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DA awaits result of video analysis By Ted Remsnyder Columbia-Greene Media
CATSKILL — Greene County prosecutors are still waiting for state police investigators to crack the code on footage that could show the death of Scott Myers, District Attorney Joseph Stanzione said Monday. Authorities hope surveillance footage from the night Myers was allegedly stabbed to death by Carrie Weiser of Catskill from cameras that Myers had installed in his apartment will shed light on what happened Nov. 27. “We’re still waiting on the video,” Stanzione said. “We’ve provided substantial discovery to the defense. The defense has to provide me with certain discovery material as well, which they
haven’t done just yet. So basically the judge will have a conference by the beginning of March, and by that point the judge basically wants to know that we’re pretty much in substantial compliance with our discovery obligations.” Court proceedings for Weiser, who is accused of killing Myers, continued Monday morning in Greene County Court as Judge Terry Whilhelm held a virtual conference with the defense and the prosecution. Myers, 68, of Catskill, was stabbed to death two days after Thanksgiving in his West Bridge Street apartment. Weiser was indicted by a grand jury on Dec. 2 on a felony second-degree murder charge for the stabbing and
an additional misdemeanor count of criminal possession of a weapon. After Weiser, 32, pleaded not guilty to the charges at her arraignment Dec. 17, Wilhelm set a Jan. 10 Carrie Weiser conference date to gather updates on the case’s discovery process. Prosectors from the Greene Counity District Attorney’s Office and Weiser’s attorney, Michael Howard of Hudson, participated in the 11:15 a.m. conference Monday. “It was a discussion about where we are and if our discovery is complete
and what else has to be done,” Greene County District Attorney Joseph Stanzione said after Monday’s conference. No dates were set during the Monday morning conference for any future conferences or hearings in the case. “We did have discussions as to where we are in the discovery process,” Stanzione said. “There’s more discovery to be done, then a further conference will be scheduled in the near future.” The district attorney said it was premature to set a possible trial date in the Weiser case. “We’re way too early for a trial date to be scheduled,” Stanzione said Monday. The felony murder charge against Weiser carries a maximum sentence of
life in prison. According to the grand jury report, Myers and Weiser had dinner together at the Catskill restaurant Subversive on the night of Myers’ murder. The authorities believe that the pair subsequently went straight to Myers’ residence at 39 West Bridge St., where he was killed. Weiser made a 911 call at approximately 12:15 a.m. on Nov. 27 to report to the authorities that Myers had been stabbed. The suspect was still at the scene of the crime when police arrived at Myers’ Catskill apartment. When she was questioned by police, Weiser told them that she had difficulty recalling the events that transpired on the night of Myers’ murder.
New restrictions at CMH due to COVID By Natasha Vaughn-Holdridge Columbia-Greene Media
HUDSON — A dramatic increase in the number of COVID cases has prompted changes to the visitation policy at Columbia Memorial Health, officials said Monday. Columbia Memorial recently modified its visitation policy. Patients will be allowed to have up to one healthy visitor at a time for up to 30 minutes. “It certainly coincided with, and was a result of, the increase in transmission of the omicron variant in the community.” Columbia Memorial spokesman Bill VanSlyke said. “So we went from — the hours were 2 to 6 p.m. — and now they’ve been reduced to 3 to 5p.m., one visitor at a time for 30 minutes.” Columbia Memorial currently has 26 COVID-positive patients, VanSlkye said. There had been about 30 over the weekend but that number was reduced to 26 Monday morning, which is about where the number has been for the past few weeks. Children 12 to 17 years old must be accompanied by an adult, according to an announcement about the CMH visitation policy posted on their website. All Columbia Memorial visitors are required to wear a mask. Visitors must remain in the patient’s room for the duration of their visit and must perform proper hand hygiene when entering and before leaving the patient’s room.
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Columbia Memorial Health has updated its visitation policy amid rising COVID cases.
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the increased prevalence of COVID in the community. To schedule a virtual visitation, call the unit where the patient is rooming and staff can help arrange a virtual visitation. Columbia Memorial officials announced last week they were pausing elective procedures and surgeries. According to the website, they are continuing to perform emergency surgeries as necessary and will resume elective procedures and surgeries when they are able to do so safely. The pandemic has brought on greater use of telehealth, VanSlyke said. The volume of people turning to telehealth went up greatly about a year ago. “Prior to that, there were lower volumes of well visits for minor illnesses and things of that nature,” VanSlyke said. “But now, as providers have become more comfortable with it we’ve seen the utilization include things like followup surgical visits, things where people might have a rash, where they can show a rash via telehealth.” Columbia Memorial Health is among a number of area hospitals updating their visitation policy due to recent increases in COVID-19 cases. St. Peter’s Health Partners on Sunday began limiting visitation to one unique visitor per patient per day st St. Peter’s and Samaritan hospitals. An announcement on their Facebook page Friday said this is due to the increasing test positivity rate of COVID in the Capital Region.
Greene COVID cases soar, death toll nears 100 By Ted Remsnyder Columbia-Greene Media
CATSKILL — As COVID-19 cases continue to proliferate across Greene County, the county recorded three more deaths over the weekend due to COVIDrelated illnesses, bringing the total to 99 COVID deaths in Greene County since the pandemic began in March 2020. The three deaths included an unidentified man in his mid-50s who was unvaccinated and two unidentified women in their 80s who were also unvaccinated. Both women had underlying health conditions. Greene County Public Health announced Monday that 276 new positive COVID cases had been identified in the
county, bringing the total of active positive cases up to a new record of 1,312. The agency noted that due to limited testing capability, the number of positive cases does not fully reflect the current level of positive cases in the county. The county has now recorded 7,675 COVID positive cases since the inception of the pandemic. With the country setting daily records for positive COVID cases, Greene County Administrator Shaun Groden said he expected the county to follow that trend in the days and weeks ahead. “I would say yes,” Groden said on Monday. “I would say we have not reached the peak. That’s why you should get vaxxed.” As of Jan. 10, 67% of Greene County
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residents have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. There are 41 Greene County residents hospitalized with COVID-related illnesses, while 455 residents are under quarantine orders. Public Health on Monday updated its isolation and quarantine guidance for individuals who test positive for COVID. The guidance is aligned with the state Department of Health’s recommendations, which were updated Jan. 4 in the wake of new guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “For the general public, if you’re unvaxxed and you’re exposed, that’s a
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Jim Jordan signals he won’t speak to Jan. 6 House committee
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Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan indicated on Sunday night that he won’t voluntarily testify to the House Committee investigating the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, writing the inquiry isn’t “fair-minded and objective.” The committee’s Dec. 22 request that he appear “is far outside the bounds of any legitimate inquiry, violates core Constitutional principles, and would serve to further erode legislative norms,” Jordan wrote in a letter to committee chairman, Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat. Jordan is one of former President Donald Trump’s highest profile congressional allies and has publicly acknowledged talking on the phone with Trump on Jan. 6, as rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol building. He’s the second sitting Republican congressman known to be asked to voluntarily appear before the
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committee: Scott Perry, a Pennsylvania Republican and Trump ally, previously called the request for him to be interviewed “illegitimate” and tweeted that he would refuse to do so. Jordan didn’t address why the committee wants to interview him, Tim Mulvey, a committee spokesman, said in response to
the letter. “He spoke directly to President Trump on January 6th and is thus a material witness,” Mulvey said in a statement, and he “worked directly with President Trump and the Trump legal team to attempt to overturn the lawful results of the 2020 presidential election.”
The committee will respond to Jordan’s letter in greater detail in the coming days and will consider “appropriate next steps,” he added. Jordan has on several occasions said he telephoned Trump on the day of the riot, but has been unclear about when exactly that conversation took place. “Even if I had information to share with the Select Committee, the actions and statements of Democrats in the House of Representatives show that you are not conducting a fair-minded and objective inquiry,” Jordan wrote in his letter to Thompson. Russell Dye, a Jordan spokesman, declined to elaborate on whether the top Republican of the House Judiciary Committee will speak to the Jan. 6 panel. “The letter speaks for itself,” Dye said. ©2022 Bloomberg L.P. Visit bloomberg.com. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
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major operator of affordablehousing units across the city. Co-founder Rick Gropper was among a group of transition advisers who consulted with Adams before he took over on Jan. 1, while partner Andrew Moelis is the son of real estate executive Ron Moelis and nephew of Ken Moelis, chief executive of Moelis & Co. A spokesperson for the group said it’s working with city officials to investigate the cause of the flames. “We are devastated by the unimaginable loss of life caused by this profound tragedy,” the group said in a statement. “We are cooperating fully with the fire department and other city agencies as they investigate its cause, and we are doing all we can to assist our residents.” Bloomberg’s Caleb Melby contributed to this report.
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on space heaters for warmth. He also said the investigation would focus on complaints from building residents that said smoke alarms went off frequently, leading some residents to stay in their units because they didn’t realize it was a real fire. “This is a wakeup call for all of our buildings,” Adams said, noting the fire was the deadliest in the city since the Happy Land fire in 1990 -- also in the Bronx -- that killed 87 people. The building is owned by Bronx Park Phase III Preservation, a consortium of investors made up of LIHC Investment Group, Belveron Partners and Camber Property Group, who bought the building as part of a $166 million deal for eight buildings in the Bronx. Part of the financing came from loans from New York State Housing Finance Agency and Freddie Mac, according to financing records. Camber Property Group is a
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New York Mayor Eric Adams said the city is investigating the Bronx apartment building where a fire killed 19 people, including nine children, in the city’s deadliest fire in three decades. Adams said there is no initial reason to believe the 19-story building didn’t comply with city fire codes but that he was waiting for a thorough investigation by fire marshals. “It appears the landlord was operating the building accordingly but a thorough investigation will determine that,” Adams said on CNN Monday. The fire appeared to have come from a malfunctioning space heater in an apartment, where residents had fled without closing the door, city officials said. Firefighting units arrived within three minutes of the call but smoke had extended
throughout the building at 333 E. 181st St., according to city officials. The 200 firefighters were met with thick smoke and fire. “The open door allowed the smoke to fill the building,” Adams said in a separate interview with Fox Monday. “Fire marshals are going to do a thorough investigation into the source of fire, why it spread so rapidly throughout the building and look at doors. Did it have the automatic closing it was supposed to have based on a law that was passed in the city?” Adams said it was the heavy smoke, not only the fire, that led to the high number of deaths. He said the city had enough staffing to fight the blaze, despite the Covid spike that has thinned the ranks of public workers. In a preliminary investigation, Adams said the city had found two outstanding building violations, but that neither was related to insufficient heat that might prompt residents to rely
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A substantial rise in atmospheric methane levels helped push global temperatures in 2021 towards the highest ever recorded, according to the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. A new report released Monday determined that last year was the fifth warmest in the 52-year European record, slightly hotter than 2015 and 2018. The last seven years rank as the hottest on record, BLOOMBERG PHOTO BY TULLIO PUGLIA and 21 of the 22 warmest Damage from a fire is seen in Petralia Sottana in Sicily, Italy, on years have occurred since Aug. 13, 2021. 2000. Pollution from fossil-fuel increased by a record amount The jump in global atmocombustion, industrial activ- last year, to 1,876 parts per spheric methane comes as ity and other human sources billion, according to Coperni- satellite and ground-based is causing temperatures to cus. The supercharged green- sensing has rendered the gas rise. A global consortium of house gas with more than 80 newly visible to cameras. In climate scientists backed by times the initial warming im- once recent example, a pipethe United Nations said with pact of carbon dioxide comes line-safety measure taken “unequivocal” confidence from natural sources, such as for highway construction in in an August report that hu- swamps and termites, as well northeast Texas in Novemman-made pollution is caus- as human activity that in- ber led to methane release at ing the warming trend. A ma- cludes oil and gas infrastruc- an hourly rate equal to a year jor factor that kept 2021 from ture, cow burps, rice pro- of CO emissions from 2,500 matching record heat levels duction and landfills. While cars. In October, meanwhile, was the ongoing La Niña the multiple sources make it Australia’s biggest methane event, an occasional natural difficult to say with precision cloud of last year appeared cooling in the equatorial Pa- which are responsible for the over the country’s top coalcific that’s expected to last overall spike, there are new producing region. In the through the early months of ways to track some previous- same month, Russian energy 2022. ly hard-to-detect methane giant Gazprom vented methane during pipeline repair. Atmospheric methane emitters.
The ubiquity of methane emissions and their powerful but temporary residence in the atmosphere make them an efficient way to direct climate policy in the nearfuture. That’s why more than 100 countries signed on to a methane-cutting pledge at the recent UN climate talks in Glasgow, Scotland.
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Tuesday, Jan. 11 n Catskill Town Planning Board 6:30 p.m. Robert C. Antonelli Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill n Coxsackie Village Historic Preservation Committee 6 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie
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Crews fight hunting cabin fire in Leeds By Bill Williams Columbia-Greene Media
LEEDS — Several Greene County fire companies were on the scene of a fire that broke out in a hunting cabin in Leeds on Sunday afternoon, fire officials said Monday. There was considerable damage to the structure, said Freehold Fire Chief Jim DiPerna on Monday. The fire began in a large shed that is attached to the cabin and houses a wood stove, DiPerna said. The occupants of the cabin left the building with a fire burning in the wood stove, DiPerna said. They were not home when the fire broke out. At about 2:27 p.m., Freehold Fire Company was sent by Greene County 911 to 3966 Schoharie Turnpike, after a caller reported the building was on fire. The cabin was located on a private road off of Schoharie Turnpike. When the first
firefighters arrived, they reported the structure was on fire and requested mutual-aid assistance from neighboring fire companies. Crews went to work extinguishing the blaze. Fire officials reported the fire was out after about an hour. There was some fire damage to the 300-squarefoot cabin with smoke and water damage throughout, DiPerna said. Central Hudson Gas and Electric was requested to the scene. The Greene County Fire Investigation Team determined that the fire began in a pipe on the wood stove before spreading. Fire companies that assisted Freehold were Greenville and Earlton. Also assisting at the scene were: Greenville Ambulance and Greene County Paramedics. All firefighters were back in service by 4:30 p.m.
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Several fire departments were on the scene of a hunting cabin fire in Sunday in Leeds.
Tuesday, Jan. 18 n Durham Town Board 7:30 p.m.
Town Hall, 7309 Route 81, East Durham n Greene County Legislature economic developpment and tourism; Gov. Ops.; Finance; and Rep. and Dem. Caucus 6 p.m. Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill n Hunter Town Board 7 p.m. Town Hall, 5748 Route 23A, Tannersville
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Board of Education regular business 6:30 p.m. CHS Library, CHS Library, 341 West Main St., Catskill 518-943-2300 n Catskill Library Board 6:45 p.m. at either the Catskill Library, 1 Franklin St., Catskill or Palenville Library, 3303 Route 23A, Palenville n Catskill Town Board Committee 6:30 p.m. Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill n Greene County Legislature meeting No. 1 6:30 p.m. Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill
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visory Council 6:30 p.m. via Zoom. Join Zoom Meeting hhttps://us02web.zoom. us/j/82693515752 n Coxsackie Village Planning Board 6 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie
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State Psychological Association urging members of commission to embrace essential reforms ALBANY — The New York State Psychological Association announced that they are urging members of the state’s Blue-Ribbon Commission on Forensic Custody Evaluations to put the well-being of New York’s children first by adopting the child custody evaluation reforms contained in Assembly bill 2375-B by Assemblyman Dinowitz of the Bronx, and include them in the Commission’s public report to Governor Hochul. NYSPA strongly supports the reforms contained in Assemblyman Dinowitz’s bill to require court-appointed forensic evaluators, who assess
families as part of child custody battles, to be licensed mental health professionals and be mandated to take domestic violence education and training courses. “Our members firmly believe that protecting the mental health and safety of children who are dragged through custody battles is the main priority,” said NYSPA president Dr. Barbara Kapetanakes. “We appreciate the hard work of those on the Commission and look forward to working with them on their recommendations and working with the Governor and Legislature to strengthen New York’s
CATSKILL — We are requesting proposals for the Greene County Youth Bureau Funding for youth programs sponsored by any 501(c)(3) (Non-profit tax-exempt charitable organization per IRS). The deadline for this RFP is Feb. 25. The application must include List of current Board members with contact
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on psychologists and other mental health professionals to conduct scientific based assessments of family dynamics and other relevant factors, particularly as it relates to the best interests of the child, in order to provide the court with a scientific review of the parties involved in the child custody and visitation court proceedings. In addition, it is not uncommon for parents who are at odds with one another to express fear that the other parent is a threat. The difficult job of family courts, and the psychologists that support them, is determining when a child is truly
at risk for abuse and when the court must intervene. Dr. Kapetanakes continued, “New York’s family courts deal with hundreds of thousands of cases every year, often working with minimal resources. Unfortunately, the system doesn’t always work, and when that happens, the State needs to do everything possible to fix problems and prevent them from happening again. We are hopeful that the Commission will embrace the reforms contained in the Dinowitz bill as part of their recommendations to Governor Hochul.”
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custody evaluation laws by adopting the reforms included in Assemblyman Dinowitz’s legislation.” The Blue-Ribbon Commission on Forensic Child Custody Evaluations was established in early 2021 and charged with reviewing the state’s forensic custody evaluation process and making recommendations to improve the process as well as the quality, fairness, and transparency of the state’s family court system. NYSPA also provided testimony during the Commission’s September meeting. In New York State, the family court system relies
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kindly send us an email and state you wish your 2021 grant “recycled.” In this case, we will only require Form OCFS-5001 with an original signature mailed to: Greene County Human Services (Youth Bureau), 411 Main Street, Catskill N. Y. 12414. Response must be made to mmurphy@discovergreene.com. All applications are to
include only one Life Area with the goals & objective for the program. In addition, the Services, Opportunities & Supports (SOS) & Performance Measures must be entered on the application. Historically, the average grant award has been between $1,000 and $3,000. All OCFS forms are available on the web site, http://
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More illness will drain health care Gov. Kathy Hochul wants all New York health care workers to receive COVID-19 booster shots and a negative coronavirus test will be required for visitors to state nursing homes and adult-care facilities as part of the state’s latest efforts to slow virus transmission. All health care workers in the state must get a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot within two weeks of eligibility or face suspension or termination. The governor’s mandate issued last Friday is an example of how the vaccines and booster shots brought to bear against COVID-19 can be checkmated more than once by this evolving,
mutating pandemic. The requirement will not allow health workers to have a test-out option and only permits requests for medical exemptions. All state health personnel were required to have at least one dose of an approved COVID vaccine by Sept. 27 or lose their employment. A court challenge to allow religious exemptions for the mandate was struck down in the fall. Opponents of the mandate say it will exacerbate staffing shortages and burden an exhausted workforce as the pandemic continues for the 22nd month. Hochul countered Friday the state’s limited health
workforce has increasingly gotten sick with the surging COVID-19 infections, and the order would increase vaccine boosters in the state health workforce to prevent them from severe illness. With the number of COVID-19 cases soaring and nursing homes seeing positive tests rise among staff and residents, it’s well worth it for health care workers to protect themselves and the people in their care. We have to do all we can to maintain our health and safety in these new days of omicron. Another mandate may not be what we want, but it is what we need.
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U.S. experts offer a sensible strategy for living with covid. Biden should listen. (c) 2022, The Washington Post ·
Quite understandably, the coronavirus pandemic at first was a dire emergency. But it can’t be one forever. The crisis will have to shift to a manageable health threat without massive disruption and overwhelming anxiety. President Joe Biden has been fighting the virus as an emergency in his first year, but a shift must come before too long. Sound advice on how to do this has been provided by six public health and medical experts who took part in his presidential transition. They have published three articles in the Journal of the American Medical Association saying that covid “is here to stay” and the nation needs a strategy for a “new normal.” This is a marked shift from the message Biden delivered in his early months in office, promising to tamp down the virus with vaccines. But it was clear even before the delta and omicron waves that the pandemic would not screech to a halt. Last summer, several prominent public health experts warned, in an article titled
“The Forever Virus,” that covid “is not going away.” They were right then, and the subsequent articles sketch out a road map for necessary systemic changes. High on their list is to build a genuine public health data infrastructure, after two years of stress on the fragmented, imprecise system. They propose widespread access to low-cost diagnostic testing, accompanied by a comprehensive system for reporting all viral respiratory illnesses to a central location. The experts also call for three new systems for getting ahead of potential viral and bacterial illnesses. One would be a nationwide environmental monitoring network keeping an eye on wastewater and air sampling, providing early warning of a potential outbreak. Another is a genomic surveillance system - a kind of public health radar - that would spot emerging virus variants and new pathogen dangers. A third idea is to establish real-time digital surveillance of vaccinated individuals (with an opt-out) to track adverse effects and waning
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immunity, so the United States would not have to rely on Britain and Israel for such data. The experts also lay out important initiatives to improve ventilation and filtering and upgrade face masks. To reach the new normal, they envision continued reliance on vaccines and vaccine mandates. They envision annual shots tailored to strains and urge accelerated efforts to develop a universal coronavirus vaccine, one shot that would hit all variants. They call for an electronic vaccine platform to replace the paper cards, and they suggest that no-cost, convenient outpatient treatments for covid be made widely available for anyone testing positive. They also point out that trust in public health institutions needs to be rebuilt after two bruising years of crisis. It should not be difficult for the president or Congress to see the need for these changes. The investment will be well worth it if the result is to take covid from being a dire emergency to just another manageable malady.
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How conservative justices’ anti-regulatory fervor could hamper the COVID fight WASHINGTON — During the course of the pandemic, it has become a bureaucratic badge of honor to argue that authorities are taking a “whole of government” approach to tackling the virus. In one of the more jarring moments in Friday’s oral arguments about the Biden administration’s efforts to mitigate COVID-19, Chief Justice John Roberts seemed to be arguing that trying to use all the statutory tools available to it somehow undermined the government’s legal argument. “You said just a short while ago that ... COVID presented a grave danger to people in the workplace,” Roberts told Biden Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, who was arguing in favor of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s vaccine or testing mandate. “In a few minutes, we’ll hear an argument ... and it will be that it presents a grave danger in Medicare and Medicaid facilities. “Not here, but in the lower courts, the federal contractor mandate, the argument is going to be that it is a grave danger to federal contractors. ... It seems to me that it’s that the government is trying to work across the waterfront and that it’s going agency by agency.” This is supposed to be a bad thing? I thought conservatives cared about statutory language and whether the text of the law authorized the action at issue. The chief justice is the most reasonable of the court’s conservatives, but his logic here seems upside down: The government gets marked down for trying too hard. Prelogar pushed back at Roberts. “What we’re trying to do here and what OSHA did was rely on its express statutory authority to provide protection to America’s workforce from grave dangers like this one,” she said. “So I take the point and don’t dispute that COVID-19 is a danger in many contexts and falls within the jurisdiction of other agencies as well, but I think to
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MARCUS suggest that because this disease is so prevalent, because it presents such a widespread harm, somehow OSHA has less power to do anything about it ...” At which point Roberts interrupted and showed his real hand: There’s just too much darned regulating going on here. “It sounds like the sort of thing that states will be responding to or should be and that Congress should be responding to,” he said. Earth to chief justice. States are responding — some responsibly, too many others in precisely the wrong way, preventing employers from taking steps to protect their workers. And COVID doesn’t stop at state borders; it is a national problem, amenable to national solutions under the constitutional power to regulate interstate commerce, among other authorities. As to the role of Congress, as Prelogar pointed out, it has spoken. It created OSHA in a broadly worded law whose textual application to the situation at hand Roberts did not dispute. Instead, he switched to another novel argument: that laws, or maybe only laws that give agencies regulatory authority, have some kind of sell-by date. “You know, that was 50 years ago that you’re saying Congress acted,” he told Prelogar. “I don’t think it had COVID in mind. That was almost closer to the Spanish flu than it is to today’s problem.” And this matters because ...? The authority provided by a broadly worded statute doesn’t run out as the law
ages. Laws don’t stop mattering just because they’re old. There are any number of laws giving federal agencies broad authority to regulate issues and technologies that their drafters could scarcely have imagined. For example, the 1914 law creating the Federal Trade Commission, as amended in 1938, empowers the agency to prevent “unfair methods of competition in or affecting commerce, and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce.” The law’s authors could not have conceived of it being enforced against large technology platforms, modern pharmaceutical companies or Internet scammers — none of which existed until decades after the agency was created. I get Roberts’s concern here. The OSHA rule goes beyond what the agency has previously done — but novelty does not equal impermissibility. Instead, it may reflect novel need. As Justice Elena Kagan noted, “It’s an extraordinary use of emergency power occurring in an extraordinary circumstance, a circumstance that this country has never faced before.” Would it be better — more clearly authorized, more small-d democratic — if Congress were to specifically authorize the mandate? Sure, but we all know that’s not happening in this political environment, and preferable does not equal necessary. Roberts and his conservative colleagues appear poised to tell OSHA that it’s gone too far. They’ll likely say something about how this is the kind of “major question” on which Congress must have clearly authorized such regulatory intervention. But there’s another major question here: Does the conservative justices’ antipathy toward regulation make it impossible for our country to protect itself? Ruth Marcus’ email address is ruthmarcus@washpost.com.
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Governor missed opportunity to address climate crisis To the editor: In 2019 New York State became a leader in responding to climate disruption when it passed the nation’s most progressive climate law, the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA). Nevertheless, in the State of the State message, Governor Hochul missed an opportunity to lay out a broad vision to address the climate crisis at a necessary scale, or how her administration intends to fully fund the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, which is necessary for New York’s just transition away from a fossil-fuel-based economy.
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NY Renews is calling for $15 billion this year for “climate, jobs, and justice”. We cannot respond to the climate crisis with proclamations, platitudes, or pennies on the dollar. New York requires billions of dollars to best protect and invest in our communities and address the reality of climate disruption. Although the State of the State includes many environmental achievements, the landmark CLCPA that made them possible must be funded and implemented now not years from now. Without the $15 billion in this year’s budget, phasing out reliance on fossil fuels, reducing power plant
emissions, commitments to electric school buses, weatherizing and electrifying New York’s housing stock, and expanding Clean Green Schools will not be realized. The Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act cannot become an unfunded mandate. NY Renews is the statewide coalition of more than 300 organizations behind passage of the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act. MICHAEL RICHARDSON NY RENEWS STEERING COMMITTEE
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JAN. 14 DELMAR — Q.U.I.L.T. Inc., a not-for-profit guild of quilters interested in learning about the art of making quilts, will meet 9:30-11:30 a.m. Jan. 14 via Zoom. 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. For the January 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 Mini-Workshops and Show and Share. Preregistration is required on the Q.U.I.L.T. Inc. website https://www.quiltinc. org/ to receive the Zoom link.
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HUDSON — The FASNY Museum of Firefighting will be hosting the monthly Super Saturday event at 10:30 a.m. Jan. 15, Weird Science with Professor Sparks. Spend the morning exploring the science of fire. Professor Sparks and her robot canine companion, Spot 2000, will present an interactive program that is full of surprises. After the program make your own “slime” to take home. Only Professor Sparks can make learning about science this much fun. This hands-on program is appropriate for children 5 and older. Admission is free for for Columbia County residents and Museum members.
JAN. 16 ATHENS — The West Athens-Lime Street Fire Co. will serve an all you can eat breakfast 8 a.m.-noon Jan. 16 at the West Athens Firehouse 2, Leeds-Athens Road, Athens. Freewill offering.
JAN. 20 GREENPORT — Sacred Heart-Mt. Carmel Shrine, 442 Fairview Ave., Greenport, will serve a Polish dinner, take out only, 11:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Jan. 20. Menu includes kielbasa,
stuffed cabbage, pierogies and dessert. Cost is $12. Call 518828-0342 to preorder or 518828-8775 10 a.m.-6 p.m. day of event.
JAN. 21 TANNERSVILLE — The Kaaterskill UMC, 5942 Main St., Tannersville, will serve a Brooks chicken barbecue, take out only, 4-7 p.m. Jan. 21. The cost is $15. For information and tickets, call Kelly at 518263-6069 and leave a message.
JAN. 29 COBLESKILL — The Schoharie County Master Gardeners are happy to be participating in the National Seed Swap 10 a.m.-noon Jan. 29 at the Extension Center, 173 South Grand St., Cobleskill. Participation is free, and you do not have to donate seeds to benefit. National Seed Swap Day is designated as the last Saturday in January. The mission is to conserve and promote crop diversity in local communities through a planned event at which neighbors gather to exchange seeds and chat about plans for the upcoming season.
HVADC coordinates FeedHV and Scenic Hudson partnership to donate locally produced frozen food HUDSON — Turning an adversity for local small farmers into an opportunity to feed Hudson Valley neighbors in need, FeedHV has coordinated with Scenic Hudson to purchase frozen products from Hudson Harvest at a reduced cost to distribute to nine area agencies with food assistance programs. Administered by Hudson Valley AgriBusiness Development Corporation (HVADC), FeedHV is a regional food rescue and harvesting network operating throughout Dutchess, Orange, Ulster, Columbia, Greene, Putnam and Sullivan counties. It links donors of prepared, but unserved, food and fresh produce with nonprofits and food assistance programs. Through an app-assisted network of food donors, volunteers and feeding agencies, FeedHV facilitates the harvesting, processing and distribution of locally grown or produced agricultural products, shelf-stable food donations and prepared nutritious foods. Among the donors are restaurants, farms, food makers, stores, hospitals and universities. The food assistance programs include food pantries, soup kitchens and shelters. When several area small farmers were notified in the fall of 2021 that their freezer storage facility in Columbia County would be closing, they began to seek out a new location, reached out to Hudson Harvest, and also to HVADC to find new cooling storage. HVADC coordinated the effort through FeedHV to enable Hudson Harvest to identify excess products in their freezers for distribution to food assistance agencies. “HVADC was in the unique position to assist both the farmers who were losing their freezer space and our FeedHV food assistance agencies by coordinating with two of our long-time partners, Scenic Hudson and Hudson Harvest. Scenic Hudson’s continued generosity and commitment
to farms and food security is greatly appreciated. Hudson Harvest did a spectacular job at coordinating deliveries and pick-ups to ensure that the food reached those who needed it,” said Mary Ann Johnson, Deputy Director, HVADC. Based in Germantown, Hudson Harvest is a local food distributor supporting local food communities, making it easier for consumers to get access to local, sustainably grown, healthier food. The FeedHV purchase, made possible by a donation from Scenic Hudson, allowed Harvest Hudson to free up approximately 15 pallets of space in its freezer facility in Athens, making room for ten small farmers who were displaced by the closing of their prior facility. More than 4,550 pounds of locally produced frozen products — including turkey, goose, pork, salmon, beef, venison, lamb, baked goods, prepared rice, and vegetables and fruits — has been delivered to the receiving agencies. “We are thrilled to help the many food pantries in need, as well as those farmers who were affected by the closing of their prior cold storage facility. Helping donate significant amounts of local food to our community pantries, while also providing cold storage space to those affected farmers was a win-win for all of us. Thankfully the teams at HVADC, Scenic Hudson and FeedHV coordinated a swift, multifaceted solution in just a few days, all in time for the holidays and winter season when our local supply chain is even more critical for those in need,” said Michael Waterman, CEO, Hudson Harvest. The receiving agencies are in Beacon, Cairo, Catskill, Kingston, Poughkeepsie, Red Hook and West Park, and include Ascension Food Pantry, Catskill Community Center, the Center for Creative Education, Children’s Home of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess Outreach, Fareground, Prabhuji Food Distribution, Red Hook
Responds and The Pantry at Dutchess Community College. Food distribution started just prior to Thanksgiving and was completed in December. “Scenic Hudson was delighted to partner once again with the HVADC and FeedHV to get fresh, locally grown meats, vegetables, and fruits onto the tables of people most in need. It directly reflects the organization’s goals to provide support for the region’s family farms and ensure everyone benefits from its natural assets, including access to nutritious food. During the pandemic, food insecurity has increased dramatically. We hope this donation will help brighten the holidays for many families throughout the valley,” said Scenic Hudson President Ned Sullivan. This was the third instance of HVADC facilitating coordination between FeedHV and Scenic Hudson, and at the same time helping Hudson Valley farms and food producers. In September, HVADC connected Scenic Hudson and FeedHV with Hudson Valley Fisheries (HVF) of Hudson, New York, to procure approximately 1,200 pounds of locally grown steelhead trout for distribution to six agencies with food assistance programs in Greene and Columbia counties. In August 2020, at the height of the pandemic and surplus challenges facing local dairy farmers, Scenic Hudson and FeedHV partnered to purchase milk, yogurt and butter from Hudson Valley Fresh and Ronnybrook Farm Dairy. Through that effort, nearly 75,000 pounds of dairy products were directed to community assistance organization focusing on feeding children in need in Dutchess, Ulster and Columbia counties. To learn more about FeedHV, its donor and volunteer programs, visit www.feedhv. org. To become a food donor, contact info@feedhv.org. To make a monetary donation to FeedHV, visit https://www. feedhv.org/donate-today.
Bank of Greene County announces promotions CATSKILL - Donald Gibson, President & CEO of the Bank of Greene County, announces employee promotions across the Bank. Gibson said, “Due to the continued growth and success of the Bank, it is my pleasure to announce we have promoted several dedicated employees to positions of increased responsibility within various departments. It is particularly rewarding when all of the employees promoted are from within our company, and have grown with us over the years.” Susan Timan has been promoted to Vice President of e-Communications & Corporate Secretary. Susan has worked for the Bank for 15 years, with increasing responsibilities in the Marketing Department. She is also a graduate of the Bank’s Management Training Program. She holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from The College of St. Rose, and a Bachelor’s degree from Roger Williams University. She lives in Catskill. Susan Wren has been promoted to Vice President of e-Services & Customer Relations. Susan has over 30 years of banking experience, and has spearheaded the Bank of Greene County’s Customer Service Center for the last seven years. During her Banking Career, Susan completed the full training at the American Institute of Banking and has been active in a national organization promoting road safety for young drivers for many years. She lives in Chatham. Justin Goldman has been promoted to Assistant Vice President of Commercial Lending & Business Development. Justin has been with the Bank for seven years, and has held positions of increased responsibility in both the Branch network and Lending area. He is also a graduate of the Bank’s Management Training Program. Justin holds a Bachelor’s degree from Colgate University, and lending certificates from the Center for Financial Training. He also completed a fellowship with the Good Work Institute. Justin is a former Board Member of the Columbia County Habitat for Humanity, and serves on the Boards of the O+ Festival and Ulster County Regional Chamber of Commerce. He lives in Hudson, and is very involved in the local community. Amy Conte has been promoted to Corporate Cash Management Officer. Amy has almost 30 years of banking experience, and has held positions of increased responsibility within the Bank of Greene County Branch Network for the last 15 years. Most recently, she was the Regional Branch Development Officer responsible for the Columbia County branch offices. She is very active with the Trinity United Methodist Church, and lives in Greenport.
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Pictured John Olivett, VP of Operations, Debra Guilzon and Don Gibson.
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Pictured are Eric Lloyd, Steve Hickey, Justin Goldman, Heather Davis, Don Gibson, Susan Wren, Susan Timan, Amy Conte and Michael Stanley.
Debra Guilzon has been promoted to Operations Officer. Debra has over 34 years of banking experience, and has held positions of increased responsibility within the Bank of Greene County Operations Department for the last 20 years. Most recently, she was the Operations Manager. Debra is a graduate of Catskill High School and a lifelong resident of Catskill. Michael Stanley has been promoted to Credit Manager in the Lending Department. Michael has been with the Bank for three years, and held positions of increased responsibility in the Lending Department. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from Colorado State University and a Master’s in Business Administration from Utica College. Michael has been a volunteer at the Bridge Street Theater and lives in Catskill. Steven Hickey has been promoted to Senior Application Support Specialist within the Bank’s IT Department. Steve has been with the Bank for 5 years, and held positions of increased responsibility in both the Branch Network and IT Department. He has an Associate’s degree in Computer Science from
Columbia-Greene Community College and lives in Catskill. Heather Davis has been promoted to Accountant in the Finance Department. Heather has been with the Bank for eight years, and held positions of increased responsibility throughout the Bank. She is also a graduate of the Bank’s Management Training Program. Heather holds an Associate’s degree in Business Administration from Hudson Valley Community College and a Bachelor’s in Accounting from the University of Phoenix. She lives in Catskill. Eric Lloyd has been promoted to Associate BSA & Operational Support Specialist. Eric joined the Bank in early 2021 as a Financial Service Representative within the Branch network. Eric holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Economics from SUNY Oneonta and lives in Pleasant Valley. Headquartered in Catskill the Bank of Greene County is the only locally based Bank with offices in Ulster, Greene, Columbia and Albany counties and has proudly served the Hudson Valley and Capital District for more than 130 years.
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Barbara A. Laspada May 16, 1955 — January 5, 2022 Barbara A. Laspada was a person who knew everyone, and they knew her, passed away January 5, 2022. Born May 16th 1955, in Manhattan NY. She graduated class of 1974 at Dodge VOC high school. Down in Manhattan she worked in retail. Then in 1977 she married her husband of 43 years. She moved up to Chatham NY where she continued to work in retail. She volunteered her time with the Ladies Auxiliary of the Chatham Fire Department, Saint James Church, and the Mac-Haydn theater. Barbara leaves behind her husband Sal Laspada, daughters Maryann Laspada, Christina (Christopher) Rundell, Kathleen Laspada, and two grandchildren Amber Laspada and Charles Rundell Calling hours are Wednesday January 12th 11:00am – 12:30pm at the French Gifford Preiter Blasl Funeral Home followed by a Mass of Christian Burial at Saint James Church at 1:00pm. In lieu of flowers contributions can be made to the family to help offset the costs of funeral services. Condolences may be conveyed at frenchblasl.com.
Loretta Cecelia Deane January 20, 1932 — January 7, 2022 Loretta Cecelia Deane, age 89, of Catskill, died Friday, January 7, 2022 at home. She was born January 20, 1932, the daughter of the late Charles Watson and Catherine (Casey) Hagan. Loretta was a long-time employee at Eden Park Nursing Homes in Albany and Catskill. Loretta was also predeceased by her husband, George Deane Sr.; a sister, Catherine Brunner; an uncle, Thomas Kulik; an aunt, Ann Kulik; and a niece, Pat Kulik. Loretta is survived by two daughters, Cathy Johnson and Patricia Davis, both of Catskill; a son, George Deane Jr.; a granddaughter, Tasha and Clarence Toliver; a grandson, Marcus Deane; great-granddaughter, Camariya Lewis-Deane; a niece, Pia Brunner; and nephew, Tanner Brunner. Relatives and friends may call 9-11AM Friday at Traver & McCurry Funeral Home, 234 Jefferson Heights, Catskill. Funeral services will follow 11 AM Friday with Fr. Michael P. Melanson officiating. Interment will be at St. Patrick’s Cemetery in Catskill. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to St. Jude’s Childrens Research Hospital.
Claire Frances (Porcello) Davis
Bertha Schnackenberg
June 3, 1938 — December 30, 2021
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Claire Frances Davis was born in White Plains, NY and grew up in Pleasantville NY. She is survived by her son Peter Peters (Chris) of Windham, NY and her daughter Laura Caceres (Juan) of Waterbury, CT. She had 6 loving grandchildren and 2 greatgrandchildren. Claire was a long-time resident of Windham NY, first coming here as a child and later living in the family home on Old Road. Claire received her B.A. from SUNY New Platz and her Masters from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She loved education and became a Teaching Assistant at Windham-Ashland-Jewett CS before becoming a Teacher in the Troy City School District. Claire’s other passions included travel and civic duty. She lived in Italy and Lebanon and traveled extensively and always immersed herself in the many cultures of the world. She was a true world citizen. Her civic accomplishments included starting an award-winning city beautification program in Troy, NY, Troy in Bloom. As a Windham resident, Claire was a long-time poll worker, staunch member of the Democratic Party and a member of the Mountain Top Progressives. Claire will be greatly missed by her family and by all those that knew her through her numerous community, charity, and social endeavors. There will be a private family graveside ceremony in the spring. Memorial donations may be made to the Windham Public Library.
Bertha Schnackenberg of Kinderhook passed away Friday January 7th at the Pines Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Poughkeepsie NY. She was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, to John and Bertha Malally (Keefner). From there the family moved to Hillsdale NY where Bertha graduated from Roeliff Jansen High School in 1953. In 1955 she married John Schnackenberg of Ghent, NY, and together they raised two children and operated the family’s dairy farm until 1986. During that time, other than her roles with the family farm and being a mom, Bertha held jobs as a medical receptionist and home healthcare aid. She always found time to volunteer and made sure that she was able to support her children by attending almost every sporting event or activity they participated in. She was predeceased by her husband John in 2002 and is survived by her two sons, Scott Schnackenberg (Stephanie) of Poughkeepsie and Glenn Schnackenberg (Cheryl) of Kinderhook. She is also survived by her four grandchildren, Ashley, Connor, Jack, and Aimee, all of Poughkeepsie. Services will be private. Arrangements are with the Raymond E. Bond Funeral Home, Valatie. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to the Immune Deficiency Foundation at https://fundraise.primaryimmune.org/Memorial/bschnack.
Report: NY child COVID hospitalizations up 700% By Kate Lisa Johnson Newspaper Corp.
NEW YORK — Children under age 18 hospitalized with COVID-19 complications increased by more than 700% over the last month, according to a report released by the state Health Department on Friday. New York’s pediatric hospital admissions related to COVID-19 for children ages 0 to 18 increased from 70 to 571 in one week between Dec. 26 and Jan. 1. In the last week, about 54% of children hospitalized in the state with severe coronavirus infections had no comorbidities or underlying conditions while 70% were reported symptomatic, according to the Health Department. “What is making us concerned is that the rate of increase among children is going up faster than it is among adults,” state Health Department Acting Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett said Friday during a COVID-19 briefing in Manhattan. “Although the numbers of children affected are fairly small, when we first
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The virus-associated hospitalizations have increased across children the fastest, outpacing the increase seen across all age groups. About 60% young patients are admitted to the hospital for the virus, and 40% for other purposes, according to the report. Children not vaccinated against COVID-19 make up the greatest number of those hospitalized with severe virus complications. About 91% of New York
hospitalization for children 5-17 years, and the absence of vaccines for children 0-4 years,” according to the report. About 55% percent of hospitalizations were in children ages 4 years old and under — an age group that makes up 26% of children ages 18 and younger who remain ineligible for vaccination. “That the vast majority of children who are hospitalized are unvaccinated,” Bassett said. “It’s important to
COVID hospitalizations has become most problematic in New York City and downstate metropolitan areas with denser population. The Health Department issued an advisory Dec. 24 warning all New York health providers about a concerning increase in COVID-19-related pediatric hospitalizations.
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John M. Libruk January 7, 2022 CLAVERACK- John M. Libruk, 65 years old, of Damita Drive in Claverack, N.Y., passed away on January 7th at home surrounded by loved ones after a courageous battle with lung cancer. His wife of 38 years, Regina, as always was by his side. John was the proud and loving father of Lauren(Aviv) Bachan of San Jose, CA and Alisha (Inez) Libruk of Stuyvesant, NY. He was grandfather to Ari and Maya Bachan and Paxton and Channing Libruk. Also surviving are his brother Mark (Renae) Libruk, his brothers-in-law JB Drahushuk, and Mitchell Karp, his beloved nieces Audra (Andy) Bennett, Tara (Steven) Manierre, Morgan Libruk and Aaron Libruk. Jake was his cherished English Springer Spaniel. John was predeceased by his parents John and Mary Libruk and his sister Patricia Drahushuk, all of whom he loved dearly. John retired after a long career from the NYS Office of Children and Family Services Brookwood Secure Center in 2010. He particularly enjoyed his work at Zero Tolerance Manufacturing in Ghent, NY in his final years. John spent his life hunting, fishing and storytelling. He will be greatly missed by his family and many friends. Calling hours will be Monday, January 10th from 5 to 7pm at the Bates and Anderson – Redmond and Keeler Funeral Home, Hudson. Graveside service will be held at 10:30am on Tuesday, January 11th a Cedar Park Cemetery in Hudson, NY. In lieu of flowers the family asks for donations be sent to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital or Community Hospice of Columbia County.
Chilton Cammer In January 2022 Chilton peacefully passed away at home after a brief illness. Chilton lived in upstate New York and met the love of his life in Syracuse where they married. After he served the army as a Korean War officer, he and his wife moved back to New York and raised five children. Chilton’s career included positions in several school districts and later in the New York State’s administrative financial aid department. He received a Doctorate in Education. Family members sometimes called him “Dr. Cammer.” Chilton helped his wife manage a boarding house which was built by his great grandfather. After many years, they sold the property, retired in Florida and watched boats sail by their home. A beautiful retirement center in upstate New York became their last home and they made new friends. Recently Chilton enjoyed a large family reunion. He kept up with local and world news and had lively conversations with others. He was an intelligent, kind and generous man. Chilton was predeceased by his wife. He is survived by his five children and their spouses as well as his grandchildren, their spouses and his nine great grandchildren.
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reported on this and our alert on Dec. 25, we are talking about 150 children who had been admitted and we’re now up to 570.” About 85 children were hospitalized for virus infections statewide in the first week of December. Children ages 4 and under hospitalized with COVID-19 increased 791% in the last month, 335% for kids ages 5 to 11 and 1,047% for 12 to 18-year-olds in the same time period.
children ages 5 to 11 admitted to the hospital for the coronavirus between Dec. 20 and 26 were unvaccinated, with 4% inoculated against the illness. About 65% of 12- to 17-yearolds hospitalized with the virus were unvaccinated and 26% vaccinated, according to the Health Department. “Analyses suggest the relatively greater increases in hospitalizations for children may be due to reduced vaccine coverage combined with modestly reduced vaccine effectiveness against
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Teens are smoking less, vaping more By Karen dePeyster, Tobacco-Free Action of Columbia & Greene Counties For Columbia-Greene Media
Here’s some encouraging health news that’s been overshadowed, understandably, by the relentlessness of COVID-19 and its many variants. In 2020, only 2.3% of high school students in NYS smoked cigarettes, compared to 27.1% in the year 2000. That’s a 91% decrease over 20 years, and it has important implications. First, it confirms that basic tobacco prevention policies are effective in changing both social norms and individual behavior choices. Second, it means that as this generation ages, there will also be fewer adult smokers. Less tobacco-related illness and a reduction in both economic costs and the toll of human suffering will inevitably follow. By any measure, this is all good, but it is not the whole story. Sometime in the last 5 years or so, it started to become clear that the culture of teen smoking was being replaced by a culture of teen vaping, a technology not even marketed in this country until 2007. The latest numbers from the NYS Health Department bear this out. While the smoking rate for high school students trends steadily downward from 2000, the annual dips get bigger starting in 2014, not coincidently the same year that vaping rates began to spike upward. From there on, the numbers for each go sharply in opposite directions. E-cigarette use doubled, from 10.5% to 20.6%, in the span of just two years between 2014 and 2016. By 2018, when the “Juul” effect was in full swing, 27.4% of high school students were vaping. (This is particularly ironic given that it is almost identical to the percentage of high school students who were
smoking in 2000.) In 2019 the U.S Surgeon General declared teen vaping an epidemic. These vaping trajectories are changing the landscape of tobacco prevention and raising new concerns that have implications for public health policy. Here are some of them: n E-liquids liquids can contain nicotine in far stronger concentrations than is found in combustible cigarettes, exposing teens to greater risk. In addition to being addictive, nicotine causes changes in the way synapses are formed in the developing brain that can affect attention, learning, mood and impulse control and may increase risk of addiction to other drugs. High doses of nicotine can also cause physical symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, racing heart, sweating, and anxiety. As yet, there are no restrictions on the amount of nicotine e-liquids can contain. n The hi-tech look, feel and delivery of vaping devices is a huge attraction to teens. Compact design makes them easy to conceal and to use on the sly, a major problem for schools. Cannabis and other drugs can also be used in some vaping devices. Two local school districts have called us recently to request help in educating teachers, parents and students and for assistance in finding more effective ways of dealing with students caught in violation. One told us that two teens from the district needed hospital level care after vaping TCH extract. Schools need help on a larger scale to deal with problems caused by vaping. n A troubling report from the Truth Initiative cites multiple studies showing that a majority of teens who vape are using it to cope with anxiety and depression, which were
at high levels even before the pandemic. Unfortunately, nicotine can exacerbate these feelings, and make mental distress harder to treat. Young people need easier access to mental health services. n Regulation and enforcement are struggling to keep up with vaping technology and distribution. For example, Puff Bar, a teen favorite, uses synthetic nicotine to avoid being included in the definition of flavored products subject to FDA authority. NYS banned the sale of flavored e-cigarettes and e-liquids in 2020, but disposable flavored brands have been found for sale in several local stores as well as in almost every county around the state. The well-intentioned people who invented and first promoted the e-cigarette as a safer way for adults to consume nicotine hated tobacco companies and wanted to put them out of business because of their long history of lies and deception. It’s a cruel irony that now, as the pipeline of “replacement” smokers is drying up, Big Tobacco is setting out to take over the vaping industry by acquiring or developing their own e-cigarette brands. We should celebrate the decline of the combustion cigarette and continue to work for its complete demise, but make no mistake, the story will not end there. 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.
New York Oncology Hematology welcomes Heidi E. Godoy D.O. ALBANY — Heidi E. Godoy, D.O., joined New York Oncology Hematology (NYOH) on Dec. 1, expanding its service line offerings at its Albany Cancer Center to include gynecologic oncology and surgery. Dr. Godoy specializes in medically and surgically treating cancers of female reproductive organs, including ovarian, endometrial and cervical cancers. “Dr. Godoy joining our practice allows us to increase access to care to our patients and the Capital Region community. Her surgical experience and specialization in this area of oncology will give us additional insight into the latest treatments, technologies, therapies, and precision medicine for our female
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patients with gynecologic cancers. We look forward to growing and expanding this service line under her leadership,” said Todd Doyle, MD,
NYOH radiation oncologist and practice president. NYOH anticipates expanding gynecologic oncology and surgery to its Hudson Cancer Center in early 2022. Dr. Godoy is board-certified in obstetrics and gynecology, gynecology oncology and robotics. She completed her fellowship at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in gynecologic oncology. Prior to NYOH, she spent the past nine years at Women’s Cancer Care Associates as a gynecologic oncologist and surgeon. She is a member of several professional associations, including the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists.
Office of Mental Health receives grant to expand access to fresh healthy produce to people with mental illness ALBANY — The NYS Office of Mental Health (OMH) has received a $200,000 award to help people with mental illness gain access to healthy, fresh produce. The grant, from the NYS Health Foundation, will be used to expand the FreshConnect Checks Program and bring mobile farmers markets to congregate housing sites for residents with serious mental illness. OMH will also develop a curriculum for residents focused on purchasing, preparing, and consuming healthy foods. OMH Commissioner Dr. Ann Sullivan said, “People with mental illness often have significantly shorter lifespans than the general population, in large part because of chronic diseases related to an unhealthy diet. This new pilot program will allow us to not only teach people with mental illness about purchasing and preparing fresh healthy foods, it will also increase their access to farmfresh foods. By partnering with local service providers and the NYS Department of Agriculture and Markets, we can make a significant difference in the lives of New Yorkers living with mental illness.”
State Agriculture Commissioner Richard A. Ball said, “We are proud of our FreshConnect Checks program, which helps ensure that New Yorkers have access to healthy, fresh produce while providing a boost to our farmers. By bringing farmers markets that accept FreshConnect Checks directly to congregate housing sites, and providing the necessary support services, we can now better serve our populations living with mental illness. I want to thank OMH for leading this important initiative.” In New York State, 45,000 people with serious mental illness live in congregate homes. These individuals often face challenges in accessing and using fresh, healthy foods. By bringing mobile farmers markets to these congregate settings and engaging residents and residential staff to learn about purchasing, preparing, and consuming healthy foods, OMH will help them build these important skills. And by expanding the NYS Department of Agriculture & Markets’ successful mobile markets and FreshConnect Checks Program, residents will have the physical access and purchasing power
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Mobile Crisis Assessment Team receives Outstanding Rural Health Program Award HUDSON — The New York State Association for Rural Health (NYSARH) announces that the Mobile Crisis Assessment Team (MCAT) has been selected as the winner of the 2021 Outstanding Rural Health Program Award. MCAT has been recognized with this award for its impressive success record at addressing the social and geographical isolation of rural residents by bringing desperately needed behavioral health services directly to their homes, schools and places of work. MCAT’s use of small, nimble, mobile teams
providing in-person and telephonic crisis services to residents in Columbia and Greene Counties has allowed them to reach such achievements, as well as meet their primary program goals of avoiding hospitalization (Emergency Department or Inpatient), minimizing police intervention, and linking crisis callers to long-term service providers in the community. The Mobile Crisis Assessment Team (MCAT) is operated by the Mental Health Association of Columbia and Greene Counties Inc. It was
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necessary to enjoy healthy foods. The partners for the first phase of this pilot program will be the Buffalo Federation of Neighborhood Centers (BFNC) and Rehabilitation Support Services (RSS) in the Capital District. BFNC and RSS operate community residences and supportive housing programs, both of which offer opportunities to support food access, as well as hands-on food education and preparation. OMH will work with these agencies to develop a range of workshops including healthy meal planning, shopping for fresh produce at the mobile market, making healthy snack choices, and using healthier preparation techniques. OMH will also develop a training module for housing agency staff, who are key to ensuring residents’ access to and consumption of healthy foods. Lessons learned from this pilot will inform future possible expansion of OMH’s mobile market program across New York State. OMH plans to expand the pilot program to additional OMH-licensed housing sites in the future.
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Louis Simpson, Buffett’s former stock picker, dies at 85 Dan Reichl Bloomberg
Louis Simpson, who helped pick stocks for famed investor Warren Buffett as part of a financial career that spanned more than 50 years, has died. He was 85. He died in Chicago on Jan. 8 following a prolonged illness, according to Northwestern University in Illinois, where he had served as a trustee. He and his wife, Kimberly, were residents of Naples, Florida. Simpson spent more than three decades selecting equities for Geico, the auto insurer owned by Omaha, Nebraska-based Berkshire Hathaway. Buffett, Berkshire’s billionaire CEO whose stock-picking prowess earned him a worldwide following, was a longtime stakeholder in Geico and helped choose Simpson to be its chief investment officer in 1979. When Berkshire acquired full ownership of Geico in 1996, Buffett asked Simpson to continue managing its stock portfolio. Simpson was a “Hall of Famer” as an investor and “the best investment manager in the propertycasualty business,” Buffett wrote in annual letters to Berkshire shareholders. In his 2004 letter, Buffett included a section called “Portrait of a Disciplined Investor,” saying Simpson’s picks had produced an annual average return of 20% since 1980, compared with 14% for the S&P 500 Index. Simpson rose to president and CEO of Geico’s capital operations from 1993 through 2010 and was once identified by Buffett as a candidate to succeed him in an emergency to oversee all of Berkshire’s investments. One of Simpson’s successes came with the breakup of American Telephone & Telegraph in the 1980s. He invested about 40% of Geico’s capital in three of the regional “Baby Bell” operating companies formed by the dismantling. The stake doubled over two years and added $400 million to the insurer’s $1 billion net worth, according to Jack Byrne, the former chairman of Geico. His other notable investments included Nike, an athletic apparel maker, and CarMax, which sells used autos. “He just knocked the cover off the ball year after year after year,” Byrne said in a 2011 interview. “I have been asking Lou for 20 years whether he would take a separate account with me.” Simpson retired from Berkshire in 2010 and founded SQ Advisors with his wife, Kimberly Querrey, the following year. The firm, based in Naples, Florida, planned to manage money for Simpson’s family and friends, as well as outside charities,
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five-day quarantine,” Groden said. “If you’re fully vaccinated and you’ve been exposed but you’re asymptomatic, there is no five days.”
Simpson said in an interview with Bloomberg News at the time. “I did retire for a day,” Simpson said in the interview. He then realized, “I would probably drive myself crazy and my wife crazy if I really retired and didn’t do anything.” SQ Advisors held a stock portfolio valued at about $2.67 billion as of March 31, 2016, according to a filing. That included a Berkshire stake of more than $380 million. Louis Allen Simpson was born in Chicago on Dec. 23, 1936, the son of Irving and Lillian Simpson, and grew up in nearby Highland Park. He graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1958, and earned a master’s degree in economics from Princeton University, in New Jersey, two years later. He was an economics instructor at Princeton in 1961 and 1962 and sat on the board of the management company for the school’s endowment from 2007 to 2013, according to the university. Simpson was CEO of Western Asset Management in California before joining Geico, according to a 2010 Chicago Tribune article. While he was living in San Diego, he met Querrey, his second wife, on a business trip to Chicago. The couple lived in Chicago before moving to Florida upon his retirement from Geico. He told the newspaper that his “eclectic” approach to investing required a lot of work. “I try to read all company documents carefully,” Simpson told the Tribune. “We try to talk to competitors. We try to find people more knowledgeable about the business than we are. We do not rely on Wall Street-generated research. We do our own research. We try to meet with top management.” Among their charitable giving, Simpson and Querrey donated $20 million to Princeton in June 2016 for a building to house international programs. They gave more than $100 million to Northwestern University in Illinois to encourage biomedical research. During his years at Geico, Simpson avoided the spotlight even as his deft investment moves drew public praise from the most famous stock picker on the planet. “I typically learn of Lou’s transactions about ten days after the end of each month,” Buffett said in his shareholders’ letter in 2005. “Sometimes, it should be added, I silently disagree with his decisions. But he’s usually right.” Survivors include his wife; three sons, Irving, Kenneth and Edward; plus four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
“At that point you’re masking and social distancing and self-monitoring for symptoms,” added Nicole Maggio of Greene County Human Resources and Civil Service. The new guidance went into effect for county employees Monday. Greene County employees had been required to quarantine for 10 days after
Treasury warns of ‘enormous challenges’ this tax filing season that could delay refunds Jeff Stein The Washington Post
Treasury Department officials on Monday said that the Internal Revenue Service will face “enormous challenges” during this year’s tax filing season, warning of delays to refunds and other taxpayer services. In a phone call with reporters, Treasury officials predicted a “frustrating season” for taxpayers and tax preparers as a result of delays caused by the pandemic, years of budget cuts to the IRS, and the federal stimulus measures that have added to the tax agency’s workload. Typically, IRS officials enter filing season with an unaddressed backlog of roughly 1 million returns. This year, however, the IRS will enter the filing season facing “several times” that, Treasury officials said, although they declined to give a more precise estimate. The IRS website says that as of Dec. 23, 2021, it still had 6 million unprocessed individual returns, and as of the start of this month it still had more than 2 million unprocessed amended tax returns, a separate category. The IRS closed last filing season with more than 35 million unprocessed returns a fourfold increase from the last year before the pandemic. As the backlog increased, the IRS also failed to respond to the enormous increase in calls for assistance. Only 9% of calls were answered by an IRS customer service representative, while only 3% were answered for the 1040 support line for individual income tax returns, according to the National Taxpayer Advocate, a watchdog group. The pandemic forced the closure of many in-person centers where paper forms are processed, while also affecting the IRS workforce. But even before the pandemic, budget cuts to the IRS forced through by Republicans had led to a roughly 25% decline in the size of its staff. And these challenges were exacerbated by the federal response to covid, which required the IRS to implement big new programs - from stimulus payments to the expanded child tax credit - for tens of millions of families. “By definition, no matter how much more efficient you are, you can’t lose 25% of the workforce and assume you can do the same volume of work. It’s a problem across the board - information technology, revenue agents, people answering the phones,” said John Koskinen, who served as commissioner of the IRS under Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump. “The fact the filing season has gone so well over the last three years is an amazing tribute to the capacity of the workforce, but if you keep underfunding the place it’s not a question of whether it will have a major problem - it’s a question of when.”
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Treasury officials said the tax filing deadline for 2021 income is Monday, April 18. Treasury officials said there are no current plans to extend that deadline this year, urging taxpayers to file as early as possible. Treasury officials also urged taxpayers to file their returns online and create an account at IRS.gov. The IRS budget has been significantly cut by roughly 20% over the past decade across its major areas of operation - including tax enforcement, taxpayer services, and agency expenses for information technology, among other operational needs. The decline in taxpayer enforcement has spurred a wave of concern about the ballooning “tax gap,” or the discrepancy between what taxpayers owe and what the agency collects. Nonpartisan estimates put the figure in the range of hundreds of billions of dollars every year. The Biden administration has pushed to beef up the IRS’s tax collection budget, hoping to spend $80 billion more on this area, in part because collecting that additional revenue will help it pay for other priorities. Democratic lawmakers have also pushed to bolster the agency’s funding more broadly through the congressional appropriations process in a way that would offer more taxpayer services. The IRS budget is approximately $12 billion. The House of Representatives approved a 14% increase to the agency’s budget as part of its budget proposal. But that effort is tied up in the Senate, and the federal government is on track to be funded at existing levels until February. Many Republicans oppose an expansion of the IRS budget. Even if the IRS budget is increased, it
would likely not be in time to allow the agency to hire for this filing season. As a result, the IRS heads into its busiest time of year with a workforce that is now the same size as it was in 1970 - even though the U.S. population has grown by 60% since that time, according to Treasury officials. The agency also had fewer than 15,000 people tasked with handling more than 240 million calls, which translates into roughly 16,000 calls per employee. Treasury officials also said there are fewer auditors at the IRS that at any point since World War II. Roughly 90% of taxpayers file their returns electronically, but about 10% still mail them in on paper - the category that causes the most delays. The National Taxpayer Advocate’s report from last year points out that many taxpayers filing printed returns would prefer to do so electronically but can’t, because taxpayers are required to submit statements or other forms that the agency does not process online. Mark Everson, who served as the IRS commissioner during the George W. Bush administration, said “practitioners across the country are very concerned” about the agency’s ability to handle the upcoming tax season. “The service has done a good job getting relief payments and child tax credits out the door, but it has a day job of processing tax returns. The filing season is always job one,” Everson said. “They went down early and hard from the pandemic and they’ve never really fully recovered. For both taxpayers and regular practitioners, the inability to get through on the phones is very frustrating.”
Rep. Ed Perlmutter says he will not seek reelection, joining more than two dozen other Democrats who plan to leave the House Amy B Wang
House speaker, in an attempt to encourage the Democratic Party to begin transitioning to younger leadership. “It was like, ‘OK, you guys are my friends. It’s just, you’ve got to start passing the torch here,’ “ Perlmutter told The Washington Post then.
“Maybe I should have stepped back and just . . . not worried about it. But I did worry about it.” Perlmutter was first elected to represent Colorado’s 7th Congressional District in 2006, and is serving his eighth term, assigned to the Rules,
Financial Services and Science, Space and Technology committees. His district was redrawn once for the 2012 election and will be different again this year after redistricting in Colorado. Under the state’s newly redrawn maps, Perlmutter was the only incumbent moved to a less favorable seat, shifted from one that Biden won by 22 points to a district Biden would have won by 14 points, according to a Washington Post analysis of 2020 election results. Before his time in Congress, Perlmutter served in the Colorado Senate. In a statement, Perlmutter said it had been “an honor of a lifetime” to serve his community in some elected capacity for more than 25 years. The Washington Post’s Colby Itkowitz contributed to this report.
date of exposure) or not yet eligible for a booster, the state guidelines say no quarantine is required but these individuals should wear a well-fitting mask while around others for 10 days after the last date of exposure. Greene County is holding a first-dose Moderna vaccine clinic on Jan. 11 from 10 a.m.
until noon at Fellows Cafe at 7883 Main St. in Hunter. The clinic is available to anyone ages 18 and up who wishes to receive their COVID-19 vaccine. Appointments are required; walk-ins are not permitted. From noon to 1 p.m. at the same site, a Moderna booster clinic will be held for anyone
age 16 and older who has received their first and second doses of Moderna or Pfizer by July 10 or their sole dose of Johnson & Johnson by Aug. 10. Residents are asked to bring their vaccination cards with them and appointments are required.
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WASHINGTON - Rep. Ed Perlmutter of Colorado announced Monday he will not seek reelection to Congress, joining more than two dozen other Democrats who have announced that they will be leaving the House ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. In a statement, Perlmutter, 68, said it was time for him to explore other opportunities, but did not specify what those would be. “There comes a time when you pass the torch to the next generation of leaders,” he said. “I’m deeply gratified that our bench in the 7th District is deep and fortunately we have a strong group of leaders who are ready and able to take up that torch.” The sentiment echoed Perlmutter’s concerns in 2018, when he opposed Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., becoming the next
being exposed to COVID. Under state guidelines, individuals exposed to COVID who are not fully vaccinated should quarantine for five days and then wear a well-fitting mask while around others for an additional five days. If fully vaccinated and boosted (with the booster at least two weeks before the first
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HUDSON — The Watervliet Cannoneers earned a big road win over the Hudson Bluehawks, 69-53, in Friday night’s Patroon Conference boys
basketball action. Amel Conway led the Cannoneers, and the rest of the field, with 23 points, as teammates Brett Burke and Malik Simms each scored 16. Jordan Cunningham led
the Bluehawks’ offense with 19 points, and Keith Robinson added 13, the only other player in double figures. Hudson has now dropped four straight games and was again without Isaiah Maines.
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LOCAL ROUNDUP: Brantley records third triple-double of week in Cats’ win Tim Martin Columbia-Greene Media
CATSKILL — Janay Brantley scored 42 points, grabbed 11 rebounds, had 11 steals and six assists to highlight Catskill’s 89-38 victory over Coxsackie-Athens in Saturday’s Patroon Conference girls basketball game at Catskill High School.
The victory capped off a week in which the Cats went 3-0, including two conference wins. In those three wins, Brantley scored 115 points, grabbed 36 rebounds, come up with 29 steals and dished out 23 assists. The talented junior has now scored 1,428 points in her high school career, which ranks 4th in Catskill
hoops history. She is 70 points away from overtaking her brother Justice for third place and 170 points from passing John O’Neil for No. 1. Hannah Konsul had a double-double for the Cats, scoring 15 points and pulling down 13 rebounds. Jayden Lewis added 14 points, Aaliyah Shook had 10 points and six assists
and Ava Edmond scored eight points and grabbed 12 rebounds. Riley Sitcer led C-A with 17 points. “I just want to say what a great job Coach (Sarah) Wlodarczyk has done resurrecting the Coxsackie-Athens program,” Catskill coach Chris Quinn said. “She probably didn’t do the popular thing by not having a
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The Giants were an embarrassment Sunday and boy, did Joe Judge have it coming Sally Jenkins The Washington Post
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him, among them Washington’s 22-7 effort on behalf of Ron Rivera. Maybe that’ll cost Judge his job and send him to the circus. It ought to, because more accomplished coaches than him were out of work after Sunday. You want to see a clown show? How about a team that lays down so flat on See GIANTS B6
Ichabod Crane won the 2022 Taconic Hills Volleyball Tournament on Saturday with a perfect 10-0 record.
Jets season ends with historically inept 27-10 loss to Bills DJ Bien-Aime II New York Daily News
The defense showed up and the offense did not. Gang Green’s season ended with a 27-10 loss to the Bills as the defense played well enough, but the offense stunk. The offense totaled 53 yards on 46 plays. This is the franchise’s worst offensive performance in team history. Zach Wilson was sacked eight times and went 7-for-20 for 87 yards with one touchdown. Because of all the sacks, the Jets netted five passing yards total. But the game was competitive till the fourth because the only realistic way the Jets could compete against the Bills was if their defense performed well.
And they did. The unit played as well as one could ask when their offense was shorthanded. No Elijah Moore, Corey Davis or Braxton Berrios. And Jamison Crowder re-injured his calf in the first half. The Jets starting offensive line was without starting center Connor McGovern and left tackle George Fant. With limited throwing weapons, the offense needed their rushing attack, but they only mustered 48 yards with a 2.8 yards per carry average. But the defense held up their end of the bargain. To start it looked like the Jets said, “Cancun on three!” as the game was on a first-class flight to a blowout. On the first drive, Bills
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Buffalo Bills defensive tackle Ed Oliver (91) sacks New York Jets quarterback Zach Wilson (2) in the third quarter at Highmark Stadium on Sunday.
running back Devin Singletary broke off a 40-yard run. And
Josh Allen capped the drive with an incredible off-script
throw to Stefon Diggs for a touchdown. Then the next drive seemed to end in a touchdown for the Bills. It was second and 10 from the Jets 23. Allen floated a deep pass down the sideline to Diggs for a 23-yard score. But the play was overturned. And the Bills settled for a field goal to lead 100 in the first quarter. The very next possession, the Jets suffered a punt block, and the Bills received the ball in Jets territory. But the Bills went for it on fourth down. And Bryce Hall blanketed Allen’s throw to Garbiel Davis and forced an incompletion. That was the beginning of an outstanding stretch of defensive football that lasted till
the midway point of the third quarter. After two more Bills punts, the Jets offense finally got on the board. Wilson fired a rocket in a tight window to Keelan Cole on fourth-and-five and Cole zoomed by the Bills defense for a touchdown. Gang Green cut into the lead 10-7 midway through the second quarter. The Jets defense continued to choke the life out of the Bills offense for the next three quarters. The unit forced a punt on eight of the following nine offensive possessions. They allowed a field goal during the two-minute drill to close the half, but beside that, Gang Green’s defense clamped the Bills offense.
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NFL playoff picture: Breaking down each ‘super’ wild-card matchup Sam Farmer Los Angeles Times
Good news for the Arizona Cardinals — they don’t have a playoff game at home. The Cardinals, who have lost four of their last five games, will take any silver lining they can get. And they went 8-1 on the road this season — compared with 3-5 at home — so maybe they’re a little relieved to be heading to Los Angeles for next Monday night’s playoff game against the Rams. The Rams, meanwhile, are looking to pick up where they left off before Sunday’s loss to San Francisco, when they were riding their first five-game winning streak since 2018. Yes, the Rams won the NFC West, but only because the Cardinals lost at home to Seattle. In an all-or-nothing showdown between AFC West rivals Sunday night, the Las Vegas Raiders secured a spot in the postseason with a 35-32 overtime victory over the Chargers. So it’s Cardinals-Rams for the third time this season, with each posting victories in the home stadium of the other. Whereas the Rams are working recuperating running back Cam Akers back into the fold -- he made his season debut Sunday after tearing his Achilles tendon before training camp -- the Cardinals are hoping to have defensive lineman J.J. Watt back. Watt hasn’t played since suffering a shoulder injury Oct.24 against his former team, the Houston Texans. He returned to practice last week. Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford has a chance to collect the first playoff victory of his career. The Cardinals are back in the postseason for the first time since 2015. In what the NFL has dubbed “Super Wild Card Weekend,” each conference will stage three firstround games, with No.1 seeds Green Bay and Tennessee getting a week off to rest. A look at the matchups: NFC Philadelphia at Tampa Bay The last time quarterback Tom Brady faced the Eagles in the postseason was in the 2017 season, when his New England Patriots lost the Super Bowl to them. That said, the last time Philadelphia faced Tampa Bay in the playoffs was in the 2002 wild-card round -- the final game at Veterans Stadium -- when the Buccaneers won and took a step closer to their eventual Super Bowl victory. More relevant was the game these teams played in Philadelphia on Thursday in Week6, when Brady threw for two touchdowns and Leonard Fournette rushed for two in a 28-22 victory. Since then, the Eagles have rounded into the NFL’s best rushing team. The defending Super Bowl champion Buccaneers have the NFC’s best rush defense, anchored by sunblotting defensive tackle Vita Vea. On one side is Brady, 44, the league’s oldest active player, and on the other is Philadelphia quarterback Jalen Hurts, 23, who hasn’t been a great passer so far
but converts a lot of third downs, many with his feet. San Francisco at Dallas This is a classic postseason matchup from a bygone era, and this version could be an epic ground battle. Both teams like to pound the ball the way the 49ers did in their victory over the Rams, with San Francisco bashing its way into the playoffs. Dallas has a fantastic centerpiece in linebacker Micah Parsons, who is not only the favorite for defensive rookie of the year but has played his way into the conversation for defensive player of the year. Dallas running back Ezekiel Elliott is looking more explosive after suffering a tweaked knee earlier in the season, and teammate Tony Pollard should be back after missing the finale because of a foot injury. Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott has been inconsistent of late, although he looked terrific in the finale against a Philadelphia defense that rested its starters. His 49ers counterpart, Jimmy Garoppolo, is playing with a bad thumb on his throwing hand, but that didn’t seem to bother him much against the Rams. He made the clutch throws when needed. The X factor for the 49ers is versatile wide receiver Deebo Samuel. AFC Pittsburgh at Kansas City Don’t have to look back too far to see how these teams compare. Two weeks ago, the Chiefs throttled the Steelers in Kansas City 36-10, building a 30-0 lead through the first 21/2 quarters. Pittsburgh has a porous offensive line that neither opens the running lanes nor does a good job of protecting 39-year-old Ben Roethlisberger, who is in his final season. The Steelers have a promising young back in rookie Najee Harris, but it was wideout Chase Claypool who led Pittsburgh in rushing in Sunday’s finale with 33 yards. The Chiefs -- who have reached the Super Bowl the last two seasons, winning one -- are led by dynamic quarterback Patrick Mahomes and a host of receiving playmakers. Kansas City sputtered out of the gate, losing four of its first seven games, but regained its equilibrium and wound up scoring more than 30 points in seven of its victories. When these Steelers have pulled off big wins -- including ones over Buffalo, Tennessee and Baltimore (twice) -- they have tended to feast on turnovers. Pittsburgh surrendered more than 200 yards rushing four times this season yet went 2-1-1 in those games. New England at Buffalo The Patriots and Bills split their season series, with each team winning on the other’s home field. Both games were in December, and the first -- a 14-10 win by New England -- featured whipping winds and just three passes by the Patriots. Bill Belichick collected his 19th away win against Buffalo, one short of the all-time coaching record against a single opponent. George Halas of the Chicago Bears beat the Green Bay Packers 20 times on the road.
NFL roundup: Raiders, 49ers win in OT to clinch playoff berths Field Level Media
Derek Carr threw a pair of touchdown passes to Hunter Renfrow and Daniel Carlson kicked the last of his five field goals as time expired in overtime as the Las Vegas Raiders clinched a spot in the NFL playoff field by holding on for a 35-32 victory Sunday night over the visiting Los Angeles Chargers. Carr went 20-of-36 passing for 186 yards as Las Vegas (10-7) won its last four games to earn a trip to Cincinnati for a wild-card game Saturday. Adding to the drama was that a tie game would have put both teams in the playoffs. Instead, the Raiders’ victory eliminated the Chargers and allowed the Pittsburgh Steelers to make the playoff field. Carlson kicked a 40-yard field goal on the first possession of OT to give the Raiders a 32-29 lead, with the Chargers tying the game 32-all on a 41-yard kick from Dustin Hopkins with 4:30 remaining in the extra period. Carlson won it on a 47-yarder on the final play of OT as the Raiders (10-7) advanced to the playoffs for the first time since 2016. Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert completed 34 of 64 passes for 383 yards and three touchdowns with one interception. Austin Ekeler had a rushing and receiving TD for the Chargers (98), while Mike Williams had nine catches for 119 yards. 49ers 27, Rams 24 (OT) Robbie Gould kicked a 24-yard field goal with 2:48 remaining in overtime, allowing San Francisco to earn a wild-card spot in the NFC playoffs with a come-frombehind victory over host Los Angeles. Rookie cornerback Ambry Thomas intercepted a Matthew Stafford pass six plays later, assuring the 49ers (107) the No. 6 seed in the West and a meeting with the thirdseeded Dallas Cowboys in the first round of the playoffs. San Francisco quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo, playing 17 days after tearing a ligament in his right thumb, completed 23 of 32 passes for 316 yards and one touchdown. After blowing a 17-0 lead and seeing a five-game winning streak come to an end, the Rams (12-5) fell to the No. 4 seed in the NFC and will host the fifth-seeded Arizona Cardinals next week. Steelers 16, Ravens 13 (OT) Chris Boswell booted a 36-yard field goal with 1:56 remaining in overtime to give Pittsburgh a victory over host Baltimore. The victory, combined with the Jacksonville Jaguars’ upset of the Indianapolis Colts and the Raiders’ win over the Chargers later Sunday night, earned Pittsburgh the No. 7 spot in the postseason. The Steelers (9-7-1) will visit the No. 2 seed Kansas City Chiefs in the wild-card round. Pittsburgh’s Ben Roethlisberger completed 30 of 44 passes for 244 yards, one touchdown and one interception in what could have been his final regular-season appearance. Steelers star T.J. Watt had one sack to match the NFL record of 22.5 set by Michael Strahan of the New York Giants in 2001. Baltimore (8-9) was eliminated with the loss, which was its sixth straight setback. Latavius Murray rushed for a season-high 150 yards on 16 carries and scored Baltimore’s lone touchdown.
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Las Vegas Raiders kicker Daniel Carlson (2) celebrates with punter A.J. Cole (6) and tight end Foster Moreau (87) after kicking a game-winning field goal in overtime against the Los Angeles Chargers at Allegiant Stadium on Sunday night.
Titans 28, Texans 25 Ryan Tannehill tossed four touchdown passes and Tennessee held off host Houston to lock up the No. 1 playoff seed in the AFC. The Titans (12-5), who squandered most of a 21-0 halftime lead, finished the regular season tied with the Kansas City Chiefs atop the conference. Tennessee earned the top seed – which means a first-round bye and home-field advantage throughout the AFC playoffs – by virtue of a head-to-head win over the Chiefs. The Texans (4-13) wrapped up David Culley’s first year as head coach with a loss despite Davis Mills’ 301 passing yards and three touchdowns. Danny Amendola caught two scoring passes in the fourth quarter and finished with 113 yards on seven receptions. Jaguars 26, Colts 11 Trevor Lawrence capped a rocky rookie season with 223 yards passing and two touchdowns as host Jacksonville upset Indianapolis, which needed a win or a tie to make the postseason but was instead eliminated later when Pittsburgh knocked off Baltimore in overtime. Lawrence completed 23 of 32 passes, including a 3-yard strike to a leaping Marvin Jones in the back right corner of the end zone with 3:08 left in the third quarter. Jones caught seven passes for 88 yards as Jacksonville (3-14) snapped an eightgame losing streak and gave interim coach Darrell Bevell his first win after replacing Urban Meyer last month. Carson Wentz hit 17 of 29 passes for 185 yards for the Colts (9-8), including a 12-yard touchdown pass to Michael Pittman Jr. with 4:26 left in the game. Browns 21, Bengals 16 Case Keenum completed 17 of 24 passes for 176 yards with two touchdowns and D’Ernest Johnson powered the offense with 123 rushing yards and a touchdown as host Cleveland won its fourth straight game over Cincinnati. Cleveland (8-9) snapped a three-game skid in beating Cincinnati (10-7), which had already clinched the AFC North title and played mostly backups. The fourthseeded Bengals will host the fifth-seeded Raiders on Saturday. Reserve quarterback Brandon Allen was 15 of 29 for 136 yards and a touchdown and was sacked four times as the Bengals finished
with just 182 total yards. However, wide receiver Ja’Marr Chase played just long enough to make two catches for 26 yards, giving him the franchise’s singleseason receiving yardage record of 1,455. Dolphins 33, Patriots 24 Jaylen Waddle broke the NFL rookie single-season record for receptions, finishing with 104, and Xavien Howard scored on a pick-six as host Miami upset New England. This was the first time since 2000 that Miami (9-8) swept its season series with New England. Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa completed 15 of 22 passes for 109 yards, one touchdown and no interceptions. New England (10-7), which entered the week already having clinched a playoff berth, lost a shot at winning the AFC East division title. The Patriots were led by Brandon Bolden, who scored two touchdowns. Quarterback Mac Jones completed 20 of 30 passes for 261 yards, one TD and one interception. The Patriots, the No. 6 seed, will face the third-seeded Bills in a wild-card game on Saturday. Seahawks 38, Cardinals 30 Russell Wilson threw three touchdown passes and ran for another score to overcome two costly miscues as Seattle defeated Arizona in the regular-season finale in Glendale, Ariz. Rashaad Penny rushed for a career-high 190 yards, including a 62-yard touchdown with 4:34 remaining, and Tyler Lockett scored on 43- and 5-yard receptions. The Seahawks (7-10) finished their season on a twogame winning streak, despite Wilson losing a fumble returned for a touchdown and throwing one interception. James Conner scored two touchdowns for the Cardinals (11-6), who lost four of their last five games to finish second in the NFC West and claim the conference’s No. 5 seed for the playoffs, where they will face the fourthseeded Rams on Monday night. Kyler Murray was 28of-39 passing for 240 yards, including a 20-yard touchdown pass to Conner. Saints 30, Falcons 20 Trevor Siemian came off the bench to throw two touchdown passes as visiting New Orleans defeated Atlanta. The Saints (9-8) got a win they needed to stay alive for a wild-card playoff berth, but
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they were eliminated from the playoff picture when the 49ers defeated the Rams in overtime a short time later. Siemian replaced injured Taysom Hill in the second quarter and completed nine of 15 passes for 71 yards. Matt Ryan completed 20 of 33 passes for 216 yards, one touchdown and one interception for the Falcons (7-10). Buccaneers 41, Panthers 17 Tom Brady threw three touchdowns and Tampa Bay finished strong in the regular season by defeating visiting Carolina. Tampa Bay (13-4) scored 24 fourth-quarter points to put away the Panthers. The reigning Super Bowl champions will enter the playoffs as the No. 2 seed in the NFC. They will face the seventhseeded Philadelphia Eagles next weekend. The Panthers (5-12) lost seven consecutive games to end their second season under coach Matt Rhule. Two of the last three defeats came to the Buccaneers, who won 32-6 in Charlotte, N.C. It’s the worst record in NFL history for a team that began the season with a 3-0 record. Lions 37, Packers 30 D’Andre Swift scored the go-ahead touchdown with 1:54 remaining on a 14-yard run and host Detroit defeated Green Bay. Jared Goff passed for 238 yards and two touchdowns, while Amon-Ra St. Brown caught eight passes for 109 yards and a touchdown for the Lions (3-13-1). Aaron Rodgers passed for 138 yards and two touchdowns while playing only the first half for the Packers (134), who had already wrapped up the top seed in the NFC playoffs. Allen Lazard caught five passes for 75 yards and two touchdowns. Vikings 31, Bears 17 Kirk Cousins completed 14 of 22 passes for 250 yards and three touchdowns, and Minnesota rallied past Chicago in Minneapolis. Justin Jefferson, K.J. Osborn and Patrick Peterson each scored fourth-quarter touchdowns as the Vikings finished the game with 21 unanswered points. Ihmir Smith-Marsette also had a touchdown reception for Minnesota (8-9). Andy Dalton completed 33 of 48 passes for 325 yards, one touchdown and two interceptions for Chicago (611). Darnell Mooney had 12 catches for 126 yards, and Damien Williams caught a touchdown pass.
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What to know from NFL Week 18: The Colts blew it, and the Raiders played to just win, baby Adam Kilgore The Washington Post
The NFL never allows you to rest easy, never lets you assume anything. The stakes of Week 18 appeared simple. The Indianapolis Colts would obviously take care of the woeful Jacksonville Jaguars, and then Sunday night the Las Vegas Raiders and Los Angeles Chargers would clash in a de facto playoff game. But the Jaguars took an early lead, the Colts kept falling further behind, and a slew of possibilities burst forth. The playoff field was set in a way nobody saw coming, in a way that turned fans in Las Vegas and Pittsburgh and New Orleans and Los Angeles and other places into puddles of stress from 1 p.m. to past midnight. Here is what to know. - Carson Wentz and the Indianapolis Colts blew a playoff spot in epic fashion. All the Colts had to do last week to clinch a wild-card spot was beat the Raiders at home as 7½-point favorites. They lost, but all they needed to do Sunday was beat the lowly Jacksonville Jaguars on the road as 15½-point favorites. They not only lost to a team that was 3-29 in its past 32 games and lost by 40 points last week. The Colts were blown out. How in the world did the Colts lose, 26-11, to the Jaguars after trailing by 23 in the fourth quarter? It was a complete meltdown. The Jaguars’ defensive line whipped the Colts’ offensive line. Jacksonville quarterback Trevor Lawrence closed a dispiriting rookie season by playing like the surefire No. 1 pick. Weird things happen when cold-weather teams travel to Florida’s heat and humidity late in the season. The Jaguars proved for the millionth time that you bet against the competitive pride of professional athletes at your own peril. But the primary reason the Colts will spend the postseason at home is that quarterback Carson Wentz was not nearly good enough. Last week, Wentz completed 16 of 27 passes for only 148 yards. On Sunday, he was worse. He completed 17 of 29 passes for 185 yards with an interception and a lost fumble and took six sacks. The Colts acquired Wentz to push a strong roster into Super Bowl contention. Now they have missed the playoffs in embarrassing fashion, and they will have to ship a first-round pick to the Philadelphia Eagles. Instead of solving their quarterback problem, the Colts created a new one. The Jaguars, meanwhile, were rewarded by the football gods for their effort. They maintained their hold on the No. 1 pick after the Detroit Lions, who received another upbeat performance on behalf of Dan Campbell, beat a Green Bay Packers team that rested starters in the second half. - The Raiders and Chargers played for the heavyweight championship of each other. They could have mutually assured a playoff bid through a tie, which would have bounced the Pittsburgh Steelers from the postseason. Even in overtime, neither team showed interest in anything but winning. The players and coaches had dedicated their lives to winning, and they could not keep from playing to win even when it went against their self-interest. At the end of an epic, the Raiders could have run the clock out and guaranteed a playoff berth. “We knew, no matter what, we wanted to win,” quarterback Derek Carr said in an NBC interview. “We didn’t want to tie.” Interim coach Rich Bisaccia sent kicker Daniel Carlson on to the field even though a blocked kick could
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Indianapolis Colts quarterback Carson Wentz (2) throws during the first half against the Jacksonville Jaguars at TIAA Bank Field on Sunday.
have jeopardized their season and a make would barely change their fate. Carlson banged through a 47-yarder that knocked out the Chargers and brought jubilation in Pittsburgh. The Raiders will benefit by playing the Cincinnati Bengals instead of the Kansas City Chiefs next week. The Raiders had blown a 15-point fourthquarter lead. They had absorbed a 19-play drive from the Chargers that included three fourth-down conversions, a barrage of inhuman throws by Justin Herbert and a 12-yard touchdown pass with no time on the clock. For the Raiders, that was nothing. Jon Gruden had resigned after an email scandal. Wide receiver Henry Ruggs III had been charged with DUI after a deadly car crash and released. On the field, they won their last four games by two, two, three and three points. It was a bitter result for the Chargers, who had more than enough talent to make the playoffs and do some damage. Herbert is young, but missing the playoffs with a star quarterback on a rookie contract is an opportunity squandered. - The Pittsburgh Steelers walked through the door that the Colts’ loss opened. The first line of Mike Tomlin’s Hall of Fame plaque should read, “Made the playoffs with 39-year-old Ben Roethlisberger.” The Steelers were outscored by 55 points this season and played with a stationary quarterback who lost his arm strength a presidential administration or two ago. Somehow, Tomlin guided them to the playoffs after the Colts blew it and a 16-13 overtime victory in rainy Baltimore nudged their record to 9-7-1. The Steelers are not bereft of talent, especially on defense. T.J. Watt tied Michael Strahan’s single-season record of 22.5 sacks when he dropped Tyler Huntley on Sunday. Minkah Fitzpatrick is one of the league’s best, most versatile safeties. Cam Heyward, a stalwart on Pittsburgh’s defensive line, submitted his best season. But the Steelers do not look like a playoff team anywhere but in the standings - and even then they had to sweat a tie in ChargersRaiders until the clock ticked past midnight. “Man, we got a lot of warts,” Tomlin said. “But we’re here.”
- Patrick Mahomes is a buoy. If the NFL could not sink this iteration of the Chiefs this season, then when will it? Kansas City, coming off a crushing Super Bowl loss, started 3-4 and reached a near-crisis regarding its ability solve a specific set of defensive tactics. Mahomes strung together several of the worst performances of his career. They still won 12 games, claimed the AFC West for the sixth straight season and seized the AFC’s No. 2 seed. With Mahomes and Coach Andy Reid, the Chiefs have replaced Tom Brady and Bill Belichick as the AFC tandem that effectively guarantees contention year in and year out. Mahomes adjusted to his rebuilt offensive line, grew more patient against looks with two deep safeties and dominated in a 9-1 finish. The Chiefs are the favorite in the AFC for the third straight season, even as a second seed that lost to the top-seeded Tennessee Titans by 24 points in late October. They received another break when the chaos of Week 17 gave them the Steelers - a team they throttled, 36-10, three weeks ago - instead of a more formidable first-round opponent. Their position is a testament to the underlying lesson of their season: What happens to Mahomes early in the season almost doesn’t matter, because we know where he’ll end up at the end. - The Los Angeles Rams are limping into the playoffs. The Rams entered Week 18 on a fivegame winning streak and yet were still unsettled. Matthew Stafford had spewed turnovers in consecutive close games against middling opponents. Defensive backs Jalen Ramsey and Taylor Rapp had gotten into a physical altercation last week. They seemed on their way to a stabilizing victory that would clinch the NFC West title when they went up 17-0 on the San Francisco 49ers. It only led to their most troubling loss yet. The Rams blew their lead as the 49ers ran the ball down their throat in the third quarter. The Rams retook the lead at 24-17 thanks to Jalen Ramsey’s acrobatic interception and Cooper Kupp’s dazzling touchdown catch. The 49ers could not answer, and the Rams received a punt with 1:57 remaining in the fourth quarter. The 49ers forced a three-and-out, then
drove 88 yards without any timeouts to force overtime. San Francisco kicked a field goal on the opening possession, and Stafford threw a game-ending interception on a misfired deep ball to Odell Beckham Jr. 49ers 27, Rams 24. Los Angeles dropped from the No. 2 seed to the No. 4 spot, but they still won the West because the Arizona Cardinals lost to the Seattle Seahawks. For a team whose season will end with a Super Bowl appearance at home or in failure after the splashy, resource-draining moves they made, it has been a disappointing stretch. The one unimpeachable part of the Rams remained Kupp, who won the receiving triple crown during one of the great seasons in NFL history. He led the NFL with 1,947 receiving yards - 17 shy of Calvin Johnson’s record - on 145 catches with 16 touchdowns. Aside from Kupp, though, the Rams can’t feel great about the way they finished the season. - Jimmy Garoppolo isn’t going away quietly. Garoppolo has faced more doubts than any starting quarterback in the playoffs - starting with his own franchise, which traded up to draft Trey Lance with the third pick in April. One thing that can’t be questioned is Garoppolo’s guts. Garoppolo held on to his starting job all season when healthy, and Sunday he played with a barely healed torn ligament in his thumb, a black wrap around his throwing hand. Despite the 17-0 deficit, Garoppolo led the 49ers back and then steered them 88 yards in about a minute with no timeouts, hitting Jauan Jennings for the game-tying touchdown. The 49ers’ victory nudged the New Orleans Saints, who finished 9-8 after a victory over the Atlanta Falcons, out of the playoffs. The Saints’ season started with a hurricane moving them to Fort Worth. They started four quarterbacks, including overwhelmed rookie Ian Book. Alvin Kamara missed a handful of games. And they still came within a few plays of going to the playoffs. Sean Payton sure can coach. - The coaching carousel started to spin. The Denver Broncos fired coach Vic Fangio on Sunday morning, a day after a season-ending loss to Kansas City finalized their record at 7-10 and 19-30 during Fangio’s three seasons. Fangio authored a remarkably forgettable tenure, posting middling records behind deficient quarterbacks. But he will be among the most coveted coaching free agents for his services as a defensive coordinator, the position in which he excelled with the Chicago Bears before his move to Denver. Fangio soon will have company in looking for a new gig. The Jaguars are already looking for Urban Meyer’s full-time replacement. The Chicago Bears are expected to move on from Matt Nagy. Mike Zimmer could be on shaky ground in Minnesota after two straight 7-9 seasons. The New York Giants were reportedly committed to bringing back Joe Judge, but his debacle of a finish in both words and results - not to mention a 10-23 record - will give them no choice but to consider his future. The Houston Texans are reportedly considering David Culley’s job status, even though he took a decrepit roster and provided a platform for Davis Mills’s promising rookie season. There could always be a surprise - perhaps the Seahawks are ready for a fresh start after a rare losing season from Pete Carroll.
Nathan Chen wins sixth straight men’s U.S. figure skating championship Les Carpenter The Washington Post
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — There was never a doubt that Nathan Chen would go to the Beijing Olympics. The sixth straight U.S. figure skating championship that he won Sunday was simply another expression of the top American’s dominance. Nor did it seem likely that Vincent Zhou would be left off the U.S. Olympic men’s team when it was announced Sunday evening at Bridgestone Arena - even after he fell on a jump and made several mistakes in the afternoon’s free skate, leading to a third-place finish for a dramatic drop after he scored a personal best in the short program the night before. The Olympic team’s final spot was suddenly a battle between Jason Brown, a 2014 Olympic bronze medalist in the team event who finished fourth at nationals, and 17-year-old Ilia Malinin, who dazzled for two days by landing several challenging quad jumps with delicate ease. For the three hours between the end of the championships and the selection announcement, a debate burned in the halls beneath the arena. Would U.S. Figure Skating’s international committee choose the experienced,
dependable Brown, who skates gracefully but does not consistently hit quads, or Malinin, who announced himself as the future of American skating? In the end, the committee went with Brown, who has a history of performing well in international competition. His selection gives the U.S. men three skaters who have been to the Olympics. Still, much of the talk was about Malinin, the son of Russian skaters who is from Vienna, Va., and fills an Instagram page - on which he uses the screen name “quadg0d” — with videos of him attempting breathtaking quad-quad combinations. Youth and injuries have kept him out of many championship competitions, and he seemed to sweep through the nationals from out of nowhere, taking third in the short program and second in the free skate. Malinin was so spectacular this weekend that Zhou walked up to his father at a practice session and asked, “Can I get a photo with the future champion?” “He was unbelievable tonight,” Brown said. “There is nothing I can say that can encompass how he might be feeling at this moment, but I can say that he is beyond out of this world and U.S. Figure Skating is so lucky to have such a great
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Nathan Chen skates in the Men’s Free Skate during the U.S. Figure Skating Championships at Bridgestone Arena on Sunday in Nashville, Tennessee.
future.” Despite his aggressive skating and outrageously named Instagram page, Malinin spoke quietly and deferentially at his news conferences this week, his words mixing between shock at his performance and awe at the fact he was so close to an Olympic spot. “I’m really surprised at how I skated,” he said right after the championships ended. “I definitely wasn’t expecting to skate that good.” Malinin was named an alternate for Beijing, but he was not at the news conference announcing the team - only the team members are brought to the announcements - so he
was not available for comment. Sunday’s result cemented Chen’s place as an Olympic medal favorite. The threetime world champion and 2018 Olympic bronze medalist in the team event will be one of the United States’ top stars next month at the Beijing Olympics. Zhou, a 2018 Olympian and the only person to beat Chen in the past 3 1/2 years, came into Sunday with so much momentum that the nationals were seen as a showdown between the two, with Zhou a strong candidate to win. Instead, he stumbled on a triple Axel attempt and looked off on other maneuvers.
“The simplest and honest answer is I was so nervous that my body froze up on me,” Zhou said. “We will go home and work out the kinks and come back a well-oiled machine.” That return will come in Beijing. The 21-year-old’s place on the Olympic team seemed to be a lock after he scored a personal best of 112.78 in Saturday’s short program, and his mistakes Sunday ultimately did not cost him. Brown, 27, came to Nashville favored to be the third member of the team. But despite a strong performance in Saturday’s short program, he was fourth going into Sunday and seemingly damaged his Beijing chances by falling on his first quad attempt. He finished fourth with a score of 289.78. “A lot of tears - a lot, lot, lot of tears,” Brown said of his selection. “But it’s sinking in.” Chen, a gold medal hopeful, seemed relaxed after Sunday’s final. He shook his head when asked about the fall and laughed when talking about his stumble on the step sequence and the way he smiled and threw his hands in an “Oh, what the heck?” gesture as he sat on the ice - a move that drew laughter from the crowd. “It was a dumb little mistake, and I lost my footing,” he said. “It is what it is.” ---
Early Sunday morning, U.S. Figure Skating made official what was clearly obvious the previous night: The pairs skating team of Ashley Cain-Gribble and Timothy LeDuc that won the U.S. figure skating championships Saturday will be going to the Beijing Olympics. The announcement meant LeDuc, who identifies as nonbinary, will become the first openly nonbinary Winter Olympian. Also going to Beijing will be the pairs team of Alexa Knierim and Brandon Frazier, who pulled out of nationals Wednesday night after Frazier tested positive for the coronavirus. As the United States’ top pairs team, Knierim and Frazier were taken over Saturday’s silver medalists, Jessica Calalang and Brian Johnson, who were picked as alternates. As expected, the top three finishers in the ice dance competition were named to the team. Gold medal winners Madison Chock and Evan Bates, silver medalists Madison Hubbell and Zachary Donohue, and bronze medalists Kaitlin Hawayek and JeanLuc Baker were chosen. The gap between the Chock-Bates and Hubbell-Donohue teams is small, and both are medal hopefuls in Beijing.
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NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF GREENE, ISANTHES, LLC, Plaintiff, vs. BURTON GUTNICK, JR., AS ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ESTATE OF EDWARD J. NIHILL, ET AL., Defendant(s).
Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly filed on November 23, 2021, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Greene County Courthouse, 320 Main Street, Catskill, NY on February 4, 2022 at 9:30 a.m., premises known as 6244 Main Street, Tannersville, NY 12485. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Village of Tannersville, County of Greene and State of New York, Section 165.20, Block 1 and Lot 11.111. Approximate amount of judgment is $86,432.15 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # EF2016-9. COVID-19 safety protocols will be followed at the foreclosure sale.
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A. Colarusso & Son, Inc., a local heavy/highway construction company, is seeking an experienced Bridge Superintendent. Join our construction team on bridge projects throughout the Hudson Valley region. Must have a minimum of 5 years of supervisory experience. This position will be responsible for scheduling, setting up and managing daily operations, communicating with project owners and coordination of plant scheduling. Computer experience a plus. EOE. Full benefits provided, including health, dental, and vision coverage, as well as a pension/profit sharing plan. Paid vacation and sick time. Salary commensurate with experience. Send resume to PO Box 302, Hudson, NY 12534, ATTN: Human Resource Department, or email to acampion@acolarusso.com. Ichabod Crane Central School District Valatie (Columbia County) is seeking the following positions: *High School Technology Teacher –leave replacement *Teaching Assistants in the Primary and Middle School If possible, please apply through Olas. Also, visit our website at www.ichabodcrane.org for more information. Deadline to apply by: January 17, 2022 Project Superintendent
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Klay Thompson returned from a 2 1/2-year absence with 17 points in 20 minutes of play, and Stephen Curry scored a game-high 28 points Sunday night as the Golden State Warriors snapped a two-game losing streak with a 96-82 win over the visiting Cleveland Cavaliers in San Francisco. Playing for the first time since tearing the ACL in his left knee in Game 6 of the 2019 NBA Finals, Thompson needed just 40 seconds to record his first basket of the season and less than a half to throw down his first dunk and splash his first 3-pointer. The five-time All-Star finished 3-for-8 on 3-pointers and 7-for-18 overall from the field. He also had three rebounds, one assist and one block following a 941-day absence that included a ruptured right Achilles in a comeback attempt before the 2020-21 season. Curry shot 4-for-11 on 3-pointers on a night when he and Thompson combined for seven of Golden State’s 10 threes in the team’s 42 attempts. Lamar Stevens had 17 points to pace Cleveland, which was making its second stop on a six-game Western swing. Grizzlies 127, Lakers 119 Desmond Bane shot 5-for-8 from 3-point distance and scored 23 points as visiting Memphis beat Los Angeles
to earn its franchise-record ninth straight victory. Jaren Jackson Jr. added 21 points, 12 rebounds and six blocks for the Grizzlies, and Ja Morant finished with 16 points and seven assists after he sat out Saturday’s win over the Los Angeles Clippers with a sore left thigh. LeBron James had 35 points, nine rebounds and seven assists for the Lakers, who came in riding a seasonlong four-game winning streak. It was the 11th consecutive game that James scored at least 25 points; James, 37, is the oldest NBA player to accomplish that feat. Nets 121, Spurs 119 (OT) Rookie Cam Thomas hit the tiebreaking basket with 1.7 seconds left in overtime as Brooklyn ended a fivegame home losing streak by outlasting San Antonio in New York. The Nets won their first home game since beating the Philadelphia 76ers on Dec. 16 and survived blowing a 12-point lead in the final five minutes of regulation. Kevin Durant led the Nets with 28 points but also missed a potential game-winning 3-pointer with 3.8 seconds remaining in regulation, and the game reached overtime when an alley-oop layup by Kenta Bates-Diop was short at the buzzer. Clippers 106, Hawks 93
Amir Coffey matched his career high of 21 points and helped Los Angeles end its three-game losing streak with a win over visiting Atlanta. Coffey, playing on a two-way contract, was 8-for-12 from the field and tied another career high with five 3-pointers. He added five rebounds and three assists. Six other Clippers players scored in double figures, including veteran Serge Ibaka with 16 points off the bench. Atlanta’s Trae Young scored 19 points and saw his franchise-record streak of 25-plus-point games end at 17. Young was 8-for-21 from the floor and only 1-for-6 from distance, with seven assists. Bogdan Bogdanovic also scored 19 points, one shy of his season high. Wizards 102, Magic 100 Kyle Kuzma had 27 points and a career-high 22 rebounds, Bradley Beal scored 20 points and Washington sent host Orlando to its ninth consecutive defeat. Kentavious Caldwell-Pope contributed 14 points for Washington and Daniel Gafford had 12 points on 6-for7 shooting. Spencer Dinwiddie also had eight points and 10 assists. Washington overcame a terrific performance by Orlando’s Terrence Ross, who scored 16 of his 32 points in the third quarter. Ross continued his strong play since clearing COVID-19
protocol, making 13-of-20 shots in 31 minutes off the bench. Nuggets 99, Thunder 95 Nikola Jokic had 22 points, 18 rebounds and six assists to lead Denver to a win over host Oklahoma City. Austin Rivers scored a season-high 22 off the bench, hitting six 3-pointers while Jeff Green added 16 and Barton 14 – eight of them in the first three minutes of the game. Luguentz Dort led the Thunder with 14 points but was just 1 of 9 from beyond the arc. Josh Giddey had 11 points, seven rebounds and eight assists. Oklahoma City had a seasonhigh 29 assists. Timberwolves 141, Rockets 123 Karl-Anthony Towns scored a season-high 40 points, D’Angelo Russell chipped in 22 points and 10 assists, and Minnesota rolled to a win over host Houston for its fourth consecutive victory. Jarred Vanderbilt had a doubledouble of 21 points and 19 rebounds for Minnesota while Malik Beasley and Jaylen Nowell scored 13 and 11 points off the bench, respectively. Anthony Edwards chipped in 19 points and six assists. Christian Wood tallied a team-high 22 points for Houston. Rookie Josh Christopher, Garrison Mathews and KJ Martin totaled 46 points in reserve.
Raptors 105, Pelicans 101 Fred VanVleet made two 3-pointers in the final two minutes and finished with 32 points as Toronto defeated visiting New Orleans. Pascal Siakam added 29 points and 10 rebounds for the Raptors, who extended their season-best winning streak to six games. OG Anunoby contributed 12 points. Brandon Ingram scored 22 points for the Pelicans. Mavericks 113, Bulls 99 Luka Doncic recorded a tripledouble of 22 points, 14 rebounds and 14 assists, and host Dallas extended its winning streak to six games while snapping Chicago’s winning streak at nine. After a back-and-forth contest through the first three quarters, the Mavericks went on a 19-9 run to open the fourth quarter. That gave Dallas a double-digit-point lead it held the rest of the way and extended to as many as 18 points down the stretch. Maxi Kleber and Dorian FinneySmith scored all 18 and 12 of their points on 3-pointers, keying Dallas’ 16-of-36 performance beyond the arc. Zach LaVine and DeMar DeRozan led Chicago with 20 points apiece, but Dallas held LaVine to 7-of-21 shooting.
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to the basket. Teammate Kameron Taylor grabbed it out of the air and laid it in though to get an easy two points. Both teams were off to a fast start, forcing multiple turnovers in the first few minutes and Watervliet led 7-6 three minutes in. Cunningham had a big quarter, scoring eight points on three buckets and two foul shots. Robinson closed out the period hitting a floater in the paint and knocking down a three-ball from the corner to give the Bluehawks a 19-9 lead after one. Connor Tomaso made a short range jumper early in the second after grabbing an offensive rebound off of a missed free throw by Taylor. Robinson hit two three pointers to keep the Hudson lead at eight points but Watervliet was knocking down shots as well. The Cannoneers cut the lead to four with less than three minutes until halftime. Simms nailed a three point shot for Watervliet to pull them within one, however he missed four total free throws in the crucial final minutes of the half. Conway had a late steal however and converted the layup as the horn sounded and Hudson led only by a basket 33-31 at halftime. The Bluehawks had a short 5-0 run to start the third quarter to give themselves some breathing room, but the Cannoneers had other plans. Hudson would only score three points the rest of the period as Watervliet tightened their defense and chipped away on offense. Only a few short possessions later, Hudson found themselves down 42-38 by the 3:30 mark in the third. The Bluehawks’ passing lanes were constantly interrupted by their opponents in the period and they struggled to put together any offense once they crossed half-court. This was reminiscent of their previous game in Chatham against the Panthers’ stifling defense. The Cannoneers’ huge 20-8 quarter was highlighted by a massive block Conway
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Hudson’s Keith Robinson (5) brings the ball up the floor during Friday’s Patroon Conference boys basketball game against Watervliet at Hudson High School.
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Hudson’s Kameron Taylor (44) attempts to block a shot by Watervliet’s Daheey Wilson (10) during Friday’s Patroon Conference boys basketball game at Hudson High School.
had in the paint that sent a shot by Tomaso soaring out of bounds. Entering the fourth quarter the Bluehawks trailed 51-41 and they still had a chance even after their offense had hit a cold streak. Cunningham tried his hardest to be the one to pull Hudson back within single digits of the lead. He knocked down a step-back from beyond the arc and got to the free throw line multiple times. A comeback was something not in the cards for the Bluehawks on this night however, as they started to foul a bit too much near the end and kept sending Watervliet to the line for free
points. At the sound of the buzzer the Watervliet Cannoneers took this road win 69-53 over the Hudson Bluehawks, with only six players in action. WATERVLIET (69): Simms 5-4-16, Cyrus 0-4-4, Wilson 4-0-10, Butler 5-6-16, Conway 9-5-23. Totals 23-1969. 3-pointers: Simms 2, Wilson 2. HUDSON (53): Cunningham 6-519, Taylor 2-2-6, Robinson 5-0-13, Tomaso 3-0-6, Burgos 0-2-2, Wallace 3-0-7. Totals 19-9-53. 3-pointers: Robinson 3, Cunningham 2, Wallace.
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Hudson’s Connor Tomaso looks to throw a pass as Watervliet’s Malik Simms (1) defends during Friday’s Patroon Conference boys basketball game at Hudson High School.
Giants From B1
on its coach that it loses seven of its last eight games, and can’t even average 10 points? How about a team that so surrenders, is so lacking in gumption, that on a second and nine and then third and 11, it runs two quarterback sneaks and punts. In just the second quarter. It made “A laughable season even more laughable,” former Giant great Michael Strahan said, and so it was. Downright clownish. Meantime, there was Washington, still striving despite late-season personal tragedies, bouts of covid-19, and a discouraging number of injuries - down to their fourthstring center, and with a backup quarterback in Taylor Heinicke who proved a damn sight more competent than anyone Judge had the wisdom to keep on his roster at the QB position. There was Antonio Gibson, still running hard to a 1,000-yard season, while the Giants’ extravagantly paid wideout Kenny Golladay couldn’t be bothered to even extend his fingertips for a ball that hit him in the hands. Washington’s season-ending victory over the Giants served up a memorable eat-it sandwich to Judge, who, boy, had it coming. Is there a more supercilious man in the NFL, with fewer accomplishments, than Judge? Judge served from 2012-2019 for Bill Belichick in New England, but for some reason this guy doesn’t have the first idea of how to build up his own team - which is now 10-23 in two seasons under him - without cutting someone else down. His coy reference to the emotional explosion between Washington’s Daron Payne and Jonathan Allen last week wasn’t just a cheap shot, it was something worse. “This ain’t a team that’s having fistfights on the sidelines, this ain’t some clown show organization or something else, OK? We’re talking about the foundation built,” Judge said, as if somehow Rivera’s
Brantley From B1
hosts Watervliet at 6:30 p.m. Coxsackie-Athens entertains Cairo-Durham on Tuesday at 5 p.m. COLONIAL ICC 53, Ravena 36 VALATIE — Carolina Williams scored 29 points to spark Ichabod Crane to a 5336 victory over Ravena in Friday’s Colonial Council girls basketball game. The Riders broke away from a 14-14 first quarter tie
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New York Giants head coach Joe Judge looks on against the Washington Football Team during the first half at MetLife Stadium on Sunday.
foundation is cracked and flawed compared to this temple of excellence, the Giants. The clown show crack was the one that got all the attention, but the rest of Judge’s remarks last week, after his team got so smeared by Chicago, 29-3, with minus-10 net passing yards, are worth examining for the sheer boldness of Judge’s contempt for his peers in the coaching profession. He went out of his way to blame-shift the lousiness of the Giants on to Pat Shurmur, who was fired back in 2019, suggesting that Shurmur had infected the organization with all kinds of losering. “When I came here and I sat down with all the players. I wanted to know what it was like in here, what we had to change from their mouths, all right,” Judge said. “To a man, every player looked me in the eye and said, Joe, it’s not a team, they don’t play hard . . . everybody quit, everybody tapped, they stopped
to take a 24-19 lead at halftime, then widened the gap to 41-31 through three quarters. Malati Culver followed Williams in scoring for the Riders with seven points. Abby Dolge and Delaney More each had four, Haley Ames and Alexa Barkley three apiece, Ava Heffner two and Emma Holmberg one. Hannah Vanderzee led Ravena with 21 points. Lauryn Reville contributed eight. Ichabod Crane hosts Voorheesville on Tuesday at 5 p.m. BOYS BASKETBALL PATROON Catskill 53, C-A 47 COXSACKIE — Sean
Haye’s 18 points led Catskill past Coxsackie-Athens, 5347, in Saturday’s Patroon Conference boys basketball game. Catskill was missing five players and dressed just six for the game and struggled early, trailing the Riverhawks 12-6 after one quarter and 21-19 at halftime. The Cats rallied in the second half, going up 40-35 by the end of the third quarter, then holding off C-A over the final eight minutes. Lucas Konsul had 12 points for the Cats. Kellen Gibbs added eight, Eddie roger had seven, Markus Henry six and
showing up to captains meetings, all that stuff. Right? They tapped out. Okay?” They tapped out so much they won two of their last three games under Shurmur. Fought all the way to the wire for him, even though they lost 21 players - damn near half the roster - to injured reserve, and still lost five games by a touchdown or less. Judge? He’s now lost his last four games this season by the collective score of 106-26. Not content to crap all over Shurmur, Judge also slurred assorted other nameless coaches, by claiming former players call him up surreptitiously and tell him they wish they still played for him with the Giants. Nor was this the first time Judge has pushed himself a step up by using someone else’s neck as a boost. Remember last season when Philadelphia appeared to tank a seasonending game to the WFT with Coach Doug Nate Shook-Timot two. Robbie Hughes led C-A with 14 points, including four 3-pointers. Dillon Hynes had eight points and Jordan Williams seven. Catskill goes to Watervliet and Coxsackie-Athens hosts Cairo-Durham on Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. CATSKILL (53): ShookTimot 1-0-2, Gibbs 1-6-8, Rogers 3-0-7, Haye 8-1-18, Konsul 6-0-12, Henry 2-1-6. Totals 21-8-53. 3-pointers: Rogers, Haye, Henry. COXSACKIE-ATHENS (47): Hughes 5-0-14, Maurer 2-1-5, Hynes 3-2-8, Williams
Pedersen on his way out? “To disrespect the game by going out there and not competing for 60 minutes and doing everything you can to help those players win, we will never do that as long as I’m the head coach of the Giants,” said Judge. The man who would call two QB sneaks to set up a second-quarter punt. You know what a clown show in the NFL is? A clown show is letting Colt McCoy, a great locker room leader, get away to the Arizona Cardinals for barely more than $1.2 million in the name of an “upgrade” at reserve QB, leaving your team with Mike Glennon. A clown show is hiring the single largest staff in the NFL, with four “quality control” coaches and a “chief of staff” and stocking it with a bunch of buddies from your old collegiate staffs, only to scapegoat Jason Garrett - a man of inarguable merit who went 85-67 and won three division titles as head coach of the Dallas Cowboys - with a midseason firing. Only to have your offense average 9 points a game. All across the NFL on Sunday, accomplished coaches worked tight-lipped with their jobs on the line, managed to field teams that played hard for them - and did so without stepping over colleagues. Guys who know they won’t be back next season nevertheless put teams on the field that played effortfully, most notably Darrell Bevell’s Jacksonville Jaguars. Vic Fangio’s Denver Broncos fought valiantly before losing to Kansas City, and with that Fangio was out, despite a 7-10 mark and a track record of over 30 years in which he has rarely coached a defense that wasn’t among the top five in the NFL. With him went his offensive coordinator Shurmur. They exited with pure class and without a word of blame. Giants owner John Mara has said he will have to be “patient” with Judge, given his lack of previous head coaching experience. But lack of experience is not Judge’s issue. It’s hard to see how a guy who already thinks he knows more than anyone in the league can learn anything. Judge’s issue isn’t lack of experience. It’s lack of character.
3-1-7, King 2-0-4, Hellen 2-04, Carey 2-0-5. Totals 19-4-47. 3-pointers: Hughes 4, Carey. COLONIAL ICC 81, Ravena 44 RAVENA — Brett Richards and Alex Schmidt combined for 47 points in Ichabod Crane’s 81-44 Colonial Council boys basketball victory over Ravena on Friday. Richards had 26 points and Schmidt added 21 for the Riders, who built quarterly leads of 23-6, 48-20 and 6236. Daniel Warner chipped in with 15. Ichabod Crane plays at Voorheesville on Tuesday at
6:30 p.m. ICHABOD CRANE (81): Richards 12-2-26, Schmidt 9-0-21, Colwell 2-1-5, Clickman 2-0-4, Warner 6-3-15, McCrudden 1-4-6, Borrelli 0-1-1, Holzhauer 1-0-3. Totals 33-11-81. 3-pointers: Schmidt 3, Holzhauer. RAVENA (44): Algozzine 4-2-11, McFerran 6-0-13, Reville 1-0-2, Reif 1-3-, Bermudez 2-0-4, Margiasso 0-2-2, Mason 0-2-2, McClellan 1-14. Totals 15-10-44. 3-pointers: Algozzine, McFerran, Reif, McClellan.
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Marriage’s first year leaves wife dreading a second Dear Abby, My husband and I got married during the pandemic in a short ceremony. Our first year of marriage has been less a honeymoon than a nightmare. He tends to be hotheaded. He fights dirty with name-calling, which he had DEAR ABBY occasionally done previously, but since we’ve been living together, it happens more often. We are trying marriage counseling, but all of his temper tantrums and antics have made me see him in a different, negative light. He’s now talking about growing our family. He can be very sweet and thoughtful, but I don’t even know if I still like him at this point. I’m also wondering if I’m just better alone because I like my space and time to myself. Maybe I’m settling with the current situation when there could be someone better out there. I know the grass isn’t always greener on the other side. Is this something I need to give some time to see how it plays out, or should I end it, the sooner the better? Honeymoon-less In New Jersey
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The pandemic has stressed many marriages, but with the quarantines relaxing there should be less pressure and confinement. Has it helped? Whether your hot-tempered husband is capable of changing his behavior is something that may be revealed during the counseling. You didn’t mention how long the two of you have been seeing a therapist, but if it has been more than six months with no improvement,
it’s fair to assume he isn’t likely to change, and the marriage should end. In the meantime, use the most powerful form of birth control you possibly can so you don’t find yourself pregnant and trapped in a marriage from which you cannot escape. Dear Abby, I have a grocery store etiquette question. I become really offended when I’m unloading my groceries onto the conveyor belt at checkout and — before I’m finished — another shopper comes up behind me and begins unloading hers. It leaves me not enough room to finish unloading mine! I think it’s rude, and it baffles me that so many people do it. Is it impolite to tell them they are being rude? Or is it dangerous these days? Going as fast as i can
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It wouldn’t be impolite or dangerous to tell the person behind you that you haven’t finished unloading your purchases and to please stop. I do, however, think you should suppress the urge to lecture the person about manners unless you’re looking for an argument. If this happens often, talk to the store manager about it. In some businesses there is a mark on the floor indicating where shoppers should stand while waiting for the person ahead to complete his or her purchase. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
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Horoscope By Stella Wilder Born today, you are destined to make things happen, for good or ill, and even from an early age you will prove again and again that you were not born to sit back and let the world turn without your constant influence. You are intelligent, clever, quick-witted and immensely talented when it comes to communicating with others — and you are able to make clear even the most complicated ideas to those who would be hopelessly confused were you not to explain them. You can be quick to anger, and those who know you well know to steer clear of you when you are in one of your angry moods — for you can and do lash out at almost anyone, for any reason, without warning. On the other hand, those who inspire your friendship and loyalty can count on them to last a lifetime. Also born on this date are: Mary J. Blige, singer and actress; Alexander Hamilton, U.S. statesman; Naomi Judd, singer; Amanda Peet, actress; Rod Taylor, actor; William James, author and educator; Alyson Reed, actress; Joel Zwick, filmmaker. To see what is in store for you tomorrow, find your birthday and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your daily guide. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12 CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You are getting used to exploring one or two relatively new skills, and it may well be time to put them to use to increase your daily income. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — As confident as you are, you’re not quite sure about doing something with a certain someone until a certain issue has been discussed. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — You may feel as
though you have put a little too much on the line, but the truth is there’s room to raise the stakes even more by day’s end. ARIES (March 21-April 19) — You are being directly affected by someone you thought wouldn’t touch you at all; you must try to act a little more professional. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — You can make arrangements today that benefit you and those around you — but take care that you’re not giving someone an unfair advantage. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You can negotiate a fine deal for yourself today — provided you’re willing to talk about something that others do not wish to acknowledge. CANCER (June 21-July 22) — Reliance on your partners doesn’t make you weak, but rather quite the opposite — especially today, when collaboration is so essential. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Others are willing to take care of the “busywork” perhaps, but you cannot abandon your position. You must honor all commitments today. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You must check in with someone who is “minding the store” on at least one or two occasions today in order to stay current on all key issues. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You will want to finish a journey today as early as possible in order to leave yourself time to deal with someone who’s not playing fair. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — You don’t want to charge into something big right off the bat today; you must take time to prepare yourself — both mentally and emotionally. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — There’s more on the line today than you had originally anticipated, but you can rise to the occasion and be at your best when required.
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WEEKLY BRIDGE QUIZ ANSWERS Q 1 - Neither vulnerable, as South, you hold: ♠ J 7 6 4 ♥ 10 6 ♦ K Q 6 3 ♣ 9 8 3 WEST 1♣
NORTH 2♦
EAST 2♠
SOUTH ?
What call would you make?
Right-hand opponent opens 2D, weak. What call would you make? A - A 2NT overcall of a weak two-bid shows the strength of an opening 1NT bid, 15 to about 18. Bid 2NT Q 4 - Both vulnerable, as South, you hold: ♠K86♥AQ953♦KQ6♣K5
As dealer, what call would you make?
A - This hand does not have the playing strength to bid 5D, so either pass or bid 4D. Don’t waste your time with 3D.
A - Many modern experts will add a point to a hand like this for the five-card suit. We like it! Open 1H planning to rebid 2NT.
Q 2 - North-South vulnerable, as South, you hold:
Q 5 - North-South vulnerable, as South, you hold:
♠ Q 8 6 ♥ 7 5 ♦ A K 6 ♣ A 10 9 7 5
♠92♥AKJ963♦J♣AQ73
SOUTH WEST 1♣ 1♥ Pass Pass ? *Negative **Pre-emptive
SOUTH 1♥ 2♣ ?
NORTH Dbl* Dbl
EAST 3♥** Pass
What call would you make?
Q 3 - East-West vulnerable, as South, you hold: ♠ A K 8 ♥ J 9 5 ♦ A 10 6 4 ♣ A 8 7
NORTH 1♠ 4♠
EAST Pass Pass
What call would you make? A - To slam or not to slam? Slam!! Bid 4NT to make sure you are not off two aces before bidding 6S. Q 6 - East-West vulnerable, as South, you hold: ♠ J 10 5 ♥ 10 8 5 ♦ A K 6 ♣ A 10 5 3
Partner opens 2NT, 20-21, and right-hand opponent passes. What call would you make? A - Bid 4NT, quantitative. Partner should pass with 20 and bid slam with 21. Not perfect, but it is the best you can do.
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A - You cannot be faulted if you bid 4C, but we like bidding 3S. Partner should be aware you might only have three spades, as you would almost certainly have bid 3S at your last turn with four of them.
WEST Pass Pass
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