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Union awaits prison visitation results

By Ted Remsnyder Columbia-Greene Media

COXSACKIE — Despite new statewide visitation limits that require all outside visitors to produce a negative COVID-19 test, COVID-19 cases remain persistent in local state prisons. James Miller, director of Public Relations of the New York State Correctional Officers & Police Benevolent Association, said the union membership is waiting to see the results from the new visitation policy.

“Obviously it’s still too early to determine whether or not there’s been a decrease as a result of that,” he said on Friday. “Under the circumstances with the omicron variant and the number of increased cases throughout the state, it was necessary to do.” There are 85 current COVID cases in the medium-security Greene Correctional Facility in Coxsackie. As of Wednesday, there were 19 active COVID cases among the prison population at the maximum-security

Coxsackie Correctional Facility, according to the New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision. New state regulations that took effect Jan. 11 to combat the omicron wave stipulate that all visitors to state prisons ages 2 and older must take a COVID test on-site before entering a prison facility. Testing kits are provided to visitors by the correctional facilities.

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There are currently 19 active COVID-19 cases at the staterun Coxsackie Correctional Facility.

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Fire destroys Cairo home, pets believed dead

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CAIRO — A fast-moving fire destroyed a home in Cairo on Thursday night, Cairo Fire Chief Ray Feml said Friday. The lone occupant of the home was able to get out safely with two pet dogs before firefighters arrived. However, several cats are believed to have perished in the blaze, Feml said. The cause of the fire is under investigation, but it is believed to have started in a

space heater, Feml said. At about 7:01 p.m., Greene County 911 sent Cairo Fire Company to 555 Rudolph Weir Jr. Road after the homeowner reported that his house was on fire. When the first firefighters arrived at the scene, fire had fully engulfed the structure. “Flames were shooting out of all the windows of the onestory wood frame house when we pulled up,” Feml said. Fire officials requested See FIRE A8

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Flames shoot through the roof of a home in Cairo on Thursday night.

A home in Cairo is being called a total loss, following a fire on Thursday night.

Police seize cocaine and pills, 2 charged By Bill Williams Columbia-Greene Media

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Two Columbia County men were charged with felony drug possession, following a traffic stop Thursday morning, on Route 23 in Catskill.

Brad R. Hapeman, 48, (pictured) and Crawford Boice, 28, were charged with felony drug possession following a traffic stop on Thursday in Catskill.

CATSKILL — Two Columbia County men were arrested in Catskill on felony drug possession charges following a traffic stop early Thursday morning, said Steven Nevel, public information officer for state police Troop F. Brad R. Hapeman, 48, of

Hudson, was charged with third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a class B felony, fifth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a class D felony, and manufacturing drug-related paraphernalia, a class A misdemeanor, Nevel said. Crawford Boice, 28, of

Ancram, who was the driver of the vehicle, was charged with fifth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a class D felony, operator impaired by drugs and driving with a suspended registration, Nevel said. At about 12:52 a.m., state See CHARGED A8

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The anti-vaxxers are coming to D.C., and their leader is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Washington Post

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executive of Holston, said in a statement to NBC News that his agency wants to make sure that “vulnerable children” do not “lose access to Christian families.” “Holston Home places children with families that agree with our statement of faith, and forcing Holston Home to violate our beliefs and place children in homes that do not share our faith is wrong and contrary to a free society,” Williams added. The lawsuit comes two years after the state’s Republican governor, Bill Lee, signed a bill providing legal protections to taxpayer-funded foster care and adoption agencies that deny services to people based on their sexual orientation or religion. Other states that have passed similar laws include Texas, Alabama, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Virginia, South Dakota and North Dakota. Leaders of organizations like the AntiDefamation League’s Southern Division and the Campaign for Southern Equality publicly decried Lee’s move, calling the bill discriminatory.

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The nation’s capital will once again be awash in the aura of an electrifying Kennedy this weekend. But this is no Camelot. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - a prince of disinformation in the anti-vaccination kingdom - is marching on Washington with thousands of largely maskless followers this Sunday. The Kennedys - despite my pestering - aren’t talking about it. At least, not to me. “I love my uncle Bobby,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s niece, Kerry Meltzer, a doctor, wrote in an opinion piece about her uncle’s celebrity status in the murky world of anti-vaccine science. “But when it comes to vaccines, he is wrong.” His membership in the exclusive “Disinformation

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. with his wife, actress Cheryl Hines, in 2018.

Dozen,” the biggest spreaders of covid-19 hoaxes and mistruths by researchers who studied social media, has made him a pariah in the Washington circles his family members dominated. But he is beloved by the

luxe and wacky anti-vaxxers of his Napa Valley and Malibu social circles in California, many of whom will join conspiracy theorists, discredited doctors, angry MAGAs and at least 200 D.C. firefighters who are unhappy with the

District’s strict covid protocols. The permit they filed with the National Park Service said they expect 20,000. They’re bringing in 97 port-a-potties. Even though D.C. police are expecting closer 3,000 people, it may be the biggest superspreader event we’ve had yet. If you haven’t been following Kennedy’s ascent in this world, it’s a little jarring. He was 14 and a student at Georgetown Prep when he learned that his dad was assassinated in Los Angeles. After some stumbles, he became a respected environmental lawyer and activist, winning a $289 million jury verdict against Monsanto and winning multiple cases to protect coastlines and waterways. Then it got weird. (He was banned on Instagram.)

A sheriff’s deputy called Ahmaud Arbery a ‘criminal’ who ‘got the death penalty.’ He just resigned. Jonathan Edwards The Washington Post

A Georgia TV station broke national news on its Facebook page earlier this month: The three men convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery had been sentenced to life in prison. A local law enforcement officer took to the comment section, not to condemn the men convicted of murder but the man they’d killed. “That criminal arbery still got the death penalty though,” Paul Urhahn wrote. A firestorm erupted and has raged for nearly two weeks. Urhahn was quickly identified as a deputy with the Houston County Sheriff’s Office in Georgia. Scores of social media users howled for him to be fired. The local TV station that published the original Facebook post has aired multiple stories about the growing controversy. Three days after Urhahn posted his comment, which he ultimately deleted, his boss, Sheriff Cullen Talton, suspended the 20-year veteran without pay. The longtime sheriff told Urhahn via letter that he planned to fire him at the end of a 10-day period in which Urhahn could appeal the decision. In the letter, Talton said he had determined Urhahn violated multiple sheriff’s office policies, including those forbidding

deputies from doing anything - on or off duty - that destroys “public respect for employees and confidence in the department.” “Something like this will affect my department tremendously,” Talton told WGXA in an interview, adding that he thinks Urhahn’s Facebook comment was rooted in prejudice. “I don’t put up with racism in my department, and to me, that was a racist remark,” he said. Urhahn denied there were any “racial undertones” to his comment during an internal affairs interview, according to documents published by WGXA. During that interview, Urhahn mentioned that Arbery had a criminal record, which included theft and bringing a gun onto school property. “By definition, that made him a criminal,” Urhahn said, according to the report. Urhahn told his interviewer that he wrote the “death penalty” comment because Facebook had previously flagged his account when he used words like “kill” and “murder” in posts unrelated to Arbery, the report said. So, he told the interviewer, he eventually settled on “death penalty.” “Urhahn had never seen FaceBook flag those words when used together,” the report said. Urhahn didn’t fight his

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impending termination. On Sunday, he handed in a letter of resignation, which took effect Wednesday. While Urhahn didn’t appeal his firing, he defended himself to Talton. In the resignation letter, Urhahn told the sheriff he made the comment about Arbery while he was off duty and “exercising my Constitutional Right to Free Speech,” resulting in “a very unfortunate series of events.” Urhahn criticized the way the sheriff’s office handled the fallout. While he didn’t specify how it had fallen short, Urhahn said those missteps made working there untenable. “After deep consideration, I cannot continue as a member of this team and organization,” he wrote in the letter to Talton. “To continue to do so would be against who I am and what I believe in.” The sheriff didn’t seem disappointed by the resignation when interviewed by WGXA. Talton said he’d forwarded Urhahn’s disciplinary records to the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council, the statewide agency that sets training standards and certifies law enforcement officers in the state. “They can take his credentials away. And I don’t know what they’ll do, but it’s in their hands now,” Talton told the TV station. If it were up to him, though, Uhahn would be stripped of his

badge: “Personally, I don’t think he needs to be in law enforcement.” In February 2020, Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, was jogging through the Satilla Shores neighborhood in Brunswick, Ga. - about 150 miles away from Houston County - when three men chased him in pickup trucks for about five minutes and then gunned him down. The murder sparked nationwide outrage and protests months later when video of the shooting leaked online. The Register-Star/The Daily Mail are published Tuesday through Saturday mornings by Columbia-Greene Media (USPS253620), 364 Warren St., Unit 1, Hudson, N.Y. 12534, a subsidiary of Johnson Newspaper Corp. Periodicals postage paid at Hudson, N.Y., and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to The Register-Star, 364 Warren St., Unit 1, Hudson, N.Y. 12534.

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p.m. Robert C. Antonelli Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill 518-9433830

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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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Assemblyman Chris Tague, R-Schoharie, Executive Director of Community Action of Greene County Florence Ohle and state Sen. Michelle Hinchey on Thursday as the officials deliver COVID supplies to the organization.

Nonprofits receive free COVID tests, masks By Ted Remsnyder Columbia-Greene Media

Tuesday, Feb. 1 n Durham Town Board workshop

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

Wednesday, Feb. 2 n Catskill Central School District

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

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ens Volunteer Firehouse, 39 Third St., Athens 518-945-1052 Changes will be on the Town of Athens web page n Cairo Town Board 7 p.m. Town Hall, 512 Main St., Cairo n Greene County Board of Electrical Examiners 1 p.m. Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., 4th Floor, Room 469, Catskill

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Wednesday, Feb. 9 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 Village Board of Trustees 6:30 p.m. Robert C. Antonelli Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill n Jewett Town Board 7 p.m. Jewett Municipal Building, 3547 County Route 23C, Jewett

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

Monday, Feb. 14 n Ashland Town Board 7:30 p.m. Town Hall, 12094 Route 23, Ashland n Catskill Village Planning Board 7 p.m. Robert C. Antonelli Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill

CATSKILL — State Sen. Michelle Hinchey, D-Saugerties, and Assemblyman Chris Tague, R-Schoharie, teamed up Thursday to deliver 1,000 COVID test kits and KN95 masks to a pair of Greene County nonprofit organizations. The officials delivered the supplies on Jan. 20 to Community Action of Greene County and the Hunter Foundation. The home COVID tests and masks will be distributed to Greene County residents by the Hunter Foundation and sites run by Community Action of Greene County, including the organization’s food pantry and Pay It Forward Thrift Store. “The only way through this pandemic is to ensure that everyone, no matter where they live, has reliable access to adequate testing and quality PPE, which have been increasingly difficult to obtain over the last few weeks,” Hinchey said. “Today, I was happy to help ease that burden by delivering these critical supplies, with Assemblyman Tague, to some of our most vulnerable community members who are served by Community Action of Greene County and the Hunter Foundation. “I’ll continue to advocate for our upstate residents to get the health care resources we need, and I’m incredibly thankful to Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and Gov. Kathy Hochul for their leadership to protect all New Yorkers and for hearing our calls in support of Greene County.” Tague is also set to distribute COVID supplies on Jan. 22 at the Greene County Jail at 45 Haverly Memorial Drive in Coxsackie from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. COVID test kits and KN95 masks will be distributed in the drive-through event on Saturday with a limit of one test and one mask per person.

“These supplies are as needed as they are hard to come by as of late, so I am grateful to have the opportunity to get vital supplies into the hands of organizations that will be able to get them to people who need them most,” Tague said. “The Hunter Foundation and Community Action of Greene County have been tremendous allies to our communities throughout the pandemic so I was honored to partner with them and Sen. Hinchey for this critical effort.” Sean Mahoney, executive director of the Hunter Foundation, said his organization was grateful to secure the COVID supplies for the Hunter-Tannersville region. “The Hunter Foundation would like to thank Sen. Hinchey and Assemblyman Tague for providing muchneeded rapid COVID tests to be dispersed through our Mountaintop community,” Mahoney said in a statement. “These tests have been incredibly difficult to obtain, and when our local pharmacies do get them in stock, they sell out almost instantly,” Mahoney said. “This shipment of tests will allow our rural residents and businesses an easier option to verify whether they have contracted COVID-19 and ultimately make our community safer.” Florence Ohle, executive director of Community Action of Greene County, said the athome tests and masks are critically needed for the group’s clients. “As a Community Action agency serving economically and socially disadvantaged individuals and families, we are aware of the fact that adults with low incomes are more likely to have higher rates of chronic conditions compared to adults with high incomes, which could increase their risk of serious illness if infected with coronavirus,” she said.

HUDSON — Animal lovers in Columbia and Greene counties have raised more than $30,000 for the Columbia-Greene Humane Society through the Betty White Challenge. The shelter hoped to raise $5,000, with a private donor matching that amount for $10,000 total. “This far exceeds our expectations and shows how many animal lovers — and Betty White fans — are located in the Columbia and Greene County areas,” Columbia-Greene Humane Society President Ron Perez said. The nationwide challenge was set forth nationally for everyone to consider making a donation to a local animal shelter on White’s 100th birthday on Jan. 17. “The Golden Girls” star, who died Dec. 31 at age 99, was a lifelong animal lover who worked tirelessly to raise money for numerous animal organizations. The shelter is continuing the challenge through the end of January, and the donor said they will match all donations received through the end of the month, so the totals could reach a few thousand dollars more, Perez said. To make a donation, call the shelter at (518) 828-6044, or visit cghs.org. You may also mail a donation to CGHS, Attn: Betty White, 111 Humane Society Road, Hudson, N.Y. 12534, Perez said. The shelter has seen a strong response from the public, Perez said. In addition to the donation to the shelter, in White’s honor, the Columbia-Greene Humane Society wants supporters to consider adopting a new member of the family. The shelter lists five dogs and 54 cats available for adoption, as well as a few guinea pigs and rabbits. A list of all available pets for adoption and photos can be found on Humane Society website at: cghs. org, Perez said. Among the animal organizations that White was connected to are American Humane, Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association, Guide Dogs for the Blind and the Morris Animal Foundation. In 1971-72, White wrote, produced and hosted

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Betty White, 99, passed away on Dec. 31. A nationwide challenge in her name has raised $30,000 for the ColumbiaGreene Humane Society.

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Peaches is a 2 year old female, Australian Cattle Dog/Mix, and is available for adoption at the Columbia-Greene Humane Society.

Ace is an 8 year old male, Domestic Shorthair/Mix, and is available for adoption at the Columbia-Greene Humane Society.

a syndicated television show called “The Pet Set.” It featured celebrities who brought their dogs and cats to the show. In 1983, White wrote a book entitled “Betty White’s Pet Love: How Pets Take Care of Us.” The book is about the bond between humans and their companion animals

and the diverse benefits of owning a pet. She wrote a second animal-related book in 2011 entitled “Betty & Friends: My Life at the Zoo.” The book offered intimate and humorous anecdotes about her animal friends at the zoo.

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COVID-19’s capricious tease Decades from now when future scientists look back on the COVID-19 epidemic of the early 2020s, they will coin a word for it: “Caprice.” Caprice, according to Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, is “a sudden and unaccountable change of mood or behavior.” The definition is a perfect fit for the coronavirus. COVID-19 cases began to trend downward in Greene County this week, with 79 new cases identified by the Greene County Public Health on Thursday, just when new active cases appeared to be stacking up like a high-rise. Another COVID-related death was reported in Columbia County on Thursday as the numbers of new active cases showed signs of leveling off.

Columbia County on Wednesday had 104 new positive cases and Thursday the Department of Health reported 117 more. In six days in January, the number of new positive cases exceeded 150 in the county. The lower numbers of new cases Wednesday and Thursday are still considered to be big for Columbia County, but the trend is encouraging. As of last Thursday, Greene County had 1,018 active COVID cases, down from the 1,375 active COVID positive cases recorded in the county the week before. The county’s number of positive cases briefly slipped down to triple digits last Wednesday, when the total dropped to 992 active cases. “Certainly, the active cases are down, but I would say

we’re at a plateau,” Greene County Administrator Shuan Groden said. “But we might not be falling yet.” The reaction was the same in Columbia County. “We need to keep wearing masks and continue to social distance around other people,” Columbia County Department of Health Director Jack Mabb said. We’ve called COVID-19 pernicious, insidious and downright cruel, and this latest development affirms our view. It was bad enough to see the coronavirus morph into the delta variant and later the omicron variant, like a deadly microbe imagined by Michael Crichton. It’s worse to think of when the next mutation will arrive and what it will bring.

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Members of Congress should not be allowed to trade individual stocks The Washington Post

Americans don’t need a degree in law or finance to understand that there’s something fishy about members of Congress being allowed to trade individual stocks. Senators and representatives receive a substantial amount of information that the public does not, including details about how U.S. companies operate and how the government scrutinizes businesses. The fact that so much congressional stock trading goes on - with thousands of stocks traded each year by members of both parties - raises legitimate questions about whether they are using their access to that information to enrich themselves, rather than to serve the public. There’s a simple solution to restore trust: Ban trading of individual stocks by members of Congress, something that is gaining bipartisan support on Capitol Hill. The wisdom of such a prohibition is obvious. A majority of Democratic, independent and Republican voters support prohibiting lawmakers from trading stocks, a recent Morning Consult poll shows. It’s also widely supported by good governance groups and ethics experts,

who point out that while current law forbids any American from trading on “insider information,” it’s very hard to prove someone did that, especially if that someone is a member of Congress who needs that information to make policy decisions. Reps. Chip Roy, R-Texas, and Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., are the lead sponsors of one bill, which they have christened the Trust in Congress Act. They first introduced it last year after news broke that numerous lawmakers were making questionable stock trades in the pandemic’s early days, when Congress was receiving frequent closed-door briefings by health and national security officials. “We said, ‘This is ridiculous. How is this even allowed?’ “ Ms. Spanberger said. On the other side of the Capitol, there is also new momentum to make this ban a reality. Sens. Jon Ossoff, DGa., and Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., just introduced a bill similar to the House measure. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., has his own proposal. Several candidates on the 2022 campaign trail have also endorsed the idea. Yes, there are questions to be worked out. Is it enough to simply ban members of Con-

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gress from trading individual stocks? What about their spouses and dependent children? And what about stocks purchased before a member is elected? Should those have to be sold or is it sufficient to put them in a blind trust? But a good start would be to ban lawmakers and their spouses from trading individual stocks while in office, while still allowing them to invest in mutual funds. That is easy to understand - and implement. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., one of the wealthiest members of Congress, has emerged as one of the biggest roadblocks to the ban. Her husband, Paul, has been a frequent trader over the years. Last month, Pelosi stunned many, including this editorial board, when she defended congressional stock trading. She argued it’s enough that lawmakers have to disclosure their trades for the public to see. In reality, 54 members of Congress failed to disclose their trades on time in the past two years, according to an Insider investigation. It’s time to put a stop to this highly questionable behavior. If lawmakers want to play the market, they should select a different career path.

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Medical aid in dying is for preventing a hideous death, not for truncating an unhappy life WASHINGTON — Although Amanda Villegas’s manual dexterity is hindered by her mild case of cerebral palsy, she is a gifted photographer who documented the last five days of her husband’s life with bladder cancer that metastasized. She has posted the photos on Google Drive, under “This is Cancer.” Steel yourself before viewing them. But view them. They ground in reality the increasingly urgent debate about medical aid in dying (MAID). Chris was 29 when he died at home on June 19, 2019, just a week after doctors belatedly gave him a terminal prognosis. The tragedy of his disease had been compounded by multiple misdiagnoses. The unnecessary horrors of his final days were the result of a hospital’s misinformation — perhaps religiously motivated mendacity — and a restrictive provision of a California law that has been liberalized, effective Jan. 1, 2022. Speaking recently by phone from California, Amanda said that Chris, who was skeletal at the end, was so drenched in pain that “he would cringe and scream if anyone touched or moved his bed.” He had been told two falsehoods, that MAID is illegal in California, then that it is legal only in Northern California. While he had the strength, he repeatedly screamed “please let me go.” He died with tubes draining fluids from his stomach, kidneys and chest. California’s MAID law, as enacted in 2015, allows mentally capable adults, with a medical diagnosis of less than six months to live, the option of receiving prescription medication that enables them to die in their sleep. Until amended this year, the law’s eligibility process could take weeks, even months. It included a 15-day waiting period between two oral requests for the medication — a

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WILL delay that put a peaceful end beyond Chris’s reach. One-third of those beginning the eligibility process died before completing it. Beginning this year, the waiting period has been reduced to 48 hours, and hospitals and hospices will be required to post their MAID policies on their websites. (New Mexico adopted similar legislation last year.) The Economist magazine, true to its classical liberal tradition, recently praised “the welcome spread of assisted dying” for advancing a “basic freedom” that is now “legal in one form or another in a dozen countries.” Worldwide, MAID is generating useful data. A British study found that doctors tend to overestimate -- by 500% -- how long terminal patients will live, often to give those suffering illusory hope. In Oregon, which has had MAID since 1997, a third of those who receive end-of-life medication do not take it but derive comfort from having it at hand. In the 25 years since Oregon became the first state to legalize MAID, only 4,209 people nationwide have used it to assert their autonomy in ending their lives on their terms. Ninety percent died where most Americans say they want to die: at home, often with loved ones. Kim Callinan, president and CEO of Compassion & Choices, which advocates for MAID, says it “creates a shift within our end-of-life care

system from a paternalistic model to one that is resoundingly patient-driven.” Her organization says that “over the past six years, 30 national and state medical and professional associations have endorsed or dropped their opposition to” MAID. Skeptics understandably warn about a slippery slope: Persons worried about becoming burdens on their families might find the MAID option coming to imply an obligation. So, a doctor mentioning it might inadvertently be experienced as coercive. If MAID is justified by fear of severe pain culminating in death in less than six months, what about informed choices by mentally sound persons gripped by advancing dementia? Or the psychological afflictions of, say, persons deeply weary of life. Are such persons mentally capable? Crucially, MAID is for those who are already dying and want help — for preventing a hideous death, not for truncating an unhappy life. MAID — the medical management of a natural process — should be considered a supplement to hospice (palliative) care. Life is lived on a slippery slope: Taxation can become confiscation, police can become instruments of tyranny, laws can metastasize suffocatingly. However, taxation, police and laws are indispensable. The challenge is to minimize dangers that cannot be entirely eliminated from society. In percentage terms, Americans 85 and older are the nation’s most rapidly growing age cohort. Medical marvels extend, and enhance the quality of, life — up to a point. MAID, enveloped in proper protocols, can and should be a dignity-enhancing response to especially harrowing rendezvous with the inevitable. George Will’s email address is georgewill@washpost.com.

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Call on local sheriff to keep bad guys away To the editor: Rep. Bulich is on the wrong road in his quest to allow Greene County

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By Dick Brooks

WHITTLING AWAY

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I was passing a full length mirror the other day and made the mistake of looking at it. Lengthwise, I fit just fine, it just wasn’t wide enough. Never having known a mirror that lied, I think it’s time to shed a few pounds. I’ve been considering it for some time now, there are hints and signs that have helped me come to this conclusion. Since the majority of mature Americans are now judged to be overweight, maybe sharing some of my personal observations with you will help some others to resolve to become losers too. I’ve noticed that my legs are getting longer, at least it has become harder to reach my feet, in fact, now that I think about it, it’s been awhile since I’ve seen my feet. The number of Xs on the size tags in my shirts is starting to rival the marque of an adult movie theater. I found one of my t-shirts folded and stored in with the table cloths. I can now use my belt to measure my height. I no longer have a sideways. My double chin has had children of its own.

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BROOKS Actually, it’s not quite that bad, but it is headed in that direction, so I figure I better start now or it may become reality. I’m really not in bad shape, in fact, round is a very nice shape but I’d like to try for oblong at least. It means getting up earlier and making time for some planned exercise. The only problem I foresee is that my favorite early morning exercise is making breakfast. That could be a conflict of interest. I think I’ll hit the library and read up on some of the more popular diets. I’ve been on the Dr. Atkin’s Diet before and liked it, even though the idea of losing weight by eating a whole cow at a sitting while passing up a slice of

bread and a helping of beans never quite seemed logical to me. At the very least, I’ll keep myself entertained for weeks, have you noticed how many books on diets and proper nutrition are in the library? The only section that’s bigger is the cookbook section. Did you know that there are more cookbooks found in the average American home that any other type of book? Maybe I’ve discovered a correlation here between obesity and literacy. Nah! Being a person of reasonable intelligence, I think I’ll gather my support group around me, start moving more and eating less and in a few weeks, I’m sure I’ll start getting positive results. If I don’t, I think I’ll just hang that full length mirror, the one that started all this, sideways and stand farther back, that should also solve the problem. Thought for the week - It’s sad to grow old, but nice to ripen. - Bridgitte Bardot Until next week, may you and yours be happy and well. Reach Dick at whittle12124@ yahoo.com.

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Lessons in life trees teach us By Bob Beyfuss For Columbia-Greene Media

I don’t recall exactly when I wrote this originally, but it must have been 20 to 30 years ago, perhaps longer. My admiration for trees has only grown since then. I feel sorry for urbanites who rarely, or never, get to interact with our wooden neighbors. In recent decades we have learned that trees are much more than passive hunks of wood that simply absorb nutrients, sequester carbon and emit oxygen. We have learned that trees can communicate with other species of trees as well as fungi and plants. Humans consider other living things that don’t speak words we can understand as “primitive. The older I get, the more I wonder about what is really “primitive” and what is “highly evolved.” There are trees alive right now that were growing almost 5,000 years ago. That is roughly when humans were just emerging from the stoneage and writing was being invented. Here are 10 lessons in life that trees have taught me. 1. Be firmly rooted in your particular place. Trees are not wishy-washy, nor are they easily pushed around or moved once they have become established. Some humans have these attributes, too. Together they are referred to as “integrity.” 2. Be firmly rooted, but learn to bend when necessary. If trees could not bend from the wind or the weight of the snow, they would blow over or break into pieces. Survival requires the ability to bend. Humans, too, are far less likely to break down if they can learn how to bend a little, yet still be able to bounce back. 3. It is okay to lean a little. Gravity and sunlight cause trees to grow straight up, but wind and other elements plus

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BEYFUSS time can modify an upright stance. It is certainly desirable to remain firmly rooted in one’s beliefs or principles, but it is also possible to lean one way or the other without compromising. 4. It is important to grow a little each year. Trees that cease to grow soon perish. Growth need not be linear or obvious or even physical, but it should be as regular and routine as the passing of the seasons. Humans who stop growing also begin to die, whether we know it or not. 5. Shed a little excess baggage each year. The leaves on trees are not permanent! Even so called “evergreens” shed their needles after two or three seasons. In order for new growth to occur, trees must shed nonproductive leaves. Humans also need to shed some excess baggage on a regular basis (I am not just referring to the extra pounds we seem to put on each year – especially in our “middle” age). We all carry useless emotional baggage that is better left on the ground. 6. It is good to have tough bark. The most alive and growing tissue on a tree is just beneath the bark. It is called the vascular cambium. A tough bark protects this vital tissue from damage. Humans also need tough bark (thick skin) to protect our tender souls from all sorts of emotional damage. 7. Develop an extensive,

wide-spreading root system. Roots are not just for anchorage. Roots absorb water and nutrients while forming complex inter-relationships with other roots, fungi, plants, and animals. Humans are also a product of their immediate environment. If we can reach out far and wide, beyond our arm’s or leg’s length (our dripline?) to absorb or use what is out there, we too will thrive. 8. Tolerate some shade or provide some shade. Most trees will grow bigger, taller, and stronger in full sunlight, but others need some shade from their taller companions to survive, or to become established. Many people, too, need some shade from their taller companions to survive. This situation may switch back and forth many times during a lifetime. 9. Protect your environment. No area of land on this planet has better stewards than the forests. Trees protect soil from erosion, while recycling essential nutrients. They provide food, shelter, and refuge, not only for themselves, but for the countless other organisms that depend upon them. Humans worry much about our own tiny space, while often ignoring the needs of the communities (forests) that surround us. 10. Be useful, even in death. Forest trees that die due to natural causes or harvest are as important to the health and overall forest community as those that live and grow each year. Trees killed for harvest provide wood for housing, furniture, fuel, baseball bats, violins and a million other things that may last many lifetimes. If an ash tree is destined to become a baseball bat, will you teach a child to hit a ball with it? Reach Bob at rlb14@cornell.edu.

COASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY CATSKILL — Ashley Shook, a Exercise and Sport Science major from Catskill, has been named to the Dean’s List for the Fall 2021 semester at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, S.C.

SUNY CANTON CANTON — SUNY Canton recognizes more than 400 students for making the Dean’s List during the fall 2021 semester. Students honored include: Matthew E. Skopinsky, a SUNY Canton Graphic and Multimedia Design major from Windham; Elissa Zmiyarch, a SUNY Canton Legal Studies major from Saugerties. CANTON — SUNY Canton recognizes more than 200 part-time students for academic excellence during the fall 2021 semester. Students honored include: Nylah Interrante, a SUNY Canton Finance major, from Round Top; Mirka C. Vazquez, a SUNY Canton Cybersecurity major, from Saugerties. CANTON — SUNY Canton recognizes approximately 600 students for earning a spot on the President’s List during the fall 2021 semester. Students honored include: Madison Timothy, a SUNY Canton Graphic and Multimedia Design major from Catskill; Eli J. Larson, a SUNY Canton Mechatronics Technology major from Earlton; William J. Churchill, a SUNY Canton Mechanical Engineering Technology major from Preston Hollow; Samantha C. Woolford, a SUNY Canton Legal Studies major from Selkirk.

SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE UNIVERSITY MANCHESTER, New Hampshire — It is with great pleasure that Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) congratulates the following students on being named to the Fall 2021 President’s List. Victoria Fiorelli of Coxsackie, Catherine Aplin of Windham, Krystal Kay of

Leeds, Carrie Morgan of New Baltimore, Jean Bailey of Leeds, Carly Glassbrenner of Selkirk, Laurel Mark of Woodstock, Carey Tiedeman of Saugerties. SAUGERTIES — Cheyenne Fisher of Saugerties has been named to Southern New Hampshire University’s Fall 2021 Dean’s List.

BUFFALO STATE COLLEGE BUFFALO — Buffalo State College is pleased to recognize the following students who have been named to the Fall 2021 Dean’s List. In general, students who have completed at least 12 credit hours and who have attained a GPA of 3.5 or higher qualify for the Buffalo State dean’s list. Full criteria and grade-type exceptions can be found in the undergraduate catalog. Josh Arsenault of Saugerties, Steven Baxter of Athens.

NAZARETH COLLEGE ROCHESTER — Nazareth students named to the Fall 2021 Dean’s List. Alexa Powell of Palenville, Chelsea Vogel of Selkirk.

BELMONT UNIVERSITY GREENVILLE — Hailey Cummings of Greenville qualified for the Fall 2021 Dean’s List at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn.

ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY WOODSTOCK — Bethanie Gartner of Woodstock has been named to the Fall 2021 Dean’s List at Roger Williams University, in Bristol, R.I.

EMERSON COLLEGE TANNERSVILLE — Jared Haines of Tannersville is among the students named to Emerson College’s Dean’s List for the Fall 2021 semester. Haines is majoring in Communication Studies and is a member of the Class of 2022.

CASTLETON UNIVERSITY EARLTON — Mason Osborn of Earlton was recently named to the Castleton University President’s List for the fall semester of the 202122 academic year. EAST DURHAM — Mikaela Phillips of East Durham

was recently named to the Castleton University Dean’s List for the fall semester of the 2021-22 academic year.

ALFRED STATE WINDHAM — Dante Savasta of Windham earned dean’s list honors for the 2021 fall semester at Alfred State.

SIENA COLLEGE President’s List LOUDONVILLE — Siena College names students to the President’s List for the Fall 2021 semester. Kacey Chamberlin of Coxsackie, Julia Czermerys of Hunter, Abigail Draiss of Athens, Kimberly Gonzalez of Maplecrest, Gabriella Morse of Coeymans Hollow, Aidan O’Connor of Greenville, Peyton Russell of East Durham. Dean’s List LOUDONVILLE — Siena College names students to the Dean’s List for the Fall 2021 semester. Iram Asif of Catskill, Timothy Biernacki of Coeymans Hollow, Ernest Briskey of Tannersville, Steven Cody of Round Top, Kathleen Collins of Prattsville, Jennifer Cuti of Cairo, Sarah Dauphin of Cairo, Joshua Deyo of Catskill, Shelby Doren of Greenville, William Fitzmaurice of Catskill, Hayden-Grace Francis of Preston Hollow, Adrianna Jones of Catskill, Scott Leggio of Athens, Claire Tolan of Greenville.

CLARKSON UNIVERSITY Presidential Scholar LEEDS — Rowan Thomas True of Leeds, a senior majoring in mechanical engineering, was named a Presidential Scholar for the fall 2021 semester at Clarkson Universityin Potsdam. Dean’s List POTSDAM — Students have been named to the Dean’s List for the fall 2021 semester at Clarkson University Faichal Iravena Ayeva of New Baltimore, Austin C. Field of Freehold, Jenna Keute of West Coxsackie, Lindsey Grace Penet of Athens, Robert Joshua Schneider of West Coxsackie.

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Robert R. Eddy January 5, 2022 Robert R. Eddy, 83, of Newburgh and formerly of Sleepy Hollow Lake, Athens died at home on January 5, 2022. He was born in Salem, OR, a son of the late Harold and Nora Echols Eddy. Robert helped raise three wonderful children, Donald Ray Eddy, Susan Aileen Aichele and Robert Eric Eddy. He was grandfather to Christopher Kent Coward, Renea Sue Bond, Matthew Steven Bond and Rachel Anne Hite and great grandfather to Madisen Seria Tanori, Hunter Christen Tanori, Lauren Bond and Kalleon Hite.

Robert retired after 28 years of custodial service with the Lebanon School District. After moving to New York, he worked for First Student for six years. He loved people, telling stories, animals, motorcycles, and camping. He was a 23-year member of the Catskill Elks Lodge. Memorial contributions may be made to your local Hospice. Funeral arrangements by Millspaugh Camerato Funeral Home, Catskill. Messages of condolences may be made to MillspaughCamerato.com.

January 17, 1958 - January 13, 2022 Michael Raymond Francis, age 63 years, of Catskill, New York, and is the son of Amelia C. Francis of Germantown, New York, and the late Raymond Francis. Besides his father, Michael is predeceased by his wife Antoinette Francis, who passed away a few years ago. Besides his mother, Michael is survived by his son Jeremy M. Francis of Catskill, New York, his two sisters Patricia Francis of Catskill, New York, and Beckie Russi of Texas, and several nieces and nephews. Michael loved spending time with his family, he also loved motorcycles and Indian crafts. There will be no services at this time. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Richards Funeral Home, 29 Bross Street, Cario, New York, 12413. Condolences may be made at www.richardsfuneralhomeinc.net

Shirley J. Graff Shirley J. Graff, 73, of Catskill died January 20, 2022. Hours on Tuesday, funeral on Wednesday. www.MillspaughCamerato. com

Laura L. Kinnicutt August 18, 1944 - January 20, 2022 Laura L. Kinnicutt, 77, of Valatie, NY, died Thursday, January 20, 2022 at Pine Haven Home. Born August 18, 1944 in Chatham, NY, she was the daughter of the late Albert and Clara (Bailey) Kinnicutt . Laura was a Press Room Supervisor at Rielly Mills in Valatie for many years. She was a lifelong member of the First Presbyterian Church in Valatie and was the most caring and sweet woman you could ever meet. She is survived by her sister Linda Kinnicutt of Niverville, her brother George Kinnicutt of North Chatham, A niece Rebecca Kinnicutt of North Chatham, a nephew Dennis Kinnicutt of Kinderhook, a great niece Kara Kinnicutt and a great nephew Robert Kinnicutt. She was predeceased by her niece Melissa Kinnicutt. Graveside services in Prospect Hill Cemetery will be private for the family. Those wishing may make contributions to the Valatie Ecumenical Food Pantry, P.O. Box 267, Valatie NY 12184. Arrangements are under the direction of the Raymond E. Bond Funeral Home, Valatie, NY.

Arline Pearl Tompkins 1923 - 2022 Arline Pearl Tompkins, 98, beloved daughter, wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, cousin, friend, and companion; passed in her home in the arms of her daughter and beloved companion. Arline was born in Brooklyn in 1923 and moved to Palenville when she was six years old. She resided in Palenville for most of her life, with a short residence in South Weymouth, MA when her husband was in the service. She also kept a home on Hutchinson Island in Fort Pierce, FL for many years. She attended Rowena Memorial School in Palenville and graduated from Catskill High School. She worked for Saugerties Manufacturing and General Electric during World War II and, later in life; in the Catskill Elementary School for 25 years as a teacher’s assistant, until her retirement. She was a charter member of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Palenville Fire Department, and a past president of both the Palenville Fire Department Ladies Auxiliary, and Green County Ladies Auxiliary. She was a member of the PTA of Rowena elementary school where also taught both Girl Scouts and Red Cross swimming lessons. Arline was a member of the Simpson Memorial United Methodist Church in Palenville for over 70 years and taught Sunday school there at three different times during her life. Arline was predeceased by parents, Margaret and George Albert; her husband, Chester W. Tompkins; her aunt, Katherine Garrison (Claude) and her uncle, William Albert. She is survived by her daughter, Karen Margaret Ormerod and son-in-law Bill; her grandchildren, William John Ormerod Jr and wife Jennifer, and Scott Matthew and wife Stephanie; her great grandchildren, Mara, Julia, Morgan, and Jacob; her godson, Chester W. Garrison and wife Patricia; her cousin Ronald Garrison and wife Barbara, many nieces and nephews. Her loving companion, Dennis Wynne, died the following day. Calling hours will be held on Monday from 4:00 – 7:00 PM at Millspaugh Camerato Funeral Home, 139 Jefferson Hgts., Catskill. Funeral Service will be on Tuesday at 12:00 PM at the Simpson Memorial United Methodist Church, 691 Rt. 32A, Palenville, followed by interment at the Palenville Cemetery. Face coverings or masks are required inside the funeral home and church. Donations in Arline’s name can be made to the Simpson Memorial United Methodist Church, C/O Karen Ormerod, 7 Birchwood Park, Palenville, NY 12463 Messages of condolences may be made at www.MillspaughCamerato.com.

COVID down 67% in NY

By Kate Lisa

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UPTON — The state’s daily COVID-19 infection rate decreased to 9.75% Friday — the first time in the single digits since before Christmas Day. The state’s daily number of new COVID-19 infections declined to 9.75% Friday, and 12.27% over a seven-day average, reflecting a decrease of 66.6% over the last two weeks. It is the first time the state marked fewer than 10% positive new coronavirus infections in a 24-hour period since Dec. 20. “The trend is heading in the right direction,” Hochul said during a COVID briefing Friday at the Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island. “We have been waiting for this moment. ... Our positivity is going down.” The state’s COVID positivity peaked Jan. 2 at more than 23% following an increase in large, indoor gatherings following the holiday season that culminated with New Year’s celebrations. The virus infection rate is also persisting to slope downward across the state’s 10 regions. The North Country, Finger Lakes and Capital Region, continue to have new cases several percentage points above the state average, at 16.72%, 16.03% and 15.04%, respectively, Friday. “This is still to be taken very seriously — we are not letting our foot off the pedal until we can declare that we are in a place where we can manage without all the restrictions we put in place,” Hochul said. “But until then, we do believe that everything we’re doing, continuing to keep socially distant, getting vaccinated and wearing the mask, is

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Gov. Kathy Hochul announced on Long Island on Friday the state’s coronavirus positivity rate has declined to single-digit numbers for the first time since before Christmas.

making a big difference.” The downward trend is encouraging, Hochul said, but the declining trajectory needs to continue for a few weeks before the state can safely ease its COVID-19 mandates, including the Dec. 10 order requiring all New Yorkers to wear face masks or show proof of vaccination before entering a business. The mandate was originally set to expire Jan. 15, but was extended earlier this month through Feb. 1 because of the peaking infections at the time, caused by the mild but more virulent omicron variant. “I will tell you about Feb. 1 on Jan. 31,” Hochul said. “I do need to wait until that time.” As with past state mandates, officials would not name a specific infection rate, hospitalization measurement or other COVID-19 metric that would trigger the mandate’s end. “I’m going to continue to use the element of time, and at the right time, assess where we are,” Hochul said. “...I’d

be negligent if I said now on a certain date something is going to happen, and I think people respect that — those who are not just playing politics and trying to get headlines will understand that, and I’m going to reserve that right. Could it be? Yes. Could it not be? Yes. But I don’t expect to know.” The mandate under former governor Andrew Cuomo that required New Yorkers to wear face masks or coverings in public — first implemented in April 2020 — did not have an expiration date. Hochul is willing to lift the state’s mask mandate for public school students if more New York children and teenagers get vaccinated against the coronavirus, she added. Officials are in continuous discussions with the state Education Department about the appropriate time to lift the student mask requirement. “They’re common sense, this is the right thing to do and this is not permanent,” Hochul said. “One of the best

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WASHINGTON — Although most Americans are able to have up to eight at-home COVID-19 tests per month covered by their health insurance, military service members and their families covered by TRICARE cannot. A group of U.S. senators, including Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand, D-N.Y., are hoping to change that. In a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III, Sen. Gillibrand and five other Democrats asked that the Department of Defense expand the TRICARE program’s coverage to include at-home COVID-19 tests the same way private health insurance does. “We write to urge the Department of Defense to expand TRICARE coverage to include at-home tests under the same requirements as the Biden Administration is requiring for those covered under private insurance,” the letter reads. Alongside Sen. Gillibrand, Sens. Mazie K. Hirono, D-Hawaii, Elizabeth A. Warren, DMass., Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, and Tina Smith, DMinn., signed onto the letter. On Jan. 10, President

days I look forward to, outside of being done with our budget this year, is that our requirements are suspended and that they did the job they were supposed to do and kept New Yorkers safe.” The state will open 17 new pop-up COVID vaccine sites to inoculate children and adolescents against the coronavirus in the coming weeks. Children ages 5 and older and eligible to get vaccinated against the virus. New vaccine sites will open at Clinton Community College in Plattsburgh from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday; at the Troy Farmer’s Market from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday and at the Orleans-Niagara BOCES in Sanborn, Niagara County, from 3 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 26. More than 1.5 million children ages 5 to 17 in the state have been vaccinated to date. Slightly more than 11,000 New Yorkers remain in the hospital with coronavirus infections, but 554 virus-positive patients were discharged overnight, also suggesting hospitalizations have peaked and will embark on a declining trend. The state reported 154 COVID deaths Thursday, totaling at least 62,873 New Yorkers dead from virus complications since the start of the pandemic in March 2020, according to Johns Hopkins University & Medicine.

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Joseph R. Biden issued an executive order requiring that all American insurance companies and group health plans cover up to eight at-home COVID tests per month, per person covered, starting on Jan. 15. For eight tests, the out-of-pocket cost can reach $100 or more, No orders have been issued for all of the health care programs run by the U.S. government, like Medicare or TRICARE. Only Medicaid offers coverage for at-home tests as of this week. TRICARE is the primary DOD health insurance program, offering civilian health benefits to members of the U.S. military, service retirees and their dependents.

It provides coverage to 1.14 million active-duty soldiers, 1.64 million active-duty family members, and 2.34 million retirees and family members ages 65 and older, according to Health.mil. “It is critical that the 9.6 million TRICARE beneficiaries have access to at-home tests to keep them and their communities safe,” the senators wrote. Under the current rules, a TRICARE beneficiary must have an official order for a test issued by a medical provider who participates in the TRICARE system. The health plan does offer coverage for PCR tests administered at testing sites at no cost to the beneficiary.

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TGIF BROOKS’ CHICKEN BARBECUE LEXINGTON — The annual TGIF (Thank Goodness It’s Friday) Brooks’ Chicken Barbecue will be held 3-6 p.m. Feb. 11 at the Lexington/West Kill UMC in Lexington. This is take out only and dinners are $12; children 5-10 years are $5; chicken halves are $7. Dinners include half a chicken, baked potato, green beans, coleslaw, roll and cupcake. Purchasing your tickets in advance is greatly appreciated. Most parishioners will have tickets for your convenience. Tickets will be available at the door until sold out. You may call JoEllen at 518-989-6568 until noon the day of the BBQ, Feb. 11, to pre-order

CRAFT FESTIVAL SEEKING APPLICANTS RICHMOND SPRINGS — Applications are currently being accepted for the 41st Annual Friendship Craft Festival sponsored by the Church Of Christ Uniting in Richfield Springs. It will take place 9 a.m.-3 p.m. June 11 in Spring Park on Scenic US Route 20. For information and an application, go to www.rschurchofchristuniting.com, email friendshipcraftfestival@ yahoo.com or call Carla at 315-858-1451.

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.

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.

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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.

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

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STUYVESANT FALLS — Emanuel Lutheran Church is located at the junction of US Route 9 and County Route 46 in Stuyvesant Falls. Church services are at 8:30 a.m. Sunday and all are welcome and invited.

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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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 518-8289514.

CLAVERACK REFORMED DUTCH CHURCH 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.

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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/StJohns-Lutheran

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

CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL HUDSON — Christ Church Episcopal, 431 Union St., Hudson, worships at 9 a.m.

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 845-8766923 or cdfcirone@aol.com.

Mountaintop Interfaith Community virtual celebration service TANNERSVILLE — The Mountaintop Interfaith Community is hosting an hour-long celebratory service at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 27 via Zoom. 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. There will be music, a presentation of artwork done by local students, local photos, inspirational and words from our faith leaders and local citizens. At 7 p.m. we will hear the peal of church bells throughout the mountaintop; and will see lights from fire houses, places of worship and from individual homes. All who participate on Zoom are invited to ring bells and light candles in their own homes. This will be our way of engaging with friends and neighbors in a celebration of mountaintop unity with the prayer for peace and compassion that unites us all. Thirty-one years ago, the Mountaintop Interfaith Committee was formed to bring people of all faiths together to share in the joys of our community, a beautiful interfaith

service was presented. Once again, because of the need for social distancing, an in-person service will not be possible this year. To join the Zoom go to https://us02web.zoom. us/j/79100968659. Meeting ID is: 791 0096 8659. 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, Round Top, NY and Wellness RX Charitable Trust, Tannersville. Contributions are welcome but are not required for participation in this service. We will divide all donations equally between these two worthy organizations. For more event information on contributions and to join the Zoom, go to our website https://mountaintopinterfaithcommunity.org/index. html. The Mountaintop Interfaith Community encourages other faith-based traditions from the mountaintop area to reach out for more information about our group. Email mtinterfaithcommunity@gmail.com or call Jonathan 914-523-3766.

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.

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Since the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020, there have been 504 total positive cases at Greene Correctional with no deaths reported among the prison population. DOCCS has confirmed 229 total positive tests at the Coxsackie Correctional Facility since the inception of the pandemic with four inmate deaths due to COVID. According to DOCCS, as

of Tuesday, 52% of incarcerated individuals in the state prison population have been partially, fully vaccinated or fully vaccinated with a booster against COVID. “In the ongoing effort to encourage the incarcerated population to get the vaccine, and if eligible, the booster, the Department continues to offer the vaccine to the incarcerated population,” DOCCS said in a statement. “Educational videos regarding the importance of receiving the COVID vaccine are being displayed statewide. DOCCS continues

to re-poll all facilities for interest in receiving the vaccine and booster and continues to schedule clinics.” Miller said his union will wait to see how the COVID numbers in state prisons evolve before potentially pressing for stricter COVID guidelines. “It’s a situation where we’re just monitoring this like everyone else is,” he said. “If more needs to be done, we will advocate for that.” Jeannie Colon of the Release Aging People in Prison campaign is pressing for

daily testing for correctional officers instead of the current weekly testing that takes place. Colon’s husband is serving two consecutive 15-year prison terms at the Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining. “Every time I go and visit my husband, I have to get tested right there on the spot,” she said. “I will not be allowed to enter the facility until I bring back a negative result. If you go and visit someone, they’ll hand you a home kit and you have to step off the premises and go

to your car and take the test. Then if you get a negative result you can check in and go through processing. Why can’t they do that with every single officer who goes to work every single day?” Colon’s husband has a job as a clerk in the prison and does intake with visitors and prisoners, potentially exposing him to infection. “Our loved ones have limited movement,” she said. “That means they had recreation just once a day and programs were shut down. They don’t have the proper protection. It’s just bars, so

there’s nothing preventing the circulation of air from going into their cells.” The Bronx resident is campaigning for the state to adopt the Elder Parole Bill, which would allow any person 55 years of age and older who has completed 15 years of their sentence to go before a parole board. “It’s a chance for people to die peacefully behind their own walls,” she said. Colon said the visits with prisoners are completely non-contact, with no physical touching allowed due to COVID protocols.

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mutual-aid assistance from neighboring fire departments. All available manpower was requested to the scene. A site was established to fill tankers on Schoharie Turnpike. Crews went to work fighting the blaze. The fire burned through the roof and flames shot into the air. Heavy smoke poured out, surrounding the burning home. Central Hudson Gas and Electric was requested to the scene to disconnect power to the building. Fire police closed the road to traffic while crews worked. Town of Cairo Highway Department was requested to sand the road due to icy conditions. It was 14 degrees outside, while fire crews worked. Crews continued to pour water on the blaze for several hours before it was declared out. The homeowner was alerted to the fire by smoke detectors, Feml said. The home was a total loss. There were no reported injuries. Fire companies that assisted Cairo at the scene or at the tanker fill site included: Earlton, Leeds, Round Top, and West Athens. East Durham and Medway-Grapeville fire companies were placed on stand-by. Also assisting at the scene were: Cairo Ambulance, state police, the Greene County Sheriff’s Office, Cairo Police, and the Greene County Fire Coordinator’s Office. All fire companies were back in service at midnight.

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Multiple fire companies fought a large blaze at a home in Cairo on Thursday night.

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A fast moving fire destroyed a home on Rudolph Weir Junior Road in Cairo on Thursday night.

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Smoke filled the air at a home on Rudolph Weir Junior Road in Cairo on Thursday night.

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Central Hudson crews arrive to disconnect power at a house fire in Cairo on Thursday night.

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police stopped a 2003 Mercedes Benz 320 for suspected traffic violations on Route 23 in Catskill. While speaking with Boice, police said he appeared to be impaired. Troopers told him to get out of the vehicle, Nevel said. The troopers determined that Boice was impaired by drugs and he was subsequently arrested. When troopers searched the vehicle, they found 1.1 grams of cocaine, MDMA pills commonly known as Ecstasy and 35 grams of cannabis oil, Nevel said. Boice and Hapeman were arraigned in Catskill Town Court before Justice Richard Paolino. Hapeman was sent to the Greene County Jail, where he was held without bail. He is scheduled to reappear in court Tuesday. Boice was released on his own recognizance. He is

scheduled to reappear in court Feb. 3. When he was arrested Thursday, Hapeman was out on bail, following several recent arrests in the area, Nevel said. On Nov. 1, Brad Hapeman and his brother, Scott Hapeman, were arrested by state police for allegedly breaking into the Red Hook Elks Lodge on Route 9. The two are accused of causing damage to the building and stealing cash. Police said power and alarm lines had been cut. There was damage to the interior of the building, as well as damaged cash registers, lottery machines, a safe and a jukebox. Both men were charged with third-degree burglary. On Oct. 24, Brad Hapeman and Scott Hapeman were arrested on felony drug possession charges after another traffic stop in Catskill. State police recovered a quantity of crack cocaine after searching the 2004 Chevrolet Silverado that the two men were riding in when the vehicle was stopped on Route 9W.

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Hudson defeated Chatham, 5-0, to improve to 8-4 (40-20) in Thursday’s Patroon Conference bowling action. Hudson hit games of 910, 896 and 914 for a 2,720 total. Chatham rolled 884, 812 and 827 for 2,523. Leading Hudson was sophomore Dylan McDonald with a 190-535. Freshman Tyler Finkle added a 192-518. Also contributing was junior Antonio Gambino with a 205-512. For Chatham, LJ Morse rolled a 224-606 and Skyler Laurange hit a 236-532. Hudson’s next match is Wednesday against Taconic Hills. Catskill 5, Taconic Hills 0 Mike Jubie spun a 212556 to lead Catskill past Taconic Hills, 5-0, in Patroon Conference bowling action on Thursday. Anthony Genovese topped Taconic Hills with a 174-492. Maple Hill 5, C-D 0 Kate Ackerman fired a 616 triple and Hannah Gardner had a 614 to spark Maple Hill to a 5-0 Patroon Conference bowling victory over Cairo-Durham on Thursday. Dominick Siciliano added a 598 trio for the Wildcats. BOYS VOLLEYBALL Hudson 3, Taconic Hills 0 HUDSON — Hudson posted a 3-0 Patroon

Conference boys volleyball victory over Taconic Hills on Senior Night at Hudson High School. The Bluehawks won by scores of 25-20, 27-25 and 25-22. For Hudson: Hans Occeno 9 kills, 7 digs; Tariq Thompson 8 kills, 2 blocks; Yahir Velasco 23 assists, 1 ace, 1 kill. WRESTLING Watervliet 42, Greenville 33 WATERVLIET — Watervliet/Cohoes earned a 42-33 victory over Greenville in Thursday’s Patroon Conference wrestling match. Results 102: Connor Aloisi (G) over Abe Ahmadzai (Fall 3:30); 110: Anthony Gratto (W/C) won by forfeit; 118: Daytwan Coleman (W/C) over Donald Lane (Fall 0:20); 126: Sam Vanauken (G) over Ali Ahmadzai (Fall 2:45); 132: Schuyler Wilson (G) over Jeremy Mayville (Dec 6-3); 138: Kieran Cullen (G) over Peyton Peterson (Fall 2:55); 145: Bernard Davis (G) over Don Cesare (Fall 1:45); 152: Kendryek Flynn (W/C) over Joseph Davis (Fall 3:33); 160: Tyler Senecal (W/C) over Evan Cotter (Fall 3:20); 172: Devin Oconnor (G) over Dontae Powell (Fall 4:41); 189: Zach Guilbault (W/C) over Bryant Flenstead (Fall 3:20); 215: Brandon Fitzgerald (W/C) over Sawyer Peak (Fall 0:40); 285: Justin Oathout (W/C) won by forfeit.

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Catskill’s Janay Brantley knocks down the three-pointer that moved her into second place on the Cats’ all-time career scoring list during Thursday’s Patroon Conference game against Cairo-Durham.

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EAST DURHAM — Janay Brantley moved into second place on Catskill’s all-time career scoring list in leading the Cats to a 76-22 Patroon Conference girls basketball victory over Cairo-Durham on Thursday. Brantley finished with 28 points, 12 rebounds and eights assists and passed her brother Justice for third place on the Cats’ career scoring list by hitting a lay-up with 2:30 to go in the first quarter. One minute into the second stanza, she knocked down a three-pointer to move past Stacy O’Neil into second place. As of Thursday, Brantley, a junior, has scored 1,518 career points, trailing only John O’Neil, who finished his high school career in 1971 with 1,597 points. “I’m just so proud of Janay and very happy she’s getting the accolades that she’s getting,” Catskill coach Chris Quinn said. “Nobody sees the tremendous work she puts in during the off-season, after practice and on Sundays when everybody else is sleeping. 1,500 points is a crazy number and if you knew her she’s probably most excited she’s done it with her teammates as a part of it.” Hannah Konsul and Jayden Lewis each had a double-double for the Cats. Konsul had 14 points and 13 rebunds and Lewis added 13 points, 10 rebounds and four assists. Aaliyah Shook contributed four points, seven rebounds and five steals. “We played an efficient game tonight,” Quinn said. “My girls had tired legs from the effort they had to put in against Duanesburg on Tuesday, but they pushed through it, knowing it’s going to take Tuesday night’s effort to advance in See BRANTLEY B3

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Catskill’s Aaliyah Shook (33) passes to a teammate as Cairo-Durham’s McKenzie Sherburne (13) defends during Thursday’s Patroon Conference girls basketball game at Cairo-Durham High School.

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Atlanta Hawks forward Cam Reddish (22) moves the ball against Los Angeles Lakers guard Russell Westbrook (0) during the first half at Crypto.com Arena on Jan. 7.

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NEW YORK — Cam Reddish’s first appearance in a Knicks jersey “should be any day now,” coach Tom Thibodeau said Thursday. That day wasn’t Thursday night’s matchup against the

Pelicans, which Reddish missed alongside Nerlens Noel. But the new trade acquisition is “pretty close” to returning from his ankle injury, according to Thibodeau. Reddish re-aggravated the ankle on Jan. 9 in what See KNICKS B6

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Chatham’s Tyler Kneller (3) brings the ball up the floor alongside teammate Alex Chudy (10) during Thursday’s Patroon Conference boys basketball game against Maple Hill at Chatham High School.

CHATHAM — The Maple Hill Wildcats had a big Patroon Conference boys basketball road win Thursday night in Chatham, pummeling the Panthers 81-48 and ending their nine game winning streak. The Panthers had trouble on offense the entire game with the Wildcats’ defense pressuring the ball handlers all night. Maple Hill’s Ben Marra had Chatham’s defense in fits throughout the game, scoring 39 points for Maple Hill to lead all players. Jacob Baccaro was the leading scorer for the Panthers with 19 points, Tate Van Alstyne added 12, and Tobias Jeralds and Matt Thorsen had six points each. The first quarter was See MARRA B6

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NEW YORK — It was the same old story for the Knicks Thursday night: The starters were brutal, and it took the bench to make it a game. Julius Randle, Kemba Walker and company ran up a deficit that got to 24 points early in the fourth quarter. A lineup of Immanuel Quickley, Alec Burks, Obi Toppin and Quentin Grimes turned in a spirited performance to cut the lead to 10 twice, but it was too little too late in a 102-91 loss to the Pelicans. The defeat, the third straight at Madison Square Garden, dropped the Knicks to 22-24 and 11th in the East, a game outside of the final play-in tournament spot. There was plenty for Knicks fans to boo on Thursday night, and the paying customers used their license to take their lungs out for a spin. There was the home team’s dreadful shooting and spotty defense. There was the officiating, which added insult to injury in the first half by hitting the Knicks with technicals on Walker and Randle after missing obvious foul calls, although the Knicks did take 36 free throws to the Pelicans’ 22. And yes, there was Randle, whose confidence is somewhere south of the toilet, maybe in the sewers of Midtown. Randle (four points on 1-of9 shooting) tried to get going early, missing three aggressive shots in the opening minutes. He immediately downshifted to passing, screening and defense

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New York Knicks forward Julius Randle (30) controls the ball against New Orleans Pelicans guard Nickeil Alexander-Walker (6) during the first quarter at Madison Square Garden on Thursday.

from there. He finished with four points, one made field goal, three turnovers and one play that Clyde Frazier memorably said was “reminiscent of the old butt trick from the Jets.” Frazier was referring to Mark Sanchez’s infamous play. Randle smacking into Evan Fournier while trying to screen for him had the same result as the butt fumble: The other team scooped up a loose ball for an easy score. It seemed like Randle had hit rock bottom last Monday, when he was booed off the court after a two-point dud against the Spurs. Since then, he had averaged 20

NHL roundup: Shea Theodore scores in OT as Knights end skid Field Level Media Shea Theodore scored at 1:50 into overtime as the Vegas Golden Knights snapped a three-game losing streak with a 4-3 victory over the Montreal Canadiens on Thursday night in Las Vegas. Theodore, who also had two assists, scooped up a loose puck near the right circle and then went around Christian Dvorak and flipped a shot past Samuel Montembeault’s blocker side. It was his eighth goal of the season. Jonathan Marchessault and William Karlsson each had a goal and an assist and Chandler Stephenson also scored for Vegas while Robin Lehner finished with 24 saves. Mike Hoffman, Tyler Toffoli and Michael Pezzetta scored for Montreal. Montembeault, who had made a career-high 48 saves in a 5-3 win at Dallas on Tuesday, topped that with 49 saves Thursday. Avalanche 4, Kings 1 Darcy Kuemper had 40 saves and Mikko Rantanen had a goal and an assist as visiting Colorado beat Los Angeles to win for the fifth straight time. Kiefer Sherwood, Nicolas Aube-Kubel and Devon Toews also scored and Nathan MacKinnon had two assists to help Colorado win on back-to-back nights in Southern California. The Avalanche have won 10 of their last 11. Anze Kopitar scored and Jonathan Quick stopped 23 shots for the Kings, who played without leading scorer Adrian Kempe (COVID protocol). Predators 5, Jets 2 Roman Josi became Nashville’s career assists leader with two in the first period as the Predators snapped a season-high fourgame losing streak with a win over visiting Winnipeg. Josi, who has played all 11 of his NHL seasons in Nashville and leads the team with 42 points this season, moved ahead of David Legwand into the top spot on the club’s all-time list with assist No. 357 on Mikael Granlund’s goal at the 11:49 mark of the opening period. He then helped set up Ryan Johansen for the Predators’ third goal of the first. Eali Tolvanen, Luke Kunin and Tanner Jeannot also scored as Nashville halted its 0-3-1 rut. Pierre-Luc Dubois recorded his 17th goal and Mark Scheifele’s 10th came early in the third for the Jets, who have dropped back-to-back contests after winning four of five. Panthers 6, Oilers 0 Aleksander Barkov scored twice and earned an assist, and Sergei Bobrovsky stopped 40 shots, leading visiting Florida to a shutout win over struggling Edmonton. The game was billed as a battle among three of the NHL’s top four point scorers, but they were fairly quiet. Edmonton’s Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl were kept off the scoresheet while Florida’s

points in a four-game stretch against the Hawks, Mavericks, Hornets and Timberwolves. Instead, his demons returned Thursday night. He was booed after several particularly bad turnovers, although the fans’ performance was equally unimpressive, chanting “OBI TOPPIN” for Randle’s backup while RJ Barrett was at the line shooting free throws in what was then a 24-point blowout. (Their loudest cheers, easily, came when a trio exchanged smooches in a three-way trade on the kiss cam.) Randle stunk, but he was far from alone. The offense came out

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Vegas Golden Knights defenseman Shea Theodore (27) scores the winning goal against Montreal Canadiens goaltender Sam Montembeault (35) during overtime at T-Mobile Arena on Thursday.

Jonathan Huberdeau got a secondary assist. Sam Reinhart provided three assists, and Carter Verhaeghe, Anthony Duclair, Sam Bennett and Owen Tippett also scored for the Panthers, who sent Edmonton to its seventh straight defeat. The Oilers haven’t won since Dec. 18 and were blanked for the first time since a May playoff game against Winnipeg. Bruins 4, Capitals 3 Charlie McAvoy scored a power-play goal with 45 seconds left to lift Boston past visiting Washington. David Pastrnak scored two goals, Jake DeBrusk also scored, and Linus Ullmark made 14 saves for his seventh straight win as a starter for the Bruins, who have won six of the past seven. Evgeny Kuznetsov, Lars Eller and Nicklas Backstrom scored, and Vitek Vanecek made 29 saves for the Capitals, who lost to the Bruins 7-3 on Jan. 10. Kraken 3, Sharks 2 Defenseman Carson Soucy scored twice as Seattle overcame an early deficit to defeat visiting San Jose. Calle Jarnkrok also tallied and Philipp Grubauer made 23 saves for the Kraken, who won their second in a row following a nine-game losing streak (0-8-1). Seattle’s Mark Giordano recorded two assists. Tomas Hertl had a goal and an assist, Timo Meier also scored and Adin Hill stopped 14 of 17 shots for the Sharks. Penguins 6, Senators 4 Mike Matheson had two goals and an assist as Pittsburgh built a four-goal lead, then held off visiting Ottawa. Dominik Simon, Evgeni Malkin, Sidney Crosby and Jake Guentzel also scored, and Jeff Carter and Bryan Rust each added two

assists for the Penguins, who have won 14 of 16. Tristan Jarry made 39 saves. Josh Norris scored twice, Drake Batherson recorded a goal and an assist, Tim Stutzle scored and Brady Tkachuk had two assists for the Senators, who are 2-4-1 in their past seven. Ottawa goaltender Anton Forsberg gave up two goals on five shots before being pulled for Filip Gustavsson, who made 23 saves. Blue Jackets 2, Flyers 1 Oliver Bjorkstrand and Patrik Laine each scored as visiting Columbus sent Philadelphia to a 10th consecutive loss. Boone Jenner assisted on both of the Blue Jackets’ goals. Columbus goaltender Elvis Merzlikins made 33 saves. Gerry Mayhew scored for the Flyers, who got 27 saves from Carter Hart. By falling to 0-7-3 in the past 10 contests, Philadelphia has its second 10-game skid of the season. The Flyers also lost 10 in a row (08-2) from Nov. 18 to Dec. 8. Stars 5, Sabres 4 Jason Robertson scored his second power-play goal with 3:32 remaining in the third period to lift visiting Dallas over Buffalo. Tyler Seguin matched Robertson with two goals and an assist and Roope Hintz had one of each for the Stars, who went 4-for-5 on the power play. John Klingberg notched three assists and Braden Holtby made 20 saves as Dallas snapped a threegame losing streak. Defenseman Rasmus Dahlin collected a goal and two assists and rookie Jack Quinn added one of each for the Sabres, who have lost nine of their past 11 games (2-6-3). Dylan Cozens and Alex Tuch also tallied, Henri Jokiharju had two assists and Aaron Dell turned aside 42 shots for Buffalo.

bricking and hovered between stale and incompetent the rest of the night, with only Barrett (17 points) remotely capable of generating his own among the starters. The team ended the night 9 for 38 from 3-point range, and it was worse than it looked, with Quickley, Grimes and Burks pouring in seven of those, mostly late. It all came undone in a 35-15 third quarter that turned the game into a laugher, as Brandon Ingram and Devonte’ Graham had their way with a suddenly pliant New York defense.

Rob Phinisee hit a goahead 3-pointer with 16.9 seconds left Thursday, lifting Indiana to a 68-65 win over No. 4 Purdue in Bloomington, Ind. After Phinisee put Indiana up 66-65, Purdue guard Jaden Ivey air-balled a baseline jumper. Trayce JacksonDavis was fouled and hit two free throws with 5.1 seconds left, putting Indiana up by three. Purdue had a chance to force overtime, but Ivey’s 3-point shot rimmed out at the buzzer. Phinisee scored a careerhigh 20 points for Indiana (14-4, 5-3 Big Ten) and Xavier Johnson added 18 points. Ivey nearly rallied Purdue (15-3, 4-3 Big Ten) from a nine-point halftime deficit, scoring 19 of his 21 points in the second half. No. 1 Gonzaga 78, San Francisco 62 Chet Holmgren scored a career-best 22 points and added nine rebounds and four blocked shots and the Bulldogs notched their 62nd consecutive home victory at the expense of the Dons in Spokane, Wash. Drew Timme scored 18 of his team-high 23 points in the second half as the Bulldogs (15-2, 4-0 West Coast) won their eighth consecutive game. Anton Watson had 11 points and Andrew Nembhard registered 10 points, seven assists and three steals as Gonzaga beat the Dons for the 22nd straight time. No. 3 Arizona 85, Stanford 57 The Wildcats led for all but 81 seconds as they routed the host Cardinal. Oumar Ballo came off the bench to lead five Wildcats (15-1, 5-0 Pac-12) in double figures; he scored a game-high 21 points, shooting 7-for-8. Bennedict Mathurin and Pelle Larsson each scored 13, while reserve Justin Kier added 11 points. Dalen Terry stuffed the stat sheet with 10 points, nine rebounds and four

assists. No one reached double figures for Stanford (106, 3-3), which sank just 30 percent of its field-goal attempts and committed 17 turnovers against a lengthy, quick defense. Spencer Jones and Maxime Raynaud each scored nine points for the Cardinal. No. 9 UCLA 63, Utah 58 Johnny Juzang scored a season-high 28 points, and the Bruins escaped in Salt Lake City, handing the Utes their seventh straight loss. Jules Bernard added 14 points for UCLA (12-2, 4-1 Pac-12), including a 3-pointer to spark a 7-0 run that clinched the win. No. 16 USC 61, Colorado 58 Chevez Goodwin scored all of his 14 points in the second half and grabbed 18 rebounds as the Trojans ended a seven-game losing streak to the Buffaloes with a win in Boulder, Colo. Isaiah Mobley scored 13 points and Boogie Ellis and Max Agbonkpolo added 11 each for the Trojans (15-2, 5-2 Pac-12). No. 21 Providence 83, Georgetown 75 Ed Croswell came off the bench to hit all seven of his shots as he scored 15 points and blocked three shots to lead the host Friars past the Hoyas. Coming off an 11-day layoff, Providence (15-2, 5-1 Big East) scored the first 13 points and led all the way in winning for the 10th time in its last 11 games. The win was the 209th for coach Ed Cooley, tying him with Dave Gavitt for second most in Providence history. No. 25 UConn 75, Butler 56 Senior Tyrese Martin scored 25 of his career-high 27 points in the second half, lifting the Huskies to a come-from-behind win over the Bulldogs in Indianapolis.

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Catskill head coach Chris Quinn greets Hannah Konsul as she comes to the bench during Thursday’s Patroon Conference girls basketball game against Cairo-Durham at Cairo-Durham High School.

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Cairo-Durham’s Mckenzie Sherburne looks to pass out of a double-team by Catskill’s Kiana Salierno and Janay Brantley (30) during Thursday’s Patroon Conference girls basketball game at Cairo-Durham High School.

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Cairo-Durham’s Hailey Lasher (5) drives while being guarded by Catskill’s Nadia Pell (13) during Thursday’s Patroon Conference girls basketball game at Cairo-Durham High School.

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the conference tournament and sectional play. Again we’re proud of their effort.” Catskill (12-1 overall) hosts Hudson on Saturday at 3 p.m. and Cairo-Durham goes to Taconic Hills on Saturday at 10 a.m. in the Patroon’s annual Coaches vs. Cancer games. Maple Hill 49, Chatham 41 CASTLETON — Maple Hill overcame a two-point deficit entering the fourth quarters with a 12-2 run over the final eight minutes to hand Chatham a 49-41 setback in Thursday’s Patroon Conference girls basketball game. The score was tied 12-12 after one quarter, but Maple Hill went up 26-24 by halftime. Chatham surged ahead 39-37 by the end of the third quarter, but the Wildcats pulled out the win with their fourth quarter rally. “It was a back and forth game the entire way,” Chatham coach John Roloson said. “Both teams moved the ball well offensively, but they made a few big ones down the stretch. I’m proud of my team’s effort and focus.” Chatham falls to 10-2, with both losses coming at the hands of Maple Hill. Sydney Rogers led the Wildcats with 14 points. Bella Seeberger added 10. Chatham’s Abby Taylor led all scorers with 15 points. Erin Madsen had 11. Chatham hosts Germantown on Saturday at noon and Maple Hill enertains Greenville on Saturday at 1 p.m. in the Patroon’s annual Coaches vs. Cancer games. CHATHAM (41): Perry 1-02, Madsen 4-0-11, Mountain 1-0-2, Morse 1-0-2, Engel 4-19, Taylor 6-3-15. Totals 17-441. 3-pointers: Madsen 3. MAPLE HILL (49): Martin 2-0-6, Coffey 1-0-2, Frazier 2-0-5, Rogers 5-1-14, Seeberger 2-4-10, Chevrier 3-0-7, Hall 1-2-4. Totals 16-7-49. 3-pointers: Rogers 3, Martin 2, Seeberger 2, Frazier, Chevrier. NON-LEAGUE ICC 57, Greenville 27 GREENVILLE — Carolina Williams and Ashley Ames combined for 32 points to spark Ichabod Crane to a 5727 victory over Greenville in Thursday’s non-league girls basketball game. Williams had 19 points and Ames finished with 13 for the Riders, who held quarterly leads of 13-3, 27-6 and 42-11.

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Catskill’s Aaliyah Shook (33) leads a fastbreak up the floor during Thursday’s Patroon Conference girls basketball game against Cairo-Durham at Cairo-Durham High School.

Catskill’s Jayden Lewis goes to the basket as Cairo-Durham’s Caitlyn Loucks defends during Thursday’s Patroon Conference girls basketball game at Cairo-Durham High School.

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Cairo-Durham’s McKayla Mudge dribbles out of a trap by Catskill’s Kiana Salierno and Janay Brantley (30) during Thursday’s Patroon Conference girls basketball game at Cairo-Durham High School.

Bryn Fitzmaurice had 12 points for the Spartans. Mikaela Crawley added eight. Greenville visits Maple Hill on Saturday at 1 p.m. and Ichabod Crane gos to CobleskillRichmondville on Tuesday at

6:30 p.m. ICHABOD CRANE (57): Williams 7-5-19, Barkley 1-02, More 2-1-5, Dolge 1-0-3, Culver 2-4-8, A. Ames 6-0-13, Heffner 3-1-7. Totals 22-11-57. 3-pointers: Dolge, A. Ames.

Cairo-Durham’s McKayla Mudge (14) drives the baseline as Catskill’s Hannah Konsul defends during Thursday’s Patroon Conference girls basketball game at Cairo-Durham High School.

GREENVILLE (27): Smith 1-2-4, Fitzmaurice 4-0-12, Silk 0-2-2, J. O’Hare 0-1-1, Crawley 4-0-8. Totals 9-5-27. 3-pointers: Fitzmaurice 4.

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Catskill’s Janay Branley drives to the basket as Cairo-Durham’s McKayla Mudge defends during Thursday’s Patroon Conference girls basketball game at Cairo-Durham High School.

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Catskill’s Hannah Konsul looks to put up a shot during Thursday’s Patroon Conference girls basketball game against Cairo-Durham at Cairo-Durham High School.

Catskill’s Janay Brantley eyes the basket from the corner as Cairo-Durham’s Mckenzie Sherburne moves in to defend during Thursday’s Patroon Conference girls basketball game at CairoDurham High School.

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The Packers need one more act of defiance from Aaron Rodgers Jerry Brewer The Washington Post

Aaron Rodgers wears chaos well. Watch him play, and you can hardly tell that this has been the most turbulent season of his career. At 38 years old, he’s the favorite to win a second straight MVP award, which would be his fourth overall. The Green Bay Packers finished 13-4 and earned the NFC’s top seed. Beneath all the controversy, his football journey seems almost serene. The duality is fascinating. Any one of his long list of entanglements would be been overwhelming for most: his anti-covid-vaccination stance, his proud descent into misinformation, his longstanding feud with the Packers’ front office, the speculation that this is his last dance in Green Bay, the broken toe he’s managing to play through without surgery. Rodgers is handling it all - sometimes foolishly and often arrogantly - creating the weirdest new normal for himself. If you look at him as an icon, there are now dents everywhere. But all the while, his legend as a sublime quarterback keeps growing. There are limits to Rodgers’s special ability to turn a mess into art, though. Over the past 11 years, the NFL playoffs have delivered the painful lesson that his singular greatness cannot support his most ambitious dreams. Since Green Bay won Super Bowl XLV in 2011, Rodgers and the Packers have been unable to get back to the big game despite advancing to the NFC title game four times. On Saturday, when the Packers face San Francisco at Lambeau Field, they will be making their ninth postseason appearance during that span, an impressive run of consistency for which Rodgers deserves the most credit. Yet his inability to trust and operate in alignment with his organization has contributed to Green Bay’s dismaying habit of falling short. Now he has another chance to finish the job with the Packers and win a second Super Bowl. And it’s a great opportunity. The Packers have the NFL’s best record, and they’re balanced in just about every way. Their defense has won games for them. On offense, they have a multifaceted, two-back running game to support Rodgers. And Matt LaFleur has been the right coach to direct it all, posting a stunning 39-10 record over three seasons and lifting Rodgers to historic levels of

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Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers (12) runs the ball during the first quarter against the Detroit Lions at Ford Field on Jan. 9.

efficiency. Rodgers may never believe in general manager Brian Gutekunst, but he seems to trust LaFleur after years of dissatisfaction with former coach Mike McCarthy. Rodgers might be the greatest make-do quarterback in football history. In that sense, he’s reminiscent of John Elway before Mike Shanahan came to Denver. They’re both preeminent leaders who can transform insufficient rosters into threats. But for all their individual heroics, we have watched them lower their heads and slump their broad shoulders as they trudge off the field. Elway lost in the Super Bowl three times before breaking through in his final two seasons. Rodgers was fortunate to win a championship early, and since then his teams have been in line for a title again and again, only to meet the bouncer at the door. They’ve lost to four different teams in their last four NFC title game appearances. Rodgers has had to congratulate a GOAT quarterback (Tom Brady), another future Hall of Fame quarterback

(Russell Wilson), a borderline Hall of Fame quarterback (Matt Ryan) and a pretty solid quarterback (Jimmy Garoppolo). He has seen a heartbreaker (the overtime loss to Seattle in 2015), a comeback that fell short (Tampa Bay last season) and two blowouts (Atlanta in 2017 and San Francisco in 2020). The pain must feel even more acute because Green Bay has lost one step shy of the Super Bowl in its past three playoff appearances. The on-field implications create plenty of tension. Add the possibility of closure for a successful-turned-awkward partnership and the scrutiny of Rodgers’s bizarre celebrity heel turn, and the pressure feels unmanageable. But Rodgers being Rodgers, there is one more thing to carry: his legacy. He secured a spot among the game’s all-time greats long ago. But he wants to be on the exclusive list of quarterbacks who have won multiple Super Bowls. There are 12 in NFL history, and four are players from his era: Brady, Peyton Manning,

Eli Manning and Ben Roethlisberger. Another ring isn’t necessary to validate his talent or impact on the game. But it would emphasize that his way, though unorthodox and cynical and narcissistic, still has virtue. In his public comments this season, Rodgers has drifted inward. Nevertheless, he thinks about the end of his career and the standard of excellence he wants to leave behind. “It’s all a part of it,’’ Rodgers said this week. “Success is often based, for quarterbacks, on championships won. Success individually is much more than that. And on the flip side of that, failure, in my opinion, shouldn’t be based solely on your losses and your failures and your mistakes and your low points. “It’s so much more than that. It’s mind-set. It’s approach. It’s the total package. But I understand that in our business, so much of it is focused on the wins and losses, especially in the playoffs, Super Bowl rings and all that stuff. I understand that’s part of my legacy I’ll be judged on when I’m done playing. Every year is important when it comes to furthering your legacy, but I take a lot of pride in the success that we’ve had and that I’ve had and I hope we can add to it - both from a how-we’rejudged standpoint and how-we-judge-ourselves standpoint.’’ There’s just one more thing Rodgers can do, one thing that would be the ultimate act of defiance in a season full of shocking moments from him: blend. The Packers don’t need him to be more spectacular. They need him willing to do whatever it takes to break through, even if it frustrates him and goes against his preferences. Rodgers has some front-runner in him. It’s not because he’s a poor competitor. It’s the result of his constant distrust of others. The playoffs tend to identify a team’s fissures. In recent years, Green Bay has been both unlucky and disjointed at the worst possible times. The Packers should be better for the struggles, and if so, their MVP quarterback must reflect all that they’ve learned. To do that, he must show he has learned something as well. This isn’t just a last dance. It’s the ultimate challenge, too. Rodgers can unify and inspire, or he can shrug one final time on his way out the door.

Gary Russell Jr. misses his ailing father, mourns his brother ahead of fight Gene Wang The Washington Post

During every training camp in his professional boxing career, Gary Russell Jr. had been able to turn to his father and trainer, Gary Sr., for guidance and one of his younger brothers, Gary Boosa Russell, for support at the family’s Enigma Gym in Capitol Heights, Md. Yet when Russell began shifting his attention to his next opponent, the World Boxing Council featherweight champion barely saw Gary Sr., who was managing severe health issues, while continuing to mourn his brother, who died in 2020 of cardiac arrest less than two weeks before Christmas.

Thus for the first time Russell (31-1, 18 knockouts) has often trained in solitude in advance of his bout against mandatory challenger Mark Magsayo (230, 16 KOs) of the Philippines on Saturday night at the Borgata Event Center in Atlantic City, N.J. “It has been very difficult, but I tell people all the time life is like boxing,” Russell said. “You’ve got to keep your chin down and your hands up, and you’ve got to fire when you’ve got an opening. I’m grateful that I have the mental capacity. I’m mentally strong when it comes to stuff like this.” Although the plan is for Gary Sr. to be in his usual spot on

fight night, it’s unclear if he will be able to do so following a foot amputation stemming from type 2 diabetes. He recently left the hospital against doctors’ recommendations to take part in training camp in person rather than via Zoom conversations. Gary Sr. has been in his son’s corner for every bout since Gary Jr.’s pro debut in 2009. He has also overseen the development of all the fighting Russell brothers, beginning with eldest son Gary Jr., 33, whose only loss was to Vasiliy Lomachenko in 2014 for the then-vacant World Boxing Organization title. Gary Antonio Russell, 28, fights in the 118-pound division and Gary Antuanne Russell, 25,

at 140 pounds. “Me and my dad, there’s just a certain level of chemistry that’s just innate, and I think that right there plays a big factor,” said Russell, whose hands are among the quickest in the sport. “I refuse to have someone else to train me other than my dad, so for some of this training camp I’ve honestly trained myself.” The two were the first to embrace in the ring when Russell won the WBC 126-pound belt in March of 2015 with a fourthround knockout of then-champion Jhonny Gonzalez in Las Vegas. Russell since has beaten five straight opponents as the division’s longest active reigning

champion. Most recently he scored a unanimous decision over Tugstsogt Nyambayar at PPL Center in Allentown, Pa., on Feb. 8, 2020. The current layoff of nearly two calendar years is the lengthiest of Russell’s career, marked by infrequent activity since claiming the WBC title. Russell attributes his dearth of opponents to higher profile fighters avoiding him. A bout against Rey Vargas, for instance, was in the works last year until negotiations broke down. The undefeated Vargas moved up to featherweight after winning the 122-pound title in 2019. Russell also has mentioned potentially moving up multiple

divisions to face Gervonta Davis in what would be one of the most anticipated showdowns in the sport. Other fighters he has called out at 135 pounds include Devin Haney and Ryan Garcia. But Russell remains adamant about not vacating his belt unless he is assured of fighting for a title in a heavier weight class. “I don’t think Gary has faced anyone since he became champion that has the skills that I have,” said Magsayo, who is coming off a 10th-round knockout of Julio Ceja in August. “I’m going to go in there and show him something he’s never seen before, and we’ll see how he reacts.”

In parched Beijing, claims of a ‘green’ Olympics may not hold water Christian Shepherd The Washington Post

Barren hillsides broken up by thin strips of white snow are a familiar sight for regular visitors to ski resorts near Beijing. The 2022 Winter Olympics host, which is under 150 miles from the rapidly expanding Gobi Desert, is famous for cold and dry winters. Its population relies on water extracted from underground and fed in from wetter regions via a vast network of pipes and canals. In March, before spring rains, winds from the Mongolian Plateau often fill the city’s skies with orange dust. China’s government promises that just about every aspect of the Olympics will be “green.” According to officials, the Games will be “carbon-neutral.” President Xi Jinping has said they will be “inclusive, open and clean.” Such claims, part of China’s effort to cast itself as a global leader on sustainability and climate change, are difficult to square with the country’s broader environmental challenges. Beijing’s water scarcity is a concern for environmentalists, with one estimate suggesting it could take 200 years for water piped into the city to return water resources to 1998 levels. The country is also the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter and has avoided announcing a moratorium on coal-fired power. Even as Beijing organizers promise to buy purely renewable electricity for Games venues, the capital and surrounding Hebei province, where co-host Zhangjiakou is located, rely on fossil fuels for the bulk of their electricity. China consumes half the world’s coal; output rose nearly 5% to a record 4.07 billion tons last year as the government ordered more production to combat power shortages. That China’s Games-specific pledges may ultimately fail to translate into progress on environmental causes fits

with a habit of the Olympics disappointing on its goal to encourage sustainability, which became a pillar of the sporting movement in the 1990s. Since then, hosts have used the spotlight to tout green credentials - only to repeatedly draw skepticism from environmental campaigners. Sochi 2014, described by Russia as the “cleanest ever” Olympics, resulted in severe damage to a major mountain stream and illegal dumping of construction waste. In South Korea, PyeongChang 2018, despite being the first Games to obtain global certification for sustainable events, was criticized for cutting down a forest of rare trees. One assessment comparing each event from 1992 to 2020 found that, contrary to official policy, Games were becoming less - not more - sustainable. “There is quite the disconnect between the rhetoric on the one hand and the outcomes on the other,” said Martin Müller, a professor of geography and sustainability at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Without any independent assessment, host countries are largely their own arbiters of success in reaching sustainability goals. “The [International Olympic Committee] doesn’t have fixed guidelines or grades that they impose on the host,” Müller added. Scholars suggests that there is little hope for the Games to promote true sustainability without robust thirdparty monitoring, clear objectives and the threat of sanctions for noncompliance. “Everybody knows the IOC is not going to assign the hosting rights of the Games to another organizer if the original organizer fails to meet the sustainability requirements,” said Arnout Geeraert, a research fellow at the University of Leuven, Belgium. At the same time, the IOC risks turning countries off the idea of hosting the Games if it makes the bidding process

too onerous. By the time the final decision was made in 2015, Beijing’s only challenger for 2022 hosting rights was Kazakhstan’s Almaty, the scene of violent protests this month, after other candidates including Oslo and Stockholm dropped out for lack of public support. Even without sanctions, independent monitoring of sustainability goals could help to fact-check host claims, but in a country like China, that can be difficult. “Everything depends, of course, on the openness of the country that is actually staging the games,” Geeraert said. For the Chinese Communist Party, hosting the Olympics is an important source of international prestige that it is determined to stage-manage carefully. While 2008 was billed as China’s arrival on the world stage, 2022 is a vehicle for Xi Jinping, the party’s most powerful leader in decades, to burnish claims of superior governance. Beijing will implement a strict “closed-loop” system to separate participants within a bubble and prevent coronavirus spread. A side-effect of the steadfast adherence to a “zero-covid” policy will be a reduced carbon footprint because of spectators’ being limited to a handful of approved Chinese residents. Under Xi, the party has both prioritized environmental causes and become more intolerant of activists who challenge official propaganda. During the 2008 Summer Games, Beijing’s smog, energy-intensive and water-depleting construction were a subject of widespread debate and scrutiny from Chinese and international groups. There have so far been few external assessments of sustainability for Beijing 2022. Given that Beijing is the seat of party power, solving the city’s aridity has long been on industrial planners’ to-do list.

In 2008, clean air was guaranteed for the Games by closing Beijing’s last steelmaking factory, as well as chemical and coking plants. Nonessential polluters were shuttered. Air quality improved by as much as 50% that summer. Beijing’s smog has thinned dramatically since then. Last year, for the first time, the city hit nationally set targets for average concentration of PM2.5, tiny particulate matter that is harmful to health. Even so, average levels of pollutants in the capital’s air remain far above World Health Organization guidelines. He Ping, the founding president of the International Fund for China’s Environment, warned in a commentary last year that ensuring blue skies for the Olympics remained an urgent task despite progress in the “war on pollution,” as some sources of smog had been overlooked. “If special measures are not taken to target industrial water vapor and ammonia emissions, widespread haze during the Winter Olympics will be difficult to avoid,” he wrote. China’s pledge of an environmentally sustainable Olympics is part of a national goal to hit peak carbon dioxide emissions before 2030 and reach carbon neutrality by 2060. As such, the Games are a kind of demonstration zone for its desired eco-credentials, where the latest green technologies are put on display for a global audience. Within the Olympic bubble, participants will be transported on more than 1,000 hydrogen-powered buses. Any nonrenewable energy use will be offset with afforestation. In Zhangjiakou alone, tree-planting covered 3,521 square miles to reach a net-zero target. But many aspects of the plan appear to skirt a fine line between environmental protection and degradation. Early plans for the snow sport venues had to be redrawn after biologists

noticed the proposed routes would cut through a protected forest. After the adjustment, 20,000 trees that remained in the way of construction were transplanted to a new forest park. Despite almost total reliance on artificial snow, authorities have promised “freedom of snow use” with ample stores being prepared ahead of events. They also promise this process is environmentally friendly. It remains unclear how Beijing has been able to ensure vast quantities of artificial snow are available without depleting water supplies. Officials have said that water demand during the Games will account for 1.6% of the “total current water consumption” in Yanqing district of Beijing and 9.8% in Chongli, the district of Zhangjiakou where events will be held, without specifying whether this is a total figure that accounts for piles of reserve snow made ahead of time. Final water-use data are meant to be released after the Closing Ceremonies. Less clear is the broader environmental impact of a campaign to get 300 million Chinese involved in winter sports ahead of the Games. China’s natural skiing terrain is mostly in the far northeast and northwest, far from wealthy urban hubs. One analysis of the economic and natural suitability of China’s ski areas found that 16% had “dismal” prospects and only about a quarter were in “ideal” areas. The core problem is that sustainability of the Olympics is a very flexible concept - completely unlike the demand for precision when measuring sporting achievement, Müller said. “Everybody would complain if you didn’t measure the milliseconds of the 100-meter sprint. But with sustainability, it’s really up for grabs for the host to decide what to do,” he said.

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Tom Brady & Co. prep for Rams — a West Coast version of Bucs’ title team Eric Adelson The Washington Post

Tom Brady has been on TV a lot lately. His “Man in the Arena” documentary is rolling out, he’s a promoter of cryptocurrency and selling foot-long subs, and of course he’s the face of the country’s most popular sport. This week, however, he told a Tampa Bay Buccaneers media relations official he wanted to ease back on camera time. “I just want to do football,” he said. “That’s all I want to do to prepare and get ready.” Brady always cranks up the intensity in the playoffs, but he knows Sunday’s matchup against the Los Angeles Rams brings a special challenge. “It will be a very, very difficult game for us,” he told reporters Thursday.

The Rams are a team with layers of complexity on offense and defense so many different approaches and attacks - that Brady spent a chunk of time rifling through them Thursday. “Rush passer, cover you really well in the secondary, they make a lot of turnovers, sack the QB, strip sacks, they have a lot of dynamic players,” he said. “Jalen Ramsey’s one of the great corners in the league. Between the guys they have in the secondary as well as in the front, you have no plays that you can take off. They can turn you over. They can make big plays.” He knows exactly what his team is up against Sunday. The story of the Rams’ season is oddly parallel to the Bucs’ championship run last year: bring in a next-level passer and assorted

name-brand stars to vault a team from also-ran into elite status. Although few would compare Los Angeles quarterback Matthew Stafford with Brady in terms of accolades, the go-for-broke mentality is certainly there - and so is the momentum that has been built over the course of the regular season. Just like the Bucs brought in Antonio Brown and Rob Gronkowski to complement Mike Evans and Chris Godwin in 2020, the Rams got Von Miller and Odell Beckham Jr. to help Aaron Donald and Cooper Kupp this season. Tampa Bay’s rushing addition of Leonard Fournette last year is matched by the Rams’ acquisition of Sony Michel. And just like the Bucs thrived more on the running game as last season’s playoffs drew near, the Rams have

gradually balanced out their passing attack this season. Tampa Bay Coach Bruce Arians said something about the Rams this week that an opposing coach easily could have said about his own team last year at this time: “They’ve added some more pieces,” he told reporters. “They’re running the ball more. Defensively they’re playing as good as anybody in the league right now.” Even the path is the same: Tampa Bay won road playoff games last year on its way to a Super Bowl in its home stadium, and that’s where the Rams want to end up in a few weeks: back in Los Angeles. The plot to this Bucs sequel has not been nearly as linear as the original.

The team returned all 22 starters from last year’s title team but has been unable to keep several of them on the field. Godwin is out for the season, and Brown was cut after ripping off his jersey and running off the field midgame. Fournette has been on injured reserve since December, linchpin linebacker Lavonte David has missed time, all-pro tackle Tristan Wirfs was in a walking boot this week, and Pro Bowl center Ryan Jensen sprained his ankle last week. A Bucs team that seized on an incomplete Kansas City Chiefs blocking group in the Super Bowl now must worry about its own front flank in these playoffs. “I’d be worried if they were all healthy,” Arians said. “If they’re not healthy, I’m hellaciously worried.”

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scoreless for the first 90 seconds until both teams found a rhythm to score some points. Baccaro tied the game with Chatham’s first bucket, but Maple Hill worked quickly and efficiently in transition to get points fast. Ethan Harrington drilled a three pointer to give the Wildcats a six point lead midway through as they kept adding fuel to the fire. Brady Cole threw a shot up while falling down inside the paint, and the circus shot which seemed impossible as it happened, found the basket for two points. Marra made a reverse layup for Maple Hill as he cut through the paint and forced Chatham to use an early timeout at 2:18, trailing 165. The Panthers did not help themselves to free points at the line in the first period, missing seven total foul shots in the quarter. Trailing 20-9 to begin the second, Chatham had to buckle down on defense and get some stops. However Maple Hill’s passing ability was superior throughout the match-up, making it exceedingly difficult for the Panthers to contest shots by the Wildcats. Baccaro put in great work in the second period for Chatham, scoring ten of the Panthers’ 15 points in the quarter. They tried to claw back into the game, but the Wildcats were a step or two ahead of them on every possession. Marra had eight points in the second for Maple Hill, as the Wildcats continued moving the ball with ease and had their second consecutive 20-point quarter. The Wildcats kept their foot on the gas through the buzzer and led the Panthers 40-24 at the break. Marra opened the third for the Wildcats with a shot that seemed to be the dagger for the Panthers just as the second half began. Marra got the ball at the top of the key and threw up a prayer from the right side of the paint as he fell away from the basket and it just went straight in. Chatham was forced to use another timeout at the 4:32 mark, trailing now by 23 points. The Panthers made little to no effort in the paint, on defense or otherwise, to box out the Wildcats for rebounds. Maple Hill seemed to pick and choose whether or not they wanted an offensive

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would be his final game with the Hawks. Four days later, Atlanta dealt him to New York for a first-round pick and lottery bust Kevin Knox, who played three minutes in his Hawks debut on Wednesday night. The Knicks have a glut at Reddish’s position on the wing, and Thibodeau has previously said that the third-year player will have to earn his minutes when he’s healthy. He praised Reddish’s work ethic on Thursday. “He’s learning what we’re

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Chatham’s Matt Thorsen passes to a teammate as Maple Hill’s Ben Marra defends during Thursday’s Patroon Conference boys basketball game at Chatham High School.

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Chatham’s Matt Thorsen and Maple Hill’s Ethan Harrington battle for the opening tip of Thursday’s Patroon Conference boys basketball game at Chatham High School.

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Maple Hill’s Ben Marra (23) scored 39 points in the Wildcats’ 81-48 victory over Chatham on Thursday.

rebound on any possession they desired, without any threat of a defender fighting for the ball in the paint. Van Alstyne made a few shots for the Panthers to try and ignite some urgency but the clock was Chatham’s biggest problem late in the second half. The officials finally started calling a few traveling violations in the fourth quarter after a ton had already been missed throughout the contest. The Panthers had an offensive foul called on Baccaro as he tried to make a move into the paint, adding to their frustration. Maple Hill made shots at will in the final quarter, eating up as much clock as they wanted while doing so. The Wildcats closed out the game with yet another 20-point quarter and ended

the Panthers’ winning streak at nine games with an 81-48 victory on the road. Maple Hill has now beaten Chatham twice this season as the playoffs near.

Maple Hill hosts Greenville on Saturday at 3 p.m. and Chatham enertains Germantown on Saturday at 1:30 p.m. in the Patroon’s annual Coaches vs. Cancer games.

Chatham’s Matt Thorsen (1) shoots over Maple Hill’s Luke Hoffman (32) during Thursday’s Patroon Conference boys basketball game at Chatham High School.

doing, so that takes a little time,” Thibodeau said. “But we love his size. He’s been terrific. He comes in early, he studies, he works hard. He’s doing all the right things, which is the first step.” BS in NY? With the NBA trade deadline three weeks away on Feb. 10, Sixers general manager Daryl Morey cracked open the door to dealing Ben Simmons before then. Morey openly lowered his price for the mercurial bricklayer in an interview with a Philadelphia radio station. “Because Joel’s been playing amazing,” he said the day after Embiid dropped 50 points in 27 minutes, “now we might be able to do it with a top-40 player

who’s a great fit.” The Knicks reportedly have internal interest in Simmons, but there are multiple high barriers to acquiring him. Before Thursday, it was unclear if they even had the assets to meet Philly’s asking price, and even less clear if doing so would be a good idea. And Simmons was unvaccinated as of December, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer, which would leave him ineligible to play in New York. Still, Simmons is a stellar defender, and Morey could grow desperate to improve around Embiid while the center is healthy and having an MVPcaliber season. Even as he slapped a “30%

OFF” sticker on Simmons, though, Morey tried to take a hard line on trading him, calling a pre-deadline deal “less likely than likely.” Rose-y outlook Derrick Rose was eighth among Eastern Conference guards in fan voting for the AllStar game, according to totals released by the league Thursday. Rose was the only Knick in the top 10 of voting for guards or forwards; he hasn’t played since Dec. 12 because of an ankle injury. He had surgery on Dec. 22 that the team said at the time would keep him out for eight weeks. Rose was working out on the court before Thursday night’s game. “He can spot shoot,

but that’s basically about it,” Thibodeau said. “He’s right on schedule for where we thought he would be.” Defending the defense The Knicks have, according to nearly all metrics, improved on defense recently -- a stretch that coincides with five wins in eight games -- but Thibodeau said that he believes those metrics have been unfair to his team. “You look at the markers that are important to me, it’s points allowed, points in the paint, your transition points, your rebound margin -- those things have been good all season long,” he said Thursday in an expansive answer about what the defensive guru values on that end of

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Chatham’s Matt Thorsen (1) brings the ball up the floor as Maple Hill’s Ben Marra (23) defends during Thursday’s Patroon Conference boys basketball game at Chatham High School.

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Chatham coach J.B. Brantley speaks to his team during a timeout in Thursday’s Patroon Conference boys basketball game against Maple Hill at Chatham High School.

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the court. “Sometimes I think there’s a premium put on steals. ...Teams that are high steals have a high defensive rating, but they’re not good defensively. They can turn you over, but the rest of the defense isn’t there, so it’s high-risk, high-reward. It seems to be that defensive rating is slanted toward that. “So I look more at containment of the ball, moving around flight of the ball, are we keeping the ball out of the paint, are we challenging the shot correctly? Are we protecting our basket in transition? Those are the things that I look at.”

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Boyfriend’s ‘chatty’ habit makes girlfriend jealous Dear Abby, I’ve been going out with this guy for a couple of months. The problem is, he has to ALWAYS talk to every woman he sees — from a two-second conversation to a several-minute conversation. He doesn’t even know 99% of DEAR ABBY them. When we go to a store, I feel like I’m invisible. He’ll walk away from me and start talking to women. I don’t trust him completely because sometimes he flirts or says something that could be taken in a sexual way, and I worry that one of these women could take it like he’s interested in her. I don’t want to break up with him. I love him. But I feel I have reason to be jealous. I wish I was the only girl for him. Please give me advice. Not Number One In Pennsylvania

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If you have discussed this with him and it persists, listen to your intuition. If he loved you, he would not be chatting up other women. If a man makes you feel like you are not No. 1, get rid of him before he destroys your self-esteem. Dear Abby, We have a neighbor who likes to go out with us to the casinos, restaurants and various other places. This is doing her a favor, but she never contributes toward the transportation. When we go out with other couples, we alternate driving or help to pay for fuel. All we get from her is, “Thank you. Let me know when you’re going next time.” I know she reads your column. I hope she reads this and realizes this sounds like her and takes the hint. What do you think is the best way to handle this situation? Always The Taxi Your friend may be an avid “Dear Abby” reader, but what if — heaven forbid — she misses the column today and doesn’t see your letter? The “best” way to handle this would be for you to

take the bull by the horns and address the problem directly with her. Dear Abby, For a long time, I have been in love with a man who is 15 years younger than I am. We had a relationship for about a year, which ended six years ago. Since then, we have remained friends and occasionally hooked up a few times. The short relationship we had was close to perfect. He broke it off with me because he said he couldn’t give me the relationship I really wanted and I would end up resenting him or even hating him for it. Although I didn’t understand that when he said it, I understand now he was right. The problem is, I cannot seem to get over him. I’ve had two unsuccessful relationships since. They weren’t the same as it was with him. I don’t know what to do. A few months ago, I cut off everything with him, and we haven’t talked in many months. It’s not working! I’m still in love with him and can’t get him out of my head. I mentioned the age difference because I had a hard time with it, but he didn’t. What else can I do? I’m afraid to start anything with someone new. Hopeless In New York What you are describing is painful, but it’s happening because you haven’t accepted the reason the two of you broke up. He said he couldn’t give you the relationship you really wanted — whatever that was. You are not in love with this man. You are in love with the fantasy of the person you wanted him to be. Once that fact is firmly in place in your head, you’ll be able to move forward, although it may take help from a licensed psychotherapist to accomplish it. Whatever it takes, please do it, so you can start living your life. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

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Zits Dark Side of the Horse

Horoscope By Stella Wilder Born today, you are something of a chameleon, able to change your behavior or appearance very quickly to suit circumstances — or merely your own desires. You can be quite fearless, willing to charge into situations at a moment’s notice without so much as a thought for your own safety or success — and yet there are times when you may be so cautious that you risk going nowhere. Your emotions are very often near the surface, and it doesn’t take much for someone to sum you up quickly and, in this way, gain an advantage of some kind over you. You would do well to let your head lead the way more often, and it’s certainly not easy for you to do — but on those rare occasions when you do you almost always make a success of it. Also born on this date are: Steve Perry, singer; Guy Fieri, TV personality, host and chef; Diane Lane, actress; Linda Blair, actress; John Hurt, actor; Steven Adler, drummer; Bill Bixby, actor; Gabriel Macht, actor; D.W. Griffith, director. 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 23 AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — You may not notice everything today, but surely enough, once something sinks in, it’s bound to stay there — and be useful to you, too. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — Your confidence will attract a good deal of attention today, but you may not want what it brings with it. Know where to draw the line. ARIES (March 21-April 19) — If it’s being overlooked that you most fear at this time, you

needn’t worry, for you’re sure to be noticed by some, no matter what you do. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — You want more than to be in the company of other people right now, you want them to be the right people. How can you arrange that, exactly? GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You’ll receive help at precisely the right moment today, whether or not you ask for it — and that kind of luck may stick with you awhile. CANCER (June 21-July 22) — Your insecurities are getting to you again, stopping you from doing what you know you can do — and do well. Cut the ties holding you back. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — You may have an announcement to make, but no one to make it to — for the moment. If you wait just a little while, an audience should materialize. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Someone you know can give you what you want, but they’re not likely to do so — at least not now. Don’t carry this disappointment with you! LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You may surprise someone who is just getting to know you by doing or saying something that seems out of character — but it’s not. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — You may be unusually tuned in today, especially when it comes to what goes on behind the scenes. You learn a valuable lesson after dark. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — You aren’t likely to understand what a loved one is doing, but you can recognize that it’s something you may want to try yourself soon. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You can give others a good deal of support today without lifting a finger. Don’t get carried away, however; it’s not always so easy, is it?

Daily Maze

Goren bridge WITH BOB JONES

WEEKLY BRIDGE QUIZ Q 1 - Neither vulnerable, as South, you hold: ♠ K 10 8 ♥ A 3 ♦ Q 7 5 4 ♣ Q J 10 3

What call would you make? Q 4 - Both vulnerable, as South, you hold: ♠ 8 ♥ K J 7 6 4 ♦ 9 ♣ K Q J 10 8 3

As dealer, what call would you make?

Q 2 - North-South vulnerable, as South, you hold:

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

♠ K J 10 9 3 ♥ A Q ♦ 5 4 ♣ A J 10 7

♠75♥K8♦KQ8754♣AK5

EAST SOUTH WEST NORTH 2♥ 2♠ Pass 3♥* Pass ? *Spade fit, at least game invitational values

As dealer, what call would you make? Q 6 - East-West vulnerable, as South, you hold: ♠ A Q 7 6 4 3 ♥ K 10 5 ♦ A 3 ♣ K 5

What call would you make? Q 3 - East-West vulnerable, as South, you hold:

As dealer, what call would you make?

♠ 10 7 4 ♥ K Q J 6 ♦ K Q J 10 ♣ 8 4

Look for answers on Tuesday.

SOUTH 1♦

(Bob Jones welcomes readers’ responses sent in care of this paper or tcaeditors@tribpub.com)

WEST Pass

NORTH 2♣

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Free Range THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME

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CNHIP NLADB NCAGEL SIALHV Solution to Friday’s puzzle

1/22/22 Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit, 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit

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Heart of the City

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For Better or For Worse

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Crossword Puzzle

ACROSS 1 French friends 5 Competed in a marathon 10 Dick and Jane’s dog 14 Knighted woman 15 Pueblo home 16 Honey factory 17 Hoodwink 18 Food elevator 20 “To __, with Love”; Poitier film 21 Metric weight 22 Live’s partner, in phrase 23 “Ripley’s Believe It __!” 25 Everyone 26 Cutest family members 28 Word with shower or gown 31 Fill with joy 32 Nutmeg or cumin 34 Carp 36 Lung section 37 Wild hogs 38 Mix with a spoon 39 Chat room giggle 40 Facial hair 41 Steeple 42 Ant’s antenna 44 Elegant 45 Ignited 46 Stringed instrument 47 Colorado ski resort 50 Say it isn’t so 51 TV series for George Eads 54 Dark-colored rye 57 Pepper holder 58 Leave suddenly 59 Pound division 60 Keep the boat afloat 61 Phonograph speeds, for short 62 River mammal 63 European peaks DOWN 1 Finds a total 2 Wailea Beach’s island 3 Unlikely

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4 Drop in on 5 AM/FM devices 6 Minor no more 7 Singer Perry 8 Diminish 9 Mountain __; fizzy drink 10 Protective plate 11 Round flatbread 12 Take __; assume control 13 Harbor bird 19 Kate’s TV housemate 21 Patella’s place 24 Ceremony 25 Curved bands of sparks 26 Actress Catherine 27 Standoffish 28 Frequent flier 29 Unfriendly 30 Hideaways 32 Go skyward 33 Hole average 35 Zane or Lady Jane 37 Red as a __ 38 Stretch across

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Non Sequitur

40 In the __ of an eye; instantly 41 Massacre 43 Votes into office 44 Hot ash fragment 46 “__ Train”; Cat Stevens hit 47 Shortened wd.

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48 Feed the pigs 49 Tropical tree 50 Fender blemish 52 __ up; make an error 53 Woes 55 Bronx cheer 56 Groove 57 Advanced deg.

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By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek

Unscramble these Jumbles, one letter to each square, to form four ordinary words.

Now arrange the circled letters to form the surprise answer, as suggested by the above cartoon.

AnswersMonday) Tuesday (Answers Jumbles: STUNT STYLE AGENCY EXCEED Answer: Some members of the U.S. House of Representatives ate lunch at the — “DELEGATE-TESSEN”

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The only face that could bring

Boba Fett back to life Bruce Johnston performs with The Beach Boys at Ventura County Fairgrounds and Event Center on Oct. 23 in Ventura, Calif. Kevin Winter/Getty Images/TNS

‘Here’s how it rolled out’ How 79-year-old Beach Boy Bruce Johnston wound up on the new Weeknd album

Boba Fett (Temuera Morrison) waits for tributes in the season premiere of “The Book of Boba Fett.” Disney Plus

Temuera Morrison wasn’t just the right choice; he was the only choice By DAVID BETANCOURT Washington Post

emuera Morrison vividly remembers the first time he tried on his Boba Fett

suit. He sat in a meeting room with “Star Wars”” VIP producers Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni, wearing a darker version of the armor he’d worn two decades earlier in the “Star Wars” prequels as bounty hunter Jango Fett, the man who provided the genetic material to create Boba — and he instantly felt stronger, with the urge to stick his chest out a little. There was no denying the electricity of the moment. And Filoni, one of the chief

It was nice to actually come back and work hard and do some good stuff in terms of the drama, in terms of the acting, in terms of the action. Especially in these mature years that I have attained.” TEMUERA MORRISON Actor who plays Boba Fett in “The Book of Boba Fett”

architects in “Star Wars’” new era of pop culture relevance, gave a passing grade with his eyes — eyes that Morrison described as twinkling. Filoni then said that they’d made the right decision in bringing Morrison back to “Star Wars” as one of the franchise’s most popular characters. “I was so excited to attend this meeting I actually got there three hours early,” Morrison

Temuera Morrison in “The Book of Boba Fett.” Disney Plus

told The Washington Post. “I just wanted to make the most out of the opportunity.” Morrison wasn’t just the right choice. He was the only choice. More specifically, the only face. The character debuted in the infamous 1978 “Star Wars” animated holiday special, of all things. He then appeared in 1980’s “The Empire Strikes Back” (played by late actor Jeremy Bulloch) as a bounty hunter

for Darth Vader. He died after Han Solo accidentally jammed the rocket that was on his back in 1983’s “Return of the Jedi.” But he remained immensely popular with fans because he had the audacity to look cooler than Darth Vader while standing next to him. Boba Fett lived on through novels, comic books, action figures and conventions. But death doesn’t always stick in the “Star Wars” universe. Especially for the most buzzedabout characters. Just ask Darth Maul, another “Star Wars” prequel character Filoni resurrected (in the animated “The Clone Wars” series). Favreau and Filoni crafted another back-from-thedead revival for Boba Fett, explaining his survival in the first episode of the new series “The See BOBA C2

By MIKAEL WOOD Los Angeles Times

Look beyond the usual suspects credited as collaborators on the Weeknd’s new album “Dawn FM” — think Max Martin, think Calvin Harris, think Oneohtrix Point Never — and you’ll find a more unexpected name in the album’s liner notes: Bruce Johnston of the Beach Boys, who’s listed as a writer and producer on the track “Here We Go... Again” along with Rex Kudo, known for his studio work with Post Malone and the late Juice WRLD. A shimmering soft-rock ballad with lush choral vocals and a tender yet witty lyric about sliding into a new romance, the song is one of “Dawn FM’s” clear standouts. But how exactly did Johnston, who at 79 continues to perform regularly with Mike Love’s touring version of the Beach Boys, get involved? I called him last week at his home in Santa Barbara, Calif., to find out. Q: Take me back to the beginning of this song. A: Here’s how it rolled out. I was put together with Sonny Moore — Skrillex — a couple summers ago. I kind of knew who he was. As a guy over 20, I’m not going out and doing many gigs with DJs. But so I went down to Shangri-La Studios across from Zuma Beach, where I surf, and we just hit it off. I met a guy named Heavy Mellow — what a guitar player. And I met Rex Kudo, who’s become my new brother in the last two years. We just started recording, making stuff up on the spot. Over time I started bringing Mike Love’s son, Christian Love, to our sessions. He’s amazing. As much as you might miss Carl Wilson, when you hear Christian Love sing “God Only Knows” — wow. Anyway, these guys, they never stop recording. One time I got there and Rex was in a pup tent, sleeping on the grass after a session. Eventually, Rex says, “Come down to my house,” a little further down PCH. We have no Beach Boys shows because of the pandemic, so I go down and bring Christian along with me. Rex hands me a Bullet mic, the kind that Mick Jagger would use when he plays the harmonica, and we just start singing. Few days later, Rex says, “Hey, we played that thing for Abel” — you know, the Weeknd — “and he really likes it.” This is 6, 8 months ago. Somehow it floated into his creative ether and he jumped in as a writer. See MUSIC C2

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A new, old-fashioned sitcom By ROBERT LLOYD Los Angeles Times

New to Hulu is “The Golden Palace” — 24 episodes dropped at once — which shares a theme song and three actresses with “The Golden Girls,” a show about four widows sharing a house in Miami. Set in an age of padded shoulders and roomy pants, it is an old-fashioned, multicamera affair, to the point even of the cultural references, which will require recourse to the encyclopedia: Gordon McRae, Leona Helmsley, Senor Wences, Jimmy Swaggart, Paul Prudhomme, Chia Pet, the musical “Li’l Amber,” “I Dream of Jeannie” and “That Girl.” In “The Golden Palace,” which turns a domestic comedy into a workplace comedy (albeit a workplace in which the characters also live), Blanche (Rue McClanahan), Rose (Betty White) and Sophia (Estelle Getty) buy a hotel they have been assured is a good investment but which turns out to be a bad one, even though it is a well-equipped beachfront property. The staff they find has been reduced to two: manager Roland (Don Cheadle, a young man who should go far in this business) and chef Chuy (Cheech Marin, moving beyond comedy), adding Black and brown actors where formerly there were none. There is also a child, Oliver (Billy L. Sullivan), because that must have seemed a good idea, until his deaccession halfway through the season. Although the hotel does better or worse depending on the needs of any given episode, there are often few to no vacancies, and the dining room is usually full. Still, there are no new hires, the entire hotel and restaurant being run by the aforementioned cast. (Getty, around 70 — and playing around 90, I reckon — busses tables.) Blanche, like DuBois, is what one might call extremely

sex-positive, a woman who wore out three mattresses guaranteed to last a lifetime; Rose, a child in Betty White’s body, is a sweet Midwestern farm girl of fanciful Scandinavian descent; and Sophia intimates intimate knowledge of organized crime. Sometimes they get to play against type, or express deep-ish thoughts or real emotions, or just explode. “You tell that ungrateful vermin at table four if he doesn’t shut up about his damn muffins I’ll pour hot butter in his nooks and crannies,” spits Rose, uncharacteristically, for the laugh. Should you watch this show? Even with 24 episodes, you can get through it all in a few dedicated nights, so why not? Does it matter that you can supply the punchlines to a good number of jokes before the actors get there? As when Blanche’s son Matthew (guest Bill Engvall) confesses, “We like the same things,” and she answers, “Oh my God, you’re gay.” Perhaps that will make you feel brilliant. Perhaps it will just feel comforting, as when you open the door to your own house after a rough day away. The cast is great — legendary, one might say — even if they are playing in a sequel to a show people remember better and love more. And If nothing else there are 24 episodes worth of Betty White that were unavailable 2 weeks ago. Guest stars include George Burns, Eddie Albert (playing a character called Mr. Douglas), Bobcat Goldthwaite, Barry Bostwick, Ned Beatty, Ricardo Montalban, Harvey Korman and Tim Conway amid other notable emissaries from the late 20th century. Bea Arthur, the absent Golden Girl, pays a two-episode visit. There are a lot of sex jokes, and jokes about being old, and the dynamite combination of jokes about sex and being old. (You might plausibly regard them — some of them

Betty White stars in “The Golden Palace.” Globe Photos/ ZUMA Wire/TNS

— as empowering.) Blanche, as mentioned, is much concerned with sex, and many of her lines have to do with the sex she wants to have, or has had and sometimes is having. (It is, of course, not the sort of show in which people are seen in bed together, unless, say, the women have to bunk together to free up a room.) Sophia calls her a “slut” and like endearments, though she herself has a habit of commenting on men’s backsides. Even Rose has a story about dressing up as storybook characters with her late husband or making love in their barn. (Blanche: “How could you do it with all those cows watching you?” Rose: “How could you not?”) Occasionally Marin is handed a pot joke, because he’s Cheech Marin. (“Do I look like the kind of guy that would smoke marijuana?”) But he’s given sex jokes too. Some jokes do sound as if they were written, well, 30 years ago. An episode in which the hotel is repeatedly mistaken for a Chinese restaurant works to a nub a gag in which “Who me?” is meant to sound like a Chinese name and enlists Margaret Cho to say, “Dog? No cook dog!” A line about looking like “the last of

the Mohicans” is meant to indicate a flushed complexion. There are gags about women who look like men, and women who look like men dressed as women. There is a sexual harassment joke — “You lick one gardener on the back of the neck, all of a sudden it’s a federal offense,” Blanche says — I will leave you to process or let slide. (It is, in any case, consistent with the character.) On the other hand, there is one clear engagement with the past, present and future — an exchange you might have seen rocketing around the internet — when, in the episode “Camp Town Races Aren’t Nearly as Much Fun as They Used to Be,” the intensely Dixie-fied Blanche hangs a Confederate flag in front of the reception desk to welcome guests from the Daughters of the Traditional South and Roland threatens to quit. “This flag is not about college football games or quilting bees or fried chicken on Sunday,” he will finally say, by way of educating her. “It’s about colleges that won’t let me in; it’s about companies that won’t hire me; it is about crosses being burnt on people’s lawns today, not in the evil past, Blanche, today.” Adding for regional balance: “And not just in the south, Blanche, the north is just as bad.” “Damn Yankees,” says Blanche, who goes on to wonder, “What am I supposed to think about all those people I love? What am I supposed to think about me? All my wonderful memories. They’re all tarnished now by ... the truth. “White people are going to have to start making positive assumptions when they say people of color.” Adding for racial balance: “And people of color could make positive assumptions when they see white people.” Handshake, soul shake. Applause. Hug. In 30 years it should all be fine.

Sometimes we keep books so we can give them away By LAURIE HERTZEL Star Tribune

Why, I ask myself, do I have such an absurd number of books? We had a friend over for dinner the other night. Even though we are all fully vaccinated, it felt a little risky, but this was a rare balmy winter evening so we sat on the drafty three-season porch for a while and then moved in by the fire, with a window cracked. My husband and I had done the requisite tidying up — dusting, vacuuming, clearing all of my junk and computer and papers off the dining room table. But I can’t do anything about the books. They are everywhere, and all I can hope is that they sort of blend into the landscape. Our bookshelves are crammed full, with new additions lying horizontally across the tops of those already shelved. The rest are on the floor. I make the piles as neat as possible, shove them against the wall, hope nobody stumbles over them. Books make a house a home, don’t they? In which case our house is as homey as it gets. As we hunker down for a long Minnesota winter, I like to think the thousands of books help insulate us from the cold. And yet sometimes I wonder why I keep them. What possible purpose is served by hanging onto 40-year-old books that I haven’t cracked in decades? Of course I have my reasons. I haven’t read them all. It’s very hard to give away a book I haven’t yet read. I am nostalgic, and sometimes I need to re-read something at a moment’s notice. I went on a sentimental bender earlier this fall, reading

beloved novels of my youth by Noel Streatfeild (she wrote the “Shoe” books) and John Verney. You know that feeling — COVID and politics and everything else was getting to be too much, and I needed something to read at night that would make me feel better. I already owned some, hopped online and bought the rest, and I can only hope that a similar impulse hits again in a few decades. If it does, I’m ready. I keep multiple copies of books I love so that I can give them away. It’s why, for instance, I have two copies of Louise Erdrich’s new novel, “The Sentence.” I’ll keep the autographed copy forever, but the other one? Someday someone will come over for dinner, we’ll get to talking, the book will come up — and voila! I will pull it off the shelf and hand it over. This is something I love to do. I keep books because just looking at them, just seeing their spines lined up on shelves, makes me happy. Books represent possibilities of so many kinds. Any time I want to, I can take that copy of “Hamnet” off the shelf and jump into Shakespeare’s world. Any time I want to, I can pull down “A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush” and be in the Afghan mountains with the great Eric Newby and his dry, selfdeprecating wit. That balmy evening, our dinner went well. We talked late into the night about a lot of things in a rambling way, including what we were reading now and what we wished to read. When the evening was over, our friend left with two books. Why do you keep books? Conversely, why do you not keep books? Write me at booksstartribune.com and include your name and city.

The Weeknd performs in front of fans during the halftime show for Super Bowl LV on Feb. 7 in Tampa, Fla. Martha Asencio Rhine/ Tampa Bay Times/TNS

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Q: Did you know about the Weeknd before this? A: Who wouldn’t know about the Weeknd? Q: What did you know? A: I knew that he was a guy from Toronto who has the most beautiful, high voice and some great hits with Max Martin. I stay up to date, not to worry. Q: Have you met him in person? A: I haven’t. But the man has heart and soul and vocal range. Q: Do you know what he was drawn to in your original piece of music? A: He got hooked on some of the melodic things that I did and maybe some of the harmonies that Christian and I did. I only heard the final mix last night on Amazon. It’s like he colorized what we did in black and white. In the old days you’d slow-dance to it. Q: Did he tell you what the finished song would be about? A: I think they probably wanted to give me a late Christmas present. Q: In the song he sings, “Said you wanted your boyfriend jealous with a couple

pics/ And you didn’t expect to fall for me once you got this dick.” A: That’s not a lyric I wrote. Q: I wouldn’t have thought so. A: But am I gonna criticize? No, because what I like about our country is that we have freedom of expression. If that’s the way he hears it, that’s the way he’s gotta do it. It fits the vibe of the song. Go Abel. Q: You have more material you recorded with Rex and Skrillex? A: Hours of it. I’ve been going in since a year ago July, and I’m going in Monday at 2 o’clock. These guys, it’s like the Wrecking Crew in the 21st century. They can write, sing, play, produce. They pool the music and then offer it around, and for the artists it’s like trying on clothes before you customize it. Q: A different way of making records than in the Beach Boys’ day. A: Right, Brian Wilson owned it all. Still does. But creatively it’s the same vibe as when I joined the band in the spring of ‘65. Q: Would you ever do a solo album with them? A: No. I don’t care about a Bruce Johnston record. I need to spend my time, what’s left of it, on songwriting. I still have some magic left.

Ming Na Wen, right, stars with Temuera Morrison in “The Book of Boba Fett,” which debuted last month on Disney Plus. Disney Plus

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Book of Boba Fett,” which debuted last month on Disney Plus. Because the character is a clone of his “father” Jango Fett — who died at the hands of Mace Windu’s (Samuel L. Jackson) lightsaber in “Star Wars/Episode II: Attack of the Clones” — that meant a nowgrown-up Boba had to have the same face. Rare is the acting opportunity that allows an actor to portray both the father and the son, but if there’s one thing the “Star Wars” universe has always excelled in, it’s dramatic paternity issues. Morrison couldn’t be happier with the technicality that allowed him to return to the bloodline of a role he began in his 40s and now returns to in his 60s. “It was nice to actually come back and work hard and do some good stuff in terms of the drama, in terms of the

acting, in terms of the action,” Morrison said. “Especially in these mature years that I have attained.” Morrison was given a test drive as Boba Fett in 2020 during the sixth episode of Season 2 of “The Mandalorian.” It was an action-packed affair with a wild West vibe full of laser blasts and exploding ships, directed by Robert Rodriguez. Morrison said he and Rodriguez bonded on set by playing guitars together between scenes. Shooting that episode was when he realized he could take Boba Fett further than just a cameo appearance if he were ever asked to do so. “Everything clicked with Robert Rodriguez,” Morrison said of the director who also helmed the first episode of “The Book of Boba Fett. “I think I had to show some stuff once I appeared in ‘The Mandalorian.’ I think that gave them confidence to say hey I think this guy can handle it. To be in this family of Disney and (Lucasfilm) and having to hold

the reins as a number one was a great honor.” The New Zealand-born actor also takes great pride in the rarity of being a major “Star Wars” performer who comes from an Indigenous background. It’s a status he doesn’t take lightly. Morrison has met many Indigenous actors over the years who have told him his career was of great influence to them. While he was filming “Aquaman,” he was moved to learn that one of his breakout movies 1994s “Once We Were Warriors,” about a family that descends from a Maori legacy, had a strong impact on that film’s star, Jason Momoa. “Here’s a young, Brown, Hawaiian growing up in Iowa — he found that movie really moved him spiritually in terms of his identity. I guess at the end of the day (many) people are trying to find their roots ... who they are,” Morrison said. “We’re proud of those Indigenous roots. We can take that life force that

we have from our Indigenous culture, we can blend it, transform and use some of the energy to give us confidence, and also to make us perform at a level that is good so that we do get noticed. It is our power. It is who we are.” For the moment, Morrison is mum on just how much of his face we’ll be seeing on Disney Plus outside of “The Book of Boba Fett.” There are multiple “Star Wars” streaming series in production (including “ObiWan Kenobi” and “Ahsoka”) that present opportunities for him to appear not only as Boba Fett but other clone troopers that share his face. They gained popularity in “The Clone Wars,” while voiced by actor Dee Bradley Baker. “Well, there are people — I’m thinking of Captain Rex for one. He looks a little like me. There’s Commander Cody. What happened to those guys? There’s all those clone armies,” Morrison said. “That could be something fresh and new and exciting.”

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Food

A warm brew for winter Beer soup from a top chef will get you through any cold snap

Skillet lamb and lentils. Linda Gassenheimer/TNS

By KATE KRADER

One-pot lamb recipe is a family pleaser

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et us now praise the virtues of soup: There’s no better food for this time of year, holiday cookies notwithstanding. A bubbling pot is the best antidote to the outer chill. Beyond that obvious appeal, it’s also one of the most forgiving dishes you can make-no small relief in the middle of the relentless holiday season. Unlike baking, in which precision is key and an errant tablespoon or two of butter can wreak havoc on a pastry, or roasting, in which a couple of additional minutes can spell disaster for a chicken or pork loin, soup can absorb just about anything you throw at it. Too much salt? Stir in a little milk or cream, or add a raw potato to absorb some of the over-seasoned liquid. Too watery? Just keep simmering to intensify the broth. While the tomato and chicken noodle classics function as the food world’s version of fuzzy slippers, let’s make way for a new standard: beer soup. “This is a favorite soup in Alsace, where we use a lot of beer in cooking,” writes Gabriel Kreuther in his new The Spirit of Alsace, a Cookbook, with Michael Ruhlman (Abrams; $60). It’s a golden, thick concoction made with chicken stock, plenty of onions, a smoky piece of pork, and the namesake ingredient. It’s one of more than 170 recipes that Kreuther, chef-owner of his eponymous two Michelin-starred restaurant in Midtown Manhattan, grew up with. Other dishes include his famed tarte flambée, topped with the fresh cheese fromage blanc and bacon; directions for making your own liverwurst; and choucroute garni, the gut-busting Alsatian dish that features sauerkraut and an array of sausages and ribs. Nothing went to waste when Kreuther was growing up on a farm in the scenic northeastern region of France that borders Germany. Leftover roast would become the filling for stuffed potatoes, and the potato trimmings would become pancakes. Even if your name isn’t Homer Simpson, beer soup has obvious appeal. When he was chef at the Modern in New York, Kreuther says the version he made there was so popular, he had to make it by the gallon: “I had people have one, and then they ordered a second.” To fancy it up, he would garnish it with scallops, uni, and ruby-red shrimp from Maine. But the soup is just fine without the high-end additions. It is wonderfully homey, reminiscent of a good French onion soup with the sweet bite of sauteed leeks and onions, the rich tang of sour cream, and the pervasive smokiness of the ham in the mix. The most notable taste, however, comes from the beer that makes up the soup’s base. It adds a compelling bitterness-offset by the sugar that’s stirred in at the end-and a heady punch, even if much of the alcohol has cooked off. You can also finish the soup with some ground cardamom and cloves for maximum soothing effect. “The spices create layers of flavor. It hits you, then fades away and keeps your interest going,” observes the chef. As to what beer to use for the

By LINDA GASSENHEIMER Tribune News Service

Beer soup. Kate Krader/Bloomberg

cornstarch mixed with about 3 tbsp cold water to the consistency of cream (optional)

The ingredients for beer soup. Kate Krader/Bloomberg

all-important signature ingredient, Kreuther recommends a pilsner rather than a hoppy IPA, which can get too bitter when you reduce it. If you’re not drinking, a non-alcoholic beer will also produce a supremely comforting dish. The following recipe is adapted from The Spirit of Alsace, a Cookbook, by Gabriel Kreuther with Michael Ruhlman

FARMER’S BEER SOUP Serves 6 to 8 3 cups diced onions 4 cups leeks, white and light-green

parts only, cleaned and cut into ½ inch pieces 2 tablespoons butter 1 teaspoon salt, plus more to taste 1 pint good beer (malty, like a pilsner) 1 quart chicken stock 1 small smoked (not fresh) pork knuckle or ham hock 3 sprigs thyme 2 bay leaves 1 tablespoon black peppercorns 1 clove 1 cardamom pod ¾ cup sour cream, plus more to taste 2 tablespoons sugar Freshly grated nutmeg, for garnish Slurry made with 2 tablespoons

Tied the thyme, bay leaves, peppercorns, clove and cardamom together in cheesecloth or a coffee filter. In a large saucepan, combine the onions, leeks, and butter. Cook over medium-high heat, stirring occasionally and adding the teaspoon of salt as you do, until translucent, about 12 minutes. Do not allow the onion to brown. Add the beer, bring to a simmer, and cook gently until reduced by half, about 15 minutes. Add the chicken stock, pork knuckle, and the herb package, and bring back to a simmer. Cover partially, about three-quarters of the way, and continue to simmer for 45 to 60 minutes. Remove the pork knuckle and sachet. While the pork knuckle is still warm, separate the meat from the bone; discard the bone with the fat, and the gristle. Break down the meat by cutting it into smaller pieces or shred it by hand, and set aside. Add the sour cream, sugar, and nutmeg to the soup. Taste and adjust seasoning as necessary. If the soup is too thin for your taste, stir in the slurry and simmer until thickened. Add the meat and an additional dollop of sour cream if desired, and serve hot or warm.

Here’s a warm and comforting meal that can be made in minutes using only one pot. For this easy dinner, tender lamb cut for kabobs and fragrant spices cook with canned lentils. It’s a family pleaser. This recipe tastes great a second day. If you have time, make double the recipe and save half for another quick meal. Helpful Hints: — Using frozen chopped onion helps cut down on preparation. — Use any type of pasta sauce. — A quick way to chop cilantro is to snip the leaves from the stems with a scissors. — If the skillet becomes dry before the lentils are cooked, add a little water. Countdown: — Prepare ingredients. — Complete dish. Shopping List: To buy: ¾ pound lamb cubes (cut for kabobs), 1 package frozen chopped onion, 1 container minced garlic, 1 bottle ground cumin, 1 bunch fresh rosemary, 1 jar pasta sauce, 1 can lentils, 1 package washed, ready-to-eat spinach and 1 bunch cilantro (optional garnish). Staples: olive oil, salt and black peppercorns.

SKILLET LAMB AND LENTILS Recipe by Linda Gassenheimer 1 tablespoon olive oil ¾ pound lamb cubes (cut for kabobs), about 1-inch cubes Salt and freshly ground black pepper 2 cups frozen chopped onion 2 teaspoons minced garlic 2 teaspoons ground cumin 1 tablespoon fresh rosemary or 2 teaspoons dried rosemary 1 cup pasta sauce 1 cup rinsed and drained canned lentils 4 cups washed, ready-to-eat spinach ¼ cup cilantro leaves (optional garnish) Heat oil in a medium-size nonstick skillet over high heat. Add the lamb cubes and brown for 2 to 3 minutes, turning the cubes to make sure all sides are browned. Add salt and pepper to taste. Remove to a plate. Lower heat to medium high. Add the onion and garlic. Cook 2 minutes. Add the cumin and rosemary. Cook another minute. Add See LAMB C6

Bring big flavor in 25 minutes Try sesame-crusted chicken cutlets with artichokes and arugula By ANN MALONEY Washington Post

I can get dinner on the table in about 20 minutes. I do it all the time. The trick is hitting that 30-minute-or-less sweet spot, but still ending up with a dish that’s got big flavor and isn’t one of the hoary go-tos I’ve made again and again. In her new cookbook, “Big Little Recipes,” food writer Emma Laperruque, whose popular Food52 column bears the same name, inspired me to dig deeper into my pantry to

make this few-ingredient dish that offers a surprising pop of flavor. Not every one of the 60 recipes featured in her cookbook is ready in less than 30 minutes, but many are, including this Sesame Chicken With Artichokes and Arugula. For this dish, you grind sesame seeds to make a powdery seed flour that you use to coat the chicken cutlets — no egg wash, no flour needed. Then, you panfry them until golden. While they are sizzling, you make a salad of arugula and jarred artichoke hearts, tossing it with some of the marinade from the jar. Lay the crisp chicken cutlet on the salad, and dinner

is served. Laperruque recommends making the same dish, but with poppy seeds and salt tossed together on a plate as a coating, no need to crush those tiny seeds. Bet that’s a stunner, too. As in her column, each of the dishes requires only a handful of ingredients — many probably already in your pantry or refrigerator. Laperruque’s philosophy is to “wring each ingredient for all it’s worth.” She makes the case for using the whole fruit or vegetables — beets and their greens — when possible. She tosses herbs in with a heavy hand for bigger flavor.

And she has fun “deconstructing’ favorite dishes: A bacon and lettuce salad made with bacon-fat fried croutons and a “tomato-y” dressing of blitzed tomatoes and mayo is perfect for this time of year when tomatoes are less than perfect, but the BLT craving hits. She builds confidence, too, proclaiming: “If you can make cereal, you can make salad dressing.” She’s got a point. I can remember when salad dressing used to intimidate me. If it still seems daunting to you, imagine turning 2 ounces of blue cheese and ¼ cup of yogurt into a “low-lift blue cheese” dressing. I’d probably add some freshly cracked

Sesame chicken with artichokes and arugula. Scott Suchman/Washington Post

pepper, but easy, right? (She does the same thing with frosting, blending together goat cheese and confectioner’s sugar, for example. Now, why didn’t I think of that as a tangy alternative to cream cheese? I

want to try it on pecan-stuffed dates.) And, next summer, I’m making her buttermilk granita (buttermilk and sugar, stirred See CHICKEN C6

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C4 - Saturday - Sunday, January 22-23, 2022

Books & authors

‘True Grit’ is a modern classic, but it doesn’t stop there Author Charles Portis has other great works worth checking out By MICHAEL DIRDA Washington Post

Way back in November, with Thanksgiving fast approaching, I glumly looked up from my reading and wished I could feel more grateful. Yes, my immediate family was relatively OK, but elections were being won by candidates I didn’t agree with, the super-rich were growing richer, high school graduates who should know better were shunning coronavirus vaccines, and our planet’s climate future looked anything but halcyon. Clearly, I needed to pull myself out of what John Bunyan called the Slough of Despond. But how? And then, like an answered prayer, the Post Office delivered a box from The Overlook Press containing six crisp paperbacks by Charles Portis. Portis, who died in 2020, is best known for “True Grit,” the modern classic about 14-yearold Mattie Ross, who enlists a grizzled, one-eyed U.S. Marshal named Rooster Cogburn to help her hunt down her father’s murderer. Two good movies are based on that book, but they only hint at the original’s wondrousness, grounded in the elderly Mattie’s steely,

no-nonsense narrative voice: “People do not give it credence that a fourteen-year-old girl could leave home and go off in wintertime to avenge her father’s blood but it did not seem so strange then, although I will say it did not happen every day.” Though parts of the novel are comic, the book is ultimately as serious as “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” (to which it is sometimes compared). As Mattie looks back in her last paragraph, she describes what the old increasingly feel, “Time just gets away from us,” before bringing the book to its plainspoken but emotionally powerful close: “This ends my true account of how I avenged Frank

Ross’ blood over in the Choctaw Nation when snow was on the ground.” Ardent admirers of “True Grit” include not just readers like you and me, but also writers as different as George Pelecanos, Roy Blount Jr. and Donna Tartt. When the book first appeared in 1968, the back cover carried a blurb from Roald Dahl proclaiming it the best work of fiction he had read since he couldn’t remember when. Like F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” or John Williams’ “Stoner,” it is regularly pointed to as one of the world’s most artistically perfect novels. And yet a number of learned Portis devotees actually prefer “Norwood,” or “The Dog of

the South,” or “Masters of Atlantis” or “Gringos.” All four, I knew, were funny and touching, featuring wise simpletons, magnificent con artists and an abundance of down-home Texas and Arkansas characters with names such as Vernell or Tilmon. Though I come from Ohio, these were the same kind of jokey, hard-drinking and ultracompetent working-class people I grew up with and respected. Surely, some binge-reading of Portis’ other books would set me up for Thanksgiving? In “Norwood,” first published in 1966, a 20-something auto mechanic from Ralph, Texas, travels to New York City to recover $70 owed to him by an old Army buddy. Before its end, Norwood encounters “the world’s smallest perfect fat man,” rescues “Joann the Wonder Hen” from her cage in a penny arcade, punches out the deliciously slimy Grady Fring, the Kredit King, and wins the heart of Rita Lee as they read comic books together on the long bus-ride home. It’s the language that enchants. Norwood peeks in at his local roller-skating rink: “The boys were skating fast, working hard at it, as though they were delivering important telegrams.” A Texas oil company sponsors an essay-writing contest on the theme, “Communism in the National Council of

‘These Precious Days’ is a beautiful reminder of what’s important By MICHELE FILGATE Washington Post

These Precious Days: Essays By Ann Patchett Harper. 320 pp. $26.99 I remember exactly where I was when I first read Ann Patchett’s January cover story for Harper’s Magazine, a lengthy essay about friendship and art and cancer and the pandemic, although summarizing it in that way doesn’t do justice to the full scope of the piece — a tribute that manages to encapsulate and distill the ways in which friendship can be a lifeline, a transformation, a sharpening of the lens. I was sitting in my chair at my kitchen table, not exactly in a comfortable position, but once I started reading I couldn’t move, unable to break the spell, until I finished in tears and sent it to a dear friend. That essay serves as the title piece in Patchett’s new collection, “These Precious Days,” a book of new and previously published but revised pieces (including two that first ran in The Washington Post). Read as a whole, it’s clear that Patchett is at her best when given the opportunity to write beyond the maximum word count dictated by most newspapers and magazines. In the title essay, Patchett doesn’t just recount but relives an unexpected friendship with the late Sooki Raphael, who

first came into her life because she was Tom Hanks’s assistant. The two women met before Patchett interviewed the actor in front of a live audience, but it wasn’t Hanks that Patchett was star-struck by, it was Sooki’s vibrant presence: “a tiny woman wearing a fitted evening coat with saucer-size peonies embroidered onto black velvet.” Their fondness for each other grew via email, until Sooki revealed that she had pancreatic cancer and Patchett’s husband, a doctor, enabled her to be part of a clinical trial at the Nashville hospital where he works. Sooki moved into their home at Patchett’s insistence before the covid-19 pandemic, then stayed during lockdown, becoming a crucial part of their everyday life. It was in Patchett’s presence where she was able to flourish and focus on her artwork, and her painting of Patchett’s dog, Sparky (which captures the animal’s inquisitive and tender expression in colorful swirls; Patchett compares it to Matisse), graces the cover of the book. To read this piece is to be suspended in the intimacy and connection and collaboration of a friendship between two artists inhabiting the liminal space of terminal illness. Every second is, indeed, precious, and Patchett’s prose is as welcoming and comforting as the chickpea stew Sooki cooks for her.

The other standout essay in the collection is “There Are No Children Here,” in which Patchett talks about not wanting to be a mother — a topic that deserves more attention and still feels taboo in certain circles. “I have just enough energy to write, keep up with the house, be a decent friend, a decent daughter and sister and wife. Part of not wanting children has always been the certainty that I didn’t have the energy for it, and so I had to make a choice, the choice between children and writing. ... History offers some examples of people who’ve done a good job with children and writing, I know that, but I wasn’t one of those people,” she writes. Part of what’s refreshing in reading Patchett’s nonfiction is having a window into her discipline as a writer and her deep understanding of herself. This knowledge has made it possible for her to create the kind of life that suits her: devoting her hours to writing books and putting other people’s stories into eager hands as the owner of Parnassus Books. Several of the essays deal with the idea of holding onto things (as in “The Nightstand,” where Patchett goes through her earliest writing, which her mother saved for her, against her will) and letting things go. In “How to Practice,” she takes inventory of what she needs and what she doesn’t. “I was starting

HARDCOVER FICTION 1. The Judge’s List. John Grisham. Doubleday 2. The Stranger in the Lifeboat. Mitch Albom. Harper 3. Wish You Were Here. Jodi Picoult. Ballantine 4. The Wish. Nicholas Sparks. Grand Central 5. The Lincoln Highway. Amor Towles. Viking 6. Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone. Diana Gabaldon. Delacorte 7. Cloud Cuckoo Land. Anthony Doerr. Scribner

8. Under the Whispering Door. TJ Klune. Tor 9. Fear No Evil. James Patterson. Little, Brown 10. The Last Thing He Told Me. Laura Dave. Simon & Schuster

Nelson 9. Laptop from Hell. Miranda Devine. Post Hill 10. The Storyteller. Dave Grohl. Dey Street

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1. Annihilation Road. Christine Feehan. Berkley 2. Forgotten in Death. J.D. Robb. St. Martin’s 3. 19 Yellow Moon Road. Fern Michaels Zebra 4. Neighbors. Danielle Steel. Dell 5. Thick as Thieves. Sandra Brown. Grand Central 6. Lost. Patterson/Born. Grand Central 7. The Affair. Danielle Steel. Dell 8. A Down Home Christmas Liz Talley Hallmark 9. Preacher’s Inferno. Johnstone. Pinnacle 10. Biscuits and Gravy. Johnstone. Pinnacle

1. The Comfortable Kitchen. Alex Snodgrass. Morrow 2. Atlas of the Heart. Brene Brown. Random House 3. The Real Anthony Fauci. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Skyhorse 4. The 1619 Project. Nikole HannahJones. One World 5. Call Us What We Carry. Amanda Gorman. Viking 6. Will. Will Smith. Penguin Press 7. The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Super Easy! Ree Drummond. Morrow 8. Jesus Listens. Sarah Young. Thomas

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and vibrating jowl straps door to door, sold velvet paintings and hi-lo shag carpet from the back of trucks, done considerable business in extra-wide shoes, fat-melting pills and unregistered securities. He’s also chased women, lost his medical license and gone broke numerous times. He now hopes to transform some Louisiana property into either an old-folks home called the City of Life or an amusement park named Jefferson Davis Land. Dr. Reo Symes is simply an out-and-out joy. As he confesses to Midge, whom he always calls Speed, “There is very little folly I have missed out on in my life.” And have I mentioned Portis’ sly, double-edged similes? When a young hippie named Christine visits a hospital after a hurricane, she makes “a cheery progress from bed to bed, in the confident manner of a draftdodging athlete signing autographs for mutilated soldiers.” Occasionally, too, sentences attain a fleeting, Nabokovian beauty: “We rounded a bend in the road and a cloud of pale blue butterflies appeared before us, blown in perhaps from another part of the world.” By the time I finished “The Dog of the South,” it was time to write this piece, but I can still look forward to “Masters of Atlantis,” “Gringos” and the miscellaneous pieces in “Escape

Alone and out of touch, a young woman reconsiders her life By CYNTHIA DICKISON Star Tribune

“Wish You Were Here” by Jodi Picoult; Ballantine Books (338 pages, $28.99)

to get rid of my possessions, at least the useless ones, because possessions stood between me and death. They didn’t protect me from death, but they created a barrier in my understanding, like many layers of bubble wrap, so that instead of thinking about what was coming and the beauty that was here now, I was thinking about the piles of shiny trinkets I’d accumulated. I had begun the journey of digging out.” Excavating is crucial to her process as a writer and human being. In the introduction, Patchett notes what stood out to her as she pulled the collection together. “Again and again, I was asking what mattered most in this precarious and precious life.” Whether she turns her gaze to her three fathers, her beautiful mother, her husband’s delight in piloting a plane, or her friendships, there’s a generosity in the way she not only looks at the world but invites the reader in to stay for a while. Michele Filgate is a writer and the editor of the essay collection “What My Mother and I Don’t Talk About.”

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Churches.” In Brooklyn, Norwood pauses outside an apartment building: “On the sidewalk in front of the place some shirtless Puerto Rican boys were roasting marshmallows over a smoldering mattress.” The irresistible Rita Lee tells him about a high school classmate who got a job in Manhattan as a secretary: “She was the FHA Charm Queen two years running. And smart? She didn’t know what a B was.” Already I was feeling better. In “The Dog of the South,” first published in 1979, the 26-year-old Ray Midge — a onetime newspaper copy editor, owner of over 400 volumes of military history, knowledgeable (like all Portis’ characters) about automobile engine noises — pursues his former friend Guy Dupree all the way from Little Rock, Arkansas, through Mexico to Belize. Dupree ran off with Midge’s wife, Norma, in Midge’s Ford Torino and our hero wants both back, especially the car. En route, he meets Dr. Reo Symes, a disciple of John Selmer Dix, the author of “With Wings as Eagles,” an inspirational self-help manual, compared to which all other books are simply “foul grunting.” Having absorbed Dix’s crass, gladhanding maxims, Symes has tried every sort of flimflam — peddled birthstone rings

TRADE PAPERBACK 1. Verity. Colleen Hoover. Grand Central 2. The Love Hypothesis. Ali Hazelwood. Berkley 3. People We Meet on Vacation. Emily Henry. Berkley 4. Where the Crawdads Sing. Delia Owens. Putnam 5. The Silent Patient. Alex Michaelides. Celadon 6. Jujutsu Kaisen 0. Gege Akutami. Viz 7. Heaven Official’s Blessing. Mo Xiang Tong Xiu. Seven Seas 8. The Paris Detective. Patterson/DiLallo. Grand Central 9. Chainsaw Man, Vol. 8. Tatsuki Fujimoto. Viz 10. King of Battle and Blood. Scarlett St. Clair. Bloom

March 13, 2020. The first words of Jodi Picoult’s novel strike dread, or at least trepidation. Do we really want to relive those disorienting, soul-crushing first days of the shutdown felt around the world? “Wish You Were Here” doesn’t shy away from the devastation of COVID-19 — but it’s simply the springboard, born of Picoult’s enforced isolation, for a tale of self-discovery. The aforementioned date of infamy is the day Diana O’Toole’s boyfriend, Finn, informs her that as a New York City doctor, he can’t possibly take their planned getaway to the Galapagos Islands. But “you should still go,” he tells her, words that will haunt. Whether this is a good idea is largely ignored. And so Diana jets off the next day, leaving behind Finn, her ailing mother and her job as a rising star at Sotheby’s. Maybe the journey to the exotic unknown will help gloss over her failure to procure a coveted Toulouse-Lautrec from the enigmatic Kotomi Ito (who bears more than a passing likeness to a certain musician who broke up the Beatles). Exotic and remote it may be, but the Galapagos is in the throes of lockdown. Travel-weary Diana is greeted by a deserted landscape; her luggage lost, her hotel shuttered, no ATM or WiFi or cell signal. It’s only through the kindness of an old woman, Abuela — grandmother — that she finds a bit of sustenance and a bed for the night. Nights turn into weeks turn into months. With no way to leave, Diana finds a home in this quiet paradise with Abuela, her grandson Gabriel and greatgranddaughter Beatriz, who overcome their initial resentment to warm to her in quite different ways. For the teenage Beatriz it is finding a mother surrogate to unburden herself on matters of family, art, love and sex. For Gabriel, a tour guide with no one to guide, it’s gratitude on his daughter’s behalf — and also, sex. Oh, and Finn? The e-mails that straggle through are litanies of the wreckage he’s seeing

Picoult abandons her usual stylistic tricks — except for one big one — and it makes for a satisfying and thoughtprovoking narrative of a woman whose entire ecosystem has shifted. every day, interspersed with guilt and remorse at their separation. Diana’s attempts to reach him — by text, e-mail, even postcard — are desperate at first, more sporadic as the days tick by. Is it possible she’s found everything she needs? “In a strange way, being stripped of everything — my job, my significant other, even my clothing and my language — has left only the essential part of me,” she muses. But return she must, in a most unusual manner. As the ravages of COVID hit close to home, Diana can’t shake the memories of the islands and doesn’t really want to. How can she return to the business of selling art, after discovering that she is herself an artist? How can she marry Finn, after her profound connection with Gabriel? Picoult abandons her usual stylistic tricks and it makes for a satisfying and thought-provoking narrative of a woman whose entire ecosystem has shifted. The truth of Diana’s story is revealed in her heart-to-heart with her new young confidante. “I have to go back to real life sometime,” she says. To which Beatriz responds wistfully, “For a while, didn’t this feel real?”

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Horoscope By Stella Wilder Born today, you are able to combine ambition and ability in ways that are unique to you and conceived to propel you forward along a path that is not defined by anyone but you — and you would have it no other way. You are likely to know what you want out of life at a remarkably early age, and though you may have had to start more slowly than other Aquarians, you will certainly let one small success lead to the next until each subsequent achievement is bigger, better and more rewarding. You don’t have to be the first at anything, but there are times when being the first makes everything better for you. You throw yourself into every worthy endeavor with all you’ve got, and you leave very little in reserve. This can be dangerous, but you rarely find yourself running low on enthusiasm or ability — and you are always, as the saying goes, “in it to win it.” Also born on this date are: Mariska Hargitay, actress; Ernie Kovacs, TV comedian, writer and actor; Richard Dean Anderson, actor; John Hancock, patriot and founding father; Edouard Manet, painter; Chita Rivera, actress.

To see what is in store for you tomorrow, find your birthday and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your daily guide. MONDAY, JANUARY 24 AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Your excitement over something that’s likely to happen soon is not being wasted, surely, for something big is just around the corner. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — You may not want to share what’s yours, but that choice may not be made by you. You’ll have to do what is right today when asked to do so! ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Your mind isn’t going to be changed easily, but that doesn’t mean someone won’t try — and try again. You must be resistant but understanding. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — You receive important information from a source you do not entirely trust. Make no decisions until you know the information is accurate. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You’re in the mood to go at something “full speed ahead,” but there are certain dangers lying in your way that must be avoided. Use care today. CANCER (June 21-July 22) — Others may

be unusually demanding of you today, but you have only so much time available and only so much energy. Clarify boundaries. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Avoid doing anything early in the day that may set things off in the wrong manner — and you know very well what that means! Discipline is key. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — A team effort may not give you the satisfaction you were hoping for today, but perhaps that will change if your attitude adjusts a bit first. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You like things to be “just so,” and you can make that happen today — but you must observe another’s boundaries, especially late in the day. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — It’s never been more important for you to “act naturally,” and what happens as a result today may astonish you, and you’ll surely want more. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — It’s time to deal with your appetites, and the best way to get started is to admit something to yourself that you won’t share with others. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You may not have everything you need today to get a certain job done according to your standards — but you can get it done.

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This 3-cheese pasta bake is better for you By ELLIE KRIEGER Washington Post

This recipe checks all the boxes for the kind of food I want to usher me into the new year. It’s healthful and comforting (yes, it’s possible to have both!) and it’s convenient — easy to pull together, make ahead and reheat. It’s a better-for-you spin on a familiar favorite, baked ziti, made with whole-grain pasta (although regular pasta would be fine if you prefer it), packed with vegetables — sautéed mushrooms, broccoli and sun-dried tomatoes — and made cheesy and creamy with a more healthful than usual balance of part-skim ricotta, mozzarella and Parmesan. Baked until bubbly inside and melty and golden on top, it’s the kind of dish that’s like a cozy spot in the sun on a cold winter’s day. This recipe makes 8 to 10 servings, so it is an easy cookonce-eat-twice situation for most families. When I’m just cooking for my husband and myself, rather than baking it all at once in a 9-by-13-inch pan, I divide the batch into two 8-by-8-inch baking dishes and place one, tightly covered,

Three cheese pasta and vegetable bake is comfort food that’s easy to make. Tom McCorkle/ Washington Post

in the freezer to double the dinner-at-the-ready payoff. It’s an easy win to kick off 2022.

THREE CHEESE PASTA AND VEGETABLE BAKE Active time: 35 mins | Total time: 1 hour 15 mins 8-10 servings This spin on baked ziti captures all the comforting appeal

of the classic in a better-foryou way. It’s made with whole grain pasta (although regular pasta would be fine, if you prefer it), packed with vegetables — sauteed mushrooms, broccoli, and sun-dried tomatoes — and made cheesy and creamy with a more healthful than typical balance of partskim ricotta, mozzarella and

Parmesan. Storage Notes: Refrigerate for up to 4 days, or cover tightly and freeze for up to 3 months. 1 pound whole grain or regular penne pasta, or other tube shaped pasta 2 tablespoons olive oil, plus more for brushing the pan

1 pound baby bella (cremini) mushrooms, sliced 6 cloves garlic, thinly sliced 1 (16-ounce) bag frozen broccoli, defrosted (may substitute with 5 cups blanched fresh chopped broccoli) 7 sun-dried tomatoes, soaked in hot water for 10 minutes, drained and thinly sliced (about 1/3 cup) 1 teaspoon dried basil 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano 1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper 1 (16-ounce) container partskim ricotta cheese 4 cups marinara sauce (homemade or store-bought) 1 cup (4 ounces) shredded partskim mozzarella cheese 1/4 cup (1/2 ounce) grated Parmesan cheese Chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley, for serving (optional) Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Add the pasta and cook for 2 minutes less than suggested in the package directions. Drain and return the pasta to the pot. Meanwhile, position a rack in the middle of the oven and preheat to 375 degrees. Brush a 9-by-13-inch ovenproof dish with oil.

In a large skillet over medium heat, heat the oil until shimmering. Add the mushrooms and cook, stirring occasionally, until their liquid evaporates and they begin to brown, about 8 minutes. Add the garlic and cook, stirring frequently, until aromatic, 2 minutes more. Add the broccoli, sun-dried tomatoes, basil, oregano, salt and pepper and stir to combine. Add the vegetables to the drained pasta in the pot, along with the ricotta and marinara, and stir to combine well. Transfer the mixture to the prepared dish and evenly spread it out. Sprinkle the top with the mozzarella and Parmesan cheeses, and cover the dish loosely with foil. Bake for 15 minutes, then remove the foil and bake for an additional 20 to 25 minutes, or until the sauce is bubbling and the cheese is melted. Let sit for 10 minutes before serving. Nutrition information per serving (1 ⅔ cups), based on 10 | Calories: 333; Total Fat: 13 g; Saturated Fat: 5 g; Cholesterol: 23 mg; Sodium: 412 mg; Carbohydrates: 41 g; Dietary Fiber: 7 g; Sugar: 4 g; Protein: 19 g

Yucky or lucky? Seafood fans sometimes Can eating sugar be healthy? find live crabs inside their oysters For some in Greenland it can By JENNA FARHAT

By KIERSTEN WILLIS

Charlotte Observer

Seafood fans may be surprised by the sight of a pair of tiny claws wiggling around in their oysters, but it’s a more common occurrence than many would think. Raw oyster fans might consider the finding a testament to the freshness of their seafood. Others consider it a symbol of good luck. One woman on vacation to North Myrtle Beach this past summer was taken aback by the discovery before her father ate the entire oyster — crab and all. “I suddenly saw a small claw reach out of the oyster!” Beth Troutman toldthe Sun News in August. Taken aback by the sight, she checked “to make sure my eyes weren’t playing tricks.” The restaurant’s waiter told Troutman’s family the crab was “considered a delicacy and a good omen for the lucky diner who finds it.” But how rare is the finding? The pea crab is a parasite of the eastern American oyster crab. Pea crabs live inside the gills of oysters. William Ambrose, vice dean of the school of the coastal environment and professor of marine science at Coastal Carolina University, said

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the pasta sauce and lentils. Cook 2 minutes. Return the lamb to the skillet along with the spinach. Cook 2 minutes

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Oysters can hold a surprise inside — tiny crabs. Pexels

anywhere from 1% to 10% of oysters typically have crabs living inside of them, depending on geographic location. Ambrose cited a study published in 2015 in the Journal of Shellfish Research. The study, titled Oyster Utilization and Host Variation of the Oyster Pea Crab, examined the frequency of occurrence and impact of pea crabs on adult oysters from natural intertidal reefs in Hewletts Creek in Wilmington, N.C., and artificially-created

intertidal reefs from Jones Island, N.C. Researchers examined oysters from July to October 2013. They found that the occurrence of pea crabs in adult oysters living in natural reefs was low, ranging from 1% to 4% of oysters. In artificially created reefs, the occurrence of pea crabs was higher, with the parasites being found in about 10% of the sampled oysters. The relationship between the pea crab and the oyster

has been described by marine scientists as parasitic “because (the pea crab) inhabits live oysters, presumably scraping food particles off the gills, damaging them, and subsequently reducing oyster conditions.” The good-luck superstition isn’t mentioned in the study — that’s up to the diner to decide. “As far as luck goes, they say they are lucky even if you don’t believe they are,” Ambrose said.

or until the spinach wilts. Divide between 2 dinner plates. Sprinkle cilantro on top (optional garnish).

Chicken

Yield 2 servings. Per serving: 569 calories (30.4% from fat), 19.2 g fat (4.7 g saturated, 7.8 g monounsaturated), 111 mg cholesterol, 49.5 g protein, 51.4 g carbohydrates, 15.4 g fiber, 210 mg sodium.

until the sugar dissolves and then frozen and raked with a fork until it is “totally frozen and snowy in texture”), which she serves with peaches sprinkled with freshly ground black pepper. Sounds so good. That’s the other nice thing about this slim volume: It takes you through the seasons, so you can reach for it to make a four-ingredient chicken noodle soup with loads of fresh dill this winter and grab it again when the weather warms to make a tossed-together rigatoni with sizzled corn. Yum.

seeds, Emma Laperruque writes in “Big Little Recipes.” The seeds are ground and turned “into a highly nutty, super crunchy, not-bread breading,” she explains. The chicken breasts, pounded thin, make a prettier presentation, while the thighs are “wonkier-shaped but juicer.” Laperruque recommends “a confident lettuce” such as the arugula, radicchio or endive. The marinade from jarred artichoke hearts makes short work of dressing the greens. NOTE: If you can’t find cutlets at your grocery store, make your own. Use two large chicken breasts, about 1 pound total, and cut horizontally through each breast so the meat opens like a book; separate the halves. If desired, place each cutlet between two pieces of plastic wrap or wax paper. Then, use a meat tenderizer or small, heavy skillet to pound each cutlet until they are about ¼-inch thick. Trim away any fat or sinew.

Linda Gassenheimer is the author of over 30 cookbooks, including her newest, “The 12-Week Diabetes Cookbook.” Listen to Linda on www.WDNA.org and all major podcast sites. Email her at LindaDinnerInMinutes.com.

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SESAME CHICKEN WITH ARTICHOKES AND ARUGULA 25 minutes 4 servings This recipe celebrates the minimalism of dishes such as German schnitzel, Italian Milanese, Mexican Milanesa and Japanese katsu, where thin cuts of meat are coated in crumbs and pan-fried until crisp, except this uses sesame

1/2 cup (about 2 1/2 ounces) white sesame seeds 1/2 teaspoon fine salt, plus more as needed 4 chicken breast cutlets or 4

It turns out sugar isn’t always bad for you. In fact, it can be healthy — for some people in Greenland, that is. Around 2%-3% of the territory’s population can get health benefits from consuming sugar, a study submitted to the journal Gastroenterology shows. “Adult Greenlanders with the genetic variation have lower BMI, weight, fat percentage, cholesterol levels and are generally significantly healthier,” said University of Copenhagen biology professor Anders Albrechtsen. “They have less belly fat and might find it easier to get a sixpack. It is amazing and surprising that a genetic variation has such a profoundly beneficial effect.” For the study, Albrechtsen collaborated with colleagues from the University of Copenhagen, the University of Southern Denmark and several research institutions and agencies in Greenland. They analyzed 6,551 adult Greenlanders and experimented on mice. Results showed that carriers of the genetic variation have a sucrase-isomaltase deficiency. That means they don’t boneless, skinless chicken thighs (about 1 pound total) (see NOTE) Neutral oil, such as vegetable, as needed 1 (12-ounce) jar quartered and marinated artichokes, drained, marinade reserved 4 cups baby arugula Freshly cracked black pepper Lemon wedges, for serving Using a mini food processor, spice grinder or a mortar and pestle, roughly crush the sesame seeds with the salt until they turn mostly powdery with some whole seeds remaining. Transfer the mixture onto a rimmed plate. If using chicken cutlets, place a cutlet between two pieces of parchment paper and use a heavy skillet or a rolling pin to pound until ¼-inch thick. If using chicken thighs, use as they are. Dredge the chicken in the sesame mixture, pressing firmly to coat. In a cast-iron skillet over medium-high heat, add enough oil to thinly coat the bottom and heat until shimmering. When a few sesame seeds dropped into the pan instantly sizzle, the oil is ready.

absorb ordinary sugar in the bloodstream the way people typically do. Instead, the sugar goes directly inside their intestine. “Here, gut bacteria convert the sugar into a short-chain fatty acid called acetate, which in previous studies has been shown to reduce appetite, increase metabolism and boost the immune system,” said Mette K. Andersen, first author of the study. This mutation is due to a particular millennia-long diet. But the benefits of the mutation are limited to adults. “Younger carriers of the variation experience negative consequences due to their different type of sugar absorption,” said Torben Hansen, a doctor and professor at the University of Copenhagen’s Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research. “For them, consuming sugar causes diarrhea, abdominal pain and bloating. Our guess is that as they age, their gut bacteria gradually get used to sugar and learn how to convert it into energy.” The team hopes to use the results as a foundation for developing new drugs that could treat obesity and heart disease. Working in batches if necessary, add the coated chicken to the pan in a single layer, leaving enough space between the pieces so they brown, not steam. Cook until the outside is golden and the inside is cooked through (165 degrees), 2 to 4 minutes per side, adjusting the heat under the pan as needed. Transfer the chicken to a wire rack. Repeat with any remaining chicken, adding more oil to the pan as needed. If seeds that fall from the chicken begin to burn in the oil, carefully wipe the skillet clean and add fresh oil. While the last batch is cooking, in a big bowl, combine the artichokes and arugula. Toss, adding the artichoke marinade, salt and pepper to taste. Serve the sesame chicken atop or alongside the salad, with a lemon wedge on the side. Nutrition information per serving (2 cutlets and 2 1/2 cups of salad) | Calories: 756; Total Fat: 52 g; Saturated Fat: 5 g; Cholesterol: 145 mg; Sodium: 1307 mg; Carbohydrates: 17 g; Dietary Fiber: 11 g; Sugar: 2 g; Protein: 56 g