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ATHENS — A search at Green Lake for a body reported seen Sunday yielded no results and has been called off, according to the Greene County Sheriff’s Office. “After an extensive multi-agency search, it has been determined to be unfounded,” the sheriff’s office said in a posting on its Facebook page at 3 p.m. Monday. “Public access to the lake can resume immediately.” A report from a local resident said Sunday he saw human feet underwater, Seeley said.

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Rescuers in a boat head out on Green Lake to search for a body reported by a swimmer on Sunday.

The search began at 10 p.m. Sunday and resumed again Monday at 8 a.m.

Resources from Greene, Columbia and Ulster counties are being deployed in

the search, including dive teams, sonar and a cadaver dog, Seeley said. “A Catskill man was swimming when he noticed a fishing line that was stuck,” Seeley said. “He followed the line and at the end there appeared to be human feet.” The man told police he dived back down a second time to confirm what he saw and again saw the feet, Seeley said. The area where the man was swimming is on the south side of the lake, about 100 feet from the docks, Seeley said. See SEARCH A8

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ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed legislation Monday decriminalizing marijuana. The legislation reduces the unlawful possession of marijuana to a violation punishable by a fine. It will also remove criminal penalties for possession of any amount of marijuana under two ounces. The law also creates a process for individuals with convictions for possessing a small amount of marijuana on their record to have them expunged both retroactively and for the future, according to the governor’s office. While some Democrats

in the Legislature have been pushing to have marijuana legalized in the state, the bill stops short of that. Cuomo said the current marijuana laws disproportionately affect African-American and Latino communities, and the new bill “will address those racial and ethnic disparities.” “Communities of color have been disproportionately impacted by laws governing marijuana for far too long, and today we are ending this injustice once and for all,” Cuomo said in a statement. “By providing individuals who have suffered the consequences of See MARIJUANA A8

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Twin Cloves Technical Rescue Team assisted with recovery of a vehicle that rolled 150 feet down an embankment off Platte Clove Road. The driver was rescued.

HUNTER — A rollover accident on Friday took the help of many agencies to pull the driver to safety, first-responders said Monday. The accident occurred at about 1 p.m. on Platte Clove Road. The vehicle left the road and traveled down an embankment about 150 feet before coming to rest, according to the Twin Cloves Technical Rescue Team. The group, which specializes in rope rescues, posted information about the extrication on its Facebook page. “The TCTRT was initially requested to stand by in quarters but after receiving updated

information, that the vehicle was 150 feet off the roadway, all available manpower was requested to the scene,” according to the team. Hunter police was the lead agency on the case. Officials from the department could not be reached for comment on Monday. Information regarding the condition of the driver or whether there were any passengers in the vehicle was unknown at press time. Twin Cloves employed a high-angle technical rope system to gain access to the vehicle. Photographs depict a white sedan, upside down with its roof crushed and heavy damage to the front end, lying in a wooded area on

some rocks. “Basic life support and advanced life support care was initiated before the patient was secured to a litter and moved to a second high-angle rope system,” according to the team. A litter is a rescue device similar to a stretcher. “Approximately three hours after the initial 911 call, the extrication was completed and the patient transported to the hospital,” according to the team. Twin Cloves remained at the scene to assist with recovery of the vehicle. “This was an outstanding See RESCUES A8

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump attacked the Rev. Al Sharpton on Monday as “a con man” and someone who “Hates Whites & Cops,” just hours before Sharpton was scheduled to hold a news conference in Baltimore to decry Trump’s derogatory weekend tweets directed at the city and an African American congressman. Sharpton, a former Democratic presidential candidate and MSNBC talk-show host, is scheduled to appear in Baltimore alongside Michael Steele, who formerly chaired the Republican National Committee and served as Maryland’s lieutenant governor. At the event, held at a Baltimore church, Sharpton said Trump had attacked the city and Rep. Elijah Cummings, DMd., in “the most bigoted and racist way.” “He has a particular venom for blacks and people of color,” Sharpton said of Trump. Steele, the first African American elected statewide in Maryland, criticized Trump for “reprehensive comments” and invited him to come to Baltimore. “Put the tweet down brother, and show up,” Steele said. In tweets beforehand, Trump said he had known Sharpton for 25 years. He said the two “always got along well” and attended boxing matches together. “He would ask me for favors often,” Trump said. “Al is a con man, a troublemaker, always looking for a score. Just doing his thing. Must have intimidated Comcast/NBC. Hates Whites & Cops!” Sharpton’s news conference comes two days after Trump criticized Baltimore as a “rodent infested mess” where “no human being would want to live” and attacked Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., who represents part of the city. Cummings chairs the House Oversight Committee, which has been holding an array of hearings critical of Trump administration practices.

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President Trump meets with Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan Imran Khan in the Oval Office at the White House on July 22, 2019 in Washington.

Sharpton responded Monday morning on Twitter by sharing a photograph of Trump attending a 2006 conference hosted by Sharpton’s organization, the National Action Network. The photo also included singer James Brown and civil rights leader Jesse Jackson. “Trump at NAN Convention 2006 telling James Brown and Jesse Jackson why he respects my work. Different tune now,” Sharpton wrote. Trump soon responded on Twitter, saying that Sharpton would “always ask me to go to his events” as “a personal favor.” “Seldom, but sometimes, I would go. It was fine,” Trump said. Sharpton later continued the back-and-forth on Twitter, writing: “Trump says I’m a troublemaker & con man. I do make trouble for bigots. If he really thought I was a con man he would want me in his cabinet.” Trump also renewed his attacks on Baltimore and Cummings on Monday, asserting in a tweet that the city of more than 600,000 people “has the worst Crimes Statistics in the Nation.” “25 years of all talk, no action!” Trump wrote. “So tired of listening to the same old Bull...

Next, Reverend Al will show up to complain & protest. Nothing will get done for the people in need. Sad!” Steele also spoke out about Trump over the weekend, raising a question in a tweet about “how much more of Trump’s incessant whining, tweeting, bullying, & racism are we willing to put up with.” Trump launched his attacks on Cummings two weeks after he started taking aim at a group of four liberal minority congresswomen known on Capitol Hill as “the Squad.” In the first of his tweets attacking the freshman lawmakers, he said they should “go back” to the “totally broken and crime infested places from which they came” - remarks that drew a rebuke from the House. Only one of the four women - Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., a Somali refugee who became a U.S. citizen in 2000 - was born outside the United States. The others - Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan were born in the United States. In another tweet Monday, Trump referenced the four lawmakers again.

“If the Democrats are going to defend the Radical Left ‘Squad’ and King Elijah’s Baltimore Fail, it will be a long road to 2020,” he said. Trump’s advisers have concluded that the overall message sent by such attacks is good for the president among his political base - resonating strongly with the white working-class voters he needs to win reelection in 2020. Sharpton also saw a political motive in Trump’s attacks. During a call Monday morning into MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” he said, “I think this is Trump getting ready for reelection.”’ Later Monday morning, Trump struck a more hopeful note about Baltimore and suggested that the city’s leaders call him. “The fact is, Baltimore can be brought back, maybe even to new heights of success and glory, but not with King Elijah and that crew,” he said. “When the leaders of Baltimore want to see the City rise again, I am in a very beautiful oval shaped office waiting for your call!” The Washington Post’s Toluse Olorunnipa and Ashley Parker contributed to this report.

Fears of Navalny poisoning are rooted in previous attacks on Kremlin foes

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MOSCOW — The hospital treating Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny sent him back to prison Monday, despite the strenuous objection of his doctor, who said he had apparently been poisoned with a “toxic agent” in the wake of some of the largest anti-Kremlin protests held in Moscow for years. The doctor, Anastasy Vasilyeva, said insufficient tests had been conducted on the cause of Navalny’s condition to return him to the place where she said the toxic exposure probably occurred. After being allowed to see him, Vasilyeva wrote on Facebook that Navalny was feeling better but needed continued monitoring. Navalny, 43, the most prominent critic of President Vladimir Putin and his government, was rushed to the hospital Sunday from his jail cell, suffering from swelling and hives, which officials described as an allergic reaction. He was sentenced last week to 30 days in jail for organizing an illegal protest, days before a demonstration he had called drew thousands of people in Moscow on Saturday. Vasilyeva, who had treated him previously, said Sunday

that Navalny might have been poisoned with an unknown chemical substance. The Interfax news agency quoted a doctor at the government hospital where he was admitted as saying that he had suffered from an attack of hives but had improved. Unease among his fellow opposition members and supporters stemmed from the Kremlin’s long history of eliminating its opponents, often by poisoning them. Putin has tried to build an image of a powerful, united Russia, and anyone who would undermine that strength or point out that much of the country lives in poverty is often the target of official ire. Independent journalists, rights advocates, opposition politicians, government whistleblowers and others are smeared in the media, jailed on dubious charges and, in some cases, killed. Navalny himself temporarily lost most of the vision in one eye when someone threw a caustic liquid into his face in 2017. Analysts have described both Navalny’s medical emergency and the mass detentions Saturday, when police carted away almost 1,400 protesters, as

possible signs of the Kremlin’s unease about Putin’s continued drop in the polls, with Russians grumbling about their stagnant incomes. They said that instead of doing the hard work of changing policies to woo those who are angry with Kremlin, the government is trying to silence them. The immediate cause of the Moscow protests was anger over the Moscow City Electoral Commission’s preventing opposition candidates from registering for the September election for the 45-member city council. Fifty-seven potential candidates were blocked, including about 17 government critics. “There are thousands of Muscovites behind every opposition member that was not allowed to run,” Nikolai Petrov, a Russian political science professor at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, wrote in the Vedomosti daily. “Today these are the people, and not

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just 17 unregistered candidates, who are in the position of being very harsh critics of the government.” Hence the crackdown will feed more protests, he said, adding that “it is hard to imagine what they will do next, but it won’t be pleasant for the government.” The next Moscow protest is scheduled for Saturday. 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, 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

Tuesday, Aug. 6 n Catskill Town Board with public

hearings 6:30 p.m. at Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill n Durham Town Board workshop meeting 7:30 p.m. at Town Hall, 7309 Route 81, East Durham

Wednesday, Aug. 7 n Windham-Ashland-Jewett CSD BOE

audit finance committee 4:30 p.m.; regular meeting 5 p.m. in the School Library, 5411 Route 23, Windham

Thursday, Aug. 8 n Coxsackie Village workshop meet-

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

Monday, Aug. 12 n Ashland Town Board 7:30 p.m. at

the Town Hall, 12094 Route 23, Ashland n Catskill Village Planning Board 7 p.m. at the Catskill Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill n Coxsackie Village Board 7 p.m. at Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie n Greenville CSD BOE business meeting 6:30 p.m. MS/HS Library, 4976 Route 81, Greenville

Tuesday, Aug. 13 n Catskill Town Planning Board 7 p.m.

Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill 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

Village Hall, 2 First St., Athens n Catskill Town Zoning Board 6 p.m. Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill n Catskill Village Board 7 p.m. Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill n Jewett Town Board 7 p.m. at the Jewett Municipal Building, 3547 County Route 23C, Jewett 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 n Greenville Town Board 7 p.m. at the Town Hall, 11159 Route 32, Pioneer Building, Greenville

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

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

Wednesday, Aug. 21 n Catskill Central School District BOE

6:30 p.m. in the High School Library, 341 West Main St., Catskill n Catskill Library Board 6:45 p.m. at either the Catskill Library, 1 Franklin St., Catskill or Palenville Library, 3303 Route 23A, Palenville

20-year run of veterans reunion draws to a close By Melanie Lekocevic Columbia-Greene Media

GREENVILLE — For 20 years, Vietnam veterans from across the region and the country have travelled to Greene County to share their experiences, reunite with old friends and honor the fallen. On Saturday, they did it for the final time. “There has been a lot of healing and camaraderie over these 20 years, and now we are here to celebrate the 20th and last reunion,” Trustee Tim Broder from the Northeast USA Vietnam Veterans Reunion Association said. “What better place to have this 20th and final reunion than here, at the Greenville American Legion Post 291, as the American Legion celebrates its 100th anniversary.” The annual reunion was once known as one of the largest gatherings of Vietnam veterans in the country, Broder said, drawing people from as many as 26 states. For the first 18 years the event was held at a farm in Freehold owned by Chris Alf, and in 2018 it was moved to the Legion in Greenville. But because the veterans who organize the massive event are getting older, Broder said, it is getting too difficult to continue pulling it together. Veterans said they were sorry to see the reunion coming to a close. “It’s the end of an era,” said Sergeant-at-Arms Jack Kelly from the American Legion, a Vietnam veteran who served in the U.S. Army. “It’s sad, but people are getting too old to do all the work.” Veteran Harry Short, who served in the Marine Corps in Vietnam, said he hasn’t come every year but did attend the reunion most years. “Everything has to come to an end, I guess. I will miss it,” Short said of the reunion. “You meet a lot of people and talk to them, sometimes we share our experiences.” As the final reunion got underway, some remembered the vital purpose the event has served over the years. “It’s a camaraderie thing — they can share their experiences, they laugh and support each other,” said Post Commander Skip Spinner from the Greenville American Legion. “It’s a tremendous thing for them to be able to get together like this.” Erika Nucci, who served during the Vietnam era when she was stationed in the U.S., said programs that honor the sacrifice of veterans are

gratifying. “I love when people come out to honor veterans,” she said. “It makes me so proud.” Broder opened the ceremony by reading off the names of Greene County service members who died in Vietnam. He also recalled the organization’s past president, William “Bunker Bill” Fay, who died in 2018 from exposure to Agent Orange when he served in Vietnam. “He was one of the victims who came back from Vietnam only to begin his long journey to being killed in Vietnam and taking 47 years to finally succumb to the poison that he was exposed to in Vietnam with Agent Orange,” Broder said. A host of elected officials attended the event from both the state and county Legislatures, along with U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado, D-19. Delgado said society must honor the sacrifices and contributions of Vietnam veterans, both those living and those who made the ultimate sacrifice, but there is more

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The color guard from the Greenville American Legion prepares to present the colors as the ceremony gets underway Saturday.

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The organization held its 20th and final reunion on Saturday.

that needs to be done. “While the Vietnam War ended nearly 50 years ago, our fight for the necessary health care treatment, including mental health services, for all veterans, continues, whether it is providing support for veterans and families struggling with PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) or fighting for coverage of medical treatment for all veterans who were exposed to Agent Orange,” Delgado told the crowd. “My work in government is focused on ensuring veterans and their families receive every bit of the services and support, including vital health care coverage, they have so courageously earned.” Delgado also spoke of how

Vietnam veterans were treated when they returned from battle. “It’s at events like the one we are at today where we can reflect on the harsh mistreatment so many of our Vietnam veterans received upon returning home despite persevering through some of the most challenging conditions ever faced by Americans at war and then returning to our shores,” Delgado said. “Many were denigrated, when their service to our country should have been celebrated.” The reunion’s keynote

U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado, D-19, presents a flag that flew over the Capitol to the Northeast USA Vietnam Veterans Reunion Association.

speaker was Judge Bernard J. Malone Jr., a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army who served with the Red Diamond Division. “I am honored and humbled to be asked to be here today,” Malone said. “There is so much to talk about in Vietnam and so many people have talked about it and written about it for so many years. There is not much nice to say about it.” Durham resident Richard Bauer, who served in the Army, said Saturday’s reunion was the first one he was able to attend, but he has been

connected to his own battalion for the past 10 years or so. He said he has always enjoyed getting together with other veterans. He remembered what he told his fellow soldiers before being sent back home when his tour of duty ended in Vietnam. “In my farewell speech when I left (Vietnam), I said I’m not going to miss this place, but some of the people that I have met I really will miss,” Bauer said. “It’s great to see the people I served with, now.”

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Community banking restores trust People put their money in banks. They put their trust in them, too. Over the past 30 or 40 years, many small, local banks were acquired by larger corporate banks. This would rightly cause concern for many depositors. “The corner bank” belongs to a not-so-distant past, like cassettes, VHS players and newsstands. Deposit and withdrawal slips and smiling tellers at every window have been replaced by debit cards, digital fund transfers and handfuls of customer service representatives asked to do too much. Overlapping technologies and corporate impersonality, however, don’t have to create obstacles to

courteous service and the old, comfortable feeling of visiting a bank. This is where community banks fit in. Bank of Greene County President Donald Gibson said the changing face of community banking is not new. It’s a trend that has spanned decades and is flourishing today. “When I started in banking in 1985, there were 30,000 banks in the country,” Gibson said. “That number is down to 5,200, and continues to drop.” Community banking has proved useful in allaying fears depositors may have of losing preferred services, of being charged new fees or, in some cases, of losing the savings

they entrusted to their pre-merger bank. Community banking has created some new jobs while others have been lost, but the focus remains local. At Community Bank, for example, branch managers act as the president of the bank in the communities they serve. As such, they are empowered with oversight of the offices, the ability to help customers locally and make local loan decisions. This is the new normal for banking in our area. We have fewer banks now than we had just a few years ago. But the banks that are still here have shored up our financial services. It’s something to be grateful for.

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When you’re a person of color — whether in politics, journalism or regular life — you’re accustomed to folks demanding that you criticize or denounce people, especially if they look like you. Some of them deserve criticism for what they’ve said. (See Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.) Some of them aren’t worth the oxygen required of denunciation because they are marginal characters who don’t have any power. (See Louis Farrakhan.) But we do it because it is the moral and right thing to do. Yet, the president of the United States goes on a racist tear against Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., and his Baltimore district, and there is virtual silence from the president’s supporters. The president of the United States goes on a racist tear against Omar and three other women of color elected to serve in the House of Representatives, and there is virtual silence. The president of the United States stands back for 13 seconds as his bread-and-circuses crowd brays “Send her back!” about Omar, and there is virtual silence. Actually, it’s worse than that. Excuses are made. Facing a grilling from “Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace, acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said of Trump’s racist tweets: “It has absolutely zero to do with race.” He told Margaret Brennan, the host of CBS News’ “Face the Nation,” about the racist tweets about Baltimore, “I understand that everything that Donald Trump says is offensive to some people.” The pom-poms for President Donald Trump aren’t limited to those inside his own administration. “Usually, when they are faced with charges of racism, Republicans hide a little bit. And the president’s not hiding,” Bryan Lanza, an adviser to Trump’s 2016 campaign and transition, told The Washington Post. “And I think that’s what the Republican

voters like about him.” Kelly Sadler of pro-Trump super PAC America First Action also told The Post, “Republicans, for as long as I can remember in politics, we’ve all been called racists just because of our policy ideas. The Republicans who have been struggling with these criticisms want somebody to fight back. And the president now is reversing the game on the Democrats.” See, this is the problem. What these Republicans see as a game has real-life consequences for people of color. These “policy ideas” have separated immigrant families and have left jailed children to wallow in their own filth in overcrowded border stations. The hatred and division of our white-nationalist president has given people such as Nancy Goodman permission to unapologetically act out their bigotry. And don’t get me started on the general sense of menace enveloping the daily lives of African Americans. “You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic — you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up,” Hillary Clinton said at a New York fundraiser in September 2016. More than two years and countless bigoted episodes into the Trump presidency with nary a moment of accountability for them, it turns out Clinton was wrong: It’s more than half. And if you don’t think it is, if you think I’m being overly harsh or painting with too broad a brush, if you are a Republican who has stood up publicly and consistently against the hate and division coming from Trump and his administration, then I eagerly await your receipts. If you have none, this is your time to speak out. Jonathan Capehart is a member of The Post editorial board, writes about politics and social issues, and is host of the “Cape Up” podcast.

The economy is humming. We’re not at war (much). So he can’t be that bad, right? Steadfast Never Trumpers may find it hard to believe, but I’m hearing that argument more and more lately, as people try to come to terms with the possibility of a second Trump term. It’s the “normalization” we’ve been warned about since Donald Trump’s ascension, but in a different form than we might have expected. After all, many of the people telling themselves that things aren’t “that bad” insist they are as offended as ever by the racist tweets and sexist taunts. They’d prefer someone more civil in the Oval Office, of course. But . . . the government, and the world, carry on. He insults our allies, but they remain on our side. He imposes tariffs, but unemployment stays low. He threatens defaults, but the debt ceiling is raised. Maybe, people think, a second term wouldn’t be the end of the world. I’d argue such complacency is not justified. First, because a second term could be a lot more dangerous than the first. There would be more Trump judges on the courts to validate his lawlessness, no Jim Mattis or (God help us) Jeff Sessions in the Cabinet to curb his authoritarian whims, no worries of voter anger to restrain his bellicosity. A second mandate surely would embolden him; at worst, we could find that his jokes about a third term were no joke. But complacency is misplaced also because - and here’s where the normalization comes in - things are that bad, even now. If people discount the damage, it’s due to a combination of fatigue and relief: fatigue,

because it’s almost impossible to maintain outrage when the outrages are so incessant; and relief, because we are constantly aware that things could be worse. Take North Korea’s missile launches last week, for example. Congress and the media would be scorching any other president right now for allowing North Korea to continue its nuclear and military buildup unimpeded. But we are so grateful that Trump has not blustered and stumbled into a war - into “fire and fury” that we bite our tongues. It’s the same around the world: Our ankle-high expectations for the man keep us from noticing how completely he is meeting those expectations. Our two key allies in East Asia, Japan and South Korea, are at loggerheads; a marginally competent president would be helping to mend fences. Our most important allies in Europe are spinning apart as Britain plunges toward a disastrous Brexit; a normal president would be helping our friends salvage something workable for the future. When Ebola emerged in West Africa, the Obama administration mobilized; now Ebola is spinning out of control in Congo, and the United States is absent. A Darfur-scale tragedy has unfolded among the Rohingya in Myanmar, also known as Burma; Trump doesn’t know who they are. A human rights violation of epic scale has taken shape in western China - the cultural genocide of an entire people, with as many as 3 million people in concentration camps - and Trump takes no notice. Journalists are killed and imprisoned, and Trump sides with their killers and jailers. To the world, it is not just Trump taking these positions. It is America. The

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damage will be long-lasting. And his ignorance and cynicism reverberate through some of the biggest stories of our time: the confidence of authoritarian strongmen in China, Russia and beyond; their distortion of technology from a liberating force into a malevolent tool of surveillance and suppression; the destructive warming of the climate, which the United States ignores and abets. None of these is easily reversible. The story is similar, if more familiar, at home. The constant, willful lying; the attacks on the press and on the very idea of truth - these are not harmless. They draw from but also foster a lack of trust that will persist long after his presidency. So does the racism. So do the ugly attacks on immigrants. So do the contempt for science and the refusal to stand up to foreign attacks on our elections. So do the disparaging of public servants and the casual threats to wield the vast powers of the federal government against perceived political enemies. These things used to be not OK. Now they are OK. There will be no easy return. Yes, we’ve avoided recession, the nation is (mostly) at peace, the government will not default. Naturally, we are thankful. But when we need to be thankful for avoiding disaster, we don’t really have so much to be thankful for. Things are that bad. We have a right to expect better. Fred Hiatt is the editorial page editor of The Post. He writes editorials for the newspaper and a biweekly column that appears on Mondays. Previously he was a local reporter in Virginia, a national reporter covering national security and a foreign correspondent based in Tokyo and Moscow.

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Brandon Scott Pitcher Brandon Scott Pitcher, 27, of sweetheart, Brittany Elaine Chatham NY passed away un- Cornelius was the love of his expectedly Saturday, July 27th life, along with their son Wyatt, 2019. and baby expected in JanuHe was born to Robert and ary. Brandon enjoyed sharing Lynette Pitcher in on May 6th, his passion of mechanics with 1992. Brandon enjoyed rac- Wyatt. They spent many hours ing and starting racing building blocks, putting Go-Carts at the age of race car tracks togeth8 at the Albany-Saraer, and playing cars. toga Speedway. He Wyatt loved spending then moved on to the time at the race car sportsman division. He shop with his dad to recorded several wins get ready for Saturday in both carting and the night racing at Lebasportsman division. He non valley Speedway. started in the 358 modiBrandon enjoyed cookPitcher fied division a few years ing, Wednesday night back and had several very im- family dinners at the Cornelius’, pressive finishes this season, and watching the New York looking for sure like he was Giants Football on Sundays. going to get his first 358 modi- Brandon brought so much joy fied win. He had the passion to everyone he was around. He for racing like his dad, and they was a ray of sunshine that will would spend hours together at shine on forever. In addition to their race shop working on their his parents Robert and Lynette, cars to compete. Brandon was Brandon is survived by his fitaking a week off to rebuild his ancé and lifetime partner Britengine when this tragedy took tany Elaine Cornelius. He is also him from us. Like his father and survived by his brother Robert grandfather before him, Bran- (Britney), sister Robyn (Jordan), don was a natural mechanic and grandparents Michele and and tinkerer, fixing anything he Rudy Perini. He is also survived came across from motorcycles by many uncles, aunts, cousins, to heavy machinery, first work- nieces and nephews. He was ing for the family business, predeceased by his paternal Ryder Trucking, and most re- grandparents, William and Ruth cently with Bervy Excavation. Pitcher. He was especially proud of atCalling hours will be held taining his associates degree Thursday August 1 2019 from as an automotive technician 4:00 - 7:00 PM at the Wenk Fufrom Columbia Greene Com- neral Home. In lieu of flowers, munity College. Brandon was the family requests donations an enthusiastic member of his be made to an account at the community, coaching the Cha- Bank of Greene County “FBO tham Varsity Volleyball team. He Pitcher Family” for the benefit always had an open heart and of his children. There is also a a helping hand to give to any- link to a GoFundMe page for the one in need. As passionate as family on the “Pitcher’s MotorsBrandon was about racing his ports #17” Facebook page. For family meant the world to him. on-line condolences visit wenkHis best friend and High School funeralhome.com

Raymond S. Koskowski Sr Raymond S. Koskowski Sr., 93, of Hudson, passed away July 29, 2019. Born September 8, 1925 in Stottville, NY, he is the son of Francizsek and Mary (Tobancyznski) Koskowski. Ray was employed by the Hudson Knitting Mills prior to being drafted into the United States Navy. He served from 1944-1946 where he earned an Honorable Discharge as a Seaman First Class. After his Naval Service, he was employed for over 30 years with The Laborer’s Union #1000 out of Poughkeepsie. Upon retirement from construction, Ray became one of the original City of Hudson Mini Bus Drivers, serving the City of Hudson for over 15 years. Ray was an avid New York Yankees and Giants fan. He was a Life Member of Hudson Elks Lodge #787, The VFW, American Legion, and Federation of Polish Sportsmen. Once in a while, Ray loved to enjoy a horse race, a card game and a good glass of Scotch. Ray is survived by his children, Raymond (Gina)

Koskowski Jr., Franciszek (Joanne) Koskowski, Maria (Terry) Proper and Vickie Cupertino. Granddaughters, Kristin Koskowski, Jennifer Paone, and Jacie Celone, greatgrandchildren, Natalie Zempko, Joey Paone, and Carter and Jaxtyn Moore, along with one brother Marion Koskowski. 2 nieces Barbara (Andy) Juliano and Theresa Harrigan , along with several other nieces and nephews also survive. In addition to his parents, Ray was predeceased by his wife Reida (Winters) Koskowski, and brothers Stanley, John, Adam, Edward, and Hank Koskowski. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Thursday August 1, at 10:00am, from Holy Trinity St. Mary’s Parish in Hudson. Interment will be in Cedar Park Cemetery. Visitation hours at the Bates & Anderson-Redmond & Keeler Funeral Home are Wednesday July 31, from 4-7pm. Please visit batesanderson.com to leave an online condolence.

John A. Yusko John A. Yusko 77 passed away July 28th 2019 in Cary, North Carolina after a courageous battle with cancer. John was born November 4th1941 in Hudson, NY and graduated from Hudson High School’s Class of 1959. He was predeceased by his parents Michael and Amelia (Marchionne) Yusko. John is survived by his loving wife of 54 years Lucinda (Greene) Yusko. Sons Michael John ( Spring Hill, Fl) David (Sharon) Yusko, and the “Apple of his Eye” Granddaughter Nicole of Apex, North Carolina. He is also survived by Brothers Michael (Maureen Gaschel) Yusko Jr .and Robert(Gisele Jornov) Yusko, and his loving Aunt Anna (Marchionne) Morrison along with numerous cousins, nieces and nephews. John worked side by side with his mother and father in their family owned business Lawrence Tavern and the LuJon Lounge before taking a Sales position with Colony Liquor Distributors in Kingston, NY. where he was em-

ployed for 34 years before retiring to Cary, North Carolina. John was always concerned with the youth in the community and dedicated over 30 years to the Hudson Elks Little League where he served as a Coach/Manager and a member of the Board of Directors serving as Treasurer. John is a life member of the Hudson Elks Club. John loved sports. A huge Giant fan and while in North Carolina became an avid fan of North Carolina State sports. John was also the first to say Hello to those within listening distance. John was loved and will be missed by all who came to know him. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Friday August 2nd, at 10:00am from Holy Trinity St. Mary’s Parish in Hudson. Interment will be in the family plot in Cedar Park Cemetery. Visitation hours are Thursday August 1st at the Bates & Anderson-Redmond & Keeler Funeral Home from 4-7pm. To leave an online condolence please visit batesanderson. com.

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Judy Karlander (Fabrizio), clude her four children: Pamela age 90, of Cairo, NY passed (Ellsworth) Slater, John (Janice) away on July 27th, 2019. Fabrizio, Judy (David) Spring, Judy was born on Septem- and Sonya (Ben) Finch; eight ber 4th, 1928 in Cairo, NY to grandchildren: Justin, Christoparents Rolf P. Karlander Beers pher, Bethany, Krista, Mikayand Melissa Maxwell (Beers). lah, Mariah, Jared, and Ethan; She graduated from Cairo Cen- eight great-grandchildren: tral School in 1946 and went on Daniel, Aubrey, Josiah, Dalton, to become a homemaker, rais- Nathaniel, Devine, Violet, and ing her children. In 1973 she Easton. Also survived by sevstarted work as a secretary for eral nieces and nephews. Cairo Central School. Relatives and She later retired from friends are invited to Greene County Corattend calling hours rectional Facility as a on Wednesday, Jukeyboard specialist. ly 31st, 2019 from Judy was a member 4-7pm at Richards of the Cairo MethodFuneral Home of the ist Church, where she Mid-Hudson Valley taught Sunday School Inc., 29 Bross Street, for eighteen years, and Cairo, NY. A prayer Fabrizio was a member of the service will take place church choir. She also at 6:30pm at the fuenjoyed spending her time gar- neral home. Burial and gravedening, canning, sewing, play- side service will take place on ing the piano and all things mu- Thursday, August 1st, 2019, sic. Judy was also a member of 11am, at the Cairo Cemetery. the Cairo Theater Guild and the In lieu of flowers, memorial doSons of Norway. Judy’s great- nations may be made to the est joy, however, was her fam- Cairo Historical Society, P.O. ily, friends, and those she knew Box 803, Cairo, NY 12413. and loved. In addition to her Condolences may be made at parents Judy is predeceased www.richardsfuneralhomeinc. by her siblings. Survivors in- net.

Hazel M. Szafran, 90, of Hud- and daughter Lynn Szafran of son, NY passed away Sunday Ju- Hudson, NY. Hazel is also surly 28, 2019. Born October 3, 1928 vived by her sister Betty Sigler, in Hudson, she is the daughter of 9 grandchildren and 16 great William and Ethel (Austin) Lan- grandchildren. Several nieces sing. and nephews also surHazel retired from vive. In addition to her the Hudson City School parents, Hazel was preDistrict after 20 years in deceased by her husfood service. A lifelong band Paul J. Szafran, resident of Hudson, she and siblings William Lanwas also a member of sing, Clara Lansing, Pathe Hudson Elks Lodge tricia Snyder, and Edna Ladies Auxiliary. Hazel Beecher. loved to be around her Funeral services from family and her many Szafran the Bates & Andersonfriends. She enjoyed dancing, bingo, and bus trips to Redmond & Keeler Funeral Home the Casino. Left to cherish her are Friday August 2nd at 1:00pm. memory include three sons, Paul Visitation hours at the funeral Szafran of Hudson, NY, Bruce home are Thursday evening from Szafran of Greensboro, NC, Rich- 4-7pm. Interment will be in Cedar ard Szafran of Huntersville, NC, Park Cemetery.

California shooting: 6-year-old boy and 13-year-old girl among the dead Lauren Hepler and Amy Harmon The New York Times News Service

GILROY, Calif. — The smell of barbecue was wafting through the air, a local rock band was playing its last song, and parents were collecting their children at the end of the annual garlic festival in Gilroy on Sunday when a gunman opened fire in a shooting that left three people dead, including a 6-year-old boy. On Monday, Chief Scot Smithee of the Gilroy Police Department identified the gunman as Santino William Legan, 19, and said he carried out the shooting with an AK-47-type assault weapon that he had purchased legally this month in Nevada. He said the gunman’s motive was not known. The chief said those killed were a 6-year-old boy, a 13-yearold girl and a man in his 20s. The boy, Stephen Romero, was shot in the back, said his father, Alberto. Romero’s wife, who was shot in the stomach, and mother-in-law, who was shot in the leg, were among a dozen people wounded in the attack at the Gilroy Garlic Festival. “My son had his whole life to live and he was only 6,” Romero told NBC Bay Area. Romero said he was at home with his 9-year-old daughter when he got the call about the shooting. He was also told that Stephen had been playing at an inflatable bounce house. “They told me he was in critical condition, that they were working on him,” he told The Mercury News. “And then five minutes later they told me he was dead.” Police were continuing to search for a possible accomplice in Gilroy, which is about 30 miles southeast of San Jose. California, which has seen mass shootings at a country

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Parked cars inside Christmas Hill Park, while Miller Avenue and Uvas Parkway remained closed around the park following a shooting during the Gilroy Garlic Festival in the park the night before, in Gilroy, Calif., on Monday, July 28, 2019. A six-year-old boy was among three people killed when a gunman opened fire at the festival on Sunday afternoon in Gilroy, his father told local news outlets.

music club and a synagogue in the last year, has some of the strictest gun laws in the country. With few exceptions, the possession, manufacture, transfer, sale or lending of assault weapons is prohibited within the state, and recent legislation raised the age for buying rifles and shotguns from 18 to 21. The shooting happened around 5:40 p.m. local time and police responded within one minute, Smithee said. To reach the festival, the suspect appeared to have crossed a bordering creek and cut a perimeter fence, he said at a Sunday night news conference. The Gilroy Garlic Festival is an annual three-day event held at Christmas Hill Park. Gilroy, a city of about 60,000 people, is a major producer of garlic and is home to agricultural workers and people who commute to technology jobs. On Monday morning, red and white festival parking signs

still lined residential streets around Christmas Hill Park. Several rows of pickup trucks, sedans and golf carts remained parked along the grass behind yellow crime-scene tape. Officers from several local and state law enforcement agencies tightly controlled access to the park, and a handwritten sign posted at nearby Gavilan College said that campus would also be closed for the day. Videos posted on social media showed attendees running past white tents in a grassy field, apparently fleeing. People looking to reunite with friends and family members had been told to gather at Gavilan College, a community college on the outskirts of the city. One of those injured was Lesley Sanchez, 15, a Gilroy High School cheerleader who was volunteering at the festival, according to family members. She was shot in the hip but was well

Pelosi calls Senate inaction on gun legislation ‘a stain’ on nation’s conscience John Wagner The Washington Post

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., sharply criticized the Senate on Monday for not advancing gun-control legislation, calling the continued inaction of the Republican-led chamber “a stain on the conscience of our nation.” Her statement came in response to a mass shooting at a festival in Gilroy, California, that killed three and injured at least 15 before police fatally shot the gunman. “Enough is enough. Congress has a responsibility to every family torn apart by gun violence to act, and help advance a future that is finally free from this senseless violence,” Pelosi said. “Every day

the Senate refuses to act is a stain on the conscience of our nation.” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., did not immediately respond when his office was asked for comment. In late February, the House approved the first major new firearm restrictions to advance in a generation. The legislation would amend federal gun laws to require background checks for all gun sales and most gun transfers. Federally licensed dealers are required to run background checks on people who buy guns, but private sellers who are not federally licensed are not. Under the bill, private parties would have to seek out a federal licensee to facilitate a

gun deal. The next day, the Democratic-led chamber passed a separate bill that would extend the time for the government to complete a background check on someone trying to buy a gun from a licensed dealer before the sale can go through. Neither measure, each of which passed with mostly Democratic votes, has advanced in the Senate. In her statement Monday, Pelosi said that the “brutal killing targeting children and families enjoying a day of community breaks the heart of America.” She noted that one of the dead was a 6-yearold boy. Pelosi also thanked the “heroic first responders” at the event.

enough to receive visitors in her hospital room Sunday night, they said. Olivia Chiu, 24, a festival attendee from San Francisco, said she and her boyfriend heard gunshots that seemed to come from a central area near food and merchandise vendors. “Everyone was in a state of panic and trying to escape out of the festival to a safer area,” she said. She said she and several others ran out of the park and into a neighborhood, where they knocked on doors in search of shelter. Jonathan Williams, 29, who was raised in Gilroy, was sitting on a hay bale when he heard what he thought were fireworks. When the sound did not stop, he realized they were gunshots — at least 20.

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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 two-year-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.

ONGOING CAIRO — Cairo Public Library, 15 Railroad Ave., Cairo, hosts Make It! Crafts, Beading and Building for children 4 and older, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Tuesdays. This is a drop-in program; no preregistration required but caregivers should plan to attend with children under 8. Children under 10 must have caregiver on premises. For information, call Cairo Public Library at 518-622-9864. CAIRO — Cairo Public Library, 15 Railroad Ave., Cairo, presents Game On! Learn to play classic board games – and to design your own for children 5 and older, 1-2 p.m. Wednesdays. This is a drop-in program; no preregistration required but caregivers should plan to attend with children under 8. Children under 10 must have caregiver on premises. For information, call Cairo Public Library at 518-622-9864. CAIRO — Cairo Public Library, 15 Railroad Ave., Cairo, presents Shake, Rattle, and Read 10:30-11:30 a.m. Fridays. Join Miss Alex for an hour of music, dance, fingerplays, stories, and open play. Designed for children 4 and younger with their caregivers. Drop-in program. No preregistration required. For information, call 518-622-9864. CAIRO — Friends of the Cairo Public Library will hold book sales 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Wednesdays in July and August at the shed behind the library, 15 Railroad Ave., Cairo. Weather permitting.

JULY 30 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. CATSKILL — The Catskill Media Camp Film Festival will be held at 4 p.m. July 30 in the Catskill Community Theatre, 373 Main St., Catskill. Doors open at 3:45 p.m. Admission is free.

AUG. 1 CAIRO — A Jazz concert with award-winning guitarist Abe Ovadia will be held at 6:30 p.m. Aug. 1 at the Cairo Public Library, 15 Railroad Ave., Cairo. This event is free to the public. For information on this and other programs, including a guitar workshop, call 518-6229864.

Memorial American Legion Post 110 and the Auxiliary will meet at 7 p.m. Aug. 1 at the Catskill Elks Lodge, 45 North Jefferson Ave., Catskill.

AUG. 2 COXSACKIE — The Coxsackie Riverside Festival will be held 6-8 p.m. Aug. 2 and continue 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Aug. 3 at the Riverside Park in Coxsackie.

AUG. 4 TANNERSVILLE — The fifth annual Walter G. Gallagher Memorial BBQ presented by Rip Van Winkle Lions Club will be held 2-7 p.m. Aug. 4 at the Tannersville Lake Pavilion, Rip Van Winkle Lodge, Tannersville. The Party at the Lake is held to benefit the Mountain Top community. Entertainment by DJ Frankieokie with barbecue by J&K Dileo. Tickets are $30.

AUG. 7 NEWBURGH — Mount Saint Mary College will be hosting an information session for students looking to transfer colleges or complete their degree 4-7 p.m. Aug. 7 on campus, 330 Powell Ave., Newburgh. Follow the signs from the main gate. The event is open to prospective daytime and evening transfer students. Register now at msmc.edu/transferevent. This is a one-stop event for students interested in transferring college credits toward a bachelor’s degree. The Mount’s friendly and knowledgeable admissions team will aid you in learning more about the college’s career-focused degree programs. For questions, call 845569-3509 or email to transfer@ msmc.edu.

AUG. 9 CATSKILL — The Kiskatom Ladies Auxiliary will be holding its Nickel Social at Aug. 9 at the Kiskatom Firehouse, Route 32, Catskill. Doors open at 6 p.m. Refreshments will be available along with a 50/50 and 3 for $1 tables. KINGSTON — The Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Catskills, 320 Sawkill Road, Kingston, will show “The ISIS Trial” 7-9 p.m. Aug. 9, with special guest, filmmaker Ellie Bernstein. Evidence shows that these young men had no propensity for violence. This documentary takes a look at why young men with no criminal background would be attracted to join a terrorist organization. Cosponsored by Middle East Crisis Response, Hudson Valley BDS, Jewish Voice for PeaceHV, Veterans For Peace-Catskill Mountains, and Women in Black-New Paltz. For information, mecr@mideastcrisis.org or 845-876-7906.

AUG. 10 WINDHAM — The Patchworkers Quilt Show will be held 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Aug. 10 and 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Aug. 11 at the WAJ Central School, 5411 Main St., Windham. On site parking west of school. Admission, $3;

WINDHAM — Celebrating 20 years of presenting the music that chronicled American history, the annual Civil War Heritage Music Gathering and Encampment returns to Windham on Aug. 2 for three days. Most activities are free and held at the Historic Centre Church, 5379 Route 23/Main St., Windham. The weekend begins Aug. 2 with a community barbecue and ice cream social from 5-7 p.m. followed by an open mic at 7:30 p.m. All are welcome. On August 3, the Ladies Tea returns for 2019 at 11 a.m. at the United Methodist Church. Highlights include “Hard Times Come Again No More” and a Soldier’s Relief Fair Exhibit will be available for viewing all day at the Centre Church. A “Musician’s Tent” and music showcases

complimentary refreshments. Proceeds to benefit the food pantries. Show and sale quilts, special exhibit of award winning quilts, auction dream baskets, raffle quilt, vendor section featuring local artisans, patchwork boutique and notions. CAIRO — Cruise Nite will be held at 4 p.m. Aug. 10 at Angelo Canna Town Park, Joseph D. Spencer Lane, Cairo. Admission is free. Free T-shirt to cruiser car entrant, muffler rap contest, music sponsored by National Bank of Coxsackie, refreshments available, nostalgic awards. For information, call Bill at 518-622-3430. TANNERSVILLE — Mountain Top Arboretum hosts Story Time in the Shade 10:30-11:30 a.m. Aug. 10 at 4 Maude Adams Road, Tannersville. Admission is free. Mountain Top Arboretum collaborates with Mountain Top Library for a series of summer story times. Join library staff for a story-filled hour of reading aloud in the Fairy Garden and Outdoor Amphitheater. After the stories get creative with a themed craft to match what was read. In case of inclement weather, story time will be held inside the Arboretum’s Education Center. For information, call 518-589-3903. HUDSON — The ‘Rocky’ Romano Bocce Tournament sponsored by Columbia County Sons & Daughters of Italy 659, 27 Bridge St., Hudson, will be held Aug. 10. Registration begins at 9 a.m. with activities beginning at 10 a.m. Trophies will be awarded. Two person teams, $15 a team with registration prior to Aug. 10; $20 day of. For information, call Art Frank at 518-828-3824. CAIRO — Piecemakers of Cairo Annual Quilt & Needlework Show will be held 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Aug. 10 at the Cairo Public Library, 15 Railroad Ave., Cairo. Boutique, raffles, vendors and door prizes. Admission is $3. For information, call 518-622-2270.

AUG. 11 COXSACKIE — Nite Train performs 6-8 p.m. Aug. 11 at Coxsackie Riverside Park, Betke Boulevard, Coxsackie. Admission is free.

will be open to the public throughout the day. Featured among the performers will be Rhode Island’s Providence Brigade Brass Band returning to Windham for the seventh time. The band recreates the time when town brass bands dominated the American music landscape of the 1840s and ‘50s. The band performs in the style of early brass bands using the original 1864 music arrangements playing rotary valve cornets, alto, sax, tenor and bass horns. The Providence Brigade Band has attained a distinguished reputation in the Southeastern New England area. Visitors and performers alike can enjoy “I Dwell In Possibility: An Intimate Evening With Emily Dickinson” at 1:30 p.m. “Music Along The

Rapidan: Music and Patriotism During The American Civil War” follows at 2:30 p.m. Saturday evening is the grand concert “Hail, Columbia: Songs of America The Music That Made a Nation” with a special appearance by Mark Twain. The grand concert starts at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10 and are available at the church foyer; for advance purchase and reservations call 518-734-5655 or email jcquinn@webtv.net. The Civil War Heritage Music Gathering and Encampment is sponsored and supported by The Community of Windham Foundation, Civil War Heritage Preserve the Center Church, Windham Diner, Ment Media Group, Cave Mountain Motel, town of Windham, and the Hensonville Fire Department.

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LATHAM — Major General Ray Shields, the Adjutant General for the State of New York, announces the promotion of members of the New York Army National Guard in recognition of their capability for additional responsibility and leadership. Tristan Mcewan Guldenstern from Catskill, assigned to the Company C, 2-108th Infantry, received a promotion to the rank of Private. Kalli Thorpe from Catskill, assigned to the Military Intelligence Company D, 152nd Brigade Engineer Battalion, received a promotion to the rank of Sergeant. Brandon Coats from Athens, assigned to the

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and Stanley and Donna Zelias of Memphis. She is a 2018 graduate of Jordan-Elbridge High School, Jordan.

GREENVILLE — U.S. Air Force Airman Victoria M. Zelias graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, San Antonio, Texas. The airman completed an intensive, 8-week program that included training in military discipline and studies, Air Force core values, physical fitness, and basic warfare principles and skills. Airmen who complete basic training also earn four credits toward an associates degree in applied science through the Community College of the Air Force. Zelias is the daughter of Amy Miller of Greenville

WINDHAM — Air Force Civilian John H. Thompson has retired from the U.S. Air Force Civilian after serving honorably for 40 years. Thompson was last serving as 2 Troop Leader with Special Tactics Training Squadron, Hurlburt Field, Florida. Thompson is the brother of Carol C. Thompson and Edward H. Thompson of Windham and husband of Chantana Thompson of Navarre, Florida. He is a 1979 graduate of Windham-Jewett-Ashland Central School, Windham. He earned an associates degree in 1997 from Community College of the Air Force, Hurlburt Field, Florida.

Company B, 2-108th Infantry, received a promotion to the rank of Specialist.

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AUG. 12 CAIRO — The Cairo Public Library, 15 Railroad St., Cairo, will host a Guitar Workshop for Beginner/Intermediate players 6-8 p.m. Aug. 12 and 10 a.m.noon Aug. 17. This workshop will cover the basics like tuning, exercises, major and minor chords and strum patterns, and learning a favorite song. The student must bring a guitar. The workshop is free to participants but preregistration is a must by calling the library at

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The truth about smart pills Do you remember pulling “all nighters” in college to finish up a research paper the night before it’s due? I do! It was very common for some students to take prescription drugs like Ritalin to help them stay focused. And while the Ritalin fad has passed, another fad has become the new medicine cabinet VIP for students and anyone else who is feeling the pressures from their very demanding, stressful jobs — it’s nootropics. Nootropics (Greek for “shape the mind”) and smart drugs are natural or synthetic substances that can be taken to improve mental performance and clarity in healthy people. There’s also evidence to suggest they may help prevent age-related cognitive decline and neurodegenerative diseases. Sounds great, right? But are they safe? Let’s find out. Dubbed the “world’s first safe smart drug” by researchers at Harvard and Oxford universities, the anti-narcolepsy medication modafinil is the greatest little pick-me-up since the cup of Joe — or so enthusiasts say. But according to a 2007 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, modafinil is not only the latest in a long line of chemical stimulants designed to keep users awake, alert and happy, it’s also the latest to go

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SCHOEPE straight to the brain’s addiction centers. “This drug is not safe to use the way people are using it,” said Dr. Nora Volkow, head of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Piracetam, another synthetic nootropic, may boost brain function and reduce dyslexia and dementia symptoms. But its adverse effects include anxiety, insomnia, drowsiness and agitation, and it can also interact with medications, including blood thinners. Another synthetic nootropic is phenylpiracetam, which is widely available as an over-the-counter supplement. Phenylpiracetam’s benefits include reducing anxiety and enhancing athletic performance. However, the most common side effects include insomnia, anxiety, headaches, mood changes and increased blood pressure. So if possible side effects aren’t your thing, here’s a short list of natural plant

derived nootropics supplements that offer the same benefits of smart drugs without their side effects. American ginseng (considered to be superior to Asian ginseng) is in such demand that it has been declared an endangered species in some states. Studies show that it quickly works to improve memory, mental clarity and sharpness within just a few hours of taking it. Bacopa monnieri is a cognitive enhancer that has been used for thousands of years. It’s an excellent choice for anyone looking to improve focus and concentration, but is not a quick fix. Another powerful natural nootropic is ginko biloba. It can reduce anxiety, treat depression, improve brain function and reduce symptoms of dementia. But if you’re not into taking pills, there an alternative — exercise. Dr. Mark Moyad, director of preventative and alternative medicine at the University of Michigan, said, “Exercise has the best ability to beat any pill for people trying to improve their cognition or memory.” The use of nootropics and smart drugs is on the rise, but more research is needed to better understand their benefits. Reach Mary Schoepe at fitnessconcepts001@yahoo.com.

New robot expands surgical services at Putnam Hospital Center CARMEL — Please welcome the newest member of Putnam Hospital Center’s surgical team, the da Vinci Xi robot by Intuitive. This latest model has several enhancements, including sharper three-dimensional visualization, better range of motion and greater operative reach for the surgeon. The Xi will also expand the types of robotics surgeries offered at Putnam Hospital Center. An earlier model of the da Vinci robotic surgical system was introduced at the hospital in 2012, ushering in a new era of minimally invasive procedures. Since then, about eight surgeons have used the technology to perform more than 1,600 procedures in the areas of general, urologic, colorectal and gynecologic surgeries. The da Vinci Xi will allow for bariatric and thoracic surgeries to be added to Putnam Hospital Center’s operating

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The da Vinci Xi robot by Intuitive.

suite, said Mary Elm, informatics and robotics nurse specialist. “It’s giving more access to better technology for the surgeons, the ability to perform more complex surgeries and statistics indicate it’s better for the patients,” Elm said. Indeed, research has shown robotic surgery allows for

smaller incisions, less scarring, less operative pain, shorter hospital stays, faster recovery and less blood loss compared with other techniques. For information on the robot and surgical services at Putnam Hospital Center, visit https://www.healthquest. org/surgeryPHC.

CMH RECEIVES GRANT FROM CDPHP TO FIGHT DIABETES-RELATED VISION IMPAIRMENT

Columbia County announces 2019 rabies clinics schedule HUDSON — County residents can limit their exposure to rabies by keeping pets properly vaccinated, and New York state law requires all dogs and cats to have an updated rabies vaccination. The Columbia County Department of Health hosts several rabies clinics for cats, dogs and ferrets throughout the year. There is no charge

to Columbia County residents, however donations are accepted. Pet owners who bring animals to the clinic are responsible for the control of their pets — cats and ferrets should be secured in a sturdy carrier, and dogs should be on a leash. CCDOH staff members are on hand at the clinics to assist pet owners as needed. Breeders should

obtain rabies immunization through veterinary services. Rabies vaccination clinics for 2019 have been scheduled as follows: Aug. 6, New Lebanon Town Garage, Route 22 and Old Post Road, New Lebanon. Cats and Ferrets, 4-5 p.m., Wood Hill Vet; Dogs, 5-6 p.m. Dr. Delliere.

‘Stop the Bleed’ program to be presented Aug. 3 in Old Chatham OLD CHATHAM — Riders Mills Historical Association presents “Stop the Bleed,” a program by Albany Medical Center, developed for a non-medical audience to address the needs of the immediate responder to control life-threatening bleeding until help arrives. Stop the Bleed, a national awareness campaign and a call to action, was launched in October 2015 and is intended to encourage bystanders to become trained, equipped and empowered

to help in a bleeding emergency before professional help arrives. Help given by an immediate responder can often make the difference between life and death before professional rescuers arrive. There will be a 30minute lecture with handson training 45-60 minutes. Dr. Thomas Moran will present this life-saving program. Dr. Moran is the Trauma Education, Injury Prevention and Outreach Coordinator at Albany Med Trauma Program. He is a

retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel, EMT-Paramedic, Clinical Instructor, HVCC Paramedic Program, Rescue Captain, Niskayuna Fire District 2, Commissioner, Niskayuna Fire District 2, National Ski Patrol, Maple Ski Ridge. The event will be held at 1 p.m. Aug. 3 at the Malden Bridge Community Center, 1087 Albany Turnpike, Old Chatham. For information, visit www.ridersmillsschoolhouse.org.

Post-Acute Care Administrator receives ACHCA’s Eli Pick Facility Leadership Award CATSKILL — The American College of Health Care Administrators (ACHCA) honored Kathy Roop, administrator of Pines at Catskill, with the 2019 Eli Pick Facility Leadership Award. The leadership award was celebrated at ACHCA’s Annual Convocation and Exposition in Louisville, Kentucky in March. Only 7% of facilities nationwide qualified. This year, 1,129 facilities met the selection criteria. Two hundred and eighty six administrators in 35 states were awarded the facility leadership award. Based on the premise that

facility excellence reflects leadership excellence, this award recognizes the administrator of record who provided such leadership for the full 2018 calendar year. Eligibility for this award is based on three years of skilled nursing facility (SNF) survey data, including the Health, Fire Safety, and Complaint Surveys, as well as top quartile performance on designated Quality Measures. The criteria also include at least an 80% or greater facility occupancy and a three-year avoidance of a Special Focus Facility status. This prestigious award is made possible

with the support of ABILITY Network Inc. The Facility Leadership Award was introduced in 2008 by one of ACHCA’s most revered leaders, the late Eli Pick. A former executive director of the Ballard Rehabilitation Center in DesPlaines, Illinois for more than 30 years, Pick embodied excellence as an administrator who cared for his residents, their families, and the community. The award is presented annually in memory of Pick, a member of ACHCA dedicated to advancing professionalism and leadership in long-term care.

Mountainside Residental Care Center earns Women’s Choice Award MARGARETVILLE— Mountainside Residential Care Center in Margaretville, operated by HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley, a member of the Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMCHealth), has once again received the Women’s Choice Award for being one of “America’s Best for Extended Care.” The 82-bed skilled-nursing facility, with 115 clinical, administrative and service staff, earned the 2019 Women’s Choice Award for providing exceptional and compassionate care to its residents. The award cited Mountainside for its high commitment to quality, high healthinspection rating, more than enough registered nurses and other qualified employees to serve its residents, and a

high overall quality rating by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The award, which Mountainside also received in 2017, is given by WomenCertified Inc. of Hollywood, Florida, and recognizes Mountainside as a facility women would highly recommend for their loved ones’ long-term care, rehabilitation and nursing home needs. “All of us at Mountainside are proud to receive this honor, given to fewer than 900 extended-care facilities out of more than 15,000 measured,” said Mountainside administrator Christopher Esola. “Receiving it is a testament to our compassionate and expert team, which demonstrates its commitment to providing the highest level of personcentered care to our residents

every single day.” To earn the Women’s Choice, a nursing home must have 25 or more beds and receive at least 18 combined stars in the four categories of the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ fivestar rating system. Mountainside consistently earns among Medicare’s highest-quality ratings in all four categories: general staffing, registered nurse staffing, quality rating and inspection survey rating. Besides the Women’s Choice Award, Mountainside is annually recognized by U.S. News & World Report as one of the country’s Best Nursing Homes. To learn more about Mountainside, call 845-5861800.

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Columbia Memorial Health (CMH) announced it has been awarded two grants by the Capital District Physician’s Health Plan (CDPHP) totaling $10,000 to acquire the latest technology in treating a debilitating eye ailment associated with diabetes. The technology, known as RetinaVue Retinal cameras, will help CMH combat diabetic retinopathy, which affects up to 80 percent of those who have had diabetes for more than 20 years. The condition can cause blurred or impaired vision, or even blindness. The grants are part of the CDPHP RetinaVue Retinal Camera Grant Program. Pictured are CMH Medical Director of the Care Centers Dr. Ronald Pope; CMH President and CEO Jay P. Cahalan; CDPHP Chief Medical Officer Dr. Richard H. Dal Col; CDPHP President and CEO Dr. John D. Bennett; and CDPHP Senior VP for Primary Care Services Dr. Anthony Marinello.

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The Greene County Sheriff’s Office, with assistance from Columbia County, searches for a body in Green Lake.

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“It is about 15 to 20 feet deep,” Seeley said, adding that the water in the area is murky. An off-duty deputy was kayaking on Green Lake on Sunday and the swimmer relayed the information to him, at which point a formal police report was filed, Seeley said. A second report was found to be unsubstantiated, Seeley said. Someone deposited a metal container in the lake and drove off in a truck, according to the second report. It turned out to be a man returning an animal into the wild. “We got a hold of the guy from pest control,” Seeley said. “He was putting a turtle in the lake.” There were no missing persons reports from the immediate area this weekend.

“Nobody is missing in Greene, Ulster or Columbia county,” Seeley said. “We have to take it for what its worth and cross all our T’s and dot our I’s,” he said. This type of report puts first-responders in a precarious position, Seeley said. “We are using a lot of resources,” he said. “But we have to follow through 100%. God forbid if we did find something.” Seeley said he expected the search teams to have definitive results late Monday afternoon. “We will know by the end of the day if there is anything down there,” he said. The Greene County Sheriff’s Office was assisted by the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office, the Ulster County Sheriff’s Office, Leeds Fire Department, State Police, Town of Catskill Ambulance, the state Department of Environmental Conservation, PROSARK9 and Greene County Paramedics.

The Greene County Sheriff’s Office, with assistance from Columbia County, searches for a body reported seen in Green Lake.

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A report of two human feet seen beneath surface of Green Lake, 100 feet from the docks, came in Sunday evening, Greene County Sheriff Greg Seeley said.

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The Greene County Sheriff’s Office, with assistance from Columbia County, searches for a body reported seen in Green Lake.

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an unfair marijuana conviction with a path to have their records expunged and by reducing draconian penalties, we are taking a critical step forward in addressing a broken and discriminatory criminal justice process.” Julia Baynes, of Hudson, said the law was a long time coming. “There are too many people sitting in jail cells because of this. It’s about time,” Baynes said. This is not the first time Cuomo has tried to decriminalize marijuana — he first proposed similar measures in 2013, and again in the state budget for 2020. The bill will take effect 30 days after becoming law. Columbia County District Attorney Paul Czajka said the new law will have an impact on local courts because of the number of cases that will be affected. “We average, over the last several years, approximately 1,000 cases in which a marijuana offense is charged. Of those, the vast majority are unlawful possession of marijuana, which already is a non-criminal offense, and of those, probably well over 90% are resolved by dismissing the charge within six months of the court appearance. Because so many of the cases we have do involve marijuana, anytime the law changes with respect to marijuana, it will affect the courts in Columbia County.” Assemblywoman Didi Barrett, D-106, voted for the bill. “Historically, marijuana arrests and convictions have disproportionately impacted

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A new law in New York state decriminalizes marijuana and gives those convicted of possession a pathway to having their records expunged.

communities of color,” Barrett said. “These convictions have left many New Yorkers with criminal records and deprived them of opportunities for education, employment, housing and more.” She added that the legislation will have a positive impact on people in her district. “This new law is a step in the right direction, which will allow many people here in the Hudson Valley and across the state to correct those injustices and begin moving forward with their lives.”

Coxsackie Police Chief Sam Mento supports decriminalization, and said it mirrors what is happening in states across the country. “The trend is going towards legalization and that is national, so I think this is the first step. I think it is laying the groundwork for legalization in the state of New York,” Mento said. “At this point it is a national trend and adjoining states are legalizing, and I think ultimately New York state will follow suit. It unburdens the courts from unnecessary charges.” But Windham Police Chief Tor Tryland said

he opposed the new law. “It is not a good idea. It has been done in other places in the world and I don’t think it will be a success here,” Tryland said. “I think it’s an issue where you won’t see the effects until you can see what happens over time. From my background in law enforcement I am opposed to it for a number of reasons. There are health reasons, traffic reasons — there will probably be more people driving under the influence. There are negative effects.” Assemblyman Chris Tague, R-102, said he opposed the bill when it came before the Assembly. Like Tryland, he is concerned about potential hazardous situations on the roads. “My vote on decriminalization is based on the lack of forethought within the bill,” Tague said. “First and foremost, how is this going to be regulated? We have a very solid, non-invasive manner to test if someone is above the legal limit to drive after drinking alcohol, but I have yet to see a single thought put toward the test for marijuana. How much is too much to drive? Care for a child? That’s not to mention the additional training law enforcement will need to have. There are simply too many questions right now; we need to slow down until we have all the facts. Decriminalization is a step toward legalization and until these questions are answered, I can’t support it.” State Sen. George Amedore, R-46, also voted against the bill. “The governor and Legislature have basically legalized recreational marijuana,” Amedore said. “This is a dangerous measure that will put public health and safety at risk.” Nationwide, 26 states and the District of Columbia have decriminalized small amounts of marijuana, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

Officer who accused McDonald’s employees of biting into his sandwich ‘forgot’ he ate it Timothy Bella The Washington Post

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The Twin Cloves Technical Rescue Team assisted with rescuing a driver whose vehicle plunged 150 feet down an embankment off Platte Clove Road.

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demonstration of interagency cooperation and teamwork across multiple disciplines,” according to a statement issued by Twin Cloves. Tannersville Fire Department and Rescue Squad,

Greene County Paramedics, Hunter Ambulance, Cedar Grove Fire Company, Palenville Fire Department, Haines Falls Fire Company, state Department of Environmental Conservation Forest Rangers, Greene County Sheriff’s Office, Greene County Emergency Services, Hunter Police Department and state police responded to the scene.

The investigation started with a McDonald’s sandwich. As he was starting his shift earlier this month, a police officer with the Marion County Sheriff’s Office in Indianapolis went to heat up his McChicken and fries when he found some unsettling evidence: Someone had taken a bite out of his meal. “I know I didn’t eat it,” the cop, who identified himself to the press only as “DJ,” told WTHR at the time. “I said, ‘You know what? I am going to the McDonald’s to see if they can get that taken care of.’” The claim happened during a simmering summer for police nationwide. A viral trend of dumping water on officers has fueled claims from unions in New York and elsewhere that disrespect for police has reached a boiling point. DJ had similar fears when he returned to the McDonald’s outside downtown Indianapolis. The store offered him free food, but he said he couldn’t care less about extra fries or more burgers. The police officer suspected an employee was targeting him because he was a cop, and

he wanted justice for his McChicken. “I just wanted to find out who the person was and they deal with that person in an appropriate way,” he told WTHR. Both McDonald’s and the sheriff’s office launched full investigations to find the truth. But on Friday, police found that the culprit was not an employee who wanted to mess with law enforcement. Instead, DJ simply forgot that he had already taken a bite out of the McChicken. “The employee took a bite out of the sandwich upon starting his shift at the Marion County Jail, then placed it in the refrigerator in a break room,” police said in a statement, according to WTHR. “He returned nearly seven hours later having forgotten that he had previously bitten the sandwich.” The sheriff’s office added, “He wrongly concluded that a McDonald’s restaurant employee had tampered with his food because he is a law enforcement officer.” The officer has now formally apologized to McDonald’s for the false accusation, police said. The Indianapolis officer isn’t the first to wrongly accuse a fast-food chain of

tampering with his meal. In 2016, an 18-year-old Subway employee in Layton, Utah, was arrested on accusations of lacing a police officer’s drink with THC. The employee was reportedly subjected to death threats and harassment online before toxicology results came back negative and cleared the Eagle Scout of any wrongdoing, according to KSL. “It definitely has been a worry that this is going to affect me for years to come,” the teen told the outlet. But some fast-food allegations have perhaps been more serious. Last year, a sheriff’s deputy in Lee County, Florida, was eating Taco Bell burritos when his tongue started to feel “numb and tingly,” CBS Miami reported. As he inspected the remaining burritos, the officer identified only as “Deputy Brown” noticed something that smelled like a cleaning product. The officer discovered the burritos were wrapped in bleach, according to CBS Miami. Multiple outlets reported that the Taco Bell store was under investigation, but it’s unclear whether any charges were filed.

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The Storm are the 2019 Hudson River Collegiate Baseball League champions after defeating the Rattlers in three games in their best-of-three championship series. Columbia-Greene Media

GREENPORT — Matt Ferriero went 4 for 5 with three RBI to highlight a 14-hit attack as the Storm defeated the Rattlers, 15-11, to win the 2019 Hudson River Collegiate Baseball League championship on Sunday at Greenport Town Park.

The regular-season champion Storm received a strong challenge from the Rattlers, who quickly gained the upper hand in the best of three series with a 13-3 victory in game one. The Storm fought back to take the second game, 7-6, then put it all together in game three to take the

title. “It was a real team effort and all of the players contributed to winning the Championship this season,” Storm manager Ed DuPont said. “Owen Coady gave us a great start and got us back on track in game two after we lost game one. Brandon

Bonesteel, Matt Ferriero, Chris Colotti, Joe Dwy, Christian Baaki and Kurt Forsell were relentless at the plate for us all year long.” DuPont was pleased with the job his pitching staff turned in all season. “Derrek DuPont was on the mound in both elimination games the first

against the Bucks in the first round of the playoffs and again Sunday in the last game of the Championship series, the elder DuPont said. “Derrek gave us quality starts in both games and we won both. He has proven to See STORM B3

Bruno takes Gold at World Championships Columbia-Greene Media

The spring USBA/WBA tournament season ended on a high note at the 2019 World Breaking Championships at the ISKA US Open in Orlando, Fla. for Kristjan Bruno. The July 5 tournament, held at the Coronado Springs Resort at Disney World, was the largest ever and attracted competitors from all over the world including Australia, Namibia and South Africa. Bruno competed in four events in the male, 13-17 age category: Power Foot Wood Stomp, Power Hand Wood, Power Elbow Wood and Power Double Hand Wood. For his performance, he ended up taking home gold in the Power Double Hand and Power Foot events, bronze in Power Elbow and finished fourth in Power Hand. This was his first time competing at the World Championships. Prior to the Worlds, Bruno also competed at the USBA/ WBA North American Breaking Championship in CT in April and the WBA Ontario Breaking Championship and

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Open Martial Arts Showcase in Cobourg, Ontario, Canada on May 25.

At both events he was named Junior Grand Champion for breaking the highest

total of boards across the wood breaking events for those under age 18. At the North American, Bruno took 1st place in the Power Hand, Power Elbow and Power Double Hand events and 2nd place in the Power Foot Stomp. Winning the title of Junior Grand Champion at this event was extra special because his father, Stephen Bruno, was named the Adult Male Grand Champion for those over 18. At the Canadian tournament, Bruno placed first in the Power Elbow and second in the Power Foot Stomp and Power Hand. Because this tournament also included other events spanning the martial arts, Bruno also competed in the Traditional Forms event and took home a silver medal. Forms are a series of connected movements and contestants are judged on technical accuracy, speed, power and precision of the movements. The next event on the circuit is the North East Open

New York Giants cornerbacks Corey Ballentine (25) and Ronald Zamort (43) participate in drills during minicamp.

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NEW YORK — Corey Ballentine knows “life’s not gonna wait on me” if he dwells on the past. “I think, personally, it’s time for me to be strong now,” the Giants’ rookie corner said Sunday.

But Ballentine thinks about losing his best friend Dwane Simmons “every day,” and he plans to honor him by living out their shared NFL dream. “I feel like I’m kind of doing it for both of us,”

Mets, riding high off sweep, trade for Stroman Bob Klapisch The New York Times News Service

NEW YORK — For weeks, as the New York Mets slogged along in a going-nowhere season, fresh trade rumors involving their young starters had become the norm. The question was no longer if general manager Brodie Van Wagenen would start rebuilding, but when the process would begin. No scenario was unthinkable: Even the idea of swapping with the New York Yankees, whose rotation is in crisis, was credible. On Sunday things turned upside down, as the Toronto Blue Jays agreed in principle to send Marcus Stroman, an All-Star right-hander, to the Mets for two top prospects, according to a person familiar with the details of the trade who was not authorized to discuss it publicly. The deal caught much of baseball by surprise. The Yankees were said to be deep in talks for the dynamic Stroman, who is both familiar with the local market (a Long Island native) and on a notable hot streak (2.96 ERA since May 11). But the chances of Stroman landing in the Bronx collapsed when the Blue Jays reportedly asked for right-hander Deivi Garcia, who is the Yankees’ No. 1 prospect and currently at Class AAA. That allowed the Mets to swoop in Sunday after they had completed a three-game sweep of the Pittsburgh Pirates at Citi Field with an 8-7 win. A formal announcement of the Stroman

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Toronto Blue Jays starting pitcher Marcus Stroman (6) throws the ball against the Cleveland Indians at Rogers Centre.

trade is pending completion of physical examinations.

The cost to the Mets is said to be steep: Anthony Kay, a left-hander who was a first-round

draft pick in 2016 and is the Mets’ most developed pitching project, as well as Simeon Woods Richardson, a right-hander who was the club’s second-round pick in 2018. Although adding Stroman to their current staff would give the Mets a terrific starting rotation, executives from other teams believe Van Wagenen has another move up his sleeve before Wednesday’s deadline: trading Noah Syndergaard as a way of replenishing the farm system. Stroman was the most sought-after starter on the market. Now that he is a Met, the value of the remaining assets, like Syndergaard, will continue to tick upward. The haul for Syndergaard, whose contract is under club control through 2021, could be considerable. The second possibility is dealing away Zack Wheeler, who will be a free agent after this season. But Mets ownership is believed to look more favorably on Wheeler’s trend line and could make him a qualifying offer, guaranteeing a draft pick should he sign elsewhere. The Mets are also strongly considering locking Wheeler down with a long-term contract extension. Beyond the team’s front-end starters, the Mets are entertaining offers for closer Edwin Diaz, who has struggled this season, and Jason Vargas, the winning pitcher Sunday. The more pressing question is where the See METS B3

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Gervonta Davis has dream return to Baltimore Childs Walker The Baltimore Sun

BALTIMORE — In the end, reality surpassed fantasy for Gervonta Davis. For more than two years, he’d campaigned to defend his world title in Baltimore, promising a grand party if the homecoming fight ever happened. But he never expected to hear his supporters, almost 15,000 of them, roaring from every corner of Royal Farms Arena on Saturday night. Seconds earlier, he’d landed a series of explosive left hands to bring a quick end to Ricardo Nunez’s challenge for his World Boxing Association super featherweight championship. Referee Harvey Dock had stepped in to protect the Panamanian fighter as Davis pummeled him along the ropes. The stoppage at 1 minute, 33 seconds of the second round brought an abrupt but satisfying conclusion to the hometown showcase Davis had coveted for so long. “It was actually better than I thought it would be,” he said. “He’s straight out of Baltimore,” Davis’ trainer and mentor, Calvin Ford, said. “You should be proud of him.” Nunez pressed forward as expected to start the fight, and Davis countered with a series of straight lefts to the body as he gauged his opponent’s speed and power. He briefly allowed Nunez to back him against the ropes to begin the second round, but Davis threw the challenger off balance by bobbing up and down in a defensive crouch. “I was trying to open him up more,” Davis said. “He wasn’t trying to commit to any punch.” As soon as he snapped Nunez’s head back with a violent left hook, the fight was essentially over. Dock said he stepped in quickly to protect Nunez, because “I think he was defenseless at that time.” “I thought he was out on his feet,” said Davis, who moved to 22-0 (21 knockouts) with the

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WBA Super Featherweight Champion Gervonta “Tank” Davis, right, fights Ricardo Nunez on Saturday at Royal Farms Arena.

victory. Though Nunez came in with 19 knockouts in 21 career victories, Saturday’s matchup was as much a celebration of Davis’ rise from the streets of West Baltimore as it was a test of his world-class boxing skills. On the same day that President Donald Trump insulted Baltimore via Twitter, a sellout crowd of 14,686 packed the city’s downtown arena to dance and holler for one of their own. Ringside attendees included Ravens great Ed Reed, who will be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame next weekend, Ravens

owner Steve Bisciotti and Davis’ promoter, Floyd Mayweather Jr. Davis and Mayweather were asked about Trump’s comments after the fight. “We love the city of Baltimore,” Mayweather said. “We’d like to stay positive. This is a young champion, and we’re here to talk about what he did tonight. It’s his night.” The hometown boy came to the ring in black shorts with orange fur trim, a week after he threw out the first pitch at Camden Yards. Davis had yearned to bring a big-time fight to his city, which had not hosted a world

championship match in 49 years. The 24-year-old seemed loose as could be in the days before the fight, grinning his way through a Thursday news conference even as Nunez promised repeatedly to knock him out. Davis struggled to make the 130-pound weight limit for previous bouts, losing his first world title on the scale before his matchup with Francisco Fonseca in August 2017. But he promised weight would be no issue this time around, and sure enough, he registered at a trim 129½ pounds Friday afternoon. Davis and his promoters have promised he’ll fight once more this year. For all the excitement around his homecoming, fans hunger to see the precocious champion risk his title against a top competitor. Davis made it clear he wants a unification matchup with Tevin Farmer, the International Boxing Federation super featherweight champion from Philadelphia. Davis and Farmer have kindled a nasty social-media rivalry. “I believe both of the fighters want it,” Davis said. “We’ve been going back and forth over social media for like two years now, so I think it’s time.” Farmer (who also won Saturday night, in Texas) and Davis have said they’d like to settle their differences in the ring. But the matchup presents political difficulties, because Davis fights for Premier Boxing Champions and usually appears on Showtime while Farmer fights for promoters Lou DiBella and Eddie Hearn and appears on DAZN. Mayweather said a Farmer-Davis fight would likely be held in New York, but added he hopes to bring Davis back to fight in Baltimore in the near future. If the Farmer matchup cannot be made, it’s also possible Davis could meet Yuriorkis Gamboa, who knocked out Roman “Rocky” Martinez in the second round of the co-main event Saturday in Baltimore. In his post-fight interview with Showtime’s Jim Gray, Gamboa said he hoped to fight Davis.

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You’d never know from William Byron’s demeanor or his language that the 21-yearold driver of the No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet had just finished fourth in Sunday’s Gander RV 400 at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pa. “It was a struggle,” said Byron, who restarted sixth in overtime and passed both Kyle Larson and Kevin Harvick to post his second top five of the season. “I felt like the guys did a good job with strategy, and being able to maximize on restarts. We got fortunate on a couple of things. We go on from it and move on to Watkins Glen.” With five races left in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series regular season, Byron remains 12th in the standings, but he increased his margin over Hendrick teammate Jimmie Johnson – the 17th-place driver and first currently outside the playoffs – to 62 points. Nevertheless, after the strong run at Pocono, Byron seemed more focused on the difficulty he faced at the Tricky Triangle, where he started 31st after his car failed post-qualifying inspection. After pitting for the last time on Lap 115, Byron saved just enough fuel to make it to the end of the race, which went three laps beyond its posted distance. “It was a tough day,” Byron said. “We didn’t really have a lot going our way. In the first stage, and even the second stage, we were just kind of hanging on. “We just found a way to kind of make it work. We had good strategy and just found a way to kind of settle in there in a decent spot and save the right amount of fuel. We ran out of fuel coming across the (finish) line, so that was great. We saved the right amount of fuel, and that was about it.”

KYLE LARSON FINISHES FIFTH For the second straight week, Larson started a

Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race from the rear of the field in a backup car. But his run Sunday was considerably more satisfying than the day he had last weekend at New Hampshire. Larson crashed 10 minutes into opening practice Saturday morning and had very few laps on his backup No. 42 Chip Ganassi Racing Chevrolet before qualifying. He was 29th fastest in time trials but, under NASCAR rules, had to drop to the back of the field for the start. At times during Sunday’s race, Larson had the fastest car on the track. By the end of the first stage, he was sixth and he remained in contention throughout the balance of the race (though his running position varied according to divergent strategies and pit stop cycles). When the race went to overtime, Larson lined up fourth and pushed race winner Denny Hamlin out front on the final restart. Larson had a close call with the wall in overtime and lost a position when he slowed to avoid contact with the barrier. “I didn’t hit the wall, but I got close,” said Larson, who finished fifth. “I knew I was going to be close to the wall, so I bailed out of the throttle to keep myself from hitting the wall and lost momentum. I felt bad, but it was better than ending up torn up like the last time I was aggressive on a restart. “It was a good day. It was a lot better car than I thought I was going to have, so it just goes to show how good our team is right now and how good our cars are. Last week, I felt like we had one of the fastest cars and we didn’t get to show it (because of two wrecks during the race). Today, I felt like we were one of the fastest cars. If I could just race a primary car, who knows what we could do? I just have to clean up a little bit of what I’m doing in practice and the

races, and hopefully we can get a win.”

ILL-TIMED CAUTIONS Inopportune cautions foiled the best-laid plans of both Harvick and Kyle Busch – and their respective crew chiefs. Even though those two drivers arguably had the best two cars for the entirety of Sunday’s race, neither was in position to challenge for the victory once overtime became inevitable. The winner of Stage 1, Busch stayed on the track and retained the lead for a restart on Lap 119 of 163. Unable to reach the end of the race on fuel, however, Busch came to pit road on lap 134 and fell to 26th in the running order. He spent the rest of the event working his way back up, ultimately finishing ninth. His Joe Gibbs Racing teammates – Hamlin, Erik Jones and Martin Truex Jr. – swept the top three spots. Busch led 56 laps, second only to Harvick’s 62. Harvick drove his No. 4 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford to third place in Stage 1, second in Stage 2 and the lead when the green flag dropped on Lap 104 to begin the final stage. But he lost the top spot to Hamlin on the restart lap and never regained it. The way Harvick saw it, a pair of cautions in the last 10 laps deprived him of the chance to win in a car that was set up for long runs. “If the caution doesn’t come out, I think we were in good shape, but that’s the way it goes, especially at this place,” said Harvick, who was trying to double up on last Sunday’s victory at New Hampshire. “You have to have the cautions fall your way, and you have to have everything go right. “We just had a few little things here and there that didn’t go our way and wound up sixth.”

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Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series driver Denny Hamlin of the #11 Joe Gibbs racing Toyota Camry celebrates in victory lane after winning the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Gander Outdoors 400 on Sunday at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pa.

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A week ago, Denny Hamlin came away frustrated at not being able to pass Kevin Harvick for the victory at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. On Sunday, there was no frustration in sight for Hamlin as he held off the field – including Harvick – to win in overtime at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pa. “We really fought for it last week and came up just short,” said Hamlin, who finished .2 seconds behind Harvick in Loudon, “but it feels good to kind of redeem ourselves this week and have such a strong car.” The victory in the Gander Outdoors 400 was the third of the season for the Joe Gibbs Racing driver – the first being in the season-opening Daytona 500 – and the fifth of his career at Pocono. “Man, we’re on a roll,” said Hamlin, who notched his third-straight top-five finish. “We’re running our best right now. There’s no doubt about it. We’ve just got to keep plugging along.” It came as virtually all of the contenders for the win had fuel-supply jitters in the overtime session at the big old 2.5-mile triangular Pocono

track. “I was real worried,” Hamlin said about his fuel supply. The jitters proved unnecessary, as the contenders all had enough fuel to finish the race. Finishing second, .341 seconds and about three car lengths back, was teammate Erik Jones. A third JGR driver, Martin Truex Jr., finished third. “It’s probably my least favorite part of racing,” Jones, who is winless in 2019 but logged his third straight podium finish, said of racing in fuel-save mode. “I had a couple of good opportunities on the (flurry of) late-race restarts but ... it’s a bummer. “We’re close every week. Third, third, second, but we’re right there and we’re doing great building points, but it sure would be nice to knock a win out.” “Good day overall,” added Truex, who has four victories in 2019. “We were not the fastest car. We were in position there to win it.” William Byron of Hendrick Motorsports finished fourth, and Kyle Larson of Chip Ganassi Racing came home fifth. Harvick was sixth. There are now five races remaining until the 10-race,

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16-driver playoffs begin at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Sept. 15. Harvick, who got his first victory of the season last weekend, started from the pole on Sunday and led until pitting under green on Lap 38. He would lead a race-best 63 laps on Sunday. Hendrick Motorsports’ Chase Elliott’s summer of non-fun continued at Pocono, as he blew a tire and crashed hard late in Stage 2 and was knocked out of race. In the seven races since he finished fourth at Pocono on June 2, he has had zero top-10 finishes and five of 20th or worse. “Rough patch,” Elliott, who has a win and is locked into the playoffs, said of his summer. “Hopefully we can get past it.” His teammate, seven-time Cup champion Jimmie Johnson, who sits just outside the top 16 in points, finished 15th. Austin Dillon, Ryan Blaney, Ross Chastain, Byron, Reed Sorenson, Michael McDowell, Corey LaJoie, Chris Buescher and Johnson all failed prerace inspection on Sunday and were sent to the rear of the field for the start. In addition, Larson and Elliott were sent to the rear after practice crashes forced them into backup cars.

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Ballentine, 23, said before practice. The story of Ballentine and Simmons is heart-wrenching. The young Ballentine was remarkably impressive and mature on Sunday while conducting his first interview on the most painful topic of his life: that fatal April 28 shooting in Topeka, Kan., that killed Simmons, 23, and wounded Ballentine. “He helped me get here every step of the way,” Ballentine said of Simmons, his former Washburn teammate. “When I was on the field by myself, he would come out there and join me. And I feel like I’m kind of doing it for both of us. And I know if he was here now, he would love to see where I’m at, how I’m doing and want to visit. “I spent the most time with him, I was his best friend,” Ballentine said, pausing but continuing through the emotion. “So I’m just gonna try to keep him in my heart but at the same time try to strive for the goals of the team and also

my personal goals and do my best.” That fateful April early morning, investigators said the Washburn defensive backs were outside an off-campus house party just hours after the Giants had drafted Ballentine in the sixth round of the 2019 NFL Draft when someone opened fire from a vehicle. “I don’t want to go into detail, but (it was) just a tragic ... event and I lost my best friend because of it,” Ballentine recounted. “I don’t think it was anything I had to do with it; I just happened to be there. Nothing that I could control. To this day I try not to think about it too much because there’s nothing I can do at this point, and I know that the police are doing their best to make peace with the families and bring justice to the families, as well.” To that end, suspect Francisco Alejandro Mendez was charged on July 12 with firstdegree murder, attempted first-degree murder, and five counts of aggravated battery in the April 28 attack. Ballentine was grateful because even though he was there that night, he hadn’t been able to give anyone closure on the tragic events of

that evening, and bringing Mendez closer to justice might help that. “I was glad because people were looking for answers from me that I didn’t really have,” he said. “So I’m glad that somebody else could kind of take that away from me and give the family and everybody else a little bit of closure. It was something that I couldn’t really provide because I don’t know all the details myself. I just happened to be there. So that definitely made a good feeling go through my body.” Ballentine said he’s “been thinking about getting a tattoo” to subtly honor Simmons. “Personally I don’t have any tattoos, but this is somebody that’s very dear to me,” he said. Ballentine said “the Giants have been helping me” and he’s been seeing therapists, including a team psychologist. All of it has helped him slowly regroup to a place where he can focus better on football, though it hasn’t been easy. “It took me a little bit. I mean, I think about it every day, obviously,” he said, “because it’s somebody that was in my life everyday, and it’s hard to fill that gap, and I haven’t filled it yet. But I’m

trying to move forward, we have goals to accomplish here, the playbook I’ve got to learn and other things I’ve got to learn, so I can’t keep myself in that place. “But I think about it every day, it’s hard,” he added. “And earlier on I was a little paranoid, but now that I’m out here in New York I’ve got a lot of support from the organization and a lot of other people. I’ve been talking to Janice (last name undisclosed) the psychologist and just trying to get my mind off it. I’m not thinking about it much now. I’ll always have it in my heart, but I’m moving forward with my life.” Back in May, of course, the Giants encouraged Ballentine to remain at home during rookie minicamp, to recovery and be with his family and attend Simmons’ funeral. At the time, there were also multiple ignorant members of the New York media, including radio host Mike Francesa, who insinuated without any knowledge of the incident that Ballentine was to blame for the tragedy and that it reflected negatively on his character. He answered to that charge for the first time on Sunday. “Initially I was upset

because nobody was there, and nobody knows what happened, and at that point I don’t think anybody (knew) who I am or who I was,” Ballentine said, respectfully and earnestly. “So for somebody to say those type of things, it kind of made me upset, but at the same time I don’t think I would be here playing for the Giants if I were a bad person. “If I was doing anything bad, I think everyone would know about it,” he added. “I think the right people know that everything that happened was out of my control.” Ballentine said he mostly has tried to move on emotionally by grounding himself in the work because now he knows he’s competing to win a roster spot and help the team. “It was just kind of me making the effort to learn the plays and try to, because I know they’re not gonna wait for me here,” he said. “They’ve given me time to think about it and ponder on everything that happened and recover, and I think, personally, it’s time for me to be strong now. I can’t keep thinking about that and dwelling on it. I’ve got to move forward.” Ballentine took an exciting step forward in Saturday’s

practice with an interception of fourth-string QB Kyle Lauletta, which he sprinted into the end-zone for a pick-six. He lit up describing how it felt. “It felt good. I feel like I’m finally starting to get somewhere,” he said humbly. “I mean I came in the spring a little late, to minicamp and all that stuff, so learning the plays I was kind of behind the eight-ball. And I’m also learning nickel and corner, two positions at once, so ... it was just kind of rewarding to know that the hard work and the long nights of staying up (are) paying off.” Asked how Simmons would want him to proceed, Ballentine didn’t blink. “Just play my best,” he said, emotional but composed. “I know he wouldn’t want me sulking and being down and whatnot. So I’m just gonna do my best to make this team, and pitch in, and try to win a Super Bowl with this team and give my best effort.” A Super Bowl isn’t necessary for Ballentine to give proper tribute to Simmons, though. On Sunday he proved he already has.

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be a big game pitcher. “Noah Ernst came back from an injury early in the season to really bolster our bullpen and Adam Hall was superman all year long coming out of the bullpen to close out games and shut down teams game after game. This is a great bunch of guys on this team, they play together and they never quit. Gary Lynk is the best assistant coach in our league and we could not have won without him. I’m already looking forward to the 2020 season.” Ferriero drilled three doubles and a singel and drove in three runs to lead the storm to victory in the third and deciding game. Brandon Bonesteel had a double, two singles and two RBI, Joe Dwy a double and single with an RBI, Chris Colotti two singles and three RBI, Kurt Forsell a single and an RBI and Noah Ernst and Jarid Lucier a single each. Matt Dagostino blasted a solo home run and singled for the Rattlers. Nick Santoro contributed a double and single with two RBI and Tanner Dunkle, Ryan Abel, Zac Cronk, Kyle Powell and Colby Nash all singled. Derrek DuPont pitched the first 5 2/3 innings for the Storm, walking one and allowing six runs (two earned) and seven hits. Noah Valvo (1bb,4r,2h) and Connor Christensen (3bb,1r) and Noah Ernst (1k,3bb) finished up. Carter Sorenson started for the Rattlers and pitched two innings, allowing six runs (five earned) and eight hits with one strikeout and two walks. Kyle Welch worked the last six innings, striking out five, walking two and surrendering nine runs (eight earned) and six hits. In Saturday’s opener, Ichabod Crane senior-to-be Rama Culver ripped a double and two singles with two RBI to power the Rattlers to victory. Kyle Powell added a double and single with three RBI to the Rattlers’ attack. Kyle Welch had a double and single with two RBI, Abel two singles and an RBI, Jacob Deziel a double and single and Cronk a single. Noah Ernst doubled for the Storm. Dwy chipped in with two singles, Ferriero had a single and an RBI and Colotti singled.

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Matt Triola pitched eight solid innings for the Rattlers, striking out eight, walking three and allowing one run and five hits. Mike Reith pitched the ninth, striking out one, walking two and allowing two runs. Christensen took the loss, allowing nine runs (seven earned) and five hits with six strikeouts and four walks in three innings. Aidan Jackson pitched the final six frames, striking out five, walking two and giving up four runs (two

earned) and seven hits. Bonesteel’s double, two singles a RBI helped the Storm even the series at a game apiece in game two. Jeremiah Ernst and Valvo doubled, Ferriero had a single and an RBI and Forsell, Dwy and Christian Baaki all singled. Nash cracked a double and single and drove in two runs for the Rattlers. Santoro added a double and single with an RBI, Abel doubled and Deziel and Dagostino both singled. Owen Coady struck out

nine, walked six and allowed five runs (four earned) and three hits in seven innings for the Storm. Noah Ernst (2k,4bb,4r,7h) and Adam Hall (1k,1h) both pitched one inning. Powell struck out two, walked four and surrendered four runs (two earned) and seven hits in six innings for the Rattlers. Nick Gambardella threw the final three innings, striking out one, walking one and giving up three runs and two hits. “The Rattlers have played great the entire season,” DuPont said. “The team is loaded with talent and they are well coached by Coach Joe Braim. Congratulations to the Rattlers players and coaches on a fantastic season. “This was a hard fought Championship series between two excellent teams. After losing the first game of the series my team really stepped it up. I am really proud of the way the players competed all season.” The 2019 HRCBL champion Storm roster: Manager/Coach Ed DuPont, assistant coach Gary Lynk, Christian Baaki, Derrek DuPont, Joe Dwy, Jermiah Ernst, Matt Gaebel, Noah Ernst, Aidan Jackson, Jarid Lucier, Collin Lynk, Jake Vierno, Connor Christensen, Adam Hall, Jimmy Miller, Seth Sypniak, Noah Valvo, Lewi Clarke, Kurt Forsell, Taylor Price, Matt Ferriero, David VanBeusekom, Chris Colotti, Owen Coady, Danny Miller, Brandon Bonesteel, Kyle Caccamise.\

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Mets are headed, both in the short and long term, and whether they see themselves as contenders for one of this year’s wild-card positions. The answer could be revealed by their next move, assuming one is coming. For now, the Mets are on a roll that has muddied the waters. They have won four straight and 10 of 15 since the All-Star break. No National League team has been hotter. Although the Mets are still six games back in the wild-card race, they have caught and passed four other clubs in two weeks with an easy stretch in front of them. The next 10 games are against teams with sub-.500 records. After Sunday’s victory over Pittsburgh, outfielder Michael Conforto gave voice to his teammates’ unanimous sentiment when he said, “I think we’re starting to put it all together.” On Friday, Wheeler, who had been on the injured list with shoulder fatigue, proved he was healthy in a strong 5 2/3-inning performance. The following night, Steven Matz threw the first shutout of his career. Vargas put the finishing touches on the wipeout of the Pirates on Sunday after being

a variety of martial arts events. Bruno will compete in several breaking events as well as forms. Bruno will be a senior at Ichabod Crane High School in the fall where is on the high honor roll and competes in field events for the Indoor and Outdoor Track Teams. He trains at Gould’s Martial Arts in Valatie.

given a 6-0 lead in the first inning. He left in the sixth, and although Pittsburgh made the Mets squirm with a four-run rally in the ninth, the net result was unchanged: The Mets believe nothing is impossible over the final two months of the season. “I know we can win now,” manager Mickey Callaway said. “Brodie and I both feel we can win and get on a roll.” Conforto seconded his manager’s optimism, with a plea to not shake things up in the other direction. “Hopefully we get to keep most of our guys together,” Conforto said. What was left unsaid was this weekend’s sweep coming at the expense of the majors’ worst team of late. The Pirates have dropped eight in a row and are 2-14 since the All-Star break. That hardly seemed to matter to either the Mets or their fans. The series drew more than 100,000 people, evidence that the enthusiasm has not waned in Flushing. That may or may not influence the Wilpons’ thoughts in regard to trading Syndergaard, which would signal the start of a rebuild. Van Wagenen traded two recent first-round picks last offseason to acquire Diaz and Robinson Cano, back when the Mets were all-in for 2019. The next few days will tell whether they are officially going for it one more time.

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Football training centers are gaudy, outrageous and necessary John Clay Lexington Herald-Leader

Multi-million dollar football training centers are outrageously expensive, ridiculously lavish and, if you want to compete, absolutely essential. The latest controversy concerning these gaudy buildings involves LSU, which just spent $28 million to renovate its Football Operations Building that originally opened in 2005. The money was raised through private funds. And included in the update is a nutritional center and a player locker room that includes sleep pods. That’s right, sleep pods. Twitter nearly exploded — as Twitter is wont to do — last week with pictures of what looked like the personal pods you might find on an international airline flight that included a fold-out bed for sleep and a stand for an iPad to watch videos, movies, etc. “We try to be as up to date as we can and we also try to be a step ahead,” Jack Marucci, LSU’s head athletic trainer, told The Advocate in Baton Rouge. “That’s what we did on those pods. We didn’t need to make a fancy locker space. We made a functional locker that made a big impact.” Not everyone agreed, however. Former LSU defensive back Eric Reid, now with the Carolina CURTIS COMPTON/ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION Panthers, tweeted, “The locker room when I was LSU head football coach Ed Orgeron holds his SEC Media Days news conference at the College at LSU 7 years ago was better than the current one Football Hall of Fame on July 16, 2018 in Atlanta, Ga. in Carolina. But there’s no money to compensate these young men for the revenue they bring to the Does all this show our priorities are out of That didn’t sit well with LSU quarterback Joe school.” Burrow, who fired back, “Why, professor, do you whack? Of course. LSU football is a traditional ESPN’s Jay Bilas joined in with his usual Twit- feel entitled to the fruits of our labor?” source of pride in the state of Louisiana, but it ter mantra of “If only there was enough money Since then, a GoFundMe campaign has begun doesn’t mean as much to the state’s popula... “ to raise $20 million in hopes of building a library tion as the benefits provided by higher educaThen there was LSU professor Robert Mann, at LSU that will replace the outdated and crum- tion. That’s true in every other state with a highwho tweeted, “Meanwhile, across campus, I vac- bling library now on the Baton Rouge campus. achieving athletic program. On the other hand, if you’re going to be in a uum my faculty office with a Dust Devil I bought The school has repeatedly failed to raise the funds major college conference (the SEC, for example) necessary to make a new library happen. from Walmart.”

Megan Rapinoe returns to cheers but not to action Kurt Streeter The New York Times News Service

TACOMA, Wash. — It was Megan Rapinoe’s first time on a soccer field with a group of her teammates in three weeks, since she led the United States to the Women’s World Cup victory in France. What a difference a month makes. Instead of a crowd of nearly 60,000 at the Stade de Lyon, the venue Sunday was modest and low-slung, a minorleague baseball stadium with a rough capacity of 7,000. Instead of plying her trade for a United States women’s team basking in the glow of mainstream cool, Rapinoe’s squad Sunday was Reign FC, a midtable squad in the 7-year old National Women’s Soccer League. And instead of taking to the pitch and dominating, this time Rapinoe, now arguably one of the biggest stars in soccer, did not play a minute. This was not a surprise; Rapinoe had announced at a news conference last week that she would not take part in her homecoming game, both because she was still nursing leg injuries that had slowed her at the World Cup but also because, in her words, “I’m exhausted.” Instead she offered a brief appearance: a cameo of a celebration, heartfelt but far smaller than the ones she took part in both in France and later after a ticker-tape parade in New York. Fifteen minutes before the game, Rapinoe walked onto the field wearing jeans, a white collared shirt and Nike running shoes instead of the Reign’s black and white uniform. She was flanked by eight other members of the Reign who had taken part in the

World Cup, for nations including England, Canada and New Zealand. She walked wrapped in an American flag next to midfielder Allie Long, her teammate on the U.S. team. As part of a the ceremony, Rapinoe received a key to the city of Tacoma, which the Reign now calls home after moving before the start of this season from Seattle, 33 miles to the north. “Guess what, Tacoma, she plays here!” Tacoma’s mayor, Victoria Woodard, bellowed into a microphone. Basking in a thunderous ovation, Rapinoe flashed her wide smile and the arms-spreadwide pose that became her trademark after each of her six World Cup goals. And that was it. There was a game to be played at Cheney Stadium, which serves mainly as the home of the Class AAA Tacoma Rainiers. For the Reign, the pregame interlude would be the afternoon’s only highlight: the visiting Chicago Red Stars, powered by their own World Cup stars like Sam Kerr and Julie Ertz, scored early and never let up, winning by 4-0. After a World Cup in which Rapinoe stared down the ire of President Donald Trump on her way to being named the tournament’s best player and top scorer, her decision not to play gave this game a hollow feel, like turning up to see a Broadway show only to learn the much-talked-about headliner was out sick. And yet, on this bright afternoon, the fans on hand were more than willing to give Rapinoe a pass. In fact, with women’s soccer still backing in the World Cup glow, they showed up as never before.

and wish to forge some level of success in a highly competitive sport (football, for example), you must invest money in your infrastructure, i.e. stadiums, practice facilities and training centers. That’s just a fact. For proof, you need to look no farther than our own backyard. After years of bringing up the rear of the conference in football facilities, Kentucky spent $45 million on the Joe Craft Football Training Facility, which opened in 2016. It doesn’t have sleep pods. But it does have a nutrition center, a state of the art weight room, an expanded locker room and technical advances beyond anything the football program had enjoyed before. A friend recently told me that he was entertaining some friends from Florida, when they wanted to take a look at UK’s football facilities. The Floridians were surprised to see the quantity and the quality the school offered by way of amenities to players and recruits. Hopefully, they passed the word to Tim Tebow. The Cats are coming off a 10-3 season, their best since 1977. By all reports, the talent level of the recruits who recently competed in Mark Stoops’ summer camps exceeded that of previous years. You can’t tell me that the school’s renovation of Commonwealth Stadium, now Kroger Field, and addition of the training facility hasn’t played a role in attracting that type of talent. That doesn’t mean Kentucky or LSU boast the best football facilities in the SEC. (Alabama leads there, too.) It just means those schools are trying to keep up in an athletic arms race that shows no sign of slowing. As long as there are donors out there willing to put their money toward sleep pods instead of libraries, it won’t slow down. That may not be fair or beneficial, but right now it’s the way it is.

UConn men’s basketball players learn important life lessons from Herren and Clarett Mike Anthony The Hartford Courant

Chris Herren, whose basketball stardom and potential succumbed to addiction and legal problems, spoke to the UConn men’s basketball team recently. So did Maurice Clarett, whose promising football career was derailed by similar issues. “So captivating, their stories, and it resonated so much with everyone in the room that guys were afraid to cut the ice pack off their knees or unscrew a bottle as they were talking,” coach Dan Hurley said. “It was, like, mesmerizing.” Being part of a high-level basketball program or, as Hurley likes to say, a championshiplevel organization, has to be about more than becoming a better player. It has to be about becoming a better person. That happens in a number of ways. It happens through relationships and interaction and dedication to something larger than the individual. It happens by that organization committing to taking the occasional step aside for life practice after basketball practice. All the pressure and responsibility placed on Hurley — the kind we think about and talk about, anyway — has to do with winning, winning, winning. That’s it. Get UConn headed back in the right direction, restore the pride, get the Huskies to a point of national results and relevance. Three losing seasons in a row and everyone is tired of the new normal, so fix it. Recruit players who will help deliver championships, escort the best to the NBA and keep things humming for the next 10 years and beyond. You’ll be legendary. That’s all fair. It’s why Hurley was hired. Yet no matter what becomes of the next basketball chapter and the professional aspirations of those wearing the uniform, this period for a group of students and teenagers we

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Connecticut head coach Dan Hurley reacts to his team’s play during action against SMU at Gampel Pavilion in Storrs, Conn. on Jan. 10.

know as players is going to be the springboard into the rest of their lives. There’s always something larger at play than the transition to the Big East, the quest for a fifth national championship, the next lottery pick, the perfection of anything X’s and O’s. “At the end of the day, no one is going to care that we’re bringing in brand ambassadors and different motivational people who can help these guys develop skills and tools because, obviously, it all comes down to whether I’m able to win at the level that everyone wants me to win at,” Hurley said. “But we have a responsibility as the last group of people who are ever going to teach these kids anything to try to prepare them for the next 40 to 50 years.” The Herren and Clarett stories, well documented, are incredible. Herren: He was a standout and then a flameout, a wizard of a player in Fall River, Mass., who went on to Boston College. He was expelled after failing numerous drug tests and landed at Fresno State, eventually playing in the NBA for the Nuggets and Celtics. He had legal and drug problems all along, once nearly

dying after a heroin overdose, and finally got sober in 2008 and turned his life around. He is now one of the more celebrated public speakers with ties to the sports world. Clarett: He led Ohio State to a BCS national championship as a true freshman in 2002. He had behavioral issues that year, unsuccessfully challenged the NFL’s draft eligibility rules, wound up inactive for two years, was drafted by the Broncos in 2005 but never played in an NFL game. He fell into a life of alcoholism and crime, arrested several times, and served 3 ½ years in prison for armed robbery. He has since become a successful public speaker and mental health advocate. In short, both were on top of the world, fell off, and made something of their situations and essentially saved their own lives. They are now shaping the lives of others, sharing important messages not only about being able to get back up, but about avoiding a fall in the first place. “The amount of detail and the graphic nature of the way they communicate their stories, if it doesn’t grip you right away you’ve got no pulse,” Hurley

said. “If you sit through those and it doesn’t impact you in some way, you’ve got no shot.” UConn basketball players are in a formative time for their lives, not just their potential careers. It is healthy for all of them to dream of playing in the NBA, though most will not. Some come from challenging backgrounds and some, like anyone in any walk of life, will create or encounter great challenges in the coming years. It is important for them to learn about self inspection and reflection, how to recognize traps, handle personal issues, establish a strong foundation. Any messages Hurley gets across in his role of great influence will stick for years to come. He can’t be the only voice, though. Hurley has had many others speak to his team — from a notable basketball trainer in Alan Stein, who spoke to players about the habits of greatness, to Jeremy Darlow, a leading voice on branding and social media, “Because it plays such a big part in (players’) lives, and it’s (about) how to use it the right way and not look like an idiot,” Hurley said. This is all part of an overall approach, a framework. Oncourt and off-court success have to coincide. “We’re building something,” Hurley said. “We’re trying to build a mindset. Going into year two, rebuilding an historic program that has more championships than anyone the past 20 years, you lose if your organization isn’t strong enough in a variety of ways. It’s just having a program, trying to put together a talented team every year, trying to build a strong organization with the right type of approach to personal development. I’m a high school coach by nature. I didn’t come up in the college game. I feel like that’s a huge part of my responsibility with these guys.”

NFL notebook: Chiefs’ Hill on ‘new journey’ to better his life Field Level Media

Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Tyreek Hill, a two-time First-Team All-Pro and a three-time Pro Bowl selection, addressed the media on Sunday for the first time after a turbulent offseason and spoke of how he has embarked on a journey toward selfimprovement. “I can’t wait for my new journey, man. I’m excited,” Hill, 25, said. “I’m working every day to be a better father, better person, better citizen, a better son, too, to my parents. ... My mom kept telling me ‘Reek, you need to grow. You need to add layers

to yourself because if a tree grows, it doesn’t go back.’ So, I don’t want to go back. I want to grow every day of my life.” The Chiefs suspended Hill while he was under investigation following allegations of child abuse when his 3-year-old son suffered a broken arm. The NFL ruled last week that since the police investigation did not find enough evidence to charge Hill, he wouldn’t be punished or suspended by the league. The Chiefs suspended Hill after an audio recording of a fight between Hill and fiancée Crystal Espinal was made public in April. He said Sunday

he wasn’t aware of the tape’s existence until it was released. â??Cincinnati Bengals star receiver A.J. Green has torn ligaments in his left ankle and will be sidelined 6-8 weeks, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported. The seven-time Pro Bowl selection is not expected to be ready for the Bengals’ Sept. 8 season opener at Seattle, per the report. Green, who turns 31 on Wednesday, was carted off the field Saturday during the team’s first training camp practice at the University of Dayton. He has caught 602 passes for 8,907 yards and 63 touchdowns in 111 games since the Bengals selected him fourth overall in

the 2011 NFL Draft. â??Oakland Raiders wide receiver Antonio Brown passed his physical and practiced on Sunday, two days after he was placed on the non-football injury list. Shortly after Brown arrived at training camp Friday in Napa Valley in a hot air balloon, he was placed on the NFI list with an undisclosed injury. The Raiders acquired the seventime Pro Bowl selection from the Pittsburgh Steelers in a trade in March and later signed him to a three-year, $50.125 million contract. â??Dallas Cowboys defensive end DeMarcus Lawrence said he expects

to sit out all of training camp as he recovers from offseason shoulder surgery. Lawrence delayed the shoulder surgery until after he signed a five-year, $105 million contract that includes $65 million in guarantees. “I have a date in my mind when I’m going to be ready, and that’s the season opener,” Lawrence said. “I’m not saying I’m going to overload my workload for the season opener (Sept. 8) or what they want to do with me or have me off the PUP (physically unable to perform) list by the season opener, but hopefully be ready by the season opener.”

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tion: Greene Co. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 256 Adams Rd., Athens, NY 12015. Purpose: any lawful activities Notice of Formation of Rosings Park, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 7/16/19. Office location: Columbia County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Deborah D’Arcy, 55 Liberty St, Apt 9B, NY, NY 10005. Purpose: any lawful activity. Notice of Formation of TREGARDOCK LLC. Arts. Of Org. filed with SSNY on 7/11/19. Office location: Greene SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it May Be Served. SSNY Mail Process to Eleven Times Square, Room 301, New York, New York, 10036. Any lawful purpose. NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TOWN OF CLAVERACK PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that there will be a public hearing before the Town Board of the Town of Claverack to be held Thursday, August 08, 2019 - 7:00 p.m. at the Claverack Town Hall, 836 Route 217, Mellenville, New York to consider the following proposed local law: Proposed Local Law No. 2 of the year 2019 - A local law adopting a Hotel and Motel Registered Sex Offender Occupancy License. A full and complete copy of said proposed local law for the Town of Claverack is available for inspection at the office of the Claverack Town Clerk during normal business hours. The information is also available on the town internet site at www.townofclaverack.com. Dated: July 26, 2019 s/Mary J. Hoose Town Clerk

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF COLUMBIA NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC D/B/A MR. COOPER, Plaintiff AGAINST STEPHEN ST CLAIR, ALEXIA ST CLAIR, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated June 10, 2019 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Front Steps of the Columbia County Courthouse, 401 Union Street, Hudson, NY, on August 30, 2019 at 3:00PM, premises known as 1350 COUNTY ROUTE 7, ANCRAM, NY 12502. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Ancram, County of Columbia and State of New York, SECTION 205.3, BLOCK 1, LOT 21. Approximate amount of judgment $163,704.90 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment for Index# 13113-18. MAX N. ZACKER, ESQ., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 Williamsville, NY 14221 NOTICE - TOWN OF NEW BALTIMORE PLANNING BOARD HANNACROIX, NEW YORK - Notice is hereby given that there will be a Public Hearing before the Town of New Baltimore Planning Board 7:00 p.m., August 8, 2019, at the Town Hall, 3809 County Route 51, Hannacroix, New York. The subject of the Public Hearing will be the application submitted by William F. Burns, Jr. for a threelot minor subdivision of property located at 625 Hillcrest Road, Hannacroix. All persons wishing to be heard in favor or opposition will have such opportunity at the time and place stated a b o v e . Robert Van Etten, Chair

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC) The name of the LLC is Casa Neapolis LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on May 17, 2019. New York office location: 68 Lakeside Drive, Town of Catskill, County of Greene and the State of New York. SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is: Casa Neapolis LLC; 68 Lakeside Drive, Catskill, New York 12414. Purpose/Character of business: Any lawful business purpose permitted under the New York Limited Liability Company Law. This notification is made pursuant to Section 206 of the Limited Liability Company Law. NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Town Board of the Town of Catskill will hold a public hearing on Tuesday August 6, 2019 at 6:30 pm at Town Hall, 439 Main Street, Catskill, NY to hear comments and concerns authorizing the issuance of serial bonds in the amount not to exceed $300,000 for the purchase of two (2) new ambulances. By Order of the Catskill Town Board, Elizabeth Izzo, Town Clerk NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Town Board of the Town of Catskill will hold a public hearing to hear comment and concern regarding Local Law 4-2019 amending Chapter 78 Animals on Tuesday, August 6, 2019 at 6:30 pm at Catskill Town Hall, 439 Main Street, Catskill, NY 12414. By Order of the Catskill Town Board, Elizabeth Izzo, Town Clerk NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING On County-Wide Shared Services Initiative

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B6 Tuesday, July 30, 2019 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a Public Hearing will be held regarding the Governor's County-wide Shared Services Property Tax Savings Plan, which requires the chief executive officer of each of the 57 counties outside of New York City to convene a panel of public officials to develop, publicly deliberate and vote upon County-wide Shared Services Property Tax Savings Plans. The initiative aims to save property taxpayers money by implementing shared services and other cooperative arrangements between governments. The Chief Executive Officer of each county is required to prepare a property tax savings plan for shared, coordinated and efficient services among the county, cities, towns and villages within such county. Said Shared Services Plan should contain actions that when implemented will result in new property tax savings such as through the elimination of duplicative services, shared services, such as joint purchasing, shared highway equipment, shared storage facilities, shared plowing services, and energy and insurance purchasing cooperatives, the reduction in back office administrative overhead and better coordination of services. The success of the initiative and consequent savings to taxpayers depends upon robust public participation and engagement. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN, that the Greene County Legislature shall meet on the 1st day of August, 2019 at 6:00 p.m. in Room 468 of the Greene County Office Building, 411 Main Street, Catskill, New York for the purpose of holding a Public Hearing regarding the County-Wide Shared Services Initiative (CWSSI), at which time all persons interested in the subject matter thereof will be heard concerning the same. Dated: July 26, 2019 Tammy L. Sciavillo Acting Clerk, Greene County Legislature

-againstCrystal Middleton a/k/a Crystal Stringham individually, as natural guardian for MES, minor and as Administrator of the Estate of Varick Stringham, III a/k/a Varick Van Wyck Stringham, III a/k/a Varick Van Wyck Stringham, deceased, Christian H. Dribusch, Esq. Guardian Ad Litem for Nolah Judith Stringham and Meribelle Elizabeth Stringham, minors, Crystal Middleton a/k/a Crystal Stringham as natural guardian for Meribelle Elizabeth Stringham, minor, Varick Stringham, Jr. as Heir at Law, Next of Kin and Distributee of the Estate of Varick Stringham III a/k/a Varick Van Wyck Stringham, III a/k/a Varick Van Wyck Stringham, Amanda Zarelli as Heir at Law, Next of Kin and Distributee of the Estate of Varick Stringham III a/k/a Varick Van Wyck Stringham, III a/k/a Varick Van Wyck Stringham, Pamela Thallner as Heir at Law, Next of Kin and Distributee of the Estate of Varick Stringham III a/k/a Varick Van Wyck Stringham, III a/k/a Varick Van Wyck Stringham, Rebecca Stringham as as Heir at Law, Next of Kin and Distributee of the Estate of Varick Stringham III a/k/a Varick Van Wyck Stringham, III a/k/a Varick Van Wyck Stringham, Internal Revenue Service-United States of America, New York State Department of Taxation and FinanceTax Compliance Division-C.O.-ATC, Defendant(s) Pursuant to a judgment of foreclosure and sale entered on June 21, 2019 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction to the highest bidder at THE COLUMBIA COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 401 UNION STREET, HUDSON, NEW YORK 12534 on August 27, 2019at 1:00 PM premises known as 448 Route 23B, Claverack, NY 12513. SALE IS SUBJECT TO FIRST MORTGAGE ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the hamlet of Clavernack, Town of Clavernack, County of COLUMBIA and State of New York. Section: 120.2 Block: 1 Lot: 20 Approximate amount of lien $162,244.64 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed judgment Index # 12517-18 April Forbes, Esq., REFEREE STEIN, WIENER AND ROTH, L.L.P., ATTORNEYS FOR THE PLAINTIFF ONE OLD COUNTRY ROAD, SUITE 113 CARLE PLACE, NY 11514 DATED: July 22, 2019 FILE #: USAA 71735

shall mail proc.: 50 ANTHONY G. MARINew St., Coxsackie, NO, STEPHANIE C. NY 12051. Purp.: any MARINO, VON AWEYlawful purp. DEN, LLC, AQUA TEC WATER SERVICES, STATE OF NEW YORK INC., SUPREME COURT SEAN MARINO, KEVIN COUNTY OF GREENE SCHULTZ, EDWARD SUMMONS WITH NO- AHRENS and LORI TICE AHRENS, SAUGERIndex No.: 16-0814 TIES LUMBER CO., Summons and Amend- INC., BELGIAN ed Complaint filed: TRUCKING & EXCAMarch 13, 2018 VATING, LLC, and CATHERINE ANNESE WINDHAM EQUIPand SONDRA MULL- MENT RENTALS, INC., ER, Defendants. Plaintiffs, Pursuant to a Judg-againstment of Foreclosure JOSEPH F. KOWAL- and Sale duly made SKI, ROBERT M. and entered in the KOWALSKI, THERESA above-entitled action, K O W A L S K I - W O L F E , bearing date the 24th PATRICIA F. KOWAL- day of June, 2019, I SKI-RUSSEL, CARO- the undersigned, the LYN KOWALSKI-PAL- Referee in said judgLADINO, ELIZABETH ment named, will sell A. TROIANI, HAROLD at public auction in the JONES, JOHN DOE first floor lobby of the and JANE ROE, Greene County CourtDefendants. house at 320 Main TO: JOHN DOE and Street, in the Village of JANE ROE: Catskill, County of YOU ARE HEREBY Greene and State of SUMMONED to serve New York, on the 21st a notice of appearance day of August, 2019 at on Plaintiffs within (20) 10:00 a.m. o'clock in days after the service the forenoon on that of this summons, ex- date, the premises diclusive of the date of rected by said judgservice (or within thirty ment to be sold and (30) days after the ser- therein described as vice is complete of this follows: summons if not per- ALL that piece or parsonally delivered to cel of land situate, lyyou within the State of ing and being in the New York); and in case Town of Ashland, of your failure to ap- County of Greene and pear, judgment will be State of New York, taken against you by said parcel being more default for the relief particularly described demanded in the no- as follows: tice set forth below. BEGINNING at a point Dated: July 24, 2019 in the center of Greene COOPER ERVING & County Route 17, said SAVAGE LLP point also being in the Albany, New York center of a private /s/ Carlo A. C. de Oli- roadway running to the veira east from Greene Carlo A. C. de Oliveira County Route 17, said Attorney for Plaintiffs point being the wester39 North Pearl Street, ly corner of the parcel 4th Floor herein described and Albany, NewYork being located the fol12207 lowing course and dis518-449-3900 tance from a point in c d e o l i v e i r a @ c o o p e r- the center of the erving.com bridge which carries NOTICE: The forego- said Route 17 over the ing summons is served Batavia Kill: S 16? 26' upon you by publica- 12" W 833.46 feet; tion pursuant to an or- running thence from der of the Honorable said point of beginning Raymond J. Elliott, III, along the centerline of a Justice of the Su- said private roadway preme Court of the and through the lands State of New York, of the grantors herein, dated the 19th day of Robert O. Goff and July, 2019, and filed Jeanette Goff, N 76? with the Verified 09' 51" E 250.00 feet; Amended Complaint thence continuing and other papers, in along the centerline of the office of the Clerk said private roadway of the County of and along the southerin Catskill, ly bounds of lands of Greene New York. Jorge I. Pardo and DESCRIPTION OF AC- Elba N. Provost (L. 841 Pillow Talk Beverages TION: This is an action - p. 138) the following LLC Arts. of Org. filed for adverse possession five (5) courses and NY Sec. of State of a portion of the distances: N 76? 09' (SSNY) 7/16/19. Office property known as 51" E 254.77 feet to a in Columbia Co. SSNY "Virginia Place," which point of curvature; design. Agent of LLC separates Plaintiffs' along a curve which upon whom process property located on bears to the right havmay be served. SSNY Joel M. Austin Road, ing a central angle of shall mail copy of prothe Town of Cairo, 19? 52' 50", a radius cess to The LLC 100 New York, consisting of 432.83 feet, and a W. 39th ST, Apt 40D, of Tax Map Number length of 150.18 feet to New York, NY 10018. 101.00-5-18. The por- a point of tangency: S Purpose: Any lawful tion of "Virginia Place" 83? 57' 19" E 98.61 activity. Plaintiffs are seeking feet; S 75? 13' 19" E title to by adverse pos- 159.25 feet; and S 69? The Kawa Group LLC. session is located be- 25' 39" E 160.95 feet; Arts. of Org. filed with tween the properties thence continuing the SSNY on 6/28/19. bearing Section, Block, along the westerly Office: Columbia Lot Numbers 101.00- bounds of said lands County. SSNY desig5-18, to the North and of Jorge I. Pardo and nated as agent of the south on the western Elba N. Provost (L.841 LLC upon whom proend, 101.00-5-26 to p.138) passing cess against it may be the north on the east- through an iron pin set served. SSNY shall ern end, and 101.00-5- twenty-five (25) feet mail copy of process 17 to the south on the from the centerline of to the LLC, 546 Coeastern end. the aforementioned lumbia St Rear 1, NY private roadway S 04? 12534. Purpose: Any STATE OF NEW YORK 58' 50" W 432.71 feet lawful purpose. COUNTY COURT : to an iron pin set in the NOTICE OF SALE Oneal's Construction COUNTY OF GREEN northerly bounds of SUPREME COURT - LLC, Art. of Org. filed NOTICE OF SALE lands now or formerly COUNTY OF COLUM- with SSNY on 3/14/19. Index #18-366 of Amos and Ichabod, BIA Off. loc.: Greene Co. THE BANK OF Inc. (L. 615 - p. 96); USAA Federal Savings SSNY designated as GREENE COUNTY, thence running along Bank, agent upon whom pro- Plaintiff, said lands now or forPlaintiff cess may be served & -againstmerly of Amos and Ichabod, Inc. N 85? 01' 10" W 898.27 feet, passing through an iron pin set, to a point in the centerline of said Greene County Route 17; thence running along the centerline of said Greene County Route 17 the following two (2) courses and distances: N 19? 21' 18" W 261.90 feet to a point of curvature; along a curve which bears to the right having a central angle of 08? 02' 04", a radius of 611.94 feet, and a length of 85.81 feet to a point of tangency at the point and place of beginning. Containing 10.116 acres of land. TOGETHER with and subject to an easement for ingress and egress, to be used in common with others, fifty (50) feet in width, the centerline of which is described as folEarly morning hours---you can be earning money to lows: Beginning at a point in the centerline help pay bills, pay the mortgage, save for college, all of said easement in the centerline of said while others are sleeping! Routes available now! Greene County Route Must have a vehicle, Valid Drivers License, Vehicle 17, which point of beginning is located S insurance and registration is a must. 16? 26' 12" W 833.46 feet from the point in Knowledge of the area recommended. the center of said bridge which carries Previous experience delivering newspapers a plus. said Route 17 over the Batavia Kill; thence To apply call proceeding along the centerline of said easement N 76? 09' Or send an email to: 51" E 250.00 feet; N 76? 09' 51" 254.77 pdedrick@columbiagreenemedia.com feet to a point of cur-

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vature; thence along a curve which bears to the right having a central angle of 19? 52' 50", a radius of 432.83 feet, and a length of 150.18 feet to a point of tangency: S 83? 57' 19" E 98.61 feet; S 75? 13' 19" E 159.25 feet; and S 69? 25' 39" E 160.95 feet. TOGETHER with and subject to an easement for the installation and maintenance of public utilities within an area having a width of eighty (80) feet, for the length of the aforesaid easement for ingress and egress, the centerline of which is the centerline of said easement for ingress and egress. SUBJECT to the rights of the public in and to that portion of the above described premises as lies within the bounds of Greene County Route 17. THE above described premises is conveyed subject to the covenant and restriction that no house trailer, mobile home nor junk cars may be stored, erected or maintained upon the above described premises. Excepting and reserving from the above described parcel, all that piece or parcel of land with improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in the Town of Ashland, County of Greene and State of New York, being more particularly described as follows: That certain lot depicted as "Lot 2" upon the survey map by Santo Associates Land Survey and Engineering, P.C., dated June 2, 2003, entitled "survey Map and Subdivision of Lands of Anthony G. Marino & Stephanie C. Marino", which map was filed in the Greene County Clerk's Office on May 12, 2004 as File EASI-B as Map No. 2004-54. Lot 2 contains 5.100 acres of land. Dated:July 19, 2019 s./ Ann Marie Rabin Ann Marie Rabin, Referee DEILY & SCHAEFER Attorneys for Plaintiff One Bridge Street Catskill, NY 12414 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK - COUNTY OF COLUMBIA U.S. BANK TRUST, N.A. AS TRUSTEE FOR LSF9 MASTER PA R T I C I PAT I O N TRUST, V. LUIS A. VEGERANO, SR., ET AL. NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated April 16, 2018, and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Columbia, wherein U.S. BANK TRUST, N.A. AS TRUSTEE FOR LSF9 MASTER PA R T I C I PAT I O N TRUST is the Plaintiff and LUIS A. VEGERANO, SR., ET AL. are the Defendant(s). I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the COLUMBIA COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 401 UNION STREET FRONT LOBBY, HUDSON, NY 12534, on August 16, 2019 at 12:00 PM, premises known as 187 ROUTE 9J, HUDSON, NY 12534: Section 72.2, Block 1, Lot 6: ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, WITH THE BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON ERECTED, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE TOWN OF STOCKPORT, COUNTY OF COLUMBIA, AND STATE OF NEW YORK Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 6401/2013. James J. Brearton, Esq. - Referee. RAS Boriskin, LLC 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff.

SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK - COUNTY OF GREENE U.S. BANK NATIONAL TRUST, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR LSF9 MASTER PARTICIPATION TRUST, V. ROBIN SYLVESTER F/K/A ROBIN C. CHASE, if living, and if he/she be dead, any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; et al. NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated October 10, 2018, and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Greene, wherein U.S. BANK NATIONAL TRUST, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR LSF9 MASTER PARTICIPATION TRUST, is the Plaintiff and ROBIN SYLVESTER F/K/A ROBIN C. CHASE, if living, and if he/she be dead, any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; et al. are the Defendant(s). I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the GREENE COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 320 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL, NY 12414, on August 27, 2019 at 9:00 AM, premises known as 11 TOWNSEND HOLLOW ROAD, HALCOTT CENTER, NY 12430: Section 174, Block 2, Lot 4: ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, LYING AND BEING IN THE TOWN OF HALCOTT, COUNTY OF GREENE, STATE OF NEW YORK Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 597/2016. Angelo F. Scaturro, Esq. Referee. RAS Boriskin, LLC 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff. VITAL KNOWLEDGE MEDIA LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 6/14/19. Office in Columbia Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC 261 Hudson ST Apt 11G New York, NY 10013. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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Friend offended by not being asked about her past Six months ago, I got back in touch with a childhood friend who married at 17 and moved away. She has lots of family drama, much of it caused by her alcoholism (which she says is a result of PTSD). Recently, she told me I have hurt her and I’m a terrible friend because since we’ve DEAR ABBY reconnected, I have never once asked her about her past and the ordeals she’s been through. Abby, she talks about herself constantly. I never thought it was necessary to ask her about the past because she never shuts up about it. I have tried to be a good listener, but I don’t think she has made the best life choices, and I don’t want to confront her with my opinions on how she has messed up her life. I don’t question people about their past, truthfully. I feel if they want to discuss it, they’ll bring it up themselves. Was I wrong for not asking her to dredge it up? Now she won’t even talk to me. Friendless In Florida

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Be grateful the woman no longer speaks to you. You have done nothing wrong. The person you describe needs to feel wronged and be the focus of your conversations, which to me seems self-centered. Consider yourself fortunate that

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this troubled individual has moved on, and concentrate on relationships that are healthy — and mutual. My family is very close, and we see each other often. Lately I have been avoiding most of our family gatherings because of my brother-inlaw “Jared.” At the most recent family occasion, he was staring, winking and flashing peace signs at me. This is not friendly banter; it is very creepy. My sister isn’t aware of it, and I’m sure she wouldn’t approve. I have been married four times, and I’m currently single. If his behavior continues, which I’m sure it will since I am a very desirable woman, I will have to skip family events entirely. Any thoughts? Hard To Resist Out West

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Your letter is unique. I rarely hear from people with as “healthy” an ego as yours. Because you feel your brother-in-law is out of line, try this: Tell him to cut it out the next time he does it because it is making you uncomfortable. And if that doesn’t do the trick, tell his wife. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

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There’s no magic bullet to put belly fat in check I am a 70-year-old woman, mostly healthy (apart from well-controlled high blood pressure). Looking at me, people assume I am skinny, but I have a well-concealed HUGE belly along with my thin arms and legs. I look like an olive stuck TO YOUR with toothpicks. My diet is GOOD HEALTH healthy for the most part: I eat snack foods, deep-fried fast foods or sweets only rarely. I have read about how to eliminate belly fat, but there is so much contradictory info, each claiming to be the best. What are truly effective ways to help eliminate belly fat?

DR. KEITH ROACH

First, I would want to be sure what you have really is belly fat. While there are men (and a few women) who have that body shape due to fat, I have seen far too many cases of liver disease and ovarian cancer. I would want to be sure you had been evaluated for these concerns, especially if this is a change in your normal body shape. If it is abdominal fat, there is no magic diet. What works for someone else (even your twin sister, if you had one) might not work for you. For this reason, one single type of diet does not fit all. It may take patience and trying several different options before finding what works for you. General advice includes avoiding the foods you noted you eat sparingly. Eat lots of vegetables and whole grains with fiber; modest amounts of fruits; several servings of nuts and fish weekly; and no more than modest amounts of meats. Advice from an expert in weight management may be of great benefit. About a year ago, my son was diagnosed with polycythemia. No one in our family had ever heard of this. He goes in every four to six weeks to have a pint of blood removed. Now he

has been diagnosed with sleep apnea, which the doctor says caused the polycythemia, as his blood wasn’t getting enough oxygen and so overproduced red blood cells to compensate. Will the polycythemia go away once he gets more oxygen with the CPAP equipment he now uses?

Blondie

“Polycythemia” means “too many blood cells,” and just means consistently higher than normal blood cells. There are two main causes. One is primary polycythemia vera, which is an uncommon blood disorder that is diagnosed by evaluation of the blood and bone marrow. Virtually all people with polycythemia Hagar the Horrible vera have a diagnostic mutation called JAK2. Polycythemia secondary to another condition is much more common. If the blood oxygen levels are low, from lung disease or from sleep apnea, the body indeed responds by making more red blood cells. Some tumors can secrete erythropoietin, a hormone that causes the body to make more red cells. Having too many red blood cells puts people at risk for stroke, which may be why your son needed blood removed. People with polycythemia of unknown cause should have an evaluation looking at blood oxygen levels (including during exercise and sleep Zits if suspected) and an erythropoietin level before considering polycythemia vera, which would necessitate a bone marrow biopsy and evaluation for a JAK2 mutation. If the polycythemia in your son’s case is due to sleep apnea, it should resolve with effective treatment. “CPAP” stands for “continuous positive airway pressure” and is a breathing mask worn while sleeping.

Horoscope By Stella Wilder Born today, you are a warm, open and outspoken individual, and you thrive on the attention of others — nay, you virtually bask in it! Indeed, you are likely to choose a life for yourself that keeps you in close touch with those who know you, like you and admire you, and who lavish you with praise for even the smallest accomplishments. This isn’t always a good thing, of course, and you must take care that you don’t simply surround yourself with sycophants and yes-men. You want people to tell you the truth, even when the truth may be hard to hear. You are not careless with your words; you will think things through very carefully before sharing your opinions with others. When you decide to speak about important issues, you do so in a clear and straightforward manner — and you are always easy to understand. It is rare for someone to misinterpret your point of view. Also born on this date are: Henry Ford, auto pioneer; Lisa Kudrow, actress; Vivica A. Fox, actress; Christopher Nolan, director; Hilary Swank, actress; Emily Bronte, author. To see what is in store for you tomorrow, find your birthday and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your daily guide. WEDNESDAY, JULY 31 LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Someone may offer something you consider of very little value — but take a second look! Something is hidden from view that may mean quite a bit. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You’re eagerly waiting to see if the results of a recent effort match your expectations. Use what time you have to start a new task. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You may be acting and speaking in a manner these days that is most unconventional — but today you have a very good

reason to tone it down. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Focus on acting rather than reacting today. You want to be at the forefront of what is going on. Promote your ideas! SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — You can avoid an uncomfortable situation today by facing the facts head-on. Only by trying to deceive will you make things worse. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — What you say or do without thinking is likely to have major repercussions today — and in the days to come. Think things through! AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — You can negotiate a carefully balanced compromise today. Not everyone will be wholly satisfied, but progress will not be stalled. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — You can work with others to maximize everyone’s potential today. When at the helm of a major project, you may be able to do the impossible. ARIES (March 21-April 19) — If it seems as though you are flirting with danger today, it is likely true. Listen to the warnings others give you, and keep your eyes open. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — You may be put in a position of authority that doesn’t really seem to suit your temperament — but make an adjustment and all will be well. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You can receive valuable assistance today, but only if you ask for it. And you must know just how to use it as well. Don’t just wing it! CANCER (June 21-July 22) — It’s likely that you will be put in a position that requires you to think along new and unfamiliar lines today. Use your imagination. COPYRIGHT 2019 UNITED FEATURE SYNDICATE, INC.

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

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

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

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

(Answers tomorrow) (Answers tomorrow) Jumbles: BENCH MILKY KARATE WALNUT BLIMP HITCH CODDLE WINERY cardiologist had performed the procedure Answer: The They hired an expert oil driller who — so many times, she — KNEW IT BY HEART DID WELL BY THEM

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(e.g., What are the two colors of the Greek flag? Answer: Blue and white.) Freshman level 1. This temple on the Acropolis is dedicated to the goddess Athena. 2. This white cheese is made from the milk of sheep or goats. 3. What is the second-largest city in Greece? Graduate level 4. Greece is historically also known by this six-letter name. 5. Which sea lies to the east of the mainland? 6. What is the largest Greek island? PH.D. level 7. This dessert is made of paper-thin layers of pastry, chopped nuts and honey. 8. Which Greek letter is used in English to indicate the dominant individual? 9. This Greek wine is flavored with pine resin.

SUPER QUIZ ANSWERS 1. Parthenon. 2. Feta. 3. Thessaloniki. 4. Hellas. 5. Aegean Sea. 6. Crete. 7. Baklava. 8. Alpha. 9. Retsina. 18 points — congratulations, doctor; 15 to 17 points — honors graduate; 10 to 14 points — you’re plenty smart, but no grind; 4 to 9 points — you really should hit the books harder; 1 point to 3 points — enroll in remedial courses immediately; 0 points — who reads the questions to you?

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Crossword Puzzle ACROSS 1 Educ. TV network 4 Main artery 9 In __; jokingly 13 Little children 15 Workers’ group 16 Nagging pain 17 “Take a hike!” 18 Unflinching 19 Bar tab 20 Plato’s famous pupil 22 Slow gait 23 Chocolate __ cookies 24 Snoop 26 Make ill 29 Plant scientist 34 __ as a peacock 35 __ out; utter impulsively 36 “Need I __ more?” 37 Skateboarder’s incline 38 Devoutness 39 Polio vaccine developer 40 Suffix for origin or liquid 41 Spouses 42 Depart 43 Fastened with a rope 45 Jigsaw puzzle bits 46 Polish off 47 Chore 48 Opposite of “Giddyap!” 51 South American nation 56 Raise, as kids 57 24 __ gold 58 __ off; dozes 60 Martial __; judo, karate, etc. 61 Jagged 62 Stare 63 Bothersome person 64 Made clothing 65 Witch’s spell DOWN 1 Half-qts. 2 __ Raton, FL

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3 Asterisk 4 U.S. state capital 5 “__ of Old Smokey” 6 Hilarious person 7 Labor 8 Lineage 9 Actress Smith 10 Cave sound 11 Send a parcel 12 Frenchman’s head 14 Heist 21 Lean-to 25 Boone or Sajak 26 “Jack __ could eat no fat…” 27 Cross 28 Powdered s “Kate & __” cleanser 29 Lose vital fluid 30 Pitcher’s delights 31 Sir __ Newton 32 Ointment 33 Trike riders 35 Fisherman’s hope 38 __ of; has a share in 39 Looking for

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