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CATSKILL — Friends and family of Jason Jones gathered at a somber candlelight vigil Thursday night outside of the police station where Jones suffered fatal burns after being hit by a police officer’s stun gun. Jones, 30, entered the lobby of the Catskill police station on Main Street at 10:32 p.m. on Oct. 30 and doused himself in hand sanitizer. When an unidentified officer hit him with a stun gun, Jones caught fire and was engulfed in flames

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while three officers left the room. Jones later died at the SUNY Upstate Medical Center Hospital in Syracuse on Dec. 15 after he was taken off a respirator. At the Thursday vigil, Jones’ mother Mary Jo fought off tears as she recounted her son’s final days. “This is really hard for me,” she told the crowd. “When I first found out what had happened, I flew out here to see Jason in the hospital and I thought things were getting better. The burns were getting better and then he had pneumonia. See VIGIL A2

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A winter storm is expected to deliver moderate to heavy snow to different parts of Greene and Columbia counties Sunday night and Monday. Depending on where you live will depend on how much snow will accumulate, local meteorologist Allan Porreca said Friday. Valley areas along the Hudson River could see as little as 2 to 5 inches, while higher elevations of Greene and Columbia counties may receive between 12 and 18 inches, Porreca said. Current computer models indicate that snow will begin late Sunday, about 11 p.m. Snow will continue for several hours before it mixes with sleet and freezing rain, and then plain rain as warm air works its way up the Hudson Valley. Precipitation will remain as all snow in the higher elevations, Porreca said. The storm will involve two low pressure systems. The stronger system is expected to stay over land. The second low will stay over water and push warmer air into the region, Porreca said. An increasing wind, from the east northeast will cause downsloping in the Hudson Valley, which will limit the snow totals, Porreca said. Downsloping is the process that occurs when a stream of air is forced to descend a mountain. As the air descends, it undergoes a series of changes that result in a warming and drying effect, according to the National Weather Service. Winds during the snowfall are expected to be gusty. Parts of the Catskills and Berkshires may see wind

A candlelight vigil honoring Jason Jones was held on Thursday night outside the Catskill police station where he suffered fatal burns.

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Tribute and protest at vigil for burn victim

Demonstrators march down Main Street in Catskill in honor of Jason Jones.

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ATHENS — A fire on Friday afternoon caused damage to an Athens home. One of the home’s occupants was evaluated for possible smoke inhalation as a precaution, said Athens Second Assistant Fire Chief Jim Robinson. At about 12:50 p.m., Greene County 911 sent Athens Fire Department to 66 N. Franklin St., after the homeowner reported there was a fire in a kitchen wall.

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Dozens of firefighters responded, after fire broke out at an Athens home on Friday.

Multiple fire companies were on the scene, after fire broke out at an Athens home on Friday.

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gusts over 50 mph, Porreca said. Temperatures when the storm begins should be around 25, but will rise into the upper 30s by Monday morning, Porreca said. The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Storm Watch for several counties, including Western Greene County, from 10 p.m. Sunday until 10 p.m. Monday. Frigid temperatures are

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Mary Jo Jones speaks at the candlelight vigil honoring her late son Jason Jones.

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Mourners honor Jason Jones at a candlelight vigil held outside the Catskill police station on Thursday.

empathy, what he got was what no one deserves.” Kearney told the crowd that he wanted to keep the focus on Jones’ life and not the circumstances of his death, which were seen in a pair of videos released by New York State Attorney General Letitia James on Jan. 7. “We could talk about the cowardice shown by the police all night,” he said. “The ignorance and the stupidity and the fact that nobody in this building is apparently smarter than a fifth-grader. But what we really want to discuss is Jason and his life. Who he was to all of us who showed up tonight.” As Kearney spoke a pickup truck drove by the crowd and

the driver yelled “B------t!” to which Kearney replied, “Thank you officer.” Tara-lynn Felliccinni told the crowd that she was Jones’ best friend and called for accountability for the three Catskill officers who were involved in the incident. “We are all here to grieve Jason,” she told the crowd. “We lost a friend. His death wasn’t an accident and it wasn’t predicted. He slept through his 30th birthday. Before being set on fire and left alone, I watched my friend in those two videos being helpless and in pain. He only wanted a hug from a stranger. We come from a very small community and we depend on

forecast across the area all day Saturday. The National Weather Service has issued a Wind Chill Warning for Western Greene County effective 7 p.m. Friday through noon Saturday. Wind chills as low as 25 to 35 below zero are expected. The rest of Greene and Columbia Counties are under a Wind Chill Advisory, with wind chills as low as 15 to 25 below zero. After the storm leaves the area, the forecast for Tuesday is partly sunny with a high temperature of 30 degrees.

Greene and Columbia Counties will be seeing the snow plows on the road Sunday night and Monday, as winter weather brings snow.

the fire and requested additional manpower respond to the scene. North Franklin Street and adjacent streets were closed to traffic while crews worked. The fire was reported to be out about 1:20 p.m. Firefighters then began checking the rest of the home to make sure the fire did not spread. A pet cat was located by firefighters and was not injured. The cat was secured in an unaffected room. Other areas of the home received smoke and water damage. The fire began in the chimney, before spreading to the structure, Robinson said. The home sustained damage to the kitchen and walls

that were in contact with the chimney. There were no reported injuries to firefighters. The Village of Athens building inspector was requested to the scene. The family will be living with friends until repairs can be made, Robinson said. Fire companies that assisted Athens at the scene include: West Athens Limestreet, Catskill, Coxsackie, New Baltimore and Hudson. Also assisting at the scene were: Catskill Ambulance, state police, Greene County Sheriff’s Office, and Greene County Fire Coordinator’s Office.

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I don’t know exactly how that happened, but I think it’s from when they tased him. Then his vitals were doing good and I left and we came to find out that his kidneys were failing. Four days after that I found out that he passed away.” Speaking in front of a crowd of about 40 people, Jones’ mother said she was still searching for answers about why her son entered the police station that October night. “This is very heartbreaking for me,” she said. “I don’t understand exactly why he came to the police station. I’m very angry about what happened and it never should have happened. Jason had his issues and everything, but everyone loved him. I wish I could have spent more time with him.” The group of demonstrators convened at the Greene County Courthouse at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday night and marched up Main Street bound for the village police station with signs honoring Jones in hand and chanting “Justice for Jason.” Organizer Thomas Kearney, who serves as the executive director at Capitol Area Relief & Liberation, began the vigil by addressing the crowd gathered in front of the police station. “It’s cold and it is winter and every single one of you could have been anywhere else tonight,” he said. “You could be home and you could be warm, but you chose to be here. You chose to create a space for Jason Jones in death where there wasn’t space for him here in this village in life. You are all special people. Tonight we’re here because something f-----g horrible happened. Right here at the Catskill Police Department, a man in distress, a member of our community came here. Unfortunately, this (police station) sign for many is a sign of hope and safety and trust and justice. It was none of those things for Jason. In a moment when a man needed compassion and

law enforcement to serve and protect us. But unfortunately for Jason, that didn’t happen. Jason Jones of all people didn’t get that. Although it’s too late for Jason, going forward my hope is that the police will be properly trained and these three men will be reprimanded. Not just for Jason, but to prove to this community that this behavior is unacceptable and that nothing like this will ever happen again.” After the vigil, Felliccinni said she met Jones 15 years ago when both attended Catskill High School and the two had remained close ever since. “We were friends, we were enemies, we were all of that,” she said. “But at the end of the day we were homies. He was a good, good boy. It’s not just a death, it’s something horrific. So it’s hard on a different level for everybody. He was murdered. He didn’t deserve to be alone. Even after he died, none of his friends could go to the hospital because he would have gotten an infection.” Following the ceremony, Kearney said his organization had been met with resistance in the past when attempting to push for police reform in the Catskill department. “We’ve been involved with (New York State) Executive Order 23 for police reform and reinvention and we were met with brick walls,” he said. “They told us that that type of stuff doesn’t happen here. We were told that this is Catskill and it’s a small town and there’s no need for revisions and policies or anything. The result is that someone died. It’s not till someone dies that people realize things need to change. They needed to change things before this happened. Things need to change because that’s the only way everyone is safe.” Kearney said that he didn’t know Jones personally, but that his death resonated deeply with him. “I never met him a day in my life but I know his story and it’s repeated way too much,” he said. “Over and over, not just here but across this country. It’s not right. It’s not OK.”

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The residents evacuated the home, after calling 911. When the first firefighters arrived, fire officials reported there was smoke coming from the building, and immediately requested mutual-aid assistance from neighboring fire departments. Dozens of firefighters from Greene and Columbia counties responded. Firefighters entered the home and reported that it was filled with smoke, and there was fire burning in the kitchen, Robinson said. Crews began extinguishing

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CALENDAR EDITOR’S NOTE: Most events and meetings are cancelled due to the virus outbreak. Please call ahead to confirm.

Monday, Jan. 17 n Catskill Town Offices closed in

observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day n Catskill Village Hall closed in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day n Coxsackie Village Offices closed in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day n Greene County Office Building closed in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day n Greenville Town Hall closed in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Tuesday, Jan. 18 n Athens Town Board 7 p.m. Ath-

ens Volunteer Firehouse, 39 Third St., Athens 518-945-1052 Changes will be on the Town of Athens web page n Athens Village Planning Board 6:30 p.m. Village Hall, Meeting Room, 2 First St., Athens 518-945-1551 n Durham Town Board 7:30 p.m. Town Hall, 7309 Route 81, East Durham n 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

Wednesday, Jan. 19 n Catskill Central School District

Board of Education regular business 6:30 p.m. CHS Library, CHS Library, 341 West Main St., Catskill 518-9432300 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

Thursday, Jan. 20 n Athens Village Conservation

Advisory 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 POLICE n Austin St. Pierre, 22, of

Westfield, Massachusetts, was arrested Jan. 1 at 2:15 a.m. in Catskill and charged with operating a motor vehicle with a blood alcohol level of .08, first offense, and driving while intoxicated, first offense, both unclassified misdemeanors. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Alicia Upchurch, 36, of Palenville, was arrested Dec. 30 at 5:19 p.m. in Catskill and charged with third-degree assault with intent to cause physical injury and acting in a manner injurious to a child under 17, both class A misdemeanors. She was issued an appearance ticket. n Jacqueline R. Banks, 40, of Catskill, was arrested Dec. 30 at 4 p.m. in Catskill and charged with thirddegree criminal possession of a weapon with a previous conviction, a class D felony, fourth-degree criminal mischief and second-degree menacing with a weapon, both class A misdemeanors. She is being held. n Jessie L. Angel, 31, of Cairo, was arrested Dec. 30 at 3:10 p.m. in Durham and charged with second-degree criminal trespassing and second-degree criminal contempt, disobeying the court, both class A misdemeanors.

Following her arraignment, she was released on her own recognizance. n Henry E. Proper, 28, of Athens, was arrested Jan. 1 at 12:44 a.m. in Catskill and charged with operating a motor vehicle with a blood alcohol level of .08, first offense, and driving while intoxicated, first offense, both unclassified misdemeanors. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Donald K. Laurange, 33, of East Durham, was arrested Jan. 2 at 9:49 a.m. in Durham and charged with seconddegree aggravated harassment, a class A misdemeanor. Following his arraignment, he was released on his own recognizance. n Sean L. Barney, 46, of Wilmington, Delaware, was arrested Jan. 2 at 9:35 p.m. in Tannersville and charged with operating a motor vehicle with a blood alcohol level of .08 first offense and driving while intoxicated first offense, both unclassified misdemeanors. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Jose M. Sanchez, 42, of Chatham, was arrested Jan. 6 at 1:42 a.m. in Catskill and charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and manufacture of drug related paraphernalia, both class A misdemeanors. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Joseph C. Moore, 35, of Hudson, was arrested Jan. 6 at 1:42 a.m. in Catskill and charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of

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Monday, Jan. 24 n Catskill Village Planning Board 7 p.m. Robert C. Antonelli Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill 518-9433830

Tuesday, Jan. 25 n Catskill Town Planning Board 6:30 p.m. Robert C. Antonelli Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill

Wednesday, Jan. 26 n Athens Village Board 6:30 p.m.

Athens Fire Department, 39 Third St., Athens Consult the village website for updates the day of the meeting n Catskill Zoning Board of Appeals 6 p.m. Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill n Catskill Village Board of Trustees 6:30 p.m. Robert C. Antonelli Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill 518943-3830

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a controlled substance and manufacture of drug related paraphernalia, both class A misdemeanors. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Brian T. Lampman, 37, of Cairo, was arrested Jan. 6 at 9:58 p.m. in Cairo and charged with second-degree possession of a forged instrument, a class D felony; seventhdegree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a class A misdemeanor; and first-degree operation of a motor vehicle while impaired by drugs, an unclassified misdemeanor. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Kurt Cangelosi, 39, of Cairo, was arrested Jan. 7 at 1:28 a.m. in Cairo and charged with manufacture of drugrelated paraphernalia, resisting arrest, second-degree obstruction of governmental administration and seventhdegree criminal possession of a controlled substance, all class A misdemeanors. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Jonathan L. Purdy, 29, of Coxsackie, was arrested Jan. 8 at 3:19 a.m. in Coxsackie and charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a class A misdemeanor. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Heather L. Wildermuth, 36, of Greenville, was arrested Jan. 7 at 10:08 p.m. in Catskill and charged with operating a motor vehicle with a blood alcohol level of .08, first offense, and driving while intoxicated, first offense, both unclassified

misdemeanors. She was issued an appearance ticket. n Yassmine Gwathney, 20, of Buffalo, was arrested Jan. 8 at 8:33 p.m. in Coxsackie and charged with second-degree introduction of contraband into a prison, a class A misdemeanor. She was issued an appearance ticket. n Nicholas Hollis, 32, of Coxsackie, was arrested Jan. 11 at 1:38 p.m. in Coxsackie and charged with first-degree possession of dangerous contraband in a prison, a class D felony. He is being held. n Elvin Medina-Bauza, 33, of Coxsackie, was arrested Jan. 11 at 2:18 p.m. in Cairo and charged with assault with intent to cause physical injury

with a weapon and first-degree possession of dangerous contraband in a prison, both class D felonies. He is being held. n Elvin Medina-Bauza, 33, of Coxsackie, was arrested Jan. 11 at 2:23 p.m. in Cairo and charged with first-degree possession of dangerous contraband in a prison, a class D felony. He is being held. n Joseph Volpe, 28, of Staten Island, was arrested Jan. 11 at 8:03 p.m. in Hunter and charged with operating a motor vehicle with a blood alcohol level of .08, first offense, and driving while intoxicated, first offense, both unclassified misdemeanors. He was issued an appearance ticket.

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Board of Education budget workshop 6:30 p.m. CHS Library, CHS Library, 341 West Main St., Catskill 518-9432300

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Why is equality still so far from solution? Many young Americans such as the Catskill High School students marching Monday to observe the birth of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. may think of the events of his heroic life and tragic death boil down to his most famous speeches, historical relics and distant anecdotes. In the decades since 1968, America’s hardest year, the vivid memories of King’s struggle for human rights have taken on new and defintive form. The deaths of George Floyd and far too many other Black Americans at the hands of white police officers, the Black Lives Matter movement, the push to end voter suppression and, to some extent, the #MeToo

movement, have cast a new light on King’s foundation of democracy and freedome for all. What would King, had he lived today, think about talk of a new American Civil War? What would he say to the purveyors of institutional racism, discrimination, intolerance, sexual misconduct and acts of violence committed against women and Blacks? What would he do about the chasm between Blacks and whites in income and wealth? This is not 1968; this is the America of 2022, and we can’t allow these issues, and a good deal more, to sway us from picking up King’s mantel and work to repair the damage already done. “Why is the issue of

equality still so far from solution in America, a nation that professes itself to be democratic, inventive, hospitable to new ideas, rich, productive and awesomely powerful?” King wrote in a 1968 essay, published posthumously and entitled “A Testament of Hope.” He asked the question as if he were ruminating over a puzzle. It’s a puzzle as intricate today as it was 54 years ago. Until King’s principles become as much a fabric of American life as the ills that plague our society, we must be committed to making Martin Luther King’s unfulfilled dream a reality.

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Why the White House sees cause for optimism on inflation Jennifer Rubin The Washington Post

December’s 7% annual inflation rate is bad economic news and bad political news for Democrats. If consumers expect inflation to get worse, rising prices and wages could send the economy into a doom loop of even faster-accelerating inflation. But Cecilia Rouse, chair of the White House’s Council of Economic Advisers, sees hopeful signs. “Today, we received new information on producer prices,” she said in a written statement on Thursday. “The data show a slowdown in producer price increases in December, relative to the month before, and the lowest monthly increase in the Producer Price Index (PPI) since November 2020.” Conceding that monthly numbers are volatile, she nevertheless argues that the December data show “potential improvement in prices for supply-chain related goods and services.” That nuance, as well as Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell’s promises to control inflation in the coming months, perhaps explains why the stock market surged after the release of last month’s inflation numbers and slightly higher jobless claims. Rouse tells me that the December numbers “suggest the recovery is not going to be linear.” She adds, “Our economic situation is being driven by the pandemic.” Indeed,

countries across the world that supported people through the devastating initial phases of the pandemic are now experiencing high demand and insufficient supply, aggravated further by the shift in spending from services to goods. Once the pandemic abates, production interruptions should abate, too. Businesses can then increase their supply, and inflation will likely diminish. The White House does not see this as akin to the 1970s, when oil prices triggered an inflationary surge. In this case, the triggering cause - the pandemic - is expected to resolve. (It’s already clear that infections due to the omicron variant are less severe, allowing most people to resume work in fewer days than in previous surges.) Going forward, the “fiscal impulse” should tighten significantly, as the government will not repeat stimulus packages. Rouse says, “We’re not in the same phase of the pandemic.” That should indicate that talks in Congress about another big fiscal package will go nowhere. Critics have accused President Biden of “blaming” inflation on corporate greed. That’s not what is going on here. White House officials note that as far back as the campaign, Biden was banging the drum about excessive corporate consolidation. Where there is less competition, wages

The frightening philosophy driving the Supreme Court’s new vaccine mandate rulings

are lower and prices are higher. It is therefore not surprising that, in the mode of “Build Back Better,” Biden would want to focus on reducing these price disrupters. That’s the same philosophy behind child-care subsidies in the Build Back Better bill. When families experience a shortage of child-care options, resulting in higher prices, the government has a natural role to play. Accessible child care has also proved crucial to getting women, who have suffered disproportionately during the pandemic, back in the workforce. No one should take a single month’s numbers as evidence the inflation threat is behind us. The White House is painfully aware the path to price stability will not be a straight line. But like unemployment and every other aspect of the economy (not only in the United States but around the world), inflation is being driven largely by covid. That means taming the pandemic remains the key to a well-functioning economy. As the pandemic slowly resolves, expect the White House not to hawk giant stimulus packages. Instead, it will for look for ways to lighten the burden on families (e.g., increasing port capacity, reducing child-care costs). That’s the only economically and politically viable strategy - even if it’s not an immediate or cure-all approach.

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At current rates, sometime in late April we will pass a grim milestone: one million Americans dead from covid-19. If we get lucky and the omicron wave abates, that one millionth death may not come until later in the spring, or the summer. But it will come, and soon. Keep that in mind as you consider the latest news from the Supreme Court. On Thursday, by a 6 to 3 vote on party lines (and no, I won’t pretend the justices have no relevant party affiliations), they struck down the Biden administration’s mandate that large employers were supposed to require that their employees either be vaccinated or receive regular tests for covid-19. And in a development that was in some ways even more alarming, the court upheld a vaccine mandate that applied only to health care workers in facilities that receive federal funds - but four justices voted against it. Think about that for a moment. Four justices, one vote short of a majority, would have ruled that in the midst of a brutal pandemic that has killed millions around the world, the government can’t even require health care workers to be vaccinated. Let’s begin with the rule the court struck down. The background here is that federal law gives the Occupational Safety and Health Administration the power to protect workers from “grave danger from exposure to substances or agents determined to be toxic or physically harmful or from new hazards.” This seems like it would clearly apply to an airborne pathogen that has produced so much disease and death. Yet the conservative majority said that because you can catch covid not only in your workplace but other locations too, that means OSHA is powerless to protect

workers from it. Writing in dissent, the three liberal justices were incredulous at this line of argument: “Contra the majority, [the law] is indifferent to whether a hazard in the workplace is also found elsewhere. The statute generally charges OSHA with “assur[ing] so far as possible ... safe and healthful working conditions.” ... The statute does not require that employees are exposed to those dangers only while on the workplace clock. And that should settle the matter.” Would the conservatives have voted the same way if a Republican administration had issued these mandates? Might they have said that this is a temporary measure, and well within the scope of the law as written and the longstanding authority of government to protect people during health emergencies? There’s no way to know for sure, but I have my suspicions. But this may not be about the kind of partisan bias that would validate an action by a Republican administration and strike it down when a Democratic administration does it. The truth is that the conservatives on the court have a broad animus toward government’s power to regulate at all, which is playing out in multiple cases. Some observers have warned that we’re headed for a new Lochner era, referring to the period in the early 20th century when the court struck down laws on everything from child labor to minimum wages to monopolistic business practices, on the grounds that government had no right to interfere in the smooth operation of commerce and private contracts, even if it meant children toiling in dangerous factories. To most sane people it was a dark time in American history, characterized by brutal exploitation that the Supreme Court rendered the

government powerless to stop. But to some, it was the good old days. As to the health care worker mandate the court upheld, even there it’s hard to celebrate. The idea that anyone could oppose mandates on health care workers being vaccinated in the midst of a pandemic seems almost mind-boggling, like opposing a regulation saying that pilots shouldn’t fly within eight hours of drinking alcohol. But four justices - Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett - said just that. Legislative language that authorizes the Department of Health and Human Services to regulate the “health and safety” of medical facilities, they said, isn’t enough, since there is no specific language authorizing precisely this kind of mandate. “If Congress had wanted to grant [the government] authority to impose a nationwide vaccine mandate, and consequently alter the state-federal balance, it would have said so clearly,” Thomas wrote for the others. “It did not.” So in one case, these four justices chose to create a limitation on OSHA’s power found nowhere in the words of the law, then use that phantom limitation to say the government has no right to protect people. Then in the other case, they said that because the law didn’t predict the current pandemic with precise specificity, the government has no right to protect people there either. With that expansive set of logical tools at their disposal, they can clearly do whatever they want in future cases, striking down any regulation they don’t like and upholding whatever they do. The fact that they prevailed in only one of these two cases should give us little reassurance. They’re on a crusade. And just imagine what they could do with another justice or two.

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Retirement is not for the faint of heart By Dick Brooks For Columbia-Greene Media

They just don’t listen! All around me people that I know are retiring. They ask me how I like it, I tell them and they still retire. Don’t get me wrong, I wouldn’t go back to the worka-day world for anything. I couldn’t! I have no time to hold down a regular job anymore, I’m trying hard to find time for regular bathroom breaks. The brainwashing starts early. Remember getting your first paycheck? It wasn’t as big as you thought it was going to be, was it? My employer explained that the numbers carved into the rock he gave me (it was a long time ago) were accurate — some of my money went to the government for taxes and some went to Social Security and I’d be getting it back when I retired. That was the first time I had run into that word — retired, I didn’t think it meant to be tired again but I wasn’t sure, prefixes being unreliable things. The carrot was dangled and I chased it for years. Go to work every day, earn all you can, don’t complain when the government takes a large share, it’s for your retirement. You see retired people on television and in magazines. Happy, healthy, slim, trim, white haired former quarterbacks and cheerleaders, tanned and smiling with their own teeth. They are always golfing, playing tennis, visiting exotic places. I could hardly wait for my AARP card

WHITTLING AWAY

DICK

BROOKS to arrive. It comes about five years before you can even think of retiring and each issue of its magazine features the aforementioned folks doing all those wonderful things in all those great places. I consider myself an expert on retirement having been retired now for several years. I know a lot of retirees and none of them has even been in an AARP publication. If they played tennis, most of them would need a visit to a chiropractor (the retiree’s best friend ). The most exotic place I’ve visited since I retired is Coxsackie. I don’t spend my days sunning on the beach for fear that some group of dogooders will appear and try to push me back into the water, thereby saving my life. As far as toothy smiles go, without their dentures, most of the older folks I know would look like poster kids for a dental hygiene campaign. Getting old ain’t pretty! My advice to potential retirees is don’t! The pay is terrible, you never get a day off, you have no excuse for not

doing things. You can’t even put something off until the weekend because your life is now one big weekend. Think of the average weekend, the hustle and bustle trying to get the yard work done and all the other chores necessary to keep the household running — you will be facing that every day with no let up. You are at everyone’s beck and call because you don’t work. Babysitter, clean up person, volunteer, you will be on the move from dawn to dusk and beyond because “You don’t have to get up and go to work.” It’s a tough job and the only way to get out of it is to die. So think about it, you gainfully employed, you with your coffee breaks and vacations, maybe you don’t want to retire. After a long ponder, I decided that they have this retirement thing all wrong, you should retire at 18 when you are still young enough and have all that energy to waste and when you burn out around age 55 or 60 then go to work at some quiet peaceful job so you’re rested up and ready to meet your maker. You’ve got to be tough to be retired. Thought for the week — Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. — Don Marquis Until next week, may you and yours be happy and well. Reach Dick at whittle12124@yahoo.com.

DEC announces summer environmental education camp registration opens March 6 ALBANY — New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Basil Seggos announced that online registration for DEC’s 2022 Summer Camps program will open at 1 p.m. March 6, 2022. To celebrate 75 years, DEC’s Summer Camps program will host a series of events and share mementos, including retro logos incorporated into camper shirts, special recognition certificates, and a camp celebration each Saturday during the season. Past campers, families, sponsors, and staff will also have an opportunity to take a literal stroll down memory lane at their favorite camps. The Summer Camps program offers week-long adventures in conservation education for children ages 11-17. DEC operates four residential camps for children: Camp Colby in Saranac Lake (Franklin County); Camp DeBruce in Livingston Manor (Sullivan County); Camp Rushford in Caneadea (Allegany County); and Camp Pack Forest in Warrensburg (Warren County). Parents and guardians should submit applications through the online registration program on the Summer Camps website at http:// www.dec.ny.gov/education/29.html. Interested parents and guardians are encouraged to complete registration forms and register early since many weeks fill up quickly. In addition to inviting parents and guardians to register children to participate in the DEC environmental education Summer Camps program, sporting clubs, civic groups, and environmental organizations are encouraged to sponsor one or more children for a week at camp. Information about becoming a sponsor and managing sponsor accounts is available at http://www.dec.ny.gov/education/1866.html on DEC’s

website. To help reduce the spread of COVID-19, DEC is implementing enhanced Centers for Disease Control, New York State Department of Health, and American Camp Association guidelines with current and comprehensive guidance, along with lessons learned from other camps in 2021. DEC’s goal is to ensure that protective measures and changes will not compromise the sense of adventure, fun, and camp spirit that brings campers back year after year. Guidance will be updated as the summer approaches and new information becomes available. NEW FOR 2022: Capacity at each camp will be reduced and individual campers will be limited to one week of camp. If spots at camps remain available after May 27, campers will have the opportunity to sign up for multiple weeks. Camps Colby and DeBruce will offer one week of programing for children ages 1417, and five weeks for children ages 11-13. Camp Pack Forest will host children ages 14-17 for five weeks, and two weeks for children ages 11-13. Camp Rushford will offer two weeks of programming for children ages 14-17, and five weeks of programming for ages 1113. The complete schedule is available on the Summer Camps website at https:// www.dec.ny.gov/education/2013.html. Campers will have the opportunity to participate in a wide variety of outdoor adventures and are encouraged to try new things. Activities may include fishing, bird watching, fly-tying, archery, canoeing, hiking, camping, orienteering, and hunter safety education. One hunter education program for firearm, bow, or trapping is offered at each camp during four of the weeks. Class size is limited for hunter

education programs and campers must sign up for this program during registration and complete the homework in advance to be eligible. More information about New York’s hunter education program can be found at https://www. dec.ny.gov/outdoor/7860. html. Along with adventures, DEC campers engage in fun, hands-on activities and outdoor exploration focused on field, forest, stream, and pond ecological principles. Activities include collecting insects, using nets in a stream, investigating soil composition, measuring trees, or taking field notes and writing in journals. Trips to nearby state lands may include kettle bogs, State Parks, fish hatcheries, and nature museums. Camp Pack Forest will offer “Outdoor Adventure Week” during Week 4, July 24-29. DEC encourages teens 14 to 17 who love being outdoors to sign up for this popular program at Camp Pack Forest. During this week, campers develop hands-on outdoor skills that go above and beyond the traditional camp week. In addition to typical camp activities, campers engage in team and trust-building activities, forestry, citizen science, conservation science, and more. In addition, visiting DEC and natural resource professionals introduce campers to a variety of career options. All four camps offer at least six one-week sessions that operated Sunday to Friday beginning July 3, 2022. Pack Forest and Rushford will operate for seven weeks. One week of camp is $350 per child for 2022, and includes meals, trips, and a camp t-shirt. For more information, visit www.dec.ny.gov, email EducationCamps@dec.ny.gov, check out “NYS DEC Summer Camps” on Facebook, or write to DEC Camps, 3rd Floor, 625 Broadway, Albany, New York 12233-5256.

A letter to Jason By Bob Beyfuss For Columbia-Greene Media

There are a few “tips” included in this blog that doubles as a gardening column. Jason is the nephew of my late friend, Larry, aka Lester, whom I often mentioned in these columns in previous years. Jason and his wife just welcomed a baby boy into this world and I suggested they plant a tree in the baby’s honor. I wrote Jason this email today. Hi Jason, First, make sure you select a long-lived tree for your son! No crabapple, flowering cherry, peach, paper birch or any other fruit tree! No evergreens either, as they all seem to have health issues these days. Personally, I like ginkgoes because they are tough, grow fast and seem immune to most pests, having outlived them evolutionarily. I have two of them, different cultivars, that have totally different growth habits. One is already 25 feet tall, after only about 12 years of growth. It is straight as an arrow with perfectly symmetrical, whorled branches. The other one, although only a few years younger and fifty feet away, is barely seven feet tall. It leans towards the sun and I have to keep it staked. They both have beautiful, bright yellow, fall color and the leaves remain until a hard frost. I use the leaves to make a tincture that I believe has cured my tinnitus. Female Ginkgo trees bear edible fruit that smells like cat urine when ripe. Despite that fact, they are sometimes used in Chinese cooking. If you want a gingko, be sure to get a male clone! My second, or maybe even first, choice, would be sugar maple. This species is not without many pests of course, but it has beautiful fall color and a wonderful

GARDENING TIPS

BOB

BEYFUSS growth habit. There are many interesting cultivars with arrowhead shapes to columnar, to round. When your son is a teenager, he could probably tap “his” tree and use the sap to make maple syrup as his Uncle Lester and I did. Lester loved larch trees, and so do I. They are the only deciduous conifer that commonly grows in our region, featuring beautiful, pale, lime-green spring growth and orange fall color that signals the peak of woodcock migration in our town. Lester and I timed many of our woodcock hunts on the larch color change each October. The ones by Lester’s cabin are European larch and you can also buy Japanese larch. Larch are all quite similar, except for the grafted ones that “weep.” I would not suggest any grafted tree, really. Graft unions sometimes fail in a few years. The first “Grandkid Tree” I planted on my property was an American Larch (Tamarack) that I dug up in the Adirondacks, near Lake Placid. I planted it for my oldest grandson, Will. Will is 15 years old now and almost six feet tall. It took 10 years for the tree to catch up to him! That “wild” Larch tree was deliberately planted in a very wet spot, since that is what they like to grow in, in their native habitat, up north. It languished for about five years, remaining a

two-foot-tall shrub, as is often the case when you transplant a “wild” tree. Transplanting, mature, native trees and shrubs onto your property sounds like a cool idea, but it is usually not a great idea. Unless you root prune them several times prior to digging them up, over a year or more, you cut off 90% of the existing roots and they will take years to adapt to their new home. Lester and I spent many, many hours over the years doing exactly that, to landscape his log cabin. He had a “native plant theme” way before “native” landscaping became fashionable. We dug up the oak tree and the sugar maples he planted by the cabin, as well as the shadbush, the pinkster, the horizontal junipers, hobblebush and a few things that did not make it, like winterberry. Anyway, my transplanted Larch tree finally shot up and started growing one to two feet a year. It has now become the biggest tree I have planted on my property. I need to get a picture of six-foot-tall Will, standing next to “his” tree the next time they come up to visit. Unfortunately, a few years ago, a porcupine climbed the tree and ate the bark off the central leader, killing it and resulting in three central leaders. It is not quite as pleasingly symmetrical now, but big enough to fully display its beautiful fall color and it serves as a perennial reminder to me, of Lester. That’s the real point of memorial trees actually. We all have a “Lester” in our hearts to recall. Whatever species you decide, I suggest that you buy a nursery grown, high quality, named cultivar, tree from a reputable, preferably, local, source. Reach Bob at rlb14@cornell. edu.

Cornell Cooperative Extension Albany County offering ‘Resolve to Eat More Fish in 2022’ ALBANY — Cornell Cooperative Extension | Albany County is offering the online program Resolve to Eat More Fish in 2022 7-8 p.m. Jan. 26 via Zoom. Many of us make resolutions concerning our health as we kick off a New Year. If you have chosen to lose a few pounds or pay more attention to what foods you are eating this year, then this program could be of interest to you. There are many health benefits associated with eating fish. They provide a source of low-fat, high quality protein and are filled with omega-3 fatty acids and vitamins such as Vitamin D and riboflavin. They are also a great source of minerals such as calcium and phosphorus. The American Heart Association recommends eating fish at least twice a week as part of a heart-healthy diet that can help lower blood pressure and reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke. Omega-3 fatty acids are in all fish but are especially high in fatty fish and seafood (greater than 10% fat), like salmon, trout, sardines, herring, canned mackerel, canned light tuna and oysters. Our bodies do not produce omega-3 fatty acids, so we must get them from the food we eat. During this program we will discuss the health

benefits of eating fish, beneficial ways to prepare fish, and environmental issues threatening our fish supply such as chemical contamination and over-fishing. We will also talk about how important it is to know where your fish comes from, whether you buy it or catch it in the wild. For instance, there are specific New York State Department of Health fish advisories for New York State waterways, such as the Hudson River, depending on whether you are male or female and how old you are (www.health.ny.gov ). Contaminants of the highest concern continue to be the long-lasting group of chemicals known as PCBs, which can be especially harmful to children and the unborn since it can affect their developing brain and nervous system. In grocery store fish, the chemical of highest concern is mercury (www.fda. gov/fishadvice or www.epa. gov/fishadvice ). Refer to their charts to find the types of fish to avoid due to potential high levels of mercury and what types of fish are better choices for your family at the store. The good news is that there are many other safe places to fish in the Capital District, besides the Hudson River, where the whole family can eat up to two 4-ounce

fish meals a week. In Albany County specifically, there is public access to the Normanskill Creek, Onesquethaw Creek, Six Mile Waterworks, Basic Creek and many more. There is a free fishing weekend coming up next month on Feb. 19 and 20, when it is not necessary to have a fishing license from the New York State DEC. Ann Lee Pond in Colonie and Thompson Lake in Berne are two popular spots to go ice fishing in Albany County for trout and panfish, once the ice is frozen at the proper thickness to be safe. Fish is not only an important source of nutrition. The art of catching fish, preparing it and eating it is an important part of culture and family traditions among certain populations. We will share tips and recipes for preparing fish in safe, healthy and delicious ways. Contact Karen Roberts Mort, MS at Cornell Cooperative Extension of Albany County at kem18@cornell. edu or leave a message at 518-765-3552 with any questions or if you would like to schedule a free presentation for your group. Register for the Jan. 26 virtual program at https://cornell.zoom.us/ meeting/register/tJwrde6tqj8pHNzR09ozhfP-8x0aJNmO13az.

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Bernard J. Brabazon November 1, 1930 — January 11, 2022 Bernard J. Brabazon went to be with the Lord on January 11, 2022. He is survived by his loving wife, Mary Frances Brabazon; his children Patricia A. Lenseth (Steven), Peter F. Brabazon (Frances), Anne Marie Brabazon, James A. Brabazon, (Lori); eleven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren; his sisters Elizabeth Feulner (Alan) and Mary DeSousa; his brother Peter Brabazon; as well as many nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his parents Peter and Anna Brabazon, his sisters Kathryn Brabazon, Eileen Hanford (Maurice), and Annemarie Brabazon. He was born on November 1, 1930 in Bronx New York. His early years were spent growing up in Whitestone, where he enjoyed living by the bay, boating and being a lifeguard. He graduated from high school, then went on to Queens College where he completed two years of study. He was active duty in the Navy for 20 years, training newly enlisted sailors. He continued for another 10 years in the Naval reserves. There he learned carpentry and he used his skills to renovate his homes and build lovely cabinets. After spending some summers and weekend winters skiing in Windham he and Frances decided to move the family there. He purchased the post office building in Hensonville and started an insurance and real estate business. Soon he began the Elm Ridge Townhouse Development, the Elm Ridge Bath and Tennis Club and the Windham Ridge Club. He enjoyed traveling with his wife and friends. His favorite place to visit was Ireland. Another favorite trip was a cruise to the Panama Canal. Many happy years were spent in Long Boat Key and Sarasota, Florida. Bernie was an active member of Saint Theresa’s Church and the Knights of Columbus serving as Grand Knight for many years. One of his memorable accomplishments with the Knights was planning a group tour to Ireland in 2007 where he had an amazing time. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to Saint Theresa’s Church or the Knights of Columbus. The family wishes to send our most sincere thanks to the Town of Windham Ambulance for their amazing kindness and help. We also are very grateful to the staff at St. Peter’s Hospital and Hospice for their wonderful care.

Brenda Lee Hood November 21, 1965 — November 25, 2021 Brenda Lee Hood, age 56, of Athens, died November 25, 2021 at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA. Brenda was born November 21, 1965 in Kingston, NY, the daughter of the late Granville and Marion (Krum) Quick. She was predeceased by her husband, John Hood Jr. Brenda is survived by her children, Julia (David) Dragon of Catskill; Jennifer Wilhelm of Acra; John Hood 111 (Rose Riley) of Catskill; Paul Cannizzaro of Long Island; and grandchildren Breonna and Kourtney Dragon, Lucas Hood, Makayla and Aiden Wilhelm, Isabella and John Hood IV. Memorial Services will be held 1 ~ 3 PM Sunday, January 16, 2022 at Traver & McCurry Funeral Home, 234 Jefferson Heights, Catskill.

Bernardine J. LaMantia Feburary 24, 1941 — December 31, 2021 Bernardine J. LaMantia (Bernie) passed away suddenly December 31, 2021, at her home in The Villages, Florida. Bernie was born on February 24, 1941 in New York, New York to Saverio and Santina (Livolsi) LaMantia. Bernie’s love of the English language led to her earning a Bachelors of Arts degree in English from The College of Mount Saint Vincent in 1961. After graduating from college she taught English at John Philip Sousa J.H.S. while simultaneously earning her Master of Arts in English from City College of the City University of New York School of Education. Bernie later attended Columbia University, studying Higher and Adult Education with a focus on Student Personnel Administration. Bernie found her calling as Dean of Students, first at The College of Mount Saint Vincent for six years and at Columbia-Greene Community College from 1979 until her retirement in January 2002. Bernie’s expertise and leadership in student personnel was highly valued by her peers, and she was selected to serve on numerous evaluation teams for the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. Bernie’s belief in life long learning made her a strong advocate of the CGCC campus daycare program. She was instrumental in helping to secure funding for the construction of a day care center. She was honored when upon her retirement it was named “The Bernardine J. LaMantia Day Care Center.” Bernie’s passions were books, crossword puzzles, golf and polo. She regularly worked on the New York Times crossword (which was never discarded until complete.)She was an avid reader. Bernie loved golf! She especially enjoyed playing with golfers who enjoyed the camaraderie as much as the sport itself. The highlight of her golfing accomplishments, were her 5 holes-in-one and the stories that accompanied each one. Upon her retirement and move to The Villages she developed an avid interest in polo. She immersed herself in the game, the rules, and the players and encouraged her friends to join her field side for an afternoon of fun. Bernie is survived by her sister, Ellen Beris (Len) of The Villages, Florida. She will be remembered by many friends who admired her strength of character, and with their support she enjoyed a content and peaceful retirement. Donations in Bernie’s name may be sent to Columbia Greene Humane Society, 111 Humane Society Road, Hudson, New York 12534. Cremation arrangements taken care of by Florida Cremation Society, Ocala, Florida.

Wade Ezzell

Vincent Charles Varriale

February 4, 1958 — January 12, 2022

October 29, 1933 — January 7, 2022

GERMANTOWN — Wade Ezzell, 63, of Germantown, NY, passed away on Wednesday, January 12th, 2022 at his home. Born on February 4th, 1958, in Ft. Dix, NJ, he was the son of the late Francis and Ethel (Hailfinger) Ezzell. Wade was a graduate of Red Hook High Schools. He married Robin Moore on August 30, 1980 at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Barrytown, NY. Robin survives at home in Germantown. For many years, and until his retirement, Wade was a project supervisor and skilled carpenter for Robert Bump Construction based in Barrytown, NY. An avid outdoorsman- Wade enjoyed hunting, fishing (including fly fishing and making his own flies), scenic photography, four wheeling, skydiving, and hiking all of the Catskill mountain peaks. He was an accomplished woodworker and furniture maker, and enjoyed working and tinkering with antique pocket watches. In addition to his loving wife of 41 years- Robin Ezzell, he is survived by his son, Ben Ezzell of Germantown, NY; his mother in law, Dawn Moore of Red Hook, NY; sister in law, Michelle (Brandon) Martin of Red Hook, NY; brother in law, John H Moore, III of Red Hook, NY; along with his extended family, colleagues, and friends. He also is survived by his faithful companion Maddison, and his grandpup, Hannibal. A sister, Glenda Ezzell predeceased him. A Celebration of Wade’s life will be held in the spring. Interment will be private. Memorial donations may be made in Wade’s memory to the American Diabetes Association at diabetes.org or to the National Kidney Foundation at kidney.org. Arrangements are under the direction of Burnett & White Funeral Homes 7461 S. Broadway, Red Hook, NY. To sign the online guest book, please visit www.BurnettWhite.com.

Vincent was born to Charles and Anna Varriale on October 29, 1933 in NYC. He was a loving husband, father and beloved grandfather. He attended LaSalle high school in NYC, was AAU wrestling champion 1951 and then joined the Navy from 1951-1954 as a Seabee in the Philippines. On July 26, 1953 he married Haydee L. Santiago. Vincent’s greatest accomplishment was raising 6 children with Haydee, his wife of 69 years and coming to adore all the grandchildren to come. After his military service he primarily started his carpentry career, known at Vincent’s Home Alterations. He built the family homes in Clermont, NY and Oxnard, CA and settled in Craryville, NY in 1968. He was an accomplished cabinet maker. For 25 years he did renovations, improvements, and cabinetry at Camphill Village, Copake, NY. He was never idle. He had many hobbies and interests. He loved the outdoors and with the family enjoyed gardening, fishing, hiking, camping, ice boating, skating, ice hockey, fossil and rock collecting, canoeing, swimming, badminton, Sunday drives and picnics. His love of history started as a teenager with stamp collecting. He enjoyed motorcycle rides, cooking and writing a cookbook, black and white photography, sea shell crafts, and playing the harmonica. He is survived by his wife Haydee, and his children, Julianne Cotte, David Varriale, Linda and her husband Alan, Cynthia Stodolski, Anita and her husband Jack, and Vincent and his wife Renate. Also, he is survived by his sister Elvira DiCola. There are many grandchildren, great grandchildren and great-great grandchildren as well. A celebration of life will be announced at a later time on the website of Peck and Peck Funeral Homes, Inc. Contributions in Vincent’s memory can be made to Community Rescue Squad, PO Box 327, Copake, NY 12516 or ColumbiaGreene Humane Society, 111 Humane Society Rd, Hudson, NY 12534. To leave a message of condolence please visit www.peckandpeck.net.

Kerry G. McGrath January 12, 2022 COXSACKIE — Kerry G. McGrath, 44 of Coxsackie, passed away unexpectedly at home on January 12, 2022. Arrangements have been entrusted by the family to the care of Dufresne & Cavanaugh Funeral Home. A full obituary to run Tuesday and may be found at www.dufresneandcavanaugh.com.

Michael Anthony Flood Sr. January 14, 2022 Michael Anthony Flood, Sr., 73, of Cairo died January 14, 2022. Funeral will be Tuesday. MillspaughCamerato.com

Hochul to extend remote meetings until pandemic ends By Kate Lisa Johnson Newspaper Corp.

ALBANY — New York’s eviction moratorium isn’t the only thing that will expire Saturday. Officials expect Gov. Kathy Hochul to sign a bill into law that would extend allowing government bodies in the state to hold meetings and other public business remotely until the COVID-19 public health emergency ends. Lawmakers in September voted to temporarily amend the Open Meetings Law and allow public bodies to hold municipal meetings via telephone or video conference through Jan. 15, or Saturday, provided meetings are recorded and later transcribed for the public. “We expect the governor to sign the extender legislation,” state Committee on Open Government Executive Director Shoshanah Bewlay said Friday. Lawmakers passed a bill sponsored by Sen. Jim Gaughran, D-Northport, this week that will extend the previous modifications to the Open Meetings law and permit any public body to hold meetings remotely without in-person access as long as the body records and releases the audio or video recording to the public. The state Legislature is authorized to conduct session remotely after Gov. Hochul extended the state’s COVID-19 disaster emergency Dec. 26. The bill will allow remote public meetings to continue until the governor terminates the COVID-19 state emergency with notification to the Legislature by the state Health Department commissioner. Hochul must sign the extend the statute by the end of the weekend for public bodies to evade violating the state’s Open Meetings Law by holding a government meeting remotely. Officials have relied on remote, livestreamed government meetings since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic 22 months ago in March 2020. The popularity of has ebbed and flowed with the fluctuating virus transmission rate,

which started reflecting a downturn to 16.3% positive Friday from 23.2% on Jan. 2. Representatives of the Senate Majority conference referred statements to bill sponsor Sen. Jim Gaughran, DNorthport. “As New York local governments and public bodies continue working around the clock to get us through the COVID-19 pandemic, this legislation is a key tool that will enable continuity in government and make public meetings more accessible,” Gaughran said in a statement Friday. Hochul’s staff would not comment on when the governor will sign the legislation. “We are reviewing the bill,” Hochul’s Press Secretary Hazel Crampton-Hays said Friday. Crampton-Hays referred further questions to legislative leaders and Gaughran. Leaders with the Assembly Democrats did not respond to requests for comment Friday about the measure or remote public meetings. State Coalition for Open Government President Paul Wolf is disappointed, he said, because the bill to extend the remote meetings statute does not mandate meeting recordings be posted online for the public. The bill mandates the recordings be made available to the public, but not how. The provision also does not require public comment sessions to be held at municipal meetings. “That has been a real problem during virtual meetings,” Wolf said. “It’s not that hard to make a recording and post online afterward. I don’t think it’s difficult to take comments during a virtual meeting by people calling in over Zoom or calling in a telephone number so they can be heard live. The technology is there to take live comments.” “It’s disappointing. We’ve expressed these concerns months ago and no effort has been done.” Paul noted livestreamed meetings allow more constituents to watch or participate,

but said the extender should include expiration date for officials to be forced to revisit the Open Meetings Law. “To leave this in place with no definite end date is a concern,” he said. The coalition is urging lawmakers to create an agency to enforce the state FOIL and Open Meeting Law and issue consequences for violations, and sent letters to Hochul’s office with a canned response from executive counsel about the letter’s receipt. The governor has amended the Open Meetings Law and FOIL processes since taking office in August, but it’s too soon to tell if her administration will improve transparency in state government, Wolf said. “I think Gov. Hochul is talking a good game, but we’ll have to see when some actual results occur,” he added. “She has signed into law two amendments to the open meetings law that we pushed for, but we’re certainly looking to accomplish more and hoping she is interested in accomplishing more.” The coalition has issued several reports, including one this week showing the majority of state boards of elections violate Freedom of Information and Open Meetings laws. The coalition sent its findings and legislative suggestions to improve transparency to Senate Investigations and Government Operations Committee Chairman Sen. James Skoufis, D-Woodbury, who responded that he appreciated the report and would review the information. Officials with the state Association of Counties have discouraged lawmakers from voting to make remote meetings a permanent fixture of governing. “In-person meetings should be the way we proceed,” state Association of Counties Executive Director Stephen Acquario said Oct. 25 during testimony to lawmakers about potentially changing the Open Meetings Law to permanently allow remote business. “Counties are not asking to

convert to remote operations. It’s always best to be in person and the public being able to attend in person.”

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POLISH DINNER 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.

FIRST REFORMED CHURCH OF COXSACKIE COXSACKIE — The First Reformed Church of Coxsackie, 285 Mansion St., Coxsackie, worships at 9:30 a.m. Sunday. All are welcome. Communion is celebrated the first Sunday of each month. Sunday School is available during the worship service time. Free Food Fridays provide a meal for anyone at 6 p.m. on the third Friday of each month.

FIRST REFORMED CHURCH OF ATHENS ATHENS —The First Reformed Church of Athens, 16 North Church St., Athens, worships at 10:30 a.m. Sunday. All are welcome to join us. Communion is celebrated the first Sunday of each month. Senior

Choir rehearsal is at 6:30 p.m. each Wednesdays. We ask that singers are vaccinated. Hudson River Bells rehearsal is at 7:30 p.m. Thursdays. Masks are worn during rehearsal. For information, call the church at 518-945-1801.

LIVING FAITH COMMUNITY CHURCH MAPLECREST — Living Faith Community Church, 54 Route 56, Maplecrest, welcomes locals and visitors to worship together at 10:30 a.m. Sunday. Adult Bible Study meets before service at 9:30 a.m. Fellowship meal follows service on the second Sunday of each month. For information, call 518-734-4275.

SOUP KITCHEN OPEN CATSKILL — The Camp Grace Inc. Soup Kitchen, located at the First Reformed Church of Catskill, 310 Main St., Catskill, is open noon-1 p.m. Tuesday through Friday. For information, call Director Lamont Taylor at 518-2497009.

ST. MARK’S SECOND EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH HUDSON — St. Mark’s Second Evangelical Lutheran Church, 8 Storm Ave., Hudson, worships 9:30 a.m. Sunday. Communion is celebrated on the first Sunday of every month with Pastor Stan Webster. Child care is offered

during the service and Sunday school after the service ends. For information, call the Church office at 518-828-9514.

ST. JOHN’S LUTHERAN CHURCH STUYVESANT — St. John’s Lutheran Church, 159 Route 26A, Stuyvesant, has in-person and live online worship services at 10:15 a.m. Sunday. Face masks and social distancing is required at this time. The live broadcasts are on www.facebook.com/St-Johns-Lutheran

CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL HUDSON — Christ Church Episcopal, 431 Union St., Hudson, worships at 9 a.m. Sundays in person and live online. Social distancing and face masks required. Live broadcast at 9 a.m. on facebook.com/ChristChurchEpiscopalHudson or at christchurchepiscopalhudson.org. Midweek Eucharist is held at 12:15 p.m. Wednesdays in the church. For information, call 518-828-1329 or email christchurch1802@gmail.com.

518-758-6271 or saintpaulskinderhook@gmail.com. Office open 1:30-4:30 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday and by appointment.

KINDERHOOK REFORMED CHURCH KINDERHOOK — The Kinderhook Reformed Church, 21 Broad St., Kinderhook, will have in person and live online Sunday worship at 9:30 a.m. Face masks and social distancing required. Live broadcasts at 9:30 a.m. on https:// www.facebook.com/KinderhookReformed Church or https://www.youtube.com/ channel/UCCTUNikeMHshkf_mqhMNxCw. For information, call 518-758-6401 or kinderhookreformedchuch.com.

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CLAVERACK — The Reformed Dutch Church, 88 Route 9H, Claverack, worships at 9:30 a.m. Sundays in the sanctuary. For information, call 518-851-3811.

KINDERHOOK — St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 8 Sylvester St., Kinderhook, Holy Communion in person at 8 and 10 a.m. Sundays. Face masks and distancing required regardless of vaccination status. For information and news, www. saintpaulskinderhook.org/ or follow us on Facebook. Subscribe to our newsletter: http://eepurl.com/cG4YSv;

WEST GHENT — The Ghent Reformed Church, 1039 County Route 22, West Ghent, worships at 9 a.m. Sundays. Sunday School begins at 10:15 a.m. Sunday for pre-school to middle school aged children. In accordance with the New York state mandate, masks will be required. Cleaning is as diligent as always. At present,

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we feel safe enough to have reinstituted coffee time after service.

TRI COUNTY LUTHERAN PARISH VALATIE — The following is the worship schedule for the Tri County Lutheran Parish. Visit TCLParish.org website for weekly Zoom worship schedule and link. Columbia County: Emanual Lutheran Church, 506 County Road 46, Stuyvesant Falls, worships at 8:30 a.m. Sunday. St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, 1010 Kinderhook St., Valatie, worships at 10:30 a.m. Sunday with Sunday School also at 10:30 a.m. on Sunday. Emanuel/St. John’s Lutheran Church, 20 South Sixth St., Hudson, worships at 11 a.m. Sunday. Greene County: Zion Lutheran Church, 102 North Washington St., Athens, worships at 9 a.m. Sunday. St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, State Route 81, Oak Hill, worships at 11 a.m. Sunday. Rensselaer County: Trinity Lutheran Church, 68 Green Ave., Castleton, worships at 9 a.m. Sunday. St. Stephen’s Lutheran Church, 751 County Route 7, East Schodack, worships at 11 a.m. Sunday.

GRACE BIBLE FELLOWSHIP CHURCH RHINEBECK — Grace Bible Fellowship Church, 6959 Route 9, Rhinebeck, worships at 10:45 a.m. and 6 p.m.

Sunday. Sunday School for all ages meets at 9:30 a.m. Women’s bible study and Grace Bible Institute meets at 7 p.m. Mondays. Mid-week prayer meeting is at 7 p.m. Wednesdays. For information, call 845-876-6923 or cdfcirone@ aol.com.

LUTHERAN PARISH OF SOUTHERN COLUMBIA COUNTY GERMANTOWN — Lutheran Parish of Southern Columbia County is planning, for now, to continue in person worship. If the COVID situation changes, plans will be posted on Facebook, the blog, by phone message and the communication tree within each church. This is the worship schedule. St. Thomas Lutheran Church, Churchtown at 11 a.m.; Christ Lutheran Church, Germantown (Viewmont) at 9 a.m.; St. John Lutheran Church, Elizaville (Manorton) at Christ Church at 9 a.m. The Congregational meetings will be held on Jan. 16, after Worship services: 9 a.m. at Christ Church (with St. John’s folks) and 11 a.m. at St. Thomas. Two new candidates for St. John’s Council are Barbara de Mare and MaryLynn Davis. If you are considering participating on Council, speak with the presidents, Jay Clum, Al MacDonald and John Roberts, or Pastor Jackie.

Unity on the Mountaintop Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King TANNERSVILLE — The Mountaintop Interfaith Community will light candles and ring bells as a Prayer for Mountaintop Unity 6:30-7:30 p.m. Jan. 27 via Zoom. The Mountaintop Interfaith Community will be hosting an hour-long celebratory Zoom service. The theme for the service will be Unity on the Mountaintop. We firmly believe that by coming together and embracing the traditions of all faiths, we can create a more vibrant, engaged and loving community of friends, family and neighbors. The service will feature speakers from

each faith group, music, art from local children and inspirational readings from young local community members. At 7 p.m., we will pause and light a candle and ring a bell as a Prayer for Peace and Mountaintop Unity. To join the zoom (from anywhere) go to the website on Jan. 27 and click the Zoom invite, https://mountaintopinterfaithcommunity.org or go to our Facebook page to join. One important aspect of this gathering is to raise funds for a worthy local organization. This year, we are proud to collect donations for Greene

County Women’s League Cancer Patient Aid in Round Top and Wellness RX Charitable Trust in Tannersville. Contributions are welcome but are not required for participation in this service. For information, info@mountaintopinterfaithcommuniy.org or call 914-523-3766. Make checks payable to Hunter Synagogue with “Mountaintop Interfaith Charitable Donation” in the memo line. Mail to: P.O. Box 139 Tannersville, NY 12485; or donate through the GoFundMe account https://gofund. me/a6c1a8b8

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HUDSON — The Hudson Interfaith Council will not hold the annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. pre-holiday Sunday night service this year. Instead, and in solidarity with the expressed wishes of Martin Luther King III, we invite you to join us Jan. 17 for the “It Begins With Me” Motorcade and Outdoor Rally to help advance the cause of

securing Voting Rights for all Americans. The pre-Rally Motorcade line up begins at 10:30 a.m. at the Columbia and North Sixth Street parking lot in Hudson and starts at 11 a.m. The Rally will take place noon-1 p.m. in front of Shiloh Baptist Church, 14 Warren St., Hudson. Attendees are required to wear masks at this memorial

tribute to Rev. Dr. MLK Jr. and all the others who made great sacrifices to secure voting rights in this country. Keynote speaker will be Rev. I. Waddell, Pastor Emeritus, Payne AME Church. We look back but we won’t go back. For weather related changes tune into WGXC 90.7 FM or WGXC.ORG between 9 and 10 a.m.

Looking For Free Recycled Papers? Useful for Pets, Packing, Crafts, etc. Call 518-828-1616 Ext 2413 We will arrange a time to meet. We are typically available Mon - Fri 8:30am - 3:30pm 364 Warren St.Unit 1, Hudson, NY

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Sunday Worship - 9:30 AM Communion First Sunday every month Fellowship before and after worship Thursday - Choir Rehearsal 4:45 PM Tuesday - Bible Study 10:00 AM 2nd Sunday - Helping Hands 10:30 AM

Weekend Masses: Saturday Vigil 4:30 p.m. Sunday 9:30 a.m. (also St. Patrick’s YouTube channel or Mid-Hudson 901) Weekday Mass: Tuesday 8:30 a.m. Also Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament 8:30-9 a.m. Wed, Thurs Food Pantry Hours: Tues & Fri 10–11 a.m. and Wed 6–7 p.m. Thrift Shop Hours: Thurs 1 – 3 p.m. Sat from 9 a.m. – Noon

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Fr. Joseph O’Brien, Parochial Vicar Weekend Masses: Sunday 9:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. 11:30 a.m. Mass is livestreamed at St. Mary’s YouTube Channel Weekday Mass: Wednesday 8 a.m. Also Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament 8-8:30 a.m. Mon & Tues

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County drops daily COVID quarantine statistics By Ted Remsnyder Columbia-Greene Media

CATSKILL — Greene County Public Health has announced that the department will no longer release daily statistics on the number of county residents under quarantine orders. The change was made because the department does not have the staffing to handle the influx of positive COVID cases. “We can’t keep up with it,” Groden said. “I think we’re not going to contact trace anymore. Actually nobody is. The state is dropping it and counties are stopping. There are just too many cases. We’re picking up 100 or 200 new positive cases sometimes per day. That’s impossible to contact trace. You just can’t do it. So actually the state has issued guidance that they’re dropping all of their efforts because they just can’t keep up with it.”

2 NEW DEATHS REPORTED Greene County recorded a pair of COVID-19 deaths on Friday, bringing the county’s total of deceased to 103 since the beginning of the pandemic. The two unidentified victims included a woman in her 50s and a man in his late 70s who had comorbidities at the time of his death, according to Greene County Administrator Shaun Groden.

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Greene County is dropping daily updates of COVID quarantines because of staff shortages, Greene County Administrator Shaun Groden said Friday.

Neither was vaccinated for COVID-19 at the time of their deaths.

As of Jan. 14, the county had 1,633 active COVID positive cases, with 45 residents

Greene County Youth Bureau 2022 funding 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 information and employer noted. List of board members or staff who are authorized to sign claims. OCFS-5001 Program Application (Municipalities are to be signed by Chief Elected Official). OCFS-5002 Program Profile. OCFS-5003 Program Components. OCFS-5005

Program Budget. If your application packet will be the same as in the past, 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://greenegovernment.com/departments/human-services/youth-resources No 2022 grant application will be reviewed if the 2021 grant Program Annual Report and the Expenditure Summary Reports (OCFS 3125, 3126-3129 as applicable) w/ supporting documentation have not been submitted. Call 518-7193555 for assistance.

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hospitalized due to COVID-related illnesses. The county has now identified 8,309 positive COVID cases since the pandemic began in March 2020, with 107 new cases confirmed on Friday. The total percentage of tests in the county that returned positive cases reached 26.7% as of Jan. 11, with a rolling positive rate of 19.5% over the last week. As of Thursday, there were 73 active cases in the county’s correctional facilities, with nine new cases confirmed on Jan. 13. The county is hosting COVID testing clinics in Coxsackie on Jan. 18 and Jan. 20 at 370 Mansion St. The testing site will be open from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Tuesday and 10 a.m. to noon on Thursday. The testing clinics are normally held each week on Monday and Wednesday at the Coxsackie site, but the dates will be adjusted next week to the Martin Luther King Day holiday on Jan. 17. Public Health will also be holding a vaccination clinic on Feb. 8 at Fellows Cafe at 7883 Main St. in Hunter. The county previously held a first-dose Moderna vaccine clinic on Jan. 11.

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Williams leads Riders past Bulldogs Columbia-Greene Media

VALATIE — Carolina Williams dropped 24 points to highlight Ichabod Crane’s 49-21 Colonial Council girls basketball victory over CobleskillRichmondville on Thursday. The Riders got off to a fast start, taking a 21-0 lead by the end of the first quarter. They led 32-5 at halftime and 38-15 through three quarters. Abby Dolge contributed seven points to the Riders’ cause. Delaney More had six points, Alexa Barkley and Malati Culver four apiece and Haley Ames and Emma Holmberg two each. Meghan Ellis had six points and Kiley Ellis added five for the Bulldogs. Ichabod Crane (7-2 Colonial, 9-3 overall) travels to Schalmont on Tuesday at 5 p.m. WRESTLING C-A 45, Maple Hill 28 CASTLETON — Coxsackie-Athens edged MAple Hill, 45-28, in Thursday’s Patroon Conference wrestling match. Anthony Iamunno (189), Hunter Donovan (285), Ryker Cox (110), Finn Gallogly (145), Schyler Caringi (152) and Joseph MArtinez (160) all won their matches by pin for C-A. Anthony Sturgis (172) Vincent Colvin (118), Javier Ayarza (126) and James Colvin (138) all won by pin for the Wildcats. Results 172: Anthony Sturgis (MH) over Jeremy Monington (Fall 1:22); 189: Anthony Iamunno (CA) over Devyn Feliz (Fall 1:20); 215: Ryan Ulscht (CA) over Nick Roy (Dec 3-0); 285: Hunter Donovan (CA) over Anthony Berrios (Fall 0:31); 102: Neil Murphy (CA) won by forfeit; 110: Ryker Cox (CA) over Adam Place (Fall 1:14); 118: Vincent Colvin (MH) over Gage Decker (Fall 2:28); 126: Javier Ayarza (MH) over Rocco Salvino (Fall 1:25); 132: Anthony Ortiz (MH) over Max Rulison (MD 11-0); 138: James Colvin (MH) over Aidan Smedstad (Fall 3:57); 145: Finn Gallogly (CA) over Devin Spring (Fall 3:38); 152: Schyler Caringi (CA) over Kaiden Santana (Fall 2:31); 160: Joseph Martinez (CA) over Jack Pomykaj (Fall 1:43). Watervliet 66, Taconic Hills 12 WATERVLIET — Watervliet/Cohoes defeated

Taconic Hills, 66-12, in Thursday’s Patroon Conference wrestling match. Patrick Mier (160) and Bo Burns (189) both won their matches by pin for the Titans. Results 102: Anthony Gratto (W) over Joshua Banyard (Fall 0:13); 110: Abe Ahmadzai (W) won by forfeit; 118: Daytwan Coleman (W) over Colin Brackett (Fall 1:11); 126: Kevin Brammer (W) won by forfeit; 132: Ali Ahmadzai (W) won by forfeit; 138: Peyton Peterson (W) won by forfeit; 145: Don Cesare (W) won by forfeit; 152: Kendryek Flynn (W) won by forfeit; 160: Patrick Mier (TH) over Chris Nichols (Fall 1:26); 172: Tyler Senecal (WVCO) over Nathanael Baird (Fall 2:37); 189: Robert Burns (TH) over Zach Guilbault (Fall 0:16); 215: Brandon Fitzgerald (W) won by forfeit; 285: Jacob Oathout (W) won by forfeit. BOWLING PATROON Chatham 5, TH 0 LJ Morse rolled a 256704 and Skyler Laurange added a 257-650 to power Chatham to a 5-0 Patroon Conference bowling victory over Taconic Hills on Thursday. Anthony Genovese fired a 247-697 for Taconic Hills. BOYS VOLLEYBALL Chatham 3, Taconic Hills 0 CHATHAM — Chatham blanked Taconic Hills, 3-0, in Thursday’s Patroon Conference bys volleyball match. The Panthers won by scores of 25-13, 25-19 and 25-16. For Chatham: Ethan Boyle 3 kills, 4 aces; Brycen Haner 5 kills; Ryan Wilson 7 kills, 4 blocks; Vinny Marasco 3 aces, 3 kills; Will Hogencamp 3 kills, 1 ace. Cairo-Durham 3 NL/ Berlin 1 EAST DURHAM — Cairo-Durham posted a 3-1 victory over New Lebanon/Berlin in Patroon Conference boys volleyball action on Wednesday. For the Mustangs (25): Cole Partridge 6 service points, 18 kills, 6 digs; Connor Shields 19 service points, 3 aces, 11 assists; Wyatt Handel 13 service points, 5 kills; Joe Arp 4 service points, 11 kills, 5 digs; Brendan Feeney 12 assists “The first year players are starting to gel with the veterans, making us a stronger team all around,” Cairo-Durham coach Chris Hagan said.

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Cam Reddish (22) of the Atlanta Hawks drives to the basket against the Kyle Lowry (7) of the Miami Heat during a preseason game at FTX Arena on Oct. 4 in Miami, Florida.

Knicks acquire Reddish from Hawks Dennis Young New York Daily News

NEW YORK — RJ Barrett is reuniting with his old college running mate. The Knicks are acquiring Cam Reddish in a deal with the Hawks, according to an ESPN report. The package headed to Atlanta is headlined by a protected first-round pick and Kevin Knox. The 2022 pick is heavily protected, with the pick only going to Atlanta if the Hornets’ first-rounder (originally acquired by the Knicks last year) falls outside of the top 18. Reddish, who played with Barrett at Duke and was the No. 10 overall pick in the 2019 draft, struggled with injuries and inconsistency his first two years in the league. The Hawks moved him to a bench role this season, where he’s thrived in slightly decreased minutes. His shooting has improved

significantly -- 37.9% on 3-pointers after barely cracking 30% through 2021 -- and he’s averaging a career-high 18.3 points per 36 minutes. He’s also stayed healthy after struggling with an Achilles injury that limited him to just 26 games last year. But Reddish was seeking an “increased role,” according to ESPN, and the Knicks are desperate for a boost. Their erstwhile best player, Julius Randle, has faded into a low-confidence pit, leaving Barrett to shoulder most of the burden offensively. And Derrick Rose and Kemba Walker, who have been largely useful on offense when healthy, have struggled to stay on the court, with Rose out since Dec. 16 after ankle surgery and Walker permanently day-to-day with a creaky knee. “The defense has pretty much been there,” Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau said earlier this week. “It’s the offense has been inconsistent.”

Reddish doesn’t address the Knicks’ ongoing hole at point guard, but he does give them scoring punch that can spell or play alongside Barrett. Shipping Knox out in the deal marks yet another failed lottery pick in New York. Knox, the No. 9 pick in 2018, flashed potential in his rookie year. He then regressed in Year 2 and was stapled to the bench under Thibodeau, averaging just 11 minutes last year and appearing in only 13 games this year. Solomon Hill, an NBA rotation staple in his ninth year and fifth team in Atlanta, is also joining the Knicks, as is an unknown eighth-grader in the form of a 2025 Nets second-round pick. Hill is in the trade to make the contracts work, as he is on a one-year deal and out for the season with a torn hamstring.

Void of NHL talent, U.S. Olympic men’s hockey roster revealed Field Level Media

Matty Beniers, the No. 2 overall pick by the Seattle Kraken in the 2021 NHL Draft, is one of 15 current collegiate players who will comprise Team USA in men’s hockey at next month’s Beijing Olympics. The U.S. Olympic team was revealed Thursday evening, three weeks after the NHL and NHL Players’ Association announced that the league would not send players to compete due to pandemic-related concerns and regular-season scheduling obstacles. Beniers and Brendan Brisson, both forwards at Michigan, were named to the squad. A recent Michigan grad, Strauss Mann, is expected to be the United States’ No. 1 goalie. Mann plays in the Swedish Hockey See HOCKEY B3

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Workers prepare the ice, as technicians and photographers tour the Beijing Capitol Indoor Stadium on media walk through day ahead of the Beijing Winter Olympics on Wednesday in Beijing, China.

Matthew Roberson: Making the Hall of Fame case for Keith Hernandez Matthew Roberson New York Daily News

NEW YORK — While reflecting on his career, which earned him a number retirement from the Mets and a congratulatory press conference on Wednesday, Keith Hernandez also came face-to-face with his own mortality. Specifically, when the topic shifted to his chances of making the National Baseball Hall of Fame, the 68-yearold Hernandez said that if he does earn an induction, he’d like for it to happen while he’s still around to appreciate it. “It’s out of my hands,” Hernandez said. “I’ve been out of the game for a

long time. Hopefully I’ve got another 15, 16, 17, 18 years of life. Maybe it’ll happen before I kick the bucket.” While Hernandez was typically self-deprecating and careful not to come off as desperate for the recognition (just as he was about his number being retired), he also absolutely has a case to campaign for himself. Hernandez originally fell off the ballot in 2004 after not garnering enough votes, peaking at just 10.8% of the vote. He could still get in by way of the Eras Committee (formerly known as the Veterans Committee), who recently granted Gil Hodges, Minnie Minoso and Buck O’Neil a spot in Cooperstown long after they

had retired and unfortunately, after they had passed away. The first line on Hernandez’s Hall of Fame resume is defense. This is usually not a great calling card for a first baseman, whose job is primarily on the offensive side. But when you have an argument for being the greatest defender ever at your position like Hernandez does, you should absolutely make sure people know about it. With 11 Gold Gloves, the catlike fielder is one of 13 position players in MLB history to win the award 10 or more times. He’s also the only first baseman to reach double digits and he picked up all of his hardware in order, winning

the National League Gold Glove every year from 1978 to 1988. Don Mattingly is the next closest to Hernandez with nine Gold Gloves, and while Mattingly also failed to get into the Hall of Fame the traditional way, Hernandez has more career hits, walks and Wins Above Replacement (WAR) than Mattingly, while also beating him in on-base percentage and wRC+. Hernandez has other accolades on his side — five All-Star selections, two Silver Sluggers, a pair of World Series rings and a batting title and MVP with the Cardinals in 1979 — but a major part of re-litigating his Hall of Fame case lies in sabermetrics.

“Maybe the analytics will help me,” he pondered. “It’s very interesting.” Indeed it is. According to FanGraphs’ WAR calculations, Hernandez was a better overall player than Tony Perez, Orlando Cepeda and George Sisler. That trio of first basemen are all in the Hall. In his 17-year career, Hernandez also put up more WAR than fellow first baseman Todd Helton, who is trending upward after receiving 44.9% of the vote in 2021. By Weighted Runs Created Plus (wRC+), FanGraphs’ metric for quantifying a player’s total offensive value, the man normally regarded for See HERNANDEZ B3

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Pro basketball NBA Eastern Conference Atlantic W L Pct Brooklyn 26 15 .634 Philadelphia 23 17 .575 Toronto 20 18 .526 Boston 21 21 .500 New York 21 21 .500 Central W L Pct Chicago 27 12 .692 Milwaukee 27 17 .614 Cleveland 24 18 .571 Indiana 15 27 .357 Detroit 9 31 .225 Southeast W L Pct Miami 26 15 .634 Charlotte 23 19 .548 Washington 22 20 .524 Atlanta 17 23 .425 Orlando 7 35 .167 Western Conference Northwest W L Pct Utah 28 14 .667 Denver 20 19 .513 Minnesota 20 22 .476 Portland 16 24 .400 Oklahoma City 14 27 .341 Pacific W L Pct Phoenix 31 9 .775 Golden State 30 11 .732 L.A. Lakers 21 21 .500 L.A. Clippers 21 22 .488 Sacramento 17 27 .386 Southwest W L Pct Memphis 30 14 .682 Dallas 22 19 .537 New Orleans 16 26 .381 San Antonio 15 26 .366 Houston 12 31 .279 Wednesday’s games Boston 119, Indiana 100 Charlotte 109, Philadelphia 98 Washington 112, Orlando 106 Miami 115, Atlanta 91 New York 108, Dallas 85 Houston 128, San Antonio 124 Cleveland 111, Utah 91 Brooklyn 138, Chicago 112 Sacramento 125, L.A. Lakers 116 Thursday’s games Milwaukee 118, Golden State 99 Memphis 116, Minnesota 108 New Orleans 113, L.A. Clippers 89 Oklahoma City 130, Brooklyn 109 Portland at Denver, 10 p.m. Friday’s games Orlando at Charlotte, 7 p.m. Toronto at Detroit, 7 p.m. Phoenix at Indiana, 7 p.m. Boston at Philadelphia, 7 p.m. Golden State at Chicago, 7:30 p.m. Atlanta at Miami, 8 p.m. Cleveland at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m. Dallas at Memphis, 10 p.m. Houston at Sacramento, 10 p.m. Saturday’s games Toronto at Milwaukee, 6:30 p.m. Portland at Washington, 7 p.m. New York at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m. New Orleans at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m. Philadelphia at Miami, 8 p.m. Cleveland at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m. Chicago at Boston, 8:30 p.m. L.A. Clippers at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m. L.A. Lakers at Denver, 9 p.m. Orlando at Dallas, 9:30 p.m. Sunday’s games Phoenix at Detroit, 1 p.m. Houston at Sacramento, 6 p.m. Golden State at Minnesota, 8 p.m. Utah at Denver, 8 p.m.

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Pro hockey NHL Eastern Conference Atlantic Division GP W L OT SO Pts Tampa Bay 39 25 9 2 3 55 Florida 36 24 7 2 3 53 Toronto 35 23 9 2 1 49 Boston 34 21 11 1 1 44 Detroit 38 16 17 4 1 37 Buffalo 36 11 19 5 1 28 Ottawa 29 9 18 2 0 20 Montreal 35 7 24 4 0 18 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT SO Pts Carolina 34 24 8 2 0 50 N.Y. Rangers 37 23 10 3 1 50 Washington 37 20 8 7 2 49 Pittsburgh 35 21 9 1 4 47 Columbus 35 17 17 0 1 35 Philadelphia 36 13 16 4 3 33 New Jersey 37 14 18 1 4 33 N.Y. Islanders 29 11 12 3 3 28 Western Conference Central Division GP W L OT SO Pts Nashville 38 24 12 1 1 50 St. Louis 37 22 10 3 2 49 Colorado 33 22 8 3 0 47 Minnesota 33 21 10 0 2 44 Winnipeg 34 17 12 2 3 39 Dallas 33 18 13 1 1 38 Chicago 36 13 18 5 0 31 Arizona 34 8 23 0 3 19 Pacific Division GP W L OT SO Pts Vegas 39 23 14 1 1 48 Anaheim 39 19 13 4 3 45 Los Angeles 36 18 13 4 1 41 San Jose 37 20 16 0 1 41 Calgary 33 17 10 6 0 40 Edmonton 34 18 14 2 0 38 Vancouver 36 16 17 1 2 35 Seattle 36 10 22 3 1 24 Wednesday’s games Boston 5, Montreal 1 Dallas 5, Seattle 2 Arizona 2, Toronto 1 Minnesota at Edmonton, PPD Thursday’s games Boston 3, Philadelphia 2 Tampa Bay 4, Vancouver 2 Columbus 6, Carolina 0 Winnipeg 3, Detroit 0 N.Y. Islanders 3, New Jersey 2 St. Louis 2, Seattle 1 Buffalo 4, Nashville 1 Montreal at Chicago, 8:30 p.m. Ottawa at Calgary, 9 p.m. Pittsburgh at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m. N.Y. Rangers at San Jose, 10:30 p.m. Friday’s games Dallas at Florida, 7 p.m. Anaheim at Minnesota, 8 p.m. Arizona at Colorado, 9 p.m. Vegas at Edmonton, PPD Saturday’s games Nashville at Boston, 1 p.m. Vancouver at Carolina, 1 p.m. New Jersey at Montreal, PPD Washington at NY Islanders, 2 p.m. Columbus at Florida, 6 p.m. Toronto at St. Louis, 7 p.m. Buffalo at Detroit, 7 p.m. Dallas at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m. NY Rangers at Philadelphia, 7 p.m. Ottawa at Winnipeg, PPD Anaheim at Chicago, 8:30 p.m. Colorado at Arizona, 9 p.m. Ottawa at Edmonton, 10 p.m. Los Angeles at Seattle, 10 p.m. Vegas at Calgary, PPD Pittsburgh at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.

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Pro football NFL PLAYOFFS Wild-card Round Saturday Las Vegas at Cincinnati, 4:30 p.m. (NBC) New England at Buffalo, 8:15 p.m.(CBS) Sunday, Jan. 16 Philadelphia at Tampa Bay, 1:00 p.m. (FOX) San Francisco at Dallas, 4:30 p.m. (CBS) Pittsburgh at Kansas City, 8:15 p.m. (NBC) Monday, Jan. 17 Arizona at L.A. Rams, 8:15 p.m. (ESPN/ABC) Divisional Round Saturday, Jan. 22 and Sunday Jan. 23 NFC lowest remaining seed at Green Bay, TBD AFC lowest remaining seed at Tennessee, TBD Other games TBD Conference Championships Sunday, Jan. 30 AFC Lowest remaining seed at highest remaining seed, 3:05 p.m. (CBS) NFC Lowest remaining seed at highest remaining seed, 6:40 p.m. (FOX) Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 13 At Inglewood, Calif. Conference championship winners, 6:30 p.m. (NBC)

Top 25 roundup: Oregon stuns No. 3 UCLA in OT Field Level Media

Jacob Young scored 19 of his 23 points after halftime to help Oregon record an 84-81 overtime victory over No. 3 UCLA in Pac-12 play on Thursday night in Los Angeles. Will Richardson added 16 points and N’Faly Dante had 12 as the Ducks (10-6, 3-2 Pac-12) won their fourth straight game. Oregon coach Dana Altman recorded his 700th career victory. His 33-year career includes one season at Marshall, four at Kansas State and 16 at Creighton prior to his 12-year tenure with the Ducks. Johnny Juzang notched 23 points and nine rebounds and Jules Bernard added 13 points for UCLA (10-2, 2-1), which had its five-game winning streak snapped. Cody Riley added 11 points for the Bruins. No. 2 Gonzaga 110, BYU 84 Drew Timme scored a game-high 30 points on 13-of14 shooting as the Bulldogs extended the nation’s longest homecourt winning streak to 61 games with a rout of the Cougars in Spokane, Wash. Andrew Nembhard added 22 points and 12 assists for Gonzaga (13-2, 2-0 West Coast Conference). Julian Strawther netted 20 points and Chet Holmgren finished with 12 as the Zags sank an absurd 69.4 percent of their shots, going 11 of 21 on 3-point tries. Alex Barcello scored 19 points to pace BYU (14-4, 2-1). Caleb Lohner added 17, and Te’Jon Lucas chipped in 10. No. 5 USC 81, Oregon State 71 Chevez Goodwin amassed 20 points and 12 rebounds and Drew Peterson added 17 points as the Trojans got back on track by rallying past the Beavers at Los Angeles. Boogie Ellis scored 14 points and Isaiah Mobley had 11 as the Trojans (14-1, 4-1 Pac-12) rebounded from their first loss of the season Tuesday at Stanford. USC held Oregon State scoreless over the final 3:54 after overcoming multiple ninepoint deficits in the first half and a 10-point difference in the second half. Los Angeles-area native Jarod Lucas scored a career-high 27 points and Warith Alatishe added 15 points and eight rebounds for Oregon State (3-12, 1-4). No. 6 Arizona 76, Colorado 55 Four Wildcats scored in double figures as Arizona pulled away in the second half at Tucson, Ariz., to snap the Buffaloes’ five-game winning streak. Arizona (13-1, 3-0 Pac-12) outscored Colorado 44-27 after halftime. The Buffaloes (11-4, 3-2) shot just 32.8 percent for the game. The Wildcats got 14 points each from Azuolas Tubelis and Justin Kier, plus 13 from Bennedict Mathurin and 12 from Pelle Larsson. Colorado’s K.J. Simpson, who signed with the Wildcats last fall but was let out of his letter of intent after Arizona fired coach Sean Miller in the spring, scored a careerhigh 17 points. No. 13 Wisconsin 78, No. 16 Ohio State 68 Brad Davison scored 25 points as the Badgers won their sixth game in a row, beating the Buckeyes in Madison, Wis. Tyler Wahl had 20 points and Johnny Davis added 14 points and nine rebounds for the Badgers (14-2, 5-1 Big Ten), who last lost on Dec. 11 at Ohio State. E.J. Liddell led the Buckeyes (10-4, 4-2) with 18 points, 14 in the second half before fouling out with 3:18 left and the Buckeyes down by 17. No. 19 Texas Tech 78, Oklahoma State 57 The 19th-ranked Red Raiders jumped to an early lead and rolled past the Cowboys in Lubbock, Texas. Kevin Obanor led the Red Raiders (13-3, 3-1 Big 12) with 17 points. Adonis Arms scored 13, Davion Warren 12, Bryson Williams 11 and Marcus Santos-Silva recorded 10 points and 10 rebounds. Bryce Thompson’s 14 points paced Oklahoma State (8-7, 1-3), which shot an abysmal 32.1 percent (18 of 56). DePaul 96, No. 20 Seton Hall 92 Jalen Terry scored 28 points and David Jones added 24 as the Blue Demons never trailed and held off a furious comeback by the Pirates for an upset victory in a Big East game in Chicago. Javon Freeman-Liberty, who entered Thursday leading DePaul (10-6, 1-5 Big East) with 21.7 points per game, scored 12 and played only 23 minutes because of an apparent leg injury suffered during the second half after he crashed into a media table chasing a loose ball. Yor Anei added 11 points for the winners. Jared Rhoden had 25 points to lead Seton Hall (11-4, 2-3), which shot 5-for-18 (27.8 percent) from 3-point range. Bryce Aiken scored 22 points, Kadary Richmond had 11 and Tray Jackson added 10.

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New York Rangers goaltender Igor Shesterkin (31) defends the goal during the second period against the San Jose Sharks at SAP Center at San Jose on Thursday.

NHL roundup: Shesterkin, Rangers blank Sharks Field Level Media

Goaltender Igor Shesterkin returned from COVID-19 protocol to make 37 saves as New York defeated host San Jose, 3-0, on Thursday. Chris Kreider scored twice, including an empty-netter, and Braden Schneider also tallied in his NHL debut for New York. Kreider, who ranks second in the NHL with 12 power-play goals this season, scored the first short-handed marker of his 10-year career. Adin Hill stopped 28 of 30 shots for the Sharks, who had a three-game winning streak snapped. Sabres 4, Predators 1 Jeff Skinner scored twice and visiting Buffalo snapped a sixgame losing streak by beating Nashville. Mark Jankowski and Vinnie Hinostroza also scored for Buffalo, which was 0-4-2 during its skid. Aaron Dell made 29 saves for his first win of the season (15-0). Matt Duchene scored and Juuse Saros made 17 saves for the Predators, whose five-game winning streak came to an end. Islanders 3, Devils 2 Mathew Barzal scored the winning goal with 4:53 left for host New York, which returned to action after a 12-day pause and beat New Jersey in Elmont. Josh Bailey and Adam Pelech also scored for the Islanders, who have won three straight and are 6-2-1 since snapping an 11-game losing streak Dec. 7. Ilya Sorokin made 30 saves for New York. Bruins 3, Flyers 2 David Pastrnak recorded his 11th career hat trick to punctuate the highly anticipated return of goaltender Tuukka Rask as the Boston Bruins held off the visiting Philadelphia Flyers 3-2 on Thursday night. Rask made 25 saves in his first game since Game 6 of the Bruins’ second-round playoff series against the New York Islanders on June 9, 2021. The 34-year-old goaltender underwent offseason hip surgery and signed a one-year, $1 million deal to rejoin the Bruins on Tuesday. Boston earned its

season-high fourth straight victory and improved to 7-1-0 since resuming play after the leaguewide pandemic schedule pause. Cam Atkinson scored his team-leading 15th goal and Joel Farabee netted his 11th for the Flyers. Carter Hart stopped 33 of 36 shots for Philadelphia, which took its sixth consecutive defeat (0-4-2). Kings 6, Penguins 2 Mikey Anderson, Viktor Arvidsson and Anze Kopitar scored 1:23 apart in the third period to help Los Angeles beat visiting Pittsburgh. Kopitar finished with two goals and an assist, Sean Durzi had a goal and two assists, Dustin Brown had a goal and assist, and Jonathan Quick made 27 saves for the Kings, who have won five of six. Alex Iafallo and Trevor Moore added two assists apiece. Kris Letang and Radim Zohorna scored while Tristan Jarry made 39 saves for the Penguins, who had won 11 of 12. Jets 3, Red Wings 0 Connor Hellebuyck made 33 saves and Andrew Copp scored two goals to lead Winnipeg over Detroit. Hellebuyck recorded his second shutout of the season for Winnipeg, which was playing its first game in a week after games against the Seattle Kraken and Minnesota Wild were postponed because of COVID-19 concerns. Lightning 4, Canucks 2 Steven Stamkos scored a historic power-play goal as Tampa Bay defeated visiting Vancouver. In the opening period, Stamkos delivered his 173rd career power-play goal, tying him with Jean Beliveau and Ray Bourque for 30th on the NHL’s all-time list of goal scorers on the man advantage. Anthony Cirelli, Boris Katchouk and Brayden Point added goals and Andrei Vasilevskiy made 24 saves as Tampa Bay won for the eighth time in 12 games (8-3-1). Vancouver’s Tyler Motte and Matthew Highmore each notched a goal and an assist, but the visitors were 0-for-4 on the power play after failing on all three against Florida on

Tuesday. Senators 4, Flames 1 Nick Paul scored twice and goalie Matt Murray won for the first time this season as visiting Ottawa beat slumping Calgary. Connor Brown collected one goal and one assist and Drake Batherson tallied once for the Senators, who snapped a threegame skid in their first game since New Year’s Day. Murray, who lost his first six starts of the season, made 27 saves. Alex Formenton collected two assists. Matthew Tkachuk scored for Calgary, which has lost four straight games and has just two wins in 10 outings. Goalie Jacob Markstrom, who has surrendered four or more goals in four of his past five outings, stopped 30 shots. Blackhawks 3, Canadiens 2 (OT) Philipp Kurashev scored at 2:24 of overtime to give Chicago a victory over visiting Montreal. It was the third goal of the season for Kurashev, who deflected in Brandon Hagel’s pass as he was sent crashing into the goal by Montreal’s Mike Hoffman. Patrick Kane and Dominik Kubalik also scored for Chicago, which won its third straight game. Erik Gustafsson logged two assists, and Marc-Andre Fleury finished with 27 saves for the victory. Blue Jackets 6, Hurricanes 0 Yegor Chinakhov scored two goals and this time Columbus finished strong for a shutout victory against Carolina in Raleigh, N.C. Elvis Merzlikins made 31 saves for his second shutout of the season. Emil Bemstrom, Patrik Laine, Cole Sillinger and Jack Roslovic also scored for the Blue Jackets. Eric Robinson and Jake Bean picked up two assists apiece, and Roslovic added a helper. Blues 2, Kraken 1 Pavel Buchnevich scored the decisive goal in the third period as St. Louis rallied past Seattle to extend its home point streak to 13 games. Robert Thomas also scored and Ville Husso made 31 saves for the Blues, who are 12-0-1 in their past 13 home games.

NBA roundup: Grizzlies get by Wolves for 11th straight win Field Level Media

Desmond Bane scored 21 points and Jaren Jackson Jr. added 20 points and five blocks to lift the surging Memphis Grizzlies to a 116-108 victory over the visiting Minnesota Timberwolves on Thursday. John Konchar collected 15 points and 17 rebounds and Brandon Clarke added 14 and eight as the Grizzlies extended their franchise-best winning streak to 11 games. Memphis, which has won 21 of its last 25 games, also avenged a 138-95 shellacking at the hands of Minnesota on Nov. 20. Ja Morant recorded 16 points, nine assists and eight rebounds despite nursing an apparent back injury. He left the contest after committing his third foul late in the second quarter, but he returned to start the third. Anthony Edwards scored 30 points and D’Angelo Russell made six 3-pointers to highlight his 29-point performance

for the Timberwolves, who have dropped two in a row. Thunder 130, Nets 109 Shai Gilgeous-Alexander totaled 33 points, 10 rebounds and nine assists as Oklahoma City snapped a five-game losing streak by routing host Brooklyn. Gilgeous-Alexander made 11 of 18 shots and notched his second straight game with 30 points. Luguentz Dort added 27 points and hit six of Oklahoma City’s season-best 20 3-pointers. Rookie Josh Giddey added 19 points as the Thunder shot a season-best 51.6 percent and also set season highs for points, firstquarter points (38) and first-half points (70). James Harden paced the Nets with 26 points, nine assists and seven rebounds. Rookie Cam Thomas added 21 points as the Nets lost for the sixth time in seven home games.

Nuggets 140, Trail Blazers 108 Will Barton scored 21 points and Nikola Jokic had 20 points, eight rebounds and seven assists as host Denver pounded Portland. Jeff Green scored 19 points, Facundo Campazzo had 18 points and 12 assists, Bones Hyland added 17 points and Zeke Nnaji amassed 16 points and nine rebounds for Denver, which recorded season highs in points and 3-pointers (21). Barton left with a neck strain in the third quarter. Bucks 118, Warriors 99 Giannis Antetokounmpo notched his third triple-double of the season as Milwaukee blew out visiting Golden State to snap a two-game losing streak. The five-time All-Star produced 30 points, 12 rebounds and 11 assists and shot 11 of 17 to lift Milwaukee to just its

second win in six games. Khris Middleton hit five 3-pointers and added 23 points, Bobby Portis chipped in 20 points and seven rebounds and Grayson Allen scored 15. Pelicans 113, Clippers 89 Jonas Valanciunas had a double-double and five teammates scored in double figures as host New Orleans never trailed during a rout of Los Angeles. Valanciunas finished with 18 points and 16 rebounds, Brandon Ingram scored a game-high 24 points, Herbert Jones added 14, Jaxson Hayes and Devonte’ Graham had 13 each and Josh Hart scored 12. Terance Mann scored 15 points, and Marcus Morris Sr. added 12 as the only Clippers starter to score in double figures. Serge Ibaka, Brandon Boston Jr. and Xavier Moon tallied 10 points each.

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Bills host rival Patriots in rare AFC East playoff meeting Field Level Media

A rare third meeting between Buffalo and New England will settle the score between the two AFC East rivals as the third-seeded Bills host the sixth-seeded Patriots in an AFC wild-card matchup on Saturday night in Orchard Park, N.Y. After splitting their two regular season meetings, the Bills and Patriots are set to meet in the playoffs for the first time since Dec. 28, 1963. Back then, a Boston Patriots team overcame the Bills 26-8 at War Memorial Stadium in Buffalo in a divisional round matchup. “Playing at home in the divisional round against our division rival – a team that’s been the standard for long-term success in the NFL for the last 25, 30 years – it’s going to be a great challenge,” Bills quarterback Josh Allen said. “It’s going to be another dogfight.” New England has dominated the all-times series with Buffalo, posting a 77-46-1 record. In Buffalo, the Patriots are 3823-1 and have gone 31-17 at the Bills’ current venue of Highmark Stadium. However, the departure of Patriots star quarterback Tom Brady has opened a window for the Bills. Buffalo ended New England’s 11-year reign as AFC East champions one year

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Buffalo Bills running back Devin Singletary (26) drives the ball against the New England Patriots in the second half at Gillette Stadium on Dec. 26.

ago as the Patriots finished 7-9 in their first season without Brady. This year, a revamped New

England team bounced back to make the playoffs for the 12th time in 13 seasons after finishing 10-7.

Yet even finding Brady’s successor in former Alabama champion quarterback Mac Jones and a nearly $200 million

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his glove is also a better hitter than some titans of the game. At 131 wRC+, Hernandez created 31% more runs than the average hitter during his career. That’s a better number than Eddie Murray (127), Pete Rose (121) and Ernie Banks (118). Since MLB’s integration in 1947, Hernandez is the league’s 20th-best first baseman by WAR. Aside from Rose, players linked to performance-enhancing drugs, and active players who aren’t eligible yet, Joe Torre, Dick Allen and Darrell Evans are the only players from that top 20 list who are still on the outside looking in. First base was not the primary position for Torre or Evans, though, and Allen played a lot of third base and left field too. As far as pure first basemen go, Hernandez is arguably the best, non-steroid tarnished one who doesn’t have a plaque already. There are also more traditional numbers and awards on his side. He’s got 2,182 career hits, a .265 average and .370 on-base percentage in 30 postseason games, and a special honor that

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very few other guys can claim. “Not too many players who are in two team Hall of Fames,” Hernandez pointed out, referencing his status as both a Mets and Cardinals Hall of Famer. There’s also his peak, something that Hall of

overall pick of the 2020 draft by the Ottawa Senators. The only player on the 25man roster who suited up for Team USA at the 2018 Winter Olympics is forward Brian O’Neill, who plays in the KHL in Russia. Five Team USA

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Fame voters love to look at in determining just how good a player was at their very best. From 1979-1986, Hernandez hit .313 with a prodigious .403 on-base percentage. He averaged 34 doubles per season during that eight-year span and ran an .859 OPS and 142 wRC+, all while will be coached by former New York Rangers and Boston University coach David Quinn. Team USA roster: Forwards (14) Nick Abruzzese, Kenny Agostino, Matty

Buffalo ended the regular season with four consecutive victories while New England limped to the finish line with three losses in its final four contests. “Regardless of what level you’re playing on, you understand what’s at stake (in the playoffs),” Jones said. “We know the Bills are a really good team, they have a great defense – top in the league – and we understand that they have great players.” On the heels of its first AFC East title since 1995 last season, Buffalo forged a deep playoff run with a narrow win over Indianapolis in the wild-card round and a statement victory against Baltimore in the divisional round before ultimately falling short at Kansas City in the AFC Championship Game. This season, the Patriots and Bills each took different routes to winning on the others’ home field. On Dec. 6, New England used an unorthodox and weather-altered game plan to win at Buffalo 14-10 in snowy and windy conditions. Jones attempted a franchise-recordlow three passes and totaled 19 yards as Damien Harris’ 111 rushing yards paced the Patriots’ powerful run game to a victory.

having the best glove of any first baseman in the world. The left-handed hitter with the slick swing and even slicker mustache also walked more than he struck out, something that modern thinking may give more credence to. In each year of his prolific peak, Hernandez drew a walk in at least 11% of his plate appearances, leading to a better career walk rate than Albert Pujols and Willie Stargell, and a higher on-base percentage than Harmon Killebrew and Willie McCovey. The knock against Hernandez will be that he didn’t hit for enough power. This is true. He never hit more than 18 homers in a season and only slugged .436 for his career. But he can make up for that by arguably being the best fielder ever at first base. How far that goes in the eyes of the committee -- in this instance, the Modern Baseball Committee, which considers retired players whose greatest achievements happened from 1970 to 1987 -- is yet to be determined. One thing is unassailable, though. Keith Hernandez was a hell of a baseball player. His postplaying days have brought him fame for his media prowess, but if that’s his lasting legacy, it will greatly ignore just how special he was on the field.

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MLB put a new proposal on the table in labor talks — How the players respond will be telling Chelsea Janes The Washington Post

For the first time since the owners locked out the players in early December, representatives for Major League Baseball offered a new proposal Thursday to its players union as the sides negotiate a new collective bargaining agreement. No one involved expected an hour or so on a Zoom call to result in an agreement. Both sides entered hopeful, however, that MLB’s latest proposal for changes to the game’s economic structure could create some momentum. But MLB’s proposal, made on behalf of its 30 club owners, was met with disappointment from the players’ union, according to multiple people involved in the negotiations who declined to provide full details of the offer. The extent of that disappointment will be critical to what happens next. The pivotal question entering Thursday’s meeting, according to multiple people who planned to be a part of it, was not what would be in the proposal. Instead, it was how the players would interpret the offer - as a genuine effort to bridge gaps or a cursory shift - and whether they would see fit to quickly counter. Early indications Thursday afternoon offered no clarity. No further talks are scheduled, and the union has yet to decide how, when, or even if it will counter, according to multiple people familiar with those discussions. For months, MLB has maintained that it has made concessions to the players - things such as removing draft pick compensation for teams that lose their own free agents (players believe that limits options in free agency) and adding a draft lottery to prevent teams from tanking. MLB views these as major concessions; the union does not. The players believe MLB is nibbling at the edges of change with proposals such as those and are instead pursuing larger issues, such as reducing the time before players hit free agency or cutting revenuesharing to prevent losing teams from earning money without spending it. In a fitting representation of the size of the gap between the sides, MLB offered to raise the luxury tax threshold from $210 million to $214 million, a shift it believes is commensurate with historical norms (the previous CBA included annual raises of about $2 million to $3 million). The union sees historical precedent as somewhat irrelevant and wants a threshold of $245 million, according to people familiar with the negotiations. MLB’s proposal Thursday centered on three of

the union’s long-stated goals for the next CBA: paying younger players more, addressing recidivist losing and eliminating service time manipulation. According to people familiar with the proposal, it included more money for players with two-plus years of service time, a modified draft lottery so teams cannot try to lose their way to the first overall pick and a system by which teams that call up elite prospects for full seasons would be rewarded with draft picks. From MLB’s perspective, those changes, on top of the ones already offered, are good-faith efforts to move toward a deal. But to the union, those changes do not go far enough. According to people familiar with their thinking, the players see a three-team draft lottery as a minimal change, one that won’t necessarily motivate, say, the Baltimore Orioles to win more simply because they won’t be guaranteed the No. 1 pick if they don’t. They would like a draft that rewards small-market teams for extra wins and a lottery that includes more teams to increase the risk that an annual loser would not only not get one of the first few picks but also could fall as far as seventh or eighth. Similarly, multiple people familiar with the union’s position are skeptical that draft pick compensation would be motivation enough to prevent teams from manipulating service time. Whether the union views MLB’s offer as a genuine step in the right direction and worth countering with a proposal of its own remains to be seen. But MLB has made clear that the onus is now on the union to spur the next phase of negotiations. And with spring training scheduled to start in about a month, time is running out. Another complicating factor - should a deal get done - would be getting the sides to agree on new coronavirus protocols ahead of spring training. The transaction window will have to be reopened, and teams will need at least a week or two to sign remaining free agents and craft rosters that were, at most, halfway complete when the lockout began. All of that means the sides probably have about two weeks to agree to a new CBA before spring training is delayed. If spring training is delayed, an on-time Opening Day might be in peril, too: Pitchers, particularly starting pitchers, generally need several weeks to build up stamina ahead of the regular season. Spring training can only be cut short so far before the season would need to be pushed back, too.

Joe Manniello’s NFL wild-card round playoff picks Joe Manniello Newsday

Newsday’s Joe Manniello makes his NFL picks for wildcard weekend: SATURDAY’S GAMES LAS VEGAS (10-7) AT CINCINNATI (10-7) TV: NBC, 4:30 p.m. Cincinnati by 4.5; O/U: 49 Ah, nothing says wild-card weekend like the Bengals being in the 4:30 window on Saturday. But it’s Joe Burrow and Zac Taylor, not Andy Dalton and Marvin Lewis, and the QB/coach combo, along with breakout rookie receiver Ja’Marr Chase, have the franchise on the verge of its first playoff win since the 1990 season. Still, nerves will be a factor early on for a young team like Cincinnati. The Raiders enter on a four-game winning streak that included an epic 35-32 OT win over the Chargers in the NFL’s regular-season finale. Derek Carr has a bad track record in coldweather games, and I see Vegas’ luck running out against a Bengals team that already beat them this season. But the resilient Raiders will keep this close enough to cover. The pick: Las Vegas The score: Cincinnati 24, Las Vegas 20 NEW ENGLAND (10-7) AT BUFFALO (11-6) TV: CBS, 8:15 p.m. Buffalo by 4; O/U: 44 The temperature is going to be in the single digits, but if the winds aren’t out of control like the teams’ first meeting in Buffalo, the Bills should be fine. You remember that game, right? The Patriots won, 14-10, on MNF and did it with Mac Jones attempting only three passes. The Bills got a little payback three weeks later with a 33-21 win at New England. It was their best win of the season, catapulted them to the AFC East title and all signs point to them handling business at home this time. Jones had a solid rookie season, leading the Pats on a sevengame win streak to get from 2-4 to 9-4, but they stumbled down the stretch with three losses in four games. Jones going up against the NFL’s top pass defense in his first playoff start isn’t a good matchup. Josh Allen will outplay him again to set up a rematch at Kansas City.

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Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady motions to the bench in the third quarter against the Philadelphia Eagles at Lincoln Financial Field on Oct. 14 in Philadelphia.

The pick: Buffalo The score: Buffalo 27, New England 17 SUNDAY’S GAMES PHILADELPHIA (9-8) AT TAMPA BAY (13-4) TV: Fox, 1 p.m. Tampa Bay by 8.5; O/U: 46 With the spread being over a touchdown but under 10, it’s a tricky one. Do you just lay the points with the team you’re confident will win in the Bucs? Or take a shot with an underdog from Philly (hey, that script sounds familiar) that is playing with house money and doesn’t need to win for you to win? The safer play is to back Tom Brady and Tampa Bay, which went 7-1 at home. The Bucs also won at Philadelphia, a misleading 2822 final after they dominated in taking a 28-7 lead. The Eagles went 0-6 against playoff teams. They’re a run-first team, but the Bucs’ defense ranked third against the run. This is a bad matchup for the Eagles. The pick: Tampa Bay The score: Tampa Bay 34, Philadelphia 23 GAME OF THE WEEK SAN FRANCISCO (10-7) AT DALLAS (12-5) TV: CBS, Nickelodeon, Amazon Prime 4:30 p.m. Dallas by 3; O/U: 51 I double dare you not to watch this game on Nickelodeon, which last year made its NFL playoff debut and it was a fun slime had by all. This should be

an entertaining game, a rivalry renewed from “The Catch” to those classic playoff matchups in the ‘90s. Dak Prescott and Dallas had a great bounce-back season, but this is a tough draw for the Cowboys, who have struggled against the run and now face one of the best rushing teams in the NFL. The Cowboys went 6-0 against the NFC East but just 6-5 against other teams. The 49ers have the makings of a team that sneaks into the playoffs and then makes a deep run. They rallied from 170 down on the road to beat the Rams in overtime last week, a remarkable comeback with their season on the line. Dualthreat Deebo Samuel and tight end George Kittle will be tough for Dallas to stop. This will be a close, competitive game, but the matchup favors the 49ers and they’ll ride the momentum from Week 18. The pick: San Francisco The score: San Francisco 27, Dallas 24 LOCK OF THE WEEK PITTSBURGH (9-7-1) AT KANSAS CITY (12-5) TV: NBC, 8:15 p.m. Kansas City by 12.5; O/U: 46.5 This is the one game where you don’t have to think twice. Sure, it’s a big spread, but there’s a reason for that. Kansas City just demolished Pittsburgh, 36-10, in Week 16 at Arrowhead, and that was without

Travis Kelce. Patrick Mahomes and all his weapons will be too much again. The Steelers topped 24 points just five times all season, and they’ll probably need to score in the 20-24 range to cover. Ben Roethlisberger may wish his retirement started a week earlier. The pick: Kansas City The score: Kansas City 34, Pittsburgh 17 MONDAY NIGHT ARIZONA (11-6) AT LA RAMS (12-5) TV: ESPN, ABC, ESPN2, 8:15 p.m. L.A. Rams by 3.5; O/U: 49.5 This three-match is a tossup after each team won at the other’s building. It’s hard to believe either team will dominate, so taking the points is the smart play. Both enter off a defeat, with the Rams earning the NFC West title thanks to the Cardinals’ loss. Sean McVay is 9-1 against Arizona, the one loss in Week 4 when Kyler Murray & Co. dominated at L.A. The Cards are 4-6 after a 7-0 start, but they excelled on the road: 8-1 straight up and against the spread. The Rams were my preseason pick to win it all, but there’s a ton of pressure for an all-in team like them to win now. Matthew Stafford is 0-3 in the playoffs. Will this be the year? Like I said, it’s a toss-up. The pick: Arizona The score: Arizona 27, L.A. Rams 24 (OT)

NASCAR driver Brandon Brown wants to change the meaning of ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ Alex Andrejev The Charlotte Observer

Brandon Brown posted a statement on social media Thursday evening with the intention to “clear the air on some things” regarding a controversial sponsor rollout for the 2022 NASCAR season. Brown is the driver at the center of a political and cultural clash playing out in the NASCAR world, as his name inspired the viral right-wing “Let’s Go Brandon” chant that’s covert criticism of President Joe Biden. In a lengthy, four paragraph statement Brown posted on Twitter, he dispelled the notion that sponsors dropped him after his Xfinity win at Talladega last year and subsequent events that thrust him into the national spotlight. (The “Let’s Go Brandon” chant originated following the race when a reporter suggested on-air that fans were cheering for Brown, although the crowd was actually chanting “F--- Joe Biden.”) He also said that he aimed to make a version of the phrase, LGB, “positive and constructive” and “not divisive.” “For me, a big goal was and still is to

change the narrative of what LGB means,” Brown’s statement read. “I would like it to become a constructive voice for those like myself, who land somewhere in the middle and have views that align with both sides. I want it to become something positive and constructive, not divisive.” Brown said that he had no sponsorship deals lined up heading into the 2022 season because the contracts had not been crafted rather than previous sponsors shying away in the wake of the rise of “Let’s Go Brandon.” In his statement, he also addressed why he more recently chose to partner with LGBcoin, a cryptocurrency company whose first three letters reference the slogan and aim to capitalize on its popularity. NASCAR last week formally denied a request by Brown’s Brandonbilt Motorsports team to feature the sponsor on its car as its primary partner for the full 2022 season. Brown, in turned, signed a personal endorsement deal with LGBcoin that includes his “participation in publicity events, videos, crypto conferences, racing-related events and more, though won’t include car decals.”

“For anyone that knew how close we came to closing our doors at the beginning of the 2021 season, this was an opportunity of a lifetime,” Brown wrote of LGBcoin’s “dream come true offer.” “The partnership opportunity that LGBcoin.io has provided myself and BMS now gives us the capitol to expand our organization, better our equipment, centralize our organization to one race shop located in the heart of motorsports, and relieve the worry that many of us have asked from time to time, which is, ‘Are we all going to be employed for the whole season.’” In the final paragraph, Brown offered an apology to his team’s past and present partners. “I would like to apologize and accept responsibility for the way this off season’s transition (has) been handled. I’ve been overwhelmed with every emotion possible throughout the month of December and my neglect to properly inform each of you of our 2022 plans is inexcusable.” Brown thanked those same sponsors in the final lines of his statement.

First-timers dominate NHL All-Star Game rosters Field Level Media

The NHL All-Star Game on Feb. 5 will be a celebration of the next generation after 18 of the 36 players named to represent their respective divisions by the league’s hockey operations department were chosen for the showcase contest for the first time. The midseason game at Las Vegas still will have its fair share of star power among the four captains

selected by fan vote. Selected to head their squads were the Washington Capitals’ Alex Ovechkin (Metropolitan Division), the Toronto Maple Leafs’ Auston Matthews (Atlantic), the Colorado Avalanche’s Nathan MacKinnon (Central) and the Edmonton Oilers’ Connor McDavid (Pacific). Players not selected All Stars included the Pittsburgh Penguins’ Sidney Crosby, the Boston Bruins’

Brad Marchand, the Maple Leafs’ Williams Nylander, the Nashville Predators’ Matt Duchene, the New York Rangers’ Artemi Panarin and the St. Louis Blues’ Vladimir Tarasenko. Ovechkin, who is tied for second in the NHL with 24 goals, was named to the All-Star Game for the 12th time. McDavid, who is tied for the NHL points lead with teammate Leon Draisaitl, was named for the

fifth time. Matthews and MacKinnon will participate for the fourth time each. “Obviously, it’s a privilege,” Ovechkin said. “It doesn’t matter if you are voted by the fans or the league selects you. It’s a privilege. It’s representing your team, yourself and, obviously, have fun with the best players out there on the ice. It’s a pretty cool moment.” First-time participants on the

Metropolitan roster: forward Jack Hughes of the New Jersey Devils and defensemen Adam Fox of the New York Rangers and Adam Pelech of the New York Islanders. First-timers on the Atlantic squad: forwards Drake Batherson of the Ottawa Senators and Nick Suzuki of the Montreal Canadiens, defenseman Rasmus Dahlin of the Buffalo Sabres and goalie Jack Campbell of the Toronto Maple Leafs.

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2022 NFL mock draft: Giants pick edge rusher, offensive lineman in top 10 Eddie Brown The San Diego Union-Tribune Draft season has arrived for the 18 NFL teams who will not be participating in the postseason and another college football campaign is in the books after Georgia earned its first national championship since 1980. Players with remaining eligibility have until January 17 to make their draft intentions official. After that, we have the college all-star games (most notably the Senior Bowl), the NFL combine, NFL free agency, college pro days and medical evaluations before we kickoff the draft in Las Vegas on April 28. Part of my weekly mock preamble explains it is an attempt at figuring out the best players available in this season’s draft class, and which teams they’d match up well with considering the draft order courtesy of NFL.com. The closer we get to draft day, the more I attempt to match what teams will actually do with their draft picks as opposed to what I believe they should do. Last season, I was the fourth most accurate NFL draft prognosticator in print according to The Huddle Report. I’m tied for seventh overall (out of 133) over the past five years. The NFL draft has become a nice appetizer before our main course in September. A mock version of said draft is meant to educate, and even entertain. At very least, it helps you pass the time. Follow me on Twitter UTEddieBrown so we can continue the conversation. Here’s an updated version of my 2022 NFL mock draft: FIRST ROUND 1. Jacksonville (3-14) -- Kayvon Thibodeaux, Edge, Oregon, So. Before drafting Trevor Lawrence, the Jaguars selected an edge rusher in back-to-back drafts -K’Lavon Chaisson and Josh Allen -- so auctioning the first pick off would make sense considering all of the holes on this roster. Until we have more clarity, the Jags get Thibodeaux. He is a top-tier athlete who wins with speed and has shown surprising coverage versatility. His ceiling is massively high, but it might take a few years for his technique and toolbox to catch up to his talent. Top needs: Edge, WR, DB 2. Detroit (3-13-1) -- Aidan Hutchinson, Edge, Michigan, Sr. The Lions have been near the bottom of the league in sacks and QB pressure rate the last three seasons, so I expect them to select whomever is available between Hutchinson and Thibodeaux. Top needs: QB, WR, DB 3. Houston (4-13) -- Evan Neal, T, Alabama, Jr. NFL teams usually can’t help themselves when it comes to the quarterback position, but this is too high for a signal-caller in this draft class. Thankfully for the Texans, every position is one of need. Neal is a physical specimen (6-foot-7, 350 pounds) who has improved every season in Tuscaloosa and thrived at both left and right tackle. Top needs: QB, WR, OL 4. N.Y. Jets (4-13) -- Kyle Hamilton, S, Notre Dame, Jr. There’s been only one safety chosen with a topfive pick since 1992 (Sean Taylor in 2004). Hamilton exceeded high expectations before suffering a minor knee injury. At 6-foot-4, 220 pounds, the hybrid playmaker combines the versatility of Isaiah Simmons with instincts that are reminiscent of Hall of Famer Ed Reed. Top needs: Edge, DB, LB 5. N.Y. Giants (4-13) -- George Karlaftis, Edge, Purdue, Jr. Passing on Micah Parsons could haunt the GMen for years. Karlaftis has been one of the most consistent pass rushers in the nation during his three seasons in West Lafayette. His inside-outside versatility, overwhelming power and special athleticism could make him a star at the next level. Top needs: OL, Edge, LB 6. Carolina (5-12) -- Kenny Pickett, QB, Pittsburgh, Sr. Matt Rhule recruited Pickett while he was head coach of Temple and actually got him to commit before a bigger program was able to lure him away. This time the Heisman finalist won’t have the final say if the Panthers can’t land Deshaun Watson or Aaron Rodgers this offseason. Pickett is most dangerous outside of the pocket when he goes off script. He has good size, overall athleticism and solid arm talent, but needs to work on his anticipation throws and his comfort within the pocket. Top needs: QB, OL, LB 7. N.Y. Giants from Chicago (6-11) -- Ikem Ekwonu, T, NC State, So. The Giants need to add toughness and

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Kayvon Thibodeaux (5) of the Oregon Ducks rushes against Joshua Gray (67) of the Oregon State Beavers at Autzen Stadium on Nov. 27 in Eugene, Oregon.

athleticism to their offense and Ekwonu was the most dominant run-blocking tackle in the country this season -- it really wasn’t close. I envision him thriving at tackle or guard in the NFL. Top needs: OL, Edge, LB 8. Atlanta (7-10) -- David Ojabo, Edge, Michigan, Jr. The Falcons have the fewest sacks in the NFL since the beginning of the 2019 season. After playing only 26 snaps for the Wolverines before his junior year, Ojabo has been a revelation this season with 11 sacks and five forced fumbles. A successful showing at the combine could help him crack the top 10. Top needs: WR, Edge, DB 9. Denver (7-10) -- Matt Corral, QB, Mississippi, Jr. I expect the Broncos to make a push for Aaron Rodgers, but if the presumed MVP remains in Green Bay, a quarterback has to be the top priority. Corral is slightly undersized, but he’s a NFLcaliber playmaker with genuine arm talent. His X-rays were negative after he injured his ankle in a loss to Baylor in the Sugar Bowl. Top needs: QB, Edge, LB 10. N.Y. Jets from Seattle (7-10) -- Derek Stingley Jr., CB, LSU, Jr. The Jets haven’t had a cornerback in the Pro Bowl since Darrelle Revis in 2015. Stingley features rare ball-tracking skills that make him a threat to take the ball away anytime it’s in his vicinity. As an 18-year-old, he produced one of the most impressive true freshman seasons in college football history in 2019. Durability has been a concern ever since. Top needs: Edge, DB, LB 11. Washington (7-10) -- Garrett Wilson, WR, Ohio St., Jr. The Team That Shall Be Named in February could lose some significant contributors to its offensive line in free agency, but there’s no bigger need than who will be handling the snaps. Unfortunately, the top two quarterback prospects are already off the board. Wilson’s ability to threaten a defense at every level would pair nicely with Terry McLaurin. Top needs: QB, WR, DB 12. Minnesota (8-9) -- Ahmad Gardner, CB, Cincinnati, Jr. Patrick Peterson and Bashaud Breeland were only signed to one-year deals and neither played well enough to be asked back -- Breeland was released in-season. Gardner made it through the playoff loss to Alabama unscathed. He finished his collegiate career with 1,100-plus snaps with nine interceptions and zero touchdowns allowed. Top needs: CB, G, Edge 13. Cleveland (8-9) -- Devin Lloyd, LB, Utah, Jr. Linebacker will be a priority once again if the Browns lose Anthony Walker and Malcolm Smith in free agency. Lloyd can rush the passer (he had eight sacks), impact the run game and make plays in coverage -- he had four interceptions this season. Top needs: WR, DL, Edge 14. Baltimore (8-9) -- Charles Cross, T, Mississippi St., So. You might want to constantly replenish the talent on your offensive line if running the football is your team’s identity. Cross is a powerful blocker who can do damage at the second level in the run game with premium athleticism and his targetlock awareness. He developed into a dominant pass protector this season and could end up cracking the top 10 in April. Top needs: OL, CB, LB

15. Philadelphia from Miami (9-8) -- Drake London, WR, USC, Jr. Drafting Jalen Reagor over Justin Jefferson remains a mystery to me. London led the nation in contested catches with 19 and he only played eight games after his season ended with a broken ankle. His size, athleticism, route-running and flair for the spectacular catch will make him a problem for defensive coordinators in the NFL. He’d pair nicely with DeVonta Smith and go along way in correcting the Reagor mistake. Top needs: WR, S, LB 16. Philadelphia from Indianapolis (9-8) -- Nakobe Dean, LB, Georgia, Jr. It wasn’t long ago that the Eagles had three of the top 14 picks. It’s been quite the turnaround, but no thanks to the front-seven. The Butkus Award winner is a dynamic blitzer who is capable of making plays all over the field. Top needs: WR, S, LB 17. L.A. Chargers (9-8) -- Jordan Davis, DL, Georgia, Sr. Only the Texans and Steelers have allowed more rushing yards per game this season. At 6-foot-6, 340 pounds, the Outland and Bednarik trophy winner is an immovable object who could anchor the Chargers’ run defense for years to come. Top needs: DL, WR, Edge 18. New Orleans (9-8) -- Jameson Williams, WR, Alabama, Jr. The Saints are either drafting a quarterback or wide receiver in the first round. Williams is a home run hitter with game-breaking speed. He’s also a weapon on special teams, as a returner -- he returned two kicks for touchdowns in 2021 -- and in coverage. The dynamic receiver injured his left knee against Georgia, but still grades out as a firstrounder if his rehabilitation is on schedule come April. Top needs: QB, WR, S 19. Philadelphia (9-8) -- Jaquan Brisker, S, Penn St., Sr. Safeties Rodney McLeod and Anthony Harris have alternated between mediocre and bad this season. Both will be free agents. Brisker is a polished, physical playmaker with few holes in his game. Top needs: WR, S, LB 20. Pittsburgh (9-7-1) -- Sam Howell, QB, North Carolina, Jr. Ben Roethlisberger will likely call it quits at the end of this season. Howell possesses impressive arm talent and proved he is a legitimate threat as a runner this season despite failing to meet big expectations. He also recently accepted an invitation to play in the Senior Bowl. His performance in Mobile will impact his draft stock significantly. Top needs: QB, CB, T 21. Cincinnati (10-7) -- Tyler Linderbaum, OL, Iowa, Jr. The Bengals’ offensive line has improved with a healthy Jonah Williams at left tackle, but the interior still needs to be addressed. Drafting the Rimington Trophy winner and unanimous AllAmerican is a steal here and would help Joe Burrow (and Who-Dey Nation) rest easier at night. Linderbaum was a multisport athlete in high school who earned multiple letters in wrestling, track, baseball and football. Top needs: OL, DB, LB 22. New England (10-7) -- Kaiir Elam, CB, Florida, Jr. J.C. Jackson will be an unrestricted free agent

and has likely priced himself out of the Patriots’ offseason plans. Elam is a 6-foot-2 corner with elite ball skills who fine-tuned his technique after an underwhelming sophomore season. His game is built on speed and physicality, which you normally don’t see in the same toolkit. Top needs: DB, T, WR 23. Miami from San Francisco (10-7) -- Kenyon Green, OL, Texas A&M, Jr. Offensive line has been a disaster for the Dolphins this season and I expect them to address it in the draft and free agency, where they will have a projected NFL-high $77.1 million. The former five-star recruit can play either guard or tackle at a high level -- Green made starts at every single offensive line position except center this season. Top needs: RB, OL, LB 24. Las Vegas (10-7) -- Treylon Burks, WR, Arkansas, Jr. The loss of Henry Ruggs will loom large this offseason. Hunter Renfrow has enjoyed a breakout season, but he’s not a true No. 1 wide receiver. You’re not going to find a better combination of size (6-foot-3, 225 pounds) and speed at wide receiver in this class. Burks is a vertical threat, but also features immense YAC ability -- he broke 15 tackles on 66 receptions this season. Top needs: WR, DL, OL 25. Buffalo (11-6) -- Jermaine Johnson, Edge, Florida St., Sr. The Bills will look to reinforce both lines this offseason. Johnson is capable of being threedown player as a potentially elite run defender and an underrated pass rusher. Top needs: OL, LB, DL 26. Arizona (11-6) -- Chris Olave, WR, Ohio St., Sr. A.J. Green and Christian Kirk are both free agents following this season. It’s rare you find a route technician with reliable hands who can also run this fast. Olave might have slid into the first round had he left school last year and it wouldn’t surprise me if he cracks the top 20. Top needs: WR, OL, DB 27. Tennessee (12-5) -- Trent McDuffie, CB, Washington, Jr. The Titans will likely address wide receiver and the tight end position this offseason, but their leaky secondary has to be a priority as well. McDuffie plays bigger than his 5-11 frame. He’s one of the surest tacklers at the position in this draft class and his instincts are elite. Top needs: CB, DL, WR 28. Detroit from L.A. Rams (12-5) -- Roger McCreary, CB, Auburn, Sr. If there’s a quarterback the Lions fall in love with, he’ll likely be selected here if he’s available. Otherwise, they miss out on the top wide receiver talent in this exercise so I address another dire need. McCreary simply doesn’t allow much separation and he’s battle-tested out of the SEC. He’s capable of thriving in man and zone. Top needs: QB, WR, DB 29. Dallas (12-5) -- Jordan Battle, S, Alabama, Jr. The three players who played the most snaps at safety for the Cowboys this season are set to become free agents. Battle features the speed and athleticism to play center field or defend both sidelines, but he excels as a run defender. Top needs: LB, S, TE 30. Kansas City (12-5) -- Jahan Dotson, WR, Penn St., Sr. Both Byron Pringle and Demarcus Robinson will be free agents after this season, with Mecole Hardman’s contract set to expire in 2023. Dotson features the game-breaking speed to beat defenses at all three levels and is good against press coverage despite his size (5-11, 185). He has very good hands and is a very capable blocker. Top needs: WR, Edge, DL 31. Tampa Bay (13-4) -- Cameron Thomas, Edge, San Diego St., Jr. Jason Pierre-Paul, William Gholston and Ndamukong Suh are all free agents. Thomas was the most dominant pass rusher in college football this side of Ann Arbor. He racked up an FBS-leading 77 pressures this season and finished sixth with 29 run stops, according to Pro Football Focus. Top needs: DL, CB, OL 32. Green Bay (13-4) -- David Bell, WR, Purdue, Jr. It’s very likely Davante Adams doesn’t stick around if Aaron Rodgers is elsewhere. Bell has gotten lost in the shuffle with the top available wide receivers, but his route-running is advanced and his YAC ability should make him an impact player early in his career. He definitely deserves first-round consideration. Top needs: WR, DL, G

Giants’ next coach odds: Brian Daboll tops deep list Field Level Media

New York Giants co-owner John Mara vowed to take his time in rebuilding the team’s leadership from “the ground up” after firing coach Joe Judge on Tuesday. That was immediately followed by another word: “again.” Judge became the third consecutive coach to be fired by the Giants after only two seasons at the helm. And his departure came a day after embattled general manager Dave Gettleman announced his retirement. Mara and co-owner Steve Tisch began interviewing general manager candidates Wednesday and plan to fill that

void first. That GM will be tasked with rebuilding a team that has reached the playoffs just once since winning the Super Bowl after the 2011 season. While the GM has yet to be identified, the early list of favorites to replace Judge is heavy on respected offensive minds. That includes offensive coordinators Brian Daboll (Buffalo), Eric Bieniemy (Kansas City), Byron Leftwich (Tampa Bay) and Josh McDaniels (New England) along with former Philadelphia Eagles head coach Doug Pederson. Daboll was installed as the +350 favorite by BetMGM, and those odds have shortened to +325 as he leads

with 30.8 percent of the bets and an overwhelming 70.1 percent of the early money wagered at the sportsbook. It helped that Bills assistant GM Joe Schoen was the first to interview with the Giants on Wednesday. Pederson has the second-shortest odds at +400, followed by former Miami Dolphins coach Brian Flores, who has moved from +500 to +550 despite being tied with Daboll with 30.8 percent of the early tickets backing him. Flores is a Brooklyn native who was a long-time assistant for the Patriots. Then again, Judge also came from the Bill Belichick coaching tree. Bieniemy, who interviewed for the

Giants’ job two years ago, is +600 followed by Leftwich and current Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh at +700. McDaniels is being offered at +800 followed by current Giants defensive coordinator Patrick Graham at +900. Graham is close to Judge and is considered a longshot. Three other names that could quickly emerge depending on the GM hire are Dallas Cowboys offensive coordinator Kellen Moore and defensive coordinators Todd Bowles (Tampa Bay) and Dan Quinn (Dallas). Each currently has +1000 odds at BetMGM. Daboll is the sportsbook’s biggest liability with the heavy early action

supporting him. Harbaugh is third with 15.4 percent of the bets, while Leftwich had the third-most money backing him at 8.5 percent compared to Harbaugh’s 5.0. Mara and Tisch are set to hire their fourth head coach since 2016 – following Judge, Pat Shurmur, Ben McAdoo. The Giants went 4-13 in 2021. All of the losses and uncertainty created a fan base short on patience and trust. Mara said he grasps that he hasn’t given fans a reason to believe the Giants will get it right, and senses the franchise has a bridge to rebuild with fans. “That’s not going to happen overnight,” he said.

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Wife gets no support in dealing with MIL Dear Abby, I need some advice regarding my motherin-law. She has hated me since the first time she met me because I’m not from the country but from “the city.” I have given her gifts for birthdays and holidays and invited her DEAR ABBY on day trips with us, but she always refuses. She also makes up lies about me. She claims I have STDs, spend all her son’s money, etc. She even spread a rumor that I wouldn’t allow her at our wedding. She lives 46 miles away and, in the five years we have been married, has never once visited her son. I take him to visit her because he can’t get a driver’s license because of medical issues. Our child and I aren’t even allowed in her home. We have to sit in the car. She acts like our child doesn’t exist, but she has pictures of her other two grandchildren on Facebook and drives to see them almost weekly. My husband sees nothing wrong with her behavior and says he “won’t take sides.” I don’t know what to do. Peeved In Pennsylvania

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Please accept my sympathy for your situation. While your husband refuses to recognize there is anything wrong with his mother’s behavior, it is off the charts. I hope you realize that most men stand up for their wives and children when they are mistreated. Because you can’t change your husband or his witch of a mother, and you made no mention of leaving the marriage, you will simply have to adjust to it. Start by planning an activity you and your child can enjoy while your husband is visiting his mom, rather than sitting for hours in the car. Even better, arrange “other” transportation for your husband. Dear Abby, I’m a 24-year-old woman who has been in a relationship with a man for seven years. “Ken” is 27 years older than I am. (I pursued

him.) I love him, but I have always been slightly confused about my relationship with him, and he knows this. Lately, I have been feeling very guilty. My heart knows that my love for Ken isn’t enough for what he truly deserves. He’s a good, honest man, and I enjoy our relationship. We get along great, have a lot in common and make a great team. I am comfortable with us and our life. But recently I have realized that I want to be on my own, alone, and not in a relationship. I feel a strong desire to focus on me and only me, so I can grow into the person I envision myself being. Any advice besides the obvious — my leaving the relationship? Wanting More In Wisconsin

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You became involved with Ken while you were still very young. It appears you never gave yourself time to fully develop as an individual. You state that you are still “in a relationship” rather than a marriage, which may be a blessing considering your ambivalence. Many women would be glad to live their life in a relationship that has all the positive qualities that yours has with Ken. I am sure you both will discover this when you move on. However, since you asked my advice, talk this through with a licensed relationship counselor before making any final decision. Dear Abby, I have been married for 45 years, but the love of my life is now in a memory care facility because of Alzheimer’s. We have always sent out greeting cards during the holidays. I’m now wondering how I should sign them this year — with both our names as usual or just my own? Wondering In San Diego I vote for sending the cards out with both of your names. There will come a time when you send them from just yourself, but until his passing, his name should be included.

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Horoscope By Stella Wilder Born today, you are a bright and positive individual who is always looking for the road to progress, and whether or not you find it, you have a knack for identifying the thing to be celebrated and choosing to do so, rather than dwelling on that which could be better. This doesn’t mean, of course, that you don’t focus your energies on what can be better; on the contrary, that’s really what you’re all about on both a personal and a universal level. Though you face the world with a unique kind of surreal calm — even when things are falling apart all around you! — you are, in private, a deeply passionate individual, and you let your feelings about all manner of things be known to those around you. When it comes to love, you burn long and slow, and can maintain a lifelong passion for the right person. Also born on this date are: Chad Lowe, actor; Charo, singer, actress, entertainer; Margaret O’Brien, actress; Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights activist; Lloyd Bridges, actor; Gene Krupa, musician. 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. SUNDAY, JANUARY 16 CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You’re working on an improvement to something that’s been in the system for a while, but today you may encounter a bottleneck of sorts. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — You can adopt a more daring stance today to see which rivals have what it takes to keep up with you. The answer may well surprise you. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — A written warning doesn’t have the same impact today as

something that is delivered to you directly by someone who knows how to be persuasive. ARIES (March 21-April 19) — “Forever” is something you’ll want to think about today as you weigh your options. What, really, does it mean where a romance is concerned? TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — You may stumble upon something that others are trying to keep secret. It’s not necessarily up to you to reveal what you now know — yet. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Someone may want to exact a promise from you that you are not yet willing or able to give. This will demand a certain level of negotiation. CANCER (June 21-July 22) — Watch and listen to everything that goes on around you today. The mystery of where you fit in the scheme of things can surely be solved. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Time may slip by very quickly today, so you must take advantage of every free moment to deal with a major issue not “officially” on your docket. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — What you do to relieve yourself of one problem is likely to create another that may be more pressing. Still, plans remain intact. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Form and function combine with style today in a way that impresses those around you — and with just the right amount of drama, perhaps. Keep it up! SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Something that you expect to take up a lot of time may surprise you today, leaving you with much more breathing room than you had anticipated. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Avoid any kind of delays in the early morning; the sooner you get started, the sooner you can have what you most desire.

Daily Maze

WEEKLY BRIDGE QUIZ Q 1 - Neither vulnerable, as South, you hold: ♠ A Q 7 4 ♥ K 10 ♦ 9 8 6 5 4 2 ♣ Q

Right-hand opponent opens 3C. What call would you make? Q 2 - North-South vulnerable, as South, you hold: ♠ A Q 10 7 5 3 ♥ 7 3 ♦ J ♣ 7 6 4 3

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As dealer, what call would you make? Look for answers on Tuesday. (Bob Jones welcomes readers’ responses sent in care of this paper. Please send your e-mail responses to tcaeditors@tribpub.com)

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Fans of actor Betty White, shown here in 2008, are encouraged to take the #bettywhitechallenge. Todd Williamson/Getty Images for TV Land/TNS

How to honor TV icon Betty White Donate to an animal shelter and join in By MIKE STUNSON Charlotte Observer

Fans of iconic actress Betty White are coming up with ways to honor her on what would have been her 100th birthday. White, whose illustrious TV career included roles on “Golden Girls,” “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and “Hot in Cleveland,” died Dec. 31 at 99 years old. The death shocked the nation, as many were planning on celebrating her milestone birthday on Jan. 17. But the celebrations will continue. Here are some ways to remember the beloved Hollywood legend. The unofficial Betty White Challenge was spawned as a way to support one of White’s favorite causes — animals. “On Betty White’s 100th birthday, January 17th, everyone should pick a local rescue or See WHITE C2

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IF IT’S A DIRTY JOB, HE’S YOUR MAN Mike Rowe stars in the new version of “Dirty Jobs” on the Discovery Channel. School of Humans/Discovery/TNS

Mike Rowe returns to shine light on the world’s dirtiest occupations By LUAINE LEE Tribune News Service

At last Mike Rowe, the genial host of the series, “Dirty Jobs,” comes clean. And though he seems suited to the role, hosting a TV show was never on his clipboard. When he was 19, he says, he looked to his future “and saw nothing but a void, a dark void. I thought, ‘I can’t even imagine myself with a wife and kids. I can’t imagine myself without a wife and kids. I can’t imagine getting a steady paycheck. I can’t imagine working for anybody who would give me one. I can’t imagine wanting one.’ I couldn’t imagine ANY scenario for happiness.” It was right after graduating that he began to panic. “I can’t remember a moment when I was more unsettled than when I finished high school and had absolutely no idea what to do, no idea,” he says. “I was so lucky to have parents

night?’ Of course, it wasn’t. I had sat there all night writing a couple dozen pages in the journal about what happened that day. “Now was it any good? Would a publisher take that and say, ‘Oh, my god, you’re a savant!’ No, I don’t think so. But what I learned and what gave me real hope was that when you’re doing something that you’re really enjoying and really focus on, you can compress time.” Compressing time is what Rowe does on “Dirty Jobs,” which returned to the Discovery Channel in a new incarnation on Jan. 2. Whether he’s neck-deep in a sewer, farming worm dung or collecting alligator eggs, Rowe exposes viewers to the unsung heroes of our society — the folk who make it all work. “I’m basically impersonating a motivational speaker and the basic message is this idea: I meet people who don’t make a lot of money, who work 12 hours a day. You make $500,000 year, why are they happier than you? Why are they having a better time? Why are they better

I meet people who don’t make a lot of money, who work 12 hours a day. You make $500,000 year, why are they happier than you? Why are they having a better time? Why are they better balanced? Why does the beer taste colder at the end of the day? The dialogue that comes out of those is really interesting.” MIKE ROWE Host of ‘Dirty Jobs’

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Autumn movies burst with color; winter movies quietly glow in icy shades of white. Should you be looking for something to watch while waiting for the temperatures to rise, here are a handful of entertaining movies set during the coldest of seasons. (I’m leaving out the most obvious choices but, of course, “Groundhog Day,” “Fargo,” “The Shining” and many more snowdrenched classics are always worth a rewatch.) “Force Majeure” (2014): In this Swedish film (never mind the iffy American remake, “Downhill”), a couple has a moment of truth after a sudden avalanche at a ski resort — her instinct was to protect their children, his was to grab his phone and run. That’s in the opening of the movie; the rest of it elegantly examines the chill between them, in a setting where snow sparkles like diamond sand. (Streaming on Hulu, Kanopy, Amazon Prime Video, Vudu) “Last Holiday” (2006): Queen Latifah plays a department-store employee who takes herself on a lavish winter

Sandra Bullock, suspenseful drama and a popular streaming service are the winning formula for success. The Academy Award winning actress’ latest film, “The Unforgettable,” has officially made Netflix’s Top 10 Most Popular films list, joining her 2018 Netflix film “Bird Box.” Bullock is the first actress with two entries on the tally, which is based on hours viewed in the first 28 days of release. “The Unforgivable” landed at No. 9, having been viewed 186,900,000 hours to date, according to Netflix, though it is expected to rise once it hits the 28-day mark. “Bird Box,” which became a social media trending topic, is in the No. 2 spot. In “The Unforgivable,” Bullock stars as a woman who’s released from prison after serving 20 years for committing a violent crime.

who said, ‘Look, we don’t care. As long as you stay curious, as long as you work hard, we don’t care. We don’t care what school you go to.’ “I got a lot of pressure from my guidance counselor at high school to enroll at the University of Pennsylvania ... I took some tests. I did well. But we didn’t have any money, and I had absolutely no idea what I wanted to do ... that was terrifying to me even back then.” Finally confronting the unknown, Rowe says, “I thought, ‘Hell — on the positive side — I’m free and I can study anything I want.’” So he did. He buried himself in philosophy, English and the arts. “All the things I love to this day,” he says. “They just never existed for me originally as a ‘thing’ to pursue. They turned out to be a thing to look for, to find. I was lucky to go through that horrible period of uncertainty.” The turning point came one night when he described his day in his journal. “I sat down about 10 o’clock and started writing, and an hour later I looked up, and the sun was coming up. I thought, ‘How in the hell is the sun coming up at 11 o’clock at

“March of the Penguins,” narrated by Morgan Freeman, is a film the whole family can enjoy. National Geographic Society

vacation (in snow-covered Karlovy Vary in the Czech Republic) after learning she only has a few weeks to live. Not the most original of premises, but Latifah’s open, honest performance transcends the screenplay, creating a character you immediately take to your heart. (Showtime, Amazon Prime Video, Vudu) “Little Women” (2019): Greta Gerwig’s enchanting adaptation of Louisa

May Alcott’s classic novel about her family isn’t entirely set in winter, but enough of it is — the Christmas scenes, Amy falling through the ice, the crackle of a warm fireplace — that I think of it as part of the season. It’s a film that will warm the coldest of hearts. (Starz, Amazon Prime Video, Vudu) “March of the Penguins” (2005): A surprise arthouse hit on its release, this nature documentary narrated by

Morgan Freeman is a charming plunge into the lives of the penguins of Antarctica, who return to their breeding ground every year in an ever-repeating cycle. (Amazon Prime Video, Vudu) “The Mountain Between Us” (2017): This movie, in which two near-strangers played by Idris Elba and Kate Winslet get stranded on a mountaintop together, is no masterpiece — actually it couldn’t be sillier — but viewed as a romantic fantasy, it’s great fun. Admit it: Wouldn’t you like the chance to be stranded on a mountaintop with Elba, whose character here is sort of an outdoorsman/superhero who maintains impeccable grooming even after weeks without indoor plumbing? Oh, and there’s a dog, too. (Amazon Prime Video, Vudu) “A Simple Plan” (1998): I wrote about this Sam Raimi film last year in my Movies with Moira series, but I’m tossing it in here as I’m always surprised how many people haven’t heard of it. On a snowy afternoon in a small town, three men find a crashed helicopter, a dead pilot and a bag containing millions of dollars in cash. What See FILMS C2

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California’s Sonoma County offers more than great wine Take in region’s culinary delights and stunning views on romantic getaway By MARY ANN ANDERSON Tribune News Service

There’s no denying the lure of California’s wine country. From Napa Valley to Sonoma County to Lodi to Mendocino County, the combination of the rolling hills strewn with vineyards, untold numbers of wineries and cool Pacific breezes that flow in on foggy swirls provide a picture-perfect backdrop for a romantic getaway. In Sonoma County alone, some 425 wineries are woven into the tapestry of the countryside, with some of them encompassing more than 3,000 acres. When I think of Sonoma, I’m reminded of the wine-growing regions of Old-World Europe, of Bordeaux, of Tuscany, and of the Rhine and Loire valleys with their estates of stone and wood and long rows of vineyards appearing, disappearing and then reappearing over the tumbling terrain of low peaks, canyons and farms that define the wine country of California. Sonoma County, about an hour’s drive north of San Francisco on the coastal Highway 101— it crosses the Golden Gate Bridge on its meander from San Francisco International Airport — is much less crowded than Napa Valley, its neighbor just to the east. I like all of Sonoma County’s collection of small towns and villages that include the sophisticated Santa Rosa, the incredibly scenic Bodega Bay on the jagged edge of the Pacific, Guerneville on the Russian River, and Sebastopol with its antique shops, but it is Healdsburg with its pretty, leafy plaza and streets lined with boutiques, tasting rooms, galleries and restaurants that I tend to favor when I visit. Wineries are certainly the heart and soul of the entirety of Sonoma County, but unless you have unlimited time, it’s wise to plan to visit just a few, which will provide you with a more intimate experience than trying to cram too many into a short visit. Compare it with traveling to Europe. Most like to ricochet from country to country just to get a passport stamp when unhurriedly and thoroughly exploring just one is much more meaningful. As wineries go, Jordan Vineyard and Winery is spectacular and ideally tailored for romantics. It’s just outside of Healdsburg in the Alexander Valley. You can easily spend a halfday wandering about the ivy-cloaked chateau that looks as if it were lifted straight from France’s Provence region and redeposited into the California landscape. Now run by second-generation vintner John Jordan, the winery produces only two wines, a cabernet sauvignon and a clean, crisp chardonnay

Sonoma County’s 425 wineries and untold acres of vineyards are beautiful in any season, but autumn can be a special time to visit, with valleys and hillsides filled with the color of the season. Mary Ann Anderson/TNS

that ranks at the top of my personal white wine list. But what I enjoy most about the estate is that its 1,200 acres are a luxuriant mishmash of vineyards, gardens and pastures where cattle, primarily black angus, feed on its sweet grasses and vegetation. The scenery is made complete with orchards of fruit and nut trees that produce of range of goodies like olives, peaches, figs, pomegranates, apples and hazelnuts. Among the delicacies produced from the orchards is Jordan’s own extra virgin olive oil, a smooth, silky and flavorful concoction that’s just the ideal texture for topping a salad or dipping bread. Several outdoor tours of Jordan are available, including vineyard tastings and harvest lunches and picnics among the orchards and vines. If you prefer indoor tastings, take a slowpaced walking tour of the winery itself, where the evocative murmur of machinery in the barrel and oak tank room pair well with the almost ambrosial aroma of wine and wood. For oenophiles, it’s a magical combination of scents and sounds, all followed by a seated food and wine pairing in the cellar room, a Frenchinspired hideaway filled with hundreds of wine bottles and winemaking antiques. But perhaps the best

way to see it all is the three-hour Estate Tour and Tasting aboard a Mercedes Sprinter van that takes you to the far corners of the estate for tastings and food and cheese pairings. This particular tour allows for dramatic wine country vistas and views that will steal your heart almost as much as its wonderful wines. The range of events at Jordan is a sampling of what to expect of Sonoma and its many other fabulous wineries, most of whom offer similar itineraries. Among those are the spectacular Italian-style villa of Ferrari-Carano Vineyards and Winery in Healdsburg, Matanzas Creek Winery in Santa Rosa, Chalk Hill Estate Winery also near Healdsburg, Korbel Champagne Cellars in Guerneville and the castle-like Ledson Winery and Vineyards in Kenwood. Take your romantic wine getaway up a notch by staying in one of Sonoma County’s bed-and-breakfast inns. The Inn at Tides in Bodega Bay will treat you to a bottle of wine upon arrival, plus the Bayview Restaurant and Lounge and the Tides Wharf and Restaurant are onsite and offer Italian and fresh seafood selections. You’ll love the themed rooms at The Inn at Occidental (think: Safari Suite and the Folk Art Room),

plus it’s framed by iconic California redwoods. The stunning Raford Inn in Healdsburg is a gorgeous Queen Anne Victorian built in 1880 and is super-cozy with only five rooms. Sonoma County is culinary heaven. The quantity and quality of restaurants is nothing short of dizzying, from the 11-course fine dining of Single Thread Farm Restaurant and Inn to the big omelets and biscuits and gravy at the Hole in the Wall in Sebastopol. There’s almost no possible way to come up with a shortlist of spots to suggest, but as a true-blue Georgia girl, I had to sample Southern food, California-style, at Sweet T’s Restaurant and Bar in Windsor. I did not come away disappointed with the fried catfish plate that was so good it made me homesick. Try the fried chicken and deviled eggs, too. At the highly-recommended Chalkboard in Healdsburg, known for its small plates and wine pairings, I tried the Old Bay Strozzapreti with fat Gulf shrimp and garlic, but old favorites of New York strip and New Zealand lamb are on the menu, too. No doubt Sonoma County inspires togetherness. When you’re ready to sip, nibble and ramble around its patchwork quilt of small towns, rural

roads and vineyards, all you need is love, a wine glass and a table for two.

IF YOU GO For a comprehensive listing of wineries, restaurants and inns and hotels, visit Sonoma County Tourism at www.sonomacounty.com. Visit Healdsburg Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Bureau at www. healdsburg.com. Charles M. Schulz Airport (STS) is located in Santa Rosa, 12 miles south of Healdsburg, and is served by Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, Avelo Airlines, and United Airlines. All major airlines serve San Francisco International Airport.

IF YOU GO n For a comprehensive listing of

wineries, restaurants and inns and hotels, visit Sonoma County Tourism at www.sonomacounty.com. n Visit Healdsburg Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Bureau at www. healdsburg.com. n Charles M. Schulz Airport (STS) is located in Santa Rosa, 12 miles south of Healdsburg, and is served by Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, Avelo Airlines, and United Airlines. All major airlines serve San Francisco International Airport.

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balanced? Why does the beer taste colder at the end of the day? The dialogue that comes out of those is really interesting. The end of the day the ditch digger, at the end of a day, has a ditch. And your desk looks the same as it did.” The show not only honors the worker, he says. “This was a love letter to risk and entrepreneurship and women, people who prospered as a result of learning a skill and went on to create a small business and to giving something back,” he says. At 59, Rowe himself seems satisfied and prosperous. “I think you make your own luck,” he remarks. “I think it’s easy to look back at the things that happen to us and say, ‘Well, let me tell you how I did it.’ For me, I never had a long view. I never had a master plan.” Whether it was fate of dumb luck, he says, “I don’t really know how to think about fate or destiny. The only thing I know for sure is that nobody’s getting out of this alive, and while we’re here we do have a massive opportunity to persuade, impact, help, or hinder. I firmly believe that all of those things are products of choices we make.” Pausing, he adds, “I know that’s not popular in some circles, but when I look at

animal shelter in your area and donate just $5 in Betty White’s name,” reads a Facebook post. “Make her 100th birthday the movement she deserves.” White often lent a helping hand to animals and was involved with the Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association, American Humane, Guide Dogs for the Blind, Endangered Wolf Center and BraveHearts Therapeutic Riding and Educational Center, CNN reported. Originally planned before White died, a one-day only special will come to movie theaters Jan. 17 to honor White. “Betty White: A

Mike Rowe finds himself inside an escalator pit in the new version of “Dirty Jobs,” which premiered Sunday on the Discovery Channel. School of Humans/Discovery/TNS

destiny, when I look at life as if it has been decided for me already, that just makes me tired. It makes me feel why bother? I’m much more interested in the idea that the past doesn’t equal the future ...” Though he likes to guard his private life, he’s been with the same woman for 25 years. About that he says, “Neither one of us were particularly desperate, eager or committed to procreating. We were open to it, but it was never really a thing. We met a little later in life, not like we were childhood sweethearts. There were plenty of other sweethearts before her, and vice-versa. But she married early on, the wrong guy, and after that there was

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Mike Rowe returns with a new series of tough jobs on “Dirty Jobs,” premiering on the Discovery Channel Jan. 2, 2022. School of Humans/Discovery/TNS

never really a great deal of pressure, to be honest, from either side,” he confides. “She values her privacy, and I respect that. She has nothing whatsoever to do

with the entertainment industry. She’s as baffled by my world as I am hers.” Hers, he says, is almost impossible to describe. Finally he tags it “marketing.”

they do next, and how it changes them, makes for absolutely riveting viewing, with stellar performances by Bill Paxton and Billy Bob Thornton. You’ll shiver, for a lot of reasons. (Amazon Prime Video, Vudu) “Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ... And Spring” (2004): From the late South Korean filmmaker Kim Kiduk, this beautifully meditative film takes place on a tiny monastery raft floating on a tree-rimmed lake, as two monks watch the seasons go by. The scenery’s exquisite

Celebration,” originally called “Betty White: 100 Years Young — A Birthday Celebration,” will play in nearly 900 movie theaters and tells the store of White’s life. The movie event features a star-studded cast of Ryan Reynolds, Tina Fey, Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Robert Redford and many others. “We will go forward with our plans to show the film on January 17 in hopes our film will provide a way for all who loved her to celebrate her life — and experience what made her such a national treasure,” the movie’s producers said in a news release. For information on how to buy tickets, visit FathomEvents.com. throughout the years, but winter — with the lake’s mirror clouded over and its waterfalls hardened into silence — is the most dramatic. (Amazon Prime Video, Vudu) “Wind River” (2017): Taylor Sheridan’s taut, thoughtful film is about a murdered young woman and an obsessed investigator (Jeremy Renner) — familiar territory, but “Wind River” is unusual in that it’s less interested in the specifics of the crime than in the icicle of grief at its core. Snow falls in waves in the film’s Wyoming hills, and Sheridan lets the drama unfold slowly, allowing the fine cast’s words to hang in the cold air. (Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Vudu)

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Food With or without chicken, tetrazzini is a creamy one-pan pasta hit

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By G. DANIELA GALARZA Washington Post

I wrote recently about my many childhood babysitters, the women who watched me and my brother after school when my parents worked late. This recipe, for tetrazzini made with chicken or just lots of mushrooms, with a creamy, cheesy sauce, was inspired by Frida. Frida had a large kitchen and spent lots of time in it. The smells of Turkish cooking scented her home with roasted garlic and caramelized eggplant, toasted nuts and buttery baklava. There was a perk to staying at Frida’s: If my brother and I finished our homework early enough, we’d get to play Ms. Pac-Man or Tetris (my then-favorite) on an old console in the TV room. Sometimes I’d end up in the kitchen, too. Frida recruited my little kid hands to roll tiny meatballs, which were then simmered in a tomato sauce thick with onions. I loved watching her fingers stuff herbed rice into grape leaves, stack the fat sarma like bricks into a tall pot and let them steam until they turned tender and juicy. Looking back, I’m ashamed I didn’t appreciate Frida’s food more. She was a marvelous cook, and I learned so much from watching her and tasting alongside her. But back then, what my brother and I wanted to eat more than anything was the stuff our friends at school said they ate for dinner: Macaroni and cheese from a box. Hot dogs. Frozen fish sticks. Sloppy Joes. I was so desperate to fit in, I didn’t let myself enjoy the rich bounty all around me. Frida was undeterred. She made almost everything we asked for. I’ll never forget the day she stirred together a box of Kraft macaroni and cheese. “This is really what you want?” she asked, an eyebrow arched. I knew there was creamy hummus in her fridge, warm flatbreads and hunks of feta on the counter. And still, I stuck my fork into the squishy orange pasta. Strange as it now sounds, I was convinced that liking it would make me acceptable in the eyes of my peers and help me fit into the fast-moving, Tetrislike puzzle of the world around me. Frida always tasted these overly processed foods, but she almost never liked them. One afternoon, she showed me a recipe she’d cut out of an American cooking magazine. “I think we’ll have tetrazzini for dinner — what do you think?” I had never heard of this dish, but I immediately liked that it sounded like See TETRAZZINI C6

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Venison prepared by Dave Racicot, executive chef at The Commoner restaurant in Hotel Monaco in Pittsburgh, on Nov. 30. Steve Mellon/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette/TNS

This chef says you’re not cooking it right By GRETCHEN MCKAY Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

PITTSBURGH — Dave Racicot has been a deer hunter longer than he’s been a professional chef, which is to say: a very long time. The Indiana, Pennsylvania, native was around 10 when he starting hunting with his maternal grandfather, Joseph Farine. He quickly discovered it can be pretty boring sitting in a stand for hours at a time, patiently and quietly waiting for a buck or doe to wander within sight. “I went every year with Pap,” recalls Racicot, 43, who’s been executive chef at The Commoner restaurant in Hotel Monaco, Downtown, since 2019. “And it was always boring, cold and wet.” What made it worth it was the fact the family got to eat venison whenever someone was fortunate enough to harvest a deer. “Everyone who says they hate it or don’t like it, it’s been overcooked. “It just tastes so good,” he says of the meat, which, depending on the cut, was roasted, dried into jerky, stuffed into sausage or turned into a spicy, hearty chili. Racicot continued that tradition when he grew up

Dave Racicot, executive chef at The Commoner restaurant in Hotel Monaco in Pittsburgh, slices venison on Nov. 30. Steve Mellon/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette/TNS

and switched to archery hunting, which he says is more challenging, emotional and intimate than hunting with a gun. “If I didn’t enjoy eating (deer meat), I wouldn’t do it,” he says. While he has yet to harvest a deer this year, he still has plenty of venison in a deep freezer in his Oakmont basement from previous years, all of which he processed himself from start to finish. He has some in the fridge in his garage too. Not a fan of venison? You’re not alone. Deservedly

or not, deer meat has something of a bad rap outside of the hunting community. Racicot has heard the reasons why a thousand times, and shakes his head every time: It’s too dry! It tastes gamey! It’s not safe to eat! Actually, says the chef who has cooked at Nemacolin Woodlands Resort’s Lautrec, Notion and Poulet Bleu, if your venison dish tastes lousy, well, it’s because you’re not cooking it right. “Everyone who says they hate it or don’t like it, it’s

been overcooked,” he says. But serve it rare to medium, and “it’s amazing.” Rich in iron and full of B vitamins, venison is lower in fat and calories than beef. Because it’s so lean, and fat protects against inexperienced cooking, it’s pretty easy to overcook and dry it out. In addition, poorly processed meat just won’t taste good. Deer can only hang in coolers for a limited time before spoilage begins, and this year’s shortage of

Everyone who says they hate it or don’t like it, it’s been overcooked.” DAVE RACICOT Executive chef at The Commoner restaurant in Hotel Monaco in Pittsburgh

Chicken or Just Mushroom Tetrazzini. Rey Lopez/Washington Post

Ma Po reinvented with chicken, green beans By GRETCHEN MCKAY Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Perhaps no Sichuan dish is as famous as Ma Po, a rich, spicy-hot dish made with tofu and minced ground pork. Loved for its aromatic heat, it’s perfect for those brisk winter days where the cold seeps into your bones and even your coziest sweater can’t warm you up. The spice that gives Ma Po its kick isn’t the expected chili pepper, but Sichuan peppercorn. Fragrant, with a hint of citrus, the reddish-pink berries of the prickly ash tree numb the lips upon impact. In this recipe from Mark Bittman, ground chicken and green beans trade places with the traditional pork and tofu, and the silky sauce is made

not with fermented bean paste and hot chilies but from the pantry staples of ketchup, cider vinegar and cornstarch. He also adds ground Sichuan peppercorn instead of the whole petite berries. You can find either at most Asian markets. What the dish lacks in authenticity, he writes in “Dinner for Everyone,” “is more than compensated by its familiar flavor and convenience.” I used lettuce cups, but you could serve it with rice or noodles for a more substantial bite. Or, just spoon it into a bowl right out of the pan. Also on the nontraditional side: I added chopped pistachio for crunch and lots of fresh chopped cilantro. See MA PO C6

Mark Bittman’s take on Ma Po, a Sichuan dish featuring tofu in a spicy sauce, is made with ground chicken, green beans and Sichuan peppercorns for heat. Gretchen McKay/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette/TNS

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Best of Books 2021 In a huge year for publishing, these 10 books stood out By CHRISTOPHER BORRELLI Chicago Tribune

When I look over this list of the best books of 2021, I see what’s not there, what didn’t make the final cut and deserved the hosannas. Rebecca Solnit’s discursive biography “Orwell’s Roses.” Clint Smith’s sobering travelogue “How the Word is Passed.” Matt Bell’s climate-change epic “Appleseed.” Even Seth Rogan’s “Yearbook,” a consistently thoughtful collection of essays on the strangeness of Hollywood, was not to be taken lightly. It’s been a great time to read widely and often, and considering the near-one billion books sold in 2020 — and the probable record coming for 2021 (publishers saw double-digit sales leaps for much of the year) — settling on 10 was tough. So, in the interest of celebration, tell me what you loved this year. New book, old book. Send an email to cborrellichicagotribune. com, DM me on Twitter (Borrelli) — I’ll include replies in an upcoming “What We’re Reading” column. Just one thing: Tell me what you actually loved, not what you think will make you look good. As for the following 10 — I wish I could read them again for the first time. In no particular order: 1. “A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance” (Random House, $27): Columbus essayist and poet Hanif Abdurraqib — who’s had quite the year, named a National Book Award nominee and MacArthur “genius” in the same week — hasn’t written a bad book. His is a stillyoung career, but this is probably a high mark, a profound meditation on the Black artists and “mundane fight for individuality,” as well as what it means to be a Black audience. On “Chappelle’s Show”: “It look white people laughing too loud and too long — and laughing from the wrong place — to build the show a coffin.” On pianist Don Shirley (of “Green Book”) and his lesser-known subversion of a University of Chicago juvenile delinquency study: “In a country still obsessed with Black people solving problems they didn’t create, Don Shirley walked away, answering only to himself.” Abdurraqib’s lengthy essay on the importance of “Soul Train” is already classic. 2. “Second Place” (FSG, $25):The first novel from Rachel Cusk after her celebrated Outline Trilogy, and somewhat like those great books, here is another consideration of art and responsibility, if slightly less abstracted, though just as probing of its characters. A mother has a revelation in a gallery and proceeds to detonate her world, her marriage, her future. It’s a novel of ideas, as they say. But the kind that has you leaning forward, recognizing the places where a person’s moral certainty and self image look fabricated. 3. “The Trees” (Graywolf, $16):Someday, inevitably, when Percival Everett is read by more people and not a painfully passedover novelist whose work gets thrust into hands with a messianic promise of “Trust me,” here’s the book to tip the scales. Someone is killing the ancestors of the guys who murdered Chicago teenager Emmett Till back in 1955. To tell you more would deny you page after page of gasps, and laughs. Everett is going for an unstable

cocktail of broad parody, mystery and social justice, and the result feels thrillingly volatile, and brave, a swing at a new kind of novel on American violence. 4. “Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch” (FSG, $27): Not quite satire, not entirely historical fiction, but full of truth and chillingly hilarious in an age of QAnon conspiracies, anti-vaxxers and cancel culture. Rivka Galchen takes a page from Monty Python, Salem and the MeToo movement to tell the story of real-life Katharina, a 16th century German widow with very important children (her oldest, Johannes Kepler, explained how planets move). She fights court accusations of witchcraft, for years. Galchen splinters the POV and gets at the absurdity (“The matter of how we came to know is simple — we already knew”) but more evocatively, the long reach of sexism and endless loops of groupthink. 5. “When We Cease to Understand the World” (New York Review Books, $18): At first, it reads like harrowing nuggets of history and hubris but soon, Benjamin Labatut’s ingenious story of complicity and horrors of scientific achievement takes just enough

liberty with the men behind the invention of chemical weapons and the concept of black holes (among other paradigm-shifting bits of alchemy) to upend our understanding of sanity and fiction. “Frankenstein” feels very close, and the age-old presumptions of unintended consequences get uncertain. So exquisitely unnerving, I guess it’s ... horror? 6. “Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction” (Norton, $28): Science journalist Michelle Nijhuis’ engrossing history of animal conservation avoids exactly the cheerleading that would render other books impotent. Here is a movement, she writes, “full of people who did the wrong things for the right reasons, and the right things for the wrong reasons.” Characters arrive multifaceted, full of spirit and irony: The Smithsonian zoologist who, to ensure a sample of American bison, kills 10% of remaining bison; the tenacious bird watcher who buys a mountain to preserve raptors. Nijhuis is particularly good on the complexity, the colonialism and racism at the heart of many efforts, without missing the innovation, and the guts of amateurs. She is upfront on the

future — i.e., fairly pessimistic — but determined about the urgency to continue, ends and means considered. Every page is a joy. (That World Wildlife Foundation panda? The WWF adopted it because it was cute. And because black and white is cheaper to print.) 7. “100 Things We’ve Lost to the Internet” (Crown, $27): Perhaps the only book on this list that might gain a little if read in dribs and drabs, tucked away beside your toilet. Pamela Paul, editor of the New York Times Book Review and a breezy, skeptical op-ed sort of voice in her own right, does not set out to transcend the plaintive loss of the title. Which is why this becomes so aching. Each chapter is a memory of a too-suddenly rare emotion (private humiliation), behavior (looking out the window) or artifact (bad photos), described with ennui and anger but enough clear-eyed memory to be a true incantation. 8. “Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America” (FSG, $28): Journalist Eyal Press leans slightly into the pandemic “essential” workers of the title, albeit strategically, with reason: His aims are higher, the moral cost of jobs hidden away.

He profiles drone pilots, prison guards, slaughterhouse workers. But he gains steam as whenever he pulls back on disturbing low-paying work to poke into culpability, how the harshest assessments often avoid the people in charge. Not just the usual bosses, but also, the investment bankers, the software engineers. Picture Upton Sinclair wading through the guts of our stockyards, detecting the stench in even our most sterile offices. 9. “Smile” (Simon & Schuster, $27): In the days after giving birth to twins, the left side of Sarah Ruhl’s face began to droop and stiffen and she lost her ability to smile. She found herself in that small percentage of people who contract Bell’s palsy and do not recover. This is not the setup for overcoming-the-odds kind of uplift. Instead, the Wilmette native and celebrated playwright uses her abruptly frozen face to circle the meaning of a smile, symmetry, disfigured villains, but also, a loss of faith, the misogynistic roots of bed rest — and much more. Narrative loves an epiphany, she writes, but “the chronic resists plot ...” 10. “The Man Who Lived Underground” (Library of America, $23): Though Richard Wright’s novella was well-known, the full text of his harrowing portrait of Chicago police abuse went unread for 80 years, so disturbing Harper editors they rejected it — at a time when Wright was the bestselling Black author in America. The novel was shelved for decades, biding its time. What’s here now is feverish, familiar, a tale of a Black man beaten by police who escapes under the city, at a cost: His foundation of reality frays. Sounds like “Invisible Man”? Frenemy Ralph Ellison sought inspiration from it, though Wright’s complete novel is singular. And nothing less than the reestablishing of a major legacy.

Nathaniel Philbrick takes on George Washington for 3rd time By KEVIN DUCHSCHERE Star Tribune

“Travels With George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy” by Nathaniel Philbrick; Viking (375 pages, $30) There’s been an impressive flurry of recent books on George Washington, volumes about him as spymaster during the Revolution, his relations with Native Americans,

even a breezy biography titled “You Never Forget Your First.” This book, Philbrick’s third on George, is an insightful account of road trips the author took (with his wife, Melissa, and their retriever Dora) tracing Washington’s carriage tours of the young nation after he became president.

Washington hoped personal contact with his fellow citizens would win their allegiance to the new government and underscore the importance of his office (while reminding them countless times, if legend can be believed, that he was “only a man”). He made a point of overnighting in

taverns and inns, which often came with lumpy beds and indifferent meals, and he didn’t have AAA to help guide him; the roads, he wrote, “are amazingly crooked ... and the directions you receive from the people equally blind and ignorant.” It’s fun to read how he would leave his carriage and stage a grand entrance on his white charger when he

entered a new town, and how he hated being accompanied from place to place by cavalry (all that dust). Philbrick notes Washington’s warnings about a divisive presidency, one that “agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms,” and he doesn’t skirt “the cold pocket of horror” that Washington owned hundreds of enslaved people though he

knew it was wrong. The United States will continue to be defined by revolution, Philbrick writes, “as each generation renews the struggle to measure up to the ideals with which this country began — that all of us are created equal.” His book is a cogent reminder that while much has changed since Washington’s time, much remains the same.

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Horoscope By Stella Wilder Born Sunday, you are not one to put intellectual pursuits above those endeavors that require emotional commitment, for you are “all heart,” and do everything in a manner that eschews logic for instinct and those “special feelings” that you get about people and things that you trust far more than anything your mind might tell you. There are times when you may find yourself facing far more than any one person should have to handle at any one time, and yet you are able to acquit yourself in such situations, for you can apply both talent and commitment to the completion of even the most difficult task, or combination of tasks. You’re no stranger to hardship, and you know how to play — and work — to win. Also born on this date are: Albert Pujols, baseball player; Aaliyah, singer; Sade, singer; Debbie Allen, actress, dancer, choreographer; Dizzy Dean, baseball player; Ethel Merman, singer, actress, entertainer; Max Joseph, filmmaker and television host. To see what is in store for you Monday, find your birthday and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday

star be your daily guide. MONDAY, JANUARY 17 CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You have a plan that is dependent upon the cooperation of many other people. Don’t leave this to chance; get in touch early in the day! AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — You’re likely to be contacted by someone who assumes the information to be delivered concerns you — but this is surely not the case. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — Your interpretation of signs and signals will be all over the place today, and you must take care that you don’t let an error endanger you. ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Your priorities do not match those of a loved one, but working together, you can ensure that both of you are satisfied by day’s end. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — You may have to travel some distance today to fulfill a “bucket list” desire. This could be premature, but there’s certainly no harm in that. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You may not be able to concentrate on what you have to do today because of something you are told early in the day. Work this out! CANCER (June 21-July 22) — You may

want to cancel something tomorrow because, for reasons you’re not willing to share, you cannot give it the attention it requires. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Fact and fiction make themselves known in an unusual way today, and this works out well for you as you must discern one from the other. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Someone makes a move that pushes you into a defensive posture — but by day’s end, you’ll be able to take the offensive initiative once more. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You may have to arrange something through long-distance channels today, but your communication skills will serve you quite well in this. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Information comes your way today that stops you in your tracks, perhaps — but if so, only briefly. You’ll come up with a new plan of attack. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — The help you need is on the way, and whether it arrives in time depends on what stage you are in when it comes to the day’s assignment.

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processors means some hunters may end up butchering their deer themselves, even if they don’t know how. To create a winning dish, you not only need to cook it properly — hot and fast for tender cuts like steaks and chops, and low and slow for the tougher round or shoulder — but also make sure you procure it from a trusted source. In Pennsylvania, it’s illegal to sell deer meat unless it’s farm-raised and inspected. But the good news is, even if you aren’t friends with a generous hunter, venison is fairly easy to find around here. It will, however, come from a farm instead of the woods, and it likely won’t be the white-tailed species you see in Pennsylvania’s woods. Most retail venison, including that from Highbourne Deer Farms in Dallastown, York County, comes from red deer raised on pasture, grain and hay. It generally costs a bit more than beef. Strip District Meats sells ground venison from New Zealand for $11.99 per pound. The store also has venison bistro filets ($62.99 for 3 pounds), venison medallions ($27.99 for four 4-ounce medallions), venison tenderloins ($55.99) and a venison Frenched rack ($78.99). All are vacuum-packed and frozen. You also can purchase it

Warm up on a cold winter’s day with a bowl of venison chili. Metro Creative Graphics

online or by mail order through retailers such as Whole Foods, Cabela’s and D’Artagnan. Its relatively high price is why you don’t often find venison on restaurant menus, says Racicot. It can easily run $48 a pound, with fine dining places often charging upwards of $42 for a prepared 5-ounce portion, “which is a really small piece of meat,” he says. “So it’s difficult.” To drive home how easy it is to cook a piece of venison well, Racicot recently prepared a 6-ounce tenderloin from his private stash in The Commoner’s commercial kitchen. After covering the steak with

3 tablespoons good vegetable oil (I used sesame) 1 1/2 pounds ground chicken Salt and pepper 1 15-ounce can black beans, drained and rinsed 2 tablespoons ketchup 2 tablespoons cider vinegar 1 tablespoon cornstarch 1 teaspoon dark sesame oil 1 teaspoon red chili flakes, or to taste 1 teaspoon ground Sichuan peppercorn 1 pound green beans, trimmed Butterhead, green leaf or romaine lettuce, washed, dried and separated into leaves Chopped fresh cilantro, for garnish Chopped pistachios, for garnish

and cook, stirring occasionally, until it’s browned and crisp in places, 5-10 minutes. While chicken cooks, mash black beans with a fork in a small bowl. Add ketchup, vinegar, cornstarch, sesame oil, chili flakes and Sichuan peppercorn. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Stir and mash until a thick paste forms. Add the mixture to the browned chicken, stirring until coated and fragrant, 1-2 minutes. Add ½ cup water and green beans and stir. Bring to a boil, reduce the heat so the mixture bubbles steadily and cover. Cook, stirring once or twice, until the sauce thickens and the beans are as tender as you like, 5-10 minutes. Taste and adjust seasonings. To serve, spoon chicken mixture into lettuce leaves. Top with chopped cilantro and chopped pistachio. Serves 6.

Heat oil in a large skillet on medium-high. Add chicken, sprinkle with salt and pepper

Adapted from “Dinner for Everyone” by Mark Bittman (Clarkson Potter, $40)

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a very generous amount of salt — a lot of it falls off in the pan, he explains — he crushes a couple cloves of garlic on the stainless-steel counter with the palm of his hand, peels it and sets it aside with a small bundle of fresh thyme and half a sliced shallot. Placing a small carbon steel skillet on the burner over high heat (you can use any thick pan you’re comfortable with), he pours in 3 tablespoons of grapeseed oil, a neutral oil prized for its high smoke point. When the oil sizzles and emits a slight whiff of smoke, he places the tenderloin in the pan.

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VENISON CHILI “This recipe works well, it’s easy to make and any number of substitutions can be made and it’s still tasty,” Racicot says. He likes to garnish it with cheese and sour cream, with some crusty bread or oyster crackers on the side. Cocoa powder adds to its depth and richness. 3 tablespoons olive oil 1 cup diced onion 1cup diced peppers

1 habanero (optional) 6 cloves garlic, smashed and chopped 3 tablespoons chili powder 1 1/2 tablespoon cumin 1/4 tablespoon cayenne 1/2 tablespoon cinnamon 2 pounds ground venison 12 ounces beer (Iron City, of course) 24-ounce can chopped tomatoes 6 ounces tomato paste 15-ounce can kidney beans, optional 1/4 cup cocoa powder Salt, to taste Shredded cheese, scallions and sour cream, for serving Add oil to large, heavybottomed pan set over moderate heat. Add onion, peppers and habanero (if using) and cook until peppers are tender, 7-10 minutes. Add garlic and cook until fragrant, about 30 seconds, then add spices and venison. Cook, breaking meat up with a spoon, until it’s no longer pink, about 5 minutes. Add beer, chopped tomatoes, tomato paste and kidney beans (if using) and stir well. Add cocoa powder and stir well to combine, then season with salt. Reduce heat to low and cook chili for a few hours, stirring occasionally as it thickens. Serve hot in a bowl with whatever garnish you like. Serves 8. Chef David Racicot, The Commoner

Chicken or Just Mushroom Tetrazzini. Rey Lopez/Washington Post

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Mark Bittman’s take on Ma Po, a Sichuan dish featuring tofu in a spicy sauce, is made with ground chicken, green beans and Sichuan peppercorns for heat. Gretchen McKay/Pittsburgh Post-

“You want it hot and fast initially,” he says. After about 2 minutes, he turns the steak over, adds 3 tablespoons of butter and immediately turns down the heat. After the butter melts into the oil, he adds garlic, shallot and thyme, and starts spooning the fragrant, sizzling liquid over the steak again and again. “This is where the cooking process happens,” he says. While it’s not necessary, basting allows the meat to cook faster and more evenly. Four minutes later, when the steak is a golden, caramel brown, the chef declares

it done. The entire kitchen smells terrific. After letting the meat rest for at least 4 minutes — 133-135 degrees is right for mid-rare to medium — he slices it across the grain, plates it with the aromatics and spoons a simple huckleberry gastrique on top. “The longer you let it sit without it getting cold, the better,” he notes. A taste reveals Racicot is on the money: While you can tell you’re not eating beef, it doesn’t taste gamey, just distinctive in a good way. When he cooks venison at home for his wife, Kelly, Racicot typically prepares it with winter spices and roasted root vegetables because “it just makes sense.” It’s a little more upscale served on the job, with braised red cabbage, caramelized apples and sauces made with beets and juniper berries. “See?” he says with a smile after a reporter takes two bites. “It’s good!”

“Tetris-zzini.” I studied the photo on the page and decided that it looked appropriately “American,” as it was served in a casserole and contained three types of dairy. While my brother played video games, Frida and I got to work. She sauteed mushrooms and onions, and I grated the cheese. She boiled the pasta, and I stirred the sauce. We tasted it before it went into the oven. “Hmm ... needs pepper,” she said, cracking more on top before pouring it into a casserole dish. After it came out of the oven, she portioned it into bowls. I watched her face as she took a bite. She nodded, and a small smile formed on her face. “I think I like this one,” Frida said, surprising herself. I remember feeling a sense of calm that night while I waited for my mom to pick us up. At least in that moment in time, the pieces had fallen into place.

TETRAZZINI Total time: 45 mins, plus optional baking time Servings: 4 Storage Notes: Leftovers may be refrigerated for up to 4 days. This isn’t a traditional tetrazzini, which relies on a butter-and-flour roux, and lots of milk, for a bechamel sauce. Instead, I’ve called in a can of white beans, pureed in a blender. It eliminates the roux entirely and adds plenty of protein, which may encourage you to skip the meat here. I’ve also made it a one-pot meal. (If you want to bake it, use an ovenproof skillet so you don’t have to dirty a casserole dish.) Here are some ways to play around with it: Feel free to skip the onion, and add more garlic and mushrooms. If you dislike mushrooms, how about finely chopped butternut squash or sliced sun-dried tomatoes? You could also double down on the beans, and add ¾ cup of cooked or canned (and drained) chickpeas, borlotti or black-eyed peas to the sauce. Not into thyme? Use rosemary, marjoram or parsley. No spaghetti in the pantry? Any pasta will work. Cook it according to the package instructions. I like the sour cream stirred into the sauce, but it’s optional, and goat cheese could add extra creaminess, too. NOTE: To make this recipe vegan, omit the chicken and cheese, and add ¼ cup of

nutritional yeast and 1 teaspoon of dry mustard to the sauce. 3 tablespoons olive oil, plus more for greasing, if desired 1 medium onion (8 ounces), diced 8 ounces mushrooms, preferably button, cremini or porcini, thinly sliced 1 1/2 teaspoons fine sea salt or table salt, divided 1 sprig fresh thyme, plus more for garnish if desired (may substitute 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme) 4 cloves garlic, minced or finely grated 1/4 cup dry white wine (optional) 8 ounces dry spaghetti One (15-ounce) can cannellini beans, or about 1 pound of cooked cannellini beans in their broth 1 cup (3 ounces) grated Parmesan cheese, plus more for serving if desired (see NOTE) 1/2 teaspoon freshly cracked black pepper 8 ounces cooked chicken, pulled into bite-sized pieces (optional) 2 tablespoons sour cream (optional) In a deep, wide, lidded skillet over medium-high heat, heat the olive oil until it shimmers. Add the onion, mushrooms, ½ teaspoon of salt and the thyme and cook, stirring occasionally, until the onion and mushrooms begin to caramelize, about 10 minutes. Stir in the garlic and cook for 1 more minute. Stir in the white wine, if using. Transfer the

onion and mushroom mixture to a bowl. To the same skillet, add the spaghetti, enough water to cover by 1 inch, and the remaining 1 teaspoon of salt. Cover and bring to a rolling boil. (This shouldn’t take long as the skillet will still be quite hot.) Cook until al dente, about 10 minutes. Reserve 1 cup of the pasta water; drain the pasta, leaving some water clinging to it, and return it to the skillet. Keep warm over very low heat. In the pitcher of a blender, combine ½ cup of reserved pasta water, the beans and their liquid, Parmesan and pepper and blend until very smooth. Pour the mixture over the pasta. Add the cooked onion and mushroom mixture, chicken, if using, and sour cream, if using. Stir until the pasta is well-coated in the sauce. If it seems a little dry, add more pasta water. The pasta can be served family-style, right from the skillet or, if desired, baked in a casserole dish. If baking: Position a rack in the middle of the oven and preheat to 350 degrees. Grease a 9-inch square baking dish with olive oil. Transfer the pasta mixture to the greased dish, and sprinkle with additional Parmesan, if desired. Bake for about 15 minutes, or until the cheese is mostly melted and the pasta is very hot but not dry. Serve family-style. From staff writer G. Daniela Galarza.