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State and AARP officials are warning New Yorkers, and seniors in particular, that scammers are trying to take advantage of the virus pandemic to fraudulently obtain private information.

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Scammers are exploiting public anxiety over the COVID-19 pandemic and using the crisis as an opportunity to make money, state and local officials warn.

Elderly people, already the frequent targets of scammers, are at increased risk during this time of heightened anxiety, said state Attorney General Letitia James on Friday.

The attorney general’s office is tracking the latest

scams, which include schemes to steal the $1,200 federal stimulus checks, census fraud and bogus coronavirus cures, James said on a call with the state chapter of the AARP. “Scammers are very good at capitalizing on current events,” said state AARP Director Beth Finkel, who hosted the call.

Greene County Sheriff Peter Kusminsky said his office issued a warning after Greene County residents were targeted with a text message scam.

“The text claims that you have come in contact with someone who has tested positive or is showing symptoms of the coronavirus,” according to the sheriff’s office. “It says you must self-isolate and it directs you to click on a link for more information. Do not click on the link.”

The attorney general’s office has seen an uptick in attempts to exploit people’s confusion over the distribution of federal stimulus checks, James said.

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed a 50% federal bonus in hazard pay to COVID-19 frontline workers Monday during a press briefing in the state Capitol.

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ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposed federal hazard pay for all frontline workers Monday as New York started its 3,000-person COVID-19 antibody survey.

The governor called on the federal government to provide a 50% bonus, or hazard pay, to essential public workers on the pandemic’s front lines.

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45% of public transit workers, 57% of building cleaning service workers and 40% of health care workers. Two-thirds of frontline workers are women.

One-third of those essential employees come from a lowincome household, according to the governor’s office.

People in African-American and Latinx communities are most heavily affected by COVID-19 in New York City,

where the virus remains the most prevalent. The state prioritized coronavirus diagnostic testing in communities of color April 8.

The state’s blood antibody test, which determines a person’s coronavirus immunity, began Monday with a sample of 3,000 people. New York’s population is about 19.5 million.

“It will tell us, for the first

time, what percentage of the population has actually had coronavirus,” Cuomo said during a briefing Sunday at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research on Long Island. “This will be the first true snapshot of what we’re dealing with.”

Results are expected by the end of the week. The state See CUOMO A8

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“Thanks is nice, but recognition of their efforts and their sacrifice is also appropriate,” the governor said. “Essential public workers are the ones on the front lines every day carrying us through this crisis, and we must ensure their efforts and sacrifice are appropriately recognized. They are the true heroes in this crisis.”

People of color make up 41% of frontline workers, including

Reflecting the strain the statewide COVID-19 outbreak is placing on aid, the U.S. Small Business Administration is no longer accepting applications for the Paycheck Protection Program or the Economic Injury Disaster Loans.

But small businesses continue to have local funding opportunities within their reach thanks to new loan programs and partnerships.

The Paycheck Protection Program, which began April 3, offered up to $10 million in relief to businesses.

“The SBA is currently unable to accept new applications for the Paycheck Protection Program based on available appropriations funding,” according to sba.gov. “Through April 16, 2020, the SBA has guaranteed 1,035,086 loans under the Paycheck Protection Program.”

Similarly, the SBA is no longer accepting applications for the Economic Injury Disaster Loans, which offered up to $10,000.

“SBA is unable to accept new applications at this time for the Economic Injury Disaster Loan, a COVID-related

assistance program (including EIDL Advances) based on available appropriations funding,” according to sba. gov. “Applicants who have already submitted their applications will continue to be processed on a first-come, first-served basis.”

In Columbia County, the Columbia Economic Development Corporation has begun a partnership with the Columbia County Chamber of Commerce, Hudson Business Coalition and Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation to establish a small business loan See LOANS A8

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robust, rapid testing system” that includes “both proven serological testing for those who have developed antibodies and sound diagnostic testing to monitor the virus in our communities.”

The caucus also recommends that the Centers for Disease Control establish a federal contact-tracing database to track and distribute test results in a manner consistent with privacy and civil rights laws.

The checklist also calls for “adequate supply chain resources and logistic delivery capability for personal protective equipment” for first responders, front-line health care workers and employees in essential sectors, as well as establishing plans for redeploying resources if there are disruptions in the supply chain. Protective masks should also be accessible for children and teachers when schools reopen, the checklist says.

The caucus says the national stockpile should include “certain levels,” which the checklist did not detail, of PPE, ventilators and pharmaceuticals before restrictions are lifted and that congressional oversight should ensure stockpile levels are maintained. They also suggest stockpiling syringes and other materials that will be needed once a vaccine is operational.

The checklist suggests realtime collection and distribution of data on base and surge

hospital capacity and projected hospital staff and equipment needed under those scenarios.

Rapid testing, operational protocols, PPE and health capacity monitoring plans should also be in place for “outpatient facilities, tertiary care networks, long-term care, nursing and veterans homes, inpatient hospice facilities and similar health services,” the caucus says.

Before workplaces reopen for businesses, the caucus suggests they configure workspaces to maintain required physical distancing and ensure that they have PPE resources and sanitization materials needed to maintain a safe work environment.

The CDC should document and share best practices from regions that successfully retopen for other areas to replicate, the caucus suggests.

The checklist also calls for: “medically-based and evidence-driven benchmarks” for other infected countries that when met would require the administration to immediately halt travel to and from those areas; “established capability to massively ramp up cleaning of public spaces, offices, transit, hotels, factories and other spaces;” strict day-to-day guidance from the CDC for Americans to follow in various settings once stay-at-home orders are lifted; financial resources for heath

care systems, with consideration for areas of the country where the virus has had the greatest impact.

The Problem Solvers’ plan also offers a checklist policymakers should adhere to as they consider legislative and administrative measures to help the economy recover.

The economic checklist calls for providing more money to states, including counties, municipalities and tribal governments excluded from relief Congress already passed; expanding low-interest loans and tax incentives to help ailing businesses with capital and payroll costs; establishing retraining and job placement programs; and providing recovery assistance for the agriculture industry.

To help address supply chain issues, the caucus suggests identifying products manufactured in foreign hot zones and creating incentives for domestic manufacturing of critical products like medical equipment and pharmaceuticals, as well as strengthening trade relationships.

The economic suggestions also include cutting regulations that prevent life-saving health outcomes and providing relief for renters and homeowners while ensuring the liquidity of landlords and mortgage lenders.

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WASHINGTON — The Problem Solvers Caucus has come up with a bipartisan checklist of public health benchmarks for getting the economy started again and policies to help with the recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.

The six-page plan, shared first with CQ Roll Call, calls for establishing protocols to address viral hotspots, expanding testing, creating a federal contacttracing database and instituting real-time data reporting on state and local hospital capacity and projected needs for health care staff, personal protective equipment, ventilators and respirators.

“This will require a regional, industry by-industry, incremental, multi-faceted, and data-driven approach,” the introduction to the checklists says. “This isn’t one-size-fitsall vision, but rather a dynamic multi-prong, multi-front strategy combining health, economic rescue, and stimulus plans for our nation’s immediate future.”

The Problem Solvers Caucus is a bipartisan group of 50 House members, 25 from each party, co-chaired by Reps. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., and Tom Reed, R-N.Y. In endorsing the plan, the caucus had to ensure support from at least 75% of its membership.

Gottheimer is among a handful of Problem Solvers Caucus members whom President Donald Trump named to his Opening Up America Again Congressional Group, one of several industry-specific groups advising the White House on appropriate steps for loosening virus-related restrictions and other steps to help the economy. The other Problem Solvers in the group include Reps. Tom Suozzi, D-N.Y., Anthony Gonzalez, R-Ohio, John Katko, R-N.Y., Stephanie Murphy, D-Fla., and Jimmy Panetta, D-Calif.

The Problem Solvers Caucus is sharing its checklist with the White House and congressional leadership.

Top among the public health benchmarks on the caucus’s checklist is the establishment of protocols for extinguishing or containing coronavirus hotpots.

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Shake Shack is returning all $10 million it received from a federal loan program intended to help small businesses amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the popular burger chain announced in a statement late Sunday.

“Our people would benefit from a $10 million [Paycheck Protection Program] loan but we’re fortunate to now have access to capital that others do not,” the company’s executives, Danny Meyer and Randy Garutti, wrote in a letter shared on LinkedIn. “Until every restaurant that needs it has had the same opportunity to receive assistance, we’re returning ours.”

The decision comes shortly after Shake Shack was identified in recent media reports as one of multiple large companies with revenue of more than $100 million that obtained loans from the Paycheck Protection Program, which maxed out last week and is no longer accepting claims. The $350 billion lending program, a central part of the massive $2.2 trillion stimulus passed last month, is meant to

incentivize small businesses to keep people employed through loans that are forgivable if the workers are kept on payroll, according to the Small Business Administration.

But as CNN reported over the weekend, scores of small businesses have had their loan applications rejected while larger companies including restaurant chains, hoteliers and other publicly traded corporations have received amounts in the millions.

In Sunday’s letter, Meyer, Shake Shack’s founder, and Garutti, the CEO, explained that the chain initially applied for federal assistance because it qualified under a stipulation that loans could be paid out to any restaurant location with no more than 500 employees. Though Shake Shack has 189 locations, each individual restaurant only employs about roughly 45 people, the letter said.

The burger chain wasn’t the only large restaurant business to benefit from the program, CNN reported. Potbelly Sandwich Shop, Ruth’s Chris steak houses, and Kura Sushi USA Inc., one of the largest sushi chains in the

country, among others, all received sizable loans, according to CNN. Meyer and Garutti said Sunday that they were not aware the federal program would be overwhelmed so quickly and acknowledged the outcry stemming from independent businesses that were not able to secure loans. The decision to return the $10 million loan was made immediately after Shake Shack secured separate funding last Friday “needed to ensure our long term stability,” the letter said.

The two executives went on to urge Congress to make sure that moving forward the program is adequately funded, writing, “It’s inexcusable to leave restaurants out because no one told them to get in line by the time the funding dried up.”

“If this health crisis and the associated economic shock has taught us anything, it is that we are all in this together,” Meyer and Garutti wrote. “Restaurants and their employees are craving the moment when we can safely be back in business and bring our guests back to the table.

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Tuesday, April 21 n Athens Village Planning Board 6:30 p.m. Village Hall, 2 First St., Athens 518945-1551 n Coxsackie-Athens Central School District Board of Education 6 p.m. (virtual meeting) n Greenville CSD BOE Meeting Questar III Annual Vote & Election 5 p.m. Virtual Meeting Only (see website for link) n Hunter Town Board 7 p.m. Town Hall, 5748 Route 23A, Tannersville

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COVID changes picture of local shopping

By Sarah Trafton Columbia-Greene Media

At a time when it feels like you have to wear a hazmat suit to buy groceries, it is critical to know if delivery or pick-up services are available at your local supermarket and what hours the stores are open.

For many stores in the Twin Counties, cashiers can be seen behind Plexiglas barriers, while other workers disinfect shopping carts, all donning masks and gloves.

Some stores have added floor markings to route foot traffic in a more organized fashion, or to dictate how close shoppers should be to one another in line.

Walmart, Shop Rite, Hannaford and ALDI began limiting the number of customers allowed in its stores at one time.

Some local supermarkets offer options to purchase groceries without having to go in the store at all.

Tops Markets has delivery services available at its locations in Greenville, Tannersville and Coxsackie, Tops Markets Public and Media Relations Manager Kathy Sautter said. Store pick-up is not available at these locations, she added.

Price Chopper’s Chatham store offers delivery services, Vice President Mona Golub said.

“Our Saugerties, Bethlehem, Glenmont and East Greenbush stores offer pickup, as do our stores in Lenox and Great Barrington, Massachusetts,” Golub said.

Hannaford Supermarkets does not offer delivery service at its Cairo, Valatie and Hudson locations, spokeswoman Caitlin Cortelyou said.

Walmart in Hudson is offering store pick-up but the Catskill location does not yet offer this service, spokesman Casey Staheli said. Neither location has delivery services. To search for pick-up locations or see if you are in the delivery area, visit grocery. walmart.com.

Many stores in the region are offering select shopping hours for the elderly and immunocompromised.

Hannaford Supermarkets open early from 6-7 a.m.

Tuesday to Thursday to serve these shoppers.

“Dedicated shopping hours allow these customers to shop before others come to the store and will allow for a less crowded shopping environment, which enables

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Stores across the Twin Counties, including Shop Rite, are adapting to social distancing mandates and providing designated hours for shoppers who are most at risk for the virus.

better social distancing,” Cortelyou said. “Hannaford associates are not requesting ID for entry, and we encourage the community to respect the intention for the early opening.”

Tops Markets locations have senior hours from 6 to 8 a.m. on Tuesday and Thursdays. Tops pharmacies also began opening at 7 a.m. on these days to align with the store hours, Sautter said.

“On those days, pharmacies will also close at 8:00 p.m. or their normal closing time, whichever is earlier,” Sautter said. “If you are able, please call in your script(s) ahead of time to reduce the amount of time you are in the stores. We are requesting that if someone else is picking up your script to advise our pharmacy staff who that individual is and remind them that they come prepared with photo ID.” Price Chopper has dedicated shopping hours for these customers every day from 6-7 a.m.

ALDI stores have reserved 8:30-9:30 a.m. on Tuesday and Thursdays for vulnerable shoppers, according to the store’s website.

The senior shopping hour at Shop Rite is from 6-7 a.m., seven days a week.

Seniors age 60 and older can have a less crowded shopping experience at Walmart each Tuesday from 6-7 a.m.

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Walmart is implementing changes in its shopping experience in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

and the vision centers are available with limited hours for limited services, such as eyeglass repairs.

Walmart pharmacies are offering a variety of options for seniors and other highrisk residents such as drivethru, no-contact, curbside pick-up and mail delivery.

Price Chopper, Shop Rite, Hannaford Supermarkets and Tops Markets are not accepting bottle and can returns at this time.

Shoppers who want a more local experience can buy produce from local farms such as Black Horse Farms in Athens.

“They call in and place their orders, we’ll put the order together and they can either pick it up curbside or we have a schedule for when

we do deliveries,” employee Anna Buhrmaster said.

The meats, cheeses and other dairy products that the store sources from other local farms have been popular lately, Buhrmaster said, and many customers have been taking advantage of the delivery and pick-up options, she said.

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Agriculture farm share, where customers can receive 20 weeks of produce June through October. Prices vary depending on share option and can either be paid in full or on a weekly basis.

To place an order, email blackhorsefarmscsa@gmail. com.

Deliveries will be made to the New Baltimore, Ravena, Selkirk, Delmar, Glenmont and Albany areas on Mondays; Catskill, Saugerties, Palenville, Hunter and Tannersville on Tuesdays; Cairo, Coxsackie, Earlton, Greenville, Round Top and Windham on Wednesdays; Athens, Sleepy Hollow Lake, Catskill and Saugerties on Thursdays; and Hudson, Coxsackie and Athens on Fridays.

Love Apple Farm Manager Diane LaConte said pick-up orders are also on the rise.

Customers can email orders@loveapplefarm.com and will receive a grocery list, bakery list and a Grab-to-Go menu, LaConte said.

“We will fulfill their request the same day up until 4:30 p.m.,” LaConte said.

Love Apple’s orchards, playground, petting zoo and cafe are closed, LaConte said.

“We were offering takeout,” she said. “There wasn’t enough business. If the state eases up on some of the restrictions, we may consider reopening.”

Love Apple’s market remains open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. to the public. LaConte requests that shoppers wear masks and avoid shopping in large groups.

While many are finding themselves at home going stir crazy, Love Apple Farm will be well stocked with gardening supplies, should one decide to take up a new hobby or expand on an existing one.

In the coming weeks, the market will be selling seeds from Hudson Valley Seed Company and starter plants from Markristo Farm, LaConte said.

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A complicated and dangerous job Dispatching an ambulance takes just minutes, but for the Greenport Rescue Squad and other medical emergency crews around the region, that one call may result in hours of COVID-19 work.

Summoning an ambulance with a 911 call is often taken for granted. The caller may not realize that the process of answering a potential coronavirus call involves complex and detailed protocols that must be followed for the safety of all. And there is the protective equipment that the responders must trust so they can do their jobs. Last but not least, there is the courage of the responders to confront a highly infectious disease.

As the designated transport team for Columbia Memorial Health, the Greenport Rescue Squad does planned transports of known COVID-positive patients. When called to transport a COVID-19 patient home from Columbia Memorial or to Albany Medical Center, Greenport’s emergency-service providers go into action clad in hooded Tyvek suits and Power Air Purifying Respirators, known as PAPRs, which filter the air inside the suit. The suits were purchased amid fears of an Ebola outbreak in 2014 and the PAPRs were bought

on eBay from Canada in January.

When they return to the station, Greenport EMS providers begin a time-consuming but necessary multi-step process to decontaminate the ambulance and all equipment.

First, the ambulance is parked outside and the crew places a fan inside to blow out any loose particulates inside the vehicle. Then the ambulance surfaces are sprayed with a disinfecting 10-to-1 bleach mixture. The returning EMS providers, still in their suits, begin an hour-long decontamination protocol.

They are sprayed with bleach, then they wait 10 minutes. They are then hosed down and then step into the shower. Meanwhile, the bleach-sprayed ambulance is washed out with water and crew members place ultraviolet sterilization lights inside the vehicle to kill any remaining traces of the virus. The entire process must be completed before the ambulance can be sent on another call.

In these tumultuous days and perhaps weeks of crisis still to come, the first responders of the Greenport Rescue Squad are doing a complicated and dangerous job in splendid fashion. And they are not alone. They deserve our thanks.

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Even Trump’s best lackey can’t defend him

By James Downie (c) 2020,The Washington Post ·

When Donald Trump chose Mike Pence as his running mate in 2016, the obvious political benefit was that Pence, a former governor and House member who is famously Christian, could boost evangelical and conservative turnout to help Republicans up and down the ballot. But for the egomaniacal Trump, Pence had another key qualification: “He says nice things about me.”

Since being named to the ticket, Pence has repeatedly put his obsequiousness on display: Few on Team Trump are better at deploying up-is-down reasoning to spin news to Trump’s benefit. But during the vice president’s appearances on NBC’s and Fox News’ Sunday morning talk shows, it was clear that even Pence could not bootlick his way out of the lurch the president’s actions leave the rest of us in.

On Friday, Trump spoke out in support of protests against stay-home orders imposed

by Democratic governors in Michigan, Minnesota and Virginia. It’s disturbing enough that the president would undermine the fight against the pandemic. Worse was his provocative call on Twitter to “LIBERATE” those states - and, in Virginia’s case, “save your great 2nd Amendment” — which caught the attention of far-right extremists. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, a Democrat, rightly observed Friday, “The president is fomenting domestic rebellion and spreading lies - even while his own administration says the virus is real.”

Naturally, hosts on NBC and Fox asked the vice president to explain the president’s comments. After all, as Fox host Chris Wallace pointed out, “they’re protesting your own guidelines to stop the spread.” On Fox, Pence focused on bragging about the White House coronavirus task force. When pressed, he assured viewers that “no one in America

wants to reopen this country more than President Donald Trump” — a line he repeated on NBC. In both interviews, he then turned to touting guidelines that Trump issued Thursday for reopening states. Pence omitted that the guidance leaves key decisions up to governors, who Trump has said should call the shots on reopening. Both are in keeping with this president’s refusal to take responsibility for the pandemic crisis or a national response.

Stay-home orders and other measures across the country are exacting terrible tolls on the economy and Americans’ mental health. But they are saving lives. And as Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican, stated bluntly on “Meet the Press” a few minutes after Pence’s interview, the only way to reopen is to “do it very, very carefully so we don’t get a lot of people killed.” A responsible president would acknowledge the costs of preventing viral spread but stand firm and stress its necessity. As DeWine said, “The only thing that I’ve asked our protests to do is to observe social distancing. . . . They were protesting against me yesterday, and that’s just fine.”

Meanwhile, the president is stoking unrest and undercutting public health measures, at a potentially deadly cost.

The simple truth is that Pence dodged because the president’s actions were indefensible. But Pence can’t say that, both because the protests are being cheered by Fox News and like-minded outlets and because Pence wants to stay in the good graces of a president who values loyalty to him above all else. So long as conservative media and egomania mean more to the president than Americans’ lives, the rest of the country suffers.

James Downie is The Washington Post’s Digital Opinions Editor. He previously wrote for The New Republic and Foreign Policy magazine.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY ‘God? A surface of ice anchored to laughter. That was God.’ HILDA HILST

What we lost when we stopped binge reading WASHINGTON — Long before today’s coronavirus lockdown provided occasions for the vice that the phrase denotes, “binge watching” had entered Americans’ lexicon. Few, however, speak of binge reading. To understand why this is regrettable, mute Netflix long enough to read Adam Garfinkle’s “The Erosion of Deep Literacy” in National Affairs. He believes that because of the displacement of reading by digital, usually pictorial, entertainment and communication, “something neurophysiological” is happening to individuals, and especially to the “neural pathways” of the young. And something vital to democratic culture is waning.

Garfinkle, founding editor of the American Interest, elaborates on Maryanne Wolf’s idea of “deep literacy” from her 2018 book “Reader, Come Home.” Garfinkle defines this (or “deep reading”) as engagement with “an extended piece of writing” in a way that draws the reader into “a dialectical process with the text.” This involves the reader in anticipation of the author’s “direction and meaning.”

Few scientists doubt that heavy dependency on electronic screens has shortened attention spans. “We know,” Garfinkle says, “that prolonged and repetitive exposure to digital devices changes the way we think and behave in part because it changes us physically.”

The brain is continuously rewiring itself in response to changing stimuli, and 200,000 years of evolution did not suit it to process today’s torrents of fleeting stimuli.

“More items vie for our attention in a given hour,” Garfinkle says, “than our ancestors had to handle in a day or even a week.” Becoming comfortable with shallow attention to everything, people become transfixed by the present, unable to remember, or to plan well. He reports that high school guidance counselors say most students lack the social skills to speak one-on-one with college admissions personnel. This, Garfinkle believes, reflects “acquired social autism.”

People immersed in digital

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WILL torrents acquire “self-inflicted attention deficits.” They become incapable of the “quality attention” that deep literacy requires. Such literacy is, in evolutionary terms, a recent innovation that changed brain circuitry. Garfinkle says, “We are or become, cognitively speaking, what we do with language.” Printed words, presented sequentially in sentences and paragraphs, are demanding, but rewarding: Only they can present the reasoning required to establish complicated truths.

Garfinkle’s surmise is that government’s problem-solving failures reflect not just hyper-partisanship and polarization but the thin thinking of a political class of non-deep readers who are comfortable only with the shallowness of tweets. Instantaneous digital interactions encourage superficiality, insularity and tribalism.

Deep reading, like deep writing, is difficult, hence unnatural. It is unpleasant to those who, tethered to their devices, have become accustomed to lives that are surface straight through. Garfinkle worries that “cognitively sped-up and multitasking young brains may not acquire sufficient capacities for critical thinking, personal reflection, imagination, and empathy, and hence will become easy prey for charlatans and demagogues.”

Modernity’s greatest blessing — individualism: the celebration of individual agency — depends on a sense of one’s interior, of self-consciousness. This is facilitated by deep literacy that, unlike the oral communication of premodern groups, requires solitude for the reader’s private repose. Modernity, and

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Integral to liberal-democratic politics are, Garfinkle says, abstract ideas — “representation; the virtues of doubt, dissent, and humility; and the concept of a depersonalized constitutional order.” A society that loses the ballast of deep literacy is apt to become less thoughtful, more emotional and volatile.

It will become impatient with the pace of refined, impersonal governance through institutions. It will seek “a less abstract, re-personalized form of social and political authority concentrated in a ‘great’ authoritarian leader.”

Deep literacy has always been a minority taste and attainment, but is always necessary, especially among elites, to leaven majoritarian politics. But because of today’s social-media technologies, Garfinkle believes, there is increased, if superficial and emotive, participation in political discourse. Yet even among young people in higher education, many professors will not assign entire books, or substantial portions of challenging ones.

Deep readers can “deploy shields of skepticism” against those who, lacking the reading habit, are “locked in perpetual intellectual adolescence.” And then? “Populism of the illiberal nationalist kind is,” Garfinkle believes, “what happens in a mass-electoral democracy when a decisive percentage of mobilized voters drops below a deep-literacy standard.”

Garfinkle’s essay — mental calisthenics for a confined nation — deserves at least the grudging gratitude of even the most egalitarian Americans. It requires what it describes — deep literacy — and might be a spur to binge reading.

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Dorothy Irene Kraft Stall NEW LEBANON – Dorothy Stall of Canaan, Philip (Lynn) Stall Irene Kraft Stall, 86, died peace- of Niverville and the late David fully Wednesday, April 15, 2020 A. Stall; adored grandmother of at the Albany Medical Center with Christopher, Nicholas, Darcy, her family at her side. She was Matthew, Jennifer, Jessica, Richborn at home in Chatham, NY on ard Jr., Marissa, Caitlyn, Joshua, September 26, 1933, the daugh- Justin and the late Kyle Sowycz ter of the late Oscar and Dorothy and Brian Bartlett; great-grandDecker Kraft. Dorothy’s mother of Hayleigh mother died when she Hadsell, Jackson and was 7, so she was raised the triplets, Kennedy,

by Olan and Helena NutAva and Austin Calyer; ting in Chatham. sister of the late Oscar, Following her marArt, Richard “Dick”, John riage in 1953 she moved and George Kraft, Carowith her husband line “Betty” Taylor and Phineas to New LebaMary Hayes. Also surnon. She retired from vived by several nieces the New Lebanon Cenand nephews.

Stall tral School District after Due to the Covid-19 20 years as a custodian. Dorothy virus, funeral services will be prialso did childcare for many years vate for the family only with burial and was the nurturer for her fam- in Garfield Cemetery in Stephenily taking care of her husband and town. In lieu of flowers, contribuher son. Dorothy loved her fam- tions may be made to the Garfield ily and enjoyed ceramics, cake Cemetery Association, c/o Sheryl decorating, holiday decorating, Gallup, 453 Presbyterian Hill softball pitching and attending all Road, Stephentown, NY 12168 of her grandchildren’s functions. or to 2 Paws Up, PO Box 37790, She was the wife of the late Raleigh, NC 27627 or 2pawsup.

Phineas Harold Stall who died in org. Arrangements are by the 2017; beloved mother of Bruce Hall & Higgins Funeral Home in (Adrienne) Reddy Stall of Pitts- Stephentown. Condolence book field, MA, Marcia (Ihor) Sowycz available at ParkerBrosMemorial. of New Lebanon, Richard (Kim) com.

Letitia (Letty) Pugliese Fado Letitia (Letty) Pugliese Fado beautiful daughter Linda Carol passed away peacefully on Tues- DeRuzzio (2017). She is survived day April 14, 2020 at the age of by her children: John Joseph 101. Letty was born November Fado Sr. (Gayle) of Hampton, NJ; 1, 1918 in the town of Constance Bonnie Millar Harrison, NY to Fran(John) of Claverack, NY; ces Mola Pugliese and Joel Fado of Copake, Francis Pugliese. After NY; Francis Fado (Remarrying Joseph John nee) of Highland Beach, Fado in 1939, they built FL; Robert Fado (Jua wonderful life in Greendeanne) of Hillsdale, NY; wich, CT, where they and son-inlaw Michael welcomed four adorable Salvatore DeRuzzio Sr. children.

(Linda) of Hillsdale, NY. Fado In 1949, the famLetty is also survived by ily moved to Hillsdale, NY, where ten grandchildren and ten greatthey were blessed with two more grandchildren. boys. They enjoyed their new idylA private interment in the famlic rural setting, raising horses, ily plot at the New St. Bridget’s cows, and rabbits, swimming in Cemetery in Copake Falls, NY will the ponds, and hunting. Letty was occur at a future date. Arrangea loving wife and homemaker, de- ments are with the Peck and Peck voted to her children. Letty was Funeral of Copake, NY. To send predeceased by her parents, lov- an online condolence please visit ing husband Joseph (1979) and www.peckandpeck.net.

Maureen A. Revene Maureen A. Revene, 42, life- father John Revene Jr.. Maulong Columbia county resident reen will be remembered for her from Hudson, passed away sense of family, her witty humor, peacefully on April 16, 2020. her sassiness. Most of all , she She was born on October 3, will be remembered for the way 1977 in Hudson, NY. her presence was able She was the daughto reach everyone. She ter of John Revene Jr. knew how to make anyand Kathryn Sikoraone laugh, smile, and Revene. feel loved.

Maureen was a gradGraveside services uate of Hudson High will be held at 11:00 School. She worked as A.M. on Friday, April an Operations Manager 24, 2020 in Cedar Park for Container MachinCemetery in Hudson, ery Corporation. MauNY. The family would Revene reen is survived by her like anyone who would mother, Kathryn Sikora-Revene. like to join in the services to She was a loving mother to her please attend, however, please two children, Victoria E. Revene, be mindful of the current soand Joshua Jakob Revene-Ra- cial distancing guidelines and cine. Also surviving is her broth- please wear a mask to ensure er John Revene 3rd. In addition, the safety of everyone attendmany nieces, aunts, cousins, ing. Once the pandemic suband many many friends. Mau- sides, the family will celebrate reen was predeceased by her Maureen’s life at a later date.

Cornelius John Miller It is with sadness that we an- at the Greene County Jail for 13 nounce the passing of Cornelius years. He was a life member of John Miller, on April 15, 2020 at the Elks Lodge #1341. In addithe age of 89. “John” was a resi- tion to his parents, his sister, dent of S. Cairo, for 50 Claudia Conklin, NJ and years before relocating brother, Kenneth Miller, to Johnson, VT, then NJ, predeceased him.

Menlo Park Veterans His sister, Carolyn BartMemorial Home, Edikowicz of VT, brother son, NJ. Edward Miller of CT, as He was born in Patwell as many nieces, terson, NJ, a son of nephews, great nieces the late Cornelius and and nephews survive Trina Bansema Miller. him.

He served in the US Air Miller A private graveForce until July 1959. side service will be conducted John was the loving husband of 42 years to Josephine L. Pollotti at Town of Catskill Cemetery.

Miller who predeceased him on Funeral arrangements by MillJuly 9, 1999. Prior to retiring in spaugh Camerato Funeral July 1992, John worked for Za- Home, Catskill. Messages of briski Chevrolet dealership and condolence may be made to later, was a corrections officer MillspaughCamerato.com

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George Henry Clarkson 95 , ans. He was also a member of born in Dover Plains, NY. Moved the Ghent VFW 5933. He was to Chatham in 1929. He was a an avid cook and enjoyed going Veteran from 1943 to out to eat at diners. He 1946. Husband to Elwill forever live in our eanor Barzyk Clarkhearts. son. Happily married A private memofor over 50 years. His rial service will be held spirit is carried by 3 from the Wenk Funeral daughters Grace TheHome Chatham. Meresa Friss , Dianna Main morials may be made and Susan Monroe , 7 to the Disabled Amerigrandchildren , 8 great can Veterans 113 HolClarkson grandchildren and 4 land Ave. Rm C308-5 great great grandchilAlbany, New York dren. He also always donated 12208. For on-line condolences to the disabled American Veter- visit wenkfuneralhome.com

Shirley M. Mottoshiski, 91, of Hudson passed away April 18, 2020, peacefully at Pine Haven Nursing Home in Philmont.

She was born to the late Martin and Elizabeth (Stevens) Mottoshiski, May, 27th, 1928 in Hudson, NY. Shirley is survived by two children: Richard Gauthier, of Cario, and Susan Robertson, of Ghent; and predeceased by her son, Rollin Gauthier in January. She is also survived by eight grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

Shirley was a proud caregiver for the elderly for over 40 years.

She was immensely proud of her family, and leaves behind nothing but beautiful memories. She was known best for her quick witted sense of humor, her amazing laugh and her giving heart. Shirley will be truly missed by many.

Burial services will be held on Thursday, April 23, 2020 at 1 p.m. at Cedar Park Cemetery in Hudson NY. The family wishes to give a heartfelt thank you to all of the staff on West Wing at Pine Haven Nursing Home

Patricia Ann Collins Cavagnaro Patricia Ann Collins Cavagnaro, 65, of Niverville, NY, passed away on Friday April 17th in Albany NY. Pat was born in Long Island to William and Joan Collins in 1955, the oldest of 4 children.

The family moved upstate when she was in middle school. She met Larry her junior year of high school and they married immediately after she graduated

Ichabod in 1973. She spent the first part of her career working as a systems engineer at General Electric but left that role in her thirties to join Larry running Cavagnaro Construction. She was a deeply religious Christian and passionate about education. She founded the Academy of Christian Leadership in 2003 and was involved in and sup-

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Pat is survived by her husband of 47 years, Lawrence R. Cavagnaro, daughter Lauren Stollow, son Matthew Cavagnaro, and siblings: Ann Marie Schwartz, Joan Yellott, and William Collins. And 5 beautiful grandchildren that she loved deeply.

In lieu of flowers or gifts, we ask that you take this moment to hold your loved ones close. Pat will be buried in a private service at the North Chatham cemetery.

We will hold a celebration of her life at a future time when all those who knew and loved her can gather to remember her.

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Biden scores endorsement from big-spending green group Dino Grandoni The Washington Post

WASHINGTON — Former vice president Joe Biden just notched an endorsement from a major environmental group and is signaling he will expand his climate plan in an effort to win over young voters who see rising global temperatures as a generational crisis.

The League of Conservation Voters, a Washington-based green group that has spent tens of millions of dollars in recent election cycles to help elect Democrats to office, announced Monday it is backing the presumptive Democratic nominee in what looks to be a tough fight against President Trump.

Drastically reducing greenhouse gas emissions is “is going to take leadership,” said Carol Browner, the chair of LCV’s board of directors. “And I have every confidence that the vice president will provide that.”

The endorsement from LCV could encourage other green groups who supported Biden’s rivals in a crowded primary to fall in line. The group hopes to prevent Trump, who has repeatedly denied the scientific consensus that human activity is warming the planet, from winning a second term.

“Scientists tell us we have 10 years” to get climate change under control, said Browner, who ran the Environmental Protection Agency for eight years under former President Bill Clinton. “We’re going to have to not just put back in place all the stuff that Trump undid from the Obama years, we’re going to have to do more.”

Biden said in a statement that he was “honored” to have LCV’s endorsement. “For me, this is personal,” said Biden, a former senator from Delaware.

“I live in a state that’s dealing

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Former vice president Joe Biden speaks at an event in Flint, Mich., in March.

first hand with the impacts of climate change and impacts of pollution on kids and families.

I’m going to fight for my grandkids.”

But even after the departure of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., from the race this month, Biden may face a tough time winning over some environmental activists on the party’s left who say his plan for tackling climate change falls short of what is needed to forestall a devastating rise in temperatures this century.

Biden, without offering specifics, said in his statement he wanted to adopt ideas from climate activists and set other “new, concrete goals” for combating climate change before the end of the decade.

“In the months ahead, expanding this plan will be one of my key objectives,” Biden said. “I know this is an issue that resonates with many, including young people and those who have seen floods, fires, and drought destroy lives and livelihoods.”

Biden’s original 22-page climate plan, released last June, calls for the United States to achieve net-zero emissions by at least 2050, all while creating

10 million well-paying jobs and helping fossil-fuel workers transition to a clean-energy economy.

Stef Feldman, Biden’s policy director, said the campaign “always had an expectation that we will continue to build upon that policy.”

Biden scored his first endorsement from an environmental group, the National Wildlife Federation, after posting big wins in last month’s Super Tuesday primary.

But most green groups who backed a candidate endorsed either Sanders or fellow liberal stalwart Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. A handful of local chapters of the Sunrise Movement, which endorsed Sanders, went so far as to insist it would never back Biden even if he won the nomination.

After years of being an afterthought at the polls, climate change emerged as a top issue in the Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada primaries, ranking second in importance after health care in exit polling.

But it remains to be seen whether the slow-burning crisis of global warming will still be top of mind for voters in November given the coronavirus

1 in 100 New York residents have now tested positive for coronavirus Chris Mooney and Ben Guarino The Washington Post

The coronavirus outbreak in New York state, now larger in scale than in any other country in the world, also appears to be the most highly concentrated, state statistics show.

As of Monday, over 1 in 100 state residents have now tested positive for the disease, or 1% - far higher than in even the hardest hit nations like Spain, where that figure is only a third of a percent.

There are 195,031 confirmed coronavirus cases in New York, per the count New York officials released Monday. With a 2019 estimated population of 19.45 million, that equates to an infection rate of 1% for the state of New York.

“Why New York? Why are we seeing this level of infection? . . . It’s very simple: It’s

about density,” said New York Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo at a news conference Monday morning. “The dense environments are its feeding grounds.”

At the early coronavirus cluster in New Rochelle, he said, one or two infected people attended gatherings of hundreds and the virus “spread like wildfire.”

New York’s less dense counties - some of which have more cows than people, Cuomo said - have very few hospitalizations. Ninety-four percent of patients hospitalized are in New York City, Rockland and Westchester County (which includes New Rochelle) or Long Island.

The state’s figures are led

by New York City, whose five boroughs had 104,410 cases as of Sunday spread across a 2018 Census-estimated population of 8.4 million. That’s

an infection rate of 1.2%.

In Europe, the only place where the virus disaster rivals what is now happening in the United States, no country appears to have such a high concentration of cases. Spain’s infection has reached 0.36% of the country’s 2018 population, Switzerland’s figure is at 0.3%, Belgium’s is at 0.27% and Italy’s is at 0.26%.

In the United States, no state rivals what’s happening in New York, but New Jersey comes close: 0.7% of its population is now infected.

Several other U.S. states show worse outbreaks than those in Europe when analyzed on this basis: Louisiana (0.44%), Massachusetts (0.37%), and Connecticut (0.34%).

These numbers are based on 2018 World Bank population figures for Europe and 2019 Census estimates for the United States.

pandemic, which is raising widespread public health concerns and shuttering the economy.

Even though Trump’s bully pulpit is now arguably bigger than ever, LCV leaders predict Trump’s handling of the latest crisis will prove unpopular with those who already oppose his moves to dismantle environmental regulations for the last three years.

Tiernan Sittenfeld, LCV’s senior vice president of government affairs, says the two issues are tied together since both have to do with heeding the advice of scientists.

LCV pumped more than $80 million into the 2018 election to help Democrats win back control of the House. “That was a record,” Browner said, “and we believe we can set another record this time.”

The group has also poured $14 million into an online advertising and direct-mail campaign attacking Trump’s environmental record in six swing states - Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

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Coping with anxiety in stressful times

By Karen dePeyster, director, Tobacco-Free Action For Columbia-Greene Media

Even in normal times, stress can be a part of daily life. But these are certainly not normal times; there is hardly any aspect of ordinary life that has not been turned upside down because of COVID-19 and the far-reaching efforts being made to contain it.

People are worried about their health and the health of loved ones. Many are worried about finances, uncertain about when they can go back to work, and wondering if they will be able to pay bills and rent. Parents are juggling work-at-home with schoolat-home or all-day childcare.

For some, too much forced togetherness threatens domestic peace and tranquility; for others, too much solitude

feels isolating and scary.

Some anxiety about all this disruption is normal. Change is unnerving, especially when it is sudden and outside our control. Here are a few ways to cope with stress: Be kind to yourself. Go easy on yourself if you’re experiencing more anxiety than usual. You’re not alone in your struggles.

Maintain a routine as best you can. Even if you’re stuck at home, try to stick to your regular sleep, school, meal or work schedule. This can help you maintain a sense of normalcy.

Take breaks from watching, reading or listening to news stories, including social media. Hearing about the pandemic repeatedly can be

upsetting.

Take time out for activities you enjoy. Read a good book, watch a comedy, play a fun board or video game, or make a new recipe. It doesn’t matter what you do, as long as it takes you out of your worries.

Take care of your body. Resist the urge to snack instead of eating healthy meals. Find ways to exercise; staying active will help you release anxiety, relieve stress and manage your mood. Take a walk outside; sunshine and fresh air are good for the soul.

Avoid self-medicating. Be careful that you’re not using alcohol or other substances to deal with anxiety or depression. If you tend to overdo it in the best of times, it may be a

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Feed Albany volunteers set up stations to serve meals to frontline health care workers at Albany Med on April 8. Feed Albany donated 250 meals to Albany Med staff caring for patients with COVID-19, the Emergency Department and Pediatric Intensive Care Unit.

Bard College students win prestigious Fulbright Awards ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON — Two Bard College students have won prestigious Fulbright Awards for study/research projects, and one student has been selected as an alternate.

During their grants, Fulbrighters meet, work, live with and learn from the people of the host country, sharing daily experiences. The program facilitates cultural exchange through direct interaction in the classroom, field, home, and in routine tasks, allowing the grantee to gain an appreciation of others’ viewpoints and beliefs, the way they do things, and the way they think. Bard College is a top Fulbright-producing institution.

Madison Emond, ’18, a photography major from Barrington, Rhode Island, has won a Fulbright Scholarship to New Zealand, where she will pursue a photography project, initially developed as her Bard College Senior Project, “Nature as Artist: Visualizing the Personhood of the New Zealand Landscape.”

“My photographic practice sets out to question traditional landscape imagery and how it affects the viewer’s relationship to the environment. Still images

of nature can estrange us from knowing the Earth as a living, shifting, unruly being, locked in a process of steady, often violent, transformation,” Emond said. “No matter how moving or dramatic a photograph of nature is, it often speaks only to the vantage point of its maker standing outside of it. Rather than making images of the landscape I make images with the landscape. What I mean is this: all my works are made through the interaction of photosensitive materials, the natural world, and moonlight – and nothing else.”

Emond chose New Zealand because it was one of the first nations in the world to grant legal personhood to landforms.

In 2014, Te Urewera, a national park, was granted legal personhood. Three years later, the Whanganui River was granted the same status. Emond’s project has a cross-cultural component.

“The United States has a passion for the natural beauty of its land and I believe its people have the capability to recognize a similar alternative relationship between its human and ‘natural’ citizens,” she said. “With that

belief in mind, I plan to explore how legal personhood could benefit landforms in the United States.”

Michelle Jackson-Beckett, a Ph.D. student in the Bard Graduate Center, won a Fulbright Scholarship to Austria to conduct research on “Vienna’s Other Modernism: Design and Dwelling 1918-1968.” JacksonBeckett has accepted a faculty position at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in lieu of the Fulbright scholarship.

The Fulbright U.S. Student Program is the largest U.S. exchange program offering opportunities for students and young professionals to undertake international graduate study, advanced research, university teaching, and primary and secondary school teaching worldwide. The program awards approximately 2,000 grants annually in all fields of study, and operates in more than 140 countries worldwide. Fulbright U.S. Student alumni are in a range of professions and include ambassadors, members of Congress, judges, heads of corporations, university presidents, journalists, artists and professors.

good idea to avoid for now.

Check in with your friends, colleagues and loved ones often. Sharing stories and feelings are a mutual means of support.

Help others. It will make you feel better.

For some people, however, self-care is not enough to keep anxiety from becoming all-consuming. Among those most at risk for high levels of distress include: n People in recovery from alcohol, substance abuse and nicotine addiction. n People who previously experienced anxiety, depression and other mental health concerns. n Individuals who live in low-income households.

Some signs that anxiety levels are becoming a problem include:

n Constant fear and worry. n Changes in sleep or eating

patterns. n Difficulty sleeping or concentrating. n Worsening of chronic health problems. n Worsening of mental health conditions. n Increased use of alcohol, tobacco or other drugs.

Contact your health care provider if you are experiencing acute distress. Additionally, the county’s Health and Social Service Departments and Mental Health Center all continue to function, as do many private community service organizations that are open and responding to client needs, including the Healthcare Consortium.

Although our office at 325 Columbia St. is closed until at least the end of April, all

programs and services continue to function, and can be reached by calling 518-8228820, which is being answered 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Helping people get and stay healthy has always been our goal, but it has never been more true than now. If you have any questions about how and where to find programs and services at this difficult time, please call and we will be happy to help you.

The Healthcare Consortium is a non-profit organization with a mission of improving access to healthcare and supporting the health and well-being of the residents in our rural community. The agency is located at 325 Columbia St. in Hudson. For more information: visit www.columbiahealthnet.org or call 518-822-8820.

Mount professor named fellow of Rockefeller Institute NEWBURGH – Jenifer LeeGonyea, associate professor of Criminology at Mount Saint Mary College, was recently selected as a Rockefeller Institute Fellow for 2020-2021.

The mission of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government is to improve communities, local and state governments, and federal systems by finding solutions to the nation’s most pressing issues. The institution was founded in 1981.

“I am really excited to be given the opportunity to be part of the Rockefeller Institute and participate in various activities related to my expertise in Criminology and the criminal justice system,” said Lee-Gonyea. “I don’t think there is enough diversity in the voices that discuss these issues and I’m so proud and honored to have been selected to lend my voice to the discussion.”

One of Lee-Gonyea’s main areas of academic research is restorative justice, which focuses on relationships between community members.

When a crime is committed, the victims, offenders and members of the community work together to find a solution that repairs, as much as possible, the harm done.

Restorative practices use dialogue, mediation, and other means to provide those who have caused harm with the ability to make it as right as they can, and to give those who have experienced harm an ability to be heard and participate in the process. Used to address crime, restorative justice seeks to involve each

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of the stakeholders who are important to the resolution.

Restorative justice holds offenders accountable for their actions, while also helping them to reintegrate into the community after their responsibilities to the victims and community have been met. Depending on the situation, restorative justice can be used on its own or in conjunction with the existing criminal justice system.

“It’s about making sure that all people have a place in the process and that they have a voice in the process,” Lee-Gonyea explained.

The fellowship gives LeeGonyea the opportunity to explore important issues related to Criminology and to reach out to state policy makers.

“Not only will I be able to write and speak about issues such as restorative justice, I will get to shine a light on other issues directly connected to criminal justice that receive little to no attention,” she explained. “Of particular interest to me are issues related to women who are incarcerated. Very little has been done, from a policy perspective, related to the specific issues and concerns

that impact this population.”

The issues important to incarcerated women, newly released women, and formerly incarcerated women “are important and need the attention of policymakers,” said Lee-Gonyea. “It’s this interest that led me to create the Women and Crime course (CRI 3550), and I think that the broader public could benefit from this knowledge and conversation the same way that my students have over the past few years.”

Lee-Gonyea was instrumental in creating the Mount’s Criminology major.

The major explores the varied aspects of crime, from victimization and the criminal justice system to exploring society’s response to criminals and the reasons people break the law. This includes classes on restorative justice. Those who complete the Criminology program will have many career options, including positions in law enforcement, corrections, community service agencies, child welfare programs, adult protective services, mental health, and more.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from West Virginia University, a master’s in criminal justice from Marshall University, and a Ph.D. in criminology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Before earning her Ph.D., she worked at the Supreme Court of West Virginia.

Lee-Gonyea worked as an assistant professor of criminal justice at Texas International University in Laredo, Texas, before joining the faculty at the Mount.

OLANA STATE HISTORIC SITE GROUNDS OPEN

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Frederic Church’s designed landscape, including five miles of carriage roads, remains open 8 a.m. to sunset as a way to experience the natural world, relieve feelings of anxiety and stress, and find inspiration in Olana’s sublime views. Free Audio Tours offer a self-guided experience within Olana’s 250-acres and are available for download or streaming at OLANA.org /tour-category/ audio/. For the most up-to-date virtual events and offerings, check the website and follow them on social media @olanashs.

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Keeping cool: Investment strategy vs. reaction After losing ground in 2018, U.S. stocks had a banner year in 2019, with the S&P 500 gaining almost 29% — the highest annual increase since 2013.

(1) It’s too early to know how 2020 will turn out, but it’s been rocky so far, and you can count on market swings to challenge your patience as an investor.

The trend was steadily upward last year, but there were downturns along the way, including a single-day drop of almost 3% on Aug. 14. That plunge began with bad economic news from Germany and China that triggered a flight to the relative safety of U.S. Treasury securities, driving the yield on the 10-year Treasury note below the 2-year note for the first time

the economy are ongoing, and this incident illustrates the pitfalls of overreacting to economic news. If you were also spooked on Aug. 14, 2019, and sold some or all of your stock positions, you might have missed out on more than 13% equity market growth over the rest of the year. (4)

TUNE OUT THE NOISE since 2007. A yield curve inversion has been a reliable predictor of past recessions and spooked the stock market. (2) By the following day, however, the market was back on the rise. (3) It’s possible that a yield curve inversion may no longer be a precursor to a recession.

Still, larger concerns about

The media generates news 24 hours a day, seven days a week. You can check the market and access the news anywhere you carry a mobile device. This barrage of information might make you feel that you should buy or sell investments in response to the latest news, whether it’s a market drop or an unexpected geopolitical event. This is a

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A donation box used to collect ski goggles sits outside the Alpin Haus store at 22 Clifton Country Road in Clifton Park. Alpin Haus is serving as a collection site for individuals who would like to donate new or used goggles to support the ‘Goggles for Docs’ campaign, which provides protective eye wear to front-line healthcare workers during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

KeyBank names Amanda Goyer corporate responsibility officer ALBANY — KeyBank announced Amanda Goyer has been named corporate responsibility officer for the Capital Region Market. She is responsible for the implementation of KeyBank’s Community Benefits Plan, specifically in the areas of mortgage lending, small business lending, community development lending and strategic philanthropy.

She is based in KeyBank’s Capital Region headquarters office at 66 South Pearl St., Albany.

“Amanda is a strategic relationship builder who fosters partnerships that innovate and inspire excellence within the community,” said Ruth Mahoney, president, Capital Region, KeyBank. “She is respected and experienced, and we look forward to her helping KeyBank deliver on our

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commitment to help Capital Region communities thrive.”

Since 2017, KeyBank has invested $7.1 billion to low- to moderate-income individuals and communities through its Community Benefits Plan. In

the Capital Region, KeyBank has invested nearly $357 million.

Previously, Goyer served as director, Community Engagement, for CAP COM Federal Credit Union. She also worked as community relations manager and foundation and public relations administrator for CAP COM. Goyer earned her bachelor’s degree in Stonehill College in Easton, Mass.

Goyer is active in various community organizations. She is chair of the Capital Region Chamber Women’s Business Council, champion member of Northern Rivers Behavioral Health Center Campaign and committee member of Women’s Employment Resource Center (WERC) Workforce Development Committee.

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natural response, but it’s not wise to react emotionally to market swings or to news that you think might affect the market.

STAY THE COURSE Consider this advice from John Bogle, famed investor and mutual fund industry pioneer: “Stay the course.

Regardless of what happens to the markets, stick to your investment program. Changing your strategy at the wrong time can be the single most devastating mistake you can make as an investor.” (5) This doesn’t mean you should never buy or sell investments. However, the investments you buy and sell should be based on a sound strategy appropriate for your

risk tolerance, financial goals, and time frame. And a sound investment strategy should carry you through market ups and downs.

It can be tough to keep cool when you see the market dropping or to control your exuberance when you see it shooting upward. But overreacting to market movements or trying to “time the market” by guessing at future direction may create additional risk that could negatively affect your long-term portfolio performance.

All investments are subject to market fluctuation, risk, and loss of principal. When sold, investments may be worth more or less than their original cost. U.S. Treasury

securities are guaranteed by the federal government as to the timely payment of principal and interest. If not held to maturity, they could be worth more or less than the original amount paid.

1) S&P Dow Jones Indices, 2020 2) The Wall Street Journal, August 14, 2019 3-4) Yahoo! Finance (S&P 500 index for the period 8/14/2019 to 12/31/2019) 5) MarketWatch, June 6, 2017 Tim Bartholomew is an Investment Representative with Greene Investment Services located at the Bank of Greene County. Please call 518-943-2600 ext. 2153 with your comments or questions.

Excavators: Use the Dig Safely hotline POUGHKEEPSIE - April is designated as national Dig Safely Month, and Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp. reminds anyone planning to dig to first call 811, the tollfree Dig Safely hotline, so that underground utility lines and equipment can be marked and properly identified prior to the start of excavation. The service is provided at no cost to the caller.

“Homeowners tackling backyard projects and contractors undertaking current or future construction jobs are reminded to first call 811 so that underground lines are marked out, as prevention is the best way to avoid serious consequences associated with contacting or damaging underground utility lines,” said Charles A. Freni, President and CEO of Central Hudson. “During this time, many major construction projects may be postponed or suspended in support of social distancing, however it is important anytime to call before you dig,” he said. “Calling the toll-free Dig Safely hotline is the law, and damaging underground systems is costly, detrimental to those whose services are interrupted and potentially hazardous to the excavator and public.”

Freni said that before digging, even by hand on a resident’s own property, call 811 at least two to 10 days before any excavation takes place to ensure underground lines are located and marked. This toll-free national calling service connects excavators to their regional One-Call center that alerts utilities, municipalities and other parties of the intention to excavate at specific sites so that the lines can be properly marked.

There is no charge for the service, and utility crews will locate and mark lines at no cost

to the caller.

Due to circumstances caused by the current pandemic, minor delays may occur in marking out lines.

However, no work may be performed until all municipal and utility providers have responded by either marking the lines or indicating that the area is clear.

Once the lines are marked, workers must stay clear of the “tolerance zone,” which is an area two feet to either side of marked lines where mechanized equipment cannot be used until the underground facility is uncovered by hand digging. If contact with underground facilities occurs, the excavator must contact the utility immediately, whether or not the lines are damaged. Excavators must also understand the type of the underground facilities at their work location, for example whether natural gas, electric, telephone, water or other lines are present.

When working near utility underground or overhead lines, excavators and construction crews are always encouraged to contact Central Hudson to review plans and discuss ways in which to work safely. Other recommended steps include: Establishing a communications plan with workers to inform them of the location and potential hazards of utility lines in the area; Creating a boundary around areas to be avoided, including guy wires, service lines, gas and electric meters, pad-mounted transformers and other facilities by using cones or tape; Keeping a safe distance from overhead utility facilities, at least 10 feet from local power lines and 25 feet or more from high-voltage transmission lines. Workers should carry ladders, pipes

and other long objects horizontally rather than vertically and should wear appropriate safety gear.

If contact is made with gas or electric utility lines, call 911 and never attempt to make any repairs or adjustments to utility facilities.

If a gas odor is detected, remember to ‘Stop. Go. Let Us Know’ by ceasing all activities, evacuating all workers and others from the immediate vicinity and calling 911 and Central Hudson’s Gas Odor Response hotline at 1-800-942-8274 to report the odor.

Freni explained that the regulations are designed to protect excavators, the public and owners of underground lines. “A moment of inattentiveness can result in injury, damage or worse,” he said.

Dig Safely New York has developed a comprehensive Excavator Certification Program in Best Practices for Safe Digging for contrators. Completion of this course will satisfy New York state legislation that requires contractors and excavation personnel employed by a municipality or natural gas operator to complete a training and education program.

Additional information about the Dig Safely New York One-Call system and requirements for excavating near marked lines is available at www.DigSafelyNewYork. com; information on the 811 service is available at www. call811.com; click here to see a video by the American Gas Association on natural gas safety for children; and to learn more about contractor safety and working near utility lines, call Central Hudson at (845) 452-2700 or 1-800527-2714, or visit www.CentralHudson.com/safety/ digsafely.

Weichert, Realtors - Fontaine & Associates welcomes Margaret Williams ATHENS — Weichert, Realtors - Fontaine & Associates, serving the Capital District, Greene and Columbia Counties, and the Hudson Valley, announces that Margaret Williams has joined their Athens office as a real estate salesperson.

Williams will be assisting home buyers and sellers in Columbia County and surrounding areas with all of their real-estate needs.

“Margaret is an amazing

addition to our talented team of agents,” said Don Fontaine, owner/broker at Weichert, Realtors - Fontaine & Associates.

“Margaret’s compassion and willingness to assist others will be a tremendous asset for both our office and clients. We warmly welcome her to our team.”

Williams joins a team of knowledgeable and dedicated agents at Weichert, Realtors - Fontaine & Associates,

which brings decades of combined real estate experience to its clients.

She is also excited to take advantage of agent training programs and resources provided by Weichert to help offer the best real estate service in the industry.

Williams is a member of the Columbia Greene Board of Realtors and the Columbia Greene Northern Dutchess MLS. Williams lives in Claverack.

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Outbreak at Minnesota pork plant triggers another meat industry closure Rachel Siegel The Washington Post

The spread of coronavirus is continuing to force closures at major meat processing facilities, raising alarms about worker safety and further jostling the nation’s meat supply chains.

JBS - the U.S. subsidiary of the world’s largest processor of fresh beef and pork - announced Monday it is indefinitely closing its pork production plant in Worthington, Minnesota. The facility, which employs more than 2,000 people and processes 20,000 hogs a day, is the third JBS plant to suspend operations following spikes in covid-19 infections. It shut down its

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“While this program is designed to help as many businesses as possible, funds will be limited,” CEDC President F. Michael Tucker said Monday.

Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation has set up a second fund to support nonprofit organizations in

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will continue to work with the White House and federal officials to assist with supply chain and coordinate private labs.

New York’s COVID-19 fatalities reached 14,347 Monday — up from 13,869 Sunday. The state saw 478 virus-related deaths Sunday, including 455 in hospitals and 23 in nursing homes, down from 507 deaths Saturday and 540 Friday.

Sunday’s death toll was the state’s lowest so far this month, as fatalities in a 24-hour period peaked at more than 700 deaths per day for more than a week at the beginning of April.

New York tested 633,861 people, revealing 247,512 positive cases of COVID-19 by Monday afternoon. The state may be past the virus apex, or several-day plateau, as hospitalization rates continued to decline for the seventh consecutive day to 16,103 patients Monday, down from 16,213 Sunday and 16,967 Saturday.

Roughly 1,300 virus patients each Saturday and Sunday entered hospitals statewide, Cuomo said.

The state reported 4,814 patients in intensive care Monday. Net change in intubations was down 32 fewer patients Sunday, according to the

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“Beware of the phone calls, texts, emails and individuals going door to door asking for personal information in order to receive the $1,200 payment,” James said. “If anyone claims to be from the government, it may be nothing more than a scam to obtain your personal information. There is no fee to receive your $1,200 check.”

Columbia County Sheriff David Bartlett issued a warning to Columbia County residents awaiting stimulus money from the federal government.

“During times of crisis, people need to be extra vigilant,” Bartlett said. “There are people out there who are always looking to take advantage of these situations. Rely only on official sources. As usual, if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.”

Those applying for unemployment benefits are at increased risk of fraud, officials from the state Department of Labor warned Monday. As part of its Call Back initiative, Labor Department employees

Greeley, Colorado, beef facility last week and another in Souderton, Pennsylvania, which has since reopened.

CBS affiliate WCCO, citing the Minnesota Department of Health, reported Saturday that there were 56 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Nobles County - and 20 of them worked at the Worthington plant, and another five who were related to the workers. The pork plant will wind down operations in the next two days, JBS said, and continue to pay employees during the closure.

“We don’t make this decision lightly,” said Bob Krebs, president of JBS USA Pork. “We recognize JBS Worthington is critical to local hog producers, the U.S. food supply

and the many businesses that support the facility each and every day.”

A growing number of processing facilities that prop up the American meat supply have themselves become outbreak hotspots.

The outlook is even more precarious given that U.S. meat processing is largely handled at a few enormous plants. At the same time, restaurants are drastically cutting orders of more expensive cuts, like tenderloins and sirloin, that don’t draw supermarket customers.

With the supply chain so off-kilter, experts are worried that meat could become the next item wiped clean from grocery store shelves as customers start to hoard.

On Friday, the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 663 called on JBS to slow production speeds at the Worthington plant and allow for more social distancing. The union, which represents more than 1,850 workers at the facility, said that a delayed response could come “too late for too many people.”

“Failure to make this critical safety improvement will put our community and our nation’s food supply at devastating risk,” said UFCW Local 663 President Matt Utecht.

Earlier this month, Smithfield Foods announced that its Sioux Falls, South Dakota, plant would shutter indefinitely. The Argus

Leader reported Friday that there were nearly 800 confirmed coronavirus cases linked to the plant, which is one of the country’s largest pork processing facilities and represents 4 to 5% of U.S. pork production, according to Smithfield.

National Beef Packing Co. has also closed its Tama, Iowa plant.

Cargill halted production at its Hazleton, Pennsylvania, ground beef and pork processing plant.

The company also scaled back operations at one of Canada’s biggest beef-packing plants after dozens of workers contracted the virus.

The Washington Post’s Laura Reiley contributed to this report.

Columbia County that provide services to those in need.

The Greene County Economic Development Corporation announced two types of emergency loans Friday: one for small businesses with 10 employees or fewer, to retain or restore those employees, and another for microenterprise businesses with five employees or fewer, to help hire new employees. Both loan options have zero interest and zero payments due for the first six months.

“Projects that will retain jobs that otherwise would be lost due to the pandemic will receive priority,” according to the Greene County Economic Development Corporation.

“This special program can work with any other disasterrelated funding source in order to get businesses back up and running as quickly as possible. This program is funded with Community Development Block Grant funds provided by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban

Development, and as such all applications are required to meet program rules and regulations.”

These small business loans will be used to retain or create jobs that primarily benefit low- and moderate-income people, according to the Greene County Economic Development Corporation.

Small businesses that are approved for the first loan option are eligible for $10,000 in funding, which can be used for working capital, inventory,

materials and supplies, according to the Greene County Economic Development Corporation. These are two-year loans. The county has secured $500,000 for this funding option.

The second loan type, which is for microenterprise businesses, goes up to $25,000 and can be used for machinery, equipment, furniture, fixtures, working capital, inventory, materials and supplies, according to the Greene County Economic Development

Corporation. These are threeyear loans and will be awarded based upon availability.

To be eligible, businesses must either be open or have a set opening date. The loan cannot go toward expenses paid for with Small Business Administration funding or refinancing of debt.

The deadline for the loan application, copies of which can be found at greenecountyedc.com, is June 30.

governor’s office.

More than 20 hospitals, primarily downstate, using anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 treatment, sent their preliminary results Monday to the U.S. Federal Drug Administration and Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention, Cuomo said. Results will be made public at a later date.

Virus activity is expected to increase as the weather grows warmer and cabin fever intensifies.

“It’s an ocean — I see an ocean,” Cuomo said of rolling cures, or waves, of COVID-19.

The governor anticipates Buffalo and Albany to hit the peak or their outbreaks later on, he said. Personal protective equipment, ventilators, additional medical staff and other supplies will be deployed as necessary.

Fifty-one days have passed since the state’s first case. The U.S. saw its first positive case of COVID-19 92 days ago.

The state will forecast cutting education spending, local governments and hospitals by 20% this week if the federal government doesn’t send money to New York, Cuomo said.

“And this is the worst time to do this,” Cuomo said of the proposed hospital cuts. “This year’s state budget is a function of the federal budget. You can’t spend what you don’t have.”

Cuomo reiterated the state’s need for additional federal funding in Congress’ next pandemic relief bill, as lawmakers near a deal on the next legislation. The governor has repeatedly criticized the historic $2.2 trillion federal CARES Act, which focused on relief to small businesses, sent financial-assistance checks to middle-class and lowerincome Americans and increased unemployment benefits.

The bill did not provide assistance to state or local governments to cover financial shortfalls. New York anticipates a $10 billion to $15 billion budget gap because of COVID-19.

“Federal representatives said, ‘Don’t worry,’” Cuomo said. “Yeah. Don’t worry. But I worry. Over and over again.

I’m telling you, New Yorkers need funding for this budget because we can’t do it ourselves.”

The National Governors Association on Friday renewed its request for $500 billion from the federal government to rebuild state economies.

Cuomo first issued the joint statement with National Governors Association Chairman Larry Hogan, governor of Maryland, on April 12.

The state’s infection rate remains at 0.9%, meaning one New Yorker with the virus is, on average, infecting about 0.9 other people. The state has not

calculated a separate infection rate for downstate counties and New York City.

The infection rate is 0.9%1.2%. Officials must watch the infection rate until the development of a successful medical treatment or federally approved vaccine.

“That is a very fine margin of error,” Cuomo said. “I don’t know if it’s statistically relevant, frankly, because all of these numbers are a little loose.”

Developing new testing, bringing it to scale and gradually restarting the economy at the appropriate time are critical to keep the infection and hospitalization rates under control, Cuomo said. Many school districts and local officials are calling the governor’s office questioning when and how they can reopen, but it’s too soon to reopen with the infection rate in what could be merely a temporary decline.

On Saturday, New York joined the states of Connecticut and New Jersey to open up their marinas, boatyards and boat launches for recreational use. Empire State Development, the state authority in charge of determining essential and nonessential businesses, updated its guidance for golf courses Friday, opening the door for them to reopen to golfers as long as almost all direct employees are not on the premises. Beaches remain closed statewide.

Cuomo told New Yorkers frustrated by the social-distancing measures to blame him.

“The state’s emergency powers now govern in this emergency, so blame me,” he said. “Somebody’s complaining about beaches not being open. It’s true. It’s right. It’s the state law. So blame me.”

The nation is experiencing a shortage of the required chemicals for diagnostic COVID-19 tests. The majority of the chemical reagents are manufactured in China, said Cuomo, adding the state cannot influence the international supply chain to bring testing to scale for all New Yorkers.

New York offered national manufacturers money to try to fund expedited testing production, but manufacturers are struggling to obtain the necessary vials and equipment to make them.

“I pay for the tests and [virus] tracers,” Cuomo said.

“It’s not about money on this front — it’s about division of labor and the responsibilities.

I can’t solve the national manufacturers not able to produce the volume for the state.”

Cuomo and President Donald Trump, who Friday traded barbs over who is leading the pandemic fight, agreed the federal government must work together with state governments on testing and international supply chain logistics.

“I am right on testing. Governors must be able to step up and get the job done,” Trump tweeted Sunday afternoon.

“We will be with you ALL THE WAY!” The states and federal government each must do their parts, Cuomo said in response to the president.

“That’s called partnership,” the governor said. “Perfect. I agree.”

The state sent up to 400 ventilators to Massachusetts as the positive number of COVID-19 cases continue to rise in the neighboring state.

The state will deliver 500,000 cloth masks and 10,000 gallons of hand sanitizer to public housing communities.

Cuomo announced the creation of the Reimagine NY Task Force on Monday to improve systems in downstate New York after social-distancing measures are lifted. The task force will be led by the state and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, Westchester County Executive George Latimer, Nassau County Executive Laura Curran, Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone and other local elected officials and housing and transportation experts.

are calling applicants to assist with benefits claims.

Labor Department employees are working remotely, which means they may show up as calling from a “private” number, state Labor Commissioner Roberta Reardon said in a statement. As New Yorkers apply for unemployment in record numbers, Reardon urged anyone applying for benefits to be wary of potentially fraudulent calls.

“To prevent fraud, anyone calling from the Department of Labor will verify their identity by providing the date you filed your unemployment insurance application and the type of claim you filed,” she said.

State Sen. Jen Metzger, D-42, urged unemployment applicants to check with the Labor Department Telephone Claims Center if they are uncertain about a caller.

The Telephone Claims Center can be reached at 518-7042704, Metzger said while participating in a telephone town hall with U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado, D-19, on Friday.

New scams are emerging daily to target the elderly, James said. The attorney general’s office is aware of scammers pretending to represent

the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who are offering bogus testing services and selling fake coronavirus cures, she said.

“There is no cure for coronavirus, there is no treatment, there is no vaccination,“ James said, noting that her office has also seen toothpastes and dietary supplements marketed as preventative treatments for the virus.

Claims that products such as air purifiers can filter coronavirus out of the air are “not true,” she said.

In a continuing effort to crack down on attempts to exploit the public-health crisis, the attorney general’s office is soliciting information on price gouging. Over 5,000 complaints of price gouging have been lodged against companies and private individuals, and the attorney general’s staff is responding to each one, she said.

“My office has issued cease and desist letters to people selling essential supplies at high prices,” James said.

At this time, none of the price gouging cases have escalated to litigation.

James encouraged listeners on the AARP call to participate in the census and said to

be wary of anyone claiming census participation costs money.

“The census is free, you do not need to pay a fee to fill out the census,” James said.

Anyone who says otherwise is

taking advantage of people’s anxiety and fear, she said.

The Census Bureau issued a reminder that census forms do not ask for Social Security numbers or bank account numbers. The state

chapter of the Census Bureau can verify census surveys at 1-800-991-2520, officials said.

“When it comes to fraud, vigilance is our No. 1 defense,” said Finkel.

To see the complete county breakdown of positive COVID-19 cases and deaths statewide, view the COVID-19 map and tracker at hudsonvalley360. com/site/covid19.html.

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New York City’s sports bars face bleak future with no baseball, NBA playoffs Larry McShane New York Daily News

NEW YORK — Shaun Clancy, owner of the renowned Midtown sports bar Foley’s, views the month of March as 31 days of Christmas.

His customers emerge from hibernation, enticed by the promise of big games on his big screen TVs: The Big East tournament. March Madness.

And best of all, the return of the Yankees and Mets on opening day. But March of 2020 felt more like a death in the family than the liveliest time of the sporting year, and April is no better.

“Opening day was bigger for me than St. Patrick’s Day,” said Clancy, a familiar presence at the E. 33rd St. bar for nearly two decades. “We would have fans from so many teams — last year, 13 different teams showed up.”

Rick Pitino is back and raring to go at Iona Kevin McNamara The Providence Journal

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Like so many of us, Rick Pitino is antsy. He has people to see, things to do.

Trapped in this stayat-home world, Pitino is in Miami with his wife, Joanne, while scrambling to put together the pieces at his new job as the men’s basketball head coach at Iona College.

“I’m riding my bike a lot,” Pitino said last week, “We just sold a house we bought when I went to the Celtics in 1997. We’ve had Easter and Christmas here for years. It could fit all 12 of our grandchildren.”

The eight-bed mansion at Providence’s Indian Creek recently sold for $17 million, according to reports, so there’s a lot of packing to do. But Pitino’s focus lies elsewhere. After a three-season hiatus brought on by two major scandals that ended his run at Louisville, Pitino is back in college basketball.

He says he’s not listening to naysayers who have branded him a cheat. At 67 years old, he knows how fortunate he is that a preexisting relationship with Iona’s president, Seamus Carey, opened the door to a return that he wasn’t sure would ever happen.

“Dick Vitale made a great point when he said that Jim Valvano told him that the best years of his life were coaching Iona College,” Pitino said. “That had a lot to

do with my decision because of my relationship with Providence College.

Two of the most fun years of my life were at a small, Catholic college with a small campus and average facilities. Now I’m getting back to that.”

Pitino quickly clarified that statement, insisting that the PC of today is so very different from the mom-and-pop outfit it was back in the 1980s.

“Providence is a totally different place now,” Pitino said, “but Iona is a campus you can walk in five minutes, like PC. It’s near my home, it’s near my son (Ryan), it’s near Winged Foot (Golf Club) where I’ve been a member for 25 years. It has everything you’d want to finish your career. It’s going back home.”

Why is a Hall of Famer, a two-time national champion, ending his ride at Iona? It’s a long story but let’s just say that Pitino couldn’t avoid trouble at Louisville. First, a staff member was running sex parties for recruits, players and others out of the team’s dormitory. Pitino insists he knew nothing, conceding “that was reprehensible.”

The sordid affair landed Louisville on probation, stripped the program of its 2013 national title and slapped Pitino with a “failure to monitor” penalty.

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Nobody appeared this year, in the bar or on the field. COVID-19 canceled the NCAA Tournament, along with the Mets’ Citi Field opener against the World Champion Washington Nationals. And Foley’s, like the rest of the countless sports bars across New York’s five boroughs, closed its doors on March 16 as its owner waits nervously for “Reopening Day” ... . if that ever comes this season.

He’s not alone. Joe Bastone, owner of the venerable Yankee Tavern in the Bronx, estimated the April 2 loss of opening day at Yankee Stadium cost him a week’s worth of typical baseball season income.

“I’m a little numb when I think about it, so I try not to think about it,” said Bastone, 65, who worked as a 9-year-old tavern bus boy back in grammar school. “If I do think about it,

I’m only going to get hugely depressed.

It’s a ghost town up here.”

The 40 barstools typically in place for the season opener were replaced by a single seat where people ordering takeout can sit while waiting for their food. Bastone thinks about better days when he was delivering pastrami sandwiches to late Yankees owner George See BARS B3

Liberty No. 1 pick Sabrina Ionescu on a mission on and off the court Barbara Barker Newsday

NEW YORK — Sabrina Ionescu is on a mission.

Her mission isn’t just to be a great professional basketball player. Her mission isn’t just to bring her new team, the Liberty, their first WNBA championship. Her mission is to help transform the way we feel about women’s basketball, to elevate it to the next level of fan recognition.

Ionescu made that clear months ago when she spoke at a memorial service for Kobe Bryant, his daughter, Gianna, known as Gigi, and others who died in a helicopter crash near Los Angeles, saying she wanted to be “part of the generation that changed basketball” for young girls. And the Oregon guard made it clear again Friday night, shortly after the Liberty kicked off the WNBA surreal virtual WNBA draft by making her the No. 1 pick.

“It’s going to be huge, the fact that I’ll be able to be in Brooklyn and have a platform and a voice in kind of the mecca of the world is going to be amazing,” said Ionescu, who was the two-time college player of the year. “I’m just excited for that opportunity, having done it in Eugene and kind of changed the way people viewed women in sports in Eugene. Just excited to take that with me to Brooklyn and hopefully use it for a bigger good in that bigger marketplace.”

Ionescu is the perfect sort of superstar for this brave new world we find ourselves in. Not only does she have the right combination of drive, skill and personality to be a transformative player. Like any great point guard, she has an incredible sense of mission and See IONESCU B3

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Oregon Ducks guard Sabrina Ionescu (20) pulls in a defensive rebound during a March 8 game against the Stanford Cardinal at Mandalay Bay Events Center.

When’s the right time to resume playing NBA basketball?

Keith Pompey The Philadelphia Inquirer

PHILADELPHIA — This is tough.

On one hand, you want the NBA season to resume. You miss basketball. An NBA game would be a great two-hour diversion from our coronavirus-pandemic reality.

On the other hand, you can argue that sports are irrelevant at this moment. This is time to focus on your loved ones and their well-being.

It’s a time to pray for the more than 21.7 million Americans who filed for unemployment in response to the pandemic. It’s a time to remember those who lost their lives to COVID-19.

Globally, there have been over 2,240,000 confirmed cases and over 150,000 deaths.

As has been the case globally, COVID-19 patients are pushing some Philadelphia-area hospitals to near capacity.

Yet President Donald Trump released federal guidelines Thursday for a slow return to normalcy. The PGA Tour also announced plans to resume its season in June with the first four events closed to fans. And there had been optimism that the NBA will resume some semblance of the season until Friday.

That’s when Commissioner Adam Silver said there was no timetable for the NBA’s return.

The league’s regular season was suspended March 11 after Utah’s Rudy Gobert tested

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Commissioner of the National Basketball Association Adam Silver speaks during a press conference prior to the preseason game between Houston Rockets and Toronto Raptors at Saitama Super Arena on October 8, 2019 in Saitama, Japan.

positive for COVID-19. Silver announced the next day that play would be halted for at least

30 days.

The new expectation is the NBA might not

resume until July. Silver told TNT on April 7 that the league won’t have enough information to make a decision until May at the earliest. On Friday, he said there’s no cutoff date in regards to canceling the reason and returning on preparing for the 2020-21 campaign.

But league and National Basketball Players Association agreed to reduce players’ salaries beginning with their May 15 paycheck in an event of permanent season cancellation. While Silver won’t give a timeline, there’s a sense the league could know in June if and how many games will be canceled.

“There’s a lot that’s changing quickly,” Silver said. “We may be in a very different position some number of weeks from now. But it was why I initially announced at the beginning of April that I felt with confidence we wouldn’t be able to make any decisions in the month of April.

“I should clarify that I didn’t mean to suggest that on May 1st, I would be in a position.

I just think as I sit here today, there’s too much unknown to set a timeline, even too much unknown to say, here are the precise variables.”

Like with the PGA Tour, the NBA is expected to return without fans in the beginning.

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NFL draft 2020: Players will get the word from the comfort of home Garry Smits The Florida Times-Union

On Thursday night, 32 of 58 college football players will welcome America into their living rooms.

It will be a virtual visit.

And the good news is that if TV viewers for the 2020 NFL draft do get a glimpse of their home, it will be for a good reason: they were picked in the first round of the 2020 NFL draft.

With the live draft in Las Vegas impossible because of the coronavirus pandemic, the NFL is conducting the draft remotely, beginning at 8 p.m. on Thursday. League officials say it won’t be much different than conducting a fantasy draft.

Each team will have three officials linked to the league office in New York and ESPN headquarters in Bristol, Conn.

However, one of the charms of the draft has been the reaction of players when they get selected in the green room, and walking across the stage for the handshake and hug from commissioner Roger Goodell, and their team jersey and hat.

Circumstances are preventing that but the feeling when they get the call from an NFL general manager is likely to be just as thrilling.

The NFL targeted 58 players and sent them kits to set up the remote uplink from their homes to the ESPN, ABC and NFL Network broadcasts.

College students being as tech-savvy as they are, don’t expect any glitches on their end.

The list of players is broken up between 33 on offense and 25 on defense.

The number of players at each position group on offense reflects the depth of the 2020 draft class: there are 10 wide receivers, eight offensive tackles and seven quarterbacks.

Three of the quarterbacks finished their college careers in the SEC: Joe Burrow of LSU, the expected overall No. 1 pick by Cincinnati; Jake Fromm of Georgia; and Tua Tagovailoa of Alabama

However, two of the other quarterbacks invited played in the SEC, then transferred, Jake Eason of Washington (Georgia) and Jalen Hurts of Oklahoma (Alabama).

Four running backs were invited.

There’s more balance on defense. Cornerbacks and linebackers tied for the most invited players with six each, and there are five interior defensive linemen, four defensive ends and four safeties.

There are no kickers or punters on the list and one offensive guard (Lloyd Cushenberry of LSU) and one center (Cesar Ruiz of Michigan). There are two tight ends (Cole Kmet of Notre Dame and Thaddeus Moss of LSU) but every other position group had at least four players invited.

The SEC dominated the invitees with 24 (41 percent), followed by the Big Ten with 10 and the Pac-12 and Big-12 with seven each and the ACC with four. Notre Dame had three players invited.

The SEC has 11 offensive players invited and 13 defensive.

Only three players from Group of Five conferences were invited, quarterback Jordan Love of Utah State, offensive tackle Ezra Cleveland of Boise and offensive tackle Josh Jones of Houston.

LSU led all teams with eight players invited, with Alabama second with seven and Oklahoma third with four. Georgia, Ohio State, Auburn, Clemson and the Irish had three each.

Iowa, Michigan, TCU and Utah were the only other teams with two players invited.

The notable players who did not receive, or declined an invitation, included linebacker Kenneth Murray of Oklahoma, running back Cam Akers of Florida State, defensive end Jabari Zuniga of Florida, cornerback Jeff Gladney of TCU and linebacker Clyde Edwards-Helaire of LSU.

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LSU’s Lloyd Cushenberry III (79) in action during the Chick-Fil-A Peach Bowl against the Oklahoma Sooners on Dec. 28, 2019 at Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Ga.

2020 NFL draft: Top interior offensive linemen Eddie Brown The San Diego Union-Tribune

Here are Eddie Brown’s top 10 interior offensive linemen: 1. Cesar Ruiz (Jr., Michigan, 6-foot-3, 307 pounds) Ruiz was the consensus No. 1 center in the 2017 recruiting cycle. He’s a three-year starter who is equally sound in pass protection or as a run-blocker. Projected: 1st or 2nd round 2. Lloyd Cushenberry III (Jr., LSU, 6-3, 312) Team captain who has All-Pro potential at guard or center. Cushenberry dominated during Senior Bowl week. Projected: 2nd or 3rd round 3. Tyler Biadasz (Jr., Wisconsin, 6-4, 314) Durability (hip and shoulder issues) concerns overshadow an otherwise elite prospect. Biadasz is a technician who was awarded Wisconsin’s first Rimington Trophy (top center in the nation) in 2019. Projected: 2nd or 3rd round 4. Ben Bredeson (Sr., Michigan, 6-5, 315) One of the few two-time team captains in Michigan history. Bredeson makes up for average athleticism with power, instincts and intelligence. Projected: 2nd to 4th round 5. John Simpson (Sr., Clemson, 6-4, 321) Clemson hasn’t had an offensive lineman drafted in the first 90 picks since 1979.

Simpson has a shot. Projected: 2nd or 3rd round 6. Matt Hennessy (Jr., Temple, 6-4, 307) Hennessy is an athletic technician who has only allowed one sack the last three years. He’s genuinely the hardest worker in the room. Projected: 2nd or 3rd round

7. Robert Hunt (Sr., Louisiana-Lafayette, 6-5, 323) A four-year starter (at right tackle and left guard) who has the ability to overwhelm defenders in the run game. He’ll be 24 years old before he takes an NFL snap. Projected: 2nd to 4th round 8. Shane Lemieux (Sr., Oregon, 6-4, 310) Lemieux started all 52 games the last four seasons for the Ducks. Projected: 3rd or 4th round 9. Jonah Jackson (Sr., Ohio St., 6-3, 306) Versatile experience with college starts at all three interior positions of the offensive line. Projected: 2nd to 4th round 10. Solomon Kindley (Jr., Georgia, 6-3, 337) Moves well for a 340-pounder and dominates when healthy. Durability is a concern (dealt with a left foot issue for most of his junior season). Projected: 3rd to 5th round BONUS. Logan Stenberg (Sr., Kentucky, 6-6, 317) Stenberg was the powerful anchor of an offensive line that helped the Wildcats average 278.8 rushing yards per game in 2019 (fourth-best in college football). His overaggressive nature attracted 14 penalties in 2019 (second-most at the FBS level). Projected: 3rd to 5th round BONUS. Damien Lewis (Sr., LSU, 6-2, 327) Lewis lacks high-end athleticism, but he’s a fierce competitor and physical finisher in the run game. Projected: 3rd to 5th round BONUS. Jon Runyan (Sr., Michigan, 6-4, 306) Two-year starter at left tackle with NFL genes (father was a 14-year pro). Runyan is a technician with a nasty streak in the run

game who projects better inside. Projected: 5th to 7th round BONUS. Netane Muti (Jr., Fresno St., 6-3, 315) Muti features World’s Strongest Mantype power and top-50 ability, but his durability is a fluorescent red flag. He’s suffered injuries to both achilles and a Lisfranc foot injury that required surgery in October of 2019. He’s only played in five games the past two seasons. Projected: 4th to 7th round BONUS. Jack Driscoll (Sr., Auburn, 6-5, 306) You’re not going to outsmart Driscoll and he’s already shown he can handle a jump in competition. He transferred to Auburn after earning his degree and playing three seasons with UMass. He played both tackle positions and left guard in college, but size makes him better suited for the interior.

Projected: 4th to 7th round BONUS. Darryl Williams (Sr., Mississippi St., 6-2, 304) Versatility is a plus (double-digit starts at center and left guard). Williams is a powerful, aggressive blocker who was nicknamed the “Big General.” Projected: 3rd to 5th round BONUS. Nick Harris (Sr., Washington, 6-1, 302) Harris is undersized, but he features an alpha attitude and was chosen first team All-Pac 12 the past two seasons. Projected: 3rd to 5th round BONUS. Keith Ismael (Jr., San Diego St., 6-3, 309) Ismael is an aggressive bully in the run game at center or guard who wins with quickness, toughness and intelligence. Projected: 4th to 7th round

2020 NFL draft: Top offensive tackles

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Iowa offensive lineman Tristan Wirfs runs a drill during the NFL Combine at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on February 28.

Eddie Brown Here are Eddie Brown’s top 10 offensive tackles: 1. Tristan Wirfs (Jr., Iowa, 6-foot-5, 320 pounds) Wirfs is a do-everything athlete (baseball, football, track and wrestling in high school).

This coupled with his freakish strength makes him a potential star at every offensive line position besides center. Projected: Top 15 2. Andrew Thomas (Jr., Georgia, 6-5, 315) The powerful, athletic left tackle is equally dominant in the run game and pass protection. He was a three-year starter for one of the nation’s best offensive lines. A refined technique at the next level could mean many All-Pro selections.

Projected: Top 15 3. Mekhi Becton (Jr., Louisville, 6-7, 364) Imagine if your refrigerator came to life and could beat you in a foot race while also protecting your blindside. The weight concerns (he’s approaching 370 pounds) were alleviated for most when his body fat was measured at a mere 17% in Indy. Projected: 1st round 4. Jedrick Wills Jr. (Jr., Alabama, 6-4, 312) Wills has All-Pro potential at right tackle and guard. He allowed only one sack in 39

games protecting Tua Tagovailoa’s blindside. He has never played a single snap at left tackle in high school or college. Projected: Top 15 5. Josh Jones (Sr., Houston, 6-5, 319) Four-year starter (45 starts at left tackle) and team captain.

He’s currently a better pass protector than run blocker, but he’s athletic enough to improve in the NFL. Projected: 1st and 2nd round 6. Austin Jackson (Jr., USC, 6-5, 322) Jackson is a raw talent with elite athletic ability. He also has seven blocked kicks on special teams dating back to his sophomore year of high school in Phoenix. Projected: 1st or 2nd round 7. Isaiah Wilson (So., Georgia, 6-6, 350) Former five-star recruit with elite size, strength and natural skill. His fundamentals are still a work-in-progress. Projected: 2nd or 3rd round 8. Ezra Cleveland (Jr., Boise St., 6-6, 311) Three-year starter at left tackle who is athletic enough to thrive in pass protection, but needs to add some strength to be an asset in the run game.

Projected: 2nd round 9. Prince Tega Wanogho (Sr., Auburn, 6-5, 308)

His journey from Nigeria is Google-worthy. Wanogho was originally recruited as a defensive end (four stars), but he’s adjusted to left tackle nicely and held his own in the talentrich SEC. Projected: 2nd or 3rd round 10. Ben Bartch (Sr., Saint John’s (Minn.), 6-6, 309) A no-star tight end recruit out of high school, Bartch is very raw, but clearly talented. He should be the first Saint John’s

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Top prospects’ interest in G League won’t be a threat to college basketball’s survival or success Matt Calkins The Seattle Times

Rumor has it that college basketball is in trouble. I heard this from Stephen A. Smith on ESPN. I read about it on NBC Sports, too.

Just Google the name Jalen Green, and you’ll surely be shown a story hinting at NCAA hoops’ inevitable decline.

I respect these opinions. Perhaps they’re correct. But I don’t know — I think the college game is going to be just fine.

Green made news earlier in the week when he announced that he is going to bypass the NCAA and sign with the G League, a development league for the NBA. A projected topthree pick in 2021, Green reportedly signed a contract in the range of $500,000.

The NBA also will pay Green’s tuition should he decide to go back to school, meaning he isn’t forfeiting his education by leaving.

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timing. No one knows when we will see live sports again, or what it will look like when we do. One thing is for certain, though. When we come out through the other side of this COVID-19 pandemic, it won’t

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league to Boardwalk Hall for the playoffs.

Atlantic City, Orlando, Hawaii, Louisville, and Las Vegas are possible locations for a 16-team playoff minus fans.

The Bahamas have been mentioned as another potential site. Those locations are expected to be a bubble-like atmosphere where players are isolation.

But Silver said that’s not a done deal on Friday.

“In terms of bubble-like concepts, many of them have been proposed to us, and we’ve only listened,” Silver said. “We’re not seriously

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Louisville was one of several programs named in an FBI sting operation into fraud and bribery in college basketball recruiting. Pitino was not named in the suit and insists he knew nothing about payments from Adidas and an assistant coach, Kenny Johnson, to recruit Brian Bowen.

Louisville fired Pitino. The stench of the two cases branded him a cheater in the eyes of the basketball world. Time was the only way to heal the wounds.

“The NCAA blackballed me,” he said. “Schools would call the NCAA and they’d say, which was true, ‘We haven’t started our investigation because we’re waiting for the Southern District of New York (FBI) to get done with their investigation.’

But that kept me out.”

Pitino poked around some jobs, including the one at the

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Steinbrenner in the afternoon before 56,000 fans arrived in the evening.

“I’m praying there’s going to be some kind of a season,” Bastone said. “But either way, we’re going to need some kind of assistance. Losing all these games is devastating financially.”

There’s no guarantee of sports fans flocking back en masse when the crisis abates.

Darren Meenan, founder of The 7 Line Army of die-hard Mets fans, finds it hard to imagine the

Seem like a good deal? Well, it’s certainly a safe one.

Green is now guaranteed a halfmillion dollars and the option of a free education regardless of what happens next. He can blow out both knees, perform valleys below his hype, or decide that all he really wants to do in life is dance.

Perhaps that is why Isaiah Todd, whom ESPN lists as the No. 13 recruit in the country, announced he would go the same route as Green, albeit for about half the money.

The NBA doesn’t allow players to be drafted straight out of high school, but is now giving them a paid alternative to playing NCAA ball. So what does this mean for the college game? Well, that’s to be determined.

The argument is that the allure of six figures will drive most of the top prospects into the G League, where they can spend the next year focusing on nothing but basketball.

No classes. No eligibility concerns.

And no need to leave the country, as players such as Brandon Jennings and LaMelo Ball did in lieu of spending a year in school.

So why would any high-profile baller choose the NCAA route now?

Well, there are a few reasons.

One is Zion Williamson. Remember, the Pelicans forward wasn’t the No. 1 recruit coming out of high school two years ago. In fact, he was ranked behind two of his Duke teammates, R.J. Barrett and Cam Reddish.

But after dazzling the nation with his peerless play, he skyrocketed to the top of the draft board and signed a $75 million shoe deal with Nike. There’s little chance he would have gotten anywhere close to that kind of endorsement cash if he played in the G League or overseas.

Younger players have to be aware of that.

Another reason is the chance to play in the NCAA Tournament.

There really isn’t a pro equivalent

to that. The brackets, single-game elimination, the way the country stops for three weeks. Former Washington forward Quincy Pondexter spent seven seasons in the NBA, but says his senior year with the Huskies was the best year of his life.

Another is that the top prospects usually have insurance to guard against injury.

Williamson, for instance, reportedly had a policy that would have paid him $8 million if he slid past the 16th pick in the draft. As the No. 1 pick, he is guaranteed more than $25 million for his first three years.

So while a few hundred thousand dollars is a nice way to instantly boost one’s bank account, the elite players will generally see a payout regardless of where they end up in the draft.

Despite all this, I’m not sure losing some of the top players to the G League each year would be a major threat to the college game. It isn’t as

star-driven as the NBA. Year-round fans of NCAA hoops enjoy the style of play. Fans of specific schools will fill the arenas so long as the team is competitive. And come March, the country becomes fixated on the tournament regardless of the individuals participating in it.

From 1995-2005, 39 players went straight from high school to the NBA. That list includes Kevin Garnett, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Tracy McGrady and Dwight Howard. And though it would have been fun to see what those guys could have done at that level, the ratings for the Final Four were typically higher during that stretch than they were in the ensuing 10 years.

The NBA deserves credit for giving athletes this option. Surely more players will follow the lead of Green and Todd.

But not only will the college game survive this, it will continue to thrive.

be business as usual.

Fans will be looking for a different sort of superstar.

After months of social distancing, fans will be looking toward someone they can get close to. They will be looking for a genuine feel-good story, and there’s no doubt that Ionescu is that.

The daughter of Romanian immigrants who worked long hours, Ionescu spent the

majority of her childhood at a playground near hear home in Walnut Creek, Calif., playing pickup games with her twin brother, Eddy, who went on to play for the Ducks’ men’s team. This playground background helped Ionescu develop a different style of game from most of her female peers, who were first introduced to the game through the structure of girls leagues.

There have been plenty of talented and accomplished women to enter the league over the years, but few of them signed multiyear contracts with Nike on the same day they entered the league as Ionescu did Friday.

What’s more, few of them have had as many high-profile fans as Ionescu.

LeBron James dubbed her “Queen Sabrina” on Twitter.

Steph Curry attended a couple of her games in the Bay Area and posted a photo of the two of them on his Instagram feed, writing “S/O to the walking Triple Dub.” Bryant befriended her after watching her play her junior season and invited her to coach his daughter for a weekend. The three developed such a tight bond that it was Ionescu who the Bryant family asked to

speak about Gigi’s love of the game at the memorial service.

Said Ionescu: “I wanted to be a part of the generation that changed basketball for Gigi and her teammates, where being born female didn’t mean being born behind, where greatness wasn’t divided by gender.

“You have too much to give to stay silent.”

engaged yet in that type of environment because I can’t answer the first part of your question, which is, what precisely would we need to see in order to feel that that environment provided the need health and safety for our players and everyone involved?”

Nor did he rule out resuming the season with regularseason games.

No one can deny the financial benefit of resuming play.

ABC/ESPN and Turner pay the league $2.6 billion to show its games. Looking to fill a programming void, ESPN televised H-O-R-S-E and playersonly NBA 2K tournaments.

Even before the suspension, the league was preparing to play without fans in attendance and is reportedly

willing to play through August.

It could provide plenty of programming.

But questions remain.

When will it be safe to return?

The NBA was one of the first leagues to shut down amid the pandemic.

“I think there is a sense that we can continue to take a leading role as we learn more in coming up with an appropriate regimen and protocol for returning to business,” Silver said. “I think there’s a recognition from (the owners) that this is bigger than our business, certainly bigger than sports, and that there is great symbolism around sports in this country, and that to the extent we do find a path back, it will be very meaningful for

Americans.”

Plus, no one wants to keep getting delayed like the Chinese Basketball Association.

The CBA’s season has been suspended since Jan. 24 because of the pandemic and has had setbacks in trying to return.

The CBA was scheduled to resume play April 15. Now it may not return until July at the earliest. There’s a possibility the league will cancel the remainder of the season.

Leagues around the world are closely monitoring the CBA’s situation.

The one advantage the NBA would have is all participating teams would be in a quarantined site ‘where they would be tested frequently if they incorporate the bubble-like

concept. But even if they don’t do it, a return to play would require the league to secure a significant amount of quickturnaround tests to ensure players, coaches, and staff are safe.

How would that look to the public, considering there’s a shortage of tests?

That could duplicate the public relations nightmare the league endured when players were able to receive testing not available to most Americans in the weeks after Gobert’s positive test.

“It goes without doubt that we have to ensure that frontline healthcare workers are taken care of before we begin talking about NBA players or sports,” Silver said. “As I said, we’re not in a position to know

more at this point.”

It would become a worse PR hit if someone contracted COVID-19 while at the quarantined site.

So what would it take for the NBA to return? Universal testing, perhaps antibody testing? Does all of that have to be available before the league deems it okay to return?

“We know we need largescale testing,” he said. “As to the universal testing, there are different tests being proposed.

They may have different uses in different situations.

“So while we miss basketball, there’s a lot of uncertainty at this moment.”

We do, however, have to get back to normalcy. At this stage, it’s just tough to know when is the right time.

University of Rhode Island.

When Dan Hurley left for Connecticut, URI officials didn’t speak with him but Pitino says the program’s most influential booster did.

“I’ve been friendly with Tom Ryan and we talked and he was very excited. I was looking at it, certainly, but it didn’t materialize,” Pitino said.

There were other feelers, but the black cloud of the NCAA hung heavy. He spent the last two seasons coaching Greek pro power Panathinaikos and winning games in Milan, Moscow and Tel Aviv. Then came the call from Iona.

“I can’t blame people,” he said. “If you don’t know me, I understand. The president of THOMAS J. RUSSO/USA TODAY Iona knew me; he knew my val- Former Louisville Cardinals head coach Rick Pitino gestures against the Jacksonville State ues and knew how I coached Gamecocks during the 2017 NCAA Tournament at Bankers Life Fieldhouse. players. If I’m a president and Pitino is indebted to Iona but reading stuff on the Internet, will not admit guilt in the FBI different programs, some people wouldn’t believe me,” Pitino can he really be satisfied batI wouldn’t hire me, either, so I case — no way, no how.

“No matter how many said. “My son (Richard) came tling St. Peter’s and Manhattan can’t blame anybody.”

Pitino knows that the scarlet times I’d say I’ve never given to the best conclusion when he for supremacy in the Metro Atletter will follow him through a player $5 or never cheat- said ‘Dad, nobody cares. Get on lantic Athletic Conference? He this time in New Rochelle. He ed a day in my life with four with your life and just coach.’ “ says this is his last stop. He’d like

to build a “Gonzaga of the East” and concedes Iona outfoxed him with an ironclad buyout clause.

“We talked about salary and the president told me, ‘Look, I can’t pay you very much,’ but I told him I understood,” Pitino said. “Then I got the contract and told Seamus I thought the buyout was a mistake because it was so high. He told me, ‘I believe you when you said you’d finish your career at Iona, but not one person on the board of trustees believes you.’ “ Working from his estate in Miami, Pitino has cobbled together a top-flight recruiting class in the last month. He says he wants to play Kentucky, his son Richard’s team at Minnesota and maybe even Providence.

He sees the Gaels playing some games at Madison Square Garden and being a regular March Cinderella.

So, NCAA issues be damned.

Rick Pitino may be caged for the moment but he’s back where he belongs.

group getting together in a bar to watch any games this year. In the past, the boosters occasionally gathered at the Lion’s Head Tavern on the Upper West Side.

“I don’t see myself going to a bar — I mean, maybe if it was outdoors,” said the 39-year-old die-hard fan. “I don’t foresee myself doing anything normal for a while.”

Out at Citi Field, the Mikkeller Brewing NYC pub is shuttered for the immediate future as the rest of the season remains uncertain.

“Wash your hands,” advised a recent tweet. “Drink good beer.”

Both Clancy and Bastone are

still paying their staffs despite the drastic dropoff in business.

Bastone is doing $150 a day in pickups and deliveries to the nearby Bronx county courthouse. Clancy’s place remains closed as he wraps his head the events of the last month.

Yet both men remain somehow optimistic about the very uncertain future, with Clancy assuring his regular and outof-town customers that things can return to some level of normalcy.

“When they come back, we will be there,” vowed Clancy.

“And we will do everything we can to be the home that people want.”

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Held by: The Village of Coxsackie Historic Preservation Commission For: 16 Reed Street, Coxsackie, NY 12051, Tax ID#s: 56.20-1-11 Proposal: To repair the rear brick wall facing lower New Street.

Brick on the secondfloor level will be removed down to a stable level and replaced as it was. Window and/or second floor door openings will remain the same.

No other exterior rear work is covered by this hearing at this time.

Details of the proposal can be discussed with a representative of the National Bank of Coxsackie by calling either Nicole Bliss at (518) 622-9993, or Jim Warren at (518) 7316161.

NOTICE TO BIDDERS The Board of Education of the Greenville Central School District will receive separate sealed bids for: REFUSE REMOVAL and RECYCLING For 2020-2021 SCHOOL YEAR The Board of Education reserves the right to reject any or all bids and waive any informalities or defects in such bids.

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Specifications and bid forms may be obtained on the District’s website www.greenvillecsd.org or at the Business Office, Greenville Central School, 4982 SR 81, Greenville, NY 12083.

Robyn Bhend Business Official NOTICE OF FORMATION OF WELBER, LLC A DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC) Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York on March 31, 2020 New York Office Location – Ulster County.

Secretary of State of the State of New York is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. Secretary of State of the State of New York shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her at: c/o LLC, 1387 Glasco Saugerties Turnpike, NY 12477 PURPOSE: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Applicant: COPAKE LAKE CONSERVATION SOCIETY INC C/O Debra Ruggieri PO Box 37 Craryville, NY 12521 Facility: COPAKE LAKE COLUMBIA CO RTE 7 & LAKEVIEW RD COPAKE, NY 12516 Application ID: 4-1032-00153/00002 Permits(s) Applied for: 1 - Article 24 Freshwater Wetlands Project is located: in COPAKE in COLUMBIA COUNTY Project Description: The Copake Lake Conservation Society proposes to treat up to half the lake (205-acres) with the aquatic pesticide Copper Sulfate for the control filamentous and unicellular algae growth, and up to 30acres with both Tribune (Diquat dibromide) and Flumioxazin to control invasive curlyleaf pond weed. The proposed copper sulfate treatment may occur within a small portion of FWW H-23 to control excessive algae growth, but will not significantly impact native vegetation species present in the area. Copake Lake is 410-acres in size and copper sulfate would be applied in six (6) half-lake treatments during the summer season.

Availability of Application Documents: Filed application documents, and Department draft permits where applicable, are available for inspection during normal business hours at the address of the contact person.

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State Environmental Quality Review (SEQR) Determination Project is an Unlisted Action and will not have a significant impact on the environment. A Negative Declaration is on file. A coordinated review was not performed.

SEQR Lead Agency None Designated State Historic Preservation Act (SHPA) Determination The proposed activity is not subject to review in accordance with SHPA. The application type is exempt and/or the project involves the continuation of an existing operational activity.

DEC Commissioner Policy 29, Environmental Justice and Permitting (CP-29) It has been determined that the proposed action is not subject to CP-29.

Availability For Public Comment Comments on this project must be submitted in writing to the Contact NYSDEC Person no later than 05/07/2020 or 15 days after the publication date of this notice, whichever is later.

Contact Person EVAN H HOGAN 1130 N Westcott Rd Schenectady, NY 12306 (518) 357-2069 NOTICE OF FILING OF ARTICLES OF ORGANIZATION IN NEW YORK BY A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Name: Palenville Property, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with sec. of state of NY(SOS) on 3/13/20.

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NAME: Church Street Bakery, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York on March 27, 2020 Office location: 190 Water St. Catskill, NY 12414 Greene County.

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Sealed bids TION OF LIMITED along with a non-colluLIABILITY COMPANY. sion bidding certificaNAME: CATSKILL tion form, ss103d of MOUNTAIN RAIL the General Municipal TRAIL LLC Law, will be due on Articles of Organiza- May 4th and opened tion were filed with the on May 5, 2020. Send Secretary of State of all bids to Janet ParNew York on April 3, tridge, Town Clerk, 2020 7309 State Rte 81, Office location: 5850 East Durham, NY Cauterskill Rd Catskill, 12423 or in person at NY 12414 Greene the Town Hall. Please County. call before you come The Secretary of State to the Town Hall. The of New York has been Durham Town Board designated as agent of reserves the right to the LLC upon whom reject any and all bids. process against it may Any questions call Hwy be served. The Secre- Super, Joe van Holtary of State of New steyn at 518 527 1154.

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"The Village of Catskill Housing Authority NOTICE OF FORMA- Board of CommissionTION OF LIMITED ers will be holding their LIABILITY COMPANY. monthly meeting on NAME: Smith Aviation, Wednesday, April 29, LLC 2020 at 5:00pm. The Articles of Organiza- meeting will be held at tion were filed with the 32 Bronson Street, Secretary of State of Catskill, NY. by Order New York on April 10, of Board of Commis2020 Office location: sioners, Catskill Hous300 Allen Teator Rd. ing Authority" Durham, NY 12422 Greene County.

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SHERIFF'S NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL PROPERTY Index No.: 12665-18 TOWN OF TAGHKANIC 909 State Route 82 Ancram, NY 12502, Plaintiff, -againstCHRISTIAN HEESCH 644 County Route 15 Elizaville, NY 12534, Defendant.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that by virtue of an execution issued out of the Supreme Court, Columbia County, against the real property of the judgment debtor, CHRISTIAN HEESCH., the Sheriff of the County of Columbia will sell at public auction, pursuant to law, in a single parcel, at the Columbia County Courthouse, 401 Union Street, Hudson, New York on the 8th day of May 2020 at 10:00 am in the forenoon of said day all the right, title and interest which the said CHRISTIAN HEESCH had therein on the 22nd day of January 2019, or at any time subsequent thereto, in and to the lands and premises described and numbered below: 1. All that parcel of real property situate at 644 County Route 15, Town of Taghkanic, County of Columbia and State of New York, being the same premises described in a deed from Kathleen Mary Proper, Individually and As Executrix of the Last will and Testament of Mildred Proper to Christian A. Heesch, and recorded in the Columbia County Clerk's Office on September 16, 1996 in Book 282 of Deeds at Page 985, being approximately 1.2 +/- acres of land, more particularly described in Schedule "A" attached hereto and made a part hereof; and Dated: February 25, 2020 David P. Bartlett Columbia County Sheriff SCHEDULE "A" that piece, parcel or lot of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon, situate, lying and being in the Town of Taghkanic, Columbia County, New York, bounded¡ and described as follows: Beginning at an iron pin in the easterly boundary of the County Road leading from West Taghkanic to Lake Taghkanic, said pin being located S. 64’ ll’ E. distant 18.35 feet from the southeasterly corner of the easterly headwall of a culvert across the above mentioned County road, said culvert being located approximately 80 feet southerly from the house located on the lands herein described, running thence N. 58’ 54’E. 58.19 feet to an iron

pin, thence N. 6’ 36’ E. 103.14 feet to an iron pin, thence N. 7’ 17' E. 159.15 feet to an .iron pin, thence N, 37" 03' 185,49 feet to an iron pin, thence N. 37’ 03’ W. 185.49 feet to an iron pin, thence S. 73’ 09’ W. 105.29 feet to an iron pin in the easterly boundary of the above mentioned County road, thence along the easterly boundary of said County road S. 13’ 26’ E. 261.3O feet, S. 24"29' E. 168.91 feet to the point of beginning containing 1.2 acres more or less.

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

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

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Byron goes back-to-back with Richmond iRacing win Field Level Media

William Byron became the first multi-time winner of the eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational Series on Sunday, holding off Timmy Hill by a mere .256-seconds at virtual Richmond Raceway.

It was Byron’s second consecutive win in the series, following his victory at iRacing’s virtual Bristol Motor Speedway two weeks ago, before the Easter off-week.

It certainly reaffirmed Byron’s position as the heralded master of the iRacing tournament among NASCAR Cup Series regulars. He has dominated in total laps led (319) in the four iRacing events in his No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet and on Sunday was easily the class of the field, holding the point for 94 laps of the 154lap Toyota Owners 150.

Parker Kligerman, Landon Cassill and reigning NASCAR Cup Series champion Kyle Busch rounded out the top five. Denny Hamlin, who won the inaugural Pro Invitational Series event at Homestead, finished sixth followed by his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Erik Jones. Dale Earnhardt Jr., Bubba Wallace and Brad Keselowski rounded out the top 10 – the highest finish for both Keselowski and Wallace to date.

Despite several new entries this week, the Richmond race had the very real competitive feel NASCAR fans have come to expect at the 7/8-mile oval.

And Byron, who got his competitive start in iRacing years ago, again put on a master class – holding off a group of competitors with fresher tires on a final race re-start with three laps to go.

“I didn’t really know how that was going to work out, but luckily we were able to have a little bit of buffer to the guys with four tires, and then

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In an image computer generated in-game, William Byron, driver of the Axalta Chevrolet, races during the eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational Series Toyota Owners 150 at Richmond Raceway on Sunday in Richmond, Va.

the late restart, just executed that well,” Byron said. “It was fun. Really enjoyed it. To go back-toback is really cool. Having fun with it while we’re kind of in a hiatus here, but looking forward to getting back to real racing soon, too.”

Tight re-starts, dramatic collisions and important strategy calls are all something fans are accustomed to at the Richmond short track. And they were important elements of Sunday’s race – even in this virtual competition.

Matt DiBenedetto was parked late in the race after iRacing officials disapproved of avoidable contact he made – crashing Ryan Preece in the waning laps. It was a tough ending to a promising day for Preece, who held a virtual “meet and

greet” with his sponsors and fans prior to the green flag and was the only other driver to lead multiple laps – his No. 37 JTG Daugherty Chevrolet pacing the field for 59 laps; second only to the race winner.

One of the day’s most impressive runs came from Keselowski, who kept his Team Penske No. 2 Ford among the top 10 for much of the race before a pit road miscue forced him to play catchup again in the final laps. It was only Keselowski’s 34th iRacing start; Byron, by comparison, has more than 1,000.

Among the other impressive runs by top-10 finishers were those by Busch, who started 27th, Jones (24th) and Wallace (28th).

Ultimately, strategy played a decisive hand in the dramatic final stretch to the checkered. A caution period with three laps remaining created overtime – and an urgency for Byron. He had to hold off Hill – whose No. 66 Toyota was on fresher tires – in those frantic last laps.

And Byron and Hill have a virtual “history.” Byron was leading at Texas Motor Speedway when Hill moved him on a late race restart to snatch the victory. On Sunday, it was just a clean fair sprint to the checkered.

“He raced me really clean; I was really thankful for that,” Byron said. “We’ve had some good races, honestly. Texas, obviously I was frustrated with Texas, but if I would have been in his position, I probably would have done the same thing, looking back on it.

“I think he’s done a really good job showing how consistent he is. I feel like he’s got good race craft, and I enjoy racing with him. I know what to expect when I race with him, that he is going to use the bumper, so I just have to race him back that way, and I think we both understand that.

“Fortunately I had just enough speed to kind of keep my gap there and win that race.”

Hill, the only driver with top-three finishes in all four eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational Series races, tweeted following the race that he was pleased with the effort, and like so many, already eagerly looking forward to the high banks of Talladega Superspeedway, where the series races next Sunday.

“Just came up a little bit short there at the end,” Hill said on Twitter. “Congratulations to @ WilliamByron on the win! Looking forward to a bunch of fun at Talladega next week.”

McAdoo reflects on his Pistol Pete moment amid NBA’s H-O-R-S-E revival Ira Winderman Sun Sentinel

As he waited last week in his car at a Whole Foods parking lot while his wife shopped, playing it safe during these times as a 68 year old, Bob McAdoo laughed a knowing laugh.

Because for all the trickery cobbled together by the contestants in ESPN’s H-OR-S-E competition last week, the former Miami Heat assistant coach and current scout knew that none, including eventual winner Mike Conley Jr., had experienced what he had experienced more than 40 years ago while participating in such an NBA exhibition himself.

Back in 1977-78, when the NBA’s games were broadcast

by CBS, the network offered weekly taped H-O-R-S-E competitions at halftime, similar to the format ESPN utilized for its production

amid the NBA’s shutdown due to the new coronavirus pandemic.

Basically, if one participant cannot match a successful attempt by his opponent, he receives a letter.

Five letters, H-O-R-S-E, and you’re out. No dunking allowed, then or now.

For McAdoo, an outsideshooting big man when big men simply did not shoot outside, it was the perfect setup, including a victory in a preliminary round over Boston Celtics guard Charlie Scott.

And then?

“And then, Pistol Pete,” McAdoo said with a laugh, as he sat parked in Boca Raton, speaking by phone.

Understand, that was a season when McAdoo would average 26.5 points for the New York Knicks on 52-percent shooting, a time before the NBA advent of the 3-point shot.

“I knew I was in trouble,” he recalled. “I knew Pistol had a lot of tricks in his bag.”

And Maravich pulled them all out, especially after McAdoo went up by two letters.

Thing is, McAdoo actually matched the attempt when Maravich called, “around the back, through the legs, up from the other side.” At 6 feet 9, McAdoo was quite the sight with that one.

But then Maravich, at the time playing for the New Orleans Jazz, started to make McAdoo feel closer to his current age than his 26 at the time.

“He started doing between his legs and stuff, and that stuff I had never worked on,” McAdoo said of a competition that was held in high enough esteem at the time to also draw the likes of Rick Barry, David Thompson, Rudy Tomjanovich, George Gervin, Doug Collins and Dan Issel, among others.

“I was basically a shooter from deep range. Now that I look at it, I say I probably should have taken him outside. But he could make those shots, too.”

In the end, during the event taped in Atlanta at what now is the CNN Center, McAdoo could only watch as Maravich would advance to the finals, with the competition won by Paul Westphal, when Maravich was unable to continue due to a knee injury.

“He was in a league by himself,” McAdoo said of Maravich, who died in 1988 at the age of 40 due to a previously undetected heart defect. “He would pull those shots off in a game, too. I’d seen him do tricks in a game, where he would fake people out. On the fast break, he was a nightmare.”

The NBA would not stage another H-O-R-S-E competition until it was brought back

for trial runs in 2009 and ‘10 during All-Star Weekend, never gaining much traction, with those three-man exhibitions both won by Kevin Durant.

For McAdoo, the shooting competition did not end during that 1977-78 showcase or even when his NBA career ended in 1986.

In 1995, when Pat Riley signed on as Heat coach, he added McAdoo, his championship Los Angeles Lakers forward, as an assistant.

For years, McAdoo added pocket change (or more) during shooting competitions with unknowing Heat neophytes.

“I was winning the H-OR-S-E games,” he said with a laugh. “ I was winning freethrow shooting contests where you had to hit nothing but net. I would win those, too.

“They saw the guy in the gray mustache; they didn’t

know better.”

But even then, just as with Maravich back in the day, McAdoo met his match.

“When it came to the 3-point line, I couldn’t beat James Jones,” he said of the two-time Heat champion forward. “James Jones was a killer out at that 3-pont line.

And Ray Allen, too. Ray Allen was a shooter like I’ve never seen before from that distance.”

Ultimately, even after working with the likes of Dwyane Wade, LeBron James, Tim Hardaway and Dan Majerle during a Heat coaching run that ran until 2014, never was there anything like that time he tried to match Pistol Pete shot for shot.

“No,” McAdoo said. “Only Pistol Pete had all the ‘oohs’ and all the ‘aahs.’ “

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The 10 best moments of 1997-98 Bulls season, including ‘The Last Shot’ and Michael Jordan’s big night at MSG Deantae Price Chicago Tribune

CHICAGO — While Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls dynasty are debated often on armchair-expert TV shows and from bar stools, rarely is the magnitude of what they accomplished placed in proper context.

“The Last Dance” documentary appears not only to create an opportunity to celebrate the last of the Bulls’ six titles but also provide an unprecedented look at the madness that occurred inside the Madhouse on Madison.

In honor of the 10-part ESPN series, which began on Sunday and airs weekly in two-episode shifts, we looked back at the 10 best moments from the 1997-98 season and ruminate on one of the most exciting and eccentric teams in NBA history.

— Michael Jordan signs the largest 1-year deal in NBA history Compared with the salaries NBA stars earn today, Michael Jordan’s career earnings look pedestrian.

But in classic MJ fashion, he still managed to find one way to come out on top. Jordan played on one-year deals in his final two seasons with the Bulls and set an NBA record while doing so.

Jordan, who earned just shy of $28 million total in the first 11 seasons of his career, played at $30.1 million in 1996-97 and $33.1 million in 1997-98. The latter was a league record until 2017-18, when LeBron James pulled in $33.2 million and Stephen Curry was paid $34.6 million.

— Scottie Pippen has offseason surgery and misses 35 games The Bulls started their

season in turmoil. Michael Jordan was on a one-year contract, the beef between Phil Jackson and Jerry Krause was at its apex and, most important, Scottie Pippen was sidelined after undergoing offseason surgery on his left foot.

Pippen missed the first 35 games, and the Bulls, who lost only 10 games two years prior, were 25-11 when he returned Jan 10. They still had a few bumps in the road after Pippen’s comeback, but they rolled once they hit February, losing only two games in the month and pulling off the gas before the postseason.

— Michael Jordan scores 47 and Dennis Rodman grabs 29 rebounds against the Hawks Michael Jordan had other big scoring nights, and Dennis Rodman was prolific on the boards more often than not. But on this night they both were special. Jordan scored 47 points on 18-of-26 shooting, and Rodman had 29 rebounds and attempted only seven shots in a 97-90 victory against the Hawks on Dec. 27, 1997, at the United Center.

— Michael Jordan wins his 3rd All-Star Game MVP Michael Jordan took the court in what was expected to be his final All-Star Game with a point to prove. He finished with 23 points, eight assists and six rebounds and engaged in a famous showdown with a young Kobe Bryant. Jordan pulled out his entire arsenal. He hit an and-1 fadeaway, finished a tip dunk in a crowd and led his East team to a 135-114 win.

— Michael Jordan’s last game at Madison Square Garden as a Bull Once Michael Jordan and

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Michael Jordan ponders a question during a press conference a day after he and the Bulls lost Game 1 of the NBA Finals to the Utah Jazz.

the Bulls overcame the Pistons and become the top dog in the Eastern Conference and the NBA, they had the Knicks nipping at their heels for years. And for years Jordan shut down the Knicks and continued to build on his legacy.

The performances often came at Madison Square Garden, a hallowed arena that has housed some of the most historic sporting events in history. So all eyes were on Jordan when he laced up to play in what was expected to be his final game in New York

City. Jordan did not disappoint, putting together yet another MSG classic with 42 points in the original Jordan 1 sneaker.

— Michael Jordan wins his 5th NBA MVP award and 10th scoring title Michael Jordan could have won the NBA MVP award every season in which he played. He took home the award for the first time in 1988 after averaging 35 points as a 24-year-old. In a show of longevity, Jordan won his fifth and final MVP award at 35 in his final season

with the Bulls. He also won his 10th scoring title, averaging 28.7 points after playing in all 82 contests.

— Bulls play a rare Game 7 against the Pacers in the Eastern Conference finals While the Bulls maintained one of the most dominant runs in NBA history, they were challenged consistently, and the Pacers were one of the teams that gave them trouble. In the 1998 Eastern Conference finals, the Bulls jumped to a 2-0 lead, only to have the Pacers win three of four.

Reggie Miller had one of the signature moments of his career in Game 4. In a move that perfectly encapsulated his relationship with Michael Jordan, Miller lined up on the baseline on an inbounds play, ran toward the 3-point line and blatantly shoved Jordan to get open before draining a 3-pointer with four-tenths of a second left, giving the Pacers a 96-94 win.

Miller was never afraid of the moment — and didn’t mind drawing Jordan’s ire either.

Jordan would get the last laugh in Game 7 in Chicago.

He scored 28 points on a tough shooting night for the Bulls but lived at the freethrow line in an 88-83 victory.

— Scottie Pippen plays through back pain in the NBA Finals After Scottie Pippen physically carried Michael Jordan off the court after the latter’s “Flu Game” performance in the 1997 NBA Finals, Jordan figuratively did the same for Pippen in the 1998 Finals.

Plagued by injuries from start to the finish, Pippen played through a bad back in the NBA Finals. Pippen’s injury added limitations for the

Bulls at the worst possible time, but Jordan’s 45 points were enough for the Bulls in their 87-86 Game 6 win.

— Bulls dominate Game 3 of the NBA Finals with a 9654 rout There’s a reason the Bulls never played beyond Game 6 in the NBA Finals — and Game 3 of the 1998 series stands out as a shining example as to why. The Bulls split the first two games in Utah and returned home intent on sending a message.

The Bulls led by only three after the first quarter but outscored the Jazz 32-17 in the second and never looked back. They finished with a 42-point win, which still stands as the largest margin of victory in the NBA Finals.

— The Last Shot The most iconic moment of the 1997-98 Bulls season is one of the lasting images of Michael Jordan’s career. But the picture-perfect finish to his time with the Bulls was possible only because he did everything right in the moments before his final shot.

Jordan slid over to steal the ball from an unsuspecting Karl Malone, brought the ball upcourt to isolate his man and unleashed one of the smoothest crossovers in basketball history on Bryon Russell. Of course, once Jordan drained the pull-up jumper, he stood on his toes and held the shooting form for a second too long to add the exclamation point as the Bulls took an 87-86 lead.

Jordan averaged 33.5 points and 4 rebounds in the series and won his sixth NBA Finals MVP, putting an exclamation point on the franchise’s sixth title in eight years — and his Bulls career.

John Clayton’s top 50 prospects for the 2020 NFL draft John Clayton The Washington Post

The 2020 NFL draft class is loaded with SEC players and wide receivers. A whopping 20 players from college football’s best conference made my list of the draft’s top 50 prospects, including six apiece from LSU and Alabama. There are nine wide receivers, and they are joined by several offensive tackles and cornerbacks in addition to a handful of quarterbacks, who are certain to add intrigue to Thursday’s first round.

With team facilities closed and coaches, general managers and scouts not allowed to travel because of the novel coronavirus pandemic, players with character questions or health concerns could drop further than normal. Teams will not have been able to do the same level of due diligence.

Here is my ranking of the top 50 players in this year’s draft: 1. Chase Young, DE, Ohio State: Many NFL talent evaluators believe Young is a better player than his former Buckeyes teammate Nick Bosa, last season’s defensive rookie of the year. Young is a generational talent.

2. Joe Burrow, QB, LSU: Given that Burrow hasn’t shown any reluctance to go to the Cincinnati Bengals, the Heisman Trophy winner will almost certainly be the first pick.

3. Jeff Okudah, CB, Ohio State: The ranking among the next three players is close. Okudah is an athletic cornerback with length who excels in press coverage.

4. Derrick Brown, DT, Auburn: At 6-foot-5 and 326 pounds, Brown is a dominant player at the line of scrimmage who will draw double teams. He can destroy a pocket for the quarterback.

5. Isaiah Simmons, LB/S, Clemson: He has been described as the type of “positionless” player who is so important in defending modern offenses. He can play linebacker, cornerback or safety, and he will be selected early.

6. Tua Tagovailoa, QB, Alabama: He is a gifted thrower and has cleared up some of the concerns about his hip. Most NFL people believe he will go to the Miami Dolphins with the fifth pick, but there is

no guarantee.

7. Justin Herbert, QB, Oregon: He may not be as talented as Tagovailoa, but he might be a safer pick, which is why the Dolphins or Los Angeles Chargers could prefer him.

He has good size and athleticism.

8. Mekhi Becton, OT, Louisville: The 6-7, 364-pounder played left tackle for the Cardinals and has remarkable athleticism for his size.

9. Tristan Wirfs, OT, Iowa: He may project as a better right tackle than left, given where he lined up for the Hawkeyes. He is a strong and athletic blocker at 6-5 and 320 pounds.

10. Jedrick Wills, OT, Alabama: A perfect fit for a team looking for a right tackle who can add punch to the running game, Wills is also solid as a pass blocker.

11. Jerry Jeudy, WR, Alabama: Of the top three wide receivers, Jeudy is the best route runner. He is also a decent blocker. He reminds me of Antonio Brown or Marvin Harrison.

12. CeeDee Lamb, WR, Oklahoma: The debate over which of the top three wideouts is best will be intense. Lamb is a big-play threat who averaged 21.4 yards per catch last season.

13. Andrew Thomas, OT, Georgia: Of the top four offensive tackles, Thomas projects as the best pure left tackle prospect. He is an exceptional run blocker and has upside as a pass blocker.

14. Henry Ruggs III, WR, Alabama: Looking for a deep threat who can stretch the field? Ruggs is the man for the job. He clocked a 4.27-second 40-yard dash at the combine and averaged 18.7 yards per catch last year.

15. CJ Henderson, CB, Florida: After Okudah and Henderson, there is a slight drop-off at cornerback.

That means Henderson will be in demand.

16. Javon Kinlaw, DT, South Carolina: Kinlaw wasn’t in the best shape during his college career, but he has the tools to be a Pro Bowl defensive tackle. His 4.9-second speed in the 40 is impressive for a 6-5, 324-pounder.

17. K’Lavon Chaisson, OLB, LSU: He started only one season after suffering an ACL injury in 2018, but he is the second-best edge rusher in the draft.

18. Jordan Love, QB, Utah State: Love is the hardest player to figure out in this draft. Some scouts think he could go in the top 10. Some think he is not a first-round pick. He is talented but was inconsistent in college.

19. A.J. Terrell, CB, Clemson: Terrell is a tall cornerback (6-1) who can match up well against receivers in man-to-man coverage and can also play in zone.

20. Austin Jackson, OT, USC: It may take him a little time to be effective as an NFL blocker, but he has the athletic ability to be a solid starter.

21. Justin Jefferson, WR, LSU: Even though he was a slot receiver last year, he has the body (6-1, 202 pounds) to play on the outside. He was productive during the Tigers’ run to the title.

22. Kenneth Murray, LB, Oklahoma: Murray is an every-down linebacker with sideline-to-sideline range and decent coverage skills.

23. Yetur Gross-Matos, DE, Penn State: In the past two seasons, he registered 17.5 sacks and 34.5 tackles behind the line of scrimmage.

He has the right dimensions for an edge rusher at 6-5 and 266 pounds.

24. Ezra Cleveland, OT, Boise State: He is one of the fastest-rising players in the draft. He isn’t as talented as future Hall of Famer Joe Thomas, but his style of blocking is similar.

25. Kristian Fulton, CB, LSU: He is the perfect fit for a team looking for a cornerback who can hold up well in press coverage.

26. Trevon Diggs, CB, Alabama: He has played wide receiver, cornerback and kick returner. His 4.55 speed may scare some, but Richard Sherman is having a Hall of Fame career with 4.56 speed. Diggs is a playmaker.

27. Denzel Mims, WR, Baylor: Mims should go toward the bottom of the first round. He has the size (6-3, 207 pounds) and the speed (4.38-second 40) to help a threereceiver offense.

28. Patrick Queen, LB, LSU: At 6-0 and 229 pounds, Queen might not be a linebacker who can break away from blockers, but his 4.50-second speed allows him to outrun blocks and make plays.

29. Xavier McKinney, S, Alabama:

There’s debate over the draft’s top safety, but McKinney gets the nod because of his versatility. He can play slot cornerback and free safety.

30. D’Andre Swift, RB, Georgia: He follows Nick Chubb and Sony Michel as Georgia running backs in the NFL. He has a great combination of running and pass-catching ability.

31. Josh Jones, OT, Houston: His performance in the Senior Bowl boosted his stock; he displayed good athleticism and fared well against some good defensive linemen.

32. Ross Blacklock, DT, TCU: He has the ability to play low to the ground and cause problems for guards and centers trying to block him. He can be an effective inside pass rusher.

33. Grant Delpit, S, LSU: Not only is Delpit a playmaker at free safety, but he is a hard hitter. If needed, he can move into the box as a strong safety.

34. Jalen Reagor, WR, TCU: He added to his reputation as a speedy deep threat by running 4.22- and 4.28-second 40-yard dashes at a workout in Houston after running a 4.47 at the combine.

35. Marlon Davidson, DL, Auburn: A four-year starter who can bull-rush and disrupt blockers at the line of scrimmage, he is a good fit as a 3-4 defensive end or a 4-3 defensive tackle.

36. J.K. Dobbins, RB, Ohio State: He is a tough, durable runner who started for three years and had a 2,000-yard season in 2019. At 5-9 and 209 pounds, he hits the hole hard and could be an every-down back.

37. Tee Higgins, WR, Clemson: At 6-4 and 216 pounds, he is great in the red zone. He had back-to-back seasons with at least 12 touchdown receptions.

38. Cole Kmet, TE, Notre Dame: He is the best tight end in a weak draft for the position. At 6-6 and 262 pounds, he blocks well, and his 4.70-second speed gives him the ability to make plays downfield.

39. Jacob Eason, QB, Washington: A big-armed prospect with size, Eason would benefit from sitting and learning behind a veteran for at least a year.

40. Cesar Ruiz, C, Michigan: He

has the body type that most teams look for in a center (6-3, 307) and is the top player at his position.

41. Justin Madubuike, DT, Texas A&M: He isn’t Warren Sapp, but his playing style reminds me of Sapp’s: He’s a three-technique defensive tackle who can shoot the gaps and put pressure on the quarterback.

42. Jonathan Taylor, RB, Wisconsin: The only thing that might prevent him from being the first running back taken is his tendency to fumble. He is a productive 5-10, 226-pounder with 4.39-second 40 speed.

43. Laviska Shenault Jr., WR, Colorado: His run-after-the-catch ability will be attractive to teams, but his injury history and 4.58-second 40 time are reasons for concern.

44. A.J. Epenesa, DE, Iowa: He has paid a price for his 5.04-second time at the combine. At 6-5 and 275 pounds, he has first-round talent, but he might have to add 10 pounds and become an interior defender.

45. Jalen Hurts, QB, Oklahoma: He was a winner in college at Alabama and Oklahoma. His 4.59-second speed and ability to move fit what NFL teams are looking for.

46. Jeff Gladney, CB, TCU: An outside cornerback who has good footwork and an ability to stick with receivers, he has great instincts in driving to the football when the quarterback challenges him.

47. Zack Baun, LB, Wisconsin: He was a borderline first-rounder, but he tested positive for a diluted substance test at the combine, which could make teams hesitant to draft him.

48. Jaylon Johnson, CB, Utah: He might have had a first-round grade were it not for labrum surgery that caused his stock to drop. He is an excellent tackler.

49. Brandon Aiyuk, WR, Arizona State: His speed and playmaking make him a borderline first-rounder, but he recently had surgery to repair a core muscle injury, which puts his status for the opening of training camp in question.

50. Isaiah Wilson, OT, Georgia: He was shaky in two years as a starter and is a little raw, but a good offensive line coach should be able to develop him into a solid future starter, given his athleticism.

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Graduation party plans hurt stepmom’s feelings Dear Abby, I really could use some outside advice. I am a stepmother who raised my husband’s 18-yearold son, “Todd.” We have given him a loving home. Todd’s abusive mother abandoned him at 16, and he has lived with us ever since.

DEAR ABBY I have been a caring and generous mother to him since he was 6. I have always gone out of my way to make sure he feels comfortable, loved, fed, etc. So I couldn’t help but feel slapped in the face when he told me he doesn’t want to have his graduation party at our home. He said he is having it at his friend’s parents’ house. This is the same couple who disapproved of their son spending time in our home while the boys grew up because we’re not their religion.

I don’t know how to handle this gracefully without feeling hurt or refusing to be a part of it.

I know this may seem childish, but it’s how I feel on the inside. Can you help me?

Disappointed In The Midwest

JEANNE PHILLIPS

It might help to realize this isn’t a personal slap in the face. His friend’s parents may have something special planned that Todd doesn’t want to miss. It has nothing to do with your parenting and plenty to do with his level of immaturity and perhaps the appeal of the other house. (Ask him.)

Please be smart and refrain from making this about you, because it isn’t.

Dear Abby, My husband has reconnected with an ex-wife from more than 50 years ago. He found her on

Facebook. They chat every day, several times a day. Before he reconnected with her, he would talk about her, how she was his first love and he would always have a special place for her in his heart, even though she cheated on him and left him. Now he has begun calling her a pet name he used to call me. Is this cheating, or am I overreacting?

Betrayed In Ohio You are not overreacting.

Your husband is involved in an emotional affair. For the sake of your marriage, it needs to stop. If he won’t accept it from you, perhaps he will listen to his religious adviser, a marriage counselor or your lawyer.

Classic Peanuts

Dear Abby, My husband of 63 years died three years ago.

He was sexually abused by a family friend when he was very young and never disclosed it. He shared it with me some 20 years after our marriage and asked me not to tell our four children.

At some point, I shared it with my grown daughter, but not my three grown sons. My daughter feels I should tell them, and I sort of agree. Their relationship with their father was loving, but also strained. Should I tell them now?

Unsure In Michigan

Garfield

I agree with your daughter. Because the sexual abuse your husband suffered may have affected the relationship he had with your sons, it might be helpful if they understand the reason why it was the way it was. Sunshine on dark places can yield positive outcomes.

Pain of restless legs syndrome can be frustrating Short of amputation, what’s the best one can expect in minimizing the sporadic but harsh symptoms of restless legs?

Restless legs syndrome, also called Willis-Ekbom disease, is an underdiagnosed condition. The major symptom involves an overwhelming urge TO YOUR to move the legs, often in conGOOD HEALTH junction with other symptoms, described as cramping, pulling or tingling. RLS may also be associated with involuntary leg movements during sleep.

The fact that you even joke about amputation gives some idea of how frustrating the symptoms can be, but most people can be treated pretty well, with a marked improvement of symptoms, using behavioral and medication treatments.

Before starting treatment, a simple blood test should be done to check a person’s iron status.

Iron deficiency is common in people with RLS, and symptoms can be improved by treating the deficiency. Of course, evaluating why the iron is low may be necessary in people with low iron stores.

Behavioral treatment includes giving advice on good sleeping, regular exercise, a reduction in caffeine and mental exercises during rest. Some medications can worsen RLS. This includes antihistamines (as well as those sold as insomnia aids) and antidepressants of several classes. Antidepressants should not be stopped abruptly, but changing the type of antidepressant may help.

In people with persistent symptoms, treatment may include pramipexole (Mirapex),

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ropinirole (Requip) or rotigotine (Neupro).

These have fewer side effects than others, but may still cause lightheadedness, sleepiness and nausea. These usually get better within a few weeks. Pregabalin (Lyrica) and Horizant (gabapentin enacarbil) are alternatives, and may also be used in combination.

If symptoms are not well controlled on these first-line agents, there are other options available, but consultation with an expert, such as a sleep medicine doctor, would be appropriate.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — You have many choices available to you today, but you may not be able to make any firm decisions before receiving additional information.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Distractions are unavoidable today, but you can still get plenty of work done simply by keeping to yourself during the busiest part of the day.

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I know several people who donate plasma and get paid $500 per month if they donate two times per week. Wouldn’t that be wearing on your body?

You can’t be paid to donate blood. Volunteer donors have the safest blood, so they are the only source of whole blood. Paid donors are only allowed to donate plasma (the proteins in blood), which can be thoroughly sterilized.

Plasma proteins can be rapidly replaced, mostly by the liver, so some centers allow donation up to twice weekly, though the American Red Cross allows donation only once a month. Whole blood may be donated every eight weeks, as replacing the cells and the iron that goes with them takes more time.

Plasma donation is safe. The major risks are damage to the vein, irritation or, rarely, damage to a nerve. A few people faint with any kind of needle, even just seeing one.

Horoscope

By Stella Wilder Born today, you tend to be rather solitary, and you are likely to be known for your natural reticence. You don’t like small talk, rumor or innuendo; when you choose to communicate with others, whether for personal or professional reasons, you do so in a direct and businesslike manner and get to the point in no time at all. You are likely to surround yourself with a few loyal and loving friends and steer clear of those whom you suspect would do anything to further their agendas without respecting your own.

You are quite attractive to others — but not necessarily in a way that could be considered traditional or “classic.” Indeed, there is perhaps something quite unusual about either your appearance or your manner that attracts a great deal of attention and admiration.

Also born on this date are: Queen Elizabeth II of England; Tony Romo, football player; James McAvoy, actor; Iggy Pop, singer; Tony Danza, actor; Charlotte Bronte, author; Andie MacDowell, actress; Anthony Quinn, actor; John Muir, naturalist.

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.

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Baby Blues CANCER (June 21-July 22) — You may not be able to assess someone’s true intentions today, but you can certainly deal with the effects of his or her actions.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — A game of hide-andseek results in much more than you may have bargained for, as something valuable is gained while something else is lost.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You must not lose sight of your primary purpose today. Everything you do must be designed to get you closer to an important personal goal.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Despite your best efforts recently, you may only have scratched the surface of another’s facade. Beware — he or she can still fool you!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Your originality will be noted and appreciated throughout the day by those who are relying on you for inspiration. Fatigue sets in early.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Those around you still enjoy all you do, but you are growing tired of doing the same old things again and again. Try something new!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Motives and methods can be understood on an intellectual level today, but you may not yet get to the heart of what’s really going on.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — You must be willing to dive deep beneath the surface today in order to recover something of yourself that has been lost for quite a while.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — Travel east or west today; it makes no difference, as you’re likely to find yourself back where you started. More than innocence is recovered.

ARIES (March 21-April 19 — You’re not likely to get away with much today, as both friends and enemies know what makes you tick. You make a new wish by day’s end.

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SUPER QUIZ

THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME

By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek

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

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

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

(Answers tomorrow) (Answers tomorrow) Jumbles: DUNCE JOKER CRIMP POETRY TATTLE Jumbles: KNACK PODIUM FACTOR The circle dogs learned to sick use for tools so they Answer: The had been a while butcould was Answer: work ontotheir PET PROJECT happy be ——UP AND AROUND

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Solution to to Saturday’s Monday’s puzzle Solution puzzle

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

For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit

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(e.g., The name of this board game sounds like an apology. Answer: Sorry.)

Freshman level 1. In this classic board game players buy and trade properties.

2. Two players take “shots” at the other player’s ships.

3. This murder mystery game has six suspects, including Professor Plum.

Graduate level 4. Players score points by placing tiles bearing a single letter on a board to form words.

5. The game simulates a person’s life from college to retirement.

6. A quiz game from Canada in which players answer questions in six categories.

PH.D. level 7. This strategy board game for two players originated in ancient China.

8. This game is billed as “The Game for Your Whole Brain.”

9. It was first published in Germany as “Die Siedler von Catan.”

SUPER QUIZ ANSWERS 1. Monopoly. 2. Battleship. 3. Clue. 4. Scrabble. 5. The Game of Life. 6.

Trivial Pursuit. 7. Go. 8. Cranium. 9. Catan (The Settlers of Catan).

18 points — congratulations, doctor; 15 to 17 points — honors graduate; 10 to 14 points — you’re plenty smart, but no grind; 4 to 9 points — you really should hit the books harder; 1 point to 3 points — enroll in remedial courses immediately; 0 points — who reads the questions to you?

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Pickles For Better or For Worse

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Crossword Puzzle Mother Goose & Grimm ACROSS 1 “__ walked out in the streets of Laredo…”

4 Singer Frankie 9 __ on the gas; accelerate 13 Housetop 15 One who calls us “earthlings” 16 “…and a partridge in a __ tree” 17 Long dismal cry 18 One of Santa’s reindeer 19 Seldom seen 20 Taipei folks 22 Actress Sheedy 23 Saucer-shaped instrument 24 Billy __ Cyrus 26 Outcome; result 29 Laborious 34 Plays miniature golf 35 Asian capital city 36 Thinly sliced raw salmon 37 Broadway production 38 Money hoarder 39 Hand protector 40 Suffix for patron or count 41 Songs for two 42 Party __; gala memento 43 Do a trial run on stage 45 Cellphone feature 46 “…parsley, sage, rosemary __ thyme…”

47 Hurt 48 Basketful from the henhouse 51 Put to shame 56 Kick out 57 Word with pot or rump 58 Burden 60 __ in the woods; innocent one 61 Cream of the crop 62 Long narrative 63 Mix with a wooden spoon 64 __ from; talk out of 65 __ Largo

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41 Football’s Marino 42 Jamie of “M*A*S*H” 44 Spring celebration 45 20th-century U.S. president

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47 “__ makes waste” 48 Tapers off 49 Feta source 50 Asian desert 52 Burrowing animal 53 Fishing worm, e.g.

54 __ up; absorb 55 Wise man 59 Dawn to dusk

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