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handle bars hit the vehicle, Nevel said.

Then a 2015 Hyundai Sonata, which was behind the 4-Runner, struck the motorcycle. Neu was ejected from the bike, which was totaled,

CATSKILL — A technologybased economy is on the horizon in Catskill, village officials say.

The village is drafting plans to open a technology center in collaboration with a group called Innovate 518. Innovate 518 connects those with business ideas to funding opportunities, potential facilities and other resources.

Crawford & Associates has been hired to develop a business plan, which Village President Vincent Seeley expects will be completed in 30 days.

“The ultimate goal of the technology center is to provide resources to our growing maker, technology and arts community,” Seeley said. “We need to have a diverse local economy with good-paying jobs in the technology sector.

Relying on an economy based on tourism and fluctuating consumer confidence is a recipe for disaster.”

The village is eyeing three locations on Main Street — a former dance studio, the third floor of a former liquor store and warehouse space — for the center.

The village hopes to have a site locked down within 60 days, Seeley said.

“The goal is to have it up and running and productive in 2019,” Seeley said. “It will continue to evolve as the needs of the community expand.”

Seeley estimates that startup costs will be $125,000, not including equipment.

The center will feature equipment such as 3-D printers, laser cutters and a machine that prints fabric patterns.

“People with an idea for

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CATSKILL — The Fourth of July holiday week is off to a somber start as police investigate two serious accidents in Catskill within 24 hours.

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County motorcyclist was critically injured after her bike collided with two cars.

Linda Neu, 60, of Hurley, was traveling south on Route 32 near Cauterskill Road on a 2004 Yamaha around 3:30 p.m., state police Public Information Officer Steven

Nevel said.

“When she was operating around a right curve, the vehicle drifted into the northbound lane,” Nevel said.

The first oncoming vehicle, a 2004 Toyota 4-Runner, swerved to the left to avoid hitting Neu, but the bike’s

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A shortage of health care workers at all levels and federal funding for hospital infrastructure are among the top issues facing the 19th Congressional District, according to U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado’s Health Care Advisory Committee.

CAIRO — A dearth of health care providers, drug addiction, federal funding for hospitals and public health insurance reimbursements are among the top health care issues facing the Twin Counties, according to a committee formed by U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado, D-19.

The congressman’s Health Care Advisory Committee includes more than 30 patients, providers and health-care advocates from around the 19th Congressional District. The group met at the 911 Center in Cairo on Monday to discuss the district’s top health carerelated issues.

“Hearing directly from local health-care advocates, patients, hospital administra-

tors and medical professionals allows us to discuss ways to truly make a difference when it comes to addressing rising health-care costs and accessibility, especially in our more rural areas,” Delgado said.

In addition to health care, Delgado formed three other committees to deal with issues related to veterans, agriculture and small business.

The health care committee will review and provide input on rising health care costs and related legislation. Monday’s meeting was the panel’s first.

“Ensuring upstate New Yorkers can afford quality coverage has been a top priority for me in Congress,” Delgado said. “That’s why I have supported legislation to lower the See HEALTH A8

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Damage is seen after protesters entered and vandalized the chamber of the Legislative Council building in Hong Kong on July 2, 2019.

thing we should seriously condemn because nothing is more important than the rule of law in Hong Kong.” Her language echoed that of many opponents of the extradition bill, who warned that by creating a path to remove criminal defendants to mainland China, the city would destroy its status as a safe haven of judicial independence and individual rights.

Monday night’s chaos also may prove convenient for Chinese President Xi Jinping, whose government argues that only tight control can ensure the stability necessary to support economic growth.

From the beginning of the anti-extradition protests, Chinese officials portrayed those in the streets as illegitimate agitators and foreign agents — the sort of people who, in Beijing’s view, need to be brought firmly in line.

The Chinese government condemned the protesters who stormed the legislature as “extremists” and called for their criminal prosecution, according to the official Xinhua News Agency, which cited a spokesman for the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office.

While both Chinese and Hong Kong authorities say there’s no need for the People’s Liberation Army to intervene, such scenes test Beijing’s tolerance for unrest.

“Hong Kong cannot become chaotic,” Wei Jianguo, China’s former vice-minister of commerce, told Bloomberg in Beijing on Monday, before the legislative takeover occurred. “As we learned during China’s Cultural Revolution, chaos is very bad for growth

and development.”

The activists who took over the legislature by no means represent the mainstream of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy supporters — hundreds of thousands of whom marched peacefully Monday in one of the largest protests ever. Activists have been split in recent years between more hardcore “localists,” who demand greater autonomy, if not independence, and a larger group that’s more ambivalent about Chinese rule.

The power of the anti-extradition protests was derived, in part, from collapsing that distinction: focusing on just one issue allowed competing factions to come together in opposition to Lam’s proposed bill.

Pro-democracy lawmakers accused police of setting a trap for protesters by withdrawing from the legislative complex and giving them a clear path in. The city’s police commissioner, Stephen Lo, said officers retreated out of fear for the safety of bystanders and themselves after protesters tampered with electrical boxes and threw “toxic powder” at police.

Police didn’t return to the site until well after midnight, eventually firing tear gas while charging at protesters to clear them from the streets around the building. By morning, Hong Kong’s government district resembled a post-apocalyptic movie set, with dump trucks removing the detritus of metal railings, umbrellas and thousands of discarded water bottles. Cleaners inside the Legislative Council picked up smashed official portraits

and started removing trash and graffiti.

The legislative chief, Andrew Leung, said the chamber was a “crime scene” and the damage would require the body to cancel the remaining two meetings of its session.

Western governments were anxious to prevent the violence being used to discredit the larger push for maintaining Hong Kong’s special status. “The actions today of a small number of people,” the European Union said in a statement, “are not representative of the vast majority of demonstrators, who have been peaceful throughout successive protests.”

Jeremy Hunt, the U.K. foreign secretary, said in a tweet that “no violence is acceptable but HK people MUST preserve right to peaceful protest.”

As central Hong Kong returns to normal, activists now face the dilemma of how to regroup. While the extradition bill is unlikely to be reintroduced in the near future, the broader crackdown on Hong Kong’s unique freedoms likely will continue — and with it protesters’ determination to resist what they view as encroachment by Beijing.

“In the coming weeks, we will see very large hit back from the Beijing side and turn into a security issue,” opposition lawmaker Eddie Chu told Bloomberg Television. “I’m afraid in the long run Hong Kong will become a police city.”

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The protesters who succeeded in halting Hong Kong’s controversial extradition bill benefited from broad support among businesses and ordinary citizens. But Monday night’s ugly demonstrations risk losing some of that backing — and giving a boost to the pro-Beijing leader they despise.

Asia’s financial capital was cleaning up its downtown Tuesday after protests coinciding with the anniversary of its 1997 handover to China morphed into a raucous takeover of the Hong Kong Legislative Council, its quasi-democratic legislature. Protesters wearing hardhats and protective goggles smashed their way into the building, spraypainting “HK IS NOT CHINA” on the walls and draping a colonial-era flag over the dais.

Hours later, police stepped in to clear the streets with tear gas.

For Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam, the mayhem could prove useful. Few in the city — and particularly not among the local and foreign investors whose concerns helped torpedo an extradition bill that triggered protests last month — are likely to support actions that disrupt daily business. The American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong, which opposed the bill, issued a statement Tuesday saying “violent acts causing physical harm and destruction of property” were an unacceptable way for people to express their concerns.

By allowing Lam to paint activists as violent rabble-rousers and position herself as a guardian of order, the protest may give Lam a new lease on political life. The chief executive was badly weakened, her approval rating at a record low, after her retreat on the extradition legislation, which she shelved last month after historic crowds turned out in opposition.

“Beijing is more unlikely to yield now than before and exert a more hard-liner approach,” said Ivan Choy, a senior lecturer of government and public administration at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. “Beijing will continue to back Carrie Lam and the police force to ensure stability.”

Lam held a 4 a.m. news conference to condemn the legislature takeover, describing it as an “extreme use of violence and vandalism” and “some-

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Spain sets July 23 vote on Sanchez’s bid to form new government Charles Penty, Thomas Gualtieri Bloomberg

The Spanish parliament will vote July 23 on Pedro Sanchez’s bid to lead a new government as he attempts to break the deadlock caused by the inconclusive result of April’s general election.

Sanchez, Spain’s acting prime minister, telephoned Parliament Speaker Meritxell Batet and they agreed to start the investiture debate on July 22, she said in a briefing Tuesday. Should Sanchez fail to secure an absolute majority, a second vote -- in which Sanchez needs a simple majority -- will be held on July 25, Batet said.

The decision starts the clock ticking to form a new government, putting pressure on Sanchez to

secure enough support in parliament. It also raises the stakes for his political rivals who will have to weigh the merits of continuing to block Sanchez against the risk of potentially losing voters if new elections are called.

In elections held in April, Sanchez’s Socialists won 123 seats in parliament, the most of any party but still far short of the 176 needed for an absolute majority. He has been trying to broker an agreement with the anti-austerity party Podemos for its deputies to support him in the vote and has appealed to the conservative People’s Party and the liberals of Ciudadanos to abstain to let him govern.

So far, Podemos has refused to declare its support in the face of

Sanchez’s refusal to name figures from the anti-establishment party to ministerial posts. The PP and Ciudadanos are still insisting they will vote against him.

If Sanchez can’t win this round, he may be forced to rely on the Catalan pro-independence party ERC, with 15 seats, to ensure he can govern.

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CALENDAR Thursday, July 4 n Catskill Town Offices closed in ob-

servance of Independence Day n Coxsackie Town Offices closed in observance of Independence Day n Coxsackie Village Offices closed in observance of Independence Day n Greene County Office Building closed in observance of Independence Day

Monday, July 8 n Catskill Village Planning Board 7

p.m. at Catskill Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill n Greene County Legislature health services, county resources, public safety and county services 6 p.m. at the Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., 4th Floor, Room 469, Catskill n Greenville CSD BOE reorganizational meeting 6:30 p.m. followed by business meeting MS/HS Library, 4976 SR 81, Greenville

Tuesday, July 9 n Cairo Town Democratic Commit-

tee caucus 6 p.m. at Cairo Library Community Room, 15 Railroad Ave., Cairo n Catskill Town Planning Board with public hearing 7 p.m. Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill n Coxsackie Town Board 7 p.m. at Town Hall, 56 Bailey St., Coxsackie n Coxsackie Village Board 7 p.m.

Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie n Coxsackie Village Historic Preservation Committee 6 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

Catskill Mountain Foundation among recipients of the GCCA 2019 Greene County Initiative Program Grants HUNTER - The Catskill Mountain Foundation (CMF) is one of 13 recipients of grants under the Greene County Initiative Program (CIP). Executive Director of the Greene County Council on the Arts (GCCA) Marline Martin made the announcement and presentations during a meet and greet reception hosted by the Catskill Mountain Foundation at the Kaaterskill Fine Arts Gallery in Hunter Village Square.

Kaaterskill Gallery Director Robert Tomlinson in introducing Martin told the gathering that the Foundation was pleased and honored to provide a home on the mountaintop for presenting the annual CIP awards. “We are grateful to the County Legislators, County Administrator and members of the Chamber of Commerce for attending this wonderful event.

It was great to see so many members of the arts community gathered in Hunter!”

The GCCA Executive Director who has been at the

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Catskill Mountain Foundation Program Director Pam Weisberg accepts the award letter and grant from Matt Luvera, Greene County Legislator.

helm of the organization for almost a year noted that 15 cultural institutions applied for funding, 11 returning and 4 new applications, requesting a total of $60,263, which is $30,263 more than the amount of re-grant funds available. She told the capacity sized audience that

funding awards are competitive and are determined by a panel of artists, arts professionals, and community members.

This year, 13 not-for-profit organizations in Greene County were awarded $30,000 in funding in support of cultural programming and

activities for 2019 as part of the Greene County Initiative Program (CIP).

The purpose of the Greene County Initiative Program (CIP) is to provide general operating or programmatic support to major arts and cultural institutions in Greene County that offer quality professional

services and programs of benefit to the residents of Greene County. Since its establishment in 1983, the Council has continued to administer the funds which is made possible through invaluable support from the Greene County Legislature. This funding promotes the development, growth and viability of major Greene County organizations that are producing a positive impact on the state of the arts and quality of life in Greene County.

Other recipients include: 23Arts Initiative; ADI, now LUMBERYARD Center for Film & Performing Arts; Bridge Street Theatre, Inc.; Bronck Museum, Greene County Historical Society; Catskill Community Center; MJQuill Irish Cultural & Sports Centre; Music & Art Center of Greene County; Planet Arts Inc.; Prattsville Art Center; Stephen Petronio Dance Company, Inc.; The Thomas Cole National Historic Site and Wave Farm.

Wednesday, July 10 n Athens Village Board 6:30 p.m. at

Village Hall, 2 First St., Athens n Catskill Town Zoning Board public hearings 6 p.m. Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill n Catskill Village Board 7 p.m. at the Senior Center, Academy Street, Catskill

Thursday, July 11 n Cairo Town Planning Board 7 p.m.

at the Town Hall, 512 Main St., Cairo n Coxsackie-Athens Central School District BOE public hearing 6:25 p.m.; meeting 6:30 p.m. in the High School Library, 24 Sunset Blvd., Coxsackie n Greene County Legislature finance audit 4 p.m. at the Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., 4th Floor, Room 469, Catskill n Greene County Legislature CWSSI panel meeting at the Emergency Services Building, Cairo

Monday, July 15 n Athens Town Board 6:45 p.m. at

the Town Hall, 2 First St., Athens n Greene County Legislature public works, economic development and tourism, Gov. Ops., finance and Rep. and Dem. caucus 6 p.m. at the Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., 4th Floor, Room 469, Catskill

Tuesday, July 16 n Athens Village Planning Board

6:30 p.m. at Village Hall, 2 First St., Athens

Wednesday, July 17 n Catskill Town Board committee

meeting with public hearing 6:30 p.m.

Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill n Greene County Legislature CDBG program applications 6:20 p.m.; public hearing progress of GC CDBG program 6:25 p.m.; regular legislature meeting No. 7 6:30 p.m. at the Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill

Thursday, July 18 n Coxsackie Village Planning Board

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

Tuesday, July 23

Safe Sitter program for adolescents HUDSON — The Safe Sitter Program, a program for youth 11-14 will be held 8:45 a.m.-3:30 p.m. July 9 at the Extension Education Center, 479 Route 66, Hudson.

The Safe Sitter Program gives young adolescents the skills to provide safe, nurturing care for children and to respond appropriately to medical emergencies.

It also teaches introductory employment skills and important life skills. Topics that are covered include Babysitting as a Business, Success on the Job, Child Care Essentials, Safety for the Sitter, Injury Management, Preventing Problem Behavior, Care of Choking Infant and Care of Choking Child.

Participants will also have hands-on manikin practice of rescue skills and participate in small group interactive learning, role-playing and games to enhance the discussion topics.

Those wishing to partici-

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pate should register early as there are limited spots.

Send a check for the fee of $60 to CCE of Columbia and Greene Counties, 479 Route 66, Hudson, NY 12534.

Include the name, address, phone number and age of the participant as well as the date of the program; or, register online and pay by credit card https://reg. cce.cornell.edu/SafeSitterJuly2019_210.

The registration deadline is July 3.

The fee must be paid before the day of the program or the individual is not enrolled.

When the fee is received a registration packet will be sent to the participant to complete and bring to the session.

The fee is all inclusive but the participants should bring a bag lunch.

For information, contact Cornell Cooperative Extension of Columbia and Greene Counties at 518318-1210.

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County quick-pitches jail construction In the Greene County version of the nohuddle offense, officials started construction of the new jail this week without stopping for a groundbreaking ceremony, some speeches or even a few thank-yous to everyone who made this boondoggle possible. No, it was get in and start building, public be damned and not a word to anyone. County officials couldn’t even deliver the hype they themselves created.

Under recent criminal justice reforms, the jail’s bed count was dropped to 48, with a projected cost savings of $3.5 million. County lawmakers will now have to decide whether to cut expenses from the $8.1 million county contribution or from the $39 million U.S. Department of Agriculture bond. Either way, the downward trend of inmate populations across the state should have led to one conclusion and one only: Stop this ridiculously expensive project.

By another trick of fate, one of many that seem to have gone the county’s way through this entire process, the village of Coxsackie is about to embark on a parallel project that will expand the capacity of its wastewater treatment plant in about two years, just in time to handle the extra load from the new jail.

Now, improvement to the plant, built in 1972, is long overdue and would have gone forward without the jail. The last upgrade took place more than 20 years ago. The increased capacity will eliminate the need for

overflows, meaning no more raw sewage will flow into the Hudson River. By that measure, it’s a boon to Coxsackie and a coincidence.

But as jail construction begins, Greene County taxpayers should be disheartened.

This could turn out to be the biggest waste of resources in county history. In two years, inmate population patterns could change so dramatically that the vaunted, much-anticipated county jail could be obsolete before the key opens the door.

A shared jail appeared to be the answer, but the county, in its haste to get the shovels into the ground, outran several assemblymen and senators who got behind a bill to clarify the legality of shared jails. We think such a bill would have passed, given Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s statewide policy calling for sharing municipal services wherever possible.

The Greene County Legislature somehow managed to pursue only an expensive, possibly needless, venture while the majority revealed little imagination or interest in pursuing attainable, less-costly options.

A majority of the county Legislature dismissed a $30,000 shared-jail feasibility study, turned a deaf ear to viable alternatives and essentially defied the will of the public. Will Greene County’s new jail open with a bang or, like the start of construction, a whimper?

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Trump’s Fourth of July plans just keep getting worse (c) 2019, The Washington Post ·

The editorial page in recent weeks has been graced with letters from readers recounting their memories of gathering on the Mall and watching the fireworks on the Fourth of July. Claire O’Dwyer Randall remembered her father driving her family in a 1939 DeSoto sedan “as close as we can get” to the Mall. Mary Resnick wrote about “our” special spot on the steps of the reflecting pool, surrounded by tens of thousands of “our best friends.”Carol Cavanaugh explained how the celebration was her annual reminder of the United States as glorious melting pot.

The letters were written in response to President Donald Trump taking direct control of plans for the country’s premier Independence Day festivities; the writers were worried that a day traditionally set aside for Americans to come

together for simple love of country was in danger of being co-opted and usurped. Judging by the latest revelations of the president’s plans, they were right to worry. The order of the day as ordained by Trump will not be patriotism but instead personality and politics.

It was bad enough that Trump sought to make the holiday about himself with plans to deliver a nationally televised address from the Lincoln Memorial, thus eliminating what many consider the hands-down best spot in Washington for fellowship and fireworks on the Fourth of July. But Trump now plans to cordon off an area in front of the memorial reserved just for dignitaries, family and friends. Nothing about reserved seating says “We the people.”

Equally, if not more troubling, is his insistence on a display of military might that will include a

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Administration officials say the celebration will be bigger and better than before, with more music and a longer fireworks display.

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Megan Rapinoe and the U.S. women’s team take on Trump

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The day before the U.S. women’s soccer team took on France in a World Cup quarterfinal, President Donald Trump attacked his nation’s captain on Twitter. Trump had taken umbrage at a video that showed Megan Rapinoe, a purple-haired winger and the team’s co-captain, saying that she would not be “going to the f---ing White House” should the United States win its fourth World Cup later this month.

Because of the remarks, Trump accused Rapinoe of showing “disrespect” to the country, the White House and even the American flag. The president, who is hardly bashful about his own imagined successes, also lectured Rapinoe on “finishing the job” before deciding whether to turn down a triumphal White House visit. (For good measure, he said he would invite the women’s team, even in defeat.)

Rapinoe, 34, first let her feet do the talking, scoring two goals that led the United States to victory over the tournament’s hosts and to a Tuesday semifinal against England. Then she told reporters that she was not backing down from her stance.

“I stand by the comments that I made about not wanting to go to the White House, with the exception of the expletive.

My mom will be very upset about that,” Rapinoe said. She added that she would “encourage” her teammates to decide for themselves whether it’s worth being “co-opted by an administration that doesn’t feel the same way and doesn’t fight for same things that we fight for.” From all accounts, her teammates are fully behind her.

Jill Ellis, the national team’s coach, even suggested that Trump’s scolding added fuel to Rapinoe’s fire. “You can hear it in her comments and how she presents herself. She’s a very experienced, eloquent person,” said Ellis. “I would . . . point to the performance tonight, and I’d say, if anything, this stuff just bounces off her; I think it even pushes her forward.”

The women’s game has taken significant strides in recent years, but it’s still in the shadow of men’s soccer, which commands far greater attention and resources. (Of course, within the women’s game, the discrepancies between the support U.S. and European athletes receive and that on offer for women from poorer

countries are vast, too.) The best male players are global icons with lucrative sponsorship deals and huge entourages of public relations managers and brand representatives. Superstars such as Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo may appear on billboards in every corner of the planet, but their public utterances are almost always dull and safe.

That’s why Rapinoe, an undisputed champion of her sport, stands apart. She came out in 2012 as a gay athlete. She also became the first white professional athlete in the United States to support former National Football League quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s protest of racism and police brutality. At a game in 2016, she followed Kaepernick’s lead and knelt during the rendition of the national anthem. It’s a protest that spooked U.S. soccer authorities, which later mandated standing during the anthem. Rapinoe obliged, but she remains tight-lipped as it’s performed, her silence representing another act of dissent.

In May, she told reporters that she sees herself as a “walking protest when it comes to the Trump administration,” whose positions on LGBTQ rights and immigration she rejects. While she scoffed at the idea of visiting Trump, she accepted an invite to the House of Representatives from leftist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. “This is who Rapinoe is, a walking example of intersectionality - not one aspect of her identity defines her,” Amy Bass wrote for CNN. “She is an outspoken LGBTQ+ advocate. An outspoken advocate for racial justice and gender equity. That doesn’t change the moment she dons the uniform and takes to the pitch.”

In fact, it seems to define her. Franklin Foer, a journalist for the Atlantic and a soccer aficionado, branded Rapinoe the Muhammad Ali of her generation. “Like her pugilistic forerunner, with whom she shares sly humor and irresistible swagger, the star player on the U.S. women’s national soccer team has evolved into a hero of resistance,” Foer wrote.

“Through her example, Rapinoe has instructed the world on how to play soccer and how to dissent. Her genius is that her political commitments, her public persona, and her playing style are one and the same.

In every realm, she is fearlessly open, outrageously joyous, and unabashedly true to herself.”

Rapinoe’s support for Kaepernick probably shadowed Trump’s reaction to her last week. In a bid to stir his base, the president has whipped up an inordinate amount of fuss about a black player protesting during the national anthem.

Trump pointed in his tweets to his administration’s efforts to achieve criminal justice change and lower black unemployment. Other Trump supporters bashed the U.S. forward’s insistence on publicizing her politics while representing her country.

Yet Rapinoe is hardly the first athlete to use her platform for her beliefs. “There are those who rebuke Rapinoe, arguing sports and politics shouldn’t mix, but the two have always been inextricable. For better or worse, there are few bigger stages than an international sporting event to make a political statement,” wrote New York Times sports columnist Jere Longman. “That has especially held true at the Olympics, from the Black Power salutes of the Mexico City Games; to the 1972 massacre of 11 Israeli athletes and coaches by Palestinian terrorists in Munich, Germany; to the United States boycott of the 1980 Moscow Games in protest of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.”

For Rapinoe and the U.S. women’s team, the battle off the field is not just about Trump. Before the start of the tournament, Rapinoe and her colleagues lodged a classaction gender discrimination lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation, arguing that they receive inferior wages and investment in their game despite doing similar work and commanding possibly an even greater television audience.

“They play the game as a form of incursion, as a battle for female sovereignty, and so the stakes have always been higher for them than just the final score,” wrote Washington Post columnist Sally Jenkins. “This creates chronic pressure to perform at the highest level, and they deal with and even welcome that pressure as a valuable trial in its own right.” At the head of the pack in this fight is none other than Rapinoe.

Tharoor writes about foreign affairs for The Washington Post. He previously was a senior editor and correspondent at Time magazine, based first in Hong Kong and later in New York.

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Fair managers urged to end sale of destructive merchandise To the editor: Each year, the managers of the Altamont County Fair put a tremendous amount of time and energy into creating a fun-filled family event. But as this summer’s fair approaches, we worry that the sale of certain items on its grounds may detract from their goal of building community.

In 2019, vendors at dozens of county fairs across New York State are still allowed to display and sell pro-slavery Confederate flags.

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If prohibited items such as pornography and alcohol aren’t permitted, neither

should white supremacy. In our increasingly divisive political climate, the county fair should be a place that brings all people together — not a forum for promoting hate.

At their next meeting, the fair managers ought to adopt a strong policy explicitly ending the sale of such destructive merchandise at this important community event.

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William T. Snyder William T. Snyder, 90, of Kinderhook, died Monday, July 1, 2019 at his home surrounded by his family.

Born October 27, 1928 in Hudson, he was the son of the late Roland Chauncy and Clara (Knickerbocker) Snyder. Mr. Snyder served with the US Army during the Korean War and was a Charter Member of the Kinderhook Sportsman Club and a member of the former Clapp/ Novak American Legion Post in Kinderhook. He was an avid fisherman, hunter and New York Yankees fan. He is survived by 4 Children, Mary Cook of Kinderhook and William J. “Brud” Snyder (Jeanette) both of Kinderhook; Barbara Snyder and Peggy Geyer (Rick) both of Lake

Ridge, VA; three grandchildren, Sarah and Jamie Cook, Johnathan Snyder and his cat Sweetie. He was predeceased by his wife Mary Anne (McComb) Snyder and a brother, Edson Snyder.

Funeral services will be held 2:00 pm on Saturday, July 6, 2019 at the Kinderhook Reformed Church, Route 9, Kinderhook with Rev. Rudy Visser officiating. Calling hours will be held Friday, July 5 from 6-8pm at the Raymond E Bond Funeral Home, Valatie. Burial will follow in Kinderhook Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to The Community Hospice of Columbia / Greene, 47 Liberty Street, Catskill, NY 12414.

Reluctant Mueller is Democrats’ best shot to revive their Trump investigations Billy House Bloomberg

Robert Mueller will appear grudgingly before House committees this month, but the former special prosecutor’s testimony is the best chance Democrats have to revive their stymied probes of President Donald Trump.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s resistance to a politically risky impeachment inquiry leaves six committees pursuing Trump-related inquiries without a clear mission. And a White House order that current and former officials refuse to testify, or limit their testimony, has deprived Democrats of big-name witnesses.

It’s a predicament that has left lawmakers frustrated and has driven some to sarcasm.

“As we speak, I have three people in the basement training on how to work the rack,” said Rep. Gerald Connolly of Virginia. “And I’ve got another team that is expert, I am told, at pulling off fingernails.” at a morning session of the Judiciary Committee and an afternoon meeting of the Intelligence Committee. Yet Mueller, who agreed to show up under subpoena, has made clear that he has no intention of going beyond the report he issued in April on his 22-month probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler of New York said Mueller’s testimony could have “a profound impact,” simply if he gets the American public to focus on what he said in his 448-page report. Mueller said he couldn’t conclude whether Trump’s campaign conspired in Russia’s election meddling - and that he couldn’t exonerate Trump from attempting to obstruct his probe.

“It’s a big deal. But it also could be a big letdown,” Samuel Everett Dewey, a former congressional lawyer who led investigations in key committees in both the House and Senate, said of Mueller’s testimony.

Dewey said the high-profile event would backfire for Democrats if it becomes another in a series of anti-climactic episodes in their probes.

Promises of public hearings have vaporized into canceled testimony and empty witness chairs, or acquiescence to closed-door interviews with ground rules set by the administration.

Lawmakers will break for a six-week summer recess from Washington a week after Mueller testifies. If they find the public’s takeaway from Mueller’s appearance when they go home to their districts is “OK, nothing new here,”

Dewey said, lawmakers could find dwindling inspiration to push toward impeachment.

Democrats are whiffing badly in their Trump investigations, said Representative Mark Meadows of North Carolina, and Mueller isn’t likely to help them. He said Republicans are prepared to crossexamine him on the “flaws” in his report. The Republicans back Trump’s assertions that the Russia probe was tainted by anti-Trump bias and government “spying” from the beginning.

“For two years they claimed collusion — strike one. For months they have twisted a no-indictment report into an obstruction case of a crime that didn’t exist — strike two,” Meadows said. “Now they believe a TV hearing will help them recover from hype that has left so many underwhelmed. It will be strike three with no batters on deck.”

After winning control of the House in the November midterm elections, Democrats entered this year holding the gavels of the six key investigative committees. They promised to use their subpoena powers to make alleged abuses by Trump their top oversight priority. They hit the administration with a dragnet of demands, vowing to obtain Trump’s tax returns and other material, and all relevant testimony.

But with the prospect of an impeachment inquiry put off to the side by Pelosi, there’s been no master plan and no end game. Democrats have pursued scattered issues, from the administration’s bid to add a citizenship question to the U.S. Census to allegations that Kellyanne Conway, the president’s counselor, violated the Hatch Act by issuing partisan broadsides on the public payroll.

The Committee on Oversight and Reform last month did find Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in civil contempt of Congress in the census dispute. But Democrats have yet to go to court to follow through on that case.

Neither have they done so on the administration’s broad assertion of executive privilege to prevent testimony by officials such as former White House Counsel Don McGahn, who was a key source for Mueller’s account of potential obstruction by Trump.

“I think if we did an impeachment inquiry, you’d have to start by September,” said Budget Committee Chairman John Yarmuth of Kentucky. “You don’t want to start it when the primaries are going on.”

West African nations plan to hike cocoa prices, citing ‘injustice’ in chocolate industry Peter Whoriskey The Washington Post

While the global chocolate industry takes in an estimated $100 billion annually, many of the hundreds of thousands of West African cocoa farmers, who provide most of chocolate’s key ingredient, live in poverty.

This imbalance amounts to a “manifest injustice,” Ghanaian President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo said last month.

Now the world’s leading cocoa producers, Ghana and Ivory Coast, are joining together in an attempt to raise the commodity’s price, a move government officials say will boost farmer incomes, reduce the incidence of child labor and give West African farmers a more equitable cut of global chocolate profits.

“We will not continue to be victims or pawns of the global cocoa industry that is dependent on the work of our farmers,” Akufo-Addo said at a state dinner after the proposal was announced.

Quickly dubbed “cocoapec” after the OPEC cartel established by oil-producing countries, the controversial plan is expected to be the subject of a meeting Wednesday between industry representatives and political officials.

As a start, the two-country cartel would set the minimum price for a ton of cocoa at $2,600, roughly 10 percent above the world price at the time of the announcement. In announcing the proposal last month, the countries, which produce about 60 percent of the world’s cocoa supply, said they were suspending cocoa sales “for the time being.”

“The goal is to protect producers and their families from the various fluctuations in cocoa prices,” Benjamin Walker, of Ivory Coast government’s cocoa board, said by email to The Washington Post. As for curbing child labor on cocoa farms, “this can only be positive as everyone recognizes that one of the causes of this phenomenon is poverty. Partly because of poverty, some parents find it difficult to send their children to school.”

Consumers would be unlikely to notice a significant change in the cost of a chocolate bar - cocoa is just one of several ingredients - but the

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Children from Burkina Faso working on a cocoa farm share water scooped from a nearby pond during a break on March 13, 2019, near Bonoua, Cote d’Ivoire.

world’s chocolate companies have responded cautiously to the proposal.

The industry has repeatedly faced criticism stemming from its West African cocoa supply: While global profits are in the billions, cocoa production in West Africa has been blamed for impoverishing cocoa farmers, relying on widespread child labor and, in part, the deforestation of millions of acres.

The typical farm family makes as little as $2,400 annually and according to a 2015 U.S. Labor Department report, more than 2 million children were engaged in dangerous labor in West African cocoa-growing regions.

While most of the child laborers on West African cocoa farms are working on family plots, thousands are believed to have been trafficked from other African countries.

Washington Post journalists spoke with a dozen such children during a trip in March.

Exactly how the governments’ proposed cocoa price floor would alleviate farmer poverty, however, is unclear.

In Ghana and Ivory Coast, the cocoa harvest is highly regulated and critical to the economy: In Ghana, a government board sets the price and then sells the cocoa to exporters, typically at higher prices. In Ivory Coast, cocoa exports are heavily taxed.

In sketching out the proposal last month, the government did not disclose how much of the higher price would go to farmers. Nor did the presentation discuss how the countries would prevent the higher price from spurring surpluses and more deforestation, which already has

spread into national parks.

“Hershey has long supported programs and initiatives that improve the livelihoods of farmers,” Hershey spokesman Jeff Beckman said by email. “So we look forward to seeing more substantive details on these proposals before commenting on the plans.”

“We support moves by governments to intervene to achieve a higher price so long as this results in a sustainable increase paid to the farmer and is supported with governance to ensure there is no further expansion of land use to grow cocoa,” Mars said in a statement.

Groups seeking to eradicate child labor on West African cocoa farms praised the move, noting that the price hike could reduce the economic desperation that leads to child labor.

While the proposed price increase is too small to eliminate farmer poverty, the modesty of the price increase means that the world’s cocoa buyers are less likely to turn to other sources for cocoa.

“The $2,600 per ton they have proposed is not a strange number - they were paying that a few years ago,” said Antonie Fountain, managing director of the Voice Network, an umbrella group seeking to end child labor in the cocoa industry. “It won’t break the bank.”

At a presentation on the proposal last month, the governments presented a chart showing industry profits ranging between $10 billion and $20 billion annually, despite dips in the cocoa price.

Exactly how much farmer incomes would have to rise to

Your diamond ring now comes with a resume and passport Yuliya Fedorinova, Thomas Biesheuvel Bloomberg

Ever wondered where that sparkly stone on your finger was dug up? Who polished it and where? The world’s top diamond producer wants to answer all your questions.

Russia’s Alrosa PJSC is rolling out a program that will allow jewelry buyers to track their diamond’s history in detail, using an identity number and electronic and video passports, as part of efforts to boost demand for the company’s products and appeal to younger customers. Alrosa has selected an initial 2,000 polished diamonds for the program, head of sales Evgeny Agureev told reporters in Moscow.

Diamond miners and retailers around the world are trying to develop new ways to reassure consumers that the stones they sell are free from many of the negative associations that have haunted the industry for so long. The industry is also grappling with softer demand for rough diamonds.

Last year, De Beers unveiled a blockchain system to track diamonds through their long and obscure journey from mine to jewelry shop. Tiffany & Co. said earlier this year it will begin sharing the provenance of its diamonds with consumers in an effort to be more transparent, saying the

region or country of origin will be displayed alongside a selection of diamond rings it sells.

In Alrosa’s program, each stone will have an ID that will enable buyers to track its history on a website. The electronic passport will include the region where the stone was mined, how big it was before polishing, the name of the person who cut it and even his or her job experience.

Alrosa, which is the biggest diamond miner on a carat basis, will start offering the feature to

customers of its own polishing unit and has discussed the option with three polishing clients, including in the U.S. and China, Agureev said.

Global demand for rough diamonds has faltered this year as buyers who cut, polish and trade the stones struggle to make a profit at current prices.

De Beers said earlier this week its latest sales were 33 percent lower than a year earlier, and Alrosa is experiencing similar challenges, said Agureev.

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eliminate child labor on cocoa farms has been a matter of debate. A few small companies have raised the prices they pay for cocoa by as much as 40 percent.

An academic analysis published last month found that raising the prices paid to farmers by 12 percent could eliminate the worst forms of child labor in Ghana.

Jeff Luckstead, a University of Arkansas professor and coauthor of the analysis, said that the 12 percent increase would not eliminate poverty but that it would be enough to compensate a farmer for the loss of child labor.

“You can’t just tell people to reduce child labor because that will just force them deeper into poverty,” Luckstead said. “Raising prices would be an inducement to give up child labor.”

What might be the biggest challenge to the cocoa cartel, however, might simply be the forces of world economics.

While OPEC, the oil cartel, has had success, several other commodity cartels — including those for tin and coffee — began with high hopes but struggled after the higher prices led to more competition.

Farmers, meanwhile, have offered varying opinions on the proposal. While farmers generally favor raising prices, at least one farmers group would prefer that the governments get out of the cocoa business — and stop acting as an intermediary between cocoa farmers and the world market. Warren Sako, secretary general of a group called the World Cocoa Farmers Organization said his group would prefer to be able to negotiate directly with world markets.

“Why should the government set the price?” Sako said. “Cocoa is produced by millions of individuals, independent cocoa farmers. The government should not be setting prices for which they do not grow.”

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Happy Fourth of July! God bless America!

Carol and Skeet Constable and Annie and Wayne Thompson enjoyed a day at Turning Stone on June 27. It was a special day – Carol and Skeet’s 55th wedding anniversary. On the way home they stopped in Windham for dinner. A very nice day for them all.

Joan Charysyn celebrates her birthday on July 4. Also celebrating a birthday on July 4 is Amelia Osborn. July 7 is Emily Grinnell’s birthday.

Happy birthday to Bonnie Blader on July 8. July 10 is Alfred Truesdell’s birthday.

Happy anniversary to Ginny and Bob Gurley on July 10.

Best wishes to all.

Lexington Farmers Market will be held 10 a.m.-noon July 6 under the pavilion at the Lexington Municipal Building, 3542 Route 42.

The West Kill/Lexington Community Improvement Association’s annual chicken barbecue will be held July 6 at the Community Hall, 141 Spruceton Road, West Kill.

Takeouts will be available at 4:30 p.m. and dining hall service from 5–7 p.m. An adult dinner costs $12 and includes half a barbecued chicken, potato salad, coleslaw, baked beans, brownie or cookie for dessert. Children’s chicken leg dinners are $5 (ages 6–12) and children under 5 years are free. A chicken half with no sides is $8. Be sure to stop and enjoy a delicious dinner,

FROM THE 1933 CATSKILL RECORDER Service as usual at the Methodist Church next Sunday, with the Rev. Ralph Bates in charge and with special music. The sermon theme will be “Friendship.”

Prayer meeting every Thursday at 8 o’clock. Mr. Bates expects soon to start classes for young people, in preparation for church membership. It is hoped that there will be a good attendance at these meetings, which will help to increase the congregation.

The Rip Van Winkle Players open the season at the Wauwanda on July 11.

W.W. Smith and M. Jackson have opened the Lox Hurst garage tea-room.

JULY 17, 1933 TANNERSVILLE WHAT HAPPENED TO JUSTICE? Jack “Legs” Diamond, notorious gangster and troublemaker for Greene County, has once again eluded the clutches of the law which sought to place him behind the bars. Shortly after 8 o’clock on Tuesday evening, in the Troy Court room, he heard the jury render a verdict of “Not guilty” that set him free from the charges of beating, burning and torturing Grover Parks, Cairo truckman. While Diamond is quoted as “expecting” such a verdict, the news nevertheless created quite a stir in this vicinity as well as throughout the state, and many law-abiding citizens consider It a miscarriage of Justice.

Diamond and his counsel based his defense on the establishment of an alibi that he (Diamond) was in Albany on the night in question and produced numerous employ-

Jack ‘Legs’ Diamond.

ees of the Kenmore Hotel In Albany to so testify. In rebuttal the state managed to tangle up one of the Diamond witnesses who was so emphatic in stating he saw Diamond on the night in question and went further with proof of Diamond’s presence in this vicinity. Albert W. Pierce , former Greene county sheriff, Walter Austin, band leader, Albert Hoffman, member of the latter’s band, and others testified that they had seen Diamond on that night in Catskill and that one of them had shaken hands with him.

And with these witnesses went the testimony of Grover Parks, which was substantiated by James Duncan, that the truck they were driving was stopped

by Diamond’s gang , and on failure of Parks to tell where he

was taking a load of cider, he was tortured by hanging and the bottoms of his feet burned. Nevertheless, after all this testimony , the jury, after deliberating for three and a half hours, announced that they found the defendant not guilty. Friends of Diamond were jubilant over the verdict, turning the courtroom into a turmoil with shouting and applauding and hastened to shake his hand.

Thanks for reading. Any comments or suggestions please call 518-589-4130, or email Hunterhistorian@gmail.com.

Until next week, take care, be thankful & be kind. You never know how your act of kindness may change someone’s life.

Let’s not forget the Korean War veterans

By Abby and Gabby For Columbia-Greene Media

PRATTSVILLE - Summer heat is here and no complaining. This is the weather we hoped for during the winter.

With the heat and rain everything is growing.

“Feel better” wishes go out to Fritzie of Traphagen Honey Farm. We wish her the best. While mentioning Traphagen Honey Farm, stop by there for some really interesting tidbits and unique condiments, as well as their honeys and jams. They also have specialty cheeses. Fritzie does a bang-up job with the prize baskets for the Greene County Women’s League’s annual luncheon. All proceeds go to assist Greene County cancer patients. Donations in the form of raffle tickets, luncheon attendance or out and out $$ donations are always welcome.

Heard from Glen and Linda Bellomy in Lakeland, Florida.

They were happy at the last home, but the location and beauty of this new home just stole their hearts and they still have all their friends and neighbors, who they enjoy so much. Linda’s mom Lunetta Hill turns 92 on July 6. She is doing great at the Grand Villa in Lakeland. She is so active they have to make an appointment to see her. Lunetta is a Villa ambassador to assist

committee and coordinates all the Villa community residents signing cards for birthdays, get well, etc. She and best friend Betty spend their free time doing beautiful puzzles which they frame and sell for recreational funds at the Villa.

She does miss her Prattsville hometown and friends.

It seemed to be Prattsville Night, June 27, at The 1805 Tavern. The Zadock Pratt Museum Board was meeting there. Attending were Susie Walsh, Carolyn Bennett, Janelle Maurer, Debbie Sutch, Harvey Truesdell and John Young. Also there taking in their annual June birthday outing were Marianne and Johannes Krauss (the 26th) and Bob (the 7th) and Ginny Gurley (the 28th).

Ken Smith of Windham, Korean War combat veteran and recipient of the Purple Heart, delivered candy for his fellow veterans at the Stratton VAMC, Albany. He has a friend who buys the candy on a monthly basis for the veterans to let them know they are remembered and thanked. Ken visited the Korean War Memorial in Washington D.C. on one of the Patriot Honor Flights and he said it brought him to his knees when he saw that one of the depicted soldiers was carrying a BAR. This is what Ken carried into battle in Korea. He still has shrapnel embedded

from passing through metal detectors at the airports. Ken passed through some field hospitals and wouldn’t it be something if he was helped by the MASH unit Bob Gurley served in? Please do not let Korean War veterans like Ken be forgotten or, perhaps, it should be said overlooked.

The Korean War is referred to as the “Forgotten War.” Ken’s wife Marie said they returned silently and were met with silence. How sad is that? “The opposite of love is not hate but indifference.” If you served in the Korean War, in Korea or elsewhere, and would like to share some of your stories with readers of The Scoop, or just some personal facts of your service, call 518-299-3219 or gurleyrv@gmail.com. Want you to get the recognition you so rightly deserve.

Happy birthday to Donnie Lane and, in Florida, Lunetta Hill on July 6. On July 9 we wish Marine Poolie Nick Cross (Stella and Val’s great grandson) a happy birthday.

And guess who gets a special happy birthday on July 10? Sophia Baker. July 11 it is happy birthday to Becky Sutton Hoyt.

Happy anniversary to Jim and Chrissy Thorington on July 9.

Happy anniversary to Joan and Rudy Ehlers on July 12.

fellowship and see all the improvements that are being done with all the volunteer work and your donations for the rehab projects at the Hall.

The West Kill Ladies Aid will hold a bake sale 10 a.m.noon July 6 at the Lexington Farmers Market.

The Town of Lexington Fire Company Ladies Auxiliary does not meet in July. There is no Ecumenical Meeting in the month of July. Greene County Public Health has no rabies clinic in July.

Sunday worship services will be held in the Methodist Church in West Kill on July 14, 21, 28 and Aug. 4, 11 and 18.

Services start at 9 a.m. except on July 28 when the combined service starts at 10 a.m.

Greene County Senior Nutrition Program menu for the week of July 8-July 12 is as follows: Monday—Sweet and sour pork, brown rice, broccoli, lemon pudding; Tuesday—Meatloaf with gravy, cauliflower, mashed sweet potatoes, ambrosia salad; Wednesday—National Blueberries Day—Roast turkey with gravy, French cut green beans almondine, mashed potatoes, blueberries in gelatin; Thursday—Farm to Table—Seafood salad plate, macaroni salad, fresh green salad, sliced tomatoes, fresh local fruit; Friday—Lemon chicken, fresh salad, Au gratin potatoes, California mixed vegetables, oatmeal cookies.

All persons 60 and older and spouses are invited to attend.

Meals served at noon for a suggested donation of $4 per

meal. Please call at least a day in advance to reserve your meal. Mountain Top Senior Service Center is located in the Jewett Municipal Building, Route 23C, 518-263-4392.

All are welcome to attend a presentation by Lenore Bush and daughter Debra, of Hope House Orphanage in Thailand, at 7 p.m. July 24 in the Lexington/West Kill UMC in Lexington.

Thunder in the Mountains Car Show – the 18th annual – will be held on the grounds of the Lexington Municipal Building from 9 a.m.-3 p.m., rain or shine, on July 27. Trophies, a Chinese auction, 50/50 raffle, food and beverages all make for a fun day.

Contact Mary at 518-9896813. All proceeds benefit the West Kill/Lexington Community Improvement Association.

Here is something coming up in August to mark on your calendars – Mountain Top Community Resource Day, sponsored by Greene County Department for Human Services, will be held 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Aug. 22 in the Mountain Top Library, 6093 Main St., Tannersville. Learn how area vendors can assist you. Lots of great info and giveaways.

Free admission. For more information, contact Ruth Jones Pforte at 518-719-3555.

Until next week take care, be thankful, be kind and don’t leave your pets unattended in a vehicle in the warm weather. Also, please remember hot pavement can burn the pads on their paws.

Hudson Valley Community College 2019 graduates TROY — Students recently completed the requirements for graduation from their academic degree or certificate programs at Hudson Valley Community College in Troy.

Local students include: Kathleen Barbato of Athens, Liam Connors of Climax, Jessica Dauenheimer of Hudson, Amanda Forste of Saugerties, Liam Gleason of East Durham, Ryan Mansey of Catskill, Kaitlyn Martell of Earlton, Carina Mau of Coxsackie, Nicholas Maurer of Athens, Sydney Meredith of West Coxsackie, Timothy Nguyen of Catskill, Liam O’Connor of Greenville, Roxanne Richards of Selkirk, Daniel Rivera of Saugerties, Jacob Schroader of Catskill, Kerri VanAusdle of Coxsackie, Nicole Breault

of Athens, Stephanie Dufkin of Coxsackie, Sean Greagan of Selkirk, Molly Gruss of Selkirk, Cora Horner of Coxsackie, Oscar Jukes of Selkirk, Kristyn King of Athens, Michael Lenz of Saugerties, Thomas Marra of Selkirk, Kasey Nobles of Cairo, Imara Smith of Selkirk, Derrick Therrien of Greenville, William Thomas of Selkirk, Kate Bagley of Coxsackie, Cassidy Bender of West Coxsackie, Mark Betzhold of Selkirk, Deborah Brannan of Catskill, Daniel Commisso of Selkirk, Carly Cross of Selkirk, Alyssa Deering of Catskill, William Ellis of Earlton, John Ferenczy of Coxsackie, Karly Forezzi of Selkirk, Logan Hart-Grasse of Selkirk, Ryan Holsopple of Catskill, Elijah Hyde of Selkirk, Grace Licalsi

of Saugerties, Collin Moore of Catskill, Jacob Morgan of Saugerties, Alec Myer of Saugerties, Matthew Nilsen of Saugerties, Steven Nobles of Cairo, Kara Perry of Selkirk, George Pooters of Leeds, Taylor Radcliffe of Saugerties, Taylor Remler of Athens, Mark Rodeo of Hannacroix, Markus Roth of Catskill, Laura Scheper of Greenville, Nicholas Schrowang of Catskill, Margaret Schwind of Selkirk, Stephanie Snyder of Greenville, Jillian Spinner of Cairo, Wahida Syeda of Hudson, Lauren Tompkins of Climax, Iliana Torres of Jewett, Abrielle Vincent of Greenville, Ashleigh Westervelt of Selkirk, Joseph Woelfersheim of Coxsackie, Logan Worth of Catskill.

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Dear Rusty: n I am 64 years old and my wife is 62. We both have good n paying careers. Our original plan was to wait until we each turned 70 before drawing our n Security benefits. But I Social was talking to a friend who is a very successful small businessn owner who told me that he started drawing his SS benefits at age 62. He puts the n funds in a mutual fund every month. He has “run the numbers” and he is convinced that he will come out ahead rather n than waiting to draw at age 70. I was shocked to hear this advice since I had never n any expert advocate heard this option before. What say you, Sir? Signed: Questioning My Plan

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GLOOR Dear Questioning: I, too, have “run the numbers” many times. Although Social Security will say that it makes no difference when you apply (they say you get the same in total benefits no matter which age you claim) with average longevity today being in the mid-80s (84 for men; 87 for women) that may not be true.

I have done numerous “break-even analyses” and

have found that if one claims at their full retirement age instead of at age 62, they will have collected the same amount of benefits at age 78 in either case. That means that by living longer than age 78, you will realize more in total cumulative lifetime Social Security benefits by waiting until your full retirement age to apply. Similarly, if you wait until age 70 to claim, you will break even (collect the same in total benefits) at age 82, and if you live beyond 82 you’ll get more in cumulative benefits by waiting. If you live well beyond those ages, the extra benefits can be very substantial.

I wonder if your friend included in his analysis how the “earnings test” affected his early benefits. If you are still working and you claim benefits before you reach your full retirement age, you’ll be

subject to Social Security’s “earnings limit” ($17,640 for 2019) which, if you exceed it, will cause Social Security to withhold benefits equal to $1 for every $2 you are over the limit. This applies to both you and your wife. The earnings limit doesn’t go away until your reach your full retirement age, so when contemplating whether to collect benefits before your full retirement age you should assess the amount of benefit loss you will incur if your earnings exceed the earnings limit. Although at your full retirement age (FRA) Social Security gives you time credit for any months you don’t received benefits because you exceeded the earnings limit, it will take you years to recover any withheld benefits because they only slightly increase your benefit at your FRA to compensate for with-

held benefits from overearning (you need to live long enough to recover those lost benefits).

And did your friend consider this: your surviving spouse will receive 100% of the benefit you are receiving at your death. If you claim before your full retirement age, your surviving spouse will get the reduced amount; if you wait until after your full retirement age to claim, your surviving spouse will get the full amount of your benefit increased by delayed retirement credits. Benefits are about 76% more at age 70 than they are at age 62.

Of course, the question of when to apply must always take into account your current financial needs, your current health and lifestyle, and your expected longevity (considering your family history). Whether to claim early

and invest those benefits or wait until later is a choice only you can make. But you should consider the above points and compare the guarantee of increasing your lifetime benefit amount by 6% to 8% for each year you wait to claim, against the interest or growth rate you might expect from investing in the securities market.

This article is intended for information purposes only and does not represent legal or financial guidance. It presents the opinions and interpretations of the AMAC Foundation’s staff, trained and accredited by the National Social Security Association (NSSA).

NSSA and the AMAC Foundation and its staff are not affiliated with or endorsed by the Social Security Administration or any other governmental entity. To submit a question, visit our website or email us.

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We want to hear from you. To send information to be included in Senior Briefs, email to editorin al@thedailymail.net; mail to The Daily Mail, Atten: Senior Briefs, One Hudson City Centre, Suite n 202, Hudson, NY 12534; fax to 518-828-3870. For information andnquestions, please call 518828-1616 ext. 2490. We would like to have information at least two nweeks in advance.

ATHENS SENIOR CITIZENS ATHENS — The Athens Senior n Citizens meet at 1:15 p.m. the second and fourth Monday of the n month at the Rivertown Senior Center, 39 Second St., Athens. n

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CAIRO — The Cairo Golden Agers meet at 1:30 p.m. the secn ond and fourth Wednesday of the month at the Acra Community Center, Route 23, Acra.

CATSKILL SILVER LININGS SENIORS CATSKILL — The Catskill n Silver Linings Seniors meet at 1 p.m. the second Thursday of the month at the Robert C. Antonelli Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill

COXSACKIE AREA SENIORS COXSACKIE — The Coxsackie Area Seniors meet at 1:30 p.m. the second and fourth Wednesday of the month in Van Heest Hall, Bethany Village, 800 Bethany Village, West Coxsackie.

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Landing Park in Catskill. Members are asked to bring food and beverages. This is a chance to relax and socialize with other members while enjoying a beautiful view of the Hudson River.

Transportation from the college to the park and back for those interested has been secured. For information, to reserve or to get a seat on the bus, call Barbara Raido at the ALI Office at 518828-4181 ext. 3431 or ali@sunycgcc.edu. Rain date will be July 18.

COMMUNITY RESOURCE DAY TANNERSVILLE — Mountain Top Community Resource Day will be held 11 a.m.-6 p.m.

Aug. 22 at the Mountain Top Library, 6093 Main St., Tannersville. Sponsored by the Greene County Department for Human Services RSVP. Stop in to learn how area vendors can assist you.

For information, call Ruth Jones Pforte at 518-719-3555.

OPEN HOUSE CATSKILL — Hearthstone Care, 1187 Route 23A, Catskill, will hold an open house 10 a.m.-2 p.m. July 24. Gather to celebrate the nation and honor parents with games, music and more.

MOVING FOR BETTER BALANCE ACRA — Moving for Better Balance will be held 10-11 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays through Aug. 27 at the Acra Community Center, Senior Nutrition Site, Old Route 23B, Acra. Class size is limited. Pre-registration is required and can be made by calling Toni Carroll, wellness coordinator at 518-731-7429.

COXSACKIE — The Senior Citizens of Coxsackie meet at 1:30 p.m. the first and third Monday of the month at the Coxsackie Senior Center, 127 Mansion St., Coxsackie.

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GROUPS Let Us Make Your Life COXSACKIE — A grief support GREENVILLE GOLDEN YEARS CLUB GREENVILLE — The Green- group will start meeting at 6 p.m. ville Golden Club meet at 1:30 the second and fourth Tuesdays p.m. the first Wednesday of the of each month at the Bethany month at the American Legion Village in Coxsackie. While the loss of a loved one is a common Hall, 54 Maple Ave., Greenville.

The trip to the San Gennaro source of grief other reasons inFeast is filling up. Only have 12 clude the loss of a job, the death more seats to fill, if interested of a beloved pet, experiencing a call Phyllis at 518-943-9028 must major health challenge such as cancer and the ending of a relabe paid for by July 17.

The picnic will be held July 17. tionship. Grief is a very personal Everything catered except bring and individual emotion. Support your own drinks and snacks. groups provide many benefits to Come at noon, eat at 1 p.m. Aug. those who are grieving. Those 7 meeting will be enjoying our who are experiencing grief early on can connect with others in ice cream after the meeting. the group who have successMOUNTAIN TOP GOLDEN AGERS fully managed their grief and TANNERSVILLE — The are further along on their road to Mountain Top Golden Agers feeling happy once again. More meet at 1:30 p.m. the fourth information can be found at Thursday of the month at Tan- the face book page at Coxsackie nersville Village Hall, 1 Park Grief Support Group and also by Lane, Tannersville. contacting Jeffrey Haas at 518478-5414 or jhaasrph@aol.com.

WAJPL GOLDEN AGERS HENSONVILLE — The WAJPL Golden Agers meet at 1:30 p.m. the first and third Monday of the month at Hensonville Town Building, 371 Route 296, Hensonville.

PICNIC CATSKILL — The Adult Learning Institute picnic for all members will be held 10:30 a.m.-

CATSKILL — The Alzheimer’s Association holds support group meetings at 3 p.m. the first Wednesday of the month at The Pines, Jefferson Heights, (518) 828-1616 Ext 2415 Catskill.

COXSACKIE — The Alzheimer’s Association holds support group meetings at 6 p.m. the

Heermance Memorial Library, 1 Ely St., Coxsackie.

CATSKILL — The Pines at Catskill and Columbia Memorial Health will host a Stroke Survivor and Caregiver monthly support group at 3 p.m. the second Wednesday of the month at The Pines at Catskill Center for Nursing & Rehabilitation, 154 Jefferson Heights, Catskill. For information, call 518-943-5151.

SHOPPING BUS CATSKILL — The Greene County Department of Human Services offers a shopping bus to Greene County residents 60 and older, living in the towns of Ashland, Athens, Cairo, Catskill, Coxsackie, Greenville, Hunter, Jewett, Prattsville and Windham. Seniors are picked up at their door, driven to Catskill for shopping and then have lunch at a local senior center before returning home. Special trips are scheduled periodically.

Monday: Mountain Top/ Catskill (Windham, Ashland, Prattsville, Jewett and Hunter).

Tuesday: Cairo/Greenville/ Catskill.

Wednesday: Athens/Coxsackie.

The Shopping Bus does not run on the following holidays: New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Presidents’ Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Election Day (November), Veterans Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas.

July 18 is the trip to Colonie Center. The cost is $10. Payment is due at time of departure/ boarding. Reservations must be made no later than 3 p.m. of the Wednesday before the trip.

HUDSON — The Greene & Columbia Counties Task Force for the Prevention & Education of Elder Abuse announces a series of informational fairs at local libraries and senior centers. Representatives from community agencies including Common Ground, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Columbia & Greene Counties, Depts. of Aging, Community Action, St Peter’s Health Partners Violence Prevention Educator, Albany Medical Center,

Health Care Consortium, and the Attorney General’s Office, elder law attorneys and other organizations will be available for questions. Free material will be available on ways to protect yourself and your loved ones against financial exploitation, fraud, bullying and other forms of abuse.

Attendance is free to the public. Free raffle drawings include $10 gift cards from Stewart’s Shops and other free favors from participant vendors.

The informational fairs will be held 10 a.m.-noon July 9 at the Robert C. Antonelli Sr. Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill; 1-3 p.m. July 17 at the Hudson Area Library, 51 North Fifth St., Hudson; 10 a.m.-noon July 23 at the Roeliff Jansen Community Library, 9091 Route 22, Hillsdale.

For information, call Common Ground at 518-943-0523 or email dwallant@commongroundinc.org.

Senior Menu CATSKILL — The following is the weekly nutrition menu offered by the Greene County Department of Human Services’ Senior Nutrition Program. Served daily with each meal are bread or alternative with Promise Spread; low fat milk, coffee or tea.

All persons 60 and older and their spouses are invited.

The suggested donation for each meal is $4.

The menu will be the meal that is delivered to all Greene County homebound meal clients. Those wishing to receive lunch at a center are asked to call the respective location at least a day in advance.

Rivertown Senior Center, 39 Second St., Athens; 518945-2700.

Acra Community Center, Old Route 23B, Cairo; 518622-9898.

Jewett Municipal Building, Route 23C, Jewett; 518-2634392.

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Catskill; 518-943-1343.

Town of Coxsackie Senior Center, Mansion Street, Coxsackie; 518-731-8901.

JULY 3 THROUGH JULY 10 WEDNESDAY: Barbecue chicken, cole slaw, hot beets, sweet potato, pears.

THURSDAY: Closed.

FRIDAY: Tuna salad plate, farm fresh greens, potato salad, farm fresh salad.

MONDAY: Sweet and sour pork, brown rice, broccoli, lemon pudding.

TUESDAY: Meatloaf with gravy, cauliflower, mashed sweet potatoes, ambrosia salad.

JULY 10 THROUGH JULY 17 WEDNESDAY: Roast turkey with gravy, French cut green beans almondine, mashed potatoes, blueberries in gelatin.

THURSDAY: Seafood salad plate, macaroni salad, green salad, sliced tomatoes, local farm fresh fruit.

fresh salad, au gratin potatoes, California mixed vegetables, oatmeal cookies.

MONDAY: Linguini with red clam sauce, spinach tapioca pudding.

TUESDAY: Chicken divan, green beans, mashed potatoes, tiramisu.

JULY 17 THROUGH JULY 24 WEDNESDAY: Pork chops with mushroom gravy, braised cabbage, sweet potatoes, peaches.

THURSDAY: Chef’s salad, marinated carrots, pineapple delight.

FRIDAY: Steelhead trout, brown rice pilaf, fresh salad, local farm fresh broccoli, fruited gelatin.

MONDAY: Broccoli and cheddar quiche, hash brown potatoes, California mixed vegetables, peaches.

TUESDAY: Hot dogs, pasta salad, sauerkraut, baked beans, mandarin oranges.

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cost of prescription drugs and introduced the Medicare-X Choice Act, which would create a public option and drive down health care costs by introducing competition.”

Claire Parde, executive director of the Healthcare Consortium, which covers Greene and Columbia counties, attended Monday’s committee meeting and said one of the top issues facing the Twin Counties is the lack of healthcare providers at all levels, from personal care assistants and home health aides to nurses and physicians.

“I am personally most concerned about the workforce,” Parde said. “That is my key concern at the moment because I believe workforce is probably one of the greatest limiting factors to delivery of services and if we don’t get a handle on workforce, we will begin to see services disappear. It’s a huge issue and it’s

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a business or a product will come to the tech center and we will help you bring that product to market or develop that business,” Seeley said. “This is going to set us apart from other communities in the Hudson Valley.”

By having a more tech-savvy community, Catskill will attract bigger technology businesses to the area, Seeley said.

“By not just knowing how to use the equipment but also knowing how to maintain it, that translates to a good-paying job,” Seeley said. “These are jobs that will be sustainable. We cannot ride this tourism wave forever.”

The technology center will be broken down into four components, the existing Catskill Maker Syndicate on West Bridge Street, a training center, STEAM

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Nevel said.

Nevel did not immediately know how many occupants were in the other vehicles.

Neu had serious injuries, Nevel said.

“She had a compound fracture in her left leg with heavy bleeding,” Nevel said. “She was not conscious or breathing.”

Troopers applied a tourniquet to Neu’s leg to stop the bleeding.

“Troopers, EMS personnel and Catskill Fire were instrumental in saving this woman’s life,” Nevel said.

No other injuries were re-

going to get worse before it gets better.”

The workforce problem is an issue in many areas of the country, “but the problem is particularly acute in rural areas,” Parde said.

Another issue facing rural hospitals in particular is the number of people with public insurance such as Medicare and Medicaid, she said.

“Many rural hospitals have a disproportionate share of public payers — they may have upwards of 70% of the population publicly insured and the rates are insufficient,” Parde said. “As a result, they have very low or even negative operating margins. The reimbursement rates from the public health insurance programs are insufficient to support costs.”

Obtaining federal funding for capital projects at hospitals is another issue that was discussed by the committee.

“Congressman Delgado signaled there is some hope for a bipartisan bill pertaining to infrastructure and so the participants in the advi-

sory council expressed their hope that hospitals could be included in the bill and be eligible for funding for capital improvements,” Parde said. “This is particularly true in New York state and in the Northeast — a lot of our health infrastructure, like hospitals, are aging and in desperate need of upgrades, but there is very little funding to support that.”

The opioid epidemic was another topic raised by committee members, who also shared some of the initiatives that have been implemented locally to battle the problem.

Jay Cahalan, president and CEO of Columbia Memorial Health, is a member of the advisory committee but did not attend Monday’s meeting.

Spokesman Bill Van Slyke said the goal is to work with Delgado on federal solutions to local problems.

“From our standpoint, it’s important for us to have a congressman develop federal solutions to some of the challenges that are specific to our area — access to primary care,

or science, technology, engineering, arts and math collaboration, and resources for businesses, Seeley said.

“We’re integrating arts and putting on an overlay of technology,” Seeley said.

Resident Richard Wagoner, who recently helped organize a festival to honor Rip Van Winkle and the village’s heritage, questioned the idea.

“I’ve heard rumor of this project and the push to move Catskill in the direction of becoming a tech-based community, and although I understand the need for area investment and jobs, I have doubts about the feasibility of Catskill becoming a tech hub,” Wagoner said.

Wagoner’s friends in the technology industry believe the area’s lack of reliable high-speed internet, faltering infrastructure, rising taxes and education standards would inhibit success of the project, he said.

“In my humble opinion, we’ve missed the tech train and shouldn’t run ourselves ragged chasing it, but there’s still time to jump on the hemp wagon while the ground is fertile and the market is prime,” Wagoner said.

Local author and illustrator Hudson Talbott said he believes the new direction will be beneficial to Catskill.

“It only adds to what Catskill is about, which is a great center of creativity,” he said. “Catskill is at a point right now of reimagining itself. We want to grow and develop a local economy here and this is a good way to do it that corresponds with what is going on everywhere.”

Talbott said he sees Catskill as a great pool of talent.

“This is a great way to capitalize on that and attract people to come to Catskill because of them [the makers],” he said.

ported, Nevel said.

Catskill Ambulance took Neu to a landing zone set up at the former Friar Tuck Inn, Nevel said. She was airlifted to Albany Medical Center.

Neu was initially listed in critical condition in the intensive care unit.

“As of yesterday, she is in stable condition after her surgery,” Nevel said.

Police will not be able to determine what caused Neu to lose control of her motorcycle until they are able to interview her, Nevel said.

On Monday, state police responded to a one-car accident on Route 23A around 2:43 p.m.

State police are investigating what caused Doris Sippola, 74, of Palenville, who had

been traveling west, to lose control of her vehicle.

“For unknown reasons she left the roadway and hit a rock embankment,” Nevel said.

Sippola’s 2000 Chevy HHR rolled at least once, coming to rest in the center of the road, Nevel said.

Catskill Fire Department had to use two sets of the Jaws of Life to extract Sippola from her vehicle, with another pair on standby, according to the department’s Facebook page.

Sippola was airlifted to Albany Medical Center.

“She remains at Albany Med in stable condition with some facial fractures,” Nevel said.

Catskill Ambulance and Catskill Police were also at the scene.

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Members of the Health Care Advisory Committee established by U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado, D-19, say a shortage of health care workers, from personal care assistants to physicians, is a key issue, particularly in rural areas.

access to specialty care,” Van Slyke said. “Those are areas where CMH is really focused.

We are hoping to influence policy to allow us to do more

and continue to allow people to have access to care close to home.”

Beth Schuster of Twin County Recovery Services is

also a member of the Health Care Advisory Committee but said she did not attend Monday’s meeting.

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The proposed technology center will incorporate the existing Catskill Maker Syndicate, Village President Vincent Seeley said.

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Hudson 9-10s advance in District 15 Tournament Columbia-Greene Media

HUDSON — The Hudson 9-10 year-old All-Star team certainly hasn’t had any problem scoring runs in this year’s District 15 Tournament.

Hudson eliminated Catskill from the tournament, 31-1, on Monday and has now scored a total of 81 runs in three games.

The game was stopped in the third inning because of the mercy rule.

Monday’s victory sets up a showdown with the lone undefeated team left in the tournament, Saugerties, on Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. in Hudson.

Hudson would need to defeat

Saugerties twice in order to win the District 15 title. Saugerties defeated Hudson, 18-17, in an opening round game this past Thursday.

Hudson collected 13 hits and took advantage of 18 walks and two hit batters in the win over Catskill. Mason Briscoe led the way with three singles and five RBI. Amarion Perry added an inside-the-park home run and four RBI, Matt Plaia had three singles and three RBI, Evan Conte contributed two singles and four RBI, Darren Weaver and Tyler Sheldon both had two singles and three RBI, , Ryan Munro had two RBI and Joseph Simmons, Elijah Walk-

er and Ryan DeGraff all had an RBI. Leo Gottesman had a single and an RBI for Catskill. Lucas Paquette added a single.

Sheldon started on the mound for Hudson and finished with four strikeouts and one walk while allowing one run and two hits in 1 2/3 innings. Weaver pitched the 1 1/3 innings, striking out three and walking one.

Carter Colon, Jackson Davies, Logan Maccaline and Sawyer Bulich all had a turn on the mound for Catskill, combining for three strikeouts and 18 walks while surrendering 31 runs and 13 hits.

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Hudson 9-10 year-old All-Star Evan Conte connects with a pitch during Monday’s District 15 Tournament game against Catskill.

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Hudson 9-10- year-old All-Star Amarion Perry speeds around the bases during Monday’s District 15 Tournament game against Catskill.

When the closer isn’t closing Danielle Allentuck The New York Times News Service

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New York Mets manager Mickey Callaway (36) and pitcher Edwin Diaz (39) celebrate the 8-5 victory over the Atlanta Braves at Citi Field.

NEW YORK — Edwin Diaz described the game May 29 as the worst of his career. He allowed five hits and four runs and blew a save opportunity for the New York Mets.

He vowed to get better, back into top form. But then came June 13, when he allowed four hits and three runs. And June 27, when he allowed three hits and five runs.

For Diaz, a 2018 All-Star who led the American League with 57 saves last season, that May loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers has represented a recurring theme rather than a one-time fluke.

“I always try to stay positive,” Diaz said. “I’ve had a couple ups and downs this year. Last year was a career

year, but I try to come into the ninth inning every time ready to do my job.”

When Diaz arrived in New York in December 2018, the Mets had a plan. He was expected to be the star closer, whom they could rely on for the final three outs every time.

Known for his high-speed fastball that averages just below 97 mph, Diaz was part of a blockbuster trade that sent reliever Anthony Swarzak, outfielder Jay Bruce and prospects Jarred Kelenic and Justin Dunn to Seattle. In exchange, the Mets got Diaz and second baseman Robinson Cano.

It was one of the first major trades that Brodie Van Wagenen made as general manager and a move he continues to stand behind. Kelenic, who went to the Mariners, was one

of the team’s top prospects.

Cano, 36, who joined the Mets, has been lackluster. He has made two trips to the injured list and has just 18 runs batted in over 60 games.

Diaz was expected to be the bright spot of the trade for New York. But he has an ERA of 4.78, compared with 1.96 last season, and has already given up seven home runs, two more than all of last season.

“Edwin has a track record of performance; he’s been very good for us,” Van Wagenen said. “He’s had a couple rough outings. He’ll bounce back, and we’ll make sure we’re putting the resources toward getting him to be the best version of himself, as well.”

Dave Sims, the play-by-play See CLOSER B8

OPINION: These Knicks do not belong in today’s NBA Harvey Araton The New York Times News Service

James L. Dolan might have been a perfectly fine custodian of a professional basketball team had his father given it to him 50 years ago. But not in the 21st century.

Before there was such a thing as free agency, back when the privilege of ownership essentially included the players along with the franchise, Dolan’s imperious ways would not have cost him transcendent talent. His selfdefeating stubbornness would not have ruined the curb appeal of Madison Square Garden, the self-proclaimed World’s Most Famous Arena.

If he didn’t have to compete for the likes of Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant, Dolan might have been a contender, in-

stead of the steward of a team that just lost a franchise-worst 65 of 82 games for the second time in five seasons and has won just a single playoff series since 2000. Which happens to be about when the Knicks began to play by the Byzantine Dolan house rules.

On the subject of past and present, the evolution of the game, I stumbled upon a fascinating article while researching an archival book project on the NBA for The New York Times last year — written for the newspaper in April 1977 by that famed Boston-based journalist, Arnold (Red) Auerbach.

The headline read: “Pride and Integrity: Pro Basketball Has Changed.” In the piece, Auerbach bemoaned the federal court rulings heralding

the earliest form of free agency and the gradual shifting of bargaining power to where it rightfully belonged. “By and large, we’re seeing an erosion of basic values — things like pride and integrity and dedication,” Auerbach warned.

“We’ve created a system that works against motivation, desire and discipline.”

To the contrary, the NBA is a global phenomenon now precisely because its stars became max-leveraged commodities, soaring to once-unfathomable commercial heights in the age of techno-connectivity. The league’s 2019 free agent signing season, newly timed to kick off Sunday at 6 p.m. Eastern time, was a Super Bowl of player empowerment See KNICKS B8

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New York Knicks executive chairman James Dolan watches a game against the Denver Nuggets at Madison Square Garden.

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Baseball American League East W L Pct GB NY Yankees 54 28 .659 — Tampa Bay 49 36 .576 6.5 Boston 44 40 .524 11.0 Toronto 32 53 .376 23.5 Baltimore 24 60 .285 31.0 Central W L Pct GB Minnesota 53 30 .639 — Cleveland 45 38 .542 8.0 Chi. White Sox 39 42 .481 13.0 Detroit 27 52 .342 24.0 Kansas City 29 56 .341 25.0 West W L Pct GB Houston 53 32 .624 — Texas 46 38 .548 6.5 Oakland 46 39 .541 7.0 LA Angels 42 43 .494 11.0 Seattle 37 51 .420 17.5 Saturday’s results NY Yankees 17, Boston 13 Baltimore 13, Cleveland 0 Toronto 7, Kansas City 5 Tampa Bay 5, Texas 2 Minnesota 10, Chi. White Sox 3 Houston 6, Seattle 5, 10 innings Oakland 4, LA Angels 0 Sunday’s results NY Yankees 12, Boston 8 Cleveland 2, Baltimore 0 Kansas City 7, Toronto 6 Tampa Bay 6, Texas 2 Houston 6, Seattle 1 Chi. White Sox 4, Minnesota 3 Oakland 12, LA Angels 3 Monday’s results Toronto 11, Kansas City 4 Tampa Bay 6, Baltimore 3 LA Angels (Suarez 2-1) at Texas (Minor 8-4), PPD Today’s games Boston (Price 5-2) at Toronto (Thornton 2-5), 7:07 p.m.

Baltimore (Bundy 3-10) at Tampa Bay (Morton 8-2), 7:10 p.m.

LA Angels (Canning 3-4) at Texas (Jurado 5-3), 8:05 p.m.

Detroit (Boyd 5-6) at Chi. White Sox (Lopez 4-7), 8:10 p.m.

Cleveland (Bauer 6-6) at Kansas City (Junis 4-7), 8:15 p.m.

Minnesota (Odorizzi 10-3) at Oakland (Mengden 2-1), 10:07 p.m.

National League East W L Pct GB Atlanta 50 35 .588 — Philadelphia 44 40 .524 5.5 Washington 42 41 .506 7.0 NY Mets 38 47 .447 12.0 Miami 32 50 .390 16.5 Central W L Pct GB Milwaukee 46 39 .541 — Chi. Cubs 45 40 .529 1.0 St. Louis 41 41 .500 3.5 Pittsburgh 40 43 .482 4.5 Cincinnati 38 44 .463 6.5 West W L Pct GB LA Dodgers 57 29 .663 — Colorado 44 40 .524 12.0 San Diego 42 41 .506 13.5 Arizona 43 43 .500 14.0 San Francisco 36 47 .434 19.5 Saturday’s results Atlanta 5, NY Mets 4 Chi. Cubs 6, Cincinnati 0 Miami 9, Philadelphia 6 Colorado 5, LA Dodgers 3 Milwaukee 3, Pittsburgh 1 Arizona 4, San Francisco 3 San Diego 12, St. Louis 2 Sunday’s results Cincinnati 8, Chi. Cubs 6 Philadelphia 13, Miami 6 Milwaukee 2, Pittsburgh 1 LA Dodgers 10, Colorado 5 San Francisco 10, Arizona 4 St. Louis 5, San Diego 3, 11 innings NY Mets 8, Atlanta 5 Monday’s results Pittsburgh 18, Chi. Cubs 5 Milwaukee 8, Cincinnati 6 San Francisco (Samardzija 4-7) at San Diego (Allen 2-0), 10:10 p.m.

Today’s games Miami (Gallen 0-1) at Washington (Corbin 7-5), 7:05 p.m.

Chi. Cubs (Hendricks 7-5) at Pittsburgh (Musgrove 6-7), 7:05 p.m.

Milwaukee (Anderson 4-2) at Cincinnati (Roark 5-6), 7:10 p.m.

Philadelphia at Atlanta (Keuchel 1-1), 7:20 p.m.

San Francisco (Beede 1-3) at San Diego (Strahm 3-6), 10:10 p.m.

Arizona (Clarke 2-3) at LA Dodgers (Stripling 3-2), 10:10 p.m.

Interleague Saturday’s result Detroit 7, Washington 5 Sunday’s result Washington 2, Detroit 1 Today’s games NY Yankees (Paxton 5-3) at NY Mets (Wheeler 6-5), 7:10 p.m.

Houston at Colorado (Marquez 8-3), 8:10 p.m.

St. Louis (Flaherty 4-5) at Seattle (Carasiti 0-0), 10:10 p.m.

T—2:32. A—29,339 (52,383)

Transactions BASEBALL American League Baltimore Orioles - Optioned LHP Tanner Scott to Norfolk (IL). Selected the contract of RHP Tom Eshelman from Norfolk (IL). Transferred LHP Josh Rogers from the 10-day IL to the 60day IL. Boston Red Sox - Optioned 1B Sam Travis to Pawtucket (IL).

Detroit Tigers - Optioned SS Ronny Rodriguez to Toledo (IL).

Houston Astros - Signed 2B Bryan Arias.

Los Angeles Angels - Optioned 1B Jared Walsh to Salt Lake (PCL). Recalled LHP Jose Suarez from Salt Lake (PCL).

New York Yankees - Optioned 2B Thairo Estrada to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL).

Seattle Mariners - Signed SS Mike Salvatore.

Tampa Bay Rays - Sent C Anthony Bemboom on a rehab assignment to Durham (IL). Signed 1B Jake Guenther.

Texas Rangers - Sent DH Hunter Pence on a rehab assignment to Frisco (TL). Sent C Isiah Kiner-Falefa on a rehab assignment to Nashville (PCL).

Toronto Blue Jays - Sent LHP Ryan Borucki on a rehab assignment to Dunedin (FSL).

National League Atlanta Braves - Sent CF Ender Inciarte on a rehab assignment to Florida (FSL). Signed CF Drew Campbell.

Cincinnati Reds - Designated LHP Zach Duke for assignment. Recalled RHP Jimmy Herget from Louisville (PCL).

Colorado Rockies - Signed RHP Ben Meyer to a minor league contract.

New York Mets - Signed RHP Jared Biddy to a minor league contract.

San Francisco Giants - Optioned RHP Dereck Rodriguez to Sacramento (PCL). Recalled LF Austin Slater from Sacramento (PCL).

FOOTBALL NCAA Football Arizona State - Announced DB Dominique Harrison has left the program and is expected to transfer to North Texas.

Louisiana State - Named John Robinson special consultant to head coach.

Washington State - Announced DB D’Angelo McKenzie has left the program and is expected to transfer to Cal Poly.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association Atlanta Hawks - Signed SF Cam Reddish to a four-year contract.

Chicago Bulls - Signed SG Coby White to a fouryear contract.

Indiana Pacers - Signed SF Brian Bowen II to a two-way contract. Signed SF Jakeenan Gant and SG C.J. Wilcox to an Exhibit 10 contract.

Portland Trail Blazers - Signed SF Nassir Little to a four-year contract. Signed SF Jaylen Hoard to a two-way contract.

San Antonio Spurs - Signed SF Keldon Johnson and PF Luka Samanic to a four-year contract.

Washington Wizards - Signed PF Rui Hachimura to a four-year contract.

NCAA Basketball Chattanooga - Promoted director of operations David McKinley to assistant coach.

HOCKEY National Hockey League Anaheim Ducks - Signed D Andy Welinski to a one-year, $750,000 contract.

Arizona Coyotes - Signed RW Beau Bennett to a one-year, two-way contract worth $700,000.

Signed G Ivan Prosvetov to a three-year, entrylevel contract. Signed C Andy Miele and D Aaron Ness to a two-year, two-way contract worth $1.4 million.

Boston Bruins - Signed RW Brett Ritchie to a one-year, $ 1 million contract. Signed G Maxime Lagace to a one-year, $700,000 contract. Signed C Brendan Gaunce and C Ryan Fitzgerald to a one-year, two-way contract worth $700,000.

Signed D Connor Clifton to a three-year, $3 million contract extension. Signed C Par Lindholm

to a two-year, $1.7 million contract.

Buffalo Sabres - Acquired LW Jimmy Vesey from the New York Rangers for a 2021 third-round draft pick. Signed D John Gilmour, G Andrew Hammond, and C Curtis Lazar to a one-year, $700,000 contract. Signed C Jean-Sebastien Dea to a two-year, $1.4 million contract.

Calgary Flames - Signed G Cam Talbot to a oneyear, $2.75 million contract. Signed D Brandon Davidson and RW Byron Froese to a one-year, two-way contract worth $700,000.

Carolina Hurricanes - Signed G Petr Mrazek to a two-year, $6.25 million contract.

Chicago Blackhawks - Signed G Robin Lehner to a one-year, $5 million contract. Signed C Ryan Carpenter to a three-year, $3 million contract.

Signed C David Kampf to a two-year, $2 million contract extension.

Colorado Avalanche - Signed RW Joonas Donskoi to a four-year, $15.6 million contract.

Signed C Colin Wilson to a one-year, $2.6 million contract. Signed LW Pierre-Edouard Bellemare to a two-year, $3.6 million contract.

Columbus Blue Jackets - Signed RW Gustav Nyquist to a four-year, $22 million contract.

Signed G Joonas Korpisalo to a one-year, $1.15 million contract extension. Signed D Ryan Murray to a two-year, $9.2 million contract.

Dallas Stars - Named John Stevens assistant coach. Signed RW Corey Perry and D Andrej Sekera to a one-year, $1.5 million contract.

Signed G Landon Bow to a one-year, two-way contract extension worth $700,000. Signed D Reece Scarlett to a one-year, two-way contract.

Signed C Joe Pavelski to a three-year, $21 million contract. Signed C Tanner Kero to a twoyear, two-way contract worth $1.4 million.

Detroit Red Wings - Signed G Calvin Pickard to a two-year, $1.4 million contract. Signed C Valtteri Filppula to a two-year, $3 million contract.

Signed D Patrik Nemeth to a two-year, $6 million contract.

Edmonton Oilers - Re-signed RW Alex Chiasson to a two-year, $4.3 million contract. Signed C Markus Granlund to a one-year $1.3 million contract. Signed G Mike Smith to a one-year, $2 million contract. Signed LW Tomas Jurco to a one-year, $750,000 contract. Signed LW Jujhar Khaira to a two-year, $2.4 million contract.

Florida Panthers - Bought out the remaining years of the contract of G Scott Darling. Signed RW Brett Connolly to a four-year, $13 million contract. Signed G Sergei Bobrovsky to a seven-year, $70 million contract. Signed D Anton Stralman to a three-year, $16.5 million contract.

Signed C Noel Acciari to a three-year, $5 million contract.

Los Angeles Kings - Signed D Joakim Ryan to a one-year, $725,000 contract. Signed RW Martin Frk to a one-year, two-way contract worth $700,000.

Minnesota Wild - Signed LW Mats Zuccarello to a five-year, $30 million contract. Signed RW Ryan Hartman to a two-year, $3.8 million contract. Signed C Gabriel Dumont to a two-year, two-way contract $1.4 million. Signed C Luke Johnson to a two-year, two-way contract worth $1.4 million.

Montreal Canadiens - Signed C Sebastian Aho to a five-year, $42.27 million offer sheet. Signed G Keith Kinkaid to a one-year, $1.75 million contract. Signed RW Riley Barber to a one-year, two-way contract worth $700,000.

Nashville Predators - Signed LW Daniel Carr to a one-year, $700,000 contract. Signed C Matt Duchene to a seven-year, $56 million contract.

New Jersey Devils - Signed C Ben Street to a one-year contract. Signed RW Wayne Simmonds to a one-year, $5 million contract.

Signed D Matt Tennyson.

New York Islanders - Signed G Semyon Varlamov to a four-year contract. Signed C Anders Lee to a seven-year, $49 million contract.

New York Rangers - Signed LW Artemi Panarin to a seven-year, $81.5 million contract. Signed C Danny O’Regan and C Greg McKegg.

Ottawa Senators - Signed D Ron Hainsey to a one-year, $3.5 million contract. Signed LW Tyler Ennis to a one-year, $800,000 contract. Signed RW Jordan Szwarz to a one-year, two-way contract worth $800,000.

Philadelphia Flyers - Signed G J-F Berube and RW Kurtis Gabriel to a one-year, two-way contract worth $700,000. Signed C Kyle Criscuolo to a one-year, two-way contract worth 700,000.

Signed LW Andy Andreoff to a two-year, $1.5 million contract. Signed D Nate Prosser, D Tyler Wotherspoon, and D Chris Bigras to a two-year, two-way contract worth $1.4 million.

Pittsburgh Penguins - Signed LW Brandon Tanev to a six-year, $21 million contract. Signed D David Warsofsky and LW Andrew Agozzino to a two-year, two-way contract worth $1.4 million.

San Jose Sharks - Re-signed RW Timo Meier to a four-year, $24 million contract. Re-signed D Tim Heed to a one-year, $700,000 contract.

St. Louis Blues - Signed LW Sammy Blais to a one-year, $850,000 contract. Signed D Derrick Pouliot to a one-year, two-way contract worth $700,000. Signed C Mike Vecchione, LW Evan Polei, and RW Nick Lappin to a one-year, twoway contract. Signed LW Nathan Walker to a two-year, two-way contract worth $1.4 million.

Tampa Bay Lightning - Named Joe Palmer goaltending and video coach. Signed D Luke Schenn to a one-year, $700,000 contract.

Signed G Scott Wedgewood, G Spencer Martin, and C Chris Mueller to a one-year, two-way contract. Signed G Curtis McElhinney to a twoyear, $2.6 million contract. Signed RW Luke Witkowski to a two-year, two-way contract worth $1.4 million.

Toronto Maple Leafs - Acquired D Cody Ceci, D Ben Harpur, C Aaron Luchuk and a 2020 thirdround draft pick from the Ottawa Senators for D Nikita Zaitsev, RW Connor Brown and RW Michael Carcone, signed him to a one-year, $4.5 million contract extension. Signed C Jason Spezza and D Kevin Gravel to a one-year, $700,000 contract. Signed C Nick Shore to a one-year, $750,000 contract. Signed LW Kenny Agostino to a two-year, $1.4 million contract.

Vancouver Canucks - Signed D Tyler Myers to a five-year, $30 million contract. Signed D Oscar Fantenberg to a one-year, $850,000 contract.

Signed C Tyler Graovac to a one-year, two-way contract worth $650,000. Signed G Zane McIntyre to a one-year, two-way contract. Signed D Jordie Benn to a two-year, $4 million contract.

Vegas Golden Knights - Signed LW Tomas Nosek to a one-year, $1 million contract. Signed D Brett Lernout and D Jaycob Megna to a oneyear, $700,000 contract. Signed C Patrick Brown to a two-year, $1.4 million contract. Signed C Brandon Pirri to a two-year, $1.55 million contract. Signed LW Tyrell Goulbourne to a twoyear, two-way contract worth $1.4 million.

Washington Capitals - Re-signed G Vitek Vanecek to a three-year, $2.15 million contract.

Signed LW Richard Panik to a four-year, $11 million contract. Signed RW Garnet Hathaway to a four-year, $6 million contract. Signed LW Brendan Leipsic to a one-year, $700,000 contract. Signed C Philippe Maillet to a two-year, two-way contract worth $1.4 million.

Winnipeg Jets - Signed D Nathan Beaulieu to a one-year, $1 million contract.

Golf PGA MONEY LEADERS Through Monday Trn 1. Brooks Koepka 15 2. Rory McIlroy 14 3. Matt Kuchar 17 4. Gary Woodland 19 5. Xander Schauffele 16 6. Dustin Johnson 14 7. Patrick Cantlay 16 8. Paul Casey 17 9. Justin Rose 12 10. Jon Rahm 15 11. Chez Reavie 22 12. Rickie Fowler 16 13. Adam Scott 13 14. Francesco Molinari 12 15. Marc Leishman 16 16. Tiger Woods 9 17. Tony Finau 19 18. Kevin Kisner 20 19. Justin Thomas 15 20. Sung-Hoon Kang 22 21. Charles Howell III 21 22. Ryan Palmer 16 23. Webb Simpson 15 24. Jason Day 16 25. Jim Furyk 17 26. Scott Piercy 20 27. Bryson DeChambeau 15 28. Hideki Matsuyama 17 29. Brandt Snedeker 21 30. Corey Conners 21 31. Phil Mickelson 15 32. Sung-Jae Im 28 33. Keith Mitchell 21 34. Kevin Na 16 35. Cheng-Tsung Pan 21 36. Tommy Fleetwood 13 37. Andrew Putnam 19 38. J.B. Holmes 21 39. Kevin Tway 21 40. Max Homa 21 41. Rory Sabbatini 21 42. Lucas Glover 19 43. Si Woo Kim 23 44. Nate Lashley 15 45. Louis Oosthuizen 14 46. Joel Dahmen 24 47. Jason Kokrak 19 48. Keegan Bradley 20 49. Rafael Cabrera Bello 16 50. Sergio Garcia 12 51. Billy Horschel 21 52. Emiliano Grillo 19 53. Adam Hadwin 19 54. Ian Poulter 14 55. Graeme McDowell 17

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A teenager conquers her hero Christopher Clarey The New York Times News Service

WIMBLEDON, England — Though Cori Gauff is only 15, tennis people in the know have been speaking in hushed tones about her talent for years.

With her precocious blend of power, athleticism, court savvy and competitive drive, Gauff was the youngest U.S. Open junior girls finalist in history at age 13 and the second youngest French Open junior girls champion at age 14.

But even if potential is abundantly clear, it is never clear how a teenager will handle the moment when she takes the court at the highest level against an established champion.

On Monday, tennis got an emphatic answer as Gauff, displaying remarkable poise, upset SUSAN MULLANE/USA TODAY Venus Williams, 6-4, 6-4, in the Cori Gaulf celebrates recording match point during her match first round of Wimbledon.

It was the first Grand Slam against Venus Williams on day one at the All England Lawn and singles match of Gauff’s career, Croquet Club. and it made quite an impression on those who watched from was just playing my game. No to train during Wimbledon at near and far, including Williams, matter who I play against, I want the academy near Nice operated a five-time Wimbledon singles to win. So that’s what I was just by Patrick Mouratoglou, Serena champion. Two of those titles thinking about the whole time. I Williams’ coach.

The Gauff family happily came before Gauff was born on wasn’t really thinking about who March 13, 2004, in Delray Beach, I was facing on the other side of changed plans, and Cori Gauff swept through all three qualifythe net.”

Florida.

But with victory secured, she ing matches in straight sets to “I think the sky’s the limit, it was definitely thinking about become the youngest woman really is,” said Williams, unseedwhom she was facing across the to qualify for Wimbledon in the ed at age 39 but still resistant to net. As they shook hands, Gauff Open era. hyperbole.

Then, against the odds, she In a sense, it was her own fam- maintained her grip a bit longer than is customary as she sought drew Venus Williams as her firstily’s fault that an exceptional Williams gaze and told her what round opponent. young American talent like Gauff “Obviously, I literally got my was in position to defeat her she has meant to her.

“I was just telling her thank dream draw,” said Gauff, as geMonday. you for everything she’s done nial in the interview room as she Gauff’s father, Corey, was a for the sport,” Gauff said. “She’s was intent on destruction on No. point guard at Georgia State and been an inspiration for many 1 Court. her mother, Candi, was a hepGauff was unruffled from the tathlete and hurdler at Florida people. I was just really telling her thank you.

I met her before, start Monday, repeatedly trumpState. She might well have gravibut I didn’t really have the guts to ing the inconsistent Williams tated to a different sport, a more say anything. in both quick exchanges and widely popular sport in the Unit“I mean, now or never.” longer baseline rallies. Above all, ed States, if Serena and Venus It is a fine mantra, and Gauff she maintained a tight grip on Williams had not been winning then waved to the crowd in No. 1 her own service games, routinely big titles when she was a little girl Court that had offered her plenty hitting first serves more than 110 setting her priorities.

Gauff chose tennis (she also of support, went to her chair, mph and sometimes hitting secliked the skirts, her father said), squatted down, put her head ond serves more than 100 mph and it was hard not to agree with against the butt of her racket and as well.

Williams managed to break the decision Monday as she cried as she said a prayer.

“Before every match since I Gauff’s serve only once in the slammed bold first and second serves under pressure, leaned was 8, my dad and I say a prayer 1-hour-19-minute match. That into groundstrokes and covered together,” Gauff said. “We don’t break made it 4-4 in the second the court with the same sort of really pray about victory, just set, but Gauff responded by gap-closing speed displayed by that me and my opponent stay breaking Williams straight back. safe. After the match, I was just It was then time to serve for Venus Williams in her youth.

Until Monday, Gauff’s most thanking God for this opportu- the victory, a situation she had discussed with her father as they extended contact with Williams nity.” walked toward No. 1 Court beLater, she also thanked the was as a hitting partner with the Wimbledon organizers, who fore the match.

U.S. Fed Cup team in February “I told her you are going to 2018. While Williams played, offered her a wild card into the qualifying tournament despite have to go for it,” Corey Gauff Gauff attended team dinners her world ranking of 313th at said.

“I said, ‘Go after your serve.’ and cheered. the time.

She and her father and You’ve got to win the match.

Much has changed in just 16 coach, Corey, got the word of the She’s not going to give it you. months.

“On the court, I was not think- offer by phone when they were She’s a champion. She’s been ing about Venus,” Gauff said. “I on their way to southern France there too many times. It’s better

to double fault and make sure she knows you are going to hit the ball, then to dink it in and let her hit winners.”

So it played out. After Williams saved the first three match points she faced with clean winners, Gauff faced a break point and produced a 108-mph serve that Williams could not return.

She won the next two points to close out the upset. She will face a player with a very different skill set in the second round: Magdalena Rybarikova, a semifinalist at Wimbledon in 2017.

“I knew it was going to be mine, no matter what,” Gauff said. “There was just so much drama going on. I just was like, ‘Stay calm.’ “ Easier thought than done, and Gauff has not always managed it in the junior ranks.

“When she was in the final of the junior U.S. Open at age 13, the moment was just too much, she wasn’t ready for it,” her father said of her loss to Amanda Anisimova, another American tennis prodigy, who reached the French Open semifinals last month at age 17.

Gauff and her parents have worked hard on normalizing such moments: “Don’t make things bigger than they are,” Candi Gauff said. “Pretend you’re at your home park having a match with your hitting partner.”

It sounded rather like Cori Gauff was playing at home for much of the match Monday.

The crowd was consistently supportive in No. 1 Court even though she was facing Williams, a sentimental favorite at the All England Club.

Young, unmistakable talent can be tough to resist. Williams was once a teen phenom herself, making her pro debut at age 14 and her Wimbledon debut at age 17 in 1997.

She arrived on the scene with grand plans, and Gauff is no different.

“I want to be the greatest of all time,” Gauff told ESPN at age 12.

On Monday, she did not back away from those words.

“My dad told me that I could do this when I was 8,” she said.

“Obviously you never believe it. I’m still not, like 100% confident. But, like, you have to just say things. You never know what happens. If I went into this match saying, ‘Let me see how many games I can get against her’, then I most definitely would not have won. My goal was to play my best. My dream was to win. That’s what happened. I think people just kind of limit themselves too much.”

Zverev, Tsitsipas ousted in first round at Wimbledon Field Level Media Two of the top seven seeds fell in the first round at Wimbledon on Monday.

Czech qualifier Jiri Vesely upset sixth-seeded German Alexander Zverev 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, 7-5, while Italian Thomas Fabbiano ousted No. 7 Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece 6-4, 3-6, 6-4, 6-7 (8), 6-3.

Vesely entered the tournament ranked 124th in the world but came away with his third win in 19 tries against a top 10 opponent. Vesely won 80 percent of his first-serve points.

“It’s a huge win for me actually on Court 1, where I haven’t lost yet. It’s a nice stat,” Vesely said. “I hope this win will get me going, and to get some more results.”

Tsitsipas saved two match points in the fourth-set tiebreaker and squandered a good chance in the opening game of the fifth set when he failed to convert three break points.

“It felt like I was lost, going

for too much or going for nothing,” Tsitsipas said. “There was no balance in what I was doing.

“He was just playing better.

I wouldn’t actually deserve the victory today even if I would have won because I didn’t play well. He played much better today. I give him credit. The way I played, it should have been in three, not five. I don’t know how I got to five. I guess with my fighting spirit, somehow I managed to win those two sets.”

Tsitsipas has two ATP tour titles this year and reached the semifinals at the Australian Open, during which he beat Roger Federer.

Defending champion and world No. 1 Novak Djokovic of Serbia was broken in his first service game against German Philipp Kohlschreiber but then cruised to a 6-3, 7-5, 6-3 victory.

“The break in the first game wasn’t the start that I was looking for. But I think I came with the right intensity. I answered back really well,” Djokovic

said. “Then from that moment onwards, I played a pretty good match, I thought. It was a good quality. I held my serve well.”

Other top seeds to advance were No. 4 Kevin Anderson of South Africa, No. 10 Karen Khachanov of Russia, No. 11 Daniil Medvedev of Russia and No. 15 Milos Raonic of Canada.

Anderson dispatched France’s Pierre-Hugues Herbert 6-3, 6-4, 6-2; Karen Khachanov beat South Korean qualifier Soonwoo Kwon 7-6 (6), 6-4, 4-6, 7-5; Medvedev defeated Italian Paolo Lorenzi 6-3, 7-6 (2), 7-6 (2) and Raonic

rolled to a 7-6 (1), 6-4, 6-2 victory against India’s Prajnesh Gunneswaran.

No. 19 seed Felix AugerAliassime, an 18-year-old Canadian who became the youngest player to reach the Top 25 of the world rankings since former Lleyton Hewitt in 1999, notched his first victory in a Grand Slam event by beating countryman Vasek Pospisil 5-7, 6-2, 6-4, 6-3.

Auger-Aliassime has reached three tour finals this season but didn’t make it out of qualifying at the French Open and skipped the French Open due to injury.

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electronic sign above a locked gate at the park’s entrance read: “Tyler Skaggs, 1991-2019.”

The New York Yankees’ Giancarlo Stanton, who dealt with the sudden death of his former Miami Marlins teammate Jose Fernandez during the 2016 season, posted a long message to the Angels on Instagram, offering advice for coping with such a loss.

Stanton said the players should expect to feel some anger about grieving “in a fish bowl,” and he encouraged the team to stick together through that.

“The first days back to schedule are the weirdest feeling,” Stanton wrote, “from the energy to the questions to having to walk past his locker.”

Skaggs was in his seventh season in the majors, his fifth with the Angels; he was 7-7 with a 4.29 ERA in 15 starts this season.

His last start was Saturday at home, a 4-0 loss to the Oakland Athletics.

He posted a photo on Insta-

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Los Angeles Angels starting pitcher Tyler Skaggs, 27, died Monday in a hotel room several hours before his team was scheduled to play the Texas Rangers, team and local officials said.

Skaggs’ death prompted the postponement of the game after lineups had already been announced.

Angels officials declined to comment beyond a statement announcing the death. “Tyler has, and always will be, an important part of the Angels family,” the statement said.

Police in Southlake, Texas, said they had found Skaggs dead in a room at the team hotel after responding to a call about an unconscious male. They said they did not suspect foul play.

Within hours, fans started visiting Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California, to build a memorial made of flowers, caps, balloons and other items. An

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The San Diego Padres pay tribute to Los Angeles Angels pitcher Tyler Skaggs before a game against the San Francisco Giants at Petco Park.

gram on Sunday showing his teammates outside their plane wearing cowboy hats before the series in Texas. “Howdy, y’all,” the caption read, followed by a smiley-face emoji with a cowboy hat.

The Angels have been haunted by tragedy over the years.

Infielder Luis Valbuena died in Venezuela in December after highway robbers ambushed his car, which crashed. Another former major leaguer, José Castillo, was also killed in the crash.

In 1978, Angels outfielder Lyman Bostock was fatally shot while driving after a game

in Chicago. A former reliever, Donnie Moore, killed himself in 1989, less than a year after his final game with the team.

More recently, pitcher Nick Adenhart, a 22-year-old rookie, was killed by a drunken driver just hours after making his season debut in 2009. This April, Skaggs retweeted a Los Angeles Times story about Adenhart on the 10th anniversary of his final game.

“You sit there and start thinking, ‘What kind of career would Nick have had in baseball?’ “ former Angel Kevin Jepsen said in that story. “And I’m sure it would have been a great one.”

Skaggs had more time than Adenhart to give a portrait of the kind of pitcher he would be.

Skaggs made 96 starts across seven seasons, going 28-38 with a 4.41 ERA. But as a young lefthander, he still held great promise, and he beat the Toronto Blue Jays and the St. Louis Cardinals in consecutive road starts this June, allowing one run and

no walks over a combined 12 1/3 innings.

The Angels always had high hopes for Skaggs, and they acquired him twice. They signed him as a first-round draft choice from Santa Monica High School in California in 2009, traded him to the Arizona Diamondbacks a year later and brought him back in 2013. Skaggs developed into a regular part of the rotation, and though he often fought injuries, he had made all his starts this season and led the team in innings pitched.

Mike Trout, the Angels star, tweeted condolences to Skaggs’ family and said the team’s sadness defied words. Then he bid goodbye to the young pitcher with a reference to his uniform number. “Remembering him as a great teammate, friend, and person who will forever remain in our hearts … we love you, 45.”

Skaggs married last year and had friendships in the game that extended beyond the Angels.

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Husband compelled to share secret past I have been married 36 years to a woman who has saved my life and soul. We are both faithful to God and to our marriage, sharing the love of our family. We are blessed in many ways — including a great son who is self-sufficient and prospering, and a daughter who is married DEAR ABBY and takes on any challenge with confidence.

I have one guilt-filled issue I have never shared with my wife. Prior to meeting her, for nearly 12 years through my military service and college years, I was actively bisexual. I’m not proud of this fact but learned it was more out of loneliness and experimentation than need.

This is the only thing I have never shared with my love, and I wonder if I should. It melts me when she says “I love you” and thanks me for sharing my life with her. I have prayed to God about this. Should I share this with my wife?

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worse. How can I get him to change his mind?

Looking For Relief In Florida This is not a question of fairness. It’s a question of quality of life. Many women have had breast reduction surgery for the reason you are contemplating it.

I recommend he accompany you to your next doctor’s appointment so the doctor can help him understand why the procedure is necessary and what the result will be afterward. However, in the final analysis, your breasts are yours, not his, and you should be able to do with them whatever you like.

I see nothing positive to be gained by opening this long-closed chapter of your life with your wife at this late date. Because you feel the need to talk about this, do it with your spiritual adviser.

What does one do in the case of lending out DVDs and never seeing them again? The perpetrators are members of the church I attend. One is the assistant pastor.

When I have asked about my DVDs, the borrowers have been very vague. I think those who attend one’s church should be trustworthy.

What do you think I should do besides refuse to lend anything?

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I am a big-breasted woman who is suffering because of them. My doctor told me I’m a good candidate for a breast reduction, which I am thrilled about. My problem is my husband is 100% against my having the procedure. He gets mad when I bring it up and refuses to budge.

I’m a 65-year-old woman with arthritis, which makes my back and neck pain even

Your DVDs may have been lost, damaged or loaned to someone else who didn’t return them.

In any of those scenarios, the person(s) who failed to return the items should have offered to repay you for them. That no one did reflects badly on the borrowers.

That said, there is nothing you can do now besides be less generous in the future.

Where do older folks’ balance issues originate?

Apparently, it is common for older people to have balance issues. Do these balance problems usually stem more from muscular issues or inner ear issues?

It is often a combination of issues that lead to balance problems in older adults.

Inner ear problems, where the TO YOUR organs of balance are located, are GOOD HEALTH a major cause. However, balance problems are exacerbated by muscle weakness, vision problems, arthritis and medications, to name a few common ones.

The body has many safeguards to keep us from falling. If the balance system can’t tell us our exact position in space, our eyes can, and the neurological system uses fine muscle control to keep us upright and safe. We can often do well even with one system not working properly. When multiple systems are affected, falls are more common.

Improving balance and reducing fall risk often involves multiple interventions. One is working on balance directly. This can be achieved with home exercises; group exercises, like tai chi and yoga, which have the added advantage of increasing muscle control. Making sure vision is as good as possible and staying on top of joint, muscle and neurological conditions will help reduce fall risk.

Medications are so often the source of balance and fall problems that many medical practices (including mine) review medications at every visit to look for errors, medicines that have combined

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I have a lot of moisture in my eyes. I have to keep wiping them. My previous doctor gave me a prescription eyedrop that helped. After I moved, my new doctor didn’t give me the same thing. I got “dry eye” drops, which didn’t help at all. Do you have a solution?

It is not intuitive that watery eyes can be a symptom of dry eyes, but it is indeed often the case. Eye lubrication may come from several parts of the eye, including the conjunctiva (a tissue that lines the insides of the eyelids), which secretes a mucus that lasts a long time and keeps the eyes comfortably moist. When the mucus production is inadequate in quantity or quality, the eyes get dry. When they become dry and irritated, one of the body’s responses is to increase tear production from the lacrimal gland, which is what you are wiping away. The fluid from the lacrimal gland is not as long-lasting nor comfortable.

There are many different kinds of treatments for dry eyes. Artificial teardrops (these can be used every few hours) are a great place to start and perfectly adequate for most. I’d recommend going back to the eye doctor with the name of the prescription medicine you had from your previous doctor.

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By Stella Wilder Born today, you are a rather playful individual, and from a very early age you will display a liking of all things recreational and adventurous. It’s likely, too, that this will manifest itself professionally, as you are almost certain to choose a career that allows you, to some degree, to do things your own way — and that way, more often than not, is the “fun” way! You’re determined to enjoy yourself, whether at work or at play, and you can do much to ensure that others enjoy themselves as well.

You are extremely attractive to members of both sexes; to your own, you serve as an example and model in character, looks, style and behavior; to the opposite, you are the personification of desire — and especially when young you will surely take rather romantic, even purely lustful advantage of this!

Also born on this date are: Tom Cruise, actor; Thomas Gibson, actor; Sandra Lee, celebrity chef; Kurtwood Smith, actor; Montel Williams, TV personality; Moises Alou, baseball player; Hunter Tylo, model and actress.

To see what is in store for you tomorrow, find your birthday and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your daily guide.

THURSDAY, JULY 4 CANCER (June 21-July 22) — You’ll want to strike just the right balance today when dealing with a friend who is out of sorts. You don’t want to make things worse!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — You feel that things are looking up, and your attitude is improving as well.

You make a plan that may be implemented almost immediately.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — What you say today is going to be remembered — not for what it means to people right now, but for what it means in the

long haul. Write it down!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You want things to happen in a way that promotes harmony among all those interacting with each other — and today that’s not an impossibility.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — You may have to watch others from afar today without taking part.

You are under the influence of something stronger than you are.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — You can point someone else in the right direction today, surely, but where does that leave you? You don’t have things lined up, do you?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Putting your best foot forward today may not be as easy as you had supposed, but not because of anything you have done. Find the cause.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — The reasons for certain things are clear, but that doesn’t mean you’ll grasp them right away. You have a few important lessons to learn.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — You have the chance today to embrace someone else’s philosophy — and even if you do it for only a short time, the benefits can be far-reaching.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — You may be fighting against those whose views are not really all that different from your own. Why are you being so contrary?

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — You’re not likely to arrive at your destination today, but that doesn’t mean you’ll be spinning your wheels. The journey itself is valuable.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — It’s a good day to claim what is yours — and to let others do the same.

You will in no way be threatened by someone else stepping forward.

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THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME

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

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Freshman level 1. Cop 2. Cabbie 3. Gumshoe Graduate level 4. Hoofer 5. Shrink 6. Bouncer PH.D. level 7. Pug 8. Sparky 9. Sawbones

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Print answer here: Yesterday’s

Answers Fiday (Answers tomorrow) Jumbles: PRIME ENJOY KNOTTY DAINTY Answer: He loved Kirk, Spock, the Enterprise, etc. and had a — ONE “TREK” MIND

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Solution to Tuesday’s puzzle

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

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SUPER QUIZ ANSWERS 1. Police officer. 2. Taxi driver. 3. Detective. 4. Dancer. 5. Psychiatrist (psychologist). 6. Doorman (security control). 7. Boxer (fighter). 8. Electrician. 9.

Surgeon.

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

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Crossword Puzzle Mother Goose & Grimm ACROSS 1 Scrap 5 Highlander 9 Oaf 13 __ oneself; worked steadily 15 Couple 16 Sharpen 17 Male relative 18 Child’s spending money 20 Shameful grade 21 Groupie 23 “Away in a __” 24 Gets closer to 26 Large 27 Lay into 29 JFK’s father 32 Line of travel 33 __ of view; opinion 35 Male animal 37 It was, to a poet 38 Ostrich feather 39 Greek cheese 40 “Ready, __, go!”

41 Wed.’s follower 42 Bank vaults 43 Winger & Messing 45 Least tainted 46 Galloped 47 TV’s “__ Pyle” 48 Horrified 51 Curved edge 52 Tiny folklore fellow 55 Locomotive’s nickname, when trains were new 58 Bert’s buddy 60 Actor Jack __ 61 Boxer Tyson 62 Quackers 63 Convince 64 Twirl 65 Encounter DOWN 1 Potato 2 Rectangular piece of glass 3 Emphasize 4 __ Aviv 5 Stretches across

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Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

CITY OF HUDSON, NEW YORK PLANNING BOARD NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Planning Board of the City of Hudson, New York will conduct a Public Hearing on July 9, 2019 at 6 p.m. in the Central Firehouse at Seventh Street, Hudson, New York on a special use permit application from CarLee Holdings LLC to place portable temporary storage units on a vacant lot at 121 Fairview Avenue, Tax ID#110.10-2-5; a conditional use permit with a site plan component from A. Colarusso and Son Inc. for replacement bulkhead at 175 South Front Street, Tax ID #109.15-1-1; and a conditional use permit with a site plan component from A. Colarusso and Son Inc. for haul road improvements at 175 South Front Street, Tax ID #109.15-1-1. All those interested parties will have an opportunity at this time to be heard in connection with said application.

Columbia Street Management, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 5/7/2019. Cty: Columbia. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 876 Columbia Street, Hudson, NY 10018. General Purpose.

DOYLE'S TAVERN ON 145 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/10/19.

Office: Greene County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 737 2nd Avenue, New York, NY 10016. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

FIRST ROCK EQUITIES LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 06/13/19.

Office: Greene County.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 1077 Route 23A, Catskill, NY 12414. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

FIVE FURLONGS TAVERN LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/10/19.

Office: Greene County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 737 2nd Avenue, New York, NY 10016. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

LegitSkin LLC. Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/19/19.

Office: Greene County.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 45 S River St. Apt 2 Coxsackie NY 12051.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Minhas Estates LLC Arts. of Org. filed w/ SSNY 6/14/19. Off. in COLU Co. SSNY desig. as agt. of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, PO Box 98, Chatham, NY 12037. Purpose: any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF COMPLETION FINAL ASSESSMENT ROLL

(Pursuant to Section 516 of the Real Property Tax Law) Notice is hereby given That the assessment roll for the Town of Hunter Greene County, N.Y., for the year 2019, has been finally completed and verified by the undersigned assessor and a certified copy thereof was filed in the office of the Town Clerk of the Town of Hunter at 5748 Route 23A Town Hall on July 1, 2019 there to remain for public inspection.

Mark W. Hommel Sole Assessor NOTICE OF COMPLETION OF FINAL ASSESSMENT ROLL (Pursuant to Section 516 of the Real Property Tax Law) Notice is hereby given that the Final Assessment Roll for the Town of Coxsackie Greene County, N.Y., for the year 2019, has been completed and verified by the Assessor. A certified copy was filed in the office of the Town Clerk of Coxsackie at 56 Bailey Street Coxsackie NY on the 1st day of July, 2019, there to remain for public inspection Gordon W Bennett Sole Assessor

Notice of Formation of a Limited Liability Company. Notice of Formation of Clipper K9 Bed Bug Detection Services, LLC, a Domestic Limited Liability Company. Articles of Organization filed with Secy, of State of NY on June 18, 2019. Office location: Columbia County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to, Clipper K9 Bed Bug Detection Services, LLC, P.O. Box 447, Valatie, New York. The business purpose of the company is to engage in any and all business activities permitted under the laws of the State of New York.

Randy Road, Athens, New York 12015. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of STS Contracting Milling, Excavation & Building LLC. Articles of Org. filed with the Secretary of State of NY (SSNY) on the 01/14/2019. Office location is Columbia County.

Robert Schroeppel is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall be sent to STS Contracting Milling, Excavating & Building LLC., Robert Schroeppel 1451 County Route 10, Ancram, NY 12502-5011 Notice of Formation of WINDHAM 504 LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 05/28/19.

Office location: Greene County. Princ. office of LLC: 1100 Park Ave., Apt. 4A, NY, NY 10128. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to c/o Corporation Service Co., 80 State St., Albany, NY 12207. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of JKW Polled Herefords LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on February 5, 2015. Office location: Greene County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to: JKW Polled Herefords LLC, 83 Howard Hall Road, Catskill, New York NOTICE OF COMPLE- 12414. Purpose: any NOTICE OF SALE SUTION OF FINAL AS- lawful activities.

PREME COURT SESSMENT ROLL COUNTY OF GREENE (Pursuant to Sections JPMorgan Chase 516 of the Real Prop- NOTICE OF FORMA- Bank, National AssoTION OF LIMITED erty Tax Law) ciation, Plaintiff Notice is hereby given LIABILITY COMPANY AGAINST Craig Rowell Articles of Organizathat the Final Assessa/k/a Craig M. Rowell; ment Roll for the Town tion of Big Mountain Tiffany Cerino a/k/a of Greenville, Greene Builders and General Tiffany J. Cerino; et al., LLC Defendant(s) Pursuant County, N.Y., for the Contracting, year 2019, has been ("LLC") filed with the to a Judgment of Forecompleted and verified Secretary of State of closure and Sale duly by the undersigned as- New York ("SSNY") on dated April 24, 2019 I, sessor and a certified May 31, 2019, effec- the undersigned Refercopy thereof was filed tive on the date of fil- ee will sell at public in the office of the ing. Office Location: auction at the Greene Town Clerk at 11159 Greene County. SSNY County Courthouse, SR 32, Greenville, New has been designated 320 Main Street, Catsas agent of the LLC York, on the 1st day of kill, New York on July July, 2019, there to re- upon whom process 17, 2019 at 12:30PM, against it may be main for public inspecpremises known as 16 served. SSNY may Weissel tion.

Avenue, mail a copy of any proGordon W. Bennett, Leeds, NY 12451. All cess to the LLC at 9 that certain plot piece IAO Steephill Road, Ash- or parcel of land, with Sole Assessor land, New York 12407, the buildings and imNOTICE OF FORMA- which shall be the provements erected, TION OF LIMITED principal business lo- situate, lying and being cation.

The purpose LIABILITY COMPANY. in the Town of Catskill, NAME: Hometown for which the LLC is County of Greene, formed is to engage in Hauler, LLC State of NY, Section Articles of Organiza- any lawful act or ac- 138.10 Block 3 Lot 15. tion were filed with the tivity for which limited Approximate amount companies of Secretary of State of liability judgment may be organized unNew York on April 10, $104,732.45 plus inter2019 Office location: der the NYS Limited est and costs. PremisLiability Company 4174 State Route 145 es will be sold subject East Durham, NY Law. to provisions of filed 12422. Greene County.

Judgment Index# 18The Secretary of State Notice of Formation of 0905. Jon A. Kosich, of New York has been SHL Vistas LLC, Arts Esq., Referee Shapiro, designated as agent of of Org. filed with NY DiCaro & Barak, LLC the LLC upon whom Secy of State (SSNY) Attorney(s) for the process against it may on June 14, 2019. Of- Plaintiff 175 Mile be served.

Boulevard fice location: Greene Crossing The Secretary of State County. SSNY is des- Rochester, New York of New York shall mail ignated as agent of 14624 (877) 430-4792 a copy of process to LLC upon whom pro- Dated: May 29, 2019 the LLC, at PO Box cess against it may be For sale information, 569 Leeds NY 12451 served.

SSNY shall please visit ServicelinPurpose: For any law- mail process to The kauction.com or call ful purpose.

LLC at Unit 1095, 92 (866) 539-4173 63572

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURTCOUNTY OF GREENE U.S. BANK TRUST, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR LSF8 MASTER PA R T I C I PAT I O N TRUST, Plaintiff, AGAINST JOANN CORNWELL, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS POSSIBLE HEIR OF THE ESTATE BRUCE A. CORNWELL, ET AL., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a judgment of foreclosure and sale duly entered on May 13, 2019.

I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction at the Greene County Courthouse, 320 Main Street, Catskill, NY 12414 on July 31, 2019 at 9:15 AM premises known as 724 GREEN LAKE RD, CATSKILL, NY 12414.

All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Athens, County of Greene and State of New York.

Section 103.00, Block 4, and Lot 9.

Approximate amount of judgment $186,237.85 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment. Index #1700544.

Max N. Zacker, Esq., Referee, Aldridge Pite, LLP - Attorneys for Plaintiff 40 Marcus Drive, Suite 200, Melville, NY 11747 NOTICE OF HIGH TRIHALOMETHANE AND HALOACETIC ACID LEVELS Catskill Village Water System June 2019 From the 3rd quarter of 2018 through the 2nd quarter of 2019

(7/1/2018 - 6/30/2019) the Catskill Village water system was found to have an average concentration of total trihalomethanes that exceed the maximum contaminant level (MCL) of 80 parts per billion (ppb) and an average concentration of haloacetic acids that exceed the MCL of 60 ppb. Compliance with the MCL is based on the average of the four most recent quarterly sample results collected from each sampling location (called the locational running annual average or LRAA). The current THM LRAA is 82.1 ppb and the current HAA LRAA is 83.6 ppb. Water suppliers are required to provide written public notification to consumers when an MCL is exceeded.

What are trihalomethanes?

Trihalomethanes are a group of chemicals that are formed in drinking water during disinfection when chlorine reacts with naturally occurring organic material (e.g., decomposing vegetation such as tree leaves, algae or other aquatic plants) in surface water sources such as rivers and lakes. They are disinfection byproducts and include the individual chemicals chloroform, bromoform, bromodichloromethane, and chlorodibromomethane. The amount of trihalomethanes formed in drinking water during disinfection can change from day to day, depending on the temperature, the amount of organic material in the water, the amount of chlorine added, and a variety of other factors.

Disinfection of drinking water by chlorination is beneficial to public health. Drinking water is disinfected by public water suppliers to kill bacteria and viruses that could cause serious illnesses, and chlorine is the most commonly used disinfectant in New York State. All public water systems that use chlorine as a disinfectant contain trihalomethanes to some degree.

What are the health effects of trihalomethanes?

Some studies suggest that people who drank water containing trihalomethanes for long periods of time (e.g., 20 to 30 years) have an increased risk of certain health effects.

These include an increased risk for cancer and for low birth weights, miscarriages and birth defects. The methods used by these studies could not rule out the role of other factors that could have resulted in the observed increased risks. In addition, other similar studies do not show an increased risk for these health effects. Therefore, the evidence from these studies is not strong enough to conclude that trihalomethanes were a major factor contributing to the observed increased risks for these health effects. Studies of laboratory animals show that some trihalomethanes can cause cancer and adverse reproductive and developmental effects, but at exposures much higher than exposures that could result through normal use of the water. The United States Environmental Protection Agency re-

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COLUMBIA-GREENE MEDIA viewed the information from the human and animal studies and concluded that while there is no causal link between disinfection byproducts (including trihalomethanes) and human health effects, the balance of the information warranted stronger regulations that limit the amount of trihalomethanes in drinking water, while still allowing for adequate disinfection.

The risks for adverse health effects from trihalomethanes in drinking water are small compared to the risks for illness from drinking inadequately disinfected water.

What are haloacetic acids (HAAs)?

HAAs are formed in drinking water during treatment by chlorine (the most commonly used disinfectant in New York State), which reacts with certain acids that are in naturally-occurring organic material (e.g., decomposing vegetation such as tree leaves, algae, or other aquatic plants) in surface water sources such as rivers and lakes. The amount of HAAs in drinking water can change from day to day, depending on the temperature, the amount of organic material in the water, the amount of chlorine added, and a variety of other factors. Drinking water is disinfected by public water suppliers to kill bacteria and viruses that could cause serious illnesses. For this reason, disinfection of drinking water by chlorination is beneficial to public health.

What are the health effects of haloacetic acids (HAAs)?

Some studies suggest that people who drank chlorinated drinking water containing disinfection by-products (possibly including HAAs) for long periods of time (e.g., 20 to 30

years) have an increased risk for certain health effects. These include an increased risk for cancer. However, how long and how frequently people actually drank the water as well as how much HAAs the water contained is not known for certain. Therefore, the evidence from these studies is not strong enough to conclude that the observed increased risk for cancer is due to HAAs, other disinfection by-products, or some other factor.

Studies of laboratory animals show that the individual HAAs, dichloroacetic acid and trichloroacetic acid, can cause cancer following exposure to high levels over their lifetimes.

Dichloroacetic acid and trichloroacetic acid are also known to cause other effects in laboratory animals after high levels of exposure, primarily on the liver, kidney, and nervous system and on their ability to bear healthy offspring. The effects reported in studies of laboratory animals occur at exposures much higher than exposures that could result through normal use of the water. The risks for adverse health effects from HAAs in drinking water are small compared to the risk for illness from drinking inadequately disinfected water.

Consumers having questions on any of the above can contact PATRICK NOLAN, Water/Wastewater Superintendent at 518-943-2585; the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Hotline at 800-426-4791; NYS Department of Health at 607-432-3911 or visit the Village of Catskill website at w w w. v i l l a g e o f c a t s kill.net IMPROVEMENTS include replacement of 200 meter registers as

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Working with engineers on a settling basin at the water filter plant, rebuilding the under-drain system and one of the filter media units, which will help with the THMs and HAAs. NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Town of Catskill Planning Board will hold a Public Hearing on application Special Use Permit SUP-1-2018 pursuant to Section 160-12, 160-10 of the Town of Catskill Zoning Code to allow Development of a resort and lodging building on lands owned by Catskill Golf Course located at27 Brooks Lane Tax Map # 138.00-1524 The Public Hearing will be held on the 9th day of July , 2019 at 7 : 0 0 PM , at the Town Hall located at 439-441 Main Street, Catskill, NY. to allow public comment on the above application is open for inspection at the Planning Board Office located at 439 Main Street, Catskill, New York between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 pm By order of J o s e p h Izzo Chairman, Planning Board, Town of Catskill

Application Area VarianceV-7-2019 T a x Map # 119.00-12-16 The Public Hearing will be held on the 1 0 t h day of July , 2019 at 6:00 PM , at the Town Hall located at 439-441 Main Street, Catskill, NY. to allow public comment on the above application is open for inspection at the Office of the Zoning Board of Appeals located at 439 Main Street, Catskill, New York between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m., or by appointment.

By order of Lynne Zubris Chairman, Zoning Board of Appeals, Town of Catskill

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Town of Catskill Zoning Board of Appeals will hold a Public pursuant to Article 160-11of the Town of Catskill Zoning Laws to allow Addition to single family dwelling on lands owned by Lauren Clark located at 244 Malden Ave. Application Area VarianceV-6-2019 T a x Map # 199.07-1-4 The Public Hearing will be held on the 1 0 t h day of July , 2019 at 6:00 PM , at the Town Hall located at 439441 Main Street, Catskill, NY. to allow public comment on the above application is open for inspection at the Office of the Zoning Board of Appeals located at 439 Main Street, Catskill, New York between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m., or by appointment.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC By order of Lynne Zubris HEARING Zoning The Town of Catskill Chairman, of Appeals, Zoning Board of Ap- Board Town of Catskill peals will hold a Public pursuant to Article 160-14 of the Town of NOTICE OF PUBLIC Catskill Zoning Laws HEARING to allow Placement of The Town of Catskill Zoning Board of Apsign peals will hold a Public on lands owned by to Article Kiskatom Reformed pursuant 160-10 of the Town of Church located at Catskill Zoning Laws 4865 Rt.32 Application to allow Placement of Area Variance storage shed on lands V-5-5019 Tax Map # owned byM a t h e w 169.00-3-27 The Public Hearing will Goodell located at 2 5 be held on the 1 0 t h Hillwood Lane Application Area Variday of July , 2019 at 6:00 PM , at the anceV-8-2019 T a x Town Hall located at Map # 137.00-7-44 439-441 Main Street, The Public Hearing will Catskill, NY. to allow be held on the 1 0 t h public comment on the day of July 2019 at above application is 6:00 PM , at the Town open for inspection at Hall located at 439the Office of the Zon- 441 Main Street, Catsing Board of Appeals kill, NY. to allow public located at 439 Main comment on the above Street, Catskill, New application is open for York between the inspection at the Office hours of 10:00 a.m. of the Zoning Board of and 2:00 p.m., or by Appeals located at 439 Main Street, Catskill, appointment.

By order of Lynne Zu- New York between the hours of 10:00 a.m. bris Chairman, Zoning and 2:00 p.m., or by Board of Appeals, appointment.

By order of Lynne ZuTown of Catskill bris Zoning NOTICE OF PUBLIC Chairman, Board of Appeals, HEARING The Town of Catskill Town of Catskill Zoning Board of Ap- NOTICE OF PUBLIC peals will hold a Public MEETING pursuant to Article Planning Board 160-11 of the Town of Town of Chatham Catskill Zoning Laws Columbia County to allow Addition to New York garage on lands PLEASE TAKE NOowned byAntonia In- TICE that the Planning guaggiato Board of the Town of located at 117 Kaa- Chatham has schedterskill Ave. Applica- uled a public hearing tion Area Variance on July 9, 2019 at 7:00 V-9-2019 Tax Map # PM at the Chatham 199.07-4-24 Town Hall located at The Public Hearing will 488 Rt. 295, Chatham, be held on the 1 0 t h NY. The following day of July 2019 at matters will be dis6:00 PM , at the Town cussed at the meeting: Hall located at 439- 1. An Application for a 441 Main Street, Cats- Minor Subdivision and kill, NY. to allow public Site Plan Review for a comment on the above new barracks from application is open for New York State Police inspection at the Office located 488 State of the Zoning Board of Route 295, Chatham, Appeals located at 439 NY, Tax ID#56.1Main Street, Catskill, 51.122.

New York between the 2. An Application for a hours of 10:00 a.m. Minor Subdivision from and 2:00 p.m., or by Bruce Trott located appointment.

414 Bushnell Rd., By order of Lynne Zu- Chatham, NY, Tax bris ID#57.1-28.200.

Chairman, Zoning Copies of the applicaBoard of Appeals, tion materials are Town of Catskill available for public review at the Town Hall PUBLIC NOTICE The Clermont Planning located at the address Board will hold a pub- specified above during lic hearing on Wednes- normal business hours day, July 10, 2019 at - Monday 9 AM to 7:30 P.M. at the Town 4PM and Thursday 9 Hall, 1795 Route 9, AM to 4 PM. Clermont on the fol- Dated July 2, 2019 Erin Reis, Secretary lowing application: Pam Haug, 301 Nevis Planning Board Road, Tax Map PUBLIC NOTICE ID#191.01-1-29, is ap- The Clermont Planning plying for a Minor Sub- Board will hold a pubdivision. lic hearing on WednesAll interested parties day, July 10, 2019 at are invited to attend.

7:30 P.M. at the Town Desiree M. Webber, Hall, 1795 Route 9, Secretary Clermont on the following application: NOTICE OF PUBLIC Carmelite Sisters, 800 HEARING Woods Road, Tax ID# The Town of Catskill 170-1-69, is applying Zoning Board of Ap- to build a visitors cotpeals will hold a Public tage. pursuant to Article All interested parties 160-10 of the Town of are invited to attend.

Catskill Zoning Laws Desiree M. Webber, to allow Addition to Secretary single family dwelling on lands owned by I r - NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT ma Siradze located at 2064 Rt COUNTY OF GREENE JPMORGAN CHASE 23B

BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff AGAINST THOMAS W. JOHNSON, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered 3-26-2019 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Greene County Courthouse, 320 Main Street, Catskill, NY on 7-10-2019 at 1:00PM, premises known as 696 IRVING ROAD, GREENVILLE, NY 12083. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Greenville, County of Greene and State of New York, SECTION: 12.04, BLOCK: 2, LOT: 8.2.

Approximate amount of judgment $186,241.32 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index #165/17. James M. Wagman, Esq., Referee Fein, Such & Crane, LLP Attorneys for Plaintiff 1400 Old Country Road, Suite C103 Westbury, NY 11590 XCHNY138 63553 NOTICE SCHOOL TAX COLLECTOR'S NOTICE TAKE NOTICE, that the School District Tax Collector of the Hudson City School District, Hudson, New York, having duly received a warrant for the fiscal year 2019-2020, (fiscal period July 1, 2019 June 30, 2020) will receive without interest or penalty, all school taxes voluntarily paid at The Bank of Greene County, Fairview Plaza and Proprietors Hall Office, Hudson, New York, during their normal banking hours as follows: (a) From July 15, 2019 to August 15, 2019 during which period the first installment of said tax may be paid without interest and/or penalty; if not so paid; interest shall be added to the amount of any such installment at the rate of one (1) percent, for each month period, or part thereof, from August 16, 2019 until such installment is paid or to the return of this warrant, whichever shall be sooner. (b) From September 15, 2019 to October 15, 2019, during which period the final installment of said tax may be paid without interest and/or penalty; if not so paid, interest shall be added to the amount of any such installment at the rate of one (1) percent, from October 16, 2019 for each one month period; or part thereof, until such installment is paid, or to the return of this warrant, whichever shall be sooner. (c) No installment may be paid unless all prior installments of current taxes, including interest, shall have been paid or shall be paid at the same time. (d) The Warrant shall expire on November 2, 2019, but may be extended as provided by law.

All such taxes and accrued penalties remaining unpaid after November 2, 2019 shall bear additional penalties determined by the County or City Treasurer as the case may be and are subject to tax sale procedures.

Dated: July 20 Deborah Long, Treasurer/Tax Collector Hudson City School District 215 Harry Howard Ave, Hudson, New York PUBLIC NOTICE Please take notice that the Germantown ZBA will hold a Public Hearing on July 18, 2019 at the Germantown Town Hall, beginning at 7:00p.m. All interested parties are welcomed to attend and be heard on the following matter (s): Mr. Domenic Scarpulla has applied for an Area Variance to construct an Exterior Deck on his home located at 4 Disher Lane, Germantown, NY 12526 as the required setbacks are unobtainable.

If you are unable to attend and choose not to speak at the Public Hearing, written comments will be accepted at Town Hall c/o Jami DelPozzo, 50 Palatine Park Road, Germantown, NY 12526 or g t o w n p z sec@yahoo.com Jami L. DelPozzoSecretary Planning and Zoning

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC) The name of the LLC is Tranquility Farm LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on June 3, 2019. New York office location: 206 Thomas Road, Town of Chatham, County of Columbia 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: Tranquility Farm LLC; Attn: Universal Dental, 1565 Palisade Avenue, Fort Lee, New Jersey 07024. 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. RINEAR INDUSTRIAL SOLUTIONS, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 04/23/19.

Office: Columbia County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 421 Mercer Mountain Road, East Chatham, NY 12060. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT: NOTICE OF SALE IN FORECLOSURE COUNTY OF GREENE BAYVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC Plaintiff, vs.

STANLEY J. KOMOROWSKI A/K/ STANLEY KOMOROWSKI, et al., Defendants PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT In pursuance of a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the office of the County Clerk of Greene County on May 1, 2019, I, Max Zacker, Esq., the Referee named in said Judgment, will sell in one parcel at public auction on July 17, 2019 at the Greene County Courthouse, 320 Main Street, Village of Catskill, County of Greene, State of New York, at 9:15 A.M., the premises described as follows: 226 Timbers 5220 SR 23 Windham, NY 12496 SBL No.: 78.19-4-15 ALL THAT TRACT OF PARCEL OF LAND situate in the Town of Windham, County of Greene and State of New York The premises are sold subject to the provisions of the filed judgment, Index No. 1700879 in the amount of $73,002.89 plus interest and costs.

Jennifer T. Abenhaim, Esq. Woods Oviatt Gilman LLP Plaintiff's Attorney 700 Crossroads Building, 2 State St. Rochester, New York 14614 Tel.: 855-227-5072 The name of the LLC is Glam Restaurant Group, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on May 16, 2019. New York office location: 1774 Route 9 #1, Town of Clermont, County of Columbia 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: Glam Restaurant Group, LLC; P.O. Box 468, Germantown, New York 12526.

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. The City of Hudson, NY has issued a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) for the services of a qualified professional design firm to provide design and construction phase services for the renovation of Promenade Hill Park, considered the Country’s oldest

public park. The City is looking for an inspired park design to renovate and refurbish the park that will honor the historic features and create a memorable park experience for visitors of all abilities. With this request for qualifications, the City will make a qualifications-based selection of firms best suited for this project. The City will interview select candidates as an important aspect of the consultant selection. Following interviews, the City will select a firm and negotiate a scope, schedule and fee. The selected consultant will work closely with the City’s DRI Committee and Grant Management Consultant to develop, screen, and advance a design for the park through construction.

An optional pre-submission site tour will be scheduled for 3:15 PM, June 25, 2019.

Following the submission deadline of July 9th, select firms will be invited for interviews slated for July 16, 2019. For RFQ documents go to www.cityofhudson.org or contact the Office of the Mayor of Hudson, 518.828.7217.

The Town of New Baltimore Democratic Committee will hold their annual caucus on Monday, July 15th at 6:30pm at Hallock Park: 1502 County Route 54, Hannacroix, NY approximately onequarter mile west of New Baltimore Town Hall. The purpose of this caucus is to nominate candidates for the town election of November 5, 2019.

Offices open to nominate are Town Supervisor, two Town Council seats(4 year), Town Highway Superintendent and Town Justice.

All registered Democrats in the Town of New Baltimore are welcome to attend.

Eilleen M. Vosburgh, Co-chair New Balitmore Democratic Committee.

TOWN OF CATSKILL PLANNING BOARD Town of Catskill Town Hall 439 Main Street Catskill, New York 12414 (518) 943-2141 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE, the Town of Catskill Planning Board will hold a public hearing in accordance with Town Law § 276 and the Town of Catskill Subdivision Regulations on July 9, 2019 at 7:30 PM at Town Hall, 439-441 Main Street in the Town of Catskill, to consider a two lot minor subdivision of land located on 1645 High Falls Rd. , Catskill, proposed by Robert Patrick Gillis. Written and oral comments will be accepted until the close of the public hearing.

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A tactical savant and patriarch of the Celtics’ dynasty, Auerbach was no industry visionary. Pride? Integrity?

While tanking engineered or authorized by inept owners such as Dolan continues to plague the league, a gimpy Durant laid it all on the line in Game 5 of the recent finals for the Golden State Warriors — a team he apparently had every intention of leaving — and suffered a devastating Achilles tendon injury on the threshold of free agency.

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Diaz, a Puerto Rico native, was drafted as a starting pitcher in the third round in 2012. In 2016, as he was rising through the minor league ranks, the Mariners moved him into the bullpen.

The decision accelerated his career and led to a bigleague call up a month later.

“I’ve always been up to the challenge,” Diaz said.

“Switching positions is always a challenge when you first start it. When they made

me a reliever, that was a challenge that I took on, and I’ve been successful so far.”

Diaz made 49 appearances in his first season with the Mariners in 2016 and finished the year with a 2.79 ERA and 18 saves. He had 34 saves in 2017 before his lights-out 2018 season.

“His fastball is just ridiculous,” Sims said. “I remember he was brought up, and I was like ‘Who is this dude?’ You look at all his arms and elbows and legs coming at you.

“Once he got the lead, it was over.”

While his fastball has stayed relatively consistent, his slider, his go-to when he needs to slow things down, has taken a major hit. Last season his slider resulted in strikes 56% of the time. Now, that is down to 34%.

Mets manager Mickey Callaway said Diaz’s mechanics get in the way, and when he maintains his form and does not cross over his body, his stuff is still top of the line. Di-

az has been working with Phil Regan, the interim pitching coach hired June 22 to replace Dave Eiland, on shoring up his mechanics.

“The bottom line is, bullpens can be finicky from year to year,” Callaway said. “You see different guys having success. There will be a bullpen guy that makes a run for three years, and then all of a sudden he can’t get an out, and then he bounces back the next year.”

Diaz is part of a bull-

pen — and team — that has struggled. The Mets are 3847, including 3-7 in the last 10 games, and are well off track of the first-place Atlanta Braves in the NL East. The bullpen has 21 blown saves, the worst mark in the majors.

“It’s part of our reality,” Callaway said about the team’s struggles. “You have to do what you can to fix it, and you have to do the best you can to come in every day to try and win the next game.”

this past winter and opened up enough salary cap space to land two so-called max-salary players, it was widely anticipated that Irving and Durant were coming to fill the void.

Maybe that was the original plan. Maybe Durant’s injury — likely to keep him out for all of next season — and Irving’s boyhood predilection for the Nets when they played in New Jersey altered their thinking.

Most likely, it was a stark realization that the Nets’ architect, Sean Marks, had already constructed a solid foundation while the Knicks had succeeded only in tearing apart yet another blueprint: the one to build a team around Porzingis, the uniquely skilled giant.

But not just that.

People often wonder why Dolan, in his chairmanship of the Garden, has had measurable success with hockey’s New York Rangers while faring so miserably with the Knicks.

The answer seems clear: The NBA’s difference-makers, in addition to being corporate powerhouses, are also eminent cultural celebrities. They have a grand social platform and have been increasingly eager to use it.

Contrarily repellent is Dolan’s utter intolerance of any departure from his lessthan-enlightened company line. It goes much deeper than profanely arguing with a fan, or punishing journalists — most recently The Daily News’ Stefan Bondy —whose reporting Dolan objects to. Name a Knicks executive, coach or player during the Dolan years known for his outspokenness.

Try to imagine LeBron James’ or Gregg Popovich’s political diatribes at the Garden.

Players like Durant and Irving did not grow up in a bubble. They know that to be a Garden employee who crosses Dolan is to be censored,

or crushed. When Anucha Browne Sanders said in 2007 that she had been sexually harassed in her position as a Knicks marketing executive, Dolan afforded her not a shred of sympathy or respect. (She won a civil judgment in connection with the accusation.)

The origin of Charles Oakley’s beef with Dolan — which led to Oakley’s being cuffed and carried out of the Garden, under arrest — was harmless criticism that rang true.

The great contemporary players all say they love performing under the Garden’s famed dropped ceiling. What they apparently mean is in a visiting uniform. No doubt Porzingis can’t wait to suit up there for the first time since he tore his anterior cruciate ligament in February 2018.

Upon trading him, the Knicks couldn’t be content with the salaries they cleared and the draft picks acquired.

They had to disparage Porzingis as an agitator, a maverick, as if the constant organizational turmoil throughout his time in New York had been nothing to be unhappy about.

The current front office folks had a year and a half after Phil Jackson’s exit to appease Porzingis, and failed. Dolan went on the radio after the trade and bragged: “We hear from people all the time players, representatives who want to come. ... I can tell from what we’ve heard, I think we’re going to have a very successful offseason when it comes to free agents.”

Then came the hard part, the actual selling season. After all the hope and hype, the Knicks were suddenly filling the much-celebrated cap space with a trio of consolation prize forwards —Julius Randle, Bobby Portis and Taj Gibson — on two-year deals that would allow them to be-

gin selling yet another next free-agent fantasy, Giannis Antetokounmpo in 2021. They were surreptitiously letting it be known — after the fact, naturally — that they never really wanted Durant at the full max salary price.

It is, of course, possible that the Nets, the object of free-agent affection for the first time ever, have taken on excessive risk, given the extent of Durant’s injury and Irving’s trademark moodiness.

The Knicks’ default position — developing their young players — may someday even be considered a blessing. With their veteran additions, they may even slip into the playoffs next season. But those are narratives for another time.

Today’s is the persistence of a recurring one: Dolan, an owner from the very old school of player subservience, has once again flunked modern NBA civics.

Rangers sign top free-agent forward Panarin Allan Kreda The New York Times News Service

The New York Rangers continued their roster revamp with their biggest splash yet Monday, signing high-scoring forward Artemi Panarin to a seven-year, $81.5 million contract.

Panarin, a 27-year-old Russian, was among the most sought free agents. He had 28 goals and 59 assists for the Columbus Blue Jackets last season, his fourth year in the NHL. The addition of Panarin continues a dramatic overhaul of the Rangers roster after they missed the playoffs for the second straight season.

John Davidson, former president of the Blue Jackets, joined the Rangers in the same capacity in May. The Rangers have since acquired elite defenseman Jacob Trouba from the Winnipeg Jets and drafted Finnish forward Kaapo Kakko second overall last month. They also expect to have Russian forward Vitali Kravtsov, a first-round pick last year, on the team next season.

“I’m ecstatic about getting Panarin here to join this group. I think he falls right into our plan,” Davidson said. “He’s always wanted to be in the big city and there’s no bigger city than New York.”

The signing comes a day after the New York Knicks, with the same owner and arena as the Rangers, failed to land NBA free agents Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving, who signed with the Brooklyn Nets instead. Panarin had also been courted by the New York Islanders, who share an arena with the Nets.

Panarin represents the type of pure scorer the Rangers haven’t had since Marian Gaborik registered two 40-goal seasons after signing as a free agent in 2009.

“There’s something special about Panarin in the way he plays the game, the way he looks at the game and the way he thinks about the game,” Davidson added. “In watching him play in big spots, he just seems to love it.”

Panarin has 116 goals and 204 assists in four seasons with Chicago and Columbus. He won the Calder Trophy as the league’s best rookie in 201516 and is one of three undrafted players in league history to record at least 70 points in each of their first four seasons.

Rangers general manager Jeff Gorton empha-

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Columbus Blue Jackets left wing Artemi Panarin (9) against the Tampa Bay Lightning in the first round of the 2019 Stanley Cup Playoffs at Nationwide Arena.

sized that in addition to adding an experienced scorer of Panarin’s pedigree, his mentoring potential is equally vital.

“We’re trying to get better every day,” Gorton said. “We have a lot of young players. One of the reasons we made this move is to help with our young players.”

The Rangers also traded forward Jimmy Vesey to the Buffalo Sabres for a third-round draft pick in 2021. Vesey, 26, was a coveted free agent out of Harvard in summer 2016. He had 40 goals and 50 assists in 240 games over three seasons with the Rangers.

And the Rangers signed free-agent forward Greg McKegg, 27, who played 41 games last season for the Carolina Hurricanes, and Danny O’Regan, a 25-year-old center who played for Rochester of the American Hockey League last season.

The Islanders made two key moves Monday,

signing 31-year-old goaltender Semyon Varlamov to a four-year deal to replace Robin Lehner and re-signing power forward Anders Lee, 28, to a seven-year, $49 million contract.

“We feel very good about our team, our core players,” said Lou Lamoriello, the Islanders’ president of hockey operations. “Having them all back for the most part is important.”

Lee had 28 goals and 23 assists last season after he replaced John Tavares as team captain, then helped the Islanders finish with 103 points and reach the second round of the playoffs.

Varlamov spent the last eight seasons with the Colorado Avalanche. He has a career .916 save percentage.

Lehner, who had a memorable 25-win, .930 save percentage season for the Islanders last season, signed a one-year, $5 million contract with the Chicago Blackhawks.

“You never leave relationships or friendships.

Unfortunately things didn’t work out for different reasons,” Lamoriello said. “He’s a quality human being — certainly an outstanding goaltender — and we wish him the best.”

The Islanders also re-signed forward Tom Kuhnhackl to a one-year contract.

Also Monday, former Ranger Mats Zuccarello, traded to Dallas in February, joined the Minnesota Wild with a five-year contract worth $30 million.

Top forward Matt Duchene, 28, signed a seven-year, $56 million with the Nashville Predators.

He finished last season with Columbus after a trade from Ottawa, scoring a career-best 31 goals combined.

Goalie Sergei Bobrovsky, Panarin’s former teammate in Columbus, signed a seven-year, $70 million deal with the Florida Panthers.

Former Anaheim star Corey Perry signed a one-year deal with Dallas after 14 seasons with the Ducks. The Stars also signed former Sharks captain Joe Pavelski to a three-year deal.

And the Toronto Maple Leafs signed veteran forward Jason Spezza and completed a six-player trade with the Ottawa Senators acquiring defensemen Cody Ceci and Ben Harpur and a minor leaguer for defenseman Nikita Zaitsev and forwards Connor Brown and Michael Carcone.

Toronto made a second major trade later Monday, sending veteran forward Nazem Kadri, defenseman Calle Rosen and a third-round pick in 2020 to the Colorado Avalanche for defenseman Tyson Barrie, forward Alexander Kerfoot and a sixth-round pick in next year’s draft.

Former New Jersey Devils goaltender Keith Kinkaid, 29, signed a one-year deal with Montreal.

Detroit signed 35-year-old forward Valtteri Filppula after he scored 17 goals in 72 games for the Islanders last season. Filppula spent the first eight seasons of his NHL career with the Red Wings.

The Devils signed right wing Wayne Simmonds to a one-year, $5 million contract. The 30-year-old Simmonds, a six-time 20-goal scorer during eight seasons with the Philadelphia Flyers, joins P.K. Subban and first overall draft pick Jack Hughes as key additions for the Devils after they missed the playoffs last season.

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Kawhi Leonard’s waiting game raises the stakes for Lakers and Clippers

Mark Bradley The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Dan Woike Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — Kawhi Leonard is worth the time, worth the anxiety and worth the patience. He’s the NBA’s best player today, a superstar free agent who can take over games on both ends of the court. He can hit the big shot — ask Philadelphia and the Golden State Warriors. He can take on the impossible defensive assignment — ask the Milwaukee Bucks and Giannis Antetokounmpo.

Pairing Leonard with LeBron James and Anthony Davis would give the Los Angeles Lakers, even with the most conservative estimates, three of the 10 best players on the planet — an unprecedented amount of talent.

So you wait.

But Leonard’s pace in free agency hasn’t matched the rest of the market. Gone are the days of multi-city meetings and of fancy presentations. There’s no point in shooting new scenes of “The Sopranos,” like the New York Knicks once did for James, or printing up T-shirts and creating a “This is your life” shrine, like the Los Angeles Clippers once did for Blake Griffin. There just isn’t time.

By the end of Sunday, only 11 of the Los Angeles Times’ top 40 free agents hadn’t agreed to deals. By 11:30 a.m. Monday, only seven remained — Leonard, DeMarcus Cousins, Danny Green, Marcus Morris, Kelly Oubre Jr., Kevon Looney and JaMychal Green.

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room and being in the hunt for Leonard. You aren’t the first person into the grocery store with the free-agency storm on the horizon. No, you get stuck in the parking lot hoping the shelves aren’t picked over once you finally get inside.

The Lakers, much more than the Clippers, have their Plan A and Plan B closely tied. Either the Lakers sign Leonard and fill out their roster with more players on minimum contracts than not or they alose out on him and probably fill out their roster with more players on minimum contracts than not.

It’s not an indictment of their thinking — it’s firmly the path they’re on — but it’s a cost they have to pay. Seth Curry, the sharpshooting brother of Warriors All-Star Stephen Curry, would’ve looked great coming off the bench and scoring in the Lak-

ers’ backcourt. The Lakers spoke to him about it.

Instead, he took a four-year deal to play for Dallas, leaving the Lakers to sign shooter Troy Daniels — a one-skill player — who won’t impact games nearly as much as Seth Curry.

Austin Rivers, a combo guard who would’ve been valuable because he could’ve occupied two positions on the Lakers’ thin depth chart, decided to re-up with the Houston Rockets.

There’s still talent available. Danny Green, who has spoken with the Lakers and the Clippers, seems content with waiting to find the right landing spot. Morris and Green are both versatile frontcourt players. Lesser known players, such as former 76ers guard T.J. McConnell or a veteran guard such as Iman Shumpert, are still looking for teams.

The NBA has the worst regular season. It’s not even close.

Think back: When last did you see an NBA game before the Ides of April that you could recall a week later? The league plays 82 games over six months to eliminate 46.7% of its teams, meaning there’s no such thing as a playoff race in pro basketball. (The more heated competition is to land in the lottery.)

No wonder the best players are more concerned with “load management” — sports-speak for “sitting this one out” — than anything that happens in Games 1 through 82.

The NBA also has the best offseason. That’s not close, either. Almost no big-name NFL players become free agents.

Baseball has its big-ticket free agents, but Bryce Harper and Manny Machado needed four months to find new homes; Dallas Keuchel and Craig Kimbrel needed until June. By way of contrast, Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving needed a couple of minutes.

No other league can reconfigure itself in the span of a few days. The NBA does it periodically. There are no Mike Trout lifetime deals in hoops. NBA players were smart enough to ensure that the biggest names would always have leverage.

LeBron James has changed teams three times since 2010.

Durant is on his third team in four seasons, though it’s doubtful he’ll play for his new club until October 2020. Irving is on his third in four. Al Horford will be on his third in five. Jimmy Butler is angling to make it four in four.

The way the NBA works is

this: If a big name wants to leave, he’ll have his chance; if he’s among the biggest of the big, his leaving can rearrange the landscape. As much heat, pun intended, as LeBron felt after “The Decision,” his talentstaking to South Beach marked a new paradigm. He and his Super Friends took the Heat to four consecutive NBA Finals.

Then he returned to Cleveland, where he did the same. Now he’s a Laker. Year 1 went horribly. In Year 2, he’ll be paired with Anthony Davis.

A month ago, you’d have figured Golden State’s string of finals appearances was in no immediate peril. Today the dominant team of the past five years is, with Durant gone and Klay Thompson recovering from a torn ACL and the invaluable Andre Iguodala apparently outbound in a sign-and-trade for D’Angelo Russell, in major flux. Indeed, today it would be hard to name the NBA West’s best team.

Is it LeBron’s Lakers, who have two superstars but not much else? Houston, which couldn’t get past Golden State but might now have no need?

Denver, which finished second in the West and just re-upped Paul Millsaps and Jamal Murray? Portland, which retained Damon Lillard and Rodney Hood? Utah, which added Mike Conley, Bojan Bogdanovich and Ed Davis?

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Durant aligned himself with the Warriors. A summer like this is without precedent. The Clippers could become a huge deal. The Eastern Conference’s longstanding version of the Clippers already did.

The East likewise hangs on Leonard. If he stays with the Raptors, they’ll be favored to repeat. If he doesn’t, Milwaukee assumes the mantle, though the Bucks just lost Malcolm Brogdon, maybe their secondbest player, to Indiana. Horford is leaving Boston for Philadelphia, where he finally gets to play power forward, the 76ers already having Joel Embiid.

Having lost Horford and Irving, the Celtics will try to compensate with Kemba Walker, whose departure from Charlotte could make the Hawks, who haven’t yet joined the freeagent fun, no worse than the second choice behind Orlando, which kept Nikola Vucevic, in the NBA Southeast. (This depends on what you think of Butler, who could land in Miami.)

The big NBA noise, for the first time ever, involves the Nets, who were last really good when Julius Erving was performing with the red, white and blue ball in the old ABA. Brooklyn — yes, Brooklyn — now has two franchise players in Durant and Irving. (Not to be confused with Erving.) Trouble is, Durant is apt to play his first game as a Net at 32, and he and Irving are both finishers, as opposed to distributors. As we know, Irving bristled at playing alongside LeBron, who’s both finisher and distributor. Is one franchise big enough for him and KD?

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