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Missing girl found in hidden room

By Bill Williams

Columbia-Greene Media

PHOTO COURTESY OF SAUGERTIES POLICE. PHOTO COURTESY OF SAUGERTIES POLICE.

After removing the stairs on a Saugerties home, police located 4-year-old Paislee Shultis and a woman accused of abducting her on Monday night.

Paislee Shultis, 6, was found in Saugerties on Monday nearly three years since she was reported missing.

SAUGERTIES — A 6-yearold girl who was reported abducted at age 4 in 2019 was found alive and safe on Monday at a home in Saugerties, Policew Chief Joseph Sinagra said Tuesday.

Three people from Saugerties were arrested on numerous charges regarding the incident, Sinagra said.

Paislee Shultis was reported missing from Cayuga Heights, Tompkins County, on July 13, 2019. At the time, she was believed to have been abducted by her non-custodial parents, Kimberly Cooper and Kirk

Shultis, Sinagra said.

On Monday night, at about 8:06 p.m., Saugerties police and state police executed a search warrant issued by Saugerties Town Justice Court at 35 Fawn Road. At the time of the search warrant execution, the owner of the home denied having any knowledge of the child’s whereabouts, telling officers that he had not seen the child since she was reported missing in 2019, Sinagra said.

A little more than an hour into the search of the home, the child was located, hidden in a makeshift room under a closed staircase leading to the

basement.

Saugerties police detective Erik Thiele noticed something odd about the staircase leading from the back of the residence into the basement of the house that caught his attention.

Thiele thought the construction of the steps was strange, that something was out of place. Using a flashlight, Thiele shined the beam through a crack between the wooden steps and saw what he believed to be a blanket.

When he inspected the staircase, the structure See FOUND A12

Hinchey calls for centralized veterans services COURTESY OF SEN. MICHELLE HINCHEY’S OFFICE

From left, Assemblyman Jake Ashby, Sens. Sue Serino, Michelle Hinchey and John Brooks speak with veterans in the Empire State Plaza on Monday after rallying for the creation of a new state Veterans’ Services Department in the upcoming 2022-23 budget.

COURTESY OF ASSEMBLYMEMBER DIDI BARRETT’S OFFICE

Assemblywoman Didi Barrett, D-Hudson, speaks at the Million Dollar Staircase in the state Capitol on Monday to encourage legislative leaders include her bill to create a new state Department of Veterans’ Services in the state budget.

By Kate Lisa Johnson Newspaper Corp.

ALBANY — New York lawmakers are coming together on at least one issue in this season of annual state budget negotiations.

Representatives of legislative leaders expressed an eager interest to move a bill to establish a new state Department of Veterans’ Services — elevating the current Division of Veterans

Services to a cabinet-level agency with a governor-appointed commissioner.

The bill would add language outlining the agency’s specific duties to coordinate outreach efforts to veterans to ensure they receive their entitled housing, employment, mental health, education and other benefits across state departments.

“Our veterans have sacrificed so much to serve all of us, and we

must do better as a state when it comes to providing them with the resources they need to reintegrate back into civilian life,” co-sponsor Sen. Michelle Hinchey, D-Saugerties, said in a statement. “I strongly support the creation of a Department of Veterans’ Services as one centralized office that will elevate the needs of veterans statewide and make critical program offerings more accessible to them

and their families. I’m proud to co-sponsor this bill and will continue advocating alongside my colleagues until the Veterans’ Division is upgraded to full Department status so that every veteran receives the quality support they need when they return home to New York.”

Veterans struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder,

COURTESY OF SEN. JOHN BROOKS’ OFFICE

Sen. John Brooks, center, speaks next to Assemblymember Didi Barrett, right, in the state Capitol on Monday to urge lawmakers pass their bipartisan-backed legislation to create a new state Department of Veterans’ Services in the 2022-23 state budget.

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Hunter lawmaker questions county’s caretaker policy

By Ted Remsnyder Columbia-Greene Media

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Greene County Legislator Daryl Legg, D-Hunter, during the board’s County Services Committee meeting Monday.

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CATSKILL — As the Greene County Legislature weighs a new 2022 contract with an outside firm enlisted to provide companion care to county seniors, Greene County Legislator Daryl Legg voiced concerns about the agreement during the board’s County Services Committee meeting Monday.

Under the proposed renewal, the Hearthstone Care Company of Catskill would see its contracted employees paid $27 per hour to provide homemaking

and companion care for the county’s older clients through the end of 2022.

The aides would also be paid an additional $2 per hour to provide services to residents in the mountaintop area, including the towns of Hunter, Ashland, Lexington and Windham.

In a separate resolution, the county would pay $75 per day to the Catskill company for social adult care services.

Legg, D-Hunter, said Monday he would prefer to return to an arrangement in which the county provides traveling nurses to

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care for ailing seniors.

“I know from personal experience from when the county had the nurses on staff and they used to go around the county and provide services, that was wonderful,” he said. “The problem is now these people that we’re contracting with are not servicing everybody. They don’t have to go there. I don’t know if somehow in the contract it can be negotiated that they have to respond to all the needs of everybody in the county? Maybe we’ll See POLICY A12

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A strain of influenza deadly to chickens and other fowl has spread to poultry flocks in Kentucky and Virginia, less than a week after an outbreak in Indiana prompted some countries to limit shipments from the state.

Mexico is among countries that have banned or limited poultry imports from Indiana after the virus was detected there, and the wider spread raises the possibility of additional curbs.

The U.S. Agriculture Department’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service said in a statement Monday that tests show the virus present in a flock of commercial broiler chickens in Fulton County, Kentucky, and a backyard flock of mixed species birds in Fauquier County, Virginia.

Birds in the two flocks have been quarantined and will be killed, APHIS said in the statement. No human cases of the virus have been detected in the U.S., the agency said. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, these avian influenza detections do not present an immediate public health concern, the USDA said.

The Kentucky farm is one of the thousands that raise chickens for Tyson Foods Inc., the company said in a statement.

While the situation is not expected to impact its overall chicken production levels, Tyson Foods is taking steps to prevent the spread of the virus, including boosting biosecurity measures at other farms in the region, placing additional restrictions on visitors and continuing to test all flocks before birds leave the farms, it said.

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Broiler chickens feed at a poultry farm.

“Tyson Foods’ chicken products remain safe: the USDA confirms that avian influenza does not pose a food safety risk to consumers in poultry that is properly prepared and cooked,” according to the statement.

The U.S. said last week it’s expanding surveillance of avian influenza to all four of its major bird flyways after the Indiana outbreak resulted in the death of thousands of turkeys.

A highly pathogenic strain was first discovered in January in the U.S. in a wild American wigeon in South Carolina and then detected in wild birds in North

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A serious U.S. outbreak of bird flu in 2014-2015 led to the death of more than 50 million chickens and turkeys and cost the U.S. economy about $3.3 billion in losses, according to a USDA assessment. Eighteen countries — including China, Russia, and South Korea — banned trade of poultry and poultry products from the U.S. Consumers paid higher prices for eggs, with wholesale egg prices at one point doubling from the prior three-year average.

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OTTAWA, Canada — Seated in an 18-wheeler, Tyler Armstrong vowed Monday that he would not vacate his coveted parking space in front of Canada’s Parliament building until COVID-19 vaccination mandates and other pandemic restrictions were lifted.

His big rig is among scores of trucks and other vehicles that have been parked on Ottawa’s so-called Parliament Hill for more than two weeks as part of a protest against government measures meant to contain COVID-19.

“We’ll stay here as long as we have to,” said Armstrong, 25, as his girlfriend, Ashley Wapshaw, 26, nodded in agreement. “This is about freedom.”

The self-styled “Freedom Convoy” has largely paralyzed the Canadian capital and — along with allied blockades on Canadian border crossings to the United States — become a worldwide symbol of the backlash against pandemic constraints. Critics say the demonstrations disrupt commerce, ignore science and intimidate opponents.

On Monday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, under intense pressure to do something about the mounting crisis, invoked emergency powers in a bid to help dismantle the blockades. Among other steps, the federal Emergencies Act — invoked for the first time since its passage in 1988 — could bolster police ranks and powers, compel towing firms to cooperate in removing vehicles, and facilitate the cancellation of licenses and insurance linked to trucks deployed in blockades.

“We cannot and will not allow illegal and dangerous activities to continue,” Trudeau told reporters. “These blockades are illegal and the time to go home is now.”

The seeming ultimatum raises the stakes to new heights in what has become an increasingly tense standoff between the boisterous protest movement

and the Trudeau government.

Canada requires that unvaccinated Canadian truckers quarantine upon returning to Canada, and provinces across the country have varying rules in place mandating mask-wearing and showing proof of vaccination before entering restaurants and other venues.

A blockade of the Ambassador Bridge connecting Detroit and the Ontario city of Windsor was finally broken and traffic began flowing anew on the crucial commercial artery late Sunday after police moved in, arresting some demonstrators and towing away vehicles.

President Biden had spoken to Trudeau two days earlier about the importance of reopening the Ambassador Bridge, a key span for auto manufacturers in both nations.

But Canada faces a much more daunting challenge in Ottawa, where hundreds of vehicles — many of them big rigs — anchor protests that sometimes include thousands of participants, dwarfing the gatherings along the border in Windsor, some 500 miles to the southwest.

The well-organized rallies in the capital feature stands offering free food and water, a stage where supporters extol the cause of “freedom” and regularly denounce Trudeau’s Liberal government, and high-powered speakers blaring out rock and other music.

The capital protesters have vowed repeatedly not to leave until vaccine mandates, maskwearing requirements and other rules are lifted permanently.

Trudeau’s tough talk did not seem to faze them.

“We’re not going anywhere until the mandates are gone and protections are in place so this kind of violation does not happen again,” said Benita Pedersen, 43, a protest organizer. “People have suffered for too long.”

The demonstrators say they do not object to those who want to be vaccinated, wear masks or take other protective measures.

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“It should be up to the individual what they do, whether they get vaccinated or not,” said Brooke West, 31, an office administrator who was among several hundred demonstrators gathered Monday outside Canada’s ornate Parliament building. “That’s our choice.”

The protests have tapped into a worldwide fatigue with the restrictions meant to tame COVID-19.

“Of course, people are tired, frustrated, sick of the pandemic,” Trudeau said Monday.

“They want it to be over.”

However, polls show that Canadians have generally supported restrictions meant to control COVID-19. About 85% of Canadians are fully vaccinated — compared with 65% in the United States, according to Johns Hopkins data — and Canada has about one-third the death rate of the United States from coronavirus.

While truckers have led the Canadian protests, participants have come to include people from a wide range of occupations and viewpoints. They have converged on Ottawa from throughout Canada, and include some U.S. citizens. Political views of the demonstrators seem to span the spectrum from far right to far left, with many in between. Others say they are apolitical except on the issue of “freedom.”

“You really can’t say it’s one political viewpoint,” said David Paisley, 32, an organizer who spoke to a reporter in the Shack, a kind of control center built of plywood mounted atop a flatbed truck parked on Wellington Street, the main thoroughfare outside Parliament.

He and others say the convoy survives largely on donations and participants’ funds and deny allegations that it is bankrolled via right-wing groups in the United States. Conservatives such as former President Trump and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz have lauded the movement.

One aspect of new emergency authority would allow banks

to freeze funds suspected of aiding the protests, an effort to thwart crowd-source financing.

GoFundMe said it suspended forwarding money raised for the Canadian truckers because of police reports of violence.

Despite single-digit temperatures, many participants sleep in their trucks or in tents. Others stay at hotels or with friends or family.

People run jerry cans of diesel and gasoline to keep vehicles running. Participants seem to cooperate with police, who have made no concerted effort to evict them.

The overall mood is upbeat, something like an extended block party. Demonstrators dance to the music and tote signs with messages such as “Facts Over Fear,” “No Vax Passports” and “End the Mandates.”

But officials in the capital characterize the protests as a nightmare siege of the normally low-key city along the Ottawa River. Many downtown businesses have closed and the city feels quasi-deserted, except for the demonstrators wandering about on ice-and-snow-covered streets waving Canadian flags and protest placards.

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Wednesday, Feb. 16 n Catskill Central School Board

of 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

Pair of Greene County bridge projects delayed

By Ted Remsnyder Columbia-Greene Media

CATSKILL — A pair of planned Greene County bridge construction projects will be delayed until 2023, Greene County Highway and Solid Waste Department Superintendent Scott Templeton told the Greene County Legislature on Monday.

During the Legislature’s Public Works Committee meeting, Templeton informed the board that two Bridge NY projects - the Timberlake Road Bridge in the town of Lexington and the Bloomer Road Bridge in the town of Hunter - had been held up.

“Unfortunately, they have been delayed due to right-ofway clearance issues,” Templeton said. “We’re working with our right-of-way consultant. Unfortunately, there are two or three properties that are difficult to work out. We should be moving forward with that and 2023 looks like the schedule for those.”

Once completed, the Bloomer Road Bridge will traverse Gooseberry Creek in Hunter, while the Timberlake Road Bridge will span Broad Street Hollow in Lexington.

The bridge projects have already been designed, with plans previously submitted to the New York State Department of Transportation for the agency’s design and approval.

During Templeton’s monthly report to the

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Wednesday, Feb. 23 n Athens Village Board 6:30

p.m. Athens Fire Department, 39 Third St., Athens Consult the village website for updates the day of the meeting n Catskill 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

Tuesday, March 1 n Durham Town Board work-

shop meeting 7:30 p.m. Town Hall, 7309 Route 81, East Durham

Wednesday, March 2 n Catskill Central School District Board of Education budget workshop 6:30 p.m. CHS Library, CHS Library, 341 West Main St., Catskill 518-943-2300

Thursday, March 3 n Ashland Town Planning Board

6 p.m. Town Hall, 12094 Route 23, Ashland

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 Cairo Town Board 7 p.m. Town Hall, 512 Main St., Cairo 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

Preservation Committee 6 p.m.

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A planned bridge that will traverse Gooseberry Creek in Hunter has been delayed until 2023.

Legislature on Monday, Legislator Daryl Legg, D-Hunter, asked the department head if the Hunter Transfer Station could expand its hours in the near future.

“Have we given any more thought to separating the two days the Hunter Transfer Station is closed and have you given any more thought to getting it back to six days (per week) open?” Legg said.

“We did the numbers and I can’t force the department employees to work overtime,” Templeton said. “Additional overtime would be around

$50,000 to $60,000, but that’s taking into account that everyone wants to take the work up there. If I hire three additional people, that’s about $300,000 per year.”

Legg asked how the Hunter Transfer Station was open in previous years six days per week and Templeton said there weren’t three employees working at the site then.

The Hunter Transfer Station is open Monday, Tuesday, Friday and Saturday from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and Sunday from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

New hours for the transfer

station went into effect May 3, 2021. Greene County Administrator Shaun Groden said the transfer station budget was already set for 2022 and Legg replied that he wants to start looking at the Hunter station hours in advance of the 2023 budget negotiations.

“We’d have to address it in the budget cycle to add either bodies or overtime,” Groden said.

Following the meeting, Legg said he had been hearing from the community about the transfer station being closed Wednesdays and Thursdays.

“It’s residents and contractors both,” he said. “It’s not Scott’s fault. I know how this is playing out. But my point is that this is a problem that has to be addressed. You can’t close a transfer station two days in a row in the middle of the week for contractors and businesses that are in trash removal. So when you collect trash on a Tuesday and it’s closed Wednesday and Thursday, that’s two days that dumpsters are sitting around full that they can’t empty. Unless they go somewhere else.

The availability to go somewhere else isn’t always there and there’s more refuse every day.”

During the meeting, Legg said he wanted the Legislature to start studying the issue before the next budget cycle approaches.

“The extra day alleviates a lot of refuse coming in,” Legg said to Templeton. “Your numbers are going up, they’re not going down. There’s more coming in every day and I don’t see any time in the future when that’s actually going to stop. So we have to plan on doing it now because wouldn’t it be easier to handle 300,000 tons of garbage over six days a week than five?”

Templeton said it wouldn’t necessarily be the case that adding one more day would make things more efficient.

GREENE COUNTY POLICE BLOTTER Editor’s note: A charge is not a conviction. All persons listed are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Charges can be amended or dismissed.

STATE POLICE n Michelle Cherimond, 38,

of Albany, was arrested Jan. 30 at 1:03 p.m. in Coxsackie and charged with second-degree introduction of contraband into prison. She was issued an appearance ticket. n Jordan D. Mayo, 26, of Catskill, was arrested Feb. 1 at 11:34 p.m. in Windham and charged with second-degree obstruction of governmental administration, a class A misdemeanor; lewdness, exposing body in public, a class B misdemeanor and driving while intoxicated first offense and aggravated driving while intoxicated first offense per se with no priors, both unclassified misdemeanors. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Jonathan P. True, 23, of Earlton, was arrested Feb. 2 at 10:46 p.m. in Cairo and charged with operating a motor vehicle with a blood alcohol level of .08 first offense and driving while intoxicated first offense, both unclassified misdemeanors.

He was issued an appearance ticket. n Victoria A. Herber, 30, of Cairo, was arrested Feb. 3 at 1:31 p.m. in Cairo and charged with third-degree bail jumping, a class A misdemeanor.

She was issued an appearance ticket. n Russell L. Pruitt, 59, of Monticello, was arrested Feb. 3 at 9:07 p.m. in Catskill and charged with first-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, a class

E felony and operating a motor vehicle with a blood alcohol level of .08 first offense and driving while intoxicated first offense, both unclassified misdemeanors. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Kelly A. Floryan, 36, of Rhinebeck, was arrested Feb. 5 at 3:25 p.m. in Catskill and charged with operating a motor vehicle with a blood alcohol level of .08 first offense and driving while intoxicated first offense, both unclassified misdemeanors. She was issued an appearance ticket. n Frederick P. Pechette, 49, of West Coxsackie, was arrested Feb. 5 at 3:29 p.m. in Coxsackie and charged with operating a motor vehicle with a blood alcohol level of .08 first offense and driving while intoxicated first offense, both unclassified misdemeanors. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Royam A. Nayyar, 26, of Flushing, was arrested Feb. 5 at 11:01 p.m. in Durham and charged with operating a motor vehicle with a blood alcohol level of .08 first offense and driving while intoxicated first offense, both unclassified misdemeanors. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Adam J. Fischkelta, 51, of Jersey City, was arrested Feb. 5 at 9:09 p.m. in Hunter and charged with driving while intoxicated first offense, an unclassified misdemeanor. He was released to a third party. n Joseph F. Allen, 58, of Cairo, was arrested Feb. 6 at 3:47 p.m. in South Cairo and charged with second-degree criminal trespassing, a class A misdemeanor. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Gregory L. Craig, 65, of

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Albany, was arrested Feb. 8 at 4:52 p.m. in Catskill and charged with second-degree criminal attempt, a class A misdemeanor. He is being held. n Anthony E. Otazo, 21, of Castleton, was arrested Feb. 8 at 11:55 a.m. in Catskill and charged with third-degree rape, a class E felony. Following arraignment, he was released on his own recognizance. n Tribhawan Singh, 37, of Ozone Park, was arrested Feb. 10 at 12:38 a.m. in Coxsackie and charged with operating a motor vehicle with a blood alcohol level of .08 first offense and driving while intoxicated first offense, both unclassified misdemeanors. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Dawn M. Vernon, 43, of Catskill, was arrested Feb. 9 at 10:39 p.m. in Catskill and charged with aggravated driving while intoxicated, per se, with no priors and driving while intoxicated first offense, both unclassified misdemeanors. She was issued an appearance ticket.

n Katherine C. Smart, 33, of Saugerties, was arrested Feb. 10 at 12:03 a.m. in Catskill and charged with operating a motor vehicle with a blood alcohol level of .08 first offense and driving while intoxicated first offense, both unclassified misdemeanors. She was issued an appearance ticket. n Charles J. Olivett, 56, of Round Top, was arrested Feb. 10 at 9:48 a.m. in Cairo and charged with first-degree operation of a motor vehicle while impaired by drugs and driving while ability impaired, combined drugs and alcohol, both unclassified misdemeanors.

He was issued an appearance ticket. n Jennifer R. Pascuzzi, 36, of Albany, was arrested Feb. 10 at 3:46 p.m. in Cairo and charged with second-degree bail jumping, a class E felony. She was released on cash bail. n Lionel L. Rushford, 46, of Athens, was arrested Feb. 10 at 3:39 p.m. in New Baltimore and charged with second-degree bail jumping, a class E felony.

He was released on cash bail. n Courtney Cochrane, 32, of Catskill, was arrested Feb. 10 at 3:45 p.m. in Athens and charged with fourth-degree possession of a narcotic drug, a class C felony; first-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, narcotic drugs eight ounces or more, a class A felony; fourth-degree criminal possession of a firearm, a class A misdemeanor and criminal possession of a weapon with a previous conviction, a class E felony. She is being held. n Diamonique Cochrane, 27 of Athens, was arrested Feb. 10 at 3:45 p.m. in Athens and charged with fourth-degree possession of a narcotic drug, a class C felony; first-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, narcotic drugs eight ounces or more, a class A felony; criminal possession of a firearm, a class E felony and third-degree criminal possession of a weapon with a previous conviction, a class D felony. He is being held.

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Sides headed for bail reform clash Republicans across the state aren’t giving up on hounding Democrats to change the state’s bail laws after legislative leaders in late January seemed reluctant to revisit it. About a dozen state and New York City Republicans took their cries to amend the state’s cashless bail laws downstate last Thursday, standing outside city hall in Manhattan instead of holding a rally for changing the laws in Albany or upstate communities.

This brings us to New York City Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, who met with legislative leaders to further discuss the details of his legislative agenda after taking office last month. It’s no surprise that the legislative agenda of the mayor of the nation’s largest city, plagued by shootings and other deadly crimes, would include bail reform. It was expected to be

a topic of discussion between Adams and legislative leaders after Adams, a former state senator and New York Police Department captain, was adamant in calling for the Legislature to amend the bail laws to allow judges greater discretion in determining a defendants’ level of danger — is he a danger to himself and other members of the community? — especially if accused of violent crimes with a firearm. Adams is a firebrand, and fire is impossible to ignore.

Members of law enforcement, Republican elected officials and others have come out in force this legislative 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. Democrats answered Monday as As-

sembly members stood in solidarity in the Empire State Plaza concourse, hoping their shouts to protect the state’s bail reform measures would drown out demands to change the controversial law. Still, the pressure to do something is mounting.

Several Democratic assembly members have said they are becoming 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.

A broader discussion about criminal justice reforms is clearly needed, especially when a fellow Democrat of Adams’ stature refuses to side with his party.

The most important tactic that state Assembly leaders can adopt is to hold Adams accountable for addressing hard facts about bail reform and discard the rhetoric.

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The crisis over Ukraine is far from over. Some lessons are clear already.

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Another tense weekend has come and gone in Europe, with Russian troops menacingly massed on Ukraine’s border - fortunately still on the Russian (and Belarusian) side. Hope for some sort of diplomatic escape from war is dying, but not yet dead. A central figure in the drama, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, visited Kyiv Monday and was scheduled to go to Moscow Tuesday. On the eve of his trip, Moscow released video of the Russian foreign minister telling President Vladimir Putin that diplomacy is “not exhausted.”

Whether Putin does find a face-saving way to stand down or - as seems more likely - orders the bloody military assault of which the Biden administration has warned, this crisis has already taught the United States and its allies around the world certain lessons.

It’s not too early to acknowledge them, and to prepare the corresponding actions.

The overarching lesson is that democracy’s survival is intertwined with geopolitics. This is true because of the simple

fact, demonstrated over and over again in the 20th century, that democratic principles do not flourish in the abstract; they must be institutionalized in secure territorial space. That is the answer to those who ask what interest the United States has in Ukraine:It is our interest in preventing a forcible anti-democratic takeover of that large space, and its population, thus setting a precedent for the intimidation or takeover of others. Yes, democracy does begin at home, and U.S. democracy needs domestic reform and strengthening; what’s also needed, though, is a critical mass of likeminded nations. Too many have already succumbed to internal decay or outside pressure.

No matter how much the Biden administration might want to pivot to Asia and focus resources on a contest with China, the world’s other powers cannot be depended on to accommodate that. The Atlantic alliance, buttressed by new partners in the Indo-Pacific region, remains necessary and appropriate in the 21st century. Putin gripes

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that he must make military threats to counter NATO expansion. This is mostly propaganda to jusatify the new Russian empire, based in anti-democratic ideology that he has been pursuing for years. The best answer is alliance cohesion. And to a remarkable extent, that is what the Biden administration has achieved, forging a consensus for supporting Ukraine and punishing a Russian invasion with sanctions, despite the U.S. president’s own verbal miscues and the inevitable attempts at autonomous diplomacy

by European allies.

In fact, it’s quite possible that Putin may trigger the very result he purports to prevent - greater NATO expansion - as previously neutral countries such as Finland and Sweden join.

It would be even better if a current member - Germany - takes this situation as its cue to ramp up defense spending, which still falls short of NATO targets. German energy dependence on Russia has also been exposed for what it is - inconsistent and unsustainable - and Berlin must adjust.

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Imagine if a lemon law penalized schools for rotten educations Mitch Daniels The Washington Post

I think it’s fair to say that we Americans, whatever our other different predilections, are pretty demanding shoppers. We expect good value in the goods and services we buy and exert ourselves to obtain it. We pass lemon laws and have welldeveloped doctrines of implied warranty that require sellers to stand behind their claims.

A growing chorus comprising voices from left and right argues that it is past time to bring a similar accountability to one of our most vital services, the education delivered by U.S. colleges and universities.

Whether by fining them a fraction of their graduates’ student debt defaults, charging them an insurance premium against such failures to repay, or some similar mechanism, the concept of schools sharing the risk of inadequate performance with the taxpayers has wide and growing support.

That’s a sound principle as applied to higher education, but why stop there? A parallel approach might inject a degree of accountability into the K-12 area, where the performance record is, if anything, worse, and the consequences even more destructive at both the individual and societal levels.

Year after dreary year, hundreds of thousands of high school diplomas are awarded to young people who, it turns out, are not nearly literate or numerate enough to identify the main idea of a reading passage or to perform basic computations. We’re not talking about readiness for MIT. Even at the nation’s community colleges, 40% or more of students require “remediation,” which amounts to factory recall repair work for a defective original job. The beleaguered taxpayer pays twice for the same service, which far too often fails a second time.

Federal and state governments have rightly focused on high school graduation rates as a paramount goal.

The diploma has long been recognized as the first essential step toward productive adult life. My home state of Indiana, in one typical initiative, prohibits dropping out of high school without a personal conference attended by the student and parents, where the likely negative consequences are reviewed in detail. Graduation rates are widely publicized, and schools scramble to look as good as possible.

But the opportunity to grant exceptions on graduation requirements - justifiably intended for those for whom English is a second language or who have special needs - can turn into a gaping loophole, exploited to “waive through” students who fall far short of any adequate preparation for either work or citizenship. In prepandemic 2019, an encouraging 87% statewide graduation rate was tainted by a record 12.4% of diplomas granted through waivers.

Through one of the educational reforms for which I advocated as governor, Indiana prohibits the so-called social promotion of children from third to fourth grade until they pass a reading test.

It’s well-established that up to that point, children must learn to read, so that beyond it they can “read to learn.”

Yet far too many schools choose to shuffle along kids who are not reading-ready, in most cases dooming them to struggle and failure later on.

The reform worked, in a uniquely rapid and emphatic fashion. In the first postreform cycle of national assessments, Indiana fourth graders jumped from 27th to 14th. Two years later, the state ranked ninth. The extra costs for summer tutoring, or the reputational bruise from too many youngsters having to repeat third grade, clearly got the system’s

attention.

So a little accountability can go a long way. But whenever the K-12 system can devise ways to disguise its shortcomings, it will.

Last year, Oregon made a cryingstock of itself by ending proficiency exams for its high school graduates.

Obviously too few students, including too few in specific demographic categories, were learning what they were supposed to. A lot of losing football coaches in Oregon wish they, too, could just stop keeping score, but, of course, football is too important for such nonsense.

Turns out the idea of an education “warranty” flickered briefly, a couple of decades ago. A few isolated high schools around the country, and even the Los Angeles Unified School District, touted guarantees of proficiency in reading, writing and problem solving, with free retraining for graduates not meeting that standard. But all sank without a trace.

After a decade in higher education, I’m sure that even a modicum of risk to an institution would produce behavior change. If there’s anything that motivates college administrators as much as money, it’s reputation, and getting a bill for a share of graduates’ debt defaults would deliver a hit to both.

The reaction in the K-12 world would be similar.

When a coffee pot, a lawn mower or a smartwatch fails to deliver as advertised, we don’t hesitate to ask for a remedy, and we don’t expect to be charged a second time.

When, aside from public safety, the most important service we purchase from government breaches its warranty, why do we settle for so much less?

Mitch Daniels is president of Purdue University and a former governor of Indiana.

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Democrats deliver, Democrats build To the editor: President Biden’s poll ratings currently are suffering, in large part because of the mess he inherited and the huge task of extricating the country out of it. The process will take time, even as we all are eager to escape the COVID-caused mire in our lives.

In its first year the Biden administration and Democratic congress has delivered, by historical standards, a list of impressive achievements for the American people: — the country’s 2021 growth rate (GDP, 5.7%) is the highest in four decades.

— the most recent unemployment rate was 4%, closest to its twenty-first century low.

— the number of new

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— a success that numbers can’t fully capture: the millions of people and businesses who, because of the American Rescue Plan relief payments, were able to claw their way through the catastrophic disruptions of COVID. — passage of the expanded child tax credit dramatically reduced child poverty in a period of family crisis.

— they provided the funding for rebuilding our roads and bridges, modernizing our electric grid, and expanding broadband access to rural and other underserved areas.

There’s much more to include. Suffice to conclude that Democrats have

delivered sane, rational, deliberative governance and relief from the exhausting torrent of tweets and the ascendance of dangerous crackpots.

Inflation, in large part a consequence of our rapid recovery and the infusion of relief money in the economy, is being addressed, with the Federal Reserve having the heaviest role.

Radical Republicans, congealed into the party of breakers, the party of No, desperately use cultural conflicts to distract Americans from the reality: Democrats whom the nation elected in 2020 are doing the hard work the people asked them to do. They are delivering.

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Do Medicare Part A and B back up my Medicare Advantage Plan?

By Russell Gloor, National Social Security Advisor at the AMAC Foundation

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Dear Rusty: I was told that I can use Medicare Parts A and B as secondary coverage to my Medicare Advantage plan. Is that true?

Signed: Puzzled Dear Puzzled: Many do not understand how the various parts of Medicare work, and especially how or if “original Medicare” (Medicare Part A and Part B) interacts with a Medicare Advantage plan.

If you now have a Medicare Advantage plan, it is the private insurer who provides your plan that administers all of your healthcare needs, instead of the federal government agency which runs Medicare (that federal agency is called the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, or “CMS”).

Although you must pay Medicare Part A and Part B premiums to the federal government to obtain a Medicare Advantage plan, all your healthcare services are

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GLOOR handled by the private Medicare Advantage plan provider and not by the government’s CMS agency. When you have an Advantage plan, Medicare Parts A and Part B do not act as secondary coverage for your Advantage plan. You don’t get healthcare services from both, because when you choose a Medicare Advantage plan you are deselecting CMS as the administrator of your healthcare needs.

Deciding whether to use “original Medicare” to administer your healthcare services or to use a Medicare Advantage plan is always a very personal choice. Medicare Advantage plans cover almost all the medically necessary services that original

Medicare covers, although you must generally use “innetwork” providers to obtain full coverage. But if you incur healthcare expenses which are not covered by your Medicare Advantage plan, you must pay them yourself federal Medicare Parts A and Part B are not backup coverage for those uncovered healthcare expenses. So, what you were told is incorrect — Medicare Part A and Part B do not act as secondary coverage to your Medicare Advantage plan.

This article is intended for information purposes only and does not represent legal or financial guidance. It presents the opinions and interpretations of the AMAC Foundation’s staff, trained and accredited by the National Social Security Association (NSSA).

NSSA and the AMAC Foundation and its staff are not affiliated with or endorsed by the Social Security Administration or any other governmental entity. To submit a question, visit our website (amacfoundation.org/programs/socialsecurity-advisory) or email us at ssadvisor@amacfoundation.org.

Alzheimer’s Association offers free care planning meetings in your community

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Caring for a person living with Alzheimer’s disease or other dementia is a lifeencompassing experience that spans generations. Everyone has a role: spouses, siblings, children of all ages and friends each play a part in the care team. It requires thought, strategy and, most importantly, a plan.

“There is no one-size-fitsall formula when it comes to Alzheimer’s and dementia care,” said Beth SmithBoivin, executive director for the Alzheimer’s Association, Northeastern New York Chapter. “Needs change at different stages of the disease, and each situation is unique. People living with the disease, their families and care partners often need assistance in planning for and managing all aspects of the disease experience. The Alzheimer’s Association is

here to help.”

Care consultations are a free service that offers indepth, personalized care planning, education and support. A consultation is more than just a meeting with a dementia expert.

Highly trained staff help to develop a road map to navigate through the thoughts, emotions and questions that family members, care partners and the diagnosed person may have, including: n Assessment of the current needs and abilities of the person living with dementia n Navigating difficult caregiving decisions and role changes in the family n Information and resources to assist with legal and financial matters n Available community resources n Partnering with the physician and/or health care provider

n Safety concerns n Addressing caregiver

stress and developing selfcare strategies “Care consultations are available at any time during the disease journey — from a new diagnosis to end-oflife,” Smith-Boivin said. “As the disease progresses, many people schedule follow-up consultations to address new concerns. We are here with them along the way.”

Right now, the Alzheimer’s Association staff conduct care consultations virtually, but we expect to return to some in-person activity in coming weeks. To schedule a care consultation, call our office at 518-867-4999 to reach a local dementia specialist.

Marisa Korytko is the Public Relations Director for the Alzheimer’s Association Northeastern New York chapter. She can be reached at mekorytko@alz.org.

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GREENE COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS CLUBS CATSKILL — Some clubs may not have resumed meetings due to COVID-19.

Athens Senior Citizens meet at 1:15 p.m. the second and fourth Monday at Rivertown Senior Center, 39 Second St., Athens, Cairo Golden Agers meet at 1:30 p.m. the second and fourth Wednesday at Acra Community Center, Old Route 23, Cairo.

Catskill Silver Linings meet at 1 p.m. the second Thursday of the Month at the Robert C. Antonelli Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill.

Coxsackie Area Seniors meet at 1 p.m. the second and fourth Wednesday at Van Heest Hall, Bethany Village, Coxsackie.

Senior Citizens of Coxsackie meet at 2 p.m. the first and third Monday at the Town of Coxsackie Senior Center, 127 Mansion St., Coxsackie.

Greenville Golden Agers meet at 1 p.m. the first Wednesday at the American Legion Hall, 54 Maple Ave., Greenville.

Mountain Top Golden Agers meet at 1;30 p.m. the fourth Thursday at Tannersville Fire Hall, Main Avenue,

Tannersville.

WAJPL Golden Age Club meet at 1 p.m. the first and third Monday at Windham Town Building, 371 Route 296, Hensonville.

COFFEE KLATCH HUNTER — The Hunter Public Library, 7965 Main St., Hunter, holds a Coffee Klatch for those 55 and older 10 a.m.-noon the second Tuesday of the month. Light refreshments and coffee and tea are available.

ALZHEIMER’S EDUCATION WEBINARS ALBANY — The Alzheimer’s Association offers community and family education and outreach webinars from the safety of your home.

These virtual programs provide high-quality disease and dementia education for those directly affected by the disease. They are free of charge and include topics such as signs of Alzheimer’s disease, diagnosis, communication, living with Alzheimer’s and caregiving techniques.

Each webinar is held live with time for Q&A. Note that all webinars are listed in Eastern Standard Time (EST). RSVP via our our 24/7 Helpline at 800.272.3900 or by contacting Sierra Snoddy at 518-6757214.

Research Update noon Feb. 16. The basics of Alzheimer’s and dementia including risk factors, treatments, research and Alzheimer’s Association resources.

Healthy Living for Your Brain & Body noon Feb. 22.

Learn about research in the

areas of diet and nutrition, exercise, cognitive activity and social engagement.

Legal & Financial Planning 2 p.m. Feb. 24. This workshop is ideal for anyone who would like to know more about what legal and financial issues to consider when facing dementia and how to put plans in place.

10 Warning Signs of Alzheimer’s 10 a.m. March 3.

Program will help you recognize common signs of the disease in yourself and others and next steps to take.

Meaningful Engagement, Activities at Home 2 p.m.

March 15. Discuss the social needs of people with dementia and how to meet those needs.

Understanding and Responding to Dementia-Related Behaviors 3 p.m. March 23. Caregiver tips and strategies to respond to some common behaviors.

Effective Communication Strategies noon March 29.

How Alzheimer’s and other dementias affect an individual’s ability to communicate.

REMINDER: Early Alzheimer’s Support & Education (EASE) - Virtual Program meets 10 a.m.-noon Thursdays beginning March 24 through May 12. EASE is an 8-week interactive learning program for people with early stage memory loss and their care partners. Registration and a pre-screening is required.

RSVP via the 24/7 Helpline at 800-272-3900 or by contacting Sierra Snoddy at 518675-7214.

Senior Menu CATSKILL — The following is the weekly nutrition menu offered by Greene County Department of Human Services’ Senior Nutrition Program. Served daily with each meal are: Bread or alternative (roll, bun, etc.) with Promise Spread and low-fat milk. Tartar sauce is served with fish meals.

Menu is subject to change based on product availability and circumstance.

The menu will be the meal that is delivered to all Greene County homebound meal clients.

All persons 60 and older can receive a meal. The suggested donation for each meal is $4. Those wishing to receive a meal are required to call the respective location at least a day in advance.

Rivertown Senior Center, 39 Second St., Athens, 9452700.

Senior Service Centers: Acra: Acra Community Center, Old Route 23B, Cairo 622-9898.

Jewett: Jewett Municipal Building, Route 23C, Jewett, 263-4392.

If you wish to pick-up a lunch at the Robert Antonelli Senior Center in Catskill call at least a day in advance, the Rivertown Senior Center to reserve.

FEB. 16 THROUGH FEB. 23 WEDNESDAY: Pork chop with gravy, applesauce, sweet potatoes, green beans, banana mousse.

THURSDAY: Vegetable lasagna with white sauce, garden salad, Italian vegetables, brownie.

FRIDAY: Hungarian goulash, mixed vegetables, egg noodles, fresh fruit.

MONDAY: Closed.

TUESDAY: Barbecue chicken thighs, baked beans, collard greens, pineapple chunks.

WEDNESDAY: Seafood scampi, linguini, spinach, wax beans, cookies.

FEB. 23 THROUGH MARCH 2 WEDNESDAY: Seafood scampi, linguini, spinach, wax beans, cookies.

THURSDAY: Chicken Parmesan with penne, tossed salad, green beans, chocolate mousse.

FRIDAY: Beer battered fish, Monaco vegetable mix, rice pilaf, fresh fruit.

MONDAY: Baked manicotti, sausage, green beans, Italian mixed vegetables, pears.

TUESDAY: Chicken dijon, mashed potatoes, broccoli, peaches.

WEDNESDAY: Salmon with dill sauce, scalloped potatoes, cauliflower, peanut butter cookie.

MARCH 2 THROUGH MARCH 9 WEDNESDAY: Salmon with dill sauce, scalloped potatoes, cauliflower, peanut butter cookie.

THURSDAY: Macaroni and cheese, stewed tomatoes, 3 bean salad, fresh fruit.

FRIDAY: Seafood salad, linguini, spinach, tomatoes and zucchini, fresh fruit.

MONDAY: Chicken divan, carrots, brown rice, fruit cocktail.

TUESDAY: Stuffed shells marinara with meatball, broccoli, cauliflower, tropical fruit.

WEDNESDAY: Barbecue pulled pork, cole slaw, baked beans, collard greens, chocolate mousse.

MARCH 9 THROUGH MARCH 16 WEDNESDAY: Barbecue pulled pork, cole slaw, baked beans, collard greens, chocolate mousse.

THURSDAY: Hungarian goulash, Monaco mixed vegetables, egg noodles, fresh fruit.

FRIDAY: Fish florentine, sauteed mixed vegetables, green beans, rice pilaf, rice pudding with raisins.

MONDAY: Beef chili, mixed vegetables, brown rice, pears.

TUESDAY: Sweet and sour

chicken, pineapple, oriental vegetables, white rice, mandarin oranges.

WEDNESDAY: Roasted chicken quarters with gravy, corn, mashed potatoes, chocolate chip cookies.

MARCH 16 THROUGH MARCH 23 WEDNESDAY: Roasted chicken quarters with gravy, corn, mashed potatoes, chocolate chip cookies.

THURSDAY: Corned beef and cabbage, carrots, broiled potatoes, Irish soda bread, chocolate cake with Andes mints.

FRIDAY: Beer battered fish, coleslaw, broccoli, scalloped potatoes, fresh fruit.

MONDAY: Sloppy joes, cauliflower, corn, tropical fruit.

TUESDAY: Chicken dijon, Italian mixed vegetables, mashed potatoes, pineapple.

WEDNESDAY: Hot turkey dinner with gravy, cranberry sauce, green beans, mashed potatoes, pumpkin pie.

MARCH 23 THROUGH MARCH 31 WEDNESDAY: Hot turkey dinner with gravy, cranberry sauce, green beans, mashed potatoes, pumpkin pie.

THURSDAY: Pork chop with gravy and applesauce, sweet potatoes, peas and carrots, fresh fruit.

FRIDAY: Eggplant parmesan, Italian mixed vegetables, tossed salad, linguini, fresh fruit.

MONDAY: Chicken and biscuits, California vegetable mix, mashed potatoes, lemon pudding with graham cracker crumbs.

TUESDAY: Taco bake, corn/tomatoes and lima bean medley, Spanish rice, butterscotch pudding.

WEDNESDAY: Turkey burger with peppers and onions, carrots, scalloped potatoes, fruited gelatin.

THURSDAY: Chicken parmesan, tossed salad, Italian mixed vegetables, rotini, fresh fruit.

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Elaine M. Cox October 4, 1947 - February 11, 2022 Elaine M. Cox, 74, of Hudson, NY, passed away Friday February 11, 2022. Born October 4, 1947 in WilkesBarre, PA, she is the daughter of John and Grace (Loeb) Lockman.

Elaine was primarily a homemaker, and also was employed at Livingston Adventist Home and Hettling Farmlands after her children were grown.

Family, especially her children was her top priority, and came above everything. Her home was always open and she made everyone feel welcome and made sure they were never hungry.

Elaine leaves to cherish her memory, her beloved children, Amy Winegard, David, Kimberly, Brian, Heather, Megan and Stephen Cox, her grandchildren Alexis Bragg (Matt), Lauren Winegard, and Lucas Cox, great grandchildren Conrad, Layla, and Gunnar Bragg, along with her siblings Mary Mouat, Theodore (Joan), Thomas (Carol), David, and Robert (JoJo) Lockman.

Several nieces and nephews also survive. Elaine was predeceased by her husband George, brother Jack Lockman, and sister Deborah Kimberlin.

A Celebration of Elaine’s life will be announced at a later date during warmer weather. In memory of Elaine, donations are encouraged to be made to the Diabetes Association or Parkinson’s Foundation.

Dan Crosby November 2, 1946 - February 13, 2022 Dan Crosby of West Ghent, N.Y., died on February 13, 2022.

He was 75, born November 2, 1946 in Liverpool, England. In 1947 he and his mother Lucy Crosby moved to the U.S. to join his father, Charles Crosby. Dan grew up in Claverack, N.Y. and graduated from Hudson High in 1965. His passion was flying, and he spent time servicing and painting planes, as well as running a small airport outside of Athens, N.Y. Later in life he owned and ran an auto repair shop where he was able to pursue his other hobby collecting and restoring old cars. Dan is survived by his life partner of 40 years Nancy Newhouse, his daughter Jennifer Newhouse, two grandchildren Kent and Corbin, his brothers Gary Crosby and Michael Crosby, and sisters Leone Koester, Louis Engle, and Pauline Sim. Relatives and friends are invited for Calling hours Friday 5-7 pm from the Wenk Funeral Home Chatham, Interment will be in the Cedar Park Cemetery. For online condolences, visit wenkfuneralhome.com

Thomas Joseph Davis II July 3, 1993 - February 12, 2022 COXSACKIE / HOLIDAY, FL - Thomas Joseph “Tommy” Davis II, 28 of Holiday, FL, formerly of Coxsackie, gained his wings and went home to the Lord after a sudden accident on Saturday, February 12, 2022.

Born on July 3, 1993 in Albany, he was the son of Russell M. and Barbara A. (Varade) Davis.

Arrangements have been entrusted by the family to the care of Vincent Perniciaro of Dufresne & Cavanaugh Funeral Home. Relatives and friends are invited to visit with Tommy’s family on Saturday, February 19th, 2022 from 1:00 to 4:00 pm at the funeral home located at 149 Old Loudon Rd., Latham. A service will immediately follow the visitation beginning at 4:00 pm.

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DeSantis now supports taking $200 million from schools that mandated masks Skyler Swisher Orlando Sentinel

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis now supports a plan to withhold $200 million in funding from 12 school districts that mandated masks because of the pandemic, a spokeswoman said Tuesday.

DeSantis is on board following discussions with state Rep. Randy Fine, who is proposing the budget measure, press secretary Christina Pushaw wrote in an email.

“The governor has been clear that he doesn’t want to take away any funding from students or teachers,” she wrote.

“He is on board with the FEFP Florida Education Finance Program3/8 adjustment following discussions with Rep. Fine. The

fines in this proposal would only impact administrators making $100k+, who were actually making the political decisions to force-mask children.”

On Friday, DeSantis said he would not support the idea, which has drawn complaints from the school districts and Democrats.

“My view would be let’s not do that,” DeSantis said during an appearance in Jackson County, when asked about Fine’s proposal. “But what you could do is say any parent whose kid was illegally forcemasked this year in Florida in any of those districts, they should have the right to sue if their kids have any negative effects.

STOCK Act 2.0 would monitor insider benefits

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WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand and Rep. Katie M. Porter are working to pass legislation that would require government officials report when they or their families receive government money and bar much of the federal government leadership from trading individual stocks.

In a virtual press conference Wednesday, Sen. Gillibrand, D-N.Y. and Rep. Porter, D-Calif., said the STOCK Act 2.0 would further rebuild public trust in government by ensuring officials can’t hide when they receive federal money, and can’t benefit from insider knowledge of action the government may take on monetary policy.

Sen. Gillibrand and Rep. Porter reintroduced the STOCK Act. 2.0 in their respective chambers of Congress Wednesday.

“For decades, members of Congress who wrote bills, passed legislation and have overseen the implementation have turned around and collected millions of dollars from those very same relief programs, federal farming subsidies and more, and there’s no requirement that they report those payments to taxpayers,” Sen. Gillibrand said.

Sen. Gillibrand was an author of the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge, or STOCK Act in 2012, which barred government officials from trading stocks based on information learned in non-public hearings, and requiring government officials to quickly report financial transactions and make that information public. However, Sen. Gillibrand said there’s still more work to do to stop congressional abuse of insider knowledge.

Under the STOCK Act 2.0, members of Congress and their senior staffers, as well as senior staff in the president’s office and executive branch would be required to report whenever they, a spouse or a dependent apply for or receive a government benefit like loans, contracts, grants or other financial dispensation.

Sen. Gillibrand said she knew this was necessary after seeing members of the House who own car dealerships benefit from the Paycheck Protection Program in 2020. In July 2020, it was discovered that Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., received as much as $1 million in coronavirus relief loans for his three car dealership businesses. Mr. Kelly

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U.S. Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand, D-N.Y., appears at a press conference on April 8 outside the Jefferson County office building, 175 Route 3, Watertown.

is among the 50 most wealthy members of Congress, according to 2020 financial data.

“Auto dealership franchise locations and family businesses with connections to some of the wealthiest members of Congress managed to receive millions of dollars in loans from the program while small businesses were denied relief and left to fend for themselves,” Sen. Gillibrand said.

She said the standard way these cases are uncovered, when reporters dig through financial reports and find dispensations to members of Congress, isn’t enough to ensure full transparency.

“We know that sunlight is the best disinfectant, the STOCK Act 2.0 would add more transparency to the system,” she said.

The act would also bar members of Congress, the president, vice president, Supreme Court justices, Federal Reserve governors and Federal Reserve Bank presidents and vice presidents from trading individual stocks.

“This should not be a partisan issue,” Rep. Porter said. “Americans of all political affiliations, Americans with no party preference and Americans who don’t vote at all deserve to know that policy members work for them.”

The issue has proven to be a splitting point for some Democrats, though. In

December, House Speaker Nancy P. Pelosi, D-Calif., said she believes members of Congress should be able to engage in the stock market with little restriction, to enjoy the free market as the rest of the country does. Since then, however, she has expressed interest in some sort of safeguard against insider trading, and Sen. Gillibrand said she believes this bill can pass with overwhelming support from both parties in Washington.

“I believe that because a lot of these stories that we’ve read in the press are egregious, and I think it’s embarrassing as a member of Congress, that members of this body have created this appearance of impropriety,” Sen. Gillibrand said.

While there are a few other bills in Congress that address stock trading by members, including one recently introduced by Sen. Elizabeth A. Warren, D-Mass., Rep. Porter said the STOCK Act 2.0’s provisions to require reporting of business income from the government makes it a stand-out bill.

“I think that (is) the additional thrust of the STOCK Act 2.0. I also want to drive home that it should not just be journalists who do the digging when there is a big financial crisis or swing up and down (in the economy),” she said.

Asian Americans’ frustration mounts as deaths rise Ella Ceron and Alicia Diaz Bloomberg

A chorus of New York’s politicians including Mayor Eric Adams called the brutal killing of Christina Yuna Lee inside her Chinatown apartment on Sunday “horrific” and promised not to let the “violence go unchecked.”

The words have provided little comfort to many members of New York’s Asian American and Pacific Islander community, who say a string of high-profile deaths and hate crimes has prompted too many vigils and public proclamations and not enough actionable steps toward a safer city.

“Enough is enough,” chanted a crowd of several dozen people who gathered outside of Lee’s apartment building on Monday to mourn her death. “Do something, New York.”

Lee, 35, was a creative producer at the music platform Splice. She was followed into her apartment building around 4:30 a.m. on Feb. 13 by a man identified as 25-year-old Assamad Nash, according to the NYPD. Emergency responders found Lee dead in her bathroom. Nash, who tried to run away through the fire escape of Lee’s sixth-floor walk-up, had barricaded himself inside her apartment.

Nash was arrested on charges of burglary and murder and remains in custody, police said. The investigation is ongoing. Nash had prior arrests, including for assault and criminal trespassing, according to court records and the NYPD. The NYPD did not say that Lee’s killing was a hate crime.

But her death follows the Jan. 15 killing of 40-year-old Michelle Go on the subway tracks of the Times Square station and the Dec. 31 death of Yao Pan Ma, 61, who was beaten in the head last April.

Police increased the charges

against Ma’s attacker to second-degree murder as a hate crime on Feb. 10 from attempted murder.

In New York City, hate incidents against people of Asian descent rose by 361% to 129 in 2021, from 28 in 2020, according to the NYPD. Across the U.S., hate crimes against that group rose 73% in 2020, said the FBI in October 2021. While overall crime in New York City remains at historic lows, shootings and hate incidents have risen during the pandemic.

Jackie Wong, a member of the neighborhood group Concerned Citizens of East Broadway, said, “We’ve been calling the city for actions, but the city continuously ignores us in our demands.”

Dong Lee, a Chinese community activist who attended Monday’s vigil said, “Governor, I beg you, enough of the rhetoric. How many more people have to die?”

At the vigil on Monday, NYPD Inspector Max Tolentino said the city planned to engage in an awareness campaign and disseminate information in communities with predominately AsianAmerican residents to help them protect themselves.

“No community should have to go through what the Asian community has been dealing with,” he said.

Yuh-Line Niou, whose state Assembly district includes Chinatown, called the death “heartbreaking,” and said that attending vigil after vigil has been exhausting for the community. Rally fatigue is setting in and residents are growing more angry and impatient without visible change.

“One of the things that I just felt so upset by is how inadequately funded our system is when it comes to doing basic mental health checks, when it comes to making sure that we have culturally appropriate services. Our

shelters don’t even open in the daytime, many of them.

So where do people go?”

Niou said in an interview.To that end, Niou said she now conducts regular “wellness checks” to look after district residents. Her office has called 500,000 people since the pandemic began and hate incidents shot up. “In those moments, most of the time constituents say, ‘we’re fine, thank you for checking in.’ No big deal, right? But sometimes we have found people in very desperate and dire situations.”

She said she is also pushing New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to add more funds in the state’s $216 billion budget for Asian-American communities, which Niou said was allocated only $10 million last year. A tenth of the state’s population identified as Asian in the 2020 Census. That proportion rises to nearly a third in Queens, 15% in Brooklyn and 15% in Manhattan.

“Governor Hochul is outraged by the horrific surge of violence against the AAPI community and is committed to exploring every option and deploying every possible State resource to ensure every community feels safe,” said spokesperson Avi Small.

Hochul wants to create a hate and bias prevention unit within the New York State Division of Human Rights and triple funding for law enforcement and community-based gun violence initiatives, according to recent budget proposals.

Still, the moves aren’t enough for New Yorkers like Susan Lee, 43, a nonprofit grant writer in Tribeca who said she was pushed down a set of subway stairs last February and hasn’t ridden the train since. She said the city needs “more than rhetoric” and urged lawmakers to provide services that directly

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Ice yachts at Athens

CELEBRATING WORLD WETLANDS DAY

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MARYELLEN, built circa 1865, sails on the Athens Channel in a light wind on Feb. 6, 2022.

By Jonathan Palmer, Greene County Historian For Columbia-Greene Media

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To commemorate World Wetlands Day, DEC reminds New Yorkers to be mindful of the State’s wetlands and the many species that inhabit them. Wetlands (swamps, marshes, bogs, and similar areas) are areas saturated by surface or ground water sufficient to support distinctive vegetation adapted for life in saturated soil conditions. Wetlands serve as natural habitat for many species of plants and animals, including the bog turtle, and absorb the forces of flood and tidal erosion to prevent loss of upland soil.

March 1 deadline to upgrade to the enhanced STAR Property Tax Exemption ALBANY — The New York State Department of Taxation and Finance reminded seniors that, for most localities, the deadline to apply for greater property tax savings through the Enhanced STAR property tax exemption is March 1.

To be eligible for the 2022 Enhanced STAR property tax exemption, seniors must: currently receive the Basic STAR property tax exemption; have one owner of the property who will be at least 65 years of age

by Dec. 31, 2022; and have had 2020 income equal to or below $92,000.

“We want every eligible senior to receive the increased property tax benefit,” said Acting Commissioner Amanda Hiller. “To help ensure that

seniors don’t miss out on this valuable benefit, we recently sent letters to 27,000 seniors who may be eligible for additional savings.”

Eligible seniors should apply to their assessor’s office by the application due date, which is March 1 in most towns and some cities, but there are exceptions. Seniors should verify their exact due date with their local assessor.

To apply, seniors must provide the following to the assessor: Form RP-425-E, Application for Enhanced STAR Exemption Form RP-425-IVP, Supplement to Form RP-425-E Proof of income: 2020 New York State or federal income tax forms. (If the senior wasn’t

required to file an income tax return, the assessor can guide them on how to provide proof of income.)

In 2021, 577,000 seniors received a total of more than $800 million in savings from the Enhanced STAR property tax exemption.

Seniors who receive the STAR credit instead of the STAR exemption don’t need to apply or take any other action. The Tax Department will automatically upgrade them to Enhanced STAR if they qualify.

For more information STAR Resource Center. Seniors with questions about the STAR exemption can contact the Tax Department’s STAR Hotline from 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. weekdays: 518-457-2036.

Much of my free time the past three weeks has been spent down on the frozen Hudson with the members of the Hudson River Ice Yacht Club. Beginning on Jan. 21 the club began the process of launching their ice boats at Athens on Murderer’s Creek, and by Sunday the 23rd several beautiful 19th century ice yachts were fully rigged on the ice waiting for optimal conditions. A layer of snow on the ice hampered sailing for most of that week excepting Thursday the 27th when a wind came strong enough to overcome drag caused by the patchy snow cover. The weekend of the 29th and 30th saw the river swarmed with onlookers who arrived at Athens from up and down the Valley eager to join in the celebratory atmosphere. The snow cover remained an issue, but this week a close eye was kept on the weather with the assumption that the rain forecast for the end of this week would melt the snow cover and add a fresh layer of ice for a weekend of perfect sailing. Several of the boats got a few turns in, but degrading and varied ice conditions, coupled with a forecast of thawing temperatures, led the Club to close the season at Athens with all the yachts hauled out by Feb. 13.

Ice boats are a centuriesold form of transportation.

The dutch employed ice boats in the Netherlands for centuries as a practical necessity, using vessels that were essentially sail boats with runners fixed to the hulls

for the transportation of people and cargo. These naturally evolved into pleasure craft, but the speed-oriented modern sport still practiced today traces its origins to the early 19th century right here in the Hudson Valley. The triangular “stern-steerers” which made the sport famous during that era were the product of competitive refinements by individual yachtsmen and clubs throughout the Hudson Valley; culminating in a basic hull design which generally sported a gaff-rigged, sprit-rigged, or lateen sail plan based on the desires of the owner. These vessels were capable of speeds in excess of 75 miles per hour in ideal conditions, though there are claims that a few vessels could and did top 100 miles per hour. Regardless of these record-setting claims, ice yachts on the Hudson River were for a brief time the fastest conveyances on the planet.

The oldest boat assembled at Athens for this season is the MARYELLEN, formerly WILDCAT, said to have been constructed in 1865. The design of her hull is similar to a plan illustrated in an 1881 edition of Scribner’s Magazine, and sports a relatively commodious cockpit with side rails lending additional structure to the keel. MARYELLEN is nearly identical in design to an ice yacht originally from Athens named SAPPHO which is in possession of a club member but in unrestored condition. SAPPHO was probably built and owned by Addison E. Whiting, a local businessman who was later a resident of New

York City. While Athens was never the authoritative epicenter of ice yacht construction or innovation the sport still has venerable old roots here dating back to the 1810s; some of the fastest yachts of the Poughkeepsie and New Hamburg clubs were built or based on designs pioneered upriver.

One of the most widely circulated triumphs of Athenian ice-boaters was the 1821 voyage of Captains Peter G. Coffin and John Burtis from Athens to Albany on a yacht they had recently constructed — by one account the trip was made in only an hour and thirty minutes and the vessel carried an absurd ten passengers (many ice boats today are designed for one or two riders). These two captains, otherwise occupied in the summer piloting sloops in the merchant trade, were representative of what would become a class of sportsmen of moderate to considerable means who occupied their winters with this death-defying leisure pursuit. VIXEN, a lateen-rigged ice yacht also present at Athens this season, was most famously the possession of John A. Roosevelt, uncle to future president Franklin D. Roosevelt (himself also an ice-yachtsman).

With all this history zipping about on the ice it is small wonder I was down there so much, but really… what self-respecting Athenian wouldn’t want to go out and celebrate the season in traditional fashion?

Questions can be directed to Jon at archivist@gchistory.org.

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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.

WINDHAM — Mountain Top Cares Coalition, in Windham, is hosting its monthly, virtual naloxone/Narcan® Training at 7 p.m. Feb. 17.

Help us defeat opioid use disorder by volunteering for training and distribution of naloxone/Narcan®. Register by going to mountaintopcarescoalition.com.

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.

GLENVILLE — The Empire State Aerosciences Museum will hold its monthly Fly-In Breakfast 8:30-10:30 a.m.

Feb. 19 at 250 Rudy Chase Drive, Glenville. Enjoy an assortment of pancakes, french toast, eggs, sausage, potatoes, juice, coffee, tea, fruit and more. The breakfast is open to the public. At 10 a.m., Jay Fuller of Latham will present a program that compares and contrasts Army and Air Force flight training during the Vietnam era. A veteran of both branches, Fuller flew a variety of aircraft for the Army in Vietnam and the Air Guard

at Schenectady. His civilian career encompassed 30 years with ENCON and New York State Police Aviation. The Museum is open 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Saturday and Sundays; Gallery II and the Airpark with more than 20 planes is presently open. Gallery I is closed for renovations.

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 free. What is better on a cold winter day than a steaming hot, delicious soup or stew for dinner? A recipe will be shared ahead of time so that you can cook along with Karen in a Dutch oven, crock pot or electric pressure cooker. Registration is required at https://cornell.zoom.us/ meeting/register. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Contact Karen Roberts Mort from CCE Albany County by email kem18@cornell.edu or leave a message at 518-765-3552, if you have questions.

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 2022-2023 school year. For information and directions, call 518-4995416.

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United Methodist Church, 40 Woodland Ave., Catskill, will host ‘Soup Sharing’ 4-7 p.m. March 5. Choose from a variety of homemade soups to bring home and enjoy. A goodwill offering will be collected to benefit local missions. Call 518-291-3130 for more information.

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.

SELKIRK — The Bethlehem Grange 137, 24 Bridge St., Selkirk, is hosting a corned beef and cabbage dinner 3-6 p.m.

March 5, take out only. The menu includes corned beef, cabbage, Irish soda bread and dessert. Reserve meals by March 3 by calling Carol Carpenter at 518-421-1384. Make sure your phone number is displayed for a return confirmation call back. The grange is handicap accessible and there is lots of parking.

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 pre-order. Drive through, take out only. Call 518-499-5416. COVID guidelines apply.

ALBANY — The IRS is experiencing massive backlogs because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It may take 9-12 months for your return to be processed and to receive your refund if you physically mail your return to the IRS. However, you can generally expect to receive your refund in three to four weeks if you electronically file the return.

You can electronically file your 2021 return starting Jan. 24.

The IRS’s “Free File” Program may be able to help.

Free File partners will e-file your return for free. This year, you can e-file with Free File if your adjusted gross income is $73,000 or less. Links to these free tax preparation and e-filing

services are available at www.irs.gov/freefile Free tax assistance is also available in many communities. The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Program and Tax Counseling for the Elderly (TCE) Program provide free tax preparation and e-filing services. Locations can be found at www.irs.gov/vita or from your local United Way. The AARP Tax Aide Program also provides free tax preparation. VITA, TCE, and Tax Aide each have different eligibility requirements.

If you qualify for the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), you also qualify for free tax help by IRS-trained volunteers. You may qualify for the EITC even if you’re

single and have no children. EITC eligibility can be complicated. Check if you qualify at www.irs.gov/eitcassistant In addition to e-filing, you will usually receive your refund faster if you ask for the payment to be directly deposited into your bank account.

If you have questions about e-filing, refunds or other income tax issues, the Legal Aid Society of Northeastern New York’s LowIncome Taxpayer Clinic (LITC) may be able to help.

The Clinic’s services are free of charge. You can call the LASNNY Legal Line at (833) 628-0087 and ask for our LITC. The Clinic does not generally provide tax preparation services.

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MARCH 12 CAIRO — The Cairo Development Foundation will hold a Chili Cook-Off noon-3 p.m. March 12 at Gallagher’s Banquet Hal, 513 Main St., Cairo. Cook and compete or just come to eat.Entry fee, $25; taster fee, $5; beer available.

There will be prizes. All chilis and chili eaters are welcome.

All proceeds benefit the Cairo Development Foundation’s revitalization of Main Street.

Register online at website https://www.cairodf.com/ 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 garden-related 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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The Olana Partnership announces new chair of board of trustees and elects three new trustees HUDSON — The Olana Partnership (TOP) announces the election of Peter Warwick as Chair of the Board of Trustees and of Janet S. Dicke, Elizabeth Graziolo, and Emily Sachar to first terms as trustees.

TOP is a not-for-profit educational organization, whose mission is to inspire the public by preserving and interpreting Frederic Church’s Olana, a New York State Historic Site and National Historic Landmark within the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area.

Trustees provide leadership to realize TOP’s vision to fully restore Olana as the country’s most significant artist-designed environment.

Peter Warwick has been a trustee of The Olana Partnership since 2018 and succeeds Meredith J. Kane, who stepped down after five remarkable years as Chair. He is President & CEO of Scholastic Inc, the children’s and educational publisher. He serves also as President of Thomson Reuters Foundation Inc, and Chair of the Queens Museum in New York. Warwick was born in the UK and has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Bristol and D Phil from the University of York. He worked in educational and professional publishing with Pearson Education until joining Thomson Reuters in 1998 and moved to the U.S. in 2000.

“I am thrilled to take on the role of Chair and lead our amazing Board and staff in building on the great work accomplished under Meredith Kane’s leadership,” said Warick.

“Olana is very fortunate to

have such a dedicated and talented group of trustees, now led by Peter Warwick,” said Sean Sawyer, Washburn & Susan Oberwager President of The Olana Partnership, who are committed to advancing Frederic Church’s legacy in the integration of aesthetic innovation and environmental consciousness. We warmly welcome Janet, Elizabeth, and Emily to the board.”

Janet Dicke has always been attracted to nature and the environment and sees Olana as uniting her passions for art and nature. She is a world traveler, art collector and philanthropist. Dicke graduated from Trinity University in San Antonio and married her Trinity sweetheart, Jim Dicke, after graduation, and moved to New Bremen, Ohio, where Jim joined the family business, Crown Equipment. She is devoted to education and has served as a trustee, chairman and chairman emeritus of Ocean Reef, a private school in Key Largo, Florida for 3-year-olds through 8th grade and currently serves as a trustee of Trinity University.

Dicke also serves on the board of the International Sculpture Center.

Elizabeth Graziolo, AIA, is the award-winning founder and principal of Yellow House Architects based in New York City and Miami, a collaborative-minded practice specializing in residential and commercial work. Preceding YHA, she was a partner at Peter Pennoyer Architects for more than 15 years, directing projects ranging from private homes to multi-tenant

developments in the United States and abroad. In 2021, Architectural Digest inducted Graziolo into their illustrious AD100 after profiling her as “One to Watch” earlier that same year. Graziolo is a trustee of The Museum of the City of New York and The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art and serves on the Delano & Aldrich/Emerson Fellowship Committee of the American Institute of Architects. Graziolo is also an active mentor and champion for young women entering the architecture profession, participating as a presenter and resource in programs that help inspire and support the next generation of women architects. In addition to her New York City base, she has a home in Hudson.

Emily Sachar is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated book author, award-winning journalist and former editorial leader at Newsday, Scholastic and Time Inc. She is the creator and editor of Red Hook, New York’s online newspaper The Red Hook Daily Catch. Sachar is the two-time winner of the Grand Prize for Distinguished Education Reporting from the Education Writers of America and Peter Khiss Award for Outstanding Reporting on New York City Government.

An experienced educator, she has held faculty appointments at New York University, the State University of New York, the New York Academy of Art, and Bard College. Sachar first became involved with Olana in 2016 when she started to lead tours of Olana’s Main House and Landscape.

John Jay Homestead offers lecture in honor of Black History Month KATONAH — As part of its recognition of Black History Month, John Jay Homestead State Historic Site will present a lecture entitled, Slavery and the Jay Family: A Seven-Generation Story at 6 p.m. Feb. 24 via Zoom, Founding Father John Jay was descended from three generations of enslavers.

Jay himself is something of an enigma: he argued for abolition in the new state

of New York as early as 1777 but did not abolish slavery in his own household for another four decades. His descendants include three generations who were abolitionists and civil rights activists.

This illustrated program, presented via Zoom, examines the arc of slavery through seven generations of the Jay family. It is a story that goes back almost to

the introduction of slaves into the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam and ends just months before the 13th Amendment abolished slavery.

The program is free, but registration is required.

A Zoom link will be sent to registrants prior to the event. Register at www. johnjayhomestead.org/ events.

DEC releases updated strategic plan for state forest management ALBANY — The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Basil Seggos announced the release of the 10-year update to the Strategic Plan for State Forest Management.

The draft plan is available for public comment through March 4 and will help guide the management of all State Forests and the development of State Forest unit management plans.

“This 10-year update to the Strategic Plan for State Forest Management builds on New York’s efforts to sustainably manage the more than 807,000 acres of State Forests under DEC’s stewardship, while providing opportunities for recreation, economic benefits for local communities, and protection for sensitive

wildlife habitats,” said Commissioner Seggos. “Ensuring New York’s forests remain strong in the face of our changing climate was a critical consideration when developing this update and I encourage New Yorkers to review and weigh in on the plan.”

The Strategic Plan for State Forest Management was originally drafted by DEC’s Division of Lands and Forests in 2010, as part of the process for certifying New York State’s forests under the Sustainable Forestry Initiative® and Forest Stewardship Council® standards. The plan is updated every decade, and is considered a best management practice among natural resource management organizations, serving as a document to guide forest

management.

In addition to guiding management decisions on State Forests, the plan serves as the General Environmental Impact Statement (GEIS) for work done on State Forests, multiple use areas, and unique areas.

The GEIS satisfies the requirements of the State Environmental Quality Review Act to ensure no negative environmental impacts occur as a result of DEC management actions.

A presentation with more information about the draft plan is available on the SPSFM webpage. Comments can be submitted by mail to DEC’s Bureau of Forest Resource Management, 625 Broadway, Albany, NY 12233, or by email to 2021SPSFM@dec.ny.gov through March 4, 2022.

Andrew O’Grady joins Mental Health Association of NYS board of directors ALBANY — Andrew O’Grady, CEO of Mental Health America of Dutchess County joins Mental Health Association of NYS (MHANYS) Board of Directors.

MHANYS is a not-for-profit organization that works to end the stigma against mental illness and promotes mental health wellness in New York State. MHANYS achieves this through training, education, advocacy and policy, community-based partnership programming, and by connecting individuals and families to help.

Mental Health Association in New York State, Inc. (MHANYS) is an agency of support, education and advocacy for mental health issues, and has been for over fifty years. As part of its mission, MHANYS advocates for change in the mental health system ensuring access for all New Yorkers, fights stigma through community-based partnership programming, and provides

information on mental health issues and services.

MHANYS has led advocacy efforts in NYS resulting in such laws as the Mental Health Awareness Tax Checkoff, which raises funds to end discrimination against mental illness, and Timothy’s Law, which mandates mental health parity. These laws are part of a long, full, and varied history of advocacy, organizing, and grassroots efforts that improved the lives of all New Yorkers.

“Being part of a Board as diverse and important as MHANYS is an honor. I have always admired the incredible work of the MHANYS CEO Glenn Liebman and all the staff at MHANYS” O’Grady said.

MHANYS also creates and maintains projects that, in the past and present, share the common theme of educating the public about mental illness and reducing the stigma of the illness. Such projects include the Community

Business Outreach Program, the Project Aware, Wellness Recovery Action Plans (WRAP), MHANYS Engagement Services, Parents with Psychiatric Disabilities Initiatives, Jail Diversion Initiative, The Empowerment Project, Families Together, Parent Support Network, the Community Mental Health Promotion Project, and Mental Health First Aid. Several of these projects, including The Empowerment Project and Families Together, have spun off into successful freestanding organizations.

O’Grady also remarked that “Changing the way services are provided in this State and supporting the amazing workforce behind those services requires tireless advocacy and a formidable organization to lead such change. MHANYS under the leadership of Glenn Liebman is the MHA affiliate leader that accomplishes that.”

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Pollen grains from gingko trees ride the wind from a male tree to a female tree’s flowers, which captures and keeps them until it is ready for pollination.

By Thomas Christopher For Columbia-Greene Media

Gardeners tend to regard flowers as aesthetic statements, but according to Carol Reese, they are really all about sex. Carol is a distinguished horticultural educator who retired in 2021 from a 26-year career as an Extension Horticulture Specialist, first at Mississippi State University and afterward at the University of Tennessee.

She’s also a prolific writer, the author for 20 years of a weekly newspaper column and the questions and answer column in Horticulture magazine. Finally, she’s an in-demand speaker: I met her last fall when she gave a talk about sex in the garden for a native plants symposium at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden.

What flowers really are, according to Carol, is an invitation to sexual relations, as blatant as any human pick-up line. These botanical come-ons are mostly directed at pollinators. The flowers that depend on other means of moving pollen from male flowers to the female, on the wind for example, don’t need to appeal to the eye or nose. Male flowers that depend on anemophily, wind pollination, are commonly plain, even inconspicuous, as are their female counterparts, in which showy petals would only be an obstacle to reception of the pollen grain.

When studying plant sex, it quickly becomes apparent that it is far more varied than relations between humans. Although there can be interesting parallels. Carol brought to my attention gingko trees, which have survived more or less unchanged from the days of the dinosaurs. In their case, the pollen grains ride the wind from a male tree to a female tree’s flowers, which captures and keeps them until it is ready for pollination, at which time it releases a chemical agent that allows the pollen to swim like a human sperm into the fertile ovary.

A major difference

between plant and human sexuality, however, it that plants may or may not bear both male and female sexual organs on the same organism. Some plants, like the gingko, are dioecious — that is, they bear male sexual organs and flowers on one plant, and female organs and flowers on another.

Other plants, however, are monoecious — they bear both male and female flowers on the same plant. Still others are hermaphroditic, bearing male and female sexual organs in the same flower. That last alternative can involve the plant in some elaborate measures, as it is disadvantageous for the flowers to fertilize themselves, to self-pollinate.

Crossing with another plant introduces genetic variability into the resulting seeds, setting the stage for natural selection and the process by which a plant’s descendants may develop advantageous traits and adapt to changes in its environment.

Self-fertilization, or “plant incest” as Carol jokingly describes it, leads to inbreeding and a lack of genetic variability. That’s why, she added, plants take ingenious measures to prevent it. Pecans, for example, which bear both male and female flowers on the same tree, mature them at different rates so that the male flowers on any given tree are not shedding pollen at the same time as the female flowers are fertile. This means that a pecan depends on the presence of a second tree for fertilization and the production of nuts. If, in your ignorance of pecan sex, you do not match cultivars so that the maturity of the male and female plants on the two trees align properly, you get no harvest.

Other devices that Carol described plants as using to prevent self-pollination include even flowers changing gender. Jewelweed (Impatiens capensis) for example, a common wildflower throughout most of the eastern and northern United States, times its bloom to

coincide with the arrival of hummingbirds which feed on its nectar and in the process pollinate the flowers. Individual jewelweed flowers start as male and then, a couple of days later, become female. In this way, any individual blossom cannot self-pollinate. Instead, any pollen a hummingbird picks up while feeding, must be transferred to another plant’s blossom, one which has already undergone the trans gendering, to effect fertilization.

Colleagues have accused Carol of wandering onto the subject of sex no matter what horticultural topic she discusses. That’s only natural, according to her.

“You had better know some of the details about it to be a successful gardener. Flowers are sex organs. Insects, birds, everybody’s out there doing it. It’s all about makin’ babies. I’m just reporting my observations.”

To listen to a conversation with Carol Reese, log onto the Berkshire Botanical Garden’s Growing Greener podcast at https://www. thomaschristophergardens. com/podcasts/sex-in-thegarden.

Be-a-Better-Gardener is a community service of Berkshire Botanical Garden, located in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Its mission, to provide knowledge of gardening and the environment through a diverse range of classes and programs, informs and inspires thousands of students and visitors each year. Thomas Christopher is a volunteer at Berkshire Botanical Garden and is the author or co-author of more than a dozen books, including Nature into Art and The Gardens of Wave Hill. He is the 2021 Garden Club of America’s National Medalist for Literature, a distinction reserved to recognize those who have left a profound and lasting impact on issues that are most important to the GCA. Tom’s companion broadcast to this column, Growing Greener, streams on WESUFM.org, Pacifica Radio and NPR and is available at his website, https://www.thomaschristophergardens.com/podcast.

DEC announces annual ‘Buffer in a Bag’ program ALBANY — New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Basil Seggos announced that the application period for the Trees for Tribs’ “Buffer in a Bag” Program is now open. Qualifying private and public landowners may apply for a free bag of 25 tree and shrub seedlings for planting near streams, rivers, or lakes to help stabilize banks, protect water quality and improve wildlife habitat.

“Small-scale streamside plantings can help decrease erosion, slow floodwaters, and protect fish and wildlife habitat,” said Commissioner Seggos. “We encourage New York landowners with waterside properties to participate in DEC’s ‘Buffer in a Bag’ program to bolster our efforts to protect water quality and safeguard communities from flooding.”

To qualify, landowners must have property in New York State with at least 50 feet bordering a stream, river, or lake, and provide photos or a map of the planting location.

Previous recipients are encouraged to reapply to continue to build riparian buffers. Applicants are eligible for one bag of 25 seedlings and recipients are chosen on a firstcome, first-served basis.

A total of 350 bags will be available statewide for this round of applications.

Landowners in the Hudson River Estuary watershed (PDF) may be eligible for additional assistance with streamside planting projects. For details, visit the Hudson River Estuary Program’s webpage.

Seedlings are provided

by DEC’s Colonel William F. Fox Memorial Saratoga Tree Nursery. The Trees for Tribs program is managed by DEC’s Division

of Lands and Forests and supported by the State’s Environmental Protection Fund (EPF). Governor Hochul’s 2022-23 Executive Budget proposes increasing the EPF from $300 to $400 million, which would be the highest-level of funding in the program’s history. The EPF provides funding for critical environmental programs such as land acquisition, farmland protection, invasive species prevention and eradication, enhanced recreational access, water quality improvement, and an aggressive environmental justice agenda.

Visit DEC’s website for more information about the Buffer in a Bag application process and requirements. Applications are due by 3 p.m. on April 11, 2022. Contact treesfortribs@dec.ny.gov with questions and visit DEC’s Trees for Tribs webpage to learn more.

Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor receives Open OutDoors for Kids Grant WATERFORD — Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor has received an Open OutDoors for Kids grant from the National Park Foundation (NPF).

This grant will enable the development of new digital educational materials and support field trips to three national parks located in the Erie Canalway.

“Since 2012, more than 50,000 students from 250 schools have participated in education programs within the Erie Canalway supported by the National Park Foundation,” said Bob Radliff, Executive Director of the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor.

“These new initiatives will continue the tradition of connecting students to National Parks through onsite school field trips, distance learning opportunities, and community engagement for underserved audiences.”

Erie Canalway will work

with Saratoga National Historical Park in Stillwater, Fort Stanwix National Monument in Rome, and Women’s Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls to develop virtual 360 tours and curriculum materials for 4th grade classrooms to complement the tours.

Through these new virtual experiences, students across the country will have the opportunity to visit and learn from these nationally significant sites.

In addition, the funding will support field trips for 4th graders and their families to safely visit national parks in the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor.

Since 2011, NPF has engaged more than one million students in educational programs connecting them with national parks across the country. NPF’s goal is to connect another one million students to parks over the next four years.

“National parks are America’s largest classrooms,” said National Park Foundation President and CEO Will Shafroth. “With parks, learning is fun, memorable, and hands-on.

Parks open kids’ eyes to the wonder and complexities of nature and history, and the National Park Foundation is committed to connecting as many kids as possible to parks through our Open OutDoors for Kids program.”

The NPF Open OutDoors for Kids program is made possible by private philanthropy, including support from Youth Engagement and Education premier partner Union Pacific Railroad, and supporting partner GoGo squeeZ. Additional support is provided

by Apple, Sierra, Columbia Sportswear, Parks Project, The Batchelor Foundation, Inc., Humana, and many individual donors.

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Local group holds youth video contest about impact of smoking in movies HUDSON — Tobacco-Free Action of Columbia & Greene Counties invites youth ages 13-18 to participate in a contest aimed at shining a spotlight on the tobacco industry’s use of smoking imagery on screen to normalize and glamorize tobacco use. The statewide winning video will be highlighted on the Reality Check and Tobacco-Free NY websites and promoted through social media.

“It is projected that onscreen smoking will kill two million U.S. children and teens alive today,” said Kristina Donders, Reality Check Youth Ambassador of the Year for 2021. “This is a campaign that saves lives. We are looking forward to seeing what youth have to say about this in their videos.”

Tobacco-Free Action Youth Engagement Coordinator Bryan Zimmerman said: “I think most teens tragically underestimate how powerful and distinct their voices are—to audiences of all ages. We hope that this 60-second-video format is a project that youth approach as a fun challenge,

and an opportunity to learn skills that they can take anywhere and everywhere.”

Teens throughout the region and the state are challenged to create a 60-second video exposing the tobacco industry’s manipulative tactics within the entertainment industry. Tobacco imagery is used to promote and glamorize smoking and ecigarette use. Judging will be based on quality, creativity and effectiveness, and accuracy of messages. Each video must have the following key facts and a minimum of one key statement from the following:

KEY FACTS: 1. Youth who are exposed to images of smoking in movies are more likely to smoke.

(US Surgeon General) 2. It is projected that onscreen smoking will kill two million U.S. children and teens alive today. (US Center for Disease Control) 3. R-rating future movies with smoking would reduce the youth smoking rate in the United States by 18%. (US Center for Disease Control)

KEY STATEMENTS: One little letter could save a million lives. Rate smoking R. Protect youth from onscreen exposure to tobacco.

Smoking in movies kills in real life.

Video submissions are due March 9, 2022. One video will be recognized as the statewide winner. This video will live on www.realitycheckofny.com and highlight the issue through the lens of New York State youth. Four regional winning videos will also be awarded and recognized at the regional level. All winners will be announced on March 27, 2022 as part of the Smoke-Free Movies International Week of Action.

All awards will be recognized at regional press events and promoted through local media outlets. All youth participating in the contest will receive a Reality Check Swag Bag. For complete contest rules and to submit entries, visit www.realitycheckofny. com. For questions specific to the contest, email tobaccofree@cvfamilycenter.org.

New York State Summer School of the Arts to offer a scholarship program ALBANY — The New York State Summer School of the Arts (NYSSSA) will offer a total of $150,000 in scholarship opportunities for high school students to attend other regional summer arts programs for summer 2022, the State Education Department announced. Students can apply for a scholarship through May 1st via an online application on the NYSSSA website.

“We are excited to offer this new scholarship program for students interested in the arts,” said Board of Regents Chancellor Lester W. Young Jr. “The Regents believe that every student should have the opportunity to actively participate in arts education. This scholarship program will allow students from all socioeconomic backgrounds to connect with the arts via summer programs that may have previously posed a financial challenge to their families.”

“Arts education can change a student’s life, and this new scholarship program will break down financial barriers that may

prohibit students from attending summer arts programs,” said State Education Commissioner Betty A. Rosa.

“NYSSSA staff and faculty continue to evolve NYSSSA programming to adapt to challenges caused by the ongoing pandemic. I look forward to the success of this new scholarship program.”

The goal of the scholarship program is to promote access and equity to arts education by providing needbased grants to low-income students pursuing summer opportunities. The scholarship application will evaluate financial need and will not include an audition or portfolio component.

To be eligible to apply, students must be entering 6th– 12th grade in fall 2022, live in New York state, and select a New York State-based summer arts program including music, theatre, dance, creative writing, fine arts, design, and more. Individual grants will range from $250 - $5,000 depending on financial need; grant amounts will pay up to 90 percent of the program cost. If more

applications are received than available funding, scholarships will be awarded based on the most financial need.

NYSSSA offered programming virtually in summers 2020 and 2021. No virtual or in-person NYSSSA program will be offered in summer 2022 because of several factors, including fiscal challenges and virtual format fatigue. In its 2022-2023 Non-State Aid Budget and Legislative Priorities, the Board of Regents included a $2 million annual request for new state funding to ensure NYSSSA continues to be available to New York students in 2023-2024 and beyond.

NYSSSA is a program of the State Education Department and Office of Cultural Education. NYSSSA serves an important need to foster and enhance the artistic abilities of the state’s most gifted young artists regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender expression, or economic status. More information can be found on the NYSSSA website.

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appeared to be solid, but detectives used a halogen tool to remove several of the wooden steps and that is when detectives saw a pair of tiny feet.

When police removed the step boards, the child and her alleged abductor, Kimberly Cooper, were found hiding in the dark and wet enclosure, Sinagra said.

Paislee was taken to Saugerties police headquarters, where she was met by paramedics from Diaz Ambulance, examined and released in good health, Sinagra said.

Paislee was turned over to her legal guardian and reunited with her older sister.

Police arrested Kimberly Cooper, 33, for second-degree custodial interference, and

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have to make it more than $2 an hour, but I’m sure it doesn’t only happen on the mountaintop.

When the county got rid of that nursing staff, that was really not a service to the constituents.”

Legislator Edward Bloomer, R-Athens, said the county is not alone in facing staffing shortages for health care workers.

“It’s not just a Greene County issue, as everyone in the room knows, it’s national,” he said.

“It’s a problem and we’re going to have to do something about that. In the meantime, from what I understand, Hearthstone

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housing issues or other problems may have to apply to five or six different state agencies — including the Office of Mental Health, the state Office of the Aging, the Office of Addiction Services and Support, among several others — to access their earned benefits, leading to jumbled applications or funding distribution. “...The benefits that you put your life on the line to serve our country, and that you deserve to be getting,” said Assemblymember Didi Barrett, D-Hudson, who sponsors the legislation in the chamber.

Barrett has served as the first woman chair of the Assembly’s Veterans Affairs Committee for nearly four years.

“It would be simply daunting for anybody to have to address that many different agencies to have your benefits met,” she said. “This is something that I believe New York state must, and can do, better at for our veterans and for our military families.”

The state’s Division of Veterans Services was established in 1945 for returning World War II veterans.

The state has more than 800,000 veterans, with more than half over age 65, but only about 17% of the population access their benefits and eligible services under the current structure, which has remained unchanged over the last seven-and-a-half decades.

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endangering the welfare of a Child. Cooper was also wanted on an active warrant that had been issued through Ulster County Family Court. Cooper was arraigned in Saugerties Town Justice Court and ordered held in the Ulster County Jail, Sinagra said.

Kirk Shultis Jr., 32, was charged with first-degree custodial interference and endangering the welfare of a child.

Kirk Shultis Sr., 57, was charged with first-degree custodial interference and endangering the welfare of a child.

Both men were arraigned in Saugerties Town Court and released on their own recognizance.

Stay-away orders of protection were issued by the court against all three suspects, Sinagra said.

Since Paislee was reported missing in 2019, Saugerties police and other law enforcement

agencies investigated numerous leads relative to the girl’s disappearance. Several of those leads took police to the house on Fawn Road. However, on each occasion the residents denied having knowledge of the little

girl’s whereabouts, Sinagra said.

The girl’s biological father, who had resurfaced shortly after Paislee’s disappearance, denied knowledge of his daughter’s whereabouts and told police that he had not seen the child since 2019, when he reported

that Cooper fled to Pennsylvania with his daughter, Sinagra said.

During some of the follow up visits to the Fawn Road location, authorities were permitted by both men to have limited access into the residence to look around for the child.

They allowed police to enter the home, knowing the child and her abductor were hidden within the house and would not be found, Sinagra said.

The investigation is ongoing and additional arrests are pending, Sinagra said.

has about 60% of our work. If we didn’t work with them, we wouldn’t be able to service anybody.”

Greene County Department for Human Services Business Manager Ken Brooks said the Hearthstone employees only provide level-one care according to the terms of the contract, which includes services such as cleaning patients’ homes, shopping and taking out the garbage.

Brooks said the contracted employees could refuse service if a potential client is a smoker and he added that some residents have refused to allow the Hearthstone employees in their homes if the worker was an African-American.

“We’ve had a couple of clients that prefer aides of a white color,

other than any other color,” Brooks said during the meeting.

“The clients will call us and are very verbal about it, that they don’t want a black aide. Then other aides say, ‘If they don’t want you then we won’t go to them.’ It’s an unfortunate situation. We have 20 people on a list right now that want services that can’t get them.”

Legislator Michael Bulich, R-Catskill, said the county’s pay rates to the workers have consistently gone up but the problem of attracting more aides hasn’t been solved.

“It’s an industry problem, it’s not germane to Greene County,” Greene County Administrator Shaun Groden said.

Bloomer said the aides had less incentive to travel to the

mountaintop or remote areas to reach clients when they could service multiple residents in more densely populated areas.

“One of the problems is that they’re paid by the client, not for the travel time in between,” he said.

Both Hearthstone resolutions were passed unanimously by the County Services and Finance committees Monday and will now head to the full legislature for a final vote.

Following the meeting, Legg, who represents District 7 including Halcott, Lexington and Hunter, said hiring an outside firm to provide the home care aides is an economic consideration for the county.

“The problem is, and it’s not a problem unless you make it a

problem, is the legacy costs of having an employee,” he said.

“So if you had, say, five visiting nurses, when they retire you have pensions and insurance and that all has to be taken care of. In my mind, do you think a taxpayer would be upset that they have to pay a few more cents per year to make sure if they need that service further down the road it’s there? To me that’s pretty important. When you’re younger, you don’t need these things. But as you become older, this becomes a reality.

These are the kinds of services that we have to provide.”

Legg said that as the county’s population continues to age, that he wants a long-term solution to the issue identified.

“What I’d like to see is the

people who have the needs to be met,” he said after the meeting. “I know there’s an amount of frustration that goes on with a person that has a specific need and it’s not always met. I don’t know where the disconnect comes from, whether it’s Hearthstone or the county, but it’s a problem that has to be looked at. I haven’t looked into it, so I don’t want to cast aspersions on anybody. But it has to be addressed because our community is aging. People are living longer and that’s where the problems really start. It’s our job to make sure that our residents are taken care of. That is a big problem.”

Staircase in the state Capitol this week to push Gov. Kathy Hochul and legislative leaders Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, DYonkers; and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, D-Bronx; to include the bill to fund the new department in the 202223 Fiscal Year budget, which deadlines April 1.

“We look forward to working with our dedicated Chair of the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs, Sen. John Brooks to make his crucial legislation a reality,” Senate Democrat spokesman Jonathan Heppner said in a statement Tuesday.

Assemblymembers swiftly

moved the bill out of the Veterans Affairs Committee on Jan. 5. It was referred to the Assembly Ways and Means Committee on Jan. 25 and remains in the Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs committee in the Senate.

“We will discuss this issue with our members,” said Michael Whyland, spokesman for Democrats in the Assembly majority.

Representatives with Hochul’s office did not return a request for comment before press time Tuesday about the governor’s stance on the proposed veterans’ department.

Sen. John Brooks, D-Massapequa; said programs for veterans must be expanded

and officials must work harder to reach out and help servicemembers.

“Our veterans are heroes from many wars ... many of them have faced different challenges,” said Brooks, who chairs the Senate Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs Committee. “Many had dependency problems and mental health issues. We have veterans who are homeless, we have veterans who are looking for jobs. We need to recognize that it is time to elevate this department.”

The proposal is supported

by Republicans and Democrats alike, with multiple cosponsors from either chamber on both sides of the political

aisle.

Assemblyman Jake Ashby, R-Castleton, is a former captain in the U.S. Army Reserves, and completed a tour in Iraq and Afghanistan as a medical officer during his service from 2006 to 2014. He thanked lawmakers for “When you think about what this legislation is aiming to do, you think to yourself, ‘How has this not already happened?’” Ashby said. “This is not a Democrat or Republican notion. This is the right thing to do.”

If adopted into law, all programs for New York veterans would be streamlined to one location and more easily accessible to servicemembers

and their families.

The new veterans-centered department would parallel the federal model and veterans’ departments successful in other states, such as Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Connecticut.

Command Sgt. Maj. Gary Flaherty, director of Veterans Services in Columbia County and a Vietnam combat veteran, rallied with lawmakers at the state Capitol on Monday.

Flaherty advocates for veterans in Albany each year to urge legislative support and funding for veterans’ programs, including the Pfc. Joseph P. Dwyer Veteran Peer-to-Peer Program.

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Kimberly Cooper, 33, was arrested in Saugerties on Monday night, in connection with the abduction of 4-yearold Paislee Shultis

Kirk Shultis Jr., 32, was arrested in Saugerties on Monday night, in connection with the abduction of 4-yearold Paislee Shultis

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Real shame in Russian skater Kamila Valieva’s doping scandal belongs to others. B2

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Tim Martin, Sports Editor: 1-518-828-1616 ext. 2538 / sports@registerstar.com or tmartin@registerstar.com

GIRLS BASKETBALL:

Catskill wins Patroon title in tough defensive battle over Maple Hill Matt Fortunato Columbia-Greene Media

HUDSON — The Catskill Cats defeated Maple Hill Wildcats 34-19 to win the 2021-22 Patroon Conference Tournament for girls basketball on Monday night.

Janay Brantley was the leading

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Catskill’s Aaliyah Shook (33) drives against Maple Hill’s Bella Seeberger (22) during Monday’s championship game in the Patroon Conference Girls Basketball Tournament at Hudson High School.

point-getter in this low scoring affair with 18 total points and was the only player in the double digits for either side. Ava Edmond added in seven points for the Cats and Hannah Konsul had six.

Becka Hall led the scoring for Maple Hill with seven points for

the Wildcats and Sophia Chevrier scored five.

Both defenses were tough to start the game, forcing numerous misses by their opposition. Chevrier made a shot for the game’s first points See CATSKILL B3 TIM MARTIN/COLUMBIA-GREENE MEDIA TIM MARTIN/COLUMBIA-GREENE MEDIA

Catskill’s Ava Edmond brings the ball up the floor while being closely guarded by Bella Seeberger and Alyssa Martin during Monday’s championship game in the Patroon Conference Girls Basketball Tournament at Hudson High School.

Maple Hill’s Addi Loszynski (10) defends against Catskill’s Janay Brantley (30) during Monday’s championship game in the Patroon Conference Girls Basketball Tournament at Hudson High School.

LOCAL ROUNDUP: Germantown boys,

girls win on Senior Night Tim Martin Columbia-Greene Media

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Head coach Steve Nash of the Brooklyn Nets gestures in the first quarter against the Washington Wizards at Capital One Arena on Thursday in Washington, DC.

The Nets are trying to stay positive despite mounting losses and a derailed season Matthew Roberson New York Daily News

There is no team in American sports right now with worse vibes than the Nets.

It’s not just the 11 straight losses (six of which came by double digits) or Kyrie Irving’s continued part-time absence, it’s also a general

malaise hanging over Barclays Center, providing an added layer of unshakable February coldness.

The losses are piling up, the team is basically different every single week, and one of the men tasked with fixing things has not played in an NBA game See NETS B6

GERMANTOWN — Brad Delpozzo scored 20 points to highlight Germantown’s 47-39 Central Hudson Valley League boys basketball victory over Hawthorne Valley on Senior Night.

The Clippers led 13-6 after one quarter, 22-18 at halftime and 32-31 after three, before putting the game away with a 15-8 scoring edge over the final eight minutes.

Owen Watson added 10 points to the Clippers’ cause.

Mason Ferrer and Dylan Dibble both had five.

Henri Towe led Hawthorne Valley with 21 points.

Before the game, the Clippers honored seniors Brad Delpozzo, Owen Watson and videographer Mike Stagno.

HAWTHORNE VALLEY (39): Haley 1-0-2, H. Towe 8-421, Hamilton 1-0-2, Vamstein 3-0-7, O. Towe 1-1-3, Pewther 2-0-4. Totals 16-5-39.

3-pointers: H. Towe, Vamstein.

GERMANTOWN (47): Delpozzo 7-4-20, Ferrer 1-3-5, Watson 5-0-10, Dibble 1-2-5, Lyons 2-0-5, Adickes 1-0-2.

Totals 17-9-47.

3-pointers: Delpozzo 2, Dibble, Lyons.

COLONIAL Cohoes 84, Ichabod Crane 71

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The Germantown boys basketball team honored its seniors before Monday’s game against Hawthorne Valley. Pictured are (from left): Brad Delpozzo, videographer Mike Stagno and Owen Watson.

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The Germantown girls basketball team honored its seniors before Monday’s game against Heatly. Pictured are (from left): Katie Bathrick, Jordan Wyant and Ryane Anderson.

COHOES — Royal Brown

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down

seven

3-pointers and finished with 47 points to lead Cohoes to an 84-71 Colonial Council boys basketball victory over Ichabod Crane on Monday.

Cohoes held just a 38-36 lead at halftime, but pulled away in the second half, outscoring Ichabod crane, 46-35 over the final two quarters.

Freshman Ramere Brown had 14 points for the Tigers.

Shamier Fairley added 12.

Brent Richards had his 13th consecutive double-double and 16th of the season for the Riders, scoring 22 points, grabbing 15 rebounds and blocking seven shots. Daniel Warner had 22 points and Alex schmidt contributed 11.

ICHABOD CRANE (71): Richards 11-0-22, Schmidt 2-6-11, Warner 10-1-22, Mullins 2-0-5, Clickman 0-2-2, McCrudden 3-0-7, Rapport 1-0-2.

Totals 29-9-71.

3-pointers: Schmidt, Warner, Mullins, McCrudden.

COHOES (84): Royal Brown 17-6-47, Fairley 5-0-12, Hancock 2-0-5, Smith 1-0-3, Tanksley 1-1-3, Ramere Brown 5-014. Totals 31-7-84.

3-pointers: Royal Brown 7, Ramere Brown 4, Fairley 2, Hancock, Smith.

GIRLS Germantown 34 Hawthorne Valley 31 See SENIOR B6

MLB lockout gives Yankees’ Severino more time to become starter ready again Kristie Ackert New York Daily News

TAMPA, Fla. — Luis Severino has made it clear he prefers to be a starting pitcher.

Through a lat injury and Tommy John rehab, Severino’s goal was always to get back on the mound and stretch out enough to get deep into

games. This winter has been no exception.

“I am working out, throwing bullpens, getting ready,” Severino said after the players’ union meeting here last week. When asked specifically about his role, Severino was beginning to get stretched out to start. “That’s the plan. I had been

a reliever at the end of last season3/8, but I am a starter. So that’s the plan, stretch out as best I can.”

Severino will likely have time to stretch out. With the owners having locked out the players and no progress in negotiations heading into this week, when pitchers and catchers were scheduled to report

to camps, spring training will have to be delayed. The scheduled March 31 Opening Day will likely be in danger of being pushed back, as well.

That gives Severino, who has pitched in 10 games since spring 2019, more time to build up back into a position to start games. It

also gives the Yankees more time to think about how they want to use him.

They used him out of the bullpen when he finally made his way back from March 2020 Tommy John surgery last season and he was See YANKEES B6

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Pro basketball NBA Eastern Conference Atlantic W L Pct Philadelphia 34 22 .607 Boston 33 25 .569 Toronto 31 25 .554 Brooklyn 30 27 .526 New York 25 33 .431 Central W L Pct Chicago 37 21 .638 Cleveland 35 22 .614 Milwaukee 35 23 .603 Indiana 19 39 .328 Detroit 12 45 .211 Southeast W L Pct Miami 37 20 .649 Charlotte 29 29 .500 Atlanta 26 30 .464 Washington 26 30 .464 Orlando 13 45 .224 Western Conference Northwest W L Pct Utah 35 21 .625 Denver 31 25 .554 Minnesota 30 27 .526 Portland 24 34 .414 Oklahoma City 18 39 .316 Pacific W L Pct Phoenix 46 10 .821 Golden State 42 15 .737 L.A. Clippers 28 30 .483 L.A. Lakers 26 31 .456 Sacramento 22 37 .373 Southwest W L Pct Memphis 40 18 .690 Dallas 33 24 .579 New Orleans 23 34 .404 San Antonio 22 36 .379 Houston 15 40 .273 Monday’s games Washington 103, Detroit 94 Brooklyn 109, Sacramento 85 Oklahoma City 127, New York 123, OT Chicago 120, San Antonio 109 Portland 122, Milwaukee 107 New Orleans 120, Toronto 90 Orlando at Denver, 9 p.m.

Houston at Utah, 9 p.m.

Golden State at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.

Tuesday’s games Cleveland at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m.

Dallas at Miami, 7:30 p.m.

Boston at Philadelphia, 7:30 p.m.

Indiana at Milwaukee, 8 p.m.

Charlotte at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

Memphis at New Orleans, 8 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Phoenix, 10 p.m.

Wednesday’s games Atlanta at Orlando, 7 p.m.

Detroit at Boston, 7:30 p.m.

Washington at Indiana, 7:30 p.m.

Brooklyn at New York, 7:30 p.m.

Sacramento at Chicago, 8 p.m.

Portland at Memphis, 8 p.m.

Toronto at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

San Antonio at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.

Houston at Phoenix, 9 p.m.

Denver at Golden State, 10 p.m.

Utah at L.A. Lakers, 10 p.m.

GB — 2.0 3.0 4.5 10.0 GB — 1.5 2.0 18.0 24.5 GB — 8.5 10.5 10.5 24.5 GB — 4.0 5.5 12.0 17.5 GB — 4.5 19.0 20.5 25.5 GB — 6.5 16.5 18.0 23.5

Pro hockey NHL Eastern Conference Atlantic Division GP W L OT SO Pts Florida 47 32 10 2 3 69 Tampa Bay 48 31 11 2 4 68 Toronto 45 30 12 2 1 63 Boston 46 27 16 2 1 57 Detroit 49 22 21 5 1 50 Ottawa 45 17 24 3 1 38 Buffalo 47 15 24 7 1 38 Montreal 48 8 33 7 0 23 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT SO Pts Pittsburgh 49 30 11 3 5 68 Carolina 46 32 11 3 0 67 NY Rangers 47 30 13 3 1 64 Washington 50 26 15 7 2 61 Columbus 46 23 22 0 1 47 NY Islanders 42 17 19 3 3 40 New Jersey 49 17 27 1 4 39 Philadelphia 47 15 24 4 4 38 Western Conference Central Division GP W L OT SO Pts Colorado 46 34 8 3 1 72 Minnesota 43 29 11 0 3 61 Nashville 48 28 16 2 2 60 St. Louis 46 27 14 3 2 59 Dallas 46 25 19 1 1 52 Winnipeg 45 20 17 4 4 48 Chicago 48 17 24 6 1 41 Arizona 48 12 32 0 4 28 Pacific Division GP W L OT SO Pts Vegas 48 28 17 2 1 59 Calgary 45 26 13 6 0 58 Los Angeles 47 24 16 5 2 55 Anaheim 49 23 17 5 4 55 Edmonton 45 24 18 3 0 51 Vancouver 49 22 21 3 3 50 San Jose 46 22 20 3 1 48 Seattle 48 16 28 3 1 36 Sunday’s games Buffalo 5, Montreal 3 Ottawa 4, Washington 1 Pittsburgh 4, New Jersey 2 Colorado 4, Dallas 0 Monday’s games Detroit at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

Toronto at Seattle, 9 p.m.

Chicago at Winnipeg, 9 p.m.

Edmonton at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.

Tuesday’s games Boston at NY Rangers, 7 p.m.

St. Louis at Ottawa, 7 p.m.

Tampa Bay at New Jersey, 7 p.m.

Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.

NY Islanders at Buffalo, 7 p.m.

Washington at Nashville, 8 p.m.

Columbus at Calgary, 9 p.m.

Dallas at Colorado, 9 p.m.

Edmonton at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.

Wednesday’s games Minnesota at Winnipeg, 7 p.m.

Florida at Carolina, 7:30 p.m.

Anaheim at Calgary, 9:30 p.m.

Colorado at Vegas, 10 p.m.

GF GA 194 139 163 136 161 123 135 130 140 167 122 145 125 164 106 191 GF GA 164 128 161 109 145 122 162 141 147 167 102 116 143 176 118 162 GF GA 190 131 164 124 149 134 162 129 137 141 130 134 117 162 108 180 GF GA 162 143 152 108 136 130 144 141 146 147 126 135 126 142 127 167

College basketball MONDAY’S SCORES MEN EAST American U. 60, Holy Cross 54 Colgate 69, Lafayette 61 Delaware 81, James Madison 60 Fairfield 80, Canisius 76, OT Hartford 75, Vermont 74, OT Howard 77, Maryland-Eastern Shore 71 Lehigh 86, Bucknell 77 Marist 77, Niagara 70 Morgan St. 76, South Carolina State 66 New Hampshire 68, UMBC 62 Norfolk State 69, Delaware State 66 North Carolina Central 77, Coppin St. 74 St. Bonaventure 83, Saint Louis 79 Virginia Tech 62, Virginia 53 SOUTH Alabama A&M 74, Arkansas-Pine Bluff 69 Austin Peay 62, Eastern Illinois 54 Central Florida 76, Tulsa 67 Charleston 79, Drexel 75 Davidson 72, Duquesne 61 Jackson State 71, Bethune-Cookman 51 UNC Wilmington 80, William & Mary 73, OT Western Kentucky 87, Southern Miss 77 MIDWEST Illinois-Chicago 57, IUPUI 54 Kansas State 78, West Virginia 73 Purdue Fort Wayne 102, Cleveland St. 98, 3 OT WEST Northern Colorado 100, Southern Utah 95

USA TODAY COACHES POLL Record Pts 1. Gonzaga (30) 21-2 798 2. Auburn (2) 23-2 734 3. Kentucky (0) 21-4 731 4. Arizona (0) 22-2 725 5. Duke (0) 21-4 631 6. Kansas (0) 20-4 603 7. Purdue (0) 22-4 596 8. Baylor (0) 21-4 583 9. Providence (0) 21-2 577 10. Villanova (0) 19-6 475 11. Texas Tech (0) 19-6 451 12. Illinois (0) 18-6 441 13. Tennessee (0) 18-6 360 14. UCLA (0) 17-5 358 15. Houston (0) 20-4 351 16. Wisconsin (0) 19-5 328 17. USC (0) 21-4 288 18. Ohio St (0) 15-6 278 19. Michigan St (0) 18-6 244 20. Texas (0) 18-7 170 21. Murray St. (0) 24-2 105 22. Wyoming (0) 21-3 94 23. Marquette (0) 16-9 87 24. Arkansas (0) 19-6 68 24. Connecticut (0) 17-7 68 Others receiving votes: Alabama 55, Mary’s 45, Colorado St. 33, Xavier 20.

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Disgraceful decision by arbitration court in allowing Kamila Valieva to skate Helene Elliott Los Angeles Times

BEIJING — What the Court of Arbitration for Sport essentially said in deciding figure skater Kamila Valieva can compete in the Olympic women’s singles event despite having tested positive for a banned stimulant in December is that it’s OK to be a drug cheat if you’re 15 and you have “protected person” status under the rules of the World Anti-Doping Agency. That’s reprehensible on more levels than Valieva has quadruple jumps in her repertoire.

Valieva, who became the first woman to land a quadruple jump in Olympic competition while boosting a goldmedal effort by athletes of the Russian Olympic Committee in the team event, was suspended last week by the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) after it received a report the prohibited substance trimetazidine had been detected in a test she took at the national championships.

She appealed, and the same agency lifted her suspension the next day. Surprise!

The International Olympic Committee, International Skating Union and World Anti-Doping Agency challenged the Russian Anti-Doping Agency’s decision to lift Valieva’s suspension, all of them apparently foolish enough to think a doping violation committed, even unknowingly, by a stellar athlete would be punished according to the rules established for everyone. A panel of three arbitrators appointed by the Court of Arbitration for Sport dismissed those challenges Monday, allowing Valieva to compete starting Tuesday.

“The Panel considered fundamental principles of fairness, proportionality, irreparable harm, and the relative balance of interests as between the Applicants and the Athlete, who did not test positive during the Olympic Games in Beijing and is still subject to a disciplinary procedure on the merits following the positive antidoping test undertaken in December 2021,” the CAS statement said. “In particular, the Panel considered that preventing the Athlete from competing at the

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Russia’s Kamila Valieva attends a training session on Monday, prior the figure skating event at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games. Valieva was cleared by the Court of Arbitration for Sport to continue competing in the Beijing Olympics despite failing a doping test. CAS said it had rejected appeals by the International Olympic Committee, the World Anti-Doping Agency and the International Skating Union to have the suspension of the 15-year-old reinstated.

Olympic Games would cause her irreparable harm in these circumstances.”

Valieva was betrayed by those who should be supporting her, the coaches and administrators who manipulate children’s bodies and lives in the name of achieving reflected athletic glory.

Her coach, Eteri Turberidze, who also coached 2018 Olympic gold medalist Alina Zagitova and silver medalist Evgenia Medvedeva, is known for pushing skaters to their limits and beyond. Those who suffer injuries from the impact of landing so many quadruple jumps or are slowed by changes brought on by puberty are discarded like moldy towels. The pity is that there’s always someone willing to replace them.

The reason athletes from Russia are competing as “neutrals” here under the name Russian Olympic Committee is because Russia as a nation was banned from international sports competition as

a consequence of its history of state-run doping schemes. The Russian flag and anthem are missing here but its cheating looks to be the same.

“We are disappointed by the message this decision sends,” Sarah Hirshland, chief executive of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee, said in a statement. “It is the collective responsibility of the entire Olympic community to protect the integrity of sport and to hold our athletes, 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.”

U.S. teammates overcome numerous challenges on way to one-two monobob finish David Wharton Los Angeles Times

If bobsledder Kaillie Humphries got a bit emotional on the podium, if the third gold medal of her storied career felt more special than the others, there was good reason.

A few good reasons.

“It has been a journey to get here,” she said. “It hasn’t always been easy.”

The actual racing might have been the easiest part, as Humphries confirmed she is the best in her sport, outpacing the nearest competition by a sizeable 1.54 seconds to win the debut of women’s monobob at the Beijing Olympics.

After finishing well ahead of U.S. teammate Elana Meyers Taylor, who took silver, and Christine de Bruin of Canada, who earned bronze, Humphries talked about Yanqing National Sliding Centre.

The track’s 16 turns -- including one that swirls 360 degrees -- are designed in the shape of a Chinese dragon.

“When you nail the corner and you feel the sled accelerate, you feel like Superman,” Humphries said. “Like you’re just flying.”

But the real story was what happened before she arrived in China. As recently as two months ago, it was unclear if the 36-year-old Olympic veteran would be allowed to compete.

A native of Calgary, Humphries won two golds and a bronze for Canada at previous Games but walked away from her country’s sliding program in 2019. Lingering tensions caused the split and she filed a lawsuit against her coach for verbal and emotional abuse.

Though USA Bobsled/Skeleton welcomed her, government slowdowns caused by the pandemic made it difficult to obtain the required citizenship.

The U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee, with help from a bipartisan group of legislators, finally got her approved in early

In denying the applications by the IOC, World Anti-Doping Agency and International Skating Union to reinstate Valieva’s suspension, the arbitration panel mentioned her age and her status in the eyes of WADA as “protected” because she’s younger than 16. “The CAS Panel also emphasized that there were serious issues of untimely notification of the results of the Athlete’s anti-doping test that was performed in December 2021 which impinged upon the Athlete’s ability to establish certain legal requirements for her benefit, while such late notification was not her fault, in the middle of the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022,” the statement said.

“The CAS Ad hoc Division was requested to determine the narrow issue as to whether a provisional suspension should be imposed on the athlete. It was not requested to rule on the merits of this case, nor to examine the legal consequences relating to the results of the team event in figure skating, as such issues will be examined in other proceedings.”

In response, the IOC said it won’t have a medal ceremony for the team event or have one for the women’s competition if Valieva makes the medal stand, which she is expected to do.

The World Anti-Doping Agency expressed disappointment in the decision and said it believes RUSADA’s decision to lift Valieva’s suspension “was not in line with the terms of the World Anti-Doping Code.” WADA also said its Intelligence and Investigations department will join RUSADA in investigating Valieva’s support personnel, and that may be the only good offshoot of this alphabet soup-like mess of agencies and self-interested governing bodies.

The IOC long ago sold its integrity by staging Winter Games in places where snow is an abstract concept. Allowing cheaters to compete punishes every athlete who plays it clean and still believes in Olympic ideals that the IOC has abandoned.

Real shame in Russian skater Kamila Valieva’s doping scandal belongs to others Bryce Miller The San Diego Union-Tribune

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From left, silver medallist Elana Meyers Taylor of Team United States and gold medallist Kaillie Humphries of Team United States celebrate during the Women’s Monobob medal ceremony on Day 10 of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games at National Sliding Centre on Monday in Yanqing, China.

December.

“I’ve had a lot of fears and doubts,” Humphries said, expressing gratitude to a new country that “stood behind me.”

There was yet another battle -- this one within the sport of bobsledding -- that she and Meyers Taylor waged together.

As two of the world’s mostskilled pilots, they wanted female bobsledders to have more opportunities than just the traditional two-woman sled.

The pair were not able to get four-woman approved but the international federation agreed to add monobob.

“Everybody told us we should quit,” Meyers Taylor said of their campaign. “To have that event and to be next to her on the podium, it’s like a storybook ending.”

The 37-year-old Meyers Taylor faced some challenges of her own in China, testing positive for the coronavirus after arriving. While everyone else took practice runs in Yanqing, she worked out alone in isolation.

“There was so much fog in my head,” she said. “I was really questioning whether I should come out.”

Her coaches and teammates convinced her to forge ahead.

Sitting in fourth place after two runs Sunday, she adopted a gofor-broke mentality that resulted in enough speed to lift her to a silver medal.

“I just went out there, enjoyed the heck out this race and fortunately it paid off,” she said.

Humphries needed no late charge for her victory. Though not the fastest starter in the field, she displayed considerable piloting skills to lead by more than one second after the first day. It wasn’t so much if she would win, but by how much.

De Bruin, meanwhile, remained steady enough to hold onto third place. She said: “I’ve been told I’ve been called Mrs. Consistency before and that’s really what I wanted to do.”

But Monday belonged to the Americans, both new and old.

It marked the fourth time that Humphries and Meyers Taylor have shared an Olympic podium over the last 12 years; their first time wearing the same uniform.

“To be teammates with her and to go one-two is a testament to how strong we are.”

She wasn’t talking about just bobsledding.

The fate of a 15-yearold girl skating at the Winter Olympics for a country stripped of its name and competing without its flag because it ran a state-sponsored doping program is being decided in the most modern of Olympic ways.

Not on the ice, to the crescendo of classical music.

Not on scorecards hovered over by stern-faced judges.

Not while sitting in the “Kiss and Cry” station as prying cameras lurk.

What happens next to Kamila Valieva will unfold in back rooms, decided by adults who pretend to police a global gathering that long ago spun out of control like an iron worker botching a triple axel.

This, however, feels different — or at least it should.

Valieva competes for the Russian Olympic Committee, the scrubbed and shameful moniker assigned to Russia at the Beijing Olympics because of a twoyear ban imposed by the World Anti-Doping Agency.

The girl, despite her age, already owns the most raw talent in women’s figure skating history. She became the first female skater to land a quad — a jump with four revolutions — in Olympic history. Then she did it again.

That catapulted the ROC to gold in the team event, behind the type of fresh-faced star every Olympics craves.

Then the world spellbound by her ascension learned she failed a December drug test because of a banned heart medication.

The reason it took so long

to find out? Good question.

Why did the bombshell land after the team skate and before the medal ceremony?

That’s a whopper of a question.

Russian officials can claim the timing was set to implode a gold medal-winning moment on the biggest possible stage to punish an international villain posturing at the Ukrainian border.

Others will paint things in a completely different shade of pastel, saying the absurd timing allowed a cheater to skate. Navigating the tangle of doping agencies and Olympic decision-makers was just one final hurdle, once the performance was on the books.

Either way, a mess of Olympic magnitude.

U.S. Anti-Doping Agency CEO Travis Tygart underscored the impact of the test result mothballed for six weeks.

“The failure to report a test taken in December until after the team event in the Games is a catastrophic failure of the system to protect the public, the integrity of the Games and clean athletes who had to compete,” Tygart told Agence FrancePresse.

What’s lost in the continuing Olympic sport of facesaving, though, is the most abhorrent part.

A 15-year-old girl, no matter the incredible talent and gargantuan stakes, does not find herself facing down the World Anti-Doping Agency because of decisions she made. This isn’t a steroidsera MLB player, an adult, slipping some cash to a clubhouse attendant.

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Maple Hill’s Becka Hall (32) attempts to strip the ball from Catskill’s Jayden Lewis (0) during Monday’s championship game in the Patroon Conference Girls Basketball Tournament at Hudson High School.

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Chatham’s Addi Perry (3) drives between Greenville’s Taryn Silk (12) and Mikaela Crawley (31) during Monday’s third-place game in the Patroon Conference Girls Basketball Tournament at Hudson High School.

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Catskill’s Janay Brantley (30) and Aaliyah Shook look to trap Maple Hill’s Alyssa Martin during Monday’s championship game in the Patroon Conference Girls Basketball Tournament at Hudson High School.

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going to Maple Hill, but Brantley found Konsul for a quick layup to answer for Catskill.

Hall knocked down a floater over Ava Edmond to give the Wildcats a 6-2 lead. Janay Brantley got a steal on defense and took it all the way for the bucket and the foul. She made the extra free throw to complete the three point play and make it 6-5.

Brantley gathered a loose ball yet again, and drove into the paint to draw in the defense before she kicked it out to Edmond underneath the basket for an easy two and the lead. Each team had work to do as the first quarter came to a close, but the Cats led 8-6 after one.

Catskill opened the period with a turnover after some miscommunication and an errant pass went out of play. The Wildcats outworked the Cats in the paint for rebounds to this point with Catskill showing very little urgency to box out. Still, Catskill had an 8-7 lead with about five minutes left in the half.

Brantley had a nice jab step to create space but she missed from beyond the three point line. Konsul got the foul line in the closing minutes of the quarter and made both shots to give Catskill a four point lead.

The Cats lost the ball on yet another turnover late in the second, but Brantley raced back on the play, just in time to send a Maple Hill shot attempt soaring out of bounds with a block. The Wildcats would get another steal leading to a layup to end the half however, and the Cats’ lead was cut to 13-11 at the break.

Catskill got the breather they needed at halftime, and their defense was further intensified to begin the third period. Janay Brantley ripped down a rebound to pass it down court to Jayden Lewis for a quick two points. The Cats stole it again and Brantley took the layup herself this time and Catskill had four points in the blink of an eye to start the second half.

Maple Hill’s Alyssa Martin went for a loose ball on the sideline at the same time as Janay Brantley. Brantley tapped it off of Martin’s leg to secure the possession for Catskill, but Martin’s own momentum sent her leg slamming into the bleachers as she dove to try and make the play.

Martin was down for a moment but was assisted to the bench and returned later in the game after getting some ice.

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Maple Hill’s Rachel Frazier (12) looks to take the ball away from Catskill’s Ava Edmond during Monday’s championship game in the Patroon Conference Girls Basketball Tournament at Hudson High School.

Brantley stepped out of bounds on a play later in the quarter when Aaliyah Shook tried to set a screen for her but there was not enough room and Brantley’s foot touched the line. Kiana Salierno got to the free throw line later in the period, making one of two for a 22-14 Catskill lead.

Alyssa Martin checked back into the game for Maple Hill to close out the third, but they trailed Catskill 25-14 through three quarters of play.

Konsul opened the fourth with two important rebounds for Catskill, finishing the plays on defense and ensuring the possession changes to eat time off the clock.

Brantley found Edmond down the lane again on offense as Edmond split the two defenders in the paint and went right up the middle for a layup. The Cats’ confidence only grew as the fourth quarter wore on and their lead grew to 11 points with under five minutes to play. Brantley had another steal that led to a layup for herself, and Jayden Lewis got a steal of her own to get another chunk of time off the clock.

Janay Brantley sealed the deal with two foul shots in the final minute of play, keeping the Wildcats at an arm’s length. The Catskill Cats dribbled out the clock and were victorious 34-19 over the Maple Hill Wildcats to win the Patroon Title in the tournament finals and look to selections for the Section II Tournaments

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Chatham’s Gabby Morse (11) goes to the basket as Greenville’s Bryn Fitzmaurice (5) closes in during Monday’s third-place game in the Patroon Conference Girls Basketball Tournament at Hudson High School.

Chatham’s Abby Taylor brings the ball up the floor with Greenville’s Emily Smith in pursuit during Monday’s third-place game in the Patroon Conference Girls Basketball Tournament at Hudson High School.

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Maple Hill’s Alyssa Martin (3) looks for a teammate to pass to as Catskill’s Aaliyah Shook (33) defends during Monday’s championship game in the Patroon Conference Girls Basketball Tournament at Hudson High School.

later in the week.

“Tonight completed a fiveyear journey to win a Patroon conference championship,” Catskill coach Chris Quinn said. “Janay, Hannah, Aaliyah, Kiana and Jayden literally have been playing varsity basketball since 7th, 8th and 9th grade. They’ve taken their lumps and never quit.

“Tonight is about them giving the Catskill program everything they had and bringing

home the first Patroon Conference since 1999. We won this game on the defensive end.

Four games ago we challenged the girls to work harder on defense and defend the three point line and they stepped up and haven’t given up a threepointer in four games. I have an incredible coaching staff with Ian, Larry and Jeff coaching the JV and just incredible student athletes. I’m very lucky.”

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Catskill’s Janay Brantley (30) goes to the basket as Maple Hill’s Rachel Frazier (12) defends during Monday’s championship game in the Patroon Conference Girls Basketball Tournament at Hudson High School.

Maple Hill’s Bella Seeberger drives against Catskill’s Janay Brantley (30) during Monday’s championship game in the Patroon Conference Girls Basketball Tournament at Hudson High School.

MAPLE HILL (19): Martin 1-0-2, Loszynski 0-1-1, Frazier 1-0-2, Seeberger 1-0-2, Chevrier 2-1-5, Hall 3-1-7. Totals 8-3-18.

CATSKILL (34): Edmond 3-1-7, Lewis 1-0-2, Konsul 2-26, Brantley 6-6-18, K. Salierno 0-1-1. Totals 12-10-34.

Chatham 50, Greenville 35 The Chatham Panthers defeated the Greenville Spartans, 50-45, for third place in the Patroon Conference Tournament earlier in the night.

Abby Taylor led the Panthers’ offense by dropping 23 points, Erin Madsen added 11, and Gabby Morse contributed nine points in the Chatham win.

Josie O’Hare led the Spartans with 10 points, Bryn Fitzmaurice and Mikaela Crowley had nine points each, and Emily Smith scored eight to round out Greenville’s offense as they finished the season in fourth place of the Patroon Conference.

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Chatham’s Abby Taylor (23) looks to the basket as Greenville’s Aislin O’Hare (21) defends during Monday’s third-place game in the Patroon Conference Girls Basketball Tournament at Hudson High School.

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Djokovic says he’d rather skip Wimbledon and French Open than get a coronavirus vaccine Adela Suliman The Washington Post

The world’s top-ranked men’s tennis player, Novak Djokovic, said in an interview broadcast Tuesday that he had not been vaccinated against the coronavirus and was prepared to sacrifice playing in Grand Slam tournaments rather than be forced to take the shot.

In an interview with the BBC, the Serbian star said it was a “misconception” and “wrong conclusion” that he was part of the antivaccine movement, stating instead that he supported the freedom to choose.

“I was never against vaccination,” Djokovic said. “I understand that globally, everyone is trying to put a big effort into handling this virus . . . but I’ve always represented and always supported the freedom to choose what you put into your body and for me that is essential.”

Asked whether he was prepared to forgo major tournaments such as the French Open and Wimbledon, Djokovic said, “Yes, that is the price that I’m willing to pay. The principles of decision-making on my body are more important than any title or anything else. I’m trying to be in tune with my body as much as I possibly can.”

Djokovic, 34, was deported from Australia in January after a nearly twoweek saga that included court challenges, visa cancellations and a stay at an immigration detention hotel as protesters and supporters stood vigil outside.

The government canceled his visa on the grounds that his presence in the country might incite anti-vaccine sentiment and “civil unrest.”

Governments, employers and public health officials globally have encouraged coronavirus vaccination and championed its primary role in quelling the spread of the deadly virus. In many countries, those who are unvaccinated face the loss of their jobs and greater travel restrictions.

People who are vaccinated and boosted have considerable protection from serious illness, top health officials have said, with the unvaccinated more vulnerable to death and hospitalization from covid-19. Health officials have also argued that

getting vaccinated helps to protect others, including the immunocompromised.

Djokovic said that he understood he was part of a global sport and that not being able to travel freely because of his unvaccinated status could hinder his storied career.

“I understand the consequences of my decision,” he said. Djokovic has won the French Open twice, including in 2021, and has six Wimbledon titles, including the past three.

Although he has been championed by those in the global anti-vaccine movement, “I have never said that I’m part of that,” he added.

Djokovic’s deportation had sparked a diplomatic crisis, with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic claiming the tennis star was the victim of a “political witch hunt,” as Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison defended the decision, noting that Australians “have made many sacrifices during this pandemic . . . and they rightly expect the result of those sacrifices to be protected.”

Djokovic said in the BBC interview that he sympathized with the people of Australia who had to endure a strict and lengthy lockdown and understood the “frustrations” toward him.

“I would like to say that I always followed the rules,” he said. “I never used my privileged status to get into Australia by force or do anything in this entire process.”

Last month’s men’s Australian Open final was won

by Spanish star Rafael Nadal, who at the time said he felt “sorry” for his rival over the uproar but noted that Djokovic knew the risks.

Nadal said that he supported vaccination and that it was “normal” for people in Australia to feel “very frustrated with the case.”

Djokovic, who has tested positive for the virus twice, said he has never downplayed the severity of covid-19 - which has so far killed more than 5.8 million people globally.

“Millions of people have and are still struggling with covid around the world so I take this very seriously,” he said.

He also did not rule out getting vaccinated in the future, stating: “I keep my mind open.”

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Seth Curry, Andre Drummond key Nets to blowout win, snapping 11-game losing streak Matthew Roberson New York Daily News

All it took for the Nets to snap their embarrassing 11-game losing streak was a game against another team that barely knows each other.

As has become their custom, the Nets did not always make it easy on themselves.

They were able to stay out of their own way enough to scratch together a 109-85 win over the visiting Sacramento Kings, though.

Monday night’s showdown at Barclays Center hosted two teams that look very different than they did a week ago. On the Nets’ side, newcomers Andre Drummond and Seth Curry both got a start in their Brooklyn debut. Drummond finished with 11 points and nine rebounds in 24 minutes while Curry showcased the type of quick-heating offense that will make him a lifesaver for this floundering team.

The younger Curry brother went for 23 points on 10-of-18 shooting (3-of-8 from deep) in his first game with the Nets.

For Sacramento, one half of their new franchise duo was slow to acclimate. Domantas Sabonis, who the Kings are praying can be a playoff-worthy tandem with De’Aaron Fox, had just five points in the first half and nine total. Fox did his part, leading the way with 26, but their supporting cast turned in a perfect example of why the league was so puzzled to see the Kings make a trade deadline push to go all in.

In addition to Sabonis, Justin Holiday was in the starting lineup for the Kings, giving them two starters who were playing for different teams last week, just like the Nets.

While the continuity took a while to set in for the guys in purple and white, the Nets had no such problems.

The newly-inspired team jumped out to an early 19-point lead that slowly

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Brooklyn Nets guard Seth Curry (30) drives past Sacramento Kings guard Donte DiVincenzo (0) in the fourth quarter at Barclays Center on Monday.

dripped down to a one-point lead early in the second half.

It was then that the Nets appeared to remember these were the Kings they’re dealing with. Led by Curry, who exhibited some Steph-like confidence throughout the frame, the Nets outscored their opponents 25-18 in the third quarter. Curry hit a series of buttery jump shots set up by his expert footwork, Drummond provided a crowd-fueling block on one end and a timeout-inducing dunk on the other end to cap a 23-7 run, and that basically wrapped things up.

While the haters will say that the win was cheapened because it came against a team learning its personnel on the fly, the Nets would have taken a win in any way, shape or form. Whether it was 70-69 or 150-100, a win means the Nets are no longer lugging around a worrisome losing streak, and the raucous celebration in their locker room could be heard throughout the bowels of the arena.

If Curry’s first day on the

job was any indication, the team has solved its shooting woes too while also instantly adding a scoring guard who can carry some of Kyrie Irving’s weight during the home games he’s choosing to skip.

Though it’s just one game, the Nets exhibited an unbridled joy throughout Monday’s win that had been sorely missing all season. Whenever Ben Simmons is ready to lace them up, he’ll do so without the burden of having to be the main attraction. At some point, presumably, he’ll play alongside both Irving and Kevin Durant, allowing him to mostly focus on defense and distribution. Durant’s gravity is sure to make life very easy on Curry, who is making 40% of his three-point attempts for the sixth straight season.

The Nets did all of this without Nic Claxton as well, who was part of the active roster but caught a DNP - coach’s decision. The night of inactivity was Claxton’s fifth straight as the former first-round pick eases his way back from a

hamstring injury.

LaMarcus Aldridge was back in the lineup after seven games on the shelf. The veteran scorer was dealing with ankle troubles but didn’t show it against the Kings’ frontline. His 13 points in the first half were the Nets’ high and he finished the game with an efficient 19 in 19 minutes off the bench. Bruce Brown, who started the game by canning his first four shots, added 19 points of his own.

A trip across the bridge awaits the Nets now, as they’ll tangle with the Knicks at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday in a rare road game that will not grant Irving attendance. It is still quite striking to think about how good the Nets can and should be when they have all of their players together on the same court.

Until that can happen, performances like Monday’s are a great building block, both for getting back in the win column and for feeling the positive emotions that come with good basketball again.

NHL roundup: Matt Boldy’s first hat trick boosts Wild past Wings Field Level Media

Matt Boldy notched his first career hat trick as the Minnesota Wild downed the Detroit Red Wings 7-4 on Monday in Saint Paul, Minn.

Boldy, a 20-year-old rookie who entered the night with four goals on the season, also had an assist. Kirill Kaprizov supplied two goals and an assist for Minnesota, and Joel Eriksson Ek had a goal and an assist. Ryan Hartman also scored, Mats Zuccarello notched three assists and Jared Spurgeon collected two assists.

Kaapo Kahkonen stopped 30 shots for the Wild, who are 11-1-1 in their past 13 games.

Third-year player Gustav Lindstrom scored his first career goal for Detroit.

Dylan Larkin had a goal and an assist.

Lucas Raymond and Sam Gagner also scored for Detroit, and Moritz Seider and Tyler Bertuzzi each had two assists. Alex Nedeljkovic made 18 saves.

Blackhawks 3, Jets 1 Patrick Kane had a goal and an assist, giving him 10 points over his past seven games, and Marc-Andre Fleury made 31 saves to lead Chicago to a win at Winnipeg.

With the game tied 1-1 at 9:42 of the third period, Alex DeBrincat took a loose puck at center ice and skated into the slot before wiring a wrist shot past Jets goalie Connor Hellebuyck (21 saves).

Brandon Hagel sealed Chicago’s victory with an empty-net goal in the final minute, with both Kane and Fleury recording assists. Mark Scheifele tallied the Jets’ only goal, extending his goalscoring streak to four games.

Oilers 3, Sharks 0

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Minnesota Wild left wing Matt Boldy (12) celebrates his hat trick against the Detroit Red Wings in the second period at Xcel Energy Center on Monday.

Stuart Skinner made 20 saves for his first career shutout while leading visiting Edmonton past San Jose.

Connor McDavid, Warren Foegele and Darnell Nurse scored goals for the Oilers, who improved to 2-0-0 under new head coach Jay Woodcroft while also moving to 4-0-1 in their past five road games. Evan Bouchard added a pair of assists.

James Reimer stopped 36 of 39 shots for San Jose, which was playing its first game since Feb. 1. It was the fourth shutout at home this season for the Sharks, who are winless in their past four games (0-2-2).

Maple Leafs 6, Kraken 2 Mitchell Marner had a goal and two

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assists, Michael Bunting contributed a goal and an assist and Toronto won at Seattle.

Alexander Kerfoot, Ondrej Kase, David Kampf and Jake Muzzin also scored for the Maple Leafs, who finished a threegame trip with one win. Auston Matthews and Timothy Liljegren each added two assists while Jack Campbell made 23 saves for the Maple Leafs.

Calle Jarnkrok had a goal and an assist for the Kraken, who lost for the fourth time in their past six games. Jared McCann also scored. Seattle goaltender Philipp Grubauer allowed three goals on 11 shots in the first period. He was replaced to start the second period by Chris Driedger, who made 11 saves.

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Knicks melt down in clutch, fumble away win against tanking Thunder Stefan Bondy New York Daily News

NEW YORK — The Knicks didn’t deserve love on Valentine’s Day. No chocolates for Tom Thibodeau. No flowers for their defense. No cards for Immanuel Quickley.

They were again booed out of Madison Square Garden on Monday, this time after losing to the tanking Thunder in overtime, 127-123, with a defeat that underscored New York’s sad state of affairs.

The defeat was sealed 1.5 seconds left in the extra period, when Quickley, who has lost confidence in his shot and missed all seven of his attempts Monday, bricked a wide-open corner 3-pointer. The Knicks (25-32) blew it. The Thunder gave them every opportunity and they threw it away.

It was a frantic final minutes of regulation and not a good reflection on Thibodeau. The coach burned his final two timeouts -- first on a pointless challenge with 1:07 left, then unnecessarily with 39 seconds remaining and the Thunder at the foul line -- leaving him no way to set up the final play (a potential game-winner from Randle that clanged off the rim).

That drama was preceded

by OKC’s Darius Bazley driving past Mitchell Robinson and tying the score with 5.5 seconds left. Again, the Knicks had no timeouts to advance the ball and Randle rushed his midrange

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New York Knicks guard Alec Burks (18) shoots against the Oklahoma City Thunder during the second half at Madison Square Garden on Monday.

game-winning attempt.

The Thunder (17-39), which owns the worst offense statistically in the league, scored 10 points in the first three minutesof overtime. The Knicks couldn’t keep pace and their coldest player took the final

shot.

Randle recorded his first triple-double of the season with 30 points, 13 rebounds and 10 assists, but faltered down the stretch and fouled out in overtime.

Tre Mann and Josh Giddey

led the Thunder with 30 points and 28 points respectively.

The young and talent-deficit Thunder didn’t have its best player, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, who suffered an ankle injury. Like last season, the Thunder and its asset-hungry executive

Sam Presti are tanking away the schedule.

His payroll is not only the lowest in the league, it’s $36 million less than No. 29 on the list (Memphis) and nearly $100 million less than No. 1 (Golden State). The average age of

Oklahoma City’s starting lineup Monday was 21.6, with three rookies (Mann, Giddey and Aaron Wiggins).

It had dropped five straight coming into the Garden. Still, the collection was good enough to topple Thibodeau’s reeling squad.

The Knicks were coming off their 1-4 road trip, a disheartening week out West that buried them deeper in the standings and spanned a dead silent trade deadline. RJ Barrett was also injured midway through the trip and has missed three straight games with an ankle sprain.

He was on the bench in street clothes Monday.

Rookie Quentin Grimes started in Barrett’s place at small forward and played well with 19 points. RE-LINNING The Knicks and Jeremy Lin have appeared to make amends.

With the 10-year anniversary of Linsanity beginning this month, the former Knicks guard appeared Monday on the MSG Jumbotron and wished fans a Happy Chinese New Year.

Lin was persona non grata at MSG for years after he signed Houston’s poison pill contract and left in free agency. Owner James Dolan reportedly felt betrayed and deceived at the time, but MSG Network began showing Linsanity games during the pandemic and, 10 years after his inspiring tale set the Garden on fire, Lin was again a spokesman at 4 Penn Plaza.

U.S. vs. Canada once again set to determine Olympic women’s hockey supremacy Helene Elliott Los Angeles Times

To the surprise of no one and the delight of anyone who can appreciate an impassioned rivalry no matter the sport, the U.S. and Canada will meet again to decide supremacy in women’s Olympic hockey.

The two superpowers have faced off in every women’s Olympic gold medal game except 2006 in Turin, where the U.S. lost to Sweden in the semifinals and went on to win a bronze medal.

The U.S. won the first women’s hockey gold at Nagano in 1998 and the most recent, at Pyeongchang in 2018, in a shootout. Canada won the other four.

The rest of the world has improved a bit, but no other team has enough resources or has developed enough depth to push them for more than a period or two.

“These are the games we live for, the games we dream for,” U.S. captain Kendall Coyne Schofield said Monday night after the Americans scored twice in the second period and twice in the third in a 4-1 semifinal victory over Finland at Wukesong Sports Centre. “Everyone is going to have to take their game up a notch.”

Canada has blasted through to Thursday’s final on the strength of a fearsome and balanced offense. They’ve outscored their opponents 548, including a 4-2 preliminary-round decision over the U.S. They have the top six scorers in the tournament, led by Sarah Nurse’s 16 points. They clinched their berth in the gold medal game with a 10-3 rout of Switzerland earlier on Monday.

“I think we know that history, but we’re going to give ourselves a blank slate,” said Canada forward Brianne Jenner, who leads the tournament with nine goals. “We looked at it as an opportunity to go out there and claim a gold rather than looking at the history books and what has happened.”

The Americans, held back during this tournament by a surprisingly fitful offense, lost only to Canada in the preliminary round. They’ve scored

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Team United States forward Kendall Coyne Schofield (26) shoots the puck against Team Finland defender Jenni Hiirikoski (6) during the second period in the women’s ice hockey semifinal of the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games at Wukesong Sports Centre on Monday.

28 goals and given up eight. The upside to their offensive woes is that they’ve learned to be patient and rely on grit when the goals aren’t flowing and games are close.

“I think we’re in a great place. Our backs have been up against the wall a couple times and we’ve had to really dig deep and find a way to score,” said defenseman Cayla Barnes, a native of Eastvale in Riverside County. “I think it’s been really great.

We’ve grown a lot and I’m happy with the way we’re heading.”

Goaltender Alex Cavallini ensured that the first period against Finland on Monday would be scoreless when she managed to stop two close-in shots by four-time Olympian Michelle Karvinen

in the closing seconds. She was particularly sharp in extending her left pad to stop Karvinen’s second attempt.

Her teammates rewarded her efforts by providing her some offensive support in the second period. Gifted a power play on a phantom tripping call against Finland’s Tanja Niskanen, the Americans capitalized when Barnes took a crisp pass from Hannah Brandt and whipped a shot from the lower edge of the right circle to beat goalie Anni Keisala at 3:39 of the second period Hilary Knight, who tied the U.S. women’s Olympic record by appearing in her 21st game, converted the rebound of a shot by Savannah Harmon for a 2-0 lead at 18:53.

Hayley Scamurra tipped a shot by Barnes for a

3-0 lead at 15:20 of the third period, which proved important when Finland’s Susanna Tapani got a lucky bounce and cut the U.S. lead to 3-1 at 19:34.

Abby Roque put the game away with an emptynet goal with five seconds left in the third period.

“To get to this point and have the performance that we did tonight is awesome,” said Cavallini, who made 25 saves. “It was really fun to watch the team working at the other end, continuing to get shots, continuing to create opportunities. Defensively they were awesome, blocking shots, picking up sticks, making my job pretty easy.

“It’s exciting now to be able to put that game past us with a big win and move on to the next game and set out for what we’ve been here to accomplish.”

The Americans never get tired of testing themselves against the only other country that has won a women’s Olympic or world title. “I think it’s one of the best rivalries in sports,” Barnes said. “I’m definitely looking forward to playing against a great Canadian team.”

Knight, a four-time Olympian, never gets tired of seeing Canada, either. “It’s wonderful hockey, it’s the most beautiful rivalry in sport,” said Knight, who tied Jenny Potter and Angela Ruggiero for most Olympic contests played in U.S. hockey history with her 21st appearance. Knight also moved into second place in U.S. career scoring with 26 points, behind Potter’s 32.

“It gets the best and the worst out of both of us at the same time,” Knight said. “It’s a wonderful game.”

And no less wonderful because it was expected.

“I’m confident. I told our group I like the way we’re playing. I know that we’re going to be prepared,” U.S. coach Joel Johnson said. “I just feel really good about how we match up against Canada.”

Once more, with feeling, for a rivalry like few others.

Once more, with feeling.

Will Sean McVay be back with Rams next season? Coach says: ‘We’ll see’ Dylan Hernandez Los Angeles Times

Is the party already over?

The Rams were only a handful of hours removed from a Super Bowl LVI celebration that extended into Monday morning when coach Sean McVay said two words with potentially alarming implications for their future: “We’ll see.”

That was McVay’s response to The Los Angeles Times when asked whether he would return to coach the Rams next season.

Regarding speculation he could retire, or take a break, from coaching to take a job as a broadcaster, McVay said, “I’m just enjoying this moment right now. I’m really happy to be a part of this. Happy for that.”

McVay, 36, acknowledged the championship he won Sunday would make it easier for him to walk away when he determines it’s the right time to do so.

“I think you could definitely say that,” McVay said.

Seated on the side of a conference room in the Los Angeles Convention Center, McVay glanced in the direction of a nearby stage on which receiver Cooper Kupp posed for photographs with a couple of newly-won trophies.

“But to me,” McVay continued, “I think the biggest thing that drove me this year was doing it with people like him. That drives you. I love coaching.

I’m just so excited about this moment right now.”

In other words, he wasn’t ready to address the subject.

So, as McVay said, we’ll see.

The consequences for the Rams will be significant.

They were a four-win team before they made him, at 30, the youngest coach in NFL history. They are now a team built in his image, as tenacious as they are talented.

However, the high-energy, high-intensity approach can be exhausting, as McVay touched on last week when he said there was “no chance” he would be coaching at 60.

“I won’t make it,” he said.

It was one thing to work frantically around the clock when he was the golden boy and everything was moving in a positive direction the way it was for the majority of his first two seasons with the Rams.

Losing to the New England Patriots in Super Bowl LIII marked a turning point.

Instead of being on an unobstructed turbo-charged run to a championship, the Rams were suddenly stuck in mud.

Instead of being worshipped as a dono-wrong genius in the football world, McVay came under scrutiny after he was outcoached by Bill Belichick in that Super Bowl.

Tumbling down the mountain after nearly reaching the summit, McVay had trouble regrouping for another ascent. The work was as draining as it was before, only now there were fewer rewards.

How much more of this could McVay take, especially with the broadcast booth offering him a possible out? The

New York Post reported last week that ESPN would pursue him to be part of the “Monday Night Football” team if he left coaching, estimating he could make upwards of $10 million as a commentator.

McVay’s stay in football purgatory turned out to be relatively short, with the Rams taking down the Cincinnati Bengals at SoFi Stadium three years after their crushing defeat to the Patriots.

In the aftermath of the victory, McVay shared a moment with Rams owner Stan Kroenke. When they were finished talking, McVay visibly exhaled and shook his head.

His relief was obvious.

McVay’s beard is whiter than it was in his first years with the Rams, but the coach reported to the NFL’s news conference on Monday morning projecting as youthful a vibe as he did when he was first named coach.

“It’s an incredible honor to be here,” McVay said, before joking, “It’s also torturous to have a team win a championship and then make you come the

next morning and do a press conference this early.”

The renewed exuberance is why the guess here is that McVay remains the Rams’ coach.

Winning on Sunday freed him from the burden of his unrealized potential and slayed the ghost of Belichick that haunted him. The golden boy is golden again.

He is now the youngest coach to win a Super Bowl. He already has a coaching tree, with four of his former assistants now NFL head coaches or about to be named a head coach, including Zac Taylor of the Bengals. He has built on a family legacy that was started by grandfather John McVay, who won five Super Bowls as a San Francisco 49ers executive.

McVay is obsessed with football.

How could he walk away from this?

With two years remaining on his contract, McVay is in line for an extension. Rams president Kevin Demoff sounded open to making that happen.

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Pressure? Whether on skis or off, Eileen Gu seems to thrive on it

last Olympic news conference of three-time gold medalist and snowboarding legend Shaun White’s career, held in the same room last week.

White is 35, with more than a decade of practice in front of the bright lights. Gu, a little more than half his age, looked equally as comfortable.

Perhaps it was the glow of her second medal, which wasn’t a given for her in slopestyle.

The discipline, which requires riders to string together several skill-sets into one clean run across a course with rails, ramps and imposing jumps, is Gu’s weakest by a slim margin, and she entered the third heat of Tuesday’s final in eighth

place. After a big fall on her second run drew a loud groan from her many supporters - as many as the small, covid-era stands would allow - Gu mustered her strongest, surest run of the day to vault to silver with a score of 86.23.

“I was feeling a little bit tired mentally after big air,” Gu said Tuesday. “I almost felt like I wasn’t fully in it. I wasn’t in the zone. I wasn’t feeling that rush of excitement and feeling too calm, which sometimes doesn’t work out the best. I’m one of those people that needs the pressure on and glad I was able to put it down.”

Gu finished just behind Swiss gold medalist Mathilde

Gremaud, with whom she also shared the podium in big air and who won with a score of 86.56 in her second run. Estonia’s Kelly Sildaru earned bronze with an 82.06 from her first run.

As was the case in big air, Gu needed a clutch final run to land on the podium.

“It really came down to the last run - again. I don’t know why I keep doing it to myself,” Gu said. “It doesn’t make it easy for myself. It certainly doesn’t make it easy for my coaches. My mom has a heart attack every day; it’s definitely not the easiest. But I’m happy I was able to push through and turn that pressure into fuel, and it feels so, so good. My goal coming

into the Olympics was to have one gold and have one more podium in a different event. I’ve already met that goal, and [I’m] going into my strongest event next week.”

Readying for her strongest event, halfpipe, with history at stake requires a balancing act.

Gu did not stop for many of the TV stations vying for interviews directly after her slopestyle medal - she did the same Monday and was instead available for interviews after her halfpipe practice later in the day - and took just three questions at her news conference.

There, she flaunted her ability to deal with a different kind of pressure.

Gu is the subject of controversy at the Games because of her decision years ago to compete for China despite being raised in San Francisco. She has faced questions at and before these Olympics about whether she surrendered her U.S. citizenship without providing a clear answer - the International Olympic Committee requires athletes hold a passport for the country they represent, and China does not permit dual citizenship.

On Tuesday, an Englishspeaking reporter was granted the second of three questions Gu had time to answer. He identified himself as another Chinese American person who went to Gu’s rival high school in San Francisco, and began by asking a joke about why Gu hadn’t matriculated where he went. She answered in good humor.

Does whiplash count as pressure? The reporter’s second question was if Gu had made a compromise doing business in China given the government’s “official narrative on things like human rights allegations.” In addition to skiing for China, Gu has filmed commercials played constantly during the Games and earns money from Chinese sponsors.

“Here’s the thing,” Gu said.

“I don’t really think of skiing as a business endeavor. I mean, I guess it’s my job, but also I do it because I love it, and I chose to ski for China because there’s this massive opportunity to spread the sport to people who haven’t even heard of it before. And honestly, I have met my goal. There are 300 million people on snow, so to even have influenced a tiny fraction of that makes me immensely proud.

one quarter, but fell behind, 20-18, by halftime. The Clippers went on to outscore the Hornets, 16-11, in the second half to earn the victory.

Katie Bathrick was Germantown’s top scorer with 14 points. Ryane Anderson added 12.

Alexa McCarthy scored a game-high 18 points for Heatly.

Before the game, the

Clippers honored seniors Ryan Anderson, Katie Bathrick and Jordan Wyant.

HEATLY (31): Seeloff 2-05, Sagendorf 2-0-4, McCarthy 8-1-18, Dawson 2-0-4. Totals 14-1-31.

3-pointers: Seeloff, McCarthy.

GERMANTOWN (34): Anderson 4-4-12, Heuer 2-0-5, Wyant 1-1-3, Bathrick 7-0-14, Ferrer 0-0-0. Totals 14-5-34.

3-pointers: Heuer.

COLONIAL Ichabod Crane 66, Holy Names 27 ALBANY — Ichabod Crane jumped out to a 20-4 lead after one quarter and rolled to a 66-27 victory over Holy Names in Monday’s Colonial Council girls basketball game.

The Riders (13-3 Colonial, 16-4 overall) led 39-11 at halftime and 56-17 after three

quarters.

Carolina Williams led the Riders with 27 points. Ashley Ames had 13, Delaney More eight, Haley Ames four, Ava Heffner and Abby Dolge three apiece and Malati Culver, Alexa Barkley, Ava Heffner and Julia Rivers two each.

Sophia Bologna’s 11 points topped Holy Names.

BOYS VOLLEYBALL Ichabod Crane 3,

Voorheesville 0 VALATIE — Ichabod Crane handed Voorheesville a 3-0 loss in Monday’s boys volleyball game.

The Riders won by scores of 25-15, 26-24 and 25-22.

For ICC (15-2): Erik Holmberg 24 assists; Paul Zietsman 17 kills, 4 aces, 3 blocks; Topher Pelesz 6 kills; Luke Desmonie 4 kills, 2 blocks; Caden Tiernan 3 kills, 1 ace.

Ava Wallace The Washington Post

ZHANGJIAKOU, China — Eileen Gu was out of time.

The 18-year-old had just won her second medal of the Beijing Games on Tuesday at Genting Snow Park, a silver in women’s slopestyle that sent Chinese fans and volunteers alike into a frenzy, but as she pulled her hair back into a ponytail and set about the business of answering questions at her news conference, she had no time to revel.

Gu had to rush off to practice for halfpipe.

“I’m actually missing it already, so that’s why I have to cut this short,” Gu said, switching from Mandarin to English, apologizing to the packed room of reporters before her. “I always want to try to use my voice as much as possible, but I really gotta go!”

At a Winter Olympics where the theme is pressure, Gu is a study in how to use it to one’s advantage. An American-born teen skiing for her mother’s native China, she is the face of these Games in Beijing, hustling her way through with a shot at becoming the first action-sport athlete to reach the podium in three events with eyes on both sides of the Pacific trained squarely on her.

She is two-thirds of the way there. Gu, won gold in freestyle skiing big air’s Olympic debut last week, took silver Tuesday in slopestyle and has a shot at clinching the milestone in halfpipe Friday.

Watching Gu work her way through a competition and then a gantlet of media obligations provides evidence of her relationship with pressure. The number of reporters in Gu’s post-medal news conference Tuesday was comparable to the

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GERMANTOWN — Germantown overcame a halftime deficit to edge Heatly in Monday’s Central Hudson Valley League girls basketball game on senior Night at Germantown.

Germantown led 15-6 after

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Ailing Eileen Gu on her third run during the women’s freestyle skiing slopestyle final during the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games at Genting Snow Park.

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effective. He did not give up a run in six innings pitched, scattering two hits. He struck out eight and walked one in four regular-season relief appearances. He allowed his only run of the 2021 season in 1.1 innings of work in the Wild Card game.

Severino had been expected to return to the rotation and be a strong No.2 starter behind Gerrit Cole. The Yankees certainly have questions with their starting staff behind Cole. Jameson Taillon flashed some really good stuff, but ended the year needing ankle surgery. Nestor Cortes, Jr. was their most consistent starter and Jordan Montgomery is a solid back-end of the rotation lefty. Deivi Garcia could not find his way back to the big leagues after some success in 2020 and Clarke Schmidt missed most of the season with an elbow issue. Michael King has proven more useful as a reliever than a starter.

The Yankees could use a strong Severino in the rotation, but he might be better used coming out of the bullpen.

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since he was spooked out of an open dunk in Game 7 of last year’s Eastern Conference semifinals.

Ben Simmons was present at Nets’ shootaround on Monday morning but did not do anything on the court, providing a physical reminder of just how far off the rails this season has gone. Monday night’s affair with Sacramento will be yet another in the long line of games without Irving, Kevin Durant and James Harden, a trio now relegated to the great what if section of NBA history.

With Irving essentially banned from the building, Durant still dealing with his MCL sprain and James Harden

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Luis Severino (40) of the New York Yankees pitches against the New York Yankees during the sixth inning of the American League Wild Card game at Fenway Park on October 5 in Boston, Massachusetts.

He has pitched a total of 27.2 innings in the past three years. There is no way the

now in Philadelphia, the Nets are grasping at any straws that could be twisted and bent into a happy shape.

“We’re just all trying to stay positive,” Cam Thomas said after shootaround. “We had a good stretch in Miami that we want to keep building off of, down by 20, came back, and had a chance to win at the end. We want to stay as positive as we can because we know things are going to turn around eventually. The key is to stay positive.”

As the roster itself transforms into something new every day, the rookie experiencing all of this for the first time -- and at an extremely unprecedented level, no less -is trying his best to ignore the hoopla.

“When I leave the facility, I don’t try to look too much into the media,” Thomas said. “I

do what I love to do and don’t look too much at what people say about us.”

Stress relief looks different for everybody, but the freshfaced 20-year-old finds his comfortable detachment in video games.

“I game,” he smiled. “I be gaming with some dudes on the team.”

In addition to Simmons, whose highly-anticipated season debut feels slated for after the All-Star break, Seth Curry and Andre Drummond are also now in the fray. Thomas, who said he just met Simmons for the first time and got to know Curry and Drummond a little bit while they were in Miami with the team, is thrilled about the idea of adding guys who are committed to the Nets.

“I think we have really good guys who want to be here,”

Yankees can expect him to jump up his workload dramatically and give them 100 innings.

Thomas stated. “That helps us have a better vibe amongst each other. It’s a step in the right direction.”

Any sort of victory, be it by one point over an equally miserable team or a cathartic blowout, is a sizable step in the right direction. Nic Claxton is drinking the positivity Kool-Aid as well. The big man offered his ideas for what the team could look like now that Harden is out and Simmons is eventually taking the reins.

“I think we’ll be able to play really fast and get out in transition,” Claxton predicted.

“We’ll definitely be able to switch a lot on defense. I think it’s going to be a lot of fun.”

Fun has not been a word often used to describe this team.

The great shakeup at the trade deadline came, in some part, because Harden was seemingly not having any fun at all.

Especially since the injuries have come in bunches over the past three year.

Severino, who will turn 28 next week, had a shoulder issue in spring training of 2019.

The Yankees extended Severino on what looked like a very team-friendly, $40 million deal over four years. He was coming off a season in which he finished ninth in American League Cy Young voting. As he warmed up for his very first spring training start after signing that deal, Severino felt something in his arm. That turned into a torn lat muscle, which held him out of that year until September.

In March 2020, it turned out that Severino tore his ulnar collateral ligament in the playoffs and he was shut down for Tommy John surgery. He was expected back in midsummer, but had several setbacks, including a groin strain, and did not return until September of 2021.

The Yankees have to figure out how they can put him in position to give them the biggest impact this season. And then they have to make a decision on his $15 million option for 2023.

Philadelphia fans will tell you that watching Simmons and his reluctance to shoot has been anything but fun, and it’s hard to imagine that he’ll drastically change his ways now. Of course, nobody understands the ins and outs of this mess more than the people who are in the building every day.

Now in his third season with the team -- a lifetime ago in Net years -- Claxton has some experience dealing with turmoil. His first year ended with the Nets getting swept out of the bubble by Toronto, then the Steve Nash era began one year later, and now he’s playing with a group that’s completely unrecognizable than it was when he was drafted.

“When you go through things like this you can either fall or you can get closer together,” Claxton offered. “I think we just gotta mesh. The

vibes have been better. Everybody settled in after the deadline, even myself.”

With more time in the league comes more knowledge of how the deadline works, though. This time around, the center says, it was scary.

“I didn’t really know what was going to happen,” Claxton shared. “The NBA is a business. I thought there was a possibility that I was getting moved. It was a rollercoaster.

I’m happy that I’m still here.”

Happy is a relative term around these parts. Eighth in the Eastern Conference entering play on Monday, losers of 11 straight, and now with the NBA’s biggest question mark replacing one of its greatest scorers ever, the vibes could be in for another cataclysmic setback.

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Kristi Yamaguchi won gold 30 years ago ...

American figure skating would never look the same Robert Samuels The Washington Post

She had all the ingredients of the classic American women’s figure skating champion. She was an artist and an athlete, elegant and expressive, with a competitive arsenal of jumps and a program of intricate footwork and transitions ahead of its time.

But Kristi Yamaguchi was also an Olympic champion unlike any the country had seen: An Asian American woman in a sport that long had been the domain of White Americans and Europeans.

Thirty years ago, Yamaguchi won a gold medal. And while she wasn’t feted in traditional ways, her triumph now looks like a seminal moment in the sport’s transformation. Her deep edges carved a new path for Asian American superstars: Michelle Kwan, a two-time Olympic medalist; Nathan Chen, who won the gold medal in the Olympic men’s competition last week; and Alysa Liu and Karen Chen, who will compete in the women’s competition that began Tuesday.

Five of the 16 figure skaters on the U.S. team in Beijing are of Asian descent. In PyeongChang four years ago, there were seven, including the Shibutani siblings, who won a bronze medal in ice dance. The sport has become so popular with skaters of East Asian decent that those numbers hardly seem remarkable.

Yamaguchi faced a different landscape. Back then, an Olympic figure skating title usually guaranteed certain spoils: Gushing media coverage, endorsements deals, the moniker of “America’s sweetheart.”

But when she returned home from the games in Albertville, France, advertisers questioned whether Yamaguchi - the daughter of second- and thirdgeneration Japanese Americans - could fill that role.

“To Marketers, Kristi Yamaguchi isn’t as good as gold,” read one headline. A sports advertising executive put it this way in a 1992 Associated Press story: Yamaguchi “is definitely suffering because of her Japanese race and her Japanese name.”

“Right now there is a negative connected with anything Japanese,” the executive said. “It’s wrong, wrong, wrong, but that’s the way it is.”

Yamaguchi had become the first Asian American woman to win gold at the Winter Olympics, and she wasn’t deterred, saying in a recent interview that she “just felt like any other California girl representing her country.” She starred in a handful of commercials, mesmerized audiences on tour, won on “Dancing with the Stars” and started a foundation focusing on early childhood literacy. She reconciled her own questions of identity and found a place on the world stage, having provided a road map both for Asian American talent and for the modern incarnation of her sport.

Asked how she helped find a path, Yamaguchi, now 50, had a simple answer: “I didn’t go away.”

She grew up fascinated by Dorothy

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Kristi Yamaguchi won gold 30 years ago for the United States.

Hamill, the spunky 1976 Olympic champion with the trendy wedge haircut who later headlined the Ice Capades. There was something elegant and accessible about the sport of figure skating to a tiny child with club feet and dreams of stardom.

“I was a small, scrawny, skinny, uncoordinated little kid and tried a lot of different sports, but skating just clicked with me,” Yamaguchi recalled. “I didn’t have to keep up with anyone else. I could go at my own pace.”

Her parents, Carole and Jim, weren’t sure she had what it took to be an Olympian. Other girls had an easier time picking up the basic skills. But Kristi never stopped trying.

And at home, there was another skater the Yamaguchis loved to watch.

Nine years after Hamill won her gold medal, a fellow Californian named Tiffany Chin became the nation’s first Asian American figure skating champion, capable of long balletic lines and big triple jumps.

Injuries prevented Chin - who last month was inducted into the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame - from reaching her full potential. But a young Yamaguchi had an affinity for Chin that Yamaguchi’s mother said she did not fully expect. When Kristi was young, Carole Yamaguchi joked, “I don’t think she knew she was Asian.” Sure, they went to a Japanese church and celebrated Children’s Day, a Japanese national holiday, but she lived in the diverse Bay Area, where there was not just one way to think about being an American. Nothing about her identity made her feel distinct.

Her family history, though, encompassed both patriotism and the indignities that can come with being a person of color in the United States.

Carole’s father, George Doi, served in World War II, earning a bronze star as the only Japanese member of his troop.

As Doi fought for his country, his wife, Kathleen, received a special clearance to leave Heart Mountain internment camp. But she could not find work in an environment distrusting of Japanese Americans and eventually went back

into internment, where Carole Yamaguchi was born.

When George Doi came home, the family tried to assimilate, and the past was rarely discussed.

“I think much of that first generation that had gone through World War II tried so hard to just put it behind them and move forward and not talk about it,” Kristi Yamaguchi said. “They wanted to really establish themselves as American and living the American life.”

Carole married Jim Yamaguchi and had three children, all of whom loved sports. Brett played basketball. Lori twirled batons. And Kristi’s persistence in skating soon paid off, as she became one of the United States’ best young skaters in two disciplines. In 1988, skating with a Mexican American named Rudy Galindo, Yamaguchi won the world junior championships in pairs.

She also won the ladies event. The accomplishment remains singular. It was at the competition that Kristi began to realize that not everyone in the skating world processed her identity.

Yamaguchi had finished ahead of two Japanese skaters that year. She was eager to stand atop on the podium and hear the national anthem, but there was an unusual delay backstage. She did not understand why until she heard an organizer say, “We can’t find three Japanese flags.”

“I’m like, ‘Can someone tell them I’m American?’ “ she recalled.

She was 20 years old when she came to the Albertville Games, the reigning national and world champion. Even so, she was not expected to win after recent rule changes placed more of an emphasis on power and jumping. Yamaguchi’s technical arsenal was nothing to shirk at, but compatriot Tonya Harding was a better jumper and Japan’s Midori Ito was the finest technician in the world. Both of those women were capable of landing the treacherous triple axel.

Without the triple axel, Yamaguchi tried to match her arsenal of triple jumps and difficult combination spins with detailed programs in which every beat - from the turn of her head to a

flirtatious lifting of her skirt - was choreographed.

Harding and Ito both crashed on their triple axel attempts in the first phase of the event, clearing Yamaguchi’s path to the victory, and a strong (if flawed) program in the final was good enough.

Yamaguchi’s visage landed on a Special K box and the cover of “Sports Illustrated,” and she sat on the couch with talk show host Arsenio Hall. Those appearances were a far cry from the cultural ubiquity that came when her role model, Hamill, won gold.

“I didn’t skate, and try to win, for endorsements,” Yamaguchi told herself.

“If I get something, awesome. That’s cool.”

But as skaters and other Japanese Americans posited whether race was limiting her exposure, she wrestled with questions that are familiar to many minorities: Was it me? Was it some broader culture bias? Was it something else?

“It was a hard time,” Yamaguchi said, noting that her Olympic win came a few weeks after the 50th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. “At the time, with the auto industry, there was a lot of tension with Japanese American relations. I think that’s what led people to think well . . . that may be why she’s not getting endorsements.

“I thought maybe that could be a little bit of it,” Yamaguchi said. “Who knows? I’m 20. I’m shy. I was not well spoken. You’re just so young, and so naive.”

But those experiences also drove home a new awareness of what she had achieved - and a new feeling of responsibility to speak about her heritage. She was flattered when she received letters from little girls who said they looked up to her, that they wanted to be like her.

Japanese American groups reached out to her family to offer support.

Yamaguchi was struck when she saw a family friend interviewed on television, talking about the special pride she felt when she saw that “Sports Illustrated” cover with the headline, “American Dream.”

“I feel like this is the new face of the American dream: an Asian-American,” her family friend said.

Less than two years into her pro career, the infamous clubbing of Kerrigan, her former teammate, set off a media frenzy. Kerrigan had the “look” of an America’s sweetheart that advertisers had grown used to: She was brownhaired and blue-eyed, with a signature move in which she’d glide along the ice with her hand on her heart. The fanfare and endorsement deals that eluded Yamaguchi came easily to Kerrigan, even before she won silver at the 1994 Olympics.

The controversy created a surge of interest in figure skating, leading to huge ratings and weekly made-for-TV competitions. Yamaguchi didn’t go away. And although audiences might have tuned in because of the bizarre incident, they kept watching - and fell for Yamaguchi.

She continued to do the intricate steps and many of the jumps that she did while she was competing. She made audiences dance while skating to En Vogue, made them cry while skating to Chopin, brought them to their feet while skating to Simon & Garfunkel.

“Stars on Ice, when we founded it, it was a 30-city tour,” Scott Hamilton, the 1984 Olympic men’s champion said. “When Kristi joined it, it became a 60-city tour overnight. And so she had a great, incredible capacity to draw. People adored her.”

That silenced doubts about whether an Asian American could capture American hearts. Paul Wylie, a silver medalist in the 1992 Games who later toured with Yamaguchi, said she had the ability to mesmerize audiences every night.

“Wow, look at Kristi go,” Wylie recalled thinking. “She’s a star.”

And her arrival was the vanguard for a wave of Asian American talent in the sport. In the 30 national championships held since her gold medal, only three have not included an Asian American woman on the podium. She provided mentorship and sponsorship to many of the women who followed her, including Liu and Chen, the 2022 Olympians.

There is “an intrinsic value with seeing someone who looks like you and in the national spotlight,” said Kadari Taylor-Watson, the director of diversity, equity and inclusion at US Figure Skating. “You start believing you can achieve that, too.”

Four years after Yamaguchi won her gold medal, a 15-year-old American named Michelle Kwan won the world championship. Kwan would go on to win silver and bronze medals at the Olympics and five world championships in all, becoming one of the most decorated skaters of all time. Her performances in Salt Lake City inspired a young man from Utah to take up skating. That boy was Nathan Chen.

“You don’t get a Nathan Chen without a Michelle Kwan, and you don’t get a Michelle Kwan without Kristi,” said Barbara Reichert, a spokeswoman with US Figure Skating. “[Kristi] helped to open the door.”

The Winter Olympics are offering women more opportunities, but equality hasn’t yet arrived Ava Wallace The Washington Post

ZHANGJIAKOU, China — Ashley Caldwell knew she had lost her shot at the podium as soon as her back hit the snow.

The freestyle skier from Virginia possessed the two highest scores of the night entering the third of three rounds in the women’s aerials final. But on her last performance of the Beijing Games, she went into the jump a little too fast, caught a small draft and fell backward upon landing.

“I thought I had it, I really did,” Caldwell said, smiling through tears.

Instead, Caldwell finished fourth with a score of 83.71 more than 20 points behind the lower of her two scores entering the final - behind surprise American bronze medalist Megan Nick (93.76), silver medalist Hanna Huskova of Belarus (107.95) and gold medalist Xu Mengtao of China (108.61), who let out a roaring fist pump as she landed her jump.

But Caldwell’s fourth Olympic Games will have a happy postscript despite what she

described as a heartbreaking competition.

She leaves Beijing with the first medal of her career - gold, to boot - which she won with the U.S. team last week when freestyle skiing’s mixed team aerials event made its Olympic debut.

That she even had the chance to compete for two medals felt like a breakthrough 12 years into her Olympic career.

“Having a second opportunity for a medal is huge,” Caldwell, 28, said. “It draws attention to what an incredible sport this is, and for our country, the United States - I would love for these two medals now, the team medal and Megan Nick’s bronze to help encourage the sport in our country.”

Mixed team aerials is one of seven events that debuted during the Beijing Games, five of which were part of the International Olympic Committee’s continued push toward gender parity at the Olympics. In addition to mixed team aerials, mixed team snowboard cross, mixed team short-track relay, mixed team ski jumping and women’s monobob had their inaugural runs here.

Men’s and women’s big air freestyle skiing is also new this year.

Caldwell’s second competition of the Beijing Games fell on a day in which Kallie Humphries took gold and Elana Meyers Taylor took silver in the Olympic debut for women’s monobob, a pair of wins for Team USA that were aired in a prime slot on NBC following the Super Bowl.

Four-man bobsled has been a part of the Olympic program since the first Winter Games in 1924 and two-man bobsled was added in 1932, but two-woman bobsled wasn’t added until 2002.

Like female aerials skiers, until this year, female bobsledders had just one choice of event at the Olympics despite that fourwoman bobsled debuted at the world championships five years ago.

Adding women’s monobob was the first step toward solving a systematic problem: In part because women couldn’t compete in Olympic bobsled for so long, many countries lack a sliding program with the ability to produce and support enough women - drivers and brakemen

- to send teams of four to the Olympics. In monobob, countries need just one athlete to participate, and enough nations had that to fortify a new event.

Humphries and Meyers Taylor were critical in getting the discipline added to the Games.

“To be able to have two opportunities to medal now, that’s a game-changer,” Meyers Taylor said. “Now we’re more onpar with the men, with the two medals. We’d still like to have more numbers for women, and to have that comparability to medal for all the women, brakemen included, but you know, getting the monobob added was a start. It’s really cool to see all the girls out there, see all the different nations represented and see how well they did, like, this was a tough track for these monobob sleds, this is not easy.

And to see from top to bottom how well the girls did and how well they represented, it’s really amazing.”

Because of the new events in Beijing, Games organizers are touting these Olympics as the most gender-balanced Winter Games to date, with women making up 45% of athletes and

women’s events tallying 46, up two from four years ago in PyeongChang.

But as Meyers Taylor pointed out Monday, gender parity can be measured in myriad ways.

The number of events available only to women - which is still fewer compared to men - is just one.

At the Winter Games, women still race shorter distances than men in cross-country skiing, speed skating, short-track speedskating and biathlon. In ski jumping, which didn’t allow women to compete in the Olympics until 2014 after a decade-long push spearheaded by a group of American women, women jump off only what’s called the normal hill.

Men can jump off the normal hill, the target landing distance for which is 90 meters, and the large hill, the target landing distance for which is 120 meters.

The discrepancy means male ski jumpers have four events open to them: individual normal hill, individual large hill, the men’s team event and the mixed team event. Women have just two.

In luge, only men compete in doubles. And Nordic combined,

which is cross-country skiing plus ski jumping, is the last sport in either the Winter or Summer Olympics that is available only to men.

Meyers Taylor reiterated Monday that women may not feel the need to race the exact same distances or compete in Nordic combined to be considered equals to men; parity isn’t about achieving the exact same thing. It’s about having just as many quality choices and opportunity.

“My hope is that women will continue to have options. Of course, if I had it my way, there would be women’s four-man, and breakmen would have multiple medal opportunities,” Meyers Taylor said. “ . . . I really want the younger pilots to have the choice. If they decide that monobob is what they want to do, then yes, I’ll support them wholeheartedly. But if they decide they want four-woman, then yes, I’m going to support that, too. Now it’s up to the next generation to decide where the sport goes, and I think it’s in good hands.”

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The Bulls trailed by six points entering the fourth quarter but then DeRozan took charge, scoring 13 of Chicago’s next 15 points to give the Bulls the lead. The Bulls never trailed again, as DeRozan and Nikola Vucevic dominated down the stretch.

DeRozan has scored 30 or more points in seven consecutive games (improving on a career-high) and established a franchise record with his sixth straight game of at least 35 points, supplanting the mark set by Michael Jordan in the 1996-97 campaign.

Vucevic added 25 points and 16 rebounds, with Coby White scoring 24 points.

Lonnie Walker IV led San Antonio with 21 points off the bench. Doug McDermott and Dejounte Murray added 19 points each, with Murray contributing 11 assists.

Clippers 119, Warriors 104 Terance Mann scored a season-high 25 points and Reggie Jackson added 19 points, nine assists and eight rebounds as host Los Angeles pulled away in the second half to hand Golden State its third loss in four games.

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The tape of last year’s slam dunk contest in Atlanta already feels like it belongs in a pandemic time capsule.

There were no fans because of coronavirus concerns before the national vaccine rollout. The condensed event took place at halftime of the All-Star Game because the NBA scrambled to relocate its midseason showcase from Indianapolis and shorten the festivities. There were only three competitors because of the strict health protocols and subdued stage. And Portland Trail Blazers guard Anfernee Simons was named champion with a kiss-the-rim dunk in which he didn’t get all that close to actually kissing the rim.

In other words, there’s nowhere to go but up for this year’s event in Cleveland, which will see four competitors and two rounds of dunks in front of a live crowd.

There might still be questionable judging decisions, but at least this year’s dunk contest should look and feel like a traditional all-star Saturday night capper.

Though the NBA was unable to recruit any all-stars like Ja Morant or past dunk contest champions like Zach LaVine, this year’s field features some intriguing new faces and a nice blend of styles and physiques. Here’s a quick rundown of what to expect from the four participants.

1. Jalen Green, Houston Rockets The 20-year-old Green has struggled as a rookie after being picked second in the 2021 draft, shooting just 38.1 percent from the field and averaging nearly as many turnovers as assists. While his scoring efficiency and defensive awareness need work, his leaping ability is world class. Like Simons, Green has a lithe frame and plenty of spring, but his best in-game finishes have an extra degree of ferocity.

Online oddsmakers have installed the 6-foot-4 Green as the early favorite, a logical decision given that he leads the field in midair fluidity and flair.

While standout rookies like Evan Mobley, Franz Wagner, Scottie Barnes, Cade Cunningham and Josh Giddey have all gotten more acclaim than Green, the slam dunk contest should introduce the Rockets guard to a national audience.

2. Obi Toppin, New York Knicks Toppin acquitted himself well in last year’s competition, where he displayed good creative range, delivered on comparisons to a young Amar’e Stoudemire and finished second to Simons. In Atlanta, the 23-year-old forward bounced the ball through his own legs for a reverse dunk, hurdled his father and Knicks teammate Julius Randle for a windmill and then went through his legs again on his final attempt.

The tallest participant in this year’s field at 6-foot-9, Toppin dunks more like

an oversized wing rather than a clunky big man. Despite playing limited minutes in a bench role for New York, he ranks among the NBA’s top 20 most prolific dunkers this season. In addition to being the only competitor with previous contest experience, Toppin could enjoy a little home-court boost. The 2020 lottery pick played his college ball at Dayton, a three-hour drive from Cleveland.

3. Cole Anthony, Orlando Magic Although Anthony has toiled in obscurity for the dreadful Magic, he doesn’t lack for swagger or bounce. After hitting a game-winner in isolation last May, Anthony declared: “I knew if I got someone on an island, they weren’t going to be safe. . . . I saw I had Kyle Anderson on me. It’s game-time. I’m trying to get this money.” Expect the brash 21-year-old son of former NBA player Greg Anthony to play to the crowd in Cleveland rather than freeze up under the spotlight.

Before going one-and-done at North Carolina and getting selected 15th in the 2020 draft, Anthony was a blue chip prospect who excelled in high school dunk contests. As a result, there’s a well-honed craftsmanship to his dunk

toolbox: The 6-foot-3 guard bursts off the court like Steve Francis, and he can throw down 360s, hurdle human props and go between his legs with ease.

4. Juan Toscano-Anderson, Golden State Warriors Toscano-Anderson was a surprise inclusion given that he’s considerably older than his fellow competitors at 28 and doesn’t boast first-round name recognition. Naturally, the oddsmakers view him as the long shot. An undrafted forward who played in Mexico, Venezuela and the G League before making his NBA debut in 2020, the 6-foot-6 ToscanoAnderson nevertheless has the ability to finish with authority. Just ask Phoenix Suns center JaVale McGee, who was on the wrong side of a sensational ToscanoAnderson poster back in December.

The big question for the Oakland native is whether he will be able to expand past his trademark piledriver in-game dunks with enough imagination and preparation to win in the contest setting.

If he’s savvy, Toscano-Anderson will work in tributes to Jason Richardson, a former Warriors wing who won back-toback dunk contests in 2002 and 2003.

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With Burrow leading the way, Bengals believe ‘this is just the beginning for us’ Tom Archdeacon Dayton Daily News

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — They were all dressed up with nowhere to go.

One by one the Cincinnati Bengals showed up at postgame press conference Sunday wearing the affectations of a winner, but the unsmiling looks that come in defeat.

Quarterback Joe Burrow wore a bold, black and gray tiger stripe suit and white Air Jordan 1 Dior lows, an outfit that looked better when he walked into SoFi Stadium than when he came out of the locker room after the Los Angeles Rams had stolen the oft-used, come-from-behind script the Bengals used so often this season and marched to a 23-20 victory in Super Bowl LVI. Tight end C.J. Uzomah carried his featheradorned safari hat to the postgame dais and safety Jessie Bates wore a ball cap with the iconic LA logo turned upside down.

But the only thing that got upended here this evening was Cincinnati’s Cinderella season. That doesn’t mean they became midnight pumpkins.

They just lost a game they could have won with some better play calling in the final minute and some better pass protection throughout the entire second half.

“Collectively, we shot ourselves in the foot,” Uzomah said.

With 54 seconds left in the game, Cincinnati had a second-and-1 situation at the Rams’ 49-yard line. They still were eight to 10 yards out of Evan McPherson’s field goal range, but coach Zac Taylor said afterward they were trying to win the gam, not tie it. But Burrow missed on a deep pass in Ja’Marr Chase’s direction on second down.

On third down, he handed off to back-up running back Samaje Perine -- in the game instead of starter Joe Mixon -- and Perine was stopped for no gain.

On fourth and 1, Burrow immediately was under siege by Rams’ defensive end Aaron Donald, who grabbed him around the waist and was about to pull him down for another sack -- L.A. already had seven -- but this time quarterback twisted free just enough to fling the ball away and see it fall incomplete.

While the Bengals’ offensive line did a good job protecting Burrow in the first half, it couldn’t keep him from becoming a pinata once gain. Six of those seven sacks came in the second half. One of them early in the fourth quarter left him with a wrenched right knee.

He hobbled off the field, but never missed a play.

Afterward he stressed: “I wasn’t coming out.”

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Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow (9) drops back to pass against the Los Angeles Rams in the third quarter of Super Bowl LVI at SoFi Stadium on Sunday.

He said he will get it checked by doctors once he gets back to Cincinnati today.

Meanwhile his counterpart, Matthew Stafford, orchestrated the most memorable drive of his 13-year NFL career. The Rams quarterback got the ball with 6:13 left and his team trailing by four points. He took them 75 yards in 15 plays and connected with Cooper Kupp, the game’s MVP, on a 1-yard touchdown pass with 85 seconds left.

Stafford to Kupp was eerily reminiscent of the final-minute TD pass from Joe Montana to John Taylor when San Francisco edged Cincinnati in the Bengals last Super Bowl appearance 33 years ago.

One big difference is the way the future looks for this team compared to the what happened to the Bengals’ Super Bowl XXIII team.

Following that title game, the franchise had just had one winning season over the next 16 years.

This team is young and talented and as Burrow said: “You’d like to think we’ll be back in this situation multiple times over the course of the next few years.”

Rookie kicker Evan McPherson -- whose two field goals Sunday made him a perfect 14 for 14 in the playoffs, tying him with Adam Vinatieri

-- said the reason for the unbridled optimism is Burrow.

Uzomah agreed: “He should have been the (league) MVP. He’s a (expletive) dog. He immediately makes our team better when he’s in the huddle, when he’s calling plays and when he’s in the training rooms and practice. He’s telling us how to run things and how he wants them.”

One thing Burrow certainly doesn’t want is the way his first two pro seasons have ended for him.

In his 2020 rookie year, he was carted off the field during a late November game after a sack left him with a destroyed left knee that required extensive surgery.

Sunday, when he stepped off the riser following his press session, he noticeably winced when he put weight on his right knee.

He can’t continue to take the beatings he’s getting. He was sacked a league-high 51 times in the regular season. In the playoffs, he overcame nine sacks by the Titans and won. He couldn’t do the same after seven sacks by the Rams.

Sunday, Burrow completed 22 of 33 passes for 263 yards, including a 75-yard touchdown pass to Tee Higgins to open the second half.

Afterward, he didn’t belabor the sacks or say

much about the TD pass. Instead he said he was disappointed in his own performance: “I thought I could have played better and given us a better chance to win.”

Uzomah, though, said this game would fuel the entire team and especially Burrow: “I mean, when’s the last time he lost a playoff game? In high school? And he went on a run after that.”

That high school loss came in the Division III state championship game in 2014 when Burrow threw for over 500 yards and six touchdowns, but his Athens Bulldogs fell to Toledo Central Catholic, 56-52.

“Losing the state championship game or the Super Bowl, obviously there’s different media coverage, but it feels the same to me,” he said.

As Uzomah noted, Burrow followed that high school title loss with an unbeaten season and national championship at LSU and now a change in culture, confidence and fortune for the Bengals, who had had just six wins in the two previous seasons combined.

After Sunday’s game Burrow said he had to make sure the disappointment didn’t eclipse what this team had done: “I watched the football life of Kurt Warner last week and I kind of thought about that in the locker room now.

“It told how they lost one (Super Bowl) and he said they’d let it sting too much and didn’t celebrate what they’d accomplished. We have to remember that. This last game didn’t turn out the way we wanted it, but we had a great year and we still have something to celebrate.”

Defensive end Sam Hubbard said at the start of the season, the team, nor the fans knew what was possible: “Now we know what it takes to get to the Super Bowl. And I think we made a lot of people happy along the way.”

Uzomah agreed: “Cincy is lit! Cincy is going crazy right now and even today Cincinnati fans came out here in bulk. They were going crazy. I love it. I love this city and how they backed us this year.

“I love going out and people just yelling randomly, ‘Who Dey!’ They try to stop in front of your car at a red light. It’s dope!

“Baseball started it low key when the Reds made a run. Then UC (football) started it and now we made it to the Super Bowl.

“This is just the beginning for us. And it’s going to be exciting to see the fan base grow and be a part of all that.”

So it looks like the Bengals need to hold onto those party clothes.

As McPherson put it: “We could back next year or the year after.”

Matthew Stafford adds a Super Bowl ring to his Hall of Fame case, but it isn’t enough Neil Greenberg The Washington Post

It wasn’t the prettiest game of Matt Stafford’s career but Sunday’s matchup against the Cincinnati Bengals ended with him earning a Super Bowl ring as a member of the Los Angeles Rams, a crowning jewel in an otherwise barren trophy case. Will that ring also be the thing that pushes him into the Football Hall of Fame in Canton? Despite some admirable statistical accolades, Stafford still has more work ahead of him to secure enshrinement.

Stafford has his championship and 49,995 passing yards, just shy of the other eight quarterbacks in NFL history with 50,000 passing yards and at least one Super Bowl win: Tom Brady, Drew Brees, Peyton Manning, Brett Favre, Ben Roethlisberger, Eli Manning, Aaron Rodgers and John Elway. Peyton Manning, Favre and Elway are already enshrined in Canton while Brady, Brees and Rodgers are locks. The consensus is Roethlisberger and Eli Manning will get in, too, giving Stafford a solid litmus test against which to judge his bona fides. But let’s pull back some layers and see why Stafford’s career to date doesn’t yet add up to the Hall of Fame career.

According to Pro Football

Reference’s hall of fame monitor, which uses weighted approximate value as a starting point with bonuses added for end-of-season awards and adjustments for position, Stafford scores a 58.4, leaving him 41st among qualified quarterbacks. An average hall-of-fame quarterback has a monitor score of 104.1. There are some notable exceptions in the Hall of Fame near Stafford’s score (the Bills’ Jim Kelly checks in with a 59.1, while the Cowboys’ Troy Aikman sits at 64.28), but both of them enjoyed much more postseason success. Kelly took the Bills to four consecutive Super Bowls and Aikman won three with the Cowboys. Meanwhile the Rams went to the Super Bowl just two years ago, with Jared Goff under center.

Why such a disparity? For starters, his passing yards total is inflated due to the timing of his career. During Stafford’s tenure as a pro quarterback, the league’s average passer threw for 233 yards per game, just slightly lower than Stafford’s career average of 269 passing yards per game. His career average yards per pass attempt was just four percent above the league average.

For comparison, Dan Marino’s career passing yards

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Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford (9) throws a pass against the Cincinnati Bengals during the first quarter in Super Bowl LVI at SoFi Stadium on Sunday.

per attempt was nine percent higher than the league average and he played during a time when the average passing yards per game was 204 yards per game. See the difference? Stafford’s counting stats are very much a product of the timing of his career, not a special talent to accumulate yards while playing quarterback. In fact, among the elite eight quarterbacks mentioned earlier, only Eli Manning’s career passing yards per attempt was lower than Stafford’s after factoring in league averages.

Plus, Stafford’s teams

trailed in the game during 4,053 of his 7,582 regular season drop backs, a situation that fosters more passing attempts than rushing attempts. For Stafford specifically, his teams passed the ball 66 percent of the time while trailing, compared to a 50/50 split when leading.

That, too, helps move you up the leader board for career passing yards. And before you bring up Detroit’s woes as a franchise in defense of Stafford, consider his passer rating in losses for the team (79.7 vs 103.2 in wins).

While not a perfect measure

of quarterback success, it is worth noting he ranked in the bottom half of the league in this regard in five seasons, including a three-year stretch between 2013 to 2015.

He might not have been able to pull his team out of the mire but it is clear he was at least partly responsible for the organization’s struggles too, loosening his grip on a spot in the Hall of Fame.

The newly-minted Super Bowl champion also won’t fare well with the Keltner list, a list of 15 subjective questions created by noted baseball sabrematician Bill James to help clarify a player’s standing in the league atlarge. For example, here are some of the questions: - Was Stafford ever regarded as the best player in football? No, he was named to one Pro Bowl as an alternate and never won any other major award.

- Was he the best player on his team? Not always. Stafford had hall of fame wide out Calvin Johnson to throw to for seven seasons.

- Was Stafford the best quarterback in football? No. ESPN’s Total Quarterback Rating had him in the Top 10 just three times before he joined the Rams with the rest of his season-long campaigns earning him finishes of 13th or worse. The game

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charters at Pro Football Focus, a group that focuses on performance rather than the actual outcome, ranked Stafford in the Top 10 three times, with just one of those as a Top 5 quarterback (2013). This year he finished as the eighth-best passer under center for the Rams.

- Did he have an impact on a number of playoff games?

No, up until this season he played in three postseason games, all losses with each of his playoff performances getting progressively worse. He also had two interceptions in the Super Bowl.

The forensics exercise seeks to uncover if a player was regarded as the best in their sport, the best player on his team or the very best player in football history who is not in the Hall of Fame. If you get more negatives than affirmatives, it is clear the player is not as deserving as you might think. And you can see several notable negatives above.

Quarterbacks, especially those coming off a Super Bowl win, are always going to be at the forefront of these discussions, yet while Stafford does a lot of good things on the football field, most of them fall short of what should be expected of a hall of fame player.

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Husband of 30 years still supports first wife Dear Abby, I have been with my husband for more than 30 years. We have no kids together, but he has three adult children from a previous marriage.

All of them are in their 30s. He and his ex had a bad breakup, and she has never given up on DEAR ABBY him coming back to her.

In my opinion, he has strung her along. He buys her the moon and pretends our marriage doesn’t exist for the “sake of seeing the kids.” We used to be close, but since the pandemic I have learned he has been going to “their house” every day before he goes to work. He pays her mortgage and does everything there for her. I pay our house bills because he needs to “support her and the kids.”

They have grown super close now, and recently had a grandchild. He is too involved with her. He takes her everywhere she wants, and when I get upset or angry, he tells me I’m a selfish, childless b-word and if I had kids I would understand.

I love him, but I have reached the point where I have no self-esteem. I have asked him more than once why he doesn’t go back to her.

He tells me I am insecure and paranoid. Abby, I am a smart, successful woman, but I am afraid to give up what we had. I am also afraid of being alone. Am I overreacting about his closeness with her? What do I do?

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The man you married is emotionally abusive, selfish and dishonest. I don’t know how long this scenario has been playing out, but it’s as though he never really divorced his first wife. Has he been “visiting the kids” all this time, or did it start when the COVID quarantines began?

Start NOW to rebuild your sense of self-esteem by talking with a licensed mental health professional. Once you are stronger you will be in a better position to decide what you want to do. If you reread your letter, you will notice a glaring omission. Not once did you mention anything positive he does for YOU. There are worse things than being alone, and what you have described is close to it.

Dear Abby, Our 14-year-old granddaughter came out as a boy four months ago. The situation has been terrifying because he had thought about suicide. He was hospitalized and now sees a therapist and psychologist and is taking anxiety meds.

This has been a trying time for us as well. I love my grandchild but I’m having a very hard time with this. So is my husband. I don’t know how to tell my sisters and their husbands about this. One set is pretty understanding; the other set is extremely right-wing and over-the-top conservative. We want to accept our grandchild as who he is identifying as, but we are still bewildered. Thank you for any suggestions you might have for us.

Thrown In Texas I don’t think you should rush to share this news with your sisters and their husbands. The announcement should come from your grandchild when he is ready. As to how you and your husband should “handle” it, the organization PFLAG has recently come out with a free publication titled, “Supporting Your LGBTQ+ Grandchild.”

It’s a quick and easy read, and you may find the information it contains helpful. Find it at pflag. org or by calling 202-467-8180.

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By Stella Wilder Born today, you are perhaps the most mysterious individual born under your sign — not because of anything dark or sinister in your nature, but because you are so complex that you are known for defying the expectations of those around you again and again. Indeed, you can change course very quickly, making a dramatic about-face and embracing that which you had eschewed even moments before, and you can do so with complete confidence in your ability to embrace anything that suits your mood, your state of mind or your ever-evolving tastes.

You are likely to find success in a staggering variety of work environments, not because you are able to do a great many things, but because you are able to adapt quickly to almost any situation or personal dynamic. You can fit in almost anywhere and make your way without much resistance even when new to a given path.

Also born on this date are: Ice-T, actor and rapper; Vera-Ellen, dancer; John McEnroe, tennis player and commentator; Sonny Bono, singer and politician; Levar Burton, actor; Hugh Beaumont, actor; William Katt, actor; James Ingram, singer; Margaux Hemingway, model and actress.

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

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17 AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Though admired for some recent decisions, you are certainly not infallible, and today you’ll be challenged to make the right call.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — You can be much more daring today than you’ve been in the past, and the results can put you in a position that affords you much freedom.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Though another’s reporting may set you on a course of discovery, it’s your own investigation that will uncover the whole truth you seek.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — You are growing tired of depending on someone who is, in essence, ineffectual. It’s time for you to step up and offer a dramatic alternative.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — The usual restrictions are not likely to be imposed upon you today, but you mustn’t be so surprised that you’re unable to take swift action.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — Your expectations may not be fulfilled entirely today, but neither should they be dashed to pieces. You can arrive at a workable compromise.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — It may be more difficult than expected today to persuade others that you are in the right — though virtually all solid evidence supports your claim.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Your memory may not be wholly reliable today, so you must be prepared to lean on one or two friends who were with you when it mattered.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Trust your own instincts today as you make your way into unfamiliar territory. The stories others tell cannot be completely trusted right now.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — You may be baffled by someone’s behavior today until you realize that they’ve taken a leaf out of your own book. Have some fun!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — There are those who will steer clear of you, no matter what others say about you, and you certainly needn’t pay them any mind today.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — A shadow may hang over a recent decision you made, and today you’ll have the chance to do things over and right a wrong you made unintentionally.

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OLE, PABLO Both vulnerable, South deals NORTH ♠A74 ♥ A 10 2 ♦ A5 ♣KQJ62 WEST EAST ♠ Q J 10 8 2 ♠K5 ♥3 ♥ J97 ♦ KQJ9864 ♦ 10 3 ♣ Void ♣ 10 8 7 5 4 3 SOUTH ♠963 ♥ KQ8654 ♦ 72 ♣A9

Opening lead: Queen of ♠ South in today’s deal was Pablo Lambardi, a well-liked expert from Argentina. He and his

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The bidding:

SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST 2♥ 3♥* 3♠** Pass 4♣ 4♦ 4NT Pass 5♠ Pass 7♥ All pass *Spades and a minor, at least 5-5 **Game forcing heart raise

partner were using Roman Key Card Blackwood, a popular variation of the Blackwood convention.

Lambardi’s five-spade bid showed two key cards, among the four aces and the king of trumps, plus the queen of trumps – hearts in this auction.

North assumed there would be six heart tricks, five club tricks, plus two aces, so he bid the grand slam.

Lambardi won the opening spade lead with dummy’s ace. Worried about a possible 4-0 trump split, he led dummy’s ace of hearts. That would enable him to pick up the trumps without loss if East had all four. West followed, so trumps were, at worst, splitting 3-1. What about clubs?

Lambardi’s opponents were world class players whose bidding could be trusted. He knew from the bidding that West had five spades and at least six diamonds. West followed to the first trump, so what was his other card? Lambardi decided that even if West had a club, it was not likely to be the singleton 10.

Backing his logic with his play, Lambardi led a low club and inserted his nine when East played low! When West discarded and couldn’t ruff, Lambardi could draw trumps and claim his grand slam. Very well played!

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12 As __ as a boil 13 “My __ Sal” 18 Deep gorge 20 Taps lovingly 23 __ over; deliver 24 Urgent 25 Reason to study 26 Gathers leaves 27 Kept up the __; didn’t lag 28 Brings down, as a regime 29 Metric measure 31 Enlarge a hole 32 Sup 34 Not complicated 36 Nudge

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37 Multivitamin ingredient 39 Fire bell’s sound 40 Dampens 42 Make __; atone 43 Drooped 45 Cyclist Armstrong 46 Has possession of 47 On the house

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48 Ripped 49 Broth or chowder 50 Midmorning 52 Yours and mine 53 Help with the dishes 55 Uno y uno 56 Light bulb inventor’s initials

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ACROSS 1 Glutton 4 Ms. Reese 9 Throw 13 Explorer Vasco da __ 14 Adams & Falco 15 Puerto __ 16 Charitable gift 17 Finicky 19 Actress Thompson 20 Wild felines 21 In __; quickly 22 “__ Amore”; Dean Martin song 24 Quayle or Rather 25 Part of NATO 27 Handgun 30 Makes money 31 Provide with fresh weapons 33 Compete 35 Lose traction on the road 36 Hippie’s greeting 37 Greek letter 38 British custom 39 Wooden box 40 Current conductors 41 Zigzag skiing 43 Guard 44 Enraged 45 Gate fastener 46 Many times 49 Pantyhose woes 51 Curtain holder 54 Crime 56 Take a __; see the sights 57 Computer geek 58 Small weight 59 Haywire 60 Beholds 61 Miles per hour 62 Curvy mountain road

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