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Community center ‘at crossroads’

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In this Dec. 6, 2017, file photo, Chris Pasin and Friends perform at the Catskill Community Center.

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CATSKILL — A beloved Main Street fixture is seeking financial assistance.

The Catskill Community Center has a long history of running youth programs based on contributions from the town and other donors.

But recently, the future of the center has been called into question, said Margaret Tomlinson, a member of the center’s board of directors.

“Over the last few years our expenses have been going up

and our revenues have gone down,” Tomlinson said Wednesday. “We saw we’re going to run out of money in November if we didn’t raise something.”

The center recently received $10,000 in matching pledges, $5,000 of which came from Mid-Hudson Cable, Tomlinson said. The other two donors have asked to remain anonymous.

“The community center is at a crossroads,” Tomlinson said. “Our building is expensive to maintain. We have

really important programs for young people, especially those who come from economically disadvantaged families.”

In addition to utilities, the center has insurance and staff costs to consider, Tomlinson said.

“Our staff are very caring,” she said. “The young people really love coming here.” The center provides a variety of programs such as the Youth Drop In Recreation Center, Before & After School and See CENTER A9

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Robert Owen of Greene County was laid to rest with military honors after his death Jan. 2, 2019.

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CAIRO — Robert “Bobby” Owen loved drawing, playing guitar, the outdoors, and spending time with his family.

But the quiet, humble man who once served as an infantryman in the U.S. Army, faced a lifelong battle he could not overcome: He was an addict.

“He was in crisis,” said his wife and high school sweetheart, Emmy LaRosa, of Round Top. Owen struggled for most of his life with alcohol, and, most recently, heroin. He also was See OWEN A9

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Robert Owen’s family honored his life with an engraved lock that was attached to the traveling Love Lock Gate in Cairo on Oct. 23.

Catskill man hit by SUV in stable condition

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Robert Owen with his children.

CATSKILL — A Greene County man is recovering Wednesday after he was hit by an SUV Tuesday night near the intersection of Route 9W and Central Avenue, according to Catskill police.

Ronald Rowles, 57, of Catskill, was struck by a 2016 Ford Explorer at about 8:05 p.m. while he was attempting to cross Route 9W from the former Rite Aid, Catskill police Lt. Ronald Frascello said.

Rowles was crossing the highway as he walked to Catskill Commons

when the accident occurred, Frascello said.

Rowles was airlifted to Albany Medical Center and was listed in sta-

to Central Avenue and the entrance to Lowe’s to divert traffic away from the helicopter as it touched down.

The Ford Explorer was driven by

“It appears [Rowles] did not use the crosswalk signal.”

— CATSKILL POLICE LT. RONALD FRASCELLO ble condition. The extent of his injuries was not immediately known.

The parking lot at Lowe’s Home Improvement was converted into a temporary landing zone for the helicopter. Police closed the 9W entrance

a 29-year-old man from Cairo, Frascello said. The driver, who was not immediately identified by Catskill police, has not been ticketed.

Although Rowles was in the crosswalk, the driver, who was traveling

north on Route 9W, had a green light, according to a witness, Frascello said.

“It appears [Rowles] did not use the crosswalk signal,” Frascello said.

Rowles has not been ticketed at this time, although the accident remains under investigation, Frascello said.

There were no other passengers in the SUV, Frascello said.

Traffic was reduced to one lane while police processed the accident scene, Frascello said.

Catskill Fire Department, Town of Catskill Ambulance Service and state police assisted at the scene.

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Trump’s Russia nominee affirms former Ukraine ambassador’s claim

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President Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. ambassador to Russia confirmed the assertion from a former diplomat in Ukraine that she was removed after concerted pressure by the president and his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani.

John Sullivan, who’s currently deputy secretary of state, testified Wednesday that he told U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch that she was being recalled. That followed a campaign by Giuliani who singled her out for what he deemed an anti-Trump agenda.

Asked why he told Yovanovitch to come home from Ukraine, Sulllivan told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at his confirmation hearing that it was because he was informed the president had lost confidence in her. “When the president loses confidence in the ambassador, right or wrong, the ambassador needs to come home,” he said.

But Sullivan also said that he learned that Giuliani had pushed for Yovanovitch’s removal and that Secretary of State Michael Pompeo had initially resisted the president’s call to oust her.

Democrats on the Senate panel used Sullivan’s confirmation hearing to pursue allegations at the heart of the House of Representatives impeachment inquiry -- that Trump held up U.S. aid and a promised White House meeting to extract a pledge from Ukraine’s new president to investigate Democrat Joe Biden and his son Hunter as well as a conspiracy theory that Ukraine and Democrats, not Russia favoring Trump, interfered in the 2016 election.

“Ukrainians died because of this delay and died at the hands of Russian forces,” Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey, the committee’s top Democrat, said at the hearing. He said his support for Sullivan depends on whether he thinks success “is fulfilling President Trump’s pro-Kremlin vision.”

Yovanovitch told House impeachment investigators earlier in October that Sullivan informed her that “there had been a concerted campaign against me, and that the Department had been under pressure from

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John Sullivan, deputy secretary of state and President Trump’s nominee to be ambassador to Russia, speaks during an interview while in flight between Argentina and Paraguay on a government plane on Sept. 5, 2019.

the president to remove me since the Summer of 2018.

“He also said that I had done nothing wrong and that this was not like other situations where he had recalled ambassadors for cause,” she testified, according to her opening statement, which was made public.

Sullivan made no reference to the impeachment inquiry in his opening remarks but pledged that if he’s confirmed as ambassador he’d balance opportunities to work with Russia against vigilance toward its “malign actions.”

“I will be relentless in opposing Russian efforts to interfere in U.S. elections, to violate the sovereignty of Ukraine and Georgia, and to engage in the malign behavior that has reduced our relationship to such a low level of trust,” he said in the statement.

Sullivan was mentioned by name in Yovanovitch’s opening statement to the impeachment inquiry earlier this month. Yovanovitch said Sullivan broke the news that she was being recalled from her post early even though her original term wasn’t up for a couple of months and had been extended through 2020 shortly before.

The impeachment connection, and Sullivan’s current position as Pompeo’s top deputy, resulted in a contentious hearing where Sullivan’s qualifications

for the job were overshadowed.

The committee’s Republican chairman, Sen. Jim Risch of Idaho, has refused to hold any hearings linked to Ukraine or allegations of impeachable offenses by the president. It will also be the first Russia-related hearing in the committee in more than two years.

In the Democratic-controlled House, the impeachment inquiry continues to take witness testimony behind closed doors as the full chamber prepares for a Thursday vote on an impeachment resolution.

The role of ambassador in Moscow is a largely thankless one in an administration whose policy toward Russia has been highly contradictory. Trump has repeatedly pledged to improve ties -- and in a summit in Helsinki, Finland last year appeared to back Russian President Vladimir Putin’s vow that he didn’t interfere with the 2016 election despite the assessment of the U.S. intelligence community that he did.

Twelve Russian intelligence agents were indicted as part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, and the U.S. slapped numerous sanctions and visa restrictions on Russia over its role in the election interference, as well as a nerve-agent attack on a former spy in the U.K. Sullivan has led committees

on counterterrorism and strategic security. Yet even an initiative to ease what both the U.S. and Russia call “minor irritants” has failed to produce any gains.

Sullivan briefly held the role of acting secretary of state from the time Trump fired Rex Tillerson in March 2018 until the Senate confirmed Pompeo a month later. His nomination for Russia ambassador has the backing of numerous high-ranking national security officials including former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, former National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley.

“We believe he is the right person at the right time for what is always a very critical post, but perhaps never more critical as now,” the group wrote in the letter, which was obtained by Bloomberg News.

Sullivan would replace Jon Huntsman, a former governor of Utah and ambassador to China, who left Moscow earlier in October. He will have support from at least one Democrat on the Committee, Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland, who was among supporters introducing him.

“He has served our nation well in public service,” Cardin said. “John Sullivan to me is a straight shooter.”

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Russia Tests New Disinformation Tactics in Africa to Expand Influence Davey Alba and Sheera Frenkel The New York Times News Service Russia has been testing new disinformation tactics in an enormous Facebook campaign in parts of Africa, as part of an evolution of its manipulation techniques before the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

Facebook said Wednesday that it removed three Russianbacked influence networks on its site that were aimed at African countries including Mozambique, Cameroon, Sudan and Libya. The company said the online networks were linked to Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Russian oligarch who was indicted by the United States and accused of interfering in the 2016 presidential election.

Unlike past influence campaigns from Russia, the networks targeted several countries through Arabic-language posts, according to the Stanford Internet Observatory, which collaborated with Facebook to unravel the effort. Some of the posts promoted Russian policies,

while others criticized French and American policies in Africa.

Russians also worked with locals in the African countries to set up Facebook accounts that were disguised as authentic to avoid detection.

The effort was at times larger in volume than what the Russians deployed in the United States in 2016. While the Kremlin-backed Internet Research Agency posted on Facebook 2,442 times a month on average in 2016, one of the networks in northern and central Africa posted 8,900 times in October alone, according to the Stanford researchers.

“They are trying to make it harder for us and civil society to try and detect their operations,” Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook’s head of cybersecurity policy, said of the Russian actions.

The campaign underlined how Russia is continuing to aggressively try different disinformation techniques, even as it has come under scrutiny for its online interference methods. By

spreading the use of its tactics to a region that is less closely monitored than the United States and Europe, researchers said Russia appeared to be trying to expand its sphere of influence in Africa, where it has started distributing propaganda and building a political infrastructure.

Alex Stamos, director of the Stanford Internet Observatory and a former Facebook executive, said it was highly likely that Russian groups were already using the same model of working with locals in the United States to post inflammatory messages on Facebook.

In all, the social network said it took down 66 accounts, 83 pages, 11 groups and 12 Instagram accounts related to the

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Russian campaign. Gleicher said hundreds of thousands of Facebook accounts followed the pages, groups and Instagram accounts.

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CALENDAR 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 n Durham Town Board workshop meeting 7:30 p.m. at Town Hall, 7309 Route 81, East Durham n Greene County Board of Electrical Examiners 1 p.m. Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., 4th Floor, Room 469, Catskill

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 Ashland Planning Board 6 p.m. at

the Town Hall, 12094 Route 23, Ashland n Cairo Town Planning Board 7 p.m.

Town Hall, 512 Main St., Cairo n Catskill Village Board special meeting/public hearing 7 p.m. Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill n Coxsackie Village workshop 6 p.m.

Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

Food pantry fire deemed suspicious, chief says

By Amanda Purcell Columbia-Greene Media

HUDSON — Police are investigating the cause of a fire that damaged a food pantry on Fairview Avenue early Tuesday.

The fire at 200 Fairview Ave. was reported sometime after midnight by a state trooper who spotted the flames while passing by on patrol.

Greenport Fire Chief John Onufrychuk said the fire has been deemed suspicious at this time and the investigation was turned over to state police. The Columbia County Cause and Origin Team was at the scene along with state police investigators Tuesday morning.

Firefighters arrived at about 1:30 a.m. to see smoke and fire in the front of the building, Onufrychuk said.

Flames had extended from the bottom of the building to the eaves when firefighters

arrived. But, with the help of Hudson Fire Department, firefighters were able to extinguish the blaze before it spread to the rest of the building.

The damage was limited to the outside of the building and is repairable, Onufrychuk said.

No one was hurt battling the blaze, the chief said.

The building, St. Mark’s Lutheran Food Pantry, regularly donates food and other goods to the needy, and is operated by St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, 8 Storm Ave. The pantry is typically open Monday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Check back for more updates on this developing story.

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

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State police are investigating the cause of a fire at St. Mark’s Lutheran Food Pantry, 200 Fairview Ave., on Tuesday.

Monday, Nov. 11 n Ashland Town Board 7:30 p.m.

Town Hall, 12094 Route 23, Ashland n Catskill Village Planning Board 7 p.m. Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill n Coxsackie Village Offices closed in observance of Veteran’s Day

Tuesday, Nov. 12 n Coxsackie Village Historic Preserva-

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

Wednesday, Nov. 13 n Athens Village Board 6:30 p.m. at

Village Hall, 2 First St., Athens n Catskill Central School District BOE 6:30 p.m. High School Library, 341 West Main St., Catskill n Catskill Village Board 7 p.m. Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill n Coxsackie Village Board 7 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie n Jewett Town Board 7 p.m. at the Jewett Municipal Building, 3547 County Route 23C, Jewett

Thursday, Nov. 14 n Windham-Ashland-Jewett CSD BOE

audit finance committee 5:15 p.m. in superintendent’s office; regular meeting 6 p.m. in the School Library, 5411 Route 23, Windham

Monday, Nov. 18 n Athens Town Board 6:45 p.m. at the

Town Hall, 2 First St., Athens n Durham Town Board 7:30 p.m. at Town Hall, 7309 Route 81, East Durham n Greenville Town Board 7 p.m. at the Town Hall, 11159 Route 32, Pioneer Building, Greenville

Tuesday, Nov. 19 n Athens Village Planning Board 6:30 p.m. at Village Hall, 2 First St., Athens n Hunter Town Board 7 p.m. at the Town Hall, 5748 Route 23A, Tannersville

Wednesday, Nov. 20 n Catskill Library Board 6:45 p.m. at either the Catskill Library, 1 Franklin St., Catskill or Palenville Library, 3303 Route 23A, Palenville

Thursday, Nov. 21 n Coxsackie Village Planning Board 7 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

Monday, Nov. 25 n Catskill Village Planning Board 7

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Stewart’s Shops and Rose & Kiernan Inc. partner to help non-profits save money on gasoline SARATOGA SPRING — Stewart’s Shops and Rose & Kiernan have partnered to help non-profit organizations save money on gasoline and their operational expenses.

Rose & Kiernan, a market leader in providing insurance and risk management service to non-profits, and Stewart’s Shops, which has a long history of helping non-profit groups with financial backing and guidance, have partnered to assist these community organizations in saving money on travel and other business-related expenses.

The partnership is designed to help non-profit organizations, many of whom often have limited budgets, put more of their financial resources to use serving people and causes vitally important to local communities.

Rose & Kiernan and Stewart’s Shops are introducing the COMDATA card to non-profit organizations

throughout the region. The COMDATA card can be used at Stewart’s Shops for a discount on gasoline purchases. All purchases will go towards COMDATA providing monthly rebates for every dollar spent. This includes purchases at Stewart’s Shops as well as other vendors based on each non-profit agency’s purchases. Stewart’s Shops has 295 shops offering gasoline across New York and Vermont, and these savings will be applicable in all gas shops.

Rose & Kiernan’s President and Chief Executive Officer John F. Murray, Jr. noted, “Rose & Kiernan is delighted to partner with Stewart’s Shops to help lower cost for our community non-profits.

We have long admired Stewart’s Shops’ commitment toward outstanding corporate citizenship and we are proud to work with them to benefit the communities where we live, work and raise our

HUDSON — Join Catholic Charities on Wednesdays in November as they help neighbors in need.

Dine out at these restaurants on the specified dates and a portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Food Pantry & Emergency Assistance Programs of Catholic Charities of Columbia and Greene Counties. All proceeds will stay in Columbia and Greene counties, helping neighbors with food, heating assistance and other emergency needs. Reservations are recommended.

Nov. 6: Kozel’s of Ghent; La Conca D’oro of Catskill; O’s

Hillsdale Diner of Hilldale; Pegasus Restaurant of Coxsackie; Plaza Diner of Hudson; Rip Van Winkle Country Club of Palenville; Vanderbilt Lakeside Bar Room of Philmont; White Stone Café of Ghent.

Nov. 13: Blue Plate of Chatham; Crossroads Brewing Company of Athens; Jackson’s Old Chatham House of Old Chatham; Jessie’s Harvest House Restaurant of Tannersville; Kozel’s of Ghent; Mediterranean Bistro @ 394 Main of Catskill; Plaza Diner of Hudson; White Stone Café of Ghent.

Nov. 20: Brandywine

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Stewart’s Shops president Gary Dake said, “When Chris Greagan of Rose & Kiernan approached us with this idea, it was a no brainer. Non-profits help make our communities stronger. They work with limited budgets and every bit of savings can help. We use COMDATA for our own employees, find it easy to use and the rebate feature is a nice perk for non-profits to save money.”

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“We’re focused on helping businesses build world-class payment programs and are thrilled with our partnership with Rose & Kiernan and Stewart’s Shops.”

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How to have a scary good time on Halloween As you plan to take your children and your neighbors’ children trick-ortreating today, we want to offer an extensive list of Halloween safety tips to help you prepare to have a scary good time.

How to stay safe this Halloween, according to the Centers for Disease Control. n Swords, knives and other costume accessories should be short, soft and flexible. n Do not go trick-ortreating alone. Walk in groups or with an adult your children can trust. n Fasten reflective tape to costumes and bags to help drivers see you. n When you get home, examine all treats for choking hazards and tampering before eating them and

limit the amount of treats you and your children eat. n Hold a flashlight while trick-or-treating to help you see and others see you.

Always walk and don’t run from house to house. n Always test make-up in a small area first. Remove it before bedtime to prevent possible skin and eye irritation. n Look both ways before crossing the street. Use established crosswalks wherever possible. Costumes should be reflective. n Lower your risk for serious eye injury by not wearing decorative contact lenses. n Only walk on sidewalks whenever possible, or on the far edge of the road facing traffic to stay safe. n Wear well-fitting masks, costumes and shoes

to avoid blocked vision, trips and falls. n Eat only factorywrapped treats. Do not eat homemade treats made by strangers. n Enter homes only if you’re with a trusted adult.

Only visit well-lit houses.

Never accept rides from strangers. n Never walk near lit candles or luminaries. Be sure to wear flame-resistant costumes.

A good alternative to trick-or-treating is a Halloween party at the home of a trusted friend or neighbor, or a Halloween party held at a school, firehouse or community building.

There will be plenty of treats, gifts and good company with other children and adults.

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The toll of family separation (c) 2019,The Washington Post ·

Before the spring of 2018, U.S. Customs and Border Protection had no system in place to track migrant children who were separated from their families. That was the case even though, it now turns out, the Trump administration, in its first months in office, had already begun wrenching scores of babies, toddlers, tweens and adolescents from their parents to deter illegal border crossings.

Then, beginning in April last year, the administration doubled down, systematically breaking apart migrant families upon apprehension at the border - still with no means of tracking and reuniting the families it had sundered.

Only now, 16 months after a federal judge ordered migrant families reunified, has the scale of the administration’s cruelty become understood. Most Americans thought the policy detestable. It was far worse than they imagined.

Having resisted demands that it compile a definitive listing of the families broken apart by its policies, the administration finally relented this spring when U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw ordered a full accounting. Last week, hours before the deadline set

by the judge, the government submitted the numbers to the American Civil Liberties Union, to whose volunteers it has fallen to clean up the mess created by President Donald Trump, former attorney general Jeff Sessions, former homeland security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and others.

No, it was not only the 2,814 traumatized children who had been separated and were in custody under the government’s policy of “zero tolerance” for unauthorized border crossers when Judge Sabraw ordered families reunified in June last year. It turns out that an additional 1,556 children had been separated in the preceding 12-month period, beginning in July 2017. Of those, more than 300 were 5 years old or younger.

Imagine, if you can, the suffering visited upon those children, including many still in diapers and requiring afternoon naps, by the administration’s cavalier brutality and incompetence - the anguish of little girls and boys removed from their parents for weeks or months because of a president lacking a conscience and a government whose data systems were not suited to the task of reunification. Those wounds won’t

heal easily, or ever.

Incredibly, having shattered so many families, the administration threw up its hands and declared the task of reuniting them beyond its capabilities. Even now, volunteers working under the coordination of the ACLU are going doortodoor in Guatemala and Honduras, seeking to ascertain whether families have recovered their children.

More than 1,000 additional migrant children have been separated in the past 17 months on the grounds, the government says, that their parents or guardians endangered or abused them, or were unable to care for them, or were criminals, or were not actually their parents.

The ACLU maintains that in some cases, those separations are also unjustified, triggered by minor offenses committed by the parents, such as shoplifting or driving without a valid license. It has asked Judge Sabraw to set a narrow standard for separations.

In all, the administration has taken at least 5,460 children from their parents. That is a stain on Trump, on the government he leads and on America.

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WASHINGTON — Demography does not dictate any nation’s destiny, but it shapes every nation’s trajectory, so attention must be paid to Nicholas Eberstadt.

He knows things that should occasion some American worries, but also knows more important things that should assuage some worries regarding Russia and China.

Writing in the July/August issue of Foreign Affairs (“With Great Demographics Comes Great Power”), Eberstadt, of the American Enterprise Institute, warns of “negative demographic trends now eating away at the foundations of U.S. power.” America is the thirdmost populous nation, and between 1990 and 2015 generated almost all the population growth of what the U.N. calls the more developed regions. From 1950 to 2015, it acquired almost 50 million immigrants — “nearly half the developed world’s net immigration.” Between the mid-1980s and the 2008 financial crisis, America was “the only rich country with replacement level fertility” (2.1 children per woman).

So, by 2040, when the U.S. population is around 380 million, its population will be younger than that of almost any other rich democracy, and the working-age population will still be expanding. In 2015, America had twice as many workingage people with undergraduate or graduate degrees as China had — almost onesixth of the world’s total.

After the 2008 financial crisis, however, the fertility rate fell and, Eberstadt says, “shows no sign of recovering.” Furthermore, the employment rate for men ages 25-54 is comparable to its level in 1939 — during the Depression. And America’s “traditional allies face even more daunting demographic challenges,” with the European Union and Japan having had subreplacement fertility rates since the 1970s. Demographers say “a woman born in Japan in 1990 has close to a 40% chance of having no

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WILL children of her own and a 50% chance of never having grandchildren.”

America can seek new friends and allies: By 2040, the populations of Indonesia and the Philippines could be 300 million and 140 million (by then larger than Russia’s), respectively. Russia’s and China’s problems are more intractable.

Vladimir Putin is a strongman ruling a shriveling country. Regarding population and human capital, Russia seems to be, Eberstadt says, in “all but irremediable decline.” In 2016, males 15 years old had a life expectancy shorter than their Haitian counterparts, and 15-year-old females’ life expectancy was only slightly better than those in the least developed countries. With a population of 145 million, Russia has less privately held wealth than do the 10 million Swedes.

Much more important is what Eberstadt calls China’s “collapse in fertility.” Although China’s working-age population (there, 15-64) almost doubled between 1975 and 2010, fertility has been below the replacement level for at least 25 years. China’s population will shrink after 2027; its working-age population has been shrinking for five years and will be at least 100 million smaller by 2040, when the adult population “will have fewer average years of schooling than that of Bolivia and Zimbabwe.” By then, China might have twice as many elderly as children under 15. The number of elderly will have increased from 135 million to 325 million in 25 years, with the nation’s median age having gone from less

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than 25 in 1990 to 48. “No country,” says Eberstadt, “has ever gone gray at a faster pace.”

Furthermore, there will be “tens of millions of surplus men” in China because during the “one-child” policy (1979-2015), many parents chose abortion rather than the birth of a girl. Traditional family structures are evaporating as a rising generation of urban youth consists of “only children of only children.”

India probably will replace China as the most populous nation by 2030, and by 2040 India’s working-age population might be 200 million larger than China’s. “India’s population will still be growing in 2040, when China’s will be in rapid decline,” Eberstadt says.

“By that time, about 24% of China’s population will be over 65, compared with around 12% of India’s.” Furthermore, nothing is more certain than that China’s Leninist state will continue the corrupt or otherwise inefficient allocation of resources, making robust economic growth even more elusive than it already is.

The actions of supine U.S. corporations — most conspicuously the NBA, but scores more — reflect a mistaken extrapolation. It is the projection that China’s four decades of economic ascent will continue unabated, making that nation an irresistible force. Corporate groveling might abate when CEOs understand China’s overrated present and precarious future. They should consider that less invertebrate corporate behavior might bend China toward decency, and certainly would protect corporations from Americans’ rising disgust with corporate indecency.

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Larry Howe In loving memory of Larry and friends.

Howe, who passed away on Relatives and friends are October 27, 2019. Larry is sur- cordially invited to attend callvived by his wife of 51 years, ing hours at The W. C. Brady’s Cherie, three children, Larry, Sons, Inc. Funeral Home, 97 Diana and Tammi, Mansion Street, Coxdaughter-in-law, Shansackie, N.Y. on Satnon, a son-in-law, two urday, November 2, granddaughters, and 2019. Military honors five grandsons. He was will be held at the funera veteran of the U.S. Air al home Saturday afterForce and part of the noon. In lieu of flowers, Coxsackie community please honor his memfor many years, where ory by contributing to he was always with a The Samuel S. Stratton smile on his face and a V.A. Medical Center, Howe kind word to say.

113 Holland Avenue, Larry was always happiest Albany, New York, 12208, or to when exploring new places with St. Jude Children’s Research his wife, singing Elvis songs, Hospital, P.O. Box 1000, Dept. reminiscing about his GTO, or 142, Memphis, TN 38148-0142. spoiling one of his dogs. He will Condolences may be made at be missed by countless family www.wcbradyssonsinc.net.

John H. Walsh eight great Grandchildren; Michael Joseph Walsh III, Nathan Walsh, Alex Walsh, Nicholas Walsh, MacKenzie and Zachary Labounty, and Ryker and Everly Hamm. John was predeceased by his parents; Harold Walsh & Winifer Miller, and his son Michael Joseph Walsh, and brother Jerome Walsh.

Funeral services will be held at 12:30 pm on Saturday, November 2, 2019 from Bates & Anderson – Redmond & Keeler Funeral Home, 110 Green St. Hudson, New York. Interment will follow in Cedar Park Cemetery. Visitation will begin at 10:30 am Saturday from the funeral home.

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Sherry Gaalswijk-Vennett Sherry Gaalswijk-Vennett, 64, left us too soon October 27th 2019 surrounded by her loved ones. Sherry was born on March 28th 1955 to Cornelis and Maria Gaalswijk in Hudson, NY. After graduating high school she moved down to Tampa, FL to attend the University of Tampa where she received her Bachelor’s degree.

Sherry spent many of her years being a devoted mother, giving back to the community through various organizations, and being a loving friend and sister. An avid traveler and scrapbooker, Sherry was proud to live her life to the fullest and see all our world had to offer, while capturing breathtaking photos and

memories.

Sherry was predeceased by her parents, Cornelis and Maria, and her husband, Mark. She is survived by her brothers Cornel and Pete, as well as her sister, Marcia, and their families; her children, Michelle, Jennifer, and Sean, and her grandchildren.

We will be celebrating her life on Friday, November 1st at 2 pm, at First Reformed Church of Tampa, located at 8283 W Hillsborough Avenue, Tampa, FL 33615. As an animal lover, in lieu of flowers, please make donations in her name to Big Cat Rescue, an organization that was very near and dear to her heart.

Margaret A. Leahy Margaret A. Leahy, 79 of Valatie, NY, formerly of Levittown, NY and New Port Richey, Florida, passed away on Monday, October 28, 2019. Born February 9, 1940 in Queens, NY, she was the daughter of the late Christian O. and Elsa S. (Ciesielski) Schrade. Margaret is survived by her beloved husband of 60 years, Thomas J. Leahy, and four children: Thomas J. (Kathleen) Leahy, Jr. of Murphy, NC; Catherine (Michael Scott) Leahy-Scott of Valatie, NY, Timothy W. Leahy of Guilderland, NY; Joan (Frank Davis) Leahy Davis of North Greenbush, NY; a brother, John P. (Michele) Schrade of Flemington, NJ; six grandchildren, Thomas J. (Kayla) Leahy, III, Patricia E. (Frank) Paino, Kerri A. Leahy, Christian

V. Leahy, Megan E. Scott and Michael T. Scott and one greatgrandson, Frank Paino as well as several nieces and nephews.

Margaret was predeceased by her brother, Robert Schrade.

A Mass of Christian burial will be held 12:30 pm on Saturday, November 2 at the Church of the Holy Spirit, 667 Columbia Turnpike, East Greenbush, NY with Fr. Quy Vo and Fr. Joseph O’Brien concelebrating. Calling hours will be held Friday, November 1, 2019 from 4-7 pm at Raymond E. Bond Funeral Home, 1015 Kinderhook Street, Valatie, New York, 12184. Private interment will be scheduled at a later date at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Rensselaer, New York.

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Top Volunteer Fire Department, Carl is also survived by longa member of The Sacred Heart time friends Michael J. CompChurch in Cairo. He earned itello, Joy Yoli and Linda Conti. his civil engineering degree at He also leaves behind his dear Manhattan College. Carl loved friends Lisa Holsapple, Stacooking, giving, and cey Homicz, Margie taking care of others, Maccrick, Stephen and he will always be and Paula Diffley, Suremembered for his san Byrne, and many kindness and his wonother dear friends and derful sense of humor. neighbors in the comBesides his parents munity. Relatives and Carl is predeceased friends are cordially inby his companion of vited to attend calling 27 years Maria Castelhours at Richards FuZoccola lano. Survivors include neral Home, 29 Bross his dearest and most Street, Cairo, N.Y. on cherished friend Lorraine “Lor- Sunday, November 3, 2019, rie” Mueller, cousins Charlene from 4:00 P.M. -8:00 P.M. Pizzadili and Evelyn Enrione. The Round Top Volunteer Fire

Company will hold services in his memory at the funeral home at Sunday evening, at 6:30 P.M. Mass of the Christian Burial will be celebrated on Monday, November 4, 2019, at 11:15 A.M., at Sacred Heart Church, Cairo. Interment will follow in the family plot of The Round Top Cemetery, Round Top, N.Y. Donations in Carl’s memory may be made to Community Hospice, 47 Liberty Street, Catskill, N.Y. 12414, or to The Round Top Volunteer Fire Company, P.O. Box # 61, Round Top, New York, 12473.

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Firefighters battle to save Reagan Library from fast-moving Easy fire

By Hannah Fry and Richard Winton Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — Perched on a hill overlooking Simi Valley and Moorpark, the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library offers sweeping views.

But that location has long made it vulnerable to wildfires.

On Wednesday, the Easy fire was burning close to the library, which is closed. Firefighters were at the facility prepared to provide structure protection.

The flames were being held back by an aggressive ground and aerial attack on the ridges beyond Simi’s modern resi- UPDATE: Locator map of Easy and Getty wildfires in Los Angeles. dential estates.

Helicopters repeatedly packed with residents pouring the building is kept clear. Each dropped loads of water behind the library in 60 mph south toward Thousand Oaks, year, the library brings in goats winds, turning the flames on their cars and SUVs brimming to eat vegetation around the the ridge 300 feet below into with boxes packed with trea- buildings.

Opened in 1991, the library is smoke. Amid wind gusts strong sured objects.

The library, which is de- home to the Marine One presienough to knock a person off balance, two super-scooper signed to withstand earth- dential helicopter, Air Force planes dipped down behind quakes and wildfires, has been One presidential aircraft, a the library before unleashing threatened by fire in the past. piece of the Berlin Wall, a repsuch a volume of water it cre- Officials say they take pains to lica of Reagan’s White House protect the facility, ensuring Oval Office and a steel beam reated its own rainbow.

Roads out of Simi Valley were that the open space around covered from the World Trade

Center after 9/11.

Two years after the library opened, the Reagan family threw a celebration there for firefighters who battled Southern California’s 1993 firestorms.

“Many years ago, we lost our old ranch in Malibu to fire,” the president’s daughter, Maureen Reagan, said. “When those winds start to blow, the same could happen to any one of us. We live in a place with unique terrain that’s continually touched by fire, and thank God we have unique and special men and women that are trained to stop those fires when they threaten people.”

The Easy fire, which broke out shortly after 6 a.m., has burned more than 900 acres. (c)2019 Los Angeles Times Visit the Los Angeles Times at www. latimes.com Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

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John H. Walsh, 77, of Greenport, passed away October 30, 2019. He was born on May 20, 1942, in Hudson. The son of Harold and Winifer (Bishop) Walsh. After graduating from Hudson High School, John enlisted in the Army where he served for over 20 years. On July 4, 1965 he married Beverly Ostrom. Together they enjoyed 54 years of marriage. John worked as an electrician for the Hudson City School District for 20 years, and also for Iron Mountain for 30 years. He enjoyed traveling and was a member of the Hudson Polish Sportsman’s club.

John is survived by his wife, Beverly. his grandchildren; Michael Walsh Jr. and his wife Mary, Robert Walsh, Sarah Hamm and her husband Bruce and Brandon Walsh. His

Carl A. Zoccola Carl A. Zoccola, Owner of the Maple Lawn Hotel, in Round Top, N.Y., age 68 years, passed away peacefully at home surrounded by his loved ones on October 29, 2019. He was born on February 4, 1951, in the Bronx, N.Y. and is the son of the late Freddie and Louise (Bagnoli) Zoccola. Carl is the owner and operator of The Maple Lawn Hotel and Trattoria, located at 10 Storks Nest Road, Round Top, N.Y. He was always very hospitable and gracious to his guests. Carl loved being behind the bar at his Trattoria 24/7. He dearly loved and served his community. Carl is a lifetime member of The Round

Epstein’s Autopsy ‘Points to Homicide,’ Not Suicide, Pathologist Claims Azi Paybarah The New York Times News Service

A forensic pathologist hired

by Jeffrey Epstein’s brother said Wednesday that evidence suggested that Epstein did not die by suicide but may have been strangled.

The New York City medical examiner’s office concluded Epstein hanged himself in his jail cell while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.

But the private pathologist, Dr. Michael Baden, said on the morning TV show “Fox & Chris Hondros/Getty Images/TNS Friends” that Epstein, 66, exMetropolitan Correctional Center is seen June 9, 2009 in New perienced a number of injuries — among them a broken hyoid York City. bone — that “are extremely un“No one finding can be tak- cases. usual in suicidal hangings and Dr. Burton Bentley II, head could occur much more com- en in isolation,” she said.

Baden served briefly as New of Elite Medical Experts, a conmonly in homicidal strangulaYork City’s medical examiner. sulting firm based in Arizona, tion.”

“I think that the evidence He was provisionally appoint- echoed that skepticism. “It’s points to homicide rather than ed to the position in 1978 and not 100%,” he said. “It’s not suicide,” said Baden, who ob- dismissed just a year later, by even going to get us to 90%.”

The death led to several inserved the autopsy done by city Mayor Edward I. Koch. In later years, he went on to work as vestigations into how a highofficials.

Baden, a former New York a consultant on a number of profile inmate apparently killed himself just weeks after City medical examiner and a high-profile cases.

On Wednesday, Baden said he was placed on suicide watch Fox News contributor, added, “I’ve not seen in 50 years where Epstein had “three fractures after a failed attempt to take his that occurred in a suicidal in the hyoid bone, the thyroid own life. cartilage.” He said those inEpstein was a wealthy fihanging case.”

The findings by Baden were jures were “very unusual for nancier and convicted sex strongly disputed by the city’s suicide and more indicative offender. He used his money chief medical examiner, Dr. of strangulation — homicidal and connections to get a widely criticized plea deal in Florida Barbara Sampson, who previ- strangulation.”

The autopsy also showed in 2008 after several teenage ously ruled that Epstein’s death Aug. 10 in the Metropolitan Epstein had several bones girls gave sworn statements Correctional Center was a sui- broken in his neck. But the to police stating that Epstein city medical examiner said had sexually abused them at cide.

“I stand firmly behind our Epstein’s death was “hanging” his mansion in Palm Beach, determination of the cause and and the manner was “suicide.” Florida. He spent 13 months in The article helped fuel con- jail but was allowed to leave for manner of death in this case,” Sampson said. She added: “In spiracy theories that specu- 12 hours a day, six days a week.

In July, federal officials argeneral, fractures of the hyoid lated Epstein may have been bone and the cartilage can be killed in order to prevent him rested Epstein at Teterboro Airseen in suicides and homi- from ensnaring his coterie of port in New Jersey and charged rich and powerful friends into him with sex trafficking. He cides.” was accused of luring numerSampson also dismissed his legal woes.

At the time, several medical ous underage women to his Baden’s contention that the circumstances around Ep- officials cautioned against rely- homes in New York City and stein’s death suggested other ing solely on the broken hyoid Florida then coercing them people may have been in- as evidence of strangulation. perform sex acts with him for volved. She said her office had “It’s not a slam dunk,” Marcella money.

A spokesman for the U.S. done a “complete investiga- Sorg, a forensic anthropologist, tion,” taking into consideration said in an interview. She said a attorney’s office in Manhattan information gathered by law broken hyoid is “a sign of neck had no comment on Baden’s enforcement in making the de- trauma” that can occur in both statements about Epstein’s strangulation and hanging death. termination.

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The festival at Hunter — Sept. 5, 1875

By Dede Terns-Thorpe For Columbia-Greene Media

This week’s story is about a summer event taking place in Hunter Village (20 years before it had village status), an annual August festival, to give aid to a little village church.

(It is difficult to say whether it was the Presbyterian Church, which was built in 1828, or the Catholic Church, which was built in 1837).

All of those who would attend the festival were to receive a combination of peaches, ice cream and moonlight – with peaches and ice cream a real luxury, and from the sounds of the article, the moonlight was expected.

“The drive from the Cauterskill Falls (just one of the 16 different spellings of Kaaterskill) to Hunter is always a charming one, with more than two miles of the way High Peak and Round Top, the two great central elevations of the range, towering majestically

on our left. As we rode along the effects produced by vast masses of clouds rolling about their lofty summits, and through which here and there the soft afternoon sunlight was streaming, were wonderfully beautiful.”

After arriving at the Clove road in Palenville the festival goers turned west and were in awe of the wild and picturesque Plauterskill (Plattekill) peaks on one side, and on the other the vast great Blackhead range. Directly in front, they told, but several miles distant, lay Hunter Mountain, the highest of all the Catskills.

Before arriving at Hunter, they talked of the passing of the entrances to Mink Hollow and the famous Stony Clove.

(Until late in the 19th century it was thought Hunter Mt. was the highest mountain in the Catskills. It was then found that Slide Mountain in Ulster County had an elevation of 30 – 40 feet higher than Hunter.)

St. Mary of the Mountain Catholic Church, Hunter

“At the foot of Hunter Mountain, or rather that bold and imposing portion of it known as the “Colonel’s Chair” lies the village of the same name, which is strung out for a distance along the bank of the Schoharie.”

They told how it had one street ornamented by fine old

elms, which afforded great shelter from the noonday sun.

They arrived at Hunter just as the sun was sinking toward the Westkill Mountains. They quickly were drawn to the grounds of the parsonage, where the festival was taking place. The grounds were illuminated by long rows of

Hunter Presbyterian Church

Chinese lanterns, with tables filled with delightful refreshments. Among the large crowd of visitors, the native mingled shyly with the city folk.

“To the rustic swains present the post office, which was presided over by a most bewitching little mistress, and the lemonade well, whence refreshing draughts

of coolness were drawn by a no less charming Rebecca, seemed to be the chief points of attraction.”

One amusing discussion held each year was about watching a farmer tasting ice cream for the very first time!

The visitors headed for home, and they told it was a glorious ride home. “The air was soft and balmy, and the fair moon, now high in the heavens, was flooding with dreamy splendor of the huge and majestic shapes of the mountains as they peacefully slumbered in the misty summer night.”

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

Take time to thank a veteran for their service

By Abby and Gabby For Columbia-Greene Media

PRATTSVILLE — Veterans Day is coming up so “Thank you for your service” wishes are always appreciated and not just on Nov. 11. In addition a hug or handshake will be welcome.

Gilboa Conesville CS is hosting its annual Veterans Day program at 9 a.m. Nov. 8 and Hunter-Tannersville is sponsoring its program on the same day, beginning at 8 a.m. Gilboa will treat the veterans and families with refreshments, baked on site, and coffee and juice. HunterTannersville will sponsor a breakfast after their program.

On Nov. 9, the American Legion Auxiliary Virgil E. Deyo Unit 1327 will hold its annual Veterans Day bake sale for the benefit of local veterans. They always welcome names of veterans who can use a helping hand in time for the holidays.

Every day is Veterans Day. Had a great conversation with Lunetta Hill in Florida.

For a senior citizen, she really has it all together. She called to do some checking on some of her longtime friends. Can give you her address if you want to drop her a line. Nothing beats the written word. Also heard from her daughter Linda and Linda’s husband, Glen. Although they live out of the area, they still maintain their

memberships in the American Legion and American Legion Auxiliary. Their support of veterans extends to participation in the annual Christmas celebration at the Stratton VAMC and donated laprobes.

Thank you, Bellomys.

Kristin and Chris and Anna Tompkins visited daughter Abby at her college in Utica recently. They said Abby is adjusting well and does not seem to have that college malady — homesickness. Good for Abby. She is truly a committed young lady in whatever she is involved with. Kristin and Chris, you are to be commended for instilling principles in such a lovely young lady.

Bob and Suzette Donisan are home from a week of babysitting duty for grandson Edward, son of Julius and Elizabeth Donisan. They came home exhausted but happy. Along with mom Elsie Stuppert, they spent Saturday afternoon picking apples in exchange for a black forest cake. Perhaps some apple dumplings will be available at the Veterans Day bake sale.

Last year they were gone before they could be displayed — their aroma preceded them.

Also at the apple picking were Stephanie Braswell, Jen and Bob Gurley Jr., and Marianne Krauss. And there was Stephanie’s dog Finley, there

for the fun of all. If we ran the way that dog does, we would all be fit and trim.

Get well wishes go out to Dan Dymond. Danny, sometimes you have to admit your physical health has a mind of its own. Dan’s problem has been corrected with a surgical procedure and he is home but not necessarily following doctor’s orders, according to daughter Rosalind. She just shakes her head. He had some medications and we would have loved to see Danny under those effects. Get well, Danny, you are one of our favorites.

Continued get-well wishes go out to veteran Chuckie Brainerd. We are thinking of

you, Chuckie, and we extend our “Thank you for your service” greetings to you.

The good news is RSK Farms will be open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays until the end of November.

Encourage you to taste their butternut squash and have a butternut squash soup recipe to share for your dining pleasure.

Happy birthday to Pam Carr and granddaughter Michelle on Nov. 3. Cheyenne Robinson, Pam Carr’s granddaughter, is wished a happy birthday on Nov. 7. Devon Gurley is sent happy birthday wishes on Nov. 8.

What’s happening on the mountain top

By Chris Dwon For Columbia-Greene MEdia

Our deepest sympathy to the family and friends of Donna Poulin, who passed away last week.

The West Kill/Lexington Community Hall was filled with family, neighbors, community and friends from everywhere and Oct. 26 for Bonnie Blader’s Celebration of Life. The family is truly grateful and touched by all the support, outpouring of love and the wonderful celebration for Bonnie.

Daylight saving time ends 2 a.m. Nov. 3. Turn your clocks back one hour.

There will be an Election Day dinner Nov. 5 at the Lexington-West Kill United Methodist Church hall in Lexington. Turkey dinner with all the fixin’s and oyster stew starting at 11 a.m. until 6:30 p.m., takeouts and dining room.

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ASHLAND SPEAKS

Turkey dinner includes mixed fruit, roasted turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, squash, assorted pie. Adult dinners are $12; children 5–12 are $5 and under 5 years are free. Oyster stew is $5 for a cup, $8 a pint and $15 a quart.

Mountain Top Ecumenical meeting is Nov. 6 at the Windham-Hensonville UMC in Windham starting at 11 a.m. with a speaker followed by a covered-dish luncheon.

Tai chi class with Nina Pfeffer as instructor will begin 2-3 p.m. Nov. 6 in the Lexington Municipal Building. This is a donation-based class.

There will be a public hearing on the proposed Windham Falls Recovery at 2 p.m. Nov. 9 in the Lexington Municipal Building. Nov. 12 is the Lexington Planning Board meeting at 6:30 p.m. at the Municipal Building. Windham Falls Recovery will be discussed.

Information regarding Windham Falls Recovery will be available to the public at the municipal building.

On Nov. 9 at 7 p.m. come to the Lexington Historical Society’s Historical Building on Church Street for movie night.

The film is Charlie Chaplin in “The Gold Rush.” Snacks are available and admission is free.

The VFW Post 1545 and Windham Hose Company 1 are sponsoring a Veterans Day breakfast 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Nov. 10 at the VFW Post 1545 in Windham. Good will offering.

The Lexington Mission is inviting all mountain top veterans to a “Serve the Vet – In Appreciation of Your Service” free dinner of Brunswick stew at the VFW Post 1545 at 4 p.m.

Nov. 10. If anyone would like to come and help prepare, help serve or if you need more information, call or text

518-947-0601.

Nov. 11 the Lexington/ West Kill UMC Administrative Council meets at 5:30 p.m. in the Lexington church hall.

Town of Lexington Fire Company Ladies Auxiliary will meeting at 7 p.m. Nov. 12 in the Firemen’s room.

The Ashland Historical Association is sponsoring an “All You Can Eat Breakfast” at the Ashland town Hall, 12094, Route 23 7:30-10:30 a.m. Nov. 16 for $9 per person, children 5–10 are $5 and under 5 years are free.

Happy birthday to Nora Carr, who will be turning 6 years old Nov. 1. Nov. 4 is Amanda Truesdell’s birthday.

Emma Wilson also has a birthday Nov. 4. Happy anniversary to Sue and Alfred Truesdell on Nov. 5. Best wishes to all.

Greene County Senior Nutrition Program menu for the week of Nov. 4–Nov. 8 is

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Assisted migration in an age of climate change

By Thomas Christopher For Columbia-Greene Media

It is impossible to be an active gardener and not notice changes occurring in our local habitat.

Chief among these is the ongoing warming of our climate.

In the Northeast, cities from Portland, Maine, to Hartford, Connecticut, reported recordbreaking heat last July, and Boston has experienced six of its 10 warmest-ever months in the last decade.

Dr. Bethany Bradley, who spent her childhood in Massachusetts and returned 10 years ago to teach ecology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has a more personal observation. Fall and cooler weather used to start at Labor Day when she was a girl; now, she adds, it seems to kick off around Columbus Day. Dr. Bradley has been researching plant communities’ reactions to climate change and on Nov. 10, she will be speaking about one possible response to a room full of gardeners at Rooted in Place, the Berkshire Botanical Garden’s annual ecological gardening symposium. She granted me a preview, leaving me with plenty to think about.

By the middle of this century — in just 30 years — Dr. Bradley noted, climate change is predicted by to make Massachusetts’ climate more like that of present-day Maryland.

This will have a profound impact on the local flora and fauna. Indeed, some sensitive species are already responding to the warming trend. I mentioned that I’ve read studies finding that sugar maples are not thriving as the weather turns hotter. They may be subjects, Dr. Bradley responded, for “assisted migration.”

What is assisted migration?

It’s a process by which plants and animals are moved from more southerly areas northward or upward in altitude in the expectation that the areas receiving them will become warmer and hence prove suitable homes for the southerners in the future.

Why bother? This is intended as a proactive response to problems, such as localized extinction of sugar maples, (Acer saccharum) that climate warming may cause. Such losses are likely to tear big gaps in local plant and animal communities, and if no action is taken, invasive and undesirable plants may move in to fill

southward, has escaped from landscape plantings to become something of a pest in central New England and upstate New York.

“Do no harm,” the motto of the medical profession, has been quoted by ecologists opposing assisted migration.

However, by warming the climate, humanity is already doing harm to local ecosystems and Dr. Bradley proposes that a well-thought-out program of assisted migration would be likely to yield more benefits than problems. Fast-spreading species such as black locust, and those that respond enthusiastically to disturbance of the habitat, could be avoided.

Anyway, she adds, government agencies are already experimenting with assisted migration of plants on a modest scale. When the Forest Service revegetates western national forests after wildfires, it commonly plants the pre-existing tree species, but gathers seed from the southern, warmer end of the trees’ ranges.

There’s a role in this for responsible gardeners. When you plant, Dr. Bradley urges, consider that you may be sowing the seed for the future of

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The sugar maple (acer saccharum), one example of tree species potentially vulnerable to climate change.

the vacated ecological niches.

Certainly, the plant and animal life of our future fields and forests is going to be different from what we find around us now if the climate continues to change. Assisted migration seeks to sow seeds, metaphorically and literally, of native North American plants and animals that will be better adapted to a warmer future.

Dr. Bradley is a scientist, not an advocate, and she was quick to note that proposals for assisted migration are controversial in the ecological community. This is because the local ecology responds to

changes in ways that are often difficult to predict. We cannot be sure that the plants we introduce may not prove too successful, perhaps crowding out some of what we would like to preserve. In the past, this has often occurred with exotic species introduced by gardeners, such as Japanese knotweed and Japanese barberry.

It’s not impossible that something similar could happen with natives introduced from more southern regions.

In fact, black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia), a tree thought to be native from Pennsylvania

surrounding wildlands. Vote with your dollars: select native species at the nursery and inquire where in their native ranges the plants came from.

For more information, come hear Dr. Bradley and the other experts speak about ecological gardening at Rooted in Place, from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Nov. 10 at the Berkshire School in Sheffield, Mass. Admission is $95 for Berkshire Botanical Garden members; $110 for nonmembers. Registration includes lunch and refreshments. More information at berkshirebotanical.org.

Be-a-Better-Gardener is a community service of Berkshire Botanical Garden located in Stockbridge, Mass. Its mission to provide knowledge of gardening and the environment through a diverse range of classes and programs both informs and inspires thousands of students and visitors each year. Thomas Christopher is a volunteer at Berkshire Botanical Garden and is the author or co-author of more than a dozen books, including Nature into Art, The Gardens of Wave Hill (Timber press, 2019). His companion broadcast to this column, Growing Greener, streams on WESUFM. org.

Red Cross: Healthy donors Volunteer: Share the gift of literacy are needed to maintain blood supply ALBANY — As influenza activity picks up this fall, the American Red Cross is urging healthy donors of all blood types to give blood to ensure a strong blood supply for patients in need. Blood and platelets can only be given by donors who are feeling well.

One way to maintain health is to get a flu vaccine each fall.

There is no waiting period to give blood after receiving a flu shot as long as the donor is symptom-free and fever-free.

For those that have the flu, it is important to wait until they no longer exhibit flu symptoms, have recovered completely and feel well before attempting to donate. Donors must feel healthy and well on the day of donation.

Donors of all blood types, especially platelet donors and those with type O blood, are urged to give now to ensure a stable supply this fall.

Stay healthy this flu season and make an appointment to

donate blood by downloading the free Red Cross Blood Donor App, visiting RedCrossBlood.org, calling 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767) or enabling the Blood Donor Skill on any Alexa Echo device.

Upcoming blood donation opportunities Nov. 1-15:

COLUMBIA COUNTY Cornerstone Fellowship Church, 62 Chatham St., Kinderhook, 1-7 p.m. Nov. 11.

Livingston Pumper Company 1, Route 9, Livingston, 1-6 p.m. Nov. 15.

DUTCHESS COUNTY Poughkeepsie Galleria, 2001 South Road, Poughkeepsie, 1-6 p.m. Nov. 5.

GREENE COUNTY Catskill High School, 341 West Main St., Catskill, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Nov. 7.

Catskill Elks Lodge Hall, 45 North Jefferson Ave., Catskill, noon-6 p.m. Nov. 11.

ORANGE COUNTY

Orange Regional Medical Center, 707 East Main St., Middletown, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

Nov. 6.

Christ Lutheran Church, 186 Fullerton Ave., Newburgh, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Nov. 2.

ULSTER COUNTY Ellenville Hospital, 10 Healthy Way, Ellenville, 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Nov. 8.

Veterans of Foreign Wars, 708 East Chester St., Kingston, 1-6 p.m. Nov. 11.

Health Alliance Hospital at Mary’s Campus, 105 Mary’s Ave., Kingston, 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Nov. 12.

Pinnacle Learning Center, 1508 Route 9W, Marlboro, 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Nov. 2.

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, 21 South Putt Corners Road, New Paltz, 8 a.m.-1 p.m.

Nov. 6.

State University of New York, 1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz, 11:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Nov. 7.

12 area businesses selected for AgriPreneurs Project ANDES — A dozen area businesses have been selected as “AgriPreneurs” to participate in the Catskill Regional Harvest and Delaware County Foodworks+ free educational entrepreneurial immersion focused on conducting an agricultural food business successfully.

The course got underway Oct. 23 and will continue for 14 weeks at Delaware County FoodWorks+ Shared Commercial Kitchen located at 27905 State Highway 28, Andes.

Businesses whose applications were accepted into the program include: Blackberry Ridge Farm, Home Sweet Home Goodies and Riverdale Farm, all from Delhi; Catskill Kombucha and Dirty Girl Farm, both located in Andes; Catskills Cultures of Bloomville, Chattlehope Farm of Roxbury, Crystal Brook Farm of New Kingston, Homestead in the Hollow of Jefferson, Jars of Deliciousness of New Berlin, Middle Brook Mill of Jefferson, and Red Kill Mountain Homestead of East Branch.

“This program is targeted

toward farmers and producers who would like to increase their revenue and profit, as well as to new agricultural and food entrepreneurs,” explained Nicole Day Gray, founder of Catskill Regional Harvest and Foodworks+.

Topics that will be covered during the course include business plan development, finance, value-added product development, culinary refinement, kitchen In addition to the outlined subject matter, the AgriPreneurs will participate in several additional workshops with guest speakers, and promotional events.

Kitchen time will be based on individual, coordinated schedules.

The course will cover business plan development, finance, value-added product development, kitchen production, business operations, branding, marketing, food safety certifications, insurance, sales and sales tools and NYS food processing regulation and compliance.

AgriPreneur is a collaborative program partnering

SUNY Delhi, SUNY Broome, AgriForaging Food Safety, Catskills Regional Harvest & Butcher Shop, The food entrepreneurs will have the opportunity to feature their products at the Catskills Region Harvest store. The participants will also be invited to conduct instore production demonstrations.

For more information, please contact Nicole Day Gray at nicole@agriforaging. com, 607-427-9848, @delawarecountyfoodworks or send a message on the website contact page at www.delcofoodworks.org.

Delaware The FoodWorks+ kitchen is licensed by NYE Department of Agriculture & Markets.

AgriForaging Food Safety was founded in 2011 with a mission to bridge the gap between agriculture and a better tomorrow by evolving the course of Catskills Regional Harvest & Butcher Shop is a farm marketplace driven by the support of more than 148 local and regional farmers, producers, and artisans.

HUDSON — Literacy Connections of the Hudson Valley is looking for people who love reading, who want to share the gift of literacy in the English language with an adult learner in Columbia or Greene County. No previous teaching experience is necessary!

New volunteers are required to attend a free orientation session, after which they will complete the online training, which can be adapted to fit most schedules.

The next orientation session will be held 10 a.m.-noon Nov. 5 at the Hudson Area Library, 51 N. Fifth St., Hudson. The follow-up session is scheduled for Dec. 17 at the same time and location.

At the orientation session you will learn about the difference between basic reading and teaching English as a Second Language. You will also learn more about Literacy Connections’ other volunteer opportunities.

Sign up for tutor training

by e-mailing colgreene@literacyconnections.org or by calling 518-828-1792 ext 104.

Provide your name, e-mail address, phone number and area where you would like to volunteer when registering.

Literacy Connections’ Columbia and Greene County Office is located within the office of the Hudson Area Library and regular hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays; 1-8 p.m. Wednesday; and 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Friday.

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Photos of the Berlin Wall by renowned American photographer Leonard Freed POUGHKEEPSIE – Dramatic photographs of the Berlin Wall taken by renowned American photographer Leonard Freed (1929-2006) will serve as the backdrop for a series of events at Vassar College that will focus on the effects of modern-day borders.

Freed’s photographs will be on display at Vassar College’s Palmer Gallery, located on the first floor of Vassar’s Main Building, starting October 30.

An opening reception with members of Freed’s family will ©Leonard Freed / Magnum Photos begin at 7 p.m. The exhibition BERLIN. 1961. American checkpoint at the Berlin Wall. marks the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. received from individuals in de- documentary about their proAt 6 p.m. the same evening, tention centers near the b order. tests against the separation of the college will host a panel disOn November 6, filmmaker families on the U.S.-Mexico cussion titled “Walls, Borders, Joshua Bennett will screen border. The film and discussion Fences,” in the Villard Room on his documentary, “Sky and will start at 5:30 p.m. in Taylor the second floor of Main BuildGround,” chronicling the jour- Hall 203. ing. Paul Farber, artistic director ney of a Kurdish refugee famAll events are free and open to of the Philadelphia Monument ily from Northern Syria to Berlin the public.

Lab and curator of the Berlin after the Balkan route to Europe Professor of History Maria Wall exhibition, will host the was closed off.

The film will be Höhn said Freed’s photographs panel. Farber will be joined by Professor of Geography Joseph shown in Taylor Hall Room 203 of the Berlin Wall provide the perfect context for a larger reNevins and Vassar students Ava at 5 p.m. flection on current developOn November 8, Vassar McElhone Yates, ’21 Carlos Esments in the United States and alumna Amy Kaslow, a noted pina ’20 and Ivanna Guerra ’20. others parts of the world. journalist and photographer, Reflecting on the history of “These exhibitions connect the Berlin Wall and inspired will present her portraits and

by Freed’s images, McElhone stories of refugees and forc- the Berlin Wall with the border, Yates curated an exhibit on the ibly displaced individuals from and proposed wall, between U.S.-Mexico border that will be around the globe. The event will the United States and Mexico,” on display on the second floor of begin at 7 p.m. at Vassar’s Old Höhn said. “The breaching of the College Center. Her exhibit Bookstore in the College Center. the Berlin Wall was celebrated On November 14, members in the United States as a deciincludes responses from local artists and activists, including of the local activist group “Gran- sive Cold War victory for Westletters that Espina wrote and nies Respond” will screen a ern democracy and freedom of

movement, two values the U.S. government proudly espoused for more than 70 years. Our commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall points out the irony of celebrating freedom of movement at a time when many in the U.S. and Europe again promote wall building and fearful isolationism.”

For more information about these events, visit https://www. vassar.edu/forcedmigration/ Vassar College strives to make its events, performances, and facilities accessible to all.

Individuals with disabilities requiring special accommodations must contact the Office of Campus Activities at least 48 hours in advance of an event, Mondays-Fridays, at (845)4375370. Without sufficient notice, appropriate space and/or assistance may not be available.

For detailed information about accessibility to specific campus facilities, search for “campus accessibility information” on the Vassar homepage http://www. vassar.edu.

Directions to the Vassar campus, located at 124 Raymond Avenue in Poughkeepsie, NY, are available at http://www.vassar.edu/directions.

Vassar College is a coeducational, independent, residential liberal arts college founded in 1861.)

Albany Capital Center to transform into a winter sports wonderland for the Northeast Ski & Craft Beer Showcase ALBANY — There will be no denying the upcoming winter season will soon be upon us as preparations begin for the Northeast Ski & Craft Beer Showcase.

Vendors will unload trucks and set up displays stocked with winter gear and equipment throughout the afternoon.

Thursday, October 31, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Albany Capital Center, 55 Eagle Street, Albany Friday, November 1: 4 to 9 p.m.

Saturday, November 2: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Sunday, November 3: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The Northeast Ski & Craft Beer Showcase will offer winter sports and craft beer enthusiasts a special preview of the upcoming season. The show will be highlighted by outstanding deals on gear, apparel and

equipment from Alpin Haus, Potter Brothers Ski & Snowboard Shops, and Steiner’s Sports; and an all-new selection of craft beer and wine from Saratoga Eagle.

The 2019 edition of the show will feature the popular free lift ticket promotion. The first 500 paid guests on Friday, November 1, will receive two-for-one lift tickets to various Vermont mountain resorts. The first 500 paid guests on both Saturday, November 2 and Sunday, November 3 will receive a free lift ticket to various New York ski resorts, courtesy of I SKI NY. Additionally, the first 250 paid guests on Sunday, November 3 beginning at 1 p.m. will receive two-for-one lift tickets to participating mountains. See website for details; restrictions may apply.

Guests will also enjoy the

Saratoga Eagle Craft Beer Garden, presented by Great Lakes Brewing Company, featuring an all-new lineup of local and regional brews, wines and cider.

For the first time ever, visitors will be able to enjoy broadcasts of live sporting events throughout the weekend on large screen televisions inside the Saratoga Eagle Craft Beer Garden as well as purchase mimosas on Sunday from 10 a.m. to noon.

The Saratoga Eagle Craft Beer Garden will be open Friday from 4 to 8:30 p.m.; Saturday from noon to 5:30 p.m.; and Sunday from noon to 3:30 p.m. Sampling fees apply and guests must be 21 years of age or older with valid ID. Tickets are on-sale now at NortheastSkiShow.com. Tickets are $10 per day when purchased in advance of the show. Tickets will be available at the door for

$12. A three-day value pass is available online for $25. Children 10 and under are admitted free when accompanied by an adult.

Guests may save $2 at the door by bringing a new, unwrapped toy to the show to benefit the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots holiday toy campaign, courtesy of NBT Bank.

Sponsors of the Northeast Ski & Craft Beer Showcase include: Saratoga Eagle; Hannaford Supermarkets; Monster Energy; NBT Bank; Stewart’s Shops; and I SKI NY. For more information about the Northeast Ski & Craft Beer Showcase, visit NortheastSkiShow.com, like Northeast Ski & Craft Beer Showcase on Facebook or follow on Twitter @ NESkiShow.

Hey driver, get us to the funeral on time

By Raymond Pignone Columbia-Greene Media

Vic is having a bad day. He can’t find anyone to take his grandfather to a medical appointment. His mother scolds him daily for lack of ambition.

He has to drive a group of elderly Russian emigres to a funeral for a beloved aunt. And protests are blocking all the streets.

This is only the beginning of “Give Me Liberty,” a raucous, relentless comedydrama about ordinary (and a few extraordinary) people stirred around in the same melting pot. Vic is caught between his job of driving a medical transport bus and his desire to do a good deed by taking the Russians to the funeral, and the story spins out in one day as Vic is late for just about everything. The movie is set in Milwaukee and directed by Kirill Mikhanovsky, who co-wrote the improvisational-style script with Alice Austen. Playing Vic, Chris Galust leads a nonprofessional cast of gifted supporting performers like Lauren “Lolo” Spencer as a brash,

Lauren Spencer, left, and Chris Galust in “Give Me Liberty.”

opinionated social worker with ALS, Maksim Stoyanov as a boastful hairy-chested boxer and would-be ladies’ man and Zoya Makhlina as Vic’s nagging mom. The loosely structured plot surges forward. The overlapping dialogue, reminiscent of Robert Altman’s 1970s output, is delivered fast and masterfully choreographed. Wyatt Garfield’s hand-held photography is both modulated and dynamic.

Vic is a friend and general helper to his family and neighbors. Among them is a quadriplegic man (James Watson) who appears throughout the film dispensing sage wisdom

and smoking cigarettes with Vic’s aid. Despite the man’s disability, he has an optimistic perspective. “Life is what it is,” the man tells Vic. “Life is wonderful. I love everything about life — the dust, the rats, the chickens. Love conquers all.”

Disability (and overcoming it) is one of the movie’s running themes. Another is chickens. Vic’s demented grandfather (Arkady Basin) is obsessed with cooking them, which proves troubling when he almost sets his apartment building on fire. Challenges define Vic’s working day, which the movie charts from beginning to end, and which

includes transporting a blind, obese and ornery client (Ben Derfel), whose bitching is strong enough to enter the Olympics and who has an irrational grudge against Elvis Presley.

Modeled on the premise of Martin Scorsese’s frenetic “After Hours,” Vic’s day turns into one damn thing after another.

Getting from one point to another becomes high-stress screwball comedy. If one person has to get off the bus, all the other passengers must get off first. If he wants to take a shortcut, you can bet the police closed the streets.

Somehow, Vic manages to stay on an even keel, mostly because he has to drive faster than Steve McQueen to do his job. The movie’s best running joke is Vic’s answer to his frustrated boss that the rest of the ride will take “five minutes, 10 minutes tops.”

Forty or 50 years ago, this might have been a glossy depiction of triumph over adversity. Sure, “Give Me Liberty” is a minor work, but its irresistible charm and unsentimental presentation win you over.

CALENDAR LISTINGS TSL Movies October 31 November 7 n Downtown 81 (1981) — In 1981, writer and Warhol associate Glenn O’Brien, Swiss photographer Edo Bertoglio, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, a graffiti innovator and noise music artist who’d just begun to exhibit his paintings, hit the streets of lower Manhattan to make a movie about the bombed-out bohemia, with a script by O’Brien, Bertoglio directing, and Basquiat, a naturally compelling presence, starring. Featuring John Lurie, Fab Five Freddy, and Debbie Harry, with musical performances by DNA, James White and the Blacks, and Kid Creole and the Coconuts – and Manhattan in all its mangy glory. 1981. 1h12m. n Leonardo: The Works — Presented by Exhibition on Screen.

Many feature films have showcased the genius of Leonardo, but none has ever examined in such detail the most crucial element of all: his art.

Leonardo’s paintings will be at the core of the film, captured in staggering high-definition. Notably, the film presents every single painting attributed to Leonardo, offering unparalleled access for the first time. Amid this collection of masterpieces, cinema-goers will marvel at The Last Supper, Lady with an Ermine, Ginevra de’ Benci, Madonna Litta, Virgin of the Rocks, and what is widely considered the most famous artwork of all time – The Mona Lisa.

2019. 1h25m. n Give Me Liberty — Medical transport driver Vic is late, but it’s not his fault. Roads are closed for a protest, and no one else can shuttle his Russian grandfather and émigré friends to a funeral. The new route uproots his scheduled clients, particularly Tracy (Lauren “Lolo” Spencer in a breakout performance), a vibrant young woman with ALS. As the day goes from hectic to off-therails, their collective ride becomes a hilarious, compassionate, and intersectional portrait of American dreams and disenchantment. In English and Russian with subtitles.

2019. 1h51m. 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 Alice in the Cities (1974) — 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 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. 201 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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NOVEMBER 1 Dia De Los Muertos Friday, November 1, 6 p.m. - 9 p.m.

Join us at The Greenhouse Cidery for our second annual Dia de Los Muertos aka Day of the Dead celebration!

Dia de Los Muertos is a Mexican holiday (with deep Aztec roots) that is celebrated to honor the memories of loved ones who have passed and are no longer with us. It is not a spooky holiday or a scary one, and it certainly isn’t related to the holiday Halloween or any form of “witchcraft”.

Dia de Los Muertos is becoming increasingly popular and celebrated in the United States & we wanted to acknowledge & host a special evening at The Greenhouse Cidery to show our thanks for the rich history associated with this unique holiday!

We have a fun evening planned!

Stop by The Greenhouse Cidery from 6pm-9pm on Friday November 1st for live music from local musicians Scott Stockman & Dan Garcia + amazing homemade Mexican food from our very own Gloria Morales (menu coming soon!) Our fire pit will be lit with free s’mores for all and a community alter (ofrenda) for you to add to if you so choose! Face painting is apart of this holiday, most people paint their face with a calavara (skull) or La Calavera Catrina. Face painting is an option, but not mandatory.

Visit our bar for one of our small batch hard ciders or check out or selection of NYS craft beer, Tousey Winery wines & local spirits from Grazin’ Spirits & Hillrock Distillery.

Non-alcoholic beverages, hot apple cider & apple cider donuts will be available as well!

Free event, all are welcome! Come as you are, bring your family & friends…have a great time with us!

Hope to see you there Friday, November 1, 6 p.m. - 9 p.m., https://www.facebook.com/ events/2404910676265673/ The Chatham Berry Farm, 2309 State Route 203 Chatham, 518-392-4609 www.thechathamberryfarm.com The Stissing Theatre Guild, in cooperation with Stissing Mountain Jr./Sr. High School, is proud to present Short Plays by David Ives on November 1st and 2nd at 8 p.m. at the brand new Stissing Center (2950 Church Street, Pine Plains).

Please join us for an award-winning evening of comedies that are witty and just plain fun. General admission tickets (just $5.00 each) are available now at www.seatyourself. biz/stgboxoffice or at the door.

November Jazz Just over four years ago I met a relatively new jazz musician to the area, Phil Allen. On a gig that we had with Skip Parsons, I learned that this valve trombonist was also a composer and arranger with a considerable resume including writing for and playing in a band with Stan Kenton drummer, John Von Ohlen.

Having led a big band of my own for over 20 years, I offered to get some players to read through some of Phil’s arrangements as he did not know many musicians in the area yet. Long story short, we formed the Phil Allen/Michael Benedict Concert Jazz Band and been performing ever since at the Lark Tavern, Savoy Taproom, Troy Kitchen, Renaissance Hall and Caffe Lena.

Come check us out at A PLACE FOR JAZZ on Friday, November 1 at 7:30 at the Whisper DOME at the Unitarian Universalist Society of Schenectady located at 1221 Wendell Ave. APFJ is THE premier organization for Jazz presentations.

We will be swinging and we will be playing brand new material by both Phil and trumpeter/composer Dylan Canterbury!

The next night I will be with my Jazz Vibes Quartet at 9 Maple Avenue.

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in and out of prison, including when he served more than 12 years for manslaughter beginning in 2003 in the death of a Catskill man who died from his injuries during a fight. Alcohol was a factor in the fight that led to the man’s death.

But there were good times.

Owen worked as a tree linesman, enjoyed working in his yard, drew portraits of wildlife, regularly took his family on outdoor adventures and had many happy memories of the farmhouse they lived in on the mountaintop.

But sometime when LaRosa was having surgery around Christmas in 2018, Owen’s life spiraled.

“With an addict, you can’t turn your eyes away for a second,” LaRosa said. “It is not all their fault. That is how it is.”

On Jan. 2, 2019, LaRosa got a phone call at about 11 a.m. while she was recovering in the hospital from surgery.

The caller said something had happened to her husband and to come right away. LaRosa’s mother drove with her to the Catskill motel where Owen was staying. LaRosa pulled into the parking lot just as the coroner was pulling out.

She walked into her husband’s motel room to find his glasses thrown across the floor. A half-eaten sandwich was on the counter. And there was a large blood stain on the floor near the bathroom.

That’s when Emmy LaRosa knew something terrible had happened. Her husband had died from a heroin overdose but his body went undiscovered for six days, she said.

Robert Owen was 51.

“After all that shock finally

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Summer Recreation.

“One of our cornerstone programs is the Youth Drop In Center,” Tomlinson said.

Teens and pre-teens come to the center between 2:30 and 6:30 p.m. and have access to computers at the community center’s media lab to do their homework or can play outside on the basketball court, Tomlinson said.

“It’s very popular,” she added.

Cooking classes are also offered at 4 p.m.

“We have former students, who are now staff, tell us how much it means to them to have learned to cook,” Tomlinson said.

During the five-week Summer Recreation program, which is held at Elliott Park, weather permitting, young people get to participate in outdoor activities and go

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An American flag is folded at Robert Owen’s funeral in January 2019.

wears off, if it finally hits you that your husband is dead, but it takes a little while to sink in,” LaRosa said. “You go through motions of it because you’re in shock. But it is in the weeks after that, you realize that this is true. This isn’t a joke.”

LaRosa decided to take her grief and her pain and what she learned from being with an addict, in and out of prison, to start the group, “It Takes a Community.” The group provides overdose awareness, information on recovery and rehabilitation and support for anyone else struggling or in crisis in Greene County.

As one of its first acts, the group started a drug tip line with the Greene County Sheriff’s Office at 518-719-3571.

LaRosa is using the group to encourage others and challenge people’s perceptions of addiction.

“There is so much more to addicts than their addiction,” LaRosa said. “Bobby had so many talents, and I don’t think

people realize that they [addicts]are so sick. People think they want to be this way.”

There were times that Owen, as an addict, deceived people so that he could get out of treatment and appointments.

It was part of his sickness, LaRosa said. It got confusing at times, discerning fact from fiction, but LaRosa continued to support her husband. But there are some things LaRosa will always know to be true about her husband.

“I know I was his best friend,” LaRosa said. “I know I was the love of his life. And I know that there is no more that anybody can do for a person — bring them to every appointment and be there for everything, no matter what.

But you can’t do anything for anybody until they want to get help.”

For most addicts, seeking help can be a process, LaRosa said.

“Your brain has to decide to want help, and you have to

swimming. This summer, they learned about robotics, Tomlinson said.

The community center dates back to the 1950s, Tomlinson said, however it closed for a period of time due to lack of funding.

It reopened in approximately 2005, Tomlinson said, with the help of village leaders such as Hudson Talbott.

“It is close to the hearts of a lot of people in Catskill,” Tomlinson said. “We are going to raise money to keep the doors open and programs going.”

Town Supervisor Doreen Davis said the town is committed to maintaining its annual contribution of $100,000 in the 2020 budget.

“At a recent meeting with members of the center we agreed to work with them on their plans for the future,” Davis said. “We offered to meet with members of the community and serve as advocates for the services they provide, from before-and-after-school programs to providing a place for

youth to gather. We view the center as an integral part of the community and will help and be a partner in planning for their future.”

The center appreciates the town’s support, Tomlinson said.

Tomlinson said she is working on an appeal letter that she will send to past donors, asking them to consider donating matching funds.

The board will then work on the budget for next year, she said.

The center does not have any fundraising events planned at this time, Tomlinson said.

“We’re going to be going to businesses in the community,” she said. “I’m hopeful they will come forward and provide the money for the matching grant.”

Murphy’s Law Public House will be holding a benefit event for the Catskill Community Center Nov. 6 from 4-10 p.m.

All tips received during the evening will be donated.

US farm bankruptcies surge 24% on strain from Trump trade war

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WASHINGTON — U.S. farm bankruptcies in September surged 24% to the highest since 2011 amid strains from President Donald Trump’s trade war with China and a year of wild weather.

Growers are also becoming increasingly dependent on trade aid and other federal programs for income, figures showed in a report by the American Farm Bureau Federation, the nation’s largest general farm organization.

The squeeze on farmers underscores the toll China’s retaliatory tariffs have taken on a critical Trump

constituency as the president enters a re-election campaign and a fight to stave off impeachment. The figures also highlight the importance of a “phase one” deal the administration is currently negotiating with Beijing to increase agriculture imports in return for a pause in escalating U.S. levies.

Almost 40% of projected farm profit this year will come from trade aid, disaster assistance, federal subsidies and insurance payments, according to the report, based on Department of Agriculture forecasts. That’s $33 billion of a projected $88 billion in income.

The trade war and two straight years of adverse

weather rattled farmers already facing commodity price slumps.

Chapter 12 bankruptcy filings in the 12 months ended September rose to 580 from a year earlier. That marked the highest since 676 cases in 2011 under the chapter of the bankruptcy code tailored for farms. The total “remains well below” historical highs in the 1980s, the federation said.

Recent bankruptcies were concentrated in the 13-state Midwestern region, a key battleground in the presidential election where grain, soybean, hog and dairy farms have been hit by trade disputes. More than 40%, or 255 filings, were in the region.

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continue this treatment for one year to two years before the cravings go away,” she said.

As one of the group’s first events, it hosted the Matt Herring Foundation traveling Love Lock Gate at 911 Center, 25 Volunteer Drive, Cairo, on Oct. 23. The Love Lock Gate is a fence affixed with individual padlocks in memory of someone who struggled with addiction.

Sharon Herring, of Fishkill, started the Matthew Herring Foundation with her family after her grandson, Matthew, died Aug. 27, 2017 from an overdose. Since then, the family has traveled across the Hudson Valley with the traveling gate to provide support and awareness for addiction.

Matthew “lit up a room,” his grandmother said. Athletic and popular, he was loved by everyone.

“We just needed to do something,” Sharon said.

“And Matthew brought us

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Emmy LaRosa is presented with an American flag at the funeral for her huband, Robert Owen, who died Jan. 2, 2019 after an overdose. Owen was an infantryman in the U.S. Army.

to more places than we ever thought we’d be. We’ve fed the poor. Stood and spoke at picnics. We shared his story.

It has actually helped us heal. Our family, like everyone else’s, lost somebody. Our family was a mess. We needed to do something. We needed to make a difference.”

LaRosa and other members of the community placed a lock in memory of those who lost their lives to addiction.

The goal of the gate is to bring the community together to create awareness of the problem of addiction. Prayers, led

by Pastor Jason Thompson of Cairo, were said on behalf of the people lost to, suffering with and recovering from addiction.

In attendance were representatives from the Greene County Sheriff’s Department, Cairo Police Department, State Police based in Greene County, Twin County Recovery Services, Mental Health Association of Columbia and Greene Counties, Greene County fire department and paramedic services, Greene County sheriff candidate Peter Kusminsky, legislators, Mobile Crisis team, Greene County Probation and the Greene County District Attorney’s Office.

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

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Valley Lodge 3-432, Sons of Norway, will host a Scandinavian Craft Fair 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Nov. 3 at the Freehold Fire House, Route 32, Freehold. Handmade ornaments and gift items, white elephant table, Scandinavian foods and baked goods. Admission is free.

NOV. 1

CATSKILL — Temple Israel of Catskill to Hold Trash and Treasure Sale 8:30 a.m.3 p.m. Nov. 3 at Temple Israel of Catskill, 220 Spring St., Catskill. This will be the last tag sale of the season.

Household goods, furniture, books, and odds and ends from antique to crafty will be on display, all in excellent condition.

There is something for everyone, including a delicious bake sale, a 50/50 raffle and, in addition, we will be raffling off a fabulous gift basket. Proceeds from the sale will benefit the temple and the Rabbi’s Discretionary Fund.

WINDHAM — Hope Restoration Church, 117 Route 296, Windham, 21st annual Thanksgiving dinner will be held 4:30-7:30 p.m. Nov. 1.

The gourmet chefs are ready to serve a full course turkey dinner. Reservations will not be necessary. Take outs are for shut-ins only.

NOV. 2 HUDSON — Food Network Star Nancy Fuller will serve as mistress of ceremonies for The Community Hospice’s 26th annual “Oh What a Night” gala on Nov. 2 at The Falls, Union Turnpike, Hudson.

Cocktails and hors d’oeuvres at 6:30 p.m., dinner and dancing 8-11 p.m. The evening will feature a cocktail reception and silent auction, followed by a dinner catered

by Mara Simons Jones and dancing the night away with local band Just In Time. Black tie preferred.

Tickets are $150 each. Proceeds will ensure that vital programs and services are available for hospice patients in Columbia and Greene counties. To attend, contact Jodi at 518-943-5425 ext. 8338 or visit www.columbiagreenegala.org.

CATSKILL — St. Patrick’s Church of Catskill, will host Irish Night with the Andy Cooney Band, buffet dinner n show/dance at 6 p.m. Nov. 2 at Anthony’s Banquet Hall, 746 Route 23B, Leeds. Tickets are $50. For information and reservations, call Rosemary at n 518-943-4259 or Anne at 518965-7778.

COXSACKIE — The Heermance Memorial Library, 1 Ely St., nCoxsackie, presents an art show and reception at noon Nov. 2. The show features art from our children and young adult n art classes this past summer and fall. Admission is free andnall are welcome.

For information, visit www. heermancelibrary.org or call the library 518-731-8084.

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MARGARETVILLE — Historian Ray LaFever will sign copies of his recent release of The History n of the Town of Bovina, Delaware County, NY 11 a.m.2 p.m. Nov. 2 at Home Goods of Margaretville, 84 Main St., Margaretville. Ray succeeded his nlate father Charlie as Bovina Town Historian in 2004.

Ray has been writing the town history since 2003. He will offer copies for sale at the signing and refreshments will be n available.

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NOV. 5 CAIRO — Friends of the Cairo Library will sponsor a usedbook sale 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Election Day, Nov. 5 behind the library at 15 Railroad Avenue, Cairo, weather permitting.

CAIRO — The annual spaghetti & meatball dinner sponsored by the Cairo Hose Company Auxiliary will be held 5-7:30 p.m. Nov. 5 at the Cairo Firehouse, Railroad Avenue, Cairo. Take outs at 4:30 p.m.

Adults, $9; children 5-12, $5; under 5, free.

COEYMANS HOLLOW — Trinity United Methodist Church, 1313 Route 143, Coeymans Hollow, will serve a chicken and biscuit dinner noon-7 p.m. Nov. 5.

The menu includes chicken and biscuits, mashed potatoes, green beans or squash, cranberry sauce, homemade pie and beverage. The cost is $11. A lunch menu will be served 11 a.m.-7 p.m. and will include homemade clam chowder.

NOV. 7 HUDSON — Students and staff at the Questar III Columbia-Greene Educational Center (CGEC) will host their annual Veterans Day Lunch on Nov. 7, 2019 to celebrate and honor local veterans for their service to our country.

Area veterans, along with a guest, are invited for a complimentary lunch at the Columbia-Greene Educational Center, located at 131 Union Turnpike, Hudson. There will be two seatings, 11 a.m.– noon and 12:30–1:30 p.m. A separate dessert room is available after lunch, so guests can enjoy coffee and socializing. Reservations are required and can be made by calling 518-828-4157.

COXSACKIE — The Greene County Historical Society will host speaker Ron Gabriele who will offer the program “50 Years After Gettysburg” at 7 p.m. Nov. 7 in the Fedder Research Library, Bronck Museum, 90 County Route 42,

NOV. 11

BERNE — Helderberg Christian School Vision Banquet and Silent Auction will be held 4-7 p.m. Nov. 9 at the First Baptist Church of Westerlo, 618 Route 143, Westerlo.

Adults, $15; children under 10, $8. For tickets and information, call the school office at 518-499-5416 or hcsofficeassist@yahoo.com.

PALENVILLE — The Palenville Fire Department and Ladies Auxiliary will observe Veterans Day at 11 a.m. Nov. 11 at the Veterans Memorial Monument, 717 Route 23A, Palenville.

A short ceremony will be held and will include the National Anthem, invocation, wreath laying and Taps. Following the ceremony, light refreshments will be served in the fire hall. The public is invited.

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LATHAM — The local group of The Society of American Magicians, Assembly 24, meets at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 12 at the S. W. Pitts Hose Co. of Latham, 226 Old Loudon Road, Latham. All persons, 16 and older, with any interest in the art of magic is welcome.

For information about the organization, or for a link to a local magician, visit WWW. SAM24.SYNTHASITE.COM.

VOORHEESVILLE — Cornell Cooperative Extension Albany County will hold its Annual Meeting at 12:30 p.m.

Nov. 14 at 24 Martin Road, Voorheesville.

This meeting is open to the public. Albany County residents 18 years of age or older are eligible to vote for members of the Board of Directors and various program committees. Ballots will be available the day of the meeting.

For information or to make a reservation, call Cornell Cooperative Extension Albany County at 518-765-3500.

NORTON HILL — The Asbury United Methodist Church, 5830 Route 81, Norton Hill, Greenville, will serve its annual turkey supper 4-7 p.m. Nov. 9. Eat in or take out.

Adults, $15; children 6-12, $7; children under 6, free. Reservations are recommended and can be made by calling GNH Lumber at 518-966-5333. It is not necessary to visit the store in person.

OAK HILL— An all you can eat breakfast will be served 8 a.m.-noon Nov. 9 at the Oak Hill/Durham Firehouse, 103 County Route 22, Oak Hill.

Free will offering will be accepted. Held in conjunction with the 20th Annual Vintage Snowmobile Show and swap meet sponsored by the Northern Star Riders Snowmobile Club.

HUDSON — Temple Israel of Catskill, The Jewish Federation of North Eastern New York and Columbia -Greene Community College present a free screening of the acclaimed film, The Last Goldfish, at 7 p.m. Nov. 9 in the Arts Center Theater, ColumbiaGreene Community College, 4400 Route 23, Hudson.

Told through a personal archive of photos and home movies, The Last Goldfish,

NOV. 16 ALBANY — The fourth annual Green Fair will be held 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Nov. 16 at the Sage College Armory, 130 New

NOV. 21 COXSACKIE — The Athens Community Garden Club annual holiday luncheon and auction will be held at noon Nov. 21 at Pegasus Restaurant, 10885 Route 9W, Coxsackie.

With Chinese and Silent Auction tables available from 11:30 a.m. and the Holiday Auction of famous baked goods, custom designed gift baskets, hand-crafted items and more beginning at 12:30 p.m. This is a great opportunity for holiday shopping.

The luncheon is $25 and includes an hors d’oeuvres table, broccoli cheddar soup, choice of salmon, chicken francaise and eggplant parmesan, coffee or tea and a brownie sundae for dessert.

For reservations, respond before Nov. 14 to Athens Community Garden Club/Luncheon, PO Box 233, Athens, NY 12015 or call Laura Erwig at 518-444-8279.

NOV. 28 ATHENS — The Senior Angels’ fourth annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner will be held Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28 at the Rivertown Senior Center, 39 Second St., Athens.

Open to all seniors 60 and older. Doors open 11 a.m.; lunch served noon-2 p.m.

There will be music, door prizes and conversation over coffee and pie 2-4 p.m. For information, or to donate to help offset costs, contact the Department of Human Services at 518-719-3555 and ask to speak to Ken.

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NOV. 13 COXSACKIE — A ColumbiaGreene Women’s Luncheon will be held 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

Nov. 13 at the Pegasus Restaurant, 10885 Route 9W, Coxsackie.

The Cornucopia luncheon features Kathy Brennan “K & B One of a Kind Designs” from Saugerties; music by Ed Mateyunas from Gilboa and speaker Amy Macris from East Greenbush.

Come and bring a friend, they’ll be glad you did. Reservations are necessary and cancellations a must. RSVP No later than Nov. 11. Call Ruth at 518-634-7405 or Lynn Overbaugh at 910-382-6373.

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Scotland Ave., Albany. Enjoy one-stop shopping with information, services and products related to living in harmony with our earth. It is free and open to the public with ample, accessible parking and is sponsored by Community Advocates for a Sustainable Environment. This is the largest indoor/outdoor environmental Fair in the Capital Region having great roadside visibility. At the Fair, meet for profit and nonprofit exhibitors, listen to speakers on a variety of environmental topics while enjoying vegan friendly food and drink. It is a “zero waste” event using compostable products.

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NOV. 10 CATSKILL — Catskill Elks Lodge, 41 North Jefferson Ave., Catskill, will serve a Veterans Breakfast 9-11 a.m. Nov. 10. Free to veterans; all others, $7.

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is the story of a daughter’s search for her family’s lost European roots beginning in Nazi Germany and Kristallnacht to their journey to Trinidad, and eventually settling in Australia. The movie is a revelation of how they got there and why. Writer and director Su Goldfish is related to Temple Israel congregant Joyce Federman. Su will hold a question and answer session via Skype from Australia after the viewing. A Havdallah service ending the Sabbath will be conducted by Rabbi Zoe B. Zak, spiritual leader of Temple Israel of Catskill. Light refreshments will be served.

NEW BALTIMORE — The Food and Fellowship Luncheon Program at the New Baltimore Reformed Church, 52 Church St., New Baltimore, will be holding their monthly luncheon noon-2 p.m. Nov. 13. The menu (subject to change) is turkey and dressing, mashed potatoes with gravy, butternut squash, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie.

Following the meal there will be a presentation by Ron Gabriele.

He will be speaking on “Uncle Mike and World War II.” Ron’s Uncle Mike joined the service from Athens. Ron will also tell us something about the causes of the war and how America got into it. This luncheon is open to all members of the community. To facilitate planning, reservations are encouraged by the Sunday before the luncheon.

To make reservations, call the church at 518-756-8764 or email nbrchurch@aol.com.

Include your name, contact number, and the number of reservations you are making for this meal. If you need transportation or physical assistance, leave that information as well. Dining space is limited to 60 seats. Free will offerings are accepted to offset food costs.

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Coxsackie. The Second Battle of Gettysburg is the story of the 50th Anniversary Commemoration of the original battle of Gettysburg which took place July 1-3, 1863. The program will examine how it took four years to plan the commemoration event; the obstacles of organizing such an event including how in 1913 they would transport 54,000 aging veterans from every state to the remote hamlet of Gettysburg in south central PA; how the U.S Army fed everyone at the event; what the veterans did during the event; the news coverage of the event at the time; the famous dignitaries at the commemoration; and finally the emotional conclusion of the commemoration event. This program is free and open to the general public, but donations would be appreciated in support of the Beecher Scholarship.

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No letting up for Martin Truex Jr. in NASCAR Cup. Sports, B2

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

Three-peat: ICC girls rule Class B again Columbia-Greene Media

VALATIE — The Ichabod Crane girls tennis team recently wrapped up another successful season by winning its third straight Section II Class B championship.

The Riders defeated Greenwich in the championship match, 7-0. They advanced to the title match by beating Catskill of the Patroon Conference in the smeifinals, 7-0.

During the year, coach Megan Yeats guided the Riders to an overall record of 13-2.

They were co-champions of the Colonial Council with a 9-1 record, went 5-2 against Class A schools and finished second at the Maple Hill Invitational.

Some individual highlights, No. 4 singles player Maddie Grout didn’t lose a match this year and No. 1 singles player Elise Brennan reached the quarterfinals at

the Section II Singles Tournament.

The Riders will likely continue on their path of success as all five singles and two of four doubles players return next year.

The Riders roster featured No. 1 singles, Elise Brennan (sophomore); No. 2 singles, Zoe Geiger (freshman); No. 3 singles Maya Brennan (eight grade); No. 4 singles, Maddie Grout (junior); No. 5 singles, Samantha Lantzy (eight grade); No. 1 doubles, Gia Sandagato (freshman) and Katie Barnes (senior); No. 2 doubles, Shannon Ingham (sophomore) and Meredith Buono (senior).

Also contrinuting to the Riders championship season were: Taylor Burnell (junior), Lily Gould (sophomore), Haley Meade (freshman), Elysia Meyer (freshman), Reese Slade (eight grade), Blythe Tamez (senior) and Torre Tamez (sophomore).

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The Ichabod Crane girls tennis team recently captured its third consecutive Section II Class B championship.

Nets say Kyrie Irving’s mood swings make him human Kristian Winfield New York Daily News

NEW YORK — “Kyrie’s a bad guy. He’s terrible.

He’s moody. I don’t like to be around him,” DeAndre Jordan deadpanned.

“He’s horrible in the locker room. He’s a selfish player.

I don’t like his haircut. I wear his shoes only because they’re comfortable, and because he makes me.”

Obviously, Jordan was joking. When made aware of an ESPN report that highlighted Kyrie Irving’s “infamous mood swings” on Tuesday, the big man’s demeanor noticeably shifted to annoyance before settling on the sardonic. That report said Irving’s mood swings “are the unspoken concern that

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makes Nets officials queasy.”

“That is completely false in strictly speaking of my observation and my experience with him so far,” head coach Kenny Atkinson said. “It’s absolutely not true.”

“I think Kyrie’s a great guy,” Jordan added. “I don’t think he does anything negative that I’ve seen that he’s done. And he’s a friend of mine so if he was I would tell him.”

Spencer Dinwiddie burst out laughing when read that line in the report, then asked if there were more specifics in the story.

A reporter read to him one of the ensuing lines of the report, which referenced See NETS B6

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The Hudson girls modified volleyball team, under the direction of coach Mary Hunter, recently completed its season.

Jets GM Joe Douglas says he feels the fans’ pain Bob Glauber Newsday

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. — It has been a decades-long slog for Jets fans, a run of frustration and disappointment and heartbreak and anguish so deep that even the most faithful devotees have stretched the boundaries of their loyalty to this woebegone franchise.

Joe Douglas has only been here 4 1./2 months, but he feels your pain and understands your rage. And so desperately wants to do something — anything — to help.

“I can tell them I understand their frustration,” the Jets’ general manager said Tuesday evening when I asked what he can say to fans of a 1-6 team that has so brutally underachieved in Year 1 of the Douglas-Adam Gase era. “No one is more frustrated than me.

“I see the frustration on a daily basis. I can promise you that we come to work every day and there’s a lot of people that have a relentless work ethic, scratching and clawing, trying to make this team better. I can promise you that we’re doing everything in our power to make sure we don’t have a start like this again.”

Douglas is still new to the Jets’ history of misery, but he is now living through one of their lowest moments. Though hired after Mike Maccagnan had already fashioned the bulk of this season’s roster, Douglas nevertheless feels a kinship with this team and takes no solace in the fact that the players were brought here by someone else.

“I don’t look at this roster as one team’s players versus my players,” Douglas told radio host Michael Kay on ESPN after meeting with reporters at the Jets’ training facility. “I’ve tried to spend the last 4 ½ months trying to know these

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Jacksonville Jaguars defensive end Josh Allen (left) and defensive end Yannick Ngakoue (right) combine to tackle New York Jets quarterback Sam Darnold (14) during Sunday’s game at TIAA Bank Field.

guys. Strictly from an objective perspective, I can tell you that this team cares. They fight hard every day. The effort has never lacked. The execution has.”

The execution has been miserable. Outside of a 24-22 win over the Cowboys, the Jets have been unimaginably bad in spots. Perhaps you can excuse three straight losses without Sam Darnold.

You cannot excuse these last two games, though.

A humiliating 33-0 home loss to the Patriots, followed by a woeful 29-15 loss in Jacksonville.

Even Jets CEO Christopher Johnson was

caught venting his frustration. Before the Jaguars game, a fan told Johnson that he traveled nine hours to see the game. To which Johnson responded, “Hopefully, the team will actually show up this week.”

Ouch.

“He seemed like a person that was like a lot of people in this building — passionate and frustrated about where we are at 1-6,” Douglas said.

“He deserves better than 1-6.”

So do the people who have spent so many years and so much money and given so much

of their emotions in supporting a team that has delivered so little in return.

Douglas spent much of the last 48 hours taking calls from teams interested in many of his players and pulled off one deal by sending Leonard Williams to the Giants for third- and fifthround picks. He admitted to having discussions about Le’Veon Bell, Robby Anderson and Jamal Adams, although he was careful to say he wasn’t shopping those players.

Adams disagreed, writing on Twitter that he believes Douglas went around his back and did indeed shop him after the third-year safety had specifically told Douglas he wanted to remain with the Jets.

“I was taught when a team calls you, you always have to listen,” Douglas said. “We listened, we had good conversations. At the end of the day, there was no fire sale. The offers we received for these players didn’t equal the value we have for them.”

Douglas will have some explaining to do with Adams, who was miffed earlier this season at being taken out of a game late in the fourth quarter. But the fact is that Douglas would have been committing GM malpractice had he refused to listen to offers. For Adams or anyone else not named Sam Darnold. Can you imagine if Jimmy Johnson had refused to take the Vikings’ call in 1989? He would have missed out on the biggest trade in NFL history.

Adams needs to understand that Douglas was doing his due diligence in trying to reshape a roster that can one day climb out of the mess it now faces.

He is convinced he has the right coach.

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ML Baseball WORLD SERIES (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) Houston 3, Washington 3 Tuesday, Oct. 22: Washington 5, Houston 4 Wednesday, Oct. 23: Washington 12, Houston 3 Friday, Oct. 25: Houston 4, Washington 1 Saturday, Oct. 26: Houston 8, Washington 1 Sunday: Houston 7, Washington 1 Tuesday: Washington 7, Houston 2 Today: Washington (Scherzer 11-7) at Houston (Greinke 18-5), 8:08 p.m.

Nationals 7, Astros 2 WAS AB R HBI Turner ss 5 2 2 0 Eaton rf 22 11 Rendon 3b 4 1 3 5 Soto lf 51 11 Kndrck dh 4 0 1 0 Cabrera 2b 4 0 0 0 Zmrmn 1b 3 0 0 0 Robles cf 4 0 0 0 Gomes c 4 1 1 0 Totals 35 7 9 7 Washington Houston

HOU AB R HBI Sprngr cf 4 1 2 0 Altuve 2b 3 0 0 1 Brntly lf 4 0 0 0 Bregmn 3b 4 1 2 1 Grriel 1b 3 0 0 0 Alvarz dh 3 0 0 0 Correa ss 4 0 1 0 Chrnos c 4 0 0 0 Rddick rf 3 0 1 0 Totals 32 2 6 2

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LOB—Houston 6, Washington 6. 2B—Correa (4), Rendon (7), Springer (4), T.Turner (4). HR— Bregman (4), Eaton (2), Rendon (2), J.Soto (5).

IP Washington Strasbrg W, 5-0 8 1/3 Doolittle 2/3 Houston Verlnder L, 1-4 5 Peacock 1 1/3 Harris 2/3 Pressly 1 Devenski 1

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3 2 0 2 1

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Inherited runners-scored—Harris 1-1. HBP— Eaton (by Devenski). WP—Strasburg (1).

Umpires—Home, Sam Holbrook; First, Jim Wolf; Second, Doug Eddings; Third, Gary Cederstrom.

T—3:37. A—43,384 (43,836)

Pro football NFL American Football Conference East W L T Pct PF PA New England 8 0 01.000 250 61 Buffalo 5 2 0 .714 134 122 N.Y. Jets 1 6 0 .143 78 185 Miami 0 7 0 .000 77 238 South W L T Pct PF PA Indianapolis 5 2 0 .714 158 151 Houston 5 3 0 .625 212 188 Tennessee 4 4 0 .500 148 135 Jacksonville 4 4 0 .500 173 163 North W L T Pct PF PA Baltimore 5 2 0 .714 214 156 Pittsburgh 3 4 0 .429 150 145 Cleveland 2 5 0 .286 133 181 Cincinnati 0 8 0 .000 124 210 West W L T Pct PF PA Kansas City 5 3 0 .625 226 181 Oakland 3 4 0 .429 151 192 L.A. Chargers 3 5 0 .375 157 157 Denver 2 6 0 .250 125 151 National Football Conference East W L T Pct PF PA Dallas 4 3 0 .571 190 124 Philadelphia 4 4 0 .500 202 199 N.Y. Giants 2 6 0 .250 158 218 Washington 1 7 0 .125 99 195 South W L T Pct PF PA New Orleans 7 1 0 .875 195 156 Carolina 4 3 0 .571 179 184 Tampa Bay 2 5 0 .286 196 212 Atlanta 1 7 0 .125 165 250 North W L T Pct PF PA Green Bay 7 1 0 .875 215 163 Minnesota 6 2 0 .750 211 132 Detroit 3 3 1 .500 180 186 Chicago 3 4 0 .429 128 122 West W L T Pct PF PA San Francisco 7 0 01.000 207 77 Seattle 6 2 0 .750 208 196 L.A. Rams 5 3 0 .625 214 174 Arizona 3 4 1 .438 170 223 Week 8 Thursday, Oct. 24 Minnesota 19, Washington 9 Sunday’s games Seattle 27, Atlanta 20 Tennessee 27, Tampa Bay 23 New Orleans 31, Arizona 9 L.A. Rams 24, Cincinnati 10 Jacksonville 29, N.Y. Jets 15 Philadelphia 31, Buffalo 13 L.A. Chargers 17, Chicago 16 Detroit 31, N.Y. Giants 26 Indianapolis 15, Denver 13 San Francisco 51, Carolina 13 Houston 27, Oakland 24 New England 27, Cleveland 13 Green Bay 31, Kansas City 24 Monday’s game Pittsburgh 27, Miami 14 Week 9 Thursday’s game San Francisco at Arizona, 8:20 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 3 Houston vs Jacksonville, at London,, 9:30 a.m.

Washington at Buffalo, 1 p.m.

Tennessee at Carolina, 1 p.m.

Minnesota at Kansas City, 1 p.m.

N.Y. Jets at Miami, 1 p.m.

Chicago at Philadelphia, 1 p.m.

Indianapolis at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Seattle, 4:05 p.m.

Detroit at Oakland, 4:05 p.m.

Cleveland at Denver, 4:25 p.m.

Green Bay at L.A. Chargers, 4:25 p.m.

New England at Baltimore, 8:20 p.m.

Monday, Nov. 4 Dallas at N.Y. Giants, 8:15 p.m.

College football THIS WEEK’S SCHEDULE FBS Thursday’s games SOUTH West Virginia at Baylor, 8 p.m.

Georgia Southern at Appalachian State, 8 p.m.

Friday’s game EAST Navy at Connecticut, 8 p.m.

Saturday’s games EAST Liberty at Massachusetts, Noon Michigan at Maryland, Noon Boston College at Syracuse, Noon Middle Tennessee at Charlotte, 3:30 p.m.

SOUTH Houston at Central Florida, Noon Texas-San Antonio at Texas A&M, Noon NC State at Wake Forest, Noon Old Dominion at Florida International, Noon Georgia vs. Florida, at Jacksonville, FL, 3:30 p.m.

Miami at Florida State, 3:30 p.m.

Marshall at Rice, 3:30 p.m.

Texas El Paso at North Texas, 3:30 p.m.

Arkansas State at UL Monroe, 3:30 p.m.

Tulsa at Tulane, 4 p.m.

Wofford at Clemson, 4 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Georgia Tech, 4 p.m.

Texas State at UL Lafayette, 5 p.m.

Cincinnati at East Carolina, 7 p.m.

Mississippi at Auburn, 7 p.m.

UAB at Tennessee, 7 p.m.

Southern Methodist at Memphis, 7:30 p.m.

Vanderbilt at South Carolina, 7:30 p.m.

Virginia at North Carolina, 7:30 p.m.

MIDWEST Buffalo at Eastern Michigan, Noon Northern Illinois at Central Michigan, Noon Nebraska at Purdue, Noon Akron at Bowling Green, 2 p.m.

Virginia Tech at Notre Dame, 2:30 p.m.

Kansas State at Kansas, 3:30 p.m.

Texas Christian at Oklahoma State, 3:30 p.m.

Rutgers at Illinois, 3:30 p.m.

Mississippi State at Arkansas, 4 p.m.

Florida Atlantic at Western Kentucky, 4 p.m.

Northwestern at Indiana, 7 p.m.

WEST Troy at Coastal Carolina, 3 p.m.

UNLV at Colorado State, 3:30 p.m.

Army at Air Force, 3:30 p.m.

Utah at Washington, 4 p.m.

Oregon State at Arizona, 4:30 p.m.

Oregon at Southern California, 8 p.m.

Colorado at UCLA, 9 p.m.

Brigham Young at Utah State, 10 p.m.

New Mexico at Nevada, 10:30 p.m.

Boise State at San Jose State, 10:30 p.m.

Fresno State at Hawaii, 11:59 p.m.

FCS Friday’s game EAST

Princeton at Cornell, 6 p.m.

Saturday’s games EAST Colgate at Georgetown, Noon Central Connecticut State at Wagner, Noon St. Francis at Duquesne, Noon LIU at Robert Morris, Noon Columbia at Yale, Noon Butler at Marist, Noon Holy Cross at Lehigh, 12:30 p.m.

Fordham at Lafayette, 12:30 p.m.

Dartmouth at Harvard, 1 p.m.

Brown at Pennsylvania, 1 p.m.

Sacred Heart at Bryant, 1 p.m.

Merrimack at Rhode Island, 1 p.m.

North Carolina Central at Howard, 1 p.m.

Villanova at New Hampshire, 1 p.m.

Western Carolina at Virginia Military, 1:30 p.m.

Morgan State at Norfolk State, 2 p.m.

Delaware at Towson, 2 p.m.

Stony Brook at Richmond, 3 p.m.

Maine at Albany, 3:30 p.m.

SOUTH Valparaiso at Davidson, 1 p.m.

Stetson at Jacksonville, 1 p.m.

Presbyterian at Hampton, 1 p.m.

Charleston Southern at Gardner Webb, 1:30 p.m.

North Carolina A&T at South Carolina State, 1:30 p.m.

William & Mary at Elon University, 2 p.m.

Monmouth at Kennesaw State, 2 p.m.

Alabama State at Mississippi Valley State, 2 p.m.

Furman at Chattanooga, 2 p.m.

Jacksonville State at Tennessee-Martin, 3 p.m.

Texas Southern at Grambling State, 3 p.m.

SE Missouri State at Tennessee State, 3 p.m.

Delaware State at Florida A&M, 4 p.m.

Central Arkansas at Lamar, 4 p.m.

Northwestern State at McNeese State, 5 p.m.

Stephen F. Austin at Southeastern Louisiana, 5 p.m.

Alabama A&M at Southern, 5 p.m.

Samford at Mercer, 7 p.m.

Arkansas-Pine Bluff at Jackson State, 7 p.m.

MIDWEST Dayton at Morehead State, 1 p.m.

Austin Peay at Eastern Kentucky, 1 p.m.

Northern Iowa at Illinois State, 1 p.m.

Southern Illinois at Indiana State, 1 p.m.

South Dakota at Western Illinois, 2 p.m.

Tennessee Tech at Murray State, 2 p.m.

Campbell at North Alabama, 2:30 p.m.

South Dakota State at Missouri State, 3 p.m.

The Citadel at East Tennessee State, 3:30 p.m.

Nicholls State at Incarnate Word, 5 p.m.

North Dakota State at Youngstown State, 6 p.m.

WEST Southern Utah at Montana State, 2 p.m.

Northern Arizona at Eastern Washington, 4:05 p.m.

Northern Colorado at Idaho State, 4:30 p.m.

Drake at San Diego, 5 p.m.

Montana at Portland State, 5 p.m.

Cal. Poly - SLO at Idaho, 5:05 p.m.

Weber State at Sacramento State, 9 p.m.

Pro basketball NBA Eastern Conference Atlantic W L Pct Philadelphia 3 0 1.000 Toronto 3 1 .750 Boston 2 1 .667 Brooklyn 1 2 .333 New York 1 3 .250 Central W L Pct Milwaukee 2 1 .667 Detroit 2 2 .500 Cleveland 1 2 .333 Chicago 1 3 .250 Indiana 0 3 .000 Southeast W L Pct Miami 3 1 .750 Atlanta 2 2 .500 Orlando 1 2 .333 Washington 1 2 .333 Charlotte 1 3 .250 Western Conference Northwest W L Pct Minnesota 3 0 1.000 Denver 3 1 .750 Utah 3 1 .750 Portland 2 2 .500 Oklahoma City 1 3 .250 Pacific W L Pct L.A. Clippers 3 1 .750 L.A. Lakers 2 1 .667 Phoenix 2 2 .500 Golden State 1 2 .333 Sacramento 0 4 .000 Southwest W L Pct San Antonio 3 0 1.000 Dallas 3 1 .750 Houston 2 1 .667 Memphis 1 2 .333 New Orleans 0 4 .000 Monday’s games Detroit 96, Indiana 94 New York 105, Chicago 98 Philadelphia 105, Atlanta 103 Toronto 104, Orlando 95 Houston 116, Oklahoma City 112 Milwaukee 129, Cleveland 112 Golden State 134, New Orleans 123 San Antonio 113, Portland 110 Utah 96, Phoenix 95 Denver 101, Sacramento 94 L.A. Clippers 111, Charlotte 96 Tuesday’s games Miami 112, Atlanta 97 Dallas 109, Denver 106 Memphis at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m.

Today’s games Chicago at Cleveland, 7 p.m.

New York at Orlando, 7 p.m.

Minnesota at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.

Milwaukee at Boston, 7:30 p.m.

Indiana at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m.

Detroit at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.

Houston at Washington, 8 p.m.

Portland at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Utah, 10 p.m.

Charlotte at Sacramento, 10 p.m.

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

Thursday’s games Miami at Atlanta, 7 p.m.

Denver at New Orleans, 9:30 p.m.

San Antonio at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.

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David Scott The Charlotte Observer

Martin Truex Jr. keeps dropping these not-too subtle hints that he’s the driver to beat for this season’s NASCAR Cup championship.

First, there was the regular season, during which Truex won four races, easily qualifying him for the postseason.

Then there was the first round of the playoffs. All Truex did there was win the first two races (at Las Vegas and Richmond), moving him into the second round without so much as breaking a sweat.

Truex didn’t win in the next round, but top-10 finishes at Charlotte’s Roval (seventh) and Dover (second) moved him along easily.

Finally, Truex’s dominant victory Sunday at Martinsville’s paper-clip-shaped short track opened the third round — and took care of any doubt who the favorite will likely be in November when the title is decided among four drivers at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

Does Truex care who joins him in the final four? And if he doesn’t, would he consider maybe trying to help a Joe Gibbs Racing teammate like Denny Hamlin or Kyle Busch?

“I mean, I wouldn’t mind winning the next three (races),” Truex told reporters at Martinsville on Sunday. “I mean, that’s what we’re going to try to do.

That’s what we get paid to do.

That’s our job is to try to win.

Yeah, I mean, we’re not going to let anybody win, if that’s what you’re asking. Doesn’t matter who they are, teammates are not. We’re not going to let anybody win. We’re going to try our best, and hopefully we can get it done.

“We’re not going to let anybody win.”

Truex’s victory at NASCAR’s shortest track was similar to his win at the 2016 Coca Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, NASCAR’s longest race. At

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NASCAR driver Martin Truex Jr. celebrates winning the Coca-Cola 600 with his team at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C., on May 26, 2019.

Charlotte, Truex led a race-record 392 of 400 laps. He also led for 588 of the 600 miles, most ever in a single race.

At Martinsville, Truex led 464 of 500 laps. That’s not quite as overwhelming, percentagewise (92.8 versus 98.0 at Charlotte), but it’s close enough. And it was a statement.

This will be Truex’s fourth appearance in the final four.

He’s going to feel better about his chances than ever before, even in 2017, when he won the title. He’s doing it with his longtime crew chief Cole Pearn, but with a new JGR team after Furniture Row Racing went under after last season; the crew had to relocate from Denver to the Charlotte area.

“We’ve never been in this position before,” Truex said.

“Every time we’ve made the final four, we’ve ‘pointed’ our way in. We’ve never won in this round, so it’s new territory. It’s good territory to be in, but honestly we can’t change who we are. I said that earlier in the year

when the playoffs started. You can’t just go from the regular season to we’re going to change our mindset for the playoffs.

“You race every week the same, just there’s more on the line as you go down the road here. Obviously, there’s going to be a lot of effort put into our car for Homestead, which is probably already started, but now there will be a little bit of extra time for Cole and the guys to work on their thoughts and their plan. But we’re going to go try to win the next two. Just like here, we’ve never won the next two tracks, and we want to, so here we go. We’ll go see if we can do it. But if we don’t, oh, well, it doesn’t really matter.”

THIS WEEK’S NASCAR RACE AT TEXAS: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW. Race: Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series AAA Texas 500.

Distance: 501 laps, or 334 miles.

Where: Texas Speedway, a 1.5-mile asphalt oval in Fort Worth, Tex.

When: 3 p.m., Sunday.

TV: NBCSN. Last year’s winner: Kevin Harvick.

Also this week: O’Reilly Auto Parts 300, Xfinity Series, Texas Speedway, 8:30 p.m., Saturday, NBCSN. Worth mentioning: This the second of the three-race Cup Series playoffs ... Christopher Bell has an 11-point lead over Cole Custer in the Xfinity standings, with Tyler Reddick and Justin Allgaier also in the top four.

WHO’S HOT/WHO’S NOT HOT Martin Truex Jr.: Was there any doubt at Martinsville?

William Byron: Out of playoff picture, but career-best second place at Martinsville.

NOT Denny Hamlin, Joey Logano: Kind of a pitiful slapfest after Martinsville.

Kyle Busch: Hasn’t been the same in the playoffs. Can he recover in time?

Strasburg delivered a legendary performance Sam Fortier The Washington Post

Pro hockey NHL Eastern Conference Atlantic Division GP W L OT SO Pts Boston 12 9 1 1 1 20 Buffalo 13 9 2 1 1 20 Toronto 14 6 5 2 1 15 Florida 12 5 3 1 3 14 Montreal 11 5 4 1 1 12 Tampa Bay 11 5 4 2 0 12 Detroit 13 4 8 1 0 9 Ottawa 11 3 7 0 1 7 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT SO Pts Washington 14 9 2 3 0 21 Carolina 12 8 3 1 0 17 NY Islanders 11 8 3 0 0 16 Pittsburgh 13 8 5 0 0 16 Columbus 11 5 4 2 0 12 Philadelphia 11 5 5 0 1 11 NY Rangers 10 4 5 1 0 9 New Jersey 9 2 5 0 2 6 Western Conference Central Division GP W L OT SO Pts Colorado 11 8 2 1 0 17 Nashville 12 8 3 0 1 17 St. Louis 12 6 3 2 1 15 Winnipeg 12 6 6 0 0 12 Dallas 14 5 8 0 1 11 Chicago 11 3 6 1 1 8 Minnesota 12 4 8 0 0 8 Pacific Division GP W L OT SO Pts Edmonton 13 8 4 0 1 17 Vegas 13 8 5 0 0 16 Arizona 11 7 3 1 0 15 Vancouver 11 7 3 0 1 15 Anaheim 13 7 6 0 0 14 Calgary 14 6 6 2 0 14 San Jose 13 4 8 1 0 9 Los Angeles 12 4 8 0 0 8 Monday’s games Arizona 3, Buffalo 2, SO Vancouver 7, Florida 2 Tuesday’s games Boston 5, San Jose 1 Washington 4, Toronto 3, OT Pittsburgh 7, Philadelphia 1 Carolina 2, Calgary 1 NY Rangers 4, Tampa Bay 1 Detroit 3, Edmonton 1 Nashville 3, Chicago 0 Dallas 6, Minnesota 3 Winnipeg at Anaheim, 10 p.m.

Today’s games Tampa Bay at New Jersey, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Columbus, 7:30 p.m.

Minnesota at St. Louis, 8 p.m.

Montreal at Arizona, 10 p.m.

Florida at Colorado, 10 p.m.

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

Thursday’s games Calgary at Nashville, 8 p.m.

Montreal at Vegas, 10 p.m.

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HOUSTON - Stephen Strasburg left the mound as the pitcher he was once promised to be. The last decade - the one filled with expectations, frustrations and, ultimately, acceptance - culminated in this moment, Strasburg walking a few feet toward the dugout at Minute Maid Park. He had dominated the Houston Astros into the ninth inning; he had delivered when the team needed him most. He took the biggest stage in Washington Nationals history, faced elimination in Game 6 of the World Series and shoved.

“I just gave it everything I had,” Strasburg said later. “I’m pretty tired.”

The right-hander’s gem, combined with the offense awakening, keyed a 7-2 victory Tuesday that saved the team’s season.

Strasburg can opt out of his contract after the season, and it looked he’d have to decide soon after the first inning, when he allowed his only two runs of the night. Then he heard he was tipping pitches again, tweaked his delivery and mowed through the Astros in what became one of the most clutch playoff starts in recent memory. He became the first pitcher to go at least 8 innings while allowing two or fewer runs in a World Series elimination game since Curt Schilling in 1993.

“That was tremendous,” Manager Dave Martinez said he told Strasburg. “You picked us all up, and we’re going to Game 7 because of your performance.”

Strasburg had helped carry them to Game 6 in the first place. His three scoreless innings in his first career relief appearance during the wild-card game staved off elimination. So did his gutty, six-inning start in Game 5 of the National League Division Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers. The win Tuesday made him the second pitcher ever to go 5-0 in one postseason.

What Strasburg has left now that they’re here is unclear. He sounded pessimistic when asked if he could come out of the bullpen in Game 7. It could be a deke (he usually long-tosses the day after his starts), or it could be genuine (he finished with 104 or more pitches for the fourth straight outing). But he gave the pitcher’s signal for no more - “I emptied the tank tonight” - and

emphasized the trust in his teammates, that “it’s going to take all 25 of us.”

If this was Strasburg’s last game as a National, then he will have ended his career here with about as much hype as he began it. That is a feat he and those around him long considered impossible. He came to the Nationals as the No. 1 overall pick in 2009, billed as a generational talent.

The intervening years - the disappointing ones that contained flashes of brilliance - now look like prologue to what could be a brilliant final act. This season, Strasburg reinvented himself, rededicated himself to conditioning and remained healthy all season. He stopped relying on the 100-mph fastball that once made him a can’t-miss prospect and has lost a few ticks since. He instead learned to pitch, leaning on the veteran’s tool of deception with his curveball and change-up.

It all built to Tuesday. The Nationals seized the lead in the first, but Strasburg coughed it up by allowing a double and a homer in the first. Pitching coach Paul Menhart suspected he was tipping his pitches, as he had earlier this postseason, and told him to “butterfly” his glove to prevent it. Strasburg settled in and gave the team the stopgap it needed to catch up.

Strasburg was mocked earlier in his career for failing unless the conditions were perfect. He proved that was no longer the case again in Game 6, when he lost his command in the middle of the fourth - throwing 10 balls in 11 pitches and walking two batters - then charging back to strike out Carlos Correa. He did it again in the fifth, when he had runners on second and third with one out, when he seemed ready to give another lead back. He struck out José Altuve and got Michael Brantley to ground out two of the series’ best hitters, neutralized.

He managed what few pitchers had this season against the Astros, perhaps the best testament to his greatness Tuesday: He got Houston hitters to chase.

Strasburg plowed through the rest of the lineup, retiring the last eight hitters before bench coach Chip Hale came to relieve him in the ninth. He had, his entire career, rode shotgun to the star power of Bryce Harper or the intensity of Max Scherzer. But the Nationals no longer had Harper, and they

needed him to get to Scherzer in Game 7.

This moment was his, it was his alone, and he delivered.

“He doesn’t have anything to prove to anybody,” reliever Sean Doolittle said. “He doesn’t have anything to prove to us.”

As Strasburg left the mound, second baseman Asdrúbal Cabrera tapped the pitcher’s back with his glove. It was a physical acknowledgment of what his teammates told him in the dugout: You did your job. Strasburg considers there to be no higher compliment.

Strasburg afterward again confronted the aspect of stardom that long made him most uncomfortable. He stood in the middle of the clubhouse after the game, his back against a couch, his eyes looking out into a semicircle of swarming reporters.

This used to faze him in the way pitching in front of 40,000 fans couldn’t.

He listened to the questions and answered in his low, steady cadence. He didn’t mind not getting the complete game because “that’s kind of a personal achievement.” He didn’t really notice what happened to get Martinez ejected from the game because he tried not to focus on anything other than his pitching. He didn’t think about the arc of his career.

But there, in all of what came before, he seemed to pause, to reveal more of himself than he normally would. He has, in his own words, “been under a microscope my whole career.” He credited his postseason performances to the attention he loathed as a younger pitcher.

“Everything happens for a reason,” he said. “I think, without those things, it would’ve been a lot harder to focus on what I can control out there.”

The lights flicked off. The questions stopped. The cameras and microphones and bodies receded.

Strasburg, free now, resumed his beloved routine. He showered and dressed quickly, pulling on a light blue polo and gray jeans. He threw his towel in the hamper and, walking toward the clubhouse exit, glanced to his right. He glimpsed the TV in the corner. It was playing game highlights, and on the screen, he was throwing strike three by one of the seven Astros he fanned that night.

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COLUMBIA-GREENE MEDIA

What does the NCAA board’s vote on paying athletes actually mean?

Elliott Almond The Mercury News

A month after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a groundbreaking law allowing California college athletes to make money off their likeness, image and brand, NCAA officials on Tuesday unanimously approved a measure that calls for fewer restrictions on those athletes earning endorsement money.

But NCAA officials, meeting in Atlanta, failed to provide details, leading to questions about what happens next in an industry that generated $14 billion last year, according to U.S. Department of Education data.

Some critics of the NCAA’s decree said it still leaves the possibility of strictly limiting athletes’ earning potential.

“Here in California, we are clear that we won’t accept arbitrary limitations and look forward to the NCAA’s final action being consistent with the right all other students have to generate income from their talent and skills,” said state Sen. Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley), who co-authored the California bill.

The NCAA board directed its three divisions of competition to immediately consider changing rules about how athletes can earn money while

maintaining amateur status. Officials said in a news release they want modifications implemented no later than 2021 and added that a committee studying the issue will continue its work until April.

Officials will discuss the issue at the NCAA’s annual convention in January and again at a Board of Governors meeting in April.

While Ohio State president Michael Drake, board chairman, said the NCAA “must embrace change,” it is unclear how far the governing body will go in changing the economic landscape of college sports.

UC Berkeley’s new women’s basketball coach, Charmin Smith, who as a player helped Stanford reach three Final Fours in four years from 199397, said officials need to figure out the specifics so coaches and athletes have a path forward.

“I understand the football player selling thousands of jerseys,” said Smith, a former professional player.

“But that couldn’t be me. How many athletes benefit from this and what happens to the ones who can’t?”

According to the NCAA news release, any rules will make a clear distinction between collegiate and

professional opportunities. It also said officials will continue prohibiting payment to athletes for performance or participation.

What will athletes be allowed to do?

“I don’t have the answers, but I have a lot of questions,” said Stanford women’s basketball coach Tara VanDerveer. “How can the change really be enacted so we don’t have bad unintentional consequences?”

VanDerveer, a Hall of Fame coach who is one of the most prominent figures in women’s basketball, is worried about how the recent push to end restrictive amateurism rules will impact women.

“If it becomes an absolute free for all,” women athletes “are not going to be the winners in grabbing for cash,” she said. “Based on what is happening already, it is not a good situation for female athletes.”

VanDerveer and others fear that most of the money, including recruiting funds, will be funneled to top-tier football and men’s basketball programs.

“We need to think about how it impacts all student-athletes,” Smith said.

“Women’s sports and smaller men’s sports. How does it impact Title IX if

money is going elsewhere?”

Title IX is a 1972 law that protects against sex discrimination in education programs receiving federal funding.

Skinner, however, said college athletics is one of the few arenas in which women have a chance to market themselves because they have limited professional sports leagues. She said the California law will help athletes in all of the so-called “smaller sports.”

Skinner suggested a swimmer could create a summer swim camp using her or his name to promote the enterprise.

But other than the biggest stars — such as famous Olympian champions Katie Ledecky at Stanford and Missy Franklin at Berkeley — it is difficult to imagine that a majority of athletes will find much traction from their names.

The NCAA announcement Tuesday mostly received a positive reaction nationally. Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), who two weeks ago said lawmakers were “coming after” college sports officials, praised the move in a statement co-authored with Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Connecticut.

“The NCAA Board of Governors finally recognized that change is coming, and they need to adapt their rules

to catch up with the times,” the statement read. “We believe those rules must be changed to allow athletes to be compensated. We need to correct the inequities between what college coaches and the institutions make versus what the athletes receive and protect college athletes’ health and educational opportunities.”

Ohio State men’s basketball coach Chris Holtmann told reporters that most of his peers are in favor of loosening the rules on amateurism.

“We all recognize this is just a matter of time for this to get done, and some could say it’s long overdue,” Holtmann said.

However, Ramogi Huma, founder of the National College Players Association, called the NCAA action “another attempt at stalling on this issue.”

The vote Tuesday was a reaction to the California Fair Pay to Play act signed by Newsom on Sept. 30. The law, expected to take effect in 2023, was considered the first major step to threaten the way the NCAA runs its business.

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COLUMBIA-GREENE MEDIA New York City Department of Environmental Protection Notice of Adoption of Rules

Notice is hereby given pursuant to the authority vested in the Commissioner of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection (“DEP”) by section 1100 of the New York State Public Health Law and section 24-302 of the New York City Administrative Code, and in accordance with the requirements of section 1043(a) of the New York City Charter, that the DEP hereby amends sections 18-12, 18-15 through 18-17, 18-23, 18-26 through 18-29, 18-34 through 18-39, 18-41, 18-61, 18-82 and Appendices 18-A through 18-C and repealing in their entirety sections 18-83 through 18-84 of Chapter 18 of Title 15 of the Rules of the City of New York, the DEP Rules and Regulations for the Protection from Contamination, Degradation and Pollution of the New York City Water Supply and its Sources (“Watershed Regulations”).

The proposed amendments have been approved by the New York State Department of Health pursuant to section 1100 of the New York State Public Health Law and are being published in conformance with such law.

The proposed rules were published in the City Record on September 28, 2018. Notably, over several years prior to the public hearings listed below, DEP engaged in extensive discussions with stakeholders, including but not limited to: residents who live in the City’s water supply watershed, the New York State Department of Health, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (“NYSDEC”), and environmental organizations. These discussions were productive and the resulting amendments to the Watershed Regulations will resolve several issues raised by residents while continuing to protect the City’s water supply.

The Department held public hearings as follows: 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, October 30, 2018. This hearing was held at Belleayre Ski Center, Longhouse Lodge, 181 Galli Curci Road, Highmount, New York; 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 1, 2018. This hearing was held at State University of New York, Evenden Tower, Room 104, Delhi, New York; 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, November 6, 2018. This hearing was held at the Putnam County Emergency Operations Center, 112 Old Route 6, Carmel, New York; and 10 a.m. on Thursday, November 8, 2018. This hearing was held at the offices of the Department of Environmental Protections, 11th floor conference room, 59-17 Junction Boulevard, Flushing, New York.

No additional comments were provided at the public hearings. Written comments were a correction to an inadvertent omission and typographical errors, submitted by the Coalition of Watershed Towns, and a short submission by NYSDEC addressing a specific technical formula and manual error, and are the only changes to the Watershed Regulations after the public hearings. In addition, a written complaint of general over regulation, without reference to any specific section of the Watershed Regulations, was submitted after the hearings.

The Department now adopts the following Rules.

Statement of Basis and Purpose of Rules The purpose of the Watershed Regulations is to protect public health by preventing contamination to and degradation of the City’s surface water supply. The amendments incorporate changes in federal and state law and address issues that have arisen during administration and enforcement of the Watershed Regulations.

The amendments to the Watershed Regulations include revisions to replace the existing approach for evaluating alterations and modifications of subsurface sewage treatment systems (“SSTS”) – and for determining whether systems that have been discontinued for five years or more years can be brought back into service – with an approach that focuses primarily on how well the SSTS will serve the proposed use, consistent with public health and water quality concerns. These amendments also provide that where certain ancillary, non-residential use of a residence does not change the nature or rate of flow of sewage to its SSTS, the use is not subject to DEP’s review and approval, allowing for example, a home office use or certain transient guest overnight accommodations.

These amendments also include various revisions which relate to the incorporation of the NYSDEC 2015 State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (“SPDES”) General Permit for Stormwater Discharges from Construction Activity. Additionally, the revisions establish a category of small, limited impact projects for which stormwater pollution prevention plans can be simpler, similar to the existing framework for individual residential stormwater permits. The amendments also eliminate the description of the phosphorus offset pilot program, which had a limited term and was completed.

These amendments revise the definition of “new” and “existing” regulated activities. As defined in prior versions of the Watershed Regulations, the term “new” applied to all regulated activities undertaken, constructed, installed, or implemented after May 1, 1997, and the term “existing” applied to those activities prior to May 1, 1997. The amended definition preserves the meaning of the terms “new” and “existing” as they are used in the current regulations with regard to certain non-complying regulated activities — i.e., storage of hazardous substances, storage of petroleum products, and the siting of junkyards and solid waste management facilities which, if discontinued for two or more years, must comply with the Watershed Regulations or permanently desist. For other regulated activities, the word “existing” is used in its more conventional sense to refer to activities that exist or are in operation at the time they are being considered under the amended regulations.

These revisions incorporate standards for holding tanks and portable toilets. DEP will not review and approve holding tanks or portable toilets; rather, these revisions establish standards consistent with applicable State guidance. The amendments remove the term “service connection” and clarify the definition of a “sewer connection” relieving past confusion in administering the existing regulations and expanding its definition to include the conveyance all sewage, industrial and other wastes and update the design standards used for sewer connections.

In addition, these amendments eliminate the “hardship” criterion necessary for obtaining a variance from the Watershed Regulations, which has not proven to further water quality goals. These amendments improve due process provisions for applicants when DEP seeks to modify, suspend or revoke an approval.

This includes new procedures on how to seek a hearing, and how to appeal a DEP determination, before the City’s Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings (“OATH”).

These amendments include re-issued watershed maps included in Appendix 18-A, based upon updated information from DEP’s LiDAR survey of the watershed. In addition, Appendices 18-B and 18-C are combined and certain revisions are incorporated to clarify the standards used for analysis of water quality samples.

The amendments include technical corrections such as substituting more recent versions of publications cited in the Watershed Regulations, updating certain technical terminology, and modifying or changing the order of certain text to improve clarity and intelligibility. Some of the plain language and clarification revisions were identified as part of the retrospective rules review conducted by the Mayor’s Office of Operations.

In addition to these amendments, DEP intends to work closely with NYSDEC as it updates its SPDES General Permit for Stormwater Discharges from Construction Activity, the current version of which will expire in January 2020, and NYSDEC’s related Stormwater Management Design Manual. DEP intends to further amend these rules to incorporate NYSDEC’s 2020 Construction General Permit, and potentially to include other related changes at that time to ensure appropriate stormwater controls based on sound scientific information.

New material is underlined.

[Deleted material is in brackets.]

“Shall” and “must” denote mandatory requirements and may be used interchangeably in the rules of this department, unless otherwise specified or unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.

The text of the Rule follows.

Section 1. Subdivision (f) of section 18-12 of title 15 of the Rules of the City of New York is amended as follows: § 18-12 Purpose and Findings. (f) The City reserves the right to re-examine these rules and regulations periodically to insure that they continue to further the goal and intent referred to in paragraph (d) of this subdivision and the purposes referred to in paragraph (e) of this subdivision. [Without limiting the foregoing, and without limiting the City’s rights to continue, modify, amend, suspend, waive or revoke any or all of these rules and regulations at any time in accordance with applicable law, the City intends to re-examine these rules and regulations ten (10) years after the effective date hereof to ascertain whether, and to what extent, these rules and regulations should be modified or amended so that they continue to serve their intended purposes. § 2. Subdivisions (b) and (d) of Section 18-12 of title 15 of the Rules of the City of New York are amended as follows: § 18-15 Local Representatives. (a) Information about these rules and regulations and application and other forms required by these rules and regulations may be obtained from the following offices of the Department or on the Department's website at www.nyc.gov/dep. Applications for Department approval of a regulatory activity must be submitted to one of these offices or online in accordance with instructions that may be provided on the Department’s website. Petitions appealing from a determination issued by the Department or requesting a hearing on a cease and desist order issued by the Department must be submitted to the offices listed in subdivision (b) or online in accordance with instructions that may be provided on the Department’s website. (b) Petitions for a hearing on a determination by the Department to revoke, suspend, or modify a determination or variance in accordance with § 18-26, petitions for appeal of a determination issued by the Department in accordance with § 18-28, and petitions for a hearing on a cease and desist order issued by the Department in accordance with § 18-29 must be submitted to the address listed in paragraph (1), with a copy to the address listed in paragraph (2).

(1) New York City Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings [40 Rector Street] 100 Church Street, 12th floor New York, New York [10006-1705] 10007 Telephone: [(212) 442-4900] (844) 628-4692 (d) Addresses and phone numbers contained [herein] in this section are informational and persons subject to these rules and regulations [shall] must utilize addresses and phone numbers specified herein, or successor addresses and phone numbers where appropriate. § 3. Paragraphs (2), (3), (19), (29), and (32) through (145) of subdivision (a) of Section 18-16 of title 15 of the Rules of the City of New York are amended as follows: § 18-16 Definitions.

(2) Absorption field means the area to which sewage is distributed for infiltration to the soil by means of a network of pipes. A gravelless absorption system is a type of absorption field.

(3) Access road means an impervious private or public road, other than a driveway, which connects a parcel to an existing public or private road and which is necessary in order to enable the parcel to be developed. [Access road does not include an internal road within a subdivision or within an area of common development involving two (2) or more parcels.]

(19) Construction or construction activity means any building, demolition, renovation, replacement, restoration, rehabilitation or alteration of any [new or existing] structure or road, or land clearing, land grading, excavation, filling or stockpiling activities that result in soil disturbance.

(29) Designated Main Street Area means a defined area of limited size located within the East of Hudson Watershed which is an existing center of commercial, industrial, residential, or mixed use [and which has been.] Designated Main Street Areas were proposed [defined and designated] by [a local government] local governments in the East of Hudson Watershed in 1997 and approved by the Department pursuant to these rules and regulations.

(32) Discontinuation means an interruption in the use of a regulated activity including a noncomplying regulated activity. The period of discontinuation shall commence on the date when regular or seasonal use ceases. Incidental or illegal use of an unoccupied structure shall not be sufficient to interrupt a period of discontinuation. [(32)](33) Disturbed area means the portion of a site for which the imperviousness of the ground has changed from pre-construction conditions as a result of any land clearing, land grading or construction activity. Disturbed areas may include lawns and landscaped areas. [(33)](34) Drainage Area means all land and water area from which runoff may run to a common design point. [(34)](35) Drainage basin means the land area which contributes surface water to a reservoir or controlled lake. [(35)](36) Driveway means a route accessible by a motor vehicle between [a residential building] an individual residence and a public or private road to provide ingress and egress from the [residential building] individual residence. [(36)](37) East of Hudson Watershed means West Branch, Boyd’s Corner, Bog Brook, East Branch, Croton Falls, Diverting, Titicus, Amawalk, Muscoot, New Croton, Cross River, Middle Branch and Kensico Reservoirs, Kirk Lake, Lake Gleneida and Lake Gilead, and their respective drainage basins. [(37)](38) Effective Date means May 1, 1997. [(38)](39) Effluent means water or wastewater that flows out from a wastewater treatment plant or other treatment process.

(40) Enhanced subsurface sewage treatment system means a subsurface sewage treatment system that provides enhanced treatment of wastewater to reduce the amount of biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) and total suspended solids (TSS) of wastewater effluent prior to distribution to an absorption field.

Enhanced subsurface sewage treatment systems include, but are not limited to, aerobic treatment units, peat filters, and textile filters. [(39)](41) Epilimnion means the uppermost, warmest, well-mixed layer of a lake during thermal stratification. [(40)](42) Erosion means the wearing away or the movement of soil by such physical agents as wind or water, that is exacerbated by such practices as the disturbance of ground cover by stripping or removing vegetation, construction activity, or tilling. [(41)](43) Exfiltration means wastewater that leaks out of a sewer system into the surrounding environment, through faulty joints, defective pipes, cracks in pipes, connections, or at manholes.

(44) Existing, where used to describe storage of hazardous substances, storage of petroleum products, or the siting of junkyards and solid waste management facilities, means physically constructed, functioning and operational prior to [the effective date of these rules and regulations] May 1, 1997. [(43)](45) Expansion means an increase in the permitted flow limit for a wastewater treatment plant as specified in the SPDES permit and/or an increase in the design capacity of a wastewater treatment plant. [(44)](46) Facility means a structure, room or other physical feature designed to perform a particular function and that makes possible some activity. [(45)](47) Fertilizer means any commercially produced mixture, generally containing phosphorus, nitrogen and/or potassium, except compost, that is applied to the ground to increase the supply of nutrients to plants. [(46)](48) Galley System means any subsurface system for treating sewage that employs structural chambers in a horizontal or vertical arrangement for the storage of effluent until it can be absorbed into the soil, that is utilized following a septic tank as an alternative to a standard absorption field, and that did not have all discretionary approvals necessary for construction and operation before June 30, 2002. [(47)](49) Gasoline station means an establishment at which gasoline is sold or offered for sale to the public for use in motor vehicles.

(50) Gravelless absorption system means an absorption field using a wastewater distribution system designed to be installed without gravel or stone aggregate. Gravelless absorption systems may involve the use of geotextile, sand, or other media.

[(48)](51) Groundwater means any water beneath the land surface in the zone of saturation. The zone of saturation is where water fills all available pore spaces. [(49)](52) Hamlet means a population center designated as a hamlet by a Town Board in the West of Hudson watershed and described as a hamlet in a Water Supply Permit duly issued by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation or in any written agreement among the affected parties to the 1997 New York City Watershed Memorandum of Agreement, including the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. [(50)](53) Hazardous substance means any substance defined or listed in 6 NYCRR Part 597 except that hazardous substance does not mean any petroleum product, including those listed in 6 NYCRR § 597.2, Table 1, and also does not mean any hazardous waste. [(51)](54) Hazardous waste means any solid waste, defined or listed as a hazardous waste in 6 NYCRR Part 371. [(52)](55) Holding tank means a tank or vault, with no outlet, used for holding sewage before it is pumped out and transported elsewhere for treatment or disposal.

(56) Hot spot runoff means runoff from an area where land use or activities generate highly contaminated runoff, with concentrations of pollutants in excess of those typically found in stormwater, such as vehicle service and maintenance facilities, fleet storage areas, industrial sites, marinas, and facilities that generate or store hazardous materials. Runoff from residential, institutional, and office development, non-industrial rooftops, roads, and pervious surfaces is not generally hot spot runoff.

(57) Hydrologic soil group means the designation of soils based on the National Engineering Handbook, Part 630, Chapter 7, Hydrologic Soil Groups, U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Resources Conservation Service, 2009 in which soils are categorized into four runoff potential groups, ranging from A soils, with high permeability and little runoff production, to D soils, which have low permeability rates and produce much more runoff. [(53)](58) Hypolimnion means the lower, cooler layer of a lake during thermal strati- fication. [(54)](59) Impervious surface means an area which is either impervious to water or which substantially prevents the infiltration of water into the soil at that location. Impervious surfaces include, but are not limited to, paving, concrete, asphalt, rooftops, and other hard surfacing materials, and do not include dirt, crushed stone, or gravel surfaces, or other surfacing materials determined by the Department to be pervious for their intended purpose. [(55)](60) Individual residence means a building consisting of one or two residential [unit] units. [(56)](61) Individual sewage treatment system means an on-site subsurface sewage treatment system serving one or two family residential properties and receiving sewage without the admixture of industrial wastes or other wastes, as defined in the Environmental Conservation Law § 17-0701. [(57)](62) Industrial waste means any liquid, gaseous, solid or waste substance or a combination thereof resulting from any process of industry, manufacturing, trade or business, or from the development or recovery of any natural resources, which may cause or might reasonably be expected to cause contamination to or degradation of the water supply. [(58)](63) Infiltration means water, other than wastewater, that enters a sewer system, including sewer service connections, from the ground through such means as defective pipes, pipe joints, connections, or manholes. Infiltration does not include, and is distinguished from, inflow and from treatment of runoff by stormwater infiltration practices. [(59)](64) Inflow means water other than wastewater that enters a sewer system, including sewer service connections, from sources such as, but not limited to, roof leaders, cellar drains, yard drains, area drains, foundation drains, drains from springs and swampy areas, manhole covers, cross connections between storm sewers and sanitary sewers, catch basins, cooling towers, storm waters, surface runoff, street wash waters, or drainage. Inflow does not include, and is distinguished from, infiltration. [(60)](65) In situ soil means naturally occurring glacial soil; it does not include fill or stabilized fill. [(61)](66) Intake means the points in the New York City water supply located prior to the point of disinfection where the water is no longer subject to surface runoff. [(62)](67) Intermediate sized sewage treatment system means an on-site subsurface sewage treatment system serving an industrial, institutional, municipal, commercial, or multi-family residential facility, and receiving sewage without the admixture of industrial wastes or other wastes, as defined in the Environmental Conservation Law § 17-0701. [(63)](68) Intermittent stream means a watercourse that during certain times of the year goes dry or whose lowest annual mean discharge during seven consecutive days with a recurrence interval of ten years (MA7CD/10) is less than 0.1 cubic foot per second and which periodically receives groundwater inflow. A drainage ditch, swale or surface feature that contains water only during and immediately after a rainstorm or a snow melt shall not be considered to be an intermittent stream. [(64)](69) Junkyard means any place of storage or deposit, whether in connection with another business or not, where four or more unregistered, old, or second hand motor vehicles, no longer intended or in condition for legal use on the public highways, are held, whether for the purpose of resale of used parts, for the purpose of reclaiming for use some or all of the materials such as metal, glass, or fabric for the purpose of disposing of the same, or for any other purpose. [(65)](70) Land clearing means the exposure of soil by devegetation or the exposure of soil to the forces of erosion. [(66)](71) Land grading means the removal, addition or alteration of surface or subsurface conditions of land by excavation or filling. [(67)](72) Limiting distance means the shortest horizontal distance from the nearest point of a structure or object to the edge, margin or steep bank forming the ordinary high water mark of a watercourse, wetland, reservoir, reservoir stem or controlled lake or to the contour line coinciding with the reservoir spillway elevation.

(73) Mapped stream means a protected stream as defined in 6 NYCRR § 608.1. [(68)](74) Metalimnion means an intermediate zone between the epilimnion and hypolimnion where the water temperature drops rapidly with increasing depth. [(69)](75) Microfiltration means a process in which treated effluent passes through a membrane filter having a nominal pore diameter of 0.2 microns or less. [(70)](76) Multi-family residence means a building containing three (3) or more residential units. [(71)](77) Municipal solid waste landfill means a landfill, as defined in 6 NYCRR § [360-1.2] 360.2, which is owned or operated by a municipality. [(72)](78) New, where used to describe storage of hazardous substances, storage of petroleum products, and the siting of junkyards and solid waste management facilities, means [any regulated activity] undertaken, constructed, installed, or implemented after May 1, 1997. [(73)](79) Noncomplying regulated activity means any regulated activity or existing activity which does not conform to the standards set forth in these rules and regulations, but has obtained all discretionary approvals necessary for construction and operation, prior to the effective date of these rules and regulations and/or prior to the effective date of an amendment to these rules and regulations that made the activity noncomplying. [(74)](80) Nonpoint source pollution means pollution sources which are diffuse and do not have a single point of origin or are not introduced into a receiving stream from a point source. [(75)](81) NYCRR means the Official Compilation of Codes, Rules and Regulations of the State of New York. [(76)](82) Offset means a reduction in the discharge of phosphorus into a drainage basin which is surplus, quantifiable, permanent, and enforceable, as defined herein: (83) One hundred-year, twenty-four hour storm means the storm, with a twenty-four hour duration, that statistically has a one percent chance of occurring in any given year, as set forth in the “New York State Stormwater Design Manual,” New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (2015). [(77)](84) One-year, twenty-four hour storm means the storm, with a twenty-four hour duration, that statistically has a 100 percent chance of occurring in any given year, [as specified in the most recent Watershed Water Quality Annual Report] as set forth in the “New York State Stormwater Design Manual,” New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (2015). [(78)](85) Operator means any person who leases, operates, controls or supervises a facility. [(79)](86) Owner means any person who has legal or equitable title to a facility. [(80)](87) Pathogenic means capable of causing disease from organisms, including but not limited to: bacteria, fungi, viruses, and protozoa (such as Giardia and Crypto- sporidium). [(81)](88) Person means any individual, public or private corporation, political entity, agency, municipality, industry, co-partnership, association, firm, trust, estate or any other legal entity whatsoever, except that person shall not mean the State of New York or any State department, agency, board, public benefit corporation, public authority or commission. [(82)](89) Perennial stream means a watercourse that flows throughout the year from source to mouth. [(83)](90) Pesticide means (i) any substance or mixture of substances intended for preventing, destroying, repelling, or mitigating any insects, rodents, fungi, weeds, or other forms of plant or animal life or viruses, except viruses on or in living humans, or other animals, which the Commissioner of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation shall declare to be a pest or (ii) any substance or mixture of substances intended as a plant regulator, defoliant or desiccant. [(84)](91) Petroleum product means oil or petroleum of any kind and in any form including, but not limited to, oil, petroleum, fuel oil, oil sludge, oil refuse, oil mixed with other wastes and crude oils, gasoline and kerosene. [(85)](92) Phosphorus restricted basin means (i) the drainage basin of a source water reservoir in which the phosphorus load to the reservoir results in the phosphorus concentration in the reservoir exceeding 15 micrograms per liter, or (ii) the drainage basin of a reservoir other than a source water reservoir or of a controlled lake in which the phosphorus load to the reservoir or controlled lake results in the phosphorus concentration in the reservoir or controlled lake exceeding 20 micrograms per liter in both instances as determined by the Department pursuant to its annual review conducted under § 1848(e) of Subchapter D. [(86)](93) Photic zone means the region of a lake that receives light, where photosynthesis takes place.

The photic zone extends down to a depth where photosynthetic activity and respiration are balanced due to the available light, or to one percent surface illumination. [(87)](94) Point source means any discernible, confined and discrete conveyance, including but not limited to any pipe, ditch, channel, tunnel, conduit, well, discrete fissure, container, rolling stock, or vessel or other floating craft, or landfill leachate collection system, from which pollutants are or may be discharged. [(88)](95) Pollutant means unpermitted dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, effluent, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical waste, biological material, radioactive material, heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, and industrial and municipal waste discharged into water.

(96) Portable toilet means a non-waterborne sewage system with offsite residual disposal, as identified in 10 NYCRR Appendix 75-A. [(89)](97) Principal means an agency or person that owns 10 percent or more of the voting stock or has the ability to control a corporation, partnership or other entity.

(98) Qualifying municipal sewer use law means a local law or ordinance that includes provisions substantially similar to Articles 1-3, 5- 7, 11-14 and the Appendix of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Model Sewer Use Law, dated 1994, or which the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has otherwise accepted pursuant to the SPDES permit for the wastewater treatment plant served by a municipal sewer system. [(90)](99) Radioactive material means any material in any form that emits radiation spontaneously. [(91)](100) Redevelopment [project] means the reconstruction or modification of any previously developed land such as residential, commercial, industrial, or road/highway, which involves soil disturbance.

Redevelopment is distinguished from new development in that new development refers to [construction] soil disturbance on land which has not been developed. The term “redevelopment [project]” specifically applies to areas previously developed with impervious surfaces. [(92)](101) Regulated activity means any activity to which these rules and regulations apply, as described in subdivisions (a)-(d) of § 18-14 of Subchapter A of these rules and regulations. [(93)](102) Remediation means the repair or replacement, other than routine repair or maintenance as described in § 18-38[(a)(9)](b)(5)(iii) of Subchapter C, of a subsurface sewage treatment system [that is failing]. Remediation does not include alteration or modification as defined in these rules and regulations.

(103) Reserve absorption field means an area identified in the design for a subsurface sewage treatment system as suitable for infiltration of sewage to the soil by means of a network of pipes. [(94)](104) Reservoir means any natural or artificial impoundment of water owned or controlled by the City which is tributary to the City Water supply system. [(95)](105) Reservoir stem means any watercourse segment which is tributary to a reservoir and lies within 500 feet or less of the reservoir. [(96)](106) Residential lot(s) means any parcel of land of five acres or less, any point on the boundary line of which is less than one-half mile from any point on the boundary line of another such lot in the same tract, unless any such lot may not legally be used for residential purposes. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the term “residential” shall include temporary, seasonal and permanent residential use. [(97)](107) Sediment means organic or mineral solids or colloids that are transported by the process of hydrologic, hydraulic, or atmospheric transport, including but not limited to erosion. [(98)](108) Sewage means the water-carried human or animal wastes from residences, buildings, industrial establishments or other places, together with such groundwater infiltration and surface water as may be present. The admixture of sewage with industrial waste or any other waste as herein defined, shall also be considered “sewage” within the meaning of these rules and regulations. [(99)](109) Sewer connection [or lateral] means the connection between a building, residence, or other structure and a sewer system except that any connection designed and intended to convey 2,500 gallons per day or more of [residential] sewage, industrial waste or other wastes shall be considered a sewer extension. Sewer connections designed to facilitate additional sewer connections, which are proposed on or after November 29, 2019, shall be considered sewer extensions. [(100)](110) Sewer extension means newly constructed sewer pipe lines or conduits, and pumping stations and other constructions appurtenant thereto, designed to serve one or more sewer connections and to convey sewage, industrial waste or other wastes to a sewer system. [(101)](111) Sewer system means pipe lines or conduits, pumping stations, and force mains, and all other constructions, devices, and appliances appurtenant thereto, including sewer extensions, used for conducting sewage, industrial waste or other wastes to a treatment facility. [(102)](112) Silvicultural activity means the removal of selected trees within a specified boundary designated by the owner of the property so that adequate numbers of trees are left to provide seed and partial shade for the development of new tree seedlings, and when such activity is in accordance with Federal, State and local laws. [(103)](113) Small quantity generator has the meaning set forth in 6 NYCRR § 370.2. [(104)](114) Solid waste means all putrescible and non-putrescible materials or substances that are discarded, abandoned, or rejected as being spent, useless, worthless or in excess to the owners at the time of such discard or rejection, including but not limited to garbage, refuse, industrial and commercial waste, sludges from air or water treatment facilities, rubbish, tires, ashes, contained gaseous material, incinerator residue, construction and demolition debris, discarded automobiles and offal, except where exempt from compliance with 6 NYCRR Part 360 as described in 6 NYCRR § [360-1.2(a)(4)] 360.2(a)(3).

[(105)](115) Solid waste management facility means any facility employed beyond the initial solid waste collection process and managing solid waste, [including but not limited to: storage areas or facilities; transfer stations; rail-haul or barge-haul facilities; landfills; construction and demolition processing facilities; disposal facilities; solid waste incinerators; refuse-derived fuel processing facilities, pyrolysis facilities; C&D debris processing facilities; land application landspreading facilities; composting facilities; surface impoundments; waste used oil storage, reprocessing and rerefining facilities; recyclables handling and recovery facilities; and waste tire storage facilities; and regulated medical waste treatment facilities,] as defined in 6 NYCRR § [360-1.2] 360.2. [(106)](116) Source water reservoir means Ashokan, Cross River, Croton Falls, Kensico, New Croton, Rondout, and West Branch Reservoirs. [(107)](117) SPDES flow parameter violation means two or more violations of a permitted State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (SPDES) flow parameter limit during a consecutive six month period. A facility that operates less than 6 months per year will be deemed to have a SPDES flow parameter violation if the permitted SPDES flow parameter limit is violated one or more times during any consecutive four month period. [(108)](118) State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (SPDES) permit means a permit issued pursuant to Titles 7 and 8 of Article 17 of the Environmental Conservation Law. [(109)](119) Stormwater means that portion of precipitation that is in excess of the evaporative or infiltrative capacity of soils, or the retentive capacity of surface features, that flows off the land by surface runoff or by subsurface interflow to watercourses, wetlands, reservoirs, reservoir stems and controlled lakes, i.e., that portion of the water supplied to surface drainage that is not groundwater or base flow.

(120) Stormwater bioretention practice means a stormwater management practice that uses landscaping and soils to treat stormwater runoff by collecting it in shallow depressions, before filtering through a fabricated planting soil media. [(110)](121) Stormwater conveyance measure means a swale, drainage ditch, pipe, spillway, or other structure located outside a stormwater management practice that is used solely to transport water between stormwater management practices or to a watercourse or wetland. A stormwater conveyance measure constructed to convey stormwater, on a temporary basis, during active construction, which will not be used as a stormwater conveyance measure after construction is complete, is not considered a watercourse under this Chapter. A stormwater conveyance measure that contains water only during and immediately after a rainstorm or a snowmelt is not considered a watercourse. [(111)](122) Stormwater infiltration practice means a stormwater management practice designed to collect and temporarily store runoff and to distribute that runoff to the underlying soil for treatment. [(112)](123) Stormwater management practice means a stormwater pond, stormwater wetland (also known as a constructed wetland), infiltration system, filter practice, or open channel used primarily for managing and/or treating stormwater, including a Department approved alternative stormwater management practice. [(113)](124) Stormwater Project Review Committee (“Committee”) means a Committee formed in each Town or Village in the watershed to assist the Department in implementing subdivisions 18-39(b) and (c) of Subchapter C, and consisting of the following four Committee members: a representative of the Department, who shall act as chairperson; a representative of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation from the region in which the activity requiring a stormwater pollution prevention plan is proposed to be located; a representative of the Town or Village in which the activity requiring a stormwater pollution prevention plan is proposed to be located or if no one is designated by the Town, or if the activity is proposed for a village, the Village, a representative of the appropriate County Planning Department, provided, however, that a Town, or if the activity is proposed for a village, the Village, may at any time designate a representative to replace the one designated by the County Planning Department; and a representative of the County Department of Health from the County in which the activity requiring a stormwater pollution prevention plan is proposed to be located, or in a County without a County Department of Health, a representative of the County Soil and Water Conservation Service. [(114)](125) Stormwater retrofit means any construction of a structural stormwater management practice in a previously developed area, the modification of a structural stormwater management practice, or the implementation of a nonstructural practice to improve stormwater management and/or stormwater treatment over current conditions. [(115)](126) Stratification means the physical condition caused primarily by temperature-created differences in water density, which results in the formation of a warm, surface layer (epilimnion), a zone of transition (metalimnion), and a cooler, deep layer of water (hypolimnion). [(116)](127) Subdivision means any tract of land which is divided into five or more parcels of five acres or less, along an existing or proposed street, highway, easement or right-of-way, for sale or for rent as residential lots. A tract of land shall constitute a subdivision upon the sale, rental or offer for sale or lease of the fifth residential lot therefrom within any consecutive three year period. [(117)](128) Subsurface discharge means discharge to an absorption area, i.e., a process designed to allow filtered, treated sewage effluent to be discharged into the ground as a means of ultimate disposal. [(118)](129) Subsurface sewage treatment system means any underground system used for collecting, treating, and disposing of sewage into the ground including, but not limited to, individual and intermediate sized sewage treatment systems, as defined in these rules and regulations.

(130) Superintendent, where used in connection with a municipality with a qualifying municipal sewer use law, means “superintendent” as defined in that law. [(119)](131) Ten-year, twenty-four hour storm means the storm, with a twenty-four hour duration, that statistically has a ten percent chance of occurring in any given year, [as specified in the most recent Watershed Water Quality Annual Report] as set forth in the “New York State Stormwater Design Manual,” New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (2015). [(120)](132) Terminal reservoir means Kensico, West Branch, New Croton, Ashokan and Rondout Reservoirs. [(121)](133) Two-year, twenty-four hour storm means the storm, with a twenty-four hour duration, that statistically has a fifty percent chance of occurring in any given year, as set forth in the “New York State Stormwater Design Manual,” New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (2015). [(122)](134) Ulster County Fill System means a subsurface sewage treatment system used in Ulster County which has been approved by the New York State Department of Health for use in Ulster County and which is built upon two (2) feet of in situ soil that has a percolation rate between 3 to 60 minutes/inch, and which uses at least four (4) feet of fill material, including at least three (3) feet between the bottom of the trench and the in situ soil, that has a percolation rate between 3 and 10 minutes/inch. Ulster County Fill Systems may be used on individual lots or in subdivisions in Ulster County and may also be used in a county other than Ulster if the New York State Department of Health has approved the system for use in such other county. [(123)](135) Village means a territory which has been incorporated as a village pursuant to Article 2 of the New York State Village Law. [(124)](136) Village extension means an area immediately adjoining a main road extending outside an existing village which has been designated as a village extension by a Town Board in the West of Hudson watershed and described in a Water Supply Permit duly issued by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation or in any written agreement among the affected parties to the 1997 New York City Watershed Memorandum of Agreement, including the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. [(125)](137) Wastewater treatment plant means any facility which treats sewage or discharges treated effluent not intended to receive further treatment in the watershed, and which requires a permit under Titles 7 or 8 of Article 17 of the Environmental Conservation Law. A wastewater treatment plant is installed for the purpose of treating, neutralizing, stabilizing or disposing of sewage by removal of contaminants accomplished by unit operations or processes or by a combination of such operations and processes as may be applicable to a given design for a wastewater treatment plant. Wastewater treatment plants shall not include intermediate sized sewage treatment systems as defined in these rules and regulations. [(126)](138) Water Quality Volume (WQv) means the storage needed to capture and treat 90% of the average annual stormwater runoff volume. WQv is calculated as follows: WQv = (P)(Rv)(A) 12 where: WQv = water quality volume (in acre-feet) P = 90% Rain Event Number [(A map of the 90% Rainfall in New York State appears in the most recent Watershed Water Quality Annual Report.)] as set forth in the “New York State Stormwater Design Manual,” New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (2015).

Rv = 0.05 + 0.009(I), where I is percent impervious cover A = site area in acres [A minimum WQv of 0.2 inches per acre shall be met at residential sites that have less than 17% impervious cover.] [(127)](139) Water supply means the New York City public water supply system, and includes all watercourses, wetlands, reservoirs, reservoir stems and controlled lakes tributary thereto. [(128)](140) Watercourse means a visible path through which surface water travels on a regular basis, including an intermittent stream, which is tributary to the water supply. A drainage ditch, swale or surface feature that contains water only during and immediately after a rainstorm or a snowmelt shall not be considered to be a watercourse. [(129)](141) Watershed means the land area contributing surface water to the New York City water supply. [(130)](142) Watershed Agricultural Council means the Watershed Agricultural Council for the New York City Watershed, Inc., a not-for-profit organization with its principal place of business at 33195 State Highway 10, Walton, New York 13856. [(131) Watershed Water Quality Annual Report means the report prepared annually by the Department in accordance with § 18-48 of these Rules and Regulations. The Watershed Water Quality Annual Report includes the results of its annual review of its reservoirs and controlled lakes as described in § 18-48 of these Rules and Regulations as well as the current New York State rainfall values for the one- and tenyear, twenty-four hour storms and a map of the 90% rainfall in New York State.] [(132)](143) West of Hudson watershed means the Ashokan, Cannonsville, Pepacton, Neversink, Rondout, and Schoharie Reservoirs and their drainage basins. [(133)](144) Wetland means any area mapped as a wetland by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation pursuant to the Environmental Conservation Law, which is at least 12.4 acres in size or has been designated as a wetland of unusual local importance. [(134)](145) Winter highway maintenance materials means the solid compounds or the solutions that are commonly used for traction on, or for the abatement of, winter road ice, including, but not limited to, chloride compounds, and mixtures of sand and chloride compounds [, sand and coal combustion bottom ash and ash from solid waste incinerators that meet the requirements of 6 NYCRR § 360-3.5(h)]. § 4. Subdivisions (9) through (15) of Section 18-17 of title 15 of the Rules of the City of New York are repealed and Subdivisions (3) through (8) of Section 18-17 of title 15 of the Rules of the City of New York are amended as follows: §18-17 References.

(3) National Engineering Handbook, Part 630, Chapter 7, Hydrologic Soil Groups, U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Resources Conservation Service, 2009, U.S. Department of Agriculture 1400 Independence Ave., Washington, D.C. 20250. [Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, 12th edition, 1965, Table 18, “Qualitative Description of Odors,” page 306, American Public Health Association, American Water Works Association, and Water Pollution Control Federation, 2626 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. 20037.

(4) Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, 18th edition, 1992, American Public Health Association, American Water Works Association, and Water Environment Federation, 2626 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. 20037.

(5) Methods for Chemical Analysis of Water and Wastes, 1979, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402.

(6) State Environmental Quality Review Act, New York State Environmental Conservation Law, Article 8 (ECL §8-0101 et seq.), Department of State, 162 Washington Avenue, Albany, New York 12231.

(7) Public Water Supplies; Sewerage and Sewage Control, New York State Public Health Law, Article 11 (PHL §1100 et seq.), Department of State, 41 State Street, Albany, New York 12231.

(8) Classifications and Standards of Quality and Purity, 6 NYCRR Parts 701 and 703, Department of State, 41 State Street, Albany, New York 12231.

(9) Standards for Individual Water Supply and Wastewater Treatment Systems, 10 NYCRR Part 75 and Appendix 75-A, Department of State, 41 State Street, Albany, New York 12231.] [(10)](4) New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Technical and Operational Guidance Series (TOGS) 1.1.1, Ambient Water Quality Standards and Guidance Values and Groundwater Effluent Limitations (October 22, 1993, Reissue Date June 1998, as modified and supplemented by the January 1999 Errata Sheet and the April 2000 and June 2004 Addenda), New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, 625 Broadway, Albany, New York 12233. [(11)](5) New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Technical and Operational Guidance Series (TOGS) 1.3.1, Total Maximum Daily Loads and Water Quality Based Effluent Limits (July 8, 1996, Revised February 1998), including Amendments A through E (July 8, 1996), New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, 625 Broadway, Albany, New York 12233. [(12)](6) New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Technical and Operational Guidance Series (TOGS) 1.3.1B, Total Maximum Daily Loads and Water Quality-Based Effluent Limits, AmendmentsLow and Intermittent Stream Standards (July 8, 1996), New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, 625 Broadway, Albany, New York 12233. [(13)](7) New York State Department of Environmental Conservation SPDES General Permit for [Storm Water] Stormwater Discharges from Construction [Activities] Activity, Permit No. [GP-0-10-001] GP-015-002, [Dated] Effective January 29, [2010] 2015, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, 625 Broadway, Albany, New York 12233 [(14)](8) New York State Design Standards for [Wastewater Treatment Works,] Intermediate Sized [Sewerage Facilities] Wastewater Treatment Systems, [1988] 2014, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, 625 Broadway, Albany, New York 12233.

(9) New York State Stormwater Design Manual, 2015, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, 625 Broadway, Albany, New York 12233.

(10) Model Sewer Use Law, 1994, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, 625 Broadway, Albany, New York 12233. [(15)](11) Recommended Standards for Wastewater Facilities, Great Lakes—Upper Mississippi River Board of State and Provincial Public Health and Environmental Managers, [2004] 2014, Health Education Services, Health Education Services Division, P.O. Box 7126, Albany, New York 12224. § 5. Paragraph (4) of subdivision (c) of Section 18-23 of title 15 of the Rules of the City of New York are amended as follows: §18-23 Application Procedures and Requirements. (c) An application shall contain the following information: (4) An application for review and approval of any regulated activity shall include the name, address, telephone number, email address, and fax number of the applicant or the applicant’s authorized representative, and of the design professional(s), if any, involved in preparing the application.

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New York City Department of Environmental Protection Notice of Adoption of Rules (continued) § 6. Subdivisions (a), (b), and (c), paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) of subdivision (d), and subdivisions (e) through (h) of Section 18-26 of title 15 of the Rules of the City of New York are amended as follows: § 18-26 Modification, Suspension or Revocation of Approvals and Variances. (a) An approval or variance issued by the Department pursuant to these rules and regulations may be modified, suspended or revoked at any time upon the Department’s initiative, on any of the grounds set forth in paragraphs (1) through (5) of this subdivision. [The grounds for modification, suspension or revocation include:] (b) The Department shall send a notice of intent to modify, suspend or revoke an approval or variance to the person named in the approval or variance by certified mail, return receipt requested or by personal service. The notice shall [state the alleged facts or conduct which appear to warrant the intended action] specify the ground or grounds on which the modification, suspension, or revocation is sought, as well as the alleged facts on which the modification, suspension, or revocation is based. (c) Within fifteen calendar days of receipt of a notice of intent, the person named in the approval or variance may submit a written statement to the Department, giving reasons why the approval or variance should not be modified, suspended or revoked[, or requesting a hearing, or both]. Failure by such person to timely submit a statement shall result in the Department’s action becoming effective on the date specified in the notice of intent. (d) Within fifteen calendar days of receipt of such person’s statement, the Department shall either: (1) [If a statement without a request for a hearing is submitted, rescind or confirm] Rescind the notice of intent based on a review of the information provided by such person; [or] (2) [If a statement with a request for a hearing is submitted, notify such person of a date and place for a hearing, to be commenced not later than sixty calendar days from this notification] Confirm the Department’s intent to modify, suspend, or revoke the approval or variance as stated in the notice of intent; or (3) Amend the Department’s notice of intent, specifying the Department’s revised intent to modify, suspend, or revoke the approval or variance. (e) [In the event such a hearing is held, the Commissioner shall, within thirty calendar days of receipt of the complete record, issue a written decision, stating the findings and reasons therefor, to the person named in the approval or variance. The decision shall: (1) Continue the approval or variance in effect as originally issued; (2) Modify the approval or variance or suspend it for a stated period of time or upon stated conditions; or (3) Revoke the approval or variance, including, where ordered by the Commissioner, removal or modification of all or any portion of a project, whether completed or not.]

If the Department confirms or amends its intent to modify, suspend, or revoke the approval or variance, the person named in the approval or variance may request a hearing on the Department’s determination by submitting a petition in writing to the Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings (“OATH”), and sending a copy of the petition to the Commissioner, within thirty (30) days of receipt of confirmation of the Department’s intent, in accordance with the following: (1) Form and content of petition. The petition must state the name, address, and email address of the petitioner and must include a short and plain statement of the matters to be heard by OATH. The following documents must be included with the petition: the Department’s notice of intent to modify, suspend, or revoke the approval or variance; the petitioner’s statement giving reasons why the approval or variance should not be modified, suspended or revoked; the Department’s confirmation or amendment of its intent; and a completed OATH intake sheet. Blank intake sheets are available from the Department.

(2) Department response. Within twenty (20) days of receipt of the petition, the Commissioner may respond to the petition. If the Commissioner responds, the Commissioner must include the record on which the determination was based. A copy of any response shall be sent to the petitioner.

(3) Proceedings before the OATH Trials Division. Upon receipt of the petition for a hearing, OATH shall promptly schedule a hearing at a time and date which shall not be less than thirty (30) days, nor exceed one hundred twenty (120) days, from the date of receipt by OATH of the petition for a hearing unless the parties and the ALJ agree to another date. The hearing may be held in the district of the Department where the activity that is the subject of the order is located, except that hearings may be held at the Department’s offices in Kingston, New York for petitions relating to regulated activities in the East of Hudson watershed and at the Department’s offices in Kingston, New York for petitions relating to regulated activities in the West of Hudson watershed. The hearing may also be held by video conferencing or other electronic means, or as otherwise agreed to by the parties and the ALJ. Notice of such hearing shall be provided in writing to the petitioner and to the Department.

(4) Burden of proof. The Department shall have the burden of proving, by a preponderance of the evidence, facts supporting the modification, suspension or revocation.

(5) The hearing shall be held before an OATH ALJ. The ALJ shall cause a record of the hearing to be made, and shall make a recommendation to the Commissioner within thirty (30) days of the close of the hearing record, setting forth the appearances, the relevant facts and arguments presented at the hearing, findings of fact and conclusions of law, and a recommendation as to whether approval or variance should be modified, suspended, or revoked and the reasons therefor. A transcript of the record of the hearing shall be made available at the petitioner’s request and expense. (f) Within thirty (30) days of receipt of the recommendation of the ALJ, the Commissioner shall issue a final decision approving, rejecting, or modifying the ALJ’s recommendation and shall serve that decision on the parties to the proceeding. If the Commissioner does not act within that time, the ALJ’s recommendation shall be deemed adopted by the Commissioner. (g) Where the Department proposes to modify, suspend, or revoke an approval or variance, and the person named in the approval or variance requests a hearing on the proposed modification, suspension, or revocation, the original conditions of the approval or variance shall remain in effect until a decision has been issued by the Commissioner pursuant to subdivision ([e]f) of this section. At such time the modified conditions shall take effect. [(g)](h) Nothing in this section shall preclude or affect the [Commissioner’s] Department’s authority to use the remedy of summary abatement or to issue a cease and desist order under these rules and regulations, or any other law or regulation or to seek injunctive relief to enforce these rules and regulations, or any other law or regulation, in a court of competent jurisdiction. § 7. Paragraphs (3), (4), (5) and (6) of subdivision (a), and subdivision (b) are amended and a new subdivision (c) is added to Section 18-27 of title 15 of the Rules of the City of New York as follows: §18-27 Noncomplying Regulated Activities. (a) General requirements. [(3) Except where otherwise provided in these rules and regulations, no noncomplying regulated activity shall be substantially altered or modified without the prior review and approval of the Department. The Department shall review and approve such an alteration or modification in accordance with the standards and procedures set forth in Subchapter F (variances). However, a noncomplying regulated activity may be reduced in size or extent without such review and approval provided that such reduction does not cause any increase in any existing discharge or any increase in the potential for contamination to or degradation of the water supply. An application for a regulated activity, which does not involve a substantial alteration or modification of a noncomplying regulated activity, shall be review in accordance with the standards for that regulated activity.] [(4) In the event that any noncomplying regulated activity is discontinued for a period of one year or more, it shall permanently desist. However, a noncomplying regulated activities shall not be deemed discontinued in the following situations: (i) Seasonal use of a residence or business; (ii) Destruction of 75 percent or more of the market value of a noncomplying regulated activity and its related property, by flood, fire, or other natural disaster, provided that any replacement of a noncomplying regulated activity shall be identical in capacity, intensity, volume and type to the former noncomplying regulated activity and provided that such replacement shall take place within two years of such destruction, and provided further that such replacement shall comply with these rules and regulations, where possible; (iii) Transfer, sale, or lease of a residence or business provided further that the noncomplying regulated activity is not changed to a different noncomplying regulated activity, unless approved by the Department, and provided that such transfer, sale or lease occurs within three years of the offering for sale or lease of the residence or business.] ([5]4) Should any noncomplying regulated activity cause contamination to or degradation of the water supply, such that the activity is a threat to the life, health, or safety of water supply users, the Commissioner may order that such noncomplying regulated activity conform either in whole or in part to the requirements of these rules and regulations, immediately or within a limited period of time at the Commissioner’s discretion, or be discontinued immediately. Any person who receives such an order may request a hearing on such order in the manner provided in § 18-29. ([6]5) Any owner or operator of a noncomplying regulated activity [who was not required by these rules and regulations to notify the Department pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of this section,] may request, in writing, a determination from the Department that such property or activity is a noncomplying regulated activity. The written request shall include [all of the information required in such paragraph] a description of the property or activity and its location, and the name, telephone number, and email address of a contact person. The Department shall determine, based upon the submission, whether the property or activity is a noncomplying regulated activity, and shall notify the owner or operator of such determination in writing. [(b) Commercial, industrial, institutional or governmental noncomplying regulated activities.

(1) Commercial, industrial, institutional or governmental owners or operators of a noncomplying regulated activity shall notify the Department, in writing, of the existence of the noncomplying regulated activity within one (1) year of the effective date of these rules and regulations. The notification shall include a description of the noncomplying regulated activity and its location, and the name and telephone number of a contact person.

(2) The Department shall publish a directory of all commercial, industrial, institutional or governmental noncomplying regulated activities located in the watershed based upon the information submitted pursuant to paragraph (1) of this subdivision, and any additional information available to the Department.

(3) The directory shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation for two consecutive weekdays in each of two consecutive weeks.

(4) Within sixty days of the last date of such publication, any commercial, industrial, institutional, or governmental owner or operator of a noncomplying regulated activity shall notify the Department in writing of any objection to the information set forth in the directory. Furthermore, any owner or operator of a noncomplying regulated activity shall notify the Department in writing of the omission from the directory of his or her noncomplying regulated activity.

(5) Within 120 days of the last date of publication of the directory, the Department shall publish a revised directory, in accordance with the procedures provided for in paragraph (3) of this subdivision.

(6) If, within five years of the effective date of these rules and regulations, a commercial, industrial, institutional or governmental owner or operator of a noncomplying regulated activity discovers that his or her property should have been included in the final directory and was not included, such owner or operator shall write to the Department and request that the property be added to the directory. The request shall include all of the facts surrounding the omission from the listing and the reason why the property should be designated a noncomplying regulated activity, as well as all supporting documentary evidence, such as title searches, deeds, etc. Based upon the submission, the Department shall determine whether to add the property to the directory and shall notify the petitioner in writing of its decision.

(7) Upon written notification by the Department, a commercial, industrial, institutional, or governmental owner or operator of a noncomplying regulated activity may be required to submit any results of local, state or federally mandated or conducted tests or environmental audits. In addition, such owner or operator may be required to provide to the Department copies of any reports or applications submitted to local, state and federal agencies relating to the noncomplying regulated activity.

(8) Upon written notification by the Department, a commercial, industrial, institutional, or governmental owner or operator of a noncomplying regulated activity may be required to submit, within ninety days of receipt of mailing, for review and approval by the Department, a plan to protect the water supply from the potential for contamination or degradation posed by such activity. Such plan may include, but shall not be limited to, restriction or management of activities, use of best management practices, drainage control, development of procedures to address the potential contamination or degradation (including disposal procedures) and training of employees. (i) The decisions whether to require submission of a plan and whether to approve a plan shall be based upon the risk of potential for contamination to or degradation of the water supply based upon such factors as: location, intensity of use, record of adequate maintenance and operation of any existing structure or facility, compliance with existing local, state, and federal laws and rules and regulations, and the burden upon the noncomplying regulated activity.] (b) Subsurface Sewage Treatment Systems. The regulations applicable to discontinuation, and the standards for alteration or modification, of noncomplying regulated activities that are subsurface sewage treatment systems are set forth in Section 18-38(b). (c) Storage of hazardous substances, storage of petroleum products, and the siting of junkyards and solid waste management facilities.

(1) No noncomplying regulated activity involving storage of hazardous substances, storage of petroleum products, or the siting of junkyards and solid waste management facilities shall be substantially altered or modified without the prior review and approval of the Department. The Department shall review and approve such an alteration or modification in accordance with the standards and procedures set forth in Subchapter F (variances). (i) Such a noncomplying regulated activity may be reduced in size or extent, or replaced with a regulated activity that complies with the provisions of these rules and regulations, without such review and approval provided that such reduction does not cause any increase in any existing discharge or any increase in the potential for contamination to or degradation of the water supply.

(2) In the case of storage of hazardous substances, storage of petroleum products, and the siting of junkyards and solid waste management facilities, a noncomplying regulated activity must come into compliance with these rules and regulations if, for any reason, there is discontinuation for a period of two consecutive years. If it cannot come into compliance, it must permanently desist. A period of discontinuation shall commence on the date when regular or seasonal use ceases. Incidental or illegal use of an unoccupied structure shall not be sufficient to interrupt a period of discontinuation, and intent to resume a noncomplying regulated activity shall not confer the right to do so. The burden of proof for showing that a noncomplying regulated activity has not been substantially discontinued shall be on the owner or operator. § 8. Subdivisions (a), (b) and (d), paragraph (2)(i) of subdivision (f), and subdivision (g) of Section 1828 of title 15 of the Rules of the City of New York are amended as follows: § 18-28 Appeals. (a) An applicant may appeal a final determination issued by the Department under these rules and regulations by filing a petition in writing with the Department and with the New York City Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings, Trials Division (“OATH”) within thirty (30) days of the date the determination was mailed. The petition shall state the name, address, and email address of the petitioner and shall include a short and plain statement of the matters to be adjudicated, identifying the approval or variance sought by the petitioner with citation to the applicable provisions of these rules and regulations, the regulated activity for which the Department issued the determination, the proposed location of the activity, and the date of the Department’s determination. The petition should also indicate whether the petitioner is requesting a hearing. A copy of the determination being appealed shall be attached to the

petition. In addition, a completed OATH intake sheet shall be included with the petition. Blank intake sheets are available from the Department. (b) The following determinations of the Department are appealable: (d) The following issues are [adjudicable] reviewable on appeal: (4) Except where the Department has acted as lead agency, the ALJ shall not [adjudicate] review any issues related to compliance with the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA). (f)(1) Appeals from determinations relating to individual sewage treatment systems or variances shall be decided on the record before the Department in its review of the application and any other written submissions allowed by the ALJ. (2) A petitioner may request [an adjudicatory] a hearing on appeals from all other determinations issued by the Department. If a petitioner does not request a hearing, the petition shall be decided on the record before the Department in its review of the application and any other written submissions allowed by the ALJ. (i) [Unless otherwise agreed to by the parties and the ALJ, the] The hearing [shall] may be held in the district of the Department in which the regulated activity was proposed to be located, except that hearings may be held at the Department’s offices in Valhalla, New York for appeals relating to regulated activities in the East of Hudson watershed and at the Department’s offices in Kingston, New York for appeals relating to regulated activities in the West of Hudson watershed.

The hearing may also be held by video conferencing or other electronic means, or as otherwise agreed to by the parties and the ALJ. (g) The ALJ shall submit a report to the Commissioner within 60 days after the record on appeal is closed with a recommendation as to whether the determination appealed from should be approved, modified or rejected. The Commissioner shall issue a final decision approving, rejecting, or modifying the ALJ’s recommendation within 30 days of receipt of the ALJ’s report. If the Commissioner does not act within that time, the ALJ’s recommendation shall be deemed approved by the Commissioner. (h) This section shall not apply to determinations made by local governments administering provisions of these rules and regulations pursuant to Subchapter G. (i) An applicant shall have the option whether to file an [administrative] appeal under this section and nothing in this section shall preclude an applicant from challenging [a] the final determination issued by the Department in a court of competent jurisdiction, including instituting a proceeding under Article 78 of the Civil Practice Law and Rules, without first filing a petition for appeal pursuant to this section. § 9. Subdivisions (a), (b), (d), (e), (f), (g), and (h) of Section 18-29 of title 15 of the Rules of the City of New York are amended as follows: §18-29 Hearings on Cease and Desist Orders (a) Any person who receives a cease and desist order may request a hearing on the order by submitting a petition in writing to the Commissioner and to the Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings, Trials Division (“OATH”) within seven (7) days of receipt of the cease and desist order. The petition for a hearing shall state the name, address, and email address of the petitioner and shall include a short and plain statement of the matters to be adjudicated, identifying the activity that is the subject of the order, the location of the activity, and the date of the cease and desist order. A copy of the order shall be attached to the petition. In addition, a completed OATH intake sheet shall be included with the petition. Blank intake sheets are available from the Department. (b) Upon receipt of the petition for a hearing, OATH shall schedule a hearing promptly in the district of the Department where the activity that is the subject of the order allegedly occurred, and at a time and date which shall not exceed fifteen (15) days from the date of receipt by OATH of the petition for a hearing unless the parties and the ALJ agree to another location and date, except that hearings may be held at the Department’s offices in Valhalla, New York for petitions relating to regulated activities in the East of Hudson watershed and at the Department’s offices in Kingston, New York for petitions relating to regulated activities in the West of Hudson watershed. The hearing may also be held by video conferencing or other electronic means. Notice of such hearing shall be provided in writing to the petitioner and to the Department. (c) A petition for a hearing shall not stay compliance with the cease and desist order, and it shall continue to be the duty of the petitioner to discontinue the activity pursuant to the terms of the order. Failure to do so shall be a violation of the order and these rules and regulations. (d) At the hearing, the [petitioner] Department shall have the burden of proving [that the activity that is the subject of the order does not come within the provisions of §18-21(a)(5) and §18-27(a)[(5)](3) of these rules and regulations] by a preponderance of the evidence, facts supporting the cease and desist order. (e) The failure of the petitioner to appear at the time, date and place set forth in the notice of hearing shall constitute a [default] waiver of the right to a hearing on the cease and desist order and the matter will be dismissed. [The Department shall provide a notice of default in writing to the petitioner within five (5) days of the petitioner’s failure to appear.] (f) The hearing shall be held before an OATH ALJ. The ALJ shall cause a record of the hearing to be made, and shall make a report to the Commissioner within ten (10) days of the close of the hearing record, setting forth the appearances, the relevant facts and arguments presented at the hearing, findings of fact and conclusions of law, and a recommendation as to whether the order should be continued, modified or vacated and the reasons therefor. [Transcripts] A transcript of the record of the hearing shall be made available at the petitioner’s request and expense. (g) Within ten (10) days of receipt of the recommendation of the ALJ, the Commissioner may continue, vacate, or modify the order. If the Commissioner does not act within that time, the ALJ’s recommendation shall be deemed adopted by the Commissioner. (h) The results of the hearing on the cease and desist order [shall be without prejudice to] do not affect the right of a person to apply for an approval or variance for a regulated activity under these regulations [and shall also be without prejudice to the authority of the Department or any other person to]. In reviewing an application in connection with a regulated activity that has been the subject of a cease and desist order, however, the Department may take action on account of any violation of law, rule, regulation or order arising out of the events, situations or circumstances which led to the issuance of the order. § 10. Subdivisions (b), (c), and (d) of section 18-34 of title 15 of the Rules of the City of New York are amended as follows: §18-34 Petroleum Products. (b) New aboveground and underground petroleum storage facilities, which require registration under 6 NYCRR Part [612] 613, or new tanks which expand the capacity of existing facilities which require registration under 6 NYCRR Part [612] 613, are prohibited within the limiting distance of 100 feet of a watercourse or wetland, or within the limiting distance of 500 feet of a reservoir, reservoir stem, or controlled lake. [Notwithstanding this prohibition, the expansion of an existing aboveground or underground petroleum storage facility shall be allowed within the aforesaid limiting distances provided that] If, however, the owner or operator of such facility demonstrates to the Department that the application of the limiting distances would preclude the continuation of an existing business, the facility may be expanded within the limiting distances set forth in this paragraph. (c) New home heating oil tanks not requiring registration under 6 NYCRR Part [612] 613, within the limiting distance of 100 feet of a watercourse or wetland, or within the limiting distance of 500 feet of a reservoir, reservoir stem, or controlled lake, are prohibited from being installed underground and shall be located either aboveground or contained in a basement with a concrete or other impervious floor. (d) New aboveground and underground petroleum storage tanks of 185 gallons or more, which are neither home heating oil tanks regulated under subdivision (c) of this section nor located at facilities requiring registration under 6 NYCRR Part [612] 613, are prohibited within the limiting distance of 25 feet of a watercourse or wetland, or within the limiting distance of 300 feet of a reservoir, reservoir stem, or controlled lake[, except that such new tanks may be allowed within the aforesaid limiting distances provided that]. If, however, the applicant demonstrates to the Department that application of the limiting distances would preclude the continuation of an existing business or the continued identical use of the existing facility, the facility may be expanded within the limiting distances set forth in this paragraph. § 11. Subdivisions (c), (d), and (e) of section 18-35 of title 15 of the Rules of the City of New York are added as follows: §18-35 Human Excreta, [and] Holding Tanks, and Portable Toilets. (c) All new holding tanks and non-waterborne systems designed for sewage in quantities of less than 1,000 gallons per day from residential properties that are either permitted or not prohibited under 10 NYCRR Appendix 75-A may be used in the watershed provided that they are constructed and operated in accordance with the following standards: (1) Such holding tanks must have a capacity equal to at least five (5) days’ design flow, with a minimum capacity of 1,000 gallons.

(2) Such holding tanks must be equipped with an alarm (audible and visible) located in a conspicuous place to indicate when pump-out is necessary.

(3) Such holding tanks must be designed, installed and maintained in a manner to promote ease of access for pumping and cleanup.

(4) If such holding tanks will be used in the winter, the tanks must be protected from freezing. (d) New holding tanks designed for sewage in quantities of 1,000 gallons per day or more, or from non-residential properties, that are either permitted or not prohibited under state law, may be used in the watershed provided that they are constructed and operated in accordance with the following standards: (1) The owner of such a holding tank must have and maintain an agreement with a professional hauler for disposal of waste at a facility that is permitted to accept septage, as defined in 6 NYCRR Part 364.

(2) Such holding tanks must have a capacity equal to at least twice the volume of waste to be generated between anticipated removal dates, with a minimum capacity of 1,000 gallons.

(3) Such holding tanks must have a high-level alarm positioned to allow storage of at least three days’ volume of waste after activation.

(4) If such holding tanks will be used in the winter, the tanks must be protected from freezing. (e) Portable toilets shall not be located within the limiting distance of 50 feet of a mapped stream, wetland, reservoir, reservoir stem, or controlled lake and, to the extent practicable, are not located within the limiting distance of 50 feet from a watercourse other than a mapped stream. § 12. Paragraphs (2), (3), (4), and (5) of subdivision (a), paragraph (2)(iii) of subdivision (d), paragraph (2)(iii) of subdivision (e), paragraphs (1), (2)(iv), 2(v), (5)(ii), and (5)(iv) of subdivision (f), and paragraph (2) of subdivision (g) of Section 18-36 of title 15 of the Rules of the City of New York are amended as follows: §18-36 Wastewater Treatment Plants. (a) Minimum Requirements (1) Unless otherwise permitted by these rules and regulations, the design, construction, or operation of a wastewater treatment plant is prohibited where such design, construction, or operation causes a discharge, or storage which is reasonably likely to lead to a discharge, of sewage or sewage effluent into the environment (including into groundwater), and which is reasonably likely to cause degradation of surface water quality or of the water supply. It shall be an affirmative defense under this subsection that such discharge, or storage likely to lead to a discharge, is either permitted or not prohibited under federal law, and is either permitted or not prohibited under state law.

(2) The design of new wastewater treatment plants, and the plans and specifications resulting from that design, require the review and approval of the Department. [The construction of a new] New wastewater treatment plants [shall] must be constructed in [conformance] accordance with the plans and specifications approved by the Department.

(3) The design for an expansion or an alteration or modification of [new and existing] wastewater treatment plants, and the plans and specifications resulting from that design, require the review and approval of the Department. [The construction of the] Any expansion or alteration or modification [shall] of a wastewater treatment plant must be constructed in accordance with the plans and specifications approved by the Department.

(4) The owner or operator of a [new or existing] wastewater treatment plant shall operate and maintain the wastewater treatment plant in accordance with the operations and maintenance manual for the plant. Such manual shall be prepared by the owner and approved by the Department. Such manual shall be prepared or revised, and submitted to the Department for approval, within ninety (90) days after construction, expansion, alteration or modification of a wastewater treatment plant is completed (5) No new wastewater treatment plants with a surface discharge, or expansion or alteration or modification of [new and existing] wastewater treatment plants, shall cause a contravention of the water quality standards set forth in Subchapter D of these rules and regulations or the phosphorus water quality values set forth in the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Technical and Operational Guidance Series (TOGS) 1.1.1, Ambient Water Quality Standards and Guidance Values and Groundwater Effluent Limitations (October 22, 1993, Reissue Date June 1998, as modified and supplemented by the January 1999 Errata Sheet and the April 2000 and June 2004 Addenda) (d) Treatment requirements for wastewater treatment plants located within the 60 day travel time to intake (1) The map indicating the demarcation line for the watershed areas that are located within the 60 day travel time to intake appears in Appendix 18-A. Large detailed maps of such areas are available to be reviewed by the public during business hours at the regional offices listed in § 18-15 of Subchapter A. (2) Within the 60 day travel time to the intake the following requirements are applicable: (iii) [New and existing wastewater] Wastewater treatment plants with subsurface discharges may commence or continue to operate provided that the wastewater treatment plant provides sand filtration or a Department-approved alternative technology to sand filtration and phosphorus removal, and for SPDES permitted discharges greater than 30,000 gallons per day (gpd), disinfection, as required by these rules and regulations. (e) Treatment requirements for wastewater treatment plants located in the watershed and beyond the 60 day travel time to intake (1) The map indicating the demarcation line for the watershed areas that are located beyond the 60 day travel time to intake appears in Appendix 18-A. Large detailed maps of such areas are available to be reviewed by the public during business hours at the regional offices listed in § 18-15 of Subchapter A. (2) Beyond the 60 day travel time to the intake the following requirements are applicable: (iii) [New and existing wastewater] Wastewater treatment plants with subsurface discharges may commence or continue to operate, provided that the wastewater treatment plant provides sand filtration or a Department-approved alternative technology to sand filtration and phosphorus removal, and for SPDES permitted discharges greater than 30,000 gallons per day (gpd), disinfection, as required by these rules and regulations. (f) Design, Operation and Maintenance Requirements (1) This subdivision (f) shall apply to [new and existing] wastewater treatment plants.

(2) The criteria used by the Department to approve the design for any new wastewater treatment plant or the portion of any [new or existing] wastewater treatment plant which is being expanded or altered or modified shall be all applicable requirements of law, including the standards set forth in the following documents: (i) “New York State Design Standards for [Wastewater Treatment Works,] Intermediate Sized [Sewerage Facilities] Wastewater Treatment Systems” New York State Department of Environmental Conservation ([1988]2014); and (ii) “Recommended Standards for Wastewater Facilities,” Great Lakes—Upper Mississippi River Board of State and Provincial Public Health and Environmental Managers ([2004]2014).

(5) All wastewater treatment plants shall meet the following requirements to insure uninterrupted reliable operation: (i) All wastewater treatment plants shall provide standby power units sufficient to run the entire plant in order to ensure uninterrupted reliable operation in the event of utility power failure and these units shall be equipped with an alarm and automatic start-up capability[;]. (ii) All vital plant structures, mechanical and electrical equipment of [new or existing] wastewater treatment plants located or designed within the 100-year flood plain shall be protected from damage from a 100-year flood that may affect or disrupt its function or general performance.

Such structures and equipment shall remain fully operational in a 25-year flood. (iv) Sand filtration or a Department-approved alternative technology to sand filtration shall be implemented in units of sufficient number and size to ensure that the flow they are designed to accommodate, consistent with the “New York State Design Standards for [Wastewater Treatment Works,] Intermediate Sized [Sewerage Facilities] Wastewater Treatment Systems,” New York State Department of Environmental Conservation ([1988]2014) and/or the “Recommended Standards for Wastewater Facilities,” Great Lakes-Upper Mississippi River Board of State and Provincial Public Health and Environmental Managers ([2004 ]2014), can be processed in the event that the largest such unit is off line; (g) Application Requirements (2) An application for review and approval of an expansion or of an alteration or modification of a [new or existing] wastewater treatment plant shall include all of the information required in subdivision (g)(1) of this section where applicable, and shall either: § 13. Subdivisions (b), (c), (d), (e), and (f), paragraph (3) of subdivision (g), and subdivisions (h), (j), (k), and (l) of Section 18-37 of title 15 of the Rules of the City of New York are amended as follows: §18-37 Sewer Systems, [Service] Sewer Connections and Discharges to Sewer Systems. (b) A new [service] sewer connection or sewer extension to a sewer system is prohibited where the wastewater treatment plant to which the sewer system has been connected and which discharges within the watershed has had a SPDES flow parameter violation in the prior twelve months, or where the additional flow from the new [service] sewer connection or sewer extension will cause or can be expected to cause such wastewater treatment plant to have a SPDES flow parameter violation as defined herein. [(c) All new service connections shall be tested in accordance with the standards set forth in “Design Standards for Wastewater Treatment Works, Intermediate Sized Sewerage Facilities,” New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (1988), and the standards in “Recommended Standards for Wastewater Facilities,” Great Lakes—Upper Mississippi River Board of State and Provincial Public Health and Environmental Managers, §§33.92-33.95 ([2004]2014). A copy of the results of the tests shall be forwarded to the Department as soon as they are available. (d) Except for the owner of an individual or two family residence, the owner of any property which will be served by a new sewer connection to a sewer system, or by any alteration or modification of a sewer connection to a sewer system, shall submit all plans or designs for such sewer connection or such alteration or modification to the Department prior to or simultaneously with the delivery of the notice to the Department required under paragraph (d)(1) below. The owner of an individual or two family residence to be served by a new sewer connection to a sewer system, or by an alteration or modification of a sewer connection to a sewer system, shall not be required to submit the plans or designs for such sewer connection or such alteration or modification to the Department, unless specifically requested by the Department. If so requested, such owner shall submit such plans or designs to the Department prior to or simultaneously with the delivery of the notice to the Department required under paragraph (d)(1) below or, if the request is made by the Department after such notice has been given, within ten (10) days after such request has been made.] [(1)](c) Sewer Connections.

(1) The owner of any [property which] individual residence that will be served by a new sewer connection [to a sewer system], or by an alteration or modification of a sewer connection [to a sewer system], shall notify the Department 48 hours prior to the installation of such sewer connection or of such alteration or modification, and provide an opportunity to the Department to observe the work. If [required or requested pursuant to subsection 18-37(d)] specifically requested by the Department, the owner shall submit to the Department all plans or designs for such sewer connection or for such alteration or modification [prior to or simultaneously with the delivery of such notice to the Department].

(2) The owner of a structure other than an individual residence that will be served by a new sewer connection, or by an alteration or modification of a sewer connection, to a sewer system that is subject to a qualifying municipal sewer use law shall: (i) provide to the Department, at least 48 hours prior to the installation of such sewer connection or of such alteration or modification, a written permit from the superintendent of the sewer system authorizing such connection; and (ii) notify the Department 48 hours prior to the installation of such sewer connection or of such alteration or modification, and provide an opportunity to the Department to observe the work.

(3) The plans for a new sewer connection, or for an alteration or modification of a sewer connection, to a sewer system for a treatment facility with a SPDES permit, which is not subject to a qualifying municipal sewer use law, from a structure other than an individual residence, require review and approval of the Department. As a condition of approval, the Department will require the applicant to notify the Department 48 hours prior to the installation of such sewer connection or of such alteration or modification, and provide an opportunity to the Department to observe the work. An application for review and approval of such a new sewer connection or alteration or modification of a sewer connection must include: (i) A written statement from the owner or operator of the treatment facility certifying that the new sewer connection or alteration or modification of a sewer connection will not require a modification of the treatment facility’s SPDES permit, and (ii) Plans and specifications for the sewer connection.

(4) New sewer connections, or alterations or modifications of sewer connections, to treatment facilities that do not have SPDES permits shall be reviewed in accordance with § 18-37 of these rules and regulations. [(e)](d) The design, construction and plans for a new sewer system or sewer extension shall require the review and approval of the Department. Any proposed alteration or modification of a sewer system[, including a sewer system that is a noncomplying regulated activity,] shall require the review and approval of the Department. [(1) The Department may require an engineering report, construction plans and specifications, and any environmental assessments and determinations in compliance with Article 8 of the Environmental Conservation Law when reviewing any application pursuant to this subdivision for a new sewer system or sewer extension or a proposed alteration or modification of a sewer system.] [(2)](e) Any approval of a new or an alteration or modification of an existing sewer system, [or] sewer extension, or sewer connection subject to Department approval pursuant to subdivision 18-37(c)(3), issued by the Department [shall expire] expires and [thereafter be] is null and void unless construction is [commenced] completed within five (5) years of the date of issuance. Following expiration of the approval, the plans for the sewer system may be resubmitted to the Department for consideration for a new approval. (f) The criteria used by the Department to approve any new sewer system, [or] sewer extension, or sewer connection subject to Department approval pursuant to subdivision 18-37(c)(3) or the portion of any sewer system or such sewer connection which is being altered or modified, shall be all applicable requirements of law, including the standards set forth in the following documents: (1) “New York State Design Standards for [Wastewater Treatment Works,] Intermediate Sized [Sewerage Facilities] Wastewater Treatment Systems,” New York State Department of Environmental Conservation ([1988]2014); (2) “Recommended Standards for Wastewater Facilities,” Great Lakes—Upper Mississippi River Board of State and Provincial Public Health and Environmental Managers ([2004]2014); (3) 19 NYCRR Part 1222 (Plumbing Code of New York State). (g) All sewer systems and sewer extensions connected to a wastewater treatment plant which discharges within the watershed shall be designed, operated and maintained in such manner as to prevent inflow or infiltration which causes [either] one or more of the following: (1) The SPDES authorized flow limit of the wastewater treatment plans to be exceeded; [or] (2) The strength of the sewage influent to the wastewater treatment plant to be diluted to a level that adversely affects the efficacy of the SPDES permitted and Department approved treatment process; or (3) A bypass of any portion of a treatment facility that would be prohibited pursuant to 6 NYCRR Subpart 750-2. (h) All sewer systems and sewer extensions shall be designed, operated and maintained to prevent exfiltration from such systems. (i) The owner or operator of a facility which disposes of wastes regulated pursuant to the Federal Categorical Pretreatment Standards, 40 C.F.R. Part 403, shall submit three copies of the engineering report, plans and specifications, prepared by a licensed design professional, in compliance with 40 C.F.R. Parts 403, 406-471 and any applicable local regulations, to the Department for its review and approval. (j) Application Requirements for Sewer Systems and Sewer Extensions. An application for review and approval of any sewer system or sewer extension shall include the following information: (1) Tax map number and, where available, building permit number, for each property to be served by the proposed sewer system or sewer extension; (2) [Copy of the applicable municipal Sewer Use Ordinance, if any; (3) ] Letter of flow acceptance from the owner of the receiving wastewater treatment plant, when available; [(4)](3) An engineering report presenting the proposed flow and supporting design calculations; and [(5)](4) Four (4) sets of plans showing: (iv) design details and specifications of system components including pipe sizes and pump capacities; (v) where applicable, a copy of the application for modification of the SPDES permit for the receiving wastewater treatment plant and, if available, any draft revisions to such SPDES permit; and (vi) construction phasing.

(5) An application for review and approval of a sewer system must include an operation and maintenance plan for the sewer system, which may be a component of the operation and maintenance plan for the treatment facility served by the sewer system; and (6) An Environmental Assessment form and State Environmental Quality Review Act determination, if applicable. (k) All approvals for sewer systems and extensions are conditioned on the applicant’s submission of as-built drawings, prepared by a design professional, once construction is complete. (l) As a condition of approval the Department may require evidence of financial security prior to construction, from any owner or operator of a new sewer system or sewer extension or a substantial alteration or modification to an existing sewer system. Such financial security shall consist of a bond, or an equivalent guaranty, to be deposited with the Department, covering the full cost of the construction of such facility and an additional bond or an equivalent guaranty for the payment of labor and material furnished in the course of such construction. Upon completion of construction and payment of labor and materials, such bonds or other guaranties shall be released. Additionally, a bond or equivalent guaranty may be required for the maintenance and operation of the facility for a period of five years postconstruction. No bond or guaranty is required where the owner or operator of such a facility is a village, town, county or city. § 14. Paragraphs (3), (6), (7), (8) and (9) of subdivision (a), and subdivisions (b) and (c) are amended and new subdivisions (d) and (e) are added to Section 18-38 of title 15 of the Rules of the City of New York as follows: § 18-38 Subsurface Sewage Treatment Systems. (a) Minimum Requirements for new subsurface sewage treatment systems (3) All new intermediate sized sewage treatment systems shall comply with the requirements set forth in New York State Design Standards for Intermediate Sized Wastewater Treatment [Works, Intermediate Sized Sewerage Facilities] Systems, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation ([1988]2014), except where a local government or agency has enacted, or these rules and regulations specify, more stringent standards, in which case, the more stringent standards shall apply.

(6) Where a watershed county has adopted a subdivision code that allows a raised system, as described in 10 NYCRR Part 75 and Appendix 75-A, [or where any system that has been modified from the Standards outlined in Appendix 75-A has been approved by the New York State Department of Health as an alternative system,] or where the New York State Department of Health approved such raised [or modified alternative] systems for use in subdivisions located in the watershed, such raised [or alternative] systems are allowed in subdivisions that are approved subsequent to the effective date of these rules and regulations, provided that no part of such systems shall be located within 250 feet of a watercourse or wetland or 500 feet of a reservoir, reservoir stem or controlled lake. [(7) Any proposed alteration or modification of any subsurface sewage treatment system, including a noncomplying regulated activity, requires the review and approval of the Department. (i) Any proposed alteration or modification of any individual sewage treatment system that is an existing or a noncomplying regulated activity shall be performed in accordance with the requirements applicable to new subsurface sewage treatment systems under this section.

Alterations or modifications of such individual sewage treatment systems that cannot meet these requirements, due to site constraints, shall be performed in accordance with these requirements to the extent possible. In addition, unless such an alteration or modification is limited to a replacement in kind, reduces the potential for contamination to or degradation of the water supply from an existing subsurface sewage treatment system, or reduces flow to an existing subsurface sewage treatment system, the applicant shall demonstrate adequate mitigation measures to avoid contamination to, or degradation of, the water supply which are at least as protective of the water supply as the requirements that cannot be met. (ii) Any proposed alteration or modification of any new individual sewage treatment system (i.e., any individual sewage treatment system constructed after May 1, 1997) shall be performed in accordance with the requirements applicable to new subsurface sewage treatment systems under this section. If such an alteration or modification reduces the potential for contamination to or degradation of the water supply from a new subsurface sewage treatment system, or reduces flow to a new subsurface sewage treatment system, and such alteration or modification cannot meet these requirements due to site constraints, it shall be performed in accordance with these requirements to the extent possible. (iii) Any proposed alteration or modification of any intermediate sized subsurface sewage treatment system is prohibited unless such alteration or modification complies with the requirements of this section.] [(8) All existing subsurface sewage treatment systems, which are operating in accordance with their Federal, State, and local approvals on the effective date of these rules and regulations, but which do not comply with the additional requirements set forth in this section, shall be allowed to continue to operate and shall be considered noncomplying regulated activities.] [(9) If at any time after the effective date of these rules and regulations a subsurface sewage treatment system fails or needs remediation, the owner or operator of the subsurface sewage treatment system shall comply with the following:

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(i) Any proposed remediation of any part of a subsurface sewage treatment system shall require the prior review and approval of the Department, and if approved, shall be completed as soon as possible in accordance with a schedule approved by the Department; (ii) Any proposed remediation of any part of a subsurface sewage treatment system shall be implemented, to the extent possible, in accordance with the design standards set forth in this section, and shall require the prior review and approval of the Department. However, if the Department determines, based upon the application submitted by the owner or operator of the subsurface sewage treatment system, that such system cannot comply with this section, the owner or operator of the subsurface sewage treatment system shall cooperate with the Department to determine the most suitable location and design for the system on the specific site. The Department may require the owner to agree to a regular schedule for the pump out of the septic tank or other remedial action, including the use of holding tanks, before the proposed remediation is approved by the Department and implemented; and (iii) The provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to the routine repair and maintenance of a subsurface sewage treatment system, including, but not limited to, the pump out of a septic tank, the replacement of a septic tank, whether in kind or with a larger tank of an appropriate size for the subsurface sewage treatment system, the repair of a broken lateral, the leveling of a distribution box, or the removal of a blockage.] ([10]7) Any approval of a subsurface sewage treatment system issued by the Department [shall expire] expires and [thereafter be] is null and void unless construction is substantially completed [commenced] such that the system is functioning as designed within five (5) years of the date of issuance for systems located within approved subdivisions, or within two (2) years of the date of issuance for all other subsurface sewage treatment systems. Following expiration of the approval, the plans for the subsurface sewage treatment system may be resubmitted to the Department for consideration for a new approval. (b) Minimum requirements for alteration and modification, repair and remediation, and discontinuation of subsurface sewage treatment systems (1) All subsurface sewage treatment systems, which are operating in accordance with their Federal, State, and local approvals, but which do not comply with the requirements for new subsurface sewage treatment systems set forth in this section, shall be allowed to continue to operate.

(2) If the use of a subsurface sewage treatment system is, for any reason, subject to discontinuation for a period of five consecutive years or more, operation may resume if it comes into compliance with the standards for alterations or modifications of subsurface sewage treatment systems in accordance with § 18-38(b)(4) below. If, however, the system cannot come into compliance with these standards, the use must permanently desist. The owner or operator bears the burden of proof for showing that there has been no discontinuation in the use of a subsurface sewage treatment system.

(3) Any proposed alteration or modification of any subsurface sewage treatment system requires the review and approval of the Department, except as provided in subparagraphs (i) through (iii) below. (i) The volume, character, or strength of the flow to a subsurface sewage treatment system may be reduced without review and approval provided that such reduction does not cause any increase in the existing discharge or any increase in the potential for contamination to or degradation of the water supply from that discharge. If the reduction in the volume, character, or strength results from an alteration or modification of a system component, or the addition of a new system component (such as installation of a peat filter or aerobic treatment unit), then such alteration, modification, or addition requires review and approval of the Department, except that: a. Any such review and approval shall be limited to the affected system component; and b. No such review and approval is required where the alteration, modification, or addition of the system component is otherwise exempt from review under this section (such as the replacement of a septic tank with a larger tank of an appropriate size for the subsurface sewage treatment system). (ii) Except as set forth in this subdivision, for an intermediate sized subsurface sewage treatment system that has a State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (SPDES) permit, review and approval is not required for any proposed alteration or modification that does not deviate from the engineering design and site plan approved by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. a. Review and approval by the Department is required if the alteration or modification requires a modification of the SPDES permit for the SSTS for any reason including, but not limited to: i. the alteration or modification involves physical alteration or modification of the SSTS, or ii. the alteration or modification results in the system receiving sewage that either exceeds the treatment system design flow, or has a strength or characteristic beyond the design capability of the treatment system. b. If the Department has previously issued an approval for an intermediate sized subsurface sewage treatment system, review and approval by the Department is required for any alteration or modification that results in the system receiving sewage that either exceeds the design flow of the system as approved by the Department, or has a strength or characteristic beyond the design capability of the system as approved by the Department. (iii) In the following circumstances, where an ancillary, non-residential use of a residence served by an individual subsurface sewage treatment system does not result in an increase in or change in the nature of the flow of sewage, the subsurface sewage treatment system shall not be considered an intermediate-sized sewage treatment system, nor shall such use require review and approval by the Department: a. Where the residence is used to provide accommodations for transient lodgers and no food service is provided other than to overnight guests, unless such use requires a temporary residence permit pursuant to 10 NYCRR Subpart 7-1. b. Where the individual residence is used for a home office or home business, provided that: i. The individual who operates the home office or home business occupies the home as his or her primary or secondary residence; ii. The home office or home business is of a type that is estimated to generate 50 gallons per day of water or less based on Table B-3 of the New York State Design Standards for Intermediate Sized Wastewater Treatment Systems, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (2014); and iii. The conversion does not involve an increase in the individual residence’s number of bedrooms.

(4) Standards for Alterations or Modifications of Subsurface Sewage Treatment Systems (i) Any proposed alteration or modification of any subsurface sewage treatment system must be performed in accordance with the requirements applicable to new subsurface sewage treatment systems under this section. (ii) Alterations or modifications of subsurface sewage treatment systems that cannot meet these requirements, due to site constraints, must be performed in accordance with the requirements applicable to new subsurface sewage treatment systems to the extent possible. Applications for proposed alterations or modifications of such subsurface sewage treatment systems must include the information described in subdivision 18-38(d)(4). (iii) Standard of review. The department will authorize use of a subsurface sewage treatment system that has been subject to a period of discontinuation for five consecutive years or more, or a proposed alteration or modification of a subsurface sewage treatment system, if the applicant demonstrates that such use, alteration, or modification does not present a threat to public health or water quality as determined by the Department.

(5) If a subsurface sewage treatment system fails or needs remediation, the owner or operator of the subsurface sewage treatment system must comply with the following: (i) Any proposed remediation of any part of a subsurface sewage treatment system shall require the prior review and approval of the Department, and if approved, shall be completed as soon as possible in accordance with a schedule approved by the Department; (ii) Any proposed remediation of any part of a subsurface sewage treatment system shall be implemented, to the extent possible, in accordance with the design standards set forth in this section, and shall require the prior review and approval of the Department. However, if the Department determines, based upon the application submitted by the owner or operator of the subsurface sewage treatment system, that such system cannot comply with this section, the owner or operator of the subsurface sewage treatment system shall cooperate with the Department to determine the most suitable location and design for the system on the specific site. The Department may require the owner to agree to a regular schedule for the pump out of the septic tank or other remedial action, including the use of holding tanks, before the proposed remediation is approved by the Department and implemented; and (iii) The provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to the routine repair and maintenance of a subsurface sewage treatment system, including, but not limited to, the pump out of a septic tank, the replacement of a septic tank, whether in kind or with a larger tank of an appropriate size for the subsurface sewage treatment system, the repair of a broken lateral, the leveling of a distribution box, or the removal of a blockage.

(6) Any approval issued by the Department to use a subsurface sewage treatment system following a discontinuation expires and is null and void unless any required enhancements are implemented and such use is commenced within one (1) year of the date of issuance or such longer period as the Department may authorize in writing. Following expiration of the approval, the plans for the subsurface sewage treatment system may be resubmitted to the Department for consideration for a new approval.

(7) Any approval of an alteration or modification of a subsurface sewage treatment system issued by the Department expires and is null and void unless any required enhancements are implemented within two (2) years of the date of issuance. Following expiration of the approval, the plans for the subsurface sewage treatment system may be resubmitted to the Department for consideration for a new approval.

(8) Any property owner may request that the Department review and approve a proposed use of a subsurface sewage treatment system by demonstrating that it is capable of treating a specified volume and type of wastewater flow. The proposal may include proposed enhancements to the system. A determination by the Department that the subsurface sewage treatment system complies with the standards applicable to new subsurface sewage treatment systems or, if it cannot come into compliance the standards applicable to alterations or modifications of subsurface sewage treatment systems to the extent possible pursuant to § 18-38(b)(4), for the proposed use and volume, shall be binding upon the Department for five years following the date of the determination. ([b]c) Design, Operation, Treatment, and Maintenance Requirements (2) Limitations on certain systems in the watershed. (i) Mound systems, galley systems, seepage pits, evaporation-transpiration (ET) and evaporationtranspiration absorption (ETA) systems are prohibited from use for subsurface sewage treatment systems installed in the watershed on or after June 30, 2002. [Sand filters are prohibited from use for individual sewage treatment systems in the watershed.] (ii) Drip and low profile dispersal systems, as described in New York State Design Standards for Intermediate Sized Wastewater Treatment Systems, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (2014) are prohibited from use for subsurface sewage treatment systems installed in the watershed on or after September 25, 2019. (iii) Sand filters are prohibited from use for individual sewage treatment systems in the watershed. (iv) For new subsurface sewage treatment systems within the 60-day travel time, and for new subsurface sewage treatment systems that require State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (SPDES) permits, trench length reductions will not be offered for use of any enhanced subsurface sewage treatment systems. (v) No trench length reductions shall be granted for use of any open-bottom gravelless absorption system, as described in 10 NYCRR Appendix 75-A.8(c)(3)(i). One linear foot of a gravelless absorption system is equivalent to one linear foot of conventional (24” wide) absorption trench.

(5) At least one percolation test and at least one deep hole test [shall] must be performed in the primary absorption field. At least one percolation test and at least one deep hole test [shall] must be performed in the reserve absorption field [area]. An applicant [shall] must notify the Department in writing at least seven (7) days prior to performance of such tests, and specify the location and the time of the tests.

Such soils testing must be performed during normal business hours on weekdays other than legal holidays. At the option of the Department, a Department representative may witness such tests.

(8) A reserve absorption field is intended to be left undisturbed to be used in the event that the primary absorption field fails in the future. If the reserve absorption field is used because the primary absorption field has failed, the owner should, but is not required to, identify a new reserve absorption field. If the reserve absorption field is used for purposes of expanding the subsurface sewage treatment system, a new reserve absorption field or Department-approved alternative must be identified. ([c]d) Application Requirements (1) An application for review and approval of any subsurface sewage treatment system shall include the following information: (i) Soil investigation report including: b. deep hole test pit results or boring analysis indicating the depth of useable soil; (ii) Building permit number and tax map number where available. (iii) Four (4) sets of plans prepared by a design professional showing: a. site location, including distances to wells, watercourses, rock outcroppings, wetlands, controlled lakes and reservoirs, and any property boundaries within 10 feet of any subsurface sewage treatment system component; b. site/system plans, drawn to scale, with topography showing two-foot contour[s] intervals; e. a report containing: i. a description of the project characteristics; and ii. a detailing of the design process.

(3) All approvals for new subsurface sewage treatment systems are conditioned on the applicant’s submission of as-built drawings, prepared by a design professional, once construction is complete.

(4) An application for review and approval of an alteration or modification of a subsurface sewage treatment system, or of the resumption of use of a subsurface sewage treatment following discontinuation, that cannot satisfy the requirements applicable to new subsurface sewage treatment system must include all of the information in paragraph (1) of subdivision (d) of this section, except that the Department may, at its option, waive the requirement to submit a soil investigation report. For an intermediate sized sewage treatment system, the application must include the information in paragraph (2) of subdivision (d) of this section. An application must also contain: (i) Plans or other design information, consisting of: a. If available, design plans for the subsurface sewage treatment plans, indicating all known regulatory approvals for such plans; b. If design plans are not available, a description of the components of the system prepared by a licensed professional engineer; (ii) A proposal for enhancements to the system to meet the standards in § 18-38 applicable to a new subsurface sewage treatment system to the extent possible, including the information required under § 18-38(c); and (iii) Any additional information demonstrating any or all of the following:

a. A reduction in the potential for contamination to or degradation of the water supply from the subsurface sewage treatment system, b. A reduction in flow to the subsurface sewage treatment system, or c. Mitigation measures to avoid contamination to, or degradation of, the water supply. (e) Construction Requirements (1) The applicant must notify the Department at least two business days before the start of construction of a subsurface sewage treatment system. The locations of the absorption field corners, septic tanks, pump or dosing chambers, and other treatment components must be staked out before the start of construction, so that the Department can, at its option, verify compliance with separation distance to wells, watercourses, and property lines. The ends of absorption trenches and the corners of absorption beds must be staked out before the start of construction. Stakes must be marked with applicable line and grade information and may not be disturbed during construction.

(2) If construction of a subsurface sewage treatment system ceases for more than seven days, the applicant must make best efforts to notify the Department at least two business days before restarting construction.

(3) The applicant must notify the Department at least one day before burying any component of a subsurface sewage treatment system.

(4) All notifications to the Department pursuant to this subsection (d) must be made via the email address and/or telephone number listed on the approval. § 15. Paragraphs (6)(ii), (10), and (11)(ii) of subdivision (a), paragraphs (3) and (4) of subdivision (b), paragraphs (3) and (4) of subdivision (c), and paragraph (1)(ii) of subdivision (d) of Section 18-39 of title 15 of the Rules of the City of New York are amended as follows: §18-39 Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plans and Impervious Surfaces. (a) Impervious Surfaces (6) The following requirements are applicable to construction of an impervious surface for a new road or the widening of an existing road: (i) Construction of an impervious surface for a new road within the limiting distance of 300 feet of a reservoir, reservoir stem or controlled lake is prohibited, except paving an existing dirt or gravel road is permitted. Construction of a new impervious surface by paving an existing dirt or gravel road requires a stormwater pollution prevention plan which complies with subdivisions (b), (c) and (d) of this section. (ii) Construction of an impervious surface for a new road within the limiting distance of 50 feet of an intermittent stream or wetland, or within the limiting distance of 100 feet of a perennial stream, is prohibited, except for paving an existing dirt or gravel road or where necessary to provide an access road [to two or more parcels or to a subdivision]. Construction of an impervious surface for paving such existing dirt or gravel road or for such a new access road requires a stormwater pollution prevention plan which complies with the requirements of subdivisions (b), (c) and (d) of this section for the entire impervious surface. [Any] An access road constructed pursuant to this paragraph shall be constructed as far as practicable from all watercourses and wetlands, as determined by the Department.

(10) Maintenance of an existing impervious surface [that is a noncomplying regulated activity] shall not require the review and approval of the Department.

(11) The following requirements are applicable to creation of an impervious surface in the East of Hudson watershed within a Designated Main Street Area: (ii) [Within thirty (30) days of the effective date of these rules and regulations, a local government may define by metes and bounds, tax maps or other geographic boundaries a proposed Designated Main Street Area within its boundaries, and apply to the Department for approval of such proposal.

Within thirty (30) days of such application the Department may approve, disapprove, or approve with modifications, such Designated Main Street Area. If the Department disapproves the application, the local government shall have an additional thirty (30) days in which to submit a revised application for approval of the proposed Designated Main Street Area, and the Department shall approve or disapprove the application within thirty (30) days of receipt of such revised application. The Department will approve only a limited number of Designated Main Street Areas and local governments may not designate all areas of population concentrations in the East of Hudson watershed as Designated Main Street Areas.] The approved boundary [description] descriptions of [a] all Designated Main Street [Area] Areas shall be made available by the Department for public inspection at its field offices in the East of Hudson watershed. (b) Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plans (3) Stormwater pollution prevention plans shall be prepared for the activities listed in [this paragraph] subparagraph (4) of this subdivision. Such plans shall also be subject to the prior review and approval of the Department. Such plans shall be prepared and implemented in accordance with the requirements of Part III of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation SPDES General Permit No. [GP-0-10-001] GP-0-15-002 that are applicable to construction activities identified in Table 2 of Appendix B, and in accordance with the requirements of subdivision (c) of this section, except [for] that: (i) plans for redevelopment [projects and stormwater retrofits, which] shall be prepared and implemented in accordance with subdivision (b)([7]8), (ii) plans for construction activities identified in Table 1 of Appendix B must be prepared and implemented in accordance with the requirements of Part III of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation SPDES General Permit No. GP-0-15-002 that are applicable to construction activities identified in Table 1 of Appendix B. A construction activity will be deemed to “alter hydrology from pre to post development conditions,” for purposes of Table 1 of Appendix B, if the post-development peak rate of flow for the activity has increased by more than 5% of the pre-developed condition for the one-year, twenty-four hour storm, the ten-year, twenty-four hour storm, or the one hundred-year, twenty-four hour storm as defined herein. A construction activity that is excluded from coverage under Table 1 of Appendix B because it alters hydrology from pre to post development conditions must comply with the requirements of subdivision (b)(3) above, (iii) plans for construction activities requiring Department review and approval of a stormwater pollution prevention plan under this section that involve disturbance of less than one (1) acre of total land area, other than construction of gasoline stations and construction, alteration, or modification of solid waste management facilities, and which will not result in hot spot runoff, must be prepared and implemented in accordance with subdivision (b)(9), and (iv) [No] no activity shall be exempt from any such requirements as a result of the size or nature of the watercourse(s) to which stormwater from such activity discharges, except with prior written approval from the Department. Such plans shall also be subject to the prior review and approval of the Department.

(4) The activities for which a stormwater pollution prevention plan must be prepared under [this paragraph] subparagraph (3) of this subdivision are: (i) Plans for development or sale of land that will result in the disturbance of five (5) or more acres of total land area as described in the definition of larger common plan of development or sale in Appendix A of SPDES General Permit No. [GP-0-10-001] GP-0-15-002; (vii) Construction of an impervious surface for a new road, for an access road, or for an existing dirt or gravel road, as required by paragraph (a)(6) of this section; (ix) Up to a 25 percent expansion of an existing impervious surface at an existing commercial, institutional, municipal, [or] industrial, or multi-family residential facility which is within the limiting distance of 100 feet of a watercourse or wetland, as required in subdivision (a)(4)(iii) of this section; or [(4)](5) If there is a significant change in design, construction, operation, or maintenance of an activity which is subject to a Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan pursuant to subdivision (b)(3) which may have a significant effect on the potential for the discharge of pollutants to surface waters and which has not otherwise been addressed in the Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan, or if the Stormwater Pollution Plan proves to be ineffective in eliminating or significantly minimizing erosion and sedimentation or the discharge of pollutants associated with construction activity, the Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan must be amended. Such amended stormwater pollution prevention plan shall be submitted to the Department for prior review and approval and shall comply with the requirements of this section. [(5)](6) Any approval of a stormwater pollution prevention plan issued by the Department [shall expire] expires and [thereafter be] is null and void unless construction is completed within five (5) years of the date of issuance or within any extended period of time approved by the Department upon good cause shown. Following expiration of the approval, the application for the stormwater pollution prevention plan may be resubmitted to the Department for consideration for a new approval. [(6)](7) As a condition of approval the Department may require evidence of financial security prior to construction from any owner or operator of a stormwater management system pursuant to a stormwater pollution prevention plan. Such financial security shall consist of a bond, or an equivalent guaranty, to be deposited with the Department, covering the full cost of the construction of such facility and an additional bond or an equivalent guaranty for the payment of labor and material furnished in the course of such construction. Upon completion of construction and payment of labor and materials, such bonds or other guaranties shall be released. Additionally, a bond or equivalent guaranty may be required for the maintenance and operation of the facility for a period of five years post-construction. No bond or guaranty is required where the owner or operator of such a facility is a village, town, county or city. [(7)](8) Where portions of an activity that [requires] require a stormwater pollution prevention plan pursuant to subdivision (b)(3) [is a] constitute redevelopment [project or a stormwater retrofit] as defined herein, those portions of such plan shall: (i) be prepared and implemented, to the extent possible, in accordance with the requirements of Part III of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation SPDES General Permit No. [GP-0-10-001] GP-0-15-002 that are applicable to the construction activities identified in Table 2 of Appendix B; (9) Where an activity requiring Department review and approval of a stormwater pollution prevention plan under this section that involves disturbance of less than one (1) acre of total land area, other than construction of a gasoline station or construction, alteration, or modification of a solid waste management facility, and which will not result in hot spot runoff, requires a stormwater pollution prevention plan pursuant to subdivision (b)(3) above, the application must consist of: (i) A plan of the proposed activity, identifying the area of disturbance, the location of any existing or proposed impervious surfaces, and the location of any watercourses, wetlands, reservoirs, reservoir stems or controlled lakes on or adjacent to the property; (ii) A description and depiction of proposed erosion controls sufficient to prevent sedimentation of the receiving watercourse, wetland, reservoir, reservoir stem or controlled lake on or adjacent to the property during construction. Erosion controls typically consist of sediment barriers, such as hay bales and silt fencing, temporary sediment traps and temporary stormwater flow diversions; (iii) A schedule for construction, including grading and site stabilization; and (iv) A description and depiction of proposed permanent stormwater management practices designed to filter, detain, or infiltrate runoff from impervious surfaces, thereby minimizing the postconstruction increase in pollutant loading to the receiving watercourse, wetland, reservoir, reservoir stem or controlled lake. (c) Additional Requirements for Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plans.

(3) Stormwater Treatment Volume. All stormwater pollution prevention plans prepared pursuant to this section shall include measures to capture and treat the greater of the volume of runoff generated by the 1-year, 24-hour storm or the Water Quality Volume (WQv), except that a stormwater management practice may be designed to capture and treat the lesser of those volumes if it is a stormwater infiltration practice or it is a bioretention practice in hydrologic soil group A or B. Stormwater management practices which provide treatment shall be designed to accommodate the quantity of runoff flowing to the stormwater management practice, including runoff from off-site areas.

(4) Where a stormwater pollution prevention plan prepared pursuant to this section includes a stormwater infiltration practice, to the maximum extent practicable, no portion of such stormwater infiltration practice shall be located within 100 feet of any portion of the absorption [area] field of a subsurface sewage treatment system.

(7) For purposes of the design criteria incorporated by reference in New York State Department of Environmental Conservation SPDES General Permit [GP-0-10-001] No. GP-0-15-002, “detention time” shall mean the time runoff is detained in a stormwater management practice. It can be computed using either the center of mass method or the plug flow method. (d) Application requirements and procedures.

(1) An application for approval of a stormwater pollution prevention plan shall include: (ii) The information required in a Notice of Intent under New York State Department of Environmental Conservation SPDES General Permit No. [GP-0-10-001] GP-0-15-002. § 16. Subdivision (b) of Section 18-41 of title 15 of the Rules of the City of New York is amended as follows: §18-41 Solid Waste (b) Discharge of solid waste directly into any watercourse, wetland, reservoir, reservoir stem or controlled lake is prohibited. For purposes of this subdivision, solid waste includes materials that are otherwise exempt from compliance with 6 NYCRR Part 360, as described in 6 NYCRR [360-1.2(a)(4)] § 360.2(a)(3), unless those materials are irrigation return flows, materials that are used for artificial reefs in compliance with applicable State requirements, or authorized to be discharged to waters of the state pursuant to a valid permit issued by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation pursuant to Environmental Conservation Law article 15, 17, 24, 25, or 34 or a water quality certification issued under Section 401 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act. This subdivision shall not apply to discharge of treated leachate in accordance with the requirements of these rules and regulations and a valid SPDES permit. § 17. Paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) and paragraph (3)(iv) of subdivision (e) of Section 18-61 of title 15 of the Rules of the City of New York are amended as follows: §18-61 Variances.

(1) An application for a variance for a regulated activity or for an alteration or modification of a noncomplying regulated activity shall: (i) Identify the specific provision of the rules and regulations from which the variance is sought or identify the nature and extent of the alteration or modification of the noncomplying regulated activity; (ii) Demonstrate that the variance requested is the minimum necessary to afford relief; and (iii) Demonstrate that the activity as proposed includes adequate mitigation measures to avoid contamination to or degradation of the water supply which are at least as protective of the water supply as the standards for regulated activities set forth in these rules and regulations.[; and (iv) Demonstrate that for the proposed use or activity for which the variance is requested, compliance with the identified provision of the rules and regulations would create a substantial hardship due to site conditions or limitations.] (e) Variances Within the 60 Day Travel Time to Intake in the Croton System.

(3) A new or expanded wastewater treatment plant authorized pursuant to a variance under this subdivision, and its sewer system, shall meet the following conditions: (iv) All wastewater pumping stations in the sewer system serving the new or expanded wastewater

treatment plant [both new and existing,] shall meet the alarm systems and emergency operation requirements applicable to new wastewater pumping stations as set forth in “Recommended Standards for Wastewater Facilities,” Great Lakes – Upper Mississippi River Board of State and Provincial Public Health and Environmental Managers ([2004]2014); and § 18. Paragraph (4) of subdivision (e) and subdivisions (g) and (h) of Section 18-82 of title 15 of the Rules of the City of New York are amended as follows: §18-82 Watershed Planning in the Croton System. (e) The Croton Plan may allow for the siting of a new wastewater treatment plant with a surface discharge or the expansion of an existing wastewater treatment plant with a surface discharge in the Croton system within a phosphorus restricted basin or a basin located within the 60 day travel time, but not within a coliform restricted basin, pursuant to the following conditions: (4) The discharge from the new wastewater treatment plant or the expansion of an existing wastewater treatment plant complies with one of the following conditions: (i) The total volume (or flow) of surface discharge from such new wastewater treatment plant or expansion of an existing wastewater treatment plant, together with the total volume of surface discharges from all other new wastewater treatment plants and expansions of wastewater treatment plants which have been permitted in the subject County pursuant to this subparagraph (i), shall not, in the aggregate, exceed 10 percent of the total volume (or flow) of surface discharge from wastewater treatment plants located in the Croton system, within the subject County, which previously discharged into the Croton system but have been permanently diverted, since the effective date of these rules and regulations, to a discharge point outside of the Watershed. The Department may approve applications to construct new wastewater treatment plants with surface discharges pursuant to this subdivision prior to the permanent diversion of wastewater, and allow construction to begin on such new wastewater treatment plants, provided that the wastewater treatment plant may not commence operation until the diversion for which the credit is received has actually occurred[; or]. [(ii) In phosphorus restricted basins located outside of the sixty day travel time, provided that the Department has determined pursuant to §18-84, based upon the results of the pilot programs set forth in §§18-82(g) and 18-83(a), or of other studies conducted within the watershed, that the phosphorus offsets sought by the pilot programs have been achieved, the Department may require that for each one (1) kilogram of projected increase in the phosphorus load resulting from the proposed new wastewater treatment plant, together with any accompanying non-point source runoff, is actually offset by at least three (3) kilograms of reductions in phosphorus loading within the basin within which the proposed project is located, including reductions from measures identified in and implemented in accordance with the Croton Plan pursuant to paragraph (c)(8) above, and otherwise eligible for an offset hereunder, whether the source of the offsets is in the same basin or within an upstream, hydrologically connected phosphorus restricted basin.] (g) [In Putnam County, provided that Putnam County has committed in writing to participate in the development of the Croton Plan pursuant to subdivision (d) above, the Department shall allow for a pilot program to evaluate the effectiveness of phosphorus offsets as a potential basis for allowing construction of new wastewater treatment plants within phosphorus restricted basins in the Croton system. Such pilot program shall be limited to a term of five (5) years, commencing on the effective date of these rules and regulations and expiring on the fifth anniversary thereof. During the term of the pilot program, the Department may approve within a Putnam County municipality which has committed in writing to participate in development of the Croton Plan, the construction of a new wastewater treatment plant with a surface discharge within a phosphorus restricted basin in the Croton system provided that the following conditions are met: (1) The applicant proposing a new wastewater treatment plant demonstrates that the County or municipality agrees to the plant’s inclusion in the pilot program; (2) The applicant demonstrates, and commits to take action to insure, that for every one (1) kilogram of projected increase in the phosphorus load resulting from the new wastewater treatment plant and accompanying non-point source runoff, there will be an offset which achieves at least three (3) kilograms of reduction in phosphorus within the basin in which the new wastewater treatment plant is located, whether the source of the offset is in the same basin or within an upstream hydrologically connected phosphorus restricted basin; (3) All new wastewater treatment plants proposed to be constructed pursuant to this pilot program shall be reviewed and approved by the Department in accordance with §18-36 of these rules and regulations; (4) No more than three (3) wastewater treatment plants with surface discharges may be located in the Croton system in Putnam County pursuant to this pilot program. The total capacity, as constructed, for the three (3) proposed wastewater treatment plants shall not exceed a maximum of 150,000 gpd aggregate surface discharge; and (5) Any wastewater treatment plant constructed pursuant to this pilot program shall be designed and operated to meet a total phosphorus effluent limit of .2 mg/l. (h) ]Nothing in this Subpart is intended to constrain, limit or preclude an applicant from seeking, or the Department from issuing, approval of or a variance for a proposed regulated activity under any other applicable provision of these rules and regulations. [(i)](h) Nothing in this section or in the Croton Plan is intended to constrain or limit the authority of local governments under State law to make local land use and zoning decisions, and nothing in this section or the Croton Plan should be construed to have the effect of transferring such local land use and zoning authority from the participating local governments to the Department or any other entity. § 18. Section 18-83 of title 15 of the Rules of the City of New York, relating to Watershed Planning in the West of Hudson Watershed is repealed in its entirety. § 19. Section 18-84 of title 15 of the Rules of the City of New York, relating to the Permanent Phosphorus Offset Program is repealed in its entirety. § 20. Appendix 18-A of title 15 of the Rules of the City of New York is amended as follows: APPENDIX 18-A WATERSHED MAPS (a) The watershed area for the New York City water supply lies in the parts of the following counties and towns that are delineated on Map 18-A.1: § 21. Appendix 18-B and Appendix 18-C of title 15 of the Rules of the City of New York are now combined into Appendix 18-B and are amended as follows: APPENDIX 18-B SYSTEM SPECIFIC WATER QUALITY CHARACTERISTICS AND APPLICABLE MONITORING CRITERIA (a) The system specific water quality characteristics of the reservoirs and reservoir stems, as of September 1990, are set forth in Tables 1 and 2 of this Appendix. It is the intention of the Department that the system specific characteristics be maintained at the stated levels by implementation and enforcement of these rules and regulations.

TABLE 1 System Specific Characteristics: Reservoir Standards (mg/L) Croton System Annual Mean Alkalinity (mg CaCo(3)/L) Ammonia Nitrogen Chloride Nitrite + Nitrite N Organic Nitrogen Sodium Sulfate Total Diss. Solids Total Organic Carbon Total Susp. Solids Chlorophyll a

S/S/M*

>40.00 0.05 30.00

0.10 40.00

0.30 0.50 15.00 15.00 150.00 6.00 5.00 0.01

0.50 0.70 20.00 25.00 175.00 7.00 8.00 0.015

Catskill/Delaware System (including Kensico) Annual Mean >10.00 0.05 8.00 0.30 0.50 3.00 10.00 40.00 3.00 5.00 0.007

S/S/M*

0.10 12.00 0.50 0.70 16.00 15.00 50.00 4.00 8.00 0.012

*S/S/M means Single Sample Maximum TABLE 2 System specific characteristics: Reservoir Stem Standards (mg/L) Croton System Annual Mean Alkalinity (mg CaCO3/L) Ammonia Nitrogen Chloride Nitrite + Nitrate - N Organic Nitrogen Sodium Sulfate Total Diss. Solids Total Organic Carbon Total Susp. Solids

S/S/M*

Catskill/Delaware System (including Kensico) Annual Mean

S/S/M*

>40.00 0.10 35.00

0.2 100.00

>10.00 0.05 10.00

0.25 50.00

0.35 0.50 15.00 15.00 150.00 9.00 5.00

1.50 1.50 20.00 25.00 175.00 25.00 8.0

0.40 0.50 5.00 10.00 40.00 9.00 5.00

1.50 1.50 10.00 15.00 50.00 25.00 8.00

*S/S/M means Single Sample Maximum [APPENDIX 18-C TESTS FOR ANALYTICAL DETERMINATION OF CONCENTRATIONS OF ELEMENTS] (b) The following [tests and] monitoring methods are used by the Department in assessing the impacts of a regulated activity on a reservoir, reservoir stem or controlled lake. An applicant may conduct sampling in waters owned by the City as set forth herein with prior authorization by the Department. [(a)](c) Collection of Samples and Assessment of Impacts (1) In conducting tests or making analytical determinations to ascertain conformity or nonconformity with the standards set forth in Subchapter D, samples should be collected from locations which are representative of the general quality of water in the watercourse, reservoir, reservoir stem or controlled lake.

(2) In assessing the impact of a proposed regulated activity on a watercourse, reservoir, reservoir stem, or controlled lake, or in determining compliance with the standards set forth in Subchapter D, the Department will examine the impacts of the proposed activity throughout the year and the impacts on the photic, metalimnion and hypolimnion zones of the reservoir, reservoir stem or controlled lake.

(3) Impacts on reservoirs will be determined on the basis of samples taken on a schedule which is sufficient to reflect temporal variability and to meet regulatory requirements.

(4) Sampling locations in reservoirs will include: dams, intakes, mid-pool stations, and main [tributaries] tributary arms into each reservoir. At every station, [an integrated] a sample of the photic zone shall be taken. At deeper stations, samples will be collected from the metalimnion and hypolimnion.

(5) Reservoir stem samples should be collected in the section of the reservoir stem that is free-flowing and unimpeded by the reservoir when the impoundment is at full pool elevation. [(b)](d) Tests and Analytical Determinations. [Tests or analytical determinations to determine compliance or noncompliance with the water quality standards in Subpart 128-4 should be made in accordance with: (1) Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, 12th edition, l965, Table 18, Qualitative Description of Odors, page 306. American Public Health Association, American Water Works Association, and Water Pollution Control Federation, 2626 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. 20037.

(2) Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, 18th edition, 1992, American Public Health Association, American Water Works Association, and Water Environment Federation, 2626 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. 20037.

(3) Methods for Chemical Analysis of Water and Wastes, 1979, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402; and (4) By other methods approved by the Commissioner as giving results equal or superior to methods listed in any of the above documents. (c) All materials referenced in this Appendix are available for inspection and copying at the Department of Environmental Protection, 465 Columbus Avenue, Valhalla, New York 10595.]

In determining compliance or noncompliance with the water quality standards in Subchapter D, the Department will only consider tests or analytical determinations made by laboratories certified by the New York State Department of Health.

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APEX Remodeling LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/2/19. Office: Columbia County. United States Corporation Agents, Inc designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to United States Corporation Agents, Inc, 7014 13th Avenue, Suite 202, Brooklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

COLUMBIA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION NOTICE OF MEETING Please take notice that there will be a meeting of the Columbia Economic Development Corporation Workforce and Education Committee held on November 7, 2019 at 3:30pm, at One Hudson City Centre, Suite 301, Hudson, NY 12534 for the purpose of discussing any matters that may be presented to the Committee for consideration.

Dated: October 31, 2019 Sarah Sterling Secretary Columbia Economic Development Corporation

Bellus Domos LLC, Art. of Org. filed with SSNY on 4/2/19. Off. loc.: Greene Co. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served & shall mail: 28 Summit Ave., Greene County, on the Catskill, NY 12414. 8th day of October, Purp.: any lawful.

2019, bearing Index Number 19-0782, a copy of which may be CITY OF HUDSON, examined at the Office of the Greene County NEW YORK Clerk, located at 411 PLANNING BOARD NOTICE OF PUBLIC Main Street, Catskill, New York 12414, HEARING PLEASE TAKE NO- grants me the right to TICE that the Planning assume the name MIBoard of the City of CHAELA MARIE JUHudson, New York will BAR. The city and conduct Public Hear- state of my present is Albany, ings on November 12, address 2019 at 6 p.m. in Hud- New York; I was bom son Hall, Warren on November 15,2018, Street, Hudson, New in Albany, New York; York, on a site plan my present name is MARIE application from David GABRIELLA Brown to subdivide an JUBAR. existing parcel into two at 26 Warren Street, Jackpot Security, LLC Tax ID #109.35-1-20; Arts. of Org. filed w/ and continuation of SSNY 9/19/19. Off. in Public Hearings on a Columbia co. SSNY special use permit ap- desig. As agt. Of LLC plication from CarLee whom process may be Holdings LLC to place served. SSNY shall portable temporary mail process to the storage units on a va- LLC, PO Box 100, cant lot at 121 Fairview Claverack, NY 12513 Avenue, Tax ID Purpose: any lawful #110.10-2-5; a condi- activity. tional use permit with a Notice is hereby given site plan component that an Order entered from A. Colarusso and by the Supreme Court Son Inc. for a replace- of the Stale of New ment bulkhead at 175 York, Columbia South Front Street, County, on the 16th Tax ID #109.15-1-1; day of October, 2017, and a conditional use bearing Index Number permit with a site plan 14927-19 a copy of component from A. which may be examColarusso and Son ined at the Office of Inc. for haul road im- the Clerk, located in provements at 175 the Columbia Count South Front Street, Clerk's Office, 560 Tax ID #109.15-1-1. All Warren Street, Hudthose interested par- son, New York, grants ties will have an oppor- me the right to assume tunity at this time to be the name of SHANE heard in connection VAN D. My present adwith said applications. dress is 498 Route 66, Hudson, New York 12534; the date of my birth is November 27, 1979, the place of my birth is the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, City of Doylestown, County of Bucks, and my present name is Shane Montgomery Tictsworth.

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Dated: October 28, 2019 Board of Fire Commissioners Windham Fire Dist.#1 371 St Rt 296 Hensonville, NY 12439 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.

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Notice of Formation of Limited Liability Company (LLC). Name: 40-42 Van Buren, LLC - Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on September 16, 2019. Office location: Greene County. SSNY Designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: The LLC, 2792 County Route 51, Hannacroix, New York 12087. Purpose: any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY NAME: 422 Warren Street LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on OCTOBER 4, 2019.

Office location: COLUMBIA County SSNY has been designated as agent of 422 Warren Street LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to Thomas Halbach, 1442A Walnut Street, #244 Berkeley, CA 94709.

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Off. loc: Greene Co. LLC org. in DE 10/16/19. SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom proc. against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of proc.: Four Winds Real Estate, 5 White Way, Windham, NY 12496.

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ABILITY COMPANY 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.

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Dog’s Country, LLC, Articles of Organization filed with SSNY on 8/8/18. Business location: Greene County.

Address for process: The LLC, 275 Flats Road, Athens, NY 12015. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY FIRST: The name of the Limited Liability Company is TIGER LILY FARM, LLC (hereinafter referred to as the “Company”) SECOND: The Articles of Organization of the Company were filed with the Secretary of State on September 30, 2019.

THIRD: The County within the State of New York in which the office of the Company is located is Columbia.

FOURTH: The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process against the Company may be served. The post office address to which the Secretary of State shall mail process is 20 West 72nd Street, #1401, New York, NY 10023.

FIFTH: The Company is organized for all lawful purposes, and to do any and all things necessary, convenient, or incidental to that purpose. Dated: September 30, 2019 FREEMAN HOWARD, P.C. 441 East Allen Street P.O. Box 1328 Hudson, New York 12534 ZCorp LLC Filed with SSNY on 10/9/19. Office: Columbia County.

SSNY designated as agent for process and shall mail to: 160 Fairview Ave, Suite 812195, Hudson, NY 12534. Purpose: any lawful.

NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY FIRST: The name of the Limited Liability Company is TIGER LILY HOLDINGS, LLC (hereinafter referred to as the “Company”) SECOND: The Articles of Organization of the Company were filed with the Secretary of State on September 30, 2019.

THIRD: The County within the State of New York in which the office of the Company is located is Columbia.

FOURTH: The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process against the Company may be served. The post office address to which the Secretary of State shall mail process is 20 West 72nd Street, #1401, New York, NY 10023.

FIFTH: The Company is organized for all lawful purposes, and to do any and all things necessary, convenient, or incidental to that purpose. Dated: September 30, 2019 FREEMAN HOWARD, P.C. 441 East Allen Street P.O. Box 1328 Hudson, New York 12534 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.

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Local Law No. 4 of the year 2019 – A local law amending the Claverack Town Zoning Law and Zoning Map to add tax parcel 120.2-1-11.110 from the Hamlet Residential Zone to the Hamlet Business-1 Zone.

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Full and complete copies of these proposed local laws are available for inspection at the office of the Claverack Town Clerk during normal business hours.

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Local Law No. 2 of the year 2019 – A local law amending Chapter 57, Article III, of the Code of the Village of Philmont in regard to Tenancy Certificates of Occupancy.

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an Irving “episode” during the Nets’ trip to China that “left everyone scratching their heads as to what precipitated it.”

“Quite honestly, I think the head-scratching incident came from front-office personnel on the Rockets,” Dinwiddie said. “All the controversy that happened had nothing to do with us.”

Irving is a personality unlike most others, that much is undeniable. But it’s impossible the Nets didn’t know this when they signed him to a four-year max contract over the summer. His influences both on and off the court have been well-documented. The Nets knew what they were signing up for, for better or worse.

“If that’s the case then say I have mood-swings or Sean Marks has mood-swings or Kenny Atkinson has

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“My stance on Adam hasn’t changed,” Douglas said. “I think he’s a great coach and a great communicator.”

And the right quarterback.

“We see a guy that’s made of the right stuff, warrior mentality,” he said of Darnold.

“We have to take care of him — playmakers, protection, everything. We have to wrap our arms around him.”

Much work needs to be done.

And Douglas needs to show a fan base so scarred with disappointment that he can transform this team into a winner.

Like so many others who have tried, Douglas does not have history on his side.

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mood-swings,” Jordan said.

“It’s not affecting our team.”

“I’m the moody one,” Atkinson added. “I really am.

I’m cranky, and I have my ups and downs.”

There were preconceived notions about what kind of teammate Irving would be, concerns that were magnified during his first season in Boston — when the Celtics made it to the Eastern Conference Finals while he was injured — then again in his second season, when the team under-performed after his return. Irving conceded on Media Day that his mind was elsewhere last season as he battled coming to terms with his grandfather’s passing.

For what it’s worth, Irving’s teammates not only pushed back against the report but re-established his value as a member of the team: “He’s been a great teammate so far,” Dinwiddie said. “Trying to offer up his different experiences and what he sees out there. Trying to be kind of an open source of knowledge

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Jordan said. “I think that he’s quiet, but when he talks everyone focuses in on him because he is the point guard, he is the head of the snake.

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Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving (11) celebrates making a shot against the Memphis Grizzlies during a recent game at the FedExForum.

and communicate and be a leader out there. So we’ve appreciated that.”

“I think he’s a great teammate. I think he’s a leader,”

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He is one of the leaders on this team, if not the leader.

When he talks, everybody locks in. I think he’s good for our team.”

That Irving is good for the Nets is an understatement: He’s the best player of the Sean Marks-Kenny Atkinson era, an offensive talent so bright, the Nets had to change their philosophy to best suit his abilities. He’s off to a hot start, averaging nearly 38 points on 45% shooting from the field and 41% shooting from 3 while using a greater share of the ball than at any other point in his career.

The Nets aren’t perfect.

They have defensive issues to address and the offense tends to stagnate when Irving has the ball in his hands, as can be the case with most transcendent scoring talents. The last thing the team needs, though, is a rift from within.

It doesn’t appear one is happening.

“I would encourage whoever it is who has those strong feelings to just say whatever they need to say to Kyrie then,” Dinwiddie said.

“As players we haven’t experienced it. We’ve been cool.”

NY lawmakers hold public hearing on the dangers of youth tackle football Laura Albanese Newsday

NEW YORK — The fight over youth tackle football continued on Tuesday, as state lawmakers heard arguments on both sides of a heated debate about the dangers and future of the sport.

Reform advocates appeared in front of the state Assembly’s committee on health to recommend that tackling be banned for children ages 12 and younger. Members of the state’s football community argued that such a ban would stunt players and not conclusively protect them from degenerative brain disease.

More than a dozen people spoke, all in response to the proposed John

Mackey Youth Football Protection Act, a bill that would allow only flag football for players under age 13 in New York.

The bill is named after Mackey, the legendary NFL Hall of Fame tight end who was a three-sport star at Hempstead High School. He died in 2001 at the age of 69 from dementia, believed to be the result of repeated head trauma as a player.

Dr. Erich Anderer, the chief of neurosurgery at New York University Langone Health, and Dr. Mark Dracos of the Hospital for Special Surgery, both argued that repeated hits to a developing brain could lead to cognitive and psychological problems later in life, and potentially chronic traumatic encephalopathy

(CTE), a degenerative neurological disease diagnosed postmortem that has been conclusively linked to career football players.

Anderer said there is enough evidence to support that athletes who start tackle football before 12 have nearly twice the odds of developing neurobehavioral problems as they get older.

Dracos said a recent study by Boston University on NFL players discovered that the “single greatest factor that drove whether or not they developed CTE was how many years they played tackle football.”

Anderer added that there is no reason to expose “thousands of children to the possibility of future brain dysfunction

when a simple and reasonably unobtrusive solution (of flag football) is in our grasp.”

Robert Zayas, the executive director of the New York State Public High School Athletic Association, said all sports are in some way dangerous and there should be a greater concentration on preventing concussions across the board. Jon Butler, the executive director of Pop Warner youth football, said there were already significant safety protocols in place for the sport. Michael O’Donnell, head coach at Archbishop Stepinac High School in Westchester County, argued that student-athletes could lose out on college scholarships if they started tackling later than 12.

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Take care financially when entering second marriage Dear Abby, This letter is for women who have stepchildren or are considering marriage to a man with children. My second marriage of 20 years is in limbo with no closure. My three adult stepchildren took my husband away from our home two years ago. He was having some cogDEAR ABBY nitive dementia, but we were doing well in our home. After a fall, everything came apart. To make a long story short, I was naive about legal issues and discovered he had named his children as powers of attorney with no plans for me.

I have not had a visit or phone call in months because his kids will not allow it unless they are present. Our home was jointly shared and the court has ordered me to maintain it with no financial assistance from my husband as I live here.

Abby, I encourage any woman who is considering remarriage to take great care of important legal matters for their well-being in case stepchildren try to “kill” the marriage and take over. I have experienced the ups and downs that go along with abandonment, depression and absence of closure. I am grateful for my family and friends for their love and support. With God’s help and prayers, I am still hanging in there. Ladies, beware!

Surviving Alone

JEANNE PHILLIPS

Please accept my sympathy for the loss of your husband. It is tragic. Sadly, you are not the only woman I have heard of this happening to. This is why I, too, urge anyone, female or male, who is going into a second marriage to be conscious of the legal ramifications and end-of-life planning and to do it with the help of an attorney.

Dear Abby, My acupuncturist and staff are all bilingual, speaking both English and Spanish. Almost always while I’m sitting in the waiting room, the staff will converse with one another in Spanish like they’re the only ones in the room.

I feel the only time the staff should speak Spanish is when a patient doesn’t speak

or understand English. What do you think about this?

Don’t Understand In Florida What I think is that you should address your concerns to the person whose acupuncture practice it is. Explain that it makes you feel uncomfortable and isolated when his or her employees do this in front of you. And if you are not satisfied with the response you receive, change acupuncturists.

Dear Abby, My wife is in her 30s. She’s a beautiful woman and a wonderful mother to our three children, and my soul mate. We’ve been married 10 years.

She has many qualities I love and admire, but also one that causes me serious concern: her slouchy posture. She slouched a little when we married, but her posture has worsened dramatically since then.

We have spent thousands of dollars on personal trainers, massage and chiropractic.

When we (infrequently) quarrel, she unconsciously slouches more, which drives me crazy. She’s willing to see professional medical practitioners, but is unwilling to accept any responsibility for it. I can’t bring it up without her getting bristly and defensive, but it’s getting worse every year. It’s also taking a toll on our relationship. I’d appreciate any advice you could share.

Desperate for Straight Talk If your wife’s posture is the only thing about her that causes you “serious concern,” you are a lucky man.

Correcting one’s posture takes constant vigilance and determination. It’s not easy, and not everyone is able to manage it. Slouching is a defensive posture, and if she slouches even more when you raise the subject, it may have something to do with the way you’re doing it.

DR. KEITH ROACH

The most important point is that it is your body and your choice. You can choose not to have mammograms or any other procedure done. But it sounds like you are asking for my medical judgment in your case.

There are very limited data on mammogram screening for women age 80 or older. One study found that women who were screened had no difference in breast cancer rate, stage or mortality compared with women who were not screened.

Some expert groups recommend doing mammograms only in women whose life expectancy is 10 years or more. The average life expectancy for an 85-year-old woman is about six years, but very healthy 85-year-old women may have 10 years or more in life expectancy. Overall, though, expert recommendations certainly do not strongly support mammography in a woman your age.

It seems you have strong feelings about treating cancer. It is true that early cancer, such as that found on mammography, can be treated sometimes with surgery alone.

If you would not consider surgery, then I would recommend against a screening mammogram.

There is very little benefit — and perhaps some harm — in making the diagnosis of a breast cancer you would be unwilling to treat.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — You must pay attention to all money going out and all coming in; you’ll want to have as much of a surplus as possible when all is said and done.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — You will not be able to avoid all conflict, but you can pick which you want to encounter. Let your principles guide

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By Stella Wilder Born today, you are honest, earnest and straightforward — and you expect nothing less from those around you, whether you are at work or at play. You have no use for those who would try to deceive you — or anyone else, for that matter. You hold honesty at such a high premium that it is, indeed, the very currency upon which you base all of your interactions — and anyone who cannot do the same is simply not for you.

You are never unwilling to change your mind, and you are open to all manner of growth and evolution in life. While others may consider such apparent inconsistency a fault or a weakness, you consider it a source of strength.

You are a student of history, and you are able to comprehend given events and circumstances all the better because you understand what led to them.

Also born on this date are: Deidre Hall, actress; Jane Pauley, TV journalist; Barbara Bel Geddes, actress; Dale Evans, actress; Dan Rather, anchorman; Michael Landon, actor and producer; Rob Schneider, actor and comedian; John Keats, poet.

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A gentle reminder to parents of young children: Tonight wee witches and goblins will be out trick-or-treating. Please supervise them closely so they’ll be safe. Happy Halloween, everyone! — Love, Abby

At what age can a woman stop annual mammograms?

I am an 85-year-old woman in very good health. I have had a mammogram done every year for the past 45 years, each scan being excellent, with no problems. I have stipulated in my living will that I do not want chemotherapy or radiation treatments should any kind of cancer develop. Do I TO YOUR really need to continue with the GOOD HEALTH procedure of annual mammogram testing?

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Baby Blues you through the day.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You may be expected to do that which you have sworn you will never do. Clearly, your message to your superiors hasn’t gone through.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — If you don’t keep communication open today, you’re likely to encourage confusion and even anarchy. Get others on the same page!

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — You’ll be able to spend more time than expected helping someone with a difficult task. This kind of teamwork is to be promoted.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — You will have to state your case with confidence and clarity today; you don’t want your intended audience to turn away out of disinterest.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — You may not be sure just what is coming your way today, but you have a sense that it will be important to you and those interacting with you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — While you may miss one opportunity today, another is likely to present itself before you’re ready to retire for the night.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — Competition heats up today, and you must be ready and willing to do all you can — legitimately — to maintain your position as front-runner.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — You may be pulled in more than one direction throughout much of the day. Identify these influences, and you can learn to control them, surely.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — As soon as you make assumptions about something that can “never happen again,” you’re likely to be proved wrong.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You can put on quite a show today; those in the audience will be impressed not only by your performance but by the scope of what you attempt.

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SUPER QUIZ

THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME

By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek

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Famous fictional addresses Level 1

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Who resides at the given address? (e.g., Apartment D, 119 North Weatherly Ave., Minneapolis, MN. Answer: Mary Richards (“The Mary Tyler Moore Show”).)

Freshman level 1. 704 Hauser St., New York, NY 2. 221B Baker St., London, U.K. 3. Apartment 5A, 129 West 81st St., New York, NY Graduate level 4. 124 Conch St., Bikini Bottom, Pacific Ocean 5. 322 Maple St., Mayberry, NC 6. 485 Maple Dr. (later 211 Pine St.), Mayfield, U.S. PH.D. level 7. 698 Candlewood Ln., Cabot Cove, ME 8. 607 South Maple St., U.S. 9. 79 Wistful Vista, U.S.

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

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10/31/19 Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit, 1 to 9.

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SUPER QUIZ ANSWERS 1. Bunker family (“All in the Family”). 2. Sherlock Holmes. 3. Jerry Seinfeld. 4. SpongeBob SquarePants. 5. Taylor family (“The Andy Griffith Show”).

6. Cleaver family (“Leave It to Beaver”). 7. Jessica Fletcher (“Murder, She Wrote”). 8. Anderson family (“Father Knows Best”). 9. Fibber McGee and Molly (his wife).

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

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Crossword Puzzle Mother Goose & Grimm ACROSS 1 Family doctors, for short 4 Guinness & Baldwin 9 Up in __; irate 13 Carney & Linkletter 15 The __; important Dutch city 16 __ up; absorb 17 Work hard 18 Give a speech 19 Indira’s dress 20 Stuck out 22 Makes angry 23 As __ as an owl 24 __ Padres National Forest 26 Plot 29 Dusk 34 “__ Were the Days” 35 Pulverize 36 Broadcast 37 Hilarious person 38 Seeking charges against 39 “Hey __”; Beatles hit 40 Most common conjunction 41 Leans to one side 42 Book leaves 43 Good enough 45 Room nook 46 Feel sick 47 Too thin 48 Give one’s __; promise 51 Weighty; critical 56 Surrounded by 57 Racket 58 Rich soil 60 Able to reach high shelves 61 Microsoft’s Bill 62 “For heaven’s __!”

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