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CATSKILL — Greene County lawmakers Wednesday night approved a retainer agreement with a Long Island-based law firm in a lawsuit against the manufacturers of chemicals used at the county’s firefighting training center in Cairo, which are present in the municipal drinking water.

A lawsuit filed by the state Attorney General’s Office in November identified Cairo as one of several locations affected

by PFAS. PFAS form a group of man-made chemicals that includes PFOA, PFOS, GenX and

many others. PFAS, or per- and polyfluroalkyl substances are contaminants that resist degradation and accumulate in the human body.

They have been linked to serious illnesses such as kidney and testicular cancer, thyroid disease, liver damage, preeclampsia and other conditions, according to ag.ny.gov.

PFAS were commonly used in firefighting foam. The county’s training center is located on Mountain Avenue. Cairo’s public drinking water is supplied by a well at Angelo Canna Town Park, which is fed by groundwater, according to the town’s

annual water report.

The law firm enlisted by the county, Napoli Shkolnik, also presented to the Cairo Town Board in March.

“We decided to speak to another firm in Ulster County and then COVID hit,” Town Supervisor John Coyne said. “It’s back on our radar.”

The firm will be presenting at the town board’s meeting on Aug. 3. Coyne did not immediately recall the name of the firm.

Legislator Michael Bulich, R-Catskill, asked at the Government Operations Committee See PFAS A2

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Toxics Targeting President Walter Hang presented to the Cairo Town Board in March with attorney Paul Napoli of Napoli Shkolnik. The town will have another presentation in August by a firm from Ulster County. Greene County authorized a retainer agreement with Napoli Shkolnik.

Cuomo cracks down on bars, restaurants

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Alcohol-buying patrons at eating establishments must also purchase food with their beverages, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said as part of new dining

restrictions the state imposed Thursday to prevent a resurgence of the coronavirus in New York.

Establishments must only serve alcohol to patrons who are also ordering food.

The state will also close New York City bars and restaurants after three violations of COVID-19 orders under the governor’s Three Strikes and You’re Closed initiative, which applies only to city establishments.

Egregious violations can result in the immediate closure or loss of a liquor license before a third offense, according to the governor’s office.

The updated rules come on the heels of thousands of

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Hudson firm gets $1.8M bike lane contract

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County Road 12 (South Street) Bicycle Lane design report, Town of Windham, May 2017.

CATSKILL — Greene County lawmakers Wednesday awarded a $1.8 million construction contract for the Windham Bike Lane project to Colarusso & Son Inc., of Hudson.

The project, dating back to 2017, will create bike lanes along a 1.5-mile stretch of county Route 12, between Route 296 and the Windham Mountain entrance.

The project is on schedule for this summer, Greene County Highway Superintendent Scott Templeton said.

The lanes will connect to the Windham Path, a popular walking and biking path created in 2013 by the Windham Area Recreation Foundation.

The bike lane project will be funded by the Statewide Transportation Improvement Program with $119,350 in county funds, $358,050 in state funds and $1.9 million in federal funds.

The original construction date was set for spring 2018, but plans hit a snag when county officials learned they had to prepare for a variance requirement issued by the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, former highway superintendent Robert Van Valkenburg said in 2018.

“We lost several months preparing for the variance,” he said.

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achievable standards that are protective of public health.”

The Department of Health’s Public Health and Health Planning Council will hold a meeting on July 30, where adoption of these maximum contaminant limits will be discussed.

Drinking and cooking water for Cairo-Durham Elementary School, which uses the municipal drinking supply, was secured in March.

The district ordered water coolers and water to supply the water foundations and the kitchen, according to meeting minutes.

“The water and water coolers are on site and will be operational when we return to school from the current closure,” CairoDurham Superintendent Michael Wetherbee said in March.

“At this point we are unsure how much water will be needed. That is something we will evaluate as we move forward. This does only impact the elementary campus.

The other campus (Middle/ High School) is not on town water. The district is working in conjunction with the town and county to supply the water.”

The district shut down March

17 due to the coronavirus pandemic and was closed for the remainder of the academic year. It is unclear if schools will return to in-person instruction in the fall.

The lawsuit filed by Attorney General Letitia James alleges that the defendants — 3M Company, Tyco Fire Products LP, Chemguard Inc., Buckeye Fire Equipment Company, National Foam Inc., Kiddie-Fenwal Inc., Amerex Corporation, Fire Service Plus Inc., E.I. Du Pont De Nemours & Company and the Chemours Company — had prior knowledge of the risks their products posed to human health.

“In 1975, 3M concluded that PFOS was present in the blood of the general population,” according to court papers. “Since PFOA/S is not naturally occurring, this finding should have alerted 3M to the possibility that their products were a source of this PFOS. The finding should have also alerted 3M to the possibility that PFOS might be mobile, persistent, bioaccumulative and biomagnifying, as those characteristics could explain the absorption of PFOS in blood from 3M’s products.”

and mingled at outdoor bars in a “block party format,” the governor said.

“Our intention was to open outdoor dining — we never said outdoor bars,” Cuomo said.

“We never said we’re opening block-party bars. That’s not what we approved. If they think outdoor dining meant an outdoor bar, they’re wrong. There was never an authorization of outside, congregate drinking.”

Fearing a mutation, state, national and global health officials have discussed the possibility of a second COVID-19 wave since the first ravaged New York in March. The nation’s “second wave” is a man-made version of the first, Cuomo said, because the federal government failed to learn lessons the first time. The governor has sharply criticized President Donald Trump and his administration for their lack of coronavirus response, saying a more intense strain of the virus landed in New York from Europe in February and March.

Trump imposed a European travel ban March 13. Travel was suspended from China on Feb. 2.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released its weekly Morbidity and Mortality report Thursday afternoon indicating community transmission of COVID-19 occurred in New York from European travelers from Feb. 6 to March 16, before the president’s travel restrictions.

“That is a really powerful fact that explains definitively what happened in New York,” Cuomo said during a second telephone pandemic briefing Thursday afternoon. “The federal officials just missed it. The president likes to talk about his travel ban that was effective. His own CDC says the travel ban was too late. The virus came from Europe. It was in New York, and it had been in New York for weeks.”

The CDC reports 2,758

European flights landed at JFK from Feb. 6 to March 16, and more than 1,200 European flights landed at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey during the same period.

New York City is expected to enter phase 4 — the state’s final stage — of reopening nonessential businesses Monday.

Additional indoor activity is not permitted to open in the city, Cuomo said, as arts, entertainment, recreation and educational institutions resume under the fourth phase.

The state established a pair of COVID-19 testing sites in Houston, Texas at two churches and has sent the city personal protective equipment, hand sanitizer, testing kits and other supplies. Fallbrook Church in northwest Houston and southwest Houston’s Higher Dimension Church will test residents in primarily low-income and minority neighborhoods for two weeks with up to 1,000 tests per day. Low-income and minority communities suffer higher COVID-19 infection rates compared to other populations.

More than 20 state health care workers and public health experts will run the Houston testing sites.

“Testing is a big issue — a lot of people who are wanting testing need testing,” Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said during Thursday’s briefing.

“You all have reached out to us in the city of Houston and we want to thank you. People are taking full advantage of those testing sites.

New York sent extra testing and contact tracing crews and 7,500 masks, gowns and testing kits to Atlanta, Georgia, earlier this week as the coronavirus surges in more than 35 U.S. states. State officials are speaking with Arizona leaders “We have a blanket offer to anyone who needs help in any state,” Cuomo said. “Anything you need, know that we are here

and you can call on us. Unfortunately, we learned these lessons in New York the hard way. Why we have to repeat the mistake across the country, I have no idea. But we’re not going anywhere — we’re here.”

The state launched a national Mask Up America campaign to encourage all Americans to wear a mask or facial covering in public to stop the spread of COVID-19. The campaign includes eight televised public service announcements that will air in donated media time and space nationwide. Producer Jane Rosenthal, CEO of Tribeca Enterprises, produced the series with Academy Award-winning director Kathryn Bigelow. The announcements feature appearances or the voices of actors Robert De Niro, Kaitlyn Dever, Jamie Foxx, Morgan Freeman, John Leguizamo, Rosie Perez, Ellen Pompeo, Anthony Mackie and Jeffrey Wright.

Fourteen New Yorkers died from the virus Wednesday. The state’s virus-related fatalities have remained flat for several weeks, but is up from nine Tuesday.

The state’s total virus hospitalizations declined to 813 Thursday — down 18 patients.

The number has remained under 1,000, but fluctuated over the last two weeks between 792 to close to 900 virus patients statewide. More than 18,000 New Yorkers were hospitalized at the peak in April.

The state reported 769 new COVID-19 cases, or about 1.06% positive, of the 72,685 tests conducted Wednesday. Each of the state’s 10 regions reported a low, consistent positive COVID-19 testing rate of 1.2% or lower.

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.

phase.

Construction was delayed until spring 2019, when the course of the project changed again due to funding constraints.

As they got further into the design phase, it became apparent that the project was underfunded, which required them to go into some cost-cutting methods, Van Valkenburg told lawmakers at a May 2019 Public Works Committee meeting, according to meeting minutes.

Van Valkenburg said that the original plan would have resulted in having new shoulders on an old road, according to meeting minutes.

The highway department worked through this problem with DOT at several meetings and agreed a different concept that involves excavating the road, recycling the asphalt and repaving it.

Redesigning the scope of the project pushed it out until fall, and Van Valkenburg expected the project to be put out to bid Sept. 6, he said at the August

Public Works meeting. At that point, the highway department was still working out rightof-way acquisitions with 13 properties, according to meeting minutes. At the September meeting, Van Valkenburg announced that construction would be pushed to the spring because it was so late in the season.

Right-of-way acquisitions tend to delay projects, Templeton said Tuesday.

“Unfortunately with most of our federal and state-funded projects lately, the right-ofway process delays them,” Templeton said. “Right-of-way includes gaining both permanent and temporary easements from property owners

that will be directly impacted by construction. Due to the length of this project — 1.5 miles — there were many property owners involved.”

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meeting Monday how much the county would be paying the firm.

Greene County Attorney Edward Kaplan said the agreement was on a contingency basis and the firm will be entitled to 25% of any awards to the counties involved in the suit.

“Greene County wishes to protect itself and the taxpayers of potential contamination by these chemicals on its property(ies) and remediation of any contamination should not be borne by the taxpayers but by those that are responsible for manufacturing and distributing such chemicals,” according to the resolution.

Legislator Thomas Hobart, RCoxsackie, asked why the product was used.

“If it was for training anyway, why didn’t they use soap suds?” he said.

Hobart and Bulich cast the only dissenting votes on the resolution.

The study conducted by the

state Attorney General’s Office found 13.3 parts per trillion of PFAS in drinking water at the site. A new test was performed

by Delaware Engineering, Coyne said in March, which showed the levels are now at 3 parts per trillion.

The EPA has a nonenforceable health advisory level of 70 parts per trillion for PFAS, according to wqa.org.

In December 2018, the state Department of Health proposed a legal limit for PFOA and PFOS in drinking water at 10 parts per trillion each, according to health.ny.gov.

“We join clean water advocates, concerned legislators and impacted communities in appreciating the importance of New York’s proposal to implement one of the most protective drinking water standards nationwide of 10 parts per trillion for PFOA and PFOS and the nation’s first standard at 1 part per billion for 1,4-dioxane,” according to a statement from DOH. “This process is a result of intense collaboration over many months with an array of experts and using the best available industry science to ensure

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masks in public, especially in the city. State officials studied 5,000 downstate establishments and found numerous instances where people failed to comply with state orders.

“It’s wrong, it’s dangerous, it’s selfish, it’s unacceptable,” Cuomo said during a telephone coronavirus briefing Thursday afternoon. “It’s also illegal.”

The governor also called on local governments and municipalities, including local police agencies, to enforce state orders related to the pandemic.

Tensions remain high between communities and police following the death of 46-year-old George Floyd — an unarmed black man who died while in Minneapolis police custody on Memorial Day — which led to worldwide Black Lives Matter protests.

“We can deal with that situation and still enforce the law — we have to,” Cuomo said.

“The compliance enforcement of these rules and regulations is essential. If we do not enforce compliance, the virus will spread. It is that simple.

“I understand enforcement is less politically popular,” he added. “I’ll tell you what’s less politically popular: If we had to [re]close down a region.”

The state Liquor Authority issues one license for bars and restaurants to serve food or alcohol. The state resumed outdoor dining in New York City on June 22. Indoor dining remains prohibited citywide.

Officials continue to struggle with complying diners, who are intended to sit and eat their food and drinks at an outdoor table placed at least six feet from another table. Bars have been open for customers through the pandemic for take-out drinks, but scores of people have gathered

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regulations because it would add more than 1 acre of new water-resistant surface and disturb more than 2 acres of soil, DEP Public Affairs Director Adam Bosch said in 2018.

Initially, the DEP thought the project would require a variance because it interfered with stream crossings — at least eight along that stretch of Route 12, Bosch said.

The DEP reversed course on the requirement after being reviewed by the department’s lawyers because the route falls within a hamlet, an area exempt from certain restrictions to allow development, according to DEP guidelines.

“Our lawyers took a fresh look at that and decided they wouldn’t need the variance,” Bosch said, noting the project would need a standard Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan for the construction

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Monday, July 20 n Athens Town Board 6:45 p.m.

Town Hall, 2 First St., Athens 518945-1052 n Greenville Town Board 7 p.m.

Town Hall, 11159 Route 32, Pioneer Building, Greenville

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Town Hall, 7309 Route 81, East Durham n Hunter Town Board 7 p.m. Town Hall, 5748 Route 23A, Tannersville

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7 p.m. Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill

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Columbia Memorial allows limited visitation

By Melanie Lekocevic Columbia-Greene Media

HUDSON — After months of strict regulations prohibiting in-person visitation during the COVID-19 outbreak, Columbia Memorial Health is now easing up on its restrictions.

Guidelines allowing visitors have expanded, but provisions remain in place to protect patients and staff from the coronavirus.

“Visitation is important to both patients and their loved ones,” said MaryEllen Plass, chief nursing officer for Columbia Memorial Health. “Our revised guidelines, which have been approved by the state Department of Health, will allow limited visitation to recommence in a way that is safe for all of our patients, visitors and staff.”

Visiting hours will be permitted daily between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m., and each patient will be allowed one visitor per day.

Different visitors will be allowed, but only one each day, according to the hospital.

All visitors must be 18 years or older, and must wear a face mask when entering the hospital and for the duration of their visit. Hand hygiene must be practiced both before entering the patient’s room and when leaving the room. Temperatures will be checked prior to entering the hospital, and those with a temperature above 100.4 degrees will not be allowed in.

Services department will allow visitors on a limited basis.

Patients having surgical procedures performed are allowed to be accompanied by one person who can stay with the patient during their intake appointment, and will then be required to remain in the surgical waiting area.

The new regulations will be evaluated and changes will be made if needed.

“We will carefully monitor the situation and make any additional revisions that may become necessary,” Plass said.

Columbia Memorial officials were among representatives from 10 area hospitals and health care facilities who announced March 13, at a media briefing in Albany, that visitation guidelines were being revised due to the public health crisis in an attempt to stem the FILE PHOTO spread of the coronavirus.

Columbia Memorial Hospital in Hudson is allowing in-person visitation on a limited Tight regulations on hospital visitabasis but following strict state Health Department guidelines. tion remained in place until June 16, Some departments have modified when Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced There are enhanced regulations for people visiting patients whose health regulations. There are special consider- hospitals and group homes statewide condition mandates enhanced precau- ations for pediatric patients, maternity would be allowed to accept visitors, tions, and those visitors will be required patients who are giving birth, patients with provisions in place to prevent virus to wear a face mask, eye shield, gown for whom it is medically necessary to spread.

“We are going to allow hospitals to have a support person with them and and gloves. start accepting visitors at their discreAll visitors must remain in the pa- patients at the end of life.

The rules for those patients differed tion pursuant to state guidelines that tient’s room throughout the visit and continue to wear personal protective throughout the coronavirus pandemic have limited visits, PPE, temperature checks, etc.,” Cuomo said at the June 16 and will remain unchanged. equipment, or PPE, for the entire visit.

The Psychiatric Services department press briefing. “Obviously we need to be The new visitation policy went into effect July 8, hospital spokesman Bill Van will not allow visitors at this time, ac- careful, but we will allow visitors in hosSlyke said. cording to the hospital. The Emergency pitals.”

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

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Town Hall, 2 First St., Athens 518945-1052 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

Tuesday, Aug. 4 n Durham Town Board workshop

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

Thursday, Aug. 6 n Ashland Planning Board 6 p.m.

at the Town Hall, 12094 Route 23, Ashland n Cairo Town Planning Board 7 p.m. Town Hall, 512 Main St., Cairo

Monday, Aug. 10 n Ashland Town Board 7:30 p.m.

at the Town Hall, 12094 Route 23, Ashland n Catskill Village Planning Board 7 p.m. Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill

Wednesday, Aug. 12 n Athens Village Board 6:30 p.m.

Village Hall, 2 First St., Athens 518945-1551 n Jewett Town Board 7 p.m. at the Jewett Municipal Building, 3547 County Route 23C, Jewett n Windham-Ashland-Jewett CSD Board of Education 5 p.m. in the School Library, 5411 Route 23, Windham

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Town Hall, 2 First St., Athens 518945-1052 n Greenville Town Board 7 p.m. at the Town Hall, 11159 Route 32, Pioneer Building, Greenville

Libraries offer curbside pick-up service

By Nora Mishanec Columbia-Greene Media

Bibliophiles no longer have to wait for new material.

Twin County libraries are open for contactless curbside pick-up.

While library buildings remain closed, library patrons can order materials by phone or email and schedule a time to retreive the materials in person.

Libraries throughout Greene and Columbia counties have continued providing online resources, including classes, audio books and e-books, during the pandemic, which shuttered public gathering spaces in midMarch. But the shutdown prevented book lovers from accessing new material until libraries rolled out curbside pick-up in late June.

Contactless pick-up has been a success so far, with Columbia County libraries expanding the service from four days a week to six due to the high demand, said AnnaLee Dragon, chairwoman of the Columbia County Library Association and director of the Kinderhook Memorial Library.

Columbia County libraries coordinated their efforts to ensure that no single library was inundated with requests, said Dragon, who noted the Kinderhook Memorial Library has filled more than 500 pick-up orders so far.

Like their counterparts across the river, Greene County libraries are banding together to share safety and staffing ideas as they ease into curbside

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Libraries around the Twin Counties are reopening for curbside pickup after the coronavirus shutdown closed their doors since mid March. Pictured is the D.R. Evarts Library in Athens.

pick-up, said Maureen Garcia, director of the Mountain Top Library in Tannersville.

The libraries have put disinfecting routines in place to keep librarians and the public safe. In addition to regularly disinfecting work spaces, staff members have set up stations to allow returned books and other materials to sit untouched for 72 hours before being returned to the shelves, Garcia said.

Traces of the COVID-19 virus are not detectable on library materials after three days of quarantine, researchers at the Battelle Memorial Institute in Ohio found after conducting tests.

Researchers at Battelle, which is part of the Reopening Archives, Libraries and Museums, or REALM, partnership, studied how long the coronavirus can live on book covers

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and bindings at standard room temperature and humidity conditions. They found that leaving library materials untouched for three days in standard temperatures is sufficient to reduce the risk of infection from those materials, according to results released on the REALM website.

Researchers are doing more tests to learn if this holds true for other library materials, including audiobooks and DVDs, REALM said.

Library directors across the Twin Counties said they want to ensure their libraries remain sources of entertainment and information, despite the absence of in-person activities.

Librarians have adjusted their services throughout the four month closure, offering Wi-Fi access in library parking lots, holding reading activities online and easing the registration process for library cards.

“We appreciate everybody’s patience as we reinvent our jobs,” Dragon said, a process she compared to building an airplane while flying it.

Libraries, normally bustling centers of community activity, have changed amid the pandemic.

Library staff members agree they miss interacting with their devoted patrons, but must reopen in a safe and thoughtful way, said Catherine Benson, director of the Heermance Memorial Library in Coxsackie.

“We want to be examples of safety for the community as we start operating again,” Benson said.

Like all libraries in the area, staff at Heermance are being screened for COVID-19 symptoms before entering the library, spacing out work areas when possible and staggering their arrival times, a process Benson said is necessary to ensuring workers’ safety.

Library due dates have been continually pushed back and fines have been waived to

accommodate patrons during the library building closures.

The Heermance Memorial Library conducted a review of the materials in its inventory before reopening for curbside pick-up, and Benson is not anticipating a high volume of lost books as a result of the shutdown, Benson said.

“Books have a life once they leave and we hope they find a happy home,” she said, adding, “The books always turn up.”

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Good news for CMH patients and their families After four months of strict regulations prohibiting inperson visitation during the COVID-19 outbreak, Columbia Memorial Health is now easing up on its restrictions.

That’s good news for the patients and their families.

The hospital’s revised guidelines, approved by the state Health Department, allows limited visitation to resume yet accomplishes it in a way that is safe for all patients, visitors and staff.

Visiting hours are permitted daily between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m., and each patient will be allowed one visitor per day. Different visitors will be allowed, but only one each

day.

All visitors must be at least 18 years of age and must wear a face mask when entering the hospital and for the duration of the visit.

Hand hygiene must be practiced both before entering the patient’s room and when leaving the room. Temperatures will be checked prior to entering the hospital, and anyone with a temperature above 100.4 degrees will not be allowed in.

The hospital will closely monitor the situation and make any additional revisions that become necessary. Thorough monitoring can identify strengths and

weaknesses in the protocols as the region continues its effort to tamp down the coronavirus. It’s not a stretch to say that we will have to learn to live with the virus for the foreseeable future.

It’s encouraging that the hospital’s patients and their loved ones will get to see each other again after 120 long days of separation and isolation. They can be just as devastating as the illness.

The silver lining, then, is that the hospital’s protocols will bring people together and help relieve the physical suffering and mental stresses of the coronavirus.

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It’s hard to say what’s worse about Trump’s wall: Incompetence or corruption The Washington Post

President Donald Trump, no stickler for bureaucratic procedure, had no qualms about pushing the Army Corps of Engineers to award a major construction contract for his border wall to a North Dakota firm whose chief executive repeatedly went on Fox News to tout the project and his company’s ability to build it. That presidential meddling, now the subject of a Pentagon investigation, worked out nicely for Fisher Sand & Gravel, which won $1.7 billion in border wall contracts - despite having virtually no track record in construction.

Now, the president is bashing a segment of the wall in Texas that Fisher built as a showcase private project that, according to engineers who have examined photos of the erosion at its base, is at risk of falling into the Rio Grande. “It was only done to make me look bad, and [perhaps] it now doesn’t even work,” Trump tweeted Sunday.

It may not work, but it was hardly done to embarrass the president. Both Tommy Fisher, the firm’s eponymous chief executive who lobbied for wall contracts,

and a conservative nonprofit group that launched the project on private land with money raised online, are vociferous supporters of the president. The board of the nonprofit, called We Build the Wall, includes Steve Bannon, Trump’s former chief strategist.

Trump’s wall is a troubled vanity project. Just 200 miles have been built - not the 500 he promised would be complete by the end of this year - and most of that is replacement for existing segments that were shorter or rundown. Smugglers have sawn through and climbed over parts of the new barrier.

It’s hard to say which looks worse for the president - the massive waste of money that has been diverted from Pentagon construction projects to build his porous wall, or the corruption that has marked the process.

The Defense Department’s inspector general’s office announced in December that it was investigating whether inappropriate influence was a factor in a $400 million contract awarded to the Fisher firm. In addition to the president’s intervention in the contract, pressure was also applied by Sen. Kevin

Cramer, a North Dakota Republican who received at least $24,000 in campaign contributions from Fisher and his relatives when he ran for office in 2018.

Even after the Pentagon launched its investigation, further large contracts went to Fisher to build parts of the wall in Arizona. Yet as the nonprofit journalism group ProPublica and The Texas Tribune reported, Fisher’s initial wall-building venture - a three-mile segment right along the Rio Grande, finished just months ago, mainly at the firm’s own expense - is in danger of toppling as a result of erosion from rainwater runoff at its base, according to a half-dozen engineering and hydrology experts. U.S. Attorney Ryan Patrick, the top federal prosecutor for the Southern District of Texas, called the venture a “scam” and sued the firm.

Undeterred, the administration is considering approval of other private barrier-building projects as components of Trump’s wall. The Rio Grande is a river, but given more time, Trump may turn it into a swamp.

The Trumps think rules don’t apply to them. Their Goya endorsements prove it.

Walter M. Shaub Jr. The Washington Post

Late Tuesday night, Assistant to the President Ivanka Trump tweeted an odd photo of herself dramatically holding a can of Goya black beans.

Above the photo, she wrote the company’s slogan in English and Spanish: “If it’s Goya, it has to be good. Si es Goya, tiene que ser bueno.” She posted the same photo and slogan on Instagram, as well.

The next day, President Donald Trump himself posted a picture in which he posed at his White House desk in front of an array of Goya products, grinning and offering two thumbs up.

Ivanka Trump’s posts violated an executive branch ethics regulation prohibiting employees from misusing their official positions to endorse commercial products. As a pictorial representation of the Trump administration’s war on government ethics, both photos are perfectly clear.

They scream “the rules don’t apply to us,” a central message of the Trump administration from the start.

Even before his inauguration, President-elect Trump seemed to delight in telling reporters that the ethics rules weren’t his thing. As a matter of law, he was mostly right. As a matter of norms, he could not have been more wrong.

Since the early 1970s the Justice Department, based on an opinion by then Assistant Attorney General and future Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, emphasized the importance of presidents acting as though the rules applied to them. The Office of Government Ethics (OGE) reiterated this advice in the 1980s and again after President Trump was elected. OGE had a vested interest in doing so. Lacking any real enforcement power of its own, OGE has always depended on White House support for the ethics program.

Past presidents delivered that support in abundance.

They also led by example, establishing a post-Watergate norm of presidents divesting their conflicting financial interests or placing them in blind trusts. But Trump’s very first act as president was to breach that norm. With that initial act, he made clear that even if he wanted to support the government ethics program, he would lack the moral authority to do so. And he has made clear that he doesn’t want to support that program; he and his staff are openly hostile to it.

Three weeks after Trump’s inauguration, Kellyanne Conway showed she had received

the president’s anti-ethics message. Participating in a television interview from the White House, Conway told America to “go buy Ivanka’s stuff.” As OGE’s director, I asked the White House to address this violation of the misuse of position regulation.

The White House shrugged off the violation, responding that Conway had uttered her endorsement “in a light, offhand manner” and was “highly unlikely to do so again.”

But Conway did violate ethics rules again, literally dozens of times. That’s according to Henry Kerner, the Trump appointee leading the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC).

That agency (which is unrelated to former special counsel Robert S. Mueller III) enforces the Hatch Act, an ethics law that prohibits misuse of official position to influence partisan political elections.

Conway violated that law so many times that Kerner recommended her termination.

Trump rejected the recommendation.

As long as the White House protects ethics violators, presidential appointees will continue violating ethics rules.

OSC has determined that at least 13 Trump appointees have violated the Hatch Act. Ethics investigations and resignations under the cloud of ethics violations are now the hallmark of the Trump administration. Ivanka Trump’s endorsement of Goya beans is only the latest in the administration’s long string of ethics problems.

There can be no doubt that her Twitter post violated the misuse of position regulation.

OGE has adopted a “totality of the circumstances” approach in applying the misuse of position regulation to personal social media accounts. While the president’s daughter asserts in the biographical section of her account that it is a personal one, she includes her official title in that section.

Her Twitter account also frequently touts Trump administration activities. The first item she posted after the Goya endorsement, for example, is a retweet of a Republican politician regarding the “White House American Workforce Policy Advisory Board,” which she co-chairs in her official capacity as a White House official. The dozen tweets and retweets she posted immediately before the Goya endorsement similarly focused on a White House employment initiative in which she participates in her official capacity. An official’s prominence in the administration is also a consideration, and

there is no presidential appointee more closely associated with President Trump than his daughter.

Other factors further establish the ethics violation. A few days before Ms. Trump’s tweet, Goya’s CEO praised President Trump, and her tweet was an obvious response to the backlash the company has faced for the CEO’s remarks. There’s a particularly unseemly aspect to both Ivanka and Donald Trump’s posts: they suggest that the government’s endorsement is for sale. Endorse the president while he’s running for reelection, and he and his staff will reciprocate by endorsing your product.

This too is in keeping with the administration’s track record.

Trump, after all, is the president who asked Ukraine to investigate his political rival and seemingly conditioned the delivery of hundreds of millions of dollars in desperately needed aid on the performance of that favor.

The tone taken by those at the top is everything in government ethics, and the tone from the top of the Trump administration consistently undermines the principles of government ethics. The government’s 2.1 million federal employees are told in ethics training that they should play by the rules, while those at the top of government routinely flout rules. They see the Trump administration attack anyone who decries ethics violations. With the recent resignation of Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, they see retaliation against witnesses who expose wrongdoing. They see the president blasting whistleblowers and replacing Inspectors General, the government’s internal watchdogs, with lap dogs.

Lawlessness is not just tolerated in the Trump administration, it’s virtually required.

That’s a threat to the republic because the breakdown of legal safeguards is a necessary predicate to the rise of authoritarianism. So don’t think for a second that this was just about a can of beans. Ivanka Trump’s social media posts were a declaration that she and the other members of this administration stand above the rule of law.

Trump loves the rule of law.

As long as it targets his enemies.

Shaub is a former director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics and a senior adviser to Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

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Twitter hack triggers investigations and lawmaker concerns Rachel Lerman The Washington Post

SAN FRANCISCO Fallout from Twitter’s massive security breach intensified Thursday as authorities launched investigations and lawmakers from both sides of the aisle called for more information on a widespread hack of high-profile accounts.

The FBI will lead a federal inquiry into the hack, a person familiar with the investigation said.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, directed the state to start a probe of the incident, saying the hack is “deeply troubling,” particularly in light of the approaching elections. And lawmakers spoke out, including Sen. Edward Markey, DMass., who said in a statement that the country needs “strong cyber security standards.”

The coordinated hack attacked high-profile accounts belonging to Elon Musk, Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Jeff Bezos to tweet a fake bitcoin deal. As Twitter took down each hacked tweet Wednesday, more kept popping up in a game of security whack-a-mole.

After more than an hour, Twitter shut down tweets from all verified accounts and did not restore them for more than two hours.

The company hasn’t released detailed information on what happened. Late Wednesday, the company said in tweets that the breach was a “coordinated social engineering attack” by people that targeted its employees. The company said the hackers gained access to some internal tools and systems.

Twitter said it had limited access to how many employees had access to the administrative tools and said it would only turn back the compromised accounts to their owners after it was positive they were secured.

Company spokesman Trenton Kennedy declined to answer further questions about the hack and the ongoing company investigation.

At least one prominent account has been turned back over to its rightful owner - that of Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. The presumed nominee tweeted a reference to the hack Thursday morning, saying, “I don’t have Bitcoin, and I’ll never ask you to send me any.” He then urged people to donate to his campaign.

Musk, Bezos, Gates and Obama had not tweeted between the hack and midday Thursday.

Chief executive Jack Dorsey called it a “tough day at Twitter” in a tweet late Wednesday. He

added a blue heart emoji to his tweet to thank employees working to address the breach.

As a result of the breach, the company delayed the launch of an anticipated set of developer tools that add features such as conversation threading and polls.

Reuters first reported the FBI investigation.

Social-engineering attacks refer to hacking attempts in which someone exploits “the human element of security,” said cybersecurity expert Rachel Tobac, who is chief executive of SocialProof Security.

That could mean blackmailing or bribing someone to gain access to accounts or even an insider carrying out a hack themselves.

The most common example of a social engineering attack is phishing, or sending a fake email designed to look real to trick someone into turning over account credentials or other information. More-targeted tactics, such as spearphishing, single out individuals with a goal of taking over their credentials.

Once hackers have that access, they can work to change passwords or take other measures to lock the real account owner out.

Twitter has not said what specific kind of social engineering attack compromised its site on Wednesday. The company has fallen victim to attacks from insiders before, including in a case last year when the Justice Department charged two former Twitter employees with spying for Saudi Arabia by accessing company information about dissidents’ accounts.

President Donald Trump’s account was hacked for 11 minutes in 2017 by a departing Twitter employee.

Tech news outlet Motherboard reported that the hackers paid a Twitter insider to help them take control of the accounts using internal tools, citing anonymous hacker sources. Twitter’s Kennedy declined to comment on the report.

The breach shows how much of cyber security relies on human behavior, security firm Check Point says.

“If anything, Twitter’s compromise shows that in today’s world of increasing data loss events, organizations have little choice but to take action to protect sensitive data,” Check Point wrote in a blog about the breach.

“Confidential employee and customer data, legal documents, and intellectual property are being exposed to unwanted parties on a daily basis.”

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Tens of thousands of mail ballots have been tossed out in primaries, leading to questions about November Elise Viebeck and Michelle Ye Hee Lee The Washington Post

More than 18,500 Floridians’ ballots were not counted during the March presidential primary after many arrived by mail after the deadline.

In Nevada, about 6,700 ballots were rejected in June because election officials could not verify voters’ signatures.

And during Pennsylvania’s primary last month, only state and court orders prevented tens of thousands of late-returned ballots from being disqualified.

As a resurgence in coronavirus cases portends another possible flood of absentee voting this fall, the issue of rejected ballots has emerged as a serious concern around the country, including in presidential battleground states and those with races that will decide control of the House and Senate.

While the number of rejected ballots in Florida and Nevada represents a fraction of those cast in their primaries, the unprecedented shift toward absentee voting during the coronavirus pandemic could make such margins potentially significant in the fall. In 2016, roughly 80,000 votes in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin helped Donald Trump win the White House.

The rejection of ballots because of mail delays, signature match problems and errors in completing and sealing the forms could end up disenfranchising hundreds of thousands of people, voting rights advocates warn. It could also fuel doubts about the integrity of the 2020 vote, which Trump has already claimed without evidence will be “the greatest Rigged Election in history.”

The growing risks has party officials and voting rights activists on high alert, raising the stakes for dozens of ongoing legal battles over absentee voting rules and placing additional pressure on election officials, whose staffs and budgets are already stretched thin by the demands of administering the vote during a pandemic.

“I think Kentucky’s absentee ballot laws need an overhaul,” said Fayette County Clerk Don Blevins Jr., a Democrat, after last month’s primary, when roughly 7% of returned absentee ballots in his county, or 6,645, were rejected. “This election has really revealed just how strict we are.

We could do better.”

Worries about rejected ballots comes in the wake of the most chaotic presidential primary season in memory, when Americans fearful of the coronavirus embraced absentee voting in record numbers to avoid crowds at polling places.

The result was an unexpected stress test of mail balloting systems, many of which were designed to handle only a small portion of the vote and not ready to scale up in response to a pandemic.

Election experts said that if the trend continues in the fall, the number of ballots that end up being tossed out could far exceed the nearly 319,000 mail and absentee ballots that were rejected nationwide in the 2016 general election, a rate of about 1% of mailed ballots, according to a survey by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission.

So far, there are signs that voting by mail is on track to reach new heights.

In New York, more than 1.7 million mail ballots were requested for the June primary, compared with about 115,000 that were submitted during the 2016 presidential primary.

The deluge overwhelmed election officials, who are still tabulating the results of some races. In the process, large numbers of mail ballots have been rejected because they arrived late, were missing a postmark or lacked a voter signature - as much as 19% in parts of Manhattan and Queens and 28% in parts of Brooklyn, according to preliminary tabulation figures obtained by The Washington Post.

A spokesperson for the New York City Board of Elections did not respond to a request for comment.

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A precinct deputy helps voters dropping off ballots during Florida’s March 17 primary in St. Petersburg.

“If you project that forward to how many ballots they could receive in November, that’s incredible,” said Laura Ladd Bierman, executive director of the League of Women Voters of New York State.

While a deep-blue state like New York is not in play for the presidential contest, the number of rejected ballots there could make a difference in more local elections.

In 2018, Democratic Assemblyman Anthony Brindisi flipped New York’s 22nd congressional district by less than five thousand votes - a key victory that helped Democrats claim a majority of seats in the House.

“We are definitely not a battleground state, but we have a lot of other races that are key and could be close,” said Bierman, noting that the state’s ballot rejection rate was among the highest in the country over the past two election cycles. “They could have a big impact on how the House stands.”

Mail ballots can be tossed for a range of reasons that vary from state to state.

If ballots are returned late, they are not counted unless a court intervenes. If they lack the required number of signatures from the voter, or if the voter’s signature cannot be verified as authentic, the ballots are also rejected.

In some cases, the rules present a maze of obstacles and potential pitfalls.

If a state requires an “exact match” between signatures, even a tiny difference - such as a missing hyphen in a last name - can nullify a ballot. Ballots that arrive through the mail without a valid postmark might not be counted, even if the fault lies with the Postal Service. And some ballots that require a witness’s signature are rejected if they do not also list that person’s address.

The rules can be so strict in some jurisdictions that even a stray marking or small tear in the ballot envelope can cancel someone’s vote.

Diane Haasch, a 69-year-old voter from Brookfield, Wis., was surprised to learn from a Washington Post reporter this week that her absentee ballot from the state’s April presidential primary was not counted.

The cause? “Envelope damaged,” according to a list of rejected ballots provided by local election officials.

“I know exactly what happened. I tore a little corner of it when I opened the envelope that it came in. I put a little piece of tape over it,” Haasch said.

“That is just really, really too bad. . . . Nothing was real close here where it would have made a difference, but it makes it possible to reject lots and lots of ballots over little problems.”

Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the national Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, a votingrights advocacy group, called such rejections “grossly unfair.”

“The use of inconsequential rules - for example, saying, ‘We will not count this ballot because the voter provided the last two digits of their birth year instead of four’ - and junk science-type rules, like signaturematching verification requirements, need to be set aside,” Clarke said. “Those all provide avenues for officials to reject ballots from voters who are otherwise fully qualified.”

Strict rules, such as those requiring that ballots be delivered instead of postmarked on or by Election Day, disproportionately affect young and minority voters, studies have shown.

Wendy Weiser, who directs the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at the NYU School of Law, said those rules create obstacles for voters that are especially unfair during a public health crisis.

“Ballot rejection is very low hanging fruit,” she said. “Election officials or states can just change their procedures to avoid these high rejection rates and ensure that every eligible voter has a fair shot at getting their ballots counted. . . . I think it’s unconscionable not to make those changes at this point.

Those are easy fixes.”

The League of Women Voters is one of several groups pursuing legal action around the country to make mail balloting more voter-friendly. In New York state, the group filed suit last week to ensure that voters have a chance to “cure” their ballot, or address errors and deficiencies, before it is rejected.

Democratic elections lawyer Marc Elias is litigating in at least 15 states to establish what he calls the “four pillars” of fair absentee voting: allowing ballots to be postmarked on or before Election Day, providing government-paid return postage, permitting community organizations to help return sealed ballots, and establishing standards for the signaturematching process that election officials must follow.

Democrats argue that such measures are necessary to make sure that voters are not disenfranchised because of factors outside their control or arbitrary enforcement of the rules.

“This is why we are suing to ensure that every voter who votes by mail has their ballot counted,” Elias tweeted Monday in response to a warning from a fellow attorney that votes cast by mail might not be counted. “Unfortunately the @GOP is fighting us at every turn.”

Republicans, echoing President Trump, say that such moves will weaken election security and open the door to fraud.

A spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee said that attempts to “forcibly implement” policies that make it easier to vote absentee will “destroy public confidence in the integrity of our elections.”

“Republicans want to make sure every valid vote is counted and our elections are free, fair, and transparent,” RNC National press secretary Mandi Merritt said in a statement. “Democrats are pushing for a rushed transition to a nationwide vote by mail system that would result in more rejected ballots and an open door for fraud. States simply do not have the procedures in place to move to predominantly vote-by-mail elections or oversee the secure mass mailing of ballots to all registered voters by November.”

While some jurisdictions are scrambling to expand vote-bymail for the first time this year, other communities - where large numbers of voters have already been using absentee ballots - have refined their protocols to keep ballot rejection rates low.

In Maricopa County, Ariz., which encompasses Phoenix

and is the fourth-most populous county in the nation with 2.4 million registered voters, the rate of ballot rejection in the 2018 elections about 0.03%, or 307 out of roughly 1.2 million mailed ballots that were returned to the county, county officials said.

Rey Valenzuela, Maricopa County’s director of elections services and early voting, said the county has improved its signature matching process since it began the use of no-excuse mail ballot in 1996. The use of mail-in ballots has expanded dramatically since, with 1.85 million of 2.4 million eligible voters in the county now on the permanent early voting list to receive their ballots by mail.

The county has multiple layers of verification and trains employees regularly on signature matching, including working with a forensics lab to learn the 23 points of a signature, including their slants and slopes.

There are two layers of reviews by a lower-level employee and a managerial-level employee, and the county conducts a random audit on ballots to make sure the signatures match those on file. Updated technology allows officials to digitize signatures and keep them on file for the voter.

Election officials also regularly update their database to account for the evolution of voters’ signatures. Voters are contacted by mail, email and phone if there is a problem with the match, and they can participate in a text-message service that updates them on the status of their ballot.

“We have had quite a few years of being able to perfect this process, how to indicate lessons learned, where we have been able to write best practices for other states,” Valenzuela said.

But signature-matching rules have been a roadblock in other states where voting by mail is less common.

The Washington Post’s Amy Gardner and Jada Yuan contributed to this report.

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Snip, don’t rip and other gardening matters

By Thomas Christopher For Columbia-Greene Media

This time of year typically marks the beginning of summer’s hottest weather, a season when the growth of all our desirable plants — our carefully nurtured flowers and shrubs — stalls, and only the weeds seem to flourish unabated. This is more than annoying and unsightly. Weeds are masters at competing for resources. In particular, their roots are extremely effective at tapping the moisture in the soil, depriving their more desirable neighbors of what is often a scarce resource in summertime. This is especially harmful because plants typically need extra moisture in hot weather, so that they can evaporate it off the surface of their leaves and cool themselves. The solution is obvious, right? Rip those weeds out, roots and all! Actually, according to Larry Weaner, that is most often a mistake.

Who is Larry Weaner? He’s the founder of Larry Weaner Landscape Associates, one of the nation’s leading ecological landscape design firms. I got

to know Larry when I co-authored a book with him about his style of gardening some years ago. Larry has a background in traditional gardening; besides on-the-job training with various landscaping companies, he studied ornamental horticulture at what is now Pennsylvania College of Technology. However, he has added to and emended what he learned in that way with years of study of landscape ecology and experimenting with ecological principles in action. In light of that study and his 40-plus years of experience in the field, he now holds, as he told me the other day, that pulling weeds—especially roots and all—is counterproductive.

The reason behind this position is that weeds are commonly symptoms of landscape disturbance. When a gap is opened up somehow by the death or removal of a plant, very often it is a weed seed in the soil that sprouts first so that it can take advantage of, and fill, the hole. Disturbance of the soil is particularly effective in prompting

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Decapitating the weed prevents it from setting seed, which often stops its reproduction and weakens it, thereby giving advantage to the growth of nearby desirable plants and helping to squeeze the weed out.

weed growth. If you still use a rototiller in your vegetable garden, you know how that disturbance of the soil raises a flock of new weed seedlings.

On a smaller scale, ripping a weed out of the ground also disturbs that soil and is likely to provoke more weed growth.

That’s why, except in the case of the most pernicious and aggressive weeds, if an area contains significant amounts of desirable plants,

Historic Cherry Hill opens for self-guided tours ALBANY — The public is invited to Historic Cherry Hill to explore fifth generation Emily Rankin’s historical gardens.

The grounds will be open 1-4 p.m. Wednesdays and Saturdays, free of charge, no reservation required. Beginning on July 15, the historic house will open Wednesdays and Saturdays for self-guided tours at 1, 2 and 3 p.m. Explore Cherry Hill’s architecture and layers of history during its last season of restoration...see for yourself why such a major restoration was needed and what is being done to address structural issues, preserve the house, and restore the mansion to its historic splendor.

Historic Cherry Hill is closely following NYS and CDC guidelines to ensure the safety of our visitors, volunteers, and staff while we enter Phase Four. Visitors will be required to wear masks inside the historical house, as well as within 6 feet of other guests and staff outdoors.

Admission to the historic house will be limited to 10 people per hour, to allow for social distancing. Reservations are strongly encouraged. Admission is free; visitors are encouraged to make donations via our website.

Check www.historiccherryhill.org/about/ to make a reservation, to download

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self-guides, and for more information on safety protocols.

Self-guides will also be available in paper format at the site.

Historic Cherry Hill tells a

story of America through the lives and experiences of five generations of an Albany, New York, family.

The historic house museum is located at 523 ½ South Pearl St., Albany.

in the lake in this new and exciting hands-on summer program.

Open to children 8-12, maximum 10 participants. This program is partially funded by the Philmont Community Center and a grant from Stewarts Shops.

To receive a registration packet for the Summit Lake Explorers Program, contact Anna Harrod-McGrew, 4-H Natural Resources Educator, at 518-318-1180 or ash252@ cornell.edu.

Participants are expected

to participate in every day of the program. Registrations will be confirmed when the completed registration packet is received. The deadline for registration is Aug. 3.

Precautions will be taken to prevent against transmission of COVID-19.

All participants will be required to wear a mask and practice social distancing when possible.

Children exhibiting any signs or symptoms of COVID-19 will not be permitted to remain in the program.

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self-sufficient for a long time.

If you are interested in listening to the rest of my conversation with Larry Weaner, I suggest you go to my website, www.thomaschristophergardens.com, and click on “podcast.”

Be-a-Better-Gardener is a community service of Berkshire Botanical Garden, located in Stockbridge, MA. Its mission, to provide knowledge of gardening and the environment through a diverse range of classes and programs, informs and inspires thousands of students and visitors each year.

Thomas Christopher is a volunteer at Berkshire Botanical Garden and is the author or co-author of more than a dozen books, including Nature into Art and The Gardens of Wave Hill (Timber Press, 2019). Be-a-Better Gardener is syndicated in 19 print and online publications, reaching 250,000 readers. Tom’s companion broadcast to this column, Growing Greener, streams on WESUFM. org, Pacifica Radio and NPR and is available at his website, https:// www.thomaschristophergardens. com/podcast.

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COXSACKIE — Coxsackie Village Wide Yard Sale will be held 9 a.m.-3 p.m. July 18 and 19.

Week-long Summit Lake Explorers program planned for August PHILMONT — Cornell Cooperative Extension of Columbia and Greene Counties and the Philmont Community Center announce the Summit Lake Explorers Program.

This free environmental education program will take place 9 a.m.-noon Aug. 10 through Aug. 14 at the Philmont Community Center, 14 Lake Shore Drive, Philmont.

Join professional educators and explore the waters of Summit Lake in Philmont.

Learn to collect and identify the insects and fish that live

Larry Weaner recommends reaching down and snipping weeds off at the base rather than pulling them. Decapitating the weed prevents it from setting seed, which in most cases stops its reproduction.

It also weakens the weed and gives an advantage to the growth of nearby desirable plants, so that eventually, perhaps with a subsequent repetition of the snip, the weed is squeezed out. Snipping is

quicker and easier than uprooting as well, which turns weeding into a less burdensome task.

Consistency in keeping weeds from setting seed can eventually pay big dividends.

There are, in any given area of soil, large numbers of seeds lying dormant in the top few inches of the soil. This is what ecologists refer to as the “seed bank,” and as I mentioned above, the bulk of it is commonly weed seeds. If, however, you consistently frustrate the growth of weeds while letting more desirable plants go to seed, you can alter this balance. If you do, when a disturbance does infrequently occur — when a squirrel digs a hole, say — what is more likely to shoot up is some desirable plant. Such a situation makes for a garden that requires far less maintenance. This treatment is especially effective if you have been planting native species, plants that are naturally adapted to the area.

If you succeed in filling the landscape and seed bank with them, you have created a landscape that can remain largely

TANNERSVILLE — Mountain Top Arboretum hosts Story-time in the Shade on July 18. Admission is free. This program will be made available as a pre-recorded video link. Mountain Top Arboretum collaborates with Mountain Top Library for a series of online summer story times.

Join Library Director Maureen Garcia for this fun-filled story time. After the stories get creative with a themed craft to match what was read.

Craft supplies will be available outside the entrance to the Education Center. Mountain Top Arboretum is located at 4 Maude Adams Road, Tannersville. For information, email info@mtarboretum. org; www.mtarboretum.org.

MELLONVILLE — A huge yard sale will be held 9 a.m.5 p.m. July 18 to benefit Word and Faith Ministries, Route 217 and Kraft Lane, Mellonville. For information, call Pastor John Miller at 518-6727510.

JULY 19 COXSACKIE —The Village of Coxsackie hosts Music in Coxsackie 6-8 p.m. July 19 in Riverside Park. Performing will be The Reverberators.

JULY 22 SPENCERTOWN — Spencertown Academy Arts Center announces its first Community Reads event with the novel, An American Marriage

by Tayari Jones.

Participants will meet at 7:30 p.m. July 22 via Zoom to discuss the book with author Wesley Brown and Chatham Public Library Director Julie DeLisle. This event is free and advance registration is required. To sign up, go to www.spencertownacademy. org.

JULY 23 ATHENS — Greene County Region Blue Star Mothers will serve a drive-thru only chicken barbecue 3:30-6:30 p.m.

July 23 at the Athens American Legion Post, 94 Second St., Athens. Drive-thru pickups and limited delivery.

Dinners include half a chicken, baked potato, corn on the cob, cole slaw, roll

and butter and cookies. Dinners are $14; veterans, $5; veterans plus one, $15. Presale only. Tickets can be purchased from any Blue Star Mother or call Karen Dudley at 407-741-3757. Tickets can also be picked up in advance between 4-8 p.m. July 15 at the Athens American Legion Hall.

STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. — Berkshire Botanical Garden, 5 West Stockbridge Road, Stockbridge, presents Summer Author Series Marta McDowell, Emily Dickinson’s Gardening Life, online, 6:307:30 p.m. July 23. Enjoy a lecture and Q&A session with author Marta McDowell. In addition to writing poetry, The Belle of Amherst was a gardener. This lecture explores Dickinson’s gardens through excerpts from her letters and poems and historic and modern images of her garden. Presented in collaboration with Tower Hill Botanic Garden and Timber Press. Book available for purchase through the BBG online shop. Members, $10; nonmembers, $15. For information, call 413-298-3926.

JULY 25 SPENCERTOWN — Spencertown Academy Arts Center kicks off its new Family Arts Kaleidoscope virtual events series with “Jason Talks About Dinosaurs,” a live, interactive Zoom meeting for children ages 6 to 12 and their families, at 10 a.m. July 25. Participants should come to the meeting with paper for drawing and favorite tools for color: paint, pencils, or crayons.

Admission is free, but donations are welcome to help support this series and other Academy programming. To register, see www.spencertownacademy.org.

COXSACKIE — Bethel AME Church, 123 Mansion St., Coxsackie, will host a rib or chicken dinner barbecue beginning at noon July 25.

Dinners include green beans, macaroni salad, corn on the cob and cake. To pre-order, call 518-731-8887. Call 518731-7767 on July 24 and July 25.

JULY 26 COXSACKIE —The Village of Coxsackie hosts Music in Coxsackie 6-8 p.m. July 26 in Riverside Park. Performing will be Wyld Blu.

JULY 27 HUDSON — The Hudson Area Library’s Nonfiction Book Group will discuss The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate Discoveries from A Secret World by Peter

Wohlleben at a virtual Zoom meeting July 27. The Nonfiction Book Group meets monthly 6-7:30 p.m. Mondays. The group is facilitated by library Board President Mark Orton. To register for this book group, email morton@hudsonarealibrary.org.

This book is available for borrowing through the MidHudson Library System. Library cardholders may also borrow ebooks and audiobooks through the library’s Overdrive and Hoopla online platforms.

JULY 28 STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. — Berkshire Botanical Garden, 5 West Stockbridge Road, Stockbridge, presents Planting Design Part 2: The Designer’s Palette: Color in the Landscape, online, 5:30-7 p.m. July 28 through Aug. 18. Learn basic color theories outlined in Josef Albers’s classic text, Interaction of Color and how they can be applied to the landscape.

Examine how the feel and impact of color can change a space. In the project for this class, students will design the same garden space twice, using a different color scheme each time exploring how the change in the color scheme changes the mood and feel of a space as well as people’s reactions to it. (4 Classes) Members, $100; non-members, $110. For information, call 413-298-3926.

AUG. 8 CAIRO — Cruise Nite will be held at 4 p.m. Aug. 8 at Angelo Canna Town Park. Free admission, 1 free t-shirt per cruise car, muffler rap contest, nostalgic awards, music, refreshments available.

Sponsored by Cairo Chamber of Commerce.

Facial covering and social distancing guidelines will be followed. For information, call Bill at 518-622-3430.

AUG. 16 WINDHAM — The Greene County Women’s League Cancer Patient Aid car show will be held 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Aug. 16 at the Chicken Run Family Restaurant and Steak House, 5639 Route 23, Windham.

A $10 minimum donation per entrant is requested.

Open to all years, makes and models.

Trophies awarded at 2 p.m. to Top 20 vehicles, people’s choice, motorcycle, and more. There is also a $500 best in show Classic. Registration from 9-11 a.m. it will be held rain or shine.

Facial coverings will be required and social distancing guidelines will be followed.

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This Week at Bridge Street Theatre We share a video of a performance by Steven Patterson of the children’s classic, L’Histoire de Babar, and we offer an archival video of The Client by C.D. Arnold, the first play we presented as Kaliyuga Arts in San Francisco.

Bridge Street Bedtime Stories Histoire de Babar, le petit éléphant Story by Jean de Brunhoff, Music by Francis Poulenc Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Award Nomination for Solo Performance Directed and Designed by John Sowle Puppets by Steven Patterson with Steven Patterson and Melissa Smith, piano Opened September 6, 1997 at the EXIT Theatre in San Francisco, CA as part of the 1997 SF Fringe Festival.

The original performance started with Steven reading the story in English with a kid from the audience seated next to him, followed by this section in French with musical accompaniment. Here we’re showing only the second part with English subtitles.

More information and reviews at http://www.kaliyuga.com/ BabarPg.htm Click here to view: https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ P6sDkyBXuo&feature=youtu. be And next from our Kaliyuga Arts archives.

THE CLIENT

by C.D. Arnold Directed & Designed by John Sowle Dramaturgy & Sound Design by Steven Patterson

By Oakley Hall III https://vimeo. com/427188189 AN IMPERSONATION OF ANGELS OR THE ENIGMA OF DESIRE

By Dan Carbone https://vimeo. com/420785335 HORRIPILATION Created and performed by John Sowle https://vimeo. com/417377384 Babar at Bridge Street

Stage Manager - Carol Charles with Mikael Duden, David C. Perez, Janet Keller, Maryann Sanders and Andrew Harkins, Opened April 30, 1993 at the New Conservatory Theatre Center, San Francisco, CA C.D. Arnold was a legendary San Francisco playwright. It was at the world premiere of his THE KING OF THE CRYSTAL PALACE at Theatre Rhinoceros that Steven and John met. They produced it again in Los Angeles in 1987. THE CLIENT was the last play C.D. wrote, and we worked closely with him on the script before he died of AIDS in September of 1992. Mikael Duden, who played the lead, also died of AIDS shortly after this production. So much talent lost to that devastating plague.

THE CLIENT by C.D. Arnold Here are links to other Bridge Street videos available now for viewing.

Bridge Street Bedtime Stories Rootie Kazootie Baseball Star Rootie Kazootie Detective Ionesco Story 1 I Am Papa Snap The Animal Family Ionesco Story 2 Night Driving THE SECRET OF THE OLD QUEEN Book by Timothy Cope, Music and Lyrics by Paul Boesing https://vimeo. com/434536998

BEAUTY Created and performed by Steven Patterson https://vimeo. com/414933537 KINGDOM OF NOT Created and performed by Dan Carbone https://vimeo. com/410358047 THRICE TO MINE Created and performed by Roxanne Fay https://vimeo. com/406530908

DO LET US GO AWAY. A PLAY

By Gertrude Stein https://vimeo. com/432697241

THE EPIC OF GILGAMESH Created and performed by Steven Patterson https://youtu.be/ JeGinzmuDEs

X: THE RISE AND FALL OF AN ASYLUM STAR

By Jill Dowse https://vimeo. com/428788477

IN CIRCLES, A Musical by Al Carmines and Gertrude Stein Presented by Kaliyuga Arts at Judson Memorial Church in NYC https://youtu.be/inODHaWTnts

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HUDSON HALL CONNECTS LOCAL ARTIST WITH HUDSON YOUTH TO BUILD STREET SAFETY PLANTERS FOR SHARED SUMMER STREETS HUDSON — Local artist Marc Scrivo of Hudson’s Studio Scrivo has joined forces with the young people of Operation Unite, New York to create Street Safety Planters for Hudson’s Shared Summer Streets program. The students have been learning useful carpentry skills to create the planters, which are being put to use as bollards on intersections on Warren Street in place of temporary barricades used during the initial trial period of the program. With the help of Hudson nursery The Secret Gardener and horticulturist Heather Grimes, hearty, indigenous plants that will last into the fall have been planted. The infrastructure for Shared Summer Streets has been funded by the City of Hudson’s Tourism Board and is being administered by Hudson Hall, and includes workforce development opportunities to provide youth with new skills and create a safer, more appealing streetscape for pedestrians. Businesses located on Warren Street intersections interested in ‘fostering’ a planter for the duration of Shared Summer Streets can contact Hudson Hall at hello@hudsonhall.org.

A collaboration between the City of Hudson, FUTURE HUDSON, Hudson Hall and Design for Six Feet, Shared Summer Streets has given businesses the opportunity to expand onto the

A Street Safety Planter at the corner of 3rd & Warren Street.

sidewalks and selected parking spaces, while vehicular traffic has been slowed to 5mph to allow for pedestrians to practice social distancing by sharing the road with cars. The shared streets concept, commonplace in European cities, has been adopted by towns and municipalities around the U.S. and the world as a way to help businesses to reopen while still adhering to social distancing guidelines put in place by governments and recommended by health experts. For more information, visit www.cityofhudson.org/ streets.

Marc Scrivo is a visionary entrepreneur and performing artist. He resides in Hudson, NY

where his partner and self are being mentored by three little people (Rose 8, Rain 5, and Jack 2). His studio practice is based at Second Ward Foundation here in Hudson since 2014. True to the start-up form, out of a garage in Brooklyn, Marc leads a think tank /production co. developing new models for urban dwelling in rural areas. Their niche is state of the tech meet agrarian values. With a consulting and producing wing, they build authentic environments, products and content to ignite and drive sustainable cultural revitalization.

Operation Unite, New York is a non-profit organization that provides educational, social,

cultural, performing and visual arts and recreational programs for youth and community members in Columbia County and neighboring communities.

Its mission is to produce wellrounded, progressive youth who will enter adulthood with a sense of direction, self-esteem and social consciousness and subsequently reinvest themselves into the community from which they came.

ABOUT FUTURE HUDSON FUTURE HUDSON is a resident-driven and all volunteer series of community events in Hudson, New York to inspire creative conversations about our shared future.

ABOUT KAJA KUHL/ DESIGN FOR SIX FEET Kaja Kühl is an Urban Designer based in Brooklyn, NY and an Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, where she teaches design studios on the Hudson Valley and its communities. Together with her colleagues Anna Dietzsch and Liz McEnaney, she founded Design For Six Feet, a design initiative to share best practices in response to the global pandemic and its implication for public space.

You can follow the initiative on Instagram @designforsixfeet

Q&A with Grayce Burian: Talking about the arts, the 1968 Prague Spring, and the pandemic Writers Institute Director Paul Grondahl had a wonderful interview exchange with author, actor and theatre scholar Grayce Burian, a University at Albany alumna and a dear friend of ours at the Writers Institute.

At 93 years old, Grayce is still the driving force behind the Burian Lecture Series presented by the Writers Institute and the UAlbany Theatre department and now in its 23rd year. The annual Burian Lecture brings to UAlbany leading scholars and acclaimed practitioners of the art of the theatre.

In today’s Q&A, Grayce reminisces about meeting her

(eventual) husband Jarka in New York City while doing an off-Broadway show in 1950. She shares vivid memories of living in Czechoslovakia when Soviet tanks and troops rolled in during the Prague Spring of 1968.

Paul asks her thoughts about theatre as a revolutionary force during unsettled times. And she discusses how she’s coping with quarantine and selfisolation during the coronavirus pandemic. Click through to The Conversation to read this interesting Q&A and see photos of Grayce and her many literary and theatre friends.

CALENDAR LISTINGS JULY 20 Bindlestiff Open Stage: Quarantine Editon Monday, July 20, 7:30 p.m.

TAY TUNED FOR A LIVESTREAM on Facebook and Youtube on the night of the performance! n facebook.com/Bindlestiff.Cirkus n youtube.com/bindlestiffcirkus Bindlestiff Open Stage Variety Show is breaking out of the confines of a theater, and coming to you in the comfort of your own home. Jump online for a night of variety that will include much more than a simple song and dance.

Bindlestiff’s Open Stage Variety Show is a non-stop variety show experience that may include world famous magicians, gender bending jugglers, circus legends, trained rats, novelty musicians, aerial artists, wire walkers, sideshow performers, puppeteers, living cartoons, physical comedy, contortionists, performance artists, and more.

Hosted by Keith “Bindlestiff” Nelson, the special Quarantine Edition deals with social distance and isolation head on. Using the tools of video conferencing, Bindlestiff’s Open Stage will feature each act live in their own location.

The Quarantine Edition is free to all, however we will be “passing the hat” for contributions.

In the midst of awe-inspiring aerialists, hypnotizing hula hoopers, expert jugglers and much more, we pause to “ask the expert” – specifically, circus historian, retired

NYU professor, burlesque & circus performer, and polar bear promoter Hovey Burgess!

“Ask Hovey” your circus history questions at bindlestiff.org/askhovey He’ll answer one lucky inquirer’s inquiry every Monday night!

Monday, July 20, 7:30 p.m., https://www.facebook.com/ events/289384958750261 Your Own Home

JULY 21 Virtual Open Mic Tuesday, July 21, 7:30 p.m. . . .by Club Helsinki!!

Check out great local Musicians, Comics, Spoken Word Poets, and so much more. Here Live, every Tuesday!!

Tuesday, July 21, 7:30 p.m., http:// clubhelsinki.live/ Your Own Home

JULY 22 Waterfront Wednesdays 2020 Wednesday, July 22, 4 p.m. - 8 p.m.

Taking place each week, in the Riverfront Park, bringing together a diverse collection of offerings such as kayak rentals and lighthouse tours, along with a drum circle, vendors, food and entertainment.

Wednesday, July 22, 4 p.m. - 8 p.m., https://www.hudsonartscoalition. org/ Henry Hudson Riverfront Park, Water Street (behind Amtrak Station) l, Hudson

HONEST BROOK CONCERTS TO AIR ON WSKG DELHI— WSKG Classical and WSKG.org will broadcast Honest Brook Music Festival’s 2019 Summer Season on three Saturday mornings at 10 a.m. during July and August.

Pianist-composer Michael Brown will perform works

by Mendelssohn, Medtner, Brown, and Beethoven On July 18.

Baritone Thomas Meglioranza and pianist Reiko Uchida will perform a program of Schubert, including the “Sonata in A major” and “Die schöne Müllerin” On August 1.

Violinist Randall Goosby and pianist Zhu Wang will perform works by Vitali, Debussy, Still, and R. Strauss on August 8.

Honest Brook Music Festival, a tradition of music in the barn since 1989, was forced to cancel its 2020 summer season

because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

However, for the past several years, WSKG has been taping the concerts and broadcasting them the following year. And so, music lovers who miss the music in the barn will still be able to enjoy Honest Brook concerts, albeit from the past year.

WSKG Classical is located at 105.9 on the radio dial, as well as online at WSKG.org or the WSKG app.

For more information about the Honest Brook Music Festival, check us out on Facebook or visit our web page, HBMF. org.

And, hopefully, Honest Brook will be live again in the barn in the summer of 2021.

2020 Windham Civil War Heritage Music Gathering & Encampment Cancelled WINDHAM — In compliance with the Governor’s Capital District Region phase four COVID-19 reopening plan and our concern for the health and safety of our event visitors, fellow musicians and members of the living history community we are unable to proceed with this year’s Civil War Heritage Music Gathering & Encampment and have rescheduled our event for August 6,7 and 8, 2021.

This would have been our twenty-second year of commemorating the valor and sacrifices of Greene County’s Civil War volunteers who fought to preserve a more perfect Union. Federal troops were recruited from the mountaintop towns of Ashland, Hunter, Jewett, Lexington, Prattsville and Windham. The 20th New York Militia troops under the command of Prattsville’s favorite son Colonel George W. Pratt was one of the first regiments to answer Lincoln’s call to action in 1861. The regiment participated in the battles of Second Bull Run, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, Petersburg and Appomattox.

Pratt was mortally wounded at the Battle of Second Bull Run and died on September 11, 1862 in Albany, NY. Each year the Windham based remembrance weekend presents music, historical art, book-signings, film showings, exhibits and living history

demonstrations that tell the story of our mid-19th century ancestors who lived during one of most tumultuous times in American history.

We are grateful for the on-going support we receive each year from the Community of Windham Foundation, Windham Foundation, Town of Windham, VFW Post 1545, Windham Rotary, Hensonville Fire Company, Windham Historical Society, Civil War Heritage Foundation, Windham Diner, Ment Media Group, United Methodist Church, WRIP, Windham Movie Theatre, Stewart’s Shops, local hotels, individual sponsors and the re-enactment community.

We’re looking forward to the time, when we once again are able to congregate in large groups, breathe the same mask-free air, and raise up our voices in song at the historic Centre Church. We plan to rebook as many of our musician friends and guest speakers as possible for 2021. We’ll see you at the encampment on August 6-8, 2021 as we commemorate the One Hundred and Sixtieth anniversary of Greene County’s role during America’s Civil War. Please visit our website 77thnyballadeers.com or on Facebook 77thNyRegimentalBalladeers for updates about the 2021 Gathering and other events.

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PS21 Launches 2020 Season

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Freshly mowed new trails at PS21, in preparation for PS21/ Chatham Pathways August 3-8.

at 8 p.m., the group will pair the composer’s String Quartet No. 16 in F major, Op. 135, and the Quartet in A Major, Op. 18, No. 5.

Length: each concert is fiftyfive minutes long Join us in discovering the charismatic talent of this extraordinary young ensemble, which has been praised for enchanting audiences with “breathless moments of utter magic” by The Scotsman.

Only 31 pairs of tickets available for each performance.

PS21 Launches 2020 Season Limited Number of Tickets Available for Outdoor Pavilion Theater Just a month ago, bringing live performances back to PS21 before the fall seemed like an impossible dream. But dreams sometimes come true. Thanks to our unique open-air pavilion theater situated on 100 acres of rolling hills and meadows, we usher in our abridged summer season next week. Click here to Photo Source: Criterion Collection read more about our programs. Still From “The Firemen’s Ball” by Milos Forman The first performances in our rich calendar of on-site and experience 21st-century works streamed events will begin with by some of today’s most exciting hour-long concerts by Sandbox Percussion (July 17), a group composers, including: Andy Akiho, Haiku 2 “revitalizing the world of conJulia Wolfe, Dark Full Ride temporary music” (Washington Amy Beth Kirsten, May the Post), and Calidore String QuarDevil Take Me tet (July 24), praised by The New Julius Eastman, Joy Boy York Times for its “deep reserves Andy Akiho, Pillar III and IV of virtuosity and irrepressible Nick DiBerardino, Gossamer dramatic instinct.”

Steive Reich, Drumming, part We are open and committed 1 to the safety of our artists and the Length: one hour public. PS21’s open-air pavilion Only 31 pairs of tickets availtheater will accommodate 31 pairs of seats, less than 33% of able for each performance.

Calidore String Quartet Buy Tickets: https://ps21chathe capacity of our 350-seat theater. Our summer plan incorpo- tham.simpletix.com/e/55486 Buy Tickets: https://ps21charates recommended health and tham.simpletix.com/e/55536 CALIDORE STRING QUARTET safety guidelines from the State ESSENTIAL CINEMA: JULY 24, 6 P.M. AND 8 P.M. and CDC. See PS21’s Guidelines “FIREFIGHTERS SELECT” AND The internationally achere. claimed, award-winning “ARTISTS’ CHOICE” FILM SERIES CELEBRATE OUR SEASON OPENING Calidore String Quartet will PS21 has invited members WITH SANDBOX PERCUSSION celebrate their own 10th anni- of local fire companies to select versary and the 250th anniver- films for our “Firefighters SeJULY 17, 6 P.M. AND 8 P.M. Described as “virtuosic and sary of Ludwig von Beethoven’s lect” film series, which will open utterly mesmerizing” by The birth at PS21 on Friday, July 24. on July 16 with “Catnip Nation,” Guardian, Sandbox Percussion The quartet’s first concert in our a documentary about stray cats has established themselves as a open-air pavilion theater will (selected by the Chatham Resleading proponent of the gen- feature Beethoven’s Quartet in cue Squad) and culminate with eration of contemporary per- B-flat Major, Op. 130, together a screening of Milos Forman’s cussion chamber music. This with “Grosse Fugue” Op. 133, at classic “The Firemen’s Ball.”

Bookending “Firefighters talented quartet invites you to 6 pm. In their second program,

Select” will be “Artists’ Choice,” cinematic works chosen by regional artist from various disciplines that illustrate how movies have inspired their work. Francine Prose, Ian Buruma, Brian Cox, Nicole Ansari, Winsome Brown, and Joan Juliet Buck are among those who have selected films. All screenings will be in our pavilion theater (with modified seating), and first responders will be invited as honored guests.

Only 31 pairs of tickets available for each performance.

Buy Tickets: https://ps21chatham.simpletix.com/e/55630 Public Access to Our New Trails and Meadows Flux and uncertainty are hallmarks of our present moment, yet we at PS21 have been working to find ways to offer you performances by artists of the highest caliber and continue fulfilling our commitment to the community of the Hudson Valley. Our spacious open-air pavilion theater provides a safe environment for soloists and

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chamber music groups and a live audience, and the upcoming broadcasts are designed with home audiences in mind.

Health officials consider outdoor spaces low-risk for virus transmission in summer, so, by increasing publis access, PS21 hopes to be of valuable service to our community.

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Thomas Cole National Historic Site launches new way to visit CATSKILL — The Thomas Cole National Historic Site is now offering a new and innovative way to visit the historic site located in the Village of Catskill.

Visitors can pick up a packet of information and supplies to enjoy a self-guided hour-long visit to the historic grounds and building exteriors. With the new Outdoor Explore Kits, visitors can step up onto the porch to sketch Cole’s favorite view with a new custom sketchbook and pencil, learn about the gardens and historic interiors in the printed Explore Guide, read Cole’s “Essay on American Scenery” on the bench under the historic Honey Locust tree, find maps to other nearby adventures, and more.

Outdoor Explore Kits come in “Basic” ($12) and “Family” ($14), and pick-ups are available every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday mornings. Reservations must be made in advance to pick up during a specific time slot. All pick-ups are outdoors

and contact-less. They take place outside of Thomas Cole’s 1839 studio building on the historic campus. Outdoor Explore Kits include: an Explore at Your Own Pace Guide Book, an Outdoor Explore Welcome Card with recommended itinerary; Thomas Cole’s “Essay on American Scenery” Book, Cole Site Custom Sketchbook and Cedar Pencil; View on the Catskill Postcard; Take Action Cards; Walking Directions to a

nearby public park with a creek that Cole frequently painted; Mini Hand Sanitizer; Thomas Cole Site & Art Trail Brochures; Changing Landscape Activity Book (Family Kit exclusive) and Box of Crayons (Family Kit exclusive). Kit reservations are available at thomascole.org/ outdoorexplore. Members receive a 15% discount on all Kits and priority access to reserve the first morning time slot for pick-up. Visitors can become

members at thomascole.org/ membership.

The Thomas Cole National Historic Site is offering its Outdoor Explore Kits for free for schoolchildren and their families within the Greene and Columbia County public school systems. Email education@ thomascole.org anytime or call 518-291-9525 Wednesday through Friday to arrange a free kit pick-up.

This education initiative builds on years of free educational programming that the Thomas Cole Site hosts for local schoolchildren, both at the historic site and in classrooms when it is safe to do so. . Additionally, the organization created free digital lesson plans and activities for remote learning that are available at thomascole. org/teacherresources. Even more educational content for audiences of all ages is available at thomascole.org/events.

Harvesting Change: Our Food Supply in Pandemic Time A Virtual Panel Discussion Thursday, July 23 at 4 p.m.

Announcing the first in a series of special virtual presentations from the Crandell Theatre —Harvesting Change: Our Food Supply in Pandemic Times invites some of the region’s leading lights in sustainable food and farming for a discussion about the state of sustenance in these strange times.

Join us Thursday, July 23 at

4pm as panelists Ruth Reichl (former editor of Gourmet Magazine, memoirist and cookbook editor), Kate Arding (co-founder of Talbott & Arding Cheese and Provisions in Hudson and an internationally recognized authority on cheese) and Henry Corsun (Dogwood Farm, founder of Good Food Farmers) present a lively virtual panel about how our food supply has been affected by

the COVID-19 pandemic, with particular emphasis on our local food economy.

Moderated by Kathleen Finlay, President of The Glynwood Center for Food and Farming in Cold Spring NY, and former Director of Harvard’s Center for Health and the Global Environment.

This free, hour-long live panel with take place via Zoom conference — ticketing details

coming soon.

In anticipation of the program, the panel has put together a list of complementary film recommendations currently available for streaming on various platforms: The Real Dirt on Farmer John (2005) Symphony of the Soil (2014) The Biggest Little Farm (2018) Right To Harm (2019)

Mahaiwe Presents Drive-in Movies GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.— The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, in partnership with Bard College at Simon’s Rock, is announcing a drive-in movie theater in the parking lot of the college’s Daniel Arts Center at 84 Alford Rd. in Great Barrington. A grand opening weekend on Thursday, July 16, through Saturday, July 18, will initiate the season, open Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays through Labor Day, weather-permitting.

“As anchor institutions in Great Barrington, the Mahaiwe and Simon’s Rock have come together to build a creative solution to performing arts challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic,” says Acting Executive Director Janis Martinson. “Culture is crucial to the happiness and well-being of our community, and we are thrilled to sustain it in a safe manner this summer.”

Gates will open each night at 7:45 p.m., with previews and shorts starting at 8:30pm, and featured movies beginning at 9 p.m. Admission is $25 per vehicle.

Attendance is limited to 50 cars and tickets must be purchased online in advance at mahaiwe.org; first-come, first served. Movies projected on a 16-by-30-foot screen will be visible from the safety of patrons’ vehicles. Audio will be transmitted via FM radio station 104.3. In keeping with state guidelines, patrons may only leave vehicles for concessions and restrooms, and must wear masks when outside the vehicle. Portable toiletas on-site follow accessibility regulations. The

Daniel Arts Center building will be closed to the public.

Local concessions will be provided by Great Barrington’s own SoCo Creamery and the Berkshire Food Co-op. SoCo premium ice cream will be available every night and organic or all-natural candy, beverages, and popcorn from the Co-op will be available on Fridays.

Grand opening weekend will feature the 2013 film 42 (PG-13), the story of Jackie Robinson’s racial integration of Major League Baseball, Thursday, July 16, and Steven Spielberg’s 1981 actionadventure hit Raiders of the Lost Ark (PG) starring Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones, Friday, July 17, and Saturday, July 18. Subsequent titles will be rolled out regularly as the season progresses.

About the Mahaiwe Located in downtown Great Barrington, Massachusetts, the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center is the year-round presenter of world-class music, dance, theater, classic films, Live in HD broadcasts, and arts education programs for the southern Berkshires and neighboring regions. The intimate jewel box of a theater opened in 1905. Since 2005, the performing arts center has hosted over 1,500 events and welcomed over half a million people through its doors. More than 22,000 students from 73 different schools have benefited from the Mahaiwe’s school-time performances and residencies. For more information, see www.mahaiwe.org.

MAC-HAYDN RELEASES EPISODE 6 OF IN THE MEANTIME CHATHAM — The MacHaydn Theatre has released the sixth episode of In The Meantime, a weekly webcast series hosted by Producing Artistic Director John Saunders, as part of the MacHaydn Online virtual programming initiative. The episode can be found at https:// youtu.be/EobCETJnHjY. Episode 6 features MacHaydn alumna and recent Broadway star Aneesa Folds.

Aneesa’s previous roles at the Mac-Haydn include Deloris Van Cartier (Sister Act), Joanne (Rent), Motormouth Maybelle (Hairspray) and many more fan-favorites.

Folds tells host John Saunders about her background in theatre, her love for the Mac-Haydn, how her “special skill” of freestyling led to her Broadway debut and the impact the Black Lives Matter movement has had on her.

As a gesture of support to the Mac-Haydn artistic community, the Mac-Haydn offers a 50/50 split of any donations to the Bright Future Fund that mention each episode’s guest for the week following their interview. Folds has announced that she will direct her proceeds toward Broadway For Racial Justice, an organization that fights for racial justice and equity by providing immediate

resources, assistance, and amplification for BIPOC in the Broadway and Theatrical community at-large. The donation link can be found at https://charity.gofundme. com/o/en/campaign/machaydn-theatre-bright-future-fund.

Episodes of In The Meantime premiere each Friday at 12pm on the Mac-Haydn Theatre YouTube channel.

The series showcases notable Mac-Haydn alumni, discussing their artistic endeavors during quarantine as well as their past experiences working at the theatre. The MacHaydn Online programming initiative also includes “MacHaydn Mondays,” a weekly live stream from the theatre’s Instagram account (@machaydntheatre) on Mondays at 5pm.

About the Mac-Haydn Theatre Founded in 1969, the Mac-Haydn Theatre strives to present innovative, diverse and professional musical theatre productions to the residents of Columbia County and beyond. We aim to cultivate young talent for careers in theatre and seek to provide a supportive environment for the creation of new musical theatre works.

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NYSPHSAA to delay Fall sports start date, cancel Fall championships Columbia-Greene Media

LATHAM — The Officers of the New York State Public High School Athletic Association (NYSPHSAA), voted to delay the official start date of the Fall 2020 sports season, cancel the Fall 2020 Regional and State

Championships and prepare to implement a condensed season schedule in January 2021 if high school sports remain prohibited throughout 2020 due to COVID-19.

This decision comes at the recommendation of the NYSPHSAA

COVID-19 Task Force when they convened as a working group for the third time this morning.

“As the state considers reopening, it is unrealistic to believe athletic seasons can start on August 24th as originally scheduled,” said

Paul Harrica, NYSPHSAA President. “The priority will continue to be on the educational process and a return to learning in the safest way possible.”

The NYSPHSAA Officers’ decision includes:

• Delay Fall sports start date until Monday, September 21 (NYSPHSAA PAUSE) • Cancel Fall Regional and State Championship events See DELAY B5

Mudcats, Knights split HRCBL twinbill TIM MARTIN/COLUMBIA-GREENE MEDIA

Knights catcher Tyler Hanrahan applies the late on a Mudcats baserunner during the first game of Wednesday’s Hudson River Collegiate Baseball League doubleheader at Ricky Cramer Field in Catskill.

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CATSKILL — Chris Polletta and Nick Butler homered to help the Knights salvage a doubleheader split with a 5-2 victory over the Mudcats in the nightcap of Wednesday’s Hudson River Collegiate

Baseball League action at Ricky Cramer Field.

The Mudcats took the first game, 9-3.

Butler also tripled and finished with four RBI in game two for the Knights. Austin Rachiele

Patrick Ewing, recovered from COVID-19, resumes rebuilding task at Georgetown Dom Amore The Hartford Courant

HARTFORD, Conn. — First, the best possible news: Patrick Ewing is feeling better. And he’d like a word with you.

“Things are going fine, I’m doing well,” Ewing told The Courant in a wide-ranging interview, two months after being hospitalized with COVID-19. “Just like everyone who has had it, I would say everyone needs to be safe, and then you still might get it like I did.

Wear your mask, wash your hands, socially distance. It’s real.”

Ewing, 57, Hall of Famer, member of the original U.S. Olympic Dream Team, and for the past three seasons the head coach at his alma mater, Georgetown, announced on May 22 he had tested positive and was released after a few days in the hospital. As he has recovered, he has resumed the task of putting pieces back

together after a tumultuous season.

Whenever the new season comes, Georgetown and UConn will be rivals again in the “new” Big East, which officially welcomed the Huskies as a member on July 1.

“It definitely strengthens the league,” Ewing said. “This is a school that has been there from the beginning, went away for a while, now they’re back.

I think it’s great. One of the founding members, it’s going to be just like old times.”

Any list of significant figures in Big East history should have Ewing near the top. Already a household name as a high school player in Boston, Ewing, 7-foot, first arrived at Georgetown in 1981, the league’s third season, and centered the Hoyas through three runs to the NCAA Final, winning the championship in 1984.

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contributed a single.

Evan Fox homered for the Mudcats. Nick Kownack and Nick Lepere each had a single.

Canisius’ Dave Yankowski, an Ichabod Crane graduate, stated on the mound for the Knights and

worked five innings, striking out 12, walking four and allowing no runs and just one hit. Brandon Breakell pitched the final two frames, allowing two runs and two hits with one walk.

John Jepsen threw four innings

for the Mudcats, striking out five, walking one and allowing three runs and three hits. Jake Washock (2k), Brandon Decker (1k,2bb,2r,1h) and Ryan Nista came on in relief.

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Fink, Toussaint homer in 12U Clippers’ victory Columbia-Greene Media

HUDSON — Logan Fink and Jack Toussaint homered in a three-run sixth inning to highlight the Columbia Clippers’ 8-0 victory over the Berkshire Americans in Wednesday’s Eastern New York 12U Travel Baseball game at Galvan Field.

Fink and Toussaint’s round-trippers backed a solid pitching performance by Liam Mullins, who pitched five innings of two-hit ball with five strikeouts and two walks. Demetrio Morales closed the show with two strikeouts in one inning of work.

The Clippers (2-1) plated their first run in the first inning when Mullins singled, advanced to third on Dan Wiese’s sacrifice and scored on a wild pitch. They added a run in the second when Brayden Conrad reached on a fielder’s choice, took third on Derek Clark’s sacrifice and scored on an error.

Clark and T.J. Shutter added RBI singles in the fourth and Jackson Purdy stole home in the fifth , before Fink and Toussaint put an exclamation point on the victory with home runs over the center field fence in the sixth.

Finka also singled for the Clippers. Mullins had two singles, Clark and Shutter a single and an RBI apiece and Purdy and Wiese a single each.

The Clippers return to action with a doubleheader on Sunday against the Twin Town Devilcats at Devilcats Stadium in Troy. First game is slated for 10 a.m.

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Columbia Clippers pitcher Liam Mullins throws during Wednesday’s Eastern New York 12U Travel Baseball game against the Berkshire Americans at Galvan Field.

Mets’ deGrom to receive MRI for back tightness, is ‘day to day’ Justin Toscano The Record

NEW YORK — Mets manager Luis Rojas and his coaching staff did not notice anything off about ace Jacob deGrom during the one inning

he pitched in Tuesday night’s intrasquad game.

In fact, Rojas said, deGrom hit triple digits on the radar gun.

After deGrom completed the top of the first, Rojas was locked in watching Corey Oswalt face the top of the “home” order.

That’s when Rojas was told deGrom had back tightness and needed to be shut down for the night.

“Nothing that we saw,” Rojas said. “Nothing that (deGrom) mentioned or anything. He shared it with the medical staff and the pitching

coach (Jeremy Hefner) after the first inning.”

Rojas on Wednesday said deGrom will receive an MRI at some point during the day (the manager did not know when). The Mets are See METS B3

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Pro football NFL WEEKLY SCHEDULES WEEK 1 Thursday, Sept. 10 Houston at Kansas City, 8:20 p.m. (NBC) Sunday, Sept. 13 Seattle at Atlanta, 1 p.m. (FOX) Cleveland at Baltimore, 1 p.m. (CBS) N.Y. Jets at Buffalo, 1 p.m. (CBS) Las Vegas at Carolina, 1 p.m. (CBS) Chicago at Detroit, 1 p.m. (FOX) Indianapolis at Jacksonville, 1 p.m. (CBS) Green Bay at Minnesota, 1 p.m. (FOX) Miami at New England, 1 p.m. (CBS) Philadelphia at Washington, 1 p.m. (FOX) L.A. Chargers at Cincinnati, 4:05 p.m. (CBS) Tampa Bay at New Orleans, 4:25 p.m. (FOX) Arizona at San Francisco, 4:25 p.m. (FOX) Dallas at L.A. Rams, 8:20 p.m. (NBC) Monday, Sept. 14 Pittsburgh at N.Y. Giants, 7:15 p.m. (ESPN) Tennessee at Denver, 10:10 p.m. (ESPN) WEEK 2 Thursday, Sept. 17 Cincinnati at Cleveland, 8:20 p.m. (NFLN) Sunday, Sept. 20 N.Y. Giants at Chicago, 1 p.m. (CBS) Atlanta at Dallas, 1 p.m. (FOX) Detroit at Green Bay, 1 p.m. (FOX) Minnesota at Indianapolis, 1 p.m. (FOX) Buffalo at Miami, 1 p.m. (CBS) San Francisco at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m. (FOX) L.A. Rams at Philadelphia, 1 p.m. (FOX) Denver at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m. (CBS) Carolina at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m. (FOX) Jacksonville at Tennessee, 1 p.m. (CBS) Washington at Arizona, 4:05 p.m. (FOX) Baltimore at Houston, 4:25 p.m. (CBS) Kansas City at L.A. Chargers, 4:25 p.m. (CBS) New England at Seattle, 8:20 p.m. (NBC) Monday, Sept. 21 New Orleans at Las Vegas, 8:15 p.m. (ESPN) WEEK 3 Thursday, Sept. 24 Miami at Jacksonville, 8:20 p.m. (NFLN) Sunday, Sept. 27 Chicago at Atlanta, 1 p.m. (FOX) L.A. Rams at Buffalo, 1 p.m. (FOX) Washington at Cleveland, 1 p.m. (FOX) Tennessee at Minnesota, 1 p.m. (CBS) Las Vegas at New England, 1 p.m. (CBS) San Francisco at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m. (FOX) Cincinnati at Philadelphia, 1 p.m. (CBS) Houston at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m. (CBS) N.Y. Jets at Indianapolis, 4:05 p.m. (CBS) Carolina at L.A. Chargers, 4:05 p.m. (CBS) Detroit at Arizona, 4:25 p.m. (FOX) Tampa Bay at Denver, 4:25 p.m. (FOX) Dallas at Seattle, 4:25 p.m. (FOX) Green Bay at New Orleans, 8:20 p.m. (NBC) Monday, Sept. 28 Kansas City at Baltimore, 8:15 p.m. (ESPN) WEEK 4 Thursday, Oct. 1 Denver at N.Y. Jets, 8:20 p.m. (NFLN) Sunday, Oct. 4 Arizona at Carolina, 1 p.m. (FOX) Indianapolis at Chicago, 1 p.m. (CBS) Jacksonville at Cincinnati, 1 p.m. (CBS) Cleveland at Dallas, 1 p.m. (FOX) New Orleans at Detroit, 1 p.m. (FOX) Minnesota at Houston, 1 p.m. (FOX) Seattle at Miami, 1 p.m. (FOX) L.A. Chargers at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m. (CBS) Pittsburgh at Tennessee, 1 p.m. (CBS) Baltimore at Washington, 1 p.m. (CBS) N.Y. Giants at L.A. Rams, 4:05 p.m. (FOX) New England at Kansas City, 4:25 p.m. (CBS) Buffalo at Las Vegas, 4:25 p.m. (CBS) Philadelphia at San Francisco, 8:20 p.m. (NBC) Monday, Oct. 5 Atlanta at Green Bay, 8:15 p.m. (ESPN) WEEK 5 Thursday, Oct. 8 Tampa Bay at Chicago, 8:20 p.m. (FOX/NFLN) Sunday, Oct. 11 Carolina at Atlanta, 1 p.m. (FOX) Cincinnati at Baltimore, 1 p.m. (CBS) Jacksonville at Houston, 1 p.m. (CBS) Las Vegas at Kansas City, 1 p.m. (CBS) Denver at New England, 1 p.m. (CBS) Arizona at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m. (FOX) Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m. (FOX) Buffalo at Tennessee, 1 p.m. (CBS) L.A. Rams at Washington, 1 p.m. (FOX) Miami at San Francisco, 4:05 p.m. (FOX) Indianapolis at Cleveland, 4:25 p.m. (CBS) N.Y. Giants at Dallas, 4:25 p.m. (CBS) Minnesota at Seattle, 8:20 p.m. (NBC) Monday, Oct. 12 L.A. Chargers at New Orleans, 8:15 p.m. (ESPN) WEEK 6 Thursday, Oct. 15 Kansas City at Buffalo, 8:20 p.m. (FOX/NFLN) Sunday, Oct. 18 Chicago at Carolina, 1 p.m. (FOX) Cincinnati at Indianapolis, 1 p.m. (FOX) Detroit at Jacksonville, 1 p.m. (FOX) Atlanta at Minnesota, 1 p.m. (FOX) Washington at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m. (FOX) Baltimore at Philadelphia, 1 p.m. (CBS) Cleveland at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m. (CBS) Houston at Tennessee, 1 p.m. (CBS) Miami at Denver, 4:05 p.m. (CBS) N.Y. Jets at L.A. Chargers, 4:05 p.m. (CBS) Green Bay at Tampa Bay, 4:25 p.m. (FOX) L.A. Rams at San Francisco, 8:20 p.m. (NBC) Monday, Oct. 19 Arizona at Dallas, 8:15 p.m. (ESPN) WEEK 7 Thursday, Oct. 22 N.Y. Giants at Philadelphia, 8:20 p.m. (FOX/ NFLN/Amazon*) Sunday, Oct. 25 Detroit at Atlanta, 1 p.m. (FOX) Pittsburgh at Baltimore, 1 p.m. (CBS) Cleveland at Cincinnati, 1 p.m. (CBS) Green Bay at Houston, 1 p.m. (FOX) L.A. Chargers at Miami, 1 p.m. (CBS) Carolina at New Orleans, 1 p.m. (FOX) Buffalo at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m. (CBS) Dallas at Washington, 1 p.m. (FOX) Seattle at Arizona, 4:05 p.m. (FOX) Kansas City at Denver, 4:25 p.m. (CBS) San Francisco at New England, 4:25 p.m. (CBS) Tampa Bay at Las Vegas, 8:20 p.m. (NBC) Monday, Oct. 26 Chicago at L.A. Rams, 8:15 p.m. (ESPN) WEEK 8 Thursday, Oct. 29 Atlanta at Carolina, 8:20 p.m. (FOX/NFLN/Amazon*) Sunday, Nov. 1 New England at Buffalo, 1 p.m. (CBS) Tennessee at Cincinnati, 1 p.m. (CBS) Las Vegas at Cleveland, 1 p.m. (FOX) Indianapolis at Detroit, 1 p.m. (CBS) Minnesota at Green Bay, 1 p.m. (FOX) N.Y. Jets at Kansas City, 1 p.m. (CBS) L.A. Rams at Miami, 1 p.m. (FOX) Jacksonville at L.A. Chargers, 4:05 p.m. (CBS) New Orleans at Chicago, 4:25 p.m. (FOX) San Francisco at Seattle, 4:25 p.m. (FOX) Dallas at Philadelphia, 8:20 p.m. (NBC) Monday, Nov. 2 Tampa Bay at N.Y. Giants, 8:15 p.m. (ESPN) WEEK 9 Thursday, Nov. 5 Green Bay at San Francisco, 8:20 p.m. (FOX/ NFLN/Amazon*) Sunday, Nov. 8 Denver at Atlanta, 1 p.m. (CBS) Seattle at Buffalo, 1 p.m. (FOX) Baltimore at Indianapolis, 1 p.m. (CBS) Houston at Jacksonville, 1 p.m. (CBS) Carolina at Kansas City, 1 p.m. (FOX) Detroit at Minnesota, 1 p.m. (CBS) Chicago at Tennessee, 1 p.m. (FOX) N.Y. Giants at Washington, 1 p.m. (FOX) Las Vegas at L.A. Chargers, 4:05 p.m. (FOX) Miami at Arizona, 4:25 p.m. (CBS) Pittsburgh at Dallas, 4:25 p.m. (CBS) New Orleans at Tampa Bay, 8:20 p.m. (NBC) Monday, Nov. 9 New England at N.Y. Jets, 8:15 p.m. (ESPN) WEEK 10 Thursday, Nov. 12 Indianapolis at Tennessee, 8:20 p.m. (FOX/ NFLN/Amazon*) Sunday, Nov. 15 Tampa Bay at Carolina, 1 p.m. (FOX) Houston at Cleveland, 1 p.m. (FOX) Washington at Detroit, 1 p.m. (FOX) Jacksonville at Green Bay, 1 p.m. (FOX) Philadelphia at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m. (FOX) Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m. (FOX) Buffalo at Arizona, 4:05 p.m. (CBS) Denver at Las Vegas, 4:05 p.m. (CBS) N.Y. Jets at Miami, 4:05 p.m. (CBS) Seattle at L.A. Rams, 4:25 p.m. (FOX) San Francisco at New Orleans, 4:25 p.m. (FOX) Baltimore at New England, 8:20 p.m. (NBC) Monday, Nov. 16 Minnesota at Chicago, 8:15 p.m. (ESPN) WEEK 11 Thursday, Nov. 19 Arizona at Seattle, 8:20 p.m. (FOX/NFLN/Amazon*) Sunday, Nov. 22 Tennessee at Baltimore, 1 p.m. (CBS) Detroit at Carolina, 1 p.m. (FOX) Philadelphia at Cleveland, 1 p.m. (FOX) New England at Houston, 1 p.m. (CBS) Green Bay at Indianapolis, 1 p.m. (FOX) Pittsburgh at Jacksonville, 1 p.m. (CBS) Atlanta at New Orleans, 1 p.m. (FOX) Cincinnati at Washington, 1 p.m. (CBS) L.A. Chargers at Denver, 4:05 p.m. (CBS) Dallas at Minnesota, 4:25 p.m. (FOX) Kansas City at Las Vegas, 8:20 p.m. (NBC)

Monday, Nov. 23 L.A. Rams at Tampa Bay, 8:15 p.m. (ESPN) WEEK 12 Thursday, Nov. 26 Houston at Detroit 12:30 p.m. (CBS) Washington at Dallas, 4:30 p.m. (FOX) Baltimore at Pittsburgh, 8:20 p.m. (NBC) Sunday, Nov. 29 Las Vegas at Atlanta, 1 p.m. (CBS) L.A. Chargers at Buffalo, 1 p.m. (CBS) N.Y. Giants at Cincinnati, 1 p.m. (FOX) Tennessee at Indianapolis, 1 p.m. (CBS) Cleveland at Jacksonville, 1 p.m. (CBS) Carolina at Minnesota, 1 p.m. (FOX) Arizona at New England, 1 p.m. (FOX) Miami at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m. (CBS) New Orleans at Denver, 4:05 p.m. (FOX) San Francisco at L.A. Rams, 4:05 p.m. (FOX) Kansas City at Tampa Bay, 4:25 p.m. (CBS) Chicago at Green Bay, 8:20 p.m. (NBC) Monday, Nov. 30 Seattle at Philadelphia, 8:15 p.m. (ESPN) WEEK 13 Thursday, Dec. 3 Dallas at Baltimore, 8:20 p.m. (FOX/NFLN/Amazon*) Sunday, Dec. 6 New Orleans at Atlanta, 1 p.m. (FOX) Detroit at Chicago, 1 p.m. (FOX) Indianapolis at Houston, 1 p.m. (CBS) Cincinnati at Miami, 1 p.m. (CBS) Jacksonville at Minnesota, 1 p.m. (CBS) Las Vegas at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m. (CBS) Washington at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m. (FOX) Cleveland at Tennessee, 1 p.m. (CBS) L.A. Rams at Arizona, 4:05 p.m. (FOX) N.Y. Giants at Seattle, 4:05 p.m. (FOX) Philadelphia at Green Bay, 4:25 p.m. (CBS) New England at L.A. Chargers, 4:25 p.m. (CBS) Denver at Kansas City, 8:20 p.m. (NBC) Monday, Dec. 7 Buffalo at San Francisco, 8:15 p.m. (ESPN) WEEK 14 Thursday, Dec. 10 New England at L.A. Rams, 8:20 p.m. (FOX/ NFLN/Amazon*) Sunday, Dec. 13 Denver at Carolina, 1 p.m. (CBS) Houston at Chicago, 1 p.m. (CBS) Dallas at Cincinnati, 1 p.m. (FOX) Green Bay at Detroit, 1 p.m. (FOX) Tennessee at Jacksonville, 1 p.m. (CBS) Kansas City at Miami, 1 p.m. (CBS) Arizona at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m. (FOX) Minnesota at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m. (FOX) Indianapolis at Las Vegas, 4:05 p.m. (CBS) N.Y. Jets at Seattle, 4:05 p.m. (CBS) Atlanta at L.A. Chargers, 4:25 p.m. (FOX) New Orleans at Philadelphia, 4:25 p.m. (FOX) Washington at San Francisco, 4:25 p.m. (FOX) Pittsburgh at Buffalo, 8:20 p.m. (NBC) Monday, Dec. 14 Baltimore at Cleveland, 8:15 p.m. (ESPN) WEEK 15 Thursday, Dec. 17 L.A. Chargers at Las Vegas, 8:20 p.m. (FOX/ NFLN/Amazon*) Saturday, Dec. 19 TBD, 4:30 p.m. (NFLN) TBD, 8:15 p.m. (NFLN) Saturday, Dec. 19 Carolina at Green Bay, TBD (TBD) Houston at Indianapolis, TBD (TBD) N.Y. Jets at L.A. Rams, TBD (TBD) Detroit at Tennessee, TBD (TBD) Sunday, Dec. 20 Tampa Bay at Atlanta, 1 p.m. (FOX) Jacksonville at Baltimore, 1 p.m. (CBS) New England at Miami, 1 p.m. (CBS) Chicago at Minnesota, 1 p.m. (FOX) Cleveland at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m. (CBS) Seattle at Washington, 1 p.m. (FOX) Philadelphia at Arizona, 4:05 p.m. (FOX) Kansas City at New Orleans, 4:25 p.m. (CBS) San Francisco at Dallas, 8:20 p.m. (NBC) Monday, Dec. 21 Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, 8:15 p.m. (ESPN)

Soccer MLS IS BACK TOURNAMENT (at ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex) Orlando, Fla. Group Stage GROUP A (EASTERN CONFERENCE) GP W D L GF GA Pts Orlando City 2 2 0 0 5 2 6 Philadelphia 2 2 0 0 3 1 6 Miami 2 0 0 2 2 4 0 New York City FC 2 0 0 2 1 4 0 Wednesday, July 8 Orlando City 2, Miami 1 Thursday, July 9 Philadelphia 1, New York City FC 0 Thursday’s games Orlando City 3, New York City FC 1 Philadelphia 2, Miami 1 Monday, July 20 New York City FC at Miami, 9 a.m.

GROUP B (WESTERN CONFERENCE) GP W D L GF GA Pts Chicago 1 1 0 0 2 1 3 San Jose 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 Seattle 2 0 1 1 1 2 1 Vancouver 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Friday, July 10 San Jose 0, Seattle 0, tie Tuesday’s game Chicago 2, Seattle 1 Wednesday’s game San Jose at Vancouver, 10:30 p.m.

Sunday’s games San Jose at Chicago, 8 p.m.

Vancouver at Seattle, 10:30 p.m.

Elliott follows father in winning NASCAR All-Star Race Field Level Media

Six weeks ago, Chase Elliott was going for the victory at Bristol Motor Speedway when he screwed up with two laps to go.

In Wednesday night’s NASCAR All-Star Race at the same Bristol, Tenn., track, Elliott went screwup free as he finished first in three of four stages and earned the $1 million that goes with winning the event.

“I can’t believe it,” Elliott said.

“There’s nothing like Bristol.

There’s nothing like the lights here. There’s nothing like racing here, never won here. What a race to do it.”

The victory was his first in five starts in the annual non-pointspaying race, but it was the second for the Elliott family. His father, Bill, won it in 1986 at Atlanta Motor Speedway.

Chase Elliott, who has earned just one top-10 finish the past five official races, admitted to be struggling.

“Tried to hit the reset button this week and try to put on a great performance,” he said. “Great car.”

The race featured NASCAR’s largest fan gathering since the COVID-19 pandemic hiatus, with an estimated 20,000 people into the stands that can hold 140,000.

They loved what they saw from the driver who has replaced Dale Earnhardt Jr. as No. 1 in their hearts.

“There’s no feeling like it,” he said of winning in front of a crowd. “Nothing like it.”

To get the victory and big paycheck, the Hendrick Motorsports driver had to hold off defending Cup Series champion Kyle Busch of Joe Gibbs Racing, who finished second, 0.418 seconds back.

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Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series driver Chase Elliott (9) does a burnout after winning the All-Star Race at Bristol Motor Speedway on Wednesday.

“I think we inched up a little closer on him, but that was about it,” said Busch, who has yet to win a race this year. “The last couple of adjustments really helped us out. I got a good restart. I think I went from like 12th all the way up to fifth or something, so that was a huge bonus for us. I think that’s about four, five, six second-places for us this year. What do you do?”

In the May 31 race at the 0.533-mile oval, Elliott and Joey Logano made contact, and that allowed Brad Keselowski to scoot past and get the win. Elliott took the blame.

Kevin Harvick of StewartHaas Racing came in third place Wednesday night. Rounding out the top five were Keselowski of

Team Penske and Denny Hamlin of JGR. “There were a couple of laps there where I had to spend a bit more time in traffic than I needed to to get back to the front,” Harvick said.

The race, which was run at a track other than Charlotte Motor Speedway for just the second time in its 36-year history and the first time at a short track, was divided into stages of 55, 35, 35 and 15 laps.

Also new for this year’s All-Star events were a system in which drivers could choose which line they would take on restarts, a new placement of car numbers and underbody glow lights.

The field was comprised of the 16 drivers who were points-race

winners in 2019 or 2020, former All-Star Race winners, full-time drivers who have won Cup Series titles, three drivers who won stages in the All-Star Open – which was held before the main event on Wednesday – and the winner of a fan vote.

Stage winners in the Open were Aric Almirola of StewartHaas Racing, William Byron of Hendrick Motorsports and Matt DiBenedetto of Wood Brothers Racing. Stewart-Haas’ Clint Bowyer was voted in by fans.

Martin Truex Jr. of Joe Gibbs Racing was awarded the pole position after a random drawing.

However, his car twice failed inspection so he was forced to start from the rear of the 20-car field.

Truex wound up in 10th place.

Baffert suspended 15 days after two horses tested positive for prohibited substance John Cherwa Los Angeles Times

Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert has been ordered to serve a 15-day suspension by the Arkansas Racing Commission after two of his horses tested positive for an analgesic after running at Oaklawn Park on May 2. Suspensions are honored in all jurisdictions, so he would not be able to run in California or anywhere else between Aug. 1 and 15.

The 15-days suspension is the minimum penalty that the racing board could give a trainer found guilty of the infraction. Trainers are bound by the “trainer’s insurer rule”

under which a trainer is ultimately responsible for everything about their horse, even if they are not physically present.

Baffert was not in Arkansas when Charlatan won the Arkansas Derby and Gamin won an allowance race. Both tested positive for lidocaine, a pain reliever that is legal in certain amounts. Gamine had 185 picograms in her system and Charlatan had 46 pg. The legal amount is 20 pg. A picogram is one-trillionth of a gram.

Baffert’s defense was that an employee, believed to be assistant trainer Jimmy Barnes, had applied a Salonpas pain relief

patch to his back for treatment of a previous injury, and that lidocaine from the patch was then inadvertently transferred to tongue ties that were put on the horses before the race.

The purse money earned by the horses in the Oaklawn races, $300,000 for Charlatan and $36,600 for Gamine, must be forfeited.

Charlatan since has suffered an injury and will not run in the Kentucky Derby, rescheduled to Sept. 5 because of the coronavirus outbreak, and Gamine since has won the Acorn Stakes at Belmont Park and is on track to run in the Kentucky Derby.

Thursday, July 23 Vancouver at Chicago, 9 a.m.

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Thursday, July 23 Houston at LA Galaxy, 8 p.m.

NASCAR All-Star Race at Bristol: Takeaways from Chase Elliott’s win Alex Andrejev The Charlotte Observer

BRISTOL, Tenn. — The NASCAR All-Star Race was sort of like an insane fever dream. There were fans in brightly colored T-shirts, cargo shorts and face masks sprinkled around the stadium, loosely attempting to social distance. There were colored LED lights peeking out from underneath the rear of the cars, and there was — in more normal fashion — a Chase Elliott victory.

“There’s no feeling like it,” Elliott said on FS1 after his first AllStar Race win at Bristol Motor Speedway. “This speaks for itself.

Bristol is an electric atmosphere unlike any other.”

Elliott won three of the race’s four stages. He used track position to his advantage in the final, 15-lap shootout to maintain a slight lead over Kyle Busch, who edged into the conversation two laps into the last stage, and held his spot for a second place finish.

Kevin Harvick finished in third.

“I got a good restart,” Busch said on FS1 after the race. “I think I went from 12th all the way up to fifth or something.”

But it was Elliott who walked away with the $1 million dollar prize and his first All-Star Race win in five starts. He joked that he would use the money to send “about 14 pallets” of Mountain Dew to Ryan Blaney’s house “and

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Fans celebrate after Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series driver Chase Elliott (9) won the All-Star Race at Bristol Motor Speedway on Wednesday.

see what he does with that.”

Earlier in the day, the drivers exchanged tweets about their respective Body Armor and Mountain Dew sponsors.

“I drink my MountainDew with my gloves off ... “ Elliott tweeted in response to a promotional tweet by Blaney for Body Armor.

“You should probably drink it with the thickest rubber gloves you can find,” Blaney responded. “All the chemicals in it could burn your skin.. Don’t even want to know what it does to your insides.”

Elliott walked away from the race with a million dollars and jokes for sixth place finisher

Blaney. And NASCAR walked away with new data.

The sanctioning body tried new things for the non-points race. Some ideas worked, and others didn’t. Overall, the racing was solid and the cautions were surprisingly few at the “World’s Fastest Half-Mile.” There were only five caution flags thrown for the 140-lap event.

The choose rule, for example, didn’t impact the on-track product throughout the evening.

Drivers were in favor of it before the race, and it became clear that leaders favored the top lane.

Ryan Blaney won the first stage of the race, but Elliott was able to pass him by stage two off a restart

and maintain the lead through the finish. He continued to ride that line.

Most of the evening’s drama happened before the main event, when Bubba Wallace crashed into the wall off a spin from Michael McDowell during the qualifying Open race. Wallace exited the race and later left a piece of his destroyed car in front of McDowell’s garage.

“Just disrespect,” Wallace said on FS1 after the incident. “People say I’m one of the nicest guys in the garage. I can’t (wait) for the God-fearing text that he is going to send me about preaching and praise and respect. What a joke he is.”

Drviers Aric Almirola, William Byron and Matt DiBenedetto advanced to the main event by winning the three stages of the Open, in that order. Fan Vote winner Clint Bowyer also advanced to the All-Star Race. Almirola finished ninth, Byron in 12th and Dibenedetto finished in 13th.

Bowyer finished in 15th.

And finally, the underglow lighting, which wasn’t nearly as exciting as it was hyped up to be.

The colors oozing from under the car fell flat. Harvick said he wished his would have fallen off.

“The only person who seemed to like it was my eight-year-old,” Harvick said after the race.

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Knights pitcher Ethan Patch throws during the first game of Wednesday’s Hudson River Collegiate Baseball League doubleheader against the Mudcats at Ricky Cramer Field in Catskill.

Mudcats third baseman Cavan Brady fields a ground ball during the first game of Wednesday’s Hudson River Collegiate Baseball League doubleheader against the Knights at Ricky Cramer Field in Catskill.

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The Knights’ John Wheeler connects with a pitch during the first game of Wednesday’s Hudson River Collegiate Baseball League doubleheader against the Mudcats at Ricky Cramer Field in Catskill.

Mudcats From B1

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Mudcats center fielder Nick Lepere tracks down a fly ball during the first game of Wednesday’s Hudson River Collegiate Baseball League doubleheader against the Knights.

In the opener, Fox had a home run, two singles and four RBI to power the Mudcats to victory.

James Delaney contributed two singles to the Mudcats’ attack. Cavan Brady had a single and an RBI and Nick Lepere and Michael Rose a single each.

Nate Cotton drilled a solo homer for the Knights. Polletta added a double, single and an RBI and Rachiele and John Wheeler both doubled.

Andrew Inglee started and pitched three innings for the Mudcats, striking out five, walking two and allowing two runs and two hits. Christian McCarthy surrendered a run and two hits with five strikeouts and three walks and Ian McNamara walked

one and allowed one hit.

Ethan Patch started for the Knights and allowed five runs and three hits with five strikeouts and four walks in 2 1/3 innings. Connor Hall threw 2 2/3 innings, striking out four, walking three and allowing four runs and four hits. Ichabod Crane graduate Jake Siter worked the final two innings, striking out one and allowing one hit.

League standings: Storm 7-2, Orioles 6-2, Mudcats 4-4, Knights 3-5, Bucks 2-5, Rattlers 2-6.

Weekend schedule: SATURDAY 10 a.m., Orioles vs. Storm; 12:30 p.m., Orioles vs. Rattlers; 3 p.m., Mudcats vs.

Bucks; 5:30 p.m., Bucks vs.

Knights.

SUNDAY 10 a.m., Storm vs. Bucks; 12:30 p.m., Knights vs. Rattlers; 3 p.m., Mudcats vs.

Orioles; 5:30 p.m., Orioles vs.

Mudcats.

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The Knights’ Camdyn Ames awaits a pitch from Mudcats pitcher Andrew Inglee during the first game of Wednesday’s Hudson River Collegiate Baseball League doubleheader.

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as the No. 1 pick in the draft and went on to make 11 NBA All-Star teams.

“It’s definitely a different style (today),” Ewing said. “In my era, centers were more on the box, posting up. Even though they still do that a lot more in college basketball than in the NBA, the style has definitely changed; now the big men want to be on the perimeter, everybody wants to be on the perimeter shooting threes.

But I do think if someone has a dominant center, they’re going to give him the ball in the box.”

After several seasons as an NBA assistant coach, Ewing returned to Georgetown, replacing John Thompson III as head coach in 2017, and is 49-46 in three years. Last season turned chaotic in early December when four players left the team, three in the midst of off-thecourt, legal problems. The fourth, guard James Akinjo, a one-time UConn commit, left for unrelated reasons. Down to nine scholarship players, Ewing held things together and the Hoyas won six in a row, beating Syracuse and Oklahoma State.

“It’s never over until it’s over,” Ewing said.

“Like my mother always tells me, ‘whatever doesn’t kill you is going to make you stronger.’

We had a lot of adversity last year, but I thought my guys fought hard and they overcame it.

They didn’t just let those incidents define us or stop us from building a good team. Unfortunately, injuries took us out of it at the end, but I thought all the adversity that went on did not hurt us as badly as it could have.”

Georgetown upset Creighton and Butler early in the conference season but, missing top scorer Mac McClung with a foot injury,

Mets From B1

saying deGrom is “day to day.”

They have not elaborated on his injury, only calling it “back tightness” — which was the official word on Tuesday night.

At the time of Rojas’ Zoom briefing — which occurred at 1:15 p.m. — it was not clear when the team would receive deGrom’s MRI results.

But Rojas said the Mets will

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Head coach Patrick Ewing of the Georgetown Hoyas directs players in the first half against the St. John’s Red Storm during the first round of the Big East Basketball Tournament at Madison Square Garden on March 11 in New York City.

lost its last seven and finished 15-17, 5-13 in the Big East. McClung (15.7 points per game) transferred to Texas Tech and Omer Yurtseven (15.5 points, 9.8 rebounds) turned pro. Jahvon Blair, Jamorko Pickett, Qudus Wahab, Timothy Ighoefe, Malcom Wilson are among those coming back. There are seven new players, including transfers Chaudier Bile and Jalen Harris and freshman Dante Harris, Jamari Sibley, Kobe Clark, T.J. Burger and Collin Holloway.

The look Ewing wants for his teams is “wellcoached, high intensity on both ends.”

“I don’t have an ideal type of player,” he said.

“You have to look at everyone that you recruit, see what kind of characteristics they have.

determine deGrom’s next steps once they review those.

Something to note: The ace, Rojas said, has experienced back tightness in the past.

Rojas did not speak with deGrom after Tuesday night’s game. He also had not seen him or spoken to him yet on Wednesday, but said the righthander was at Citi Field in the morning meeting with the performance staff.

“Right now it’s day to day,” Rojas said, “and waiting on what comes out of (the MRI results).”

Of course, deGrom is the Mets’ opening day starter. If healthy, he’ll toe the rubber on July 24 against the Braves at Citi Field.

In this moment, though, Rojas said “it’s still too early” to know how deGrom’s back tightness might affect his availability for opening day.

You could argue deGrom, who has won the National League Cy Young Award in consecutive seasons, is the team’s most important player. Starting pitching is always critical. In a 60-game season,

You’d love to have somebody who has a high motor, who can shoot, who can dribble, who can rebound, who can pass. But everybody’s different. You definitely want high character, high basketball IQ guys.”

There is no date yet for Georgetown players to return to campus to begin practicing together. So far the team-building has all been virtual.

“Naturally, you expect the guys coming back to carry the team,” Ewing said, “but then we have seven new faces, and not being able to be around them, work them out or have these informal practices that we usually have at this time, it’s hurting us.”

Ewing, too, is having ongoing dialogue with

it might be much more important than usual because every game, inning and out will mean more. There is much less room for error than in a 162-game campaign.

In a two-month season, a star player missing a month — or even a couple weeks — could be fatal.

“There’s some things that happen in this game, and I think in any major sport, that get in the way of any plan you may have, but (the short season is) definitely something to take into consideration,”

his players about social justice issues, urging them to register and vote, fill out the census, participate in the efforts for the changes they want. “I’m big into it,” he said. “The young people are our future, they’re the ones that can definitely make the changes, and those are the things I’m talking to my team about.”

Georgetown and UConn have played 66 times. John Thompson’s Hoyas dominated UConn during the early days of the Big East, winning 13 in a row between 1982-88, the Huskies ending that with a critical late-season victory en route to the program-lifting NIT title in 1988. Then UConn won 18 of 20 meetings between 1994 and 2006. The list of epic games between the schools is long, but topped for most by the Ray Allen-Allen Iverson duel in the Big East tournament final in 1996, a 75-74 win for the Huskies.

After the breakup of the original Big East, UConn and Georgetown split a home-andhome series (2016-17). The Hoyas own a 3630 lead as the series is set to resume in the new conference, formed around the seven basketball-centric Catholic schools, including Georgetown.

Though Ewing’s playing days, like the Knicks’ glory days, are long gone, he’s been on minds recently as the ESPN Michael Jordan documentary “The Last Dance” covered the ‘92 Dream Team, and MSG Network has been featuring Ewing-related programming this month. His No. 33 hangs from the rafters at The Garden, and he weighed in on the Knicks’ coaching search, endorsing New Britain’s Tom Thibodeau, who interviewed last week.

“I love Tom,” Ewing said. “He coached me (as an assistant) when I was with the Knicks, I worked with him in Houston. He’s a great coach, he’s a great guy and he’s a hard worker.

He’s very knowledgeable. I think he’d be a great fit for the Knicks job.”

Rojas said. “Injuries are going to play a big part in a short season like this.”

Behind deGrom in the rotation, the Mets have Marcus Stroman, Steven Matz, Rick Porcello and Michael Wacha.

Walker Lockett, who made spot starts for the club last season, is in the player pool. An intriguing option: Left-hander David Peterson, perhaps the team’s most MLB-ready pitching prospect.

The Mets and their fans hope the organization is not forced to seriously consider its

options.

But until deGrom’s MRI results are back, nothing is for certain.

“It’s not a secret that Jake would be your opening day starter,” Rojas said. “We’ll have to reassess. He’s day-today, he’s got back tightness, we’ll reassess on that soon.

We’ll see what Jake’s status is, and we’ll learn more each day.

We’ll wait on those results today and then we’ll probably have something on a day-today basis.”

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Mystics: Delle Donne will be paid as she rehabs Field Level Media

While Mystics star Elena Delle Donne lambasted the WNBA for denying that she is at risk for COVID-19 due to her long-term battle with Lyme disease, Washington coach and general manager Mike Thibault appeared to say Wednesday that the club will pay the reigning league MVP even if she sits out the season.

According to Thibault, Delle Donne will continue to be paid as she rehabs from offseason back surgery.

Delle Donne had revealed Tuesday that the WNBA’s panel of doctors decided her condition didn’t make her eligible for a medical exemption from playing in 2020. The league will conduct its entire season in a “bubble” environment at Bradenton, Fla., due to the coronavirus pandemic.

“She’s being paid, and we’re treating her as a full-time member of our roster,” Thibault said.

“And if at some point, later in the season, we are all comfortable enough with both her physical progress and the safety of joining the team in Florida, then we will make those arrangements.

If we don’t feel that, then she will continue to do her workouts in D.C. and get herself ready for the following season.

“Her long-term care and health as a major foundation piece of the Mystics will always take precedence.”

Delle Donne expressed concern that her status as one of the WNBA’s top players influenced the decision of the league’s doctors. The Centers for Disease Control does not list Lyme disease as an underlying condition that makes people susceptible to severe consequences if they contract the coronavirus.

Delle Donne said on ESPN, “I hope they would treat me as ‘Player X’ and they see that I’ve been

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Washington Mystics forward Elena Delle Donne sits on the bench during game 4 of the WNBA finals at Mohegan Sun Arena on Tuesday, October 8, 2019 in Uncasville, Connecticut.

treated for something for nine years. They’ve seen my bloodwork; I’ve submitted everything.

“So I really hope that wasn’t the reason why this happened. I hope it’s doctors just still being unaware of Lyme disease and not having Lymeliterate doctors on that panel, because I don’t want to believe that’s what happened. Unfortunately, it might be what happened.”

Also on Wednesday, Delle Donne posted a story on The Player’s Tribune detailing her health regimen, which includes taking 64 pills every day.

“I feel like it’s slowly killing me. Or if it’s not killing me, directly, then I at least know one thing for sure: It’s really bad for me,” she wrote, in part.

“But I do it anyway. ...

“It’s the only way to keep myself healthy

enough to play the game that I love – healthy enough to do my job and earn the paycheck that supports my family. Healthy enough to live something approaching a normal life.”

She added, “I didn’t even think it was a question whether I would be exempt or not. I didn’t need a panel of league doctors to tell me that my immune system was high-risk – I’ve played my entire career with an immune system that’s highrisk!!! ...

“I’m now left with two choices: I can either risk my life..... or forfeit my paycheck. Honestly? That hurts.”

Delle Donne said she is not sure if she will opt to sit out the season, even if it means giving up some or all of her $215,000 salary.

She told ESPN, “Luckily, I’m privileged enough to be able to make a decision, and I know there are so many people through COVID who have lost jobs, who are going hungry, who don’t have an option to make a choice whether to go to their job or not. I’m in a position now where, thank goodness ... it’s never easy when you lose an entire salary, including endorsements, if I’m not playing.

“But I’m in a position where we can figure it out; we’ll find a way to push through if my decision is to not go play. So we’ll see what happens.

Maybe this is good; maybe this is an awakening for me to speak out more about Lyme disease, to fight for the people who have been ignored for years, just like myself.”

Delle Donne averaged 19.5 points and 8.2 rebounds in 31 games with the Mystics last season, then helped lead the team to the WNBA championship. She is a two-time MVP (2015, 2019) and a six-time All-Star. Her career average of 20.2 points per game ranks second in league history.

What’s it like in the NBA’s Disney bubble?

Ben Golliver The Washington Post

KISSIMMEE, Fla. — The lake fountain taunts me day and night, shooting water high into the sticky air just a few hundred yards away. I can barely see it through the trees outside my front window, my only window, which doesn’t open.

The hotel room door doesn’t open either, except for novel coronavirus testing in the afternoon and for meals delivered morning, noon and night. I’m covering the NBA’s comeback at its makeshift Disney World bubble, an assignment that requires a strict seven-day quarantine before I can walk by that fountain, report on games or even mosey down the hall to the ice machine.

Guests are forbidden. I can hear a few of my fellow media members through the walls, faintly, and hotel staffers walk by every few hours. The more time I spend in this room, the more I ponder Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper,” in which the main character, confined to a nursery, slips into delusion and imagines herself trapped within the dingy wallpaper. My room’s walls are white and mostly bare, but my bed’s headboard makes me grimace. Yellow.

This temporary detention has fascinated my friends, family members, social media followers and editors. In my first 48 hours here, I did more than a dozen interviews and received more than 100 supportive notes from around the world. Somehow, more than 185,000 people watched a 30-second tour of my empty room. Are these “How’s it going?” text messages coming from well-wishers or rubberneckers?

I’m not here to whine or complain, especially because this trip cost tens of thousands for room, food, testing and transportation. Like Memphis’s Ja Morant, “I’m not a silver spoon guy.” My hotel room has two beds, a desk, a flat-screen television, stable WiFi, a functional toilet and hot water. Numerous NBA players have questioned the accommodations, but I’ve worked in worse conditions many times.

Truthfully, I’m happy to be back in the field - even if this winds up being a 94-day stay as planned. The NBA’s shutdown in March left me in denial and then despair, worried about the public health crisis and adrift without an NBA calendar to dictate my days as it has for 13 years. Sunrise workouts did little to ease the disruption stress; caring colleagues endured my meltdowns. I am very fortunate that the months passed without

health, financial or employment hardship.

But I write a handful of stories and host five podcasts, all exclusively about basketball, every week. As such, I don’t have much else going on. When I applied at The Washington Post, where beat-switching is common, the top bosses floated a hypothetical: “Would you ever want to cover a political campaign?” My tepid response and singular focus raised eyebrows.

Sorry, ball is life.

Throughout the four-month shutdown, I privately braced for 18 months without hoops and adopted a public posture that I wanted to cover the playoffs no matter when or where they took place. That commitment was tested when the NBA rolled out its bubble plan.

Fools rush in, so I consulted with a primary care physician, cardiologist and psychiatrist, as well as medical experts inside and outside the NBA. They all assented. I faced accusations of hypocrisy from my parents in Oregon, whom I had guilttripped into home isolation in March. Eventually, my mother sewed me some masks and crossed her fingers. There was nothing she could say.

The NBA gave seven days notice that I had been selected as one of 10 independent reporters to live in the bubble, and I received my final health clearance less than 24 hours before my flight from my home in Los Angeles. That nerve-racking week was spent chasing down medical sign-offs and packing for a semester abroad. I booked a one-way ticket - in case the bubble caved - and indulged in atypical comforts like a firstclass upgrade and a car service.

My mind wasn’t fully at peace, and there were good deals during the pandemic.

I arrived at the bubble Sunday afternoon in good spirits, receiving an NBA-themed Disney wristband that provided contactless entry to my room.

Masked writers from The New York Times, The Associated Press, USA Today and other outlets mingled at a safe distance before going their separate ways for the week-long quarantine.

To be freed from this room, I must pass coronavirus tests on seven consecutive days.

These involve jamming cotton swabs up my nose and down my throat, with results returned 15 hours later on a lab’s website.

The NBA’s nonnegotiable rules require that I take my temperature, use a pulse oximeter and answer a symptom survey for unseen doctors each morning through an iPhone app. Forced to choose between my medical privacy and writing about

basketball, I picked the latter.

I feel safe here - although the stringent regulations and sprawling campus might contribute to a false sense of security. Florida is a coronavirus hotspot, and I am well aware that careful health monitoring, with timely and trustworthy testing, is a privilege unavailable to many Americans. Each negative test brings relief but also sadness.

Clippers guard Patrick Beverley wryly noted this week that “the bubble is what you make it.” He’s wise. When I first heard that I’d be spending three months at Disney World, I gritted my teeth. Florida’s humidity is fierce. An amusement park is a good walk spoiled. And, as a reality-based person with no interest in cartoons, I can’t pick Belle, Bambi or Buzz out of a lineup.

But I faced no pressure and needed no convincing. The media seats are 10 feet from the court, a dream perk. The world’s best (healthy) players will play out the postseason with inviteonly shows in front of a few dozen onlookers, and the FOMO would have been unbearable at home. This is a big stage and few alternative theaters are open.

My greatest hope - besides good health for everyone - is that the bubble holds and the conversation can return to the court. These 300 players have prepared their minds and bodies to chase rings, and they deserve to see a champion crowned.

In the meantime, I’m acclimating. After spending my first four months of quarantine refining a high-protein, vegetarian diet and walking at least eight miles a day, I’ve had to reset my routines.

Each delivered meal is stocked with packaged items to reduce virus spread, leading to a pile of unopened junk food. By Tuesday, I had ordered 64 ounces of peanut butter online to fill in the gaps. I miss the Pacific Ocean breeze as I trek back and forth across my room, eight paces at a time, to satisfy my smartwatch’s demand for 12,000 steps. These minuscule sacrifices will be long forgotten once LeBron James and Zion Williamson take the court.

I’m thrilled to see the enormous flood of interest in the NBA’s return, but empathize with conscientious objectors who believe basketball should remain on hiatus. There’s no way around it: Recouping television revenue will increase risk for players. Someone could die, and careers could be altered by the virus’s unknown long-term effects. I think about that every day.

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Jamal Crawford (11) of the Phoenix Suns controls the ball against Frank Ntilikina of the New York Knicks during their Dec. 17, 2018 game at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

Getting back to NBA action hasn’t been easy for Jamal Crawford Kristian Winfield New York Daily News

Jamal Crawford was frustrated, to say the least.

Crawford, a three-time NBA Sixth Man of the Year, scored 51 points for the Phoenix Suns in the last game of the 2018-19 season. But at age 40, he went the entirety of the 2019-20 season as a free agent, and his unemployment couldn’t have

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• Waive seven-day practice rule • Maintain current practice requirements • Encourage geographic scheduling for games & contests • Schools would have the option, if permitted by state officials, to offer off-season conditioning workouts.

“We recognize this is challenging for everyone, but the decisions made at the State level are based upon data and statewide infection rates all in an effort to stop the spread of COVID and reopen responsibly,” said Dr. Robert Zayas, NYSPHSAA Executive Director. “At this time, Department of Health guidance presented on July 13 prohibits interscholastic athletics across the state.

“The Association will continue to follow state guidance and will work collectively with State officials to ensure high school athletics will start up responsibly in the future.

As an association, we must be willing to be flexible and continue to explore all options

been a byproduct of character issues, either: Crawford is the league’s reigning Teammate of the Year, revered by those he’s shared a locker room with.

“I went through a range of emotions. I was frustrated at the beginning,” he said. “I didn’t understand. I didn’t know what happened.”

An unfortunate set of circumstances, however, paved the way for Crawford’s NBA

return.

The Brooklyn Nets endured a number of injuries, then watched three players (Spencer Dinwiddie, DeAndre Jordan, Taurean Prince) test positive for the coronavirus.

Wilson Chandler also opted out of the Orlando bubble, leaving four open roster spots for substitute players.

with students’ safety as our main focus,” Zayas concluded.

With regional differences, schools and areas will be impacted differently by the COVID-19 crisis. At the discretion of the NYSPHSAA Officers and authorization from state officials, if the Fall sports seasons are interrupted or impacted by COVID-19 crisis (i.e. state official guidance, school closings, cancelation of high-risk sports, etc.) then a condensed seasons plan will be implemented.

The Condensed Season plan would entail the following, with the stipulated dates being tentative.

Season I (Winter Sports) Dates: Jan. 4-Mar. 13 (Week 27-36) 10 Weeks *Note: tentative dates Sports: basketball (girls & boys), bowling (girls & boys), gymnastics, ice hockey (girls & boys), indoor track & field (girls & boys), skiing (girls & boys), swimming (boys), *wrestling, *competitive cheer. * Because of high risk nature of wrestling and competitive cheer, sports may have to be moved to Season II or season III. Season II (Fall Sports) Dates: Mar. 1-May 8 (Week

35-44) 10 Weeks *Note: tentative dates Sports: football, cross country (girls & boys), field hockey, soccer (girls & boys), swimming (girls), volleyball (girls & boys), Unified bowling.

Note: Weather will have an impact upon outdoor sports in some parts of the state in March and potentially early April. Girls Tennis moved to Season III. Season III (Spring Sports) Dates: Apr. 5-Jun. 12 (Week 40-49) 10 Weeks *Note: tentative dates Sports: baseball, softball, golf (girls & boys), lacrosse (girls & boys), tennis (girls & boys), outdoor track & field (girls & boys), Unified basketball.

The NYSPHSAA Officers have the ability to adjust seasons with the authority granted within the NYSPHSAA Constitution which states: “Article IV, 2: A committee of officers in consultation with the staff shall have the authority to act on all matters not provided for in this constitution and bylaws, and on such emergency business as may arise between regular meetings of the Executive Committee.”

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Columbia Clippers’ Brayden Conrad scores during the second inning of Wednesday’s Eastern New York 12U Travel Baseball game against the Berkshire Americans at Galvan Field.

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KINDERHOOK — Brady Holzhauer tripled, doubled and drove in two runs to lead the Columbia Clippers to an 8-2 victory over the Niskayuna Warriors in Tuesday’s Eastern New York 14U Travel Baseball game.

The Clippers jumped out to a 3-1 lead after one inning and never looked back, adding single runs in the second and third innings and three in the fourth.

Columbia Clippers 12U third baseman Demetrio Morales.

Umpire Sean Connors makes the safe call as Columbia Clippers’ Liam Mullins scores on a wild pitch during Wednesday’s Eastern New York 12U Travel Baseball game.

Mason Ferrer had two singles and an RBI for the Clippers. Jack Mullins, Derrick Dellea, Kyle Bartlett and Tyler Van Allen each had a single and an RBI and Ewan McComb and Neil Howard III both singled.

Ferrer pitched four innings to earn the victory, striking out three, walking four and allowing two runs and two hits. Bartlett relieved and allowed just one hit and no runs with one strikeout and two walks in three innings.

The Clippers (2-2) host the South Troy Dodgers on Saturday at 10 a.m. at Kinderhook Town Park.

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Columbia Clippers’ Callan Heimroth dives safely back to first base during Wednesday’s Eastern New York 12U Travel Baseball game against the Berkshire Americans at Galvan Field.

2020 MLB preview for every team in 60 words John Romano Tampa Bay Times

Let’s be honest, the pandemic should be No. 1 in the power rankings. Neither wars nor labor strife nor previous plagues have ever disrupted a season like the coronavirus.

With the season turned into a 60-game shootout, the chances of fluke results are greater than ever. With that in mind, here’s 60 words on all 30 MLB teams.

1. Los Angeles Dodgers Is it possible to feel sorry for the mega rich? The Dodgers lost one World Series to a team that admitted to cheating and lost another to a team accused of cheating. They trade for one year of Mookie Betts, and the pandemic almost wipes it out.

Then David Price decides not to play. Good thing L.A. is still loaded.

2. New York Yankees Well, this ain’t fair. The richest team with the snazziest roster may have benefitted from the pandemic more than anyone. Back in March, the Yankees were looking at starting the season without Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton, James Paxton and Aaron Hicks due to injuries. Now there’s a chance all four will be on the roster for the new opening day.

3. Houston Astros Even (cheaters) with a new manager (cheaters) and without Gerrit Cole (cheaters) the Astros remain the team (cheaters) to beat in the West (cheaters). It was a tumultuous offseason but Houston still has a star-laden lineup with George Springer, Jose Altuve, Carlos Correa and Alex Bregman. Losing Cole will sting. And seeing Zack Greinke struggle in the postseason doesn’t help.

4. Washington Nationals Kind of sad the Nationals will not get much of a victory lap in 2020. The best solution would be for Washington to repeat as World Series champions, and that’s definitely a possibility with what may be the best rotation in baseball. But losing Anthony Rendon to free agency and Ryan Zimmerman to coronavirus concerns will be hard to overcome.

5. Tampa Bay Rays Nervous? Excited? Honestly, either emotion works. The

Rays have the makings of one of the best rosters in baseball.

The rotation could be elite, the bullpen is deep, and the lineup is versatile. But the top three starting pitchers do not have the most reliable medical charts. With that in mind, the 60-game season could work to Tampa Bay’s advantage.

6. Minnesota Twins The Twins absolutely bludgeoned the American League Central in 2019 and then went out and signed ... another slugger. Giving Josh Donaldson $92 million is a bizarre move for a team that clearly has enough offense to win in the regular season, but probably not enough pitching to make a deep postseason run. And, no, Kenta Maeda is not the answer.

7. Atlanta Braves Lost Josh Donaldson to free agency, and Freddie Freeman has tested positive for the coronavirus. That’s potentially a large chunk of missing offense.

Freeman will eventually come back, but any time lost is amplified in a 60-game season.

Cole Hamels replaces Dallas Keuchel, but there may not be enough pitching to hang with Washington and New York in the East.

8. New York Mets Will Yoenis Cespedes make it all the way back? Can Pete Alonso repeat his monster rookie season? Will Jeff McNeil win the batting title? Does any of that matter? Because a starting rotation that includes Jacob deGrom, Marcus Stroman and Rick Porcello should be able to carry New York to the wild card if not the division title.

9. Oakland Athletics Talk about your sister cities. Oakland is the West Coast version of Tampa Bay. The A’s have attendance problems, revenue problems and still manage to reach the postseason on a regular basis. Their rotation lacks star power but is deep, and the lineup had three players receiving AL MVP votes last season. But, as always, they’ll struggle in the playoffs.

10. Cincinnati Reds There were only 10 deals for free agents that exceeded $60 million in the offseason.

The Reds accounted for two of them with Mike Moustakas

and Nick Castellanos. Cincinnati also went to Japan to invest in centerfielder Shogo Akiyama. Combine the new-look offense with one of the better starting rotations around and the Reds are legitimate NL Central division contenders.

11. Cleveland Indians Even after trading away Trevor Bauer and Corey Kluber last year — and not getting nearly enough in return — the Indians still have a strong enough rotation to keep the Twins looking over their shoulders in the Central. The oddity of a 60-game season could benefit a pitching-heavy team like Cleveland. Or the Indians could give up and trade Francisco Lindor.

12. St. Louis Cardinals Hello? Anybody home? The Cardinals seemed awfully quiet in the offseason. Maybe they got cocky after winning the NL Central in 2019 but that’s only because MLB rules insist someone win. The starting rotation is still impressive and could be enough to win the division, but it’s got to be disappointing St. Louis did nothing to boost a below-average offense.

13. Los Angeles Angels Three MVP awards and four times as the runnerup. And Mike Trout still only has three games on his postseason resume. The Angels are wasting one of the greatest careers in baseball history, and there’s only marginal hope that things will be different in 2020. Anthony Rendon helps, but the pitching remains spotty. It will take a Joe Maddon miracle.

14. Chicago White Sox Impressive hitters up and down the lineup, starting with batting champion Tim Anderson, Eloy Jimenez and Yoan Moncada. But are you willing to bet money on that starting rotation? Maybe if free-agent acquisition Dallas Keuchel can continue to fool hitters for another two months Chicago can have an interesting summer.

But the future is still probably another year away.

15. Arizona Diamondbacks Give the Diamondbacks credit. They see themselves as playoff contenders and invested $85 million in Madison Bumgarner for five years. It

wasn’t a particularly wise investment for a pitcher in his 30s who is no longer elite, but at least Arizona is making an effort in the era of tanking. Will it lead to a 2020 wild card? Probably not.

16. Toronto Blue Jays The Blue Jays have one of the more exciting starting lineups, which is good because Toronto is going to need to score a ton of runs to support a shaky starting rotation. And that’s after spending $104 million to sign Hyun-Jin Ryu and Tanner Roark to free-agent deals. Got a shot at .500 for the first time since 2016.

17. Chicago Cubs Much like his tenure in Tampa Bay, it appears Joe Maddon got out of town at the right time. The Cubs aren’t a bad team. They may even win the division. But their talent pool is dwindling. After averaging 97 wins a season for four years, the Cubs dropped to 84. And they’ve had more subtractions than additions in 2020.

18. Boston Red Sox Their manager was sent packing, their best player was traded to the Dodgers and their starting rotation looks like something out of the Cape Cod League. So, yes, your prayers have been answered if you are a Tampa Bay fan with a sadistic heart. The only downside is you will only get to see the Sox suffer for 60 games.

19. San Diego Padres The farm system is stacked and the left side of the infield is gold standard. Still, it’s hard to see the Padres making the leap from last place to wild card even with Tommy Pham adding a dose of intensity.

The pitching is just not playoff caliber. So Year 2 of the Manny Machado era looks like another lost cause.

20. Philadelphia Phillies Advanced metrics say Philadelphia is, at best, a .500 team.

I think the metrics might be off this time. Philadelphia boosted its rotation with Zack Wheeler and goosed the offense with Didi Gregorius. Mostly, the Phillies helped themselves by bringing in manager Joe Girardi to replace Gabe Kapler.

This team underperformed in 2019 so there’s plenty of room

for improvement.

21. Milwaukee Brewers First, the good news: The Brewers re-signed Christian Yelich to a seven-year, $188.5 million contract. Now, the bad news: To clear that much cash, Milwaukee had to let a few decent bats walk out the door.

The Brewers tried to compensate with under-the-radar signings (including former Ray Avisail Garcia) but it might take a year or two to fully reload.

22. Texas Rangers The Rangers are going the wrong direction with run prevention. Back in 2015 when they won the division, the Rangers gave up 733 runs. That total has since gone up every year until reaching 878 runs in 2019, despite a stellar year from Mike Minor. Mediocre team?

Pandemic? Not the best time to be opening a new billion-dollar stadium.

23. Colorado Rockies Colorado signed Nolan Arenado to an eight-year, $260 million contract in 2019 and, soon after, were apparently talking about trading him.

So what’s the strategy? Well, maybe the Rockies figured they could restock their roster by keeping Arenado under control and then dealing him. But it’s a risky move with a contract that large because there are limited trade partners.

24. Pittsburgh Pirates Congratulations, Derek Shelton! The former Rays hitting coach is making his big league debut as a manager in Pittsburgh. And chances are we won’t hear from him again until his job is on the line. Pittsburgh just doesn’t seem to be trending in any discernible direction. The major-league roster is weak and the farm system is average at best.

25. Kansas City Royals The Royals were not as bad as they looked last year, but that’s not saying much when you lose 103 games. The good news? A monster season from Jorge Soler. The bad news? Bet he doesn’t repeat it. There’s help on the horizon, but it won’t arrive quickly enough to make the Royals anything other than an annoying speed bump.

26. Detroit Tigers

Finally, there’s a reason to pay attention in Detroit. The Tigers have included a pair of recent No. 1 overall picks on their 60-player pool. Neither Casey Mize (2018 draft) nor Spencer Torkelson (2020) are expected to make the opening day roster, but there’s a chance they could land in the big leagues once the Tigers crash and burn this summer.

27. Seattle Mariners It’s been 18 years since Seattle last saw the postseason.

And that trend ain’t gonna change in 2020. But at least the Mariners are finally settled on a sensible direction. After years of deluding themselves, the Mariners swallowed their pride and made the moves it would take to restock the farm system. But no need to check back until 2022.

28. San Francisco Giants If you’re going to rebuild, you might as well do it during a pandemic-shortened season.

The Giants lost their top starter (Madison Bumgarner) their closer (Will Smith) their centerfielder (Kevin Pillar) and their heart and soul (Buster Posey) to free agency or the pandemic.

At least the farm system is solid so San Francisco could be back in contention soon.

29. Miami Marlins Does the world really need a Marlins preview? Miami has not been over .500 in more than a decade and it won’t happen in 2020 either. Yes, the farm system has been upgraded considerably, but why would the Marlins acquire Jonathan Villar and Corey Dickerson while they’re still rebuilding?

Let’s hope they’re planning to use both as midseason trade bait.

30. Baltimore Orioles They lost 108 games last season, and then traded two of their most productive players in early December. It was actually a smart move to deal pitcher Dylan Bundy and second baseman Jonathan Villar for prospects, but it means the franchise overhaul is still in progress. In fact, the Orioles have a legitimate chance to be even worse in 2020.

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Son-in-law refuses to stop driving after having seizures Dear Abby, My son-in-law was diagnosed with epilepsy 25 years ago. He typically has two or three seizures a year. He has seen a neurologist on and off over the years, but he has not been to the doctor for his medications in several years. He works in the medical field and gets his meds DEAR ABBY from the doctors he works with.

He recently had a seizure after dropping one of his children off at an appointment.

Fortunately, the child wasn’t in the car when he wrecked it. My question is, how involved should I be? Should I confront him? Did I mention he refuses to stop driving?

I’m extremely concerned about the wellbeing of my daughter and four grandchildren and the lives of others on the roads who could be injured or killed as a result of his actions. Do I have a right to be involved? My friends and other family members tell me there is nothing I can do.

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JEANNE PHILLIPS

Your son-in-law should not be taking medications for his epilepsy from doctors who are not intimately involved with his care. If the accident didn’t serve as a wakeup call to talk to his doctor, it should have.

Consider contacting your auto insurance company and asking what can be done about an epileptic motorist who is prone to seizures several times a year while still driving. If you can’t find guidance there, the state police where your sonin-law lives might be interested.

Your daughter and her family have been lucky so far not to have been seriously injured, but they may not always be. The only thing you should NOT do is stay silent.

Dear Abby, Over the last several years I have learned the value of counseling, which helped me deal with years of undiagnosed depression. I overcame my preconceived notions about therapy, and I’m happier now than I have ever been because I was able to let go of tons of burdens I carried from my past.

It has been a wonderful and lifechanging experience.

One of my relatives has mentioned several times that she has a very strained relationship with her mom.

I can’t think of a nicer family, so I have never understood what could have caused this rift.

On Mother’s Day, I saw several social media posts from people celebrating their mothers, expressing how much they love them and how much they appreciate all their mothers have done for them. My relative posted something along the lines of, “My goal in life is to be a better mother than mine was” and some other things that demonstrated her disdain for her mother.

When I saw the post, my heart ached for her mom, but my heart ached for my relative even more. It seems she carries so much hurt in her heart, and I wonder if she could benefit from therapy as I have, but I don’t know how to suggest it. How should I approach this?

Helping Out In Idaho

DR. KEITH ROACH

Bipolar disorder is a disorder of mood, where people typically have periods of very high energy (“mania”) and low (“depression”). Although many people cycle in between these poles, some do not. A large number of people will never develop the manic phase, which can be very destructive, as sufferers are at risk for uncontrolled behaviors, such as excess spending, sexual infidelity

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Approach it by telling your relative you saw her post and were struck by the pain she must be feeling to have put something like that online for all the world to see. Explain about the baggage that therapy helped you to overcome in your own life and what a difference it has made for you. Then offer her your therapist’s phone number.

What pitfalls occur when upgrading a bipolar drug?

I read your recent response to a man having withdrawal issues from short-term Paxil use.

Could you take a shot at a bigger, yet related problem I have? I have been on 9 mg bromazepam daily for over 40 years. I am now 75. My diagnosis was manic depressive, which is now, I believe, bipolar, as well as an anxiety TO YOUR disorder.

GOOD HEALTH About 10 years ago, my doctor was considering if I could change to a more “modern” medication, as mine was by then known to speed mental decline. His concern was that the mental deterioration normally expected with aging was going to be accelerated with this medication, especially once I was over 70.

I moved across the country. I talked to my new doctor, but never addressed the problem.

Ten years later, I am age 75, and I feel my focus, memory and concentration are on that downward slope. I have some medical issues, but nothing that I anticipate will kill me soon.

Would you even consider trying to make a medication change considering my age?

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Blondie

and reckless driving. Instead, they have periods of high productivity, called hypomania, without the loss of control that accompanies acute mania. However, at least one manic or hypomanic episode in addition to depressive symptoms is necessary to make the diagnosis.

Bipolar disorder is more fre- Hagar the Horrible quently missed as a diagnosis than incorrectly diagnosed, but both can happen, and the first step in your care is a thorough evaluation to be sure of the diagnosis.

Bromazepam is a benzodiazepine drug available in Canada, but not the U.S. It is similar to Valium or Klonopin. It is not an effective drug for bipolar disorder. In fact, use of benzodiazepines is associated with greater risk of relapse of symptoms. Further, a person’s ability to metabolize and detoxify benzodiazepine drugs decreases with age, so Zits your effective dose has essentially been increasing as you have gotten older. This may indeed be responsible for some of the mental symptoms you have experienced.

Although valproic acid (Depakote) and quetiapine (Seroquel) are considered effective first-line agents, I feel that a psychiatrist is the most appropriate person to prescribe psychiatric medicines for bipolar disorder. I would recommend consultation with a psychiatrist, and would expect that the bromazepam will be very slowly tapered off after you get established on a more effective medication for bipolar disease, if indeed that is the correct diagnosis.

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Horoscope

By Stella Wilder Born today, you are certainly more aggressive than almost everyone else born under your sign, but you are also highly sensitive, with a keen awareness of the sufferings of others — and the combination of these traits really is rather perfect! You can put up quite a fight when you have to, but you are always quick to promote the peace once you have won the battle.

When it comes to love and romance, you are something of an enigma, and anyone who tries, with romantic intentions, to get close to you is sure to have a difficult time of it, for you do not respond to the “classic” cues, and tend to respond to romantic attention in unusual ways.

Also born on this date are: James Cagney, actor; Donald Sutherland, actor; Erle Stanley Gardner, author; David Hasselhoff, actor; Phyllis Diller, actress; Luke Bryan, singer.

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.

SATURDAY, JULY 18 CANCER (June 21-July 22) — Only you will know when you’re ready to take that next dramatic step forward — and it may be as early as today or tomorrow. Destiny calls!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — You have a chance to transform the status quo into something that is truly exciting to everyone around you today. This change is long overdue.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Now is no time to be superstitious; feel free to talk about the things that are on your mind without thinking you’re tempting

fate.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You’ll be working all hours to come up with the perfect response to a challenge mounted by one who knows you well.

What you do next really counts.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — That which you think you deserve is certainly worth pursuing. Today you’ll have several options, and each takes you along a different path.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Saying and doing what makes sense to you is as easy as can be — though you may encounter difficulty when asked to explain yourself.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You may not be quite as focused as you should be — but it’s likely the stars will be forgiving if you pledge to get back on track tomorrow.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Someone makes a promise that will benefit you greatly today — if it is kept. You must resist the temptation to check up on him or her.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — It’s a good day to offer help to one who is in a situation you recognize quite well. He or she has much on the line; you can secure a victory.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Trust your feelings today, and don’t let yourself overthink things that are much more basic than they appear. Get to the heart of the matter.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — One who knows you well is willing to make a personal sacrifice in order to help you with something you must get done before this day is out.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — The question of how to proceed today is best answered once you’ve studied the lay of the land. You must not repeat a mistake.

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SUPER QUIZ

THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME

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

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Churches and cathedrals Level 1

2

3

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

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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.

(Answers tomorrow) Jumbles: ADAGE SURLY GOATEE THATCH Answer: The problem with his ears was just wax buildup, which he was — GLAD TO HEAR

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Solution to Thursday’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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(e.g., What is considered to be the world’s largest church? Answer: St. Peter’s Basilica.)

Freshman level 1. The Act of Supremacy (1534) recognized Henry VIII as the head of this church.

2. Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are called _____.

3. The Old North Church in this city is famous for its “One if by land, two if by sea” signal.

Graduate level 4. Famous for its massive dome, in which city is Hagia Sophia?

5. In which city is the Church of the Holy Sepulchre?

6. Its members are sometimes colloquially called “Moonies,” a term many find pejorative.

PH.D. level 7. In which city is the Church of the Nativity?

8. The Christ Cathedral in California was touted as “the largest ____ building in the world.”

9. The Coptic Orthodox Church is centered in this city.

SUPER QUIZ ANSWERS 1. Church of England. 2. Mormons. 3. Boston. 4. Istanbul. 5. Jerusalem. 6.

Unification Church. 7. Bethlehem. 8. Glass. 9. Cairo.

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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Crossword Puzzle Mother Goose & Grimm ACROSS 1 Joint sometimes replaced 4 Very talkative 9 __ John’s; pizza parlor chain 13 Monetary penalty 14 Astaire’s dancing sister 15 Cowardly Oz visitor 16 Mouse’s downfall 17 Part of RN 19 Year’s end: abbr.

20 Clutch 21 Quick 22 Basket for fish 24 __ Moines 25 Class no-show 27 Most resentful 30 Creepy 31 Tranquillity 33 Seize suddenly 35 African nation 36 Practical joke 37 Fly alone 38 Panama or bowler 39 Angry look 40 Stitched 41 Double-cross 43 Elegant 44 Dale Evans’ man 45 Ontario’s __ Ste. Marie 46 House of snow 49 Adhere 51 Word attached to meal or cake 54 Exulting over victory 56 The Bee Gees or Nirvana 57 Sleep in a tent 58 Kitchen appliance 59 Acting award 60 Excessive publicity 61 Neatness 62 Suffix for count or host DOWN 1 Bring on board 2 Erroneous 3 Get-up-and-go 4 Attic 5 TV’s “Let’s Make __”

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6 Panhandles 7 Radar screen image 8 “Certainly!”

9 Make happy 10 Haughtiness 11 Wordsworth or Poe 12 Williams or Warhol 13 1-800-Flowers competitor 18 “Been __, done that” 20 Man’s nickname 23 Bug killer 24 Wooden pier 25 Computer fixer 26 Place for an addict 27 Not nuts 28 Blizzards 29 Stories 31 Say the rosary, e.g.

32 In one __ and out the other 34 Corpse 36 Theater production

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Non Sequitur

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37 CBS’ “__ Team” 39 One leaving bachelorhood 40 Punch 42 Group of actors 43 Horse’s gait 45 Burn lightly 46 Eczema symptom

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47 Elephant’s color 48 As __ as a rag 49 Word attached to broil or coal 50 Terra firma 52 Shoots carefully 53 Plaything 55 In favor of 56 20th letter

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