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

CATSKILL — Greene County lawmakers have scrapped their plans for renovating the Hunter transfer station in favor of constructing an entirely new building for around $1.4 million.

The county awarded a contract to Barton & Loguidice for a maximum amount of $163,700 in December 2018.

The engineering firm was tasked with redesigning the Hunter and Coxsackie transfer stations so they will be capable

of exporting their own waste.

In the past, the two stations have had to send waste to Catskill before shipping.

The engineers will also design a new scale house for the Catskill station.

After a series of complications coming up with a design that fit the county’s budget, the engineering team, now on its fifth design, is proposing to raze the existing transfer station in Hunter and erect a new building in its place, Highway and Solid Waste Superintendent Robert Van Valkenburg

said.

The project is estimated at $1.4 million.

“It is much higher than our original estimate, but it is a much more workable solution,” Van Valkenburg said.

Legislator Michael Bulich R-Catskill, who attended a recent meeting with Barton & Loguidice, said he did not see another option.

“I don’t see how you get around not going with another building,” he said.

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Columbia County Sanctuary Movement Executive Director Bryan MacCormack, back to camera, assists an undocumented immigrant with obtaining a driver’s license under the state’s Green Light Law at the Columbia County Department of Motor Vehicles last week.

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HUDSON — Mirtha and Carlos walked into the Columbia County Department of Motor Vehicles with their nine-year-old son last week, anticipation and nervousness etched on their faces.

“Aplicacíones por licencias para conducir?” Bryan

MacCormack, executive director of Columbia County Sanctuary Movement, asked them — driver’s license applications?

He led them to a corner of the first floor where he set up a makeshift station with applications in Spanish and information packets about the new Green Light Law that allows

undocumented immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses.

Last week was the law’s rollout, and the Columbia County DMV had nearly 150 undocumented immigrants applying for learning permits.

“It’s important for the people who are applying because See GREEN A8

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Two undocumented immigrants fill out forms for driver’s licenses under the state’s Green Light Law at the Columbia County Department of Motor Vehicles in Hudson last week

Treasurer: $7.3M in back school taxes owed to county

By Sarah Trafton Columbia-Greene Media

CATSKILL — Unpaid village and school taxes have been added to the Greene County tax bill at 7% interest, lawmakers said.

County lawmakers approved two resolutions last week authorizing the relevy. The school districts are owed the original tax, plus a 2% late fee, while villages are owed an 8% late fee. The county added its own 2% late fee throughout November when late taxes are collected. Once the taxes are relevied, an additional 5% fee is added, bringing the total interest due the county to 7%.

The county is owed about $7.3 million in back school taxes, Greene County Treasurer Peter Markou said at the Finance Committee meeting.

The amount each town owes, with interest, is as follows: $134,163 in Ashland, $688,562 in Athens, $811,761 in Cairo, $1,764,643 in Catskill, $489,952

Multiple school districts may be represented in one town. For example, in Coxsackie, some residents may pay their school taxes to Coxsackie-

As the county rolls into the new year, there is a slight increase in the budget from $119 million to $122 million.

The increase reflects a tax rate increase of 1.7% with eight of the 14 towns experiencing tax rate reductions, according to the budget proposal. in Coxsackie, $408,326 for Durham, $439,819 in Greenville, $57,245 in Halcott, $675,803 in Hunter, $304,045 in Jewett, $268,660 in Lexington, $481,957 in New Baltimore, $96,237 in Prattsville and $675,237 in Windham.

Athens, while others may pay them to Cairo-Durham or Greenville.

In terms of village taxes, the amount decreased nearly $10 million, Markou said, adding that Walmart paid on time this year.

When the retail chain failed to pay its $298,368 in village property taxes last year, it racked up bills of $322,237 to the village and $344,794 to the county.

The totals owed in back taxes, plus interest for 2019, is $128,355 for Athens, $371,572 for Catskill, $64,645 for Coxsackie, $103,889 for Hunter and $54,183 for Tannersville.

As the county rolls into the new year, there is a slight increase in the budget from $119 million to $122 million.

The increase reflects a tax rate increase of 1.7% with eight of the 14 towns experiencing tax rate reductions, according to the budget proposal.

The increase in the budget is due to a variety of factors such as the debt See TAXES A8

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A bald eagle was shot and killed in southern Indiana over the weekend, and authorities are seeking the public’s help to find the person who pulled the trigger.

The national bird of the United States since 1782, the bald eagle is no longer endangered but is still legally protected under three different federal acts. Violating the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act could lead to a felony conviction that carries a maximum fine of $250,000 and two years in prison.

The Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) said an award is available for information that leads to the arrest of the person who killed the bald eagle. It was found alive with a gunshot wound on Dec. 20 on the south side of the White River near Dixie Highway in Lawrence County, which is located in the south central region of the state. The bald eagle later died from the wound.

In a Facebook post, the Indiana DNR asked anyone with information about the bird’s death to contact Indiana

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES

An eagle was shot and killed in Lawrence County, Ind., on Dec. 20.

Conservation Officers’ Central Dispatch at 812-837-9536 or their anonymous tip line at 1-800-TIPIDNR. The post did not indicate how old the bald eagle was.

The birds can live up to 38

years in the wild and can fly up to 100 mph when diving for prey, according to the Indiana DNR. Bald eagles nested in Indiana before the 1890s and were introduced into the state a century later.

In 2018, 258 nests were spotted throughout Indiana, and at least 181 chicks were raised, according to the state’s Wildlife Science Report. Bald eagles nested in 85 of Indiana’s 92 counties.

American service member is killed in Afghanistan Thomas Gibbons-Neff The New York Times News Service

WASHINGTON — A U.S. service member was killed in Afghanistan on Monday, according to military officials, bringing to 20 the number of troops who have died during combat operations this year.

The service member’s death is a grim reminder that more Americans have died fighting the Taliban and other insurgent groups in 2019 than in any other year since 2014, when the Pentagon euphemistically announced the “end of combat operations” in the country. Thirteen troops were killed in 2018 and 11 in 2017.

In a news release, the American-led mission in Afghanistan provided little detail about the episode or the service member’s identity pending notification of next of kin.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the killing. Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban spokesman, said the service member was killed in Kunduz province, when the insurgents targeted American and Afghan forces with explosives.

Social media accounts affiliated with the Taliban shared photos of what they claimed were the identity badge of a U.S. Army soldier, a sergeant, and photos of his bloody uniform.

One American soldier and an Afghan soldier were also injured in the attack, said Abdullah Ghulami, commander of the Afghan Army’s 10th Commando Battalion in Kunduz.

“The Taliban’s weapon depot was destroyed,” Ghulami added.

The service member’s death comes at a politically tumultuous moment, as Gen. Austin S. Miller, commander of the U.S. and NATO-led mission in Afghanistan, navigates support for the Afghan military. He is also contending with a potential troop withdrawal and restarted peace negotiations between U.S. diplomats and Taliban officials in Qatar.

An initial agreement between the two sides was abandoned by President Donald Trump in September after a car bomb in Kabul killed a U.S. soldier, a NATO soldier and 10 others. The loss of more Americans at this point in the 18-year war could derail the process once more, military officials said.

In November, two soldiers were killed when their helicopter crashed in Logar province while providing air support for U.S. troops below. It is unclear if enemy fire caused the crash, though initial statements from the U.S. command seemed to indicate otherwise.

And this month, the Taliban launched a daring dawn attack on Bagram Air Base, the largest American base in Afghanistan. No Americans were killed, but the gunmen held out in a hospital just yards away from the base’s confines before airstrikes ended the nearly 12-hour standoff.

There are 12,000 to 13,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan, though Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper has said that the number might drop to 8,600 absent any agreement with the Taliban. The White House had initially planned to start withdrawing troops as part of the nearly announced deal with the Taliban in September.

“We have a mission in Afghanistan,” Esper said during a news conference Friday at the Pentagon. “So, until we are confident that mission is complete, we will retain a presence to do that.”

The United States’ strategy in Afghanistan has changed little in the last year and is rarely mentioned by either the Pentagon or the U.S.-led mission in the country. As it stands, Miller has marshaled what resources he has at his disposal to aggressively attack the Taliban, along with the Islamic State offshoot in the country, backed by thousands of airstrikes and hundreds of Afghan and U.S. special operations missions.

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BEIRUT — A court in Saudi Arabia sentenced five men to death and three to prison terms over the killing of Saudi dissident writer Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul last year, the kingdom’s public prosecutor’s office said Monday.

The killing of Khashoggi, a veteran Saudi media figure and columnist for The Washington Post, brought international outrage and battered the reputation of Saudi Arabia’s crown prince and de facto ruler, Mohammed bin Salman.

Khashoggi, who lived in Virginia, entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2, 2018, to obtain paperwork he needed to marry his Turkish fiancee.

Inside, he was confronted by Saudi agents, who killed him and dismembered his body. His remains have yet to be found.

Officials in Washington and other capitals had called on Saudi Arabia to investigate the case and ensure justice. But it was unclear whether the verdict announced Monday would appease critics who argue that the killing of Khashoggi, 59, was part of a wider campaign to silence critical voices at home and abroad.

The trial was held in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, and was shrouded in secrecy. The kingdom never announced the suspects’ names, and foreign diplomats who attended sessions of the trial were sworn to secrecy.

A statement from the public prosecutor’s office said five men had been sentenced to death for their direct involvement in Khashoggi’s killing.

Three others were given a total of 24 years in prison for covering up the crime and violating other laws.

The kingdom did not provide the names of those sentenced, but it said that Saud al-Qahtani, a top aide to Crown Prince Mohammed, whom the United States imposed sanctions on over the killing, had not been tried because of a lack of evidence against him.

Although no evidence has been made public that directly implicates Crown Prince Mohammed in the killing, an assessment by the CIA found that he had probably ordered the operation, which included two private jets and more than 15 government agents.

Crown Prince Mohammed has said that he played no role in the killing but that he bore some responsibility for it because it happened on his watch.

Death sentences in Saudi Arabia are usually carried out by beheading in public squares.

All suspects can appeal the verdicts.

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Body cameras patrol streets for first time

By Amanda Purcell Columbia-Greene Media HUDSON — In an effort toward greater transparency and to improve public relations, the Hudson Police Department rolled out its body-worn camera program Friday.

The department has become the first full-time agency to adopt the program in Columbia County. After a little more than two years, officers suited up with the new technology while on patrol Friday.

Requests from the public more than two years ago at public meetings prompted the small city police department to look into using body-worn cameras. The personal cameras have been used to clear authorities of wrongdoing, uncover misconduct and paint a larger picture of what happened during highstakes incidents. “This project started out as a demand from the public,� Police Chief L. Edward Moore said Thursday. “We listened to that, and we followed through. We also saw it as a law enforcement tool.�

Eight cameras were purchased May 29, 2019. Police are hoping to equip another eight officers with cameras in the future, but will require more funding before that is accomplished. There are 26 officers in the department.

The department is using cameras made by Axon, an Arizona-based company that manufactures weapons and technology for law enforcement. The cameras will record 30 seconds before it is turned on, Moore said.

The process of purchasing and data storage for the cameras turned out to be much more complicated — and costly — than originally anticipated, Moore said.

Hudson police, with the assistance of Mayor Tiffany Martin and former Hudson Development Executive Director Sheena Salvino, were tentatively approved for the federal $10,000 in September 2017, but the money was not released until May 3, 2019.

The department’s body cameras cost $800 per unit, but that does not include maintenance, data storage, training and fulfilling requests from defense attorneys and the public under the Freedom of Information Law. The department received $10,000 for the project from the U.S. Department of Justice in September 2017. Hudson River Bank & Trust Foundation provided

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Representatives from Hudson River Bank & Trust Foundation helped provide funding for the Hudson Police Department’s body-worn cameras. From left to right: Hudson Police Sgt. Dean Rowe, Joe Phelan, Marilyn Herrington, Sid Richter, Holly Rappleyea, Carl Florio, Tony Jones and Police Chief L. Edward Moore.

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The Hudson Police Department rolled out its body-worn cameras on Thursday, becoming the first full-time department in Columbia County to use the technology.

Pictured are Hudson Police Lt. David Miller and Officer Larry Edelman.

$10,000 toward the project in January 2018.

Hudson police began field testing the

cameras and evaluation of the systems in February 2018.

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in the field full-time, the cameras had to be tested and a policy had to be developed on how and when to use them, Moore said. The policy was finalized and reviewed by the city attorney, Columbia County District Attorney’s office, police union and Chief in Sept. 19, 2019. An Axon company representative trained entire department on Oct. 1, 2019.

Information from the arrests will be stored on an iCloud-based system. Data storage also proved costly, Moore said.

The cameras, from completing the original grant application to the rollout Friday, was spearheaded by Lt. David Miller. “It’s been challenging,� Miller said. “And it will continue to challenge us.�

Miller added the Hudson Police Department is up to the task.

The department plans to revisit the total costs and make adjustments to the program in six months, and plans a total review of the program, including its successes and failures, at the end of the year, Moore said. “I want to credit Lt. Miller for staying with this project from beginning to end,�

Moore said. “There was a lot of work involved.�

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OUR VIEW

‘Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus’ Eight-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of New York’s Sun, and the quick response was printed as an unsigned editorial Sept. 21, 1897. The work of veteran newsman Francis Pharcellus Church has since become history’s most reprinted newspaper editorial, appearing in part or whole in dozens of languages in books, movies, and other editorials, and on posters and stamps.

THE EDITORIAL Dear Editor: I am 8 years old.

Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus.

Papa says, ‘If you see it in The Sun it’s so.’

Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus?

Virginia O’Hanlon 115 West Ninety-Fifth Street Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see.

They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or

children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Santa Claus!

You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that

prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You may tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real?

Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.

No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

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Latest disgraceful impediment to a resolution in Bijan Ghaisar case The Washington Post

Having dawdled and dithered for two years in their investigation of the unwarranted killing of an unarmed Virginia man by U.S. Park Police officers, federal authorities are now delaying the state of Virginia from seeking justice in a case where they punted. It is the latest disgraceful impediment to a fair and timely resolution in the death of Bijan Ghaisar, a 25-year-old accountant shot to death in 2017.

Ghaisar’s death appears in a video to be an execution carried out by a pair of reckless officers who had reason to be exasperated by his conduct - he drove away twice after they pulled him over following a minor fenderbender - but absolutely no cause to draw their weapons, let alone open fire.

Despite the compelling evidence in that dashcam video, recorded by a Fairfax County, Virginia, police cruiser trailing the Park Police vehicle on the George

Washington Parkway, it took FBI investigators and federal authorities two years to decline to seek an indictment.

Even as they abdicated, they made clear that their decision did not prevent other authorities from investigating.

Now federal officials may be doing just that.

Scarcely a month after the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, Jessie Liu, announced the Justice Department’s decision, Virginia prosecutors who took up the case were stymied

by Liu herself. When a top prosecutor in the Fairfax commonwealth’s attorney’s office asked for an FBI agent or agents to appear before a local grand jury last week, Liu’s office responded: We’ll think about it.

Ordinarily, it is more or less routine for FBI agents to appear promptly, often within a day or two, when called to testify before a state grand jury by local prosecutors in northern Virginia,

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Rushing has not been the problem in the Ghaisar case, which is a textbook example of justice delayed and denied. It is impossible to imagine why the Justice Department would not grant prompt permission for the agents to testify.

The top Fairfax prosecutor, Raymond Morrogh, who decided to pursue the Ghaisar case when Liu passed, was defeated in his bid for reelection; he leaves office Dec. 31. His successor, Steve Descano, has not committed himself publicly to pursuing the Ghaisar case.

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Tourists take their lives into their own hands Stéphane Gerson The Washington Post

The recent eruption on New Zealand’s White Island has left 18 people presumed dead, 26 hospitalized, and the rest of us wondering how tourists ended up on the ledge of an active volcano.

We ask the same question after every such accident: How could ordinary vacationers find themselves in such peril?

My wife and I faced this harrowing question 11 years ago, when a rafting trip on the Green River, on the border between Utah and Colorado, ended in mayhem at a place aptly named Disaster Falls. Several tourists capsized on those rapids, and one drowned. That was our son Owen, 8 years old.

I expect that, like us, survivors of White Island will question the string of decisions that led them to book this trip. Some will probably blame themselves for this tragic outcome. I certainly did.

All of us are of course responsible for our own decisions. Still, a decade later, it is clear to me that we make these decisions within a specific economy of risk. The language and images that surround such trips promise controlled, harmless thrill.

In reality, tour companies often leave us to determine on the spot how much danger we - and our children should tolerate.

First, risk is denied.

Early reports suggest that the White Island travelers had been promised they would get close enough “to the drama” to take photos of the volcano’s “vivid hues of yellow and orange.” The trip we booked had likewise been advertised as a “family vacation for kids 7 years and up.” Riding the Green in an inflated, two-person “ducky” boat would, the brochure promised, provide

director explained, because the risk would be “very clear.” (The suit was settled out of court.)

This is the third facet of this economy of risk: the assumption that, regardless of our background or previous experiences, all of us share the same ability to gauge risk and make decisions accordingly.

Because this notion of risk was not ours, my wife and I failed to understand the company’s brochure.

When we read that the trip was “open to children 7 and up,” we concluded that its “skilled, knowledgeable, professional guides” had vetted the rapids for every age, every skill level.

We were wrong. The company was promising only to bring us to the rapids. Once there, we could look at the water and, on the basis of what we saw, make an instinctive determination of risk.

I fear that the same thing happened on White Island, that the same thing takes place daily across the globe.

Were politicians to tighten regulations and travel companies to devise more stringent protocols, such accidents would become less likely. But true change will require a deeper transformation of our shared understanding of risk.

In the meantime, plan your next vacation with the expectation that it will fall upon you to decide, in a matter of minutes, whether the volcano or rapids facing you are safe or not. It will fall upon you to assess risk of death and then, if necessary, find the resolve to say no.

Gerson directs New York University’s Institute of French Studies. He is the author, most recently, of “Disaster Falls: A Family Story” and the co-editor of “France in the World: A New Global History.”

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States aren’t buying Trump’s no-refugee recipe The Washington Post

Few places in the United States need fresh blood more than North Dakota, whose infinitesimal unemployment rate - it has more than three jobs available for every in-state applicant - reflects the state’s oil boom. That didn’t stop local officials in Burleigh County, which includes the state capital of Bismarck, from calling for a ban on refugee resettlements.

North Dakota, which is nearly 90% white, is among the least diverse states, so it might be tempting to conclude that most of Burleigh’s 95,000 residents want to keep it that way.

In fact, angry opposition killed the proposal to ban refugees in the county, where just a couple dozen resettlements are expected in the coming year - not exactly an overwhelming burden.

That may surprise President Donald Trump, who, pandering to his nativist base, issued an executive order this fall allowing states and localities to veto refugee resettlements. He did so having already slashed

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President Ronald Reagan cited the United States’ embrace of refugees as evidence the nation cherished freedom.

Trump has called them a “Trojan horse,” a stealthy conveyance for internal attacks on an unsuspecting nation - despite the fact that few terrorist incidents here have involved refugees, who are legal immigrants heavily vetted by U.S. officials before their arrival.

The heartening news is that in many places, including conservative strongholds, Reagan’s view of refugees has more appeal than Trump’s. That includes Nebraska and Tennessee, where Republican governors say they will welcome refugees. In Utah, the Republican governor, Gary Herbert, as well as Republican congressmen and local officials, have a clear message concerning refugees: Bring ‘em on. “We empathize deeply with individuals and groups who have been forced from their home and we love giving them a new

home and a new life,” said Herbert, who called the tens of thousands of refugees already settled in Utah “productive employees and responsible citizens.”

In Colorado, a state whose congressional delegation is almost evenly split between Democrats and Republicans, Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, says the state will gladly accept refugees turned away by other states or local jurisdictions.

Their loss, he noted, would be Colorado’s gain.

Just four years ago, following a wave of terrorist attacks in Europe, 31 governors, all but one of them Republicans, said they opposed resettling Syrian refugees in their states. Now, the political ground may be shifting. No governor has yet publicly accepted Trump’s invitation to bar the door to refugees.

Whether some do in coming months may be a barometer of the president’s success in turning the United States into a fearful, trembling nation, wary of newcomers - in effect, the opposite of the principles on which America was founded.

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a sense of what it was like to be a river otter.

Second, risk is minimized.

According to the New Zealand Herald, the White Island volcano had recently been rated Level 2, indicating “moderate to heightened volcanic unrest.” While I cannot know what those tourists were told, I can still hear our guides assuring us that my son and I, inexperienced though we were, could run the Class III rapids of Disaster Falls in a ducky.

Because the flow of the current and the sound of the water made the rapids seem formidable, I asked two guides, separately, whether we would be safe. Both told me it would be fine.

As they approached the crater, did some New Zealand travelers question the judgment of their guides?

Did they revisit their own decision to book this trip?

Did they ask to return to the boat?

Making decisions in such a situation is extraordinarily difficult. One is outside one’s element, dependent on guides who, one has to assume, know better. How does one find the confidence to question their expertise? To interrupt an exhilarating group experience that is presented as not only permissible but perfectly normal?

The investigation will determine exactly what happened on White Island. On the Green, the director of the rafting company acknowledged after my wife and I filed a civil suit alleging negligent and unnecessary death, that “the risk of a novice falling out of an inflatable kayak in a Class 3” is in “the 25 to 35 percent category.” These rapids posed a “risk of death,” he said in his deposition. That was not in the brochure.

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Walter H. Kuhn Walter H. Kuhn, 79, of Valatie, NY, died Saturday, December 21, 2019 at The Grand at Barnwell.

Born April 28, 1940 in New York, NY, he was the son the late Fred and Louise (Garringer) Kuhn. Walter served honorably with the US Air Force and was a self-employed truck driver working at Fort Edward Express for a time. He also enjoyed woodworking.

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Desperate demand for Hanukkah doughnuts at Jewish bakery in Maryland

By Rebecca Tan (c) 2019, The Washington Post

SILVER SPRINGS, Md. — It was still dark — and quiet — when the first doughnuts were dipped in hot oil.

Hanukkah would be starting at sundown, less than 12 hours away, and the husbandand-wife owners of the Kosher Pastry Oven in Silver Spring, Maryland, needed to fry, fill and box several thousand doughnuts, an increasingly popular treat for the Jewish holiday.

Hundreds of people from across the Washington region will flock to the bakery in Montgomery County, Maryland’s Kemp Mill neighborhood throughout the eightday festival to buy the jelly- or custard-filled pastries known in Hebrew as sufganiyot. Every year, the store sells 15,000 to 18,000 of them during the holiday.

“The people, they waiting for this the whole year,” said Shula Eloul, 67, who owns the Kosher Pastry Oven with her husband, Arie “Popi” Eloul, 70. In previous years, she remembered, some customers cried when the bakery ran out of sufganiyot on Hanukkah.

“I ask them, ‘Why are you crying? Why? It’s only a doughnut!’ “ she said, shaking her head. “They make you feel bad, so you can’t disappoint.”

Demand has gotten so overwhelming that this year the owners chose not to take preorders for the first day of Hanukkah - unless someone was ordering five dozen or more.

Everyone else simply had to turn up at the store and wait in line.

Long before the 8 a.m. opening, Popi and pastry chef Lior Weisman pulled out trays filled with balls of dough from metal refrigerators decorated with order slips. The dough had been kneaded days earlier, but now each sphere needed to be proofed, fried in oil and filled with flavored stuffing before being dusted with powdered sugar.

Popi, a friendly, affectionate chef of Israeli-Moroccan heritage, is beloved in Kemp Hill’s Orthodox Jewish community.

He whistles while he bakes and slips easily — too easily, his wife says — into tales from his time in the Israeli army or from his travels through Europe.

He was busy recounting the story of the couple’s immigration to the United States when Shula chided in Hebrew, “You need to start on the flavors!”

It was just after 7 a.m. The phones were ringing and Shula had already turned away an extra-eager customer, Mark Schutz, 67, of Bethesda, Maryland, who had been relegated to waiting in his car.

Schutz, a doctor, has been a regular at the store for decades. When he got married in 1990, Popi made his wedding

cake. “I wanted to be first,” he said, grinning. “The guy’s got golden hands. . . . I’m happy to wait.”

Hanukkah is considered a minor Jewish holiday but has been culturally elevated in the United States because of its proximity to Christmas. It commemorates the rededication of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in the second century before the Common Era, and is observed over eight nights with the ritual lighting of the menorah, meant to mark the “miracle of the oil.”

The story goes: After reclaiming the temple, Jewish warriors found a small amount of oil that seemed like enough to light only a sacred lamp for one night. Miraculously, it lasted for eight.

The holiday is celebrated by lighting candles, reciting certain prayers and consuming oil-based foods. For centuries in Europe and the United States, that meant fried potato pancakes called latkes. Now, Jewish Americans are increasingly adding sufganiyot to their menus.

“Latkes used to dominate in the U.S., while doughnuts dominated in Israel. Now, I think both are equally popular in the U.S.,” said Rabbi Levi Shemtov, executive vice president of American Friends of Lubavitch, which organizes the annual lighting of a giant menorah on the Ellipse on the first night of Hanukkah.

The rising popularity of sufganiyot in the U.S. is due in part to their widespread availability, said Jayne Cohen, a Jewish cookbook writer and food author. Commercial chains such as Krispy Kreme and Dunkin’ have opened kosher stores, meaning they operate under the rabbinical supervision required by those who strictly observe Jewish dietary laws.

And various retailers offer a range of gourmet doughnuts that are perfect for Hanukkah celebrants who don’t require kosher certification.

“In hipster Jewish communities, like parts of Brooklyn, you’re seeing savory jelly doughnuts, doughnuts with kosher bacon or pastrami,” Cohen said. “Very different from the tradition.”

At Kosher Pastry Oven, where the doughnuts sell for $2.25 or $2.50 a pop, there are only four flavors — original raspberry jelly, chocolate, vanilla custard and caramel.

Customers say they would not have it any other way.

Helene Zeltser, 74, was No. 15. She would have come earlier, but she had some trouble getting into her car because of a recent knee replacement surgery. Actually, she confided, her doctor had advised her not to drive at all.

“These sufganiyot are worth it,” she said, winking.

Karl E. Meyer, Washington Post journalist and versatile author, dies at 91

By Matt Schudel (c) 2019, The Washington Post

NEW YORK — Karl E. Meyer, a longtime journalist for The Washington Post and New York Times who wrote about Fidel Castro’s rise to power in Cuba and later was the author of books about international relations, archaeology and the worldwide illicit trade in artistic treasurers, died Dec. 22 at a hospital in New York City. He was 91.

The cause was prostate cancer, said his wife, Shareen Blair Brysac.

Meyer was a third-generation journalist who possessed in doctorate in politics from Princeton University. He brought a scholarly approach to his assignments as a foreign correspondent, editorial writer and author, as well as a keen understanding of leadership and changing political currents.

During his eight years as an editorial writer for The Post, from 1956 to 1964, he often took time out for long reporting trips, particularly in Latin America. On a threeweek journey through Cuba in 1958, often on horseback, he chronicled Fidel Castro’s rise to power as a charismatic guerrilla leader.

“About Fidel Castro, the leader of the shooting opposition in the distant Sierra Maestra,” Meyer wrote, “you find a variety of opinions in the middle-class world of Cuba.

“The attitude varies from idolatry to criticism and distrust. . . . None feel he is a Communist, but they worry about his possible ‘immaturity.’ “ More than a year later, after Castro and his youthful followers had seized control of the country, Meyer returned to Cuba for an assessment: “There are few cases in history in which leaders so young have attempted to do so much so soon. The results, however, are not always happy.”

Meyer was among the first journalists to report on the Bay of Pigs invasion, a failed attempt to depose Castro in 1961. A year later, Meyer cowrote a book with journalist Tad Szulc, “The Cuban Invasion: The Chronicle of a Disaster,” about the Bay of Pigs

fiasco.

In 1963, according to Chalmers Roberts’s “In the Shadow of Power: The Story of The Washington Post,” Meyer was called on to write a particularly sensitive editorial after the newspaper’s publisher, Philip L. Graham, died by suicide.

“His rangy figure and quicksilver wit were as familiar a part of our enterprise as the fonts of type in our composing room,” Meyer wrote.

“In all that he dealt with at The Washington Post and its related ventures, he was broadly liberal, eminently practical and endowed with an intuitive grasp of coming needs.”

From 1965 to 1970, Meyer was based in London, writing about European politics and culture for The Post. In 1969, he found himself in Amsterdam after midnight, compiling what he called “an uncensored report on a wanton Saturday night in the most uninhibited” club in the city, where young patrons smoked hashish, danced and sometimes disrobed while pornographic films flickered on the walls.

“The most shocking revelation about Amsterdam’s most notorious club,” he wrote, “is that it was a bore, a Dionysian evening at which the god of orgies yawned himself to sleep.”

While working as a journalist, Meyer also found time in the 1960s to write books on U.S. politics and Cuba. During the 1970s, he wrote two books on archaeology, including “The Plundered Past” (1973), in which he described an illicit international market for stolen artwork and historical artifacts. He revealed an underground network of smugglers, including the discovery that a New York dealer built an airstrip in Mexico to fly out the intact facade of a Mayan temple, obtained through bribes and subterfuge.

“Every archaeological site is like a time capsule,” Meyer wrote. “When such a time capsule is destroyed, either by a looter or a bulldozer, the loss is total. One cannot grow another Indian mound.”

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Karl E. Meyer in 1973.

He returned to journalism in 1975 as an editor and television critic for the weekly Saturday Review, then served on the Times editorial board from 1979 to 1998 and later as editor of World Policy Journal until 2008.

After the attacks of Sept.

11, 2001, Meyer warned of a growing religiosity in international relations, both in the United States and abroad.

“The new factor in American politics is the emergence of a politically powerful Christian right,” he told The Times in 2002. “It worries me, as I worry about the rise of militant Islam or Hindu nationalism. These are all variations of the same problem.

They seek a theological sanction for secular foreign policy choices.”

Karl Ernest Meyer was born May 22, 1928, in Madison, Wisconsin. His grandfather was the editor of a Germanlanguage newspaper in Milwaukee, and his father, Ernest L. Meyer, was a columnist and editor for the Madison Capital-Times and later the New York Post. His mother was a homemaker.

(He was not related to Eugene Meyer, who purchased The Washington Post in 1933 and whose daughter, Katharine Graham, later led the newspaper as publisher and chief executive.)

Meyer completed high school in New York City and graduated in 1951 from the University of Wisconsin, where he edited the student newspaper and a literary magazine. He was a reporter at The Times before attending graduate school at

63-vehicle pileup in Virginia shuts down I-64 stretch

By Luz Lazo (c) 2019, The Washington Post

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — Fog and icy conditions on a bridge contributed to a pileup Sunday morning involving dozens of vehicles that shut down a major highway in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia, state police said.

Authorities said 69 vehicles were involved in chain-reaction crashes, which occurred shortly before 8 a.m. on the westbound lanes of Interstate 64, near the Camp Peary exit.

State police and emergency personnel were working to remove the vehicles and clean up I-64.

Police said 51 people were taken to hospitals with injuries ranging from minor to life-threatening.

Peter Glagola, a spokesman for Riverside Health System, said two of its medical centers had taken in 45 patients on Sunday morning, including some with serious and moderate injuries. Some patients with minor injuries had already been sent home Sunday afternoon, he said.

“It was a busy morning. We called more staff in and were able to take care of patients rapidly,” Glagola said. “Many have been discharged.”

Riverside Doctors’ Hospital in Williamsburg treated 21 patients, including 15 with minor injuries, such as bruises, bumps and body pain, and six with moderate injuries such as open wounds. Riverside Regional

Medical Center, a trauma center in Newport News, received 24 patients, including one with injuries that were serious but not life-threatening. Five patients were treated for moderate injuries and 18 for minor injuries, Glagola said.

Patients with the most severe injuries reportedly were taken to VCU Medical Center.

A spokeswoman said the hospital was treating two patients Sunday afternoon, but she declined to specify their condition.

The crashes began at Queens Creek Bridge on the westbound lanes of I-64, in an area of the interstate that is

under construction. The eastbound lanes of the interstate also closed because of crashes resulting from “rubbernecking at the westbound crashes,” state police said.

Both sides of I-64 were initially closed, but the eastbound lanes reopened about 11 a.m., authorities said.

Travelers were urged to seek alternative routes and exercise caution as some bridges were icy.

“Please use caution while driving due to fog and icy road conditions,” especially on bridges, the York-Poquoson Sheriff’s Office said.

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Princeton, where he received a master’s degree in public administration in 1953 and a doctorate in politics in 1956.

He was a visiting professor at several colleges, was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and, in 1990, edited a collection of historical newspaper columns, “Pundits, Poets, and Wits.”

His first marriage, to Sarah Peck, ended in divorce. Survivors include his wife since 1989, dancer, journalist and author Shareen Blair Brysac of Manhattan and Weston, Connecticut; three children from his first marriage, Ernest Meyer of Sacramento, California, Jonathan Meyer of Brooklyn, New York, and Heather Meyer of London; a sister; and three granddaughters.

Meyer’s most recent, book, written with Brysac, was “The China Collectors: America’s Century-Long Hunt for Asian Art Treasures” (2015). Critic Michael Dirda, writing in The Post, called it an “excellent book, which tracks the adventures of the learned, cutthroat and eccentric scholars and collectors who brought the treasures of the Middle Kingdom to America.”

In several other books, including “The Dust of Empire” (2003), “Tournament of Shadows” (1999) and “Kingmakers” (2008) — the latter two written with his wife — Meyer warned of what he called “the unintended consequences of empire” when western powers become involved in the political and economic affairs of central Asian countries, including Afghanistan and Iran.

“History is not a blueprint but a cautionary tale,” he wrote in “The Dust of Empire.” “It is replete with warnings to those who believe that they can outguess the future, or that their country has a mandate from providence, or that alliances are a nuisance, or that a brusque arrogance is preferable to simulated humility.”

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More water woes Holiday gift plants Dear Warriors, When I wrote my last column about the arsenic dumped in the water we drink, little did I know about the bestselling book by lawyer Rob Bilott called “Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed” and one lawyer’s 20-year battle against DuPont.

If you are not a reader, then it’s imperative you see the movie “Dark Waters” starring Mark Ruffalo, which brings this true story to life.

Bilott’s environmental crusade began in 1998 when he was contacted by Wilbur Tennant, a farmer from Parkersburg, West Virginia, whose cattle had been dying as a result of suspected poisoning.

The farmer believed the chemical company DuPont was responsible for their deaths due to chemical PFOA, but no local lawyers were willing to accept his case because the corporate entity wielded too much influence and power in the town.

At the time, the firm Bilott worked for mainly represented corporate clients and he had almost no interest in taking on the case. However, the farmer knew his grandmother, and the lawyer’s childhood memories of spending time in Parkersburg made him sympathetic toward the townspeople.

After selecting their own experts (who conveniently ignored the company’s use of perfluorooctanoic acid,(PFOA) to investigate the site, DuPont accused the Tennant family of poor husbandry, which is just another way of

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WHITEHEAD-DICKENS saying they were mistreating their cattle. For a while, the accusation stuck and the family was ostracized in their town.

Their neighbors refused to talk to them. They had to change churches several times.

But Bilott’s own research learned that DuPont had been concealing evidence of their actions involving PFOA for decades. This angered the lawyer, and he made it his mission to get justice for the Parkersburg residents whose lives had been affected by the substance.

The lawyer’s findings caught the attention of the Environmental Protection Agency, which then demanded $16.5 million — a small fraction of the profits earned

by DuPont through PFOA use — be paid by the chemical company for violating the Toxic Substances Control Act. DuPont obliged, but Bilott’s crusade was far from over.

The next step was for Bilott to file a class-action lawsuit on behalf of the 70,000 people in Parkersburg whose drinking water had been tainted by the chemical substance. The

EPA, drawing from Bilott’s research, also launched their own investigation into PFOA and determined that it posed risks to anyone exposed to it. As such, DuPont paid $70 million as a result of the classaction case and funded scientific research to determine whether there was a direct link between the substance and health problems. Furthermore, the company agreed to pay for medical monitoring of the affected group. The personal injury lawsuits that followed — by some 3,500 victims — cost Dupont $671.7 million!

PFOA has also been found in upstate New York and other rural areas. China still produces thousands of pounds of the stuff every day, making the U.S. still susceptible to PFOA from imported items.

So take some time to see this movie, you won’t regret it! https://www.newyorkupstate.com/capital-region/2017/06/ no_higher_incidence_of_cancer_in_upstate_ny_village_ with_tainted_water.html https://filmschoolrejects. com/dark-waters-real-story/ https://www.refinery29.com/enus/2019/11/8858023/ what-is-pfoa-teflon-c8chemical-health-effects-darkwaters Have a Merry Christmas and safe Happy New Year!

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It is often difficult to find the perfect gift for people who really don’t need anything in particular. I am a good example and it makes it tough on my kids to find something for me that I will actually use.

At my stage of life, if I need, or want something, I generally just go out and buy it.

This year I decided to ask the kids for stuff that I do use. First on my list is a type of fishing lure. I will take pictures of it and send them to the kids! Fishermen love gadgets almost as much as gardeners!

Not too many years ago (OK, so maybe it was 25 years ago) most holiday gift plants, such as poinsettias, did not last very long after they were brought home.

Today’s plants are much tougher and many poinsettias sold this past month will still look quite spectacular in March or even April if given a little care. Contrary to popular belief, poinsettias are not poisonous per se, so you need not worry about someone (or your cat or dog) getting sick from chewing on the leaves.

However, most poinsettias, like almost every plant that has been mass produced, have been treated with some sort of systemic insecticide or fungicide, which may have a residue in the plant tissue.

Therefore it is really not a good idea to eat a leaf to prove the non-toxic point.

Here in Florida, poinsettias grow wild into shrubs or are sometimes used as foundation plants. My local friend Willy has a beautiful specimen that is the size of a small tree in full bloom now!

Not all gift plants will remain in prime condition as long as poinsettias.

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BEYFUSS Chrysanthemums are often “forced” to bloom indoors in December, as well as for other holidays, and theoretically they can be saved for spring planting into your outside garden. With a lot of luck the mum might bloom again outside sometime next fall. Realistically, unless you really enjoy an indoor gardening challenge, enjoy the mum until the flowers fade and then discard it. Hundreds of thousands more will be produced next season just for decorations.

The same is true for cyclamen and all of the spring flowering bulbs such as daffodils, tulips, crocus and hyacinths. These plants will hold their flowers longest if placed in a cool room (50 degrees) at night. Amaryllis plants, however, make wonderful longlasting houseplants that may re-flower once or twice a year for 50 years or more. Christmas or Thanksgiving cacti also make hearty, long-lived houseplants that bloom every year with little effort on your part.

Poinsettias will do best if kept by a bright, sunny, unobstructed south or southwest facing window. It is important to keep them out of either cold or hot drafts. Allow the soil surface to dry out to a depth of a half-inch (insert

thumb to test for moisture) before watering. Water as needed and apply a very dilute dose of liquid houseplant fertilizer once a month.

Poinsettias require lots of fertilizer to produce their huge flowers, but not in the winter after they bloom. Do not cut off the colored bracts unless you want to trigger the plant into putting out new growth. If you cut the plant back, it will sprout new growth. This new growth needs more light than we can realistically provide indoors during the winter so leave the pretty bracts alone until they fall off on their own.

By April you can cut the plant back and it will sprout new growth. By then the longer days will allow new growth, but the plant really wants to be outside in full sun.

You can transplant it outside in mid May and it should survive all summer. If your new poinsettia should suddenly start producing lots of confetti-like, tiny white insects, it would be best to get rid of it. These insects are called whiteflies and they can infest your other houseplants.

Experiencing Christmas in Florida is still a little weird for this Yankee snowbird. My senior citizen body is enjoying the sunshine and the joy of seeing the grandkids during this season is wonderful. I really don’t miss seeing snow at all. My daughter purchased a “real” Fraser fir tree this Christmas, about 7 feet tall, and it is truly beautiful, but it cost more than $150. I think I will write a column of growing Christmas trees this spring.

Reach Bob Beyfuss at rlb14@cornell.edu.

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Post members of Athens Post 178 and Catskill Post 110 at the service on Dec. 7 in Athens to honor veterans of Pearl Harbor.

Capital District’s new SHARE Center unveiled WEST SAND LAKE — On Veteran’s Day, the grand opening of the STRIDE Health and Recreation Education (SHARE) Center took place at the STRIDE headquarters in West Sand Lake.

For the first time in Capital Region history, the newly renovated SHARE Center now functions as the premiere adaptive sports and fitness community center and gym.

Many well-respected New York elected officials joined the CEO of STRIDE, Mary Ellen Whitney, in cutting the ribbon in honor of the official opening, including US Congressman Antonio Delgado, Rensselaer County Executive Steve McLaughlin, Assemblyman John McDonald, Assemblyman Jake Ashby, and several others.

The generous support and donations from members of the Capital Region played a significant role in the final stages of completion, and without such backing the SHARE Center would not have been possible.

The major SHARE Center donors included: American National Insurance, Architectural Glass & Metal, STRIDE

Board of Directors, Bonded Cement, Alexander Butcherblock, Crawford Door & Window Sales, Hynes Family Foundation, Keller Williams Realty, Kurt Butenhoff Family Foundation, Frank Wicks, GE Veteran’s Network, GE Healthcare, Homiack Brothers Plumbing, Farm Family Insurance, Frank Wicks, Paul O’Leary Family, Phillips Hardware, RA Hunsdorfer Foundation, Regeneron, Studio Seven Architects, Team Rubicon, Troy Sand and Gravel, the UPS Foundation, and Wilson Brothers Heating & Cooling. Thank you to the many volunteers and companies that kindly volunteered their time and resources!

STRIDE programs continue to be instrumental facets in the lives of the individuals they serve, and your support plays a significant part in this.

The SHARE Center now offers an extension of STRIDE’s current program amenities, designed with a wheelchair accessible elevator and two ADA-compliant bathrooms.

The multi-program space and adaptive fitness gym provides athletes with an innovative exercise space and allows

STRIDE to offer new wellness programs. Additionally, the wounded warrior/family lounge as well and additional training and conference spaces plan to host organizations that provide services like career training, chemical and addiction dependency counseling, and fitness and nutrition education.

As indicated by the statement made on the community’s behalf, the opening of the SHARE Center emphasized how welcomed and cherished people with disabilities are in the Capital Region.

The remarkable patronage STRIDE received in response to the SHARE Center’s vision of inclusion and equal opportunity was inspirational!

The progressive contributions made by local families and businesses enabled STRIDE to better connect with groups and individuals throughout the Capital Region by delivering opportunities for engagement and participation in recreational activities.

The SHARE Center has made the Capital Region a more inclusive and accessible community for underserved individuals.

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A ribbon-cutting celebration was held at The Avalon Lounge in Catskill. Pictured with owners Liam and Laura are Legislator Matt Luvera; Assemblyman Chris Tague; Dale Finch, town of Catskill supervisor-elect; and Catskill Town Councilman Paul Vosburgh.

Whiteman Osterman & Hanna hold public affairs roundtable ALBANY — Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP announce that Peter Lopez, regional administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, will be the featured speaker at the firm’s next Public Affairs Roundtable Breakfast at 7:30 a.m. Jan. 7 at the Firm’s offices located at One Commerce Plaza in Albany.

Lopez was appointed as EPA regional administrator for Region 2 in 2017. Prior to joining the EPA Region 2, he served as a member of the New

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York State Assembly, where he served for more than 10 years and six terms. He will speak about Regional National Priorities for the EPA. The Whiteman Osterman & Hanna Public Affairs Roundtable Breakfast meetings serve as a forum for the interchange of ideas between public officials and private sector leaders in the community. The program, which began in January 1995, attracts a broad cross-section of community and business leaders from the Capital Region and across the state.

Bank of Greene County announces Greylock Federal Credit Union it will open a new branch in Albany opening in Hudson area ALBANY - The Bank of Greene County announced it will open a new branch office to be located at 103 Wolf Road, in the town of Colonie.

According to Bank President and CEO Donald Gibson, “This is a very exciting announcement as this will be our Bank’s third branch located in Albany County. We are opening the new branch due to overwhelming customer demand. While we have had a significant presence for many years in Albany County, this will be our first branch on Wolf Road.”

The Bank of Greene County has been serving local communities for more than 130 years. During that time, the bank has not lost customers due to a merger or consolidation. And they never will, bank

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representatives said because the bank was set up with a unique ownership structure that ensures independence.

Being local, and staying local is important, bank officials said.

While the bank has not set a definite date for a branch opening, it intentds to

immediately proceed with the design and renovations. The second quarter of 2020 has been targeted for the grand opening. Hiring plans include a combination of experienced bank staff and new employees, hopefully from the local community, represetatives said.

The new office will feature a full-service branch, along with offices designed for corporate cash management, commercial lending, municipal cash management, and investment services. The branch will feature a cyber-café, a drive-up 24-hour ATM, two drive-up windows, and ample parking.

In addition the location will allows full entry and exit onto both Wolf and Sand Creek Roads.

HUDSON - Greylock Federal Credit Union announces the credit union is opening a new branch in the Fairview Avenue area.

According to President/ CEO John Bissell, the full-service branch will open in 2020.

Greylock recently signed a lease and retained a project manager to begin the planning and design phase.

“We are excited to join this vibrant community,” said Bissell. “Greylock’s culture of diversity, inclusion and compassion is a perfect fit for the area and we are looking forward to becoming a strong partner in Columbia County’s success.”

Bissell said over 1,500 residents are already members and will soon have the benefit of a full-service branch. “For

those that aren’t familiar with us yet, we look forward to meeting you!” he added.

Greylock is designated a Community Development Credit Union. As such, it strives to achieve financial inclusion for everyone. To complement its full range of highly competitive financial services and products, Greylock is committed to providing free financial counseling, educational opportunities, and specialized financial products designed to build credit and grow family assets.

Bissell and his executive team will meet with local leaders over the next few months to build partnerships that will allow Greylock to fulfill its vision to enable the community to thrive.

According to SVP Human

Resources Rebecca Riordan, Greylock will begin its search for employees shortly.

“We are excited to start building a great team in Hudson. At Greylock, we embrace diversity and believe in inclusion, creating an environment where all employees have a voice,” Riordan said.

“A devotion to community financial wellness and a sincere desire to help others are woven into our organization,” she added. “We look forward to creating a new Greylock staff in Hudson that reflects these commitments and the community.”

It you are interested in learning more about Greylock’s financial services, employment opportunities and charitable giving should visit www.greylock.org.

Copake Lake Realty welcomes new agent Walkway Over the Hudson elects CRARYVILLE - Copake Lake Realty Corp. (CLR) welcome Randee Stypulkowski as its newest Licensed Real Estate Salesperson. Stypulkowski, who has been a 20+ year second home owner at Copake Lake, has recently made this her permanent residence.

Commenting on Stypulkowski joining the CLR team, Lindsay LeBrecht, licensed real estate broker and owner of Copake Lake Realty, said, “We are pleased to welcome Randee to our growing agency. We have been expanding our footprint and our capabilities and I’m happy that we have a larger team to service our buyers and sellers.”

Stypulkowski commented, “My past experiences include managing a team of professionals who provided Business Services for a global financial

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services firm. But, real estate has always been a passion of mine and I am excited to make this my full time career.

I understand the importance of building relationships and providing laser-focused customer service. Utilizing these skills combined with the love of ‘home’ I am confident in my ability to find buyers their

perfect place.”

CLR also announced that Lindsay LeBrecht has been awarded the GRI designation by the New York State REALTOR® Institute. LeBrecht received this honor after successfully completing 90 hours of residential real estate education meeting the rigorous standards established by the National Association of REALTORS. The GRI (Graduate REALTOR Institute), is conferred upon REALTORS who successfully complete all the requirements of the Institute program, which is a comprehensive and effective learning experience covering various phases of real estate. Graduates become more competent professionals, render broader and more effective service, and elevate the standards of the industry.

WMHT now live on YouTube TV TROY — WMHT Public Media announced that it is now streaming live on YouTube TV starting Dec. 17.

Dedicated live channels for WMHT and PBS KIDS, as well as on-demand programming, are now available to YouTube TV subscribers, expanding PBS’s digital footprint and offering viewers additional ways to stream PBS content. To access the full line-up available in the Capital Region, you can visit the YouTube TV live guide or the PBS schedule online.

“Every year, more and more households are seeking alternative ways to view their favorite PBS programs,” said PBS Chief Digital and Marketing Officer Ira Rubenstein.

“PBS is committed to making trusted content available to all households across as many platforms as possible.

We are pleased that YouTube TV recognizes public television’s unique structure and worked with us to provide our

viewers with more ways to watch the programs that they love through their local PBS station.”

“We are excited to partner with PBS on this unique partnership to further our commitment to providing a best-in-class experience for our users,” said Lori Conkling, Global Head of Partnerships at YouTube TV. “PBS and PBS KIDS are highly requested channels by our users, and we’re thrilled to be able to add these to the YouTube TV lineup starting today.”

YouTube TV represents WMHT’s first local livestreaming partnership and includes episodes and on-demand content from locally produced shows and PBS favorites, including AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, ANTIQUES ROADSHOW, FRONTLINE, GREAT PERFORMANCES, MASTERPIECE, NATURE and more. The accompanying PBS KIDS 24/7 channel extends

the organization’s mission of helping prepare children for success in school and life through trusted, educational media, available anytime and anywhere. Users can access favorite series, such as DANIEL TIGER’S NEIGHBORHOOD, MOLLY OF DENALI, ODD SQUAD, PINKALICIOUS & PETERRIFIC, WILD KRATTS and SESAME STREET. YouTube TV subscribers can also access select content through YouTube TV’s VOD service.

In addition to YouTube TV, WMHT content is available on all WMHT-branded PBS platforms, including PBS.org and PBSKIDS.org, as well as the PBS Video app and PBS KIDS Video app available on iOS, Android, Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Samsung TV and Chromecast. WMHT members are also able to view an extended library of quality public television programming via Passport.

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Board members from Walkway Over the Hudson.

POUGHKEEPSIE — Walkway Over the Hudson members confirmed the 2020 board of directors and heard a report on the previous year’s activities during the organization’s annual meeting on Dec. 11 at the Locust Grove Estate in Poughkeepsie.

Tony Pagano, CEO of a Manhattan-based construction development firm with roots in Marlboro, and Ann Weiser, a retired television executive and Hyde Park resident, were elected to their first term. John Storyk, founding partner and director of design for Walters-Storyk Design Group in Highland, was re-elected board chair.

Christina Bark of Christina Bark & Associates, Michael Fleischer, retired from Holby Valve, Inc., and Howard Schwartz of Howie Schwartz Recording, were confirmed to a second three-year term, joining 10 returning directors (full list at bottom). The board thanked outgoing directors Paul Haering, Natasha Krupp, Mike Oates and Jayne McLaughlin for their service.

Pagano founded construction management and general contracting company OD&P in 1987, combining his background in construction with his real

estate development expertise. In 2005, OD&P became Marlboro Group International (MGI), which includes strategic outposts in Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, DC, London, and Thailand.

A native of Marlboro, Pagano has served as board member for the Multiple Sclerosis Society of New York, a 10-year trustee and past chair of The Epiphany School Foundation, and is passionate about animal welfare and rescue, recently forming the Animal Rescue Coalition.

Weiser brings more than two decades of experience as a television executive at networks including Lifetime, Showtime, and VH1 to Walkway Over the Hudson.

The Hyde Park resident, who holds a MFA in design criticism from the School of Visual Arts, serves as a member of the Town of Hyde Park Planning Board, the Hyde Park Downtown Initiative Committee, the Eleanor Roosevelt at Val-Kill Medals Committee, and was marketing chair for the Hyde Park Visual Environment Committee.

Weiser is also Vice-Chairperson and a founding member of Friends of Hyde Park, a new non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the town and encouraging new development.

After the conclusion of

the annual meeting’s formal business, Walkway Over the Hudson Executive Director Elizabeth Waldstein recapped Walkway’s year of successful programming and fundraising and provided a look ahead to the projects in development in 2020.

The evening was highlighted by the annual volunteer Ambassador awards ceremony, lauding those that went above and beyond in their service to the organization.

The 2020 Walkway Over the Hudson Board of Directors are John Storyk, Walters-Storyk Design Group, chair; Michael Fleischer, Retired, Holby Valve Inc., second vice chair; Michael Graham, retired, M&T Bank, treasurer; Kathleen Smith, retired, IBM, secretary; Dr. Dan Aronzon, retired, Vassar Brothers Medical Center; Christina Bark, Christina Bark & Assoc., lecturer, SUNY New Paltz; Anita Jones, Poughkeepsie Day School; Ron Lane, retired, McKesson Corp.; Robert Levine, Levine & Levine, P.C.; Tony Pagano, Marlboro Group International; Emily V. Saland, Marist College; Howard Schwartz, Howard Schwartz Recording Inc.; Maureen Solero, Nuvance Health; Scott Sweeney, Marshall & Sterling Inc.; Ann Weiser, retired, Lifetime Television.

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Union raises $500,000 to pay diplomats’ impeachment legal costs

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WASHINGTON — The union that represents American foreign service officers has raised $500,000 to cover the costs of the career diplomats who appeared before the congressional impeachment inquiry, an amount it says should be enough to make sure they don’t pay out-of-pocket.

The money will be pooled with funds provided by the State Department, which agreed to compensate legal fees of up to $300 per hour for active-duty diplomats, according to Eric Rubin, the president of the American Foreign Service Officers Association. Some lawyers offered their services for free.

“It’s very important to show our colleagues, whether they’re in the foreign

service or considering joining, that while we hope this doesn’t happen again, if it did, we have their backs,” Rubin said.

According to Rubin, legal costs incurred by those who testified — a group that included current and retired foreign service officers — was as high as $1,600 an hour. And some diplomats aren’t ruling out the possibility that they will be asked

to testify again after House Democrats eventually send President Donald Trump’s impeachment to the Senate.

Among those to testify to the House impeachment inquiry were the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, and the acting assistant secretary for Europe, Phil Reeker. They appeared before the House Intelligence Committee even though Trump had told

executive branch staff not to cooperate with the impeachment investigation, and their own boss, Secretary of State Michael Pompeo, warned them against appearing.

“The position that our colleagues in the foreign service were initially put in was impossible,” Rubin said. “They were told by the president that they could not participate and then were given subpoenas. That was an

agonizing situation and no one can recall anything like it.”

The AFSA legal fund was only for current and former career diplomats, and didn’t cover political appointees such as Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, or current and former National Security Council staff who testified.

Notre Dame will not host Christmas mass, a first in more than 200 years Aurelien Breeden The New York Times News Service

Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris will not hold Christmas services this week for the first time in over two centuries, as workers continue to shore up the fragile building after a devastating fire.

The 850-year-old cathedral has been closed to the public since a blaze tore through the structure in April, destroying a latticework of ancient timbers in its roof, sending the spire crashing down and spreading tons of toxic dust around Paris.

Records show that Christmas Masses have been celebrated at Notre Dame every year since at

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they can now legally drive to fulfill the basic necessities of their life: go to school, doctor’s appointments and the grocery store,” MacCormack said.

“They also now have a form of identification and can drive with a little less fear of being pulled over by the police.”

MacCormack was interrupted when one of the DMV workers called out for him — a translator was needed at one of the windows to tell an applicant she didn’t have enough forms to prove her identity for her application. She walked out of the line sniffling, disappointment suffusing her face and tears in her eyes.

“Documentation can be an issue,” Columbia County Clerk Holly Tanner said. “If you have a county where there aren’t advocacy groups to help people figure out what documentation they need, they might get turned away.”

Tanner sang the praises of

least 1803, after the cathedral was handed back to the Roman Catholic Church after the French Revolution, according to André Finot, a spokesman for the cathedral.

Finot said that the cathedral’s rector would instead hold this year’s Christmas service at the Église St.Germain l’Auxerrois, a church near the Louvre where Notre Dame’s religious services have been relocated since the fire.

“It’s very hard for everyone; it’s yet another blow,” Finot said by telephone Monday.

President Emmanuel Macron of France vowed after the fire that Notre Dame would be rebuilt in five years, a tight deadline that authorities are sticking to so far.

Jean-Louis Georgelin, an army general nominated by Macron to lead the task force in charge of reconstruction, promised this month that a religious service would be held inside Notre Dame on April 16, 2024, exactly five years after the fire, to “celebrate the work that will have been done.”

Recovery efforts continue at the cathedral, which was added in October to the 2020 World Monuments Watch, a biennial list of cultural heritage sites that are in urgent need of conservation.

Authorities caution that Notre Dame is in an extremely precarious state and in need of constant monitoring to ensure parts of it do not collapse. The vault is still

the Columbia County Sanctuary Movement, joking that she would set up a desk for MacCormack.

But the DMV also got help from the state, which sent investigators specialized in detecting fraudulent foreign documents. Although county DMVs across the state were given document authentication devices, Tanner said, the investigators can be helpful in situations where technology fails.

Most immigrants did not have issues with their documentation. Some, like Mirtha and Carlos, came extra prepared, laying out multiple forms of identification on the table and pulling stacks of credit card and utilities bills out of their jackets.

Frankie, a 33-year-old from Ecuador who has been living in Hudson for 14 years, was stopped by MacCormack as he walked out of line beaming.

“Felicidades!” MacCormack told him, shaking his hand.

“I’m very happy,” said Frankie, who works as a cook in a local restaurant. “I want

my learning permit because it’s more safe for me and my family.”

The driver’s licenses are also better for overall public safety, proponents of the new law said, with more state-inspected vehicles and insured drivers on the road.

The left-leaning Fiscal Policy Institute also found the law is expected to generate $84 million in revenue the first year, and $57 million each year after that.

Despite the advantages, opposition to the law remains.

Three lawsuits were filed by county clerks to challenge Green Light; two of the three have been dismissed. A coalition of 27 county clerks wrote a letter last week urging the state DMV to postpone the law’s rollout until October 2020, citing concerns about proper training to issue licenses. Federal elected officials have gotten involved, writing letters to Cuomo to change or reverse the law. And state legislators, most recently Sen. Daphne Jordan, R-43, have introduced legislation to amend

will require one additional full-time employee for the probation department, one full-time employee in emergency services to help with the discovery process, two full-time employees in the district attorney’s office, one full-time employee with the Department of Social Services and one full-time employee in the Department of Motor Vehicles, Groden said.

Legislators Matthew Luvera and Michael Bulich, both RCatskill, opposed the resolution to adopt the budget, as

well as the addition of a fifth flycar to the spending plan.

A flycar is a paramedic vehicle that preps patients for transport prior to the arrival of an ambulance.

The new flycar will be paid for in 2020 by a $60,000 contribution from Greene County Emergency Medical Services and a $50,000 State and Municipal Facilities Program Grant from the state Assembly. The remaining $303,203 will come from the county.

station, Van Valkenburg said.

Hunter accepts about 3,000 tons per year, Windham about 2,200 tons, Van Valkenburg said. The Hunter station has been in existence for more than 30 years.

A problem with the previous design was that the trailers were too high above the tipping floor, Van Valkenburg said.

“They were four feet above the tipping floor,” he said.

“We’ve been able to lower that to three feet and now have 20 feet of clearance from the top of the trailer.”

In the existing building, there is 12 and a half feet of clearance, which makes it difficult for the excavators to compact the waste in the trailers, Van Valkenburg said.

The trailers are required to meet a 28-ton minimum, so compaction is critical, he said.

By making the Hunter station capable of shipping its own waste rather than having everything sent to Catskill could result in an estimated savings of about $100,000 per year in trucking costs, Van Valkenburg said.

punctured by gaping holes, and the flying buttresses are propped up by giant wooden blocks.

But the most urgent threat to Notre Dame is thousands of scaffolding tubes — remnants of renovation work from before the fire — that were welded together by the blaze, creating a mass of twisted metal of roughly 250 tons that is weighing down on the structure.

Workers are currently erecting a 200-foot crane that will loom above the cathedral to help finalize the operations needed to stabilize that welded scaffolding.

New scaffolding is also being assembled. Workers will then use that perch to carefully cut the welded tubes and remove them one by one.

Green Light and protect DMV employees, whether or not they decide to enforce the law.

“Sen. Jordan was the senator during the floor debate that said, ‘Why do undocumented immigrants choose to remain undocumented?’ — so I take everything she does with a grain of salt,” said state Sen. Luis Sepúlveda, D-32, the sponsor of Green Light. “The reality is this is just her offering to her base because she knows that with the current composition of the legislature there’s no way that will get passed.”

When Sepúlveda showed up at the Bronx DMV in his district, he said he was blown away by the lines he saw

Those operations are scheduled to start in February.

“The workers are very motivated,” said Finot, the cathedral spokesman. “Everyone is working relentlessly. They are really putting their heart into it.”

The exact cause of the fire is not yet known. Investigators are focusing on the possibility of a short circuit in the electrified bells of the spire or in the elevators that had been set up on the old scaffolding.

They are also considering cigarette butts, which were found on the scaffolding, apparently left by workers.

stretching down multiple blocks — a line that increased the number of people applying for learning permits increased by about 155 percent, he said, and sent people like Queens residents Mirtha and Carlos north in search of shorter wait times.

“It has far exceeded my expectations,” Sepúlveda said.

“There was a lot of emotion, especially from those parents that have to drive their kids places and take them to medical appointments. There was a sentiment that this is going to make the lives of their children so much easier, so much better.”

Sepulveda said he

recognizes the challenges that have been lobbed at his legislation by upstate clerks, and is remaining vigilant to make sure undocumented immigrants have a fair opportunity to obtain their driver’s licenses. But from the successful rollout he’s seen so far, he remains hopeful.

“I will remain concerned until this is more normalized,” he said. “But our bill is a model bill for the rest of this country.”

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

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The Albany-Leadership Panthers got walloped by the Hudson Bluehawks Friday night, 72-20, in Patroon Conference girls basketball action.

Hudson got help from all around the court and had four players in double figures. The game started out slow and the Bluehawks had a hard time maintaining possession long enough for open shots in the first quarter.

The Panthers played tough defense to make this happen in the early stages of this game, but that did not last long. After taking a 13-12 lead into the 2nd period, Albany-Leadership started getting sloppy and not playing defense in the backcourt as tough as the previous quarter.

Jamira Galloway got into foul trouble early for the Panthers with three in the first quarter alone.

Hudson hit the reset button in the short break between periods, and elevated their play on defense to an even more intensified level than Albany-Leadership.

The Bluehawks continued to fight for offensive

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Hudson’s Deja Beauford (23) controls the opening tip of Friday’s Patroon Conference girls basketball game against Albany Leadership.

rebounds, steal in bound

soon as they passed the ball

passes for easy layups, and

in.

pressuring the Panthers as

Thanks to a 13-0 run,

Hudson went into halftime up by 14, 30-16.

Hudson coach Brice Ivery did not like what he saw in the first half, despite mounting offense as it ended.

“We didn’t do much good the first half; we weren’t working hard enough,” Ivery said.

“We were just going through the motions and not sprinting back. When they started sprinting to their spots, things started to change.”

With the momentum completely on their side, the Bluehawks took advantage of an absolutely deflated Panthers team, outscoring their opponents 19-2 in the third quarter.

Hudson kept up their maximum effort on defense and built their lead up to 40 points as the fourth period was halfway over. Only a few possession changes later, it grew to a 50-point lead and that is where the Bluehawks kept it.

At the final buzzer, Hudson took home the win before their holiday break, overcoming a slow start and regrouping to hit their stride into the new year.

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Chatham coach John Thorsen.

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Cats win again; Panthers fall to Rams

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CATSKILL — Lavon Fernandez dropped 24 points to spark unbeaten Catskill to a 97-51 Patroon Conference boys basketball victory over Greenville on Friday.

Catskill (6-0), the No. 10 Class B team in the state, led 25-16 through one quarter of action, then went on a

30-8 run in the second stanza to open up a 55-24 advantage by halftime. The Cats led 75-34 after three quarters.

DeVon Haye followed Fernandez in scoring for the Cats with 22 points. Melik Christian had 11.

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Jones has an important moment in his development as Giants QB Bob Glauber Newsday

It is more than the physical ability. More than arm strength. More than intellectual processing of the most complicated sport on Earth.

More than all of that.

It is what you do with the game on the line, when your teammates are counting on you to figure out a way to win, when there is nothing else standing between you and the final result. It goes beyond training, beyond talent, beyond all the preparation.

It is the moment when you find out you either have it.

Or you don’t.

For Daniel Jones, that moment came late Sunday afternoon at FedEx Field, after he had already produced a masterful individual performance with four touchdown passes to stake the Giants to a 35-21 lead. After special teams failures and a defensive collapse made it 35-35 and forced overtime, Jones was on the spot.

There was no fear, only anticipation.

“You see it as a huge opportunity for the team,” the Giants’ rookie quarterback said.

“For everyone on the team, I think you see it as a huge opportunity and you’re excited

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New York Jets running back Le’Veon Bell (26) runs the ball against Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker Bud Dupree (48) during Sunday’s game at MetLife Stadium.

Bell says Jets’ win over Steelers ‘had a little extra on top of it’ Charles McDonald New York Daily News

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New York Giants quarterback Daniel Jones (8) celebrates with Giants running back Saquon Barkley (26) after connecting on a touchdown pass against the Washington Redskins on Sunday at FedExField.

for that. That’s what you look forward to. That’s what you play for, is an opportunity to do that, to go down and win the game.”

He did just that.

Starting at the Giants’ 34-yard line on the first possession of overtime, Jones calmly walked into the huddle and responded with a

big-time drive to win it. A few minutes after a clutch thirddown pass to Sterling Shepard to keep the drive alive, Jones won it on a third-down touchdown throw to seldomused tight end Kayden Smith.

Giants win, 41-35.

One more moment to believe that the Giants may have found a capable successor

to Eli Manning, who just last week was feted during what likely was the final time he’d be under center for the team he’d led since 2004.

“He’s a dog, he has that mentality,” running back Saquon Barkley said of Jones.

“When (the Redskins) score (to tie it in regulation), I was See JONES B3

The final stat line for Le’Veon Bell wasn’t pretty. He rushed for 72 yards on 25 carries, but ran strong and hard against his former team in the Jets’ 16-10 win over the Steelers.

Bell made defenders miss, broke tackles, and showed off impressive vision throughout the afternoon. His final numbers would have better resembled his physical performance had he not recklessly taken an 11-yard loss towards the end of the second quarter.

“The win felt great,” Bell said after the game. “Every win feels great, but this one had a

little extra on top of it. Playing against those guys, you know, it was fun. Going against my old teammates and guys who could really never hit me in practice, we had an opportunity to really go at it today.”

The Jets were able to do just enough against the Steelers’ stingy defense to come away with the six-point victory. The Jets leaned on Bell on a drive late in the game that ended with a field goal. Bell touched the ball five times for 23 yards on that drive, including an 11-yard run to put the Jets into field goal range.

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Fallen Nets star Jayson Williams dreams of recapturing past glory Brian Niemietz New York Daily News

Former NBA star Jayson Williams still has rebounding on his mind.

More than two decades removed from NBA glory — having since served 18 months in prison for the death of livery driver Costas “Gus” Christofi and his attempt to cover up the killing — Williams tells the Daily News he dreams of coming back to the life that should have been.

Next Friday, he commemorates four years of sobriety.

“I’d love to sit here and tell you that every once in a while when I have 20 to 30 minutes off in the day I don’t start thinking about getting another chance on TV or radio,” Williams, 51, said from Futures Recovery Healthcare outside Palm Beach, Fla., where he launched the Rebound at Futures Recovery program last summer.

“Then it hits me in the stomach, that because of all the pain I caused so many people, I just go back to work,” he said. “I still dream about getting back on television... doing something on radio. That’s a passion. I love it.”

The 6-foot-10 former power forward made a name for himself by crashing the boards at Christ the King High School in New York’s Queens, then St. John’s University before moving onto the Philadelphia 76ers for two years and the New Jersey Nets for another seven.

The basketball world was yanked away from the charismatic big man when he broke his leg in an on-court collision with Stephon Marbury during a game on April Fool’s Day 1999.

Less than three years after that injury, Williams’ whole life came crashing down when reckless gunplay in his New Jersey mansion left his 55-year-old driver dead.

Christofi was fatally shot on Feb. 14, 2002, after he

drove Williams and several friends back to the basketball star’s Alexandria Township home following an event. Inside the house, Williams removed a shotgun from a case, and it discharged as he was waving it around.

After Christofi’s death, Williams said things got worse as he hit the bottle hard and relied on sleeping pills to get him through the night. Williams then tried to get back to the life he knew, but that society would no longer have him.

“This thing (was) eating me and no one would have me back,” he said.

“I couldn’t do the things I loved doing, going on radio shows and TV shows, it was all negativity.”

He’s come to accept that his lot in life is helping other people take back their lives from substance abuse. In turn, Williams says the people he keeps sober do the same for him.

“I’m not here to try to win everyone back anymore,” Williams said. “I have done everything a man is supposed to do and things a man isn’t supposed to do in his life and most of the things I’m embarrassed and ashamed about. I’m not trying to impress anyone. I’m just comfortable with what I’m doing now.”

Williams said that when his pal Chris Mullin left his head coaching job at St. John’s in April he was contacted about returning to his alma mater for a senior-level position with the team, but wasn’t ready to leave the work he’s doing in Florida.

A lot has changed since Williams left the New York area, including the city where his former team plays. He’s up for reconnecting with the Nets in their new Brooklyn home, if they’re interested.

“If they were in Timbuktu, I’d love the Nets and be loyal to them,” he said.

“They have moved on from me. I have never moved on from them.”

Two 76ers fans banned for a year following incident with Wizards’ Isaiah Thomas Candace Buckner The Washington Post

PHILADELPHIA — Two Philadelphia 76ers fans who made obscene gestures and directed profanities at Washington Wizards guard Isaiah Thomas during Saturday night’s game, convincing the player to enter the stands, were issued a 12-month ban from the Wells Fargo Center, a team spokesperson announced Sunday.

The fans, whose names were not released by the team, admitted to arena security they had used inappropriate language and gestures, a violation of the arena’s conduct policy. Their seats in Section 120 belonged to a 76ers season ticket holder and as a result of the incident, the team revoked the ticket owner’s privileges and issued a refund for the remaining games of the season, the spokesman said.

Late in Saturday’s game, Thomas walked several rows into the spectator stands to confront the pair because he said one had held up both middle fingers and yelled expletives three times. Thomas was ejected for entering the stands and may face punishment

from the league, which has a strict policy against such behavior after a brawl between players and fans at a Detroit Pistons game in November 2004. The “Malice at the Palace,” widely recognized as one of the NBA’s lowest points, led to the suspensions of nine players from the Pistons and Indiana Pacers.

Saturday wasn’t the first incident this month between a 76ers fan and an opposing player.

Toronto Raptors guard Kyle Lowry, who hails from North Philadelphia, exchanged words with a fan while heading back to the visitors’ locker room on Dec. 8. After being heckled, Lowry yelled at the fan, “Come see me!”

In another incident, Utah Jazz guard Donovan Mitchell had a courtside fan ejected for what he perceived as rude comments.

“He was being disrespectful,” Mitchell told reporters, following the Dec. 2 game.

“I like Philly. I think talking trash, I appreciate it, (it’s) part of the game. When you start talking personal stuff, that’s when things get out of control ... I won’t repeat what (the fan said).”

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Kyle Lowry scored 20 of his 32 points in the fourth quarter and added 10 assists and eight rebounds as the Toronto Raptors overcame a 30-point third-quarter deficit to post a 110-107 victory over the visiting Dallas Mavericks on Sunday.

The 30-point deficit was the largest the Raptors have overcome to win a game in franchise history. The previous high was 27.

Toronto extended its winning streak to five games and handed Dallas its first road loss since a 106-103 setback to New York on Nov. 14.

Chris Boucher added a career-best 21 points for the injury-depleted Raptors, Rondae Hollis-Jefferson had 18 points and Fred VanVleet had 10.

Celtics 119, Hornets 93 Jayson Tatum scored a career-high 39 points and Kemba Walker added 23 against his former team as Boston hammered visiting Charlotte.

Jaylen Brown had 16 points, Grant Williams chipped in 12 and Enes Kanter contributed 13 rebounds as the Celtics won their third straight. Tatum, who also had 12 rebounds, scored 22 points in the fourth quarter alone to eclipse his previous career best of 34 set in January.

Devonte’ Graham scored 23 points and Bismack Biyombo had 18 for the Hornets, who have lost four of their last five. Charlotte was playing the second night of a back-to-back.

Thunder 118, Clippers 112 Shai Gilgeous-Alexander matched his career high of 32 points set in his previous game to lift host Oklahoma

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Toronto Raptors guard Kyle Lowry (7) controls a ball as Dallas Mavericks guard Jalen Brunson (13) tries to defend during Sunday’s game at Scotiabank Arena.

City past Los Angeles, which played without Kawhi Leonard.

Gilgeous-Alexander was part of the trade that sent six-time NBA All-Star Paul George to the Clippers last July. George, who received a warm reception from the crowd in his first return to Oklahoma City, finished with 18 points.

Steven Adams had 20 points and a season-high 17 rebounds as the Thunder won a season-high fourth straight to move over .500 for the first time (15-14). The Clippers rested Leonard after he played 27 minutes on Saturday night in a 134-109 win at the San Antonio Spurs.

Leonard has not played in back-to-back games this season because of lingering knee issues.

Nuggets 128, Lakers 104 Paul Millsap scored 21

points and Gary Harris added 19 as Denver used a secondhalf burst to defeat host Los Angeles, which played without the injured LeBron James.

Nikola Jokic had 18 points and six rebounds, while Will Barton finished with 14 points and 13 rebounds for the Nuggets, who won their sixth straight. Malik Beasley chipped in 16 points off the bench.

Anthony Davis led the Lakers with 32 points, 11 rebounds and four blocks, but he sustained a knee injury.

Kyle Kuzma, who returned after missing the previous five games with an ankle sprain, had 16 points off the bench for the Lakers, who dropped their third in a row.

No other Laker scored in double figures.

Bucks 117, Pacers 89 Wesley Matthews scored

19 points in his return from a one-game absence due to a right thigh contusion as host Milwaukee recorded a victory over Indiana.

Giannis Antetokounmpo collected 18 points, 19 rebounds and nine assists for the Bucks, who outscored the Pacers 58-34 in the second half to improve to 21-1 in their last 22 games. George Hill and Brook Lopez each made three 3-pointers en route to 17-point performances as the Bucks improved to 9-0 against Central Division rivals.

Domantas Sabonis recorded 19 points and 18 rebounds, and Doug McDermott added 15 points for the Pacers, who saw their fivegame winning streak come to a halt as they fell 6 1/2 games in back of first-place Milwaukee in the Central Division.

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Henrik Lundqvist won a battle of former Vezina Trophy winners, Chris Kreider scored twice and host New York skated past Anaheim, 5-1, on the finale of the Ducks’ trek through the Tri-State area on Sunday night.

The 2012 Vezina winner as the NHL’s top goaltender, Lundqvist notched his 457th career win by stopping 19 of 20 shots as the Ducks generated very little pressure on the Swedish netminder.

The Ducks’ Ryan Miller, who won the Vezina in 2010 while playing with Buffalo, stopped 36 shots and slid to 15-9-6 all-time against the Rangers.

Kreider scored in each of the first two periods to bring his goal total to 10, and Filip Chytil and Brett Howden also scored for New York, which split the season series with Anaheim. Sam Steel produced a goal for Anaheim, which ended its four-game road swing with a 1-3-0 mark.

Coyotes 5, Red Wings 2 Clayton Keller scored two goals and an assisted on another, and Oliver Ekman-Larsson had three assists as the Arizona Coyotes rolled past the host Detroit Red Wings 5-2 on Sunday.

Carl Soderberg, Christian Dvorak, and Taylor Hall also scored for Arizona, which has alternated losses and wins for nine straight games. It was Hall’s first goal for the Coyotes after being traded from the New Jersey Devils on Dec. 16 Antti Raanta made 28 saves for the Coyotes, including six against the power play.

Rookie Filip Zadina and Tyler Bertuzzi scored for Detroit, which sunk further into the NHL basement with the worst record in the league at 9-26-3 (21 points) and has lost four straight.

Flames 5, Stars 1 Matthew Tkachuk had a goal and two

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New York Rangers’ Henrik Lundqvist (30) won a battle of former Vezina Trophy winners on Sunday night.

assists as Calgary scored three powerplay goals and a short-hander in defeating host Dallas to end a three-game winless streak.

Sean Monahan had a goal and an assist and Andrew Mangiapane, Mikael Backlund and Derek Ryan also scored for Calgary, which improved to 8-2-1 under interim coach Geoff Ward. Elias Lindholm added three assists, and goaltender David Rittich made 26 saves while also being credited with his first assist of the season.

Denis Gurianov scored for Dallas and goalie Ben Bishop stopped 25 of 29 shots. The Stars are to 14-5-3 in their past 22 games against the Flames.

Golden Knights 3, Sharks 1

Malcolm Subban finished with 37 saves and Shea Theodore scored what proved to be the game-winning goal midway through the third period as Vegas got by host San Jose.

Jonathan Marchessault and Paul Stastny also scored goals for Vegas, which extended its point streak to five games while also improving to 9-2-2 over its last 13. William Karlsson added two assists for the Golden Knights, who are tied with Arizona for first place in the Pacific Division.

Logan Couture scored for San Jose, which lost for the ninth time in its last 10 games (1-8-1). Aaron Dell finished with 34 saves for the Sharks.

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Shumsky 2-0-5. Totals 5-3-15.

3-pointers: Perry, Shumsky.

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Hudson’s Katie Jepsen brings the ball up the floor during Friday’s Patroon Conference girls basketball game against Albany Leadership.

Deja Beauford and Darriel Johnson led Hudson with 13 points apiece. Aaliyah Jones had 11 and Katie Jepsen 10.

ALBANY LEADERSHIP (20): Abdunafi 1-0-3, Galloway 3-06, Langston 2-2-6, Mabry 2-0-5, DeVanish 0-0-0. Totals 8-2-20.

3-pointers: Abdunafi, Mabry.

HUDSON (72): Beauford 5-313, K. Jepsen 2-6-10, A. Jepsen 3-1-8, Johnson 5-3-13, Jones 5-0-11, Krager 4-0-9, McDonald 1-0-3, Oliver-Ragland 2-0-5. Totals 27-13-72.

3-pointers: A. Jepsen, Jones, Krager, McDonald, Oliver-Ragland.

Catskill 53, Greenville 31 CATSKILL — Freshman Janay Brantley scored 29 points, grabbed 12 rebounds and dished out six assists to lead Catskill to a 53-31 victory over Greenville in Friday’s Patroon Conference girls basketball game.

Aizlyn O’Connell contributed nine points and 13 rebounds as the Cats improved to 3-2 in the Patroon.

Emily Duncan and Natalie Krasney each had six points for the Spartans.

Catskill posted quarterly leads of 12-7, 26-14 and 46-14.

GREENVILLE (31): Duncan 3-0-6, Krasney 3-0-6, Naze 1-0-3, Pettit 2-0-5, Rauf 2-1-5, SanEmeterio 1-0-2, Silk 1-1-4.

Totas 13-2-31.

3-pointers: Naze, Pettit, Silk.

CATSKILL (53): Brantley 9-729, Konsul 2-0-4, Leipman 0-22, O’Conell 4-1-9, Salierno 2-16, Aaliyah Shook 1-0-3. Totals 18-11-53.

3-pointers: Brantley 4, Salierno, Aaliyah Shook.

Maple Hill 61, Taconic Hills 15 CRARYVILLE — Maple Hill jumped out to a 14-0 lead after one quarter and rolled to a

Rensselaer trailed 16-14 after one quarter, but seized a 39-32 advantage by halftime.

Chatham cut the deficit to 5551 by the end of the third quarter, but the Rams used a 16-14 scoring edge over the final eight minutes to nail down the victory.

Thomas Van Tassel and Zach Gregg each had 10 points for the Panthers.

Patrick Sullivan’s 22 points led the Rams. Samir Lockhart added 21 and Ramell Johnson had 12.

RENSSELAER (71): Baker 3-2-8, Johnson 4-3-12, Lockhart 8-2-21, Nixon 3-0-6, Sullivan 7-4-22, Wright 1-0-2. Totals 26-11-71.

3-pointers: Sullivan 4, Lockhart 3, Johnson.

CHATHAM (65): Baccaro 1-0-2, Ford 1-0-2, Gregg 3-210, K. Jeralds 2-2-6, Talbott 2-0-5, Thorsen 1-1-3, Van Tassel 4-2-10, Williams 11-3-27.

Totals 25-10-65.

3-pointers: Williams 2, Gregg 2, Talbott.

Coxsackie-Athens 63, Cairo-Durham 45

EAST DURHAM — Killian Schrader’s 19-point performance helped Coxsackie-Athens take down Cairo-Durham, 63-45, in Patroon Conference boys basketball action on Friday.

Aiden Boehm added 15 points to the Indians’ cause.

Josh Kiefer added eight.

Ethan Phillips was the Mustangs’ top scorer with 12 points. Dylan Morgan contirbuted 11.

Coxackie-Athens built quarterly leads of 24-11, 36-19 and 50-38.

COXSACKIE-ATHENS (63): Boehm 7-1-15, Carroll 2-0-5, Hynes 2-1-5, Kiefer 4-0-8, Richardson 1-0-3, Kane Schrader 1-0-2, Killian Schrader 9-0-19, Simmons 3-0-6. Totals 29-2-63.

3-pointers: Carroll, Richarson, Killian Schrader.

CAIRO-DURHAM (45): Doble 3-0-7, Morgan 3-4-11, O’Connell 2-0-4, Phillips 4-012, Vlasty 1-0-2, Wagor 4-1-9.

Totals 17-5-45.

3-pointers: Phillips 4.

Maple Hill 57,

Taconic Hills 26 CASTLETON — Maple Hill bounced back from a loss to Catskill with a 57-26 victory over Taconic Hills in Friday’s Patroon Conference boys basketball action.

The Wildcats led 13-4 after one quarter, 28-13 at halftime and 47-18 at the end of the third quarter.

Rian Jewett led Maple Hill with 19 points. Dominic Hirschoff had 11.

Nole Atwood’s six points topped Taconic Hills.

TACONIC HILLS (26): B. Atwood 1-1-3, N. Atwood 2-2-6, W. Bradway 2-1-5, A. Krzeminski 1-2-5, Nowak 1-1-3, Preusser 2-0-4. Totals 9-7-26.

3-pointers: Krzeminski.

MAPLE HILL (57): Decker 2-1-5, Hirschoff 3-5-11, Jewett 8-0-19, Marra 2-0-5, McGarvey 1-0-2, Shaw 0-1-1, Sherwood 2-3-7, Utter 1-0-2. Totals 19-10-61.

3-pointers: Jewett 3, Marra.

When we needed to run the ball we could run it well, you know it felt good today.”

The game against the Steelers was undoubtedly a high point for Bell in a season that’s been filled with low moments.

Through it all, Bell hasn’t let the statistical shortcomings damper his mood and continues to stress that consistently successful offensive football takes time.

“We’re still trying to get better

and build for the offseason and years to come,” Bell exclaimed.

“We got a lot of young guys on this team. I think this year, and I don’t want to say bad luck because I don’t really believe in that, but a lot of guys went out with injuries, sickness. A lot of guys had to come in. Guys filled in and did a great job over the course of this year. I think we still got a lot to build on. Beating a playoff team obviously

Redskins, after all, a team with myriad problems, but one that has clearly not quit despite the circumstances.

These are nevertheless important moments, especially for a young quarterback who has already shown plenty of improvement since the day he was drafted. Former Giants general manager Ernie Accorsi used to say that the only thing that really mattered about a quarterback was whether you believed that he could take his team late in the fourth quarter to win the Super Bowl. Accorsi saw the quarterback he drafted do just that — twice

— when Manning beat the Patriots after the 2007 and 2011 seasons.

It’s too soon to know if Jones can do the same for the man who drafted him, because the Giants are far, far away from contending for a championship. Even so, Dave Gettleman was beaming as he sat in the second row of the press box and watched Jones deliver a much-needed win for his young team.

“He played heroic,” coach Pat Shurmur said afterward. “He made some great throws. That third-and-long (to Shepard) in overtime was

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the second straight time after opening 5-0. Ben Lewis chipped in with 11.

GREENVILLE (51): Fiducia 2-0-6, Weiss 4-0-8, Nicosia 6-3-17, Makely 1-0-2, Biernacki 2-0-4, Lewis 4-3-11, O’Connor 1-0-3. Totals 20-651.

3-pointers: Nicosia 2, Fiducia 2, O’Connor.

CATSKILL (97): Christian 5-0-11, Johnson 3-1-7, Gibbs 3-3-9, Lyles 2-1-5, Fernandez 12-0-24, Lowe-Scott 2-15, Donely 2-0-4, Scott 3-0-6, McEachern 1-0-2, Haye 9-222, Kent 1-0-2. Totals 43-8-97.

3-pointers: Haye 2, Christian.

Rensselaer 71, Chatham 65 CHATHAM — Jayshawn Williams poured in a gamehigh 27 points, but it wasn’t enough to prevent Chatham from falling to Rensselaer, 7165, in Friday’s Patroon Conference boys basketball game.

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before the game, ‘I got you today,’” Bell said. “He was like, ‘I’m making sure I’m getting you that ball today.’ So, credit coach Gase, credit the guys up front for being efficient especially when we needed to.

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like, ‘I’m calling heads (on the overtime coin toss), we get the rock. He said, ‘Let’s go win the game.’ That’s the mindset he has. That’s just the person he is.”

Game on the line.

It’s all that matters.

Now look, this wasn’t the Super Bowl, wasn’t even a game that had playoff ramifications, so we’ll keep this in perspective. This was the

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Hudson’s Katie Jepsen shoots a free throw during Friday’s Patroon Conference girls basketball game against Albany Leadership.

Cobleskill 46, Ichabod Crane 24 COBLESKILL — CobleskillRichmondville had three players reach double figures in scoring in Friday’s 46-24 Colonial Council girls basketball victory over Ichabod Crane.

Jessica Meade’s 13 points led the Bulldogs. Emma Osterhoudt had 11 and Sabrina Pressley 10.

Abigail Dolge scored seven points to lead the Riders.

Cobleskill-Richmondville led 12-7 after one quarter, 29-9 at halftime and 42-16 after three quarters.

ICHABOD CRANE (24): H. Ames 0-1-1, Culver 1-2-4, Dolge 2-1-7, Graham 22-6, Knapp 1-02, More 2-0-4. Totals 8-6-24.

3-pointers: Dolge 2.

COBLESKILL (46): Comino 2-0-4, Ellis 3-0-6, Lucear 1-0-2, Meade 6-0-13, Osterhoudt 4-211, Pressley 4-2-10. Totals 20-446.

3-pointers: Meade, Osterhoudt.

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Hudson’s Danaya Oliver-Ragland gets a shot off during Friday’s Patroon Conference girls basketball game against Albany Leadership.

61-15 victory over Taconic Hills in Friday’s Patroon Conference girls basketball game.

The Wildcats (4-0) were up 29-5 at halftime and 50-13 by the end of the third quarter.

Sophia Chevrier paced Maple Hill with 13 points. Paige Bleau had 11 points, Shannon Tacy grabbed 10 rebounds and Lauryn Smith had seven rebounds.

Marleah Perry and Kirsten

Shumsky each had five points for the Titans.

MAPLE HILL (61): Bennett 0-2-2, Barger 3-0-6, Bleau 3-211, Brewer 2-0-5, Chevrier 6-013, Eckel 1-0-3, Hoffman 2-0-4, Smith 2-0-4, Tacy 2-1-5, Tedfrd 2-1-5. Totals 23-6-61.

3-pointers: Bleau 3, Brewer, Chevrier, Eckel.

TACONIC HILLS (15): Carrasquillo 0-1-1, Cooper 0-22, Hughes 1-0-2, Perry 2-0-5, VALATIE — Ichabod Crane posted its first Colonial Council boys basketball victory of the season on Friday, defeating Cobleskill-Richmondville, 68-42.

Ed Ogden scored 21 points to lead the Riders (1-2, 3-2).

Zach Kennedy added 13 and Brett Richards had nine.

Ichabod Crane was up 19-9 after one quarter and extended the gap to 34-20 at halftime and 54-31 through three quarters.

COBLESKILL (42): Becker 3-4-10, Beevers 2-0-5, Moore 4-1-10, Oliver 2-0-5, Schettine 1-0-3, Vanderwerken 4-1-9.

Totals 16-6-42.

3-pointers: Beevers, Moore, Oliver, Schettine.

ICHABOD CRANE (68): Clickman 2-0-4, Holzhauer 1-0-2, Kennedy 5-2-13, Mulica 0-1-1, Ogden 7-4-21, Richards 4-1-9, Schmidt 2-0-4, Suafoa 2-0-6, Vecellio 3-0-6, Walsh 0-1-1, Wheeler 0-1-1. Totals 26-10-68.

3-pointers: Ogden 3, Suafoa 2, Kennedy.

Millbrook 63, Germantown 28 GERMANTOWN — Ella Wilson’s 20-point effort sparked Millbrook to a 63-28 non-league girls basketball victory over Germantown on Friday Erin Fox had 14 points and Natalie Fox 12 for the Blazers, who led 15-7, 30-18 and 49-24 at the quarter stops.

Riley Gibbons topped the Clippers with 14 points.

GERMANTOWN (28): Anderson 1-0-2, Decker 1-0-2, Denninger 2-0-4, Dunn 0-1-1, Gibbons 5-4-14, Hayes 1-0-3, Ljutich 1-0-2. Totals 11-5-28.

3-pointers: Hayes.

MILLBROOK (63): E. Fox 5-4-14, N. Fox 5-2-12, Grasseler 1-1-3, Harkenrider 2-0-4, Kozera 1-0-2, Tompkins 4-0-8, Wilson 9-0-20. Totals 27-7-63.

3-pointers: Wilson 2.

NON-LEAGUE

Bishop Gibbons 91, Hudson 54 SCHENECTADY — Rodney Parker scored 41 points to power Bishop Gibbons to a 91-54 victory over Hudson in Friday’s non-league boys basketball game.

Noah Foster had 22 points for the Knights, who held quarterly leads of 31-9, 54-29 and 80-41. Todd Williamson added 14.

Noah Hedgepeth paced Hudson (4-3) with 18 points.

Dayquan Griffin had 10.

HUDSON (54): Alexander 2-0-4, Anderson 2-1-5, Daly 1-0-2, DeJesus 1-0-3, T. Gordon 1-0-2, V. Gorman 1-0-2, Griffin 5-0-10, Hedgepeth 8-018, Johnson 3-0-6, Romano 1-0-2. Totals 25-1-54.

3-pointers: Hedgepeth 2, DeJesus.

BISHOP GIBBONS (91): Blazquez 0-1-1, Carmon 1-0-2, Foster 11-0-22, Hundley 2-04, Kiser 1-0-2, Parker 17-2-41, Quinones 1-0-2, Williamson 5-4-14, Willis 1-1-3. Totals 398-91.

3-pointers: Parker 5.

gives us a confidence boost and keeps us moving.”

The atmosphere at MetLife Stadium certainly felt like a Steelers home game at Heinz Field. There were far more Steelers fans than Jets fans in attendance and Terrible Towels were in abundance.

“The fans showed love today,” Bell said. “They didn’t boo me or anything like that.

They showed a lot of love when I

went out there. It was green and white cheering for me, there was yellow and black cheering for me, too. I was signing all the 26 jerseys that I seen, whether it was Jets or Steelers. Before the game, during the game, after the game they were all showing love. So it was fun.”

Bell said he spoke briefly to Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin and he did not speak to quarterback Ben Roethlisberger in

the lead up to the game. Bell said it was all love between him and Tomlin and that they were happy to see each other.

All in all, it was a successful first game for Bell in his first game against Pittsburgh. The season as a whole has been a dud, but this is something positive for the Jets to build upon for next season.

really good.”

How much better is Jones now than when he joined the Giants?

“Light years,” Shurmur said.

“He’s only going to get better, because he’s a very talented guy that works hard.”

There is work to be done, though. Jones, who’d had at least one turnover in all 10 of his previous starts, fumbled again Sunday, although this was one was recovered by guard Kevin Zeitler.

“The thing I got most upset about was when he scrambled and fumbled,” Shurmur said.

“He’s spinning like a running

back. Don’t do that. I’ll holler at him for that.”

Then again ...

“Five touchdowns and certainly the touchdown throw in overtime,” Shurmur quickly remembered. “Ah, maybe I won’t holler at him. I’ll just talk to him.”

Barkley believes that Jones will eventually become “one of the best quarterbacks in the league.”

Receiver Golden Tate has been around a number of quality quarterbacks in his career, and he sees no limitations for Jones’ promise.

“I 100% believe in DJ,” Tate

said. “It gets you excited to see what he’s going to do next. The guy’s fearless. I see DJ being great. If anyone stops DJ, it’s going to be DJ, and I don’t see that happening. His will to be great is there.”

And his will in the big moment, well, that’s all that really mattered.

“The dude is going to be something special,” Shepard said. “We’ve been saying that since the beginning of the season, and he showed that today.”

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shall mail to: 97 Royal Rd Stuyvesant NY 12173. Purpose: any lawful E Wheeler & Company, LLC Arts. of Org. filed w/ SSNY 12/9/19. Exist Date: 1/1/20. Off. in Greene Co. SSNY desig. as agt. of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, PO Box 126, New Baltimore, NY 12124.

Purpose: any lawful Ainsworth Gorkin activity.

PLLC. Filed with SSNY Firetown Holdings on 10/16/2019. Office LLC. Art. of Org. filed location: Greene with the SSNY on County. SSNY desig- 11/13/19. Office: Conated as agent for pro- lumbia County. SSNY cess and shall mail to: designated as agent of 126 Park Ln Tanners- the LLC upon whom ville NY 12485. Pur- process against it may pose:Dentistry be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process ARTICLES OF OR- to the LLC, 214 Pine GANIZATION OF Road, Hillsdale, NY FIRST ROCK EQUI- 12529. Purpose: Any TIES LLC lawful purpose.

Under Section 203 of TURNER the Limited Liability HANNAH REAL ESTATE, LLC Company Law FIRST: The name of Notice of formation of the limited liability Limited Liability Company ("LLC"). company is: FIRST ROCK EQUI- Articles of Organization of 39 Lasher LLC TIES LLC. SECOND: The county filed New York Sec. of ("NYSS") within this state in State which the office of the 7/11/2018. Office loc. limited liability compa- Columbia County. ny is to be located is: Certificate of Amendment of Articles of OrGreene County.

THIRD: The latest date ganization amending on which the limited the name of the limited liability company is to liability company to Hannah Turner Real dissolve is: Thirty years from the Estate, LLC filed NYSS 2/15/2019. NYSS desdate of filing.

FOURTH: The Secre- ignated as agent of tary of State is desig- LLC upon whom pronated as Agent of the cess against it may be Limited liability Com- served. NYSS shall pany upon whom pro- mail a copy of any process against it may be cess to c/o The LLC, served. The Post Of- 471 Route 19, Hudson, York 12534. fice address within or New without this state to There is no specific which the Secretary of date set for dissoluState shall mail a copy tion. of any process against Purpose: to engage in the Limited Liability any lawful activity or Company served upon act. Name and Business Address of him or her is: 1077 Route 23A, Cats- Organizer is Adeline P. Malone, Esq., 6369 kill, New York 12414.

FIFTH: The future ef- Mill Street, P.O. Box fective date of the Arti- 510, Rhinebeck, NY cles of Organization is 12572. upon filing.

SIXTH: These Articles HVC Freight LLC Arts of Organization have of Or.field with Sec. of been filed with the State of NY.{SSNY} Secretary of State on 8/25/2019 as agent upon whom process June 13, 2019.

Charles H. Schaefer, against may be served & shall and shall mail Esq. Deily & Schaefer, Esqs. process to 469 County Route 10 Germantown One Bridge Street Catskill, New York NY 12526 General Purpose.

12414 (518)943-6632 Mullins Consulting, LLC. Filed with SSNY ARTICLES OF OR- on 11/13/2019. Office: GANIZATION OF Columbia County.

LIMITED LIABILITY SSNY designated as COMPANY agent for process & PAMELA SALISBURY shall mail to: 52 CorLLC porate Circle Ste 207 Notice of formation of Albany NY 12203. PurLimited Liability Com- pose: any lawful pany (“LLC�). Articles of Organization filed NOTICE of Formation with the Secretary of of a Domestic Limited Company State of New York Liability (“SSNY�) on (LLC) Under Section 11/15/2019. Office lo- 203 of The Limited cation: Columbia Liability Company Law County.

SSNY has The name of the LLC is been designated as LCK Charm LLC. The agent of the LLC upon Articles of Organizawhom process against tion were filed with the it may be served. NY Secretary of State SSNY shall mail a copy on 11/18/2019. The of any process to the purpose of the LLC is LLC to Kristal Heinz, to engage in any lawful ESQ., P.O. Box 1331, act or activity. The ofHudson, NY 12534. fice of the LLC is to be Purpose: To engage in located in Columbia County. The Secretary any lawful activity. of State is designated ARTICLES OF OR- as the agent of the LLC upon whom proGANIZATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY cess against the LLC may be served. The COMPANY THE ORCHARDS address to which the Secretary of State shall HOUSE HUDSON LLC Notice of formation of mail a copy of any proLimited Liability Com- cess against the LLC is pany ("LLC"). Articles 176 Fowler Lake Rd. New York of Organization filed Ghent, with the Secretary of 12075.

State of New York NOTICE OF FORMA("SSNY") on TION OF LIMITED 11/14/2019. Office lo- LIABILITY COMPANY. cation: Columbia Name: AKAL REAL County.

SSNY has ESTATE LLC. Articles been designated as of Organization were agent of the LLC upon filed with the Secretary whom process against of State of NY (SSNY) it may be served. on November 21, SSNY shall mail a copy 2019. Office Location: of any process to the Columbia County.

LLC to Kristal Heinz, SSNY has been desigESQ., P.O. Box 1331, nated as agent of the Hudson, NY 12534. LLC upon whom proPurpose: To engage in cess against it may be any lawful activity. served.

SSNY shall mail a copy of process Cameron Rando LLC. to: c/o Rajvir K. CheeFiled with SSNY on ma, 14 Spruce Run, 11/11/2019.

Office: East Greenbush, N.Y. Columbia County. 12061. Purpose: SSNY designated as For any lawful puragent for process & pose.

20 Shaker Road, LLC. Filed with SSNY on 10/24/2019.

Office: Columbia County.

SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 52 Corporate Circle Ste #207 Albany NY 12203. Purpose: any lawful

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF STREAMLINE MECHANICAL SERVICES, LLC A DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC) Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York on November 27, 2019.

New York Office Location - Greene 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, 269 Old Route 23, Cairo NY 12413 PURPOSE: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of Lyles Properties LLC, a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC), Article of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on November 13, 2019.

Office location: Greene, NY. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC to 482 West Main Street, Catskill, NY 12414. Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

JOHN CONNOR, JR., ESQ. 76 Green Street P.O. Box 427 Hudson, New York 12534 (518) 828-2712 Notice of Formation of Palmquist Editorial, LLC Articles of Organization for Palmquist Editorial, LLC, (the “LLC�) have been filed with the New York Secretary of State (“SS�) on 11/12/2019. Office location: Columbia County. SS has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. Address to which SS shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is: PO Box 673, Kinderhook, NY 12106-0673. The character and purpose of the business of the LLC is any lawful act or activity permitted under NY Limited Liability Company Law. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Jewett Town Board will hold its year end meeting on Monday December 30, 2019 at 6pm in the Jewett Municipal Building located at 3547 County Route 23C by the order of The Town Board Maya Carl, Town Clerk.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: OLSEN DCM, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on December 11, 2019.

Office location: Columbia County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC to Mark P. Cawley, Esq., 175 Hunt Road, Hillsdale, New York 12529.

Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Windward Estates LLC, a domestic Limited Liability Company (LLC), Article of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on November 19, 2019.

Office location: Columbia County, NY. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC to 88 Indian Trail Road, Chatham, NY 12037.

Purpose: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Notice of formation of 5975 Hunter, LLC. Articles of Org. filed with NY Secretary of State (NS) on 2/5/2019, office location: Greene County. NS is designated as agent upon whom process may be served. NS shall mail service of process (SOP) to: PO Box 602; Hunter, NY 12442.

5975 Hunter, LLC has designated itself as agent for SOP at PO Box 602; Hunter, NY 12442. Purpose is any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of GLOBAL INTEGRITY LLC Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 12/9/2019. Office location: Greene County.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to: PO Box 335, Round Top, NY 12473. Purpose: any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF FORMATION of Jenn Morse Photography LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 9/15/19. Location: Columbia County. SSNY designated as agent for service of process on LLC. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: 81 N 5th st apt 3r Hudson NY 12534. Purpose: Any law- ful purpose.

New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Notice of Complete Application Date: 12/18/2019 Applicant: BERKSHIRE FARM CENTER AND SERVICES FOR YOUTH 13640 ST RTE 22 CANAAN, NY 12029 Facility: BERKSHIRE FARM CENTER & SERVICES FOR YOUTH 13640 RTE 22 CANAAN, NY 12029 Application ID: 4-1024-00002/00004 Permits(s) Applied for: 1 - Article 17 Titles 7 & 8 P/C/I SPDESGroundwater Discharge Project is located: in CANAAN in COLUMBIA COUNTY Project Description: The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has made a tentative determination to reissue/renew the pre-existing State Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (SPDES) Permit for the Berkshire Farm Center & Services for Youth facility located on NYS Route 22 in the Town of Canaan (SPDES #: NY0282332). The permit will authorize the continued discharge of up to 30,000-gallons per day of treated sanitary wastewater to groundwater from the on-site wastewater treatment system. The Department's reissued permit will include an administrative correction to remove the previously-listed Industrial (Class-01) discharge classification and replace it with the correctly identified classification of Private/Commercial/Institutional (Class-02).

A draft permit is available for review and comment at the NYSDEC Region 4 office.

Please refer to this application by the application number listed above and SPDES Number NY0282332.

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. To ensure timely service at the time of inspection, it is recommended that an appointment be made with the contact person.

State Environmental Quality Review (SEQR) Determination 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 Person no later than 01/09/2020 or 15 days after the publication date of this notice, whichever is later.

Contact Person EVAN H HOGAN NYSDEC 1130 N Westcott Rd Schenectady, NY 12306 (518) 357-2454

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON SITE PLAN FOR A CHANGE OF USE TO A CAIRO COMMUNITY CENTER WITH CUSTOMERS ON-SITE Notice is hereby given that the Planning Board of the Town of Cairo, Greene County, will meet at the Town Hall, 512 Main Street, Cairo, New York 12413, on the 9th day of January, 2020, at 7:00 PM, prevailing time, for the purpose of conducting a public hearing upon a site plan for a change of use to a community center with customers on site by Schobel Enterprises Inc. relating to property located at 670 NYS 145, Cairo, New York, Tax ID #83.00-2-5.2.

The Planning Board will hear all persons interested in the subject.

By Order of the Planning Board of the Town of Cairo, New York Please take Notice that Diane M. Newkirk the Town Board of the Planning Board Clerk Town of Cairo will hold of Cairo a Special Meeting on Tuesday, December RUSK MOUNTAIN LLC 31, 2019 at the Cairo Articles of Org. filed Town Hall at 11:00 NY Sec. of State 11/18/2019.

AM. This meeting will (SSNY) be for payment of Bills Office in Greene Co. and any other business SSNY desig. agent of that comes before the LLC whom process may be served. SSNY Board.

By Order of the Town shall mail process to PO Box 37, Ashland, Board.

NY 12407. Purpose: Kayla L. Warner Any lawful purpose.

Town Clerk

Retreatopia LLC. Arts. an Org. filed with the SSNY on 8/15/19. Office: Columbia County.

SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 9030 State Route 22, Suite 3, Hillsdale, NY 12529. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Spiraling Planet LLC, Art. of Org. filed with SSNY on 10/2/19. Off. loc.: Columbia Co. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served & shall mail: 572 Rte. 7, Pine Plains, NY 12567.

Purp.: any lawful purp.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON SITE PLAN FOR ROOF AND GROUND MOUNTED

SOLAR PROJECT ON COMMERCIAL PROPERTY Notice is hereby given that the Planning Board of the Town of Cairo, Greene County, will meet at the Town Hall, 512 Main Street, Cairo, New York 12413, on the 9th day of January, 2020, at 7:00 PM, prevailing time, for the purpose of conducting a public hearing upon a site plan for ground and roof mounted solar on commercial property

by Winter Clove Inc. and Edward Whitcomb relating to property located at 475 Winter Clove Road, Round Top, New York, Tax ID #152.00-1-10.

The Planning Board will hear all persons interested in the subject.

By Order of the Planning Board of the Town of Cairo, New York Diane M. Newkirk Planning Board Clerk of Cairo TedHouse Properties LLC Art of Org have been filed with the New York States Secretary of State on Ocober 29, 2019. Off. loc.

Greene County, SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served and shall mail to PO Box 794, Windham, NY 12496. Purp. any lawful purpose NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF COLUMBIA NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC D/B/A CHAMPION MORTGAGE COMPANY, Plaintiff AGAINST DEGUERRE A. BLACKBURN, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS TRUSTEE OF THE RODERIC H. BLACKBURN REVOCABLE

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COLUMBIA-GREENE MEDIA TRUST AND THE DEGUERRE A. BLACKBURN REVOCABLE TRUST, RODERIC H. BLACKBURN, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS TRUSTEE OF THE RODERIC H. BLACKBURN REVOCABLE TRUST AND THE DEGUERRE A. BLACKBURN REVOCABLE TRUST, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated October 16, 2019 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Front Steps of the Columbia County Courthouse, 401 Union Street, City of Hudson, on January 10, 2020 at 11:00AM, premises known as 33 BROAD STREET, KINDERHOOK, NY 12106. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Kinderhook, County of Columbia and State of New York, SECTION 53.8, BLOCK 1, LOT 6.

Approximate amount of judgment $717,177.62 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment for Index# 12900-18.

KEVIN LAURILLIARD, ESQ., Referee Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 Williamsville, NY 14221 PROBATE CITATION File No. 2019-201 S U R R O G AT E ’ S COURT - GREENE COUNTY CITATION THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK By the Grace of God Free and Independent TO: The heirs at law, next of kin, and distributees of the Estate of George Engelke deceased, if living, and if any of them be dead to their heirs at law, next of kin, distributees, legatees, executors, administrators, assignees and successors in interest whose names are unknown and cannot be ascertained after due diligence.

Leticia James, Attorney General of the State of New York, Empire State Plaza, Justice Building, 2nd Floor, Albany, NY 12224 A petition having been duly filed by Priscilla Moore and Timothy Dale Brennan, Sr., who are domiciled at 50 Kipp Lane, Lot No. 5, Hudson, NY 12534 and 322 Route 27B, Lot#5, Claverack, NY 12513.

YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate’s Court, Greene County, at 320 Main Street, Catskill, NY, on January 29, 2020 at 1:45 p.m. of that day, why a decree should not be made in the Estate of George Engelke lately domiciled at The Eliot, 122 Jefferson Heights, Catskill, NY 12414 admitting to probate a Will dated March 16, 2012, as the Will of George Engelke, deceased, relating to real and personal property, and directing that Letters Testamentary issue to Priscilla Moore and Timothy Brennan, Sr. Dated, Attested and Sealed, November 26, 2019 Hon. Charles Tailleur Surrogate Heather Sheehan Chief Clerk John Connor, Jr., Esq. Print Name of Attorney (518)828-2712 76 Green Street, Hudson, NY 12534 NOTE: This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not required to appear.

If you fail to appear it will be assumed you do not object to the relief requested.

You have a right to have an attorney appear for you.

The Bunker Recordings LLC Art. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 11/19/2019.

Office: Greene County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 6405 Rt 32 Cairo NY, 12413. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

PUBLIC NOTICE 51 ALBANY AVENUE, LLC AUTHORITY FILED WITH SSNY Notice is hereby given that 51 ALBANY AVENUE, LLC Authority was filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 10/16/19. FIRST: The name of the foreign limited liability compa-

ny is 51 ALBANY AVENUE, LLC (the “LLC”).

SECOND: The jurisdiction of the organization of the LLC is Vermont (VT) and the date of its organization is 8/8/19.

THIRD: Columbia County is the county within NY wherein the LLC is located.

FOURTH: The SSNY is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC to 1710 Greenbush Road, North Ferrisburgh, VT 05473.

FIFTH: The address of the LLC in VT is 1710 Greenbush Road, North Ferrisburgh, VT 05473. SIXTH: The LLC existed in VT at the time its application for authority in NY was filed. The VT Secretary of State is the authorized officer where the LLC’s Articles of Organization is filed, whose address is 128 State Street, Montpelier, VT 05633. The LLC is organized for any legal purpose. This notification is made pursuant to Section 802 of the NY Limited Liability Company Law. PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC) The name of the LLC is Sunny Bear LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on November 20, 2019. New York office location: 10 Main Street, Town of Chatham, County of Columbia and the State of New York. SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is: Sunny Bear LLC, c/o Giovanni Iacono, 228 Main Street, Germantown, New York 12526. Purpose/Character of business: Any lawful business purpose permitted under the New York Limited Liability Company Law. This notification is made pursuant to Section 206 of the Limited Liability Company Law. WILD SWEDE FILMS LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 10/31/19. Office in Columbia Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to Mikael Sodersten 127 W 79th St Apt 16A New York NY 10024. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF GREENE INDEX NO. 0283/18 Plaintiff designates GREENE as the place of trial situs of the real property S U P P L E M E N TA L SUMMONS Mortgaged Premises: 64 MAPLE AVENUE HUNTER, NY 12442 District: Section: 164.05 Block: 8 Lot 3.21 HOMEBRIDGE FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC., Plaintiff, vs.

RICHARD TANNENHOLZ AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF BARRY L. TANNENHOLZ; JEFFREY TANNENHOLZ AS HEIR AND DISTRIBUTEE OF THE ESTATE OF BARRY L. TANNENHOLZ if living, and if she/he be dead, any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described and intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; UNKNOWN HEIR AND DISTRIBU-

TEE OF THE ESTATE OF BARRY L. TANNENHOLZ, any and all persons unknown to plaintiff, claiming, or who may claim to have an interest in, or general or specific lien upon the real property described in this action; such unknown persons being herein generally described anti intended to be included in the following designation, namely: the wife, widow, husband, widower, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors, and assignees of such deceased, any and all persons deriving interest in or lien upon, or title to said real property by, through or under them, or either of them, and their respective wives, widows, husbands, widowers, heirs at law, next of kin, descendants, executors, administrators, devisees, legatees, creditors, trustees, committees, lienors and assigns, all of whom and whose names, except as stated, are unknown to plaintiff; PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ANTHONY CAVALCANTE, DEBORRAH B. CAVALCANTE, "JOHN DOE #1" through "JOHN DOE #20," the last twenty names being fictitious and unknown to plaintiff, the persons or parties intended being the tenants, occupants, persons or corporations, if any, having or claiming an interest in or lien upon the premises, described in the complaint, Defendants.

To the above named Defendants YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this summons, to serve a notice of appearance on the Plaintiffs Attorney within 20 days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York) in the event the United States of America is made a party defendant, the time to answer for the said United States of America shall not expire until (60) days after service of the Summons; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint.

NOTICE OF NATURE OF ACTION AND RELIEF SOUGHT THE OBJECT of the above caption action is to foreclose a Mortgage to secure the sum of $275,793.00 and interest, recorded on June 16, 2009, at Instrument number 2009-00003056, of the Public Records of GREENE County, New York, covering premises known as 64 MAPLE AVENUE HUNTER, NY 12442.

The relief sought in the within action is a final judgment directing the sale of the premises described above to satisfy the debt secured by the Mortgage described above.

GREENE County is designated as the place of trial because the real property affected by this action is located in said county.

NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to the mortgage company will not stop the foreclosure action.

YOU MUST RESPOND

BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. RAS BORISKIN, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff

BY: RICHARD MAYER, ESQ. 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310 Westbury, NY 11590 516-280-7675 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF GREENE Index No. 18-1009 Filed with the Greene County Clerk on November 7, 2018 Plaintiff designates Greene County As the place of trial based upon residence of the plaintiff SUMMONS WITH NOTICE Plaintiff resides at: Coxsackie, New York LUAY ABUSHQEIR Plaintiff, - against WALTER A. SALNARDI, if living; or if Walter A. Salnardi is dead, then John Doe #1 through #100 and Jane Doe #1 through 100, said names being fictitious and being intended to designate and represent persons unknown who are, or may claim to be, the heirs at law, next of kin, devisees, distributees, grantees, legal representative, executors, administrators and successors in interest of WALTER A. SALNARDI, and all other persons unknown claiming an estate, right, title, lien or interest in the real property described as Tax Map ID# 137.02-410 and situate in the Town of Catskill, Greene County, New York adverse to plaintiff's ownership or any cloud on plaintiff's title thereto, Defendant.

ACTION FOR QUIET TITLE To the above-named Defendant: You are hereby summoned to serve a notice of appearance on the plaintiff's attorney within 20 days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York); and in case of your failure to appear, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the notice set forth below.

NOTICE: The nature of this action is to quiet title for a conveyance that was made pursuant to a judgment I failure to pay taxes for three years where the title holders/ Defendants had failed to pay taxes for three (3) years. The Defendants failed to act within the timeframe for redemption and the property was seized by Greene County and duly sold at auction.

The relief sought is: (a) granting to the plaintiff and against the defendant a clear title of a Bargain and Sales Deed, with Covenants Against Grantor's Acts - Individual or Corporation, and (b) that is be declared and adjudged that the Defendant have no estate, right or title or interest whatsoever in or to the Property or any part of it.

Dated: Catskill, New York December 19, 2019 SHELLEY A. BOWER, ESQ., ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW Shelley Ann Bower, Esq., Attorney Attorney for Plaintiff 220 Jefferson Heights Catskill, New York 12414 Telephone: (518) 9431615, ext. 304 Telefax: (866) 7289251 (not for service of papers) SUPREME COURT: STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF COLUMBIA SHERIFF'S NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL PROPERTY 70 Hull Road, Elizaville, NY 12523 Index No. 8081-2014 ESTATE OF GEORGE SALENSKY, Plaintiff, -againstSTEVEN M. HULL and AMY A. HULL Defendant.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that by virtue of an execution issued out of the Supreme Court, Columbia County, dated September 16, 2019, against the real property of the judgment debtors, STEVEN M. HULL and AMY A. HULL, the Sheriff of the County of Columbia will sell at public auction, pursuant to law, at the Columbia County Courthouse, 401 Union Street, Hudson, New York on the 8th day of January, 2020 at 10:00 AM in

the forenoon of said day all the right, title and interest which the said STEVEN M. HULL and AMY A. HULL have therein on the 8th day of January, 2020, or at any time subsequent thereto, in and to the lands and premises described and numbered below: 1. All of the interest of STEVEN M. HULL and AMY A. HULL in and to that parcel of real property situated in the Town of Gallatin, Hamlet of Elizaville, County of Columbia, State of New York with the tax map number Tax ID# 183.-1-16.100 commonly known as 70 Hull Road, Elizaville, NY 12523 and the same are described in Book 631 of Land Records at Page 1687 and more particularly described in Schedule "A" attached hereto and made a part hereof.

Dated: November 8, 2019 David P. Bartlett Columbia County Sheriff Schedule A To Notice of Sale Tax ID # 183.-1-16.100 commonly known as 70 Hull Road, Elizaville, NY 12523 ALL that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, lying or being erected in the Town of Gallatin, (Elizaville),County of Columbia, State of New York, more fully described as follows: KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS 70 Hull Road, on a plan or map of the property of Michael and Marcella Hull, known and shown on a map prepared by S.V.N. Rockerfeller, C. E. and entitled "Property of Michael & Marcella Hull to be conveyed to Walter and Ruth Hull", scales as noted, filed at the Columbia County Clerk's Office, Hudson, N.Y. on November 5, 1954.

SUBJECT TO THE FOLLOWING RESTRICTIONS: 1. The above described premises to be used for residential purposes.

2. The Grantee herein, his heirs and assigns, to comply with all State and County laws and regulations as to water and sewage installations and this conveyance is made subject to those laws and regulations.

3. The Grantee herein, his heirs and assigns, to comply with any and all reservations, right of way, boundary agreements, easements and any and all restrictive covenants that run with the land and the affecting lot.

4. The Grantee herein, his heirs and assigns, to comply with the right of the public to access the portion of Hull and Benton Road, lying within the parcel.

5. The Grantee herein, his heirs and assigns, to comply with rights of record, if any, of existing public utilities.

BEING a portion of the parcel as described in a deed from Henry W. Livingston to Henry Younghanse, dated April 12, 1835 and recorded in the Book of Deeds at the Columbia County Clerk's Office, Hudson, N.Y. BEING the same premises and parcel conveyed by and as described in Warranty Deed by Charles Weaver to Michael Hull, bearing the date of September 24, 1921, and recorded in the Columbia County Clerk's Office, Hudson, N. Y. on May 22, 1931 in Liber 211, Book of Deeds at page 165.

BEING a portion of the premises conveyed in part as described in a deed from Michael and Marcella Hull, husband and wife, as tenants by the entirety, bearing the date of December 3, 1954 and recorded in the Columbia County Clerk's Office, Hudson, N. Y. in Liber 318, Book of Deeds at page 185.

BEING a portion of the premises described in a deed from Marcella Hull as surviving tenant by the entirety of her husband Michael Hull, to Walter Hull and Ruth Hull by a deed bearing the date of January 31, 1967 and recorded in the Columbia County Clerk's Office, Hudson, N. Y. in Liber 431, Book of Deeds at page 347.

BEING a portion of premises described in a deed bearing the date of April 10, 1976 from Walter Hull and Ruth Hull to Walter and Ruth Hull and recorded in the Columbia

County Clerk's Office, Hudson, N. Y. in Liber 524, Book of Deeds at page 963.

BEING a portion of premises described in a deed bearing the date of March 6, 2008, from Ruth Hull to Stephen and Amy Hull and recorded in the Columbia County Clerk's Office, Hudson, N. Y. in Liber 631, Book of Deeds at page 1693.

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Ohio State and other schools in College Football Playoff didn’t have to look far to find coaches Joey Kaufman The Columbus Dispatch

Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith brought a visitor to meet university president Michael Drake in the summer of 2018.

It was Ryan Day, who had spent one season with the Buckeyes as their offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach.

Smith viewed him as a rising star.

After Day received job offers earlier that offseason, Smith recalled a conversation with then-coach Urban Meyer about the importance of keeping the assistant on staff.

“We’ve got to do everything we can to retain him,” Meyer said, “because he is a guy that is special and can do it here one day.”

The exchange captured Smith’s attention. He sometimes brought aspiring head coaches to chat with Drake to “understand the big picture of the university.” But he saw it as particularly necessary to usher Day into the president’s office, hoping he might come to familiarize himself with the inner workings as a prime future candidate to lead the powerhouse football program.

“I thought he was a guy that could eventually take over for Urban,” Smith said, “either if he stayed here or went somewhere else.”

The rest of the story is well known.

Months later, Day was installed as acting head coach for preseason practices and the first three games after Meyer was suspended for his handling of domestic abuse allegations involving a former assistant. Day led the Buckeyes to three blowout wins. As health issues related to an arachnoid cyst prompted Meyer to retire by the end of the season, Day was tapped as the successor. In his first full season at the helm this fall, he returned Ohio State to the College Football Playoff amid an unbeaten regular season in which the Buckeyes torpedoed opponents.

Day’s pathway to the top job is not an outlier. All four coaches leading teams into the playoff this month were promoted from within their programs.

LSU removed the interim tag from Ed Orgeron after he took over following Les Miles’ firing in 2016. Oklahoma elevated Lincoln Riley, its hot-shot offensive coordinator, when Bob Stoops retired the following year.

The coach pitted against Day in the semifinals in the Fiesta Bowl is Dabo Swinney, a forerunner of a series of promotions.

Since taking the permanent job a decade ago, Swinney has built Clemson into a modern juggernaut, capturing two of the past three national championships and winning 28 straight games, a testament to the level of success possible from an internal hire.

“It’s just a good way to do it,” former Clemson athletic director Terry Don Phillips said. “You don’t have to spend a gazillion dollars to

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go out and find somebody if you got a good, solid program. You can work within that program.”

In interviews with The Dispatch, athletic directors who promoted assistants to head coaches said they benefited from up-close observation.

When Phillips hired Swinney after his interim stint in 2008, certain instances struck him.

Though Swinney was a wide receivers coach for the Tigers, he knew everyone on the team, and many players visited him in his office at the team’s facility. It looked like a gathering place. Phillips considered it as evidence of a magnetic leader.

“There was something about Dabo that attracted these players to just come in and talk with him, not necessarily about football,” Phillips said. “He had such a relationship with players at all positions.”

Had they not shared a workspace, Phillips never would have noticed.

He furthered watched Swinney charm boosters at Clemson Club gatherings across South Carolina and be ruthless enough to make critical decisions for the program to improve. On the same day that he was named interim coach, Swinney fired offensive coordinator Rob Spence.

The events turned Phillips into a firm believer.

Smith valued similar firsthand assessments as he watched Day inside the Woody Hayes Athletic Center or at Ohio Stadium.

In his first game as the Buckeyes’ acting head coach in 2018, Day made his biggest impression.

He looked calm each time TV cameras captured a glimpse of him, a sideline demeanor that Smith admired.

“Obviously, he’s the playcaller, so he’s got to be cerebral,” Smith said, “but he doesn’t yell at players.”

The Buckeyes also tallied 77 points against Oregon State in an onslaught, piling on three touchdowns in the

fourth quarter.

It was an unrelenting approach that allowed Day to gain even more favor.

“Your players want to be aggressive,” Smith said. “I really think players love to connect with a culture and environment where you’re going to get after it. And if you demonstrate that as a leader, players gravitate to that.”

In an era of skyrocketing salaries in college football, with schools on the hook for paying coaches multimillions of dollars each season, familiarity with candidates has become valued by administrators.

A lot of money is on the line, including hefty buyout payments, if the hires don’t pan out.

“A lot of athletic directors are rethinking how they should be doing things, betting more on a guy that they know who is a good leader,” said Scott Roussel, president of FootballScoop.com, a website that covers the coaching industry.

The salaries for promoted assistants are also often lower, at least in the early goings.

In their first full seasons in 2017, Orgeron’s LSU salary was $3.5 million and Riley’s compensation was $3.1 million at Oklahoma.

By comparison, Tom Herman, who was hired by Texas during the same offseason hiring cycle and was widely seen as a top up-and-coming coach after two successful seasons at Houston, made significantly more at $5.25 million.

Riley has since been given a sizable raise.

After leading Oklahoma to playoff berths the previous two seasons, his annual salary is nearly double, reaching more than $6 million.

Swinney is the nation’s highest-paid coach at $9.3 million, according to USA Today’s database of coaching salaries, following a series of raises.

“If he does what you hope he can do, which you’ve seen the potential of, if that

materializes, then you reward him,” Roussel said.

As Day considered his own ascendance last week, he held appreciation for Smith’s decision, noting the veteran athletic director had taken a chance on him.

“It was a little risky,” Day said. “Call it for what it is.”

Day knew he had been named a first-time head coach five months before his 40th birthday, rare at a blueblood program that had not hired anyone without prior head-coaching experience for its top job since 1946.

Paul Bixler, elevated as a former assistant at Ohio State more than seven decades ago, lasted only one season.

But Smith framed his decision in opposite terms.

While Meyer’s health worsened late last season, Smith conferred with Oklahoma athletic director Joe Castiglione, who had promoted Riley. He also considered other possible candidates from other schools.

Though Smith declined to reveal those candidates or acknowledge if he spoke with any of them, he made pros and cons lists to contrast with Day. He determined it wasn’t much of a gamble to tap the assistant who had been a part of recent success late in the Meyer era, someone whom he had watched for two seasons.

“The risk with Ryan was less than the risk of bringing in somebody else new,” Smith said. “I’d already assessed his talent and felt comfortable with that. And the other piece was we have a culture, we have a system, we have a structure, that doesn’t need blowing it up.

“I’ve brought in a lot of different coaches in a lot of different sports. Ninety-nine point nine percent of the time, they want to change something. Ryan knows how we operate.”

Unlike other prospective outside candidates, Day benefited from an audition.

And he passed.

Former Jacksonville Jaguars executive vice president of football operations Tom Coughlin walks out of the tunnel at TIAA Bank Field in Jacksonville, Fla. on October, 2019.

Fired Jaguars legend Tom Coughlin is proof Vince Lombardi could not work in today’s NFL Mike Bianchi Orlando Sentinel

If ever you needed proof that Vince Lombardi could not function in today’s NFL, you need to look no further than the downfall of the autocratic, iron-fisted, authoritarian, dictatorial regime of Tom Coughlin in Jacksonville.

“It’s a different environment, different players and a different era,” former Jaguars quarterback Mark Brunell says about the iconic Coughlin being ousted last week as the Jags’ executive vice president of football operations. “What was accepted when we played for him is no longer acceptable. The rules have changed and I’m sure that didn’t sit well with Coach Coughlin.”

Which is why Jaguars owner Shad Khan made the sad but necessary decision to fire Coughlin from the franchise he essentially created in his own image a quarter-century ago. Coughlin, the Jags’ chief executive, had fined players millions of dollars for rules infractions, including missing doctor and rehabilitation appointments during the offseason — a blatant violation of the NFL’s Collective Bargaining Agreement with the NFL Players Association. The stubborn Coughlin considered these missed appointments as mandatory when the CBA clearly states they are voluntary.

The NFLPA released a scathing letter earlier this week that said former Jags player Dante Fowler Jr. had won a grievance against the Jaguars after being fined 25 times for more than $700,000.

The letter from the union went on to say that more than 25% of the grievances filed by NFL players during the past two years have been against the Jaguars and then sealed Coughlin’s fate when it alerted potential free agents about signing with the Jaguars.

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instituted a rigid set of rules and demanded that his players follow them to a T. Coughlin once fined two rookies for being late for a team meeting — even though a car accident was the reason for their tardiness. He once fined defensive tackle John Jurkovic for wearing white socks instead of dress socks into a team meeting. Long ago, his then-teenage daughter Katie came to watch practice one hot afternoon and sat down on the bench — violating Coughlin’s rule that nobody, not even spectators, are allowed to sit or even kneel during practice. He marched over to Katie and instructed her to stand up.

“The Tom Coughlin I played for, it was about discipline and following the rules,” Boselli says. “He wanted his players to do A, B and C — and those were the rules and that’s how the team operated. As a player, I didn’t agree with or like all the rules, but those were the rules and I followed them. It’s ironic to me that if it’s good for the players, it has to be good for the coaches and front office as well. If the rules are laid out by the Collective Bargaining Agreement, then you have to follow those rules.”

One of Coughlin’s rules was that he mandated the clocks in the team complex be moved up five minutes so everybody would show up early for meetings and appointments. When Coughlin was fired earlier this week, the clocks in the building were almost immediately reset to regular time instead of Coughlin time.

If we’re being completely honest, you’d have to turn back the clock five decades instead of forward five minutes if you really want to return to Coughlin time. Realistically, Coughlin was fired because the Jaguars are a bad team, but philosophically I believe he was fired because he is an oldschool disciplinarian out of step in a new-age league. Players of today (see Jalen Ramsey) simply don’t respond to Coughlin’s heavy-handed tactics.

The thing about Coughlin, though, is he didn’t demand any more effort from his players than he demanded of himself. The workaholic coach expected his players to try as hard and care as much as he did, and maybe that’s just not possible in today’s millennialfilled workforce.

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Dad’s bullying of son leads wife to consider leaving Dear Abby, I have a 4-year-old boy and a 2-year-old girl and I’m worried. My husband bullies our son, “Jake.” We often go to a park with swingsets near our home. Jake runs to the swings, gets on, and then my husband pushes it so hard, Jake DEAR ABBY screams in fear. People sitting on the benches stop talking and turn toward us. If I do what I can to stop this, my husband pushes me. I see him giggling low and his eyes flash with his head bent slightly down.

My husband is not a young father. I’m worried he will continue to bully Jake in other ways as he grows. My husband is a small man with feminine features and a shy demeanor. He has told me how some of his older brothers bullied him, and how girls in the neighborhood called him derogatory names.

I suspect he bullies our son to get even with what happened to him back then. Knowing him, I don’t think counseling will be an option.

I feel I must either live with him at my son’s expense, or leave. Do you have any advice for me?

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Talk to your husband and tell him his behavior is hurting the boy and it must stop. Does the bullying only occur in the park? If so, avoid going to the park with Daddy.

I’m concerned about your statement that he “pushes” you if you try to intervene. If you mean it literally, that is spousal abuse. Deliberately

frightening a child is also abuse, which may indeed escalate as the boy grows older. Some sessions with a licensed psychotherapist could be helpful for you in determining what your next steps should be. Divorce may be the surest way to protect both of your children.

Dear Abby, My late husband refused to wear a seat belt. One day a truck hit him. He was thrown around hard inside the car and spent a month in the hospital. An X-ray showed the back of his brain was mush. He was mentally disabled for the rest of his life and needed care 24/7. It was such a waste. He had been a teacher with a master’s degree in education.

My grown children helped me to take care of him. They were heartbroken. This was a tragedy that could have been avoided. It happened only because he didn’t take a few seconds to fasten his seat belt.

Please print this as a reminder to your readers, Abby.

Common Sense Californian I am truly sorry for your family’s pain. Too many people, drivers and passengers, choose to ignore the seat belt laws.

As your letter illustrates, they do so at their own peril. Every traveler, whether in the front or back seat, should buckle up. I’m glad you shared this because so many people are on the road during the holidays. I hope your family’s tragic experience will give them the “nudge” they need.

Limb-girdle dystrophies begin in shoulders and hips I have two boys diagnosed with limb girdle muscular dystrophy. I am looking everywhere for some help, but can’t seem to find anything.

Is there a cure?

There are many types of muscular dystrophy. Some start in TO YOUR childhood; others later in life.

GOOD HEALTH The limb-girdle muscular dystrophies are a diverse group of inherited disorders, caused by many different genetic abnormalities. The most common of these starts in childhood.

“Limb-girdle” means that the symptoms of the disease usually start in the muscles around the hips and shoulders, as opposed to the muscles of the hands and feet. The prevalence of all types of LGMD together is estimated to be about 2 in every 100,000 people. The diagnosis of childhoodonset muscular dystrophy usually starts with a parent who notices something wrong, followed by a careful history, exam and appropriate blood testing by the pediatrician. Since there are many types of muscular dystrophy, further testing and consultation with an expert are usually necessary.

The exact diagnosis used to be made by muscle biopsy, but it is now most commonly made by genetic testing. Sometimes both are needed.

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Unfortunately, there is no cure yet and, as of now, no treatment that can slow down the

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My daughter was diagnosed with prediabetes. She needs to lose weight. Is Weight Watchers a good idea?

In my practice, we have an excellent registered dietitian nutritionist available for individual consultation, so I usually refer there for a personalized approach. However, not everyone has access to this resource.

Weight Watchers (now WW) is one of many commercial weight-loss programs in the U.S. It has been studied many times, and been shown to promote more weight loss than a control group, who were given printed materials, a few visits with a doctor or health education. The weight loss was not large: 2.6% more than the control group.

Other weight loss programs, including Jenny Craig and Optifast, also showed benefit. I have had many patients use Weight Watchers, and they appreciate the simplicity of use. Some people do much better than the average, and of course some people don’t do well at all. There is no single best choice for everyone.

As far as your daughter’s prediabetes goes, any program that helps people to lose weight is likely to improve the prediabetes, but avoiding simple sugars and processed starches is important.

Weight Watchers has one study showing it is particularly good with prediabetes, with participants losing 5.6% of body weight compared with 0.2% of the control group at one year.

If she wants to try WW, it is a reasonable choice.

Horoscope

By Stella Wilder Born today, you are something of an adventurer, and you are eager to experience the kinds of things that most individuals would go out of their way to avoid or simply never think of in the first place. To go where no one has ever gone before is one of your primary motivations in life, whether literally or metaphorically.

Indeed, there are times in which your adventurous wanderings are merely philosophical, when you choose to experiment with thought or feeling rather than do something literal. On the other hand, you never feel truly alive unless you are testing your limits.

You never feel compelled to drag others into your adventures, but you will surely welcome companionship when it is offered.

Also born on this date are: Ryan Seacrest, TV personality; Ricky Martin, singer and actor; Ava Gardner, actress; Howard Hughes, aviation pioneer and movie producer; Kit Carson, trailblazer; Mary Higgins Clark, author; Georges Guynemer, French World War I pilot; Michael Curtiz, film director.

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.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 25

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Hagar the Horrible

Zits

Baby Blues PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — You can enjoy yourself fully today, provided there is nothing left unsaid after dealing with a sudden, tricky issue. A friend reaches out.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — You will want to balance thought and feeling very carefully today.

What you do will reflect all that is going on inside — and it’s a lot!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — Your behavior may lead some to conclude that you are merely being reckless, but in fact you’ve planned for every eventuality — haven’t you?

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — When asking certain questions today, you may be met with nothing Beetle Bailey but questions in return. There’s a reason this is a stubborn issue!

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — Cash flow will be an issue today, surely, but you’ll also want to keep other necessaries firmly in mind. It’s a juggling act, for sure!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — You may be accused of being inconstant today, but all you are doing is exploring your options and exercising your right to do what you will.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You may not recognize an error today the moment it is made, but later on you’ll recognize your misstep and work quickly to reverse it.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Facts and figures of Pearls Before Swine all kinds will figure prominently today. Make sure you have what you need to sort things out to your liking.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — You may be looking to someone for help who is ill-equipped to give it at this time. This doesn’t mean you have to go it alone, however.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — You may be making decisions today based on information that is no longer applicable. Update your thinking and revise your plans.

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SUPER QUIZ

THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME

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

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

Christmas songs Level 1

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Provide the song title to complete the lyrics. (e.g., “I’m dreaming of a ____.” Answer: “White Christmas.”)

Freshman level 1. “Better not pout, I’m telling you why. ______.”

2. “But do you recall the most famous reindeer of all? _____.”

3. “The holly green, the ivy green, the prettiest picture you’ve ever seen is ____.”

Graduate level 4. “We’re happy tonight, walking in a ______.”

5. “And on every street corner you hear _____.”

6. “Christmas Eve will find me, where the love light gleams. ______.”

PH.D. level 7. “And everyone telling you be of good cheer. _______.”

8. “And since we’ve no place to go, _____.”

9. “From now on our troubles will be out of sight. ______.”

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

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

12/24/19 Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit, 1 to 9.

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SUPER QUIZ ANSWERS 1. “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town.” 2. “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.”

3. “Christmas in Killarney.” 4. “Winter Wonderland.” 5. “Silver Bells.” 6. “I’ll Be Home for Christmas.” 7. “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year.” 8. “Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!” 9. “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.”

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

Mutts

Dilbert

Pickles For Better or For Worse

Get Fuzzy

Hi & Lois

Crossword Puzzle Mother Goose & Grimm ACROSS 1 Regina’s province: abbr.

5 Say something 10 Moments, for short 14 Pine or palm 15 Therefore 16 Nag 17 TV show award 18 Explorer; globe-trotter 20 Letter from Greece 21 Hee-haw 22 Back street 23 Merciless 25 Tear 26 UFO pilots 28 Two-colored horses 31 Tempts; attracts 32 Regal decree 34 Bertinelli, to friends 36 Be without 37 Have __ in; trust 38 Game similar to lotto 39 Actor Brynner 40 Prepares to take a selfie 41 Brings on board 42 Deodorant brand 44 “Look out!”

45 __ Padres National Forest 46 __-depressive; bipolar 47 Trembling tree 50 Family members 51 2000 pounds 54 Columbia or Cornell 57 Sleazy nightclub 58 Toy with a tail 59 Vital vessel 60 Think __; contemplate 61 Asterisk 62 Mike or Cicely 63 Transmit

Bound & Gagged

Created by Jacqueline E. Mathews

5 Stock purchases 6 Ride Schwinn Mayoacontainer 7 1 of the 7 deadly sins 8 Part of a royal flush 9 __ Griffey Jr. 10 Carve a statue 11 Actor James __ 1 __ up; form a row Jones 12 Northern U.S. 14 Indian Long upholstered tribe 13 Nimble 19 Contaminate 21 Hot dog holders 24 Have a strong smell 25 Wealthy South American 26 Friendly nation 27 Maui feasts 28 in the 29 Holes Does the slalom, ground 29 Hyper 30 Less nuts 32 Oregon-to-New DOWN York direction 1 Staircase part 33 Perish 2 Gives a weapon to 35 Misplace 3 Rainbow’s shape 37 Enemies 38 Small oval fruit 4 Door opener

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Saturday’s Puzzle Solved Solved Monday’s Puzzle

Non Sequitur

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39 Lying “It’s allflat Greek __” 40 41 Chick producers 43 Shrewd 44 Sprawling tree 46 Slogan 47 Diving birds 48 In a __; sulking 49 Bread for a gyro 50 Gentlemen

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47 52 Helsinki Hotpointfolks appliance 53 Bookish fellow 55 One not to be trusted 56 __ sauce; teriyaki marinade 57 __ and don’ts; rules

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