director for the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network. “This measure directly addresses the stark statistic that 95% of smokers start before 21. ‘Tobacco 21’ is a no-brainer and will help protect young people from a deadly addiction.” The legislation is expected to decrease the rate of tobacco use among teens by 12%, according to the American Lung Association. “We already know that adolescents and young adults have proven to be uniquely vulnerable to the effects of nicotine and nicotine addiction, making this legislation an important, lifesaving

discussed the possibility of installing cameras or motionsensor lights, Talbott said. Talbott worries that the lighting may impact neighbors and that police may be limited in what action they can take based on video surveillance, he said. “Right now we’re searching for a compromise,” he said. Seeley agreed that he is open to alternatives. Richard Wagoner put up signs to alert community members that they risked losing the benches if they did not keep the park clean. “Removing the benches would be detrimental to the years of work Cultivate Catskill has put into the parks to make them the beautiful, welcoming elements of our community that they are.” Wagoner said. “I think the efforts to build a better relationship with the members of our community that had been leaving the park a mess in the past, encouraging them to take responsibility and better care for it themselves has shown a huge improvement.” Wagoner also does not see how removing the benches would address littering, public intoxication or fighting, he

said. The Catskill Police Department has supported the community effort by making more regular visits to the park, Wagoner said. Cultivate Catskill member Robin Smith organized a meeting with regulars who frequent the park. Smith said she feels the conversations have been working. “Most people we talked to don’t want us to remove the benches,” she said. “There doesn’t seem to be as much litter or problems [since].” The gathering was made possible by Santos Associates, Land Surveying and Engineering, as well as Wagoner, Smith said. “Rip [Wagoner] invited everyone because he knows everyone on the streets,” she said. Smith wants to see the park used to its full potential. “We built that park for people to use but we don’t want that park to be abused,” she said. Seeley hopes that residents will respect the hard work that has gone into creating the parks, he said. “All of this comes down to common courtesy,” Seeley

said. “The village is not in the business of teaching adults to pick up after themselves or respect their surroundings. Cultivate Catskill has done an unbelievable job beautifying the village. Having people disrespect our parks is a slap in their face and is unacceptable. Something needed to be done.”

of the Cairo Historical Society, said the success of the moon landing is an illustration of what people can achieve when they put their minds to it. “Historically, it is something that has shown that when people were presented with a challenge, we were up to meeting that challenge,” Hasenkopf said. “I heard the scientists at NASA were horrified when JFK said he wanted Americans to be on the moon in 10 years’ time. They had to put on their thinking hats and came up with a solution. It shows how new technology is created and how we move forward as a society — facing challenges that seem insurmountable, and yet man is creative and works as a team, and that is how we move forward.” Richard Bergen, of Hudson,

said living through such a monumental achievement is something he will never forget. “I remember watching Neil Armstrong and thinking, if we can do this, we can do anything,” Bergen said. NASA landed astronauts on the moon six times from 1969 to 1972, but interest had waned by the time the second team of astronauts stepped onto the lunar surface. However, there are signs that enthusiasm is building again. In 2017, a bidder paid $1.8 million for a sack of lunar dust filled by Armstrong. Last month, a signed photograph of the first man on the moon sold for $52,247. The New York Times News Service contributed to this report.

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In last week’s column entitled, “The Thin Green Line,” I extolled the value of our dedicated NYS Environmental Conservation Officers (ECOs), to the residents of New York. I explained that “…highly trained Environmental Conservation Officers (ECOs)… are fervently patrolling every corner of the state 24/7, 365 days per year.” Well, apparently DEC Commissioner, Basil Seggos, doesn’t think that should continue to be the case. As of the end of June 2019, ECOs are NOT allowed to patrol a huge swath of the state. Almost all of the state lands of NYS are off limits to ECOs to combat poaching and protect your natural resources on those lands! That’s not a misprint, or mischaracterization. Under these new restrictions, ECOs can only proactively patrol private land, and a few campgrounds in Lake George in Region 5. Why you ask? These are the campgrounds NYS Forest Rangers do not want to be responsible to keep the peace there during peak camping weekends. Forest Rangers want to be solely responsible for fish & game, and all other enforcement on all other public lands, and the Commissioner is making it happen. This stops ECOs from enforcement on public lands they routinely patrolled in the past. None of the See ECO B4

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CLAVERACK — Tristan Super pitched five innings of shutout ball, allowing just one hit and Taconic Hills went on to win its fourth straight game in the Section 2 South 8-10 year-old AAA Tournament, handing Albany National a 7-2 setback on Thursday at Claverack Town Park.

Super struck out 13 and walked only two in helping TH remain perfect in tournament play. He struck out at least two batters in every inning he pitched and surrendered just a second inning single to Logan Wescott. Next up for Taconic Hills is the Section 2 South championship game on Thursday at 5:45 p.m. at Claverack Town Park, with

Hudson Valley Little League of Ravena the most likely opponent. TH posted an 8-3 victory over Hudson Valley on July 11. Taconic Hills took a 1-0 lead in the first inning, loading the bases on walks to Aiden Buchinsky and Brayden Jause and a single by Henry Semp. Hunter Nielsen See STARS B6

Iconic Cus D’Amato Gym gets a facelift By Tim Martin Columbia-Greene Media

the way the New York Jets and Mets broke their hearts in 1969. That haunted history provided the backdrop for the civic angst generated by Mussina’s departure. Mussina knew at the time that there would be a Baltimore backlash, but he said during his HOF conference call Friday that the decision to sign with the Yankees was never meant as an affront to his Oriole fans. He pointed to a host of factors that turned his free-agent journey northward, most of them competitive in nature.

CATSKILL — One of boxing’s most revered gyms — the Cus D’Amato Gym in Catskill — recently underwent a complete refurbishing, modernizing the aging venue while maintaining its old-school character. The renovations came about as part of the Lowe’s Heroes Project, according to gym director Kyle Lyles. “We have a historical spot where you have Cus D’Amato, who trained a lot of fighters there, including Mike Tyson, who because the youngest heavyweight champion, and there are a lot of clippings that were starting to get discolored a little bit,” Lyles said. “The gym just needed a facelift without trying to change the historical value or anything that was there. We just gave it a facelift where we put pain on a wall, they framed the clippings behind plexiglass, so when people come in to take a tour of the gym they can still feel the history of it.” Once Lowe’s of Catskill store manager Jason Disy became aware of the project, he was glad to donate his organization’s services. “This was a project we took on a couple of years ago, a big project,” Disy explained. “It

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Mike Mussina of the New York Yankees tips hit hat to the crowd during a game against the Kansas City Royals at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx on August 5, 2007.

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BALTIMORE — It probably won’t surprise anyone to hear that there are still some local fans who aren’t ready to forgive soon-to-beinducted National Baseball Hall of Famer Mike Mussina for ditching the Orioles and signing with the evil New York Yankees nearly 19 years ago. Baltimore sports fans have had abandonment issues since the Colts slithered out of town on that dark and stormy night in 1984. There also is an aging generation of fans here still smarting from

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Chiefs’ Tyreek Hill won’t be suspended by NFL Brooke Pryor and Laura Bauer The Kansas City Star

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Tyreek Hill will not be suspended following the NFL’s four-month investigation of child abuse reports involving the Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver and his former fiancee, Crystal Espinal, the league announced Friday. “Based on the evidence presently available, the NFL cannot conclude that Mr. Hill violated the Personal Conduct Policy,” the NFL said in a statement. “Accordingly, he may attend Kansas City’s training camp and participate in all club activities. “He has been and will continue to be subject to conditions set forth by the District Court, Commissioner Goodell, and the Chiefs, which include clinical evaluation and therapeutic intervention.” Hill is expected to be at training camp with the Chiefs when team veterans report to St. Joseph, Mo., on July 26. “Based on the information provided to us by the league, we have decided it is appropriate for Tyreek to return to the team at the start of training camp,” the Chiefs said in a statement. “The club fully supports the conditions for return laid out by the league and will continue to monitor any new developments in the case. “We are glad to welcome Tyreek back to the team and look forward to the start of training camp next week.” Addressing the public for the first time since he was barred from team activities in April, Hill wrote he respects and accepts the NFL’s decision in a statement on Twitter. “To the fans, friend and family that I have made in Kansas City: I love you and thank you for your continued support,” Hill wrote. “To the NFLPA, Mr. Ned Ehrlich: thank you for your dedication, understanding and guidance throughout this process. “To the NFL, Commissioner Goodell and everything who assisted in this investigation: thank you for your time and for conducting a thorough investigation. I will not let you down.” Hill has been suspended from the Chiefs since April 25, the day after Johnson County District Attorney Steve Howe declined to file charges in the child abuse case involving Hill and his then-fiancee, Crystal Espinal. The case is related to their son, who turned 4 earlier this month. The child, the NFL said in its statement, is safe. “Throughout this investigation, the NFL’s primary concern has been the well-being of the child,” the statement said. “Our understanding is that the child is safe and that the child’s ongoing care is being directed and monitored by the Johnson County District Court and the Johnson County Department for Children and Families.” NFL investigators didn’t meet with Hill until late last month. The interview, which took place in Kansas City and lasted eight hours, was conducted by NFL Special Counsel for Investigations Lisa Friel, sources told The Star. Jennifer Gaffney, who works with Friel, was also reportedly present, along with Hill’s legal representation. “In conducting our investigation, we have taken great care to ensure that we do not interfere with the county’s proceedings or compromise the privacy or welfare of the child in any way,” the league said in a statement. “The information developed in the court proceeding is confidential and has not been shared with us, and the court has sealed all law enforcement records. Local law enforcement authorities have publicly advised that the available evidence does not permit them to determine who caused the child’s injuries. “ A source told the Star that multiple members of both Espinal’s and Hill’s families were interviewed in the investigation. The NFL also made multiple attempts to interview Espinal, but she declined through her attorney. The league also said in the statement that if more

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Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Tyreek Hill (10) reacts during the AFC Championship game against the New England Patriots at Arrowhead Stadium.

information became available through “law enforcement, the pending court proceeding or other sources” it would consider it and take all appropriate steps at that time. Howe told The Star late last month that someone from the league contacted his office immediately following his April news conference, requesting records, but there had been no contact since. Mike Deines, a spokesman for the Kansas Department for Children and Families, said he “couldn’t confirm or deny” if the NFL has contacted the DCF agency. “Due to confidentiality laws, we can’t get into specifics about any case,” Deines said. During the NFL’s investigation, the league obtained the entire 11-minute audio recording of a conversation between Hill and Espinal, a source told The Star. The audio, which Espinal recorded, was first aired in clips on a local television station on April 25, hours before general manager Brett Veach announced Hill’s suspension. The full audio, played by 610 AM last week, filled in the gaps of the recording initially played by KCTV-5 in abbreviated clips. The majority of the new material centered around Hill’s 2014 arrest for domestic abuse

by strangulation against Espinal when he was a student at Oklahoma State. Hill was dismissed from the football team and pleaded guilty to the charge in August 2015 and served three years probation, but in the audio aired on 610 he denied that he had harmed Espinal. The conviction was dismissed in August 2018 and was expunged after Hill completed his probation requirements. Hill: That 2014 (expletive), that’s old. That’s a lie too. On me, that’s a lie. Espinal: But you sitting here calling me a bitch and everything else — Hill: But that’s what you is, bro. You (expletive) ruined my life. You lied on me in 2014. Espinal: How did I lie about — Hill: I didn’t touch you in 2014. And put that on everything I love, bro. That’s the real truth. Later in the recording, Hill continued to deny that he harmed Espinal in the 2014 incident. And he denied that he had ever hurt his son. Hill, 25, has been barred from team activities for nearly three months, but he has been working out with teammates in the area. Wide receiver Gehrig Dieter retweeted a photo of himself

with Hill after one such workout in late June. Howe told The Star last month that the criminal child abuse probe “is not an active investigation.” But he also told The Star that comments he made during an April 24 news conference “still hold true.” At that time, Howe said he believed Hill and Espinal’s son had been hurt but couldn’t prove who did it. Though the criminal investigation is no longer active, Hill and Espinal do have an ongoing case with Kansas DCF. Generally speaking, such cases can take weeks, months or even years for families to receive the services they need. News surfaced in mid-March that Overland Park police took two reports at Hill’s Johnson County home, one for battery and the other for child abuse and neglect. The police reports, dated March 5 and March 14, involved a juvenile. The Star reported on April 18 that sources said the child was removed from the custody of Hill and the boy’s mother. It isn’t clear if that status has changed. A week later, after Howe said

he wouldn’t be filing charges, a Kansas City television station aired only parts of that taped recording of a graphic conversation between Hill and Espinal — who was pregnant with twins at the time. In a four-page letter sent to the NFL on May 2, an attorney

for Hill denied the child abuse claims that were alluded to in the audio recording, which was allegedly made by Espinal in a Dubai airport. The letter disputes nearly every claim made in the snippets of the recording aired by the Kansas City television station. In court papers filed July 11, Espinal said the twins were born earlier in the month and that they live were her. The petition seeks to establish paternity and determine parenting time for Hill and child support to be paid. The filing said that Espinal and Hill “are not married, never have been married, and do not intend to be married.” Prior to the NFL’s investigation, the Chiefs were expected to engage in talks with Hill to make him one of the league’s highest paid receivers. Though the NFL’s investigation is concluded, the club will likely let some time pass before re-engaging in those talks, a source told The Star. The team isn’t expected to rush into a new contract with Hill, who enters the final year of his rookie deal this season, before the end of training camp.

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L.A. Dodgers 7, Philadelphia 2 San Diego 3, Miami 2 Thursday’s games Miami 4, San Diego 3 Philadelphia 7, L.A. Dodgers 6 St. Louis 7, Cincinnati 4 Washington 13, Atlanta 4 Milwaukee at Arizona, 9:40 p.m. N.Y. Mets at San Francisco, 9:45 p.m. Friday’s games San Diego (Lauer 5-7) at Chicago Cubs (Lester 9-6), 2:20 p.m. Philadelphia (Arrieta 8-7) at Pittsburgh (Lyles 5-6), 7:05 p.m. St. Louis (Wainwright 6-7) at Cincinnati (Mahle 2-10), 7:10 p.m. Washington (Corbin 7-5) at Atlanta (Soroka 101), 7:20 p.m. Milwaukee (Chacin 3-9) at Arizona (Clarke 2-3), 9:40 p.m. Miami (Gallen 0-1) at L.A. Dodgers (Ryu 10-2), 10:10 p.m. N.Y. Mets (deGrom 5-7) at San Francisco (Beede 3-3), 10:15 p.m. Saturday’s games San Diego at Chicago Cubs, 2:20 p.m. N.Y. Mets at San Francisco, 4:05 p.m. Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, 7:05 p.m. St. Louis at Cincinnati, 7:10 p.m. Washington at Atlanta, 7:20 p.m. Milwaukee at Arizona, 8:10 p.m. Miami at L.A. Dodgers, 9:10 p.m. Sunday’s games St. Louis at Cincinnati, 1:10 p.m. Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, 1:35 p.m. San Diego at Chicago Cubs, 2:20 p.m. N.Y. Mets at San Francisco, 4:05 p.m. Miami at L.A. Dodgers, 4:10 p.m. Milwaukee at Arizona, 4:10 p.m. Washington at Atlanta, 7:05 p.m. Interleague Wednesday’s games N.Y. Mets 14, Minnesota 4 Baltimore 9, Washington 2 Arizona 19, Texas 4 Friday’s game Colorado (Freeland 2-6) at N.Y. Yankees (Happ 7-5), 7:05 p.m. Saturday’s game Colorado at N.Y. Yankees, 1:05 p.m. Sunday’s game Colorado at N.Y. Yankees, 1:05 p.m.

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Jacksonville Jaguars at Miami Dolphins (FOX, 8 p.m.), Thursday, Aug. 22 Green Bay Packers vs. Oakland Raiders (8 p.m.), Thursday, Aug. 22 (game played in Winnipeg, Manitoba) Cleveland Browns at Tampa Bay Buccaneers (7:30 p.m.), Friday, Aug. 23 Buffalo Bills at Detroit Lions (CBS, 8 p.m.), Friday, Aug. 23 Arizona Cardinals at Minnesota Vikings (1 p.m.), Saturday, Aug. 24 Houston Texans at Dallas Cowboys (7 p.m.), Saturday, Aug. 24 Chicago Bears at Indianapolis Colts (7 p.m.), Saturday, Aug. 24 New Orleans Saints at New York Jets (7:30 p.m.), Saturday, Aug. 24 San Francisco 49ers at Kansas City Chiefs (8 p.m.), Saturday, Aug. 24 Denver Broncos at Los Angeles Rams (9 p.m.), Saturday, Aug. 24 Seattle Seahawks at Los Angeles Chargers (10 p.m.), Saturday, Aug. 24 Pittsburgh Steelers at Tennessee Titans (NBC, 8 p.m.), Sunday, Aug. 25 Week 4 Minnesota Vikings at Buffalo Bills (7 p.m.), Thursday, Aug. 29 Pittsburgh Steelers at Carolina Panthers (7 p.m.), Thursday, Aug. 29 Indianapolis Colts at Cincinnati Bengals (7 p.m.), Thursday, Aug. 29 Atlanta Falcons at Jacksonville Jaguars (7 p.m.), Thursday, Aug. 29 Philadelphia Eagles at New York Jets (7 p.m.), Thursday, Aug. 29 Detroit Lions at Cleveland Browns (7:30 p.m.), Thursday, Aug. 29 New York Giants at New England Patriots (7:30 p.m.), Thursday, Aug. 29 Baltimore Ravens at Washington Redskins (7:30 p.m.), Thursday, Aug. 29 Tennessee Titans at Chicago Bears (8 p.m.), Thursday, Aug. 29 Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Dallas Cowboys (8 p.m.), Thursday, Aug. 29 Kansas City Chiefs at Green Bay Packers (8 p.m.), Thursday, Aug. 29 Los Angeles Rams at Houston Texans (8 p.m.), Thursday, Aug. 29 Miami Dolphins at New Orleans Saints (8 p.m.), Thursday, Aug. 29 Arizona Cardinals at Denver Broncos (9 p.m.), Thursday, Aug. 29 Los Angeles Chargers at San Francisco 49ers (10 p.m.), Thursday, Aug. 29 Oakland Raiders at Seattle Seahawks (10 p.m.), Thursday, Aug. 29

NFL PRESEASON SCHEDULE Hall of Fame Game Atlanta Falcons vs. Denver Broncos (NBC, 8 p.m.), Thursday, Aug. 1 Week 1 Indianapolis Colts at Buffalo Bills (7 p.m.), Thursday, Aug. 8 New York Jets at New York Giants (7 p.m.), Thursday, Aug. 8 Jacksonville Jaguars at Baltimore Ravens (7:30 p.m.), Thursday, Aug. 8 Washington Redskins at Cleveland Browns (7:30 p.m.), Thursday, Aug. 8 New England Patriots at Detroit Lions (7:30 p.m.), Thursday, Aug. 8 Atlanta Falcons at Miami Dolphins (7:30 p.m.), Thursday, Aug. 8 Tennessee Titans at Philadelphia Eagles (7:30 p.m.), Thursday, Aug. 8 Carolina Panthers at Chicago Bears (8 p.m.), Thursday, Aug. 8 Houston Texans at Green Bay Packers (8 p.m.), Thursday, Aug. 8 Los Angeles Chargers at Arizona Cardinals (10 p.m.), Thursday, Aug. 8 Denver Broncos at Seattle Seahawks (10 p.m.), Thursday, Aug. 8 Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Pittsburgh Steelers (7:30 p.m.), Friday, Aug. 9 Minnesota Vikings at New Orleans Saints (8 p.m.), Friday, Aug. 9 Cincinnati Bengals at Kansas City Chiefs (8 p.m.), Saturday, Aug. 10 Los Angeles Rams at Oakland Raiders (8 p.m.), Saturday, Aug. 10 Dallas Cowboys at San Francisco 49ers (9 p.m.), Saturday, Aug. 10 Week 2 Philadelphia Eagles at Jacksonville Jaguars (7 p.m.), Thursday, Aug. 15 New York Jets at Atlanta Falcons (7:30 p.m.), Thursday, Aug. 15 Green Bay Packers at Baltimore Ravens (7:30 p.m.), Thursday, Aug. 15 Cincinnati Bengals at Washington Redskins (7:30 p.m.), Thursday, Aug. 15 Oakland Raiders at Arizona Cardinals (ESPN, 8 p.m.), Thursday, Aug. 15 Buffalo Bills at Carolina Panthers (7 p.m.), Friday, Aug. 16 Chicago Bears at New York Giants (7:30 p.m.), Friday, Aug. 16 Miami Dolphins at Tampa Bay Buccaneers (7:30 p.m.), Friday, Aug. 16 Cleveland Browns at Indianapolis Colts (4 p.m.), Saturday, Aug. 17 New England Patriots at Tennessee Titans (7 p.m.), Saturday, Aug. 17 Kansas City Chiefs at Pittsburgh Steelers (7:30 p.m.), Saturday, Aug. 17 Detroit Lions at Houston Texans (8 p.m.), Saturday, Aug. 17 Dallas Cowboys vs. Los Angeles Rams (10 p.m.), Saturday, Aug. 17 (game played in Honolulu) New Orleans Saints at Los Angeles Chargers (CBS, 4 p.m.), Sunday, Aug. 18 Seattle Seahawks at Minnesota Vikings (FOX, 8 p.m.), Sunday, Aug. 18 San Francisco 49ers at Denver Broncos (ESPN, 8 p.m.), Sunday, Aug. 18 Week 3 New York Giants at Cincinnati Bengals (7 p.m.), Thursday, Aug. 22 Washington Redskins at Atlanta Falcons (7:30 p.m.), Thursday, Aug. 22 Carolina Panthers at New England Patriots (7:30 p.m.), Thursday, Aug. 22 Baltimore Ravens at Philadelphia Eagles (7:30 p.m.), Thursday, Aug. 22

Auto racing MONSTER ENERGY CUP SERIES FOXWOODS RESORT CASINO 301 WHERE: New Hampshire Motor Speedway; Loudon, N.H. DISTANCE: 301 laps, 318.46 miles around a 1.058-mile oval TV: Sunday, 3 p.m. ET (Green flag approx. 3:15 p.m. ET) – NBCSN (Radio: Performance Racing Network, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Channel 90). THIS WEEK: Coming off one of the best races of the season when Kurt Busch edged younger brother Kyle at Kentucky Speedway, the series heads to New Hampshire for the only time this season. ... This is the 20th of 36 races on the season. ... This will be the 48th race at NHMS, the first held in 1993. The track hosted two races a season from 1997-2017. ... Kevin Harvick won this race last season, and he’s still looking for his first win of 2019.

Former NBA player Kenny Anderson making progress in rehab from stroke, aims to help others David Furones Sun Sentinel

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — Kenny Anderson has a mantra: “Basketball is easy. Life is hard.” The story of the New York point guard prodigy turned 14-year NBA veteran backs up that notion for him. Hoops often came easy to Anderson, the No. 2 pick in the 1991 NBA draft, but life has dealt him his fair share of obstacles — from growing up in rough section of Queens, to sexual abuse as a child and filing for bankruptcy after NBA retirement. “I’ve been through it all,” Anderson says. Most recently, it was a health scare. Anderson, 48, suffered a stroke in his Pembroke Pines home on Feb. 23. Basketball is easy. Life is hard. “It’s something that I always believed in,” Anderson said, “and when I got the stroke, I really believed in it.” Like he has done with his past issues, he is proving resilient once again in overcoming the stroke. Anderson’s athletic background is what Dr. Alan Novick, medical director at Memorial Rehabilitation Institute in Hollywood, believes has helped Anderson reach different goals in rehab. “He has been a very determined and very hard worker,” Novick said. “And I suspect his athletic training, where he’s used to putting in the work to get the results, I think that really paid off in his rehabilitation. “We set goals in every phase of the recovery — whether it’s we want to get you walking 50 meters with a cane, you know, we set all types of goals,” Novak continued. “Usually, patients aren’t used to that sort of goal-setting, but in Kenny’s case, I think because of his basketball career, he was very used to that. You’re coached toward a goal, you work toward a goal, and he very much was goal-oriented and hard-working, and he achieved.” Nearly five months since the stroke, Anderson, has made enormous strides in recovery. “I’m feeling great,” he said. “I’m almost back to normal.” The Saturday morning of Feb. 23, Anderson was in his South Florida home visiting for a weekend off after his first season as men’s basketball coach at NAIA Fisk University, a historically black university in Nashville, Tenn.

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reasons for the drastic change are very good. For those who are unfamiliar, the majority of Region 5, which runs from Clifton Park to the Canadian Border, consists of state lands, the majority of which are in the Adirondack Park. That includes Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) where hunting is a primary use and where pheasants are stocked. It also includes forest preserve, and wilderness areas. A similar situation exists in the Catskills and elsewhere throughout the state, where state land can make-up the majority of ECO sectors. What are the ECOs to do if they cannot proactively patrol these millions of acres for poaching and environmental quality violations? In many cases, an ECO’s entire patrol sector is comprised almost exclusively of state land. ECOs used to routinely run roads on state lands, arresting deer poachers, road hunters, dumpers, and much more. Your sporting license dollars, to the tune of around $30 million annually, pay for some of these ECO’s salaries, which are meant to fund, support, and protect legal hunting, fishing and trapping in NYS. What are you getting for all that money? So, with this ridiculous restriction, the public, including all sportsmen and women, are losing protection of our precious resources on public lands across the entire state. All because favorites are being picked and civil service rulings either ignored or circumvented. NYS Forest Rangers are experts in Search & Rescue, Wildland Fire Management and Suppression, and the Incident Command System (ICS). They are the preeminent experts in these areas. We are lucky to have Rangers highly trained in aviation-hoist operations, swift water rescue, rope rescue, flat ice rescue and much more. This is especially true when it comes to overland searches for lost persons, and dangerous technical rescues. Forest Rangers spend most of their

“My right side couldn’t move, and then I went blind on my right side,” Anderson recalled. “And I went ‘Whoa!’ and I fell back. ... It came on and it knocked me out.” Anderson’s wife, Natasha, was away from the house working out. The family dog woke up his 18-year-old daughter, Tiana, who called 911 because she recognized the signs of a stroke from a health class she had taken in school. An ambulance arrived, and Anderson was initially sent to Memorial West in Pembroke Pines. “I was out of it. I was completely gone,” he said. Anderson was in the intensive care unit for two days, where he received tissue plasminogen activator (tPA), a clot-dissolving drug. He was moved to a regular room while doctors continued treatment, tests and prep for inpatient rehab over another five days. Memorial Rehabilitation Institute then took over for inpatient rehab over eight days. He was discharged and continues to do occupational therapy, speech therapy and physical therapy three times a week, four hours each — with some additional homework to continue exercises away from the facility. “They’ve just been great for me to work with every morning — Monday, Wednesday, Friday,” Anderson said. “I look forward to coming here. I really do.” Anderson believes the stroke happened because he stopped taking medication for high blood pressure. Novick notes that controlling blood pressure is one of the three most common preventable causes of strokes, along with smoking and diabetes management. Anderson experienced an aphasia, according to Novick, which impacted his speech, struggling at times to think of the words he wants to say or having difficulty getting them out. On Thursday morning, reading the first edition in his children’s book series “The Adventures of Lil’ Kenny” to patients at Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital in Hollywood, he got the words out just fine as he read and had conversations with about a dozen youngsters. His inspirational series will tell the true story of Anderson’s rise as a basketball phenom on the streets of New York to national recognition as a touted recruit at Archbishop Molloy before attending Georgia

training time dedicated to these noble pursuits, and little, if any, on combatting poaching, pollution and the myriad duties ECOs spend a career learning, honing, and aptly delivering to the people of the State of NY. I can speak from experience, that after more than six months at a police training academy covering topics ranging from fishing and hunting enforcement tactics to illegal radioactive waste detection, it takes at least five years to become a fully functioning, effective ECO. I will take the educated guess the same is true for Forest Rangers in their areas of expertise. So why would Commissioner Seggos want Forest Rangers to do work they have not been trained to do, and stop ECOs from doing the work they are uniquely qualified to do? Several years ago, with the wave of a political wand, the Criminal Procedure Law was changed to make Forest Rangers Police Officers without their receiving any additional training. Under Commissioner Seggos, DEC Executive is about to make NYS Forest Rangers into ECOs with the stroke of a pen! Both these measures are being taken to justify an increase in salary for Forest Rangers. In my opinion, the substantial, specialized expertise required to be a Forest Ranger and the level of service they provide in their traditional search & rescue and wildland fire suppression role, is more than adequate to justify a pay increase for Rangers. Instead, DEC is taking away critical functions of ECOs and diminishing fish & game as well as environmental quality enforcement in this state. All in order to circumvent the legally proscribed administrative process through NYS Civil Service regarding salary upgrades for the Rangers. This is absolutely ludicrous. The Adirondack Daily Enterprise ran a piece on December 27, 2018 entitled, “DEC Wants to Consolidate Ranger and ECO Titles.” The article quotes DEC Public Information Officer, Ben DeLamater, as stating in an email, “DEC has been working with the New York State Department of Civil Service to support an upgrade of the Ranger title.”

Tech and eventually reaching the NBA. “I wanted to be able to inspire others by telling my story on how I grew from a streetball player to becoming a professional athlete,” Anderson said. “To how basketball saved me from the perils of the ‘hood — but also taught me valuable lessons that I carried through my playing days and today. Lessons on how to be a team player, on how not to give up on my goals, especially now that I’m overcoming this new challenge of having a stroke.” ——— Although basketball comes easy for Anderson, it’s no surprise that he may face challenges in speech and memory. It helps that he has been able to get back to Nashville multiple times since the stroke, resuming some coaching duties at Fisk. “I’m back on the court. I’m back looking at talent,” said Anderson, who recently conducted his freshman camp for newcomers on the team. “It’s really difficult off the court, but on the court, when I step into a gym, I know what I’m looking for, I know how to talk to these young men. “I love the game of basketball, and it’s taught me so many lessons, and that’s where I need to be. I’m at my best on the basketball court. I know what I’m seeing. I know what I’m doing. ... It’s just outside of basketball, it’s been really difficult for me to get my bearings together.” Anderson says the main difference in coaching is that instead of just being able to blurt out all the instructions to his players, he now jots notes down on a piece of paper he keeps with him. He talks hoops like he hasn’t missed a beat. Anderson lights up when the topic of New York City point guards and where he ranks is brought up. Almost as if he has no speech difficulties, he reels off names of those he looked up to in New York: Kenny Smith, Dwayne “Pearl” Washington and Rod Strickland among them. Novick isn’t surprised at how sharp Anderson is in recalling the more distant past. “Depending on the type of stroke, it really is common that sometimes remote memory is far more preserved than recent memory,” Novick said. “So sometimes you can remember what you did 30 years ago, but you may not know what you did yesterday.”

The quote continues, “…Forest Rangers and ECOs receive similar training and perform similar duties and functions but were not in similar civil service titles.” Stating that ECOs and Forest Rangers “…receive similar training and perform similar duties and functions,” is simply not true and entirely misleading. As I described earlier, the highly specialized training, function, duties, and roles of ECOs and Forest Rangers could not be more different. Each has a unique specialization requiring entirely different expert level training. In that same article, Willie Janeway, Director of the Adirondack Council, indicated the “…forest preserve role of the Rangers will suffer. We should pay the Forest Rangers more…without consolidating the Rangers with the Environmental Conservation Officers. Janeway said, As a former DEC Regional Director, I have seen the value of the independent and complementary roles of the Rangers and the ECOs.” This is not the first time civil service procedure has been circumvented by Commissioner Seggos. A few years ago, there was a vacancy for the DEC Director of Fish & Wildlife. Despite having his pick of a number of extremely qualified DEC senior biologists at the top of the civil service list with extensive experience in the position, Commissioner Seggos selected someone outside the department that was not on any civil service list. Just over a year ago, Commissioner Seggos similarly disregarded the list for the Director of DEC’s Division of Law Enforcement. Ignoring a list of nine extremely qualified ECO majors and captains within the division, he chose a director that was not even on the list; forever politicizing the leadership of both divisions, thereby guaranteeing loyalty from of his newly appointed chiefs. Throwing ECOs off state lands and handcuffing their efforts to fight poaching and pollution for political expediency is wrong. Asking hunters, trappers and fishermen to pay for it is not only insulting, it’s a call to take appropriate action

to prevent this from going forward. Happy Hunting & Fishing until next time. Remember to report poaching violations by calling 1-844-DEC-ECOS.

NEWS AND NOTES There will be a pistol licensing course on July 25 from 6:309:30 p.m. at the Craryville Rod & Gun Club. Cost of the course required to obtain a NYS pistol permit is $50. To sign up, contact Kevin Hill at 518-821-4747, or Mike Kutski at 518-651-5866. **You will need to get an application before this course at the Sheriff’s Office in Greenport. The next Lake Taghkanic Bass Tournament will be held at West Beach at Lake Taghkanic, on Saturday, August 10 from 4-11 a.m. All are welcome to compete. For more information, call Bill Johnson at 518537-5455. Save the Dates: Greene County Youth Fair at Canna Park in Cairo - Thursday, July 25 through Sunday, July 28 Come visit the DEC “Living Stream” tank with “Trophy the Trout,” talk to fish & wildlife technicians and identify furs, and animal tracks, and try your hand at the NY Bowhunter’s Archery Booth, or “I Fish NY’s” casting and fish ID game. You can see about participating in the Youth Pheasant Hunt coming up in September and talk to veteran sportsman volunteers and ECOs to help you get out hunting, fishing, trapping, and camping. All while taking in everything the free fair has to offer including animal shows and displays. Don’t miss this free, fun event. Roe-Jan Creek Boat Club Annual Chicken BBQ - August 11 This event will take place on August 11th. Grounds open at 1 p.m., dinner at 3 p.m. Cost for adults is $12, kids $6. Call Barbara at 518-828-7173 for more information, or the club at 518828-5954 and leave a call-back number. You can share any comments with our sports desk at sports@ registerstar.com *If you have a fishing or hunting report, photo, or event you would like to be considered for publication, you can send it to: huntfishreport@gmail.com

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then walked to force in a run. An inning later, Tay Morrison walked, stole second and third and came home on Buchinsky’s base hit. TH added two more in the third on singles by Semp and Nielsen and a two-run triple by Xavier Castle, then added two more in the fourth. Morrison walked, took second and third on wild pitches before stealing home. Super was hit by a pitch, stole second and scored on consecutive wild pitches. TH’s final run was scored in the fifth when Jesus Mercado

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“When I made the change from Baltimore to New York, I knew that it was not going to be taken well in some places,” he said, “but I was making the change for me and my family and what I felt was the best move for my baseball career. So, some stuff you have to push to the side and not use it as a factor.” The situation was a little more complicated than that, of course. The Orioles had gotten a hometown discount when Mussina signed a three-year,

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Taconic Hills 8-10 year-old All-Star Tay Morrison drives a pitch to the outfield during Thursday’s Section 2 South AAA baseball game against Albany National at Claverack Town Park.

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Taconic Hills 8-10 year-old All-Star Riley Ryan swings at a pitch during Thursday’s Section 2 South AAA baseball game against Albany National at Claverack Town Park.

walked and Morrison tripled. Albany National plated its two runs in the final inning off reliever Brayden Jause as Matt McCaarthy and Isia Bickley walked and A.J. Dixon drilled a two-out double to center. Morrison finished with a triple, single and an RBI for Taconic Hills. Henry Semp added three singles, Castle had a triple and two RBI, Buchinsky and Nielsen each had a single and an RBI and Jause singled. Jause struck out three, walked two and allowed two runs in his one inning of relief. McCarthy, Elijah Housel and Wescott all pitched for Albany National, allowing seven runs and nine hits with seven strikeouts and five walks.

Taconic Hills 8-10 year-old All-Star coach Ron Semp greets pitcher Tristan Super (center) and Brayden Jause between innings of Thursday’s Section 2 South AAA baseball game against Albany National at Claverack Town Park.

$21 million extension in 1997 to stay in Baltimore two years beyond his first year of freeagent eligibility. It was such a good deal for the team that Mussina and agent Arn Tellem were criticized by some union members for agreeing to it. The next time around, the Yankees threw a ton of money at Mussina — $88.5 million over six years — and Orioles managing partner Peter Angelos reportedly stopped bidding at $78 million, which included a big chunk of deferred money. Throw in the fact that the Orioles were well into a competitive downturn that would eventually stretch to 14 straight losing seasons and, well, the Yankees were the Yankees.

“There were a lot of factors that went into the side to go to the Yankees,” Mussina said. “Obviously, how well they were doing. They had just won three World Series in a row, so yes, I thought my chances of getting to the World Series were pretty good there. I thought the team was stable. It was the same coaching staff. All of those things, you’re looking for...the players, (who) you’re going to be involved with for two thirds or three quarters of the year.” Orioles fans were hoping that loyalty would trump all that, but ask yourself this question: What would I do if I were offered a better job for better money in a situation with a much better chance to reach

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Taconic Hills 8-10 year-old All-Star Henry Semp swings at a pitch during Thursday’s Section 2 South AAA baseball game against Albany National at Claverack Town Park.

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my ultimate career goals? (I know the answer to that question because I got my first real job at my hometown newspaper in Southern California, which was the same newspaper I delivered as a kid, and after 13 years covering baseball there I got a nice job offer from a very good paper in Baltimore. That was back in 1990, coincidentally the year that the Orioles drafted Mussina with their first pick in the June draft.) Mussina did have some issues with the way the Orioles handled his pending free agency, but he’s a very analytical guy and the decision to leave the team wasn’t an emotional one. If so, he would likely be

Taconic Hills 8-10 year-old All-Star Tay Morrison maneuvers to avoid the tag of Albany National catcher Mickey Luyun during Thursday’s Section 2 South AAA baseball game at Claverack Town Park.

going into the Hall of Fame with a Yankees cap on his plaque. Instead, he chose to have his plaque feature a cap with no logo on it out of respect for both organizations. He said last week that it took him “three or four minutes” to make that decision. “Both organizations were tremendously involved in this,” he said, “and I don’t feel right picking one over the other. So, the decision to go in without picking one logo over the other logo, it’s the only decision I can make and feel good about.” Time has largely healed this wound. Most Orioles fans were thrilled to see Mussina

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took a lot of time and a lot of effort, but there is a lot of history here that’s directly tied to Catskill and the community and we thought it was an awesome opportunity to use the resources that we have to get in here and restore this piece of history. I’m glad we got the chance to do it.” Disy and his team, which consisted of store employees and independent contractors, got right to work and while the project was completed overnight, once it was, Lyles couldn’t have been happier. “It came out outstanding, pretty much what I was looking for as far as giving it an uplift without changing the historical value,” Lyles said. “At the end of the day, we want to keep the Cus D’Amato legacy going and that was purpose of this. Every once in awhile you gave to give it a facelift because with all the wear and

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Press clippings at the Cus D’Amato Gym were taken down during refurbishing and are now protected behind framed plexiglass.

A look at one of the freshly painted walls with pictures and press clippings protected by framed plexiglass at the Cus D’Amato Gym.

tear things start to run down a little bit, Lowe’s did an excellent job in getting everything back up to par for the doors to remain open for anyone that’s interested in keeping Cus D’Amato’s legacy and style going.” Along with a fresh coat of paint, the hardwood floors were restored, all of the lighting and fixtures were restored, the restroom completely redone and the office was completely redone.

in the community donated a lot of their material and their time, which made it all possible. We couldn’t have done it successfully without those partnerships in the community.” Now that the facelift is complete, Lyles is hoping it will attract more area youngsters and adults to take advantage of all the gym has to offer. “We want people to realize that the doors to the gym are

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The original boxing rin, which was brought in by D’Amato himself, was not touched, except for a new canvas that bears the D’Amato Gym logo. “A lot of our associates at the store and contractors that are involved with the store donated their time to come down and put in the work, Disy said. “Everybody participated anyway that they could. We donated a lot of the materials and a lot of our partners

open to the youth and adults. It’s a tough sport and not everyone sticks it out. The Cus D’Amato gym for the youth, which I’m trying to really push forward to give them a place to go in the future. “We still teach the discipline, it’s a mentorship with the coaches and helps keep them focused and out of trouble and pushes them to do better in school. We try to teach them that discipline and also teach the style to

inducted into the O’s Hall of Fame in 2012. Many will be in attendance when he joins Yankees closer Mariano Rivera, Seattle Mariners star Edgar Martinez and fellow former Orioles Harold Baines and Lee Smith for Sunday’s Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony in Cooperstown. In hindsight, it’s hard to argue against the notion that he made the right decision. If he had stayed in Baltimore, he likely would not have pitched in two World Series and made 17 more postseason appearances. He probably would not have won as many games during the Orioles’ lean years in the early 2000s. He might not be on that stage Sunday.

keep the legacy of Cus going.” Lyles pointed out that three trainers that learned from D’Amato, George Young, Greg Young and Darren Ruff, are still a part of the gym, along with Ernest Westbrooke and Nadia Hujtyn. “Anyone interested in coming to the gym, there is no fee,” Lyles said. “The only cost is to register with USA Boxing, which will provide them with liability insurance. The doors to the gym are open and it’s ready to go. We just have to get more people in there and get them committed. And I feel the future of the gym is bright.” Like Lyles, Disy encouraged all boxing enthusiasts to come out and see the finished product. “They still have everything that was here in the time that Mike Tyson was here, but it’s spruced up,” Disy said. “When we were wrapping up and putting the finishing touches on things, a few folks were coming in and just to see the look on their faces made it all worth it.”

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Relationship changes after moving in together After being together for a year, my boyfriend and I recently moved in together. Since then he hasn’t been home much. We don’t spend time together the way we used to when we first DEAR ABBY started dating. He has changed a lot. I have kids from a previous relationship. My boyfriend recently told me he always wanted to be the first guy to give a girl her first child. I just want to know if I should let him go or try to fight for him because I’m in love with him. Second Thoughts In Chicago

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Your boyfriend knew you had children when he began dating you. I think it is time the two of you have another conversation about what he told you, because he may have been rehearsing his exit speech. If he is considering ending your relationship in order to “give a girl her first child,” the sooner you know about it, the better — for you. My mother and father have been divorced for eight years. Since then, she has found a younger guy who is about eight years older than I am. I’m 23. The age difference always bothered me, but what bothers me even more is she’s always doing for him and he gives her nothing in return. Since day one I have been convinced he’s using her for shelter and food. However, she can’t seem to recognize it. I’m just tired of my mom being used by men. Daughter In Delaware I appreciate your concerns about your mother,

but until she’s ready to admit to herself that what’s happening is part of an ongoing pattern, nothing will change. Her self-esteem may be so low she doesn’t believe she deserves better, she may be so desperate to have a man in her life that she’s willing to literally pay the price. You cannot live your mother’s life for her, but you can learn from it. Concentrate on making the best life you can for yourself. I did something really selfish and stupid. I got involved with a married man, and it lasted several years. When his wife found out, everything blew up. She wrote me a letter saying she needed closure and to let me know how I destroyed her self-esteem. She questioned my morals and berated me for my actions. I deeply regret what I did, and I am filled with remorse. I want her to know how sorry I am, and I have written a response to her letter. I did it partly because I needed to put my feelings down in words and to express my sadness for all the pain I caused. I am sure she never wants to hear from me again, but I need to apologize and let her know I’ll regret what I did for the rest of my life. Should I send it? Full Of Sadness And Remorse

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Horoscope By Stella Wilder Born today, you are so open and approachable that you’re not likely to have any trouble making friends at any time throughout your life, no matter what phases you may go through or how you may be navigating success or failure. You enjoy people, and you are never afraid of letting someone get close to you. There are those, however, who may suspect that all of this is merely a ruse, a way of living your life that you have cultivated intentionally to get what you want out of other people. Nothing could be further from the truth, for you do not have a deceitful or duplicitous bone in your body! You can be quite sensitive to criticism, and so you are all the more willing to work hard to be the best that you can be at any endeavor you choose. Indeed, what people say about you can be a great motivator, and you are likely to remember even the slightest criticism or praise long after it has been offered to you. Also born on this date are: Julianne Hough, dancer; Carlos Santana, musician; Kim Carnes, singer; Natalie Wood, actress; Omar Epps, actor; Gisele Bundchen, model; Sandra Oh, actress; Sir Edmund Hillary, mountaineer. To see what is in store for you tomorrow, find your birthday and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your daily guide. SUNDAY, JULY 21 CANCER (June 21-July 22) — Stepping a little outside of your comfort zone today can actually prepare you for a challenge that is fast coming your way.

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SUPER QUIZ

THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME

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

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American culture Level 1

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

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

(Answers Tuesday Monday) Answers Jumbles: UPPED OUTDO WISEST CRAYON Answer: Alexander Fleming discovered antibiotics in 1928 thanks in part to him being — “CURE-IOUS”

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Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit, 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit

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(e.g., For what does CIA stand? Answer: Central Intelligence Agency.) Freshman level 1. On what street is the New York Stock Exchange? 2. This Massachusetts resort area has a fishhook shape. 3. To refuse to testify, a person may take/plead the ____. 4. Who or what is “Ol’ Man River”? 5. Translate the U.S. motto: “E pluribus unum.” Graduate level 6. A grave crime such as murder or rape is termed a _____. 7. The most famous geyser in Yellowstone National Park. 8. Who said, “I never met a man I didn’t like”? 9. This consumer advocate authored “Unsafe at Any Speed.” 10. Name America’s most famous five-sided building. PH.D. level 11. Her book “Etiquette” first appeared in the 1920s. 12. Provide the first line of the song “America the Beautiful.” 13. He danced in many musicals with Ginger Rogers. 14. His best-known work is “The Wealth of Nations.” 15. Which film company uses the motto “Ars Gratia Artis”?

SUPER QUIZ ANSWERS 1. Wall Street. 2. Cape Cod. 3. Fifth. 4. The Mississippi River. 5. Out of many, one. 6. Felony. 7. Old Faithful. 8. Will Rogers. 9. Ralph Nader. 10. Pentagon. 11. Emily Post. 12. “O beautiful for spacious skies.” 13. Fred Astaire. 14. Adam Smith. 15. MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). 24 to 30 points — congratulations, doctor; 18 to 23 points — honors graduate; 13 to 17 points — you’re plenty smart, but no grind; 5 to 12 points — you really should hit the books harder; 1 point to 4 points — enroll in remedial courses immediately; 0 points — who reads the questions to you?

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Crossword Puzzle Mother Goose & Grimm ACROSS 1 Major TV network 4 On the move 9 Betelgeuse, for one 13 Cries of disapproval 15 Make points 16 Big bother 17 On __; offered at a reduced price 18 Aspen attire 19 “Abbey __”; Beatles album 20 In __; all prepared 22 American __; ND’s state trees 23 Knights’ titles 24 “Son __ gun!” 26 Stand up to 29 Salve 34 Slammer 35 Walked the floor 36 Natural 37 Coolidge & Ripken 38 Like a dull speaker’s audience 39 Cheese similar to Camembert 40 __, dos, tres… 41 Word before beans or potatoes 42 Piece of garlic 43 Kept 45 Guffawed 46 Approval 47 Tropical tree 48 Drain problem 51 As stated by 56 Easy stride 57 Racket 58 Christmas carol 60 Think __; contemplate 61 Musical symbols 62 Hurricane wind 63 Animal enclosures 64 Open-eyed 65 FDR’s successor

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DOWN 1 Stomach muscles 2 Tusked beast 3 “Old King __ was a merry old soul…” 4 Have high hopes 5 MRIs & others 6 Skedaddled 7 Irritates 8 Thought logically 9 Creek 10 Saw or wrench 11 Actor West 12 Curtain holders 14 Spring & summer 21 Slipped __; back problem 25 Floral wire service 26 Happen 27 Flier 28 TV tryout 29 Rowed 30 Bumped off 31 Mistake 32 Unsuspecting 33 Durable cloth

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Jackson Family Wines trimmed two ounces off the weight of bottles (right)

Wineries are cutting energy use one bottle at a time By DAVE MCINTYRE Washington Post

Making and marketing wine requires lots of energy. Producing and transporting glass bottles (empty and full), cooling wineries and warehouses, running tractors in vineyards, sanitizing fermentation tanks and barrels all consume considerable amounts of electricity, fuel and water. Some wineries are taking substantial measures to reduce the environmental impact of all that energy use. Jackson Family Wines began auditing its energy and water use and carbon footprint in 2008. The familyowned company includes 40 wineries - the Kendall-Jackson and La Crema lines are the best known - in California, Oregon, France, Italy, Australia, Chile and South Africa. Total annual production is about 5 million bottles. Katie Jackson, senior vice president for corporate and social responsibility, described her company’s efforts during a climate change symposium at Vinexpo in Bordeaux in May, and subsequently in an interview. The company began installing solar panels on winery roofs in 2012, and now produces 7.1 megawatts of electricity each year, a third of its electricity needs. Jackson said the company will install more solar panels to capture an additional 3 to 4 megawatts by the end

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Jian Yongbo, Kmamura Aio, Chen Han, Tzi Ma, Awkwafina, Li Ziang, Tzi Ma, Lu Hong and Zhao Shuzhen appear in a still from “The Farewell.”

‘The Farewell’ A heartfelt sendoff to big family traditions By Katie Walsh Tribune News Service

In her moving sophomore feature film, “The Farewell,” writer/director Lulu Wang dives into the specific and the personal to unearth universal nuggets of divine truth about family, faith and fear. At the beginning, “The Farewell” announces it’s “based on a real lie.” Wang reveals it’s about her own family, a “good lie” they once chose to tell. In “The Farewell,” Chinese American New Yorker Billi (Awkwafina) is wracked with guilt when her family collectively decides to hide her beloved grandmother’s (a luminous, delightful Zhao Shuzhen) terminal lung cancer diagnosis from her. The family solemnly gathers at Nai Nai’s home in Changchun under the pretense that Billi’s cousin, Haohao (Han Chen) is marrying his Japanese girlfriend of three months, Aiko (Aoi Mizuhara). Through the preparations for the wedding, the family savors their last few moments with her, transferring

“THE FAREWELL” 4 stars CAST: Awkwafina, Tzi Ma, Diana Lin, Zhao Shuzhen, Han Chen, Hong Lu. RUNNING TIME: 1 hour, 38 minute Rated PG for thematic material, brief language and some smoking.

their grief and celebration of her remarkable life through this bizarre show wedding. They seem superstitious that if Nai Nai discovers her diagnosis, she’ll die. Not of cancer, but of fear. But the carefree Nai Nai remains as spunky as ever, just a bit winded, even though her children and grandchildren look positively stricken at seemingly every last hug and bite of meat pie. The goodbye ruse at the center of “The Farewell” is the vessel for Billi to return to her family roots and reconnect with her Chinese heritage, to process the trauma of immigrating to the West as a child. The perfectly cast Awkwafina portrays Billi

as the embodiment of what it means to be both Chinese and American, not just in her code-switching but in her belief systems. Her Americanness comes out in her demonstrative emotions, her outspoken insistence on honesty and individual freedom. It takes a bit of nudging to connect with the Chinese beliefs that shape her family dynamic. A family that operates as one being takes some getting used to for the fiercely independent Billi. But she welcomes the warm embrace of a large extended family after growing up in a country without them. But the insistence on little white lies as a means of avoiding worry rankles Billi, as it’s the source of her childhood trauma. She never understood why they left or where they were, or why she didn’t hear about her grandfather’s illness. Mourning and ultimately moving on from the lack of control over the events of her life is how Billi heals herself, how she grows. Wang displays a masterful control

over the unique mood and tone of the film, which is at once hilarious and heartbreaking, meticulous in its meditation. The often haunting cinematography by Anna Franquesa Solano seems to slow time and captures texture of place. Alex Weston’s forlorn and sometimes whimsical score of piano, strings and vocals adds to the eerie sense of suspended temporality and emotions that bridge sorrow and joy. With impeccable craft, Wang has created a funny, heartfelt and bittersweet film that will ring riotously true for anyone who knows the joys and agonies of a large, complicated family, regardless of culture, ethnicity or nationality. But it is significant that this family is Chinese. The Chinese elements are significant because it’s in the details of their traditions and the way in which they interact with each other that the sometimes-searing, sometimessweet emotional truths at the heart of the matter are fully revealed.

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‘Democracy is about to die in Youngstown’ with closing of local newspaper By MARGARET SULLIVAN Washington Post

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Mere moments after the start of the hastily called community forum, the tears started to flow. “Gobsmacked” was how one Youngtown reader described her horrified reaction to the surprise announcement, just days before, that the city’s 150-year-old daily newspaper, The Vindicator, would publish its last edition on Aug. 31. And Mary Beth Earnheardt, who teaches journalism at Youngstown State University, briefly left the meeting room at the local history center to pull herself together. Like many others, she feels the impending loss deeply. “The Vindy connects us all. A community without a

strong, central newspaper is missing leadership – and a big part of its identity.” The paper’s demise is another blow for a region hit hard earlier this year by the shutdown of the sprawling General Motors plant in Lordstown, a 20-minute drive from downtown, which once employed 14,000. The plant, which made the Chevrolet Cruze, is part of the auto and steel industry that President Donald Trump vowed he would bring back. With The Vindicator’s closing, Youngstown will become an unfortunate first: a goodsize city with no daily newspaper of its own. (The metro area has more than 500,000 residents; the city about 65,000.) Many other newspapers have folded in recent years, but they were mostly weeklies; the dailies were in

cities with a competing newspaper – that was not the case in Youngstown. Given the dire state of the industry, it certainly will not be the last. More likely, this will look like the tumbling of the first domino, with the situation repeating across the country – especially when the next economic downturn wipes out what’s left of the print advertising that once was the lifeblood of local newspapers. For Mark Brown, The Vindicator’s general manager, the loss is personal, devastating – and, he told me, unavoidable. His family has owned and run the paper for 132 years. His mother, Betty Brown Jagnow, the publisher who is well into her 80s, still comes into the See NEWSPAPER C2

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Mark Brown, general manager of The Vindicator, spent $12 million on new presses for the paper in 2010.

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office regularly and has called the decision “gut-wrenching.” “It’s all we’ve ever known and all we ever wanted to do,” Brown said as we talked last week in his bare-bones office, a converted storage room filled with filing cabinets and blazing with bright lights. Brown realized five years ago that he probably should put The Vindicator up for sale but hesitated because he knew that a chain buyer would slash the staff and harm the paper’s quality. “I didn’t have the stomach for that, so we decided to ride it out,” he said. The Vindicator’s 44-member newsroom staff digs deep into local issues, and it has won plenty of state awards for general excellence, for reporting and commentary, and for its website, which has no paywall. Still, The Vindicator has lost money for 20 of the past 22 years. Even at its richest in 1989, the profit margin was 17%, Brown said. That’s about half of what many American newspapers were pulling in during their preinternet heyday when advertisers had little choice about how to reach customers. And circulation has plummeted: from more than 100,000 daily and 160,000 on Sunday in the late 1970s, to now about 25,000 daily and 32,000 on Sunday. One Vindicator journalist told me it would be telling to have a show of hands at the mournful community meeting: How many of the bereft were actual subscribers? When Brown finally got serious about selling, hiring a broker in 2017 to explore the market, there were no takers – at any cost. Two potential buyers took a

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Area residents attend a town meeting in Youngstown, Ohio, after the announcement that The Vindicator will close.

serious look, but both dropped out. For most, the picture was simply unappealing: endless losses, a weak advertising market, an underfunded pension plan and a unionized staff that had not been cut to the bone. So, after spending $23 million to cover losses – and to buy a new press in 2010 (with the unrealized hope of bringing in new revenue through outside printing) – Brown found himself out of options. He worries about the staff – and even more about the loss of the journalistic watchdog:

“I’m scared for the community.” What this means, said Joel Kaplan, associate dean of Syracuse University’s Newhouse School, “is that no one in that community will be covering, on a regular basis, school board meetings, City Council meetings, the cops and the courts. Democracy, as we know it, is about to die in Youngstown.” The city and its surrounding Mahoning Valley have an ugly history of corruption. “Crimetown, USA – the city that fell in

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Deborah Stevenson, 58, has lived in Youngstown her whole life and worked at The Vindicator for five years. MUST CREDIT: Photo for The Washington Post by Jeff Swensen.

love with the mob” was how the New Republic magazine described Youngstown in a 2000 retrospective piece. And it’s the hometown, after all, of the late James Traficant, expelled as a member of Congress and sent to prison after being convicted of taking bribes, filing false tax returns, racketeering and causing his staff to do chores at his Ohio farm and Washington houseboat. “Public corruption here is deeply rooted,” said Bertram de Souza, whose 40-year Vindicator career spans revealing corruption as a reporter and his role now of columnist and editorial-page editor. The paper, he told me, gets consistent complaints for being “too negative” – especially about Trump, who has many fervent local fans. The county surrounding Youngstown was a narrow loss for Trump after going big for Obama; and Trump, of course, took Ohio overall. Trump’s Youngstown rally in 2017 drew 7,000 people. They cheered as he vowed to resuscitate the local factories: “They’re all coming back. They’re coming back. Don’t move. Don’t sell your house.” De Souza predicted that Trump will win Mahoning County next year, despite the empty promises – and despite the raft of for-sale signs on neatly maintained Lordstown houses.

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of next year to achieve its goal of being self-reliant for 50% of its energy needs. Other efforts include using ultraviolet light instead of water to sanitize fermentation tanks, wind power instead of water for frost protection, installing cooling towers for barrel rooms and capturing rainwater. The company has reduced water use by 60%, averaging 29 million gallons saved annually since 2008. Perhaps the greatest impact came from reducing bottle weight by 2 ounces over the Kendall-Jackson and La Crema lines. The bottle for the K-J Vintner’s Reserve Chardonnay went from 19.5 ounces to 17.5 ounces, and the La Crema chardonnay and pinot noir bottles dropped from 20.5 to 18.4 ounces. “Looking at our greenhouse gas emissions, we found that nearly half of our carbon footprint was from bottles, because the energy used in producing glass is very high,” Jackson said. By reducing bottle weight, “we were able to reduce our overall emissions by 4%.” And even though the company was concerned

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By installing solar panels at its wineries, Jackson Family Wines hopes to self-produce 50% of its electricity needs by the end of 2020.

about market impact because consumers supposedly think heavier bottles signal higher quality, “nobody seemed to notice,” she said. Such efforts require investment, of course, but they ultimately result in savings. “We buy glass by the metric ton, not by the bottle,” said Julien Gervreau, vice president

of sustainability for Jackson Family Wines. “Shaving two ounces per bottle off 85% of our production saved us about $1 million a year.” The solar panels save about $9 million over four years, he added. “We look for areas where sustainability and good business practices intersect,” he

said. These efforts are not just looking inward, but globally as well. After wildfires in late 2017 devastated Santa Rosa, Calif., where Jackson Family Wines is headquartered, Julia Jackson, Katie’s sister, launched a foundation called Grounded to spread awareness of the need

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The Vindicator is displayed at Vindicator Square in Youngstown, Ohio, last week.

But chances are that The Vindicator won’t be there to cover the election results. The ideas that surfaced at last week’s meeting were heartfelt but probably unrealistic: community donations, citizengenerated stories, converting the paper to a nonprofit, or finding a deep-pocketed savior. (The nearby Warren newspaper may expand into Youngstown, and the local Business Journal has pledged to fill some of the void.) Vindicator Managing Editor Mark Sweetwood, who attended the meeting along with Editor Todd Franko, later shared his reaction to the outpouring:

“There was a lot of passion for The Vindicator, and that was humbling. But good intentions aside, all that talk about a nonprofit model or a wealthy benefactor swooping in” seemed pointless. After all, there’s been no profit for a long time. And The Vindicator has had a generous local benefactor: Mark Brown. “We’ve tried that model,” Sweetwood told me, “and last Friday, he decided that model was not sustainable.” It’s a sad story. And, as local newspapers enter an inevitable new phase of their decline, one that will become far too familiar.

for corporations and individuals to take action against climate change. Grounded held a two-day conference in Sonoma County in March. Also earlier this year, Jackson Family Wines joined forces with Familia Torres, one of Spain’s leading wine companies, to create International Wineries Against Climate Change, to promote best practices and standard metrics for measuring progress. Miguel Torres, the fifth generation (and the fourth Miguel) to lead his family company, spoke at the Vinexpo symposium about his family’s efforts to reduce its environmental impacts at its wineries in Spain, Argentina and Chile. Those efforts include installing 18,000 square meters of solar panels, reducing bottle weight and recycling, he said. The Porto Protocol is another wine industry group fighting climate change. Based in Porto, the city at the mouth of the Douro River in Portugal famed for port wines, the group was founded by Adrian Bridge, CEO of the Fladgate Partnership, which includes the Taylor Fladgate, Fonseca and Croft Port houses. Bridge credits the inspiration for the effort to Britain’s Prince Charles, who required the Fladgate group to conduct a

carbon footprint assessment as a condition for continuing to sell its ports to the British royal family, as it had for generations. Former president Barack Obama spoke at the group’s initial conference in 2018, and former vice president Al Gore at the follow-up conference in March. The efforts I’ve described are aimed at reducing energy use and carbon footprint in wineries, and telling others of their success. These companies are also changing the way they farm. That’s for another article. You may have noticed a theme: These are all family companies, concerned about heirs rather than stockholders, that have grown to a size where they can be leaders and influence the way their industry approaches an existential threat. “We are a 327-year-old company,” Bridge told me this year during a visit to Washington. “We are used to looking at the long term. Despite globalization, wine is still a family-oriented business, often passed down through generations. It is the only branded agricultural commodity where you know where it came from and who made it – it’s right there on the label. “We have to take care of it.”

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Glass or metal? Q&A: Your choice

of bakeware could change how you bake Washington Post

Anna Gass, author of “Heirloom Kitchen: Heritage Recipes and Family Stories From The Tables of Immigrant Women,” recently joined the Washington Post Food section staff in answering questions about all things edible. Here are edited excerpts from that chat. Is there a baking time rule for using glass baking dishes vs. metal ones? I find that things seem to get done more quickly with glass. Should I lower the temperature or shorten the bake time? TOM MCCORKLE/WASHINGTON POST

Classic Barbecue Chicken

This CLASSIC BARBECUE recipe will complete your summer By BECKY KRYSTAL Washington Post

My parents just sold our family house of 31 years. One of my earliest memories there — foodrelated memories, anyway — is of my dad making barbecue chicken on his old Weber kettle grill on our driveway while my brothers and I played in the backyard. Even now, I can practically smell it. It was nothing fancy. Store-bought sauce, maybe a little blacker in places than we would want, but enjoyable nonetheless. The house and grill are now gone, but there’s a new house and a not-quite-as-new gas grill (Dad gave up charcoal long ago) to usher in new memories. So, when it came time for me to test a barbecue chicken recipe, the roles were reversed, to the satisfaction of both generations. I got to grill for my parents, with a bit of assistance from Dad, while Mom watched my son. I didn’t want to stray from the simple sauce-and-chicken formula. Classic Barbecue Chicken, an archive recipe from former Washington Post columnist Jim Shahin, sounded exactly like what I needed. The upgrades: An easyto-assemble, from-scratch sauce and an indirect cooking strategy that keeps the skin from getting too dark and the meat too dry. Both improvements were hits. The sauce balanced sweet and heat really well, with a more nuanced spice flavor than you find in ordinary grocery store bottles. Allowing the chicken to spend most of its time over indirect heat on the cooler part of the grill kept

the meat particularly juicy, even with a few thighs going about 20 degrees above the recommended 165-degree mark thanks to a hot spot on one side. (Worth nothing: 185 to 190 degrees and a long, slow cook is what Cook’s Illustrated recommends in its grilled chicken thighs recipe, “because the longer the meat spends cooking at temperatures above 140 degrees, the more of its abundant collagen breaks down and transforms into gelatin that lubricates the meat, making it seem juicy and tender.”) We couldn’t remember the last time any of us had made barbecue chicken, but everyone agreed this recipe was a keeper. Will we do it again? You bet. Will my son remember these long, saucesmeared summer afternoons with the same fondness as the ones I do from my youth? I hope so.

CLASSIC BARBECUE CHICKEN 4 to 6 servings Recipe note: The sauce can be prepared up to 2 weeks in advance and stored in the refrigerator. Ingredients FOR THE SAUCE 2 cups ketchup 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce 1/2 cup distilled white vinegar 1 tablespoon molasses 1/2 cup water 3 tablespoons light brown sugar, preferably light brown sugar 1 tablespoon chili powder 1 tablespoon powdered mustard 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper 2 teaspoons salt 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper 4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) unsalted butter

1/4 medium onion, cut into small dice 2 medium cloves garlic, minced FOR THE CHICKEN 4 to 4 1/2 pounds skin-on, bone-in chicken pieces, such as drumsticks, thighs or breast halves (6 pieces total) 1 tablespoon kosher salt 1 tablespoon coarsely ground black pepper For the sauce: Combine the ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, vinegar, molasses and water in a large bowl. Combine the brown sugar, chili powder, powdered mustard, black pepper, salt and cayenne pepper in a small bowl. Melt the butter in a medium saucepan over low heat. Add the onion and cook for about 4 minutes, stirring occasionally, until barely softened. Add the garlic and cook for about 2 minutes, until soft. Add the brown sugar mixture and stir to incorporate; cook for 30 seconds to 1 minute, until fragrant, then add the ketchup mixture and mix well. Increase the heat to medium-high and bring to a boil, then reduce the heat to low and cook uncovered for 20 to 40 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the mixture becomes a thickened sauce. The onion and garlic give the sauce a bit of texture and a homey quality. But if you prefer a smooth barbecue sauce, strain it through a fine-mesh strainer. Pour or strain the sauce into a container with a tight-fitting lid. Use right away, setting aside 1 cup of the sauce for cooking the chicken, or cool and cover. Prepare the grill for indirect

heat. If using a gas grill, preheat to medium-high (450 degrees). If using a charcoal grill, light the charcoal; when the coals are ready, distribute them on one side of the cooking area. For a medium fire, you should be able to hold your hand about 6 inches above the coals for 4 or 5 seconds. Have ready a spray water bottle for taming any flames. Season the chicken pieces liberally with salt and pepper. Arrange them skin side down on the direct-heat side of the grill; cook, uncovered, until the skin begins to blacken, 5 to 10 minutes. Use long-handled tongs to move the chicken to the indirect-heat side of the grill, turning the pieces over so they are skin side up. Close the lid; cook for 20 to 30 minutes, until the interior temperature of the thickest part of the meat on each piece (taken away from the bone) registers 155 degrees on an instant-read thermometer. (The meat will not be cooked through; move smaller pieces sooner as needed.) Liberally coat the skin side with some of the sauce; move the pieces to the direct-heat side of the grill and cook uncovered for 5 minutes. Turn the chicken over, skin side down, coat with more sauce and cook uncovered for 5 minutes. Turn the chicken over one more time, so the skin side is up. Slather with more sauce. Cook uncovered for 2 minutes or until the chicken registers 165 degrees on the thermometer. Transfer to a platter; let the chicken rest for 5 minutes. Serve with the remainder of the sauce at the table.

You are right about glass. It can bake things faster and hotter, so definitely try knocking back the temperature 25 degrees or so. Becky Krystal I’ve recently acquired a microplane zester and rasp for citrus and nutmeg, respectively. What other uses they might have? I use mine to grate frozen ginger, and you can also use it to grate garlic so it’s nice and pulpy. It will also give you really lovely fluffy piles of chocolate or Parm for garnishes. B.K. Hard cheeses, like Parm and Pecorino. You also get nice fluffy piles, and they melt on contact with anything warm. So perfect for pasta. Joe Yonan I want to make infused olive oils for grilling vegetables. How to proceed? Should I use EVOO or is plain good enough? And which fresh herbs do you suggest? Infused olive oils couldn’t be simpler! Take about two cups of olive oil (high quality) and a few springs of your favorite herbs (thyme, oregano, rosemary, skies the limit). Then, heat until the olive oil just starts to bubble, maybe 2 to 3 minutes. Strain the herbs and place it into a olive oil glass container. Done! Also, I love to do this with garlic and red chili flakes. Just simmer the 2 cups of oil with the garlic and flakes for 30 minutes then strain. It’s a hot oil I put on pizza and chicken. Anna Gass I bought strawberries that turned out not to be sweet. I guess they were picked too See BAKEWARE C6

These 100-calorie chocolate pudding pops will take you back to childhood By ELLIE KRIEGER Washington Post

No matter how old I get, I will always have a childlike enchantment with summer and all its joys: jumping waves in the ocean, biking around town, biting into big wedges of watermelon, watching the fireflies come out at dusk. One of those pleasures is the refreshment of a frosty popsicle on a hot afternoon. I remember my mom used to put orange juice into paper cup pop molds and freeze them for us, and I loved those. But it was the occasional splurge on the package of chocolate pops that really excited me. This recipe taps that same summertime thrill in a way that is fairly healthful, as desserts go, since it is made with low-fat milk (or plant milk), minimal added sugar and dark chocolate. The chocolate mixture is essentially a simple pudding (albeit somewhat thinner than a

typical pudding) that is poured into pop molds. Once frozen, they come out creamy, icy and refreshing, amply rich with the intensity of good dark chocolate, and clock in at just 100 calories apiece. Although enjoying one in the shade on a sweltering day brings me right back to my childhood, they taste so much better than the store-bought ones I remember, and they make me glad I’m all grown up.

CHOCOLATE PUDDING POPS 8 servings (makes 8 popsicles) This is a sweet treat you can feel good about serving. Dairy milk is called for, but a plant-based milk can be substituted. You will need eight 2-ounce popsicle molds or small paper cups and popsicle (craft) sticks. Make Ahead: The pops need to set up in the freezer until solid, about 6 hours.

Ingredients 1/4 cup sugar 1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder 1 tablespoon cornstarch 2 cups cold, low-fat (1-percent) milk, or unsweetened plant-based milk such as coconut, almond or oat 2 ounces dark or semisweet chocolate (about 60% cocoa solids), finely chopped 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt Whisk together the sugar, cocoa powder and cornstarch in a medium saucepan. Gradually whisk in the milk until the mixture is smooth. Set the saucepan over medium heat. Cook, whisking constantly, until the mixture is gently bubbling and thickens slightly, about 3 minutes. Reduce the heat to low; continue to cook, stirring, for 1 minute. Remove from the heat. Add the chopped chocolate and stir until it has melted, then stir in the vanilla extract and the salt until well incorporated.

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Chocolate Pudding Pops.

Distribute the mixture evenly among your popsicle molds or small paper cups and place in the freezer. If using paper cups, place a popsicle

stick in the center when the mixture is frozen enough for the stick to stand up straight, about 1 hour. Allow to freeze completely, about 6 hours.

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Books & authors How American music became both a reflection and an instrument of social change

Music that made a nation By ALLISON STEWART Washington Post

Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation By Jon Meacham and Tim McGraw Random House. 320 pp. $30.00 At a rally in Hammonton, N.J., during his 1984 reelection campaign, in a moment that will live in stump speech infamy, Ronald Reagan offered words of praise for native son Bruce Springsteen. “America’s future rests in a thousand dreams inside your hearts,” Reagan said. “It rests in the message of hope in songs so many young Americans admire: New Jersey’s own Bruce Springsteen.” Reagan had likely been alerted to Springsteen’s existence via conservative writer George F. Will, who had written in The Washington Post earlier in the week about a Springsteen concert he had recently attended. Will wasn’t sure where the thencircumspect Springsteen stood politically, but “he is no whiner,” Will wrote approvingly, before going on to praise the Springsteen song “Born in the U.S.A.” as a “grand, cheerful affirmation” of American values. (It was not.) During a concert in Pittsburgh a few days later, Springsteen spoke up in protest, wondering which of his albums was Reagan’s favorite. “The White House later offered up ‘Born to Run,’” writes Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham, clearly amused, in his new book, “Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation,” “but no one really believed it.” Reagan’s real musical allegiance may have been to another 1984 hit, “God Bless the U.S.A.” by Lee Greenwood, the Vegas lounge singer who became a country hitmaker. The song, now a conservative standby, was played at the Republican

National Convention a few weeks earlier. Though The Boss/Reagan dust up seems quaint now, Springsteen’s howl of post-Vietnam disaffection and rage and Greenwood’s floridly patriotic anthem both endure as lasting symbols of the early Reagan era. It’s a theme that plays out throughout Meacham’s book, written with country star Tim McGraw, his neighbor in Nashville. Songs frame our national difficulties, show us ourselves and often serve as soldiers in a cultural proxy war. Soldier Barry Sadler’s stirring promilitary “The Ballad of the Green Berets,” a hit in 1966, and Creedence Clearwater Revival’s furious, primal 1969 classic “Fortunate Son” held up a mirror to the fractious Vietnam War era. Merle Haggard’s “Okie from Muskogee” and the “Hair” soundtrack song “Aquarius,” hits within months of each other, were shorthand for a neighboring conflict, the silent majority vs. restive hippies. “Songs of America” is a history primer that emphasizes music’s role as both a reflection of social change and its instrument. “Songs make history,” writes Meacham, quoting Irving Berlin, “and history makes songs.” While some periods in

American history, like the civil rights era, are brimming with inspiration, others were decidedly less musical, and “Songs of America” can go long stretches without mentioning songs at all. It appears there were precisely zero catchy tunes inspired by suffragists, for example, and the Great War was also slow going. When recounting the music of the Revolutionary period, Meacham and McGraw mostly make do with repurposed hymns; poets, and pamphleteers like Thomas Paine, held far greater sway than did songwriters. It isn’t until the twin powerhouses of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” written by lawyer Francis Scott Key in 1814 after bearing firsthand witness to the battle for Fort McHenry, and “America” (popularly known as “My Country, ‘Tis of Thee”) in 1831 that music became central to the American identity. Meacham and McGraw move as gingerly through the spirituals of the Civil War years as two white men might be expected to. African American songs from this time period were often written in what amounted to code so as not to alarm whites, Meacham writes. “To sing of deliverance from sin, for instance, was also to sing of deliverance from slavery and from discrimination without provoking a white backlash.” The process, called “masking,” was evident in spirituals like “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” written by former slave Wallace Willis, and in songs such as Chuck Berry’s “Johnny B. Goode,” written almost a century later. White songwriters could write what they wanted. The 1859 Confederate anthem “I Wish I Was in Dixie’s Land” was written for Northern minstrel performers, McGraw and Meacham note. Lincoln loved it. In one of the book’s strongest passages, McGraw, who contributes sidebars while Meacham handles the bulk of the narrative, grapples with the role of “Dixie” in his own Southern upbringing. “It’s not just any other song

but a part of a past that’s troubling, tragic, and not even past,” he writes. “Songs of America” otherwise moves briskly through history, lingering longest during the 1960s, and concluding with a post-Sept. 11 section that includes the Dixie Chicks’ Iraq War protest, to which Meacham devotes comparatively extensive space. Meacham is a nonideological historian and McGraw is a country star, two professions that were built for caution, something McGraw occasionally takes to excess. Perhaps mindful of their ongoing cultural radioactivity, he avoids the Dixie Chicks entirely, though they might have seemed a natural subject for a country singer writing a book about American protest music. McGraw is at his best when unraveling the technical aspects of a song — how difficult it is to sing, how its arrangement contributes to its emotional force. “Songs of America” does its best work when uncovering lesserknown figures: Phillis Wheatley was an emancipated slave whose masterful poems led to an unlikely correspondence with George Washington; Alfred Bryan’s 1915 song “I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier” (“Who dares to place a musket on his shoulder, / To shoot some other mother’s darling boy?”) prefigured the protest songs of the 1960s. Meacham is an unshowy and empathetic writer who hails from the Doris Kearns Goodwin school of vaguely comforting, it’ll-be-OK-we’ve-beenhere-before historical scholarship. To him, our American songbook, in all its sprawling messiness, unites more than it divides. If “we share music, we might just shout in anger a little less and sing in unity a bit more,” he writes. “Or so we can hope.” Stewart writes about pop culture, music and politics for The Washington Post and the Chicago Tribune.

‘The Last Book Party’ is a postcard from another era By PETE TOSIELLO Washington Post

The Last Book Party By Karen Dukess Henry Holt. 256 pp. $27 Forty pages into Karen Dukess’ “The Last Book Party,” a period piece set in the luxurious lap of 1980s publishing, a hotshot novelist lures an unsuspecting secretary from his publishing house to an unoccupied downtown apartment and clumsily attempts to seduce her. Leveraging his position of power and close professional relationship with the secretary’s supervisor, he pressures her into drinking beer on what is ostensibly a work errand, then approaches her from behind and pulls her hair down. “Sorry — I couldn’t resist,” he waffles when she whips around in horror before fleeing the premises. If this episode sounds like the setup to a salacious industry tell-all or rings of the workplace scandals involving Matt Lauer and Louis C.K., readers are doomed for a letdown. Not only is Dukess’ would-be assaulter swiftly redeemed as a brooding love interest, but the pattern is repeated when Eve, the secretary and protagonist, takes another job and finds herself in a whirlwind affair with a presumptuous new boss 30 years her senior. For a novel concerned with class politics,

marital infidelity and office predations, “The Last Book Party” is completely illiterate regarding the dynamics of power and privilege. Eve’s tour du Manhattan publishing is itself a bounty of inherited plenitude. A preternaturally dewy 25, she is a heroine to whom things — job offers, lusty flings, impossible coincidences — just happen. She stumbles upon strangers who promptly divulge compromising secrets; she falls in infatuated love at the drop of a hat. In one instance, she is bicycling down a quiet country lane daydreaming about a new crush when he quite literally jumps out of a row of hedges. Convinced of her destiny to become a great writer despite a nagging inability to sit down and write anything, she is a

narrator blissfully exempt from conflict, neurosis and anxiety. After being passed over for a promotion to which she feels entitled (“I am a very educated typist,” she complains to one sympathetic listener), Eve gives notice at her publishing house and accepts a longstanding offer to work as an assistant for a New Yorker columnist near her family’s summer home in Cape Cod. There are shades of the Cape scenes in Hanya Yanagihara’s “A Little Life” and Liska Jacobs’ “Catalina,” but I am most reminded of Kurt Wenzel’s “Lit Life,” a boozy, vastly superior sendup which eulogized the late century’s beachcombing literary hobnobbers even before the final stake had been driven in. But the politics of the Cape’s seasonal “wash ashores” and their year-round neighbors in “The Last Book Party” are gratingly insensitive. Eve laments her well-to-do family’s ordinariness, bemoaning their unpretentious taste and subdued cocktail parties. Her parents read the New Yorker, but critically, they do not write for it; an acquaintance of Eve’s mother works for a rival magazine, but — gasp! — toils in the ad sales department. The yuppies gentrifying Dukess’ coastal New England — including Eve’s own Ivy League-pedigreed family — are presented as vacuous strivers, somehow more

ignominious than both the hardy locals who comprise the service industry and the oldmoney summer residents who sustain them. The seasonal literati grouse from their seaside saltboxes when a familyrun grocer is supplanted by a shiny new supermarket. Eve, a Brown grad who spends her holidays jetting between Upper Manhattan and the Upper Cape, despairs that she will always be insufficiently cosmopolitan and lacks the connections needed to ascend professionally. Somewhere, Daisy Buchanan lifts a champagne flute in salutation. Months after the nearassault in New York, Eve has inexplicably warmed up to her former firm’s novelist, Jeremy, while simultaneously carrying on a lurid affair with her new employer, Henry, at the Cape. In the intervening months Jeremy has again plied her with alcohol and grabbed her hair uninvited, but no matter — his reclamation hinges on the tawdry revelation that he is the son of Holocaust survivors, which evidently gives him license to harass his publisher’s secretaries. Henry, for his part, relishes Eve like a concubine while his wife writes poetry downstairs. Still, Eve is affronted by her mother’s suggestion that she be Jeremy’s “muse,” incensed by the sexist implication even as multiple men take advantage

of her within the charmed confines of a patriarchal summer community. In a recent Popula essay, Maria Bustillos decried “Booksmart,” a film about the subtle degrees of experience in an exclusive California suburb, as “a high-school movie for Biden voters.” The designation doubly applies to “The Last Book Party,” and not just because the male characters are so cheerily handsy around young women. It is a novel about millionaires which posits a basic meritocracy (at one point Eve reminds herself that a colleague “was no fool” given her resumé as a Hamilton alumna) while inadvertently celebrating the spoils of privilege and institutional misogyny. Dukess’ novel is a postcard from another era, blind to itself and the world, but the fatal mistake is the assumption that it would be anything but irritating in this one. Early in the novel Eve discusses a paramour with an enchanted librarian straight out of “Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore” who winkingly advises, “You know what they say about judging a book by its cover.” In “The Last Book Party,” that logic perversely applies even to sexual predators. Tosiello is a writer and critic based in New York.

NOTEWORTHY PAPERBACKS Summaries from The New York Times Book Review:

THE IMPOSTOR: A TRUE STORY By Javier Cercas. Translated by Frank Wynne. (Vintage, $17.) For three decades, Enric Marco, a Catalan mechanic, was a prominent public face of Spanish survivors of the Holocaust — until his story was revealed to be a hoax. Cercas unravels the horrific, yet wildly successful, lie, raising questions about the truth and its consequences and investigating the uneasy kinship he felt with the disgraced man.

THE WAITER By Matias Faldbakken. Translated by Alice Menzies. (Scout Press, $16.) At the Hills, a fusty fine-dining restaurant in Oslo, Norway, the title character goes off the rails. Rattled by patrons whose preferences endanger the old guard, the waiter, who prided himself on his impeccable presentation and service, descends into neurosis: mixing up orders, giving nonsensical answers.

BUILT: THE HIDDEN STORIES BEHIND OUR STRUCTURES By Roma Agrawal. (Bloomsbury, $18.) A pioneering engineer behind some of the world’s tallest towers shares her enthusiasm and appreciation for her craft. The “engineered universe is a narrative full of stories and secrets,” Agrawal writes, and the book unveils many of the discipline’s solutions to the world’s problems. The astonishing ingenuity of engineers makes for fascinating reading.

DAYS OF AWE: STORIES By A.M. Homes. (Penguin, $17.) The absurd and the delicate live side by side in these 12 selections, all shot through with Homes’ brand of dark humor. The title story follows a war reporter and a novelist who meet at a conference on genocide (one whose intentions are somewhat undercut by its corporate sponsors) and carry on an affair. Times reviewer Ramona Ausubel praised the collection, writing that “everything has a sharp edge, is strikingly beautiful and suddenly also a little menacing.”

SQUEEZED: WHY OUR FAMILIES CAN’T AFFORD AMERICA By Alissa Quart. (Ecco/ HarperCollins, $16.99.) Quart coins the term the “Middle Precariat” to describe the swath of Americans whose financial situations are increasingly tenuous. Many of the families she interviews speak of the guilt and shame they feel about their circumstances, although the book makes an argument that personal discipline is not to blame.

THE MIDDLEMAN

Publisher’s Weekly best-sellers Tribune News Service

Here are the best-sellers for the week that ended Saturday, June 29, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by NPD BookScan.

HARDCOVER FICTION 1. Where the Crawdads Sing. Delia Owens. Putnam 2. Backlash. Brad Thor. Atria 3. Summer of ‘69. Elin Hilderbrand. Little, Brown 4. Lost and Found. Danielle Steel. Delacorte 5. City of Girls. Elizabeth Gilbert.

Riverhead 6. Unsolved. Patterson/Ellis. Little, Brown 7. Mrs. Everything. Jennifer Weiner. Atria 8. Tom Clancy: Enemy Contact. Mike Maden. Putnam 9. Big Sky. Kate Atkinson. Little, Brown 10. The Oracle. Cussler/Burcell. Putnam

HARDCOVER NONFICTION 1. Unfreedom of the Press. Mark R. Levin. Threshold 2. The Pioneers. David McCullough. Simon & Schuster 3. The Peach Truck Cookbook. Rose/ Rose. Scribner 4. Becoming. Michelle Obama. Crown

5. Girl, Stop Apologizing. Rachel Hollis. HarperCollins Leadership 6. Songs of America. Meacham/McGraw. Random House 7. The Sixth Man. Andre Iguodala. Blue Rider 8. Alone at Dawn. Schilling/Longfritz. Grand Central 9. Howard Stern Comes Again. Howard Stern. Simon & Schuster 10. Stay Sexy & Don’t Get Murdered. Kilgariff/Hardstark. Forge

MASS MARKET 1. The Reckoning. John Grisham. Dell 2. Cottage by the Sea. Debbie Macomber.

Ballantine 3. Past Tense. Lee Child. Dell 4. In His Father’s Footsteps. Danielle Steel. Dell 5. Triple Homicide. James Patterson. Vision 6. Say No to the Duke. Eloisa James. Avon 7. Tailspin. Sandra Brown. Vision 8. Cutthroats. William W. Johnstone. Pinnacle 9. Burning Daylight. William W. Johnstone. Pinnacle 10. Liar, Liar. Lisa Jackson. Zebra

TRADE PAPERBACK 1. Before We Were Yours. Lisa Wingate.

Ballantine 2. The Reckoning. John Grisham. Bantam 3. Little Fires Everywhere. Celeste Ng. Penguin 4. The Tattooist of Auschwitz. Heather Morris. Harper 5. The Outsider. Stephen King. Gallery 6. The Mueller Report. Scribner 7. The President Is Missing. Clinton/ Patterson. Grand Central/Knopf 8. Long Road to Mercy. David Baldacci. Grand Central 9. The Woman in the Window. A.J. Finn. Morrow 10. Where the Crawdads Sing. Delia Owens. Random House

By Olen Steinhauer. (Picador, $18.) A timely new thriller imagines what would happen if an organized anti-capitalist fervor swept the United States. One day, hundreds of Americans across the country simply vanish, raising fears that the organization, known as the Massive Brigade, is actually a terrorist group. Although Steinhauer asks political questions, they don’t get in the way of suspense.