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SAUGERTIES — Operation Co-Co, an 18-month multiagency investigation into an alleged cocaine trafficking organization in Saugerties that covered Greene and Ulster counties resulted in the arrest of seven people, according to Det. Lt. Abram D. Markiewicz of the Ulster Regional Gang Enforcement Narcotics Team.

Charged were: n Russell J. Neglia, 25, of Saugerties, who police identified as the leader of the drug

trafficking organization, was charged with possession with the intent to distribute a controlled substance and Roger W. conspiracy to Hummer possess with the intent to distribute a controlled substance. n Roger W. Hummer II, 38, of Saugerties was charged with possession with the intent to distribute a controlled

substance, conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute a controlled substance, and being a felon in pos- Michael A. session of a Manor firearm. n Michael A. Manor, 38, of Teaneck, New Jersey, was charged with possession with the intent to distribute a controlled substance and conspiracy to possess with the intent

to distribute a controlled substance. n Francis M. Raffiani, 46, of Palenville was charged with two counts of Russell J. third degree Neglia criminal possession of a controlled substance. n Sophia R. Ricci, 23, of Saugerties was charged with second-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance

and first degree criminal possession of marijuana. n Scott Giannone, 56, of Saugerties was charged with second-degree criminal possession of marijuana. n Vincent F. Neglia Sr., 65 of Saugerties was charged with first degree criminal nuisance.

Investigators conducted thousands of hours of physical and electronic surveillance, using federal Title III wire interceptions on multiple phone lines, conducted See GREENE A8

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NEW YORK — The state may close bars and restaurants to prevent a surge of the coronavirus as Gov. Andrew Cuomo traveled to Savannah, Georgia, on Monday to meet with officials and help the Southern city fight against COVID-19.

Officials may reclose the state’s bars and restaurants, Cuomo said, after hundreds of New Yorkers crowded New York City streets in Astoria, Queens and the Lower East Side in Manhattan over the weekend, concerning officials the activity would cause a COVID-19 resurgence in New York as the virus continues to spread in 40 states and Puerto Rico.

The State Liquor Authority has revoked food and liquor licenses at dozens of businesses for violating COVID-19 orders requiring New Yorkers to socially distance, or remain 6 feet from others, and wear face masks in public.

New York residents and businesses that do not comply with COVID-19 orders and break state law could ruin reopening privileges for others.

“Bars and restaurants are the problem,” Cuomo said. “I’m telling you, we are right on the line. Congregations, by definition, have to be increasing our viral spread. It’s math. It’s going to impact viral spread. ... We’ll have to roll back the opening plan and close bars and restaurants.”

The majority of New Yorkers seen congregating at outdoor bars and restaurants were young people in their 20s, Cuomo said. The governor reminded New Yorkers the virus impacts people of all ages, including children, and anyone could transfer the disease to another, high-risk person and kill them.

“Young people, as a general rule, believe they are superheroes,” the governor said. “It’s not just about you. It’s about who you could infect. It’s stupid what you’re doing — don’t be stupid.”

Cuomo continued his months-long plea Monday for local governments to enforce social-distancing, face-covering and other pandemic mandates — not just inform residents about the necessity.

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GREENVILLE — The Greene County Sheriff’s Office is investigating an incident at Saturday’s Black Lives Matter rally in which a motorcyclist allegedly made contact with a protester.

The pedestrian was one of more than 150 people who descended on the George V. Vanderbilt Town Park to show support for the Black Lives Matter movement.

The protest did not result in any damage or injuries, Greene County Sheriff Peter Kusminsky said Monday.

Kusminsky confirmed that his office is looking into the incident involving the motorcyclist and the 27-year-old protester, who filed a report with the Sheriff’s Office following the incident.

Protesters walked the milelong loop from Vanderbilt Park to Veterans Park and back, bringing attention to what several people called “a culture of close-mindedness” in Greenville that fosters hostility toward people of color.

But not everyone who came out Saturday appreciated the marchers’ message.

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supporters were met at Veterans Park by fierce opposition, including about 25 counterprotesters and a separate group of about 20 veterans who said they were there to protect the park from vandalism.

In addition to the incident under investigation by the Sheriff’s Office, one other counterprotester used his motorcycle to confront the marchers as they approached the park.

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Black Lives Matter protesters were met by counterprotesters during a march on Route 32 in Greenville on Saturday.

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Protesters clamor against police brutality for the 50th day in a row, on July 16, 2020, at Portland, Oregon’s Federal Courthouse and are met with tear gas and “less-lethal” munitions and many arrests.

yourself to art” poster showing him in a raincoat discreetly flashing a bronze nude sculpture.

Courts have held that appearing nude in Portland is a protected form of political expression, superseding bans on public indecency.

In 2008, a Multnomah County judge cleared a nude bicyclist of indecent exposure charges, saying cycling naked had become a “well established tradition” in Portland as a form of “symbolic protest.” Four years later, a man was acquitted of similar charges by a judge who interpreted his stripping naked at Portland International Airport as a legitimate form of protest against Transportation Security Administration procedures.

The woman making her statement Saturday was altogether uninhibited, at one point standing on one leg and raising her arms in an arc-type motion.

As she struck ballet poses, a patrol car arrived and a dozen officers in blue uniforms replaced the line of agents, whom officials described as having been targeted by protesters throwing rocks, bottles and pieces of metal. She sat in the street facing them, legs spread in the headlights’ glare.

Later she rolled on her back in a graceful pose, then stood again. The second group of officers, who may have been either Portland police or federal

agents, also left.

In all, the woman’s appearance lasted about 15 minutes.

News photographers said she slipped away, uninjured, into the crowd.

Images of her on social media harked back to previous iconic — but clothed — images juxtaposing force and vulnerability, such as the 1967 photo of a Vietnam War protester who faced a line of U.S. troops and placed a carnation into the barrel of a soldier’s rifle. In an ultimate act of defiance broadcast worldwide, a man stood in front of a column of tanks leaving Beijing’s Tiananmen Square on June 5, 1989, a day after the Chinese military had suppressed protests by force.

Nudity has also served as a form of protest since at least to the 11th century, when legend holds that Lady Godiva rode naked, veiled only by her long hair, on a horse through Coventry, England, to protest oppressive taxation.

On Twitter, sympathetic commentators were quick to conclude that “Naked Athena,” as they dubbed the Portland protester, caused the officers to turn tail. But the reason for their departure is not clear from a review of multiple images. Federal officials and police did not comment on the woman.

Others on Twitter said the performance, by a white woman, distracted from protests of injustices faced by Black people.

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PORTLAND, Ore. — She emerged as an apparition from clouds of tear gas as federal agents fired pepper balls at angry protesters in the early Saturday darkness.

A woman wearing nothing but a black face mask and a stocking cap strode toward a dozen heavily armed agents attired in camouflage fatigues, lined up across a downtown Portland street. The agents, dispatched by the Trump administration over vociferous objections of state and city officials, are part of a force that has fired projectiles at and detained activists protesting nightly since the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police May 25.

Numerous photos and videos posted on Twitter show the unidentified woman as she halted in the middle of the street at about 1:45 a.m. She stood calmly, a surreal image of human vulnerability in the face of an overpowering force that has been criticized nationally by civil rights advocates.

The agents, in gas masks and helmets, continued firing pepper balls in a staccato “pop, pop, pop” heard on video, aiming low at the asphalt, where puffs of smoke mingled with clouds of gas. At one point, a fellow protester, clothed, carrying a homemade shield, darted in front of the woman, angling to protect her.

But the woman sidestepped him. He jumped out of the way, perhaps realizing that he made them both a target.

Before it was over, she struck ballet poses and reclined on the street. She also sat on the asphalt in a yogalike stance, facing officers, before they left.

Portland has long been loved, or mocked, for its streak of earnest but quirky organic earthiness, as portrayed in the “Portlandia” television comedy series. Sometimes the envelopepushing forms of expression involve nudity.

A Portland tavern owner, Bud Clark, gained fame during the 1980s before his election as mayor via a popular “expose

The right-wing Nationalist Review website gave the incident its own spin, stating: “Antifa psychopath loses her mind, strips naked to ‘protest’ Portland police.”

In Washington on Sunday, House Democrats continued to voice alarm at the Trump administration’s dispatching of federal agents to crack down on protesters in Portland, expressing concerns that it could be a precursor to similar crackdowns in cities across the nation. A Homeland Security official has said the tactics could well be applied in other cities in the months before the presidential election.

In a letter to the inspectors general of the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security, leading Democrats called for the watchdogs to investigate the conduct of the federal agents, whose presence was again termed unwelcome Sunday by Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, speaking on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“This is a matter of utmost urgency,” wrote House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y.; Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss.; and Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney; D-N.Y. Later Sunday, the Oregonian newspaper of Portland posted an account of the mysterious woman’s appearance on its website, OregonLive, quoting one of its photographers, Dave Killen. He said that he didn’t hear the woman utter a word as pepper balls nicked the asphalt beside her and protesters yelled at officers.

“She was incredibly vulnerable,” Killen said. “It would have been incredibly painful to be shot with any of those munitions with no clothes on.”

PORTLAND, Ore. - He came to the protest with a question.

He left with two broken bones in a confrontation with federal officers that went viral.

Christopher David had watched in horror as videos surfaced of federal officers in camouflage throwing Portland Ore., protesters into unmarked vans.

The 53-year-old Portland resident had heard the stories: protesters injured, gassed, sprayed with chemicals that tugged at their nostrils and burned their eyes.

David, a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and former member of the Navy’s Civil Engineer Corps, said he wanted to know what the officers involved thought of the oath they had sworn to protect and defend the Constitution.

So, he said, on Saturday evening, he headed to downtown Portland to ask them.

That night’s protests outside the federal courthouse - the 51st day of ongoing demonstrations - began with a line of local moms linking arms and demanding the federal agents stop targeting Portland kids. David, who had never attended a protest before, hung back and watched.

He was trying to keep his distance, he said, as a host of health problems have made him especially vulnerable amid a stillraging coronavirus pandemic.

He asked one woman when the feds would show up, but she said it was also her first protest since the Department of Homeland Security deployed tactical units from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection to bolster protections for federal buildings and officers in the Pacific Northwest city.

Just as he was about to leave, David said, the federal officers emerged. They rushed a line of protesters nearby, knocking protesters to the ground. David walked toward a gap in the line, calling out to the officers.

“Why are you not honoring your oath?” he bellowed. “Why are you not honoring your oath to the Constitution?”

An officer trained his weapon on David’s chest as several agents pushed him, sending David stumbling backward. But he regained his center and tried again. Another agent raised his baton and began to beat David, who stood unwavering with his arms at his sides. Then another officer unloaded a canister of chemical irritant spray into David’s face.

That was all he could handle, David said, he turned and walked away, flipping off the federal forces as he went.

A video taken by Portland Tribune reporter Zane Sparling that captures David’s moment of resistance has, as of early Monday, been viewed nearly 9 million times.

Unable to see from the chemicals burning his eyes and blurring his vision, David said, he stumbled into a cloud of gas that made him cough and retch.

He found his way to a bench in the park, where a street medic aided him and eventually pulled him away from the advancing officers.

At the hospital, he said, he learned his right hand had been broken in two places.

In the time since, he has been hailed on social media as a hero.

Some have dubbed him Portland’s own man of steel, a defender of the city, an anti-fascist

super-soldier.

David said he is none of those things.

“It’s just us normal people out there,” he said. “There were a whole group of pregnant moms standing out there linking arms and they got gassed. You hear people like [President] Trump say it’s just a bunch of wacko fringe people in liberal cities who are out there, but no way.

We’re all just normal people who think what’s happening is wrong.”

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Cairo considers battery storage moratorium

By Sarah Trafton Columbia-Greene Media

CAIRO — Town officials are considering the imposition of a six-month moratorium on battery storage projects after a recent proposal raised an overwhelming number of questions, Town Supervisor John Coyne said.

“This is a brand-new concept,” he said. “We want to make sure we protect the community.”

The town board held a public hearing on the proposed moratorium last Wednesday and will make a decision at its August meeting.

Plans call for a 20-megawatt project spearheaded

by Key Capture Energy. It is proposed to be built near the Central Hudson substation across from the Dojo Martial Arts and Fitness Academy on Route 32, Coyne said.

“There are still a lot of questions out there about the impact to the environment, to the tax base,” Coyne said. “It works in other

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The Central Hudson substation on Route 32 in Cairo, where a 20-megawatt battery storage project is proposed.

communities but we want to have everything in place to protect our community.”

The town of Catskill approved a 20-megawatt battery storage project last year near the intersection Route 9W and Route 23. Glidepath, the company behind the project, expects to start construction in 2021, Glidepath Director of Development Erin Hazen said in September.

Cairo is also working with a solar company on a project at the town’s sewer treatment plant, Coyne said.

The size of the solar farm has not yet been determined,

Coyne said.

“This is really big for our community,” he said. “There is no cost to our community, they are just using our land. The good thing about using the sewer plant is it’s not smack dab in the middle of the neighborhood. With proper design, you probably won’t even see it from the road.”

Town Councilman Jason Watts said he is in favor of the project.

“I’m not a big fan of solar but where the location is on this, that’s about all the land can be used for,” he said.

Athens boards seek feedback from survey

By Sarah Trafton Columbia-Greene Media

ATHENS — As the village and town of Athens embark on their journey to update a 13-year-old comprehensive plan, the municipalities are asking residents for feedback.

The village is working with Community Planning and Environmental Associates, the same firm that assisted with the 2007 plan, Trustee Joshua Lipsman said.

Athens officials are inviting residents, property owners, civic groups, business owners, employees and government workers to give their input about the comprehensive plan update.

“The threats and opportunities that we face in the village today are significantly different than they were even 10 years ago,” Athens Mayor Stephan Bradicich said. “The comprehensive planning process will ensure that the village board’s decisions relative to these are made in accordance with

the wishes of the residents.”

The plan will serve as a blueprint to guide the village’s economic growth, land use, recreation, infrastructure and community development for the next decade, he said.

A 19-person steering committee was formed to help guide the process.

Current members include former village mayor Andrea Smallwood, Carol Bernard, former village mayor Chris Pfister, Diana Abadie, Diane Tompkins, Ellen Roth, Lipsman, Laurel Wolfe, Leslie Reed, Melissa Saturnino, Merrill Roth, Nancy Poylo, Paul Kim, Paul Salvino, Athens Town Supervisor Robert F. Butler Jr., Ron Puhalski, Sheila Brady, Todd Bernard and Tom Satterlee.

“The 19-person volunteer steering committee has thought and discussed long and hard about these questions, and now we need the public’s input,” Butler said.

The two municipalities gathered together for a joint meeting in March and more

opportunities for public input are on the horizon, Lipsman said.

“In addition to the steering committee work, a joint town-village local government meeting was held in March 2020,” Lipsman said.

More public input opportunities will occur in the fall depending on COVID-19, he added.

In October, the village received a $9,900 matching grant from the Hudson River Valley Greenway for development of the comprehensive plan.

The village will match Greenway’s contribution through a combination of cash, in-kind services and volunteer hours, Lipsman said. The village has committed to making a $4,000 cash contribution, he added.

The survey can be found online at surveymonkey. com/r/AthensPlan or residents can fill out a paper copy at the Village Office.

The survey closes Aug. 15.

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Confidence needed in back-to-school plans Add the 12 public school districts across the Twin Counties to the growing list of government entities, departments, agencies, leagues and businesses asked to develop and submit plans for their phase 4 reopening.

The state Education Department last Thursday released guidance for schools as district administrators and educators plan for resuming classes in September. This will be a major undertaking amid pervasive uncertainty about the reopening of schools as the coronavirus surges anew.

One admirable accomplishment here is the transparency of the effort.

Input for the guidance was gathered from discussions

among hundreds of experts, parents, students, teachers, administrators and school board members. Few people if any can justly claim they were shut out of the process.

Another achievement is the scope of the guidance.

The 145-page state Education Department document released Thursday addresses issues of health and safety, facilities, transportation, school schedules, budgets and other components of reopening in the fall.

Hudson officials are reviewing the document and meeting regularly in subcommittees. It is unlikely Hudson schools will have 100% in-person instruction in the fall, but will use a hybrid model of in-person and remote classes. The details

are still being worked out.

The Catskill Central School District is taking a somewhat different path. Officials will review the state document and seek input from the community to come up with a final plan for the fall. Information from surveys will be used to help create the plans.

Five months ago, there was hope that the coronavirus would recede enough to allow 100% in-person classroom instruction. Regular discussion among committees and public participation through surveys are separate means to the same end. Confidence in the state’s guidance and the plans developed by the school districts is needed to sustain a new year in which classrooms are alive again.

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The president is very proud that he can count backward

By James Downie (c) 2020, The Washington Post ·

When President Donald Trump is confronted with bad poll numbers, his usual reaction - at least publicly - is all denial, no self-reflection. But if the president wants to know why the gap between him and Joe Biden in The Washington Post-ABC News poll has grown from two points in March to 15 points today, his advisers only need show him one other number from that poll: 54% of Americans now trust Biden to better handle the coronavirus pandemic, compared with just 34% who trust Trump; in March, it was 45% for Trump to 43% for Biden - a 22-point swing. And if Trump wants to know why that number has shifted so radically, those same advisers can play back his interview on this week’s edition of “Fox News Sunday.”

First came the litany of familiar falsehoods about the pandemic response so far: “Cases are up because we have the best testing in the world” - when case numbers have risen far faster than tests. “We have one of the lowest mortality rates in the world” - when the United States is actually among the highest. He said “99.7% [of] people are

going to get better” - when the current scientific consensus is that the fatality rate is at least twice the 0.3% the president suggests. The virus is “going to disappear” - when there’s no evidence that that will happen.

Then came the parade of foolhardy policies.

“There’s going to be a funding problem . . . when they don’t open their schools” - even though Trump cannot cut that funding without congressional approval. “I would consider not signing [a new stimulus bill] if we don’t have a payroll tax cut” even though conservative economists consider such a tax cut ineffective. And he won’t order a national mask mandate, because “I want people to have a certain freedom” - even though the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in the past week that the virus could be brought under control with a one- or two-month mandate.

But most pathetic was that, amid a recession and a pandemic, the president is obsessed with proving he’s actually really smart.

When host Chris Wallace pointed out that, despite Trump campaign attacks on Biden’s acuity, more voters see Biden as mental-

ly sound, Trump snapped, “Let’s take a test right now.

Let’s go down - Joe and I will take a test. Let him take the same test that I took.”

When Wallace said he’d taken the test as well and “it’s not that” hard, Trump turned on him: “Yes, the first few questions are easy.

But I’ll bet you couldn’t even answer the last five questions.” Wallace replied dryly, “Well, one of them was count back from 100 by seven.”

Any president pushing a brain-measuring contest with his opponent would be sad enough. But that this one is doing it while millions lose their jobs and thousands die because of an entirely preventable disaster is especially tragic.

Even the president’s advisers realize this: The Trump campaign reportedly is moving away from attacking Biden’s fitness. But slightly reining in Trump’s ego is hardly enough. So long as the administration’s pandemic response is defined by falsehoods and blunders, this virus will remain a millstone around the president’s neck.

James Downie is The Washington Post’s Digital Opinions Editor. He previously wrote for The New Republic and Foreign Policy magazine

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY ‘Ideology is the sterner face of myth, and we’re a myth-making people.’

Trump’s agents are sweeping peaceful citizens off the streets.

This is not America.

Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech … or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

WASHINGTON — Something terrible, something dangerous — and, yes, something unconstitutional — is happening in Portland, Oregon. It must be stopped.

“Federal law enforcement officers have been using unmarked vehicles to drive around downtown Portland and detain protesters since at least July 14,” reports Oregon Public Broadcasting.

“Personal accounts and multiple videos posted online show the officers driving up to people, detaining individuals with no explanation of why they are being arrested, and driving off.”

The report continues: “The tactic appears to be another escalation in federal force deployed on Portland city streets, as federal officials and President Donald Trump have said they plan to ‘quell’ nightly protests outside the federal courthouse and Multnomah County Justice Center that have lasted for more than six weeks.”

Of course, authorities — and we’ll get to the matter of what authorities in a bit — have the power to prevent violence. But that doesn’t seem to be what’s happening in Portland, where nightly protests have been taking place since early June. Law enforcement agents aren’t targeting protesters who engaged in violence; they appear to be sweeping up random people who have exercised their rights under the First Amendment.

Like Mark Pettibone, 29, who was heading home in the early hours of Wednesday morning when, according to The Washington Post’s Katie Shepherd, “several men in green military fatigues and generic ‘police’ patches sprang out of an unmarked gray minivan.”

Pettibone was detained, searched, driven to the federal courthouse, placed in a holding cell and read his Miranda rights against self-incrimination. He declined to waive them. And then, about 90 minutes later, he was released.

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MARCUS “I just happened to be wearing black on a sidewalk in downtown Portland at the time,” Pettibone told Oregon Public Broadcasting. “And that apparently is grounds for detaining me.”

This is not America.

As much as I revile what President Donald Trump is doing to the country, I have not been among the alarmists who warn of incipient authoritarianism, of festering fascism. I believe — I have believed, anyway — in the rule of law; the steadfastness of the courts, even larded with Trump-appointed judges; the strong tradition of the U.S. military refraining from being used to serve partisan interests. But to have watched live as federal agents attacked peaceful protesters near Lafayette Square, and now to read the reports from Portland, is to worry: Perhaps that was over-optimistic.

This is not America because of the First Amendment, quoted above. It is not America because we are a federal system, something you would think Republicans, who supposedly believe in states’ rights, understand and respect. So we are a country in which governors can summon federal help, are authorized to call out the National Guard — not a country in which unbadged federal police are loosed upon innocent citizens of a state over the objections of its governor. In this case, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown, joined by Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, who have beseeched the feds to leave.

Yes, President Dwight D. Eisenhower deployed federal troops to Arkansas. That was to protect black students attempting to integrate Central High School in Little Rock, and to enforce a federal court order. It was to protect the

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“This political theater from President Trump has nothing to do with public safety,” Brown, a Democrat, said in a statement. “Deploying federal officers to patrol the streets of Portland” is “a blatant abuse of power by the federal government,” she said, adding that acting Homeland Security secretary Chad Wolf, who visited the city on Thursday, “is on a mission to provoke confrontation for political purposes.

He is putting both Oregonians and local law enforcement officers in harm’s way.”

Wolf, for his part, said Portland “has been under siege for 47 straight days by a violent mob while local political leaders refuse to restore order to protect their city.

Each night, lawless anarchists destroy and desecrate property, including the federal courthouse, and attack the brave law enforcement officers protecting it.”

But Wolf’s list of terrible depredations allegedly committed by the Portland protesters was less than convincing — and, in any event, in no way justified the kind of random, unprovoked arrests that have been described.

The tally from July 15: n Violent anarchists doxed members of federal law enforcement. n Violent anarchists attempted to damage the Hatfield Courthouse by throwing objects at it and spray painting it. Numerous fireworks were also lit. n Violent anarchists trespassed on federal property and destroyed a card reader at the Justice Center.

There is a difference between solving a legitimate problem (the destruction of public property) and picking a political fight. Trump, understandably terrified of losing reelection, appears intent on doing the latter. “A federal courthouse is a symbol of justice — to attack it is to attack America,” Wolf thundered in his statement.

But there is a more important symbol of justice than a brick-and-mortar building.

It is called the Constitution. To ignore it is to attack America.

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John Lewis’ example spurred black activists to seek office

By Naomi Nix and Karen Toulon Bloomberg News (TNS)

WASHINGTON — Five years ago, President Barack Obama clasped the left hand of Rep. John Lewis and walked across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, in remembrance of a bloody civil rights battle the congressman had waged five decades before.

Lewis told Obama about the state troopers who assaulted him and other nonviolent protesters on that same bridge in 1965 as they called for expanded voting rights for Black citizens. Obama said men such as Lewis helped create a more “just America.”

“It is a rare honor in this life to follow one of your heroes,” the former president told a crowd of onlookers. “And John Lewis is one of my heroes.”

The historic moment from March 7, 2015, is emblematic of the generational and tactical shifts taking place among Black politicians. The death of Lewis, a Democrat who helped organize the 1963 March on Washington, means the ranks of Black politicians propelled into office by the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s continues to thin.

The old guard still wields influence. Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina, the highest ranking Black member in Congress, is frequently credited with turning around Joe Biden’s presidential campaign in February, putting the former vice president on the road to the Democratic nomination.

But now, Black lawmakers are increasingly adopting the policies and language of a surging Black Lives Matter movement as more Americans express outrage over racial inequities. And a new breed of organizers is following a path Lewis helped invent — from civil rights activist to political officeholder.

Lewis “turned his activism into legislative action,” said Rashawn Ray, a fellow at the Brookings Institution. “You have to sit at the table and negotiate, and I think there is going to be a group of 18- to 30-year olds who have already been thinking in that vein, but are now going to use John Lewis as a direct model because of the attention that’s coming with his death.”

That shift has started. Younger leaders shaped by or part of the contemporary Black Lives Matter movement are running for — and sometimes winning — positions in local and state offices, and even Congress.

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U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) holds a candle during an event on January 30, 2017, in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C.

In 2016, Kimberly Foxx, running on a platform of criminal justice reform, became the first African American woman elected as Cook County (Ill.) State’s Attorney. She now leads the second largest prosecutor’s office in the U.S. Activist DeRay Mckesson, who came to prominence during the protests over the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, unsuccessfully ran for mayor in his hometown of Baltimore in 2016.

Last year, Lezley McSpadden, Brown’s mother, lost her bid for a City Council seat in Ferguson.

On Friday, Jamaal Bowman, a Black middle school principal who’s experienced police brutality first hand, was declared the winner over 16-term New York Rep. Eliot Engel in a Democratic primary, all but assuring him of a win in November’s election.

“I am not so worried about someone taking the baton to continue to legacy of John Lewis,” said Andre Perry, author of “Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities.” “I see John Lewis in Black Lives Matter today.”

The 116th Congress began as the most racially and ethnically diverse, with 56 Black lawmakers among the 116 non-white members.

In recent years, some of those lawmakers, chiefly Democrats, have climbed the seniority ladder to powerful positions, including Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York, who chairs the House Democratic Caucus; Rep. Maxine Waters of California, who chairs the House Financial Services Committee; and the late Elijah Cummings of Maryland, who chaired the House Oversight Committee before he died in 2019.

Clyburn, the House Majority Whip, worked with Lewis as an activist in the 1960s. “We never

thought back then that we would be successful enough in the movement to both end up serving in Congress together,” Clyburn said in a statement.

“Yet, for almost 27 years we did, because he never lost faith.”

The Congressional Black Caucus, led by Californian Rep. Karen Bass, also played a significant role in the House’s recent passage of a sweeping criminal justice bill.

“They are being affected by the ... Black Lives movement,” Ray said about the CBC, which has existed in its current form since 1971. “Everyone has been in Washington. That’s exactly what’s supposed to happen” with social justice movements.

The caucus grew out of an informal gathering of Blacks in Congress called the Democracy Select Committee in the late 1960s. It was started by 13 Black members of Congress who wanted a formal group to advocate collectively for their individual districts and for Black Americans. Among the founders was Rep. Shirley Chisholm, who would go on to be the first Black major-party candidate to run for U.S. president, in 1972.

Those politicians were mostly propelled into office after the civil rights movement, the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. One of the caucus’ first acts was to boycott President Richard M. Nixon’s 1971 State of the Union address, after he refused to meet with the group.

The caucus later presented Nixon with 61 recommendations to eradicate racism, provide better housing for Black families, and support Black participation in government.

More recently, the group has called for action in the wake of police killings and the disproportionate effect of the COVID-19 virus on people of color.

Lewis knew plenty about translating social justice

List of possible Democratic successors to John Lewis narrowed to five

Gunman who shot NJ judge’s son to death and wounded her husband is lawyer who reportedly once had case before her

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WASHINGTON — A highprofile panel of Georgia Democrats has narrowed to five a lengthy list of would-be successors to the late congressman John Lewis, D-Ga., as the party moves briskly to put a replacement candidate on the November ballot.

A nominating committee that included Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams on Monday pared down a list of 131 applicants to succeed the civil rights icon in Congress.

Those still in the running include: Park Cannon, a state lawmaker; Andre Dickens, an Atlanta City Council member; Robert Franklin, an Emory University professor and former president of Morehouse College; Nikema Williams, a state senator and chairwoman of the Georgia Democratic Party; and James “Major” Woodall, head of the Georgia NAACP. Lewis, who died Friday at age 80 of pancreatic cancer, had won the June primary for the 5th Congressional District seat.

Under state law, the Georgia Democratic Party is required to choose a replacement nominee

Monday, the first business day after Lewis’s death.

The state Democratic Party’s executive committee, which consists of 44 members, is scheduled to meet Monday afternoon to make the selection.

The 5th District, which includes Atlanta, is heavily Democratic, and the party’s pick will be the heavy favorite to win in November. The Democrat will face Republican Angela Stanton-King, an author and television personality. In February, President Donald Trump pardoned Stanton-King for her role in a stolen vehicle ring in 2007, for which she served six months in home confinement.

In 2016, Democrat Hillary Clinton carried the district with 85% of the vote over Trump.

Early Monday afternoon, the U.S. House honored Lewis with a moment of silence and a bereavement resolution. A visibly emotional Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., presided over the chamber.

Rep. Sanford D. Bishop Jr., D-Ga., dean of the Georgia delegation, called Lewis “our hero, our colleague, our brother, our friend.”

“The world is a better place because John Lewis pursued freedom,” he said.

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The gunman, dressed as a FedEx delivery driver, who shot and critically wounded the husband of a federal judge in New Jersey and killed her son is believed to be a lawyer who had a case before the judge in 2015, according to reports.

After knocking on the North Brunswick, New Jersey, home of U.S. District Judge Esther Salas, and riddling her husband and son with bullets, the killer appears to have taken his life in Liberty, New Jersey, ABC reported.

Salas’ husband, Mark Anderl, a 63-year-old criminal defense lawyer and former prosecutor, remains in stable condition in an area hospital. Her 20-yearold son, Daniel, died at the scene.

Anderl answered a knock on the door of the family’s house on a quiet, tree-lined street in North Brunswick about 5 p.m.

Sunday, NBC reported. Daniel Anderl was shot when he came to his father’s aid.

Salas was appointed to the federal bench nine years ago

by President Barack Obama.

She is the first Hispanic woman to serve on a federal bench in

New Jersey. Previously, she was a magistrate judge and a public defender.

She had recently been appointed to preside over a case involving Deutsche Bank and financier Jeffrey Epstein, who hanged himself in a federal lockup last year while awaiting trial for sexually abusing dozens of young women.

Neighbors on Monday bemoaned the tragedy that has befallen the community.

“Just wonderful people. I never heard a bad word about them,” said Marion Costanza, 76, a former defense lawyer who was friendly with Salas. “Obviously, somebody was after them. That’s my take on it.”

Costanza was napping when the gunfire erupted. “They were saying that it was her house and I almost died. What could I think?”

Of the son running to care for his dad, she said, “Another kid may have locked themselves in the bathroom or in a closet. ...

And Daniel came running down the stairs after hearing the shot, and he’s the one that’s dead.”

Costanza said Salas came upstairs from the basement when she heard the shots.

“Daniel ... that is the worst, because he was an only kid,

only child. The family was very devoted to one another, very close to one another of course,” Costanza said.

“When he went off to college even, she was devastated, like she was losing her only child ... and she cried.”

Daniel was a baseball player for St. Joseph’s Regional High School in Metuchen, and then went to Catholic University in Washington, D.C. “He was very close to his father, they had a basketball thing set up at one time and he would always be there with his father playing basketball,” Costanza said.

The families had planned to have dinner together Friday at Casa Giuseppe, a local restaurant.

She added, “I think it will be a while before I see Esther again, because to return to this house without that child there ... .” (c)2020 New York Daily News Visit New York Daily News at www.nydailynews.com Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

experience into political ambitions. Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee from 1963 to 1966, Lewis was the youngest speaker at the 1963 March of Washington, at which the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial.

At the time of his death Lewis was in his 17th term representing Georgia’s 5th Congressional District, and a prominent liberal voice in the House of Representatives. In 2016, he led dozens of Democrats in an unprecedented sit-in inside the House chamber to protest a lack of action by his colleagues on gun control after the killing of 49 people in a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida.

“We lost another stalwart of Black cities — one of the chocolate cities that represented Black life, Black culture,” Perry said. “John Lewis, wearing the suit and tie, the eloquence — reflecting his inner dignity — there has to be space for that in every movement.”

Toward the end of his life, Lewis expressed support for the contemporary Black Lives Matter movement. Obama said in a statement on Saturday that the last time he saw Lewis was during a virtual town hall with “young activists” who protested over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody in May. “Afterwards, I spoke to him privately, and he could not have been prouder of their efforts — of a new generation standing up for freedom and equality, a new generation intent on voting and protecting the right to vote, a new generation running for political office,” Obama said. (c)2020 Bloomberg News Visit Bloomberg News at www. bloomberg.com Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

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New laws restrict tobacco sales and promotion Not since the Clean Indoor Air Act of 2003 banned smoking in bars, restaurants and other workplaces has New York state enacted such sweeping tobacco control laws as it did this year. Some of the new regulations had been proposed in the Legislature in previous years, but did not pass. This year the galvanizing factor seems to have been the epidemic of teen vaping that swept through schools statewide, leaving teachers, administrators, parents and students all scrambling for accurate information and resources to counter and control it. With almost 30% of high school students and 40% of seniors vaping, it was too much for Legislators to ignore. Fortunately they chose to take a comprehensive approach that addresses both the teen vaping problem and all tobacco use.

These are the main components of the new regulations: 1. The most far-reaching of the new regulations is a ban on all flavored vape products and e-liquids, including menthol, which went into effect on May 18. Flavors attract young people to vaping and open the pathway to nicotine addiction without them even realizing it.

Many believe they are inhaling only a harmless mist and that vaping is safe. Finding that they are becoming dependent and suffering from nicotine withdrawal takes them, too late, by surprise. The sad part is that most of these are young people who would never touch a cigarette. Without the lure of flavors, vaping will be less appealing, especially to teens.

2. A separate but related regulation restricts shipping and delivery of vape products

only to licensed manufacturers or retailers; shipping to private residences is now prohibited. This reduces youth access to vape products by stopping online sales, which have been used to bypass age of sale restrictions.

3. Pharmacies are now prohibited from selling all tobacco and vape products. This includes stores that contain a pharmacy, such as supermarkets and Walmart. Community surveys we have done over the years with Siena Research have consistently shown that by a wide margin (80% in both counties on our 2019 survey), people do not think pharmacies should sell tobacco. People just instinctively know that you should not be able to purchase cancer-causing products at the front of the store and medicine to treat cancer in the back of the store. This ban also levels the playing field for independent pharmacies, none of which in Greene County sell tobacco (there are no independent pharmacies in Columbia) and the chain pharmacies and supermarkets. Now everyone has to play by the same rules.

4. As of July 1, tobacco and vape retailers are no longer allowed to redeem coupons or to offer multi-pack or other discounts. These price promotions are used to appeal to cost-conscious customers, especially low-income users and young people, and to offset state excise taxes. The state tax on cigarettes, for example, is $4.35 a pack. Taxes as high as 20% were imposed on e-liquids in 2019.

5. Stores within 1,500 feet of a school (or 500 feet in NYC) are now prohibited from placing tobacco and vape

products, smoking paraphernalia, and advertising for any of these products in exterior windows or storefronts.

6. Penalties are increased for selling tobacco and vape products to those under age 21. For a first violation, the maximum fine is now $1,500; subsequent fines can be up to $2,500.

Over time, policies like these work by subtly influencing individual attitudes, behavior and personal choice.

For example, when the Clean Indoor Air Law was passed in 2003, the adult smoking rate in New York was almost 23%.

Within 3 years, it was down to 18%. It turns out that when people were forced to go leave the building to smoke, thereby adding time and effort, a great many of them decided it wasn’t worth it. In fact, measures that make tobacco use more expensive and less convenient and make tobacco and vape products less visible, accessible and appealing are effective in motivating users to quit and in preventing youth from starting. This package of new regulation covers all those bases. It’s a big win for public health.

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Epilepsy Foundation celebrating 32nd annual Confections in Chocolate Gala virtually ALBANY — The Epilepsy Foundation of Northeastern New York will be celebrating their 32nd Annual Confections in Chocolate fundraising gala virtually at 7 p.m. July 22 live on Zoom and Facebook.

This event was originally scheduled for March 21st at Glen Sanders Mansion.

The evening will begin with a greeting from our Executive Director, Jeannine Garab, followed by Director of Development, Susan Kaczynski. We will also highlight our Flame of Hope recipient, Pioneer Bank.

The $4,000 winner of our Special Raffle will be drawn, along with two second-prize winners who will receive $500

each. Our amazing silent auction is now open for bidding online, visit: http://EFNENYgala20.givesmart.com. The auction includes jewelry provided by Hannoush Jewelers, an overnight getaway at Mirror Lake Inn, and other local destinations, dinners at the finest local restaurants, family fun packages, and a wide assortment of other items. Bidding will be open through 9 p.m.

July 22. To watch our gala live on Zoom, tune in to: https:// zoom.us/j/92661268162.

Major sponsors for the event include Greenwich Biosciences, Pioneer Bank, UCB, Inc., Ellis Medicine, Albany Medical Center, KeyBank,

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, WNYT News Channel 13, Times Union, B95.5, Jaeger & Flynn Associates, University at Albany Foundation, CDPHP, Sonic Drive-In, Sunovion, Eisai, and Neurelis.

Proceeds from the event are used to support the Epilepsy Foundation of Northeastern New York’s programs and services including educational programs, case management, advocacy, support networks, and counseling. For information, contact Susan Kaczynski, Director of Development at 518-456-7501, skaczynski@epilepsyneny.org, or visit https://epilepsy.com/northeastern-new-york/events.

Catskill Mountain Railroad welcomes customers for the summer KINGSTON — The Catskill Mountain Railroad has reopened in Phase Four of the New York Forward Re-opening Plan and is welcoming its customers back to Kingston for fun summer train rides.

The CMRR is following the New York State Health Department Covid-19 guidelines with distancing and passenger capacity.

The CMRR is using three open air flat cars with a reduced capacity of 35 passengers per train to maintain distancing guidelines. Passengers temperatures will be taken at arrival, elevated temperatures will not be allowed to ride. The wearing of face masks is required to ride the train.

Summer excursions for 2020 are the Catskill Mountain Flyer and the Ice Cream Sundae trains. Climb aboard for a five-mile round trip which includes the restored C9 Bridge over the Esopus Creek, a trip through the Hurley Corn Fields, to the foothills of Hurley Mountain.

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Railroad operates out of the Historic City of Kingston where trains arrive and depart from the Westbrook Station at Kingston Plaza. The Catskill Mountain Flyer will operate every Friday and Saturday through Sept. 7. Adults, $15; seniors, $14; and youth, $9.

The Ice Cream Sundae excursion will operate every Sunday until Sept. 6. All passengers will receive an ice cream treat to enjoy while riding the train. Adults, $19; seniors, $17; and youth, $13.

Visit www.cmrrevents. com for information.

The Catskill Mountain Railroad is conveniently located right off Exit 19 of the New York State Thruway.

Board all Kingston Trains at the Westbrook Lane Station at 149 Aaron Court, Kingston.

To check out the schedule, fares and to purchase tickets online, visit www. cmrrevents.com. For information, visit the Face Book page or call 845-688-7400 or info@catskillmountainrailroad.com.

Martin Van Buren National Historic Site is beginning to increase recreational access to park grounds KINDERHOOK — Following guidance from the White House, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local public health authorities, Martin Van Buren National Historic Site is increasing recreational access and services.

The National Park Service (NPS) is working servicewide with federal, state, and local public health authorities to closely monitor the COVID-19 pandemic and using a phased approach to increase access on a park-by-park basis.

Beginning July 18, Martin Van Buren National Historic Site will: • Provide limited outdoor visitor services, including an information tent and short ranger programs (please see our website for daily schedules) • Reopen access to park restrooms In addition, the following spaces continue to be available: • Parking lot • Park grounds and trails With public health in mind, the following facilities remain closed at this time: • Historic Lindenwald, Martin Van Buren’s post-presidency home • The park visitor center and museum shop (with the exception of restrooms) Park hours and programs are subject to change based on staffing, weather, and public health recommendations regarding the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The health and safety of our visitors, employees, volunteers, and partners continues to be paramount. At Martin Van Buren National Historic Site, our operational approach will be to examine each facility function and service provided to ensure those operations comply with current public health guidance, and will be regularly monitored.

We continue to work closely with the NPS Office of Public Health using CDC guidance to ensure public and workspaces are safe and clean for visitors, employees, partners, and volunteers.

While these areas are accessible for visitors to enjoy, a return to full operations will continue to be phased and services may be limited.

When recreating, the public should follow local area health orders, practice Leave No Trace principles, avoid crowding and avoid high-risk outdoor activities.

The CDC has offered

guidance to help people recreating in parks and open spaces prevent the spread of infectious diseases.

We will continue to monitor all park functions to ensure that visitors adhere to CDC guidance for mitigating risks associated with the transmission of COVID19, and take any additional steps necessary to protect public health.

The NPS encourages those not traveling to take advantage of the many digital tools already available to explore Martin Van Buren National Historic Site, including: • a virtual tour of historic Lindenwald • videos on various topics • self-guided learning activities Details and updates on park operations will continue to be posted on our website at www. nps.gov/mava and social media channels.

Updates about NPS operations will be posted on www. nps.gov/coronavirus.

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JULY 22 TROY — What’s Bugging You? Some Summer Garden Insects” ZOOM Invitation from Cornell Cooperative Extension. You are invited to our next “Lunch In The Garden” free ZOOM Webinar at noon July 22. Each week we spend some time exploring a new gardening topic. For this ninth ZOOM in this series, we’ll take an up-close-and-personal look at some of the bugs you can find right outside in your own Capital District garden this time of year.

While we can’t possibly mention them all, we’ll highlight the identification and management of some of those you are most likely to see. To sign up for this Webinar, visit the events page of our website at http://ccerensselaer. org/events. You’ll need to download the free ZOOM software on your computer to participate (it’s easy - visit ZOOM.US on the internet). Note we will now be using a password for these webinars. After you register you will receive the password.

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. Pre-sale 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.

JULY 25 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 preorder, call 518-731-8887. Call 518-731-7767 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 Mid-Hudson Library System.

Library cardholders may also borrow ebooks and audiobooks through the library’s Overdrive and Hoopla online platforms.

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 518-6223430.

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.

Facemasks will be required.

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Albany Stratton VA associate Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP expands practice director retires after 42 years ALBANY — Whiteman Osterman & Hanna, LLP, the largest, and one of the most well-respected law firms in the Capital Region, announced that it is welcoming the attorneys and staff of McNamee Lochner P.C. to Whiteman Osterman & Hanna. The transaction will allow Whiteman Osterman & Hanna to offer enhanced services to its clients by adding a premier Family & Matrimonial Law Practice, and enhancing the firm’s Trusts & Estates, Corporate, Environmental and Litigation Groups.

“Today’s legal issues are more complex than ever before with most legal matters requiring expertise in multiple areas of the law as well as cutting-edge legal knowledge,” said Robert T. Schofield, comanaging partner at Whiteman Osterman & Hanna. “We made the decision to expand our expertise and add to our already substantial talent pool in order to better serve our clients.”

“Whiteman Osterman has had unprecedented success over the years and most importantly, it has done a lot of good in the community,” said April M. Dalbec, a partner in the Family and Matrimonial Law Group. “We’ve already been welcomed into the Whiteman Osterman & Hanna family with open arms and look forward to continuing the firm’s mission of obtaining the best results for our clients.”

Whiteman Osterman & Hanna utilizes a multidisciplinary team approach to address client needs, drawing upon the diverse legal backgrounds of its more than 85 attorneys. Now, by greatly increasing its depth of talent, the firm further builds upon its 45-year reputation of comprising some of the best practitioners in their respective fields.

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Pictured from left are Scott A. Barbour, partner; J. Rochelle Cavanagh, associate; Megan B. VanAken, partner; April M. Dalbec, partner; Paul E. Davenport, of counsel; Richard P. Walsh Jr., or counsel; Amy S. O’Connor, partner; Richard A. Langer, of counsel; Michelle L. Haskin, partner; Bruce J. Wagner, partner; Richard D. Cirincione, partner; John J. Privitera, partner.

Clients of Whiteman Osterman & Hanna and those of the attorneys moving from McNamee Lochner were informed of the move prior to this announcement.

“Despite the challenges of COVID-19, the partners of both firms realized that joining their practices made sense and decided to move forward together,” said John Henry, co-managing partner of Whiteman Osterman & Hanna. “Doing our due diligence on a transaction like this through electronic means, rather than in person, was certainly an interesting experience, but we really got to know one another, and we are excited to announce the addition of these talented professionals to our Partnership. As we all begin to ‘re-open’ in New York, we’re happy to have strengthened our position in the legal market and we’re hopeful that joining our practices will help us navigate the challenges that may still lie ahead.”

“The management teams at our two firms have worked very hard to make this happen. Both firms have a reputation as collegial, hard-working and results-driven so it is wonderful to see this come to fruition,” said Richard D. Cirincione, partner. “We’re joining a large firm with so many wellrespected attorneys in so many different areas that I am sure our clients will see the

benefits.”

“Since the first meeting that we had together, the values, the culture, the opportunities were all very exciting. From our perspective, there was never any doubt about moving forward as our values and culture aligned so well,” said Scott. A Barbour, partner. “The ultimate goal here is to get the best result for the client. There is no other firm based in Albany that can offer this broad base of support for clients. It is what makes Whiteman Osterman & Hanna different than any other law firm in the Capital Region.”

Together as a firm and individually, the attorneys and staff at Whiteman Osterman & Hanna have made a commitment to being good corporate citizens and have been leaders in providing corporate support and sponsorship to many local organizations. The firm was recently named by the Albany Business Review as one of the Capital Region’s “Best Places to Work.”

Recognizing that equality and justice are ideals inextricably linked to the legal profession and its obligations to society, Whiteman Osterman & Hanna has recently reaffirmed its commitment to enhancing its own diversity and supporting those in the community who continue to fight for social and legal equality.

LCS Landscapes announces a promotion and hiring POUGHKEEPSIE — LCS Landscapes announces William “Bill” Gale has been promoted to Branch Manager of Landscapes. In his new role, Gale will be overseeing and managing the current LCS Landscapes portfolio by providing direction and coordination of all field activities.

Gale began his career with LCS Landscapes in 2013 as the Landscape Maintenance Director. He brought with him 30 years of commercial landscaping experience, including lawn renovation, seeding, plant enhancements and pruning services. Ever since joining LCS Landscapes, Gale has managed tech campuses, college campuses, and large HOA communities. Some notable projects include the Culinary Institute of America (CIA) campus and the Northern Dutchess Hospital.

“Being able to help grow this company has been a great accomplishment. It has been great working with Daniel and the Lepore family because they treat you with respect and make you feel like

part of their family. The possibilities here are endless and we have a very bright future.

I look forward to growing the landscape division even more in the years to come”, he noted.

In his spare time, Gale enjoys spending time with his family and friends.

Erick Van Savage has been hired as Director of Business Development at LCS Facility Group.

Van Savage comes to LCS Facility Group with over thirty years’ experience in the facilities sector. During his tenure, he has serviced projects that include a wide variety of buildings that house manufacturing operations, multitenanted office locations, retail environments and higher education campuses. Clients have ranged from numerous banking facilities over a wide, multi-state geography, to significant individual projects such as lower Manhattan’s World Trade Center.

Van Savage holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Organizational Behavior from the

University of San Francisco, as well as a Masters of Business Administration from Ashford University. With a certification as a Property Maintenance Manager, he also has a future goal to obtain the certification of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED). Van Savage is also an honorablydischarged veteran of the United States Marine Corps.

As an active volunteer in the community, Van Savage is a long-term donor to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Wounded Warriors, and the Utica Rescue Mission. He also currently holds membership to the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA).

“Working for LCS Facility Group is important to me because I want to be not only a contributor in this milieu but a facilitator that helps drive growth and profitability to this great organization,” he noted.

In his spare time, Van Savage enjoys playing golf and writing music.

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ALBANY — For the past 42 years, Mary Ann Witt has dedicated her life to serving Veterans. Not knowing what to expect, she began her career at the Stratton VA, where she was afforded the depth and breadth of experience that VA provides, serving in a variety of key positions at both the Medical Center and Veterans Integrated Service Network (VISN 2).

In 1978, Witt began her career as the Stratton VA as administrative support staff.

Over the years she broadened her experience, taking on roles as Fiscal’s Administrative Program Director for Cancer Care Services, Administrative Officer for Research & Development, and as a Health System Specialist (HSS), as she worked her way up the chain of command while always keeping Veteran care her primary focus.

Always ready for the next challenge, Witt saw an opportunity at VISN-2, which was headquartered in Albany, accepting a position with the responsibility of oversight for the Business Office and Community Care program.

From April 2014-December 2015, she was appointed as

the VISN-2’s Acting Deputy Director. Most recently, in October 2017, Witt was selected to serve as Stratton VA’s Associate Director, becoming the first woman at the Stratton VA to hold the Associate Director position.

This was an exciting prospect, returning to the very facility where she began her VA career in 1978.

“Working for the Department of Veterans Affairs has been more than just a job for me,” Mary Ann explained.

“It’s a career that VA employees share as part of a dedication and commitment to Veterans. Retiring is bitter/ sweet. I have loved interacting with and serving Veterans throughout my career, and even after 42-years, I find leaving difficult. However, I am also so very proud of the staff at VA — staff that I have been afforded the opportunity to lead. I leave knowing that our Veterans continue to be in the best of hands, getting the best of care.”

Witt went on to say, “I’m also very eager to begin retirement, enjoying my husband and children to the fullest. I will never be too far from the Veterans I love and

have dedicated my life to, not only because they will always be in my heart, but they continue to be in my life as well. I will always have fond memories of those I served beside and whom I consider friends, our wonderful volunteers who contribute so much to our success as VA, and our Veterans Service organizations and community partners who I respect as we worked to serve the needs of our Veterans.”

Witt graduated from the State University of NY-Empire State College, earning a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Health Administration, and a master’s degree in Public Policy.

She also holds an associate degree in Accounting from Maria College. She is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and a member of Healthcare Management Association of Central NY, where she served many years as a Board Member and Treasurer. She is also a 2003 graduate of the VHA Executive Career Field and Health Care Leadership programs and 2012 graduate of Leadership VA.

Mohonk Mountain House recognized in Travel + Leisure 2020 World’s Best awards NEW PALTZ — Travel + Leisure recently announced the results of its 2020 World’s Best Awards, with Mohonk Mountain House, Hudson Valley’s most iconic resort, ranking 12th in “The Top 15 Resort Hotels in the Northeast” category with a score of 90.19.

The winners of the World’s Best Awards are based on an annual survey developed by the editors of Travel + Leisure. Hundreds of thousands of readers were invited to cast their vote for the best islands, cities, hotels, cruise lines, airports, and other travel experiences over a four-month period. The complete list of winners for the 2020 World’s Best Awards will be published in the August 2020 issue of Travel + Leisure and can be found online at https://www.travelandleisure.com/worldsbest/worlds-best.

Editors of Travel + Leisure highlighted Mohonk’s rich history and year-round

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outdoor programming.

Nestled in the Shawangunk Mountains only 90 minutes away from New York City, Mohonk has long offered an inspirational setting for the renewal of body and mind for over 150 years. Guests at Mohonk enjoy rejuvenating experiences including outdoor activities amongst 40,000 acres of trails and forests, farm-fresh cuisine, and charming historic

accommodations.

“It’s an honor to have our efforts acknowledged by the readers of Travel + Leisure in this year’s World Best Awards,” said Eric Gullickson, President of Mohonk Mountain House. “We strive to provide our guests with classic hospitality in a beautiful, natural environment, and we’re very thankful to our loyal guests for voting for Mohonk.”

Stewart’s Shops allocated more than $1 million in COVID-19 relief to nonprofits SARATOGA SPRINGS — With the current circumstances, many nonprofits are struggling due to COVID-19.

Stewart’s recognized there was an urgent need; they acted quickly and provided more than $1 million in monetary and product relief to hundreds of impacted organizations. At this time, Stewart’s is taking a pause on COVID-19 relief applications, and will evaluate the need moving forward.

With an increased demand on services, many nonprofits experienced strains on budget, staffing and resources.

Many of these organizations were forced to cancel fundraising events; while facing an increase in demand for items and services. The Stewart’s Shops COVID-19 relief grants helped hundreds of organizations with sustainability.

Bread, milk and egg gift certificates were distributed

to school districts to keep backpack programs going to feed families in need.

Aid was given to shelters to help the homeless.

Organizations like the United Way and Home Independent Care were able to purchase necessary PPE equipment.

The Children’s Museum of Saratoga provided virtual educational programs and enhanced their hands-on exhibits to prepare for reopening.

C.R.E.A.T.E. Community Studios was able to purchase and provide art supplies to community members.

These are just a few of the many examples of how Stewart’s was able to help these organizations get through these uncertain times while staying true to their mission.

According to Amy Potter, Stewart’s Corporate Contributions Director, “With so

much need, we felt compelled to help where we could above and beyond our annual giving. With a long-standing history of helping nonprofits, we knew we could offer these organizations guidance, product donations and monetary assistance to get them through these unprecedented and uncertain times.”

Stewart’s supports the following nonprofits: Arts, Education, Recreation, Health, Social Services, and Civic groups. The company is committed to giving back to the communities in which they are located, donating approximately $2.5 million a year to local nonprofits with The Dake Family Foundations contributing an additional $5 million. Despite the pause on COVID relief applications, Stewart’s is reviewing applications that go beyond COVID relief at this time.

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Georgia Democrats choose state Sen. Williams to replace late John Lewis John Wagner The Washington Post

Georgia Democrats on Monday chose Nikema Williams, a state senator and chairwoman of the state party, to replace the late representative John Lewis, D-Ga., on the November ballot.

Lewis, who died Friday at the age of 80 after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, had won the June primary for the 5th Congressional District seat. Under state law, the Georgia Democratic Party was required to choose a replacement nominee on Monday, the

first business day since Lewis’s death.

The state Democratic Party’s executive committee, which consists of 44 members, selected Williams after a high-profile panel of Georgia Democrats had narrowed the list of applicants to five.

Williams will be the strong favorite in November to win Georgia’s heavily Democratic 5th Congressional District, which includes Atlanta.

The Democrat will face Republican Angela Stanton-King, an author and television personality. In February, President

Donald Trump pardoned Stanton-King for her role in a stolenvehicle ring in 2007, for which she served six months in home confinement.

In 2016, Democrat Hillary Clinton carried the district with 85% of the vote over Trump.

In remarks to the executive committee, Williams said she was still grieving for Lewis, whom she called “a personal hero, friend and mentor.”

“Nobody could possibly fill the shoes of Congressman Lewis,” she said, adding that she has a long track record for standing up for what’s right, as Lewis did.

“It would be the honor of my life to serve as the voice of the 5th Congressional District,” she said.

Before Monday’s vote, a nominating committee that included Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams pared down a list of 131 applicants to succeed the civil rights icon in Congress.

The four others who made the cut included Park Cannon, a state lawmaker; Andre Dickens, an Atlanta City Council member; Robert Franklin, an

Emory University professor and former president of Morehouse College; and James “Major” Woodall, head of the Georgia NAACP. Early Monday afternoon, the U.S. House honored Lewis with a moment of silence and a bereavement resolution. A visibly emotional Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., presided over the chamber.

Rep. Sanford Bishop, D-Ga., dean of the Georgia delegation, called Lewis “our hero, our colleague, our brother, our friend.”

“The world is a better place because John Lewis pursued

freedom,” he said.

Earlier Monday, several members paid tribute to Lewis on the House floor, including Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md. “Even at 80, John Robert Lewis had the heart and fiery soul of a young protester for a righteous cause, an organizer for the community and country he served,” Hoyer said. “Every day of his life, John marched for justice, civil rights, peace and equality. On every step on his journey, he brought all of us and this country he loved with him.”

Arctic sea ice is in a downward spiral, and may break a record in 2020 Andrew Freedman The Washington Post

If one were to design a weather pattern that’s most efficient at ridding the Arctic of its increasingly fragile ice cover during the region’s summer melt season, it would look like what occurred earlier in the month - clear skies, above-average air temperatures, a high-pressure system across the Central Arctic and an ongoing heat wave and wildfires in Siberia.

A recent study concluded that the unusual warmth in Siberia could not have happened in the absence of human-caused global warming.

Sea ice loss accelerated in earlyto-mid July, bringing sea ice extent - which measures the area of ocean where there’s some ice cover, down to record low levels for this time of the year.

As of Saturday, the Arctic as a region had an ice extent that was about 193,000 square miles below the previous record low for the date, using data from the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency.

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Story as she passed the Greenville Library, an incident that Story caught on camera. The driver was ticketed by police for operating his motorcycle on the sidewalk, Story said.

Some of the counterprotesters shouted obscenities at the crowd and several crossed the street to confront the Black Lives Matter protesters.

Story said she was taken aback by the vulgarity of the counterprotesters, but encouraged the Black Lives Matter marchers to remain respectful. She marshaled the crowd away from Veterans Park as tensions escalated, she said.

“I would not have brought my children if I had known that was how it was going to go,” Story said Monday.

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undercover buy operations, conducted intelligence based traffic stops to seize cocaine and marijuana, and executed multiple search warrants in both Ulster and Greene counties, resulting in the seizure

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law,” the governor said. “That is the only line between anarchy and civilization.”

Enforcing COVID-19 measures are not politically popular, but scaling back reopening is worse.

“That’s going to be more politically difficult than telling the NYPD to do their job,” Cuomo said. “The crowd has to be dispersed.”

Cuomo and members of the state’s COVID-19 task force departed from John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens just after 10 a.m. Monday to participate in a roundtable meeting with Savannah Mayor Van R. Johnson and the city’s health experts to discuss how to establish testing and contact-tracing operations

In other words, the difference between the sea ice extent on July 18, 2020 and the previous record low for the same date is equivalent to the states of Colorado and Oklahoma combined.

According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Boulder, Colo., which tracks ice trends and climate change, the record low ice extent is in part the result of the Siberian heat streak that has lasted from January through June, and into July.

As a result of record warm temperatures all the way to Russia’s Arctic shoreline, with wildfires spotted by satellite near the coast, well above the Arctic Circle, sea ice retreated early along the Siberian coast.

Extremely low sea ice cover can now be found in the Laptev and Barents seas, in particular, NSIDC reported Thursday. “The Northern Sea route appears to be nearly open,” the agency stated in a news update. This means lucrative shipping of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and other valuable goods can begin along a still treacherous route over the top of Russia, offering

faster access to Asian ports from the North Atlantic.

In fact, one LNG tanker set out from the port of Sabetta, on Russia’s Yamal Peninsula on May 18, accompanied by a heavy duty icebreaker. This was the earliest date of such a Northern Sea Route voyage on record, according to the Barents Observer.

“In the Laptev and East Siberian Seas, the sea ice extent is tracking at the record lowest,” said Julienne Stroeve, a senior researcher at NSIDC, via email.

“This May, the melt ponds were quite unusual in the East Siberian Sea, which likely contributed to early melting out of the sea ice, but also because the Arctic Oscillation was strongly positive over winter this led to lots of new ice formation in that region, which was relatively thin to start with and thus the ice easily melted away with the heat wave in that region,” Stroeve wrote, referring to a weather pattern that affects the distribution of air pressure across the Arctic and North Atlantic oceans.

“Now melt ponds are quite widespread over much of the Arctic Ocean,

with anomalously more melt pond development north of Greenland and the Canadian Archipelago, which is also helping to hasten ice melt elsewhere,” she said.

Stroeve took part in a scientific expedition known as MOSAiC, in which a ship with scientists onboard has drifted with the Arctic ice pack for about a year to learn more about this rapidly changing environment. The Arctic region is warming at a rate that is about three times as fast as the rest of the globe, driving myriad changes in the environment, from ice melt to permafrost thaw and increased wildfire activity.

Stroeve said her time aboard the ship during the winter showed her that much of the sea ice in the High Arctic was “relatively thin second year ice” that grew from about 2 feet to 6.5 feet thick by the time she left the ship in early March.

“The amount of surface melting we are seeing could easily melt out ice” of that thickness, she said. “Thus I do have a feeling we are on track to reach a

new record low for September.”

“However, weather patterns could change and slow the ice melt, but given how warm the first part of July was over most of the Arctic Ocean, I’m not so sure we can stop the inevitable . . .”

The year with the record lowest sea ice extent was 2012, and that record occurred as a result of both long-term climate change gradually causing Arctic ice cover to become younger and thinner over time, as well as weather that favored rapid ice loss.

How weather patterns evolve over the next two months will help determine whether 2020 becomes a record melt season.

“Weather conditions can change and slow things down quite quickly,” said Walt Meier, a senior research scientist at NSIDC. “A record low is possible, but I would say 50/50 at best. We’d need to continue weather patterns advantageous for ice loss through August to remain on a pace to go below the 2012 record minimum.”

Many participants, including Story, expressed their surprise at the high turnout. The march was intended to bring the town’s Black Lives Matter supporters out of the shadows, she said.

“I never realized how many people are like-minded,” she said. “I have never felt more connected to my community than I did [Saturday].”

Many marchers expressed similar sentiments.

“We need to show support for anti-racism in our rural community,” said Jaime Winans-Solis, who marched with her husband Jake Solis and their three children, who she said are among the “handful” of Latino students attending Greenville schools.

“People often say, ‘Racism doesn’t exist here,’ but just because people don’t see it doesn’t mean it’s not here,” Winans-Solis said.

The couple felt it was important to make their children

aware of the Black Lives Matter and anti-racism movements.

“This is my first protest, but it won’t be their last,” Solis added, pushing a stroller as his toddler walked alongside him.

The group of counterprotesters, most without masks, stood on the opposite side of the road holding flags and signs with messages in support of the police.

Lynda Costello, of Freehold, said she rejects discourse that pits protesters against police.

Opponents of the Black Lives Matter movement often perpetuate a “false choice” between Black Lives Matter and the police, Costello said.

“It is specifically intended to divide,” she said.

In the days leading up to Saturday’s march, opponents of the march posted threats on social media and circulated rumors that protesters would be brought in on buses from out of town.

The “bused in” protesters never materialized Saturday.

The attendees came from the local community, said Chris Karle, a 10th-grade teacher at Greenville High School who brought along his kids, age 11 and 14.

Karle said he was “impressed and overjoyed” by residents’ support for the march.

“Everyone I saw was a local,” Karle said, adding that many of his students and former students attended, some with their parents in tow.

Several of the people who attended in opposition to the march said they did so out of fear that the protesters would become destructive.

A group of veterans, organized by Don Savino, of South Westerlo, stood guard in front of the gazebo at Veterans Park during the march.

The veterans were there to protect the park and show support for “the men in blue,” said Savino.

“We are protecting hallowed ground,” he said.

Ray Kosorek, of Westerlo, said he attended to protect the veterans monument and the flag from damage. Black Lives Matter protests have not had a good reputation, Kosorek said, adding he wanted to be sure the park’s veteran’s monument would not be defaced.

Such fears were unfounded, protesters said.

Story emphasized the peaceful nature of the protest.

“We wanted to bring no harm to the town,” she said.

“We wanted to leave the town better than we found it.”

Story organized Saturday’s protest after unexpectedly witnessing the HudsonCatskill Juneteenth Freedom March that took place on the Rip Van Winkle Bridge on June 20.

Story and her family watched from their car as a torrent of people marched past holding signs and chanting

in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.

The experience galvanized Story to organize her own protest in solidarity with the Juneteenth marchers. But the organization process was not always easy.

Story said she faced hostility and intimidation on social media while publicizing the protest, which prompted her to alert state police and the Greene County Sheriff’s Office to the threatening nature of the online discourse.

Story advertised the event on a Facebook page for Greenville parents, but her post was removed by the page’s administrators.

Undaunted, Story moved forward with the planned march.

“I am so proud of my community,” she said following the march. “I want it to keep going. I don’t want it to stop here.”

of approximately three kilograms of cocaine, over 140 pounds of marijuana, over $68,000 in cash, multiple vehicles, and real property assets, Markiewicz said.

URGENT, Homeland Security Investigations, HSI’s Special Response Team, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and members of the Ulster County Sheriff’s Office, Ulster County

Emergency Response Team, Sheriff’s Corrections Emergency Response Team, and Greene County Sheriff’s Office executed three search warrants in the towns of Saugerties and Cairo.

During the search of Neglia’s home, investigators recovered over 900 grams of cocaine, 100 pounds of marijuana, drug-packaging materials, digital scales, and over

$18,000 in cash, Markiewicz said.

The search warrant executed at Hummer’s home yielded a loaded rifle, cocaine processing equipment, marijuana and over $9,000 in cash, Markiewicz said.

A search warrant executed at a home in Cairo resulted in the recovery of over 7 pounds of marijuana, 1.5 pounds of wax hashish, 363

individually packaged THC vials, drug-packaging materials, a commercial-grade cashcounting machine, and more than $40,000 in cash, Markiewicz said.

Investigators seized an additional kilogram of cocaine from Manor during an intelligence based traffic stop of a vehicle he was operating in the town of Ulster, Markiewicz said.

The investigation is ongoing and additional arrests are anticipated, Markiewicz said.

Neglia and Manor have previously entered plea agreements with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of New York. The charges against Hummer and all defendants charged with statelevel offenses are pending, Markiewicz said.

and the best practices to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

“I feel compelled to go,” Cuomo said during a briefing at the airport before boarding a plane Monday morning.

The governor reviewed the state’s experiences since March establishing testing and contact tracing organizations and flattening the curve, or slowing the spread of the virus, and reminisced how more than 30,000 out-of-state health care workers volunteered to help New York in its time of need this spring.

“I said that day we would never forget it ... We live by the same code of generosity and community,” the governor added. “I go representing all New Yorkers. ... We have knowledge of how to do this.

I probably have more experience than anyone in the country on this on the ground.”

The roundtable meeting was held at 2:15 p.m.

from Savannah’s Hyatt Regency Hotel. The event was livestreamed on governor. ny.gov, but was closed to the press and public.

Cuomo, Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa, state Budget Director Robert Mujica, SUNY Empire State College President Jim Malatras and COVID-19 task force members Gareth Rhodes, state Department of Financial Services deputy superintendent; Larry Schwartz, former secretary to the governor; Lisa Pino, state Department of Health executive deputy commissioner; and Edgar Santana, director of Downstate Regional Affairs.

The group was to return to Albany on Monday evening, according to the governor’s office.

Cuomo and his aides will not be mandated to self-quarantine for two weeks when they return, the governor said,

because they are considered essential workers and are exempt from New York’s order mandating 14-day isolation for travelers from 23 states with high coronavirus infections, including Georgia.

Travelers do not have to self-quarantine if they spend fewer than 24 hours in one of the affected states.

“It’s virtually impossible to enforce with total certainty,” Cuomo said of the quarantine order, adding the nationwide virus spike “is a very real threat.”

The state does not have a legal way to enforce the quarantine for travelers who drive into New York. Most out-ofstate visitors fly to a state airport.

The federal government and President Donald Trump remain in denial about the coronavirus and COVID-19 spread, said Cuomo, who repeated the virus does not

respond to politics.

“The solution is medicine and science,” the governor said. “Five months later, and this country is still unprepared to deal with this. It’s like we were on day 1 of COVID. It is so unnecessary that we are here.”

Eight New Yorkers died from the virus Sunday, including six in hospitals and two in nursing homes. The state’s virus-related fatalities have remained flat for several weeks, but is down from 13 Saturday and 11 Friday.

The state reported 519 new COVID-19 cases, or about 1.05% positive, of the 49,342 tests conducted Sunday. Each of the state’s 10 regions reported a low, consistent positive COVID-19 testing rate of 1.7% or lower.

“We have no trouble signs, no trouble spots,” the governor said of the state’s overall infection rate. “The progress is all very good.”

Malatras said Monday a population must have an infection rate upwards of 60% or 70% to reach herd immunity, or when most of a population becomes immune to an infectious disease. About 20% of New York City’s population has been infected with COVID-19.

State and national health experts continue to question if, or how long, a person is immune to COVID-19 after exposure.

“There’s a question that exists, anyway, so we’re taking every step to keep the infection rate low,” Malatras said.

To see where each region stands on reopening and the complete county breakdown of COVID-19 cases and deaths statewide, view the COVID-19 map and tracker at hudsonvalley360.com/site/covid19.html.

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2020 COVID-Caveat The following predictions, proposed changes, and conspiracy ramblings, were completed before Major League Baseball’s Spring Training camps were cancelled due to the Coronavirus pandemic.

That being said, they were predicated on a full, 162-game baseball season that has since been reduced to 60-games, barring any further catastrophic circumstances as there were in March when the sports world came to a halt.

Therefore, I offer a modification of my playoff, and awards predictions as MLB will only be playing slightly over a third of the regular season games that they normally do.

What that means is, based off of a 60-game schedule, starting pitching could look a lot different as an example.

A large number of starting pitchers these days, do not usually pitch more than six innings in a game, and normally pitch every five days.

In such a short season, those starters would probably only make eleven starts at most, if their teams don’t change the traditional pitching schedule, when they would normally start around 30-35 games over the course of a full season.

This could mean longer outings for starting pitchers since they would only be throwing in about a third of the games that they would otherwise. However this could also mean they try to throw harder because of the diminished amount of starts they will amass this year, potentially leading to more injuries to pitchers.

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13U Blackhawks remain unbeaten

By Tim Martin

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General view of Yankee Stadium as New York Yankees right fielder Aaron Judge (99) bats against the New York Mets during Sunday’s preseason game at Yankee Stadium.

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Washington Nationals infielder Jake Noll participates in base running drills on day seven of Nationals workouts at Nationals Park on July 9.

NASCAR at Texas: Austin Dillon wins, races his way into playoffs

KINDERHOOK — The 13U Eastern New York Blackhawks won their third game without a loss on Sunday, handing the Columbia Clippers 13U a 16-3 setback in Eastern New York Travel Baseball action.

The game was stopped after five innings because of the 10-run rule.

The Clippers built a 2-1 lead after two innings, but the Blackhawks exploded for eight runs in the third and five more in the fourth to put the game out of reach.

Brandon Rossano had two single and four RBI and Tyler Peck contributed a triple and four RBI for the Blackhawks. Max Frering added a double and single with two RBI, Kyle Danforth had two singles, Gabe Carpenter a single and an RBI and Dom Pelizza and Jacob Macfarlane an RBI apiece.

Johnny Rivero had the lone hit for the Clippers, an RBI single.

Rossano pitched all five innings in earning the win on the mound for the Blackhawks, striking out nine, walking five and allowing three runs and one hit.

Ashton Hotaling (3bb,5r,5h) pitched two innings and Antonio Troy (1k,4bb,4r), Rivero (1k,4bb,5r,2h) and Chase Morrison (1k,1bb,2r,1h) all threw one inning for the Clippers.

Blackhawks 13U 11, Saratoga Stampede 3 SARATOGA — The Eastern New York Blackhawks

13U mounted an 11-hit attack in Saturday’s 11-3 victory over the Saratoga Stampede in Eastern New York Travel Baseball action.

Max Frering led the Blackhawks with three singles. Gavin Hartka and Brandon Rossano each had a single and two RBI, Dom Pelizza, Jacob Macfarlane and Tyler Peck all had a single and an RBI, Kyle Danforth, Jacob Carroll and Devin Scali singled and Jacob Stern drove in a run.

Gabe Carpenter threw the first inning for the Blackhawks, walking four and allowing one run.

Danforth pitched the next four frames, striking out five and surrendering two runs and six hits. Carroll finished up, allowing just one hit and one walk with four strikeouts over two innings.

8U GC Outlaws 9, CP Plainsmen Green 3 CLIFTON PARK — Ryan Harris stroked two singles and drove in four runs to spark the Green County Outlaws to a 9-3 victory over the Clifton Park Plainsmen Green in Sunday’s Eastern New York 8U Travel Baseball game.

J.J. Irwin had a double and an RBI for the Outlaws (3-1). Max Van Etten, Tyler Wood and Kaden Patterson all singled.

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Driver Austin Dillon (No. 3) chugs a Coke after winning the NASCAR Cup Series O’Reilly Auto Parts 500 race on Sunday at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth. The race was the first major league sporting event in Texas open to fans amid the pandemic.

Austin Dillon beat the heat and the rest of the field at Texas Motor Speedway to win his first NASCAR race of the season. It was just his third career Cup win.

“Not bad for a silver spoon kid, right?”

Dillon said on NBCSN after exiting his No. 3 Chevrolet Camaro in front of screaming fans.

He finished less than half a second ahead of his Richard Childress Racing teammate Tyler Reddick, who finished second at the O’Reilly Auto Parts 500. Joey Logano finished in third place.

“Can’t ask for much more than what we got there,” Reddick said on NBCSN after the race. “Me and my teammate on the front row there the last couple of restarts.”

With under 30 laps left, a caution was called for Quin Houff, which shook up the running order and favored drivers who had pitted earlier in the race. Drivers on the lead lap pitted, but Reddick did not take any tires to win the race off pit road and restart in first. Dillon took two tires and quickly raced past Reddick when the race went green again.

A few laps later, the caution flag came out for contact between Denny Hamlin and Alex Bowman, and the restart came with 11 laps left. Dillon chose the inside lane on the restart and Reddick raced him side-by-side, but Dillon forged ahead.

The final caution of the race, which was called again for Hamlin, forced a two-lap shootout between Dillon and Reddick.

Dillon held onto the lead off a big push from Logano, notching a first and second place finish for Richard Childress Racing.

He celebrated in Texas while his wife, Whitney, celebrated with their newborn, Ace, at home. The couple’s first child was born in June.

“We’re screaming and yelling right now,” Whitney said from the family’s living room, Ace in arms, on NBCSN. “We’re See NASCAR B3

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Jon Rahm celebrates on the 18th green after winning during the final round of The Memorial Tournament on Sunday at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio.

Jon Rahm overcomes conditions, penalty to win Memorial Tournament Rob Oller The Columbus Dispatch

They dropped like flies in leather Foot-Joys, swatted by a golf course annoyed at the buzz of players breaking par.

One week after a soft Muirfield Village Golf Club got greased by the world’s best, the same course – hardened by high temperatures, swirling winds and dry weather until late in the day — fought

back Sunday.

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Short season could hurt Yankees, but Gerrit Cole-led team looks like top World Series contender Alex Putterman The Hartford Courant

In one sense, the Yankees benefited from the coronavirus-delayed start to the 2020 season more than any other team. Four months away from the field let James Paxton (back surgery) Aaron Judge (broken rib), Giancarlo Stanton (calf strain) and Aaron Hicks (Tommy John Surgery) work toward recovery.

In another sense, though, the short season will hurt teams like the Yankees, allowing less time for the elite to pull away from the average. Over 162 games, Aaron Boone’s group would be overwhelming favorites to repeat as AL East champs. Over 60 games, that may be less sure.

The Yankees had a lot going for them in 2019. They had All-Star hitters in DJ LeMahieu, Gary Sanchez and Gleyber Torres. They had remarkable depth that helped them overcome a freakish wave of injuries, particularly early in the season. They had reliable starting pitchers such as James Paxton and Masahiro Tanaka. They had a fearsome bullpen, led by Aroldis Chapman.

What they lacked was a shutdown ace, the type who made victory seem inevitable each time he took the mound.

In other words, they lacked Gerrit Cole.

Cole, who signed in New York this winter for nine years and $324 million, emerged last year as the most dominant pitcher in baseball. After leading the American League in ERA and strikeouts during the regular season (setting an MLB record for Ks per nine), he stepped up further in October, allowing only seven earned runs in 36 2/3 innings during the Houston Astros’ run to the World Series.

Cole boosts a Yankees staff that sorely needed the help following with Luis Severino out for the season after Tommy John surgery and Tanaka potentially sidelined after being hit with a line drive.

Run support shouldn’t be an issue. In Sanchez, LeMahieu, Torres, Judge, Stanton, the Yankees boast five position players who have made at least one All-Star team in the past three years — plus Hicks, Miguel Andujar, Luke Voit and Gio Urshela, all of whom have been above-average hitters in the recent past. Assuming decent health (which is, admittedly, a big assumption), this group will score plenty.

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Gerrit Cole of the New York Yankees delivers a pitch in the first inning during the spring training game against the Pittsburgh Pirates at Steinbrenner Field on Feb. 24 in Tampa, Florida.

In a way, last year’s injuries could actually benefit this year’s team. Andujar’s shoulder surgery meant opportunity for Urshela, who batted .314 with an .889 OPS. Long-term IL stints for Judge and Aaron Hicks opened playing time for Mike Tauchman, who contributed an .865 OPS and impressive outfield defense. Injuries to Stanton and others created chances for Mike Ford, who posted a .909 OPS and helped carry the team in September.

Had the Yankees stayed healthy, those players might have been stuck in Triple-A, unable to prove themselves. Instead, Urshela is the presumptive starting third baseman, while Tauchman and Ford could be key bench bats.

After fielding dominant bullpens over the last few years, the Yankees have less certainty in that area this season, with Dellin Betances gone, Chad Green coming off a down year, and Zack Britton and Adam Ottavino sporting walk rates that hint at future regression.

Still, Chapman remains a force, and the team has an impressive history of turning also-ran pitchers into useful relievers.

Yankees’ German not retiring, apologizes for cryptic post Field Level Media

New York Yankees suspended right-hander Domingo German offered an apology after he posted several cryptic Instagram posts implying that he was retiring from baseball.

“To my teammates, the Yankees organization, and our fans, I am very sorry for the unsettling post (Friday) night,” German wrote Saturday in an Instagram story.

“This past year has been very tough for my family and myself, for which I take full responsibility. Not being with my teammates while they get ready for the season, knowing I have let them down, has taken a toll on me and (Friday) night I let my emotions get the best of me. Baseball is my life and I promise I’m not walking away.”

German’s apology comes on the heels of the 27-year-old posting a picture of himself shouting during a game. His post included Spanish words that translated as: “Some people make history on both sides, I think I did my part at Yankee

Stadium, if I decide not to come back, I will be very proud of my 11-year professional career. God bless everyone who has supported me.”

In a separate post in Spanish, German also wrote, “I’ve left baseball.

Thanks everyone.”

German accepted an 81-game suspension late last season for a violation of Major League Baseball’s policy prohibiting domestic violence. He has 63 games remaining on the punishment ahead of the 2020 season that has been abbreviated to 60 games due to the coronavirus pandemic.

An agreement between MLB and the players union in March will allow German to be eligible for all of the 2021 season.

Last year, German went 18-4 with a 4.03 ERA in 27 games (24 starts), leading the major leagues in winning percentage.

He struck out 153 and walked 39 in 143 innings.

For his three-year major league career, all with the Yankees, German has a 20-11 record with a 4.52 ERA in 55 games (38 starts).

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The rotation, meanwhile, will feature Cole, Paxton, J.A. Happ and Tanaka (if his concussion recovery goes smoothly), complemented by Jordan Montgomery, Domingo German, Jonathan Loaisiga and possibly some combination of prospects Deivi Garcia, Michael King and Clarke Schmidt.

Given the uncertainty of the shortened season, new pitching coach Matt Blake, whose new-school approach earned him praise as Cleveland’s assistant director of player development, will surely stay busy.

Despite an uncertain rotation, the Yankees look like one of the very best teams in baseball. As of July 6, FanGraphs projected them for a 34-26 record, third best in baseball.

Oddsmakers have them as co-World Series favorites, along with the Dodgers.

Still, the short season means nothing is guaranteed. Any team could lose a string of one-run games, suffer a run of injuries or even find itself derailed by the coronavirus itself. The Rays quietly won 96 games in 2019 and look just as good heading into the

coming season, while the Red Sox and Blue Jays might be talented enough to pull off a surprise over an abbreviated schedule.

The Yankees undoubtedly have one of the best rosters in baseball. In a pandemicshortened season, time will tell whether that is enough.

Lineup DJ LeMahieu, 2B: Signed as a role player, he became an MVP candidate Aaron Judge, RF: After second straight injury-shortened year, seeking return to 2017 form (and health) Gleyber Torres, SS: Still only 23 years old; will settle in as starting shortstop Giancarlo Stanton, DH: Lost last year to injuries; Yanks need his dingers Gary Sanchez, C: Low-average but plenty of power; still one of game’s best hitting catchers Aaron Hicks, LF: Thanks to pandemic, might not miss a game after Tommy John Surgery Gio Urshela, 3B: Breakout star of 2019 looks to prove it was no fluke Luke Voit, 1B: Stumbled in the second half, still finished with solid numbers Brett Gardner, LF: Posted career-high slugging, OPS at age 35; now back on a one-year deal Rotation Gerrit Cole: Yankees needed an ace, and he might be the best there is James Paxton: Recovered from back surgery, needs to be a strong No. 2 Masahiro Tanaka: Steady and durable, with strong postseason track record JA Happ: Has plenty to prove after poor 2019 Jordan Montgomery: Question mark after Tommy John surgery cost nearly two full seasons Bullpen Aroldis Chapman: At age 32, still one of baseball’s best relievers Zack Britton: Strong results last season despite career-worst walk rate Adam Ottavino: Does tough postseason portend issues to come?

Others: Chad Green, Tommy Kahnle, Ben Heller

Red Sox left-hander Eduardo Rodriguez details his COVID-19 battle Bill Koch The Providence Journal

BOSTON — Eduardo Rodriguez knew something was different.

The headaches, high fever and nausea were unlike anything he’d experienced before. Walking from his bedroom to the kitchen or taking a shower required significant effort.

The Red Sox left-hander soberly recounted his battle with COVID-19 during his first media briefing of Summer Camp on Sunday. Rodriguez wore a mask while he relayed his experience, a 27-year-old professional athlete who was suddenly stricken at his Florida home.

“The first four days were the worst days,” Rodriguez said. “I felt all the symptoms. I would wake up in the morning, get out of bed and feel like I was 100 years old.

“My body was tired all the time.

Throwing up. Headaches. All the symptoms.”

Rodriguez was set to serve as Boston’s ace entering this shortened 2020 season. He exceeded 200 innings pitched and 200 strikeouts for the first time last year, finishing sixth in the American League Cy Young Award voting. Rodriguez will open the campaign on the injured list instead after throwing his first bullpen session Saturday.

“The hardest part was he still wanted to be that guy who pitched Opening Day,” Red Sox manager Ron Roenicke said. “In my mind I was thinking the timing doesn’t work out well for that. I didn’t tell him that at the beginning, but I told him it was going to be very difficult.

“That was probably the hardest part – how he can maintain his strength. If he’s telling me he wants to start he’s going to have to do some things that really, with a virus, it doesn’t allow you to do.”

Rodriguez left spring training for Miami when baseball’s industry-wide shutdown was implemented in March.

He’s not sure when or where he was exposed to the virus, insisting he only made trips to the local grocery store and a nearby workout facility. Rodriguez traveled to Boston earlier this week and was finally cleared Saturday after going through the club’s intake screening.

“I’ve got to say thank God that I’m here and that I’m available to throw,’ Rodriguez said. “The way that I felt

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Eduardo Rodriguez of the Boston Red Sox celebrates after pitching the seventh inning against the Minnesota Twins at Fenway Park in Boston on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019.

Rodriguez recently recovered from coronavirus.

yesterday was really good.”

Rodriguez was unable to perform any baseball activities during the first two weeks after he was diagnosed. He eventually progressed to riding a stationary bike and throwing into a net in his backyard. Rodriguez’s wife, Catherine, has also been diagnosed with and recovered from COVID-19.

“I was one of those people who got hit really hard,” Rodriguez said. “I would say you’ve got to wear your mask all the time, wash your hands and keep your distance. If you’re one of those guys who got hit really hard, you’re going to have a hard time doing daily stuff.”

Rodriguez was one of four Red Sox players who tested positive and the second to make his return. Bobby Dalbec was asymptomatic and has been working out with the team for a full week.

Josh Taylor returned to the club on Saturday and Darwinzon Hernandez is close to doing the same.

“The teams that will get into the playoffs are the teams that basically stay healthy and stay away from this,” Roenicke said. “I think we’re doing a pretty good job of trying to keep the guys safe.

But we can do as much as we can – still, something can happen.”

Rodriguez received a steady stream

of text messages and FaceTime calls from his teammates while he recovered at home. He also heard regularly from David Price, who was traded along with Mookie Betts from Boston to the Dodgers during the offseason. Price has elected to opt out of participating in the 2020 season with Los Angeles.

“He was texting almost every day – ‘How do you feel? How are you doing, bro?’” Rodriguez said. “I never asked about why he decided not to play. I respect that. That’s his decision, and I respect it.”

Rodriguez’s fellow Red Sox staff members watched him throw a 25-pitch bullpen session. Nathan Eovaldi will take his place on Friday against the Orioles, an opportunity Rodriguez admitted was disappointing to miss. He’ll meet with Roenicke, pitching coach Dave Bush and the club’s medical staff to determine his next steps forward.

“It’s kind of hard mentally when you can’t go out there with everybody,” Rodriguez said. “For me it was really hard to get the coronavirus and not be available for Opening Day.” “He’s on a mission now to get himself in shape as fast as he can,” Roenicke said. “We’ll get his arm built up and have him be active as fast as we can.”

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Alex Rodriguez, Jennifer Lopez simply don’t have the cash to buy and then run the Mets Bill Madden New York Daily News

NEW YORK — The bidding is in the second and probably final round. What has become increasingly clear is that, for all their noise and celebrity, there is no way Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez are getting the Mets.

There are a lot of reasons for this, most of all they don’t have near the money of the two front runners, New York hedge fund tycoon Steve Cohen and New Jersey Devils/Philadelphia 76ers primary owners, Joshua Harris and David Blitzer. Recently A-Rod announced to much excitement that NFL Hall of Fame linebacker Brian Urlacher, Super Bowl champion Travis Kelce and 2014 NFL offensive player of the year DeMarco Murray had joined his group of investors, to which one industry insider noted: “That’s all you need to know about A-Rod’s bid. The last thing you want at this stage of the game is more investors. It

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threw one inning for the Outlaws.

GC Outlaws 8 NC Bison White 5 COXSACKIE — The Greene County Outlaws broke up a 2-2 game wit six runs in the third inning and went on to defeat the North Colonie Bison White, 8-5, in Friday’s Eastern New York 8U Travel baseball game at Hallock Park.

Ryan Harris and Aiden Harris each had a double and an RBI for the Outlaws. Everett Nelson, Carter Chase and Max

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so happy.”

For the first two stages, and late into the final stage, it looked like Ryan Blaney would win it. After Blaney swept Stages 1 and 2, a major wreck occurred on the frontstretch, forcing a red flag. Kyle Busch, tapped by Aric Almirola, hooked his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Martin Truex Jr. The No. 19 car of Truex spun toward the outside wall then backward, catching multiple cars behind him. Cole Custer, Ryan Preece and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. were caught up in the

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The pendulum could swing either way. For hitters, we could quite possibly see multiple players hit for over .400 for the first time since Ted Williams in 1941. Since 1945, no one has led the majors with less than 30 home runs, but that is now a strong possibility in 2020. This year the

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moved the 25-year-old Spaniard past Rory McIlroy into the No. 1 spot in the world rankings.

“Just trying to be like you,” Rahm said after receiving a congratulatory fist bump instead of the traditional handshake – blame COVID-19 — from tournament host Jack Nicklaus, who praised the winner for his chip-in from the rough at No. 16.

That hole-out proved critical as Rahm was assessed a two-shot penalty after the round for causing his ball to move with his club before hitting the shot. His 1-over-par 73 was changed to a 75, the

by October.

As of now, the sale price does not include SNY, which is worth at least another $2 billion but is also heavily leveraged in debt. Like all the other team TV networks, SNY is losing millions in advertising this

year and conceivably could be a separate part of the deal. Wilpon and Katz, both in their 80s, own 80% of the network and would seemingly want to cash in on it as well. Comcast and Spectrum, who own the other 20%, are said to definitely want to divest themselves of SNY. Since Cohen has the ability to pay whatever it takes on his own, and already has an 8% stake in the Mets, he appears to be a slight favorite in these sweepstakes despite a small contingent of owners who are opposed to him for fear that he’ll become another George Steinbrenner when it comes to spending. But it takes nine no-votes to block a potential owner and the vast majority of the owners are only concerned about their own franchise values and, thus, want the team going to the highest bidder, no matter who it is.

Meanwhile, A-Rod did himself no favors last week when he called for the players union

to accept a revenue sharing system tied to a salary cap in the upcoming labor negotiations.

Was this an attempt on his part to curry ecome an “international conglomerate” and the NFL who he termed a “juggernaut.”

In the words of one MLB exec: “You really have to wonder what A-Rod was thinking. Kind of reminds me of MacBeth: ‘Tales told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing.’ “ In any event, the rest of the owners look at A-Rod’s pursuit of the Mets with bemusement.

As one top MLB official said to me: “Everyone knows A-Rod doesn’t have the money, but even if he did, does anyone really believe the owners would approve a convicted and admitted baseball drug cheat, who sued the commissioner, sued the Yankees and sued the Players Association?”

Galvan Field.

Austin June doubled and Tay Morrison singled to account for the Clippers’ only hits. Cameron Newkirk, Dylan Dibble and Jack Welch each had two stolen bases.

The Clippers led 1-0 through two innings, but Lansingburgh came back to score at least one run in each of the last five innings. The clippers mounted a comeback in the bottom of the seventh, scoring two runs, but the rally fell short.

Hunter Nielsen pitched the first two innings for the Clippers, striking out three, walking two and allowing one run and one hit. June threw the

last five frames, allowing five runs and seven hits with five strikeouts and one walk.

TT Devil Cats 10, Clippers 2 TT Devil Cats 6, Clippers 4 TROY — The Twin Town Devil Cats swept an Eastern New York 12U Travel Baseball doubleheader form the Columbia Clippers on Sunday, winning the first game, 10-2 and the second, 6-4.

In the opener, Jackson Purdy ripped a double and single and drove in a run for the clippers. Callan Heimroth and Brayden Conrad singled.

Logan Fink (1k,1bb,4r,6h), Conrad (3k,3bb,4r,2h) and Derek Clark (3k,2r,2h) all pitched for the Clippers.

In the nightcap, Demetrio Morales led the Clippers with a double and two singles. Fink added a double and an RBI, T.J. Shutter had a two singles and an RBI, Clark a single and an RBI, Purdy, Dan Wiese and Jack Toussaint a single each and Liam Mullins an RBI. Morales started on the mound for the Clippers and pitched five innings, striking out five and allowing six runs and 11 hits. Mullins finished up, striking out two while giving up a hit.

14U South Troy Dodgers Gray 12, Clippers 0 KINDERHOOK — The

Columbia Clippers were held to just one hit in a 12-0 loss to the South Troy Dodgers Gray team in Saturday’s Eastern New York 14U Travel Baseball game.

The game was stopped after five innings because of the 10run rule.

Derrick Dellea’s fourth innings single was the only Clippers’ hit off of Dodgers’ pitcher Noah Algozzine, who struck out three and walked four.

Dellea pitched 1 1/3 innings for the clippers, striking out two, walking six and allowing seven runs and three hits. Troy Super threw 3 2/3 innings, giving up five runs and six hits and two walks.

wreck and forced to exit the race.

Brad Keselowski led the field on the restart, but was passed by Hamlin, who was then passed by Blaney on Lap 238 of the 334-lap race. Blaney held the lead through multiple cautions in the third stage and remained just ahead of Hamlin.

“I’m trying, man.” Hamlin told his team on the radio while chasing Blaney. “I really am.”

Blaney was fast, but a decision to stay out on Lap 246 as other drivers like Kevin Harvick and Joey Logano pitted ended up hurting him when the caution for Houff came out. Blaney finished in seventh.

It was Dillon and Reddick who won out based on strategy and luck, such as NASCAR goes.

Like Blaney, Jimmie Johnson had speed, but he couldn’t catch a break, which has been the story of the No. 48’s season. Johnson was battered by multiple penalties and multiple wrecks at Texas.

By lap 30, he was sent to the rear of the field on the next restart after a team safety violation on pit road. He raced his way back to seventh to close Stage 1, but early into Stage 2, Johnson hit the wall rounding Turn 4 and was then issued another two-lap penalty for having too many crew members over the wall under NASCAR’s damaged vehicle policy.

Johnson’s Chevrolet Camaro entered the final stage 11 laps down, but he continued to move up in positions. He was then caught up in the big wreck caused by the contact between Busch and Truex, but remained in the race through the finish. Johnson ended the race 12 laps down in 26th place.

It wasn’t the finish the No. 48 wanted or needed to improve his playoff position. He was 15th in points before the race, which is where he’ll stay.

With Dillon’s win and Reddick’s gain in points, however, Johnson’s Hendrick teammate William Byron is in trouble.

Byron crashed out of the race in the final stage,

jeopardizing his playoffs standing. He’s now just below the 16-driver cutline with eight races remaining before the postseason. If RCR is celebrating Texas, Team Hendrick is cursing it.

In addition to the big crashes, there was a hot track. The NBC Sports broadcast reported that the inside of Ty Dillon’s car reached 140 degrees at one point during the race.

When the red flag came out in the final stage, NASCAR officials quickly delivered water to the drivers’ cars.

“It was definitely just putting ice bags on you,” Cole Custer said on NBC Sports Network after exiting his car.

“Hopefully your AC was working.”

Custer called the experience of crashing out “humbling.”

“Winning last week and being part of a wreck this week,” Custer said.

This week, it was a different rookie in the picture (Reddick). And another first-time 2020 race winner shaking up the playoff picture (Dillon).

“Hats off to the (No.) 3, all those guys,” Reddick said on NBCSN. “They’re working hard. It gets one RCR Chevrolet into the playoffs. And now we’re below the cutline. We’ve got to keep fighting.”

“If we can keep running like this, we won’t have to worry about points hopefully,” Reddick said.

Major League Baseball season is a sprint, and not a 162-game marathon.

2020 Predictions: Pre-COVID (Based on 162-game season) 2020 Playoff Teams: AL East - New York Yankees (101-61) AL Central - Minnesota Twins (98-64) AL West - Houston Astros (99-63) AL Wild Card - Los Angeles Angels (90-72) and Tampa Bay Rays (94-68)

NL East - Atlanta Braves (100-62) NL Central - Milwaukee Brewers (91-71) NL West - Los Angeles Dodgers (103-59) NL Wild Cards - New York Mets (89-73) and Washington Nationals (90-72) 2020 Awards AL MVP - Gleyber Torres NL MVP - Ronald Acuna Jr. AL Cy Young - Gerrit Cole NL Cy Young - Max Scherzer AL Rookie of the Year - Luis Robert

NL Rookie of the Year - Carter Kieboom AL Comeback Player of the Year - Miguel Andujar NL Comeback Player of the Year - Yoenis Cespedes AL Manager of the Year - Joe Maddon NL Manager of the Year Brian Snitker 60-game Adjusted 2020 Playoff Teams: AL East - New York Yankees AL Central - Minnesota Twins AL West - Houston Astros

AL Wild Cards - Los Angeles Angels *(if Mike Trout plays), Tampa Bay Rays AL Wild Cards - Oakland A’s *(if Mike Trout doesn’t play), Tampa Bay Rays NL East - Atlanta Braves NL Central - Chicago Cubs NL West - Los Angeles Dodgers NL Wild Cards - New York Mets, Cincinnati Reds 60-game Adjusted Awards Predictions: AL MVP - Anthony Rendon NL MVP - Nolan Arenado

AL Cy Young - Gerrit Cole NL Cy Young - Stephen Strasburg AL ROTY - Luis Robert NL ROTY - Gavin Lux AL Manager of the Year Aaron Boone NL Manager of the Year Dave Martinez AL Comeback Player of the Year - Shohei Ohtani NL Comeback Player of the Year - Steven Souza Jr.

highest winning score since Roger Maltbie shot 76 in the first Memorial, in 1976.

“I did not see anything (move). Had I seen it I would have said so,” Rahm said. “All I can say is as minimal as it was, it moved; I accept it. It doesn’t change the outcome of the tournament. It just puts a little bit of an asterisk in it in the sense of I wish I could just keep that birdie because it was one of the greatest shots of my life.”

Rahm, who began the round with a four-shot lead, led Palmer by eight shots with nine holes to play until stumbling with bogeys at No. 10 and No. 14 and a double bogey at 11. Suddenly his cushion had deflated to three shots with three to play – reminiscent of the final stretch of last week’s Workday Charity Open, also

played at Muirfield Village, in which Justin Thomas lost a three-shot lead with three to play.

Rahm stopped the bleeding with his chip-in from left of the green, landing the ball just on the apron and watching it roll into the cup. He parred out to seal his fourth win on tour and collect the $1.67 million winner’s check.

The shot at 16 was reminiscent of Tiger Woods’ chip-in at 16 on his way to winning the 2012 Memorial. (In a somewhat prophetic moment during the Workday event, Rahm chipped in at No. 14 from the rough, turned to an empty hillside – both Workday and the Memorial were held without spectators – and joked “Just like when Tiger did it.” Little did he know.)

“That shot was exactly what

I needed,” Rahm said of the wedge shot for (at the time) a birdie.

And exactly what Palmer did not, although he slapped Rahm’s hand after the chip-in; the two are good friends who won the Zurich two-man team event in 2019.

“I congratulated him (after the shot) and told him I was proud of him,” said Palmer, who shot 74. “He’s a young, fiery player, that’s for sure, but he’s fun to watch.”

If Rahm was the big winner, Muirfield Village was 1A. The course designed by Nicklaus — who during the CBS broadcast revealed that he and his wife, Barbara, are three months recovered from having had COVID-19 – went right at golf’s best by offering undulating greens as slick as bathtubs and fairways so firm they

bounced golf balls into rough like marbles tossed onto an ice rink.

The greens were especially evil, the grass browning almost before the golfers’ eyes.

The course is getting a facelift – work began on the front nine even before the Memorial had finished – so the only water the greens received Friday and Saturday were the tears of the numerous players who threeputted.

Tiger Woods, a five-time winner of the Memorial who has played Muirfield Village in every kind of condition, would not go so far as to say the course setup was the toughest he has seen, but it belongs in the team picture.

“It’s been awhile since we’ve had conditions this quick,” said Woods, who tied for 40th after struggling with a

4-over-par 76 to finish 6 over.

“This is how Jack loves it. It’s just whether or not Mother Nature will allow it. I think the set up – it’s difficult, but it’s not over the top. Good shots are going to be rewarded, and bad shots are going to be severely punished.”

Emphasis on severely.

The field scoring average of 75.95 was the highest since the first round in 1990 (78.7) and eighth highest in Memorial history. Only five of the 74 players broke par Sunday and all but three holes played over par.

“It was a very challenging week,” Nicklaus said. “The golf course was stressed out pretty well, so it was tough.”

Muirfield took out its stress on the best players in the world.

just proves the point they don’t have the money, whereas a guy like Cohen (whose net worth is estimated at $13.8 billion by Forbes) doesn’t need any investors. Nor do the 76ers guys (Harris is said to have a net worth of nearly $5 billion and Blitzer $1.3 billion). They can all buy the Mets on their own.”

But it’s more than just having the money to buy the team.

It’s the money to then operate the team after shelling out the $2 billion-plus for the Mets and acquiring as much as $500 million in debt Mets owners Fred Wilpon and Saul Katz accrued in loans from the banks and MLB to bail them out of the Bernie Madoff investment scandal in 2008. No doubt, the amount of cash Wilpon and Katz wind up getting for the team will depend on how much of that debt they are willing to absorb themselves. But the major league owners are not going to approve any sale of the Mets for less than

$2 billion because the sale price affects all their franchise values.

As it is, like all the other owners, Wilpon and Katz stand to lose another $150 million in revenues this season as a result of the pandemic, which is why there is an urgency to complete this deal

Van Etten all had a single and an RBI. Ryan Harris struck out five, walked two and allowed two runs and one hit in three innings for the Outlaws. Colton King gave up three runs and one hit with three strikeouts and seven walks in 2 1/3 innings and Jackson Storm walked one in 2 1/3 innings.

12U Lansingburgh Royals 6, Clippers Blue 3 HUDSON — The Columbia Clippers Blue team managed just two hits off of two Lansingburgh royals pitchers in dropping a 6-3 decision in Sunday’s Eastern New York 12U Travel Baseball game at

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ARTICLES OF ORGANIZATION OF MISEVIS RENTAL COMPLEX LLC Under Section 203 of the Limited Liability Company Law FIRST: The name of the limited liability company is: MISEVIS RENTAL COMPLEX LLC. SECOND: The county within this state in which the office of the limited liability company is to be located is: Greene County.

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

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

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

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

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One Bridge Street Catskill, New York 12414 (518)943-6632 COLUMBIA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING Please take notice that there will be a meeting of the Columbia Economic Development Corporation Board on July 28, 2020 at 8:30am for the purpose of discussing any business presented to the Corporation for consideration.

This meeting will not be open to the public due to COVID-19, but they may attend and participate in the meeting via conference call.

Call in information: 800-245-9874 Access code 3180900 Dated: July 21, 2020 Sarah Sterling CEDC Secretary Columbia Economic Development Corporation NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Leila Hac, LLC A DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC) Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York on June 18, 2020.

New York Office Location – Greene County.

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

PURPOSE: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

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

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

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

Notice is hereby given that an order entered by the Supreme Court, Columbia County, on the 12th day of June 2020, bearing the Index Number, 1568320, a copy of which may be examined at the office of the clerk, located at 560 Warren St, Hudson, NY 12534, grants me the right to assume the name of James Aleister Hauptman. The city and state of my present address are Red Hook, NY; the month and year of my birth are 04/1993; the place of my birth is Queens, NY; my present name is James Douglas Seibel.

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

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

Office in Greene Co. SSNY designated agent of LLC whom process may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 4985 Notice is hereby given Route 32, Catskill, NY that an order entered 12414. Purpose: Any by the Supreme Court, lawful purpose.

Columbia County, on the 12th day of June File No. 2020-67 SURRO2020, bearing the In- CITATION dex Number, 15684- GATE'S COURT CO20, a copy of which LUMBIA COUNTY THE OF THE may be examined at PEOPLE the office of the clerk, STATE OF NEWYORK, located at 560 Warren By the Grace of God St, Hudson, NY 12534, Free and Independent grants me the right to TO: Fred Hoffman, Lou assume the name of Hoffman, William HoffShelby Lynn Haupt- man, Henry Hoffman, man. The city and and Edward Hoffman, state of my present unknown issue of Fred address are Red Hook, Hoffman, Lou HoffNY; the month and man, William Hoffman, year of my birth are Henry Hoffman, and 03/1994; the place of Edward Hoffman, if livmy birth is Pough- ing, and if deceased, keepsie, NY; my the Executors, Adminpresent name is Shel- istrators, Distributees, Legatees and Deviby Lynn Seibel. sees, and all persons Notice of Formation of who by purchase or inPRACH PROPERTIES heritance or otherwise LLC. Articles of Or- have or claim to have ganization filed with an interest in these derived NY Secy. of State on proceedings 07/17/2020. Office lo- through the said Fred cation: Columbia Hoffman, Lou HoffCounty. SSNY desig- man, William Hoffman, nated as agent of LLC Henry Hoffman, and upon whom process Edward Hoffman, or against it may be their Executors, AdDistribserved. SSNY shall ministrators, mail process to: 136 utees, Legatees and Prach Road, Hillsdale, Devisees, and other NY 12529. No regis- persons, if any, and tered agent. Purpose: whose names and adAny lawful purpose. dresses are unknown Flint Law Firm P.C., 75 to the Petitioner and Main Street, P. O. Box also to persons who 363, Chatham, NY are or make any claim whatsoever as Execu12037, (518) 392-2555 tors or Administrators Notice of Formation of of any persons who 54SKR, LLC. Articles may be deceased and of Organization filed who, if living, would with NY Secy. of State have any interest in on 06/10/2020. Office these proceedings delocation: Columbia rived through, or from County. SSNY desig- any or all of the above nated as agent of LLC named persons or their upon whom process Distributees, Devisees against it may be and Legatees, and served. SSNY shall which persons, if there mail process to: 180 are any, their names Stony Kill Rd, Canaan, and domicile addressNY 12029. No regis- es being unknown to tered agent. Purpose: Petitioner.

Any lawful purpose. A petition having been Flint Law Firm P.C., 75 duly filed by Betsy H Main Street, P. O. Box Kneller who is domi363, Chatham, NY ciled at 74 Kinderhook Street, Chatham. NY 12037, (518) 392-2555 12037 YOU ARE Notice of formation of HEREBY CITED TO Riverview Marine, LLC SHOW CAUSE before Arts. of Org. filed with the Surrogate's Court, the Sect'y of State of Columbia County, at NY (SSNY) on 401 Union Street. Hud3/11/2020. Office loca- son, New York, on Aution, County of gust 26, 2020, at 11:30 Greene.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: The LLC, 7 Times Square, Attn: Stuart E. Berelson, Esq., NY, NY 10036.

Purpose: any lawful act.

Notice of Formation of AKER ADVISORS, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/07/20.

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

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

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

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

COLUMBIA COUNTY S U R R O G AT E ’ S COURT 401 Union Street Hudson, NY 12534 NOTICE TO CITED PARTIES To whom it may concern: You have been served with a citation for a matter that is on the Columbia County Surrogate’s Court calendar. Please be advised the Unified Court System has established “Virtual Surrogate’s Court� in order to continue to serve the public and court users, while maintaining safe protocols by limiting personal interaction and potential COVID-19 exposures. All interactions involving the Court shall be conducted by electronic means and by mail unless extenuating circumstances are present. The citation has a return date listed on it. If you do not object to the relief requested, you do not need to contact the Court. If you object to the relief requested on the citation, please respond to the Court in writing so that the Court receives your response on or before the date listed on the citation. You may respond in writing by

email to columbiasurrogate@nycourts.gov or by mail to the address listed above. If the Court does not hear from you by the date listed on the citation, it will be presumed that you do not object to the Court granting the relief requested in this matter.

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

Very truly yours, Kimberly A. Jorgensen, Chief Clerk Columbia County Surrogate’s Court

LLC (hereinafter referred to as the “Company�)

SECOND: The Articles of Organization of the Company were filed with the Secretary of State on May 3, 2020.

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

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

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

Dated: June 12, 2020 FREEMAN HOWARD, P.C. 441 East Allen Street P.O. Box 1328 Hudson, New York 12534

Notice of Qualification of JAYNE DEAN, LLC. Authority filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 06/01/20.

Office location: Columbia County.

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

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

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

LLC Articles of Organization of United Lawn Care, LLC (“LLC�) filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 5/7/20, effective on the date of filing. Office location: Columbia County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY may mail a copy of any process to the LLC at 60 Charles Wanzel RD, Copake, NY 12516.

Purpose/Character of business: Any lawful business purpose permitted under the New York Limited Liability Company Law. NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY FIRST: The name of the Limited Liability Company is LOU DECROSTA PAINTING

NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY FIRST: The name of the Limited Liability Company is Luft Properties, LLC (hereinafter referred to as the “Company�)

SECOND: The Articles of Organization of the Company were filed with the Secretary of State on June 18, 2020.

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

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

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

Dated: June 18, 2020 FREEMAN HOWARD, P.C. 441 East Allen Street P.O. Box 1328 Hudson, New York 12534 RENATA SERBAN, CPA, PLLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 07/03/20.

Office: Greene County.

SSNY designated as agent of the PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the PLLC, 365 Muller Road, Prattsville, NY 12468. Purpose: For the practice of the profession of Public Accountancy.

Notice of Qualification of 414 UNION LLC Appl. for Auth. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 07/07/20. Office location: Columbia County.

LLC formed in New Jersey (NJ) on 04/27/20. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the NJ addr. of LLC: 82 Spring Ln., Englewood, NJ 07631. Cert. of Form. filed with State Treasurer, 33 W. State St., Trenton, NJ 08646. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

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WOOD FABER BUILDING LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 06/10/20. Office: Columbia County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 137 County Route 10, Germantown, NY 12526.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

ZBSG HOLDINGS LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 07/09/20.

Office: Greene County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process

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It’s up to our leaders to pull the plug on college sports for 2020 Mike Anthony The Hartford Courant

It has moved from silly to absurd now, all this circular conversation about college sports in the fall, to the point where I don’t know whether to laugh or cry as I consider such foolish hesitation.

I’ll say it again, another week gone by, same plea: Cancel sports for 2020.

But we remain at a time of half-measures, delay tactics, announcements of scale-backs that pass as news for a moment but really add up to nothing more than a kick of the can, a bunch of useless sentences that fail to achieve resolution, provide true safety or so much as touch reality.

The Big East was at it Thursday, announcing the elimination of non-conference competition for the fall, as if COVID-19 only prays upon settings for, say, UConn vs. Northwestern in sports like field hockey or soccer.

More and more people, I believe, are coming to grips with the fact that 2020 is not a time for college, or even high school, sports. But not the people at the top. Not yet. It’s mind-boggling.

There was more bang-your-head-againstthe-desk madness later Thursday out of the Capitol, where Gov. Ned Lamont’s coronavirus press briefing became an examination of college and high school athletics, most of which are still, ridiculously, on as scheduled in some form.

What we learned, though, was that the upcoming UConn football season is actually off.

There was no announcement, mind you, but a logical conclusion to draw from a twisted knot of a dialogue.

Because if UConn travels to a state on Lamont’s growing quarantine-upon-return list — and the Huskies are scheduled to with games in Mississippi, North Carolina and California — members of the program would have to remain in lockdown for 14 days, Lamont confirmed.

Think about that. No practices. Virtually nothing that resembles normal student life.

Which means one road game costs the team not only the next two games, but most facets of the primary reason for being on campus: an education. Then we’d send them back to the field, rusty and ready to rupture some ACLs. Great.

Of course, the more likely action is to cancel those road games and/or disallow the travel, another means of erosion to a schedule and a season that doesn’t need to take place. On Friday, the Colonial Athletic Association announced cancellation of conference

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Empty stands inside of Clemson Memorial Stadium on the campus of Clemson University on June 10 in Clemson, South Carolina.

competition in the fall. And while those schools are free to pursue an independent schedule, another UConn 2020 opponent, Maine, is in question.

The college sports world is a collage of untenable models for obvious reasons, but round and round we go, a square dance of trying to stuff square pegs into round holes, the health and safety and experiences of our young people not fully recognized or appreciated.

Continuing on for the hell of it as if I’m a conference commissioner unwilling to give up on a wild goose chase, I’ll also note that any visiting team from a state on Lamont’s list would have to quarantine for 14 days. Middle Tennessee, if that state remains listed, would have to arrive Nov. 6 for a Nov. 21 game in East Hartford. Forget the fact that the Blue Raiders have games Nov. 7 and Nov. 14.

Questions I’ve asked before: Where are we?

What are we doing? It’s almost embarrassing to have to again dissect this issue, the we’ll-trysomething-we-shouldn’t-try approach. Football has to be, at the very least, postponed until spring, when maybe, just maybe, we’ll have enough of a handle on the virus to even consider staging events.

But no one is saying it yet.

Can someone just say it, please? Just say it!

UConn president Tom Katsouleas: Just say it.

Big East commissioner Val Ackerman: Just tell us fall sports are a no-go.

CIAC director Glenn Lungarini: Just pull the plug on efforts to get our kids on the field when we don’t even know they can get into the classroom.

Gov. Lamont: Speak from the top. Call it all off. No matter that every UConn football game brings $172,500 to the CRDA in rent from the University.

Look, you won’t hear from me for a while.

Vacation time. Road trip. This column is Volume III of my Forget Fall Sports Campaign. I shouldn’t have to write Volume IV while in my own quarantine upon returning to Connecticut.

In the meantime, this is what I hope for: Conference announcements — from the Big East in UConn’s case, and like the America East on Friday — that no events will be held before Jan. 1. An NCAA announcement that fall championships are canceled, thereby motivating universities to do away with the whole charade. Then a UConn announcement that its first season of football independence will be pushed. Because if the university didn’t move quickly toward that decision, it would tacitly acknowledge a belief that it’s safe to play football while unsafe

to play field hockey and soccer.

This situation is an unmanageable mess.

These campuses and athletic outfits can create bubbles, but what’s the use of a bubble if it is pierced by numerous aggravating factors, including travel and campus interaction? UConn plans to return about 8,000 students to Storrs in mid-August.

Financial Armageddon. That’s what a friend in the college sports industry said to me about fallout from the elimination of Power Five football.

So be it. It can be fixed in the spring, probably. Even if it can’t be fixed in the spring, again, so be it.

COVID-19 is raging. As America continues to drop the ball, we can’t push children and young adults onto the playing field. Professional outlets like the NBA can spend millions to create something secluded and perhaps sustainable.

But ...

“It’s harder at the collegiate level,” former FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb said of bubble scenarios. “It’s even harder at the high school level. Quite frankly, I would prioritize getting students back into the classroom before I introduce extracurricular activities.”

Applause.

UConn has reported zero positive COVID tests on student-athletes and that’s wonderful.

But even the bizarre lifestyle that student-athletes — our guinea pigs, sadly — are experiencing and an ongoing conversation about health and safety perpetuates anxiety over the whole situation.

It’s not fair. It’s not feasible. And there’s, what, maybe 120 players on campus? Wait until the student body returns. Shouldn’t our focus be on protecting their safety, instead of whether there should be a kickoff in September or a tip-off in November? We’re lost.

Regarding high school sports, Lamont said, “At least you’re not traveling to high infection states. High school sports is limited to a state where you have a very low infection rate.”

So it’s wise for, say, Hartford Public to go play Windsor in football? Is it wise, in any other setting, for over a hundred people from Hartford and Windsor to get together and wrestle for a few hours?

On and on through the circles of irresponsibility we go, still waiting for someone at the top to say what needs to be said.

Can the NFL finish what it started? We’re about to find out John Niyo The Detroit News

JC Tretter is in the middle of it all right now. But that’s part of his job description – for both his jobs, really – and he understands it comes with the territory.

Still, for Tretter, the starting center for the Cleveland Browns, this is something he never bargained for when he ran for – and won – an election four months ago to be the new president of the NFL Players Association.

Suddenly, life in the trenches has taken on a whole new meaning, as Tretter and the union he’s helping lead – representing nearly 2,000 other players – continue negotiations with the league on a variety of health and safety issues, as well as some weighty economic concerns, with NFL teams scheduled to begin training camp this week in the middle of a pandemic.

The league reaffirmed its plans for business-as-(un)usual Saturday, announcing in a memo to general managers and coaches that reporting dates for rookies and veterans will not change. For 30 teams, including the Lions, rookies report on Tuesday, with veterans due in camp a week later. (Kansas City and Houston – the two teams scheduled for the NFL’s Thursday night season opener on Sept. 10 – plan to start camp July 25, with rookies reporting Monday.)

But Tretter and NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith both made it clear Friday that there’s plenty yet to be decided before players agree to step back on the field for the first time in 2020. And at least one team – the Miami Dolphins – reportedly has

pushed back its rookie reporting date until later in the week.

Not coincidentally, Miami is one of the U.S. cities currently dealing with an alarming spike in COVID-19 cases. It’s one of the reasons the NFLPA held an “emergency” conference call late last week with league officials and team physicians from some of those hot spots, where players have voiced concerns about returning to work.

“How safe is that?” Tretter said Friday on a video conference call with members of the Pro Football Writers Association. “Our job is to hold the NFL accountable and have them answer those questions. How safe is it to start up a football season at this moment with teams in locations in this country that are going through giant spikes of this virus?

“Football isn’t (operating) in a bubble like the NBA is. What goes on in our communities has a direct effect on how football works this year, or if it can work this year.”

Problem is, “if” isn’t a word the NFL likes to toss around. And while Tretter can say, “The health and safety aspect has to be taken care of for the players, first and foremost,” the truth is, Roger Goodell and the owners are the ones calling the shots here.

“The league is management,” NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith noted. “They have the exclusive right, just like somebody who owns a plant, regarding when it opens and when it closes.”

And for months now, the league really hasn’t wavered on its plan to open the season on time. The NFL went ahead with free agency in midMarch just as other leagues – and many states – were shutting down.

It then held its draft in late April and moved forward with a virtual offseason program that ended late last month.

Now comes the hard part, though.

And no one needs to remind Tretter exactly what that means.

“Obviously, I’m a center, so I’m livin’ it,” Tretter said, noting that social distancing isn’t possible in his line of work. “And this time, more than any, I have a very dangerous job. Not just with what normal football is like, but with what’s going on in the world, my job especially has gotten more dangerous.

“This is going to be a battle of risk mitigation and providing guys opportunities to make safe decisions and try to stay as safe as possible. But you can pull up almost any picture from a December game and you can see how much breath is being blown back and forth being a yard away from each other. And understanding how this virus is transmitted, what’s going to be going on if sick individuals are involved?”

That’s a question no one involved can fully answer, obviously. But the league, which held its own private conference call Friday, finally revealed some of the elaborate protocols teams will be operating under when facilities open to players this week. They include everything from masks and pre-packaged meals to upgraded ventilation systems and contact-tracing bracelets.

Each team is required to submit its own Infectious Disease Emergency Response (IDER) plan, subject to approval by the NFL and NFLPA. But there are some key elements that are still being debated, including the frequency of the COVID-19 testing

that’ll be run by BioReference Laboratories, which also has partnered with the NBA and Major League Soccer.

The players want daily testing, both to limit outbreaks and to help alleviate quarantine problems created by false positives. That’ll cost tens of millions of dollars and possibly challenge lab capabilities, yet as Smith said Friday, “We don’t plan on changing that position.”

The players also want to get rid of the two remaining preseason games still on the schedule. Instead, they say medical experts agree an extended six-week training camp – with full-contact practice limited to the last couple weeks – is the best way to prevent injuries after missing the offseason.

“Every decision we make that doesn’t look at the long-term (view) of getting through a full season,” Tretter insisted, “is going to set us up for failure.”

That, in turn, brings up the money matters still to be resolved.

The league figures to lose about a quarter of its projected $16 billionplus in revenue if it plays the 2020 season without fans in the stands.

That could mean the 2021 salary cap drops by up to $70 million per team, unless the two sides can agree on a way to spread those losses over multiple years. But what happens if the 2020 season can’t be completed?

Who gets paid? And how much?

Or how many? That’s another question that needs answering, as the two sides hammer out an agreement that’ll account for the likelihood of positive tests and the inevitable roster upheaval. They’ll need lessrestrictive rules for injured reserve,

expanded practice squads, and so on. Smith said he doesn’t yet know of any players planning to opt-out of the season, but surely some will. And that’s another sticking point in negotiations.

So, too, are the concerns players have shared about whether everyone is truly appreciating the risks involved here. Ravens coach John Harbaugh deemed initial protocol plans last month “humanly impossible.”

Meanwhile, Buccaneers coach Bruce Arians, a three-time cancer survivor, said recently, “The players, they’re going to all get sick, that’s for sure.

It’s just a matter of how sick they get.”

Clearly, that’s not the plan, or the expectation. But just how much of an exaggeration will it sound like by November or December? No one can say for sure.

What Tretter will say, however, is this: “Those attitudes can’t happen.

Because this is all of us in it together.

And no one can just wish this away or expect this to go away. There are consequences to getting sick.”

Just ask another NFL veteran lineman, the Los Angeles Rams’ Andrew Whitworth, who joined the NFLPA call Friday to talk about his own family’s ordeal with the virus this spring.

A casual lunch date turned into a fullblown COVID-19 outbreak in a matter of days for his extended family, including a father-in-law who was hospitalized.

“It doesn’t take much,” Whitworth said. “It can spread like wildfire. ... All it takes is one exposure, and that’s the reality.”

One the NFL is just beginning to tackle.

CMYK

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B6 Tuesday, July 21, 2020

The backstory of Tom Thibodeau’s Belichick-ian approach to practice and development Stefan Bondy New York Daily News

NEW YORK — It was Tom Thibodeau’s first season as head coach of the Timberwolves, and his squad had stopped in Louisville for a couple days before a preseason game. Rick Pitino, who was coaching the Louisville Cardinals at the time, took his staff to observe Thibodeau’s session. They expected a relaxed atmosphere considering the NBA’s reputation, but were floored by the intensity and efficiency.

“He was meticulously organized, almost scary organized, and he reminded me of Bill Belichick,” Pitino told the Daily News. “I’ve spent a lot of time with Belichick and Thibodeau’s got a lot of the same mannerisms, the same attention to detail that Belichick has. And that’s about the highest compliment I could give someone.”

Pitino recalled that Andrew Wiggins, the Timberwolves’ gifted young wing, was approaching the practice lackadaisically, which prompted a succinct and effective response from Thibodeau.

“He said, ‘Wigs, you’re going to reach your potential one way or the other.’ Nothing else, just ‘I don’t care, you’re going to reach your potential,’ “ Pitino said. “And Wiggins just got after it from that point on. He never had to correct him the rest of the practice.

That was it. And the practice was brilliant.”

Wiggins went on to his best season as a professional, averaging 23.6 points and playing all 82 games. Thibodeau, however, lasted less than three seasons with the Timberwolves, leaving behind a complicated legacy marked by success (the franchise’s only playoff berth in the last 16 years) and rifts with both the star player (KarlAnthony Towns) and team owner (Glen Taylor).

Thibodeau, 62, is now the leading candidate to coach the Knicks coach next season and beyond, as team president Leon Rose, a longtime agent, is set to officially make his hire by the end of the month.

For the struggling franchise, the most pressing matter is player development because the roster offers little in the way of established talent, only raw potential in RJ Barrett and Mitchell Robinson.

And while Thibodeau’s meticulous style might not have resonated with Towns, an examination of the coach’s history suggests that he’s boosted the careers of players who are wired to work and win.

Development has always been a Thibodeau concentration.

And to understand its origins, you have to go back to Pitino.

Thibodeau was an assistant coach at Harvard in the late ‘80s, and the Ivy League training camps didn’t start until a week after the other DI programs opened. So Thibodeau traveled to Providence College — roughly an hour from Cambridge — to soak in Pitino’s sessions. He picked up an innovative approach to player development, a focus on individuals and specialization that has become the NBA norm.

“Rick was the first to make guys come in during the day for an hour in groups of two and three. He termed it ‘individual instruction.’ Now they call it player development,” Jeff Van Gundy, who was a graduate assistant at Providence from 1986 to ‘88, told The News. “That sort of thing was very unique — the emphasis back in the late ‘80s on bringing guys back in to work on their own individual game outside of the normal team practice.

“So Providence players at that time had long, long days.”

Van Gundy, the future Knicks coach, acknowledged that Pitino’s approach wouldn’t fly today with the NCAA’s limit of 20 hours per week of practice.

“If we had a 20-hour rule we would have used it in one day,” he said.

The Friars advanced to the 1987 Final Four under Pitino, a Cinderella run that fueled multiple coaching careers and spawned a Pitino tree.

Stu Jackson, the future Knicks coach, was a Providence assistant. Billy Donovan, the current Thunder coach, was the star point guard. Van Gundy became the coach of the Knicks and Rockets.

Thibodeau soon got his big NBA break with the Timberwolves as an assistant, and later, as a Sixers assistant, helped develop a teenaged Kobe Bryant. The pair met inside the St. Joseph’s gym when Bryant was attending Lower Merion High School in Philadelphia.

Thibodeau recognized the talent, the drive and drilled the future Hall of Famer in his spare time.

“He was crucial (to my development). He was with me when I was 16 or 17 years old,” Bryant said in 2010. “Just doing drills and just working on ballhandling and just teaching me the game. He was there from Day 1.”

Thibodeau’s next move was linking up with Van Gundy, who hired his former

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Minnesota Timberwolves head coach Tom Thibodeau looks on during a game against the Boston Celtics at TD Garden in Boston on January 2, 2019.

Providence acquaintance as an assistant with the Knicks and Rockets. In New York, Thibodeau built strong bonds with Larry Johnson and Latrell Sprewell. Their partnership peaked with a run to the 1999 NBA Finals. In Houston, Thibodeau assisted Yao Ming’s elevation to All-Star.

“Yao was the greatest worker I believe that ever existed in the NBA. I don’t think anybody could ever have done more to put themselves in a position to be as good as they could be,” Van Gundy said.

“But Tom was tremendous in developing a routine that Yao could follow — a blueprint to take him from being good to being great.”

Thibodeau’s final stop as an assistant was in Boston with a star-studded roster navigating a championship window.

With Doc Rivers as the head coach, Thibodeau solidified his reputation as a defensive specialist by concocting an unorthodox and highly effective scheme of overhelping the strong side.

Brian Scalabrine, a forward with those Celtics, said the team’s top players — Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen — tested Thibodeau by openly questioning his defense.

“Thibodeau would always act like he’s listening and be like, ‘You guys are more than welcome to come in my office and watch the eight hours of films that I watched. And I promise you this will work if you do it hard and you do it right,’ “ Scalabrine told the News.

Rivers interjected to back up Thibodeau. Then the 200708 Celtics became one of the best defensive teams in NBA history.

“Fifteen games in, there was no more questioning of Tom Thibodeau,” Scalabrine said.

Thibodeau’s start as head coach with the Bulls in 2010 was a remarkable success,

with the Bulls winning an NBA-best 62 games and Derrick Rose becoming the NBA’s youngest MVP. Over the next five seasons, Joakim Noah, Jimmy Butler and Luol Deng became All-Stars in Chicago.

Thibodeau tweaked his defense by icing on pick-androlls instead of showing. The Bulls never missed the playoffs despite Rose’s avalanche of injuries, and Thibodeau never abandoned his meticulous style.

Scalabrine, who played under Thibodeau in Boston and Chicago, also compared him to the Patriots coach.

“Very similar to Bill Belichick if you ever to go to a Bill Belichick practice,” he said.

“Every smallest detail of his practice is talked about. Every pass has to be seamed. Every shot has to be quick and balanced. Every pick-and-roll you have to come off shoulder-to-hip.”

At one Bulls practice, Scalabrine lost focus and learned that his history with Thibodeau wouldn’t spare him from wrath.

“Thibs laid into me something fierce,” said Scalabrine Thibodeau threatened to release Scalabrine so he could pursue a career in broadcasting. It was a targeted burn toward a player who frequently made the media rounds. Noah piled on by making faces in the background.

“Thibs says, ‘I will cut you in a second and you can do all the radio hits you want,’ “ Scalabrine recalled.

The tension was short lived. Scalabrine sat next to his coach at lunch and talked through the incident. It became another lesson in Thibodeau holding his players accountable.

“Looking from afar at Minnesota, it just didn’t seem like Karl-Anthony Towns bought into all that. It was more like, just let me ball, let me hoop, I want it to be easy,” Scalabrine

said. “One thing is it’s not going to be easy for any of his players. You’re not going to be able to go in and jerk around at practice, and you’re not going to be able to go in and not focus on the things he thinks are important to winning a championship. There’s no levels for Thibodeau. There’s championship level or no level. That’s how he works. It doesn’t matter if the roster is championship level or not.”

The specific criticisms of Thibodeau as a coach and personality have circulated the media and were pushed by his detractors. The most prominent, dating back to his years with the Bulls, is that he overworks his players and burdens their bodies with too much time on the court.

Minutes restrictions is a relatively new phenomenon and treasured by the analytics camp. The Bulls were hit with injuries, but it’s worth noting that the Chicago players who Thibodeau was accused of sabotaging — Noah, Rose, Deng, Butler and Taj Gibson — either played for him again in Minnesota or tried to get there. They all secured lucrative contracts, with Noah and Deng getting paid well above their return value after leaving Chicago. It never became an instance like in Boston with Isaiah Thomas, who squandered a potential megadeal by playing hurt in the postseason.

Deng revealed recently that Thibodeau forcefully took his side in a contract dispute with Bulls management.

“Thibs was upset, and Thibs kept telling them (the front office), ‘Sign Lu, I need you to sign Lu,’ “ Deng said in an Instagram Live interview. “So when the (2013-14 season) started, I wasn’t signed for the Bulls, and Thibs decided he was going to make them know how important I am for the team, and ran everything through me — and this is why I love Thibs still today.”

The heavy minutes certainly didn’t turn off players from Thibodeau. Another knock commonly directed at Thibodeau has been his lack compatibility with management or ownership, which resulted in uncomfortable moments at both his head coaching spots. It’s a reputation of not working well with others. In Chicago, the partnership with GM Gar Forman and team president John Paxson was frayed. In Minnesota, a similar dynamic with Taylor contributed to Thibodeau’s dismissal. There were rumors of Taylor ordering Thibodeau to stop cursing on the sideline, and of Thibodeau trying

to block the owner from getting in the locker room.

Thibodeau’s poor connection with Towns and, to a lesser degree, Wiggins, prompted suggestions from league insiders that he hire at least one assistant who can relate better to the younger players and serve as a buffer.

But Pitino believes Thibodeau will adjust at his next job.

“What all great coaches do — they learn what not to do because the times change.

And I totally believe in this guy that he has learned what not to do with the young professional athlete,” Pitino said. “I think he knows from the Wiggins’ and the Karl-Towns’ of the world what not to do with these young players, but on the other hand, the flip side, he knows how to develop them.”

Ostensibly, relationships should be less of an issue in New York, at least with the front office, because of Thibodeau’s familiarity with Leon Rose and top executive William Wesley. Everybody understands what they’d be getting into. According to people who know Thibodeau, there’s a disconnect between his public persona — which is gruff, short and combative — and his easygoing personality in private.

“He has a great personality — and I told him this — let’s let everyone see it man,” Scalabrine said. “You don’t have to act like Bill Belichick all the time. You can coach like him, and act like Thibodeau.”

Still, Thibodeau is clearly fine with conflict and discomfort if it can promote winning.

That could be the slogan for his coaching style — winning is hard.

“I think this is where management’s make mistakes,” Van Gundy said. “If you focus on everything should be kumbaya and we should eat dinner together every night and drink wine together, you lose sight of what you’re really there for — which is to try to improve and sacrifice and commit to one another so that the individuals can improve and play better and the team wins more.

I think when you start taking the focus off those things you can get muddled down in stuff that does not matter. And only losing players think that stuff matters.”

Barry Trotz not happy with Islanders’ effort in scrimmage Andrew Gross Newsday

Visually, the Islanders looked crisp wearing their game jerseys rather than practice sweaters.

Barry Trotz couldn’t say as much for the on-ice performance.

“I didn’t like a lot of the stuff today,” the coach said after Sunday’s scrimmage at Northwell Health Ice Center in East Meadow. “Overall, I wouldn’t say I was happy with the whole group.

There were portions I was happy with.”

So ends the first week of the Islanders’ Training Camp 2.0 as they prepare to restart their season with a best-of-5 qualifying series against the Panthers in Toronto beginning on Aug. 1. The Islanders depart for their quarantined arena/hotel bubble July 26.

Trotz never shies from bluntly honest assessments and publicly expressing displeasure over Sunday’s three-period scrimmage may also be a coaching tactic, trying to reinforce the reality that the elimination games are coming up quickly.

“I thought we weren’t on the puck,” Trotz said.

“Some of our detail, we were really loose. We’ve got a lot of work to do. Some of our areas, we could tighten up for sure. Some of that might be a little bit fatigue. Some of that might be a little mindset. We’ve got to get that in order.”

And Trotz may also be trying to send a message that no player should feel secure in a lineup spot.

He hinted some changes may be coming to his lines and defense pairings.

For the most part through training camp’s first six days on the ice, including three scrimmages, Trotz has kept his combinations intact from the regular season that was paused on March 12

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New York Islanders head coach Barry Trotz gives instructions as defenseman Thomas Hickey (34) and center Casey Cizikas (53) look on during the New York Islanders workout at Northwell Health Ice Center on July 13.

because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mathew Barzal has been centering captain Anders Lee and Jordan Eberle on the top line. Brock Nelson has been in between Anthony Beauvillier and Josh Bailey on the second line, Jean-Gabriel Pageau and Derick Brassard have anchored the

third line with either Tom Kuhnhackl or Michael Dal Colle and a healthy Casey Cizikas has been back with Matt Martin and Cal Clutterbuck on the identity-setting fourth line.

Defensively, a healthy Adam Pelech has been reunited with top-pair partner Ryan Pulock,

Devon Toews has been with Scott Mayfield and Nick Leddy has been paired with Johnny Boychuk. That was the projected top six but Trotz said on Saturday Andy Greene and rookie Noah Dobson were “as good as any pair we’ve had.”

“I think some guys are moving up,” Trotz said on Sunday. “Some guys are earning an opportunity to be in the mix a little bit more.”

Trotz has also cited burly Ross Johnston as one of the forwards that “keeps making a statement” and said he noticed rookie Kieffer Bellows “a little bit” in Sunday’s scrimmage.

And while Trotz conceded Barzal’s top line, which accounted for all four of its squad’s goals, was skating well, he questioned how much of that was because Nelson’s line had trouble defensively.

“They’ve had better days,” Trotz said of Nelson’s line. “Beau was the guy that was really instrumental in them having success. He buried a couple of chances and hit a couple of posts. But that line was minus a couple today. That line needed to dial it in a little. But that line has been good the previous two scrimmages. They’ve been pushing hard. When you get fatigued, the mind goes and then everything else sort of goes.”

On a positive note, both Barzal and Beauvillier connected with power-play goals. Trotz did not incorporate special teams work into the on-ice work until Saturday’s scrimmage.

“I think the power play looks good,” Beauvillier said. “We just started working on it. It’s going to be huge for us in the playoffs. We’re moving the puck quickly and putting the puck in the back of the net.”

CMYK

Tuesday, July 21, 2020 B7

COLUMBIA-GREENE MEDIA

After 30 years, first love reappears in woman’s life Dear Abby, I have come into contact with my first and forever love again after 30 years. We have had a few encounters throughout the years.

When they happened, we fell right back into our comfort zone.

DEAR ABBY We both have current relationships with others that are not satisfying. We have both had failed relationships as well. No relationship I have ever been in compares to the one I have with this man. He’s successful and buries himself in his work.

Even though he never says it, I know in my heart he has hidden feelings toward me as well.

This man has held my heart my entire life.

I never stopped loving him. Do I finally tell him how I feel and risk possibly losing him forever, or should I remain silent and enjoy the encounters we have when they happen?

Wants It All In Pennsylvania

JEANNE PHILLIPS

I think you should finally let this man know how you feel about him. If you do, it will either enable him to tell you he feels the same as you do, or stop you from fantasizing about a relationship that will never happen. If he is satisfied with the status quo, it doesn’t necessarily mean these encounters will end, but at least you will know them for what they are.

Dear Abby, My mother has no faith in me, mostly because I have a disability. Even though it’s not that bad, she still doesn’t think I can do anything hard. Although I’m almost 40, she still tells me what to do and criticizes me in any way she can, including my parenting. I can’t spend a day with her without wanting to come home and take a bat to the walls.

I have a lot of anger inside, and I don’t trust her because she tends to tell her friends or family things I would rather were kept

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private. What can I do about this?

Irritated In Illinois If this is any comfort, I receive letters with the same complaint as yours from readers who don’t have disabilities. If your children are healthy and doing well and your mother’s criticisms are baseless, my advice is to tune your probably well-meaning but overbearing mother out.

Because she discusses things you confide in her with others, quit telling her anything you don’t want broadcast. It’s easier than trying to muzzle her. You might also consider seeing your mother less often, which could save your walls and the wear and tear on the bat you’re tempted to use after those encounters.

Dear Abby, I would like to propose a new word for general use. It’s “wasband.” Definition: male to whom I am no longer married. Reason: “Ex” seems a pejorative term. I didn’t want to add that burden to the baggage our kids may have picked up.

I have used it since the mid-1990s. I began to think of a new term when I was in a social situation with my wasband, his wife and mutual friends. I bumped into a colleague and wasn’t quick enough to think of a polite term for my former husband, so I could only introduce him as “the father of my children.”

I think “wasband” is a less awkward term.

What do you think, Abby?

Lover Of Language In Washington I think it is clever. The term is listed in the Urban Dictionary, and because you started using it so early shows you are one smart cookie.

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Osteoporosis is a common condition in older adults I’m 86, and was finally, after a few false starts, diagnosed with two compression fractured vertebrae, which were very painful.

This was followed by a diagnosis of osteoporosis. The doctor who diagnosed it told me that it was a disease mainly of the northern part of the planet, affecting folks living in the TO YOUR Scandinavian countries and GOOD HEALTH also places like Ireland, where I came from originally. I had never heard of such a disease, have you?

DR. KEITH ROACH

Osteoporosis is a very common condition in adults older over 50, effecting women more than men, whites and Asians more than Black, and people living far from the equator are at higher risk than those in or close to the tropics. I see people at risk for osteoporosis nearly every day in my clinic, and treatment is ideally to prevent the fracture from happening in the first place.

The best diagnosis tool for osteoporosis is measuring bone density with a specialized Xray called a DEXA (dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry). Osteoporosis is defined as a VERY low bone mass or by a history of a typical fracture consistent with, and in addition to, low bone mass.

Compression fractures of the vertebrae — when the weakened bone is crushed by the weight it supports — are more common than the even more serious hip fractures, but are probably less well known. I see them too frequently.

Primary preventive care for osteoporosis includes a diet containing adequate calcium, with enough vitamin D from food, sunlight or supplements; and exercise, particularly weight-bearing or higher-impact exercise, if possible. People who continue to have low bone mass or osteoporosis benefit from medication treatment to reduce fracture risk.

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I am 59 years old and work out with weights. Can I still gain muscle, or am I too old? Either way I will continue working out.

People at any age can gain strength, and muscle mass from exercise. Fifty-nine is very young! People in their 80s and beyond not only gain strength, but can reduce risk of falls and fractures through regular exercise. I do recommend getting a professional to help if you are not familiar with the equipment and techniques.

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By Stella Wilder Born today, you are something of a visionary — one of those rare and wonderful people who can imagine the way things should be and paint a picture of a better world for all to enjoy. Though there are others within the zodiac who are much the same, what you have going for you is your ability to spot, even within one of your own dreams of the future, the one thing you can use to transform fantasy into reality — and you do it again and again.

You are not always a bright and jovial individual, for you are sure to suffer through periods in which the dark clouds obscure the light and plunge you into an emotional storm.

Also born on this date are: Ernest Hemingway, writer; Don Knotts, actor; Robin Williams, comedian and actor; Juno Temple, actress; Isaac Stern, violinist; Jon Lovitz, comedian and actor.

To see what is in store for you tomorrow, find your birthday and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your daily guide.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 22 CANCER (June 21-July 22) — This is a fine day to attempt that which you’ve not attempted. A search for a certain someone yields more than you bargained for.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — It may be time for you to give someone the information he or she has been asking for — before you find yourself unable due to timing or distance.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Take the opportunity today to reorganize things around you to suit your methods. If you don’t, you’ll have trouble do-

ing even routine things.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Now is no time for telling secrets. What you know that others don’t is certainly best kept to yourself for now, and for the foreseeable future.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Do your job today, and don’t let anyone keep you from it. Doing someone else’s job as well may fall to you late in the day. Keep your eyes open!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Don’t let anyone pull the wool over your eyes today. Listen to the voices of your own soul, and you’ll remain clear of any dangers.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You may have to work both harder and longer today to achieve your goals than you had planned — but necessity compels you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Now is a good time for you to sit back and let others do their share.

You mustn’t be tempted to do that which is not in your wheelhouse.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — Pay attention to the signposts you pass today, as you will have to calculate with great accuracy your travel and arrival times.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Keep all judgments to yourself today, and you’ll benefit from another’s generosity. Remember, last time is not this time.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — You may have a run-in today with someone who brings out both the best and worst in you. It may be time to consider doing something new together.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You don’t want to waste your shot on something transitory when you can invest in that which will build your reputation — and last a long time.

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THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME

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

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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.

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

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Monday’s puzzle Solution to Saturday’s puzzle

Complete the grid grid so so each each row, row, column and 3-by-3 box (in (in bold bold borders) borders) contains contains every every digit, 1 to 9.

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(e.g., This camera part is sometimes called the diaphragm or iris. Answer: Aperture.)

Freshman level 1. Who introduced the Kodak camera?

2. This type of room is used for developing photographs from film.

3. This three-legged rack is often used to support a camera.

Graduate level 4. For what does “SLR” stand as related to cameras?

5. Edward Land created this instant camera.

6. The traditional three-word cue to a film crew at the start of a take.

PH.D. level 7. This type of camera lens shows an extremely wide area with curved edges.

8. Allen Funt created this hidden camera TV series.

9. Title of a 1951 Broadway play adapted from the novel “Goodbye to Berlin.”

SUPER QUIZ ANSWERS 1. George Eastman. 2. Darkroom. 3. Tripod. 4. Single-lens reflex camera.

5. Polaroid. 6. Lights, camera, action. 7. Fisheye lens. 8. “Candid Camera.” 9.

“I Am a Camera.”

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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All 58 Dull speaker PCs & TVs 59 Under __; being 27 Speedy 50 “The __ Piper of 40 Trousers attacked 28 Greek letters Hamelin” 41 Money owed 60 Fez fabric 29 Benevolent; 52 Dauntless 43 Lariat loops 61 Logging tools giving 53 Linkletter & 44 Very witty reply 62 Deadly reptile 30 Airhead Carney 46 Sudden forward 63 __ up; tallies 32 Part of “aka” 55 Part of the WWII rush 33 Mrs. Nixon Allies 47 Marching band DOWN 35 Asterisk 56 Prefix for section instrument 1 Applaud or day 37 Show up 48 As dumb as __ 57 “Son __ gun!”

49 Hard to find 2 Misplace 38 Duplicate

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