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The town of Catskill is exploring grant opportunities to construct 1,500 feet of sidewalk on Main Street, Leeds.

LEEDS — Town of Catskill, village of Catskill and Greene County officials together are exploring a project to breathe new life into Main Street in Leeds.

Representatives from the three municipalities met with business owners in April to discuss replacing 1,500 feet of sidewalk and the underlying stormwater system, both of which are more than 50 years old, Catskill Town Supervisor Doreen Davis said.

The project has been community-based, Davis said.

“Business owners approached us about the sidewalk conditions,” she said, adding that the sidewalks are uneven in sections.

Because Route 23B is a county road, the Greene County Highway Department is involved to address the aging stormwater system. The village of Catskill handles the town’s sewer and water lines, which will have to run beneath the sidewalks.

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Superintendent Robert J. Van Valkenburg confirmed last week at the Public Works Committee meeting that the county was on board and will assist with the project.

“We are acting in a support role to the town,” Van Valkenburg said Tuesday.

“As the town explores grant opportunities for the sidewalks, stormwater is another thing we’d like to address,” Van Valkenburg said. “We don’t want to pave it and tear it up a year later. Depending See SIDEWALKS A8

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Denise Sabo, far left, leads the Columbia County chapter of ABATE at the Rolling Thunder rally in Washington, D.C., this weekend.

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WASHINGTON — For the last 27 years, Denise Sabo of Hudson has been rolling into the nation’s capital on her motorcycle each Memorial Day weekend to be part in Rolling Thunder, a rally to show solidarity with veterans, prisoners of war and service members who are missing in action.

But this may be the rally’s last year because of rising costs and logistical difficulties, organizers said this weekend.

For Sabo, no matter what is ultimately decided, she doesn’t plan to stop her

annual pilgrimage.

“I don’t think the people that participate will stop going to Washington,” Sabo said. “I have already booked our block of rooms for next year, and I have people who made reservations for next year before they left for this year’s rally.

We would do our own thing — we would drive through downtown Washington, visit the memorials. We will still do it even if it’s not an organized event.”

Sabo, the widow of a Vietnam veteran, is so intent on See BIKERS A8

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Members of Columbia County ABATE attending this year’s Rolling Thunder rally in Washington, D.C. Pictured from left: Zandra Boice, John Boice, Julian Caproni and Lisa Caproni.

Stamps will honor major regional artist

By Amanda Purcell Columbia-Greene Media

SPENCERTOWN — The U.S. Postal Service will unveil a new stamp this week to honor the life and work of renowned Columbia County artist Ellsworth Kelly.

The Postal Service will celebrate Kelly’s career Friday at 11 a.m. at the Ellsworth Kelly Studio by unveiling 10 stamps based on his paintings and sculptures.

Kelly, who spent more than four decades as a full-time resident of Columbia County, died Dec. 27, 2015, at his home in Spencertown. He was 92.

Kelly’s painting style of modern art uses bold shapes and color to make reality look abstract.

His unique artwork can be found adorning the walls of private homes and museums from the coast to coast, as well as throughout Europe. Over several decades, Kelly exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art 15 times.

Of Kelly’s work, the museum has collected 15 paintings, five sculptures, 38 drawings, 137 prints and one poster.

Kelly was born in Newburgh in 1923 and grew up in New Jersey. He attended the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn from 1941 to 1942, but left to join the U.S. Army, serving during World War II. While in the Army, he was charged with painting camouflage patterns on fake tanks and other military objects See STAMPS A8

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Twenty stamps will be dedicated by the U.S. Postal Service on Friday to honor artist Ellsworth Kelly and his works.

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld an Indiana state law that required fetal remains to be buried or cremated. But it sidestepped a larger abortion question, turning down an effort to reinstate the law’s strict abortion limits.

The court’s decision, issued without briefing on the merits or oral arguments, was unsigned and just three pages long. It stressed that its decision upholding the part of the law concerning the disposal of fetal remains “does not implicate our cases applying the undue burden test to abortion regulations.”

Indiana, the court said, has a “legitimate interest in proper disposal of fetal remains,” quoting an earlier decision.

In the second part of the case, an appellate court had struck down a provision of the law that banned abortions being sought solely because of a fetal characteristic like sex or disability.

Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor said they would have denied review of both issues in the case.

The case, Box v. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, No. 18-483, had been closely watched because it could have given the Supreme Court its first chance to consider the constitutionality of a state law restricting abortion since Justice Brett Kavanaugh replaced Justice Anthony Kennedy last year.

Kennedy had been a cautious supporter of abortion rights, while Kavanaugh’s limited record on the subject as an appeals court judge suggested some skepticism.

The modest move Tuesday left for another day the consideration of state laws limiting abortion that were enacted, at least partly, to test the court’s commitment to

the constitutional right to abortion, as established in 1973 in Roe v. Wade.

The Indiana law was enacted in 2016 and signed by Gov. Mike Pence, now the vice president. It prohibited all abortions, at any time during a pregnancy, solely sought based on the fetus’s sex, or because it had been diagnosed with Down syndrome or another disability, or because of characteristics like race or national origin.

The state law also imposed restrictions on the disposal of fetal remains, saying that abortion providers had to bury or cremate them. The law allowed mass cremations and did not impose any restrictions on women who disposed of the remains themselves.

A three-judge panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in Chicago, unanimously struck down the provision limiting permissible reasons for having an abortion, though one judge said he did so reluctantly and only because he was bound by Supreme Court precedent.

In 1992, in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the Supreme Court ruled that states may not prohibit abortions or place substantial obstacles in the way of women seeking them before fetal viability. Judge William J. Bauer, writing for the majority on the 7th Circuit, said that ruling doomed the law’s restrictions.

“These provisions are far greater than a substantial obstacle; they are absolute prohibitions on abortions prior to viability, which the Supreme Court has clearly held cannot be imposed by the state,” he wrote in the decision issued by the appeals panel.

Judge Daniel A. Manion voted with the majority in that case, but did not adopt its reasoning.

“Indiana has a compelling interest in attempting to prevent this type of private

eugenics,” he wrote. “But the fact remains that Casey has plainly established an absolute right to have an abortion before viability.”

“That today’s outcome is compelled begs for the Supreme Court to reconsider Roe and Casey,” he wrote.

The appeals panel divided 2-1 on the part of the law concerning fetal remains. Bauer, writing for the majority in that decision, said the distinctions in the law were not rational, noting that it allowed women to dispose of remains as they saw fit but required abortion providers to treat them largely as they did other human remains.

In dissent, Manion wrote that Indiana was entitled to insist on “the dignified and humane disposal of the remains of unborn children.”

The full 7th Circuit initially agreed to rehear the panel’s ruling on the fetal remains provision but later announced that it had deadlocked after a judge recused himself.

Dissenting from the full court’s decision not to rehear the case, Judge Frank H. Easterbrook, joined by three other judges, wrote that both parts of the panel’s decision were misguided.

“Casey and other decisions hold that, until a fetus is viable, a woman is entitled to decide whether to bear a child,” he wrote of the provision on permissible reasons. “But there is a difference between ‘I don’t want a child’ and ‘I want a child, but only a male’ or ‘I want only children whose genes predict success in life.’”

As for the fetal remains law, Easterbrook wrote that “the panel has held invalid a statute that would be sustained had it concerned the remains of cats or gerbils.”

In urging the Supreme Court to hear the case, lawyers for the state said fetal remains were worthy of respectful treatment.

President Trump tells troops US aircraft carrier design is wrong, plans overhaul

By Jennifer Epstein Bloomberg News (TNS)

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump told U.S. troops stationed in Japan he plans to order traditional steam powered catapults aboard American warships instead of newer electromagnetic systems that he said may not work as well during wartime.

Trump polled the sailors and Marines on the USS Wasp on steam versus electric catapults Tuesday during a visit to the Yokosuka naval base south of Tokyo, the biggest overseas U.S. naval installation.

The tour came at the end of the president’s four-day state visit to Japan, a key military ally.

The troops’ cheers were audibly larger for steam catapults — used to launch aircraft off navy

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U.S. President Donald Trump answers questions from reporters before departing the White House on May 24, 2019 in Washington, DC.

ships — and Trump took note.

“We’re spending all that money on electric and nobody knows what it’s going to be like in bad conditions,” he said. “So I think I’m going to put an order

— when we build a new aircraft carrier, we’re going to use steam.”

The U.S. Navy intends to buy two Ford-class aircraft carriers, Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine, a

One schoolgirl dead and 15 more injured in Japan knife attack Motoko Rich and Hisako Ueno The New York Times News Service

KAWASAKI, Japan — A man stabbed at least 18 people, including 16 schoolchildren waiting at a bus stop, before fatally stabbing himself Tuesday morning, according to police.

One of the schoolchildren died in the attack, in a suburb southwest of Tokyo.

After carrying out the attack, the man, described as being in his 50s, stabbed himself in the neck and subsequently died, officials told NHK. The attack took place in Noborito-Shinmachi town in Kawasaki City.

Toshichika Ishii, 57, was sitting on a park bench near where the attack took place when he heard a child scream, “I’m scared,” and heard the attacker shouting in Japanese, “I’m

going to kill you!”

The attack took place as the children were at the bus stop waiting to take a school bus to Caritas, a local Catholic school, witnesses said.

After the attack, a steady stream of children were escorted away from Caritas by their parents, who had been told by school officials not to talk to reporters.

Hiroaki Takamatsu, secretary-general of Caritas elementary school, told reporters that the school will hold a meeting for parents and a news conference Tuesday.

“We don’t know details yet,” he said of the attack. “But with one death, I don’t have any words to say.”

Tuesday’s attack occurred on the last day of President Donald Trump’s visit to Japan. He

and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe were visiting a Japanese military ship and greeting U.S. troops as news emerged about the Kawasaki attack, which he addressed in remarks on the ship.

“On behalf of the first lady and myself, I want to take a moment to send our prayers and sympathies to the victims of the stabbing attack this morning in Tokyo,” he said. “All Americans stand with the people of Japan and grieve for the victims and for their families.”

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member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said earlier this year. The Ford has long been a source of frustration for Trump, who has bashed the carrier’s Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System, or EMALS, which is replacing the steam catapults.

Trump told the Japan base’s personnel that steam catapults work better than the newer, higher-tech systems.

“Steam’s only worked for about 65 years perfectly. And I won’t tell you this because it’s before my time by a little bit, but they have a $900 million cost overrun on this crazy electric catapult,” he said. “They want to show — next, next, next. And we all want innovation, but it’s too much.”

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CALENDAR Wednesday, May 29 n Greene County Legislature special meeting update on status of County Law 217 6 p.m. at the Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill

Saturday, June 1 n Coxsackie Village clean up day 8

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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 n Greene County Board of Electrical Examiners 1 p.m. at the Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., 4th Floor, Room 469, Catskill

Tuesday, June 4 n Catskill Town Board 6:30 p.m. at Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill n Durham Town Board workshop meeting 7:30 p.m. at Town Hall, 7309 Route 81, East Durham

Thursday, June 6 n Ashland Planning Board 6 p.m. at the Town Hall, 12094 Route 23, Ashland 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 Ashland Town Board 7:30 p.m. at

the Town Hall, 12094 Route 23, Ashland n Catskill Village Planning Board 7 p.m. at the Catskill Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill n Coxsackie Village Board 7 p.m. at Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

Tuesday, June 11 n Catskill Town Planning Board with public hearing 6 p.m. at Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill n Coxsackie Village Historic Preservation 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 n Catskill Town Zoning Board 6 p.m. at Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill n Jewett Town Board 7 p.m. at the Jewett Municipal Building, 3547 County Route 23C, Jewett

ShopRite’s 11th annual Veterans Fundraising Campaign FLORIDA — ShopRite announced its Veterans Fundraising Campaign will return this Memorial Day Weekend. Held at 35 stores throughout New York and New Jersey, the 11th annual campaign began May 24 and runs through Aug. 3. Donations will be collected at ShopRite stores throughout the Hudson Valley and Capital Region in New York, along with three New Jersey ShopRite stores, with all proceeds benefitting local veterans organizations.

In addition to the donations ShopRite collects at checkout, its annual Veterans Fundraising Campaign also includes events coordinated and led by store associates. This year, store associates have organized fundraising events throughout the summer including car shows, food drives, pancake breakfasts, tricky trays, corn hole, golf and softball tournaments and more, with all proceeds from each event directly benefitting veterans organizations. “We greatly appreciate all that our local veterans have done and are excited to announce the return of our annual veterans fundraising campaign,� said Tom Urtz, vice president of operations, ShopRite Supermarkets, Inc. “Thanks to the generous support of our ShopRite associates and customers, we can continue to help make a difference in the lives of veterans and their families within the communities we serve.�

The 2019 Veterans Fundraising Campaign will benefit local veterans organizations including Tower of Hope, Hudson Valley Honor Flight, Committee for the Families of War Veterans, Orange County Veterans Food Pantry, Tri-County Council for Vietnam Era War Veterans and the Unified Military Affairs Council, in addition to other local organizations that serve communities within ShopRite’s trading area.

In 2018, ShopRite raised more than $1 million to benefit local veterans organizations, yielding the most funds raised for a Veterans Fundraising Campaign in a single year. More than $5 million has been raised since the campaign’s 2009 inception. “This campaign relies on the efforts

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and generosity of ShopRite customers, store associates and vendors, and we would like to extend a heartfelt thank you to everyone who continues to support this important initiative year after year,� said Brett Wing, president and chief operating officer, ShopRite Supermarkets, Inc. ShopRite Supermarkets, Inc., which owns and operates 35 stores in New York and New Jersey, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Wakefern Food Corp., the largest supermarket cooperative in the U.S. with more than 276 ShopRite supermarkets located in six states.

The full list of ShopRite stores participating in the veterans fundraising campaign in New York includes in Albany County: ShopRite of Albany, ShopRite of Colonie and ShopRite of Slingerlands; in Columbia County: ShopRite of Hudson; in Dutchess County: ShopRite of Fishkill, ShopRite of Lagrangeville and ShopRite of Poughkeepsie; in Orange County: ShopRite of Chester, ShopRite of Dolson Avenue and ShopRite of Wallkill in Middletown, ShopRite of Monroe, ShopRite of Montgomery, ShopRite of Newburgh, ShopRite of Vails Gate, and ShopRite of Warwick; in Putnam

County: ShopRite of Carmel; in Rensselaer County: ShopRite of North Greenbush; in Schenectady County: ShopRite of Niskayuna; in Sullivan County: ShopRite of Liberty, ShopRite of Monticello; in Ulster County: ShopRite of Ellenville, ShopRite of Kingston, and ShopRite of New Paltz; in Westchester County: ShopRite of Bedford, ShopRite of Cortlandt, ShopRite of Croton, ShopRite of New Rochelle, ShopRite of Scarsdale, ShopRite of Thornwood, ShopRite of Greenway Plaza and ShopRite of Tuckahoe Road in Yonkers and ShopRite of White Plains.

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Fifteen youth, representing Cairo-Durham, Catskill, Coxsackie Athens and Greenville school districts, were sworn in on May 1 by Judge Wanda Dorpfeld as the first participants in Greene County Peer Court. Peer Court (or youth court) is a diversionary program for first time low level offenders between the ages of 12 and 18. Peer Courts follow restorative justice practices, meaning that the victim, offender and community are all stakeholders. Offenders are ‘tried’ before a jury of their peers, and are sentenced to meaningful, productive sanctions, such as community service and letters of apology. Following a six week training the student volunteers must take and pass a bar exam, and are then sworn in. They look forward to taking on real cases referred by police agencies and or probation. Heather Daley, Victims’ Advocate and Peer Court Coordinator of Community Action of Greene County, Inc., is pictured front and center with the students, with Judge Wanda Dorpfeld pictured second from the left.

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Veterans and small business programs a good move What do small businesses and veterans have in common? One answer, as defined by U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado, D-19, last week, is translating their needs into policy in Congress. Another answer is Delgado himself, who can help as a member of the Small Business and Transportation and Infrastructure committees.

One thing roiling small businesses in Greene and Columbia county is transporting goods from the warehouse to the shop, a product of a tractor-trailer driver shortage across the nation. Voters overwhelmingly want a change in the law governing the age of truck drivers, according to Delgado.

More than 80 percent of Americans support a bill

that would change the federal highway law to allow younger drivers to transport commerce between states, according to the International Food Service Distributors Association.

Drivers between 18 and 20 are eligible to obtain commercial drivers’ licenses, but they are prohibited from driving across state lines until they’re 21, under federal rules.

Veterans worry about where they can go to get help for problems ranging from housing to job opportunities, and recreation to vocational training. Delgado last week hosted his first Veterans Resource Fair following former U.S. Rep. John Faso, who hosted several local fairs in his two years on Capitol Hill.

Delgado introduced the Military Spouse Hiring Act to provide incentives for employers to hire the husbands and wives of armed forces members. The fair brought representatives of numerous veteran-related organizations to Columbia-Greene Community College offering athletic programs for disabled veterans, a program centered around one year of education about farming and finding housing for homeless veterans to bring structure into their lives.

Launching these programs, some backed by legislation, is a chance for fairer, more productive treatment of veterans and local small businesses each day. The programs are good for small businesses, veterans and the public.

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There’s nothing progressive about strangling charter schools The Washington Post

The most enduring and unforgivable - civil rights offense in our country today is the consigning of so many poor, often minority, children to failing schools. Among the more promising efforts to deal with this urgent issue have been public charter schools, which give poor families the choice in their children’s education that more prosperous parents take for granted. That makes all the more distressing the bid by some Democrats to blame charter schools for all the ills of public education.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, IVt., a candidate to become the Democratic presidential nominee, launched a broadside against charter schools, calling for a moratorium on federal funding for all charter schools and a ban on for-profit charters (which account for a small proportion of charters). “The proliferation of charter schools has disproportionately affected communities of color,” Sanders wrote as part of his 10-point education plan this month.

Sanders is right about

the outsize effects on minority communities - but those effects have been positive, not negative.

Of the nearly 3.2 million public charter school students, 68% are students of color, with 26% of them black. Studies indicate that students of color, students from low-income families and Englishlanguage learners enrolled in public charter schools make greater academic progress than their peers in traditional schools.

Research from Stanford University’s Center for Research on Education Outcomes found that black students in charter schools gained an additional 59 days of learning in math and 44 days in reading per year compared with their traditional school counterparts.

Charter schools are not a replacement for traditional schools, and not all charter schools are good.

Bad ones should not be tolerated. But blanket calls to curtail charter schools are wrongheaded. There is a reason that parents line up on waiting lists for coveted high-quality charter schools. Like wealthy

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parents who pay for private schooling or middleclass parents who move to neighborhoods for better schools, poor parents want a good education for their children. Without it, they know there will be diminished hope for upward mobility and a better future.

The politics of charter schools have always been fraught for Democrats because of the influence of teachers unions - which oppose charters for reasons having nothing to do with the welfare of children. We hope candidates keep in mind the polls that consistently show support for charters among black and Hispanic voters. It’s easy to oppose charters if you are well-off and live in a suburb with good schools. We hope we will also hear from candidates who know about the value of charters from their experiences - including as a mayor who used them to begin to turn around a failing district, as a partner in an administration that promoted charters, as a schools superintendent who made a place for charters.

Assange case does not herald new assault on press Randall D. Eliason The Washington Post

Last week, the Justice Department unveiled a new 18-count indictment against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Prosecutors charged Assange with violating the Espionage Act for actively soliciting classified information from former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning and then disclosing that information on WikiLeaks.

First Amendment advocates have raised concerns that the government’s legal theory could be applied to journalists at mainstream media outlets.

But there’s probably little reason to fear that the Assange indictment portends a new assault on the free press.

The indictment charges that Assange worked with Manning to obtain thousands of classified documents related primarily to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, which Assange then released wholesale on WikiLeaks. It also charges Assange with publishing the names of individuals who had secretly provided information to the United States, knowing that doing so placed those sources in grave danger.

Assange was initially charged only with conspiring with Manning to hack into a government computer. But the addition of the Espionage Act charges has set off alarms among journalists. It’s the first time the law has been used to charge someone with publishing (as opposed to leaking) classified information. Mainstream journalists who obtain and publish classified information from government sources, while expressing little sympathy for Assange, worry that this same legal weapon might be turned on them.

Most of us would agree the government needs to be able to keep some secrets; information about troop movements during wartime is the classic example. The identities of those who secretly helped the United States during wartime at great personal risk also should fall into this category.

On the other hand, most of us would also agree that the government classifies far too

much material. It often tries to keep information secret not because revealing it would truly harm national security but because it would be embarrassing or politically damaging. The media has always played a vital role in rooting out and exposing such information and helping hold the government accountable.

The rise of the internet shifted this long-standing and healthy tug of war onto a new terrain. In the past, government authorities could expect that journalists who obtained classified material would factcheck what they received, contact the government for comment, and at least consider arguments that publishing the information would endanger national security.

Mainstream journalists still do that today. But now outlets such as WikiLeaks are happy to throw reams of leaked documents up on the internet for our enemies to see, with no screening or analysis or conversations with government officials.

In light of this new reality, the government has in recent years brought more cases against government officials and contractors who leak, seeking to deter the flow of classified information at the source. You frequently hear that the Obama administration prosecuted more leakers than all prior administrations combined. Although that statistic sounds dramatic, it still amounted to only about one leak case per year. The Trump administration has further accelerated that pace, reportedly tripling the number of leak investigations and prosecuting four leak cases in the past two years. But all those cases were against the leakers who violated the law and their job duties, not journalists who published the information.

Now, the Trump administration has gone a step further and charged Assange for publishing leaked information, a step the Obama administration reportedly declined to take. Those charges apply not to everything that Assange disclosed, but only to the narrow subset of documents that identified confidential intelligence sources and allegedly put them at risk. Whether this indictment represents an

escalating threat to the free press does not depend on whether Assange is a “journalist” - a term that probably defies any constitutionally sound definition. It depends on whether the Trump administration will choose to walk further across what had historically been a red line.

Nothing has changed in the language of the criminal law.

For a century, the Espionage Act has potentially applied to journalists, and, for sound constitutional and policy reasons, prosecutors declined to bring such cases. Much of responsible law enforcement rests on such prosecutorial discretion. The question now is whether a Justice Department led by a president who calls the press the “enemy of the people” will dramatically change how it exercises that discretion.

But despite the president’s bluster, the Assange case is probably a one-off. It involves not a routine leak but one of the largest disclosures of classified information in U.S. history. When announcing the indictment, Justice Department officials took great pains to note the department’s respect for the role of the media and that Assange was not being charged for the mere receipt and publication of classified information. It’s hard to imagine even this administration willingly igniting the constitutional conflagration that would result from expanding this theory of prosecution beyond the unique facts of the Assange case.

The historic tension between a government trying to keep some secrets and a free press seeking to hold government accountable generally has served this country well.

Within that constant back and forth, there should be room to allow the pursuit of bad actors such as Assange without inhibiting legitimate journalism. Given President Donald Trump’s attacks on what he calls the “fake news,” there is certainly cause for vigilance.

But absent actual signs to the contrary, we shouldn’t assume that the skirmish over Assange signals the opening of a new front in the president’s personal war on the media.

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Emilia M. Sabatello Emilia M. Sabatello, 87, of Catskill, passed away on Monday, May 27, 2019. She was born in Manhattan, a daughter of the late Joseph and Alphonsina dePiano D’Amore. A longtime resident of Staten Island, Emilia moved to this area in 2001. Her husband Patrick Sabatello died in 1980, her son, Louis Sabatello died in 1990.

Eleven brothers and sisters predeceased her. Beloved mother of Patricia Johnson of NJ, Rosemary (Augie) Buttafuoco of Staten Island, Karen (Paul) Fiducia of Round Top and Joyce (Diego) Fontayne of Montgomery, sister of Caroline Fortch of the Bronx, grandmother of Erik

and Kenny Johnson, Joseph and Vincent Buttafuoco, Paul Jr., Crystal, Nicholas, Anthony and Dominick Fiducia, Ryan and Robert Bruckman; great grandmother of Damien, Memphis, Kylie, Tessa and Alexa Fiducia, Jayden and Isaiah Krajewski. Many nieces and nephews. Calling hours will be held on Friday from 4:00 – 6:00 pm at Millspaugh Camerato Funeral Home, 139 Jefferson Hgts., Catskill. A funeral service will be conducted at 5:15 by Minister Jeff Dodig. Private interment will be in Resurrection Cemetery, Staten Island. Messages of condolence may be made to MillspaughCamerato.com.

Catherine C. Culleton Catherine C. Culleton, 79 of Aleshia Link, Michelle Link and County Route 7, Copake Lake Kathleen Link. Also three great passed at her residence on Fri- grandchildren, Finn Vandenday May 24, 2019 after a long berg, Nash Vandenberg and illness. She was born on Oc- Skylar Braden along with a sistober 14, 1939 in Jersey City, ter and brother in law, Joanie NJ a daughter of the late John and Theodore Sobolewski of and Josephine (Hoffman) Dor- Micco, FL and several nieces ing. Catherine had and nephews. Friends been a local resident are invited and may call since 1969 and was on Thursday May 30, employed at the Swiss 2019 from 5:00 – 7:00 Hutte in Hillsdale She PM at the Peck and later worked for over Peck Funeral Home, twenty years at Gt. 8063 State Route 22 Barrington Health and in Copake, NY. A Mass Rehabilitation. She of Christian Burial will was pre deceased by be celebrated on Friher husband Robert in day May 31, 2019 at Culleton 1990, a son Joseph in 10:00 AM from the Par1992 and also by five siblings. ish of Our Lady of Hope, 8074 Survivors include her children State Route 22 in Copake Falls. and their spouses, Michael and Interment will follow in New Angie Culleton of Jacksonville, St. Bridget’s Cemetery. In lieu FL; Dennis and Toni Culleton of of flowers kindly consider the Ashland, NY and Kristine and Community Rescue Squad, PO Ezzie Link of Copake Lake. She Box 327, Copake NY 12516. also leaves six grandchildren, To send an online condolence Aubree Vandenberg, Amber please visit www.peckandpeck.

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30, 1950 in PoughAlso surviving are keepsie, she was the her siblings Michael daughter of Margaret DeCheck, Colleen (Peggy) Griffin and the Breen, Monica Jacklate Paul DeCheck. son, and Maureen Paula had worked for DeCheck. A memoover 49 years as an rial service will take RN. She worked in place June 1, 2019 hospitals, Green Haat the Reformed ven Prison, as a NursChurch of Germaning Supervisor for matown at 11 am. Interny nursing homes and ment will be in the CEO of several nursing Fox Reformed Church homes in New York State, Conn., and Texas. She is Cemetery. There are no calling survived in addition to her moth- hours. Memorial donations are er by her husband, George Fox, requested in her memory to: St. sons: Philip (Suzanne) Mas- Jude Children’s Research Hossaro, James (Rosemary) Mas- pital 501 St. Jude Place, Memsaro, Aaron Anderson, Adrian phis, TN 38105

The Smithsonian’s renewed fossil hall sends a forceful message about climate change

By Sarah Kaplan The Washington Post

WASHINGTON — As a young paleontologist, Kirk Johnson traveled to the Arctic to excavate fossils from a 50-million-year-old landscape. In that era, the air was thick with carbon dioxide and so warm that even the North Pole had no ice. Johnson and his colleagues dug up fossilized crocodiles, turtles, and palm trees.

“Palm trees!” Johnson recalled, “In the Arctic! ... It blew my mind that the Earth could change that much.”

Since that expedition in the 1980s, global carbon dioxide concentrations have soared to levels not seen in the history of humankind. New temperature records are set almost every year. Savannah is turning to desert, coasts are consumed by floods, the Arctic is losing ice once more.

Those ancient palms are not only evidence of how much the planet has changed in the past, Johnson said.

They also are a key to understanding the changes wesee today.

When the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History took on the absorbing task of revamping its celebrated fossil hall, it was “dead obvious” that this would have to be one of the exhibit’s central themes, said Johnson, who became the museum’s director in 2012.

“Paleontology is the backstory to what’s happening today,” he said. “We have a responsibility to present that science to the nation . . . and to make clear the implications for the future.”

The “David A. Koch Hall of Fossils - Deep Time,” which opens to the public on June 8, is a radically new kind of natural history exhibition. It features all the classic beasts of a traditional paleontology hall: a colossal mammoth skeleton, a long-necked diplodocus, a ferocious new T-rex.

But every fossil is presented in the context of Earth’s past climates and its present crisis.

Although the science of climate change has been settled for decades, exhibitions on the subject have prompted political debates. In 2007, a former administrator at the National Museum of Natural History alleged that an exhibition on the Arctic had been “toned down” by museum officials who feared angering Congress and the administration of President George W. Bush. (While the Smithsonian is not part of the government, it gets more than 60 percent of its funding from tax dollars.)

The exhibition, which ran for six months in 2006, discussed the Arctic’s shrinking ice and snow cover but made no mention of what was causing the changes.

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the new fossil hall was done during the Obama administration, which made action against climate change one of its top priorities. But even after the inauguration of President Donald Trump, who has questioned the scientific consensus on the subject, Johnson said that there was never any hesitation about the exhibition’s approach.

“I have no doubt that the kind of individual who is inclined to deny climate change will find it in their soul to do that to this exhibit,” he said.

“But this is basic science. ...

We’re actually looking at facts about our planet’s history, and then just saying it looks like these facts have implications for the future.”

Sarah George, the executive director of the Natural History Museum of Utah, said that the National Museum of Natural History’s approach is “quite new” for the museum world. As president of the Association of Science Museum Directors and a board member for the Association of Science and Technology Centers, George has seen many institutions add climate change installations in the past few decades.

But no museum she knows of has so completely integrated an environmental message into one of its main exhibits.

Especially not one containing the crown jewels of any natural history museum: its dinosaurs.

“I have to give them kudos,” George said, “for less focus on didactic interpretations (of the fossils) and more focus on what we really need to be thinking about today.”

Gigantic black pillars around the hall mark displays about mass extinctions, including the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago and humans’ devastation of animals in recent history. A scale model of a Virginia coal mine explains the origin of the word “fossil” in fossil fu-

els - coal beds are essentially compressed layers of dead plants, and often preserve the outlines of ancient plants in exquisite detail.

Videos show stories from the sinking bayous of Louisiana, a Chicago neighborhood where residents have withstood brutal heat waves and a Texas farm that is testing a more sustainable method of growing crops that could reduce erosion and suck up carbon. An interactive game teaches visitors about the effects of climate change on their favorite things - soccer, chocolate, beaches, flowers - and discusses ways people can reduce their environmental impacts.

The cumulative effect is that no person will be able to walk through the hall, which Johnson said is the most visited room at the most visited science museum in the world, without contemplating climate change and humans’ role in it.

“People do come for the dinosaurs,” said Siobhan Starrs, the project manager for the exhibit. “And they’re going to get a lot more than dinosaurs.”

The old fossil hall was open from 1911 to 2014, without undergoing a major overhaul.

Many of the original fossil mounts predated the modern understanding of dinosaurs, and new displays were added piecemeal, leading to an exhibition that lacked an overarching theme.

Partial updates addressed some issues, but new discoveries in paleontology kept cropping up even faster.

Some of the most important realizations about dinosaurs - that they’re the ancestors of birds, that an asteroid strike ended their reign - were made after the hall was last renovated, in the early 1980s.

New research on Earth’s history revealed a past that was far more dramatic than most people knew. Chief among the new discoveries is

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Tanzania will no longer allow Acacia Mining to manage its mines in the country and will only work with the company’s parent, Barrick Gold Corp., to resolve the two-year impasse that has stymied operations, a government spokesman said.

“We will no longer work with Acacia,” Hassan Abbasi said Tuesday by phone. “Under no circumstances can Acacia be a party to the agreements, or have any role in the operation or management of the Barrick mining subsidiaries in Tanzania. The ball is now in Barrick’s court.”

Acacia has been at odds with Tanzania’s government since July 2017, when the state handed the London-listed gold producer a $190 billion tax bill, saying it under-declared bullion exports.

Barrick has since led discussions

with the government and, in an effort to solve the impasse, surprised the market last week with an informal plan to buy out Acacia’s minority shareholders.

In response to Toronto-based Barrick’s buyout proposal, Acacia advised its shareholders last week not to take action as it considers developments and tries to verify Tanzania’s position. On Tuesday, a spokesman for Acacia had no comment other than to reiterate that the company is continuing to seek clarification from the government.

Abbasi said the government of Tanzania will continue to try to resolve the dispute based on a previous tentative agreement with Barrick.

“The initial agreement that we reached with Barrick in October 2017 is the one that is guiding the negotiations,” Abbasi said.

In a 2017 meeting between

President John Magufuli and Barrick Executive Chairman John Thornton, it was tentatively agreed that Acacia would pay $300 million to the government to settle tax claims and would split future returns from operations with the country. At the time, Acacia criticized the move and blamed Barrick for its worsening relationship with Tanzania after Thornton took over negotiations.

Last week, Barrick said the government of Tanzania had made clear it won’t negotiate a settlement with Acacia. Barrick Chief Executive Officer Mark Bristow has repeatedly spoken about the breakdown of the relationship between the two companies, and between Acacia and the government.

A Barrick spokeswoman said Tuesday it had no additional comment.

an event called the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum, a specialty of curator Scott Wing.

Some 50 million years ago, well after the demise of the dinosaurs, temperatures rose as much as 10 degrees Fahrenheit in a matter of a few thousand years - a rate of warming faster and more dramatic than at any time in history, except the present.

“This (exhibition) is very much a creation of the scientific knowledge of the past 20 or 30 years,” Wing said. “To understand that the magnitude of human effects are really on a scale that is geological.”

Last year, Wing worked at the National Museum of Natural History with a group of paleoclimate experts to develop a graph of Earth’s average temperatures over the past half-billion years.

It is featured in the center of the exhibit, with text pointing out the link between periods of dramatic warmth and high levels of carbon dioxide.

In the past, that carbon came from erupting volcanoes. Now, the exhibition notes, it comes from us.

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How does the Federal Reserve affect the economy?

Ifnyou follow financial news, you’ve probably heard many references to “the Fed” along the n lines of “the Fed held interest rates,” or “market watchers are wondering what the Fed willndo next.” So what exactly is the Fed and what does it do?

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WHAT n IS THE FEDERAL RESERVE? The Federal Reserve — or “the Fed” as it’s commonly n — is the central bank of called the United States. The Fed was created in 1913 to provide the n with a safer, more flexination ble, and more stable monetary and financial system.

Today, the Federal Reserve’s responsibilities fall n into four general areas: n Conducting the nation’s monetary policy by influencn ing money and credit conditions in the economy in pursuit of full employment and stable prices n Supervising and regulatn ing banks and other important financial institutions to ensure the safety and soundness n of the nation’s banking and financial system and to protect the credit rights of consumers n n Maintaining the stability of the financial system and containing systemic risk that maynarise in financial markets n Providing certain financial services to the U.S. government, U.S. financial n institutions, and foreign official institutions, and playing a major role in operating and n overseeing the nation’s payments systems n HOW IS THE FED ORGANIZED?

The Federal Reserve is composed n of three key entities — the Board of Governors (Federal Reserve Board), 12 Federal Reserve Banks, and the Fedn eral Open Market Committee.

The Board of Governors consistsn of seven people who are nominated by the president and approved by the Senate. n

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BARTHOLOMEW Each person is appointed for a 14-year term (terms are staggered, with one beginning every two years). The Board of Governors conducts official business in Washington, D.C., and is headed by the chair (currently, Jerome Powell), who is perhaps the most visible face of U.S. economic and monetary policy.

Next are 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks that are responsible for typical day-to-day bank operations. The banks are located in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Richmond, Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Dallas, and San Francisco. Each regional bank has its own president and oversees thousands of smaller member banks in its region.

The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) is responsible for setting U.S. monetary policy. The FOMC is made up of the Board of Governors and the 12 regional bank presidents. The FOMC typically meets eight times per year.

When people wait with bated breath to see what the Fed will do next, they’re usually referring to the FOMC.

HOW DOES THE FED IMPACT THE ECONOMY? One of the most important responsibilities of the Fed is setting the federal funds target rate, which is the interest

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rate banks charge each other for overnight loans. The federal funds target rate serves as a benchmark for many short-term interest rates, such as rates used for savings accounts, money market accounts, and short-term bonds.

The target rate also serves as a basis for the prime rate.

Through the FOMC, the Fed uses the federal funds target rate as a means to influence economic growth.

To stimulate the economy, the Fed lowers the target rate.

If interest rates are low, the presumption is that consumers can borrow more and, consequently, spend more. For instance, lower interest rates on car loans, home mortgages, and credit cards make them more accessible to consumers. Lower interest rates often weaken the value of the dollar compared to other currencies.

A weaker dollar means some foreign goods are costlier, so consumers will tend to buy American-made goods. An increased demand for goods and services often increases employment and wages. This is essentially the course the FOMC took following the 2008 financial crisis in an attempt to spur the economy.

On the other hand, if consumer prices are rising too quickly (inflation), the Fed raises the target rate, making money more costly to borrow.

Since loans are harder to get and more expensive, consumers and businesses are less likely to borrow, which slows economic growth and reels in inflation.

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Columbia-Greene Community College, Fulton-Montgomery Community College, Hudson Valley Community College, SUNY Adirondack, and SUNY Schenectady recently partnered to form the Capital Community College Career Coalition (C5). The aim of C5 is to address the skills, education and training gap in various sectors of the Capital Region’s workforce. As the coalition continues to develop, business leaders in healthcare, information technology and manufacturing gathered to share their perspectives on C5’s developing collaborative action plan on April 4 at HVCC. Pictured here is the Columbia County contingent in attendance: James R. Campion, C-GCC president; F. Michael Tucker, president and CEO of Choose Columbia-Columbia Economic Development Corp.; Maryanne Lee, president, and John Lee, managing director, both of Saturn Industries Inc.; Maureen Boutin, director of Columbia Greene Workforce New York at C-GCC; Heather Richards, Chief Human Resources Officer for CoArc, the Columbia County Chapter of The Arc New York; George Timmons, Ph.D., vice president and dean of Academic Affairs at C-GCC; and Casey O’Brien, Ed.D., assistant dean of Planning and Institutional Effectiveness at C-GCC.

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A large selection of easy to grow in our area CAIRO — The Greene perennials, annuals, shrubs, County Women’s League vegetable and houseplants Cancer Patient Aid memwill be offered at reasonable bers will meet June 4 at Anprices. A Flea Market includ- gel’s Family Restaurant, 4385 ing useful and collectible in- Route 23, Cairo. Lunch is at door and outdoor garden and noon and the meeting is called household items will be of- to order at 1 p.m. Greene fered in a trunk sale setting. County Women’s League Clematis Garden Club mem- (G.C.W.L.) is a 501(c)(3) nonbers will be happy to answer for-profit organization whose any gardening questions. This mission is to provide Greene sale is a great chance to pick County Cancer patients with up unique and easily grown assistance in paying medical plants by local gardeners and expenses resulting from the search for great flea market diagnosis and treatment of finds. The sale will be held rain cancer. For information, call or shine. Look for the balloons 518-819-1249 or visit G.C.W.L. on the cars and Clematis Club at www.greenecountywommembers wearing their green ensleague.com/become-aaprons. For information, call member/.

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CATSKILL — 14th Annual Catskill Yard Sale Day will be held June 8, Village and Town Wide. To be placed on the address list, contact Pam at 518821-0361 or “like us” on Facebook Catskill Yard Sale Day page.

EAST JEWETT — The annual spring sale will be held 4-7 p.m. June 7 and 9 a.m.noon June 8 at the East Jewett United Methodist Church, 2252 Route 23C, East Jewett.

Lots of housewares, pots and pans, dishes, utensils, glassware, clothing, shoes, books and toys. Refreshments available including soup, hot dogs, salads and homemade pies.

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The Friends of the Mountain Top Library visited the Hunter Elementary School on May 2 to give the gift of literacy to the pre-k and kindergarten students. The Friends gifted one hard-cover book to each student and teacher along with reading the book aloud with each class. In its tenth year of gifting, this year’s book donation program provided “A Hat for Mrs. Goldman a story about knitting and love,” written by Michelle Edwards. The Friends of the Mountain Top Library is a non-profit, community-based organization comprised solely of volunteers dedicated to supplementing library services, raising public awareness, helping to expand programs, and promoting the use of the library.

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SOUTH BETHLEHEM — The South Bethlehem United Methodist Church, 65 Willowbrook Ave., South Bethlehem, will serve a turkey dinner 4:307 p.m. June 7. Eat in or take out. Adults, $10; children 1012, $5; children 9 and younger,

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Worker received overpayment notice from Social Security Dear Rusty: I have a problem with Social Security. They told me if I went over the annual earned income limit they would withhold $1 for every $2 I went over. But they did not tell me about the monthly rule for the first year of retirement and now they want $13,000. I am a part time bus driver with irregular hours and cannot afford this. Can you help?

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First, you should immediately request a repayment plan on the grounds that you

cannot afford to repay the entire amount right away and that forfeiting your benefits until the $13,000 is repaid will result in a hardship for you.

Although the Overpayment Notice you received asked you to refund the money within 30 days, it also suggested repayment options if you cannot afford to do so. I recommend you contact Social Security immediately to arrange a repayment plan, which is affordable for you. You can do this by submitting form SSA-632, which you can find at this link: www.ssa.gov/forms/ssa-632. pdf. Be aware that if you don’t get a favorable initial response from your first contact with Social Security, you have the right to appeal at several

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

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

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

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

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

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

GREENVILLE GOLDEN 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.

levels, including a review of your case by an independent Administrative Law Judge.

But please note that it might take up to 60 days for Social Security to complete your repayment plan request. If you do not get action within that timeframe you should contact them again to determine your status.

Next, I suggest that, since Social Security informed you of the annual limit but neglected to inform you of the rule which limits your monthly income in your first year of early retirement, you may also have grounds to request a waiver of the entire overpayment. Social Security’s own rules state that if your overpayment was caused

by misinformation received from Social Security, you may be found “without fault” for any overpayment in your first year of early retirement. You may even want to download Social Security’s own rules on this topic at this link: https:// secure.ssa.gov/poms.nsf/ lnx/0202250061. The onus will be on you to prove that the overpayment occurred as a result of misinformation supplied by Social Security, and you will need the name of the person(s) who supplied the incorrect information as well as the date and time. And as with all contact you have with the Social Security Administration, you should keep a complete written record of each transaction. In resolving this

issue, you can and should use the appeals process if necessary, and you may even want to consider asking your local Congressional Representative to intercede on your behalf.

This article is intended for information purposes only and does not represent legal or financial guidance. It presents the opinions and interpretations of the AMAC Foundation’s staff, trained and accredited by the National Social Security Association (NSSA). NSSA and the AMAC Foundation and its staff are not affiliated with or endorsed by the Social Security Administration or any other governmental entity. To submit a question, visit our website or email us.

Adult Learning Institute announces programming for June

Thursday of the month at Tannersville Village Hall, 1 Park Lane, Tannersville.

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

MOVING FOR BETTER BALANCE ACRA — Moving for Better Balance will be held 10-11 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays June 4 through Aug. 27 at the Acra Community Center, Senior Nutrition Site, Old Route 23B, Acra. Class size is limited.

Pre-registration is required and can be made by calling Toni Carroll, wellness coordinator at 518-731-7429.

SUPPORT GROUPS COXSACKIE — A grief support group will start meeting at 6 p.m. the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month at the Bethany Village in Coxsackie. While the loss of a loved one is a common source of grief other reasons include the loss of a job, the death of a beloved pet, experiencing a major health challenge such as cancer and the ending of a relationship. Grief is a very personal and individual emotion. Support groups provide many benefits to those who are grieving. Those who are experiencing grief early on can connect with others in the group who have successfully managed their grief and are further along on their road to feeling happy once again. More information can be found at the face book page at Coxsackie Grief Support Group and also by contacting Jeffrey Haas at 518-478-5414 or jhaasrph@aol.com.

CATSKILL — The Alzheimer’s Association holds support group meetings at 3 p.m. the first Wednesday of the month at The Pines, Jefferson Heights, Catskill.

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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.

TANNERSVILLE — The Mountain Top Golden Agers meet at 1:30 p.m. the fourth

CATSKILL — The Pines at Catskill and Columbia

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

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

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

Tuesday: Cairo/Greenville/ Catskill.

Wednesday: Athens/Coxsackie.

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

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.

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HUDSON — The Adult Learning Institute has announced its programs for June. All programs are held at Columbia-Greene Community College, 4400 Route 23, Hudson. Call the ALI Office at 518-828-4181 ext. 3431 or email ali@sunycgcc.edu to register.

Open Pinochle Group 1:304 p.m. June 3 and June 17 in the Faculty/Staff Lounge with Madeline Dickerson.

Whether you’re a novice, an expert or fall somewhere in between, the Open Pinochle Group welcomes you. This group, which generally meets twice a month on the firsrt and third Monday, provides a wonderful opportunity to learn, share and meet new people with a similar interest.

Bridge Group with Bridge Lessons 1:30-4 p.m. June 4, June 11, June 18 and June 25 in the Faculty/Staff Lounge.

The bridge group generally meets every week and is open to all members of ALI. If you are interested in learning to play bridge or just need to brush up on your skills, we offer a bridge class. Call Margaret in the ALI Office to register for the class.

Mahjongg 1:30-4 p.m. June 5, June 12 and June 26 in the Faculty/Staff Lounge with

Barbara Troy. Mahjongg is a fascinating rummy-like game played with tiles rather than cards and the group meets three Wednesdays each month. If you are an experienced player, just call the office and let Margaret know you will be attending. If you are interested in learning to play Mahjongg, contact the ALI Office and your name will be placed on the list for the next beginner class.

Exploring Your Family History 1-2 p.m. or 2-3 p.m. or 3-4 p.m. June 10 in Faculty/Staff Lounge with Glenn Fisher. Exploring family history should go beyond just constructing a family tree filled with names and dates, but should rather be a study of the individual stories and collected heritage that these names and place represent.

Proper study is generally time consuming, expensive and needs a high degree of research skills. Now you can start and continue your own exploration of family history without the need for expensive online subscriptions or travel by scheduling individual consultations with ALI member Glenn Fisher.

Advance registration is required.

Frederic Church: Olana

and the Hudson River School 10:30 a.m.-noon June 13 in the Faculty/Staff Lounge with Amy Hufnagel, vice president of Interpretation and Engagement at Olana. Her talk explores those elements of Olana and its collections that tell the story of Frederic Church as the preeminent artist of the Hudson River School, America’s first art movement. Participants will learn about Church’s early years as a student of Thomas Cole, what inspired his subjects, and his explorations of the intersections between his Christian faith and 19th century advancements in the natural sciences. Discussion will also consider the changing interpretations of this school of USA landscape painting. Q&A will follow.

Listen & Learn: Columbia County Photographers Showcase 10:30 a.m.-noon June 27 in the Faculty/Staff Lounge.

The Columbia County Photographers Club will present the best work of three members, Paul Abitabile, J. Pierre Gontier and Ken Bovat with a panel discussion and Question and Answer session. Listen and Learn is open to the public. Call 518-828-4181 ext.

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continuing the tradition that she retrofitted her motorcycle into a “trike” to extend her riding years.

Rolling Thunder was conceived in 1988, but this year the organization’s leader, Artie Muller, announced that because of financial and logistical problems, 2019 would be the rally’s last year.

The news inspired hundreds of thousands of bikers, likely a record-breaking number, to flock to the Pentagon parking lot Sunday morning, ready for their final ride into the city and around the National Mall.

For John and Zandra Boice, of Craryville, Rolling Thunder’s possible finale in Washington was their first. Like Sabo, they are members of Columbia County ABATE, or American Bikers Aimed Toward Education, a motorcycle rights organization, and have meant to attend the rally for years.

This year was the first time they were able to head down to the nation’s capital to take part.

“There was a group of us who went down to Washington for this year’s rally,” John Boice said. “It was unbelievable how many individuals showed up to support this cause. There had to be a million motorcycles there, easily.

The parking lots were full, they were on the overpasses, under the overpasses. They were everywhere.”

While the organizers of Rolling Thunder said the rally would not return in 2020, President Donald Trump sent out a tweet during Sunday’s event asserting that it would continue.

“The Great Patriots of Rolling Thunder WILL be coming back to Washington, D.C. next year, & hopefully for many years to come,” Trump tweeted. “It is where they want to be, & where they should be.”

But Rolling Thunder organizers had not been contacted by the White House or the Pentagon, and the cost to produce the event, roughly $200,000, is too steep. Much of the cost, organizers said they believe, goes to parking lot rental and security.

“Effective preparation for an event the size and scale of a Rolling Thunder ride is a complicated and lengthy process,”

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produced by a special unit to deceive the Germans. Among his comrades was future fashion designer Bill Blass.

After the war, Kelly attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and then moved to Paris, where he attended the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts on the GI Bill and in 1951 had his first solo exhibit.

While in Paris, he started to draw and explore plants, later creating plant lithographs.

In May 2013, the Thompson Giroux Gallery in Chatham opened an exhibit that displayed some of those lithographs; the opening was held the night before Kelly’s 90th birthday.

“We were very fortunate to

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on how the town does with the grant, we will decide our next step.”

The project is in its early stages, Davis said.

“We have made an initial investment of $5,000 to have a conceptual plan developed by an engineering firm,” Davis said.

The town has hired Delaware Engineering to do the job.

Once the plan has been

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Rolling Thunder motorcyclists and others attending the changing of the guard at Arlington Cemetery in Washington, D.C., this weekend.

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Thousands of motorcyclists make their way into Washington, D.C., for the Rolling Thunder rally this weekend.

a Pentagon representative said Saturday.

Local motorcyclists are hoping the show will go on.

“I think it’s a shame that this may not happen anymore,” said Tom Plank, chaplain of the Protectors, a law enforcement motorcycle club based in Greene County. “It’s a patriotic event that is meant to be a tribute to the POWs and those who lost their lives protecting our country.”

Plank, who has not had the chance to attend, said the event has a deeper purpose and should continue.

“It isn’t just a bunch of guys driving through Washington ‘just because’ — a lot of them are Vietnam veterans and they are driving for a purpose. It’s not riding around for fun,” Plank said.

The goal, Sabo said, is to hold the government accountable.

“This event is for the government to sit up and take notice and demand an accounting of every last prisoner of war and missing in action,” Sabo said. “They all have to be brought home if they want to be brought home. Some have chosen to stay there and have built new lives for themselves.

Don’t lose sight of what this is all about. It’s not a big party.

It’s about accountability.”

Rolling Thunder organizers

said next year, instead of having one ride in Washington, local chapters would hold smaller rallies across the country.

“If we are invited to the White House, we’ll go, but as of right now, this is our final ride,” group spokeswoman Nancy Regg said.

Zandra Boice said she doesn’t want that to happen.

“I think there will be about a million motorcyclists very disappointed if this is the last year,” she said. “It will go on regardless of whether it happens in Washington, or at smaller rallies around the country. But nothing like this weekend — it was quite amazing. There was a couple of guys in our group who have been going for the past 15 or 20 years, and they never saw it as crazy as it was this weekend — there were about a million bikers in the Pentagon parking lot. I’ve never seen anything like this — as far as the eye could see, there were motorcycles.”

Julian Caproni, of Chatham, also a member of the Columbia County chapter of ABATE, went to Rolling Thunder for the first time and said visiting the war memorials and Arlington Cemetery was very emotional.

“It was so silent you could hear a pin drop,” Caproni said. “There is so much history there and wherever you went,

host Ellsworth’s 90th birthday celebration,” said gallery director Bill Thompson, after Kelly’s death was announced in 2015. “We are forever grateful for his generosity in sharing the occasion with us all. That will never be forgotten.”

Kelly returned to New York in the mid-1950s and that’s when he began creating boldly colored geometric paintings.

Later, he created a series of paintings considered to be one of his greatest achievements, wrote Museum of Modern Art Director Glenn D. Lowry in the foreword of the catalog that accompanied the “Ellsworth Kelly: Chatham Series” exhibit in 2013.

Ann Temkin, who organized the exhibit, wrote in the catalog that Kelly’s “meandering drives upstate” brought him to Columbia County, where he found a Victorian home in Spencertown, which he moved into in 1970. He kept

a studio in New York City but also found studio space, formerly known as Cady’s Hall, above a row of businesses on Chatham’s Main Street.

It was in this studio that he created “The Chatham Series,” 14 L-shaped monochrome panels that focused on six colors: black, white, red, yellow, blue and green. None of the panels were shorter than seven feet or taller than 9 1/2 feet, and they were between seven and eight feet wide. After the initial exhibit in 1972 in Buffalo, the paintings were separated and reunited for the first time at the 2013 Museum of Modern Art exhibit.

He later built a studio at his Spencertown home, which he shared with his husband, Jack Shear, photographer and director of the Ellsworth Kelly Foundation. Kelly’s generosity through his foundation touched many lives locally.

His philanthropy influenced

the arts and education program at the Spencertown Academy Arts Center and all six Columbia County public school districts.

Art director Derry Noyes designed the stamps.

The 20 stamps feature 10 of Kelly’s masterpieces, each represented twice: “Yellow White” (1961), “Colors for a Large Wall” (1951), “Blue Red Rocker” (1963), “Spectrum I” (1953), “South Ferry” (1956), “Blue Green” (1962), “Orange Red Relief” (for the actress Delphine Seyrig) (1990), “Meschers” (1951), “Red Blue” self (1964), and “Gaza” (1956).

A representative from the Ellsworth Kelly Studio could not be reached for comment.

drawn up, the town will have a better idea of the cost of the project, Davis said.

“Then we can decide what [grants] to apply for,” she said.

The project will be fairly complicated, Van Valkenburg said.

“If the area is more rural, it’s easier,” he said. “We have to work around a lot of things.”

Davis anticipates that grant applications will be able to be submitted in 2019, with construction starting in 2020 or 2021, she said.

“We still need feedback from more business owners and the rest of the

community,” Davis said.

Art at Leeds owner Robert Berg wished the project was more inclusive, he said.

“No one has talked to me about connecting the sidewalk to my business,” Berg said, adding that he believes it will stop at Adam & Eve Beaute Centre. “I think it should cover the entire village or at least Main Street.”

Berg’s property is included in the initial design, Davis said.

“But this all tremendously preliminary until we see what kind of grant money is available,” she said.

Any kind of sidewalk improvement is appreciated, Berg said.

“We have no existing sidewalks and what we do have are hazardous at best,” Berg said.

“I think sidewalks would be wonderful.”

Infrastructure improvements are essential to making the town a desirable place to live, Davis said, and Leeds is an important part of the town of Catskill.

“The sewer project, which was 20 years in the making, is doing exactly what we anticipated, which is attracting new businesses,” she said.

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Members of the Columbia County chapter of ABATE head to the rally.

it was record attendance, from what other people have told me.”

Caproni added that if holding the event in the future is a matter of money, he thinks bikers would be more than willing to donate.

There were so many people attending this year, he said, it took hours on Sunday for everyone to ride along the route.

“The demonstration parade started at noon and by the time they got to us in the reserve parking lot, it was 3:30 in the afternoon. And there were still full parking lots,” Caproni said. “It took about five or six hours, from the first bike to the last bike.”

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Six thoughts on the NBA Finals Dieter Kurtenbach The Mercury News

The Warriors are going to win their fourth title in five years.

At least that’s what I’m predicting.

And while it’s easy to buy into their opponent, the Toronto Raptors — a strong team led by a truly exceptional player in Kawhi Leonard — I’m picking the Warriors — with or without Kevin Durant — to win in six games.

Yep, I’m calling for the final

game at Oracle Arena to end in a title celebration.

There’s simply no matching a Stephen Curry-led Warriors team that’s firing on all cylinders and I think we see that show up four times in this series.

That said, it won’t be a cakewalk. Here’s what I’ll be looking out for in these NBA Finals: 1. Breakneck speed There are, of course, hundreds of viable factors in this, See NBA B3

Bill Buckner got over it with grace Tyler Kepner The New York Times News Service

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Several years after the 1986 World Series, in a hospitality suite at a postseason event, Bobby Valentine introduced a friend to Frank Cashen. To Cashen, who had built the New York Mets team that thwarted the Boston Red Sox in that memorable series, Valentine’s guest was a legend.

“Oh, wow, Bill Buckner!”

Cashen exclaimed to the man, according to Valentine, the former major league manager.

“You’re my favorite all-time Red Sox player!”

Valentine, a confidant of Buckner’s until the day he

died, on Monday at age 69, was mortified. How did Buckner respond?

“Buck wanted to kill him,” Valentine said Monday. “But he walked away, you know. He walked away.”

Had it not been for his fateful error in that 1986 World Series, Buckner — who suffered from Lewy body dementia, a degenerative brain disease — would have been best remembered as one of the finest hitters of his generation. Instead, his legacy includes some very gaudy statistics and one terribly unfortunate mistake but See BUCKNER B3

Machado says he’s not bothered by New York fans’ Bronx cheer David Lennon Newsday NEW YORK — Unfortunately, many of them had to do with the Yankees, his spurned attempt at signing with them over the winter, and if there any mixed emotions about not getting to call the Stadium home.

Manny wasn’t having that.

And since this isn’t Machado’s first go-round in these parts, after sharing the AL East for seven years as an Oriole, he had a pretty good idea where our conversation would be headed.

So being a smart guy, in addition to an ubertalented shortstop, Machado tried to stop that line of inquiry before we even got the first words out.

No Yankee-related questions. Or the interview was over.

Playing by those ground rules didn’t leave much else for us, as a New York-based media outlet that spent years imagining him in pinstripes. But there were a few interesting highlights from his Bronx visit, and at the top of that short list was Machado getting booed every time he got near the batter’s box during the Yankees’ 5-2 victory.

The Memorial Day sellout crowd of 46,254 cranked up the volume — as only the big house in the Bronx can — and Machado played right into their hands, until his leadoff double in the ninth inning. Facing four different pitchers, Machado struck out, popped up to second and

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San Diego Padres shortstop Manny Machado (13) hits a double in the ninth inning against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium on Monday.

bounced into a double play in his first three atbats.

Afterward, when asked about the booing,

Machado shrugged it off. Was he surprised by the vitriol hurled at him?

“You’re in New York,” Machado said. “I

get booed everywhere I go. Great players get booed, so. It happens.”

What followed was a back-and-forth that probably went longer than necessary, but amusing nonetheless, which is why we’ll include a quickie rundown (Manny’s remarks are in quotations.)

But was this more booing than usual?

“I just answered that question.”

So where would you rate these?

“How can you compare?”

By decibel level?

“A boo’s a boo.”

That’s when Machado finally steered everyone in different direction with the capper: “Well, we took the L...There’s nothing worse than that, so.”

We do find it ironic, however, that Machado was booed by many of the same people that were clamoring to sign him as a free agent. His only crime being that he never even got an offer from the Yankees, so there was nothing for him to reject. Machado only got as far as a December meeting with the Yankees’ front office, at the Stadium, followed by dinner in Manhattan.

Machado wanted to play for the Yankees.

They just didn’t want him, despite just losing their All-Star shortstop Didi Gregorius to Tommy John surgery and their trust in Rookie of the Year runner-up Miguel Andujar to handle See MACHADO B3

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Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE East W L Pct GB NY Yankees 35 18 .660 — Tampa Bay 32 19 .627 2.0 Boston 29 25 .537 6.5 Toronto 21 33 .389 14.5 Baltimore 17 37 .315 18.5 Central W L Pct GB Minnesota 36 17 .679 — Cleveland 26 27 .491 10.0 Chi. White Sox 23 29 .442 12.5 Detroit 19 32 .373 16.0 Kansas City 18 34 .346 17.5 West W L Pct GB Houston 36 19 .655 — Oakland 29 25 .537 6.5 Texas 25 25 .500 8.5 LA Angels 24 29 .453 11.0 Seattle 23 32 .418 13.0 Sunday’s games Tampa Bay 6, Cleveland 3 Boston 4, Houston 1 Minnesota 7, Chi. White Sox 0 Kansas City 8, NY Yankees 7, 10 innings LA Angels 7, Texas 6 Oakland 7, Seattle 1 Monday’s games Baltimore 5, Detroit 3 Tampa Bay 8, Toronto 3 Detroit 1, Kansas City 1, susp.

Boston 12, Cleveland 5 Oakland 8, LA Angels 5 Texas at Seattle, 9:10 p.m.

Today’s games Kansas City (Bailey 4-5) at Chi. White Sox (Nova 3-4), 5:40 p.m.

Detroit (Boyd 4-4) at Baltimore (Bundy 2-5), 7:05 p.m.

Cleveland (Plesac 0-0) at Boston (Price 2-2), 7:10 p.m.

Toronto (Richard 0-0) at Tampa Bay (TBD), 7:10 p.m.

Kansas City (Keller 3-5) at Chi. White Sox (Giolito 6-1), 8:10 p.m.

LA Angels (Tropeano 0-0) at Oakland (Montas 6-2), 10:07 p.m.

Texas (Sampson 2-3) at Seattle (Gonzales 5-4), 10:10 p.m.

NATIONAL LEAGUE East W L Pct GB Philadelphia 31 22 .585 — Atlanta 30 24 .556 1.5 NY Mets 26 26 .500 4.5 Washington 22 32 .407 9.5 Miami 17 34 .333 13.0 Central W L Pct GB Chi. Cubs 30 22 .577 — Milwaukee 31 24 .564 .5 St. Louis 26 26 .500 4.0 Pittsburgh 26 26 .500 4.0 Cincinnati 25 29 .463 6.0 West W L Pct GB LA Dodgers 35 18 .660 — San Diego 28 26 .519 7.5 Arizona 28 26 .519 7.5 Colorado 25 27 .481 9.5 San Francisco 21 31 .404 13.5 Sunday’s games Washington 9, Miami 6 LA Dodgers 11, Pittsburgh 7 Milwaukee 9, Philadelphia 1 Cincinnati 10, Chi. Cubs 2 Arizona 6, San Francisco 2 Atlanta 4, St. Louis 3, 10 innings Monday’s games Miami 3, Washington 2 Pittsburgh 8, Cincinnati 5 Colorado 4, Arizona 3, 11 innings Cincinnati 8, Pittsburgh 1 NY Mets at LA Dodgers, 8:10 p.m.

Today’s games Pittsburgh (Lyles 5-1) at Cincinnati (TBD), 6:40 p.m.

St. Louis (Wainwright 4-4) at Philadelphia (Pivetta 2-1), 7:05 p.m.

San Francisco (Samardzija 2-3) at Miami (Richards 1-5), 7:10 p.m.

Washington (Strasburg 4-3) at Atlanta (Fried 7-2), 7:20 p.m.

Arizona (Kelly 4-5) at Colorado (Senzatela 3-4), 8:40 p.m.

NY Mets (Matz 3-3) at LA Dodgers (Hill 1-1), 10:10 p.m.

Interleague Sunday’s games Toronto 10, San Diego 1 NY Mets 4, Detroit 3 Colorado 8, Baltimore 7 Monday’s games NY Yankees 5, San Diego 2 Houston 6, Chi. Cubs 5 Milwaukee 5, Minnesota 4 Todays’ games San Diego (Lauer 3-4) at NY Yankees (Tanaka 3-3), 6:35 p.m.

Chi. Cubs (Lester 3-3) at Houston (Martin 1-1), 8:10 p.m.

Milwaukee (Davies 5-0) at Minnesota (Perez 7-1), 8:10 p.m.

Pro hockey NHL PLAYOFFS Stanley Cup Final (Best-of-7) Boston 1, St. Louis 0 Monday: Boston 4, St. Louis 2 Wednesday: St. Louis at Boston, 8 p.m.

Saturday: Boston at St. Louis, 8 p.m.

Monday, June 3: Boston at St. Louis, 8 p.m.

Pro basketball NBA FINALS (Best-of-7) Golden State vs. Toronto Thursday: Golden State at Toronto, 9 p.m.

Sunday, June 2: Golden State at Toronto, 8 p.m.

Wednesday, June 5: Toronto at Golden State, 9 p.m.

Friday, June 7: Toronto at Golden State, 9 p.m.

Auto racing Indianapolis 500 Top 15 Sunday At Indianapolis Motor Speedway Lap Length: 2.60 miles 1. (1) Simon Pagenaud, 200 laps 2. (9) Alexander Rossi, 200 3. (14) Takuma Sato, 200 4. (8) Josef Newgarden, 200 5. (6) Will Power, 200 6. (2) Ed Carpenter, 200 7. (23) Santino Ferrucci, 200 8. (22) Ryan Hunter-Reay, 200 9. (16) Tony Kanaan, 200 10. (11) Conor Daly, 200 11. (32) James Hinchcliffe, 200 12. (15) James Davison, 200 13. (4) Ed Jones, 200 14. (3) Spencer Pigot, 200 15. (24) Matheus Leist, 200

MONSTER ENERGY CUP SERIES Coca-Cola 600 Top 20 Sunday At Charlotte Motor Speedway Concord, N.C. Lap Length: 1.50 miles 1. (14) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 400 laps, 0.0 rating, 42 points, 5 playoff points 2. (7) Joey Logano, Ford, 400, 0.0, 41, 0 3. (3) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 400, 0.0, 50, 0 4. (12) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 400, 0.0, 47, 0 5. (9) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, 400, 0.0, 32, 0 6. (22) Chris Buescher, Chevrolet, 400, 0.0, 31, 0 7. (13) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet, 400, 0.0, 39, 0 8. (15) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 400, 0.0, 32, 0 9. (1) William Byron, Chevrolet, 400, 0.0, 39, 0 10. (5) Kevin Harvick, Ford, 400, 0.0, 38, 0 11. (2) Aric Almirola, Ford, 400, 0.0, 26, 0 12. (30) Corey LaJoie, Ford, 400, 0.0, 25, 0 13. (19) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 400, 0.0, 29, 0 14. (17) Paul Menard, Ford, 400, 0.0, 23, 0 15. (31) David Ragan, Ford, 400, 0.0, 22, 0 16. (18) Ryan Newman, Ford, 400, 0.0, 21, 0 17. (20) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 400, 0.0, 29, 0 18. (6) Daniel Suarez, Ford, 399, 0.0, 19, 0 19. (21) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 398, 0.0, 38, 2 20. (26) Matt Tifft, Ford, 398, 0.0, 17, 0

Can Zion Williamson turn NFL-loving New Orleans into a basketball town?

Shannon G. Sims The Washington Post

NEW ORLEANS — On May 14, the small night staff of WDSU, the NBC affiliate here, gathered around a TV to watch the NBA draft lottery. The Pelicans, coming off a tumultuous 33-49 season, were tied with two other franchises for the seventh-best odds of landing the No. 1 pick, just 6%.

“I said I would watch the lottery and go home, and we’ll talk about pick No. 7 or No. 8 the next day,” said Fletcher Mackel, WDSU’s longtime Pelicans reporter, who had arrived at the office after another assignment. The Pelicans, of course, landed the first pick and the right to select Zion Williamson, the Duke superstar whose ability has led to comparisons to LeBron James.

“It was pandemonium in the newsroom,” Mackel said. “It was the most pleasantly surprising moment in franchise history.”

And it came at the perfect time. The Pelicans endured a year torpedoed by a trade request from superstar centerpiece Anthony Davis, front-office unsteadiness and rumors of a possible franchise relocation, with some suggesting that a city such as Seattle might be more deserving of an NBA team than small-market New Orleans.

Then came the aftermath of lottery luck. The draft won’t take place until June 20, but shortly after the Pelicans won the pick, media speculated whether Williamson might try to avoid playing for New Orleans by staying another year at Duke. Williamson’s stepfather shot down the rumor, telling a Louisiana radio show that Williamson was “excited” to play in New Orleans and that a return to Duke “is nothing

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Zion Williamson is seen prior to the 2019 NBA Draft Lottery at the Hilton Chicago.

that we have even considered.”

But the rumor’s very existence felt like confirmation of the Pelicans’ reputation - a professional basketball franchise receiving minor league treatment in a city preoccupied with its NFL team, the Saints.

“Basketball has always been on the back burner here compared to football,” Mackel said, pointing out that Saints fandom in New Orleans is multigenerational, while NBA basketball, which returned to the city in 2002 after the Jazz moved to Salt Lake City in 1979, is newer. For evidence of the power of Saints fandom, look no further than the citywide disgust with the infamous no-call late in the NFC championship game this year. Super Bowl viewership in the market dropped by more than 50%, giving New Orleans the lowest viewership of any U.S. market.

The Pelicans, though, need people to care. The team ranked 25th in attendance of

the 30 NBA teams this season, according to ESPN. Relocation rumors are always nearby, and the team’s valuation ($1.2 billion, according to Forbes) could tempt owner Gayle Benson to sell - her husband, Tom Benson, purchased the team in 2012 for just $338 million, and control was passed to her when he died in 2018.

And there’s the little-brother relationship with the Saints: In regard to Davis’ demand, native New Orleanian Mackel said that if it had been a Saints player who requested a trade, “He wouldn’t able to buy a beer in any bar around here - it would be an unforgivable sin.”

With Davis, it’s the opposite: Some fans have grown ambivalent as to whether he stays to join forces with Williamson or leaves. “Honestly at this point, I could take or leave AD,” said Matt Hendrickson, a longtime Pelicans supporter.

Mackel believes a Davis trade is inevitable. “I would

Kobe Bryant: ‘The WNBA is a beautiful game to watch’ Arash Markazi Los Angeles Times

LAS VEGAS — Kobe Bryant laughs when fans come up to him and tell him they hope he has a son to carry on the Bryant basketball legacy.

Bryant, the only son of former NBA player Joe Bryant, has three children — all girls — but says the family name is in good hands on the basketball court.

“This one,” Bryant said, pointing at his 13-year old daughter Gianna. “She’s something else.”

Bryant, who coaches his daughter’s club basketball team, took the girls to watch the Sparks play the Las Vegas Aces in their season opener here Sunday since they were already in town for a tournament. Throughout the game, Bryant spoke to his daughter and her teammates about certain plays and situations.

“There’s no better way to learn than to watch the pros do it,” Bryant said. “The WNBA is a beautiful game to watch.”

As the WNBA enters its 23rd season, Bryant’s support of women’s basketball is invaluable for a league still dealing with negativity from some men. Criticism is still so prevalent on social media that the WNBA posted a video before the league’s openers, with stars such as Diana Taurasi, Brittney Griner and Skylar DigginsSmith directing comments at “little man trolls.”

“People need to follow Kobe’s lead, and I’m not just talking about NBA players,” Sparks

forward Chiney Ogwumike said. “I’m so glad the players come and support us, but just men in general. You look at women’s basketball and the WNBA and a lot of men tend to speak on it without knowing it, and a lot of men tend to be ignorant about women’s basketball players. But you will have a daughter, and I bet you would want your daughter to play in the WNBA if she’s good at basketball. So follow his lead.”

After the game, Bryant took his team into the Aces locker room where they got to meet the players and talk to all-stars A’ja Wilson and Liz Cambage.

“We were more excited to see the young girls because they’re the future of our game,” Wilson said. “We were discussing why this is great and why we need the WNBA. This is why we play, to see young girls get so excited to see us. Just seeing him in the locker room and seeing his AAU team was a great moment for us.”

Last week, Bryant took the girls to visit Taurasi, Griner and the rest of the Phoenix Mercury. He plans to do that during the course of the season as his team travels to play in tournaments, and he will take them to watch the Sparks — now coached by his former teammate, Derek Fisher.

“We’re all trying to be impactful in this world and it’s cool to see Kobe’s positivity impacting the women’s game and youth girls,” said Fisher, who won five titles with Bryant and the Lakers. “He makes a difference when he shows up

and when he says something.

People react, people listen. To be able to go to a Phoenix Mercury practice and talk to Diana Taurasi and come to Vegas and watch the Sparks and Aces play, for a young girl that’s impactful.”

A video of Gianna Bryant’s basketball highlights recently went viral as she showed off several moves she learned from her father. Bryant can’t help but smile recalling how quick she is to remind people he doesn’t need a son to continue the family’s basketball legacy. She’s “hell-bent” on playing for Geno Auriemma at Connecticut, Bryant said, and one day playing in the WNBA. “They have a similar demeanor and personality,” Fisher said of father and daughter.

“You can tell he’s not far away.”

One of the first fans in his seat before Sunday’s SparksAces game at Mandalay Bay was Raiders owner Mark Davis, who has become a regular at Las Vegas sporting events leading up to his team’s move here next year. Davis was in his seat more than 45 minutes before the opening tip, and at one point a fan tapped him on the shoulder and asked for a photo. The fan didn’t want a picture with Davis; she wanted him to take a picture of her with her friends. Davis obliged.

As the WNBA begins its second season here, MGM Resorts has done a good job of promoting the league and the Aces after buying the San Antonio Stars and relocating the team last year. Team merchandise is

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sold at MGM gift shops and the games are shown on monitors around the casinos. The one big drawback of having MGM as owner is that none of the properties, which include 10 sports books on the Strip, accept wagers on Aces games or futures.

That is likely to include the WNBA All-Star Game in July, which will be held at the Mandalay Bay Events Center and will presumably include Wilson and Cambage. Bettors interested in placing wagers or futures involving the Aces are directed towards non-MGM properties.

Many pro wrestling fans will tell you the height of their fandom came during the “Monday Night Wars,” when the WWE would air Monday Night Raw on the USA Network and rival WCW, owned by Ted Turner, would air Monday Nitro on TNT. During the height of their weekly battles, which

spanned from 1995-2001, each shows would draw more than four million viewers. The WWE has had monopoly on the industry since 2001 when Vince McMahon bought WCW, but that may soon change.

Jacksonville Jaguars owners Shahid and Tony Khan have launched All Elite Wrestling and held their first pay-perview event last Saturday at the MGM Grand here.

Boasting several stars who performed in the WWE and WCW, the show was responsible for the highest-trending topics on Twitter, and AEW announced it would be launching a weekly show on TNT later this year, giving the WWE their first real competitor in nearly 20 years.

“Wrestling fans have wanted, and needed, something different, authentic and better for far too long,” Tony Khan said.

“AEW is answering the call.”

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love to imagine a world where AD and Zion exist together, but I think AD and his camp have already decided,” he said.

“Now New Orleans basketball will be all about Zion.”

With or without Davis, could the allure of Williamson turn football fans into followers of basketball, too? Some have high hopes.

“It’s fun to pay money to go watch a team win and believe they have a chance,” said Win Butler, the lead singer of indie rock band Arcade Fire who is a Pelicans fan. “And with Zion . . . his ceiling is as high as it gets.

And if he embraces the city, it could be big.”

Erion Williams, a native New Orleanian and the lead singer of brass band The Soul Rebels, said Williamson’s arrival “is going to be similar to when Anthony Davis arrived in town.

The buzz will be there, and everybody will be hype to see the new version of the team.”

But there will be concerns.

New Orleans couldn’t build a championship team around Davis, another hypertalented athlete the team drafted No. 1, in 2012. So why would anyone think it can do so with Williamson?

Benson is trying. She recently hired David Griffin, the general manager of the title-winning 2016 Cleveland Cavaliers, to be vice president of basketball operations, with former player and Brooklyn Nets assistant GM Trajan Langdon as the new general manager.

“There are signs that Gayle is taking the Pelicans seriously and hiring good people,” Butler said, recommending that ownership also find new ways to draw in fans, including bringing in brass bands such as The Soul Rebels and playing more authentic New Orleans music during games. “Bring the actual swag of the city into the arena,” he added.

The Zion effect alone is powerful. Davis is a two-way force, but casual fans are enthralled

by Williamson’s electric dunks.

His social media following reflects that excitement: While not a perfect metric, Williamson has about as many Instagram followers before playing a professional game as Davis has rounded up in seven years in the NBA. A stronger indicator of excitement for the Williamson era is that, after the lottery, the Pelicans said they sold 3,000 season tickets, double the amount sold just after the lottery in 2012.

Mackel is starting to see the change. During a regular speaking engagement at a men’s club this month, he was shocked that no one had a Saints question.

“The entire hour,” he said, “was Zion.”

“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.”

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For Sandy Alderson, a reinvigorating reunion with the A’s Bob Klapisch The New York Times News Service

Barely 24 hours after Sandy Alderson’s contract with the New York Mets expired in October, he got a surprise phone call from his past. It was Billy Beane, a former disciple of Alderson’s in Oakland and now an industry giant as the Athletics’ vice president for baseball operations. Beane wasn’t interested in small talk, and he began the conversation with a pointed question: “Do you want to come work for the A’s?”

Alderson was surprised and flattered, but he still hesitated. A recurrence of cancer hastened his decision to step away from his day-to-day duties as the Mets’ general manager last summer. Many in baseball assumed that Alderson, closing in on his 71st birthday, would simply retire

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also proof that there are opportunities for true grace even after one really bad night.

In a career that lasted from 1969 through 1990, Buckner compiled 2,715 hits, won a batting title, made an All-Star team and never struck out three times in a game, something 16 major leaguers did Sunday alone.

Buckner even stole 31 bases in 1974, helping lead the Los Angeles Dodgers to the National League pennant.

But that was before a severe ankle injury, and by the time he made it back to the World Series, with Boston in 1986, he had become a symbol of grit, a hobbled hero with high-top cleats who had needed nine cortisone shots just to make it through that season.

And there he was, playing first base at Shea Stadium in the 10th inning of Game 6, with the Red Sox on the verge of their first championship

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base. Shortly after Opening Day, it was easier to secondguess Brian Cashman’s thinking on Machado when Miguel Andjuar suffered a torn labrum in his throwing shoulder

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the series of all series, but I think these Finals will ultimately be determined by which team is able to control the pace of games.

The Warriors, without Kevin Durant, are throwing things back to 2015, the first year of this dynasty. That means that they want to run and play generally extemporaneous basketball on the offensive end.

We saw that throwback style in action in Game 6 of their Western Conference Semifinals series with the Rockets and then in all four games of their Western Conference Finals sweep over the Blazers.

The Raptors, on the other hand, crave order. Against these Warriors, they’ll want to play a slow, methodical game on the defensive side of the court, where they can be absolutely suffocating.

In Leonard, the Raptors have the best perimeter defender in the NBA, and the triumvirate of him, Pascal Siakam, and Danny Green is the best defensive wing core in the league.

And so far this postseason, Toronto’s defense has held opponents to 0.73 points per possession on isolation sets and 0.8 points per possession in pick-and-roll. The Warriors are good, but they do not want to let Toronto set up its defense in the half court.

So the Warriors need to run.

Defense leads to offense, so the Warriors also to continue to create turnovers on defense

— safeguarding his health and spending time with his family.

Yet Alderson found Beane’s offer intriguing: Alderson was, after all, Oakland’s general manager from 1983 to 1997, and he helped construct the so-called Bash Brothers club that won the World Series in 1989. Within days of Beane’s call, Alderson agreed to return to his roots in the Bay Area and work for his onetime protégé. The pair that had helped launch the sabermetrics revolution was reunited.

Alderson’s decision was driven by two factors. The first was his cancerfree status. Although Alderson has never disclosed what form of the disease he had, his scans have nevertheless been clean for several months.

The second was Alderson’s desire to end his career on a more positive note — in the final two seasons of his eightyear tenure with the Mets, the team

finished a total of 30 games under .500.

Whether Alderson had been forced out by Mets ownership or had grown tired of the job remains unanswered — in a recent interview he declined to address any of the behind-the-scenes issues or any of the struggles that his replacement, Brodie Van Wagenen, had encountered in his short tenure with the Mets.

Yet it was telling that after an eightyear relationship with the Wilpon family, Alderson limited his remarks about them to one sentence.

“I appreciate the opportunity they gave me,” Alderson said in a phone interview.

He was more enthusiastic about his homecoming with the A’s — who have surged to second place in the American League West with a 10-game winning streak — and with Beane, in particular. The feeling is clearly mutual.

since 1918. At the end of every Boston victory that postseason, Red Sox manager John McNamara had used a more mobile first baseman, Dave Stapleton. But this time he let Buckner play the field.

With two outs and the bases empty, trailing by two runs, the Mets stirred: Three singles produced a run off Calvin Schiraldi, bringing up Mookie Wilson to face another reliever, Bob Stanley. One strike from the title, Stanley’s wild pitch eluded catcher Rich Gedman, tying the game, 5-5.

On the 10th pitch of his atbat, Wilson dribbled a grounder up the first base line. Buckner did not charge it, as a more nimble Stapleton might have.

He shuffled over to straddle the ball, bent over to pick it up — and watched in disbelief as it skipped through his legs, scoring Ray Knight with the winning run.

In a 2011 interview with The New York Times, McNamara said he had no regrets about leaving Buckner in the game.

“If the ball was hit to either side of him and he couldn’t get in front of it, yeah, I would

have questioned myself,” McNamara said. “But he got to the ball.”

Even if Buckner had fielded the ball cleanly, Wilson might have beaten him or Stanley to the bag. And as scapegoats go, Schiraldi or Stanley deserve the most blame: According to Baseball Reference, the Mets

that eventually required season-ending surgery. But by the time Andujar went under the knife, Gio Urshela’s star already was on the rise.

And speaking of Urshela, if we’re talking about the void Machado could have filled at third base, it’s remarkable that he’s performed at a similar level to the four-time All-Star through the first two months — they’ve averaged 15.8 blocks plus steals per game over the last five contests — and Golden State’s engine, the inexplicable Draymond Green, must continue to play without a restrictor plate, pushing the pace off made baskets, too.

Don’t give the Raptors time to set up and their defense is average.

Run into a set Toronto defense and it’s only a matter of time before you are hustling back on defense yourself, and the Raptors have no problem with running — so long as they have the ball in their hands.

(Toronto had one of highest offensive transition rates in the NBA in the regular season and the best offensive rating on such possessions.)

Control the pace, control the series. And in the NBA Finals, control is everything.

2. The ultimate addition At the moment, the Warriors do not know if Durant will ever play another game in their uniform.

Durant is not expected to be re-evaluated for his calf injury until Wednesday. That’s one day before the Game 1 and the Warriors’ M.O. with injuries has been for players to go through a scrimmage — either full-team or against the coaching staff, end-of-bench guys, and two-way contract talent — before they can return to the court.

So if Durant is cleared on Wednesday, it would remain highly unlikely that he plays in Game 1 and perhaps even Game 2 — you can’t just toss him into the action cold.

But it’s a calf injury — a notoriously finicky and

“For 20 years my staff has been hearing about Sandy Alderson,” Beane said. “This was their chance to meet him. And right away I realized he’s still got it. Sandy is still the smartest guy in the room.”

Still, it’s no small endorsement considering Beane is regarded as a forefather of sabermetrics, pioneering its use in roster construction. He was the subject of Michael Lewis’ “Moneyball,” which 16 years after publication remains the best-selling book ever written about baseball, and he was portrayed by Brad Pitt in the movie adaptation. It would have been understandable if Beane, who was hired by Alderson as a scout in 1990, had decided he no longer needed anyone’s help, including Alderson’s.

But the role reversal seems to have invigorated both parties. Asked specifically what Alderson’s responsibilities

were in his role as senior adviser to baseball operations, Beane said, “Anything he wants.”

For now that includes some amateur scouting, player evaluation and acting as Beane’s liaison to manager Bob Melvin when the A’s are on the road. Melvin and his staff were taken aback the first time Alderson showed up in the visitors’ clubhouse in Baltimore early this season — they wondered if someone was on the hot seat.

But the A’s thrive on stability: They haven’t made a managerial change since 2011, when Beane fired Bob Geren. Beane generally leaves Melvin alone on the road — neither he nor general manager David Forst travels with the team. Alderson’s drop-in during the Baltimore series was his own idea, to assure Melvin that no one was in trouble.

had a 1% chance of winning before the first of their three two-out singles, and a 60% chance after Stanley’s wild pitch.

The Red Sox also had another game to put the Mets away, but they blew a three-run lead in the sixth inning of Game 7. As it happened, Stapleton

would never play in the majors again, and Buckner would struggle to escape the shadow of his error.

“He handled it amazingly well, but it killed him,” said Valentine, speaking metaphorically, of course. Valentine roomed with Buckner in the minors and played with him on the Dodgers. “There were probably 50 interviews where he could have blamed McNamara, or said something about Stanley throwing the wild pitch, or anything else about Game 6. He never said any of that.”

The Red Sox released Buckner in July 1987, but the fans cheered him when he returned to the team in 1990. They did so again in 2008, when Buckner threw out the ceremonial first pitch at Fenway Park the day the players received their championship rings for winning the World Series the previous October, for their second title of that decade.

At a news conference after his pitch, Buckner referred to the emphasis on his error as “the ugly part of sports,” and added, “I don’t think that in

society in general that’s the way we should operate. What are you teaching kids? Not to try because if you don’t succeed, then you’re going to be buried, so don’t try?”

Buckner succeeded wildly in his playing career — only 65 players have amassed more hits — and later worked as a hitting coach for the Chicago White Sox and in real estate in Idaho, where he was an avid outdoorsman.

Buckner also did autograph shows with Wilson and appeared as himself in a 2011 episode of Larry David’s HBO series, “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” Buckner saves a baby falling from a burning building and rides off in triumph on the shoulders of grateful onlookers.

Was it long-delayed redemption? It looked that way, but Valentine said that was not Buckner’s motivation for taking the role. The reason, he said, was that Buckner’s daughter was an aspiring actress and was offered a part on the show, and he wanted to help her career.

of the season. But don’t take this out context. The fact that Urshela is hitting .328 with an .834 OPS, two homers and 20 RBIs through 43 games, as opposed to Machado batting .267 with a .788 OPS, nine homers and 26 RBIs through 53 games, is a relatively small sample-size presented just for entertainment purposes.

Urshela has been a dream

discovery for the Yankees, at the bargain price of $555,000.

Obviously, he’s not in the same universe as Machado, but we doubt Cashman regrets his decision to pass. And five years from now, when Machado can opt out of his 10-year contract, maybe he winds up back in the Bronx anyway. Stranger things have happened.

But Monday, Machado was

a Padre, and we’ll assume he’s OK with it. For the record, Manny even hustled from the box when his 111-mph bullet one-hopped the leftfield wall, narrowly beating the throw into second. On the field, Machado handled himself fine in New York. His clubhouse charm could use some polishing, however.

When a reporter finally

asked him if he thought Yankee Stadium was going to be his home, Machado got annoyed. “Is that a baseball question,” Machado said. “Or did you get here late?”

And with that, the conversation did end, almost 3 ½ minutes after it began. Machado said he had a bus to catch.

particularly debilitating ailment. There’s no telling when he’ll be capable of playing.

Without him, the Warriors can absolutely win, but it will no doubt be a significant challenge.

If he does return, the entire series changes, as Golden State would be carrying a hyper-elite player who can score at a ruthless clip in isolation and improve the team’s overall defense — particularly with the Draymond Green-at-center smallball units.

Unless his reintroduction completely knocks the Warriors off-kilter — they stop running and go back to the get-the-ball-to-Kevin-andwatch offense — Toronto can’t match the firepower of a Durant-in-tow Golden State.

The only question is if we’ll see that team at all.

3. How low (on the roster) will Kerr go?

I am absolutely fascinated to see how Steve Kerr handles his rotations in these Finals.

He’s pushed the envelope for five straight “Strength In Numbers” games, giving meaningful minutes to players marooned at the end of the bench earlier in the postseason. It’s unquestionably worked.

The Warriors have a guaranteed eight-man rotation without Durant and Demarcus Cousins in the lineup: Alfonzo McKinnie, Kevon Looney, and Shaun Livingston are going to play in every game in this series.

But will Kerr continue to include Quinn Cook, Jonas Jerebko, and Jordan Bell in the rotation? It’s not hard to see how that could be

problematic.

And how will the center position be handled? Andrew Bogut is a viable option to start Game 1 if Cousins cannot play, but it’s hard to see him playing against the Raptors’ floorspacing backup 5, Serge Ibaka.

Even against Gasol, who is averaging four 3-pointers per game this postseason, there could be problems.

There’s value in keeping stars fresh by giving bench players minutes — there might even be positive spiritual undertones — but there is no next series for either team.

Toronto, with their eight-man rotation, is coming full bore.

Kerr’s ability (or inability) to striking the right balance in the rotation will be a massive key in this series.

4. Let’s boogie?

The Warriors could get Cousins back for Game 1 of the Finals, as he’s already scrimmaged with the team. If that comes to pass, he’ll present another fascinating challenge for Kerr.

Cousins’ defensive liabilities are well documented — it’d be dangerous to play him against the Raptors’ top lineup.

And his offensive game doesn’t exactly jibe with the run-and-gun style the Warriors will want to play in this series.

That said, there is a clear role for Boogie in these Finals: the Warriors have struggled to find offense with second-unit minutes this postseason especially with Durant out of the lineup. Cousins’ return could be huge there.

Those minutes at the start of the second and, in non-critical

games, the fourth have been anchored by Klay Thompson and have been a slog as of late.

Cousins can thrive in that slog.

Having a low-post scoring option will take some pressure of Thompson and could increase the chances of the Warriors treading water in those minutes.

And if they do that, they’ll be a great position to win.

Don’t do it and it could well be the difference in a game and perhaps the series — these two starting lineups are pretty evenly matched.

5. The moment The Raptors have played back-to-back tough, stressful series, and in both, the team’s reactions to those big playoff moments told us a lot about their mettle.

At least to me, it was as if the team simply gave the ball to Leonard and hoped it all worked out from there.

The Raptors are a historically underperforming team; a franchise that has not responded well to stress year after year. This is one of the reasons that Leonard was brought to Toronto: he might be a cyborg, so he doesn’t feel pressure — so he certainly doesn’t have a negative response to it.

But will the accomplishment of reaching the NBA Finals and playing Game 1 at home relieve that copious pressure for the Raptors? Or will those frantic moments at near the end of the last two series start from the jump in these Finals?

We know the Warriors know how to handle the moment. My bet is that Leonard

continues to thrive in stressful situations, but the moment continues to be too large for the Raptors.

That alone should tilt the series in the Warriors’ favor.

6. Looking for 3 There’s no question that the two best players on the court for Game 1 of these Finals will be Stephen Curry and Leonard. We’ll save the debate for which is better for those who have no worthwhile ideas to discuss.

So who is going to be the third-best player on the court?

That distinction is probably going to determine the series.

Kyle Lowry? He’s injured, but he’s an All-Star.

Siakam? He hasn’t looked up for the moment as of late, but he can be a great two-way player.

If could absolutely be Draymond Green, but if the Warriors are to control this series throughout, it’d be preferable to Golden State if it were Klay Thompson.

If Thompson can overcome playing defense on Leonard (he’ll be part of a three-man attack, alongside Green and Iguodala) on one end and that excellent Raptors perimeter defense on the other end to be the third-best player in this series, Golden State will win without much incident, with or without Durant.

But if that doesn’t come to pass, we’ll have a series that could easily go seven games and end in the home team winning — this Toronto team has deficiencies, but they are not to be overlooked.

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Girlfriend competes for time with man still living with ex I have been dating my boyfriend for two years. He is 10 years older, in his mid-40s. He is wonderful, kind, smart, and treats me well.

There is only one issue: He still lives with his exgirlfriend from 10 years ago.

She and I do not get along. She infringes on my time with him — has him run her errands, drive her around, etc. when I am at his (their) house. He also ends calls with me at night DEAR ABBY to talk with her, and his texts abruptly stop. Later I’ll find out she was in his bedroom talking/ venting to him about her current boyfriend or some other subject.

She recently put in an offer to buy a house that was accepted. After she moves out of the house they are renting, he plans to remain there and would like me to move in with him. Here’s the catch: He says he will be going over to her (new) house to mow the lawn, rake leaves, take care of her car, etc. He says he runs these errands for her because she pays him. I have told him how much it bothers me. I feel he is placing her above me. Am I crazy for being upset over this?

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You’re not crazy. Unless your boyfriend is hard up for money, it appears there may be more to his relationship with his ex-girlfriend than he has revealed to you. If he was disconnected from her emotionally — and possibly sexually — he wouldn’t cut your conversations short or hide the fact that he is texting you. Unless he rearranges

his priorities, you should not only not move in with him, you should find a boyfriend with whom YOU’RE No. 1.

My wife, “Riley,” and I got married three months ago. I’m a corporate pilot and have been for most of our two-year relationship.

Now she’s telling me if I don’t quit my dream job, she will leave me.

I signed a year-long contract with this company, so it will cost me well over $10,000 to get out of it early. She hates my schedule, even though I work only about 11 days a month.

Riley thinks I have to be home every night, even though I warned her that because of my career, I would be gone a lot of nights. She knew what she was getting into, yet she’s trying to force me into giving up this dream job or lose her. Please help.

Torn In The South Riley knew you were a pilot when she married you. You explained to her what that meant.

That she would threaten to leave you because she doesn’t like the responsibilities your career carries with it is immature and controlling.

If she was serious when she made the ultimatum, I think you should take her up on it. And before you marry anyone else, be sure the woman is independent. Then have premarital counseling to ensure something like this doesn’t happen again.

For unrelenting acid reflux, there are surgical alternatives I am a 78-year-old female who has suffered from acid reflux for many years and has been taking Prilosec (omeprazole) for at least 15 years. I have heard that it is not meant for longtime use. If I don’t take it, I have such heartburn I can’t sleep and am in misery all day and night.

I recently attended a seminar on the new LINX surgery and hope to have it done. Do you have any information on the success or problems after this surgery?

The LINX device is a magnetic TO YOUR ring, placed by laparoscopic GOOD HEALTH surgery, that helps increase the strength of the lower esophageal sphincter, the valve-like muscular structure at the junction of the esophagus and the stomach. This reduces reflux (backward movement) of stomach acid up into the esophagus. The procedure was very effective at reducing both heartburn symptoms (89% before procedure to 12% after) and the need for daily medicines like omeprazole (100% before to 15% after).

The device has not been in use for a very long time, so long-term safety data is unavailable.

Some people had to have the devices removed because they eroded into the esophagus, but only 0.3% of devices were removed at four years.

There are other types of surgeries used to treat reflux, most of which are effective at reducing both symptoms and the need for medication. There are now options for treatment being done endoscopically (with an instrument placed through the mouth), without the need even for laparoscopic surgery (with the instrument being

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placed by small incisions through the skin). My personal practice is to discuss medication treatments as well as surgical treatments for people with moderate to severe acid reflux. Surgery in younger people may have more benefit by preventing a lifetime of daily medication.

I am a 90-year-old man. My wife’s life was saved in 1952 with Red Cross blood. Since then, I have donated more than 31 gallons of blood. My blood is CMV negative. They want me to donate more.

I had a CT scan after a fall, and a 1 cm ground-glass nodule was found in my lung. They are going to do another scan in six months to see if it is growing.

The Red Cross said if I had cancer I should refrain from donating. What should I do?

Based on the information you are giving me, it’s about 90% likely that this will not be cancer.

A repeat scan to see if it is growing is a good idea.

Even in the unlikely event this is cancer, the likelihood of passing cancer cells along in a blood transfusion is very, very small. However, blood banks like the Red Cross are exceedingly careful to maintain a safe blood supply, and waiting six months to donate is safest.

Let me add my thanks to your selfless giving of a precious, life-saving resource — your blood — which is especially valuable to people with immune system disease given the lack of the common pathogen cytomegalovirus, which can cause serious disease in people after chemotherapy.

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By Stella Wilder Born today, you are one of the most promising individuals born under your sign, endowed with tremendous physical gifts, a personality to match and the willingness and ability to apply your many talents to the problems you encounter in a forward-thinking, creative and always positive manner. You thrive on involvement; you always want to be where the action is, and you can become very disheartened if you are always kept in the background. You want to be the cause of things, and the first line of defense when things get tough; you don’t want to be merely reactive, but proactive — the kind of person who can anticipate events, act quickly and keep things moving forward at an always accelerating pace. You are ambitious and strong-willed; you are used to getting your way and reaching your goals.

You are not always aware of what other people really think of you, and you may assume that others like you when, in fact, they are merely treating you with courtesy out of their own self-interest.

You are susceptible to the charms of the opposite sex, and you may develop a reputation for having a wandering eye. Others like to be in your company, surely.

Also born on this date are: John F. Kennedy, U.S. president; Daniel Tosh, comedian; LaToya Jackson, singer; Bob Hope, actor and comedian; Patrick Henry, statesman; Annette Bening, actress; Danny Elfman, 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 30 GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You may have to do a little more than usual today to impress upon someone your firm ideas of right and wrong. Now is no time to compromise.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — You may encoun-

ter some unexpected difficulties today when doing something you had thought would be merely routine. Someone is responsible.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — You’ll learn something each and every time you are able to solve a problem today. Soon you’ll be ready to tackle almost anything that arises.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Do what comes naturally today and you’ll be successful, surely. Step outside of your comfort zone at your own risk, as danger will result.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You must be willing to take full responsibility today for what happens when you are in charge, even though the position is not an official one.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — If someone else isn’t willing to step up and do what has to be done today, it’s going to fall to you, and you must prepare accordingly.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — A new idea is brought to the fore today, but you suspect it is too soon to embrace it fully. Your position is hard to support.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Others are more than willing to give you the reins today, especially when the path ahead reveals some hidden dangers.

Stay in control.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — You cannot expect others to respect your boundaries if you’re not willing or able to respect theirs. You must be fair to everyone around you.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — Whether or not you witness them, today’s events are sure to affect you to some degree. You may not know just how for some time, however.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — You may suspect that something has gone missing when in fact it is right where it belongs — and has been all along.

What’s the confusion?

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — You may attract more attention than expected today when you do something that no one thought could be done — especially by you.

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THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME

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

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

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(e.g., Which country became independent from Russia in 1917? Answer: Finland.)

Freshman level 1. What do the Russians call their astronauts?

2. What is the name of Russia’s flag carrier airline?

3. Name Russia’s most famous ballet company.

Graduate level 4. Who authored the novel “From Russia, With Love”?

5. In 1916, this mystic and holy man was assassinated.

6. In which Russian city is the Hermitage Museum?

PH.D. level 7. What cocktail consists of vodka and coffee liqueur?

8. This Russian spy was exchanged for Francis Gary Powers.

9. This Russian Christian sect rejects all civil authority.

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

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(Answers tomorrow) Jumbles: OPERA OFFER SIMMER BANNER Answer: They didn’t have a specific agenda while visiting Italy’s capital, so they could — ROAM ROME

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Solution to Tuesday’s puzzle

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

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SUPER QUIZ ANSWERS 1. Cosmonauts. 2. Aeroflot. 3. Bolshoi Ballet. 4. Ian Fleming. 5. Grigori Rasputin. 6. St. Petersburg. 7. Black Russian. 8. Rudolf Abel. 9. Doukhobor.

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

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Crossword Puzzle Mother Goose & Grimm ACROSS 1 La __; Bolivia’s seat of government 4 Customary practice 9 End-of-the-workweek cry 13 __ oneself; work steadily 14 “…knick-knack, paddywhack, give a dog __…”

15 Donut’s center 16 Uncle Ben’s specialty 17 Defenseless 19 Vaudevillian Olsen 20 Sits for a spell 21 Haywire 22 Wright Bros. invention 24 __ and all; everybody 25 Engines 27 Univ. of Arizona’s home 30 Ticked off 31 Freshwater fish 33 Auction offer 35 Captures 36 One of Jacob’s 12 sons 37 Pesky insect 38 “__ Be Home for Christmas” 39 __ Wetsy; doll of past decades 40 Like a ripe peach 41 Deodorant brand 43 Door hanger’s pieces 44 1950s school dance 45 With 58 Across, “Designing Women” actress 46 VP Spiro __ 49 Beach souvenir 51 None __ soon; just in time 54 Writer’s college major, perhaps 56 Obey 57 Williams or Griffith 58 See 45 Across 59 Courageous 60 Rod and __; fishing gear 61 Toothpaste brand 62 Not __ more; no longer

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DOWN 1 Bucket 2 Good enough 3 26th of 26 4 Refuges 5 Mistreat 6 Leave suddenly 7 Hotels 8 Golfer’s peg 9 Longest river entirely in England 10 Mongolian desert 11 Problems 12 Commissions 13 In favor of 18 Dressing choice 20 Seldom seen 23 Parking areas 24 Elbow bumper’s cry 25 Skirt style 26 Graduate exams, perhaps 27 Cafeteria patron’s item 28 Duty 29 Female relative 31 Play miniature golf 32 Harris & Marinaro 34 “Eight __ a Week”; Beatles hit

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GREENVILLE CENTRAL SCHOOL P.O. BOX 129 4982 STATE ROUTE 81 GREENVILLE, NY 12083 NOTICE TO BIDDERS The Board of Education of the Greenville Central School District will receive separate sealed bids for: CONTRACT TRANSPORTATION FOR 2019-2020 School Year (SUMMER) The Board of Education reserves the right to reject any or all bids and waive any informalities or defect in such bid.

Sealed bids will be received in the Business Office of Greenville Central School until: DATE: Wednesday, June 5, 2019 TIME: 10:00 AM Specifications and bid forms may be obtained at the Business Office, Greenville Central School, Greenville, 4982 SR 81, New York 12083.

Robyn Bhend Business Official Misc. Site Improvements at Hop-O-Nose Apartments They will be received by the Executive Director on June 25th, 2019 at 9:00 AM, at which time bids shall be publicly opened and read at the Office of the Executive Director located at 32 Bronson Street, Catskill, NewYork 12414.

The apartments are located in Catskill, New York and work shall be in accordance of specifications and other contracts prepared

by RIDA Architecture PLLC, 2022 Western Avenue, Albany, New York Tel: (518) 7134537.

There will be a pre-bid walk through on June 18th, 2019 at 9:00 a.m.

Contractors to meet at the front doors of the Administrative Building.

Contract documents may be obtained at the office of the Executive Director at the Catskill Housing Authority, 32 Bronson Street, Catskill, New York 12414.

Tel: (518)943-2900, upon payment of a $50.00 refundable deposit.

Deposit refundable upon return of the contract documents in good condition to the Catskill Housing Authority, no later than 14 days following the bid opening.

The Owner reserves the right to waive any informality or technicality and reject any and all bids.

Each Bidder must deposit with his bid, security in the amount and forms subject to the conditions provided in the Information for Bidders."

Sincerely, Nina M. Krupski Executive Director Notice is hereby given that a license, number 2216770 for liquor, beer, cider, and wine, has been applied for by the undersigned to sell liquor, beer, cider, and wine at retail in a Hotel, under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 302 Warren St., Hudson, NY 12534 for On Premises consumption. The Maker Group LLC & The Maker Hotel Hudson LLC d/b/a The Maker Notice is hereby given that the fiscal affairs of the Town of Hunter for the period beginning on January 1, 2017 and ending on December 4, 2018 have been examined by the Office of the State Comptroller and that the report of examination prepared by the Office of the State Comptroller has been filed in my office where it is available as a public record for inspection by all interested persons. Pur-

suant to Section thirty - five of the General Municipal Law, the governing board of the Town of Hunter may, in its discretion, prepare a written response to the report of examination prepared by the Office of the State Comptroller and file any such response in my office as a public record for inspection by all interested persons not later than August 28, 2019.

Corina Pascucci, Town Clerk NOTICE of Formation of Limited Liability Company Articles of Organization of Proper Connections LLC (hereinafter the Company) were filed with the Secretary of State of New York on December 5, 2011.

The office of the Company is located in Columbia County, New York. The Company has designated the Secretary of the State of New York as its agent upon which process against it may be served. The post office address to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the Company is 521 Hall Hill Road, Ancram, NY 12502. The purpose of the Company shall be to conduct any lawful business or activity whatsoever, as permitted by applicable law.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: Hometown Hauler, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York on April 10, 2019 Office location: 4174 State Route 145 East Durham, NY 12422. Greene County.

The Secretary of State of New York has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

The Secretary of State of New York shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, at PO Box 569 Leeds NY 12451 Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Notice is hereby given that the Hudson Common Council will hold a public hearing on Monday, June 10, 2019 at 5:00 PM, at City Hall, 520 Warren Street, Hudson, on the following proposed Local Law: Proposed Local Law Introductory No. 1 of 2019 – Amending the City Zoning Code with Regard to Off-Street Parking Requirements in the City.

Complete text of the above proposed law is on file and may be examined at the City Clerk’s Office, City Hall during regular office hours or may be viewed on the city website www.cityofhudson.org.

Tracy Delaney City Clerk Notice to Bidders Cornell Cooperative Extension of Columbia and Greene Counties is seeking bids from contractors for an improvement project for the parking lot of the Agroforestry Resource Center, 6055 Route 23, Acra, NY 12405.

Sealed bids will be accepted by Angela Tallarico, Senior Administrator, Cornell Cooperative Extension, 6055 Route 23, Acra, NY 12405 until 4:00 p.m. on June 20, 2019.

Bid packets, including insurance requirements, non-collusion certificate, scope of work, and information for on-site visits are available at the CCE offices in Acra or Hudson or by calling 518622-9820 x100.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON AN APPEAL FOR VARIANCE FROM 65’ SETBACK TO 40’ SET-

BACK TO CONSTRUCT A 2-CAR GARAGE/WORKSHOP Notice is hereby given that the Zoning Board of Appeals of the Town of Cairo, Greene County, will meet at the Town Hall 512 Main Street, Cairo, New York 12413, on the 13th day of June 2019, at 6:00 PM, prevailing time, for the purpose of conducting a public hearing upon an application for a variance from 65’ setback from the center of the roadway to 40’ setback to build a 2car garage/workshop

by Steven Schildhorn relating to property located at 642 Bald Hills Road N., Round Top, New York. Tax ID# 116.00-2-11.2.

The Zoning Board of Appeals will hear all persons interested in the subject.

By Order of the Zoning Board of Appeals of the Town of Cairo, New York Diane M. Newkirk Zoning Board of Appeals Clerk of Cairo NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF GREENE CITIBANK, NA, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS OWNER TRUSTEE FOR PMT NPL FINANCING 2014-1, Plaintiff AGAINST CLIFFORD SIMMONS, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated 26-2019 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Greene County Courthouse, 320 Main Street, Catskill, NY on 6-26-2019 at 12:30PM, premises known as 12229 State Route 23, Ashland, NY 12407. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Ashland, County of Greene and State of New York, SECTION: 93.1, BLOCK: 1, LOT: 11.

Approximate amount of judgment $188,539.69 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index #10556. Jon A. Kosich Esq., Referee Frenkel Lambert Weiss Weisman & Gordon, LLP 53 Gibson Street Bay Shore, NY 11706 01085366-F00 63523 NOTICE OF SPECIAL E L E C T I O N Germantown Fire District, Columbia County, New York NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, pursuant to Section 38.00 of the Local Finance Law and Section 179 of the Town Law, a special election of the qualified

voters of Germantown Fire District, Columbia County, New York, will be held at the Germantown Firehouse, 181 Main Street in Germantown, New York, in said Fire District, on the 25th day of June, 2019, between the hours of 6:00 o'clock P.M. and 9:00 o'clock P.M., Prevailing Time, for the purpose of voting by ballot on the adoption or rejection of the following resolution: BOND RESOLUTION DATED MAY 20, 2019.

A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE PURCHASE OF AIR PACKS AND RELATED EQUIPMENT, IN AND FOR THE GERMANTOWN FIRE DISTRICT, COLUMBIA COUNTY, NEW YORK, AT A MAXIMUM ESTIMATED COST OF $106,686.82 AND AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF NOT EXCEEDING $106,686.82 BONDS OF SAID FIRE DISTRICT TO PAY COSTS THEREOF. BE IT RESOLVED, by the Board of Fire Commissioners of Germantown Fire District, Columbia County, New York, as follows: Section 1. The purchase of air packs and related equipment, in and for the Germantown Fire District, Columbia County, New York, is hereby authorized at a maximum estimated cost of $106,686.82.

Section 2. The plan for the financing of the aforesaid maximum estimated cost is by the issuance of not exceeding $106,686.82 bonds of said Fire District hereby authorized to be issued therefor pursuant to the provisions of the Local Finance Law. Section 3. It is hereby determined that the period of probable usefulness of the aforesaid class of objects or purposes is five years pursuant to subdivision 32 of paragraph a of Section 11.00 of the Local Finance Law. Section 4. The faith and credit of said Germantown Fire District, Columbia County, New York, are hereby irrevocably pledged for the payment of the principal of and interest on such bonds as the same respectively become due and payable. An annual appropriation shall be made in each year sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on such bonds becoming due and payable in such year. There shall annually be levied on all the taxable real property in said Fire District a tax sufficient to pay the principal of

and interest on such bonds as the same become due and payable.

Section 5. Subject to the provisions of the Local Finance Law, the power to authorize the issuance of and to sell bond anticipation notes in anticipation of the issuance and sale of the bonds herein authorized, including renewals of such notes, is hereby delegated to the Fire District Treasurer, the chief fiscal officer.

Such notes shall be of such terms, form and contents, and shall be sold in such manner, as may be prescribed by said Fire District Treasurer, consistent with the provisions of the Local Finance Law. Section 6. All other matters except as provided herein relating to the bonds herein authorized including the date, denominations, maturities and interest payment dates, within the limitations prescribed herein and the manner of execution of the same, including the consolidation with other issues, and also the ability to issue bonds with substantially level or declining annual debt service, shall be determined by the Fire District Treasurer, the chief fiscal officer of such Fire District.

Such bonds shall contain substantially the recital of validity clause provided for in Section 52.00 of the Local Finance Law and shall otherwise be in such form and contain such recitals, in addition to those required

by Section 51.00 of the Local Finance Law, as the Fire District Treasurer shall determine consistent with the provisions of the Local Finance Law. Section 7. The validity of such bonds and bond anticipation notes may be contested only if: 1) Such obligations are authorized for an object or purpose for which said Fire District is not authorized to expend money, or 2) The provisions of law which should be complied with at the date of publication of this resolution are not substantially complied with, and an action, suit or proceeding contesting such validity is commenced within twenty days after the date of such publication, or 3) Such obligations are authorized in violation of the provisions of the Constitution.

Section 8. This resolution shall constitute a statement of official intent for purposes of Treasury Regulations Section 1.1502. Other

than as specified in this resolution, no monies are, or are reasonably expected to be, reserved, allocated on a long-term basis, or otherwise set aside with respect to the permanent funding of the object or purpose described herein.

Section 9. Upon this resolution taking effect, the same shall be published in summary in the Hudson Register Star, which is hereby designated as the official newspaper of said Fire District for such purpose, together with a notice of the Fire District Secretary in substantially the form provided in Section 81.00 of the Local Finance Law. Section 10. This resolution is adopted subject to approval at a special election of said Fire District to be held on the 25th day of June 2019.

SUPREME COURT – COUNTY OF GREENE 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.

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Index No. 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

at 7:30 p.m. at the Hillsdale Town Hall to consider the following: An application by Amy Laurie (Rookie Farm Bakery, LLC) for a Special Permit for change in use at 10 Anthony Street, Hillsdale, NY for the purpose of selling baked goods, coffee & tea. All interested parties are urged to attend.

TOWN OF ANCRAM PLANNING BOARD NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Please take notice that the Town of Ancram Planning Board will hold a public hearing on Thursday, June 6th, 2019 at 7:00 p.m. at the Ancram Town Hall, 1416 County Route 7 Ancram, New York 12502. Under consideration is the application for a Special Use Permit for an auction house on parcel ID# 197.-1-2.12 owned by Donald Duksa, located at 1030 County Route 27A, Ancram, NY 12502. All persons wishing to comment on the application will have an opportunity to do so. Any person with questions or comments concerning the application may contact the clerk, John Hoffman, by phone (329-6512 ext. 205), email (planningboard@townofancram.org), or in person (Wednesday and Saturday 10AM-2PM Ancram Town Hall).

John Hoffman III, Planning Board Clerk

PUBLIC HEARING TOWN OF ASHLAND GREENE COUNTY NEW YORK NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: That a public hearing will be held by the Town Board of the Town of Ashland, Greene County, New York at 12094 Route 23, Ashland, New York on June 10, 2019, at 7:30pm.

This is for considering a proposed variance for a 7 ‘X 10’ Wood shed to be located at the residence of Art Gribbins,12297 State Rt.23. Town of Ashland, New York

By Order of the Town Rentals Board Dawn Thorp Town Clerk Town of Ashland Apts. for Rent The Zoning Board of 295 Dated: May 13, 2019 Columbia Co. Appeals of the Town of REFEREE’S NOTICE Hillsdale will hold a CANAAN- 1 BDR., no hearing on smoking, no pets. Call 518OF SALE IN FORE- public CLOSURE Tuesday, June 4, 2019 781-4374.

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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.

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 auc-

tion 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 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)821-6194 Sarah M. Schneider, Esq. Simon & Schneider PLLC Attorneys for Plaintiff P.O. Box 908 6193 Main Street Tannersville NY 12485 (518) 589-7700 Dated: 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 April 22, 2019 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.

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 above-

referenced 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 Abandoned 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 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

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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 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 current 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.

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Inside Jon Kitna and Dak Prescott’s relationship with Cowboys David Moore The Dallas Morning News

FRISCO, Texas — Jon Kitna met Dak Prescott roughly three years ago when he was asked to share his story with the Cowboys rookie class. The journey of an undrafted athlete who went on to play for 14 seasons in the NFL is one head coach Jason Garrett wanted his young players to hear.

The next time the two had a chance to sit down and talk was a few months ago on a bus at the Pro Bowl. Prescott spoke of his desire to be elite. Early in this budding relationship, Kitna told Prescott who he reminds him of as a quarterback.

“I had the chance to play with Warren Moon in my second and third year, and I feel like he throws the ball very similar to Warren,” Kitna said of Prescott. “It’s one of the tightest spirals you’ll ever see.”

Prescott’s response?

“I didn’t know what to say,” he remembered.

“I’ll take it.

“He played forever. Hall of Famer. He can throw it.”

In his first few months as the Cowboys quarterbacks coach, Kitna stresses his job is not to revamp Prescott. It’s to refine what’s already in place. It’s to give him feedback and find the right drills to work on day in and day out.

Many of those drills have to do with footwork.

The right foot is the key.

“All those little things that matter,” Kitna said.

“Where your weight is, your weight distribution, how you come out from center, how you land, where your foot is, all that stuff.

“We don’t want to be to the point where you get bogged down thinking about those things.

But I think that’s what the offseason is for.”

Kitna points to two influences. The first is Ken Zampese, his quarterbacks coach in Cincinnati.

Zampese is the son Ernie Zampese, a key architect in the “Air Coryell” philosophy that swept the league in the late 1970s and early ‘80s. Zampese also worked under head coach Mike Martz in St. Louis, the offensive mind behind The Greatest Show on Turf to open this century.

Kitna produced one of the best seasons of his career in ‘03 with Zampese. He was even better in

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Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott on radio row at the Super Bowl LIII media center at the Georgia World Congress Center.

‘06 and ‘07 in Detroit. His offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach in those two seasons?

Mike Martz.

“He (Zampese) was really good teaching how to work through progressions and what your footwork looks like,” Kitna said. “Then I got with Mike Martz, and he broke it down to the minutest detail of footwork and how everything gets aligned and where you need to be so you stay in the pocket.

“A quarterback under pressure, (mistakes) can be self-inflicted because you’re not where you’re supposed to be in the middle of the pocket.

You’re talking about an inch or two a lot of times.

But you’re always tweaking and always trying to work at it.

“I mean, the stuff Mike taught me, like I said, in Year 11 my arm got stronger, my release got faster

and my accuracy went up by teaching me how to work my right foot, ad nauseam. So I’m a big believer in it, and we’ve already seen big changes in all of our quarterbacks.”

Prescott was sacked 56 times last season, only one less than his first two seasons combined. He certainly wasn’t at fault in all of those. But that’s one area where he can improve.

The phrase Kitna uses is pocket engineer.

“Watch any good quarterback over time, the ones that last, they know how to create their own space like jump shooters in basketball know how to get their own space so they can get their shot off.

“It’s the same in football. How do I create space so I can be on time and get this throw where I want it to be?”

Kitna believes quarterbacks are built from

the feet up, not the arm down. If your arm is in the wrong slot or you’re having difficulty getting through throws, it’s usually because you’re not in the proper alignment.

And it goes back to one foot in particular.

“It’s amazing how what we do is with that right foot,” Kitna said. “It’s a lot of drills, the stuff they do every day.

“It’s not something new. I’m not some guru.

It’s just a focus.”

Garrett is encouraged by the relationship he sees building between Kitna and Prescott as the Cowboys enter their second week of organized team activities.

“I think they’ve gotten along really well,” Garrett said. “I think they have a lot of similar qualities if you think about them as people.

“I think it’s good to have a new voice for Dak, someone who again I think believes in the things that we believe in but maybe can present it a little differently. Hopefully that resonates with Dak and the other quarterbacks.”

Prescott likes how active Kitna is a coach, how he keeps pushing.

He calls him a technician at the quarterback spot.

He likes the intensity.

“He has such a strong personality that you kind of wonder,” Prescott said. “I’m excited, but he might have to ease up a little bit.

“But as you get on the field, it’s much more than I could honestly ask for. Just in the first two days and the teaching sessions, he’s going to push me. That’s what I ask for. He’s going to make me a better player, even when he’s got me out there dead tired and I’m drenched.

“Bring it. Keep coming. I want more. That’s how I’ve had success, and I know he’ll lead me to it.”

Kitna evaluated Prescott before he took the job. When he put it next to Prescott’s self-evaluation the two were remarkably similar.

These two are on the same page.

“There’s always room for improvement,” Kitna said. “For him, it’s continuing to define that together and working together.

“It’s really little things.”

NHL commissioner says league will take ‘hard look’ at expanding video replay

By Helene Elliott Los Angeles Times (TNS)

Commissioner Gary Bettman said the NHL will take “a hard look” at expanding the use of replay but said a change would require determining “how to do it without destroying the fabric and essential elements of the game.”

Currently, the league reviews the legality of all goals.

Coaches can call for a review only in instances of possible goaltender interference and possible offside. A goal that resulted from an illegal hand pass that wasn’t detected — and was not subject to review — gave San Jose an overtime victory over St. Louis in Game 3 of the Western conference

final and spurred demand for reviews in more situations.

“The ability to review and parse plays down to the millisecond has become both a blessing and a curse,” Bettman said Monday before Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final. “If we are to extend video replay, and we will be looking at that possibility, we must find the right balance when it comes to how much more to use and when to use it without affecting the flow, pace and excitement of our game.”

Bettman showed a rare bit WINSLOW TOWNSON/USA TODAY of humor when asked what NHL commissioner Gary Bettman speaks at a press conference he thought when that hand before game one of the 2019 Stanley Cup Final between the pass wasn’t punished. “What I Boston Bruins and the St. Louis Blues at TD Garden. thought was it would be good Bettman also declared if I kept my head from explod- ... It was unfortunate, to say the the NHL is “in the strongest ing,” he said. “I was unhappy. least.”

position in our history,” citing increased scoring, close games, improved TV ratings in the U.S and Canada, and the emergence of young stars.

In addition, he said the NHL has not considered backing a women’s professional hockey league and will “let the dust settle” in regards to the future of the existing National Women’s Hockey League. More than 200 female professional players vowed to sit out the season in an effort to spur creation of a structure that would provide enhanced pay and benefits.

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agreement in 2020 and said talks are expected to continue this summer. Bettman added, “We don’t like lockouts,” though he has imposed three — including one that wiped out the 2004-05 season. The NHLPA remains unhappy with the escrow system, which takes a bite of players’ salaries in order to maintain a 50-50 revenue balance between the league and players. “It’s an irritant,” said Don Fehr, NHLPA executive director. “We can fix escrow by cutting salaries. The players aren’t interested in doing that.”

Daly also said the league will not have preseason games in China next fall for logistical reasons and that it still believes China is a viable market.

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Aly Wagner talks US chances in World Cup, FIFA’s support of the women’s game and more

By Andy Clayton New York Daily News (TNS)

Aly Wagner’s pioneering role last summer earned her a promotion.

The former U.S. national team midfielder made history when she became the first woman to call a men’s World Cup game. She handled analyst duties from the group stage through the quarterfinal round during Russia 2018.

Now the two-time World Cup veteran and two-time Olympic champion with 131 caps on her resume heads to France next month as the lead game analyst for Fox Sports’ coverage of the Women’s World Cup. Wagner will work alongside veteran play-by-play man JP Dellacamera.

The Daily News caught up with Wagner earlier this week at Fox Sports’ Women’s World Cup send-off celebration in Manhattan.

(Questions and answers have been edited for length and clarity) Q: If you were U.S. coach Jill Ellis, what would be keeping you up at night heading into the World Cup? A: My backline without a doubt. I feel like from what I’ve witnessed — from what I’ve seen — they’ve been very conservative. This doesn’t mean it won’t shift. They are very smart players, very adaptable. They are very conservative and they fear pace in behind. If they continue to drop off and they are not aggressive stepping into the half space, there are teams who will thrive on that and will pick them apart. At the end of the day, the best offense in the world will beat the best defense. You can do everything perfect on the defensive side of things, and if the offense does everything perfect you can’t stop it. So that would be something that would really concern me. I want my backline to be more aggressive and believe in themselves and step in the half space and keep spaces condensed.

Q: Can this tournament be considered a success even if the U.S. doesn’t win a fourth world title?

A: The (U.S.) have every advantage that most (teams) don’t and with the talent they have ... no, this is a tournament they should win. Tournaments are funny things where some odd thing will happen and they could be knocked out. But if you look at the resources they have, the time they’ve had together, the build to this event — they’ve had the best leadup

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to a World Cup — they (should win).

Q: Is there more pressure on this U.S. team given the lawsuit they filed against U.S. Soccer?

Do they risk losing public support if they don’t go all the way?

A: No. I don’t think they risk losing public support. I don’t look at it that way. I think with this lawsuit situation, I think the pressure is positive actually. I think this team is the team that is always going to have pressure on them to win.

They know that anything else than repeating is a failure.

And, with the lawsuit, I look at it as a positive pressure. If they are capable of winning again, guess what happens to revenue? Goes up. Guess what happens when you are sitting in a courtroom? Now you can show after two cycles you’re bringing in this amount of revenue. Oh, and by the way, we’re winning and we have this positive support and ... you can’t argue we don’t bring in as much as the men. Everything goes against U.S. Soccer. So they have that motivation and not pressure.

Q: How frustrating is it as a former player that at every step of the way the team has had to fight these battles?

A: I respect U.S. Soccer,

honestly, for being the leader and pushing forward the women’s game. That’s point one, and I’m grateful for that. Point two is they’re a business and if you’re a business you want to get the most for the least. And if you can do — and they’ve done it — that’s a success, that’s a win on your bottom line. At what point does that become irrelevant? We know you can do that. But you’re a non-profit and it’s your job to grow the game and when are you going to shoulder that responsibility?

I think they have done a fair job and now it’s time to step it up to the real women’s level and come through when they can.

Because they can.

Q: Is FIFA doing enough to support the women’s game?

A: Don’t get me started. ...

It’s first a lack of belief that it’s financially lucrative and then it’s like, ‘OK, but challenge that thought, how long did it take for the men’s game to get profitable?’ Look what is happening in the women’s game against (FIFA’s) efforts. It’s becoming lucrative, by the way. Maybe figure that out, invest in it and accept it and grow it. No, they aren’t even close. ... They have the resources to answer (the) call and they have the onus to

answer the call. They do. If they don’t, shame on them. There are so many amazing stories ... so many lives to change through their investment. But there is money to be had and that’s all they care about. There is money to be made. So let that be your motivation and actually believe in it and see it and don’t be blinded by your stigmas of the past.

Q: What feedback did you take from your work broadcasting the Men’s World Cup last summer?

A: The only feedback I really listen to and respect are my colleagues and my mentors, so nothing online, nothing from social media really impacts the way I do my job. Always keep your head down and focus on what you think is important and do your prep work and let the chips fall where they may.

You’re never going to be perfect, I already know that, I was a player. ... I know that about myself. It’s not going to be perfect.

It’s not going to be flawless.

Embrace it and move on.

Q: Speaking of embracing things, have you embraced the fact for a new generation of fans you are a broadcaster first and a player second?

A: I know, it’s so weird. Yes. It’s weird. People ask if I actually played and I’m like, Yes! It’s so odd. But, you know, I love it.

It doesn’t matter. What I do is not for me. What I do is for the game. It’s to bring energy and intelligence and to share the beauty and what these people are accomplishing, what these players are doing. It has nothing to do with me and if a little girl recognizes that I’m actually that voice and looks up to me then I love it and it’s great and I’m shaping her world differently.

Q: Last year you told us that France would win in Russia, which team do you think takes home the trophy in France?

A: Do you know that I haven’t given anyone a solid answer on that yet? ... Can I think about it? I still have to wrap my head around a few things.

We can wait.

Since Wagner wasn’t ready to reveal her pick, we turned to her Fox Sports colleague Alexi Lalas.

“If I had to predict now,” Lalas told the Daily News, “France wins.

“If I had to take all of my money right now and go to Vegas, I would put it on France.

Now, I have ulterior motives in that I do know this U.S. team functions much better when they are doubted ... so I hope they hear this.”

Giannis Antetokounmpo still has much to learn on the path to greatness Dan Woike Los Angeles Times

More than a week ago in what must feel like a different universe, Milwaukee Bucks All-Star forward Giannis Antetokounmpo talked about the first minute of Game 2 of the Eastern Conference finals.

On the way to a 22-point win and a 2-0 series lead, Antetokounmpo opened the game by driving through the Toronto Raptors’ defense, rebounding his own missed shot and powerfully slamming home the basketball. Twenty-seven seconds later, he dunked again and the Bucks were on their way to a wire-to-wire blowout win.

“I think it definitely set the tone,” he said that night. “That’s what I tried to do.

I know every night when the game starts, my teammates are looking at me as a leader of the team.”

As their season closed Saturday in a Game 6 loss in Toronto, his teammates again had their eyes on their leader, this time with him getting up and walking off the podium before Khris Middleton could finish answering a question.

It was a bad look, the likely MVP of the NBA getting up and bolting in the aftermath of defeat. That he was even up there was a bit of a surprise. After the Bucks’ previous three losses, Antetokounmpo refused to speak at the postgame podium as players of his stature do, instead speaking from inside the team’s locker room.

It’s a sour ending for Antetokounmpo, a player who still has room to grow on the court, showing that there’s still work to be done off of it.

He’s still relatively new to this level of attention and still learning to fully harness a skill set and drive that will almost certainly make him the best player in the world at some point in his career — probably quicker than expected.

He’s as long as Shaquille O’Neal was wide, a player who can move with force and agility, the rare combination of a dominant scorer and a defensive stopper. Coaches rave about his work ethic, his drive to be great. Teammates marvel at how clear the paths are for Antetokounmpo to become better.

Antetokounmpo has two years left before he’s a free agent — and he’s eligible for a super-max extension following next season. Players of his caliber don’t usually stay in places like Milwaukee and teams around the NBA have already begun to set their rosters with an eye toward his free agency.

He’s great today and maybe he’ll be the greatest in the near future.

“I will say Giannis is going to get better,” Bucks coach Mike Budenholzer said after the Game 6 loss. “I like to think for us and to be excited about his future at 24 — I mean, it’s just the easy narrative that this is part of Giannis’ (growth). But I think the thing that makes Giannis unique and exciting is in our minds, we feel like he’s going to get a lot better. At 24 some guys are — I don’t want to say they are who they are — and some of the great ones at 24 were the same at 30 and 32 and so on and so forth. Giannis, we feel like, has got a lot of room to grow.”

An average 3-point shooter in the NBA

made 35.5% from deep. Antetokounmpo made 25.6% of his in the regular season and 32.7% in the playoffs. That’s the most obvious space where Antetokounmpo can grow.

He’ll benefit from his experiences against Kawhi Leonard and the Raptors, too.

“Obviously when you’re up 2-0, that doesn’t mean nothing. You’ve got to learn how to come out and close out games, especially after Game 3,” Antetokounmpo said. “We’ve got to get better as a team, and we’ve got to get better individually. I think it’s just the start of a long journey. We’re going to get better. We’re going to come back next year and believe in who we are, believe in what we’ve built this year and hopefully we can be in the same situation and be the ones moving forward.”

If they get in this situation again, Antetokounmpo will have to be even better. The defensive force he played with in Game 6, when he erased shots at the rim by the Raptors brave enough to test him, that has to be done more consistently.

He has to be more comfortable at the free-throw line when the stakes are highest. It was unusual to see someone with such long arms short-arm almost every one of his shots from the line over the final four games of the series, when he made only 17 of 36 free throws.

The next time Antetokounmpo is on this stage, he’s got to be better, both as a player and as a leader. As he walked off that podium Saturday, he has to know that. And the rest of the NBA understands he’ll come back next season even stronger.

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Serena Williamscompetes during a match against Vitalia Diatchenko on day two of the 2019 French Open at Stade Roland Garros.

Fighting rust, Serena Williams has a rocky start in Paris Christopher Clarey The New York Times News Service

PARIS — It has been a frustrating year at the office so far for Serena Williams, filled with old injuries that have resurfaced and new ones that have scuttled her chances. It has been a season where the opportunities to play actual tennis matches and finish the few she has started have been far too rare.

But Williams was back in the public eye and in harm’s way at the French Open at age 37 on Monday, even if many other veteran tennis champions would have skipped the experience altogether and started preparing for the grass-court season and Wimbledon, which she has won seven times.

“It crossed my mind every day,” she said, when asked whether she had considered it. “But I’m here. And to do the best that I can do.”

In the opening set against the unseeded Vitalia Diatchenko on Monday, Williams’ best bore no resemblance to her finest tennis. She missed groundstrokes by the bunch and service returns by the bushel. She looked edgy and rusty.

But Williams, the winner of 23 Grand Slam singles titles, is nothing if not a fighter.

Final score of the first-round duel: 2-6, 6-1, 6-0.

“I knew it couldn’t get worse,” Williams said. “I knew I could only go up. “ For Williams, the challenge, based on this year’s struggles, is simply to stay healthy enough to keep competing in the tournament.

She has played just one match on clay this season and visited Disneyland Paris last week in a wheelchair to conserve energy and avoid putting added strain on her troublesome left knee, which had caused her to withdraw from the Miami Open and Italian Open this year.

Another withdrawal is hardly unthinkable. She hit a high level quickly last year with just as meager clay-court preparation before withdrawing after three rounds with a pectoral injury.

“This is a much bigger challenge on clay than on grass,” Chris Evert, the seven-time French Open champion, said of Williams, noting that fitness and movement are essential here. “I do think she’s playing with a little less pressure in Paris because she’s a work in progress and knows her preparation hasn’t been ideal, and she still has two more Grand Slam tournaments ahead of her this year. She is the underdog in a sense.”

It is such a rare role for Williams to play, but she has yet to win a tournament since returning to competition in February 2018 after the birth of her daughter, Olympia. And after scanning her 2019 results, which won’t take long, and observing her against Diatchenko, underdog seems just the right word in Paris this year.

After the match, Williams had to navigate another challenge in the interview room.

Nike, her longtime sponsor, has used her working motherhood as a feel-good marketing

tool: The cape she wore during the warm-up on Monday featured the word mère (French for mother) in its design.

But in articles and videos for The New York Times opinion department over the past two weeks, some of Nike’s sponsored athletes in track and field, including world champion sprinter Allyson Felix, said the company failed to guarantee the same level of income during pregnancy and early maternity.

It is unclear what Nike’s policies have been in women’s tennis, but after Felix and other prominent runners like Alysia Montaño and Kara Goucher came forward, the company announced last week that it would waive performancepay reductions for a year for athletes who decide to have a baby.

“I’m glad that statement was made,” said Williams, who surely knew a question about Nike’s position was coming.

“That’s what it’s about. It’s about learning from mistakes and doing better.”

Williams’ latest French Open outfit by Nike — a midriff-baring ensemble — seemed out of context with a chill in the air and an overcast sky over the new-look Chatrier Court. She eventually put on a black Nike jacket. The stands in the 15,000-seat stadium were less than half full.

Williams said she felt as if she was striking the ball cleanly in training before the tournament, but match pressure changed the equation.

She faced her first break points after just three minutes of play. She saved them, but the struggle was real.

Diatchenko, an unorthodox Russian with two-handed groundstrokes, upset Maria Sharapova in the first round of Wimbledon last year. Her flat shots are tricky to read, and she cracked winners off both wings in the early going that left the nervous Williams looking befuddled, flat footed and beside herself.

“Like concrete blocks on my feet,” Williams said.

She lost her serve at love in the fifth game and then won only one point on her serve in the seventh game. There were a few boos from the crowd, and after the first set, Williams sat in her chair on the changeover shaking her head and talking to herself. After she fell behind by 15-30 on her serve in the opening game of the second set, she turned to wait for the ball to be delivered by one of the ball kids and put her head back and screamed in frustration.

“I don’t think I have ever done that before,” Williams said of Monday’s roar. “The past week and half has been really good, and God, it was like, this isn’t the Serena I have been practicing with or that I see every day.”

Cue catharsis: Williams went on to win the next three points and hold serve.

She would lose just one more game before securing her place in the second round, where she will face either the Japanese qualifier Kurumi Nara, ranked 238th, or Dalila Jakupovic, a Slovenian ranked 105th.

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