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7 officers injured in prison attack By Bill Williams Columbia-Greene Media

COXSACKIE — Seven corrections officers at Greene Correctional Facility were treated for injures they sustained after they were attacked by two inmates, said James Miller, director of public relations at New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association. The two inmates involved in the melee were in Special Housing Units for unrelated disciplinary issues, Miller said. The incident took place Feb. 6. NYSCOPBA, the union representing state corrections officers, released details Monday. A sergeant and six officers were injured

after the inmate’s cell door was opened at the medium-security correctional facility. “Now, once again we have multiple officers injured by two inmates who were in a Special Housing Unit cell for discipline. This violence needs to be addressed. Not next week or next month, it needs to be addressed today,” NYSCOPBA Mid-Hudson Vice President Chris Moreau said in a statement. At about 2:25 p.m., an officer making routine rounds in the cell block of the Special Housing Unit heard an inmate inside his cell make threats to hurt himself. The officer called for assistance and a sergeant and five other officers responded to the cell

block. The inmate was ordered to come out of his cell, which he refused. His cell mate was also ordered to step out of the cell and he also refused, Miller said. Before officers were able to physically remove the inmates from the cell, the first inmate covered the cell window with a towel, completely obstructing the view inside the cell. He was ordered several times to remove the towel but refused, Miller said. The cell door was then opened and the two inmates charged the sergeant and officers. One inmate grabbed the sergeant by his arm and attempted to assault him, See PRISON A8

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Seven corrections officers were treated for injuries after an attack by two inmates at Greene Correctional Facility.

Cards to vets, seniors are a matter of the heart

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U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado (D-19) meets with nursing home resident John Cobb at Greene Meadows in Catskill on Monday.

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U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado, D-19, meets with nursing home resident John Zboray at Greene Meadows in Catskill on Monday.

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New York State Senator Michelle Hinchey greets Greene Meadows nursing home resident Geraldine Jones on Valentine’s Day.

CATSKILL — Residents of a Catskill nursing home received some much-welcomed Valentine’s Day love Monday as U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado, D-19, and state Sen. Michelle Hinchey, D-Saugerties, delivered handmade cards from local school children. In two separate events held an hour apart

Monday morning, the two elected officials greeted residents with Delgado meeting with a half-dozen veterans at Greene Meadows Nursing and Rehabilitation Center a week ahead of President’s Day. “It’s Valentine’s Day, so I asked people all across the district to write Valentine’s Day cards,” Delgado said to the veterans. “Families, kids, even my eight-year-old twin boys did them.”

Delgado said his office received more than 700 handmade cards from across the 19th district. “These cards thank you and express love to you,” Delgado told the group. “I wanted to make sure we hand-delivered them to you on Valentine’s Day so you have something to look at and something to feel good See CARDS A8

Assembly Dems rally to protect bail reform By Kate Lisa Johnson Newspaper Corp.

ALBANY — Democratic assemblymembers stood in solidarity in the Empire State Plaza concourse Monday, hoping their shouts to protect the state’s bail reform law would drown out demands to change the controversial statute. Advocates rallied near the entrance to the state Capitol on Monday as New York City Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, met with legislative leaders to further discuss the details of his legislative agenda after taking office last month. “Bail reform is often talked about in the context of

community safety and public safety ... but public Safety also means not worrying about being a victim of systems that are designed for people to fail,” said Assemblymember Amanda Septimo, D-Bronx. “We know that bail reform works.” Several Democratic assemblymembers have said their conference has become increasingly concerned about the need to revisit or change the bail laws as the debate grows more heated and polarized amid 2022-23 budget negotiations. Bail reform was expected to be a topic of discussion between Adams and legislative leaders Monday after Adams, a former

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Holding her infant son, Assemblymember Chantel Jackson, D-Bronx, leads her colleagues and fellow bail reform advocates in cries to protect the state’s recent changes to the system in the Empire State Plaza concourse on Monday.

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adamant last week the Legislature amend the bail laws to allow judges greater discretion in determining a defendants’ level of dangerousness — especially those accused of violent crimes with a firearm. “The most important thing our assembly leaders can do is hold Mayor Adams accountable to addressing the hard facts around bail reform and not listening to anecdotes based in fear,” said Brandon J. Holmes, New York Civil Liberties Union’s regional director for the Hudson Valley. “...We need to ask Mayor Adams and any other law enforcement officials who want to see

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further rollbacks, why do you want New York to slide back?” he added. “Why do you want to separate more of our families instead of investing in community-based solutions?” The mayor traveled by train to Albany from the city Sunday night. Monday marked the first time lawmakers publicly gathered in Albany since before the COVID-19 pandemic began to rally in favor of the Legislature’s 2019 decision to limit pretrial detention for most nonviolent crimes. The reforms were rolled back in the 2020-21 budget to See REFORM A8

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shame because what that does is systematically divide us.” A number of protesters said they had lost jobs or been put on leave because they refused to get vaccinated. One pair who declined to give their full names said it’s either get jabbed or go broke. “Think about that: lose your job, that you might have worked 10, 20 years for, and because you won’t get this experimental jab, your family’s going to suffer,” said retired toolmaker Rick Armstrong. He criticized the media, saying he turned off the news two years ago and now gets his information from people in the “real world.” The protest created its own economic consequences, shuttering auto plants and interrupting the flow of millions of dollars in trade. An average of $13 million in goods is shipped across the bridge per hour. At a McDonald’s Corp. restaurant adjacent to the rallying point, a store manager said revenue plunged from C$20,000 ($15,700) a day to C$3,000

because the only customers were protesters, media and police. Holly, a trucker who also attended protests in Ottawa and would not give her last name, said the bridge blockade was costing her money but she believed she had no choice. She was there to ensure a positive future for “every single citizen of Canada, whether they like it or not,” she said. “It’s all peaceful. There’s no violence. It’s love.” But a mistrust of politicians, doctors and media ran deep at the protest. Kim Kroeker, a health-care worker, said she mostly gets her information from social media sites like Rumble, an online video platform -- anywhere but mainstream news which is “censored,” she claimed. She doesn’t trust official tallies of COVID illness. Many demonstrators spoke about their love of Canada and need to defend it. Ronald Lyons teared up while speaking about an uncle who died in Normandy

during the Second World War. “There’s no way I’m going to let him go in vain for that,” he said. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other leaders have appealed to Canadians to make sacrifices and respect COVID restrictions designed to protect hospitals, the elderly, and those with medical conditions that would make them more vulnerable. But several protesters said at-risk people have the “choice” to stay home -- and everyone else should be free to reject masks and vaccine mandates without fear of consequences. “If you want to cover your face, cover your face, and if you want to take an experimental jab, take your experimental jab,” said Mike McCou, a former support worker for people with intellectual disabilities who said he no longer has a job because of the vaccine mandates. “But don’t think for two seconds that you have the right to force your fear and your beliefs upon me.” (C)2022 Bloomberg L.P. Visit bloomberg.com. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

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A woman holds a Canadian Flag as police deploy on Saturday, Feb. 12, 2022, to move protesters blocking access to the Ambassador Bridge and demanding an end to government COVID-19 mandates, in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

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Largely civil and without violence, a demonstration in Windsor, Ontario was finally cleared by police Sunday after blocking one of North America’s busiest cross-border trade arteries for more than five days. But while the standoff is over and the Ambassador Bridge has reopened, deep issues remain. Many of the protesters hold views that are uncompromising, including a hardened mistrust of media and of the doctors and scientists responsible for giving advice about COVID-19. They often mentioned their love of country, even as their upside-down Canadian flags billowed in the frigid breeze. Fury with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was expressed in profanity-strewn banners, but dealings with reporters, police, and residents were largely polite. So while aspects of the bridge protest -- and in particular its quiet end -- reflected Canada, the divisions it exposed are similar to those emerging elsewhere. Confusion, anger and exasperation after more than two years of the pandemic drew support from like-minded groups in the U.S. and parts of Europe amid chafing at what they see as governmental overreach, economic fears and a deeply emotional desire to return to something like normal. As elsewhere, Canada’s protesters were opposed to vaccine mandates, but some had other reasons for being there, including concerns about inequality. The consequences of pandemic-related decisions in Ottawa are being borne by the working class, said Jerome Beal, a selfemployed construction worker. Food, housing and energy costs are soaring and people are losing their homes, he said. “They’re making it impossible for the middle-class people to be middle class,” Beal said. “There’s either going to be the yays or the nays. And that’s a

Russia should continue talks with the U.S. and its allies on its demands for security guarantees in Europe, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told President Vladimir Putin Monday, suggesting the Kremlin will extend efforts to reach a diplomatic solution to surging tensions with the West. Putin said “all right” in response to Lavrov’s proposal, made in comments shown on state television. Shortly after the session with Lavrov, Putin met Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, who reported that some of the massive military exercises now underway are already concluded, while others will end later. He didn’t specify plans for returning the troops to their bases, but other officials have said they will go back once the operations are over. The comments were the clearest signs yet that the Kremlin will continue diplomatic efforts to ease tensions and may even begin to de-escalate in a crisis that’s raised fears of war in Europe. The U.S. has demanded Russia pull back some 130,000 troops it says Russia has massed near the border with Ukraine, many as part of the exercises.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov hold a meeting at the Kremlin, in Moscow on Monday, Feb. 14, 2022.

Moscow so far has rejected those appeals and called for the U.S. and its allies to give sweeping security guarantees, including a ban on further expansion of NATO. The U.S. ruled that out but offered talks on missile restrictions and measures to build confidence, steps that Lavrov described as “constructive.” He recommended to Putin to continue talks on those issues, while in parallel extending efforts to attain the broader security guarantees. Lavrov said Russia has drafted a 10-page response to the U.S. and its allies on the proposals. “This is a clear message

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-- things are fine, let’s continue talking,” said Fyodor Lukyanov, head of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, which advises the Kremlin. “Our side is demonstrating strength but we’re not planning anything.” Prices for oil and wheat, major Russian exports, turned lower after the news, having risen earlier on fears the crisis was worsening. The ruble extended gains after Lavrov’s remarks, jumping as much as 1.6% on the remarks before trading up 1.1% at 76.33 as of 4:05 p.m. in Moscow. The benchmark stock index trimmed a loss of as much as

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Tuesday, Feb. 15 n Athens Village Planning Board 6:30 p.m. Village Hall, Meeting Room, 2 First St., Athens 518-945-1551 n Durham Town Board 7:30 p.m. Town Hall, 7309 Route 81, East Durham n Hunter Town Board 7 p.m. Town Hall, 5748 Route 23A, Tannersville

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Education District Public Hearing-Smart School Bond Act 6:30 p.m. followed by the board meeting High School Library, 341 Main St., Catskill 518-943-2300 n Catskill Library Board 6:45 p.m. at either the Catskill Library, 1 Franklin St., Catskill or Palenville Library, 3303 Route 23A, Palenville n Catskill Town Board Committee 6:30 p.m. Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill 518-943-2141 n Greene County Legislature meeting No. 2 6:30 p.m. Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill

Thursday, Feb. 17 n Coxsackie Village Planning Board 6

p.m. February 17 Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie 518-731-2718

Monday, Feb. 21 n Athens Town Board 7 p.m. Athens

Volunteer Firehouse, 39 Third St., Athens 518-945-1052 Changes will be on the Town of Athens web page n Catskill Town Offices closed in observance of President’s Day n Catskill Village Hall will be closed in observance of President’s Day n Coxsackie Villages Offices closed in observance of President’s Day n Greene County Office Building closed in observance of President’s Day

Tuesday, Feb. 22 n Catskill Town Planning Board 6:30

p.m. Robert C. Antonelli Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill 518-943-2141

Wednesday, Feb. 23 n Athens Village Board 6:30 p.m. Ath-

ens Fire Department, 39 Third St., Athens Consult the village website for updates the day of the meeting n Catskill Town Zoning Board of Appeals 6 p.m. Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill 518-943-2141 n Catskill Village Board of Trustees 6:30 p.m. Robert C. Antonelli Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill

Monday, Feb. 28 n Catskill Village Planning Board 7 p.m. Robert C. Antonelli Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill

Monday, March 7 n Athens Town Board 7 p.m. Athens

Volunteer Firehouse, 39 Third St., Athens 518-945-1052 Changes will be on the Town of Athens web page n Greene County Board of Electrical Examiners 1 p.m. Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., 4th Floor, Room 469, Catskill

Tuesday, March 8 n Coxsackie Village Historic Preserva-

tion Committee 6 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie 518-731-2718

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Athens Village Board 6:30 p.m. Athens Fire Department, 39 Third St., Athens Consult the village website for updates the day of the meeting

Thursday, March 10 n Coxsackie Village Workshop 6 p.m.

Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie 518-731-2718

Tuesday, March 15 n Athens Village Planning Board 6:30

p.m. Village Hall, Meeting Room, 2 First St., Athens 518-945-1551

Catskill accident sends 2 to Albany Med By Bill Williams Columbia-Greene Media

CATKILL — Two women were taken to Albany Medical Center on Saturday night after an accident in Catskill involving three cars, Lt. Daniel Waer from Catskill Police said Monday. The injuries were not life threatening, Waer said. At about 6:43 p.m., a car driven by an unidentified 49-year-old man from Catskill pulled out of the Grandview Plaza onto West Bridge Street and struck a second car driven by an unidentified 35-yearold woman from Catskill. The man’s car then hit a third vehicle driven by an unidentified 55-year-old woman from Hunter, Waer said. All three vehicles came to rest in the road, blocking several lanes of West Bridge Street. Greene County 911 sent Catskill Fire Company and Catskill Ambulance to the scene, after receiving reports of the crash, that possibly involved up to four injured people. When officials arrived at the accident, they requested additional ambulances from Cairo and Hunter. Paramedics evaluated the occupants from all three vehicles. The two women from Catskill and Hunter were taken to Albany Medical Center. The

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Three cars were damaged, in an accident on West Bridge Street in Catskill.

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Catskill Fire and Ambulance responded to a three-car accident in Catskill on Saturday night.

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A tow truck arrives to remove one of the cars involved in a threecar accident in Catskill on Saturday night.

Fire and rescue crews at the scene of a three-car accident in Catskill on Saturday night.

others refused medical treatment. A Life Net helicopter was placed on stand-by, but was not needed.

from the scene. The accident is still under investigation and traffic tickets are pending, Waer said. Assisting at the scene were

West Bridge Street was closed between Grandview Avenue and Maple Avenue until the crash was cleared. All three cars were towed

Greene County Paramedics and Greene County Emergency Medical Services Coordinator. Catskill police investigated.

As virus recedes, Greene hits new 2022 COVID lows By Ted Remsnyder Columbia-Greene Media

CATSKILL — Greene County recorded new 2022 COVID-19 lows Monday, with the Greene County Public Health Department identifying 85 active positive cases in the county. That figure represents the lowest total since 86 cases were recorded last Aug. 31. “I think we’re winding down to the point where it’s mutated to the point where it’s the flu,” Greene County Administrator Shaun Groden said. “The people who seem to be having the most physical trouble with it are your seniors and people with comorbid issues. That seems to be the pattern. The pattern certainly seems to be that the fatalities are among seniors who already have issues.” The health department identified 46 new COVID cases over the weekend, bringing the county’s total caseload to 9,740 since the pandemic began in March 2020. There are currently 11 Greene County residents hospitalized due to COVID-related illnesses, a quarter of the yearly high of 44 recorded on Jan. 6. The health department currently has no COVID testing clinics on the books, as virus numbers have receded and athome test kids have become more widely available to residents.

The agency had previously hosted twice-weekly testing clinics in Coxsackie at 370 Mansion St. Groden said the county could restart the clinics if the COVID numbers begin to rise again. “I could arrange a testing pod probably within 48 hours’ notice,” he said. “We have the facility and we have the testing kits. Then we have such a distribution of kits at home and there’s all sorts of testing kits for school kids that just seem to have a cold. You can test them real quick and send them back to class, which is the whole purpose of the stay-in-school initiative.” The county recorded no new COVID-related deaths over the weekend, with the county’s total of COVID deaths at 114 since the start of the pandemic. Groden noted that COVID cases within the senior community could be tied to a decision then-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo made early in the pandemic to bar nursing homes from accepting residents with COVID-19 in order to clear up space in New York hospitals. “I think that really goes back to Cuomo’s decision to push people back into nursing homes,” Groden said.“Look what happened. They’re frail to begin with and then

typically they have some kind of other underlying issue where their defenses are weakened anyway. It’s different than kids or young adults.” As of Feb. 12, the total percentage of COVID tests in the county that returned positive results stood at 4.7%, with a seven-day rolling positive rate of 5.6% in the county.

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Greene County recorded a new yearly low of 85 active COVID-19 cases on Monday.

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On the side of the angels Imagine you are walking in a deserted parking lot on a dark, frigid night with ice covering the ground, just trying to get to your car safely. It’s like walking on an ice skating rink. Refuge is at hand; the only obstacle remaining is a small snow mound about a foot high. Just as you traverse it, however, the unthinkable happens. Your right foot slips and you fall forward, hitting your head on a parked van. You try to break your fall with your elbow. Instead, you shatter your shoulder and upper arm. Then you slide and became wedged

under the van. That’s what happened to neonatal intensive care travel nurse Marsha Glassman as she was leaving work at 8:15 p.m. on Feb. 5 after finishing a 12-hour shift at St. Peter’s Hospital in Albany. Providentially, Connor Leach of Windham, sitting in the passenger seat of his father Pat Leach’s pickup truck, saw Glassman fall. Joined by Connor’s mother Laurie and sister Bridget, the Leach family pulled Glassman to safety, brought her to their truck and drove her to the St. Peter’s emergency room just

200 yards away. The nurse, a Clifton, New Jersey, native, who dedicated her life to healing others, would have frozen to death had Connor Leach not seen her and had the four-strong Leach family not courageously rushed to her aid. Do you believe in magic? Maybe you do, maybe you don’t. But you might believe in an occasional miracle. Marsha Glassman is home and dry, alive and recovering, thanks to the Leach family. The angels were on her side that dark, bitterly cold Saturday night.

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Only a few years ago, it was common to hear how the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was an unmitigated disaster. As the federal enrollment website collapsed and premium prices seesawed, even some of the law’s backers wondered if the critics might be right. Cooler heads suggested waiting until the law got its footing before declaring it a failure. The cooler heads turned out to be right. The Biden administration announced this past month that 14.5 million people had enrolled in health-care coverage through the law’s marketplaces, shattering the previous record by nearly 2 million. Obamacare has become an integral part of the U.S. health-care system, providing an affordable option to millions of Americans who lack employer-sponsored insurance coverage, regardless of their past or present health needs. One reason is that insurance companies figured out the market; after a chaotic adjustment period in which insurers failed to project how many and what types of people would buy health insurance from them, and therefore what they could charge, premi-

ums stabilized and have trended down since 2018. Marketplace enrollment held up despite former president Donald Trump’s attempts to undercut the law. Another reason is that Democrats regained control of Congress and the White House, and they made some of the adjustments the law required — and that Republicans stiffly resisted, because they wanted it to fail. Democrats increased the size of the federal subsidies that enable people to afford their coverage. People making $19,000 per year now pay no premiums for silver plans, the second tier on the Obamacare marketplaces. Democrats also expanded who qualifies for federal aid. A 64-year-old just above the previous subsidy cutoff — a little over $50,000 in annual income — now pays $4,394 per year in health-care premiums instead of $12,698. Bringing more people of all incomes into the marketplaces makes them more stable, restrains premiums and encourages good health. But there is a catch: These enhanced subsidies phase out after this year. Congress should make them permanent.

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Lawmakers should also fix another big crack in the ACA, the Medicaid gap. Some Republican-run states have refused to expand Medicaid to many low-income people in their states. Unlike those of higher incomes, these needy people are ineligible for any Obamacare marketplace subsidies, because Obamacare’s drafters thought they would be on Medicare, leaving them no reasonable coverage option. An easy fix is to offer them the marketplace subsidies everyone else can get, enabling them to buy private coverage. These reforms would cost money: some $333 billion over a decade. But it would be a worthwhile investment. A Commonwealth Fund study found that these steps would slash the ranks of the uninsured by 7 million — a whole quarter — doubling enrollment in the ACA’s marketplaces while cutting average premiums by 18 percent. U.S. households would save some $8.2 billion. Democrats are considering Obamacare reform as they reassemble their Build Back Better bill. It should be a top priority.

Harriet Tubman, living in Ontario, Canada, for most of 1851 to 1861, told an abolitionist interviewing fugitive enslaved people north of the U.S. border that “we would rather stay in our native land, if we could be as free there as we are here.” She acknowledged that many of the African Americans she led out of the American South to Canada through the Underground Railroad desired to return to one day, “but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.” The abolitionist Benjamin Drew printed her testimony along with those of other runaways living in Canada in an 1856 book titled “A North-Side View of Slavery: The Refugee.” As he and Tubman understood, the struggle for African American freedom was by necessity a migrant, bordercrossing movement for asylum. From the American Revolution to the Civil War, enslaved African Americans fled the United States for freedom abroad in British Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean. Over time, African Americans’ search for freedom beyond U.S. borders led to treaties, military proclamations and court decisions that gave shape to the idea of the refugee in international law. At the same time, as historian Harvey Amani Whitfield has shown, acts of escaping to foreign free soil made migration and transnationality integral to early African American conceptions of freedom and community. These refugee politics were as American as the ideals of the Revolution itself precisely because they first took shape during the U.S. War for Independence. Today’s asylum seekers from Haiti, Guatemala and elsewhere at the U.S.-Mexico border have a political history that connects them to the Underground Railroad out of this nation before the Civil War. Like fugitive bondpeople traveling up through the free northern states to Canada in the 19th century, today’s migrants often form traveling communities and networks for both protection and solidarity. And they frame their migration as a form of politics: using their mobility to access rights of liberty and safety. From the outset of the

American Revolution, enslaved people sought freedom or at least protection behind British lines as Black loyalists. Though Britain agreed in the Treaty of Paris at the end of the war to evacuate the United States without “carrying away any Negroes,” runaways pleaded for resettlement outside the United States. They testified to officers that they feared violent reprisals from their enslavers for having aided the Crown. Their stories trickled up to the British commander in chief, Sir Guy Carleton who agreed to relocate more than 3,000 runaways to Canada because “delivering up the Negroes to their former Masters would be delivering them up some possibly to Execution and others to severe Punishment.” African Americans freed themselves by making the violence of slavery legible as a form of persecution. After the British Empire abolished slavery in 1833, followed by Mexico in 1837, the trickle of cross-border runaways turned into a stream of thousands of African Americans seeking protection within foreign forts, vessels and free communities of color. By the American Civil War, more than 30,000 people would flee to Canada and perhaps as many as 5,000 took refuge in Mexico. Enslaved people’s mobility made America’s “domestic” institution a diplomatic problem for neighboring countries. Neither Britain nor Mexico sought to antagonize the United States over slavery, but enslaved people themselves forced the issue. While Britain and the United States negotiated the WebsterAshburton Treaty of 1842, primarily about setting borders in the Northeast and Midwest, 139 enslaved Virginians on board the ship Creole and bound for the New Orleans slave market revolted. They sailed the vessel into the British Bahamas and requested asylum. The Creole revolt turned what had been a secondary part of the negotiations - slave extradition - into a major diplomatic issue. Britain ultimately refused to put slave extradition into the treaty on the grounds that a person who had reached free soil could not be re-enslaved. Before the late 18th century, asylum had largely been an extension of the religious policy of

states. Protestant kings offered protection to their co-religionists persecuted by Catholic kings, and vice versa. But by tying their emancipation to asylum, African Americans set an early precedent in diplomacy and migration policy for the principle of non-refoulement: a government’s obligation to not repatriate asylum seekers to countries where they faced physical violence or persecution. This was a major development in the history of refugees. Enslaved people’s freedomseeking slowly secularized the refugee and embedded asylum in such emerging concepts as human rights and “crimes against humanity.” Their efforts bore fruit for other oppressed migrants in legislation such as Britain’s 1870 Extradition Act, which explicitly recognized the right of non-refoulement for political dissidents, and Mexico’s liberal reforms to the naturalization process for foreigners (amid its own civil and revolutionary wars). Policies and principles such as these provided the legal raw material from which nations, including the United States, developed international asylum protocols during the upheavals of the 20th century. The politics of immigration restriction and deportation exist in opposition to the political traditions of the African American freedom struggle we now acknowledge as central to the story of American liberty. When the Biden administration forcibly dispersed and deported about 15,000 Haitian asylum seekers encamped in Del Rio, Tex., last summer, it oppressed people engaging in a politics as American as the Fourth of July. When President Joe Biden upholds the Trump administration’s “Remain in Mexico” policy for potential asylum seekers, he acts from the most atrophied sense of what American freedom and prosperity is. The refugee resistance of enslaved African Americans shows that the most liberating American political traditions have always been based in global solidarity. Sean Gallagher is an historian of slavery and is currently the David Center for the American Revolution postdoctoral fellow at the American Philosophical Society.

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Veterans Resource Fair to be held Feb. 24 in Athens ATHENS — Senator Michelle Hinchey is partnering with the TGM American Legion Post 187, Sullivan-Teator VFW Post 770 and the Greene County Veterans Service Agency, to sponsor a free resource fair for active-duty service members, veterans and their families in Greene County. The fair will take place 3-5 p.m. Feb. 24 at the TGM American Legion Post 187, 94

Second St., Athens. For this event, we are teaming up with state and local organizations to make resources available and provide assistance to veterans and their families in areas including health care, housing, and more. Additionally, there will be free notary services available, so please urge your members to bring their documents.

Partners include: Hudson Valley Center for Veteran Reintegration; NYS Dept of Civil Services; Greene Columbia Community College Office of Veteran Services; SAGEVets; Soldier On; Suicide Prevention Center of New York State; NYS Office of Mental Health; NYH2H (NY Helmets to Hardhats); NAMI Capital Region; Hicks Strong.

Discover the night with the Albany Pine Bush ALBANY — The public is invited to a free hybrid online and in-person event being held by the Albany Pine Bush Preserve. Discover the Night is an opportunity to experience nighttime in the globally-rare Albany Pine Bush. The website AlbanyPineBush.org/discover-thenight will be live from Feb. 18 through Feb. 28. The site includes videos featuring our local wildlife, storytelling, community history and more. Visitors can sign up for a guided nighttime walk, play interactive games, download fun activities and nature craft instructions. The event has

something for all ages. Executive Director, Christopher Hawver said, “Our team of remarkable educators have worked hard to provide programs and special events that are safe and fun learning experiences. Discover the Night is an exceptional educational resource for adults, families and teachers who are searching for ways to engage with us and the natural world. We encourage everyone to explore some of the areas that interest you on the site and discover all that is extraordinary about the Albany Pine Bush.” A free Discover the Night activity kit will be available

for pick up Feb. 18 through Feb. 28 at the Albany Pine Bush Discovery Center, 195 New Karner Road in Albany and is open 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday with special extended hours into the evening Feb. 18 and Feb. 24 until 7 p.m. Kits are available first come, first served, while supplies last. The event is sponsored by Friends of the Pine Bush Community. For more information about Discover the Night, trails and other programs visit www.AlbanyPineBush.org or call 518-456-0655.

Questar III BOCES receives Department of Justice Grant funding to support school safety measures ALBANY — Questar III BOCES has received $487,541 in grant funding from the U.S. Department of Justice under its Students, Teachers, and Officers Preventing School Violence Act (the STOP School Violence Act). The grants awarded by the DOJ will help institute safety measures in and around primary and secondary schools in support of school violence prevention. The Questar III grant was among $126 million awarded across the nation. The STOP School Violence Act Grant Program is designed to improve school security by providing students and teachers with the tools needed to recognize, respond quickly to, and help prevent acts of violence. In 2019 after 17 people were killed during a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland,

Florida, the U.S. Secret Service National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) released a report titled “Protecting America’s Schools: A U.S. Secret Service Analysis of Targeted School Violence.” In this report, it was noted that only 17% of schools have any system in place to notify staff or administrators of lifethreatening or concerning behaviors before an attack. The report recommended implementing anonymous reporting systems and threat assessment programs to give students, staff, parents, and local communities tools to be able to report concerns to schools. Questar III will utilize the services of STOPit Solutions to provide an anonymous reporting system with a 24/7 incident management center and hotline reporting center. The company’s products and

services are used by more than 6,700 organizations and have assisted with intervening in more than 150,000 incidents. “We are pleased to receive grant funding from the federal government to support this additional safety measure. The timing of the grant award couldn’t be better given the amount of mental stress our school communities have endured during the pandemic. We continue to stress to our students, staff, and families to say something if they see something that doesn’t seem quite right,” said Craig Hansen, Questar III’s Director of Health and Safety, who will oversee the grant. Questar III will use the DOJ grant funding to implement an anonymous reporting system in schools in Rensselaer, Columbia, and Greene counties.

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FEB. 17 CATSKILL — The 20th March for Peace and Justice, which celebrates the words of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, will take place on Feb. 17. The march will step off at 5:15 p.m. from the steps of the Second Baptist Church on Main Street in Catskill, participants are asked to be at the church by 5:10 p.m. The march will then proceed to the Greene County Courthouse and end on the steps of the Catskill Middle School at approxiamately 5:30 p.m. Because of COVID concerns, the entire program will be presented outside.

FEB. 19 TANNERSVILLE — The Feathered and Furry Wildlife Center will hold the annual freeze your butt off for Wildlife Bake Sale event will be held 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Feb. 19 at the Go Greene Food Mart/Sunaco, 6360 Main St., Tannersville. The annual bake sale is to support daily wildlife rescue efforts by the Friends of the Feathered and Furry Wildlife Rescue. The sale is held in a heated tent thanks to Mountain Propane Inc. Come and support this amazing wildlife rescue that is continuing through all the efforts and dedication of Missy Runyan’s husband and volunteers. HUDSON — The Firefighter Fran & Firestar Show will be held at 10:30 a.m. Feb. 19 at the FASNY Museum of Firefighting, 117 Harry Howard Ave., Hudson. Meet Firefighter Fran and her friend Firestar the Dalmatian, as they present an interactive show on fire safety. The show wraps up with a musical puppet show that will have the whole family “pumped up” about fire safety and prevention! After the show, meet and greet Firestar, and pose for a picture with this crazy canine. All children will have the opportunity to make a fun fire safety craft with Firefighter Fran and Firestar. Admission is free.

FEB. 20 TANNERSVILLE — The Children’s Ice Fishing Derby sponsored by The Catskill Mountain Fish and Game Club and The Stony Clove Rod and Gun Club will be held on 10 a.m.-noon Feb. 20 with registration starting at 9 a.m., at the Rip Van Winkle/ Tannersville Lake. All participants must follow social distancing guidelines. There will be prizes awarded for the largest fish and most fish in both Junior and Senior divisions. The event is open to all children up to 16 years of age. Children 16 must have a valid fishing license. You may fish with up to three tip ups or hand lines and use single hooks only. Live bait and some tip ups will be available for use. For more information, call Bob Monteleone at 518-488-0240.

FEB. 23 ALBANY — Cornell Cooperatieve Extension of Albany presents Winter One-Pot Comfort Foods 6-7 p.m. Feb. 23 via Zoom. The program is

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Fifth grader Emma Hills has been named the Coxsackie-Athens Middle School February Rotary Club Student of the Month. Emma is an outstanding 5th grade student on Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Collier’s team. She is a shining example of good citizenship skills in school. She is helpful and kind, thoughtful and brave, polite and hard working. Emma puts forth excellent effort in class with independent work, as well as cooperatively in group projects or assignments. She is engaged in class and is an active listener — always thinking, always ready to follow directions and always doing her best.

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FEB. 26 ALBANY — The Capital District Genealogical Society will meet at 1 p.m. Feb. 26 via Zoom. CDGS meetings are presently held on Zoom. Registration is free and will open to the public Feb. 16. See www.CapitalDistrictGenealogicalSociety.org under meetings and events. There is a 100-person limit. Treasury Records: Follow the Money by Craig R. Scott. The U.S. Treasury Department was responsible for many payments to the public by the federal government. In particular, the records contain payments for military service, a source for genealogical research information and clues. But which records are available and how does one find them? Join Craig R. Scott to learn how to follow federal payments.

MARCH 1 EAST BERNE — Helderberg Christian School, 96 Main St., East Berne, will hold an open house 5:30-7:30 p.m. March 1. Meet the staff, visit classrooms, preview curriculum and register for the 20222023 school year. For information and directions, call 518-499-5416.

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CAIRO — Round Top Volunteer Fire Dept. Ladies Auxiliary third annual corned beef and cabbage dinner will be served 3-6 p.m.; March 5, take out only, at the Round Top Firehouse, 1507 Hearts Content Road Cairo. The menu includes corned beef, cabbage, red potatoes, carrots, soda bread and dessert. The cost is $18. To pre-order, call Lorrie at 518-719-1685. Snow date will be March 12.

MARCH 10 EAST BERNE — Helderberg Christian School, 96 Main St., East Berne, will hold a Brooks House of Barbecue fundraiser 4-6:30 p.m. March 10 or until sold out. Chicken dinner, $13 pre-ordered; $14 day of. Call by March 8 to preorder. Drive through, take out only. Call 518-499-5416. COVID guidelines apply.

MARCH 12 TROY — Cornell Cooperative Extension of Rensselaer County will hold its 24th annual “Spring Garden Day” virtually on March 12. Using Zoom, the cloud-based video communications format, we’ll have a webinar-type program from 9:45 a.m.noon. Garden designer, consultant and writer Robert Clyde Anderson will discuss how to revolutionize your garden in his talk, “Perennial Planting The New Wave Way.” For friends of trees and shrubs, Fred Breglia, Executive Director of the Landis Arboretum, will talk about “Promoting Plant Health Through Proper Pruning.” A great selection of gardenrelated door prizes will be given away. You’ll need to download the free Zoom app to participate. For registration information, visit http://ccerensselaer.org/ or contact Cornell Cooperative Extension at 518-272-4210 or mmp74@cornell.edu.

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Pamela J. Otty January 23, 1959 - February 10, 2022 Pamela J. Otty, 63, of Greenport, passed away Thursday February 10, 2022 at Westchester Medical Center. Born January 23, 1959 in Hudson, she is the daughter of the late Charles and Marjorie (Ham) Tiano. Pamela was on Office Manager at Kaz Industries prior to her retirement. She was also an active member of Hudson Elks Lodge #787. She is survived by her loving husband Richard Otty, her devoted son Richard Otty Jr., and his fiancé Alexandra Makoske, along with her precious grandchildren Brody and Mason Otty. Also left to forever love and remember Pamela are her siblings Patricia (Stanley) Rutkey, Michael (Dawne) Tiano, Linda (Pat) Hogan, Mary Weaver, Bonnie Kritzman, April Rowley and Paul (Heather) Rowley. She leaves behind two sisters in law Judy (Tim) O’Neil, and Dawn (Charles) Davi, a brother in law John (Barbara) Otty, mother in law Kathleen Corbett, step mother in law Pauline Otty, and several nieces, nephews and cousins. Pam was predeceased by her father in law John Otty and brother Kevin Tiano. Graveside services at the Mount Pleasant Reformed Church Cemetery in Greenport are Thursday February 17th at 11:00am. In lieu of flowers, donations in Pamela’s name may be made to the Columbia-Greene Humane Society.

Edna Mixa September 1, 1922 - February 10, 2022 Edna Mixa, 99, of Livingston, passed away Thursday February 10, in Ghent, NY. Born September 1, 1922 in Craryville, she is the daughter of Seymour and Pearl (Holsapple) Stupplebean. Edna was a child care provider at the Hudson Day Care Center. She lived her entire life in Columbia County where she was a member of the Trippers, and was a member and former Deacon at Mt. Pleasant Reformed Church in Greenport. Edna is survived by her brother Richard Stupplebean and sister Ruth Miller, her step daughter Barbara Mixa and granddaughter Anya, along with several nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her husbands Paul Young and Michael Mixa, and her siblings Joan Roth, Dorothy Thela, John, Seymour Jr., and Robert Stupplebean. Interment in Mt. Pleasant Reformed Church Cemetery will be held at a later date.

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U.S. Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand has endorsed Gov. Kathy C. Hochul as she runs for a full term as New York’s Governor. In a video shared on Twitter Monday morning, Sen. Gillibrand, D-N.Y., said she is proud to endorse Gov. Hochul, who she described as a friend. “She’s a proven leader, with the know-how and work ethic and passion that we need,” Sen. Gillibrand said. “And, she’ll continue to deliver results for New Yorkers in every community. From making childcare more affordable, to

expanding paid family leave, to defending reproductive rights, Kathy will always fight to level the playing field for working families across the state.” Thus far, this is Gov. Hochul’s most prominent endorsement, coming as she establishes a solid lead in fundraising and other endorsements in the Democratic field for the primary on June 28. Gov. Hochul is being challenged for the party’s line in the November general election by Rep. Thomas R. Suozzi, D-Glen Cove and New York City’s public advocate Jumaane D. Williams.

A delivery driver got stuck in a client’s driveway during the Texas storm. The couple took her in for five days. Cathy Free Special To The Washington Post

Chelsea Timmons delivers groceries on weekends to make extra money, and as she pulled up to a client’s long, sloped driveway in Austin, things suddenly took a bad turn: Her car began to slide uncontrollably toward the client’s house. It was Valentine’s Day, and the historic storm that devastated Texas had just begun. Timmons thought she could make one more delivery and head home, not realizing the magnitude of the storm or how icy the inclined driveway would be. “I closed my eyes and prayed, ‘Please, please, don’t let me hit their house and wreck my car,’” recalled Timmons, 32. Instead, she crashed into the homeowners’ flower beds, then took out a small tree before her Toyota RAV4 came to a rest. “I tried to back up, and that just made it worse,” said Timmons, who was overcome with feelings of dread. “No matter what I did, my wheels would spin in place.” Timmons texted the client inside the house that she was stuck in the driveway. Homeowner Doug Condon quickly came outside. Condon tried to help free her car, even sprinkling birdseed to get some traction, but the car wouldn’t budge. They realized it was useless, said Timmons. Condon and his wife, Nina Richardson, told Timmons to come inside and get warm while she called AAA and several towing companies. Timmons, who was grateful to be out of the storm, told them she lived three hours away in Houston and spends weekends in Austin to deliver groceries because the money is good there. She works as an independent contractor for a statewide delivery service. After making calls for several hours, Timmons said it dawned on her that help wasn’t coming. Nobody could come out because the roads were terrible and accidents were piling up all over. At this point, Condon, 58, and Richardson, 62, realized they could send her back out into the storm, or they could invite her to stay. They invited her to stay. “We have two guest rooms. It just seemed like the natural thing to do, considering the situation,” said Richardson. “We didn’t even need to talk it over.” Condon and Richardson are the parents of five grown children who live on their own. They are both working at home during the pandemic, Condon as an energy consultant and Richardson for several public and private technology companies. The couple had recently received the coronavirus vaccine, said Richardson, so they felt fine taking in Timmons. They told her to make herself comfortable upstairs. Timmons, however, was anxious about being in the strangers’ home. “I was very grateful, but kind of nervous, so I paced the room and talked on the phone with my aunt, then my parents, to let them know the situation,” said Timmons. “I also kept trying to reach any tow truck company I could find, but nobody could come. I was stuck.”

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Chelsea Timmons, front, with Nina Richardson and Doug Condon, in the couple’s Austin, Texas home last week.

Richardson prepared a Valentine’s Day dinner of steaks, potatoes, broccoli and salad with the groceries Timmons had delivered, then the three gathered around the table. While power outages and frozen water pipes were hitting cities and towns all over Texas, Condon and Richardson’s home had been spared. “We were lucky - our lights stayed on and we were warm,” said Condon. “And as we got to know each other over dinner, any awkwardness disappeared.” “We just became friends,” added Richardson. “She’s a wonderful, sweet young woman. We couldn’t imagine sending her out in the dark on dangerous roads.” Still, Timmons admitted that a few bad horror movies crossed her mind as she fetched some fresh clothes from her car and settled in for the night. “My situation was the trailer for every blockbuster horror flick,” she said. “I didn’t get much sleep that first night.” The next day, though, she began to relax when she learned that her apartment complex in Houston was without power, said Timmons. “My brother was taking care of my dogs, so I knew they were safe, and I felt thankful to have a warm place for a few days,” she said. “I was just so amazed that these super kind people let in a stranger to stay for the night.” When Condon and Richardson retreated to their home offices to work after breakfast, Timmons decided to thank them by using her baking talents to make a coconut cake from scratch. And when bad weather persisted and one night stretched to five, she took their advice and made herself at home, snuggling with the couple’s two dogs, Haddie and Crosby, and helping to prepare dinner and wash dishes. At one point, Timmons wondered aloud if she should check into a motel, but her hosts discouraged the idea. “I told her, ‘What would you eat there? All the restaurants are closed because of the storm,’ “ Richardson said.

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Chelsea Timmons preparing to make a homemade coconut cake on Feb. 15.

“What’s another day?” Condon said. “If one of our daughters were in a situation like Chelsea’s, I’d like to think that somebody would do the same.” Timmons said she wept tears of gratitude in her room several times, touched that they had taken a chance and opened their home to her. “I just couldn’t get over it - they never saw me as a burden, not even for a second,” she said. Once the weather warmed up and she was able to dig out her car, Timmons posted some photos of her Austin adventure and a note of thanks on Facebook the day before she returned home. “How amazingly blessed am I right in this moment?!” she wrote. “Blessed that out of all the places for my car to get stuck, it was their flower bed and not a ditch. Blessed that they were willing to let the ‘Delivery Driver’ into their home in the midst of a pandemic. Blessed that during the time of a food shortage, they were willing to share their meals.” “I can’t believe everything that has happened,” she concluded. “Beyond grateful that I have been able to find comfort with strangers during this unprecedented Winter Storm.” The next day after lunch, when everyone had hugged and said their goodbyes, Timmons drove home, knowing that wouldn’t be the last time she saw them. “We’re definitely going to stay in touch. How could we not?” she said with a laugh. “I know their address.” Cathy Free is based in Salt

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How to correct an error on your credit report By Tim Bartholomew

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According to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), credit report errors more than doubled during the coronavirus pandemic. In addition, the CFPB found that many pandemic protections which were designed to help consumers, such as loan forbearance periods on federal student loans and federally backed mortgages, ended up negatively impacting their credit reports as a result of complications such as processing delays and suspended payments being marked incorrectly. 1 This is a significant issue for many consumers, because credit report errors may negatively impact creditworthiness and potentially lead to negative financial consequences, such as being offered higher mortgage interest rates or being turned down for a job or an apartment lease. Fortunately, changes made during the pandemic have made it easier to stay on top of your credit report. Under new expanded rules, you are now eligible to obtain a free weekly credit report from each of the three nationwide credit reporting bureaus until April 20, 2022. To obtain free reports, go to AnnualCreditReport.com where you can fill out an online form, choose the reports you want, and, after answering some security questions, review your reports online. If you find an error on your credit report, there are steps you can take to correct it.

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BARTHOLOMEW First, contact the credit reporting agency to dispute the error. You can do this online or by mail. Explain why you are disputing the information and be sure to include documentation that supports your dispute. The credit reporting bureau generally has 30 to 45 days to investigate the disputed information. Once the investigation is complete, the credit reporting bureau must provide you with written results. If the credit reporting bureau confirms that your credit report does contain errors, the information on your report must be removed or corrected. If you do not agree with the credit bureau’s investigation results, you can ask that a statement of the dispute be included in your file and in future reports. You can also contact the creditor that reported the information to the credit reporting bureau and dispute it with the creditor directly. If the creditor finds that the information is inaccurate, it must notify each credit bureau to which it has reported

the information so the information can be updated or deleted. If you believe the error is the result of identity theft, you may need to take additional steps to resolve the issue, such as placing a fraud alert or security freeze on your credit report. Keep in mind that correcting a credit report error can often be a time-consuming and emotionally draining process. If at any time you believe that your credit reporting rights are being violated, you can file a complaint with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau at consumerfinance.gov. 1) Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, 2021 Tim Bartholomew is an Investment Representative with Greene Investment Services located at the Bank of Greene County. Please call 518-943-2600 ext. 2153 with your comments or questions. Investment and insurance products and services are offered through INFINEX INVESTMENTS, INC. Member FINRA/SIPC. Greene Investment Services is a trade name of the Bank of Greene County. Infinex and the Bank of Greene County are not affiliated. Products and services made available through Infinex are not insured by the FDIC or any other agency of the United States and are not deposits or obligations of nor guaranteed or insured by any bank or bank affiliate. These products are subject to investment risk, including the possible loss of value. Prepared by Broadridge Advisor Solutions Copyright 2022.

Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan selected as first vice president of the New York State Conference of Mayors ALBANY — Mayor Kathy Sheehan of the City of Albany has been appointed to serve as first vice president of the New York State Conference Mayors (NYCOM). The selection was made by NYCOM’s Executive Committee. “Municipal governments play a central role in addressing the most important issues of our times, from public health and safety to critical infrastructure improvements and economic development,” stated NYCOM President Francis X. Murray, Mayor of the Village of Rockville Centre. “Mayor Sheehan is an innovative and vocal leader who has a proven track record of successfully tackling the tough challenges faced by mayors throughout our state. Having her in this important leadership position will strengthen our organization as we advocate on behalf of New York’s cities and villages.” “I am so honored to have been selected by my fellow

mayors as the new First Vice President of the New York Conference of Mayors,” said Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan. “As Treasurer of NYCOM for the past eight years, I have seen firsthand the power of our unified voice, and I look forward to working alongside President Murray and our entire conference to help advocate for innovative and transformative solutions to some of the more important issues faced by New York’s cities and villages.” Under Mayor Sheehan’s leadership, Albany has invested more than $100 million in new parks, streets, sidewalks, and water and sewer infrastructure across the City, with a focus on neighborhoods impacted by redlining and other historically discriminatory practices. Mayor Sheehan worked with the Common Council to enact groundbreaking equity legislation and policing reform initiatives and has led a multi-year effort

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to eliminate blight and substandard housing in the City. Since Mayor Sheehan took office, Albany has seen $1 billion in new development citywide, with another $120 million in the pipeline — all indicators of continued historic investment in New York’s Capital City. Sheehan served a four-year term as Albany’s Treasurer prior to being elected mayor. Before serving in elected office, she was the vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary of a publicly traded medical device manufacturer. Sheehan earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism at Bowling Green State University and subsequently attended Albany Law School, graduating magna cum laude in 1994. The New York State Conference of Mayors serves and represents the state’s 575 cities and villages, ranging from the smallest village to the City of New York. NYCOM has been in existence since 1910.

Clearwater welcomes nonprofit leader David Toman as new executive director BEACON – Hudson River Sloop Clearwater’s Board of Directors has named David Toman as the organization’s new executive director to carry forward its mission of protecting the Hudson River through education, advocacy, and celebration. Clearwater is excited to welcome Toman, who comes with more than 25 years of experience in non-profit leadership, most recently as the vice president of operations and chief financial officer at the Mohonk Preserve. Toman’s non-profit career began in the public accounting world; his love of nature guided him to the Delaware Nature Society where he held the position of associate director of business & finance for 12 years. As Clearwater’s executive director, Toman will be responsible for supervising all programs and operations, including implementing Clearwater’s recently adopted strategic plan in concert with board and staff. His work will encompass strengthening relationships with Hudson Valley partners and broadening both Clearwater’s base of support and the impact of its activities. Toman hopes to draw from his combined experience in environmental advocacy, nature education, public engagement and business acumen to help guide Clearwater as they address the

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current challenges to the health of our environment. “Pete Seeger had a wonderful vision to ‘build a boat to save the river’ and I am so fortunate to be able to join an organization that has played an important, unique, and necessary role in the ongoing efforts to protect the Hudson,” said Toman. “I am excited to join a dedicated community working towards this important mission.” In his spare time, Toman enjoys paddling on local waterways, nature hikes with his Karelian Bear Dog and listening to great music with his family, where they reside in New Paltz. Toman will replace Acting Executive Director Steve Stanne, who has kept the organization on course since July 2019. Stanne provided

much needed stability for Clearwater as they navigated the challenges of the pandemic. Stanne will continue as Clearwater’s board president and looks forward to working with its new executive director. “With David’s arrival, Clearwater will voyage into the new year with optimism, buoyed by the continued generosity of our supporters, steered by talented and hard-working staff and crew and following a course charted by the board’s adoption of our new strategic plan.” Clearwater thanks Steve for his years of service, devotion to the organization and commitment to the health of the Hudson River and its valley.

Community Bank promotes Jeffrey Levy to president of commercial banking ALBANY — Community Bank announces that Jeffrey Levy has been promoted to president of commercial banking. In his new role, Levy will assume leadership of commercial lending, small business loans, credit administration and cash management. Levy has more than 34 years of experience in the banking industry. He joined Community Bank in 2018 as a regional executive. Prior, he served as Capital Region president and president of commercial banking over his 11 years at NBT Bank, and held various positions during his 20-year tenure at M&T Bank.

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“Jeff’s industry experience and in-depth financial knowledge have made him a valued member of the Community Bank team,” President/CEO Mark Tryniski said. “This promotion is well deserved, and we’re excited

to have Jeff take on this critical role as it reflects the growth in our organization and strategic initiatives for 2022 and beyond.” Levy earned his Bachelor of Science in business economics from the State University of New York at Oneonta and his Master of Business Administration from Fairleigh Dickinson University. He sits on the Board of Pursuit Lending affiliates, Excelsior Growth Fund and Empire State Certified Development Corporation. He is also a member of the New York Bankers Association. Levy resides in Saratoga Springs with his wife, Rosemary Sgroi Levy.

Ampry-Samuel joins HUD as regional administrator NEW YORK — President Biden announced the appointment of Alicka Ampry-Samuel to serve as HUD Regional Administrator for Region II, serving New York and New Jersey. Regional Administrator Ampry-Samuel will oversee HUD operations, including the New York City Regional Office and field offices in Buffalo, Albany, and Newark, New Jersey. “I am excited to serve as HUD Regional Administrator for New York and New Jersey and continue my work in housing and economic development,” said Ampry-Samuel, HUD Regional Administrator. “I look forward to increasing access to quality affordable housing for low-income residents and homebuyers and ensuring HUD grantees

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provide economic opportunities and services to underserved populations. We must work together to improve the quality of life for New Yorkers and New Jerseyans.” Ampry-Samuel served

as a New York City Council Member, where she was appointed Deputy Leader and Chair of the Public Housing Committee. Her council district included the highest concentration of public housing in North America. Prior to being elected to the City Council, Ampry-Samuel served on the senior team at the New York City Housing Authority. She has held a number of public service positions from Chief of Staff in the New York State Assembly to Democracy and Human Rights Coordinator at the United States Embassy in Accra, Ghana. AmprySamuel has more than 20 years of experience helping individuals, families and organizations in the housing and community development fields.

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make certain crimes such as criminally negligent homicide and manslaughter bail-eligible. Members of law enforcement, Republican officials and others have come out in force this session to wage a campaign to change or repeal bail reform, saying the 2% of the 183,000 New Yorkers released without bail and rearrested for a violent crime is 2% too many.

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about on this special day.” Delgado consoled John Zboray, a resident who served as a master gunnery sergeant in the Marines. “It’s Valentine’s Day. It’s a lot of love, man,” Delgado told him. “But you can’t give love if you don’t have any to give,” Zboray replied. “No, you have some love in there,” Delgado told him. “You’ve got love, I can see it. You’re a strong man. Be strong.” After the event, Delgado said it was a privilege to meet with the nursing homes residents on the holiday. “You can see their sacrifice and all that they’ve given, so it’s so important that we do all that we can to show them love and gratitude and to take the time,” he said. “It’s really important. So being in their company and

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Miller said. The second inmate knocked another officer backward. Pepper spray was administered to the first inmate and had no effect. The two inmates continued to be combative and fight with staff, knocking an officer into the cell block wall.

A small percentage of people charged with a criminal offense released from jail before trial are annually rearrested for other crimes, including after posting bail. Fewer than 1% of people rearrested on gun charges followed release on bail, Holmes said. The state has a pretrial rearrest rate of 13.3%, compared to 14.4% in New Jersey — a state that has not implemented bail reform. Evidence is lacking to specifically connect New York’s bail laws to a recent rise in violent

incidents seen in cities across the U.S. — including those without bail reform laws — since the start of the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020. “Pretrial pre-arrest rates are the same that they were before and after bail reform today,” Holmes said. “There is no connection between bail reform and a rise in shootings. Bail reform did not even change laws related to gun charges.” Representatives with legislative leaders would not say Monday if tweaking the state’s bail laws is on the table this session for either conference, but

largely remain disinterested in amending the statute. Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, D-Bronx; and Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, D-Yonkers, have said they would warmly welcome any conversation with Adams, including about bail reform. But the legislative leaders, who oversee their prospective chambers with a supermajority of Democrats, have “The Speaker continues to be frustrated by the misinformation campaign being waged by opponents of bail reform,” Michael Whyland, Heastie’s

spokesman said in a statement Monday. Stewart-Cousins has encouraged the need for a broader discussion about criminal justice reforms, but has said several times revisiting the bail statute is not a priority of the conference. About 70% of New Yorkers were remanded to jail before their trial date before bail reform, with Blacks incarcerated at twice the rate of white people in the state. The changes allow people charged with a crime who could not afford to post cash bail to continue working, attending

school or providing for their families until their court appearance. Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, has declined to answer questions from reporters many times since last fall to reveal her opinion on the state’s bail laws, reiterating her refusal to negotiate important policy in press reports. But conversations about the law and its ties to increased violent crimes and incidents with firearms continue, the governor said. For more on this story, visit HudsonValley360.com

being able to have that chance to show love and be grateful is very important. It allows us to remember what really matters. It’s a way to see beyond a lot of the divisiveness and just focus on what really matters. It’s about their sacrifice and commitment to country. So that’s where it really comes from.” Earlier in the morning, Hinchey met with another group of Greene Meadows’ residents to deliver cards prepared by local students, including pupils from Coxsackie Elementary School and Scott M. Ellis Elementary School in Greenville. “It’s wonderful,” she said after the event. “We’re making sure that everyone in our community, but especially our seniors, recognize that we care about them. We wanted to do something nice, and to bring some joy on Valentine’s Day. Especially after the two years we’ve had. Both the residents here and the seniors that are living here have had a really tough two years. There’s been a lot of fear and isolation, and to now

be able to see them and bring some joy and connect with them, they haven’t been able to do that.” Hinchey also stopped at The Pines at Catskill Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation on Friday to deliver a round of holiday cards to residents in the Catskill facility. “Building those synergies with our seniors and our students and building that community engagement and recognizing how important it is to care about each other and to do something nice for other people is something that’s really important to learn early,” Hinchey said. “To be able to build those connections is really important and I’m really proud and quite honored that we’re able to do that. So many schools and so many nursing homes wanted to partner with us to do that.” Resident Walter Thompson told Hinchey that he’d turn 89 on March 14. “I’m a farmer’s son, so I’m not used to sitting around here doing nothing,” he said. “I

worked all my life, for 40 years as a waiter then 26 years as a chef. So I was always busy. I have no regrets, I’ve enjoyed my life immensely.” The holiday event was part of Hinchey’s second annual Valentines for Seniors Card Drive. “These are the things that are so much fun for me, to be able to bring some joy to people,” she said. “To put a smile on faces after the two years that we’ve had and to celebrate life in our community is just really wonderful. It’s great to see how many people here wanted to participate. To give back to the residents here and to show that their worth is recognized.” Greene Meadows Administrator Karen Tanner said that representatives of the elected officials reached out to the nursing home to hold the Valentine’s Day event. “We’re always open for anything positive for our residents,” she said. “That was very positive on their end for doing this for us.” Tanner spoke with Hinchey

after the event about issues that nursing homes are facing, with Hinchey noting that the 2023 budget proposal from Gov. Kathy Hochul includes increased funding for nursing facilities. Tanner said the main issue the Catskill site is facing is a worker shortage. “Obviously we have a staffing shortage,” she said. “CNAs (certified nursing assistants) in particular, but nobody is immune to the situation. It’s across the industry. It’s very difficult to get CNAs in. They’re just not back out there on the market yet. She was telling us about some possible extra funding for nursing homes, and that would certainly help because we’re trying to get as many people in here as possible and to take care of our own staff by giving them extra bonuses to stay on or work extra hours.” The administrator said that Greene Meadows is also concerned about a state mandate that stipulates that health care personnel must receive

COVID-19 vaccination booster shots by Feb. 21. “We have some staff members that may or may not want to get the booster based on a medical situation,” Tanner said. “We have a lot of staff members that got both of the vaccinations and we only had one medical exemption from all of our staff. I think the concern with the boosters is that it’s a mandate. If you don’t have the booster by the 21st for the staff, then you can’t put them on the schedule. We’re already so desperately short of staff, then it’s just another mandate on top of everything. I’m a health care professional, so I understand the importance of doing this, but when you take it that extra step, the rank and file of the staff might have some different thoughts.” Tanner said the nursing home is conducting booster clinics for staff members who want to get vaccinated.

Two officers grabbed the first inmate and forced him to the floor, where he remained combative. The officers were then able to apply handcuffs. Once the man was in handcuffs, he became compliant, Miller said. The second inmate was put in a body hold by several officers and forced to the floor. Once he was on the floor, the officers were able to apply handcuffs and he also became compliant, Miller said.

Both inmates were removed from the Special Housing Unit and were evaluated in the prison infirmary. Both were placed back in the Special Housing Unit, pending additional disciplinary charges. Two of the officers sustained injuries that needed to be treated at a local urgent care. Collectively they sustained knee, shoulder and lower back pain. Neither officer returned to duty, Miller said.

The sergeant and four other officers sustained an assortment of hand, knee, lower back, wrist, knee, neck and hip abrasions, swelling and pain. They were treated by facility medical staff and remained on duty. The first inmate is serving a seven-year sentence on a conviction on two counts of second-degree robbery and one count of third-degree robbery in 2018 in Erie County. The second inmate is serving a

five-year sentence after a conviction for second-degree assault and third-degree robbery in 2019 in Westchester County, Miller said. “We’re just weeks away from the implementation of HALT, which will have a similar impact inside our correctional facilities,” Moreau said. The Humane Alternatives to Long-Term Solitary Confinement Act was signed into law in 2021. The legislation limits the

use of segregated confinement for all incarcerated persons to 15 days, implements alternative rehabilitative measures, including the creation of Residential Rehabilitation Units, expands the definition of segregated confinement, and eliminates the use of segregated confinement for vulnerable incarcerated populations.

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Three local wrestlers headed to states Tim Martin Columbia-Greene Media

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Chatham’s Tyler Kneller (3) defends against Hudson’s Jordan Cunningham during Friday’s Patroon Conference Boys Basketball Tournament semifinal at Chatham High School.

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CHATHAM — The Chatham Panthers were victorious over the Hudson Bluehawks 80-55 in the Patroon Conference Boys Basketball Tournament semifinals on Friday night. Matt Thorsen was the night’s leading scorer with 22 points, Tobias Jeralds dropped 15, Kyle Jackson added 14, and Tate Van Alstyne scored 10 to round out Chatham’s top performers. Isaiah Maines led the Bluehawks with 15 points, followed by Keith Robinson and Kam Taylor with 12 and 11, respectively. Panthers’ coach John Brantley was proud of the way the team executed on Friday night. “We knew last time we played them (Hudson) they played without one of their big guns,” Brantley said, referring to Hudson guard Isaiah Maines. “We broke down film, we went over things execution-wise, and I’m just proud of the way we went out there and did it.” Robinson opened the game with a three pointer for Hudson thanks to a pass from Maines. Jackson made a nice layup as he drove along

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Chatham’s Kyle Jackson goes to the basket as Hudson’s Dez Wallace defends during Friday’s Patroon Conference Boys Basketball Tournament semifinal at Chatham High School.

the baseline and got the two points for Chatham. Thorsen made a shot as well for the Panthers off of a steal by the

defense. The Bluehawks had a few steals as well, but they had difficulty converting those extra

opportunities into points. Jeralds knocked down a few shots for Chatham in the first quarter, and Van Alstyne drilled a three pointer to close it out and extend the Panthers’ lead to 19-9 after one. Isaiah Maines had jammed his left thumb on a blocked shot attempt in the previous period, and he was feeling the effects as the second quarter began. Maines fought through the pain however, and continued until they could find some tape for his thumb. He found Dezmond Wallace on a pass early in the quarter, and Wallace buried the three to cut the Chatham lead to 19-14. Connor Tomaso knocked down a shot from beyond the arc as well, but the Bluehawks had no answer for Chatham’s Jacob Baccaro in the paint. Baccaro only had six points, but his presence down low created opportunities for his other teammates as he drew Hudson’s attention away. The Bluehawks also continued to cough the ball up on offense and commit bad turnovers and the Panthers were not shy about converting those opportunities into more points. Chatham led 44-26 as the See PANTHERS B6

GLENS FALLS — Catskill’s Daniel Forbes, Greenville’s Kieran Cullen and Coxsackie-Athens’ Ryker Cox will all be competing for state titles after strong showings at Saturday’s Section II State Qualifying Meet at Cool Insuring Arena. Forbes (160) and Cullen (138) won their respective weight divisions in Division 2, while Cox, a seventh-grader, finished second in the 110-pound division. All three punched their tickets to the New York State Championships, which will be held on February 25-26 at MVP Arena in Albany. Forbes began his trek to the title by pinning Hudson Falls’ Mason Watson in 1:03 in the quarterfinals. He decisioned Coxsackie-Athens’ Joseph Martinez in the semifinals, 8-1. Martinez decisioned Hunter Parker of Berne-KnoxWesterlo in the quarterfinals, 8-5, before losing to Forbes. Forbes went on to pin Jonathan Cranker

of Fonda-Fultonville in 2:27 to become the first Catskill wrestler since 1988 to win the Section II championship. Martinez took on Skyler Sturdevant of Glens Falls in the consolation final and won a 6-2 decision. Cullen began his path to the title by defeating Logan McCoy of FondaFultonville by technical fall, 17-0, in 2:17. He pinned Ty Roadcap of Tamarac in the semifinals in 1:51, then pinned Luke Yorke of CobleskillRichmondville in the final in 3:24 to earn his third trip to the state meet. Cox needed just :44 to pin Aonghus Paige of Hudson Falls in the quarterfinals. He pinned Cameron Carpenter of Warrensburg in 5:06 in the semifinals, before dropping a 15-5 major decision to Liam English of Berne-Knox-Westerlo in the final. Under a new format this year, Cox had to wrestle the third-place finisher, Jaxon Torres of Granville/Fort Ann, in See WRESTLERS B3

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ICC boys, girls roll to Colonial victories over Ravena Columbia-Greene Media

COXSACKIE — Brett Richards recorded his 15th double-double and twelfth consecutive, scoring 27 points, grabbing 15 rebounds and blocking four shots to lead Ichabod Crane to an 86-51 victory over Ravena in Friday’s Colonial Council boys basketball game. Alex Schmidt had 22 for Ichabod Crane, which led 16-15 after one quarter, 4420 at halftime and 66-31 after three.

RAVENA (51): Algozzine 2-0-5, McFerran 1-0-2, Reville 3-2-10, Reif 4-2-11, Dorrance 2-0-6, Engel 1-02, Misetich 2-0-4, Bermudez 1-5-7, Margiasso 1-0-2, McClellan 1-0-2. Totals 18-9-51. 3-pointers: Dorrance 2, Reville 2, Algozzine, Reif. ICHABOD CRANE (86): Richards 11-4-27, Schmidt 8-3-22, Warner 2-0-5, Mullins 4-1-19, Clickman 2-1-6, Colwell 2-4-9, Rapport 1-0-2, See ICC B3

Rams’ gambles pay off with the ultimate prize: The Super Bowl LVI title Mark Maske The Washington Post

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — The Los Angeles Rams cashed in on the big bets they made on themselves. They are Super Bowl champions. Their season of high-stakes, all-in roster maneuvers culminated with a victory Sunday on football’s grandest stage. The Rams delivered in the final minutes to beat the upstart Cincinnati Bengals, 23-20, at SoFi Stadium in Super Bowl LVI. “That’s what makes this team great,” Rams Coach Sean McVay said. “That’s why they’re world champs, because our best players stepped up in the most crucial and critical moments.” Quarterback Matthew

Stafford’s one-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Cooper Kupp with 1:25 remaining won it for the Rams. It was a penalty-filled decisive drive. The Bengals were called for holding, an illegal hit on Kupp and pass interference in the final sequence. Kupp remained in the game after absorbing a jarring hit on a would-be touchdown catch a few plays earlier that was nullified by offsetting penalties. “That last drive was a special drive that I’ll never forget,” Stafford said. “Just so many great plays by so many great players. I’m just so happy to get it done.” Stafford threw three touchdown passes - two to Kupp and one to fellow wideout Odell Beckham Jr. Kupp finished

with eight catches for 92 yards and was named the game’s MVP. But the Rams lost Beckham to a first-half knee injury and allowed a 13-3 lead to slip away before their own late rally. The Bengals turned a halftime deficit into a 20-13 lead by scoring 10 quick points to open the third quarter. Wide receiver Tee Higgins had two touchdown catches in all, one thrown by quarterback Joe Burrow and the other by running back Joe Mixon. Evan McPherson added two field goals, and the defense had two interceptions. But the Bengals could not hold on nor respond to the Rams’ final touchdown. The

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Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay holds the Lombardi Trophy after defeating the Cincinnati Bengals, 23-20, in Super Bowl LVI at SoFi Stadium on Sunday in Inglewood, California.

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Erin Jackson’s golden moment is a breakthrough for U.S. speedskating and representation Jerry Brewer The Washington Post

BEIJING — Brittany Bowe screamed for Erin Jackson. She had enough lungs for all 37.04 seconds of her friend’s golden Olympic skate and left plenty for the celebratory aftermath. She screamed from a bench in the middle of the National Speed Skating Oval, screamed while running to the pads, screamed so loud and for so long that she said, “I think I passed out.” She probably came to and screamed some more. Bowe understood the significance of Sunday night, when Jackson reached the crest of a mind-boggling five-year ascent and became the champion she was meant to be. When Bowe gave up her spot last month to make certain Jackson would be an Olympian, her decision transcended friendship and sportsmanship and honored common sense. Bowe knew Jackson belonged here, Olympic trials mishap be damned. At the United States speedskating trials, Jackson caught a bad edge, slipped and stumbled during the race. It caused Jackson, the world’s topranked woman in the 500 meters, to finish third. Only the top two are guaranteed to go to the Olympics. So Bowe, a fellow Ocala, Fla., native who won the trials, conceded her 500-meter victory so that Jackson would be assured placement on the team. “She just showed the world why she belongs here,” Bowe said of Jackson. Bowe watched a speedskating gem grow up swiftly and do it all as a grownup, not a precocious teen but an inline skater who didn’t take to competitive speedskating until five years ago, when she was already 24. Today, Jackson is 29, though you’d never know it when you watch her smiling big, talking earnest and giggling while making an admission about her performance: “Being the short-distance athlete I am, I did get a little tired.” Five years and two Olympics later, Jackson is the best female 500-meter speedskater in the world. She’s also the first Black woman to win an Olympic speedskating medal for the United States. If that’s not enough, she’s a breakthrough victor for a proud U.S. program that hadn’t captured gold since the 2010 Olympics. An American woman hadn’t won an individual medal, period, since Chris Witty set a 1,000-meter world record while taking the gold in 2002. The struggles were consistent with the woes of the entire U.S. long-track program. Twenty years ago, the Americans won eight medals, three of them gold, in Salt Lake City. Since then, the decline has been steep, culminating in a medal-less showing in 2014 and just one bronze in 2018. It has been quite a slumber for the sport - a charter discipline, one of only six to be featured in every Winter Olympics that has won more golds and overall medals for America than any other program. But all of a sudden, that’s the past. The

program can tout Jackson. For speedskating, she is a pioneer and a fixer refinishing an old tradition. “It’s huge,” said Ryan Shimabukuro, the U.S. speedskating coach. “It’s a momentum change. We’ve taken a lot of punches on the chin the last couple of Olympics.” It would have been disastrous if Jackson’s slip had cost her this opportunity. But Bowe knows the sport too well. She knows Jackson’s talent too well. And so she wasn’t going to let the best sprinter in the world wait and hope for a quota allocation to gain backdoor entry into the Olympic field. She wanted Jackson to have clarity. Besides, Bowe ended up receiving one of the spots left vacant by other nations. Bowe, who also qualified in the 1,000 and 1,500 meters, finished 16th in the 500. But she was so thrilled for Jackson you would’ve thought she had won gold, too. “I’m a part of the puzzle, but I want this moment to be about her,” Bowe said. “Incredible human,” Bowe added, shaking her head in amazement. “Incredible athlete.” Jackson’s name can be uttered in a sentence with Bonnie Blair now. Blair won the 500 in three straight Olympics, the last coming in 1994, and no American had claimed the gold again until Sunday. In victory, Jackson represents so much to so many. She’s a figure of reclamation, of transformation, of representation. In edging Japan’s Miho Takagi by 0.08 seconds, she also put her name with former bobsledder Vonetta Flowers, who 20 years ago became the first Black athlete from any country to win a Winter Olympics gold medal. Of the possibility that she can inspire more women like her, Jackson said: “Hopefully, it has an effect. I just hope to be a good example.” Inside an arena nicknamed the Ice Ribbon, there was no denying the strength of Jackson’s example. She was electric. Then her calm and humility seemed to make her presence grow. She shared a long hug with Bowe, who is four years older and her role model. Bowe kept expressing how proud she was. Jackson couldn’t stop saying thank you. “I think I cried immediately,” Jackson said. “A lot of shock, a lot of relief, a lot of happiness.” In 2018, Jackson finished 24th at the Olympics after just four months as a dedicated speedskater. She was the first Black woman to qualify for the U.S. long-track team, and she reveled in the experience. Because of injuries and the pandemic, she hadn’t enjoyed a linear path over the past four years, but something clicked last November. In the lead-up to the Olympics, she won four of eight World Cup races to earn that No. 1 ranking. When she started winning, she said to herself, “OK, that’s strange. Let’s see where it goes.” It led here, to the top, to a podium in which she could let her braids down and light up the building with a smile that matched her performance.

Young U.S. men’s hockey prove they’re ready for big stage after holding off Germany Helene Elliott Los Angeles Times

BEIJING — A team young enough that several players brought schoolwork with them to the Olympics aced a different and bigger test on Sunday. There was no question before the Games began that the U.S. men’s Olympic hockey team would have skill. There was no question the team would have speed throughout the lineup, even though the tradeoff for emphasizing speed and skill would mean they wouldn’t be the biggest team in the tournament. Any questions about whether they’d be able to handle a rugged game were answered on Sunday when they stood up to a veteran and physically punishing German team and held on for a 3-2 victory at Wukesong Sports Centre in the final game of preliminary round play. They won Group A with a 3-0 record and earned a bye into the quarterfinals on Wednesday. They will face the winner of the qualification-round game between Slovakia and Germany. The Americans weren’t intimidated by the Germans’ heavy play on Sunday. Nor were they surprised by it. “Teams are going to try to run us out of the rink,” U.S. captain Andy Miele said, “but I think so far we’ve proven that that’s not going to happen.” They faced few physical challenges in their tournamentopening rout of China. The intensity ramped up in their 4-2 victory over Canada in their second game, preparing them for the nastiness that developed early against Germany and led to seven minor penalties in the first period. The Americans matched them push for push and shove for shove until both teams settled down and eliminated most of the chippy play. There were four penalties in the second period and none in the third. “I think that’s what teams are going to try and do against us, is just be physical, being a younger, more skilled team,” said forward Nick Abruzzese, whose lunging wraparound pass set

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Team USA celebrates their victory during the Men’s Ice Hockey Preliminary Round Group A match between the Team United States and Team Germany on Day 9 of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games at Wukesong Sports Centre on Sunday in Beijing, China.

up Matt Knies for the second U.S. goal, at 4:50 of the second period. “I think the last two games we’ve done a really good job of weathering that, and I think that’s something that we’ve got to improve upon moving forward.” They might also consider improving their starts. For the second straight game they gave up the first goal, but, as they had done against Canada, they came roaring back. Germany connected first, on a power-play goal. Kings defense prospect Brock Faber was serving a holding penalty when Germany capped a sequence of good puck movement by setting up Matthias Plachta for a long shot that was redirected by Patrick Hager past goaltender Drew Commesso at the 2-minute mark. The U.S. matched that with a power-play goal of its own. Steven Kampfer, a onetime Ducks draft pick who played 231 NHL games for Boston, Florida, the New York Rangers and Minnesota, took a shot that got through the traffic in front of goalie Danny aus den Birken at 4:26. It was the first goal by a U.S.

defensemen in the tournament. “It’s nice to get goals from anybody,” coach David Quinn said, “but you’re going to need everybody contributing at different times and in different ways.” Knies put the U.S. ahead thanks to Abruzzese’s fine pass, ending a period of sustained pressure in the Germans’ zone that included aus den Birken losing his stick. “It was a pretty surreal play and I just had to put it in the back of the net,” Knies said of the goal, which Germany unsuccessfully challenged. Nathan Smith, who was one of the top scorers in college hockey for Minnesota State before joining the Olympic team, capitalized on a turnover caused by the Americans’ strong forecheck to pad the lead to 3-1 at 2:47 of the third period. Germany pushed back, scoring on a third effort by Tom Kuhnhackl -- who won the Stanley Cup with the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2016 and 2017 -- but Commesso withstood some late challenges. “This was another great building block for our team,” said Commesso, 19, who plays at Boston University and was drafted 46th by the Chicago

Blackhawks in 2020. “Coach has been preaching to us all tournament that we have to get better every single game and this game definitely taught us a lot. They’re a very physical team. They’re big and they brought it to us. We know that teams are going to try and do that to us moving forward. We’re a little bit of a younger team and we play with speed and skill and that’s how teams are going to try and counter us, but we have faith in our coaches to get us prepared.” Quinn said he’d like to see fewer soft plays when his team is leading but he has little else to complain about. “We keep making progress. Here we are 3-0 and the No. 1 seed after the preliminary round,” he said. “It’s about all we could accomplish up to this point. We’ve done it.” But now comes the real test: knockout play. Quinn thinks they’re ready. “There’s a swagger to us right now and it’s not arrogance,” he said. “There’s a believability that’s gone on here over the past week and it’s put us in this position, but we haven’t really accomplished anything that we want to accomplish yet.”

Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva will be allowed to compete, court rules Emily Giambalvo and Adam Kilgore The Washington Post

BEIJING — Kamila Valieva, the 15-yearold Russian figure skating star, is eligible to compete Tuesday in the Olympic women’s individual competition after a Monday court ruling, which prompted the International Olympic Committee to cancel any medal ceremonies involving Valieva and drew a strong rebuke from the United States’ Olympic governing body. Valieva skated in last week’s team event despite testing positive for a banned substance in late December. The result of that drug test was not reported until last week, after the Games had begun, and the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled that Valieva’s suspension should be lifted, siding with Russia’s anti-doping agency over the World Anti-Doping Agency and the International Olympic Committee. According to its decision, the court ruled in Valieva’s favor for multiple reasons: Valieva is considered a “protected person” under the World Anti-Doping Agency’s code because she is under 16 years old, and the world anti-doping code treats such competitors with different standards of evidence and offers no specific guidance for provisional suspensions for them; she would suffer irreparable harm if suspended and then later found innocent; CAS found “serious issues of untimely notification,” meaning that Valieva did not have time for a full legal process before the Games. Valieva’s case, including whether the Russian Olympic Committee will receive the gold medal it won in the team figure skating event, remains ongoing within the IOC’s legal process. But CAS essentially said Valieva should be permitted to skate for now in case that process either exonerates or lightly punishes her. “The panel was very concerned that if a provisional suspension was imposed on the athlete, and later at the end of the day, at the completion of all procedures, she would not be sanctioned or would have a very low sanction, the provisional sanction would have caused serious damage,” CAS Director General Matthieu Reeb said at a news conference.

The United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee responded within minutes of the ruling, harshly criticizing CAS’s decision and Russia, which is competing under the ROC banner as punishment for the pervasive, state-sponsored doping program the country orchestrated at the 2014 Sochi Olympics. “We are disappointed by the message this decision sends,” USOPC chief executive Sarah Hirshland said. “It is the collective responsibility of the entire Olympic community to protest the integrity of sport and to hold our athlete, coaches and all involved to the highest of standards. Athletes have the right to know they are competing on a level playing field. Unfortunately today that right is being denied. This appears to be another chapter in the systemic and pervasive disregard for clean sport by Russia. “We know this case is not yet closed, and we call on everyone in the Olympic Movement to continue to fight for clean sport on behalf of athletes around the world.” The IOC took the extraordinary step of shelving any medal ceremony, outstanding or potential, that includes Valieva. If Valieva finishes in the top three Tuesday night, as she is heavily favored to do, the IOC will not hold a medal ceremony in Beijing and will instead organize “dignified medal ceremonies once the case of Ms. Valieva has been concluded,” it said in a statement. The IOC also requested the International Skating Union to allow 25 skaters into the final round of the women’s event rather than the customary 24. The United States finished second in the team event and would be in line to win gold if Russia is stripped of its first-place finish. “This decision is only about the provisional suspension of her start in future events, and only about that,” IOC spokesman Mark Adams said earlier Monday, before the CAS decision was released. “It’s not about the medal ceremonies or future ceremonies. For us and for all of you, this is an unsatisfactory situation. We would have liked, and have asked for, the parties to have the whole case in its entirety being settled once and for all before this competition starts. We still would hope for that,

although that’s unlikely. “It’s a deeply concerning for us and, of course, for all the athletes,” Adams added. After the Russian Anti-Doping Agency received Valieva’s test results from a Swedish lab, Valieva was briefly suspended. Valieva challenged that decision Feb. 9, and a Russian anti-doping disciplinary committee lifted the suspension, allowing her to continue training ahead of the individual competition in Beijing. The IOC and WADA appealed the lifting of the suspension, prompting an expedited CAS hearing. Valieva entered the Games as the gold medal favorite in the individual competition, and she headlines the trio of Russian teenagers who could sweep the medal podium. The defending European champion and Russian national champion, she can perform difficult quadruple jumps, and during the team event, before the lab reported her positive drug test, she became the first woman to land a quad at the Olympics. Amid the furor, Valieva practiced Monday. At a session that began 30 minutes after the court’s announcement, dozens of reporters and cameras surrounded the rink, waiting for Valieva. With essentially all the cameras focusing on Valieva and capturing her every move, the 15-year-old skated as normal. She trained alongside the two fellow Russian teenagers competing in the women’s competition, along with three others from different countries. Afterward, she walked through the mixed zone - the mazelike area where athletes speak to reporters - without stopping to answering questions, holding a stuffed animal under her arm. This doping controversy has tarnished one of the Games’ marquee sports. Valieva’s exceptional performances highlighted the Russians’ win in the team event, but now the results are uncertain. Before the court’s ruling, the ROC said in a statement that it “is taking comprehensive measures to protect the rights and interests of the ROC Team members and to keep the Olympic gold medal won in fair competition.”

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Cooper Kupp came back better than ever, and now he’s the Super Bowl MVP Nicki Jhabvala The Washington Post

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Cooper Kupp stayed curled up in the end zone, shaken by a collision with Cincinnati Bengals safety Vonn Bell. As his quarterback raced over to get in Bell’s face and share some choice words, Kupp remained on the ground, cradling the football before slowly getting to his feet as the officials huddled nearby. The Los Angeles Rams’ star wide receiver had been held over and over without a flag thrown. Just after drawing a holding call at last, he caught a four-yard pass in the corner of the end zone - and took a hard hit from Bell - only to have offsetting penalties nullify the touchdown. Rattled and perhaps frustrated, he returned to the line of scrimmage - because that’s

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a qualifier match in order to earn a spot in the state meet. Cox defeated Torres and will be competing against the state’s best as a 12-year-old in two weeks. Coxsackie-Athens had another strong showing in the team standings, finishing

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Bengals’ last-gasp drive ended with a fourth-down incompletion by Burrow, under heavy pressure, with 39 seconds to play. “Obviously it stings,” Burrow said. “But we had a great year. It didn’t come out this last game the way we wanted to, but I think we still have something to celebrate.” Burrow was sacked seven times, including twice each by Aaron Donald and Von Miller, and grabbed his right knee after one play late in the game. “We’ll get it checked out after the game and when we get back to Cincinnati,” Burrow said. “But I wasn’t coming out.” The Bengals remained without a Super Bowl triumph, falling to 0-3 in football’s signature event. They were the feel-good story of the NFL

what he does. “The next play is the most important play, and he plays like it is,” Rams wide receivers coach Eric Yarber said days earlier. Two plays later, with the Rams on the 1-yard line, Kupp lined up outside, did a quick stutter step to try to shake Bengals cornerback Eli Apple, then turned toward the sideline before spinning 180 degrees to catch a short pass from Matthew Stafford in the end zone. Kupp - the Yakima, Wash., native who received no Football Bowl Subdivision scholarship offers out of high school and was the seventh receiver taken in the 2017 draft - capped a recordsetting season in fitting fashion. He was resilient. Unflappable. Reliable. “That’s why we’re world champs,” Coach Sean McVay said. “Because our best players stepped up in the biggest

moments.” After winning the triple crown in receiving for having the most catches, receiving yards and receiving touchdowns in the regular season, Kupp was named Super Bowl LVI MVP after securing eight catches for 92 yards and two touchdowns in the Rams’ 23-20 victory. His final tally for the season, including the playoffs: 178 catches, 2,425 yards and 22 touchdowns. “You got that inside leverage, so I tried to just weave to his leverage, make him move in a little bit, jab him one time and be able to just give Matthew some room to put the ball wherever he wanted to,” Kupp said of his goahead touchdown. “He made a great back-shoulder throw, and I was able to come down with it.” Kupp, who missed the Rams’ loss to the New England Patriots

in Super Bowl LIII because of a knee injury, said in the days leading up to this title game that the injury afforded him perspective. It gave him a chance to remake his body and his game any way he saw fit. He could teach himself to run the way he wanted to run. He could run routes the way he wanted to run routes. He could cut the way he wanted to cut and eliminate any bad habits from the past. As his body recovered, his mind was already onto the next next season, next play, next shot at a title. It was the most difficult thing he endured, he said, but never once did he doubt he could return to the player he was. Yet he didn’t return to being the same player. He returned better, establishing himself as a premier wide receiver and the NFL’s gold

standard, with refined routerunning, rare quickness, oftoverlooked speed and, above all, a capacity for the game that made him more like a coach than simply another chess piece. He suggested plays to coaches. He watched video with Stafford and the Rams’ other quarterbacks. He could anticipate the second level of defense - and often the third - and he could envision how a play would unfold before the ball was snapped. On Sunday, after the Rams lost fellow receiver Odell Beckham Jr. to a knee injury in the second quarter, Kupp led a receiving corps with Van Jefferson and seventh-round rookie Ben Skowronek. His task was to create, and often that meant creating alone. “Elite guys can beat oneon-one coverage,” Yarber said last week. “They demand

double coverage. And right now, if people have egos and don’t want to double him, I’m happy with that. But I’d advise you to double this guy because, if you don’t, he’s going to have a lot of success.” The Bengals didn’t heed Yarber’s warning, leaving him unguarded for an 11-yard touchdown in the second quarter, before devoting only one defender to him on his touchdown grab with 1:25 left in the fourth. After the Rams wrapped up the victory, Kupp headed to the podium along the end zone, wearing a championship T-shirt and hat - and clearly shaken, this time by the moment. “I don’t know,” he told the crowd at SoFi stadium, choking up. “I don’t feel deserving of this. . . . I don’t know what to say. . . . I just don’t have the words.”

overtime and eventuall pulled away for a 66-59 victory over Cairo-Durham in Friday’s Patroon Conference Boys Basketball Tournament action. C-A knocked Cairo-Durham’s lead down to five points entering the fourth quarter. Some high-intensity pressure defense forced Cairo-Durham into some mistakes, and the Riverhawks were able to even the score at 49-49 by the end of regulation. C-A took control in overtime. Dillon Hynes ad a couple of baskets and Robbie Hughes

went 6 for 8 from the free throw line to seal the deal. Hynes had a game-high 24 points, Robbie Hughes with 20. Sam Bruck lead Cairo with 16. C-A will travel to Greenville on Tuesday at 6 p.m. Maple Hill 70, Greenville 45 CASTLETON — Ben Marra scored 20 points to help Maple Hill defeat Greenville, 70-45, in Friday’s Patroon Conference Boys Basketball Tournament game. The Wildcats led 10-5 after

ne quarter, 31-20 at halftime and 53-35 through three quarters. Ethan Harrington added 14 points to the Wildcats’ cause. Zach Calautti had 13. Jack Motta was Greenville’s top scorer with 14 points. Trey Smith added 10. GREENVILLE (45): West 2-1-5, Weiss 1-1-3, Motta 5-314, Larson 2-0-4, Smith 3-110, Bowden 1-0-2, Thompson 2-0-4, Gergen 1-1-3. Totals 177-45. 3-pointers: Smith 3, Motta. MAPLE HILL (70):

Harrington 4-4-14, Da Costa Gomez 1-0-3, Cole 3-2-8, Gamello 1-0-2, Marra 9-2-20, Calautti 4-1-13, Rogers 2-0-6, Tyree 0-1-1, Coyne 1-0-3. Totals 25-10-70. 3-pointers: Calautti 4, Rogers 2, Harrington 2, Da Costa Gomez, Coyne. GIRLS BASKETBALL COLONIAL Ichabod Crane 58, Ravena 44 RAVENA — Carolina Williams drained four threepointers and finished with 29 points to spark Ichabod Crane

to a 58-44 Colonial Council girls basketball victory over Ravena on Friday. Ashley Ames had 12 points for the Riders (12-3 Colonial, 15-4 overall), who built quarterly leads of 15-11, 27-19 and 38-33. Malati Culver added seven points, Ava Heffner had five, Alex Barkley three and Delaney More two. Hannah Vanderzee’s 27 points led Ravena.

second in Division 2 with 92 points. Warrensburg took the team title with 155 points. Greenville finished 19th with 31.5 points. Catskill was 20th with 28 points, Taconic Hills placed 26th with 11 points ad Ichabod Crane finished 28th with 4 points. In the 102-pound weight division, Coxsackie-Athens’ Neil Murphy decisoned Riley Bernash of Corinth, 5-3, in the quarterfinals, but was pinned by Justin Mullis of Hudson

Falls in 5:20 in the semis. Murphy went on to compete in the consolation finals were he was pinned by Ashton Haley of Cobleskill-Richmondville in 2:04. At 145 pounds, Greenville’s Eric Heath lost a 9-3 decision to Tamarac’s Austin Fitzpatrick in the quarterfinals, while Catskill’s Marco Dodig was pinned by Whitehall’s Sawyer Ostrander in 3:12 in the quarters. Coxsackie-Athens’ Anthony Iamunno got off to a strong

start with a victory by pin over Ravena’s JT Lyle in 5:47 in the quarterfinals. Iamunno lost be technical fall to Ray Hutton of La Salle, 16-0 in 4:17, in the semis, before winning by forfeit over Lyle in he fifth place final. Competing in the 189-pound division, Taconic Hills’ Bo Burns decisioned Quinn Donaldson of Salem/ Cambridge, 12-6, in the quarterfinals, then lost by pin to Troy Austin of Whitehall in 118

in the semifinals. Burns went on to face Donaldson again in the fifth place final and the Titans’ senior won by pin in 4:19. Also in the 189-pound weight class, Catskill’s Stephen Forbes lost a 12-11 decision to Erik Chapman of Ravena and Coxsackie-Athens’ Ryan Ulscht was pinned by Brent Perry of Granville/Fort Ann in 1:12 in the quarterfinal round. Ulscht went on to wrestle Chapman in the consolation final and earned a

10-9 victory. In the 285-pound weight division, Thomas Cooper of Ichabod Crane lost by pin to Mason Cooper of CobleskillRichmondville in :53 and Coxsackie-Athens’ Hunter Donovan was pinned by Evan Day of Salem/Cambridge in :43 in the quarterfinals. Donovan went on to win by forfeit over Tyler Lloyd of Duanesburg in the fifth place final.

postseason, but they failed to achieve a gratifyingly victorious ending. “We’re proud of what we’ve done,” Coach Zac Taylor said. “We’ve done it the right way. We are a first-class organization from top to bottom. I think that we’ve given the fans something really to be proud of and cheer about. And that’s a plus for us.” The Rams became the second straight NFL team to secure a Super Bowl triumph on its home field. They followed the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who won last year’s game at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa after the feat never had been accomplished previously. The Rams did it on a steamy day in the Los Angeles area in the first Super Bowl matchup of the No. 4 seeds from the AFC and NFC playoffs. “These guys did it,” McVay said. “They’re a mentally tough group. ... [The Bengals] played the same way that we did. We found a way to make

a couple more plays than they did.” No one was mistaking the Rams for underdogs, not with their star-laden roster and their Super Bowl-or-bust approach to this season. They traded for Stafford last offseason. They continued during the regular season, trading for Miller and signing Beckham after he was released by the Cleveland Browns in November. The moves paid off handsomely. Stafford had been winless in the playoffs over a dozen seasons with the Detroit Lions. Now, in his first season with the Rams, he helped to secure four postseason victories and is a champion. So, too, is McVay, who had admitted to being outcoached by Bill Belichick three years ago when the Rams, with Jared Goff at quarterback, lost to the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl. “This is just a long time coming for a lot of guys,”

Stafford said. The Rams secured their first Super Bowl win since January 2000, when the franchise was based in St. Louis and Kurt Warner was throwing passes to Marshall Faulk, Isaac Bruce and Torry Holt. This was their first Super Bowl victory as a Los Angeles-based team. Stafford threw first-half touchdown passes of 17 yards to Beckham and 11 yards to Kupp. The Rams botched the extra point following Kupp’s touchdown and led 13-10 at halftime. Beckham left the game after injuring his left knee on an incomplete pass.

The Bengals got a field goal by McPherson, set up by a spectacular one-handed catch by rookie wideout Ja’Marr Chase for a 46-yard gain that victimized Rams star cornerback Jalen Ramsey, and a gadget-play touchdown pass from Mixon to Higgins covering six yards. The game shifted quickly after halftime, with a 75-yard touchdown pass from Burrow to Higgins on the first snap of the third quarter. The officials missed a penalty on Higgins for grabbing Ramsey’s facemask on the play. Stafford threw an interception to

cornerback Chidobe Awuzie on the Rams’ first play of the quarter, leading to a Bengals field goal. The Rams responded with a field goal to finish a drive that stalled with a trick play gone awry as Kupp overthrew Stafford. “We just stuck to it,” Miller said. “It wasn’t a speech or nothing.” When it mattered, it was Stafford and Kupp who delivered. “Matthew and Cooper made the most of their opportunities,” McVay said, “at the most important and critical times.”

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PROBATE CITATION FILE NO: 2022-11, SURROGATE’S COURT, COLUMBIA COUNTY, CITATION, THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, By Grace of God Free and Independent TO: NYS Attorney General as representative for unknown distributes The Capitol, NY 12224-0341 Michael Rhodes-Devey, Esq., as Guardian ad Litem for unknown distributes 33 Long Meadow Drive, Delmar, NY 120542325 "JOHN DOE" and "MARY ROE", said names being fictitious, the true names of said persons being unknown to petitioner, intended to be the heirs at law and distributees of EDITH BLUSH a/k/a Edith Caroline Blush, deceased, the names and domiciles and/or places of residence of all said distributees being unknown and which cannot, after due diligence, be ascertained, and if any of such distributees be dead, then all of the distributees, executors, administrators, devisees and legatees of such deceased distributees and all persons who by purchase, inheritance or otherwise, have or claim to have an interest in these proceedings as heirs at law or distributees of EDITH BLUSH, deceased, and other persons, if any there be, and whose names and addresses are unknown to petitioner, and also to persons who are or make any claim whatsoever as executors or administrators of any interest in these proceedings derived through, or from any and all of the above-named persons or their distributees, devisees, and legatees, and which persons, if any there be, their names and domicile addresses, after due diligence, are unknown to petitioner. A petition having been duly filed by Barbara Sheehan, having an address of 17 Pikes Pond Road, Averill Park, NY 12018. YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate's Court, Columbia County, at 401 Union Street, Hudson, New York, on March 28. 2022. at 11 :00 a. m. in the forenoon of that day, why a decree should not be made in the Estate of EDITH BLUSH a/k/a EDITH CAROLINE BLUSH, lately domiciled at 30 Whittier Way, Town of Ghent, Columbia County, New York, United States, admitting to probate a Will dated May 18, 2017, a copy of which is attached, as the Will of EDITH BLUSH, deceased, relating to real and personal property, and directing that Letters Testamentary be issued to Barbara Sheehan Dated, Attested and Sealed, January 25, 2022.

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Brad Keselowski laments close call at 2021 Daytona 500 as father’s death loomed Edgar Thompson Orlando Sentinel

Driver Bob Keselowski rarely spent as much seat time at home as at the racetrack. Keselowski balanced those long, hardscrabble days under the chassis and on the asphalt by getting behind the wheel to drive his kids to school -a tradition his son Brad continues with his two daughters. Since his father’s Dec. 22 death, Brad Keselowski’s routine has added significance. The ritual serves as the most enduring memory of a highly influential father who poured his soul into racing without sacrificing a relationship with his five children. “I don’t get to spend a terribly large amount of time with my kids,” Keselowski said. “That’s the life I chose. My dad was very similar and the one thing he always made time for me was to drive me to school. I did the same thing because I think of it the same way: I don’t want to miss that moment. “We might go the whole car ride and not say a word or we might go the whole

car ride and talk it up. I don’t know what’s gonna happen. But I think of him every time I do that. It’s kind of my tribute to him.” Entering Sunday’s Daytona 500, Keselowski continues to follow the course set by his father, who got into racing because of his father, John. Keselowski’s success is the byproduct of three generations in the garage. “Talk about a race family, that truly was a racing family,” said Larry McReynolds, a FOX analyst and former crew chief. Bob Keselowski was an ARCA Series champion in 1989, a 24-time winner and longtime team owner. But his second of two sons has enjoyed success at the sport’s top level no one in the family could imagine, including 35 Cup Series wins and the 2012 season championship. Yet as Bob Keselowski waged his battle with cancer, Brad wanted to deliver his father the ultimate prize before he passed away. In the early morning hours of Feb. 15, 2021, Brad Keselowski nearly did at Daytona International Speedway.

Instead, he and Team Penske teammate Joey Logano wrecked battling for the lead on the final lap of the 500-mile race to allow 100-to-1 long shot Michael McDowell to reach Victory Lane. “The sting of Daytona ...,” Keselowski said, his voice trailing off. “I knew my dad didn’t have much time left this time last year and he actually made it a lot longer than I thought he would. I don’t know if that’s the kind of fighter he is or was. But I told him before I left for Daytona, ‘I’m going to win you the Daytona 500, Dad.’ “That’s part of what stung so bad, losing it the way I did last year. I thought about him the whole plane ride home and how close I was. I wanted to win it for him.” Keselowski aims again to honor his father Sunday during the season-opening race and sport’s showcase event. In a sense, the 38-year-old NASCAR star already has. Bob Keselowski and his wife, Kay, owned K-Automotive Racing when he competed in ARCA and the NASCAR Truck Series -- Keselowski was one of the original drivers in 1995 and won the

1997 race in Richmond, Virginia. Following last season, Brad Keselowski ended his 12-year-old run with Roger Penske Racing and the No. 2 car to become co-owner at Roush Fenway and drive the No. 6 Ford Mustang for what is now known as Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing. “I was prepared to finish my career at Team Penske,” Keselowski said. “Wasn’t really thinking much different would happen and then this opportunity came and some other pieces fell into place and I was kind of like, ‘Why would I do this?’ The answers on why I wouldn’t do it weren’t very good, so here I am.” Similarly to how he approaches driving, Keselowski views ownership through a different lens than his father did. “My dad was never a Cup racer. He never even had aspirations of that from what I can recall,” Keselowski said. “He just wanted to race and kind of be a middle-class guy. I wanted to race, but I only wanted to race to win. My dad wanted to win; don’t get me wrong. But he wasn’t caught up in the concept of

if you didn’t win the championship the year was a bad year. “Some ways I kind of wish I had that personality.” Keselowski’s disappointments in the Daytona 500, including top-five finishes in 2013-14, reach deep. Keselowski otherwise is a superspeedway demon, with a victory in the 2016 Coke Zero 400 at Daytona and six wins at Talladega, tied for second most to Dale Earnhardt Sr.’s 10 victories there. “Daytona is a heartbreaker,” Keselowski said. “She’s broke my heart a couple times here. I still keep coming back, though. I’m like the guy in the friend zone here with Daytona, trying to break out of the friend zone.” A Keselowski victory surely would tug at the heartstrings, serving as a story of love, loss and family worth celebrating. “My dad was a special person, a unique person,” Keselowski said. “I owe a lot of my success to him. My dad loved the sport to death. He gave the sport his life from Day 1. And that’s special to me.”

Scottie Scheffler wins playoff at Phoenix Open for first PGA Tour win Field Level Media

Scottie Scheffler rolled in a 26-foot birdie putt on the third playoff hole at the Waste Management Phoenix Open in Scottsdale, Ariz., and won his first title on the PGA Tour after Patrick Cantlay missed his chance to extend. Scheffler landed his tee shot on that hole in a bunker right of the fairway, but he rescued himself with a second shot that found the green and set up a straight, uphill putt. The 25-year-old Texan was ranked 15th in the Official

World Golf Ranking this week and played for the victorious American team at last fall’s Ryder Cup, beating Spanish star Jon Rahm in singles. But a PGA Tour win was missing from his resume until Sunday, when he drew the plaudits of an enthusiastic TPC Scottsdale crowd. “Such a great place,” Scheffler said on the CBS broadcast, his wife by his side. “Such a fun week and I’m very pleased.” Scheffler and Cantlay each shot 5-under-par 67s in their final round and finished at 16-under 268. Scheffler

charged up the leaderboard with four birdies in his final six holes. Both players missed birdie putts at the par-4 18th hole to get to 17 under, so they replayed No. 18 three times before a winner was decided. “Patrick is obviously a phenomenal player, and I knew one of us was going to have to make a birdie,” Scheffler said. “Par wasn’t going to do it. This is a really hard tee ball for me. It’s hard for me to get it in play, so I knew if I had an opportunity I really had to take

advantage of it.” Three others fell one shot shy of the playoff. Sahith Theegala, the 54-hole leader in search of his first Tour victory, carded a final-round 70 and went 15 under for the week for a share of third. His tee shot at the short par-4 17th hole bounced left of the green into the water, leading to a costly bogey. “I thought I hit a great shot on 17,” Theegala said. “It was cutting. As long as it’s another yard right, I think that’s perfect. Kick straight and it’s

good. Kicked left into the water there.” “But definitely proud of the way I played this week,” the PGA Tour rookie added. Xander Schauffele (68) and Brooks Koepka (69) also tied for third at 15 under. Koepka posted a colorful back nine, with bogeys at Nos. 10 and 16 and birdies at Nos. 11, 13, 15 and 17. Billy Horschel’s 66 moved him to 14 under for the tournament, tying Sweden’s Alex Noren (68) for sixth. Justin Thomas (66) and Japan’s Hideki

Matsuyama (69) tied for eighth at 13 under, and Rahm was part of a tie for 10th at 12 under. For the second straight day, the fans at the famed par-3 16th hole were treated to a hole-in-one. Mexico’s Carlos Ortiz striped a 9-iron and watched it hop and roll straight into the cup one day after Sam Ryder carded an ace there. On both occasions, the rowdy group in the enclosed stadium-style seating celebrated by tossing adult beverages onto the hole below.

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Chatham’s Tyler Kneller (3) pulls in a rebound during Friday’s Patroon Conference Boys Basketball Tournament semifinal against Hudson at Chatham High School.

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Chatham’s Kyle Jackson (2) drives to the basket as Hudson’s Isaiah Maines (4) closes in during Friday’s Patroon Conference Boys Basketball Tournament semifinal at Chatham High School.

Hudson’s Isaiah Maines (4) puts up a shot as Chatham’s Tyler Kneller (3) defends during Friday’s Patroon Conference Boys Basketball Tournament semifinal at Chatham High School.

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third quarter began and Hudson needed to adjust in a big way to have any chance at a comeback. However it was more of the same on the passing front for the Bluehawks, and erratic passes plagued their possessions and hindered their ball movement. Matt Thorsen scored 11 of the Panthers’ 19 in the third period, and they kept the pressure on the Bluehawks no matter how large the lead got. The Bluehawks trailed 63-43 at the start of the fourth quarter but still showed heart and hustle through the end of the game. With just under two minutes to go, both teams pulled their starters to give some minutes to a few young players to close out the game. Jake Taylor sent the home crowd into an uproar as he faked out a Hudson defender to send him flying and create plenty of space to hit nothing but net on the made shot. He posted up in the corner on Chatham’s next possession and fired a catch-and-shoot three pointer and it went in to the sound of a thunderous ovation from the fans. Coach John Brantley was excited for Taylor’s first big moment at the varsity level. “He came in as a JV kid, he’s been practicing with us all year,” Brantley said with a smile. “Double practicing all year, real close to being ready. I’m happy the way he got to come in, knock a couple shots down in a big game and jumpstart him into a nice little career here.” Jake Taylor’s two makes were the icing on the cake for Chatham and they defeated the Hudson Bluehawks 8055, advancing to the Patroon finals and will face Watervliet

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Hudson’s Jordan Cunningham dishes off to a teammate between Chatham’s Kyle Jackson (2) and Matt Thorsen (1) during Friday’s Patroon Conference Boys Basketball Tournament semifinal at Chatham High School.

on Tuesday night at 6:30 p.m. at Coxsackie-Athens High School. Hudson will play Catskill for third place on Tuesday at 5 p.m. at Coxsackie-Athens. HUDSON (55): Maines 5-515, Cunningham 4-0-9, Taylor 5-3-14, Robinson 3-0-9, Tomaso 2-0-5, Wallace 1-0-3. Totals 20-8-55. 3-pointers: Robinson 3, Cunningham, Wallace, Tomaso. CHATHAM (80): Thorsen 10-2-22, Jackson 6-1-14, Kneller 4-0-8, Van Alstyne 4-0-10, Jeralds 7-0-15, Baccaro 3-0-6, Taylor 2-0-5. Totals 363-80. 3-pointers: Van Alstyne 2, Taylor, Jeralds, Jackson.

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Chatham’s Tobias Jeralds (22) takes a corner jumper during Friday’s Patroon Conference Boys Basketball Tournament semifinal against Hudson at Chatham High School.

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Chatham’s Matt Thorsen (1) drives to the basket against Hudson’s Isaiah Maines during Friday’s Patroon Conference Boys Basketball Tournament semifinal at Chatham High School.

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Chatham’s Matt Thorsen glides in for a reverse layup during Friday’s Patroon Conference Boys Basketball Tournament semifinal against Hudson at Chatham High School.

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Chatham’s Jacob Baccaro (44) works against Hudson’s Kameron Taylor during Friday’s Patroon Conference Boys Basketball Tournament semifinal at Chatham High School.

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Hudson’s Keith Robinson handles the ball during Friday’s Patroon Conference Boys Basketball Tournament semifinal against Chatham at Chatham High School.

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Woman anxious to avoid making same mistakes Dear Abby, My boyfriend, “Aaron,” and I have been together almost 10 years. We are both divorced from narcissistic spouses. We have discussed a future together and are working toward it. It’s taking so long because Aaron’s children are DEAR ABBY quite a bit younger than mine. We get along well and seem compatible in every way, but one thing bothers me: Aaron can be passive-aggressive. It isn’t often and it generally isn’t just over petty stuff, but when it happens it is very hurtful. I’ve been going to counseling to resolve some issues from my childhood and first marriage, and recently realized I have some toxic traits I need to work on and heal. Unfortunately, some of that toxicity has spilled into my relationship with Aaron and hurt him. When it happens, he reacts passive-aggressively for a bit, then things seem to go back to normal. What can I do to get over the hurt I feel when he acts this way? I want to break the cycle. Healing In The Midwest

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What call would you make?

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♠ 10 2 ♥ 9 8 6 5 3 ♦ 8 2 ♣ K 10 9 5

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WEST

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