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CATSKILL — Greene county lawmakers discussed the transition into the new jail facility last week.

The state Commission of Corrections is recommending the county rent a trailer for a transition team of correction officers to work in. The trailer will cost about $28,000 for the year it is on the jail site and the price will come out of the $100,000 reserved for transitional items in the jail budget, Greene County Administrator Shaun Groden said Tuesday.

“The C-of-C wants the

transition team to be on-site during construction,” Groden said.

The team of six corrections officers are responsible for rewriting every operational protocol, Groden said, adding that it is important for them to be able to walk through the building and the grounds to assess the security of the jail.

“All the procedures of the old jail, that all gets chucked out the window,” Groden said.

The Greene County Jail was cited in the Commission’s 2018 Worst Offender’s Report

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The construction site of the new Greene County Jail in Coxsackie.

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By Massarah Mikati Columbia-Greene Media

Francis Sengabo’s office door is like a pendulum, swinging open and closed constantly throughout the day as immigrants and refugees filter in with

questions about everything from their visa or green card applications to English classes to the bus pickup schedule.

Recently, though, the operations director of Albany’s Refugee and Immigrant Support Services of Emmaus started

fielding a new question: “Will leaving my kid in child care hurt my visa application?”

“People were afraid to go to work and put their kids in child care because of the new public charge rule,” Sengabo said.

Panic has been spreading in

immigrant communities nationwide since talks about tightening public charge standards, thus obstructing more immigrants’ pathways to permanent legal status or citizenship, began a year ago. With the Oct. 15 implementation of the Final

Rule fast-approaching, there has been a drastic drop in public benefits enrollment among immigrants. Attorneys general are filing lawsuits across the country to put an injunction on the See ALARM A8

County officials testify at Irene hearing

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PRATTSVILLE — Two county officials testified at a recent grand jury hearing, two years after an FBI probe into the town’s recovery funds for Hurricane Irene.

Legislator Jim Thorington, R-Windham, a former Prattsville town councilman, and Karl Heck, director of Economic Development & Planning, were subpoenaed to testify Sept. 5 at the James T. Foley Courthouse in Albany, Greene County Attorney Ed Kaplan confirmed Tuesday.

The town board made a motion on Sept. 9 to hire attorney Tom Capezza for two days, according to meeting minutes.

Capezza represented the town in 2017 during the FBI investigation.

Deputy Town Supervisor Bonnie Chase declined to comment on why the town hired Capezza and declined to answer if she had been called to testify.

“We hired an attorney to accompany the deputy supervisor and the bookkeeper because they were both subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury in Albany,” Prattsville Councilman Greg Cross said.

Town bookkeeper Michelle Brainard declined to answer if she had been called to testify.

Town Clerk Kathleen Sherman said she did not testify.

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out of these ridiculous Endless Wars, many of them tribal, and bring our soldiers home,” Trump tweeted. Dozens of U.S. troops were withdrawn from the “safe zone” early Monday.

But after facing harsh criticism from some of his own allies that he was abandoning the Syrian Kurds, Trump appeared to have a change of heart by Monday afternoon.

“If Turkey does anything that I, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to be off limits, I will totally destroy and obliterate the Economy of Turkey,” he wrote, without specifying what was off limits.

Syrian Kurdish officials, frozen in Turkey’s crosshairs, tried to seize on Washington’s political divisions.

“We are humbled by the enormous support by American people and politicians despite @potus decision to pave the way for Turkish invasion, which caused despair among people,” Mustafa Bali, a spokesman for the Syrian-Kurdish force, known

as the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), wrote Tuesday on Twitter.

U.S. officials have denied that Trump endorsed a Turkish invasion. A senior administration official said Monday that Trump’s principal concern was the safety of U.S. troops operating in the area.

“The president has made it very clear there should be no untoward action with respect to the Kurds or anyone else,” the official said.

As allies and regional actors tried to unscramble Trump’s conflicting statements, Erdogan’s government has remained on message, insisting that the invasion is a certainty and that its target, the SDF, is an imminent threat to national security because of its ties to Kurdish militants in Turkey.

The establishment of the safe zone “is essential for the stability and peace of our region and for Syrians to be reunited with a secure life,” the Turkish Defense Ministry said in a tweet on Tuesday.

The ministry was alluding to

The Washington Post’s Sarah Dadouch in Beirut contributed to this report.

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ISTANBUL — Turkey’s vice president said Tuesday that his country would “not react to threats,” as it prepared to mount a military offensive against U.S.-allied Kurdish fighters in Syria, a day after President Donald Trump warned that he would destroy Turkey’s economy if the offensive did not meet with his approval.

“When it comes to the security of Turkey, as always, our president emphasized Turkey will determine its own path,” the vice president, Fuat Oktay, said in a speech at a university in Ankara, the Turkish capital. He referred to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has vowed to create a “safe zone” in a lengthy swath of Syrian territory along Turkey’s border.

Erdogan and other Turkish officials have suggested for days that the military operation could begin at any moment. Turkish troop convoys have headed to the border, and local media outlets have published details of what they say is the battle plan.

Turkey’s Defense Ministry wrote Tuesday on Twitter that all its preparations for the operation were complete.

But there was no sign yet that Turkish troops were moving forward, as the United Nations and aid agencies warned of potentially catastrophic humanitarian consequences, and as the Trump administration delivered confusing signals about how it views Turkey’s plans to attack a Syrian-Kurdish force that partnered with the U.S. military to fight the Islamic State militant group.

In a White House statement on Sunday and tweets on Monday, Trump suggested that U.S. troops would step aside as Turkey conducted its military operation.

“It is time for us to get

Erdogan’s plan to resettle in Syria millions of Syrian refugees now residing in Turkey - a mass repatriation that the United Nations and refugee advocates have said might violate international law.

Eric Schwartz, president of Refugees International, said in a statement Tuesday that Turkey’s proposed resettlement in the “safe zone” was “shockingly irresponsible.”

And Ankara’s proposed invasion would likely create new refugees, he added.

“It could displace hundreds of thousands of civilians in an area already in the grip of a humanitarian crisis,” Schwartz said. “A Turkish military operation into northeast Syria will likely force international relief groups to evacuate just when they are needed most.”

Sabah, a Turkish newspaper that is close to Erdogan’s government, published a report Tuesday describing how the battle might unfold.

It said Turkish armed forces would wait for the full withdrawal of U.S. troops before commencing any operation. Warplanes and howitzers would pound enemy positions, and then Turkish troops would enter Syria from several points along the border, east of the Euphrates River.

The military would advance as far as 18 miles into Syrian territory, the report said, without naming its source. After the operation was completed, Turkey would “continue its humanitarian work to bring back locals in the area.”

On Tuesday, a spokesman for a Turkish-backed Syrian rebel group, called the National Army, said its fighters were making preparations for the operation but had still received no orders to move.

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court takes on one of its most consequential issues of the term Tuesday, considering whether federal discrimination laws protect gay and transgender workers.

The issue for the court is the reach of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which, besides protecting against workplace discrimination because of race, religion and other characteristics, also prohibits discrimination “because of sex.”

The court combined two cases to consider whether gay workers are covered.

Gerald Bostock claims he was fired from his job as a social worker in Clayton County, Georgia, after he became more open about being gay, including joining a gay softball league. Donald Zarda said he was fired as skydiving instructor after joking with a female client to whom he was strapped for a tandem dive that he was gay. (Zarda died in 2014.)

The transgender case involves Aimee Stephens, who worked for years at a Michigan funeral home before being fired after informing the owners and colleagues of her

gender transition.

For 50 years, courts read the 1964 law to mean only that women could not be treated worse than men, and vice versa, not that discrimination on the basis of sex included LGBTQ individuals.

The Trump administration says that is what the Supreme Court should find as well.

“The ordinary meaning of ‘sex’ is biologically male or female; it does not include sexual orientation,” Solicitor General Noel J. Francisco said in a brief to the court in the Bostock and Zarda cases, which have been combined.

Employers violate Title VII only by treating members of one sex “worse than similarly situated members of the other sex. Discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, standing alone, does not satisfy that standard,” he wrote.

The government makes similar arguments against transgender status.

That puts the Trump administration at odds with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which decided in 2015 that gay and transgender individuals were federally protected.

Treating a man who is attracted to men differently from a woman who is

attracted to men is discrimination, the EEOC reasoned.

The commission also looked at a 1989 Supreme Court decision that said federal law protected against discrimination based on stereotypes; the court found for a woman who had not been promoted because her employers found her too aggressive, and her manner of dress not feminine enough.

That is analogous to discriminating against a transgender individual, the commission said. And discrimination because of sexual orientation is the same thing, the EEOC said, because it relies on stereotypes about to whom men and women should be attracted.

Gay rights leaders say “married on Sunday, fired on Monday” is a possibility in more than half of the United States, where there is no specific protection for gay or transgender workers.

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The states that prohibit discrimination are not uniform - some protect only gender identity or transgender status, and some differentiate between public and private employment.

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CALENDAR Wednesday, Oct. 9 n Athens Town Board budget work-

shop 6 p.m. Town Hall, 2 First St., Athens n Athens Village Board 6:30 p.m.

Village Hall, 2 First St., Athens n Catskill Town Zoning Board Public Hearing Area Variance V-16/V-14/V10 6 p.m. Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill n Catskill Village Board 7 p.m. Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill n Jewett Town Board 7 p.m. Jewett Municipal Building, 3547 County Route 23C, Jewett

Thursday, Oct. 10 n Coxsackie Village Board Work-

shop 6 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie n Greene County Legislature finance audit 4 p.m. Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill 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, Oct. 14 n Catskill Town Offices closed in observance of Columbus Day n Coxsackie Town Offices closed in observance of Columbus Day n Coxsackie Village Offices closed in observance of Columbus Day. n Greene County Office Building closed in observance of Columbus Day

Tuesday, Oct. 15 n Athens Village Planning Board 6:30 p.m. Village Hall, 2 First St., Athens n Coxsackie Village Board 7 p.m.

Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie n Durham Town Board 7:30 p.m.

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

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shop 6 p.m. Town Hall, 2 First St., Athens n Catskill Central School District BOE 6:30 p.m. High School Library, 341 West Main St., Catskill n Catskill Library Board 6:45 p.m. at either the Catskill Library, 1 Franklin St., Catskill or Palenville Library, 3303 Route 23A, Palenville n Catskill Town Board Committee 6:30 p.m. Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill n Greene County Legislature public hearing 2019 state CDBG program application for 7883 Hunter LLC 6:25 p.m.; Legislature meeting No. 10 6:30 p.m. Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill

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

Town Hall, 2 First St., Athens n Greenville Town Board 7 p.m.

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

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Sex offender gets 35 years

By Amanda Purcell Columbia-Greene Media

ALBANY — A Columbia County man has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for sexually exploiting a child and possessing child pornography, according to a statement from U.S. Attorney Grant C. Jaquith.

John G. Stroming, 60, of Stuyvesant, was convicted May 7 after a two-day jury trial on federal charges of sexual exploitation of a child and possession of child pornography. Stroming was accused of videotaping himself sexually abusing a 19-month-old child and possessing child pornography, Jaquith said.

At the time of the offenses, Stroming was a convicted sex offender. He faced an additional 30 to 50 years as a repeat offender, according to court papers.

His federal sentence will run consecutive to a state term of imprisonment Stroming is already serving, according to the sentence handed down by Senior U.S. District Judge Norman A. Mordue.

Stroming was indicted by a federal grand jury Dec. 14, 2017. Stroming pleaded not guilty to the charges at his arraignment Jan. 10, 2018.

In July 2008, Stroming was accused of using a toddler to engage in sexually explicit conduct with the purpose of making a film, according to court papers. Stroming used a SONY mini digital video cassette to record the sex acts, according to court files.

Evidence presented at the trial included the tape used

by Stroming and photos of his body, depicted in the videos Stroming recorded, according

Greene County Agricultural Board to hold public information meeting CATSKILL — The Greene County Agricultural Farmland Protection Board (AFPB) will hold a public information meeting at 7 p.m. Oct. 10 at the Cornell Cooperative Extension Agroforestry Resource Center, 6055 Route 23, Acra, to discuss the mandated recertification process of Greene County’s Agricultural District No. 124.

Farmers and rural landowners with land in Agricultural District No. 124, as well as those who wish to request to be included in the district, and the general public are invited to attend. Landowners from Greene County will have an opportunity to learn how agricultural district process works; what the advantages and disadvantages are; how being in a district affects their property; who is eligible to place their land in a district; what the review process is; and what the intent and purpose of an agricultural district is. There is a thirty-day open enrollment period from October 1, 2019 through October 30, 2019 in which landowners in Greene County can request to have a viable farming operations included in the district.

Being in the agricultural district protects farm operations from the enactment and administration of unreasonably restrictive local regulations. Agricultural districts do not preserve farmland in the sense that the use of land is restricted to agricultural production forever.

Rather, districts provide benefits that help make and keep farming as a

viable economic activity, thereby maintaining land in active agricultural use.

New York State Agriculture and Markets law mandates that an agricultural district be reviewed and recertified every 8 years. During this review, the district can be modified with the addition as well as removal of parcels and other modifications as determined from the review. Such reviews are extensive and involve several county and state agencies. The recertification process, will look at the nature and status of farming and farm resources within Ag District No. 124, including the total number of acres of land in farm operations in the district; the extent to which the district has achieved its objectives; the extent to which county and local plans, policies and objectives are consistent with and support the district; and the degree of coordination between local laws, ordinances, rules and regulations that apply to farm operations and their influence on farming.

The Greene County AFPB will prepare a report concerning the nature and status of farming and farm resources within the district. Greene County Economic Development and Planning and the AFPB will be partnering with Cornell Cooperative Extension of ColumbiaGreene Counties to survey Ag District 124 farmers to collect information about their farm operations.

There will be an additional public hearing over the coming winter regarding the AFPB report.

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to court papers.

Stroming’s federal sentence will begin in 2027, after his state sentence con- John G. cludes.

Stroming Stroming had previously been convicted of rape in the second degree in 2011, and promoting an obscene sexual performance by a child in 1999.

Stroming, a Level 3 sex offender with the highest risk of reoffending, was convicted in June 2011 and sentenced to 20 years in prison on child sex charges in Columbia County and an additional 14 years on charges in Dutchess County.

State police in Livingston arrested Stroming on Aug. 5,

2010, for offenses that authorities said occurred at a Greenport motel. The charges included second-degree rape and second-degree criminal sex act, both class D felonies, with an additional charge of endangering the welfare of a child, a class A misdemeanor.

Stroming was accused of having sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old on two occasions. On another occasion, he is said to have had oral sex with the same teen. The teen from Dutchess County was not a relative of Stroming’s, police said in 2010.

Stroming’s documented history of sexual offenses began in 1999 when he was convicted of possessing obscene images of a person under the age of 16 performing sexual acts, a class E felony. He spent six years in prison and was released in

2005.

Stroming also served time on a burglary conviction and two arson convictions. Stroming was a truck driver who traveled up and down the East Coast, police said in 2010.

The conviction this May was announced by Jaquith; James N. Hendricks, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the FBI; and New York State Police Superintendent Keith M. Corlett.

The case was investigated by the FBI and the New York State Police, and was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Katherine Kopita and Shira C. Hoffman.

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

USS Slater celebrates Navy’s 244th birthday

USS SLATER

ALBANY — USS SLATER will celebrate the Navy’s 244th Birthday at 9 a.m. Oct. 13. The Navy traces its origins to the Continental Navy, which the Continental Congress established on October 13, 1775, by authorizing the procurement, fitting out, manning, and dispatch of two armed vessels to cruise in search of munitions ships supplying the British Army in America.

In 1972, Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, authorized recognition of Oct. 13 as the Navy’s Birthday. It is intended as an internal activity for members of active forces and reserves, as well as retirees, dependents, and friends.

Since 1972, each Chief of Naval Operations has encouraged a Navy-wide celebration of this occasion “to enhance a greater appreciation of our Navy heritage, and to provide a positive influence towards pride and

professionalism in the Naval Service.”

Paul Guarnieri is being honored with the USS SLATER Volunteer of the Year Award presented by the Capital Region Chief Petty Officers Association. Paul is one of the few volunteers aboard SLATER who volunteers with both the maintenance crew and the education crew as a tour guide, and he does each of them very well.

Guarnieri grew up in Greenfield just outside of Saratoga.

He spent his childhood building many models of aircraft and ships. His grandfathers worked for Curtiss Wright during WWII, so even though they were not enlisted they were very involved in the war effort.

He attended McGill University in Montreal where he majored in History, with a focus in military history. After earning his degree, he worked at an American Air Force Base in England

as a cook. He was slinging pizzas inside World War II quonset hut.

Today, Guarnieri works for SUNY Albany within facilities and spends his Saturdays aboard SLATER entertaining the public with stories of these great ships and the Greatest Generation and enhancing his seamanship skills under the wing of Bill ‘Boats’ Haggart.

USS SLATER is located on the Hudson River in Downtown Albany. Public hours are 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday. Admission is $9 for adults and $7 for children.

USS SLATER will be open through Dec. 1 this year, but closed on Thanksgiving Day. The ship will also be open Oct. 14 for Columbus Day and Monday November 11th for Veteran’s Day. Call 518-431-1943 for more information or visit the website at www.ussslater.org.

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Why it might have been better if the Supreme Court had let colleges have ‘quotas’ Charles Lane The Washington Post

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Tenth Amendment about more than licenses The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

The Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, italicized above, basically says that any power not given to the federal government is given to the people or the states.

The U.S. Justice Department is considering intervening in legal challenges to the Green Light law, according to documents filed by the U.S. Attorney of the Western District of New York last week.

The department filed a motion to extend its deadline to decide whether

to intervene in a lawsuit filed by Erie County Clerk Michael Kearns over the summer challenging the law that would allow undocumented immigrants to apply for drivers’ licenses.

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

Kearns’ suit argues that it is a felony to withhold information about undocumented immigrants from those entities.

But in a brief filed by the New York Civil Liberties Union in September, attorneys argued that

Kearns’ claim violates the 10th Amendment, which guarantees states’ authority over policy matters not delegated to the federal government.

“When the federal government attempts to force state and local jurisdictions to enact federal programs and policies, it impermissibly commandeers those governments,” according to the brief.

If the Green Light Law is to succeed in New York, the federal government can’t step over the nation’s Constitution and intrude on the rights of states to govern as they see fit. An intervention by the U.S. Justice Department sounds like the way to go.

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Supreme Court’s case on LGBT discrimination shouldn’t be a close call The Washington Post

Having begun its term Monday, the Supreme Court jumps into one of its highest-profile cases Tuesday. The justices will consider a question packed with significance for the culture wars and deeply consequential for many people’s lives - but one that, on the legal merits, should not be a hard call.

The justices will hear oral arguments in three cases testing whether federal law bars employers from discriminating against LGBT people based on their sexual orientation or gender identity. Gerald Bostock, a former county child welfare services coordinator in Georgia, and Donald Zarda, a one-time skydiving instructor who died in 2014, were both fired based on their sexual orientation. Another plaintiff, former funeral director Aimee Stephens, was fired when she revealed to her boss that she would begin dressing as a woman.

Her employer explained that her plans were against “God’s commands.”

These plaintiffs argue that their firings were illegal un-

der Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which restricts most employers from discriminating against workers based on “race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.” Firing someone because he is gay or she is transgender, they argue, is a form of sex discrimination.

“Because an employee’s sex is a necessary element of his sexual orientation, a decision because of the latter is also a decision because of the former,” Bostock’s lawyers argue.

The defendants and their supporters - including the Trump administration - retort that Congress did not have gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender people in mind when it passed the Civil Rights Act a half-century ago. Indeed, lawmakers have considered and failed to pass updates to Title VII that would clearly extend employment protections to LGBT people.

True. But the court already has found that Title VII bars firing a woman not only because an employer does not believe women should be working, but also “reasonably comparable

evils,” as Justice Antonin Scalia wrote in 1998. So, according to the court, employers cannot discriminate against women because they fail to fulfill gender stereotypes - fail to wear makeup or jewelry, wear “mannish” clothing or otherwise sport a “masculine” look.

As the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit argued as it considered Title VII, “all gay, lesbian and bisexual persons fail to comply with the sine qua non of gender stereotypes - that all men should form intimate relationships only with women, and all women should form intimate relationships only with men.”

Stephens asks the court to apply the same reasoning to transgender individuals who fail to conform to their employers’ “views of how men and women should identify, look, and act.” The plaintiffs are asking for a logical extension of what the court has already said. The defendants’ case rests on persuading the court that its reasoning has been faulty for decades.

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It might have been better if the Supreme Court had allowed minority admissions “quotas” for colleges and professional schools when it had the chance 40 years ago.

That’s one way to read Judge Allison Burroughs’ Sept. 30 opinion upholding Harvard’s race-conscious undergraduate admissions process against a lawsuit from Asian American plaintiffs. They asserted that Harvard puts a de facto floor under African American and Latino admittances - at the cost of creating an unlawful ceiling on Asian Americans.

Asian Americans got in to Harvard’s classes of 2009 through 2018 at a suspiciously consistent rate of 18 percent to 21 percent of each class, even as more and more of them applied annually. Burroughs acknowledged that admissions officers consistently awarded these students lower ratings for “personal qualities,” somewhat offsetting their usually high test scores and grades.

But, she ruled, lower subjective assessments reflect insufficiently glowing high school recommendations or some other unknown factor, not bad faith by Harvard, whose admissions officers swore they used race only as a “plus factor,” and gave each applicant “individualized,” “holistic” review.

In fairness, Burroughs and Harvard were following convoluted Supreme Court doctrine on affirmative action, beginning with the pivotal 1978 Bakke case.

In the mid-1970s, the University of California at Davis medical school set aside 16 of 100 places in each class for African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos and Native Americans, partly to compensate for historical discrimination against these groups.

A white man, Allan Bakke, argued this “quota” denied him admission, in violation of the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment and Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which bans

racial discrimination in federally funded programs such as higher education.

(Students of color could bypass the 16 set-aside positions and compete for one of the 84 spots awarded based on test scores and grades.

In 1973, 15 of the 84 went to Asian Americans. That was 17.8 percent, or nearly six times the Asian American share of California’s population at the time.)

Justice Thurgood Marshall saw Davis’s program as a legitimate corrective to systemic discrimination that still continued “within our lifetimes.” To him, it mattered greatly that individual whites who might lose out were still not “treated as second-class citizens because of their color,” as black Americans were.

Davis’s quota troubled Justice Lewis Powell Jr. immensely, however. It targeted “ ‘societal discrimination,’” he wrote, “an amorphous concept of injury that may be ageless in its reach into the past.” And it was unfair to people like Bakke, who “bear[s] no responsibility” for the harms to minorities that Davis sought to remediate.

The only rationale “compelling” enough to justify race-conscious admissions would be academic “diversity,” Powell wrote, and then only if every applicant got individual consideration.

Marshall and three other justices accepted Powell’s compromise rather than see affirmative action banned altogether.

The rest is history - history which has, on balance, vindicated Marshall. He and others on the court saw little practical difference between Davis’s “quota” and Powell’s racial “plus factor,” except that the former was more transparent and straightforward. One hundred and thirty pages of elaborate exegesis of the Bakke doctrine

by Burroughs does very little to contradict this. To the contrary.

Davis was also more forthright about the justification for affirmative action: as a remedy, not for an

insufficiently diverse educational climate, but for the lingering effects of a centuries-old caste system.

It was arguably truer to the intent of anti-discrimination laws, from the 14th Amendment to the Voting Rights Act, which were adopted not so much to enforce a pristine colorblindness as to eradicate caste.

Such arguments might not persuade the conservative critics of affirmative action, who, in the name of colorblindness, support the lawsuit against Harvard.

Yet, from a conservative point of view, both quotas and the compensatory rationale have certain advantages. The main one is that they are finite, as former Yale Law School dean Anthony Kronman argues in a new higher-ed critique, “The Assault on American Excellence.”

Under a Davis-like system, Kronman writes, measurements of progress for black Americans and other minorities would loom larger in affirmative action debates, because they would bear on the continued validity of a compensatory rationale. “But they all become moot once the rationale for affirmative action is put on the ground of diversity,” Kronman notes.

Pace Powell, the diversity rationale is comparatively “amorphous” and “ageless”; as a consequence, race-conscious admissions have changed from “an urgent but temporary expedient into a permanent fixture of academic life,” Kronman writes.

Indeed, diversity has mutated into the touchstone of progressive ideology, which drives conservatives nuts, but about whose benefits “diversity of opinion . . . now barely exists” on campus, as Kronman tartly notes.

The Supreme Court may use the Harvard case to upend all of this, leaving both supporters and critics of affirmative action to ponder an alternative history of Bakke in which the justices did the right thing for the right reasons.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Grossly inaccurate and misleading comments To the editor: Your article, Politics Muddle Cairo’s Supervisor Race, published October 2, 2019, contains grossly inaccurate and misleading comments by Brent Bogardus, County Republican Committee Chairman and Cocommissioner of Greene County’s Board of Elections.

Bogadus’s statement that, “State election law requires all committees to have organizational meetings in a prescribed timeline: Sept. 17 through Oct. 2” is a complete misstatement of law.

In fact, the current state election law, section 2-112,

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requires state committees tore-organize between September 17 and October 1.

County Committees must organize between September 17 and October 6. According to Election Law 2-112(c), the re-organization of all other committees, ie: town, village, district, is done, “within the time specified by party rules.” Since the county committee has no rules governing the reorganization of town committees, and since the town committee’s rules are also silent on the issue, re-organization can occur at any time.

If Brent Bogardus, an election commissioner, doesn’t know this, he should resign from his position due to incompetence. If he does know this, he has purposefully misstated the law for his own partisan, political purposes in an attempt to smear me and our town committee.

Such actions are not acceptable from an election commissioner and he should resign because he clearly has a conflict of interest between his duties as an election commissioner and head of a county party committee.

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Emerich George Amrhein Emerich George Amrhein, outdoors in general. He was the age 63, of Catskill, died sud- most pleasant, generous and denly, Sunday, October 6, 2019 gregarious person who enjoyed at home. Emerich was born No- being with and spending time vember 25, 1955 in Manhattan, with family and friends. He was NYC, the son of the late Emil predeceased by his wife, Mariand Elizabeth (Czapary) Am- anne B. Amrhein on January rhein.

24, 2005. Emerich is survived Emerich was emby two sisters, Eva ployed as an Engineer Amrhein (Chris Memand IT Manager for breno) of NYC, Eleanor the NYS Department (Stephen) Ludwig of of Transportation in Manlius; brothers-inPoughkeepsie prior law, Joseph Los, and to his retirement. He David (Nina) Los; an was an aerospace enaunt, Theresa Czapary; thusiast who enjoyed and many godchildren, watching spaceshot nieces, nephews and launches from Cape cousins.

Amrhein Canaveral. He recently Relatives and friends had an opportunity to meet may call 9-11 AM Saturday his Space Heroes, Astronauts at Traver & McCurry Funeral Michael Collins and Buzz Al- Home, 234 Jefferson Heights, drin. Emerich enjoyed cycling, Catskill. A Memorial Funeral aviation, movies, music, travel, service will follow 11 AM SatDisney World, racecars, motor- urday with Fr. Steve Matthews cycles, fishing, hiking and being officiating.

Lily H. Brown Lily H. Brown, age 101, longtime Linlithgo resident died October 2, 2019 at the Pines in Catskill. Lily was born July 27, 1918 in Graves, Georgia, the daughter of the late Clifford and Mattie (Biggers) Higgins.

Lily was employed as a Medical Assistant for Dr. Harry Fleischer of NYC prior to her retirement. A Columbia County resident since 1957, Lily was a long-time active member of the Livingston Memorial Church in Linlithgo and Church Guild; and the Linlithgo Fire Company Ladies Auxiliary. She was also a volunteer at Columbia Memorial Hospital. Lily was predeceased by her husband, Francis Lee Brown; and two brothers. Lily is survived by two step-daughters, Pamela Addison-Pires of Waterbury, CT, and Barbara

Charles of Pine Valley, NY; seven step-grandchildren; and many step-great-grandchildren; several cousins, Charles Biggers, Allen Biggers, Barbara Phelps, Georgia Dantley, Gwen Hall, Sal Knighton, Ron Lytle and Veronica Lytle; and close friends, Rosie Lyons, John Owens, and Victor Cornelius.

Lily was also predeceased by a close friend and caretaker, Sandy Owens, who Lily thought of as a daughter.

Relatives and friends may call 2-4 PM Wednesday at Traver & McCurry Funeral Home, 234 Jefferson Heights, Catskill. Funeral services will be held 11 AM Thursday at the funeral home.

Pastor Chuck Wiessner will be officiating. Interment will be at Linlithgo Cemetery.

John Robert Legg, PhD John Robert Legg, PhD Physicist - retired John R. Legg, 73, died on July 27, 2019 at Columbia-Memorial Hospital in Hudson, NY due to a heart attack. Bom on November 24th, 1945 in Stamford, Connecticut, he was the only son of the late Cornelius (Neil) Legg and Mary (nee Sandlock) Legg. John earned his Bachelor of Science in Physics from Iona College in 1967 and graduating summa cum laude while winning the prestigious Dept, of Physics award. He went on to earn his doctorate in Physics from Yale University. Mr. Legg had instructed classes in Physics at Yale University, and had been employed as a physicist at Perkin-Elmer in Connecticut, SVG Lithography, and ThermoFisher in Illinois. He belonged to

the Yale Alumni Society, the Society for Science and the Public, and the American Institute of Physics. Mr. Legg was an active member of the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church of Haines Falls serving as an usher for much of his life. He was predeceased by his father and mother, Neil and Mary, and grandparents, Emile and Gertrude Legg who owned and operated the Alpine Inn in Haines Falls for many years.

Calling hours will be conducted at IO am on Friday, October 18th at the Aston-Basagic Funeral Home in Hunter, NY. A mass of Christian burial will follow at the Immaculate Conception Church in Haines Falls.

Burial will follow at the St. Francis de Sales cemetery in Platte Clove, NY.

House to subpoena envoy after Trump officials block testimony Billy House Bloomberg

House impeachment investigators said they will issue a subpoena to one of President Donald Trump’s top diplomats, who was blocked Tuesday by the State Department from testifying before congressional committees.

The move kept Gordon Sondland, U.S. ambassador to the European Union, from his appearance before the Foreign Affairs, Intelligence and Oversight and Reform committees in the latest escalation of the stand-off between the administration and Congress over witnesses.

“We consider this interference to be obstruction of the impeachment inquiry,” the chairmen of the three House committees said in a statement. “We will be issuing subpoena to Ambassador Sondland for both his testimony and documents.”

The subpoena will also seek text messages and emails from Sondland’s personal device, which the chairmen say have been provided to the State Department.

“Those messages are also deeply relevant to this investigation and the impeachment inquiry,” said Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff.

The former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, is also scheduled to testify behind closed doors this week.

The chairmen did not say whether they know if she is also being instructed not to appear.

Sondland, a hotel executive who donated $1 million to Trump’s inaugural committee, had come under increased scrutiny after Kurt Volker, former special envoy to Ukraine, turned over text messages in his closed deposition last week that showed Sondland seeking to encourage Ukrainian officials to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden.

Democrats are trying to establish what leverage Trump used to ask Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate Biden, now a political rival for the 2020 election.

But they have faced broad resistance from the Trump administration, as the president and his legal counsel push back on demands for documents and witness testimony. The administration’s blocking of Sondland from testifying represents the latest example of that.

Eileen Sullivan The New York Times News Service

President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey would be visiting the White House in mid-November, an invitation added to the calendar amid Trump’s abrupt and widely criticized decision to clear the way for a Turkish military operation against U.S.-assisted forces in Syria.

Trump declared Monday that it was “time for us to get out” of Syria and faced immediate backlash from Senate Republicans. His decision goes against recommendations from top officials at the State and Defense departments. U.S. troops withdrew Monday from posts near two

Syrian towns by the Turkish border.

Defending his decision Tuesday, Trump wrote on Twitter that Turkey, a fellow member of NATO, has “been good to deal with, helping me to save many lives” in Idlib province in Northern Syria, on the Turkish border. He praised Erdogan for returning a U.S. pastor, Andrew Brunson, in 2018 after holding him for two years over accusations that he was a spy who helped terrorists.

“He is coming to the U.S. as my guest on November 13th. #ENDENDLESSWARS,” Trump wrote of Erdogan.

Turkish officials said Trump made the invitation to Erdogan on Monday when the two men spoke by phone.

Trump has responded furiously to the impeachment process, calling the probe a “scam” and a “witch hunt.” The president is scheduled to hold political rallies this week in Minnesota and Louisiana to offer his defense to his most passionate supporters.

The heart of the House inquiry is Trump’s suggestions this summer that he would withhold U.S. military aid to Ukraine in return for looking into the Bidens. The committees are requesting testimony from State Department officials and others who may have helped Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, push Ukrainian officials to comply.

Trump’s July 25 call with Zelensky was initially revealed in a complaint filed by a intelligence community whistleblower, whose identity remains unknown. That report details Sondland’s Kiev trip with Volker on July 26 -- a day after Trump’s call -- to meet “with President Zelensky and a variety of Ukrainian political figures.”

Less than an hour before Sondland’s deposition was supposed to begin on Tuesday, Robert Luskin, the attorney representing the ambassador, informed the committees that the State Department instructed his client not to appear.

“As the sitting U.S. ambassador to the EU and employee of the State Department, Ambassador Sondland is required to follow the department’s direction,” Luskin said in a statement.

He said Sondland had agreed to appear willfully, not under subpoena, and “is profoundly disappointed that he will not be able to testify today,” but that “he stands ready to answer the committee’s

questions fully and truthfully.”

Trump tweeted that he “would love” for Sondland to testify, “but unfortunately he would be testifying before a totally compromised kangaroo court, where Republican’s rights have been taken away, and true facts are not allowed out for the public” to see.

Schiff said committee staff spoke with the State Department late Monday, and there was no indication that Sondland’s deposition would be blocked.

“The failure to produce this witness, the failure to produce these documents” could become part of a charge that the Trump administration is obstructing Congress, Schiff said.

Sondland’s testimony is a key part of the impeachment inquiry, given his role in the events that underpin the investigation. According to the whistle-blower complaint that sparked the process, “Ambassadors Volker and Sondland reportedly provided advice to the Ukrainian leadership about how to ‘navigate’ the demands that the president had made of Mr. Zelenskiy.”

The texts given to the committees last week also show that Sondland and another top American diplomat helped script a proposed announcement by Ukraine’s leader to say his government would investigate Biden and his son, Hunter, who sat on the board of a Ukrainian gas company.

That announcement was never made.

The texts also show Sondland defending Giuliani’s efforts to get Ukraine to look into the Bidens, even over concerns raised by the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, Bill Taylor, who warned against conditioning U.S. military assistance on an

5 more dead elephants found at Thailand waterfall, officials say Richard C. Paddock and Muktita Suhartono The New York Times News Service

Trump announces President Erdogan of Turkey will visit

BLOOMBERG PHOTO BY ALEX WROBLEWSKI

Rep. Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington on Oct. 8, 2019.

The bodies of five more wild elephants have been discovered below a steep waterfall in Khao Yai National Park in central Thailand, officials said Tuesday, bringing to 11 the number believed to have been swept away over the weekend after a calf slipped and the others tried to save it.

Park officials discovered the additional bodies Monday when they flew a drone over the waterfall, which descends 260 feet and is known as Hell’s Abyss, in a search for two elephants believed to have survived the disaster.

This is the worst such episode for the park’s wild elephants in recent memory.

A similar disaster killed eight elephants in 1992.

The director of the national park, Kanchit Srinoppawan, said it appeared that the elephants had been crossing a swollen creek after heavy rains when a 3-year-old slipped and the others tried to rescue it.

“We believe that the elephants were trying to help the baby,” he said. “They are forest animals that live in a group, and when one

member is facing problems or needs help, they will come to help.”

He added: “We believe that the death of all these elephants happened at the same time because they wanted to save the little one.”

There were no witnesses to the episode, but park officials have said that the animals’ tracks at the scene and their typical behavior supported the belief that the adults were trying to help the calf and one another.

Elephant trumpeting early Saturday alerted rangers to the disaster and two surviving elephants were spotted.

A photograph released by the Department of National Parks showed an elephant trying to rouse one of the dead.

Elephants are known to have close family ties and to grieve when a member of their herd dies.

Later Saturday, the two surviving elephants were trapped for a time in the canyon before finding their way out after dark.

Officials had feared that those elephants had also later perished. But Kanchit said it appeared they were safe: A park vendor saw two

elephants matching their description Monday evening.

The park in central Thailand, about 80 miles northeast of Bangkok, is home to about 170 of Thailand’s 3,000 wild elephants.

The park had installed fencing to prevent elephants from crossing too close to the waterfall, but that proved insufficient over the weekend.

Kanchit said officials would consider other means of keeping the animals safe, with a bridge over the creek being one possible option.

The elephants might have expected an easier crossing, he said, since the weather is usually drier at this time of year.

“We have to look at climate change, too,” he said. “In past years, there was not so much water when they crossed. But this year, the rainy season came later.”

Edwin Wiek, founder of Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand, said he hoped that the herd was larger than the 13 known members and that the two elephants that survived, a mother and a calf, were not all alone.

“Only two survivors out of a herd of 13 is so sad for the two survivors,” he said.

“investigation.”

“As I said on the phone, I think it’s crazy to withhold security assistance for help with a political campaign,” wrote Taylor on Sept. 9.

Sondland replied that Trump isn’t seeking “a quid pro quo,” but wants to test Ukraine’s commitment to reform. He then suggested they stop texting and said Taylor should speak directly to Secretary of State Michael Pompeo.

Trump referenced Sondland’s texted response in a tweet Tuesday morning.

Though Ukraine is not part of the European Union, the documents now made public show that Sondland played an central role in Trump’s efforts to persuade Ukraine leaders to carry out the investigations.

Some Democrats, including Representative Gerald Connolly of Virginia, a member of the Oversight Committee, have called on Sondland to resign.

“These text messages are deeply troubling. Mr. Sondland has lost credibility and must resign,” said Connolly, in a statement.

Sondland’s blocked testimony comes after the lawyer for two other individuals -Ukrainian born businessman Lev Parnes and his business partner Igor Fruman -- said on Monday they would, for now, put off a request to testify and turn over additional documents by Oct. 14. The committees are prepared to respond with subpoenas to force them to testify, according to a House official.

The House request is “overly broad and unduly burdensome” and “beyond the scope” of the inquiry, John Dowd, the lawyer representing Parnes and Fruman, wrote in an Oct. 3 letter to the House Intelligence Committee obtained by Bloomberg News.

Dowd previously represented Trump as a personal lawyer during the special counsel investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election.

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The Catskill-Athens feud

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

The book Reminiscences n of Catskill.

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by James Pinckney contains many interesting stories from the nearly 19th century. One that I found amusing involved a feud between Catskill and n Athens over a War of 1812 cannon. Pinckney relates the story as follows: n “There had been for some time, a bitter feeling existing withn our Athenian neighbors, growing out of the contest in relation to the location of the County n buildings, and very little provocations was requite to fan the fire into a blaze of war.

Thenimmediate casus belli was as follows: “Catskill and Athens had each an Artillery Company; the first commanded by Capt. n Stocking, and the secJared ond by Capt. Sam Hamilton.

Soon after the close of the last n war with Great Britain the Government withdrew all the

ordinance from these Companies, except for one brass sixpounder, which had to do duty for both.

“Just before the Fourth of July, about 1820, the Catskillians, having resolved to celebrate that anniversary, asked of the Athenians the

return of the gun, which was flatly refused. The war spirit of 1812-1815 had not entirely subsided, and the Catskillians determined to capture the artillery… Accordingly, two nights before ‘the Fourth,’ a devoted band…made a midnight raid into our sister

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Six-pounder cannon at the Saratoga Battlefield. Likely similar to the one mentioned.

OCT. 9

GREENVILLE — The Greenville Civil War Round n meets at 7 p.m. Oct. 9 Table in the community room of the Greenville Library, 11177 n Route 32, Greenville. Bill Payne and Veterans in a New Field from Ulster County will n perform songs of the Union Irish Brigade. The public is welcome.

For information, call n 518-966-4832.

OCT. 11

n SOUTH BETHLEHEM — The South Bethlehem United Methodist Church, 67 Willowbrook Ave., South Bethlehem, will serve a chicken and biscuits n dinner 5-7 p.m. Oct. 11.

A bake sale will also be held.

Take outs begin at 4:30 p.m.

Adults, $10; children 6-12, $5; children 5 and younger, free.

For information, call Emily Shutter at 518-813-0661.

CAIRO — The 27th Annual Harvest Festival will be held 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Oct. 12 in Cairo Town Park. Admission is free.

ATHENS — An American Flag Retirement Ritual Ceremony will be held at 1 p.m.

Oct. 12 at the American Legion TGM Post 187, 61 Second St., Athens. Appropriate disposal (retirement) of tattered, torn, ripped and faded American Flags of the United States will occur at this event. The event is being co-sponsored by the American Legion TGM Post 187, the On-Ti-Ora Chapter National Society Daughters of the American Revolution and the Greene County Blue Star Mothers. Any interested persons are invited to attend and bring damaged, torn, faded American Flags for appropriate disposal. Prior to Saturday damaged American Flags may be left in the designated mailbox in front of the American Legion Post on Second Street, Athens. For questions or information, call On-Ti-Ora Chapter member Wanda Traver at 845-453-0188.

WINDHAM — The annual Applefest will be held 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Oct. 12 at the WindhamHensonville United Methodist Church, Main Street, Windham. Featuring baked goods, hospitality table, crafts, vendors and more.

GREENVILLE — A program on Ticks in the Hudson Valley and what we can learn regarding the several dangerous tickOCT. 19 borne diseases being spread ATHENS — The Athens by these ticks and how we can Volunteer Fire Department protect ourselves will be prepresents Totally ‘80s! Totally sented by the Clematis GarMurder!, a rockin’ radical night den Club at 1 p.m. Oct. 11 at of mystery Oct. 19 at the fireSt. John’s Community Room, house, 39 Third St., Athens.

4987 Route 81, Greenville.

Doors open at 5:30 p.m. TickPresenter Barbara Campbell, Let Us Make Your EZ-er... ets areLife $45, adults only. Tickets past president of the New York include dinner, dessert, soda, State Federated Garden Clubs, water, wine and beer included. board member of National Prizes for best dressed and Garden Clubs and instructor in more. For tickets, contact KarUlster County, will present this en at 518-634-2035 or Frank at very important informational 518-610-3556; or members of program. A question and anthe Athens Fire Department. swer session will follow. All are invited to attend and listen CAIRO — Friends of the Caiand learn from this informaro Public Library will sponsor tive presentation. Refresha fall book sale 10 a.m.-2 p.m. ments will follow the presenOct. 19 at the shed behind the tation. The Clematis Garden library, 15 Railroad Ave., Cairo, Club, Greenville, is made up of weather permitting. The sales members from Greene, Albany include 3 for $1 paperbacks, 50 and Schoharie counties and cent hardcovers, and $5 bags of is a member of the Federated, books “buy one get one free.”

National, State and District Garden Clubs Organization.

CATSKILL — The Catskill United Methodist Church, 40 CATSKILL — Catskill Elks Woodland Ave., Catskill, third Lodge, 45 North Jefferson annual Fall Craft Fair 9 a.m.Heights, Catskill, will serve an 3 p.m. Oct. 19 at the Church.

Italian pasta dinner 5-7 p.m.

There will be many returning Oct. 11. Menu includes pasta, crafters. meatballs, sausage, salad and bread. Eat in or take out. DinTANNERSVILLE — Mounners, $11; take out dinners, tain Top Arboretum hosts $11.50.

Catskill Fungi Mushroom Walk OCT. 12 10 a.m.-noon Oct. 19 at the CATSKILL — The Catskill arboretum, 4 Maude Adams United Methodist Church will Road, (518)Tannersville.

828-1616 Ext Join 2415John host a Red Cross Blood Drive Michelotti of Catskill Fungi 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Oct. 12 at the for an entertaining and eduChurch, 40 Woodland Ave., cational walk to explore the Catskill. fungi in the Arboretum forests.

Mushrooms open up a world

of history, science, incredible facts to boggle the mind. We will discuss the mushrooms we discover: their historic uses, medicinal properties, ecological functions, edibility, and more. Dress appropriately for the weather — we’ll be exploring rain or shine. Members, free; non-members, $10.

Program is limited to 20 participants. Pre-registration is required and can be made by calling 518-589-3903.

CAIRO — South Cairo United Methodist Church, 25 County Route 67, South Cairo, will serve an all you can eat pancake and sausage supper 4:30 p.m. Oct. 19. Includes homemade apple sauce and desserts. Adults, $8; children 6-12, $4; children 5 and younger, free.

ACRA — Paint Your Farm Animal to Support 4-H 2-5 p.m. Oct. 19 at the Agroforestry Resource Center, 6055 Route 23, Acra. Have an afternoon of fun with friends as you immortalize a photo of your favorite farm animal or pet. For $50 you will leave with a very cool, one-of-a-kind painting of an animal you love and have provided support to Columbia and Greene 4-H. To reserve a seat, call 413-205-8346 or go to bershirepaintandsip.com. Be sure to email a photo of your animal to Michelle by Oct. 2 for the Hudson event and Oct. 15 for the Acra event so she can prepare your canvas for you.

Artist Michelle Iglesias will instruct each session, providing personal guidance as you follow her fool-proof steps to create your 16x20 canvas. All painting materials, instruction and donation are included.

Snacks and non-alcohol sips will be available for purchase.

Village, and, breaking into the barn which served as an arsenal, bore off the field piece in triumph.

“Athens reposed in quiet until its slumbers were broken by the echoes of the stolen gun, fired from the height near Brandow’s (Now ‘The ‘Willows’ about half way between the two villages). Then there was hurrying to and fro, tall swearing and threats of vengeance as the infuriated Athenians started in pursuit of the despoilers.”

According to Pinckney, the Athenians were too slow. The gun was deposited in Mackay Croswell’s bar and the carriage in the wagon-house. Before dawn, however, the Athenians located the gun-carriage, harnessed the landlord’s cow and returned it to Athens. Pinckney’s narrative continues: “War was now, of course, fairly inaugurated. Our Village was then placed under martial-law, and young Barent Dubois was constituted

Military Governor… Pickets were stationed at every outlet and inlet to the town, while the drawbridge (Site of today’s Uncle Sam bridge) was opened, and a swivel, loaded with slugs and paving stones, was planted upon it, to repel any attack which might, by possibility be made by the way of Kiskatamanatie (Kiskatom).

All the next day and night the village resounded with the beating of drums, the squealing of fifes, and the ebullitions of patriotism.

“The succeeding morning’s sun ushered in the “Glorious Fourth.” It was a lovely day, and such a celebration was never witnessed in Catskill before or since. “The Gun,” mounted on the axletree of an ox-cart, its muzzle pointed towards Athens, bellowed “from morn till dewy eve,” doubtless striking terror in the hearts of our adversaries; the little swivel chimed to the sharp accompaniment, and firecrackers filled up the intervals.

The day closed, as usual, with a dinner and a drink, and the following morning, “The Gun” was hoisted up into Isaac Dubois’ loft, from which time to the present I have never seen nor heard from it. The war was over, but a long time elapsed before amicable relations were fully re-established between the two villages.”

This piece I have reported on was written on October 23, 1863, the height of the Civil War. The author closes with the following: “Let those who are disposed to sneer at the slight cause which produced this belligerent feeling among neighbors, ask themselves whether the war which is now devastating, depopulating and impoverishing our Country has any nobler and more honorable origin.” Sadly, I believe it most certainly did.

To reach columnist David Dorpfeld, e-mail gchistorian@gmail. com or visit him on Facebook at “Greene County Historian.”

Athens Community Foundation announces grant availability ATHENS — The trustees of the Athens Community Foundation announce the commencement of their annual grant cycle for calendar year 2019. The foundation will disburse $245,000 in this funding cycle.

The trustees encourage all qualifying organizations to apply for funding to support projects, programs, purchases, etc. that will benefit the town/village of Athens and its residents. The objective of the foundation is to fund grant requests that serve the community directly.

Grant applications and submittal instructions can be accessed and obtained from the town’s website (www. townofathensny.com). Applications can be completed electronically, and a hard copy version is available on the website as well.

Seats on the foundation’s advisory board are filled on an annual basis, and there are open positions in 2019.

Advisory board members individually and collectively evaluate all grant applications, and then make funding recommendations to the

foundations’ trustees. Advisory Board members enjoy an opportunity to influence the allocation of available funds in a manner that best serves the community of Athens.

Interested parties are encouraged to obtain information about advisory board participation on the referenced Town of Athens website.

This will be the foundation’s 16th annual round of funding and since its inception, approximately 480 grants, and more than $2.75 million dollars have been awarded.

Applications for Veteran of the Year welcomed CATSKILL — The Greene County Veteran Service Agency is accepting applications for the Veteran of the Year. The annual Greene County Veteran of the Year Ceremony will be held at 10 a.m. Nov. 2 in the Warehouse at the Historic Catskill Point, 1 Main St.,

Catskill. Application packets are available at the Greene County Veteran Service Agency or online at http:// greenegovernment.com/ departments/veterans-service.

Make submissions directly to the Greene County Veterans Service Agency.

Applications should be submitted ASAP. If you have any questions about the application or need any assistance in obtaining military records, call the office or stop in.

For information call the Greene County Veterans Service Agency at 518-943-3703.

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What will my widow’s benefit be?

Dear Rusty: My husband just started receiving Social Security Disability in June. He is diagnosed with a terminal disease that likely he will rapidly succumb to. He will be 65 in October 2019. I turned 62 July 2019.

I was his caregiver when he was at death’s door and was pulled back to 75% full life on immunotherapy. We see him starting to go downhill again; it creeps, then starts moving rapidly with the symptoms. I will be the caregiver again for round 2 that has no brakes to stop it this time — no do-over.

After he passes, when does the disability SS amount stop and what amount starts coming to me in my name as his widow, at my age?

Signed: Survivor under age 65 Dear Survivor: Please know that you have my sympathy for what you

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GLOOR and your husband are going through. Let me at least try to ease your anxiety by answering your Social Security questions.

Your husband’s disability benefit will cease in the month he passes. Although, depending upon the date, he may receive a disability payment for the month he passes (it would be received the following month), that payment, if received, will need to

be returned to Social Security (SS). Social Security will only pay up to the last full month your husband is alive. The funeral home is supposed to notify Social Security of your husband’s passing, but you should verify that they will be doing that. Your benefit as your husband’s survivor will be based upon the SS disability amount your husband was receiving at his death.

Although your survivor benefit will be based upon the amount your husband was receiving, if you take it before you reach your full retirement age (FRA) the survivor benefit will be reduced. Your full retirement age for the widow’s benefit is 66 plus two months (versus your normal FRA of 66 1/2). You have a choice to take the reduced survivor benefit early (before your FRA), or wait until your FRA to claim the full amount your husband

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

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

CATSKILL SILVER LININGS SENIORS CATSKILL — The Catskill Silver Linings Seniors meet at 1 p.m. the second Thursday of the month at the Robert C. Antonelli Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill.

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

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

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

MOUNTAIN TOP GOLDEN AGERS TANNERSVILLE — The Mountain Top Golden Agers meet at 1:30 p.m. the fourth Thursday of the month at Tannersville Village Hall, 1 Park Lane, Tannersville.

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

THANKSGIVING DINNER WINDHAM — Hope Retoration 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.

BAKE SALE CATSKILL — The Greene County Department of Human Services will host a Halloween-themed bake sale will be held 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Oct. 25 in the second floor lobby of the Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill. All proceeds benefit the Greene County Senior Angels Program.

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

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

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

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

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

COXSACKIE — The Alzheimer’s Association holds support group meetings at 6 p.m. the third Thursday of the month at Heermance Memorial Library, 1 Ely St., Coxsackie.

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

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

If it will be more than your survivor benefit, you should make sure to file a “restricted application” for survivor benefits to allow your own benefit to continue to grow. It will grow until you are 70, at which time you would switch from the lower survivor benefit to your own (you get whichever benefit is higher).

Your decision on when to claim the survivor benefit might also be influenced by your plans for working. Since you have not yet reached your normal full retirement age (66 plus six months), any Social Security benefit you claim before that (including your survivor benefit) will be subject to Social Security’s earnings test.

The “earnings limit” for 2019 is $17,640 (changes annually) and if you exceed that, Social Security will take back benefits equal to $1 for every $2 you are over the limit. The earnings

limit will be in effect until you reach your normal full retirement age, at which point it goes away. Once again, you have my sympathy for the difficulties you are experiencing, but fortunately your Social Security widow’s benefit will be available to you when your husband passes.

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

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To send information to be included in Senior Briefs, email to editorial@thedailymail.net; mail to The Daily Mail, Atten: Senior Briefs, One Hudson City Centre, Suite 202, Hudson, NY 12534; fax to 518-828-3870. For information and questions, please call 518-828-1616 ext.

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was collecting at his death. If you claim your widow’s benefit early, the reduction will be about 4.75% for each year earlier than your FRA that you claim it. Your survivor benefit reaches maximum at your widow’s FRA. You must apply for your widow’s benefit in person with Social Security and you should contact your local office by phone first to make an appointment. You can easily find your local SS office contact information at this link: www.ssa.gov/locator.

Taken at age 62, the survivor benefit will be reduced by about 20%. When to claim your survivor benefit might be influenced by whether you are eligible for Social Security benefits from your own lifetime work record. If you are eligible for your own benefit, you should look at what your own benefit will be at age 70.

center before returning home.

Special trips are scheduled periodically.

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

Tuesday: Cairo/Greenville/ Catskill.

Wednesday: Athens/Coxsackie.

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

The trip to Colonie Center will be Dec. 20.

The following is the 2019 trips to Colonie Center. Trips are the third Thursday of the month. The cost is $10. Payment is due at time of departure/boarding. Oct. 17, Nov. 21, Dec. 19. Reservations must be made no later than 3 p.m. of the Wednesday before the trip.

In addition, during snow or ice storms, it may be necessary for us to close our senior service centers because of hazardous driving conditions.

When we close the centers, we also cancel our transportation services for the day, which includes the Shopping Bus. Advance notice/reservation required for all shopping bus transportation. For information or to reserve a seat, call Janet at 518-719-3559.

COMMUNITY THANKSGIVING DINNER 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 518-7193555 and ask to speak to Ken.

PUBLIC HEARING CATSKILL — Thérèse McGee Ward, Executive Director of the Greene County Department of Human Services, announces a series of Public Hearings to review and comment on its 2020 service plan.

These meetings are not only of interest to senior citizens and their families, but also to community agencies and policy makers who have interest, questions or concerns about services in support of the elderly.

The public is invited and encouraged to attend.

A hearing will be held at Tannersville Firehouse, 21 Park Lane, Tannersville, 1:30 p.m. Oct. 24.

CATSKILL — The following is the weekly nutrition menu offered by the Greene County Department of Human Services’ Senior Nutrition Program. Served daily with each meal are bread or alternative with Promise Spread; low fat milk, coffee or tea.

All persons 60 and older and their spouses are invited.

The suggested donation for each meal is $4.

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

Rivertown Senior Center, 39 Second St., Athens; 518945-2700.

Acra Community Center, Old Route 23B, Cairo; 518622-9898.

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

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

Town of Coxsackie Senior Center, Mansion Street,

Coxsackie; 518-731-8901.

OCT. 9 THROUGH OCT. 16 WEDNESDAY: Taco bake with Spanish rice, corn, lima beans and carrots, pumpkin mousse.

THURSDAY: Broccoli and Sweet quiche, fresh salad, red potatoes, cauliflower, angel food cake with strawberries.

FRIDAY: Baked chicken with gravy, mashed potatoes, brussels sprouts, fruited gelatin.

MONDAY: Closed.

TUESDAY: Chicken and biscuits, California mixed vegetables, peaches.

WEDNESDAY: Jaeger Schnitzel with mushroom gravy, boiled potatoes, red cabbage, apple cake.

OCT. 16 THROUGH OCT. 23 WEDNESDAY: Jaeger Schnitzel with mushroom gravy, boiled potatoes, red cabbage, apple cake.

THURSDAY: Seafood scampi, linguine, spinach, lemon pudding.

FRIDAY: Chef’s salad, beet salad, sliced tomatoes, fresh

fruit.

MONDAY: Macaroni and cheese, green beans, stewed tomatoes, pears.

TUESDAY: Crab topped cod, rice, carrots, apple crisp.

WEDNESDAY: Lemon chicken, au gratin potatoes, California mixed vegetables, spice cake.

OCT. 23 THROUGH OCT. 30 WEDNESDAY: Lemon chicken, au gratin potatoes, California mixed vegetables, spice cake.

THURSDAY: Pulled pork, mixed vegetables, wax beans, cole slaw, fresh fruit.

FRIDAY: Pepper steak, fresh salad, baked potato, zucchini, pumpkin pie.

MONDAY: Beer battered fish, rice pilaf, oriental mixed vegetables, chocolate mousse.

TUESDAY: Baked ziti with meatballs, Italian mixed vegetables, pears.

WEDNESDAY: Fresh ham with gravy, scalloped potatoes, applesauce, braised cabbage, peaches.

Adult Learning Institute announces October programs HUDSON — The Adult Learning Institute has announced its programs for October. All programs are held at Columbia-Greene Community College, 4400 Route 23, Hudson. Call the ALI Office at 518828-4181 ext. 3431 or email ali@ sunycgcc.edu. to register.

Open Pinochle Group 1:304 p.m. Oct. 21 in the Faculty/ Staff Lounge with Madeline Dickerson. Whether you’re a novice, an expert or fall somewhere in between, the Open Pinochle Group welcomes you. This group, which generally meets twice a month on the first and third Monday, provides a wonderful opportunity to learn, share and meet new people with a similar interest.

Bridge Group with Bridge Lessons 1:30-4 p.m. Oct. 15, Oct. 22 and Oct. 29 in the Faculty/Staff Lounge. The bridge group generally meets every week and is open to all members of ALI. If you are interested in learning to play bridge or just need to brush up on your skills, a bridge class is offered. Call Barbara in the ALI Office to register for a beginner or refresher class.

Mahjongg 1:30-4 p.m. Oct. 2, Oct. 9 and Oct. 23 in the Faculty/Staff Lounge with Barbara Troy. Mahjongg is a rummy-like game played with tiles rather than cards and the group meets three Wednesdays each month. If you are an

experienced player, just call the office and let Barbara know you will be attending. If you are interested in learning to play Mahjongg, please contact the ALI Office and your name will be placed on the list for the next beginner class.

“Early Athens from Trails to Turnpikes” with Paul Vandenburgh 10:30 a.m.-noon Oct. 10 in the Faculty/Staff Lounge. The story of the development of Athens as a central river community in Greene County and its early roadways and settlement is very much the story of Greene County.

The group will explore the story of these early roadways and the early development of Greene County. Several of the major turnpike roads, the Old Post or King’s Road and some ancient but less prominent highways will be discussed.

Exploring Your Family History with Glenn Fisher 1-2 p.m., 2-3 p.m. or 3-4 p.m. Oct. 14 in the Faculty/Staff Lounge or Oct. 16 in ALI Office, Room 103. Learn about your family history, local history and/ or cultural heritage without expensive online subscriptions, expense or travel by scheduling a consultation with ALI member Glenn Fisher. Exploring family history should go beyond just constructing a family tree filled with names and dates, but should rather be a study of the individual stories

and collected heritage that these names and place represent. Proper study is generally time consuming, expensive and needs a high degree of research skills. Advance registration is required as this program is restricted to one person per session. One-time trial consultation for non ALI members is also encouraged.

Listen and Learn: “Mah Jongg: The Art of the Game”

by Ann Israel 10:30 a.m.noon Oct. 24 in the Faculty/ Staff Lounge. Israel will present some highlights from her book, “Mah Jongg: The Art of the Game,” along with a brief explanation about how she happened to become involved with the game. There will be time for questions at the end of the presentation. Listen and Learn is open to the public. Call to reserve.

Collette Tours 2020 Trip “Shades of Ireland” with Colby Yeaton 10:30 a.m.-noon Oct. 31 in the Faculty/Staff Lounge.

Business Development Manager for Upstate and Eastern NY ALI is once again partnering with Collette Tours to offer a “Shades of Ireland” trip Oct. 3, 2020, through Oct. 12, 2020.

Learn how you can travel to Ireland with the Adult Learning Institute. This trip is also open to the entire community. Tell your friends and family.

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for poor management.

“Although recognizing that facility replacement is important, the commission’s paramount concern remains with the management and operation of the current facility, which in recent years has deteriorated to the detriment of inmate and staff safety,” according to the report.

The new facility is an entirely different design, Groden said.

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rule while advocates are scrambling to dispel misunderstandings about the policy change to avoid what could become a public health crisis within immigrant communities.

In addition, the White House continued to focus on stricter immigration enforcement determined by public benefits use with a presidential proclamation Friday that would bar immigrants who cannot prove they can afford health care from entering the U.S. “If families are backing off of these programs that they might need because of fear of jeopardizing their immigration status, they’re not getting these critical services they need to thrive or feed their families or go to the doctor,” said Dulce Gonzalez, a research analyst at the Health Policy Center of the Urban Institute who studied the impact of the public charge rule.

“It’s not just affecting families in the short term,” she continued. “In the long term, you have a spillover effect into other communities.”

‘A WEALTH TEST’ He can’t remember the last time he slept through the night.

That’s what an immigrant man told his physician, said Abbey Sussell, the public charge fellow at the New York Immigration Coalition. “‘I can’t sleep at night because I’m so afraid of what’s going to happen to me and my family — I don’t know what to

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When asked why the town hired Capezza, she referred questions to Capezza’s office.

Capezza did not respond to requests for comment.

Town Supervisor Kristin Tompkins also did not respond to requests for comment.

Cross recalled the events of 2017.

“The FBI came to a board meeting to issue their subpoenas for records from the town,” he said. “It was the talk of the town the next morning.”

Chris Baker, president of the state Emergency Management Association said he has not been called to testify.

Baker assisted with Prattsville’s recovery for five days in 2011 and was interviewed by The Windham Journal in 2013.

“I have had no contact with them,” Baker said. “I was there to provide assistance and logistical support to get them set in a direction. That’s our job. And we get to a point where we pull out. We don’t have anything to do with funding.”

Chris Holmes, with the state Office of Emergency Management, was also interviewed in 2013.

Holmes no longer works with the agency and could not be reached for comment.

Instead of being on three floors, the jail is on one floor.

The facility on 80 Bridge St. in Catskill used the less preferred method of indirect supervision, which required one correctional officer for every 12 inmates, Groden said.

“Now we can have one CO per pod,” Groden said.

The new jail will have male pods at 32 and 12 beds each and a female pod at 16.

Direct supervision has the correctional officers working directly within the pods, Groden said.

The new protocols that the

transition team comes up with will then have to be approved by the Commission, Groden said.

Legislator Michael Bulich, R-Catskill, did not approve of renting the trailer, he said at last week’s Public Safety Committee meeting. “[COC] does not require us to have it,” he said.

The Commission has indicated that without the trailer, the county’s move into the new facility will be delayed, Legislature Chairman Patrick Linger, R-New Baltimore, said.

“Are they aware we have an

election and new administration coming in?” Bulich said.

Linger did not think the Commission was concerned with that.

“I don’t like the idea of having that trailer there either,” Linger said.

When asked why the transition team could not use the temporary processing center on Mansion Street in Coxsackie, Groden said there was no office space.

The building is being rented for three years, with $3,800 per month rent for the first year, $4,200 per month the second

year and $4,300 per month the third.

Groden expects the trailer will be on-site in November.

“The substantial completion date [for the jail] is January 2021,” Groden said.

Substantial completion means that the jail personnel can begin moving into the building while final punch list items are completed, Groden said.

The Commission will do a round of inspections after contractors are finished, Groden said.

The county expects to begin

accepting inmates at the new facility in July 2021, Groden said.

Demolition of the former jail and the sheriff’s office looms on the horizon. The historic carriage house on the property will remain intact.

“The state Environmental Quality Review is at least 30 days away,” Deputy Administrator Warren Hart said last week. The review needs to be complete before the county can demolish the buildings.

“Then it will be at least four weeks for the bid package,” he said.

do about these decision,’” Sussell recalled the physician relaying to her.

“If you’re exhausted and can’t function at work and aren’t healthy, then you can’t be a productive member of our society,” Sussell said.

This man is one of 26 million people who are expected to be affected by the public charge rule, unenrolling from their programs out of fear.

Public charge is a test in certain visa and green card applications to determine if someone is likely to become dependent on the government. The test, which has been a part of U.S. immigration policy for over 100 years, looks at multiple factors to make this determination: income, health, employment, education — and public benefits used.

“Not one factor alone would make someone fail the public charge test, but it’s a holistic view,” Sussell said. “The underlying positive factor that will help someone pass the public charge test is having a high income, which is why some folks have referred to it as a wealth test.”

The public charge test, which does not apply to refugees, asylum seekers or victims of domestic violence, used to only penalize those who used cash assistance or institutionalization for long-term care federally funded by Medicaid.

Now, the Trump administration has expanded the list of benefits that can be considered part of someone’s public charge test to include the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP), subsidized and public housing and non-emergency,

federally funded Medicaid. In addition, affidavits of financial responsibility from immigrants’ sponsors no longer carry the same weight in the test.

Talks about changing public rule first started a year ago, and although the finalized version was not published until August of this year, the impacts of the chatter were immediate.

According to a study from the Urban Institute, one in seven non-citizen immigrants reported dropping out of a public benefits program in the past year out of fear they would be impacted by the new public charge — even when they didn’t have to.

“A lot of researchers surmise that there’s this chilling effect among immigrants eligible for benefits,” Gonzalez said. “That was evident in the interviews we conducted, where we saw families who had naturalized citizens or already had a green card reporting that they stopped participating, which was kind of scary.”

Gonzalez’s team found that Latinos were more likely to drop out of benefits than their white or black counterparts. Among lower income immigrants, the unenrollment rate was 20 percent. And between SNAP, Medicaid and subsidized housing, the benefit most immigrants chose to drop out of was SNAP. “The rule is intentionally confusing and pushes immigrants to drop out of benefits they don’t need to,” Sussell said.

“Many folks with green cards are dropping out of benefits, dropping their children out of benefits when they don’t need to, dropping out of benefits like

school lunches — that is the real impact of the rule even though there’s a real narrow group of people affected.”

Johnson Newspapers contacted the Department of Social Services for Columbia, Greene, Jefferson, Genesee and St. Lawrence counties. Greene County was the only one who responded.

“I’m being told it would affect less than 100 (SNAP) cases that will be closed based on this rule,” said Kira Pospesel, commissioner for the Greene County DSS. “Overall numbers, the State was thinking 34,574 households would become ineligible.”

The New York State Department of Health did not respond to questions about how many immigrants have been dropping out of their public health care programs since public charge was first being discussed.

“The NYS Department of Health, in collaboration with immigration and healthcare advocates across the state, has been working to address misinformation and fear inspired by rhetoric around the Federal public charge rules,” spokesperson Erin Hammond wrote in an email.

Out of 25 school districts in the Hudson Valley, Western New York and North Country that Johnson Newspapers contacted, nine responded and all said they had not noticed a significant impact on their immigrant children populations.

However, Heuvelton CSD Superintendent Jesse Coburn pointed out that in regards to free and reduced-price lunches, any numbers today aren’t the

best for comparison because of a grace period at the start of every school year that allows “carry overs” from the previous year to remain enrolled in the program before resubmitting paperwork.

The impacts of dropping out of any public benefits, whether or not they will actually contribute to public charge, are drastic across the board.

“It’s so important that folks are able to be in public benefits programs because they are able to contribute to society,” Sussell said. “When you have your children fed, when you’re able to go to the doctor and be healthy, you’re able to show up to your job and be a productive member of society. You’re able to work within your community better, and these programs are vital to that.”

Long Island, Hudson Valley, Buffalo, Syracus, all five boroughs.

The New York Immigration Coalition has visited each of these areas to host informational town halls and forums for immigrants on what public charge is, who will be impacted and where to seek legal counsel.

“We’re trying to combat the fear by addressing the complexities,” Sussell said. “There’s a lot of misinformation.”

According to the Urban Institute study, nearly 63 percent of immigrant adults had heard of the then-proposed public charge rule in December — but most said they were confused or misinformed about the rule.

By dispelling misconceptions about the rule, the NYIC and

other organizations can stop the bleeding — immigrants dropping out of benefits at high rates — while their attorney general teammates fight public charge in the courts.

In December, 24 attorneys general signed a letter of concern regarding the then-proposed rule, saying that it “suggests that the United States is no longer a land of opportunity that welcomes ambitious but modest earners” and “would harm the very populations (assistance) programs were designed to help.”

There are currently seven lawsuits against public charge, including one from New York Attorney General Letitia James and another lawsuit on behalf of 13 states.

“If the rule is enforced next week, New Yorkers – citizens and non-citizens alike – will be adversely impacted.

Healthcare premiums will rise, and children will needlessly go hungry,” James said in a statement Monday. “That’s why we are seeking an immediate halt to the implementation of this misguided rule and will continue to pursue every legal tool available to permanently stop it.”

If you have a question about whether public charge will impact you, call the Office for New Americans hotline at 1-800-5667636.

Massarah Mikati covers the New York State Legislature and immigration for Johnson Newspaper Corp. Email her at mmikati@columbiagreenemedia. com, or find her on Twitter @ massarahmikati.

The county assisted Prattsville with its recovery efforts for the first two years after the storm, Heck said.

“We are program administrators,” he said. “We helped to administer programs. The county had a couple. We made sure funds were disbursed appropriately.”

When asked if there was any particular reason the county helped manage Prattsville’s recovery funding, Heck said no.

“We assisted them as we assisted other municipalities,” he said.

The controversy around the flood funding began when questions were raised in 2013 about former Town Supervisor Kory O’Hara hiring relatives and friends for flood relief positions.

Kory’s brother Kipp O’Hara and his friend Michael “BJ” Murray were hired as a debris monitors and paid $2,500 for the first two weeks after the storm, according to Daily Mail archives.

“I actually developed a spreadsheet to see what the cost of our town employees was, with benefits,” Chase said in the 2013 interview. “Each of the town’s employees was earning over $30 per hour including their benefits.

“We didn’t want to get into a situation of having to pay timeand-a-half if they were hired hourly. Since both Kipp and BJ

worked close to 100 hours during the first two weeks, the decision to pay them a flat salary of $2,500 was made using the logic that it was close enough to $30 per hour.

“By the third week, we established a regular 50-hour work week which was the reason we lowered the weekly salary to $1,500. They were considered temporary positions with no options for benefits. As salaried employees, they were not eligible for overtime.

“Kipp was done before Thanksgiving. BJ stayed on longer but his position changed in the weeks following. We had restructured his pay from a weekly salary of $1,500 to an hourly rate of $20 per hour with no benefits, when the need for emergency services was no longer required.”

Kipp O’Hara received $13,700 for the period from the storm to the present while Murray, a one-time employee at O’Hara’s service station, received $35,440, according to town records.

“Everybody knew Kipp was my brother, but the way I looked

at it was we had to do what we had to do,” Kory O’Hara said in the 2013 interview. “This wasn’t just some flood. We’ve had a lot of those in Prattsville. This was a monster.”

Kory’s cousin Thomas Briggs was hired to clean two grinder pumps in the town’s wastewater treatment system that were broken by Irene.

The job was put out to bid and Briggs submitted the low bid, which included the purchase of some sections of culvert pipe he had in stock, O’Hara said in 2013.

Kory O’Hara did not respond to requests for comment on this story.

An independent audit was performed on the financial statements of the town for the year ending Dec. 31, 2011, with its findings released in the fall of 2012, according to The Daily Mail.

The audit was necessary because Prattsville spent $500,000 in federal funds in one 12-month period, a mandate that applies to any municipality.

The auditor’s report noted

that a complete accounting could not be undertaken since “substantially all of the town’s books of original entry...as well as substantially all corroborating evidence in support of the financial statements, were destroyed by Hurricane Irene and subsequent flooding which also destroyed the town’s headquarters.”

The audit further states: “We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion. In our opinion, the town of Prattsville, New York, complied, in all material respects, with the requirements referred to above that are applicable to each of its major federal programs.”

Vernon Churchill, a partner in the accounting firm that conducted the audit, said in a followup interview, “There are limitations in terms of what we

can express an opinion upon.

We do have a positive opinion on the federal money which we were able to fully access.”

A second audit was performed by the state Comptroller’s Office covering the period from Jan. 1, 2011, through June 29, 2012, and released in March 2013, according to the Daily Mail archives.

A spokesman for the Comptroller’s Office said examiners went to Prattsville for the second audit in response to allegations made by citizens that officials were knowingly mishandling flood funds.

The spokesman did not reveal the names of the individuals, but said all allegations are taken seriously and treated confidentially.

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ICC makes Mohonasen ninth shutout victim Columbia-Greene Media

VALATIE — In a very physical contest on a wet and gloomy night, Edgar Gomez and Joe Desmonie got the goals to give Ichabod Crane a 2-0 victory over Mohonasen in a key Colonial Council Division I boys soccer match on Monday.

Ichabod Crane is now 10-2, a half-game in front of Mohonasen, which is 10-3.

Logan Groat was sent through with a beautiful pass and was bearing down on goal. Instead of shooting into the onrushing Mohonasen keeper,

Groat coolly laid the ball across where Gomez was alone at the far post for the goal.

The first half would end with Groat, Gomez, Desmonie having multiple opportunities on goal and Mohonasen threatening the Riders goals with some dangerous corner and free kick chances.

The second half saw more end to end action despite the rain.

Mohansen’s best chance of the half would come when Kyle Schendler hit a screamer toward the far See ROUNDUP B3

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New York Jets running back Le’Veon Bell (26) runs with the ball past Philadelphia Eagles defensive end Brandon Graham (55) at Lincoln Financial Field.

Le’Veon Bell doing all he can to help Jets Neil Best Newsday

Saquon Barkley’s clock is ticking, like that of all NFL running backs, which is one reason Giants fans were eager to have the team get on with its future by inserting Daniel Jones at quarterback sooner rather than later.

All good so far. Next season, Barkley still will be relatively affordable, only 23 and ready to see what he and Jones can do together, even if much of this autumn is spent on Jones learning and Barkley getting his ankle right.

But there is a sadder situation unfolding down the hall at MetLife Stadium, where an older, more expensive

back currently is being wasted on the worst offense in the NFL. Sure, it is difficult to feel sorry for Le’Veon Bell after he forced his way out of Pittsburgh by sitting out 2018 and then got a generous fouryear, $52 million contract from the Jets.

But it also is difficult not to sympathize with his plight after games such as Sunday’s, in which he was asked to carry the load for an offense with a practice squad quarterback, porous line and lackluster receiving corps.

This was supposed to be an up-and-coming team See JETS B3

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Coxsackie-Athens’ Matt Buhrke (15) and Maple Hill’s Eli Charlebois battle for possession of the ball as C-A’s Geddy Williams (9) looks on during a recent Patroon Conference match. Coxsackie-Athens will host its first Fall Classic tournament on Saturday and Monday.

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COXSACKIE — The Coxsackie-Athens boys soccer team will be hosting the Inaugural Fall Soccer Classic on Saturday and Monday.

Five schools will be participating over the Columbus Day Weekend, competing for the Soccer Championship Trophy.

First round games will be hosted on Saturday with the championship/consolation matchups on Monday afternoon.

Along with C-A, schools competing are Tamarac, Hudson, Ravena and Johnstown.

“Our goal is to make this an annual event in which any or all fall sports can partake in to help build a school-community-sports event,” Coxsackie-athens boys soccer coach Curt Wilkinson said.

“This weekend our boys soccer team will be able to display their hardworking and dedication to friends, family, and the community. The more teams that participate the bigger and better it will become.”

There will be other activities going on in addition to the soccer matches.

“We will have a few kids activities as well,” Wilkinson said. “We’ll have a bounce house, face painting, and a PK

shootout to help keep younger kids occupied. We will also be raising money for a Coxsackie-Athens student that was diagnosed this past summer with a rare bone cancer. Our funds from the bounce house and face painting will go to her and her family.”

Wilkinson said putting the event together has been a team effort.

“I’d like to thank our great family support system,” Wilkinson said. ”Our program is blessed with great parents and without the help of the many that have volunteered their time, none of this would be possible.”

Yankees finish off Twins, reach ALCS Erik Boland Newsday

MINNEAPOLIS — No sweat.

When it comes to New York Yankees-Minnesota Twins in October, that’s the way it always is.

The Yankees completed a three-game sweep of their personal postseason punching bag — and regular season, too, truth be told — with an efficient 5-1 victory in front of a sellout crowd of 41,121 fans at Target Field who probably have grown accustomed to the disappointment.

The Yankees will start the ALCS on Saturday either at the top-seeded Houston Astros or home against the wild-card Tampa Bay Rays.

Tampa Bay stayed alive in that series earlier Monday with a 10-3 victory in Game 3.

Behind four scoreless innings from Luis Severino, a standout game on both sides of the ball from Gleyber Torres and an excellent defensive game overall, the Yankees won their 13th straight postseason game against the Twins, who have lost 16 straight postseason games overall.

Torres homered in the second and saved a run later in the game with an outstanding stop to end the fifth inning. Didi Gregorius had a pair of RBI singles, Brett Gardner singled home a run and defensive replacement Cameron Maybin hit a towering home run to leftfield in the ninth.

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New York Yankees players celebrate with relief pitcher Aroldis Chapman (54) after defeating the Minnesota Twins to win the 2019 ALDS at Target Field on Monday.

The Yankees, now 102-37 vs. Minnesota since 2002, including the postseason, also swept the Twins in the ALDS in 2009 and 2010

and beat them in the last three games of the 2004 ALDS. After Maybin’s homer and Gregorius’ RBI

single made it 5-1 in the ninth, Aroldis Chapman allowed a single by Marwin Gonzalez and walked C.J. Cron. He struck out Max Kepler before Gregorius laid out to his left to stab Jorge Polanco’s line drive, likely robbing him of an extra-base hit up the alley. He then struck out Nelson Cruz looking to send the Yankees to the ALCS. Minnesota went 1-for-12 with runners in scoring position and left 11 runners on base.

After setting an MLB record with 307 home runs in the regular season — one more than the Yankees — the Twins managed only seven runs in the three ALDS games.

Severino, who missed most of spring training and didn’t make his regular-season debut until Sept. 17, scattered four hits and walked two in his outing, striking out four.

He gave way to a well-rested bullpen that dominated for a third straight game in the series, with Aaron Boone rolling out Tommy Kahnle, Adam Ottavino, Chad Green, Zack Britton and Chapman. Britton allowed a home run

by Eddie Rosario with none out in the eighth and then left with an apparent ankle injury.

Jake Odorizzi, who came in 7-9 with a 4.71 ERA in his career against the Yankees, including 1-1 with an 8.10 ERA this season, was OK but not quite good enough. He allowed two See YANKEES B3

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Major League Baseball POSTSEASON WILDCARD SHOWDOWN (Best-of-1) American League Wednesday, Oct. 2: Tampa Bay 5, Oakland 1 National League Tuesday, Oct. 1: Washington 4, Milwaukee 3 DIVISIONAL PLAYOFF (Best-of-5; x-if necessary) American League Houston 2, Tampa Bay 1 Friday, Oct. 4: Houston 6, Tampa Bay 2 Saturday, Oct. 5: Houston 3, Tampa Bay 1 Monday, Oct. 7: Tampa Bay 10, Houston 3 Tuesday, Oct. 8: Houston at Tampa Bay, 4:15 p.m. x-Thursday, Oct. 10: Tampa Bay at Houston, 8:37 p.m.

New York 3, Minnesota 0 Friday, Oct. 4: New York 10, Minnesota 4 Saturday, Oct. 5: New York 8, Minnesota 2 Monday, Oct. 7: New York 5, Minnesota 1 National League Los Angeles 2, Washington 2 Thursday, Oct. 3: Los Angeles 6, Washington 0 Friday, Oct. 4: Washington 4, Los Angeles 2 Sunday, Oct. 6: Los Angeles 10, Washington 4 Monday, Oct. 7: Washington 6, Los Angeles 1 x-Wednesday, Oct. 9: Washington at Los Angeles, 8:37 p.m.

Atlanta 2, St. Louis 2 Thursday, Oct. 3: St. Louis 7, Atlanta 6 Friday, Oct. 4: Atlanta 3, St. Louis 0 Sunday, Oct. 6: Atlanta 3, St. Louis 1 Monday, Oct. 7: St. Louis 5, Atlanta 4 Wednesday, Oct. 9: St. Louis at Atlanta, 5:02 p.m.

LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) American League Saturday, Oct. 12: New York at Houston OR Tampa Bay at New York Sunday, Oct. 13: New York at Houston OR Tampa Bay at New York Tuesday, Oct. 15: Houston at New York OR New York at Tampa Bay Wednesday, Oct. 16: Houston at New York OR New York at Tampa Bay x-Thursday, Oct. 17: Houston at New York OR New York at Tampa Bay x-Saturday, Oct. 19: New York at Houston OR Tampa Bay at New York x-Sunday, Oct. 20: New York at Houston OR Tampa Bay at New York National League Friday, Oct. 11: Atlanta-St. Louis winner at Los Angeles OR Washington at Atlanta-St. Louis winner Saturday, Oct. 12: Atlanta-St. Louis winner at Los Angeles OR Washington at Atlanta-St. Louis winner Monday, Oct. 14: Los Angeles at Atlanta-St. Louis winner OR Atlanta-St. Louis winner at Washington Tuesday, Oct. 15: Los Angeles at Atlanta-St. Louis winner OR Atlanta-St. Louis winner at Washington x-Wednesday, Oct. 16: Los Angeles at AtlantaSt. Louis winner OR Atlanta-St. Louis winner at Washington x-Friday, Oct. 18: Atlanta-St. Louis winner at Los Angeles OR Washington at Atlanta-St. Louis winner x-Saturday, Oct. 19: Atlanta-St. Louis winner at Los Angeles OR Washington at Atlanta-St. Louis winner WORLD SERIES (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) Tuesday, Oct. 22: at American League Wednesday, Oct. 23: at American League Friday, Oct. 25: at National League Saturday, Oct. 26: at National League x-Sunday, Oct. 27: at National League x-Tuesday, Oct. 29: at American League x-Wednesday, Oct. 30: at American League

Cardinals 5, Braves 4 (10) ATL AB R HBI AcunaJr cf 5 0 4 0 Albies 2b 4 1 1 3 Freeman 1b 5 0 0 0 Dnldsn 3b 3 0 0 0 Mrkkis lf 40 10 Joyce rf 10 00 Jackson rp 0 0 0 0 O’Day rp 0 0 0 0 Crvlli ph 00 00 Fried pr 00 00 Newcmb rp 0 0 0 0 Hchvrri ph 1 0 0 0 Tomlin rp 0 0 0 0 Greene rp 0 0 0 0 Ortega ph 1 0 0 0 Teheran rp 0 0 0 0 McCann c 5 0 0 0 Swanson ss 3 2 2 0 Keuchel sp 1 0 0 0 Duvall lf 31 01 Totals 36 4 8 4

STL AB R HBI Fowler cf 5 0 0 0 Wong 2b 5 1 1 0 Gldshmt 1b 4 2 3 1 Ozuna lf 5 2 2 2 Molina c 4 0 1 2 Carpntr 3b 3 0 0 0 Edman rf 3 0 2 0 DeJong ss 4 0 0 0 Hudson sp 2 0 0 0 Webb rp 0 0 0 0 Gallgos rp 0 0 0 0 Brebbia rp 0 0 0 0 Miller rp 0 0 0 0 Arozrn ph 1 0 0 0 Helsley rp 0 0 0 0 Martinz rp 0 0 0 0 Wieters ph 1 0 0 0 Mikolas rp 0 0 0 0

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E—Carpenter 1, Markakis 1. LOB—St. Louis 7, Atlanta 9. 2B—Acuna Jr. (3), Edman (2), Goldschmidt (4), D.Swanson (3), Ko.Wong (2). 3B— Acuna Jr. (1). HR—Albies (1), Goldschmidt (2), Ozuna 2 (2).

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4 1 0 0 0 3 1

3 0 0 0 0 1 1

3 0 0 0 0 1 1

1 1 0 0 0 0 1

4 3 0 0 1 3 0

Dk.Hudson 4 2/3 5 4 T.Webb 2/3 1 0 Gallegos 1/3 0 0 Brebbia 2/3 1 0 A.Miller 2/3 0 0 Helsley 1 0 0 C.Martinez 1 1 0 Mikolas W, 1-0 1 0 0

1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

2 0 2 0 2 0 0 0

2 2 1 1 1 3 0 0

St. Louis

Inherited runners-scored—L.Jackson 1-0, O’Day 1-0, Brebbia 3-0, Gallegos 1-0, A.Miller 1-0.

Umpires—Home, Jim Wolf; First, Tom Hallion; Second, Ed Hickox; Third, Pat Hoberg.

T—4:06. A—42,203 (46,861)

Rays 10, Astros 3 HOU AB R HBI Springr cf 5 0 0 0 Altuve 2b 4 1 2 1 Brantly lf 4 0 0 0 Bregmn 3b 3 1 1 0 Alvarez dh 4 1 2 0 Gurriel 1b 4 0 2 2 Correa ss 4 0 0 0 Chrnos c 3 0 0 0 Reddick rf 2 0 0 0 Diaz ph 20 00 Totals 35 3 7 3

TB AB R HBI Diaz 3b 100 0 Duffy ph 4 1 2 0 Meadws lf 5 1 1 2 Pham dh 4 0 1 1 Choi 1b 411 1 Garcia rf 4 2 1 0 Lowe 2b 4 1 2 1 d’Arnud c 2 1 0 1 Kirmair cf 4 1 1 3 Adames ss 3 2 3 1 Totals 35 101210

Houston Tampa Bay

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E—Bregman 1, Ya.Diaz 1. LOB—Tampa Bay 6, Houston 7. 2B—W.Adames (1), Altuve (2), Y.Alvarez (2), Meadows (2). HR—W.Adames (1), Altuve (2), Choi (1), Kiermaier (1), Lowe (1).

IP H R ER BB SO Houston

Greinke L, 0-1 3 2/3 5 6 Rondon 0 1 1 Miley 2 2/3 4 3 Je.Smith 2/3 0 0 James 1 2 0

6 1 2 0 0

1 0 1 0 1

5 0 1 0 1

1 2 0 0 0

2 0 0 0 0

9 1 0 2 1

Tampa Bay

Morton W, 2-0 Roe B.McKay Drake Poche

5 2/3 1/3 2 1

3 3 0 1 0

1 2 0 0 0

Inherited runners-scored—Miley 2-2, Rondon 1-0, Je.Smith 2-1, B.McKay 1-0. HBP—D’Arnaud (by Greinke).

Umpires—Home, Mark Wegner; First, James Hoye; Second, Jerry Meals; Third, D.J. Reyburn.

T—3:37. A—32,251 (42,735)

Nationals 6, Dodgers 1 LAD AB R HBI Pdrson rf 4 0 0 0 Muncy 1b 4 0 0 0 Turner 3b 4 1 1 1 Bllingr cf 4 0 1 0 Seager ss 4 0 1 0 Beaty lf 30 10 Freese ph 1 0 1 0 Lux 2b 30 00

WAS AB R HBI Turner ss 5 2 3 0 Eaton rf 100 0 Rendon 3b 2 1 1 3 Soto lf 300 0 Kndrick 2b 4 1 2 0 Doolttl rp 0 0 0 0 Hudson rp 0 0 0 0 Zimrmn 1b 4 1 2 3

Smith c 20 Hill sp 10 Maeda rp 0 0 Pollock ph 1 0 Urias rp 00 Baez rp 00 Strplng rp 0 0 Taylor ph 1 0 May rp 00 Totals 32 1

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LA Dodgers Washington

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29 610 6

IP H R ER BB SO LA Dodgers

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2 1 3 2 1 1

1 0 3 1 1 0

1 0 3 1 1 0

4 0 0 1 0 0

2 2 0 0 0 1

Scherzer W, 1-0 7 4 1 Doolittle 1 1/3 0 0 Dn.Hudson 2/3 1 0

1 0 0

3 0 0

7 0 1

Washington

Inherited runners-scored—P.Baez 2-2, Maeda 3-0. WP—Stripling (1).

Umpires—Home, Doug Eddings; First, Alfonso Marquez; Second, Tripp Gibson III; Third, Will Little.

T—3:24. A—36,847 (41,888)

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Edmonton at NY Islanders, 7 p.m.

Winnipeg at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.

Dallas at Washington, 7 p.m.

Anaheim at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.

San Jose at Nashville, 8 p.m.

Los Angeles at Calgary, 9 p.m.

Boston at Vegas, 10 p.m.

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LOB—Washington 7, Los Angeles 7. 2B—C. Seager (1), T.Turner (3). HR—J.Turner (2), Zimmerman (1). SB—Bellinger (1).

R.Hill Maeda J.Urias L, 0-1 P.Baez Stripling D.May

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Monday’s game Detroit at Green Bay, 8:15 p.m.

Moments like Ryan Zimmerman’s 10-minute-goose-bump home run at Nationals Park on Monday night in Game 4 of the National League Division Series are why baseball is played and why we watch it for a lifetime.

The oft-injured Zimmerman, 35, has been unseen for months at a time this season. Years removed from his turn as Face of the Franchise, he has been consigned by many to the sport’s scrap heap.

But in the fifth inning, with the Nats clinging to a 2-1 lead in an elimination game against the august Los Angeles Dodgers, Zimmerman blasted a monstrously high flyball that momentarily disappeared from sight at lighttower level. The drive seemed to hang, blocked and battered by a flag-snapping crosswind from left to right field that should have knocked it down into a fielder’s glove.

But when Zimmerman’s threerun blast landed well onto the center field batter’s-eye grass, it was the Dodgers who were knocked to the deck, trailing 5-1 and on the way to a 6-1 loss that forced a decisive Game 5 in Los Angeles on Wednesday.

Asked after his heroics about the chance that this might have been the last game he ever plays in Nationals Park, Zimmerman began to repeat his pregame quote on the same subject: “I plan on playing more games. I feel like a lot of people think I’m not going to play more games [ever again].

But I feel good. I feel like . . . “ Max Scherzer, sitting on the postgame interview podium, cut Zim off, snapping sarcastically, “I really don’t think these are his last games. Only you think these are his last games.”

Talk about a contract push!

Let the record show that, after a fist pump at first base, Zimmerman ran the bases with hard determination still locked on his face - perhaps showing how desperately he felt the need to deliver after striking out in his first two at-bats. The hang time for his 414-foot blast was a preposterous 6.1 seconds, long enough for Trea Turner to round the bases twice.

OK, long enough for a fast man to get from home to second base, or Atlanta’s Ronald Acuña Jr. to get out of the batter’s box.

As if to underline the D.C. mythology of Zimmerman’s blow, Dodgers power hitter Max Muncy crushed what looked like a long home run to center in the eighth inning, a shot that sent Michael A. Taylor to the wall, looking up, before he had to dash in a few feet to make the catch.

“I was just hoping it didn’t hit that wall of wind,” GM Mike Rizzo said. “But when Zim hits ‘em, they stay hit.”

Manager Dave Martinez started laughing and imitated his own “blowing” with his mouth in the

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Washington Nationals’ Ryan Zimmerman hit a three-run homer in the fifth inning on Monday.

dugout, trying to help the ball.

“He’s a beast,” fellow Nats first baseman Matt Adams explained.

As usual, Zimmerman tried to be modest - always the same approach, don’t try to do too much: “Got on top of a high fastball - finally.” But then he said, “This is what we live for. . . . No, I can’t explain how those moments feel.

You can’t replicate it anywhere else. But afterwards, you take some time to cherish it.”

Others will, too.

This game, setting up a do-ordie meeting with the possibility of the wild-card winners beating the 106-win, back-to-back pennant-winning Dodgers, had other hair-raising moments. In the seventh inning, an exhausted Scherzer faced left-handed slugger Joc Pederson as Martinez stayed nailed to the top dugout step, even though the Nats’ lone lefty, Sean Doolittle, was warm.

Pederson lashed a bases-clearing, three-run double down the right field line - at least that’s what they may tell you in L.A. Right field umpire Ted Barrett called it foul.

Replay showed that it was foul by perhaps a half an inch. If Barrett had pointed “fair,” would there have been enough evidence to reverse the call? We’ll never know.

We do know that Scherzer’s next pitch, his 109th, produced a groundout, ending the ace’s night at seven innings of three-hit, onerun, seven-strikeout ball. And with that hairbreadth escape, the last big Dodgers push died.

“You never know what might’ve happened,” said Dodgers manager Dave Roberts, “but, shoot, Max threw the heck out of the ball.”

Scherzer reduced that splitsecond and fraction of an inch to the fact that he caught “a break with Pederson.”

The implications of this Stay in the Fight victory, which had most of the crowd of 36,847 standing

for much more than an hour, from the moment Zimmerman’s homer landed, could have lasting ramifications. Why? Because the Dodgers, the class of the National League, to the despair of their fan base are suddenly in deep Dodger Blue doo-doo. The pressure meter in Chavez Ravine has jumped higher than the San Gabriel Mountains.

The Dodgers have a 6-foot-5, 235-pound problem, one with a 0.64 career ERA in the postseason. The new Hollywood horror flick - “Nightmare on Vin Scully Avenue” - is scheduled to open Wednesday, and the lead will be played by Stephen Strasburg, once described by teammate Jayson Werth as “just a big, hairy, scary furry animal.”

The Dodgers, for all their money, all their tradition and, at times, all their haughty vanity, have found more ways than their oldest fan has fingers and toes to avoid winning a World Series since 1988.

Now, from the 101 to the Slauson Cutoff, from the hourslong traffic jams on Interstate 5 to the smoggy vastness of the city’s banal suburban sprawl, one name will be on every baseball tongue: Strasburg, who fanned 10 Dodgers in six innings of Game 2 on just two days’ rest after winning the wild-card game with three innings of relief.

What’s Mr. Hairy Scary going to do on full rest?

“We got another game to play,” said Strasburg, almost smiling, and adding that after his relief stint six days ago, he’s finally back on his regular routine and feels “real good” for a start on full rest.

Asked why he has done so well in the playoffs, Strasburg said, “You train for this, dream of this, from the time you’re a kid. You want the chance to see how your stuff stacks up.”

The Dodgers counter with their

own large and menacing righthander, Walker Buehler, one of the few pitchers with stuff roughly comparable to Strasburg’s.

He held the Nats to one hit in six scoreless innings in a Game 1 victory.

This matchup is the right meeting to decide which team advances to the NL Championship Series. The Dodgers were utterly dominant all season, but the Nats were almost as imposing over their final 112 games, when they went 74-38 and outscored their foes by a staggering 184 runs, just a few less than the Dodgers’ margin in the same span.

If this series now has an extra twist, it’s that the Nats may have two relievers, Doolittle and Daniel Hudson, who are not overmatched by the Dodgers’ lineup.

With an off-day Tuesday, both should be primed for Game 5.

For 137 days, the Nationals have shared huge grins and secret handshakes, group hugs and shimmy shakes, victories and glee. What once looked like a lost season - and maybe even a losing year by a team without a compass - suddenly turned into a monthafter-month dugout dance party.

After 93 regular season wins, a wild-card game comeback victory and now a pair of comebacks to even this NLDS, the music still hasn’t stopped for these Nats. The fight they’ve stayed in for so long will now go the distance with the Dodgers. The Nats have been in this Game 5 spot three previous times in the past seven seasons but never as the underdog, using every trick of pitching staff management to neutralize the Dodgers’ obvious advantages.

As the Nats took the field for the ninth, the stadium PA system blasted the Beastie Boys: “You’ve got to fight / For your right / To party!”

The fight goes on for a few more days. The party could follow.

Cardinals even series with Braves behind another late rally Alan Blinder The New York Times News Service

ST. LOUIS — With all of their late drama over five days — a ninth-inning rally Sunday, nine runs over two innings a couple of nights before that — perhaps it was predictable that the Atlanta Braves and the St. Louis Cardinals would someday push their postseason duel beyond the constraints of nine innings.

It happened just in time Monday: With the Cardinals on the brink of elimination and the Braves searching for an elusive victory in a postseason series, the teams went to the 10th inning — only to see their best-of-five matchup extended to Wednesday night, as St. Louis used a sacrifice fly and a dash down the thirdbase line to win, 5-4, and force a Game 5.

“The easiest thing in the world to do is punt on somebody, and sometimes that’s necessary in competition if a guy just doesn’t feel or look right,” said St. Louis manager Mike Shildt. “But not necessary when you have guys that you believe in, that you know their work is taking place in the right manner, you know their head’s in the right spot.”

The winner of the decisive game at Atlanta’s SunTrust Park on Wednesday will advance to the National League Championship Series beginning Friday.

But Atlanta must first reckon with a game that the Braves will remember for missed opportunities and debatable decisions, and both teams must deal with the fallout of an afternoon of wildly swinging emotions.

Dallas Keuchel, the former Cy Young

Award winner who made his name as a playoff stalwart for the Houston Astros before joining the Braves in June, got two quick outs to start the game, which he entered on just three days’ rest. Then Paul Goldschmidt, the St. Louis first baseman whose weaponized bat had already tormented Atlanta this series, stepped in. He took four pitches, then the fifth, a change-up, became a souvenir for someone sitting just above the left-field fence.

Marcell Ozuna, the left fielder who batted right after Goldschmidt, took even less time and drove Keuchel’s second pitch, a cutter, even deeper into the stands. In the fourth inning, Ozuna sized up Keuchel’s slider and hit it out, too, for a solo homer. Keuchel’s day was done two batters later, his outing, at 67 pitches, shorter than his Game 1 outing that lasted into the fifth inning.

Dakota Hudson, St. Louis’s rookie starter making his first postseason appearance, lasted until the fifth inning, when Atlanta stitched together three runs from a ground ball, an error and an Ozzie Albies home run.

Atop a sacrifice fly from Albies in the third, the Braves took a 4-3 lead.

But it would only last until the eighth inning, when, once more, Goldschmidt doubled. With Ozuna approaching the plate, Atlanta’s fielders played deep, the shadows by then covering almost all of the grass. Ozuna struck out, but Yadier Molina followed by lashing a drive into right over a leaping Freddie Freeman.

Tie game.

Ronald Acuña Jr. started the ninth for Atlanta with a ground-rule double, but the Braves were unable to bring him in for another of those ninth-inning runs that Atlanta had already put together this series.

The 10th inning was no better for Atlanta, but Cardinals second baseman Kolten Wong doubled to lead off the bottom half of the inning. Atlanta opted to walk Goldschmidt intentionally. That left Atlanta’s Julio Teheran on the mound to face Ozuna, who tapped the ball into a fielder’s choice to put runners at the corners with one out.

Molina, the 37-year-old catcher who has spent his entire career in St. Louis, came to the plate and hit the first pitch he saw — a fastball — just shy of the warning track. Wong tagged and scored.

It was over, and the series was tied with neither team having won by more than three runs. Both of St. Louis’ wins were by a single run, with Monday’s victory often attributed to Molina.

“He’s been doing this for a lot of years,” Ozuna said of Molina, a member of two World Series-winning teams in St. Louis. “He knows how you play in the postseason.”

Atlanta had won Game 2 behind solid pitching, and claimed Sunday’s Game 3 with a ninth-inning rally to give themselves an opportunity to clinch the series Monday. But time and again, any potential celebration for Atlanta was postponed.

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Studs and duds en route to 4-0 start for Niners Cam Inman The Mercury News

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — One snap in, Matt Breida was gone on an 83-yard, lightning-quick touchdown run.

Four games in, the 49ers are undefeated, rocketing out of their 2014-18 funk and into the NFC driver’s seat with 12 long but enticing games to go.

Monday night’s 28-3 rout of the Cleveland Browns showed how deadly their rushing attack is (275 yards), how dominant their defense has become (4 sacks, 4 takeaways), how wily coach Kyle Shanahan and his staff can be, and how healthy quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo looks in his and the 49ers franchise’s comeback season.

The 49ers, 4-0 for the first time since 1990, have their first NFC West test awaiting them Sunday, when they visit the suddenly vulnerable Rams (3-2) at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, which has featured bipartisan crowd support the past three visits.

The Browns (2-3) proved no match from the outset, starting with Breida’s 83-yard touchdown that clocked at a NFL season best 22.3 mph.

The only drawback of the 49ers’ rushing showcase: Pro Bowl fullback Kyle Juszczyk got hurt with 3:04 left in the third quarter. He’s been a major reason for the 49ers’ dominance with lead blocks, as was the case Monday to assist Breida (114 yards, 11 carries) and Coleman (97 yards, 16 carries).

Rookie defensive end Nick Bosa led the defense’s coming-out party, producing two sacks, a forced fumble, a fumble recovery, four quarterback hits and so much more against Baker Mayfield, Odell Beckham Jr., Nick Chubb and other Browns who got neutralized.

By halftime, the 49ers racked up 185 rushing yards, the final 19 of which came on Tevin Coleman’s first touchdown of the season for the 213 lead. Breida’s 5-yard touchdown catch made it 14-0.

Here are the studs and duds from first-half action:

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with a young quarterback and offensive-minded coach.

Instead it is an 0-4 team that ranks last in total yards per game and has scored two offensive touchdowns, one by Bell.

Things should and probably will get better when Sam Darnold returns from the aftereffects of mononucleosis, but even if that happens this week, it is too late to turn this into a playoff team.

So scratch one year off Bell’s

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runs and five hits in five innings.

Torres gave the Yankees the lead for good with one out in the second, jumping on a firstpitch cutter that strayed invitingly over the middle of the plate and sending it just over the wall in left for his first postseason homer.

The game’s key half-inning followed.

Rosario, who hit 32 homers during the season, led off by hammering a 1-and-2 fastball off the top of the rightfield wall, missing a tying homer by mere feet and settling for a double. Severino walked Mitch Garver on five pitches and Luis Arraez dumped a soft line-drive single to left to load the bases with none out for

Roundup From B1 post. Rider keeper made an amazing save to prevent what would have been an amazing strike. With 10 minutes remaining, Aidan Swere would received the ball back from Gomez. Swere picked out a streaking Joe Desmonie with his cross and Desmonie made no mistake with his 1-touch finish.

Mohonasen received strong games from Cyle Hodge, Marcus Lopez, Nate Gandrow, and keeper Tyler Hallberg.

Keeper Quinn Murphy and the Rider defense of Joe Dolan, Justin Meza, Chase Martino, Austin Zlomek, Jose Lopez, and Janoy Harrison registered

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San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Marquise Goodwin (11) celebrates after a run against the Cleveland Browns during Monday’s game at Levi’Äôs Stadium.

STUDS Matt Breida: His 83-yard touchdown run came once he raced through a massive lane, created by blocks from Juszczyk, George Kittle and left tackle Justin Skule. It was Breida’s first touchdown of the season, and his second promptly followed with a 5-yard touchdown catch on third-and-goal for a 14-0 lead.

Tevin Coleman: The season-opening starter returned from a 2 ½-game absence (ankle sprain), and his 19-yard touchdown run pushed the 49ers lead to 21-3. A couple snaps before that, he converted a fourth-and-1 run into an 8-yard gain to the Browns 19.

Nick Bosa: His prime-time debut was spectacular and launched his rookie-of-the-year candidacy. His pressure led to Richard Sherman’s early interception to set the defense’s tone. Bosa had a first-quarter fumble recovery, constantly harassed Mayfield and looked fully

prime. He still should have plenty of tread left in 2020, but will he by the time the Jets are ready to become a contender?

Meanwhile, he carries on.

By all available evidence, he has been a good teammate, doing what he can to make something happen during losses, then saying the right things after them.

There was not much new for him to say after Sunday’s 31-6 loss to the Eagles, but he gamely insisted that things could turn around, even as he was honest about things that were going wrong.

One damning insight he offered was that players at times

had come to the line unclear about where they were supposed to be, a notion coach Adam Gase did not dispute on a conference call with reporters Monday.

“That’s the worst possible thing that can happen when you’re running a play is there’s doubt or confusion,” Gase said.

Bell has rushed 71 times for 206 yards, a 2.9 average that ranked 41st in the NFL entering Monday night’s game.

The rest of the Jets’ backs have rushed a total of 10 times. Bell also has 27 receptions, the most on the team.

He rushed for more than

Miguel Sano.

The 6-4, 260-pound third baseman worked the count full but popped to first. Severino struck out Gonzalez swinging at a slider and finished deflating the roaring crowd, and the Twins, by striking out former Yankee Jake Cave looking at a slider.

The Yankees immediately tacked on.

Gio Urshela, 2-for-8 the first two games, started the third by lacing a 1-and-2 fastball to left-center for a double. DJ LeMahieu’s groundout moved Urshela to third, but Aaron Judge struck out looking.

Gardner, batting in the threehole for a third straight game, came up with a big two-out hit, slicing a single to left past a diving Sano for a 2-0 lead.

Severino stranded two more in the bottom half, striking out Garver swinging at a 98-mph fastball and punctuating the K with an emphatic fist-pump

as he came off the mound. His fourth and final inning was his best as Severino produced his first perfect inning, striking out one.

In the fifth, Kahnle allowed a leadoff single off the rightfield wall by Cave, and two outs later, Boone brought on Ottavino and his killer slider to face the dangerous Cruz.

Ottavino walked him on four pitches and Green came on to face Rosario, who sent a sharp grounder to short right. Torres fielded the two-hopper on his knee with a sliding stop and threw in the dirt to first, but LeMahieu picked it before Rosario reached the bag, saving a run and producing hysterics in the visiting dugout.

After Arraez doubled off Green with one out in the sixth, Sano drilled one to right, where Judge needed all of his 6-7 frame to make a terrific leaping catch to save another run.

the ninth Rider shut out of the year.

Ichabod Crane took 12 shots on goal, while Mohonasen had nine.

Murphy collected nine saves for the Riders. Hallberg stopped 10 shots for the Mighty Warriors.

Ichabod Crane goes to Lansingburgh on Thursday at 6:30 p.m.

(8-2-1).

Emma Rose Merchant scored Taconic Hills’ goal.

Hannah Brewer had two saves for Maple Hill. Taconic Hills goalkeeper Lauren Adamo turned away four shots.

GIRLS SOCCER PATROON Maple Hill 2, Taconic Hills 1 CRARYVILLE — Alayna Fletcher scored a pair of goals to give Maple Hill a 2-1 victory over Taconic Hills in Monday’s Patroon Conference girls soccer match.

Samantha Braham and Meghan Bennett assisted on Fletcher’s goals for Maple Hill

recovered from his Aug. 7 ankle sprain.

Starting secondary: Phenomenal half by every starting defensive back. Cornerback Richard Sherman, on the first play after Breida’s touchdown, made a midfield interception. Cornerback Emmanuel Moseley, making his starting debut, batted away a potential touchdown pass in the end zone. Nickel back K’Waun Williams made an interception at the 49ers’ 2-yard line (Antonio Callaway bobbled the ball). Free safety Jimmie Ward, starting in his season debut, made open-field tackles to twice stop Nick Chubb from scoring. And strong safety Jaquiski Tartt was solid in run support, combining with Nick Bosa to stop Chubb for a 5-yard loss in the red zone.

George Kittle: His first touchdown catch of the season came on a 22-yard, post route for a 28-3 lead. He followed that with a third-down conversion catch in which he bounded off

1,200 yards as a Steeler in 2014, 2016 and 2017. At his current pace, he would have to rush more than 400 times this season to reach that figure. (Only five players in NFL history have done that, the last one being Larry Johnson in 2006 with an NFL record 416 carries.)

Gase on Monday said what coaches of bad teams always say: That most players are

three defenders. He’s been so much more valuable than just a receiver, and he helped spring Breida’s TD run, then posted an 18-yard carry of his own.

Jimmy Garoppolo: Now 5-0 as a Levi’s Stadium starter, he commanded a massively productive offense and avoided getting sacked more than twice. He was 20-of-29 for 181 yards with two touchdowns and no turnovers.

Bold calls: Kyle Shanahan successfully won a replay review on the game’s opening series, overturning a 31-yard, third-down conversion catch on the sideline by Ricky Seals-Jones against Richard Sherman’s coverage. Then, facing fourth-and-one from the Browns 27, Shanahan went for it, and Tevin Coleman converted with an 8-yard gain to the 19. Disclaimer: Shanahan lost a third-quarter challenge of an incompletion to Marquise Goodwin.

DUDS Field-goal unit: Robbie Gould missed three field-goal attempts — as many as he missed the previous two season on 75 attempts. Monday’s misses came on 47-, 52- and 32-yard field goal attempts, the last of which got blocked in the third quarter. He is 6-for-11 this season and now kicking behind his third long snapper, Garrison Sanborn. Two games remain on long snapper Kyle Nelson’s suspension.

Baker Mayfield: Last year’s No. 1 overall draft pick is 7-of-16 for 80 yards with two interceptions, three sacks, a lost fumble on a thirddown strip sack and, in the final play before halftime, an intentional-grounding penalty with Bosa dragging him down.

Odell Beckham Jr.: Sure, he completed a 20-yard pass on the Browns’ first snap, but he followed with two drops, his play-making ability was relatively contained and, the capper, was a fumbled punt return with 7:02 remaining.

The wave: Midway through the third quarter, with enough fans in the seats to finally pull it off, a wave rolled through the crowd — on national television, mind you. All it took was an undefeated start by the 49ers, a 28-3 lead and a delay during a failed replay challenge of a Marquise Goodwin near-catch.

doing the right thing, but a “different guy” keeps making a key mistake to scuttle the bestlaid plans.

Defensive lineman Leonard Williams said that in a team meeting Monday, several veterans spoke and said “they’ve been on teams that definitely were a lot worse than this.”

Bell tried to go down that road in the locker room Sunday, noting the Steelers

started 0-4 in his rookie year in 2013. But that team rallied to finish 8-8, and Pittsburgh has not had a losing season since, thanks in part to Bell.

Can Bell help rescue this season? That seems highly unlikely. The best thing for the Jets is to keep him healthy enough that he has plenty left in his tank next September, when the Jets can start this thing over again.

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VOLLEYBALL PATROON Taconic Hills 3, Cairo-Durham 0 CRARYVILLE — Taconic Hills defeated Cairo-Durham, 3-0, in Patroon Conference girls volleyball action on Monday.

The Titans won by scores of 25-12, 25-22 and 26-24.

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‘Friends with benefits’ complicated by roommate Dear Abby, I’ve been spending time with a certain gentleman for more than five years. I am in love with him. We dated at first, then became friends with benefits.

He had another woman move DEAR ABBY in with him a few years ago, but we are still friends with benefits, and he has become my best friend. We talk several hours a day and text throughout the day.

I know in my heart we are meant to be together. He tells me he loves me but says he can’t ask the other woman to move out because she doesn’t have anywhere to go until she makes the person living in her house move out. How do I talk to him about this?

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JEANNE PHILLIPS

Friends do not string friends along for years, which is what this “gentleman” has been doing to you.

He invited the other woman to move in because she is providing something he finds of value. (Are you sure they haven’t gotten married or enjoy similar benefits?) If he wanted her out, he would find a way to do it. During your next “hourslong” phone call, tell him that as much as you care for him, you can no longer continue to live in limbo.

Give him a deadline to get rid of his houseguest and, if he doesn’t meet it, cut off his “benefits.”

Dear Abby, As a woman, I am infuriated by men of all ages who have to adjust their crotches all the time. Is there any way we can tell these men that what

they’re doing is vulgar and embarrassing, and it’s rude to do this in public? I’m almost tempted to caress my breasts with both hands and push upward. But I guess that would be worse. Any ideas?

Infuriated In Topeka Forget hoisting your breasts skyward. Rather than succumb to infuriation, dig deep and try to feel some sympathy. This has everything to do with our Creator’s grand design. Because men’s genitalia are external, they sometimes get pinched in their clothing, which is uncomfortable. It’s only natural that they reflexively try to remedy the situation. Because it bothers you so much, try looking elsewhere.

Dear Abby, After a long period of infertility, a dear friend of mine found out she is expecting. Unfortunately, a mutual friend at work stole her thunder and told me about the pregnancy before she had a chance to tell me herself. While I’m pleased to hear that she’s pregnant, I’m also a bit upset that because I already know, I can no longer give her a genuine reaction when she tells me face-to-face. Of course I will still express how happy I am, but should I let her know I was already informed?

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DR. KEITH ROACH

Cycling is a great form of exercise, and it’s generally easier on the joints than running. However, for people who cycle a lot, particularly those who push themselves hard, an ill-fitting bike can cause knee and back pain. Since yours has been going on for months, the problem is likely to persist for a while, even if you correct the situation on the bike. Some rest may be called for.

My best advice is to get a professional bike fitter. While you may be lucky enough that your bike shop offers this service, serious cyclists often invest in a thorough fitting of all the adjustments on a bike. The bike will be more comfortable, you’ll have better performance, and you’ll develop less pain.

A sports medicine doctor or physiatrist can also help evaluate you for any muscle, joint or tendon issues predisposing you to develop pain.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You’ll be exposed to something new, and your thinking about something very familiar is likely to change as a result.

Surprising!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — You must come to terms with how your words affect the behavior of those around you. You are neither isolated nor ineffectual, certainly.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — You can’t

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Blondie

I am taking the blood pressure medications Hyzaar in the morning and atenolol before bedtime. My diastolic numbers are very well under control, but my systolic numbers have been staying in the range of 130-145.

What could it mean?

Higher systolic numbers (the higher number, always stated first) tend to indicate stiffness in the large blood vessels. This can be due to an emotional state, like fright or anxiety; from increased muscle tension in the arteries themselves, which is one of the major ways blood pressure is regulated normally; or from calcium in the blood vessels.

You are on three blood pressure medicines that form a powerful combination. Hyzaar is a brand name for the combination of losartan — which relaxes blood vessel walls — and HCTZ, a diuretic that takes excess salt and water out of the system; atenolol is a beta blocker, which mostly works by slowing the heart rate down and making it beat less forcefully.

The exact best goal for an individual may be difficult to determine. It depends on your risk factors and whether you are having side effects from your medication regimen. If your systolic blood pressure is mostly near 130 and only occasionally gets to 145, most experts would be happy with those results in most people. Some experts push for more aggressive blood pressure goals, such as less than 130, even down to 120. This is particularly important for people at higher risk of stroke and heart attack.

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Horoscope

By Stella Wilder Born today, you are one of the most easygoing individuals born under your sign — when things are going your way. When they are not, you can be quite reactive, choosing to behave in ways that are inconsistent, unpredictable, mercurial and even dangerous to yourself and others. You will do what you are compelled to do, no matter what others may say.

You are quick to take up the banner of any cause that “speaks” to you, and you will quickly move to the fore of any movement that you feel is just and necessary. You are intensely curious about other people, and you have a knack for defining the most uncertain and hazy aspects of humanity in general. You seem to be “plugged in” in some way.

Also born on this date are: John Lennon, singer, songwriter, musician; Sharon Osbourne, TV personality; Tony Shalhoub, actor; Scott Bakula, actor; Jackson Browne, singer and songwriter; Brian Blessed, actor; John Entwistle, musician.

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

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10

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By all means tell your friend how happy you are for her and that you know how long she has wanted this. Express to her how exciting the news is, but do NOT tell her you already heard it from a co-worker.

For the best ride, consult a professional bike fitter I am writing to you about an orthopedic problem for which I hope you can suggest a treatment. Apparently, not having my bike saddle high enough has caused pain in the right side of my right knee. Cycling is now my primary source of exercise, as I am no longer a runner.

TO YOUR The pain occurs when I walk GOOD HEALTH and to some extent when I cycle, but primarily when I walk.

Initially, I thought that it was an indication of arthritis. However, I looked up information on how to know if your bike saddle is the correct height, and it addressed pain that can develop in the knee if the saddle is too low.

What can I do to mediate the pain? Would a knee brace help?

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simply do what you want today without having others involve themselves, even if only indirectly.

Opportunities abound.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You can’t avoid all dangers today, and, in fact, some are necessary if you want to progress as planned. You have few complaints, if any.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Stick to your schedule, but don’t be inflexible if someone comes to you with something that you hadn’t expected. Be maneuverable.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — You can approach a problem from a familiar point of view and make little progress, or you can try something new and break through barriers.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Take care that you are not overheard today — or, if you are, it’s only by those whom you trust with the information you have to impart.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — You may not be able to do a certain thing in the habitual way. It may take some extra time, but the new method you adopt works well for you!

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — The role you are cast in today will please you and those on your team, but there are some who may push back against the way you play it.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — There are bargains waiting for you, but you’re going to have to look closely for them — and in some places that you don’t expect to find them.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — You may have to endure a setback of sorts today, but ultimately you’ll be in a better position to move ahead than you were before.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You may not have much faith in an old-fashioned method today, but if you give it a try you may be surprised. You discover many hidden benefits.

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SUPER QUIZ

THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME

By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek

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

Get the free JUST JUMBLE app • Follow us on Twitter @PlayJumble

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

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Universal laws Level 1

2

3

Unscramble the word in brackets to complete the law, theory or principle. (e.g., The Big ____ Theory (gnab). Answer: Bang.)

Freshman level 1. Darwin’s theory of evolution and natural ____ (elections) 2. Newton’s laws of ____ (omit no) 3. Einstein’s theory of special _____ (trivial yet) Graduate level 4. Newton’s law of universal _____ (tango trivia) 5. Hubble’s law of cosmic ____ (insane pox) 6. Archimedes’ _____ principle (ya bouncy) PH.D. level 7. Kepler’s laws of planetary _____ (tin moo) 8. The Heisenberg _____ principle (ancient yurt) 9. Hooke’s law of ________ (italic style)

4

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

Answer here: Yesterday’s

(Answers tomorrow) Jumbles: PRONE GAUZE IGUANA HERMIT Answer: A flock of geese was headed south for the winter, but when they’d arrive was — UP IN THE AIR

10/9/19

Solution to Tuesday’s puzzle

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

For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit

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SUPER QUIZ ANSWERS 1. Selection. 2. Motion. 3. Relativity. 4. Gravitation. 5. Expansion. 6. Buoyancy. 7. Motion. 8. Uncertainty. 9. Elasticity.

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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Pickles For Better or For Worse

Get Fuzzy

Hi & Lois

Crossword Puzzle Mother Goose & Grimm ACROSS 1 Mixer speed 5 __ up; makes sense 9 Trudge 13 Respect highly 15 Aretha’s music 16 Hook, __ and sinker 17 WWII hero __ Murphy 18 Lack of knowledge 20 Prefix for angle or pod 21 Scuzzball 23 Tried out 24 Long look 26 Pork product 27 Get away 29 Blazing 32 Jack & joker 33 Hatred 35 Laundry soap 37 Goes quickly 38 Dinner in the sty 39 Cheese with a whitish rind 40 “Grand __ Opry” 41 Baseball’s Barry __ 42 Chatter 43 Alley cats 45 Pieces of china 46 Capone & others 47 Like a bad steak 48 Huns’ leader 51 “__ the Hard Knock Life”; song from “Annie” 52 Peculiar 55 Comforted 58 Kovacs or Pyle 60 Dress style 61 Lunch spot 62 Allen or Martin 63 Dermatologist’s concern 64 Breakfast order 65 Historical periods DOWN 1 “So __ else is new?”

2 360 seconds 3 Imprudent 4 Taro root paste

Bound & Gagged

Created by Jacqueline E. Mathews

5 Set __; reserve 6 Popular pet 7 Final bill 8 Lazy 9 Fluid part of the blood 10 Fuzzy residue 11 __ more; again 12 Landowner’s paper 14 Summarizes 19 Kingdom 22 TV’s “People __ Funny” 25 Small amounts 27 Canyon sound 28 __ away; leaves shore 29 Needs a doctor 30 Competitive runner 31 Upper class 33 Possesses 34 “Why __ the chicken cross the road?”

36 Bruce & Brandon 38 Teriyaki marinade

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Tuesday’s Puzzle Solved

Non Sequitur

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39 Toot one’s own horn 41 Sporting equipment 42 Advantages 44 Dried fruit 45 Piece of cookware 47 Wave movements

10/9/19

48 Upper limbs 49 Yellowish wood 50 Uber alternative 53 Prima donna 54 Shameful grades 56 Dustcloth 57 D-H connection 59 Mailman’s beat: abbr.

Rubes

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Who will be the next Redskins’ coach?

Mark Maske The Washington Post

The Washington Redskins made the first coaching move of the NFL season Monday, firing Jay Gruden and promoting Bill Callahan to replace him on an interim basis. But that’s only a stopgap measure to get through the remainder of a seemingly lost season.

For the Redskins, the more important task will be sorting through a list of candidates to succeed Gruden on a permanent basis. As that process commences, the debate in and around the league resumes over whether any coaches who are in demand and have viable options elsewhere would consider working for Redskins owner Daniel Snyder and Bruce Allen, his top front-office executive.

It is a question that has been asked regularly, as Snyder has hired and fired coaches throughout a two-decade ownership tenure in which he has failed to recapture the franchise’s past glory. Yet Snyder has been successful at convincing prominent coaches to work for him, often paying big money to secure them.

Marty Schottenheimer was an established NFL coach. Steve Spurrier was a coaching star when Snyder lured him from the college ranks. Joe Gibbs, the greatest coach in franchise history, was convinced by Snyder to come back for a second go-round with the team.

Mike Shanahan was a two-time Super Bowl winner with the Denver Broncos. Gruden was a respected assistant with the Cincinnati Bengals.

“The hiring part has not been the problem with him,” a veteran front-office executive with another team said.

“The problem has been making it work once the guy gets there.”

Still, those doubts persist, with the franchise at a particularly low ebb.

New England Patriots fans were abundant and vocal Sunday at FedEx Field as their team won, 33-7, to drop the Redskins to 0-5. Allen faced pointed questions at a news conference Monday about his role in the team’s woes.

“We’re all involved in this,” Allen said. “I don’t ever want to hide from our record. I don’t want to hide from things that didn’t go the way we wanted them to go.”

Allen called the culture around the team “d--good” and said “the pieces are here for a winning team.” But one agent who represents coaches said Allen’s presence in the front office could cause top coaching candidates to steer clear.

“No coach worth his salt will take the job with Bruce overseeing personnel,” said the agent, who like others in this story spoke on the condition of anonymity to provide a frank assessment.

That feeling is not universal. Another agent said while candidates

should be wary of the Redskins’ situation, coaches will consider the job based on their own career circumstances.

The Redskins’ early-season decision on Gruden allows them to launch their search for his full-time replacement immediately, if they choose to do so, even while Callahan coaches the team. Callahan, who formerly coached the Oakland Raiders to a Super Bowl appearance, could be a candidate for the fulltime job if he does well.

Several people in the league said they expect the Redskins to give strong consideration to Kevin O’Connell, their 34-year-old offensive coordinator. Current NFL head coaches Sean McVay of the Los Angeles Rams, Matt LaFleur of the Green Bay Packers and Kyle Shanahan of the San Francisco 49ers are former Redskins assistants. Team officials could want to prevent another young and promising offensiveminded coach from leaving the organization, only to flourish elsewhere.

A pair of former Redskins defensive coordinators could be among the contenders.

New York Jets coordinator Gregg Williams was passed over for the team’s head coaching job after Gibbs retired for the second time, and Marvin Lewis is serving as a coaching adviser at Arizona State after his long stint as head coach of the Bengals ended after last season. Former Packers coach Mike McCarthy is out of the league this year but is expected to be a candidate for jobs next season.

Current offensive coordinators Eric Bieniemy of Kansas City, Josh McDaniels of New England, Ken Whisenhunt of the Los Angeles Chargers, Byron Leftwich of Tampa Bay, Brian Schottenheimer of Seattle and Kellen Moore of Dallas could be popular head coaching candidates in the next hiring cycle.

Whisenhunt is a former Redskins player. So, too, is Buccaneers defensive coordinator Todd Bowles, the former head coach of the New York Jets.

If Snyder looks to the college ranks, Oklahoma’s Lincoln Riley is coveted by many NFL teams but so far has not been willing to make the jump to the pro game. There is annual NFL speculation about Michigan’s Jim Harbaugh and Stanford’s David Shaw. Former Ohio State coach Urban Meyer coached Redskins rookie quarterback Dwayne Haskins in college but retired after last season.

Whichever coach the Redskins hire will be placed in charge of the development of Haskins, taken with the 15th pick in this year’s draft.

“They’ll have to make this hire with Haskins in mind,” the veteran NFL front-office executive said.

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

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Nagy’s ‘dark side’ comes out as he searches for answers to the struggling Bears offense Brad Biggs Chicago Tribune

LONDON — Still within what he calls a 24-hour window to remain “pissed off” following a loss, Matt Nagy sifted through the details Monday morning with optimism for what lies ahead for the Bears while also acknowledging his “dark side” came out.

Nagy reviewed film of Sunday’s 24-21 loss to the Raiders at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, and found only a little time for sleep before facing questions about the defeat as the team packed up and prepared for the return flight to Chicago.

The usually stout Bears defense was trampled as the Raiders rushed for 169 yards and had two touchdown drives of 90 or more yards. The pass rush didn’t produce a sack and Raiders quarterback Derek Carr was 25 of 32 for 229 yards despite missing his two best receivers. Nagy said the belief is that was an aberration, the kind of all-at-once slump by defensive players that won’t be an issue moving forward.

“Big picture, in my opinion, obviously the defense after five games — four out of the five games have been lights out,” Nagy said. “I mean, on another level. So you guys had a question going into it: What’s going to happen with Coach (Chuck) Pagano vs.

Vic Fangio? That one’s been answered. And then, special teams right now is playing phenomenal. They are doing a lot of great things.

“Offensively, the numbers show, and we all know, we all understand it, we’re not playing where we need to be at. We need to be more productive.

It’s inevitable that a defense that we’ve had the first four weeks of the season, there’s going to be a time when there’s a little struggle. (Sunday) happened to be that. That’s credit to Oakland. But when is the offense going to step up and take over for that? You know?”

Finding answers to those questions becomes the goal for Nagy and his staff as the Bears launch into their bye week. Players will be off all week and coaches will get some time off, but first they’re going to go head-long into self-scouting as they search for keys to unlocking an offense that has been disjointed at

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Chicago Bears head coach Matt Nagy throws a challenge flag during a recent game against the Minnesota Vikings at Soldier Field.

best this season. The 3-2 start matches where the Bears were through five games a year ago following a frustrating overtime loss against the Dolphins, one that Nagy likened in some ways to the Raiders loss.

“My only experience as a head coach is pulling from last year and seeing that where we’re at now is the same spot,” Nagy said. “And so we’re 3-2, we have a winning record, we know that we’ve been in every game. I love the character of our guys so that when you hit a little bit of adversity, we know that we’ll pull together and be able to use these losses to make us better.”

The offense will be Nagy’s primary focus. Seven of the Bears’ 11 possessions were three plays or less. Entering Monday, they are keeping company with the lowly Dolphins and Jets in a couple offensive categories. That’s dark as in macabre, the kind of stuff that will keep a coach up for consecutive nights even in a week off.

Points per game: 17.4 (28th in NFL) Yards per play: 4.5 (30th) Passer rating: 86.3 (24th) Yards per attempt: 5.2 (30th) Rushing yards per game: 80.6 (26th) Yards per rush: 3.4 (29th) “We have a happy-go-lucky attitude around the building,” Nagy said. “We have fun.

Every now and then, though, you need to be able to show

a dark side. And they need to see that and feel that. It just so happened that (Sunday) was one of those days that they felt it. I know they felt it. They also know the importance that they mean to us as coaches, and to me as a head coach, where I’ll always have my arm around them and always be there to listen, too. Because that’s a part of this, too. Let’s listen to them and see how we can collaborate together to get answers.”

Nagy is searching for answers in the running game.

He believes he’s identified a key to the ongoing struggles.

Naturally, he doesn’t want to identify and tip off future opponents such as the Saints, Chargers, Eagles, Lions or Rams on a schedule that is about to turn more difficult.

The offensive line hasn’t performed well, at least not consistently, and that was a significant issue against the Raiders. The Bears are not going to switch center James Daniels and left guard Cody Whitehair and about the only personnel changes they could make would involve Ted Larsen, when his knee injury heals, Rashaad Coward and undrafted rookie Alex Bars, who just got a pay raise to remain on the team’s practice squad.

“You’ve got to win your 1-on-1 battles and that’s just not the offensive line, that’s everybody,” Nagy said.

“Whenever you have some

places within your game that are struggling, that’s immediately what you go to and so there is a challenge there for all of us to be better and that happens to be that right there.

Win your 1-on-1 battle. You win your 1-on-1 battle then good things should happen.”

Self-scouting often refers to tendencies an offense or defense has, in terms of personnel groupings, formations, down and distance. Bears assistants provide detailed breakdowns of that information on a weekly basis. That’s not data that becomes relevant just because there’s a break in the schedule. Nagy is talking about a deeper dive when the process begins at Halas Hall.

“To me, it’s not so much about that as it is you’re really able to self-scout the players and how they’re performing,” he said. “That’s what this one is probably more about with where we’re at offensively right now.

“I had to (crack the whip) last year. I did. There were times where we had to do it.

It’s just coming a little bit earlier. That’s where we’re at. I just really trust and appreciate who these guys are as people.

I trust that they’re going to figure out a way, along with us, what the answers are. And we stick together. We’re 3-2.

We’re at a point now where we’re going to be OK. And we’re going to get answers.”

Giants’ Engram confident they can compete with Patriots Tom Rock Newsday

The Giants’ next game is against the Patriots. In Foxborough. On a short week.

With a rookie quarterback, maybe a rookie running back, and yet-to-be-determined defensive personnel.

But Even Engram says: Bring it on!

“There’s no doubt in our minds that we can go up there and compete with this team and go get a win,” the tight end said. “We don’t have any doubt. We have belief in our players and our team that we can go out there and get a win.”

That might be a little more believable, of course, had the Giants looked just a little more competitive against the Vikings in Sunday’s 2810 loss at MetLife Stadium.

Instead they seemed overmatched in nearly every area of the contest. And now they face the greatest quarterback and head coach of all time, not to mention the best team in the league this season.

The Patriots are 5-0 and have outscored opponents 15534. That’s a 121-point differential. No other team in the NFL is more than +50 in that category. The Giants have scored just 97 points total.

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New York Giants tight end Evan Engram (88) cannot catch a pass in the end zone against Minnesota Vikings cornerback Trae Waynes (26) at MetLife Stadium on Sunday.

The Patriots are favored by 16 points as of Sunday night.

Bill Belichick’s affinity for the Giants and respect for the Mara family may be the only thing that keeps the game close.

Of course, no fan of either team has to be reminded that there have been other Giants-Patriots games that looked like they would be lopsided affairs but turned

into upsets. The Giants will be without their usual Patriots kryptonite with Eli Manning on the bench, but they might get Superman back instead.

Saquon Barkley certainly would give the Giants a better chance than they will have without him.

“It would mean a lot, obviously,” Engram said of the potential addition. “That’s a

no-brainer. But we’ve got to be smart with his recovery and be smart with his timeline.”

There are other pieces the Giants can hope to get back.

Alec Ogletree could help solidify the soft middle of a defense that missed tackles, misread keys and allowed wide-open receivers for most of the game against the Vikings. He’s been sidelined with a hamstring injury the past two games. The Giants might also be able to take advantage of a banged-up Patriots offensive line.

Engram said even without those players, the Giants had a chance to beat the Vikings.

“There were plays that could have been made,” he said. “There were a lot of 5050 balls that we have to make.

We make those plays, then it’s a different ballgame. So there’s nothing to really get discouraged about. We’re fine.”

And it is why he thinks they have a chance to beat the Patriots.

“We just have to stay the course,” he said. “Like I said, there’s nothing to be discouraged about... There’s no worry. There’s no doubt. We put the work in. We believe in each other.”

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Nets owner Joe Tsai steps into China fray Sopan Deb and Li Yuan The New York Times News Service

The owners of major American sports franchises generally do not dive headlong into geopolitical firestorms.

But not many owners have the background of Joe Tsai, a Taiwanese-born billionaire who recently became the primary owner of the Brooklyn Nets. This weekend, Tsai surprised many when he weighed in after the NBA responded to a Twitter post by a league executive supporting Hong Kong’s anti-government protesters, just as a furor over the tweet reached a fever pitch.

Tsai replied on Sunday night — roughly 48 hours after Daryl Morey, the general manager of the Houston Rockets, had tweeted, “Fight for freedom, stand with Hong Kong,” a comment that sent a shudder through NBA headquarters, as well as the league’s partners at the highest echelons of Chinese basketball.

Morey’s boss, Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta, rebuked him on Twitter, and Morey deleted the post. The NBA issued a statement saying that backlash to Morey’s tweet was “regrettable,” but that “the values of the league support individuals’ educating themselves and sharing their views on matters important to them.”

Then, as denunciations of the NBA rolled in from the Chinese mainland, American politicians from both parties rallied behind Morey, condemning the league for not standing more firmly behind the executive.

Tsai — known in China as the man behind Jack Ma, founder of the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group — posted a lengthy open letter on Facebook, referring to the pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong as a “separatist movement,” an echo of language from Beijing.

Tsai also criticized Morey, calling his Twitter post “damaging to the relationship with our fans in China.”

For months, Tsai has not been outspoken as protests against the central government in Beijing roiled Hong Kong. Demonstrators have accused the ruling Communist Party of trying to curtail civil liberties in the semiautonomous territory. “Fight for Freedom” and “Stand with Hong Kong” are often chanted at the protests.

As a team owner, Tsai, who declined to comment for this article, has emphasized helping the NBA make inroads in China, where basketball has become the most popular sport. While the letter may have helped his efforts, it also crystallized the league’s decision to bow to economic pressure from its partners in China over support in the United States for Morey and the Hong Kong protesters.

“All the Americans on Twitter are criticizing NBA for not supporting freedom of speech,” Kai Qu, a tech blogger, wrote on the online platform WeChat. “On Weibo,” he wrote, referring to China’s equivalent of Twitter, “the

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New York Knicks forward RJ Barrett (9) reacts after making a basket against the Washington Wizards at Capital One Arena on Monday.

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Brooklyn Nets owner Joe Tsai (left) looks on during a May 9 preseason WNBA game between the New York Liberty and the China National Team at Barclays Center.

Chinese are all criticizing NBA for not openly condemning and punishing. It’s a great cultural clash. Anybody who was caught in between will have no way to get out of it.”

Before this weekend, Tsai, 55, was not known as a political figure. Only as a businessman.

In China’s tech industry, Ma is considered the creative force, and Tsai the one who turned ideas into action. Before Alibaba’s initial public offering in New York in 2014, Tsai worked long hours with bankers and investors to help pull off the biggest-ever public offering.

The offering made Tsai one of the world’s wealthiest people. Forbes ranks him as the 147th richest person with a net worth of $9.5 billion. The son of a lawyer, Tsai came to the United States at the age of 13 to attend the Lawrenceville School, a private boarding school in New Jersey. He attended college at Yale and earned his law degree there, too.

While working at the Swedish investment company Investor AB in 1999, he went to check out an internet startup called Alibaba in Hangzhou, in eastern China. Investor AB passed on the opportunity to invest, but Tsai decided to quit his job to join the startup.

Ma, who worked out of his apartment with about 20 young associates, was surprised. Tsai was making around $700,000 a year, and Ma said he could afford to pay him only about $7,000. Tsai would help bring in key investors, such as Goldman Sachs and SoftBank, and pave the way for Alibaba to become a conglomerate that transformed how the Chinese shop.

Tsai was in charge of Alibaba’s overall investment and growth strategy until earlier this year. He still holds the title of executive vice chairman.

He and Ma, who retired as executive chairman last month, are the only lifetime members of the Alibaba Partnership, a group of a few dozen employees with tremendous power over the company’s board and leadership, as well as its bonus pool.

Those who know Tsai

describe him as smart and low key, someone who intentionally stayed in the shadow of the eloquent and high-profile Ma because he believed that a company needed only one spokesman.

In recent years, Tsai gradually drifted out of Ma’s shadow. He has appeared at tech conferences and given talks at Lawrenceville and Yale, but has rarely spoken about politics.

By Monday afternoon, Alibaba’s Taobao, a sales website, had essentially taken Houston Rockets products off the platform. The official Weibo account of the People’s Daily, the Communist Party’s official newspaper, quoted an Alibaba spokesman as saying that Morey’s Twitter speech had severely hurt the feelings of the Chinese people.

Tsai’s foray into professional American basketball was unusual. The vast majority of professional sports franchises in the United States are owned by white men, not people of color. Also, the acquisition was a rare example of an American sports team being acquired with mostly foreign money — although in this case, the franchise’s previous owner was a Russian billionaire. But Tsai seemed like an ideal fit for the NBA, especially to tap into the rabid basketball fan base in China.

In October 2017, Tsai paid a little more than $1 billion to acquire 49% of the Brooklyn Nets from Mikhail D. Prokhorov; the team had achieved mostly middling results on the court since he offered to buy the franchise in 2009. That deal came on the heels of several Chinese entrants into the sports market, such as a $650 million acquisition of the Ironman competition in 2015 by Chinese conglomerate Dalian Wanda.

Tsai played lacrosse at Yale, and just months before the announcement of the Nets acquisition he purchased the San Diego franchise of the National Lacrosse League. At Yale Law School, Tsai occasionally played pickup basketball with a future Supreme Court justice, Brett M. Kavanaugh. Both of Tsai’s children also play basketball.

Earlier this year, Tsai purchased a WNBA team, the New York Liberty, from the Madison Square Garden ownership group. In April, the Liberty drafted Han Xu, a 6-foot-9 center, a Chinese national with enough of a following in her home country to draw comparisons to Yao Ming’s journey to the United States.

Tsai clearly saw the Nets as an opportunity to use basketball to bridge what he saw as a divide between China and the United States.

In May, before an exhibition game between the Liberty and the Chinese national team, Tsai told reporters: “I’m steeped in this discussion and find myself having to explain China to Americans a lot. This game, by bringing the national women’s team from China, is a platform for the two cultures to see how each other compete. You learn a little more about each other’s cultures.

This is absolutely important.

If there were more opportunities for me to support these kinds of changes, I’d do more of that.”

This summer, the NBA announced that Tsai had acquired the entire stake of the Nets, valued at roughly $2.35 billion, a league record. The league — as well as Tsai — has a great deal riding on his investment in the Nets. The team made several expensive free-agent acquisitions this offseason, including Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant. The Nets’ brass hopes the team will draw more fans after having some of the worst attendance numbers in the league last season.

And if all goes well for the NBA, and this controversy eventually blows over, many of those eyeballs will come from outside the United States.

In the news release announcing the approval of the Nets sale, the NBA commissioner, Adam Silver, said, “In addition to being a passionate basketball fan, Joe is one of China’s preeminent internet, media and e-commerce pioneers, and his expertise will be invaluable in the league’s efforts to grow the game in China and other global markets.”

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Knicks’ first starting lineup of the preseason raises questions Steve Popper Newsday

WASHINGTON — It is easy to dismiss it as just the first preseason game.

But as the Knicks spent the morning preparing for their exhibition opener against the Wizards at Capital One Arena the team already raised a number of questions.

Dennis Smith Jr. was sidelined with a strained lower back and while he and the Knicks continued to maintain it is a minor issue, he could not predict if he would be back for Friday’s preseason home opener, also against the Wizards. And with Smith out, Knicks coach David Fizdale put out his first starting lineup and started the debate already.

Rookie RJ Barrett was in the lineup at shooting guard. But Elfrid Payton and Marcus Morris were in the starting lineup with Frank Ntilikina and Kevin Knox, the last two lottery picks before Barrett, coming off the bench. While you can make an argument for these moves — allowing the younger players to learn and develop in a secondary role — it also raises the same problems as a year ago, that the short-term players are being appeased at the sake of the future.

“All things are on the table,” Fizdale said after the morning shootaround, noting that the lineups could shift in the preseason as he sees different combinations and how they fit together.

At point guard, this might not even be a question if Smith were healthy, but it is still puzzling why Fizdale would not give Ntilikina the ball and a starting role.

Fizdale made a point of trying to prove to Ntilikina over the summer that he has confidence in him and when Ntilkina played with France’s national team in the FIBA World Cup he displayed the confidence in himself on the floor that he has never seemed to have with the Knicks.

But it’s not just confidence. The Knicks have to make a decision on Ntilikina with the deadline looming at the end of the month to pick up his rookie contract option

for next season. With a free-agent market next summer that hardly excites, the relative bargain of a rookie deal on Ntilikina would seem to be an easy use of salary cap space as the 21-year-old tries to find his way in the league. Starting him might boost that elusive confidence or raise the trade value around the league if the Knicks decide they’d like to move on from him.

In Payton, the Knicks are putting the ball in the hands of a player who has played for four teams in five seasons and has just this season guaranteed on his contract.

Asked what he has seen in Payton, Fizdale said, “His competitiveness. He just has a serious competitive gene. He hates to lose. He’s never out of a possession, offensively and defensively. He’s always trying to figure out how he’s going to win the possession. It just stands out to see that on the court. “(I expect to see him) picking up as much as possible 94 feet. Pushing our pace. Filling up the stat sheets in different ways, rebounds, assists, steals, deflections.

Getting into the paint for us, organizing the team.

That’s just the template for all of our point guards. I expect the same when I bring Frank in. He just picks up where Elfrid left off.”

Knox is similarly still in a developmental phase, having been thrust into a primary role last season as a 19-year-old rookie.

Morris is an established veteran who likely presents a better chance of winning now, which is a goal for the team after last year’s 17-win season left them with the same draft lottery odds as the next four worst teams and couldn’t entice any of the stars in free agency to even grant the Knicks a meeting.

“There’s a chance (Knox) could start in the preseason again,” Fizdale said. “Nothing is in stone yet. But he’ll play a ton (Monday night).

He and Marcus will eat up most of the minutes at small forward, but I’ll also move him over to some (shooting guard) as well.”

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BUDGET HEARING LEGAL NOTICE WHEREAS, on the 23nd day of September, 2019, pursuant to TL Sec 105 & 181, the Board of Fire Commissioners of the Cairo Fire District confirmed that the Annual Fire District Budget Hearing will be conducted with reference to the Annual Fire District Budget for 2020 on Tuesday, October 15, 2019 commencing at 6:30PM at the firehouse at 30 Railroad Ave, Cairo, NY. Copies of the proposed budget will be available at the public hearing. All interested persons are invited to attend.

Diane Bartholomew Secretary/Treasurer CAMHALDEN LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 09/10/19.

Office: Columbia County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 4301 Route 9G, Germantown, NY 12526.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

CITY OF HUDSON, NEW YORK PLANNING BOARD NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Planning Board of the City of Hudson, New York will hold a Public Hearing on October 18, 2019 at 6:00 p.m. in the Common Council Chambers, City Hall, 520 Warren Street, Hudson, New York on a subdivision application from Hudson Development Corporation, on behalf of CSX Transportation Inc., to subdivide 1.196 acres at 72 South Front Street, Tax ID# 109.16-1-3, into two parcels. All interested parties will have an opportunity at this time to be heard in connection with said application.

COLUMBIA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION NOTICE OF MEETING Please take notice that there will be a meeting of the Columbia Economic Development Corporation Audit and Finance Committee held on October 16, 2019 at 8:30am, at Columbia Greene Community College Board Room, 4400 Route 23 Hudson, NY 12534 for the purpose of discussing any matters that may be presented to the Committee for consideration.

Dated: October 9, 2019 Sarah Sterling Secretary Columbia Economic Development Corporation INVITATION TO BID The Greene IDA will receive sealed bids for propane service to 270 Mansion Street, Coxsackie, NY. All bids shall be contained in sealed envelopes, distinctly marked “PROPANE BID” and addressed to: Peggy Snyder, Greene IDA, 270 Mansion Street, Coxsackie, NY, 12051.

Bids shall be submitted on the official bid form, accompanied by the Statement of Service, Certificate of Non-Collusion, and if required Authorization to Bid. Sealed bids must be received by October25, 2019 no later than 4 pm. Bids will be approved by the Board of Directors at the next Board Meeting. Bid packets are available at the Greene IDA during office hours Monday – Friday 8:00 – 4:00 pm.

Or by calling 518-7315500.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that sealed bids will be received for Meat/Meat Products, Milk/Dairy Products, Bread/Baked Goods & Eggs at the office of Columbia County Central Services, 401 State St., Hudson, New York 12534 until 2:00 P.M., Wednesday, November 13, 2019. Bids shall be contained in a sealed envelope, clearly marked “ Bid”. Bids will be publicly opened and read at the Columbia County Office Building, Committee Room, 401 State Street, Hudson, New York, at 2:15 P.M., Wednesday, November 13, 2019.

Bid packages can be obtained by any bidder at the Columbia County Department of Central Services, 401 State Street, Hudson, New York, and shall be prepared in accordance with the forms contained in the bid package.

No bid may be withdrawn for a period of forty-five (45) days from the date of the bid opening.

The County of Columbia reserves the right to reject any and all bids Bid #: 19-020 19-021 19-022 19-023 Date: October 9, 2019 LEGAL Notice of Public Hearing on the Budget NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Proposed Budget of the Ancram Fire District of the Town of Ancram, State of New York, will be presented to the Board of Fire Commissioners of the Ancram Fire District, for its consideration.

A PUBLIC HEARING will be held at 6:00 p.m. at the Ancram Fire House, County Route 7 and Route 82 Ancram, New York 12502, in the Town of Ancram, State of New York on the 15th day of Oct., 2019. (The Budget hearing must be held annually on the third Tuesday in October.)

Pursuant to Town Law S181.3(a), the Board of Fire Commissioners must hold a public hearing on the budget, make the proposed budget available to the public prior to the public hearing, allow the public to comment on the budget at the public hearing. This public hearing must be held to allow maximum public participation in the hearing.

The purpose of the public hearing is to allow any person to be heard in favor of or against the proposed budget as it is submitted, or for or against any item or items contained in the proposed budget, and hearing all persons interested in the subject concerning same.

That a copy of the proposed budget is available at the Office of the Town Clerk(s) of the Town(s) of Ancram and Gallatin at (Gallatin Town Hall, 667 County Route 7, Ancram NY) and (Ancram Town Hall 1416 County Route 7, Ancram NY) and Ancram Fire District Secretary at (Ancram Fire District office, County Route 7 and Route 82, Ancram, New York) where it may be inspected by any interested person during office hours (First and Second Tuesdays of the month 6 to 8 P.M.).

Dated: 10-07-19 Board of Fire Commissioners Ancram Fire District P.O. Box 163 Ancram, NY 12502

LEGAL PUBLIC NOTICE The Greene County Industrial Development Agency will hold their Regular Board Meeting on Tuesday, October 29, 2019 at 8:00 am, followed by a Greene LEGAL NOTICE Development COUNTY OF COLUM- Local Corporation meeting if BIA NOTICE TO VENDORS needed.

The location of this meeting will be at the Greene IDA office, Training Room, in Coxsackie, NY. Please park in rear of building and use back door.

Respectfully Submitted: Rene VanSchaack, Executive Director

09/12/19 Columbia County NY, SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to 40 partridge Lane Ghent NY 12075. Purpose: any lawful activity

Notice is hereby given that an order entered by the Supreme Court, Columbia County, on the 3rd day of October, 2019,, bearing Index Number 14931-19, a copy of which may be examined at the office of the clerk, located at 560 Warren Street, Hudson, New York 12534 , grants me the right to assume the name Of Anastasia Rose Traina . The city and state of my present address are East Chatham, New York ; the month and year of my birth are November 1960; the place of my birth is Bronx, New York ; my present name is Rose Ellen Calise.

Notice of Formation of GP House LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 9/17/19. Office location: Greene County. SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 117 Gypsy Point Rd, Athens, NY 12015. Purpose: any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF NEW BALTIMORE FIRE DISTRICT BUDGET PUBLIC HEARING The New Baltimore Fire Commissioners have scheduled a Public Hearing for October 15, 2019. The Public Hearing will be held at the New Baltimore Fire House, Gill Road, New Baltimore, New York beginning at 7:00 pm.

The purpose of the Public Hearing is for the proposal of the 2020 budget.

Directly following the Public Hearing will be a special meeting of the Fire Commissioners to decide whether or not the proposed budget will be adopted.

Dated: October 2, 2019

By Order of the New Baltimore Fire Commissioners Natalie Linger

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Notice of formation of Ambrosiaand, LLC, a domestic Limited Liability Company LLC Article of Organization filed with the Secretary of State on May 24,2019, New York office location: 99 Washington Ave. Albany, NY Secretary of State is designated as Agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her to 164 Elliot NOTICE Rd. East Chatham, NY PUBLIC 12060. Purpose: Any GERMANTOWN FIRE D I S T R I C T lawful activity.

BUDGET HEARING NOTICE OF FORMA- NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board TION OF DOMCOMM PROPER- of Fire Commissioners of the Germantown TIES, LLC A DOMESTIC LIMITED Fire District of the LIABILITY COMPANY Town of Germantown, Columbia County, will (LLC) Articles of Organiza- hold a Public Hearing tion filed with the Sec- on the 2020 prelimiretary of State of the nary budget, and any other business that State of before the New York on Septem- comes board, on Tuesday, ber 20, 2019.

New York Office Loca- October 15, 2019 at tion – Greene County. 7:00 p.m. at the GerSecretary of State of mantown Firehouse lothe State of New York cated at 181 Main Germantown, is designated as agent Street, upon whom process N.Y.. The proposed against the LLC may budget will be posted be served. Secretary of for review at the GerState of the State of mantown Firehouse.

Kerrie Abela, Secretary New York shall mail a Germantown Fire Discopy of any process trict against the LLC served upon him/her at: c/o NOTICE OF PUBLIC LLC, 613 Rudolph HEARING ON AN APWier Road, Earlton, NY PEAL FOR VARIANCE 12056.

TO BUILD A STRUCPURPOSE: To engage TURE WITHIN 15' OF in any lawful act or ac- PROPERTY LINE tivity.

Notice is hereby given that the Zoning Board Notice of Formation of of Appeals of the Town Cairo, Greene EJSIB LLC filed w/Sec. of County, will meet at of State of NY (SSNY)

the Town Hall 512 Main Street, Cairo, New York 12413, on the 24th day of October 2019, at 6:00 PM, prevailing time, for the purpose of conducting a public hearing upon an application for a variance to add a 8’x16’ lean-to for purpose of storage to existing shed by Chris and Juana Maria Blauberg relating to property located at 253 Half Moon Drive, Cairo, New York. Tax ID #84.00-1-39 .

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

By Order of the Zoning Board of Appeals of the Town of Cairo, New York Diane M. Newkirk Zoning Board of Appeals Clerk of Cairo

STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT: COUNTY OF GREENE U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS LEGAL TITLE TRUSTEE FOR TRUMAN 2016 SC6 TITLE TRUST Plaintiff, vs.

SCOTT A. SEMANICK, SANDRA L. SEMANICK, CHRISTOPHER SEMANICK, STATE INSURANCE FUND COMMISSIONERS, et al., Defendants NOTICE OF SALE IN FORECLOSURE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT In pursuance of a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the office of the County Clerk of Greene County on October 3, 2017, I, Monica Kenny-Keff, Esq., the Referee named in said Judgment, will sell in one parcel at public auction on October 30, 2019 at the Greene County Courthouse, 320 Main Street, Village of Catskill, County of Greene, State of New York, at 9:00 A.M., the premises described as follows: 11 Puffer Road Catskill, NY 12414 SBL No.: 119.04-4-4 ALL THAT TRACT OF PARCEL OF LAND situate in the Town of Catskill, Greene County, New York The premises are sold subject to the provisions of the filed judgment, Index No. 895/2012 in the amount of $231,041.25 plus interest and costs.

Kristin M. Bolduc, Esq. Woods Oviatt Gilman LLP Plaintiff's Attorney 500 Bausch & Lomb Place Rochester, New York 14604 Tel.: 855-227-5072

NOTICE PUBLIC SALE LEGAL NOTICE: Notice of sale of other disposition, pursuant to New York State Lien Law Sec. 182, Notice is hereby given that “ Coon Self Storage” will sell at Public Auction the personal property by the units to satisfy unpaid storage rentals of delinquent accounts: #F43 PITMAN, A; #Q18 BABJECK, A; #T11 BURCH, A; #I43R31 BRAZEE, A; #C38 BURDICK, A; #D40 BRIDGHAM, B; #G08 PEACOCK, B; #I17 WADMAN, C; #E22 BRADWAY, C; #J17, #J17 LUDWIG, C; #M10 MARKS, D; #H16 SHOOK, D; #M30 MCCAUL, D; #L21-L33 NIVER, F; #F15 SCHWAGER, H; #R09 TALAR, J; #A18F17 SHERMAN, J; #L34 DIXON, J; #L44 PLANTHABER, J; #R10 VENTURA, J; #D26 WHEELER, K; #G06 BURCH, K; #C03 SABIN, K; #J14 SCHRENKEISEN, K; #I38 DAMIAN, L; #B13 CHAMBERLIN, L; #I06 SHECKELLS, M; #M58 AUGUST, R; #K15 SHROEPPEL, R; #L10 MASSAGLIA, S; #C14 NOVIA, S; #C12 MOTTER, T; #R16 MADDOCKS, V; #Q22 XAVIER, V; #M60 HYATT, W; #G16 MYERS, W. Sales to be paid in cash only at the time of sales. Contents to be removed off the premises the same day.

Tenants may claim their merchandise up to the time of sales by paying their just debts and vacate.

Sale to be held on October 24th 2019 at 9:01 AM at “ Coon Self Storage” 1005 State Route 23 Craryville, NY 12521.

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NOTICE TO BIDDERS SNOW REMOVAL SERVICES The Cairo-Durham Central School District, Cairo, New York, hereby rescinds the prior invitation for sealed bids for Snow Removal Services for the 20192020 school year, as advertised on September 25, 2019, and which were to be opened on October 11, 2019.

Any bids received shall be unopened and rejected.

The Cairo-Durham Central School District hereby invites the submission of sealed bids for Snow Removal Services for the 20192020 school year pursuant to the revised bid specifications. Bids will be received no later than 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 16, 2019 at the District Business Office, 424 Main Street, Cairo, New York, at which time they will be publicly opened.

The Board of Education reserves the right to reject any and/or all bids.

Contractors are required to inspect sites prior to submitting bid.

Contact Kevin Lawton, at 518-622-8534 x 29100 to schedule and conduct a walk thru by October 11, 2019. Bids may be rejected if contractor fails to complete a site inspection.

A previous walk thru of the campus satisfies this requirement.

Jeffrey J. Miriello School Business Administrator

Michael Phillips a/k/a Michael E. Phillips, Lauren Phillips, Internal Revenue Service-United States of America, New York State Department of Taxation and Finance-Civil Enforcement- CO- ATC, New York State Department of Taxation and Finance-Tax Compliance Division-C.O.ATC, Jamie S. Weldon, Williams Lumber Inc., The National Union Bank of Kinderhook, Kinderview Road Homeowner’s Association, John Doe (Name Refused), Defendant(s) Pursuant to a judgment of foreclosure and sale entered on August 29, 2019 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction to the highest bidder at, 401 Union Street, HUDSON, NEW YORK on October 30, 2019 at 10:00 AM premises known as 52 Kinderview Road, Kinderhook, NY 12106.

ALL those pieces or parcel of land situate on Old Post Road in the Town of Kinderhook, County of COLUMBIA, State of New York.

Section: 63. Block: 1 Lot: 75 Approximate amount of lien $255,614.75 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed judgment Index # 11657-17 Monica Kenny-Keff, Esq., REFEREE STEIN, WIENER AND ROTH, L.L.P., ATTORNEYS FOR THE PLAINTIFF ONE OLD COUNTRY NOTICE OF SALE SUITE 113 SUPREME COURT - ROAD, COUNTY OF COLUM- CARLE PLACE, NY 11514 BIA September PHH Mortgage Corpo- DATED: 23, 2019 FILE #: KONration, DAUR 63540 Plaintiff -against-

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COLUMBIA-GREENE MEDIA NOTICE PUBLIC SALE LEGAL NOTICE: Notice of sale of other disposition, pursuant to New York State Lien Law Sec. 182, Notice is hereby given that “ Coon Self Storage” will sell at Public Auction the personal property by the units to satisfy unpaid storage rentals of delinquent accounts: #005 WHEELER, P; #010 WALSH, F; #033 MERCHANT, B; #038 ARNDT, R; #067 MACDONALD, J; #102 ADAMSKI, M; #152 STANLEY, S; #161 CRIPPS, S; #179 DALLAS, F; #237 PITCHER, C; #255 DECKER, J; #261 MOREHOUSE-HARRISON, K; #264-287-291 STEWART, D; #297 WADMAN, R; #304 ZUKOWSKI, D; #323 MONK, B; #068 KOWALSKI, J; #356 BROWN, J; #361 EASTON, P; #380 ROBERTS, T; #390 PARISH, R; #397 GAPINSKI, R; #414 SCHUSTER, J; #421 BLAZEK, A; #443 LEWIS, P. Sales to be paid in cash only at the time of sales. Contents to be removed off the premises the same day.

Tenants may claim their merchandise up to the time of sales by paying their just debts and vacate.

Sale to be held on OCTOBER 25th, 2019 at 9:01 a.m. at “ Coon Self Storage” 1840 Rte. 9-H Hudson, NY 12534.

The Board of Education, Cairo-Durham Central School District, Cairo, New York, hereby invites the submission of sealed bids to furnish transportation for a Special Education Transportation run for the 2019-2020 school year. Bids will be received no later than Thursday, October 17, 2019 at 10:00 a.m. at the District Office, Main Street, Cairo, New York at which time and place all bids will be publicly opened. The Board of Education reserves the right to reject any and/or all bids.

Bridget Agostinoni District Clerk Public Notice Craryville Fire District Meeting Change The regular scheduled monthly meeting for October, 2019 has been rescheduled for: October 15, 2019; immediately following the budget hearing.

Barbara L. Scutt, Secretary Craryville Fire District, Board of Fire Commissioners

The Greene County Industrial Development Agency is seeking firm quotes from qualified contractors for snow removal at 270 Mansion St., Coxsackie, NY for the winter season. All interested contractors should contact Peggy Snyder for a bid package at the IDA office or at snyder@greeneida.com or 518-7315500. All quotes must NOTICE be received at the IDA Village of Athens Please take notice that office at 270 Mansion there will be a Public Street, Coxsackie, NY Hearing of the Athens by 3:00 PM on Friday, October 25th.

Village ZBA held on October 22, 2019 at CONSTAN6pm at the Village SARAH PH.D., PSYClerks Office located TINE, at 2 First Street, Ath- CHOLOGIST, PLLC, a ens, for the purpose of Prof. LLC. Arts. of Org. hearing public com- filed with the SSNY on ment on an application 09/20/2019. Office loc: County. for an area variance on Columbia behalf of Carl Travis SSNY has been desigand Paulette Miller, lo- nated as agent upon cated at 69 N. Wash- whom process against ington Street, Athens, it may be served.

SSNY shall mail proNY. cess to: The LLC, 1091 ZBA Longview Drive, ChatMJ Wynne ham, NY 12037. Purpose: To Practice The NOTICE TO BIDDERS Education Profession Of PsySpecial chology.

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PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC) The name of the LLC is Farmstead Hudson Valley LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on September 23, 2019.

New York office location: 200 Station Road, Town of Stockport, County of Columbia and the State of New York. SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is: Farmstead Hudson Valley LLC; 200 Station Road, Hudson, New York 12534. Purpose/Character of business: Any lawful business purpose permitted under the New York Limited Liability Company Law. This notification is made pursuant to Section 206 of the Limited Liability Company Law.

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Barbara L. Scutt, Secretary Craryville Fire District, Board of Fire Commissioners

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Ranking the college football coaching class of 2018: the good, the bad and the ugly J. Brady McCollough Los Angeles Times

After three miserable years watching Jim McElwain’s offenses further lay ruin to Florida’s “Fun ‘n’ Gun” culture, the Gators faithful desperately wanted an offensive wizard to save them late in the fall of 2017.

Who would be more perfect for college football’s biggest coaching vacancy than Chip Kelly, the understated and quirky genius who turned Oregon into a national title contender and flamed out at a couple of NFL stops?

The Florida private jet with an envoy of school representatives reportedly flew to New Hampshire to court Kelly, but there was also a sense that he could be a better personality fit for UCLA, which had fired Jim Mora Jr. The Florida job was set up to win sooner than the Bruins’ position, but frequent College Football Playoff visits were in no way a gimme with the Gators, who have to contend with a resurgent Georgia in the Southeastern Conference East Division and Alabama, Auburn and Louisiana State coming out of the West each year.

Kelly ultimately chose the path of lesser competitive resistance — and lesser fan intensity — with UCLA and the struggling Pac-12 Conference.

Florida moved on quickly, the next day scooping up Mississippi State’s Dan Mullen, a former Gators offensive coordinator under Urban Meyer.

One of the most thrilling and treacherous things about hiring season in college football is that you never know how it’s going to turn out, no matter what the data says beforehand.

Mullen’s then-No. 10 Florida team beat No.7 Auburn 24-13 on Saturday in Gainesville, Fla., in a battle of undefeated teams trying to stay in the hunt for the College Football Playoff.

It wasn’t exactly “Fun ‘n’ Gun,” but being 6-0 is fun enough in Gainesville.

Later, across the country in a somber Rose Bowl, UCLA lost to Oregon State 48-31, moving the Bruins to 1-5 this season and 4-14 overall under Kelly.

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Florida head coach Dan Mullen celebrates after a Gators touchdown against Miami at Camping World Stadium in Orlando, Fla., on Aug. 24.

It’s easy to look at where Florida and UCLA are right now and say the Gators really dodged a bullet. Frankly, halfway into Year2, it’s a risk to make any judgment, no matter how good or bad it looks.

There were 12 new coaches hired in the Power Five conferences in the winter of 2017, and some of them — Kelly included — appear to be in trouble.

Here’s a look at where things stand for this highly pressurized dozen, the coaching class of 2018.

So far, so good Dan Mullen, Florida: There have been some rocky aspects to Mullen’s start at Florida — player behavior off the field has been a consistent issue.

But the Gators’ 16-3 overall record, led by a talented defense, has allowed the offense to lag behind and continue to figure itself out.

Herm Edwards, Arizona State: In

Edwards’ first season, the Sun Devils finished 7-6 and contended for the Pac-12 South title. In Year2, it’s even more clear this was a terrific move for Arizona State as the Sun Devils (4-1) have won road games against Michigan State and California.

Mario Cristobal, Oregon: The Ducks blew a chance at a big victory in their opening loss to Auburn. Because of a muddled Pac-12, Oregon (4-1) won’t have another shot at a nationally relevant win until its bowl game, but regionally, going to Seattle and beating Washington on Oct.19 would register a resounding note.

Holding steady Jimbo Fisher, Texas A&M: Fisher left Florida State, where he won a national title, for the riches of Texas A&M — he signed a 10-year contract worth $75million. Texas A&M is playing the long game with Fisher, and the Aggies (3-2) are one of the

youngest Power Five teams. On Saturday, they host No.1 Alabama.

Scott Frost, Nebraska: Cornhuskers fans aren’t feeling as overjoyed to have Frost back in Lincoln as they were when the season started with hopes of a Big Ten West Division crown. Nebraska (4-2) choked the game away at Colorado and was blasted by Ohio State 48-7. But the program still feels as if it has momentum with Frost and is building a new identity. It’s just clear that this is not going to be an overnight rebuild.

Joe Moorhead, Mississippi State: In Moorhead’s first season as a head coach, the former Penn State offensive coordinator had a dependable senior quarterback in Nick Fitzgerald and three first-round NFL draft picks on defense. The Bulldogs finished 8-5. Now comes the hard part.

The Bulldogs are 3-2 in a rebuilding season. Even a 6-6 finish would be

viewed as acceptable.

Kevin Sumlin, Arizona: Sumlin’s first year in Tucson was pretty hard to watch. With quarterback Khalil Tate nursing a lingering ankle injury, the Wildcats limped to a 5-7 finish. Sumlin’s job this offseason was to rejuvenate Tate. The returns are positive enough with Arizona at 4-1 and coming off a win at Colorado to say that Sumlin has the Wildcats where they should be in his second season.

Too early in rebuild Jonathan Smith, Oregon State: The former Beavers quarterback has built a competent offense in Corvallis around sixth-year senior Jake Luton and wide receiver Isaiah Hodgins. At a minimum, if Oregon State (2-3) can be exciting and fun to watch, then Smith has accomplished something big.

Chad Morris, Arkansas: The Razorbacks went 2-10 overall and winless in the SEC in 2018, and it doesn’t look much better in Year2 at 2-3. Morris could be in trouble with Razorbacks fans sooner rather than later, but for now he deserves a forgiving leash.

Patience is fading Chip Kelly, UCLA: How could it really be this bad for Kelly and the Bruins? UCLA has no buzz in recruiting and now plays in front of a near-empty Rose Bowl. A new athletic director will take over in Westwood with the No.1 priority of deciding whether Kelly is the guy to get this done.

Willie Taggart, Florida State: In Taggart’s first season, the Seminoles did the unthinkable, missing a bowl game at 5-7. Taggart, who succeeded at South Florida and went 7-5 in his one season coaching Oregon, appears as if he might be overmatched.

If Clemson blows out a 3-2 Florida State team Saturday, Taggart better watch out.

Jeremy Pruitt, Tennessee: No program has been more embarrassed by 2019 than Tennessee, which lost to Georgia State and followed that up with another home loss to Brigham Young. At 1-4, there aren’t many potential wins in sight, but for Pruitt, getting to four or five could buy him a third season.

CMYK

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Columbia-Greene Media Cares Sponsorships, Trades and Matching Grant Program

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There are hundreds of wonderful events that take place throughout the year to benefit the community that CGM would love to promote. After thinking long and hard about the best way to support the many grassroots organizations that make up our community, we are proud to announce “Columbia-Greene Media Cares.”

We are launching this initiative with our Sponsorship and Matching Grant program:

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