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Strides made on alleged murder video By Ted Remsnyder Columbia-Greene Media
CATSKILL — Police have made headway in the last few months to unlock encrypted video footage that could reveal additional evidence in the stabbing death of Scott Myers, of Catskill, two days after Thanksgiving, county officials said. Greene County prosecutors continue to wait as New York State Police investigators work to crack the codes of the unreleased video as the case of Carrie Weiser, 32, of Catskill, is slated to continue in Greene County Court on March 21. A new conference with the prosecution and the defense is
scheduled before Judge Terry Wilhelm. Weiser pleaded not guilty at her Dec. 17 arraignment to a felony second-degree murder charge in the alleged stabbing death of Myers, 68, the evening of Nov. 27, in his apartment at 39 West Bridge St. She was also charged with a misdemeanor count of criminal possession of a weapon. Myers had security video cameras installed in his apartment at the time of his death. State police investigators have worked since December to decipher the encrypted footage.
“They are making progress on it, but it hasn’t come in yet,” Greene County District Attorney Joseph Stanzione said Tuesday. “Recently, they’ve been making progress. Carrie Weiser They’ve cracked a couple more codes to get us a little bit closer.” The case’s last discovery conference, conducted virtually and closed to the public, was held Jan. 10. During that session, the prosecution and defense provided updates on the
case’s evidentiary discovery process. That process will continue March 21 as the case proceeds, Stanzione said. “It’s just for the judge to understand exactly where we are in terms of discovery that has been provided to the defense and the defense acknowledging that they received it,” Stanzione said of the upcoming conference. “It gives the defense the opportunity to determine if they’re going to be requesting hearings based on the discovery they received.” A time frame for a potential trial for Weiser could emerge from next month’s conference, the district
attorney said. “The judge will usually put together, as a general rule, a timetable for motions for hearings and then a trial,” he said. Weiser and Myers dined together at the Catskill restaurant Subversive the night of Myers’ death. Authorities have said the pair left the restaurant and immediately walked down the street to Myers’ West Bridge Street home, where Weiser allegedly stabbed him in the left side of his neck, severing his carotid artery. Police believe Myers then bled to See VIDEO A2
Significant snowfall expected Friday By Bill Williams Columbia-Greene Media
Greene and Columbia counties are bracing for what might be the biggest snowfall of the winter season. The National Weather Service in Albany has posted a Winter Storm Watch for all of eastern New York and western New England from 10 p.m. Thursday
through 10 Friday. Travel could be extremely difficult Friday with hazardous conditions during the morning and evening commute, according to the National Weather Service. Some parts of the area could receive more than a foot of snow, local meteorologist Allan See SNOWFALL A2
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Snow plows will be working around the clock to keep area roads clear on Friday, when the latest winter storm moves into the area.
The latest winter storm moves into the area early Friday morning, and could deliver the largest accumulations of the season.
NYC man rescued feet from Falls’ edge By Bill Williams Columbia-Greene Media
HUNTER — A hiker from downstate was rescued mere feet from the edge of an icy Kaaterskill Falls over the weekend, Department of Environmental Conservation spokesman Jeff Wernick said Wednesday. Authorities would not release the name of the 56-year-old man, from New York City, who was about 7 feet from the edge of the falls when he was saved. Forest Ranger Katherine Fox was requested to respond to the report of a person stuck on the ice at Kaaterskill Falls at about 12:10 p.m. Sunday, Wernick said. Environmental Conservation Police Officer Lt. Anthony Glorioso and Encon officer Lucas Palmateer also responded to the area to assist with the rescue. Palmateer located the hiker, then anchored his throw bag to a tree and threw a rope to the man to prevent him from sliding over the edge of the falls,
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Ranger Fox helps with a rescue at Kaaterskill Falls on Sunday.
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Fox then helped the man work his way back away from the edge to safety, Wernick said. The man was provided traction devices so he could safely walk in the icy conditions. Fox, Glorioso, Palmateer and the Greene County Sheriff’s deputies helped the subject walk back to his vehicle at the trailhead. Crews were back on duty at 2 p.m. Last year, DEC Forest Rangers conducted 426 search and rescue missions, extinguished wildfires, participated in prescribed fires that served to rejuvenate hundreds of acres of land, and worked on cases that resulted in thousands of tickets or arrests, Wernick said. Rangers respond to search and rescue incidents statewide. Working with other state agencies, local emergency response organizations and volunteer search and rescue groups, forest rangers locate and extract lost, injured or distressed people from across the state, Wernick said.
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WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump continued his criticism of President Joe Biden on Wednesday, saying in a statement that Russian President Vladimir Putin is “playing” him “like a drum.” “It is not a pretty thing to watch!” Trump said. His comments come a day after the former commander in chief went well beyond most Republicans by not just criticizing Biden’s handling of Russia’s aggression toward and invasion of Ukraine, but also lionizing Putin. In a separate statement Tuesday, following Biden’s announcement of the first tranche of sanctions, Trump claimed such events would never have occurred during his presidency. And in an interview published Tuesday with “The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show,” Trump called Putin’s recognition Monday of two enclaves in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine as independent breakaway republics “genius,” adding that Putin is “very savvy.” Trump’s former secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, tweeted Wednesday that “allowing these thugs, autocrats, and dictators to move around freely is not in America’s best interest.” But on Tuesday, Pompeo’s past praise for Putin was widely circulated. Over the past month, Pompeo has called Putin “talented,” “savvy,” “shrewd” and a “talented
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Former President Donald Trump speaks during the “Save America” rally at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds on Saturday, Jan. 29, 2022 in Conroe, Texas. Trump’s visit was his first Texas MAGA rally since 2019.
statesman” for whom he has “enormous respect.” Republicans parroting Trump’s comments about Putin are “cowards” repeating “the nonsense that is fed to Trump by his handlers,” former Trump White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci tweeted Wednesday. “Trump down deep laughs at all this,” he said. “He can’t believe he has this level of sway.” The recent rhetoric from Trump and his once-top diplomat go far beyond what most congressional Republicans have said. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., warned that the humanitarian consequences of a larger Russian invasion “could be catastrophic.”
Noting that the world is watching, McConnell challenged Biden to use his executive authority to impose “devastating sanctions against the Kremlin and its enablers.” A joint statement from House Republican leaders called Putin’s invasion “reprehensible” and slammed Biden for routinely choosing “appeasement” and “tough talk” without strong action to follow. “The U.S. and our allies must now make the Putin regime pay for this aggression,” they said. “Congress should compel President Biden to take the tough steps his administration has opposed thus far.” In a Fox News interview, Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., referred to Biden’s first round of sanctions as “quarter measures.” “Unfortunately, the
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Porreca said Wednesday. The higher elevations, the mountaintop in Greene County and Eastern Columbia County, would be the areas that are expected to receive that much snow, Porreca said. The precipitation may change over to a period of sleet in the Hudson Valley, which would cut down on the snow accumulation. Valley locations are expected to receive between 6 and 10 inches, However, if the period of sleet lasts for several hours, storm totals would be around 6 to 7 inches in valley areas, Porreca said. A low pressure system will be coming in from the Ohio Valley and weakening in western Pennsylvania and New York. As the first low weakens, a secondary low is expected to form off the New Jersey coast and move north, which is where the precipitation will come from, Porreca said. Snow could begin as early as 1 a.m. Friday in Columbia and Greene counties. It’s expected to snow heavily during the overnight period, Porreca said. Residents in Columbia and Greene Counties could see between 3 and 5 inches of snow when they wake up Friday morning, Porreca said. The storm will impact the area until 1 p.m. Friday, before it begins to taper off, Porreca said. What is not certain in the forecast is how long the warmer air, and the changeover to sleet, will last. That will make a difference in the snowfall
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administration spent the first 24 hours debating whether to even call this invasion an invasion, and the president took 80 minutes to come out for his own press conference, which doesn’t exactly project confidence and certainty and resolution to people watching in Moscow,” Cotton said. The House Republican Conference went even further in criticizing Biden’s appearance, posting a C-SPAN screen grab of Biden walking away from the lectern after delivering his remarks Tuesday. “This is what weakness on the world stage looks like,” the post said. For one Republican, it was an unfair slam against a president in the middle of an international crisis. “As still ‘technically’ a member of house Republicans, let me, with all my might, condemn this damn awful tweet during this crisis,” retiring Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., wrote. “You can criticize policy, but this is insane and feeds into Putins narrative.” Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., who was voted out of GOP leadership for opposing Trump and whose primary opponent is backed by Trump and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-cALIF., said Trump’s “adulation” of Putin “aids our enemies.” “Trump’s interests don’t seem to align with the interests of the United States of America,” she said making sure their plow trucks will be ready when the storm moves into the area. The Columbia County Highway Department is ready with 26 plows that will plow, sand and salt county roads during the duration of the storm, Director of Highways Anthony F. DeMarco Jr., of the Columbia County Department of Public Works, said Wednesday. Crews will be working straight through until the storm is over, DeMarco said. All of the county sand and salt sheds are fully stocked and ready for use, Demarco said. New York State Department of Transportation has 16 trucks that will be working around the clock, clearing state roads in Greene County. All available manpower will be in service to cover Greene County. All three utilities that serve the Greene and Columbia counties, Central Hudson Gas & Electric, National Grid and New York State Electric and Gas, said they are prepared for the storm and will have crews ready to respond if they are needed. The Register-Star/The Daily Mail are published Tuesday through Saturday mornings by Columbia-Greene Media (USPS253620), 364 Warren St., Unit 1, Hudson, N.Y. 12534, a subsidiary of Johnson Newspaper Corp. Periodicals postage paid at Hudson, N.Y., and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Register-Star, 364 Warren St., Unit 1, Hudson, N.Y. 12534.
Hundreds of snow plows will be put into service on Friday, when the latest winter storm moves into the area.
accumulations, Porreca said. If the forecast holds up, this will be the biggest snowfall of the winter season so far, Porreca said. “Biggest in terms of accumulation, bur not the biggest
on impacting the area,” Porreca said. “The ice storm that hit Greene and Columbia counties on Feb. 3 and 4 had a much larger impact.” Area highway departments are preparing for the storm,
approximately 12:15 a.m. on Nov. 27 to report Myers’ stabbing to emergency personnel. Police found her at the scene when they arrived at Myers’s apartment. Weiser was denied bail and
ordered held in the Ulster County Jail in Kingston after pleading not guilty in December. Her felony murder charge carries a maximum sentence of life in prison.
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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 workshop
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 Preserva-
tion Committee 6 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie 518-731-2718
Wednesday, March 9 n Athens Village Board 6:30 p.m. Ath-
ens Fire Department, 39 Third St., Athens Consult the village website for updates the day of the meeting n Catskill Village Board of Trustees 6:30 p.m. Robert C. Antonelli Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill 518-9433830 n Jewett Town Board 7 p.m. Jewett Municipal Building, 3547 County Route 23C, Jewett
Thursday, March 10 n Coxsackie Village Workshop 6 p.m.
Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie 518-731-2718
Monday, March 14 n Ashland Town Board 7:30 p.m.
Town Hall, 12094 Route 23, Ashland n Catskill Village Planning Board 7 p.m. Robert C. Antonelli Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill 518-943-3830
Tuesday, March 15 n Athens Village Planning Board 6:30
p.m. Village Hall, Meeting Room, 2 First St., Athens 518-945-1551 n Coxsackie Village Election Day 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie 518-731-2718 n Durham Town Board 7:30 p.m. Town Hall, 7309 Route 81, East Durham n Hunter Town Board 7 p.m. Town Hall, 5748 Route 23A, Tannersville
Wednesday, March 16 n Catskill Central School District
Board of Education regular business 6:30 p.m. CHS Library, CHS Library, 341 West 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
Thursday, March 17 n Coxsackie Planning Board 6 p.m.
Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie 518-731-2718
Monday, March 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
Greene records 2 more COVID deaths as cases slow By Ted Remsnyder Columbia-Greene Media
CATSKILL — Greene County recorded two more deaths tied to COVID-19 over the holiday weekend at the same time as virus case numbers in the county have plateaued at levels not seen since August. The county has now recorded 118 deaths related to COVID illnesses since the start of the pandemic in March 2020. The latest victim was an unidentified woman in her 90s who was vaccinated against COVID at the time of her death but had underlying health issues. Greene County Administrator Shaun Groden said the county’s COVID fatality numbers may be inflated by elderly residents who had pre-existing conditions before they contracted COVID. “I’ve often questioned the death issue when it’s a senior,” Groden said. “The majority of the deaths that we have are seniors. I’ve often thought, ‘Did they die because of COVID or did they die with COVID?’ When you’re 80-plus and you have issues, sometimes I discount the severity of the virus when it affects somebody such as an elder like that with underlying issues. Not to diminish the tragedy, but would the person have passed anyway?” According to the Greene County Public Health Department, the county has 37 active COVID cases.
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Greene County recorded two more COVID-related deaths over the President’s Day weekend, bringing the county’s total to 118 fatalities since the pandemic began.
The county has fallen under 50 active cases for six consecutive days, marking the first time that Greene has reached that level since 51 cases were identified as of Aug. 19, 2021. Active cases reached a winter high in Greene County on Jan. 11, when 1,375 cases were identified. The department has identified 56 new cases since Feb. 19, bringing the total number of COVID cases in the county to 9,849 since the pandemic commenced nearly two years ago.
As of Feb. 16, the percentage of COVID tests in the county that returned positive results stood at 2.5%, with a seven-day rolling positive rate of 4.3%. The numbers represent a dramatic decline in positivity rates as the county was recording 17.2% positive rates as of Jan. 31. After falling to four county residents hospitalized as of the health agency’s previous virus update on Feb. 18, there are 12 individuals hospitalized due to COVID-related illnesses.
“Anytime that goes up that’s going in the wrong direction,” Groden said on Wednesday. “But I don’t know who is hospitalized. Are they all elders? I don’t see any notation of a seven-year old or a 12-year old on the hospitalizations. I think that is the big focus there and it gets back to the school mask mandate that we so desperately want to end this week. If the hospitalizations are connected to seniors with comorbidities, that’s a different topic then.” On Feb. 16, the Greene County Legislature sent a letter to Gov. Kathy Hochul requesting she drop the school mask mandate in time for local students to return from winter break Feb. 28. Hochul is set to review the mask mandate in the first week of March. “The mask mandate, which began during your predecessor’s reign, has gone on for far too long and has interfered and severely affected the lives of our youngest and most innocent residents, our children,” according to the letter. “We firmly believe that mask-wearing for this length of time can cause physical, psychological and developmental harm which may outweigh any remaining benefits to mask wearing.” Groden said on Wednesday that he had not yet received feedback from any elected representatives regarding the county’s letter asking Hochul to end the school mask mandate.
Leeds family homeless after mobile home fire By Bill Williams Columbia-Greene Media
LEEDS — A family is homeless after a fire broke out in their mobile home Tuesday night, Leeds Fire Company Third Assistant Chief Mike O’Brien said Wednesday. The fire was discovered when firefighters arrived at the home for a different reason, O’Brien said. At about 8:56 p.m., Greene County 911 sent Leeds Fire Company to 17 Christy Ave., in Forest Hills Estates, after the homeowner reported that they could smell fuel oil inside the residence. When the first firefighters arrived, they noticed there was a glow underneath the mobile home. When they pulled away the skirting, they discovered the fire, O’Brien said. Fire officials immediately requested mutual-aid assistance from West Athens Fire Company. Cairo Fire Department was placed on stand-by, but were not needed. Crews went to work fighting the fire underneath the home, pulling apart some of the structure to get to the areas that were burning. All available manpower was requested to the scene. Fire trucks lined the narrow road of the mobile home park. All the residents of the home were able to get out safely. There were no reported injuries. Central Hudson Gas and Electric was requested to the scene to disconnect power to the home. The town code enforcement officer also responded at
the request of fire officials. The fire was declared out about 9:15 p.m. Firefighters then began checking the remainder of the home to make sure the flames had not spread. The home sustained smoke damage throughout, O’Brien said. The cause of the fire was deemed electrical, which began in heat tape, underneath the mobile home, O’Brien said. The residents will be staying with friends and family until repairs can be made, O’Brien
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Firefighters on the scene of a mobile home fire in Leeds on Tuesday night.
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A mobile home in Leeds was damaged by fire on Tuesday night.
said. Firefighters were not able to locate the source of the fuel odor that originally brought them to the residence, O’Brien said Assisting at the scene were: Catskill Ambulance, state police and the Greene County Fire Coordinator’s Office. All firefighters were back in service at 9:30 p.m.
There were no reported injuries at a mobile home in Leeds, that was damaged by fire on Tuesday night.
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The utility crisis is a cold, hard fact Bone-chilling cold gripped Columbia and Greene counties for weeks and there is more to come. It is also one of the costliest winters on record. Just ask the millions of New Yorkers who have fallen delinquent on their energy bills. We haven’t even mentioned the water, telephone and internet bills that have mounted up since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic. Did we note that raging inflation is driving the price of energy higher still? So on top of all our other problems, we are in the throes of a utility crisis. Advocacy groups say the crisis will continue to get worse before it gets better. At least $1.7 billion is owed in unpaid energy and utility bills, as well as hundreds of millions of dollars more in telephone, water and internet bills.
Between February 2020 and December 2021 energy utility consumers’ debt increased by more than $960 million. Last October, the U.S. government said it expected households to see their heating bills jump as much as 54% compared to last winter — making it harder for those already behind on their bills to catch up. The government released a separate report showing that prices were 5.4% higher for U.S. consumers in September 2021 than September 2020. That matches the hottest inflation rate since 2008, as a reawakening economy and snarled supply chains push up prices for everything from cars to groceries. The American Association of Retired Persons and the Public Utility Law Project are urging Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and Assembly
Speaker Carl Heastie to include a resolution in the state budget to address the billions owed by New Yorkers in unpaid energy, water, telephone and highspeed internet bills. The groups are asking for $1.25 billion of the federal American Rescue Plan funds be allocated in the 2022-2023 state budget. They’re also asking for an authorization of $200 million for a dollar-fordollar state sales tax to be available for forgiveness for non-energy utilities for low- or fixed-income households. Short of turning off the electricity, shutting off the gas, lowering the heat in your home to the point of no return and disconnecting the phone and the internet, their answer may be the most viable solution anyone can offer in this winter of our discontent.
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Conservative media joined a certain former president last week whipping up the political right over what they claimed was a smoking gun: proof from an ongoing investigation by special counsel John Durham that Hillary Clinton and other Democrats “spied” on Donald Trump while he was president. Trump called it worse than Watergate! He suggested someone should be executed. Small problem: The filings by Durham that sparked it all don’t say what Fox News and others claim they do — which Durham himself has now clarified. Since our colleagues on the right are unlikely to correct the record for their readers and viewers, we will. Durham is the former assistant U.S. attorney who then-Attorney General William Barr appointed as special prosecutor in 2019 in accordance with Trump’s vindictive order that his administration “investigate the investigators” — that is, probe the origins of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Trump’s ties to Russia. Contrary to MAGA mythology, the Russia in-
vestigation was clearly justified by Trump’s repeated and bizarre acquiescence toward a dangerous U.S. adversary. Though Mueller’s probe didn’t prove collusion, it revealed Trump’s corrupt attempts to thwart the investigation itself. Vengefully unleashing Durham on those involved in the Mueller probe was Trump at his Trumpiest. Durham, still at it three years later, recently filed documents that Fox News and others interpreted as containing explosive allegations: that the Clinton campaign paid a company to spy on the Trump Organization, and that the spying included mining internet data from the White House while Trump was in office. But in fact, Durham hasn’t said that. He hasn’t alleged Clinton’s campaign paid anyone to spy on Trump, and he didn’t allege there was a crime committed related to internet data-mining. The implication is that, if anyone did carry out such mining, it was legal. Most crucially, though, Fox and the rest claimed Durham’s filing alleged that mining of White House data happened
while Trump was president. This is the crux of the whole right-wing “spying” trope. But in fact, Durham’s filings don’t say when it happened. Subsequent information, as reported in The New York Times on Thursday, indicates it actually happened in 2016. Meaning the real victim of this supposedly execution-worthy crime (which, again, even the prosecutor isn’t calling a crime) wasn’t Trump at all — but Barack Obama. Will Fox News still be outraged? At this point, readers can be forgiven for confusion about what, if anything, this all means. That has yet to be determined. But what it doesn’t mean was made clear in still another filing late last week by Durham — Trump’s designated attack dog, remember — who told the court that some in the media may have “overstated” or “misinterpreted facts” of his case. Not all the media, of course. Just those outlets that, even now, can’t stop carrying Trump’s water. ©2022 STLtoday.com. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
Putin, in his feral cunning, is Bismarckian, with a dash of Lord Nelson WASHINGTON — The “surly drums of war” — a phrase from Winston Churchill, who knew the soundtrack of European history — again reverberate on a continent that thought it had heard the last of them. It has not even heard the last of Otto von Bismarck. Vladimir Putin is emulating Bismarck, who used three quickly decisive wars — against Denmark in 1864, Austria in 1866 and France in 1870 — to create a unified modern Germany from what had been a loose confederation of states. Denmark lost a third of its territory and 40% of its population. Prussia’s seven-week war against Austria established the Hohenzollern dynasty, which Bismarck served, as dominant within the confederation. The Franco-Prussian War sealed Germany’s unity. By acquiring land, some German-speaking populations and an aura of national vitality, Bismarck’s wars of national creation stoked cohesion. Putin believes, or wants the world to believe that he believes, that his war against Ukraine, now entering its ninth year, is an act of re-creation, bringing Ukrainians home to the community from which they were sundered when the Soviet Union expired. If Putin succeeds in reducing Ukraine to satellite status, and in inducing NATO to restrict its membership and operations to parameters he negotiates, he might, like Bismarck, consider other wars — actual, hybrid, cyber. The Baltic nations — Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, all NATO nations — should worry. Today’s crisis echoes 1938, when Hitler stirred the restiveness of separatists: ethnic Germans in Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland. Therefore, today’s crisis also echoes 1918, when President Woodrow Wilson embraced “self-determination” as a universal right and “an imperative principle of action.” His secretary of state Robert Lansing wondered,
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WILL “What unit has he in mind? Does he mean a race, territorial area, or a community?” Wilson mistakenly assumed that “nations” and “peoples” are synonyms, or that they designate coterminous entities. In Putin’s plan to dismember Ukraine by embracing self-determination for ethnic Russian separatists, he, like Hitler in 1938, is exploiting careless rhetoric that ignores the fact that ethnicities do not tidily coincide with national boundaries. Lansing, who called Wilson “a phrase-maker par excellence,” warned that “certain phrases” of Wilson’s “have not been thought out.” The “undigested” phrase “self-determination” is “simply loaded with dynamite.” Nevertheless, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Churchill in their Atlantic Charter of August 1941 affirmed the right of self-determination for all “peoples,” which the United Nations Charter also affirms. In 2015, the year after Putin sliced Crimea off Ukraine, his foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, said Russia’s annexation was merely a response to the people of Crimea “invoking the right of self-determination.” This phrase can be used to sanitize the dismemberment of Ukraine — and some other nations (see above: the Baltics). And perhaps can reduce nations supposedly supporting Ukraine to paralytic dithering about whether sanctions, or which sanctions, are an appropriate response to an aggression wielding a Wilsonian concept. It must delight Putin to
employ an American saint’s piety in an act of anti-American realpolitik. Much of Putin’s geopolitics consists of doing whatever opposes U.S. policy. Call this the Nelson Rule. Before the Battle of Trafalgar, Lord Nelson, meeting with some of his officers, reportedly picked up a fire poker and said, “It matters not at all in what way I lay this poker on the floor. But if Bonaparte should say it must be placed in this direction, we must instantly insist upon its being laid in some other one.” Regarding the United States, Putin is Nelsonian. In 2013, President Barack Obama grandly declared that Syrian President Bashar alAssad “must go.” Putin decided that Assad must stay. Nine years later, Assad is still there, partly because of Putin. Practice supposedly makes perfect, but not yet for Putin’s regime. It has had abundant experience with lying, but this has not made it an even competent liar. When leaders of the proRussian separatist movement in eastern Ukraine released videos claiming attacks on ethnic Russians, it was quickly established that the videos were recorded two days before the separatists said the attacks occurred. But raw power lubricated by audacious lying is Bismarckian. In July 1870, the French ambassador to Prussia asked King William of Prussia for certain assurances, which the king declined to give. Bismarck edited a telegram describing this conversation to make the episode resemble an exchange of insults. Passions boiled in both countries, and France declared war, which Bismarck wanted because he correctly thought war would complete the welding of the German states into a muscular nation. Bismarck was clever. Putin, with his feral cunning, might be a clever imitator. George Will’s email address is georgewill@washpost.com.
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Deepest sympathy to Lorraine Banks and sons, Jeanette Becker, family and friends on the passing of Emil Banks last week. The Tannersville Food Pantry is located at the Tannersville Village Hall and is open 1-3 p.m. Wednesdays and 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Saturdays. Call 518-589-6787 if you have questions or email kaaterskillumc@gmail.com. Happy birthday to Laurie Brezniceanu on Feb. 24. Also celebrating a birthday on Feb. 24 is Ken Aurigema. Feb. 25 is the 56th wedding anniversary of Bette and John Knapp. Happy birthday to Susan Constable on Feb. 26. Rosalie Randolph celebrates her birthday Feb. 26. Feb. 28 is Sherry VanCoughnett’s birthday. Best wishes to all. Come over to the Hensonville Fire House, 432 State Route 296, on Ash Wednesday, March 2 from noon-8 p.m. and every 4-8 p.m. Friday during Lent, March 4, 11, 18, 25 and April 1, 8, 15 (Good Friday) for delicious dinners. Here are your choices: Fish or chicken tenders or clams with French fries or baked potato, coleslaw, dinner roll, dessert of brownie or cookie while supplies last. $10 per dinner, take out only. Call 518-734-3040 to order. Orders will be picked up in the truck bay so there will be space to social distance. The Ashland Fire Department, State Route 23, Ashland, is holding a Chicken BBQ starting at 11:30 a.m. March 19 take out only. First come, first served, no reservations. Chicken halves are $8. Chicken is coming off the grill by 11:30 a.m. All proceeds from this event will be donated to the family of Deputy Kevin Haverly, Greene County Sheriff’s Department, E.O.W., Feb. 28, 2017. The Columbia-Greene
Humane Society lobby is open again. Services including adoptions, surrenders and other services, call 518-8286044 ext. 106 or email Katie@ CGHS.org. For all other services including dog boarding, daycare and grooming, call 518-828-6044 ext. 100 or email Jessica@CGHS.org. The Food Bank is open daily from 11:30 a.m.–4 p.m. The Greene County Children, Youth and Community Advisory Board is again sponsoring the annual Greene County Youth Awards–Youth of the Year, Chairman’s Choice and Director’s Choice. The purpose of the awards is to recognize Greene County youth who have made outstanding contributions in serving his/her community through leadership, knowledge, skill and/or service. The dedication of these young people help make Greene County a better place for us all. If you know of a young person in grade 9–12 who deserves this recognition, you can find a nomination form available on the web site: https://www.greenegovernment.com/departments/ human-services/youth or you can contact the Greene County Department of Human Services at 518-719-3555. From the nominations received, the youth will be evaluated by the selection committee to determine this year’s winner. Any inquiries for further information may also be directed to the department. Deadline for entries is March 31. The last Friday and Saturday of every month there is a book sale at the Hunter Public Library. Fill a paper bag with books for $5. Friday library hours are 10 a.m.-4 p.m. and Saturdays 10 a.m.-2 p.m. The following is the nutrition menu offered by Greene County Department of Human Services Senior Nutrition Program for the week of Feb.
28 – March 4: Monday—Baked Manicotti, sausage, green beans, Italian mixed vegetables, pears; Tuesday—Chicken Dijon, mashed potatoes, broccoli, peaches; Wednesday—Ash Wednesday—salmon with dill sauce, scalloped potatoes, cauliflower, peanut butter cookies; Thursday— Macaroni and cheese, stewed tomatoes, three-bean salad, fresh fruit; Friday—Seafood Scampi, linguini, spinach, tomatoes/zucchini, fresh fruit. The menu will be the meal that is delivered to all Greene County homebound meal clients. All persons over the age of 60 can receive a meal. 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: Jewett Municipal Building, Route 23C, Jewett, 263-4392; Acra Community Center, Old Route 23B, Cairo, 622-9898; Rivertown Senior Center, 39 Second Street, Athens, 945-2700. 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. Come and enjoy a Coffee Klatch at the Hunter Public Library, 7965 Main St., Hunter, from 10 a.m.-noon March 8 with light refreshments, coffee and tea. The Coffee Klatch is held the second Tuesday of each month. Spring will be here March 20 according to the calendar. Prayers for all who are dealing with illnesses and prayers for all the healthcare providers, law enforcement, firefighters, EMS, essential and frontline workers, our military and their families and so many more. Until next week take care, be thankful, courteous and kind to one another. Your act of kindness may change someone’s life.
Rain gardens and biodiversity with Mountain Top Arboretum TANNERSVILLE — The Mountain Top Arboretum presents the webinar Rain Gardens and Biodiversity 10-11:30 a.m. March 12. One way to increase your biodiversity and help with downstream flooding is to install a rain garden, a concave area planted heavily with native plants, that collects and cleans the rainwater from your downspouts before returning it to the ground. In a natural environment, rainwater gets absorbed into the ground where plants and microbes filter the water. A rain garden is designed to mimic this process by slowing the flow and absorbing rainwater before it is dumped into nearby waterways. Carolle Huber will discuss site assessment, soil analysis, design guidelines, construction and plant selection. By planting a rain garden you will be increasing the biodiversity of your neighborhood. And in today’s world of decreasing insect and bird populations, that is critical. As a landscape architect in New Jersey, Huber has been designing landscapes for 25 years, working on large developments, subdivisions, wetlands restoration, green
PRATTSVILLE — Thank you to our doctors, nurses, EMTs and all our healthcare and essential workers who continue to watch over us and fulfill our needs. Although cases of COVID are decreasing, many are still being hospitalized with serious side effects. Please be careful. Stay well. Nancy and Louie Kizyma spent some very busy days last weekend, Feb. 12–14. First they enjoyed dinner at Brio’s with Bobby and Carrie Hermance. Returning home, the two couples enjoyed a rousing game of UNO. Carrie is in tip top condition with exercise and wise eating. She has always been too busy to be otherwise. Nancy’s sister Bonnie spent some time in Arizona to be near her daughter in Scottsdale. Then the Kizymas enjoyed a friend’s birthday with a special dinner dining out. American Legion Auxiliary Virgil E. Deyo Unit 1327 members, Prattsville, and American Legion Auxiliary Susquehanna Unit 1747 members, Conesville, joined forces on Friday, the 18th for a luncheon at the Prattsville Tavern. Eight members from Unit 1327, Mary Cline, Pat Minew, Marianne Krauss, Cathy Martino, Nancy Orr, Nancy Kizyma, Lana Breigle
roofs, and residential design. As an environmentalist, it is important to her that our landscapes are environmentally sustainable, and will cause no harm to future generations. She holds degrees in both Environmental Science and Landscape Architecture. Carolle has been published in many magazines, and won numerous professional awards. She recently started a new business with her daughter Ruby; Aster Plans. This is
an online landscape design service for people with small yards who want their homes to be more sustainable. www.AsterPlans.com. Huber spends her spare time hiking and cooking in the Catskills with her family, keeping bees and creating outdoor art. She can be reached at Carolle@AsterPlans.com. The webinar is free, register at www.mtarboretum. org. For information, email info@mtarboretum.org or call 518-589-3903.
can mail it to him. Sandy and Larry wanted to donate used puzzles to the VA but they are not accepting any puzzles — no room for continual work. From the Hills: “Hope everyone is feeling great.” Belated birthday wishes to their two sons Michael on Feb. 6 and Matt on Feb. 24. As readers of The Scoop, they can pass our birthday wishes on to the boys. Best wishes to all the Hills. Hey, the Red Wing Blackbirds are back and they were only two days late. Should have been here on Valentine’s Day but showed up Feb. 16. And the Goldfinch have started turning to their summer yellow, right now they seem to be an olive color. Mary and Ron Cline got to spend some delayed Christmas Holiday cheer with their sons and families and at the same time, Feb. 12, celebrated Mary’s 21st birthday. Giving you the benefit Mary. Good to hear both Ronnie and Mary are in good health. Happy Birthday to Rob Gurley and Chris Brody on Feb. 28. Happy Birthday to Brianna Grant on March 2. On March 3 we wish Pat Chatfield a Happy Birthday. Happy Birthday to Nicholas Dibble, Aurigema grandson, on March 4. Send news to gurleyrv@gmail. com or call 518-299-3219.
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FEB. 24 CAIRO — The Youth Clubhouses of Columbia and Greene Counties announce a free, public naloxone/Narcan® training at 6 p.m. Feb. 24 at the Cairo Public Library, 15 Railroad Ave., Cairo. For information, call 518-7518161 or email clubhouse@ mhacg.org. COVID protocols will be in place, masks and social distancing required. Attendees will receive a free, take home Narcan® kit.
FEB. 28 CATSKILL — The quarterly meeting of the GCVFALA will be held at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 28 at the Kiskatom Fire House, 4838 Route 32, Catskill. The doors will be opening at 6:45 p.m. and they will start serving refreshments at 7 p.m. so we can enjoy some hot soup and bread prior to the meeting. Due to the limited parking, they do ask that whenever possible that you carpool with others from your area.
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and Ginny Gurley, and six members from Unit 1747 Gerri Barry, Laurie Gustin, Patty Gustin, Connie Ruehle, Betsy Orlando-Cowden and Linda Kessler enjoyed a few hours of laughter, conversation and good food. Patty Gustin was the winner of an afghan made and donated by Marianne Krauss. This was a surprise to everyone and was very welcome. Thank you to the Prattsville Tavern/Coxes and their wait staff for taking this large group all in stride and showing them every consideration. We will be back. Arnold and Diana Jaeger were the helpful parents helping daughter Darcy Jaeger-Brand in her position as first grade teacher at GilboaConesville CS. On Friday their mission was to deliver lunch to the 1st grade class. Darcy treated them to “Chinese” as they’ve been learning about the Olympics. This is just one example of how our teachers go the extra mile for their students, with the help of family and friends. Thank you to our teachers and their family and friends for making learning an enjoyable part of life. Heard from Sandy and Larry Hill in Missouri. Sandy is in awe of Larry for putting puzzles together upside down. That boy needs to come here and put together our picture free puzzle. Going to give up and maybe we
HENSONVILLE — Hensonville Fire House, 432 State Route 296, Hensonville, will host Lenten Fish Fries beginning noon-8 p.m. on Ash Wednesday, March 2 and 4-8 p.m. Fridays during Lent, March 4 through April 15 (Good Friday). Choices include fish or chicken tenders or clams with French fries or baked potato, coleslaw, dinner roll, dessert of brownie or cookie while supplies last. $10 per dinner, take out only. Call 518-734-3040 to order. Orders will be picked up in the truck bay so there will be space to social distance.
MARCH 4 CAIRO — The Cairo-Durham Drama Club presents the 2022 musical production, “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.” Opening night is scheduled for 7 p.m. March 4 with two shows at 2 and 7 p.m. March 5 and a matinee at 2 p.m. March 6. Performances will be in the Cairo-Durham Middle/High School auditorium. General tickets are $10 and student/senior citizen tickets are $8. Advance tickets are available for purchase in
the CDHS lobby between 5-6 p.m. on March 1 and March 2. Checks should be made out to “CD Drama Club.” Tickets will also be available for purchase at the door on the night of performances. At this time, masks are still required to be worn in school buildings. CATSKILL — The Catskill Elks Lodge, 45 Jefferson Heights, Catskill, will host Lenten Fish Fry Fridays 5-7 p.m. Fridays March 4 through April 15, pick up only. Dinners are fried haddock or shrimp for $17. Dinners include macaroni and cheese or fries, cole slaw, sauces and lemon. The cost is $17. Must reserve in advance by calling 518-945-1179.
MARCH 5 CATSKILL — The Catskill 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.
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/
MARCH 13 CATSKILL — The Catskill Elks Lodge, 45 Jefferson Heights, Catskill, will serve a choice of Corned Beef Dinner or Sandwich, pick up only, 3-6 p.m. March 13 at the
lodge. Menu includes corned beef, cabbage, potatoes and Irish soda bread dinner for $16 or a corned beef on rye sandwich with chips and pickle for $8. Must call by March 9 to reserve, 518-9451179.
MARCH 17 COXSACKIE — The First Reformed Church, 285 Mansion St., Coxsackie, will be serving corned beef and cabbage dinners with dessert 4:30-6 p.m. March 17, take out only, until sold out. Tickets are $15. Advance ticket purchase preferred. Call 518731-7503 to order tickets. www.firstreformecoxsackie. com.
MARCH 18 GREENVILLE — The Clematis Garden Club will meet at 12:30 p.m. March 18 at the American Legion Post 291, 54 Maple Ave., Greenville. Snow date is March 25. Clematis Garden Club President, Terry Buel, will lead the members in reviewing and discussing the Club’s 2022 Yearbook/Agenda. Yearbooks will be distributed. Terry will review this year’s Projects, Activities, Committee responsibilities and any changes in meeting times and/or places. Refreshments will be served, followed by a short business meeting. Hostesses: Pat Frik, Terry Buel, Cynthia Willis. Members start to pot materials from their gardens for June 5th plant and white elephant sale.
MARCH 19 ASHLAND — The Ashland Fire Department, State Route 23, Ashland, is holding a chicken barbecue starting at 11:30 a.m. March 19, take out only. First come, first served, no reservations. Chicken halves are $8. Chicken is coming off the grill by 11:30 a.m. All proceeds from this event will be donated to the family of Deputy Kevin Haverly, Greene County Sheriff’s Department, E.O.W., Feb. 28, 2017.
MARCH 20 WEST ATHENS — The West Athens-Lime Street Fire Co. will serve an all you can eat breakfast will be served 8 a.m.-noon March 20 at the West Athens Firehouse 2, 933 Leeds-Athens Road, Athens. A free-will offering will be accepted.
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Larry Patlen August 10. 1927 - February 20, 2022 Larry Patlen of Albany died on Sunday, February 20, 2022, in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Born in Albany on August 10. 1927, Larry was the son of the late Harry and Rose Cohen Patlen. He moved to Chatham at an early age and attended Chatham schools and graduated from Siena College with a BS in Economics in 1949. He was predeceased by his wife of 55 years, Frances Patlen nèe Nelson and daughter Janice Patlen. Loving father of David Patlen and granddaughter, Dayna Smith, who could wrap him around her finger just by using the word awww!. Also loved by her husband, Adam and great grandchildren Theodore (4), Kylian (2), and Lehni (7mos), his niece Eleanor Miller and many cousins and lifelong friends. Larry and his wife operated a woman’s apparel store, Patlen’s Smart Shop in Chatham for 39 years. He enjoyed tennis, tinkering with his MG cars, reading and traveling throughout the United States and Europe with Frances. He also volunteered as a driver with Jewish Family Services after moving from Chatham to Point of Woods in Albany in 2010. The family wishes to thank the staff, nurses, and doctors of Mary Washington Hospital and those who have cared for Larry over the years. Larry would like to specifically thank Dom and Lynn Irto, Toni Urgo, and his good friends and neighbors who cared for him and whose friendships he cherished over the years. Services at the Levine Memorial Chapel 649 Washington Avenue Albany, NY on Sunday, February 27, 2022, at 1:00pm. Interment will follow in the Independent Benevolent Cemetery on Fuller Road in Albany. For directions or to leave a condolence message for the family, please visit levinememorialchapel.com
Fauci voices hope for return to normalcy around February or March Shant Shahrigian New York Daily News
If more Americans get vaccinated and boosted, the U.S. just might return to a semblance of normalcy by February or March, the country’s top infectious disease expert said on Sunday. Hopefully, enough people get vaccinated “to the point that when omicron comes down to a low level, we keep it down at a low level enough that it doesn’t disrupt our society, our economy, our way of life,” Dr. Anthony Fauci said on ABC’s “This Week.” “I hope that as we get into February and March and such, that we will be at that level of control,” he said, adding that he wasn’t making a prediction but voicing his personal hope. The pandemic has reached shocking new levels, spurred by the highly contagious omicron variant of coronavirus. The U.S. is seeing more than 300,000 new
COVID-19 cases per day for the first time since the outbreak began two years ago. Fauci noted that recent evidence shows that the omicron variant, first found in Botswana and South Africa in November, is less severe than were previous versions. “Given the large number of cases, we have not seen a concomitant increase in the relative percentage of hospitalizations,” he said. “Hospitalizations are often late, lagging indicators. But I still believe there is indication ... the virus does seem to have lower intrinsic pathogenicity to it. “We’re hoping that’s the case,” said Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. (C)2022 New York Daily News. Visit at nydailynews.com. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
Neighbors describe police raid to arrest Potsdam murder suspect By ANDY GARDNER agardner@wdt.net
MASSENA — Witnesses at the scene told police they heard three shots fired from a gray four-door sedan on Friday, and they directed responding officers to the victim, who had fled a short distance on foot. Michael J. Snow, 31, is jailed on a second-degree murder charge. He is accused of shooting and killing Elizabeth M. Howell, 21, on Friday evening on College Park Road in Potsdam, near SUNY Potsdam’s Crane School of Music. The charging document only says that Snow “intended to cause the death of Elizabeth M. Howell” and “did cause the death of Elizabeth M. Howell by intentionally shooting her with a firearm.” She was shot and found on the side of College Park Road, a village street just behind the music school. She was found unconscious at 5:51 p.m. and responding officers initiated life-saving measures. She was then taken to Canton-Potsdam Hospital, where she died just before 7 p.m. Friday, officials said. Neighbors of the man charged in the murder of Ms. Howell say a dramatic police raid of the suspect’s residence at 250 Main St., Apt. 1, led to his capture on Saturday night. Snow is being held in the St. Lawrence County Correctional Facility in Canton without bail. Rick S. Gordon, who lives upstairs in the same building as Snow, said around 5:30 or 6 p.m. on Saturday he heard loud banging noises and then someone in the hall yell, “State police, search warrant!” “It sounded like they threw a flashbang. I didn’t dare come downstairs,” Mr. Gordon said. “They had the building surrounded.” Snow’s apartment door is heavily damaged, and appears to have been blown open by some sort of small incendiary device, but it’s not clear exactly how police got the door open. There are two circular holes a couple of inches across, above the doorknob and deadbolt, that appear to have been drilled, and there are visible burn marks in and around each hole. Mr. Gordon said he didn’t really know the alleged killer, but had briefly chatted with Snow last week. “I didn’t really know the guy and he was giving me his life story,” Mr. Gordon said, adding that Snow told him something about completing drug rehabilitation. John M. Babot, who also
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Landlord David P. Seguin inside murder suspect Michael J. Snow’s Massena apartment on Monday morning.
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One of the two boxes of spent nitrous oxide canisters inside the murder suspect’s apartment.
lives upstairs in the 250 Main St. apartment building, said he had hung out with Snow in the past where they smoked marijuana together. “He seemed like a nice guy to me … like a regular dude,” Mr. Babot said. He and Mr. Gordon both said Snow would sometimes ask them for cigarettes. On Monday morning, the building’s landlord, David P. Seguin, was in Snow’s apartment fixing a damaged window and dealing with a huge mess inside. All of Snow’s possessions were strewn about and piled up. Among the debris were two boxes of over 100 spent miniature nitrous oxide canisters, which can be emptied into a balloon and huffed, causing audio hallucinations. There was also an unopened package of the canisters. Mr. Seguin said on the day of the murder, he pulled Snow’s car out of a snowbank twice in five minutes, once around 9:01 a.m. and then around 9:06 a.m. Both times, Snow had gone into a snowbank in the same location, behind the Price Chopper store near Massena Meals on
Wheels. He said when he pulled out Snow’s car, he noticed the damage to the driver’s side door that appears in a video still that the police have released to the public. “He was higher than a kite,” Mr. Seguin said. “He was in a hurry for something.” Another Massena resident, Angela M. Mossow, said she has known Snow since he was a child. She describes him as a “predator” and claims that he has problems with women. She said the murder suspect in the past twice propositioned other women she knows, asking them if he could perform a sex act on them in exchange for money. One of the incidents happened sometime in 2018 and the other in August of 2020, she said. Mrs. Mossow said Snow also worked for her in the Massena Country Club kitchen back in 2017, when she was general manager and he was a dishwasher. “I spent time with him. Just him and me,” Mrs. Mossow said. She said Snow would ask her questions like “Do you
Survivors renew call to amend Child Victims Act By Natasha Vaughn-Holdridge Johnson Newspaper Corp.
ALBANY — Survivors of child sexual abuse and assault raised concerns Wednesday about loopholes in the Child Victims Act and the potential for lawmakers to repeat the same mistakes if they pass the parallel Adult Survivors Act this session. The Adult Survivors Act is modeled after the Child Victims Act signed in 2019 that allowed survivors of childhood sexual abuse to file civil lawsuits against their abusers for incidents that happened before age 18 until the lookback window closed in August. Loopholes in the law have left thousands of survivors continuing to wait for their day in court and many are struggling to retain an attorney, said Gary Greenberg, a survivor of childhood sexual abuse who spearheaded the movement to pass the state’s Child Victims Act in the Legislature. “Not all victims who wanted to file a claim could file a claim,” Greenberg said in a virtual press conference Wednesday. “Many victims — and I’ve heard from hundreds of them personally — went to a lawyer asking for help for them to take their case, and they were asked, ‘Does your case involve an institution, or does your abuser have money?’
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Activist Gary Greenberg and supporters rallying in support of the Child Victims Act in Albany in 2018.
and if they said ‘No’ to both, then automatically, the answer was, ‘Sorry, we cannot help you.’” Greenberg, of New Baltimore in Greene County, founded the Fighting for Children PAC and ProtectNYKids Inc. He previously ran in 2020 for the Senate seat held by Sen. Michelle Hinchey, D-Saugerties. The Adult Survivors Act would allow New Yorkers who suffered sexual abuse after the age of 18 — including people assaulted by medical providers, formerly incarcerated people or models in the fashion industry,
athletes and others — to file civil lawsuits against their abusers for one year, regardless if statutes of limitations on legal claims have expired. About 10,000 cases were filed under the Child Victims Act in civil court before the deadline last August, but thousands of victims who thought they would get justice under the law have not, Greenberg said. “I felt like I was a little bit revictimized each time I had to tell my story and they said no,” said Tracy Fichter, a survivor of childhood sexual abuse without an attorney who was one of
several additional survivors to speak Wednesday. “Mine would have been for a school district, and apparently, they don’t have enough money to take my case,” she said. “It wasn’t worthy of prosecution.” Victims continue to be frustrated after some cases have not progressed in the two-and-ahalf years since their filing. “We have to get the cases that are in court moving, and we have to get justice for all victims,” Greenberg said. “The law was only a start. The Child Victims Act was a start, the state of New York had denied victims for years and so we need to amend it.” The proposed Adult Survivors Act has the same wording as the Child Victims Act, which could open up adult survivors to the same legal issues as survivors of childhood sexual trauma who have struggled to file under the CVA. Greenberg has increased his requests in letters to lawmakers hold a legislative hearing to examine potential loopholes in the Child Victims Act and amend the Adult Survivors Act to improve legal access for survivors before it is passed this session, or signed into law this year. Legislative leaders and sponsors of the bill have not responded to his requests.
“No one is against adult survivors getting justice,” Greenberg said. “We have to make sure that every adult survivor that wants justice gets justice. And we have to go back and amend the CVA (Child Victims Act) to allow victims who could not file a claim file a claim, have lawyers do their claim pro-bono.” Greenberg advocated for the Legislature to pass a proposed bill to create a fund for victims for legal fees, therapy and other assistance, Greenberg said. “The Legislature has to force the courts to get moving,” he said. “I know COVID, and twoand-a-half years, but we have to move these cases. When Kathy Young and I created that fund, we were going to pay people within 90 days.” Jack Cesare, a survivor who has let two attorneys go, encouraged victims to speak out and push for the advancement of their cases. “The reason nothing is happening, not just with my attorney in the beginning, is because attorneys take so many cases, they don’t have the resources or don’t want to spend the resources to do anything,” Cesare said. Attorneys have told Cesare his case is farther along than the majority of the 10,000 cases filed under the law statewide.
know any girls?” “I said, ‘Michael, I don’t know anybody,’” according to Mrs. Mossow. She also said around that time, Snow revealed to her that he had a drug problem. “He told me that he couldn’t work anymore. He couldn’t handle it because he needs to go to rehab because he’s smoking crack. I said, ‘Oh my god, Michael. Get it together and come back,’” Mrs. Mossow said. “I don’t know if he stayed in treatment or not ... I sent a message to check on him. He said he couldn’t work, he wasn’t capable of working.” Snow previously resided at 50 Park Ave. in Massena, a home owned by his late mother, Paula N. Snow. Upon her death in April 2019, Snow was named administrator and beneficiary of her estate through St. Lawrence County Surrogate Court. According to a foreclosure action filed in state Supreme Court in December 2020, the provider of the mortgage for the Park Avenue property claimed it stopped receiving mortgage payments in June 2020, prompting the foreclosure on the property, naming Snow as the lead defendant. Court documents show Snow never participated in the action, with his only apparent contact with the court coming through a phone call to Supreme Court Judge Mary M. Farley’s chambers this past Dec. 3 in which he asked to be removed as administrator of his mother’s estate. He was informed he would have to accomplish this through a further order of Surrogate Court. He also told the court he had moved to 250 Main St. A little over two weeks ago, on Feb. 7, Judge Farley ruled Snow was in default in the action and ordered that a referee be appointed to determine the amount due the mortgage provider and that terms of the pending foreclosure sale be submitted to the court.
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Cabaret Concert and Guest Conductor Competition Event to feature pop-jazz vocalist Mandy Harvey on March 26 at SUNY Oneonta, silent auction at 6 p.m., concert at 7 p.m. ONEONTA — For the first time since 2019, The Catskill Symphony Orchestra (CSO) will present its annual Cabaret Concert and Guest Conductor Competition Fundraiser with headliner Mandy Harvey on Saturday, March 26, at 7 p.m. and a silent auction at 6 p.m. at SUNY Oneonta’s Alumni Field House. “We’re thrilled to have the Cabaret again after three years. It’s an event the community really looks forward to, not just to hear our impressive orchestra perform popular music with a headliner, but because people love the guest conductor competition,” said Sarah Patterson, CSO board chair. “This year’s candidates are Dr. Tracy Allen, a dean at SUNY Oneonta aka ‘The Geologist’; Co-owner of Stagecoach Coffee Matt Grady aka ‘The Connoisseur,’ whose brother was a guest conductor several years ago; and former Director of Oneonta Public Transit Paul Patterson aka ‘The Fleetmeister,’ who also happens to be my husband. It’s a fantastic group. Whoever raises the most funds will win the privilege of guest conducting the symphony in the finale at the Cabaret concert.” This year’s Cabaret, the first conducted by new CSO Music Director Maciej Zółtowski,
Tickets are $50 and include the concert and light refreshments. Voting for guest conductor candidates can be done at www.catskillsymphony.org/cabaret or at the event. For more information and tickets, visit www.catskillsymphony.org/cabaret. All attendees are required to wear masks when not eating or drinking.
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will be emceed by Oneonta radio host Leslie Ann Parmerter and include a silent auction beginning at 6 p.m. with more than a dozen items, including fine art, jewelry, and vacation getaways. The concert starts at 7 p.m. with Maestro Zółtowski leading the CSO in Slavonic Dances by Dvorák and A Night in Venice Overture by Strauss. The three guest conductor candidates will make their appeals before intermission, followed by the second half of the concert, which features jazz-pop vocalist Mandy Harvey singing popular songs ranging from favorite standards like “In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning” to contemporary classics
like “Creep,” backed by the orchestra. Harvey was the Golden Buzzer winner on America’s Got Talent and is an awardwinning jazz and pop singer, songwriter, and inspirational speaker who lost her residual hearing at the age of 19. Mandy tours the world performing her original music and presenting her inspirational story of never giving up and continuing to try – she calls these messages “Wisdom For Life.” After Harvey’s set, the winner of the guest conductor competition will be announced and lead the CSO in a rendition of John Philip Sousa’s “The Stars and Stripes Forever.”
About the Catskill Symphony Orchestra The Catskill Symphony Orchestra (CSO) was founded in 1953 for the purpose of providing access to live symphonic music to area residents, who otherwise would have to travel great distances in order to enjoy such performances. After an international search, Maciej Zoltowski became the new conductor, and 2021-2022 will be his first season with the orchestra. The CSO is an unparalleled resource to entertain, educate, and inspire audiences of all ages in upstate New York—by presenting an ensemble of the highest artistic quality performing the full range of symphonic literature. The CSO typically holds four concerts this ‘22-’23 season to an audience of over 3,500 patrons offering a diverse repertoire.
Armen Donelian, Jay Anderson and Dennis Mackrel at Maureen’s Jazz Cellar March 19 NYACK — Drummer Dennis Mackrel, Pianist Armen Donelian, Bassist Jay Anderson perform selections from Fresh Start (Sunnyside SSC 4036) Pianist-composer Armen Donelian emerges from the COVID-caused shutdowns with a newly refined conception on both instrument and pen on the soon-to-be released album, Fresh Start. The album is the recorded premiere of Donelian’s new trio featuring bassist Jay Anderson and drummer Dennis
Mackrel. Healing and stimulating, it’s music that both soothes the soul and sparks the imagination. The group’s unabashedly beautiful debut, Fresh Start, is Donelian’s 14th album. Armen Donelian, Jay Anderson, Dennis Mackrel Playing selections from their new CD Fresh Start on Sunnyside Records Saturday, March 19 at 8 p.m. Maureen’s Jazz Cellar, 2 North Broadway, Nyack, Tickets: $25
Drummer Dennis Mackrel, Pianist Armen Donelian, Bassist Jay Anderson
Finding yourself in 12 chapters in ‘Worst Person’ By Raymond Pignone Columbia-Greene Media
The distance between love and pain is always a short one. For Julie (Renate Reinsve), the circuitous path begins in Oslo, Norway, in medical school. Near the start of Joachim Trier’s excellent new movie “The Worst Person in the World,” Julie concludes surgery is “too precise” and decides on a career in psychology, a field even muddier than she thought possible. “I’m a visual person,” Julie declares, and she takes up photography. A few camera clicks later, she is working in a bookstore. Trier, in 10 efficient minutes of screen time, tells us Julie is on a journey of discovery. We next see Julie crashing a wedding celebration. Scanning a room filled with dancers, she spies Aksel (Anders Danielson Lie), writer of “Bobcat,” a wildly popular graphic novel. Eyes lock, hearts race and soon — after a few dates — Julie and Aksel are living together. True love, right? Not a chance. Romantic dramas from “An Affair to Remember” and “Brief Encounter” to “A United Kingdom”
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(2016) dictate that happily ever after is barely a blip on the radar and that Julie and Aksel are actually having an affair to regret. The crunch happens when Julie meets Eivind (Herbert Nordrum), a toothy, affable barista in an Oslo coffee shop. In a remarkable sequence, they acknowledge their attraction but vow not to cheat on their partners. Instead, they share a series of sexual challenges that are intimate but don’t qualify as cheating. The problem for Julie is that Eivind is as earthy as Aksel is imaginative. One throws off sparks and the other
doesn’t. Julie’s father, too, is a warm and reticent man who is one step from being estranged. Each man in Julie’s life is missing a vital piece that would make them whole. “The Worst Person in the World” tells a beguiling story and Trier brings to it visual quotes from other directors that are integrated into the plot and don’t call attention to themselves. Trier reproduces the lovers-on-a-bench scene from Woody Allen’s “Manhattan” to convey the wistful impermanence of Julie’s relationship with the philosophical Aksel
and later uses animation (a la “Annie Hall”) to convey a lighter mood when Julie takes up with Eivind. A sequence of Julie running joyously through the streets of Oslo where all other movement is suddenly frozen recalls Jean-Luc Godard’s expressionist style. Trier breaks loose from the narrative rigor of Hollywood romantic dramas. He arranges Julie’s story in 12 chapters plus an epilogue and a prologue. Every touch feels elating or melancholy. Oslo’s streets are alive and bright, apartments veiled in sorrow. Reinsve can unleash anger or tenderness without seeming contrived or hectoring. Though their personalities could not be more different, Lie and Nordrum are formidable and authentic. The movie’s finest hour is the scene of Julie and Aksel’s breakup. It’s just two people talking, one escaping from a bond that seems doomed, the other trying to salvage the broken pieces. The dialogue is articulate but crammed with implicit emotions. Godard would have been proud.
CALENDAR LISTINGS TSL * COVID 19 Guidelines * TSL will require you to provide proof of vaccination for entry to the theater. You may view the complete monthly calendar at the link above. Movie tickets available for purchase at the door only. Cash, credit card, and check accepted. Special Ticket Pricing on Mondays: Friday & Weekend Admission: $12.50 general / $10 members and students. Monday Admission: $7 general / $5 members and students. n Brigitte Berman’s, BIX: “ain’t none of them play like him yet” (1981) — Cornetist / pianist / composer Leon “Bix” Beiderbecke (1903-1931) was jazz’s man who got away – the James Dean, Jim Morrison, and Kurt Cobain of his day. Born in Davenport, Iowa into an upper middle-class family, Beiderbecke became a legend even in his short lifetime, bringing an amazing new energy and unprecedented maturity to the music and influencing generations of musicians. Using archival photographs and rare footage and interviews with friends and colleagues (including jazz greats Hoagy Carmichael, Doc Cheatham, Artie Shaw), Oscar® winner Brigitte Berman’s acclaimed documentary paints a vivid portrait of a vanished era and brings to life the only trumpeter Louis Armstrong regarded as an equal (the quotation in the film’s title was once spoken by Armstrong). 1981. 1h56m. Saturday, February 26 at 5:45 p.m., Sunday, February 27 at 3:30 p.m. n Wong Kar-wai’s, IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (2000) — Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) and Su Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung Manyuk) move into neighboring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are formal and polite – until a discovery about their spouses creates an intimate bond between them. At once delicately mannered and visually extravagant, Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love is a masterful evocation of romantic longing and fleeting moments. With its aching musical soundtrack and exquisitely abstract cinematography by Christopher Doyle and Mark Lee Ping-bin, this film has been a major stylistic influence on the past decade of cinema, and is a milestone in Wong’s redoubtable career. In Cantonese and Shanghainese with subtitles. 2000. 1h38m. Saturday, February 26 at 5 p.m. n Marie Amiguet & Vincent Munier’s, THE VELVET QUEEN (2021) — In the heart of the Tibetan highlands, multi-awardwinning nature pho- tographer Vincent Munier guides writer Sylvain Tesson on his quest to document the infamously elusive snow leopard. Munier introduces Tes- son to the subtle art of waiting from a blind spot, tracking animals, and finding the patience to catch sight of the beasts. Through their journey in the Tibetan peaks, inhabited by invisible presences, the two men ponder humankind’s place amongst the magnificent creatures and glorious land- scapes they encounter along the way. Set to a haunting soundtrack by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis! In French with English subtitles. 2021. 1h32m. Saturday, February 26 at 4 p.m., Sunday, February 27 at 5:45 p.m. n Ingmar Bergman’s, THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY (1961) — While vacationing on a remote island retreat, a family finds its fragile ties tested when daughter Karin (an astonishing Harriet Andersson) discovers her father (Gunnar Björnstrand) has been using her schizophrenia for his own literary ends. As she drifts in and out of lucidity, Karin’s father, her husband (Max von Sydow), and her younger brother (Lars Passgård) are unable to prevent her descent into the abyss of mental illness. Winner of the Academy Award for best foreignlanguage film, Through a Glass Darkly, the first work in Ingmar Bergman’s trilogy on faith and the loss of it, presents an unflinching vision of a family’s near disintegration and a tortured psyche further taunted by the intangibility of God’s presence. In Swedish with English subtitles. 1961. 1h30m. Saturday, February 26 at 3:15 p.m. n Ingmar Bergman’s, WINTER LIGHT (1963) — “God, why hast thou forsaken me?” With Winter Light, Ingmar Bergman explores the search for redemption in a meaningless existence. Smalltown pastor Tomas Ericsson
(Gunnar Björnstrand) performs his duties mechanically before a dwindling congregation, including his stubbornly devoted lover, Märta (Ingrid Thulin). When he is asked to assuage a troubled parishioner’s (Max von Sydow) debilitating fear of nuclear annihilation, Tomas is terrified to find that he can provide nothing but his own doubt. The beautifully photographed Winter Light is an unsettling look at the human craving for personal validation in a world seemingly abandoned by God. In Swedish with English subtitles. 1963. 1h21m. Saturday, February 26 at 1:30 p.m. n Ingmar Bergman’s, THE SILENCE (1963 — Two sisters—the sickly, intellectual Ester (Ingrid Thulin) and the sensual, pragmatic Anna (Gunnel Lindblom)— travel by train with Anna’s young son, Johan (Jörgen Lindström), to a foreign country that appears to be on the brink of war. Attempting to cope with their alien surroundings, each sister is left to her own vices while they vie for Johan’s affection, and in so doing sabotage what little remains of their relationship. Regarded as one of the most sexually provocative films of its day, Ingmar Bergman’s The Silence offers a disturbing vision of emotional isolation in a suffocating spiritual void. In Swedish with English subtitles. 1963. 1h35m. Sunday, February 27 at 1:30 p.m. n Andrei Tarkovsky’s, SOLARIS (1972) — Ground control has been receiving mysterious transmissions from the three remaining residents of the Solaris space station. When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is dispatched to investigate, he experiences the same strange phenomena that afflict the Solaris crew, sending him on a voyage into the darkest recesses of his consciousness. With Solaris, the legendary Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky created a brilliantly original science-fiction epic that challenges our conceptions about love, truth, and humanity itself. New High-definition digital restoration. In Russian with English subtitles. 1972. 2h46m. Sunday, February 27 at 4:15 p.m. TIME & SPACE LIMITED 434 COLUMBIA STREET, HUDSON, NY | (518) 822-8100 | FYI@TIMEANDSPACE.ORG
FEBRUARY 24 PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA NIGHT Thursday, February 24, 6 p.m. Time for TRIVIA! Here’s your first question: The expression “okay” originated during this U.S. president’s 1840 re-election campaign, when his supporters began condensing his nickname, “Old Kinderhook,” to the initials “O.K.” Who is he? That one easy for you? Then show off your knowledge of all things POTUS at our PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA event on Thursday, February 24 at 6 PM. Gather your team of up to 6 Social Studies geeks – no fee to play, but get there early to grab your table. Prizes for the winning team and the runners-up! Co-sponsored by our friends at the Roeliff Jansen Community Library, who’ll be writing those difficult questions! Thursday, February 24, 6 p.m., https://www.facebook.com/ events/618008212836631 Roe Jan Brewing Co, 32 Anthony Street, Hillsdale, 518-303-8080
FEBRUARY 25 HIERBA BUENA TACO POP UP! Friday, February 25, 5 p.m. - 9 p.m. Hierba Buena, a mother-daughter team, is back for a taco pop up! Their delicious food is a reflection of traditional Mexican dishes. (V + GF options). Enjoy with one of our mocktails! Friday, February 25, 5 p.m. - 9 p.m., https://www.facebook. com/events/1287898708347051 Cooper’s Daughter Spirits at Olde York, 284 State Rouite 23, Claverack,
FEBRUARY 26 THIS AND THAT FOOD TRUCK Saturday, February 26, noon - 6 p.m. This & That Food Truck is back with their classic offerings and vegan menu such as grilled artichoke, cauliflower wings, empanadas, falafel, quesadillas, and more! (V + GF options) Saturday, February 26, noon - 6 p.m., https://www.facebook. com/events/325861482780541 Cooper’s Daughter Spirits at Olde York, 284 State Rouite 23, Claverack, 845-480-1237
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Coming Events may be coming back By Lula Anderson
ASHLAND SPEAKS
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As I sit here thinking about this weekend being President’s Day Weekend, I realize how we on the Mountain Top view the months. We start in the beginning of November wondering when the first measurable snow will come, and if it will be cold enough to make snow for the slopes to be open for Thanksgiving. December comes, and while the world is gearing up for Christmas, we are all wondering how many people will be visiting for the “BIG WEEK.” We look outside, check the weather multiple times a day, and hope for crowds. January brings Martin Luther King weekend, and, usually a huge snowstorm, although I have seen it pouring rain and temps in the high 60s. Another month passes and it’s President’s week, when many schools have winter break, and hopefully, more snow. March brings us to St Patrick’s Day. Will this be the end or will we get Easter week out of it? So much of our lives and economy are based on cold, snowy weather. The days of the summer season are gone, except for the hikers. While others are counting the days to spring and warm weather, we are still hoping for “THE BIG ONE.” With the warmer weather approaching, and the virus seeming to ease up, (but please get vaccinated and boosted to protect us all), we have activities starting again. I might be able to start a COMING EVENTS section soon. Fish Fry is coming back to the Hensonville Fire Department, 432 Route 296 in Hensonville. Starting on March 2, Ash Wednesday and continuing every Friday through Good Friday April 15. Hours for March 2 are noon-8 p.m. Fridays the hours are from 4–8 p.m. Menu includes fish, chicken tenders or fried clams; French fries or baked potato; coleslaw, dinner roll and a brownie or cookie for dessert (while supplies last). All this for only $10/meal. Take outs only. Pick up at the truck bay to allow for social distancing. No pick ups at the kitchen door. Call 518-734-3040 to preorder and the wonderful staff will have your meal waiting for you. The next meeting of WAJPL Golden Age Club will be March 7 at the meeting room, lower level Windham Town Hall, Route 296 Hensonville. Meetings start at 1 p.m. Refreshments are plentiful. March theme is St Patrick’s Day, so
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ANDERSON expect at least one soda bread. The WAJ Drama Club has been working very hard, learning their lines and positions to present the production of THE ADAMS FAMILY the weekend of March 11-13. Dress rehearsal for the local senior citizens will be held at 5:30 p.m. March 10. Sorry, there will be no dinner buffet this year, but a selection of desserts and sweets will be available. Donations of cookies, finger food desserts and packaged sweets graciously welcomed. Don’t forget to bring a donation to help defray the cost of the production, plus help keep the drama club going. For reservations call Opal at 518-750-8380 or email at heavenboundglory@ gmail.com by March 7. March 13 starts Daylight Savings time Hope Restoration Woman’s Luncheon will be held on March 17. The Ashland Fire Department will be holding its annual chicken barbecue on March 19 to benefit the family of Deputy Kevin Waverly, Greene County Sheriff EOW 2-28-17. Halves only, take out only. $8. No reservations, first come first served. Chicken will be ready starting at 11:30 a.m. While you’re picking up your chicken, drive around the lot and check out the bake sale sponsored by the Ashland Community Church. Can you think of a better way to complete your dinner than with one of Lula’s pies or breads? The long awaited return of the Ashland Fire Department roast beef dinner will be held on April 30 at the Fire House on Route 23 Ashland. Take outs start at 4:30 p.m., or starting at 5 p.m. you can come in, have a seat and be served while you enjoy the company of friends you haven’t seen for awhile. Get a full belly for only $15 adults; children 5–12, $6; under 5, free. Living In Truth meeting will be held on the second Tuesday every month at Living Faith CC Maplecrest. Contact Charmaine.Rusin@gmail.com for information. Prayers and condolences for the family of Emil Banks.
I have been searching through old papers and envelopes to find proof that my father lived in Ashland, so I can collect some unclaimed funds owed to me. As with everything else that we do, I got a little sidetracked when I found a stash of old newspapers dating from the 1920s. There were also some paystubs from my job as a telephone operator. I earned under $2.50/hour, but it was considered excellent pay for the time. Working a 40 hour week netted me less than $100, but I had money to burn. Could you imagine living on that money now? While looking at old papers, I always check out the ads as you get a general idea about the economy of the time. One particular paper, The Prattsville News dated November 19, 1921 caught my eye, as it was locally printed and “run by the proprietor.” Sid’s Lunch had home made pies and cake. Orders taken and delivered anywhere in street. A regular dinner, served from 12-1:30 pm cost 75 cents. At Draffen in Grand Gorge, you could get a ladies sports hat, in all colors for $1.98. E. Bailey and Son from Lexington, NY had a huge Thanksgiving sale. In the grocery section you could get 100 pounds of sugar for $6.40; flour, all kinds $10.50 per barrel. Campbells soups were 12 cents a can and Kellogg’s cornflakes 2 packages for a quarter. Cocoa in a fruit jar, 1 lb for .30 and Campbell’s Pork and beans 2 cans for a quarter. Overalls were $1.50, corduroy pants $3.00 Shoes $2.90 and up. In Prattsville, you could go to W. J. Lutz but their sugar was a nickel higher. In Ashland, F. L. Dodge was selling quilts for $2.00 and up, sheets in white and gray for $1.75 per pair. Underwear, fleece lined and heavy ribbed was 75 cents and a Union Suit was $1.50. As much as we look at these prices and are amazed on how cheap they seemed to be, consider the salaries earned back then. How many farmers came into these stores to stock up when they just sold stock? Considering what my paystub was, have prices really gone up disproportionately to salaries? Remember, the higher your pay, the more the grocer has to pay his staff, and the more his suppliers have to pay their staff, and so on down the line.
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Teachers, pictured, left to right Teile Ball (grammar school), Izzy Schoonmaker (high school), Irene Gillespie Walsh (well-loved school secretary), Dot Chase (Grammar), Harry McGuire (high school), Mary Mahoney McGinnis (high school), Hazel Kipp Yager (school nurse), and seated in the middle, Francis Curran (middle school-fifth grade). Circa 1948 or 1949.
By Dede Terns-Thorpe For Columbia-Greene Media
This piece is a follow-up to the past articles concerning the Hunter Tannersville Central School District and the years surrounding its centralization. This information is from a small pamphlet written by East Jewett’s late Historian and Educator, Doris West Brooks. Doris gave the essential details of the school, and its pre- and postcentralization times, simplifying the timetable. (Many school employees know this information, but I wanted to share it for the many graduates of H-T-C). Brooks wrote, “In 1931, there were nineteen small community schools in the townships of Jewett, Hunter, and Lexington. Some were located in places most of us have never heard of--Foot-of-the-Ridge, Ingraham, and Tannery.” Each of those schools educated kids through the eighth grade only. To receive a higher education, students went to the Hunter High School (Tannersville didn’t have a high school until 1912, built on a hill just below its present site). The controversy was only over the school’s location; the community immediately supported the concept of centralization. Doris explained that neither high school had adequate space for a gymnasium, playground, home economics room, auditorium, or a stage. The centralization of schools would also help the Great Depression’s unemployment situation. By 1932 it was voted on and approved, followed by a 1933 vote on the best location for the three schools. The following year, 1934, the vote was about
funding. The building fund was $300,000 with another $100,000 in federal aid, paid through President Roosevelt’s Emergency Administration of Public Works (WPA). Doris added, “This $400,000.00, incredibly, included, not only building the three schools, but equipping the buildings, landscaping, and engineering fees.” (That $400,000 in 1933 today equals approximately $8,650,707.00) The people credited with many of the accomplishments were: Frank Lackey, President of the Board of Education; Edward Dougherty, clerk; Herbert Wilcox, treasurer; (board members?) Charles Layman, Egbert Dibbell, Benjamin Merwin, and Robert Tuttle; George Anderson, District Superintendent of Schools; Floyd Rasbach, Supervising Principal of the three schools; John Woods, Vice-Principal; Robert Graham of Middletown, architect and La Salle Mason, builder. By 1935 Lexington school (today’s Town of Lexington building) was completed, with Hunter and Tannersville by 1937. Things moved quickly, with many functions added to improve education, sports, and activities. In 1958, the school combined the ninth-grade classes at the Tannersville School. The Lexington school was closed and sold for $20,000.00 (equal today to $192.350.00). In 1965 the 7th and 8th grades were consolidated in Tannersville. Later, in 1972, the grades were rearranged so that all K-5 grades were in Hunter and 6-12 in Tannersville. The library (Beth Hague, the long-time, wellrespected Librarian) was
enlarged. In 1967 the Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) opened under the leadership of Elwood Hitchcock. BOCES greatly expanded the student’s educational opportunities by teaching the trades. The year 1967 also saw the athletic league formed. Next, in 1988, the taxpayers approved the expansion of both the cafeteria and gymnasium at Tannersville. The Capital reserve fund had grown to $400,000, used towards the $1,200,000.00 expansion. (Surprisingly, that $1,200,000.00 is worth just under $3,000,000.00 In 2022). The Hunter school later made considerable improvements to their school (the cafeteria, pre-K, and kitchen), completing the work by 2004 (James Partridge, Buildings and Grounds Superintendent helped with this information). Doris added that more than 75% of our seniors go to higher education. She said, “we are doing exactly what a school is supposed to do. That is, helping to prepare our children for the world they are about to face.” For many years, the Mountain Top Community has been fortunate to have educators that care about the students. The teachers are a large part of the students’ lives and share the responsibility for providing our students the start in life they need. Doris credited the HTC Alumni resource material and Kimberlee Shartrand, the HTC Guidance Counselor, for this information. Many thanks to Doris Brooks for sharing this information. — Dede Terns-Thorpe
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No. 14 Greenville stuns No. 3 Mechanicville Tim Martin Columbia-Greene Media
MECHANICVILLE — Four players reached double figures in scoring as No. 14 Greenville upset No. 3 Mechanicville, 6662, in Tuesday’s Section II Class B boys basketball first-round game at Mechanicville High School. The Spartans move on to play Ichabod Crane in the quarterfinal round on Friday at 5 p.m. at Hudson Valley Community College. Greenville got off to a fast start on Tuesday and never took its foot off the gas, building leads of 2515 and 38-30 by the end of the first two quarters. Mechanicville cut the deficit to 49-46 after three quarters and remained within striking distance in the
fourth, but the Spartans kept their composure and hit their free throws down the stretch to earn the victory. Trey Smith hit four 3-pointers and finished with a team-high 17 points for Greenville. Nick West added three 3-pointers and 16 points, Jack Motta had 15 points and Cody Thompson contributed 12. Colin Richardson scored a game-high 22 points for Mechanicville, which came nto the game ranked No. 9 in the state in Class B. Tyler Eiseman had 13 and Joseph DeVito 12. GREENVILLE (62): Smith 6-1-17, Motta 7-015, Domermuth 1-0-2, See GREENVILLE B5
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Ichabod Crane’s Alex Schmidt (left) and Catskill’s Kellen Gibbs chase down a loose ball during Tuesday’s Section II Class B boys basketball first-round playoff game at Ichabod Crane High School.
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VALATIE — The Ichabod Crane Riders were victorious over the Catskill Cats 69-45 in Tuesday night’s opening round of the Section II Class B Tournament for boys basketball. The Riders advance to the quarterfinal round to play Greenville on Friday at 5 p.m. at Hudson Valley Community College. Brett Richards led the Riders with 20 points, Jack Mullins scored 15, and Alex Schmidt added 11 points. Richards also grabbed 10 rbounds, giving him his 17th double-double of the season and 14th straight. Azar Brantley was atop the box score for Catskill, matching Richards’ total with 20 points. It was a rough night shooting for the Cats however, and Sean Haye added 12 points, Lucas Konsul scored six to round out the top three point-getters for Catskill. Mullins knocked down a shot in the corner from beyond the arc for Ichabod Crane after misses by both teams to start the contest. Catskill’s Kellen Gibbs was called for two offensive fouls early in the game as he drove into the paint. The first one looked legitimate, but the defender looked to still be moving on the second play. Nevertheless, Gibbs was called for
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Paul O’Neill (21) of the New York Yankees stands on a base as he looks on during a game against the Kansas City Royals on April 16, 2000 at Yankee Stadium.
Yankees will retire Paul O’Neill’s No. 21 Matthew Roberson New York Daily News
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Catskill’s Azar Brantley goes to the basket between Ichabod Crane’s Alex Schmidt (5) and Dylan McCrudden (13) during Tuesday’s Section II Class B boys basketball firstround playoff game at Ichabod Crane High School.
the charge. Ichabod Crane was up 8-0 less than a few minutes in as Catskill found it
difficult to mount any sort of offense. See RIDERS B6
NEW YORK — Add another plaque to the crowded wall of retired numbers at Yankee Stadium. On Tuesday, the Yankees announced that they will retire Paul O’Neill’s No. 21 this season. With his pregame ceremony on Aug. 21, O’Neill will become the 23rd player or manager to have their number retired. The outfielder-turned-broadcaster who won four World Series titles with the Yankees already had a plaque in Monument
Park honoring his contributions to the team, but now he receives the franchise’s highest honor. The Yankees have not retired a number since they hung Derek Jeter’s No. 2 in 2017. With 21 now off the table, 11, 12, 14, 18, 19 and 22 are the only numbers under 28 that are neither retired nor worn by a current player or coach. O’Neill played the final nine seasons of his career with the Yankees, See YANKEES B5
U.S. women’s soccer stars win $24 million settlement of equal pay lawsuit Jonathan Tannenwald The Philadelphia Inquirer
Six years after a group of American women’s soccer stars launched a landmark legal fight to win equal pay from the U.S. Soccer Federation, the two sides announced Tuesday morning that they’ve agreed to a settlement worth $24 million. The campaign began in March 2016 when five of the national team’s biggest stars -- Alex Morgan, Hope Solo, Megan Rapinoe, Becky Sauerbrunn, and Carli Lloyd -- filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. In March 2019, just three months before a World Cup they went on to win, an even larger group of players took U.S. Soccer to federal court in Southern California. They sought damages including nearly $67 million meant to make up for past differences between men’s and women’s World Cup prize money. The agreement calls for the players to receive a $22 million direct payment, to be “distributed in a manner proposed by the USWNT players” and approved by the federal court, Tuesday’s announcement said. U.S. Soccer will put another $2 million in “an account to benefit the USWNT players in their post-career goals and charitable efforts related to women’s and girls’ soccer,” with each
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In this photo from July 1, 2021, Tobin Heath (7) of United States celebrates with Christen Press (11), Alex Morgan (13), Lindsey Horan (9) and Emily Sonnett, (14) after scoring a goal against Mexico at Rentschler Field in East Hartford, Connecticut.
eligible player able to apply for up to $50,000. The announcement also specified that from
now on, “U.S. Soccer has committed to providing an equal rate of pay going forward for
the women’s and men’s national teams in all friendlies and tournaments, including the World Cup.” Those terms plus previous agreements -one on travel accommodations and behindthe-scenes support, another eliminating U.S. Soccer’s subsidies of national team players’ NWSL salaries -- will bring the men’s and women’s teams the closest they’ve ever been to truly equal compensation. U.S. Soccer’s board of directors has already voted its approval of the deal, two sources with knowledge of the matter told The Philadelphia Inquirer. “It’s a win for everyone: it’s a win for U.S. Soccer, the players, for women’s sports, and for women in general,” U.S. Soccer president Cindy Cone said in a late-afternoon news conference with a slew of the team’s big stars. Triumph for USSF president The settlement is contingent on the players union for the women’s team, a separate group from the lawsuit plaintiffs, and U.S. Soccer agreeing on new collective bargaining agreements for the women’s and men’s teams. The women’s deal is in a short-term extension through the end of March after expiring at the end of 2021, while the men haven’t had an active CBA since the end of 2018. See SOCCER B5
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Pro hockey NHL Eastern Conference Atlantic Division GP W L OT SO Pts Florida 51 35 11 2 3 75 Tampa Bay 49 32 11 2 4 70 Toronto 50 32 14 3 1 68 Boston 50 29 17 2 2 62 Detroit 51 23 22 5 1 52 Ottawa 50 19 26 4 1 43 Buffalo 51 16 27 7 1 40 Montreal 51 11 33 7 0 29 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT SO Pts Carolina 50 35 11 4 0 74 Pittsburgh 52 31 13 3 5 70 NY Rangers 50 32 13 3 2 69 Washington 52 28 15 7 2 65 Columbus 50 26 23 0 1 53 NY Islanders 45 18 20 3 4 43 Philadelphia 51 15 26 6 4 40 New Jersey 50 17 28 1 4 39 Western Conference Central Division GP W L OT SO Pts Colorado 50 36 10 3 1 76 St. Louis 50 30 14 4 2 66 Minnesota 48 31 14 0 3 65 Nashville 51 29 18 2 2 62 Dallas 49 27 20 1 1 56 Winnipeg 50 22 20 4 4 52 Chicago 52 18 26 6 2 44 Arizona 50 13 33 0 4 30 Pacific Division GP W L OT SO Pts Calgary 49 30 13 6 0 66 Vegas 51 29 18 3 1 62 Edmonton 50 28 19 3 0 59 Los Angeles 50 26 17 5 2 59 Anaheim 52 24 19 5 4 57 Vancouver 52 24 22 3 3 54 San Jose 49 22 22 4 1 49 Seattle 52 16 32 3 1 36 Monday’s games Boston 5, Colorado 1 Carolina 4, Philadelphia 3, OT Calgary 3, Winnipeg 1 Montreal 5, Toronto 2 Vancouver 5, Seattle 2 Tuesday’s games St. Louis 4, Philadelphia 1 Ottawa 4, Minnesota 3 Nashville 6, Florida 4 Columbus 4, Toronto 3, OT NY Islanders at Seattle, 10 p.m. San Jose at Anaheim, 10 p.m. Wednesday’s games Winnipeg at Dallas, 7:30 p.m. Edmonton at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m. Buffalo at Montreal, 7:30 p.m. Colorado at Detroit, 7:30 p.m. Los Angeles at Arizona, 10 p.m. Thursday’s games Minnesota at Toronto, 7 p.m. Columbus at Florida, 7 p.m. Washington at NY Rangers, 7 p.m. New Jersey at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m. Dallas at Nashville, 8:30 p.m. Calgary at Vancouver, 10 p.m. Boston at Seattle, 10 p.m. NY Islanders at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.
GF GA 212 151 169 139 179 141 145 139 147 176 134 159 138 182 117 197 GF GA 176 121 173 140 151 127 171 145 167 183 111 126 129 180 146 182 GF GA 199 143 179 138 186 147 159 147 143 145 145 150 126 176 114 186 GF GA 169 114 169 150 168 161 147 141 156 158 140 148 131 154 135 185
Pro basketball NBA Eastern Conference Atlantic W L Pct Philadelphia 35 23 .603 Boston 34 26 .567 Toronto 32 25 .561 Brooklyn 31 28 .525 New York 25 34 .424 Central W L Pct Chicago 38 21 .644 Cleveland 35 23 .603 Milwaukee 36 24 .600 Indiana 20 40 .333 Detroit 13 45 .224 Southeast W L Pct Miami 38 21 .644 Charlotte 29 31 .483 Atlanta 28 30 .483 Washington 27 31 .466 Orlando 13 47 .217 Western Conference Northwest W L Pct Utah 36 22 .621 Denver 33 25 .569 Minnesota 31 28 .525 Portland 25 34 .424 Oklahoma City 18 40 .310 Pacific W L Pct Phoenix 48 10 .828 Golden State 42 17 .712 L.A. Clippers 30 31 .492 L.A. Lakers 27 31 .466 Sacramento 22 38 .367 Southwest W L Pct Memphis 41 19 .683 Dallas 35 24 .593 San Antonio 23 36 .390 New Orleans 23 36 .390 Houston 15 43 .259 Thursday’s games Cleveland at Detroit, 7 p.m. Boston at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m. Atlanta at Chicago, 8 p.m. Memphis at Minnesota, 8 p.m. Phoenix at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m. Golden State at Portland, 10 p.m. Denver at Sacramento, 10 p.m.
GB — 2.0 2.5 4.5 10.5 GB — 2.5 2.5 18.5 24.5 GB — 9.5 9.5 10.5 25.5 GB — 3.0 5.5 11.5 18.0 GB — 6.5 19.5 21.0 27.0 GB — 5.5 17.5 17.5 25.0
College basketball TUESDAY’S SCORES MEN EAST Charleston 83, Northeastern 72 Connecticut 71, Villanova 69 Miami-Florida 85, Pittsburgh 64 Monmouth-NJ 71, Siena 59 Richmond 84, George Washington 71 St. Bonaventure 73, Rhode Island 55 Yale 66, Dartmouth 61 SOUTH Alabama 74, Vanderbilt 72 Arkansas 82, Florida 74 Texas A&M 91, Georgia 77 Texas Tech 66, Oklahoma 42 MIDWEST Akron 82, Bowling Green 68 Buffalo 86, Miami (OH) 84 Eastern Michigan 74, Northern Illinois 72 Iowa 86, Michigan St 60 Kansas 102, Kansas State 83 Kent St. 93, Ball St. 82 Northwestern 77, Nebraska 65 Ohio 76, Central Michigan 50 Saint Louis 72, Saint Joseph’s 61 St. Thomas (MN) 84, North Dakota 74 Tennessee 80, Missouri 61 Toledo 92, Western Michigan 50 WEST Boise St. 58, San Diego St. 57 Fresno St. 65, Air Force 40 WOMEN EAST American 64, Lehigh 45 Hampton 59, Radford 53 Seton Hall 84, Butler 55 Villanova 73, Georgetown 61 SOUTH Mississippi 70, Arkansas 62 Presbyterian 72, Gardner-Webb 58 South Florida 61, Wichita St. 57 Western Carolina 42, Emory & Henry 39
WOMEN’S COACHES POLL Record Pts Prv 1. South Carolina (31) 25-1 799 1 2. Stanford (1) 23-3 767 2 3. NC State (0) 25-3 735 4 4. Louisville (0) 24-3 697 3 5. Michigan (0) 21-4 640 9 6. Iowa State (0) 22-4 612 5 7. Baylor (0) 21-5 604 10 8. Connecticut (0) 19-5 541 11 8. LSU (0) 23-4 541 12 10. Indiana (0) 19-6 513 6 11. Arizona (0) 19-5 481 7 12. Texas (0) 19-6 424 14 13. Maryland (0) 20-7 416 13 14. Tennessee (0) 21-6 385 8 15. BYU (0) 23-2 351 16 16. Notre Dame (0) 20-6 281 20 17. Ohio St. (0) 20-5 241 19 18. North Carolina (0) 21-5 217 23 19. Oklahoma (0) 20-6 204 15 20. Georgia (0) 18-8 170 17 21. Florida (0) 20-7 159 21 22. Iowa (0) 18-7 156 25 23. Florida Gulf Coast (0) 24-2 150 22 24. Georgia Tech (0) 19-8 110 18 25. Central Florida (0) 20-3 58 NR Others receiving votes: Virginia Tech 53, Liberty 22, Drexel 14, Mississippi 14, Oregon 12, Rhode Island 7, Stony Brook 6, Washington St. 6, Utah 4, South Dakota State 4, South Florida 2, South Dakota 2, Nebraska 1, Gonzaga 1.
After a joyous NBA weekend, we love this game ... Most of it, anyway Candace Buckner The Washington Post
There might have been better weekends in NBA history, but none were as special as what we saw Sunday. When the league celebrated its 75th anniversary team, an inviteonly homecoming and the best cookout on the block all in one, we saw, among other memorable sights, Magic Johnson doubling over in laughter and that grandpa glimmer in Michael Jordan’s eye turning steely cold in an instant as he transported back to the 1990s and challenged Magic to a game of one-onone. We saw old men who were blessed enough to grow old - like George Gervin, a little rounder in the waist than his days as the “Ice Man” but still striking the pose of his famous finger roll. And we saw how unfair life can be when Kobe Bryant remained frozen in a black-and-white in-memoriam photo, unable to soak in the love next to the other legends. The weekend was dripping with sentimentality, and it reignited our love for this game. And then we remembered what we’re in for, especially if we don’t tune out the noise: the cynical conclusion to this season, which undoubtedly will remind us, oh yeah, we loathe this part of this game. It begins when James Harden, your superteam’s favorite rental, makes his debut with the Philadelphia 76ers following the break. This will be his second new team in 13 months because Harden couldn’t find his fit in Brooklyn alongside future Hall of Famers Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving. Granted, Durant hasn’t played since Jan. 15 because of a left knee injury, and Irving remains a part-time player because of his unvaccinated status. Harden must have looked around, noticed that Kessler Edwards is doing a poor imitation of KD and that home starting point guard Patty Mills is no Irving, and decided he needed to make a championship-chasing cameo elsewhere. In this era of player movement and shorter contracts buy that free agent’s jersey at your peril - Harden embodies the superstar who lives out of his suitcase. His game marvels but his eye wanders, and he’s piling up more trade requests than goodwill; fans at
the All-Star Game in Cleveland rained down boos on Harden during player introductions. Besides waiting for Harden to want out in Philadelphia, we can look forward to three more months of leaks out of Los Angeles. Lakers General Manager Rob Pelinka thought it was safe to tell reporters about the “alignment” between himself and his two stars, LeBron James and Anthony Davis, following the team’s inaction at the trade deadline. But a follow-up report cited unnamed sources who described Pelinka’s claim as “totally false.” At this point, Pelinka could announce the sky is blue, then James and Davis - or their representatives - will leak that it’s actually green. What makes the passiveaggressive back-and-forth so rich is that this is the roster James wanted. He pushed for Russell Westbrook, even though James’s basketball intelligence had to have warned him it wouldn’t work. You can’t hide a turnover-prone guard who needs the ball in his hands or a stubborn nonshooter who won’t stop shooting. Yet this is the player the Lakers mortgaged their shortterm future to add. James, back in Cleveland, must have been feeling nostalgic for his former team - or he was just trying to scare Lakers brass - when he said the door is not closed on a return to the Cavaliers. He didn’t exactly proclaim he’ll be back when his contract runs out, but he left enough breadcrumbs for fans in Ohio to snack on until 2023 - and enough fodder to color an underwhelming season in L.A. While the Lakers play for a coveted play-in spot - which, along with the Elam ending in the All-Star Game, is the other marvelous idea the NBA has recently adopted - other franchises won’t even reach that valley. Tankers gonna tank, so get ready for teams to start looking like early versions of summer league rosters. The Oklahoma City Thunder is no doubt preparing to hear LeBron say something nice about its next draft pick and to praise GM Sam Presti in a subtle dig at Pelinka - so how long do you expect standout guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander to keep playing after he returns from an ankle injury?
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New York Islanders left wing Zach Parise (11) celebrate with defenseman Zdeno Chara (33) after scoring a goal against the Seattle Kraken during the third period at Climate Pledge Arena on Tuesday.
NHL roundup: Zdeno Chara hits milestone in Isles’ win Field Level Media
Zach Parise scored twice as the visiting Islanders cruised to a 5-2 win over the Seattle Kraken on a milestone night for New York defenseman Zdeno Chara. Brock Nelson, Parise, Kyle Palmieri and Casey Cizikas all scored in the first two periods for the Islanders, who won for just the second time in six games. New York goalie Ilya Sorokin made 23 saves. The assist on Parise’s late empty-net goal went to Chara, who played in his 1,651st career game – tying him with Chris Chelios for the most games played by a defenseman in NHL history. Yanni Gourde and Riley Sheahan scored for the Kraken, who lost their fifth straight. Seattle goalie Philipp Grubauer recorded 31 saves. Blue Jackets 4, Maple Leafs 3 (OT) Patrik Laine scored his second goal of the game 20 seconds into overtime as Columbus defeated visiting Toronto. Laine netted his 18th of the season from the slot on a pass from Jakub Voracek. Brendan Gaunce and Adam Boqvist also scored for the Blue Jackets, who have won eight of their past 10 games. Zach Werenski added two assists, and Jean-Francois Berube made 39 saves. Jason Spezza tied the game for Toronto at 17:54 of the third period with goaltender Jack Campbell removed for an extra attacker. Auston Matthews had a goal and two assists and Michael Bunting had a goal and an assist for the Maple Leafs,
who have lost three straight. Campbell made 26 saves. Predators 6, Panthers 4 Tanner Jeannot scored two third-period goals and Mikael Granlund added the go-ahead score as resilient Nashville ended a fourgame losing streak by rallying for a victory in Sunrise, Fla. Granlund’s game-winner came with 5:31 remaining, giving Nashville its first lead after it had tied the score three times. Filip Forsberg, Roman Josi and Yakov Trenin also scored for Nashville, which got 44 saves from David Rittich. Sam Reinhart, Radko Gudas, Aaron Ekblad and Sam Bennett scored for the Panthers, who saw their ninegame home winning streak come to an end and lost for just the fourth time in 27 home games this season. Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 27 shots. Blues 4, Flyers 1 Ivan Barbashev had a goal and an assist to lift St. Louis past host Philadelphia. Brayden Schenn, Vladimir Tarasenko and Brandon Saad each added one goal while Niko Mikkola contributed two assists for the Blues, who won for the fourth time in five games. Jordan Binnington made 25 saves. Oskar Lindblom scored for the Flyers, who have dropped six in a row (0-42) and three straight (0-21) to start their eight-game homestand. Goaltender Martin Jones received the start for the second consecutive game because Carter
Hart was out with an eye infection, and he stopped 22 shots. Senators 4, Wild 3 Defenseman Thomas Chabot collected two goals and an assist in his return from a four-game absence, fueling Ottawa to a victory over visiting Minnesota on Tuesday. Chabot, who had been sidelined by an undisclosed injury, scored the eventual winning goal with 5:45 remaining. Tim Stutzle scored in his third consecutive contest, captain Brady Tkachuk also tallied and Anton Forsberg made 40 saves to help the Senators snap a nine-game skid (0-7-2) against the Wild. Kevin Fiala recorded a goal and an assist for the Wild, who have lost three of their last four games. Captain Jared Spurgeon and fellow defenseman Jon Merrill also scored for Minnesota. Ducks 4, Sharks 3 (SO) Rickard Rakell scored two goals in regulation and added the game-winner in a shootout as Anaheim returned home to earn a victory over San Jose. Derek Grant also scored a goal as the Ducks won at home for the first time since Jan. 21 after playing eight of the previous nine games on the road. Anthony Stolarz made 40 saves in a rare start in place of John Gibson. Trevor Zegras scored in the shootout for Anaheim before Rakell’s close-range shot into the roof of the goal in the third round ended the game. San Jose’s James Reimer recorded 26 saves.
Top 25 roundup: No. 21 UConn slips past No. 8 Villanova Field Level Media
R.J. Cole canned a runner with 5.9 seconds left Tuesday night as No. 21 UConn rallied from a four-point deficit in the last 30 seconds to beat No. 8 Villanova 71-69 in Hartford, Conn. After the Huskies (20-7, 115 Big East) forced a turnover, Cole drove on Brandon Slater, gained the lane and sank a short shot as the sellout crowd at XL Center went wild. Cole then drew an offensive foul on Collin Gillespie’s drive to the basket with 1.1 seconds remaining. Cole finished with 12 points for UConn, while Adama Sanogo pumped in a game-high 20 points on 8-of-14 shooting. Isaiah Whaley scored 13 as the Huskies connected on 10 of 24 3-pointers and forced 14 turnovers. Gillespie scored 17 points for the Wildcats (21-7, 14-4), while Slater added 15. Jermaine Samuels hit for 13 points and Justin Moore tallied 12. Villanova connected on 12 3-pointers and outscored UConn by six points at the line, but it wasn’t enough. No. 5 Kansas 102, Kansas State 83 Ochai Agbaji continued his push to become Big 12 player of the year by netting a game-high
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Connecticut Huskies guard R.J. Cole (2) and guard Tyrese Martin (4) react after defeating the Villanova Wildcats at XL Center on Tuesday.
23 points as the Jayhawks shot a blistering 64.1 percent against the Wildcats in Lawrence, Kan. Christian Braun added 20 points and Jalen Wilson 17 as the Jayhawks (23-4, 12-2 Big 12) maintained control of the league lead with their sixth win in seven games. Kansas has won 16 straight at home over Kansas State (14-13, 6-9), which saw its NCAA Tournament hopes continue to fade with a second straight defeat.
Markquis Nowell scored 20 points for the Wildcats. No. 9 Texas Tech 66, Oklahoma 42 Davion Warren scored 16 points to lead the Red Raiders to a win over the Sooners in Lubbock, Texas. Oklahoma finished with its lowest point total in any game since February 2004. Texas Tech (22-6, 11-4 Big 12) has won four consecutive games and seven of the last
eight, with its only loss during that span coming Feb. 9 against the Sooners. Oklahoma (14-14, 4-11) has lost four consecutive games since that upset of Texas Tech and 11 of the past 13. Bryson Williams added 13 points for the Red Raiders. Umoja Gibson, who scored a season-high 30 points for the Sooners in the earlier upset of Texas Tech, had just five points on 2-of-9 shooting. Jalen Hill led Oklahoma with eight points. No. 17 Tennessee 80, Missouri 61 Kennedy Chandler scored 23 points with eight rebounds and six assists to lead the Volunteers past the Tigers in Columbia, Mo. Santiago Vescovi scored 14 points and Victor Bailey Jr. added 11 for Tennessee (20-7, 11-4 SEC), which has won nine of its past 11 games. Javon Pickett scored 16 points and Kobe Brown and DaJuan Gordon added 12 apiece for the Tigers (10-18, 4-11), who have lost four consecutive games and nine of their past 11. No. 18 Arkansas 82, Florida 74 JD Notae scored 22 points and sank a crucial late 3-pointer as the Razorbacks broke
a 14-game losing streak at Gainesville, Fla., by toppling the Gators. Notae scored 12 of his 22 points in the second half, and Davonte Davis tallied 19 points for the surging Razorbacks, who have won 12 of their past 13 contests. Despite foul trouble in the second half, Jaylin Williams notched 15 points and 10 rebounds. Florida got a career-high 29 points from big man Colin Castleton and 19 from Tyree Appleby. No. 24 Alabama 74, Vanderbilt 72 Jahvon Quinerly scored 17 of his 19 points during a secondhalf rally that helped send the Crimson Tide to a win over the Commodores in Nashville. Jordan Wright missed a potential tying layup for Vanderbilt with 4.8 seconds remaining and Alabama (18-10, 8-7 Southeastern Conference) ran out the remainder of the clock to secure the road win. Quinerly came off the bench to hit 6 of 12 shots in 27 minutes. Scotty Pippen Jr. led Vanderbilt (14-13, 6-9) with 26 points. He hit just 5 of 13 fieldgoal attempts but went 14 of 18 from the free-throw line.
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For fans and businesses in Florida, the MLB lockout is a new spring training curveball Jesse Dougherty The Washington Post
JUPITER, Fla. — Around 11 a.m. Monday, Parker and Scott Cain walked along each gate at Roger Dean Stadium, searching for signs of life. They have done this every week since arriving in Florida from Buena Vista, Colo., for the winter Dec. 1. But now, even with collective bargaining talks moved to the ballpark for the foreseeable future - even with MLB officials and the players union arriving in two hours - very little had changed. “What’s going on?” shouted Scott, Parker’s father, to a familiar worker at the park. Short answer: No one knows, and everyone has been instructed to say nothing. “Any updates on the lockout?” asked Parker, who is 25 and on the game-day staff at Roger Dean. Short answer: Nope. Absolutely none. “Anxiousness has turned into frustration,” said Parker, a longtime St. Louis Cardinals fan. “I didn’t know [the lockout] was going to last 81 days and counting.” He sensed some judgment in a few beats of silence. He dropped his eyes and laughed. “Yeah, of course I’ve kept count,” Parker admitted. “Spring training is my favorite time of year.” In Jupiter, as in towns across Florida and Arizona, he’s not alone. MLB has postponed the start of spring training games until at least March 5. Full team workouts have not begun, either. Around Roger Dean this week, fans and business owners are bracing for a longer holding pattern. And it all comes after half of spring training was dashed by the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, then stunted by fear and attendance limits in 2021. This spring was supposed to be a sharp break in the right direction. Jupiter, and more specifically the community surrounding Roger Dean, where the Cardinals and Miami Marlins train and have minor league
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Spring training games are not starting on time amid the lockout.
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Roger Dean Stadium is the spring training home of the St. Louis Cardinals and Miami Marlins.
teams, felt like that was earned. “It’s really devastating,” said Dennis Witkowski, who has owned Stadium Grill, a popular spot right across from the ballpark, for 20 years. “It’s just a gut punch. We count on spring training every year. Our lives and business revolve around it. Florida remains a wonderful place to be in the winter. We still have that tourism, but you can’t replace the baseball fans.” On Sunday, discussions in the Stadium Grill ranged from the Daytona 500 to a recent Elton John tribute concert in a part of the city called Downtown Abacoa, where the restaurant is central to a retail hub near Roger Dean. The whole place, including a bar, two dining areas and a big outdoor patio, had fewer than a half dozen customers. The televisions were turned to NFL Network and English soccer. And Monday, at the end of the holiday weekend, Witkowski scheduled just one waiter and two cooks for the lunch shift. If Cardinals and Marlins workouts were in full swing, he would have had 13 waiters and seven cooks. So while baseball can be replaced in conversation
and on TV, there’s no sub for his bottom line. “It’s a huge impact financially for me because this is when we cash up for the leaner months,” said Vicki Parmelee, who has owned Jumby Bay Island Grill, a block down from the Stadium Grill, for 18 years. “But I feel even worse for the newer businesses that have come here and are really excited, like: ‘This is my first big spring training. We haven’t experienced that yet.’ And then they get this.” David Schroeder and his business partner, Thomas Op’t Holt, fit in that category. They opened Brick & Barrel Gastro Pub, across the street from Jumby Bay, in June 2020. Since, they’ve opened two other spots in Downtown Abacoa: Duke’s Tacos & Margs and Tavern Pi. Schroeder says “the stakes are much higher for us now.” Last March was Brick & Barrel’s best month yet, making Schroeder and Op’t Holt giddy for how this year would look. Then the lockout started in December and they shifted expectations. “We had literally been talking about it for a year,” Op’t
Holt said while sitting at the bar Tuesday. Their plan was to add staff and open for lunch, a few hours earlier than usual, once games began. They’ve been tasting their top-shelf whiskey and hoping for buyers. “Spring training being closed in March would be worse for us than another covid outbreak, like if they announced the zeta variant was coming. It would be that bad.” “The merchants around here are pretty tight - we all talk a lot,” Schroeder added. “The number I’ve heard is that March accounts for roughly 25 percent of business for the whole year. I’m not sure it’s quite that high for us. But even if it’s 15 to 20 percent, that’s substantial for any restaurant or store to miss. . . . You can feel it here when it rains during spring training. If there is a rainout or something, it’s like, ‘Oh, man, we’ve got 12 guys working.’ So not having any games at all would be a disaster. It’s like a very, very long rainout.” Lloyd Hyten, a die-hard Cardinals fan from Dexter, Mo., has been at 17 of the past 19 spring trainings in Jupiter. He and his wife, now retired, have spent
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Spring training is an annual tradition in Florida, but now fans and business owners are bracing for a longer holding pattern.
two full months here for the past six, not missing any Cardinals exhibitions at Roger Dean. On Monday, on their daily walk around the stadium, Hyten tapped the only open ticket window. He cupped his hands around his eyes, trying to block the sun glare and see inside. No one came, despite a lit-up “Open” sign. Hyten wanted to ask whether fans could watch the Cardinals’ minor leaguers work out. He promises he could get by if the lockout continues, whether by obsessing over prospects or spending more days at the beach. At a nearby gate, free copies of the Palm Beach Florida Weekly were stacked in a newspaper box. Flip toward the back, and the latest issue had 213 “Things To Do” through the
end of March. None mentioned “baseball” or “spring training.” Once Hyten left for the afternoon, a pair of kids, no older than 12, rode their bikes to the same ticket booth and parked. MLB officials were stirring directly above them, preparing for another round of bargaining that yielded incremental progress. This time, a woman sat behind the window. The boys asked if games would start March 6. She shrugged, offering no assurance or intel. “Why aren’t they playing?” asked one of the boys as they got back on their bikes. “Something with a lockout,” said the other, knocking up his kickstand to pedal away from the park.
Phil Mickelson issues mea culpa over Saudi comments Field Level Media
Six-time major champion Phil Mickelson issued a lengthy statement Tuesday addressing comments he made in an interview about plans for a Saudibacked golf league to rival the PGA Tour, adding that he “desperately (needs) some time away” from golf. At issue was an excerpt of a book author Alan Shipnuck shared online last week, in which Mickelson called Saudi businessmen “scary (expletive) to get involved with.” He admitted he was using their interest in launching a rival league as leverage to get players more money from the tour via enhanced media rights. “We know they killed
(Washington Post reporter and U.S. resident Jamal) Khashoggi and have a horrible record on human rights. They execute people over there for being gay,” Mickelson said. “Knowing all of this, why would I even consider it? Because this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to reshape how the PGA Tour operates.” Since those comments, high-profile golfers Dustin Johnson and Bryson DeChambeau announced they would remain on the PGA Tour rather than be swayed to the so-called Super Golf League, and Rory McIlroy called Mickelson’s comments “egotistical and ignorant” with the league “dead in the water.”
In a six-paragraph statement Tuesday, Mickelson did not directly acknowledge the PGA Tour, the Super Golf League or his peers’ criticism, and he hinted that Shipnuck took off-the-record remarks out of context. “Although it doesn’t look this way now given my recent comments, my actions throughout this process have always been with the best interest of golf, my peers, sponsors, and fans,” Mickelson said. “There is the problem of off record comments being shared out of context and without my consent, but the bigger issue is that I used words I sincerely regret that do not reflect my true feelings or intentions. It was
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WTA roundup: Emma Raducanu retires from Guadalajara opener Field Level Media
Great Britain’s Emma Raducanu couldn’t complete her first match since the Australian Open, retiring in the third set of an opening-round contest against Australia’s Daria Saville on Tuesday in the Abierto Akron Zapopan at Guadalajara, Mexico. The match was 3 1/2 hours old when Raducanu stopped. She earlier received treatment on her left leg/hip. Raducanu was up 7-5, 5-3, 30-15 in the second set, two points from a victory. She couldn’t close out the game, though, and she later squandered a 3-1 lead in the tiebreaker. In the third set, Raducanu broke serve in the opening game before Saville broke back for 2-2. Saville was up 4-3 when the match ended. Raducanu, 19, is the reigning U.S. Open
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helping them break their playoff drought in 1995 and later their World Series drought. He’d appear in five total World Series with the Bombers in addition to his one with Cincinnati in 1990. Over his nine years in the Bronx, the tenacious veteran hit .303 with a .377 on-base percentage and .492 slugging percentage. His .359 batting average during the strike-shortened 1994
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As big of a win as it is for the players, it might be an even bigger win for Cone. A former star player in her own right -with two Olympic gold medals and a 1999 World Cup title on her mantel -- she settled the case for more than $40 million less than the nearly $67 million the players originally sought. The differences in compensation were codified mainly by FIFA, world soccer’s governing body. Both the players and the USSF have called out FIFA for years over the discrepancy, and now they can do so even more strongly. “This is a momentous occasion, and just so important for the future of our relationship with the women’s team, and3/8 of the business that
champion. She stumbled in the second round of the year’s first major, the Australian Open, due in part to blisters on her right hand. Other first-round winners in Guadalajara were third-seeded Sara Sorribes Tormo of Spain, fourth-seeded Camila Osorio of Colombia, China’s Xinyu Wang, France’s Chloe Paquet, Poland’s Magdalena Frech and the United States pair of Hailey Baptiste and Caroline Dolehide. Qatar TotalEnergies Open Top-seeded Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus breezed to a 6-2, 6-2 win against France’s Alize Cornet in a second-round match at Doha, Qatar. The 2020 tournament champion won 24 of 29 points on her first serve and never faced a break point in the 74-minute match. Sabalenka’s next
opponent is Switzerland’s Jil Teichmann, who outlasted Belgium’s Alison Van Uytvanck 7-6 (9), 7-5. No. 8 seed Ons Jabeur of Tunisia rallied for a 1-6, 7-5, 6-3 victory against Aliaksandra Sasnovich of Belarus. Other seeded players advancing included No. 2 Barbora Krejcikova of the Czech Republic, No. 3 Paula Badosa of Spain, No. 6 Maria Sakkari of Greece, No. 7 Iga Swiatek of Poland, No. 9 Jessica Pegula, No. 14 Coco Gauff, No. 15 Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia and No. 16 Elise Mertens of Belgium. Other unseeded winners Tuesday included Tereza Martincova of the Czech Republic, Daria Kasatkina of Russia and Madison Brengle, who won in a walkover as No. 12 seed Victoria Azarenka of Belarus withdrew with a hip injury.
ATP roundup: Jannik Sinner advances, will face Andy Murray in Dubai Jannik Sinner saved three match points and came from behind to topple Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 4-6, 7-6 (6), 6-3 on Tuesday in the opening round of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships in the United Arab Emirates. Sinner was down a set and faced three match points at 6-3 in the second set tiebreaker before he rattled off five straight points to win the set and even the match against the Spaniard. The fourth-seeded Sinner broke his opponent’s serve to go up 4-2 in the third set and cruise to the win. In the next round, he’ll face former world No. 1 Andy Murray. Other winners Tuesday included second-seeded Andrey Rublev of Russia, a 6-4, 7-5 winner over Brit Daniel Evans; fifth seed Hubert Hurkacz of Poland, who ousted Alexander Bublik of Kazakhstan, 6-3, 6-1; sixth seed Denis Shapovalov of Canada, a 4-6, 6-4, 7-5 winner over Hungary’s Marton Fucsovics; and eighth seed
Roberto Bautista Agut, who shut down France’s Arthur Rinderknech. Chile Dove Men+Care Open Sixth-seeded Miomir Kecmanovic wore down Italian Marco Cecchinato to earn a 7-5, 6-1 win in Santiago, Chile. Serving at 5-5 in the first set, Cecchinato quickly faced triple break point at 15-40, then fought off six break points in all before dropping the game to the Serbian. Kecmanovic polished off the deciding game in the set, then needed just 31 minutes to win the second set and the match. Other winners were seventh seed Sebastian Baez of Argentina, Spaniards Carlos Taberner and Jaume Munar, and Hugo Dellien of Bolivia. Germany’s Yannick Hanfmann rallied to knock off fifth seed Federico Coria of Argentina 3-6, 6-2, 6-4. Abierto Mexicano Telcel Top-seeded Daniil Medvedev of Russia and fourthseeded Rafael Nadal of Spain cruised to first-round wins
Tuesday in Acapulco, Mexico. Medvedev defeated France’s Benoit Paire 6-3, 6-4, and Nadal dumped the United States’ Denis Kudla 6-3, 6-2. The victory was Nadal’s 11th in a row to start the season, matching the best beginning of his career. The two stars would meet in the semifinals if they each win their next two matches. Third-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece also won in straight sets, but he faced a tougher challenge, edging Serbia’s Laslo Djere 7-6 (7), 7-6 (4). Djere failed to take advantage of two set points in the opening set. Fifth-seeded Matteo Berrettini of Italy was forced to retire from his match while trailing 5-1 in the second set against the United States’ Tommy Paul. Berrettini had won the first set 6-4. Also advancing were sixthseeded Cameron Norrie of Great Britain, Japan’s Yoshihito Nishioka, Spain’s Pablo Andujar and the United States pair of Marcos Giron and J.J. Wolf.
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season also won him a batting title. From 1993 to 2001, the entirety of his Yankee career, O’Neill was worth 26.7 Wins Above Replacement, making him the eighth-most valuable American League outfielder during that stretch. In 304 postseason plate appearances with the Yankees, O’Neill hit .281 and socked 10 home runs, 14 doubles and drove in 34 runs in 76 games. At 37 years old, he had a strong case for MVP of the 2000 World Series, ultimately losing to Jeter. In that five-game triumph over the Mets, O’Neill slashed .474/.545/.789 with
four of his nine hits going for extra bases, including two triples. Early in his Yankee tenure, he also made a sterling defensive play to help seal the first World Series win of the dynastic run. In Game 5 of the 1996 series in Atlanta, O’Neill ranged deep into the gap to make a stabbing catch for the game’s final out, preserving a 1-0 win. Other memorable O’Neill postseason moments include his 10-pitch walk against Armando Benitez in Game 1 of the Subway Series (a game which the Yankees were losing
until O’Neill sparked a rally) and winning the 1999 championship after his father passed away during the World Series. While two short-lived Yankees (LaTroy Hawkins and Morgan Ensberg in 2008) have worn 21 since O’Neill retired, the number has basically been on ice for years. In 2017 when New Jersey native Todd Frazier was traded to the Yankees, he asked to wear the number specifically as a tribute to O’Neill. Instead, Frazier was given No. 29 after the equipment staff explained the potential controversy it could drum up, as both Hawkins and
Ensberg were booed for having the audacity to wear an unretired number, even though Ensberg switched away from it during spring training. Rather than address the situation, O’Neill did not comment, turning a very minor story into a major headline. Now, with the number retirement becoming official, we can finally put the “Should anyone wear No. 21?” discussion to bed in favor of “Should No. 21 be retired at all?” For what it’s worth, O’Neill does not rank in the franchise’s top 10 in career batting average, on-base percentage,
slugging percentage, WAR, hits, doubles, home runs, RBIs or wRC+. All guests in attendance for the Aug. 21 game against the Blue Jays will not only get to witness the retirement ceremony, they’ll also receive a commemorative “Paul O’Neill Day” ticket. Looking ahead, CC Sabathia’s No. 52 seems like the next in line for retirement, as the team has already kept that out of circulation since his final game in 2019.
1-0-2. Totals 20-17-62, 3-pointers: DeVito 2, Goverski 2, Richardson. Schuylerville 79, Hudson 59 SCHUYLVERVILLE — Schuylerville pulled away from a close game with a 4223 scoring edge in the second half to defeat Hudson, 79-59, in the first-round of the Section II Class B boys basketball playoffs on Tuesday at Schuylerville High School. Hudson led 20-19 after one
quarter and trailed by just 3736 at halftime, but the Black Horses put the game away with their big second half. Luke Sherman led Schuylerville with 29 points (five 3-pointers). Owen Sherman had 23 (five 3-pointers) and Ryan Dow added 19. Dez Wallace topped Hudson with 20 points. Isaiah Maines added 17 and Jordan Cunningham had 14. HUDSON (79): Coopersmith 1-2-4, Cunningham
6-1-14, Maines 8-1-17, Taylor 2-0-4, Wallace 6-2-20. Totals 23-6-59. 3-pointers: Wallace 6, Cunningham. SCHUYLERVILLE (59): Bolduc 3-0-6, Down 9-1-19, Luzadis 1-02, L. Sherman 9-629, O. Sherman 8-2-23. Totals 29-9-79. 3-pointers: L. Sherman 5, O. Sherman 5, Dow 2. GIRLS BASKETBALL CLASS D Hartford 65,
Germantown 25 HARTFORD — Alawnah Dunda and Gabrielle McFarren combined for 36 points to lead No. 1 Hartford to a 65-25 victory over No. 8 Germantown in Tuesday’s Section II Class D girls basketball quarterfinal. Hartford led 15-8 after one quarter, 32-12 at halftime and 51-19 after three quarters. Katie Bathrick was Germantown’s top scorer with nine points. Ryane Anderson had
five. GERMANTOWN (25): B. Anderson 1-0-2, R. Anderson 1-3-5, Bathrick 3-2-9, Cidras 2-0-4, Heuer 2-0-4, Wyant 0-11. Totals 9-6-25. 3-pointers: Bathrick. HARTFORD (65): Dunda 8-3-19, French 0-1-1, Johnson 4-0-9, Liebeg 0-1-1, McFarren 7-0-17, Nadreau 1-0-2, Nims 4-0-10, Severence 2-0-6. Totals 26-7-65. 3-pointers: McFarren 3, Severence 2, Johnson.
this will help create from a commercial standpoint, from a broadcast rights standpoint,” Cone said. “But just on a personal level, being a former player, this was something that I have tried to resolve since the day I became president. It took me a lot longer than I was expecting it to take, but we got here today and I couldn’t be more excited.” Major League Soccer commissioner Don Garber, who in addition to running that league is on the U.S. Soccer board, praised Cone for the accomplishment. “If it wasn’t for her focus and her courage and her steadfastness, I don’t believe that she would have been able to lead a settlement,” Garber said. “So I want to congratulate her for that.” Cone is running for reelection to the USSF presidency against Carlos Cordeiro, her predecessor. Cordeiro was
president when the federation’s lawyers published a filing with sexist language in the equal pay lawsuit, and when women’s team star Christen Press filed a complaint in 2018 accusing her then-club coach at the NWSL’s Chicago Red Stars of emotional abuse. Cordeiro claimed he didn’t know about either matter at the time, but still resigned in March 2020 after the sexist filing. The lawsuit’s latest appeal hearing was set for March 7, two days after the election will take place at U.S. Soccer’s annual general meeting. “I’ll be the first to admit that the federation has made mistakes in the past, and as a former player, I definitely understand the frustration of being treated that way -- and in dealing with my predecessor,” she said, a barely-veiled shot across the ballot. “But I’m very proud of the work that we’ve done and continue to do on
equal pay. And this is just one step towards rebuilding our relationship with the women’s team.” It remains to be seen how the settlement will affect the election, in which just over 40% of the electorate is made up of state and regional-level youth and adult amateur soccer associations. Many of those entities have backed Cordeiro thus far, complaining that Cone has paid too little attention to them and too much attention to the senior national teams -- especially the women. Garber, for the record, would not say who he’s voting for when he was asked directly Tuesday. Nor would the two Athletes’ Council members on the players’ call, Sauerbrunn and Morgan. Players, supporters celebrate While the players didn’t show their cards on the election, it’s no secret that they don’t like Cordeiro. When the
news of his candidacy was first reported, Rapinoe accused him on Twitter of resigning because he “embarrassed everything and everyone with caveman levels of misogyny.” Now Rapinoe and her teammates are celebrating. “It’s a Herculean task to win a World Cup, certainly in the fashion we did with all that we were fighting for off the field,” Rapinoe said. “And this felt just as Herculean -- or probably bigger in so many ways.” Sauerbrunn barely hid her feelings, either. “Cindy, this is a thank you to you for your leadership,” she said. “You became president at a time when I think our relationship with the federation was at its worst, and you opened up dialogue with the players, and you did exactly what you said you were going to do. And so thank you for your efforts, and we really look forward to rebuilding that relationship.”
Sauerbrunn also cited a tweet by Sophia Smith, one of the U.S. team’s rising stars, which said: “No amount of words can say thank you enough to all of the USWNT players who have been fighting for this for so many years. Not only for themselves but for the next generation and every single one after that. Thank you for never giving up and teaching us to never settle for less.” And the U.S. women’s team’s current captain thanked the U.S. men’s players union for its support of the women’s cause. “The fact that they’re sitting in on a lot of these sessions and we are coordinating compensation proposals and things like that,” Sauerbrunn said, “I think really shows that they are a proponent, and they see the value in women being treated and paid equally to them.”
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Ichabod Crane’s Alex Schmidt (5) guards Catskill’s Azar Brantley (1) during Tuesday’s Section II Class B boys basketball first-round playoff game at Ichabod Crane High School.
Ichabod Crane’s Jack Mullins (12) drives against Catskill’s Azar Brantley (1) during Tuesday’s Section II Class B boys basketball first-round playoff game at Ichabod Crane High School.
Ichabod Crane’s Dylan McCrudden pulls down a rebound in front of Catskill’s Patrick Darling during Tuesday’s Section II Class B boys basketball first-round playoff game at Ichabod Crane High School.
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Mullins drained another three for the Riders as their play execution looked more polished. Richards caught an airball underneath the hoop and laid it in for two points. Then Schmidt slashed into the paint, switched hands, and made the layup from behind the backboard. The Riders stole a pass late, and Quinn Rapport made the bucket and got the foul at the buzzer. Rapport completed the three point play with a free throw and Ichabod Crane led 24-6 after one quarter; Sean Haye scored all six of the Cats’ points in the first period. Dylan McCrudden drilled a three pointer from the top of the arc to start the second quarter for the Riders. Brett Richards made a layup after stealing it from Haye and taking it the length of the court. Richards fought through a foul by Catskill’s Jacob Devlin on the play to make the shot, but missed the free throw and his chance at three points afterward. The Catskill bench showed continued frustration throughout the second quarter, with the officials making a number of questionable calls. The Cats found it hard to play good defense as well throughout the rest of the half, with so many fouls called on them already. The Riders took advantage with their relentless offense, scoring 23 points in the quarter to take a 47-19 lead at halftime. Gibbs had two nice shot deflections in the first few possessions of the third period, giving Catskill a burst of energy. The Cats scored at a decent clip in the quarter, but any momentum whatsoever was stifled by the Riders’ perpetual success with the ball. Late in the period, one official was overruled by the other and a foul was called in favor of Catskill but after possession had already changed twice on a loose ball. The referees were subsequently showered with boos and criticism from the stands as the fans voiced their displeasure. Patrick Darling got an inbound pass and threw a shot up from three-quarters court as time expired in the third, but it bounced off the backboard hard to end the period. Ichabod Crane led 54-32 as the fourth quarter began
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Ichabdo Crane’s Brett Richards (right) attempts to take the ball away from Catskill’s Sean Haye during Tuesday’s Section II Class B boys basketball first-round playoff game at Ichabod Crane High School.
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Ichabod Crane’s Alex Schmidt brings the ball up the floor while being closely guarded by Catskill’s Kellen Gibbs during Tuesday’s Section II Class B boys basketball first-round playoff game at Ichabod Crane High School.
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Catskill’s Sean Haye (22) takes a shot over Ichabod Crane’s Brett richards (24) during Tuesday’s Section II Class B boys basketball first-round playoff game at Ichabod Crane High School.
and the Riders looked to wrap things up quickly. Haye was fouled and awarded the basket on his continuation and he made the foul shot to complete the three point play for Catskill.
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Ichabdo crane’s Alex Schmidt (5) puts up a shot as Catskill’s Lucas Konsul defends during Tuesday’s Section II Class B boys basketball first-round playoff game at Ichabod Crane High School.
Avery Clickman got a pass down low and made a nifty turnaround layup from close range for the Riders. There were still a number of missed calls and questionable decisions by the officials down the
stretch, in the fourth quarter of a game that was not close. Azar Brantley knocked down a deep three pointer in a last gasp to turn the corner for the Cats with only a few minutes remaining, but it would
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Ichabod Crane’s Jack Mullins (12) looks to pass as Catskill’s Lucas Konsul (right) and Jacob Devlin defend during Tuesday’s Section II Class B boys basketball first-round playoff game at Ichabod Crane High School.
not be enough. The Ichabod Crane Riders defeated the Catskill Cats
69-45 in the first round of the Section II Class B playoffs in front of their home crowd.
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Ichabod Crane’s Brett Richards (24) drives the baseline against Catskill’s Patrick Darling during Tuesday’s Section II Class B boys basketball first-round playoff game at Ichabod Crane High School.
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Ichabod Crane’s Avery Clickman drives to the basket during Tuesday’s Section II Class B boys basketball first-round playoff game against Catskill at Ichabod Crane High School.
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Late brother’s dying wish becomes one-sided Dear Abby, I am one of six adult siblings. Our youngest brother, “Clark,” died of cancer five years ago. He was my best friend. As kids, we did everything together, and we remained close as we got older. As he was dying, DEAR ABBY Clark asked me to keep his wife, “Liz,” and his children in the family. I have tried my best. Every year, I have a large family Christmas party. Liz and her children attend and seem to have a good time. I call or text her monthly, but I rarely receive a reply. She did text me happy birthday. I was OK with this until I heard from my nephew (Clark’s son) that there was a memorial service for him. When I asked him who was there, he said everybody. It really hurt because I wasn’t informed, nor were any of my siblings. I want to respect Clark’s wishes, but even before this, Liz didn’t seem to respect my nuclear family. I don’t know what to do going forward because I have such sad and angry feelings over not being invited to his memorial. Conflicted Sis In The East
JEANNE PHILLIPS
Please accept my sympathy for the loss of your brother. What you should do is call your former sister-in-law and ask her WHY you and your siblings were excluded from the memorial, which is a shocking oversight. Then, if her apology is not satisfactory, consider yourself relieved of that deathbed promise, which clearly hasn’t been appreciated. Dear Abby, I was recently in a restaurant with a
friend who is deaf. (I can hear.) We were using American Sign Language to communicate. A group walked past us, saw we were using sign language and assumed neither of us could hear. One of them told her friends we were deaf and dumb. When the server came to my table to take our order and they realized I could hear, they were visibly surprised. The speaker did not appear to be embarrassed by what she had said. The woman’s back was turned to my friend, so my friend was unaware of it. (Thank heavens, because my friend can read lips.) I didn’t say anything at the time and let it go. Should I have? I didn’t because their table was near ours, and I was afraid the woman would have gotten ruder and made the whole dining experience bad. Should I have said something to the manager or server and sat at another table? If the manager had said something to her, I doubt she would have admitted what she said. Not Right In Ohio You were right not to challenge the woman who said that. If she wasn’t embarrassed when it turned out you could hear clearly, little you could say would have shamed her. There was nothing the restaurant manager could do about this woman’s breach of etiquette. You, however, could have asked to change your table if you were no longer comfortable seated next to that party.
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Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
Horoscope By Stella Wilder Born today, you are one of the most inventive individuals born under your sign, and you know how to take charge of something so that what you envision for yourself and others actually comes to pass. You are never afraid of hard work, and you are perfectly capable of balancing your home life with the needs of your career — and yet it does not always seem so because you are so often off to work even when important things are happening at home. Despite being wicked-smart, there are times when you simply don’t know how to approach the most routine issues and problems in your daily life. Perhaps it’s because you are so often caught up in other issues that require highpowered mental acuity that you so often, and quite suddenly, find yourself stumped by simple daily complications. Also born on this date are: Steve Jobs, computer mogul; Abe Vigoda, actor; Beth Broderick, actress; Billy Zane, actor; Edward James Olmos, actor; Barry Bostwick, actor; George Thorogood, singer and musician; Joanie Sommers, singer 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. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 25 PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — You can use almost everything that happens to you today as inspiration for something that you will soon be planning in detail. ARIES (March 21-April 19) — You can learn from your mistakes today, but you’ll eventually want to stop making them at all — and that lesson begins before nightfall. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — What comes
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Zits your way today may not be entirely to your taste, but you may be able to make adjustments that improve its overall suitability. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Seek and ye shall find today — but you must be sure that you are seeking the right things in the right places. Don’t endanger yourself! CANCER (June 21-July 22) — You may be tired of all the bad news you’re hearing these days, but take time to dig a little deeper and you’ll find something to celebrate. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Are you really giving your all to a project that demands nothing less? It may be time to stop and reassess your performance on the job at this time. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You should be able to determine what exactly is making someone behave in a certain way — but you won’t be able to stop it just yet. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You may be tempted to do something that goes against conventional wisdom. Think twice, and if you still want to do it, by all means do! SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — You will benefit from narrowing your focus just a bit today and letting others take care of peripheral issues that don’t involve you. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Your well-being must be at the forefront of your mind today, because if you’re not healthy, you cannot help others who need your help. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You may be nearing a “point of no return,” but there’s still enough time today to reach out to someone who may soon be out of touch. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — You may not understand yourself as well as certain friends or loved ones do right now, so there’s no reason not to listen to their advice.
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SHOCKED Both vulnerable, South deals NORTH ♠J765 ♥ A J 10 7 5 ♦ 64 ♣A4 WEST EAST ♠A93 ♠ K Q 10 2 ♥4 ♥ K9863 ♦ A Q 10 9 8 7 3 ♦ J2 ♣98 ♣52 SOUTH ♠84 ♥ Q2 ♦ K5 ♣ K Q J 10 7 6 3
Opening lead: ? Today’s deal is from a team competition where the North-South pairs at both tables were playing the Precision system, thus the two-club opening bid. The auctions were essentially the
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SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST 2♣* 2♦ 2♥ Pass 2NT Pass 3NT All pass *11-15 points, usually 6 or more clubs
same at both tables. Our thanks go to bridge great Larry Cohen for bringing this deal to our attention. Holding the West hand, what would you lead? Most experts, according to Cohen, would lead the ace of diamonds to have a look at dummy. They could then decide how best to continue, perhaps with the queen of diamonds if dummy started with a doubleton jack. If there are three diamonds in dummy and partner follows to the opening lead, a low diamond continuation will knock out the king and set up the rest of the suit. The ace of spades, hopefully, will provide an entry to run the diamonds. Should you lead the ace of diamonds, you had better find a spade shift or declarer will be scoring up his ambitious contract. Neither West led the ace of diamonds. One led the ace of spades and continued spades. East took his spades and shifted to the jack of diamonds. The defense took seven diamonds tricks to defeat the contract seven tricks! Plus 700 was a score to be proud of. At the other table, West led his four of hearts. Declarer, with only eight tricks, thought the heart finesse would give him nine, or more. He played low from dummy and he went down eight tricks! East-West at the first table must have been shocked to learn that they lost points on this deal.
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Free Range THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME
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DOYDL FATSF LPSIVE VLIRDE Solution to Wednesday’s puzzle
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Answer here: Yesterday’s
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Heart of the City
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For Better or For Worse
Wizard of Id
Crossword Puzzle
ACROSS 1 Word that means nothing 5 Engine 10 __-carotene; carrot ingredient 14 Imitated 15 Of sheep 16 Picnic spoiler 17 Russert & McGraw 18 Arrested an escapee 20 Yoko __ 21 Too thin 22 Weather forecast 23 __ off; becomes less angry 25 Four-yr. degrees 26 Scours 28 Undies, for some 31 Gladden 32 Spotless 34 Is __ to; probably will 36 Takes nourishment 37 Item in a bedding package 38 Musketeers or Stooges 39 Fraternity letter 40 College credits 41 Uses a sieve 42 Like a panoramic view 44 Delhi dollars 45 __ off; steal from 46 Damp 47 Monastery superior 50 Gravy holder 51 NBC competitor 54 Man who weds 57 Equestrian’s command 58 Veronica or Ricki 59 TV’s “__ Line Is It Anyway?” 60 Steerer’s place 61 Eagle-__; very observant 62 Feeling ho-hum 63 Chances DOWN 1 Post-WWII alliance 2 As neat as __ 3 Like a blue state 4 Billboards 5 Ethics 6 Pizzeria appliances
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7 Lyme disease spreader 8 “Cat __ Hot Tin Roof” 9 House member: abbr. 10 Black-and-blue mark 11 Be a breadwinner 12 Tongue-__; speechless 13 Boy’s nickname 19 Author Mark 21 Frontal __; brain section 24 Inning enders 25 Sassy child 26 Flow out slowly 27 Group headed by a teacher 28 Buzzers 29 Unlikely; hard to believe 30 Vindictiveness 32 Fashionably dressed 33 “__ Me Call You Sweetheart” 35 Fling 37 Cut off split ends, e.g. 38 Helpful hints
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Wednesday’s Puzzle Solved
Non Sequitur
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40 Bring together 41 Formal attire 43 Wore away 44 Walked about aimlessly 46 Yellowstone grazer 47 Qualified 48 Donkey’s noise 49 Schwinn, for one
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50 Crude person 52 Daring 53 Snead & Peckinpah 55 Clinton’s successor, for short 56 Letter from Greece 57 Which person?
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Now arrange the circled letters to form the surprise answer, as suggested by the above cartoon.
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Unscramble these Jumbles, one letter to each square, to form four ordinary words.
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