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Greene temporarily halts test clinics By Ted Remsnyder Columbia-Greene Media

CATSKILL — With the proliferation of at-home COVID-19 tests now available in stores and through the mail free of charge through a federal government program, Greene County Public Health will host its final COVID testing clinic for the time being in Coxsackie on Wednesday. When COVID cases surged in December and January as the omicron wave caused a spike in positive tests, Greene County Public Health held twice-weekly testing clinics at 370 Mansion St. in Coxsackie

on Mondays and Wednesdays. Last month the sessions were reduced to one per week, but Greene County Administrator Shaun Groden said Monday that with cases falling and smaller turnout at the clinics in recent weeks that they would be paused for now. “It’s that (low turnout) and the distribution of home kits,” Groden said. “That will probably be our last one.” At the county’s clinic in Coxsackie on Jan. 31, 10 people showed up to get tested, with two returning positive results. Groden said the testing clinics could resume if COVID

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The first lunch service for the Stella’s II Pizzeria & Pancake House as it reopened on Thursday.

numbers begin to rise again and there’s a demand for testing. “If things turn around and all of a sudden things look worse, then absolutely they could resume,” he said. The testing clinic in Coxsackie on Feb. 9 runs from 10 a.m. to noon at 370 Mansion St. Public Health is urging residents who test positive for COVID through an at-home test to report their positive result to the agency via the county’s online portal.

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Greene County Public Health will hold its final COVID testing clinic for the time being on Wednesday in Coxsackie.

After fire, setbacks, Athens eatery returns TED REMSNYDER/COLUMBIA-GREENE MEDIA

The Stella’s II Pizzeria & Pancake House reopened on Thursday, 15 months after a devastingh fire shuttered the business.

By Ted Remsnyder Columbia-Greene Media

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The Stella’s II Pizzeria & Pancake House was decimated by a fastmoving fire on Nov. 1, 2020.

ATHENS — Fifteen months after a fire decimated the Stella’s II Pizzeria & Pancake House in Athens, the restaurant made a triumphant return at the same location on Thursday. The 6 South Water

St. eatery reopened its doors on Feb. 3 with a full menu of breakfast, lunch and dinner items. A fire tore through the pizzeria Nov. 1, 2020, with fire companies from Athens, West Athens, Catskill and Coxsackie all responding to the inferno. No one was inside the

restaurant at the time of the Sunday night fire and Stella’s II confirmed in the aftermath of the blaze that the business had been completely destroyed as a result of the fire. In June, the proprietors began posting updates on social media showing renovations taking place in the Water

Street pizzeria, with hopes of reopening by the end of September. The pizzeria experienced several more rounds of delays last fall, as the reopening date kept getting pushed into the distance. See RETURNS A8

Earlton fire that damaged home was electrical By Bill Williams Columbia-Greene Media

EARLTON — A family is homeless after a weekend fire tore through their mobile home, Earlton Fire Chief Pat Donovan said Monday. An investigation into the cause of the fire determined it was electrical in nature, Donovan said. Firefighters fought the blaze in frigid conditions. Temperatures were in the single digits at the time of the fire. The American Red Cross provided immediate emergency aid to the two adults in the aftermath of the earlymorning blaze. The home was badly

damaged. Two rooms sustained significant fire damage and the rest of the home had water and smoke damage throughout, Donovan said. At about 2:30 a.m. Sunday, Greene County 911 sent Earlton Fire Department to 1725 Potic Mountain Road after the homeowners reported that their mobile home was on fire. The family and their two pets were able to get out of the home safely before firefighters arrived, Donovan said. When crews first arrived on the scene, the fire was burning heavily in the living room area. Fire officials immediately requested mutual-aid assistance from West Athens

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Lime Street Fire Company. Firefighters fought the blaze from outside and inside the home. After the fire was declared out, they began checking the rest of the structure to make sure there were no areas where the fire could begin again. Central Hudson Gas and Electric was requested to the scene to disconnect power. Assisting at the fire scene were Coxsackie Ambulance, Greene County Paramedics, Greene County Sheriff’s Office, and Greene County Fire Coordinator’s Office. All firefighters were back in service at 5:30 a.m.

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A mobile home in Earlton was badly damaged by fire Sunday morning.

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CoxsackieAthens wins For the first time ever, Section II Class C Champions. PAGE B1

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Five months after he resigned over a swirl of sexual harassment allegations, New York’s former Governor Andrew Cuomo isn’t ruling out another run for public office. He insists it’s too soon to talk about it. Instead, he’s consumed by what he alleges are serious mistakes by New York State Attorney General Letitia James and the independent lawyers who investigated the sexual harassment claims against him. Her office determined the accounts of 11 different women were credible and that Cuomo “violated multiple federal and state harassment laws,” according to the Aug. 3 report. The findings were so damaging and explosive that Cuomo resigned BLOOMBERG PHOTO BY JEENAH MOON weeks after the report’s release. Andrew Cuomo, former governor of New York, pauses during a But if he had to do it all over, news conference in New York on Monday, Oct. 5, 2020. he wouldn’t have resigned, the former governor, 64, told Bloomberg News in a Friday capital he has left to achieve that have a favorable view of Hochul, including 60% of Democrats, telephone interview, one of a goal. according to a January Siena Cuomo wouldn’t disclose his handful since leaving office. “I never resigned because I said I exact location during the inter- poll. James has good favorability did something wrong. I said, I’m view, but while he spoke, he was ratings on her performance as resigning because I don’t want audibly rolling pool balls across attorney general as well -- 55% to be a distraction,” Cuomo a pool table, which clinked and of Democrats approve of her. clacked while he talked. Before For now, Cuomo is preoccusaid. James’s office is unsparing in his resignation, the Executive pied with James, who he blames its rebuttal. “No one, including Mansion in Albany was his only for his downfall. Cuomo, himself a lawyer and former state Andrew Cuomo, can dispute home. attorney general, calls what As for his whereabouts, he the fact that multiple investigations found allegations of said he’s in New York most James did “prosecutorial missexual harassment against him of the time, but also visits his conduct.” He is advocating for a to be credible,” a spokesperson daughters in Los Angeles, Chi- state law that would hold prossaid in a statement. “Only he is cago and Philadelphia. He re- ecutors responsible for such to blame for inappropriately cently got a haircut, he offered, lapses, though it seems unlikely touching his own staff and then a move that elicited comments to pass a state Legislature that quitting so he didn’t have to face from strangers on the streets of investigated a possible imimpeachment. His baseless at- New York City, after he shared a peachment before he resigned. He said be believes her investacks won’t change the reality -- bearded photo on social media tigation was politically motivatAndrew Cuomo is a serial sexual last fall. Two people familiar with ed and pointed to her brief run harasser.” None of that - the AG probe, his thinking say Cuomo has for governor, before dropping an impeachment investigation recently expressed eagerness her campaign last December by his fellow Democrats in the to re-enter public life, in some and deciding to run for re-elecLegislature, his resignation - has form or fashion. Since he wasn’t tion. Cuomo and his allies sucdissuaded Cuomo from return- impeached, he isn’t barred from cessfully pushed James’s ofdoing so. ing to public life. On the ballot in Novem- fice to release full transcripts of Since July, he’s spent more than $2 million from what’s ber are governor of New York, hundreds of hours of interviews now a $16.4 million campaign where Governor Kathy Hochul, conducted as part of the investiwar chest on legal fees, public who took over when Cuomo gation, contending their words relations and other payments to resigned, leads the Democratic had been twisted and parts of staff. He’s still sending out press race, and state attorney general, testimony left out of the public releases about political events where James is seeking re-elec- report. Specifically, Cuomo’s attorney has said the investigaand recently dined with New tion. But support for the once- tors didn’t follow up on or quesYork City Mayor Eric Adams at Manhattan restaurant Osteria popular Cuomo has plum- tion Cuomo’s accusers about meted, raising the question evidence and testimony they La Baia. But Cuomo isn’t quite ready of whether New Yorkers want accumulated during the course to commit to another political him to return. More than two of their inquiry that raised quescampaign because he is fix- thirds of voters, including 55% tions about some accusers’ moated on first clearing his family of Democrats, said they thought tives, or demonstrated inconsisname and righting what he sees he should resign in a September tencies in their accounts. “It turns out in a remarkably as wrongs done to him and his Siena poll. His favorability ratclosest aides. This is his full-time ing, 34-55, dropped to its lowest short period of time that it did work these days, and he seems point since taking office in 2011. become all bogus. 11 became By contrast, 45% of voters zero,” Cuomo said. “If you do an willing to risk what little political

honest summary, which is what I get from people on the street, I have been vindicated.” In truth, the New York DAs said they found the accounts of the women to be credible despite not pursuing criminal charges against Cuomo. The decision is “not an exoneration” of Cuomo, said DA Gregory Oakes in upstate Oswego County, noting that current New York statutes “fail to properly hold offenders accountable and fail to adequately protect victims.” Cuomo’s story returned to the headlines last week when CNN president Jeff Zucker abruptly resigned for failing to disclose a relationship with a longtime coworker. Zucker’s relationship was revealed as part of the network’s investigation into former program host Chris Cuomo, who was fired after the AG report showed him improperly gathering information about sexualharassment accusations against his brother. Andrew Cuomo declined to get into details about Chris Cuomo’s departure, or the Zucker resignation, beyond saying Chris’s firing hurt him more than his own resignation. Beyond the damage to him and his closest allies, “I think what they did here undermines the MeToo movement and the women’s movement and undermines the law,” Cuomo said of the AG probe. “Because when you politicize claims, or trivialize claims, the next woman who has a legitimate claim is going to get painted with the same brush.” Cuomo’s critics say it is Cuomo and his team who are engaged in ugly politics as they seek to discredit his accusers. They note that he is employing a classic strategy that feeds into women’s reluctance to come forward with allegations against powerful men -- by questioning their credibility, and in effect, calling them liars. This is the very idea that fueled the MeToo movement in the first place, critics say, the need to convince women their stories needed to be told even if their own integrity came under attack. Cuomo “should just accept responsibility for his actions and move on,” said Julie Gerchik, an attorney for Lindsay Boylan, a former Cuomo aide who was the first woman to publicly accuse him of sexual harassment. “Two independent investigations found he sexually harassed multiple women. Enough is enough.”

Canada-style Covid protests go global with demonstrators Ben Westcott Bloomberg

A group of anti-vaccination demonstrators and conspiracy theorists have blocked roads and targeted businesses in the Australian capital of Canberra ahead of the return of federal parliament on Tuesday, in an echo of similar protests in Canada. Hundreds of cars and trucks waving Australian flags, military insignia and campaign banners for former U.S. President Donald Trump descended on the city over the past week calling for the end to vaccination requirements in businesses and places of employment. Demonstrators blocked roads around the airport on Sunday when politicians and their staff were returning to Canberra from around the country ahead of the parliamentary sitting week. A small number of police were deployed to the airport to stop the demonstrators

from accessing the building. The chaotic demonstrations have been compared to the hundreds of truckers and protesters have occupied the streets of the Canadian capital Ottawa for weeks to call for an end to Covid-19 restrictions. The Australian protests have attracted a mixed bag of demonstrators. These include advocates of the “sovereign citizen” movement that generally believes people aren’t bound by certain laws and QAnon-style conspiracy theorists who claim without evidence that the government is run by a secret network of pedophiles who traffic children. Neither Prime Minister Scott Morrison or the Opposition Labor Party have commented on the Canberra protests. Australia is one of the most vaccinated countries in the world, with almost 94% of the population over 16 receiving both shots of a Covid-19

vaccine. While the government has ruled out making it mandatory for citizens to get vaccinated, many people have been required to have both their shots before they can return to work, including healthcare professionals. Despite the high vaccination rates, a vocal minority of Australians have refused to get their shots, leading to the protests in Canberra. While the anti-vaccination demonstrators claim their numbers have reached more than 100,000 at times, local media put the total number of attendees is closer to a few thousand. Sunday’s demonstrations followed weeks of incidents across the capital involving the protesters, including multiple clashes outside Australia’s Parliament House and attempts to blockade the National Press Club on Tuesday when Prime Minister Scott Morrison was making a speech.

On Dec. 30, the doors of Canberra’s Old Parliament House were set on fire during an antivaccination demonstration.

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Monday, Feb. 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, Feb. 8 n Catskill Town Planning Board 6:30

p.m. Robert C. Antonelli Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill 518-943-2141 n Coxsackie Village Historic Preservation Committee 6 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie 518-7312718

Wednesday, Feb. 9 n Athens Town Zoning Board of Appeals 7 p.m. Athens Volunteer Firehouse, 39 Third St., Athens n Athens Village Board 6:30 p.m. Athens Fire Department, 39 Third St., Athens Consult the village website for updates the day of the meeting n Catskill Central School District Board of Education budget workshop 6:30 p.m. CHS Library, CHS Library, 341 West Main St., Catskill 518-9432300 n Catskill Village Board of Trustees 6:30 p.m. Robert C. Antonelli Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill n Greene County Legislature workshop 6 p.m. Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill n Jewett Town Board 7 p.m. Jewett Municipal Building, 3547 County Route 23C, Jewett

Thursday, Feb. 10 n Coxsackie Village Workshop 6 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie 518-731-2718 n Greene County Legislature finance audit 4 p.m.

Monday, Feb. 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 n Coxsackie Village Board 7 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie 518-731-2718 n Greene County Legislature county services; public works; economic development and tourism; gov. ops.; finance; Rep. and Dem caucus 6 p.m. Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill

Tuesday, Feb. 15 n Athens Village Planning Board

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

Wednesday, Feb. 16 n Catskill Central School Board

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

Thursday, Feb. 17 n Coxsackie Village Planning Board

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Monday, Feb. 28 n Catskill Village Planning Board 7

p.m. Robert C. Antonelli Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill

Hochul to amend mask mandate for businesses By Kate Lisa Johnson Newspaper Corp.

KINGSTON — The statewide mandate requiring people wear face masks or show proof of vaccination against COVID-19 to enter a New York business will be changing soon, Gov. Kathy Hochul said Monday, adding she will be announcing an update to the order in the coming days. Executive aides and health officials said they would evaluate the Dec. 13 mandate issued by state Department of Health Commissioner Dr. Mary T. Bassett set to expire Thursday on a two-week basis. The governor is preparing New Yorkers for relaxed pandemic safety measures as the state’s daily COVID positivity rate declined to 4.2% Monday — its lowest since before Thanksgiving and the following winter surge, which peaked at 23% in early January. “I’ll be making an

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Gov. Kathy Hochul speaks Dec. 27 during a COVID-19 briefing in Manhattan.

announcement on Wednesday about one of our mask or vaccination requirements,” Hochul said Monday afternoon during an unrelated briefing in Ulster County about last Friday’s winter storm. The mandate was put into place after the discovery of the more contagious omicron COVID variant in late

November. “We saw signs omicron could be wildly contagious ... so we put protections in place,” Hochul added. “We’ll be having a conversation about that if you can just hold until Wednesday’s news conference.” The specific time and location of Wednesday’s briefing will be announced late

Tuesday. Face masks continue to be required for any person age 2 or older who enters a New York school building, including all students, faculty and staff after New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat, announced Monday the state’s school mask mandate will be lifted in one month. Hochul sidestepped “We are going to assess our situation here in New York,” said Hochul, stressing New Jersey’s mandate will end in four more weeks. “I’m going to continue to head in that direction,” Hochul added. “That is our goal, but I’m going to continue looking at the metrics. ...Literally weeks ago [hospitals] were overwhelmed with patients and not having sufficient staff, so I have a lot of metrics I’m examining right now, but that doesn’t mean we will get to that place. It’s too preliminary to talk about it.”

The governor has long avoided naming a specific virus positivity rate, hospitalization level or other pandemic metric to indicate when the state will relax the requirement. Virus hospitalizations continue to decline in the state’s 10 regions. “Hospitalizations are getting better all across the state,” Hochul said. “That is the number I watched to make sure we have the capacity. We are trending in a very, very good direction.” Hochul maintained her position that the requirement will be relaxed when vaccination rate increases for schoolaged children ages 5 to 11. About 34% of New York children in that age group were vaccinated against the coronavirus as of Monday. “Let’s get more children vaccinated so they have that suit of armor they need to be protected,” the governor said.

Overdose spike alert issued for Greene By Natasha Vaughn-Holdridge Columbia-Greene Media

An overdose spike alert was issued for Greene County on Sunday after two nonfatal overdoses occurred within a five-hour period. The two overdoses were reported in the village of Catskill, Greener Pathways Program Director Carl Quinn said. “It heightens the concern a little bit because they were close together in time and they were both within the village,” Quinn said. “Rather than being spread out in different areas to have them close together is a concern.” Year-to-date, Greene County has had 11 overdoses, with one fatality, Quinn said. In 2021, Greene County had 129 overdoses and 17 fatalities. Overdoses occurring

close together can indicate a contaminated drug supply, Quinn said. “Unfortunately, we never have any firm indication it’s just something we keep in the back of our mind when scenarios like this happen.” Quinn said. An online post from Greener Pathways about the spike alert said overdoses have occurred in the past with people using crack, cocaine and other substances beside opiates, including pressed pills made to look like a genuine pill but that contain deadly fentanyl. Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid used for treating severe pain, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Fentanyl is 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine. Greener Pathways

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In the event of an overdose Narcan may be used to save a life.

recommends that if you use, use safely and assume your supply is contaminated. The total number of overdoses Greene County has seen recently has been fairly typical, Quinn said.

“It’s been pretty normal as far as the total number of overdoses goes,” Quinn said. “They have just been more spread out and not in a concentrated time period like these were.” A spike alert was issued last week for Berkshire County in Massachusetts when it had four overdoses in one day, Quinn said. Berkshire was the closest nearby county to have a recent increase in overdoses. “Be careful, don’t trust your supply,” Quinn said. “And reach out for help if you are at a point where you’re ready for help. There are resources available to help.” If you are in Columbia or Greene county and need Narcan or fentanyl test strips please text NARCANKIT to 21000 or TESTSTRIPS to

77948 and a Greener Pathways Peer advocate will connect with you to get you Narcan or strips. You may remain anonymous if you wish. If someone you know experiences an overdose call 911 immediately. Help is available by calling Greener Pathways at 518291-4500 or text to 518-8227437, Twin County Recovery Services Greene Clinic at 518-943-2036, Columbia Clinic at 518-828-9300, Columbia County Mental Health Center at 518-8289446, Greene County Mental Health Center at 518-6229163, Mobile Crisis Assessment Team at 518-943-5555, Columbia Greene County Pathways To Recovery Helpline at 877-467-3365, Youth Clubhouses of Columbia & Greene County at 518-491-2432.

Catskill, Athens called to battle Hudson fires By Bill Williams Columbia-Greene Media

HUDSON — Firefighters from nine companies including Catskill and Athens in Greene County were kept busy Saturday night with three incidents that required their services in Hudson. A pair of city residents were left homeless and two men were taken to the hospital after two fires that occurred at the same time. A fire department vehicle was also damaged, when it collided with a car while the truck was retrieving equipment for the first fire. The three incidents occurred within the span of two hours. Two occupants, a man and a woman, of 231 Allen St., will be living with friends and relatives after flames tore through their home at about 7:19 p.m., Hudson police chief L. Edward Moore said Sunday. The man was taken to Columbia Memorial Health by Greenport Rescue Squad for treatment of smoke inhalation, Moore said. The fire heavily damaged the two-story building, Hudson fire chief Anthony Demarco Jr., said Sunday. The cause of the fire is believed to be electrical. Fire investigators said the blaze began in an electrical junction box in the cellar, Demarco said. Hudson police were first to arrive and made sure everyone evacuated the house safely. The Hudson Fire Department encountered heavy smoke when they arrived at the scene shortly afterward and requested mutual-aid assistance from neighboring fire companies, Demarco said. Nearly 50 firefighters from Columbia and Greene counties responded to the scene. Firefighters conducted two

searches of the building and reported that no one was still inside. Crews entered the two-story building on both floors to fight the blaze, cutting holes in the roof to release heat and smoke. The first floor sustained the most significant flames, creating a hole into the basement, while heavy smoke and heat rose to second floor, Demarco said. Hudson Department of Public Works crews arrived to salt the area. The temperature was 14 degrees at the time of the fire and extremely icy conditions made it dangerous for firefighters. Hudson police hung yellow caution tape around the scene to keep spectators at a safe distance. National Grid was requested to the scene to disconnect power. The fire was brought under control at about 7:45 p.m. Firefighters inspected the structure to check and extinguish any hot spots to prevent the flames from reigniting. Allen Street was closed to traffic between Second and Third streets and South Third Street was closed to traffic between Union Street and Power Avenue for several hours. Five fire companies on stand-by in Hudson responded to a second call of smoke on the sixth floor of Bliss Towers, 41 N. 2nd St., at about 8:14 p.m. while other crews were busy at the Allen Street scene. A man who lives at Bliss Towers was also taken to Columbia Memorial for smoke inhalation Saturday night after burning food filled his apartment with smoke. Firefighters ventilated apartment 608 and were back in service from that call at 8:45 p.m.

Shortly afterward, a Hudson Fire Department pick-up truck was involved in a traffic accident at intersection of Sixth and Columbia streets while returning to the 77 N. 7th St. fire station to retrieve equipment to assist at the Allen Street blaze. The fire department pick-up

truck collided with a car at about 9:19 p.m. The car was being driven by Marcello Cunha, 31, of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, west on Columbia Street, when it went through a red light and collided with the fire department vehicle driven north on 6th Street by

Charles Dingman, 21, of Hudson, Moore said. Cunha told police that he became distracted and did not see the light, Moore said. Greenport Rescue Squad evaluated five occupants of both vehicles at the scene. All refused medical treatment.

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Mask requirement is in hands of state The Ichabod Crane board of education meeting ended with flying sparks as parents threatened to sue the school district over its mask-wearing mandate for students and some announced they intended to file notice of claims. Dogged by numerous comments from parents and community members at board of education meetings over the past several months upset over the mask requirement in schools, some ICC parents said they are determined to overturn the district mandate in the courts. The parents served documents on the district essentially indicating the

possibility of legal action, school Superintendent Suzanne Guntlow said last week. She went on to say the district would work with the school attorneys to respond to all claims and added the claims would have “absolutely no merit.” Why baseless? It’s because school districts across the state have been instructed to abide by the guidelines the state Education Department have issued. In other words, the mandate does not belong to ICC. Rather, it is in the hands of state authority. ICC parents believe masks are a health issue, mentally or physically. One parent called it child abuse

and wants the school district to drop all COVID-19 mandates by public announcement with a public apology. Since these are not ICC’s mandates, it would be difficult to challenge them as such in court. The state Education Department has advised school districts they must continue to abide by the state mandate until the appeal of a court-ordered stay is resolved. It might be better for ICC parents to direct their frustration at the state Education Department instead of their school district. A court challenge as things stand isn’t likely to have the desired outcome.

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When future historians seek to pinpoint exactly when it was that the Republican Party stopped being a legitimate political entity promoting a coherent set of principles and was transformed fully into a cult of personality organized around a would-be autocrat, Feb. 4, 2022, might be in contention. That date — last Friday — was when the Republican National Committee formally censured two Republican House members, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, for clinging to genuine conservative ideals while refusing to promote the toxic populism and contempt for democracy that now defines their party. As if to further detach themselves from reality, Republicans declared that the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection constituted “legitimate political discourse.” Former Sen. John Danforth told us this declaration “should make all real Republicans sick,” adding, “It is now the official position of the Republican Party that the storming of the Capitol, including attacks on police officers, physical intimidation of members of Congress and destruction of government property, is ‘legitimate political discourse.’

… It is a complete reversal of what we always have been and should be.” The House committee investigating the attack has an urgent mandate: to bring out all the facts surrounding the first-ever significant attempt from within to violently overturn the result of an American presidential election. The decision by Cheney, of Wyoming, and Kinzinger, of Illinois, to participate in this important endeavor, defying their own party’s intransigence, was a display of selfless patriotism. The RNC’s unprecedented sanction against both of them for that action confirms that the GOP no longer stands for anything beyond blind allegiance to the former president who fomented the violence. The censure resolution itself is a marvel of alternate-reality thinking of the kind that former President Donald Trump is so good at. Among many other scoff-worthy passages, it claims the party’s “primary mission” is to “support the United States Constitution.” That lofty declaration is rendered ridiculous by the party’s continued and fervent support of Trump even after recent revelations that he personally pressed

to have federal authorities seize state voting machines to get the election outcome he wanted. That the Capitol attack and other outrages are today’s GOP version of “legitimate political discourse” should in itself settle the question of whether this is still a rationally functioning political party. Clear-headed Republicans like Danforth obviously are asking the same question. Cheney responded with clarity about the deteriorating values of her party: “The leaders of the Republican Party have made themselves willing hostages to a man who admits he tried to overturn a presidential election and suggests he would pardon Jan. 6 defendants, some of whom have been charged with seditious conspiracy. I’m a constitutional conservative and I do not recognize those in my party who have abandoned the Constitution to embrace Donald Trump. History will be their judge.” Those words should be engraved in stone and stand as a memorial to a oncegreat political party that no longer exists in any recognizable form. ©2022 STLtoday.com. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

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Democrats can do more, and take credit for more, before the midterms Jackie Calmes Los Angeles Times (TNS)

Just give Joe the pen. Not Joe Biden. He’s got his, and he’ll sign any bill Congress sends him. To get Congress moving, we need Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-Trump Country). The West Virginian has wielded a figurative veto pen for months, so replace it and let him write the revised “Build Back Better” bill and election law reforms that he could vote for. Take what Manchin will give you, Democrats, or next year you’ll get nothing from Mitch McConnell, the once and perhaps future Senate majority leader. Take it from Rep. James E. Clyburn of South Carolina, the third-ranking House Democratic leader: “Let’s concentrate on the glass being half full, and we still got time to try to get the glass filled up the rest of the way.” That’s only Step One in the Democratic Party recovery project that I’m proposing. Biden’s approval rating needs to improve to avert a wipeout, and history’s midterm jinx for a president’s party is hard to escape. Still, it’s not too late for Democrats to salvage their prospects for November’s midterm elections. A lot can and will happen in nine months. After all, Republicans were expected to lose House seats in 2020, given Donald Trump’s unpopularity, and instead won enough to nearly capture a majority. Redistricting in the states hasn’t been the disaster that Democrats feared, thanks to court rulings against the most partisan Republican maps and to Democrats’ own gerrymandering in a few states. They could get lucky: Omicron could retreat. Pandemicinduced inflation could cool off, allowing voters to focus on the growing economy and higher wages. By fall, schools could be operating normally. And Republicans could defeat themselves. Trump is roiling primary races, promoting election-denying loyalists over candidates who’d have more appeal to general election voters. He and other

party extremists continue to incite controversies that, with Democrats’ help, could scare the daylights out of fencesitting voters: Do they really want these right-wing nutjobs running Congress? But Democrats can’t count on luck. It could just as well go the other way. They must unite and reverse their voters’ demoralization, to help the party retain its majority in the Senate majority, if not the House. Senate control is essential to Biden’s continued rebalancing of federal courts. Speaking of the courts, Biden should quickly name, and Senate Democrats confirm, the first Black woman to the Supreme Court, to replace Justice Stephen G. Breyer. That won’t change the likelihood that the Supreme Court will effectively overturn a halfcentury-old abortion right by June. Still, both events can be used to galvanize Democratic voters around the importance of their ballots to the actions of the judiciary; Republicans have effectively used courts as a political issue for years. More broadly, Democrats must start by addressing their self-inflicted damage: Fight with Republicans instead of each other. Replace the incessant headlines about infighting over Biden’s “Build Back Better” package by uniting over a pared-down version of the $2 trillion package of domestic investments that Manchin and Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema blocked last year by joining Republicans in opposition. Manchin lately has outlined what an acceptable BBB-Lite would look like. More than $500 billion for climate change initiatives. Universal pre-K. Child care subsidies. Aid to help more working families get health insurance under the Affordable Care Act. Expanded Medicaid in states that limit it. Tax increases on corporations and wealthy Americans to offset the costs. Though Manchin has opposed extending last year’s expanded child tax credit, he recently suggested to a West Virginia radio host he could support a credit more targeted to

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lower-income households. Let him write the bill. While some progressives would balk, increasingly others are joining a new “don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good” caucus. The same goes for election law reforms: Let Joe lead, now that he and Sinema killed Democrats’ broader voting rights legislation by refusing to exempt it from a Senate filibuster. Manchin told his radio interviewer that his priority is “fixing the problems” exposed on Jan. 6, 2021, when Trump accomplices sought to block Congress’ certification of Biden’s election by exploiting the ambiguous 1887 Electoral Count Act. He’s working with a bipartisan group of senators to clarify that law and significantly raise the thresholds for Congress to reject states’ electoral votes, and to make it a felony to threaten election workers. Trump has supercharged such efforts by his false claim in recent days that the 135-year-old law empowered Vice President Mike Pence to throw out electoral votes for Biden. Perhaps Manchin can persuade his Republican pals to add provisions from the dead voting rights bills. In any case, legislation aside, Democrats and Biden must do more to take the offensive against Republicans’ anti-democratic moves at the local level. Campaign prominently for Democrats seeking local and state offices against electiondeniers. Enlist nonpartisan business leaders to speak out. Embrace the work of the House’s Jan. 6 committee, whose public hearings and ultimate report later this year promise to document democracy’s close call. Meanwhile, Democrats, boast more about what you’ve already done: ongoing pandemic relief, a landmark infrastructure initiative and a record number of federal judges confirmed for a president’s first year. ©2022 Los Angeles Times. Visit latimes.com. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

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Registration is open for the 44th annual Freihofer’s Run for Women ALBANY — The Freihofer’s® Run for Women has announced that online registration is open for the 44th year of the event, which will take place on June 4 in Albany’s downtown. The Run for Women 5K, the Kids’ Run and the Freihofer’s® Junior 3K will be held on the same day. This year, Freihofer’s® Run for Women is also partnering with the Capital District YMCA to help participants achieve their goals through the 11-week Freihofer’s® Training Challenge. The Training Challenge opens on March 21 at various Capital District YMCA locations, as well as online. This program allows participants to run the race how they want to — whether running the duration, walk/run in intervals, or speed walking. The Training Challenge is $55 and includes a custom performance shirt, a 12-week membership to the Y, and life-long friendships established along the way. A fun extra perk is access to the Training Challenge Tent at the Run for Women 5k where participants take an annual group photo. Participants must register for the race to participate in the Training Challenge. “The Training Challenge is a fantastic way to get ready for the 44th Freihofer’s® Run for Women,” said Kristen Hislop, Director, Freihofer’s® Run for Women. “No matter where you are in your fitness journey, we have a track for you. Whether you walk or run the event, you’ll get training, nutrition, and injury prevention tips. But more than that, you’ll find a new community. The Training Challenge empowers women year after year to finish the 5k and tackle bigger challenges. We do it together, which makes it fun.” “The Capital District YMCA is honored to continue to serve

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FEB. 10 RED HOOK — Stamptrotters of the Hudson Valley will meet at 7 p.m. Feb. 10 at the VFW Red Hook, 30 Elizabeth St., Red Hook. All ages and experience levels welcome. For information, call 845-6319837.

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as the training location for the Freihofer’s Run for Women,” said Tovah Lisky, Senior Vice President for Association Advancement. “We are proud to welcome new and returning athletes into our facilities across multiple counties in the Capital District. We look forward to empowering new participants and providing a safe space to train and grow as a runner with the help of our skilled Wellness Team.” The Training Challenge began in 2000 as a traineerunner program and features small groups led by mentors who follow a beginner’s 5K training plan. The program has become so successful that Freihofer’s® Run for Women organizers are calling for more mentors to help others through the Training Challenge. Mentors can be accomplished athletes, someone who has previously gone through the same challenge, or even just a running enthusiast. It is an enriching experience that allows mentors to provide trainees with the tools to keep going. Organizers encourage anyone interested to reach out to Sharon Maltbie at sharonjmaltbie@gmail.com. Registration for the Run for Women 5K is now open with a $22 registration fee through Feb. 22. The fee will increase to $30 on Feb. 23 and will be $40

in the days leading up to the event. All run participants will receive a commemorative performance shirt, Freihofer’s® products, a medal, and the opportunity to participate in the most empowering event in the region, if not nation. To sign up, visit https://runsignup. com/Race/NY/Albany/FreihofersRunforWomen. Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan said, “It’s fitting that today is National Girls and Women in Sports Day as we announce the details for the 44th Freihofer’s Run For Women. Each year the Freihofer’s Run brings thousands of women and girls together for this sporting event that has become a true tradition in the City of Albany. This year’s new partnership with the Capital District YMCA for the Training Challenge is sure to encourage more participants and create an environment where people can achieve their goals. I look forward to joining you all on June 4 for this inspiring event.” For more information on the 44th Annual Freihofer’s® Run for Women, the annual Kids’ Run, and the Freihofer’s® Junior 3K Run, visit the Run Sign Up Page. More information can also be found on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube pages.

Celebrate Washington’s Birthday at Knox’s Headquarters State Historic Site NEW WINDSOR — Over the winter of 1780-81 at this headquarters, General Henry Knox organized the artillery for the projected attack on New York City. Soldiers, at the nearby encampment, repaired and trained on the guns, howitzers, and mortars. Tours of the house 10, 11 a.m., noon, 2 and 3 p.m. Feb. 20 and Feb. 21 and a small cannon fired at 11:45 a.m., 1:45 and 3:45 p.m. at Knox’s Headquarters, 289 Forge Hill Road, Vails Gate, just three miles south of the intersection of I-87 and I-84

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and is 1 mile south, of the colocated National Purple Heart Hall of Honor and the New Windsor Cantonment. For information, call 845-562-7141 ext. 22. Admission is free. “Mount Ellison,” the genteel combination English and Dutch-style stone house was built for prominent local merchant Thomas Ellison by an unknown number of skilled artisans and laborers between April and September 1754, under the direction of stonemason William Bull. During the American Revolution,

Continental Army generals Nathanael Greene, Henry Knox and Horatio Gates used this house as a military headquarters. Inside these walls, General Knox planned and directed the gathering of the artillery that was used to win the Battle of Yorktown, Virginia, in 1781. In 1783, Major John Armstrong, at the urging of Nationalists in the Continental Congress, wrote the letters sparking the Newburgh Conspiracy, calling for the army to menace the government with military force.

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CASTLETON — The Rensselaer-Columbia-Greene Counties Board of Cooperative Educational Services will meet at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 10 via Zoom. This meeting will be held virtually for all public and administrators via the Zoom link provided on the Questar III Board webpage at https://www.questar.org/ about/board-of-education/ meeting-agendas-minutes/ to provide safety for all participants during the ongoing pandemic. CATSKILL — The Youth Clubhouses of Columbia and Greene Counties announce a free, public naloxone/Narcan® training 5 p.m. Feb.20 at the Catskill Public Library, 1 Franklin St., Catskill. To register, call 518.943.4230 COVID protocols will be in place, masks and social distancing required. Attendees will receive a free, take home Narcan® kit.

FEB. 11 LEXINGTON — The annual TGIF (Thank Goodness It’s Friday) Brooks’ Chicken Barbecue will be held 3-6 p.m. Feb. 11 at the Lexington/ West Kill UMC in Lexington. This is take out only and dinners are $12; children 5-10 years are $5; chicken halves are $7. Dinners include half a chicken, baked potato, green beans, coleslaw, roll and cupcake. Purchasing your tickets in advance is greatly appreciated. Most parishioners will have tickets for your convenience. Tickets will be available at the door until sold out. You may call JoEllen at 518989-6568 until noon the day of the BBQ, Feb. 11, to preorder. DELMAR — Q.U.I.L.T. Inc. is a not-for-profit guild of quilters interested in learning about the art of making quilts. Members live in the Capital Region and surrounding communities. All levels of quilters are welcome. Meetings are held at the Delmar Reformed Church the second Tuesday of each month (September through June.) Due to the pandemic, meetings are currently held virtually. At the February meeting, members and guests join on Zoom at 9:30 a.m. to greet fellow quilters. A brief business meeting begins at 9:45 a.m. which will be followed by our Favorite Quilting Tools, Gadgets & Gizmos, and Hacks. An Open Sew on Zoom follows the meeting. Preregistration is required on the Q.U.I.L.T.

Inc. website https://www. quiltinc.org/ to receive the Zoom link.

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

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

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

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ALBANY — Cornell Cooperatieve Extension of Albany presents Winter One-Pot Comfort Foods 6-7 p.m. Feb. 23 via Zoom. The program is free. What is better on a cold winter day than a steaming hot, delicious soup or stew for dinner? A recipe will be shared ahead of time so that you can cook along with Karen in a Dutch oven, crock pot or electric pressure cooker. Registration is required at https://cornell.zoom.us/ meeting/register. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Contact Karen Roberts Mort from CCE Albany County by email kem18@ cornell.edu or leave a message at 518-765-3552, if you have questions.

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

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

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

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

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Reynold “Rick” Giannattasio February 2, 2022 Reynold “Rick” Giannattasio, age 91, passed away on Wednesday, February 2, 2022. He was the youngest of 6 sons to the late Frank and Mary (Marchese) Giannattasio and was married to the late Marylou (Poucher) Giannattasio for 66 years. He was the beloved father of Rhonda Hevenor (Michael), John Paul Giannattasio, Toni Chandler, and Michele Harris (Todd); grandfather of Sean Hevenor, Kimberly (Hevenor) Sanderson, Sean Chandler, Erin (Hevenor) Weaver, Christina (Chandler) Grinham, Ashley (Chandler) Sylvia, Mary (Chandler) Wooten, and great-grandfather of 18. Rick served in the U.S. Navy on the USS John W. Weeks during the Korean War. He frequently regaled us with stories of his exploits at various ports of call throughout the world. After earning an Electronic Engineering Degree from Indiana Tech, he was employed at Electric Boat. He then continued his career as a managing engineer for the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Newport until his retirement. Rick especially enjoyed hunting, playing cards and telling stories with his brothers and friends at his rickety old cabin in upstate NY. In his last few years, the wonderful and loving staff of Greenwich Farms have affectionately known him as the legend “Tricky Ricky”. We wish him “Fair winds and following seas”. A visitation will be held from 11 am-12 pm with a memorial service to follow at 12 pm on Monday, February 7, 2022 in the FAGAN-QUINN Funeral Home, 825 Boston Neck Rd., North Kingstown. His burial with military funeral honors will be in the RI Veterans’ Memorial Cemetery, Exeter. Face masks are respectfully required. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association, 275 Waterman St., #306, Providence, RI 02906. Kindly visit www.TheQuinnFuneralHome.com for information and online condolences.

Elizabeth Ann (Betsy) Janes July 16, 1953 - February 2, 2022 “With great sadness, we share the news that Elizabeth Ann (Betsy) Janes passed away on February 2, 2022. Betsy was born on July 16, 1953 to Tom and Lil (Salata) Janes, and is survived by her brother Tom… and her many friends. Apart from her college years, Betsy lived her entire life near Queechy Lake in Canaan, attending Canaan elementary school and Chatham Central High School. An interest in art led her to Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, and while there experienced theater and learned from Muppets puppeteer Frank Oz, that stirred her continued interest in puppets and local theater. Besides art, Betsy devoted much of her time to science fiction, lake conservation and history, the environment, liberal politics and various charities - all of which added to Betsy’s varied interests and the activities that she supported. Betsy’s love for Queechy Lake drove her desire to keep it one of the cleanest lakes in NY State through her work with the Queechy Lake Club, attending regional lake conferences, doing water testing and reporting lake data for many years. She was also a life member of the Canaan Historical Society, where

Franklin D. Perdue Jr. February 16, 1956 - February 3, 2022 Franklin D. Perdue Jr. of East Chatham NY, passed away unexpectedly on Thursday February 3rd 2022 in his home with his beloved dog Genesis by his side. Franklin was born on February 16, 1956 to Marlene Shappy Perdue and Franklin Perdue Sr. in Burlington Vermont. Franklin served in the US Army reserves for 6 years. After which he worked for A Colarusso & Son’s for 32 years before retiring. Franklin was a dedicated father, son, and brother. He would give the shirt off his back if he could and never asked for anything in return. He was an avid motorcycle rider and loved being out on the open road. He took pride in his hard work ethic and his bodybuilding. One of his other passions was his love for Pit Bulls which led him to his beloved companion, Genesis. He loved rolling around in the yard with her. He was blessed with 7 grandchildren that adored and cherished him. He lived his life the way he wanted to and on his terms. Franklin was predeceased by his father Franklin D. Perdue Sr. and his brother Michael W. Perdue. He is survived by his mother Marlene J. Perdue of Chatham NY, his Children Crystal (Judy) Perdue of Florida, Scott (Erin) Perdue of Stuyvesant NY, Kimberly Chase of Weedsport NY,

July 12, 1931 - February 3, 2022 George R. Morrison, age 90 years, of Cairo, N.Y., passed away on February 3, 2022 a t The Pines at Catskill, N.Y. George was born on July 12, 1931, in Highlands, New Jersey, and is the son of the late John and Mable (Carpenter) Morrison. George is a graduated of Cairo Central School, Cairo, New York, and George was a proud veteran, serving in The United States Army during The Korean Conflict and he was very proud to be an American. During his lifetime, he was the owner of Gem Woodstove in Cairo, New York, and he also was employed as a lineman for Central Hudson. He loved traveling, planting and koifish. Besides his parents, he is pre deceased by his sons Kevin and Keith Morrison. Survivors include his son Thomas Vollweiler and his wife Marion, his grandson Kyle Morrison, his granddaughter Rebecca Morrison, and his cousins Doreen and Bill Green, and his wife Barbara Plachter Morrison, and many friends. Funeral services will be held at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 50 William Street, Catskill, N.Y. 12414, on Monday, February 14, 2022, at 11:30 A.M. Flowers are acceptable, or if anyone wishes, donations may be made to St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 50 William Street, Catskill, New York, 12414 in George’s memory. In the springtime of 2022, interment will take place with U.S. Army military honors at the family plot of The Round Top Cemetery, Round Top, New York. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Richards Funeral Home, 29 Bross Street, Cairo, N.Y. 12413. Condolences may be made at www.richardsfuneralhomeinc.net.

and Brittni (Demayne) Jones of Auburn NY. His grandchildren, Emaliegh, Hayden, Gabriella, Evelyn, Mileena, Anora and Liam. He is also survived by his brothers, David (Colleen) Perdue of Craryville NY, Gary Perdue of Chatham NY, Kevin (Tracy) Perdue of Craryville NY and his sisters Kathy (Gary) Sitzer of Chatham NY, Joanne Rowe of Hudson NY, Julie Perdue-Sitzer of Valatie NY as well as many niece’s and nephew’s. Calling hours will be held Saturday February 12 from 9:30 to 11:30am with a funeral service to follow at 11:30 from the Wenk Funeral Home Chatham, burial to follow at Ghent Union cemetery. In lieu of flowers the family is requesting donations to be made In Franklin’s name to NY Bully Crew at 1457 Montauk Hwy East Patchogue NY 11772. Rest easy Frank the Tank you are loved and will be missed. For on-line condolences, visit wenkfuneralhome.com

The world’s oldest living land animal? At age 190, it’s Jonathan the tortoise By Cathy Free

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she worked on numerous projects. Betsy loved her close friends from school and from work, and kept those friendships as everyone followed their own callings locally or to other states. Health issues in recent years made it more difficult to do everything and see everyone she wanted, but her love for family & friends, her smile and attitude never lessened. Calling hours will be held on Saturday, February 12 from 11:30am to 1:30pm at the French, Gifford, Preiter & Blasl Funeral Home, Chatham, NY. In lieu of flowers, her brother asks that people consider making donations to the Queechy Lake Club and/or Canaan NY Neighbors Helping Neighbors, “ https://www.paypal.com/ donate?hosted_button_id=K3D595PTZAZCG “. Condolences may be conveyed at frenchblasl.com.

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Jonathan the tortoise has lived on one of the most remote islands in the world for 140 years. He has become somewhat of a media star recently, as he just got a lofty distinction: the oldest living land animal in the world. Jonathan is turning 190 this year. Well, that’s the best guess about the age of the 440-pound chelonian. “To be honest, I suspect he’s older, but we can never know,” said Joe Hollins, the veterinarian who cares for Jonathan on St. Helena island, a tiny volcanic British territory more than a thousand miles off the coast of Africa. Jonathan has spent most of his life wandering (albeit slowly) with three other land tortoises around the grounds of the St. Helena governor’s residence, Plantation House. Jonathan is estimated to have hatched in 1832, according to a letter that mentions he arrived “fully grown” on St. Helena in 1882 from the Seychelles Islands in the Indian Ocean, he said. “Fully grown” in turtle context meant at least 50 years, Hollins said. A photo taken between 1882 and 1886 shows Jonathan grazing at Plantation House, where he’d been presented to the governor of St. Helena as a gift, according to Hollins. “It was quite traditional for (tortoises) to be used as diplomatic gifts around the world, if they weren’t eaten first,” he said, noting that they were harvested by ship crews because they were stackable and didn’t need food or water for days. “Apparently, they were utterly delicious,” he said. In addition to Jonathan, Hollins cares for the other tortoises who live on the 10-mile-long island. He also leads a team in looking after the island’s cats, dogs, cattle, sheep, goats, donkeys and pigs. But Jonathan, as the senior gentleman in the group, is special, he said. “I take great delight in looking after him,” said Hollins, noting that at age 64 he is 126 years younger than the rare Seychelles giant tortoise he has tended to for the past 13 years.

“It’s a huge responsibility, but an honor and a privilege for a vet to see to the needs of the oldest known living land animal in the world,” he said. There are likely sharks in the ocean older than Jonathan, said Hollins, but he hasn’t heard of another well-documented land creature that has been alive for more historical events. Hollins said visitors to St. Helena, which has a population of around 4,400, are awestruck to learn about Jonathan’s staggering life span. The tortoise has seen 31 St. Helena governors come and go and was likely alive for President Andrew Jackson’s second inauguration in 1833, as well as the inaugurations of the next 39 U.S. presidents. “While wars, famines, plagues, kings and queens and even nations have come and gone, he has pottered on, totally oblivious to the passage of time,” said Hollins. “Jonathan is symbolic of persistence, endurance and survival and has achieved iconic status on the island,” he added. It isn’t unusual for giant land tortoises to live up to 150 years, said Hollins, but Jonathan has endured longer than most people expected. The previous known longevity record was held by a radiated tortoise named Tu’i Malila, reportedly given to Tonga’s royal family in 1777. When Tu’i Malila died in 1965, she was about 188 years old, according to Guinness World Records. Guinness recently updated its records to reflect that Jonathan is now the oldest land animal in the world, but news of the occasion was met the same way as most anything to the tortoise, according to his caretaker. “He knows my voice and comes to me like a dog, but I have to accept it is mainly Pavlovian because he associates me with food,” said Hollins, noting that Jonathan is now blind and has lost his sense of smell, but still has a healthy appetite. For more than a decade, he has hand-fed the tortoise carrots, cucumbers, apples and bananas, making sure to put on thick welder’s gloves to protect his fingers from Jonathan’s sharp beak.

“Even through (the gloves), I’ve lost two nails,” said Hollins. “But I really love this great, crusty reptile. He’s a gentleman of a tortoise.” When Hollins was hired as a veterinarian by the St. Helena government, he said Jonathan was in ill health with a blunt, crumbly beak, and was unable to graze. “He was grabbing at dirt and dry leaves and tugging on rank grass,” he said. “After feeding him for some time, we witnessed a miracle: his beak regrew its sharp edge.” Hollins said he learned that the tortoise had a vitamin, mineral and trace element deficiency, which was soon corrected with a weekly intake of fresh produce. “He’s been resurrected, so now we can’t stop,” he said, adding that Jonathan turns his beak up at kale, but devours lettuce hearts and sun-ripened pears. The tortoise also enjoys sunbathing and has frightened visitors by sprawling on the grass with all four legs and his neck outstretched, he added. More than once, “Jonathan has fooled us into doing a rush visit because somebody has reported him dead,” said Hollins. He said he knows the day may be approaching when a call like that turns out to be real. “I’ve been here for four governors, and each one has said to me with a note of pleading, ‘Please Joe - not on my watch,’” said Hollins. For now, St. Helena is planning to commission a stamp featuring Jonathan and possibly have a national holiday to honor the tortoise sometime in 2022, he said. “When he does go, it will be difficult, though we are realistic and prepared,” added Hollins, noting that studies show giant

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Advocating for rural health By Claire Parde For Columbia-Greene Media

The early part of every calendar year is “prime time” for the Healthcare Consortium’s state advocacy efforts. This is due, in part, to the annual state budget process, and the release of a comprehensive, balanced budget proposal from the Governor’s Office, along with the related appropriation, revenue and budget bills. From that moment forward, a mad scramble begins, to digest the Executive Budget, and consider its implications; for us, that means looking for the things that are important to the health and well-being of rural people and places. Thereafter, and with the help of our partners, we put together a list of priorities, some of which may already be reflected in the Executive Budget and others that may be absent from it. Here is our list of priorities this year (with more information to be found at www. columbiahealthnet.org): n Enhancing the Investment in Rural Health Programs nEmpaneling the Rural Health Council nEnhancing Support for Rural Emergency Medical Services (EMS) n Continuing Drug Maker Discounts to Rural Hospitals and Community Health Centers n Ensuring Adequate Public Health Infrastructure n Supporting Mental and Behavioral Health Services n Supporting Aging and Disability Services n Expanding Rural Broadband and Telehealth n Promoting Workforce Recruitment, Training, and Retention Some of these priorities are

particular to rural areas, like advocating for an enhanced investment in the State’s Rural Health Programs that provide funding to rural hospitals (like CMH) and rural health networks (like the Healthcare Consortium and the Greene County Rural Health Network). Other priorities, like growing the healthcare workforce, may be relevant for all parts of the State, but are so important to our rural community that we add our “rural voice” to the chorus of advocates asking for investments in this area. With a list of priorities in hand, we then start the work of advocating with our state elected officials and their staff. Visits with legislators are surprisingly informal and comfortable things. Our elected officials depend on an active citizenry to both signal what things they should be thinking and caring about and also to educate them about the issues. A legislator’s knowledge is often a mile wide and an inch deep; while they have been exposed to a wide, wide array of issues, their understanding of those issues is naturally less than that of someone who is wholly focused on them. Therefore, legislators and their staff are often grateful for the opportunity to meet with and learn from their constituents. While advocates are frantically meeting with legislators in response to the Executive Budget, another critically important step in the annual budget process is underway. The Legislature, primarily through its two fiscal committees –the Senate’s Finance Committee and the Assembly’s Ways and Means Committee– analyzes the

Governor’s spending proposals and revenue estimates, holds public hearings on major programs, and seeks further information from the Division of the Budget and other State agencies. This provides another opportunity for rural health advocates, who can provide testimony for the public hearings. In the early part of February, we will be part of an effort to provide written testimony about all the rural health priorities noted above to reinforce and amplify what has already been said in our legislative visits. By mid-March, the Assembly and Senate will release their “one-house” budget proposals, which must get reconciled to reach agreement on a budget by the April 1st deadline. Only then will we truly know how the “chips have fallen.” It usually takes a few days to analyze the enacted NYS Budget, with the help of multiple partners exchanging a flurry of emails and phone calls, and then there is a second flurry of notes that must be sent to our elected officials to thank them for their support. In all, the first quarter is an intense time of year, but well worth the investment of time and energy to ensure that the needs of rural people and places are top-of-mind when decisions about how the State’s resources are being made. The Healthcare Consortium is a local charitable organization with a mission of improving access to healthcare and supporting the health and well-being of the residents in our rural community. The agency is located at 325 Columbia St., Hudson. For information, visit www.columbiahealthnet.org or call 518-822-8820.

Institute for Surgical Excellence announces Dr. Ahmed Ghazi appointment to the board of directors WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Institute for Surgical Excellence (ISE) announced the appointment of Dr. Ahmed Ghazi to its Board of Directors. ISE is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that convenes leading innovators, surgeons, surgical societies, hospital executives, and government to develop consistent, teachable, and measurable surgical standards that directly improve patient outcomes. Dr. Ghazi is a urologist and robotic surgeon who specializes in the diagnosis and minimally invasive treatment of cancers in the prostate, bladder, kidney, and testicular. Dr Ghazi received his MD degree from Cairo University in Egypt in 2000, where he completed his surgical training and Urology residency. He completed a laparoscopic fellowship in Paris, France in 2008 under the supervision of Professor Claude Abbou, MD, and is accredited by the European Board of Urology. He completed a second laparoscopic fellowship in Austria in 2009 under the supervision of Professor Gunter Janetschek, MD who specialized in the laparoscopic approach for selective removal of kidney tumors, preserving the kidney. He then completed his training at the University of Rochester, New York with a 2-year fellowship in the

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robotic treatment of various urologic cancers. He joined the staff at the Urology Department, University of Rochester in 2012. Dr. Ghazi is in on the cutting edge of research in AI and surgical metrics as well as creating the next generation of surgical training models. “As an experienced board, it is our privilege to be on the ground working with partners on innovative next-generation medical technologies delivered and implemented through expert collaboration and educational excellence. The ISE board is honored to include Dr. Ghazi as we continue to develop surgical standards for the medical field.” said Dr. Martin Martino, ISE Executive Board Member, and Gynecologic Oncologist. Robotic surgery is transforming the healthcare landscape. With minimally invasive techniques and precision, surgeons can challenge traditional

operating procedures by reducing pain, risk, and recovery time. Today, robotic surgeries are primarily used in gynecology, urology, thoracic surgery, general surgery, and colorectal surgery. ISE looks ahead to an exciting year filled with surgical milestones. “The institute for surgical excellence has been such an important global leader, raising standards of care. I am proud to be able to contribute to the success of ISE and its necessary work.” said Dr. Ahmed Ghazi “Dr. Ghazi’s experience with advanced robotic surgery, innovations in training, and cutting edge research will enhance ISE’s vision of next-generation patient care and surgical excellence to improve patient outcomes,” said Dr. Jeffrey Levy, ISE’s Interim Executive Director. Dr. Ghazi joins ISE’s internationally recognized leadership of existing board members Dr. Martin Martino, Ascension Health; Dr. John Porterfield, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Dr. Carla Pugh, PhD, Stanford University; Dr. Dimitrios Stefanidis, PhD, Indiana University; Keith Nahigian, Nahigian Strategies; William Kennedy, White and Williams LLP; Dr. Caitlin Houghton, University of Southern California.

Albany Med president and CEO to chair 2022 Capital Region Heart Ball ALBANY — Some 244,000 Capital Region residents have high blood pressure, and many cope with nutrition insecurity and continue to smoke, placing them at higher risk of heart disease or stroke. Too often, health inequities create the conditions that put people at this greater risk. Many of the risk factors for heart disease and stroke also increase people’s chances of contracting COVID-19 or having a poor outcome. The Heart of the Capital Region Heart Ball is working to change that. Set for 6-10 p.m. Feb. 12 at the Albany Capital Center, Dr. Dennis P. McKenna, President and CEO of Albany Med, is leading the campaign to build a legacy that will help reduce some of the health disparities in our community. “Throughout the pandemic, we have encouraged patients to continue to focus on their health and well-being and not to delay medical care,” Dr. McKenna said. “Albany Med is proud to collaborate with the American Heart Association as we work together to improve the health of every member of our community. I am especially proud to serve as chair of the Heart Ball and to assist the American Heart Association to continue to address the social determinants of health that stand in the way of people living full and healthy lives.” The Heart Ball will honor James J. Barba, president emeritus of Albany Med, with the American Heart Association’s Moving our Mission award. “During his time at Albany Med, Mr. Barba supported the American Heart Association in many ways – financially, by embracing our in-hospital quality program, Get with the Guidelines; by having Albany Med experts engage with the American Heart Association; and working with us on community programs,” said Jennifer Corcoran Conway, partner at Tully Rinckey and chair of the

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Capital Region Board of Directors of the American Heart Association. “He has left a powerful legacy in the Capital Region, and we are honored to have benefitted from his time with us.” “Albany Med’s ‘Life is Why’ collaboration with the American Heart Association began under Mr. Barba’s thoughtful leadership and we are proud to continue his vision in support of the Heart Association’s critical mission,” Dr. McKenna said. Dr. Lewis W. Britton III, who retired from his role as chief of the division of cardiothoracic surgery at Albany Med at the end of 2021, will receive this year’s Donald Led Duke Heart Hero award at the Heart Ball. Named for the founder of BBL Construction, the annual award honors someone who has made a significant impact on the lives of Capital Region residents. “Dr. Britton is a true heart hero to countless patients throughout our region and their loved ones. It is fitting that he be recognized with the Donald Led Duke Heart Hero award following his much-deserved retirement. We are grateful to the American Heart Association for recognizing his life-saving work, much of which was made possible in part through the American Heart Association’s important research,” Dr. McKenna said. Dr. McKenna is joined by an executive leadership team to help him reach the Heart Ball’s goal of raising $500,000. That team comprises: Dr. John Bennett, president and CEO of CDPHP; Michael

Castellana, president and CEO of SEFCU; Peter Connolly, general manager, The Mercedes-Benz Center at Keeler Motor Car Company; David Cornell, director, Merrill Market Executive/Bank of America Market President, Bank of America; Robert Cushing, retired, Trustco Bank; James R. Kellerhouse, Vice President for Philanthropy & Chief Development Officer, Albany Med; Joe Nicolla, president, Columbia Development; John Nigro, President, Nigro Companies; Daniel T. Pickett III, CoFounder, President & Chief Executive Officer, aptihealth; Peter Semenza, Vice President of Philanthropy, St. Peter’s Health Partners. “I’m proud to have this team stand beside me as we support the American Heart Association at The Heart of the Capital Region Heart Ball on Feb. 12,” Dr. McKenna said. As president and CEO of the Albany Med Health System, Dr. McKenna oversees Albany Med’s hospital system of more than 100 locations in 25 counties; Albany Medical College; a workforce of more than 9,300; and a physicians group of 500. He is an emergency department physician who joined Albany Med in 2000, where he also served as medical director of the emergency department, of the hospital and was president of the Albany Med Faculty Physician Group. Dr. McKenna spent 20 years in the military, which included tours of combat duty in the Middle East and Africa. He retired as a Navy Captain. Dr. McKenna graduated from Christian Brothers Academy, Cornell University and Albany Medical College. Board certified in emergency medicine; he continues to work as an attending physician. He has been a medical volunteer at the Double H Ranch in Lake Luzerne and serves on their board of directors.

Honest Weight launches Double Up Food Bucks ALBANY — Honest Weight Food Co-op, 100 Watervliet Ave., Albany, announces the launch of Double Up Food Bucks New York (Double Up), a program administered by Field & Fork Network, doubling the buying power of SNAP customers. Honest Weight Food Co-op is the first grocery store in the Capital region to offer the program which matches $1 for $1 federal SNAP dollars, up to $20 per day, to spend on fresh fruits and vegetables, with an emphasis on New Yorkgrown produce. “Double Up benefits our customers and farmers, while helping grow healthier communities” says Alex Mytelka, head of marketing at Honest Weight. “Food insecurity is at an all-time high. We’re in the midst of a pandemic and we still have folks in the community we call home wondering where their next meal is coming from. Plain and simple, we need to do better. We need to show up for each other.” Mytelka continued, “As a community-owned food cooperative, we’re on a mission to break down this false narrative that fresh, healthy, colorful, locally grown food

is only available to those who can afford it. Double Up is now one of the strongest tools in our collective community food access toolkit.” “We are thrilled to be able to continue to expand this program in the Capital Region at Honest Weight,” says Frances McGuire, Double Up Program Manager. “Double Up Food Bucks allows shoppers experiencing food insecurity to make their own healthy decisions when purchasing food for their families. We hope to see Double Up Food Bucks included in the 2022 New York State budget so that we can bring the program to even more locations in the area in the coming months.” The American Heart Association, a partner of Field & Fork Network, supports Double Up Food Bucks and is advocating for funding for the program at the state and local levels. “Being able to eat well is a key factor to improving heart and brain health, and we are seeing now more than ever how critical good health is,” said Michael Poindexter, senior vice president of SEFCU, Pastor of Macedonia Baptist Church and member

of the Capital Region Board of Directors of the American Heart Association. “We’ve been advocating for funding for Double Up Food Bucks at the local and state level so that more people can have access to even more healthy food. We’re proud to work with Field & Fork Network as they implement programs across the state, and are glad to see that the Honest Weight Food Co-Op is now accepting Double Up Food Bucks.” Since piloting at 7 Western New York farmers markets in 2014, Double Up has expanded into over 29 counties and 180 locations across the state, serving over 32,000 SNAP households. The program operates in farmers markets, mobile markets, farm stands, corner stores, and grocery outlets. Honest Weight Food Co-op is open to the public from 8am-9pm, seven days a week. Additional Double Up sites in the Capital Region include Capital Roots and Schenectady Green Market. For a complete list of participating Double Up sites and hours of operation, visit www.doubleupnys.com/locations.

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Greene County reported two additional COVID-related deaths Monday, bringing the fatality count in Greene County to 112 since the pandemic

began in March 2020. The two unidentified individuals included a woman in her 90s who was unvaccinated and had comorbidities. The second fatality was a man in his late 80s who had been vaccinated and had received a booster shot but who also had underlying health issues.

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“We would like to apologize for the holdup of the opening of Athens,” the restaurant announced on Dec. 13. “We keep hitting roadblocks. We keep giving a day and then we run into problems. We are trying to get it up and running as soon as possible.” With the restaurant now open, Athens Mayor Amy Serrago said the newly renovated pizza restaurant will fill a void in the community. “We’re very excited,” she said. “We’ve been wanting this project for a long time. There’s been supply chain issues that have slowed the process down. Everyone in the village is super excited and it’s very important. It’s a good meeting place. People go there for breakfast and it’s one of the only places here that delivers pizza. We’ve been anxiously awaiting this. I think they were supposed to open last spring, but with

The county reported a winter low of 35 new cases last Thursday, well below the record high of 208 new cases identified Jan. 5. The county has recorded a total of 9,586 positive COVID cases since the pandemic began, with 111 active positive cases as of Monday.

everything that’s been going on there’s been delays and delays. But it’s very important to our community and we’re thrilled to have them back.” On Feb. 2, Stella’s II announced that the restaurant had secured its final permit and would be opening the following day at 8 a.m. While the restaurant is named Stella’s II because the original location is located in Hudson, the Athens pizzeria is now even more aptly named considering the restaurant’s new second life. During the restaurant’s first lunch service last Thursday, the Athens pizzeria offered specials including a buffalo chicken salad and a ranchstyle chicken tostada. The restaurant, which is open from Tuesday through Sunday, offers a unique combination of breakfast foods including pancakes and waffles in the morning before transitioning to pizza and wings in the afternoon.

On Monday, the health department announced that 79 new cases had been identified in the county since Friday. As of Monday, 16 county residents were hospitalized with COVID-related illnesses, down from the 2022 high of 44 recorded Jan. 6. Greene County passed the

7,000 case mark Jan. 5, and subsequently surged past 8,000 cases two weeks later. After passing 9,000 cases during the last week of January, the pace has slowed dramatically, with fewer than 50 cases per day identified by Public Health beginning Feb. 1. As of Saturday, the number

of tests in the county that returned positive results stood at 4.6%, with a seven-day rolling average of 7%. Greene County Public Health notes that with limited testing capacity, the number of positive cases does not fully reflect the current level of COVID-related illness in the county.

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The first lunch service for the Stella’s II Pizzeria & Pancake House as it reopened on Thursday.

Spotify’s CEO apologizes to employees over Joe Rogan controversy Wendy Lee Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — Seeking to quiet the furor over Joe Rogan, Spotify Chief Executive Daniel Ek issued an extraordinary memo to employees Sunday, apologizing for the drama they had to endure surrounding the controversial podcast host. “There are no words I can say to adequately convey how deeply sorry I am for the way The Joe Rogan Experience controversy continues to impact each of you,” Ek wrote in a memo obtained by the Los Angeles Times. “Not only are some of Joe Rogan’s comments incredibly hurtful -- I want to make clear

that they do not represent the values of this company.” In his memo, Ek said the company had discussed with Rogan his history of using “some racially insensitive language” on “The Joe Rogan Experience,” which resulted in Rogan choosing to remove episodes from the streaming service last week. On Saturday, Rogan apologized for using the N-word after musician India Arie shared online a compilation of examples when Rogan had uttered the racial slur on his podcast. Ek in his memo said that while he condemns what Rogan said, he does “not believe that silencing Joe is the answer.”

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Isaiah Maines, shown here in a recent game against Rensselaer, scored 30 points to help Hudson defeat CairoDurham, 98-69, in Saturday’s Patroon Conference boys basketball game.

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EAST DURHAM — Isaiah Maines scored 30 points to highlight Hudson’s 98-69 victory over Cairo-Durham in Saturday’s Patroon Conference boys basketball game. Jordan Cunningham had 18 points for the Bluehawks. Dez Wallace contributed 16 and Nate Coppersmith and Keith Robinson both had 11. Sam Bruck led CairoDurham with 24 points. Jake Young chipped in with 14. Cairo-Durham visits Catskill on Tuesday and hsots Rensselaer on Wednesday. Hudson competes in the first Patroon Conference Tournament, starting on Friday. HUDSON (98): Maines 14-0-30, Taylor 3-3-9. Cunningham 8-1-18,

Robinson 5-1-11, Wallace 6-2-16, Coppersmith 4-211, Burgos 1-0-2, Hoque 0-1-1. Totals 41-10-98. 3-pointers: Maines 2, Wallace 2, Coppersmith, Cunningham. CAIRO-DURHAM (69): Bruck 10-0-24, C. Deyo 2-2-6, B. Deyo 2-0-5, James Young 3-0-6, Jake Young 5-1-14, Lackie 1-0-2, Clow 1-0-3, Hawley 3-2-9. Totals 27-5-69. 3-pointers: Bruck 4, Jake Young 3, Clow, Hawley, B. Deyo. Chatham 72, Taconic Hills 56 CHATHAM — Matt Thorsen scored 16 points and Kyle Jackson and Tyler Kneller both had 11 as Chatham defeated Taconic Hills, 72-56, in Saturday’s Patroon Conference boys basketball game. See LOCAL B3

Coxsackie-Athens’ Rocco Salvino competes in the 126-pound division during Saturday’s Section II Class C Wrestling Championships at Stillwater High School. Columbia-Greene Media

STILLWATER — For the first time ever, the CoxsackieAthens wrestling team can be called Section II Class C Champions. The Riverhawks finished with 198 points to edge second-place Tamarac, which had 195, at Saturday’s Class C championships at Stillwater High School. Catskill took fifth place with 109 points, Greenville was sixth with 87, Taconic Hills finished ninth with 39.5 and Ichabod Crane took 11th with 17. The top four finishers in each weight class earned a spot in the Section II Championships to determine the state qualifiers on Saturday at Cool Insuring Arena in Glens Falls. “To say I am proud is a severe understatement,” C-A coach Ryan Palmer said. “This group of kids has something you can’t teach/coach — HEART. The selflessness, pride and dedication of our kids is incredible. Every tournament we have been to this season, we have finished

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second. We, as a coaching staff, challenged our kids to overcome that hurdle. “Saturday was our day, and that challenge was met. This team works hard day-in and day-out to be better, and I could not be more proud to call myself their coach. Kids

that have come through our program, past and present, helped us earn this achievement. I am so proud of this program, and everything that its become. “We are enjoying the true benefits of the family we are, the coaching staff we have,

and the kids that we are able to coach. We have preached to these kids all year — “Stop Trying ... and Do.” Saturday we got it done.” C-A’s Ryker Cox (110) and Rocco Salvino (126) took See C-A WINS B3

Mikaela Shiffrin makes a surprising error, and the Olympic monster awakens Barry Svrluga The Washington Post

YANQING, China — Mikaela Shiffrin’s Olympics were just five turns old when they became impossibly uncertain. Shiffrin’s position - sliding on her left hip, wiped out on the snow, missing a gate she had to make brought first a gasp, then the obvious question: “What happened?” But that’s not nearly as important as the ensuing question: “What next?” “I think there’s a lot of questions that will be asked,” Shiffrin said. Most important will be those she asks of herself. Monday’s giant slalom, an event in which she won gold four years ago at the PyeongChang Olympics, “was finished basically before it even started,” Shiffrin said, and there is nothing short of shock in that development. But even if she simply made one poor turn on the course at Yanqing National Alpine skiing Center - her in-themoment-assessment of the calamity - she knows the consequences put in doubt her entire Olympics. She was favored to win medals in at least three events, a contender in one or maybe two more. One of those ended without even a trip across the finish line or the privilege of earning a second run. Maybe it was a physical error. That it happened when it did - in

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Mikaela Shiffrin (USA) falls and misses a gate during the womens giant slalom during the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games at Yanqing Alpine Skiing Centre.

the first run of her first event at her third Olympics - makes considering her mental state a necessity. That’s true about what happened Monday. But it’s also true about what’s to come, beginning with Wednesday’s slalom. “I felt that I had the right mentality,” Shiffrin said. For an elite athlete, the 26-year-old Shiffrin has always been almost alarmingly candid. In saying Monday, “I won’t ever get over this,” that streak is alive and well. But in the course of all that

endearing frankness are kernels of uncertainty that can seem surprising for someone so accomplished. She is among the best to ever do what she does. But that status does little to eradicate doubt. Before Monday, Shiffrin had raced in five events over three Olympics, and her finishes were, in order: fifth, first, first, fourth and second. Since her last DNF in a giant slalom, Shiffrin had completed 30 such races on the World Cup circuit, in the Olympics and at World Championships.

She won nine. She finished in the top three 19 times. She was outside the top seven just once. Her results sometimes suggest she is a machine. She is not, and not close. When mulling over the Olympics in an interview more than four months before her arrival in Beijing, her candor about the experience was disarming. For an athlete in a sport such as Alpine skiing, the Olympics carry outsize importance, See OLYMPIC B3

DENVER — With absolute language, Steve Nash tried to squash the idea of trading James Harden. The Nets coach, faced with an ugly losing streak and rumors swirling about Harden’s desire to relocate to the Sixers, said his All-Star guard has not waned from his commitment to Brooklyn. “I’ve talked to James and he wants to be here,” Nash said. “And he wants to be here long term as well.” Then asked if that means the Nets are not dealing Harden, the coach said, simply, “Yes.” Of course, Nash wouldn’t be the first NBA employee to declare a player is off the market, only to see that same

player traded in short order. But Nash seemed to carry the message with conviction, and he backed it up with the organization’s conversations with Harden. “This has been a constant thing since the summer,” Nash said. “He’s continually reiterated that he wants to be here, and we’ve continually said that we want him here and that that’s our best chance to win. So nothing’s changed.” For the Nets, dealing Harden never made much sense. They’re deep into their winnow window, and Harden, despite his struggles, poor body language and injuries, gives Kevin Durant a better opportunity for a title than anybody on the Sixers after Joel Embiid. See NETS B3

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Madison Chock and Evan Bates lead Americans to silver in team figure skating Les Carpenter The Washington Post

BEIJING — The U.S. ice dance team of Madison Chock and Evan Bates skated onto the ice at Capital Indoor Stadium on Monday morning needing to do something big to save the Americans’ first silver medal ever in the figure skating team event. For the next four minutes, they sailed almost seamlessly through a routine that included challenging twizzles and lifts, smiling wide at the end - knowing they probably had managed to save the silver medal. Minutes later, their hunch was confirmed when the judges announced a score of 129.07, giving them a surprising victory in the event over the acclaimed team of Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov representing the Russian Olympic Committee. “It’s been a great day,” Chock said. “It was really an incredible honor to be able to step up for the team and put in the best effort we were capable of.” As remarkable as it was, Chock and Bates’s win wasn’t enough to propel the U.S. squad (65 points) past the Russians (74) for the gold. (Japan finished third with 63.) Still, it was the Americans’ best showing in the three Olympics that the team event has been a part of the Games. They won bronze in the previous two Olympics. This was the Russians’ second team gold in three Olympics, having won in 2014. Canada prevailed in 2018.

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Madison Chock and Evan Bates (USA) perform in the ice dance free dance portion of the figure skating mixed team final during the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games at Capital Indoor Stadium.

The Americans seemed elated with their silver, which was probably the best they could have expected. They had hopes of winning gold after a strong first day Friday, when Nathan Chen won

the men’s individual short program with an almost-flawless showing and the team of Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue won the rhythm dance.

But that Day One lead disappeared during Sunday’s second session when Karen Chen struggled to a fifth-place finish in her short program. The collapse continued Monday morning when the U.S. pairs team of Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier, who finished a strong third in Friday’s short program, were not as sharp. They stumbled several times, the most glaring being a slip by Knierim where she had to brace herself with a hand on the ice to prevent a fall. She also underrotated on a triple Salchow, costing them valuable points and dropping the U.S. squad into a tie for second with Japan. But that was before Chock and Bates saved the silver medal. “I think it was hard to be completely oblivious to the nature of the scores,” Bates said. “At the end of the day, we just focused on what we could do to contribute in a significant way. We knew we could win the free dance.” Later, he was asked whether he was disappointed that the Americans wouldn’t win gold. “We’re celebrating silver,” he said. “Winning a silver medal is an achievement.” Karen Chen followed Chock and Bates with a redemptive 131.52 score in the women’s free skate, but by then silver had been assured. Russian Kamila Valieva, 15, won the last event, becoming the first woman to land a quadruple jump in the Olympics while doing so.

When the U.S. figure skating team needed her most, Karen Chen spread her wings Jerry Brewer The Washington Post

BEIJING — To recover from self-doubt, Karen Chen embodied her music. In her free program, she skates to the Chinese masterpiece “Butterfly Lovers’ Violin Concerto,” and with a silver medal at stake for the United States figure skating team, Chen stepped onto the ice and thought to herself, “I’m going to be a pretty butterfly.” “I’m going to embrace this moment,” she remembered thinking, “and skate my little heart out.” The Olympic stage is often unkind to athletes desperate to collect themselves. When pressure intensifies and nerves wobble and disappointment inhibits confidence, it’s hard to remain as light as a butterfly. Even the most impervious can lose their composure. So here was Chen, admittedly shaken after a fall during a triple loop attempt Sunday and tumbling to fifth in women’s short program, needing a turnaround a day later to solidify America’s best Olympics finish in the team event. And the butterfly floated.

Moment embraced. Heart, out. Chen was neither spectacular nor flawless. Afterward, she alluded to “boo-boos” she must correct before the individual competition. But she adapted, steadied herself and got back to clean and elegant skating. Such dependability is her strength. Without the wow factor of other figure skaters, Chen does her best work being that butterfly, fluttering with style and showcasing good, fundamental artistry without incident. On Monday, she placed fourth with a score of 131.52. She began with a double Axel-triple toe loop combination, and though she later under-rotated on a triple loop, she did the job and ensured a silver medal for the United States. The Americans reached a new level in the team event after winning bronze in 2014 and 2018, the first two Olympics for this discipline. They had a fantastic start to the three-day event, but Vincent Zhou and Chen struggled on Day 2, setting up a situation in which Chen was one of the participants who needed to hold steady at the

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Karen Chen (USA) performs during the women’s single free skating portion of the figure skating mixed team final during the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games at Capital Indoor Stadium.

end. The United States entered Monday knowing that, as expected, gold was unlikely. And silver was in danger. Chen had to rebound. “I definitely felt a little more pressure because I felt like I needed to redeem myself,” she said. “But I think at the end of the day just that experience of knowing what to expect really helped me find my comfort zone.”

Her experience includes an appearance in the 2018 Games. However, she had a few ill feelings from South Korea, where she placed 11th in the women’s singles competition. She left the Olympics frustrated four years ago, in tears and complaining about a problem with her boots. After that, she had a public squabble with the boot-maker, refocused and moved forward intent on learning from her

Olympics debut. She’s 22 now, not the 18-year-old who was upset in PyeongChang that she wasn’t allowed to spend more time with her mother. Then she came here and fell in her first event. “When you see the rings again, I can’t help but have flashbacks to 2018,” Chen said. “I just can’t help it. As much as I try to focus on this as a totally different experience, I can’t help but think about that.” For as great as Kamila Valieva and her Russian Olympic Committee teammates look, Chen had a more formidable foe to wrestle with: herself. Before she could think about anyone else, she had to get it together. The early letdown seemed to be the worst thing that could happen to her. But the early save was the best thing that could happen. She should look at her silver medal as a sign of tenacity. She can prepare for singles with clarity about what she can overcome. “I think definitely just coming back from yesterday is a huge thing for me,” she said. “Yesterday, I knew I could’ve landed that. I’ve been training so well,

and I’m just waiting for that moment. And for today to go out there and do that was just such an incredible feeling. “It feels great to just skate what I’ve been training. Obviously, there were some booboos and things that I can definitely work on and fix by the time I do my individual. But it’s definitely a great confidence boost, and I’m really proud of the determination and fight that I put out there.” After a smooth free skate, Chen lifted her hands toward her face and let the tears speak for her. As they trickled down her cheeks, it looked like relief and happiness were running in their own lanes. “Such a contrast from yesterday,” she said, smiling. “It just hit different. Excited to see the pictures of those emotions, with the rings in the background.” She could compare them to the tears of 2018, but then again, why would she dare keep photos of that disaster readily available? She skated her little heart out Monday. All the butterflies can go now, except for the one she created.

Cancer, crashes and destiny: Slopestyle medal podium can’t contain all the story lines Adam Kilgore The Washington Post

ZHANGJIAKOU, China — Mark McMorris started traveling to China a dozen years ago, flying from Canada across the world for snowboard competitions and promotions arranged by his sponsor. Each trip, as he evolved into of the best snowboarders in the world, McMorris noticed the same boy showing up, listening to his every word, mimicking his every action. “I’m seeing this little kid - he’s always around and he loves snowboarding more than anything and idolized me,” McMorris said. “And then, boom.” This fall, McMorris noticed the boy again. He was not little anymore. Yiming Su had grown into a 17-year-old supernova, an emerging and mysterious force on the international snowboarding scene. Su still looked up McMorris, but he also had become his equal, a status confirmed Monday on the Olympic medal podium they shared. On a calm and sun-drenched day at Zhangjiakou Genting Snow Park, a slopestyle competition of surpassing skill ended with two Canadian survivors sandwiched around the host nation’s latest sporting hero. Max Parrot, three years removed from a cancer diagnosis, won gold. McMorris, five years from a rescue team airlifting his shattered body out of the Canadian backcountry, took bronze. And Su, a teenager who started snowboarding in the

mountains of his Jilin hometown at 4 years old, claimed China’s first men’s snowboard medal. McMorris swiped the bronze with his final run, nudging 21-year-old American Red Gerard off the podium and into fourth place as he failed to defend his surprise gold from PyeongChang. Gerard led after the first of three runs, but he could not improve on his 83.25, a score he earned by landing consecutive 1620s as part of “probably the best run I’ve ever done” - and one he believed could have been scored higher. “I don’t know if I fully agreed with the judging, necessarily,” Gerard said. “That’s just the way it goes sometimes. You gotta just kind of take it and put on a smile. . . . I’m not a judge. I can’t talk about that. There’s always a lot of good runs.” Parrot seized control with his second run, scoring a 90.96 with a daring and technical performance - “the hardest run I’ve ever done in my entire career,” he said - that took gold without controversy. Gerard wobbled after landing a 1620, preventing him from keeping pace. Then he watched Su forcefully weave through the features at the top of the curse and execute a twisting, flipping jump at the finish, a run that scored 88.70. “He seems like he just kind of came around, and he’s incredible,” Gerard said. “The way he can just do all those twists and stuff - honestly, it kind of confuses my mind. But I think it’s awesome.”

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Bronze medalist Mark Mcmorris (CAN) celebrates after the men’s slopestyle snowboarding final during the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games at Genting Snow Park.

In position to hang onto bronze, Gerard first had to sweat the runs of the three remaining competitors who could surpass him. His teammate Sean Fitzsimons crashed on the final jump, leaving him in last place after he qualified in third. Norway Staale Sandbech fell, too, leaving only McMorris. He executed a flawless run, raising his arms as he glided to the finish area. Fitzsimons, stressed for his friend, threw his hands up when McMorris landed. McMorris unstrapped his board and chucked it through the air. Gerard stared at the board, awaiting the judges’ ruling. “It’s s-----,” Gerard said. “There’s no better way to put it. Mark rode great. Who rode better? I don’t really know. The whole time, your stomach just doesn’t feel that hot.” McMorris felt certain he

had made the podium. He would later say he figured his run would snare gold or silver. Judges awarded him 88.53, just behind Su but well ahead of Gerard. “Fourth never feels good,” Gerard said. “You know, one off from being cool.” About a half-hour later, Gerard was still through his emotions. He entered these Olympics with raised expectations, wanting a medal in a way he had not four years ago. He still has the Big Air competition, but slopestyle was his best chance. If an American could not win, Gerard said, he wanted the champion to be Parrot. Three years to the date, Parrot lay in a hospital bed receiving chemotherapy treatment, one of 12 he underwent as he fought the Hodgkin lymphoma he had been diagnosed with in December 2018. At age 24,

Parrot did not whether he would survive, let alone ride a snowboard. “I had no more muscles, no more energy, no more cardio,” Parrot said at the base of the course, a Canadian flag draped across his back. “I almost wanted to quit sometimes, because it was getting so hard just to get to the next morning. To be standing here three years later and winning gold, that is completely crazy.” Three years ago, Su had only just decided to be a professional snowboarder. He learned to snowboard at age 4, when his parents took him to the mountains. “The first time when I tried snowboarding, I felt like, ‘Oh, this is going to be the sport,’ “ Su said. He turned pro at 14, started making podiums in Big Air and then moved into slopestyle. “He’s so damn good,” McMorris said. “He became a man and definitely has some height now and he’s strong and he’s riding at an incredible level. I’m super proud of him, because he is a true snowboarder. He loves this sport. He’s been around it forever. I’m honored to share the podium with him.” Even without paying spectators, a crowd of volunteers, race officials and coaches formed in support of Su, chanting and waving the Chinese flag. A public address announcer roared in Mandarin as he navigated the course. Chinese volunteers lined up along the top of the final jump, high above the podium, and saluted Su as his name

was announced during the ceremony. He walked through the mixed zone holding a panda mascot, wrapped in the red and yellow Chinese flag. “When I decided to become a snowboarder, I had dreams to be on the podium and to get medals at the Olympic Games,” Su said. “I still cannot believe this just happened.” As McMorris watched, he could tell that Su had studied his style. “I think he definitely takes notes, for sure,” McMorris said. “There’s some things where I’m like, ‘Okay, you grabbed that from my book.’ But he’s got his own flair, too, and that’s cool to see.” Su had chosen the right rider to emulate. One of the most revered figures in the sport, McMorris became the first snowboarder to land on three consecutive podiums in the same event. It would be a remarkable run even if the sport had not nearly killed him in the middle of it. In March 2017, while filming a snowboard movie in the backcountry outside Whistler, British Columbia, McMorris suffered a catastrophic crash. He broke his jaw, left arm, pelvis and several ribs. His spleen ruptured, and his left lung collapsed. A helicopter transported him to a hospital. Eleven months later, he won a bronze medal in South Korea. “Physically, I’m doing amazing,” McMorris said. “But it would be better if I didn’t break like 17 bones four years ago.”

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home titles this weekend, a first for both. Schyler Caringi (145) continued to defy the odds and earned her way to the finals. She may not have won her finals match, but her performance sealed the win for the Riverhawks. “Schyler has the will and mentality that coaches try to teach,” Palmer said. “She fights, she works, she never quits. Joseph Martinez, Anthony Iamunno, and Hunter Donovan all earned spots in the finals as well. Gage Decker and Neil Murphy took home third place finishes, while Max Rulison and Ryan Ulscht captured fourth. “Nick Moyer and Finn Gallogly also placed, taking sixth. To make things better, we had some of our wrestlers with us who weren’t even wrestling this weekend, one of which was a modified wrestler. To say that ten of your wrestlers qualified for the Section II State Qualifiers is something special and the team scores showed that.” Palmer was pleased to see that C-A won’t be the only Greene County schools well-represented at the state

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because they come with a singular opportunity for mainstream exposure. But in chatting with her before the season, Shiffrin made clear to me that they came with something else: dread. “I’m kind of accepting and trying to prepare for basically the discomfort of the one situation that you hope would be this joyous, amazing event,” Shiffrin said in September. “What people see is the pictures with the Olympic rings, and ‘We went to the Opening Ceremonies!’ and ‘Look at these cool outfits! This is such a fun time. This is so great!’ But honestly, it’s terrifying for the entire two weeks straight.” Fit that assessment with Monday’s events, and it’s ominous. Given what we have learned about athletes and mental health over the past few years, it also gives pause. Just six months ago, American gymnast Simone Biles entered the Tokyo Olympics as an even surer bet than Shiffrin was in Monday’s giant slalom. Shiffrin has been pushed this entire season by, among others, Slovakia’s Petra Vlhova and Sweden’s Sara Hector, who won the giant slalom gold Monday. Biles arrived in Tokyo with no peer, with a standard only she could attain. And then - in midair, performing tricks she had mindlessly pulled off for years - she became so disoriented she couldn’t compete

quaifier. “Our Greene County neighbors to the south and west had solid days as well,” Palmer said. “Catskill’s Daniel Forbes and Stephen Forbes both earned spots in the finals, with Daniel taking home the gold, as did Greenville’s Kieran Cullen, who brought home his third Class C title as just a sophomore.” Greenville’s Eric Heath finished third in the 145-pound division and Catskill’s Marco Dodig was third at 152 pounds. Taconic Hills’ Bo Burns improved to 26-5 this season with a third-place finish in the 189-pound division. Ichabod Crane’s Thomas Cooper took third in the 285-pound division. The following local wrestlers will be representing their schools at this weekend’s state qualifier in Glens Falls: Coxsackie-Athens (10) — Neil Murphy (102), Ryker Cox (110), Gage Decker (118), Rocco Salvino (126), Max Rulison (132), Schyler Caringi (145), Joseph Martinez (160), Anthony Iammuno (172), Ryan Ulscht (189) and Hunter Donovan (285). Greenville (5) — Connor Aloisi (102), Kieran Cullen (138), Eric Heth (145), Joe Davis (152) and Devin O’Connor 172). Catskill (4) — Roman

Gonzalez (126), Daniel Forbes (160), Stephen Forbes (189) and Jerome Van Alstyne (215). Taconic Hills (2) — Bo Burns 189) and Colin Brackett (118). Ichabod Crane (1) — Thomas Cooper (285). TEAM SCORES 1. Coxsackie-Athens 198, 2. Tamarac 195, 3. Cobleskill 185.5, 4. Granville/Fort Ann 113, 5. Catskill 109, 6. Greenville 87, 7. H-L/Lake George 84, 8. Mechanicville/Stillwater 68, 9. Taconic Hills 39.5, 10. Rensselaer/Loudonville Christian 35, 11. Ichabod Crane 17. Championship Finals 102 — Ashten Haley (Cob) pinned Devonte Ortiz (Tam),

3:28; 110 — Ryker Cox (C-A) decisioned Jaxon Torres (GranFA), 9-3; 118 — Trevor Bishop (Tam) decisioned Quinn Johnson (Gran-FA), 7-0; 126 — Rocco Salvino (C-A) decisioned Nicholas Crum (Gran-FA), 5-3; 132 — Torin Bishop (Tam) pinned Thomas McMahon (Gran-FA), 1:21; 138 — Kieran Cullen (Gre) pinned Carter McIntosh (HLLG), 2:47; 145 — Austin Fitzpatrick (Tam) decisioned Schyler Caringi (C-A), 13-2; 152 — Luke Schirmacher (Mech-Still) decisoned Kyber Henry (Cob), 3-1, OT; 160 — Daniel Forbes (Cat) pinned Joseph Martinez (C-A), 2:54; 172 — Bryan Mackey (Tam)

decisioned Anthony Iamunno (C-A), 9-6; 189 — Brent Perry (Gran-FA) decisioned Stephen Forbes (Cat), 9-2; 215 — Logan Marissal (HLLG) decisioned Luke Pryor (Cob), 10-3; 285 — Masen Cooper (Cob) pinned Hunter Donovan, 3:22. Consolation Finals 102 — Neil Murphy (C-A) pinned George Krause (Ren), 0:29; 110 — Decker Carpenter (Mech-Still) decisioned Ethan York (HLLG), 9-4; 118 — Gage Decker (C-A) pinned Colin Brackett (TH), 2:38; 126 — John Oldorff (Cob) pinned Roman Gonzalez (Cat), 0:26; 132 — Dominic Scolaro (Cob) decisioned Max Rulison (C-A),

12-4; 138 — Luke Yorke (Cob) decisioned Ty Roadcap (Tam), 8-2; 145 — Eric Heath (Gre) pinned Mike Plante (Tam), 2:39; 152 — Marco Dodig (Cat) pinned Dylan Grogan (Tam), 4:46; 160 — Bryce Retell (Tam) decisioned Chandler Willoughby (Cob), 9-2; 172 — Jace Rehberg (Cob) pinned Devin O’Connor (Gre), 4:45; 189 — Bo Burns (TH) pinned Ryan Ulscht (C-A), 2:19; 215 — Tony Derival (Tam) pinned Jerome Van Alstyne (Cat), 4:10; 285 — Thomas Cooper (ICC) pinned Anthony Apisa (Mech-Still), 0:36.

Marra’s 28 points fueled Maple Hill’s 64-54 victory over Watervliet in Saturday’s Patroon Conference boys basketball action. Ethan Harrington and Brady Cole each had 16 points for the Wildcats. Daheem Wilson led Watervliet with 12 points. Tyler Holloway had 11 and Jay Chaplin 10. WATERVLIET (54): Chaplin 3-2-10, Holloway 3-5-11, Cyrus 4-1-9, Wilson 4-1-12, Torres 1-0-2, Burke 1-2-4, Conway 3-0-6. Totals 19-1154. 3-pointers: Wilson 3, Chaplin 2. MAPLE HILL (64): Harrington 5-5-16, Cole 3-10-16, Marra 9-8-28, Hoffman 1-0-2, Flach 1-0-2. Totals 19-23-64. 3-pointers: Marra 2, Harrington. NON-LEAGUE Ichabod Crane 77, Greenville 51 VALATIE — Brett Richards logged his 13th doubledouble of the season and tenth straight, with 29 points,

13 rebounds, 7 steals and 3 blocked shots as Ichabod Crane posted a 77-51 nonleague boys basketball victory over Greenville on Saturday. Alex Schmidt added 21 for Ichabod Crane. For Greenville, Jack Motta had 14 and Trey Smith added 12. GREENVILLE (51): West 1-0-3, J. Motta 6-2-14, Smith 4-2-12, Gergen 1-0-3, Domermuth 2-2-6, Thompson 4-0-9, Larson 2-0-4. Totals 20-6-51. 3-poiters: Smith 2, Thompson, Gergen, West. ICHABOD CRANE (77): Richards 12-5-29, Schmidt 8-5-21, Colwell 2-2-6, Clickman 2-0-5, Warner 3-1-7, Mullins 1-0-2, Borrelli 0-2-2, Holzhauer 1-0-3, Rapport 1-0-2. Totals 30-15-77. 3-pointers: Holzhauer, Clickman. Catskill 57, Mohonasen 54 CATSKILL — Sean Haye scored 23 points to power Catskill to a 57-54 non-league bys basketball victory over Mohonasen on Saturday.

Lucas Konsul had 11 points for the Cats. Azar Brantley added nine, Kellen Gibbs and Jacob Devlin both had five an Eddie Roger and Patrick Darling contributed two apiece. “We were up by 14 at one point,” Catskill coach Andy Gonzalez said. “Mohonasen came back in the second half, taking the lead in the fourth quarter by two, then my guys stepped up and went on a nice little run to end the game. We hit some clutch free throws down the stretch.” Catskill hosts Cairo-Durham on Tuesday at 5 p.m., then goes to Greenville on Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. GIRLS BASKETBALL PATROON Chatham 64, Taconic Hills 22 CHATHAM — Abby Taylor scored 27 points and Ally Engel added 13 as Chatham defeated Taconic Hills, 64-22, in Saturday’s Patroon Conference girls basketball game. Sydney Cooper and Skylar Waterhouse each had 5 points for the Titans.

TACONIC HILLS (22): Bosko 1-0-2, Proper 1-0-2, Skabowski 1-0-2, Alvarez 1-0-, Waterhouse 2-1-5, Schrader 2-0-4, Cooper 1-3-5. Totals 9-4-22. CHATHAM (64): Perry 2-04, Madsen 0-1-1, Mountain 2-0-4, Morse 2-1-6, Engel 6-013, Taylor 10-6-27, Armstrong 4-0-9. Totals 26-8-64. 3-pointers: Morse, Engel, Taylor, Armstrong. Greenville 55, Rensselaer 49 GREENVILLE — Bryn Fitzmaurice had six 3-pointers for 18 points as Greenville defeated Rensselaer, 55-49, in Saturday’s Patroon Conference girls basketball game. Emily Smith and Aislinn O’Hare both had 15 points for the Spartans. RENSSELAER (49): Dunlavey 5-0-10, J. Slinglernd 2-15, A. Slingerland 4-1-9, Toal 4-3-11, Allert 6-1-14. Totals 21-6-49. 3-pointers: Allert. GREENVILLE (55): Smith 7-0-15, Fitzmaurice 6-0-18, A. O’Hare 4-7-15, J. O’Hare

1-0-2, Crawley 2-1-5. Totals 20-8-55. 3-pointers: Fitzmaurice 6, Smith. BOYS VOLLEYBALL PATROON ICC 3, Catskill 1 VALATIE — Ichabod Crane defeated Catskill, 3-1, in Patroon Conference boys volleyball action on Saturday. The Riders took the first two sets, 25-16 and 25-19, lost the third, 25-21, then bounced back to claim the fourth, 25-20. For ICC (13-1): Erik Holmberg 30 assists, 3 aces, 3 kills; Paul Zietsman 24 kills, 3 blocks, 1 ace; Topher Pelesz 14 kills, 1 ace; Luke Desmonie 3 kills, 3 blocks, 1 ace; Caden Tiernan 6 kills, 1 ace. Ichabod clinched the No. 1 seed in the boys volleyball league championship tournament and hosted No. 4 Cobleskill on Monday. The ICC-Cobleskill winner will play the winner of Catskill vs. Voorheesville for the league title.

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leverage if he demands a trade. But the Sixers don’t have the cap space to sign Harden, and would require the Nets to play along and accept Ben Simmons in a sign-and-trade if this drags into the summer. Sixers coach Doc Rivers was also skeptical of acquiring Harden, insinuating Sunday that the reports were generated by Simmons’ representation. “Why would I ever comment on that stuff?” Rivers told reporters. “It’s so silly.” Harden, meanwhile, missed his second straight game Sunday with hamstring tightness. The 32-year-old’s absence fed

into a theory that he’s holding out until the Nets acquiesce to his trade demand. But Nash insisted it was a legit injury requiring a cautious approach since Harden’s hamstring cost him over a month of games and sabotaged his playoffs. “The scan is pretty good but there’s a strain -- there’s a tightness, sorry, not a strain -- there’s a tightness and a strength deficit. So, for us, we just don’t want to take any chances. We know last year we lost him for an extended period and we want to be conservative and make sure he resumes full strength so there isn’t an extended absence.”

without endangering herself. Shiffrin watched every bit of those Games not just as a fan, but as one of, what, maybe two or three people in the whole world who could relate. As she thought about her Olympics to come, she was nothing short of an exposed nerve. “I don’t want to listen to the pressure,” she said back then. “I don’t want to listen to the expectations. I don’t want to hear what other people are saying. I just want to block it out completely. “And to an extent, that can work. But at the Olympics, it really rarely does. Like, you cannot limit distractions 100-percent. You kind of can’t limit distractions at all.” Now, the distraction is her own unexpected slip and slide, by her own assessment a “huge disappointment.” The early indication is that she is not so shaken that she is skiing’s version of Biles, because after laying herself bare to reporters at the base of the hill - “I’m not going to cry about this, because that’s just wasting energy,” she said - she posed for a picture with teammate Nina O’Brien, offered some advice for O’Brien’s second run, then flipped a bag over her shoulder. She headed off to train for slalom even as the enzymes in her gut were still digesting the disappointment. “I think the easiest thing to say is that I skied a couple good turns, and I skied one turn a bit wrong, and I really paid the hardest consequence for that,” Shiffrin said. “And now we have

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Coxsackie-Athens’ Schyler Caringi (top) competes in the 145-pound weight class during Saturday’s Section II Class C Wrestling Championships at Stillwater High School.

to move forward because there’s a lot still to come the next two weeks.” First in moving forward is the slalom Wednesday. It’s not overstating the situation to say Shiffrin is the best slalom skier ever. She won slalom gold in Sochi in her Olympic debut. She has four golds in slalom at world championships. Last month, she won her 47th World Cup slalom race, giving her more victories in any single discipline than any skier, male or female, ever. Yet combine what has happened this season with what happened Monday, and it’s hard to call Shiffrin the favorite for gold. Vlhova has skied in seven World Cup slaloms this season and won five. In the other two, she was second - to Shiffrin. Shiffrin is well-suited, too, to the Alpine combined - one run of downhill, one of slalom - an event in which she won silver in PyeongChang, one that will be contested Feb. 17 here. There’s a lot left at these Olympics, and what happens from here will be fascinating. It is a window into the mind and soul of Mikaela Shiffrin, but also into the stew of emotions and burdens the Olympics bring. Afterward Monday, she said simply, “My best chance for the next races is to move forward, to refocus, and I feel like I’m in a good place to do that.” She’s absolutely right. But with as many as four more races to go here, her relationship with the Olympics is clearly fraught. There’s no telling what’s to come.

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Coxsackie-Athens coach Ryan Palmer (left) and John Cox react to a match during Saturday’s Section II Class C Wrestling Championships at Stillwater High School.

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“We think when he’s healthy and Kevin’s healthy and Kyrie plays, our team is a totally different team,” Nash said before Sunday’s tipoff against the Nuggets. “And we’re excited by it.” Still, it’s no secret Harden has strong ties to the Sixers organization, specifically Embiid, team president Daryl Morey and minority owner Michael Rubin. Harden will become an unrestricted free agent after the season, which gives him a little

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Roommates/ Home Sharing

HOUSEMATE WANTEDSenior Citizen request person to share expenses of 3700 sq ft modern home, 1 mile from Hudson. Private bed. Requesting $1,100 / mo. Incls. heat, elec. direct tv, trash, one time cleaning, treadmill, W/D. Full use of residence. Must be clean, non-smoker, credit score of 650 plus. Proof of income References. No pets. Call or text (518)965-3563.

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General Help

We are hiring Line Cooks, Stewards, and Baristas for our NEW Alltown Fresh location! We are paying up to $18/hr, and looking to hire ASAP. Please stop by our sister location (XtraMart located at Route 9H and 82 in Hudson NY 12534) to apply or call the store (518) 851-2220.

"JOHN DOE" and "MARY ROE", said names being fictitious, the true names of said persons being unknown to petitioner, intended to be the heirs at law and distributees of EDITH BLUSH a/k/a Edith Caroline Blush, deceased, the names and domiciles and/or places of residence of all said distributees being unknown and which cannot, after due diligence, be ascertained, and if any of such distributees be dead, then all of the distributees, executors, administrators, devisees and legatees of such deceased distributees and all persons who by purchase, inheritance or otherwise, have or claim to have an interest in these proceedings as heirs at law or distributees of EDITH BLUSH, deceased, and other persons, if any there be, and whose names and addresses are unknown to petitioner, and also to persons who are or make any claim whatsoever as executors or administrators of any interest in these proceedings derived through, or from any and all of the above-named persons or their distributees, devisees, and legatees, and which persons, if any there be, their names and domicile addresses, after due diligence, are unknown to petitioner. A petition having been duly filed by Barbara Sheehan, having an address of 17 Pikes Pond Road, Averill Park, NY 12018. YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate's Court, Columbia County, at 401 Union Street, Hudson, New York, on March 28. 2022. at 11 :00 a. m. in the forenoon of that day, why a decree should not be made in the Estate of EDITH BLUSH a/k/a EDITH CAROLINE BLUSH, lately domiciled at 30 Whittier Way, Town of Ghent, Columbia County, New York, United States, admitting to probate a Will dated May 18, 2017, a copy of which is attached, as the Will of EDITH BLUSH, deceased, relating to real and personal property, and directing that Letters Testamentary be issued to Barbara Sheehan Dated, Attested and Sealed, January 25, 2022. HON. Jonathan D. Nichols Surrogate, Kimberly A. Jorgensen, Chief Clerk Malcolm McPherson, Esq., Shulman Howard McPherson, PO Box 1000, Averill Park, NY 12018 (518) 6743766. NOTE: This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not required to appear. If you fail to appear it will be assumed you do not object to the relief requested. You have a right to have an attorney appear for you. No in-person appearances shall be made at the return date. If you wish to object to this matter, contact the Surrogate’s Court Chief Clerk.

Miscellaneous for Sale

FUN, EXPRESSIVE & MOOD related Lapel Pins & Keychain's Shop at: www. PinnyforyourMOOD.com

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Pets & Supplies

NEWFOUNDLANDS: AKC purebreds. 2 girls, 4 boys. first shots, vet check, wormed. $1,400. 21 year of breading. Call 680-8005668 or 315-655-3743.

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EXERCISE BIKE needed w/large seat. Must be in good working condition. Call with price. (518)3920221.

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Additionally, you can email class@wdt.net or call 315-782-0400.

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10 prospects who improved their draft stock at the Senior Bowl David Furones South Florida Sun-Sentinel

MOBILE, Ala. — The process of evaluating college upperclassmen for the NFL draft began in earnest this week at the Senior Bowl between the practices and Saturday’s all-star game. The Miami Dolphins, along with the other 31 NFL teams, were represented in Mobile, Alabama, to watch prospects work out, go through drills and ultimately compete in the exhibition. With general manager Chris Grier, assistant general manager Marvin Allen and special advisor Dan Marino among the Dolphins’ brass on hand, Miami, while looking for traits it likes at any position to find gems, likely had an extra focus on the offensive line, wide receivers, running backs and linebackers. With the Senior Bowl complete, the draft’s scouting combine takes place in early March before the draft that runs from April 28-30. Here are 10 prospects who improved their draft stock throughout the week in Mobile: Edge Jermaine Johnson II, Florida State: He has one of the best stories in the draft, going from starting his college career in junior college

where he was featured on Netflix series ‘Last Chance U’ to a possible first-round pick. Johnson exhibited why he was ACC Defensive Player of the Year in the practice week. He checks all the boxes of what you want in a defensive end/outside linebacker between his pass-rushing skills and ability to set the edge against the run, with an impressive work ethic to boot. It would be tough to imagine him ending up in Miami with his rising stock, the Dolphins’ position in the draft and, unless Miami loses Emmanuel Ogbah in the offseason, not a pressing need for a defensive end. OT Trevor Penning, Northern Iowa: The great thing about Penning is he was about as solid as can be all week at left tackle. The bad thing for the Dolphins is, with the No. 29 pick, they’re unlikely to have him fall to them. Maybe they’d have a better chance if they still had their own pick, No. 15, which was dealt to the Philadelphia Eagles. Penning plays with a mean streak and has all the tools you’re looking for from a tackle at the next level. QB Malik Willis, Liberty: The Dolphins presumably aren’t in the market for a quarterback, even after Willis flashed his physical traits

all week. The strong arm was on display as he registered one throw at 74 mph, the fastest since Zebra Technology put chips in footballs at the Senior Bowl in 2018. He showed the ability to scramble and be elusive in the pocket on multiple occasions, as well as make fine decisions, in Saturday’s game as he started for the American Team. National starter Kenny Pickett of Pittsburgh, who will now have to hear any and everything about his hand size (only 9 inches) through the draft, also fared well, but Willis won the week. OL Zion Johnson, Boston College: The Dolphins don’t just need tackles. They’ll likely need to add interior offensive linemen with only right guard Robert Hunt a definitive starting-caliber player at his position. Johnson was most impressive among guards and centers, and he was awarded the Senior Bowl Practice Player of the Week. WR Christian Watson, North Dakota State: Already highly touted coming in, the 6-foot-4 Watson impressed all week and was named the top wide receiver on the National Team. On Saturday, he got open down the field and made an athletic diving

catch on underthrown ball by Pickett, but more impressively, he knew to get up right away and run in a quick transition to NFL rules from college. Memphis wideout Calvin Austin earned the other team’s top receiver recognition, and South Alabama’s Jalen Tolbert is another one who impressed, playing in his home stadium. TE Trey McBride, Colorado State: The John Mackey Award winner for the best college football tight end in the nation excelled throughout the week as the most consistent tight end among the group. He capped the successful showing with a touchdown in Saturday’s game, found wide open in the flat on a play-action misdirection. If Mike Gesicki leaves in free agency, McBride could be one to look into. Wisconsin’s Jake Ferguson also looked good with a run after catch for a touchdown on Saturday. LB Brian Asamoah II, Oklahoma: Asamoah was named the top linebacker on the National Team in a vote by offensive linemen, tight ends and running backs who practiced against him in practice. He could be someone the Dolphins look into beginning on Day 2 of the draft. If Miami keeps most of

its defense intact, linebacker would be the most likely position where they look to add. RB Abram Smith, Baylor: The running backs who were most impressive on the teams were Smith and Alabama’s Brian Robinson, which you probably have already seen more of in college. Smith scored the first touchdown of Saturday’s exhibition off a screen, and in a sign of the team player he is, he handed the ball to right tackle Daniel Faalele of Minnesota, who has been mocked to Miami, to spike the ball in the end zone. With a need to improve the run game, the Dolphins could be eyeing a running back in Day 2 or 3 of the draft. Edge DeAngelo Malone, Western Kentucky: Malone would need to gain weight to be an every-down edge defender who can stand up against the run, but the 234-pound former receiver is an exceptional pass rusher. He showed tremendous ability to get off the line of scrimmage at the snap and rushes with a strong motor. Although he’s light, he can bring physicality on the pass rush with his bull rush. He had a sack in the game on Saturday. Minnesota’s Boya Mafe also impressed with a

strip-sack on North Carolina quarterback Sam Howell and persistent pressure. S Jalen Pitre, Baylor: Pitre had great hips, was light on his feet and showed closing speed in coverage, especially in one-on-one reps in practice against wide receivers. He also earned a positional honor for the week. The other Baylor safety, JT Woods, also made a lasting impression with a sealing interception in the final seconds Saturday. Others to note: Connecticut defensive tackle Travis Jones was a physical bully against offensive linemen. Cincinnati defensive end Myjai Sanders embarrassed Faalele in a one-on-one drill, sending him to the ground on a spin move. Georgia linebacker Channing Tindall made an exceptional special teams tackle covering a punt return, showing his hustle and willingness to contribute in that aspect of the game. The NFL Network cameras caught Appalachian State linebacker D’Marco Jackson leading the huddle for his team at one point, and he looked to have good command of the unit.

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NBA roundup: Jokic, Barton carry Nuggets past Nets Field Level Media

Nikola Jokic had 27 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists, Will Barton added 21 points, and Denver beat visiting Brooklyn, 124-104, on Sunday. Aaron Gordon scored 17 points, Monte Morris and Jeff Green scored 12 apiece, Bryn Forbes had 11 and Zeke Nnaji 10 to help Denver end a threegame losing streak. Kyrie Irving finished with 27 points and 11 assists, Cam Thomas had 20 points, Blake Griffin finished with 19, Patty Mills scored 14 and Bruce Brown had 10 for Brooklyn, which has lost eight consecutive games. Sixers 119, Bulls 108 Joel Embiid had 40 points, 10 rebounds and two blocked shots to lift the Philadelphia 76ers past the host Chicago Bulls 119-108 on Sunday. It was the seventh game that Embiid scored at least 40 points this season. Tobias Harris scored 23 points, Tyrese Maxey added 16 and Seth Curry contributed 12 for the Sixers, who snapped a two-game losing streak. DeMar DeRozan led the Bulls with 45 points, nine rebounds and seven assists. Nikola Vucevic added 23 points and Javonte Green had 17. Bucks 137, Clippers 113 Giannis Antetokounmpo finished with 28 points, 10 rebounds and five assists and Jrue Holiday added 27 points with 13 assists as visiting Milwaukee used a thirdquarter burst to earn a victory over new-look Los Angeles. Bobby Portis added 24 points with 11 rebounds as the Bucks won their second straight game to open a four-stop Western Conference road trip. An NBA Finals rematch against the Phoenix Suns looms Thursday. Norman Powell scored 28 points in his Clippers debut and Marcus Morris Sr. added 20 as Los Angeles lost for the third time in its last five games. Robert Covington, who also was making his Clippers debut, added 13 points. Powell and Covington were acquired in a trade Friday from the Portland Trail Blazers. Timberwolves 118, Pistons 105 Karl-Anthony Towns had 24 points and 12 rebounds and Minnesota extended its winning streak to four games by topping Detroit in Minneapolis. D’Angelo Russell, who missed the previous four games with a shin contusion, contributed 22 points and eight assists, and Malik Beasley supplied 20 points off the bench. Anthony Edwards added 17 points and five assists for the Timberwolves, who won 128-117 in Detroit on Thursday. Saddiq Bey led Detroit with 24 points and eight rebounds. Trey Lyles had 16 points and seven rebounds, and the Pistons have lost four straight and eight of their last nine games. Celtics 116,

Magic 83 Jaylen Brown scored 26 points, Dennis Schroder contributed 22 off the bench and visiting Boston extended its season-best win streak to five games with a victory over Orlando. Boston easily overcame an uneven shooting performance by AllStar Jayson Tatum, who had 15 points on 6-for18 shooting from the floor, including 2-for-8 from 3-point range, to defeat Orlando for the ninth straight time dating back to January 2020. Tatum also collected nine rebounds and seven assists. Jalen Suggs paced Orlando with 17 points, but the Magic shot 35.8 percent (29-for-81) from the floor and made only five triples (5-for-26) against one of the league’s top defensive clubs. Mavericks 103, Hawks 94 Despite being limited to 28 minutes because of foul trouble, Luka Doncic recorded his 45th career triple-double and led Dallas to a win over visiting Atlanta. Doncic finished with 18 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists for his ninth triple-double of the season and second of his career against Atlanta. The Mavericks also got 22 points from Reggie Bullock, who had six 3-pointers, and 22 points from Jalen Brunson. Trae Young scored 17 points and had 11 assists for Atlanta, but he missed all six of his attempts from 3-point range. John Collins scored 22 points and had a season-high 18 rebounds, and De’Andre Hunter scored 14. Cavaliers 98, Pacers 85 Cedi Osman led the way with 22 points and Cleveland came back from a 20-point deficit to blow out visiting Indiana. The Cavaliers blew the game open by starting the fourth quarter with a 19-0 run, turning a 68-61 deficit into an 80-68 lead. Eighteen of Osman’s points came in the fourth quarter, when Cleveland outscored Indiana 37-17. Kevin Love finished with 19 points and seven rebounds, while Jarrett Allen had 15 points and a game-high 17 rebounds. Allen has grabbed 39 rebounds in his last two games. Guard Chris Duarte led the Pacers with 22 points, and Duane Washington scored 17. Pelicans 120, Rockets 107 Brandon Ingram scored 33 points and had 12 assists as New Orleans rode a thirdquarter surge to a road win over Houston. Jaxson Hayes came off the bench to contribute 21 points and seven rebounds to help the Pelicans to their third consecutive victory, their longest winning streak since a four-game run from Dec. 15-23. Christian Wood led the Rockets with 22 points and eight rebounds. Jalen Green and Garrison Mathews scored 18 apiece, and Josh Christopher (12) and Kenyon Martin Jr. (nine) combined for 21 off the bench.

Joey Logano holds off Kyle Busch to win Busch Light Clash in LA Field Level Media

LOS ANGELES — At the end of a transformative NASCAR experience that took the City of Angels by storm, Joey Logano held off hard-charging pole winner Kyle Busch to triumph in Sunday’s Busch Light Clash at the Coliseum. Logano got the lead on Lap 116, moments before Kyle Larson retaliated against Justin Haley for earlier contact that was not of Haley’s doing. Larson steered toward the bottom of the track, knocking Haley’s Chevrolet into the concrete Jersey barrier on the frontstretch. In the competitive debut of the Next Gen race car, Logano had control of the race for the restart on Lap 117 and held the top spot to the finish, with Busch frustrated in pursuit on the quarter-mile track built for the NASCAR Cup Series event in iconic Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum as part of NASCAR’s daring foray into downtown L.A. “I can’t believe it,” Logano exulted after the race. “We’re here. The L.A. Coliseum. We got the victory with the old Shell/ Pennzoil Mustang. This is an amazing event. Congratulations, NASCAR. Such a huge step in our industry to be able to do this, put on an amazing race for everybody. “I’m out of breath. I was so excited about this. This is a big win. My wife is having a baby tomorrow, our third one, so a pretty big weekend for us.” It was an exhibition race â?? but what an exhibition. Rapper Pitbull, who co-owns Trackhouse Racing with Justin Marks, warmed up the crowd with a

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NASCAR Cup Series driver Joey Logano celebrates after winning the Busch Light Clash at The Coliseum at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on Sunday.

45-minute set before the green flag. At the halfway break in the 150-lap event, crews changed tires and made adjustments to the Next Gen cars as rapper Ice Cube filled the Coliseum with loud, rhythmic music. A pantheon of California sports stars â?? among them former Southern Cal tailback Reggie Bush and Dodgers manager Dave Roberts â?? joined NASCAR Hall of Famer Jeff Gordon in a corps of grand marshals and shouted the command to start engines. The race itself crystallized into a battle between Logano, Busch, Larson and Austin Dillon. After the final restart,

Larson briefly took second from Busch, who regained the spot with more than 20 laps left and charged after Logano. “I was being perfect doing everything I needed to do â?? keep the tires underneath me,” said Busch, who led a race-high. “When I got close, I was like, ‘OK, I’ve got to try more and pounce at an opportunity,’ and just overheated the tires and smoked them in three laps and that was it. Disappointing, obviously. “Come out here and win the pole, and lead laps, run up front. The finish goes green and it’s not chaotic and we can’t win, so it sucks. Congratulations to my

son (Brexton Busch) â?? he won yesterday. That’s cool. I was trying to match him. He’s winning more than me these days, so somebody better send him a contract.” Dillon passed Larson to finish third, and Erik Jones ran fourth after overtaking the reigning Cup Series champion in the closing laps. Larson held fifth, as William Byron, Cole Custer, Christopher Bell, AJ Allmendinger and Kevin Harvick completed the top 10. Busch earned the pole position for the main event with a wire-to-wire victory in Sunday’s first heat race, with Daniel Suarez, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Ryan Blaney joining him in the Clash as the second-, third- and fourth-place finishers. Blaney used his bumper to shove past Denny Hamlin to claim the final transfer spot from the opening heat. In fact, drivers who started first won all four heat races, with no one else leading a lap. Tyler Reddick dominated Heat 2, winning by a full straightaway, as Chase Briscoe, Dillon and Custer qualified behind him. Driving for Kaulig Racing’s newly minted NASCAR Cup Series team, Haley took the third heat, with Byron, Bell and Chase Elliott joining him in the main event. In Heat 4, Logano and Larson ran 1-2, with defending Daytona 500 winner Michael McDowell and Jones taking the final two transfer positions. Hamlin made the Clash by winning the first of two Last Chance Qualifiers, with Harvick and Allmendinger finishing second and third to advance.

AFC outlasts NFC for fifth straight Pro Bowl win Field Level Media

Justin Herbert threw two touchdown passes, Mac Jones tossed one and the AFC held on for a 41-35 win over the NFC in the Pro Bowl on Sunday in Las Vegas. It marked the AFC’s fifth straight Pro Bowl victory. Mark Andrews had five catches for 82 yards and two touchdowns to lead the AFC. Hunter Renfrow also caught a touchdown pass, and Stefon Diggs scored a rushing touchdown. Kyler Murray threw three touchdown passes for the NFC, and Kirk Cousins had one. Kyle Juszczyk, Mike Evans, Kyle Pitts and Dalvin Cook each caught TD passes in the loss. The AFC opened the scoring on a 45-yard interception return for a touchdown by Darius Leonard with 12:17 remaining in the first quarter. Leonard, who had four interceptions to go along with a league-high eight forced fumbles this season,

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AFC quarterback Justin Herbert of the Los Angeles Chargers (10) looks to pass the ball against the NFC during the second quarter during the Pro Bowl football game at Allegiant Stadium on Sunday.

stepped in front of a high pass from Murray. The NFC pulled even at 7-7 on a 14-yard touchdown pass from Cousins to Juszczyk with 9:57 to go in the quarter. But less than a minute later, Andrews grabbed a 15-yard touchdown

pass from Herbert to give the AFC a 14-7 lead. The NFC pulled within 14-13 on a pick-six by Antoine Winfield Jr. on the final play of the first quarter. Winfield faked a pitch and kept the ball for a 63-yard touchdown return, but

a two-point conversion attempt failed. In the first minute of the second quarter, Myles Garrett had a 22-yard fumble recovery for a touchdown. Jones followed that with a successful two-point conversion, finding Diontae Johnson in the end zone to put the AFC on top 22-13. Murray fired a 19-yard touchdown pass to Evans with 10:41 left in the second quarter. Murray then connected with CeeDee Lamb for a two-point conversion that pulled the NFC within 22-21. A 7-yard touchdown pass from Herbert to Andrews, followed by an unsuccessful twopoint attempt, gave the AFC a 28-21 lead with 5:01 left in the second quarter. Next came a 6-yard touchdown pass from Jones to Renfrow – again followed by an unsuccessful twopoint attempt – to make it 34-21 with 7:24 to go in the third quarter.

Tom Hoge emerges from pack at Pebble Beach for first PGA Tour win Field Level Media

Tom Hoge made four birdies on the back nine to pass Jordan Spieth and claim his first PGA Tour victory at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am on Sunday in Pebble Beach, Calif. One of three co-leaders after 54 holes, Hoge rebounded from a double bogey at the par-3 fifth hole to card a 4-under-par 68, landing him at 19-under 268 for the tournament. That proved two shots better than Spieth, the three-time major winner who spent some time alone in front on the back nine Sunday. A tee shot into the sand led to a costly bogey for Spieth at the par-3 17th as Hoge surged past him. Spieth carded a finalround 69 at Pebble Beach Golf Links. Hoge, 32, finally broke through after playing on tour since 2015. “I’ve always kind of got myself into position and then just felt a little bit uncomfortable on Sundays out there,” Hoge said on the CBS broadcast. “So finally today I felt great the whole day and felt real calm, kind of

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Tom Hoge putts for par on the 18th hole and a championship victory at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am golf tournament at Pebble Beach Golf Links on Sunday.

standing over those putts you need to make down the stretch. It’s awesome. You work through so many hard times to be here and to finally pull one off feels incredible.” He rolled his approach at No. 16 to 9 inches away from the pin for a tap-in birdie. That moved him to 18 under to tie Spieth, who was dealing with a sand shot one hole ahead of him. Spieth’s second shot at No.

17 bounced by the cup and stopped 5 feet away, but he blew his par save past the hole and dropped out of the tie with Hoge. Hoge capitalized at No. 17 by converting a 22-foot, left-toright putt for birdie to give himself the two-stroke cushion. “Really I was just trying to get two good looks for birdie on 17 and 18 and still expected Jordan to make a birdie or eagle on 18

coming up the stretch,” Hoge said. “Putt was kind of a bonus. You never expect to make that putt, a big swinging downhill putt like that. When I hit it, I initially thought it was short, but went right in the middle, it was pretty nice.” Despite the outcome, Spieth felt his tee shot at No. 17 was “my best swing of the week.” “I hit the dead center of the face, high, kind of hold-straight ball – the wind just took it a little,” Spieth said. “And it was on the line where it would have actually not only bounced towards the hole, it would have then fed left. ... In the air, I was thinking this might lip out. And it hits the lip and goes in the bunker.” Spieth’s runner-up finish came less than two weeks after a hospital stay for an intestinal infection. Andrew Putnam, who entered Sunday tied atop the leaderboard with Hoge and Hossler, only managed a 1-over 73 to tie for sixth at 14 under with Joel Dahmen (72) and England’s Matt Fitzpatrick (68).

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Sister isn’t the same after removal of tumor Dear Abby, My sister, who was a bright and cheerful star for everyone and anyone, was diagnosed with a brain tumor. It was removed with almost 100% margins several years ago. Our family feels unbelievably blessed that she’s OK, but she knows she’s not the same. DEAR ABBY I will forever be grateful for the fact that she’s alive and OK, but she is not the sister I once knew no matter how hard she may try. I sympathize with her, I listen, I know she struggles because she’s missing her old self. I try, but ultimately, I feel useless. And, selfish as it sounds, I miss my sister, my TRUE sister, terribly. I know this isn’t what she wants, and I will be there for her no matter what the future brings. But what else can I do for her? I want to be anything she needs me to be, as she is more than deserving. Supportive Sis In Virginia

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While some of her capacity may be diminished, what your sister needs is you to be her stalwart sister and love her for the person she is NOW. Support her, love her, appreciate that she’s still with you and quit focusing on those aspects of her personality that are lost. I say this because it isn’t healthy for either of you to dwell on the negative at this point, when there is so much for which to be thankful. Dear Abby, I divorced my husband of 12 years after catching him cheating with multiple women. I took time for myself and wasn’t in a hurry to meet anyone. However, about a year after the

divorce, I met a great guy. I was quickly introduced to his family and they embraced me, inviting me to holidays and birthday parties, etc. Four years went by and we started talking about marriage. We made plans to have our wedding at our favorite beach with family and a couple of friends. There were several people we would have loved to take part, but who couldn’t due to the pandemic. Before the ceremony, my husband and I came up with the idea of wearing white face masks to take a group picture. As the masks were being distributed, his family got angry and said they weren’t going to do anything they didn’t want to do. They then stomped off and wouldn’t participate in the vows or any of the pictures. They’re angry with me, and I am hurt. And the hateful things they said also hurt my husband. I don’t know how to handle this. Bad Idea In Florida What happened was terrible, and I can’t blame you for feeling hurt at the treatment you and your husband received on your wedding day. However, this is the tribe you married into. Your husband’s family may have reacted strongly because they objected to having their faces covered in a photo or to face masks in general. If it was the latter, it’s a shame they felt they had to take a political stance while you were celebrating your nuptials. Try to be forgiving. However, if you are abused again, recognize it may be time to distance yourselves and concentrate on your side of the family rather than your husband’s.

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this vulnerability? Open 2S.

WEEKLY BRIDGE QUIZ ANSWERS Q 1 - Neither vulnerable, as South, you hold: ♠K985♥AQ2♦Q985♣QJ SOUTH 1♦ ?

WEST Pass

NORTH 2♣

EAST Pass

Q 4 - Both vulnerable, as South, you hold: ♠ 7 6 ♥ Q 8 ♦ K 10 8 7 3 ♣ A K 6 4

Right-hand opponent opens 1H. What call would you make?

What call would you make?

A - Bidding 2D on this suit, with this hand, at this vulnerability, is very dangerous. Pass.

A - 2S here would not show extras in the modern style, but we think 2NT is a more descriptive bid. Bid 2NT.

Q 5 - North-South vulnerable, as South, you hold:

Q 2 - North-South vulnerable, as South, you hold: ♠ 10 9 8 6 3 ♥ K 9 8 5 3 ♦ 2 ♣ Q 6

Right-hand opponent opens 1D. What call would you make?

Q 3 - East-West vulnerable, as South, you hold: ♠

J 10 8 6 5 4 ♥

5 ♦ A 10 7 ♣ J 7 4

SOUTH 1♣ ?

WEST Pass

NORTH 1♥

EAST Pass

What call would you make? A - 1S or 2S? This hand is not quite good enough for 2S based on high cards, and shortness in partner’s suit is not an asset. Bid 1S. Q 6 - East-West vulnerable, as South, you hold: ♠K63♥KJ4♦Q5♣AKQJ6

As dealer, what call would you make?

A - That club suit makes this hand well worth 20 points. Open 2NT.

A - Why not put pressure on the opponents at

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A - Assuming you play Michael’s Cue Bids, where a 2D bid here would show 5-5 in the majors, please don’t use it on this hand. This hand is not worth a vulnerable bid. Pass.

♠ Q 10 8 2 ♥ 9 ♦ A K 8 ♣ A K J 9 2

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