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ATHENS — State police are investigating a hit-and-run crash that destroyed a 64-yearold residential garage and narrowly missed a neighbor while she slept in her nearby bedroom. The incident occurred at around 1 a.m. June 16 on Howard Hall Road, state police said. There were no witnesses to the crash, state police said. No injuries were reported. The report was called in by Luke Weiler of Athens, whose mother, Jacqueline Goddeau,

owns the property, state police Public Information Officer Steven Nevel said Tuesday. “Weiler returned home at 5:30 a.m. and found the garage had been destroyed overnight while he was gone,” Nevel said. “A neighbor heard a crash around 1 a.m. but saw nothing outside.” Weiler said the crash wiped out the garage and was a close call for his neighbor. “It’s just insane it happened and I’m glad they didn’t drive 10 feet to the left when they See HIT AND RUN A8

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A garage in Athens was destroyed last week in an apparent hit-and-run.

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FOR SOME VETERANS, A ROUGH ROAD TO BENEFITS

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Veterans who received a “less than honorable discharge” due to issues stemming from PTSD, traumatic brain injury, military sexual trauma or identifying as LGBTQ would be eligible for state veterans’ benefits under legislation penned by Assemblywoman Didi Barrett, D-106.

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ALBANY — Veterans who received a “less than honorable discharge” because of issues resulting from posttraumatic stress disorder or military sexual trauma, among others, could get access to

state veterans’ services and benefits previously denied to them. The bill, one of a slate of measures authored by Assemblywoman Didi Barrett, D-106, was passed by the Assembly and state Senate last week. The bills are next head-

ed to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s desk for review. Barrett chairs the Assembly’s Committee of Veterans’ Affairs. One of the key pieces of legislation Barrett authored is one that would provide state benefits and services to vet-

erans who served honorably but received “less than honorable discharges” as a result of post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury, military sexual trauma or for identifying as LGBTQ under policies such as “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” which was imple-

mented during the Clinton administration. By receiving a “less than honorable discharge,” these veterans were barred from receiving most state and federal veterans’ benefits. BarSee VETERANS A8

‘Sky is limit’ for Catskill waterfront By Sarah Trafton Columbia-Greene Media

CATSKILL — As the village moves into the final leg of updating its comprehensive plan, residents are also being asked to think about waterfront revitalization. On Thursday from 3-7:30 p.m. at the Robert C. Antonelli Senior Center, the village will host its first open house for residents to come discuss all things waterfront. The village was awarded $85,000 from the state Department of State in 2017 to complete a Local Waterfront Revitalization Program. The program provides coastal municipalities with assistance to reduce flood risk and increase economic develop-

ment and recreation along the waterfront, according to the village’s website. The village is partnering with Crawford & Associates to create its program. “No idea is too small or too large,” Catskill Village President Vincent Seeley said. “The sky is the limit.” One topic will be how to increase public access, Seeley said. “We want to be getting people out and using our waterfront,” he said. The gathering will be informal with a cross-section of village officials and knowledgable experts to answer questions, Seeley said. Seeley also hopes residents See WATERFRONT A8

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Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., on Monday proposed canceling all $1.6 trillion of outstanding student loan debt in the United States, one-upping a rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., who has proposed canceling $640 million of the debt. But there is a potential problem with the Sanders plan, and, to a lesser extent, the Warren plan. Their solutions for the past and plans for the future do not line up. The scope of higher education borrowing is vast. There are over 44 million student debtors, and researchers estimate that as many as 40% could default. Other Democratic candidates have put forth proposals to make college cheaper and debt easier to repay. But none of the plans are so big as those from Sanders and Warren. “I don’t often use the phrase, but today we are, in fact, offering a revolutionary proposal” that will let people “get all of the education that they need to live out their dreams,” Sanders said in introducing his bill. Both Sanders and Warren, who is sponsoring a separate bill, have proposed making all undergraduate programs at public colleges and universities free. That would reduce the need for borrowing. But it would not eliminate future student debt — not even close. That’s because most student loan debt is not taken out to attend undergraduate programs at public colleges and universities. Most loans are used for private colleges, for-profit colleges and, most of all, graduate school. According to the Department

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Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont and 2020 candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, speaks during the South Carolina Democratic Party convention in Columbia, S.C., on June 22, 2019.

of Education, only 45% of student loans are used to attend public colleges and universities, presumably because tuition at those schools is already lower than in the private sector. The department also reports that 40% of loans are taken out to attend graduate or professional school — for example, master’s and doctorate programs, law school, business school and medical school. This number is large because graduate school is expensive and, in contrast with loans for undergraduates, there is no hard cap on how much money students can borrow from the federal government for graduate school. People can borrow the full cost of tuition, books, supplies and living expenses to attend any accredited graduate or professional program. This is why hundreds of graduate programs produce average loan balances of $100,000 or more. Combine the two statistics,

and it’s clear that the majority of all student loans are taken out to attend private colleges or graduate school. This means that the day after Sanders “hits the reset button,” as he put it in the news conference, the national student debt odometer would begin rapidly spinning again. Will those later debts be forgiven, too? If not, the plan would create a generation of student loan lottery winners, with losers on either side. People who had already paid back their loans would get nothing. People with future loans would get nothing. People with debt on the day the legislation was enacted would be rewarded. If, on the other hand, the legislation creates an implicit promise that all kinds of future student debt will also be forgiven, it could have unintended consequences. Graduate programs, by contrast, would still be mostly free

to charge whatever they like, as is the case today. With the precedent of loan forgiveness established, graduate programs could be tempted to charge even more, since students might never have to pay back their loans. Although the Warren plan would not arrest the exorbitant cost of graduate school, it has provisions that could limit unintended consequences to some degree. The plan would limit past loan forgiveness to $50,000, and only for families earning less than $100,000 per year. (Families earning up to $250,000 would receive partial forgiveness.) The Warren campaign estimates that only 47% of master’s degree borrowers and 27% of doctorate and professional school borrowers would have all of their loans forgiven. The Sanders plan has no limits. It simply cancels all student debt. Keane Bhatt, a spokesman for Sanders, notes that the plan would substantially reduce interest rates on future graduate student loans, which are currently as high as 8.5%, and encourage states to limit graduate school tuition increases in public university systems. But he acknowledged that the plan would not make graduate and professional school free, or regulate private universities. Although the nation’s $1.6 trillion outstanding student loan balance is shocking in the aggregate, it is composed of many different kinds of borrowers and many different academic programs. The Sanders and Warren plans illustrate the difficulty of moving from bigpicture numbers and slogans to the nuts and bolts of federal policy.

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400,000 households could lose food stamps under Trump plan expected soon Joe Davidson The Washington Post

WASHINGTON — With the Trump administration considering a multipronged attack on federal poverty programs, Democrats staged a preemptive action. They defended a provision that allows states to provide food-stamp benefits to recipients who are above federal guidelines. And they blasted attempts by Republicans to disparage current program guidelines. At a hearing last week, Republicans pointed to a retired Minnesota man in the audience who received food stamps despite being a millionaire. “So why do we take the money if we know it’s wrong,” Rob Undersander wrote in a 2016 St. Cloud Times opinion piece. “To make a point and raise public awareness. . . . If I say I’m a millionaire receiving food stamps, I have their attention.” Rep. Marcia Fudge, D-Ohio, chairwoman of a House agriculture subcommittee, accused Undersander of defrauding the government with a “ridiculous millionaire stunt.” Rep. Dusty Johnson of South Dakota, the top subcommittee Republican, defended Undersander, saying he “didn’t lie on his forms, he exposed the flaws of a failed system.” Members of Congress expect the Agriculture Department to propose regulations that would eliminate or reduce the ability

of states to allow food stamps for people earning more than 130 percent of poverty guidelines, which is $33,475 for a family of four. Democrats pointed out that the benefit amounts to $1.40 per person per meal. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program - commonly called SNAP - is often referred to as food stamps, its former name. While this proposal is expected soon, President Donald Trump already has called for a 10-year, $220 billion cut for SNAP in his budget plan for fiscal 2020. In addition, some SNAP and other anti-poverty program recipients would be cut by the administration’s plan to change the consumer inflation measure used to determine eligibility for the programs. The federal government pays all of the SNAP benefit, but the states operate the program and pay administrative costs with some federal reimbursement. State officials can include households with incomes up to 200 percent of the federal poverty level. Republicans in Congress previously tried but failed to limit SNAP benefits to households with income of 130 percent of the poverty level. Even with gross income at 200 percent of the federal poverty level, SNAP recipients are still poor. Their net income must not exceed 100 percent of poverty level after deducting for certain expenses such as housing, child

care and health care. Citing Congressional Budget Office figures, Fudge said eliminating the 200 percent provision would result in 400,000 households losing food stamps and 265,000 children not eating free school meals. Republicans consider the broader-based eligibility “a sham,” as Johnson said, because they say recipients can too easily qualify for a program that should target the truly needy. Without the expanded eligibility, “a family can lose substantial SNAP benefits from a small increase in earnings,” Dottie Rosenbaum said in an article for the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, where she is a senior fellow. Mandela Barnes, Wisconsin’s lieutenant governor, spoke from his own experience with joblessness in support of allowing states to provide SNAP benefits to families with incomes up to 200 percent of the federal poverty level. “Thankfully I qualified to receive a modest SNAP benefit, which allowed me to put food on the table instead of forcing me to choose between groceries and paying my bills,” he told

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the panel. “SNAP helped me for [a] short time when I needed it most.” If Wisconsin refused food stamps to those who are above the 130 percent guideline, he said “it would have a profound impact on the health and wellbeing of children in Wisconsin. Roughly 24,000 children in the state would lose access to nutritious food under the proposed rule change,” more than 40 percent of those who now qualify. Forty states, Washington D.C., Guam and the Virgin Islands use the more generous guidelines. COLUMBIA-GREENE MEDIA The Register-Star/The Daily Mail are publishedTuesday through Saturday mornings by Columbia-Greene Media (USPS 253620), One Hudson City Centre, Suite 202, Hudson, NY 12534, a subsidiary of Johnson Newspaper Corp. Periodicals postage paid at Hudson, N.Y., and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Register-Star, One Hudson City Centre, Suite 202, Hudson, NY 12534. TO SUBSCRIBE To order a subscription, call our circulation department at (800) 724-1012 or logon to www.hudsonvalley360.com SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Digital Pass is included with print subscription Daily (Newsstand) $1.50 Saturday (Newsstand) $2.50 Carrier Delivery (3 Months) $71.50 Carrier Delivery (6 Months) $143.00 Carrier Delivery (1 Year) $286.00 EZ Pay Rates: 3 months $65.00 6 months $130.00 1 year $260.00 DIGITAL PASS ONLY RATES: Includes full access to HudsonValley360.com and the e-edition. 3 Months $30.00 6 Months $60.00 1 Year $120.00 Home Delivery & Billing Inquireries Call (800) 724-1012 and reach us, live reps are available Mon.-Fri. 6 a,m - 5 p.m., Sat. 6 a.m. - noon Sun. 8 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

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n Athens Village Board 6:30 p.m. at Village Hall, 2 First St., Athens n Catskill Village Board 7 p.m. at the Senior Center, Academy Street, Catskill n Greene County Legislature workshop 6 p.m. Greene County Office Building, 4th Floor, 411 Main St., Catskill

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

Tuesday, July 2 n Catskill Central School District

BOE Public Hearing on Code of Conduct and Safety Plan 5:45 p.m. in the CHS Library, 341 West Main St., Catskill n Catskill Town Board 6:30 p.m. Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill n Coxsackie Village workshop 6 p.m. at Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

Thursday, July 4 n Catskill Town Offices closed in observance of Independence Day n Coxsackie Village Offices 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 Greenville CSD BOE reorganizational meeting 6:30 p.m. followed by business meeting MS/HS Library, 4976 SR 81, Greenville

Tuesday, July 9 n Catskill Town Planning Board with

public hearing 7 p.m. Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill 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

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

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

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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

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Region A3 Opinion Tuesday, July 23 A4 State/Nation A5 n Catskill Town Planning Board 7 Obituaries A5 p.m. Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill Sports B1 Comics/Advice B4-B5 Wednesday, JulyB6-B7 24 Classiied n Athens Village Board 6:30 p.m. at Village Hall, 2 First St., Athens n Catskill Village Board 7 p.m. at the Senior Center, Academy Street, Catskill

By Amanda Purcell Columbia-Greene Media

COPAKE — A Massachusetts man remained in critical condition Monday after his car hit a guardrail, became airborne and landed in a creek Saturday night, the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office said. The accident was reported at about 7:44 p.m. Saturday, south of Weed Mine Road, according to a news release from the sheriff’s office. Ian Caden, 26, of Lee, Massachusetts, was driving north in a 2008 Saab on Route 22, and, for unknown reasons, crossed center line into the opposite lane, the sheriff’s office said. The vehicle went airborne after hitting the guardrail on the west side of the road, and rolled down a hill, coming to rest right side up in the Roeliff Jansen Kill creek, the sheriff’s office said. Caden was ejected from the vehicle before it rolled

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A car was found in the Roeliff Jansen Kill in Copake off of Route 22 on Saturday. The driver, Ian Caden, 26, of Lee, Massachusetts, was not wearing a seat belt and was ejected from the vehicle, the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office said.

into the creek, Public Information Officer Lt. Wayne

Lopez said. Caden was not wearing

a seat belt at the time of the crash, Lopez said. He was the

only person in the vehicle. Caden suffered injuries to his back, spine and head, Lopez said, He was flown to Albany Medical Center by LifeNet helicopter. Police worked for several hours to reconstruct what happened late Saturday. The reason Caden crossed the center of the road, and any possible contributing factors to the crash, remains under investigation, Lopez said Monday. Sheriff’s Senior Investigator William Foster, Investigator Reagan Anderson, Sgt. Jeffrey Hofstetter, Deputy Peter Merante, and Deputy Timothy Gladwin are investigating the crash. Chatham Rescue Squad, Copake Fire Company, and Ancram Fire Company assisted at the scene. To reach reporter Amanda Purcell, call 518-828-1616 ext. 2500, or send an email to apurcell@ thedailymail.net, or tweet to @ amandajpurcell.

DEC announces progress in efforts to eradicate dangerous and invasive giant hogweed ALBANY — New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Basil Seggos announced that statewide efforts to control giant hogweed are making substantial headway in eradicating this large, invasive, and dangerous plant. The Giant Hogweed Program, managed by DEC’s Division of Lands and Forests, is in its 12th year and has eradicated the plants from 623 sites, with another 448 plant-free sites being monitored. “With the assistance of our local partners, DEC’s Giant Hogweed Program has made excellent progress in removing this dangerous invasive from New York communities,” said Commissioner Seggos. “DEC not only works to eradicate this health hazard, but also to raise public awareness about how to recognize it, avoid it, and report it. We urge New Yorkers to stay vigilant and report potential giant hogweed to DEC, especially during the next few weeks as the plants begin to bloom and become more noticeable.” Giant hogweed can cause severe skin and eye irritation, including painful burns and scarring when skin exposed to its sap becomes more sensitive to UV radiation. As a noxious weed, is unlawful to propagate, sell, or transport. In addition to health concerns, giant hogweed negatively impacts the state’s ecosystem by crowding out native plants and contributing to soil erosion. Over the years, the diligence

of DEC and its regional and municipal partners has led to the confirmation of 2,484 giant hogweed sites in 51 counties. The majority of active sites are concentrated in Central and Western New York. With landowner permission, crews visit and remove these invasive plants using root-cutting, herbicide, and umbel (flower head) removal control methods. DEC released a 2018 Annual Report, which details the progress being made to identify giant hogweed and eradicate this noxious weed. During the 2018 season: Crews visited 1,993 sites to survey for or control giant hogweed; No plants were found for the third consecutive year at 118 sites, bringing the total number of eradicated sites to 623 — an increase of 25 percent from 2017; Of all sites previously treated for infestation, 43 percent (1,071 sites) had no plants in 2018; Crews removed approximately 678,000 plants from 1,271 sites during the 2018 field season; Stream surveys were conducted for the first time last year. Crews searched upstream for additional infestations that may have contributed to known giant hogweed locations from seeds being carried downstream. A two-person crew visited 317 stream-side properties, surveyed 37.6 miles of stream frontage, and found 76 new infestations; Of the sites statewide that still had plants,

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71 percent (1,005) had less than 100 plants and are considered small sites that can be eradicated relatively quickly. DEC expects many more of these sites to have no new plants in the next few years; and Larger sites are responding well to control. Many larger sites that required herbicide treatment are now small enough to be treated by root cutting. Fewer sites have large flowering plants and, in general, sites are patchier than

in previous years. In addition to working with regional and municipal partners, the public has been an invaluable partner in DEC’s Giant Hogweed Program, by submitting about 2,000 location reports via phone calls and e-mails each year. Giant hogweed is currently flowering, making this one of the easiest times of the year to locate the plant. Flowering giant hogweed are eight to 14 feet tall and

have large, flat-topped clusters of small white flowers, a green stem with purple blotches and coarse white hairs, and large leaves up to five feet across. If a member of the public finds giant hogweed, do not touch the plant, take photos of the entire plant (stem, leaves, flower, seeds), note the location, and send a report with the information via email to ghogweed@dec.ny.gov, text to 518-320-0309, or call the Information Line at 845-256-3111. If confirmed, DEC will contact the landowner to discuss control options. To report and learn more about other invasive species, the public can use the iMapInvasives database and mapping tool that helps share and coordinate information about detections and response efforts. For more information about giant hogweed, including eradication efforts, plant ID, or to view the 2018 Annual Report, visit DEC’s website.

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To quote Keanu Reeves: “Whoa.” Most stories don’t have enough heroes. This one has more than we can name. Here’s what happened. A stray three-week-old kitten wandered onto a freshly tarred driveway in Athens, got stuck, struggled and ended up covered in a thick, viscous mess of tar and gravel beneath a dumpster. The first heroes were the construction workers who heard the cries of the trapped male kitty, weighing all of 10 ounces. They stopped the job and spent more than an hour to free the kitten. Once the workers freed

him, they brought the kitten to the next heroes, AnimalKind, at 721 Warren St. in Hudson. AnimalKind specializes in the care and feeding of cats, but this little feline, covered with tar, posed a real challenge. AnimalKind staff said the kitten had a 50-50 chance of survival, but Monday it was on its way to a full recovery. “If the tar had been absorbed into the skin, he would have probably died within less than 12 hours,” shelter manager Sarah Mellin said. Staff at AnimalKind immediately went to work. Three people worked for hours to get the tar off by

bathing and cleaning. Using Dawn dish soap (just like in the commercial), mineral oil and a toothbrush, they took turns gently scrubbing the tar off. Staff workers ended up shaving only a little fur off the kitten. The construction workers and the people at AnimalKind went above and beyond the call of duty to save little Lucky, an apt name for a kitten that endured so much suffering and emerged alive and well. Not to sound too corny, but this is what can happen when the biggest of men set personal feelings aside to help the smallest of creatures.

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Children wearing clothes filthy with snot and tears and food. Children locked in cells nearly all day long, sleeping on cold concrete floors. No windows. Always hungry. No toothbrushes, toothpaste or soap. Children alone, even the littlest among them. These are the conditions in which hundreds of immigrant children are being held at Customs and Border Protection facilities along the U.S. border. Most pets get better treatment. The United States should be horrified and demand that the president and Congress take action, immediately, to provide humane care for these vulnerable young people. Concern about the conditions in which migrant children are held intensified after The Associated Press reported on the findings of a group of lawyers who visited a detention facility in Clint, Texas, in which 250 infants, children and teenagers were being held. “It’s the worst conditions I have ever witnessed in several years of doing these inspections,” said Warren Binford, one of the lawyers, recounting the lack of adequate ac-

cess to food, water and medicine; the minimal adult supervision; and the presence of lice and flu. News reports Monday evening indicated that hundreds of children had been moved out of that facility, but the administration’s responses inspired little confidence that they would be treated better elsewhere. “We’re doing a fantastic job under the circumstances,” President Donald Trump had the temerity to say on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday. He and Vice President Mike Pence, appearing on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” sought to put the blame on congressional Democrats for any problems. “If the Democrats would change the asylum laws and the loopholes, which they refuse to do because they think it’s good politics, everything would be solved immediately. But they refuse to do it,” Trump said. Congress shares in the blame for its failure to address some of the issues that have led to an increase in illegal border crossings. It also has failed to act, after appropriating $400 million in February, on a larger supplemental spending bill to cope with the surge in migrants. A Sen-

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ate version of the bill is headed to the floor with bipartisan support, but its future in the House is unclear. Some House Democrats, using the hashtags #NotOneDollar and #CloseTheCamps, have come out against additional funding because they think it will help advance the administration’s immigration and detention policies. Such thinking is irresponsible; children are hurting. Congress should provide the needed resources and then closely monitor how the money is spent. But if congressional action is irresponsible, it is also understandable, given the contemptuous way Trump speaks of migrants; his loathsome policy of family separation last year; his current lies about that policy; and his constant use of fear, threats and ultimatums in place of an effort to work toward immigration reform. First and foremost, he is responsible for how these children are being treated. The U.S. government should be capable of providing toothbrushes, soap, showers and safe and humane shelter for these most vulnerable human beings.

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Americans in the age of Trump: Less tolerant Jennifer Rubin The Washington Post

In a disturbing new poll, the Public Religion Research Institute finds that “while at least two thirds of Americans oppose allowing small business owners to refuse products or services to minority groups based on their religious beliefs, a small but increasing proportion of Americans think it should be permissible to turn away customers based on their sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, or race.” As one might expect, the big uptick in those willing to refuse service comes among Republicans, but Democrats aren’t immune from the trend to declare that one’s religion permits discrimination against others. “From 2014 to 2019, the partisan gap on this issue has dramatically increased. Nearly half (47%) of Republicans favor such a policy, which is more than double the 21% who favored the policy in 2014. By contrast, today only 18% of Democrats and 24% of independents support these kind of religiously based service refusals. These numbers are also an increase from 2014, when only 11% of Democrats and 16% of independents agreed.” The difference between the parties is stark: - “More than one in five (22%) Americans say small businesses should be able to refuse to serve Muslims on religious grounds. Men are more likely than women to agree (25% vs. 20%). Around three in ten white evangelical Protestants (32%) and white mainline Protestants (28%) say small businesses should be allowed to refuse to serve Muslims for religious reasons, compared to around one in five nonwhite Protestants (21%), Catholics (19%), and the religiously unaffiliated (17%) who say the same. - “Republicans are more than twice as likely as

“caravans” - was the motive for the Pittsburgh massacre, the deadliest attack on American Jews ever. Trump has referred to immigrants fleeing violence in their home country as “animals,” likening there arrival to an “infestation.” No wonder the administration’s lawyers feel entitled to argue in court that their children don’t need basic necessities. Once you dehumanize a group, you give license to abuse and mistreat them. Out of this boiling cauldron of hate, up pops former House speaker Paul Ryan to claim that Trump is just terrific since he stands up for the “forgotten man.” Actually, he’s played into their victimology, which convinces them that white males - not women, not LBGTQ Americans, not people of color - are the real victims and therefore have the right to shove back against minority groups. They aren’t “forgotten” but rather encouraged to spew bile, discriminate against minorities and redefine themselves as the “real Americans.” Ryan can rationalize his enabling of a hateful, racist president all he likes, but in fact without the compliance of Republicans like Ryan, Trump’s assault on transgender troops, immigrants, Muslims and others could not take place. Democrats like to say of the Trump era that “this [racism, Islamophobia, xenophobia, etc.] is not who we are.” But that’s exactly what a growing segment of mostly, but not exclusively, Republicans think about their fellow Americans. Role models matter. Political speech matters. Most of all, elections matter, and unless this trend meets with your approval, it’s incumbent on all Americans of good will to throw Trump, his enablers and his “blood and soil” nationalist ideology out.

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Undocumented who and what? To the editor: Now that the green-light bill has been passed, I will take this opportunity to explain to the Democratic party, my party, as to how stupid they are. I witness the Cuomo show with him standing in front of the Statue of Liberty, a thing that wasn’t here before my family history, saying give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses. Why did he not include give us your typhoid, diphtheria, new strains of flu, AIDS, measles, hepatitis, parasites and fleeing felons. Yes! give us your thieves, burglars, rapist and child molesters and will give them all drivers licenses so they can get around to meet everyone. The bottom line is we have no idea who or what these people really are. They sneak into our country waving a birth certificate but whose birth certificate and how did they get it. Was it purchased on the black market, forged in a basement or did it belong to a family that was murdered, there are plenty of counterfeit documents out there to say who your not.

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Furthermore any undocumented person who is in the country illegally can enter our homes steal and loot and may even murder whole families with little chance of being caught. Oh sure, the police will come and take finger prints and DNA but how do you match undocumented finger prints or DNA. Now what of the terrorist nations, did the Democrats forget about them? It’s quite clear to me that the Dem’s did not read the 911 report which cited our biggest failure was lack of imagination and forward thinking. Make no mistake our next attack will not come from planes, those people know they used that one up. No the next attack will come walking into the country and the people of the middle east do have a very near complexion as those in Mexico and Central America and they will be speaking Spanish just as good or better then the 911 hijackers spoke English. They more than likely will be carrying vials that contain a deadly bacteria or virus and will give them a drivers licenses

to boot. Just think how easy it would be for jihadist to infect themselves then hit as many food market as they can coughing and spitting on as many items as they can, including people before they die days later and we know their willing to die. No lack of imagination or forward thinking here, I told more then one public official that plane attacks were coming back 2000 but hell, who am I? To the people of my county I say hold your children close, bad days are coming with the Dem’s in control. In all my years of public service I have never seen such blatantly dangerous stupidity as I have seen in my own party. I think the Democrat’s are doing exactly what Putin wanted them to do and that is destroy the U.S. of A. No one is saying to immigrants we don’t want you. We are saying we need to know who you are, so take a number and get in line. RICHARD GRAHAM TAGHKANIC

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Democrats to support religiously based refusals to serve gay or lesbian people (47% vs. 18%), transgender people (44% vs. 19%), atheists (37% vs. 17%), and Muslims (32% vs. 14%).” And now 19% (up from 12%) say it is fine to deny service to Jews, and 15% (up from 10%) say it is acceptable to deny service to African Americans. Let’s be clear: President Donald Trump and his evangelical fan base have never been interested in religious freedom, but rather in domination of their own religious beliefs. One cannot favor the Muslim travel ban, suggest Muslims cannot be members of Congress and continue to blame Muslims for terrorist attacks in the United States when, in fact, all terroristrelated deaths in 2018 came at the hands of right-wing extremists and white supremacists. When the president tells the country there were some “very fine” people on both sides in Charlottesville, he empowers racists. This PRRI poll is not the only troubling sign that Trump’s xenophobic, nationalistic and racist rhetoric has had an impact on popular opinion. In April, the AntiDefamation League released its survey. “The U.S. Jewish community experienced near-historic levels of antiSemitism in 2018, including a doubling of anti-Semitic assaults and the single deadliest attack against the Jewish community in American history,” the ADL found. “ADL’s annual Audit of AntiSemitic incidents recorded a total of 1,879 attacks against Jews and Jewish institutions across the country in 2018, the third-highest year on record since ADL started tracking such data in the 1970s.” The fear of replacement by Jews and those immigrants they assist - whipped up by Trump’s rhetoric and scaremongering about M-13 and

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Dear Rusty: I will reach my full retirement age (FRA) in September of 2020 at age 66. My wife will be 64 at that time and will start drawing her SS at half of my benefit because it will be more than hers, even if she reached her FRA. My question is, I know I will need to sign up for Medicare Part A this year at age 65 but do I need Part B at this time? Both myself and my wife work for the same company and have insurance through them. I will have insurance for one more year through the company until I retire at 66. Another question is when I retire at 66 and my wife retires at age 64 at half my benefit, will she be able to sign up for Medicare because

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GLOOR she is drawing SS benefits? Or will she have to wait until 3 months before she turns 65? Signed: Planning Our Retirement Dear Planning: Signing up for Medicare when you turn 65 is optional if you have creditable employer coverage. If you enroll in Part A, and you have a Health Savings Account (HSA) you and your employer must both stop

contributing to it the month before you turn 65. Whether you should take Medicare Part B (coverage for doctors and other outpatient services) at age 65 depends upon whether your healthcare coverage through your employer is considered a “creditable” alternative to Medicare Part B coverage. Generally, if it’s a group plan with more than 20 participants it will be considered creditable, but you should check with your HR department to make sure. Assuming your employer coverage is “creditable,” you can defer enrolling in Part B until your employer coverage ends. At that time, you’ll enter a “special enrollment period” during which you can enroll in Medicare Part B (and Part D drug plan) without a late enrollment penalty. You can enroll in Part B (and Part D)

a little before your employer coverage ends so as to avoid any lapse in health care coverage. If your wife claims her Social Security benefit at age 64 when you claim your SS at age 66, her own benefit will be reduced, and her spousal benefit will also be reduced from 50 percent of yours because she is claiming the spousal benefit earlier than her full retirement age. Any time any Social Security benefit is claimed earlier than one’s full retirement age it is reduced. Taken 2 years before her FRA, your wife’s spousal benefit will be about 42 percent of yours, not 50 percent. Your wife cannot enroll in Medicare simply because she is collecting Social Security; she’s not eligible for Medicare until she is 65 (she can enroll 3 months earlier for coverage

to start the month she turns 65). If your wife retires from work before she is eligible for Medicare, she may use COBRA coverage until she reaches age 65 and her Medicare coverage begins. If your wife claims her Social Security to start when she retires at 64, she will be automatically enrolled in Medicare Parts A and B just prior to her turning 65 years of age, but if she continues to work and still has creditable employee (not COBRA) healthcare coverage from her employer at that time and wishes to delay enrolling in Part B (to avoid the premium), she can do so until her employer coverage ends. Then when her employer coverage ends, she should enroll in Medicare Part B (and Part D plan) during her special enrollment period so as to avoid any future late enrollment penalties.

Finally, you should both be enrolled in Medicare Part A (hospitalization coverage) because it is required to collect Social Security benefits after age 65. Medicare Part A coverage is free for anyone who is eligible to receive Social Security benefits. 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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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 Educa-

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

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

CATSKILL SILVER LININGS SENIORS CATSKILL — The Catskill Silver Linings Seniors meet at 1 p.m. the second Thursday of the month at the Robert C. Antonelli Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill. Newly elected officers are Sheila Pedersen, president; Joan Young, vice president; Renate White, treasurer; Patricia Cardinale, secretary. Georgie Ramsey will continue serving as travel coordinator. New members are welcome. Dues are $5.

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

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

GREENVILLE GOLDEN YEARS CLUB GREENVILLE — The Greenville Golden Club meet at 1:30 p.m. the first Wednesday of the month at the American Legion Hall, 54 Maple Ave., Greenville. The trip to the San Gennaro Feast is filling up. Only have 12 more seats to fill, if interested call Phyllis at 518-943-9028 must be paid for by July 17. The picnic will be held July 17. Everything catered except

bring your own drinks and snacks. Come at noon, eat at 1 p.m. Aug. 7 meeting will be enjoying our ice cream after the meeting.

MOUNTAIN TOP GOLDEN AGERS TANNERSVILLE — The Mountain Top Golden Agers meet at 1:30 p.m. the fourth Thursday of the month at Tannersville Village Hall, 1 Park Lane, Tannersville.

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

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

SUPPORT GROUPS COXSACKIE — A grief support group will start meeting at 6 p.m. the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month at the Bethany Village in Coxsackie. While the loss of a loved one is a common source of grief other reasons include the loss of a job, the death of a beloved pet, experiencing a major health challenge such as cancer and the ending of a relationship. Grief is a very personal and individual emotion. Support groups provide many benefits to those who are grieving. Those who are experiencing grief early on can connect with others in the group who have successfully managed their grief and are further along on their road to feeling happy once again. More information can be found at the face book page at Coxsackie Grief Support Group and also by contacting Jeffrey Haas at 518478-5414 or jhaasrph@aol. com. CATSKILL — The Alzheimer’s Association holds support group meetings at 3 p.m. the first Wednesday of the month at The Pines, Jefferson Heights, Catskill. COXSACKIE — The Alzheimer’s Association holds support group meetings at 6 p.m. the third Thursday of the

month at Heermance Memorial Library, 1 Ely St., Coxsackie. 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.

tor, 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 1-4 p.m. June 27 at the New Lebanon Library; 10 a.m.-1 p.m. July 9 at the Robert C. Antonelli Sr. Center; 10 a.m.-1 p.m. July 23 at the Roeliff Jansen Community Library. For information, call Common Ground at 518-943-0523 or email dwallant@commongroundinc.org.

SHOPPING BUS CATSKILL — The Greene County Department of Human Services offers a shopping bus to Greene County residents 60 and older, living in the towns of Ashland, Athens, Cairo, Catskill, Coxsackie, Greenville, Hunter, Jewett, Prattsville and Windham. Seniors are picked up at their door, driven to Catskill for shopping and then have lunch at a local senior center before returning home. Special trips are scheduled periodically. Monday: Mountain Top/ Catskill (Windham, Ashland, Prattsville, Jewett and Hunter). Tuesday: Cairo/Greenville/ Catskill. Wednesday: Athens/Coxsackie. The Shopping Bus does not run on the following holidays: New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Presidents’ Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Election Day (November), Veterans Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas. The trip to Colonie Center will be Dec. 20. The following is the 2019 trips to Colonie Center. Trips are the third Thursday of the month. The cost is $10. Payment is due at time of departure/boarding. July 18, Aug. 15, Sept. 19, Oct. 17, Nov. 21, Dec. 19. Reservations must be made no later than 3 p.m. of the Wednesday before the trip. In addition, during snow or ice storms, it may be necessary for us to close our senior service centers because of hazardous driving conditions. When we close the centers, we also cancel our transportation services for the day, which includes the Shopping Bus. Advance notice/reservation required for all shopping bus transportation. For information or to reserve a seat, call Janet at 518-719-3559.

Adult Learning Institute announces programming for June HUDSON — The Adult Learning Institute has announced its July programs. All programs are held at Columbia-Greene Community College, 4400 Route 23, Hudson. Call the ALI Office at 518828-4181 ext. 3431 or email ali@sunycgcc.edu to register. Open Pinochle Group 1:30-4 p.m. July 8 and July 15 in the Faculty/Staff Lounge with Madeline Dickerson. Whether you’re a novice, an expert or fall somewhere in between, the Open Pinochle Group welcomes you.This group, which generally meets twice a month on the first and third Monday, provides a wonderful opportunity to learn, share and meet new people with a similar interest. Note that Pinochle will not meet on July 1 due to college being closed. Bridge Group with Bridge Lessons 1:30-4 p.m. July 9, July 16, July 23 and July 30 in the Faculty/Staff Lounge. The bridge group generally meets every week and is open to all members of ALI. If you are interested in learning to play bridge or just need to brush up on your skills, we offer a bridge class. Call Barbara in the ALI Office to register for the class. Bridge will not meet at the college on July 2 as the college is closed. However, ALI Bridge will meet at noon for a luncheon at the Catskill Golf Club’s Bistro 27. Bridge games will follow lunch. Make reservations by June 28 with Nancy Feller.

Mahjongg 1:30-4 p.m. July 10 and July 24 in the Faculty/ Staff Lounge with Barbara Troy. Mahjongg is a fascinating rummy-like game played with tiles rather than cards and the group meets three Wednesdays each month. If you are an experienced player, just call the office and let Barbara know you will be attending. If you are interested in learning to play Mahjongg, please contact the ALI Office and your name will be placed on the list for the next beginner class. Mahjongg will not meet at the college on July 3 as the college is closed. ALI Picnic at Dutchman’s Landing Park at Catskill Point noon-2:30 p.m., note time change, July 11. All ALI members are invited to a picnic at Dutchman’s Landing Park at Catskill Point. Bring your own food and beverages. You can drive on your own or utilize the transportation we will have available from the college to the park and back. If you are interested in reserving a seat on the bus, let Barbara Raido know as there is only room for 10 people. Call 518-828-4181 ext. 3431 or email ali@sunycgcc.edu. Exploring Your Family History 1-2 p.m. or 2-3 p.m. or 3-4 p.m. July 22 in the Staff Café with Glenn Fisher. Exploring family history should go beyond just constructing a family tree filled with names and dates, but should rather be a study of the individual stories and collected heritage

that these names and place represent. Proper study is generally time consuming, expensive and needs a high degree of research skills. Now you can start and continue your own exploration of family history without the need for expensive online subscriptions or travel by scheduling individual consultations with ALI member Glenn Fisher. Advance registration is required. Listen & Learn: The Croswells of Catskill 10:30 a.m.noon July 25 in the Faculty/ Staff Lounge with Jonathan Palmer and Paul Vandenburgh. ALI is pleased to have Jonathan Palmer, Archivist for Greene County Historical Society, speak about the Croswell family of Catskill. Paul Vandenburgh will begin the program with an introductory PowerPoint presentation about “The Era of Martin Van Buren, Washington Irving and their Catskill Connections.” Palmer will continue with his presentation on “The Croswells of Catskill.” At the close of the American Revolution, the dawn of westward expansion brought a new variety of personalities and entrepreneurs to the old Dutch communities of the upper Hudson Valley. The Croswell family was responsible for the first doctor in the village, as well as many other major developments. It is rumored that one Croswell may have played a role in the death of Alexander Hamilton.

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rett’s legislation would grant them state benefits, but would not affect federal services or change their discharge status. “This change in law represents a new approach to treating every veteran with dignity and respect,” Barrett said. “It is a recognition that historically, some service members were not treated fairly during their time in the military and are deserving of the same benefits and services that the men and women they fought alongside are eligible for.” Tim Broder, a Vietnam veteran from Freehold and a veterans’ advocate, said he supports the legislation. “I support it mainly because of the PTSD issues,” Broder said. “In Vietnam, there were guys who got caught doing something not harmful, like smoking marijuana, and they were kicked out. Back then, PTSD was not understood and a lot of troops were bounced out because no one realized what was going on with them when they acted out. A lot of

them developed drug and alcohol problems. The issue of them not getting benefits has been around for years. They are absolutely entitled to these benefits.” Command Sgt. Maj. Gary Flaherty, a 24-year veteran and director of Columbia County Veterans Services, said he has been working for years to secure benefits for veterans dealing with these issues. “I have four different PTSD cases I am working right now,” Flaherty said. “They look at things like what happened to the veteran after they were discharged, but some of them can’t work a job because of their PTSD. I think they should still get their benefits.” Some troops with PTSD and other issues “self-medicate” with drugs such as marijuana while in the service, and that can lead to a “less than honorable discharge,” Flaherty said. Flaherty also has several open cases for veterans who experienced military sexual trauma, which can include rape, sexual harassment or other forms of sexual assault, he said. “In Columbia County, as small as we are, I am working

five cases for military sexual trauma — three are females and two are males,” Flaherty said. “I am working to get them their benefits.” Flaherty said that in a couple of cases he was unable to secure state benefits for those veterans and called on the services of U.S. Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and her office was successful in doing so. There is a similar bill under consideration that would do the same at the federal level, Flaherty said. “We are trying to get the same thing done at the federal level for people who got a ‘less than honorable discharge,’” he noted. “There is a bill going through the House of Representatives right now. They should get these benefits, especially for PTSD and traumatic brain injury.” Mike Adrian, a 23-year veteran who served in Iraq and is commander of the Cairo American Legion, agreed. “They should get the benefits. They served the country, probably during wartime — that’s where they got the PTSD,” Adrian said. “People sometimes don’t realize it until years later. They earned

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Legislation headed for the governor’s desk would grant veterans’ services and benefits currently denied to certain veterans who received a “less than honorable discharge.”

hard work and sacrifices of veterans in the LGBTQ community or those who are struggling with PTSD, TBI or Military Sexual Trauma is unequivocally immoral,” Barrett said. “These individuals honorably fought for our country and our freedoms. There’s no reason ‘bad papers’ should keep them from accessing the resources they need when they return home.”

those benefits, without a doubt.” A companion bill Barrett sponsored would require the state Division of Veterans’ Services to maintain a Discharge Advisory Upgrade Board Program for veterans who are appealing the nature of their discharge in an attempt to achieve honorable discharge status, Barrett said. “Refusing to recognize the

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump threatened Iran with forceful retaliation for any attack on the U.S. after the Islamic Republic ruled out talks to resolve escalating tensions between the two nations. “Any attack by Iran on anything American will be met with great and overwhelming force,” Trump said Tuesday in a tweet. “In some areas, overwhelming will mean obliteration.” Iran earlier said the path to a diplomatic solution with the U.S. had closed after the Trump administration imposed sanctions against its supreme leader and other top officials, raising tensions days after the downing of an American drone brought the Middle East to the brink of war. Trump’s comments came after some news outlets reported that Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said that the Trump administration suffered from “mental retardation.” A more precise translation from Farsi, however, would be: “The Americans have become confused and they do strange things. Things that no wise person in the history of politics has done. The White House has a mental disorder.” “Iran’s very ignorant and insulting statement, put out today, only shows that they do not understand reality,” Trump tweeted. Trump last week abruptly

canceled planned airstrikes against Iran for shooting down the drone. The administration also blames Tehran for recent attacks on oil tankers near the Persian Gulf, which Iran denies. Tensions have spiked in the Gulf since May, when the Trump administration revoked waivers on the import of Iranian oil, squeezing its economy a year after the U.S. walked away from the landmark 2015 deal meant to prevent the Islamic Republic from developing a nuclear weapon. Since then, a spate of attacks on oil tankers near the Strait of Hormuz shipping chokepoint have raised the specter of war and pushed up oil prices. “The futile sanctions against the Iranian leader and the country’s chief diplomat mean the permanent closure of the diplomatic path with the government of the United States,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi was quoted as saying by semi-official Iranian Students News Agency. “The Trump government is in the process of destroying all the established international mechanisms for maintaining global peace and security.” The new penalties are unlikely to have a significant impact on a country that’s already in recession due to stringent U.S. sanctions on its oil sector and has been largely shut out of the global financial system. The U.S. has sanctioned more than 80% of Iran’s economy, according to Secretary of State Michael

Pompeo, who is in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates this week to rally a front against Iran. The targeting of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for U.S. sanctions on Monday shocked some Iranians because he’s considered a spiritual guide and a holy man by his most devoted followers. Trump has coupled his “maximum pressure” campaign of sanctions with invitations to sit down with Iranian leaders. In an interview that aired Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” the president said that he thinks Iranian leaders want to negotiate and he’s willing to talk with no preconditions except that the outcome must be Iran acquiring no nuclear weapons. His national security adviser, John Bolton, said on Tuesday that Iran had an “open door” to negotiations on a revised nuclear deal as he met Israeli and Russian officials for talks on the Iranian presence in Syria. But he said that any talks would have to “completely and verifiably eliminate Iran’s nuclear weapons program, its pursuit of ballistic missiles delivery systems, its support for international terrorism, and its other malign behavior worldwide.”

will take the time to consider what type of economic development they want to see along the waterfront. In this way, the program ties in with the moratorium that the village board enacted in September to work on the new comprehensive plan. New construction from West Bridge Street to the Historic Catskill Point is prohibited during the moratorium. “The reason for the moratorium was to give us time to stop and think about what we want our waterfront, our public access and our village to look like,” Seeley said. The new comprehensive

Creek,” she said. By developing a plan, the village will balance economic development with preservation of natural resources and develop a future around its waterfront, Verna said. Additionally, by having the program in place, the village will become eligible for future funding opportunities. Seeley expects many creative ideas will come from the meeting. The village will hold two more community meetings, one in the fall and another in the winter, Verna said. At the first meeting, specific projects in the waterfront plan will be presented for public comment, and at the second, the entire plan will be presented to the public, Verna said.

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From A1 came through the fence or they would have went through my neighbor’s bedroom and killed her in her sleep,” Weiler said in a statement. “If I was home and my car was in that garage or in front of the fence where I normally park, my neighbor would be dead,” Weiler said. Evidence from the crash left at the scene allowed state police investigators to get some idea of the make and model of the vehicle, Nevel said. The vehicle police are searching for is believed to be a GMC Envoy manufactured between 2002 and 2009, Weiler said. General Motors discontinued production of the Envoy in 2009, according to Cars.com. Weiler is unsure that even with this information, the culprit will be caught, he said. “I’m not sure justice will be served,” he said. Photos Weiler posted online of the scene appeared to show a broken headlight from a black vehicle. The garage was built in 1955, according to Greene County property records.

plan is expected to be completed in late September. Developing the waterfront will be an ongoing process, Seeley said. “The waterfront is always going to be vital,” he said. “It is our next frontier to really push us over the edge to be a destination.” The Local Waterfront Revitalization Program will be well worth the effort, Seeley said. “It gives the public and developers enforceable guidelines of how we want the waterfront to be used,” he said. Donna Verna, general manager at Crawford & Associates, said she thinks the program can be beneficial to communities like Catskill. “[The village] can capitalize on its location on the Hudson River and the Catskill

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Hudson graduate Tomaso enters ENLA Hall of Fame

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The Empire North Lacrosse Association (ENLA) welcomed three new members, including 1962 Hudson High School graduate Marco Tomaso, into its Hall of Fame during the organization’s banquet held at the Shaker Ridge Country Club. The ENLA is the successor organization to the Adirondack Chapter of US Lacrosse, following US Lacrosse’s move away from regional chapters. With 57 years of lacrosse experience, Marco has had an extensive career within the sport and athletics. He played collegiate level lacrosse, and in 1966 received his Bachelors of Science degree in Physical Education, from SUNY Cortland. From there he would have a long term career in athletics at Colonie Central High School. For 34 years Marco served as a Physical Education teacher, and later Department Coordinator and Faculty Manager of Athletics for Colonie High School. During that time, he also coached Wrestling, a program which has continued today to be successful within Section 2 and throughout NYS.

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In 1980, he founded the Lacrosse program at Colonie and was Head Coach of the boys program for 21 years. From there, he would use his prior lacrosse experience having played for SUNY Cortland and in the Mohawk Men’s Lacrosse League to lead Colonie to a Sectional Championship in 1988.

Upon retiring from teaching in 2000, Marco would continue his involvement with lacrosse by joining “the stripes”. He began officiating in 2001 and continues to do so today. He has utilized his mastery of teaching as the instructor for the Capital District Lacrosse Officials Association (CDLOA) new member

classes for the last nine years. In addition, he has volunteered his time as the assignor of officials for the Boy’s Adirondack Summer League for the last 13 years. Marco is the only person in Section 2 to have won a Section Championship as a coach, and then officiate a Section Championship as well.

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Northern Columbia 11-12 year-old All-Star Chase Morrison trots around the bases after belting a home run in Monday’s District 15 game against Chatham.

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KINDERHOOK — Northern Columbia broke open a close game with seven runs in the fifth inning and nine more in the sixth to defeat Chatham, 20-4, in Monday’s District 15 11-12 year-old baseball game. Chase Morrison batled a home run and single with two RBI and Johnny Rivero collected a triple, two doubles and two RBI for Norther Columbia. Liam Mullins added a double and single with an RBI, Nolan Space

had two singles, Wyatt Dolge chipped in with a single and an RBI and Dom Pelizza, Callan Heimroth and Jacob Macfarlane each contributed an RBI. Dolge started on the mound for Northern Columbia and pitched four innings, striking out three, walking two and allowing two runs and two hits. Rivero finished up, fanning four, walking one and surrendering two runs and one hit. Northern Columbia advances to play at Saugerties on Saturday at 5:30 p.m.

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The Northern Columbia Little League congratulates this year’s recipients of the James Dunham sportsmanship awards. Pictured with their coaches (from left): Coach Jason MacFarlane, Johnny Rivero, Coach John Brignull, Dominic Pelizza, Coach Pete Mullins, Chase Morrison, Coach Lee Norton and Callan Heimroth.

Chatham 11-12 year-old All-Star pitcher Logan Smalley delivers a pitch during Monday’s District 15 game against Northern Columbia.

Seven local softball players named All-State

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From Chatham, Patroon Conference Most Valuable Player Jenna Skype earned first-team status, while Brooke-Lyn Doyle was a second-team selection. Greenville’s Melody Kappel was named to the Class B fifth team and Maple Hill’s Alysa Houghtaling was a third-team selection in Class C. Milazzo had a tough act to follow in two-time state Class B Player of the Year Calista

Phippen, who helped the Riders win two state championships, but the sophomore rose to the occasion and had a remarkable year, compiling a 16-1 record in her first full year at the varsity level. Milazzo finished with a 0.69 earned run average, struck out 199 in 111 innings, walked just 29 and allowed just 46 hits and 15 runs (11 earned). “Bella has gotten so many accolades this year it truly

shows that hard work and dedication go a long way,” Ichabod Crane coach Tracy Nytransky said. “She busted her butt all year and was a driving force in why we made it to the state tournament. “As a sophomore, she was able to command the plate very well and always kept her composure no matter what happened. She really did a great job this year on the mound for us and I’m excited

to have her for the next two years. I think we will be very successful in the years to come.” Cox is one of the top allaround athletes in Section II and she proved why in earning first-team status for the second year in a row. Cox batted .423 with 31 hits in 70 at-bats, driving in 19 runs “Gab is one of the most

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Seven local softball players earned All-State status the New York State Sportswriters and Coaches Organization for Girls Sports announced. Leading the way was Section II Class B and state semifinalist Ichabod Crane, which had three players named: Isabella Milazzo and Gabbie Cox on the first team and Brittany Futia on the second team.

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Baseball American League East W L Pct GB NY Yankees 50 28 .641 — Tampa Bay 45 33 .577 5.0 Boston 43 37 .538 8.0 Toronto 29 50 .367 21.5 Baltimore 22 56 .282 28.0 Central W L Pct GB Minnesota 50 27 .649 — Cleveland 42 35 .545 8.0 Chi. White Sox 36 40 .474 13.5 Detroit 26 47 .356 22.0 Kansas City 27 51 .346 23.5 West W L Pct GB Houston 49 30 .620 — Texas 42 36 .538 6.5 Oakland 41 38 .519 8.0 LA Angels 39 40 .494 10.0 Seattle 35 47 .427 15.5 Sunday’s results Toronto 6, Boston 1 Cleveland 8, Detroit 3 Houston 9, NY Yankees 4 Kansas City 6, Minnesota 1 Texas 7, Chi. White Sox 4 Tampa Bay 8, Oakland 2 Seattle 13, Baltimore 3 Monday’s results NY Yankees 10, Toronto 8 Boston 6, Chi. White Sox 5 Kansas City (Keller 3-9) at Cleveland (Plutko 3-1), 7:10 p.m. Tuesday’s games Toronto (Richard 0-3) at NY Yankees, 7:05 p.m. Chi. White Sox at Boston (Price 4-2), 7:10 p.m. Texas (Chavez 2-2) at Detroit (Zimmermann 0-4), 7:10 p.m. Kansas City (Sparkman 2-3) at Cleveland (Bieber 6-3), 7:10 p.m. Tampa Bay (Snell 4-6) at Minnesota (Gibson 7-4), 8:10 p.m. Wednesday’s games Chi. White Sox (Lopez 4-7) at Boston (Sale 3-7), 1:05 p.m. Toronto (Thornton 2-5) at NY Yankees (Paxton 5-3), 1:05 p.m. Kansas City (Junis 4-6) at Cleveland (Bauer 5-6), 1:10 p.m. Texas (Minor 7-4) at Detroit (Boyd 5-5), 7:10 p.m. Tampa Bay (Morton 8-1) at Minnesota (Odorizzi 10-3), 8:10 p.m. National League East W L Pct GB Atlanta 46 33 .582 — Philadelphia 40 38 .513 5.5 Washington 37 40 .481 8.0 NY Mets 37 42 .468 9.0 Miami 30 46 .395 14.5 Central W L Pct GB Chi. Cubs 43 35 .551 — Milwaukee 42 36 .538 1.0 St. Louis 40 37 .519 2.5 Pittsburgh 36 40 .474 6.0 Cincinnati 36 40 .474 6.0 West W L Pct GB LA Dodgers 54 25 .684 — Colorado 40 37 .519 13.0 Arizona 39 40 .494 15.0 San Diego 38 40 .487 15.5 San Francisco 33 43 .434 19.5 Sunday’s results Miami 6, Philadelphia 4 Atlanta 4, Washington 3, 10 innings Pittsburgh 11, San Diego 10, 11 innings Milwaukee 7, Cincinnati 5 Chi. Cubs 5, NY Mets 3 LA Dodgers 6, Colorado 3 Arizona 3, San Francisco 2, 10 innings Monday’s results Philadelphia 13, NY Mets 7 Chi. Cubs 8, Atlanta 3 LA Dodgers (Kershaw 7-1) at Arizona (Greinke 8-3), 9:40 p.m. Colorado (Gray 7-5) at San Francisco (Pomeranz 2-7), 10:05 p.m. Tuesday’s games NY Mets (Lockett 0-1) at Philadelphia (Arrieta 6-6), 7:05 p.m. Washington (Scherzer 6-5) at Miami (Richards 3-7), 7:10 p.m. Atlanta (Fried 8-3) at Chi. Cubs (Alzolay 1-0), 8:05 p.m. LA Dodgers at Arizona (Ray 5-4), 9:40 p.m. Colorado at San Francisco (Bumgarner 3-7), 9:45 p.m. Wednesday’s games LA Dodgers at Arizona (Clarke 1-3), 3:40 p.m. Colorado (Marquez 7-3) at San Francisco (Samardzija 4-6), 3:45 p.m. NY Mets (Vargas 3-3) at Philadelphia (Pivetta 4-2), 7:05 p.m. Washington (Corbin 6-5) at Miami (Gallen 0-0), 7:10 p.m. Atlanta (Keuchel 0-1) at Chi. Cubs (Darvish 2-3), 8:05 p.m. Interleague Sunday’s result LA Angels 6, St. Louis 4 Today’s games San Diego (Allen 1-0) at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m. Pittsburgh (Williams 2-1) at Houston (Cole 6-5), 8:10 p.m. Seattle (Gonzales 8-6) at Milwaukee (Davies 7-1), 8:10 p.m. Oakland (Bassitt 4-3) at St. Louis (Flaherty 4-4), 8:15 p.m. Cincinnati (Mahle 2-7) at LA Angels (Heaney 0-1), 10:07 p.m. Wednesday’s games San Diego (Strahm 2-6) at Baltimore (Bundy 3-9), 3:05 p.m. Oakland at St. Louis (Wainwright 5-6), 7:15 p.m. Cincinnati (Roark 5-6) at LA Angels, 8:07 p.m. Pittsburgh at Houston (Valdez 3-3), 8:10 p.m. Seattle (LeBlanc 4-2) at Milwaukee (Houser 2-1), 8:10 p.m.

Transactions BASEBALL American League Boston Red Sox - Signed SS Daniel Bakst. Chicago White Sox - Activated CF Jon Jay from the 60-day IL. Designated RHP Odrisamer Despaigne for assignment. Cleveland Indians - Optioned RHP Aaron Civale to Columbus (IL). Recalled RHP Jon Edwards from Columbus (IL). Detroit Tigers - Signed C Jonah Girand and C Cole Maclaren to a minor league contract. Signed RHP Beau Brieske, LHP Kolton Ingram, LHP Robert Klinchock, RHP Bryce Tassin, RHP Brendan White, C Cordell Dunn, CF Elliott Cary, CF Connor Perry, RHP Austin Bergner, RHP Michael Bienlien, LHP Josh Coburn, RHP Jack Dellinger, RHP Zack Hess, RHP Sam Kessler, 1B Griffin Dey, SS Jack Kenley, SS Andrew Navigato, 3B Pavin Parks, 1B Cole Zabowski, LF Kerry Carpenter, and CF Jared Mang. Houston Astros - Signed LHP Whit Drennan. Minnesota Twins - Assigned CF Bryson Gandy to the Minnesota Twins, signed him. Assigned 1B Parker Phillips to the Minnesota Twins, signed him. Assigned to the Minnesota Twins. Signed RHP Cody Allen to a minor league contract. Signed RHP Matt Canterino, RHP Sawyer Gipson, 3B Jake Hirabayashi, RHP Bradley Hanner, RHP Casey Legumina, RHP Rogelio Reyes, RHP Matthew Swain, LHP Niall Windeler, C Kyle Schmidt, RHP Sean Mooney. New York Yankees - Assigned 3B Chad Bell to the New York Yankees, signed him. Signed 1B Spencer Henson, 2B Anthony Volpe. Texas Rangers - MLB has reduced SS Asdrubal Cabrera’s suspension from four games to three. Optioned LHP Kyle Bird to Nashville (PCL). Toronto Blue Jays - Signed LHP Jimmy Robbins, RHP Blake Sanderson, and RHP Nick Neal. National League Atlanta Braves - Optioned LHP Grant Dayton to Gwinnett (IL). Recalled RHP Kyle Wright from Gwinnett (IL). Cincinnati Reds - Sent 2B Scooter Gennett on a rehab assignment to Louisville (IL). Colorado Rockies - Sent LHP Harrison Musgrave on a rehab assignment to Albuquerque (PCL). Miami Marlins - Sent LHP Caleb Smith on a rehab assignment to Jacksonville (SL). Philadelphia Phillies - Optioned RHP Enyel De Los Santos to Lehigh Valley (IL). Selected the contract of RHP Fernando Salas from Lehigh Valley (IL). Signed RHP Albertus Barber and LHP Brenden Kudlinski to a minor league contract. Signed LHP Tyler Adams, RHP Carlos Francisco, LHP Nick Lackney, C Vito Friscia, RHP Andrew Schultz, RHP Jose Ulloa, LHP Spencer Van Scoyoc, and C Micah Yonamine. Transferred LF Andrew McCutchen from the 10-day IL to the 60-day IL. St. Louis Cardinals - Signed RHP Anthony Green, RHP Thomas Hart, RHP Tyler Statler, C Zade Richardson, and RF Patrick Romeri.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association Atlanta Hawks - Acquired SG Evan Turner from the Portland Trail Blazers for SG Kent Bazemore. New York Knicks - NBA fined New York Knicks $50,000 for violating the league’s media policy. NCAA Basketball New Mexico - Promoted video coordinator Ralph Davis to director of operations. North Texas - Announced PG Ryan Woolridge has left the program and will transfer to Gonzaga as a graduate.

NBA awards: Antetokounmpo wins MVP, Doncic top rookie Field Level Media

Milwaukee Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo became the second European player to be selected the NBA’s Most Valuable Player, winning the honor on Monday night at the league’s awards show in Santa Monica, Calif. Luka Doncic, the No. 3 overall selection who was traded to the Dallas Mavericks on draft day in 2018, won the Rookie of the Year Award. Antetokounmpo, a 24-yearold from Greece, joins Germany’s Dirk Nowitzki (2006-07 Dallas Mavericks) as European NBA MVPs. The only other non-United States players to capture the honor were Nigeria’s Hakeem Olajuwon (1993-94 Houston Rockets) and Canada’s Steve Nash (2004-05 and 2005-06 Phoenix Suns). In addition, twotime MVP Tim Duncan (2001-02 and 2002-03 San Antonio Spurs) was born in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Antetokounmpo received 78 first-place votes, well ahead of the 23 for fellow MVP finalist James Harden of the Rockets, last season’s winner. The third finalist, Paul George of the Oklahoma City Thunder, received no GARY A. VASQUEZ/USA TODAY first-place votes. Milwaukee Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo poses with his NBA most valuable player award at the 2019 NBA Awards show at “Two, three years ago, I had Barker Hanger. the goal in my head, that goal to be the best player in the season with his leadership, drive Siakam of the NBA champion and Michael Malone of the Den- his point total by 9.6 points per game over the 2017-18 season, league,” Antetokounmpo said. and unselfish play. His grace on Toronto Raptors, who won ver Nuggets. Doncic, a 20-year-old guard the biggest gain by any player to “I’m gonna do whatever it takes and off the court has made him the award over fellow finalists to win, and I’m going to win one of the most admired players De’Aaron Fox of the Sacramento who averaged 21.2 points, 7.8 have played in 40 games in the Kings and D’Angelo Russell of rebounds and 6.0 assists in 32.2 consecutive seasons. MVP. And every time I step on in the world.” Antetokounmpo also was a fi- the Brooklyn Nets. Like Don- minutes per game, is Dallas’ secthe floor, I think of my dad, and Williams, 32, put up 20 points, that motivates me to play harder nalist for Defensive Player of the cic, Siakam ran away with the ond Rookie of the Year winner, 5.4 assists and three rebounds and move forward even when Year, which went to Utah Jazz award, receiving 86 out of 100 joining Jason Kidd, a co-winner per game in 75 appearances in with Grant Hill in the 1994-95 2018-19, starting just once. my body is sore, I don’t feel like center Rudy Gobert for the sec- votes. Los Angeles Clippers guard season. Doncic played in 72 playing, I’m always going to ond year in a row. George also Budenholzer, 49, led the show up and I’m going to do the was a candidate for the defen- Lou Williams was chosen the games last season. Bucks to a 60-22 record in his sive honor. Sixth Man of the Year for the Young, a point guard, aver- first season in Milwaukee, their right thing.” Doncic received 98 of the 100 third time, matching Jamal aged 19.1 points, 8.1 assists and “The Greek Freak” averaged best record since going 60-22 in 27.7 points, 12.5 rebounds, 5.9 votes, with Trae Young of the Crawford for the most times 3.7 rebounds in 30.9 minutes per the 1980-81 season. The 16-win assists, 1.5 blocks and 1.3 steals Atlanta Hawks getting the other winning the award. The only game last season. He played in improvement over the previous two. The third finalist was the other two-time winners of the 81 of the team’s 82 contests. A in 72 games. season was the best mark in the Bucks general manager Jon top pick in last season’s draft, Sixth Man award were Kevin year ago, Young, the No. 5 overNBA this season and earned the Horst, who was selected the Phoenix Suns center Deandre McHale, Ricky Pierce and Detlef all draft pick in 2018, was dealt from Dallas to Atlanta along Bucks the No. 1 seed in the EastSchrempf. Executive of the Year on Mon- Ayton. “First of all, I want to conThe other finalists for the with a 2019 first-round pick in ern Conference. They lost to the day, said in a statement, “We eventual NBA champion Rapare beyond proud of Giannis gratulate Trae and Deandre for Sixth Man award were Williams’ exchange for Doncic. Siakam averaged 16.9 points, tors in six games in the conferfor earning his first MVP award. amazing seasons, and not just teammate Montrezl Harrell and This well-deserved honor is them, but the whole rookie class. the Indiana Pacers’ Domantas 6.9 rebounds and 3.1 assists over ence finals. Budenholzer also won Coach 31.9 minutes and played in 80 due to his relentless hard work I think it’s amazing, and we can Sabonis. Coach of the Year went to the games. ESPN noted that Siakam, of the Year in Atlanta in 2015 afand dedication in becoming make something big,” Doncic the most impactful player in said while accepting the award. Bucks’ Mike Budenholzer, who a third-year player whom the ter leading the Hawks to a 60-22 Named Most Improved Play- beat out fellow finalists Doc Riv- Raptors drafted with the 27th record in his second of five seathe NBA. Giannis propelled the Bucks to great heights last er was power forward Pascal ers of the Los Angeles Clippers overall pick in 2016, increased sons with the team.

There’s more to this NBA free agency than superstars Ben Golliver The Washington Post

When NBA free agency officially opens at 6 p.m. Sunday, more than a dozen current and former All-Stars will be up for grabs. Within that group, there are A-listers (Kawhi Leonard and Kevin Durant), proven vets (Al Horford and Nikola Vucevic), slumping stocks (Kyrie Irving and DeMarcus Cousins) and an intriguing up-and-comer (D’Angelo Russell). Beyond these headliners, though, there are several second-tier players whose summer decisions could shape the 2020 title picture. Here’s a look at five such targets, listed in alphabetical order: 1. Bojan Bogdanovic, Pacers Bogdanovic is in the running for the NBA’s “most underrated player” title. There are some obvious reasons: The 6-foot-8 Croatian forward didn’t arrive stateside until three years after he was drafted, he played for the small-market Pacers, and his career year came at age 29 during a season in which Victor Oladipo’s injury overshadowed any and all positive developments in Indiana. Nevertheless, Bogdanovic averaged 18 points and 4.1 rebounds while shooting 43% on 3-pointers, easily playing himself into a substantial raise after signing a two-year, $21 million contract two summers ago. Indiana must make some choices this summer with five key players hitting free agency, and Bogdanovic probably will prove to be the most coveted of the group. Was the Pacers’ draft night deal for scoring forward T.J. Warren a preemptive strike

to prepare for Bogdanovic’s exit? 2. Malcolm Brogdon, Bucks Bucks general manager Jon Horst began laying the groundwork for an expensive summer by trading away a first-round pick to dump Tony Snell’s contract on the Pistons. His next steps will be to do everything in his power to retain three key pieces that helped make possible Milwaukee’s run to the Eastern Conference Finals: Khris Middleton, Brook Lopez and Brogdon, a 26-year-old combo guard coming off his rookie deal and looking for the first big payday of his career in restricted free agency. Although point guard Eric Bledsoe signed a four-year, $70 million extension in March, Brogdon proved to be a more valuable and reliable playoff performer. In his third NBA season, Brogdon turned in a strong shooting season while playing solid defense and functioning well on and off the ball. Considering his relative youth, high IQ and positional versatility, multiple teams should be angling to poach him. The stakes are massive: Brogdon’s decision could determine whether Milwaukee enters next season as the East favorite. 3. Kevon Looney, Warriors

The Warriors probably have the NBA’s most complicated summer, given that four of their major free agents dealt with injuries during the postseason: Klay Thompson, Durant, Cousins and Looney. The 23-year-old Looney is the only nonstar of the bunch, but Warriors coach Steve Kerr praised him as a “foundational piece” during the playoffs because of his steady defense and reliable finishing. While Looney averaged a modest 6.3 points and 5.2 rebounds during his fourth year, he proved to be an excellent fit alongside Stephen Curry and Draymond Green - the two Warriors stars who are healthy and already under contract for next year. Golden State re-signed him to a bargain one-year deal last summer, but his impressive pick-and-roll defense and his valiant effort to play through a chest injury during the Finals should earn him a nice bump. With so many other changes potentially coming, Golden State can’t afford to lose him. 4. Austin Rivers, Rockets Nothing but negative buzz has emanated from Houston in recent weeks, with reports questioning owner Tilman Fertitta’s financial commitment and hinting at a rift

between James Harden and Chris Paul. Rivers’ free agency should be a telling litmus test on both fronts. The 6-4 guard was a splendid midseason pickup for Houston, and he played crucial minutes throughout the playoffs. Will the Rockets pay up to keep him? Perhaps more important, does he want to stick around? The last time Rivers was a free agent, he pulled down a three-year, $35 million deal in 2016. After the Suns bought him out last season, the Rockets nabbed him for roughly $1 million - a steal. The check is now coming due. There should be a healthy outside market for Rivers’ tenacious two-way play, and retaining him could help push Houston into the luxury tax. 5. Ricky Rubio, Jazz Utah’s trade for Mike Conley last week was a clean

match between a solid, defensive-minded point guard and a solid, defensive-minded organization. For Jazz fans eager to make a deep postseason run, it’s a long-awaited gambit that adds offensive pop to the backcourt alongside Donovan Mitchell. The deal almost certainly seals Rubio’s fate in Utah, where he spent two years alternating between being a fan favorite and a point of frustration. On a roster lacking secondary playmakers, the Spaniard’s below-the-rim style and lack of outside shooting often outweighed his superb vision, plus defense and team-first mentality. There are plenty of teams in need of a point guard this summer, and Rubio could make sense as a budget rental for a playoff team or as a placeholder starter on a rebuilding outfit.

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After botched apology, it’s clear Mets manager Mickey Callaway has lost control David Lennon Newsday

PHILADELPHIA — The Mets have been apologizing for most of their 58-season existence. You’d think they’d be good at it by now. But no. Apparently, in their minds, cursing out Newsday’s Tim Healey, wanting him forcibly removed from the clubhouse and threatening to punch him unconscious — unprovoked, mind you — means never having to say you’re sorry. Or at least on the first try. Until somebody tells you do it again. Like everyone supposedly practiced. What do I mean by that? Mickey Callaway so royally botched what was set up to be his public apology that he needed a do-over — another hastily called presser roughly an hour before first pitch — to get anywhere close to something that fit that definition. I’ve seen plenty as someone who’s chronicled the Mets for the past two decades, and yet Monday’s doubleshot of ineptitude left me stunned. I couldn’t believe it was actually happening. While Callaway did have a private conversation with Healey to clear the air, the Mets needed him to basically stand up, say he was sorry for public consumption, and move on. It’s not hard. We’ve all done it, in some form or another, since grade school. You don’t get to spit a series of expletives at a reporter, and then make a show of trying to bounce him from the clubhouse without apologizing later. Expressing remorse for bullying conduct is how a professional workplace operates, and that’s what a major-league clubhouse is, for everyone in there. Chief operating officer Jeff Wilpon recognized that immediately in

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New York Mets manager Mickey Callaway (36) in the dugout prior to the game against the Colorado Rockies at Citi Field.

calling Healey to apologize within hours of Sunday’s altercation between the reporter and Callaway and Jason Vargas. The Mets also issued a statement later that night, and Brodie Van Wagenen, first to step to the conciliatory plate Monday, was smart enough to follow the script. The GM, however, did not see Callaway’s jarring inability to stay in control, after heavy grilling by reporters, as a reason for concern going forward. “My confidence remains the same in Mickey’s ability to do his job,” Van Wagenen said. But is this really the way the GM wants the job to be done? As if

Sunday’s postgame profanity-fest wasn’t enough, Callaway came off as defiant during the clean-up effort, saying that such outbursts are “part of the game.” He actually cited Billy Martin punching a reporter as an example. No kidding. As if in his brain, something that Martin did in a Reno, Nevada, bar, in 1978, was an acceptable comp for what happened Sunday at Wrigley Field, in a cramped clubhouse, surrounded by his coworkers. When asked the simple question “Was he sorry?” the manager refused to budge. “I can control my reactions better,

absolutely,” Callaway said. Callaway also declined to give his side of the story, on why he did what he did, other than to say he was pretty heated after a brutal loss. As for what he might have done differently? “Not walk to the food room to eat,” Callaway said. “I would have eaten at the hotel.” It was during that sandwich run that Healey offered up the “See you tomorrow, Mickey,” thinking the manager, in street clothes, was headed for the exit. The pleasantry then set Callaway off on the regrettable expletive-paved course he had to answer for — twice — on Monday. Based on the whole insincere

production, you could tell Callaway didn’t feel his actions were entirely unjustified. And here’s the problem: When the presumptive leader of a team acts like a thug, in front of his players, that green-lights Vargas to shoot his shot, as he did in threatening to “knock out” Healey before being restrained by Noah Syndergaard and Carlos Gomez. Is that the example Van Wagenen wants in the manager’s chair? Vargas further showed what that lack of accountability leads to when he stood in front of reporters Monday for a total of 34 seconds, then dashed away without taking a question. “I think it’s unfortunate for all parties,” Vargas said. “An unfortunate distraction.” Where was the distraction for him? People spend more time brushing their teeth than Vargas did answering for his inexcusable behavior. The Mets fined him $10K, but for a guy making $8 million, that barely got his attention, either. Monday should have been so simple for the Mets. An on-camera apology tour is something they’ve done hundreds of times before. But rather than devote their focus to preparing for Monday’s game against the Phillies, they were frantically doublebooking Callaway for a response suitable for a manager wearing the Mets’ uniform. This was the second try. It took 36 seconds. “Just real quick,” Callaway said. “I understand that I got some feedback, and I wanted you guys to know that in my meeting with Tim I apologized for my reaction. I shouldn’t have done that. “I’m not proud of what I did to Tim. And for that I’m definitely sorry.” And this time he meant it? We’re sorry, too. For anybody still putting their faith in this manager.

The NL East was supposed to have four good teams. Turns out it only has one. Neil Greenberg The Washington Post

Before the 2019 regular season started there were 30 teams who had at least some optimism. In the NL East, that included the Atlanta Braves, Washington Nationals, Philadelphia Phillies and New York Mets. As spring training ended, all four of those teams appeared to have a shot at the division. The Braves won the NL East in 2018 for the first time in five years, surprising everyone with a 90-72 record. The Nationals bolstered their starting pitching core with left-hander Patrick Corbin. The Philadelphia Phillies signed outfielder Bryce Harper to a 13-year, $330 million contract, the richest in MLB history. And the Mets traded for closer Edwin Diaz and second baseman Robinson Cano, giving them the biggest offseason net gain of wins above replacement. But instead of four teams jockeying for the division, we instead have a one-team race and three others with more questions than answers. The Braves continue to be the class of the NL East. A 4-3 victory in 10 innings over the Nationals on Sunday gave Atlanta the final two games of its three-game series in Washington. Ronald Acuña Jr., last year’s NL rookie of the year, continues to shine, batting .286 with 18 home runs and a

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talented athletes I have ever coached,” Nytransky said. “Her ability is tough to match. She played varsity for four years and was also a big part of the reasons we were successful. She was able to hit from both sides of the plate and her speed helped tremendously on the basepaths. I only wish her and Brittany and the rest

.866 OPS, creating runs at a rate that is 24% higher than the league average after accounting for league and park effects. He, along with teammates Freddie Freeman, Austin Riley and Josh Donaldson, have helped the club rank second in the majors this year for highest percentage of pitches hit on the sweet spot of the bat, also known as barrels. High quality hits such as those have obvious benefits and are just one reason the Braves are on track to have one of their best hitting seasons since 2003. Even Atlanta’s pitching, which hasn’t been as strong as its hitting, looks as though it might be on the upswing after the team signed lefthander and former Cy Young Award winner Dallas Keuchel to a midseason deal. Keuchel has tossed five innings thus far, striking out three and walking none. His velocity remains troublesome but he’s throwing firstpitch strikes and getting batters to chase pitches out of the zone. “He’s got a chance to be really, really good over his time here,” Braves Manager Brian Snitker said. The outlook isn’t as rosy for the Mets, Phillies and Nationals. Mets Manager Mickey Callaway and pitcher Jason Vargas blew up at a beat reporter after Sunday’s loss, using enough profanity the club issued an apology shortly after. The frustration is justified: New York’s pitchers

of the seniors could have gone out with their second state championship.” Futia saved her best for her senior season, compiling a .462 batting average with a home run and a team-leading 37 RBI.She collected 31 hits in 76 at-bats and led the team with eight doubles. “Britt emerged this season as one of our teams most feared hitters in the lineup,” Nytransky said. “She really came through this year with a big bat and got many hits in pressure situations. She also

have allowed 77 more runs than expected this season after accounting for the men on base and outs remaining in the inning (only the Pittsburgh Pirates are worse). The bullpen is responsible for 46 of those runs, and there has been enough mismanagement of the relievers to embolden those that call for an end to Callaway’s tenure. For example, last week Callaway told reporters he brought reliever Robert Gsellman into an eight-run game because he didn’t want any inherited runs to go on 2018 Cy Young Award winner Jacob deGrom’s stat line. DeGrom is 4-6 with a 3.25 ERA - he has no chance for an end-of-season awards, which only fuels skepticism of Callaway’s reasoning. In Sunday’s game, Callaway told reporters he didn’t want closer Edwin Diaz to pitch a five-out save even though he was willing to call Diaz in for a fourout save. Instead, he watched Javier Baez of the Chicago Cubs hit a threerun home run off reliever Seth Lugo, dropping the Mets to 37-41, four games back in the NL wild-card race and nine games behind the divisionleading Braves. The Phillies lost leadoff hitter Andrew McCutchen to a torn anterior cruciate ligament on June 3, leaving a gaping hole at the top of the lineup. His replacements have combined to hit .237 (last in the majors) with a .273

played an excellent second base for us and has improved every single year she’s been on the field. “She’s a true team leader and a player that the other girls looked up to. She has a really good attitude and is extremely coachable and will be missed a lot next year.” Skype had a big year for Chatham on the mound and with the bat. The senior right-hander compiled a 192 record with a 2.06 earned run average, striking out 92 and walking just 15 in 128

on-base percentage (third worst), creating runs at a rate that is 57% lower than the league average. Plus, Harper has been a bust, batting .248 with a .825 OPS and on pace to establish career worsts in strikeout rate (28%), contact rate (68%) and swinging strike rate (15%). Don’t expect that to turn around soon - opposing managers are employing the defensive shift against Harper 69% of the time. As a result, Philadelphia has lost seven in a row and 16 of its past 22 games. The Phillies have been outscored, 43-15, in that span and have led at the end of only five of the past 63 innings, per the Philadelphia Inquirer. “We just haven’t been playing well. That’s the bottom line,” Phillies outfielder Jay Bruce told the Philadelphia Inquirer. “There’s no sense of sugarcoating it or trying to figure out exactly what it is or why it is. We just haven’t played well. We’re much better than we’ve played.” Not exactly. According to FanGraphs, the Phillies have won one more game than you would expect based on the runs scored and allowed and five more games than you would expect if you take into account the sequence of their plate appearances. For example, if a team walks four times in a row that would score a run but if you get those four walks

innings. She allowed 144 hits and 55 runs, 38 of which were earned. In addition, Skype batted .578 with 48 hits in 83 at-bats. She collected 10 doubles and drove in 30 runs. Doyle’s hard work paid off handsomely with a steallar senior season, in which she batted .584 (52 for 89)two home runs, 23 RBI and eight triples “They had a great year,” Chatham coach J.B. Brantley said of Skype and Doyle. “They both were great leaders

over four different innings it is possible no runs would score. The decline of the Nationals’ bullpen to historic lows is well-documented. Washington’s relievers have allowed 59 more runs that you would expect given the men on base and outs remaining during their appearances and recently parted ways with Trevor Rosenthal, who at one point had an ERA of infinity. If Washington’s troubles stopped there it might be able to contend but instead the batters are average (hitting .254 with a .762 OPS) despite Anthony Rendon, Juan Soto and Howie Kendrick having career years. Kendrick’s season has been so good some are lobbying for him to make his first All-Star Game: The 35-year-old utility man has a career-high exit velocity of 92.3 mph and a career-low strikeout rate of 13%, pushing his overall power numbers to the top of the leader boards. But not even Kendrick can fully salvage the Nationals’ season. Heading into Monday’s off-day, Washington has a 16 % chance to win the division and a 50% chance at making the playoffs, numbers both the Phillies and Mets should envy. The Braves, on the other hand, are estimated to have a 78% chance at winning a second consecutive NL East title and a robust 93% chance at making the playoffs.

for us on and off the field. They were our table setters (12 punch) as they made things very difficult for opposing teams. The rest of the league will be happy they are gone. It has been a pleasure coaching these girls for the past 5 years and I am glad they can both go out with such a nice accolade (well-deserved).” Kappel helped Greenville to a second place finish in the Patroon Conferencereach and a quarterfinal appearance in the Section II Class B playoffs. The sophomore

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left-hander finished with a 12-6 record, striking out 156 and walking 32 in 115 innings. She allowed 74 runs and 115 hits. Houghtaling was again one of the top pitchers in the Patroon Conference in 2019, compiling an 8-10 record with a 1.47 earned run average. She struck out 166 and walked 25 in 118 innings, allowing 54 runs (25 earned) and 88 hits. Houghtaling also batted .485, collecting 32 hits in 66 at-bats with a home run and 14 RBI.

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COLUMBIA-GREENE MEDIA NOTICE of Formation of Limited Liability Company Articles of Organization of Proper Connections LLC (hereinafter the Company) were filed with the Secretary of State of New York on December 5, 2011. The office of the Company is located in Columbia County, New York. The Company has designated the Secretary of the State of New York as its agent upon which process against it may be served. The post office address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the Company is 521 Hall Hill Road, Ancram, NY 12502. The purpose of the Company shall be to conduct any lawful business or activity whatsoever, as permitted by applicable law. Notice of Formation of SHL Vistas LLC, Arts of Org. filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on June 14, 2019. Office location: Greene County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to The LLC at Unit 1095, 92 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. 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. NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF GREENE JPMORGAN CHASE 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 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. The Zoning Board of Appeals of the Town of Hillsdale will hold a public hearing on Tuesday, July 2, 2019 at 7:30 p.m. at the Hillsdale Town Hall to consider the following: An application by Viviana Almeida for a Special Permit Application for change of use at 24 Tory Hill Road, Hillsdale, NY. All interested parties are urged to attend. 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

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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. 17-00879 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. TOWN OF CLAVERACK PLANNING BOARD NOTICE OF MEETING AND PUBLIC HEARING A Public Hearing before the Planning Board for the Town of Claverack will be held on Monday, July 1, 2019 at 7:00 PM at the Claverack Town Hall, Rte. 217, Mellenville, New York on the following application(s): Hudson Greys LLC Subdivision: Tax Map #(SBL) 132 . - 2 - 50 & 29.11. Located at NYS Rte. 23 and Old Barrington Rd. Subdivision of 52.06 acres into 3 parcels of 11, 5 acres, 12.03 acres and 28.53 acres respectively.

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Dodgers to extend netting after latest fan injury:LWK

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One day after a fan at Dodger Stadium got hit in the head by a foul ball, the Los Angeles Dodgers announced Monday that they would extend the protective netting further down the foul lines. Dodgers team president and CEO Stan Kasten told the Orange County Register that the move to add more netting already was in the works before a fan was struck Sunday by a line drive from Los Angeles slugger Cody Bellinger. “We have been talking for some time with different providers and looking at different options,” Kasten told the Register. “Surely we will be expanding netting. I don’t know yet the final configuration. Obviously, there are some different choices to be made and different products which each come with their own set of challenges.” Asked whether the addition would occur this season, Kasten replied, “I can’t say that for sure, although I think it’s likely. For sure, something is going to be done. As for the exact timing, I don’t know that yet.” The Dodgers subsequently issued a press release that read, “Fan safety is of the utmost importance to the Dodgers and during the offseason, we began the process of studying how the netting at Dodger Stadium could be configured to provide better protection for our fans. Once this study is completed, the team will implement the recommended

changes and extend the netting at Dodger Stadium. The team will provide more information on the project timeline and scope when available.” The women who was struck Sunday at Dodger Stadium stayed briefly at the game, given an ice pack to put on her head, but she later left to seek additional medical attention, according to multiple media reports. Bellinger said Sunday regarding stadiums adding to their netting, “I would assume that would be a smart decision, just to protect those people in the front row that don’t have reaction time. I mean, I’m over at first base and I’ve got to be ready, and they’re 10 feet over from me.” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts added, “Talks like (extending the netting) need to intensify, and for me, as we talk about getting ahead of things, I don’t see anything wrong with that idea.” The Dodgers’ announcement comes

a week after the Chicago White Sox said they would extend netting from foul pole to foul pole. That came in the wake of a woman at Guaranteed Rate Field getting struck by a hard line drive on June 10. The Washington Nationals also announced Thursday that they would extend the netting further down the left and right field lines, past the dugouts. The movement for baseball teams to add more fan protection ramped up after a 4-year-old girl was hit by a linedrive foul ball off the bat of the Chicago Cubs’ Albert Almora Jr. during a game against the Astros in Houston in late May. Kasten told the Register, regarding teams coming to the same conclusion as the Dodgers, “I think it was expected in baseball because all of us have been talking about doing more. All of the teams have. It wasn’t a surprise at all. One of the things that has changed and

has been helpful is that the modern-day fan has more of an expectation of seeing netting than they ever have before. And that’s useful to know because customer opinions are very important.” Last season, 79-year-old Linda Goldbloom was struck by a foul ball at Dodger Stadium on Aug. 25 and died four days later. An autopsy determined the cause of death was acute intracranial hemorrhage caused by the impact of the baseball. According to Erwin Goldbloom, the widower of Linda, the Dodgers offered to pay for funeral expenses. He told reporters that the family filed a wrongful death suit against the team and the two sides reached a settlement in January. He declined to disclose terms. After several injuries in 2017, all major league teams had nets that went out at least as far as the end of the dugouts for the start of 2018, according to commissioner Rob Manfred.

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Next 10 races will decide who makes the playoffs Field Level Media

Martin Truex Jr.’s Sonoma spectacular understandably will earn most of the headlines coming out of the weekend’s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series’ first road course race of the season. He joins NASCAR Hall of Famer Jeff Gordon as the only drivers in Sonoma (Calif.) Raceway history to win back-to-back races. And equally important to the 2017 series champion, the victory was No. 4 on the season, tying him with Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Kyle Busch for most in the series. Busch now trails defending series champion Joey Logano by a single point in the championship standings. And while Truex is ranked fifth in points - 100 behind Logano - he would move to second place if the playoff rankings (based on victories) were reset today. But it was another group of competitors in Sunday’s field who find themselves immersed in a race-by-race, high-stakes battle to stay among the Playoff Top 16 as the series moves to Chicagoland Speedway for this week’s Camping World 400 (Sunday, June 30 at 3 p.m. ET on NBCSN, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). Hendrick Motorsports’ William Byron, who finished 19th at Sonoma, is ranked 14th in the Monster Energy Series driver standings with a 29-point gap over his Hendrick teammate, 17th place Jimmie Johnson, who fell just outside the championship cutoff despite a 12th-place run at Sonoma. Chip Ganassi Racing’s Kyle Larson, who finished 10th at Sonoma, moved into 15th in the series driver standings and trails Byron by 11 points. Roush-Fenway Racing’s Ryan Newman, who finished seventh at Sonoma, moved into the 16th and final playoff transfer position. He has the slimmest of slim 1-point advantage over Johnson, who was 12th at Sonoma and is 17th in the standings. Joe Gibbs Racing driver Erik Jones, who finished eighth on Sunday, is ranked 18th in the series driver standings, only

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Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series driver Martin Truex Jr. (19) celebrates with his team after winning the Toyota / Save Mart 350 at Sonoma Raceway.

five points behind Newman in the cutoff position with 10 races left to settle the playoff field. There has been substantial movement between 15th and 18th place in the standings in just the past seven weeks. Newman, Johnson and Jones, for example, have changed points positions six times in the past seven races. Larson has moved four times. There are 10 races remaining to set the 16-driver playoff field - naturally creating a sort of playoff “chase” within the playoff push. And it’s go-time. Byron, the second-year Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series driver, was sixth at Pocono and eighth at Watkins Glen in his maiden Cup season (2018). However, he does have a pair of

past NASCAR Xfinity Series and NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series wins at both Daytona and Indianapolis - important venues in this next 10-race group. Larson has fared very well at the upcoming venues, scoring 20 of his career 48 top-five finishes at one of these next 10 tracks. And he has a career-best three wins at Michigan. Judging by statistics, Newman should feel very optimistic about this stretch of the schedule too. He certainly was enthused by his work at Sonoma. His seventh-place finish was his best showing since a seventh in 2008 at the famed road course - 11 years ago. “We had good strategy and good pit stops, good everything,” Newman said. “We just

didn’t quite have the speed to be able to get up there and pass those guys that were in front today.” He’s equally hopeful about the next summer months - having earned half of his career 18 victories at tracks in this next 10-race stretch of venues. And the winning has been diverse. He’s won at six of the tracks - three times at New Hampshire, twice at Michigan and once each at Daytona, Indianapolis, Chicago and Pocono. Of course with 83 trophies and seven series championships in his wheelhouse, Johnson cannot be counted out to qualify for the playoffs either. He is hoping to break a two-yearplus winless streak and surely likes his chances. He’s a former multi-time winner at Daytona, New Hampshire, Pocono, Bristol, Darlington and Indianapolis. He has a win at Michigan too. This week’s venue in Chicago, plus Kentucky (July 14) and Watkins Glen, N.Y. (Aug. 4) are the only tracks on the entire schedule where he’s yet to celebrate in winner’s circle. Jones understandably would be enthusiastic about his summer slate. He scored his first career Cup win last July in the Daytona summer night race. And 11 of his career 18 top-five finishes have come at tracks in the calendar’s next 10-race stretch. He was runner-up at Bristol, Tenn., in the summer of 2017, leading 260 laps and he was runner-up at Indianapolis’s Brickyard 400 just last year. His four top-fives this season already are nearly half of his careerbest season total (nine), set last year. “It was good,” Jones said following his eighth-place effort on Sunday at Sonoma. “We passed a lot of cars. I am just happy we were able to come out of here with a solid day. “Wish we could have gotten some more stage points, but it was nice to get a good finish.” And, he added., “We just needed track position. I think we were probably a few spots better than that, but it’s still good. It’s nice to get back on track. Hopefully this is good momentum for next week in Chicago.”

Tennis travails, not triumphs, gain a spotlight in an Instagram series Ben Rothenberg The New York Times News Service

The gimmick of the “Behind the Racquet” series on Instagram is simple: Tennis players’ faces are partially obscured by the strings of the tool with which they make their living. But the series, created by the American player Noah Rubin, has proved remarkably revealing, allowing his peers to share their vulnerabilities and struggles in raw, often unflinching details. Rubin, 23, began “Behind the Racquet” in January, taking inspiration from “Humans of New York,” the popular social media project that has sought to tell the stories of people otherwise lost in the urban shuffle. Rubin, who is from Long Island, said he hoped he could add similar depth to the perceptions of the players pursuing professional tennis careers alongside him. “I was looking around and thinking, ‘I don’t think people really know their stories,’” he said. “I think there’s a lack of connection between fans and the players.” Rubin, who won the junior title at Wimbledon in 2014, has spent most of his professional career playing on the lower Challenger circuit and struggling with injuries, reaching a careerbest ranking of 125th in October. Many of the players whom Rubin has featured on “Behind the Racquet” have had similar career arcs, with little news media attention or recognition despite their world-class talents. Rubin interviews players to create the first-person captions that accompany the photos. In more than 40 posts, players have detailed a wide range of experiences, including struggles with motivation or stuttering, financial hardships and misdiagnosed injuries. Promising young players who have been derailed by injury and fallen off the tennis radar, like CiCi Bellis and Ana Konjuh, resurfaced on “Behind the Racquet” to tell their stories. “I want people to know what’s going on,” Rubin said, “and I’m not going to sugarcoat it.”

He said he felt “almost as a therapist” at times. “I’m trying to ask them what that was like, to get deeper into it, when all I want to say is, ‘I’m really sorry,’” he said. Many players have been eager to join the project. After commenting on an earlier post, Sachia Vickery was contacted by Rubin and jumped at the chance to participate. She shared a story of not being able to afford breakfast before the final of a junior tournament. Though Rubin’s journey through tennis was far different from hers, Vickery said she felt that he would understand her better than most could. “He can relate to everything that everyone that’s posted on the page is talking about,” Vickery said. “The player factor is what’s making people think, ‘OK, he gets where I’m coming from.’” Bradley Klahn, whose post described a panic attack before a match at the 2014 French Open, said he saw “Behind the Racquet” as part of a larger movement toward athletes’ being more open about mental health problems. “You’re starting to see more people show more vulnerability than what maybe we were used to, opening up and not always trying to put on this toughguy mentality,” he said. The most prominent player who has participated is 17th-ranked Madison Keys, a finalist at the 2017 U.S. Open. She discussed her two-year battle with an eating disorder as a teenager. “I let other people change how I felt about myself,” Keys said in her post, “and that hurt the dream I’ve been working towards since I was 4 years old.” Though her career has been widely covered since she was young, Keys had never told that story publicly. “I think a lot of the players have not felt that they’ve had a voice, or an outlet where they could express these more difficult things,” said Mike Cation, who travels as an embedded commentator on the Challenger

Tour. “I really think that’s starting to happen, and more players are starting to realize that they can come out and say some of these things without negative repercussions.” To more deeply explore the topics touched on in “Behind the Racquet,” Cation has added Rubin as a cohost on his podcast, “The Coffee Cast.” The three episodes the two have recorded together have featured more travails than triumphs, and the wounds linger longer than the wins. “Behind the Racquet” forms a coherent and dispiriting picture of the human toll tennis takes, particularly in its current structure. Players ranked around Rubin’s current level of 183rd in the world often struggle to afford coaches and other necessary expenses for traveling on tour. “Tennis is a broken system right now: It’s one of the least promotable and fanfriendly sports out there,” Rubin said. “I have a big issue with this because I love tennis so much, but for the players, people involved with tournaments, and for the fans, it’s not in a place that’s conducive to growing an international sport.” He sees many of the player difficulties he has documented in “Behind the Racquet” as systemic, and he was able to channel his own pain into the creative outlet of the series, he said. “Through how mentally draining and grueling a season of tennis is, people find their ways to cope,” Rubin said. Rubin dreams of a restructuring of tennis that would put greater emphasis on teams to make the sport less isolating and that would shorten the lengths of matches and seasons to allow more time for healing and rest. “The sport is just not giving enough opportunity for those players to branch out and do what they want,” Rubin said. “There’s not enough money, there’s not enough opportunity, and it’s just not an ideal environment for happiness with how long matches are, with how long the seasons are.”

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USA’s Megan Rapinoe, left, scores her side’s second goal of the game from the penalty spot against Spain during the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2019 Round of Sixteen at Stade Auguste-Delaune II in Reims, France on Monday.

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They didn’t dominate. They certainly didn’t look invincible. Both of their goals came on penalty kicks and the second one was on a questionable foul. But, in the end, the only thing showing on the Women’s World Cup bracket is the United States beat Spain 2-1 to reach a Friday quarterfinal in Paris, where host France awaits. The bracket will not show that the Spaniards’ smart tactics and relentless defense neutralized the Americans’ high-octane offense, holding it scoreless from the open field. It will not show that superstar Alex Morgan was rendered virtually invisible, as she struggled with the physical play of Spain’s defenders. Nor will it show that an illadvised clearance by U.S. goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher and careless play by Becky Sauerbrunn led to the Spain goal. But U.S. coach Jill Ellis and her team are well aware of what happened, and how fortunate they were to hang on and advance thanks to two nicelyplaced penalty shots by Megan Rapinoe and a never-say-die attitude. “You can talk tactics, but heart, grit and resolve — that’s a big part of World Cup soccer,” Ellis said in a TV interview after the game. “No game is every easy in this tournament. We know that, we’ve learned that. So, part of it is the mental piece, and I thought they were great.” In a way, Monday’s hardfought clash is exactly what the U.S. players needed, a bright

red wake-up call to remind them that they are beatable, that other nations are catching up and that racking up 13 goals on Thailand means nothing if you can’t score on the good teams. The Americans outshot the Spaniards 12-5, but failed to finish. Anybody surprised that Spain was deadlocked with the United States through 75 minutes has not been paying attention to the Spanish team. “La Roja,” as the Spanish team is nicknamed, is ranked No. 13 in the world and cruised through qualifying by outscoring Austria, Finland, Serbia and Israel by a combined score of 25-2. Back in January, in their only meeting before Monday’s game, the Americans and Spaniards met in a friendly in the Spanish city of Alicante and the score was tied 0-0 at the half before Christen Press scored to give the United States a 1-0 win. Through the group stage of this World Cup, Spain dominated possession and its lone loss was 1-0 to Germany. So, it was not shocking to see Jennifer Hermoso tie Monday’s game 1-1 in the ninth minute — the first goal the United States conceded in 647 minutes. Spain is a good team, and getting better. The Spanish U-17 team is the reigning world champion and the U-20 team was runner up in its World Cup last year. Watch out for Spain in the 2023 World Cup. Spain’s rise is the result of a big-time investment of energy and resources by the Spanish federation to women’s soccer in that country. Ten players on the Spanish World Cup team

are teammates on FC Barcelona, a club that drew a crowd of 60,000 for a regular-season game against Atletico Madrid. The rest of the world should take note. If you invest in women’s sports, you will get results. The U.S. Soccer Federation figured that out long ago, which is why the United States has won three World Cups and favored to win a fourth. But still, there is more work to be done to pay members of the U.S. women’s team fairly and keep them atop the sport. The talent gap around the globe is closing, as we saw on Monday. Friday’s quarterfinal match against France will be no easier. In fact, it should be more challenging. The French team, like the U.S. team, is loaded with talent and its stylish play is befitting a nation known for its fashion sense (although, not sure their white jerseys and socks dotted with small hexagons were a good idea). It should be a thrilling game with a spot in the semifinal — likely against England — on the line. Both teams are coming off close wins. The French needed 107 minutes to get a winning goal against Brazil on Sunday. Amandine Henry showed why she wears the captain’s armband when she came through with the winning shot. Like the Americans against Spain, the French did not play up to their reputation against a gritty Brazil team. But they found a way to advance, and that’s really all that matters in the knockout rounds. It’s not about winning pretty. It’s about winning.

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Mother-in-law’s nighttime attire causes consternation I have a wonderful mother-in-law whom I love very much. She frequently stays overnight in my home. I also have two young sons. My mother-in-law recently mentioned to me that she doesn’t wear underwear to DEAR ABBY bed and never has, including while staying at my house. I’m troubled by this because she wears nightgowns to bed, and I’m afraid my sons might accidentally see her lady parts. Also, she sleeps on my furniture like this, and I feel it is disrespectful and unladylike. I don’t know how to say to her that, for the sake of my furniture and my sanity, I need her to wear underwear to bed when she stays at my house. Do I broach this subject, or am I being unreasonable? Proper In Ohio

JEANNE PHILLIPS

What your mother-in-law wears to bed is her business, not yours. Unless your little boys are playing peek-a-boo underneath her nightie, they won’t notice — or care. How long is that garment anyway? If it reaches below her knees or to her ankles, there should be no “bootie contact” with your sofa. In the interest of family harmony, I recommend you take a chill pill and leave the subject alone. I’m in love with a man who doesn’t want us to be described as anything more than friends. We are together every day, and he knows I love him. We have sex, and I sleep over whenever possible. He wants me there all the time but with no status. Am I wrong for wanting more? Will there ever be more?

Nameless In Pennsylvania The answers to your questions are no and no. Your “friend” wants the benefits of being a lover and none of the responsibility. Have you talked with him about this? You are not “wrong” for wanting more, but you are mistaken if you think that being at his beck and call is the way to get the commitment he is so unwilling to make. You might have better results if you quit being so available. I’m recently married to my second wife. We have a great relationship, but I feel like she has a better relationship with my two daughters than I do. They do everything together, and my daughters don’t want to do anything that includes me. Part of me is grateful they have such a great relationship, but I’m also jealous that my relationship with them is not as good as hers. Should I say something? I don’t want to ruin what they have, but I feel neglected. Envious In The East I wish you had mentioned how old your daughters are. I see nothing to be gained by not discussing this with your wife. Parenting is not supposed to be a contest. Your daughters may not mean to exclude you, but may assume you wouldn’t be interested in the things they are doing or discussing. If you let them know you’re sincerely interested in joining in some of their activities, you may be surprised at how quickly they include you.

Can the time a stomach takes to empty influence obesity? A friend was given a test to see how long food stayed in her stomach after eating. She was told that it stayed only a short time before continuing its journey, a much shorter time than the average person. This was given as a reason for her obesity, that she experienced hunger sooner than most people. TO YOUR Does this really happen, and GOOD HEALTH is there a way for her to manage it so that she can lose weight?

DR. KEITH ROACH

A gastric emptying study is usually used to look for delayed gastric emptying, also called gastroparesis. It can be the result of several different types of nerve diseases, but especially diabetes. An abnormally rapid gastric emptying is also called dumping syndrome, and is often a problem after some types of gastric bypass surgeries. I did find a paper from the 1980s suggesting that obese people have shorter gastric emptying times. This was confirmed in a trial from 2015 looking at the diabetes drug exenatide (Byetta), which is sometimes used to help people lose weight, even if they do not have diabetes. Interestingly, exenatide was more likely to cause people to lose weight if they had faster gastric emptying times. I do not mean to suggest that fast gastric emptying is the only reason for your friend’s (or anyone else’s) weight problems. Obesity is a complex problem with no single cause or solution in most people. I am glad you wrote. I did not know about

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this research before, and it may be worth it for your friend to discuss a trial of exenatide with her doctor. Regarding GERD, you wrote in a recent column that “famotidine (Pepcid) ... is effective for occasional use.” My doctor has been prescribing it for about 10 years. Should I ask him about your statement? Hagar the Horrible

Famotidine and other medicines like it (in the class of drugs known as H2 blockers) are considered safe for short-term use, and probably for long-term use as well. Most studies looking at long-term use of H2 blockers have found that they are safer than the more powerful proton pump inhibitor drugs, such as omeprazole. Still, taking drugs for decades should prompt the question of whether there is effective non-drug therapy for the condition. Some lifestyle treatments include diet changes, weight loss if appropriate, not eating for three hours before bed, raising the bed at the head and avoidance of caffeine, tobacco and alcohol. I also worry that there may be a serious underlying condition, so it is worth considering an evaluation, including a direct look at the stomach. Asking your doctor about your medical concerns is always a good idea.

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Horoscope By Stella Wilder Born today, you are not “ordinary” in the common sense, for there is so much about you that makes you stand out from the crowd — and those things are recognized almost immediately by anyone who meets you. You are keenly interested in all manner of unusual topics, and though you may not ever receive advanced formal education, you are sure to be well-rounded and to even boast some expertise in topics that others are simply not drawn to — and that’s because you are compelled to learn as much as you can, on your own, about the things that interest you. And those things can be quite unusual in the extreme. You like keeping busy; if you get bored, you’re likely to become somewhat self-destructive. You seem at times to be more like a Gemini native than a Cancer, for you have a kind of “shadow self” that is recognizable when you are suffering from some kind of discontent. Also born on this date are: Ariana Grande, singer; Derek Jeter, baseball player; Gretchen Wilson, singer; Eleanor Parker, actress; Abner Doubleday, U.S. military leader. 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, JUNE 27 CANCER (June 21-July 22) — What you have in store can please a great many, but someone is likely to remain aloof and critical of your efforts. What’s really going on here? LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — You’ll want to go over your “moves” before you put them on display today. Get someone who is objective and honest to look at what you’re doing. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You’re not likely to uncover many unexpected options today, if any, so

you must be prepared to choose from those you already know. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You have some more training to get under your belt before you’re going to feel comfortable doing certain things, and it can start today. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — You can actually learn a great deal today from someone you’ve always tried to keep at arm’s length. You have more in common than you know. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — You are unusually determined at this time, and you can make great headway if you will dispense with some of your old-fashioned methods. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You know that you’re here to stay, but you must convince someone in charge that you are worth the long-term investment. You can do it! AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — The memory of someone you worked with some time ago will see you through a rough patch today. He or she affected you in important ways. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — You must take the time to weigh all your options. Today, if you are able to look in the mirror and make an honest assessment, all will be well. ARIES (March 21-April 19) — You’re looking forward to doing something you’ve yet to announce. Using the element of surprise like this can serve you very well. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — You may be confused by certain realities today, and if money is the matter, then you’ll want to get some expert advice, surely. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Your confidence is on the rise, but you must take care that it doesn’t make you overlook a very real hazard. Things can get dangerous. COPYRIGHT 2019 UNITED FEATURE SYNDICATE, INC.

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THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek

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Americana “G” Level 1

Each answer starts with “G.” (e.g., A seafood soup/stew popular in Louisiana. Answer: Gumbo.) Freshman level 1. Feb. 2. 2. Ground hominy. 3. A thousand dollars. Graduate level 4. A large lake in northwestern Utah. 5. Elvis Presley’s mansion in Memphis. 6. A nickname for New York City, PH.D. level 7. Marine slang for eagerness to get the job done. 8. Somewhat dated two-word term for peanuts. 9. Towns largely abandoned by their inhabitants.

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

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

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

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Solution to Tuesday’s puzzle

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

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SUPER QUIZ ANSWERS 1. Groundhog Day. 2. Grits. 3. Grand. 4. Great Salt Lake. 5. Graceland. 6. Gotham. 7. Gung-ho. 8. Goober peas. 9. Ghost towns. 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 Play on words 4 Amphitheater 9 Eat nothing 13 Acceptable 14 Water lily 15 Similar to 16 Take a break 17 Ridiculous 19 “What’ll __”; Irving Berlin song 20 __ max; fully 21 Removes from power 22 Blood problems 24 Prohibit 25 Clergyman 27 Feeling confined 30 Sums lent 31 Assumed name 33 Catch forty winks 35 Diminishes 36 Coat material 37 Rescuer 38 Have a bug 39 Fit of rage 40 Sweetheart 41 Just around the corner 43 Most untainted 44 __ 180; change directions 45 Nut variety 46 Parts of wineglasses 49 Actor Gable 51 __ the line; obey 54 Disloyal to one’s nation 56 Sci-fi staples 57 Smallest continent: abbr. 58 Lariat 59 Baby beagles 60 Gambles 61 Actor Buddy 62 Jolson & Roker DOWN 1 “The __ Piper of Hamelin” 2 Standoffish 3 Holey fabric 4 Author Louisa May __

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5 __ for; cheers on 6 Engrave 7 Heat in the microwave 8 As light __ feather 9 Display showily 10 Shoots carefully 11 Short one-act play 12 Casual shirts, for short 13 Calendar abbr. 18 Complains 20 Throw 23 Camera’s eye 24 Rosary piece 25 “Guilty” or “Not guilty” 26 Williams or Gibb 27 Wharf 28 Humdrum 29 Removes tater skins 31 Askew 32 Zodiac sign 34 Harbor town 36 Brass instrument

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37 Bar Mitzvah dance 39 Winter coating 40 Good fortune 42 Fesses up 43 Human being 45 TV remote button 46 Injure with a dagger

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47 Accurate 48 Cardinal point 49 __ Louie; “King of Salads” 50 Sports stat 52 Klutz’s word 53 19th letter 55 Flamenco shout 56 __ tree; cornered

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