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Gilchrist named to housing board

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CATSKILL — The Village Board of Trustees appointed Karen Gilchrist to the Catskill Housing Authority board Wednesday night, making the board complete once more.

Hop-O-Nose has experienced rapid changes in leadership recently, with the former Executive Director Nina Krupski stepping down and board member Erica Brantley leaving her post.

On Wednesday, Gilchrist, a former Hop-O-Nose tenant, became the newest member of the board.

“Karen is a great advocate of health and safety,” Catskill Housing Authority Chairman

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The Hop-O-Nose Apartments in Catskill. Former resident Karen Gilchrist was appointed to the Catskill Housing Authority Board of Directors on Wednesday by the Catskill Village Board of Trustees.

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Sam Aldi said. “I think she will be an asset to the board as we continue moving forward.”

Village President Vincent Seeley said he is pleased to see the board moving in a positive direction.

“The board and management team have gone through changes over the past two years,” he said. “We are very confident in the current board and their vision for the future of the housing authority. We hope to find an individual with the skill set and time needed to work with the current board, residents and employees [to serve as director.] The key is to ensure that we all work towards Hop-OSee GILCHRIST A2

Tourism on the rise in Greene County

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In this Dec. 18, 2018 file photo, an aerial photo of the village of Tannersville shows Rip Van Winkle Lake, left, and the nearby village Main Street, right. Greene County mountaintop officials are working to promote less-visited locations to draw tourists away from overcrowded attractions.

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CATSKILL — A recent study shows that tourism and visitor spending is increasing in Greene County.

The state as a whole had a good year for tourism,

according to the 2018 report.

More than 250 million visitors passed through the state generating a whopping $114.8 billion. This is the fifth consecutive year the revenue figure has exceeded $100 billion, according to governor.ny.gov.

“Without tourism and tourism-generated state and local taxes, our Greene County residents would have to pay an additional $1,291 to maintain the same level of government revenue,” Deputy County Administrator and Economic

Development, Tourism & Planning Director Warren Hart said in a statement. “We are committed to continuing to market Greene County as a premier tourism destination for New York and the world.”

In Greene County, travelers

spent over $185 million in 2018, representing an 8.4% increase over 2017’s reported figures. The Catskills Region as a whole experienced an 11.3% increase in 2018 in See TOURISM A2

Judge denies new motions in Green Light suit

By Massarah Mikati Columbia-Greene Media

BUFFALO — A judge in the Western District of New York has denied three different parties from getting involved in a county clerk’s lawsuit against New York state over a new law that allows undocumented immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses.

Three parties — a coalition of immigrant rights groups, an Erie County resident and the state Conservative Party — filed motions to intervene and/or submit amicus, or “friend of the court,” briefs in Erie County Clerk Michael Kearns’ lawsuit challenging the Green Light law.

U.S. District Judge Elizaeth

Wolford has accepted a number of amicus briefs to date, including from the New York Civil Liberties Union, the Immigration Reform Law Institute and a joint brief from Connecticut, along with seven other states and Washington, D.C. However, in an order Wednesday, she denied all three new requests.

The Rural and Migrant Ministry, New York Immigration Coalition and Hispanic Federation filed a joint motion to intervene in the case. Wolford declined their request, saying their interests in favor of Green Light were already adequately represented by See DENIES A2

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A rally in support of New York’s Green Light Law. The U.S. Justice Department may intervene in challenges to the law allowing undocumented immigrants to have driver’s licenses.

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Nose being a safer, healthier and happier place to live.”

New changes are on the horizon in terms of a director, Aldi said.

“The Catskill Housing Authority has approved the contract, now it has gone to the Hudson Housing Authority for approval,” Aldi said.

The contract would allow for Tim Mattice, who oversees Bliss Towers in Hudson, to act as a part-time interim administrative director, Aldi said.

Mattice did not respond to requests for comment.

“We are very hopeful for the future,” Aldi said. “Tim is very experienced and right across the river.”

Aldi joined the board last year after another period of unrest. The entire board resigned Aug. 9, 2018, citing issues with management. Four of the five members returned to the board, and Aldi took former board member Ann Gibbons’ seat in October.

“The Board of Commissioners would further like to point out to HUD that we see the agency more committed to crossing the T’s, dotting the I’s and following the maze of regulations than it does having the board moving forward with a handful of simple projects that would enhance the lives of residents in the Hop-O-Nose community,” the commissioners wrote in their resignation letter to Seeley and Lisa Pugliese, director of the Buffalo Office of Public Housing.

“If the board had not pressed

these matters, the dryers would still not work, the park benches would still not be painted, the basketball court still not cleaned with minor repairs, the playground slide would still be broken and not replaced, and the playground itself still in need of some picking up and cleaning,” the commissioners wrote.

Board member Patrick McCulloch expressed uncertainty over the duties of the board at an Oct. 2 meeting.

“The last time we held one of these meetings [for grievances] was two years ago,” McCulloch said. “We were told that’s not our job [from Buffalo]. I’d love to have these meetings once a quarter.”

Former board member Brantley said this was one of the reasons she resigned.

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spending — the most significant growth of any region in the state, according to the report.

The state experienced a 5.6% increase from last year’s spending and a 3.7% increase in visitors, according to the report.

“We’re very fortunate in our amenities, attractions and lodging partners,” Greene County Tourism Director Heather Bagshaw said in a statement.

“We welcome travelers from around the world to explore in the mountains, boat on the Hudson, stay in a unique lodging property and enjoy a meal at one of our incredible restaurants. We love sharing Greene County’s treasures.”

Tourism in the Catskills is a $1.5 billion industry that supports nearly 20,000 jobs. Labor income in Greene County was up 13.8% year-over-year and tourism-generated employment was at 22.9% for the county, according to the study.

Because 22% of all jobs are in the

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In this Aug. 10, 2017 file photo, Gov. Andrew Cuomo makes his way to the gazebo at Dutchmen’s Landing in Catskill with Greene County Tourism Marketing Manager Heather Bagshaw, left, and DEC Commissioner Basil Seggos, right. The state’s annual survey of the economic impact of tourism across the state shows Greene County has seen steady growth in tourism since 2014. Bagshaw has said tourism is integral to the economy in Greene County and the county government because of the sales tax revenue it generates.

tourism sector, Greene County is the most dependent region on tourism income in the Catskills.

Tourism is the third largest private sector employer in the

state, according to the state Department of Labor. The industry accounts for 957,800 of the state’s jobs, according to state labor statistics from 2018.

of a housing authority board were, the Housing & Urban Development office said board members should attend all board meetings and participate in discussions and decision-making.

“Board members should ensure that the organization complies with applicable laws and regulations, which includes insuring that the organization carries out its purposes and does not engage in unauthorized activities,” according to HUD. Members should also be familiar with HUD’s rules and regulations pertaining to the Regulatory Agreement and Subsidy Contract, which includes Fair Housing Laws.

Hotel room demand increased by 4% and passenger counts at state airports increased by 4.5%, according to the report.

“New York State’s significant investments in tourism coupled with the efforts of tourism partners all across the state make for an unstoppable combination,” state Executive Director of Tourism Ross D. Levi said in a statement. “These historic numbers are evidence that our strategic efforts are succeeding like never before in positioning New York State as the ultimate vacation destination for visitors from around the world.”

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Amazon executive’s comments draw ire of President Trump’s son Spencer Soper Bloomberg

Amazon.com’s top spokesman Jay Carney criticized the administration of President Donald Trump on Wednesday, questioning the patriotism and honesty of the current White House and criticizing it for trying to influence the Federal Reserve.

His comments drew the attention of Trump’s son, and Carney responded by praising government officials on Thursday.

In a 30-minute interview at the GeekWire Summit in Seattle, Carney drew distinctions

between the current administration and those of former Presidents Barack Obama, George Bush and Bill Clinton. Carney used to be Obama’s press secretary and worked as a political reporter before that.

Carney also said he never lied on behalf of the White House and “there doesn’t seem to be that standard today.”

On Wednesday, Carney added that it was “drummed into his head” as a government official not to mention interest rates or decisions made by the Federal Reserve. “I guess they didn’t get

that memo in the current White House,” he said. Trump has railed against the Fed this year for not cutting interest rates more.

Carney, who joined Amazon in 2015, frequently tweets about his time in the Obama administration. But Amazon itself tries to keep out of hot-button political issues. Carney’s comments on Wednesday stoked tension between Amazon and Trump’s circle. The president has long denounced Amazon Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos in tweets, criticizing him for the rates the

e-commerce giant pays the U.S. Postal Service to deliver packages and Bezos’s ownership of what Trump calls “the Amazon Washington Post.”

On Thursday morning, Donald Trump Jr. tweeted news reports of Carney’s comments to his 3.9 million followers and asked if this was Amazon’s official stance.

Within an hour of that tweet, Carney praised government officials on Twitter: “I have enormous faith in and respect for the countless patriots throughout the US gov’t.”

“The Court will not tread onto that slippery slope,” she wrote.

Lastly, the New York State Conservative Party requested to submit an amicus brief two weeks after the court’s Sept. 6 deadline, with no explanation for the tardiness. However, Wolford said she also denied the party’s request because its arguments were redundant of Kearns’.

Kearns’ lawsuit is being watched closely, especially since a federal judge in the Northern District of New York ordered a stay on a similar lawsuit from Rensselaer County Clerk Frank Merola pending actions in Kearns’ suit. Merola’s lawsuit was filed in July, two weeks after the Kearns suit.

“Defendants argue that a stay pending the Western District’s resolution of a motion to dismiss and a motion for a preliminary injunction would ‘allow the parties and, ultimately, the court to take into account the decision of’ the Western District,” U.S. District Judge Gary Sharpe wrote in his decision last

week. “...for some of the reasons identified by defendants, a stay is appropriate.”

Government officials estimate 265,000 immigrants will be seeking driver’s licenses within the first few years of Green Light.

Under the new law, local departments of motor vehicles and county clerk offices are prohibited from sharing private information about individuals applying for licenses with immigration enforcement agencies.

Both county clerks’ lawsuits argued that under federal law, it is a felony to withhold information about undocumented immigrants from immigration enforcement agencies.

Massarah Mikati covers the New York State Legislature and

immigration for Johnson Newspaper Corp. Email her at mmikati@columbiagreenemedia. com, or find her on Twitter @ massarahmikati.

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the defendants in the case — Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Attorney General Letitia James and Department of Motor Vehicles Commissioner Michael Schroeder. Wolford also said allowing them to intervene “could open the floodgates to other requests for permissive intervention by similarly interested parties.”

Erie County resident Daniel Warren requested to both intervene in the case and submit a brief in support of New York state, citing various tax burdens as his concern. Both Kearns and New York state opposed Warren’s requests. Wolford agreed, calling his tax concerns collateral issues that would not be productive to intervention or resolving the suit.

Wolford again added that it would set a precedent that would allow, theoretically, every taxpayer argue they could intervene in various cases.

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CALENDAR Monday, Oct. 14 n Catskill Town Offices closed in ob-

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

Tuesday, Oct. 15 n Athens Village Planning Board 6:30 p.m. Village Hall, 2 First St., Athens n Catskill Town Budget Workshop 6:30 p.m. Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill n Coxsackie Village Board 7 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie n Durham Town Board 7:30 p.m.

Town Hall, 7309 Route 81, East Durham n Greene County Legislature county services; public works; economic development and tourism; government operations; finance; Rep and Dem caucus 6 p.m. Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill n Hunter Town Board 7 p.m. Town Hall, 5748 Route 23A, Tannersville

Wednesday, Oct. 16 n Athens Town Board budget work-

shop 6 p.m. Town Hall, 2 First St., Athens n Catskill Central School District BOE 6:30 p.m. High School Library, 341 West Main St., Catskill n Catskill Library Board 6:45 p.m. at either the Catskill Library, 1 Franklin St., Catskill or Palenville Library, 3303 Route 23A, Palenville n Catskill Town Board Committee 6:30 p.m. Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill n Greene County Legislature public hearing 2019 state CDBG program application for 7883 Hunter LLC 6:25 p.m.; Legislature meeting No. 10 6:30 p.m.

Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill

Thursday, Oct. 17 n Coxsackie-Athens Central School District board of education 6:30 p.m. E.J. Arthur Elementary School, 51 Third St., Athens n Coxsackie Village Planning Board 7 p.m. October 17 Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

Monday, Oct. 21 n Athens Town Board 6:45 p.m. Town

Hall, 2 First St., Athens n Greenville Central School District BOE 6:30 p.m. MS/HS Library, 4976 Route 81, Greenville n Greenville Town Board 7 p.m. Town Hall, 11159 Route 32, Pioneer Building, Greenville

Tuesday, Oct. 22 n Catskill Town Budget Workshop

6:30 p.m. Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill n Catskill Town Planning Board 7 p.m.

Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill

DA: Man charged with 2017 murder

By Amanda Purcell Columbia-Greene Media

HUDSON — A New York City man was charged Wednesday in the 2017 shooting death of Kevin Whitening.

Christian Simmons, 22, of the Bronx, also known as “Nahkye Tyler” and Dondre Tyler,” was arraigned on a charge of second-degree murder, a class A-1 felony, after the judge unsealed an indictment in Columbia County Court. Defense attorney Ian Crimmins entered a plea of not guilty on behalf of Simmons, who was arrested in New York City by the New York and New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force.

Whitening, 31, of New York City, was killed Aug. 22, 2017 in Hudson after a back-and-forth gun battle in the summer of 2017, which saw seven shootings in and around State Street that wounded two toddlers and four adults. The five-month gun battle culminated with the fatal shooting of Whitening.

Simmons bowed his head underneath a bright read hooded sweatshirt from a news camera as he was led into the court room by Hudson Police detectives.

“I am just happy everything is falling into place,” his mother, Tracy Whitening said outside of court. “It’s been a long two years. And I know it’s going to be a journey, but my son can rest now peacefully.”

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Murder suspect Christian Simmons is led out of Columbia County Court on Wednesday.

Finn, and Detective Nick Pierro as lead investigator were relentless, Hudson Police Chief L. Edward Moore said.

“The New York State Police contributed a staggering amount of time, effort, and resources,” Moore said. “We have worked with [Columbia County District Attorney Paul Czajka’s office on this matter weekly for two years. If my relative were the victim, I would expect that all possible resources available would be brought to bear, and that is exactly what we have done. HPD, the DA, state troopers, Sheriff [David]

Bartlett, federal agencies, all on the same page, this leads to success and a safer city.”

More charges may be pending in the case against another person who was involved, according to the indictment.

Police say it was a fight between two warring groups with gang connections in November 2016 that turned the city with a population of 6,200 into a battleground between May and September 2017.

Members of the “more powerful” of the two groups was arrested in February, Moore said a press conference Feb. 6, 2018.

Monday, Oct. 28 n Catskill Village Planning Board

7 p.m. at the Catskill Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill

Tuesday, Oct. 29 n Catskill Town Budget Workshop

6:30 p.m. Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill

Correction In the story “Threat raises mother’s fear” published in the Thursday, Oct. 10, 2019 edition of The Daily Mail, Greenville Board of Education President Patricia Macko has not at this time been in contact with Aimee Richards.

Whitening was shot in the chest and killed on Third Street at about 8:40 p.m. He was rushed to Columbia Memorial Health, 71 Prospect St., n where he died a short time later. Stormy weather prevented Whitening from being airlifted n to Albany Medical Center, his mother, Tracy Whitening, said in n August.

Police believe someone else was the target. And family n members say Whitening, who despised guns, was a bystander who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. A few hours before his death, Whitening n

To reach reporter Amanda Purcell, call 518-828-1616 ext. 2500, or send an email apurcell@thedailymail. net, or tweet to @amandajpurcell.

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State police: Two arrested after Columbia Street raid n

By Amanda Purcell Columbia-Greene Media

HUDSON — An accused Columbia County drug dealer is being held in jail on $25,000 bail after he was found with crack cocaine and an Albany County man was taken into custody as a fugitive from justice in a morning raid, police said Wednesday.

Police conducted an early raid at about 4:30 a.m. at a home on Columbia Street on Tuesday before making their

arrests.

Aaron L. Lomax, 29, of Hudson, was charged with third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell, a class B felony; fifth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a class D felony; and second-degree criminal use of drug paraphernalia; a class A misdemeanor, according to a statement from state police.

Lomax was in possession of crack cocaine and drug

paraphernalia, police said.

Lakuan Deleon, 25, of Ravena, was charged with fourth-degree grand larceny, a class E felony; and seventhdegree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a class A misdemeanor. Deleon was taken into custody as a fugitive from justice out of state, state police said.

Deleon’s arrest and arraignment were handled by the Hudson Police Department.

Deleon was apprehended

bynHudson police after he allegedly stole a wallet and was in possession of a small amount of cocaine. Deleon also n had several out-of-state arrest warrants, Hudson police said. He is due back in ncourt Thursday. Deleon pleaded not guilty to the city charges, according to court n records.

Hudson City Judge Brian n Herman ordered Lomax to the Columbia County Jail in lieu of $25,000 bail. Lomax n

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Wednesday, Oct. 23 n Athens Town Board budget workshop 6 p.m. Town Hall, 2 First St., Athens n Athens Village Board 6:30 p.m. at Village Hall, 2 First St., Athens n Catskill Village Board 7 p.m. Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill n Greene County Legislature workshop 6 p.m. Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill

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took the train from New York City, where he lived, to see his family in Hudson. He regularly visited Hudson on weekends to visit his mother, sister, nieces and nephews. The shooting left Whitening’s young son without a father.

“I miss him every day,” Tracy said in an interview in July. “He was a very humble person.”

Rensselaer County Court Judge Andrew Ceresia ordered Simmons to be held in Columbia County Judge without bail.

Simmons is due back in court on Nov. 1, when Columbia County Judge Jonathan Nichols will preside over the case.

“The people are ready for trial,” said Columbia County Assistant District Attorney Ryan Carty, who is prosecuting the case.

In a statement, Czajka commended all involved, and, specifically, Detective Sergeant Jason Finn, Detective Nick Pierro, New York State Police Senior Investigators Eric Barnes, Kelly Taylor and Michael Castle for their “tireless efforts in this extremely complex investigation.” The DA stated that Finn had not stopped working on this case since they met at the scene of the crime shortly after the shooting.

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STATE POLICE n Arthur A. Cossean, 51, of Staten Island, was arrested at 12:04 a.m. Oct. 8 in Cairo and charged with operating a motor vehicle with a bloodalcohol content greater than 0.08% and driving while intoxicated, both unclassified misdemeanors. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Reginald M. Morris, 33, of Indian Orchard, Massachusetts, was arrested at 3:20 p.m. Oct. 7 in Greenville and charged with operation of a motor vehicle while impaired by drugs, an unclassified misdemeanor, and unlawful possession of

marijuana, a violation. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Simon L. Naccarato, 35, of Saugerties, was arrested at 11 p.m. Oct. 8 in Catskill and charged with operating a motor vehicle with a bloodalcohol content greater than 0.08% and driving while intoxicated, both unclassified misdemeanors. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Joshua A. Caraballo, 19, of Watervliet, was arrested at 3:45 p.m. Oct. 8 in Catskill and charged with unlawfully dealing with a child, a class A misdemeanor. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Ana A. Arroyorobles, 44, of Schenectady, was arrested at 11:04 p.m. Oct. 8 in Coxsackie and charged with first-degree criminal possession of a controlled

substance, a class A felony, and third-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance, a class B felony. She was held. n Wanda I. Velez, 54, of Schenectady, was arrested at 11:04 p.m. Oct. 8 first-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a class A felony, and third-degree criminal sale of a controlled substance, a class B felony.

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Arrest releases grip of fear There’s some reassurance in knowing that a person suspected in a deadly shooting more than two years ago has been arrested and charged.

In those hot summer days of 2017, seven shootings left two toddlers and four adults wounded — and one young man dead. The five-month series of eye-for-an-eye shootings shook the city of Hudson to its core and held neighborhoods in the vicinity of State Street and Columbia Street in a grip of fear.

Christian Simmons, 22, of the Bronx, was charged Wednesday with second-degree murder in the shooting death of Kevin Whitening, 31, of New York City, on Aug.

22, 2017. Simmons’ attorney, Ian Crimmins, entered a plea of not guilty.

The shootings made news in Greene County, the Capital Region and the entire state. It was a long, hot summer for sure.

Simmons was arrested in New York City by the New York and New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force.

Hudson police spent more than two years on the investigation. Detective Sgt. Jason Finn and Detective Nick Pierro were relentless, Hudson Police Chief L. Edward Moore said.

All who helped take Simmons into custody are deserving of commendation: State police; Columbia

County District Attorney Paul Czajka and his office; Hudson police; Sheriff David Bartlett; and all the men and women from the state and federal agencies.

Of course, we are not judge and jury. Simmons is innocent until proven guilty.

But Kevin Whitening’s family thinks some type of closure is at hand.

“I am just happy everything is falling into place,” Kevin’s mother, Tracy Whitening, said Wednesday. “It’s been a long two years. And I know it’s going to be a journey, but my son can rest now peacefully.”

And, we hope, so can the people of Hudson.

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U.S. should be wary of using diplomatic immunity in fatal U.K. car crash The Washington Post

President Donald Trump and his secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, have a lot on their minds these days, what with resisting the House impeachment investigation and all. Nevertheless, they need to take time from their busy schedules to resolve, to Britain’s satisfaction, the issue of a U.S. citizen who left that key ally after allegedly causing the death of a 19-year-old Briton in a traffic crash Aug. 27. She departed after the U.S. Embassy asserted diplomatic immunity on her behalf.

The United States should be sensitive to abuses of diplomatic immunity in such cases. In Washington 22 years ago, the No. 2 official of the Republic of Georgia’s embassy struck and killed a Maryland teenager while driving drunk through downtown. Police initially released him from custody

because of his diplomatic status, but the Clinton administration asked Georgia to waive the rules that ordinarily shield embassy personnel from prosecution in U.S. courts. Georgia complied — and the official pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and other charges, receiving a sentence of seven to 21 years in prison.

He served three years before being transferred home and released.

Details of the current case are far different, to be sure.

There is no claim that the motorist — identified by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson as Anne Sacoolas, wife of a government employee at a U.S. air base in England — was drunk or that the victim, Harry Dunn, died as the result of anything other than an unintentional act.

While riding a motorcycle, Dunn was struck head-on by a car using the wrong lane,

an all-too-frequent mistake by foreigners unaccustomed to Britain’s left-side driving rules. The driver apparently cooperated with police to some extent before leaving the country. Yet the British still seek a formal in-custody interview with Sacoolas, so as to complete their investigation.

It’s unclear what level of immunity the U.S. Embassy in London applied. The Georgian official, Gueorgui Makharadze, was entitled to a blanket exemption from any charges because of his high official status. Lowerranking officials generally enjoy functional immunity, which applies only to conduct related to their work.

U.S. officials must of course avoid setting any precedents that might unduly hamper the legitimate prerogatives of those who work for the government under often difficult circumstances overseas.

So, here we are again. Who’s in and who’s out. Who’s a resident and who isn’t. Who is a part of the community and who is an interloper. Who’s a native and who’s an alien.

Sound familiar?

And no, I’m not talking about illegal aliens, about Hispanic rapists or gang members, much less Hispanic farm and service industry workers, documented or not. I’m talking about those whose families are long-time residents of Columbia County or, even, more specific localities within the county and who are the interlopers, the second-home owners or, even simply recent immigrants to the area from other places.

And, yes, I mean New York City and its environs.

This is not a new story. It’s at least as old as it was when I first started coming here from NYC with my parents in 1952 when they bought a house on Copake Lake. By the way, in a precursor of things to come, we traveled here on weekends from Brooklyn. Now, it seems, everyone in Hudson comes from Brooklyn except when they don’t.

The tensions between new and old have been a part of the warp and woof of the area for as long as it’s been a recognizable part of the state. Think of the Dutch who settled along the Hudson’s shores in Kinderhook, the whalers who made Hudson their home port, not to mention the prostitutes who flocked to Hudson to service the lawmakers and lobbyists in Albany. For that matter, think of any European who settled not only in the Hudson Valley but all of America. We and our ancestors were all newcomers, interlopers at some point in our lives.

Moving along, that brings us to the current state of affairs in the Taconic Hills School District, which services students of families who live in the eastern part of Columbia County. The school board discovered that, for some reason, people who were deemed qualified to vote in general elections for political representatives in federal, state and local elections were not necessarily qualified to do so in elections related to school matters. Even more, the school board had the sole discretion to determine who was qualified to vote. And the Taconic Hills School Board seems determined to eliminate some property owners and/or renters who it doesn’t think should have the right to vote for matters like school budgets.

The board has yet to define the criteria for who should be allowed to vote but they seem to have made it clear that they only want “permanent” or “full-time” residents to vote while keeping second-home owners/renters away from the polls. A less generous way of putting it might be, “if you don’t ‘really’ live here, pay your taxes but keep your mouths shut.”

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SALTZ But why now? Yes, the by now familiar accusation of voter fraud has been raised by some without much proof that it actually exists. More likely, the particular concern at this time about part-time residents or weekenders, might have been motivated by a recent dramatic spike in voting by these people in school elections, very often by people who wish to vote by absentee ballot, one indication that they might not be full-time residents. As far as I can tell, this spike is related to the election of Donald Trump.

I changed my voter registration last year from NYC to Copake for that very reason. Or, the way I like to think of it, I’d rather be a minnow in a small pond than a microbe in a vast ocean. Regardless, that leaves the question, am I a full time resident?

The truest answer is yes and no. For example, I spend just about all my time in the Taconic Hills School District. I own a house here and have done so since 1990. I get mail here. I pay taxes here. On the other hand, I own an apartment in NYC. I get mail there. I pay taxes there. At the same time, I prefer for various legal and financial reasons to count the city as my primary residence no matter how many days a year I spend in Columbia County. So, where do I live?

I’m sorry to say that no matter where I legally live or spend my time, I don’t think that is the real issue. The real issue I suspect, the unstated issue, is that I and a lot of other second-home owners who have chosen to vote in Columbia County, are registered Democrats. School Board members are, almost exclusively, Republicans. If one looks at what has been happening nationally, changes in voter qualification requirements along with other attempts to limit voter access to polls has been at the heart of the Republican playbook for quite a while and this has nothing to do with Trump. Republicans apparently believe that the fewer people who are eligible to vote, the better it is for Republicans.

It’s really unfortunate, even tragic, that this might be playing out in the Taconic School District as well. If it does, it masks itself here as permanent resident vs part-time resident, old timer vs newcomer.

You would think that the Taconic District’s schools are performing exceptionally well and that input from “outsiders”

can only hurt. The trouble is, that is not the case. The District’s schools’ performance is middling at best. The elementary school is considered average in the way schools are graded these days. The high school is graded at somewhat below average.

Regardless of the reasons for this performance (and family income is certainly one of the predictive indicators of student performance), I’m pretty sure that both the school board and administration would like it to be better, that they think it should be better for the future lives of their students and are trying to make it so.

Is it possible that board members think that these/ we outsiders don’t want the schools to be better? Do they think that we are only interested in reducing the tax burden on ourselves for services that we don’t use? Do they think that we don’t care about the future of Columbia County or that we don’t think that well educated students are vital to the future of the County?

I don’t and can’t speak for anyone else, but I want Taconic Hills schools and all schools in the county to be better than they are. Education, in particular high school education in my case, was vital to whatever success I’ve had in life, both professional and personal. I’m sure that’s true of most secondhome owners and other part time residents. Why wouldn’t the school district think that we aren’t really concerned about the long-term viability of the county?

According to a recent editorial in The Columbia Paper, Columbia County has the third highest concentration of residents in the country who are part of the “creative economy,” surpassed only by Taos, NM and Brooklyn. That’s pretty extraordinary but not too surprising if one is aware of what has happened in Hudson and the rest of the county over the past 20 years. As much as these people contribute to the economy and vitality of the county, as much as they are both cause and result of tourism, as important as they are to the future of the county, most of them are relative newcomers, both as permanent and part-time residents.

It is beyond me why the school board would want to treat them as unwelcome intruders, as distractions and annoyances. It is beyond me why, instead, the school board and administration doesn’t say, “how can you help us? How can we help you to help us? Here’s how we think you can help us.”

If you have an answer to these questions, please let me know.

Michael Saltz is an awardwinning, long-time, now-retired Senior Producer for what is now called “PBS NewsHour.” He is a resident of Hillsdale.

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Aldo L. Biondi Aldo L. Biondi, 95 of Copake, Jansen Lions Club, a volunNY passed away on Friday Oc- teer for Meals on Wheels and tober 4, 2019 at Columbia Me- a member of the Roe Jan Area morial Hospital in Hudson, NY. Young at Hearters. He was an He was born on March 17, avid fisherman and love to ski, 1924 in Brooklyn, NY the son of play golf and tennis. Survivors Joseph and Maria (Jaccarelli) include his wife of 69 years, Biondi. Mr. Biondo had been a Carmela (Chiocco) Biondi of local resident since 1987 previ- Copake; his daughters, Ceously residing on Long Island. leste Gustavsson of Hillsdale He graduated college with a and Gina Hosier of Copake degree in advertising and had along with a grandson, Joseph been employed as the Hamm of Copake. director of advertising A Memorial Mass for Macy’s Dept. Store of Christian Burial in New York City for 7 will be celebrated on years. He later served Wednesday October in the same capac16, 2019 at 11 AM from ity at the International the Parish of Our Lady Playtex Corp for an of Hope in Copake additional 32 years.

Falls with the Rev. Upon his retirement George Brennan offito Copake he became Biondi ciating. Friends are inemployed by Columvited and may call at the church bia County as an attendant at the Copake Transfer Station. also on Wednesday from 10 – At age 18 he volunteered and 11 AM A reception will immediproudly served his country with ately follow the Mass in Dwyer the United States Army under Hall Private interment will be at General McArthur in the pacific the convenience of the family. theater of operations from 1942 In lieu of flowers kindly consid– 1946. He was a member of er the Copake Fire Department, the Cadby – Shutts VFW Post Copake NY 12516. Arrange#7552 in Hillsdale. Mr. Biondi ments are with the Peck and was a volunteer fireman for the Peck Funeral Home, Copake, Halesite Fire Dept. on Long Is- NY. To send an online condoland for over 22 years. He was lence please visit www.peckaa member of the former Roeliff ndpeck.net.

Frank Dorpfeld, Jr. Frank Dorpfeld, Jr., 90, lifetime area resident of Acra, passed away suddenly on October 9, 2019.

He was born on March 6, 1929 in Catskill, N.Y. and is the son of the late Frank and Helen (Meyer) Dorpfeld, Sr. Besides his parents, Frank is predeceased by his twin brother Walter, his sister Helen M. Holdridge, and his grandson Brian M. Daucher. Survivors include his loving wife of 68 years Grace H. (Birk) Dorpfeld, three daughters Grace Renee’ Stettner (Karl), Jo Ann Dorpfeld-Buel (Tim McGinnis) and Nancy Dorpfeld (David Smith), 9 grandchildren, 15 great grandchildren, 1 great great granddaughter and a great great granddaughter on the way. He is also survived by several nieces and nephews. Frank proudly served his country with The United States

Marine Corp. He is a member of The Cairo American Legion Post # 983, a lifetime member of The Cairo Hose Company, a member of The Kedemah Masonic Lodge # 693 in Cairo, and he served the town of Cairo as Town Councilman and Assessor. Frank retired as a licensed electrician for The I.B.E. W. #236 in Albany.

In lieu of flowers, donations in Frank’s memory may be made to the American Cancer Society, 6725 Lyons Street, P.O. Box 7, East Syracuse, N.Y. 13057, or to the American Diabetes Association, P.O. Box 13067, Alexandria, VA, 22312.

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Vaping illnesses keep climbing upward, nearing 1,300 Denise Grady The New York Times News Service

The outbreak of lung illnesses linked to vaping grew by more than 200 cases in a week, now totaling 1,299, with 26 deaths, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday.

The figures mean that 219 new cases and seven new deaths were reported. Cases have occurred in 49 states, the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

A 17-year-old boy died in the Bronx, New York, last week, the youngest death so far linked to vaping. Utah and Massachusetts officials confirmed their states’ first vaping deaths this week.

The ages of those who died range from 17 years to 75 years, with a median of 49.

The exact cause of the illness is still unknown. Many of those who became ill had vaped THC, some had used both THC and nicotine, and others report vaping only

nicotine.

Federal and state health authorities are testing vaping materials and studying tissue samples from patients in an effort to find the cause of the outbreak. They are particularly concerned about the huge amount of illicit THC products in circulation, which contain unknown mixtures of solvents, diluting agents and flavorings that may be toxic to the lungs.

The U.S. Army said it was treating two soldiers for vaping-related illness. The Army did not say what products the two soldiers had been using, according to an earlier report in The Wall Street Journal.

The military has banned ecigarettes from the exchanges on bases.

Health officials are urging the public not to vape and emphasizing that those who choose to do so anyway should avoid THC, especially products sold on the street or the internet.

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Deutsche Bank does not have Trump’s tax returns, court says David Enrich The New York Times News Service

Deutsche Bank has told a federal appeals court that it does not have President Donald Trump’s personal tax returns, the court said Thursday.

Congressional committees investigating Trump subpoenaed Deutsche Bank earlier this year for its financial records related to the president, his companies and his family, including federal tax returns. Trump sued the bank — which has been his main lender over the past two decades — to block it from complying with the subpoenas.

That litigation is working its way through the federal courts. Last month, The New York Times and other media outlets asked the U.S. Court of Appeals

for the 2nd Circuit in New York to unseal a letter from Deutsche Bank that identified two members of the Trump family whose tax returns the bank possesses.

On Wednesday, the court rejected the media’s request, in part because, it said, Deutsche Bank had informed the court that “the only tax returns it has for individuals and entities named in the subpoenas are not those of the president.”

Current and former bank officials had previously told The New York Times that Deutsche Bank had portions of Trump’s personal and corporate tax returns, which it collected as it decided whether to lend him and his companies hundreds of millions of dollars for real estate and other development projects. When Trump was sworn in as president, he owed the bank more than $300 million,

making it his largest creditor.

It is unclear when Deutsche Bank stopped retaining the tax returns.

“We remain committed to cooperating with authorized investigations,” said Troy Gravitt, a Deutsche Bank spokesman.

Trump’s lawyers have fought to block subpoenas that were issued in April by the House Intelligence and Financial Services Committees, saying they have no legitimate legislative purpose.

The Financial Services Committee has said it wants to know whether Trump helped Russians and other foreign real estate buyers launder money through his properties, and the Intelligence Committee is trying to determine whether Trump’s financial dealings made him subject to foreign influence.

Trump calls death of British teen an ‘accident,’ says driving on wrong side of the road ‘happens’ Jennifer Hassan The Washington Post

LONDON — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that a British teenager killed in a crash allegedly caused by the wife of a U.S. diplomat was the victim of a “terrible accident,” adding that driving on the wrong side of the road “happens.”

He made the remarks at a news conference to which he carried briefing notes saying that the woman, who left the country after the crash, would not return to Britain, as British authorities have requested.

British police say 19-yearold Harry Dunn was killed by 42-year-old suspect Anne Sacoolas when her Volvo SUV struck his motorcycle in August. Surveillance video indicates that Sacoolas, who is American, was driving “on the wrong side of the road” on the night of the fatal crash, police said. British media reported that she had recently arrived

in the country, leading to a theory that she may have been unaccustomed to driving on the left, as is the rule in Britain.

Following the fatal crash, Sacoolas claimed diplomatic immunity under international law, allowing her to avoid prosecution and return to the United States - despite telling officials she had no plans to do so.

“The woman was driving on the wrong side of the road.

And that can happen, you know. Those are the opposite roads. That happens. I won’t say it ever happened to me, but it did,” Trump told reporters Wednesday.

“So a young man was killed.

The person that was driving the automobile has diplomatic immunity. We’re going to speak to her very shortly and see if we can do something where they meet,” he added.

Dunn’s parents have frequently expressed hope that Trump would consider waiving diplomatic immunity so

that Sacoolas could be held accountable in the British legal system. However, the U.S. Embassy noted in a statement that “immunity is rarely waived.”

Despite Trump’s suggestion that a meeting between Sacoolas and Harry Dunn’s grieving parents might be possible, Washington Post photographer Jabin Botsford captured a shot at the news conference of Trump’s National Security Council briefing notes, labeled “Secret,” that appeared to contradict that idea. One note read: “(If Raised) Note, as Secretary Pompeo told Foreign Secretary [Dominic] Raab, that the spouse of the U.S. Government employee will not return to the United Kingdom.”

The Dunn case has sparked controversy at home and abroad and placed the issue of diplomatic immunity under intense scrutiny. Since Harry Dunn’s death, his parents, Tim Dunn and Charlotte Charles,

have tirelessly campaigned for justice, calling on British and American officials to help hold Sacoolas accountable.

After meeting Wednesday with Raab, the British foreign secretary the parents said they were “no further forward” and told Sky News they were “disgusted.” They said they felt they had been “ extremely let down” by both the British and U.S. governments.

“Part of me is feeling like it was just a publicity stunt on the U.K. government side to show they are trying to help,” Charles said before vowing to continue her fight to obtain justice for her son.

“I’m deeply, deeply disappointed that they think it’s okay to kill a young lad on his bike and they can just walk away,” Tim Dunn added.

On Tuesday, the parents said they had heard “absolutely nothing” from the Sacoolas family since the fatal collision.

Hacker held in contempt for refusing FUNERAL to testify before WikiLeaks grand jury DIRECTORS Rachel Weiner The Washington Post

A hacker serving a 10-year prison sentence for stealing files from an intelligence firm was held in contempt of court Thursday for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange.

Judge Anthony Trenga dismissed Jeremy Hammond’s arguments against testifying as “self-serving assertions . . . without support.” He held Hammond in civil contempt until he testifies or the grand jury in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, expires.

“It is the basic obligation of every citizen to testify before a grand jury,” Trenga said.

Assange is charged with violating the Espionage Act; he is currently jailed in London while fighting extradition to Alexandria. While a formal extradition request has already been sent, making new charges unlikely, prosecutors have continued to press WikiLeaks associates for information.

Hammond, who six years ago admitted to cyberattacks on various government agencies and businesses, has said he is ideologically opposed to any grand jury probe. He argued that, in Trenga’s words, the government “already has the answers it claims to be seeking,” and the questions were “not asked in good faith.”

However, Trenga said “some questions were directed solely to what only he knows.”

While Hammond argued that those questions go beyond the scope of his conviction, Trenga ruled that his plea agreement contains “no provision that restricts the government” from asking him such questions in a grand jury proceeding.

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Prosecutors granted Hammond immunity, so he cannot refuse to testify to avoid selfincrimination. Through attorneys, Hammond argued he was not properly called to testify because a subpoena was not issued. Trenga dismissed that objection as baseless because Hammond is already in federal custody.

Hammond plans to appeal the decision.

“The whole grand jury system of secrecy - it’s past its prime,” his attorney Susan Kellman said after the hearing.

Hammond is currently being held in the Alexandria Detention Center with Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst who leaked thousands of classified diplomatic cables and war logs to Assange in 2010. Like Hammond, Manning says she will not cooperate with a grand

jury investigation under any circumstances. Trenga has imposed an $1,000 daily fine on Manning for her refusal. Both she and Hammond can be held in civil contempt for up to 18 months; prosecutors could then pursue criminal contempt charges against them.

As part of the Anonymousassociated hacker groups AntiSec and LulzSec, Hammond put online thousands of credit card numbers and records for clients of the firm Strategic Forecasting or Stratfor. He also released personal details of officers at the Arizona Department of Public Safety. Some of the information was published through WikiLeaks.

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Autumn’s color: The garden mum

By Thomas Christopher For Columbia-Greene Media

Chrysanthemums have become a symbol of autumn in the United States, as American as homecoming games and tailgating. In fact, these plants are overwhelmingly Asian.

Although some species of chrysanthemums grow wild in northeastern Europe, most of the ancestors of our modern garden mums hail from eastern Asia, and in particular, China. Indeed, the Chinese were the first to domesticate chrysanthemums, sometime around the 15th century B.C. They valued chrysanthemums as a medicinal plant and potherb as well as a source of colorful, daisy-like flowers.

No doubt it added to the attraction of these primitive chrysanthemums that they bloom late in the growing season, after most other flowers are past. Chinese gardeners set to work developing new and more spectacular varieties. By the 17th century A.D., some 500 distinct cultivars had been recorded. By then, the Japanese had become chrysanthemum fanciers, too; so admired was the chrysanthemum in Japan that a stylized image of its blossom had become the imperial seal,

and the monarchy itself was known as the “Chrysanthemum Throne.”

These Asian flowers began to travel westward in the 17th century, and they provided the foundation of the spectacular blossoms that fill florists’ greenhouses today. Unfortunately, these chrysanthemums are not reliably winter proof in most of our region.

This applies even to most of the so-called “hardy mums” found at this time of year at local nurseries. That is, the cushion chrysanthemums, the hemispherical, flowercovered plants that are everywhere in fall, do not overwinter reliably in our climate. That is especially true when mature plants are moved into the garden in fall. Typically, such specimens are pot-bound — that is, their roots are congested in a tightly constricted root ball. If transplanted into a garden bed in late summer or early fall, the roots don’t have time to expand into the surrounding soil. Winter freezes will often heave such plants right out of the ground.

If northern gardeners want truly perennial chrysanthemums, they need to look farther afield. For almost a century now, since the 1920s, the

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The chrysanthemum is considered an iconic American autumn flower, but its ancestors actually hail from eastern Asia, particularly China.

University of Minnesota has pursued a program for breeding chrysanthemums that will over-winter successfully in that state’s chilly climate.

The university breeders have crossed existing garden cultivars with extra-hardy wild species and then subjected the resulting progeny not only to field testing but also to freezing in the laboratory.

The result has been a host of chrysanthemums that are reliably hardy even in USDA plant hardiness zones 3 and 4.

Currently, the most commercially successful of the University of Minnesota chrysanthemums, and the

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most widely available, are the “Mammoth” series, which includes the cultivars ‘Coral Daisy,’ ‘Red Daisy,’ ‘Lavender Daisy,’ ‘Yellow Quill,’ ‘Bronze Daisy,’ ‘Pink Daisy’ and ‘White Daisy.’ As the cultivar names suggest, these plants bear double, daisy-like flowers on plants that become true mammoths. Although they naturally form dense mounds of foliage and flowers, the Mammoth chrysanthemums are expansive, reaching a height and width of as much as 3-4 feet by their third year, assuming the proportions of a small shrub.

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Minnesota has introduced a wealth of other chrysanthemums as well, including truly hardy cushion mums of ordinary size, and more traditional-looking, upright, longerstemmed chrysanthemums.

It is currently preparing to release a line of “Wave” chrysanthemums, whose prostrate stems make a low, spreading drift of foliage and flowers as much as 3 feet across.

Sadly, many of the University’s older introductions are difficult to find. The only good source I could locate is Faribault Growers Inc. of Faribault, Minnesota. Although primarily a wholesale grower, this firm offers an exceptional selection of super-hardy, tried and true chrysanthemums on a retail basis. Prospective customers must order these six to eight weeks before the last frost date in their region (the proper spring planting date for chrysanthemums) because Faribault Growers starts plants to order.

To ensure vigorous and hardy growth, chrysanthemums need a rich, well-drained soil, full sun, and regular irrigation during dry spells. Cushion and Mammoth chrysanthemums are naturally dense growers, but other chrysanthemums

should be pinched back by a third a couple of times during the growing season to encourage branching and more compact growth — don’t pinch later than three months before bloom time, which typically translates to mid-June or early July. Mike Donahue, coowner of Faribault growers, also recommended leaving six inches of withered stems on the chrysanthemums after they enter dormancy and applying a well-drained mulch such as straw or leaves after the weather turns consistently cold in late November.

Be-a-Better-Gardener is a community service of Berkshire Botanical Garden located in Stockbridge, MA. Its mission to provide knowledge of gardening and the environment through a diverse range of classes and programs both informs and inspires thousands of students and visitors each year. Thomas Christopher is a volunteer at Berkshire Botanical Garden and is the author or co-author of more than a dozen books, including Nature into Art, The Gardens of Wave Hill. His companion broadcast to this column, Growing Greener, streams on WESUFM.org.

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Eighteen students from Catskill High School joined National Honor Society the evening of Sept. 18 during a special induction ceremony the school held in their honor. Membership in this prestigious organization is reserved for students who have excelled in the combined areas of scholarship, leadership, service, and character. Catskill’s newest NHS members include McKenzie Breunig, Katie Bulich, Kristina Caraballo, Chris Cardinale, Matthew Caro, Serena Carter, Deandra Catterson, Ava Higgins, Mackenzie Krom, Jacob Mitchell, Sydney Moe, Maci Mosher, Kaitlyn Nearey, Matthew Rivenburgh, Isabella Seeley, Ashley Shook, Zaida Snyder. Catskill’s board of education, administration, and faculty congratulate the 2019 inductees.

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Catskill Town Supervisor Doreen Davis, seen here with local author Hudson Talbott and third graders from Catskill Elementary School, donated and delivered copies of Talbott’s latest book, “Picturing America - Thomas Cole and The Birth of American Art,” to the school recently. The kids were delighted to find that the landscape on the cover of the book was the same one they see from their school windows.

D.R. Evarts Library budget vote and trustee election on Oct. 16 in Athens ATHENS — The annual Library Budget Vote and Trustee Election will take place noon-7 p.m. Oct. 16 at the D.R.Evarts Library, 80 Second St., Athens.

Careful management has kept the operating budget increase to 3 percent while increasing programming over the last year.

We provide several after school children’s programs: Hand-Sewing, STEM, Makerspace and Robotics. Special

programs are offered on all school early release days to help working parents.

New programming for adults includes cooking classes and a book club.

These are held at the Rivertown apartments, to help serve our mobility-challenged patrons. The new A.D.A. Handicapped Accessibility construction project will enable the Library to increase its programming for our

community. Projected improvements will be financed by grants and fundraising events.

Three candidates are up for re-election; Nora Adelman, Sandra Miller and Michael Pirrone. They are enthusiastic about continuing to serve on the Board of Trustees during this reconstruction phase.

Absentee ballots are available at the Library. Call 518945-1417 for information.

VOORHEESVILLE — Thacher Park and Nature Center, 87 Nature Center Way, Voorheesville, announces the following programs. For information and to register, call 518-872-0800. Park entrance fee is $6 per vehicle.

Fall Fungi at Thacher Nature Center at 10 a.m. Oct. 12. Do you feel fired up about fungi?

Are you mad about mycelium?

Just curious about the wild cousins of your pizza topping? Join members of the Mid-Hudson Mycological Society on a ramble through the property to learn more about and even find some fabulous fungus.

Moonlight Walk at Thacher Park at 6 p.m. Oct. 12. Join in for a 2.5-mile hike to the escarpment at dusk. Participants will watch the full moon rise over the Hudson Valley from Hang Glider Cliff. You may need a flashlight for the hike out, but if the sky is clear the group can hike back by moonlight. Meet at the Carrick Road trailhead at 6 p.m. Note, there are no restroom facilities in the north end of Thacher Park. Call to register.

Batty for Bats at Thacher Visitor Center 1-3 p.m. Oct. 13. Feeling a bit batty this October? Bats often get a bad rap, but Halloween’s most popular mascot is an integral part of our ecosystem. Join in for a bat-themed story and learn the truth about these cute Chiropterans. There will be a bat craft drop-in activity and

information table after each story-time. Come to lower level of Thacher Visitor Center. This program will repeat on Oct. 27.

Pumpkin Painting at Thacher Visitor Center noon-4 p.m.

Oct. 20. Feeling festive? Decorate a pumpkin! Perfect your pumpkin masterpiece while sipping on cider and snacking on cider donuts and fresh apples from Indian Ladder Farms. They will provide the pumpkins — just bring your artistic vision.

Fee is $5 per person, limit one pumpkin per person.

“Nature’s Creepy” Mystery Trail at Thacher Nature Center 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Oct. 26. Take a walk on the Nature Center Trail and discover cool and creepy

natural objects and oddities along the way. Use the clues to complete the challenge and win a prize. Make Halloween crafts and enjoy warm cider and donuts. This fun (not scary) program is appropriate for all ages.

Sweater Mitten Mania at Thacher Nature Center 1-4 p.m. Nov. 3. Turn your old sweater into a warm and woolly pair of mittens. These are great gifts for the holidays or perfect to keep your own hands nice and toasty. Participants should bring an old sweater (wool, if possible), fleece or an old T-shirt for mitten lining, scissors, thread and sewing pins. Some sewing experience is helpful. Call to register.

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A Wedding in Transylvania You’re invited to a Halloween party to die for!

The best in comedy dinner theater!

You are asked to witness the marriage of your distant cousin Frankie Alucard to Jane Dough, a mysterious girl from the mortal side of the tracks.

You’ll join Count Alucard, his monstrously medicated wife Elsa, and Frankie’s brother Jeckyl, or is it Hyde, as they celebrate this cursed event.

Beware Renfield the caterer to the undead and Vampira, Jane’s sister who spills the families secrets.. This match made in hell has three murders. Come in costume, dance and dine, and guess whodunit!

All dates include dinner, music, dancing, comedy and murder!

Costumes are suggested but not required.

Friday, October 11 The Pride of the Hudson, Newburgh, Reservations: (845) 220-2120 Tickets: www.prideofthehudson. com Saturday, October 19

OCTOBER 11 Karaoke for Everyone!

Friday, October 11, 8 p.m. - 11 p.m.

Love karaoke? Can’t stay up past 11?

Join us at House Rules for our version of karaoke, starting at 8 pm. Be sure to get here early for a good seat and some nosh. Party down while you’re still up!

Friday, October 11, 8 p.m. - 11 p.m., https://www.facebook.com/ events/ House Rules Cafe, 757 Columbia Street, Hudson, 518-828-5938 www.houserulescafe.com

Hudson’s Ribs and Fish, 1099 US 9, Fishkill, Reservations: (845) 297-5002 www.hudsonsribsandfish.com Thursday, October 24 and Friday, October 25 Meadowbrook Lodge, 1290 NY-94, New Windsor, Reservations: (845)5625918 www.weedorchards.com Saturday, October 26, Hudson House River Inn 2 Main St., Cold Spring, Reservations: (845) 265-9355 www.hudsonhouseinn.com Wednesday, October 30 The Beekman Arms, Rhinebeck, For tickets for this event click on the link on Murder Cafe’s homepage: www.murdercafe.net RESERVATIONS: For all shows seating is limited and reservations are a must. Contact the venue at the numbers shown; if you need additional help or have questions call Murder Cafe at 845-475-7973 or email us at murdercafe.ny@gmai.com

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Award-winning author Isabell Tree presents new book ‘Wilding: Returning Nature to Our Farm’ ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON — On Thursday, Oct. 10, Bard College features author Isabella Tree presenting her new work, “Wilding: Returning Nature to Our Farm” (published by New York Review Books, Sept 17, 2019), winner of the 2019 Richard Jefferies prize for nature writing and chosen by Smithsonian as a top ten science book for 2018.

The event takes place at 5 p.m., in Weis Cinema, Bertelsmann Campus Center.

Admission is free and no reservations are necessary. Books will be available for purchase at this event courtesy of Oblong Books & Music. For more information go to Bard.edu.

The event is sponsored by the Bard Center for Civic Engagement, Office of Sustainability, Environmental and Urban Studies Program, and Lifetime Learning Institute.

About the author Isabella Tree writes for publications such as National Geographic, Granta, and The Guardian, and is the author of five non-fiction books. Her articles have been selected for The Best American Travel Writing and Reader’s Digest Today’s Best

Non-Fiction, and she was Overall Winner of the Travelex Travel Writer Awards. Her latest book, “Wilding - Returning Nature to Our Farm,” charts the story of the pioneering rewilding project in West Sussex where she lives with her husband, Charlie

Burrell.

Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy Sussex clay was economically ruinous, they decided to step back and let nature take over. By introducing freeroaming herbivores—proxies of the large animals that once roamed Britain—the Burrells’ degraded agricultural land has become a functioning ecosystem again.

In less than 20 years, wildlife has rocketed and numerous endangered species have made Knepp their home. The Knepp experience challenges conventional ideas about our past and present landscapes, and points the way to a wilder, richer future—one that benefits farming, nature and us.

For more information the book, contact Linda Hollick (lhollick@nybooks. com) and visit www.nyrb.com.

For more information about the author and Knepp Castle Estate, visit www.isabellatree.com and www.knepp.co.uk For more information about Bard College, visit bard.edu.

Uncovering History: The Missing Corner of Boston Corner HUDSON — Uncovering History: How Local Residents and Historians found the Missing Corner of Boston Corner, from when it was still part of Massachusetts!

A panel discussion - Hear the fascinating story from those who actually discovered the original boundary

marker of the “Corner” this past summer – a long forgotten remnant predating the official 1855 land exchange of one thousand acres from the State of Massachusetts to the state of New York.

Sunday, Oct. 13 , from 2-4 p.m. at the RJHS Museum.

High Five! Talking, singing, reading, writing, playing with your child HUDSON — The Hudson Area Library and Greater Hudson Promise Neighborhood are proud to announce High Five!, a 3-week early literacy family program.

This program meets at the library Saturdays, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m., Oct. 12, 19 and 26. Our new fall session includes “Fall Family Activities and Vocabulary for your Child”, “Developing Fine Motor Skills Needed for Writing” and includes a trip to an apple orchard and a Halloween party curated by master storyteller Pamela Badila.

Each week the program begins with Story Time in the library with High Five! facilitator Alyssa Moore and special guest readers. Crafts and literacy activities, with an emphasis on dictated writing, follow.

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opportunity to explore the hundreds of high-quality children’s books available for check-out at the library. Participants will receive free books and prizes each week. Gift certificates to

Spotty Dog bookstore will be awarded to all families with excellent attendance. Lunch is also provided and there will be an emphasis on healthy foods that kids like to eat.

This project has been supported by a grant from the Fund for Columbia County of the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation.

Transportation to the library is available upon request. To register for High Five!, email programs@hudsonarealibrary. org, call 518-828-1792 x101, or stop by the desk at the Hudson Area Library. This program is free and open to all families with children five and under (older siblings are also welcome to attend), and is wheelchair accessible.

The Greater Hudson Promise Neighborhood is thrilled to be partnering with the Hudson Area Library for the High Five! early literacy program.

The Hudson Area Library is located at 51 N. Fifth St. in Hudson.

The Haunt Friday, October 11, 8:30 p.m. - 11 p.m.

One of Upstate NY Scariest Trails!

Walk through the dark, winding, creepy forest and experience projections, fog, special effects, live actors, infected zone, experimental room, escape trailer, blood and more!

Free parking on site Payment on site.

Be prepared to Scream!! 30- 45 minute outdoor haunted trail. Suggested 12 and up……. enter at your own risk!!! www.llllthehauntllll.com $20, Friday, October 11, 8:30 p.m.

- 11 p.m., https://www.facebook. com/events/794296617631907/ The Haunt, 860 State Route 20, New Lebanon, 802-498-7512 https://llllthehauntllll.com/

OCTOBER 12 Open Studio: Hudson 2019 Saturday, October 12 - Sunday, October 13 A unique opportunity to meet artists who live and work in the Hudson community. Visitors will be invited into artists’ studios to view art, talk with artists, and witness their creative processes.

Artists may have works available for purchase Saturday, October 12, Sunday, October 13, https://www.openstudiohudson.com City of Hudson, Warren Street, Hudson Museum Storytelling: Family Tours at Olana Saturday, October 12, 10 a.m.

Master storyteller Tom Lee tells a stunning Syrian folktale in the landscape and inside the Main House at Olana. Lee uses art, objects, history and interactivity to help young people (and grown-ups!) fall in love with the Church’s adventures. This is a program designed to introduce youth to the magic of a historic house museum. $5 – $10, Saturday, October 12, 10 a.m., https://tickets.olana.org/SelectDate.aspx?TrackingType=Custo mer&ActivityID=2008 Olana, 5720 State Route 9G, Hudson, 518-828-1872 www.olana.org Dalmatian Day Saturday, October 12, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Celebrate the Dalmatian and National Fire Prevention Week at the FASNY Museum of Firefighting!

Live dalmatians, games, shows, demonstrations and more make the FREE family friendly event an annual favorite.

Meet-and-Greet Live Dalmatians Games with Prizes for Kids Dalmatian-Themed Craft Projects Juggling Show by Grins and Grins Interactive Safety House Tours Puppet Show… And More!

Rain or Shine Saturday, October 12, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m., https://www.fasnyfiremuseum.com/content/Events_and_Programs/dalmatian_day.asp FASNY Museum of Firefighting, 117 Harry Howard Avenue, Hudson, 518-822-1875 www.fasnyfiremuseum.com Fall Tree Walk Saturday, October 12, 10 a.m. - noon We’ll fall for fall on this guided walk at Borden’s Pond Conservation Area! CLC educators will be on hand to teach you more about how to identify local trees. We’ll return to Borden’s in January and compare the fall trees with their winter counterparts.

Saturday, October 12, 10 a.m. noon, https://clctrust.org/event/ fall-tree-walk/ Borden’s Pond Conservation Area, 1628 Route 203, Chatham https://clctrust.org/public-conservation-areas/bordens-pond/ Ukulele Jam Saturday, October 12, 10:30 a.m. - noon Sing, strum, play! It’s more fun to play in a group. All ages are welcome to the library’s Ukulele Jams, led by Carmen Borgia, singer, songwriter and ukulele player extraordinaire! Leave your inhibitions at home. Are you a novice? The library has ukes you can borrow.

Saturday, October 12, 10:30 a.m.

- noon, http://chatham.lib.ny.us/

calendar/ Chatham Public Library, 11 Woodbridge Ave, Chatham, 518-3923666 http://chatham.lib.ny.us/ Hudson-Athens Lighthouse Tour Saturday, October 12, 11:00 am 2:30 pm Set sail to visit the beautiful HudsonAthens Lighthouse and enjoy the outdoors as you cruise along the Hudson River! $5 – $25, Saturday, October 12, 11:00 am - 2:30 pm, https://hudsoncruises.com/lighthouse-tour/ Henry Hudson Riverfront Park, Water Street (behind Amtrak Station) l, Hudson Corn Maze Saturday, October 12, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m.

September and October are corn maze season at Samascott’s Garden Market! Each year we change the design and carefully plant and mow the corn rows accordingly. Purchase your access ticket inside the Garden Market, then head out into the maze!

This true corn field is exposed to the elements so bring a full water bottle for hydration and wear your sturdiest sneakers or mud boots.

Children 12 and under must be accompanied by an adult at all times.

Please, no pets. Strollers are not recommended. ***We can accommodate mazegoers on weekdays and mornings as well – just ask.

Free – $7, Saturday, October 12, 11 a.m. - 5 p.m., https://www.samascott.com/cornmaze Samascott’s Garden Market, 65 Chatham Street, Kinderhook, 518758-9292 www.samascott.com/gardenmarket Food Truck Picnic Day: Gracie’s Food Truck Saturday, October 12, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Picnicking is one of the most treasured 19th century past times.

Popularized in the United States as a meal taken al fresco (outdoors) as part of an excursion, picnicking is ideally set in scenic surroundings such as a park, lakeside, or other place affording an interesting view.

Pack your chairs, blankets, and coolers, or enjoy our limited picnic tables- because we have the food covered!

Saturday, October 12, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m., https://www.olana.org/ programs-events/ Olana, 5720 State Route 9G, Hudson, 518-828-1872 www.olana.org Pumpkin Fest Saturday, October 12, 11 a.m. - 3 p.m.

A family friendly autumnal festival with live music, food, drinks, and a variety of fall-themed games and activities. Live music will include David Hodge and Karen Berger, BUB (Berkshire Ukulele Band) and the Hudson Duo Rick & Marilyn. Wandering Star Brewery will have craft beer available.

Entry is $15/car, Saturday, October 12, 11 a.m. - 3 p.m., https://www.facebook.com/ events/558139328256780/ Catamount Mountain Resort, 78 Catamount Rd, Hillsdale, 518-3253200 http://www.catamountski.com/ Met Opera HD Live: Puccini’s Turandot Saturday, October 12, 12:30 p.m.

Met Music Director Yannick NézetSéguin conducts Franco Zeffirelli’s celebrated production of Turandot, which stars Christine Goerke in the title role of the icy Chinese princess who has renounced all men. Roberto Aronica sings Calàf, the suitor who risks his head for her hand and sings the famed aria “Nessun dorma.” Eleonora Buratto is the slave girl Liù, and James Morris is Calàf’s long-lost father, Timur. $15 – $27.50, Saturday, October 12, 12:30 p.m., https://timeandspace. org/calendar/turandot/ Time & Space Limited, 434 Columbia Street, Hudson, 518-822-8100 www.timeandspace.org Victorian Nutting Party Saturday, October 12, 1 p.m. - 3 p.m.

Join us in educational and fun nature and garden-based activities open to ages 8-108! Workshops are held in the Clermont Cottage.

Children must be accompanied by an adult.

REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. Celebrate a classic autumn harvest like the Victorians did! We’ll make some nutty snacks and enjoy hot cocoa. Don’t miss this wonderful fall tradition!

Free – $10, Saturday, October 12, 1 p.m. - 3 p.m., https://www.friendsofclermont.org/events Clermont State Historic Site, 1 Clermont Avenue, Germantown, 518-537-4240 www.FriendsofClermont.org

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‘THE SUBJECT WAS ROSES’ COMES TO CATSKILL’S BRIDGE STREET THEATRE CATSKILL — As the final production in its 2019 Subscription Season, Catskill’s Bridge Street Theatre presents a real American classic – Frank D. Gilroy’s heartwarming 1965 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, “The Subject was Roses.”

The performance will come to the theatre’s Mainstage for eight performances only, Oct. 17-27.

When 20-year-old Timmy Cleary returns from service in WWII, he finds himself in the middle of another war at home.

Trapped in a troubled marriage, his mother and father each try to enlist him in their ongoing battle against one another.

Small acts of kindness and cruelty take on huge implications in this quietly devastating comedy-drama of familial conflict – and love.

Bridge Street Theatre’s production will be directed by Flo Hayle, and features actors Lora Lee Ecobelli as Nettie Cleary, Ron Komora as her husband John, and Caleb John Cushing as their son, Timmy, with sets and lighting designed by Bridge Street Artistic Director John

Sowle, costumes by Michelle Rogers, and sound by Carmen Borgia. Production stage manager is Joshua Martin.

“The Subject was Roses” plays Thursdays through Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m. from Oct. 17 – 27, on the Bridge Street Theatre Mainstage, located at 44 West Bridge St., in Catskill, a block and a half west of Main Street across the Uncle Sam Bridge, which spans Catskill Creek.

There will be eight performances only. General admission is $25, students 21 and under are $10. Discounted

advance tickets are available at subject.brownpapertickets. com or by calling 800-838-3006.

Tickets will also be sold at the door a half hour prior to each performance on a space available basis. “Pay What You Will” performances will be held on Thursday evening Oct. 17 and Sunday afternoon, Oct. 20 (“Pay What You Will” tickets are available only at the door one half hour prior to those performances).

For more information, visit the theatre online at bridgest. org/the-subject-was-roses/.

This is a chance to experience

this rarely-produced jewel in the American dramatic canon.

Events at Bridge Street Theatre are supported in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and by Public Funds from the Greene County Legislature through the Cultural Fund administered in Greene County by the Greene County Council on the Arts.

“The Subject was Roses” runs Oct. 17 - 27 at the Bridge Street Theatre Mainstage 44 West Bridge St., Catskill.

General admission tickets are $25, and students ages 21 and under pay $10. Discounted tickets are available at subject. brownpapertickets.com or by calling 800-838-3006.

Advance tickets available at http://subject.brownpapertickets.com or by calling 800-8383006

Liz Phair: A Pink October benefit concert and book signing WOODSTOCK —”Liz Phair: A Pink October” benefit concert and book signing will be held Friday, Oct. 11, at Utopia Soundstage in Woodstock.

Doors open at 8 p.m. and the show begins at 9 p.m.Limited Meet & Greet packages are also available.

All event proceeds benefit the Radio Woodstock Cares Foundation Radio Woodstock Cares

Foundation is a registered 501(c)(3) organization that was created by Radio Woodstock to support breast cancer research and patient services in the Hudson Valley and the numerous local non-profit groups and those in need. Nearly $650,000 has been raised through various fundraising efforts including concerts, auctions, the ‘Be a DJ’ program and other innovative initiatives.

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Up In One Productions proudly presents ‘Matilda The Musical’ RHINEBECK — Up In One Productions proudly presents the Tony Award-winning Roald Dahl’s “Matilda: The Musical,” a captivating masterpiece that revels in the anarchy of childhood, the power of imagination and the inspiring story of a girl who dreams of a better life.

With book by Dennis Kelly and original songs by Tim Minchin, Matilda has won 47 international awards and continues to thrill sold-out audiences of all ages around the world.

Matilda is a little girl with astonishing wit, intelligence and psychokinetic powers.

She’s unloved by her cruel parents but impresses her

schoolteacher, the highly loveable Miss Honey.

Over the course of her first term at school, Matilda and Miss Honey have a profound effect on each other’s lives, as Miss Honey begins not only to recognize but also appreciate Matilda’s extraordinary

personality.

Matilda’s school life isn’t completely smooth sailing, however — the school’s mean headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, hates children and just loves thinking up new punishments for those who don’t abide by her rules. But Matilda

has courage and cleverness in equal amounts, and could be the school pupils’ saving grace!

Packed with high-energy dance numbers, and catchy songs, “Matilda” is a joyous girl-power romp. Children and adults alike will be delighted by the story of the special little girl with an extraordinary imagination.

Directed and choreographed by Kevin Archambault, with music direction

by Paul and JoAnne Schubert, produced by Diana di Grandi.

Oct. 11 - Nov. 3, 8 p.m., Fri, 3pm Sat & Sun, Tickets: $27, Box Office: (845) 876-3080 Appropriate For All Audiences

CONCERTS IN THE VILLAGE CONTINUING ITS 10TH ANNIVERSARY SEASON OF CHORAL, ORCHESTRAL AND CHAMBER MUSIC KINDERHOOK — Concerts in the Village (CITV) continueS its 2019-2020 10th anniversary season Oct. 12.

The season began in grand form on July 20. At the invitation of PS21 in Chatham, CITV’s specially created Chatham Festival Chorus (44 singers drawn from five area choruses), its resident Broad Street Orchestra, and five distinguished soloists performed the monumental Mass in B Minor of J. S. Bach, as the Annual Paul Grunberg Memorial Bach Concert.

A full theater responded with great enthusiasm to what may well prove a precedent-setting summer concert – and further extension of CITV’s presence in the region.

CITV Artistic Director David Smith said, “To have begun our 10th season with the Mass in B Minor was thrilling for performers and listeners alike. This is a work whose performing demands and complexity can be daunting. All rose splendidly to the occasion. To experience the

Silver, violist Ronald Carbone, and Broad Street Orchestra principals cellist Erica Pickhardt, oboist Karen Hosmer, and clarinetist Paul Green. Van Buren Hall, “rediscovered” for music by CITV Artistic Director David Smith about four years ago, has proven acoustically ideal for smaller and mid-size chamber and orchestral music programs.

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new PS21 Theater in Chatham, the only such venue between SPAC and Tanglewood, was of course special, and this was the largest such program offered there to date.”

October 12 (Saturday), 4 p.m., Van Buren Hall, Kinderhook. The Broad Street Chamber Players will offer A

Brilliant Journey - Classical to Romantic, featuring late 18th and early 19th c. music for strings and winds. Included will be Mozart’s Flute/Oboe Quartet, K. 285, Beethoven’s String Trio in C Minor, op. 9/3, and Hummel’s Clarinet Quartet in E-flat. Performing will be CITV Concertmaster Elizabeth

CITV concerts are made possible by the support of many individual, institutional and business supporters, including the T. Backer Fund, CITV Emerging Singer Fund, The Alexander and Marjorie Hover Foundation, Hudson River Bank and Trust Company Foundation, Eugene M. Lang Foundation, Price Chopper Golub Foundation, and Stewart’s Shops. Kinderhook Reformed Church is especially acknowledged for its many in-kind donations.

OCTOBER 12 Pysch-O-Jack Harvest Festival Saturday, October 12, 2 p.m. - 9 p.m.

Come celebrate our favorite time of the year with our Psych-O-Jack Pumpkin Ale!! And bring your Family and Friends to this Fun-Filled day at OKB!!

Our main event will be the All-YouCan-Eat Chili which comes with cornbread and a variety of Harvest Desserts! Pre-Sales will be $15 a wristband, or $20 the day of the event.

For the kiddos we will have an additional meal option of a Hotdog and homemade Mac N Cheese!

Have you ever walked through a Haunted Hop Field? Family Friendly by day, but at Night our Hops come alive with ghouls and mischief. Dare to enter and witness the spooks and creeps of the hop yard….

We will also have Hot Harvest Drinks for the Fall! As well as a Halloween Spirited soundtrack playing in the background!

Cornhole and Can Jam Tournaments will be going on all day!

We will also have pumpkin painting for your littles!

Its going to be a very Harvest FunFilled Day @ OKB!! $15 – $20, Saturday, October 12, 2 p.m. - 9 p.m., https://www.facebook. com/events/2534988029899920/ Old Klaverack Brewery, 150 Thielman Road, Hudson, 518-965-1437 https://www.oldklaverackbrewery. com/ Fall Season Opening Saturday, October 12, 4 p.m. - 6 p.m.

Celebrate the fall season at Art Omi! New installations in the Sculpture & Architecture Park, plus the opening of Statues, a solo exhibition by Francesca DiMattio in the Newmark Gallery.

Statues, a solo exhibition, presents selections from bodies of work ranging from 2015 – 2019. The works included probe perceptions of domesticity, presenting traditionally domestic forms and materials in novel and occasionally uncomfortable ways. By naming the exhibition “statues,” Dimattio seeks to highlight the representation of the figure, a consistent thread throughout the work.

Art Omi: Architecture presents an opening reception for the opening of InConstruction: Pedro y Juana, winner of MoMA PS1’s Young Architects Program 2019. Also opening that day, RRRolling Stones by HANNAH, a moveable outdoor seating system made from 3D-printed concrete. RRRolling Stones was commissioned by Socrates Sculpture Park and the Architectural League of New York. RRRolling Stones was the winner of Folly / Function, an annual juried competition challenging architects to design and build a large- scale project at Socrates Sculpture Park.

Free, Saturday, October 12, 4 p.m. - 6 p.m., https://www.artomi.org/calendar/fall-opening-in-the-sculpturearchitecture-park Art Omi, 1405 County Route 22, Ghent, 518-392-4747 www.artomi.org Opening Reception with the Artists Saturday, October 12, 5 p.m. - 7 p.m.

Celebrating its third year at Hudson Hall, the 2019 LightField Arts exhibition, PHOTO + SYNTHESIS, curated

by Anna Van Lenten, focuses on the Hudson River Valley and climate change. The exhibition includes new commissions and existing landscape photography, mid-19th century Hudson River Art painting, and data visualizations about tree ring science. The exhibition aims to treat landscape not as wall decoration but as an event brimming with imaginative responses to the tensions of our time.

On view 10/12/19 thru 12/21/19 Free, Saturday, October 12, 5 p.m.

- 7 p.m., https://hudsonhall.org/ lightfield-festival/ Hudson Hall, 327 Warren Street, Hudson, (518) 822-1438 http://hudsonhall.org/ Architects on Olana: Jane Stageberg & Tim Bade Saturday, October 12, 5:30 p.m.

Experience Olana’s Main House through the eyes of an architect. The Olana Partnership introduces a new series which invites contemporary architects to interpret Olana. Susan Wides, Director and Curator of Steven Holl’s ‘T’ Space, Rhinebeck has curated the series to include some of the world’s leading voices. $20, Saturday, October 12, 5:30 p.m., https://www.olana.org/programsevents/ Olana, 5720 State Route 9G, Hudson, 518-828-1872 www.olana.org Reception for the Artists Saturday, October 12, 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.

A group of six artists will open exhibitions in the Main Galleries, Sculpture Garden and Carriage House (sculpture and painting).

Robert Simon, Arnie Zimmerman, Sara Jane Roszak, Priscilla Derven, Charity Henderson, and Barry Bartlett **The works will be on display through November 3rd Saturday, October 12, 6 p.m. - 8 p.m., http://johndavisgallery.com/ upcoming-exhibitions-2018/ John Davis Gallery, 362 1/2 Warren Street, Hudson, 518-828-5907 http://johndavisgallery.com/ Volume Presents: Leland Cheuk, Elissa Altman, & Shira Dentz Saturday, October 12, 7 p.m. - 8 p.m.

Volume Reading Series, hosted by Hallie Goodman and Dani Grammerstorf French, happens on the second Saturday of every month.

We feature an hour of exceptional prose and poetry readings (7-8), followed by a killer DJ set (8-9) to warm up the room. Meet your favorite writer, get your book signed, bust a move and/or stare at the floor awkwardly. We provide the soundtrack.

This event is always free. Save your $$ for books and beer!

On OCTOBER 12th, Volume is proud to present Leland Cheuk, Shira Dentz and Elissa Altman, followed by a playlist from a special guest DJ. Now it’s time to brag about our OCTOBER lineup: LELAND CHEUK is the author of three books of fiction, including The Misadventures of Sulliver Pong and No Good Very Bad Asian (forthcoming from C&R Press in November 2019).

SHIRA DENTZ is the author of five books, including the sun a blazing zero and two chapbooks. ELISSA ALTMAN is the author of the memoirs Motherland, Treyf, Poor Man’s Feast, and the James Beard Awardwinning narrative blog of the same name.

Stick around after the reading for book shopping and signing, along with a one-hour set from TKTKTK. Special thanks to our beloved Spotty Dog Books & Ale for helping us make magic every month and to Anna Victoria Photography for capturing it all so well.

Free, Saturday, October 12, 7 p.m. - 8 p.m., https://www.facebook.com/ events/2612336635485060/ The Spotty Dog Books & Ale, 440 Warren Street, Hudson, 518-6716006 www.thespottydog.com Sweeney Todd Saturday, October 12, 7:30 p.m. …the Demon Barber of Fleet Street The Two Of Us Productions, the multi-award winning theater company based in Columbia County NY, is pleased to present SWEENEY TODD, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, the celebrated musical by Stephen Sondheim. This is one production you DON’T want to miss!

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a musical thriller with both music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by Hugh Wheeler. The musical is based on the play Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street by Christopher Bond. Sweeney Todd won the Tony Award for Best Musical and Olivier Award for Best New Musical. The character of Sweeney Todd had its origins in serialized Victorian popular fiction, known as “penny dreadfuls”. A story called The String of Pearls was published in a weekly magazine during the winter of 1846–47. Set in 1785, the story featured as its principal villain a certain Sweeney Todd and included all the plot elements that were used by Sondheim and others ever since. The murderous barber’s story proved instantly popular – it was turned into a play before the ending had even been revealed in print. Sondheim first conceived of a musical version of the story in after he went to see Bond’s ghoulish take on the story at Theatre Royal Stratford East. $12 – $20, Saturday, October 12, 7:30 p.m., http://stephensanborn.tripod. com/thetwoofusproductions/ Taconic Hills Performing Arts Center, 73 County Route 11A, Craryville, 518-325-2800 /www.taconichills.k12.ny.us/ Page/205 The Haunt Saturday, October 12, 8:30 p.m. - 11 p.m.

One of Upstate NY Scariest Trails!

Walk through the dark, winding, creepy forest and experience projections, fog, special effects, live actors, infected zone, experimental room, escape trailer, blood and more!

Free parking on site Payment on site.

Be prepared to Scream! 30- 45 minute outdoor haunted trail. Suggested 12 and up……. enter at your own risk! www.llllthehauntllll.com $20, Saturday, October 12, 8:30 p.m.

- 11 p.m., https://www.facebook. com/events/794296617631907/ The Haunt, 860 State Route 20, New Lebanon, 802-498-7512 https://llllthehauntllll.com/

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Dodgers’ collapse against Nationals extends their October nightmare. Sports, B2

& Classifieds

B Friday, October 11, 2019 B1

Tim Martin, Sports Editor: 1-800-400-4496 / sports@registerstar.com or tmartin@registerstar.com

C-GCC dedicates new scoreboard donated by NYSCOPBA

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Coxsackie-Athens’ Alyssa Soto brings the ball up the field during Wednesday’s non-league match against Ichabod Crane.

LOCAL ROUNDUP:

C-A blanks ICC; Kiefer earns 400th win

By Tim Martin Columbia-Greene Media

COXSACKIE — Coxsackie-Athens posted a 1-0 victory over Ichabod Crane in Wednesday’s non-league

field hockey match.

Claire Richards scored 46 seconds into the game off a pass from Maeve Squier.

See ROUNDUP B9

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The Columbia-Greene Community College women’s soccer team accepted the donation of a new scoreboard from NYSCOPBA on Wednesday. Pictured with the team are (far left): James Miller, director of Public Relations for NYSCOPBA; Head Women’s Soccer Coach Andrew Lashua (kneeling); Assistant Women’s Soccer Coach Paul Pape; (far right) C-GCC Athletic Director Nicolas Dyer, and C-GCC President Carlee Drummer, Ph.D. (kneeling).

Columbia-Greene Media

HUDSON — Columbia-Greene Community College formally dedicated a new scoreboard on Wednesday, Oct. 9, purchased with funds donated by to the New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association, Inc. The portable scoreboard will be used primarily by the C-GCC women’s soccer team, and was dedicated just prior to prior to the team’s home game against Davis

College of Pottersville.

C-GCC President Carlee Drummer, Ph.D., offered remarks to the team, its coaches, and spectators.

“The CoGreene women have been giving it their all since the start of soccer season, and I know I speak for the team when I say that having a scoreboard will make them proud to host other NJCAA soccer teams on our campus,” said Drummer, adding that she applauds the team as

GRIDIRON GLANCE:

Hudson, ICC clash tonight

By Tim Martin Columbia-Greene Media

HUDSON — After two weeks on the road, the Hudson High football team returns home tonight to play Ichabod Crane in a Class B Reinfurt Division game at 7 p.m.

In other action, Chatham goes to Warrensburg and Taconic Hills visits Watervliet today at 7 p.m. On Saturday, Catskill/Cairo-Durham entertains Voorheesville at 1 p.m.

Coxsackie-Athens has a bye this week.

Ichabod Crane (1-4) at Hudson (2-3) Hudson hopes to extend its winning streak to two, while Ichabod Crane will be looking to snap a four-game losing streak when the two county rivals tangle tonight at the Bluehawks Sports Complex.

“As is always the case Hudson versus Ichabod Crane is an interesting matchup,” Hudson coach John Davi said. “The players from both teams always come out fired up for this game.

Ichabod Crane is a team that has some talented athletes and looks to be much improved.

“We’ve been telling our guys for the past several weeks that we will take this one game at a time to try to position ourselves for playoffs. Our guys are excited and I’ve had a good week of practice and understand that We have to continue to get better and play without mistakes to be successful.”

Zyonn Clanton is coming off a 100-yard rushing performance — his second of the season — in a 16-8 victory over Ravena. He leads the Bluehawks ground attack with 415 yards and five touchdowns on 64 carries.

Deandre Smith and Michael Green are both running and receiving threats out of the backfield. Smith has rushed for 113 yards on 22 carries and caught four passes for 104 yards, while Green has rushed for 114 yards on 15 carries and snagged 10 receptions for 153 yards.

Ichabod Crane has been hit hard by injuries this season.

Leading rusher Marcus George was lost two weeks in a loss See HUDSON B9

leaders in a sport that gains both notoriety and players each year.

“Women’s soccer has come an enormous distance; in 1971, only 700 females in U.S. high schools played soccer. Today, some 400,000 women are playing soccer in high school.”

James Miller, director of Public Relations for NYSCOPBA, was also on-hand, and presented a plaque by the C-GCC Women’s Soccer team at the event.

Can Yankees’ rotation come up big in the ALCS? David Lennon Newsday

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Hudson coach John Davi speaks with the team during a timeout in a recent game. The Bluehawks play host to Ichabod Crane tonight at 7.

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Ichabod Crane’s Gabe Michalko carries the ball during a recent game against Catskill/CairoDurham.

The Yankees didn’t have much else on their minds besides champagne, beer and spraying both on each other’s heads after Monday night’s Game 3 clincher at Target Field. But a few feet away from the bubbly celebration, shielded by a clubhouse partition, Brian Cashman pondered what was next.

The pitching strategy devised by Cashman’s collaboration with Aaron Boone worked to near-perfection in stifling the Twins. The AL Central champs hit a record 307 homers and ranked second in runs with 939 during the regular season, yet went deep only four times in the ALDS and were outscored by the Yankees, 23-7.

All this without a Madison Bumgarner or Trevor Bauer or Zack Wheeler or Marcus Stroman — the names Cashman passed on in July when the rotation was identified as the Yankees’ greatest need. Some suggested the GM may have cost his team a title shot by not securing another acecaliber pitcher by the deadline, but Cashman didn’t see it that way.

If the Astros had the elite No. 1s such as Justin Verlander, Gerrit Cole and Zack Greinke, then the Yankees would devise a path through them — or the familiar AL East rival Rays — with a more balanced staff that contained reliable front-line arms backed by a deep, versatile bullpen.

The Yankees had plenty to dispose of the Twins, who batted .218 during the ALDS — the lowest of any nonwild card playoff team to that point along with a .697 OPS that was second from the bottom.

But now Cashman’s

staff either will go headto-head with the likes of a Verlander and Cole — the expected 1-2 finishers for this year’s Cy Young — or contend with the talented, flexible staff of the resilient Rays, who forced a Game 5 by using the opener Diego Castillo in Tuesday’s 4-1 victory. Overall, Tampa Bay has a playoff-best 2.09 ERA and will use the former Astro Charlie Morton to start Thursday’s do-or-die game at Minute Maid Park.

As well as the Yankees pitched in the Division Series, and as much as Cashman was encouraged by his rotation’s performance — 2.63 ERA, 1.17 WHIP, 4.75 K/BB rate — he still wondered, with the champagne still flying, if that impressive adequacy could continue as the stakes get higher.

“Well, I’m thankful,” Cashman said. “We always felt we had good enough.

But will it be good enough against anybody else? It’s good enough, no doubt about that. But we’re going to find out obviously if it’s good enough to be the best.”

Lucky helps, too. The Yankees will benefit from the Astros and Rays going to a Game 5, as Houston now won’t have Verlander or Thursday’s starter Cole as ready-and-rested options when the ALCS opens Saturday. Same goes for the Rays’ Charlie Morton, and whomever else — Blake Snell, Tyler Glasnow — they have to push into duty for Game 5.

Meanwhile, the Yankees’ staff gets better just by having four days off to relax, a nice bonus in early October.

Heading into these playoffs, the closest the Yankees had to a sure thing was Masahiro Tanaka, whose 1.50 ERA See YANKEES B9

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NHL Eastern Conference Atlantic Division GP W L OT SO Pts Buffalo 4 3 0 1 0 7 Boston 3 3 0 0 0 6 Toronto 4 2 1 0 1 5 Detroit 3 2 1 0 0 4 Montreal 3 1 0 1 1 4 Tampa Bay 3 1 1 1 0 3 Florida 3 1 2 0 0 2 Ottawa 2 0 2 0 0 0 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT SO Pts Carolina 4 4 0 0 0 8 Washington 4 2 0 2 0 6 NY Rangers 2 2 0 0 0 4 Philadelphia 2 2 0 0 0 4 Pittsburgh 3 1 2 0 0 2 NY Islanders 3 1 2 0 0 2 Columbus 3 1 2 0 0 2 New Jersey 3 0 2 0 1 1 Western Conference Central Division GP W L OT SO Pts St. Louis 3 2 0 1 0 5 Colorado 2 2 0 0 0 4 Nashville 3 2 1 0 0 4 Winnipeg 4 2 2 0 0 4 Dallas 4 1 3 0 0 2 Chicago 1 0 1 0 0 0 Minnesota 2 0 2 0 0 0 Pacific Division GP W L OT SO Pts Anaheim 3 3 0 0 0 6 Edmonton 3 3 0 0 0 6 Vegas 3 2 1 0 0 4 Calgary 3 1 1 1 0 3 Los Angeles 2 1 1 0 0 2 Arizona 2 0 2 0 0 0 Vancouver 2 0 2 0 0 0 San Jose 4 0 4 0 0 0 Monday’s games St. Louis 3, Toronto 2 Columbus 4, Buffalo 3, OT Tuesday’s games Carolina 6, Florida 3 Edmonton 5, NY Islanders 2 Winnipeg 4, Pittsburgh 1 Dallas 4, Washington 3, OT Anaheim 3, Detroit 1 Nashville 5, San Jose 2 Los Angeles 4, Calgary 3, OT Boston 4, Vegas 3 Wednesday’s games Buffalo 5, Montreal 4, OT Philadelphia 4, New Jersey 0 Los Angeles at Vancouver, 10 p.m.

Thursday’s games Tampa Bay at Toronto, 7 p.m.

Detroit at Montreal, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at New Jersey, 7 p.m.

Anaheim at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.

St. Louis at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m.

Washington at Nashville, 8 p.m.

Minnesota at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.

San Jose at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.

Calgary at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

Boston at Colorado, 9 p.m.

Vegas at Arizona, 10 p.m.

GF GA 18 11 7 4 16 13 10 9 13 14 11 10 9 14 4 9 GF GA 17 11 10 10 10 5 8 3 9 9 7 8 7 14 6 16 GF GA 8 7 9 5 13 9 14 15 10 12 3 4 4 9 GF GA 8 3 14 9 12 6 9 9 9 9 1 3 2 6 5 17

Pro football NFL American Football Conference East W L T Pct PF PA New England 5 0 01.000 155 34 Buffalo 4 1 0 .800 90 70 N.Y. Jets 0 4 0 .000 39 101 Miami 0 4 0 .000 26 163 South W L T Pct PF PA Houston 3 2 0 .600 131 110 Indianapolis 3 2 0 .600 113 115 Tennessee 2 3 0 .400 98 76 Jacksonville 2 3 0 .400 111 118 North W L T Pct PF PA Baltimore 3 2 0 .600 161 123 Cleveland 2 3 0 .400 92 122 Pittsburgh 1 4 0 .200 99 114 Cincinnati 0 5 0 .000 80 136 West W L T Pct PF PA Kansas City 4 1 0 .800 148 113 Oakland 3 2 0 .600 103 123 L.A. Chargers 2 3 0 .400 103 94 Denver 1 4 0 .200 90 106 National Football Conference East W L T Pct PF PA Dallas 3 2 0 .600 131 90 Philadelphia 3 2 0 .600 141 111 N.Y. Giants 2 3 0 .400 97 125 Washington 0 5 0 .000 73 151 South W L T Pct PF PA New Orleans 4 1 0 .800 115 116 Carolina 3 2 0 .600 129 107 Tampa Bay 2 3 0 .400 147 148 Atlanta 1 4 0 .200 102 152 North W L T Pct PF PA Green Bay 4 1 0 .800 119 93 Minnesota 3 2 0 .600 112 73 Chicago 3 2 0 .600 87 69 Detroit 2 1 1 .625 97 95 West W L T Pct PF PA San Francisco 4 0 01.000 127 57 Seattle 4 1 0 .800 133 118 L.A. Rams 3 2 0 .600 146 134 Arizona 1 3 1 .300 100 138 Week 6 Thursday’s game N.Y. Giants at New England, 8:20 p.m.

Sunday’s games Carolina vs Tampa Bay, at Tottenham, England, 9:30 a.m.

Washington at Miami, 1 p.m.

Philadelphia at Minnesota, 1 p.m.

Houston at Kansas City, 1 p.m.

New Orleans at Jacksonville, 1 p.m.

Seattle at Cleveland, 1 p.m.

Cincinnati at Baltimore, 1 p.m.

San Francisco at L.A. Rams, 4:05 p.m.

Atlanta at Arizona, 4:05 p.m.

Dallas at N.Y. Jets, 4:25 p.m.

Tennessee at Denver, 4:25 p.m.

Pittsburgh at L.A. Chargers, 8:20 p.m.

Monday, Oct. 14 Detroit at Green Bay, 8:15 p.m.

Pro basketball NBA PRESEASON Tuesday’s games Toronto 134, Houston 129 Philadelphia 144, Guangzhou 86 Miami 107, San Antonio 89 Oklahoma City 119, Dallas 104 Memphis 108, New Zealand 94 Phoenix 111, Minnesota 106 Denver 105, Portland 94 Wednesday’s games Detroit 124, Dallas 117 Washington 137, Guangzhou 98 Orlando 97, Atlanta 88 Miami 108, Charlotte 94 Milwaukee 133, Utah 99 New Orleans 127, Chicago 125 Thursday’s games Houston vs Toronto, at Saitama, Japan, 6 a.m.

Brooklyn vs L.A. Lakers, at Shanghai, , 7:30 a.m.

New Zealand at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.

Phoenix at Sacramento, 10 p.m.

Maccabi Haifa at Portland, 10 p.m.

Denver at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.

Minnesota at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.

Auto racing MONSTER ENERGY CUP SERIES POINTS LEADERS Through Sunday 1. Martin Truex Jr., 2072 points 2. Denny Hamlin, 2062 3. Kyle Larson, 2057 4. Kevin Harvick, 2055 5. Alex Bowman, 2047 6. Kyle Busch, 2046 7. Brad Keselowski, 2037 8. Kurt Busch, 2031 9. Erik Jones, 2031 10. William Byron, 2031 11. Clint Bowyer, 2028 12. Aric Almirola, 2020 13. Chase Elliott, 2010 14. Joey Logano, 2009 15. Ryan Blaney, 2006

Dave Sheinin The Washington Post

By the time the St. Louis Cardinals took the field for the bottom of the first inning Wednesday, the only drama remaining in the decisive Game 5 of the National League Division Series was whether their scheduled starting pitcher, ace right-hander Jack Flaherty, would join them at the center of the diamond.

Clearly, whether to pull Flaherty before he threw a single pitch was not a decision the Cardinals had gameplanned in advance. But they also could not have imagined that by that point, Flaherty would have already batted, drawn a walk and scored a run - the ninth of the 10 runs the Cardinals would score against the Atlanta Braves in a stunning, dizzying, this-can’t-behappening explosion in the top of the first at Atlanta’s SunTrust Park.

So, seriously: After being gifted the biggest first-inning cushion in the history of baseball’s postseason, why not go ahead and yank Flaherty on the spot, saving him for Game 1 of the NL Championship Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers/Washington Nationals winner on Friday?

Sure, it would have been an unconventional move. But as we have seen at length this month, with bold move after bold move in the ever-evolving deployment of pitching in the postseason, these are unconventional times.

And the circumstances of Wednesday’s first inning - well, they were nothing if not unconventional.

By the time the Cardinals’ half of the first was over, 26 minutes after it had begun, they had sent 14 batters to the plate, laced five hits (all of them with runners in scoring position), sent Braves starter Mike Foltynewicz to the showers having retired only one batter and plated a staggering 10 runs - the

most first-inning runs by any team in postseason history. And somehow, in the Year of the Homer, the Cardinals’ 10-spot came without benefit of a single round-tripper.

From there, it was only a matter of how lopsided the final score would be, and it turned out to be 13-1. The NL Central champion Cardinals are thus back in the NLCS for the first time since 2014, when they lost in five games to the San Francisco Giants, while the Braves, champions of the NL East, saw their season end in the Division Series for the second straight season and the eighth time since they last won a postseason series in 2001.

Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of the Cardinals’ 10-run first inning was the fact it began with them playing for one run - a tacit show of confidence in Flaherty’s ability to shut down the Braves. After leadoff man Dexter Fowler drew a walk off Foltynewicz, Cardinals Manager Mike Shildt called for a sacrifice bunt - an old-school move nearing extinction in the era of analytics and home run supremacy.

As the next nine Cardinals batters circled the bases against Foltynewicz and emergency reliever Max Fried, the only out the Braves had recorded was that one the Cardinals had gifted them.

As exhilarating and cathartic as the inning was for the Cardinals, it was just as deflating and humiliating for the Braves. They walked four batters in the inning, including the pitcher. Gold Glove-winning first baseman Freddie Freeman made an error. And in perhaps the ugliest moment of an ugly inning, catcher Brian McCann allowed a third strike to get away from him, then slipped trying to recover and fell on his rear end - allowing Marcell Ozuna to reach first base and extend the inning, with the Cardinals’ 10th run crossing the plate.

The benefit to the Cardinals of pulling Flaherty on the spot was obvious: It could have saved him for Game 1 of the NLCS, thus giving them the upper hand in that series against either the Dodgers or Nationals, who had to use their best pitchers just to survive and advance.

The drawbacks were subtler and not as clear-cut. For beginners, Flaherty had already gone through his full pre-start warm-up, with its meticulous program of stretching and loosening, plus an extensive bullpen session. Because this is not a scenario often encountered, we can assume no one knows exactly what sort of toll that warm-up alone, and the subsequent cool-down, would have placed on Flaherty’s arm. Would it be safe for him to do it again in two days?

Also, the Braves, though understandably demoralized at that moment, did score the third-most runs in the NL this season - including 19 games in which they scored at least 10 - and the Cardinals, despite having one of the best bullpens in the league, clearly wanted to take no chances.

Pulling Flaherty would have required an extensive and taxing deployment of relievers for nine full innings - although the Cardinals would have had the option of adding a couple of fresher arms for the NLCS. But more than that, Flaherty is a mere 23 years old - not an age when teams typically take chances with their aces’ health. Whether he started Game 1, Game 2 or Game 3, he was likely to pitch only twice in the NLCS - because no matter which game he got, any more than that would require his pitching on short rest. Saving Flaherty for Game 3 - which he will pitch on full rest - means that, as long as the Cardinals stay on rotation, he would also get the ball in a potential Game 7, also on

full rest.

And so the Cardinals went ahead and sent Flaherty out there. It wasn’t the wrong move.

Few things are guaranteed in baseball these days, with the home run explosion being what it is, and few leads are truly safe - but Jack Flaherty with a 10-run lead is a pretty good bet. So maybe the Cardinals would let him pitch a couple of low-stress innings, pat him on the back and let him get an early start on the Champagne that was sitting on ice in their clubhouse?

Not quite. Flaherty pitched the first.

He pitched the second, now with an 110 lead. He pitched the third, up 13-0. In the fifth, he loaded the bases with two outs - drilling Braves superstar Ronald Acuña with a fastball in the back and touching off a tense staredown - before getting Freeman to ground into a forceout to end the inning.

Surely, that would spell the end of Flaherty’s night, with his pitch count sitting at 94? Um, no. After a brief discussion in the Cardinals’ dugout, Flaherty was allowed to hit for himself - inviting retaliation for the Acuña plunking, which, thankfully, the Braves passed on - and pitch the sixth.

In the end, given the unexpected gift of a blowout win that afforded them the luxury of looking ahead to the NLCS a few hours early, the Cardinals chose saving their bullpen over saving Flaherty. The logic was sound, as far as it went. But when Flaherty was finally lifted after the sixth, he had thrown 104 pitches - slightly more than his season average of 96.3 per start.

Even if the Cardinals didn’t need to save Flaherty for Game 1 of the NLCS, did they really need to empty his tank in what was, by the end, a 12-run game?

Perhaps the answer will come the next time he’s on a mound, five days down the road.

Dodgers’ collapse against Nationals extends their October nightmare Bill Plaschke Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — This is not real. This cannot be happening.

The Los Angeles Dodgers did not just collapse all over October again. The Dodgers did not just blow another season with their Hall of Fame pitcher crumbling again. The Dodgers did not just extend a 31-year championship drought with boneheaded bullpen decisions by their manager again.

Yes, they did. Good Lord, they did.

The nightmare that never ends continued in its most fitful, frightful fashion yet Wednesday at the October house of horrors known as Dodger Stadium surrounded by the postseason demons that have inhabited Clayton Kershaw and Dave Roberts.

In the fifth and deciding game of the National League Division Series against the Washington Nationals, the Dodgers held a 3-1 lead in the eighth inning with the ball inexplicably in Kershaw’s hands. Three pitches and two blasted home runs later, the game was tied.

Two innings after that, with the ball equally inexplicably in the hands of reliever Joe Kelly, a 10th-inning grand slam by the Nationals’ Howie Kendrick finished it.

Before a booing crowd that’d been earlier stunned into silence, the Dodgers’ season ended in a 7-3 defeat that marked the worst collapse in their current sevenyear postseason run.

No, seriously, this was bad, this was really, really, really bad. “Disappointing is an understatement,” Roberts said.

They win a club record 106

games over six months, and their championship hopes end in less than a week. They have arguably their best team in 31 years and overwhelm the mediocre National League for the entire season, yet when they finally play a game that matters, they blow it.

They tease their fans with seemingly their best chance at breaking their World Series championship dry spell, yet those fans end the game staring in shock at a pile of Nationals dancing and hugging on the field.

Just like the Boston Red Sox celebrated there last year. Just like the Houston Astros celebrated there two seasons ago.

This was worse than all of that, worse than those losses to the St. Louis Cardinals, worse than the collapse against the New York Mets, worse than anything.

This was the worst because the Dodgers had the lead, and momentum from a brilliant 6 2/3 innings from Walker Buehler, and power from two home runs in the game’s first two innings.

This was the worst because when the eighth inning began, Chavez Ravine was rocking and the Nationals were reeling and the Dodger bullpen was filled with rested and reliable relievers and the doggone game should have been over.

But Kershaw was on the mound. What was Kershaw doing on the mound?

Kershaw had replaced Buehler with two outs in the seventh inning in a move that initially made sense. There were runners on first and second and lefty Adam Eaton was at the plate. Kershaw,

despite his awful history of postseason starts, has a career 1.98 ERA out of the bullpen.

One batter, that makes sense, and when he struck out Eaton on three pitches and howled, it seemed like he had been the perfect pitcher in the perfect spot.

But then he came back out in the eighth even though the nearly unhittable Kenta Maeda was warm and ready.

He came back out, and lasted about five minutes.

Kershaw threw three pitches, and two of them were blasted into next week.

Anthony Rendon crushed one to left, and Juan Soto followed on the next pitch with a long home run to rightcenter field and the game was tied.

Kershaw walked off the field to boos. He sat by himself on an otherwise empty dugout bench while Maeda struck out the side.

It was only the second time in his career Kershaw allowed home runs on consecutive pitches. The other time was, fittingly, in the playoffs.

He now has a 4.43 postseason ERA compared with a 2.44 regular season ERA, easily the greatest disparity of any regular starting pitcher in baseball history.

“I felt good about Clayton

right there. ... I liked Clayton. ... We had Clayton ready for whatever today,” Roberts said. “I’ll take Clayton any day in that situation.”

Roberts made one mistake leaving Kershaw in the game in the eighth, then another one leaving Kelly in the game two innings later.

Kelly retired the side in the ninth, and the rested closer Kenley Jansen was in the bullpen, yet Kelly started the 10th and promptly walked Eaton, allowed a double to Rendon, and then intentionally walked Soto before facing Kendrick.

Yes, he was still in there for Kendrick, who crushed a one-strike fastball over the center-field fence to leave fans frozen in place and staring while the former Dodger and Angel danced into his teammates’ arms.

“Kelly was throwing the

baseball really well, arguably our most rested reliever.

The way he was throwing the baseball, I like Joe in that spot,” Roberts said.

The fans uniformly did not like Roberts in any spot late in the game, and when he came to the mound to finally relieve Kelly in the 10th, he was booed as loudly as any Dodger has been booed in any postseason in recent memory.

“If the blame falls on me, I have no problem with it,” Roberts said.

The blame will fall on him, absolutely. That’s how it will work after another unfathomable ending to another unreal season.

Roberts and his team will spend the rest of the winter facing the answer to a question that has now plagued Dodger fans for 31 years and counting.

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Showalter, Farrell join Maddon as candidates for Angels job Maria Torres Los Angeles Times

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NBA Commissioner Adam Silver speaks to the media during a news conference at Spectrum Center in Charlotte, N.C., on Feb. 16.

NBA sold its soul to China over cash Shawn Windsor Detroit Free Press

It’s easy to talk about social and political issues if your audience mostly agrees.

Call it the power of an echo chamber.

Which means that when the NBA brass decided to brand itself as a supporter of the freedom of expression it encouraged among its general managers, coaches and players, the league wasn’t risking much. The folks who were likely to disagree with the political opinions of, say, LeBron James or Gregg Popovich, weren’t going to be watching or buying tickets anyway — the NBA’s fan base leans leftcenter.

This week, an employee of an NBA team stepped outside the echo chamber. Turns out supporting human rights has a price, even for the most “progressive” sports league in the country.

What the NBA has shown this week is that money matters more than principle.

Look at its shoddy treatment of Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey.

At issue is Morey’s tweet last week supporting protesters in Hong Kong: “fight for freedom, stand with Hong Kong.”

Well, the Chinese government didn’t like it. Which means Chinese companies who do business with the NBA didn’t like it. Which means Chinese citizens didn’t like it, or so we’re told by the Chinese government.

Whether actual citizens in that NBA-loving country balked is beside the point.

They don’t control whether games air on television. Media outfits such as Tencent do, a Chinese company that happens to have a $1.5 billion deal with the NBA to air league content.

After Morey’s tweet, Tencent announced it would not air Rockets games. And the Chinese Basketball Association, headed by former Rockets center Yao Ming, immediately cut ties with the organization.

In an authoritarian state, these moves were designed to appease the government. We may not like it. But this is China’s business.

What’s not China’s business is how Americans express themselves on Twitter. Or anywhere in the public sphere. Yet China’s reaction to Morey’s tweet has led to a kind of censorship on American soil.

Consider this quote from Adam Silver, the league’s commissioner, who told CNN last year that “I think part of the reason NBA players are more active is that it’s been part of the culture of this league for generations and passed down to them ... (the) sense of an obligation, social responsibility, a desire to speak up directly about issues that are important (is) part of being an NBA player.”

Those words sound hollow now, especially after the league issued a statement that called Morey’s tweet “regrettable,” though he wasn’t the only one from the league to acquiesce to the Chinese government.

Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta was quick to tweet that Morey didn’t speak for the team. And Rockets star James Harden eagerly told reporters that he loved China, and loved

playing there.

This isn’t to pick on Harden.

The shooting guard felt the heat from the team’s owner — or governor, as they’re now called — and sensed a sudden shift from the league about expressing opinions. Besides, the unease extended far beyond Texas.

In San Francisco, the normally opinionated Warriors coach, Steve Kerr, refrained from comment, saying he wasn’t well-versed enough on the subject of the Hong Kong protests. That’s fine. Give him the benefit of the doubt.

But he surely sensed the hypocrisy coming from the league and could not have been happy with the way Morey was treated. Still, he stayed quiet.

Conservative politicians took notice. U.S. senators Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Marco Rubio (R-Florida) slammed the NBA for its hypocrisy and for putting media contracts and potential markets above human rights.

In fact, so upsetting was the NBA’s response that politicians on the left agreed. Presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren and Beto O’Rourke issued blistering statements as well.

Both sides are right. China’s record on human rights is atrocious. And the NBA wants it both ways: to sell itself as an inclusive, progressive bastion while making barrels of money with the help of an authoritarian regime.

The league isn’t the only company facing the conundrum of doing business with China. And perhaps the reaction to the NBA’s mealy mouthed response will bring attention to the failed promise of Western capitalism loosening up a totalitarian state. After all, Google, Apple and other companies have been selling parts of their souls for years.

Joe Maddon is not the only experienced candidate being considered for the Los Angeles Angels’ managerial opening.

Former Baltimore Orioles manager Buck Showalter and World Series champion John Farrell are also among their four candidates, according to people close to the situation who were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter and requested anonymity.

Maddon interviewed in Anaheim on Monday, a meeting that was said to have gone well. Despite the obvious fit of Maddon, who spent the first three decades of his professional career with the Angels, general manager Billy Eppler has been adamant about considering other options to fill the opening caused by the firing of first-year manager Brad Ausmus.

The New York Mets, Chicago Cubs, San Diego Padres, San Francisco Giants, Kansas City Royals and Pittsburgh Pirates also are seeking new managers.

Showalter had a 669-684 record as manager of the Orioles from 2010 to 2018.

He previously managed the New York

Yankees (1992-95), the expansion Arizona Diamondbacks (1998-2000) and the Texas Rangers (2003-2006). Three of his 20 teams finished in first place in their divisions, including the Yankees in the strikeshortened 1994 season, and five reached the playoffs. The 2014 Orioles were his first squad to advance to a championship series.

Showalter, 63, was fired after the Orioles lost 115 games in 2018.

Farrell, 57, was fired in 2017 after leading the Boston Red Sox to a second consecutive division title. He was manager when the Red Sox won the World Series in 2013.

In a decadelong major league career sidetracked by elbow injuries, Farrell pitched for the Angels from 1993 to 1994.

He retired after the 1996 season.

Farrell immediately transitioned into coaching. He spent time at Oklahoma State before leading the Cleveland Indians’ player development division from 2001 to 2006. The Red Sox hired him as a pitching coach ahead of the 2007 season.

The Red Sox won the World Series that fall.

Farrell left Boston for his first managerial job, landing in Toronto after the 2010 season. Before the end of his contract with the Blue Jays, who finished in fourth place in his first two seasons, Farrell was wooed back to Massachusetts. He became manager of the Red Sox in 2013, inheriting a 93-loss team from short-timer Bobby Valentine.

The Red Sox went from worst to first in a year’s time. Farrell’s teams finished in fifth place the two subsequent seasons, then won back-to-back division titles.

However, they lost in the division series each year. He was fired two days after the 2017 defeat.

Farrell has spent the two years since his dismissal in vastly different roles. He scouts minor league pitchers for the Cincinnati Reds and skippers a lobster boat in Massachusetts.

The fourth candidate is not known. Eric Chavez, an adviser to Eppler and a candidate for other managerial positions, is not a candidate for the Angels’ opening, the source said. Another veteran former manager in the mold of the other three candidates is Joe Girardi.

Knicks respond to Kevin Durant’s comments on brand not being ‘cool’ Steve Popper Newsday

GREENBURGH — The Knicks had the day off Tuesday, but didn’t exactly get a peaceful respite, instead hearing Kevin Durant explain why free agents — like himself — passed on the chance to join the franchise this summer.

Back in the gym Wednesday the Knicks answered back.

In a radio interview on Hot 97, Durant explained, “I think a lot of fans look at the Knicks as a brand and expect these younger players who, in their lifetime, don’t remember the Knicks being good. I didn’t grow up with the Knicks. I’ve seen the Knicks in the Finals, but kids coming up after me didn’t see that. So that whole brand of the Knicks to them is not as cool as, let’s say, the Golden State Warriors or even the Lakers or the Nets now. It’s like the cool thing right now is not the Knicks.”

Durant did not even grant the Knicks a meeting during free agency, opting to head across town to Brooklyn with Kyrie Irving. The Knicks shifted plans, signing seven free agents to rebuild the roster, but without the star power that had been expected when they cleared $70 million in cap

space.

Julius Randle was the first to sign with the Knicks and the only one of the free agents to get more than one guaranteed year at Madison Square Garden, signing a three-year, $63 million deal.

“I feel cool in blue and orange,” Randle said. “I don’t know about everybody else, but I feel pretty cool wearing my Knicks gear every day. It’s a dream come true for me. Everybody has their own opinion, and I know (Kevin Durant), I don’t think he meant it as a slight, honestly. I feel cool every day walking into this practice facility, and I know for sure I’m gonna feel cool

walking into that Garden Friday night knowing that’s my home court.

“I know (Knicks history) just because I love basketball.

I wasn’t old enough to see the Knicks when they were really good, guys like Pat (Ewing).

I don’t think he said it as a slight. I understand it to a certain point, but us as NBA players, it’s our job to know our history and the people that came before us. You walk into Madison Square Garden as an opposing player, the energy is different from any other arena you’re gonna walk into.

Whether you know the history or not, you know it’s a big thing when you walk and play

in that Garden.”

Taj Gibson opted to sign with the Knicks rather than joining a contender, in no small part to his own New York roots, growing up in Brooklyn and watching the Knicks.

“Even when I was in Chicago every time we came back here we always talked about how special it is to play in the Garden, how special it is to play the Knicks,” he said.

“Even when (Carmelo Anthony) and J.R. (Smith) and guys were here we always watched Knicks games. I always watch the Knicks, so in my opinion I always liked the Knicks. That’s just my opinion.”

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Hosting guests difficult for family with six cats Dear Abby, We have a small house, and family and friends are always welcome. We also have six cats, and their care and comfort are paramount. We keep our cats separated so they don’t fight, so two cats occupy what used DEAR ABBY to be our guest room. We have explained this to overnight guests, several of whom are allergic to cats or don’t like them, and they insist “everything will be fine.” They then refuse to let the cats into the room during the day, while our distressed feline family members howl and claw the door.

There are simple things that must be done when living with cats, like making sure they don’t run outside (they are all indoor cats), keeping toilet lids down and breakable things out of their reach. Our guests don’t seem to care and they don’t comply. Frankly, I wouldn’t care if the cats took their jewelry, but I would care if one of them choked on it.

Why is this so hard to understand? Our cats need care and consideration; they are not disposable furry houseplants. To be fair, we visit with these petless folks, so we can’t ask them not to stay with us. I’ve even tried putting Post-it notes around the house, reminding guests to keep doors and toilet lids closed, etc. They reacted like they thought I was rude!

How do we handle this politely so there are no hurt feelings?

New England Cat Lover

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It’s time to end the tradition of staying in each other’s homes. There will be fewer hurt

feelings all the way around — your pets included — if, when you visit these folks you stay someplace other than in their home and suggest to them that they do likewise. This doesn’t mean you won’t see and entertain them — it only means they won’t be subject to your house rules, which clearly are not acceptable to them.

Dear Abby, My husband and I have been having the roughest year of our marriage, and we are divorcing. He has started a new relationship with a woman who is 14 years younger than he is, and he takes our 5-year-old to her house. I feel it is inappropriate because who knows if this relationship will last?

My husband and I are still living together.

He’s in the basement; I’m upstairs. I don’t think it’s wise for him to take our child on picnics and play dates at her house. I have tried to have a conversation about boundaries and doing what’s best for our daughter, and I don’t know what his next move will be. Living with the young lady? What should I do next?

Moving On There is a commonsense rule that parents who are divorcing should not introduce a child to the new partner until it’s clear the relationship will be long-lasting. At this point, you can’t control to whom your husband introduces your little girl. This is a conversation you should be having with the attorney who is arranging your divorce. If something presents a danger to your child, the lawyer may be able to help you put a stop to it.

It’s time to think about getting your annual flu vaccine Dr. Roach writes: If you haven’t gotten your influenza vaccine yet, it’s time to think about it. This year’s vaccine is similar to last year’s, but two of the components have been updated to match the strains that are circulating worldwide and expected to be epidemic in North America. In fact, this year’s decision on which specific TO YOUR types to include was delayed a GOOD HEALTH month to get further information about a newer influenza virus. Nine different vaccines from five different manufacturers have been released by the Food and Drug Administration.

All flu shots use only virus components and no live virus, so it is not possible to get the flu from a flu shot.

As in previous years, any flu vaccine is much better than none, but there are a few recommendations for specific people. In general, I recommend the quadrivalent vaccines, which provide protection against four strains. Most of the vaccines available in 2019-2020 are quadrivalent.

Men and women over 65 are recommended for high-dose vaccine, with double the amount of vaccine, and this year there is a quadrivalent high-dose vaccine (Fluzone High-Dose).

An alternative would be the Fluad, which is a trivalent vaccine, with three components. This vaccine contains an adjuvant, which causes a more potent immune reaction than a standard vaccine.

People with egg allergies can receive any vaccine, according to expert groups, although

DR. KEITH ROACH

there are vaccines made without using eggs (Flublok and Flucelvax). Don’t delay getting your vaccine for fear of egg allergy.

Two needle-free options are available: Afluria quadrivalent (given by a jet injector), and FluMist, which is a nasal live-attenuated vaccine. FluMist is indicated only in those up to 49 years old, and it has not been studied in the immunocompromised. The ACIP recommends against this vaccine for the immunocompromised and for their caregivers. The manufacturer notes that the supply of FluMist will be limited this year.

Last year the vaccine was just about 50% effective. It is still possible to get the flu despite vaccination. However, the vaccine lowers hospitalization rates, deaths in children and protects expectant mothers and their babies.

Getting vaccinated helps you, your family and neighbors, and your community.

I read that people are not being paid for donating blood anymore. Is this true?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You can sort things out with a friend today and ensure that it’s smooth sailing from here on out, or at least for the foreseeable future.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — That which is most difficult to identify is likely the very thing you want to pinpoint, secure and examine. Don’t give up the search.

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Yes. Blood donation is not compensated.

Plasma donation, on the other hand, often is compensated. Plasma, which contains the proteins in the blood, can be highly purified so that there is no risk of infection, as opposed to blood — every precaution is taken to reduce infection, but it can never be brought to zero.

Readers may email questions to ToYourGoodHealth@med.cornell.edu.

Baby Blues

Horoscope

By Stella Wilder Born today, you are not always the most fashionable individual, and you often simply do not care what clothes you wear or how you are presenting yourself — even in public situations. You believe in substance over style, and as often as possible you let your actions speak for you. You are not the kind to use words well — though you can put things plainly, even bluntly, when put to the test.

Like so many Libra natives, you insist on being treated fairly and on getting the same chance at success as anyone else. Unfortunately, however, there may be times in which you do not extend this same consideration to others; you can be rather self-centered in this regard. You are more vulnerable to criticism than many other Libra natives.

Also born on this date are: Luke Perry, actor; Eleanor Roosevelt, U.S. first lady; Steve Young, football player; Daryl Hall, singer; Jane Krakowski, actress; Dottie West, singer; Jerome Robbins, choreographer; Elmore Leonard, author.

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

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12

Family Circus

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — You will surely benefit from a good, long talk with someone who has played a central role in your life for quite some time.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Facts come to light today that change the way you think about a certain key issue. Family members quickly shift gears with you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — What you are looking for is close at hand, but you mustn’t look desperate; take your time, and let others think that it’s all under control.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — You can prove that your feelings are in sync with those of a friend or loved one — but then it’s time to move on to other significant issues.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Your willingness to speak out about a certain issue will give you the advantage for a time today; you must strike while the iron is hot!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — You may be drawn to things that others have warned you against, but you’re feeling rather “invincible” today and want to take the risk.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — It’s time to negotiate with someone who has been standing in your way. If you’re the first to offer certain terms, they’ll likely be accepted.

CANCER (June 21-July 20) — A certain someone has you feeling a certain way today — and that may be quite confusing to you. Ask yourself what’s really going on!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Now is no time for you to turn the other cheek; if you’ve been wronged in any way, you must address it directly and demand some satisfaction.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You are expecting a great deal from a new relationship — but have you made that clear to the other person or persons involved? Use your words.

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(Answers tomorrow) Jumbles: FORGO PUDGY BURROW MUTINY Answer: Their family farm had been built — FROM THE GROUND UP

Solution to Thursday’s puzzle

10/11/19 Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit, 1 to 9.

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(e.g., A book with blank pages used for making a collection. Answer: Album.)

Freshman level 1. A bound collection of maps.

2. Term for a collection of stars.

3. Term for a collection of selected literary passages.

Graduate level 4. A collection of islands in a sea.

5. Uncle ____ is the fictional narrator of a collection of African American folktales.

6. A collection of written laws and principles as a guide for government.

PH.D. level 7. An institution devoted to the collection and display of objects of lasting interest.

8. A large collection of wild animals.

9. What is the occupation of a person who takes care of a museum or library collection?

SUPER QUIZ ANSWERS 1. Atlas. 2. Constellation. 3. Anthology. 4. Archipelago. 5. Remus. 6. Constitution. 7. Museum. 8. Menagerie. 9. Curator.

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 __ on; watch from hiding 4 Donkeys 9 Tap the horn 13 “How __ you!”; cry of outrage 14 Verizon store purchase 15 “All roads lead to __” 16 __ mitts; pot holders 17 Crushed into powder 19 Bering or Black 20 “Yankee Doodle __” 21 Unwraps 22 Train tracks 24 Giggler’s letters 25 Trash can 27 Least risky 30 Second U.S. president 31 Incites to action 33 Soil, after a rainstorm 35 Victories 36 Hard hits 37 Old Maid or Crazy Eights 38 Piece of wood 39 Gets bigger 40 __ Rouge, LA 41 Deodorant brand 43 Meager 44 Chop down 45 Piece of furniture 46 See eye to eye 49 Wading bird 51 Primary color 54 Professional writer 56 Dishonest one 57 Mayberry’s sheriff 58 Adhesive 59 All at __; suddenly 60 Become dizzy 61 Rough woolen fabric 62 Word of disgust

Bound & Gagged

Created by Jacqueline E. Mathews

DOWN 1 Put money aside 2 Set up in advance 3 Japan’s currency 4 Horrify 5 Gives the cold shoulder to 6 Auctioneer’s cry 7 Covetousness 8 Notice 9 Batter’s delight 10 Leak out 11 Foreboding sign 12 Turner & Knight 13 Uno, __, tres…

18 Housetops 20 Croaks 23 Gives a gun to 24 Boys 25 Cry hard 26 Spanish farewell 27 Plants 28 Just a small amount 29 Radiation’s target 31 Story line 32 Tough __ to hoe; difficult task

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CITY OF HUDSON, NEW YORK ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Zoning Board of Appeals of the City of Hudson, New York will hold Public Hearings on October 16, 2019 at 6:00 p.m. in the Common Council Chambers, City Hall, 520 Warren Street, Hudson, New York on an area variance application from David A. Brown to change the use of a carriage house at 26 Warren Street, Tax ID #109.351-20, from accessory to residential living space, requiring rear and side yard setbacks; an area variance application from Seth Rogovoy and Linda Friedner for a variance for an addition to the rear of an existing structure at 68 North Third Street, Tax ID# 109.44-2-9, and a side yard setback; an area variance application from Sienna Reid to build an in-ground swimming pool at 910 Columbia Street, Tax ID #110.55-1-31, requiring a side yard setback; and an interpretation of the zoning code regarding ministorage facilities. All interested parties will have an opportunity at this time to be heard in connection with said applications.

COUNTY OF COLUMBIA TOWN OF STOCKPORT Notice is hereby given that the Town Board of the Town of Stockport will hold a 2020 budget workshop on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019 at 6:30 pm.

The meeting will be held at the Stockport Town Hall, 2787 Atlantic Avenue, Stottville, NY. Anyone interested is invited to attend.

Sandra Novak Stockport Town Clerk I.T. Network Solutions LLC filed w/ SSNY on 8/20/19.

Office: Greene Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: c/o Joseph S. Reisman & Associates, 2751 Coney Island Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11235.

Purpose: any lawful.

NOTICE is hereby given that an order entered by the Supreme Count, Greene County, on the 15th day of August, 2019, bearing index number 19-0631, a copy of which may be examined at the office of the clerk, located at 411 Main Street, Catskill, New York grants me the right to assume the name of Margarita Joanna Kotlyarsky. The city and state of my present address are Acra, NY the month and year of my birth are November, 2003; the place of my birth is New York NY; my present name is Margaret Joanna Kotlyarsky.

LEGAL NOTICE The refunding bond resolution, a summary of which is published herewith, has been adopted on the 3rd day of October, 2019, and the validity of the obligations authorized by such resolution may be hereafter contested only if such obligations were authorized for an object or purpose for which the Cairo-Durham Central School District is not authorized to expend money or if the provisions of law which should have been complied with as of the date of publication of this notice were not substantially complied with, and an action, suit or proceeding contesting such validity is commenced within twenty (20) days after the date of publication of this notice, or such obligations were authorized in violation of the provisions of the constitution.

District Clerk REFUNDING BOND RESOLUTION OF THE CAIRO-DURHAM CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT DATED OCTOBER 3, 2019 AUTHORIZING THE REFUNDING OF ALL OR A PORTION OF CERTAIN OUTSTANDING SERIAL BONDS, STATING THE PLAN OF REFUNDING, AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF NOT TO EXCEED $3,710,000 REFUNDING BONDS AND DETERMINING OTHER MATTERS IN C O N N E C T I O N THEREWITH. The class of objects or purposes to be financed: refunding all or a portion of the outstanding principal balance of the $7,268,657 aggregate principal amount of School District (Serial) Bonds, 2011, such bonds being dated December 27, 2011 and maturing in annual installments in each of the years 2012 to 2027, both inclusive (the “Refunded Bonds”).

The Refunded Bonds were issued to finance the costs of (a) the construction of new classrooms, reconstruction of various School District buildings, including site work and the acquisition of original furnishings, equipment, machinery or apparatus required for the purpose for which such reconstructed buildings are to be used, and (b) renovation and reconstruction of various School buildings, including site work thereat, and the acquisition of original furnishings, equipment, machinery or apparatus and costs incidental to same.

The Project has a period of probable usefulness (“PPU”) of thirty (30) years.

Maximum amount of obligations to be issued: $3,710,000 Complete copies of the Resolution summarized herewith shall be available for public inspection during normal business hours at the Office of the District Clerk of the CairoDurham Central School District, 424 Main Street, Cairo, New York 12413 for a period of twenty days following the date of publication.

Bridget Agostinoni Superintendent's Secretary/District Clerk Cairo-Durham Central School District 518-622-8534 ext.

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NOTICE of Organization of Limited Liability Company Top Notch Home Inspections of the Hudson Valley, LLC 1) The name of the Limited Liability Company is Top Notch Home Inspections of the Hudson Valley, LLC (hereinafter referred to as the “Company “) 2) The Articles of Organization of the company were filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York (SSNY) on : July 26, 2019 3) The County within the State of New York in which the office of the company will be located is Columbia 4) The SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it be be served. The Post Office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him or her is: Top Notch Home Inspections of the Hudson Valley, LLC P.O. Box 21, Columbiaville, NY 12050 5) The company is organized for all lawful purposes, and to do any and all things necessary convenient, or incidental to that purpose. Dated July 26, 2019 6) The specific date upon which the LLC is to dissolve is : None NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 613 RUDOLPH WEIR JR ROAD, LLC A DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC) Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York on October 1, 2019. New York Office Location Greene County. Secretary of State of the State of New York is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. Secretary of State of the State of New York shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her at: c/o LLC, 613 Rudolph Weir Jr Road, Earlton, NY 12058. PURPOSE: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of HUDSON ELECTRIC LLC Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 10/07/2019. Office location: Columbia County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: PO Box 138 , Hudson, NY 12534. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice is hereby given that an order entered by the Supreme Court, Greene County, on the 19th day of September, 2019, bearing Index Number 19-0704, a copy of which may be examined at the office of the clerk, located at 411 Main Street, Catskill, New York, grants me the right to assume the name of Jody Lin Nicholls. The city and state of my present address are Tannersville, NY; the month and year of my birth are September, 1969; the place of my birth is Catskill, New York; my present name is Jody Lin Murphy.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. Name: Simone's Kitchen NYCD1 LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 8/6/19. Office location: Greene County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 18 Hope Plaza, West Coxsackie, NY 12192. Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. Name: Simone's Kitchen LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 3/28/19. Office location: Greene County.

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

SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, 18 Hope Plaza, West Coxsackie, NY 12192.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

PERENNIAL DEVELOPMENT, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 09/19/2019.

Office loc: Columbia County.

SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 79 South 3rd Street, Hudson, NY 12534. Reg Agent: U.S. Corp. Agents, Inc. 7014 13th Ave., Ste 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

Legal Notice of Estoppel NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the resolution which is published herewith, has been adopted by the Town Board of the Town of Stockport, New York, on October 8, 2019, and the validity of the obligations authorized by such resolution may

be hereafter contested only if such obligations were authorized for an object or purpose for which said Town is not authorized to expend money, or if the provisions of law which should have been complied with as of the date of publication of this notice were not substantially complied with, and an action, suit or proceeding contesting such validity is commenced within twenty (20) days after the date of publication of this notice, or such obligations were authorized in violation of the provisions of the Constitution.

Dated: Stockport, New York October 8, 2019 Sandra Novak, Town Clerk RESOLUTION NO. 7 2019 Dated: Town of Stockport, New York, October 8, 2019 BOND RESOLUTION OF THE TOWN OF STOCKPORT, NEW YORK (THE “TOWN”), DATED OCTOBER 8, 2019, FOR: REPAIRS TO THE WATER TANK WHICH SERVICES STOCKPORT WATER DISTRICT #2 OF THE TOWN, ESTIMATING THE AGGREGATE COST THEREOF TO BE $95,000.00, APPROPRIATING SAID AMOUNT THEREFOR AND AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF $95,000.00 BONDS OF THE TOWN TO FINANCE A PORTION OF SAID COST; Resolution by Board Member Drabick Seconded by Board Member Leone WHEREAS, the Town of Stockport (the “Town”) formed Stockport Park Water District No. 1 as of March 3, 1953, Stockport Water District No. 2 as of August 10, 1966 and Stockport Water District No. 3 as of March 20, 1980 (as subsequently consolidated, “Water District #2”) to serve the residents of the Town; and WHEREAS, in connection with the operation of Water District #2, the Town has determined to undertake necessary maintenance and repairs and upgrades to the District’s water tower (the “Project”), for which the aggregate cost is estimated to be Ninety-Five Thousand Dollars ($95,000.00); and WHEREAS, the Town has determined to undertake the Project and the Town desires to issue bonds in an aggregate amount up to Ninety-Five Thousand Dollars ($95,000.00) to finance the cost of the Projects

and the Acquisitions, as determined by the Town; NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED, by the Town Board of the Town of Stockport, New York, as follows: SECTION 1 Pursuant to Sections 31.00 and 32.00 of the Local Finance Law, constituting Chapter 33-A of the Consolidated Laws of the State of New York (the “Law”), the Town hereby authorizes financing of the Project. The maximum aggregate cost of the Project is hereby estimated to be $95,000.00, which shall be paid from the issuance of $95,000.00 bonds to finance such costs.

SECTION 2 It is determined that the period of probable usefulness of the aforesaid Project is forty (40) years pursuant to Section 11(a)(1) of the Law; SECTION 3 The plan of financing for the Projects includes the issuance of $95,000.00 serial bonds or statutory installment bonds, payment by District users of water and/or sewer charges (the “Charges”) and, to the extent of any shortfall from the Charges, the levy of a tax upon all of the real property in the Town to pay the principal of and interest on said bonds as the same shall become due and owing.

SECTION 4 The temporary use of available funds of the Town, not immediately required for the purpose or purposes for which the same were borrowed, raised or otherwise created, is hereby authorized to be expended pursuant

to Section 165.10 of the Local Finance Law for the Project described in Section 1 of this resolution. If such temporary funds are used for any expenditure authorized in this resolution, the Town intends to reimburse such funds with the proceeds of the taxexempt borrowing authorized and identified pursuant to Section 1 above.

SECTION 5 The proposed average maturity date of the bonds authorized pursuant to this resolution is expected to exceed five (5) years.

SECTION 6 The bonds issued to finance the cost of the Project described in Section 1 above shall mature no later than the date of the expiration of the period of probable usefulness for each such object or purpose.

SECTION 7 The Town hereby covenants and agrees with the holders from time to time of the bonds of the Town issued pursuant to this resolution, and any bond anticipation notes of the Town issued in anticipation of the sale of said bonds, that the Town will duly and faithfully observe and comply with all provisions of the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), and any proposed or final regulations of the Internal Revenue Service issued pursuant thereto (the “Regulations”) unless, in the opinion of Bond Counsel to the Town, such compliance is not required by the Code and Regulations to maintain the exemp-

tion of interest on said obligations from Federal income taxation.

SECTION 8 Pursuant to the regulations of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, the Town has identified the Project as a “Type 2” action under to the State Environmental Quality Review Act (“SEQRA”), and no further “action” as the same is referred to in Article 9 of SEQRA and SEQRA regulations, needs to be taken prior to issuance of the Bonds.

SECTION 9 Each of the bonds authorized by this resolution and any bond anticipation notes issued in anticipation of said bonds shall contain the recital of validity prescribed by Section 52.00 of the Law and said bonds and any notes issued in anticipation of said bonds shall be general obligations of the Town, payable as to both principal and interest by a general tax upon all the real property within the Town without legal or constitutional limitation as to rate or amount. The faith and credit of the Town are hereby irrevocably pledged to the punctual payment of the principal of and interest on said bonds and any bond anticipation notes issued in anticipation of said bonds and provision shall be made annually in the budget of the Town by appropriation for (a) the amortization and redemption of the bonds and notes to mature in such year, and (b) the payment of interest to be due and payable in such year.

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COLUMBIA-GREENE MEDIA Subject to the provisions of this Bond Resolution and the Law, pursuant to the provisions of Section 30.00 relative to the authorization of the issuance of bonds and bond anticipation notes, or the renewals of said obligations and of Section 50.00 and Section 60.00 of the Law, the powers and duties of the Town Board relative to authorizing bonds and bond anticipation notes and prescribing the terms, form and content as to sale and issuance of the bonds herein authorized and of any bond anticipation notes issued in anticipation of said bonds, and the renewals of said notes, are hereby delegated to the Supervisor of the Town, as the chief fiscal officer of the Town.

Pursuant to the provisions of paragraph a of Section 56.00 of the Local Finance Law, the power to determine whether to issue bonds and bond anticipation notes having substantially level or declining annual debt service, as provided in paragraph d of Section 21.00 of the Local Finance Law, is hereby delegated to the Supervisor of the Town, as the chief fiscal officer of said Town. In addition to the delegation of powers described above, the powers and duties of advertising such bonds for sale, conducting the sale and awarding the bonds, are hereby delegated to the Town Supervisor, who shall advertise such bonds for sale, conduct the sale and award the bonds in such manner as she shall deem best for the interests of the Town; provided, however, that in the exercise of these delegated powers, he shall comply fully with the provisions of the Local Finance Law and any other order or rule of the State Comptroller applicable to the sale of municipal bonds.

SECTION 11 All costs and expenses in connection with the acquisition and development of the objects and purposes set forth in Section 1 above, and the financing thereof by the sale of bonds, including but not limited to, the fees and expenses of bond counsel, financial advisors, underwriters feasibility consultants, counsel for the Town and other professionals, shall be paid to the extent permitted by law from the proceeds of the sale of such bonds.

SECTION 12 The validity of the bonds authorized by this bond resolution and of any notes is-

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sued in anticipation of said bonds may be contested only if: (a) Such obligations are authorized for any object or purpose for which the Town is not authorized to expend money; or (b) The provisions of law which should be complied with at the date of the publication of such resolution are not substantially complied with, and an action, suit or proceeding contesting such validity is commenced within twenty (20) days after the date of such publication; or (c) Such obligations are authorized in violation of the provisions of the constitution.

SECTION 13 This resolution shall be published in full in the designated official newspapers of the Town for such purpose, together with a notice of the Town Clerk in substantially the form provided in Section 81.00 of the Law. SECTION 14 This Resolution shall constitute the declaration of the Town’s “official intent” to reimburse expenditures related to the additional costs of the Project authorized by Section 1 with proceeds of the bonds and notes, as required by United States Treasury Regulation Section 1.150-2.

SECTION 15 This resolution shall take effect immediately.

Ayes: 5 Noes: 0 Absent: 0 Abstention: 0 Motion X Carried / ____Defeated Town Board Resolution on October 8, 2019 Notice of Formation of NINA GROUP LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 8/28/19. Office location: Columbia SSNY desg. as agent of PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 5610 Fort Hamilton Parkway Brooklyn, New York, 11219. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of WindwoodCondo LLC, Art. of Org. filed w/Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 07/25/2019. Office location: Greene Co., NY.; SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process c/o Graff Law LLC, 78 Main St., PO Box 4148, Kingston, NY 12402. Purpose: any lawful activity Publication Notice: Lala & Moi LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 8/29/2019. Office location: Columbia

County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to 51 Marsh Hawk Road, Craryville, NY 12521.

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PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC) The name of the LLC is Round Top Construction, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on September 19, 2019.

New York office location: 52 Alpine Drive, Town of Cairo, County of Greene and the State of New York.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is: Round Top Construction, LLC; 52 Alpine Drive, Round Top, New York 12473.

Purpose/Character of business: Any lawful business purpose permitted under the New York Limited Liability Company Law. This notification is made pursuant to Section 206 of the Limited Liability Company Law. PUBLIC NOTICE NEW YORK TRANSCO LLC TO FILE AN APPLICATION WITH THE NEW YORK STATE PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF ENVIRONMENTAL COMPATIBILITY AND PUBLIC NEED TO UPGRADE AND INCREASE THE CAPACITY OF THE STATE’S ELECTRIC TRANSMISSION SYSTEM, WHICH WILL FACILITATE THE DELIVERY OF RENEWABLE ENERGY AND IMPROVE RELIABILITY PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT, on or about October 18, 2019, New York Transco LLC (“Transco”) will file an application with the New York State Public Service Commission (the “PSC”) for a Certificate of Environmental Compatibility and Public Need (“CECPN”) pursuant to Article VII of the New York Public Service Law to construct, maintain, and operate the New York Energy Solution project (the “NYES Project”). The NYES Project will be located in an existing electric transmission corridor or on adjacent utility-owned land in the Town of Schodack in Rensselaer County; the Towns of Stuyvesant, Stockport, Ghent, Claverack, Li-

vingston, Gallatin, and Clermont in Columbia County; and the Towns of Milan, Clinton, and Pleasant Valley in Dutchess County.

In November 2012, following the release of the New York State 2012 “Energy Highway Blueprint,” which called for, among other things, the development of over 1,000 MW of new alternating current (“AC”) transmission upgrades to move power from upstate to downstate, the PSC initiated a proceeding to examine the need for AC transmission upgrades (Case 12-T-0502). In late 2015, after many deliberations, the PSC issued an order identifying the AC transmission need to provide additional transmission capacity across the Central East and UPNY/SENY transfer interfaces, which the PSC determined would produce a number of benefits for New York.

In response, the New York Independent System Operator, Inc. (“NYISO”) solicited and evaluated a number of proposals from multiple transmission developers to increase electric transmission transfer capability across the identified interfaces. On April 8, 2019, the NYISO Board announced its selection of the NYES Project as the more cost-effective or efficient solution to satisfy the identified transmission need in the UPNY/SENY interface. The NYES Project, described below, is planned to be operational by the end of 2023.

The NYES Project includes the installation of a new, 54.5 mile 345 kV electric transmission line in an existing utility corridor. For the first 22.1 miles, the new 345 kV line will be located on new steel monopoles with a reconductored 115 kV line, and 1 existing 115 kV line and the existing lattice structures will be retired and removed from the transmission corridor. This work will be performed between a new 345 kV Knickerbocker Switching Station owned by Transco and located in the Town of Schodack and the rebuilt 115 kV Churchtown Switching Station owned by Transco and located in the Town of Claverack.

For the remaining 32.4 miles, the new 345 kV line will also be located on new steel monopoles with a reconductored 115 kV line, and 3 existing 115 kV lines and 2 sets of lattice structures will be retired and removed from the transmission corridor. This work will be performed between the rebuilt 115 kV Churchtown Switching

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Station owned by Transco and the existing 345 kV and 115 kV Pleasant Valley Subby stations owned Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. and Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corporation, respectively, and located in the Town of Pleasant Valley. The NYES Project also includes the replacement of 2.2 miles of 115 kV electric transmission line with new H-frame structures in the existing transmission corridor that extends to the existing 115 kV Blue Stores Substation and the installation of a new 0.8 mile doublecircuit 345 kV electric transmission line that will run between the existing 345 kV Pleasant Valley Substation and the new 345 kV Van Wagner Capacitor Bank Station owned

by Transco.

A copy of Transco’s Article VII application will be served upon certain government officials located in, or representing constituents within, the 11 municipalities where the NYES Project will be located, required State agencies, and utility companies. In addition, Transco’s application will be available in the following local public libraries on or about October 18, 2019: Castleton Public Library 85 S Main Street Castleton-On-Hudson, NY 12033 Claverack Free Library 629 Route 23B Claverack, NY 12513 Clinton Community Library 1215 Centre Road Rhinebeck, NY 12572 Hudson Area Library 51 N 5th Street Hudson, NY 12534 Kinderhook Memorial Library 18 Hudson Street Kinderhook, NY 12106 Livingston Free Library 90 Old Post Road Livingston, NY 12541 Pleasant Valley Free Library 3 Maggiacomo Lane Pleasant Valley, NY 12569 Red Hook Public Library 7444 South Broadway Red Hook, NY 12571 Starr Library 68 W Market Street Rhinebeck, NY 12572 For information or assistance concerning the application, interested persons may contact the following: Hon. Kathleen H. Burgess Secretary to the Commission New York State Public Service Commission 3 Empire State Plaza Albany, NY 12223-1350 Phone: (518) 474-6530 Fax: (518) 474-9842 Email: secretary@dps.ny.gov Further information is available at the NYES Project website at www.NY-ES.com SUPREME COURT: STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF COLUMBIA TOWN OF TAGHKANIC 909 State Route 82 Ancram, NY 12502, Plaintiff, SHERIFF'S NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL PROPERTY -againstIndex No.: 12665-18 CHRISTIAN HEESCH 644 County Route 15 Elizaville, NY 12534, Defendant.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that by virtue of an execution issued out of the Supreme Court, Columbia County, against the real property of the judgment debtor, CHRISTIAN HEESCH., the Sheriff of the County of Columbia will sell at public auction, pursuant to law, in a single parcel, at the Columbia County Courthouse, 401 Union Street, Hudson, New York on the 29th day of October 2019 at 10:00 am in the forenoon of said day all the right, title and interest which the said CHRISTIAN HEESCH had therein on the 22nd day of January 2019, or at any time subsequent thereto, in and to the lands and premises described and numbered below: 1. All that parcel of real property situate at 644 County Route 15, Town of Taghkanic, County of Columbia and State of New York, being the same premises described in a deed from Kathleen Mary Proper, Individu-

ally and As Executrix of the Last will and Testament of Mildred Proper to Christian A. Heesch, and recorded in the Columbia County Clerk's Office on September 16, 1996 in Book 282 of Deeds at Page 985, being approximately 1.2 +/- acres of land, more particularly described in Schedule "A" attached hereto and made a part hereof; and 20, Dated: August 2019 David P. Bartlett Columbia County Sheriff SCHEDULE "A" ,all that piece, parcel or lot of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in the Town of Taghkanic, Columbia County, New York, bounded· and described as follows: Beginning at an iron pin in the easterly boundary of the County Road leading from West Taghkanic to Lake Taghkanic, said pin being located S. 64' ll' E. distant 18.35 feet f,rom the southeasterly corner of the easterly headwall of a culvert across the above mentioned County road, said culvert being located approximately 80 feet southerly from the house located on the lands herein described, running thence N. 58' 54'E. 58.19 feet to an iron pin, thence N. 6' 36' E. 103.14 feet to an iron pin, thence N. 7' 17' E. 159.15 feet to an .iron pin, pin, thence N. 37' 03' W. 185.49 feet to an iron , thence S. 73' 09' W. 105.29 feet to an iron pin in the easterly boundary of the above mentioned County road, thence along the easterly boundary of said County road S. 13' 26' E. 261.3O feet, S. 24"29' E. 168.91 feet to the point of beginning containing 1.2 acres more or less.

Being the same premises conveyed to Mildred Proper and Kathleen Mary Proper, as tenants in common, by Mildred Proper by deed dated December 6, 1988 and recorded in the Columbia County Clerk's Office on December 6, 1988 in Liber 614 of Deeds at page 310. The said Mildred Proper died on February 21, 1996,a resident of the town of Taghkanic, Columbia County, New York.

Kathleen Mary Proper was appointed Executrix of the Estate Mildred Proper by Letters Testamentary dated March 29, 1996.

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B8 Friday, October 11, 2019

The Raiders aren’t a mess this year — with 11 games to go Tom Krasovic The San Diego Union-Tribune

In a change, the Oakland Raiders have resembled a watchable NFL team, for more than a minute.

Cue the hallelujahs.

Jon Gruden’s team heads into its open date this weekend with a 3-2 record, in the wake of back-to-back victories against the Colts (3-2) and Bears (3-2).

If for no other reason, you should watch the Raiders because of Josh Jacobs, a special rookie who’s rushed for four touchdowns.

The Raiders haven’t done much right since their Super Bowl flop in San Diego. That was nearly 18 years ago. Their talent margins are still thin — as skinny as former Raiders quarterback Marc Wilson — but a tip of the headset goes to Gruden, whose coaching may be offsetting, if not fully overcoming, a few of his personnel moves that came a cropper (see, Antonio Brown and Martavis Bryant).

For a Raiders Hall of Famer and San Diegan who visited training camp this summer in Napa, the encouraging start to this season jibes with the thin-slice judgment he formed in grape country.

“I was blown away by the athleticism and the speed of the guys there — I really was, and I was surprised,” said Mike Haynes, a cornerback for the 1983 Los Angeles team that stands as Southern California’s only Super Bowl champion. “I know a dimension that all sports teams need to have is that, and I felt like that was missing before.”

Haynes skews toward upbeat, but he’s also upfront. For instance: He said he was wrong a few years ago about a Raiders team that turned out to be fool’s gold. Yet his visit this summer left a second strong impression.

“Something I noticed, was the youth,” he said. “The vibrancy and the energy was there.

They were so excited.”

My hope in March for the Raiders was that incoming General Manager Mike Mayock would keep the excitable Gruden from overly pursuing shiny objects. Though team owner Mark Davis had given Gruden powers that

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Oakland Raiders running back Josh Jacobs (28) breaks free from the Chicago Bears defense in the first quarter against the Oakland Raiders on Sunday at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London.

are Belichickian, he’s no Bill Belichick when it comes to team building.

Within weeks of Mayock’s arrival came a highly questionable move: Two Raiders draft picks were shipped to the Steelers for Brown, an All-Pro receiver whose toxicity had led Pittsburgh GM Kevin Colbert to eat $21 million in salary-cap space.

You know how that worked out. Brown misbehaved himself off the team. The damage went beyond flushing two draft chips. Gruden had built his offense around Brown, whose exit came days before the season opener. The team since has traded for two receivers, spending more draft picks.

The big picture here is that the team’s talent level and play are improved from last year.

Jacobs is getting 4.9 yards per carry. He arrived via the first of two top-round picks Gruden got in the Khalil Mack trade with Chicago. He’s only 21 and carried a modest load at Alabama.

The DeOssies: Still snapping, starring after all these years Kevin McNamara The Providence Journal

Those sunny, autumn days at Brown Stadium will forever hold a fond place in the old man’s football memory bank.

He’d hop on his Harley Davidson, roll down Route 95, stand in a corner of the old, concrete stands and smoke a big, tasty cigar. Then he’d watch his son wreak havoc, sideline to sideline, as a linebacker for some pretty good Bears teams.

Steve DeOssie pinched himself every time he watched his son, Zak, suit up for the Bears.

Just stepping on the campus was a scratch-your-head moment. “There was a time when I didn’t think a DeOssie would ever be accepted to an Ivy League school,” he said with a laugh.

When Zak graduated from Brown and reported to training camp as a fourth round draft pick of the New York Giants in 2007, his goal was simply to make the team. He did that, seeing time on special teams but mostly as a long-snapper on the punt team. That season ended with a shocking upset of the unbeaten New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLII. Not a bad rookie year.

The next season ended with a spot in the Pro Bowl. When Zak was picked for another trip to Hawaii in 2010, Steve knew his son’s place in the league was firm. Now 35 years old and the father of two young boys, Zak is still snapping and in his 13th season in the NFL. “I told Zak if they had spots for long snappers in the Pro Bowl when I played, they’d have to build me a house in Hawaii,” Steve DeOssie said. “At first this was something to do before he got a real job. Now it’s just amazing. I know how difficult it is to play in the league, and stay in the league.”

The DeOssies are the only father-son combo to win Super Bowl rings with the same team.

Steve picked up his with the Giants in 1990. Zak owns two, both after wins over the Patriots.

There are some wonderful father-son stories in NFL history – the Patriots’ Matthew Slater and his Hall of Fame dad, Jackie, come to mind — but the DeOssies are unique. How both lasted more than a decade in the league, won on the biggest stage

and mastered the long-snapping game is a journey filled with odd quirks and speaks to the value of team, toughness and hard work.

Steve DeOssie was a sight to behold back at Boston College during the early 1980, Doug Flutie years. The Boston native would work himself into a frenzy and knock ball carriers into tomorrow for three years as a star linebacker with the Eagles. He also began snapping for Jack Bicknell’s team and when he was drafted by the Cowboys, that skill followed him through a 12-year NFL career.

Opposing coaches took notice of DeOssie’s ability to snap on punts and also block 270-pound linemen. One was Bill Belichick of the Giants. He saw that because of DeOssie’s ability to tie up a defensive player, Dallas began spreading its punt formation and sending ‘gunners’ to race down the field and cover the punts.

“In a lot of respects, Steve really changed the punting game in the National Football League, and in college as well,” Belichick said several years ago. “I’d say up until that point, it was usually nine against 10.”

In 1989, the Giants traded for DeOssie and Belichick and head coach Bill Parcells couldn’t wait to use him on their punt teams and at linebacker alongside Lawrence Taylor, Carl Banks and Pepper Johnson. Parcells brought his long-snapper to Foxboro, too, where his career ended after the 1995 season.

As a player at Phillips Andover Academy, Zak watched one day when his coach, Leon Modeste, asked his father to offer some snapping tips to a few players. He then went on starring as the team’s quarterback, safety and punter.

Zak was a major contributor right away at Brown and matured into an All-Ivy pick at linebacker but didn’t ask to snap until he approached coach Phil Estes before his senior year. “I figured long snapping could only help my resume if I were to have a chance in the league but I never thought I would ever snap in the NFL. Neither did the Giants when they drafted me,” Zak DeOssie said.

In his first day of training camp with the Giants, DeOssie saw 11-year veteran snapper Ryan Keihl tear his Achilles.

The team sent him in to snap, but only on punts because he covered kickoffs and kickoff returns. Two years later an injury to the ‘short snap’ field goal snapper gave him another job.

“That’s when I begrudgingly said good bye to linebacker. I haven’t looked back since,” he said.

Shockingly, despite his NFL props, the father never tutored his son on the finer points of long-snapping. “None, absolutely zero,” Steve DeOssie says.

“I learned how to snap at the NFL level on the fly,” Zak DeOssie said. “My Dad never taught me technique except for that day in high school. He’s always been there for me to talk about schemes and the ebb and flow of snapping.”

While some NFL teams don’t want their snapper racing downfield after kicks and chasing an opportunity for injury, that’s not the case with the Giants. DeOssie is, after all, a linebacker at heart. “Making tackles on punt coverage is the most exciting part of the job. For a moment, I can pretend to be a linebacker,” he said.

Not surprisingly, DeOssie has led the NFL’s snappers in special teams tackles in six of the previous eight seasons. He takes great pride in those plays, and the success of the Giants special teams units that he leads as a team captain. “Having the privilege to play this game for one of the best franchises in the world for a living makes me the luckiest person on the planet,” he said.

Back at Brown, Steve DeOssie’s trained eye followed his son’s every move. That’s not the case in the NFL. When the Giants face the Patriots Thursday night, he’ll look away when Zak takes the field.

“Hey, in college the worst case is your Saturday night isn’t as much fun,” he said. “Now I can’t watch him snap. It’s too nerve-wracking. I literally turn my head. In the NFL if you make a mistake your team can lose and you can lose your job.”

Thursday’s game will be Zak DeOssie’s 194th with the Giants, the fifth most in the storied franchise’s history. It’s been an amazing journey, for father and son, and it’s no surprise that they’ve kept score along the way.

Darren Waller is a tight end who runs like a receiver, and Raiders coaches know how to use him. With 37 catches he stands fifth in the NFL. More importantly, the 27-year-old Waller, who was signed off Baltimore’s practice squad in November, seems to have his life on track in the wake of substance-abuse problems.

Gruden’s strong belief in the importance of sturdy blocking — a theme he hammered in a Chargers critique during a 2015-season talk at a San Diego sporting good store and during and after a Bolts defeat — is reaping much-needed gains.

Newcomer Trent Brown, the right tackle, is living up to a big salary. At 30, Rodney Hudson remains one of the NFL’s better centers. Left tackle Kolton Miller is improved from an uninspiring rookie season marred by a knee injury.

Of some help is undrafted rookie Alex Ingold, a fullback who converted from linebacker four years ago at Wisconsin. The jury’s out on newcomer Richie Incognito, the guard had two

personal fouls in the first half Sunday.

Rookie Foster Moreau is a contributor who has a chance to become a credible two-way tight end.

While the defense lacks a dominant pass rusher, there’s a good amount of speed on the line.

For Mayock and Gruden, the biggest challenge is this one: figuring out whether quarterback Derek Carr is The Answer.

On the one hand, when Carr has his feet under him and takes aim, he’s someone the team can count on, as far as that goes. The 73.3-percent completion rate he’s fashioned in 161 passes leads the NFL and is 10 points above his career mark.

Carr coped with Brown’s exit. His strong arm meshed with newcomer Tyrell Williams, a newcomer who had a touchdown catch in each of the four games before a foot injury sidelined him.

On the other hand, Carr could stand to improve at anticipation throws, especially downfield, and at reading out the defense if the blocking allows.

For example, when the Bears sent only three rushers at him on third-and-7 and blocking provided him extraordinary time and space, it wasn’t advanced quarterbacking by Carr, 28, when he threw a short pass instead of reading out of the play.

The Bears easily stopped the receiver short of the first down.

Patience and poise would’ve allowed Carr to hit an intermediate receiver who was coming open.

A critique followed, from someone who often praises Carr.

“Disappointing, really disappointing,” former NFL tackle and San Diego Morse High alum Lincoln Kennedy, a Raiders analyst, said during the radio broadcast.

Improving Carr’s odds from last year, when he was under siege and lacked much playmaking help, Gruden and Mayock have a better chance of evaluating him this season. It’ll be the Packers, in Oakland, for the Raiders in Week 7, and it’s refreshing that football folly costumed in silver and black isn’t the expectation.

Welterweight champ Spence injured in car crash Field Level Media

World welterweight champion Errol Spence Jr. is in intensive care in a Dallas hospital after flipping his Ferrari early Thursday.

“Errol was in an accident, and his parents are with him at the hospital,” Premier Boxing Champions spokesman Tim Smith told ESPN. “The doctors are monitoring his condition, but his injuries are not lifethreatening. We will have further updates as the doctors update his condition. We’re all wishing the best for Errol.”

Dallas police said the car was traveling

at a “high rate of speed” on South Riverfront Boulevard just before 3 a.m. CT. when the accident occurred.

“The Ferrari veered left over the center median onto the southbound lanes and flipped multiple times, ejecting the driver, who was not wearing a seatbelt,” police told reporters.

Police are still investigating the crash.

Spence, 29, is from the Dallas suburb of DeSoto. Unbeaten at 26-0 with 21 knockouts, he won a split decision against Shawn Porter last month in Los Angeles to unify two 147-pound world titles.

Cowboys look to get well against Darnold, Jets Field Level Media

The Dallas Cowboys are coming off a discouraging loss in which their quarterback threw for 463 yards. The New York Jets would like to have such problems.

Quarterback Sam Darnold is expected to return to action Sunday for the Jets (0-4) when they play host to the Cowboys (3-2).

The Jets, playing their third game without Darnold, lost to the Philadelphia Eagles 316 last Sunday, managing just 128 total yards.

The Cowboys fell behind by 28 points last week before a late comeback fell short in a 34-24 loss to the Green Bay Packers.

The struggles of Dak Prescott and the Cowboys’ offense – Dallas was blanked by the Packers for the first 39 minutes – pale in comparison to those endured by the Jets since Darnold was diagnosed with mononucleosis shortly after New York’s seasonopening, 17-16 loss to the Buffalo Bills.

Quarterbacks Trevor Siemian and Luke Falk combined to throw for 419 yards in lopsided losses to the Eagles, Cleveland Browns and New England Patriots. The Jets scored just one offensive touchdown – on a 19-yard end-around by Vyncint Smith set up by Philadelphia muffing a punt in the red zone – while being outscored

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New York Jets quarterback Sam Darnold (14) throws the ball before a game against the Philadelphia Eagles at Lincoln Financial Field.

84-23 in the trio of defeats.

The Jets know Darnold, who is 22 years old and making just his 15th career start Sunday, isn’t a miracle worker, especially coming off a serious illness that required him to rest completely for three weeks.

But he will provide a level of skill that New York missed with him on the sideline.

“We’ve got a lot of other things to clean up, but Sam is able to hide things sometimes for us,” Jets coach Adam Gase said this week. “If we make a mistake, he covers it up.”

Darnold was cleared for physical contact Monday. One of the symptoms of mononucleosis is an enlarged spleen, which would put Darnold at risk of a rupture if he was hit in

his midsection.

Even with Darnold, the Jets provide a potential get-right spot for the Cowboys, who were touted as a Super Bowl contender while racing out to a 3-0 start. But Dallas fell to the New Orleans Saints 12-10 on Sept. 29 before absorbing the loss to the Packers.

Coach Jason Garrett said he hopes the Cowboys can simplify their approach against the Jets.

Another key member of the Jets, linebacker C.J. Mosley, is expected to miss his fourth straight game with a groin injury. Defensive end Henry Anderson (shoulder) did not practice Wednesday but was not ruled out for Sunday.

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Arash Markazi: Hulk Hogan hopes to return for one final WWE match at WrestleMania

By Arash Markazi

Los Angeles Times (TNS)

Terry Bollea is sitting in front of a mirror as he prepares to become Hulk Hogan.

It’s a daily challenge for the pro wrestling legend who admits that at 66 years old, he doesn’t look as good as he might appear when the cameras are on.

“I got it figured out,” he said as he straightens his famous blond horseshoe mustache with a small comb.

“When I go home with my wife and my four Chihuahuas, the headband comes off and the fake hair comes out and I’m (a) beach bum. But whenever I leave the house, I know I have to be Hulk Hogan.”

Hogan is sitting in a green room on the Fox Studios lot after appearing on the network’s baseball playoffs pregame show with Alex Rodriguez, David Ortiz and Frank Thomas. Rodriguez tells Hogan he has been a Hulkamaniac for years, Ortiz tells him how big he is in the Dominican Republic, and Thomas connects with him on their Georgia roots.

It’s a surreal moment for Hogan, who actually had dreams of being a baseball player before breaking his arm while playing third base his senior year in high school. “I wanted to be a baseball player as a kid,” he said. “That was my first love, but breaking my arm was the best thing that ever happened to me because I segued into wrestling.”

Hogan was in Los Angeles for the 20th anniversary episode of “WWE SmackDown” at Staples Center and to promote returning as a character in the WWE 2K20 video game. He smiled when he saw his face on a billboard outside Fox Studios as he drove into the lot with his friend Jimmy Hart, a WWE Hall of Fame manager.

Last year, Hogan was reinstated to the WWE and its Hall of Fame after he served a three-year suspension when a sex tape involving him came out with him using racist language.

“I’ve found out the more scars you get on you, the more some people relate to you,” Hogan said. “I’ve been through a lot obviously. I have a ton of scars, and people actually relate to me more because of that. I’m not perfect, but it’s about standing up, owning it

and moving forward. I’m so happy to be back.”

Last year, Fox acquired the rights to the popular “WWE SmackDown” show, which had aired live weekly on the USA Network, in a five-year deal worth more than $1billion. The show debuted Friday night in Los Angeles and has been promoted on Fox Sports broadcasts ranging from the NFL and MLB to NASCAR and college football.

Wrestling fans in Los Angeles from 1986 to 1993 will remember watching Hogan on Fox11 when “Superstars of Wrestling” and ‘Wrestling Challenge” were staples of KTTV’s weekend afternoon programming. Hogan was viewed as a local hero then, even though he had no real ties to Los Angeles.

“I was born in Augusta, Georgia, in a trailer, and right after I was born, my parents moved to Tampa, Florida,” Hogan said. “But when I started wrestling, I wanted my persona to be this tan, blond-haired, blue-eyed AllAmerican hero from California. I knew ‘Muscle Beach’ was down in Venice, so I just went with it. I wanted to be Hulk Hogan from Venice Beach, California.

That was the gimmick. It sounded better than Terry Bollea from Tampa, Florida.”

Even when Hogan became a villain later in his career, he didn’t desert his fictional California roots.

“I wanted to turn on the fans, so I became Hollywood Hogan,” he said.

“When I made the transition from Hulk Hogan from Venice Beach, California, to Hollywood Hogan from Hollywood, California, I just did it to piss people off. I’m a movie star, and I’m better than you. I did it to upset the fans, but it didn’t really work. They still loved me.”

Hogan has a hard time moving around as the result of “seven unsuccessful back surgeries” and said he is scheduled for an eighth back surgery next week. Despite bragging about the size of his arms — “24-inch pythons, brother!” — his finishing move was the “atomic leg drop,” which required him to bounce off the ropes, jump up and fall flat on his rear end more than 300times per year during the course of a career spanning three decades.

“Everyone says they wouldn’t change anything about their life. If I could change anything, it would be my

finisher,” Hogan said. “I would never use the leg drop. I’d use the sleeper.

All the back surgeries I’ve had are because of that damn leg drop. I had scoliosis, brother. Dropping that leg for 35 years did me in. ... I should have used a sleeper hold or another finisher with my arms.”

Hogan is still holding out hope for one more match after his back surgery.

His full-time wrestling career ended years ago, but he has already had conversations with WWE chairman and chief executive Vince McMahon about having one last match, possibly at WrestleMania 36, which will take place in his hometown of Tampa next year.

“I talked to Vince, and I said I really don’t know if I could live with myself knowing my last match was with TNA (Total Nonstop Action Wrestling),” he said. “If I can get fixed, I pray I can have one more match. I told Vince, ‘When I get through this back surgery, I’m going to get in the best shape of my life and we’re going to talk about me having one last retirement match.’”

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in five October starts meant he could excel on the big stage. The Yankees got what they needed from Tanaka in Game 2, and didn’t ask for any more by pulling him after five innings, despite an 8-1 lead.

James Paxton finished the regular season on a 10-0 roll with a 2.51 ERA — enough to earn him the prestigious Game 1 nod for his first career playoff start. But he only made it 4 2/3 innings (8 Ks, 2 HRs) in what eventually a 104 was blowout in the Bronx.

As for Game 3 hero Luis Severino, he went into Monday night with a total of 12 innings (three starts) under his belt after missing nearly all of the regular season with shoulder and lat-muscle injuries.

His best weapon? The hunger for playoff vindication after last October’s six-run debacle against the Red Sox in the ALDS loss.

Firing a 98-mph fastball and wicked slider, it was Severino’s iron will that got him through four scoreless innings Monday. Severino squashed a bases-loaded, none-out rally in the second

to Holy Trinity, leaving Nick Trossbach and Gabe Michalko to pick up the slack.

Despite being the focus of opposing defenses, senior Haydon Broockmann leads the Riders in receiving with 13 catches for 216 yards and a touchdown.

Ichabod Crane coach Tom Call is looking forward to tonight’s matchup.

“Important crosstown matchup that I’m sure each team looks forward to every year,” Call said. “Hudson coming off an impressive win last week vs. Ravena puts them pushing for the playoffs. We know they’ll be fired up and ready to go at home. They’re well-coached and have some tremendous athletes.

“We have suffered some season ending injuries this year at key positions that has tripped us up a bit; but we’re excited to keep playing and see what we can do on Friday night.”

Chatham (4-1) at Warrensburg (4-1) The top seed in the upcoming Section II Class D playoffs will be on the line tonight when Chatham makes the long trip to Warrensburg.

Warrensburg is 4-0 in Class D play and is the defending Section II champ. The Burghers breezed through their first four games, outscoring their opponents by a combined score of 224-19, but stumbled last week in falling to Class C Stillwater, 25-0.

Coach Mike Perrone’s team uses the Wing-T formation and features four solid runners, led by sophomore Dylan Winchell, who has rushed for 578 yards and seven touchdowns on 32 carries. Senior Jesse Griffin has collected 568 yards and six touchdowns on 75 carries.

In addition Quarterback Mac Baker has 257 yards on 30 carries and freshman fullback Tyler Hitchcock (6-1, 220) has gained 206 yards and scored four touchdowns on 22 carries.

The running game benefits from a huge offensive line, led

by Tanner Dunkley (6-3, 290) Jacob Clear (6-1, 270), Moe Willette (6-6, 330), Jaron Griffin (61, 215) and Joseph Murdick (510, 215).

Defensively, Hitchcock leads the team in tackles with 49 (19 solo). Zack Shambo has made 41 tackles and Jaron Griffin has 34.

Chatham is coming off a hard-fought 28-14 victory over Whitehall this past week, a game in which the Panthers trailed 7-6 early in the fourth quarter. A 22-point outburst in the game’s final eight minutes, though, sealed the deal and kept Chatham’s hopes of securing the top seed in Class D alive.

Senior Casey Sitzer made the move from wide receiver to quarterback this year and has been getting more and more comfortable. He played a key role in the win over Whitehall,

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New York Yankees starting pitcher Masahiro Tanaka (19) throws against the Minnesota Twins in game two of the 2019 ALDS at Yankee Stadium.

with a pair of strikeouts, then stranded two more Twins in the third by whiffing Mitch Garver. Each time, Severino roared coming off the mound, pumping his arms. And what did Cashman take from that?

“Guts, the competitive nature, he would bend but not break,” Cashman said. “Just shows what we already know about him. But there’s no guarantee, despite having all

of that, that you’ll get through an opponent on any given day.”

It’s Cashman’s job to be anxious about such things, to not take solace in sweeps, to disregard the small sample sizes. The GM always has to be looking ahead, to troubleshoot issues before they even surface. Dumping the Twins quickly gives the Yankees some critical rest while the

Astros and Rays will be taxed.

These edges can help.

“Everything’s not over,” Severino said. “We’re on the right step, but we have to continue doing the same thing.”

Now it’s just a matter of Severino and the rest of the Yankees’ pitching staff providing the “good enough” that Cashman is hoping for.

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C-A had seven corners and six shots. Ichabod Crane had eight corners and 0 shots on goal.

CA goalie, Madison O’Callaghan had 0 saves and Ichabod Crane’s C. White had 0.

C-A is 4-8-1 overall and visits Red Hook for a Mid-Hudson Athletic League game on Friday.

GIRLS SOCCER PATROON Greenville 3, Maple Hill 2 CASTLETON — Greenville overcame an early deficit to defeat Maple Hill, 3-2, and give Eileen Kiefer her 400th career coaching victory in Wednesday’s Patroon Conference girls soccer match.

Kaitlyn Silk had a goal and assist for Greenville (11-1).

Bella Trostle and Morgan Whitbeck each had a goal.

Alayna Fletcher had both of

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Coxsackie-Athens defender Natalee Farrand (center) in action against Ichabod Crane.

the Wildcats’ goals. Kylie Roloson and Gianna Morse each had an assist.

Chatham 2, Coxsackie-Athens 1 CHATHAM — Lexi Mickle and Caroline Paolucci each had a goal to spark Chatham

to a 2-1 victory over Coxsackie-Athens in Patroon Conference girls soccer action on Wednesday.

Julia Rose and Mia Porritt had one assist apiece for the Panthers.

Garce Bartels scored C-A’s

goal with an assist from Hannah Crown.

Haley Pulver didn’t have to make a save for Chatham (8-4, 9-5). Sage Murphy collected 17 saves for the Indians.

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rushing for 90 yards and two scores and throwing for 83 yards and a TD. He also had a huge interception late in the game that set up a Chatham score.

Junior Jayshawn Williams had two interceptions vs.

Whitehall, giving him five for the season, which ranks second in Section II. He also caught a 26-yard touchdown pass against the Railroaders.

Taconic Hills (2-2) at Watervliet (2-2) Taconic Hills returns to Class C South Division play this week against one of the top teams in the division in Pete Porcelli’s Watervliet Cannoneers.

Porcelli brought his Double Wing offense to Watervliet after coaching the past six years at Hoosic Valley and the move has paid immediate dividends.

The Cannoneers are coming off a 22-0 victory over Voorheesville and are now the frontrunners in the South Division. Kareem Duncan has flourished in Porcelli’s system and is currently the third leading rusher in the section with 746 yards.

Duncan has topped the 200-yard rushing mark twice in four games, with a season-high 269 yards coming in a 41-30 loss to Fonda two weeks ago. He is tied for the Section II scoring lead with 86 points.

The Titans have been struggling offensively, scoring a total of just 21 points over their past three games.

After a strong defensvie performance against Catskill/Cairo-Durham two weeks ago, the Titans surrendered 54 points to Canajoharie/Fort Plain this past week.

Watervliet won last year’s game, 22-16.

SATURDAY Voorheesville (3-2) at Catskill/Cairo-Durham (0-5) Voorheesville will be looking to bounce back strong from last week’s loss to Watervliet when the Blackbirds come to Angelo Canna Town Park to play Catskill/Cairo-Durham on Saturday.

It’s been an up and down season so far for Voorheesville, the ups being impressive victories over Ichabod Crane (42-13), Taconic Hills (43-6) and Coxsackie-Athens (54-6) and the downs being shutout losses to Stillwater (35-0) and Watervliet (22-0).

Gavin Esposito has had a banner year for the Blackbirds, passing for 453 yards and seven touchdowns and rushing for 327 yards and four scores. Joe Tomlin has also had a big year, rushing for 480 yards and four touchdowns.

Catskill/Cairo-Durham has had a numbers problem this year and was forced to forfeit last week’s scheduled nonleague game with Valhalla because of a lack of healthy bodies.

The Mustangs and Blackbirds hooked up in one of last year’s best games, with Voorheesville building a big lead early, then holding off a late CCD rally to earn a 48-42 victory.

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Columbia-Greene Media Cares Sponsorships, Trades and Matching Grant Program

Columbia-Greene Media (CGM) serves Columbia and Greene counties, and beyond, with two daily newspapers, one weekly newspaper, a niche business magazine, a weekly shopper, and affiliated websites (including blogs, social media, podcasts and videos). Our media family of products includes The Daily Mail, Register-Star, Chatham Courier, Windham Journal, Ravena News-Herald, Shop & Find and the Columbia-Greene Business Quarterly.

As the largest news media provider in the area, CGM connects community members with what’s happening in and around the region. With such a large coverage area, comprised of many smaller communities, CGM has the unique opportunity to leverage its media holdings to promote community organization and events.

There are hundreds of wonderful events that take place throughout the year to benefit the community that CGM would love to promote. After thinking long and hard about the best way to support the many grassroots organizations that make up our community, we are proud to announce “Columbia-Greene Media Cares.”

We are launching this initiative with our Sponsorship and Matching Grant program:

Sponsorship Program (no cost) CGM is able to provide media sponsorships at $100, $250 and $500 levels. What does this mean? Eligible community outreach programs, can have their events/organization promoted on targeted audience channels at no cost to the advertiser.

Matching Grant Program Grant Program CGM is happyMatching to provide three times the value in advertising, for community outreach programs who would like to promote their CGM is happy to provide three times the value in advertising, for events/organization and, we have allocated $100,000 of our own community outreach programs who would like to promote their resources to make it happen. events/organization and, we have allocated $100,000 of our own resources to make it happen.

To submit your request visit www.hudsonvalley360.com/cgmcares or email cgmcares@columbiagreenemedia.com

Columbia-Greene Media Cares Sponsorships, Trades and Matching Grant Program submit trade, yourand request visit www.hudsonvalley360.com/cgmcares Substitutions,To adjustments, sponsorship opportunities are available if your organization does not fit into one of these categories. Please contact cgmcares@columbiagreenemedia.com with your request. or email cgmcares@columbiagreenemedia.com

www.hudsonvalley360.com/cgmcares Columbia-Greene Media Cares Sponsorships, Trades and Matching Grant Program

Substitutions, adjustments, trade, and sponsorship opportunities are available if your organization does not fit into one of these categories. Please contact cgmcares@columbiagreenemedia.com with your request.