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Arrest made in vape sales probe By Bill Williams Columbia-Greene Media

CATSKILL — A store clerk in Catskill was arrested on felony charges after a multi-agency investigation into illegal vaping sales in the village, according to a statement from the Catskill Police Department. Police have not released the name of the clerk, who is employed at NYC Deli Grocers at 296 Main St. The clerk was charged with one count of second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument, a class D

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A store clerk at the NYC Deli in Catskill was arrested for allegedly selling a vape pen to a minor.

felony, one count of seconddegree unlawfully dealing with a child, a class B misdemeanor, and two violations of New York State Public Health Law, police said. In New York State, the sale and distribution of e-cigarettes, vapor products or liquid nicotine to persons under the age of 21 is prohibited. The investigation began when concerned parents contacted Catskill Police and reported that their children, all juveniles, were purchasing nicotine vape pens from NYC

Deli. Catskill Police initiated the investigation with the assistance of state police and the Greene County District Attorney’s Office, police said. Police on Wednesday conducted an underage controlled purchase at the deli. A 16-year-old purchased a Hyde nicotine vape pen from the clerk. Shortly after making the sale to the juvenile, the store clerk was arrested, police said. See PROBE A8

State bans live fowl shows to curb bird flu By Ted Remsnyder Columbia-Greene Media

CAIRO — With sporadic cases of bird flu continuing to emerge throughout New York, the state Department of Agriculture and Markets has announced that all live fowl shows will be banned to curb the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza among poultry populations. The directive will impact the upcoming Greene County Youth Fair, which is set to take place at Angelo Canna Town Park in Cairo from July 28-31. Greene County Youth Fair President Alex Johnk said the fair will adjust accordingly to the state ruling, just as it did when another bird flu strain spread in 2015 and local children were not allowed to show their prized birds at the fair.

“It affects us,” Johnk said. “We were going to have a poultry show up to that point. At this point, we’re no longer having one. So we’ve got other things in place for the kids to show off their birds without actually bringing their birds to the fair. It’s similar to what we did the last time there was an avian flu going around.” Johnk said the fair will find creative ways to allow the children to display their poultry knowledge. “We’re going to have stuffed chickens for the kids to still do showmanship with, so they can still show their knowledge of the birds,” he said. “We’re going to give them an opportunity to display, whether it’s pictures or some other way for them to showcase the birds they have. We’re looking for other FILE PHOTO

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The Greene County Youth Fair in Cairo will not display live birds in the wake of the state ban of live fowl shows due a bird flu outbreak.

Gunther Hafner, former Daily Mail owner, dies at 82

By Ted Remsnyder Columbia-Greene Media

CATSKILL — Friends and colleagues Friday remembered Gunther Hafner as an enterprising, commanding presence as the former owner and publisher of the Daily Mail. Hafner, 82, died March 11 in Queensbury. A cause of death was not given. He is survived by his wife Lucille, his son Mark, his daughters Stacey and Kym Bongiorno and nine grandchildren. Born on Jan. 22, 1940, Hafner graduated from Catskill High School and went on to serve four years in the U.S. Navy before returning to Greene County to launch his career in the

newspaper business. He was hired at the Daily Mail in 1961 to work in the mail room, and from there made his way up the ladder in the company, then owned by the Conland family of Connecticut. Greene County Legislator Charles Martinez of Coxsackie recalls Hafner visiting his father’s business, the Martinez Monument Dealer Company in the 1960s to sell ads for the paper. “My father was in the monument business, he was a tombstone cutter,” Martinez said Friday. “Gunther would come around and get the ads from my father before he ended up in the position he was in. He was a salesperson for the Daily Mail. He elevated himself.”

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Hafner went on to hold a host of jobs with the Catskill newspaper, working as the circulation manager, advertising manager and general manager before ascending to an ownership position with the company. Managing Editor Raymond Pignone remembered Hafner as a hands-on publisher who wasn’t afraid to roll up his sleeves to get the job done. “Gunther was a very hard-working publisher,” Pignone said Friday. “He started out as an advertising rep, but even when he was a publisher, he would go out on the street with a camera and take news photos and

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WASHINGTON - More than a year after Donald Trump lost the presidency, federal labor leaders are aggravated by how long it is taking to completely flush his influence from the government. At the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) legislative conference this week, union officials were full of praise for President Joe Biden but equally frustrated at the slow pace of change in two agencies. They also are furious at his administration’s controversial - though still preliminary - proposal to close some veterans health-care operations. During Monday’s session of AFGE’s annual legislative conference, President Everett Kelley gushed about Biden’s strong relationship with the largest federal labor organization. “While President Biden hasn’t given us everything we want, he’s already proven himself the most pro-union president of my lifetime,” Kelley told union members. “I’ve met with the president twice so far. That didn’t happen before with other U.S. presidents.” He lauded “some big victories” under Biden - a long list that includes repealing “his predecessor’s anti-worker executive orders that threatened our collective bargaining rights, our ability to represent, and the fairness of the discipline system.” With a partner in the White House, Kelley boasted, “this has been one of our most productive, successful years ever.” Then came the “but” and the “betrayal.” “But I’d be lying to you if I said every promise has been kept,” Kelley continued, “at least, not at the VA.” He is upset with recommendations in VA’s Asset and Infrastructure Review (AIR) Commission report. They were developed “by asking ourselves

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President Biden has earned high marks from federal unions but leaders say some agencies are hanging onto former president Donald Trump’s antilabor rules.

one question above all else: what’s best for the Veterans we serve,” Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough said in a statement when releasing the document March 14. He got the question right but the answer wrong in AFGE’s view. Under the recommendations, which must survive a lengthy approval process, the number of VA medical centers would drop to 168 from 171, community-based outpatient clinics to 469 from 555 and other outpatient services clinics to 169 from 255, as my colleague Lisa Rein reported. The restructuring also calls for a 56% increase in multi-specialty communitybased outpatient clinics and jumping the number of standalone community living centers from two to 29. Fighting suggestions to close Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities, he added, “is our number one, our immediate priority.” Closing the facilities, Kelley complained, “is a betrayal of our veterans and our brothers and sisters who work in the VA. And it’s a betrayal of all of us, because VA closures replace the care our members provide with private care that costs more and leaves

veterans with worse health outcomes.” While the process started under Trump, when Congress approved legislation requiring VA’s infrastructure review, Kelley blasted the Biden administration, saying that “now we have a hit list from the secretary, and it is very aggressive, very destructive.” Later, by email, Kelley said McDonough “should have insisted that the VA’s recommendations account for the effects of a nearly two-year-long pandemic” and rejected any closures because they “will only result in more veterans being forced into private, for-profit care where they will pay more for worse outcomes.” Kelley wants VA to “focus exclusively on expanding and improving VA facilities in every location.” Office of Personnel Management Director Kiran Ahuja told the gathering by video that federal employees should “go to work every day for a federal government that serves as a model employer.” But for AFGE, two agencies in particular, the Education Department and the Social Security Administration, don’t meet that mark. AFGE leaders criticized officials there for continuing to act

like Trump’s anti-union edicts remain in effect, despite Biden’s policies to the contrary. “You still have those holdovers from the previous administration,” Kelley told reporters, “that just don’t want to give up any form of authority.” Social Security officials continue to pursue an “aggressive anti-union/anti-employee bargaining approach . . . undoubtedly directed by the Trump orders,” said an email from Rich Couture, AFGE’s spokesman on Social Security. Among the current Social Security polices Couture cited as “antithetical” to Biden’s agenda are “draconian official time cuts” and the “elimination and reduction of union office space nationwide, which similarly limits our ability to represent and access employees, especially now with reentry at agency installations now starting.” Official time allows union leaders to represent workers in limited ways, such as grievance procedures, while on government time. A Social Security statement said it “complied with all of the administration’s labor policies and is fully committed to positive relations with our labor partners. Last year, we offered to renegotiate major provisions of our collective bargaining agreements with all three of our unions. Two of our unions accepted and we are currently in contract negotiations with them. AFGE did not accept that offer and is pursuing arbitration to revoke the entire 2019 contract.” AFGE officials say the Education Department also is antithetical to Biden’s leadership and has not improved management-labor relations in several significant ways. On their list is the agency’s failure to bargain a new contract, to negotiate telework policy, to honor dues withholding and to approve official time.

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The juvenile subject “used a household knife to make puncture wounds” on another student, Grassmann said. The girl has been booked into juvenile hall, he said. The incident happened during a morning passing period, Chrostowski wrote, and may have been witnessed by Sierra Oaks middle-school students. Sierra Oaks “will be continuing with the school day to provide normalcy for our students with the addition of counseling support,” but parents who wish to pick up their students may do so, the principal wrote.

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — An eighthgrade student was taken to a hospital after being stabbed by another eighthgrader with a knife Thursday morning at an Arden Arcade school, San Juan Unified School District and law enforcement officials said. The attack happened about 9 a.m. at Sierra Oaks K-8. The knife wounds “appear to be superficial and non-life-threatening,” Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Sgt. Rodney Grassmann told The Sacramento Bee.

The incident “was resolved very quickly,” and staff were able to quickly retrieve the weapon, San Juan Unified School District spokesman Trent Allen said. “This morning, our school experienced an act of violence when a female student attacked another student with a knife,” the school’s principal Hady Chrostowski wrote in a letter to parents. “The families of those involved have been notified. The victim has been transported to a local hospital. The student who brought the knife has been detained by law enforcement and is no longer on campus.”

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Trial for sailor accused of burning Bonhomme Richard set for September Andrew Dyer The San Diego Union-Tribune

SAN DIEGO — The San Diego-based sailor charged with arson in connection to the devastating 2020 fire on the amphibious assault ship Bonhomme Richard will stand trial this September, the Navy announced Wednesday. Seaman Recruit Ryan Sawyer Mays, 20, faces two counts under the military justice system — aggravated arson and the willful hazarding of a vessel. Mays denies starting the fire. The trial is scheduled to begin Sept. 19 and run for two weeks, according to Lt. Sam Boyle, a Navy spokesperson assigned to

3rd Fleet in San Diego. Mays has not yet entered a plea, nor has he elected whether to face trial by judge or by jury, Boyle said. Mays was on duty on the ship the morning of Sunday, July 12, 2020. The seaman was seen carrying a heavy bucket down into the ship’s lower vehicle storage area just after 8 a.m., according to a sailor who was on watch who testified at Mays’ preliminary Article 32 hearing in December. Prosecutors say Mays was disgruntled with the Navy after finding himself assigned to deck duty on the ship after washing out of Navy SEAL training. At the December hearing,

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Monday, April 4 n Athens Town Board 7 p.m. Ath-

ens Volunteer Firehouse, 39 Third St., Athens 518-945-1052 Changes will be on the Town of Athens web page n Athens Village Organizational Meeting 6:30 p.m. Athens Community Center Village Office, 2 First St., Athens n Cairo Town Board 7 p.m. Town Hall, 512 Main St., Cairo n Coxsackie Village Organizational Meeting 7 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie 518-731-2718 n Greene County Board of Electrical Examiners 1 p.m. at the Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., 4th Floor, Room 469, Catskill

Tuesday, April 5 n Durham Town Board workshop meeting 7:30 p.m. Town Hall, 7309 Route 81, East Durham

Wednesday, April 6 n Catskill Central School District

Pittsfield man gets 10 years for sex crime By Bill Williams Columbia-Greene Media

ALBANY — A Massachusetts man was sentenced to 10 years in prison for attempting to lure a minor in Rensselaer County to have sex with him, U.S. Attorney Carla B. Freedman. Bryan P. Krynicki, 58, of Pittsfield, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Albany on Thursday. District Court Judge Mae A. D’Agostino also imposed a lifetime term of supervised release, which will start after Krynicki is released from prison. As a result of his conviction, Krynicki will be required to register as a sex offender upon his release from prison, Freedman said. Krynicki previously pleaded guilty to traveling across state lines with the intent to engage in a sexual act with a minor, Freedman said. Krynicki admitted in court Nov. 3 that between February and April 2020, he exchanged more than 1,000 sexually explicit messages with an undercover officer posing as a 14-year-old

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A Pittsfield man will spend the next 10 years in prison for attempting to entice a minor in Nassau.

child in an attempt to coerce and entice the child into engaging in sexual acts with him. Krynicki further admitted that on April 29, 2020, he traveled to meet with the child in Nassau, Rensselaer County. When Krynicki was met by FBI

agents at the arranged meeting place, he found out the “boy” was an undercover investigator, Freedman said. Krynicki was arrested after arriving at the location, and he has been in custody since that date, Freedman said.

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The case was investigated by the FBI and its Child Exploitation Task Force, which includes members of federal, state and local law enforcement agencies. The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Rachel Williams as a part of Project Safe Childhood. The announcement was made Thursday by Freedman and Janeen DiGuiseppi, special agent in charge of the Albany Field Office of the FBI. Project Safe Childhood was launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. The program is led by U.S. Attorney’s offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section. Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, visit online at www. justice.gov/psc.

Police: Scammer claims to be from Publishers Clearing House By Bill Williams

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n Ashland Town Planning Board 6 p.m. Town Hall, 12094 Route 23, Ashland n Coxsackie Village Board Budget Work Session 6 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie 518-731-2718

State police are warning the public of a new scam that uses the U.S. mail and pretends to be from Publishers Clearing House. The complainant, who came to state police barracks, received a letter from what he believed to be the Publishers Clearing House. Attached to the letter was a check made out to the complainant for $750,000, police said. The complainant told police that he called the number to claim the prize. He was then instructed to deposit the check in his account and then send a money order for $7,700 to an address to claim the prize. The checks are fraudulent, police said. The letter also states several times that the receiver should keep the information contained

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

Town Hall, 12094 Route 23, Ashland n Catskill Village Planning Board 7 p.m. Robert C. Antonelli Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill 518-9433830 n Coxsackie Village Board 7 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie 518-731-2718 n Greene County Legislature county services and public works 6 p.m. Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill

Tuesday, April 12 n Catskill Central School District

Board of Education special meeting 6:30 p.m. High School Library, 341 West Main St., Catskill n Coxsackie Town Board 7 p.m. Town Hall, 56 Bailey St., Coxsackie 518-731-2727 n Coxsackie Village Historic Preservation Committee 6 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie 518-7312718

in it confidential until the cash prize winnings are processed and deposited into the account. The letter goes on to say if the winner wants the Prize Patrol Van to come to your house to present your winnings with a camera crew, advise your claim agent for a specified time frame. The scam tells winners that they have only three to five days to claim their winnings. Be aware of these scams as they are targeting the elderly and vulnerable, police said. Officials at Publishers Clearing House, who are aware of the scam, want the public to know they only contact winners directly and in person. They surprise people at their door, exactly as it’s shown in their television ads. You don’t get calls, emails or letters in advance. Also, you never have to pay money to get money, officials said.

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Appeals 7 p.m. Athens Town Hall, 2 First St., Athens n Athens Village Board 6:30 p.m. Athens Fire Department, 39 Third St., Athens Consult the village website for updates the day of the meeting n Catskill Village Board of Trustees 6:30 p.m. Robert C. Antonelli Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill 518943-3830 n Jewett Town Board 7 p.m. Jewett Municipal Building, 3547 County Route 23C, Jewett

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The rules of the game The involvement of the New York state Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation in the dispute between the Durham Town Board and what is left of the Durham Historic Preservation Commission is not just a matter of two ships firing at each other as they pass. It raises some important fundamental questions about transparency, individual rights, silencing opposition and the consequences of conflict between a town-appointed panel and the people who appointed them. Ousted commission chairman Patrick Ciccone has said he believes he was punished for submitting an affidavit as part of a lawsuit brought by the Cornwallville Residents for Rural Preservation to stop the proposed Bosque housing development. The town board has said Ciccone was not reappointed because he overstepped his bounds as commissioner. Ciccone suspects he was dismissed for standing behind the commission’s findings in opposition to town officials who want to, in his word, “liquidate” the panel with the qualifications to review the proposed development. On March 4, commission members Ellen Fried, Ken Mabey and Rosemary O’Brien said they were

resigning their posts immediately because they believe the commission’s findings about the proposed development were ignored. Last October, the commission released its historic impact findings on the proposed 12-home Bosque project. The findings noted the commission was concerned that the development would be out of character in the historic district. In the aftermath of the resignation of three board members from the Durham Historic Preservation Commission, the state Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation said the Durham commission no longer has a quorum to conduct official business, effectively disbanding the panel. But the story doesn’t end there. Linda Mackey, certified local government representative from the Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, expressed her concerns to the town. Mackey said the Certified Local Government program is a federal initiative administered by the state park agency with the intention of supporting local preservation efforts. Durham has been a member of New York State’s Certified Local Government program

since 1990, Mackey said, and at that time the town and the Office of Parks entered into a reciprocal agreement binding both parties to a set of responsibilities regarding the program. Chief among those responsibilities is that the town of Durham maintains a qualified historic preservation review commission and that the town enforces the local historic preservation legislation for the designation and protection of historic properties. Under the Certified Local Government agreement between the Office of Parks and the town, Mackey said, it’s the duty of the town supervisor to appoint qualified members to the commission. The town is required to submit resumes for newly appointed members of the commission to the state to confirm their qualifications. In other words, and in no uncertain terms, Mackey reminded the Durham Town Board of the rules of the game. After 32 years in the Certified Local Government program, Durham officials should know the guidelines for appointing and maintaining a town historic preservation committee. If not, a refresher course is long overdue.

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WILL assume that Virginia’s obsessions rather than his jurisprudential convictions determined his dissent? But, say his critics, consider the “perceptions” or “appearances.” Fussing about such things is often what people do to justify unjustifiable actions. For example, people eager to restrict political campaign contributions — eager, that is, to limit financing for the dissemination of political speech — say that such restrictions are necessary to prevent corruption or the appearance of it. Quid pro quo transactions — doing favors in exchange for favors — are corrupt. A candidate accepting contributions from people who agree with him or her is politics. If the “appearance” makes morally fastidious people grumpy, that is no reason to proscribe the behavior. Particularly because the fastidious often are selectively so. Would Thomas’ current critics argue that a justice whose spouse is an environmental activist should recuse in cases involving the Environmental Protection Agency? Unlikely. This, however, is likely: A Venn diagram of people who think Thomas’ recusal is required to protect the court’s reputation for impartiality, and of people who denounce the court as a conservative, illegitimate minilegislature, would show a substantial overlap. During her Senate

confirmation hearings, Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, who in a reasonable era would be confirmed 100-0, said she would recuse herself in the case concerning the allegedly race-based (anti-Asian American) admissions policies at Harvard, where she serves on one of the university’s two governing boards. But her recusal suggests that her presumed support, as a member of the Board of Overseers, for Harvard’s policies would preclude her from objectively assessing them in the context of evidence and arguments presented to the court. This insults her. Or her recusal suggests that non-recusal would present an “appearance” of partiality. Such a consideration should not curtail the participation on the court of a justice whose confirmation presumes her impartiality. Lawrence, played by Peter O’Toole, strikes a match to light a cigarette for a fellow soldier, William Potter. Then slowly, without flinching, Lawrence pinches out the match’s flame. The soldier tries this and exclaims, “Ow! It damn well hurts!” Lawrence: “Certainly it hurts.” Potter: “Well what’s the trick then?” Lawrence: “The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurts.” Thomas does not mind criticism — for the unbending originalism of his jurisprudence, for his minimal reverence for precedents he considers mistaken, for the company his wife keeps, or for many other things. People who consider his starchy independence a problem have a problem. George Will’s email address is georgewill@washpost.com.

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Learning valuable lessons Dealing with the damage caused by deer from our feline friends in your yard, part 2 By Dick Brooks

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Last week I wrote about dealing with the local deer herd or horde, depending on your particular situation. The first line of defense if you are at risk is to try to avoid planting stuff that they really seem to enjoy eating. The fact is that they will sometimes eat almost anything you plant, as soon as you plant it, as if they are deliberately messing with your head. Still, they do have preferences and trying to avoid their favorites is a good idea. If you have already planted stuff that is being eaten, or is at high risk of being eaten, there are a number of effective repellants you can purchase at your local garden center. Many of these repellents contain ingredients that are really quite common and readily available at much lower costs than in their packaged form. You might not recognize some ingredients since they are listed in strange ways. If you read the labels to see the “active ingredients” of some of the more common ones, you will often see “putrescent whole egg solids.” This is essentially rotten eggs and you can make your own rotten egg sprays. A reader sent me the following recipe and friends of mine have tested it, with pretty good results. The key to all these repellants is applying them often enough for it to be detected. Here is one that I have used myself. Beat two eggs and add a cup of milk. Resist the immediate urge to make scrambled eggs and eat them on the spot. Place in a warm location and allow the egg/milk mixture to curdle and then wait until the eggs rot and it really begins to stink. At this point, you certainly won’t want to eat it and

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BEYFUSS neither do deer. Put it outside somewhere you don’t have to smell it while it continues to “ripen.” Add a few drops of dishwashing liquid and a gallon of water. The dish detergent acts to allow the different substances to stick together and helps to keep it on the foliage longer. Strain out the solids in a coarse colander and spray the remaining liquid on the plants, preferably before the deer have been eating them. Be prepared to re-apply it every week or two, or if it gets washed off in a heavy rain. You may also embellish this basic formula with some other ingredients you already have in your home. Other ingredients you will often see listed include “garlic juice” and capsaicin. You probably have some garlic in your refrigerator that you can crush and whizz up in your blender, as well as some hot pepper flakes or cayenne powder. You can also get some dry habanero peppers to use, but be very careful handling these peppers or other hot peppers, as they can seriously burn you if you get them in sensitive areas. Unlike squirrels and birds, which don’t seem to mind eating hot pepper flakes mixed with bird seed, most deer are not that fond of spicy, or garlicky food. Adding a few ounces of these other

ingredients to your rotten egg mix cannot hurt and may even increase its effectiveness. Commercially sold repellants work by scent and taste, or both. Some contain “oil of thyme, menthol or Eucalyptus” or some scent derived from citrus peels. Some contain the fungicide thiram and others contain ammonia and other soaps. There is one product on the market that is 50% coyote urine. Whatever concoction you come up with, be careful to test it first on a small section of plant tissue to make sure the remedy does not harm the plant. The major difference between these home remedies and the stuff you buy at the garden center is that the companies which sell the pre-packaged products have presumably already tested them on many plants, with no ill effects. They also have liability insurance to cover their corporate butts. So don’t sue me if the home remedy does not work for you. When it gets closer to planting season, I will list herbaceous plants that are somewhat deer resistant, most of the time. I have not discussed fencing, mostly because it is expensive and usually ugly to look at. Putting an eight foot tall, welded wire fence around your rhododendron or draping them with burlap is not particularly attractive to look at. I will share one tip now. Deer will not walk on chicken wire that is laid on the ground surrounding a tree or shrub. Now that the snow is gone and the grass not yet growing all that fast, you can put the chicken wire on the ground and deer will stay away. Reach Bob at rlb14@cornell.edu.

ShopRite announces annual fundraiser to support MakeA-Wish Foundation TARRYTOWN — ShopRite announced the return of its annual fundraising campaign to benefit Make-A-Wish® Hudson Valley, which will kick off on April 16 and will run for two weeks to help fulfill the charity organization’s mission to create lifechanging wishes for children with critical illnesses. Twenty-seven ShopRite stores throughout the Hudson Valley, six stores in Northeast New York, four stores in New Jersey, and one store in Pennsylvania, will collect donations at checkout from April 16 through April 30. The funds raised will support MakeA-Wish® and its mission to ensure that every child who qualifies for Make-A-Wish services is granted his or her wish. Since its inception in 1986, Make-A-Wish® Hudson Valley has granted more than 3,000 wishes for children in the Hudson Valley region. To date, ShopRite Supermarkets, Inc. has raised over $522,000

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Cats are funny critters, I like them. I know that there are a lot of people out there who feel differently, you know those with the “ I love cats — they’re delicious!” bumper stickers. To each his own, I’ve even met people who didn’t like vanilla ice cream if you can imagine that! I think it’s the attitude that gets to people fostering this love-hate thing. You can’t make a cat do anything they don’t want to do. Dogs do things to please you, they want you to love them, cats want you to do things that please them and they don’t much care how you feel about them as long as their needs are being met. Bored or haven’t had a good challenge in your life lately? Try obedience training your cat. Get a small choke collar, a 15 foot training leash and put them on your cat. Snap the leash smartly to get the cat’s attention while pushing down on their hind quarters and say in a firm voice, “Sit.” Unlike your dog, your cat will keep you entertained for several minutes and after you get untangled from the leash and stop the bleeding, you will find that you have both learned a lot. Have you ever noticed that

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BROOKS cats walk skinny and sleep fat? They also sleep a lot, preferring places high up and preferably forbidden. One of the few times a cat will forget his or her dignity is while napping. Belly up, paws crossed at weird angles, they pass their time is complete bliss, napping at least 20 hours a day. It’s enough to make an insomniac like myself green with envy. Frequently at night, after a few hours of being enlightened by infomercials on cutical care and how to become a millionaire in real estate for a mere pittance of 37 easy monthly payments of $19.99, I tear myself away from the softly glowing tube and gaze around the room. There is usually a furry lump on every soft object in the room, contentedly twisted into unconscious hair balls. I’d wake them up, but cats understand revenge and just how it works!

I’ve learned a lot from these small self important puff balls, things like; when you’re given affection, it should be received with the proper amount of respect, the pursuit of happiness isn’t important, happiness is fleeting, cats don’t mess with it, they learned generations ago to seek contentment, something that humans haven’t learned yet, and they have taught me patience and how to love the frequently unlovable. In return for being treated like royalty and fed on time, I am rewarded with gifts of cat toys deposited in my shoes and the amazing relief of pent up stress that a warm, purring feline curled up in your lap can bring. I have also learned through long experience with these little darlings when to stop petting, because nothing is more painful than a truly happy cat kneading in your lap. Thought for the week — Bumper sticker seen in Woodstock — Politicians and diapers should be changed frequently and often for the same reason. Until next week, may you and yours be happy and well.

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Bard College student Elisabeth Sundberg wins Davis Projects for Peace Prize ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON — Bard College student Elisabeth Sundberg ’22 has won a Davis Projects for Peace prize for her proposal, “Tracing The Turnrow Web: Appalachian Rising.” Human rights and studio arts major Sundberg will receive $10,000 to facilitate a series of collaborative art projects across the Turnrow network in West Virginia. Turnrow Appalachian Farm collective is a food hub connecting 100+ farms across West Virginia and providing fresh vegetables to their local communities. Working with farmers, artists, activists, and students, her work will “strengthen connections between the organizations within Turnrow and those between food producers and customers and celebrate the work that the different parts of the Turnrow food hub are doing, including education, food access, and strengthening local food landscapes.” Sundberg’s project proposes to engage West Virginian residents with each other and their food systems through a series of community art events. Over the summer, she will facilitate

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a two week-long art project that includes the creation of a participatory mural painting, patchwork table cloth, and celebratory communal meal in each of four larger regions that Turnrow serves. This project is a continuation of a grantfunded community project Sundberg facilitated last summer. Like a traditional quilting bee, the community will gather to create these artworks together. The murals serve as a lasting visual representation of community work and the table cloths as an artifact which

will be used by the network for potlucks, yearly business meetings, fundraising, and other events that Turnrow organizes. “Peace is not possible without food security and food justice. Many small towns in West Virginia don’t have a grocery store and rely on the Dollar General chain for their groceries. It is important to acknowledge that poor eating habits are not due to ignorance about healthy food choices, but due to lack of access. Peace is promoted when everyone has the right to local, sustainable, and nutritious produce, which is why organizations connecting farming and food access are so important,” says Sundberg. Projects for Peace was created in 2007 through the generosity of Kathryn W. Davis, a lifelong internationalist and philanthropist who believed that today’s youth — tomorrow’s leaders — ought to be challenged to formulate and test their own ideas. To learn more, visit: middlebury.edu/ office/projects-for-peace.

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James Godfrey James Godfrey, 97, of Ancram died March 31, 2022. Obituary information is available at www.MillspaughCamerato.com.

James Phoenix James Phoenix passed away peacefully on January 25th, 2022 at the age of 78. Jim was proud to have served his country in the U.S. Coast Guard from 1962 - 1966, and it was the skills he learned there that would lead him to a successful career in audio-electrical engineering. He was a voracious reader and continuous learner, particularly related to United States and world history. He was also an avid outdoorsman, with a deep appreciation for nature. Jim Phoenix was preceded in death by his loving parents Jane and Ralph Phoenix, sister Susie McCullough, and brother Thomas Phoenix, all of Greene County, NY. He is survived by children Steven and Jennifer Phoenix, grandson Everyn Phoenix, and siblings Robert Phoenix, and Nancy Bittner, as well as several nieces and nephews. A graveside service will take place late Spring 2022 at St. Patrick’s Cemetery in Catskill, NY. If you wish to receive further memorial details, please correspond via the following email address: JTPhoenixMemorial@gmail.com

Alice Edith Glass May 10, 1939 - March 6, 2022 Alice Edith Glass was born May 10, 1939 in Huntington Hospital on Long Island NY to Ida (Simon) and Hans Glass. She passed into eternity on March 6, 2022 at Saint Peters Hospital in Albany NY. Alice had grown up on the North Shore of long Island in the township of Northport. It is there that she met her first husband George Pitcher. We’ve often heard of the dish running away with the spoon, but this was the true story of the Pitcher and the Glass coming together! She married George when she was only sixteen. George was in the service and was sent overseas shortly after they were married. After his return the two began their family. They had five children over the course of 12 years: George (Bo), Lisa, Russell, Sheryl, and Daniel. After 27 years she and George divorced. In 1983 she married Henry G. Vedder. She is survived by her husband Henry G. Vedder, daughters Lisa Gaylord (Mark) , Sheryl Klob (Paul) Grandchildren: Jessica Murphy (Steve), Laura Wright, Daniel, Bethany, Abigail and Nathan Klob, Andrew, DeAnna and Gina Pitcher and great grandchildren Eliana Wright and Matthew Murphy. She is preceded by her beloved three sons George (Bo), Russell and Daniel and two half brothers Milton and George Manganaris. To most of the world she was known simply as Alice. That may be how you knew her! To a precious few she was known as “Mommy”. To a select group she was “Gram”. To a great many others, she was known either as “Bo, Russell, or Dan’s Mom” or simply “The boy’s Mom”. Over the years this sweet, gently smiling, unassuming woman became a “Mom” to many of life’s unwanted outcasts and ‘lost boys.’ You see, throughout her life, to strangers and stray cats this kindhearted soul would open her heart and life to share the love and grace given to her by her Heavenly Father. There was no one that she wouldn’t reach out to. She would share their load, lift their burden, and make their journey a little easier. Her days were filled with reading God’s word, seeking His direction, and praying for all those who came in contact with her life. She prayed God’s protection for her family, his love for those needing love, His strength and courage for those feeling weak, she prayed that God would make his presence known to those feeling alone. She prayed for strangers as she was moved in her heart by the Spirit of God. Everyone reading this should feel confident in this, if she knew you, she was or had been praying for you! Alongside of her prayers she was an encourager. Random phone calls, random texts with lots of emojis, and plenty of hugs. Alice was a woman of faith, a real woman of faith. Not the faith of those who get dressed nice on Sunday and go to church as a routine, but as a real true to life believer. She was a rock of unwavering faith like Job. Suffering such loss in her life as the passing of her three sons she continued to bless God. She in the face of death itself simply smiled and said, “I am ready to go home and see my boys and meet my Lord”. In whatever capacity you may have known her and by what ever name you may have called her it is truth to say that to some of the people in her life she is the closest thing to a saint they have ever known. In lieu of flowers please make a donation to outofthepits.orgPlease join us for a Celebration of life for Alice on May 7, 2022 at the Claverack Firehouse in Claverack NY From 1:00 – 3:00

Gertrude King December 6, 1945 - March 30, 2022 PALENVILLE.Gertrude King, 76, of Rte. 23 A died Wednesday, March 30, 2022 at the Columbia Memorial Hospital, Hudson. Born December 6, 1945 in Brooklyn she was the daughter of the late John and Gertrude King. An area resident for many years where she owned and operated the Erin House. Survivors include two daughters, Deborah and her husband, Dominic Gallo of Catskill and Dawn Souza of Wyoming. Three sons: Michael Galletti of Catskill, Daniel Souza of Palenville and Jason Souza of Florida. A brother, James King of Virgina. 11 Grandchildren & 8 Great Grandchildren also survive. Friends will be received Sunday 1:30- 4:00 PM at the Seamon-Wilsey Funeral Home, Inc. Cor. of John & Lafayette Sts., Saugerties. Family suggests donations in her memory be made to St. Jude’s Hospital. Expressions of condolence may be shared with the family on Gertrude’s Tribute Wall at SeamonWilseyFuneralHome.com

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Gunther J. Hafner

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January 22, 1940 - March 11, 2022

August 1, 1937 - March 6, 2022

Former Publisher and Owner of the Catskill Daily Mail and Greene County News. Gunther J. Hafner, 82, passed away on March 11, 2022, in Queensbury, New York. Gunther was born January 22, 1940. He was proceeded by his parents, Karl and Ida Hafner and his brother, Walter Hafner. He was survived by his wife, Lucille. His sister and brother-in-law, Rita and Joe Pilatich. Two daughters, Stacey Hafner and Kym Bongiorno (Michael), and his son, Mark Hafner (Sharon), Lucille’s daughter, Gina Howard (Eric). He had nine grandchildren, Tiffany, Zach, Nick, Nettie, Alexis, Andre, Sonya, Ethan, and Kyle. Seven great-grandchildren and two nephews, Dr. Joe Pilatich and Jeffrey Pilatich. Gunther graduated from Catskill High school. Served four years in the United States Navy and was an instructor at the Albany Naval Reserve Training Center. Gunther was a self-made businessman. He had a 28-year career at the Catskill Daily Mail and Greene County News. He started at the Daily Mail in 1961 in the mail room and continued to Circulation Manager, Editorial Dept., Advertising Manager, General Manager, all the way to Publisher and Owner, until retiring in 1989. Gunther was devoted to the Catskill community. He was an active member of the Catskill Merchants Division, Catskill Mt. Chamber of Commerce, Catskill Elks Club, Greene County Jaycees, VFW, Greene County Council of the Arts, and Coach for the Catskill Boys & Girls Club. He also sponsored many teams including but not limited to Little League and Men’s Softball League. He was a member of the Catskill Rotary Club. He was named Rotarian of the Year in 1978 and 1984. Gunther was a close friend of Cus D’Amato and financial backer and early promoter of the Rise of the Mike Tyson years in Catskill. Gunther spearheaded many projects and promotional events for our community such as, Christmas on Main Street, Wacky Water Races, Spring Rush, Bluegrass Festival, Carnival at Jamesway, and his favorite, Old Catskill Days. These are some of the things he ran for 20 years. There wasn’t a day you didn’t see him running up and down Main Street from merchant to merchant. He was a friend and mentor to many and one of the hardest working men in the community. Gunther enjoyed hunting, fishing, boating, antique and coin collecting and watching sports, while having a cold beer anytime. He loved spending time with family and friends on holidays and for special occasions. Christmas was his favorite and if you knew him you would know he would be whistling Christmas songs while cleaning throughout the year. He will be greatly missed by many.

Our beloved mother, Esther Ruth Florez, went home to be with her Lord and Savior on March 6, 2022. Esther was born on August 1, 1937 to Charles Flach & Catherine Schwebler Flach in Greenville, NY. Esther met the love of her life, Frank Florez, and they were married on October 1, 1954. They had 56 wonderful years together when her husband went to be with the Lord. Together they had four children. Esther was a loving and devoted mother and is survived by her son, Frank J. Florez Jr. (Gisleine Florez) and daughters, Elaine Henderson (Arthur Henderson), Dorothy Florez Acklin and Joyce Giordiano (Tony Giordiano). Esther had nine Grandchildren who she was very proud of Rebecca Doyle (Daniel Doyle), Arthur P. Henderson Jr. (Tanya Henderson), Rachel Perry (Benjamin Perry), David Florez (Crystina Florez), Isaiah Rockefeller (Sabrina Rockefeller), Joseph Salvatore III (Jessica Salvatore), Aleena Salvatore, Charles Salvatore (Samantha Salvatore), Katie Bouchard and her 20 Great Grandchildren Caitlin Doyle, Caleb Doyle, Grace Doyle, Donovan Henderson, Ava Henderson, Hailey Perry, Cheyanne Perry, Kyla Florez, Kayle Ann Florez, Joseph Salvatore IV, Jenna Salvatore, Joshua Salvatore, Blayze Salvatore, Kinleigh Salvatore, Zephaniah Rockefeller, Ezekiel Rockefeller, Nehemiah Rockefeller, Micaiah Rockefeller, Ezra Rockefeller and Silas Rockefeller. Esther is Predeceased by her Husband, Frank J Florez, and Brothers John Flach and David Flach. She is survived by her brother, James Flach (Mary Flach), and her Uncle Stephen Schwebler (Marian Schwebler). Esther and her late husband were the founding Pastors of Calvary Assembly of God and Faith Christian Academy in Stottville, New York where they served the Lord for 28 years. Esther was the office manager of Faith Christian Academy and First Lady of Calvary Assembly of God. She was a woman of unwavering faith in God and shared her faith with everyone she met. Officiating Minister is Arthur P. Henderson of Calvary Assembly of God, Stottville, and Frank J. Florez Jr. will be sharing the message of the celebration of her life. Calling hours will be held on Friday, April 8, 2022 from 5:00 P.M. to 7:00 P.M. at the W.C. Brady’s, Sons, Inc. Funeral Home, 97 Mansion Street, Coxsackie, NY. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, April 9, 2022 at 10:30 A.M. at the First Reformed Church, 284 Mansion Street, Coxsackie, NY. Interment will follow in the family plot of The Chestnut Lawn Cemetery, Route 9W, New Baltimore, N.Y. In lieu of flowers please consider a donation to Calvary Assembly of God, PO Box 337, Stottville, NY, 12172, in memory of the founding First Lady. Condolences may be made at www.wcbradyssonsinc.net.

Walter J. Nieto March 4, 1931 - March 30, 2022 Cohoes-Walter J. Nieto of Cohoes NY passed away on March 30, 2022. He was born on March 4, 1931, in New York City and was one of seven children born to Manuel and Agnes (McCabe) Nieto. He is predeceased by his first wife Margaret (Sullivan) Nieto and daughter in law Patricia (Kerner) Nieto. He is survived by his wife Kathleen (McMahon) Nieto and his children, Richard (Deb), Barry (Karen), Steven (Jan), Kenneth (Bess), Cynthia Butler, former daughter in law Maxine Krengel, his stepchildren Jill (George) Ryan and Grant Smith (Tracy). He is also survived by many grandchildren, great grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and their families. Walter is also survived by his sister-in-law Dorothy Sullivan, his cousins Helen Curry and William McCabe. Walter was very active in his church community, first at St James in Chatham, NY and then in St Augustine’s in Troy, NY. He was a Eucharistic minister, sang in the choir and was a lector. Walter left high school to join the Navy and earned a GED after his discharge. He was an elevator mechanic by trade and a member of the International Union of Elevator Contractors, serving as the Local 35 president and other offices for many years. After his retirement in 1991 he and Kathy enjoyed many years of traveling, both domestic and international, visiting all of the United States but Louisiana. Family and friends are invited and may call on Sunday, April 3, from 3 to 6 p.m. at the McLoughlin & Mason Funeral Home, corner of 109th Street and Third Avenue, Lansingburgh. A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. on Monday, April 4, in St. Augustine’s Church, 25 115th Street, Troy. Burial in St. James Cemetery, Ghent. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made in Walter’s name to St Augustine’s Church 25 115th Street Troy NY 12182. Please visit www.mcloughlinmason.com

William J. Schneider, III October 20, 1960 - March 27, 2022 William J. Schneider, III (Billy) passed away unexpectedly March 27, 2022. Billy was the first of seven children born October 20, 1960, to the late William J. Schneider, Jr. and Sally Schneider (Hyer) now residing in Purling, NY. He was also pre-deceased by his loving grandparents William J and Grace Schneider of Glendale, N.Y. and William and Mary C Hyer of Athens, N.Y. Billy is survived by his mother Sally Schneider, his brothers and sisters Dr. Sally Sharkey, Dr. James Schneider (Kate), Kathleen Schneider, Dr. Robert Schneider (Sarah), Patricia Schneider Delaney (John), and Susan Russell (Stacey). He is also survived by his loving nieces and nephews Michael, Sarah, Madeline and Grace Sharkey, Zach and Katie Russell, William and Emma Schneider and Rogan Delaney in addition to many cousins and close family friends. Billy attended The College of St Rose for business and went on to run a tree cutting business and work in the family businesses. He was best known for running the family Roller Rink in Purling, N.Y. He made sure everyone always felt welcome and his big heart, laugh and sense of humor will be greatly missed. Billy was brilliant and knew more sports stats than anyone we knew and never missed a trivia question much to the chagrin to his brothers and sisters. He loved sports and Saturday ‘spaghetti westerns’ with his Dunkin coffee and a scratch off. He always was happy to see you and loved his family. He never had an unkind word about anyone. He was one of the nicest men to be around and his daily phone calls will be missed by all of us. A private family Catholic service took place at The Richards Funeral Home, 29 Bross Street, Cairo, N.Y., 12413, and interment followed at The St. Patrick’s Cemetery in Catskill, N.Y. on Wednesday, March 30, 2022. In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, P.O. Box 1000, Dept.142, Memphis, TN, 38148-0142 or to The Make a Wish Foundation, 3550 North Central Avenue, Suite 300, Phoenix, AZ, 85012-2107. Condolences may be made at www.richardsfuneralhomeinc.net.

Jadwiga J. Goss March 27, 2022

Jadwiga J. Goss 76 of Hudson NY passed away unexpectedly March 27 , 2022 . Jadwiga is survived by her son Marek , daughter Joanna , sisters Hanna and Wanda , grandchildren Tomasz , Patryk , Monika , greeatgrandchildren Lila and Emma . Jadwiga was a carring women and will be missed . Rest in peace.

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LENTEN SERVICES HUDSON — The TriCounty Lutheran Parish announces the Lenten worship schedule. St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, 1010 Kinderhook St., Valatie, will be hosting a worship service starting at 6 p.m. every Wednesday during Lent through April 13 in person or via Zoom with the following link: https://us02web.zoom. us/j/2529435520. Visit the TCLParish.org website for location, directions, worship schedules and Zoom live streaming worship service link. Contact the administrative office at 518758-6526 for pastoral services inquiries or any further information.

HOLY WEEK VALATIE — Roman Catholic Community of Northern Columbia County announces the Holy Week schedule. For information, www.CCNCCParishes.org. Palm Sunday Weekend: April 9 4 p.mn. – St. John the Baptist Church – Valatie; 4 p.m. – St. Joseph Church – Stottville; April 10 7:30 a.m. - St. John the Baptist Church – Valatie; 9:15 a.m. – St. James Church – Chatham; 11 a.m. – St. Joseph Church – Stuyvesant Falls (English); 12:30 p.m. – St. Joseph Church – Stuyvesant Falls (Spanish). Holy Triduum: April 14 7 p.m. – St. John the Baptist Church – Valatie – Bilingual/ Bilingue, Mass preceded at 5:30 p.m. with Soup and Bread Supper; April 15 7 p.m. – St. James Church – Chatham – English, Passion of Our Lord, Veneration of the Cross and Holy Communion; 7 p.m. – St. Joseph Church – Stuyvesant Falls – Spanish, Vía Crucis en espñol – Stations of the Cross in Spanish; April 16 8 p.m. – St. Joseph Church – Stuyvesant Falls – Bilingual/Bilingue. Easter Vigil – Reservations Required / Se Requiren Reservaciones Easter Sunday: April 17 7:30 a.m. - St. John the Baptist – Valatie; 9:15 a.m. – St. James Church – Stuyvesant Falls; 11 a.m. – St. Joseph Church – Stuyvesant Falls (English); 12:30 p.m. – St. Joseph Churh – Stuyvesant Falls (Spanish); 5 p.m. – St. Joseph Church – Stottville – new time, all welcome. KINDERHOOK — The Easter week services at Kinderhook Reformed Church, 21 Broad St., Kinderhook will be

April 14 7 p.m. with Maundy Thursday Communion in the Fellowship Room. Easter Sunday, April 17 6 a.m. Easter Sunrise Service at North Chatham United Methodist Church, 4274 Route 203, North Chatham. Easter Sunday Service at Kinderhook Reformed Church at 9:30 a.m. For information, call 518-7586401. CLAVERACK — The Reformed Dutch Church in Claverack, 88 Route 9H, Claverack, announces the Holy Week schedule. The Palm Sunday, 9:30 a.m. April 10 will include the distribution of palms. Reverend Sara Appleyard-Pekich will give the homily and serve Holy Communion at the solemn Maundy Service which begins at 7 p.m. in the sanctuary on April 14. The Easter Sunday Service will be at 9:30 a.m. April 17. Everyone is welcome to a coffee hour which follows each morning service. The traditional Hot Cross Buns are served on Easter Sunday. A traditional Easter Egg hunt for children will be held at 1 p.m. April 9 on the church grounds. The Lenten Offering boxes distributed in March at the beginning of Lent will be collected on Easter Sunday. Proceeds from the boxes will go to Ukrainian Relief. Anyone who would like to help in the aid to Ukrainian refugees may make a check out to the Reformed Dutch Church of Claverack, earmark the check for Ukrainian Relief, and send it to Drawer K, Claverack, New York 12513. For information, call 518-851-3811. VALATIE — The Tri-County Lutheran announces the Holy Week schedule. Maundy Thursday, April 14, noon at Christ Our Emmanuel Lutheran Church, 19 Park Row, Chatham; 7 p.m. at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, 1010 Kinderhook St., Valatie. Good Friday, April 15, noon at Emanuel/St. John’s Lutheran Church, 20 South Sixth St., Hudson; 7 p.m. at St. Stephen’s Lutheran Church, 751 County Route 7, East Schodack. We begin the worship around the bonfire and process into the church carrying the light of Christ with us. The anticipation builds throughout this service to the pronouncement of Christ’s resurrection from the dead. Easter Vigil, April 16, 6 p.m. at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, 1010 Kinderhook St., Valatie. Gather on the north side of the church around the fire. Easter Sunday, April 17,

8:30 a.m. Emanuel Lutheran, 1723 Route 9, Stuyvesant Falls; 9 a.m. Trinity Lutheran, 68 Green Ave., Castleton; 9 a.m. Zion Lutheran, 102 North Washington St., Athens; 9:30 a.m. Christ Our Emmanuel Lutheran, 19 Park Row, Chatham; 10:30 a.m. St. Luke’s Lutheran, 1010 Kinderhook St., Valatie; 11 a.m. Emanuel/ St. John’s Lutheran, 20 South Sixth St., Hudson; 11 a.m. St. Paul’s Lutheran, 96 Oak Hill Road, Oak Hill; 11 a.m. St. Stephen’s Lutheran, 751 County Route 7, East Schodack.

EASTER EGG HUNT KINDERHOOK — The Annual Easter Egg Hunt will be held 3-4:30 p.m. April 3 at the Kinderhook Reformed Church, 21 Broad St., Kinderhook. Crafts, snacks, cookie decorating, story telling and Easter egg hunt in a family friendly setting. Discover the true meaning of Easter. Free and open to ages through grade 5. For information, call 518-758-6401 or kinderhookreformedchurch.com.

BLOOD DRIVE CATSKILL — The Catskill United Methodist Church, 40 Woodland Ave., Catskill, will be holding an American Red Cross blood drive 8 a.m.-1 p.m. April 9.

UKRAINE SERVICE FOR PEACE BURNT HILLS — The Burnt Hills Ministers Association is sponsoring a Ukraine Service for Peace at 4 p.m. April 10. The outdoor event will be held in the parking lot of the Burnt Hills United Methodist Church, 816 Route 50, Burnt Hills. Local Clergy will gather to add their prayers along with Father Vasyl Dovgan and Father Mikhail Myshchuk. A Ukrainian Childrens Choir will sing. Local Cardilogist Dr. Andrij Baran will speak. Donations will be accepted for the Ukrainian Refugee Fund.

CONCERT KINGSTON — Internationally acclaimed Tibetan singer-songwriter Yungchen Lhamo will perform a Benefit Concert for the One Drop of Kindness Foundation 2-3:30 p.m. April 23 at the Old Dutch Church, 272 Wall St., Kingston. Pre-ordered tickets are $12.50 at www.eventbrite. com/e/one-drop-of-kindness-benefit-concert-tickets-293864967027 or $15 at the door.

TREASURE & TRIFLE SALE CHATHAM — St. James Parish, 129 Hudson Ave., Chatham, Treasure & Trifle sale will be held 9 a.m.-3 p.m. April 30 and May 7 and 10:30 a.m.1 p.m. May 1 in the basement. This sale is to benefit a community in Haiti.

GARAGE SALE FUNDRAISER EAST BERNE — Helderberg Christian School, 96 Main St., East Berne, will be hosting a garage sale fundraiser 8 a.m.-3 p.m. May 7. Vendors are being sought for the run your own table sale. Bring it in and take what’s left when you leave. If you donate all your proceeds to the school there is no table fee. The table fee is $10. Sign up by April 14 to secure a table. For information, email hcslibraryfund@yahoo.com.

SPRING RUMMAGE SALE CATSKILL — The First Reformed Church of Catskill, 310 Main St., Catskill, will be holding their Spring Rummage Sale 9 a.m.-5 p.m. May 13 and 9 a.m.-1 p.m. May 14. On Saturday items will be sold for $4 a bag.

CRAFT FESTIVAL SEEKING APPLICANTS RICHMOND SPRINGS — Applications are being accepted until May 1 for the 41st Annual Friendship Craft Festival sponsored by the Church Of Christ Uniting in Richfield Springs. It will take place 9 a.m.-3 p.m. June 11 in Spring Park on Scenic US Route 20. The event will also feature a Brooks’ chicken barbecue as well as a bake sale, both adding to the popularity of the day from those near as well as far. For information and an application go to www.rschurchofchristuniting.com and click on the “Women’s Guild” tab; email friendshipcraftfestival@yahoo.com or call Carla at 315-858-1451.

FIRST REFORMED CHURCH OF ATHENS ATHENS —The First Reformed Church of Athens, 16 North Church St., Athens, worships at 10:30 a.m. Sunday. All are welcome to join us. Communion is celebrated the first Sunday of each month. Senior Choir rehearsal is at 6:30 p.m. each Wednesdays. We ask that singers are vaccinated. Hudson River Bells rehearsal is at 7:30 p.m. Thursdays. Masks are worn during rehearsal. For information, call the church at 518-945-1801.

LIVING FAITH COMMUNITY CHURCH MAPLECREST — Living Faith Community Church, 54 Route 56, Maplecrest, welcomes locals and visitors to worship together at 10:30 a.m. Sunday. Adult Bible Study meets before service at 9:30 a.m. Fellowship meal follows service on the second Sunday of each month. For information, call 518-734-4275.

FIRST REFORMED CHURCH OF COXSACKIE

COXSACKIE — The First Reformed Church of Coxsackie, 285 Mansion St., Coxsackie, worships at 9:30 a.m. Sunday. All are welcome. Communion is celebrated the first Sunday of each month. Sunday School is available during the worship service time. Free Food Fridays provide a meal for anyone at 6 p.m. on the third Friday of each month; www. firstreformecoxsackie.com.

SOUP KITCHEN OPEN CATSKILL — The Camp Grace Inc. Soup Kitchen, located at the First Reformed Church of Catskill, 310 Main St., Catskill, is open noon-1 p.m. Tuesday through Friday. For information, call Director Lamont Taylor at 518-2497009.

EMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH STUYVESANT FALLS — Emanuel Lutheran Church is located at the junction of US Route 9 and County Route 46 in Stuyvesant Falls. Church services are at 8:30 a.m. Sunday and all are welcome and invited.

ST. MARK’S SECOND EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH HUDSON — St. Mark’s Second Evangelical Lutheran Church, 8 Storm Ave., Hudson, worships 9:30 a.m. Sunday. Communion is celebrated on the first Sunday of every month with Pastor Stan Webster. Child care is offered during the service and Sunday school after the service ends. For information, call the Church office at 518-8289514.

ST. JOHN’S LUTHERAN CHURCH STUYVESANT — St. John’s Lutheran Church, 159 Route 26A, Stuyvesant, has in-person and live online worship services at 10:15 a.m. Sunday. Sunday School is at 9 a.m. for children 3 and older. Face masks and social distancing is required at this time. The live broadcasts are on www. facebook.com/St-Johns-Lutheran.

CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL HUDSON — Christ Church Episcopal, 431 Union St., Hudson, worships at 9 a.m. Sundays in person and online. Masks are not required. Live broadcast on Facebook.com/ ChristChurchEpiscopalHudson, or christchurchepiscopalhudson.org. Midweek Eucharist Wednesdays 12:15 p.m. in the church; join us for a quiet and uplifting service with anointing and prayers. Good Friday service at noon April 15. Easter Vigil Saturday 8 p.m. April 16; Easter Sunday 9 a.m. April 17. For information call

518-828-1329 or email christchurch1802@gmail.com.

SAINT PAUL’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH KINDERHOOK — St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 8 Sylvester St., Kinderhook, Holy Communion in person at 8 and 10 a.m. Sundays. Face masks and distancing required regardless of vaccination status. For information and news, www. saintpaulskinderhook.org/ or follow us on Facebook. Subscribe to our newsletter: http://eepurl.com/cG4YSv; 518-758-6271 or saintpaulskinderhook@gmail.com. Office open 1:30-4:30 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday and by appointment.

KINDERHOOK REFORMED CHURCH KINDERHOOK — The Kinderhook Reformed Church, 21 Broad St., Kinderhook, will have in person and live online Sunday worship include Sunday 8:45 a.m. prayer group 1; 9:30 a.m. worship and youth Sunday school; 10:30 a.m. coffee hour; and 11 a.m. prayer group 2. Weekly Bible studies available. Live broadcast on http://www.youtube. com/channel/UCCTUNikeMHshkf-mqhM-NxCw or www.facebook.com/KinderhookReformedChurch. For information, call 518-7586401 or kinderhookreformedchurch.com.

CLAVERACK REFORMED DUTCH CHURCH CLAVERACK — The Reformed Dutch Church, 88 Route 9H, Claverack, worships at 9:30 a.m. Sundays in the sanctuary. For information, call 518-851-3811.

GHENT REFORMED CHURCH WEST GHENT — The Ghent Reformed Church, 1039 County Route 22, West Ghent, worships at 9 a.m. Sundays. Sunday School begins at 10:15 a.m. Sunday for pre-school to middle school aged children. In accordance with the New York state mandate, masks will be required. Cleaning is as diligent as always. Coffee time follows worship.

REFORMED CHURCH OF GERMANTOWN/MT. PLEASANT REFORMED CHURCH GERMANTOWN — The congregations of the Reformed Church of Germantown, 20 Church Ave., Germantown and the Mt. Pleasant Reformed Church, 33 Church Road, Hudson, will observe morning worship services for the fourth Sunday of Lent. The Germantown congregation meets at 9 a.m. and the service at Mt. Pleasant begins at 10:30 a.m. A weekly Bible Study on the book of Revelation meets at the Germantown Church Office at 7 p.m. Wednesdays.

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Sunday Worship - 9:30 AM Communion First Sunday every month Fellowship before and after worship Thursday - Choir Rehearsal 4:45 PM Tuesday - Bible Study 10:00 AM 2nd Sunday - Helping Hands 10:30 AM

Weekend Masses: Saturday Vigil 4:30 p.m. Sunday 9:30 a.m. (also St. Patrick’s YouTube channel or Mid-Hudson 901) Weekday Mass: Tuesday 8:30 a.m. Also Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament 8:30-9 a.m. Wed, Thurs Food Pantry Hours: Tues & Fri 10–11 a.m. and Wed 6–7 p.m. Thrift Shop Hours: Thurs 1 – 3 p.m. Sat from 9 a.m. – Noon

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Bird Flu From A1

ways to keep the youth interested and involved as well. We’ll still have some sort of an exhibit.” In February, initial cases were identified in Ulster, Dutchess and Suffolk counties. Additional cases were identified in Suffolk and Cayuga counties last week, with a backyard flock infected in Monroe County on March 29. “This disease, unfortunately like we anticipated, has followed the wild bird migration and isn’t cooling down yet,” Cornell Cooperative Extension Livestock Specialist Amy Barkley said Friday. “So we expect to see more cases arise as the wild bird migration continues. As those birds get established in their summer grounds, hopefully we’ll see a little reduction in the summer.” Barkley said the outbreak began in Canada in January

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photos for ads. He would go out and promote the paper and sell ads, even when he was the publisher.” Pignone was hired by Hafner to cover southern Albany County for the Greene County News, a weekly newspaper based in Coxsackie, in 1981 before graduating to The Daily Mail in 1986. He worked under Hafner until the publisher decided to retire in 1989. Hafner sold the publication to the Johnson Newspaper

before making its way to the Southeastern region of the United States. “Then we were watching it move up the East Coast and then it just started spreading westward,” she said. The bird flu has recently spread to the Midwest. Barkley said banning live fowl shows is standard practice to prevent the spread of avian flu. “Any sort of interaction of birds coming together is a risk of disease spread,” she said. “When I was in Pennsylvania we saw this. There have been other states that have employed similar measures. It’s not unique to New York State. It’s definitely something that comes with the territory.” Barkley said there are several tell-tale signs for farmers and poultry manufacturers to watch for if they suspect their flock may be infected. “The hallmark is that multiple birds are dying and there’s no other apparent cause,” she noted.

“In other cases, we’ll sometimes see birds get sick and exhibit respiratory or digestive symptoms. So that could be snotty noses, swollen heads, discolored shanks, difficulty breathing, stumbling around and diarrhea affecting multiple birds can be an indication of illness. In those cases, those bird owners should go ahead and report a suspicious disease either to Cornell Cooperative Extension, the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) or Agriculture and Markets.” The state said this week that the current avian influenza strains do not pose a threat to humans. “There is a chance it could mutate, but right now the current strand of the virus is an H5N1 Eurasain strain virus,” Barkley said. “It has not shown to mutate and cause issues in humans.” The Cornell expert said farmers should keep their poultry away from any wild birds and any other poultry. The disease can travel

in respiratory droplets or feces particles, which Barkley noted can transfer on people’s clothes or shoes or equipment that is shared between facilities. She said the bird flu will potentially taper off during the summer months. “This is a disease of the cooler seasons,” Barkley said. “In the summer we’ll see a decrease in viral loads just because of the solar heating and the warming of the environment. There is a chance it won’t totally go away from populations, especially if we keep seeing it showing up in domestic birds and wild birds. “The state is going to continue testing wild birds and test those flocks which have symptoms. As those birds that are affected are depopulated, we hope to be able to contain the virus so that in the summer months it may burn out. But is likely that we will see this resurge back in the fall when birds migrate south, especially if we can’t keep the disease contained at this time.”

Corporation and set off to enjoy his retirement. “He was tough, but fair,” Pignone said of Hafner. “He spoke his mind. He was not shy about getting what he wanted without being too demanding. I learned a lot from him as a reporter about how to conduct myself. It was a sad day when he sold the paper and he wasn’t going to be with us any longer.” Pignone said he was grateful to Hafner for giving him his first opportunity in the newspaper business. “He gave me a shot at this job when nobody else would,” Pignone said. “It took some convincing but finally he gave

me the job and let me be a reporter.” Hafner was a longtime fixture in the Catskill community, holding memberships with the Catskill Elks Club, the Greene County Council of the Arts, the Catskill Rotary Club and the Catskill Merchants Association. He also sponsored local sports organizations including the Catskill Little League. Hafner was a close friend of legendary boxing trainer Cus D’Amato, who trained Mike Tyson as a teenager. D’Amato trained the famed boxer in his Catskill gym before D’Amato died a year before Tyson became the

youngest heavyweight champion in boxing history. Hafner built a room in the basement of the old Daily Mail office on Church Street as a place where Tyson could relax, hang out and escape the pressures of being a celebrity. An avid sportsman, Hafner had a passion for fishing, hunting and boating. According to Pignone, Hafner was a take-charge publisher during his tenure with the Daily Mail. “He was a sharply dressed man,” Pignone said. “He had a really purposeful walk. When he came into a room, you knew it.”

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After the arrest, the clerk was released with appearance tickets for Catskill Town Court on April 14. Catskill Police credited the concerned parents for reporting the incident. “They assisted in protecting all of our children from a lifetime of nicotine addiction and other associated health risks, police said in the statement. ”The recent surge in use of vape pens among the youths in our community and our surrounding communities is a cause for great concern.” According to New York Penal Law, a person is guilty of second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument when, with knowledge

that it is forged and with intent to defraud, deceive or injure another, he utters or possesses any forged instrument, including a written instrument officially issued or created by a public office, public servant or government. If convicted of this charge in court, the penalty may range from 30 days in jail to seven years in prison. The sentence may also include probation, community service and a fine. New York Penal Law defines second-degree unlawfully dealing with a child as selling or causing to be sold tobacco in any form to a child less than twenty-one years old. The same charge applies to alcohol and tattooing. If convicted on this charge, the sentence may include up to 90 days in jail, one year probation and a fine.

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Following complaints of parents, Catskill Police arrested a store clerk at the NYC Deli for allegedly selling a vape pen to a minor.

Trio trafficked Georgia farm workers in ‘modern-day slavery’ operation, feds say Tanasia Kenney The Charlotte Observer

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Three men accused of facilitating a “modern-day slavery” operation by trafficking workers for cheap labor on several South Georgia farms are headed to prison, according to federal authorities. The accused -- 24-year-old Javier Sanchez Mendoza Jr. of Jesup; 42-year-old Aurelio Medina of Brunswick; and 45-yearold Yordon Velazquez Victoria of Brunswick -- were sentenced to prison on charges related to human trafficking and forced farm labor, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District

of Georgia announced March 31. Mendoza was handed a 30-year sentence while Medina was ordered to serve just over five years, according to a news release. Victoria was sentenced to 15 months in prison. The cases, though separate, were charged as part of a larger federal investigation dubbed “Operation Blooming Onion.” Prosecutors said Mendoza, Medina and Victoria all played a part in efforts to bring Central American farm workers into the U.S. “under fraudulent pretenses and to profit from their labor by underpaying the workers,” according to the release. They

charged workers to get temporary H-2A work visas, then withheld their identification papers and threatened their families back home, prosecutors said. Many of the workers were paid little to no money, prosecutors said, and were made to live in “deplorable conditions.” “The United States abolished slavery and involuntary servitude over 156 years ago, yet these men engaged in the heinous crime of forced labor and chose to exploit their fellow human beings for profit,” Philip Wislar, acting special agent in charge of FBI Atlanta, said in a statement. “The FBI is committed to

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working with our partners to purse justice on behalf of victims of human trafficking and prosecuting perpetrators to the fullest extent of the law,” Wislar said. Several agencies including Homeland Security Investigations, Customs and Border Protection and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service also helped investigate. Between August 2018 and November 2019, Mendoza said he recruited and illegally charged more than 500 Central American workers to obtain H-2A visas to work on farms in Glynn, Wayne and Pierce counties, according to court

documents. One of the workers, a woman, testified that Mendoza repeatedly raped her for over a year and once kidnapped her at knifepoint, prosecutors said. Medina faced similar charges, court documents show. Together, he and Victoria also charged workers for the visas and forced them to work in Glynn and Effingham counties between April and October 2020, prosecutors said. “Victoria, a naturalized U.S. citizen, admitted he conspired with Medina and allowed Medina to use his name to apply for the use of H-2A workers, and then transported those workers from housing to work for which

Victoria was paid $600 per week,” according to the news release. Jessica Moore of the U.S. Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service said Thursday’s sentencing “sends a strong message.” “We are firmly committed to working to prevent situations where vulnerable individuals are exploited in human trafficking schemes such as this,” she said. (C)2022 The Charlotte Observer. Visit charlotteobserver.com. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

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Ichabod Crane’s Nate Garafalo swings during a 2021 Section II Class B playoff game against Hudson.

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Chatham’s Matt Thorsen (23) is greeted at home plate by teammates after blasting a home run during a 2021 non-league game against Germantown.

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Germantown’s Mason Ferrer throws during the 2021 Section II Class D championship game against Fort Ann at Bard College.

COACH: Eric Joyce SENIORS: Azar Brantley (p/of), Adam Carlson (inf/p), Jacob Devlin (of), Josh Buffa (inf), Cody Young (inf/p), Dan Smith (inf), Emius McCann (of/p), Aiden Leipman (inf). JUNIORS: Matyas Brodowski (inf), Cullen Fulling (inf/p), Miguel Madera (c/ inf), Nate Shook-Timot (of/p), Carter Van Etten (inf/of/p), Eddie Rogers (of/p).

FRESHMAN: Demetrio Morales (inf/p). COACH’s COMMENTS: As far as our team goes I think we have a solid team that can compete for the conference title. But that is a long way away and we have a lot of work to do if we want to be in that conversation. The league is strong this year.. Teams like Chatham, Maple Hill and Hudson are going to be really tough competition with their talent and coaching.

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ROSTER: Joe Arp, Kennedy Bleau, Kyan Bujak-Harrington, Marc Cammarata, Robert Fortini, Mason Hall, Brodie Montgomery, Cole Partridge, Alberto Rivera, Zach Russell, Chris Sperano, Zak Wagor, Jacob Young, James Young.

CHATHAM COACH: Scott Steltz SENIORS: Kyle Jackson (of/3b), Jayson McKay (of), Vinnie Marasco (inf), Gavin Tanner (of/p). JUNIORS: Michael Pierro (of/p), Cam Horton (c/p/1b), Matt Thorsen (ss/p), See PREVIEW B5

Coach: Mike Murphy

Ben Simmons is the ace in the Nets’ back pocket Kristian Winfield New York Daily News

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The Playground Golf Foundation spent two weeks working with Catskill Middle Students during gym class. Pictured along with some of the students that participated are: Back row (from left) instructor Tony Vizzie Sr., instructor Terry Blanchfield, Catskill Athletic Director Eric Joyce, Catskill Physical Education teacher Brooke Conklin, Playground Golf Foundation founder and instructor Lucas Cohen and instructor Kevin Saltis.

Lucas Cohen is on a mission to grow the game of golf Tim Martin Columbia-Greene Media

HUDSON — Lucas Cohen truly believes he was put on this Earth to teach and help grow the game of golf. And that’s exactly what he’s doing through his Playground Golf Foundation. Cohen, a PGA Professional in the Northeastern New York Section and owner of the New

York Golf Park in Greenport, has been visiting area schools to teach youngsters the finer points of the game he’s been playing since he was three years old. He explained how the program got started and how it works. “When I bought the park I had some of this velcro equipment, it’s called snag and

short golf equipment, so it’s velcro targets and tennis balls and it works great in gyms. I started going to Germantown and Hudson on my own and a handful of my students, my accountant, an attorney friend of mine and my insurance agent were like ‘it’s great that you do this program, but there’s no longevity in it because once

The Nets are a championship contender whether or not Ben Simmons plays a game this season. And as of now it remains unclear whether the star forward will actually play a game this season, since his back started bothering him weeks ago. The ambiguity of Simmons’ future availability, however, makes him a wild card on a top-heavy Nets roster. The 25-yearold two-time All-Star is rehabbing after receiving an epidural to help him work through a herniated disk in his lower back. He has yet to make his Nets debut, has not practiced with the team or completed individual workouts in weeks, and has been on the Nets’ injury report every game since his arrival via the Feb. 10 blockbuster James Harden trade. But the Nets have not shut him down or ruled him out for the season. Simmons is still working to put his back issues behind him and eventually help a team with championship aspirations. And he’s been telling his teammates he’s working to

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Brooklyn Nets’ Ben Simmons looks on during action against the Boston Celtics on Feb. 24 in New York.

make his debut as quickly as he can, according to Seth Curry. Which makes Simmons the ace in the back pocket for a deep and talented Nets team if he can eventually be healthy enough to play minutes for this Nets team. “Ace in the back pocket is exactly right,” veteran guard Patty Mills said. That’s because Simmons so dramatically shifts what the Nets will be capable of doing on both ends of the

floor. He is a perennial Defensive Player of the Year candidate, a 6-11 forward with a point guard’s court vision and ball control who will always defend, and oftentimes neutralize, the opposing team’s best perimeter scorer. Before taking the head coaching job in Brooklyn, Steve Nash used to be a player development consultant for the Golden State Warriors, who continue to See NETS B6

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Why is America rooting against the perfect ending? Greg Cote Miami Herald

MIAMI — There is one and only one perfect ending that can come out of this men’s NCAA Final Four, and it is Coach K up on a ladder just before midnight Monday, snipping pieces of the basketball net in his final game as Duke coach. (A falling tear will be glistening on Mike Krzyzewski’s cheek, if you will allow the embellishment.)

This will be the all-time great at his craft, a man literally standing tall and going out on top in the kind of farewell more suited to heart-tug drama than real life. It will be what we don’t get much, not in sports or in life: The perfect goodbye. Any other finish will be a colossal disappointment. This is not open to debate. Of course I speak as a sportswriter, not a sports fan. We both love the

games, but here is the difference: I don’t root for teams. I root for stories. Moments. Memories that will be transcendent. I root to see history happening. Note: I expect objection, not agreement, in and around Lawrence, Kan.; Villanova, Pa.; and (lord knows) Chapel Hill, N.C. Come to think of it, I expect an argument to my premise just about everywhere in America outside of

Durham, or wherever Duke alumni reside and wear armor against the constant disparagement aimed at their Blue Devils. This is an historically great Final Four, the first ever in which all four teams have won multiple national championships, 17 combined including nine since 2000. It is more evidence of Cinderella a fallacy. Cream rises. But never like this. It also is a great Final Four because,

almost shockingly, it is the first ever NCAA Tournament meeting between Duke and North Carolina, arguably the greatest rivalry in sports. The Tar Heels won the regular-season finale at Duke, spoiling Coach’s K’s home farewell before the Cameron Crazies. But it is mostly a great Final Four for the historic ending it is teasing us with. Krzyzewski avenging that bitter See ENDING B5

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College basketball NCAA MEN’S TOURNAMENT EAST REGIONAL At Wells Fargo Center Philadelphia Regional Semifinals Friday, March 25 St. Peter’s 67, Purdue 64 North Carolina 73, UCLA 66 Regional Championship Sunday, March 27 North Carolina 69, St. Peter’s 49 SOUTH REGIONAL At AT&T Center San Antonio Regional Semifinals Thursday, March 24 Villanova 63, Michigan 55 Houston 72, Arizona 60 Regional Championship Saturday, March 26 Villanova 50, Houston 44 MIDWEST REGIONAL At United Center Chicago Regional Semifinals Friday, March 25 Kansas 66, Providence 61 Miami 70, Iowa St. 56 Regional Championship Sunday, March 27 Kansas 76, Miami 50 WEST REGIONAL At Chase Center San Francisco Regional Semifinals Thursday, March 24 Arkansas 74, Gonzaga 69 Duke 78, Texas Tech 73 Regional Championship Saturday, March 26 Duke 78, Arkansas 69 FINAL FOUR At Caesars Superdome Semifinals Saturday Villanova (30-7) vs. Kansas (32-6), 6:09 p.m. Duke (32-6) vs. North Carolina (28-9) , 8:49 p.m. Final Monday Semifinal winners, TBA

MEN’S NIT Quarterfinals Tuesday, March 22 St. Bonaventure 52, Virginia 51 Xavier 75, Vanderbilt 73 Wednesday, March 23 Texas A&M 67, Wake Forest 52 Washington State 77, BYU 58 Semifinals at Madison Square Garden Tuesday Xavier 84, St. Bonaventure 77 Texas A&M 72, Washington State 56 Championship at Madison Square Garden Thursday Xavier 73, Texas A&M 72

NCAA WOMEN’S TOURNAMENT GREENSBORO REGIONAL At Greensboro Coliseum Greensboro, N.C. Regional Semifinals Friday, March 25 South Carolina 69, North Carolina 61 Creighton 76, Iowa St. 68 Regional Championship Sunday, March 27 South Carolina 80, Creighton 50

NHL Eastern Conference Atlantic Division GP W L OT SO Pts Florida 67 46 15 2 4 98 Toronto 67 43 19 4 1 91 Tampa Bay 66 42 18 2 4 90 Boston 67 42 20 3 2 89 Detroit 67 26 32 7 2 61 Buffalo 68 24 33 8 3 59 Ottawa 66 23 37 4 2 52 Montreal 68 18 39 9 2 47 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT SO Pts Carolina 68 45 15 6 2 98 N.Y. Rangers 68 44 19 3 2 93 Pittsburgh 68 40 18 4 6 90 Washington 68 37 21 8 2 84 N.Y. Islanders 66 30 27 3 6 69 Columbus 68 32 31 3 2 69 New Jersey 67 24 38 1 4 53 Philadelphia 67 21 35 7 4 53 Western Conference Central Division GP W L OT SO Pts Colorado 67 47 14 5 1 100 Minnesota 65 41 20 0 4 86 St. Louis 66 37 20 6 3 83 Nashville 67 39 24 2 2 82 Dallas 65 37 25 1 2 77 Winnipeg 69 33 26 6 4 76 Chicago 68 24 34 8 2 58 Arizona 67 21 41 1 4 47 Pacific Division GP W L OT SO Pts Calgary 66 40 18 8 0 88 Los Angeles 69 36 23 6 4 82 Edmonton 68 38 25 5 0 81 Vegas 69 37 28 3 1 78 Vancouver 69 32 28 6 3 73 San Jose 66 29 29 6 2 66 Anaheim 68 27 30 6 5 65 Seattle 67 21 40 5 1 48 Wednesday’s games Winnipeg 3, Buffalo 2, SO N.Y. Rangers 5, Detroit 4, OT Edmonton 4, Los Angeles 3, SO St. Louis 4, Vancouver 3 Arizona 5, San Jose 2 Vegas 3, Seattle 0 Thursday’s games Boston 8, New Jersey 1 Toronto 7, Winnipeg 3 Florida 4, Chicago 0 N.Y. Islanders 5, Columbus 2 Carolina 4, Montreal 0 Pittsburgh 4, Minnesota 3, OT Colorado 4, San Jose 2 Los Angeles 3, Calgary 2 Dallas 3, Anaheim 2, OT Friday’s games Nashville at Buffalo, 7 p.m. Chicago at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m. N.Y. Islanders at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m. Ottawa at Detroit, 7:30 p.m. St. Louis at Edmonton, 9 p.m. Vegas at Seattle, 10 p.m. Anaheim at Arizona, 10:30 p.m. Saturday’s games Florida at New Jersey, 12:30 p.m. Pittsburgh at Colorado, 3 p.m. Los Angeles at Winnipeg, 7 p.m. Columbus at Boston, 7 p.m. Montreal at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m. Toronto at Philadelphia, 7 p.m. Minnesota at Carolina, 7 p.m. St. Louis at Calgary, 10 p.m. Dallas at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.

GF GA 275 195 252 204 219 185 212 181 193 258 186 240 171 217 173 258 GF GA 229 161 211 178 227 182 225 197 183 183 221 255 204 247 172 237 GF GA 255 185 241 203 234 191 221 195 192 194 215 216 184 239 173 242 GF GA 232 162 199 198 237 219 219 206 196 199 175 209 191 221 176 236

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WICHITA REGIONAL At Intrust Bank Arena Wichita, Kan. Regional Semifinals Saturday, March 26 Louisville 76, Tennessee 64 Michigan 52, South Dakota 49 Regional Championship Monday, March 28 Louisville 62, Michigan 50

SPRING TRAINING

SPOKANE REGIONAL At Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena Spokane, Wash. Regional Semifinals Friday, March 25 Texas 66, Ohio St. 63 Stanford 72, Maryland 68 Regional Championship Sunday, March 27 Stanford 59, Texas 50 BRIDGEPORT REGIONAL At Total Mortgage Arena Bridgeport, Conn. Regional Semifinals Saturday, March 26 N.C. State 66, Notre Dame 63 UConn 75, Indiana 58 Regional Championship Monday, March 28 UConn 91, N.C. State 87, 2 OT FINAL FOUR At Target Center Minneapolis Semifinals Friday Louisville (29-4) vs. South Carolina (33-2), 7 p.m. UConn (29-5) vs. Stanford (32-3), 9:30 p.m. Final Sunday Semifinal winners, 8 p.m.

Pro basketball NBA Eastern Conference Atlantic W L Pct Boston 47 30 .610 Philadelphia 46 30 .605 Toronto 44 32 .579 Brooklyn 40 37 .519 New York 34 43 .442 Central W L Pct Milwaukee 48 28 .632 Chicago 44 32 .579 Cleveland 42 35 .545 Indiana 25 52 .325 Detroit 21 56 .273 Southeast W L Pct Miami 49 28 .636 Atlanta 40 37 .519 Charlotte 40 37 .519 Washington 33 43 .434 Orlando 20 57 .260 Western Conference Northwest W L Pct Denver 46 31 .597 Utah 45 31 .592 Minnesota 43 34 .558 Portland 27 49 .355 Oklahoma City 22 54 .289 Pacific W L Pct Phoenix 62 14 .816 Golden State 48 29 .623 L.A. Clippers 37 39 .487 L.A. Lakers 31 44 .413 Sacramento 28 49 .364 Southwest W L Pct Memphis 54 23 .701 Dallas 48 29 .623 New Orleans 33 43 .434 San Antonio 31 45 .408 Houston 20 57 .260 Wednesday’s games Dallas 120, Cleveland 112 Denver 125, Indiana 118 Washington 127, Orlando 110 Miami 106, Boston 98 Charlotte 125, New York 114 Toronto 125, Minnesota 102 Sacramento 121, Houston 118 Atlanta 136, Oklahoma City 118 Memphis 112, San Antonio 111 Phoenix 107, Golden State 103 New Orleans 117, Portland 107 Thursday’s games Detroit 102, Philadelphia 94 Milwaukee 120, Brooklyn 119, OT Atlanta 131, Cleveland 107 Chicago 135, L.A. Clippers 130, OT Utah 122, L.A. Lakers 109 Friday’s games Toronto at Orlando, 7 p.m. Dallas at Washington, 7 p.m. Indiana at Boston, 7:30 p.m. Sacramento at Houston, 8 p.m. Phoenix at Memphis, 8 p.m. L.A. Clippers at Milwaukee, 8 p.m. Detroit at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m. Portland at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m. Minnesota at Denver, 9 p.m. New Orleans at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m.

Pro hockey

GB — .5 2.5 7.0 13.0 GB — 4.0 6.5 23.5 27.5 GB — 9.0 9.0 15.5 29.0 GB — .5 3.0 18.5 23.5 GB — 14.5 25.0 30.5 34.5 GB — 6.0 20.5 22.5 34.0

Wednesday’s games Baltimore 7, Tampa Bay 6 Chicago White Sox 7, Texas 0 Toronto 11, N.Y. Yankees 3 St. Louis 29, Washington 8 Arizona 9, Colorado 2 San Diego 4, Milwaukee 2 Minnesota 9, Pittsburgh 4 Detroit 7, Philadelphia 1 Boston 10, Atlanta 7 Oakland 5, Cincinnati 4 Chi. Cubs 8, Seattle 5 San Francisco 9, Kansas City 5 Houston 5, N.Y. Mets 3, 10 innings L.A. Dodgers 12, Cleveland 1 Thursday’s games Boston 4, Minnesota 3 Toronto 5, Detroit 3 Kansas City 5, Oakland 4 San Francisco 13, Colorado 2 Arizona 8, San Diego 2 Washington 7, N.Y. Mets 3 Miami 7, St. Louis 4 Baltimore 4, Pittsburgh 4 Tampa Bay 5, Atlanta 1 Philadelphia 5, N.Y. Yankees 3 Texas 8, LA Dodgers 2 L.A. Angels 10, Milwaukee 5 Chicago White Sox 8, Cincinnati 2 Seattle 3, Cleveland 2 Friday’s games Boston vs. Tampa Bay, 1:05 p.m. N.Y. Yankees vs. Detroit, 1:05 p.m. N.Y. Mets vs. St. Louis, 1:05 p.m. Toronto vs. Pittsburgh, 1:05 p.m. Philadelphia vs. Baltimore, 1:05 p.m. Atlanta vs. Minnesota, 1:05 p.m. Miami vs. Houston, 1:05 p.m. Texas vs. San Francisco, 3:05 p.m. Oakland vs. Chicago White Sox, 4:05 p.m. Chicago Cubs vs. Arizona, 4:10 p.m. Chicago Cubs vs. Milwaukee, 4:10 p.m. Cincinnati vs. L.A. Angels, 4:10 p.m. Arizona vs. Cleveland, 9:05 p.m. Kansas City vs. San Diego, 9:40 p.m. Seattle vs. Colorado, 9:40 p.m.

Transactions BASEBALL American League Boston Red Sox - Assigned C Oscar Rangel to the Boston Red Sox. Cleveland Guardians - Assigned CF Skeiling Rodriguez to the Cleveland Guardians. Houston Astros - Optioned RHP Josh James to Sugar Land (PCL). Kansas City Royals - Exercised their club option on manager Mike Matheny. Minnesota Twins - Assigned RHP Jordan Gore to the Minnesota Twins. Optioned LF Trevor Larnach and SS Jose Miranda to St. Paul (IL). Seattle Mariners - Assigned LF Gabriel Gonzalez to the Seattle Mariners. Assigned C Harry Ford and LF Jonathan Clase to the Seattle Mariners. Signed RHP John Creel to a minor league contract. Tampa Bay Rays - Assigned SS Tyler Frank to the Tampa Bay Rays. Assigned RHP Mike Costanzo and SS Ryan Spikes to the Tampa Bay Rays. Optioned CF Vidal Brujan to Durham (IL). National League Arizona Diamondbacks - Assigned SS Jose Fernandez to the Arizona Diamondbacks. Cincinnati Reds - Optioned CF T.J. Friedl to Louisville (IL). Los Angeles Dodgers - Assigned SS Max Hewitt and RHP Gabe Emmett to the Los Angeles Dodgers. Optioned 1B Matt Thaiss to Salt Lake (PCL). Optioned SP Andrew Wantz to Salt Lake (PCL). Optioned SS Andrew Velazquez, 2B Luis Rengifo, and RHP Janson Junk to Salt Lake (PCL). Milwaukee Brewers - Assigned C Nick Kahle, RHP Kent Hasler, RHP Arnaldo Hernandez, 1B Ernesto Wilson Martinez, and CF Jackson Chourio to the Milwaukee Brewers. Selected the contract of RHP Jose Urena from Nashville (IL). Philadelphia Phillies - Assigned RF Carlos De La Cruz and LF Nick Torres to the Philadelphia Phillies. Pittsburgh Pirates - Assigned CF Jase Bowen to the Pittsburgh Pirates. Assigned LF Shalin Polanco to the Pittsburgh Pirates. Assigned SS Aaron Shackelford to the Pittsburgh Pirates. Assigned SS Tsung-Che Cheng to the Pittsburgh Pirates. San Diego Padres - Acquired RHP James Norwood from the Philadelphia Phillies for SS Kervin Pichardo and cash. Assigned LHP Ramon Perez and C Oswaldo Linares to the San Diego Padres. St. Louis Cardinals - Assigned LF Matt Koperniak to the St. Louis Cardinals. Assigned SS Mack Chambers to the St. Louis Cardinals. Optioned RHP Johan Quezada to Springfield (TL). Washington Nationals - Assigned 2B Cole Freeman to the Washington Nationals. Assigned RP Erik Manoah Jr. to the Washington Nationals. Assigned 3B Jake Alu, SS Junior Martina, RF Jacob Young, and RHP Andry Lara to the Washington Nationals.

NHL roundup: Third-period surge lifts Islanders to victory Field Level Media

Kyle Palmieri, Mathew Barzal and Ryan Pulock scored in the third period for the New York, which completed a home-and-home sweep of Columbus with a 5-2 win in Elmont on Thursday. Sebastian Aho and Oliver Wahlstrom scored 11 seconds apart in the first for the Islanders, who beat the Blue Jackets 4-3 in Ohio on Tuesday. Semyon Varlamov earned the win Thursday by making 30 saves, helping the Islanders improve to 10-4-1 in their past 15 games. Emil Bemstrom and Justin Danforth scored fewer than two minutes apart in the second for the Blue Jackets, who have lost five straight (0-3-2). Elvis Merzlikins recorded 31 saves. Penguins 4, Wild 3, OT Evgeni Malkin scored the winning goal and Rickard Rakell tallied twice to lead the visiting Pittsburgh Penguins to a 4-3 overtime victory over the Minnesota Wild on Thursday in Saint Paul, Minn. Jake Guentzel also scored and goaltender Casey DeSmith made 28 saves for the Penguins, who blew a two-goal lead. Matt Dumba, Frederick Gaudreau and Krill Kaprizov replied for the Wild, who saw their seven-game winning streak end and lost a game decided in overtime for the first time this season (7-1). Cam Talbot stopped 35 shots. Malkin had the presence to bury his own rebound chance 3:57 into overtime for his 17th of the season. Malkin tied Jaromir Jagr for the most winning goals in Penguins history (78). Kings 3, Flames 2 (SO) Lias Andersson scored the shootout winner to give visiting Los Angeles a much-needed victory over Calgary a clash between the Pacific Division’s top two clubs. Los Angeles goaltender Cal Petersen stopped 26 shots through regulation and overtime and all three Flames attempts in the shootout. Alex Iafallo and Viktor Arvidsson scored for the Kings, who pulled within five points of the Flames in the chase for the top spot in the division. Johnny Gaudreau and Erik Gudbranson replied for Calgary, which has three games in hand on Los Angeles. Jacob Markstrom stopped 30 shots, including six during the overtime period. The Flames didn’t put a shot on net in OT. Bruins 8, Devils 1 Brad Marchand scored twice during a sixgoal second period as Boston cruised past visiting New Jersey. Patrice Bergeron added a goal and two assists and David Pastrnak dished out three assists to help Boston earn its fifth win in six games. Matt Grzelcyk and Jake DeBrusk each logged a goal and an assist, Massachusetts native Marc McLaughlin scored in his NHL debut, and Erik Haula and Taylor Hall also found the net for Boston. Linus Ullmark made 25

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New York Islanders right wing Kyle Palmieri (21) celebrates after his goal during the third period against the Columbus Blue Jackets at UBS Arena on Thursday.

saves. Jack Hughes scored for New Jersey, which took its third loss in four games. Nico Daws allowed five goals on 20 shots before Jon Gillies worked in relief, stopping 17 of 20 shots. Stars 3, Ducks 2 (OT) Jamie Benn scored on a breakaway 53 seconds into overtime and visiting Dallas continued its late-season playoff push with a victory over Anaheim. Ryan Suter and Andrej Sekera also scored goals for the Stars, while Jake Oettinger wound up with 21 saves after facing just five Anaheim shots through the midway point of the game. Jamie Drysdale and Kevin Shattenkirk each had a goal for the Ducks, while John Gibson made 32 saves as Anaheim’s losing streak reached 11 games (0-8-3). The Ducks lost to the Stars for the second time in three days by the same 3-2 score. Maple Leafs 7, Jets 3 Auston Matthews scored his 50th goal of the season, William Nylander scored two power-play goals and Toronto defeated visiting Winnipeg. Matthews scored into an empty net at 17:54 of the third period on a pass from Mitchell Marner to become the fourth Maple Leaf to record 50 goals in a season in franchise history. Ilya Mikheyev scored a short-handed goal and added two assists for the Maple Leafs, who have won three in a row. Nikolaj Ehlers had a goal and an assist for Winnipeg. Blake Wheeler and Paul Stastny also scored for the Jets, who had a three-game winning streak end. Mark Scheifele added two assists. Panthers 4, Blackhawks 0

Aleksander Barkov scored twice and Sergei Bobrovsky posted 37 saves for his third shutout of the season as Florida defeated Chicago in Sunrise, Fla. Florida’s Jonathan Huberdeau dished his 71st assist, the most in NHL history by a left winger. The previous record was 70, set by the Boston Bruins’ Joe Juneau in 1992-93. Ryan Lomberg and Gustav Forsling also scored for the Panthers. Collin Delia made 40 saves for the Blackhawks, who have lost three consecutive games (0-2-1). Avalanche 4, Sharks 2 Mikko Rantanen scored a tiebreaking goal late in the third period, Andre Burakovsky, Alex Newhook and Darren Helm also scored and Colorado beat San Jose in Denver. Nazem Kadri and Erik Johnson had two assists each and Pavel Francouz made 25 saves for the Avalanche, who got Nathan MacKinnon back after he missed a game with an upper-body injury. The Avalanche improved to 7-1-1 in their past nine games. Brent Burns and Timo Meier scored goals, Tomas Hertl had two assists and Kaapo Kahkonen stopped 42 shots for the Sharks, who lost for the third time in four games. Hurricanes 4, Canadiens 0 Carolina took an early lead and rode Frederik Andersen’s 32-save performance to shut out Montreal at Raleigh, N.C. Andrei Svechnikov notched two goals, the second going into an empty net. Sebastian Aho scored on a power play just 3:48 into the game and Teuvo Teravainen also produced a goal for Carolina, which has won three of its past four games. Jake Allen stopped 40 of 43 shots for the Canadiens, who are 1-3-2 in their past six games.

NBA roundup: Giannis Antetokounmpo’s record night leads Bucks Field Level Media

Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 44 points, hit the tying 3-pointer with 18.7 seconds left in regulation and sank the tiebreaking free throws with three seconds left in overtime as the Milwaukee Bucks outlasted the Brooklyn Nets 120119 on Thursday night in New York. Antetokounmpo made 14 of 21 shots and his lone 3-pointer of the game moved him past Hall of Famer Kareem AbdulJabbar atop Milwaukee’s alltime scoring list. He also added 14 rebounds and six assists to help Milwaukee win for the 12th time in 15 games. Jrue Holiday added 19 points and Khris Middleton contributed 16 for Milwaukee, which shot 44.9 percent and survived 22 turnovers. Middleton was ejected for a flagrant two foul call on Brooklyn’s Bruce Brown with 5:05 remaining. Durant collected 26 points and 11 assists for the Nets, who lost for the third time in four meetings with Milwaukee this season. Kyrie Irving

added 25 and Brown contributed 23 as Brooklyn shot 46.4 percent and hit 18 3-pointers. Jazz 122, Lakers 109 Donovan Mitchell scored 29 points, Rudy Gobert amassed 25 points and 17 rebounds and Utah snapped a five-game losing streak by beating visiting Los Angeles. Jordan Clarkson added 19 points off the bench against his former team and Mike Conley scored 18 to help the Jazz beat the Lakers for the first time in three meetings this season. Bojan Bogdanovic finished with 11 points and five assists in his return after being sidelined during 10 of the previous 11 games due to a strained left calf. Russell Westbrook led Los Angeles with 24 points and seven assists, and Dwight Howard contributed 21 points and 12 rebounds. Bulls 135, Clippers 130 (OT) DeMar DeRozan scored 10 of his season-high 50 points in overtime as Chicago rallied from a 16-point, secondhalf deficit to beat visiting Los

Angeles. DeRozan’s dunk with three seconds left in OT sealed the comeback victory for Chicago, which never trailed in overtime after falling behind by 11 with 4:58 left in regulation. Reggie Jackson scored 34 points for Los Angeles, which has lost six of its last seven games. Paul George had 22 points, Marcus Morris Sr. added 20, Nicolas Batum had 17 and Ivica Zubac and Luke Kennard finished with 11 points apiece. Pistons 102, 76ers 94 Cade Cunningham had 27 points, six assists and four steals and host Detroit held Philadelphia to 15 points in the fourth quarter. Saddiq Bey had 20 points for Detroit, which snapped a three-game losing streak, while Kelly Olynyk contributed 12 points, four rebounds and three assists. Killian Hayes added 10 points and three steals and Isaiah Livers tossed in nine points for the Pistons, who never led until the fourth quarter. Joel Embiid carried the

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Sixers with 37 points and 15 rebounds, but he also committed seven turnovers. James Harden had 18 points, nine rebounds and seven assists but shot 4-for-15 from the field. Tobias Harris had 14 points and Tyrese Maxey chipped in 13. Hawks 131, Cavaliers 107 Trae Young put up 30 points and nine assists to help Atlanta win its fourth straight game and clinch at worst a spot in the Eastern Conference playin tournament with a win over visiting Cleveland. Atlanta’s Kevin Huerter scored 23 points, his fourth straight game with at least 20 points. Onyeka Okongwu produced 17 points and 12 rebounds, and Clint Capela contributed 12 points, 14 rebounds and three blocks. Cleveland was led by Cedi Osman, who came off the bench to score 21. Darius Garland added 18 points and eight assists as the Cavaliers fell for the sixth time in seven games.

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NEW YORK — Julius Randle arrived at his postgame presser in a chill mood, rocking a summer shirt with his chest exposed, and ready to dispel the notion he doesn’t want to be with the Knicks. “I love the city. My family loves it here. I’m a Knick. That’s what I love. I love being a Knick,” Randle said after Wednesday’s 125114 loss to the Hornets. Of course, Randle’s antics on the court this season have often suggested otherwise, with the latest incident being his angry beeline to the locker room while his teammates celebrated Monday’s win. Reports soon followed that Randle was forcing his way off the team, with WFAN host Craig Carton saying the Knicks power forward requested a trade. Randle denied it. “That’s not true, bro,” Randle responded. “That’s just not true. Simple as that, it’s not true at all.” Randle continued to express his desire to bring the Knicks a championship, but acknowledged the negative reactions from the home crowd was frustrating because they’re heard by his young son, Kyden, who often sits courtside at MSG. “That’s probably where most of my frustration comes from. I have my 5-year-old son that’s there who is obsessed with the game of basketball, loves the game of basketball and he doesn’t understand what’s going on,” Randle said. “That’s probably my biggest frustration — coming from him. The time I

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sacrificed from him to put into this game.

“He’s daddy’s little boy. He loves his dad,”

Randle continued. “So for him to experience that and him being uncomfortable and having to leave the games and stuff like that, as a father, that’s what bothered me more than anything. But at the same time, you have to understand it comes with the territory. The narrative can always flip. I understand that. I understand it’s New York City. I understand how passionate our fans are. You just kind of have to live with the good and the bad.” Randle signed a four-year max extension after becoming an All-Star last year, but his game soon fell off dramatically and the frustration seemed to turn hostile with the referees, fans and opponents. Randle picked up a career-high 12 technicals this season and was fined multiple times by the NBA. However, the 28-year-old said scrutiny over his walk-off Monday was exaggerated by the media. “This is what you all do. It’s all good,” he said. “I understand it. It comes with the territory, bro.” It hasn’t translated to his actions — at least not through much of this season — but Randle said all the right things Wednesday about his commitment to the Knicks. “ New York3/8 is a lot different than L.A,” said Randle, who played four seasons with the Lakers. “Some of it may because of recent success. L.A has recently won a championship and stuff like that. But that was part of the challenge of coming here. I wanted to see this city and organization win a championship. So it’s fine. I’m built for it, bro.”

Spring training roundup: Bryce Harper’s HR helps Phillies down Yanks Field Level Media

Bryce Harper smacked his fourth homer of the spring and the two-run blast helped the host Philadelphia Phillies record a 5-3 victory over the New York Yankees on Thursday at Clearwater, Fla. Harper’s homer gave Philadelphia a 5-0 lead in the fifth inning. Jean Segura hit a solo homer in the third and right-hander Zach Eflin tossed 3 2/3 hitless innings for the Phillies. New York had just four hits. The Yankees plated two runs on infield outs in the seventh inning and added another on Miguel Andujar’s RBI double in the eighth. Nationals 7, Mets 3 Juan Soto socked a solo homer and Joey Meneses added a three-run shot as Washington downed New York in Port St. Lucie, Fla. Mets starter Taijuan Walker tossed 3 2/3 scoreless innings. Rays 5, Braves 1 Randy Arozarena went 3-for-4 with two RBIs to help visiting Tampa Bay knock off Atlanta at North Port, Fla. Matt Olson hit his first spring homer since the Braves acquired him from the Oakland Athletics. Blue Jays 5, Tigers 3 Right-hander Alex Manoah gave up one hit in four scoreless innings and Lourdes Gurriel Jr. homered as host Toronto defeated Detroit at Dunedin, Fla. Eric Haase homered for the Tigers. Red Sox 4, Twins 3 Rafael Devers belted his fifth homer of the spring and Bobby Dalbec also went deep as Boston edged visiting Minnesota at Fort Myers, Fla. Ryan Jeffers hit a tworun blast for the Twins. Orioles 4, Pirates 4 Bryan Reynolds and Diego Castillo homered to help Pittsburgh play to a tie with visiting Baltimore at Bradenton, Fla. Nick Gonzales lined a run-scoring double and Jared Triolo hit a sacrifice fly during a two-run eighth inning uprising that knotted the score for the Orioles. Angels 10, Brewers 5 Shohei Ohtani gave up three earned runs over 3 1/3 innings and drove in a run in

three at-bats as Los Angeles defeated Milwaukee at Phoenix. Justin Upton had two home runs for the Angels, while Keston Hiura went deep for the Brewers. Royals 5, A’s 4 Clay Dungan and Vinnie Pasquantino each hit tworun home runs and JaCoby Jones had three hits as Kansas City defeated Oakland at Mesa, Ariz. A’s starter Daulton Jefferies gave up five runs on seven hits over 4 2/3 innings with seven strikeouts. Giants 13, Rockies 2 Brandon Crawford and Luis Gonzalez each delivered a home run with three hits as San Francisco took a fiverun lead after two innings and rolled past Colorado at Scottsdale. Yonathan Diaz and Randal Grichuk each had two hits and an RBI for the Rockies. Rangers 8, Dodgers 2 Corey Seager hit a home run against his former team as Texas went deep five times and cruised the victory over Los Angeles at Surprise, Ariz. Potential Dodgers closer Blake Treinen gave up home runs to Jonah Heim and Joe McCarthy in his one inning of work. D-backs 8, Padres 2 Jake Hager had a double, a home run and drove in three runs as Arizona defeated San Diego at Scottsdale. Geraldo Perdomo also had two hits for the Diamondbacks, while Padres starter Blake Snell gave up three runs (two earned) over 1 1/3 innings. Marlins 7, Cardinals 4 Jazz Chisholm Jr. hit a tiebreaking grand slam in the third inning, sending Miami past St. Louis in Jupiter, Fla. The Cardinals’ Paul DeJong hit a three-run homer. White Sox 8, Reds 2 Home runs by Yasmani Grandal, Gavin Sheets and Jake Burger paced Chicago to a rout of Cincinnati in Goodyear, Ariz. The Reds’ Jonathan India responded with a long ball. Mariners 3, Guardians 2 Chris Flexen fired five innings of one-run ball, leading Seattle past Cleveland in Peoria, Ariz. Guardians starter Adam Civale struck out seven while yielding one run in four innings.

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With Remy Martin, Kansas is playing at another level Emily Giambalvo The Washington Post

The college basketball season hadn’t officially begun, and the outcome of this exhibition game held no meaning within the scope of another year full of title aspirations. But Kansas fans in Allen Fieldhouse already were chanting Remy Martin’s name. The new point guard flashed his skill, and as one of the best transfer prospects last offseason, he brought a jolt of optimism to the storied program. Martin arrived with an extensive collection of accolades from his four seasons at Arizona State - and more seemed to be on the horizon, starting with Big 12 preseason player of the year honors. He has made it to the peak he imagined - he’s at the Final Four as a No. 1 seed chasing a championship - but his path to New Orleans veered far off course before he finally returned to form at the ideal time. A few months after that exhibition game, as Martin began settling into a groove at his new school, he bumped a knee into an opposing player. He fell to the court and grimaced as he returned to his feet. He later subbed back into the game, a lopsided win over Nevada in late December, but that injury, a deep bone bruise, spiraled into a months-long period of uncertainty, with Martin spending extended stretches on the bench. Without Martin, the Jayhawks mostly cruised. They lost just six games and won a share of the Big 12 regular season title. Martin says now that he never worried about whether he would return to full health, but as the calendar turned to March, he still had made only limited appearances. On senior day, he logged just six minutes and two points. He hadn’t scored in double figures since the injury. This veteran-laden Jayhawks team has Ochai Agbaji, a national player of the year finalist, and another NBA prospect in Christian Braun. They kept winning, but because of Martin’s absence, they hardly had the opportunity to see what they could truly become. “We’ve said all along that we had a chance to be a much better team than what we displayed, even though we had a really good year, just because of him,” Coach Bill Self said of Martin. “But not knowing what him really was.” Now Kansas is finding out. Entering this season, Self expected the

Preview From B1

Tyler Kneller (of/p/c), Noah Hutchinson (1b), Matt Radley (of/3b/p), Anthony O’Dell (p/ of), Skyler Laurange (of/3b/p). SOPHOMORES: Jameson Balich (1b/p), Tate Van Alstyne (inf/p), LJ Morse (of/p), Jacob Taylor (c). COACH’S COMMENTS: “I see the league is being very deep in arms. I think Hudson, Catskill, Greenville, and Maple Hill are all going to be tough teams up and down their lineups. Coxsackie is the sleeper because they are still young. Taconic has some good young ballplayers and could surprise teams. Watervliet also joins the league and has a big arm to deal with in their rotation. Chatham’s strength is its depth in the lineup and its commitment to improving on a daily basis. This team likes to be around each other and loves to play baseball and those are two dynamics that make them fun to coach. We also have great coaches at every level. Coach Wilber and Horton know our modified players and the program expectations. Coach McComb and Coach Kelly have a lot of passion and knowledge for the game and are fun coaches to be around. The varsity assistants are Dan Doyle and Joe Williams. Coach Doyle has been around our program for 15 years or more as well as being a highly successful coach here at Chatham and in the

Ending From B1

home loss the only way he can: Not just by eliminating North Carolina in Saturday’s late semifinal. But by being up on that ladder Monday night. You probably hate Duke. I get it. UNC fans have made a life’s work of the animus, an art form. Heard. I certainly get why Chapel Hill feels that way. Or any fans in the Atlantic Coast Conference including those

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Midwest Regional most outstanding player Remy Martin leaves the floor with Kansas University assistant coach Kurtis Townsend after the Jayhawks beat Miami 76-50 on Sunday for a spot in the Final Four in New Orleans.

6-foot guard would add speed, personality and explosiveness. In the NCAA tournament, Martin has done just that, soaring throughout Kansas’s run to the Final Four. The Jayhawks need to defeat No. 2 seed Villanova, a team depleted by Justin Moore’s injury, in the semifinals to reach the title game against Duke or North Carolina. Finally for Martin, it’s all going as planned. “He’s one of the few guys out there that can have a miserable or a very poor year by his own expectations due to things outside of his control, and he would tell you right now he’s having the time of his life,” Self said. “It’s been the best year ever, in large part just because it’s gone well the last couple of weeks.” Over four seasons at Arizona State, Martin became a star, garnering first-team all-conference honors twice. He averaged nearly 20 points during his final two seasons, but he never made it far in the NCAA tournament, losing in the First Four as a freshman and in the first round as a sophomore. “I think that’s part of my story - being able to fail so many times and keep getting back up and continue to try to reach your goal,” Martin said. “I’m living in that story right now.” His move to Kansas was meant to help him

community programs. Coach Williams played here and helped our team to championships as well as played college ball under Coach Godlewski who knows baseball as well as anyone. Our teams and district are blessed to have that many quality men coaching this program.”

COXSACKIE-ATHENS COACH: Curt Wilkinson SENIORS: Dillon Hynes (p/3b/of), Michael O’Connor (2b), Keegan O’Callaghan (1b). JUNIORS: Berno Carey (3b/ of), Brady Penet (p/inf), Sam Mozzillo (p/c/of), Sean Scott (p/c/ss), Dominic Stanzione (p/inf), Tyler Proper (of), Blaine Apa (p/of). SOPHOMORES: Adam Slater (of), Christian Tedford (p/3b). FFRESHMEN: Andrew Sager (p/2b/ss), Brayden Conrad (p/of). COACH’S COMMENTS: “Coxsackie-Athens has a group of players that are looking to rebound from their first Patroon Conference losing season in the past 18 years. A young group with only three seniors, Coxsackie-Athens is looking to gain valuable experience and develop their pitching throughout the season. The team will be headed to Myrtle Beach over spring break for the first time ever. C-A will play scrimmages games against other teams from the around the United States. The overall goal this year is to make the sectional tournament and compete each and every game.”

in Miami, where Duke also is villano numero uno. It is the vilification of Duke by college hoops fans in general that I find amusing and bizarrely irrational. To call it jealousy or envy is too easy. UCLA’s 11 national championships, Kentucky’s eight and, yes, North Carolina’s six all top Duke’s five crowns, according to the official NCAA tally. And yet none of those top three are viewed with the snarl that the word “Duke” inspires. The hatred is passed down, surviving generations of Dukedom, but surely founded

GREENVILLE COACH: Dane Carpenter SENIORS: Joey Domermuth (1b), Isaiah Edmonds (ss/p), Cole Flannery (ss/p), Donovan Gallagher (of/p), Jack Motta (c/p), Trey Smith (3b). JUNIORS: Ryan Arp (2b,p,ss,c), Brett Larson (of), Sam Van Auken (of/p). SOPHOMORES: Sam Buquet (p/of), Jake Miller (of/p). COACH’S COMMENTS: “I think we’ll be very strong in the Patroon this year. Return first-team All Patroon Joe Domermuth at first base and Isaiah Edmonds along with second-teamers Cole Flannery and Jack Motta. We return 8 of 9 starters.”

improve as a player and have a better shot at winning the ultimate prize. Martin arrived with fanfare for a fifth season allowed in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, and he started each game before his injury, averaging 10.9 points. After the Nevada game, he missed the next matchup, then made two appearances before sitting out two more. He returned to the court in a reserve role for a few weeks and then missed nearly a month. The injury was difficult to manage, Self said, because nothing structural was wrong with Martin’s knee. At Arizona State, Martin played 118 games, missing just four. He said he had never really dealt with an injury. In the final four games of the regular season, Martin logged a total of 32 minutes and nine points. The Remy Martin who arrived with lofty expectations and then began to flash his potential had slipped away, with no clear return date. Now he’s back - still in a sixth-man role, which he admits is “something that obviously wasn’t my goal coming here, but things change” - and he’s thriving. He has averaged 13.3 points in seven postseason matchups, helping the Jayhawks to the Big 12 tournament title. He led the team in scoring in its first

mound. Jordan and Isaiah both had good years pitching last season and I expect that again from them this season. The league should be very competitive this year and we are going to be a tough team to beat.”

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COACH: Ken Ward SENIORS: Matt Antonelli (of/p), Jonathan Bernockie (of), Gabriel Case (3b/p), Hunter DeGraff (1b/p), Jacob Hromada (c), Isaiah Maines (ss/p), Jordan Moon (inf/p), Kameron Taylor (inf), Connor Tomaso (of/p), Jeremiah Wilburn (of). JUNIORS: Brian Curran (3b/of/p), Collin Keator (2b). SOPHOMORES: Besham Burgess (of), Ashton Hotaling (inf/p). FRESHMAN: Antonio Troy (of/inf). COACH’S COMMENTS: “I expect this team to compete for another Patroon championship title this season. We have 10 seniors, 2 juniors, a sophomore and a freshmen this year. I think our biggest strong point this season is we have a lot depth on the

COACH: Rico Frese SENIORS: Joe Brodzinski (p/inf), Chris Bulan (of/p), Sam Gamello (if/of/c), Donovan Jensen (of/2b), Andrew Lensink (if/of/c), Gavin Van Kempen (p/1b/of), Jack Wildermuth (p/of). JUNIORS: Colby Frazier (inf/p), Declan Johnson (of/2b), Austin Lensink (inf/ of/p), Brody Rogers (of/p), Jerry Stalker (1b/of/p). SOPHOMORE: Aidan Loszynski (inf/of/p). FRESHMAN: Kaden Van Kempen (c/of). COACH’S COMMENTS: “Team has been fortunate to be outside on the field several times already and scrimmaged IC the other day. Strong work ethic, great senior leadership, players will have to step up in new roles. Proud of their habits up to this point. Solidifying our staff will be a priority and see who elevates to a consistent No. 2 and No. 3 starter. Patroon as always will be tough- great small school league, competitive year in and year out. Start off with Chatham and Hudson 1st two Patroon Games- come out of the gate with a strong schedule. Divisional play will be interesting this year in conjunction with the new end of the

during Coach K’s 42-year reign now coming to an epic end. Christian Laettner, J.J. Redick, Danny Ferry, Jon Scheyer, Grayson Allen. Hatred Hall of Famers, every one. The former Heat favorite, Shane Battier, must be included after setting an NCAA record for most charges taken while at Duke, which to the rest of America meant he was King Flopper. If you discern an arrogance to the program, consider it is richly earned. Heck, there was even a documentary made titled, “I Hate Christian Laettner,” about

the player who helped launch Krzyzewski’s career, dynasty and legacy. In an ESPN online poll Laettner was voted the most hated man in college basketball ... 20 years after graduating. “The funny thing is, I don’t understand that I still have that power over the haters3/8,” Laettner said in a recent interview. “Just let it go. I would never let anyone have that power over me. It’s letting another person occupy your mind. I won’t hinge my happiness.” Redick took the hatred harder, more personally.

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three NCAA tournament games, including a season-best outburst of 23 points against No. 4 seed Providence. “He changes our team completely when he comes in the game,” the Jayhawks’ Jalen Wilson said. “We’re able to be so much faster. The energy he brings with the excitement, getting the crowd involved - those little things that we were missing take our team to another level.” Martin can make careless mistakes, but he also generates offensive sparks and creates his own shots. His defense has improved, especially lately. No coach wants a standout player to miss large chunks of the season, but Martin’s reemergence makes this Kansas team difficult to scout. The California native infuses his personality into the game - perhaps, Martin said, a product of watching Kobe Bryant, Russell Westbrook and a few people around his neighborhood who were “fancy” in the way they played. Martin has a laid-back demeanor off the floor, but during games, he turns into a fiery showman. When he lifts his arms to fire up the crowd, the arena erupts with a roar. When asked about those moments, Martin said with a smile, “I mean, it would be awkward if they didn’t.” It’s all part of his feel for the game, and those emotional bursts feel natural. Self saw Martin turn into an energizer at the Big 12 tournament but didn’t know whether that spark would fade. The NCAA tournament has proved this version of Remy Martin is here to stay. “I think Remy, in his core, always knew what he was capable to do to help us,” Self said, “but we hadn’t really seen it yet because his health hadn’t allowed it. I think our guys have more of a swagger now knowing what Remy can do to make us better.” Here he is bound for the Final Four, wearing a celebratory T-shirt and hat while smiling as he cuts off a piece of the net to keep forever. The injury concerns and uncertainty keep slipping further into the past. After the Elite Eight win over Miami, the Jayhawks gathered on a stage at midcourt. The crowd started chanting: “Remy! Remy! Remy!” Martin didn’t know why. He hadn’t realized he had been named the region’s most outstanding player. But the fans knew, and so did everyone watching: Martin has returned to his best, just in time for the Jayhawks’ run toward the national title.

year tournament.”

TACONIC HILLS COACH: Scott Preusser SENIORS: Gaetano Hamilton (of), Ryan Nielsen (3b/of). JUNIORS: Aaron Bonci (2b/p), Landon Halstead (of/3b/p), Kobe Van Alstyne (ss/p). SOPHOMORES: Tyler Peck (c), Brandon Rossano (p/ ss/1b), Zachary Rowe (of/ p/c), Troy Super (1b/p), Ryan Walch (of). COACH’S COMMENTS: “Our team is young this year but our players are very versatile and can play multiple positions. Looking for my returning starters to take the next step and fill the leadership roles left by our graduated seniors. The Patroon Conference should be very competitive again this year with many young teams. Chatham and Greenville should be the teams to beat. Our goal is return to sectionals again this year after almost upsetting Tamarac in last year.”

COACH’S COMMENTS: “The Colonial Council is always very competitive every year. Absolutely any team can beat anyone in the Colonial. We never really know what we’re going to see every year but we do know we have to be extremely prepared for an intense season.”

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COACH: Brian McComb SENIORS: Topher Pelesz, Connor Bailey, Gunnar Grethen-McLaughlin, Satchel Baumgartner, Alex Igras, Joe Penzabene. JUNIORS: Alex Walsh, Dylan McCrudden, Matt Buono, Nate Garafalo. SOPHOMORES: Brady Holzhauer, Jack Mullins, Kyle Bartlett. FRESHMAN: Dominic Pelizza.

COACH: Brett Holmes SENIORS: Jonathon Mollo, Owen Watson, Logan McDonald, Mike Stagno, Brandon Shook. SOPHOMORES: Shanw Lyons, Aidan Nedwick, Evan Hoffman, Mason Ferrer, Brady Pasco, Riley Jennings, Connor Benack, Aidan Shumway, Carson Moore. FRESHMAN: Dylan Dibble. COACH’S COMMENTS: “I am excited about this group of athletic guys I have this year. We are returning all our starters except for two guys from last season. And we have added a couple young talented ball players to the roster. The two guys we lost from last year leave us with large shoes to fill both on the field and with their leadership. However I feel that a couple of my seniors are ready to take on that role. I believe we have a good shot at the league title and will have a couple great baseball games with Rensselear. As they too are returning their ace from last season. I plan to challenge my guys with a lot of strong Patroon Conference teams and hope that will get them ready and prepared for Sectionals.”

“It bleeped3/8 me up. It forced me to take on a persona that wasn’t me,” he has said. “It made me into this maniac on the court. Opposing fans3/8 were saying things you never heard said about you. Things about my sisters. I wanted to quit my sophomore year. I really struggled those first two years. I spent three years at Duke seeing a therapist.” The question is, can America hate Duke while at the same time respecting Coach K’s career enough to feel good it had the perfect ending? Ha. Of course not. What was

a I thinking! Sports is best when there are polarizing teams. Villains. Jimmy Johnson’s Miami Hurricanes were. The LeBron-era Big 3 Heat were. The New York Yankees forever. We need giants to hate. The Duke Blue Devils will beat North Carolina on Saturday and then on Monday, Mike Krzyzewski, scissors in hand, will climb as high as he can possible go. So much of America will hate that. And it will be glorious.

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important, it sets the foundation,” Vizzie said. “We don’t expect everybody to be golfers, but they’re being exposed to the sport, they’re learning the different skills and the life skills that you need in order to succeed. The nine core values that we talk about will help you in every part of your life.” The Foundation is putting together some long-range goals and hopes to continue to expand in the coming months. “We’ve been to every school in Columbia County and just about every school in Greene County. We have more equipment now, we have more instructors now and I’m able to delegate these gentlemen to go and do this stuff and so the goal is to keep the programs going. Even though golf is hot now, it’s not hot with younger kids, so engaging new kids and new golfers is a goal and keeping the programs going so that the kids are like ‘oh, golf is back, we’re going to golf in school.’ “We want to have scholarships for these kids eventually, that’s in the long-term. There is going to be opportunities for the kids to volunteer for the programs for kids that need community service hours for their resume to get into college and they can earn a scholarship through teaching with us and we want to take care of those kids that are modeling all of these core values that we’re talking about. The long term plan is to get back into all of the schools and even run multiple programs in the Spring and the Fall. Ideally, this equipment works best in

the gym so in the spring and the fall and the winter when the weather is not so great we can bring something exciting into the gymnasium so the kids can look forward to it. Bringing three new instructors into the program has been a huge help, Cohen says, and he’s hoping to add even more in the future. Being able to hire more coaches. I am super grateful for these three coaches. This does not happen with this kind of success without the dedication of gentlemen like this and women. “Anytime anyone hears about the program, they’re like ‘yeah, we want it.’ Of course they want it, it’s free. They key for any organization is fund raising. Ten weeks we would run out of the funds that we raise, so we have to continue fund raising. We will continue to have golf tournament, we’ll continue to have cocktail parties. This year actually my 10th year in business at the golf park so I’m going to have a 10-year anniversary party, but we’ll do a closest to the pin contest, a miniature golf tournament, a long drive contest where people can enter with small entry fees and all proceeds will go to the playground golf foundation.” “For the summer I’ll keep these guys going and sent them with the equipment to different facilities, but there are already a few clinics that we’re offering at the Golf Park in Hudson. Gerard Eckert is going to be at the driving range at Thunderhart and he’s going to be coaching there and running programs using this equipment on the driving range during the summer. It’s completely free and people can sign up online.” Cohen is working on giving scholarships to kids that might not be able to afford to attend summer-time golf camps. “Everything I do has to be approved by my board,” he explained. “I’m like the little engine that could. They know I’m crazy about it and usually they say yes. I’m looking at it like maybe if there are a couple of kids in the school that are really into it, but can’t afford to come to one of golf camps, maybe we can give them a scholarship to come to a summer camp or something like that. “What’s next is more golf in school programs, more free clinics that actually get them to the green grass facilities where it gets them out of the gym and outside and to continue to offer them opportunities. It’s taken awhile to get to this point and in the first few years I was a little disappointed because I thought more kids would come to courses. Now I’m more realistic.” The program is looking for volunteers, Cohen said. Anyone interested can reach out to him at 855-GO-SWING or go to the Foundation’s web site playgroundgolffoundation.org. “We take donations of golf clubs and we hook kids up, sometimes we just give them equipment because we got it for free,” Cohen said. “We can always use the help. We need motivated people. “I honestly feel what we’re doing is making a difference. I’m doing this for the best reason I possibly could, there’s nothing else I’d rather be doing. Am I getting rich doing it? No, but I love it. I’m rich with emotion. It feels really good to help these kids and I love that it’s so well-received.”

nothing quite matches seeing him in real time on the floor. “Clearly, we’d love to have Ben play for us. We will hopefully get him back,” Nash said. “At the same time every day, we can’t put our feet in the air because we don’t know when or if it’s going to happen. We just have to play what’s in front of us, with what’s the group that’s available today.” For that to happen, the star forward must progress from rehab to individual workouts to one-on-one, two-on-two and eventually five-on-five. And he must complete three high-intensity workouts

without an injury setback before the Nets’ performance staff clears him to play. That is unlikely to happen before the play-in tournament begins on April 12. It might not even happen until the second round of the playoffs. Simmons, however, is worth the wait. He is a perennial top-20 leader in steals, assists, rebounds and field goal percentage, who could potentially join the roster in the middle of a championship push. He’s an ace in the back pocket for a team already loaded with stars and capable role players ... if he gets healthy.

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you leave, the program goes away.’ So they all helped me get the Playground Golf Foundation started. “What we do is split the gym into three sections so that we have a driving segment, a chipping segment and a putting segment. It’s not just teaching golf. We know that golf is a game of integrity and it teaches a lot of life lessons. We are modeling after The First Tee, which is a huge golf non-profit. The First Tee has tons of chapter and they even have advertising all over the country now. We’re not that big, obviously, and it’s difficult to fund raise because of the demographic that we’re in. We’re in Columbia and Greene Counties and we’re trying to branch into Northern Dutchess County, so it’s small rural area.” The Playground Golf Foundation offers the program to schools free of charge. “We do the programs for free for the schools in hopes that in the future they will support our fundraisers,” Cohen said. “We have an annual golf tournament every year and we are going to have a cocktail party at Hudson Valley Indoor Golf, which is in Valatie. Since I’ve been in the area and the foundation started, we have got a ton of support from all of the local golf courses and the pros because it really needs to be done. When we’re in the schools it’s very rewarding because you see, especially now, the demeanor of the kids is down across the board and sports and athletics is down. Participation is down. Covid definitely did not help. It enabled kids to sit around and look at their screens and play their video games. So now to get them up and doing things is a bit of a challenge. “I was asked about what was my favorite thing about teaching at Catskill and what I’ve noticed is the kids will come in and kind of low energy and then once we introduce them to these games, by the second day, they’re super excited, you see the smiles and excitement through golf. We pick a couple of core values that we talk to them about throughout the week, we give them examples and try to get them to start talking about things and using examples of all the things like respect and responsibility. That’s what all sports teaches kids, but how often do they talk about it in school. So that’s what the Foundation is, it’s not just to teach the kids golf, it’s to teach them these core values and life lessons and to get them talking about it and realizing it and it’s so cool because they actually do.” Cohen has noticed the students have taken to the game and look forward to playing. “With confidence, we’re noticing when a kid misses a shot they feel down, like we get frustrated, so that’s the lesson. You learn to try again and persevere. You hit a good shot and when you do it correctly and get that feeling of excitement, the more they feel it the more they will actually become confident. “To relate that, to do something that most of them have never really done, they come into the gym and their eyes light up like ‘what’s going on? This is new.’ It’s really, really heartwarming for me to see

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use Draymond Green as a utility playmaker on both ends of the floor. Green is a former Defensive Player of the Year who initiates offense and directs traffic on defense. “I think Simmons and Green3/8 have similar skill sets in a way,” Nash told the Daily News on Thursday. “But the only thing that Ben can do now is prepare physically, mentally by being around in practice, shootaround, film

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Lucas Cohen (far right) and Terry Blanchfield (far left) of the Playground Golf Foundation work with Catskill Middle School students, showing them the finer points of golf.

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A Catskill Middle Student work on his golf game as Playground Golf Foundation founder Lucas Cohen looks on.

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A Catskill Middle School student works on her golf game under the watchful eye of Lucas Cohen, the founder of the Playground Golf Foundation. TIM MARTIN/COLUMBIA-GREENE MEDIA

Playground Golf Foundation founder Lucas Cohen (seated at left) and instructor Kevin Saltis (seated at right) speak with Catskill Middle School during a recent gym class.

the low energy get to such a high energy state, just from playing a game that I’ve been playing since I was three. Cohen has enlisted the help of three additional instructors: Kevin Saltis, Terry Blanchfield and Tony Vizzie Sr., and all are excited to be a part of the program. “Two very important aspects of why this is very important to me,” Saltis said. “I went to Germantown, graduated in 2013, and if it wasn’t for my father and his father before him that taught him how to golf, I wouldn’t be a golfer. I wouldn’t be playing

this because going to a small school like that I had never had the opportunity to learn this. That’s why it’s very important to me to teach people this game. It’s a game about life and something that’s also really important is when we’re starting here with these younger kids we’re showing that all are welcome to golf. Male or female, whatever your background, everyone is welcome. “When we look into the future, golf is going to be an entirely different landscape. We’re going to have more people playing it and this is

an incredible area to be doing it. You have so many beautiful hidden gem courses in the area and we grow the game, we’re able to help the communities and give back to this beautiful area that I was born and raised in. “Another exciting thing is, we have this one kid that comes here in his free periods, he’s been here 8 times in the first four days we’ve been here. You don’t know if you’re going to see the next Nelly Porto, who’s the World No. 1 on the LPGA Tour, the next Xander Schauffele. Who knows? They could be in front of us right now, but if it weren’t for programs like this, that would never happen.” Blanchfield explained why he got involved with the Foundation. “I’m a retired school superintendent,” he said. “I’m playing golf and riding in my boat and when I saw that Lucas was looking for coaches, it gets me back into the school where I’ve been all my life with the kids and that’s why I’m here. I’m learning as we go along. I’m very impressed with the program. It’s too bad we can’t promote it more because we need the exposure. The schools and Phys Ed teachers are going to love it.” Vizzie, a longtime Physical Education teacher and highly successful baseball coach at Saugerties High School, is impressed with everything he’s seen from the program. “I think working with Lucas, the core values that these kids are learning and applying them in golf, which is very

room, paying attention during games, and then as he gets back on the court, the skill stuff.” But identifying an applesto-apples comparison for Simmons is a difficult task. Simmons is faster, more athletic and has more elevation than Green ever could. Truthfully there isn’t a player in the league in a role comparable to the one Simmons could play in Brooklyn because there isn’t quite a player like Simmons. “He’s very unique, and that’s what makes us very strong when we do get him,”

Mills said. “I think he’s a unique player, high IQ, great feel for the game, great passer and unbelievable defensive player that can guard anyone, so I think for many reasons, he will make us better.” This all, of course, stands only if Simmons is able to play before the Nets get eliminated from the playoffs. “He hasn’t really practiced with us,” Bruce Brown added at shootaround on Thursday. “He really just passes the ball. I don’t think he’s done much, but maybe when I’m not here, he’s doing stuff.” Yet Simmons has been

engaged even more so in recent practices, according to his fellow Australian teammate. Mills said the Nets started mapping out how Simmons could look like alongside different players on the court. “I think more importantly, it’s been the conversations he’s having about where he sees himself on the team and different parts of the floor, defensive and offensive end, and getting a feel that way,” Mills added. Nash, however, remained hesitant. Backs are tricky, and as much as the Nets want to envision Simmons’ fit,

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Playground Golf Foundation founder Lucas Cohen puts on a demostration for Catskill Middle School students.

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There’s plenty to chew on after dinner with in-laws Dear Abby, I once hosted a holiday dinner for which I had made a ham and a turkey with all the sides and three different pies. I even made a special mince pie for one of the guests. The guests — my brothers-in-law, my brother and his family of four and his mother-in-law — all showed DEAR ABBY up carrying empty Tupperware. At the end of the day, all I had left was dirty dishes. The same family then invited me and my husband for a holiday dinner. My husband wasn’t feeling well and couldn’t go. When I asked my sister-in-law if I could take a plate home for him, she said, “Nope! If he doesn’t want to come to the house, he can’t have any of the food.” Yes, Abby, she was serious. My sister-in-law cooks the meat she received as a gift from her employer, and the rest of the guests prepare the sides and desserts. I NEVER go empty-handed. At the end of the meal, she transfers any leftovers to their own Tupperware and gives us back the cleaned bowls. If I ask for a little of something to take home, she protects her leftovers like they were her children. What’s your take on leftovers? Is asking for a little fruit salad off limits? Is relieving your host of the burden of storing all of their leftovers out of line? Are there rules of etiquette here? Hoping For A Sandwich Later

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If you would like the living, breathing definition of presumptuous guests and ungracious hosts, look no further than your in-laws’ contact file. The fault, however, may not lie solely with them. If this has happened more than once and you cannot summon the courage to tell these greedy folks to put away their Tupperware and help with the dishes, you can’t blame them for assuming you don’t mind being imposed upon

in this way. As to the sister-in-law who refused to allow you to bring any of her food to your sick husband, I wouldn’t blame you if you chose not to grace her table again after telling her the reason why. Dear Abby, I am an adopted 17-year-old high school senior, and I live with four people who all have a disability. I want to move out when I’m 18 if I am able to. I have several older brothers and sisters, but they each have a family to take care of. My oldest brother is in his 60s, and my youngest in his 40s. I don’t want to seem selfish for wanting to live independently, but I don’t know how to tell them. I don’t know how to tell them anything because, in the past, they haven’t listened to me. If you have any advice on how to tell them, I would be very grateful. Nervous Girl In New York I wish you had mentioned when you will be turning 18, because at that point you will be legally entitled to live wherever you wish, and your parents and siblings will HAVE to “listen to you.” Because you are determined to move, it is crucial that you start preparing now. You will need to find a job so you can afford a security deposit and pay for rent, food, etc. You may also have to find roommates until you can afford a place that is all your own. A counselor at school may be able to guide you, particularly if you plan to continue your education.

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By Stella Wilder Born today, you are nothing if not tenacious, and you are the kind of person to return again and again to something that may not have worked out the first time and work on it until finally, at long last, you are able to do it at least with some level of proficiency and to your own personal satisfaction. You don’t really care what others think of you — though you are always thinking of others and your relationships to them. Your ability to see through deception or falsehood is perhaps equal to none — and it keeps you from falling victim to those who regularly take advantage of others by spreading lies and misinformation. Though you prefer to settle differences calmly and rationally, you have been known to lose your patience with such individuals. Also born on this date are: Marvin Gaye, singer; Christopher Meloni, actor; Michael Fassbender, actor; Buddy Ebsen, actor; Emmylou Harris, singer; Linda Hunt, actress; Alec Guinness, actor; Jack Webb, actor. To see what is in store for you tomorrow, find your birthday and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your daily guide. SUNDAY, APRIL 3 ARIES (March 21-April 19) — An unusual limitation may be imposed upon you today, but you can work with it in such a fashion that productivity is affected little — if at all. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — A show of strength may be required of you today before someone gives you “permission” to do something that’s required of you anyway. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You can feign ignorance all you want, but others are already

aware of just how much more you actually know than you are willing to reveal. CANCER (June 21-July 22) — You may be tempted to place a long-shot bet today, but take care that you’re not misinterpreting what is only partially revealed to you. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Your chance to improve things will come and go today, and you may miss it if you’re not alert to the signs that are visible to you along the way. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You are eager to jump in and do all you can to assist someone, but you must make it clear that you’re not going to give it away! LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You have more going for you at this time than you may think, and today something will be revealed to you that can surely alter your perspective. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — It’s time for you to join others in a group effort that is long overdue. There’s no real reason for you to be resistant any longer, certainly. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — You can follow someone’s instructions only so far today, then you must set them aside and listen to what experience tells you. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You can do someone a favor today, but first you must clear the air of an issue that has lingered between you for too long. It’s over now! AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Your plans may have to be combined with someone else’s today in order to make the most out of both. Something new and exciting soon begins. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — You may be surprised by someone’s willingness to step forward and take the heat today. You were responsible, so show your gratitude.

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Daily Maze

Goren bridge WITH BOB JONES

Q 4 - Both vulnerable, as South, you hold:

WEEKLY BRIDGE QUIZ Q 1 - Neither vulnerable, as South, you hold: ♠A8♥AKJ76♦975♣763 SOUTH 1♥ ?

WEST Pass

NORTH 2♦

EAST Pass

What call would you make? Q 2 - North-South vulnerable, as South, you hold: ♠ J 7 6 4 ♥ 6 5 ♦ K Q J 9 8 ♣ 10 4 WEST 1♦

NORTH Dbl

EAST Pass

SOUTH ?

♠ A 9 ♥ J 5 3 2 ♦ J 10 6 ♣ K Q 8 5 NORTH 1♣ 1♠

EAST Pass Pass

SOUTH 1♥ ?

WEST Pass

What call would you make? Q 5 - North-South vulnerable, as South, you hold: ♠ A K J 6 4 ♥ A 7 6 ♦ K 5 ♣ J 10 6 SOUTH 1NT 2♠ ?

WEST Pass Pass

NORTH 2♣ 2NT

EAST Pass Pass

What call would you make? Q 6 - East-West vulnerable, as South, you hold:

Q 3 - East-West vulnerable, as South, you hold:

♠ A 8 ♥ A 10 9 5 ♦ J 4 ♣ A J 6 3 2

♠ J 8 6 ♥ A Q 10 6 2 ♦ K J 6 ♣ K 7

With the opponents passing, you open 1C and partner responds 1S. What call would you make?

NORTH EAST SOUTH WEST Pass 1♠ Pass 2♥ 4♦* Pass ? *Splinter bid – heart fit with shortness in diamonds

What call would you make?

Look for answers on Tuesday. (Bob Jones welcomes readers’ responses sent in care of this newspaper or to Tribune Content Agency, LLC., 16650 Westgrove Dr., Suite 175, Addison, TX 75001.)

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

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Crossword Puzzle

ACROSS 1 Cafeteria item 5 Composer George M. __ 10 “And what’s more…” 14 Port or pinot noir 15 Make laugh 16 Destroy 17 Colony builders 18 Square’s corner 20 Music from Jamaica 21 Man’s nickname 22 Musical symbols 23 Shiny finish 25 __ Gatos, CA 26 Ottomans 28 Supervisors 31 Past, present or future 32 Investigation 34 Pres. Martin __ Buren 36 Freeway off-ramp 37 Sphere of the world 38 Short note 39 Faux __; blunder 40 Forest 41 Actress Greta 42 Van Gogh’s “The __ Night” 44 Sprawling tree 45 Digit 46 Extend a subscription 47 Man of the cloth 50 Explosive sound 51 Fez or fedora 54 Wedding party member 57 Trait transmitter 58 Terra firma 59 Steed 60 Get rid of wrinkles 61 Bacon accompaniment 62 Glowing coal fragment 63 Barber’s call DOWN 1 It was, to a poet 2 Hockey venue 3 Opponent

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4 Agreeable response 5 Hug 6 Leaves out 7 Enormous 8 __-blond; hair color 9 Volleyball court center 10 James of “Gunsmoke” 11 Hauls 12 Riverbed deposit 13 Singles 19 “__ by any other name…” 21 Flag holder 24 Totally confused 25 Part of the ear 26 “__ on it!”; cry to a slowpoke 27 Neighbor of Louisiana 28 Dylan & Denver 29 All over 30 Brazilian dance 32 Wily scheme 33 Fishing pole 35 Time to eat

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Non Sequitur

37 Clinton’s VP 38 Lion’s hair 40 Used a pen 41 Group of hoodlums 43 Disagreeing 44 Drunken spree 46 Poker player’s decision

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47 Competent 48 Be a blowhard 49 __ Crosby 50 Fishhook feature 52 As strong as __ 53 Camp shelter 55 That girl 56 Family member 57 Card game

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

Answers Monday) Tuesday (Answers Jumbles: IMAGE ORBIT NEARLY TRUDGE Answer: When the grizzly joined the choir, people were nervous about the new — “BEAR-ITONE”

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Ready for dead mom jokes? Comedian Taylor Tomlinson sure hopes so By JESSICA M. GOLDSTEIN Washington Post

Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway star as Adam and Rebekah Neumann in “WeCrashed.” Apple TV Plus

FALLING into a FANTASY ‘WeCrashed’ examines the love story behind the rise and fall of WeWork

By KATE FELDMAN New York Daily News

WeWork CEO Adam Neumann promised his employees and investors the world. But he wanted more. That’s not an original premise, but it is the story of “WeCrashed,” the eightpart limited series about the rise and fall of the shared workspace company that premiered March 18 on AppleTV+. At the center is Neumann, played by Jared Leto, and wife Rebekah (Anne Hathaway). Separately, they floundered; Neumann, an Israeli entrepreneur, bounced around starting companies that never got off the ground, while Rebekah, the cousin of actress Gwyneth Paltrow, worked briefly on Wall Street before turning to yoga. But together, they fed off each other. He focused her, she lifted him. The company motto, at least in “WeCrashed’s” telling, was Rebekah’s idea: to elevate the world’s consciousness. “This was not just a guy who starts a company or meets another guy at a

party and they decide to start a company and the company’s worth a billion dollars now. That’s a story, that’s fine. For us, it was really about this love story,” co-creator Lee Eisenberg told the Daily News. “When you listen to Adam talk about Rebekah and how intrinsic these two people meeting is in the rise and ultimate fall of this company, that’s what was fascinating to us.” Rebekah’s “yoga-babble,” as Eisenberg called it, meant little to WeWork’s investors; “elevating the world’s consciousness” doesn’t pay the bills. But it spoke to thousands of people in a gig economy who were looking for a home. “When you combine Adam’s charisma with the millennial generation that wants so badly to believe that you can make the world a better place and get rich doing it, I think they were kind of made for each other, unfortunately,” co-creator Drew Crevello told The News. WeWork was a unicorn, in the strictly financial sense: a startup company valued at more than $1 billion. Before WeWork there was Airbnb, Instacart and Pinterest. At its peak, WeWork was, on See SERIES C2

Scammers, con artists and thieves Why we keep watching, and why Hollywood keeps making By KATE FELDMAN New York Daily News

The lead characters — and probably their true-life counterparts — of “Super Pumped,” “The Dropout” and “WeCrashed” will all tell you the same thing: They wanted to change the world. The world, they say, just wasn’t ready. In the span of less than a month, three new series have tried to figure out the rise and fall of the tech bro: Travis Kalanick (Joseph GordonLevitt) at Uber, Elizabeth Holmes (Amanda Seyfried) at Theranos and Adam Neumann (Jared Leto) at WeWork. We know how all three end: Kalanick and Neumann were ousted by their respective boards and Holmes, along with COO Sunny Balwani, was charged with and convicted of criminal fraud. Each tells a slightly different story. Holmes never got Theranos off the ground, bested by technology that didn’t actually work. WeWork, for a while, housed millions of office workers around the world, although its profit margins were dubious at best. Uber remains one of the most successful Silicon Valley exports. But at the heart of all three shows is a single person who got swept up in all of it — and then See SCAMMERS C2

It took Taylor Tomlinson a while to figure out how to make the dead mom jokes work. It wasn’t for lack of trying. She’d been at it for years. But in her early 20s, telling audiences that 8 years old is actually a great age to be to lose a parent “because the only people I know with dead moms are Disney princesses” brought exactly zero laughs. She was greeted with uncomfortable silence, at best. “People were too sad for me,” Tomlinson said now, from her much more grown-up (28-year-old) vantage point. “I always thought it was funny that people were so sad that I was so young. Maybe it would have been worse if I had been 16 and more aware.” Still, for years she couldn’t find a way to put that experience into her stand-up in a way that was funny to anyone else. But her new Netflix special, “Look At You,” features not one, not two, but six solid minutes of jokes about losing her mom before she’d lost the lisp she didn’t even know she had. Tomlinson has the strange honor of being one of the breakout stars of the pandemic. Her first stand-up special, “Quarter-Life Crisis,” debuted on Netflix on March 3, 2020. Within weeks, much of the world was under lockdown, and Tomlinson had the most captive audience a comic is likely to find. She had a hit on her hands and nothing to do except sit at home in L.A., trapped inside with her boyfriend and her fears and her mental health issues while she waited to find out if and when she could tour again. What would fans even want from a post-pandemic set, assuming she’d ever have the opportunity to perform one? “Is my job just over?” she wondered. “I was worried during the lockdown portion of the pandemic that, once everything came back, is nobody going to want to joke about anything serious?” she said. Or would crowds be craving “physical ... goofy, light comedy,” which isn’t really her thing? “But I think it’s the opposite. People really want to laugh, and whatever resonates with them is good.” Tomlinson filmed “Quarter-Life” in November 2019. In that special, she talks about some personal stuff — her extremely religious upbringing, her recently broken engagement — but doesn’t mention her mom, let alone her death. “The dead mom jokes were jokes I did at cool alt rooms in L.A., and they’d work well,” Tomlinson said. “But it wasn’t material that fit into the hour. When I’d do it, people would be like, ‘Whoa, where did that come from?’ “ She considered trying to put in just one joke, as a sign that there would be more on the matter in the future, but she ultimately scrapped that idea. By the weekend after shooting See TOMLINSON C2

I was worried during the lockdown portion of the pandemic that, once everything came back, is nobody going to want to joke about anything serious? ... But I think it’s the opposite. People really want to laugh, and whatever resonates with them is good.” Taylor Tomlinson

Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway as Adam and Rebekah Neumann in “WeCrashed.” Apple TV Plus

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“Quarter-Life,” Tomlinson was back on the road, trying out new material. She had a new hour by March — you know, that March. As the pandemic and its various restrictions waxed and waned, Tomlinson performed when she felt it was safe enough to do so. In November 2020, she played a few clubs “that were at 30 to 40% capacity, and you had to be masked, very spread out,” she said. “Not a good environment for comedy, but you were so sad and purposeless,” it was better than the alternative (sitting at home, confronting your inner demons, etc.). Then came lockdown No. 2; she canceled more shows, then got back into it the following February, doing limited-capacity clubs and outdoor venues in L.A. She eventually shot “Look At You” at the Wilbur Theater in Boston on Dec. 17, 2021. “The chunk about losing my mom young, that was something that I’d been trying to work on for years that I was excited to tackle in this hour and excited to get working,” she said. “I had started working on [it] pretty early, but that got so much stronger and so much better as I was doing it in clubs, and figuring out how to weave in and out of sillier bits within it, so it wasn’t just super dark and hard the entire way through.” For Tomlinson, figuring out how to address the audience’s discomfort with the topic was the key that unlocked that entire segment. In “Look At You,” as Tomlinson approaches the stretch of jokes about her mom, she brings her stool to the lip of the stage and sits on it, like A.C. Slater on “Saved by the Bell” straddling a backward chair, as close to the audience as she can get. “I know dead mom jokes make people uncomfortable,” she says in the special. “I know that. And if you are uncomfortable, I don’t know what to say. You should’ve worked harder, so it was you up here.” Then she basically tells her audience to get over themselves and settle in for “six minutes of dead mom jokes.” As she road-tested her performance, she found that some of her mom jokes were hitting hard enough that she considered cutting out that preamble altogether. “But then that became its own bit,” she said. Plus it seemed to be something the crowd really needed: an invitation to laugh

Taylor Tomlinson in “Look At You,” her 2022 special on Netflix. Andrew Levy/Netflix

at Tomlinson’s foundational tragedy. ——— Tomlinson wasn’t using comedy to cope with her loss when it was still new. But she does remember a middle school classmate thinking she was joking when she told him that her mom was dead. “I was like, ‘Why would I joke about that?’ “ she said. “And he was like, ‘You’re smiling!’ I was like, ‘I’m not laughing, I’m uncomfortable.’” The bit about Disney princesses is a joke now, but it wasn’t back then. It just really is how Tomlinson dealt with that seismic loss. “It is how I sort of got through that. I was so young that you kind of just have to feel like somebody who is in a movie,” she said. “It’s not really happening to me. You don’t process the world in a real way.” She remembers talking about her mom all the time, or trying to. “When I was really young, it felt like something I should tell everybody,” Tomlinson said. “It felt like something everyone should know about me. And as I noticed that was making people uncomfortable, I felt, maybe I should not say this.” Sometimes in college, she’d refer to her parents as “separated” when she was talking to people with whom she didn’t expect to stay friendly. In “Look At You,” she describes an old friend learning the truth years later and being horrified with Tomlinson’s lie. Tomlinson’s response: “Well, they were. By Jesus.” Once Tomlinson was in her 20s and breaking through as a

“Look At You” follows Taylor Tomlinson’s 2020 Netflix breakout special “Quarter-Life Crisis.” Andrew Levy/Netflix

comedian — leaving college to tour full-time, performing on “Conan” — she started workshopping her mom jokes again. “I think I was just trying to find it,” she said, though she wasn’t convinced that she would. “It wasn’t like every joke I ever tried about this topic needed to be ironed out and polished up. It’s like with anything else: You just keep what works and dump what doesn’t.” ——— Tomlinson believes that one of the reasons her mom jokes weren’t working, say, five years ago, is because she just wasn’t ready to tell them, and audiences could feel her unease. “I think as I got more confident and comfortable with it, it worked better, because people can sense if you’re not in control,” she said.

“They get worried for you.” As an audience member, she’d feel the same way. “I kind of don’t care how good your jokes are, because if you seem insanely nervous, it’s not going to work. And if you joke about something you’re not ready to talk about yet, it’s not going to land.” Tomlinson said she didn’t feel obligated to include any mom material in “Look At You.” “I wasn’t trying to force anybody to listen to it,” she said. “I was like, maybe this won’t work in Arkansas. But if I can get this stuff to work everywhere, I can feel good about putting it out in the special.” Still, even all the confidence in the world sometimes can’t save a joke that just isn’t landing. Tomlinson has one that she’s pretty content to retire,

or at least bench. The joke in question: “You can’t really kill yourself after your mom dies, because that would be like calling in sick to work after somebody already asked for time off.” Tomlinson already had jokes about having suicidal thoughts before she went on medication. (Much of the new special delves into her bipolar disorder diagnosis and her experiences in therapy.) As much as she herself liked it, she knew when to abandon it. “It just did not work any of the times I tried it,” she said. “It was too sad.” ——— Tomlinson is certain that she would not be where she is — a successful stand-up with two Netflix specials to her name before she even turns 30 — if her mom were still alive. Had her mom survived,

Tomlinson tells the audience in “Look At You,” “I’d be a creative writing teacher who loved myself, and I’d be sitting in the dark with you peasants.” Tomlinson admits to harboring a feeling common among those who lose parents at a young age: this belief that she, too, will die young, which drives her to live her life at hyper-speed. She knows it’s part of what pushes her to achieve so much so quickly. “That’s really how I’ve felt at times in my life: You wouldn’t be where you are, because this is such a big part of your identity, and this is so much of why you operate the way you do, and why you turned out the way you did.” Or, as Tomlinson put it in “Look At You”: “She’s in heaven, I’m on Netflix. It all worked out.” Before Tomlinson said that on stage, she said it in therapy. Both Tomlinson’s therapist and psychiatrist have suggested to her a separation of couch and stage. “Maybe keep some of what we talk about in here just between us. You don’t have to tell everybody everything about you,” she recalled them saying. The thing is, Tomlinson said: “I feel like I do! That’s just how I write.” On her latest tour, “Deal With It,” Tomlinson would sometimes include a line about how her stand-up was not, in fact, her “dealing with it,” because the real dealing-with-it happened in therapy. “This is me monetizing my trauma,” she’d say. “I’m doing a show. There are T-shirts in the lobby. I’m aware that this is not where it’s happening. ... I think it’s important to acknowledge the fact that you’re actually working through this stuff. It’s not happening up here, but I’m talking about it up here because I’m working through it behind the scenes.” Now, Tomlinson feels like she can be more deliberate about what she shares and what she needs to keep to herself. “There are certain things that I wrote jokes about that didn’t make various specials because I was like, you know what? I don’t want to actually put this out there,” she says. “Or I processed it fully and realized I felt a different way about it.” With “Look At You,” she’s feeling “a little nervous” about how much of her personal life she’s sharing publicly, but ultimately she thinks that it’s worth talking about the stuff that she’s scared to admit. “Maybe other people are scared to share that about themselves, and they shouldn’t feel that way,” she said. “And this might help.”

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watched it collapse. There’s something about watching people fail. There’s a perverse pleasure in watching the king of the jungle fall, crumbling beneath the weight of ego or expectations. We tell ourselves we could have done it better, that we would have known when to stop or taken a different path at the fork in the road. These shows tell us we probably couldn’t. Power corrupts, or money does or prestige. How do you stop when Forbes is calling? Why would you say no to investors writing blank checks and begging you to take them? What “Super Pumped,” “The Dropout” and “WeCrashed” want you to know is that it wasn’t just about Kalanick, Holmes and Neumann. There’s a larger system at play, one that cares about profits above — and instead of — all. Their founders may have cared about changing the world (transportation, health care and the workplace, respectively), but their investors only cared about the bottom line. That’s not wrong, but it’s also an excuse. Kalanick chose to chase investments at all costs and ignored the rampant sexual harassment and toxic culture inside Uber because the perpetrators were still getting the

Jared Leto and Anne Hathaway as Adam and Rebekah Neumann in “WeCrashed.” Apple TV Plus

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Amanda Seyfried plays Elizabeth Holmes in the Hulu series, “The Dropout.” Hulu

job done. “The Dropout” offers the same for Holmes, constantly reminding viewers she was a woman in a man’s world, forced to work twice as hard to even get in the door, even as her lies piled up. Neumann was also an outsider, “WeCrashed” reminds you, a barefoot Israeli who grew up on a kibbutz and either couldn’t or wouldn’t conform to American standards. There is a hubris required to get you to the level of Elizabeth Holmes or Adam Neumann and there is a naivete required to tumble from such heights. The spectacular flameouts are predictable, so much so that

Hollywood was able to turn them into a patterned rise and fall. From the outside, we get to judge. We thrive off it, in fact. We say that will never be us. We say that when we finally have that great idea, the one that will disrupt an industry and change the world, we will do it right. We will succeed. “I used to think they were all Jesus Christ,” Benchmark partner Bill Gurley, played by Kyle Chandler, says in “Super Pumped” of the tech founders he funds. “Then I began to see that half of them were, indeed, on the side of the angels, and half of them were some

version of David Koresh. ... The trick is to flee the cult and get out of the compound the second before they burn it to the ground.” We don’t hear about the angels. We hear about the Waco leaders who, for a while, convince everyone that they are the chosen ones. We hear about the burning compound because failure, when it’s not our own, is inherently more interesting than success. We like the fall. Kate Feldman covers national and breaking news, as well as TV, for the New York Daily News.

paper, worth $47 billion. Eisenberg and Crevello know the comparisons to “Super Pumped,” about the ousting of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, and “The Dropout,” tracking the downfall of Theranos and founder Elizabeth Holmes, are inevitable. Silicon Valley scammers are having a moment. But they put WeWork in a different category. “It really is an Icarus story of flying too close to the sun,” Crevello said. WeWork expanded into too many cities and countries, into too many markets, including Rebekah’s private school, WeGrow. They hired too many employees, promised too many stock options, threw too many parties. “They were spending more money than they made, which is not a great business model. Basically the business model

then became, ‘Well, we just need to keep raising money,’” Eisenberg said. Eventually, Neumann spent too much even for his investors. The sexual harassment lawsuit, filed by a former employee, didn’t help, nor did alleged drug use. In September 2019, he stepped down as CEO, facing pressure from his board, which was still trying to forge ahead to an IPO. When the company finally went public through a merger in October 2021, it was valued at about $9 million. At last count, Neumann was worth about $1.6 billion. Eisenberg and Crevello said the modern company tells a tale as old as time: people wanting more than they have. “History keeps repeating itself,” Eisenberg said. “It’s the detailing and the characters at the center of it that make it unique, but unicorns have existed since civilization began.” “Somewhere out there,” Crevello interrupted, “a horse is growing a horn as we speak.”

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Put a spring in your step By G. DANIELA GALARZA Washington Post

Crispy lamb meatballs with herby feta yogurt welcomes the season “Because of their construction, sponges provide harborage for any number and variety of microbiological organisms, many of which may be pathogenic,” according to the Food and Drug Administration’s U.S. Food Code. Pexels

Your kitchen sponge needs cleaning, too Here’s how to care for it By BECKY KRYSTAL Washington Post

There are a lot of tools in my kitchen that I use on a daily basis, if not multiple times a day — my chef’s knife, cutting board, paring knife, skillet and box grater, just to name a few. But one thing that gets even more use, that is a common denominator that touches, literally, all these items, is my sponge. And that is part of the problem. “Because of their construction, sponges provide harborage for any number and variety of microbiological organisms, many of which may be pathogenic,” according to the Food and Drug Administration’s U.S. Food Code, a nonbinding document intended as a model for state and local governments when enacting their own regulations in retail and food service settings. In addition to food-borne pathogens, yeasts and molds can proliferate in sponges. “The majority of people don’t know how to properly handle a sponge when it comes to the maintenance of it,” says Jason Bolton, extension professor and food safety specialist at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension. Here’s what you need to know about caring for, cleaning and replacing your sponges.

HOW TO CLEAN AND SANITIZE THE SPONGE Bolton says it’s essential to clean and sanitize your sponge regularly, ideally every day. You can do that through either heat or See SPONGE C8

The majority of people don’t know how to properly handle a sponge when it comes to the maintenance of it.” Jason Bolton

Professor and food safety specialist at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension

s it feeling like spring yet where you are? Do you hear more birds chirping? Are there tender buds on the trees? It’s full-on spring mode where I am, but I have friends in the Southern hemisphere who are gearing up for colder days, and I know others who’ve been reveling in warm weather for months now. Time and space still feel a bit nebulous, but at least we have our seasons to ground us. To mark the start of a new season, I’ve got a new recipe for you. Lamb meatballs, pungent with spring onions and lemony sumac, are served on top of a soft, green sauce made from herbs, feta and yogurt. Fresh, tender herbs are central to this dish, because when I think of spring, I think of the first few chives and green onions, the frilly dill and the eager shoots of cilantro, just as the first leaf splits into two. Start by chopping scallions and dill (or use parsley, cilantro or marjoram) in a food processor. Scoop out half of the chopped herbs and add them to a bowl with ground lamb — or, you could use this formula to make mushroom-walnut “meatballs.” Garlic goes in, along with lots of sumac. The tangy spice is especially good with meats, but I use it in salads and stews, too. If you can’t find it, use lemon zest instead. The meatballs stay tender thanks to the addition of cooked rice or breadcrumbs. I love how, once they’re roasted, the rice or breadcrumbs on their surface crisp and caramelize. While the meatballs cook, add feta and yogurt to the herbs left in the food processor. They’ll produce a sauce that’s pale green and wonderfully tangy. It’s great with the meatballs, along with wedges of warm pita. Serve everything family style, for dipping and sharing, or make pita pocket sandwiches by smashing a meatball into halves of pita and drizzling on some sauce. See MEATBALLS C8

Lamb Meatballs With Sumac and Feta. Rey Lopez/Washington Post

Little Gem lettuce is the crown jewel of restaurant salads Here’s how the obscure leafy green gained culinary fans

I had no idea what the hell they were. They were hard to find, but I eventually got some for the dinner.”

By EMILY HEIL Washington Post

Trends come and go in salads just like they do in fashion. Kale, of course, is the most obvious example of a green that has risen to pop-culture status (see Beyoncé wearing one of those sweatshirts emblazoned with the name of the vegetable in a 2014 music video). But it’s not the only leaf that has gone for a ride on the shifting winds of modishness: Recall arugula’s ‘90s glowup, and the way radicchio was suddenly everywhere in the early aughts. (A variety of rose-colored radicchio even enjoyed its own turn as an It Green circa 2018, when its hue matched the then-ubiquitous “millennial pink.”) Think microgreens. Moss. The second coming of iceberg. The rise over the past two decades of Little Gem lettuce, which combines characteristics of butter and romaine lettuces and resembles the smaller, tender inner leaves of a romaine head, might have been less splashy than those of its forebears. But it looks like this petite green is staying in

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Little Gem lettuce has become the crown jewel of restaurant salads. Scott Suchman/Washington Post

the picture. Since its introduction to American diners in the last quarter century, you can now find Little Gem on restaurant menus from Atlanta to Los Angeles. And it’s increasingly showing up on grocery store shelves. To hear chefs explain what they like about the variety is to appreciate the lettuce — but also the care and consideration they give to the smallest details of the ingredients they

use to construct dishes. Chicago restaurateur Paul Kahan says the flavor of a lettuce might be subtle, but it’s not insignificant. “Romaine can have a little astringency, but with Little Gem, you don’t get that,” he says. “It’s sweet and grassy to me.” Laurence Jossel, chef and owner of San Francisco’s Nopa, says the variety balances well with a vinaigrette. “The sweetness means it can

take an acid nicely,” notes the chef, who instructs his staff to slightly overdress Little Gems because he finds the “juiciness” of the leaves slightly dilutes the dressing. Kahan also likes how Little Gems soften just the right amount when dressed, unlike romaine, which “can take a half-gallon of olive oil and still stay as stiff as cardboard.” Both Kahan and Jossel also like that the variety generates

less food waste — something chefs appreciate for environmental and bottom-line reasons. Unlike some other types of lettuce, you don’t have to trim much at the root, there are no tough outer layers to discard, and fresh heads hold up relatively well, lasting a few days without wilting or browning in a walk-in refrigerator. Little Gem’s origins are a bit murky, but it appears to have come from France, and first become popular in Europe and in the United Kingdom. It sometimes goes by the name Sucrine, which is rooted in the French word for “sugar.” Mentions of Little Gem in the English-language media before the early 2000s are mostly found in the British press. In a rare exception, a news story from 1989 mentions Little Gem as an obscure addition to the Cornell Cooperative

Extension list of recommended vegetable varieties for New York. It’s nigh impossible to pinpoint a “Patient Zero”-style moment when the lettuce hopped the pond into U.S. restaurants. But the story of how Kahan was introduced to the product tracks with the apparent migration pattern: Not long after he opened the first location of Avec in 2003, he invited his friend, the influential British chef Fergus Henderson, to guest-host a dinner. Henderson sent him the menu ahead of time, and Kahan set about procuring supplies, including the specified Little Gems. “I had no idea what the hell they were,” he said. “They were hard to find, but I eventually got some for the dinner.” The Chicago chef wound up liking them so much he put a Little Gem salad on his own menu, after enlisting a local farmer to grow them for him. Kinnikinnick Farm, located just south of the Wisconsin border in Illinois, tried out the variety and has been growing them ever since, he says. The variety enjoyed early popularity in California, too, where so many vegetable See LETTUCE C8

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Horoscope By Stella Wilder Born Sunday, you are one of the most forceful, forthright, ambitious and energetic individuals born under your sign — and that’s saying something, for the Aries native is known for being all these things to some degree, and also to be unapologetic about it, as you are. You will go anywhere and do anything if you feel there is profit to be made from it, and that profit may benefit your mind, body, soul or bank account; you don’t care which. The decisions you make in life may not always be understood by those who share their lives with you and, in fact, you may at times have to navigate a great deal of criticism from those who know you best and who think you’re following the wrong path. All you can do in such cases is continue undeterred and prove that you know what you’re doing — and why! Also born on this date are: Eddie Murphy, actor and comedian; Alec Baldwin, actor; Doris Day, singer and actress; Marlon Brando, actor; Jane Goodall, primatologist; Jennie Garth, actress; Wayne Newton, singer; Washington Irving, author. To see what is in store for you Monday,

Last week’s puzzle answers find your birthday and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your daily guide. MONDAY, APRIL 4 ARIES (March 21-April 19) — A certain question uncovered today may be answered in any number of ways, but you’re eager to see things follow a certain pattern. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — A minor fear is holding you back today, though you would scoff at the very idea. In fact, your behavior is telling the whole world the truth. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You can prevent only so much today, so instead, focus on how you will respond to what happens — whether expected or unexpected. Communicate! CANCER (June 21-July 22) — Pay attention to all the messages that are sent to you today via unspoken or unwritten means. Others rely on your interpretations. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Do not try to force anyone into agreement or cooperation with you today. It must happen organically or not at all. Be ready for anything. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — The more you seek approval from others, the less it is likely to mean to you in the long run. You must

please yourself, first and foremost! LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Focus on raising the bar today; the quality of your work is fine, but there’s always room for improvement, and you know how to make that happen. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Sit back and watch the world go by for a while without feeling compelled to take part. Later, you’ll be playing a central role for sure! SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Your comfort level depends today on what kind of people you surround yourself with, for you’re not likely to get along with just anyone. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You can surely make your dreams come true, if not today, then in the days to come — but you must accept that this will happen in a strange way. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — You may have trouble wrapping your head around a new concept, but a friend or co-worker steers you in the right direction by day’s end. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — What happens between you and someone you “fancy” may not be noticed by anyone else, but you’re keenly aware that something new is going on.

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Man’s historical novel honored in Independent Press Awards

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CHAUMONT, NY — The historical novel “For the Love of Rose: A Journey in Three Worlds” by Chaumont resident Robert D. Egby has been selected as a “Distinguished Favorite” in the 2022 Independent Press Awards. The Award was given in the “Teen” category. The awards will officially be announced on Monday. Set in upstate New York in the 1930s, the novel is the story of an 18-year old dairyfarm lad, Frank Barbury, and his love affair with an up-andcoming Long Island artist five years his senior. When Rose and her father, a New York surgeon, go missing during the Spanish Civil War, Frank innocently goes searching for them — working as an ambulance driver in the battlefields, where the average life-expectancy was 48 hours. Based in real time and real places, the novel tells of the nationalist bombing of the Basque city of Durango in

Robert D. Egby’s “For the Love of Rose: A Journey in Three Worlds” was selected as a Distinguished Favorite in the 2022 Independent Press Awards.

Northern Spain on March 31, 1937 where Rose is badly injured and Frank is captured by the Germans. Mr. Egby and his partner, Betty Lou Kishler, spent three summers visiting the Basque Country. They also lived 11

years near Three Mile Bay, where the Barbury Farm was located. In 2022, the Independent Press Awards had entries worldwide. Authors and publishers from countries such as Australia, Canada, Germany,

Ireland, Jordan, and Switzerland participated. The competition is judged by experts from different aspects of the book industry, including publishers, writers, editors, book cover designers and professional copywriters. Selected IPA award winners and distinguished favorites are based on overall excellence. Mr. Egby a former journalist and a British accredited war correspondent in the 1956 Suez War, wrote a companion novel, “The Urkiola Boy,” set in the same period with several of the secondary characters playing roles. That novel was also listed a “Distinguished Favorite” in the New York Big Book Awards in the Fall of 2021. Both novels are also available in Spanish. Mr. Egby, who is an acknowledged independent publisher, has written and published 15 books, some spiritual, some about dowsing and self-development and others, historical novels. ‘It keeps me balanced,” Mr.

Robert D. Egby poses with his novel, which has been honored by the Independent Press Awards. Submitted photo

Egby said in a news release. “One book on dowsing negative Earth energies scooped three awards.” He added, “There are some benefits to researching and writing. I studied Spanish along the way to keep my

mind in trim, and I’m now at conversation level. Not bad for a youngster who just hit his 90th birthday.” “For the Love of Rose: A Journey in Three Worlds” is available on Amazon and Kindle Global.

Compassionate portraits of people with faith From aliens to ghosts and God, a look at those who believe By LISA BIRNBACH Washington Post

The Believer: Encounters With the Beginning, the End, and Our Place in the Middle By Sarah Krasnostein Tin House. 397 pp. $27.95 One steamy summer day in New York City, Sarah Krasnostein, an Australian-American writer, was surprised to find a group of modestly dressed women and men singing hymns on a subway platform. The women wore long plain dresses and little white bonnets. Krasnostein noted the irony of this troupe of godly people serenading the sinners of Sodom and Gomorrah, but found their voices enchanting. She took a brochure from the proselytizers. “As absurd as it was beautiful,” she writes, it started her on a project to find people of faith — not necessarily of religious conviction, but people who had acquired “certainty in the absence of knowledge.” Once upon a time — I’d say it was during the George H.W. Bush administration — I had the idea to write a book about women whose lives were circumscribed by their commitment to their religious beliefs and practices. I was fascinated by the choices they made in a modern world and wanted to understand how they managed to live in the United States of the late 20th century. I’m sorry I never wrote that (note to my agent: whaddya think?), but if I had, I wasn’t planning on including people who claimed to communicate with the dead, people who believed in UFOs, yeti hunters or ghostbusters. And no members of cults or for-profit organizations like Scientology. Krasnostein’s generous and compassionate book, “The Believer: Encounters With the Beginning, the End, and Our

Place in the Middle,” recounts her experiences with followers of eccentric or, let’s say, science fiction beliefs as well as many Christians, all of whom are treated with respect. Her tour of humanity, spanning unlighted country roads in Australia to crumbling apartments in the South Bronx, shows that many human beings benefit from finding an ideology that encompasses not just their beliefs but their ways of living. I don’t know if Krasnostein is entertained, credulous or just tolerant of the ghost types, and that is one of her gifts. After witnessing the performance of the subway choir, the author watched other Mennonite choirs on YouTube — and, she writes, she felt “tears burning my eyes.” It isn’t the songs or the skill of the singers that moved her. “It isn’t a question of technical mastery,” she explains. “The voices are by no means perfect. But each time it causes within me a certain pool of feeling — a tenderness.” What stirred her was discovering how the choir members learned to sing together in harmony. “‘They grew up with it,’ the pastor’s wife Becky explains. ‘At church, we don’t have a choir because we want everybody to be involved.’” Krasnostein realizes: “That’s everything, really. These songs are houses with warm rooms for everyone. This is what it could feel like.” That moment in the subway provided the big bang of this book. Krasnostein met several Mennonite families who had moved from their small homogenous community in Myerstown, Pa., (population 3,201) to spread the word of Jesus to the Black and Latino population of upper Manhattan and the South Bronx. They gave birth there, they homeschooled their kids there, and they basically created little bubbles of Whiteness and innocence in the naked city. Krasnostein often mentions her Jewish heritage and

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HARDCOVER FICTION 1. Run, Rose, Run. Parton/Patterson. Little, Brown 2. Shadows Reel. C.J. Box. Putnam 3. High Stakes. Danielle Steel. Delacorte 4. The Paris Apartment. Lucy Foley. Morrow 5. The Lightning Rod. Brad Meltzer. Morrow 6. One Italian Summer. Rebecca Serle. Atria

her forebears’ European roots and emigration. And yet she had no trouble absorbing the serenity of her Mennonite subjects sitting in their apartments cramped with children in the Bronx. When she spent time at Kentucky’s Creation Museum and Ark Encounter — where “a full-size Noah’s ark ... [rests] on an endless expanse of grass in the middle of nowhere” (just off I-75 midway between Cincinnati and Lexington) — her heritage wasn’t well appreciated, nor was her belief that dinosaurs became extinct millennia before people existed. The evolution-denying scientists she interviewed at these giant theme parks were believers all right, theorizing about how Noah and his family fed the dinosaurs that arrived in pairs — who knew? — aboard his 510-foot-long ark, if their math is correct. We meet Katrina, a beautiful young mother who is dying of cancer. Krasnostein was introduced to her through Annie, a death doula and monk who had been married multiple times. It is hard to determine who is more interesting — the social activist mother of three in end-stage cancer who is trying to do everything right for her kids, or Annie, who as part of her introduction to Krasnostein shared the suicide notes she had written while deeply depressed 20 years earlier. Annie had once been declared dead (for three minutes in her 20s after an overdose) and came to view every setback and trial in life as an opportunity for learning and growth. Krasnostein skips from subject to subject and returns, with the fluidity of a string wound for a game of cat’s cradle — in and out and back where she started. She takes us to Vlad Dubaj, a PhD in biomedical imaging who likes to visit haunted houses where he communicates with “spooks.” And we get to know Lynn, a grandmother in her 70s who spent 35 years — half of her

life — in prison for murdering her ex-husband after he threw their 2-year-old son down the front stairs. Now living in a homeless shelter in New York, Lynn spends her days working and volunteering at Trinity Church as a devout Episcopalian. Faith in something can garner a community for its adherents, and it can separate those people from the larger community. What becomes clear pretty early on is that people who believe in things that are considered “fringy” often share those ideas only in private. They live both among us and apart from us. We learn that believers in the paranormal and in UFO abductions often choose not to share their experiences or opinions with most strangers, lest they lose the other party’s respect. But the author judges no one. Her

empathy fills her pages. She even acknowledges: “I hadn’t previously thought of anxiety as an autoimmune disease. But of course it is.” You will meet no skeptics in “The Believer.” Take Rhonda, who began dating Fred when she was 16 and he was 19. His dream was to become a commercial airline pilot. Their dream was to get married and raise a family together. Unfortunately, Fred did poorly on his necessary exams, and his path to his certification was long. Fred’s last communication was on Oct. 21, 1978, when he made a flight over the water one night before he was to meet Rhonda for a date. Audiotapes from the control tower reveal that he was having difficulties aboard his Cessna. He told the controller in Melbourne that there was

Publisher’s Weekly best-sellers 7. Berserk Deluxe Vol. 10. Kentaro Miura. Dark Horse Manga 8. The Club. Ellery Lloyd. Harper 9. House of Sky and Breath. Sarah J. Maas. Bloomsbury 10. The Atlas Six. Olivie Blake. Tor

HARDCOVER NONFICTION 1. The Wok. J. Kenji Lopez-Alt. Norton 2. One Damn Thing After Another. William P. Barr. Morrow

3. Mission Possible. Tim Tebow. WaterBrook 4. The Great Reset. Glenn Beck. Forefront 5. Atlas of the Heart. Brene Brown. Random House 6. Jane Austen’s Table. Robert Tuesley Anderson. Thunder Bay 7. Red-Handed. Peter Schweizer. Harper 8. Find Your People. Jennie Allen. WaterBrook 9. How Do I Un-remember This? Danny Pellegrino. Sourcebooks 10. From Strength to Strength. Arthur C. Brooks. Portfolio

an unusual object flying just above his craft. It was causing problems with his equipment and his radio. He disappeared that night, and no traces of his plane or his body were ever recovered. In Australia, where vast expanses of land and sky seem to host a large number of mysterious sightings, Fred became famous and almost idolized, particularly by the communities that take UFOs seriously. To this day, Rhonda puts on her engagement ring once a year on their anniversary. She thinks of him every day — as the love of her life — despite the other relationships she’s formed since Fred’s disappearance. Rhonda’s life was stunted that day in 1978. She is a believer in love, and she is a believer that somehow corporeal Fred’s demise is linked to something mysteriously extraterrestrial, which through her eyes is more of a good thing than a bad one. Throughout her narrative, we feel not only Krasnostein’s compassion but also her yearning. While some people in the book prefer pseudonyms to protect their privacy, Krasnostein succeeded admirably in winning the trust of her subjects. Her talent for penetrating intimate settings and eliciting personal testimony is impressive. The profiles are fascinating — I can’t imagine talking to paranormal enthusiasts for more than 10 minutes without nodding off or secretly checking my phone, but Krasnostein’s portraits left me feeling melancholy all the same. We all want so much to belong, to believe, to connect, to be whole, to be good — and that’s a lot, whether you work at the Ark Encounter in Kentucky or are chasing space aliens in Victoria. Lisa Birnbach is a writer in New York. She co-wrote and edited “The Official Preppy Handbook” and wrote “True Prep.”

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6 ways to jump-start your spring garden If you’re itching to get out, here are tips on where to start By ASHLEY ABRAMSON Washington Post

You may not start to see blooms and buds for a few more weeks. But there are steps you can take now to start preparing your garden for the growing season and the longer, warmer days to come. Most plants stop growing during winter to conserve energy, relying on stored nutrients beneath the soil to sustain them. The arrival of early spring, when an increase in daylight begins to trigger plant growth, is the perfect time to put in a bit of work to help your plants thrive during the year. Here’s how to prepare for the growing season, according to gardening experts. n Start with your tools: Dig out your gardening tools and ensure they’re in working condition. Amy Chaffman, a professional certified horticulturist and owner of the Pampered Garden, a D.C.-based gardening and landscaping business, suggests cleaning your pruners and shears with rubbing alcohol to avoid spreading any remnants of diseases from last year. Sharpen tools that need it, including pruning shears, hedge trimmers and lawn mower blades. “If you have to use a lot of force with the handles to get a nice, clean cut on a stem, it’s probably time to sharpen them,” says Sarah Dickert, lead horticulturist at the Smithsonian Gardens. Charge any battery-operated tools, such as chain saws, weed whackers or lawn

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trends take off; Alice Waters, the chef and owner of Chez Panisse and the woman in line for canonization as the patron saint of salads, was another early adopter. So was Judy Rodgers of the legendary San Francisco restaurant Zuni Cafe. A 2004 travel story in the Los Angeles Times described a salad there: “Slices of Saveloy sausage were complemented with pristine little gem lettuce, fava beans and tiny radish discs, all bathed in a capershallot vinaigrette.” And Jossel has had a salad that incorporates Little Gem on his menu continuously since Nopa opened in 2006. His preparations vary depending on the season and what’s available. An early iteration was “loosely inspired” by food writer Elizabeth David, he recalls, with her English-style whole egg dressing represented by bits of hard-boiled eggs, combined with such spring ingredients as radish and chives dressed in a creamy herb vinaigrette with toasted breadcrumbs. He’s now serving it in a simple preparation atop an avocado puree, he says. Now, home cooks are discovering its versatility. Robert Schueller, director of public relations at national distributor Melissa’s Produce, has seen increased demand from

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chemical means. First, wash the sponge with warm water and soap. The easiest next step is to microwave it on high for 1 minute. Make sure the sponge is still wet — too dry and it can catch on fire — and does not contain any metallic elements, such as in the scrubber, that can spark. Let the sponge cool before handling,

mowers, and change the filters on gas-powered models. Equipment manuals should include instructions for recommended regular maintenance; early spring is a good time to take care of such tasks. If you find you’re missing something or need to replace a piece of equipment, don’t wait. According to Stephanie Turner, a horticulture agent at the Greenwood County Cooperative Extension Office in South Carolina, some items may be difficult to find later in the season, especially with continuing shipping and supply chain issues. n Clean up leaves: Last year’s leaves make a good habitat for pollinators in winter, but now that it’s getting warmer, Dickert says it’s time to clean up any remaining leaves in your flower bed, especially the ones around plants that are susceptible to disease, such as boxwoods or roses. “Disease spores can still live on leaves and debris that are around those plants and can infect the plants in the new season,” she says. Plus, Chaffman says, raking away leaves helps you see new plant growth and avoid stepping on tender shoots when you’re working in your garden. n Cut back perennials: Early spring is the ideal time to cut back last year’s spent perennials to prepare for new growth, Dickert says. She suggests cutting back each stem, leaving six to eight inches above the soil, so you can see where your plants are, and she says to avoid covering growth areas if you add mulch.

The arrival of early spring, when an increase in daylight begins to trigger plant growth, is the perfect time to put in a bit of work to help your plants thrive during the year. Pexels

Afterward, consider composting trimmed plant matter or cutting it up to create mulch. Roses, Chaffman says, also need pruning, as do many trees and bushes, for shaping purposes. It’s also best to do this while the plants are dormant. “It’s easier to see what you’re doing without all the foliage,” says Jon Traunfeld, extension specialist and director of the Home and Garden Information Center at the University of Maryland Extension. n Get ahead of the weeds: To keep weeds from overtaking your garden, Traunfeld suggests removing them before the active growing season. Herbicides can damage your garden, so he recommends hand-pulling or using a hoe.

chefs in the last three years, and notes that even more recently, more grocers have been stocking it, too. “In the last year consumers have really started to become more familiar with the item at retail supermarket stores,” he says in an email. While restaurateurs often enlist local suppliers to grow Little Gems, large-scale commercial production is centered in Salinas, Calif., Schueller says. Beloved by chefs and increasingly by home cooks, Little Gem also has characteristics growers like, as well, says Joe Masabni, an associate professor and extension vegetable specialist at Texas A&M University. He notes that it is compact and reaches maturity more quickly than many other lettuce varieties, meaning producers can turn around more of it. “It’s ideal for hydroponics,” Masabni says, “which is the way a lot of commercial lettuce is grown.” Like many who encounter the variety, Masabni also delights in the aptness of its name. In many cases, “Each leaf is like the size of a tablespoon,” he notes, and for those who haven’t tried growing or eating it, “it’s an undiscovered gem.” For Jossel, the proof that Little Gem has arrived? “Nobody has to ask what they are anymore,” he says. “We don’t even have to say ‘Little Gem lettuce’ — it’s just ‘Little Gem.’”

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as it will be hot. His other preferred method after washing is to soak the sponge in a bleach solution. Because the formula for diluting bleach can vary according to the product, the surface in question and what you’re trying to disinfect, Bolton says to check the label instructions for the bleach. Assuming your bleach is 8.25% sodium hypochlorite, you’ll need 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon per quart of warm water. Soak the sponge in that solution for 1 minute.

The Agricultural Research Service, part of the USDA, found that a dishwasher with a drying cycle was almost as effective as microwaving, killing 99.9998% of bacteria on a sponge, as opposed to the 99.99999 percent in a microwave. Bolton is less sold on the dishwasher because dishwashers can vary in temperature and because of the potential fire or other hazard should the sponge come in contact with a heating element in the appliance. But if the sponge is secure and you’re confident about the temperature, go for it.

You can also contain weeds by covering them in mulch. “If there are weed seeds already in the soil, mulch can prevent sunlight from getting to those seeds, so they won’t germinate,” Dickert says. “If seeds fall on top of the mulch, there isn’t as much growing material. It’s a looser texture, so they can’t germinate easily.” n Consider fertilizing: Perennials, shrubs and trees typically don’t need fertilizing, Traunfeld says, especially if you’ve added organic matter to the soil. Too much fertilizer can burn the roots and damage the foliage. Annuals and vegetables, on the other hand, may need a boost. Testing your soil can indicate whether you need to fertilize — and where. You can pick up a soil-testing

kit from your local extension office or purchase one at a nursery or gardening center. Follow the steps for testing your soil, then drop off or mail the samples according to the product’s instructions, if that’s the type of test you bought. A lab will analyze the soil and share information about its pH and nutrient content, along with recommendations for fertilizing. “A lot of people blindly apply fertilizer, but you’ll get much better results if you know what your soil really needs,” Turner says. If you plan to fertilize, timing is important. Chaffman recommends waiting until the soil temperature is above 50 degrees. Aerate your soil first, so the nutrients can go deeper, and apply the fertilizer before mulching. “You don’t want the fertilizer to have to dissolve through the mulch just to get down to the soil,” Chaffman says. n Add mulch: A few inches of mulch can prevent soil from washing away in storms, moderate soil temperatures and lock in moisture, Traunfeld says. If you have mulch left over from last year, Dickert says, you can rake it to freshen up its appearance. The University of Maryland Extension advises using locally sourced mulch, such as pine needles, grass clippings, leaves and newspapers, which are more environmentally friendly than many store-bought options. If you prefer store-bought mulch, look for products certified by the Mulch and Soil Council, because they are less likely to contain dyes and chemicals that could harm your garden — and the environment.

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LAMB MEATBALLS WITH SUMAC AND FETA Active time: 20 minutes | Total time: 40 minutes 4 servings Sumac adds a lemony tang to these roasted lamb meatballs. Cooked rice or breadcrumbs help keep them moist and tender. Served with a dill and scallion feta-yogurt spread, they make a filling meal. To make this vegan >> apply these flavors to this (or your favorite) meatless meatball recipe. Use a plain nondairy yogurt instead of the feta and yogurt, or make the sauce with silken tofu. Not into scallions? >> Use chives or skip them and use additional leafy herbs. Instead of lamb >> you could use beef or turkey. Out of rice and breadcrumbs? >> Omit them, but be sure not to overwork the mixture. Can’t find sumac? >> Use the zest of a large lemon. In place of feta >> try goat cheese, ricotta or just make this with yogurt. Storage Notes: Refrigerated for up to 4 days. Where to Buy: Ground sumac can be found in well-stocked supermarkets, spice shops and online. Ground lamb can be found at

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Lamb Meatballs With Sumac and Feta. Rey Lopez/Washington Post

well-stocked supermarkets, or ask a butcher to grind it for you. 5 scallions, roughly chopped 1 small bunch fresh dill (1 ounce) or parsley, or a combination, roughly chopped, plus a few sprigs reserved for garnish 1 pound ground lamb 3/4 cup cooked rice or plain breadcrumbs 2 cloves garlic, minced or grated 2 tablespoons ground sumac 1 teaspoon fine salt 1/2 teaspoon freshly cracked black pepper 4 ounces feta, roughly crumbled 3 tablespoons Greek yogurt, plus more as needed Flatbreads, cooked rice and/or salad, for serving (optional)

Moisture is one of the requirements for potentially harmful bacteria to multiply, and that matters because it’s easy to let your sponge sit around wet. In between uses and cleaning, be sure to wring out whatever water you can. Store the sponge in a clean spot that allows for air circulation and reduces the possibility of cross-contamination, so not in the sink basin or even the dish rack, Bolton says. My mom has a clean soap dish devoted to the task, but you can also buy a dedicated sponge holder. After testing various models, America’s Test Kitchen recommends looking for a holder with a large opening for dropping the sponge into, as well as an open construction to allow for efficient drying. It should attach securely enough to the sink to not be easily knocked off in the course of cleaning, which is where a slim profile comes in handy, too. ATK’s winning model, from SunnyPoint, features two large suction cups, while one of its runners-up

Position a rack in the middle of the oven and preheat to 350 degrees. Line a large, rimmed baking sheet with foil, if desired. In the bowl of a food processor, combine the scallions and dill and/or parsley and process or pulse until finely chopped, stopping to scrape down the sides of the bowl as needed. In a large bowl, combine the lamb, rice or breadcrumbs, garlic, sumac, salt, black pepper and about half of the chopped herbs (leave the remaining herbs in the food processor). Using your hands, gently mix everything together and form the mixture into 15 to 20 approximately 1-ounce meatballs. Place them, evenly spaced, on the rimmed baking sheet and bake for 20 minutes, or until browned and cooked

through. Meanwhile, add the feta and yogurt to the remaining herbs in the food processor and process until a bright green sauce forms, about 3 minutes, stopping to scrape down the sides of the bowl as needed. If the sauce seems too thick, add 1 more tablespoon of yogurt. To serve, spoon the sauce onto a large plate and top with the cooked meatballs. Garnish with sprigs of dill and serve with flatbreads, a salad or extra rice.

from Yamazaki hangs from the faucet, useful if suction cups are not compatible with your sink material. Whatever you choose, ATK suggests cleaning the holder with hot, soapy water at least once a month.

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REPLACING It’s hard to recommend a hard-and-fast rule for how often to replace a sponge, because much depends on how often it’s used and how it’s maintained, Bolton says. “If you use it seldomly, you could get two weeks out of it,” is his rough guidance. It’s important to pay attention to the condition of the sponge. If the sponge is torn, losing pieces or separating between the scrubber and soft side, it’s time to get a new one. Bolton notes that if you are properly sanitizing your sponge, the process will start to break it down anyway, which is a helpful built-in reminder. Another tell: “Once a sponge starts to smell, throw it out immediately,” advises the Iowa State University

Nutrition information per serving (4 or 5 meatballs, 1/4 cup sauce), based on 4 | Calories: 417; Total Fat: 34 g; Saturated Fat: 16 g; Cholesterol: 110 mg; Sodium: 995 mg; Carbohydrates: 16 g; Dietary Fiber: 2 g; Sugar: 2 g; Protein: 27 g.

DITCH THE SPONGE ALTOGETHER In commercial settings, the U.S. Food Code does not recommend using sponges on surfaces that have been cleaned, sanitized or are at that moment in contact with food. Instead, it suggests, in conjunction with various cleaners and abrasives, such items as scouring pads and brushes, which, of course, may not be compatible with some types of cookware. Bolton strongly recommends against using a sponge to clean equipment and surfaces that have been in contact with raw meat or fish, which can create cross-contamination problems. In those scenarios, he recommends using a disposable sponge or a rag that can be used once and put immediately in the washing machine to be cleaned with detergent and hot water (a more eco-friendly alternative to paper towels). You can use clean kitchen towels for the rest of your dishwashing, too.