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Some testimony about New York City police officers’ use of excessive force was inaccurate and demonstrations were more violent than police have seen in years, the city police commissioner testified Monday as part of New York’s investigation into police interactions with the public during recent protests.

New York state Attorney General Letitia James has received more than 300 telephone and email complaints as part of her

investigation into interactions between the New York Police Department and the public during recent Black Lives Matter demonstrations.

“I’ve been in law enforcement for almost 30 years, I’ve done police details of demonstrations of 100,000 people .... no two protests are the same,” New York City Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said Monday. “These protests stood out almost immediately from executives who had worked in decades and decades of

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experience. These were extremely violent — almost from the start — and the violence was directed toward the law enforcement personnel who were present.”

Some New York City demonstrations turned violent in late May and early June on the heels of the May 25 death of 46-year-old George Floyd, an unarmed black man who died at the hands of Minneapolis police. Shea said Monday city police responded with force after

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ATHENS — Two eco-friendly vessels will be docking overnight in Athens on Wednesday as they make their way south on the Hudson River on an educational voyage from Albany to Kingston.

The Solaris and the Apollonia started their downriver sail June 20 as part of the Hudson River Maritime Museum’s RiverWise

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The Solaris is the only 100% solar-powered, U.S. Coast Guardcertified passenger vessel in the United States. The Apollonia is the Hudson Valley’s largest carbonneutral merchant vessel, powered by wind and vegetable oil.

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Juneteenth rallying cry: ‘Enough is enough’

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Two protest marches from both sides of the Hudson River merged as one Saturday in a show of unity and the search for justice.

Organizer Michael Alert worked with Kaya Weidman and Jalal Sabur from the youth advocacy group Kite’s Nest, as well as local youth in Columbia and Greene counties, to hold the Juneteenth Freedom March across the Rip Van Winkle Bridge on Saturday.

“This Juneteenth Freedom March symbolizes the importance of Juneteenth,” said co-organizer Jahnessa Mackey. “It is the official holiday of when the last slaves were freed from

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Organizers of the Juneteenth Freedom March lead the way from the Columbia County side of the Rip Van Winkle Bridge.

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The rally was also designed to

bring together the two counties in a show of unity.

“There has been a long history of rivalry between the two counties, and this symbolized that whatever is between us doesn’t matter as much as black lives do,” Mackey said.

While it is unknown if a rally will be held every year commemorating Juneteenth, there are plans in the works to hold an event of some kind honoring the holiday in Hudson each year, Mackey said.

Hudson Mayor Kamal Johnson credited the young people who organized the event with tackling difficult issues.

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U.S. President Donald Trump, left, and John Bolton, right, national security adviser, attend a briefing from Senior Military Leadership in the Cabinet Room of the White House on April 9, 2018 in Washington, D.C.

“a pattern quite contrary to the image [Trump] would like to convey, of a decisive president who knows something about what he’s doing.” He noted that Trump “very rarely read much” during intelligence briefings and also said Trump was unwilling “to do systematic learning so that he could make the most informed decisions.”

“There really isn’t any guiding principle, that I was able to discern, other than what’s good for Donald Trump’s reelection,” Bolton said.

He added, “Decisions are made in a very scatter shot fashion, especially in the potentially mortal field of national security policy. This is a danger for the republic.”

Bolton painted an unflattering portrait of Trump’s relationships with other leaders, namely Russian President Vladimir Putin - who Bolton said thinks he can play Trump “like a fiddle” and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un. He appeared particularly irked by Trump and Kim’s historic 2018 summit, which marked the first meeting between leaders from the U.S. and North Korea.

“When we were in Singapore for the first summit, one of the things he said over and over again was to ask how many press people were going to be present for his final press conference,” Bolton said. “That’s what he was focused on. That he had had this enormous photo opportunity.”

But while Trump succeeded in getting “enormous attention” from the event, Bolton, who has long been a hard-liner on North Korean policy, said he thought it was “a strategic mistake.”

“The U.S. itself got nothing

from that. Donald Trump got a lot,” he said. “The United States gave much more legitimacy to this dictator. And didn’t accomplish anything toward any meaningful discussion on the elimination of their nuclear weapons program.”

Instead, Bolton accused Trump of spending a majority of his meetings with Kim flattering the North Korean leader.

“It’s a style. Every president has a style,” Bolton said. “But the idea that ... compliments to this brutal dictator would convince him that you could make a deal with Donald Trump, I thought, was both strikingly naive and dangerous.”

In response to Raddatz asking if the threat from North Korea is greater now than when Trump took office, Bolton said, “The threat from North Korea today is absolutely greater.”

“Because while all these photo opportunities were taking place, there’s absolutely no doubt that North Korea’s work on both its nuclear and ballistic missile programs continued,” he said.

Bolton also defended his decision not to testify in impeachment proceedings against Trump - a move bashed

by Democrats in light of the damaging details in his book about Trump’s actions toward Ukraine.

For instance, Bolton recounted a conversation he had with Trump in which the president “directly linked the provision” of sending aid to Ukraine with an investigation into former vice president Joe Biden, who is now the presumptive Democratic nominee. Trump has denied making such comments to Bolton, and during Sunday’s

interview, Bolton accused the president of lying.

“It’s not the first time, either,” Bolton told Raddatz. “This is why I think it’s important to get these kinds of facts out on the table.”

But Bolton maintained that his impeachment testimony “would not have made any difference.”

“Minds were made up on Capitol Hill,” he said, referring to impeachment as a “partisan catfight” and denouncing House Democrats’ approach to the proceedings. “My feeling was in the midst of all the chaos that had been created, this would have come and gone, and nobody would have paid any attention to it.”

Bolton suggested that impeachment, which ended with the Senate acquitting Trump, only emboldened the president.

“He didn’t learn lessons from it, other than that he could get away with it, which leaves only the last guardrail - is the election this November,” he said.

Bolton, however, said that while he doesn’t want Trump to win reelection, he is “certainly not going to vote for Joe Biden either.”

“I’m going to figure out a conservative Republican to write in,” he said.

As Bolton tells it, the upcoming election is a large part of why he decided to write the book.

“I want people to read it, not for the conclusions, but for the basic evidence that it provides.

They can make up their own minds,” he said. “Some Republicans will read it and say, ‘We’re gonna vote for Trump anyway.’

And all I want them to know is what they’re actually voting for.”

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Former national security adviser John Bolton, a self-described “lifelong conservative,” said he will not vote for President Donald Trump in November, calling Trump a “danger for the republic” during a televised interview with ABC News that aired Sunday night.

“I hope [history] will remember him as a one-term president who didn’t plunge the country irretrievably into a downward spiral we can’t recall from,” Bolton told ABC News’s Martha Raddatz. “We can get over one term. I have absolute confidence. . . . Two terms, I’m more troubled about.”

Bolton’s public excoriation of his former boss comes as part of a media tour to promote his new book, “The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir,” which has drawn intense criticism from both Democrats and Republicans since excerpts and advance copies began circulating earlier this month.

The damning 592-page account of Bolton’s 17 months in the White House, decried by Trump as a “compilation of lies and made up stories,” is set to be released Tuesday, despite the Trump administration’s lastditch attempt to block its publication over allegations that it contains classified information.

On Saturday, a federal judge ruled that the book release could proceed, but said Bolton “likely jeopardized national security” and may be at risk of criminal prosecution, The Washington Post’s Spencer S. Hsu and Tom Hamburger reported.

Trump’s fierce pushback to the book didn’t come as a surprise to Bolton.

“It’ll be volcanic, and I’ve expected that from the beginning,” Bolton told Raddatz.

“There were times when I was writing this book or getting it ready for publication that I thought - ‘Goodness, this is more trouble than it’s worth.’

But now that we’re at the point, I’m prepared to accept whatever happens.”

In Sunday’s interview, Bolton expanded on revelations in the book, which he argued supports his claims that Trump is “unfit for office” and lacks the “competence to carry out the job.”

Describing the president as “erratic and impulsive,” Bolton slammed Trump’s handling of U.S. foreign policy, accusing him of prioritizing reelection and personal relationships over the country’s national security - highlighting his dealings with North Korea, Russia, China and Ukraine as prime examples.

Bolton said his book shows

Beijing’s latest virus outbreak disrupts Tyson Foods and PepsiCo

By Marion Dakers Bloomberg News (TNS)

PepsiCo Inc. and Tyson Foods are among the global consumer companies facing disruption as Beijing tries to contain a fresh outbreak of the coronavirus.

On Sunday, PepsiCo China said it shut a food plant in the Chinese capital after a case of the virus was confirmed earlier in the week. The company conducted tests on all employees at the plant and quarantined 480 workers, even though they all tested negative for the virus, one of its officials, Fan Zhimin, said at a local government briefing.

PepsiCo China later said in a WeChat post that none of its beverage plants in the country

have reported any cases of the virus.

Beijing, a city of more than 21 million people, is the site of a recent jump in new cases in China after a two-month lull. Some residents are back under partial lockdown and transport links are disrupted, with more than 800 flights canceled on Friday.

Meanwhile, a cluster of infections at a Tyson Foods poultry slaughterhouse in the U.S. prompted China Customs to suspend imports from the plant, the government agency said Sunday. All products from the plant that are about to arrive in China or have arrived at the country’s ports will be seized by customs, according to a statement from the agency.

The Chinese government gave the registration code of the plant as P5842, which according to U.S. Department of Agriculture records is in Springdale, Arkansas. Tyson said Friday that 227 of 1,120 tests carried out on workers at the site were positive for the virus.

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Gay rights, Black Lives Matter join forces

By Melanie Lekocevic Columbia-Greene Media

ATHENS — Two socialjustice movements, Pride 2020 and Black Lives Matter, joined forces Friday at Athens Riverfront Park.

Pride 2020, celebrated in June, marks the 50th anniversary of the launch of the Pride movement and the uprising at the Stonewall Inn in New York City 50 years ago. The Pride movement seeks equality and rights for the LGBTQ community.

Black Lives Matter is a national movement seeking equal rights and justice for communities of color. Friday was Juneteenth, a holiday honoring the end of slavery.

It was designated a state holiday in New York state by Gov. Andrew Cuomo earlier this week.

Both Pride 2020 and Black Lives Matter were celebrated during a rally at the Athens park as about 100 people turned out to share their experiences, voice their opinions and show solidarity.

The rally was held in front of several rainbow gay pride flags lining the river’s shore.

“Last year we did a little guerilla planting of pride flags around town because we thought it was really remiss, and then we made a decision that this year it would be different,” event organizer Marya Warshaw said. “We spoke with [Village Trustee] Josh Lipsman about it and let him know we would hold his feet to the fire. We brought it to the town board for a permit to hang the flags.”

The gay pride flags will remain up through the end of June, which is designated Pride Month, Warshaw said.

Jane-Cole Raftery co-organized the rally and said she and Warshaw have put gay pride flags outside their Athens home as well.

“We didn’t put it out there because I need it. We put it out there because you don’t know who is going to walk by, and that will be the safest moment they have,” Raftery said.

The joining of Pride 2020 and Black Lives Matter was decided to honor the events of the last few weeks as protests and rallies swept the nation following the death of George Floyd, an unarmed African-American man who died in police custody after

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Organizer Jane-Cole Raftery shares her experiences as a gay woman and her search for a feeling of safety. The gay pride flags behind her will remain at Athens Riverfront Park through the end of June for Pride 2020.

a former Minnesota officer kneeled on his neck for eight minutes and 46 seconds.

“It would be absurd to not note what is going on and that there are so many people, including our own leadership, who can’t say black lives matter. There is no gay pride if there isn’t pride in everyone,” Raftery said. “We are always in solidarity with anyone seeking freedom, but this year there is a groundswell.”

Athens resident Marcus McGregor, an AfricanAmerican and a former professional dancer, teaches ballet in Greene County and said he has experienced racism first-hand.

“We go through things every day that you don’t even think about,” McGregor told the primarily white crowd.

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McGregor said he is

cautious when stopped by a police officer, and that when people see this happening,

they should stop and bear witness.

“The only way we are going to get past this is that when you see it, stand there and take witness to what is happening,” McGregor said.

“Don’t walk by because a lot of the time the guy didn’t do anything — it was the color of his skin that made the cop pull him over.”

Lipsman, who said he is perhaps the first openly gay man on the village board, said this was the first Pride event in Athens.

“And it only took 50 years,” Lipsman quipped.

The gay community and communities of color have long had to fight for rights that others take for granted, Lipsman said.

“People of color and LGBTQ people have a long history of justice delayed and justice denied,” Lipsman said.

“There have always been and always will be those who tell us that our voices, our bodies and our personhood have little value to them.”

Warshaw wants people to know that even small communities such as Athens have the power to make change.

“Every small village can do something and that is what is happening all over this country,” she said. “And that will make a change. Every small village — we are not immune.”

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Cuomo ends daily briefings in style Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Friday ended a remarkable streak of 111 days briefing New Yorkers and, if the numbers are true, a good part of the nation, about the COVID-19 pandemic and how we were coping with it.

To put this in some perspective, the governor’s consecutive-day string is nearly double Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak in 1941. Another perspective: More than 59 million viewers tuned into the governor’s 111 days of coronavirus briefings since March 1. New York’s population is about 20 million people.

It was Cuomo’s farewell tour and greatest hits package rolled into one as he recalled the best

moments of his presentations and recapped in images the state’s experiences with the virus. It was clever and the emotions rang true.

His final message Friday to New Yorkers and Americans was this: We must remain united throughout the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

“By reducing the infection rate, we saved over 100,000 people from being hospitalized and possibly dying,” Cuomo said. “I am so incredibly proud of what we all did together.

We reopened the economy and we saved lives. It was never a choice between one or the other. It was always right to do both.”

Cuomo said coronavirus briefings will be held as

needed, but they no longer require daily updates as New York’s virus metrics have continued to decline while gradually restarting the economy.

Local officials must remain vigilant in enforcing the state’s mandated social distancing and mask orders, Cuomo said, as well as business restrictions and guidelines to maintain the state’s lowest COVID-19 infection rate in the country at 0.77% and prevent a second wave, which is still a possibility.

“I will still do what I do,” Cuomo said. “We just don’t have to do it every day and let’s hope it stays that way,” he said.

We sincerely hope so, too.

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Can anyone trust Bill Barr’s DOJ now? (c) 2020, The Washington Post ·

It is hard to fathom what Attorney General William Barr was thinking when he announced Friday that the country’s most prominent prosecutor, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey Berman, was “stepping down.”

Perhaps he thought that Berman would pretend that he had resigned simply because Barr released a statement indicating he had. Maybe he thought that announcing Berman’s departure on a Friday night would minimize attention.

Instead, Berman quickly denied any intention to step away, leading to speculation about Barr’s motives - speculation fueled by President Donald Trump’s contempt for the rule of law and Barr’s own sad record of politicizing the Justice Department.

In a Friday statement, Berman himself raised the possibility that his ouster would interfere in his office’s work. Berman has handled several high-profile investigations involving Trump associates, including the president’s former

personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, and Trump’s current personal lawyer, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani. Unsurprisingly, Berman was not popular in the White House or the Trump Justice Department.

Trump responded Saturday by firing Berman outright, with Barr claiming that the motive was simply to promote a “distinguished New York lawyer, Jay Clayton” to be U.S. attorney, not to sideline Berman. This was a puzzling explanation, given that Barr did not need to fire Berman to make way for Clayton; Berman could have continued to serve until and unless the Senate confirms Clayton. Moreover, Clayton lacks federal prosecutorial experience. Given the circumstances of his appointment, Clayton also would lack the credibility to lead the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office.

An attorney general interested in preserving the Justice Department’s reputation for integrity would not so cavalierly sideline a U.S. attorney with a record of independence merely

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to make way for someone he liked better. At best the episode reveals stunning amateurishness. Barr acts astonished that anyone might suspect worse. He dismisses as “obviously false” any suggestion that sidelining Berman might lead to inappropriate meddling in his office’s investigations.

In fact, it is not obvious.

Not after Barr gutted the independence of the U.S. attorney’s office in the District of Columbia to roll back prosecutions of two of the president’s lawbreaking friends. Not after he presided over the violent clearing of peaceful protesters from Lafayette Square, then blamed it on the crowd.

And not after he misled the public about the contents of the Mueller report and sicced handpicked inquisitors on those who conducted the Russia investigation.

What well of credibility did he expect to draw on when he moved against Berman?

How can prosecutors anywhere in the country have faith that Barr will safeguard the independence of the Justice Department?

The DACA decision chalks up another triumph for the rule of law WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s rejection of the Trump administration’s effort to end protections against deportation for young immigrants wasn’t just a victory for the group known as “dreamers.” It was a triumph, and another one — as unexpected as it was welcome — for the rule of law.

The Trump administration has been an unending stress test for the American arrangement of checks and balances.

Some aspects of the system have crashed, especially the willingness of Congress to provide meaningful restraint on a rogue executive. The revelations in former national security adviser John Bolton’s forthcoming book — about to be published notwithstanding the Trump Justice Department’s blatantly unconstitutional attempt to block it — offer just the latest example of congressional Republicans’ failure to perform their constitutional duties.

Not so the courts — at least so far. There is a conservative majority on the Supreme Court, and Trump is about to pass the mark of 200 judicial confirmations. As the Supreme Court finishes up its term, with important rulings still to come on abortion rights (will the court effectively abandon a decision from 2016, when Justice Anthony Kennedy was still on the court?), the intersection of religious freedom and employment discrimination, and the ability of lawmakers and prosecutors to subpoena the president’s financial records, it would be naive not to expect some disappointing results. Indeed, because those cases involve issues of constitutional law, not statutory interpretation or administrative law, progressive losses could be far more damaging.

And yet: Time after time, it is the courts, including the Supreme Court, that have presented the most effective bulwark against Trump’s excesses. The central figure here has been a surprising one: Chief Justice John Roberts Jr., a stalwart conservative.

This phenomenon was on display last year, when the court refused to blind itself to reality as the Trump administration tried to lie its way to adding a question about citizenship to the census.

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MARCUS Roberts joined the court’s four liberal justices to reject the administration’s pretextual justifications for the move.

“Accepting contrived reasons would defeat the purpose of the enterprise,” Roberts wrote. “If judicial review is to be more than an empty ritual, it must demand something better than the explanation offered for the action taken in this case.”

It was on display earlier this week, when the court ruled that the federal law prohibiting employers from discriminating because of “sex” included protections from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. Roberts, in a decision written by Justice Neil Gorsuch, Trump’s first Supreme Court nominee, aligned with liberals to find that the words of the statute meant what they said, even if its drafters never contemplated this result.

“Only the written word is the law,” Gorsuch wrote, “and all persons are entitled to its benefit.”

And it was on display Thursday, with the court’s ruling on the Trump administration’s effort to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. As with the census case, the underlying legal issues involved arid questions of administrative law: Did courts even have the authority to review the decision? Yes, the majority said.

When the administration moved to revoke the program, did it provide an adequate explanation for its action? No. Rather, the justification was “arbitrary and capricious,” because the Department of Homeland Security failed to consider less drastic alternatives than complete dismantling, and failed to deal with the fact that thousands of dreamers had relied on the promise of being permitted to

remain for some time.

Was the department allowed — nine months later — to come up with a more convincing rationale? No again.

“The basic rule here is clear: An agency must defend its actions based on the reasons it gave when it acted,” Roberts said. “This is not the case for cutting corners to allow DHS to rely upon reasons absent from its original decision.”

Of course, this is the administration of cut corners.

As Fred Barbash and Deanna Paul reported in The Washington Post last year, “Federal judges have ruled against the Trump administration at least 63 times over the past two years, an extraordinary record of legal defeat that has stymied large parts of the president’s agenda on the environment, immigration and other matters.” Judges, they said, “have rebuked Trump officials for failing to follow the most basic rules of governance for shifting policy, including providing legitimate explanations supported by facts and, where required, public input.”

And, of course, in Trump’s cynical, solipsistic universe, law is merely politics by other means, and all outcomes are judged by how they relate to him.

“These horrible & politically charged decisions coming out of the Supreme Court are shotgun blasts into the face of people that are proud to call themselves Republicans or Conservatives,” he thundered on Twitter. And then, “Do you get the impression that the Supreme Court doesn’t like me?”

We remain, Trump notwithstanding, a society governed by rules and law. The dry terms of the Administrative Procedure Act speak in the language of preventing “arbitrary and capricious” action in agency rulemaking, but the import of those words goes beyond the narrow bounds of administrative law.

This is an arbitrary and capricious presidency, yet there remain structures capable of containing its abuses — and individuals empowered and willing to do so. (c) 2020, Washington Post Writers Group

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Harry G. Burnett Harry G. Burnett, 79, of Route mother Grace Burnett. Loving 32, Catskill passed away on Fri- husband of Veronica Burnett, day, June 19, 2020 at his home. father of Carol, Donna and MeHe was born in Saugerties, a lissa Burnett, all of Catskill and son of the late Lewis F. and Christine (James) Evans of TN, Katherine VanEtten Burnett. grandfather of Angelina Burnett, Harry served in the US Army Pauline and Monroe Evans, unduring the Vietnam War. He cle of Diane (Mark) Seager and then married Veronica Alberti on their son Jacob and brother to June 18, 1970.

Lewis W. Burnett For over 30 years Private Visitation and Harry was a mill opFuneral Mass will be erator for Ferroxcube celebrated at St. Anand Philips Electronics thony’s Friary, Catskill.

North America CorpoInterment will follow in ration in Saugerties. He St. Patrick’s Cemetery. maintained the grounds In lieu of flowers conof St. Anthony’s Friary for many years. tributions can be made A member of the Burnett in memory of Harry Secular Third Order G. Burnett to NYOH Franciscans, he was a com- Community Cancer Foundamunicant of St. Anthony’s Fri- tion, 449 Route 146, Suite 101, ary, Catskill and Sacred Heart Clifton Park, NY 12065, ComChurch, Palenville. Harry be- munity Hospice, 47 Liberty St, longed to the Catskill Ameri- Catskill, NY 12414 or Greene can Legion Honeyford MemoCounty Women’s League, Canrial Post No. 110, the Saugerties C.A. Lynch Hose Co. No. 2 and cer Patient Aid, P.O. Box 341, the Volunteer & NYS Exempt Round Top, NY 12473. Funeral arrangements under the direcFireman’s Benevolent Assn.

Harry was predeceased by tion of Millspaugh Camerato infant twin daughters Teresa Funeral Home, 139 Jefferson Ann and Jean Marie Burnett; a Hgts., Catskill. Messages of sister and brother in law Linda condolence may be made to and John Beitl, and his grand- MillspaughCamerato.com.

Catherine Ferrara Catherine Ferrara died to; grandchildren: Anthony, Jopeacefully after aging at home in seph, Catherine, Rachel, Kate, her Westchester residence. She Marie, Francine, and Christowas born in Manhattan, moved pher and great-grandchildren: to the Bronx, and settled in Yor- Charles, Michela, James and ktown Heights, New York.

William. Catherine was a womCatherine was a beloved an of style and purpose; witty, daughter, sister, wife, wise, kind, compasmother, and for over 30 sionate, and abundantyears was the director ly blessed. This sassy, of admissions at Miclassy matriarch will be sericordia (Our Lady of dearly missed.

Mercy) Hospital. She Memorial donawas a devout Catholic tions in her name may and active parishioner be made to St. Rita of of several churches: St. Cascia, 448 College Rita of Cascia and Saint Ave, Bronx, New York Ferrara Lucy’s in the Bronx and 10451. Graveside serSt. Elizabeth Ann Seton and St. vice for immediate family was Patrick’s in Westchester. She held at Rose Hills Memorial Park is predeceased by her hus- in Putnam Valley, New York on band Salvatore Ferrara and her June 19, 2020. A Catholic Mass daughter Patricia Netto. She is of Resurrection at St. Elizabeth survived by sister Serafina Chi- Ann Seton church and a celucchini, daughter Lorraine Fer- ebration of life reception tentarara-Schaefer and sons-in-law tively scheduled for September Charles Schaefer and Aldo Net- 5, 2020.

Janis “Dottie” Isabelle (Halstead) Aulabaugh Janis “Dottie” Isabelle (Hal- Euchre with friends and family. stead) Aulabaugh, formerly Janis was the daughter of the of Hudson, NY, age 97, died late Peter Halstead and Bespeacefully on May 28, 2020. sie Pettit, and pre-deceased Born and raised in Hudson, by her brothers Peter “Sonny” Janis worked at the Univer- (Halstead), Cecil (Halstead), sal Match factory for 28 years sister Helen (Tomaso), son Pewhere she was a press operater (Zapp), daughters tor in the printing deJoanne (Hilton) and partment. Following Kimberly (Weaver), and her retirement in 1987, husbands. Janis is surshe spent many winvived by her step-sisters in Florida, before ters Pat (Hotaling) and moving there permaDeloris (Sweet), her nently and eventually step-brother Manny settling in Lady Lake, (Sheffer), her daughFlorida. ter Roberta Shepherd, Janis loved plants Aulabaugh her son John Sapcoe, and always had beaugrandchildren Wendy, tiful floral displays at her home.

Pamela, Christine, Joshua, RoJanis also loved to travel and see new places. From the time chelle, and Megan, and many she was newly married she al- great-grandchildren, nephews ways enjoyed road trips near and nieces.

Services will be held at Bates and far. It did not matter whether it was to a flea market in the & Anderson, Hudson, NY on next county or off to Las Vegas Saturday, June 27 from 12:00 or a Caribbean Island, Janis to 1:00 pm followed by interwas always up for the adven- ment at the Union Cemetery in ture. She also enjoyed playing Mellenville, NY.

Anne C. O’Dowd Anne C. O’Dowd, (nee Kelly) Brandi Schneider, along with passed away peacefully Satur- her granddaughter Kathryn. day, June 20, 2020 at the age Relatives and friends are of 84 surrounded by her loving cordially invited to attend callfamily. She was born on July 1, ing hours at Richards Funeral 1935 in Brooklyn, N.Y. and was Home, 29 Bross Street, Cairo, a devoted mother and loving N.Y. on Thursday, June 25, wife. Anne was pre-de2020 from 12:00 Noon ceased by her husband to 3:00 P.M. and also of 50 years John (Hook) from 5:00 P.M. – 8:00 O’Dowd and by her two P.M. The Round Top sisters, Mary and PatriLadies Fire Company cia.

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Senate GOP names new minority leader

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A few days after state Sen. John Flanagan, R-2, announced he will resign later this month, state Senate Republicans have a new leader.

State Sen. Rob Ortt, a North Tonawanda Republican who represents the 62nd Senate District, was elected late Friday by the GOP conference to serve as Senate minority leader. He is the first western New Yorker to lead a Senate conference since Earl Brydges, who served as majority leader for seven years in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

“I’m eager to unite our remarkable conference and work with Republicans from across our great state to fight for our party and our values,” Ortt said in a statement. “Hard-working taxpayers, small businesses and families from all walks of life and every region will have a fierce ally in the Senate Republican Conference.”

Senate Republicans held a virtual meeting late Friday afternoon to officially vote to appoint Ortt as their new leader.

“I want to extend my

congratulations to Sen. Rob Ortt on his election as minority leader of the New York state Senate,” Assembly Minority Sen. Robert Leader Will Ortt Barclay, R-120, said in a statement. “I wish him nothing but success as he begins his tenure in this critical role. Rob is a decorated veteran, a tenacious advocate for the people of Western New York and a voice for rational, common-sense policies that help everyday New Yorkers.”

Ortt’s ascension to leading the Senate Republicans was unexpected after Flanagan, 59, will officially retire from the Senate on June 28 to take a lobbying position with Northwell Health, the massive Long Island-based health system that is the state’s largest private employer. The former minority leader announced this spring he would not seek re-election, but was expected to finish the term Dec. 31.

Flanagan served in the state Senate since 2003 and was majority leader from 2015 to 2018.

Ortt immediately threw his hat in the ring last week as a leading contender to succeed Flanagan, a Long Island Republican, together with Sens.

Patrick Gallivan, R-59, of western New York; and Andrew Lanza, R-24, of Staten Island.

Lanza withdrew from consideration and backed Ortt. Gallivan pulled out of the race Friday morning.

The leadership changes come at an important time for the future of New York and the GOP’s state leadership, Barclay said.

“As the state begins to recover from the crushing impacts of COVID-19, we also must reinforce our efforts to defeat a dangerous liberal agenda that costs too much, achieves too little and continues to drive away thousands of families and businesses every year,” the Assembly minority leader said.

“I share the respect and confidence in Rob that his senate colleagues demonstrated today and look forward to working collaboratively on measures

Tom Petty’s family wants Trump to stop playing ‘I Won’t Back Down’ at rallies

that put New York on a path to prosperity.”

Ortt, a military veteran, was elected mayor of North Tonawanda in 2009. He served as mayor until his election to the state Senate in 2014.

He joined the state Army National Guard in 2001 after 9/11 and was deployed to Afghanistan in 2008. His professional background includes working as a personal financial analyst.

His public service career began in 2007 when he was appointed by the North Tonawanda Common Council to serve as the city treasurer. He was elected to a full four-year term later that year.

New York Republican Chairman Nick Langworthy highlighted Ortt’s experience in a statement Friday.

“Rob is a fighter who knows how to win tough battles, and that’s exactly what’s needed as we fight to win back control of the state Senate and put an end to [Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s] dictatorial reign and the extreme left policies that are destroying this state,” Langworthy said.

The Tribune News Service contributed to this report.

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Will the Trump campaign “back down”? The family of Tom Petty says a legal notice has been filed after the rocker’s song “I Won’t Back Down” was played prominently at the Trump rally Saturday in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

“Trump was in no way authorized to use this song to further a campaign that leaves too many Americans and common sense behind,” said a statement on Twitter signed Saturday by Petty’s Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times/TNS daughters Adria and Annakim, his widow, Dana, and Tom Petty performs with the Heartbreakers at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on September 21, 2017. ex-wife Jane.

They continued: “We would hate for fans that are refer to venue licenses, the the campaign,” ASCAP says.

“Tom wrote this song for marginalized by this admin- American Society of Comistration to think we were posers, Authors and Pub- the underdog, for the comcomplicit in this usage. Con- lishers, or ASCAP, also offers mon man and for EVERYcurrently, we have issued a Political Campaign License ONE,” Petty’s family said in an official cease and desist agreement that provides “a the tweeted statement. “We notice to the Trump cam- blanket license to perform want to make it clear that any or all of the millions of we believe everyone is free paign.”

The Petty family is un- compositions in the ASCAP to vote as they like, think as they like, but the Petty famlikely to get anywhere with repertory.”

However, ASCAP mem- ily doesn’t stand for this. We the request, however, due to licensing agreements that bers can ask that specific believe in America and we allow campaigns to use a songs be excluded from a believe in democracy. But vast array of songs. For ex- particular campaign’s li- Donald Trump is not repreample, “You Can’t Always cense. Artists, or their estate, senting the noble ideals of Get What You Want” by the still might be able to pursue either.”

Rolling Stones was also fea- legal action on the grounds Neither the president nor tured Saturday, years after of false endorsement or his campaign has addressed the band gave up trying to trademark confusion. the issue on their various so“As a general rule, a cam- cial media accounts. get the campaign to stop paign should be aware that, playing it.

In America, Mick Jagger in most cases, the more (c)2020 Los Angeles Times said in 2016, “If you’re in a closely a song is tied to the public place like Madison ‘image’ or message of the Visit the Los Angeles Times at Square Garden ... you can campaign, the more likely it www.latimes.com play any music you want and is that the recording artist or songwriter of the song could Distributed by Tribune Content you can’t be stopped.”

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Four local students receive Be aware of medications when the Paul and Maria Morra getting procedures done CANCER KICKIN’ WARRIOR Scholarship Trust awards

By Inez Whitehead Dickens For Columbia-Greene Media

CATSKILL — Four residents of Columbia and Greene counties have been selected as recipients of the Paul and Maria Morra Scholarship Trust Awards presented by Cornell Cooperative Extension of Columbia and Greene Counties.

They will share in the available $6,000 for awards.

They were chosen on the merit of their applications which described the breadth of their involvement in work, community programs, volunteer activities and awards.

They also provided a personal essay describing their plans for the future and the experiences that influenced their decision to pursue a career in the field of horticulture, agriculture, forestry or natural resources.

Madison Bentley, a graduating senior from Taconic Hills Central School District, will be attending Paul Smith’s College this fall to study forestry with a concentration in forest operations or forest biology.

He is receiving a $2,500 scholarship. Madison’s essay tells it all, “It is because of my Pop that I plan to attend Paul Smith’s College. My Pop once told me that I need to get up every day and be an honest, hardworking man and to do it with ‘gusto.’ My Pop was a logger (he) taught me how to make it look like the forest was untouched (he) taught me how to have a passion and love for my career and the nature around me.”

Lydia Chittenden is a rising sophomore at SUNY Cobleskill, having graduated from Maple Hill High School in 2019.

She is studying animal science. She is receiving a $1,250 scholarship.

Lydia’s mentor, who helped

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to solidify her interest in the dairy cattle industry is her Dad. “Growing up on my family’s dairy farm, I had the privilege of being able to spend all my free time at the farm being my dad’s shadow, and learning first-hand the different jobs that go into successfully running a dairy farm”, noted Lydia. She continues “Now, I enjoy discussing different matings with my Dad and why they would be a good match.

I could look through different pedigree and sale catalogs all day long.”

Iain Alexander is a graduating senior at Catskill High School. He will be attending Middlebury College to study environmental sciences this fall. He is receiving a $1,250 scholarship award. Ian’s goal,

in studying to become an environmental scientist is to deal with the climate change problem.

Specifically, to help increase the usage and efficiency of our natural resources, forgoing the traditional path of progression to create a different future for the generations to come.

Osman Gofran is a graduating senior at Hudson High School. He will be majoring in the environment and sustainability at Cornell University this fall.

He is receiving a $1,000 scholarship. Osman says he “aspires to find ways to meet our society’s needs without harming the planet and working towards solving the leading challenges in the world.”

Dear Warriors, I want to pass on some vital information I learned on my last trip to the dentist. I was debating on having a tooth pulled or getting a root canal.

Fortunately, the dentist noticed I was taking Fosamax, which changed the whole ball game, if you are on Fosamax (alendronate or any bisphosphonate drug) and have to have dental work. Fosamax can slow bone loss and may help prevent bone fractures.

It is also used by men and women who have osteoporosis caused by taking steroids.

Bisphosphonate therapy is also used in patients that have or had breast cancer that go from the correction of hypercalcemia to the prevention of cancer treatmentinduced bone loss and metastatic bone pain.

Even though this type of therapy may be beneficial, unfortunately, they are associated with osteonecrosis of the jaw bone (ONJ), particularly if dental surgery is performed in long-term Fosamax users. To have a simple tooth extraction or dental implants could prove to be fatal.

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WHITEHEAD-DICKENS Dentists will not perform oral surgery if they see you are taking or have taken any of these bisphosphonate drugs especially if given through an IV. These drugs last a long time in your system therefore there is no “magic” time to have any oral surgery. Any dentist that is in a rush to do any invasive surgery, knowing you have taken any of these drugs, I suggest you get another dentist. Root canals are also less effective when on this drug regimen.

Some of the following drugs that are bisphosphonates are Fosamax, Zometa, Didronel, Reclast, Atelvia, Actonel, Aclasta and Boniva, etc. These are the pharmaceutical name. You may recognize some of them under

their generic name zolendric acid,or risedronatead ibandronate.

Dentists will not deter you from taking any bisphosphonate drug. The benefits far outweigh the negatives. Always, always give a list of the drugs you are taking, before you are having any procedure! If you are a former or current cancer patient, seek your oncologist’s advice.

There is usually an alternative way to achieve the results you want.

I know the feeling you have when you have completed the initial cancer treatment and you are in remission, you think you are in the clear.

Cancer or cancer treatment have a lasting effect, but it just means you have to be more aware not scared!

For further information go to: https://www.osseonews. com/fosamax-and-dentalimplant-treatment/ https://clincancerres.aacrjournals.org/ content/12/20/6258s https://www.drugs.com/ fosamax.html Reach Inez at callherid8@aol. com.

College Corner LINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY List for Spring 2020 at Mora- from January to May. GREENVILLE — Madison vian College in Bethlehem, UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN

Marcello, of Greenville, was named to the Dean’s List for the Spring semester of 2020 at Lincoln Memorial University in Harrowgate, Tenn.

MORAVIAN COLLEGE WOODSTOCK — Alexander Meci of Woodstock was named to the Dean’s Honors

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SOUTHERN NEW HAMPSHIRE UNIVERSITY SAUGERTIES — Delaney Cox of Saugerties has been named to Southern New Hampshire University’s (SNHU) Winter 2020 President’s List. The winter term runs

SURPRISE — Ellen Hagan, of Surprise, a student in the College of Arts and Sciences of the University of New Haven has been named to the Dean’s List for the spring, 2020. Hagan is working on Bachelor of Arts in Psychology.

4-H promotes diversity and inclusion through Rural Storytelling Project KINGSTON — Who doesn’t love a good story? This summer, 4-H students from four New York counties — Ulster, Dutchess, Columbia, and Greene — have the ability to learn the secrets to telling not just good stories, but great stories.

Headed by the CCE Ulster internship team, students are able to participate in the 4-H Rural Storytelling Project, beginning June 22.

In an effort to help bridge the gap between rural and urban areas in these counties, the youths will engage in storytelling workshops in order to learn how to tell the stories of their communities, families, and their 4-H projects. In a collaboration with Georgetown University professor John Trybus, the storytelling project will provide the students with helpful storytelling techniques that are proven to be effective at engaging audiences.

The storytelling project aims to involve any student interested in various aspects of storytelling, including writing, videography, podcasting, public speaking, and many others! Three Cornell University students will be working

personally with the students to help them with technical skills in these areas to effectively tell their stories.

Youths will foster a deeper sense of community engagement, confidence, and collaboration by the acronym EARS — empathizing with, actively listening to, reflecting on, and sharing the stories of their peers and community.

The project will promote diversity and inclusion through the sharing of many different perspectives and experiences.

Every student involved will have the ability to complete a final storytelling project of their choice, which will be promoted in a final showcase. Projects will be featured on social media platforms, websites, and throughout the community. Various prizes will be offered for completion of the project as well.

Workshops will be held twice a week 7:30 p.m. Monday and Wednesday via Zoom.

The program will last seven weeks, beginning on June 22 and ending on Aug. 10. Interested youth should join between now and June 29. To register, visit the 4-H Rural Storytelling Project webpage at ulster.cce.cornell.edu.

The global pandemic has left businesses of all types and sizes staggered by its impact on people’s lives and the economy.

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Germantown Business Recovery Grant Program invests in small businesses GERMANTOWN — The Germantown Town Board and its Economic Development Advisory Committee have announced that they have awarded a total of 11 grants to local businesses through the Germantown Business Recovery grant program.

This effort was launched on April 24, with fiscal sponsorship and administrative support from Columbia Economic Development Corporation (CEDC), to raise additional resources for businesses located in Germantown that have been impacted by the COVID-19 crisis.

A volunteer committee reviewed and rated each application based on these criteria.

The businesses that received grants are spread out across Germantown and met the grant making criteria, including, being an independently owned small business located in Germantown, 20 or fewer

full-time employees, less than $1,500,000 in annual sales, adversely impacted by COVID-19, and in need of funds to continue to retain and pay their employees, and/or stay current on rent, and cover other fixed costs related to their operations.

Awardees: Luddite Antiques, Ordinal Indicator, Northern Boulevard Restorations, Marsh Meadow, Farm Herbary, Gaskin’s, Central House Hotel Inn, Athabold Flowers, East Camp Goods, The East Asian Medical Center, Cats’ View Farm, DC Studios.

Additional funding rounds will be dependent on receipt of donations from businesses, individuals, area foundations, and other generous contributors.

The Germantown Business Recovery grant program was made possible by generous donations from individuals in the Germantown community,

including a major gift from the J.M. Kaplan Foundation.

“On behalf of the Town Board and GEDAC, we are grateful to have been able to make this program possible to help our small businesses during this challenging time.

We will continue to identify resources and implement programs for our local small business community,” Robert Beaury, Supervisor, Town of Germantown.

“CEDC is proud to have provided administrative support, enabling the Town of Germantown to raise private funds to support small business that are impacted

by COVID-19. As Columbia County’s lead economic development organization, CEDC values the many partnerships it has throughout the county,” Michael Tucker, President and CEO of Columbia Economic Development Corporation.

Are 401(k) menus out of balance?

ARLINGTON, VA — In the midst of historic market volatility, a new survey of retirement plan sponsors and financial professionals reveals gaps in focus — and perception — about the role of fixed income investments in a fully diversified 401(k) menu.

“Plan fiduciaries have long understood the need for a diversified portfolio. However, survey data consistently show that fixed income options have received neither the attention nor prominence of equity alternatives in most defined contribution plan menus,” noted Nevin Adams, Chief Content Officer of the American Retirement Association, and head of the organization’s research team.

The new survey — sponsored by Janus Henderson Investors, conducted jointly by the Plan Sponsor Council of America (PSCA) and the National Association of Plan Advisors (NAPA) — found that equity options outnumber fixed income by approximately 3:1 on plan menus, regardless of plan size. Moreover, while nearly three-quarters (71.9 percent) of financial professionals incorporate a style box in their Core equity recommendations, less than

four-in-ten (39.9 percent) do so for fixed income investments.

“As plan sponsors and participants are confronted with extreme market volatility in the wake of concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic, it is more important than ever that plan sponsors provide a well-diversified subset of fixed income options to help participants meet their goals,” said Russ Shipman, Head of Retirement Strategy and Sales at Janus Henderson Investors.

Among the survey’s key findings: Plan sponsors offer an average of 3.7 fixed income options compared to an average of 10.3 equity options.

When selecting fixed income options, plan sponsors and financial professionals frequently prioritize the same demographic criteria — isk tolerance (44.3 percent among sponsors, 56.3 percent among financial professionals) and retirement age (34.6 percent among sponsors, 40.8 percent among financial professionals) — but largely ignore key aspects such as gender, education, and existence of a defined benefit plan.

Risk/reward (94.6 percent), performance (98.5 percent),

and fees (95.1 percent) dominate the focus of financial professionals as “essential” or “preferred” factors in recommending fixed income options.

Stable value (67.4 percent) and index (61.1 percent) funds dominate plan sponsors’ core fixed income investments.

While a third (34 percent) of financial professionals said the education and support they receive from asset managers on fixed income investments is “outstanding,” 14.4 percent said it needs improvement — more than twice the percentage (6.2 percent) cited regarding equity investments.

“A truly diversified portfolio can only be developed from a fully diversified plan menu,” commented Matt Sommer, Senior Managing Director of Defined Contribution and Wealth Advisor Services from Janus Henderson. “Better choices flow from better information, more complete demographic data, and a heightened sensitivity to the options available in the marketplace.

The insights from this survey highlight both the need and the opportunity to do so at a critical time, particularly as so many Americans approach and enter retirement.”

BBB Tip: Like-Farming Facebook scam still going strong BUFFALO — You’ve seen them before: Facebook posts designed to grab your attention and stop your scrolling. There are many versions. Some tug at your heartstrings, others tempt you with offers to win a new car or RV. A post advertising a free RV was recently making the rounds on Facebook, using the pandemic to draw attention: “With a lot of people out of work and Covid-19 keeping them out of work we know money is tighter more now than ever! So by 4 PM Monday someone who shares and also comments will be the new owner of this 2020 Jayco Greyhawk RV, paid off and ready to drive away, keys in hand – Jayco.” The actual company, Jayco, a BBB Accredited Business, has responded on Facebook, saying, “We are not running a giveaway for a 2020 Seneca or any other Jayco RV. We have taken the necessary steps to report the page(s) responsible for the misleading giveaways.

If we ever do run any official Jayco sales event or giveaway, it will be promoted through our

official Jayco company page. In addition, we would never ask for your personal information, under no circumstance should you provide your personal information to anyone.”

Unfortunately, many of these posts are created by scammers, striving to collect as many Facebook “likes” as possible.

Like-farming on Facebook is a technique in which scammers create an eye-catching post designed to get many likes and shares. Posts often give people emotional reasons to click, like, and share, such as adorable animals, sick children, the promise to win big, or political messages.

As with many scams, likefarming has several different aims. When scammers ask you to “register” in order to win something or claim an offer, this is a way to steal your personal information. Other versions can be more complex.

Often, the post itself is initially harmless — albeit completely fictional. But when the scammer collects enough likes and shares, they will edit the post

and could add something malicious, such as a link to a website that downloads malware to your machine. Other times, once scammers reach their target number of likes, they strip the page’s original content and use it to promote spammy products. They may also resell the page on the black market.

These buyers can use it to spam followers or harvest the information Facebook provides.

Use your good judgment. If a post says you can win something just by sharing the post, it’s probably not true. If a post tugs at your heartstrings and isn’t about someone you know personally, be wary about the truthfulness of its contents.

Don’t click “like” on every post in your feed.

Be cautious when it comes to sharing your personal information. Never give out personal information, such as your full name, telephone number, address, etc. to a person or company you don’t know or trust.

Don’t forget, you can report these scams to BBB’s Scam Tracker.

Briaricliff Manor resident named to Open Door board BRIARCLIFF — Long-time Briarcliff Manor resident Marie Pennacchio has been named to Open Door Family Medical Center’s Board of Directors.

A 29-year resident of Briarcliff Manor, Pennacchio brings her experience as a nurse, corporate executive, entrepreneur, and artist to her new role.

“Marie has the perfect blend of experiences and skills, and a passion for giving back to the community,” said Lindsay Farrell, President & CEO of the Open Door. “She has a strong sense of the needs of the community and has a vision for the future.”

Pennacchio began her career as a nurse following her graduation from New York University. Working at Beth Israel Hospital and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and as a private duty nurse, she chose to shift careers, returning to NYU to get her MBA and enter the business world. She went on to work at corporations like Clairol and Nabisco before opening a successful marketing firm. She also speaks Spanish, as do many of Open Door’s patients.

Pennacchio has been extremely active over the years in the community, serving as president of the Briarcliff Manor Public Library and spending many years as a family specialist volunteer in the Briarcliff Manor schools.

She has served as a girl scout troop leader and taught religion classes at local

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churches.

She said that as a result of her friendship with Briarcliff Manor residents Howard Schrader and Phyllis Neider, both Open Door board members, she has long known about the center’s work in providing affordable, accessible and efficient health care for its patients, many of whom are uninsured, underinsured, and face significant language and cultural barriers. This became crystalized in recent months when she attended various fundraising events, toured one of Open Door’s facilities, and became involved in its Baby Box program (which provides muchneeded essentials for new mothers).

The Open Door model of treating the whole patient by bringing in staff specialists, such as a behavior health expert or nutritionist to address their health and wellness needs, appealed to Pennacchio as both a onetime health professional and product manager.

“Open Door is the absolute embodiment of holistic

care,” she said. “I was truly impressed with their collaborative care model, which I believe has a direct relationship on the success rates in patient compliance for the myriad health issues they address. In an age of uncertainty in many domains for the population they serve, this model restores control for the patient in countless ways.”

Over the past decade, Pennacchio has also worked as a professional artist. She’s exhibited her watercolors throughout the county.

Open Door Family Medical Center’s mission has remained consistent since 1972: to provide high-quality health care that’s affordable, accessible and efficient.

Today, the federally qualified health center cares for over 60,000 adults and children every year in Westchester, Putnam and Ulster counties – with more than 300,000 patient visits and over 400 babies delivered annually – regardless of ability to pay. In addition to primary medical care, Open Door offers integrated dental care, pediatric care, women’s health care, behavioral health care, and wellness programs in its Ossining, Port Chester, Sleepy Hollow, Mount Kisco, Brewster, Mamaroneck locations, eight School-Based Health Centers in the Ossining and Port Chester school districts, dental van, and a dental practice is in Saugerties. For more information, visit www. opendoormedical.org.

Follow key tips to submit accurate tax return before July 15 ALBANY — The New York State Department of Taxation and Finance shared tips to help ensure a smooth process for taxpayers who have yet to file their personal income tax returns. The extended filing deadline is July 15.

“The Tax Department has already processed more than eight million income tax returns — leaving about two million returns to be filed,” said New York State Commissioner of Taxation and Finance Michael Schmidt. “The following tips and free resources can ease the process for those who haven’t met their vital filing obligations ahead of the fast approaching July 15 deadline.”

TAX FILING TIPS Prepare and file your return electronically. E-filed returns are processed faster than paper returns, have fewer errors, and are more secure than ones sent through the mail.

Have driver licenses handy.

You must provide driver license information for you and all other filers on the return, for example your spouse if filing a joint return. This guards against fraudulent returns and refund claims filed by identity thieves.

Provide correct social security numbers on the return, including for your spouse if filing jointly and for any dependents claimed. This prevents processing and refund delays.

Report estimated tax payments accurately. Create an Online Services account at the Tax Department website (tax.ny.gov), and you’ll be able to check your balances, pay estimated tax electronically, and review your

payment history. To avoid processing delays, contact the Tax Department if you’re unsure of your estimated tax payments.

Include all required forms and schedules. Paper filers must include Form IT-2, Summary of W-2 Statements.

Include the information that shows eligibility for any claims for credits or deductions. Paper filers must attach supporting forms and schedules to their return, which is another reason we encourage e-filing; the tax preparation software automatically includes this information.

Let the tax preparation software do the math for you; if you’re doing your own math, double check all calculations.

Choose direct deposit as your refund method. In this time of social distancing, save yourself a trip to the bank by having your refund safely deposited into your bank account. Simply check direct deposit on your tax return, then be sure to enter your correct bank account and routing numbers. The combination of e-file and direct deposit will allow you to receive your New York State tax refund up to two weeks sooner than if you filed on paper and requested that a refund check be mailed to you.

If you do forgo the simplicity and convenience of direct deposit, make sure your mailing address is correct when requesting a refund check by mail. Any error can delay your refund.

Most amended returns can be e-filed. The software will know exactly what’s required.

If you’re filing an amended return on paper, remember to complete it as if you are

filing the return for the first time. You cannot file only the changes to the return. Submit all the forms relevant to the information in your amended return, even if these forms were already included with the original return.

TAKE ADVANTAGE OF FREE FILING SOFTWARE ONLINE AND MAINTAIN SOCIAL DISTANCING Each year, millions of New Yorkers qualify to file their personal income tax returns for free through the Tax Department’s website. Taxpayers who earned $69,000 or less in 2019 are eligible to electronically prepare and e-file both their federal and New York State income tax returns by using Free File software.

To ensure you’re not charged a fee, you must go to the Tax Department’s website to complete your return.

To be directed to the free filing options, simply click the Free File your income tax return link on the Tax Department’s website. You’ll save preparation fees, prevent costly errors, and ensure that you receive any refund you’re owed in the most efficient way possible.

The Tax Department has produced a series of video tutorials to assist New Yorkers with the tax return filing process. Topics range from gathering the necessary documents to choosing the right software. You can view the videos at our Get ready to e-file your income tax return webpage.

Nearly 206,000 taxpayers have already filed their returns through the Free File program this year, saving a combined estimate of $42.2 million.

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some demonstrations turned into criminal activity, including vandalism, arson, destruction of property and attacking police officers.

James’s office heard from more than 100 witnesses for 17 total hours of testimony in a two-day public hearing last Wednesday and Thursday, including protesters, eyewitnesses and police officers. Several testified Wednesday who claimed they were peppersprayed or saw unprovoked police respond with force during peaceful New York City demonstrations.

Some testified about incidents that have gone viral worldwide on social media, including a city police officer pulling back someone’s face mask to pepper spray them, two NYPD vehicles charging forward into crowds and an incident where an officer was criminally charged after video

footage showed him pushing a female protester to the ground and not providing medical attention or assistance.

The officers who drove the NYPD SUVs into the Brooklyn crowd did not violate the department’s use-of-force policy, Shea said.

“I don’t want to mess up any internal investigations underway... but preliminarily, we have an account of that incident where the explanation is [officers] are being pelted by protesters... I think it’s plainly evident,” the commissioner explained, adding demonstrators threw bricks and rocks in an attempt to assault law enforcement.

“Certainly what we don’t want to do is have anyone injured, and that includes our officers. The officers were set upon, attacked and thankfully, they were able to get out of that situation in my knowledge.”

Officers were not given special instruction about how to respond to the recent demonstrations, Shea said. “[Use of physical force] could be entirely appropriate under

the law based on the circumstances,” he said. “There is no logical progression ... to the third or fourth step, depending on what that officer has faced.”

Shea said Monday police were attacked and things became violent toward law enforcement, prompting a firmer response, during several of the incidents eyewitnesses testified about last week. Many testified police reacted with force during peaceful demonstrations when the protesters had not remained peaceful or nonviolent.

“Every use has to be examined on the facts at the time,” Shea said. “Throwing bricks and rocks at a police officer is different from a crowd peacefully protesting. Every incident has to be examined with what that officer is experiencing.”

Protesters threw rocks, cinderblocks, bricks and other projectiles at officers assigned to the Barclay’s Center in Brooklyn on May 29. Fires were set and Molotov cocktails were thrown at police vehicles, Shea said, adding police responded to thousands of demonstrators

a day, with as many as 70 scheduled one Saturday.

“Cinderblocks were thrown at police,” he added. “On May 31, thousands entered the streets [of Manhattan] and looted stores.”

Nearly 400 New York Police Department were injured during the city riots, Shea said.

More than 100 of the injured law enforcement officers have not returned to duty. Injured officers’ medical records were forwarded to James’s office as part of the investigation.

Ten or fewer New York City police officers are suspended or were disciplined for misconduct or excessive use of force following hundreds of complaints and reports to James’s office following recent citywide protests.

NYPD’s Internal Affairs department is investigating the officers’ conduct throughout the city’s demonstrations, Shea said.

“Unlawful activity and violations of our standards will be addressed,” he said. “We have already begun to do so. “...I am thankful for their

service during this challenging time, ending the riots and upholding the rule of law. That’s what neighborhood policing was designed to do.”

Shea discussed a controversial June 2 incident where officers engaged in an hours-long standoff with demonstrators on the Manhattan bridge.

“Thanks to a tremendous amount of discretion and restraint, the officers were able to disperse the group to Brooklyn from Manhattan,” he said, adding looters crossed the bridge the two nights prior to destroy and commit crimes against Manhattan businesses.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo blasted de Blasio for not utilizing the New York Police Department’s 38,000-plus members to curb the civil unrest. The mayor implemented a citywide curfew of 11 p.m. June 3, and an 8 p.m. curfew for the rest of the week through June 10. Shea said he was present for Cuomo and de Blasio’s conversations about a curfew, but was not involved in making the decision.

One officer was stabbed in the neck and two others were

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youth from both counties,” Johnson said. “I couldn’t be more proud of our youth for stepping up and talking about issues people don’t normally want to talk about.”

The protest sought to give voice to communities of color and others who ally with them.

“I have been living here for two years. I used to live in the Bronx. I moved here for the scenery, the nice people and the open air,” said David Quituisaca, of Catskill.

“In the two years I have lived here, I have been harassed by ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement], I have been given shady looks by some of my neighbors, and aside from the people I know, sometimes I don’t feel very welcome here, and I think enough is enough. I think it is time for Greene County to wake up.”

His brother, Michael Quituisaca, had a similar message.

“Enough is enough,” he said. “I definitely believe in the Black Lives Matter movement.”

Protesters on the Greene County side of the river gathered near the state Bridge Authority office, and those on the Columbia County side met at the traffic roundabout.

The goal was to voice protesters’ discontent with what they termed systemic racism and actions of police in the

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Marchers make their way across the Rip Van Winkle Bridge, sharing their message, during the Juneteenth Freedom March on Saturday.

wake of the death of George Floyd in Minnesota and a string of deaths of black people at the hands of police.

Justice Brantley co-organized the event on the Greene County side.

“This is a peaceful protest.

We have to stand up for what is right and what is wrong,” Brantley said.

Marchers made their way across the bridge and were undeterred as temperatures soared into the 90s. They carried signs, chanted slogans and played musical instruments as drivers honked and cheered them on as they crossed the bridge.

“I am here today because my life matters, my family’s life matters,” said Hudson 2nd Ward Alderwoman Tiffany Garriga. “We are black and Hispanic, and we are tired of being pushed. We are tired of being used and we are tired

of being profited off of. It is about time we were recognized.”

As marchers from both Columbia and Greene counties met at the center of the bridge, they chanted “Fund black futures, Black Lives Matter, defund the police.”

Barbara Mason, of Catskill, thinks society is moving backwards — and that racism is worse now than it was in her parents’ generation.

“Black lives do matter.

Racism is a sin and they really need to stop this mess,” Mason said. “It is time for us to join together as one.

We as black people have had enough.”

The event was spearheaded and organized by local youth in the Twin Counties, Catskill Village President Vincent Seeley said.

“For me, it’s more important that the younger folks

Protesters carried signs and chanted slogans in the Juneteenth Freedom March across the Rip Van Winkle Bridge on Saturday.

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More than 1,000 marchers packed onto the Rip Van Winkle Bridge on Saturday in a peaceful protest in the Juneteenth Freedom March.

in the community are rising up right now,” Seeley said.

“We just got invited to this.

We didn’t say we need to do something on the bridge to bring Hudson and Catskill together — the young folks

in our community thought of this, set it up and did everything to make this a beautiful day in Catskill.”

Naquera Roach, one of the organizers from Hudson, said it was time for people to

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to the realities of sailing on the Hudson River, its historic sites and landmarks, and the fascinating stories of people past and present, RiverWise seeks to help everyone better understand the river that defines our valley,” according to a statement from the museum.

The museum is also producing several documentary film series, including one about the lighthouses in the Hudson River.

The Hudson-Athens Lighthouse was named on the Preservation League of New York State’s Seven to Save list earlier this year, a list which has been released on a biennial basis since 1999 and can reduce a site’s risk through press conferences, tours, grants and new legislation.

Built in 1874, the Hudson-Athens Lighthouse is one of the original 14 Hudson River lighthouses, of which seven remain. The lighthouse is threatened by deterioration, a lack of public awareness and a loss of visual and architectural The crew of the Apollonia takes a break. integrity, according to a report by the league.

The Hudson-Athens Lighthouse published interruption to the power supply in September, photos of the Solaris and the Apollonia passing Hudson-Athens Lighthouse Preservation Sociby on Sunday.

“Yesterday we had the pleasure to watch ety President Carol Gans said.

“We lost power in September,” Gans said, the Hudson River Maritime Museum’s solaradding that the lighthouse is historically lighted powered boat Solaris pass by on a journey for the holiday season. “In order to have lightnorth alongside the schooner Apollonia,” acing, we had to have emergency solar installed cording to the post on Monday. “Both vessels which took almost 800 hours of volunteer time are participating in a voyage of education and advocacy concerning the maritime heritage of to have minimal lighting.”

Community members may come and view the upper Hudson Valley - and each vessel is carbon neutral! We were of course delighted to the boats Wednesday evening, beginning at show off our solar panels as well which are the about 5 p.m.

Because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemsole source of power for all operations on the ic, visitors will not be permitted to board the Lighthouse.”

The solar panels were installed after an boats, but they can view the vessels from the

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shore and must abide by public health guidelines such as staying six feet away from those not in your party or wearing a mask if maintaining six feet is not possible.

“We are delighted that Athens was included by the Hudson River Maritime Museum in its journey to increase awareness of the Hudson River,” Athens Village Trustee Joshua Lipsman said. “We invite people to come see the ships Wednesday evening and enjoy a waterfront stroll or picnic in Riverfront Park, or a socially distanced meal at one of Athens’ delicious restaurants.”

The village of Athens formed a Conservation Advisory Council earlier this month. It is one

shot in a June 3 incident.

More than 5,500 NYPD members have been diagnosed with coronavirus COVID-19, Shea said, adding 45 members died from the virus. All members are mandated to wear masks while on patrol. Hundreds of witnesses testified they were arrested or had interactions with NYPD officers who did not wear face coverings.

The hearing resumed at 11 a.m. Monday for testimony and an interview with Shea. Last week, James said Shea and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio both did not respond to two separate invitations from her office to speak during the public hearing.

Last week, James’ hearing panel consisted of the attorney general and two appointed special advisors to support her investigation: Former Attorney General Loretta and New York University law professor Barry Friedman. Friedman is the founder and faculty director of the Policing Project at NYU Law. James conducted Shea’s interview one-on-one Monday. make their voices heard.

“We need to take a stand and let people know we matter just as much as anyone else, and it’s important to acknowledge that,” Roach said.

“Until black lives matter, all lives won’t matter.”

The march was held the day after Juneteenth, the holiday that honors the end of slavery.

“As slavery is the father of racism, we must continue to speak out and educate ourselves, and fight systematic racism,” said Fabian RoseBernard, of Catskill.

He also urged the crowd to be sure to vote to make their voices heard.

Bringing about change is about more than a march across a bridge — it’s about being involved and staying involved over the long term, said Tina Martinez, of Athens.

“I want people to know this isn’t anything new, and it shouldn’t take the slow-motion murder of a black man to wake people up and make them decide to look because for those of us who are minorities, this is our America,” Martinez said.

“I want people to remember this isn’t just a hashtag and it isn’t just a fad,” she said. “If you are going to show up, you cannot show up and then melt away, because allies are not allies if they melt away and leave you swinging in the breeze. This is a lifechanging moment in history, and this is the moment to say you are in it for the long haul.

Use your privilege that way.”

of the final steps the village needs to take to be considered for eligibility as a Climate Smart Community.

“The Conservation Advisory Council can be and will be designated as a Climate Smart Committee Task Force,” Lipsman said.

The committee will consist of six residents and three village officials. The council would be the first of its kind in Greene County, according to the village board.

“There are two benefits to being a Climate Smart Community,” Lipsman said. “One is being a climate smart community. Everybody, individually and communitywise, is encouraged to do their part to respond to global climate change.”

The designation can also help a community with grant funding, he said.

“Pre-COVID, yes, Climate Smart, got you points for grant money applications that could put you over the top in terms of competitiveness,” Lipsman said, adding that there is some uncertainty about what funding opportunities will look like in the wake of the pandemic.

Across the state, there are 47 bronze certified Climate Smart Communities and four silver certified communities.

More than 300 communities including the towns of Cairo, Hunter, Jewett, Ancram, Austerlitz, Chatham, Copake, Ghent, Hillsdale, Kinderhook, New Lebanon, villages of Catskill, Kinderhook and Philmont and city of Hudson have registered for the program but have not been certified.

The Hudson River Maritime Museum is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of the maritime history of the Hudson River, its tributaries and related industries.

To track the boats on their journey, visit hudsonriverwise.org. To view livestreamed footage, visit the museum’s Facebook page at facebook.com/hudsonrivermaritimemuseum

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Re-opening sports after Covid-19

By Matt Forunato Columbia-Greene Media

For close to over three full months now, the entire world of sports had been put on hold due to the spread of Coronavirus across the globe. Though there have been a few plans put in place for certain leagues and organizations to return to action, the immediate future is still uncertain.

Not only has this time in limbo had major impacts on competition at the professional level, but the

same risks and hurdles are being faced down at the local level as well.

When everything came to a halt in mid-March, there were sports still in motion, and much was cancelled nearly immediately as a foregone conclusion at the time. But now the world is at a point where there have been a select few sports carefully putting their product back out on the field in the safest way possible.

As they consider the safest protocols, the gradual return of teams working out and practicing together

will increase potential exposure, and summer programs for college sports are already showing signs of that, as an example.

The football programs at LSU and Clemson have already had a high number of positive tests for COVID-19, as they allowed groups of athletes back to their schools for early training, and the next rounds of testing will be very telling as far as the viability of going forward with fall sports, just at the collegiate level.

Jason Kratoville, the Interim Director of the National Center for Security & Preparedness at the University of Albany, was on a panel of experts that met for a discussion via Zoom last week to address the implications of sports returning. He maintained that individual safety and precautionary measures are the most important things to consider. “The most powerful group of people in determining how this virus is going to spread and what its impact on our public health

NASCAR investigating ‘heinous act’ after noose is found in Bubba Wallace’s stall Des Bieler and Cindy Boren The Washington Post

NASCAR officials vowed to “do everything we can” to investigate an incident in which a noose was found Sunday in the stall of Bubba Wallace’s team at Talladega Superspeedway, overshadowing Monday’s completion of the race.

Wallace, the only full-time African American driver in the stockcar circuit’s elite Cup Series, called it a “despicable act of racism and hatred [that] leaves me incredibly saddened and serves as a painful reminder of how much further we have to go as a society.”

NASCAR said in a statement that the noose was discovered in the late afternoon, on a day when its Cup Series race in Alabama - the first to have any fans in attendance since the organization banned all displays of the Confederate flag after Wallace pushed for such a move - will resume at 3 p.m.

Eastern time.

WILFREDO LEE/POOL PHOTO VIA USA TODAY The incident left Dale EarnDriver Bubba Wallace waits for the start of the NASCAR Cup series race on June 14 at Homestead-Miami hardt Jr. with one wish. “Hope Bubba wins it,” he tweeted early Speedway.

Monday morning.

Wallace declared the act shows who seek to spread hate. As my closely the organization restricts “We are angry and outraged “how persistent we must be in the mother told me today, ‘They are access even when there isn’t a and cannot state strongly enough fight against racism.” just trying to scare you.’ pandemic. It “controls entry into how seriously we take this hei“This will not break me, I will its garages,” she wrote. “Not just “Over the last several weeks, I nous act,” NASCAR said. “We have have been overwhelmed by the not give in nor will I back down,” anyone can get into a garage stall, launched an immediate investiga- support from people across the continued Wallace, 26. “I will con- particular given tightly controlled tion and will do everything we can NASCAR industry including other tinue to stand proudly for what I access amid pandemic.” to identify the person(s) respon- drivers and team members in the believe in.”

The speedway, as of Monday sible and eliminate them from the garage,” he added. “Together, our ESPN reported that Wallace morning, has not commented sport. As we have stated unequiv- sport has made a commitment to never saw the noose, and that on the incident and it is not clear ocally, there is no place for rac- driving real change and champi- it was immediately reported to whether there are security camism in NASCAR and this act only oning a community that is accept- NASCAR officials after it was dis- eras in the area. strengthens our resolve to make ing and welcoming of everyone. covered by a member of Wallace’s Only 5,000 fans were adthe sport open and welcoming to “Nothing is more important team. Washington Post reporter mitted Sunday to Talladega all.” and we will not be deterred by the Liz Clarke, who has extensively See NASCAR B3 In a statement on social media, reprehensible actions of those covered NASCAR, noted how

and economy is going to be – are individuals, are citizens, and empowering them with information to know,” said Kratoville, “ – if you engage in these high risk activities, you’re increasing the likelihood of a negative public health outcome and you are increasing the likelihood of a negative economic outcome, but more importantly if you abstain from these – if you take this action, if you make this sacrifice, See SPORTS B3

Giants GM’s glass house has shattered into pieces over the last six months Pat Leonard New York Daily News

NEW YORK — He’s it. He was it.

Dave Gettleman made that unforgettable claim in December: that cutting Janoris Jenkins was the final piece of cleaning out the bad Giants locker room “culture” he had inherited from former GM Jerry Reese.

“He’s it,” Gettleman said of Jenkins. “He was it.”

But this assertion was arrogant and hypocritical, and the past six months have reminded Gettleman that people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones, as the saying goes.

The GM’s premise was faulty to begin with: that the Giants had character problems at the root of their failures, that Gettleman had the blueprint of what true character looks like, and that he would restore order with better judgment of the people he brought in.

He used this rationale to scapegoat and trade Odell Beckham Jr. in March 2019.

When asked a month later by NJ.com if he had a culture problem with the Giants, Gettleman smiled and said “not anymore.” Then Golden Tate, Gettleman’s big free agent receiver signing the same spring, was suspended the first four games of the 2019 season for PEDs. The spring arrests of DeAndre Baker and Aldrick Rosas are reminders that Gettleman is not a superior moral authority guided by some compass on character. He is a GM trying to win, willing to make compromises to do so, with no final say on who is worthy enough or not.

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COVID-19 concerns, calendar shaping MLB labor talks for 60-game season Scott Lauber The Philadelphia Inquirer

It was COVID-19 that plunged Major League Baseball into this selfdestructive labor fight with the Players Association. And if the sides ever agree on a plan for a shortened season, it will be COVID-19 that threatens to wipe it all out.

Now, it appears commissioner Rob Manfred is turning to a COVID-19 spike to make one last appeal to the players for an agreement.

Faced with whether or not to accept MLB’s pitch for a 60-game season — a plan that, for the first time, honors the per-game pay to which the players agreed in March — the union tabled a vote this weekend, a source said Sunday night, as the parties discussed how to move forward amid new COVID-19 cases in several baseball hotbeds, including the outbreak last week at the Philadelphia Phillies’ facility in Florida.

There’s still a chance, perhaps even a likelihood, that the players reject the 60-game plan and force Manfred this week to do what he dreads: Set a schedule of 50-something games at pro-rata salaries without the players’ approval, likely inviting a grievance from the union and blocking the 16-team expanded playoffs that are so strongly desired by the owners for whom he works.

But in what amounts to a lastditch attempt at a deal, Manfred pointed Sunday to the relocation of spring training to teams’ home

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MLB commissioner Rob Manfred speaks at Clark Sports Center during the Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremony on July 29, 2018, in Cooperstown.

cities because of the coronavirus surge and, according to The Athletic, noted in a letter to union chief Tony Clark that playing more than 60

games is an “impossibility.”

The union’s executive board — comprised of an eight-player subcommittee and a player

representative from all 30 teams — met virtually throughout the weekend. If MLB cites COVID-19 as the reason not to move off the 60-game

plan, the players will seek further concessions. To that end, Manfred is willing to remove the expanded playoffs and universal designated hitter in 2021, ESPN reported Sunday night.

MLB informed the union Friday night that it won’t discuss a 70-game counterproposal from the players.

The owners drew a hard line at 60 games and a total outlay of roughly $1.51 billion for players salaries, even though a compromise at the 65-game midpoint would have cost them only an additional $4.2 million per team (roughly $125 million overall).

For five weeks, MLB and the players’ union have turned what should be an all-for-one, one-for-all effort to bring back baseball in unprecedented times into a prenegotiation of the collective bargaining agreement, which expires after the 2021 season.

It wasn’t until June 15, after three previous proposals, that MLB gave in on trying to reopen the March agreement and negotiate supplemental pay reductions for the players.

Some players, notably Cincinnati Reds pitcher Trevor Bauer, have accused Manfred and the owners of slowing the negotiations to run down the calendar until there isn’t enough time to play more than 50 to 60 games. It’s reasonable to think they would resurface that charge now.

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Embracing a new normal, the PGA Tour show will go on at the Travelers Championship Dom Amore The Hartford Courant

HARTFORD, Conn. — The morning after the first PGA Tour tournament following the sport’s return from a coronavirus-related shutdown, Nathan Grube, director of the Travelers Championship, got a “top 10” list of observations from Michael Tothe, who’d successfully staged the Charles Schwab Challenge in Fort Worth, Texas.

The last issue Grube expected to hear about a tournament with no fans was a problem with noise.

“Michael said, ‘it’s quieter than you think,’” Grube said, “and you might actually want people to quiet others down, because sound travels way across the golf course. Usually, you have these structures to block sound, or you have a general noise level of people talking. Make sure your volunteers know, your food service knows, everybody knows you can say something behind 18 and somebody on the 18th tee might hear you.”

So without the general level of chatter that usually becomes neutral noise to the golfer, any conversation anywhere on the course could be a putter’s distraction. Signs imploring “QUIET PLEASE” will have an added meaning when the Travelers Championship goes off as scheduled, but under unimaginably unique circumstances, Thursday-Sunday at TPC River Highlands in Cromwell.

Since April 16, the day the tour raised some eyebrows with its plan to restart, Grube and his staff have been working to reinvent the Travelers to fit these extraordinary times. With the pandemic reaching its peak in Connecticut, hospitalizations nearing 2,000 on April 22, plans were launched with hope, but nothing approaching certainty. “We don’t have all the answers as to how, but we will figure this out,” Andy Bessette, the Travelers’ executive VP and chief administrative officer, vowed at the time.

“There was a moment when we were all looking forward saying, ‘Hey, this is aspirational,’” Grube said in an interview with The Courant last week. “We’re going to plan for it, but there is a lot that has to happen. We knew there was no guarantee we were going to be able to play this, but we need to plan as if we are. We had a very open dialogue with the Governor’s office and the town health officials and we got to this point where we will be able to have it in a healthy, safe environment, but there were times along the way where we knew a lot would have to happen for us to be able to host the event.”

Connecticut began reopening on May 20, and on June 17 entered its second phase, in which hotels reopened, a critical need for the tournament.

Now all the elements are in place for the Travelers to commence, with the benefit of the tour’s experiences at Fort Worth June 11-14, and in Hilton Head, South Carolina. The Marriott in downtown Hartford will be the host hotel, with three others chosen as part of the “bubble.” More players than usual, including three-time Travelers champ Bubba Watson, will be driving their own mobile homes and parking in secure locations.

The Travelers, which became title sponsor in 2007, has assembled its most star-studded field ever, with nine of the top 10 players in the world and 15 of the top 20 committed to compete for the $7.4 million purse, with $1.332 million and 500 FedEx Cup points going to the winner. Add to that list names like Phil Mickelson, Jordan Spieth, Sergio Garcia and Watson and it’s easy to make the case this is the best roster of players the event has ever had.

Though the normal multitudes, hundreds of thousands of fans, will not be there, it will build the organizers’ relationships, giving them a chance to show off the quality of the course and make such impressive fields an annual thing,

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A tee box marker on the first tee is seen during the third round of the 2019 Travelers Championship golf tournament at TPC River Highlands.

when the Travelers reassumes its place the week after the U.S. Open in 2021.

“We’ve always tried to take the long-term approach,” Grube said. “If a guy couldn’t come this year, maybe he comes next year. What’s cool is, every one of these guys have been with us before, just not all together at once. These relationships we have are culminating. These players like the course, they know who we are and what we stand for. Reminding the guys how much they love the golf course is going to be good for us in the long run.”

PROTOCOLS: PLAYING THROUGH Generally, the first event, the Charles Schwab Challenge in Fort Worth, Texas, went off without serious problems, players on board with the safety protocols and becoming comfortable with them. Watson said he went into the locker room only once, to get his visors on the first day of the tournament.

“You couldn’t ask for a better week when it comes to policies in place,” Watson told reporters in Fort Worth. “What we’re trying to do, create a safe environment for everyone, not just golfers but caddies, volunteers, the staff onsite, PGA Tour staff. I don’t think you can do any better that way.”

There were no positives among the 487 tests conducted at the start of the tournament, a relief to PGA Tour and tournament officials. Commissioner Jay Monahan, a Trinity College graduate, is sharing the tour’s experiences with other professional leagues that are planning, or hoping, to start up soon.

“I think we have a responsibility on our shoulders to really make sure we do everything,” said Collin Morikawa, who lost to Daniel Berger in a playoff at the Charles Schwab Challenge. “Follow the rules, follow the guidelines. For the most part I think we all did pretty well.”

The tour restart hits its first glitch on Friday when veteran pro Nick Watney tested positive after playing the first round Thursday in Hilton Head with Vaughn Taylor and Luke List. Watney immediately withdrew and Yahoo Sports reported Saturday that 11 additional tests on those who had come in contact with Watney — including Taylor and List — all came back negative. Taylor and List, who missed the cut in South Carolina, are committed to play in the Travelers.

Grube is working through contingencies, the most important being what to do if there is a positive test, and how to proceed if a key person in the

process is not able to perform. In mid-May, the tour issued a 37-page memorandum of health and safety protocols, limiting the number of people on the course, access to clubhouses, touching of equipment, and designating hotels. The guidelines that have become familiar in keeping courses open during the pandemic, only on a larger scale. “(Michael Tothe) said something that was really cool,” Grube said. “He said the guys and the caddies are so happy to be part of this return to sport, they’re in such good moods, they’re willing to do anything. They’re very compliant and appreciative of what you’re trying to do.”

“It’s great that the bubble stayed a bubble,” Spieth said following the Charles Schwab Challenge, “and now we’ve got to travel with it.”

PAR FOR THE TPC COURSE Single-rider carts, no ball-washers, no touching the pin, no bunker rakes, the “E-Z Lyft” touchless ball retrieval system — these things have become routine at golf courses. “Everything (the tour requires) is accomplishable,” said Jeff Reich, the TPC’s director of golf course maintenance operations. He has been working around pandemic-related protocols for months, keeping his staff socially distanced, in addition to the unique challenge brought by each year’s weather.

“We had a late spring, so it was cooler,” Reich said. “We had a nonexistent winter here in the Northeast. Those cooler temperatures didn’t warm up until early May, so that provided some challenges in growing turf, filling in some areas.

As of right now, it’s probably in some of the best shape I’ve seen the golf course. We’ve done some things that have allowed us to be able to prep the course in such a fashion that’s its going to look extremely good on TV and provide a great surface for the players.”

Reich will be able to have his usual complement of staffers to keep the par-70, 6,841-yard course in shape. With no spectators and fewer structures up for the media, there are areas exposed that usually are not.

“It just provided an opportunity to grow some more grass,” Reich said, “which I love to do.”

THE TELECAST The telecast presents challenges, not only in presenting energy without fans on the course, but working with limited personnel and many key people working remotely.

Jim Nantz, the lead broadcaster, is working on

site, from a tower at the 18th green.

“I felt a lot more comfortable about being there in person versus, say, being in my garage in Cleveland or from my home in Pebble Beach,” Nantz said in a conference call earlier this month. “I’m not that technically savvy and I was always fearful my 4-year-old son would trip over an electrical cord and I’d be knocked off the air and wouldn’t know how to get myself back on the air. It makes a lot more sense too, just the little nuances of the broadcast. Coming out of breaks and having a sense of the atmosphere. I just think it’s a lot easier to pull off a solid broadcast with the anchor being there in person.”

CBS is experimenting with ways to make the telecasts more entertaining, bring out players’ personalities. Celebrities were enlisted to introduce players at the first tee, for instance. The first presentation was well received by an audience yearning for live sports; the final round in Fort Worth averaged 3.09 million viewers, peaking at 3.88 million, the highest viewership for that tournament in 16 years, and a 50% increase over 2019.

“This is a wonderful opportunity for the game, for the PGA Tour,” Nantz said. “They have a chance to go before a sports-starved nation, and have a chance to create a wider fan base than it’s ever had before. How do you do that? A lot of it has to be personality-driven. We need to hear from the players. It’s something that I think is not obtrusive. It’s an opportunity for the players to invest in their own game.”

Grube watched the Schwab telecast from an operational point of view.

“I started looking at what the camera picks up,” he said. “Where we put scoreboards, where you’re telling carts to drive, where television cables are laid, what kind of back-of-house things are going to come into play that never have before. Where they put signage. Then all of a sudden, I got caught up in the drama, ‘This is a really good golf tournament.’”

THE EXPERIENCE Playing without fans felt weird to players in Fort Worth. For those used to feeding off the huge crowds in Cromwell, it figures to be a bigger adjustment.

“It was crazy different,” Morikawa said. “I think fans bring so much of an energy, so much more excitement to the game, and that’s why we love it.”

“It makes it weird, I guess,” said Watson, one of the Travelers’ fan favorites, “because even when I made a couple putts, you just don’t even wave, you don’t even high-five. It’s just a weird feeling, which we all love trying to challenge ourselves under pressure in front of the fans, and not having that makes it a little weird. I’ll call myself an athlete, we know we’re playing for fans on TV, but man, it’s just the roars, the electricity. Even if you’re playing terrible, to hear other roars, it gets you excited, so that’s what we miss.”

The PGA Tour hopes to bring fans back onto the course at the Memorial in Ohio in mid-July. In the meantime, the tour goes on, and the Travelers, which has raised more than $42 million for local charities through the decades, with focus shifting to coronavirus-relief this year, adapts and endures to this new normal.

“I’m very proud to be part of a community that was able to do this,” Grube said, “and a title sponsor that was committed to figuring this out, the right way, the safe way, to have a state and a town of Cromwell that was behind us. We as a community and we as a state should be very proud of what we can do when we come together and say, ‘Okay, this is one of the most abnormal situations we’ve seen in professional sports, but can we do this in the right way?’ Hopefully, we will be a good example of how to do that.”

Webb Simpson emerges from crowded leaderboard to win RBC Heritage at Hilton Head Stephen Fastenau The Island Packet

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — Nothing about this RBC Heritage Presented by Boeing golf tournament was normal.

So maybe it was fitting that the eventual champion was a steady presence who knows this golf course as well as anyone.

In the end, Webb Simpson punched through a tightly packed leaderboard fueled by unprecedented low scoring to win Sunday at Harbour Town Golf Links. He finished 22-under-par 262 to beat a group that included a charging Daniel Berger, Sergio Garcia and Brooks Koepka.

The winning total was a record, beating Brian Gay’s 20-under 264 finish in 2009.

More than Simpson’s course knowledge was experience in contention and knowing how he would react as birdies flew, he said.

“That was what I was thankfully leaning on those last few holes,” Simpson said.

The victory was Simpson’s

second of the year, adding to the Waste Management Phoenix Open in early February. He won at Harbour Town for the first time in his 11th try.

He had earned $1.3 million at the tournament before Sunday. He pocketed $1.278 million with the Heritage win.

Rain showers and light wind softened a course that can play like a major championship and welcomed anyone to claim the tartan jacket.

A pop-up storm Sunday caused a weather delay of almost three hours. During the break Simpson texted a friend to see if he had a place to stay on Hilton Head for a possible Monday finish.

Leaders raced remaining sunlight and seemed destined for a playoff.

At one point Sunday, seven players were tied for the lead.

Just before 8 p.m., four players shared the lead on the back nine.

Kopeka had stirred earlier in the day by playing a seven-hole stretch in 6-under par. Berger chipped in for birdie on the 71st

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Webb Simpson of the United States reacts on the second green during the final round of the RBC Heritage on Sunday at Harbour Town Golf Links in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.

hole while vying for a second win in as many weeks.

“Everybody is tearing it up,” Koepka said. “It’s kind of frustrating because you feel like you make a couple birdies in the row and don’t feel like you go anywhere.”

Tyrrell Hatton, trying to win his second PGA Tour event in consecutive starts, wasn’t out of it until narrowly missing a

chip-in on the 71st hole.

Simpson slammed the door with three consecutive birdies starting on the par-5 15th.

The drama was without many witnesses as the PGA Tour has closed early events to fans to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

No spectators cheered the birdies, except those in folding chairs, patios and balconies

along the course and vessels anchored in the Calibogue Sound off of Hilton Head.

Simpson casually strolled down the 72nd fairway to a serene scene of more than a dozen boats on the water. As he approached the green, boat horns honked and Simpson acknowledged people cheering from yards of neighboring condominiums.

The father of five closed out his seventh PGA Tour victory.

He won for the second time as a dad on Father’s Day, along with the 2012 U.S. Open.

Simpson wore a yellow shirt as he does on Sundays to honor his father, Sam, who died in 2017. When his children give him Father’s Day cards, they’re in yellow crayon or marker.

Simpson on Sunday recalled calling his father on his way to the news conference after the U.S. Open victory at the Olympic Club in San Francisco.

“And when he picked up the phone, he just was laughing,” Simpson said. “That’s kind of what he did when he was happy, he would just laugh. So I’m

going to miss that laugh today for sure.”

He said he thought about him often during the final round on Hilton Head.

That one of South Carolina’s premier events was revived in time for June required a herculean effort and affirmation from federal, state and local officials that this was safe and proper.

One player out of 151 tested positive for COVID-19 during the tournament. Nick Watney was quarantined and at least 11 people he had been close to were identified and tested negative.

Faces unfamiliar to Harbour Town strode the tight fairways.

The second PGA Tour event back during the pandemic drew the world’s best — Rory McIlroy, Koepka and Jon Rahm.

Simpson, at No. 9 in the world, is expected to now creep toward his career-best of fifth in the Official World Golf Ranking.

The position is the result of hard work examining which areas the 34-year-old could improve after 12 years as a pro.

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UFC cornerman will be investigated after refusing to stop bout despite fighter’s pleas Jake Russell The Washington Post

The Nevada State Athletic Commission will investigate why Max Rohskopf’s cornerman refused to stop Saturday’s UFC fight against Austin Hubbard after Rohskopf reportedly said to “call it” nine times in the rest period entering the third and final round, according to ESPN. NSAC inspector Charvez Foger stopped the fight on Rohskopf’s behalf when his chief cornerman, Robert Drysdale, refused to do so. Hubbard (12-4 MMA, 2-2 UFC) was awarded a

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which treats Eli Manning’s settled memorabilia scandal as a blip on the radar — even after the organization blew out the equipment room staff in its wake — but considers it a major problem that Beckham punched a kicking net and hated to lose.

Curious, isn’t it? The same people screaming at the Daily News in the spring of 2018 that the Giants never would trade Beckham were the same fans a year later saying Beckham’s trade had been inevitable and that the team was better off.

Gettleman did in earnest, of course, try to sell a higher character locker room as the beginning of something better in New York. He brought in plenty of good locker room influences. To name a few: Michael Thomas, Nate Solder, Russell Shepard, Alec Ogletree, Antoine Bethea,

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staff members stationed at the team’s complex in Clearwater, Florida, tested positive for COVID-19, with 32 others awaiting their test results.

MLB ordered the closure of all 30 spring-training sites in

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Superspeedway as NASCAR took another step toward returning to action in the wake of the novel coronavirus pandemic. After shutting down in March, as did almost all major sports leagues worldwide, NASCAR began to stage races again in May, shortly before footage emerged of George Floyd’s death.

That event sparked widespread demonstrations against racial injustice and police brutality, and Wallace drove a car emblazoned with the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter in a race earlier this month.

“My next step would be to get rid of all Confederate

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you actually are increasing the likelihood that we’re going to get back faster and increasing the likelihood that we can engage in organized sports in the long term without a bunch of fits and starts.”

And that really is the crux of every reopening proposal that has been constructed and some that are currently being implemented; what can we do to keep the cases down, close to elimination, and take public health and safety in consideration as a paramount concern.

In places with mass reopening like Florida and Texas, big crowds have equaled big upticks in positive Coronavirus cases. And these proposed future sporting events will decidedly have no fans, at least at the beginning, but from taxi squads for baseball, expanded rosters and practice squads for football, and even hub cities for the rest of the basketball season this summer, there are

second-round TKO. Rohskopf, a former North Carolina State wrestler and 5-0 lightweight prospect entering Saturday’s fight, had agreed to fight Hubbard on short notice last week in a preliminary bout for UFC’s Fight Night in Las Vegas.

“That’s something we will take a look at,” NSAC executive director Bob Bennett told ESPN. “We might want to take disciplinary action on them. That doesn’t sound like they are looking out for a fighter. Obviously, he didn’t want to come out (and fight).”

Drysdale, a former UFC fighter, told ESPN that he doesn’t regret his

decision to ignore his fighter’s request.

“I stand by what I did,” Drysdale said Saturday. “I expect excellence from the people I train because I love them.

He wasn’t seriously hurt, and I felt he needed a mental push. I would expect the same from my coach.”

“I could tell he was broken,” Hubbard, 28, said after the fight. However, he said he did not expect Rohskopf (5-0 MMA, 0-1 UFC) to back out.

“I was surprised,” Hubbard said. “I never experienced that. I know I was hitting him clean; I was hitting him hard. I can’t blame him. He is a tough kid. He was taking them well. I could

tell those were hurting him, though. ... I could tell he was a little cloudy. I’m not surprised, and in my mind I was finishing that fight for sure.”

Rohskopf’s manager, Brian Butler, told ESPN there were multiple factors that led the 25-year-old rookie to back out mid-fight.

“Max suffered from fatigue due to the short-notice weight cut combined with a pre-existing turf toe injury and was not able to overcome both,” Butler said. “Didn’t think the turf toe would become an issue but combined with the fatigue he just could not keep going. He is going to take some time off to

heal up.”

UFC President Dana White didn’t begrudge Rohskopf’s decision to bow out of the fight.

“In this f------ sport, if you’re done, you’re done. You should absolutely be able to quit,” White said in a news conference after Saturday’s event. “I know that it’s frowned upon, but guess what?

Anybody that would talk s--- about you quittin’ isn’t in there fighting.”

White went on to note that Rohskopf had the courage to agree to the fight on short notice.

Still, Gettleman’s constant blaming of the previous Giants regime — and his arrogance in carrying himself as some greater moral authority — make it impossible for him to skirt the myriad negative offseason off-field headlines now bombarding the Giants on his watch.

In that light, it’s ridiculous

to suggest that rookie head coach Joe Judge is the one who must answer and take action on Baker and Rosas if they are found guilty. Gettleman is the one who must hold them accountable, and he is the one who must be held accountable himself.

“He’s it. He was it,” Gettleman said naively of Jenkins in December.

He was not it. And this version of the Giants is not it, either.

SAY MY NAME Congratulations to NFL commissioner Roger Goodell on finally bringing himself to say Colin Kaepernick’s name on his fourth try.

First came Goodell’s noncommittal May 30 statement on racial injustice that prompted a league employee and players to post a video on June 4 challenging the NFL to say and do more.

Second, in response, Goodell apologized on video June 5 but avoided saying Kaepernick’s name or even admitting to silencing peaceful

protests in the past. Third, on June 11, NFL.com got “a person familiar” with the league’s new financial social justice contributions to praise Kaepernick by name, and Goodell was not quoted.

Fourth and finally last Monday, Goodell said Kaepernick’s name on ESPN and admitted the NFL should have listened to Kaepernick and other players sooner. He also said he “encourage(s)” and “support(s)” a team signing the quarterback.

See, was that so hard? Well, yes, clearly.

CELEBRATE FREEDOM The Giants observed Juneteenth on Friday, a holiday which commemorates the actual end of slavery in the United States — when Union soldiers freed the last slaves in Texas.

“As we work to bring sustained change within our communities,” the team said in a statement, “the Giants stand committed to help unite, heal and make a positive impact.”

which would push the reopening of training camps into next week. A three-week spring training would delay opening day until possibly the week of July 27 and leaving fewer than 70 days to complete the season before the owners’ desired end date of Sept. 27.

It’s widely believed that Manfred views imposing a schedule as the nuclear option

because of the likelihood that the players would file a grievance claiming MLB didn’t make “best efforts” to play and seeking what Manfred recently told ESPN would be “an additional billion dollars” in lost wages.

At this point, though, Manfred’s only alternative to setting a schedule himself would be to somehow get an

agreement with the players.

Unless — gulp — he calls the whole thing off altogether.

A canceled season might be an eventuality anyway if teams reconvene for “spring training 2.0” and experience COVID-19 outbreaks similar to the Phillies’.

Asked Friday if the Phillies’ outbreak makes it less likely that MLB will be able to stage

a 2020 season, managing partner John Middleton called it the “$64,000 question.” In his statement about the initial wave of positive tests, Middleton said “it is too early to know” the implications.

As one veteran player on another team put it, “There’s so many things that are out of our control.”

flags,” Wallace said at the time. “There should be no individual that is uncomfortable showing up to our events to have a good time with their family that feels some type of way about something they have seen, an object they have seen flying. No one should feel uncomfortable when they come to a NASCAR race. So it starts with Confederate flags.

Get them out of here. They have no place for them.”

NASCAR responded quickly by broadening its ban on displays of the Confederate flag, which already extended to its teams and company personnel, to fans at its events and properties.

“The presence of the Confederate flag at NASCAR events runs contrary to our commitment to providing a welcoming and inclusive

environment for all fans, our competitors and our industry,” NASCAR said in a June 10 statement. “Bringing people together around a love for racing and the community that it creates is what makes our fans and sport special.”

Before Sunday’s race, an airplane flew over Talladega pulling a large Confederate flag and a banner that read, “Defund NASCAR.” There also was a rolling protest just outside the grounds of the raceway, with vehicles parading Confederate flags.

Wallace has said that in the wake of his call for NASCAR to ban the flag, he has received messages of support, including from some people who say they are following the sport for the first time. However, he has also been the subject of considerable anger and even

threats, he told The Washington Post recently.

“They see me as somebody who’s tearing down their heritage,” Wallace said of those angry about the ban. “But we’re not trying to close the door on you; we’re opening the door to many others that want to be a part of this sport.”

While sharing NASCAR’s statement about the discovery of the noose, Cup Series driver Michael McDowell tweeted Sunday, “God help us. The level of evil it takes to do something like this is disgusting.

This is enraging and heartbreaking all at the same time.”

Jimmie Johnson tweeted that he couldn’t “begin to fathom the pain this action has caused. I stand with you, @ BubbaWallace.”

Driver William Byron called the news of the noose

“horrible,” adding, “Cannot believe something like this could happen and the hate that one must have to do this.

I’m praying that we are better from this #IStandWithBubba” Michael Waltrip echoed that hashtag and Earnhardt’s hope. “God created us equal.

I will never understand how some people don’t believe that. The stupid hatefulness that happened yesterday is disgusting. I know @NASCAR will oust this idiot. Go win today @BubbaWallace. I’ll be cheering you on. #IStandWithBubba” Ryan Blaney tweeted that Wallace is “my brother and always will be. Don’t let the people who are lower than life to try and bring you down.

They won’t scare you because you’re strong. I stand with you pal. Forever.”

LeBron James took to Twitter to call the act “sickening,” telling Wallace, “Know you don’t stand alone! I’m right here with you as well as every other athlete. I just want to continue to say how proud I am of you for continuing to take a stand for change here in America and sports!”

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey condemned the incident, saying Monday she “was shocked and appalled to hear of yesterday’s vile act” and apologizing to Wallace.

“Bubba Wallace is one of us; He is a native of Mobile and on behalf of all Alabamians, I apologize to Bubba Wallace as well as to his family and friends for the hurt this has caused and regret the mark this leaves on our state.”

already so many other things to consider before there can be a resolution for each league.

Though safety and health precautions have been the biggest concern for most organizations, even in Major League Baseball they’ve been fighting over money splits for the last two months, without even going forward to think about safety and testing plans, and other things of that nature.

So, they really go hand in hand, because leagues want to operate and maintain financial stability, while balancing player and personnel safety and minimizing risk at the same time.

“You can’t just think about over the next four months,” Kratoville said, “how is this impacting my bottom-line, my business, my brand, our ability to play, the psychology of it or the psychological impacts of it, you have to think long term about where we’re trying to get to.

“I think that the overall goal is we want to be able to get back to a level of operations that allows us to be successful,

right – so we want sports to get back to a level of operations where they’re able to be played with audiences and concessions, the economic impact that they have to maintain the psychological impact on the players, or allowing them to maintain balance in their structure... short term relief isn’t worth a loss of longterm economic resilience and so we need to think about things in those terms.”

Another area of uncertainty out there is for youth sports going forward. For parents, of course, do they run the risk of letting their children play sports, if they’re not already canceled, and getting maybe a less serious case of Coronavirus so their kids can continue to stay active? What will the organizations ensure for safety and how will the kids and parents decide and respond to what plans are laid out?

Kratoville continued, “The more you can coordinate, the better this works out and you have to get organizations thinking not just about how it’s going to impact them in their bottom-line, but also its

wider community impact and how things can flow together.

“I can’t speak to what the risk tolerance is at different levels and that’s where getting back to your first question – to me at least, which was — how do we empower families and parents and individuals to make good decisions? They’re going to be sort of the ultimate driver, right. So if there is a demand there, a private company is going to want to tap into that demand, but if we’ve gotten good information to the public in a situation where it may not be safe to send your kids to a sport, or where it may be safe, given certain precautions, that parents take those precautions, parents are empowered to have their kids take those precautions and keep themselves safe. That empowerment piece there is huge and it’s going to be the ultimate driver or a lot of these company’s decision making.”

So as these competitions and gatherings are held carefully and cautiously, again, the main goal is safety for public health being a top priority.

The return of major sports is

inevitable, but what it will look like to start, will certainly be different, and the powers

making decisions have many things to consider aside from their bottom lines once it does.

Alex Tanney, Eli Penny, Bennie Fowler and Jonathan Stewart.

Daniel Jones appears to be another.

But this has not created a winning culture, and the GM has been just as quick to make character compromises in the name of trying to win — just like everyone else.

Gettleman made an ill-advised draft-day trade up for Baker — who carried red flags as a college prospect — because the GM was desperate to address the position after failing to meaningfully improve the secondary in his 5-11 first season.

Kyle Lauletta, Gettleman’s 2018 fourth-round pick, had his infamous Oct. 2018 arrest in Weehawken. Gettleman even retained Jenkins despite the corner’s on-field loafing in 2017 that helped get Ben McAdoo fired, because he was talented enough to maybe mean a few wins.

The Baker and Rosas investigations are ongoing, of course, so this is not meant to

convict them. And Gettleman is not the only GM who makes compromises, either.

Chiefs receiver Tyreek Hill was accused of abusing his 3-year-old son early last year, and he ended up making the biggest catch of the entire season in the Super Bowl for GM Brett Veach’s champion Kansas City Chiefs.

Florida and Arizona and directed teams to plan for a resumption of spring training in their home cities. Even before the outbreak, the Phillies were planning to hold spring training locally, using Citizens Bank Park and their youth academy at nearby FDR Park.

It’s expected to take about a week for teams to prepare their ballparks for that scenario,

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Dated: June 12, 2020 FREEMAN HOWARD, P.C. 441 East Allen Street P.O. Box 1328 Hudson, New York NOTICE OF OR- 12534 GANIZATION OF LIMOF ORITED LIABILITY COM- NOTICE PANY FIRST:The name GANIZATION OF LIMof the Limited Liability ITED LIABILITY COMCompany is The Rivers PANY FIRST:The name Edge Group LLC of the Limited Liability (hereinafter referred to Company is The Main as the "Company") Street Property Group SECOND:The Articles LLC (hereinafter reof Organization of the ferred to as the "ComSECOND:The Company were filed pany") with the Secretary of Articles of OrganizaState on May 15, 2020. tion of the Company THIRD:The County were filed with the within the State of New Secretary of State on 07, 2020.

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MIAMI — Jim Kiick, part of the Miami Dolphins’ threeheaded monster at running back during the perfect 1972 season, has died. He was 73.

Kiick, who shared the backfield with fellow running backs Larry Csonka and Mercury Morris, had been battling dementia. The Dolphins announced his death Saturday.

The running back played seven seasons in Miami and won two Super Bowls in the 1972 and 1973 seasons. He sits at fifth on the Dolphins’ alltime rushing yards list and he was a two-time All-Star in the Erica Football League.

Kiick was drafted by Miami in the fifth round of the 1968 NFL/AFL Draft. He was an immediate standout — an All-Star in his first two seasons and the primary running back for his first four in South Florida. In 1972, he began splitting halfback duties with Morris to complement Csonka and started only three regular-season games, although he did start Super Bowl 7, which the Dolphins won to cap the only undefeated season in NFL history.

The next year, Miami repeated as champion by winning Super Bowl 8.

Kiick spent one more season with the Dolphins before leaving to play in the shortlived World Football League with Csonka. He and Csonka, dubbed “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” — a reference to the popular 1969 film — for their off-field shenanigans, spent one season with the Memphis Southmen before the league folded and they returned to the NFL. Kiick finished his career with the Denver Broncos and Washington Redskins before he retired after the 1977 season.

Kiick finished his time in Miami with 3,644 rushing yards and his 28 rushing touchdowns are sixth on the Dolphins’ alltime list. Csonka and Morris are two of the few tailbacks ahead of him on both lists.

After retirement, Kiick went

to work as a private investigator in the Broward County Public Defenders’ Office. He developed dementia and had been living in an assisted care facility the last few years. Allie Kiick, his daughter, is a professional tennis player.

Kiick was born in 1946 in Lincoln Park, New Jersey.

George Kiick, his father, was a former Pittsburgh Steeler and Kiick was a three-sport star at Boonton High School. He went on to play for the Wyoming Cowboys and led Wyoming in rushing in each of his three seasons, earning first-team AllWestern Athletic Conference honors in all three. In 1968, he was selected to play in the College All-Star Game, where he first met Csonka. Both were drafted by Miami in the 1968 Draft — Csonka eighth overall and Kiick 118th — and they became the foundation of a dynasty.

Kiick finished his nine-year NFL career with 3,759 yards and 29 touchdowns on 1,029 carries. He led the league with nine touchdown runs in 1969 and carved out a niche as a goal-line specialist for Miami’s back-to-back Super Bowl teams. He was also an effective receiver, finishing his career with 233 catches for 2,302 yards and four touchdowns. Kiick’s best season came in 1971, when Miami went to the Super Bowl, and Kiick piled up 738 yards and three touchdowns, plus 338 receiving yards.

Off the field, he had an even larger reputation. Miami Herald sportswriter Bill Braucher dubbed Kiick as “Butch Cassidy” and Csonka as “Sundance Kid,” because they were roommates in training camp and earned a reputation for heavy drinking.

Kiick’s death comes less than two months after the death of Don Shula, the coach of the 1972 team. Last year, three 1972 Dolphins also died: former offensive linemen Jim Langer and Bob Kuechenberg, and former linebacker Nick Buoniconti.

NEW YORK — The New York Mets are committed to paying their minor league players through the end of August, a source confirmed to the Daily News.

The Mets join a handful of other teams — including the Minnesota Twins, Kansas City Royals, Boston Red Sox, Miami Marlins, San Diego Padres and Seattle Mariners — to announce it will pay the club’s minor leaguers not currently on the 40-man roster their current weekly $400 stipend this summer.

Major League Baseball had committed to paying minor league players through the end of May, and the league left it up to individual clubs to extend salaries beyond the end of that month.

The Oakland A’s last month announced they would stop paying their minor leaguers their $400 weekly stipend beyond May 31. Following enormous public backlash, A’s owner John Fisher reversed course and agreed to pay his players through the end of the scheduled minor-league season.

“I’ve listened to our fans and others, and there is no question that this is the right thing to do,” Fisher told Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle. “We clearly got this decision wrong. These players represent our future and we will immediately begin paying our minor-league

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The New York Mets’ Home Run Big Apple outside Citi Field in New York on April 5, 2012.

players. I take responsibility and I’m making it right.”

The fallout from the coronavirus and the anticipated cancellation of the 2020 minor league season caused teams last month to release hundreds of minor leaguers from their farm systems.

The minor leagues have been devastated, with reports indicating that at the end of this year upwards of 1,000 players could see their baseball careers end.

The Mets last month released players from their organization and implemented pay cuts for employees — which went into effect on

June 1. The exact number of players the Mets released is not known.

The average minor leaguer is paid based on the level of competition in a club’s farm system. In 2020, before the coronavirus suspended major professional sports leagues, Class A minor league players were scheduled to make $290/week, Class AA $350/week and Class AAA $502/week. That comes out to roughly $4,800 for threemonth short season leagues to around $14,000 for five months at Class AAA. Teams are looking to reduce and eliminate costs

amid the prospect of a shortened major league season caused by the coronavirus outbreak.

MLB and the Players Association have persisted in negotiations that have lasted nearly six weeks to get the season started.

As of Sunday morning, the league had rejected the union’s 70-game proposal with full prorated salaries.

The union is expected to announce by Monday whether it will accept MLB commissioner Rob Manfred’s 60-game proposal. Expanded playoffs will serve as the MLBPA’s bargaining chip.

Three takeaways from Tiz the Law’s win in the Belmont Stakes Childs Walker The Baltimore Sun

Tiz the Law kicked off the 2020 Triple Crown series with a four-length victory in the Belmont Stakes. Here are three takeaways from the race as we begin a long wait for the Sept. 5 Kentucky Derby and the Oct. 3 Preakness Stakes: 1. Tiz the Law delivered as classy a performance as you could ask for from a heavy favorite.

The New-York-bred colt went off as a 4-5 favorite, unusually heavy for the first leg of the Triple Crown series. Those odds spoke to the quality Tiz the Law had demonstrated but also to a field diminished by injuries to undefeated challengers Nadal, Charlatan and Maxfield.

So in a sense, Tiz the Law could only hold serve in the Belmont. With the race featuring mild competition and going 1 miles instead of the usual 1 ½, he would not be asked any questions he had not already answered.

It’s easy for a star to disappoint under such circumstances, but Tiz the Law did not. Instead, he showed all the traits that will make him difficult to beat for the rest of the year. He broke sharply and sat comfortably in third as Tap It to Win pushed the early pace. Jockey Manny Franco, who’d never ridden a horse nearly this good on the Triple Crown stage, showed superb patience, and Tiz the Law matched his calm.

When it was time to go, he put the field behind him and brooked no challenge.

“There wasn’t really a lot of drama here,” Hall of Fame jockey Jerry Bailey said on the NBC broadcast. Tiz the Law made sure that was the case with his talent and professionalism. From his first win this year in the Holy Bull Stakes to his commanding performance in the Florida Derby to his Belmont triumph, he’s grown with each race.

It’s a testament to the horse but also to the work of 82-year-old trainer Barclay Tagg, who hasn’t had a 3-year-old this

gifted since he won the 2003 Kentucky Derby and Preakness with Funny Cide. As owner Jack Knowlton said all week, Tagg doesn’t receive a lot of superstar horses, but when he does, he knows what to do with them.

2. This was the strangest Belmont Stakes in recent memory, but it still worked as a television event.

A string of pre-race images captured all that was different about the Belmont in a year defined by the coronavirus pandemic.

There was the near-empty paddock at Belmont Park, normally jammed with connections, onlookers and photographers in the moments before the horses go to the track. There was the lonely pre-race bugle call, answered by silence instead of the typical roar from rowdy New Yorkers stuffing the grandstand. There was the shot of that spectator-free grandstand, glimpsed from a distant starting gate that had been moved because the race was shortened.

They still played “New York, New York” as Tiz the Law walked out to do his work, but no one was there to sing along.

Give NBC credit for capturing the eerie aspects of the event. Host Mike Tirico summed it up well, saying, “It’s a big-time moment without the big-time feel.”

Once the gate opened, however, normalcy flooded back into the experience.

The setting ceased to matter, and we got the usual condensed thrill of a star 3-yearold testing himself over an unforgiving gauntlet. The sport’s brevity has always been one of its greatest strengths. The tension is so great for those 2 minutes (or 1 minute, 46.53 seconds in Tiz the Law’s case) that little else matters.

Nothing about the 2020 Triple Crown series will be normal. Events that usually take over Louisville, Kentucky, and Baltimore will not carry their customary grandeur. But as we look ahead to September and October, the races are still worthy of our anticipation.

3. Tiz the Law has to be taken seriously as a Triple Crown contender.

At the very least, we did not see the horse that can beat him in Saturday’s Belmont field. Tiz the Law will likely face tougher competition in the Derby, with Santa Anita Derby champion Honor A.P. and Bob Baffert-trained Authentic lining up to challenge. Once we get to the Preakness, Charlatan, who would have rivaled Tiz the Law for favorite status at the Belmont, might rejoin the fray.

But Tiz the Law went into Saturday with the best resume in this 3-year-old class and came out with the best by a mile (or 1 miles as the case may be). If there’s a flaw to his game, we haven’t seen it. A cleanbreaking horse with plenty of speed and the maturity to hold it in reserve is pretty much the prototype for a Triple Crown candidate.

“I got the horse for the race,” Franco said when asked about his Derby chances.

Time appears to be Tiz the Law’s greatest enemy. In this most unusual of years, he will likely run in the Aug. 8 Travers Stakes before he heads to Churchill Downs. That will mean another chance to shine but also another chance to stumble into misfortune. As we’ve seen with the injuries to Nadal, Charlatan and Maxfield, two-and-a-half months is forever in the life of a champion thoroughbred.

Or an unforeseen challenger could emerge. It’s common enough for the best 3-year-old in a given year to burst forth in the summer, after the Triple Crown series.

So Tiz the Law’s dominance of the first six months guarantees nothing.

Tagg, who sees every angle after 50 years in the game, would be the first to tell you so. He has a terrific horse, though, one who could come to Baltimore with a chance to win the mutant Triple Crown on the first Saturday in October. Would the achievement carry an unofficial asterisk because of the scrambled, elongated schedule? Almost certainly.

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How Notre Dame’s Niele Ivey is using her new basketball platform: ‘I am the visual rep of what’s possible’ Shannon Ryan Chicago Tribune

Feeling the accumulated years of stress as a single mother with the frantic schedule of an assistant college basketball coach, Niele Ivey organized a meditation retreat to California five years ago for herself and some friends.

“It changed my life,” she said of the practice that has become routine for her. “I’m really big on self-care, especially with what’s going on.”

Ivey is navigating her role as the new Notre Dame women’s basketball coach during the coronavirus pandemic and while the nation is embroiled in daily protests against racial inequality after highly publicized killings of Black people.

The former Irish point guard and assistant coach has been intentional about confronting the context of current events as she delves into her new job.

Her video conference calls with players involve themes.

She introduced them to her meditation guide, Light Watkins, who talked to the players about the benefits of mindfulness. In another, she opened the floor for dialogue about racism.

Following the legacy of outspoken Notre Dame coach Muffet McGraw, who retired in April after 33 seasons, Ivey likewise believes her role extends beyond the court.

“Having dialogue is what I try to do,” Ivey said. “I let them know they have support and I’m here for them.

I have a unique perspective.

I was a student-athlete here at Notre Dame. The pressure of the high expectations you

have to carry on the court and in the classroom is a very high-stress environment. I lived that. I just try to be a resource for them and let them know there is support there: ‘I walked in your shoes.’ “ Ivey, 42, calls Notre Dame “my heart.”

As a senior she helped the Irish win their first national championship in 2001 and remains ranked in the program’s top five in assists and steals. After Ivey played for five years in the WNBA and was an administrative assistant at Xavier from 2005-07, McGraw hired her as an assistant in 2007 and promoted her to associated head coach in 2016.

McGraw was confident she was handing the torch to the right successor — someone who connects with players and possesses the coaching acumen to continue winning.

“She is so charismatic.

They flock to her, they look to her,” McGraw said in an interview with South Bend’s ABC-57 in late April. “She’s funny. She’s charming. And she can be honest and intense at the same time, so she’s able to flip that switch, which a lot of people can’t do.

“She’s always been giving me suggestions and telling me who to recruit. And pretty much whatever she said, I was like, ‘Yeah, that’s exactly what we’re going to do.’ “ Ivey has been part of both of Notre Dame’s titles, working as an assistant on staff in 2018, and seven Final Four appearances. She remained in South Bend, Indiana, until last season, when she worked as a Memphis Grizzlies’ assistant — only the ninth

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Niele Ivey (33) of Notre Dame swings the net after Notre Dame beat Purdue 68-66 to win the NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship Game on April 1, 2001 at the Savvis Center in St. Louis.

woman to coach in the NBA. Her hiring at Notre Dame is similarly groundbreaking.

Ivey is just the third African American coach at Notre Dame and the first African American female coach at the university. The school’s student body is less than 4% Black with a faculty that is only 6% Black.

“It has raised the awareness,” she said. “People are happy about it. It was a positive. I’m grateful for it. ... I did the work and have the

resume to earn this role. It also shed light on (the importance of) having diversity.

I’m super grateful for Notre Dame and the opportunity.

It might open up other doors on campus.”

College basketball’s doors throughout the country need to open to more diversity too.

Only 14% of Division I women’s basketball head coaches were Black women during the 2018-19 season, while Black players made up 41.9% of rosters, according

Sports will be different and so will the sports media Mark Bradley The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

ATLANTA — It’s a truism of sports journalism that readers don’t care what sportswriters endure to do what we do.

We get paid to go to games. As jobs go, there are worse. As Red Smith, patron saint of sportswriters, said of his chosen profession: “It beats lifting things.”

This job, like many jobs, has changed over the past three months. As you’ve doubtless noticed, there have been no games. Our access to sports people has largely come through a series of Zoomlike video conferences. We’re getting closer to the time where actual games might again be played. We’re not entirely sure how those will look — will there be fans in the stands? — but we’re pretty sure about this part: The parameters of usual sports journalism will be reset.

The MLS is about to stage a we’reback tournament at Disney World, suddenly the epicenter of sports. Were you inclined to cover that tournament as a reporter, here’s what you could do: Go to Disney and sit in the otherwiseempty stands, watch the game and then click on Zoom for postgame briefings.

There’ll be no press box. There’ll be no in-person access to any player or coach over the duration of the event. All you’d gain by being there is being able to say, “I was there.”

That might sound like a complaint.

It’s not. We’re in a pandemic. COVID-19 is transmitted almost exclusively via personal interaction. You can’t spread the virus via Zoom. The various leagues and teams must do everything in their power to protect the people who will play/coach these games. If that means slicing media exposure to the bone, so be it. (And at the rate college football players are testing positive, I’m not sure we older folks need to be around them, either.)

Until there’s a vaccine, the days of the open locker room are gone. MLB and

the NFL are expected to have open press boxes on game days, but capacity will be slashed, perhaps by more than a half.

MLB pregame and postgame interviews figure to be Zoomed. The NFL could bring coaches and a few players into a socially distance press-conference room, but there’ll be no one-on-ones.

The SEC and ACC have announced their respective football media days will be staged virtually — no fancy hotel, no coaches on a big stage, no exit interviews in the hallway. Colleges haven’t finalized plans for actual football games, but the pro examples will almost surely apply — fewer people in the press box, Zoom-only postgame opportunities.

(Also under discussion: Press-box food, yea or nay? I’d vote nay.)

Colleges are hoping to play football with fans in the stands. At issue is what percentage of stadium capacity, if any, will be allowed. Fifty percent? Thirty?

Would press-box capacity fall in line with stadium numbers? If only every fourth seat in Section 240 can be filled, would the same apply in the media pews?

In pre-virus days, TV and radio booths weren’t shining examples of social distancing. What happens now?

Will spotters/stats people be allowed?

Do the play-by-pay broadcaster and the analyst still sit/stand cheek-by-jowl? Do TV networks switch to the practice — long used in world soccer — of having the game “called” by people staring at a monitor in a studio a thousand miles away?

Back to us newspapers. What if our representatives can accomplish little more on-site than to watch a press conference on a laptop? Do beat writers still travel, which entails airfare, hotels, meals and Uber? Do columnists?

Here’s how much it cost to send this correspondent to New Orleans for the Falcons-Saints game last November — $764.84. That was for a Delta coach ticket, two nights in a Fairfield and three

meals, the most lucrative having been consumed at an IHOP on the Airline Highway.

Being just a blowhard columnist, I don’t get to make Atlanta Journal-Constitution monetary decisions above the level of how much to tip at IHOP. I can, however, relay this: At least one pro league is operating on the assumption that its press boxes won’t need to accommodate much in the way of visiting media. That league isn’t expecting beat writers to travel.

Indeed, the NBA anticipates that few writers will seek to cover its three months in Disney, the reason being that any such writer would need to become part of the league’s bubble. That would include staying at a Disney hotel, eating Disney food, being tested every few days and not leaving the bubble until October. (All of which would cost a fortune.)

Almost everything about the past three months has been new. Same here.

We’ve had to ask: What do we put in the sports section with no games to cover? If all goes to plan, we’ll soon have games again, at least sort of. We already know, though, we won’t be covering them in the way we’ve grown accustomed.

We say again: This is not a gripe.

This is merely an acknowledgement of what’s apt to come. The days of sidling up to someone around the batting cage and saying, “Tell me what’s really going on,” will be put on hold. That’s the part of this business you don’t see in clips of postgame gaggles. It’s the part where a journalist who has cultivated a relationship with a subject gets told something that would never be uttered in anything but a one-on-one setting. The good part, in other words.

For a while, and maybe a long while, we won’t be sidling up to anything except a Zoom screen. I understand the reason for limiting access. I also understand how different it will make this job.

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to an annual report by The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport. Regardless of race, 62.3% of Division I women’s basketball head coaches were female.

Nearly 60% of head coaches and more than 50% of assistants for all Division I women’s sports are men.

McGraw made headlines in 2018 by saying she was committed to maintaining an all-female staff. Ivey had male assistants on her list of candidates but said the three who best fit what she wanted in an assistant happened to be female, two of whom are Black women.

“For our women at Notre Dame to see four strong females and also to see three strong Black females, that’s incredible,” Ivey said. “We have half a team that’s Black.

I think it’s powerful. There is value in seeing us in these leadership roles. I am the visual rep of what’s possible.

Maybe it will allow anyone, our women, young girls in society, to see that it’s possible.”

Her key with players, she said, is honesty.

Ivey exemplified that with an emotional, passionate social media post after the killing of George Floyd, a Black man, by a white police officer in Minneapolis.

“Stop killing innocent, unarmed black people,” the last part of her May 31 Twitter post read. “Stop judging people based on the color of their skin and treating them less than human. We need change and change can only happen if we continue to voice these atrocities, demand justice, call in, petition, and use our power to vote.

“We need to change the laws and unite together to stand up for what’s right. I am not okay and you shouldn’t be either.”

She said it was her first opportunity to use her platform.

“I wanted to share to the world what I felt,” she said. “I know I’m the head coach of Notre Dame. I know I live this reality going on in the world.

I’m an African American woman and I have a young Black man I’m raising. I’ve had to have those conversations. He’s such a young, gentle, kind man, and so was George Floyd. I wanted to stand up for what I felt as right to say.”

As a young girl in St. Louis, she said she worried about her four brothers. Now as a mother to Jaden, who will be a freshman basketball player at Purdue this year, she worries about him too.

Sharing publicly was cathartic for her.

“I was torn up emotionally,” she said. “I was processing it. I couldn’t sleep. I was staying up till 4 a.m. and really upset. I just wrote it down.

It was a release for me.”

Ivey’s days are busy plotting how to rebuild after Notre Dame’s 13-18 season, snapping the Irish’s streak of NCAA Tournament appearances at 24 and coming on the heels of the 2018 national title and a runner-up finish last year. She’s mindful of keeping her team connected before heading back to campus.

“The sky is the limit,” she said. “I’m hoping that my passion and the energy I bring rubs off on the girls. I’m really excited for our future.”

Calls for racial equality dominate ESPYS Field Level Media

Though COVID-19 has forced much of sports into a hiatus over the last few months, ESPN on Sunday night held its annual ESPY Awards show.

And with racial injustice and protests calling for change dominating the national landscape, the show devoted much of its time to stories and issues beyond the sports world.

With the show entirely remote because of COVID-19, the show’s cohosts, Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson, three-time WNBA champion Sue Bird and soccer star Megan Rapinoe, opened the two-hour program wearing “Black Lives Matter” shirts and calling on athletes to use their platforms to help push for change in a fiveminute video.

Beginning with a montage showing pioneering black athletes including Jackie Robinson, Muhammad Ali, Bill Russell and Serena Williams, Wilson asked, “But what if we didn’t know their names?

What if they were never part of the conversation?”

Wilson then said, “And there’s also this conversation: ‘I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe,’” referencing the last words spoken

by George Floyd, whose May 25 death after a white police officer kneeled on his neck for nearly nine minutes sparked global protests.

Sports teams and athletes throughout the world have spoken out publicly against racism in the

month since, with several teams taking part in protests.

In the video, Wilson, Bird and Rapinoe called on all people to work toward social equality, referencing several other black people killed in altercations with police or where race was believed to play a part in their deaths. The video also spoke to former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who made global headline when he kneeled during the national anthem in 2016 as a protest against police brutality.

“I used to shy away from moments like this because it’s convenient to be quiet.

To be safe and polite. Colin Kaepernick never shied away,” Rapinoe said. “He knew that discomfort was essential to liberation and that fighting the oppression against black people is bigger than sports.”

In the show’s open, the trio called for a sustained effort to promote social equality and end systemic racism that goes beyond social media posts.

“And not just for a few days or a few IG posts, this is our moment to prove that we know a better world is one where black lives are valued,” said Bird.

Wilson encouraged all peers, personal and professional, to use their own voice to help create change.

“To my white teammates and friends, we need you to lead too,” Wilson said. “Don’t just listen, help.”

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Seeing son’s killer go free opens old wounds Dear Abby, My son was murdered four years ago by a supposed friend. Despite a 10-year sentence, the murderer was released from prison this month.

The perpetrator and my son had some mutual friends.

DEAR ABBY When I go onto the convicted manslaughterer’s Facebook page, he has many people congratulating and welcoming him home.

The murderer has not once apologized or shown remorse. He was on home incarceration for six months before he was sentenced for manslaughter, and during that time, he impregnated his girlfriend instead of thinking about the devastation he’s caused my family. My son will NEVER have a family.

Instead of announcing to his Facebook friends and family that he’s on his way home and that he is home, I feel he should keep his mouth shut and live a quiet life. I cannot believe that murderers and rapists receive respect and congratulations once they reenter society. Do people not recognize the devastation that has been caused to surviving family members of the victim? Or do they no longer care until something like this affects them and their families?

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JEANNE PHILLIPS

Please accept my sympathy for the tragic loss of your son. Nothing can take away the pain of losing a child, let alone at the hand of another person. The family and friends of the person who killed your son appear to have lost sight of the reason for his incarceration. But viewed from another perspective, they are happy to have their loved one back with them, which is why they are posting welcome messages.

A resource that might help you is the

Family Circus

National Organization of Parents of Murdered Children Inc. You can find it by going to pomc. com. I hope you will give it a try. My heart goes out to you.

Dear Abby, Sometimes the simplest situations make me wonder the most. Recently we needed to use the local ATM. When we drove by, we could see it was being filled by an armored truck. My husband said I should get in line. I looked around and saw other people waiting in their cars, so I thought I would do the same. My husband repeated that I should get out and get in line.

Faced with the choice of standing in line or being nagged by my husband, I chose the former and was the first person to form a line.

After 20 minutes standing there and reading the news on my phone, the ATM guards seemed to be finished. That’s when a woman approached me and said she had been waiting longer than me, albeit in her car, and I would have to go to the end of the line. I ignored her.

Soon, a guard motioned to me that the ATM was available. As I was making my withdrawal, I could hear the woman say to the others now lined up behind her that I had jumped the line and she called me an expletive, which two others in line repeated. Was I wrong to have stood my ground, or should I have moved to the back?

Waiting In Texas If you were the first person to stand at the ATM while others chose to wait in the comfort of their vehicles, you owed no one an apology.

The person who was out of line (literally) was the woman who called you an expletive, and you were right to ignore her.

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Blondie

It’s time for a specialist to take a closer look at high WBC count In 2017, my white blood cell count was 8.9 and my lymphocytes were 3.2. My recent blood tests showed a second increase in both numbers, with the WBC 10.2 and lymphocytes 4.8. My doctor said he has many patients who are 70 and older with increased levels and that we will flag it for a follow TO YOUR up next year. I am worried GOOD HEALTH about this and wonder how normal it is. What else could be done to locate the source of infection/inflammation, and is there anything I can do to improve my situation?

I am healthy, active and not overweight.

Please help me sleep at night!

DR. KEITH ROACH

The lymphocytes are one of the two major types of white blood cells. The other is granulocytes. A normal level is around 2,000. Over 4,000, where you are now, is in the abnormal range, and I would not wait another year before doing an evaluation, although it is possible there will be no identifiable cause.

Infection and inflammation are indeed causes of high lymphocyte counts; however, as your levels have been steadily increasing over three years, I think an unsuspected infection is unlikely. You haven’t mentioned

any medications you take, but there are several that can cause this reaction. Seizure medicines and antibiotics are among the more common. There also are a variety of blood disorders, some benign, that can cause an elevation in the lymphocyte counts.

It’s time to see a hematologist to begin an evaluation.

The first step is to (literally) look at the lymphocytes in the blood. An experienced hematologist or hematopathologist can often narrow down the causes with a look at the blood smear. Further testing, including flow cytometry and bone marrow biopsy, may be done depending on the initial findings.

Lymphocyte counts of 5,000 or higher are suggestive of chronic lymphocytic leukemia, which sounds very scary. But, cases of CLL caught early and without symptoms are observed rather than treated. Some people with CLL live decades before having any symptoms from the disease. Others require treatment in order to slow progression.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — Something mysterious presents itself to you today, and you’ll have a decision to make before you are able to ensure your continued safety.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — You have no use for rumors and hearsay today. You must deal in what you can prove — and if you don’t, you’ll get tangled in someone’s web.

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Readers may email questions to ToYourGoodHealth@med.cornell.edu.

Horoscope

By Stella Wilder Born today, you are the kind of person to want to know exactly what is going on around you at all times, and you’re not able to see others having fun without wanting to join in yourself. You work hard and play hard, and you study hard to learn the things you need to know in order to get by — and those may be quite unusual indeed, for you are drawn to all manner of strange subjects and have a great many interests that are all but unique to you.

It takes little to bring your passions to the surface, and though you try not to wear your heart on your sleeve, the fact is that you are far easier to read than you think — and many may have you figured out after only one or two brief encounters.

Also born on this date are: Randy Jackson, producer and TV host; Jason Mraz, singer; Selma Blair, actress; June Carter Cash, singer; Wilma Rudolph, Olympian; Frances McDormand, actress; Bob Fosse, director and choreographer; Clarence Thomas, U.S. Supreme Court Justice; Bryan Brown, 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.

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Baby Blues VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You’ll want to explore all the dark and hidden places you’ve avoided in the past — and you won’t have to travel far to satisfy this desire.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You may have trouble deciding what is the truth and what is a lie — especially when a certain someone begins telling you stories today.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — You’ll learn from someone who does things very differently. You don’t have to adopt any new methods, but keep an open mind.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — You receive a request that may imply more than the mere words convey. Do your research, and avoid getting into any serious trouble.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — It’s a good time to do the math and figure just what you owe — and to whom. You’ve waited long enough to pay outstanding debts.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — You may have to spend some time in a place that brings some of your hidden fears to the surface. Remember, there’s safety in numbers.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — Consider what you are doing and why. You may have to answer more than the usual questions today, but the right info is at your fingertips.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Someone you meet today is likely to make a big difference in the way you approach your work — at least for a while.

A decision has to be made.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — Your view of things will be skewed in a significant way today when a chance encounter alters your trajectory.

Assume nothing; check your facts.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You can avoid interruptions today once you deal with an issue that simply refuses to go away. This shouldn’t take longer than a few minutes.

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SUPER QUIZ

THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME

By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek

Score 1 point for each correct answer on the Freshman Level, 2 points on the Graduate Level and 3 points on the Ph.D. Level.

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

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Each answer is a nine-letter word that ends with “ment.” (e.g., A summary of activity in a financial account. Answer: Statement.)

Freshman level 1. One of the changes made to the U.S. Constitution.

2. A decision about what to do, made by two or more people.

3. The tools or other things that you need for a particular job.

Graduate level 4. A particular method or type of medical care.

5. Put a decision, plan or agreement into effect.

6. Either of the two main parts of the Christian Bible.

PH.D. level 7. An important Christian ceremony such as marriage or baptism.

8. Something that causes laughter or provides entertainment.

9. A tender, romantic or nostalgic feeling or emotion.

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

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SUPER QUIZ ANSWERS 1. Amendment. 2. Agreement. 3. Equipment. 4. Treatment. 5. Implement.

6. Testament. 7. Sacrament. 8. Amusement. 9. Sentiment.

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