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“If it was just the sales tax collection, I would vote for it in a heartbeat,” he said. “If you’re staying in a single family home, isn’t an evacuation plan redundant? There’s the door.”

Legislator Patricia Handel, R-Durham, who owns Blackthorne Resort, supports the bill.

“I’m all for this one,” she said. “I know I have the health department breathing down my neck. Why shouldn’t they?”

Bloomer thought because it was people’s homes, it was different, he said.

“They’re bringing people there,” Handel said.

“I’m not opening my home up for inspection,” Bloomer said.

“Don’t run a business there,” Harry Lennon, D-Cairo said.

The rise of short-term rentals in the area is impacting local resorts, as well

U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado, D-19, is continuing to look for innovative and productive ways to combat the opioid epidemic.

The congressman spent a week in his district visiting hospitals and treatment centers before hosting a panel discussion on the issue in Glasco last week, where he said he heard a number of ideas he plans to take back with him to Washington.

“One of the things I was flagged is we talk a lot about treatment and decriminalizing addiction, but not enough emphasis is put on prevention and how we can get in front of the problem,” Delgado said during a phone call with reporters Wednesday.

“Whether it’s more educational tools, funding prevention centers, we should be not just reactive but more proactive in our approach.”

Panelists and audience members also raised proposals such as drug take-back laws, instituted in other states for people to return their expired medication to local pharmacies. Delgado added hearing from families and friends of those suffering from addiction was impactful.

“It’s not just about those we are trying to save from addiction, but helping those who are trying to love those individuals and be there for them and get them help,” Delgado said. “That is a tough dynamic.”

The opioid crisis has long been an important issue for Delgado, who is a member of the congressional Freshmen Working Group on Addiction.

In the years 2017 and 2018, Columbia and Greene counties, combined, saw 50 deaths, 155 emergency room visits and 23 hospitalizations due to opioid overdoses, according to the New York State Department of Health. As a whole, New York had more than 1,700 deaths caused by opioid overdoses in 2018.

The congressman’s first major step toward combatting the crisis came in May, when he introduced bipartisan legislation, along with representatives Elise Stefanik, R-21, and Paul Tonko, D-20, and others that would

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Greene and Columbia county officials are keeping an eye on a state Assembly bill they hope will allow them to recover more sales tax revenue from short-term rentals.

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CATSKILL — Greene County lawmakers Tuesday discussed a state bill that would make the business of Airbnb more akin to other forms of lodging.

The bill, introduced in the state Assembly by Assemblywoman Patricia Fahy, D-109, would require short-term rental apps such as Airbnb collect sales tax, the hosts to register their rentals with the Department of State and be subject to the same types of inspections and safety standards as other forms of lodging.

The bill is in the Housing committees of both the Assembly and Senate but does not have a senate sponsor.

Because there is no sales tax collection mechanism in place, $112.7 million in taxes goes uncollected annually for Airbnb rooms, according to the state Hospitality & Tourism Association.

The Greene County Economic Development and Tourism Committee passed a resolution in support of the bill. Legislators Michael Bulich, R-

“If it was just the sales tax collection, I would vote for it in a heartbeat. If you’re staying in a single family home, isn’t an evacuation plan redundant? There’s the door.”

— ED BLOOMER, R-ATHENS Catskill, and Ed Bloomer, R-Athens, opposed the resolution. Legislator Larry Gardner, D-Hunter, was absent.

Bloomer found the inspections to be

Hunter transfer station fails, plans overhauled

By Sarah Trafton Columbia-Greene Media

CATSKILL — With the Hunter transfer station in crisis and the engineering team needing to redraw its plans, county lawmakers discussed their next move Tuesday night.

The county awarded a contract to Barton & Loguidice for a maximum amount of $163,700 in December. The engineering firm was tasked with redesigning the Hunter and Coxsackie transfer stations so they will be capable of exporting their own waste. In the past, these stations have had to send waste to Catskill before shipping. The engineers will also design a new scale house for the Catskill station.

Greene County Highway and Solid Waste Superintendent Robert J. Van Valkenburg informed the legislature

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In this Dec. 19, 2018 file photo, Zachary Comstock from Barton and Loguidice, left, and Scott Templeton, deputy superintendent of the Greene County Highway and Solid Waste Department, outline plans for renovations at three county-owned transfer stations.

that the aging scale at the Hunter station failed last week.

“The scale is not repairable,” VanValkenburg said of the scale, which is

three decades old.

VanValkenburg said he did not believe it would make sense to purchase a used scale because the county was going to replace the scale anyway.

“We could purchase a new scale and install it in a temporary area,” Van Valkenburg said, adding that the endeavor would cost $75,000.

Another option is to purchase the new scale for the Catskill site and transfer Catskill’s scale to Hunter, Van Valkenburg said.

“Catskill’s scale is in good shape,” he said.

A concern with Hunter’s station being down is sending extra waste to Windham, which has a scale of similar age, Van Valkenburg said.

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Hunter accepts about 3,000 tons per year, Windham about 2,200, Van Valkenburg said.

Greene County Administrator Shaun Groden agreed.

“We don’t want to overuse the Windham station and run the risk of failure there as well,” he said.

Groden said he would invoke an emergency declaration when the board decided what scale to order.

Once ordered, the scale would take about three weeks to arrive, Van Valkenburg said.

The transfer station project has had some stumbling blocks and is sending the engineering firm back to the drawing board.

“The lowest bidder [for the Catskill site] was $400,000 higher than the estimate,” Van Valkenburg said. “We rejected

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those bids because they were not economically feasible.”

Van Valkenburg then requested an updated estimate on the Hunter project from the Barton & Loguidice team.

“It was about $2 million and we were looking at $500,000,” Van Valkenburg said. “At that point I said we have to stop and look at where we’re going.

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The designs Barton & Loguidice created would meet the county’s needs, but were not the most practical approach, Van Valkenburg said.

Van Valkenburg consulted with another architect to come up with a new plan.

The estimate on the new design for the Hunter station is $630,000, which is over budget but significantly less than the original design, Van Valkenburg said.

Legislator Michael Bulich, R-Catskill, asked if the county would continue to use Barton & Loguidice for the Catskill site for the remainder of the project.

“That has to be worked out,” Van Valkenburg said.

Because the firm has only billed for $107,000 of their $163,700 billable amount, more work needs to be done to satisfy the contract, VanValkenburg said.

estimates that Airbnb hosts in Greene County make $25 million annually — a loss of $1 million in sales tax, Hart said.

About 30% of the homes in Greene County are second homes, making Airbnb a lucrative business.

A 2018 economics report through I Love New York estimated that Airbnb represents 50% of the county’s lodging income. The county’s current lodging income, which does not include Airbnb, is $60 million.

“This is an important statewide issue,” Hart said. “It is a necessary form of overnight lodging. The bill wouldn’t make it illegal, just level the playing field.”

There is already similar legislation in place in New York City, Hart said.

In Hudson, questions remain whether the state bill will mean double taxation for short-term renters there. The city already collects a 4% tax

on lodging and requires shortterm rental operators to register for a yearly fee. About 150 short-term rentals in Hudson were registered through the city as part of the Lodging Tax as of July.

As chair of the Legal Committee, 4th Ward Alderman John Rosenthal has taken up the torch in discussions on how best to regulate shortterm rentals, which has been ongoing for several months.

“I think the bill reinforces and supports a short-term rental moratorium in the city,” Rosenthal said. “Whether or not it causes a double tax or more work for short-term rental operators in the city we have to investigate.”

A nine-month moratorium for short-term rentals is on the alderman’s desk and is awaiting a recommendation from the county before it is likely voted on next month. The moratorium will not affect hotels and bed and breakfasts

and will have a hardship clause that will allow shortterm renters to plead their case to the Common Council, Rosenthal said. The moratorium will give the Legal Committee of the Common Council room to draft a detailed law on regulating the short-term rentals.

“It [short-term rentals] is a phenomenon happening across the country and reflecting trends in the wider economy,” Rosenthal said. “Internet platforms present good opportunities in an area to create some sort of income off of their property. The problem is when they are operated as quasi-hotels and without the same safety regulations.”

Assemblywoman Didi Barrett’s, D-106, office did not immediately return a request for comment Wednesday on whether she would support the legislation.

serving abroad on behalf of our country should be shut out from these substances, particularly when we know that they are needed,” Delgado said. “We have to strike the right balance here.”

Columbia Memorial Health spokesman William Van Slyke agreed that keeping access to opioid drugs open for those who need it while ensuring patients don’t slip into addiction is important.

“We’re grateful to the congressman for his interest and energy to help us address this issue,” Van Slyke said. “While we wouldn’t comment on proposed legislation, we’re hopeful that any action by policy makers will be very cautious and deliberate to ensure the any action moves us in the right direction.”

“We work very closely with our partners in the addictionology program and other addiction-related services to really balance those interests and what is being presented medically by the patient,” Van Slyke said.

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Biden and his allies have been previewing attacks on Warren for more than a month, swiping at her affection for sweeping policy plans and casting them as unrealistic or polarizing. But at last month’s presidential debate, the two barely clashed.

That dynamic changed dramatically Tuesday, when Biden accused Warren of “being vague” in her proposals. Warren went on to detail her work in helping to create the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau under the Obama administration, leading to a tense exchange with Biden, who was vice president at the time.

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COLUMBUS, Ohio — A day after their fiercest debate-stage confrontation to date, Joe Biden escalated his criticism of his most formidable rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, suggesting that she was not being forthright about the costs of her far-reaching policy proposals and questioning her “credibility.”

Biden zeroed in on Warren’s refusal to say if she would raise taxes on middleclass Americans to pay for “Medicare

for All,” a single-payer health care system that would all but eliminate private health insurance. While other candidates are pouncing on that issue as well, Biden is under particular pressure because Warren has passed him in some national and early-state polls and joined him as a frontrunner, a status he held alone for months.

He noted that she supports several ambitious proposals, including a tax on the wealth of the richest Americans, and said she should be pressed for details on how to implement them.

Warren’s campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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as the county’s revenue from tourism-related sales tax, Greene County Deputy Administrator Warren Hart said.

“In Greene County there were 45,300 guest arrivals [through Airbnb] in summer 2019,” Hart said.

Greene ranked the third largest for guest arrivals in the Capital Region, Hart said.

Greene County and Columbia County have more than 1,000 Airbnb units each, according to the state Hospitality & Tourism Association.

“Those overnight stays generated $7.6 million to the hosts,” Hart said. “The county was unable to capture $300,000 in revenue [from sales tax].”

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make it easier for physicians to prescribe addiction treatment drugs.

In the call, Delgado said investing more in drug courts, decriminalizing addiction and continuing legal action against Big Pharma companies that encouraged over-prescription of the highly addictive drugs are more measures that would stymie the epidemic.

But Delgado also cautioned against making opioid drugs too limited.

“As we go through this process… it should not mean that those who in fact are struggling with chronic pain, who are in fact coming home from

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CALENDAR 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. 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

Wednesday, Oct. 23 n Athens Town Board budget work-

shop 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 Coxsackie Town Budget workshop 6 p.m. Town Hall, 16 Reed St., Coxsackie n Greene County Legislature workshop 6 p.m. Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill

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

Monday, Nov. 4 n Athens Town Board 6:45 p.m. at the Town Hall, 2 First St., Athens n Cairo Town Board 7 p.m. at the Town Hall, 512 Main St., Cairo

Tuesday, Nov. 5 n Coxsackie Village Offices closed in

observance of General Election Day

Wednesday, Nov. 6 n Greene County Economic Develop-

ment Corporation 4 p.m. Greene County Economic Development, Tourism and Planning Conference Room (Room 427), 411 Main St., Catskill.

Thursday, Nov. 7 n Cairo Town Planning Board 7 p.m.

Town Hall, 512 Main St., Cairo

Bank of Greene County supports volunteer firefighters CATSKILL — The Bank of Greene County values community, and is always happy to support community organizations, especially emergency service providers. During, the bank has partnered with the Firemen’s Association of the State of New York (FASNY) and all Bank of Greene County branch locations are promoting Fire Prevention Month, with additional information on how to get involved with local fire departments and companies.

The bank is proud to have numerous employees who are volunteer Firefighters and members of Fire Auxiliaries. In addition, the bank has a full-time employee dedicated to providing lending services to emergency response organizations: Joseph Rothrock, Fire & EMS Specialist.

Rothrock, a volunteer

firefighter with the Palenville Fire Department, stated “All volunteer fire companies face a similar problem. Recruitment and retention are essential to our future existence, and the safety of the communities we serve. We want to help the local companies as much as we can. Just having the information available to everyone walking through a branch, and being able to direct potential recruits to any bank branch during the month of October will be very helpful.”

During October, local fire departments will be visiting each branch to speak with Bank customers and potential recruits.

For more information, or to get involved with a local fire department, stop by any Bank of Greene County location, contact the Bank at 518-943-2600, or visit www.fireinyou.org.

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Fire Prevention Month kicked off at the Bank of Greene County Cairo Branch with FASNY Officials, bank representatives, and local firefighters. Pictured from left are Donald MacCormack, VP Municipal Banking & Cash Management Bank of Greene County, volunteer Firefighter Kiskatom Fire Department; Ron Garrison, Board of Commissioner Chairman, Palenville Fire District; Christa Bush, Regional Branch Manager Bank of Greene County; Joseph Rothrock, Fire & EMS Specialist Bank of Greene County, volunteer Firefighter Palenville Fire Department; John D’Alessandro, Secretary for FASNY; Jerry DeLuca, Director of Programming and Outreach for FASNY; Tom McCullough, Chief Leeds Hose Company No. 1; Pete Kusimsky, 1st Assistant Chief Kiskatom Fire District; Blake Garrison, President and volunteer Firefighter, Palenville Fire Department.

Athens man charged with child porn

By Sarah Trafton Columbia-Greene Media

CAIRO — A Greene County man was arrested last week and charged with 124 felonies, state police said Tuesday.

Jose A. Rodriquez, 45, of Athens, was arrested at 7:46 p.m. Oct. 10 in Cairo and charged with two counts of possession of an obscene sexual performance by a child and 122 counts of possession of a sexual performance by a child, all class E felonies.

The investigation began in January 2018, state police Public Information Officer

Steven Nevel said.

“We received a cyber tipline report that images were being uploaded to a certain account and IP address,” he said.

An IP address, or internet protocol address, is a unique series of numbers that identifies a computer using the internet.

Police were able to use the information to obtain search warrants, Nevel said.

A search warrant was executed at Rodriquez’s residence, Nevel said.

Nevel did not know whether the images were found on a home computer

or at Rodriquez’s workplace, he said.

Rodriquez did not create the images that were found, Nevel said.

Rodriquez was arraigned in Durham Town Court and held in lieu of $25,000 bail or $50,000 bond. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for 5 p.m. Wednesday in Cairo Town Court.

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Storm clouds on the horizon?

For the foreseeable future, school enrollment, jobs, income and the general population will spiral downward. That’s a scary prediction for Columbia and Greene counties.

Sobering statistics were released this week by a Hudson Valley research group that illustrated how the Hudson Valley is faring more than a decade after the Great Recession.

Pattern for Progress, “Out of Alignment,” a year-long study funded by Central Hudson, looked at how the Hudson Valley has recovered since the Great Recession that began in December 2007 and ended in June 2009, and what is on the horizon. The forecast is gloomy.

Pattern for Progress factored in median income, public school enrollment, tuition costs, student debt, housing costs, population decline, aging population, public school taxes and health care and child care costs.

Here are a few of the findings.

Throughout the Hudson Valley, higher paying jobs, such as in the manufacturing sector, which boasts an average salary of $70,000, are growing smaller, while lowerpaying sectors, such as food and hospitality (average salary of $21,000), and retail (average salary $30,000) are expanding, according to the report.

Population is stagnant in the Hudson Valley. And it is getting older fast.

Greene and Columbia counties show a decline in the number of births from 2007 to 2017. Columbia County saw a decrease of 80 births, while Greene saw a drop of 72.

The Hudson Valley’s population does not statistically measure up to the size of

the millennial population. In Columbia and Greene, more than 40% of the population will be age 55 and older by 2030. By 2030 almost 25% of Columbia will be at least age 70.

Public school enrollment is rapidly declining, but education costs are increasing, according to the study.

“By 2028, public school enrollment is projected to decline by 25.8% in the Hudson Valley since the 2000-01 school year, even as per-pupil costs skyrocket amid disappointing outcomes,” according to the report. “As a result, local school taxes will continue to rise, raising questions whether the current system of public education is sustainable.”

Columbia and Greene counties have experienced the most dramatic decline in percentage enrollment. Between the 2000-01 and 2028-29 school years, Columbia (39%) and Greene (36%) are projected to lose a third or more of their student population, according to the report. This will have a serious ripple effect. This degree of sustained decline signals a future loss of skilled workers and a significant impact on community college enrollment.

And there are potentially higher costs not predicted in the report. With such an uneven recovery from an 11-year-old recession, Columbia and Greene counties could see higher taxes with fewer services and closing businesses, rising school taxes with fewer students, and an aging population with nowhere to turn. And that might create a clearer picture of what is on the horizon: storm clouds.

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Apple chief executive Tim Cookhas said “companies should have values, just like people do.” He’s right. But it is difficult to champion democratic values while doing business in a country that runs on speechstifling authoritarianism.

China is Apple’s third-largest market, and it brings the company$44 billion per year in sales, plus countless ethical headaches. Last week brought several, all surrounding the ongoing anti-government protests in Hong Kong. Apple hid the Taiwanese flag emoji from its keyboard for those tapping away on the island. It booted the news outlet Quartz from the Chinese version of its app store after its aggressive coverage of the unrest. And then there was HKmap.live, an app designed for Hong Kongers to avoid law enforcement amid violent crackdowns. Apple, at first, rejected the app. Then it approved it. Then, finally, it removed it.

Apple says its decision to yank HKmap.live wasn’t a matter of capitulation to the Chinese regime, but rather of internal enforcement.

The tool’s tracking function was abused to attack police, as well as to commit crimes in unpatrolled areas, and that ran counter to Apple’s guidelines. But the company’s reversal came after the ruling party’s official newspaper, The People’s Daily, declared that Apple’s support for “toxic apps” made the company “an accomplice to the rioters.”

Quartz was another story. Apple complies with local laws wherever it operates, and

President Xi Jinping’s laws don’t respect press freedom. Apple removed the app because China said to do so, just as it removed The New York Times’s almost three years ago.

Apple justifies acceding to despotic demands by arguing that it is the cost of operating in China, and that the Chinese people are better off with a big U.S. firm around than without. Apple and its peers can facilitate a freer flow of information - not to mention better privacy protections, on many of which the company says it will not compromise - than homegrown firms. The question, of course, is how free. Sometimes, corporations might go to the mat for what’s right, and sometimes they might win. But, other times, they will lose, and then they are left with a choice to leave China altogether or help warp the world its residents are allowed to see.

When the United States and its allies made the decision to engage with China, they imagined that economic growth and trade would promote political liberalization and a convergence of values. That hasn’t happened.

Instead, there is competition between vastly different sets of values, and China doesn’t hesitate to use the lure of its market to demand fealty to its propaganda line. Apple, the National Basketball Association and other businesses should resist - but they need help.

The United States should negotiate not only over soybean purchases and steel quotas but also to protect free speech and other liberties that China would erode.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY ‘Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.’

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Progressives are all too willing to cut constitutional corners WASHINGTON — Presidential aspirant Beto O’Rourke, thrashing about in an attempt to be noticed, says tax exemptions should be denied to churches and other institutions that oppose same-sex marriage.

O’Rourke’s suggestion, and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s plan to tax the “excessive” exercise of a First Amendment right, and the NBA’s painful lesson about the perils of moral grandstanding illustrate how progressivism has become a compound of self-satisfied moral preening and a thirst for coercion.

O’Rourke is innocent of originality: Harvard law professor Mark Tushnet recommends a “hard line” against people who deviate from progressivism: “Trying to be nice to the losers didn’t work well after the Civil War” and “taking a hard line seemed to work reasonably well in Germany and Japan after 1945.” Apparently it is progressive to regard unprogressive Americans as akin to enemies vanquished in wars. No Churchillian nonsense about “in victory, magnanimity.”

UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh notes that in 1952 California voters used a progressive device, a referendum, to amend the state’s constitution to deny tax exemptions to certain people despised by the majority — people who advocated the unlawful overthrow of the U.S. government. Fortunately, in 1958, in another case from California (concerning denial of property tax exemptions to veterans who refused to swear an oath not to advocate the unlawful overthrow of the government), the U.S. Supreme Court did its counter-majoritarian duty to protect minority rights, striking down this measure: “To deny an exemption to claimants who engage in certain forms of speech is ... the same as if the state were to fine them for this speech.”

Warren, a policy polymath, has a plan for everything, including for taxing speech that annoys her. The pesky First Amendment (in 2014,

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WILL 54 Democratic senators voted to amend it to empower Congress to regulate spending that disseminates political speech about Congress) says Congress shall make no law ... abridging the right of the people “to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” One name for such petitioning is lobbying.

Warren proposes steep taxes (up to 75%) on “excessive” lobbying expenditures, as though the amendment says Congress can forbid “excessive” petitioning. Lobbyists are unpopular, and her entire agenda depends on what the amendment was written to prevent — arousing majority passions against an unpopular minority (the wealthy).

Warren, who like O’Rourke is operatic when denouncing Donald Trump’s ignorance of, or hostility to, constitutional norms, might not be a plausible person to make the case against him.

“In defeat, defiance” was Churchill’s recommendation. The NBA’s is: When tyrants snarl, grovel. Beijing’s tantrum — great powers do not resemble frustrated toddlers — was detonated by a Houston Rockets employee who tweeted support for Hong Kong protesters. Commissioner Adam Silver, who represents the teams’ owners — Sorry. Forgive the insensitivity. The NBA has been so insufferable in its virtue signaling, so relentless in its progressive preening, that this past summer it announced that it has “moved away” from calling those who own teams “owners.” The term supposedly carries connotations of slavery.

But back to Silver. He took

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the 2017 All-Star Game away from Charlotte, so horrified was the NBA by a North Carolina law requiring transgender people to use public bathrooms according to the sex on their birth certificates. The NBA’s decision expressed its “long-standing core values,” which are, however, compatible with the NBA having its China training camp in Xinjiang province, where Chinese citizens are in concentration camps that facilitate “re-education.”

There is strong evidence (from an independent tribunal that met in London) that China, which has many more people in concentration camps — perhaps 1.5 million in Xinjiang alone — than Hitler had during the 1936 Olympics, is still harvesting organs, including hearts, from prisoners, some while still alive, for Chinese and foreign purchasers. Silver, however, is ostentatiously sensitive about “owners,” so Beijing should avoid that word, or else. The NBA should have done what a congressional letter recommends: suspend activities in China until “government-controlled broadcasters and government-controlled commercial sponsors end their boycott of NBA activities and the selective treatment of the Houston Rockets.” This would have caused Beijing’s infantilism to become a national embarrassment — a weak nation’s idea of national strength.

Unfortunately, however, O’Rourke, Warren and Silver demonstrate the tendency of too many progressives to cut constitutional corners, to despise and bully adversaries, and to practice theatrical but selective indignation about attacks on fundamental American principles, some of which they themselves traduce. Just what we did not need in our dispiriting civic life — additional evidence that there really is no such thing as rock bottom.

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David William Hobden David William Hobden, of David was a true family man and Canaan, NY died suddenly on was never happier than when he Monday, October 14, 2019. He was surrounded by his family. was 68. Born in Hamilton, On- David is survived by his wife, Ditario, Canada on April 17, 1951, anne, his three children, Sarah the son of William and Lois Hob- Hobden and her husband Paul den. David graduated Bildner, Jessica Hobfrom HS in Nashua, NH den and her husband and attended Fredonia Lee Miller and his son State College, where he Matthew Hobden. He met his wife of 48 years, is also survived by his Dianne Patnaude Hobsister Sandra (Michael) den. Upon moving to Pelletier of Weare NH. Canaan in 1980 David and numerous nieces embarked on a career and nephews. in Antique Restoration Calling hours will Hobden and Reproduction, culbe held on Saturday, minating in the creation of his October 26 from 1:00-3:00 at business: D.W. Hobden Resto- Wenk’s Funeral Home. A private rations. family memorial service will be As a younger man, David was held at a later date. Memorial an avid outdoorsman who en- donations may be made to The joyed hiking, wilderness camp- New Lebanon Library, 550 State ing and canoeing. After retire- Route 20, New Lebanon, NY ment, he and his wife traveled 12125 For online condolences, the country in their camper. visit wenkfuneralhome.com.

Trump meets grieving Britons, and springs a surprise Iliana Magra The New York Times News Service

LONDON — In an unrelenting quest for justice after their son was killed in a car crash and the driver who is a suspect in the case fled Britain for the United States, two Britons traveled all the way to the White House this week.

There, Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn, the parents of Harry Dunn, 19, who was killed in the crash in August, met with President Donald Trump on Tuesday. He had an unpleasant surprise for them, they later said.

Anne Sacoolas, 42, the wife of a U.S. diplomat and the driver involved in the crash that killed their son, was in an adjacent room, waiting to meet them. Police in England said she had fled the country while claiming immunity. Britain and the United States have been involved in a diplomatic tug of war ever since.

Trump, a former reality television star well versed in the language of staging a spectacle for the cameras, had another surprise. Members of the White House press corps were in another room.

Apparently they were waiting to record any meeting between the grieving parents and the woman they had pleaded with

in teary television interviews to return to Britain to face the police and to meet them so they could get answers.

“The bombshell was dropped not soon after we walked in the room,” Charles told reporters.

But the teenager’s parents, who said they would only meet Sacoolas when she returned to Britain, rejected Trump’s offer, saying that it felt “rushed” and that it would not have gone well.

“We would still love to meet with her,” Charles said, “but it has to be on our terms and on U.K. soil.” She added, “She needs to come back and face the justice system.”

The White House and the British Foreign Office did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Despite being caught off guard, Harry Dunn’s parents appeared sympathetic toward Trump after their meeting.

Charles said that the president was “very gracious” and “very welcoming,” and though the president did not suggest that Sacoolas would return to Britain, she said, he said he would now “push to look at this from a different angle.”

“I think he generally will look to try and resolve this in a way to help us,” Dunn told reporters.

UAW Announces Tentative Contract Deal With GM Neal E. Boudette The New York Times News Service

The United Automobile Workers union announced Wednesday that it had reached a tentative agreement with General Motors on a new labor contract that could end a monthlong strike that has idled GM plants across the Midwest and South.

Details of the contract terms were not released, although the union said it had “achieved major wins.” There was no immediate announcement from GM. The move does not bring an immediate end to the strike.

Contract terms still needs to be approved by union leadership, then ratified by a majority of the 49,000 UAW members employed by GM. The union had summoned officials of GM locals to a meeting Thursday in Detroit.

“Out of respect for our members, we will refrain from commenting on the details until the UAW GM leaders gather together and receive all details,” Terry Dittes, the union’s chief GM negotiator, said in a statement.

The walkout, the first against

a Detroit automaker’s nationwide operations since 2007, has left a mounting economic toll since it began Sept. 16. It has cost the union, its members and GM itself hundreds of millions of dollars in lost dues, wages and revenue, as well as idling truckers and suppliers that serve the automaker.

The tentative agreement, if it becomes final, would solve the most immediate challenge facing GM’s chief executive, Mary T. Barra, and should provide certainty in calculating labor costs over the next four years.

But she must contend with issues on other fronts, including a sales slowdown in the United States and China, and the need for big investments in electric vehicles and self-driving cars.

And like other automakers, GM has continued to feel heat from President Donald Trump over decisions on plant closings and foreign production.

The stakes were also high for the union. It faced discontent in its ranks over what members saw as a failure to win a fair share of the gains GM has made since its bankruptcy a decade ago.

Kurds are ‘no angels’ and their fight with Turkey is ‘not our problem,’ Trump says

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Wednesday continued distancing the United States from Kurdish forces in Syria who once were Washington’s chief ally in fighting the Islamic State terrorist group.

Trump’s decision to remove American forces that were positioned between Turkish troops and the Kurds has angered both Republican and Democratic members.

Both chambers are expected Alex Wong/Getty Images/TNS to soon approve a resolution U.S. President Donald Trump pauses as he meets with President condemning his decision, Sergio Mattarella of Italy in the Oval Office of the White House which he says is necessary October 16, 2019 in Washington, DC. President Trump is holding to help bring an end to what talks with President Mattarella on bilateral issues including he calls America’s post-9/11 “common security challenges and shared economic prosperity.” “endless wars.” his break with House and Sen“Syria’s protecting the Unraveling U.S. military operations across the Middle ate Republicans when he said Kurds,” Trump said. “They’re East and Southwest Asia was a Turkey’s invasion of Syria to hit safe.”

He appeared to wash his key plank of Trump’s 2016 pres- Kurdish forces is “not our problem.” hands of the murky situation as idential bid. Initially, he gave Trump took a shot at the Assad’s government, Moscow, into the counsel of his hawkish military and national security Kurds, noting in his remarks Turkey and Kurdish leaders advisers, but as his term moves that the U.S. funded many of continue careening toward a toward its three-year anniver- the group’s operations against bloody and uncertain future.

“I wish them all a lot of luck,” sary, Trump has increasingly Islamic State. “But that’s OK,” he added. he said. bucked such advisers.

The president said earLawmakers from both The Syrian Kurds lost more than 10,000 people while help- lier this week he has no qualms parties who rarely agree on ing the Obama and Trump ad- with Russia, which is filling the much are in lockstep in feelministrations mostly overturn vacuum there as U.S. forces ing the president abandoned Islamic State’s control of large prepare for a risky aerial evacu- a longtime ally. As the Senate ation, putting military police returned Tuesday, Majorswaths in northern Syria.

But Trump sent a signal he forces where the Americans ity Leader Mitch McConnell, has doubts about the longtime once acted as a buffer between R-Ky., called Trump’s move “completely unacceptable.”

U.S. allies, telling reporters in the Turks and Kurds.

“This violence needs to end,” On Wednesday, Trump apthe Oval Office alongside his Italian counterpart that the peared to endorse a deal Kurd- said McConnell, though he Kurds are “no angels,” and ish leaders made with Syrian never uttered Trump’s name called his move “strategically President Bashar Assad, whom during a floor speech. he once targeted with TomaHe also took rare umbrage brilliant.”

What’s more, he continued hawk missile strikes. with Trump’s “America first”

foreign policy.

“I want to make something clear: The United States has taken the fight to Syria and Afghanistan because that is where our enemies are. Fighting terrorists, exercising leadership in troubled regions, and advancing U.S. interests around the world does not make us an evil empire or the world’s policeman,” he said.

“It makes us a prudent and responsible world power that stands up for our own security and the freedom of others.”

As Trump was speaking to reporters at the White House, House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer, D-Md., told reporters he hopes to bring a Turkey sanctions bill the Foreign Affairs Committee is working on to the floor “in the near future.”

Trump announced this week he is slapping sanctions on Turkey because he has determined its operation has been too harsh. He also raised steel tariffs on Ankara to 50%, warning Wednesday he could impose “massive” ones if Turkey continues its hard-handed tactics. Treasury Secretary Steven warned last week the Trump administration could “shut down” Turkey’s economy.

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Farmhouse ‘Waiting for the End of Days’ Marc Santora The New York Times News Service

The man immediately struck the bartender as a bit off.

His beard was disheveled, he was in a daze, and his clothes seemed straight out of the 1980s. It was near closing time at Chris Westerbeek’s small pub in a rural Netherlands village, Café De Kastelein, and he sent the stranger away.

But a short time later, on Sunday night, the man returned and this time, Westerbeek decided to find out his story.

And what a story it was.

As the bearded man in the dated outfit quickly gulped down five beers, he said that for the last nine years, he and his siblings had barely seen the outside world. Instead, they were mostly confined to a small room in a Dutch farmhouse on the outskirts of the village of Ruinerwold “waiting for the end of days,” Westerbeek told Dutch reporters.

“He said he was the oldest and wanted to end the way they were living,” Westerbeek said.

By Monday, after the police went to the farmhouse and found the family living in strangely isolated conditions,

the bearded man’s story had spread far and wide.

In a hyper-connected world, where people find it hard to put down their cellphones much less totally drop off the grid, there was immediate fascination with the strange tale of how a “doomsday family” could manage to go unnoticed for so long.

The police cautioned that much about the case remains under investigation, including why the family lived the way they did. Many of the details have come from Westerbeek, who spoke to the local Dutch television station RTV and the national newspaper De Telegraaf. He did not immediately respond to messages seeking additional comment.

In the small village of just 4,000, the bearded man immediately stood and “looked confused,” Westerbeek said.

“He said he’d never been to school and hadn’t been to the barber for nine years,” he added.

The farm where the bearded man lived had a small vegetable garden and some livestock and was set back from the nearest road, shrouded from view by a line of trees.

The police confirmed that six adult siblings, between

the ages of 18 and 25, who had been living on the farm were now receiving care. Their mother is believed to have died some time ago, officials said.

The father, according to local authorities, had suffered a stroke but was also living on the farm. Authorities also confirmed that the bearded man who fled the farm to seek help was the eldest of the six siblings.

A 58-year-old man, identified by local reports as a handyman connected to the property, was taken into custody, but it was unclear how he was involved in the case.

Mayor Roger de Groot, during a news conference on Tuesday, said that the family had been living “an isolated lifestyle” and had been largely confined to their farm for at least nine years.

He added that several of the sibling’s births had never been registered. The police said in a statement that the family had not been registered in the municipality.

“I have never come across anything like this before,” he said.

But the police urged caution, saying much remained unknown.

“There is a lot of

Consumers pull back just before the holiday rush Abha Bhattarai The Washington Post

U.S. consumers unexpectedly pulled back on retail spending for the first time in seven months, reviving fears that a weakening economy could finally be taking its toll on American shoppers just before the pivotal holiday season.

Retail sales dipped 0.3% in September from the month before, the U.S. Commerce Department said Wednesday, as shoppers spent less on automobiles, building materials and sporting goods. Sales at department stores fell 1.5% from the month before, while online shopping slipped by 0.3%.

Retailers, already rattled by President Donald Trump’s

ongoing trade war with China, are watching closely as they prepare for the all-important holiday shopping season. Recent sales declines signal “an early chill for retailers,” Diane Swonk, chief economist at professional services firm Grant Thornton, wrote in a Wednesday note to clients.

Holiday spending growth slowed to 2.1% last year, the lowest level in nearly a decade, as a government shutdown, stock market volatility and new tariffs on Chinese imports took their toll on consumers.

The National Retail Federation is expecting more robust spending this year - it expects holiday sales will grow in the 3.8% to 4.2% range - though it has warned that economic

uncertainty, new tariffs and fluctuations in the stock market could negatively affect consumers’ shopping plans in the coming months.

Those declines come amid other signs that businesses and consumers are cutting back: U.S. manufacturing has fallen to its lowest level in more than a decade, and auto sales are contracting after seven years of fast growth. There are also signs that jobs growth is slowing, as businesses pull back on hiring.

In all, consumers spent $525.6 billion in September, down from $526.9 billion in August. Overall retail spending so far this year, however, is up about 3.4% compared to the same period last year.

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Autumnfest in Windham was spectacular

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PRATTSVILLE — Had a very informative and pleasant conversation with Miranda Cross, great-granddaughter of Stella and Val Cross, and no stranger to Prattsville.

Miranda and fiancé Forrest Koerner-Fox, originally from the Cairo area, live in Stamford. Miranda is employed by Wayne Bank, Stamford, and Forrest is employed by the railroad, not sure of the exact name.

He does quite a bit of traveling, assuming by train. Miranda and Forrest are making plans for their September 2020 wedding.

Miranda’s parents, Michael and Krista, and younger sister Brianna live in Stamford but Brianna attends Roxbury CS and excels in athletics. As grandma Stella would say, “She is a toughie.” Roxbury’s girls’ soccer team had a perfect regular season standing and also in their tournaments.

They now go to sectionals.

Brother Nicholas is now at Marine boot camp in

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Janet Brainerd, in favorite leopard print, meets great-grandson Landon.

Parris Island. We wish him all the best and thank him for his service.

Belated happy anniversary to Bob and Carrie Hermance of Lexington on Oct. 8. They celebrated their day, their third anniversary, with a trip to Myrtle Beach.

Peter Tocci was on a business trip to Saratoga and stopped in at the New York State Military Museum.

He got to see the veterans’ quilt featuring so many of our local veterans, including Peter, and sewn by local ladies. He said it is displayed in the room at the left of the entrance.

Our condolences to the family of Don Falke of Mosquito Point. Don was a wellknown figure in our towns, took pride in being a volunteer fireman, and always had a smile for all. He will be missed.

Al and Anita Creazzo are beaming with pride. Son Steven has wrapped up his second movie, “Skipping Stones,” with our area as the location.

Most of the shoots took place at Sunny Hill and the final

scene was shot at Dave Rikard’s law office, but it was repurposed for the movie.

The whole project took two weeks. Steven and crew are welcome to return for more movies.

Talking of pride, Tony and Pat Bifolco have their granddaughter to brag about.

Adriana and mother Michelle Bifolco took part in a 5K race for Make a Wish Foundation called The Bubble Run. Participants had to run through bubbles at various locations during the race. Hey, Adriana, thank you for your continued works for charities and for involving your mom.

Adriana is a junior member of our American Legion Auxiliary Unit 1327.

Everyone brings back souvenirs or something from their trips to other areas.

Roxy and Jim King made a recent trip to the Adirondacks to enjoy the fall foliage in the other New York state mountains.

Jim said the scenery was gorgeous and as a memento of their trip, Roxy came home

with a cold. We would suggest she buy a mug or postcard or picture next time they make a trip.

Get well wishes to Mary Cline. It is Ron’s turn to play nurse at this family homestead.

Heard the AutumnFest in Windham was spectacular as ever.

Glad they had super weather for their annual event. May they have many more events like this. Think most of Prattsville’s residents attended.

Always good to support our neighboring towns.

Happy birthday to McKenzie Constable, daughter of Michael and Connie Brainerd Constable, on Oct. 19. On Oct. 21, we wish Joanne Dunphy a Happy Birthday. We wish Ursula Jaeger, granddaughter of Diana and Arnold Jaeger, a happy birthday on Oct. 23.

Joe Concato is wished a very happy birthday on Oct. 24.

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Enjoying the fall foliage on the Mountain Top

By Christine Dwon For Columbia-Greene Media

Our deepest and heartfelt sympathy to Candice Boyle, family and friends ,on the passing of Jim Boyle on Oct. 9.

The Town of Lexington Fire Company Ladies Auxiliary had a very enjoyable dinner meeting at the Chicken Run in Windham on Oct. 8. Attending were: JoEllen Schermerhorn, Betty Hapeman, Chris Dwon, Helen Kerr, Carol Constable, Bette Knapp, Rose Williams, Jannel Mellott, Louise Van Etten, Kathy Jordan and Linda Van Etten.

The roast pork dinner that was held Oct. 12 at the Jewett church hall was very successful in raising funds for the benefit of the mission trip to Hope House in Thailand in 2020.

The Night of Worship with Jimi Myers that was held in the evening Oct. 12 at the Lexington UMC was well attended, very moving and inspirational.

This was also a fundraiser for the mission trip to Thailand.

Thanks to all for your support

for both of these events.

Happy birthday to Charina Falke on Oct. 18. Oct. 19 is Kathleen Hilbert’s birthday.

Birthday greetings to Dixie Baldrey on Oct. 23. Celebrating his 9th birthday on Oct. 23 is Dustin Falke. Best wishes to all.

You don’t want to miss the Lexington Historical Society’s Annual Archival Day, 1-3:30 p.m. Oct. 19 at the Historical Building, Church Street, Lexington. This year’s guest speaker will be Uldis Roze, porcupine expert. There will also be an autumn bake sale and annual raffle drawing.

Prizes this year are $100 in cash, a Breakfast Basket, Historical Society photo and the 2020 Historical Society calendar.

The 2020 Lexington Historical Society calendars are made of pictures developed from dry glass negatives. Since this type of negative was discontinued around 1920 the pictures are at least 100 years old. The glass plate negatives belonged to

Jane Hoffman, former West Kill resident, now living down south. Jane Hoffman came for a visit to West Kill awhile ago and gave the glass negatives to Shirley Van Valkenburgh.

Shirley generously donated them to the Lexington Historical Society. Harvey Truesdell asked Chris Protopapas of Lexington to develop the dry glass negatives and the photos were then donated by Harvey to the Historical Society. Due to an increase in printing costs, the 2020 calendars are once again being sold for $15 each or two for $25. By purchasing one of these calendars you not only get to have a fine calendar, but you are helping to support the Historical Society. Calendars may be purchased at the Lexington Municipal Building from the Town Clerk or the Town Historian or by calling Lorraine at 518-989-6646.

The last 2019 Greene County Public Health rabies clinic for Greene County dogs, cats and ferrets will be held 6-8 p.m. Oct. 23 at the Hensonville

Firehouse, 432 Route 296.

Donations are highly encouraged. Please bring record of pet’s previous vaccination to receive a three-year certificate. If no record is shown, pet will be given a one-year vaccination. New Baltimore Animal Hospital provides the veterinary service. Call ahead for ferrets. If you have questions, call 518-719-3600.

Prayers for the family of Jim Boyle, the family of Donald Falke, the family of Bonnie Blader, Pastor Bob and Kate Barnum, Mary Cline, Ellouise Cole, George Dart, Marilyn and Nancy Dippold, Donna Falke, John Grinnell, Betty Hapeman, Martha Hartman, Sally Hildebrand, Dale Klein, Barbara and Bill Mead, Jannel Mellott, Pastor Bob and Diane Nash, Ellis and Betty Potter, Stephanie Pushman, Joan Rappleyea, Ann Robinson, Art and Joyce Rood, Anna Simpfenderfer, Clarence and Jeanne Soule, Tom Soule, Don and Diane Strausser, Dr. Dan Sullivan, Gladys Van

Valkenburgh, Annette Waller, Debbie Wandursky, Mary and Ron Westman, Mickie Winters, our country, our government, our military and their families and all others in need of prayer.

Keep in mind that Daylight Saving Time ends Nov. 3. We turn the clocks back one hour.

Nov. 5, Election Day Turkey Dinner and Oyster Stew from 11 a.m.-6 p.m. at the Lexington/West Kill United Methodist Church hall. Takeouts and dining room available.

Mountain Top Ecumenical meeting for November will be held Nov. 6. Meetings are usually held the first Tuesday of the month but since that is Election Day, the November meeting will be held on the 6th at the Windham-Hensonville UMC in Windham. Meetings start at 11 a.m. With a speaker followed by a covered dish luncheon.

There will be a Veterans Day breakfast sponsored by the VFW Post 1545 and Windham Hose Company 1 8 a.m.-1 p.m.

Nov. 10 at the VFW Post 1545 in Windham. Good will offering.

Also on Nov. 10 starting at 4 p.m. “Serve The Vet – In Appreciation of Your Service” — the Lexington Mission invites all Mountain Top Veterans to a free dinner at the VFW Post 1545 in Windham. Please call or text 518-947-0601 if you need additional information for the dinner.

All You Can Eat Breakfast at the Ashland Town Hall, 12094, Route 23 7:30-11:30 a.m. Nov. 16 sponsored by the Ashland Historical Association. Adults are $9, children 5-10 are $5 and under 5 years are free.

What a beautiful Columbus Day weekend we had. If you judge by the amount of traffic, a lot of people came to our lovely Mountain Top to enjoy all the activities and see the autumn foliage.

Until next week take care, be thankful, gentle, humble and please speak kindly.

Newspaper reports and a look back in time

By Dede Terns-Thorpe For Columbia-Greene Media

IT WOULD BE A REVELATION – January 19, 1923 Catskill Recorder “If Rip Van Winkle had slept on and didn’t awake until 1923, what a surprise would have been in store for him! He would have seen his beloved mountains overrun with Summer vacationists; he would have to step lively to avoid being run down by the automobiles that travel the busy mountain road at all hours of the day and night; he would see the bright Western Electric lights shining from every mountain slope that boasts a progressive Summer boarding house, and he would see the busy Gretchen’s of to-day, using electrically operated washing machines, sewing machines, vacuum sweepers and other devices to make their work easy.” (Imagine if Rip slept into the 21st century!)

Stamford Mirror – February 25, 1925 – LAKE DEVELOPMENT AT TANNERSVILLE New York Corporation will create miniature Coney Island.

“The Rip Van Winkle Lake property was sold the past week to a corporation of New York men. They will make a number of improvements, consisting

of the dredging of a portion of the lake and building an island.

Bath houses are to be built and a dancing pavilion. Also, a drive around the lake. Work will be started at an early date. This will fill a long felt need for “Tannersville, and when completed will be one of the finest in the Catskills.” (?)

Catskill Recorder – 96 years ago – RESPONSE OF WOMANHOOD. “With the passing of the years since woman first became recognized as an individual in the educational world, there have been many adjustments to meet her changing needs. As a result of her increased interest in economics, woman is widening her horizon in relation to social conditions. The health of her family is dependent upon the cleanliness of the milk supply.

Woman strives toward immunity for her family from disease which may develop from contact with unsanitary garments. The dependence of her own family upon community sanitation in relation to drainage, insect pests, ventilation, etc., will lead into a consciousness of her share in the maintenance of good housekeeping and civic conditions. She is taking on this same

responsibility in her community. She is making playgrounds for children, healthier conditions in schools, fairer conditions for the work of men, women and children in farm, store, factory, and shop.”

Catskill Recorder - REMODELING – 1929 Honigsbaum Management is Preparing for New department “The busiest place in our village this winter is the Honigsbaum Department Store, where the work of remodeling the building for the new department is fast nearing completion.

Frank Showers and men are paining; Constable and Bender, carpenters, are adding the final work, and the Globe Sprinkler Company men are installing a sprinkler system. The past week

the counter men were here taking measurements for counters and it will not be long now before Tannersville will have an upto-the-minute 10 cent to $1.00 store.” (Honigsbaum’s Store was located at 6041 Main Street, just west of Pancho Villa’s) A Catskill Market 1882 Beef – gr.lb. 10c; Milk gal. – 8c; Porterhouse lb. – 20c; Sugar lb. – 12c; Corned lb. - 12c; Fish – cod lb. – 12c; Clams, hundred – 60c; Ham & Pork lb. – 15c; Butter lb.

– 40c; Oleomargarine lb. – 26c – Margarine was invented back in 1869; Cheese lb. – 16c; Eggs doz.

– 20c; Kerosene gal – 15c.

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

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Rhinebeck Area Chamber of Commerce announces its third Bartender Wars competition RHINEBECK — The Rhinebeck Area Chamber of Commerce announces its third Bartender Wars competition, a signature event and fundraiser to benefit the annual village holiday lights and tree lighting, and other general initiatives.

The event will be held on Thursday, Oct. 24, at the Beekman Arms in Rhinebeck. Tickets are $40 in advance and $50 at the door; patron check-ins/arrivals begin at 5:30 p.m., event is from 6-8 p.m. (early arrival is encouraged as all patrons must show ID and be processed through). Appetizers, coffee and cookies will be served, and premier raffles prizes will round out the evening.

Restaurants compete for the coveted “Best Signature Cocktail” and “Best Virgin Cocktail” – along with added promotional opportunities for their restaurant and bragging rights. Many of the top restaurants and bars in the Northern Dutchess area will be competing. Such notable establishments as Foster’s Coach House, The Amsterdam, the new Bia restaurant

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and Terrapin will be present this year, to name just a few. In 2018, Hotel Tivoli’s Devan Hassan took home the grand prize of Best Signature Cocktail and Terrapin’s Sean Ring and Djan Paunovic earned Best Virgin Cocktail. Chamber member businesses are invited to participate; all supplies to be provided by the Beekman Arms, and all ingredients to be contributed by the participating restaurants.

Guests vote on their favorite.

The Chamber is also soliciting

sponsorships from member businesses or individuals. Sponsorships include signage at the event, a promotions table, and features in the Chamber e-news and social media. Sponsor levels are as follows: $350 “Straight Up” includes on-site signage and 4 tickets to attend; $550 “Top Shelf” includes on site signage, 6 tickets, placement of promotional material in our take home bags (they provide the material), as well as mention on our voting card. Hudson

Valley Magazine will be on site, with a step-and-repeat photo opportunity.

“This is an annual, highly anticipated event, and we’re excited to present the third, as new restaurants have emerged since last time” states Chamber President Philip Meltzer. “It’s a spirited way to support our festive holiday lights and more. It combines the best of our area with the best of friendly competition,” he adds.

BARTENDER WARS – October 24, 2019 @ The Beekman Arms, 6 p.m.-8 p.m. (arrival/ check in 5:30pm). Attendance open to chamber members, non-members, and the general public ($40 in advance/$50 at the door). To learn more about the event, sponsorship opportunities and to buy tickets, please visit http://rhinebeckchamber.com.

The Rhinebeck Area Chamber of Commerce announces its third Bartender Wars competition, spotlighting the area’s most celebrated mixologists.

The event will raise funds for village holiday lights and other

Good To Be King tribute to Tom Petty VALATIE — The Valatie Community Theatre presents Good to Be King Tribute Band on Saturady Oct. 19, 8 p.m., $15 for adults, 65+ and students $12, under 8 Free.

Good To Be King — A Tribute To Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, is a tribute show that captures the essence of one of rock and rolls most prolific and best known songwriters, Mr. Thomas Earl Petty and his legendary backing band, The Heartbreakers.

Hailing from Western Massachusetts, Good To Be King’s members are some of the best known and most talented players the area has to offer... A couple players have toured the USA and Europe...

True to the sound, tightness, space, and melodic structures that made Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers one of the greatest bands in rock history, GTBK painstakingly recreates that same sound, presence, and atmosphere.

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‘Spiders and Salamanders,’ an exploration of the curious procedures and utensils COXACKIE — Hand me that spider, by modern standards a peculiar request but one that was often heard in early American kitchens. On Sunday, October 20 the Bronck Museum near Coxsackie will offer the program “Spiders and Salamanders” an exploration of the curious procedures and utensils used to prepare food in times past.

Food preparation in early times began in the wood lot, the farm field, and the barn yard. It is hard to overestimate the time consuming processes necessary to prepare or preserve the precious food consumed by the earliest settlers. Without refrigeration elaborate and often insufficient methods were employed in an attempt to preserve food for later use. The introduction of new and unfamiliar foods provided interesting challenges

for the cook. When tea first reached Europe many people ate the hot tea leaves and threw away the liquid. George Washington favored a hot chocolate drink made by steeping the hulls of the cacao bean in hot water rather than using the ground cacao bean itself.

Many of the first tulip bulbs that arrived in Europe were prepared and eaten like onions.

So step away from your food processor, slam the door on the microwave and visit a kitchen so completely without “conveniences” that it will give the modern cook many reasons to be glad that they didn’t have to prepare their family’s food in the “good old days”. The program “Spiders and Salamanders” begins at 2 p.m. on Sunday, October 20. The Bronck Museum is located just off US 9W 1.5 miles south of the intersection of routes 9W, 385 and 81 near Coxsackie, NY. Adult admission is $8, members and children $4. For additional information about this or any special event at the Bronck Museum find the Greene County Historical Society on Facebook, on the web at gchistory.org

It’s Smith vs. Smith...and a feeble script

By Raymond Pignone Columbia-Greene Media

Ang Lee likes to work with cutting-edge cinematic technology. He is also an inveterate experimenter in commercialmovie forms. Unfortunately, Lee’s tedious, forgettable new movie, “Gemini Man,” is the wrong type of film for experimentation.

In “Gemini Man,” Lee deploys extra-high frame rate 3D digital film, which he used in “The Life of Pi” to seamlessly place a digitally painted tiger into a small boat with the young hero. It was also used in this summer’s “Godzilla, King of the Monsters” to place live actors and huge monsters in the same shot.

There is a downside to this 120-frames-per-second technology. Modern 3D process work can leave wide-screen images muddy or blurry; the highframe rate process adds a remarkable amount of detail and a much brighter clarity to what we see. But it also makes the actors seem to move more slowly on the screen while the brightness can make the images strangely inert and enervated.

Will Smith in “Gemini Man.”

Both effects are visible in “Gemini Man,” which is additionally burdened by a thinly constructed script, indifferent direction and mostly connectthe-dots performances.

Will Smith stars as Henry Brogan, a 51-year-old military assassin who’s losing a bit off his aim and wants to settle down in retirement. His plans to relax and go fishing are shattered when he becomes the target of his own bosses who want him dead because they think he knows too much about a secret government project.

The assassin they send after

Brogan is...wait for it!...Brogan, only a younger, more highly skilled version. It’s Smith vs.

Smith, the hunter and the hunted played by the same actor, face-to-face with his 23-yearold clone, created by the same digital de-ageing technology that shaved years off Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury in “Avengers: Endgame.”

Smith has been shouldering this kind of hokum since “Independence Day” (1996) and, to be fair, he projects the same sincerity and drive to entertain here, but no actor can convey enough charm to deliver reheated James

Bond wisecracks like “It’s not gun time, it’s coffee time.” He keeps the emotional connections real enough to translate well to his younger self. However, the younger Brogan (who is called “Junior”), looks more convincing in the shadows than he does in broad daylight.

Lee attempts to hold the viewer’s interest with some bold camera work. He makes the most of shattering windows and the fight scenes are choreographed in tight close-ups without losing focus. The highlight is a thrilling motorcycle chase through the streets of Bogota, Colombia, where the vehicles are used as weapons.

Yet there is no getting around the abysmal sequences like the one where Brogan’s partner (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) has to subject herself to a totally gratuitous strip search, or where Brogan Junior, in a scene that leads nowhere, shoots his older self with bee venom to elicit a near-fatal allergic reaction.

Lee has plenty of technology at his command, but “Gemini Man” is too flimsy and superficial to support it.

CALENDAR LISTINGS TSL Movies October 17 October 24 n Celebration — Yves Saint Laurent, one of the greatest Parisian haute couture designers, draws the sketches for his final collection. Behind the scenes, Pierre Bergé manages a series of events to celebrate the fashion icon. Immersed inside the couture house from 1998 to 2001, during YSL’s final years there, documentary filmmaker Olivier Meyrou’s camera films the YSLBergé duo. In French with subtitles.

2018. 1h13m. n The Woman Who Loves Giraffes — Written, directed, produced by award-winning director Alison Reid. In 1956, four years before Jane Goodall ventured into the world of chimpanzees and seven years before Dian Fossey left to work with mountain gorillas, 23-year-old biologist Anne Innis Dagg made an unprecedented solo journey to South Africa to study giraffes in the wild.

In this film, Anne (now 85) retraces her steps, and with letters and stunning, original 16mm film footage, offers an intimate window into her life as a young woman, juxtaposed with a first hand look at the reality that giraffes are facing today, their triumphs as well as their setbacks.

2019. 1h23m. n Official Secrets — The gripping, true story of Katharine Gun (Keira Knightley), a British intelligence specialist. In 2003, Gun receives a memo from the NSA with a shocking directive: the US is enlisting Britain’s help in collecting compromising information on UN Security Council members in order to blackmail them into voting in favor of an invasion of Iraq. Unable to stand by and watch the world be rushed into an illegal war, Gun makes the gut-wrenching decision to defy her government and leak the memo to the press. So begins an explosive chain of events that will ignite an international firestorm. 2019. 1h51m. n The Load — Premiering to rapturous reviews at Cannes, Ognjen Glavonić’s narrative feature debut is a taut suspense thriller recalling The Wages of Fear and Sorcerer.

During NATO’s bombing of Serbia in 1999, Vlada, a truck driver, is hired to undertake a treacherous path across his war-torn country and deliver mysterious cargo. On a journey where friend and foe prove indistinguishable, Vlada comes to realize the horrifying ramifications of his mission. Brilliantly photographed and intoxicatingly intimate, The Load signals the arrival of a major talent. In Serbian with subtitles.

2018. 1h38m. n Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice — Linda Ronstadt guides us through her remarkable life and career from growing up in Tucson singing Mexican canciones with her family; her folk days with the Stone Poneys; and her reign as the “queen of country rock” in the ‘70s and early ’80s. With moving performance footage and appearances by friends and collaborators including Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Bonnie Raitt and Jackson Browne, the documentary celebrates an artist whose desire to share the music she loved, made generations of fans fall in love with her – and the sound of her voice. 2019. 1h35m n Alice in the Cities — New restoration. Wim Wender’s fourth film. The German journalist Winter wants to write a story about America but is unable to accomplish anything but a series of Polaroids before beginning his journey home. In New York, he reluctantly agrees to take little Alice (Yella Rottländer) with him, because her mother (Lisa Kreuzer) – whom he meets on the day before his departure – has urgent business.

In Amsterdam, the mother fails to appear as they agreed, so Winter and Alice set out to try to find Alice’s grandmother. During their search, their initial mutual dislike gradually transforms into a heartfelt affection. In German with subtitles. 1974.

1h53m. n Say Amen, Somebody (1982) — New restoration. One of the most acclaimed music documentaries of all time. A joyous, funny, deeply emotional celebration of African American culture, featuring the father of Gospel, Thomas A. Dorsey (“Precious Lord, Take My Hand”); its matron, Mother Willie Mae Ford Smith; and earth-shaking performances by the Barrett Sisters and the O’Neal Twins. When it was first released in the early 1980s, the film received an overwhelming critical response, garnering rave reviews around the world. 1982. 1h41m.

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OCTOBER 17 The History of Hudson’s Merchants & Whalers Thursday, October 17, 6 p.m.

Established by whalers and merchants from Nantucket, Massachusetts and Providence, Rhode Island, Hudson has had many incarnations:

as a safe harbor for maritime commerce, an industrial city with foundries, mills, cement plants, and factories; and now as a vibrant, artistic city who values its historic architecture, working with its diverse community to decide how it should be defined now and into the future.

Presented in partnership with the Hudson Area Library’s Local History Speaker series, this fascinating talk covers the history of commerce in Hudson from the time of its inception as a city in 1785 to the present day.

Mr. Carl Whitbeck, Jr., a local resident whose family has deep roots in the area, will be displaying and discussing items from his own extensive local history collection.

Free, reservations suggested, Thursday, October 17, 6:00 pm, https://hudsonoperahouse.secure. force.com/ticket/#sections_a0F1Q00000U39O9UAJ Hudson Hall, 327 Warren Street, Hudson, (518) 822-1438 http://hudsonhall.org/

OCTOBER 18 FilmColumbia – 20th Anniversary Friday, October 18 Sunday, October 27 FilmColumbia celebrates its 20th year with the best-curated selection of world class films from major studios and independents, and a stunning array of international films, animated features, documentaries and children’s shorts.

Save the date and join us in celebrating the Crandell Theatre’s Small Town/Big Movies festival that has grown from the “little local festival that could” to an acclaimed, nationally recognized film event.

Friday, October 18 - Sunday, October 27, https://crandelltheatre.org/ filmcolumbia/ Village of Chatham, Main Street, Chatham www.visitchatamny.com Legends by Candlelight Ghost Tours Friday, October 18, 6 p.m. - 9 p.m.

The highlight of Clermont’s fall season! Guests will find themselves traveling back in time, as the house is filled with ghosts from throughout the mansion’s 250-year history.

Tours followed by roasted marshmallows. Each year features dozens of hand-carved, flickering jack-olanterns.

Evening Tour times: 6, 6:30, 7, 7:30, 8, 8:30, 9 p.m.

Reservations Required. Please call (518) 537-4240 $5 – $12, Friday, October 18, 6 p.m.

- 9 p.m., https://www.friendsofclermont.org/events Clermont State Historic Site, 1 Clermont Avenue, Germantown, 518537-4240 www.FriendsofClermont.org Abby Lappen & Pete Toigo + Gradually Catering Friday, October 18, 6 p.m. - 9 p.m.

Crisp Fall weather, live music, delicious food & drink, s’mores around the fire pit, family & friends coming together! That is what Fall Fridays are all about at The Greenhouse Cidery!

Join us for live music from Abby Lappen & Pete Toigo.

Alex of Grandilly Catering will be on site with us at the cidery dishing up your favorite Italian-American comfort foods! Stop by his tent for a homemade Meatball or Pulled Pork Slider or a bowl of savory & in season Butternut Squash Soup!

Our unique hard cider, NY craft beer, Tousey Winery wines, local spirits from Hillrock Distillery & Grazin’ spirits & YesFolk Kombucha. Non-alcoholic beverages available as well!

All are welcome, famiy-friendly and as always FREE! Mark your calendars, tell your family & friends & visit us for a great evening on the farm!

Friday, October 18, 6 p.m. - 9 p.m., https://www.facebook.com/ events/1257762044406620/ The Chatham Berry Farm, 2309 State Route 203, Chatham, 518-392-4609 www.thechathamberryfarm.com Bram’s Stoker’s Dracula Friday, October 18, 7 p.m.

Columbia-Greene Community College hosts Theatre on the Road’s production of Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

In this simply staged, full-length thriller Dracula attempts to move from Transylvania to England to find new blood and spread his undead curse, but Professor Van Helsing and the townspeople get in his way. This production ran for a full season at New York’s Royal Playhouse and has several unique features including a woman in the role of Van Helsing!

Adapted by Crane Johnson. Presented by Theatre on the Road. $15 – $20, Friday, October 18, 7 p.m., https://cogreeneevents-dracula. brownpapertickets.com/ Arts Center Theatre at Columbia Greene Community College, 4400 Route 23, Hudson, 518-828-4181 www.sunycgcc.edu/event/

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Beautiful Autumn Affair Weekend What a beautiful Autumn Affair Weekend! The weather was simply gorgeous — crisp, chilly nights (to make the leaves burst with color) and sun filled, not too hot days.

We were celebrating 25 years of the Autumn Affair and I had a great weekend talking and selling. I love being in the thick of things, renewing old friendships and making new.

Now we can officially prepare for the coming season. Did you hear that we might have snow flurries this week? Right on schedule.

We made Channel 6 news again, but I wish it was for a good thing. Father Jay was interviewed after St. Theresa’s and Hope Restoration were broken into last week. A friend was worried about how God would judge the perpetrators.

That’s the big problem today.

Facebook posts are about putting prayer back in school, how about putting prayer back in the home. Ashland church has only 10-20 regular attendees, Windham around 35, Grand Gorge 10. Meetings and trainings are now being held on Sundays so working people can attend, but who thinks of getting up for church? Or even teaching your children their prayers. Sunday School attendance is nil..even St. Theresa’s couldn’t get anyone to sign up. It’s time to take inventory of our lives and decide to put God back in them.

The Circus Ole at the Orpheum Theater in Tannersville on Saturday Night was wonderful. The group is traveling the US, and we were lucky enough to get them here.

ASHLAND SPEAKS

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ANDERSON I’m glad I was invited and went.

John and Lewis Giordano drove Mom, Dot, to Vermont to visit Patrick and family last weekend. It was their annual trek to celebrate Dot’s birthday on Oct. 15. Grandson Quinn, 15, attends the Woodstock School there, and recently returned from a trip to Africa, where they taught the people farming techniques and how to plant and nurture trees. Patrick and family are entertaining an exchange student for two weeks, and in April, Quinn will be going to Spain for two weeks.

It’s time to drop off your donations for the Jewett Presbyterian Church Rummage Sale being held on Oct. 25 and 26. No furniture PLEASE. If you have furniture, you may display pictures and phone number and address where it can be picked up.

Mark your calendars for Hope Restoration’s Annual Thanksgiving Dinner on Nov. 1.

Don’t forget to go to East Jewett Fire Department’s Chili Fest, which will be held 2-6 p.m. Nov. 3. Price is $10 for adults and $5 for children. All you can eat! The Fire House is

located at 1277 Rte 23C. What comes after death? In today’s society, we often avoid dealing with the inevitable reality of death. Coping with this reality is one of the life situations that mainstream religions can help us deal with. Come join the Interfaith Panel 7-8:30 p.m. Nov. 4 at the Greenville Public Library Community Room to find out what various religions believe about death and what comes after it. There will be representatives discussing the topic “What Comes After Death?” from the Buddhist, Catholic, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim and The Church of the Latter Day Saints faith traditions, so it should be an enlightening evening. This will be the 10th annual Interfaith Panel Discussion sponsored by the Greenville Area Interfaith Council. There will be time for questions and responses.

Light refreshments will be served. A free will donation for the charitable works of the GAIC will be welcomed.

The VFW Post 1545 and Windham Hose Co. 1 will be holding a Veterans Day Breakfast 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Nov. 10. Good will offering. Also, “Serve the Vet” in appreciation of your services, Lexington Mission invites all to dinner at the VFW Post 1545 starting at 4 p.m. Free Will offering. The Post is located on Route 23 just west of the village of Windham.

Greene County Senior Angels 4th Annual Thanksgiving on Nov. 28. All SENIORS are welcome. Check the Round Table (the official publication

of Greene Co Human Resources ) for complete information.

COMING EVENTS Oct. 20 Greene Co. Women’s League Tea Washington Irving Inn 2-5 p.m. $25 518819-1249.

Oct. 25 Senior Angels Bake Sale Greene County Office Building donations requested.

Oct. 25 Jewett Presbyterian Church Rummage Sale 4-7 p.m.

Oct. 26 Jewett Rummage Sale bag sale 9 a.m.-noon.

Please help me advertise your activity by emailing me at lmgeand@yahoo.com or calling 518-734-5360.

PRAYERS AND CARES Prayers to the families of Willie Mutzek and Don Falke who passed this past week.

Also, Elaine Katt. Elaine was Home Demonstration Person for the Greene County Extension Service for many years. Mother of Irene Pough, grandmother of Virginia. Jim Bowle, husband of Candy Boyle, passed away suddenly.

Jim was the former owner of the Lexington Store. Healing prayers for Fawn Jaeger, wife of Sean of Jewett, who has been hopitalized after the loss of her brother. Bill Roscoe, 60 years old, had an ATV accident in Jewett.

Florence, was Lucy’s favorite, while I was my grandmother Carrie’s.

We often could be found playing at the Bump House, pretending to be guests. Each bedroom was still set up, awaiting guests that never showed. Every bed had a handmade quilt just waiting to be turned down. Every room had a wash bowl and pitcher waiting to be filled, sitting atop a washstand that was covered by a hand embroidered scarf.

And the clothes! Hats, gloves, gowns! All set up and waiting for us to put them on. We dressed up and pretended we were from a big city. We pranced and preened as if we were going to be waited on.

We clomped around in highheeled slippers that were way too big, but we felt so glamorous.

My aunt was a very private person. To this day, I have no idea how she paid her bills but, then again, she had no electricity and no indoor plumbing. Her son, Harold, had fallen from the milk wagon

and died, then her husband, Frank, passed, so basically, she lived in one large room.

She slept on the day couch, cooked on the kitchen range.

The only other used room was the pantry. The water from the well pump (which is still there) was carried into the house for use. That was located outdoors, and for “necessary,” the outhouse was used.

Why all the unused rooms?

After her son died, she shut the door to his room and never reopened it. After her husband died, she did the same with that room.

She was a very proper woman. You never saw her without appropriate clothes. No robes during the day. You got up and got dressed. Every night, she rinsed out her hair and pinned it up so it was always curled.

When going out, she had her hat, gloves and matching bag.

She had a dot of rouge on her cheeks and ear lobes. Always the lady. It was another sign of the times in which she lived.

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equalize, somehow putting the free kick seemingly through the wall and just under Quinn Murphy’s hand.

Defender Sam Murphy and keeper Chris Hanchar were outstanding for Albany Academy with Hanchar preventing a sure Logan Groat goal in the first half of overtime.

For the Riders, another solid defensive performance led to only five shots on goal for AA, for the entire match.

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CRARYVILLE — Amelia Canetto recorded a hat trick to help Taconic Hills defeat Ellenville, 6-0, in a Mid-Hudson Athletic League field hockey match on Tuesday.

The Titans jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first half as Kirsten Shumsky scored off an Abby Tkacy assist with 26:39 to go in the half, Tkacy scored with an assist from Sage Pulver with 19:26 remaining in the half and Canetto tallied the first of her three goals off an assist from Tanner Van Alstyne with 11:28 to go before the intermission.

Taconic Hills added three more goals in the second half with Canetto scoring a pair 40 seconds apart (27:48, 27:08), before Pulver found the back of the cage with 20:57 left in the contest. Pulver, Shumsky and Amara Wright each had an assist in the second stanza.

“We were very aggressive in the circle and moved the ball well,” Titans’ coach Angela Webster said.

Taconic Hills outshot Ellenville, 33-11 and held a 12-5 edge in penalty corners.

Titans’ goaltender Sydney Kiernan posted the shutout, stopping five shots. Ellenville’s goaltender collected 17 saves.

After the the game coach Webster held a ceremony to honor the team’s six seniors: Amara Wright, Amelia Canetto, Tanner Van Alstyne, Kirsten Shumsky, Delana Bonci and Sage Pulver.

Taconic Hills is 8-2 in the MHAL and 11-2 overall.

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Taconic Hills’ Madison Rowe (1) defends against a Ellenville player during Tuesday’s Mid-Hudson Athletic League field hockey match.

BOYS SOCCER COLONIAL Ichabod Crane 1, Albany Academy 1 VALATIE — In an exciting match between two of the top boys soccer teams in the Colonial Council, Ichabod Crane and Albany Academy battled to

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a 1-1 tie on Tuesday.

Academy led the match in time of possession but IC created more quality chances on

goal. Each team scored from a direct free kick to keep the score 1-1.

Logan Groat would put the

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Taconic Hills’ Delana Bonci (13) looks to pass to a teammate during Tuesday’s Mid-Hudson athletic League field hockey match against Ellenville.

Germantown 3, Berlin 1 GERMANTOWN - The Germantown girls soccer team celebrated senior night at home Tuesday with a 3-1 non-league win against Berlin of the Wasaren League.

A closely contested first half battle finished with the hometown Clippers leading 1-0 on the strength of a direct kick service by junior midfielder Riley Gibbons to junior midfielder Megan Dunn for a header finish with 3:22 remaining in the first session.

Gibbons scored two times in the second half off of give and go possessions with junior striker Kaycee Hayes putting the game out of reach.

Berlin’s lone goal was scored late in the second half when a entry pass from Berlin midfielder Jordanne Brazie deflected off of a Germantown defender into the goal.

The Clippers outshot Berlin, 18-3.

Germantown goalkeeper Kaitlyn Stagno had three saves.

Berlin’s Jackson Burhans turned away 15 shots.

The Clippers (9-1 CHVL, 12-3 overall) finish the regular season Friday with a road match at Webutuck.

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Houston’s Gerrit Cole wasn’t at his best, but it was still good enough James Wagner The New York Times News Service

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Fizdale says he will sort out Knicks’ PG battle Stefan Bondy New York Daily News

NEW YORK — With his point guard battle hitting a pivotal game Wednesday at Madison Square Garden, Knicks coach David Fizdale claimed there was no frontrunner for the starting spot

and he would make a decision separate from any contractual circumstance.

In other words, the fact the Knicks have just two weeks to pick up Frank Ntilikina’s option has no bearing on his See FIZDALE B6

NEW YORK — The last time the Houston Astros lost a game started by Gerrit Cole was July 12 — and even that defeat really wasn’t his fault. Cole, one of the aces of Houston’s rotation, struck out 13 in six innings against the Texas Rangers, but his teammates gave up five runs in an eventual 9-8 loss.

The last time Cole actually pitched poorly and lost a game himself? May 22, when he coughed up six runs over five innings in a 9-4 loss to the Chicago White Sox. Cole’s run of dominance on the mound this year has been simply stunning: since his last loss, he has thrown 169 1/3 innings, struck out 258 batters and posted a 1.59 ERA. He continued without a hitch at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday, stifling the New York Yankees in a 4-1 Astros victory in Game 3 of the American League Championship Series. The Yankees made it difficult for Cole over seven innings — he allowed four hits and five walks — but they couldn’t capitalize on

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Houston Astros starting pitcher Gerrit Cole (45) throws against the New York Yankees during the second inning of game three of the 2019 ALCS at Yankee Stadium.

the few opportunities he afforded them.

Some sloppy play and struggles on the mound did not help the Yankees, either,

and the result was a two-games-to-one See COLE B6

They’re World Series-bound, but Nationals aren’t done yet Thomas Boswell The Washington Post

WASHINGTON - What the Washington Nationals have done this season is like going into your backyard with a spade to plant petunias and, instead, striking oil.

Their appointment with the

World Series, just 14 days after facing elimination in the wild-card game, is like spilling water onto Grandma’s painting of an old farm house and finding out she had painted over a still-pristine Picasso.

The Nats’ pennant-winning, 7-4 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals

in Game 4 of the National League Championship Series on Tuesday night began as a massive gleeful party, constructed on an amazing seven-run first inning that had a crowd of 43,976 attempting to prove that mass delirium is possible. For two hours, Nationals

Park witnessed a romantic comedy: Town loves team, team loves town, and the Cardinals roll over and play dead to end this four-game sweep.

But by the late innings, this game - even with a huge NLCS lead - felt like a zombie slasher meets Frankenstein’s bigger brother as closer

Daniel Hudson escaped a basesloaded eighth-inning jam by getting Matt Carpenter, the go-ahead run, to ground out.

In the end, the bullpen of Tanner Rainey, Sean Doolittle and See NATIONALS B6

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Nashville at Vegas, 10 p.m.

Carolina at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.

Wednesday’s games Colorado at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.

Toronto at Washington, 7 p.m.

Dallas at Columbus, 7 p.m.

Philadelphia at Edmonton, 9:30 p.m.

Buffalo at Anaheim, 10 p.m.

Carolina at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.

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ML Baseball MLB POSTSEASON LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) American League Houston 2, N.Y. Yankees 1 Saturday, Oct. 12: N.Y. Yankees 7, Houston 0 Sunday: Houston 3, N.Y. Yankees 2, 11 innings Tuesday: Houston 4, N.Y. Yankees 1 Wednesday: Houston at N.Y. Yankees, 8:08 p.m.

(FS1) Thursday: Houston at N.Y. Yankees, 8:08 p.m.

(FS1) x-Saturday: N.Y. Yankees at Houston, 4:08 or 8:08 p.m. (FS1) x-Sunday, Oct. 20: N.Y. Yankees at Houston, 7:38 p.m. (FS1) National League Washington 4, St. Louis 0 Friday, Oct. 11: Washington 2, St. Louis 0 Saturday, Oct. 12: Washington 3, St. Louis Monday: Washington 8, St. Louis 1 Tuesday Washington 7, St. Louis 4 WORLD SERIES (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) Washington vs. New York/Houston Tuesday, Oct. 22: Washington at American League (Fox) Wednesday, Oct. 23: Washington at AL (Fox) Friday, Oct. 25: AL at Washington (Fox) Saturday, Oct. 26: AL at Washington (Fox) x-Sunday, Oct. 27: AL at Washington (Fox) x-Tuesday, Oct. 29: Washington at AL (Fox) x-Wednesday, Oct. 30: Washington at AL (Fox)

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NEW YORK — Jose Altuve swung at the first pitch he saw from Luis Severino on Tuesday, a belt-high slider he blasted into the Houston Astros’ bullpen in the top of the first inning. Appearances aside, Altuve insisted the Astros were glad Severino’s start did not last long.

“He was pretty good,” Altuve said after the Astros’ 4-1 victory in Game 3 of the American League Championship Series, “but the fact that we could get him out of the game early was big for us.”

Actually, at 4 1/3 innings, Severino worked more than the typical New York Yankees starter in the postseason under manager Aaron Boone. This series matches two data-savvy organizations that have opposite beliefs about how to pitch to a title, and their differences were on display in Game 3.

Consider Gerrit Cole, who started Game 3 for the Astros at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday.

In his previous playoff start, the division series clincher against Tampa Bay, Cole worked eight innings. The Yankees have played 28 postseason games since one of their starters went that deep in a game.

The last to do it for the Yankees was CC Sabathia, who pitched a complete game to eliminate the Baltimore Orioles — yes, they were once a playoff team — in the 2012 division series. In two years and 11 postseason games under manager Aaron Boone, Yankees starters had averaged less than four innings per start, including the 4 1/3 innings from Luis Severino on Tuesday.

To be precise, the Yankees’ starters had collected only 130 outs, or 11.8 per game, and only once lasted more than five innings. That was in Game 1 of this series, when Masahiro Tanaka worked six innings, throwing 68 pitches, and called it a night.

“One of the strengths of our club is the depth of our bullpen,” Boone said. “And we probably rely on the 12, 13 pitchers that we have more so than most teams that tend to be a little more top-heavy.”

With Cole, Justin Verlander and Zack Greinke, the Astros are clearly top-heavy. So are the Washington Nationals, who have flourished in the National League playoffs behind Max Scherzer, Stephen Strasburg, Patrick Corbin and Anibal Sanchez.

There is no one way to win in October, but the wealthiest teams have choices. The Astros traded 12 players to get Verlander, Cole and Greinke, who combined to earn more than $73 million this season. The Nationals committed $369 million in free agency for Scherzer, Corbin and Sanchez, and another $175 million in a contract extension for Strasburg.

The Yankees made heavy investments in their bullpen, the contracts for Aroldis Chapman, Zack Britton and Adam

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New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone takes out starting pitcher Luis Severino (40) during the fifth inning in game three of the 2019 ALCS against the Houston Astros at Yankee Stadium.

Ottavino all ranking among the 10 most lucrative deals for pitchers who were relievers at the time they signed. Those three earn an average of $39.2 million per season, and the Yankees supported them with two other top relievers in Chad Green and Tommy Kahnle.

It was hard to argue with the strategy. The best way to stifle the opponent is with strikeouts, and the Yankees were the only team in the majors to have four relievers with at least 11 strikeouts per nine innings (minimum 55 innings pitched) — Chapman, Green, Kahnle and Ottavino. The exception was Britton, whose power sinker is all but impossible for hitters to lift.

“It’s definitely a new trend lately,” Kahnle said. “To go to the bullpen early is definitely one of our strengths on the team, and I think Boone has done a great job of utilizing that. He’s just trying any way to get the end goal, which is the W at the end of the day, and being able to use us early in games, it’s not going to really affect us.

We’ve been doing it almost all year.”

The risk for the Yankees is that, eventually, the seasoned Houston hitters could benefit from repeated looks at the same relievers. Ottavino, especially, has struggled this postseason: Nine of the 18 hitters he has faced have reached base.

In the seventh inning Tuesday, George Springer walked against Ottavino and bolted for second on a stolen base attempt. As he did, Altuve rolled a single through the right side, leading to a two-run inning helped by familiarity: Ottavino has pitched in all three games of this series, and allowed three singles to Altuve.

“I wouldn’t say it gets easier — it never gets easier — but at least you know how their pitches look and everything,” Altuve said. “To be honest with you, I don’t really like facing Ottavino. I just try to put the ball in play every time I’m facing him.”

“When you have so many

good bullpen arms that you’re not dipping in quality at any point when you use eight or nine guys in a game, that’s an incredible approach,” Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow said. “Our hitters are never going to see the same pitcher twice. That being said, as the series rolls on, you get deeper and you’ve seen the guys three or four times.

“Like in Game 5 against Tampa, for most of the pitchers that came in, it was either their third or fourth appearance, and the pendulum starts to swing back to the hitters, I think. Maybe that’s why we were able to get some runs against Tampa.”

Barring a rainout, the Yankees and the Astros could both be forced to use an array of pitchers in Game 4 on Wednesday. The Astros’ fourth starter in the regular season, Wade Miley, struggled late in

the season and was left off the ALCS roster. Their fifth starter, Aaron Sanchez, had a shoulder operation in September. So the bulk of Game 4 could fall to the rookie Jose Urquidy, who had never pitched above Class A before this season.

The Yankees are more used to a bullpen game, with Green their usual opener. But if the game is rained out, the teams would have to play four in a row, with no days off, if the series goes a full seven games.

That could mean an even more demanding workload.

“At this time of the year, you just do it,” Green said. “You try not to overthink it and think, ‘I’ve never done this before.’ “ But the strategy can be challenging, Astros manager A.J. Hinch explained, because the more pitchers a team uses, the greater the chance that someone will falter.

“Once you start that, you

can’t stop,” Hinch said. “Once you start the matchup-friendly approach, you run into a bad matchup eventually. If you have a right-handed specialist, there’s going to be lefties in the lineup. If you have a lefty that you don’t want to face a righty, you’re going to run into a righty, and you start rifling through your pitching a little bit.

“It is hard to get everybody perfectly lined up and perfectly matched up. The game often changes. It’s way easier to do it on paper than it is in practice.”

Hinch added: “But I think the mental grind that it takes on the hitters to always give them different looks, it takes great discipline to just stay with it. What do you do when guys get hot from a pitching standpoint and they look like they’ve got their best stuff?”

For Hinch, it was a rhetorical question. The Astros’ bullpen had a better earned run average than the Yankees’ this season (3.75 to 4.51), and relievers Roberto Osuna, Will Harris and Joe Smith have been sharp lately. But elite starters remain the most valuable commodity in the game, and when they are rolling, let them roll.

Cole matched a career high with five walks Tuesday, but he was sturdy enough to last through seven innings. As sharp as some Houston relievers have been lately, a pitcher like Cole is almost always a better option.

“You look at what Washington’s doing right now,” Luhnow said. “They’ve got some good offense going, but it’s on the backs of those incredible pitchers. If you have a good rotation, you’re going to be in great shape in the playoffs.

But the model continues to change, and teams evolve with what they have.”

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LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Angels have been to the playoffs one time in the last decade, an anti-climactic three-game stint in 2014 that saw star Mike Trout held to one hit. Despite Trout’s unrelenting dominance in the time that has passed since that demoralizing series sweep, the Angels have experienced four losing seasons in the last five years.

They hope to change that now. Joe Maddon, the Pennsylvania native who was an employee of the Angels for 31 years, was hired as manager Wednesday to usher in the next era of October baseball in Anaheim.

Buck Showalter, John Farrell and San Diego Padres hitting coach Johnny Washington also were interviewed for the position.

The pinnacle of Maddon’s career to date is leading the Chicago Cubs to the 2016 World

Series title, ending a 108-year drought. Now Maddon is coming home. He left Anaheim to become manager of the Tampa Bay Rays in 2006, three decades after beginning his professional career as a catcher in the Angels minor league system in 1975.

He moved into scouting for the Angels in 1980, spent the 14 seasons that followed as a minor league manager and coach, and was promoted to the major league coaching staff in 1994. As Angels managers were replaced, Maddon was a mainstay. He became bench coach under Mike Scioscia, a position he held when the team won its only World Series championship in 2002 and for the next three seasons.

Despite leaving the Angels 14 years ago, Maddon still owns a home in Long Beach.

Maddon’s three-year deal gives him more job security than general manager Billy Eppler, who spent the first three

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Chicago Cubs manager Joe Maddon (70) observes batting practice before the game against the Pittsburgh Pirates at PNC Park.

years of his tenure with Scioscia at the helm before hiring Brad Ausmus last October to a threeyear contract. That experiment was short-lived. Ausmus, 50, was fired the day after the Angels completed the first 90-loss season of the century.

In comes Maddon, 65, a man

as highly regarded for his embrace of modern baseball as for his quirky and effective leadership styles. Only three times have Maddon-led teams finished with fewer than 84 wins — his first two seasons in Tampa Bay, where the then-Devil Rays twice lost more than 95 games,

and the 77-win Rays in 2014.

After the Rays lost 101 and 96 games in his first two seasons, Maddon in 2008 led them to 97 wins and the World Series, where they fell to the Philadelphia Phillies in five games. The Rays posted winning records the next five seasons and won the AL East in 2010. Maddon opted out of his contract after the Rays went 77-84 in 2014 and signed a five-year, $25-million deal with the Cubs.

Maddon transformed a team that had finished fifth in the National League Central for five consecutive years into a perennial postseason contender.

With a nucleus featuring future most valuable player candidates Anthony Rizzo and Javier Baez and the 2016 MVP Kris Bryant, the Cubs won the World Series for the first time since 1908 in a seven-game triumph over the Cleveland Indians two years and one day after Maddon was hired.

The Cubs failed in their defense of the NL pennant the following season, losing to the Dodgers in the NL Championship Series in five games. The Cubs did not advance beyond the wild-card game in 2018 and this year they finished 84-78, seven games out of the division lead, after being in first place as late as Aug. 22.

Cubs general manager Theo Epstein suggested that the 2019 Cubs lacked motivation and that it was not up to the front office to hold players accountable on a daily basis, seemingly implying Maddon did not push his players as he did during the first four years of his five-year contract.

Still, Maddon and Epstein parted ways amicably, toasting their joint success over wine in their St. Louis hotel during the final weekend of the 2019 season.

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Alan VanWormer, Highway Superintendent, Town of New Baltimore HUDSON HOUSING AUTHORITY REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP) 2019 CYCLE PAINTING SERVICES DATE ISSUED: October 31, 2019 TYPE OF PROJECT: The Hudson Housing Authority (HHA) is seeking proposals from qualified individual(s)/firm(s) to provide Cycle Painting Services for 40 Public Housing Units.

CONTACT PERSON: Timothy Mattice, Executive Director, tmattice@hudsonhousingauthority.com SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Thursday October 31, 2019 (CST) Single copies of the RFP package may be obtained, at no cost by: 1. Visiting the HHA's website at: www.hudsonhousingauthority.com 2. Requesting via email to tmattice@hudsonhousingauthority.com 3. Copies may also be picked up in person at: Hudson Housing Authority, 41 North Second Street Hudson NY 12534.

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Publish Date October 2, 2019 Jackpot Security, LLC Arts. of Org. filed w/ SSNY 9/19/19. Off. in Columbia co. SSNY desig. As agt. Of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, PO Box 100, Claverack, NY 12513 Purpose: any lawful activity.

for the period beginning on July 1, 2018 and ending on June 30, 2019, have been examined by West & Co., and that the management letter prepared in conjunction with the external audit

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NOTICE of formation Grandview Terrace, LLC for any lawful purpose. Articles of Org. filed w/ NY Sec’y of State (NS) 8/15/19. NS designated as agent upon whom process served & shall mail service of process to principal business location 35 S Franklin St Athens Greene County NY 12015.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF 297 LNC LLC Notice of Formation of 297 LNC LLC, a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC), Article of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on October 3, 2019. Office location: Columbia, NY. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC to 349 Maple Lane, Valatie, NY 12184.

Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of CSSCSC LLC, Art. of Org. filed w/Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 10/01/ 2019. Office location: Greene Co., NY.; SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

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OF ORPO Box 4148, King- NOTICE ston, NY 12402. Pur- GANIZATION OF LIABILITY pose: any lawful activ- LIMITED COMPANY ity FIRST: The name of Notice of formation of the Limited Liability FUTUR, LLC Arts. of Company is TIGER Org. filed with the LILY HOLDINGS, LLC Sect'y of State of NY (hereinafter referred to (SSNY) on 8/14/2019. as the “Company”) Office location, County SECOND: The Articles of Columbia.

SSNY of Organization of the has been designated Company were filed as agent of the LLC with the Secretary of upon whom process State on September against it may be 30, 2019. served. SSNY shall THIRD: The County mail process to: The within the State of New LLC, P.O. Box 28, Ger- York in which the ofmantown, NY 12526. fice of the Company is Purpose: any lawful located is Columbia. act.

FOURTH: The Secretary of State has been NOTICE OF FORMA- designated as agent TION OF LIMITED upon whom process LIABILITY COMPANY against the Company NAME: 422 Warren may be served. The Street LLC post office address to Articles of Organiza- which the Secretary of tion were filed with the State shall mail proSecretary of State of cess is 20 West 72nd New York (SSNY) on Street, #1401, New OCTOBER 4, 2019.

York, NY 10023.

Office location: CO- FIFTH: The Company LUMBIA County is organized for all lawSSNY has been desig- ful purposes, and to do nated as agent of 422 any and all things necWarren Street LLC essary, convenient, or upon whom process incidental to that puragainst it may be pose. Dated: Septemserved. SSNY shall ber 30, 2019 FREEmail a copy of process MAN HOWARD, P.C. to Thomas Halbach, 441 East Allen Street 1442A Walnut Street, P.O. Box 1328 Hud#244 Berkeley, CA son, New York 12534 94709.

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GANIZATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY Notice of Formation of COMPANY FIRST: The Limited Liability Com- name of the Limited pany (LLC). Name: Liability Company is 40-42 Van Buren, LLC TIGER LILY FARM, - Articles of Organiza- LLC (hereinafter retion filed with Secre- ferred to as the tary of State of New “Company”) York (SSNY) on Sep- SECOND: The Articles tember 16, 2019. Of- of Organization of the fice location: Greene Company were filed County. SSNY Desig- with the Secretary of nated as agent of LLC State on September upon whom process 30, 2019. against it may be THIRD: The County served. SSNY shall within the State of New mail a copy of process York in which the ofto: The LLC, 2792 fice of the Company is County Route 51, Han- located is Columbia. nacroix, New York FOURTH: The Secre12087. Purpose: any tary of State has been lawful purpose. designated as agent upon whom process PUBLIC HEARING against the Company NOTICE may be served. The The Town of Hunter post office address to Planning Board is which the Secretary of holding a Site Plan State shall mail proPublic Hearing on the cess is 20 West 72nd lands of Hunter Foun- Street, #1401, New dation, presented by T. York, NY 10023.

Maul; parcel id# FIFTH: The Company 166.17-4-17, located is organized for all lawin Tannersville, off of ful purposes, and to do County Rte. 23C. The any and all things necproposed Site Plan is essary, convenient, or for the demo of an ex- incidental to that puristing structure and pose. Dated: Septemnew construction of a ber 30, 2019 FREEnew building as a pre- MAN HOWARD, P.C. pared food / gourmet 441 East Allen Street market, breakfast/ P.O. Box 1328 Hudlunch eatery and small son, New York 12534 catering event space .

The hearing is sched- NOTICE OF PUBLIC uled for Tuesday Octo- HEARING ber 29th, 2019 at 7:00 COUNTY OF COLUMPM at the Town of BIA Hunter Town Hall lo- PLEASE TAKE NOcated at 5748 Rte 23A TICE that the ColumTannersville, NY. All in- bia County Board of terested parties may Supervisors shall hold offer comment at that a public hearings on time. the 24th of October,

2019 in the Board of Supervisors 2nd Floor Committee Room, 401 State Street, Hudson, New York 12534, concerning the proposed enactment of the Countywide Shared Services Property Tax Savings Plan.

The hearings will occur at: 9:00am 1:00pm 3:00pm Copies of said proposed plan are available in the Office of the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors.

By order of the Clerk of the Board, Kelly S. Baccaro October 15, 2019 NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Town of Catskill Planning Board will hold a Public Hearing on application Special Use Permit SUP-4-2019 pursuant to Section 160-14 C of the Town of Catskill Zoning Code to allow Placement of battery arrays on lands owned

by North Catskill Grid DC LLC located at 7965 Rt. 9W Tax Map # 156.01-2-18 The Public Hearing will be held on the 22nd day of October , 2019 at 7:00 PM , at the Town Hall located at 439-441 Main Street, Catskill, NY. to allow public comment on the above application is open for inspection at the Planning Board Office located at 439 Main Street, Catskill, New York between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.

By order of Joseph Izzo Chairman, Planning Board, Town of Catskill

Town of Chatham Columbia County New York PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Zoning Board of Appeals of the Town of Chatham had scheduled a public hearing on October 24, 2019 at 7:00 PM at the Chatham Town Hall located at 488 Rt. 295, Chatham, NY. The following matters will be discussed at the meeting: 1. An Application for an Area Variance from Morgan Taylor & Rachel Loshak located at 201 Pond Hill Rd., Tax ID#26.-1-30, to allow a 19.6ft side yard variance for an accessory structure.

Copies of the application materials are available for public review at the Town Hall located at the address specified above during normal business hours - Monday 9 AM to 4PM and Thursday 9 AM to 4 PM. Dated October 15, 2019 Erin Reis, Secretary Zoning Board of Appeals

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE, the Town of Catskill Planning Board will hold a public hearing in accordance with Town Law § 276 and the Town of Catskill Subdivision Regulations on October 22,2019 at 7:30 PM at Town Hall, 439441 Main Street in the Town of Catskill, to consider four waiver requests in regards to a proposed two lot minor subdivision of land located on 350 Cairo Junction Rd, Catskill, proposed by William Monteverde . Written STATE OF NEW YORK and oral comments will SUPREME COURT be accepted until the close of the public COUNTY OF GREENE SUMMONS AND hearing.

COMPLAINT Index No.: 18-1084ARLIN YASAMARY NAVARRO-HERNANDEZ, Plaintiff, -againstDUGLAS JAVIER MEMBRENO, Defendant NOTICE: ACTION FOR DIVORCE

ESTADO DE NUEVA YORK SUPREME COURT CONDADO DE GREENE CITACION Y QUEJA Numero de Indice: 181084 ARLIN YASAMARY NAVAR RO-HERNANDEZ, Demandante, -contraDUGLAS JAVIER MEMBRENO, Acusado.

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NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF COLUMBIA JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, Plaintiff AGAINST John Drago; Michelle Drago; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated August 8, 2019 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Columbia County Courthouse, Hudson, New York on October 28, 2019 at 10:00AM, premises known as 145 Church Road, Red Hook, NY 12571. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Gallatin, County of Columbia, State of NY, Section 210. Block 2 Lot 53.120. Approximate amount of judgment $311,112.27 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 13425-18.

Theodore Guterman II, Esq., Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 430-4792 Dated: September 11, 2019 For sale information, please visit www.Auction.com or call (800) 280-2832 Trespassing, hunting and fishing are strictly forbidden on all properties owned by Sunnyview Farm LLC. Property is patrolled and violators will be prosecuted.

NOTICE Planning Board Meeting Rescheduled The Town of Hunter Planning Board meeting for Tues. November 5th, 2019 has been rescheduled due to Election Day. The next Planning Board meeting is Tuesday October 29th, 2019 at 7PM at the Town Hall. Contact 518-589-6151 ext 308 for more information about the Planning Board.

Please take notice that the Town of Livingston will be holding a public hearing for the purpose of adopting the 2020 Town budget.

This meeting will be held on November 14th, 2019 at 6:45PM prior to the regular scheduled monthly Town Board meeting.

All interested parties are encouraged to attend.

Tammy Molinski Town Clerk Public Notice The annual meeting of Cornell Cooperative Extension of Columbia and Greene Counties will take place on Tuesday, November 12, 2019 at 6:30 p.m. in the Student Center of Columbia-Greene Community College, 4400 NY-23, Hudson, NY 12534. To register, or for further information, call 518-622-9820 x100. EEO/EPO Public Notice The Town Board of the Town of Livingston will be holding a budget workshop for the 2020 budget on Thursday, October 22th at 6 pm at the town hall at 119 CR 19 Livingston NY. All are welcome to attend

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General Help 415 Persons wishing to appear at such hearing GERMANTOWN CENTRAL may do so in person, School District by attorney or by other Vacancy: Evening Greeter such authorized Position representative. Com- Days: Tuesdays & Thursdays munications in writing October through June may be filed with the Starting time: 3:45 p.m.

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Openings ING OCM BOCES Innovative Education Department has an immediA Public Hearing beate need for dynamic and expefore the Planning NYS Certified Teachers and has the following secondary Real Estate rienced Board for the Town of openings in both Onondaga and Claverack will be held Cortland Counties for the 2019on Monday, 20 school year: Spanish 7-12 November 4, 2019 at Mathematics 7-12 7:00 PM at the Clave- 255 Lots & Acreage Applications accepted online only.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, pursuant to Title 5, Chapter 3, Subchapter 3 of the Administrative Code of the City of New York, a public hearing will be held at 22 Reade Street, Spector Hall, Borough of Manhattan on Wednesday November 13, 2019 at 10:00 a.m. on the following: REAL PROPERTY PUBLIC HEARING in the matter of the acquisition by the City of New York of fee simple interests through the Streamside Acquisition Program (SAP), on the following real estate in the County of Greene for the purposes of providing for the continued supply of water, and for preserving and preventing the contamination or pollution of the New York City water supply system: NYC ID Town Tax Lot ID Acres (+/-) 9283 Jewett p/o 111.00-1-61 & p/o 111.00-1-63 8.30 9283 Jewett 111.00-2-52 & 53 10.00 9318 Windham 60.00-3-5.2 3.10 A copy of the Mayor’s Preliminary Certificates of Adoption and maps of the real estate to be acquired are available for public inspection upon request. Please call (845) 340-7810.

Note: This location is accessible to individuals using wheelchairs or other mobility devices. For further information on accessibility or to make a request for accommodations, such as sign language interpretation services, please contact the Mayor’s Office of Contract Services (MOCS) via e-mail at DisabilityAffairs@mocs.nyc.gov or via phone at (212) 788-0010. Any person requiring reasonable accommodation for the public hearing should contact MOCS at least three (3) business days in advance of the hearing to ensure availability.

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ROUND TOP CONSTRUCTION, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 09/19/2019. Office loc: Greene County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 52 Alpine Drive, Round Top, NY 12473. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

The Grand at Barnwell 3230 Church Street Valatie New York 12184 IN ACCORDANCE WITH FEDERAL AND NEW YORK STATE LAW AND REGULATIONS, INCLUDING THE PROVISIONS OF TITLE VI OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964, SECTION 504 OF THE REHABILITATION ACT OF 1973, THE AGE DISCRIMINATION ACT OF 1975, AND THE REGULATIONS OF THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (HHS) ISSUED PURSUANT TO THE ACTS, TITLE 45 CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS PART 80, 84, AND 91, NO PERSON SHALL, ON THE GROUNDS OF RACE, COLOR, NATIONAL ORIGIN, SEX-AGE, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER IDENTITY, RELIGION, CREED, DISABILITY, MARITAL STATUS, BLINDNESS, SOURCE OF PAYMENT OR SPONSORSHIP, BE EXCLUDED FROM PARTICIPATION IN, BE DENIED THE BENEFITS OF, OR BE OTHERWISE SUBJECTED TO DISCRIMINATION UNDER ANY PROGRAM OR ACTIVITY PROVIDED BY THE FACILITY, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE ADMISSION, CARE, AND RETENTION OF RESIDENTS.

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After two wins in four races, is Harvick truly a NASCAR championship contender?

Brendan Marks The Charlotte Observer

What a wild, weird NASCAR season this has been for Kevin Harvick.

Really, you can’t talk about this year without acknowledging what he did last season. Harvick tied for a Cup Series-high eight victories in 2018 and advanced all the way to the championship race, coming up short behind Joey Logano. Still, he more than earned his place in the sport’s “Big 3” alongside Martin Truex Jr. and Kyle Busch.

So coming into 2019, even as Ford debuted a new Mustang and NASCAR significantly altered its rules package, the assumption was — rightly or not — that he would just pick up where he left off.

Wouldn’t that have been easy.

Instead, Harvick struggled to begin the year, especially by his own championship standards.

A handful of fourth-place finishes kept him near the top of the points standings, but he was never truly in contention to win ...

Until finally, four races ago at New Hampshire, when he broke through. Since then, the inconsistency that plagued him for much of the first six weeks of the season has fallen by the pit stalls. He finished sixth and seventh in the two races immediately following New Hampshire, only to overcome a loose wheel and flat tire en route to Victory Lane at Michigan.

So, which Harvick should we buy into?

On one hand, it’s hard to ignore Harvick’s season of so-so racing — again, by his standards — and dismiss it entirely as “figuring things out.”

Someone as experienced and thoughtful as Harvick shouldn’t need most of a season to get into

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Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series driver Kevin Harvick celebrates winning the KC Masterpiece 400 on May 12, 2018, at the Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kan.

top racing condition.

Then on the other hand, recency bias is a powerful drug. Watching Harvick these last four weeks has been a snapshot of last season, when he was a legitimate contender in practically every race. Factor in his pedigree as a former Cup champion and perpetual playoff stalwart, and it’s hard to argue against him.

Realistically, Harvick and the No. 4 team probably fall somewhere in the middle. One

encouraging month does not a season make, nor does it guarantee a successful postseason run. It also shouldn’t be promptly discounted — two wins in four races is an impressive feat, and that becomes even more valuable if he can build upon those results.

Harvick isn’t quite to the level that Truex and Busch have hit this year — or even Denny Hamlin, truthfully — but he’s quickly gaining. And given that his window to win a second championship

is quickly closing, I wouldn’t be one to bet against him making a run again in the next few months.

THIS WEEK’S NASCAR RACE AT BRISTOL: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW. Race: Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race.

Distance: 500 laps, or 373.1 miles.

Where: Bristol Motor Speedway, a 0.533-mile concrete oval in Bristol, Tenn..

When: 7:30 p.m. Saturday.

TV: NBCSN. Last year’s winner: Kurt Busch.

Also this week: Food City 300, Xfinity Series, Bristol Motor Speedway, 7:30 p.m., Friday, NBCSN. Worth mentioning: Beginning next season, the Bristol night race will be a playoff race.

WHO’S HOT/WHO’S NOT HOT • Ryan Newman: A late fuel stop gave him enough gas — literally — to make it to the end of the Michigan race and into playoff position with three races to go.

• Denny Hamlin: A fifth straight Top-5 finish shows Hamlin is peaking at just the right time of the year.

NOT • Jimmie Johnson: Another sub-30 finish at Michigan pushed Johnson out of the current playoff picture and in need of help with just three regular-season races left.

• Clint Bowyer: He’s somehow hung onto the final playoff spot despite a number of poor finishes, but he’ll need three solid outings to hold onto that 16th slot.

LeBron James faces backlash unseen since ‘The Decision’ Sopan Deb The New York Times News Service

It has been almost a decade since the last time LeBron James faced widespread backlash.

Fans in Cleveland burned his jersey.

They threw rocks at a billboard with his face on it. James was maligned as a narcissist by Dan Gilbert, the owner of the Cleveland Cavaliers, in a letter that was widely mocked.

And all James did then was announce on national television that he was going to a different team.

That was in 2010, when James, after seven seasons in Cleveland, said during a special on ESPN titled “The Decision” that he was taking his talents to Miami, to play for the Heat.

The backlash for that was far different from what James, now a member of the Los Angeles Lakers, faces after saying that Daryl Morey, the general manager of the Houston Rockets, “wasn’t educated on the situation at hand” when he posted and then deleted an

image on Twitter supporting pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong. It caused an international row with the authoritarian Chinese government, and now threatens the partnership between the NBA and one of its most important international markets. Several Chinese companies cut ties with the Rockets.

James further incensed his critics when he added: “Yes, we do all have freedom of speech. But at times there are ramifications for the negative that can happen when you’re not thinking about others and you’re thinking about yourself.”

He was denounced immediately, particularly across social media. It was an unusual position for one of the most popular athletes in the world. Multiple lawmakers, including Republican Sens. Rick Scott and Josh Hawley, criticized James for seemingly blaming Morey for the Chinese government’s actions. Even a fellow player, Enes Kanter, a center for the Boston Celtics

known to be politically outspoken, posted tweets that appeared to be directed toward James without naming him. One said: “FREEDOM IS NOT FREE.” James, one of the greatest players in NBA history, tried to clarify his comments with posts on Twitter, saying that Morey did not consider the “ramifications of the tweet” and that “my team and this league just went through a difficult week.”

It didn’t help.

In Hong Kong, protesters burned James jerseys, shot baskets at a hoop with his face on the backboard, and turned images of him into memes — including a depiction showing him embracing Chinese cash.

The breadth of the criticism was unusual. On a section of Reddit for Lakers fans, hundreds, if not thousands, of comments offered scathing words for James. One post read, “Regardless of what Lebron’s real intention behind his words on Morey, he definitely

messed up.” Several accused James of cowardice.

Speaking at practice on Tuesday, James said he was aware of some negative reaction toward him but did not feel a need to connect with every global geopolitical issue.

“I think when the issue comes up, if you feel passionate about it or you feel like it’s something you want to talk about, then so be it,” James said. “I also don’t think that every issue should be everybody’s problem.”

The scope of the backlash, compared with “The Decision,” is different for several reasons. One issue holds global importance, and involves a nexus of politics, sports and business.

The other played out mostly among basketball fans, though it changed the way that star NBA athletes viewed their own leverage in free agency.

Nine years after “The Decision,” there are other cultural forces at play: Social media use is much more ubiquitous. And more than that, James is

different, in part because of that backlash from nine years ago. He’s a more powerful athlete, a global superstar with three NBA championships and a settled legacy. His business empire has expanded past basketball and into entertainment, with his name helming dozens of television and film projects.

James went from a great player to a business titan, who made activism on certain social issues a part of his empire. All of that has combined to build him into a figure with arguably unparalleled influence in the history of the league.

But in some ways, James’ history with activism has been as enigmatic as it has been common. Fans who accused James of cowardice also charged him with hypocrisy. James has carefully cultivated an image of willingness to engage with political issues throughout his career, including stands on police shootings and a high-profile endorsement for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign in 2016.

CMYK

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B6 Thursday, October 17, 2019

Hockey From B1

VALATIE — The Ichabod Crane boys and girls cross country teams hosted Voorheesville for their final Colonial Council league meet of the season on Tuesday.

On the girls side, Ichabod defeated Voorheesville 28-29, Ichabod taking three of the top five spots. Coming in first was M. Sayahi with a time of 19:36. The next top spots were claimed by Ichabod Crane runners Olivia Oligny-Leggett with 20:50 and Emily Wall with a time of 21:06, both a season personal record for the course.

On the boys side, Ichabod Crane again defeated Voorheesville in a perfect sweep of 15-45. Louis Warner came in first with a time of 17:39. Trevor Cavagnaro and Scott Race came in second and third respectively.

Next Friday, both teams will compete in the Colonial Council Championships at Saratoga Springs State Park.

PATROON

Fizdale From B1

rotation.

“I feel like our (front office) has a feel for Frank. But we still want to play him like everybody else and give him his opportunities and have him battle for the position,” Fizdale said. “Our decision-making based on playing time and different things like that is solely going to be based on me.”

One day after missing practice because of a sore groin,

Cole From B1

advantage for the Astros in the best-of-seven series.

Yankees starter Luis Severino looked very much like a pitcher who was making just his fifth start of the year — which he was, having dealt with shoulder and latissimus dorsi injuries this year. He walked three batters and coughed up two home runs over 4 1/3 innings, then the Astros got two more runs when two normally reliable relievers — Adam Ottavino and Zack Britton — faltered on the mound.

Nationals From B1

Hudson held the fort for the last dozen outs - a plot twist almost beyond comprehension for one of the worst bullpens in 50 years. But it was the fitting ending in a year when the Nats tweaked, fixed or worked around every problem.

That such a bullpen would now stand tall just fits the whole season-long theme: There is no gift like the unexpected gift, no joy like the jubilation when the next emotion you anticipated was sadness.

“Some of the best things come from the unexpected moments,” said postseason hero Howie Kendrick, who was named the NLCS MVP. There is no shock like the discovery that a desperate moment - May 23 for these Nats - that felt like the end of an era of success was really a time of transformation under duress into something better, richer and more satisfying than you had imagined possible.

Just when it felt like the best era of Washington baseball since 1924 to 1933 was swirling down the drain, with the Nats’ record at 19-31, suddenly everything that seemed wrong began to go right.

The struggling and lame - Trea Turner, Anthony Rendon and Juan Soto - came back from the injured list and got hot. The team landed a Baby Shark named Gerardo

GIRLS Greenvile 22, Maple Hill 35; Greenville 15, Hudson incomplete; Greenville 15, Germantown incomplete; Greenville 15, Coxsackie-Athens incomplete; Maple Hill 15, Hudson incomplete; Maple Hill 15, Germantown incomplete; Maple Hill 15 Coxsackie-Athens incomplete 1, Tess Fitzmaurice (Gr) 19:21; 2, Alex Goyette (Gr) 21:36; 3, Angelina Pusateri (MH) 21:54; 4, Sydney Smith (Gr) 22:14; 5, Maple Hill 22:48; 6, Kailee Eckel (MH) 23:19; 7, Khalifah Tracey TIM MARTIN/COLUMBIA-GREENE MEDIA (Gr) 23:24; 8, Melody Kappel (Gr) 23:55; 9, Julia Puglere Taconic Hills’ Annika Johanson passes the ball to a teammate (MH) 24:00; 10, Jessica Wank during Tuesday’s Mid-Hudson Athletic League field hockey match (Gr) 24:05; 11, Maria Kvein against Ellenville.

(Germ) 25:13; 12, Skylar Pettit 15,Coxsackie-Athens 50; Cox- 12, Chris Batar (MH) 20:52; 13, (Gr) 25:26; 13, Savaannah Vavsackie-Athens 15, Hudson in- Brandon Feit (Gr) 21:06; 14, rina (Germ) 27:21; 14, Isabella complete; Coxsackie-Athens26, Sam Dederick (Gr) 21:09; 15, DelVecchio (C-A) 27:36; 15, EliGermantown 29; Germantown Riely Tailor (H) 21:10; 16, Josh za Baxter (C-A) 27:51; 16, Mad15, Hudson incomplete Donnelly (MH) 21:12; 17, Ruseline Feltman (Gr) 29:09; 17, 1, Ryan Russell (Gr) 18:05; 2, sell Van Hoesen (C-A) 22:26; 18, Isabelle Ridgeway (MH) 29:32.

Finn Kosich (Gr) 18:53; 3, John Nick Barnes (Gr) 22:30; 19, CaBOYS Catapano (Gr) 19:09; 4, Gavin leb Wynkoop (Germ) 22:32; 20, Greenville 16, Maple Hill 39; Metcalf (Gr) 19:20; 5, Peter Alex Walsh (C-A) 22:33.

Greenville 15, Hudson incom- Basile (MH) 19:32; 6, Thomas GIRLS plete; Greenville 15, German- Baumann (Gr) 19:42; 7, Nathan Catskill 20, Windham incomtown 48; Greenville 15, Cox- Shader (MH) 19:45; 8, Maple sackie-Athens 50; Maple Hill 15 Hill 20:13; 9, Cameron Quinn plete, Rensselaer incomplete, Hudson incomplete; Maple Hill (Germ) 20:28; 10, Maple Hill Hawthorne Valley incomplete 17, Germantown 46; Maple Hill 20:30; 11, Cole Aro (MH) 20:36; 1, Samantha VanDyke (Cats)

24:11:00; 2, Helena Rodriguez (R) 24:17; 3, Isis Gonzalez (Cats) 25:22; 4, Iram Asif (Cats) 25:36; 5, Sarah Davies (CatS) 25:39; 6, Elaine Gillian (R) 27:37; 7, Angelina Shanley (Cats) 27:46; 8, Abigail Davies (R) 28:17; 9, Toni Shuster (WAJ) 29:31:00; 10, Aizlyn O’Connell (Cats) 31:16; 11, MacKenzie Breunig (Cats) 31:53; 12, Savanna Boniface (R) 34:58.

BOYS Rensselaer 21, WAJ incomplete, Catskill incomplete, Hawthorne Valley incomplete 1, Jeremy Hover (R) 19:20; 2, Nathan Riordon (Cats) 19:41; 3, Devin Krause (R) 19:55; 4, Ryan Slingeland (R) 21:41; 5, Rensselaer 22:06; 6, Griffin Fisher (Cats) 22:48; 7, Soloman Bergquist (HV) 23:29; 8, James Hurley (R) 24:09; 9, Hawthorne Valley 24:47; 10, Matthew Rivenburg (Cats) 24:53; 11, Aslin Compton (WAJ) 30:58; 12, Rensselaer 34:59.

Caleb Jeralds (Ch) 18:46; 3, Tobias Jeralds (Ch) 19:09; 4, Mason Nack (TH) 19:27; 5, Jesse Rosien (TH) 19:41; 6, Dante DiGiovanni (CD) 19:52; 7, Caden Holsapple (Ch) 20:08; 8, Brycen Haner (Ch) 20:17; 9, Tyler Zeeb (CD) 20:22; 10, Issac Lange (TH) 21:46; 11, Derek Roberts (Ch) 22:14; 12, Daniel Baneni (Ch) 22:19; 13, Dustin Petell (CD) 22:27; 14, Garrett Legg (HTC) 22:45; 15, Dylan Foutch (TH) 22:49; 16, Nick Jennings (Ch) 22:51; 17, Cameron Maisenbarner (TH) 23:02; 18, Sean Juckett (HTC) 23:45; 19, Josh Sena (TH) 24:34; 20, Timothy Jeralds (Ch) 24:42; 21, Dylan Mottoshiski (TH) 25:02; 22, Jacob Reutenauer (Ch) 27:51; 23, Chris Russell (TH) 28:07; 24, Dante Alvarez (CD) 30:08.

GIRLS

Chatham 27, Taconic Hills 29; Chatham 15, Cairo-Durham incomplete; Taconic Hills 15, Cairo-Durham incomplete 1, Eli Russo (TH) 18:34; 2,

All teams incomplete 1, Lauren Madsen (TH) 23:35; 2, Crystal Ilany (CD) 23:36; 3, Trisha Gagne (CD) 23:37; 4, Lily Russo (TH) 25:08; 5, Marissa Legg (HTC) 25:32; 6, Cairo-Durham 27:24; 7, Ellie Yarg (TH) 29:02; 8, Stephanie Molina-Rodriguez (HTC) 31:24; 9, Hailey Morrison (CD) 37:08.

BOYS

Ntilikina was a full participant in Tuesday’s session and was upgraded to probable for Wednesday’s preseason home game against the Hawks.

With Dennis Smith Jr. recovering from a back strain, Wednesday should represent the first game Fizdale will have all three point guards at his disposal — Ntilikina, Smith and Elfrid Payton.

Payton was the starter in the first two preseason games — both against the Wizards — but produced a dud in Game 2 while Smith Jr. was injured.

Fizdale said he’s waiting for a starter to emerge in the final

two preseason games. “(These games are) huge, huge. These guys are battling,” Fizdale said. “They’ve all done good jobs so they’re making it tough on me. That’s a good thing for me. That position for us is going to be at a premium.

I’m giving them all a look and the opportunity to play some minutes. Hopefully, they can sort that out for me.”

For anybody handicapping the race, here’s some pertinent info: — Payton is the most experienced and accomplished on the NBA level, but he also could become an unrestricted

free agent at the end of the season and is not the long term answer.

— The front office has a lot invested in Smith Jr. as, currently, the most important piece acquired in the trade for Kristaps Porzingis. Reputations would benefit greatly if Smith emerges as a star, but he’s also more of a scorer than a playmaker or defender.

— Ntilikina was Phil Jackson’s final draft choice (meaning the current front office has less invested in the Frenchman) and has a $6.2 million contract option for the 202021 season that needs to be

picked up by Halloween. Ntilikina is, by far, the best defender of the bunch, but struggles to create shots for himself because he can’t beat his man off the dribble.

Asked about the importance of scoring from the PG spot, Fizdale said, “More than anything it’s got to be a guy that’s a threat, that could put pressure on the defense I feel like. The biggest thing is, is he guarding his position? Is he pushing the pace? Is he getting us organized. Those are the most important areas for me.

But at the same time I feel like you still have to be a threat out

there from that position.”

Is Ntilikina a threat to score?

He was for the French National Team at the World Cup but that hasn’t translated to the NBA. On the other hand, he’s the best option to lockdown Atlanta’s playmaking point guard Trae Young.

“He’s a talented player, very talented,” Ntilikina said of Young. “So against those types of guards, you’re always trying to make their plays and their life uncomfortable on the court. So you do a good job of knowing the player, studying him on the film. Then you just got to hoop.”

“Two bad pitches,” Severino said of the home runs.

“Two sliders right in the middle.”

When the Yankees finally scored their lone run — on a home run by second baseman Gleyber Torres in the eighth inning — Cole had left the game and there was not enough time for a Yankees rally.

For some fans and Yankees executives, it might have been extra bitter to see Cole dominate their team. Cole, who is from Southern California, grew up an ardent Yankees fan, admiring Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera. He attended the 2001 World Series between the Yankees and Diamondbacks in Arizona and was

spotted holding a sign that said “Yankees Fan Today, Tomorrow, Forever.”

So when the Yankees selected Cole out of Orange Lutheran High in Orange, California, in the first round of the 2008 draft, it seemed like a dream come true for the pitcher. The Yankees, however, had evaluated the talent correctly but not their ability to sign him; Cole decided to attend UCLA instead, and was drafted three years later by the Pittsburgh Pirates.

The Yankees again showed interest in Cole before the 2018 season, but the Pirates took the Astros’ offer instead.

Cole didn’t blossom into his current form until he joined the Astros, a team known for

its ability to unlock a higher level of performance from pitchers.

Cole’s performance Tuesday showed why he is a favorite for the AL Cy Young Award, along with his teammate Justin Verlander. While Cole’s command was shaky at times, he escaped trouble with a combination of his dominant stuff and the Yankees’ uneven plate discipline.

“You feel like you get one or two runs for Gerrit Cole, and it feels like a 10-run lead with him,” Astros right fielder Josh Reddick said, adding later, “He didn’t have his best stuff but still put up zeros for us.”

In the first inning, shortstop Didi Gregorius ended a basesloaded, two-out threat when

he swung at the first pitch he saw, a sweeping curveball, and hit a weak groundout to end the threat. The Yankees’ patience increased as the game went on, but so did Cole’s guile.

In the second inning, Cole wriggled out of a jam by striking out right fielder Aaron Judge with a combination of nasty sliders and curves. In the fourth, he walked backto-back hitters — third baseman Gio Urshela and center fielder Aaron Hicks — but got an inning-ending flyout when D.J. LeMahieu smashed a ball hard to center fielder George Springer.

Perhaps the closest the Yankees came to scoring against Cole was in fifth inning, when

slumping designated hitter Edwin Encarnacion doubled and Torres drew a hard-fought walk. Gregorius swung at the first pitch again, sending the 99-mph fastball high and deep to right field. With Yankee fans on their feet, Reddick caught the ball with his back to the wall in right field. It was one of a handful of hard-hit balls this series that have seemingly died more quickly in the air, stoking speculation that the baseballs themselves have changed once again. But Gregorius only blamed himself.

“I didn’t come through for the team when I had the opportunity,” Gregorius said.

“Most of the game is on me.”

Parra on a one-ounce test line - picked up free, with the San Francisco Giants still paying his salary. And the team that knows how to put the huge, ugly “E” in “elimination game” became the first team in major league history to win two of them in the same October after trailing by three or more runs.

The Nationals - once known as the “Natinals” on their own jerseys, the same team that got knocked out of the first round of the playoffs four times celebrated the patriarch of D.C. baseball by claiming the pennant on Ted Lerner’s 94th birthday. His team knows what it has given him. And he understands what he has given to this city for the first time in 86 years.

“I want to tell the fans, ‘This is for you!’ “ Lerner said in the postgame celebration.

“We earned the 12 games under .500 [in May]. We were bad,” said General Manager Mike Rizzo, ripping off a list of all of his team’s early-season sins and injuries. “But we also earned the [.675 winning percentage] the rest of the way.”

The Nats go to the World Series as just what they love to be - disregarded, constantly underdogs. They will face an American League champion, the Houston Astros or New York Yankees, that will be regarded as much their superior. But the Nats are certain in their baseball guts that this will be darn close to a toss-up World Series.

“These guys back here, they cured my heart,” said Manager Dave Martinez, his face split with grins after being rushed from a game to the hospital just four weeks ago with what he feared was a heart attack.

Two points, both apparent in Game 4, should be made about these Nats - akin to noting that lightning cannot only electrocute you but also knock down trees on your head.

In their past 123 games, only the Yankees have scored more runs per game. The Nats’ lineup, in their current state of perfect health, is one of the deepest and most multifaceted in the majors.

Game 4’s seven-run first inning epitomized the Nats’ versatile attack - one that’s out of step with the home-run-orwhiff model of this era. Yes, the Nats hit homers - 231, but that was only 13th best this year. Within the NL, they were first in on-base percentage, tied for first in batting average and second in fewest strikeouts. They also tied for the league lead in steals. To many, all of this is heresy. But it has worked, with a master-class example in the first inning.

The Nats scored seven runs without hitting a ball farther than 275 feet in the air. They slapped a single (Turner) and double (Soto) to the opposite field. A power hitter (Rendon) put the first pitch he saw in play because he knew it could produce a sacrifice fly. Two players merely put the ball in play: Ryan Zimmerman

sharply and Victor Robles with a popup. The Cardinals made an error on the first and completely missed the second as it fell among three of them. Yan Gomes and Turner followed with two-run singles drilled through the left side of the infield. Between them, pitcher Patrick Corbin put down a perfect sacrifice bunt.

It was, frankly, nothing less than baseball high art: The first 10 hitters of a game with the pennant on the line executed perfectly.

Dakota Hudson, the Cardinals’ wins leader, left having gotten one - o-n-e - out.

The other Nats weapon that has brought them to this citydelighting pennant is depth.

In World Series games played in the AL city, the Nats will be able to pick a bat off their loaded bench to be the designated hitter - perhaps switch-hitting Asdrúbal Cabrera (91 RBI), or Brian Dozier or Matt Adams (20 homers each). There might even be a spot for Parra - who got a hit, to universal delight, in the pennant clincher.

In the glee that now sweeps over Washington, don’t bet the house on the Nats beating the 107-win Astros or the 103-win Yankees. But it might be worth taking out a second mortgage on your gardening shed.

Whatever ills or joys are still to come, Tuesday night was the best baseball victory in the District of Columbia since 1933, during another era when America seemed chest-deep

in serious problems. In October 2019, Washington is united behind one flag and one purpose - symbolized by those silly Baby Shark bandannas.

The Nats are also a team for their place and time. They exalt in their diversity with eight key players, and team leaders, from Venezuela, Brazil and the Dominican Republic. Martinez told his Latin teammates when he arrived in the minors in 1983, “Sorry, but I don’t speak Spanish.”

Now, of course, he does. But he has also learned a lot about another language that he struggled with when he took the job last year: He is closer to fluent in “bullpen.” He has learned at least four words Doolittle, Hudson, Rainey and Rodney. And he used that vocabulary well in Game 4, getting a scoreless inning from Rainey in the sixth. Doolittle blanked the Cardinals in the seventh, and Daniel Hudson completed a scary eighth before a perfect ninth to end it.

All of these factors are part of the explanation of why the Nats’ NL championship is neither magic nor fluke. It is excellent, but some of it hides in plain sight.

This, however, is also a team with a fire deep inside it that it seldom fully articulates. This is a band of old men without rings.

Only one National, reliever Hunter Strickland, has played for a World Series winner. After Game 2, Zimmerman and Max Scherzer, both 35, referred to

themselves, and the 16 other Nats on this playoff roster who are past their 30th birthdays, as “Los Viejos” - the Old Men. “Everybody wants to forget the old guys,” said a jubilant, hat-backwards Scherzer amid the infield celebration. “Well, we went out and won the National League pennant!”

For Washington, it has seemed as if it took a baseball eternity to win a pennant.

But to three-quarters of these Nationals, winning the NLCS may mean more than just the D.C. joyride of a visit to the World Series.

To them, grabbing a pennant, marvelous as that is for their city and its fans, is probably - though none will say it - a steppingstone to their collective dream of rings.

If you think Game 4 was hard as that 7-0 lead dwindled to 7-4, and that those comebacks in elimination games against the Milwaukee Brewers and Los Angeles Dodgers were harrowing, be forewarned. What these old men, plus a few gifted youngsters, with their dugout dancing and hugging, really have in mind, starting Tuesday, will be even more challenging. Perhaps even impossible.

But, as we have learned, the prize that is least expected, the goal that seems almost impossible, is also the most thrilling.

Pop the corks. Raise the pennant. But know one thing: The Nationals don’t think their season has reached its peak.

CMYK

Thursday, October 17, 2019 B7

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Mom feeling snubbed by older children Dear Abby: I am a 67-year-old divorced mother of five and grandmother of eight. My marriage to the father of my first four children ended 30 years ago because he was physically and emotionally abusive. After the divorce, I managed to DEAR ABBY put myself through college, and I am now a retired teacher.

I also remarried, which resulted in having one more child, a beautiful daughter who is now 27. My second husband is now deceased.

My first husband remarried soon after our divorce, and I always supported our grown children having a close relationship with him. What hurts me deeply, though, is that whenever there is a family event that includes all of us, my children from my first marriage act like my youngest daughter and I don’t exist.

At the last family gathering, at my oldest daughter’s home, I was treated like a stranger.

I felt like crying as my older children sat, ate and talked with my ex-husband and his wife.

Abby, I have always been there for my kids, through sickness and financial hardships.

My ex has a great deal more money to spend on them than I do. I suspect this may be the reason they cater to him. How do I cope with my feelings of rejection and being snubbed by them?

Hurt mom in the west

JEANNE PHILLIPS

Family Circus

You aren’t going to change the “family” dynamic at this late stage. Rather than sit silently, struggling to hold back the tears as your older children slather their father with attention, consider socializing with them separately as often as possible.

Dear Abby: I have been attending yoga class for several years and find it to be very beneficial mentally and physically. Recently, I started taking classes at a new studio with lovely teachers and — mostly — great students.

One individual, though, seems to think the class is his own social event. He over-chants “ohm” and moans loudly throughout the class. Would it be rude to say something to him, or should I just find another studio? It’s gotten to the point where the entire purpose of relaxing and clearing my mind is impossible.

Mentally drained in New Jersey Do not address the over-chanter directly. Instead, discuss your concerns with the teacher because you may not be the only participant who finds the person’s vocalizations to be a distraction. Or, consider attending another class that is held at a different hour if there is one.

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Vapor may be better than smoke, but best is quitting both I quit smoking about six months ago and was able to resist the temptation to smoke again because I took up vaping immediately afterward.

Thanks to vaping, I think this time I will be able to stay off of cigarette smoking permanently after unsuccessfully quitting a half dozen times over the years. I recently read some very alarming news reports about lung disease TO YOUR among vapers, which has me GOOD HEALTH very worried. I do not want to stop vaping, for obvious reasons. Can you please advise on whether vaping is safe for me to continue?

DR. KEITH ROACH

Vaping uses a device with a battery and heating element to vaporize a liquid, usually containing nicotine, flavoring and chemicals to make the aerosol. Vaping is highly prevalent among younger adults, with over 20% of high school students reporting use in the previous 30 days.

Some people use vaping to quit smoking, and it is as effective or more so than nicotine replacement, such as patches or gum. However, 80% of people who quit smoking continued to vape at one year. Unfortunately, many of the young people who start vaping are doing so without ever having been a smoker.

Most data suggest that vaping is safer than smoking. However, there are no long-term data to really support this. There are many chemicals produced in vaping, and their effect on the lung isn’t well-established, but the nicotine most ecigarettes contain (even some labeled as containing no nicotine) is certainly dangerous to blood vessels. In August of this year, a death was reported in Illinois attributed to vaping, along with hundreds of people reporting a lung illness that one lung expert likened to a chemical inhalation

injury. As of this writing, the underlying mechanism for this outbreak of lung disease associated with vaping is unclear.

I cannot tell you whether vaping is safe to continue. I think it is still very likely to be better than continuing to smoke cigarettes, but there is no doubt in my mind that stopping vaping would be best. Perhaps at this point, a traditional nicotine replacement regimen might be helpful for you to help you stop vaping with less risk of going back to smoking.

I am 75 and have Type 2 diabetes. I take metformin and glipizide. If my blood sugar is high, should I lie down and rest or get up and move around? What is the best way to prevent high blood sugar?

Type 2 diabetes is mostly a result of insulin resistance, which has several treatments. One is giving more insulin; insulin shots do that, but the glipizide you are taking signals your pancreas to make more insulin. Another is making insulin work better, and many of the newer drugs do this. Metformin tells your liver not to make sugar, and another medicine — canagliflozin (Invokana) — causes your kidneys to lose sugar through the urine.

However, perhaps the two most important ways are to not take in so much sugar through sweets or starches through bread, rice and pasta.

Your body quickly turns these to sugar. The other is to exercise, which both uses sugar in the muscles but also acts against the insulin resistance.

If your sugars are consistently high, work with your diabetes specialist and a nutritionist dietician to come up with a plan to keep your blood sugar from getting too high.

Horoscope

By Stella Wilder Born today, you are a brave, even daring individual, but while you seem fearless, the truth is that you do, indeed, have many fears — but rather than shrink from that which inspires fear, you are willing to face it directly. You’re not one to charge ahead and tempt fate, however. You will do all you can to learn about your fears in order to address them with intelligence and care. You’re certainly not one to jump out of an airplane without a parachute; you insist on being responsible for your own safety, and you will always do everything you can to ensure a positive outcome when tackling something that could be dangerous.

Friends and family will always be important to you, and yet there is a part of you that likes to remain on the periphery, free to do and say what you will without being accountable to anyone.

Also born on this date are: Margot Kidder, actress; Rita Hayworth, actress; Jean Arthur, actress; Ziggy Marley, singer; Alan Jackson, singer; Evel Knievel, daredevil; Montgomery Clift, actor.

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.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18 LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You can get your hands on a lot of things today, but not all of them will prove useful to you in a current endeavor. Pick and choose!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — You’re never going to move beyond your current position if you remain in the same mindset. It’s time to adjust your attitude and outlook.

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Baby Blues SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — You may be trying to get ahead of someone who has, in the past, proved to be a formidable adversary. Today you can gain the advantage.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You’re eager to redefine yourself in some way, and you can do it very soon — after you tend to certain key issues that arise today.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — You may sense that things are about to change for the better, but you don’t want to jinx it! Be patient, and let things evolve organically.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — Others may be reacting to you in unusual ways, and you likely have no idea why. Ask around; someone is sure to tell you what you need to know.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Your instincts and your intellect may be in conflict today, but the situation you are facing requires that you engage both simultaneously.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — What you are sharing with a friend or loved one is highly valued by both of you — but one may have to give up such self-indulgence very soon.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You may take a “direct hit” of sorts from a rival today. You’ll be knocked off your plate for a time, surely, but you’ll learn a key lesson.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — Someone close to you has been providing you with something you dearly need for quite some time — but that source may actually dry up today.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — You receive emotional support from someone who is highly sympathetic — but he or she mustn’t be allowed to solve your current problem for you.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — It’s time to share more information with someone who, in the past, wasn’t entirely trustworthy. All that has changed; you can work together.

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SUPER QUIZ

THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME

By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek Get the free JUST JUMBLE app • Follow us on Twitter @PlayJumble

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

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

U.S. cities named after people Level 1

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Identify the person after whom the U.S. city is named. (e.g., Washington, D.C. (U.S. capital). Answer: George Washington.)

Freshman level 1. Jacksonville (Florida’s most populous city).

2. Lincoln (capital of Nebraska).

3. Madison (capital of Wisconsin).

Graduate level 4. Austin (capital of Texas).

5. San Francisco (fourth most populous city in California).

6. Houston (most populous city in Texas).

PH.D. level 7. Bismarck (capital of North Dakota).

8. Pittsburgh (second largest city in Pennsylvania).

9. Edison (fifth most populous city in New Jersey).

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

(Answers tomorrow) Yesterday’s

Jumbles: KHAKI CHILL DURESS INFUSE Answer: When the jeep ran off the road, the giraffe was willing to — RISK HIS NECK

Solution to Wednesday’s puzzle

10/17/19 Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit, 1 to 9.

For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit

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SUPER QUIZ ANSWERS 1. Andrew Jackson. 2. Abraham Lincoln. 3. James Madison. 4. Stephen F. Austin. 5. Saint Francis. 6. Sam Houston. 7. Otto von Bismarck. 8. William Pitt the Elder. 9. Thomas A. Edison.

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?

Mutts

Dilbert

Pickles For Better or For Worse

Get Fuzzy

Hi & Lois

Crossword Puzzle Mother Goose & Grimm ACROSS 1 “__ Do Fools Fall in Love?”

4 Furry swimmer 9 Grouchy person 13 __ for; cheer on 15 Actor Christopher 16 Stockings 17 Meditative exercise 18 Powerful winds 19 Actress Sommer 20 Sky 22 Lay to __; bury 23 Weapons 24 Sunbeam 26 Sign of affection 29 Runt of the litter 34 Upper class 35 Go bad 36 Compete 37 Needs a doctor 38 Clothing protector 39 Dustcloths 40 Behold 41 One more time 42 __ care; was indifferent 43 Lasting 45 Break in the school day 46 Encountered 47 Too hasty 48 Small store 51 Colleague 56 Skirt style 57 Josh with 58 Decays 60 __ the moon; elated 61 Rarin’ to go 62 Ship level 63 Man’s nickname 64 Frock 65 Timid DOWN 1 Like a droll sense of humor 2 Place for a horseshoe 3 Boo-Boo Bear’s pal 4 Keyboard instruments

Bound & Gagged

Created by Jacqueline E. Mathews

5 Lions & Tigers & Bears 6 Prefix for vision or cast 7 Like 2, 4 and 6 8 Hold back 9 Model Tiegs 10 Acting part 11 Inquires 12 Borscht ingredient 14 Goals aimed for in darts 21 Think deeply 25 __ along; from the start 26 Stop 27 Planetary visitor 28 Vexed 29 Bit of parsley 30 Night light 31 Steer clear of 32 Virgo, Pisces, Aries, etc.

33 Quizzes 35 C-__; network for political events 38 Stirred up

10/17/19

Wednesday’s Puzzle Solved

Non Sequitur

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39 Nixon or Burton 41 “People __ Funny” of old TV 42 __ Arnaz 44 Diamond official 45 Foyt & Unser 47 Mother’s Day gift, perhaps 48 Air pollution

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49 “__ a seat!”; words of welcome 50 Plow pullers 52 Burn 53 Wise man 54 Foot digits 55 Engrave 59 __ blue; pastel color

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