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KINDERHOOK — State police are investigating a reported incident involving a gun that took place during a Black Lives Matter protest march Saturday in the village of Kinderhook.

Two people armed with a handgun allegedly began a verbal argument with the marchers at about 4:15 p.m., according to state police. The two were then taken by officials to the Kinderhook state police barracks for questioning following the incident.

No arrests had been made as of noon Monday.

“The digital evidence is still under review,” state police Public Information Officer Aaron Hicks said.

Hicks said he was unaware whether the two people are licensed to own the handgun.

Hicks declined to give out any identifying information about the two people, such as their names, gender, age or town of residence.

Hicks did not know what caused the verbal argument, he said.

State police are not aware of

any injuries resulting from the alleged altercation, Hicks said.

The protest march included community leaders, such as Hudson Mayor Kamal Johnson, and traveled down Rothermel Lane.

About 60 people participated in the scheduled protest march that began at 2 p.m. at Kinderhook Village Square on Route 9. Participants marched through village streets, including Rothermel Lane, and returned to village square, where the protest was scheduled to See POLICE A8

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Black Lives Matter in Kinderhook Village Square on Saturday.

Sheriff: Assault case remains open

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Empire State Development Director Jim Malatras speaks Monday during a coronavirus briefing in Cuomo’s Manhattan office.

New York school districts can reopen in regions in phase IV this fall with COVID-19 infection rates under 5% positive.

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NEW YORK — Additional enforcement will begin in New York airports to ensure travelers self-quarantine from states with high coronavirus COVID-19 infection rates, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Monday.

Travelers from 19 states with high COVID-19 infections are required to selfisolate for two weeks when landing in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut as part of a June 25 order. Gov. Cuomo and his top aides remain perplexed out-of-state travelers will cause a second wave of the virus to ravage New York.

Cuomo issued an emergency health order Monday mandating travelers from the designated states fill out a form to provide their quarantine location before leaving the airport. Enforcement teams will be stationed at airports statewide to meet arriving aircraft at gates and greet disembarking passengers to request proof of completion of the Health Department’s traveler form. Airlines distribute the form to passengers before boarding or disembarking New York flights.

A new, electronic version of the form is available on the state Health Department website for travelers to complete before flying. Travelers who leave the airport without providing the information will immediately be issued a summons and receive a $2,000 fine and ordered to complete mandatory quarantine. Essential workers are not required to self-quarantine.

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his top aides speak with Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms on Monday during a coronavirus briefing in Manhattan. The state will send coronavirus diagnostic testing and contact tracing crews to the capital Georgia city.

but we’ve gone through this before,” Cuomo said Monday during a pandemic briefing in his Manhattan office.

“Fool me once, we can’t be in a situation like before. ...

When does the infection rate stop? When you stop it.”

The additional enforcement comes on the heels of three Rensselaer County residents testing positive over the weekend following their recent return from Georgia. Two work in nursing homes and were identified as a result of the state’s weekly mandated testing for nursing-home staff. None of the travelers reported their arrival to the state, according to the governor’s office.

The state Education Department released guidance Monday detailing how New

York’s 713 school districts can make plans to reopen.

Schools could reopen in September in regions in phase IV with a COVID-19 infection rate under 5% over a 14-day average. Schools will close if a region’s infection rate surges above 9% over a seven-day average since Aug. 1.

Districts will not resume in-person instruction if the virus spikes between Aug. 1 and the first day of classes.

“Everyone wants to reopen schools — everyone,” Cuomo said. “How do you know it’s safe? You look at the data.

“If you have the virus under control, reopen. We’re not going to use our children as the litmus test and we’re not going to put our children in a place where their health

is endangered.”

A 5% infection rate indicates the virus is under control, Cuomo said.

Each district must submit plans to the state by July 31 detailing the social distancing, reduced capacity and other precautions administrators will implement to resume in-classroom instruction and reduce the virus spread.

New York’s Health and Education departments devised guidelines with 20 education officials as part of the state’s Reimagine Education Advisory Council for the past several weeks, including procedures for transportation, food service, after-school care and extracurricular activities, masks/PPE for students and staff, cohort structures, See INCREASE A8

KINDERHOOK — No arrests had been made as of Monday in an ongoing police investigation into an alleged assault that took place eight days ago at the home of a Columbia County sheriff’s deputy.

A Fourth of July party at the home of Columbia County Deputy Sheriff Kelly Rosenstrach and her husband Alex Rosenstrach, owner of ClubLife Health and Fitness in Valatie, allegedly turned violent and left a man hospitalized.

Valatie Rescue Squad was called to Rosenstrach’s residence at 1:10 a.m. July 5, said Robert Lopez, director of Columbia County 911. Minutes later, sheriff’s deputies arrived on the scene to assist the Valatie Rescue Squad, according to the sheriff’s office.

“Deputies arrived on scene and found a man who had been the victim of an assault that had taken place during a gathering at this location,” according to the sheriff’s office. The Valatie Rescue Squad was on the scene for 44 minutes before transporting the victim, who has not been identified, by ambulance to Albany Medical Center, Lopez said.

The sheriff’s office would not release the incident report from the alleged assault Monday.

“That is an active investigation,” Columbia County Sheriff David Bartlett said. “We don’t give out information on open cases.”

The Rosenstrachs home was searched July 7 by police with a search warrant signed by Columbia County Judge Richard Koweek. Executed search warrants are not public record until after an arrest is made, according to Lucian Chalfen, director of public information for the Office of Court Administration.

The investigation into the alleged assault is being headed up by the sheriff’s office with assistance by the state police Special Investigative Unit.

Lt. Louis Bray, spokesman for the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office, said he does not believe the sheriff’s office investigation of its deputy is a conflict of interest.

“We investigate every incident with the same integrity and skill,” Bray said Friday.

A state reform, which takes effect next April, will establish the Law Enforcement Misconduct Investigative Office within See ASSAULT A8

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“We’re seeing community spread and hospitalizations like we saw in late April -- and what we hoped would be the height of infection,” said Barbara Ferrer, public health director for Los Angeles County, which on Sunday reported 3,322 new cases and 18 new deaths.

Louisiana’s daily case count is nearing its previous peak, reached back in April, according to Johns Hopkins University.

And Washington, first to detect an outbreak, is seeing record numbers of infections, although deaths remain well below their March peak of 34 in a day.

As traumatic as the initial wave may have been, the number of people infected didn’t come close to providing socalled herd immunity, experts say. The vast majority still has no natural protection.

And people’s willingness to stay home most of the time — and wear masks when they don’t — has frayed. For many Republicans, rejecting masks has even become an act of defiance, with President Donald Trump refusing to wear one in public until Saturday, when he visited a military hospital.

“It’s absolute exhaustion,” said Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, who threatened to reimpose a stay-home order if the outbreak now gripping his city worsens. “Quarantines are the most frustrating things to human beings. Nobody likes being told what to do.”

The states, and their people, may have let their guard down.

Michigan’s two-month shutdown brought infection rates low enough to lift stay-at-home orders by June. Within a few weeks, they started creeping

up again. One of the biggest new outbreaks was at Harper’s Restaurant & Brew Pub, an East Lansing bar near Michigan State University. More than 180 cases have been traced there, according to health officials. Smaller outbreaks have been documented at a bar in Romulus and in Royal Oak, a trendy city north of Detroit.

“Bars and restaurants opened, and that caused a big shift, as well as whatever percentage of people who don’t want to social distance or wear a mask because they think it’s all a hoax,’ said Linda Vail, health officer for Ingham County, which encompasses most of East Lansing.

In response, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer banned indoor bar service July 1 and on July 10 made mask-wearing mandatory.

Even though hospitals in Southeast Michigan are better equipped than in March, doctors and nurses are on edge, said Teena Chopra, a doctor who is a professor of infectious disease at Wayne State University in Detroit.”Given what we’ve seen before, and the shock and trauma we’ve been through, even one or two cases if they go up, it makes us nervous, Chopra said.

California officials are trying to assure residents that they’re better prepared this time around. Gov. Gavin Newsom said last week that Covid victims occupied just 8% of available hospital beds. The state also has 46 million N95 masks, he said, compared with 1 million in March.

But Los Angeles County could use up its beds in weeks, officials there warn. And rural Imperial

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The first states to endure the coronavirus this spring hoped the worst would be behind them.

Instead, the virus is coming back.

Many places that suffered most in the first wave of infections, including California, Louisiana, Michigan and Washington state, are seeing case counts climb again after months of declines. It’s not just a matter of more testing. Hospitalizations and, in some places, deaths are rising, too.

The disease is raging — Florida reported 15,300 cases Sunday, the biggest single-day increase of the U.S. pandemic — and experts say the resurgence in the original battlegrounds has common causes. They include a population no longer willing to stay inside, Republicans who refuse face masks as a political statement, street protests over police violence and young people convinced the virus won’t seriously hurt them.

And even though some of the states led by Democratic governors delayed restarting their economies until weeks after more eager peers like Georgia, they still jumped too soon, critics say.

“I don’t think there’s any question about that anymore.

Even in California, we opened up too fast,” said John Swartzberg, a doctor who is a clinical professor emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley.

So far, the rebound hasn’t reached the states hardest hit by the first wave: New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts. But New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Friday that it’s on its way.

“We’re going to go through an increase, and I can feel it coming,” he told WAMC radio. “The only question is how far up our rate goes. But you can’t have it all across the country and then have it not come back.”

While public attention last week focused on an explosion of disease in Sun Belt states that largely missed the first wave — Arizona, Florida and Texas — California’s hospitalizations and daily death toll hit new highs. The state, first to shut down its economy, reported a record 149 dead Wednesday and more than 300 since then.

County along the Mexican border has been so badly hit that some patients have been flown to San Francisco, more than 400 miles away.

Newsom alternately scolds residents for not taking the virus seriously and reminds them of the shared resolve they showed this spring, when a San Francisco Bay Area outbreak threatened to rage out of control.

“We did an incredible job, collectively, as a state, 40 million of you,” he said last week.

“We have the capacity to do that again.”

Officials in the Seattle area also have tried to reassure residents, and they pin some of the increase on the young. More than 130 recent cases have been linked to fraternity houses at the University of Washington. This week, the city’s Space Needle was topped with a massive flag: “Mask Up.” In Louisiana, Gov. John Bel Edwards made masks mandatory on Saturday and limited the size of gatherings. Confirmed Covid-19 cases hit a one-day high of just over 2,700 in April, but more than 2,600 cases were reported Friday.

Joseph Kanter, the assistant state health officer, said the deadly spring is still vivid for residents of Louisiana’s larger cities.

Now, smaller towns and parishes in western Louisiana are also seeing an increase. Calcasieu, a parish of about 200,000 near the Texas border, has more than 3,000 cases and has seen a spike in recent days.

The Baton Rouge area has also seen an increase, particularly among people aged 18-29, and 95% of the cases are community spread, said Dawn Marcelle, a physician who’s the regional medical director.

Swartzberg, the Berkeley professor, said ignorance and crisis fatigue aren’t adequate reasons for America’s failure to tame the virus.

“That doesn’t explain why Europeans aren’t exhausted.

That doesn’t explain why Taiwanese aren’t exhausted,” he said. “Everybody’s been through this.”

Instead, he blames a lack of national leadership, or worse, leadership that has been detrimental to fighting the virus. “I feel very frustrated about how poorly we’ve done,” Swartzberg said.

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DeNeen L. Brown The Washington Post TULSA, Oklahoma - Nearly a century after a brutal race massacre left as many as 300 black people dead, this city plans to begin digging Monday for suspected mass graves from the violence.

A team of scientists, archaeologists and forensics anthropologists are scheduled to remove a top layer of soil gather at the city-owned Oaklawn Cemetery, where geophysical radar scans last year detected anomalies consistent with mass graves.

Although the scientists said their radar findings are promising, the only way to determine precisely what lies beneath the ground is to dig. The excavation was delayed for three months by the coronavirus pandemic.

It comes weeks after President Donald Trump appeared in Tulsa at a campaign rally, which drew more than 6,000 people to an indoor arena where few people wore masks. Tulsa City-County Health Department Director Bruce Dart said last week that a spike in new

coronavirus cases in Tulsa may be linked to Trump’s rally and the protests it generated.

But Republican Mayor G.T. Bynum decided not to postpone the work at Oaklawn a second time.

“In the past 99 years, no other agency or government entity has moved this far into an investigation that will seek truth into what happened in Tulsa in 1921,” he said. “As we resume with the test excavation, we’re taking all precautions to do so under the safest environment possible. I’m thankful for the health and well being of our partners who have diligently coordinated with our team to move forward with this work during the constraints of the pandemic and record heat we are expecting.”

The excavation will take up to two weeks and is part of “a feasibility study to determine the presence or absence of human remains, determine the nature of the interments, and obtain data to help inform the future steps in the investigation, including appropriate recovery

efforts,” the city said.

The teams of scientists, who plan to proceed carefully so as not to disturb nearby marked graves, will use heavy machinery to remove the top layers of soil. The rest of the excavation will be done by hand, conducted by forensic anthropologists and archaeologists. If the city finds unmarked human remains at the site, the state Medical Examiner’s Office will begin an investigation to determine how the person died.

“The cause of death determination would be an important step to the investigation as remains will be close to 100 years old and a Spanish Influenza outbreak occurred in Tulsa in 1919 prior to the Race Massacre in 1921,” city officials said in a

statement.

The city is expected to issue daily updates on the excavation.

The work comes nearly seven months after a team of forensic anthropologists and archaeologists, led by the Oklahoma Archaeological Survey at the University of Oklahoma, announced that they had found “possible common graves” at two sites in Tulsa.

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Tuesday, July 14 n Catskill Town Planning Board 7 p.m. Robert C. Antonelli Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill n Coxsackie Town Board 7 p.m. Town Hall, 56 Bailey St., Coxsackie n Coxsackie Village Historic Preservation Committee Public Hearing 6 p.m. followed by meeting at 6:15 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie n Greene County Planning Board 6:30 p.m. Greene County Office Building, Greene County Legislative Chambers, Room 403, 411 Main St., Catskill. Meetings are open to the public. Social Distance, masks required.

Wednesday, July 15 n Cairo Town Board workshop 7 p.m.

Town Hall, 512 Main St., Cairo n Catskill Library Board 6:45 p.m. at either the Catskill Library, 1 Franklin St., Catskill or Palenville Library, 3303 Route 23A, Palenville n Catskill Town Board Committee 6:30 p.m. Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill 518-943-2141 n Greene County Legislature Public Hearing LL 1 of 2020 local law imposing and extending additional mortgage recording tax in Greene County 6:25 p.m. Legislature Meeting No. 7 6:30 p.m.

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HUDSON — After 94 years of Columbia County Volunteer Firefighter’s Association (CCVFA) Conventions and Parades here in Columbia County, in this, our 95th year, we entered uncharted territory back in March just after our Director’s Meeting in Hudson. Due to the ongoing situation with the Covid-19 pandemic, the Board of Directors and Officers of the CCVFA voted unanimously to cancel this year’s convention and parade in Chatham. On July 25, the Officers and Directors will meet by Zoom to conduct some business. The Association will meet again in October at the Stuyvesant Falls Firehouse if possible. At this Quarterly meeting, the Association will honor the Firefighter of the Year and the Lifetime Achievement Award winner. Our agenda going forward must meet the needs of the Association and all its members while still protecting the health and safety of our members and our communities that we all have sworn to serve.

This year’s host was going to be the County Association itself and would have been the second time the County Association hosted the Convention and parade. The Officers and Directors have worked hard on hosting this year’s convention since last July. Each Director took an active part as a Chairman of a different committee, all of which are needed to organize a large event like a firefighter’s convention.

In 1925, the Columbia County Fireman’s Association was formed in the village of Philmont and the first Convention was held in the Village of

mug for $5; and very item hats for $10. These souvenirs are the ones to collect as the convention will not happen. You can contact Jeff French at 518-9299585. Annual Steak Roast raffle tickets that each fire Company or Department has will need to be turned in as the drawing will be held in October at the Quarterly meeting.

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In this 2018 file photo, The Village Volunteers, a fife and drum band from Delmar, march ahead of Valatie firefighters at the 93rd Annual Columbia County Volunteer Firefighters Association Convention’s parade held in Germantown.

Philmont in 1926. This Association has remined strong for 95 years. Even through wars, this Association supported our troops with dedicating the 1943 through 1945 conventions by calling those conventions “United for Service.” In 1946 the Convention book cover read “Victory Convention.”

During 1945-1949, the Association bought War Bonds to support our troops. In 1997 the Association changed their name to Columbia County Volunteer Firefighter’s Association because of the increase of women firefighters joining their local Fire Companies and Departments. More History can be read in this years published yearbook.

1st vice President Tim Trowbridge from Stuyvesant Falls was acting as President of the Association this past year and will be President in

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Tuesday, July 28 C-GCC’s Summer Session begins online May 18, and we’re accepting registrations now!

Wednesday, July 29 n Catskill Central School District

Board of Education special meeting (if needed) 6:30 p.m. CHS Library, 341 West Main St., Catskill

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Hall, 2 First St., Athens 518-945-1052 n Cairo Town Board 7 p.m. Town Hall, 512 Main St., Cairo n Greene County Board of Electrical Examiners 1 p.m. at the Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., 4th Floor, Room 469, Catskill

2020-2021. Stuyvesant Falls who will be the host of the convention in 2021 will still publish the Annual Yearbook this year and they thank all those advertisers who took ads to support both them and the CCVFA. This book will be distributed to Fire Companies and to anyone who would like one.

The Association had ordered ahead of time the 95th Annual Convention Souvenirs. There are limited numbers of these as some were sold before at County Association meetings and the price has been reduced to cover the cost of these items.

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Protect Kaaterskill Clove Protecting the Kaaterskill Clove is not only an environmental priority. It is an ethical and economic imperative as well.

So last week, Hunter town officials met with the state Department of Environmental Conservation, the state Department of Transportation and state police to develop a strategy to stop overcrowding at Kaaterskill Clove.

In other words, the defiling of Kaaterskill Clove, one of the most beautiful spots in all of the Twin Counties, is rightly being blamed on human pollution.

Human pollution is an old term used to describe the damage people can inflict on the environment by activities such as littering, abandoning piles of trash in parks or forests and dumping toxic substances from detergents to human waste into streams and creeks.

Zoe Moore of Catskill, founder of Friends of Kaaterskill Clove, drives up Route 23A through the Clove on her way to work each day, and picks up garbage on her way home.

This is what it has come to.

“It’s not just trash but it’s the overuse,” she said last week. “That road has eroded. People don’t care about the parking signs, they rip

them down. I’ve been leaving 20 to 30 minutes early because of all the people and the cars. It’s gotten out of hand.”

Even a simple act such as littering hampers enjoyment of this nature-rich area. And if the litter is toxic, it can endanger birds and other wildlife that eat it as they forage for food. One photo we’ve seen features what appears to be a discarded COVID-19 face mask lying on a rock. Who wants to go near that? What hiker wants to come across it? Garbage left on a trail minimizes the environmental and aesthetic pleasure, ensuring that word-ofmouth will discourage hikers from walking the Clove.

That, in turn, means a blow to a local economy that depends on hikers and other visitors for revenue, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In short, protect Kaaterskill Clove, protect the flora and the wildlife, protect the aesthetic and environmental impact and protect the beauty for the people who come to enjoy it.

With public outcry, administrative common sense and respectful behavior from visitors, there is no reason the Friends of Kaaterskill Clove can’t achieve its goal.

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Democrats are getting ready to govern responsibly on climate change (c) 2020,The Washington Post

Global warming has not taken a break since the covid-19 outbreak struck. The Democrats, at least, are treating it like the emergency it remains.

House Democrats released late last month a massive climate plan, a package of bills that Speaker Nancy Pelosi of California has vowed to advance through her chamber.

Meanwhile, a committee that presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and primary rival Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., convened to reconcile their views on climate policy has agreed on some top-line principles. If the Democrats win big in November, they would have a shelf fully stocked with pre-written climate policies from which to choose. That alone puts them far ahead of Republicans.

Still, the House’s very detailed plan is a huge policy grab bag that would require refinement if it were close to becoming law, and Biden should be thinking now about how to winnow it down - and how to avoid promising too much to fringe activists during the campaign.

House Democrats propose requiring that all electricity come from clean sources by 2040, by imposing a national clean-electricity mandate that would require utilities to derive a steadily rising percentage of electricity from renewables or emissions-free nuclear power.

The plan calls for regulations and spending to require electric vehicles, promote superefficient buildings, plug leaks in the nation’s gas infrastructure and directly finance further deployment of renewables.

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Curiously, the plan also proposes putting a price on greenhouse emissions, presumably through a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade program, which would accomplish many of the same environmental goals that other policies in the plan are designed to tackle, but at a far lower cost. Where that is the case, duplicative policies should be removed.

It is not clear this will happen. Though pricing carbon dioxide is the best idea, it is buried deep in the report, in a section that contains far less detail than those promising new government mandates or spending.

Biden himself similarly downplayed pricing carbon in the climate plan he released during his primary race. If Republicans were engaged, they could push for market-based policies such as carbon taxes and against unneeded mandates and spending. Instead, they have largely exiled themselves from the debate by refusing to accept the necessity to act vigorously. The result is a conversation largely about how far left climate policy should go, rather than how to make it more appealing to the center.

To be clear, Democrats deserve credit for listening to scientists on the level of ambition needed, and they have not surrendered to the left flank of the debate, refusing, for example, to strike nuclear power from the conversation. Moreover, the threat of climate change is so large that even second-best policies are better than nothing. But should he have the chance to govern, Biden should still aim higher than second-best.

Trump’s self-serving help for Roger Stone WASHINGTON — It is hard to imagine a more corrupt use of the clemency power than President Donald Trump’s commutation of the sentence of convicted felon Roger Stone. The Stone action has been so repeatedly telegraphed by Trump, and Trump’s broader misuse of the pardon power so blatant, that it is easy to lose sight of this ugly reality.

Stone, in fact, said the corrupt part out loud, in a conversation with NBC’s Howard Fineman shortly before Trump’s announcement.

“He knows I was under enormous pressure to turn on him,” Stone told Fineman.

“It would have eased my situation considerably. But I didn’t.”

Certainly there have been other instances of shameful pardons; Bill Clinton’s eleventh-hour flurry, including of fugitive financier Marc Rich, whose ex-wife had lavished donations on the Clinton library and Hillary Clinton’s Senate campaign, comes to mind. Other presidents have pardoned allies who they thought were caught up in over-reaching, politicized prosecutions; George H.W. Bush’s Christmas Eve, pre-trial pardon of former defense secretary Caspar Weinberger, along with others charged in the Iran-contra affair, is an example. Clinton pardoned his brother and Whitewater witness Susan McDougal; George W. Bush commuted the sentence of Scooter Libby for lying and obstructing justice in the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame’s identity.

But Stone — Stone epitomizes the danger the Framers had in mind when they debated the pardon power.

George Mason warned at Virginia’s ratifying convention in 1788 that the president “ought not to have the power of pardoning, because he may frequently pardon crimes which were advised by himself.”

James Madison’s reply was, in retrospect, heartbreakingly naive. “There is one security in this case,” he observed. “If the President be connected, in any suspicious manner, with any person, and there be grounds to

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Stone was convicted of obstructing Congress, of perjury, of witness tampering — seven felony counts, all involving efforts to cover up his dealings with WikiLeaks and the Trump campaign, including Trump himself, about his efforts to obtain information about Democratic emails hacked by Russians seeking to help Trump win the 2016 election. If Trump did not, as Mason feared, advise Stone’s crimes, he benefited from them U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, sentencing Stone to 40 months in prison, made that clear. “He was not prosecuted, as some have complained, for standing up for the president,” she said.

“He was prosecuted for covering up for the president.”

Indeed. Trump, in the White House announcement of his action, dismisses these as “process-based charges leveled at high-profile people in an attempt to manufacture the false impression of criminality lurking below the surface.” No surprise that this president does not consider lying or obstructing justice serious crimes; they are second nature to him. But without the capacity and will to prosecute such offenses, the scaffolding of the rule of law collapses.

In sentencing Stone, Jackson made clear the gravity of his offense. “The truth still exists,” she said. “The truth still matters. Roger Stone’s insistence that it doesn’t, his belligerence, his pride in his own lies are a threat to our most fundamental institutions, to the very foundation of our democracy.” Jackson couldn’t say this, but I can: As is Trump’s action in belittling

the seriousness of Stone’s offense.

The White House statement smeared not only the prosecutors working for former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, but, by implication, all their colleagues at the Justice Department: “These charges were the product of recklessness borne of frustration and malice. This is why the out-ofcontrol Mueller prosecutors, desperate for splashy headlines to compensate for a failed investigation, set their sights on Mr. Stone.”

Maybe the president should check in with his own Justice Department — indeed, with his own attorney general. Stone “committed serious offenses and deserves a sentence of incarceration that is sufficient, but not greater than necessary,” the Justice Department wrote in its second, revised sentencing memorandum in the Stone case.

And just a few days ago, Attorney General William Barr told ABC’s Pierre Thomas, “I think the prosecution was righteous, and I think the sentence that the judge ultimately gave was fair.” Will Barr stand up for the righteous prosecution now?

Don’t hold your breath.

Perhaps the most striking thing about the Stone commutation is that it is not out of the ordinary for Trump — it is part of a deviant pattern from this president. As Harvard Law School professor Jack Goldsmith observed, Trump has issued a recordlow number of pardons and commutations for the modern presidency, a remarkably high percentage of which were granted to a personal or political associate — 31 of 36 by the count of Goldsmith and Lawfare intern Matt Gluck.

“No president in American history,” they write, “comes close to matching Trump’s systematically self-serving use of the pardon power.”

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Estelle M. Howe Estelle M. Howe, 91, of Kiskatom passed away on Monday, July 6, 2020. She was born in Mt. Vernon, the daughter of the late Ralph and Frances McCabe Schram. Estelle graduated from Cathedral High School, Manhattan, lived in the Bronx, and worked 31 years for General Foods in White Plains.

She spent time in Florida before moving to Catskill in 2002.

Estelle married James J. Kelly on May 17, 1948 who died in 1979. She later married James J. Howe who died in 1999. Loving sister to Marie Grutzmacher of Kiskatom, Barbara Zambelli of Catskill and predeceased by her brother William Schram. Aunt to Marie Doherty of Kiskatom, Kelly (Alan) Byrne of Cairo, and Michael Zambelli of Coxsackie; Grand Aunt to William (Stacie) Cornelison,

and George (Annemarie) Ross; Great Grand Aunt to Aidan, Abigail, and Andrew Cornelison, Luciana, James, Angelena, and Rosalie Ross, Allie Byrne, Jacob Zambelli as well as many other nieces and nephews.

Public calling hours will be held at Millspaugh Camerato Funeral Home, 139 Jefferson Hgts., Catskill on Thursday from 4:00 – 6:00 pm. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated at Sacred Heart Church, Palenville on Friday followed by interment in Town of Catskill Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. Messages of condolence may be made to MillspaughCamerato.com. Robert J. Gaus, Licensed Manager & Funeral Director

Linda J. Moran Linda J. Moran, 74, of Kinderhook, NY, passed away Thursday, July 9, 2020 at Robinson Terrace Nursing and Rehab. Born July 22, 1945 in Hudson, NY, she was the daughter of the late Peter and Louise (Dimmick) Van Alstyne. Linda was a lifelong Kinderhook resident and a graduate of Ichabod Crane High School. She received a Master’s Degree from SUNY Oneonta and taught Elementary School at Ichabod Crane for over 30 years. She was a long time member of St. Luke’s Lutheran Church in Valatie and a member of Winding Brook Country Club and its “Nine Hole Loose League”. After her retirement she enjoyed cruises and traveling, especially to Europe and was an avid

dog lover.

She is survived by one son: Scott A. Moran (Rebekah) of Knoxville, TN and several nieces, nephews and cousins. Her husband William J. Moran Jr. died previously.

A graveside service will be held 11:00 am on Thursday, July 16, 2020, at Kinderhook Cemetery, with Rev. Samantha Perret officiating. Calling hours will be Wednesday, July 15, 2020 from 5-7pm at the Raymond E. Bond Funeral Home, Valatie. In lieu of flowers or for those who wish, contributions may be made to the ColumbiaGreene Humane Society, 125 Humane Society Rd., Hudson, NY 12534 or Valatie Rescue Squad, POB 242, Valatie, NY 12184.

Kelly Preston, ‘Jerry Maguire’ actress and wife of John Travolta, dies at 57 after breast cancer battle

By Peter Sblendorio New York Daily News

Kelly Preston, the actress known for films like “Jerry Maguire” and the wife of John Travolta, died Sunday following a two-year battle with breast cancer, her husband announced.

Preston was 57.

“She fought a courageous fight with the love and support of so many,” Travolta wrote early Monday in an Instagram post, thanking staff at a Houston-based medical center.

“My family and I will forever be grateful to her doctors and nurses at MD Anderson Cancer Center, all the medical centers that have helped, as well as her many friends and loved ones who have been by her side,” the actor continued.

“Kelly’s love and life will always be remembered.”

Preston and Travolta married in 1991 and had three kids.

“I will be taking some time to be there for my children who have lost their mother, so forgive me in advance if you don’t hear from us for a while,” Travolta, 66, wrote.

“But please know that I will feel your outpouring of love in the weeks and months ahead as we heal.”

Preston appeared in dozens of films over the course of a lengthy acting career that began in the early 1980s.

She played Marnie Mason in the 1988 comedy “Twins” with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito, before portraying Avery Bishop in the 1996 classic “Jerry Macguire,” in which she starred alongside Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr. and Renee Zellweger.

In 1999, Preston starred with Kevin Costner in the sports drama “For the Love

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Kelly Preston attends a party in honor of John Travolta’s receipt of the Inaugural Variety Cinema Icon Award during the 71st annual Cannes Film Festival at Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc on May 15, 2018 in Cap d’Antibes, France. Preston died Sunday, July 12, 2020. She was 57.

of the Game.” She and Travolta then did “Battlefield Earth” together in 2000.

Other notable films for Preston include 2003’s “What a Girl Wants” and the 2009 comedy “Old Dogs,” which also starred her husband.

Her death was mourned by others within the entertainment industry, including Maria Shriver, the wife of Schwarzenegger.

“Shocked by this sad news,” Shriver tweeted.

“Kelly was such a bright

loving soul, a talented actress, and a loving mom and wife. My heart breaks for her family who have already known such sadness and grief. Join me in sending them love and strength.”

Russell Crowe recalled meeting Preston in “late ‘92 I think.”

“Such a lovely person,” Crowe tweeted. “In 1995 we auditioned together for Breaking Up, Salma Hayek got that gig. I havent seen her much, but when I did, she was always the same

sparkly eyed gem. Love to her family.”

Preston and Travolta, who met in 1988 while making “The Experts,” welcomed their first son, Jett, in 1992.

Jett died in 2009 at age 16 after suffering a seizure.

Their second child, Ella Bleu, was born in 2000, and their youngest, son Benjamin, was born in 2010.

“I have never met anyone as courageous, strong, beautiful and loving as you,” Ella, 20, wrote Sunday in an Instagram tribute to her mother. “Anyone who is lucky enough to have known you or to have ever been in your presence will agree that you have a glow and a light that never ceases to shine and that makes anyone around you feel instantly happy.

“Thank you for being there for me no matter what,” she continued.

“Thank you for your love.

Thank you for your help and thank you for making this world a better place. You have made life so beautiful and I know you will continue to do so always. I love you so much mama.”

Preston most recently appeared in the 2018 crime drama “Gotti,” playing Victoria, the wife of John Gotti, who was portrayed by Travolta. (c)2020 New York Daily News Visit New York Daily News at www.nydailynews.com Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

No, Trump and DeVos can’t FUNERAL withhold funding from schools DIRECTORS Trump retweets ex-game whenever they want. show host comments that CDC is ‘lying’ about coronavirus

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President Donald Trump started the week in the fight against the coronavirus by amplifying the fact-free claim of right-wing personality Chuck Woolery that “the most outrageous lies are about COVID-19.”

As case numbers set new records daily and hospital units fill up in hot spots, Trump chose Monday to retweet the onetime “Love Connection” host’s dubious words of wisdom.

“Everyone is lying. The CDC, Media, Democrats, our Doctors, not all but most, that we are told to trust,” Woolery wrote in a grammar-challenged tweet that Trump shared with his millions of followers.

In the face of the strong resurgence of coronavirus, some of Trump’s far rightwing MAGA supporters like Woolery, who has no medical background, have taken to denying the reality of official infection totals and attacking public health experts.

The White House is now abandoning all pretense of a cordial relationship with Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s premier pandemic doctor, who is warning that the pandemic is quickly spiraling out of control.

Trump adviser Peter Navarro, who also has no medical expertise, slammed Fauci for being wrong on several issues early in the pandemic.

Fauci acknowledged that he hasn’t spoken with Trump in nearly two months.

The national infection rate is hitting new seven-day average highs on a daily basis and the death toll has also turned higher as the virus slams populous Texas and Florida especially hard. (c)2020 New York Daily News Visit New York Daily News at www.nydailynews.com Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

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President Donald Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos have told public school districts that they must open fully for the 20202021 school year during the coronavirus pandemic, and they threatened to withhold federal funding from school districts that don’t.

The threats, however, are largely just that: threats without real teeth behind them.

While presidents can in some cases legally withhold funding appropriated

by Congress, they can’t do it without notifying Congress and in some cases getting approval. (Some have tried and been struck down by courts, and DeVos has been held in contempt of court as education secretary for refusing to stop collecting loans from former students of a chain of for-profit colleges that closed.)

Trump and DeVos - who often talk about the importance of local control of education - also have no authority to force schools to open at a particular time or in a specific way.

Those are state and local decisions, however much Trump and DeVos shout about it. AASA, the School Superintendents Association, said in a statement directed at Trump: “You don’t support local decision making if it’s conditional on only making choices you support.”

Trump raised the issue of reopening schools fully last week in a tweet in which he said that other countries had opened schools “with no problems.” He named four European countries that had reopened schools but did not

mention they had done so only after dramatically bringing down national coronavirus infection rates, which the United States has failed to do.

And he ended the tweet with this: “May cut off funding if not open!”

DeVos herself made several calls last week for schools to reopen and operate fully, meaning bringing nearly all students for five days a week, and, she said on a Fox News show that she is “very seriously” looking into withholding funds that don’t do what she wants regarding reopening.

Chris Wallace, a Fox News reporter, challenged DeVos on Sunday about her threat, saying: “Both you and the president have threatened to cut off funding for schools systems that don’t open fully in the fall. Are you and the president unilaterally going to cut off funding that’s been approved by Congress - and most of the money goes to disadvantaged students or students with disabilities?”

She responded, “If schools aren’t going to reopen and not fulfill that promise, they shouldn’t get the funds,” to which Wallace said, “You can’t do that! ... You can’t do that unilaterally, you have to do that through Congress.”

The president does have the ability to veto any congressional legislation that includes more aid to school districts, though Congress could override his veto. The aid, however, is not targeted to any specific one and so a veto for that reason would penalize even districts that did what he wanted.

DeVos could perhaps find grants or programs over which her department

controls the purse strings that could affect a school district, but it doesn’t seem likely in an environment when school districts need more money, not less, to do what she wants them to do.

Vice President Mike Pence sent mixed messages last week about the threat of cutting funding. Asked Thursday by a reporter about Trump’s threat, Pence replied: “What you heard from the president is just determination to provide the kind of leadership from the federal level to get our kids back to school. Because that’s where they belong.”

He also said “we expect” that school districts will get more support in dealing with the pandemic from the federal government on top of the $13.5 billion that Congress supplied this past spring in extra assistance as part of an economic stimulus package costing trillions of dollars.

But he expressed no urgency about it even while school superintendents have been shouting for several months that they need more aid as soon as possible. And he said that new legislation providing relief funds could be somehow linked to the reopening of schools as a way to give states a strong incentive “to get kids back in school.”

The administration could attempt to get that condition written into new legislation, but it would not have any chance in the Democraticcontrolled House, which has already passed a new bill with billions of dollars in new aid for schools.

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Foods that trigger anxiety We’ve all experienced feelings of anxiety at one time or another; and as much as we want to believe that a bowl of ice cream will make it all go away — it doesn’t.

It’s normal to experience occasional anxiety, especially when we are living in uncertain times. But the good news is that it is absolutely possible to reduce occasional or mild anxiety, by discovering what foods cause anxiety and how eliminating those foods can greatly reduce your symptoms.

Registered dietitian and author of Naturally Nourished, Ali Miller, RD says that “While food may not be the main cause of these feelings, it can certainly affect their severity and how often they occur.”

And one of the biggest offenders is refined sugar.

It’s no secret that processed sugar wrecks havoc on your body; but it also affects your mental health too. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, the rush of sugar leads to sugar highs, giving you lots of energy, but then the lows make you feel sluggish and down. Instead of sugar opt for Stevia which is 200 times sweeter than sugar and won’t affect your blood sugar levels.

And speaking of sugar, America’s favorite diet soft drinks are loaded with artificial

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SCHOEPE food coloring and additives including the dangerous aspartame. In addition to blocking the production of serotonin (the feel good hormone) in your brain, aspartame is also responsible for; headaches, weight gain, insomnia, mood swings and certain forms of cancer. Instead of diet soda opt out for calorie free, organically flavored sparkling water like SanaVi or Poland Springs.

Partially hydrogenated oils commonly found in dairy creamers and other ultra processed foods such as French fries, cookies, doughnuts and cheese sticks; have been linked to impaired blood flow to the brain. Numerous studies published in PLoS ONE have linked these fats to depression, anxiety and other mental issues. Personally, I have to have a creamer in my coffee so I use Laird’s Superfood Creamer and Califia Farms: which are both affordable, healthy alternatives.

High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) – commonly found in condiments and salad dressing causes anxiety, depression and cognitive decline according to numerous research articles published in The Journal of Pharmacology. HFCS which is more lethal than table sugar causes anxiety inducing spikes and drops in blood sugar and weight gain. Condiments such as; Annie’s Natural Organic salad dressing and ketchup and Newman’s Own are HFCS free and can be found at many grocery stores.

Gluten, the protein found in wheat and rye products can also be a huge trigger for anxiety symptoms. Research has confirmed that gluten intolerant people are at a higher risk for anxiety, depression and mood disorders. Cutting out gluten containing products like bread and pasta could be the difference between living with anxiety or not.

Consider trying some science backed mood boosting foods to your diet that are rich in; magnesium, tryptophan, vitamin B, omega 3, vitamin e and zinc. Dark chocolate containing at least 74% cacao may also be helpful for easing anxiety. Trader Joe’s makes an affordable dark chocolate bar that is quite addictive.

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Red Cross joins forces with Wonder Woman 1984 POUGHKEEPSIE — This July, the American Red Cross and WONDER WOMAN 1984 are joining forces to save the day for patients in need of lifesaving blood transfusions. The Red Cross has an urgent need for blood donors this summer, as the COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented supply challenges amid this uncertain environment. Additionally, despite states lifting stay-at-home orders and reopening, many blood drives at businesses and community organizations continue to be cancelled as these locations remain closed or restrict the number of individuals at any location.

As part of the partnership, the Red Cross is organizing an epic prop replica giveaway from the new Warner Bros. Pictures film WONDER WOMAN 1984, due to hit theaters nationwide on October 2, to thank those who roll up a sleeve and help patients battling illness and injury.

Those who present to donate

through July 31 will automatically be entered for a chance to win an authentic WONDER WOMAN 1984 movie prop replica package, which includes the Golden Lasso and a pair of Gauntlets, identical to WONDER WOMAN’s from the film.* Now is the time to help patients fight back. If you are feeling well, please make an appointment to give by using the Blood Donor App, visiting RedCrossBlood.org, calling 1-800-RED CROSS (1800-733-2767) or enabling the Blood Donor Skill on any Alexa Echo device.

“In times of crisis, new superheroes often emerge, and new alliances are forged. The Red Cross is thrilled to partner with WONDER WOMAN 1984 to encourage and thank fans and blood donors alike for being superheroes for patients in need by giving blood in July,” said Paul Sullivan, senior vice president of the American Red Cross Biomedical Services. “Blood donors have a

unique super power—lifesaving blood. Blood cannot be manufactured, and donors are the only source for patients in need.” in short supply as only 3 out of 100 Americans donate blood.

While tens of thousands of donors gave blood in response to an initial blood shortage caused by this coronavirus outbreak, it’s important to remember that red blood cells must be transfused within 42 days of donation, and platelets within just five days, so they must constantly be replenished.

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Catskill High School announces the fourth quarter honor roll CATSKILL — Catskill High School announces its Honor Rolls for the fourth quarter of the 2019-2020 school year.

GRADE 12 High Honor: Iain Alexander, Iram Asif, Audra Bogardus-Street, Hunter Brandow, Zachary Ciancanelli, Krystia Cook, Emily Ferrante, Aricka Graff, DeVon Haye, Emily Kirch, Ryan LaBarre, Kelsey Lackie, Erika Lopez, Jose Mendez, Maci Mosher, Gabriela Munoz, Ariana Nieves, Aizlyn O’Connell, Kendall Pederson, Alexis Santoro, Samantha Siri, Storm Slominski, Tameka Taranto.

Honor: Alexa Gjergji, Regina Johnson, Emanuel McEachern, Seamus Moore, Brianna Santoro, Damien Valvo.

Merit Roll: Cassie Cantelmo, Ambrea Connor, Delia Darling, Victoria Hall, Allison Madrid, Alexis McMullin, Daniel Paquin Jr.

GRADE 11 High Honor: McKenzie Breunig-Smith, Matthew Caro, Deandra Catterson, Brandon Constantine, Serena Craigie-Carter, Madison Delavega, Alexey Guenthner, Ava Higgins, Jonathan Kent, Brandon Liardo, Salvatore

Mancini, Jacob Mitchell, Jillian Murray, Kaitlyn Nearey, Sharona Orr, Matthew Rivenburgh, Hailey Rowell, Ashley Shook, Zaida Snyder, Caitlin White.

Honor: Kristina Caraballo, Kevin Graham, Mya Harvey, Tristan Haskin, Paul Jaen, Maximus Marchesani, Grace McCulloch, Jessica Reagan, Anna Sweeney.

Merit Roll: Kathleen Glass, Sara Leipman, Destin Ly, Dylan O’Connell, Samuel Rivera, Amaia Sisto, Brandon Tedford.

GRADE 10 High Honor: Tristan Arp, Adam Carlson, Jacob Devlin, Richard Edwards, Elizabeth Finnegan, Nicholas Fusco, Sean Haye, Andrew Jones, Hannah Konsul, Daniel Leibowitz, Samantha Malkowski, Cassius McCoy, Auna Muscarella-Bland, Bridgette Reilly, Nathan Riordon, Alexandra Rose, Kiana Salierno, Llanya Schanz, Emma Weber.

Honor: Serena Adsit, Michael Boan, Patrick Darling, Michael Jubie, Lucas Konsul, Daniel Smith, Brianna Stevens.

Merit Roll: Joshua Buffa, Jaden Dedrick, Garrett Haskin, Isaiah Hayden, Keaton Quinn, Justin Uvino.

GRADE 9 High Honor: Emma Brown, Aryanna Burbas, Xiao Chen, Karsen Chiminelli, Ian Ciancanelli, Abigail Cornelison, Dany Cruz-Martinez, Christian Davies, Maya Dixit, Cullen Fulling, Mia Glover, Jenna Graham, Devin Guerrieri, Madison Hallam, Gerson Hernandez-Navarro, Mya Hernandez, Adam Konsul, Christopher Konsul, Joseph Konsul, Nicholas Konsul, William Konsul, Lauren Liberti, Emonnie McGriff, Olivia Mentessi, Kaden Minkalis, Jarin Navarro, Kaylee Nearey, Liliana Seeley, Angelina Shanley, Aaliyah Shook, Samantha VanDyke, Maya Weaver.

Honor: Guiliana Cary, Gavin Dixit, Daniel Forbes, Isis Gonzalez, Cristian Guerra, Zakary Kuder, Edward Rogers, Grace Sullivan, Carter VanEtten, Serena White.

Merit Roll: Natalie Bellerose, Janay Brantley, Marisabella Caraballo, Meeghan Darling, Zachary Dugan, Justin Hill, Darina Lacayo, JeDavia McGriff, Demeric Menting-Wilson, Ciara Peden, Katelynne Reilly, Cristina Signoretti, Melody Stupplebeen, Aiden Varade.

Catskill Middle School announces the fourth quarter honor roll CATSKILL — Catskill Middle School announces the fourth quarter honor roll for the 2019-2020 school year

GRADE 8 High Honor Roll: Jack Alexander, Emily Allen, Stevenson Arp, Lucian Benjamin, Charles Bertelle, Madison Breunig-Smith, Rogan Byrne, Ryan Carter, Jillian Devlin, Lucas Fisher, Devin Fitzmaurice, Ian Fitzmaurice, Mia Gottesman, Grace Guenthner, Andrew Holliday, Madison Jones, Dominic Lanuto, Angelika Lopez, Zachary Maccaline, Kyle McNevin, Avery Riordon, Kayleigh Timberger, Isabella Wood.

Honor Roll: Hunter Bulich, Henry Goodell, Nixon Hawksby, Shawn Johnston, Cyprus Thibeault.

Merit: Xavier Engelin, Lily

Gallagher, Maya Segura.

GRADE 7 High Honor Roll: Ryan Chee, Luke Farrell, Hunter Frascello, Payton Frascello, Roman Gonzalez, Alexandra Hallam, Victoria Heim, Leon Hong, Gianna Jeune, Erik Kirch, Noah Kubicek, Justen Lindsay, William McMullen, Adrianna Moon, Madison Mudge, Ananda Rymaun, Alessia Salierno, Gloriannah Santosky, Leonard Sperl, Caleb Van Dyke, Kayla Vandermark, Noah Workman, Paige Yungandreas.

Honor Roll: Travis Bulich, Chelsey Carlson, Morgan Chan, Quinten Holdridge, Nina Keaney, Jordan Moore, Alyah Rivera, Ryan Romaine, Kyler Sickler, John Signoretti, Christian Slauson.

Merit: Will Cummings, Julia Davies, Anson Deosaran,

Elena Greene, Brody Haggerty, Kiara Irvis, Layyla Lavoie, Demetrio Morales, Tempess Strong, Dylan Wamsley.

GRADE 6 High Honor Roll: Gabriella Amato, Landen Clark, Aiden Cousens, Isabelle Edwards, Gavin Hendricks, Austin June, Noely Mendez, Kylie O’Connell, Rylin Quinn, Callie Rose, James Story, Forever Welch.

Honor Roll: Carter Colon, Nicholas Maccaline, Tegan Morehead, Kobe Neilsen, Korben Raffo, Jack Schroader, Samantha Sherman, Collin Shook.

Merit: Scott Buchinger, Trevor Duong, Benjamin Mahoney, Benjamin Munoz, Owen O’Rourke, Lucas Paquette.

DUTCHESS COUNTY Raymour & Flanigan, 756 Vassar Road, Poughkeepsie, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. July 16.

Grace Bible Church, 158 Myers Corners Road, Wappingers Falls, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

July 16.

FIELD OF FLAGS HONORS ALL WHO SERVED

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This beautiful display was in a field on lower Main Street in Cairo. The flags were placed there by the American Legion Mohican Post 983 in Cairo for Flag Day and left there through the Fourth of July.

Hudson Valley Community College announces the class of 2020 graduates TROY — Students recently completed the requirements for graduation from their academic degree or certificate programs at Hudson Valley Community College in Troy.

The college’s Class of 2020, which also includes students who completed their degree requirements in Fall 2019, encompasses students from around the Capital Region and around the globe, graduating from more than 80 degree or certificate programs.

Luke Borrelli of Hunter, Nicholas Bush of Selkirk, Michael Cassidy of East Durham, Ashley Hollers of Selkirk, Amanda LaGrange of Selkirk, Breanna Lennon of Palenville, Megara

Overbaugh of Catskill, Jessica Scarlata of Earlton, Jordan Schroader of Catskill, Sean Sewak of Athens, Joshua Arsenault of Saugerties, Brock Baum of Catskill, Colin Becker of Coeymans Hollow, Molly Bliven of Coxsackie, Victoria Brophy of Saugerties, Kelly Byrne of Cairo, Michael Catalano of Saugerties, Alexandra Cullen of Freehold, Isaac Davis of Catskill, Mathew Demarest of Saugerties, Stephen Filak of Saugerties, Joshua Geisler of Saugerties, Druhan GordonStacey of Selkirk, Meghan Helfer of Selkirk, Alex Himes of Greenville, Eric Hosier of Coxsackie, Garrett Ingraham of Hannacroix, Hayley

Jones of Catskill, Kacy Kiefer of Coxsackie, Margaret Kilts of West Coxsackie, Courtney Klausner of Saugerties, Michael Leonardo of Freehold, Stuart Mann of Coxsackie, Laura Miller of Catskill, Zachary Myer of Saugerties, Donal O’Flynn of Greenville, Eric Randio of New Baltimore, Robert Rochler of Coxsackie, Kelsey Rodriquez of Catskill, Kristi Rosato of Coxsackie, Martika Santos of Leeds, Robert Schmadel of Saugerties, Timothy Shutter of Coxsackie, Samuel Speirs of Saugerties, Thy Tran of Coxsackie, Jonathan White of Saugerties, Tyler Yonkers of West Coxsackie.

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Tapping retirement savings during a financial crisis As the number of COVID-19 cases began to skyrocket in March 2020, Congress passed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. The legislation may make it easier for Americans to access money in their retirement plans, temporarily waiving the 10% early-withdrawal penalty and increasing the amount they could borrow. Understanding these new guidelines and the other rules for loans and early withdrawals may help you determine if they are appropriate options during a financial crisis. (Remember that tapping retirement savings now could risk your financial situation in the future.)

PENALTY-FREE WITHDRAWALS The newest exception to the 10% early-withdrawal penalty allows IRA account holders and retirement plan participants to take distributions of

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BARTHOLOMEW up to $100,000 in 2020 for a “coronavirus-related” reason.* These situations include a diagnosis of COVID-19 for account owners and certain family members; a financial setback due to a quarantine, furlough, layoff, or reduced work hours, and in the case of business owners, due to closures or reduced hours; or an inability to work due to lack of child care as a result of the virus. This temporary exception augments the

other circumstances for which a penalty-free distribution is typically allowed: n Death or disability of the account owner n Unreimbursed medical expenses exceeding 7.5% of adjusted gross income (increases to 10% in 2021) n A series of “substantially equal periodic payments” over your life expectancy or the joint life expectancy of you and your spouse n Birth or adoption of a child, up to $5,000 per account owner n Certain cases when military reservists are called to active duty In addition, IRAs (but not work-based plans) allow penalty-free withdrawals for a first-time home purchase ($10,000 lifetime limit), qualified higher-education expenses, and payments of health insurance premiums in the event of a layoff.

John F. Lubera of Catskill chosen to lead District of Elks-USA BALTIMORE, MD — Thousands of members of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the United States of America and guests gathered July 5 through July 8 in Baltimore, Maryland, for the BPO Elks’ National Convention.

During the convention, John F. Lubera, of Catskill, was installed as District Deputy for the BPO Elks for lodges in the North Hudson District of the New York State Elks Association and will serve a one-year term.

The BPO Elks is one of the premier patriotic and charitable organizations in the United States of America and is committed to making its communities better places to

live. Each year, the Order donates more than $85 million in cash and $450 million in goods and services to the needy, students, people with special needs, active-duty members of the US armed forces and their families, veterans and their families, and charitable organizations.

As part of the Elks’ ongoing commitment to help students achieve their goals and help local lodges make positive changes in their communities, the Elks National Foundation awards annual college scholarships worth a total of more than $4 million, and the Elks National Foundation’s Community Investments Program provides local Elks lodges with

more than $13 million to help them enrich their communities.

As part of the BPO Elks’ commitment to our nation’s veterans, the Order has taken the following vow: “So long as there are veterans, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks will never forget them.”

Each year, Elks members keep this promise by donating more than $50 million in cash, volunteer hours, and goods to offer essential support for veterans and active-duty members of the US armed forces and their families and for programs that serve hospitalized and recovering veterans and lift up veterans experiencing homelessnes.

Work-based plans allow exceptions for those who separate from service after age 55 (50 in the case of qualified public safety employees) and distributions as part of a qualified domestic relations order.

TAX CONSEQUENCES Penalty-free does not mean tax-free, however. In most cases, when you take a penalty-free distribution, you must report the full amount of the distribution on your income tax return for that year. However, the income associated with a coronavirus-related distribution can be spread over three years for tax purposes, with up to three years to reinvest the money.(1)

RETIREMENT PLAN LOANS If your work-based retirement plan allows loans, you typically can borrow up to the lesser of 50% of your vested balance or $50,000. Most loans

must be repaid within five years, but if the money is used to purchase a primary residence, the repayment period may be longer. The CARES Act permits employers to increase this amount to the lesser of 100% of the vested balance or $100,000 for loans to coronavirus-affected individuals made between March 27, 2020, and September 22, 2020.* Affected participants who have outstanding loans on or after March 27, 2020, will be able to delay any payments due in 2020 by one year.(2)

HARDSHIP WITHDRAWALS Many work-based retirement plans also permit hardship withdrawals in certain circumstances. Although these distributions are not exempt from the 10% early-withdrawal penalty, they can be a lifeline for people who need money in an emergency.

For more information about

your options, contact your IRA or retirement plan administrator. *Employers do not have to adopt the new withdrawal and loan provisions.

1) Amounts reinvested may reduce your tax obligation on the distributions; however, due to the timing of distributions and required tax filings, you may have to file an amended return to seek a refund on any taxes previously paid on withdrawn amounts.

2) The original five-year repayment period will be extended for the delay, but interest will continue to accrue. 3) Source: Plan Sponsor Council of America, 2019 (2018 data) Tim Bartholomew is an Investment Representative with Greene Investment Services located at the Bank of Greene County. Please call 518-943-2600 ext. 2153 with your comments or questions.

Chazen Companies hires health and safety director POUGHKEEPSIE — The Chazen Companies is pleased to announce William Orsborn, CSP®, CHST® has joined Chazen as their Director of Health and Safety.

Orsborn has more than 30 years’ experience providing health and safety expertise to a multitude of construction, industrial and institutional operations. He will be spearheading Chazen’s focus on driving a culture of health and safety, as well as conducting training programs and growing Chazen’s life safety business.

Orsborn received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Information Analysis from Ohio State University. His

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credentials include Certified Safety Professional, Construction Health and Safety Technician, OSHA-authorized Construction Safety and Health Trainer, HAZWOPER Certification, USACE EM 385 Training Certification and more.

“We are exceptionally pleased to be able to bring Bill on board at Chazen,” said Catherine Monian, PMP, Director, Operations Systems, The Chazen Companies. “Bill has a wealth of experience from his 30 years in the field of health and safety and we are looking forward to having him lead our Chazen team into a more robust health and safety era.”

Orsborn held the position of President and Principal Consultant at SafetyWise Inc. located in Buffalo providing management, supervision and coordination of all safety-related projects.

Stratton VA surpasses 6,300 video telehealth appointments in 2020

Culinary & Craft Beer Pairing virtual experience scheduled for July 17

ALBANY — The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) recently announced that video telehealth appointments to Veterans’ homes increased over 1000%, as Veterans increasingly chose virtual care through VA Video Connect during the Covid-19 pandemic. In Albany, the Albany Stratton VA Medical Center has conducted 6,361 telehealth appointments between January 1 and June 30, 2020.

VA Video Connect allows Veterans and their caregivers to meet virtually with their VA care teams on any computer, tablet, or mobile device with an internet connection. As inperson interactions decreased in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, VA Video Connect supported Veterans’ abilities to continue care and remain safely at home. Usage of video to home services has been

ROCHESTER — The New York State Brewers Association is putting the spotlight on New York state ingredients in their upcoming event, NYS Culinary & Craft Beer Pairing presented by BrüMate. Scheduled for July 17, the 90-minute virtual experience will walk participants through making a gourmet meal using 100% NYS grown ingredients and include a guided beer tasting that beautifully complements the savory flavors of the twocourse meal for two.

Event participants will receive 100% New York State ingredients to prepare All’ Amatriciana for the main dish, 32oz of two different beers from Strong Rope Brewery, a NYS Farm Brewery in Brooklyn and delicious desserts from EmyD’s Chocolates.

Event passes are intended to be shared by two people with ingredients, dessert and beer to be shipped to participants the week of July 10.

“This farm to table event celebrates everything New York State. We’re thrilled to be able to shine a light on locally grown products, ingredients and small business,” explains Paul Leone, executive director of the New York State Brewers Association. “It’s an example of the craft beer and agricultural

increasing since mid-March with peak usage reaching over 29,000 appointments per day.

The increase at Albany Stratton VAMC represents a 906% increase from January 1 to June 30, 2019. In fact, the Albany Stratton VAMC has seen a 385% increase in VA Video Connect (VVC) encounters in the first 6 months of 2020 compared with all of 2019. In comparison, VA Video Connect data showed: Encounters between January 1, 2019 and June 30, 2019 = 702; Encounters between January 1, 2020 and June 30, 2020 = 6,361.

VA is also taking strides to bridge the digital divide for Veterans who lack the technology or broadband internet connectivity required to participate in VA telehealth services. At the national level, VA is working with strategic partners, through the VA Secretary’s Center of Strategic

Partnerships, to increase access to the technology that Veterans need to connect with their VA health care team virtually.

“As we near the three-year anniversary of the launch of VA Video Connect, even during these challenging times, VA has and continues to maintain access to high-quality health care for Veterans,”said Albany Stratton VAMC Director Darlene DeLancey. “As the service becomes more popular, VA remains committed to providing a seamless user experience to ensure Veterans have access to care where and when they need it.”

Read more about VA Video Connect (https://mobile. va.gov/app/va-video-connect). For information about VA’s telehealth services visit www.connectedcare.va.gov.

Battenkill property conserved through collaboration GREENWICH — A 50-acre parcel containing 3,400 feet of frontage on the Battenkill in Jackson has been protected through a partnership with the Agricultural Stewardship Association (ASA), the Battenkill Conservancy(BkC) and the landowners, Kathy and Hugh Roome.

Except for a few mighty sycamores that have surrendered themselves to the river, the view of the Battenkill River from the Roome’s property has changed very little since they first purchased the land over 20 years ago.

Home to an assortment of ducks, kingfishers and untold

numbers of trout tucked into deep pools, “the land is located on a wonderful stretch of river that doesn’t have a structure on either side,” says Kathy.

Which is one reason protecting it was so important.

The Roomes worked with ASA to donate an easement on the property.

“Realizing early on that the property was a better fit for BkC, we reached out with a proposition: if ASA was able to put an easement on the property, would the BkC be open to having it transferred to their portfolio for monitoring and stewardship?”

explained ASA executive director Teri Ptacek.

“Of course we agreed,” recalls Lorraine Merghart Ballard, Executive Director of the BkC. “And the timing couldn’t have been better as we had been actively honing our process for easement acquisition. And here was a chance to work alongside ASA and watch to learn from their efforts and protect a valuable stretch of land and water.”

ASA was able to secure the easement and recently transferred it to BkC, effectively conserving the land through a partnership with BkC.

communities coming together, which can all use the public’s support right now.”

The exclusive farm to table virtual experience will be led

by Chef Samantha Buyskey, who is highly known for her cutting-edge food at Kindred Fare and the former H.J. Stead Company in Geneva, N.Y. Buyskey, who also appeared on Food Network’s “Chopped,” will assist participants in preparing the entrée for two - All’ Amatriciana, a traditional Roman pasta dish — using local ingredients, including pasta from Rochester-based Flour City Pasta, salt from Syracuse Salt Co. and Bel Cielo cheese from Muranda Cheese, located in Waterloo.

Jason Sahler will lead the guided beer tasting, pairing two different styles of beer with the main course and dessert. Head Brewer and Owner of Strong Rope Brewery, Sahler is dedicated to using 100% New York State ingredients in all of his beer recipes and travels extensively throughout the state working with malt, hop and beer producers.

The virtual event’s desserts are provided by EmyD’s Chocolates out of the Hudson Valley. They are allergy friendly, non-GMO and vegan, with tasty options such as

Brownie Batter Truffle, Oatmeal Cookie Dough Truffle, Caramel Filled Bonbon and Fruity White Chocolate Bonbon.

Passes are $150 and include all of the meal ingredients, 64oz of beer (32oz/ style) and dessert shipped directly to participant’s home, plus exclusive access to the 90-minute culinary and craft beer pairing experience held through Zoom. Registration closes on July 3 with delivery of ingredients by July 10. This event is only available to NYS residents and people at least 21 years of age.

A portion of the proceeds will benefit the New York State Brewers Association (NYSBA), a non-profit organization that supports the State’s craft beer industry through advocacy and education. Most recently, NYSBA has been fighting for temporary permittance of services like home delivery, curbside pickup and shipment of beer to help NYS breweries remain open during the COVID-19 pandemic.

More information about the event, as well as a link to register, is available here: https://thinknydrinkny. com/festivals/nys-culinaryand-craft-beer/.

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end at 6 p.m. State Police were providing traffic control for the march.

“We were all walking down the street and a couple came out yelling obscenities,”

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student screenings and daily temperature checks, cleaning and school closures.

“Every child and person entering [a school] will be screened,” Cuomo said. “Contact tracing has to work in the schools — it’s all in the guidelines.”

Officials will determine if schools will reopen this fall in the first week of August, or by Aug. 7.

The governor criticized President Donald Trump and the White House for gross negligence in the federal government’s coronavirus response.

“It was one of the great federal blunders in history — it cost thousands of lives and billions of dollars,” Cuomo said. “It was a terrible miss and a terrible mistake and it’s

Johnson said in a video on his Facebook page.

Johnson declined to comment further on the incident Monday, stating that the video was his official comment.

“The husband yelled for his wife to get his gun and she came out waving the gun at the crowd,” Johnson said in the video. “State police, who were at the beginning and

end of the march, arrived at the scene and interviewed the marchers before going inside the home.”

After about 30 minutes, state police went inside the home where the two people reportedly with the gun were located, brought the couple out, put them in a state police car and drove away, Johnson said.

A few protesters remained at the scene after the incident and many moved along, Johnson said.

Johnson was disappointed the two people were not handcuffed when they were placed in the police car, he said..

“Many people along the march route treated us well and showed their support, until this happened near the end

of the route,” Johnson said.

Kinderhook Mayor James Dunham said he was out of town over the weekend but was aware of the incident, and wanted to get more information before commenting.

Kinderhook Town Supervisor Patsy Leader said Monday the police are conducting a thorough investigation.

“They are keeping me

abreast of everything,” Leader

what created the spike in New York.”

Trump and the federal government pushed states to quickly reopen to help the national economy. Cuomo said the rushed reopening, compared to New York’s gradual economic comeback, was another reckless error amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

“It was the federal government that caused our problem, and then frankly, wanted to have nothing to do with the solution,” Cuomo said, adding the president declared a federal emergency.

“You know what a federal emergency declaration means? You know who’s in charge of federal emergencies? The federal government.

That’s why they use the word ‘federal’ in all of those expressions. ... If they’re not going to address a problem that hurts every person in the United States, what is your role?”

The president has repeatedly denied the severity, and at times the existence, of the virus. Cuomo repeated his weeks-long criticism of Trump’s denial and attack on scientific data. Over the last several days, the president questioned the credibility of the nation’s leading infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“The president now says his own health officials are lying about the virus — his own CDC,” Gov. Cuomo said.

“If the president is telling the truth, he should fire them. ... Trump’s COVID-19 scandal makes what Nixon did at Watergate look innocent. No body died in the Watergate scandal.”

Officials will consider the effect of noncompliance and

the overall national outbreak when making statewide COVID-19-related decisions.

The state will send COVID-19 diagnostic testing and contact tracing teams to Atlanta as the Georgia capital city and that state battle a surging coronavirus outbreak.

Atlanta had 23% COVID-19 positive test rate Sunday. The virus continues to spread in 39 U.S. states and Puerto Rico.

“We’re headed in the wrong direction,” Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms said.

“What makes it even more frustrating and even more disappointing, we didn’t have to look to Italy, we could look to New York ... you told us very clearly that if we didn’t do things differently in our cities and states, we will find ourselves in the same situation that New York was facing and unfortunately, you were correct because throughout the South, especially, we are

getting there in rapid order.”

Cuomo has repeatedly offered New York health care workers, coronavirus testing supplies, personal protective equipment and more to assist other states. About 30,000 outof-state health care employees volunteered to travel to New York to assist in hospitals at the height of the pandemic in the state this spring.

“Anything we can do to help,” the governor said.

“We’re at a stale period now.

We’re 100% behind you, and we wish you God speed and we hope Atlanta, under your guidance, comes back quickly.”

Ten New Yorkers died from the virus Sunday, including eight in hospitals and two in nursing homes. The state’s virus-related fatalities have remained flat for several weeks, up from five fatalities Friday and six Saturday.

The state’s total virus hospitalizations decreased to 792

Monday — the lowest since March 18. More than 18,000 New York patients were hospitalized at the peak in April.

The state reported 557 new COVID-19 cases, or about 1%, of the 51,687 tests conducted Sunday. Each of the state’s 10 regions reported a low, consistent positive COVID-19 testing rate of 1.5% or lower.

The governor reminded New Yorkers and urged government officials to enforce wearing masks in public and taking appropriate precautions to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus.

To access or complete a state traveler form, visit forms. ny.gov/s3/Welcome-to-NewYork-State-Traveler-HealthForm To see where each region stands on reopening and the complete county breakdown of COVID-19 cases and deaths statewide, view the COVID-19 map and tracker at hudsonvalley360.com/site/covid19.html.

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the circumstances while we investigate the incident that took place at her residence,” Bray said.

The sheriff’s office has not set a time for her return to the job, Bray said.

It is unknown whether Rosenstrach is being paid while on leave because the sheriff’s office would not comment on the matter, citing personnel issues.

Kelly served as Chatham’s school resource officer until April, according to district Superintendent of Schools Salvatore DeAngelo. She was previously known as Kelly Briscoe, but she took the name Rosenstrach after her marriage, DeAngelo said.

Kelly has been employed by the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office for nearly eight years, joining Sept. 26, 2012, according to county records. She earned $68,046 in 2019, according to state records made public by the Empire Center.

State police declined to comment on the case, as the sheriff’s office remains the primary agency investigating the incident, state police Public Information Officer Beau Duffy said Friday.

The sheriff’s office requests anyone with direct knowledge of the alleged assault to contact Investigator Ian Boehme at 518-697-0191.

Judge blocks Justice Dept. from resuming federal executions as court battles mount Mark Berman The Washington Post

WASSHINGTON - A judge on Monday blocked the Justice Department from resuming federal executions as planned this week, setting up a new front in the myriad legal challenges to the Trump administration’s push to start carrying out capital punishment after a nearly two-decade hiatus.

The Justice Department’s plan to carry out the first federal executions since 2003 has led to numerous court battles between the government and death-row inmates, their spiritual advisers and even relatives of victims in one case.

In an order Monday, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan of the District of Columbia wrote that she was blocking the Justice Department from executing inmates as scheduled - including three set to take place this week - saying it was necessary to let their legal challenges to the government’s lethal-injection protocol play out in court.

Chutkan wrote that “the public interest is not served by executing individuals before they have had the opportunity to avail themselves of the legal process to challenge the legality of their executions.” The Justice Department quickly pledged to appeal the order, and a spokesman declined to comment on Chutkan’s order beyond its court filings.

Chutkan’s order came after she also blocked the Justice Department last year from resuming executions in December as it had intended, ruling on separate grounds relating to the lethal-injection protocol.

Earlier this year, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit said the executions could proceed, and the Supreme Court declined to take up a challenge last month.

The Justice Department has repeatedly defended its plans to resume executions by citing the need to carry out lawful death sentences and emphasizing the impact on victims and their loved ones. In recent days, though, the department has also fought in court against relatives of victims in the first case with a scheduled execution.

Federal officials scheduled Daniel Lewis Lee’s lethal injection for Monday afternoon at a federal penitentiary in Indiana.

Lee and another man were convicted in 1999 of murdering a family of three - including an 8-year-old, Sarah Powell, and Nancy Mueller, her mother.

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Attorney General William P. Barr

Also scheduled to be executed this week were Wesley Purkey, who was convicted in 2003 of raping and murdering Jennifer Long, a teenage girl, and Dustin Lee Honken, who was convicted in 2004 of killing five people, including two young girls.

Lee and the other man, Chevie Kehoe, were part of a group that intended to create a white supremacist community in the Pacific Northwest, according to court records. They traveled to Arkansas in 1996 and robbed and murdered William Muller, a firearms dealer, as well as his wife and their daughter, sealing plastic bags over their heads before throwing them into a bayou, the records show.

In a statement last month scheduling Lee’s execution and three others for this summer, Attorney General William Barr said: “We owe it to the victims of these horrific crimes, and to the families left behind, to carry forward the sentence imposed by our justice system.”

Some of those family members left behind have spoken out against both Lee’s death sentence and the timing of his execution amid the coronavirus outbreak.

Three of Nancy Mueller’s relatives - including Earlene Peterson, her mother; Kimma Gurel, her sister; and Monica Veillette, her niece - went to court last week seeking to have Lee’s execution delayed.

They said scheduling it during the pandemic forced them to choose between not attending it at all or traveling to the federal prison in Indiana to bear witness, which would “put their own lives at great risk.”

All three have health issue, they said, and were at a particular risk if contracted the virus while traveling or going inside a prison.

“What is happening now is

very illogical,” Gurel said in an interview over the weekend.

“They shouldn’t be doing these executions during a pandemic and expecting us to travel. It is our right to be there and experience this ending, whatever it ends up being. It is our right to be there. And now we have to choose whether to use that right or risk our lives.”

The Justice Department wrote in court filings that it took their perspectives “seriously, in accordance with their terrible loss and distinctive perspective” but said it was not required to factor in “the availability and travel preferences of those attending the execution when scheduling it.” The department also described efforts it was making to protect the relatives and other witnesses, including providing protective equipment.

A federal judge last week blocked Lee’s execution, siding with the relatives in their case, but a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit lifted that injunction on Sunday evening, saying “they have no statutory or regulatory right to attend the execution.” The three relatives appealed to the Supreme Court on Monday.

They oppose Lee’s execution taking place at all, arguing that it is unfair Lee was sentenced to death while Kehoe was given a life sentence. Kehoe is currently held at a highsecurity penitentiary in Colorado, prison records show.

“We’ve never advocated for Daniel Lee getting out of prison completely,” Monica Veillette, Nancy Mueller’s niece, said in the interview. “But we have consistently said we want this sentence to be fair.”

Both the federal judge who presided over the trial and the lead prosecutor have also spoken out against Lee’s death sentence, writing letters years later saying that Kehoe was

the leader and Lee his follower.

The judge wrote that “justice was not served in this particular case, solely with regard to the sentence of death imposed on Daniel Lewis Lee.” But the relatives said they still felt obligated to attend his potential execution.

“It’s certainly not something I want to watch,” Veillette said. “But I think for me, when something is being done in our family’s name or my name . . .

The least I can do is bear witness to it and be present and have a voice saying, ‘This is not being done in my name.’”

After the appeals court said Sunday evening the execution could proceed, Veillette said that she, her mother and grandmother had decided not to attend, given the health risks. She also said that by the time the appeals court’s order came down saying the execution could occur the next day, it was too late for them to travel as initially planned.

Lee had initially faced a December 2019 execution date, but that and others were blocked by the court challenges over the lethal-injection protocol. Barr had announced the protocol in July 2019 when he unveiled the department’s plans to resume executions.

The Justice Department’s push to restart executions marked a break with national trends in the death penalty, which is largely handled on the state level. The overwhelming majority of death-row inmates are held by states, and nearly all executions in the modern era have been carried out by state officials.

Since the Justice Department last carried out an execution in 2003, the landscape around capital punishment has also shifted. Executions and death sentences have both declined significantly, public support for capital punishment has fallen and more states have abolished the practice entirely. State have struggled to obtain drugs, with pharmaceutical firms opposing the use of their products to carry out death sentences, in some cases going to court to fight against that.

Other court challenges also remain for the executions scheduled to take place later this week. On Wednesday, federal officials had planned to execute Purkey. That execution has already been temporarily stayed by an appeals court, which the Justice Department is challenging at the Supreme Court.

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the state Attorney General’s office.

The office will be required to receive and investigate complaints from any source “concerning allegations of corruption, fraud, use of excessive force, criminal activity, conflicts of interest or abuse in any covered agency,” according to the law.

A covered agency means a police agency of any political subdivision within the state, including authorities or agencies maintaining a force or police forces of individuals defined as police officers, according to the law.

The Columbia County Sheriff’s Office addressed public accusations that other deputies were in attendance at the party in a statement the office released last week.

“At this point in the investigation, it has been determined that no other deputy sheriffs were at this residence at the time of the incident,” according to the release.

Kelly Rosenstrach was placed on administrative leave Thursday, four days after the alleged assault. “[The administrative leave] was appropriate under

said. “It hurts an investigation if we start talking too much about it. I am hoping by the end of the day today or tomorrow that more information will be made available.”

No charges had been filed as of Monday afternoon.

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Redskins retire team name; new name to be revealed later Les Carpenter and Mark Maske The Washington Post

Washington’s NFL franchise has announced that it will change its name from the Redskins following an internal review, and plans to introduce a new name soon.

Monday’s announcement comes just days after the organization released a statement July 3 saying it would be undertaking what it called a “thorough review” of the team’s name; multiple people familiar with the process have said that it would result in the name being changed.

In an interview July 4, Coach Ron Rivera -- who is working with owner Daniel Snyder to choose a name -- said he hoped the new name would be in place by the start of the 2020 NFL season.

Others have said it will be revealed as soon as within two weeks.

Two people with knowledge of the team’s plans said Sunday that the preferred replacement name is tied up in a trademark battle, which is why the team couldn’t announce the new name Monday. “[The] review has begun in earnest. As part of this process, we want to keep our sponsors, fans and community apprised of our thinking as we go forward,” the team said in a statement. “Today, we are announcing we will be retiring the Redskins name and logo upon completion of this review.”

The statement also said Snyder and Rivera “are working closely to develop a new name and design approach that will enhance the standing of our proud, tradition rich franchise and inspire our sponsors, fans and community for the next 100 years.”

In the July 4 interview, Rivera said he and Snyder had come up with two names that Rivera really liked. He did not reveal the names but said he wanted to confer with Native American and military organizations to make sure that the new name properly

honored both.

The decision to change 87-year-old team name comes amid mounting pressure on the franchise from corporate sponsors and the broader nationwide discussion of race.

Snyder had previously said he would never change the controversial Redskins name, which is considered to be a slur against Native Americans. But in the social uprising that followed George Floyd’s death, with corporations and governments around the country removing logos and symbols considered to be offensive, the pressure to drop the old name - including from some of the franchise’s most important sponsors - was too great.

At least one of Snyder’s outside advisers urged him to deal with the name issue in the days after Floyd’s death, a person with direct knowledge of the plea said. Soon after, Snyder apparently began confronting the reality of a name change.

On July 2, FedEx - one of the franchise’s top sponsors and the holder of its stadium’s naming rights - released a statement asking the team to change its name, and it sent a letter to team lawyers last week saying it would terminate the naming rights deal and not pay the contract’s remaining $45 million if Snyder did not change the team name. Other sponsors, including PepsiCo, Nike and Bank of America, also made similar demands.

The team’s new head coach, Ron Rivera, said in a July 4 interview that he has been working with Snyder on the name change process since late May or early June. Rivera added that NFL officials started advising Snyder on the name issue sometime in mid-June. Rivera, who said he has come to believe the name should be changed, said he had discussed several possibilities with Snyder and really liked two of them.

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16U Outlaws take two from Mariners TIM MARTIN/COLUMBIA-GREENE MEDIA

Greene County Outlaws 16U pitcher Dylan Norton.

By Tim Martin Columbia-Greene Media

COXSACKIE — After opening the season with a loss to the Titans Elite, the Greene County Outlaws 16U baseball team has now won three in a row after Sunday’s doubleheader sweep of the Halfmoon Mariners at McQuade Park.

The Outlaws took the first game, 7-1, then put together a 16-hit attack to win the nightcap, 13-2.

In the opening game, Dylan Norton pitched five innings of two-hit ball to spark the Outlaws. Norton surrendered just one run with four strikeouts and two walks. Adam Carlson

pitched the last two innings, striking out two and allowing one hit.

Damon Campanaro had two singles and two RBI for the Outlaws. Kasey Moore added a double and Ethan Conrad, Alek Wagor and Isaiah Edmonds all singled.

Evan Grimes’ solo homer in

the second inning accounted for the Mariners’ lone run. Lukas Donofrio and David Gustafson each had a single.

Alex Sandberg started on the mound for Halfmoon, striking out two, walking two and allowing six runs and four See OUTLAWS B3

Mets’ Marcus Stroman plans on having a big season as he enters walk year Tim Healey Newsday

Marcus Stroman has been playing baseball since he was a kid. He starred at Patchogue-Medford High School, then Duke University. He got drafted by the Blue Jays in 2012 and was traded to the Mets in 2019. This will be his ninth season as a pro — seventh in the majors — and, finally, after all that, at the end of the year he will be a free agent, for the first time able to choose where he wants to work and let the open market determine his value.

Just as the market is tanking.

Because of the financial havoc wrought by the coronavirus pandemic, nobody expects major-league teams to spend as much this winter as they have in recent winters, when spending was already down enough and slow enough that it bothered players. The timing for Stroman See METS B3

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New York Mets starting pitcher Marcus Stroman (0) pitches during a simulated game during summer camp workouts on Sunday at Citi Field.

Yankees’ Gerrit Cole earns the right to put his feet up Neil Best Newsday

Playing behind Gerrit Cole means not having much to do, so there was little fielding practice to be had on Sunday in a simulated game in which teammates mostly stood around watching him send batters back to the dugout.

But while the fielders on Cole’s side had a relatively easy workday at Yankee Stadium, the new ace himself was exhausted afterward. He threw 84 pitches in 5 2/3 innings, striking out nine and allowing four hits and one walk.

“I’m looking forward to putting my feet up, because it was hot today,” he said after finding indoor shelter from a 90-degree day in the Bronx.

Not that that is necessarily a bad thing. It is part of the process as Cole ramps up for the Yankees’ 2020 opener in Washington on July 23, now only one preseason outing away.

“I was pretty tired into the sixth, but I was able to maintain fastball command for the most part,” Cole said. “It was good to push the limit a little bit, especially being hot. It was a fun challenge.”

Still to be decided is what comes next.

The options are to have him pitch a simulated game on regular rest Friday, then have an extra rest day before the opener, or to have him

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New York Yankees starting pitcher Gerrit Cole (45) pitches during a simulated game during summer camp workouts at Yankee Stadium on Sunday.

start Saturday’s exhibition game against the Mets at Citi Field.

Manager Aaron Boone said the Yankees probably will opt for the former and not have

him pitch against the Mets, but he added, “We’ll keep that a little bit fluid.”

Cole declined to express a preference.

“I just haven’t put a ton of thought into it,” he said. “I was just trying to focus on today. Now I’m trying to drink some water and I’ll get to the next start in the next 24, 48 hours.”

Cole looked sharp in Florida before the COVID-19 delay and has looked sharp this month in the Bronx.

In an intrasquad game July 7, he struck out six, walked two and allowed one hit in five innings. On Sunday, two of the four hits he allowed were a blooper and an infield hit.

“I thought he was even a little bit crisper this time out,” Boone said.

It is what the Yankees need from him this season, even if he now will play for the low, low price of $13.3 million, down from his scheduled $36 million.

All appears to be well so far. Cole said he has enjoyed working with catcher Gary Sanchez and is adjusting to his new life on and off the field.

He referred to the strangeness of everyone wearing masks and spending less time at the ballpark than usual, but he added: “Generally, though, I’ve tried to stay on the same routine, See YANKEES B3

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ML Baseball 2020 NEW YORK YANKEES SCHEDULE JULY July 23 at Washington, 7:08 p.m.

July 25 at Washington, 7:15 p.m.

July 26 at Washington, 1:05 p.m.

July 27 at Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m.

July 28 at Philadelphia, 6:05 p.m.

July 29 Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m.

July 30 Philadelphia, 7:05 p.m.

July 31 Boston, 7:05 p.m.

AUGUST Aug. 1 Boston, 7:15 p.m.

Aug. 2 Boston, 7:08 p.m.

Aug. 3 at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.

Aug. 4 at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.

Aug. 5 at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.

Aug. 6 at Tampa Bay, 6:40 p.m.

Aug. 7 at Tampa Bay, 6:40 p.m.

Aug. 8 at Tampa Bay, 6:40 p.m.

Aug. 9 at Tampa Bay, 1:10 p.m.

Aug. 11 Atlanta, 7:05 p.m.

Aug. 12 Atlanta, 7:05 p.m.

Aug. 14 Boston, 7:05 p.m.

Aug. 15 Boston, 7:15 p.m.

Aug. 16 Boston, 7:08 p.m.

Aug. 17 Boston, 7:05 p.m.

Aug. 18 Tampa Bay, 7:05 p.m.

Aug. 19 Tampa Bay, 7:05 p.m.

Aug. 20 Tampa Bay, 1:05 p.m.

Aug. 21 at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m.

Aug. 22 at N.Y. Mets, 7:10 p.m.

Aug. 23 at N.Y. Mets, 1:10 p.m.

Aug. 25 at Atlanta, 7:10 p.m.

Aug. 26 at Atlanta, 7:10 p.m.

Aug. 28 N.Y. Mets, 7:05 p.m.

Aug. 29 N.Y. Mets, 1:05 p.m.

Aug. 30 N.Y. Mets, 1:05 p.m.

Aug. 31 Tampa Bay, 7:05 p.m.

SEPTEMBER Sept. 1 Tampa Bay, 7:05 p.m.

Sept. 2 Tampa Bay, 7:05 p.m.

Sept. 4 at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.

Sept. 5 at Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.

Sept. 6 at Baltimore, 1:05 p.m.

Sept. 7 at Toronto, 6:37 p.m.

Sept. 8 at Toronto, 6:37 p.m.

Sept. 9 at Toronto, 6:37 p.m.

Sept. 10 Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.

Sept. 11 Baltimore, 7:05 p.m.

Sept. 12 Baltimore, 1:05 p.m.

Sept. 13 Baltimore, 1:05 p.m.

Sept. 15 Toronto, 7:05 p.m.

Sept. 16 Toronto, 7:05 p.m.

Sept. 17 Toronto, 7:05 p.m.

Sept. 18 at Boston, 7:30 p.m.

Sept. 19 at Boston, 7:30 p.m.

Sept. 20 at Boston, 1:35 p.m.

Sept. 21 at Toronto, 6:37 p.m.

Sept. 22 at Toronto, 6:37 p.m.

Sept. 23 at Toronto, 6:37 p.m.

Sept. 24 at Toronto, 6:37 p.m.

Sept. 25 Miami, 7:05 p.m.

Sept. 26 Miami, 1:05 p.m.

Transactions FOOTBALL NCAA FOOTBALL Boston College - Announced T Elijah Johnson has left the program and will transfer to Colorado State.

Liberty - Announced CB Kei`Trel Clark has left the program and will transfer to Louisville.

Oregon - Announced LB Ge’Mon Eaford has left the program and will transfer to Fort Scott Community College (JUCO).

HOCKEY NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE Calgary Flames - Announced D Travis Hamonic has been granted a leave of absence.

Minnesota Wild - Recalled G Mat Robson, G Kaapo Kahkonen, D Calen Addison, D Louie Belpedio, D Matt Bartkowski, C Sam Anas, C Luke Johnson, C Kyle Rau, RW Gerald Mayhew, RW J.T. Brown, and C Nico Sturm from Iowa (AHL).

Auto Racing NASCAR Cup Series Race - 10th Annual Quaker State 400 presented by Walmart Kentucky Speedway Sparta, Kentucky Sunday 1. (29) Cole Custer #, Ford, 267.

2. (9) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota, 267.

3. (10) Matt DiBenedetto, Ford, 267.

4. (3) Kevin Harvick, Ford, 267.

5. (7) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 267.

6. (11) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 267.

7. (34) Christopher Bell #, Toyota, 267.

8. (4) Aric Almirola, Ford, 267.

9. (6) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 267.

10. (24) Tyler Reddick #, Chevrolet, 267.

11. (21) William Byron, Chevrolet, 267.

12. (12) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 267.

13. (19) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 267.

14. (15) Clint Bowyer, Ford, 267.

15. (2) Joey Logano, Ford, 267.

16. (33) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 267.

17. (23) Ryan Newman, Ford, 267.

18. (20) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 267.

19. (5) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet, 267.

20. (13) Chris Buescher, Ford, 267.

21. (1) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 267.

22. (16) Erik Jones, Toyota, 267.

23. (8) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 267.

24. (30) Michael McDowell, Ford, 267.

25. (17) Matt Kenseth, Chevrolet, 267.

26. (37) Daniel Suarez, Toyota, 267.

27. (18) Bubba Wallace, Chevrolet, 265.

28. (27) Corey LaJoie, Ford, 264.

29. (14) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Chevrolet, 264.

30. (36) JJ Yeley(i), Ford, 260.

31. (31) Brennan Poole #, Chevrolet, 259.

32. (26) Josh Bilicki(i), Chevrolet, 257.

33. (25) Garrett Smithley(i), Chevrolet, 257.

34. (35) Joey Gase(i), Ford, 257.

35. (28) Quin Houff #, Chevrolet, 255.

36. (22) John Hunter Nemechek #, Ford, Accident, 248.

37. (38) Timmy Hill(i), Toyota, Electrical, 170.

38. (32) Ryan Preece, Chevrolet, Transmission, 159.

Average Speed of Race Winner: 133.636 mph.

Time of Race: 2 Hrs, 59 Mins, 49 Secs. Margin of Victory: .271 Seconds.

Caution Flags: 8 for 42 laps.

Lead Changes: 13 among 9 drivers.

Lap Leaders: K. Busch 1-9;A. Almirola 10137;R. Blaney 138-149;M. DiBenedetto 150;B. Keselowski 151-180;M. Truex Jr. 181-219;B. Keselowski 220-223;C. Custer # 224-227;W. Byron 228-231;M. Truex Jr. 232-248;R. Blaney 249-254;K. Harvick 255-265;M. Truex Jr. 266;C. Custer # 267.

Pro football 2020 NFL SCHEDULES AFC EAST Buffalo Sept. 13 vs. N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m.

Sept. 20 at Miami, 1 p.m.

Sept. 27 vs. L.A. Rams, 1 p.m.

Oct. 4 at Las Vegas, 4:25 p.m.

Oct. 11 at Tennessee, 1 p.m.

Oct. 15 vs. Kansas City, 8:20 p.m.

Oct. 25 at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m.

Nov. 1 vs. New England, 1 p.m.

Nov. 8 vs. Seattle, 1 p.m.

Nov. 15 at Arizona, 4:05 p.m.

Nov. 22 OFF Nov. 29 vs. L.A. Chargers, 1 p.m.

Dec. 07 at San Francisco, 8:15 p.m.

Dec. 13 vs. Pittsburgh, 8:20 p.m.

Dec. 20 at Denver, TBA Dec. 28 at New England, TBA Jan. 3 vs. Miami, 1 p.m.

N.Y. Jets Sept. 13 at Buffalo, 1 p.m.

Sept. 20 vs. San Francisco, 1 p.m.

Sept. 27 at Indianapolis, 4:05 p.m.

Oct. 1 vs. Denver, 8:20 p.m.

Oct. 11 vs. Arizona, 1 p.m.

Oct. 18 at L.A. Chargers, 4:05 p.m.

Oct. 25 vs. Buffalo, 1 p.m.

Nov. 1 at Kansas City, 1 p.m.

Nov. 9 vs. New England, 8:15 p.m.

Nov. 15 at Miami, 4:05 p.m.

Nov. 22 OFF Nov. 29 vs. Miami, 1 p.m.

Dec. 6 vs. Las Vegas, 1 p.m.

Dec. 13 at Seattle, 4:05 p.m.

Dec. 20 at L.A. Rams, TBA Dec. 27 vs. Cleveland, TBA Jan. 3 at New England, 1 p.m.

NFC EAST N.Y. Giants Sept. 14 vs. Pittsburgh, 7:15 p.m.

Sept. 20 at Chicago, 1 p.m.

Sept. 27 vs. San Francisco, 1 p.m.

Oct. 4 at L.A. Rams, 4:05 p.m.

Oct. 11 at Dallas, 4:25 p.m.

Oct. 18 vs. Washington, 1 p.m.

Oct. 22 at Philadelphia, 8:20 p.m.

Nov. 2 vs. Tampa Bay, 8:15 p.m.

Nov. 8 at Washington, 1 p.m.

Nov. 15 vs. Philadelphia, 1 p.m.

Nov. 22 OFF Nov. 29 at Cincinnati, 1 p.m.

Dec. 6 at Seattle, 4:05 p.m.

Dec. 13 vs. Arizona, 1 p.m.

Dec. 20 vs. Cleveland, 1 p.m.

Dec. 27 at Baltimore, 1 p.m.

Jan. 3 vs. Dallas, 1 p.m.

Yankees’ Aaron Judge still nursing new issue with his neck Kristie Ackert New York Daily News

Aaron Judge was out of the lineup for the second straight day with a neck issue. The Yankee slugger was scratched from Saturday night’s intrasquad game and Sunday he was at the Stadium to receive treatment on his neck.

Yankees manager Aaron Boone said because it’s just spring training 2.0 there is no reason to push the issue.

“He’s in getting treatment now,” Boone said. “Getting a little more work. He is still a little stiff and just something that obviously we don’t want to push at this point.

“I feel like he’s been able to get a lot of work in and a lot of at bats to this point. So I just thought it was better than to not not push it today, but he is doing a little bit better today but still pretty stiff in there.”

Boone indicated he did not think this was “a big deal,” on Saturday night.

Judge missed all of spring training 1.0 with a shoulder issue, which after about a dozen exams and doctor consultations, turned out to be a fractured rib he had suffered in September. Judge had been hitting and working on his own and then in Tampa before the report date in February, but he was shut down with shoulder pain before camp began.

The Yankees said they expected Judge’s injury, because it is in a tricky location, would take a while to heal.

He was diagnosed with the stress fracture in his rib the first week in March and it was only a little while ago that Judge had been cleared to begin swinging a bat.

Judge spent the quarantine in Tampa, rehabbing and working out at the Yankees’ spring training facility.

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New York Yankees right fielder Aaron Judge (99) hits the ball for an out during a simulated game on Thursday at Yankee Stadium.

He was vague about when he began hitting, but as of May 22, hitting coach Marcus Thames said he was not yet swinging.

“It’s been a couple of weeks, a month or so, I’ve been able to swing,” Judge said last week. “We we’re getting our work done in Tampa, I’ve been going into the facility and getting in the cages, getting on the field every once in a while so it feels good to be back on the field.

“I kept inching, trying to push them on the regimen a little bit on what we could do because my body was feeling great and I know we had a limited time to get ready for the season

because we never knew when it was going to start, so yeah it’s been about a couple weeks, month. I’m not too sure to be honest. The days kind of blend together in quarantine.”

In his three previous big league seasons, the 27-year-old has never had two healthy or strong halves.

After hitting .329 with 30 homers in 84 games in the first half of 2017, Judge went to the All-Star Game and won the Home Run Derby, then immediately began to struggle. He was 1-for-21 in his first five games following the All-Star break and in his first 55 hit .185 with 11 homers and 84 strikeouts over 189 at-bats from July

14 to Sept. 12.

It was not until the next spring he admitted a shoulder injury that required offseason surgery had affected him.

Of course in 2018, Judge lost most of the second half of the season to a fractured wrist. After hitting 25 homers and driving in 60 runs in the first 93 games of the season, he only played in 19 in the second half. He hit 2 homers and drove in seven runs during that period.

In 2019, Judge missed 54 games after straining his oblique in April.

Mets’ Cespedes is certain he’ll be ready for opening day Deesha Thosar New York Daily News

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Former Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Melky Cabrera (53) is happy to have a chance to play in New York again.

Melky Cabrera thankful for chance to play in New York again Tim Healey Newsday

Unemployed all offseason and throughout baseball’s coronavirus shutdown, Melky Cabrera really, truly is just happy to be here. Can he play first base? Sure, he said. He has done so in the Dominican Winter League and is giving it a shot in camp with the Mets.

Is he happy to be back in New York, where he spent his first five major-league seasons with the Yankees? Sure, he said. He is pleased for the new chance with a new team.

What role might he have?

Not sure, he said. The Mets told him to show up and work hard, so he is.

“With the opportunity that I have, I think I’m able to bring veteran leadership and also with the versatility I have, being a switch hitter, in any position they put me in, I think I can help the team,” Cabrera, a 35-year-old outfielder, said through an interpreter Sunday.

The Mets initially worked out Cabrera in March, but they didn’t sign him to a minor-league deal until late last month, when MLB lifted its

transaction freeze.

“Thank God I was staying in shape,” Cabrera said. “I was making sure that I was in top shape.

“I’m grateful for the opportunity. is where I first started my career and I’m grateful for the team to give me this new opportunity to continue playing here.”

Robinson Cano missed a sixth consecutive day, and relievers Brad Brach and Jared Hughes still haven’t arrived in camp. “The timeline is not known yet,” manager Luis Rojas said.

Marcus Stroman (three innings) and Rick Porcello (four innings) faced off in an intrasquad game. In his first inning, Stroman reached his pitch count before recording three outs, so the inning ended. In his second, he took a Wilson Ramos comebacker off his leg but recovered to field and throw to first for the out. He grimaced on his way back to the dugout but pitched another inning.

Asked if Yoenis Cespedes will be ready for Opening Day, Rojas said, “The defense is the part that we’ll need to see more and more progression.”

NEW YORK — Yoenis Cespedes has done the work; he’s figured out the math. The Cuban slugger is convinced he will be ready to play when the Mets host the Braves on July 24 for opening day.

“I know for certain now that I will be ready,” Cespedes said when asked about his contribution for opening day.

“And I’m very excited for the season to start in two weeks.”

After pausing for a collective sigh of relief, Mets fans can finally, comfortably, begin dreaming of a lineup that consists of both Cespedes and 2019 MLB home run leader Pete Alonso. The Mets sluggers are guaranteed to steal the show in Queens and give their tough division opponents a run for their money.

“I don’t think it’s any secret we have one of the best lineups in baseball,” Cespedes declared. “We have everything. We have speed, we have hitters who can hit for power, hitters who can hit for contact. If everything goes right, we’ll have a very good team.”

Cespedes, 34, said he wasn’t nearly as confident he would be ready for the season before it was delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Since March, his body has felt progressively better. Now he only feels a slight tightness near his ankle when he wakes up in the morning. After walking around for a few minutes, the tightness loosens up and Cespedes feels ready to go.

He has shown plenty of encouraging signs at Mets camp — launching a home run off Seth Lugo in a simulation game, running the bases at full speed alongside his teammates, participating in outfield drills and even staying on the field late for extra sprint-training after workouts have finished for the day.

The motivation for Cespedes has massively increased since

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New York Mets outfielder Yoenis Cespedes (52) is hit in the shoulder by a pitch by New York Mets starting pitcher Marcus Stroman (not pictured) during a simulated game during summer camp workouts on Sunday at Citi Field.

the last time he trained with the team in March.

“With seeing just a few pitches here, getting a few at-bats here and seeing some live pitching here, with all the years that I’ve had with experience in the big leagues, it’s like riding a bike,” he said.

“Once you see it and start to get used to it, you’ll be able to go out on the field and get it done.”

The Mets are still closely monitoring Cespedes for his speed on the basepaths and flexibility in the outfield.

Cespedes said he has not yet been informed by the team whether most of his reps will come from the DH spot or in left field. But he said he feels ready to play in the outfield if that’s what the team asks of him.

“Honestly, the hardest part is getting to the point where my legs are right now, the way they feel,” Cespedes said.

“They can still feel better, but the way that they feel right now, I didn’t think I could get to this point, and that’s been the hardest part.”

The path Cespedes took to feel this prepared for opening day was arduous. He last

played in a big league game on July 20, 2018 against the Yankees in the Bronx. He went 2 for 4 with a home run, and hours later announced he’d need double-heel surgery due to calcification in both of his heels. In the middle of his rehab from that surgery, Mets GM Brodie Van Wagenen announced Cespedes would require another surgery, this time on his ankle, following an accident with a wild boar on his ranch in Port St. Lucie.

Cespedes’ latest surgery, caused by an injury that occurred off the field, led to the Mets restructuring his contract with a massive pay cut.

The slugger has worked back from unimaginable and bizarre challenges to be where he was on Saturday: feeling positive about his body, his health and his ability to contribute this year.

“To be honest, I’m not out here to prove anything to anyone,” Cespedes said. “I’m out here to prove something to myself, that after three surgeries I can come back and play the way that I know that I can.”

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Pandemic season could give MLB’s super prospects a chance to showcase their talents on the big stage Bill Madden New York Daily News

NEW YORK — For baseball’s GMs, summer camp 2020 is posing multiple dilemmas as they ponder down-the-road manipulations of their 60-man player pools.

It seems as if every passing day there’s a veteran player choosing to opt out of playing in 2020, and it’s anyone’s guess how many players will test positive for the coronavirus between now and the July 23 opening day. In the meantime, there are the many hotshot super prospects who have now potentially had their debuts in the majors fast-tracked out of both need and the urgency of clubs pulling out all the stops in an effort to steal a playoff berth in a 60-game season.

Kids like Clarke Schmidt of the Yankees, Jarred Kelenic and Noelvi Marte in Seattle, Jo Adell with the Angels and Royce Lewis with the Twins, are just a few of the top prospects who aren’t even on the 40-man rosters making strong impressions early and prompting the age-old quandary for GMs: “How are we gonna keep ‘em down on the farm?”

The other day in Mariners camp, Seattle GM Jerry DiPoto was asked just that question about the 20-year-old Kelenic, the stud center fielder who was the key player for the Mariners in the Edwin Diaz trade with the Mets a year ago. Kelenic is getting extended playing time because the Mariners presently have only six full-time outfielders in camp and he’s taking full advantage. Scouts continue to rave about his sweet swing and as one told me: “I don’t care what they say, this kid can play in the big leagues right now.”

DiPoto probably agrees, but continues to wave the yellow caution flag when it comes to Kelenic. “He’s an exceptionally gifted player and so advanced,” the GM said last week.

“You see him out there and it looks like he belongs. Then you continue to remind yourself he’s only 20 years old. We want to do what’s best for his development and not hold him back artificially, but as aggressive as I want

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Chris Mariscal (86) of the Seattle Mariners celebrates with teammate Jarred Kelenic after hitting a two-run home run during a spring training game against the Cincinnati Reds at Peoria Stadium on March 21, 2019, in Peoria, Arizona.

to be, we’re just going to let the days tell us what’s the right thing to do.”

One baseball exec not affiliated with the Mariners surmised the one overwhelming factor that could prevent Kelenic from making his major league debut this year is the absence of fans in the seats. “The Mariners are looking at another bad year with a disillusioned fan base. They desperately need to re-generate excitement in Seattle which Kelenic would do, but it wouldn’t make any difference if the stadium is going to be empty.”

coach Tom Carroll said. “Still trying to work off the rust. We had a better approach at the plate and hit more line drives.

“Our pitchers in both games worked ahead in the count and threw more first pitch strikes. We are improving game to game and that’s all I can ask for at this point.”

The Outlaws return to action today at 6 p.m., hosting the South Troy Dodgers at McQuade Park.

13U ENY Blackhawks 28, Guilderland 1 KINDERHOOK — The Eastern New York Blackhawks collected 25 hits and five pitchers combined to throw a no-hitter en route to a 28-1 victory over Guilderland in Saturday’s Eastern New York 13U Travel Baseball game.

The Blackhawks jumped out to an 8-0 lead in the second inning and went on to score three in the third, nine in the fourth and eight in the fifth.

Tyler Peck had a double, four singles and four RBI to highlight the victory. Brandon Rossano added a triple, double, single and five RBI, Dom Pelizza a triple, three singles and three RBI, Kyle Danforth four singles and an RBI, Gavin Hartka a triple, double and three RBI, Max Frering a triple, single and three RBI, Gabe Carpenter a single and three

RBI, Jacob Carroll two singles and two RBI, Devin Scali two singles and an RBI and Jacob Stern two RBI. Rossano was the Blackhawks’ stating pitcher, striking out three and walking one in two innings. Carpenter (1k), Pelizza (2k,3bb), Carroll (1k,3bb,1r) and Frering (2k,2bb) all pitched one inning.

The Blackhawks visit the Saratoga Stampede on Saturday at 12:30 p.m.

TC Bombers Red 6, Greene County Outlaws 3 COXSACKIE — The TC Bombers Red built up a sixrun lead and held on to edge the Greene County Outlaws, 6-3, in Saturday’ Eastern New York 13U Travel Baseball game at McQuade Park.

The Outlaws managed just three singles off a trio of Bombers pitchers, one each for Ty Van Valkenburg, Cole Partridge and Coleman Roe. Roe, Mark Costanzo and Alex Slater each had an RBI. Van Valkenburg pitched the first two inning for the Outlaws, allowing three runs and four hits with two strikeouts and three walks. Riley Street (1bb), Roe (3k,1bb,3r,4h), Zane Devries-Lepson (1h) and Zak Wagor (1k,1h) came on in relief.

14U Greene County Outlaws 11, Frozen Ropes Outlaws 5

COXSACKIE — The Greene County Outlaws broke open a tie game with six runs in the seventh inning and went on to post an 11-5 Eastern New York 14U Travel Baseball victory over the Frozen Ropes Outlaws on Saturday at McQuade Park.

The Frozen Ropes had evened the score at 3-3 with a single run in the top of the seventh before Greene County took the lead for good with its six-run outburst in the home half of the frame.

Nate Shook-Timot was Greene County’s starting pitcher, striking out 6, walking six and allowing two runs and just one hit. Marion Kohler struck out four, walked three and gave up a run and a hit in four innings and Christian Tedford walked two and surrendered two runs and three hits in two innings.

Shane DeRose had a single and four RBI for Greene County. Brodie Montgomery doubled, Zack Russell had two singles and an RBI, Tedford, Ty Van Valkenburg and Miguel Madera a single and an RBI each and Shook-Timot and Andrew Sager an RBI apiece.

Jerry stalker had two singles and two RBI for the Frozen Ropes. Anthony Kita and Jonathan Mollo both had a single and an RBI.

certainly physically preparing myself. But just the dynamic in here is so different.”

And on June 30, his wife, Amy, gave birth to their first

child, a son named Caden.

“As far as the baby goes, I’m enjoying every minute of that,” Cole said. “I don’t see that being detrimental at all.”

Boone said that if all goes well this week, the plan is to have Cole throw more pitches in his final tuneup.

“I still don’t want to put the cart before the horse,” Cole

said, “but hopefully, we can recover well this week and build off this the next turn and be ready to go.”

Notes & quotes: Boone said Aaron Judge sat out Sunday because of ongoing stiffness in his neck, but he might play Tuesday ... The Yankees used real major-league umpires, both to give the game a more

authentic feel and because the umps need preseason reps, too ... Boone said Masahiro Tanaka continues to recover well from his concussion, but there is no timetable for his return to the mound ... Giancarlo Stanton said his “progress back has been good” from his right calf injury.

over five years from the Phillies. In a normal world, that could be a target for Stroman.

The world right now is not normal.

However it plays out, Stroman is looking forward to having a long-term home.

“I truly believe that I’m going to be an untapped potential once I’m truly settled and know I’m not going anywhere,” he said. “I think that’s going to do wonders for my mind, my body, my pitching ability, everything. I truly believe my best years are ahead of myself.”

In the meantime, Stroman is still in Queens, where there are more near-term pandemic considerations to deal with.

He acknowledged some anxiety about playing baseball during such a public health crisis but said he isn’t allowing himself to “think three days down the road.”

“I think everyone deep down has concerns,” Stroman said. “Obviously there’s a pandemic going on right now, so it’s hard to say that no one’s worried even if they say they’re not. I truly believe that here with the Mets, they’re

doing their job, and it truly feels like a safe environment.

So I feel safe here, I feel fine.”

During baseball’s shutdown, his significance to the Mets changed. They lost Noah Syndergaard for the year due to Tommy John surgery, which effectively ended the spring training rotation competition, making it safe for Steven Matz, Rick Porcello and Michael Wacha and unofficially moving Stroman up to the No. 2 spot behind Jacob deGrom.

Stroman, who frequently expresses the great expectations he imposes on himself,

went to the animal kingdom looking for the right metaphor.

“I’m reliable, I’m going to be a dog, I’m gonna kind of be that horse, have that bulldog mentality,” he said. “There’s no one that’s going to step into the box that’s going to give me slightly any fear.

“I’m going to compete to the highest level every time regardless of how I feel that day.

I’m going to hold myself accountable. There’s no one that puts more pressure on myself than me. I hold myself to the highest standard.”

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Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder before the Dec. 29, 2019 game against the Dallas Cowboys at AT&T Stadium.

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Rivera also said he wanted the new name to honor both Native Americans and the military, saying that many native people join the military. Under Snyder, the team has formed close bonds with military organizations, believing the two have a natural connection given the franchise’s proximity to the Pentagon and other military offices.

Name changes are

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and other marquee free agents — such as Mookie Betts and J.T. Realmuto, who both play positions where the Mets are needy — could not be worse.

“It will truly play out as it will play out,” Stroman said Sunday. “I should be one of the top arms. I believe I’m one of the youngest. I’m extremely healthy. I’m coming off a great year. So however it plays out I

complicated processes, and Washington faces a serious challenge in instituting the new name before the Sept. 13 season-opening game against Philadelphia.

In addition to making new helmets and uniforms, the word “Redskins” must be pulled from signs at the team’s Ashburn, Va., practice facility and around FedEx Field. A media guide, about to go to the printers, must have the old name removed from 500 pages of type. Even the official club address, 21300 Redskins Park Dr., has to be altered. think it will play out.”

What kind of contract he ends up with is anybody’s guess, particularly in this economic environment. But one pre-pandemic point of reference is Zack Wheeler.

Although they are different kinds of pitchers, Stroman will reach free agency at 29 years old, the same age Wheeler did.

And some of their career numbers are nearly identical — Stroman a 3.76 ERA and 1.292 WHIP in six seasons, Wheeler a 3.77 ERA and 1.294 WHIP in five seasons.

Wheeler got $118 million

It was because of baseball’s 60-man player pool decision most clubs sought to take advantage by inviting all their top prospects to camp in order to give the hitters extra reps and the pitchers increased innings in the absence of the minor leagues. Even if most of them will not make the team, they’ll be able to stay around all summer on the “taxi squads” getting in real game action. Such will surely be the case with Tampa Bay’s 19-yearold wunderkind shortstop Wander Franco, who has not played above High-A ball but, in

the opinion of at least one scout, “is already the best hitter the Rays have.”

The Yankees’ Schmidt, their No. 1 draft pick out of South Carolina in 2017, has also been especially impressive with both his stuff and his poise. If, as expected, the Yankees find themselves in need of using an “opener” in their rotation at various times in the short season, they have indicated that Schmidt could very well be part of that mix. The problem, as with all clubs entertaining ideas of fast-tracking players not on their 40-man rosters, someone would have to be placed on waivers — and most likely lost — to make room for Schmidt.

Former Yankee assistant GM Billy Eppler, now the head man with the Angels, is keeping a close eye on the 21-year-old Adell, their No. 1 pick in the 2017 draft who moved quickly up the minor league ladder all the way to Triple-A last year. The word on Adell is he’s on track for a spot in the Angels outfield in the near future, but he’s still raw, as evidenced by 13 strikeouts in 26 plate appearances in the Cactus League back in March. “We just have to keep giving him at-bats,” Eppler said last week. “There’s going to be talented pitchers for him to face here and we’ll go from there.”

In Twins camp, Lewis, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2017 draft, has been playing multiple positions which could be a prelude to him getting a premature call to the big leagues in the event of multiple injuries/positive COVID-19 tests hitting the club at some point.

One thing’s for sure: The coronavirus crisis and the expanded 60-man player pools have provided an unexpected platform for so many of baseball’s elite young players to showcase their talents — while at the same time potentially creating more predicaments for GMs uncertain as to what their eventual regular season rosters are going to look like and how many players will be left at their disposal.

hits. Gustafson worked 1 2/3 innings, giving up a run and two hits with three strikeouts and two walks.

In the second game, Patrick McManus belted a home run, double and single, driving in three runs for the Outlaws.

Campanaro had a double and two singles, Conrad three singles and three RBI, Grayson Van Wie a double and two RBI, Isaiah Maines and Matt Bowes two singles and two RBI apiece, Carlson a double and Mike O’Connor a single.

Gustafson had a double and two RBI for the Mariners. Matt Milham contributed a double and single and Ben Weeks collected two singles.

Casey Carroll started on the mound for the Outlaws, striking out six, waking three and allowing two runs and three hits in four innings. Edmonds pitched two innings, striking out three, walking one and surrendering two hits. Campanaro worked the final inning, striking out one.

Weeks (1k,3bb,10r,11h) and Lucas Semenza (2k,3r,6h) each had a tun on the mound for Halfmoon.

“Overall we played two better games,” Outlaws head

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Affordable Housing Planning - Hudson, NY The City of Hudson is requesting proposals from qualified professional consultants to assist with creating a plan for the development of affordable housing. For more information, see cityofhudson.org ARTICLES OF ORGANIZATION OF MISEVIS RENTAL COMPLEX LLC Under Section 203 of the Limited Liability Company Law FIRST: The name of the limited liability company is: MISEVIS RENTAL COMPLEX LLC. SECOND: The county within this state in which the office of the limited liability company is to be located is: Greene County.

THIRD: The latest date on which the limited liability company is to dissolve is: Thirty years from the date of filing.

FOURTH: The Secretary of State is designated as Agent of the Limited liability Company upon whom process against it may be served. The Post Office address within or without this state to which the Secretary of State shall mail a copy of any process against the Limited Liability Company served upon him or her is: 50 Grandview Avenue, Catskill, New York 12414.

FIFTH: The future effective date of the Articles of Organization is upon filing.

SIXTH: These Articles of Organization have been filed with the Secretary of State on June 5, 2020.

Charles H. Schaefer, Esq. Deily & Schaefer, Esqs.

One Bridge Street Catskill, New York 12414 (518)943-6632 CATSKILL HOUSING AUTHORITY REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP) 2020 CYCLE PAINTING SERVICES DATE ISSUED: July 10, 2020 TYPE OF PROJECT: The Catskill Housing Authority (CHA) is seeking proposals from qualified individual(s)/firm(s) to provide Cycle Painting Services for 30 Public Housing Units and six (6) Kitchen LVT Flooring work.

CONTACT PERSON: Timothy Mattice, Interim Executive Director, tmattice.catskillha@gmail.com SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 3:00pm Friday July 31, 2020 (CST) Single copies of the RFP package may be obtained, at no cost by: 1. Requesting via email to tmattice.catskillha@gmail.com 2. Copies may also be picked up in person at: Catskill Housing Authority, 32 Bronson Street Catskill NY 12414.

SUBMISSION ADDRESS: Catskill Housing Authority Administrative Office 32 Bronson Street, Catskill, NY 12414 518-943-2900 The responsibility for submitting a response to this RFP at the Catskill Housing Authority on or before the stated time and date will be solely and strictly the responsibility of the respondent.

The Authority is not liable for any costs incurred by the offeror prior to issuance of a contract. The offeror shall wholly absorb all costs incurred in the preparation and presentation of the proposal.

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CAUCUS NOTICE The Town of Coxsackie Republican Committee will hold a Caucus on July 22, 2020 at 6:00 P.M. at the Coxsackie Town Hall, 56 Baily Street, Coxsackie, New York, for the purpose of nominating candidates for elections to be held on November 3, 2020, and for any other business that may properly come before this meeting.

By order of Brent E. Bogardus Republican Town Chairman E&C Xpress LLC. Filed 3/19/20. Office: Columbia Co. SSNY desig. as agent for process & shall mail to: 146 Footbridge Rd Ext, Hudson, NY 12534.

Registered Agent: United States Corporation Agents, Inc., 7014 3th Ave Ste 202, Bklyn, NY 11228. Purpose: General.

LEGAL NOTICE COUNTY OF COLUMBIA NOTICE TO VENDORS PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that sealed bids will be received for Non-Food/Paper Products at the office of Columbia County Central Services, 401 State St., Hudson, New York 12534 until 2:00 P.M., Friday, August 14, 2020. Bids shall be contained in a sealed envelope, clearly marked “NonFood/Paper Products Bid”. Bids will be publicly opened and read at the Columbia County Office Building, Committee Room, 401 State Street, Hudson, New York, at 2:15 P.M., Friday, August 14, 2020.

Bid packages can be obtained by any bidder at the Columbia County Department of Central Services, 401 State Street, Hudson, New York, and shall be prepared in accordance with the forms contained in the bid package.

No bid may be withdrawn for a period of forty-five (45) days from the date of the bid opening.

The County of Columbia reserves the right to reject any and all bids.

Bid#: 20-010 Dated: July 14, 2020 NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY FIRST: The name of the Limited Liability Company is Luft Properties, LLC (hereinafter referred to as the “Company”) SECOND: The Articles of Organization of the Company were filed with the Secretary of State on June 18, 2020.

THIRD: The County within the State of New York in which the office of the Company is located is Columbia.

FOURTH: The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process against the Company may be served. The post office address to which the Secretary of State shall mail process is 30 Michael Drive, Hudson, NY 12534.

FIFTH: The Company is organized for all lawful purposes, and to do any and all things necessary, convenient, or incidental to that purpose.

Dated: June 18, 2020 FREEMAN HOWARD, P.C. 441 East Allen Street P.O. Box 1328 Hudson, New York 12534 Notice of Formation of AKER ADVISORS, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/07/20.

Office location: Columbia County. Princ. office of LLC: 172 Phudd Hill Rd., Hillsdale, NY 12529. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the addr. of its princ. office. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY FIRST: The name of the Limited Liability Company is LOU DECROSTA PAINTING LLC (hereinafter referred to as the “Company”) SECOND: The Articles of Organization of the Company were filed with the Secretary of State on May 3, 2020.

THIRD: The County within the State of New York in which the office of the Company is located is Columbia.

FOURTH: The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process against the Company may be served. The post office address to which the Secretary of State shall mail process is 20 Woodland Road, Craryville, NY, 12521.

FIFTH: The Company is organized for all lawful purposes, and to do any and all things necessary, convenient, or incidental to that purpose.

Dated: June 12, 2020 FREEMAN HOWARD, P.C. 441 East Allen Street P.O. Box 1328 Hudson, New York 12534 NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Leila Hac, LLC A DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC) Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York on June 18, 2020.

New York Office Location – Greene County.

Secretary of State of the State of New York is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. Secretary of State of the State of New York shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her at: c/o LLC, PO BOX 12, EAST DURHAM, NY 12423.

PURPOSE: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Notice of Formation of Philmont Brands, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 6/8/20. Office location: Columbia County.

SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 25 Robert Pitt Dr., Ste 204, Monsey, NY 10952. The name and address of the Reg. Agent is Vcorp Agent Services, Inc., 25 Robert Pitt Dr., Ste 204, Monsey, NY 10952. Purpose: any lawful activity.

File No. 2020-67 CITATION SURROGATE'S COURT COLUMBIA COUNTY THE

PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEWYORK, By the Grace of God Free and Independent TO: Fred Hoffman, Lou Hoffman, William Hoffman, Henry Hoffman, and Edward Hoffman, unknown issue of Fred Hoffman, Lou Hoffman, William Hoffman, Henry Hoffman, and Edward Hoffman, if living, and if deceased, the Executors, Administrators, Distributees, Legatees and Devisees, and all persons who by purchase or inheritance or otherwise have or claim to have an interest in these proceedings derived through the said Fred Hoffman, Lou Hoffman, William Hoffman, Henry Hoffman, and Edward Hoffman, or their Executors, Administrators, Distributees, Legatees and Devisees, and other persons, if any, and whose names and addresses are unknown to the Petitioner and also to persons who are or make any claim whatsoever as Executors or Administrators of any persons who may be deceased and who, if living, would have any interest in these proceedings derived through, or from any or all of the above named persons or their Distributees, Devisees and Legatees, and which persons, if there are any, their names and domicile addresses being unknown to Petitioner.

A petition having been duly filed by Betsy H Kneller who is domiciled at 74 Kinderhook Street, Chatham. NY 12037 YOU ARE HEREBY CITED TO SHOW CAUSE before the Surrogate's Court, Columbia County, at 401 Union Street. Hudson, New York, on August 26, 2020, at 11:30 o'clock in the fore noon of that day, why a decree should not be made in the estate of Helen M. McGilvray lately domiciled at 1 Whittier Way, Ghent, New York 12075, United States admitting to probate a Will dated August 9, 2010 as the Will of Helen M. McGilvray deceased, relating to real and personal property, and directing that Letters Testamentary issue to Betsy H. Kneller TO ALL PARTIES: NO IN-PERSON APPEARANCES SHALL BE MADE AT THE RETURN DATE. IF YOU WISH TO OBJECT TO THIS MATTER, YOU MAY DO SO IN WRITING IN ACCORDANCE WTH THE ANNEXED NOTICE TO CITED PARTIES Dated, Attested and Sealed June 18, 2020 Hon. Richard M. Koweek Chief Clerk Kimberly Jorgensen Firm Fred J. Cappozzo. Attorney at Law, PLLC 518-392-3288 14 Park Row, Chatham, New York 12037 fred@cappozzolaw.com NOTE: This citation is served upon you as required by law. You are not required to appear.

If you fail to appear it will be assumed you do not object to the relief requested. You have a right to have an attorney appear for you.

COLUMBIA COUNTY S U R R O G AT E ’ S COURT 401 Union Street Hudson, NY 12534

NOTICE TO CITED PARTIES To whom it may concern: You have been served with a citation for a matter that is on the Columbia County Surrogate’s Court calendar. Please be advised the Unified Court System has established “Virtual Surrogate’s Court” in order to continue to serve the public and court users, while maintaining safe protocols by limiting personal interaction and potential COVID-19 exposures. All interactions involving the Court shall be conducted by electronic means and by mail unless extenuating circumstances are present. The citation has a return date listed on it. If you do not object to the relief requested, you do not need to contact the Court. If you object to the relief requested on the citation, please respond to the Court in writing so that the Court receives your response on or before the date listed on the citation. You may respond in writing by email to columbiasurrogate@nycourts.gov or by mail to the address listed above. If the Court does not hear from you by the date listed on the citation, it will be presumed that you do not object to the Court granting the relief requested in this matter.

If you or your attorney notifies the Court in writing that you object, the matter will be marked “contested” by the Court. The Court Clerk will obtain your phone number and/or email address to include with the Skype virtual appearance for the return date. If an attorney appears on your behalf, the attorney should file a notice of appearance with the Court. After receiving notice from you or your attorney, the Court will issue a litigation scheduling order which will include your deadline for filing verified written objections in the form required by law with the proper filing fee payable to the Court. If you have questions regarding the procedure for responding to this citation, you may contact the Court at the email address listed above; however, the Court is prohibited from providing you with legal advice and may only provide procedural information. If you have questions regarding the specific proceeding you are being cited for, you may contact the attorney listed at the bottom of the citation.

Very truly yours, Kimberly A. Jorgensen, Chief Clerk Columbia County Surrogate’s Court GRTS RE, LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on June 18, 2020. Office location: Greene County, NY. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 1601 3rd Avenue Apt. 24D, New York, NY 10128. Purpose: real estate and general business purposes.

MAGOSA WOODWORKS LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec of State (NYSS) 6/5/2020.

Office in Greene Co. SSNY designated agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 4985 Route 32, Catskill, NY 12414. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of 54SKR, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with NY Secy. of State on 06/10/2020. Office location: Columbia County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: 180 Stony Kill Rd, Canaan, NY 12029. No registered agent. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Flint Law Firm P.C., 75 Main Street, P. O. Box 363, Chatham, NY 12037, (518) 392-2555

(SSNY) on 06/01/20.

Office location: Columbia County.

LLC formed in California (CA) on 10/13/17.

SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: 1920 Hillhurst Ave #142, Los Angeles, CA 90027, also the address of the principal office. Arts of Org. filed with the State of CA Secy. of State, 1500 11th St., Sacramento, CA 95814. Purpose: any lawful activities.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF G.T. ENTERPRISES CLEANING SERVICES, LLC. Art. of Org. filed with SSNY on 6/16/20. County: Greene. SSNY is designated agent of LLC to whom process be served. SSNY may mail a copy of any process to LLC, 400 Old Rd, Windham, NY 12496. Any legal act or RENATA SERBAN, activity.

CPA, PLLC. Arts. of Notice of formation of Org. filed with the Riverview Marine, LLC SSNY on 07/03/20.

Arts. of Org. filed with Office: Greene County. the Sect'y of State of SSNY designated as NY (SSNY) on agent of the PLLC 3/11/2020. Office loca- upon whom process tion, County of against it may be Greene.

SSNY has served. SSNY shall been designated as mail copy of process agent of the LLC upon to the PLLC, 365 whom process against Muller Road, Prattsit may be served. ville, NY 12468. PurSSNY shall mail pro- pose: For the practice cess to: The LLC, 7 of the Times Square, Attn: profession of Public Stuart E. Berelson, Accountancy.

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LeBron James is in Orlando with a message Bill Plaschke Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — He’s all in.

He’s not worried about his health. He’s not concerned about the layoff. He has no fears that his fight for social justice will get lost in the battle for a loose ball.

Addressing reporters for the first time since the beginning of the most tenuous period in American sports history, speaking on a video conference call from inside a Disney World quarantine in Orlando, Fla., LeBron James left no doubt Saturday that this oddest of endeavors might be his most serious of missions.

Energized by the idea of leading the Lakers to a championship while continuing to spread his message of equality, James is practically bursting in that bubble.

“No, it never crossed my mind that we did not need to play this beautiful game of basketball that brings so many people together, that brings happiness and brings joy to the households, to so many families,” he said.

He has rarely sounded this committed. He spoke with unusual passion and persistence.

He delivered a message as giant as his task.

“I am more than an athlete” read the words on his black cap.

This is about more than a title, he eloquently explained.

“I’m happy to have a platform where not only people will gain joy from the way I play the game, from the way our team plays the game, but also what I’m able to do off the floor as well,” James said. “Being able to use my platform, use the NBA’s platform to continue to talk about what’s going on because I will not stop until I see real change for us as Black America, for African

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LeBron James flexes for the crowd during a game against the Hornets on Oct. 27 at Staples Center.

Americans, for people of color.”

He added, “And I also believe I can do both, though — I can bring happiness to a lot of homes with the way I play the game and with the way the Lakers are going to play the game, and I will continue to push the envelope and continue to keep my foot on the gas while creating real change for us as people of color in America.”

The Lakers had not held their first full practice and already James is applying the pressure. He revealed during Saturday’s news conference that he would not wear one of the NBA’s 29 approved social justice messages on the back

of his jersey, which will just read, “James.”

It’s not that he doesn’t agree with the messages, which include words and phrases such as “Black Lives Matter,” “Justice Now” and “Enough.”

It’s clear, instead, that he wanted to use a phrase that was not included in a list by the league and union, and he doesn’t like being told how he should protest. It’s about controlling your narrative. It’s about owning your voice. He won’t settle for less.

“I commend anyone that decides to put something on the back of their jersey, it’s just something that seriously didn’t resonate with my mission, with my goal,” he said. “I

would have loved to have the say-so on what would have went on the back of my jersey — I had a couple of things in mind — but I wasn’t part of that process, which is OK. I’m absolutely OK with that.”

He’s obviously not OK with that, and, seriously? No active athlete has contributed more to the fight for social justice than James — from a building a school to forming a voting rights group — and he’s not part of your messaging process?

“I don’t need to have something on the back of my jersey for people to ... know what I’m about and what I’m here to do,” he said.

He’s here to enlighten,

Rookie steals show with four-wide pass at Kentucky Speedway Mark Story Lexington Herald-Leader

SPARTA, Ky. — On a restart with two laps to go, some of the biggest names in NASCAR — Kevin Harvick, Martin Truex Jr., Brad Keselowski — were at the front of the field racing for the Quaker State 400 win.

Yet in the second-straight, heart-pumping finish to a Cup race in Sparta, it was rookie Cole Custer who stole the show.

In a four-wide battle for the win with Harvick, Truex Jr. and Ryan Blaney going into the first turn on the white-flag lap, Custer got through a narrow opening on the outside going into the first turn and made it stick.

Custer, a 22-year-old Californian, won the 10th running of the NASCAR Cup Series Quaker State 400 Presented by Walmart. He is the first rookie to win a Cup race at Kentucky Speedway and the first rookie to win a Cup race anywhere since 2016.

“Best car I ever drove in my life,” Custer said afterward.

“We were so good all day.”

The race was run in front of empty grandstands at the Sparta racetrack. As part of the efforts to contain the coronavirus, fans were not allowed to attend.

Custer’s late move to the outside denied Truex Jr. what would have been his third Quaker State 400 win in the past four years.

“The 41 came with a big run (on the outside) and I didn’t see him coming,” Truex Jr. said. “It was unfortunate.”

A year ago, the Quaker

entertain and, yeah, win.

Don’t think James is coming back so strongly only to make a social statement. He is coming back to earn a ring. At age 35 and with some gray in his beard, James knows he might never have a better championship chance for the rest of his career than right now, with a Lakers team that was the league’s best when the season was interrupted.

“You don’t get opportunities like this ... you don’t get teams like this,” the Lakers’ Danny Green said to reporters recently. “If you have a special group, you better take advantage of it this year. And (James) knows it too.”

James knows the volume

Nets’ Jacque Vaughn forced to alter his plans drastically

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Cole Custer celebrates in Victory Lane after winning the NASCAR Cup Series Quaker State 400 Presented by Walmart at Kentucky Speedway on Sunday in Sparta, Kentucky.

State 400 win was decided by a paint-trading, green-whitechecker finish in which Kurt Busch edged his younger brother Kyle Busch at the finish line.

Conventional wisdom was that finish would be impossible to top in 2020.

But a four-wide battle for the win going into the first turn of the final lap was not bad.

Truex Jr. held on for second place. Matt DiBenedetto finished third, Harvick fourth and Kurt Busch fifth.

Blaney dropped back to sixth and Keselowski ninth.

Aric Almirola — who came to Sparta riding a streak of five-straight top-five finishes — dominated stage one of the race. The Stewart-Haas Racing driver got around pole-sitter

Kyle Busch on Lap 11, and led the remaining 69 laps of the stage.

The second stage started in the same way — with Almirola dominating. However, the Florida native’s No. 10 Ford fell off late in a green flag run and Blaney and Joey Logano each got around.

It was Keselowski who ended up winning stage two, though, thanks to pit strategy and a fortunately timed caution.

Custer won the Xfinity Series Alsco 300 at Kentucky Speedway last year — a win remembered by many for what happened to the driver in victory circle.

He fell off the side of his car in a celebration gone wrong.

On Sunday, Custer left

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everyone viewing on television with an unforgettable move to secure his first career Cup victory.

“This place is my track,” he said afterward of Kentucky Speedway. “Got this place figured out.”

— Before the race, Kentucky Speedway honored Jimmie Johnson by naming a street on the grounds of the Sparta racetrack for the seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion. Johnson has announced this will be his final season as a full-time Cup Series driver.

— After their cars each failed inspection twice, two past Quaker State 400 champions — Martin Truex Jr. (2017 and 2018) and Matt Kenseth (2013) — had to start the race from the back.

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has been turned up, the spotlight is hotter, the attention more directed. He’ll never have a better chance to both educate off the court while he dazzles on it. The time is right for a win-win. He has entered that bubble amid his perfect storm.

“A lot of people still don’t get it and a lot of people are still afraid to talk about it, but the racism that goes on in America, especially for my people, people of color, it’s still here,” he said. “But we have some ears. We have some ears. And we will continue, like I said, to push the envelope and let people know that we are human as well. No matter our skin color, no matter how we look, no matter how we sound.”

He added, “We don’t want to just be used for our Godgiven abilities as far as our talent on the floor, our talents in the music industry, our talents in the industry as far as clothing and things of that nature.

But we also want to be recognized for our talent with our brains because that’s what we are, just like everybody else.

And we should be treated that way.”

Of course, the NBA postseason could collapse while surrounded by the surging coronavirus numbers in the Orlando area, but James didn’t sound worried.

“I believe in our franchise that we’re doing everything that we can to stay safe,” he said. “So I have no concerns, unless concerns started to happen and we’ll cross that bridge if it happens. But I’m here 100% in great health and I’m looking forward to getting back onto the floor.”

Can’t wait to see him do that. Maybe now more than ever.

As an interim head coach who basically is auditioning for the Nets’ fulltime job when the NBA season restarts later this month, Jacque Vaughn hardly could have been dealt a worse hand.

When the season paused on March 11 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Nets already were without injured stars Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving, but when they return, the Nets will be missing six other players who were active at the time, including three who started in their last game.

Many of the best-laid plans Vaughn developed during the down time must be scrapped as the Nets regroup in the NBA practice bubble in Orlando.

“We had to change a few items for sure,” Vaughn told reporters in a Zoom video chat following practice Sunday. “As a coaching staff, we spent an extreme amount of time together orchestrating what we thought the roster was going to look like and building some concepts off that. I think the biggest adjustment we made was just streamlining things and making things more simple just because of the different bodies we’re going to have.

The hiatus plan that we had wrapped up in a nice box, we won’t be able to unwrap and see all of that.”

The list of newcomers on the Nets’ roster includes guards Tyler Johnson and Jamal Crawford and forwards Michael Beasley and Donta Hall. All are in quarantine at the Nets’ hotel at Disney World and Vaughn had no timetable for when they will be able to join

practice. It also was reported by SNY on Sunday the Nets might be close to signing veteran forward Lance Thomas, who was with them in training camp.

Neither Crawford nor Beasley played earlier this season, and if they sign Thomas, the same will hold true for him. Considering what a young team they have, the Nets obviously felt the need for a strong veteran presence.

“Hopefully, they can kind of push up the entire group once we get everyone,” Vaughn said. “We’ll have a couple guys who four months ago weren’t playing competitive basketball in the NBA. Overall, we’ve liked those players at different stages in our organization, so this opportunity presented itself to get them around and how they can help us.”

Through the first few practices, Vaughn has gone with a starting lineup that includes guards Caris LeVert and Chris Chiozza, forwards Joe Harris and Rodions Kurucs and center Jarrett Allen. In the meantime, Vaughn is trying to acclimate the new guys in quarantine.

“We’re using all levels of communication that we can to get information to those guys,” Vaughn said.

“The majority of that is through video ... We’re to at least get guys comfortable with seeing who they’re possibly playing with, get a little grasp on what players do and some of the concepts.”

Without a doubt, the Nets will play a “small-ball” style because Allen is the only true center on the roster.

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A college football season on the brink due to COVID-19 — and it’s time to say so Dave Hyde Sun Sentinel

At what point does someone in a position of authority in college football look at the unsteady footing we’re all on with the coronavirus pandemic and say, “Why are we pretending to have the season as scheduled?”

We’ve moved from how some sports could return to why they ever would in this pandemic. No big-time coach or conference wants to be the first to say so about college football, so they’re making us watch them day by day, baby-step by babystep.

Ohio State, North Carolina and Kansas had enough positive COVID-19 tests amid the shady charade of voluntary workouts to suspend summer programs. The Big Ten and Pac-12 announced this week they would only play games in conference, in a statement that had the undercurrent: If they play at all.

Those are good and logical steps, even as it’s getting more difficult to see where this ends except without a fall football season. It’s difficult enough for pro leagues entering an invented biosphere, like the NBA and Major League Soccer, to carry through with their plans.

The glimmer of hope remains the Europeans soccer leagues. They’re playing. But their backdrop isn’t the rising coronavirus issues as in America. The question with sports accompany the larger issues and, in baseball, some big names like Washington’s Ryan Zimmerman and Arizona’s Mike Leake say they’re not even playing.

That begs the question: Will Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence, the hands-down No. 1 pick in the NFL draft next spring, return for this shaky season? Will anyone projected in the first round? That adds another layer to what’s

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Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence (16) drops back to pass against Ohio State during the PlayStation Fiesta Bowl at State Farm Stadium on December 28, 2019, in Glendale, Arizona.

happening if a couple of dozen players like Miami defensive end Greg Rousseau say they’re sitting this one out.

That should be a consideration for them, too.

When college administrators and coaches put players at the front line of risk they forfeit the idea of having the players’ best interest in mind. The campuses are empty yet practices go on. The cases rise but workouts aren’t stopped in most places.

No matter how much good the planning is

from coaches and athletic departments, the plan can’t work. It relies on the kids acting properly.

We’ve seen how that’s gone in places far beyond the athletic fields these days. Florida International had 12 football players test positive, and were sent into a 48-hour isolation while re-testing was done. Seven of them broke isolation, former trainer Kevin O’Neill said.

That’s the story all colleges have trouble with right now. It’s the reason Ohio State and North Carolina simply told kids to go home rather

than pretend they can keep players healthy. The simple rule for colleges should be when the campuses are deemed safe again for classes, they’ll be safe again for sports.

That gets wrapped in another matrix of faculty’s concerns, student safety and, yep, money.

Let’s not be cynical or preachy over money, too.

It’s a natural concern. The hypocrisy is college sports often pretend money isn’t a function of their games.

The loss of a football season comes at a severe human cost beyond simply players, too. The University of Miami athletic department, like many businesses (including the South Florida Sun Sentinel), furloughed some employees. Florida State slashed its athletic budget by 20% on Friday, eliminating 25 jobs and administering pay cuts.

Stanford axed 11 sports this week: men’s and women’s fencing, field hockey, lightweight rowing, men’s rowing, coed and women’s sailing, squash, men’s volleyball, wrestling and synchronized swimming. That’s nearly 250 athletes and 20 coaches.

None of them are football or basketball, so it’s not the headlines. It barely was headlines when the Ivy League announced it was suspending all sports until Jan. 1 at the earliest.

“It’s been kind of like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny,” long-time Dartmouth football coach Buddy Teevens said to the New York Times. “You kind of knew they didn’t exist, and then finally you were told.”

It’s time to tell everyone. It’s less than two months to the scheduled Sept. 5 kickoff for Miami, Florida and Florida State. But the football season won’t be happening as scheduled. The question becomes who’s the first to stand up and admit that.

NC State great David Thompson talks racism, glory days and whether he can still dunk Scott Fowler The News & Observer

Former N.C. State basketball star David Thompson — who may have had the greatest college career in ACC hoops history — has long been associated with double numbers.

Thompson wore the number 44 with the Wolfpack while leading the 1974 N.C. State team to the national championship. For most of his ABA and NBA career, Thompson wore 33.

Another double number is about to come up for the longtime Charlotte resident nicknamed “Skywalker.” Thompson’s birthday is Monday. He will be 66.

Thompson “was Michael Jordan before there was a Michael Jordan,” as coach Larry Brown once put it. Thompson was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1996, then was Jordan’s surprise presenter in 2009 when Jordan entered the hall.

In our exclusive interview this week, Thompson and I talked about his starry career with the Wolfpack, the occasional racism he experienced growing up in rural North Carolina, how his pro career was undone by twin addictions and whether he can still dunk a basketball. This Q&A has been edited for clarity and brevity.

Scott Fowler: Let’s start with a dunk question. You had a 44-inch vertical leap, and in an interview a dozen years ago you told me you could still dunk on a regulation goal. As you approach your 66th birthday, is that still the case?

David Thompson: When I got past 60 — definitely at age 61, maybe at 62 — I could still dunk when I wanted to. But I’ve had a knee replacement, and I’m probably going to need another one. So I don’t try to dunk now.

The doctors have told me not to attempt it, and I’m trying to preserve whatever I’ve got left. (Pauses) Actually, I probably could still dunk if I wanted to. But I don’t want to chance it.

SF: You grew up in a rural area near Shelby in the 1960s, the youngest of 11 children in a home that didn’t have indoor plumbing until you were in junior high. Did you experience racism there?

DT: Yes. At times, it was very difficult. People would call you

names and throw rocks at your house.

SF: Why would people throw rocks at your house?

DT: Just because you’re Black, living out in the country.

SF: Was your school integrated?

DT: Not until high school.

I went to a segregated school, called Green Bethel in Boiling Springs, N.C., through the eighth grade. Then I went to Crest High, which was integrated — probably 70% white and 30% Black at the time.

I had grown up Christian, taught to love your neighbor as yourself and treat everyone the way you want to be treated.

I was friends with all the different races on our basketball team and I think that helped make the transition of desegregation at Crest a lot easier.

SF: Charlie Scott — your basketball idol growing up and later your pro teammate — has told me a number of stories about the racism he experienced while playing in road arenas as UNC’s first Black scholarship basketball player.

You played just a few years later at N.C. State. What was your experience like in that regard?

DT: Sometimes they would call you names at Clemson and other places like that. But probably not as much as Charlie experienced. He was the first (at UNC), so he got it the worst. And Al Heartley (N.C. State’s first Black basketball player) — I’m sure he got it a little tougher than we did.

SF: What do you think of the “Black Lives Matter” movement?

DT: I’m all for peaceful protests. I think it’s good that people are now realizing the problem with police brutality. I’m all about equality. I think the most important thing is not only that there are Black people involved in it, but you’re getting people of all races, creeds and colors involved.

SF: What are your thoughts on the Confederate flag?

DT: The Confederate flag is offensive to a lot of people. For me, a Confederate flag has always been a symbol of hate.

I’m not for hate, I’m for love.

Love everybody. And if you’ve got something that’s going to cause a lot of pain for a segment of society, it’s got to go.

So I agree with NASCAR 100% for backing Bubba (Wallace) that way and banning the flag.

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READING LIST SF: What have you been doing over the past four months since COVID-19 shut a lot of the world down?

DT: Well, I’ve been reading a little bit more than usual.

Some biographies, some political books. I read Bill Walton’s book and a book from Jim Pomeranz about our 1973-74 season at State.

I just started on “The Room Where It Happened,” John Bolton’s memoir of his time in the White House. I’ve pulled out some old CDs, too. I think Stevie Wonder is great, and there’s this song on an album he did in 1974 called “Heaven is 10 Zillion Light Years Away.”

Find that one. It’s a very inspirational song that is apropos today.

We also have a group text for all the guys on the 1974 N.C. State team, and we text each other almost every day. I love those guys like brothers. We still lean on each other.

SF: How is your relationship with N.C. State these days and what do you think about the direction of the basketball program?

DT: I occasionally talk to (N.C. State head coach) Kevin Keatts. He checks in on me sometimes, which is real nice of him. I support what he’s doing. He’s been doing a good job. All the guys support him.

SF: How is your own family doing?

DT: My daughter Erika is a teacher over at Calvary Church in the preschool. She lives with me right now and helps me out with things. My youngest daughter Brooke, whose birthday is the same day as mine, is a psychology professor at Gardner-Webb. She’s married to Patrick Young, who’s a professor at Wingate. They met in graduate school down at Florida State. They have two young sons.

THE ART OF THE JUMP SF: At your peak, what was the highest you could jump in relation to the backboard?

DT: If you put a quarter on top of the backboard, I could get up there high enough to tip it off. But that part some people say about me also leaving two dimes and a nickel up there and also making change for the quarter? That’s not true.

SF: Was that sort of leaping easy or did you have to be thoroughly warmed up?

DT: I could come out,

bounce a couple of times, take off and jump. (Laughs) When you’re young, you can do those things. I did work on jumping, though. I wore ankle weights in practice. I had access to the weight room at GardnerWebb, which was near where we lived. I did toe raises and leg extensions.

SF: Were you able to palm a basketball?

DT: No. I couldn’t ever palm it, so I cupped the ball.

SF: And cupping the ball was the impetus for your tomahawk dunk?

DT: Yeah, it made a lot easier to hold on to. My fingers aren’t long like Dr. J (Julius Erving).

I couldn’t really palm the ball like Julius or Michael Jordan or some of those guys.

SF: How did you compare to Zion Williamson as a dunker?

DT: Zion is more of a power dunker. He’s got the bulk and the size and the weight, and he can really get up high.

I probably could maneuver more in the air. But Zion is awesome. I really like him.

Plus he plays for my cousin’s team (Alvin Gentry, Thompson’s cousin, is the head coach of the New Orleans Pelicans).

Alvin and I grew up together. We sang in the church choir together. We were like brothers at one point.

SF: Dunking wasn’t allowed during your college basketball seasons due to what was then informally known as the “Lew Alcindor rule.” But tell me about the one dunk that you performed in college anyway.

DT: It was my last home game at Reynolds Coliseum in 1975. Prior to the game, they retired my jersey. It was very emotional. Big crowd.

We were up by about 20 with about five minutes left in the game. I got on a breakaway and I decided to give the fans something to remember. I did a tomahawk windmill dunk.

The crowd went crazy. I got a technical and a standing ovation and Coach (Norm) Sloan took me out of the game at that point. So that was a great way to end my last home game at Reynolds.

MICHAEL JORDAN AND THOMPSON SF: In 2009, Michael Jordan had to pick a previous hall of famer to give his presentation speech when he went into the hall and he chose you. Were you surprised?

DT: Yes and no. I knew how

Michael felt about me and how I was an inspiration for him in his career. But there were so many other North Carolina guys in the hall of fame, and I went to North Carolina State.

So it was a little bit surprising that he picked me. I was very happy about it and was really honored to be a part of his day.

SF: What did you think of “The Last Dance” documentary?

DT: Loved it. The two best players I’ve ever seen play were Michael and Dr. J when he was in the ABA. People didn’t see much of the ABA version of Dr. J, but he was awesome.

I was glad that the young generation got the chance to really see Michael in his prime in that series. Because people forget how good you were. In 1974, we had a great group of guys who did some great things, but a lot of people don’t remember that. Fame is fleeting.

SF: What was the best highlight of your career, whether in college or pro?

DT: When we won the championship at North Carolina State. That run over three weeks in 1974 — that was special and those memories will last a lifetime. Once you go through something like that with your teammates, you become lifelong friends.

00018 NC State’s David Thompson shoots over UNC’s Bobby Jones in action in 1974. The two men, both future basketball hall of famers, would eventually become close friends.

1974 NEWS & OBSERVER ARCHIVE PHOTO SF: In basketball terms, what was your biggest regret?

DT: The very next year, when I was a senior and came back hoping that we would repeat. In the ACC tournament semifinal, against Maryland, I got cramps. We won that one anyway but had to play Carolina in the final.

I wasn’t 100 percent, we lost that game, and that was really tough. To lose your last game ever as a collegian to North Carolina — that didn’t sit too well with me after we had dominated them throughout most of my career.

SF: In 2003, nearly 30 years later, you earned your sociology degree from N.C. State.

Why was that important to you at that time in your life?

DT: My daughters were

pushing me — they were getting on me. And so they motivated me. I wanted to try to get my degree before they did.

We all ended up graduating at about the same time.

‘KNOCKED DOWN ON MY KNEES’ SF: I was rereading parts of “Skywalker,” your 2003 autobiography, before this interview. You write very honestly there about your twin addictions while a pro basketball player — alcohol and cocaine — and how they shortened your NBA career. How long have you been sober?

DT: It will be 32 years on December 13th.

SF: You write about declaring bankruptcy, going to jail, serving multiple stints in rehab and wrecking your knee in a scuffle at the Studio 54 disco in 1983. Where did it start to go wrong?

DT: I don’t really dwell on the past. You learn, you grow, you live.

It took all of that for me to get knocked down on my knees to look up to God. If things hadn’t happened the way they did, I wouldn’t be where I am today spiritually and as a father. My life has changed, and I’ve been able to make a positive impact on other people’s lives with my testimony.

SF: You auctioned off a lot of your memorabilia in 2012, including your 1974 N.C. State national championship ring (it sold for $44,427). Explain why you did that.

DT: The stuff was just collecting dust in storage. And I could use the money — my wife was sick (Cathy Thompson, who was married to David for 37 years, died in 2016). It was a big help.

I still have a lot of things. I didn’t sell my hall of fame ring.

I’m the only one to win the MVP of both the NBA and the ABA all-star game and I have both of those trophies. The auction house still calls me, but I haven’t done it since.

SF: Anything else you’d like to tell people?

DT: I wish everybody peace and love. And, hopefully, we’ll get through this coronavirus fairly quickly and everything can get back to semi-normal.

I’m praying for everybody.

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Woman fumes when man won’t take time to phone Dear Abby, I have been in a relationship with the same man for 15 years. For the last six, we have been living together. He’s a machinist who owns his own business and works strict hours of 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday-Friday. Sometimes he DEAR ABBY locks his doors at 5 and works an hour or two later, but he doesn’t call to let me know he is working late. I have told him calling is common courtesy.

Sometimes he does it, but more often he does not. He thinks it’s “ridiculous” that I would wonder where he is, and if I want to know, I can call his shop.

Last Saturday morning he was up at 6 a.m. and told me he needed to drive 100 miles north of here to look at a “project” for a customer to see if he can fix it. When I asked what the project was, he said he didn’t know. This guy is someone he has recently started a friendship with. It seemed odd that he wouldn’t let me go along for the ride. He said he’d have his phone on him, and I could call anytime to see where he was.

When I didn’t hear from him all day, I started calling around 7 p.m. and three times after that, but he didn’t pick up. He pulled back into our driveway around 10 p.m. and told me he was helping the guy move cows, and he would have called me on the way home but his phone died.

I’m upset. He had dinner with them, and they have a landline he could have used. I told him how hurt I was and that I feel disrespected. He says he deserved a day to himself. He thinks I’m being ridiculous. Am I? Do I not deserve a phone call?

Waiting And Waiting In Montana

JEANNE PHILLIPS

Family Circus

You are not ridiculous. It was thoughtless of him not to call, but you said it doesn’t happen all the time. You are his lady friend, not his keeper.

If he needs a day to himself, it might benefit your relationship to cut him some slack. And when it happens again, schedule something fun for yourself so you aren’t sitting by the phone.

Dear Abby, Our family and extended family are all highly educated individuals with advanced degrees. My son’s wife didn’t go to college, and while she is genuinely nice, she butchers the English language.

My granddaughter will be learning to talk soon, and I wonder what’s the best way to approach the situation. I don’t want to offend my daughter-in-law, but I also don’t want my granddaughter learning improper grammar.

What are your suggestions on how to handle this problem?

Unsure On The West Coast Because your family and extended family are well-educated and hold advanced degrees, the more time your grandchild spends with all of you, the better her chances of learning proper grammar. Do not talk “baby talk” with her. Read to her and give her books as gifts. If her mother reads them to her daughter, they both may have a better chance of learning good grammar. Being around her well-educated father will also help, and once she’s in school, it will be reinforced.

The only thing you should NOT do is say anything that will make your son’s wife self-conscious about her upbringing because if you do, you may be seeing a lot less of that little family.

What kind of doctor gives a bursitis injection?

I have been diagnosed with bursitis on my surface landmarks. left hip, and my pain management doctor says Pain management doctors, orthopedists, she can give me an injection to help. I had one rheumatologists and even some general interlast year by an orthopedist. The nists all may be skilled at joint pain management nurse recand soft tissue injection.

TO YOUR ommends my orthopedist do it GOOD HEALTH because they use X-ray to guide I am a 66-year-old woman the injection. But if X-rays don’t of British-Irish ancestry. In show tissue, how is that useful? the past few years, I have deShould I have an MRI to deterveloped severe bruises on my mine where things really are arms in response to the slightamiss? est bump against objects, or simply wearing a watch or bracelet. My doctor The diagnosis of “bursitis” of the hip is usually says it’s “just aging” and “thin skin.” Is there made by a person’s medical history and a physi- any reason for this to be happening? What can I cal exam. The greater trochanteric bursa is locat- do to stop it? My arms look as if I’ve been beaten ed directly on top of the “point” of the hip, but the up! My mother had this also. current understanding of this common problem is that it’s more likely related to the tendons that “Senile purpura” is the term given to easy run over the area (especially the gluteus minimus bruising found in older people when no specific and medius) than to the actual bursa. The bursa is cause can be found. “Senile” means “having to do a structure that provides lubrication to the area. with aging,” from the Latin “senex” for “old man.”

Injection of steroid into the area is a common and It has an unfortunate connection to dementia because the term “senile dementia” used to be used usually effective treatment.

The injection can be done “blind,” with no im- for all types of dementia, especially Alzheimer’s aging to guide the doctor, but is often done with disease. It is thankfully no longer used. the assistance of ultrasound or X-ray. Ultrasound The diagnosis of senile purpura can usually be is preferred since it can be done much more eas- made by a careful history and physical exam, but ily and portably. The handheld portable ultra- blood testing is sometimes done to exclude less sound is poised to revolutionize many aspects of common, and more concerning, causes of easy diagnosis and bedside procedures. bruising.

MRI is not generally used to guide procedures; Treatment usually isn’t required. Sometimes however, MRI is excellent at visualizing soft tissue vitamin A-derived skin creams are used to help if there is uncertainty about the diagnosis. Some slow skin aging, which reduces bruising. A diet studies show that ultrasound-guided injections high in plants — especially a specific set of comhave better results than the blind injections phy- pounds called bioflavonoids — may improve the sicians have been doing for decades, based on bruising tendency.

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Horoscope

By Stella Wilder Born today, you are able to keep your feet firmly on the ground even as you let your aspirations soar and indulge in all manner of dreams and fantasies. This is fine, of course, provided your imaginings are positive, but whenever they begin to lean toward the darker side of things, you will be in trouble, for you are likely to go where your dreams — or nightmares — lead you, and that can be harmful to you emotionally, psychologically and sometimes even physically.

Your love of peace and harmony can be threatened when you are faced with injustice — and, in fact, you are more likely to wage war against it for someone else than for yourself.

Also born on this date are: Woody Guthrie, singer and songwriter; Ingmar Bergman, film director; Gustav Klimt, painter; Gerald Ford, U.S. vice president and president; Jane Lynch, actress; Sara Canning, actress; Matthew Fox, actor.

To see what is in store for you tomorrow, find your birthday and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your daily guide.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 15 CANCER (June 21-July 22) — You’re not interested in doing things because others are doing them; you’re far more interested in following your own path. Do so!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Now is not the time to let the little things bother you — especially if they come in the form of unintended slights. Take the high road today!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You may have to

work harder than usual today to navigate the uneven terrain you encounter quite unexpectedly. A guide offers counsel.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — That friend you’ve learned to trust implicitly may not be there to offer the kind of help you need today. You’re on your own for now.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — You have good news to report, but you must take care not to let others misinterpret what you say. Stick to the facts!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — How you conduct your affairs will be of interest to those who are seeking alternatives to their own methods.

You’re an open book.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You’re likely to encounter a valuable teaching moment with someone by your side. You’ll be able to fill in the blanks very soon.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Despite how you feel about someone poised to work against you, do and say the right things and you’ll get through the day unscathed.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — You have much to figure out today, but you don’t necessarily have to ask questions as much as focus inward to get the answers you need.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — You have a puzzle to solve, but you’re not in the mood. Time is of the essence today, and you can’t let how you feel slow you down.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — Now is no time to shrug off what someone says or does in opposition to you. You must take it seriously and answer any challenge directly.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You’re after more than monetary gain at this time; you want to feel good about yourself and to know that your place is secure.

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SUPER QUIZ

THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME

By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek

Score 1 point for each correct answer on the Freshman Level, 2 points on the Graduate Level and 3 points on the Ph.D. Level.

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

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Provide the long form of the shortened TV name. (e.g., A&E. Answer: Arts and Entertainment (Network).)

Freshman level 1. BET 2. CMT 3. HGTV Graduate level 4. PBS 5. CNN 6. TLC PH.D. level 7. AMC 8. HLN 9. ESPN

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

Ans. answer here: here: Yesterday’s Saturday’s

(Answers (Answerstomorrow) tomorrow) Jumbles: LIVID COACH FRONT HOUSE IMPOSE STENCH FATTEN WITHIN When had they everything started charging she needed a tolltotoapply use the a coat Answer: She of bridge, lacquer it was to the a— table “FEE-ASCO” and would — FINISH IT

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Solution puzzle Solution to to Saturday’s Monday’s puzzle

Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit, 1 to 9.

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SUPER QUIZ ANSWERS 1. Black Entertainment Television. 2. Country Music Television. 3. Home and Garden Television. 4. Public Broadcasting Service. 5. Cable News Network.

6. The Learning Channel. 7. American Movie Classics. 8. Headline News. 9. Entertainment and Sports Programming Network.

18 points — congratulations, doctor; 15 to 17 points — honors graduate; 10 to 14 points — you’re plenty smart, but no grind; 4 to 9 points — you really should hit the books harder; 1 point to 3 points — enroll in remedial courses immediately; 0 points — who reads the questions to you?

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Hi & Lois

Crossword Puzzle Mother Goose & Grimm ACROSS 1 Barcelona wife: abbr.

4 Thespian 9 Current letters 13 “If” or “Trees” 15 Rise’s partner, in phrase 16 Dr. Zhivago’s love 17 Olden days 18 __ of cake; easy task 19 Court order 20 Taboo 22 European peaks 23 Seldom seen 24 “…Who art in heaven, hallowed be __…”

26 Think highly of 29 Game bird 34 Tests given before a panel 35 Boscs & Bartletts 36 Flowery ring 37 Promising 38 Sail supports 39 Lass 40 Deuce 41 Sprinkles at the table 42 Smooth; debonair 43 Funicello & Bening 45 Migraine intensifiers 46 Deli loaf 47 __ canal; dental procedure 48 In addition 51 Underlying reason 56 Well-__; scholarly 57 Presses 58 Decomposes 60 Give a darn 61 Make laugh 62 Foot covering 63 Lose traction on ice 64 Minstrels’ harps 65 Timid around others DOWN 1 James Bond, for one 2 Place for solar panels

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3Like Prefix for space unreasonable or dynamics 4 Set personal goals Reprimand 45Secluded part of 6 Even, as a score 7 __ more; again 8 Goes back into 9 Unceasingly 10 Rob Reiner’s dad 11 Faucet problem 12 Long-running Broadway musical 14 In a happy way 21 Saloons 25 __-been; one no longer popular 26 Aneurysm site, often 27 Perish in the sea 28 TV’s “Perry __” 29 Annoying people 30 Stetsons & sombreros 31 Wanted poster word 32 Boldness 33 Mah-jongg pieces 35 Wan

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Non Sequitur

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38 Fabric 39 Stringed instruments 41 Pigpen 42 In just a bit 44 Wore away 45 Rope loops 47 Dishwasher cycle 48 Circle portions

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49 Ooze out slowly 50 Dress for Indira 52 Military force 53 Take a __; see the sights 54 British bathrooms 55 Carve initials in a tree, e.g.

59 Wild blue yonder

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