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The village of Coxsackie held a groundbreaking ceremony Saturday for its wastewater treatment plant.

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COXSACKIE — The village has made significant headway on two municipal projects: revamping the wastewater treatment plant and the new McQuade Park playground.

Village officials Saturday held a formal groundbreaking ceremony for the wastewater treatment plant with representatives from Delaware Engineering and Kubricky Construction.

The project will allow the village to end the moratorium that officials declared in 2005 and add additional connections to its sewer system.

In May, the village received See VILLAGE A8

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Village officials, accompanied by neighborhood children, cut the ribbon opening the new McQuade Park playground in Coxsackie.

Defusing any talk of a possible rematch in 2020, John Faso will not try to win back the seat he lost to Antonio Delgado last year, the former congressman announced Tuesday.

Faso, a Republican, lost the 19th district race to his Democratic challenger in 2018. Delgado won 51.4% of the vote to Faso’s 46.2%, according to the New York Times Wire Service.

Personal commitments are keeping him out of the race, Faso said Tuesday.

“After a great deal of consideration, I have decided I will not be a candidate for the house in 2020,” Faso said.

“Family and professional obligations require that I not be a candidate.”

If Faso were going to run for office, he would need to start his campaign almost immediately, he said.

“My family and professional obligations don’t give me the time I would need,” he said.

Faso, who hails from Kinderhook, looked back fondly on his time in office.

“It has been a great honor to serve for two years,” Faso said.

“I’m deeply appreciative to the people in the 19th District for giving me the opportunity.”

Delgado, who is from Rhinebeck, declined to comment on Faso’s decision.

Greene County Legislature Chairman Patrick Linger, R-New Baltimore, said he respected Faso’s decision.

“It’s his call and no one else should have any thoughts on it,” Linger said.

Linger did not have any predictions about whether the next election cycle would flip the 19th District back to the Republican party.

“Delgado has only had a few months here,” Linger said. “If you’re doing what your conSee FASO A8

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Assemblyman Chris Tague, R-102, announces proposed legislation that would make volunteer firefighters and emergency medical services personnel exempt from state income taxes.

ALBANY — Assemblyman Chris Tague, R-102, has introduced legislation that seeks to beef up volunteer first responder services by offering a 100% exemption from state income taxes.

If adopted, the legislation would apply to eligible volunteer firefighters and emergency medical services personnel, and would make them fully exempt from paying state income taxes.

A similar bill has been introduced in the state Senate by Sen. James Seward, R-51, who represented Greene County in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

The goal, Tague said, is to encourage volunteerism and to “address the massive labor pool issues” faced by volun-

teer firehouses and emergency medical services.

“Our volunteer firefighters and EMS sacrifice so much for us,” Tague said. “They miss birthdays, holidays, family dinners, football games, dance recitals and thousands more that the rest of us take for granted, all so that when we dial 911 someone will be there for us. They’ve paid their due hundreds of times over and it’s time we gave back to them.”

To be eligible for the exemption from state income taxes, a volunteer must be in good standing with his or her organization, have completed a minimum of one year of service and have fully completed all state-mandated training courses. They must also be See EXEMPTION A8

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Josh Dawsey The Washington Post WASHINGTON — Johnny DeStefano, one of President Trump’s top advisers who served as a bridge between the Republican Party and the administration, is leaving the White House Friday, according to officials familiar with his decision.

DeStefano — one of the last remaining aides from the start of the administration — was a key contributor to the administration’s political strategy during the 2018 midterms and ran the Office of Presidential Personnel in the early days of the administration, where he was responsible for staffing a large portion of the government during the turbulent early days of the Trump presidency.

He told Trump Monday that he would be leaving the administration, White House officials said. DeStefano declined to comment. He is expected to advise a number of companies, including Juul, the e-cigarette company, while helping on the campaign, according to people familiar with his plans.

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Top Trump adviser Johnny DeStefano, center, walks with White House Communications Director Bill Shine, left, and senior adviser Jared Kushner as they cross the South Lawn of the White House on Nov. 26, 2018.

better. Johnny is indefatigable, knowledgeable, worthy of the highest praise, and personnel is policy. He served the President extremely well,” National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow said in a statement.

DeStefano was a former aide to Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and was among the most establishment figures in Trump’s White House. He was a low-key survivor in a dramatic West Wing — largely holing away in his second

floor office and staying out of the most contentious fights by cultivating close ties with former Chief of Staffs Reince Priebus and John F. Kelly.

Republican strategists in frequent touch with the White House said DeStefano usually gave the president sound advice — and helped bridge the gap between an unorthodox White House and the party. He also understood Capitol Hill, aides said, and gave Trump realistic advice on what could pass — and where votes were

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But DeStefano got off to a rocky start while in his first post running the Office of Presidential Personnel and Management, which was seen as a chaotic operation in the early days of Trump’s presidency. By all accounts, the office lagged far behind its predecessors in appointing and confirming appointees across the government. The problems with the office’s performance were often attributed to the overall chaotic nature of the West Wing but DeStefano also faced criticism for not running a smoother operation.

Some White House advisers also questioned the political strategy in the 2018 midterms — including the travel choices and the messaging — though much of it was determined by Trump. Republicans lost control of the House, which has led to aggressive oversight that has bedeviled the administration.

Unlike many other advisers and Cabinet secretaries, West Wing officials said, DeStefano was leaving on good terms with the president.

Walmart workers invite a special guest to their annual meeting: Bernie Sanders Abha Bhattarai The Washington Post

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For years, Walmart workers have attended the company’s annual shareholders meeting to call for higher wages, better benefits and more predictable schedules.

This year they’ll have someone new delivering the message on their behalf: Sen. Bernie Sanders.

The presidential candidate, who has repeatedly called on Walmart to improve its working conditions, is heading to Bentonville, Arkansas, on June 5 to introduce a shareholders’ proposal that would give hourly Walmart workers a seat on the company’s board.

“These workers need and deserve a seat at the table,” Sanders, I-Vt., told The Washington Post. “If hourly workers at Walmart were well represented on its board, I doubt you would see the CEO of Walmart making over a thousand times more than its average worker.”

If passed, the measure would require the retailer to consider its 1.5 million hourly U.S. employees when nominating candidates to its board, which is currently comprised of a dozen wealthy executives from companies like McDonald’s and NBCUniversal.

“At a time of deepening racial and economic divide and insecurity, hourly associates can guide a more fair, inclusive and equitable corporate ecosystem that bridges differences,” the proposal says.

It was filed by Walmart employee Cat Davis, who is also a leader for workers’ rights organization United for Respect.

“We really want Walmart to think about us -- the lowly associates who, behind the scenes, are the one bringing in the money,” said Davis, who works as certified pharmacy technician in New Bern, North Carolina.

Davis said she invited Sanders to speak at the

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Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont holds a rally at Central Piedmont Community College on the lawn of Overcash Center in Charlotte, N.C., on May 17, 2019.

shareholders meeting because he has supported workers in their fight for better pay and paid sick leave.

In November, Sanders introduced legislation aimed at getting Walmart to offer better pay and benefits. The “Stop Walmart Act,” would prohibit corporations from buying back their own stock -- which drives up share prices and ultimately benefits shareholders -- unless they pay all workers $15 an hour, offer seven days of paid sick leave, and limit executive compensation to 150 times median employee pay. (Walmart Chief Executive Doug McMillon last year was paid $23.6 million, or 1,076 times the median Walmart worker’s salary of roughly $22,000, according to company filings.)

“Walmart is not a poor company,” Sanders said. “Workers are sick and tired of being paid poverty wages while the Walton family is worth over $170 billion.”

The measure, though, is is not likely to pass. Walmart shareholders have voted down every employee proposal in company history, according to United for Respect.

The Walton family owns about half of the company’s shares, meaning it has considerable control over votes.

A spokeswoman for

Walmart said the company would not comment on Davis’s proposal until it was formally presented at the meeting.

“We’re proud of the fact that 75 percent of our U.S. management associates began their career as frontline hourly associates,” the company said in a statement. “If Senator Sanders attends, we hope he will approach his visit not as a campaign stop, but as a constructive opportunity to learn about the many ways we’re working to provide increased economic opportunity, mobility and benefits to our associates - as well as our widely recognized leadership on environmental sustainability.”

Walmart’s board has nine men and three women, including Stephen Easterbrook, the chief executive of McDonald’s; Marissa Mayer, the former chief executive of Yahoo; and four members of the Walton family.

At least two other

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shareholder proposals will also be up for a vote during the annual meeting: one that calls on Walmart to take additional measures to prevent workplace sexual harassment, and another that would change the way shareholders vote for board members. Walmart is advising shareholders to against both, according to the company’s proxy filing.

Sanders will hardly be the only well-known personality at the company’s shareholder festivities, where surprise headliners like Katy Perry, Blake Shelton and Mariah Carey have become the norm.

Thousands gather at the University of Arkansas’s Bud Walton Arena every year for the multi-day event, which is part pep rally, part pop concert, and includes shareholder votes on a range of matters.

Amazon.com last year raised its starting hourly wage to $15 an hour after Sanders introduced a bill that called on the company to pay its workers a “living wage.” (Jeffrey Bezos, the founder and chief executive of Amazon, owns The Washington Post.)

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Annual Tour of Homes on June 1 in Cairo

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Thursday, May 23 n Windham-Ashland-Jewett CSD Board of Education 7 p.m. in the School Library, 5411 Route 23, Windham

Monday, May 27 n Catskill Town Offices closed in ob-

servance of Memorial Day n Coxsackie Village Offices closed in observance of Memorial Day n Greene County Office closed in observance of Memorial Day

Tuesday, May 28 n Catskill Town Planning Board 7 p.m. at the Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill

Saturday, June 1 n Coxsackie Village clean up day 8 a.m.-3 p.m.

Monday, June 3 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

Thursday, June 6 n Cairo Town Planning Board 7 p.m. at

the Town Hall, 512 Main St., Cairo n Coxsackie Village workshop 6 p.m. at Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

Monday, June 10 n Catskill Village Planning Board 7 p.m. at the Catskill Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill n Coxsackie Village Board 7 p.m. at Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

Tuesday, June 11 n Coxsackie Village Historic Preserva-

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

Wednesday, June 12 n Athens Village Board 6:30 p.m. at

Village Hall, 2 First St., Athens

Thursday, June 13 n Windham-Ashland-Jewett CSD Board of Education 7 p.m. in the School Library, 5411 Route 23, Windham

Monday, June 17 n Athens Town Board 6:45 p.m. at the

Town Hall, 2 First St., Athens

Tuesday, June 18 n Athens Village Planning Board 6:30 p.m. at Village Hall, 2 First St., Athens

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This home in Cairo will be one of the homes featured on GCHS’s 43rd annual Tour of Homes.

POUGHKEEPSIE — Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corporation was selected as a recipient of the 2019 ENERGY STAR Award for Excellence, for its exceptional efforts in promoting and educating its customers on ENERGY STAR-certified products.

Central Hudson’s accomplishments were recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. on April 11. This is Central Hudson’s second ENERGY STAR recognition, receiving a similar award in 2018. “We’re proud to once again be selected for this prestigious award, as it is a reflection of our environmental stewardship and our dedication in helping our customers use energy

wisely,� said Charles A. Freni, president and CEO of Central Hudson.

The utility received the award for its multi-channel promotional and social media outreach in advancing featured ENERGY STAR LED lighting, smart thermostats, appliance recycling, lighting contests and in-store promotions at area retailers. Achievements include: Offerings of discounted ENERGY STAR LED lighting and smart thermostats on Central Hudson’s online CenHub store; in-store signage and instant rebates on LED lighting at participating Mid-Hudson Valley home centers; a $50 incentive program for recycling older, less efficient working refrigerators; promotion of ENERGY STAR LED lighting and appliances

Town of Catskill Memorial Day parade CATSKILL — The town of Catskill Memorial Day committee announces the parade and ceremony will be held at 11 a.m. May 27 in the village of Catskill to honor servicemen and servicewomen for their service to the country.

The parade will include federal, state, county, town and village elected officials; the Pipes and Drums of Greene; Catskill, Palenville, Kiskatom and Leeds fire companies; Girl Scouts and Brownies; Cub Scouts;

through the Light the Moment photo contest, in which customers submitting photographs of an illuminated special life moment were entered to win $1,500 towards the purchase of an ENERGY STAR-certified appliance of their choice; and ENERGY STAR Day promotions through social media, instore promotions, website, radio and the internet. “I applaud the 2019 ENERGY STAR Award Winners,� said EPA Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation Bill Wehrum. “Their innovation and leadership enhance America’s economic competitiveness. Reducing costly energy waste improves air quality and public health while protecting the environment.�

Since 1992, ENERGY STAR and its

partners helped save American families and businesses nearly $ 4 trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity and associated reductions of more than 3 billion metric tons of greenhouse gases.

In 2017 alone, ENERGY STAR and its partners helped Americans save $30 billion in energy costs.

ENERGY STAR Excellence Awards are given to companies and organizations in recognition of important contributions to energy efficiency.

For a complete list of 2019 winners and more information about ENERGY STAR’s awards program, visit www. energystar.gov/awardwinners. For more on Central Hudson’s energy efficiency programs, visit www.CentralHudson.com and click on “Efficiency.�

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American Legion; Catskill Elks Lodge 1341; Catskill High School Band; CES Business Club; CES Student Council; Village of Catskill Police Department and other organizations.

The ceremony will be held on the steps of the courthouse immediately following the parade.

If any organization would like to participate, they are asked to call the Catskill town clerk at 518-943-2141 ext. 3.

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USS SLATER will be open to the public for guided tours from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. each day this Memorial Day weekend, including May 27. Typically the ship is closed on Mondays for continuing restoration, but exceptions are made for significant holidays. Everyone is encouraged to take this opportunity to visit USS SLATER, the only DE afloat in America. The ship is located on the Hudson River in downtown Albany just south of the Dunn Memorial Bridge. Admission is $9 for adults and $7 for children. Call 518-431-1943 for more information or visit www.ussslater.org.

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Bagged lunches will be available for as long as they last at the Sacred Heart Church Annex and will be offered for sale by the Cairo Little League.

Proceeds from the sale of tour tickets support the Greene County Historical Society, the Bronck Museum, and the Vedder Research Library.

New this year, the Greene County Historical Society invites visitors to the Bronck Museum at 3 p.m. June 2 for a special concert in support of the Meadow Ridge Heritage Barn.

The instrumental group, MeadowSuite, will perform music from various historical time periods. Tickets for this event are $10.

For information on the 43rd annual Tour of Homes, call Donna Poulin at 518-821-0894 or Carol Serazio at 518-731-9050 or visit www.gchistory.org. For additional information on the Bronck Museum events, contact them at 518-731-6490.

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CAIRO — The Greene County Historical Society presents its 43rd annual Tour of Homes 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

June 1 in Cairo. The tour features historic sites throughout Cairo from the late 1800s through the early 1900s.

Explore the architecture along the main streets and back roads from Acra to South Cairo. This ideal town is located at the foot of the Catskills with breathtaking views and a history rich in agriculture, industry and tourism.

Tickets can be purchased the day of the tour for $30 at tour headquarters, located at the Sacred Heart Church, 36 Church St., Cairo. To reserve advance sale tickets for $25, send a check payable to GCHS to: Greene County Historical Society, P.O. Box 44, Coxsackie, NY 12051.

Advance sale tickets will not be mailed but will be distributed the day of the tour. Reservations must be received by May 31.

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Wheelabrator has to say it’s over An ash landfill just isn’t in the game plan for the town of Catskill. Wheelabrator withdrew its plan to locate one at the old Peckham Industries quarry along the Hudson River in Smith’s Landing. But it’s a bit premature for landfill foes to pop champagne corks.

Catskill Village Trustee Joseph Kozloski was informed by Wheelabrator representatives at a meeting last week that the company was cutting its losses and abandoning the ash landfill proposal. But it is not official until Wheelabrator issues a public statement that it is leaving, something the company appears reluctant to do.

It’s worth noting that confirmation Friday from Kozloski is solid and repu-

table, but Village President Vincent Seeley confirmed the same day that a letter from Wheelabrator is pending. The company gave verbal assurance that the project is dead but, as Robert Heinlein wrote, we would like to know more.

Two Wheelabrator officials, Senior Manager of Business Development Mark Schwartz and Director of Communications & Community Engagement Michelle Nadeau, did not return multiple calls for comment Friday. And the Catskill Town Board did not receive direct confirmation of Wheelabrator’s change of heart, as of Friday.

Judith Enck, former regional administrator with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, has

been a leader in the fight against Wheelabrator. Enck said last week she is cautiously optimistic about the company’s news.

Nobody in Catskill would have any right not to be cautious. It is vitally important for Wheelabrator to confirm its intentions in a public statement. The company owes it to the people of Catskill to say if it is withdrawing.

If Wheelabrator is in fact withdrawing, it’s a smart move. The Hudson has endured more than its share of threats to its survival.

It does not need another.

Wheelabrator arrived in Catskill with a dangerous plan. Now, the company would be wise to avoid new plants in the Hudson Valley entirely.

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Trump’s war-crime pardons are an insult to millions of service members The Washington Post

As Memorial Day approaches, President Donald Trump has reportedly asked the Justice Department to ready paperwork to pardon several U.S. service members accused or convicted of war crimes, including murder, attempted murder and desecration of a corpse. Each case is distinct, but taken together, such pardons would send a message of disrespect for the laws of war and for the larger values that the United States’ fallen service members have so nobly defended.

War is hell, but there are rules, and the Defense Department maintains a 1,193-page Law of War Manual. The purposes are worth recalling: to protect combatants, noncombatants and civilians from “unnecessary suffering”; provide some basic protections to those who fall into hands of the enemy; facilitate restoration of peace; help commanders ensure the disciplined and efficient use of military forces; and preserve the “profes-

sionalism and humanity of combatants.”

Trump, in pursuit of some hazy notion of military toughness, shows little respect for these principles.

On the campaign trail in 2016, he declared that “torture works” and that he would resume the use of waterboarding in interrogations. In 2015, he declared that the families of terrorists should be killed. This month, Trump signed a full pardon for former Army 1st Lt. Michael Behenna of Oklahoma, who had served in Iraq with the 101st Airborne Division and was convicted of unpremeditated murder. Military intelligence professionals had interrogated a man on suspicion that he was a member of al-Qaida with knowledge of a roadside bombing in which two U.S. soldiers were killed. They ordered Behenna to drive the suspect home. He took the detainee to a railroad culvert, stripped him naked, interrogated him at gunpoint and then shot him in the head and chest, saying it

was self-defense.

Among those Trump is now considering for clemency, The New York Times reports, is Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher of the Navy SEALs, who is scheduled to stand trial soon on charges of shooting unarmed civilians in Iraq and killing an enemy captive with a knife. Others, according to The Times, are believed to include a former Blackwater security contractor, Nicholas Slatten, found guilty in the 2007 shooting of dozens of unarmed Iraqis; Maj. Mathew Golsteyn, an Army Green Beret charged with killing an unarmed Afghan in 2010; and a group of Marine Corps snipers charged with urinating on dead Taliban fighters.

Pardons in these cases would undermine discipline in the ranks, impede cooperation with citizens and fighters of other nations and insult millions of service members who have behaved honorably.

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Men who impregnate women face no consequences under the new abortion laws

Teri Carter

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I met my father at my mother’s funeral. I was 36 years old.

I was standing next to the open casket, greeting family and friends, when Aunt Mary grabbed my arm and pointed to a bearded man pacing back and forth behind a row of metal chairs. “Well, look who’s here,” she said. And, when I failed to recognize the man she was pointing to, said, “Girl, that’s your dad!” and waved him over.

My father left my mother when I was a baby, before my first birthday. He was only 22, but his leaving marked both his second divorce and his second abandoned baby, providing no support, financial or otherwise.

He simply disappeared.

So as Gov. Kay Ivey, R-Ala., signed her state’s draconian antiabortion bill into law last week, I combed over the coverage with one specific angle in mind. I pored through the horrifying details about how doctors who performed an abortion could receive up to 99 years in prison, read there would be no exceptions for rape or incest, and learned that women and girls, no matter their age, would be required to carry a fetus to term. No exceptions.

But who’s missing in all of this? Men. What I have yet to see is a single line in any of these new abortion bills — Alabama, Missouri, Kentucky, Georgia, Utah, Mississippi, Ohio, Arkansas — is accountability or penalties for the impregnators.

I was born and abandoned by my birth father in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. When I was 6, he signed away his parental rights — my stepfather wanted

to adopt me — which had the added bonus of making him legally immune from both past and future child support.

Men like him in states like Missouri and Alabama don’t seem to be on anyone’s minds during this new rush to criminalize abortion. But they should be. A woman, after all, cannot get pregnant without a man’s sperm. This new definition of when life begins should be prompting a lot of questions about how the law really works when it comes to men’s moral and financial responsibility.

Where is the list of actions required, under penalty of law, for fathers? If life starts at conception, shouldn’t the father be required to pay for 50 percent of the medical bills incurred during pregnancy? If the father is not married to the mother, will she be allowed to use his health insurance plan? Can she claim the fetus on her taxes?

Can she take out life insurance immediately and, if she miscarries, collect death benefits? Can the father? If the mother has a difficult pregnancy and cannot work or has to go on bed rest, will the father be required by law to support her financially?

What will be the penalty for a father abandoning a fetus?

How many years in prison? Will he have to pay a fine? If he has no money, will the state cover his child support payments?

For how long?

After more than 35 years in absentia, my father finally showed up at the funeral home.

I thought he looked familiar and vaguely recalled seeing him when I was about 17, but I couldn’t quite place him.

Standing next to my mother’s casket, we shook hands. He said, “Sorry about your mom.”

And while I’m sure we both said more words, I no longer

remember any of them. In the end, he pulled a business card from his wallet, wrote his number on the back in blue ballpoint ink and said, “Call us next time you’re in town.”

Who is us? I wondered.

I found out one day when I logged into Facebook and my father’s photo appeared under the words “People You May Know.” I clicked on his image and, with the magic that happens only in cyberspace, landed in my father’s life. There he was with his family: a wife, two sons, a daughter. I devoured his page. There were status updates on whether he’d be going to church that week, his inquiries about the health of friends, warnings of a coming thunderstorm (“a big one on it’s way!”), and some long banter with one of his sons about some inside joke.

I noted his birthday. My father has a birthday. How had I never known this? November 29. A Sagittarius. I typed the words “Sagittarius characteristics” into my browser and these traits appeared on my screen: magnanimous, honest, expansive, generous, reckless, extroverted, proud, larger than life, free.

Yes, free, I thought. Like so many men, he got off scot-free.

With these new antiabortion laws, we have prison time for doctors. We have humiliation and punishment for girls and women. What we don’t have are laws to address the impregnators, the abandoners, the shirkers of personal, social and financial responsibility.

My father was invisible for most of my life. Apparently, to the lawmakers in Alabama and Missouri and everywhere else who are so sure they know what’s best for women, that’s exactly how it should be.

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Could this be ... a Republican with backbone?

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House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy of California called it “disturbing,” and Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said it was “sad.” No, they were not talking about revelations in the report of special counsel Robert Mueller. They were talking about the reaction of Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., who read its 448 alarming pages and did not come away ready to absolve President Donald Trump, as nearly everyone else in his party has done.

“Few members of Congress even read Mueller’s report; their minds were made up based on partisan affiliation

- and it showed, with representatives and senators from both parties issuing definitive statements on the 448-page report’s conclusions within just hours of its release,” Amash tweeted Saturday.

“Contrary to [Attorney General William] Barr’s portrayal, Mueller’s report reveals that President Trump engaged in specific actions and a pattern of behavior that meet the threshold for impeachment,” he said.

“In fact, Mueller’s report identifies multiple examples of conduct satisfying all the elements of obstruction of justice, and undoubtedly any person who is not the president of the United States would be indicted based on such evidence.”

Republican after Republican who claimed to stand on principle during the Obama years has succumbed to Trump.

Not all Republicans have totally sold out. Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah, once the leader of the anti-Trump Republicans, called Amash’s statement “courageous.” But he stopped short of treating the Mueller report’s findings with the gravity they deserve.

Amash may be preparing to run for president next year on the Libertarian Party ticket.

Making himself a pariah in his own party is a high price to pay for any politician. But what is the price of abandoning all principles?

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Jacob W. Ruckh Jr. Jacob W. Ruckh Jr., age 92, lifetime, Jacob attended college of Catskill, passed away peace- in Farmingdale studying Agrifully on May 18, 2019 at St. Pe- culture. Jacob proudly served in ter’s Hospice Inn, Albany, NY. the United States Navy during He was born June 13, 1926 in World War II, from 1944-1946, Brooklyn, NY, the son of the late receiving the American Victory Jacob W. and Anna (Stankev- Medal while in service. Jacob icz) Ruckh Sr. Besides his par- “Jack” was employed and reents, he was predeceased by tired from the U.S. Postal Serhis son, Kenneth Jacob vice in Catskill. He also Ruckh; his wife, Rita; a worked for Prudential step great-grandson, Insurance Company; Noah Lee Sangcap Greene County Soil Lawrence; and sisterand Water Conservain-law, Joan Esposito. tion; and enjoyed beSurvivors include his ing a school bus driver loving wife of 31 years, in our area. Jack was a Carol, (they would long-time Scoutmaster have celebrated their with the Boy Scouts 32nd wedding anof America. Jack enRuckh Jr. niversary on May 29, joyed the outdoors and 2019); a daughter, Karin Weiss his home, agriculture, animals, and husband Kenneth; a son, spending time with family, and Keith Ruckh and wife June; a conversations with all. Also, he sister, Marilyn Rhinehart and and his wife enjoyed camping, husband Robert; step-son, travelling and spending quiet Jeffrey Lampman and wife Jo- time together. He will surely be ellen; a step-daughter, Linda missed by all who loved and Lawrence and husband Rickie; cared for him. Calling hours will grandchildren, Melissa and be held 3-7 PM Wednesday husband Ronan, Matthew and at Traver & McCurry Funeral wife Nuria, Zachary and wife Home, 234 Jefferson Heights, Jaclyn; step-grandchildren, Catskill. Funeral services will be Jennifer, Elizabeth, & Rickie and held 11 AM Thursday at the fuwife Aimee; Suzanna and Ter- neral home. Interment with full ry Moe; great-grandchildren, military honors will follow in the twins Sheridan and Cillian; family plot at St. Patrick’s Cemstep-great-grandchildren, Mi- etery in Catskill. Memorial dochael, Jonathan, Anthony “AJ”, nations in his memory may be Kaleb, Chloe, Quince and Syd- made to the Columbia-Greene ney; nieces, nephews, neigh- Humane Society or Disabled bors, and friends. During his American Veterans.

As some states limit abortion, others move to protect abortion rights Kate Taylor and Julie Turkewitz The New York Times News Service

A district attorney in Utah says he refuses to enforce a new law banning abortions after 18 weeks. In Colorado, the secretary of state is barring her staff from taking work-related trips to Alabama, a protest against that state’s decision last week to set the strictest abortion limits in the country. And in Vermont, Democrats who control the state Legislature have approved a law aimed at providing some of the strongest protections of abortion rights in the nation; supporters have pleaded with the state’s Republican governor, Phil Scott, to sign it.

The Vermont measure sets no restrictions on abortions and would prohibit the government from interfering in any way with the right to have the procedure.

It does not change the status quo in Vermont, where there are no legal limits on when or under what circumstances a woman can decide to end a pregnancy. But supporters say that the bill sends an important message to the nation about the state’s views on abortion rights, at a time when other states are sending far different signals.

The measure also has a practical purpose for the future, the supporters say, in case the Supreme Court overturns Roe v.

Wade, the decision that made abortion legal.

“In this time when, across the country and nationally, Roe v.

Wade and individuals’ access to private, reliable reproductive health care and abortion is in question, we thought we’d better be clear in Vermont,” said Ann Pugh, a state representative from South Burlington and one of the bill’s lead sponsors.

As conservatives in states like Alabama, Georgia and Missouri race to pass some of the strictest restrictions on abortions in decades, a pushback is developing as well. In Democratic-held or Democratic-leaning states, abortion rights supporters who are alarmed by the new laws and by the threat represented by a more conservative Supreme Court are trying to repeal

abortion restrictions or limit government’s say over women’s reproductive decisions.

Across the country Tuesday, supporters of abortion rights were expected to gather starting at noon outside state houses and on the steps of the Supreme Court to protest the recent abortion bans. In Vermont, activists planned to rally Tuesday evening on the lawn of the state house in Montpelier, as well as in Bennington and Brattleboro.

Democratic officials in other states are also fighting back against the wave of anti-abortion bills.

The newly elected Democratic governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer, has promised to veto legislation passed by the Republican-controlled state Senate that would ban the most common second-trimester abortion procedure.

In Wisconsin, Gov. Tony Evers, another Democrat elected in 2018, has said he would veto a bill passed by the Republican-controlled Assembly that would make it a felony punishable by prison for a physician to fail to care for babies who survive abortion attempts (a circumstance that experts say is exceedingly rare).

The Nevada Assembly is expected to give final approval Tuesday to a bill, already passed by the state Senate, that would repeal a statute on the books since 1911 that makes it a crime for women to terminate their own pregnancies without a physician. The Democratic governor, Steve Sisolak, is expected to sign it.

Vermont has perhaps gone further than any other state to codify protections for abortion rights. The bill awaiting Scott’s consideration has drawn intense attention from supporters, who have urged him for days to sign it. A spokeswoman for the governor ended any uncertainty about the bill’s fate Monday evening, saying that Scott had ruled out vetoing the bill and that it would become law, either with or without his signature.

House Democrats grill HUD Secretary Carson on plan to evict undocumented immigrants Tracy Jan The Washington Post

WASHINGTON — HUD Secretary Ben Carson on Tuesday defended the Trump administration’s proposal to purge undocumented immigrants - and their U.S.-born children - from government subsidized housing, citing the years-long waiting list of millions of “legal citizens.”

“It seems only logical that taxpaying American citizens should be taken care of first,” Carson said during a 3 1/2-hour congressional hearing on oversight of the Department of Housing and Urban Development. “It’s not that we’re cruel, meanhearted. It’s that we are logical. This is common sense.

You take care of your own first.”

Democratic lawmakers on the House Financial Services Committee expressed concern about the proposed rule.

An internal agency analysis found that it could put up to 55,000 children who are legal U.S. residents or citizens at risk of eviction and homelessness.

Carson urged Congress to come to an agreement to overhaul the nation’s immigration policies rather than thwart HUD’s plan to require every family member living in subsidized housing be of “eligible immigration status.”

“If you read the rule carefully, you will see it provides a six-month deferral if they have not found another place to live,” Carson told the oversight committee. The deferral could be renewed twice, for a total of 18 months -- “enough time for Congress to engage in comprehensive immigration reform.”

“Congress has a responsibility for making the laws that govern this,” Carson said. “If in fact you want to explain to the American citizens who have been on the wait list for several years . . . why we

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Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson departs after President Trump delivered remarks at the White House on May 16.

should continue to support families who are not here legally, I would be happy to join you in explaining that.”

Current rules bar undocumented immigrants from receiving federal housing subsidies but allow families of mixed-immigration status to live together as long as one person - such as a child born in the United States - is eligible. Carson acknowledged that undocumented immigrant parents do not get housing subsidies. HUDsubsidized rent is prorated to cover only eligible residents.

But, he wondered, “How do you prorate a roof over somebody’s head?” “The concept of prorating makes no sense in this context,” Carson said. “I call it giving aid and assistance to people who are here illegally.”

Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee, said she is “troubled by Secretary Carson’s recent cruel proposal to terminate housing benefits for families with mixed immigration

status.”

“Prorated rental assistance allows mixed-immigration status families to remain together while exclusively subsidizing only those family members with eligible status,” Waters said. “The Trump Administration’s proposal puts mixed-status families at risk of being evicted, separated, and left homeless.”

Democrats are considering legislation to block the proposal.

HUD’s analysis of the proposal, pushed by White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller, found that the new rule would displace more than 55,000 children who are legal U.S. residents or citizens.

The HUD analysis, written by career staffers, concluded that the proposal would reduce the number of families being served - contrary to the Trump administration’s stated goal of moving more families off the years-long waiting lists for housing assistance.

“Mr. Secretary, the “D” in

McDonald’s revamps harassment policy Leslie Patton and Josh Eidelson Bloomberg

McDonald’s Corp., in the face of criticism for its handling of harassment complaints, says it is training workers to deal with the issue and is starting a hotline for victims.

In a letter responding to an inquiry from Sen. Tammy Duckworth, Chief Executive Officer Steve Easterbrook said the company has improved its policy and is committed “to ensuring a harassment and bias-free workplace.”

But pressure is rising for the world’s largest restaurant chain. Workers and advocacy groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union and the union-backed Fight For $15, announced five new lawsuits on Tuesday, along with 20 complaints to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. They accuse the company of failing to prevent misconduct including groping, inappropriate comments from supervisors and retaliation for speaking up.

That brings the total number of lawsuits and complaints over the past three years to more than 50. The National Organization for Women and the National Women’s Law Center have alleged that workers at McDonald’s stores “face rampant sexual harassment.”

McDonald’s didn’t immediately comment on the new cases.

“We have enhanced our policy so that it more clearly informs employees of their rights, more clearly defines sexual harassment, discrimination and retaliation, and provides examples of what unacceptable behavior looks like,” Easterbrook said in the letter dated May 20, which

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A McDonald’s restaurant in Peru, Ill., on March 27, 2019.

was viewed by Bloomberg News. Duckworth, a Democrat, is the junior senator from McDonald’s home state of Illinois.

The company started working with anti-abuse organization RAINN last year to get recommendations on how to prevent misconduct, according to the letter. As part of its updated policy, McDonald’s is offering a third-party hotline and training on harassment and discrimination.

Easterbrook said 90% of operators and general mangers have taken the training. McDonald’s will offer training to other crew members on harassment, unconscious bias and workplace safety.

The actions send “a clear message that we are committed to creating and sustaining a culture of trust where employees feel safe, valued and respected,” according to Easterbrook’s letter. “Most importantly, it shows we’re changing to meet the needs of our workforce and the communities where we live and operate.”

Advocates of workers rights were unpersuaded, however.

“The majority of our clients

allege harassment occurring precisely when the company claims it was making these reforms, and we can find no one who has heard of a new policy or training initiative,” Gillian Thomas, a senior staff attorney for the ACLU, said in a statement Tuesday.

McDonald’s employee Jamelia Fairley, who alleges her hours were cut after she she reported inappropriate touching at her corporaterun store, told reporters Tuesday that the new policy hasn’t been communicated at the employee level.

“We haven’t received any training or seen any evidence of change,” she said.

Last September, workers mounted a one-day strike designed to spotlight the company’s alleged sexual-harassment problem. The Fight For $15 also criticized McDonald’s last year for choosing the management-side law firm Seyfarth Shaw as as one of its advisers on sexual harassment policy. The firm’s clients included Weinstein Co., which it was defending in litigation over Harvey Weinstein’s alleged misconduct.

HUD does not stand for deportation,” said Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., adding that affordable housing for Americans should not come as a result of “throwing other Americans out into the street.”

Carson told a Democratic senator last week that the motivation behind the Trump administration’s plan to inventory all immigrants living in public housing is to build pressure on Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform and pointed out that no one will actually be evicted for 18 months, according to the senator who spoke on the condition of anonymity to relay a private conversation. When the senator responded that President Trump is unlikely to sign a comprehensive immigration plan, Carson replied: “The thinking on that may be changing.”

The Washington Post’s Karoun Demirjian contributed to this report.

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Was Pieter Bronck Dutch?

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By David Dorpfeld, n County Historian Greene For Columbia-Greene Media

We make much of early n Dutch settlement in the Hudson Valley. But was our earliest nknown European settler, Pieter Bronck, Dutch? Today in a guest column Bronck Museum n Curator Shelby Mattice answers that question.

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By Shelby Mattice Pieter Bronck was not Dutch. n He was Swedish. Peder Brunck (to use the Swedish spelling) was born in 1617 in the n Kingdom of Sweden.

During Peder’s youth Sweden was a sparsely populated kingdom on the fringe of Eun rope, experiencing turbulent times. Long simmering religious tensions between kingdoms and principalities across n were about to explode Europe into the Thirty Years War that

brought instability and devastation to much of the continent.

According to Peder’s marriage banns dated Oct. 7, 1645, (still on file in the Gemeentelijke Archiefdienst van Amsterdam), he was from “Juncupping,” or in Swedish, Jonkoping, in the providence of Småland in what is now south central Sweden. Peder’s home village was located on the heavily forested, sparsely populated southern shore of Lake Vattern. The Swedish word “k ping” indicates the village was a market town.

Minerals and wood products seem to have been the main products of the region.

While we have no idea either when or exactly why Peder left Sweden, surviving documents do provide us with some information. We know that Peder was present in the colonie of

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The Bronck Museum

New Netherland for periods of time in 1643. Peder’s name appears on an inventory taken of the estate of his near relative Jonas Brunck, taken in May of that year. In November of 1643 Peder made out his own will

before Cornelius van Tienhoven, secretary of the colonie of New Netherland. In his will Peder indicates that his mother and father were far from New Netherland, perhaps still living in Jonkoping.

Peder was back in Holland in autumn of 1645 when his marriage banns were posted.

At that time Peder indicated he was a sailor living in Ridderstraat, a tough, overcrowded backstreet area of Amsterdam frequented by seamen, prostitutes and “strangers of no repute” who worked the wharfs. The next documented appearance of Peder comes from surviving records in Holland showing Pieter Jonasson Bronck (Dutch spelling) as a freeman from Sweden and his wife had gone to New Netherland in 1646.

So it would seem that Peder and his wife Hilletje left Europe for the last time soon after their marriage. Pieter next shows up in the records of the colonie of New Netherland as having rented a house in Beverwijck (Albany) in 1650.

Records further indicate that

by 1653 Pieter had purchased a parcel of land on the riverfront at Beverwijck and on a 55 by 190 foot portion of the parcel he built a dwelling house, a block house with a small house at the side, a hay house, a horse stable, a mill house and a brew house. The alley that separated his block house from his dwelling house led directly to modern day Broadway.

The Bronck family remained at Beverwijck until they moved to the property Pieter had purchased from the Native Americans in 1662.

This property in Coxsackie would become the home of the Greene County Historical Society 277 years later.

Reach columnist David Dorpfeld at gchistorian@gmail.com or visit him on Facebook at “Greene County Historian.”

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One answer to the age-old question, What is a successful marriage?

In late 1962, an issue of a popular woman’s magazine n ran a contest. A prize would be awarded to the best short story written by a young woman on whynshe thought her marriage was a success. My grandmother (Helen Maben), 47 years old at n the time, wrote down her story.

She never submitted it, fearing her attempt was not good n enough.

She tucked it away for her children and grandchildren to read one day. n It seems a simple story of a woman’s love for her family. nWithin the pages lies the words of a young collegebound woman who changed the ncourse of her entire life in one summer. The story of a place that shaped a family. A storyn filled with hardships and struggle but also with happiness and love. So much love. — JulienMaben

Helen Maben

a dozen times. I kept my head and reminded myself I wanted an education before settling down to marriage and a family. This was just a ‘summer romance.’ And so in the fall, I left for school. However, in the end, love triumphed and on the afternoon of Oct. 31, 1933, WINDHAM NEW YORK we eloped.

I don’t know how many My entire family was upset years of happy marriage con- and also worried. They prestitute a successful marriage, dicted I would not stick it out n old you may be and still or how for more than a few weeks. I considered young. I do know went from living in the commy marriage was doomed forts of city living to living on a from the beginning, according farm in the Catskill Mountains to my friends and family. As I that had not been modernlooked back over the years, ized in any way. My husband although there were struggles and I moved into part of his and obstacles to overcome parents’ farmhouse, where we there were also many, many were to work the farm for half happy times to balance the the income, which we learned scale and I would not change was all the milk from the cows a thing. that one could drink, all the It was the summer of 1933. green produce one wanted to I had just graduated high raise, all the wood one had the school in Pennsylvania and strength and ambition to cut was registered to attend Cor- but practically no money. We nell University in the fall. had no electric lights or modMy mother had passed away ern appliances of any kind. when I was 10 years old, leav- Our heat came from a woodLet Make Your ing me inUs the care of my wonstove Life that hadEZ-er... an insatiable derful grandparents, two appetite for wood and ash aunts and my father. My father pans that were always in need had since remarried and my of being emptied. stepmother and I never quite I thought it was all so very reached a happy relationship. romantic at first. Autumn in Exhausted from both studies the Catskill Mountains is one and social life, it was decided of the most beautiful sights I would spend the summer and one of God’s loveliest crewith my aunt who taught in a ations. We were happy, really one-room schoolhouse in the happy. I polished kerosene Catskill Mountains of New lamp chimneys with a venYork and also lived there. geance. I learned how to dig It was a beautiful summer potatoes and start a fire from that year and before I real- scraps of wood. Then came ized what was happening, I the winter. Huge drifts of snow had fallen in love with a boy and sub-zero weather. Overnamed Win and he with me. whelmed by the workload in Win had been a student of my these weather conditions, I aunt. I was reluctant to return thought perhaps I had made to school in the fall, especially a mistake and was not cut out after being proposed to at least for this life after all. But I was

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determined to make my marriage work. Soon, I began to enjoy romping in the snow and riding down the hill returning in the evening to sit by the warm, glowing fire and drink hot chocolate.

In 1935, our first son was born, followed by our second in 1938 and a daughter in 1942, who completed our mountain farm family.

There were very lean years when our children were small.

We picked luscious wild strawberries in the early summer and then, in season, the jet blackberries for our break-

We now have all these modern conveniences — I no longer have to bathe in an old wash tub in front of the old wood stove or heat all my wash water on top of the stove.

God has been good to us and has answered my prayers that I have been able to raise my three children, the youngest of whom will graduate from college in June, as her two older brothers have before her. I still considered myself young, as I was young when I had my family, and I have made a success out of a marriage my friends and family predicted would fail shortly after it began.

I don’t think I will ever be happier than I was during those years. Those experiences have helped to shape the lives of us and our children.

We hope these values will be passed on to future generations so that they may find as much happiness as we have found through all these years.

Helen F. Maben

EPILOGUE My grandmother died Oct. 6, 2003, just shy of what would have been 70 years married to my grandfather. She is buried at Pleasant Valley Cemetery in Ashland. My grandfather died not too long after and was laid to rest alongside her.

Their love lives on in the family they created and the land that was part of that creation lives on. My family still owns more than 200 acres, part of the original farm. A place kept virtually untouched. A small cabin set atop a mountain, a place to be with family, a place to enjoy the outdoors and the autumns my grandmother wrote of, the sunrises and the morning dew.

A place to go and remember where it all began, where we came from.

A place to remember the love, so much love. — Julie Maben, Porters Corners

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fast fruit. Our only recreation at the end of the week, after working sun up to late in the evening, was to pack a lunch and take the children to an old swimming hole over in what was called “Mill Hollow” for a Sunday picnic and swim.

It was a big day in the life of the family when the power company bought the right-ofway and began to string lines past our old farmhouse. We finally had our first refrigerator.

By this time I had learned all by myself to paint and paper.

I did all the decorating of the eight-room farmhouse myself.

I put up literally hundreds of quarts of vegetables and made many, many jars of homemade jam, which we gave as gifts when there was no money to buy gifts, I learned how to cut wood on the end of a crosscut saw, could polish kerosene lamp chimneys until they sparkled.

I don’t think our three children, although they went without many things their city cousins had, would have traded their farm pets for any of the things money could buy.

They had a spunky pony, a pet raccoon, a baby hawk they raised and a little grey squirrel who ate toast with them every morning at the breakfast table. Plus many frisky kittens, puppies, bunnies, pheasants, calves and chickens they raised for 4-H. I haven’t the space enough to tell you of the money-raising projects that helped pay the medical expenses or the wonderful way our three children cooperated by working summers to make it possible for them to go to college or the grand relatives who sent packages on the holidays when there was no money to buy the children “store” presents.

As I look back, I remember so many of the good things, the hardships are dimmed in my memory. Have you ever climbed a mountain early in the morning when the birds are awakening, the dew is still on the grass and the sun is just making its appearance on the edge of the horizon? It is one of the most rewarding experiences one can have. Every time I went for the cows for the morning milking and stopped for a moment to rest, I would look around and think “God’s in his Heaven and all’s right with the world.”

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Dear Rusty: I am 69 and have been holding off on collecting my Social Security payment until I’m 70 on the assumption that my wife would collect my benefit if I died first. My thought was that she would collect the monthly benefit I will earn at age 70 in the event of my death. Now a Social Security employee is telling me she would only be entitled to what my benefit would have been at age 66 (my full retirement age). That is about an $800 drop in monthly benefits from what I thought it would be. My wife is a year younger

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GLOOR than me, much healthier than I am, has mostly worked part time and she started collecting her SS at age 62 and gets about $700 a month. So, is the Social

Security employee correct?

Signed: Concerned Husband Dear Concerned: The Social Security employee you spoke with might have misunderstood your question. It sounds like the answer you were given pertained to the benefit your wife is entitled to as your spouse while you are living, which is based upon your “primary insurance amount,” or “PIA” (your PIA is the amount you were due at your full retirement age, or “FRA”).

When you claim your increased benefit at age 70 your wife can apply for her spousal

benefit, which will be based on your FRA benefit amount (not the increased amount you’ll get by waiting until age 70 to claim). She gets that spousal benefit if it is more than she is receiving on her own work record, which from what you’ve told me it will be. What actually happens is that she will continue to get her own benefit and she will also get a supplemental amount to make her total Social Security benefit equal to what she is entitled to as your spouse. That amount will be a bit less than half of your FRA benefit because she took her own benefit at age 62

(claiming Social Security early doesn’t only affect one’s own benefit, it affects their spousal benefit also). The spousal benefit your wife gets when you claim at age 70 will continue for as long as you are living.

But the Social Security benefit rules are different for your wife as your widow and your survivor. If you predecease your wife, her spousal benefit from your work record, as described above, will discontinue and she will be switched to her survivor’s benefit.

That survivor’s benefit will be 100 percent of the benefit amount you were receiving

at your death, instead of the lower amount she was receiving as your spouse when you were living. So, your original assumption is correct — as your widow your wife will get 100 percent of the increased benefit you were receiving when you pass. The Social Security employee was incorrect by telling you that, if you pass, your wife will only get what you were due at your full retirement age; instead she’ll get the full amount of your current Social Security benefit (your full age 70 benefit, plus any COLA adjustments made after your claim).

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.

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.

month at The Pines, Jefferson Heights, Catskill.

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. June 20, 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.

Senior Briefs We want to hear from you.

To send information to be included in Senior Briefs, email to editorial@thedailymail.net; mail to The Daily Mail, Atten: Senior Briefs, One Hudson City Centre, Suite 202, Hudson, NY 12534; fax to 518-828-3870.

For information and questions, please call 518-828-1616 ext. 2490. We would like to have information at least two weeks in advance.

SPRING LUNCHEON WINDHAM — WAJPL Golden Age Club Annual Spring Luncheon will be held May 30 at The Thompson House, 19 Route 296, Windham.

Doors open at 12:30 p.m. followed at 1 p.m. by a buffet style lunch featuring country vegetable soup, chicken cordon bleu, cheese tortellini alfredo with broccoli, stuffed filet of sole with a dill sauce, baked stuffed potato, vegetable medley, mixed green salad, fresh bread and dessert. The cost is $25. To make a reservation and for information, call Opal at 518-750-8380, send her a message on Face Book or email her at heavenboundglory@gmail.com by May 20.

Mail payment ASAP to WAJPL Golden Age Club, PO Box 96, Hensonville NY 12439-0096.

There will be a raffle and door prizes.

The WAJPL Golden Age Club meets at 1:30 p.m. the

first Monday of the month for a business meeting and at 1:30 p.m. on the third Monday of the month for a social meeting. Yearly dues are $5. You must be 50 and older to join.

Meetings are held at the Senior Center on the lower level of the Town Hall in Hensonville.

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.

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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 AGERS GREENVILLE — The Greenville Golden Agers meet at 1:30 p.m. the first Wednesday of the month at the American Legion Hall, 54 Maple Ave., Greenville.

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

SUPPORT GROUPS COXSACKIE — A grief support group will start meeting at 6 p.m. the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month at Bethany Village in Coxsackie.

While the loss of a loved one is a common source of grief other reasons include the loss of a job, the death of a beloved pet, experiencing a major health challenge such as cancer and the ending of a relationship.

Grief is a very personal and individual emotion. Support groups provide many benefits to those who are grieving.

Those who are experiencing grief early on can connect with others in the group who have successfully managed their grief and are further along on their road to feeling happy once again. More information can be found at the face book page at Coxsackie Grief Support Group and also by contacting Jeffrey Haas at 518478-5414 or jhaasrph@aol. com.

ACRA — Moving for Better Balance will be held 10-11 a.m.

Tuesdays and Thursdays June 4 through Aug. 27 at the Acra

CATSKILL — The Alzheimer’s Association holds support group meetings at 3 p.m. the first Wednesday of the

WEDNESDAY: Chicken and biscuits, mashed potatoes, brussels sprouts, birthday cake.

THURSDAY: Meatloaf, gravy, mashed potatoes, spinach puff, fruit cocktail.

FRIDAY: Baked chicken, gravy, fresh salad, brussels sprouts, sweet potato, fresh fruit.

MONDAY: Beef chow mein, brown rice, broccoli, mandarin oranges.

TUESDAY: Pork chop, gravy, red cabbage, applesauce, mashed potatoes, vanilla mousse.

WEDNESDAY: Tuna salad plate, three bean salad, potato salad, carrot sticks, pears.

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.

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).

Senior Menu CATSKILL — The following is the weekly nutrition menu offered by the Greene County Department of Human Services’ Senior Nutrition Program.

Served daily with each meal are bread or alternative with Promise Spread; low fat milk, coffee or tea.

All persons 60 and older and their spouses are invited. The suggested donation for each meal is $4.

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

Rivertown Senior Center, 39 Second St., Athens; 518-9452700.

Acra Community Center, Old Route 23B, Cairo; 518-622-9898.

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

Washington Irving Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill; 518-943-1343.

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

MAY 22 THROUGH MAY 29 WEDNESDAY: Beef pot pie, wax beans, mashed potatoes, vanilla pudding with strawberries.

THURSDAY: Chicken Divan, brown rice, fresh salad, broccoli, hummingbird cake.

FRIDAY: Pork chops with mushroom gravy, braised cabbage, sweet potatoes, fresh pineapple.

MONDAY: Closed.

TUESDAY: Macaroni and cheese, broccoli, stewed tomatoes, pears.

MAY 29 THROUGH JUNE 5 WEDNESDAY: Chicken and biscuits, mashed potatoes, brussels sprouts, birthday cake.

THURSDAY: Cook’s choice, cauliflower, chocolate pudding.

FRIDAY: Chef’s salad, fresh fruit.

MONDAY: Pork Lo Mein, Oriental vegetables, pineapple chunks.

TUESDAY: Turkey and cheese salad plate, beet salad, potato salad, rice pudding.

WEDNESDAY: Baked fish with dill sauce, broccoli, cheesecake swirl brownie.

JUNE 5 THROUGH JUNE 12 WEDNESDAY: Baked fish with dill sauce, broccoli, cheesecake swirl brownie.

JUNE 12 THROUGH JUNE 19 WEDNESDAY: Tuna salad plate, three bean salad, potato salad, carrot sticks, pears.

THURSDAY: Hungarian goulash, egg noodles, fresh salad, honey balsamic brussels sprouts, orange creamsicle poke cake.

FRIDAY: Sweet and sour chicken, red roasted potatoes, California mixed vegetables, fresh fruit.

MONDAY: Veal parmesan with rotini, California mixed vegetables, peaches.

TUESDAY: Sloppy joes, brown rice, wax beans, butterscotch pudding.

WEDNESDAY: Roast pork, gravy, applesauce, mashed potatoes, butternut squash, birthday cake.

salad, strawberry shortcake.

MONDAY: Lemon chicken, parsley potatoes, spinach, peaches.

TUESDAY: Baked fish with herbs, oven roasted potatoes, California mixed vegetables, peanut butter cookie.

WEDNESDAY: Roast turkey with gravy, asparagus, mashed potatoes, stuffing, chocolate pudding.

JUNE 19 THROUGH JUNE 26

WEDNESDAY: Roast turkey with gravy, asparagus, mashed potatoes, stuffing, chocolate pudding.

THURSDAY: Roasted chicken sandwich, roasted red pepper slice, potato salad, spinach salad, pears.

FRIDAY: Pulled pork, cole slaw, wax beans, collard greens, fresh fruit.

WEDNESDAY: Roast pork, gravy, applesauce, mashed potatoes, butternut squash, birthday cake.

THURSDAY: Chicken salad plate, macaroni salad, tomatoe and cucumber salad, fruit cocktail.

FRIDAY: Battered fish, green beans, roasted potatoes, fresh

JUNE 26 THROUGH JUNE 28

Farm to Table being done locally in Greene County CATSKILL — One of the biggest trends in the culinary world today is the farm-to-table movement.

The phrase “farm to table” is a buzzword referring to food made with locally sourced ingredients.

Our society is in a rapid state of technological innovation, which means that we often compromise

health and nutrition for the sake of convenience, hence the popularity of fast food and TV dinners.

However, a growing number of consumers have started to seek healthier and more environmentally friendly alternatives to the processed foods that dominate grocery store shelves.

The Greene County

Department of Human Services Senior Nutrition Program is doing their part by participating in the program.

This year’s season resumes on June 21, with farm-fresh strawberries from Story Farms in Kiskatom.

The menu will be battered fish, green beans,

fresh salad, and strawberry shortcake with locally grown berries.

This will be served to all homebound meals, as well as at congregate sites on that day.

Those wishing to attend lunch at a center are required to call the respective location at least a day in advance:

Acra Senior Service Center, Acra Community Center, Old Route 23B, Cairo 518-622-9898; Rivertown Senior Center, 39 Second St., Athens, 518-945-2700; Catskill Senior Nutrition Site, Robert C. Antonelli Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill, 518-943-1343; Coxsackie Senior Nutri-

tion Site, Town of Coxsackie Senior Center, Mansion Street, Coxsackie, 518-7318901; Jewett Senior Service Center, Jewett Municipal Building, Route 23C, Jewett, 518-263-4392.

In future months, other Greene County farms will feature produce items grown locally.

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a $14.4 million loan from the Environmental Facilities Corporation to upgrade the plant, Mayor Mark Evans said.

Greene and Coxsackie correctional facilities will foot 60% of the bill for their usage, Evans said, and the village has secured a $2.5 million state grant to recover some of the cost.

The county will be respon-

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certified by the chief emergency service coordinator of their county and must have answered at least 55% of annual calls, according to the legislation.

Catskill Fire Department Chief Patrick McCulloch said there is a serious need for volunteers and offering a tax incentive could encourage others to join.

“Anything the state can do to help with volunteer firefighters would be beneficial to everybody in New York

sible for the cost of installing lines to the new Greene County jail, Evans said.

“The two projects will be running along the same time line,” Evans said of the jail.

The project will take 18 months to two years to complete, Evans said.

“Our facility will be more robust and bigger with more capacity,” Evans said.

The plant will go from a capacity of 800,000 gallons to 1 million, he said.

“The last update was more than 20 years ago,” he said, adding that the plant was

built in 1972.

The increased capacity will eliminate the need for overflows, Evans said.

“Now there will never be raw sewage going into the river,” he said.

state,” McCulloch said. “The volunteer rate is dwindling — we don’t have people knocking down our doors because of the class demand. A new firefighter has to be in class for a year to become an indoor firefighter, the schooling is extremely demanding on our personal lives, and it’s volunteer, so we don’t get paid for it. This would be a good way to encourage more people to volunteer.”

Seward said the law would help shrinking emergency medical services and fire companies fill out their ranks.

“This exemption would serve as a well-deserved

Also on Saturday, village officials, construction and engineering firms and community members celebrated the village’s achievements Saturday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the playground.

The village has heard rave

reviews for the playground, located behind Village Hall, which was completed in March, Evans said.

“It is a very accessible and friendly park to use now,” Evans said. “The response from residents has been overwhelmingly positive.”

When the village began the $180,000 project last year, Evans looked to the people who would use the playground the most, second-grade students, for their input.

“I received a packet of letters and they were pretty specific about what they want-

ed,” Evans said.

The students asked for plenty of large covered slides, a tower, a zipline and for the playground to be handicapped accessible, Evans said.

“They had a huge impact on deciding what features to incorporate into the playground,” he said of the students.

The village began by removing the 20-year-old existing structure last summer, Evans said.

“The new playground is much safer,” he said. “Wood

deteriorates over time and the old playground had lots of bees in it.”

It was more cost-effective to replace the former structure than repair it, Evans said.

The new metal playground was supplied by Miracle Playground of Linwood, New Jersey, and installed by blank of Bethlehem.

“We have enough money left in this year’s budget to add a toddler unit with toddler swings,” Evans said, adding that he hopes the additional will be completed in June.

thank you for the men and women who give freely of themselves to keep our communities safe,” Seward said.

“The legislation would also be a powerful recruitment tool to help boost our depleted volunteer EMS rolls.”

State Sen. Daphne Jordan, R-43, called the bill common-sense legislation.

“Providing a state tax break for these heroes who voluntarily risk danger and sacrifice so much to help their neighbors and communities is one way New York can, and should, thank them for their courageous service,” Jordan said. “This bill deserves broad, bipartisan support so

it can become law.”

Chief Eric Pilkington of the Austerlitz Volunteer Fire Company supports the bill.

“It sounds like a great idea,” Pilkington said. “It would definitely help recruit more volunteers.

There is a lack of volunteers countrywide and especially statewide. This would help encourage more people to join. Everybody tries to take advantage of tax breaks.”

It is unclear how many volunteer firefighters and emergency medical services personnel would be eligible for the exemption.

In Columbia County, Assemblyman Jake Ashby,

R-107, is co-sponsoring the legislation.

“I am honored to join with Assemblyman Chris Tague in sponsoring this important legislation for our hardworking volunteer firefighters,” Ashby said. “Our volunteer departments devote countless hours and resources in order to protect our families and this measure would not only thank them for their devotion but also incentivize future volunteers to join their local departments.”

In Greene County, state Sen. George Amedore, R-46, said the legislation would support departments in recruiting volunteers to their

ranks.

“First responders throughout the state volunteer to be on call 24/7, 365 days a year to serve their neighbors in their times of need,” Amedore said. “This is a small way we can give back to those who give so much to their communities and it will also provide an incentive to help departments, many who are struggling with decreasing membership, recruit more volunteers.”

Assemblywoman Didi Barrett, D-106, could not be reached for comment at press time.

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Cybersecurity 202: The DNC and RNC are still vulnerable to hackers, new report finds Joseph Marks The Washington Post

The Democratic National Committee’s computer networks still contain hackable vulnerabilities more than two years after a devastating breach that upended the 2016 election and dealt a major blow to the Hillary Clinton campaign, according to a new report out Tuesday.

And the Republican National Committee is doing only moderately better, according to the report from the company SecurityScorecard.

Heading into the 2020 cycle, the results provide a stark warning about the cyber insecurity of the highest profile U.S. political organizations even after years of concerted efforts to improve digital safeguards and an intense focus in Washington on the need to secure campaigns and elections.

And while SecurityScorecard found significant improvements since the last presidential campaign cycle, when the DNC was penetrated by Russian hackers -- who compromised vast troves of information and coordinated its release to damage Hillary Clinton’s campaign -- these fixes may not be sufficient to keep either organization secure this time around.

“They’re doing better, but a focused adversary is still going to be able to get in there and they’re still going to be able to get interesting information,” SecurityScorecard Chief Technology Officer Jasson Casey told me.

SecurityScorecard rates organizations’ digital protections based on informa-

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stituents want you to do, then you’re doing your job. If you’re not, then you get replaced.”

The National Republican Congressional Committee is seeking potential candidates, committee spokesman Michael McAdams said.

“The NRCC is actively recruiting candidates who will hold Antonio Delgado accountable for his refusal to denounce anti-Semitism and support for the extreme socialist policies being em-

tion that’s available on the public internet, such as how often they patch their software and whether publicfacing internet tools are encrypted. The company makes most of its money by helping large organizations vet the cybersecurity of their partners and suppliers without conducting an intensive internal security audit.

A DNC official who reviewed the latest results told me that this kind of external assessment doesn’t capture all the work the organization has done to improve cybersecurity since 2016, but didn’t dispute that there are still improvements to be made. The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to express himself freely also criticized the report for lacking specific details about some of the vulnerabilities it claimed to find.

“I think we need to improve our security posture and we’ll take feedback in whatever form it comes,” the official said. “Our adversaries are hard at work, nonstop. We’d just like to have more detail.”

The results could raise questions about the vulnerability of a crowded field of Democratic presidential candidates who typically have much less time and far fewer resources to devote to security than the DNC but are equally juicy targets for Russian hackers, Casey noted. SecurityScorecard plans to start assessing the cybersecurity of those campaigns in the next couple of months, he told me.

The DNC and RNC now are about as well defended as the average company that is serious about cyber-

security, Casey said. But the report identified weaknesses, including gaps in encryption at both organizations that hackers might be able to use to steal employees’ log-in credentials.

And what’s good enough for a company may not be good enough for a major political party that holds vast troves of data that a U.S. adversary could use to game the 2020 election. Russian hackers in 2016 were able to crack into the DNC, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the Clinton campaign with just a few spearphishing emails. If political targets are better protected this cycle, that could mean hackers achieve their goals by just working harder.

“That’s the lesson of the last two to three years,” Casey said. “They’re not doing a poor job right now but there are still a lot of improvements to be made.”

But we also shouldn’t presume another breach is inevitable, said Amit Yoran, a former Homeland Security Department cybersecurity official who’s now CEO of the cybersecurity company Tenable. Most highprofile breaches result from bad security rather than great hackers, he said, and improvements like the ones the DNC has made so far can actually go a long way toward locking them out.

“I think good cyber hygiene makes a tremendous difference, so things aren’t hopeless,” he said.

“Nothing here is smoking-gun bad,” Yoran said of the report. “There’s no negligently bad behavior or ‘Oh, my God’ moments.

[But] there are always things that need to be improved.”

braced by House Democrats that will leave Hudson Valley voters with higher taxes and less choice,” McAdams said.

Faso, 66, was born in Massapequa on Aug. 25, 1952. He graduated in 1970 from Archbishop Molloy High School in New York City.

He received a bachelor of science degree from the State University of New York at Brockport in 1974 and a Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown University in Washington in 1979.

Faso was a staff member of the House of Representatives Committee on Government Operations from 1979 to 1981

and commissioner of the New York State Legislative Bill Drafting Commission from 1983 to 1986.

His political career launched in 1986 when he was elected to the state Assembly, an office he held until 2002.

He ran unsuccessfully for state Comptroller in 2002.

Faso was a member of the Buffalo Fiscal Stability Authority from 2003 to 2006. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election as governor of New York in 2006 when he was defeated by Democrat Eliot Spitzer in a landslide. He was elected to Congress, serving one term from 2017 to 2019.

Mueller shuns public hearing as talks stall with House Democrats

By Billy House and Chris Strohm Bloomberg News (TNS)

WASHINGTON — Robert Mueller is balking at testifying publicly before Congress, pushing for a closed-door appearance in negotiations with House Democrats, according to three people familiar with the special counsel’s position.

Mueller has told the Democratic-controlled House Judiciary Committee that he doesn’t want to be dragged into a political fight and that he’s hesitant to publicly discuss his final report, according to the people, who asked not to be identified discussing the continuing negotiations.

Among the options Mueller has raised is making a public statement before the committee questions him in private, the people said.

Democrats are eager to hear from Mueller in public because his report chronicles examples of actions taken by President Donald Trump that hundreds of former federal prosecutors have said constitute obstruction of justice. Mueller also has written Attorney General William Barr to

complain that he’s given summaries of the report’s findings that “did not fully capture the context, nature and substance” of his team’s work.

To date, House Democrats haven’t been able to get any current government officials to publicly testify about Mueller’s findings, and the White House asserted executive privilege to fight a subpoena for the unredacted report and the underlying evidence.

But the Justice Department has said that the assertion of executive privilege doesn’t prevent Mueller from testifying. While Trump has offered differing opinions on whether Mueller should testify, Barr has said he had no objections.

Some details of snags in Mueller’s talks with House Democrats were reported earlier Tuesday by CNN and The Washington Post.

In a related dispute, the Justice Department informed House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff that it’s working to provide his panel documents related to the counterintelligence aspects of Mueller’s investigation.

The department is in ac-

tive talks with Schiff in order to head off potential retaliatory action when his panel meets on Wednesday.

The department sent Schiff, D-Calif., a letter on Tuesday saying it is in the process of identifying, locating and reviewing materials potentially responsive to the categories of documents that Schiff is seeking.

The letter made clear that the process will cease if the committee moves on Wednesday to hold Barr in contempt.

“To be clear, should the committee take the precipitous and unnecessary action of recommending a contempt finding or other enforcement action against the attorney general, then the department will not likely be able to continue to work with the committee to accommodate its interests in these materials,” Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd wrote to Schiff. (c)2019 Bloomberg News Visit Bloomberg News at www. bloomberg.com Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

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Hudson’s Katie Jepsen connects with a pitch during Monday’s Patroon Conference game against Greenville.

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GREENVILLE — Greenville showed its muscle against Hudson on Monday, earning 4-1 victory in their Patroon Conference softball game.

It was a dominant pitching performance from Melody Kappel and a strong fifth inning from Molly SanEmeterio, Kasey Pfleging and Caila Benning that secured the victory.

Greenville had six hits in the game and scored one run in fourth and three in the fifth. Caila Benning’s fielder’s choice, a sacrifice fly by Pfleging and an RBI single by SanEmeterio highlighted the Spartans’ fifth inning uprising.

Emma Haller, Alexis Caprio, Taryn Silk and A.J. Pahl all had one hit for Greenville. Benning, Pfleging, SanEmeterio and Kappel all contributed one RBI. Kappel pitched like a true ace, throwing for seven innings and striking out 15. She allowed just two hits and one run.

Nicole Conte who hit a triple and single for Hudson’s only hits. Conte also scored the Bluehawks’ only run. Emily Frederick had an RBI. Olivia Plaia was the losing pitcher and threw for six innings, striking out three and allowing six hits and four runs.

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The Ichabod Crane tennis team defeated Schalmont, 5-2, Monday to win the Section II Class B championship.

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VALATIE — Ichabod Crane won the Section II Class B boys tennis championship on Monday with a 5-2 victory over Colonial Council rival Schalmont.

ICC’s Jan Karl Galia, Ean Lantzy, Brett Richards and Harrison Puckett posted singles victories, while the

double tandem of Spencer Bates and Sean Muller were also victorious.

Results: Singles: Jan Karl Galia (Ichabod Crane) defeated Preston Paige 6-2, 6-1; Ean Lantzy (Ichabod Crane) defeated Zack Metzold 5-7, 6-3, 5-4; Luke Parisi (Schalmont) defeated Brody Chandler 6-4, 4-6, 6-3; Brett Richards (Ichabod

Greenville hits three home runs in win over Hudson

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GREENVILLE — Greenville belted three home runs, including two in one inning, en route to an 8-6 victory over Hudson in Monday’s Patroon Conference baseball finale for both teams.

Hudson finished 9-7 in conference play, while Greenville, one of the youngest teams in the Patroon, posted a 3-13 mark.

The Bluehawks built a 3-0 lead and were up 5-2 in the third when Spartans freshman Cole Flannery ripped a two-run homer to cut the deficit to 5-4.

Hudson added a single run in the top of the fourth, but Greenville answered in the bottom half of the frame when freshman Isaiah Edmonds drilled a two-run homer and two batters later, Ryan McAneny left the yard to put the Spartans on top, 8-6.

Hudson threatened in the late innings, putting two on in the sixth and loading the bases in the seventh, but couldn’t get the key hit when it needed it most and Greenville held on for the victory.

“It was a great win especially for the seniors,” Greenville coach Dane Carpenter said.

“It was great to see three different players hit home runs -- two by freshmen and 1 by a senior, who hit his first in varsity. Cole (Flannery) and Isaiah (Edmonds) have very bright futures.”

Edmonds and McAneny also singled in addition to their home runs. Kyle Thompson had a two-run double, Morgan Gergen doubled and Clifton Drollette and Bobby Corrigan singled.

Crane) defeated Cole Contompasis 3-6, 6-3 , 6-4; Harrison Puckett (Ichabod Crane) defeated Troy Contompasis 7-5, 6-4.

Doubles: Spencer Bates & Sean Mueller (Ichabod Crane) defeated Noah Britton & Jordan Bush 7-6, 6-4; Nick Boyd & LJ Rande (Schalmont) defeated Donte Northrup & Nick Spensieri 6-2, 6-4.

Mets’ GM isn’t ready to give up on his roster, or his manager Tyler Kepner The New York Times News Service

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Greenville freshman Isaiah Edmonds launches a two-run homer to left during the fourth inning of Monday’s Patroon Conference baseball game against Hudson.

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Hudson’s Tanner Race slides safely in to second base as Greenville ‘s Kyle Thompson takes the late throw during Monday’s Patroon Conference baseball game.

Tanner Race went 4 for 4 with a double for Hudson. Vic Gorman added three singles and an RBI, Isaiah Maines had two singles and two RBI,

Jack Moon a single and an RBI and Kasey Moore and Zack Bernockie a single apiece.

Travis Wilson and Edmonds combined for the win,

striking out four and walking eight.

Maines (6k,4bb,8r,7h) and Race (1k,1bb) shared mound duties for Hudson.

Voorheesville 16, Taconic Hills 13 CRARYVILLE — Voorheesville overcame an early eightrun deficit with 11 runs in the second inning en route to a 16-13 victory over Taconic Hills in Monday’s non-league baseball game.

Taconic Hills (11-8) took a 9-1 lead after one nning, but that was short lived as the Blackbirds hung 11 on the Titans in the next inning to go in front for good.

Carter Romansky had two doubles and an RBI for Voorheesville (6-7). Mason Wight added a double, tow singles See BASEBALL B3

If the New York Mets had fired Mickey Callaway as manager Monday, they would have conceded that something was flawed with their plan. Brodie Van Wagenen, the general manager, is not about to do that.

The Mets wanted an architect who would try to win immediately, and Van Wagenen, a former agent filled with energy and charisma, sold them last fall on a blueprint to do it. A slow, disciplined rebuild held no appeal for a franchise with just two winning records in the past 10 seasons. In this age of tanking, that qualified as noble.

It also might have been reckless, and for now, it cannot be reversed. Van Wagenen inherited Callaway, but changing the manager now, after 45 games, would have loudly signaled trouble. Nobody is happy with the poor start, but teams almost never make significant trades this early, so the Mets might as well stay the course and hope.

“This is our team,” Van Wagenen said Monday, with his boss, chief operating officer Jeff Wilpon, looking on. “We’re proud of it, we believe in it, and we’re going to make every effort in our control to improve upon it and see if we can’t get into this race and capitalize on this mission statement.”

Fulfilling that mission

statement — win now and in the future — got harder over the weekend when outfielder Yoenis Cespedes broke his right ankle in an accident at his ranch in Florida. Cespedes, who is recovering from operations on both heels, had a “violent fall,” Van Wagenen said, curiously refusing to be specific, except to confirm that Cespedes had not fallen off a horse.

The Mets need to stay upright this season, because they risked so much in Van Wagenen’s first trade, when he sent the Seattle Mariners two top100 prospects — outfielder Jarred Kelenic and pitcher Justin Dunn, who are both playing well in the minors. In return, he got a top closer in Edwin Diaz and an eight-time All-Star second baseman in Robinson Cano, and he shed the unwanted contracts of outfielder Jay Bruce and reliever Anthony Swarzak.

Diaz is terrific, but closers are relatively easy to find; two of the best this season signed discount free-agent deals last winter — Arizona’s Greg Holland (one year, $3.25 million) and Minnesota’s Blake Parker (one year, $1.8 million). Trading top prospects for Diaz seemed like an overreach, but Cano, in theory, would generate more offense.

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Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE East W L Pct GB NY Yankees 29 17 .630 — Tampa Bay 27 17 .614 1.0 Boston 25 22 .532 4.5 Toronto 19 28 .404 10.5 Baltimore 15 32 .319 14.0 Central W L Pct GB Minnesota 30 16 .652 — Cleveland 25 21 .543 5.0 Chi. White Sox 21 25 .457 9.0 Detroit 18 26 .409 11.0 Kansas City 16 31 .340 14.5 West W L Pct GB Houston 32 16 .667 — Texas 22 23 .489 8.5 Oakland 23 25 .479 9.0 LA Angels 22 24 .478 9.0 Seattle 23 27 .460 10.0 Monday’s games Boston 12, Toronto 2 Oakland 6, Cleveland 4 NY Yankees 10, Baltimore 7 Texas 10, Seattle 9 Houston 3, Chi. White Sox 0 Minnesota at LA Angels, 10:07 p.m.

Today’s games Oakland (Bassitt 2-1) at Cleveland (Bauer 4-2), 6:10 p.m.

NY Yankees (German 8-1) at Baltimore (Hess 1-5), 7:05 p.m.

Boston (Rodriguez 4-2) at Toronto (Stroman 1-6), 7:07 p.m.

Seattle (Milone 0-0) at Texas (Lynn 5-3), 8:05 p.m.

Chi. White Sox (Covey 0-2) at Houston (Verlander 7-1), 8:10 p.m.

Minnesota (Pineda 3-3) at LA Angels (Cahill 2-4), 10:07 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE East W L Pct GB Philadelphia 28 19 .596 — Atlanta 26 22 .542 2.5 NY Mets 21 25 .457 6.5 Washington 19 28 .404 9.0 Miami 13 31 .295 13.5 Central W L Pct GB Chi. Cubs 27 18 .600 — Milwaukee 28 21 .571 1.0 Pittsburgh 24 20 .545 2.5 St. Louis 24 23 .511 4.0 Cincinnati 21 26 .447 7.0 West W L Pct GB LA Dodgers 31 17 .646 — Arizona 25 22 .532 5.5 San Diego 23 24 .489 7.5 Colorado 20 25 .444 9.5 San Francisco 20 26 .435 10.0 Monday’s games NY Mets 5, Washington 3 Philadelphia 5, Chi. Cubs 4, 10 innings Atlanta 4, San Francisco 1 Arizona at San Diego, 10:10 p.m.

Today’s games Colorado (Marquez 4-2) at Pittsburgh (Archer 1-3), 7:05 p.m.

Philadelphia (Eflin 5-4) at Chi. Cubs (Quintana 4-3), 7:05 p.m.

Washington (Fedde 0-0) at NY Mets (Wheeler 3-3), 7:10 p.m.

Cincinnati (Gray 0-4) at Milwaukee (Gonzalez 2-0), 7:40 p.m.

Atlanta (Teheran 3-4) at San Francisco (Anderson 0-0), 9:45 p.m.

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

Interleague Sunday’s game Texas 5, St. Louis 4, 10 innings Today’s games LA Dodgers (Kershaw 3-0) at Tampa Bay (Wood 1-0), 7:10 p.m.

Miami (Smith 3-1) at Detroit (Turnbull 2-3), 7:10 p.m.

Kansas City (Bailey 4-4) at St. Louis (Wacha 3-1), 8:15 p.m.

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3B—Smith Jr (1). HR—Alberto (3), R.Nunez (8), G.Sanchez (13), Torres 2 (10). SB—Alberto (2).

IP NY Yankees Happ 3 2/3 Cessa 2 1/3 Holder 1 Britton W, 2-0 1 Chapman S, 12 1 Baltimore Cashner 6 Kline 1-3 Armstrong H, 2 1 1/3 Givens L, 0-1 BS 1 1/3

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HBP—Rickard (by Cessa), P.Severino (by Happ).

WP—Cashner (3).

T—3:35. A—16,457 (45,971)

Mets 5, Nationals 3 WAS AB R HBI Turner ss 5 0 1 0 Eaton rf 50 00 Rendon 3b 2 2 2 1 Soto lf 40 11 Kndrck 2b 4 0 0 0 Parra 1b 31 00 Robles cf 2 0 0 0 Gomes c 4 0 3 1 Taylor pr 0 0 0 0 Corbin sp 1 0 0 0 Rainey rp 0 0 0 0 Dozier ph 1 0 0 0 Ross rp 00 00 Sipp rp 00 00 Suzuki ph 1 0 0 0 Totals

NYM AB R HBI McNeil 2b 5 0 0 0 Rosario ss 3 2 1 1 Davis lf 400 0 Nimmo lf 0 0 0 0 Alonso 1b 3 1 1 1 Diaz rp 000 0 Ramos c 3 1 0 0 Frazier 3b 4 0 2 1 Gomez rf 3 1 1 1 Lgares cf 3 0 0 0 Font sp 201 0 Gagnon rp 0 0 0 0 Cano ph 1 0 1 0 Familia rp 0 0 0 0 Zamora rp 0 0 0 0 Gsllman rp 0 0 0 0 Smith ph 1 0 1 1 32 3 7 3 Totals 32 5 8 5

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FARMINGDALE — The Masters gave golf the Tiger Bounce, a surge in ratings and casual-fan enthusiasm unique to a Tiger Woods victory.

The PGA Championship gave golf the Koepka Conundrum: What happens when the most dominant player since Woods brings steak but not sizzle?

Woods captivated during his prime because of accomplishment and entertainment. He won majors at an unprecedented pace. He did so by hitting the ball spectacular distances, making astonishing recoveries, making chips hang on the edge of the cup tantalizingly before falling, and throwing fist pumps that would have backed Mike Tyson into a corner.

Koepka is a power player in Woods’ mold, but without the charisma or cussing, without providing a sense that we’re witnessing history.

But are we?

Rory McIlroy became a sensation by winning four majors in four years. Jordan Spieth by winning three in three seasons. Koepka has won four tournaments in less than two calendar years, has won consecutive U.S. Opens and PGA Championships, has won while coming from behind and while dominating from the first hole of a major.

Tiger himself demonstrated the dangers of comparing anyone to Jack Nicklaus and his 18 major championships.

Woods put together the most dominant 10-year run in golf history, winning 13 majors from 1999 through 2008, yet remains three behind Jack.

Koepka could win a major a year for the next 10 years and enter his age-40

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Brooks Koepka holds the Wanamaker Trophy after winning the PGA Championship at Bethpage State Park - Black Course.

season with 14 majors. Nicklaus won three majors after turning 40. Woods has won one.

But it is Nicklaus himself, if not Nicklaus the major-championship anomaly, who seems most comparable to Koepka.

Both display athletic arrogance. Both dismiss much of the field at a major, knowing there are players who will talk or whine themselves out of contention. Both combine prodigious length with driver accuracy. Both made clutch

putts. And both were built for majors because of the ability to constantly outdrive opponents and hit the ball to the middle of the green, plodding the course and the field to death.

The players who would be the next Tiger have faltered. McIlroy hasn’t won a major since 2014. Spieth hasn’t won a tournament since winning his third major, at the British Open in 2017.

Dustin Johnson has somehow won only one major despite having a half-dozen prime chances.

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E—Parra 1, J.Ross 1. LOB—New York 8, Washington 8. 2B—Cano (13), C.Gomez (1), Rendon (17), T.Turner (2). HR—P.Alonso (15), Rendon (9), A.Rosario (4).

IP H R ER BB SO Washington Corbin L, 4-2 5 6 4 4 3 7 Rainey 1 1 0 0 0 1 J.Ross 1 2/3 0 1 0 1 3 Sipp 1/3 1 0 0 0 0 NY Mets Font 4 3 2 2 4 3 Gagnon W, 2-0 2 0 0 0 1 2 Familia H, 5 1 1/3 2 1 1 0 1 Zamora 0 1 0 0 0 0 Gsellman H, 3 2/3 0 0 0 0 0 Ed.Diaz S, 11 1 1 0 0 0 0 HBP—P.Alonso (by J.Ross), V.Robles (by Ed.Diaz). WP—Font (1).

T—3:12. A—22,335 (41,800)

Transactions BASKETBALL NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Cleveland Cavaliers - Named J.B. Bickerstaff associate head coach.

Minnesota Timberwolves - Named Ryan Saunders head coach.

HOCKEY NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE Los Angeles Kings - Assigned D Jacob Moverare to Team Frolunda (HC-Sweden).

New York Rangers - Signed D Yegor Rykov to an entry-level contract.

Washington Capitals - Re-signed C Brian Pinho to a one-year, two-way contract worth $700,000. Signed C Shane Gersich to a one-year, two-way contract worth $700,000.

McIlroy and Spieth have personalities built to win over the masses. Johnson and Koepka, golfing buddies and workout partners, might not.

But Koepka is more interesting than his reputation would allow. He was not a blue-chip golfer when young. He had to play all over the world to earn his PGA Tour card. He didn’t win his first major until he was 27 — leaving him far behind the career arc of prodigies such as McIlroy and Spieth.

Koepka chafes at some criticisms and invents others — “In my own head,” he said — to inspire himself.

Is he boring?

No more than Nicklaus often was during his prime. And remember that Woods was the master of killing pressconference questions with a glare, a cliche or a cross word.

This past week at Bethpage Black, Koepka answered questions bluntly and sometimes with humor. Just because he’s not Tiger doesn’t mean he’s not interesting.

He’s popular with fellow players, and especially the Americans with whom he has competed at the Ryder Cup. On Saturday, he and Spieth played together and spent down time on the tees chatting and laughing.

Koepka is hardly an ogre. His game is hardly boring. After all that has happened, maybe we should consider the fact that he is not Tiger Woods as a good thing.

When Koepka plays at the 3M Open this summer in Blaine, he will likely do so as the top-ranked golfer in the world, one intent on winning as many majors as he can.

What more could a golf fan want?

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PORTLAND, Ore. — This has been a postseason of sacrifice for Stephen Curry — off the court. Such is the lingering severity of the recently dislocated finger on Curry’s left hand that he hasn’t played golf on a single off day.

That is no small concession for Curry, either. Sneaking away to a nearby course for a few hours between games on the road, typically accompanied by his Golden State Warriors teammate Andre Iguodala and front-office executive Jonnie West, is Curry’s go-to move for recharging himself mentally.

Yet it turns out that Curry is doing just fine on the floor without two healthy hands or the usual retreats to his favorite sanctuary. An injury that hampers his ability to grip a golf club could not prevent Curry from uncorking the most dominant playoff series of his career in the Western Conference finals.

In the process, Curry didn’t merely hush a legion of naysayers regularly critical of his postseason play. He also reminded us just how much of the Warriors’ offense he has surrendered over the past three seasons, without complaint, to accommodate Kevin Durant’s one-onone brilliance.

With Durant forced to miss this entire series with a strained calf, and a historic fifth consecutive trip to the NBA finals on the line, Curry turned back the clock to score 36, 37, 36 and finally 37 points in a four-game sweep of the Portland Trail Blazers. In Monday night’s 119-117 overtime triumph to finish poor Portland off, Curry teamed with Draymond Green to deliver a decisive pair of triple-doubles, something no two teammates had ever done in the same NBA playoff game.

“We’re a superteam for a reason,” Golden State’s Klay Thompson said, paying tribute to Curry, Green and everyone who fell in line behind them as the Warriors erased a double-digit deficit for the third straight game.

When the comeback was clinched, Curry shared two warm embraces and exchanged jerseys near the scorer’s table with his younger brother, Seth Curry, whose Blazers couldn’t hold a 17-point lead this time.

“I’m glad it’s over,” Dell Curry, Stephen and Seth’s father, said wearily as he leaned against a wall outside the Golden State locker room.

Watching their sons duel for a spot in the NBA finals proved more stressful than Dell Curry and his wife, Sonya, ever imagined. But Dell, himself a 16-year NBA veteran, couldn’t refrain from marveling at Stephen’s consistency in leading Golden State, down two injured starters, to a fifth consecutive finals.

All this started, remember, with 33 points in the second half of the Game 6 clincher at Houston, after Stephen Curry was scoreless against the Rockets in the

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Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry (30) shoots a lay up over Portland Trail Blazers forward Meyers Leonard (11) in the second half of game four of the Western conference finals of the 2019 NBA Playoffs at Moda Center.

first half in Golden State’s first full game without Durant.

“Steph’s bar is so high that I don’t know if anything he does is ever enough,” Dell Curry said, referring to those in the news media who questioned whether the Warriors could really cope without Durant.

“He played like a superstar tonight and this whole series.”

To augment the tireless Green’s 18 points, 14 rebounds and 11 assists — in what may be concurrently recorded as the best series of Green’s career as well — Curry mustered 13 rebounds and 11 assists to go with those 37 points. To take it up another notch, Curry played every second of the second half and overtime.

Warriors coach Steve Kerr was clearly taking no chances in a closeout game in which the visitors, beyond missing Durant and DeMarcus Cousins, also had to cope without the injured Iguodala (calf).

The Warriors likewise had to overcome the game of Meyers Leonard’s life — Leonard pumped in 25 of his careerbest 30 points by halftime — and break a season-long overtime hex. Golden State had somehow been winless in all six of its previous overtime games and wasn’t safe

in this one until Damian Lillard (28 points and 12 assists while hampered by a separated rib) missed a contested 3-pointer from the right corner that could have won it for the Blazers.

Curry gave a hint of his determination to avoid a Game 5 by ringing up 8 points in the final 30 seconds of the first half to match Leonard’s total of 25 by intermission. Then, late in the extra period, assist No. 11 came when a swarmed Curry found Green on the right wing for Green’s only 3-pointer — good for a 119-115 lead.

“Draymond is just a big-game player and Steph trusted him, and that was obviously the shot of the game,” Kerr said.

“They are kind of made for each other from a basketball standpoint.”

So make that 10 consecutive postseason wins over the Blazers — and a spot alongside the Bill Russell-led Boston Celtics of the 1950s and ‘60s as the only teams in league history to reach five successive finals.

Curry’s sterling résumé still lacks a finals MVP trophy, yet it’s clear that the dislocated finger he sustained against Houston early in the last round won’t be the obstacle that stops him at the fifth

attempt.

As the Warriors’ spiritual compass, Green will be a worthy contender, too, should the Warriors manage to win their fourth title in five seasons. Durant, of course, was widely hailed as the best player in these playoffs before his scary setback and could conceivably make it back to work in the next round. Golden State, after all, just bought itself nine days of rest before the finals begin May 30 against the Milwaukee/Toronto winner.

None of that, though, should detract from the fact that Curry has been better than ever since Durant went down, amid the pressure of keeping a dynasty in operation and no shortage of uncertainty about the Warriors’ future thanks to Durant’s impending free agency.

Portland’s roster has too many holes compared to Houston’s, Milwaukee’s or Toronto’s to waste too much time pondering the debate du jour about Durant and whether he’s a luxury or a necessity for Golden State as it chases a three-peat.

Neither the Bucks nor Raptors figure to be as vulnerable to conceding big leads, so leave that one for the morning TV talk shows.

The smarter declaration, after watching Curry’s backcourt play alongside Thompson keep Lillard and C.J. McCollum firmly in their shadow, is proclaiming Steph to be the league’s ultimate team-first franchise player.

“It starts with him,” Iguodala said of Curry. “More than anything, he always has good intentions.

“DeMarcus came in and was here for a couple months and he told Steph, ‘Bro, you are the most regular superstar I’ve ever seen — and that’s a compliment.’”

There’s little doubt that the load Durant carries (when healthy) has enabled Curry to be fresher for his late-season exertions than he’s ever been — hand injury aside. Yet it was repeatedly evident against the Blazers that A) Portland still has little answer for Golden State’s size and pace and B) many of us have undersold the selfless manner in which Curry has dialed back his offense when needed to prioritize Durant’s comfort level.

After Golden State’s Game 3 comeback at Moda Center, Curry openly lamented how much he misses golf these days, responding glumly to a question on the matter with a one-word confirmation: “Facts.”

Said Iguodala: “Some people say we play too much, but there’s no such thing.

We’ve actually found something that we can get mentally engaged in away from what causes all the stress.”

Rest assured that the Warriors will never take issue with their hobby when Curry is back swinging his woods and wedges — grateful for everything their incomparable point guard has routinely ceded on the court in the chase for more championships.

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Greenville’s Bobby Corrigan goes in to his slide as Hudson third baseman Matt Bowes takes the throw from catcher Jack Moon during Monday’s Patroon Conference baseball game.

Hudson’s Isaiah Maines goes into his slide as Greenville catcher Cole Flannery waits for the throw from the outfield during Monday’s Patroon Conference baseball game.

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Greenville’s Cole Flannery is greeted at home plate by his teammates after belting a two-run homer in the third inning of Monday’s Patroon Conference baseball game against Hudson.

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and two RBI, Alex Sapienze had a double and single with an RBI, Alex Hoenig two singles and two RBI and Richie Groves a single and two RBI. Kolby Clegg went 4 for 5 for TH, collecting two doubles, tow singles and five RBI. Joel Preusser had two singles, Schuyler Krzeminski, Devon Charron and Ryan Nowak a single and an RBI each, Logan Spampinato and Mason Nack a single apiece, Jesse Slater two RBI and Aiden Leipman an RBI. Romansky, Groves, Sapienza and Fullerton combined for 10 strikeouts and four

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Greenville’s Ryan McAneny dives back to first base as Hudson first baseman Nick Bernockie takes the pickoff throw from pitcher Isaiah Maines during Monday’s Patroon Conference baseball game.

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Greenville pitcher Travis Wilson throws during Monday’s Patroon Conference baseball game against Hudson.

walks, while allowing 13 runs

and 11 hits for Voorheesville.

Clegg, Krzeminski and Preusser teamed up to fan three, walk eight and allow 15 runs and 14 hits for TH.

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Germantown 5, Holy Trinity 1 GREENPORT — Dan Kellenbenz fired a three-hitter as Germantown clinched a

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NON-LEAGUE Chatham 12, Schalmont 9 ROTTERDAM — BrookeLyn Doyle collected a triple, double, two singles and two RBI to help Chatham earn a come-from-behind 12-9 victory over Schalmont in Monday’s non-league softball game.

The Panthers (17-2) fell behind 9-1 at one point, but rallied to outscore the Sabres 110 the rest of the way to post the win.

Adryanna Jennings added a double and single to Chatham’s attack. Shirley Harvey had three singles and two RBI, Jenna Skype three singles, Erin Madsen two singles and Sydney Putnam and Allyssa Rippel a single each.

Skype went the distance on the mound for the win, striking out three, walking one and allowing nine runs and 16 hits.

“This was a nice win,” Chatham coach J.B. Brantley said.

“Schalmont came out swinging the bats, getting two big hits (a bases-loaded double and a grand slam). Our girls showed resilience, stayed positive and were able to score 11 unanswered runs from the fifth to the seventh innings.

“It’s always tough playing your next game after a

and a .374 slugging percentage, all career lows. He failed to run hard — or run at all — twice during the Mets’ lost weekend in Miami, and though Callaway benched him Monday for the first game of a series against the Washington Nationals, it was mostly a planned day off against a tough left-hander, Patrick Corbin.

“We didn’t get into those details,” Cano said after batting practice, when asked if Callaway had cited his lack of hustle as a reason for the benching. “We talked about it yesterday. I apologized the day before, and that’s something that I accept, my mistake. I made that error, I apologized. I’m going to keep leading by example and just move on.”

Cano’s example has always included a casual style of play. It has worked for him in an extremely durable 15-year career, but he turns 37 this October, and he served an 80-game suspension last season for violating baseball’s policy on performance-enhancing drugs.

The age, the failed test — and the contract through 2023 — might have given other teams pause, but Van Wagenen, of course, is Cano’s former agent.

“Robinson Cano has health, he has talent, and he has a burning desire to be great,” he said, when asked if Cano still seemed like a wise investment. “Those are characteristics that we look for in our clubhouse from all players, and I think he possesses those in spades.”

That may be true, but there is no denying Cano’s age, or the fact that most winning teams have younger compositions. In the past five seasons, only one player older than Cano has had at least 500 plate appearances for a championship

share of the CHVL championship on Monday with a 5-1 victory over Holy Trinity at Columbia-Greene Community College.

Germantown and Holy Trinity finished tied atop the CHVL standings and will share the title.

Kellenbenz struck out seven and walked two in helping the Clippers post the victory.

Josh Sanzo tripled and singled to highlight Germantown’s 10-hit attack. Andrew Kellenbenz had a double and an RBI, Dan Kellenbenz and Jace Anderson both doubled, Shane Dunn had two singles and Jeremy Cosenza, Jonathan Mollo and Victor Ruocco each had a single.

team: Carlos Beltran, for the 2017 Houston Astros.

Beltran, who was 40, retired after that World Series.

“I’ve been swinging good,” Cano said. “I’ve been hitting balls right at guys.

I’m just, like I always am, a positive guy and preparing myself every single day to help this team win a game.”

Van Wagenen added other veterans last winter without much to show for it.

Infielder Jed Lowrie (age 35) has not played this season because of a knee injury.

Catcher Wilson Ramos (31) was hitting .238 with two homers through the weekend. Reliever Justin Wilson (31) is out with a sore elbow, Jeurys Familia (29) has a 5.51 ERA, and outfielder Keon Broxton (29) has been designated for assignment.

It looks bleak now, and also a bit farcical, because that is how things always seem to look for the Mets.

But Callaway — the manager “for the foreseeable future,” as Van Wagenen put it — tried to lend perspective.

“This is a normal Major League Baseball season,” Callaway said. “There’s ups and downs. There’s tons of history that says that our team, and any team, can climb out of the hole we’ve put ourselves in and do something special. And I definitely believe that.”

He has to believe it, like Van Wagenen and Wilpon and the rest of the organization, because at this point there is no other choice.

Sparing Callaway — for the moment, anyway — shifts fans’ attention away from the manager and back to the people who constructed the roster.

“The finger-pointing is not going down the chain of command to the players and coaches,” Van Wagenen said. “We built this team in the front office.”

This is their vision, for better or worse, and just because they want to win does not mean they will.

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Hettos, LLC. Filed with SSNY on 2/6/2019. Office: Greene County.

SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 369 Main Street Catskill NY 12414. Purpose: any lawful

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.

LB FERMENTS LLC, Articles of Org. filed with the SSNY on 4/2/19.

Office loc: Greene County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 150 Water St., Catskill, NY 12414. NOTICE OF PUBLIC Purpose: Any Lawful HEARING Purpose.

The Town of Catskill Board Misc. Site Improve- Planning ments at Hop-O-Nose opened a Public Hearing on application Apartments They will be received Special Use Permit by the Executive Direc- SUP-3-2019 On May tor on June 25th, 2019 14, 2019 pursuant to at 9:00 AM, at which Section 160-13 time bids shall be pub- of the Town of Catskill licly opened and read Zoning Code to allow at the Office of the Ex- Conversion from a moecutive Director locat- tel to multiple family on lands ed at 32 Bronson dwelling Mayo Street, Catskill, New- owned byBalle Property Management York 12414.

The apartments are lo- LLC located at1 1 4 7 cated in Catskill, New Main St. Leeds York and work shall be Tax Map # 1 3 8 . 1 0 - 4 in accordance of 3.1 specifications and oth- The Public Hearing er contracts prepared was opened on the

by RIDA Architecture 14th day of May , 2019 PLLC, 2022 Western at 7:00 PM , and will Avenue, Albany, New be recessed to the York Tel: (518) 713- May 28, 2019 meeting at the Town Hall locat4537.

There will be a pre-bid ed at 439-441 Main walk through on June Street, Catskill, NY. 18th, 2019 at 9:00 a.m. to allow public comContractors to meet at ments on the applicathe front doors of the tion Administrative Build- The above application is open for inspection ing.

Contract documents at the Planning Board may be obtained at the Office located at 439 office of the Executive Main Street, Catskill, Director at the Catskill New York between the Housing Authority, 32 hours of 10:00 a.m.

Bronson Street, Cats- and 2:00 p.m. kill, New York 12414. By order of J o s e p h Tel: (518)943-2900, Izzo Planning upon payment of a Chairman, $50.00 refundable de- Board, Town of Catsposit.

Deposit re- kill fundable upon return NOTICE OF PUBLIC of the contract docu- HEARING ments in good condi- Village of Kinderhook tion to the Catskill Planning Board Housing Authority, no PLEASE TAKE NOlater than 14 days fol- TICE that there will be lowing the bid open- a public hearing held ing. before the Village of The Owner reserves Kinderhook Planning the right to waive any Board at the Kindeinformality or techni- rhook Village Hall, 6 cality and reject any Chatham Street, and all bids.

Kinderhook, New York Each Bidder must de- on Thursday, June 6, posit with his bid, se- 2019 at 7:00 PM to curity in the amount consider the following and forms subject to proposed application. the conditions A Special Use Permit provided in the Infor- for Paul Calcagno, mation for Bidders."

PCJ Development, 5 Sincerely, Broad Street, KindeNina M. Krupski rhook, NY Lot # 43.20Executive Director 2-47. The plans are Notice is hereby given available for inspection that a license, number at the Kinderhook Vil2216770 for liquor, lage Hall, Monday-Fribeer, cider, and wine, day, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. has been applied for and Wednesdays 5-7 by the undersigned to p.m. sell liquor, beer, cider, If, a sign language inand wine at retail in a terpreter, assistive lisHotel, under the Alco- tening system, or any holic Beverage Control other accommodation Law at 302 Warren St., will be required to faHudson, NY 12534 for cilitate your participaOn Premises con- tion in this public hearsumption. The Maker ing please contact the Group LLC & The Mak- Village Clerk at 518er Hotel Hudson LLC 758-9882 or okvillagehall@villageofkinded/b/a The Maker rhook.org one week in Notice is hereby given advance of the public that an order entered hearing. by the Supreme Court All persons interested , Columbia County, on are invited to attend. the 13th day of May, Dated: Thursday, May 2019, bearing Index 16, 2019 Number 14334-19, a s/Kristina Berger copy of which may be Secretary examined at the office of the clerk, located at NOTICE OF PUBLIC 560 Warren Street, HEARING Hudson , New York Village of Kinderhook grants me the right to Planning Board assume the name of PLEASE TAKE NOCornelia Cochrane TICE that there will be Churchill Guest. The a public hearing held city and state of my before the Village of Planning present address are Kinderhook Ancramdale , NY; the Board at the Kindemonth and year of my rhook Village Hall, 6 Street, birth are November Chatham ,1963 ; the place of my Kinderhook, New York birth is New York, New on Thursday, June 6, York; my present name 2019 at 7:00 PM to is Cornelia Cochrane consider the following proposed application.

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A Special Use Permit NOTICE of Formation for The Three Sisters of Limited Liability Tavern LLS, 8 Broad Street, Kinderhook, NY Company Articles of Organiza- Lot # 43.20-1-29. The tion of Proper Connec- plans are available for at the tions LLC (hereinafter inspection Village the Company) were Kinderhook

Hall, Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and Wednesdays 5-7 p.m.

If, a sign language interpreter, assistive listening system, or any other accommodation will be required to facilitate your participation in this public hearing please contact the Village Clerk at 518-758-9882 or okvillagehall@villageofkinderhook.org one week in advance of the public hearing.

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Dated: Thursday, May 16, 2019 s/Kristina Berger Secretary NOTICE TO BID TOWN OF KINDERHOOK The Town of Kinderhook is seeking Bids for Bus Transportation for the Summer Recreation Program.

Duration: The Summer Program is a six (6) week program that commences on July 8, 2019 and ends on August 16, 2019.

AM Bus Route: There is no morning pick-up this year.

Swim Program: The bus picks up those children who participate in the Swim Program at Volunteer's Park on State Farm Road at approximately 12:30PM and transports them to Crellin Park on Route 66, Town of Chatham.

The bus remains until 2:30 PM when the swim program ends.

The mileage from Volunteers' Park to Crellin Park is 8 +/- miles.

PM Route: The bus leaves Crellin Park and drops off children at Volunteer's Park. The mileage from Crellin Park to Volunteers' Park is 8 +/- miles.

There are no additional drop-off locations this year.

The Town of Kinderhook reserves the right to reject any and all bids without prejudice or explanation.

All bids must be received no later than Noon on June 3, 2019.

Bids will be opened at 7:00 PM on June 3, 2019.

A Bid Specification Package, Bid Proposal Form and other information is available at the Office of the Town Clerk, 3211 Church Street, Valatie, New York 12184.

By Order of the Town Board Of the Town of Kinderhook Dated: 5/16/2019 Kim Pinkowski Town Clerk

MIDFIRST BANK, Plaintiff – against – CHRISTOPHER NEWBANKS, et al Defendant(s).

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered on October 1, 2018. I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction, at the front vestibule, Greene County Courthouse, Main Street, Village of Catskill, Greene County, New York on the 24th Day of June, 2019 at 9:00 a.m. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being on the westerly side of Riverside Avenue in the Village and Town of Coxsackie, Greene County, New York.

Premises known as 24 Riverside Avenue, Coxsackie, (Village and Town of Coxsackie) NY 12051.

(Section: 56.15, Block: 3, Lot: 20) Approximate amount of lien $67,333.89 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed judgment and terms of sale.

Index No. 17-770.

Monica Kenny-Keff, Esq., Referee.

Davidson Fink LLP Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 28 East Main Street, Suite 1700 Rochester, NY 14614-1990 Tel. 585/760-8218 For sale information, please visit Auction.com at www.Auction.com or call (800) 280-2832 Dated: March 27, 2019

S U P P L E M E N TA L SUMMONS STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT, COUNTY OF GREENE INDEX NUMBER: 18-0609 DATE FILED: October 17, 2018 21st MORTGAGE CORPORTION, as Servicing Agent for the Knoxville 2012 Trust, Plaintiff, - against ROBERT W. CRAMER; ARTHUR CRAMER, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ESTATE OF ROBERT W. CRAMER; "THE ROBERT W. CRAMER ESTATE DEFENDANTS" (said last name being fictitious, it being the intention of the plaintiff to designate thereby any and all persons or entities not specifically named and joined as a party defendant herein who are the heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, executors, administrators, trustees, legatees, assignors, lienors, creditors and successors in interest REFEREE’S NOTICE of Robert W. Cramer, OF SALE IN FORE- deceased, and generCLOSURE ally all persons having SUPREME COURT – or claiming under, by COUNTY OF GREENE or through the said

Robert W. Cramer, deceased, or under by or through any distributee or heir at law of the said Robert W. Cramer, deceased, by purchase, inheritance, lien or otherwise, any right, title or interest in and to the premises and chattel described in the complaint herein, and the respective husbands or widowers, wives and widows of said person(s), if any, all of whose names are unknown to plaintiff); GREEN COUNTY; NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA O/B/O INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE; and "JOHN/JANE DOE 1" through "JOHN/JANE DOE 10", (said last ten names being fictitious, it being the intention of Plaintiff to designate any and all other tenants, occupants or other persons or entities having or claiming an interest in the real property which is the subject of this action, whose identity is not presently known to plaintiff), Defendants.

TO THE ABOVENAMED DEFENDANTS AND ROBERT W. CRAMER ESTATE DEFENDANTS: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the amended complaint in the above action and to serve a copy of your answer on the plaintiff's attorneys within twenty (20) days after the service of this supplemental summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within thirty (30) days after completion of service where service is made in any other manner than by personal delivery within the State of New York.

The United States of America, if designated as a defendant in this action, may answer or appear within sixty (60) days of service hereof. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the amended complaint. Greene County is designated as the place of trial. The basis of venue is the location of the mortgaged premises in this action at 5449 State Route 23, Windham, New York 12496. NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this supplemental summons and amended complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the

court, a default judgment may be entered, and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the supplemental summons and protect your property.

Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action.

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BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. ORDER AUTHORIZING SERVICE: The foregoing Supplemental Summons is served upon you pursuant to an order of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of Greene (Hon. Lisa M. Fisher), dated the 5th day of December 2018 and entered in the Greene County Clerk's Office on the 23rd day of April, 2019. NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT: The object of this action is to foreclose a mortgage lien against the premises in Greene County, New York located at, and commonly known as, 5449 State Route 23, Windham New York 12496 (Tax Map No. 78.18-2-9.1) (the "Mortgaged Premises"), more particul arly described in that certain mortgage executed by Robert W. Cramer to Quicken Loans, Inc. to secure the payment of the sum of $100,000.00, which mortgage is dated April 6, 2007 and recorded in the Greene County Clerk's Office on April 24, 2007 as Document No.:

2007-00003062 and assigned to Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, a Federal Savings Bank d/b/a Christiana Trust, a Division of Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, solely in its capacity as trustee for and on behalf of the Knoxville 2012 Trust, c/o 21st Mortgage Corporation, by Assignment of Mortgage dated May 14, 2018 and recorded in the Greene County Clerk's Office on June 13, 2018 as Instrument No.: M2018-1560 (the "Mortgage"). The relief sought in this action is a Final Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale, directing the sale of the Mortgaged Premises to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above.

Help for Homeowners in Foreclosure New York State Law requires that we send you this notice about the for eclosure process. Please read it carefully.

Summons and Complaint You are in danger of losing your home. If you fail to respond to the summons and complaint in this foreclosure action, you may lose your home. Please read the summons and complaint carefully. You should immediately contact an attorney or your local legal aid office to obtain advice on how to protect yourself. Sources of Information and Assistance The State encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. In addition to seeking assistance from an attorney or legal aid office, there are government agencies and non-profit organizations that you may contact for information

about possible options, including trying to work with your lender during this process.

To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained by the New York State Department of Financial Services at (800) 342-3736 or visit the Department's website at w w w. d f s . n y. g o v.

RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS, YOU ARE NOT REQUIRED TO LEAVE YOUR HOME AT THIS TIME. YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO STAY IN YOUR HOME DURING THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS. YOU ARE NOT REQUIRED TO LEAVE YOUR HOME UNLESS AND UNTIL YOUR PROPERTY IS SOLD AT AUCTION PURSUANT TO A JUDGMENT OF FORECLOSURE AND SALE. REGARDLESS OF WHETHER YOU CHOOSE TO REMAIN IN YOUR HOME, YOU ARE REQUIRED TO TAKE CARE OF YOUR PROPERTY AND PAY PROPERTY TAXES IN ACCORDANCE WITH STATE AND LOCAL LAW. Foreclosure Rescue Scams Be careful of people who approach you with offers to "save" your home.

There are individuals who watch for notices of foreclosure actions in order to unfairly profit from a homeowner's distress. You should be extremely careful about any such promises and any suggestions that you pay them a fee or sign over your deed. State law requires anyone offering such services for profit to enter into a contract which fully describes the services they will perform and fees they will charge, and whic h prohibits them from taking any

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NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT - COUNTY OF COLUMBIA MTGLQ Investors, L.P. Plaintiff, Against Unknown heirs at law of Frederick Scaglione, and if they be dead, any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or generally or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors; administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; Thomas Scaglione, potential son, as heir to the estate of Frederick Scaglione a/k/a Frederick R. Scaglione a/k/a Fred Scaglione, Adam Scaglione, potential son, as heir to the estate of Frederick Scaglione a/k/a Frederick R. Scaglione a/k/a Fred Scaglione, et al., Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale, duly entered 4/9/2019, I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction, at the Columbia County Courthouse, 401 Union Street, Hudson, NY 12534, on 6/10/2019 at 10:00 am, premises known as 65 High Street, Chatham, NY 12037, and described as follows: ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Village of Chatham, Town of Ghent, County of Columbia and State of New York, Section 66.10, Block 3 and Lot 43. The approximate amount of the cur-

rent Judgment lien is $157,506.32 plus interest and costs. The Premises will be sold subject to provisions of the aforesaid Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale; Index # 10437/2016.

Theodore Guterman, II, Esq., Referee.

For sale information, please visit Auction.com at www.Auction.com or call (800) 280-2832 SHELDON MAY & ASSOCIATES Attorneys at Law, 255 Merrick Road, Rockville Centre, NY 11570 Dated: 4/23/2019 File Number: 30483 PB NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME C O U RT COUNTY OF GREENE, GREEN LAKE HOMESTEAD INC., Plaintiff, vs. NYMD GREEN LAKE, LLC, ET AL., Defendant(s). Pursuant to an Order Confirming Referee Report and Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly filed on April 9, 2019, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Greene County Courthouse, 320 Main Street, Catskill, NY on June 7, 2019 at 9:30 a.m., premises known as 605 Green Lake Road, Catskill, New York, 12414 and 609 Green Lake Road, Catskill, NY 12414. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Athens, County of Greene and State of New York, Section 103.00, Block 4 and Lot 33 and Section 103.00, Block 4 and Lot 30. Approximate amount of judgment is $1,385,671.03 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 170665. James A. Caruso, Esq., Referee Schiller, Knapp, Lefkowitz & Hertzel, LLP, 200 John James Audubon Parkway, Suite 202, Amherst, New York 14228, Attorneys for Plaintiff REFEREE’S NOTICE OF SALE IN FORECLOSURE SUPREME COURT – COUNTY OF GREENE MIDFIRST BANK, Plaintiff – against – ANY UNKNOWN HEIRS TO THE ESTATE OF VAIKE POOLE, et al Defendant(s). Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered on March 5, 2019.

I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the front vestibule, Greene County Courthouse, Main Street, Village of Catskill, Greene County, New York on the 12th Day of

June, 2019 at 9:15 a.m. All that piece, parcel and lot of land situate, lying and being in the Town of Coxsackie, County of Greene and State of New York.

Premises known as 1137 Route 81, Coxsackie, (Town of Coxsackie) NY 12051. (Section: 54.00, Block: 3, Lot: 16) Approximate amount of lien $276,520.05 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed judgment and terms of sale. Index No. 17-430. Max N. Zacker, Esq., Referee. Davidson Fink LLP Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 28 East Main Street, Suite 1700 Rochester, NY 14614-1990 Tel. 585/760-8218 For sale information, please visit Auction.com at www.Auction.com or call (800) 280-2832 Dated: March 20, 2019 LEGAL NOTICE Ashley Brennan., you are hereby notified that the Columbia County Department of Social Services has filed a Petition against you, dated April 11, 2019, alleging that you abandoned the child Ayden M. The relief being sought is a finding of abandonment of the child Ayden M., and termination of your parental rights. Personal service of this petition upon you, Ashley Brennan, has not been attempted at your last known address of 5612 Wassman Road, Knoxville, Tennessee, due to returned mailed from that address. All efforts and further attempts at personal service being impracticable, the Honorable Jonathan D. Nichols, Judge of the Columbia County Family Court, by order dated on May 3, 2019, has authorized that personal service of this petition will be effected on you by publication of this notice at least once per week in each of four successive weeks. You are hereby summoned to appear before the Honorable Jonathan D. Nichols, Judge of the Columbia County Family Court, 401 Union Street, Hudson, New York, 12534 on June 11, 2019 at 1 p.m. Your failure to appear before the Court on June 11, 2019 at 1 p.m. will result in a default judgment being entered against you, and granting the abovereferenced relief requested by the Columbia County Department of Social Services. FAMILY COURT THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF COLUMBIA In the Matter of Ayden Mowris Child under the Age of Eighteen Alleged to be Aban-

doned by Ashley Brennan Respondent. FF No: 8244 ORDER TO ALLOW FOR ALTERNATIVE SERVICE UPON reading the attorney Affirmation of Jessica E. Keenan, Esq., Senior Assistant Social Services Attorney for the Columbia County Department of Social Services, dated April 11, 2019, a copy of which is annexed hereto, IT IS ORDERED to allow the Columbia County Department of Social Services, as provided in FCA § 1036( d), to effect service on Ashley Brennan with the Abandonment Petition, dated April 11, 2019, via publication in the Hudson Register Star and The Knoxville News Sentinel, to be published once a week for four consecutive weeks. Such service will be deemed legally adequate service to obtain jurisdiction over the Respondent Ashley Brennan. Dated: 5/3/19 Hon. Jonathan Nichols Columbia County Family Court NOTICE OF ENTRY PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the within is an order entered In the office of the Clerk of the Famlly Court of the State of New York in the County of Columbia SHADOW 66, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 04/19/19. 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, 609 Warren Street, Hudson, NY 12534. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC AUCTION The City of Hudson, New York, shall sell at public auction in the Common Council Chambers of the Hudson City Hall, 520 Warren Street, Hudson, New York 12534, on the 10th day of June 2019, at 3:00 o’clock in the afternoon, the premises located at 427 Warren Street, Hudson, New York, bearing tax map number 109.52-3-35. The minimum bid shall be $300,000.00.

The conveyance of the subject premises shall be subject to the terms and conditions of a Penalty Note and Mortgage in the amount of $100,000.00 in the event the property: (a) is not developed for a commercial use, as evidenced by a certificate of occupancy, within three (3) years of the conveyance of title, or; (b) all or a portion of the property is sold within three (3) years of the conveyance of title.

A copy of the Terms of Sale and the terms and conditions of the

Penalty Note and Mortgage may be reviewed at the Office of the Mayor, Hudson City Hall, 520 Warren Street, Hudson, New York 12534. Dated at Hudson, New York, the 13th day of May, 2019. Andrew B. Howard, Esq. Corporation Counsel City of Hudson Town of New Baltimore Request for Bids for 2019 Paving Projects The Town of New Baltimore will be receiving bids for the following paving projects for the 2019 season. Shady Lane Approximately 9875’ x 20’ Furnish and Install 1” T&L Course Furnish and Install 1.5” 12.5mm Top Course The Town will be responsible for the following: Cut keyways as necessary for smooth transitions Clean (sweep) roadway prior to paving All necessary maintenance and control of traffic Water Supply for rollers Bids will be accepted at the Town Clerk’s Office located at 3809 County Route 51, Hannacroix, NY 12087 until 4pm on Friday, May 24. All bids must be in a sealed envelope at time of delivery. Bids will be opened at the Town Board Work Meeting on Wednesday, May 29. Please address any questions to Highway Superintendent Alan VanWormer at (518)756-2078, Ext. 3 MondayThursday from 6am-3:30 pm, cell (518)567-4961, or email at highway@townofnewbaltimore.org. By Order of the Town Board, Barbara M. Finke Town Clerk NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT: COUNTY OF GREENE INDEX # 16-0108 Andrus Poder, Plaintiff, - against Andrey Odintsov, De- fendant Assigned Judge: Hon. Lisa M. Fisher Pursuant to an Order for Interlocutory Judg- ment Directing Sale dated January 16, 2019, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Lobby of the Greene County Courthouse, 320 Main Street Cats- kill New York 12414, on June 6, 2019 at 10:00 AM, Premises known as: 224 Route 17, Jewett, New York containing all that certain plot parcel of land, with the building and improvements erected situate, lying and being in the Town of Jewett, County of Greene, State of New York, Section 129.00 Block 4 Lot 35 and The land area of the Property is described as follows and as set forth in Deed recorded on July

12, 2013 in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Greene in Liber 1420 and Page 101: ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Jewett, Greene County, State of New York, more particularly bounded and described as follows: being part of No. 64 Grant 22 Harding Patent: Beginning at a point in the center of the highway leading from West Chases to Jewett Heights opposite a big birch tree marked running thence along the centre of said highway North 52 degrees East 3 Chains and 5 Links, thence south 40 degrees, East 18 Chains 94 Links to the centre of the East kill creek thence along the centre of said creek South 61 degrees West 10 Chains, thence North 52 degrees, one Chain to the place of beginning, containing two acres of land. Also that other piece of land situated in said Town of Jewett, County and State aforesaid bounded and described as follows: Beginning at South west corner of the above described Lot thence South 52 degrees, West 7 chains, 64 links to the Lands of Amos Goodsell, thence North 55 degrees, West 8 chains 85 links to the center of East kill stream, thence along center of said stream as it winds and turns to the place of beginning, containing 14 Acres of land be the same more or less.

ALSO ALL THAT PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND situate in the Town of Jewett, County of Greene and State of New York bounded and described as follows: Beginning in the center of the highway leading from Jewett Centre to Jewett Heights at the point where the boundary line between the a b o v e - d e s c r i b e d premises and premises conveyed to Gomalia W. Howard by Jesse Dunham intersects the center line of said highway; thence running northerly along the center of said highway fifty (50) feet, thence easterly and parallel with said boundary line to the center of the creek being the westerly line of lands of Pollock (formerly Persons); thence southerly along the west line of Poolock approximately fifty (50) feet to said boundary line; thence westerly along said boundary line to the center of said highway. Premises will be sold subject to Provisions of filed Judgments and Orders for Index #:

16-0108, and more specifically, with the following terms of sale: FIRST: Ten per cent (10%) of the purchase money of said premises will be required to be paid to the said Referee in the form of cash, certified or cashier’s check, at the time and place of sale and for which the Referee’s receipt will be given.

SECOND: The residue of said purchase money will be required to be paid to the said Referee at 285 Main Street, Catskill, Greene County, New York, within 15 days of the auction date, when said Referee’s deed will be ready for delivery.

THIRD: The Referee is not required to send any notice to the purchaser and if he neglects to call at the time and place specified to receive his deed, he will be charged with interest thereafter on the whole amount of his purchase unless the Referee shall deem it proper to extend the time for the completion of said purchase. FOURTH: All taxes, assessments and water rents, which at the time of sale, are liens or encumbrances upon said premises shall be paid by the Referee from the proceeds of the sale. FIFTH: The purchaser of the premises will at the time and place of sale, sign a memorandum of his purchase and an agreement to comply with the terms and conditions of sale herein contained and pay the purchase money.

SIXTH: The bidding will be kept open after the property is struck down; and in case any purchaser shall fail to comply with any of the above conditions of sale, the premises so struck down to him will again be put up for sale under the direction of said Referee under the same terms of sale, without application to the Court, unless plaintiff’s attorneys shall elect to make such application; and such purchaser will be held liable for any deficiency there may be between the sum for which the premises shall be struck down upon the sale, and that for which they may be purchased on the resale, and also for any costs or expenses occurring on such resale. Upon purchaser’s default, the bid deposit will auto-matically be forfeited and applied to the aforesaid deficiency, if any.

Such forfeiture shall not be a waiver of any rights of plaintiff to seek and obtain damages from the defaulting bidder. SEVENTH: In case the plaintiff shall be the purchaser, or in the event that the rights of the purchaser

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shall be assigned to and be acquired by the plaintiff, and the valid assignment thereof filed with the Referee, the provisions of the judgment of foreclosure and sale entered herein insofar as the same relate to such purchase by or assignment to plaintiff shall be deemed included in these terms of sale with the same force and effect as if fully set forth at length.

EIGHTH: All expenses of recording the Referee’s Deed, including real property transfer tax and transfer stamps, shall be borne by the purchaser.

NINTH: Said premises are to be sold in “as is” physical order and condition, subject to: (a) Any covenants, easements, reservations and restrictions of record; (b) Any violations of record; (c) Any state of facts an accurate survey may show; (d) Any zoning or sub-division regulations or amendments thereto; (e) Rights of tenants or persons in possession of the subject premises; (f) Any equity of redemption of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA to redeem the premises within 120 days from the date of sale.

TENTH: At or before the time of making a bid the bidder, if other than plaintiff, shall exhibit to the Referee cash or certified check(s) for at least ten percent (10%) of the amount of the bid.

ELEVENTH: The defendants and/or others may be in possession of the foreclosed premises, and the purchaser may have to undertake legal action to remove them there from which is and shall be the sole choice and responsibility of the purchaser.

David E. Woodin, Esq. David E. Woodin, LLC Referee P.O. Box 433 285 Main Street Catskill, New York 12414 (518)8216194 Sarah M. Schneider, Esq. Simon & Schneider PLLC Attorneys for Plaintiff P.O. Box 908 6193 Main Street Tannersville NY 12485 (518) 589-7700 Dated: April 22, 2019 THE UNDERHILL INN, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 05/13/19. 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, 213 West 35th Street, Ste. 403, New York, NY 10001. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

There’s a new era of sideline scrutiny for college basketball coaches Shannon Ryan Chicago Tribune

The scene was played over and over. It became a trending topic on social media and a hot take on sports talk shows.

During a first-round victory against Bradley in the NCAA Tournament, Michigan State basketball coach Tom Izzo marched onto the court during a timeout, reached for forward Aaron Henry’s wrist for a moment and repeatedly pointed at him while yelling. In the huddle, Izzo hopped up to yell in Henry’s face before another player intervened to calm Izzo down.

The public reaction surprised Izzo.

“Will I ever shake my finger in front of a kid again? No, I won’t,” he recently told the Tribune. “I can change that. But I know this: I won’t quit holding players accountable. I won’t quit disciplining them.”

He received support from colleagues, former players and most of the college basketball community, while Henry and his father defended Izzo and shrugged off the exchange as welcomed and deserved discipline. But others criticized and dissected Izzo’s temperament on ESPN roundtables, in newspaper columns and on sports talk radio.

For many, the incident highlighted a new landscape for college basketball coaches, who must figure out how to toe the line instead of crossing it.

Right or wrong, some coaches say — and many seem to think it’s wrong — increased public scrutiny of their sideline demeanors and in-game interactions with players is making the job more challenging.

With more player autonomy, more smartphone cameras and more places for fans to voice outrage on social media, every steely glare or finger wag by a coach is analyzed as much as his rotations.

Illinois’ Brad Underwood is another coach having to adjust to the changing landscape.

An anonymous allegation of player mistreatment led the university to open an internal investigation of Underwood, who often appears during games as if his top is ready to blow.

The university said last month that the investigation found no wrongdoing, though athletic director Josh Whitman said in a news release that he spoke with Underwood about his language and player interactions.

Underwood said he “self-evaluates all the time” and said a coach must understand how to motivate players differently.

“Most every player wants discipline in their life and wants to be challenged,” Underwood said. “Most of the problems come from outside. Most of the problems don’t involve your own locker room. That’s where social media has put that onus out there.

“We try very hard to recruit guys who want to be challenged. They know when they come to a certain program what’s going to be

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Michigan State Spartans coach Tom Izzo in the first half against Michigan on March 17 in the Big Ten tournament championship game at the United Center in Chicago.

demanded.”

Coaches are ever more cognizant of their actions and the public perception that shapes their reputations and their university’s.

“A lot of coaches are conscious of it,” said Temple’s Aaron McKie, 46, hired last month to coach his alma mater. “Just like you watch tape of the teams, there’s coaches who watch film of themselves and might say, ‘I’ve got to change that.’ “ “Too many young coaches, they’re scared to coach,” said fiery South Carolina coach Frank Martin, 53. “People are so consumed with keeping their paycheck, they’re scared of being who they are. It’s not about being an old dog learning new tricks. You’re always learning and evolving. But we can’t sell out who we are because of people who don’t know (the sport) trying to move the line and trying to keep those people happy rather than people who are relevant.”

Most coaches agree what constitutes crossing a line — in particular, physical force toward a player.

Bob Knight’s hardcore methods with Indiana players — including a video that showed Knight grabbing Neil Reed around the neck during practice in 1997 — eventually came to be considered abusive, and he was fired in 2000. In 2013, Rutgers fired coach Mike Rice after video emerged of him throwing basketballs at players and shoving them during practice.

Those were clearer violations.

But what about red-faced coaches cursing at players who screwed up the game plan? What about grabbing a player’s jersey?

Where’s the line between motivation and mistreatment?

It’s hard to imagine a 2019 version of former Temple coach John Chaney getting only a one-game suspension, as he did in 1994, for bursting into a news conference and threatening to “kill” and beat up then-Massachusetts coach John Calipari.

Current coaches have faced criticism for far less egregious displays of anger.

Iowa coach Fran McCaffery is well-known for his sideline blowups, mostly aimed at officials. He was suspended two games last season for berating a referee in the hallway after a game.

In 2010 at Kansas State, Martin hit senior Chris Merriewether’s arm with the back of his hand. He quickly apologized after the game, saying then: “I’m an old-school guy, but I understand the times are real sensitive now. I love him. I don’t know what to tell you. It’s wrong on my part and is completely out of line and has no part in the game.”

Women’s basketball is far from exempt.

North Carolina coach Sylvia Hatchell resigned last month after 33 years following an independent investigation into player and staff complaints that she made racially insensitive comments and pressured injured

players to compete.

Georgia Tech fired MaChelle Joseph in March after 16 years when an independent investigation found that she bullied players.

Multiple players alleged Northern Kentucky coach Camryn Whitaker emotionally abused them.

Loyola ousted Sheryl Swoopes in 2016 in part for harshly berating players and exhibiting erratic behavior in practice.

The line of acceptability seems to have shifted.

“Who changed the line?” Martin said. “The people who have given in to the phoniness of the business. I tell people all the time, I am who I am. If I’m going to be phony when cameras are on, I’m not being true to players and their expectations of me. Nobody forces them to pick the school they go to. They sign up, they know what they are walking into.”

Many coaches recalled their playing days, when coaches kept relationships with players at arm’s length. Now coaches are expected to build deep personal bonds with players, which most agree is a positive.

There’s a dialogue rather than a dictatorship. Players have more options too.

“Kids have a voice now,” said McKie, who played at Temple for the strict Chaney, who held infamous 5 a.m. practices. “Look at the transfer rate. That’s them speaking out about their coaching. They can go on social media and say subliminal things like: ‘Be careful of the choices you make. I’m having a tough time here.’

“Then it just takes a crowd of people to say that coach is a bad guy. It takes one game of you throwing a clipboard down and it’s: ‘Oh, look at him. How can you play for a guy like that?’ It just snowballs. It can be unfair.”

Loyola coach Porter Moser was working as a CBS studio analyst during the NCAA Tournament when Izzo’s episode with Henry became a national kerfuffle.

“The scrutiny that comes, people don’t know the relationship that comes with players and what takes place (behind the scenes),” Moser told the Tribune. “I worked with coach Rick Majerus, who was very tough on kids. They asked me what I thought (about Izzo). This is what I’ve said many times: You can be hard on them. They just want to know you love them and you care about them.”

Good or bad, coaches have had to adapt to new expectations as the public holds them more accountable.

“I think it is going to change coaches,” Izzo said. “It’s sad that one little five-second snippet can determine who a person is or what they’re about without doing any homework.

“On the other side, do you know how many coaches also get fired for not having control of their team? ‘Look how undisciplined; they’re not tough enough.’ The haters are going to hate. As long as the players know where I’m coming from, that’s fine.”

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Man who flirts online brushes aside his girlfriend’s concerns My boyfriend and I have been a couple for three years. We live together and have an incredible relationship and an amazing sex life.

A while ago, he was approached by a strange woman on social media. Through Hangouts he told her she was beautiful and that he was looking for the right woman to be with. Their communication lasted about a week.

DEAR ABBY It has now happened again. He handed out his phone number, and this one has sent him videos of her dancing wearing next to nothing. He tells her she has an amazing body and made comments to the effect that she must be wild in bed and he thinks only of her. When he talks to these other women, he tells them he lives alone.

When I tell him this bothers me, he doesn’t get upset. He swears he has feelings for only me and no one else, and that he’s just having a little fun. I want to believe him, but I feel hurt and disrespected when I read what he’s saying to these women. My heart is heavy because he used to talk to me like that and no longer does.

Should I be worried?

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JEANNE PHILLIPS

You should not only be worried, you should be out of there. You may have invested three years in this person, but the sooner you divest yourself of him the better it will be for you.

His actions show that his word cannot be trusted. He’s not only lying to these women, he is also lying to you. Men who love and respect women do not treat them the way he is treating you.

I’m a 13-year-old girl, and I’m bisexual.

Some of my closest friends know, but that’s it. Mom doesn’t know, and neither do my gramma or papa. I’m afraid if I tell them they’ll be disappointed in their little girl. Also, I’m growing up without a father, so that may have something to do with it. I wonder if not having a male role model is why I’m driven to like girls.

It took me a while to figure out that I was bisexual. It was at the beginning of seventh grade, when people were talking about being bi. So I guess I need to find out who I am as a person.

When I told my friend I was bi and I liked her, she was shocked and surprised. I think she took it the wrong way and thought I was asking her out. That afternoon she came up to me and said, “I like you, but only as a friend. I hope this doesn’t damage our friendship.” For me it did, and I haven’t gotten the courage to go talk to her about it again. I was only saying that to tell her how I FEEL, not to ask her out.

Insecure and Confused You are right that you need to find out who you are as a person. You are very young and still discovering. People do NOT become gay or bisexual because of conversations they hear in the seventh grade or because their fathers are absent. Sexual orientation is simply a part of who we are.

You were clumsy about the way you “outed” yourself to your friend. Talk to her again and explain that you weren’t asking her out, and the feelings you were describing were not directed at her.

If she’s truly a friend, everything will be all right.

People with genital herpes must take caution to avoid infecting partner I am a 75-year-old male in excellent health who is sexually active. During my thirties, I was exposed to the herpes virus 2, but recurrences now are extremely rare and mild. Even so, I use a condom during sexual intercourse and also take acyclovir beforehand. How long before intercourse should acyclovir be taken so that it is at high strength? If I take two 400-mg tablets instead of one, will that improve protecTO YOUR tion? Will acyclovir by itself GOOD HEALTH provide enough protection so that a condom is not necessary?

Finally, if my female partner takes acyclovir, will that help increase protection?

DR. KEITH ROACH

There are conflicting answers to your questions, but here is my summary: People with any history of genital herpes are at risk of shedding infectious virus, which can potentially infect a partner who has never had it. Although people with lesions (such as painful blisters) are much more infectious, people with no symptoms can transmit the virus. Many people with genital herpes don’t even know they have it.

Acyclovir, like its more potent cousin, valacyclovir (Valtrex), suppresses viral shedding — but the suppression isn’t complete, and takes about five days for maximum effectiveness. Valacyclovir reduced overall days of shedding (and therefore potential infectivity) from 11% of days to 3% of days. The studies I found used acyclovir 400 mg twice daily.

In couples where one person had genital herpes and the other didn’t, chronic suppression

did not reduce the likelihood of the uninfected partner getting herpes, but this study was done in people with HIV, who likely have a higher risk of infecting their partner.

Condoms reduce transmission of genital herpes by about 30%.

Your partner taking medication to prevent infection (called pre-exposure prophylaxis) makes some sense; however, I could find no good data on how effective it might be.

Because of these factors, your female partner should understand that she is still at risk of acquiring genital herpes, so she should be aware of that fact prior to initiating sexual activity.

Dr. Roach writes: A recent column on nerve pain after shingles (post-herpetic neuralgia) left a lot of questions from readers about alternative ways of treating it. Some of the advice I received included using a TENS unit, which uses electrical current to stimulate nerves. Its effectiveness is unproven, but the side effect profile is modest and may be worth a try. One reader suggested lidocaine, given topically through patch or cream.

Alpha-lipoic acid, an antioxidant shown to be beneficial in some people with diabetic neuropathy, was also suggested; I could find no evidence for or against this. Several people recommended acupuncture. A review from 2018 concluded that “acupuncture is safe and might be effective in pain relieving” for people with post-herpetic neuralgia. Other readers mentioned the drug carbamazepine, which has been proven to be useful.

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By STELLA WILDER Born today, you are a warm, positive and generally kind individual — one who, by all accounts, is the sort that others can look up to, and so they do! You are not one to fly off the handle, and you do not share your opinions without being invited to do so, and even then you try to be quite careful not to ruffle feathers or turn anyone off by being too blunt. You are always concerned for the well-being of others, especially when feelings come into play. You will try to avoid doing or saying anything that could cause emotional injury to another. You can be rather formal in social settings, and you focus a bit too much at times on what is appropriate. You can have a great deal of fun, but you’re not one to cut loose often.

Once you warm to someone, you are likely to remain close indefinitely. There is little a good friend can possibly do to cause you to go your own way alone; you value friendship so much that you are likely to make many sacrifices for those who are closest to you throughout your lifetime.

Also born on this date are: Naomi Campbell, model; Ginnifer Goodwin, actress; Apolo Ohno, Olympic speed skater; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author and creator of Sherlock Holmes; Harvey Milk, politician and civil rights leader; Richard Wagner, composer.

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, MAY 23 GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You have a real gogetter attitude at this time, but you don’t know all you need to know to make any real plans. This can be remedied.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — You may not fully understand what someone else is trying to tell you,

but you run little risk of doing anything wrong as a result.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — You may find yourself in the middle of something that hasn’t been fully explained to you — yet. By day’s end you’ll know all you need to know.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You are stuck between two conflicting alliances at this time. Today it may be best to say that you can’t commit one way or the other.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You are expecting a judgment of some sort to be handed down today.

Prepare for any eventuality and you can make the best of any result.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — You may think that those in charge are in complete agreement with you about a certain issue, but you’re overlooking an inconvenient fact.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — You may find yourself struggling with the darker forces that lurk deep within your psyche today. A friend helps you stay balanced.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — That which makes little difference to you makes a very big difference to someone else, so why not just let things go his or her way?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — You will want to keep complicated communications to a minimum today. Focus on messages that simply must be delivered at this time.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — Adjustments at home may require you to make adjustments at work, but not everyone will see things the way you do. Be ready to go it alone.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — You are compelled to do something you’ve been warned against doing and that you know you shouldn’t do but you don’t really know why.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — You can give someone precisely what is needed at this time without making any significant sacrifice yourself. Evening brings a surprise.

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B8 Wednesday, May 22, 2019 Close to Home

SUPER QUIZ

THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME

By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek

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

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

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Literary brothers and sisters Level 1

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

(Answers tomorrow) Yesterday’s

Jumbles: TIGER CRANK HAPPEN HOMILY Answer: His wife found out that her new ring was a cheap imitation, and now he’d — PAY THE PRICE

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Solution to Tuesday’s puzzle

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

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(e.g., Gretel’s brother in the fairy tale. Answer: Hansel.)

Freshman level 1. The sister of Jem Finch in “To Kill a Mockingbird.”

2. The sister of Meg, Beth and Amy March in “Little Women.”

3. Sister of Jane, Catherine, Lydia and Mary Bennet in “Pride and Prejudice.”

Graduate level 4. Brother of Phoebe Caufield in “The Catcher in the Rye.” 5. Tom Tulliver’s sister in “The Mill on the Floss.”

6. Freddy Honeychurch’s sister in “A Room with a View.”

PH.D. level 7. The twin brother of Fred Weasley in the Harry Potter series.

8. Brother of Dmitri and Alexei in “The Brothers Karamazov.”

9. The brother of Lucy, Edmund and Susan in “The Chronicles of Narnia.”

SUPER QUIZ ANSWERS 1. Scout. 2. Jo. 3. Elizabeth. 4. Holden. 5. Maggie. 6. Lucy. 7. George. 8. Ivan.

9. Peter.

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

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Crossword Puzzle ACROSS 1 Little jumps 5 Egyptian dam 10 Shine 14 Cosmonaut Gagarin 15 Rent long-term 16 Molten rock 17 Experts 18 Competitive runner 20 19th letter 21 20th-century U.S. president 22 Chris with a racket 23 Deserves 25 Daisy __; L’il Abner’s love 26 Holy 28 Large marine mammal 31 Cease-fire 32 Chess pieces 34 Carping spouse 36 Part of B.A. 37 Paddled boat 38 Old Maid or Parcheesi 39 Word meant to startle 40 Thinks deeply 41 Private teacher 42 Yuletide decoration 44 Small, feisty rooster 45 Commit perjury 46 Sri __ 47 Colorado resort 50 Anthem 51 ABC competitor 54 Rice or Brown 57 Equestrian’s command 58 Mum to Prince George 59 Vital artery 60 Steerer’s place 61 Stretch across 62 Boxer Mike 63 Probability

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6 Department store chain 7 Beaver’s dad 8 As flat __ pancake 9 Trawler’s item 10 Actor Danny 11 “Penny __”; Beatles song 12 __ easy; egg orderer’s request 13 Reason to buy Compound W 19 Makes well 21 Unrestrained 24 Circle portions 25 Create 26 Puncture 27 As straight as an __ 28 Wines and dines 29 Not connected to anything 30 Pacific island DOWN nation 1 Excessive 32 Measles publicity symptom 2 “__ is not to 33 Small number reason why…”

35 Bit of bacteria 3 District attorney 37 As __ as a button 4 Lisa, to Bart 38 Disgusting 5 __ Joy; candy bar residue

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Tuesday’s Puzzle Solved

Non Sequitur

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40 Northeastern U.S. state 41 Orangey drink 43 Soccer team 44 Sprawling tree 46 Game of chance 47 Diving seabirds 48 In a __; instantly 49 Pocket bread

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50 Gentlemen 52 Daring 53 Snead & Waterston 55 Traitor 56 __ sauce; teriyaki marinade 57 “He __ hesitates is lost”

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