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Officials spar over Catskill mural

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CATSKILL — The Hudson/ Catskill Housing Coalition’s quest for a Black Lives Matter mural on Main Street will continue after a village board meeting Wednesday.

The Coalition first requested the mural on June 14. Additionally, the group has requested a mural on Second Street in Hudson. Hudson Mayor Kamal Johnson has committed to the mural, he said Wednesday.

The Catskill village board has proposed two compromises: Paint a mural on Water Street or have banners above Main

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It could actually bring customers and tourists to your city because it would show the diversity, love and actual concern that the village of Catskill has for black lives and acknowledging what has been going on with black lives for generations — that we matter now and we’re going to do something about it.

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— Tiffany Garriga Second Ward Alderwoman of Hudson

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“What does it say about our community values to push a statement for black lives to the side?,” Coalition Coordinator Molly Stinchfield said. “If we are only willing to say black

lives matter on a low-traffic side street used primarily as a cut through to Hop-O-Nose or a temporary banner that can be destroyed by the wind or torn down? The main concern [Village President] Vinny Seeley

mentioned was not wanting to disrupt Main Street businesses after COVID. The village board’s 10-plus day deliberation sends the message that they value the economy and tourism before black lives.”

Second Ward Alderwoman Tiffany Garriga of Hudson said the mural would be a positive thing for the community.

“It could actually bring customers and tourists to your city because it would show the diversity, love and actual concern that the village of Catskill has for black lives and acknowledging what has been going on with black lives for generations — that we matter now and we’re going to do something about it.

By having this mural, not only does it uplift people of color in your village, but it shows other people of other races the respect See MURAL A2

Sanctuary movement rallies for Alima

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HUDSON — Nearly 100 people turned out at the park in front of the Columbia County Courthouse on Thursday to show their support for Alima Bonsa, the West African woman who alleges she suffered decades of abuse at the hands of a kidnapper.

Bonsa was at the courthouse in preparation for an appearance in family court that was scheduled for Thursday afternoon.

Bonsa is seeking custody of the three children she shares with her ex-husband Allen Stack, the man who she accuses of taking her from her home

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Alima Bonsa and Bryan MacCormick from the Columbia County Sanctuary Movement address the crowd at a rally in support of Bonsa outside the Columbia County Courthouse.

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Peckham Industries Environmental Compliance Manager Jason Kappel presents Peckham’s proposal to import construction and demolition materials to construct berms at Peckham’s Catskill site.

CATSKILL — Three months after a construction and demolition debris project was pulled off the table in Athens, a proposal to use C&D debris to construct a berm in Catskill has been withdrawn.

The project, proposed by Peckham Industries in October, called for 600,000 tons of C&D materials to be imported over the life of the project, which was estimated to be three to six years. The materials were to be shipped by barge up the Hudson River from Allocco Recycling in Brooklyn and Inwood Marine Terminal in Inwood and used to construct 40-foothigh berms. The berms would serve as “visual, noise and dust barriers to screen the industrial

recycled asphalt pavement handling and processing operations,” according to the state Department of Environmental Conservation.

The DEC on Wednesday notified interested parties that Peckham had withdrawn its application, saying the economic climate was no longer right for the project.

“This is fantastic news for the people of the Hudson Valley and the River,” former EPA Regional Administrator Judith Enck said.

“Now it is time to attract businesses that are committed to environmental sustainability. Placing massive amounts of construction and demolition debris waste on the Hudson River shoreline is not the kind See C&D A2

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that we have for one another.

And wouldn’t you want to be proud to live in a place that acknowledges people and not just funeral services?”

In terms of the loss of traffic flow for two days, Garriga encouraged the trustees to think of it as putting in a crosswalk.

“Think of it in the same way as if you closed off the street for the painting of a crosswalk for the safety of pedestrians,” she said.

“This mural shows the dedication of safety for black lives matter in the village of Catskill.”

Stinchfield addressed the board about its priorities.

“We’re all wondering what is the value of black lives to the village board?” she said. “Is the value for businesses and the economy or are we willing to put ourselves on the line for black lives and for change?”

Black residents are also contributors to the local economy, Garriga added.

“Understand without black lives there wouldn’t be a thriving business and economy,” she said. “Black people, black lives, we spend our money, our taxes just as well as anyone else in the village of Catskill.”

Trustee Peter Grasse Jr. said he felt a compromise needed to be reached.

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in the West African nation of Burkina Faso and bringing her to America against her will.

Bonsa alleges Stack paid to marry her when she was 18 years old, then subjected her to years of rape and other abuses.

She alleges Stack moved her family to Faso Farm in Old Chatham in 2014 and forced her and her relatives to labor on the farm with no compensation. Bonsa called it a “plantation” at a press conference June 18.

Attempts to contact Stack were unsuccessful.

Bonsa, who still lives at the farm, said she fears for her safety.

“I have to stand strong for my children, even though I am scared,” she said Thursday at the rally. Bonsa’s children are 7, 10 and 12.

Community members, many carrying signs calling for justice, descended on the courthouse lawn to show support for Bonsa after receiving word of the rally on social media from the Columbia County Sanctuary Movement.

“For 20 years I have been trying to fight on my own. Now I

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of business development that is needed. Combined with the rejection of the Wheelabrator incinerator ash proposal last year, the people of the Hudson Valley have scored another important environmental victory. Sometimes, people power works.”

Wheelabrator Technologies proposed construction of an ash landfill, trucking in 445,000 tons of waste per year from its incinerators. The project was withdrawn last June after public outrage over the plan.

A local activist group named Keep it Greene was formed in response to the Wheelabrator project.

“The Peckham berm project was in fact an unlined landfill for construction and demolition waste,” local geologist and Keep it Greene member Dave Walker said. “It was supposedly justified in their proposal as a screening device to protect potential viewers from having to see the asphalt plant planned for the old Holcim cement kiln site. It was unclear how a mammoth berm would be a scenic improvement. Peckham has not deemed it necessary to hide their two asphalt plants in Athens. The DEC also found the proposal doubtful. So we

“Regardless of race, gender, party, as a board member it’s my job to represent the community as a whole,” he said. “I feel if there is overwhelming support for any cause, you have my vote.

You have 900 signatures, we have how many residents?”

Seeley replied the village had 4,500 residents.

“Get some real support and let’s get a compromise,” Grasse said. “We talk about race and people of color. My son smoked me last weekend. He’s 11 years old. He asked me why are we talking about black people? He was raised not to notice color.

But now he is aware of what is going on and it kind of bothered me. I don’t feel the village of Catskill has a major problem. I know we have nationwide problems. We all see that.”

Garriga interjected.

“I don’t want to interfere with how you raise your child but I am a person of color and I do see color because that is what drives this country,” she said. “Colors of all races. That is what builds the culture of this country. You can tell a million stories about how we don’t want to raise our children and shelter them from racism but we cannot because all lives do not matter unless black lives matter. We cannot simply understand people of color because we had a [black] friend, a customer, a neighbor.

You have to really understand them on the front lines.”

Claire Cousin, a Coalition member and chairwoman of the Staley B. Keith Social Justice Center in Hudson, agreed.

“A lot of young people are organizing right now, which means they’re paying attention to what value you’re putting on their lives,” Cousin said. “The Lumberyard isn’t getting very much business right now. I don’t think [Water Street] is an ideal place. I don’t think that it’s strategic for the village to put it there and I think that it says something completely different than what the meaning of black lives matter is, which is why they asked for it to be on Main Street.”

Trustees had previously discussed closing Main Street to help support local businesses as the economy began to reopen but were met with resistance, Trustee Natasha Law said. “We had conversations discussing shutting down Main Street a few weeks back thinking it would help businesses flourish and all but four [businesses] wanted absolutely nothing to do with it. One business even went as far as stating he would close his doors permanently if we shut the street down at all after not being allowed to be open for three months due to COVID. Residents didn’t want the inconvenience, either.”

Due to resistance to previous attempts to close Main Street, the board asked the Housing Coalition to select a different

location for the mural, Law said.

“It’s difficult in the village because many high-traffic roads are state-owned such as Spring and West Bridge Street,” she said. “The road leading to Lumberyard was one of the areas the village offered. The Lumberyard was 100% for it and anyone driving on West Bridge Street would see it. I actually think the mural would bring people to the village.”

Of nearly 1,000 signatures on the Housing Coalition’s online petition, there are several Main Street businesses, Cousin said.

Julie Chase, owner of Open Studio, supports the mural.

“I am 100% for the mural being done on Main Street,” she said. “I think it’s important symbolically. If it ends up being put on a side street it doesn’t have the symbolic importance that it would have if it were on Main Street.”

Seeley said the board would review the petition and see what businesses have signed. He also asked Stinchfield for a sketch and dimensions of the mural, as well as the precise location so the board could contact business owners in that section of Main Street.

Stinchfield estimated the street would need to be closed for two days to allow for the mural to dry.

“We can pre-measure before closing the street to cut down on the street closure time,” she said.

know I am not alone,” Bonsa said while addressing the crowd with a megaphone.

Bonsa expressed confidence that she would receive custody of her children. Some members of the crowd said they attended because of their own negative experiences with the county’s family court system.

Bonsa said she was moved to speak up and tell her story because “people need to know who [Stack] is.”

Stack’s 2016 doctoral dissertation sheds some light on his background. He graduated from Tulane University in 2000, where he minored in African studies and studied abroad in Ghana, according to the biography.

One year later, on Nov. 10, 2001, Bonsa alleges Stack forced her to marry him after removing her from her village with the permission of her uncle. She alleges that she was forcibly brought to the United States five months after the wedding.

Stack received a master’s degree in African politics and quantitative economics and theory in 2006 from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. He later attended Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore as a doctoral student

in political science from 201016, according to the dissertation.

Jill Rosen, senior media relations representative for Johns Hopkins University, confirmed Stack’s educational background.

Stack thanked Bonsa and her relative, Victor Bonsa, in the acknowledgements section of his dissertation.

“Most of all, thank you to my love Alimatou, my wife, as well as to her namesake. What an honor it is to call Victor Bonsa my brother and to call his whole family my family,” Stack wrote.

Siba N’Zatioula Grovogui, who served as Stack’s principal advisor during the completion of his Ph.D., said he had “close to no knowledge” of the relationship between Stack and Bonsa.

Grovogui, a professor at Cornell University, declined to comment further, but he said he had occasionally interacted with the family.

“As far as I know, Allen was legitimately married, had children with his wife, adopted some of her relatives and brought his mother-in-law to live with them, first, in D.C. and then in New York,” Grovogui said in a statement.

Fourth Ward Hudson Supervisor Linda Mussmann, who

addressed the crowd at the rally for Bonsa, said she had contacted Columbia County Sheriff David Bartlett about Bonsa’s case, but had not received a reply.

“The astounding silence is deafening,” Mussmann said.

Bartlett could not immediately be reached for comment.

Mussmann called for a thorough investigation of the allegations against Stack.

Columbia County Sanctuary Movement Executive Director Bryan MacCormack praised Bonsa for sharing her story.

“When our voices have been denied by law enforcement, by the courts, there is no other way,” McCormack said, addressing the crowd with a megaphone.

Ale Campos was moved to attend the rally after hearing Bonsa’s story.

“It felt like we have no excuse not to show up for something happening so close to home,” Campos said, adding that justice for Bonsa feels “tangible and possible.”

The Columbia County Sanctuary Movement was made aware of Bonsa’s case by the Worker Justice Center of New York and is working to support Bonsa and ensure that she has adequate legal assistance, MacCormack said.

welcome Peckham’s withdrawal of the proposal in response to the DEC finding that the application was incomplete.”

In December 2019 DEC wrote Peckham informing the company that their application was not complete.

“Upon review of the submitted application materials, staff have determined that this proposal is speculative in nature and the permit fails to demonstrate that 600,000 tons of fill material is necessary for the project site,” according to the correspondence.

The application did not meet the criteria for the permit Peckham was requesting and instead required authorization as a solid waste landfill, according to the letter. Parts of the project fell within a regulated adjacent area of a state Freshwater Wetland, which made the project incompatible with the standards for the permit Peckham was seeking.

Gallay also welcomed the news.

“Thanks to the vigilance of the local community, we learned about Wheelabrator’s toxic ash landfill proposal and the recent application for a C&D processing and transfer facility on the Hudson in the village of Athens,” Gallay said. “We supported the community’s hard work to stop these dangerous proposals, none of which would have advanced community or environmental objectives. We are thrilled by the news that the applicant withdrew its permit application.”

Despite concern from local activists, Peckham representatives assured residents that the contents of construction and demolition debris were not harmful at a public meeting in November.

“RU carbs are recognized uncontaminated concrete, asphalt, rock, brick and soil,” Peckham Industries Vice President Joe Wildermuth said. “The product we’re bringing in there, we want it to be clean.”

Greg Peckham of Peckham Industries said the company has been in business for more than 75 years.

“We care a lot about our impact on the community and the environment,” he said.

The two sources of the C&D materials are regularly subjected to state inspections, Peckham Director of Technical Services Jason

Kappel said.

Peckham’s site, if approved, would also be regularly inspected

by DEC, Kappel said at the November meeting.

These recycling facilities are responsible for sorting out contaminated materials before the C&D debris can be distributed.

Peckham was also requiring these two facilities to abide by sampling regulations the state will invoke in May 2021, Kappel said.

The C&D debris would be sampled by the two facilities before shipping to ensure it is not contaminated and would be sampled again upon arrival before Peckham accepts the materials, Kappel said.

Roe Jan Watershed Community was glad Peckham had decided to terminate the project, President Kaare Christian said.

“The Roe Jan Watershed Community is pleased to see the end of this project,” Christian said. “Like many other environmental groups in the valley, we’re working hard to make things better. Shipping C&D debris to Catskill, defacing and polluting a beautiful stretch of the Hudson, to a site easily visible from the mouth of the Roe Jan, was a terrible idea.”

Riverkeeper President Paul

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Thursday, July 2 n Ashland Planning Board 6 p.m.

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NY to ‘inspect’ quarantined travelers

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State officials will perform random checks on travelers who enter New York from states with high coronavirus transmission and positive testing rates to enforce Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s 14day self-quarantine mandate, he said Thursday.

As a COVID-19 surge sweeps through 27 states and Puerto Rico, Cuomo, DN.Y.; and Govs. Phil Murphy, D-N.J.; and Ned Lamont, D-Conn., imposed a tri-state order at midnight Thursday mandating a two-week self-quarantine for travelers who fly or arrive in New York, New Jersey or Connecticut from states with more than a 10% positive coronavirus test rate over a seven-day average.

“If you fly in to New York, we’ll have your name, we’ll know where you’re supposed to be staying... there will be random checks,” Cuomo said Thursday during an interview on CNN’s “New Day.” “We’ll have inspectors who are randomly looking at the names on the list and calling to follow up to make sure you’re quarantining. And if you’re not, you’re in violation of the law and you will have a mandatory quarantine, and you’ll be fined.”

People who violate the advisory will be subject to a judicial order and mandatory quarantine where a state official checks a residence or dwelling once per day to ensure a person has remained separated from the public.

The governor’s Press Office did not respond to multiple requests for comment Thursday about which state officials will be performing the inspections, how many inspectors will work in each region or county or the methods they will check a traveler in self-quarantining.

At the beginning of the pandemic in New York in March, the governor said state Health Department officials physically checked on people under mandatory quarantine at least once per day, but did not check on people asked to self-quarantine.

Violators may be fined $2,000 for the first offense, more repeat offenses and $10,000 if they caused harm by violating the quarantine.

“It’s like any other law,” Cuomo said.

“You can drink too much and get in a car and drive home, and if you don’t get caught, you’re fine.

“You get sick and you go to a hospital from out-of-state and you test positive and you’ve been within the 14 days, you violated the law and you are going to have a problem.”

The advisory went into effect at midnight Thursday, and applies to both out-of-state and in-state residents. As of Thursday, travelers from Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, the Carolinas, Washington, Utah and Texas are expected to self-quarantine when arriving in New York, New Jersey or Connecticut.

Florida Gov. Bob DeSantis quarantined New York travelers arriving in the Sunshine State in March when New York City and downstate counties were the nation’s epicenter of the disease.

Last month, the Florida governor said it was the right decision and that the mandated quarantine saved lives.

Assembly Minority Leader Will Barclay, R-120, said the mandated selfquarantine goes against the governor’s love of the unifying Latin phrase “e pluribus unum,” — translating to “of many one” — which he had added to the state seal in April.

“We remember back to when he said he wouldn’t block infected New York City residents headed upstate during the shutdown,” Barclay said Thursday. “We should all be doing our part to minimize the spread of the virus, regardless if you’re from New York or not, but sending ‘inspectors’ to knock down someone’s door and to see how long they’ve been here and if they’re quarantining is not the best use of taxpayer dollars and the state’s time.

“Plus, it’s creepy.”

Newly elected Senate Minority Leader Rob Ortt, R-62, criticized the governor for hypocrisy in a statement Wednesday, calling the travel advisory executive order “a draconian policy.”

“Just two months ago, Gov. Cuomo, in his constant quest for headlines, proclaimed that any restrictions on travel for New Yorkers would be an ‘act of civil war,’ and he even threatened Rhode Island with a lawsuit for asking New Yorkers to quarantine during the height of the coronavirus outbreak in this state,” Ortt said. “This list is subject to change daily, adding to the travel nightmare.”

Earlier this month, Democrats rejected Republican senators and assemblymembers proposed amendment to end Cuomo’s expanded emergency

powers, which continue through Sept.

7, or Labor Day. The governor first declared a state of emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic March 7 and has issued more than 40 executive orders since, including mandating the closure of schools and nonessential businesses to the latest travel advisory.

“New Yorkers and businesses have suffered enough, and the governor’s vindictive, hypocritical move against other states and on New Yorkers’ liberties does not help us move forward,” Ortt said. “It is time to stop [Cuomo’s] unbridled and unchecked powers and restore the decision making process to the Legislature before more damage is done to our citizens, businesses and overall economy.”

Assemblymember Didi Barrett, D-106, did not return a request for comment on the mandated traveler quarantine Thursday.

Area Republican lawmakers agreed Thursday that Cuomo’s executive order is a breach of power.

Assemblyman Chris Tague, R-102, criticized the self-quarantine mandate a because it does not include exceptions for returning military personnel or health care workers serving the public in states with high COVID-19 infection rates.

“The governor’s executive order is a disgusting overreach and rushed in a way that could have real consequences for New York families,” Tague said.

“Those who make sacrifices to protect their countrymen should not be tracked by a secret force of ‘inspectors’ and forced to isolate themselves from their families, and I demand that the governor immediately assure families that trips home won’t be jeopardized. The thought of a secret inspector coming to your home to look for people is dystopian to say the least, and concerning given Cuomo’s hunger for power during this pandemic.”

Sen. Daphne Jordan, R-43, delivered state-produced NY Clean hand sanitizer across Columbia County on Thursday, including to the Fireman’s Association of the State of New York’s Fireman’s Firefighting Museum and Columbia County Pathways to Recovery in Hudson and Hillsdale’s Roe Jan Library.

The senator railed against Cuomo on Wednesday and Thursday about the travel advisory and state delays in

reopening gyms, malls and movie theaters under phase IV. Cuomo failed to act at the beginning of the pandemic, Jordan said, when upstate officials and lawmakers begged the governor to impose a quarantine on traveling New York City residents to curb the virus spread upstate.

“Now, in his latest reversal, the governor says he realizes the necessity of quarantining people from COVID hotspots,” Jordan said Thursday. “For someone who was just recently hailing the radical far-left’s efforts to curtail the police, Gov. Cuomo certainly appears to embrace a police state, as evidenced by his latest, ludicrous comments about government ‘inspectors’ performing ‘random checks‘ on citizens.

“Is this New York State, or something out of George Orwell’s ‘1984’?”

COVID-19 hospitalizations statewide dropped below 1,000 New Yorkers on Thursday for the first time since March 18 to 996 patients, according to the governor’s office. The state had a peak of 18,825 virus hospitalizations April 12.

The state had 749 new positive virus cases Wednesday, or about 1.1% of the 67,642 conducted tests, bringing the statewide total to 390,415 cases. The state’s 10 regions reported 2.2% new cases and lower, Wednesday, the governor said, adding it took New Yorkers three months of hard work and “doing the right thing” to get and keep coronavirus numbers low.

“Look at the numbers — you played politics with this virus and you lost,” Cuomo said to states that reopened without restrictions. “Now you see 27 states with the numbers... death projections going up... It’s a real American tragedy we’re living through.”

The state saw 17 virus-related fatalities Tuesday and Wednesday, bringing New York’s COVID-19 death toll to 31,257, according to John Hopkins University’s online COVID-19 tracker.

Half the state — the North Country, Central New York, the Finger Lakes, Mohawk Valley and Southern Tier regions — are cleared to enter phase IV of reopening nonessential businesses Friday.

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LATHAM — A Warren Street Academy teacher was arrested Thursday and charged with multiple felonies involving child pornography, according to police.

Sean M. Miller, 26, of Latham, was arrested and charged with promoting a sexual performance by a child, a class D felony; possessing a sexual performance by a child, a class E felony; and third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, a class D felony, Colonie police said in a written statement.

Miller’s Thursday arrest came after Colonie police and members of the New York State Police Computer Crimes Unit executed a search warrant at a Coventry Court residence in Latham,

where Miller was found, following a police investigation into the possession and promotion of child por- Sean M. Miller nography, police said.

The New York State Police Computer Crime Unit received a cybertip from the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force alleging someone at the Coventry Court residence possessed and transmitted on the internet images containing child pornography. The images involved prepubescent females and are not believed to depict local victims, according to police.

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and execution of the search warrant police determined Miller possessed and transmitted the child pornography and he also was in possession of an illegal assault rifle, police added.

Miller’s computer devices were seized by police and will be forensically examined for additional illegal images and videos, according to police.

Miller told police he was a teacher at the Warren Street Academy in Hudson, which is in the process of closing by the end of this month. Police could not reach anyone at the school but they did notifiy the Hudson Police Department of

Miller’s arrest.

“While the investigation has not revealed any known victims in this area, the nature of this offense and his access to children lead us to ask that anyone that has information or may have been victimized by this defendant to contact their local police department,” Colonie police said.

Miller was arraigned Thursday morning by Town of Colonie Justice Norman Massry and released under supervision of probation.

No future court date has been scheduled.

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Isolating travelers is flawed but right Wednesday’s decision by state health officials and Gov. Andrew Cuomo to have travelers self-quarantine for 14 days when they arrive in New York from zones with high coronavirus transmission and positive testing rates is a win for the Empire State.

The decision is certainly sensible, considering New York went from having the highest COVID-19 rate in the nation to the lowest in less than a month. As a COVID-19 surge sweeps through 27 states and Puerto Rico, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, D-N.Y.; Gov. Phil Murphy, D-N.J.; and Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Conn., imposed a tri-state order mandating a two-week self-quarantine for travelers who fly or arrive in New York, New Jersey or Connecticut from states with more than a 10% positive coronavirus test rate over a seven-day average.

“If you’re in a place that has a high infection rate, we

don’t want to see the infection rate increase here,” Cuomo said Wednesday at press conference in New York City. “We worked very hard to get the virus transmission rate down. We now have to make sure the rate continues to drop.”

But we have to acknowledge that while this might be a win, it is not a slam dunk.

The decision raised another question about the complexities of enforcement.

Cuomo suggested an example where a New York police officer stops a Florida vehicle and inquires about the passengers’ required quarantine. People who violate the advisory will be subject to a judicial order and mandatory quarantine, where a state Health Department official checks a residence or dwelling once per day to ensure a person has remained separated from the public.

All this really offers is a traffic stop and a vague ethical use of the honor system. There is

no way to police this.

Then there’s Cuomo’s curious definition of “quarantine” and the use of the word “blockade.”

“Quarantine doesn’t stop people,” Cuomo said.

“It’s not that you have ever prohibited someone from entering the state. That is a blockade. That is what the federal government threatened to do to us at one point [at the pandemic’s start in March]. That would start a civil war.”

Civil war? Metaphorically and literally, we don’t need that here. Since March, this state has been to hell and back. The last thing the state needs to do is subject its citizens to another round of lockdown and closed businesses. There are weaknesses in the decision, to be sure, but after what all New Yorkers have been through, it’s the right, responsible thing to do.

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The decision of a threejudge U.S. Court of Appeals panel to throw out the Michael Flynn case is a serious setback to those who hoped for some accountability for Flynn’s admitted lies to the FBI and the suspicious decision by Attorney General William Barr to walk away from prosecuting them. The appeals court decision interrupts an important process that ought to be allowed to finish.

Flynn agreed in 2017 to plead guilty to making false statements to the FBI when he said he did not remember his discussions with Russia’s then-Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in 2016 concerning U.S. sanctions against Russia. The FBI interview with him was part of the investigation into Russia’s interference in the U.S. election. As part of the plea deal, Flynn agreed to cooperate with the investigation. On Dec. 1, 2017, Flynn entered a guilty plea. Asked by the judge, “Did you, in fact, do what the government has stated it can prove at trial?”

Flynn replied under oath, “Yes.” Flynn later changed

lawyers, stopped cooperating with the investigation and moved to withdraw his guilty plea, contradicting his own sworn prior admissions of guilt. This was followed by Barr’s stunning turnabout, abandoning the prosecution before Flynn could be sentenced.

Under all but extreme circumstances, it is up to prosecutors to decide what to prosecute - an essential executive branch function.

But in this case, there is substantial reason to question the government’s conduct, dropping a case in which a politically favored defendant had pled guilty. Flynn’s subsequent attempt to muddy the waters, and claim that his original statement to the FBI wasn’t material to the investigation, has been rejected by the court.

U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan, presiding over the case, set up a mechanism to examine the prosecution’s withdrawal, including a request for a critique of the government’s motion

by John Gleeson, a former federal judge, and a hearing set for July 16. Gleeson found”clear evidence of a

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gross abuse of prosecutorial power” and concluded that “the government has engaged in highly irregular conduct to benefit apolitcal ally of the president.”

Now, the three-judge appeals court panel has knocked the legs out from Sullivan’s process. The panel argues that the judge has gone too far, that the choice of whether to prosecute is solely up to prosecutors except in extraordinary circumstances, such as malfeasance, like bribery. This is clearly not that. However, the decision to drop the Flynn case is not simply business as usual. The full appeals court should overrule the three-judge panel and allow Sullivan to proceed with the hearing, rule on the prosecution’s request, and go ahead with sentencing if he thinks it warranted.

There would be ample opportunity then for full judicial review of Sullivan’s course of action. But it is a mistake to short-circuit the proceedings now. The only proper end to this case is to hear it to the end.

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Words matter. Reporting matters. But sometimes, it’s a video that matters most.

When a Minneapolis police officer knelt on George Floyd’s neck for more than eight minutes while he died, gasping for breath, a cellphone video shot by a teenage girl on her way to get a snack made the horror undeniable.

“The world needed to see what I was seeing,” Darnella Frazier told the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

Days later, when Buffalo police knocked down 75-year-old protester Martin Gugino and a pool of blood spread under on the sidewalk under his head, a cellphone video enraged people all over the world.

“It just so happens I was in the right place at the right time with exactly the right angle,” Mike Desmond of the local public radio station WBFO explained to the Buffalo News.

Video can change the world - or at least a few million opinions. But what about the potentially explosive video that can’t be shot - or never gets seen because law enforcement has confiscated cameras or arrested the people using them?

This week, New York University’s First Amendment Watch released “A Citizen’s Guide to Recording the Police” a primer for amateur videographers on the rights they are entitled to in these encounters. The guide explains why, under most circumstances, the police can neither seize nor demand to view such recordings though some may try - and it provides case-law examples to back up its assertions.

It comes along at a crucial time.

“In this new era, we have armies of citizens out on the streets capable of producing evidence that checks the

conduct of public officials,” said Stephen Solomon, the organization’s founding editor. The First Amendment right to record public officials, such as the police performing their official duties in public, is central to our democracy, he said.

Who can forget the bizarre and disturbing arrest of Omar Jimenez and a CNN crew while on live television in Minneapolis on May 29?

That incident was roundly denounced by press freedom groups and resulted in an apology from Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz: “There is absolutely no reason something like this should have happened.”

But less heralded and far less visible offenses have happened throughout the United States, as the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker makes clear.

Sue Brisk, a freelance photographer, told the Tracker that she was photographing demonstrations at 42nd Street in Times Square that same day with her NYPDissued press pass clearly displayed. “I watched the police beat people with billy clubs and then they threw a woman up against a pole right in front of me,” Brisk said. “After that it’s a blur.”

Brisk said that, before she knew what was happening, her head was slammed to the ground and she found herself pinned under at least three New York City police officers. Weeks later, she was still trying to retrieve her camera.

By the Tracker’s count, well over 400 “aggressions against the press” - including dozens of examples of equipment being damaged - have marred recent Black Lives Matter protests.

The NYU guide cites a 2012 U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit decision that drew a direct connection between the creation of a recording and something that’s better understood to

be constitutionally protected: the publication or dissemination of a recording.

“The right to publish or broadcast an audio or audiovisual recording would be insecure, or largely ineffective,” the decision in ACLU v. Alvarez stated, if making the recording were unprotected. “Restricting the use of [a recording] device suppresses speech just as effectively as restricting the dissemination of the resulting recording.”

However, the right to record police isn’t, well, bulletproof, at this moment.

About three-fifths of the U.S. population lives in states where federal appeals courts have recognized a First Amendment right to record the police in public, the guide says. The U.S. Supreme Court hasn’t ruled directly on the issue.

That means legal protections aren’t nailed down everywhere. Yet the outlook is good: “Given the resounding support so far for this First Amendment protection, it seems highly likely that the remaining federal appeals courts would reach the same conclusion if the issue appears on their docket.”

Of course, the legal right to record is no guarantee of respectful treatment when events are unfolding. And they are small comfort to journalists or members of the public who have been injured or had their equipment seized as they tried to document protests.

Still, Solomon told me, it’s helpful to know your rights to confidently assert them when it matters most.

After all - like 17-year-old Darnella Frazier who started a movement by pointing her cellphone - almost anyone can capture evidence of what “the world needed to see.”

Should that happen, it’s good to know the First Amendment has your back.

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Pelosi resists calls for Barr’s impeachment John Wagner and Robert Costa The Washington Post

WASHINGTON - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, DCalif., on Thursday called Attorney General William Barr “contemptible” and “a mess” but stopped short of backing calls from some Democrats for his impeachment, suggesting the best way to remove him is to elect Joe Biden president.

“One hundred and thirty one days from now, we will have the solution to many problems, one of them being Barr,” Pelosi said during a Washington Post Live interview.

Her comments came a day after a high-profile House Judiciary Committee hearing at which Democrats accused Barr of politicizing the Justice Department, including by intervening in criminal cases to the benefit of former Trump advisers and ousting a U.S. attorney who is investigating President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer.

“Anyone who saw that testimony will know that Barr is a mess,” Pelosi said. “It’s a disgrace. The Department of Justice, I have been talking about that for a while.”

She noted that roughly a year ago the Democratic-led House voted to hold Barr in contempt of Congress for defying subpoenas.

“So he is contemptible,” Pelosi said. “There’s no question about that.

But at this point, let’s solve our problems by going to the polls and voting on Election Day, 131 days from now.”

Her comments seemed to reflect the reality that Republicans, who control the Senate, would shortcircuit any bid to impeach and remove Barr, whom they have asserted

is drawing ire because he is trying to ferret out the corruption of his Justice Department predecessors under a Democratic administration.

Elsewhere in an interview that touched on several other topics, Pelosi said that she does not share the fear of some Democrats that Trump will refuse to leave the White House if he loses the election in November to Biden, the former vice president.

“I think that he would expect the results of the election,” Pelosi said.

“And even if he didn’t, then the hedge henchmen around him would understand that he would have to respect results of the election.”

She added, however, that she will be “prepared for everything.”

Pelosi shot several other barbs at Trump, including when she was asked who is to blame for rising coronavirus cases in some states, including her home state of California.

“Sixteen hundred Pennsylvania Avenue,” Pelosi said, citing the address of the White House, and suggesting Trump’s rosy assessments of a speedy return to normal had led to dire consequences.

“The delay, the denial . . . the hoax that it’s going to go away magically, a miracle is going to happen, we’ll be in church together by Easter, caused death,” Pelosi said.

She also took aim at Trump for resisting calls to rename military bases honoring Confederate generals.

“Their names have to go,” Pelosi said. “I think the president once again is on the wrong track by not understanding that you don’t glorify white supremacy in our country.”

Study: NY 1 of 3 states to contain COVID-19

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New York is one of three states on track to contain the spread of COVID-19, a group tracking the virus across the U.S. said Tuesday.

And the state will use $65 million in federal coronavirus funding for child care providers to expand and comply with social distancing as nonessential employees return to work.

A study by Covid Act Now, a team of technologists, health experts and public policy leaders that has projected and tracked the virus in the U.S. since late March, announced Tuesday that New York is one of three states on track to contain the spread of COVID-19.

“New York went from one of the highest infection rates in the country to one of the lowest because we made decisions based on science, not politics,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said. “We’re seeing in other states what happens when you just reopen with no regard for metrics or data. It’s bad for public health and for the economy, and states that reopened in a rush are now seeing a boomerang.”

The Covid Act Now team analyzed all 50 states and more than 2,100 counties’ risk levels for a person to contract the novel coronavirus. The group named New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts as the only three states Tuesday on track to contain the virus or prevent a second wave.

States and communities are evaluated based on COVID-19 infection and positive test rates, availability of hospital Intensive Care Unit beds and adequate contact tracing of those infected.

New York’s infection rate is 0.81, or on average, each New Yorker with COVID-19 is infecting 0.81 other people. Because the number is less than 1, the number of cases in the state continues to shrink, potentially weakening the virus.

The state had an all-time-low virus infection rate of 0.64 on May 9.

New York continues to conduct about 60,000 diagnostic

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A masked man is seen on a crowded beach by the pier in Lauderdale by the Sea on Sunday, June 14, 2020. New York is one of three states on track to contain COVID-19, according to a study Tuesday, as the virus continues to spread in more than 20 states and Puerto Rico.

COVID-19 tests daily — more than any other state or country per capita. The state reported 1% of Monday’s tests came back positive with 597 new cases.

Massachusetts has the nation’s lowest COVID-19 infection rate at 0.75, but has an average positive test rate of 2.6%. New Jersey’s infection rate is 0.81 with a 1.6% daily positive test rate.

“We do this testing religiously, and we watch the rate and calibrate our reopening by that rate,” Cuomo said.

“New York is finally coming back, and I can’t stress enough how important it is that we don’t blow this incredible progress now. To all New Yorkers: Wear a mask, get tested, socially distance, wash your hands and be smart.”

The Hudson Valley Region entered phase 3 Tuesday of the state’s four-phase reopening plan for nonessential businesses today. Long Island will start phase 3 Wednesday.

The governor also announced the New York Forward Child Care Expansion Incentive program Tuesday afternoon, which includes $20 million to assist childcare programs with expanded capacity to allow for proper

social distancing or maintaining at least 6 feet distance from others. Eligible materials or expenses include partitions, a short-term rental of space, etc.

The state will also award $45 million in Reopening and Expansion Incentive grants to eligible child-care facilities to fund half the cost to build a new classroom. The temporary funds will phase out over the second and third months as more parents return their children to childcare. Grants will be a maximum of $6,000.

“As we move further into the reopening and more parents go back to work, we’re also making sure child care programs across the state have the support they need to reopen safely,” Cuomo said.

“By providing support for expanded classrooms that allow for more social distancing and other resources, we can help keep staff and children safe.”

Throughout the pandemic, 65% of child-care programs licensed through the state Office of Children and Family Services remained open, with many serving families of essential workers. The $65 million is federal coronavirus funding the state received under the CARES Act. The

funding is available to childcare programs and facilities starting immediately, according to the governor’s office, to bring closed programs back to operation to serve families returning to the workplace.

To be eligible for the reopening funds, child-care programs must have been closed as of June 15 and have a plan to reopen within two weeks of applying or are operating below their licensed capacity and want to expand.

The grants will be pro-rated as programs reach capacity.

Programs must submit a detailed plan for use of funds and must remain open at least through the end of the year, according to a statement Tuesday from the governor’s office.

The $20 million slated for Reopening and Restructuring Incentives range from $300 to $1,600 one-time grants and depend on the size of the program. Child-care programs may apply to the state Office of Children and Family Services through July 15.

To schedule a free COVID-19 diagnostic test at one of 800-plus testing sites statewide, visit coronavirus. ny.gov.

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Disney’s Splash Mountain at both parks is getting a new DIRECTORS theme following petitions over its original inspiration Hannah Sampson The Washington Post

Disney is changing the story of its Splash Mountain flume ride.

Out: the controversial 1946 movie “Song of the South,” which the company refuses to even show because of content that has been decried as racist.

In: “The Princess and the Frog,” Disney’s first animated film featuring a black princess.

“The new concept is inclusive

- one that all of our guests can connect with and be inspired by, and it speaks to the diversity of the millions of people who visit our parks each year,” Disneyland Resort public relations director Michael Ramirez said in a blog post.

The post did not directly address recent controversy, but said the change had been in the works since last year.

Fans started a campaign to ask Disney to rethink the ride earlier

this month on both social media and Change.org petitions. The overwhelming preference was to switch it to a story based on “The Princess and the Frog.”

“The framing of the ride is such that it could be easily changed to tell the story of Tiana while not compromising too much of the ride/costing a fortune in remodeling for Disney,” one petitioner wrote. “This change could kill two birds with one stone, remove the offensive stereotypical

theming the ride currently has and bring a much needed diversity to the parks.”

Timing for the change was not disclosed, but the Disney blog post said the rides at both Disneyland in California and Magic Kingdom in Florida would “soon be completely reimagined.” Ramirez wrote that Disney has a long history of updating attractions and added that “the retheming of Splash Mountain is of particular importance today.”

Costco re-imagines its food samples in era of social distancing Matthew Boyle Bloomberg

Keep your hands to yourself.

Costco Wholesale Corp. has begun offering food samples again in as many as 30 locations, but the sampling stations look nothing like the gluttonous free-for-all tables of yore, which customers would crowd around threedeep for a small cup of barbecue beef or spicy salsa.

Costco, which has 547 U.S. stores, will now offer prepackaged items kept behind plexiglass shields. They’ll be dished out by servers wearing masks and gloves, according to the company and photos on the website of Club Demonstration Services, the outfit that for years has handled the setup of Costco’s sampling stations. CDS will work with local health departments and other authorities to ensure that stations adhere to sanitary and socialdistancing guidelines. The first phase includes locations across 16 states.

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A shopper browses a refrigerated food case at a Costco in Louisville, Ky.

“We are seeing what works,” Costco Chief Financial Officer Richard Galanti said in an interview. “There are plans to continue to roll it

out. We will see.”

Costco’s food sampling stations are a big part of its in-store “treasure hunt” experience, which keeps loyal

customers coming back and often buying way more than they had intended to. They also encourage shoppers to try something new, whether

it’s an Indian curry dish or gluten-free pasta.

The retailer’s low prices and bulk-sized goods have made it a favorite destination for pandemic stockpilers: Excluding fuel, the key metric of same-store sales rose 8% in its most recent quarter.

“Starting slowly will allow Costco and us to make sure we are taking the right steps to engage members safely, while maintaining the proper controls around the demo cart,” CDS President Don Dohanyos said in a June 4 message to employees. “We will take the lessons learned in our early demos to improve our overall processes while we prepare for future rollouts.”

Some of the new demo stations won’t serve food at all -instead, representatives will “explain product features and uses,” Dohanyos said in June 17 memo to employees.

Representatives from Advantage Solutions, the owner of CDS, did not respond to a request for comment.

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Turning your yard into a Dragonfly habitat

By Thomas Christopher For Columbia-Greene Media

One of the most magical moments in my garden came during an afternoon several years ago. I don’t remember the season, although I do remember that it was a sunny, warm day, and I stepped outside of the house into the open, graveled area where my wife and I park our cars.

The air was full of dragonflies, zooming and swooping, their wings glittering in the sunshine. It was as if I’d wandered into a cloud of jewels. Christine Cook told me recently that probably what I experienced was what she called “hilltopping.” This behavior is a preparation for migration south in the late summer or fall. Who knew that dragonflies migrate? Christine does, and a lot of other details about their life histories as well. She has been watching dragonflies ever since she was a girl and they used to roost beside her while she was gardening. She would admire their cellophane wings and iridescent bodies and was fascinated when they would shoot up into the air, then return to their perch to devour

the insect they had caught.

This childhood interest bloomed into a true fascination as Christine grew up to design and install natural habitat gardens for clients all over Connecticut and farther afield, under her company name, Mossaics Ecological Landscape Design. Over the years, she has designed and installed several landscapes specifically intended to attract dragonflies. If that sounds esoteric to you, consider that dragonflies are one of the few insects so intriguing that every child (at least, every child who explores the outdoors) learns their name. With their brilliant colors, prehistoric appearance and habit of eating mosquitoes — as many as 100 per day — dragonflies are well worth cultivating as garden wildlife.

Especially since, according to Christine, attracting them is relatively easy.

The first necessity is a pond, and this can be large and elaborate or as small and simple as a plastic- or rubber-lined kit purchased online. Once installed, the pond should be lined along the bottom with an area of sand, an area of mud,

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The bright blue Pachydiplax longipennis, or Blue Dasher dragonfly, is a member of the skimmer family.

and an area of gravel. This creates a variety of habitats that will support the greatest diversity of immature dragonfly larvae, or nymphs, which may live in the water for just a couple of months or up to 12 years before emerging and flying off as adults. Arrange some large rocks around the edges of the pond’s bottom, too, to create sheltered nooks, as many female dragonflies like to lay their eggs in such spots.

Then, after filling it with water, the pond should be inset with aquatic plants in

containers. Ponds a couple of feet deep can accommodate native water lilies (Nymphaea odorata) at the center; the lily pads are a favorite egg-laying spot of some species of dragonflies. In shallower ponds, or at the shallow edges of deeper ponds, place containers of emergent plants, such as blue flag iris (Iris versicolor), pickerel weed (Pontederia cordata) and broadleaved arrowhead (Sagitaria latifolia).

The sub-surface parts of these plants create havens for the dragonfly larvae, and later the

larvae may crawl up the leaves and stalks when they are ready to emerge as adults.

Place a few flat rocks on the pond’s rim to serve as roosting spots for adult dragonflies. (The rocks also help to conceal the upper edge of the pond’s liner.) Then excavate a very shallow ditch around the pond’s perimeter just beyond the rocks and plant it with moisture-loving plants such as sedges and rushes to serve as a miniature wetland; some dragonflies prefer that habitat. Make sure there are a few shrubs and trees nearby, as some dragonflies, especially the females, like to roost in bushes, and still others roost in the tree tops.

Just the names of the dragonflies suggest their appeal.

Christine spoke to me of yellow-legged meadowhawks, of the eastern amber-wing, blue dashers, the twelve-spotted skimmer and black-tipped darters. Who wouldn’t want such colorful wildlife in their gardens?

For more detailed information about creating dragonfly habitat, listen to the recording of my recent conversation

with Christine Cook. You’ll find links on Berkshire Botanical Garden’s website at www. berkshirebotanical.org. Click on “Learn” and then “Virtual Learning.” Or go to my website, thomaschristophergardens.com, and click on “Podcast.”

Be-a-Better-Gardener is a community service of Berkshire Botanical Garden, located in Stockbridge, Mass. Its mission, to provide knowledge of gardening and the environment through a diverse range of classes and programs, informs and inspires thousands of students and visitors each year. Thomas Christopher is a volunteer at Berkshire Botanical Garden and is the author or co-author of more than a dozen books, including Nature into Art and The Gardens of Wave Hill (Timber Press, 2019). Be-a-Better Gardener is syndicated in 19 print and online publications, reaching 250,000 readers. Tom’s companion broadcast to this column, Growing Greener, streams on WESUFM.org, Pacifica Radio and NPR and is available at his website, https://www.thomaschristophergardens.com/podcast.

4-H Youth Development Program Stewart’s Shops offer awards scholarships to two members financial relief to nonHUDSON — 4-H club members Aizlyn O’Connell and Hunter Gardner are the recipients of $250 4-H college scholarships presented by the 4-H Youth Development Program of Cornell Cooperative Extension of Columbia and Greene Counties. They were chosen on the merit of their applications which described the breadth of their involvement in 4-H projects and activities, what they had gained most from their experiences in 4-H and how those experiences will help them in the future.

Aizlyn is the daughter of James and Megan O’Connell and lives in Catskill. She attends Catskill High School and plans to attend Norwich University where she plans to study psychology.

She is a 10-year member of the Flora and Fauna 4-H Club as well as a six year member of the Teen Ambassador 4-H Club. She has excelled in a number of project areas including foods and nutrition, expressive arts and rabbit.

But, Aizlyn finds the leadership roles she has held as most meaningful. She is trained as a 4-H Teen Evaluator for both public presentations and fair exhibits. She absolutely loves to share what she knows through public speaking and has done so for 10 years in a

profits in local communities

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row. She is also a junior leader in her 4-H club where she helps the younger members as their work on their project learning.

She notes that, “a life lesson I have learned through my 4-H club experience is the ability to adapt and overcome. Also, sportsmanship is crucial in life even if you lose you pick your head up and cheer for the one who beat you.”

Hunter is the son of James and Sandra Gardner and lives in Hillsdale. He attends Taconic Hills High School and will be attending the University at Albany this fall, studying in either business or education.

Hunter has been an active member of 4-H since he was seven years old and has done so in three different counties of New York. Locally he has been a member of the Teen Ambassadors 4-H Club for six

years. As a 4-H member he has done many public presentations, most related to a project he is learning from such as how to make peanut butter cookies or how to show a dairy cow.

He has been active in leadership experiences with a final pinnacle as a Focus Assistant at the statewide Cornell Career Explorations trip in 2019.

Among other things, Hunter shared that “what I have learned most during my time in 4-H is the importance of community service….it improves not only the lives of others, but it improved my life as well. Also, as a naturally shy person my experiences in 4-H helped me to develop social and leadership skills. I was chosen as a CareerEx Focus Assistant so was the person who had to initiate the conversations and lead the groups.”

WMHT to commemorate centennial for Women’s Right to Vote with film on July 6 and July 7 TROY — WMHT Public Media (PBS-Public Broadcasting Service), is hosting two virtual preview screenings of clips from American Experience’s The Vote.

The digital event will take place at 6:30 p.m. June 30.

One hundred years after the passage of the 19th Amendment, The Vote tells the dramatic culmination story of the hard-fought campaign waged by American women for the right to vote, a transformative cultural and political movement that resulted in the largest expansion of voting rights in U.S. history.

WMHT’s free screenings will consist of two clips from American Experience’s documentary which premieres on-air July 6 for a two-night event that continues July 7.

The film will air both nights on WMHT-TV from 9-11 p.m.

It will also be available to stream online for free. The Vote is currently available to watch online with WMHT Passport.

The virtual screening will also include a moderated panel discussion with panelists from organizations including the League of Women Voters of New York State, the New York State Museum, and the Women’s Press Club of New York State.

Those interested in RSVPing for the June 30 virtual screening can visit https:// ovee.itvs.org/screenings/ qp9s7 In July, WMHT’s statewide program New York NOW will air a three-part special report that will take a closer look at the role New York women played in winning suffrage, transforming the electorate and using the power of the vote to influence policy

and strive for equality for all citizens. WMHT will also premiere new additions to its ‘She Inspires’ profiles of influential and trailblazing women.

The Vote delves deeply into the animating controversies that divided the nation in the early 20th century — gender, race, state’s rights and political power — and offers an absorbing lesson in the delicate, often fractious dynamics of social change.

Timed to the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th Amendment, The Vote is narrated by Kate Burton and features the voices of Mae Whitman (Alice Paul), Audra McDonald (Ida B. Wells), Laura Linney (Carrie Chapman Catt) and Patricia Clarkson (Harriot Stanton Blatch) portraying some of the unsung warriors of the movement.

SARATOGA SPRINGS — In these difficult times, Stewart’s Shops is delivering some positive news. The company has a long-standing history of giving back to nonprofits in the communities that they serve.

During these difficult times, the need is even more prevalent. COVID-19 has negatively impacted many groups in different ways and Stewart’s Shops is helping in a big way.

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

“Stewart’s and the Dake Family believe that nonprofit organizations are essential to the wellbeing of all our shops’ communities. We are committed to helping them provide important services during these challenging times and in the future,” according to Susan Dake, president Stewart’s Foundation.

To date, Stewart’s has allocated $790,000 of financial assistance to 209 organizations.

This support is above and beyond the company’s annual charitable contributions. In addition to the monetary support, thousands of gift certificates for milk and eggs have been sent to food pantries to cope with the overwhelming spike in demand for food.

Schools have received countless ice cream certificates to reward students for their hard work during these trying times.

As the arts try and maintain their motto, ‘the show must go on’ with virtual concerts and art fairs, Stewart’s has supported them with funding to assist their sustainability. Monetary donations are also used to provide PPE products to organizations like the United Way. Erin Gutierrez Matt, CEO of The United Way of the

Valley and Greater Utica Area says, “We are extremely appreciative of the Stewart’s/Dake Family to our COVID-19 relief efforts. Your support will assist many individuals during these challenging times. We have continual requests for PPE products which are now more readily available.”

Stewart’s supports the following nonprofits: Arts, Education, Recreation, Health, Social Services, and Civic groups.

The company is committed to giving back to the communities in which they are located, donating approximately $2.5 million a year to local non-profits with The Dake Family Foundations contributing an additional $5 million.

The company is currently accepting COVID-19 relief applications from nonprofits in need.

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LIVE from the Piano Performance Museum: The Music of Fanny and Felix Mendelsohn LIVE from the Piano Performance Museum: The Music of Fanny and Felix Mendelsohn with Joanne Polk and Jeffrey Langford Live on Facebook and YouTube, Saturday, June 27 @ 7p.m.

This event is free: Please go to https://app. arts-people.com/index. php?performance=496689 to pre-register.

We will send links to the Live Stream to all pre-registered attendees the morning of the concert.

The Catskill Mountain Foundation presents the Piano Performance Museum’s inaugural virtual lecture-recital on Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn with musicologist Dr. Jeffrey Langford and pianist Dr. Joanne Polk who will perform on an awardwinning, historic, French Erard piano on Saturday, June 27th at 7 p.m..

We all know the music of the German Romantic composer Felix Mendelssohn, but does anyone know the music written by his sister Fanny? This lecture-recital will explore the relationship between brother and sister to uncover some of the little-known facts that bore upon their respective careers as pianists and composers in the mid-19th century.

Join pianist Joanne Polk and musicologist Jeffrey Langford for a virtual lecture-recital about Fanny and Felix’s music,

including Evenings at the Opera (Amadeus Press) and A History of the Symphony: the Grand Genre (Routledge Press). Dr. Langford has also served as a regular presenter of pre-concert lectures at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, where he talks mostly about the basic repertoire of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Jeffrey Langford and Joanne Polk

performed on an Erard built during the age of the Mendelssohns. This Erard piano was awarded the medal of honor at the Paris Exposition in 1855. Sit back with your favorite dessert and beverage, and feel free to ask questions of the performers!

Watch the free live-streamed lecture-recital on YouTube or Facebook on Saturday, June 27

at 7p.m., or anytime afterward at your convenience. Pre-registration is requested.

DR. JEFFREY LANGFORD, Associate Dean for Doctoral Studies and Chair of the Music History Department at Manhattan School of Music, is a musicologist who has published several articles and books,

PIANIST JOANNE POLK’s award-winning recordings include Songs of Amy Beach, Completely Clara: Lieder by Clara Wieck Schumann, Songs for Pianoforte, Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, and The Flatterer, which was a “Pick of the Week” on New York’s classical radio station WQXR, and debuted at number 1 on the Classical Billboard Chart. Ms. Polk’s CD, Gershwin & Wild, was released on the Steinway and Sons Label and features Earl Wild’s transcriptions of Gershwin songs, as well as Wild’s Piano Sonata. American Record Guide called Ms. Polk’s playing on this CD, “plush and dreamily attractive…”

This event is made possible in part through the support of The Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation and Stewart’s Shops and The Dake Family a fund of The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region

Robert Clyde Anderson Naturalistic Planting on a Domestic Scale Robert Clyde Anderson Naturalistic Planting on a Domestic Scale Virtual Garden Lecture Sunday, June 28, 4pm on Zoom Tickets: $10 Since you can’t come to us, we are bringing our Garden Lecture to you! This illustrated talk will focus on practical techniques for creating and managing naturalistic plantings at a size that’s feasible for the home gardener, in terms of both labor and

expense. Using part of his own garden as the example, Anderson will share failures and successes in the development, over three seasons, of a wet meadow-style planting.

Topics addressed will include site selection and preparation, plant material sources, choices and acquisition, installation tips, and seasonal care.

For more information: spencertownacademy.org

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HUDSON HALL PRESENTS

FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES (1957-1996) HUDSON – From June 27 through July 5, Hudson Hall is one of several hundred places around the world featuring a live, global installation of “Untitled” (Fortune Cookie Corner) by the famed artist Félix González-Torres (19571996). The work has been lent by an anonymous private collector and coincides with Hudson Hall’s reopening to the public with artist Rodney Alan Greenblat’s exhibition, Something to Look Forward to and Earth People, an exhibit of paintings by artists with disabilities in partnership with Community Access to the Arts (CATA) and COARC. All works can be viewed by making a reservation to Something to Look Forward to at hudsonhall.org.

Exhibition curator Andrea Rosen, the New York gallerist, invited 1,000 people from around the world to manifest the Gonzalez-Torres work in a place of their choosing as part of one total site. Lawyer and part-time Germantown resident John Sare, one of the individuals selected, chose Hudson Hall for the installation. Created in 1990 and the first of the artist’s nowfamous “Candy” series, the work is described as “Fortune cookies, endless supply,” with the dimensions of each installation dependent on each site.

The core tenets of the work include the principle that

Photo by John Sare

“Untitled (Fortune Cookie Corner), 1990, at Hudson Hall.

individuals must be permitted to choose to take fortune cookies from the work. Although the original supply of approximately 800 fortune cookies at Hudson Hall will not be replenished, the work will remain in place through July 5 even if the supply of fortune cookies is exhausted.

Félix González-Torres was born in Guáimaro, Cuba on November 26, 1957. He referred to himself as American.

He lived and worked in New York City between 1979 and 1995. Gonzalez-Torres died in Miami on January 6, 1996 from AIDS-related causes.

From 1987 to 1991, González-Torres was a part of the artist collective Group Material, whose collaborative,

politically-informed practice focused on community engagement and activist interventions. In 1988, he had his first one-man exhibitions, at the Rastovski Gallery, New York, INTAR Gallery, New York, and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York.

His earliest billboard work, As noted on the Andrea Rosen Gallery website, “González-Torres was interested in his work providing an opportunity for questioning,” and some of the questions posed on the website include: Says Sare: “These questions were posed before the nation and the world were drawn into the story of the death of George Floyd and

the protests that have followed. The COVID epidemic had already provoked intense reflection about our sense of connection, our experience of disconnectedness, and the transformation of our towns, cities, museums, parks, historic sites, sports arenas, stores, restaurants, and places of worship as millions of people effectively disappeared from public life and interaction. The events since George Floyd’s death have moved that conversation from the realm of health and wellness into the realm of civil society and civil rights. In both cases, we have been talking and thinking, literally, about life and death. We see expressions every day of empathy and its opposite, connection and its opposite, of life and the loss of life. In the installation in Hudson, I hope that the experience of approaching the work, addressing the work, and walking away from the work will provide all who visit a moment to reflect on our times, on our future, and on the multiple meanings of the word ‘fortune.’”

Additional information on the global exhibition is available at www.andrearosengallery.com/press-release, and images of installations all over the world are available at #fgt exhibition

HUDSON PRIORITIZES SAFE REOPENING WITH SHARED STREETS INITIATIVE

Fridays, Saturday & Sundays 10 a.m.-sunset starting June 26, 2020 Warren Street (Front to 7th Street), Hudson, New York A New York City Shared Street HUDSON — In a move to promote a safe and responsible return to shopping, dining and socializing in its historic center, Hudson joins cities and towns around the world making street space available to businesses, residents, and local organizations in new ways through its Shared Summer Streets initiative. On weekends from 10am to sunset starting Friday, June 26, businesses on Warren Street between 7th and Front Streets have the opportunity to expand activities to sidewalks and select parking spaces, while 5mph local traffic and pedestrians share the street to allow adequate space for social distancing. For more information or to apply for a parking space activation permit, visit www.cityofhudson. org/streets.

It is estimated that 40% of Hudson’s businesses are at risk of collapsing due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. With New York State safety regulations limiting indoor capacities and research indicating the spread of the virus is considerably reduced outdoors, Hudson’s shared public space has become the safest place to conduct business. The initiative, a collaboration between the City of Hudson, Hudson Hall, FUTURE HUDSON, and Design for Six Feet, with financial support from Columbia Economic Development Corporation and The Spark of Hudson, was developed in conversation with city businesses and residents. “Over 90% of respondents to our local survey told us they want to spend money locally, but want to do so outdoors, safely,” says Hudson Hall’s General Manager, Sage Carter. She also said creating barricades at every intersection to limit traffic works for businesses, residents and visitors. “Limiting local traffic to 5 miles per hour and keeping some parking spaces available allows for drivers to access any address on the street, businesses to accept deliveries and offer curbside pick-up, and for local public transport to continue servicing the community,” she says. “Most importantly, it creates safer conditions for pedestrians to share the street, thereby reducing crowding on sidewalks.” Carter notes that a total of 800 parking spots are available in municipal and county-owned lots, with approximately of them within a 5-minute walk to Warren Street.

Warren Street property owners or 1st floor businesses can apply to the City of Hudson Police Department to occupy the sidewalks and adjoining on-street parking spaces, with a small weekly fee to cover loss of revenue generated by the city through parking. Local small businesses, not-for-profits, artists or makers without Warren Street operations may apply to hello@ hudsonhall.org, with spaces assigned on a case-by-case basis.

The focus of the initial weeks is to be responsive to feedback from the

community, with adjustments expected as the organizers and the City work towards best practices for the remainder of summer. “This is an extraordinary moment in time. These changes in traffic patterns and the use of public streets often take months and years of planning,” says Peter Spear of FUTURE HUDSON. “Due to the impact of COVID-19 and the Phased reopening of New York, we have had to work quickly and creatively. We will rely on constructive feedback to improve and adapt over the next weeks and months.

Adjustments will be made throughout July as needed or appropriate, with public safety amenities such as sanitizing stations and restrooms, as well as streetscaping improvements, happening as quickly as they can be brought on line.

With Kaja, her team at Design for Six Feet and our local volunteers, we will be watching traffic patterns closely and making any changes necessary to ensure pedestrian safety.” Hudson Hall will assist the City in managing the gradual improvement and spending for improved barriers, signage, public restrooms and tables over the course of the summer based on responses and evaluation of the initiative.

“As Hudson reopens during the pandemic, we can’t rely on the old way of doing things,” says Mayor Kamal Johnson.

“We have a collaborative team reimagining Warren Street and implementing an exciting and thoughtful plan. We will be evaluating the impact and adjusting the plan as we go.”

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

ABOUT HUDSON HALL Hudson Hall is a cultural beacon in the Hudson Valley, offering a dynamic year-round schedule of music, theater, dance, literature, workshops for youth and adults, as well as family programs and largescale community events such as Winter Walk. Located in a historic landmark that houses New York State’s oldest surviving theater, Hudson Hall underwent a full restoration and reopened to the public in April 2017 for the first time in over 55 years. The newly restored Hudson Hall reflects Hudson’s rich history in a modern facility that welcomes residents and visitors from throughout our local community, across the nation, and around the globe.

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

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The artist’s home and studio all to yourself, anytime, Thomas Cole Announcing 360 Explore You can now virtually explore Thomas Cole’s historic Main House and Old Studio.

Venture into the artist’s bedroom to spot his traveling trunk and linger in front of his painting easel in the studio.

You have the buildings all to yourself.

Explore: http://thomascole.org/360explore/?mc_ cid=3524b88f0e&mc_ eid=5c9e0d52b6 P.S. You may notice some newly restored interior designs peeking through one of the doors. More to come.

New inspiration at Catskill

Photo by Jon Palmer

Creek Walk the one-mile loop trail at the Mawignack Preserve and discover new outdoor interpretation we created in partnership with Scenic Hudson, Greene Land Trust,

Greene County Historical Society, and the Mohican Nation Stockbridge-Munsee Band with support from the Hudson River Valley Greenway.

Walk the trail: http://

Join us for a Virtual Summer Party Pic-Nic Thank you to everyone who has RSVP’d to the party so far!

We can’t wait to celebrate.

Guests will receive a custom picnic package designed by Geoff Howell Studios and exclusive Zoom access for toasts, a presentation by the ebullient Tim Barringer of Yale, and a virtual fireworks display. Picnic packages are limited.

Reserve your picnic: http://thomascole. org/2020summerparty/?mc_ cid=3524b88f0e&mc_ eid=5c9e0d52b6

Imagine Our Stories: Hudson Area Library Summer Reading Program Hudson Youth Center.

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic the Hudson Area Library has developed special virtual programs and initiatives for families, tween/teens and adults for this year’s Summer Reading Program to take place from July 7-August 7. The library is working in collaboration with the Claverack and Philmont Libraries as well as other partners to serve the needs of the community at this time. This year’s summer reading theme“Imagine Our Stories”, serves as the inspiration for shared experiences celebrating our similarities and differences.

For more information and to register for any program visit hudsonarealibrary.org/srp Virtual Story & Craft Hours Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday, July 7-August 7, 10-11 a.m.

Journey with the Hudson Area Library around the world to explore mythologies and folktales from different cultures through literature, music, crafts, and movement. Virtual Story & Craft Hours will be offered via Zoom on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays and are led by Abby Lappen, Christa Shook and Pamela Badila. On Fridays, the Hudson Area Library will partner with the Claverack Free Library and the Philmont Library to welcome special guest presenters.

HACK the Library Digital Art Media Workshops Thursday, July 9 & Thursday, July 16, 12-2 p.m.

The library will be offering two virtual HACK the Library workshops for tweens

and teens in July. HACKers ages 8 and up will have the opportunity to learn how to create and distribute their own visual effects, animated art, 3D models and online broadcasting with open software programs with digital artist, Rebecca Borrer. Participants will also be encouraged to participate in The Green Screen Project.

The Green Screen Project is a public art installation that invites any passerby to transform their surroundings through video editing techniques. By the simple act of painting a wall green, we will open up citywide access to this pivotal component of video production. With this project, you don’t need to have an expensive studio, or proper lighting to make a movie-- all you need is to get outside (safely) and start filming! This project is offered in collaboration with artist Rebecca Borrer and the City of

Summer Reading Book Bag Program With access to the library limited due to the virus, the library team wanted to support children and families - especially those who do not have the means to participate in the library’s virtual programs - in accessing quality reading materials and activities to support their learning and reading this summer. Through their Summer Reading Book Bag Program, the library is distributing free exploratory bags for kids, tweens, and teens in the greater Hudson area that include books, activities, crafts, and a summer reading log. This program is co-sponsored by the Columbia Land Conservancy and presented in partnership with the Friends of Hudson Youth and the Hudson Literacy Fund.

Read Around The World Read books set in various places around the world and help the library chart our collective adventure on a world map. How many cities, states, countries, and continents will we visit and explore this summer through stories?

All participants will be invited to keep track of their reading using the free READSQUARED program or they can pick up a paper reading log at the library through curbside pickup.

To register for any programs, visit hudsonarealibrary.org/srp, email youth@hudsonarealibrary.org or call 518-828-1792 x102.

For more information visit hudsonarealibrary.org.

‘The Last Tree’ The Last Tree Friday-Thursday, June 26-July 2 Welcome to the Crandell’s Wednesday weekly. This week we’re trying a little something different.

We’ve been learning a lot over this unprecedented time, experimenting with the best ways to continue to serve our community remotely. This week, we’ve decided to streamline our Virtual Screening Room offerings, calling upon Laurence Kardish — FilmColumbia coartistic director and former senior film curator at MOMA — to endorse a single film selection.

This week it’s The Last Tree. You can purchase a virtual ticket today on our website — with a full 50% of the box office benefitting

A scene from “The Last Tree”.

the continued operations of the Crandell Theatre.

Also below, the Crandell’s latest recommendations for free streaming via Kanopy, and the

latest News For Now. The Last Tree THE LAST TREE follows the story of Femi, a British boy of Nigerian heritage who, after a

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happy childhood in rural Lincolnshire, moves to inner London to live with his birth mother.

Struggling with the unfamiliar culture and values of his new environment, teenage Femi has to figure out which path to adulthood he wants to take, and what it means to be a young black man in London.

“At once heart-breaking and exhilarating, British film The Last Tree opened at Sundance in 2019, and has since been compared favorably to Moonlight. A powerful film about identity, Shola Amoo’s second feature is a devastating beauty, and its young star Sam Adewumni a revelation.” — Laurence Kardish, co-artistic director, Crandell Theatre

OLLY OLLY OXEN FREE! COME OUT, COME OUT, WHEREVER YOU ARE!!

HUDSON — Frederic Church’s Olana announces the restart of public programs with new Olana Outdoor Tours. While the park has been continuously open, public programs were suspended due to COVID-19.

Now, new outdoor, limitedattendance tours follow NYS Department of Health guidelines and represent the first phase in reopening public tours and providing educational experiences for visitors.

The Olana Outdoor Tours present Olana as a holistic environment by exploring Olana’s historic architecture and 250-acre landscape and engaging with the themes central to work of Frederic Church and his fellow Hudson River School artists.

“We are thrilled to be reopening for public tours,” said Sean Sawyer, Washburn and Susan Oberwager President of The Olana Partnership, “Our new Olana Outdoor Tours offer a safe way to learn about America’s most intact artist-designed environment, and all tours center around a dialogue between guide and visitors.”

“Olana is committed to playing a central role in art and culture in the Hudson Valley and we are excited about these new expanded tour offerings which will serve as inspiration for all audiences and communities,” said Amy Hausmann, Director of Olana State Historic Site. “The spectacular home and landscape created by Frederic Church celebrates the beauty of the Hudson Valley and Catskills. We love that so many visitors enjoy Olana as a place of refuge and we are excited to share these new outdoor tours which provide a deeper understanding of this remarkable cultural treasure.”

The Olana Electric Carriage Tour is the most comprehensive exploration of Frederic Church’s 250-acre masterwork, including all 5 miles of historic carriage roads and the series of planned views they link together. The Art and Environment Outdoor Tour is a 1 mile (60 minute) guided walking tour that provides a comprehensive introduction to Frederic Church’s work as an artist, architect, and landscape designer. This tour addresses the leading role that Olana has played

in environmental conservation and viewshed protection decisions during the 20th and 21st centuries. The Landscape and Architecture Outdoor Tour is a ¼ mile (30 minute) guided walking tour that follows the historic carriage road entrance from the site of Frederic Church’s painting studio, past the Mingled Flower Garden, to culminate in the dramatic planned approach to the Main House with panoramic views of the Hudson River Valley. Learn about Frederic Church’s evolution from painter to designer, explore the siting and design of the Main House as his collaboration with architect Calvert Vaux. For those looking to enjoy Olana’s Historic Landscape from home, new video tours of the landscape and OLANA EYE, a live skycam broadcasting Olana’s iconic view, can be accessed at OLANA.org.

Olana Outdoor Tours are available Saturday & Sunday, 10 AM to 4 PM, with expanded times coming soon.

All ticketed tours REQUIRE PARTICIPANTS TO WEAR MASKS AND STAY 6 FEET APART. Tickets are $15 for adults and free for children 12 and under. Guided walking tours are free for Members of The Olana Partnership. Electric Carriage Tours are $50 for all visitors and is currently limited to 2 guests in the same household. Due to the popularity of the tours, advance ticket purchase is strongly recommended. For more information about membership or to order tickets online, visit www.OLANA. org. During tour hours, the Olana Museum Store offers a pop-up store for safe, outdoor shopping. Or, shop online at shop.OLANA.org.

Olana is a public park, open to all each day from 8:30 AM to sunset, and access to the 250-acre artist-designed historic landscape is free of charge. Visitors are welcome to enjoy the five miles of carriage roads during these hours, take advantage of free virtual tours (OLANA.org), experience the flower garden or watch the sun set over the Hudson Valley and Catskills.

Olana asks all visitors to help stop the spread of COVID-19 by wearing a mask and keeping 6 feet apart. Leashed dogs are welcome. Olana is a Carry In-Carry Out park.

Two New Exhibitions in New Paltz and Katonah Grab your mask, wash your hands and come on out! It’s been awhile, friends, and this weekend marks the re-opening of two of my favorite New York galleries with a big show at Oak & Oil in Katonah featuring more than twenty new works in oil on canvas. Visit the group show “Chasing Light” at the Mark Gruber Gallery in New Paltz for nine of my paintings.

Come out as a visitor just to see the peaceful, dreamlike natural reflections of mountains, valleys, shores and fields. Or come

as a collector, Oak & Oil is offering 10 percent off! The gallerists observe social distancing protocol and there is plenty of room to be safe while viewing the art.

If there is a painting that you want to see in real life, call or text me at (845) 418 0379 and I will direct you. Or as always, come to my studio in Holmes NY for a private showing by appointment.

Not ready to go out yet? Online gallery: www.lindapuiatti. com

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How Bubba Wallace ended up in a garage stall containing a noose Liz Clarke The Washington Post

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The tumultuous sequence of events that followed Sunday’s discovery of a rope tied into a noose and used as a garage door pull at Alabama’s Talladega Superspeedway appears to have resulted primarily from one assumption and one massive coincidence.

The assumption was that the noose was deliberately placed in the garage stall assigned to the team of NASCAR’s only African American driver in its Cup series, Bubba Wallace, and intended as a threat of racial violence.

The coincidence, one that to many strains credulity, is that Wallace’s team ended up being assigned the only stall among the 44 in Talladega’s infield garage that had a noose that served as a door pull.

On Tuesday, 48 hours after the noose was discovered, the FBI announced that no hate crime had been committed because its investigation, which involved 15 agents, concluded that the rope, which the FBI referred to as “a noose” four times in its statement, had been in that particular garage stall since at least October 2019, when the Cup Series last raced at the 2.66-mile Alabama track.

For that reason, the FBI concluded it couldn’t have been a hate crime because no one could have known that Wallace’s No. 43 Chevrolet would have been assigned that stall. It was a coincidence, in other words, and enough to consider the case closed.

NASCAR officials, however, remain sufficiently troubled to continue their own internal investigation into why the rope-pull in one of its garages was tied in a noose. Was it simply to lower the garage door via the only knot someone knew how to tie? Or was it to also send a racist message that was easily deniable, given the noose’s role as a door-pull?

The former is benign. The latter is cause for concern for NASCAR and for any company attempting to project the value of inclusion, even

Columbia-Greene Community College graduate Cameron Thomas will continue his academic and basketball career at SUNY Cobleskill in the Fall. Thomas averaged 14 points and 13 rebounds per game and was a Mountain Valley Conference Third-Team All-Conference selection this past season for the Twins.

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Tyler Johnson pickup is low risk, high reward for Nets Kristian Winfield New York Daily News

NEW YORK — The Nets signed combo guard Tyler Johnson on Wednesday, early into the NBA’s transaction window before the season resumes in Orlando, Fla. Sean Marks’ long-lived pursuit of Johnson has finally come to its conclusion.

Marks offered Johnson a four-year,

$50 million contract during his 2016 restricted free agency with the Miami Heat. The Heat matched the Nets’ offer, retaining Johnson for the next three years before trading him to the Phoenix Suns.

Johnson’s contract was worth more than $19 million this season, but the Suns opted to waive him and bite the bullet in February.

Not only did Marks get his guy, but he got him at a discount.

The Nets didn’t have an open roster slot to sign Johnson, a crafty playmaker who’s averaged around 11 points and three assists per game in each of the five seasons that preceded this one. To make room, Marks waived reserve guard Theo Pinson.

Pinson’s lively dance moves and

bench celebrations helped build the chemistry that powered the Nets’ playoff run last season. His on-court production, however, never earned him more than sparse playing time in a rotation yearning for point guard depth.

In opportunities with extended play, Pinson was unable to consistently make 3s or take care of the ball.

He finished his final season as a Net shooting 18% from three and 29% from the field in 11 minutes a game.

Those minutes will now go to Johnson, and Marks is hoping he makes the most of them.

Kyrie Irving’s injury woes have been well documented: This season See NETS B6

Baseball joins in with restart plan, but is sports walking into a mess it will regret?

Greg Cote Miami Herald

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Calgary Flames right wing Jarome Iginla (12) warms up before a game against the Washington Capitals at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C. on January 3, 2012.

Jarome Iginla leads six-member Hockey Hall of Fame class Helene Elliott Los Angeles Times

Classy winger Jarome Iginla leads the six-member Hockey Hall of Fame class that was announced Wednesday. The induction ceremony is scheduled for Nov. 16 in Toronto,

but that’s subject to change because of the far-reaching effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and its effect on the NHL schedule and events.

Also elected in the players’ See HOCKEY B6

MIAMI — Step aside, Fubon Guardians and Rakuten Monkeys.

Thank you for your service, Hyundai Unicorns and Kiwoon Heroes.

Riveted as we have been by the Chinese and Korean brand of baseball, the Yankees and Dodgers will take it from here.

Baseball is back! Sort of.

Sports is back! Or at least this bizarre, pandemic version of it.

MLB finally has a resumption plan to belatedly join the NBA, NHL and MLS in summer restarts, and the NFL and college football still hope to play as scheduled this fall — but with an asterisk as big as a cardboard golf check attached to every sports as 2020 plays out.

Our leagues and teams move forward, but are they stepping into a giant mess they will regret?

For most of the past three months warring baseball owners and players couldn’t even agree the stitches on the ball were red until Commissioner Rob Manfred exercised his right to impose

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New York Yankees right fielder Aaron Judge (99) celebrates with a teammate after hitting a tworun home run against the Seattle Mariners during their Aug. 27, 2019 gam at T-Mobile Park.

a season and the players union agreed to a coronavirus/COVID-19 health and safety manual of more than

100 pages.

Players may no longer spit.

Pitchers may not lick their

fingers.

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Golf PGA TOUR Travelers Championship Tee Times At TPC River Highlands Yardage: 6,841; Par: 70 Cromwell, Connecticut Purse: 7.4 million Second Round Today Tee No. 1 12:40 p.m. _ Tyler McCumber 2 p.m. _ Robert Streb 6:45 a.m. _ Scott Harrington, Danny Lee, Bronson Burgoon 6:55 a.m. _ Richy Werenski, Roger Sloan, Matthew NeSmith 7:05 a.m. _ Bo Van Pelt, Brian Harman, Kevin Streelman 7:15 a.m. _ Kevin Na, Hudson Swafford, Vijay Singh 7:25 a.m. _ Kevin Chappell, Kevin Kisner, Jason Day 7:35 a.m. _ Martin Trainer, Ted Potter Jr, Davis Love III 7:45 a.m. _ Zach Johnson, Kevin Tway, Russell Knox 7:55 a.m. _ Ian Poulter, J.T. Poston, Dylan Frittelli 8:05 a.m. _ Stewart Cink, Greg Chalmers, Luke Donald 8:15 a.m. _ Peter Malnati, Hunter Mahan, Kyoung-hoon Lee 8:25 a.m. _ Beau Hossler, Ryan Moore, Joel Dahmen 8:35 a.m. _ Luke List, Matthew Fitzpatrick, Sam Burns 8:45 a.m. _ Peter Kuest, Rob Oppenheim, David Pastore Noon _ Matt Jones, Brian Gay, Byeong-Hun An 12:10 p.m. _ Sepp Straka, Russell Henley, Michael Thompson 12:20 p.m. _ D.J. Trahan, Xin-Jun Zhang, Lucas Bjerregaard 12:30 p.m. _ Abraham Ancer, Ryan Palmer, Brandt Snedeker 12:40 p.m. _ Chez Reavie, Jon Rahm 12:50 p.m. _ Bryson DeChambeau, Rory McIlroy, Phil Mickelson 1 p.m. _ Shane Lowry, Patrick Cantlay, Paul Casey 1:10 p.m. _ Keegan Bradley, Patrick Reed, Lanto Griffin 1:20 p.m. _ Marc Leishman, Max Homa, Adam Long 1:30 p.m. _ Matt Wallace, Bud Cauley, Denny McCarthy 1:40 p.m. _ Sam Ryder, Mackenzie Hughes, Fabian Gomez 1:50 p.m. _ Wyndham Clark, Charley Hoffman, Tom Hoge 2 p.m. _ Joseph Bramlett, Hank Lebioda Tee No. 10 7:35 a.m. _ Tim Wilkinson 1:10 p.m. _ David Hearn 1:20 p.m. _ Sebastian Cappelen 6:45 a.m. _ Kyle Stanley, Vaughn Taylor, Mark Hubbard 6:55 a.m. _ Louis Oosthuizen, Adam Schenk, Lucas Glover 7:05 a.m. _ Scott Stallings, Cameron Tringale, Robby Shelton 7:15 a.m. _ Bubba Watson, Wesley Bryan, SungHoon Kang 7:25 a.m. _ Collin Morikawa, Dustin Johnson, Jordan Spieth 7:35 a.m. _ Xander Schauffele, Justin Thomas 7:45 a.m. _ Viktor Hovland, Justin Rose, Tony Finau 7:55 a.m. _ Corey Conners, Brendan Steele, Cameron Smith 8:05 a.m. _ Joaquin Niemann, Gary Woodland, Patton Kizzire 8:15 a.m. _ Jason Kokrak, Jamie Lovemark, Aaron Baddeley 8:25 a.m. _ Charl Schwartzel, J.J. Henry, Doc Redman 8:35 a.m. _ Scott Brown, Harold Varner III, Branden Grace 8:45 a.m. _ Sahith Theegala, Will Gordon, Bo Hoag Noon _ J.J. Spaun, Henrik Norlander, Matt Every 12:10 p.m. _ Talor Gooch, Cameron Davis, Harry Higgs 12:20 p.m. _ James Hahn, Scottie Scheffler, Jhonattan Vegas 12:30 p.m. _ Matthew Wolff, Aaron Wise, Grayson Murray 12:40 p.m. _ Billy Horschel, Brice Garnett, Troy Merritt 12:50 p.m. _ Cheng-Tsung Pan, Austin Cook, Jim Furyk 1 p.m. _ Ryan Armour, Danny Willett, Tyler Duncan 1:10 p.m. _ Brendon Todd, Si Woo Kim 1:20 p.m. _ Keith Mitchell, Michael Kim 1:30 p.m. _ Sung-jae Im, Sebastian Munoz, Sergio Garcia 1:40 p.m. _ Patrick Rodgers, Cameron Percy, Emiliano Grillo 1:50 p.m. _ Brian Stuard, Seung Yul Noh, Carlos Ortiz 2 p.m. _ Zac Blair, Chris Stroud, Rafael Cabrera Bello

Transactions BASEBALL AMERICAN LEAGUE Boston Red Sox - Signed C Jose Garcia and 1B Cuba Bess to a minor league contract. Signed SS Jake MacKenzie, RHP Merfy Andrew, RHP Maceo Campbell, RHP Graham Hoffman, RHP Cole Milam, and RHP Robert Kwiatkowski to a minor league contract.

Detroit Tigers - Signed LF Danny Cabrera.

Texas Rangers - Signed RHP Tekoah Roby and SS Thomas Saggese.

NATIONAL LEAGUE Colorado Rockies - Signed SS Jack Blomgren, LF Zac Veen, and LHP Sam Weatherly.

Philadelphia Phillies - Signed RHP Mick Abel.

Pittsburgh Pirates - Signed SS Nick Gonzales.

Washington Nationals - Signed RHP Cade Cavalli, SS Samuel Infante, RHP Cole Henry, and RHP Holden Powell.

FOOTBALL NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE Detroit Lions - Signed G Jonah Jackson to a fouryear, $4.80 million contract.

San Francisco 49ers - Signed WR Jauan Jennings to a four-year, $3.41 million contract.

NCAA FOOTBALL Maryland - Announced QB Max Bortenschlager has left the program and will transfer to Florida International as a graduate.

Oklahoma - Announced WR Golden Eke III has left the program and will transfer to Louisiana.

Purdue - Announced DB Jordan Rucker has left the program and will transfer to North Texas.

Wake Forest - Announced WR Waydale Jones has left the program and will transfer to Texas State.

BASKETBALL NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Brooklyn Nets - Waived SG Theo Pinson.

Houston Rockets - Signed SG David Nwaba to a two-year, $2.72 million contract. Waived PF Isaiah Hartenstein.

New York Knicks - Named William Wesley executive vice president and senior basketball advisor.

Oklahoma City Thunder - Signed SG Luguentz Dort to a multi-year contract.

NCAA BASKETBALL Weber St. - Announced G Tevian Jones has left the program and will transfer to Southern Utah.

Weber St. - Announced F Tim Fuller has left the program and will transfer to Utah Valley.

Sports Flashbacks BASEBALL 1903 — Boston Beaneaters hurler Wiley Pratt becomes the only player in the 20th Century to lose two complete games in the same day, dropping 1-0 and 5-3 decisions to the Pittsburgh Pirates.

1928 — New York Giants third baseman Freddie Lindstrom equals a major-league record with nine hits in a doubleheader against the Philadelphia Phillies. The Giants win 12-4 and 8-2.

1934 — Lou Gehrig hits for the cycle in the New York Yankees’ 13-2 win over the Chicago White Sox. Yankees pitcher Johnny Broaca earns the win but strikes out five straight times at the plate.

1937 — Augie Calan of the Chicago Cubs becomes the first National League player to homer from both sides of the plate in the same game, turning the trick in an 11-2 rout of Brooklyn.

1949 — Brooklyn Dodgers first baseman Gil Hodges hits for the cycle - capped by a pair of home runs - in a wild 17-10 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates.

1950 — A year to the day after Hodges’ cycle, Pittsburgh’s Ralph Kiner returns the favor - also going deep twice while knocking in eight runs as the Pirates defeat Brooklyn 16-11.

1954 — St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Rip Repulski goes 1-for-3 in a 3-1 loss to Brooklyn, halting his streak of consecutive multi-hit games at 10.

Repulski hit an even .500 (22-for-44) during the run.

1961 — The Baltimore Orioles and California Angels combine to use a major league-record 16 pitchers (eight apiece) in Baltimore’s 9-8, 14-inning victory.

1968 — San Francisco Giants rookie Bobby Bonds belts a grand slam in his major-league debut - just the second player to do so - in a 9-0 triumph over the Los Angeles Dodgers.

1971 — Cleon Jones ties a National League mark by drawing six walks in the New York Mets’ doubleheader sweep of the Montreal Expos.

Rangers are exploring plans to admit up to 20,000 fans per game

By Jeff Wilson Fort Worth Star-Telegram (TNS)

The Texas Rangers said they are drafting a plan that would allow for as many as 20,000 fans to attend Major League Baseball games at Globe Life Field when the regular season begins next month.

Under the Open Texas guidelines put forth by the governor’s task force, the team is exploring the possibility of admitting fans at up to 50% of the stadium’s capacity of 40,000, team officials said Wednesday.

The 2020 MLB season is scheduled to begin July 23 or July 24, and the Rangers are preparing to welcome fans beginning with their first home game. The team expects to receive its schedule no later than Saturday.

Teams will play 60 games, with half of them at their home ballparks. If fans ultimately are permitted to attend the 30 regular-season games that would be played at the new ballpark in Arlington, season ticket holders would receive first priority.

Part of what would make it possible for fans to attend games in 2020 is Major League Baseball’s decision to bow to local ordinances on reopening plans. Rob Matwick, the Rangers executive vice president, said the team will consult with MLB as well as state and CDC guidelines — and not those of Tarrant County or Arlington — to determine the safest plan.

Gov. Greg Abbott told KTVV/Channel

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Texas Rangers players have been using a batting cage at the newly completed Globe Life Field in Arlington, pictured here on May 20. The Rangers say they are drafting a plan to allow as many as 20,000 fans to attend games at Globe Life Field when the regular season begins next month.

11 that his office plans to work with the Rangers and Houston Astros on finding a plan to safely put fans in ballparks. He said there is no current plan to change the 50% standard despite a spike in COVID-19 cases locally and statewide.

“We look forward to working with the teams and to find out their strategies to make sure they will be able to open up their stadiums safely,” Abbott said.

“Know this: If those teams cannot make the case to the public that their stadiums

will be safe, the public will not show up.

So, I feel confident we will find safe ways to open up the stadiums and have fans in the stands to watch Major League Baseball.”

The Rangers have hosted dozens of high school graduation ceremonies at Globe Life Field in recent weeks and have gathered an idea on how to socially distance crowds. However, those crowds were below 5,000 fans. The maximum crowd at baseball games could be four times that number.

Matwick said the Rangers are working on multiple seating manifests across all levels of the new $1.2 billion facility.

Crowds for graduations were spread only throughout the main concourse.

“We can’t jam, we don’t want to jam half the capacity into the two lowest levels, even though they would be closest to the action,” Matwick said. “To get the distribution we need for distancing, we’re going to have to carry that over all levels of ballpark.”

Rangers general manager Jon Daniels said that fans would be kept far enough away from the playing surface to keep players, club personnel and umpires safe. His primary concern is fan safety.

“I don’t think the players are so much at risk just because of the distance involved,” Daniels said. “When you get group of people together, that’s when you have to beware of it.”

Shortened MLB season will cost more than 100 players a season in their primes Neil Greenberg The Washington Post

On Monday, Major League Baseball owners voted unanimously to proceed with the 2020 MLB season under the terms of their March 26 agreement with the MLB Players Association. Commissioner Rob Manfred announced the season would be 60 games in length with “spring” training starting July 1 and an Opening Day on or around July 24.

The shortened season will lead to many anomalies, including the possibility of a .400 hitter or Triple Crown winner, albeit with an asterisk. It will also rob more than a hundred hitters of a year in their prime.

The window of a hitter’s prime years has been debated for decades, but a consensus has been built by notable baseball analysts. For example, in 1982, Bill James published a study in his “Baseball Abstract” that concluded “the heights of excellence” are produced most frequently by players aged 26 to 30 with their greatest value attained at age 27. Mitchel Lichtman, co-author of “The Book: Playing

The Percentages In Baseball,” found in 2009 the peak age to be “around 27-28.”

Jim Albert found a similar trend in 2017.

My research has found hitters in the majors reach their peak, in terms of wins above replacement, between ages 24 and 27.

In 2020, 134 hitters expected to be on the major league roster - either as everyday regulars, bench players or members of a platoon - will lose a season of their primes. No team will feel the effects more than the Baltimore Orioles, who have the most hitters - nine - between ages 24 and 27 penciled into their lineup. The New York Mets and Seattle Mariners are near the top, with eight hitters each in that age group. The Washington Nationals and Milwaukee Brewers each have just one player set to lose out on a full season during a peak year.

New York Mets first baseman Pete Alonso dominated the NL rookie of the year voting last year (29 of possible 30 first-place votes) after batting .260 with a rookie record 53 home runs plus 120 RBI. He will be 25 on Opening Day yet won’t have a full season to play what could be

the second year of his prime.

Other players affected in a similar way include Trea Turner, Francisco Lindor, Matt Chapman, Mookie Betts and Cody Bellinger.

Turner missed 40 games last season for the Washington Nationals and will now have just 60 to help bolster his free agency, set for 2023. The soon-to-be 27-yearold shortstop led the league in stolen bases in 2018 (43) and was the second-fastest position player of 2019 (average sprint speed of 30.4 feet per second), a skill that declines with age.

Lindor, 26, agreed with the Cleveland Indians on a one-year, $17.5 million deal to avoid arbitration in 2020 and is eligible for his last year of arbitration in 2021 before earning an opportunity to explore the free agent market. Cleveland’s twotime Gold Glove switch-hitting shortstop has hit 32 or more home runs in each of the past three seasons and hit .400 (12 for 30) with three home runs, three doubles and 10 RBI in 10 spring training games before baseball was suspended due to the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Chapman, 27, finished in the top 10 in

MVP voting in each of the past two seasons for the Oakland Athletics, setting a career high for isolated power -- a metric which measures a player’s ability to hit for extra-base hits -- at .257 to rank ninth in the American League last season.

Since entering the league in 2014, only Mike Trout has produced more wins above replacement than Betts, now of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Betts, 27, is one year away from free agency and will miss most of what effectively could be the final season in his prime.

The Dodgers’ Bellinger, the reigning NL MVP and a former rookie of the year, has improved each season in a major league uniform. In 2019 he batted .305 with a 1.035 OPS, leading the league in total bases (351 with 47 home runs) and intentional walks (21). His 7.8 wins above replacement tied for the league lead last year and is among the Top 50 hitter performances since 2006. Per FanGraphs, a conservative estimate of 6.5 wins above replacement (the most in the NL) was established for him if the 2020 season had been played in its entirety.

Baseball 2020 will be remembered most for COVID-19 Bob Brookover The Philadelphia Inquirer

PHILADELPHIA — Hello baseball, it’s me — COVID-19.

I’m here, I’m there, I’m everywhere. I’m so big, I’m going to pull a Joel Embiid and give myself a nickname — The Ubiquitous 1-9.

I apologize for bringing out the worst in you, and by you I mean the owners and the players union. I was really surprised it took so little time for you to map out the health protocols to prevent me from invading your clubhouses and ballparks, but you could not make any headway on your dollar disagreements even after months and months of talking at each other.

You probably shouldn’t feel too confident about those 67 pages of health protocols, either. Did you see Tuesday’s news? Two more Phillies players and two additional staff members have COVID-19. For those of you scoring at home, that’s seven Phillies players and five staff members infected by the coronavirus.

Don’t feel too bad, though.

Ubiquitous 1-9 is a multisport virus. Novak Djokovic is the No. 1 tennis player in the world, but that did not prevent him from coming down with COVID-19 after returning to the court in an exhibition tour.

Pick a team in college football and do a web search to see if it has been infected by

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Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, wearing a Washington Nationals face mask to testify at a hearing of the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce on Capitol Hill on Tuesday in Washington, D.C.

COVID-19. You might be surprised to learn how many places where the answer is yes, and the programs are only in the voluntary workout phase of their summer training. In January, LSU and Clemson played for a national championship. This month, they have both been unable to defend against COVID-19.

Sooner or later baseball, you’re going to have to start answering some tough questions about playing in a COVID-19 world.

Here are some questions with some likely COVID-19

answers: — If the season begins and the three best players on one team all get infected, doesn’t that pretty much end any chance that team has of making the playoffs during a 60-game season?

The COVID-19 answer: What has happened to the Phillies is proof that this scenario could definitely occur once play resumes. The fans are going to either laugh at you or be infuriated with you if you start the season and have to stop it.

— How are you going to

prevent players from going out at night on the road when all the states have reopened?

The COVID-19 answer: We know your protocol prohibits team personnel from eating at restaurants, but if you have seen what has been going on around the country since it reopened, you can’t possibly be confident that all players will abide by this guideline.

— No spitting? Really?

The COVID-19 answer: Too busy laughing. The overunder on this rule being followed is a half-inning at each ballpark. It’s really not funny, however, because that longrunning habit of baseball players could be a coronavirus super spreader.

— Is baseball hopeful its protocols can work because of the success of the KBO at guarding against the coronavirus?

The COVID-19 answer: The KBO is not a good model for Major League Baseball because the impact of the coronavirus in the United States has been so much greater than the impact in South Korea.

— What are you going to do if someone dies from the virus?

The COVID-19 answer: The virus, based on the data, is more of a spreader than a killer in young people. But just one death of a player, coach, manager, or anybody else who makes a living around the ballclub will be a tragedy that

is never forgotten and should never be forgiven.

Without the Ubiquitous 1-9, it looked like the 2020 baseball season had some real promise.

At the very least, it was going to help fans get past the Houston Astros’ cheating scandal.

COVID-19 did that instead.

You’re welcome, Houston.

Now, despite Ubiquitous 1-9’s far-reaching presence, the games will go on even though you players and owners seem to really despise each other. You’ll get your TV revenue and you’ll at least get a glimpse of the future with the universal designated hitter.

You’ll also get a chance to see if you like the gimmick of starting a runner at second base with nobody out in extra innings. It’s a little bit like the three-on-three overtime and shootout in the NHL. The traditionalists will tell you they hate it, but they’ll watch it and find it entertaining.

I really liked the idea of expanded playoffs, especially after a 60-game season, but you guys messed that up.

Well, I’m still here, baseball, and you don’t seem to be respecting my presence nearly enough. I’ve seen the predictions for October. A second wave of Ubiquitous 1-9 is more likely than record World Series ratings. This you can bank on: Fifty years from now, COVID-19 will be remembered a lot more than your risky 2020 baseball season.

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Limiting college football stadiums to 50% capacity is a big blow for athletic departments Chuck Carlton The Dallas Morning News

DALLAS — Call it half-full or half-empty.

Either way, a state of Texas decision to limit the capacity of college football stadiums to 50% capacity would represent a major blow to the bottom line of college athletic departments. And some season-ticket holders could be part of the hard decisions of the new COVID-19 landscape.

During a recent video conference with Division I athletic directors in the state, Gov. Greg Abbott told the group to plan on 50% capacity for the upcoming football season. He confirmed the original USA Today report at a recent press conference and said his concern went beyond fans in the stands.

“It includes more than just the seating strategy,” Abbott said. “It includes the way people will go about the process of entering stadiums.

They’ll include things such as avoiding large gathering areas within stadiums and certain other strategies.”

That leaves football schools throughout the state potentially making hard decisions. During a recent school video, Texas A&M Chancellor John Sharp called Aggie football “the economic driver” for the athletic department.

It’s not inaccurate. A&M generated about $45 million in football ticket revenue last season, athletic director Ross Bjork said, in addition to $40 million in donations tied to priority. Factoring licensing, TV and the postseason, football accounts for about 80% of athletic department

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Oklahoma celebrates after the defense stopped the Texas Christian offense on fourth down in the fourth quarter on November 23, 2019, at Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium in Norman, Oklahoma.

revenue, Bjork said.

At nearly all FBS schools, football helps fund the nonrevenue and Olympic sports.

Not everybody has given up hope of stadiums that more closely resemble the packed houses we’ve seen in the past. Bjork and Texas AD Chris Del Conte have talked recently about having something close to the normal game-day experience. Texas netted $42.5 million in football ticket revenue in 2018, according to published reports.

Following the meeting

with Abbott, Bjork was not ready to commit to any reduced seating planning, still viewing the situation as fluid.

“As of today, we still have time on our side,” Bjork said, “and we will not make decisions based on incomplete information.”

At the same time, nearly all schools have started looking at the implications at reduced seating. Del Conte told Sports Illustrated that his staff had looked at nine different models.

Baylor AD Mack Rhoades said the school began

The Washington Post

The NFL is canceling the Hall of Fame Game scheduled for early August, making its first adjustment to its 2020 schedule due to the novel coronavirus pandemic, according to multiple people familiar with the league’s planning.

The cancellation is expected to be announced Thursday by the Pro Football Hall of Fame, according to one of those people.

The move comes as owners of the 32 NFL teams prepare to speak by video conference Thursday afternoon about planning for the season. The league could shorten the preseason from four games per team (or five in the case of the Dallas Cowboys and Pittsburgh Steelers, the scheduled participants in the Hall of Fame Game) to two per team, although it’s not known when that decision will be made.

The Cowboys-Steelers game had been scheduled for Aug. 6 in Canton, Ohio.

The Hall of Fame Game serves as the annual lidlifter to the NFL’s preseason schedule. The Aug. 8 enshrinement ceremony for the newest members of the Hall of Fame is expected to be postponed, according to ESPN, which first reported the cancellation of the game.

Most NFL teams are scheduled to report to their training camps July 28.

The reduction of the preseason to two games per team would allow players to be eased into full-speed on-field activities at a slower-than-usual pace before preseason games begin.

That potentially could reduce injuries following an

offseason that included no on-field practices by teams, as their offseason programs for players were conducted remotely. Those offseason programs officially end Friday.

The league also has considered an earlier opening to training camps, a person familiar with the deliberations said previously, to allow for that slower rampingup of on-field activities. But the NFL Players Association would have to approve an earlier start to training camps and it appears increasingly unlikely that will happen.

The NFL’s regular season is scheduled to begin Sept.

10. League officials repeatedly have said they hope to play a full and on-time season, with teams playing in their own stadiums in their home cities. Allen Sills, the NFL’s chief medical officer, said last week he remains hopeful that the league will be able to start the season on time and play it to its completion, utilizing health and safety protocols being developed in cooperation with the NFLPA. “I am optimistic,” Sills said in a phone interview.

“I think that we’ve got a tremendous amount of effort that’s gone into these protocols and the creative work from the different stakeholders. Yes, I am optimistic.

But I think that we all have to be realistic as well to say that none of us can predict the future. I think there’s also a sense of timing here . . .. I just think that we’re going to see a whole lot of progress that’s made, and that’s going to continue to work to our benefit.”

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“Those are potentially going to be some really difficult conversations,” Rhoades said. “If you have a season ticket number that exceeds the 50 percent capacity, how do you narrow that down and reduce it to the 50 percent?

Absolutely, that’s going to be a challenge for every institution.”

Schools outside of Texas also face reduced capacity.

Like his colleagues in Texas and other states, Oklahoma AD Joe Castiglione will be

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modeling about May 1 based on 25%, 50% and 75% capacity and a reduction is built into the new athletic budget that went into effect June 1.

Baylor’s season-ticket base represents about 50% of capacity at 45,000-seat McLane Stadium. The rest of the normal game-day includes student seating and single-game sales, Rhoades said.

It’s not just the financial restrictions. At some schools where season-ticket holders are more than 50% of stadium capacity, longtime fans may find themselves without

dealing with state and local political and health officials.

Gaylord Family Memorial Stadium, with a capacity now of just over 80,000, has been sold out for every home game since 1999. With social distancing, that streak is distinctly in jeopardy.

“When you think of that, you’re talking about a significant reduction in seating capacity or people in the stadium and the financial impact related to how many you’re actually able to let in the stadium,” Castiglione said. “For us, it hasn’t been determined exactly yet. But we would be operating at somewhere less than 50%.”

He’s focused on preparation, not predictions at this point.

“All I’m saying is we’re working diligently to prepare to adjust to anything that we can allow,” Castiglione said.

The hard decisions would go away if the pandemic relents, if the number of cases decrease.

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“I think as of right now, it doesn’t seem like it’s trending that way but it changes,” Rhoades said. “There seems to be a spike in positive cases.

There’s no data today that says, ‘Hey, I feel really good about capacity moving from 50 percent if that is where we land to 75 percent.’ “ If proven medications are developed by the fall, it could be a totally different conversation.

“There’s still hope,” Rhoades said. “But if I have to make a decision based on what we know today, I don’t know that we’re going to get to more than 50 percent.”

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I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the lobby of the Columbia County Courthouse, 401 Union Street, Hudson, N.Y. on the 31st day of July, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. premises described as follows: All that certain plot. Piece or parcel, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate. Lying and being in the Town of Kinderhook, Columbia County, New York.

Said premises known as 5 Masterson Lane, Niverville, N.Y. 12130.

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Approximate amount of lien $ 189,332.96 plus interest and costs.

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NEW YORK — The New York City Marathon has been canceled because of the coronavirus.

The race was scheduled for Nov. 1 and was supposed to be the 50th running.

Improbably, it’s the second time in the last decade that the world’s biggest marathon has been canceled; the race wasn’t held after Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

“While the marathon is an iconic and beloved event in our city, I applaud New York Road Runners for putting the health and safety of both spectators and runners first,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said. “We look forward to hosting the 50th running of the marathon in November of 2021.”

The Road Runners had previously canceled races through August. There are still several NYRR events on the calendar between Aug. 15 and the November marathon, but Wednesday’s announcement included the news that there was a “likelihood of additional cancellations.” The most prominent of the remaining events is the 5th Avenue Mile in September. The NYC (March 15) and Brooklyn (April) half marathons were previously canceled.

“Canceling this year’s TCS New York City Marathon is incredibly disappointing for everyone involved,” NYRR president Michael Capiraso said.

“But it was clearly the course we needed to follow from a health and safety perspective.”

NYRR said in a statement that runners who qualified or won a lottery selection could have their registration fees (between $250 and $350) refunded, or receive a free entry between now

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Runners cross the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge during the 2019 TCS New York City Marathon in New York on Nov. 3, 2019. This year’s marathon has been canceled due to the coronavirus.

and 2023. Runners who qualified through a charity will have other options, to be made available beginning July 1.

Each year, approximately 50,000 runners finish the world’s largest marathon, which makes its way through all five boroughs. An event of that size is at obvious odds with the realities of life during a pandemic.

Over 22,000 people in New York City have died from the coronavirus, although cases have dipped sharply in June. After recording hundreds of deaths and thousands of new cases per day in the spring, 331 cases and 21 deaths were recorded on June 22, the most recent day statistics were available. But cases are rising in the rest of the United States, with the country recording over

36,000 new coronavirus cases on Sunday.

The city has entered “Phase 2? as hospitalizations and deaths have dropped, with bars and restaurants opening for sidewalk and backyard dining. But those places are still supposed to be enforcing social distancing regulations. There is no way for 50,000 people to maintain six feet of distance for each other while corralled in the start at the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge. (At the 50,000 runner mark, if socially distanced in the most efficient form possible, the field could stretch seven miles and perhaps more.)

Some marathons, like Tokyo, have canceled the mass fields and held elite-only events. New York organizers told the New York Times that they opted against that to avoid large crowds of spectators.

The Boston Marathon had been postponed to September and then was canceled late last month. Like the halting return of all American sports, the marathons’ cancellations is a reflection of the country’s struggles to contain the coronavirus. In Germany, the Hamburg Marathon — originally scheduled for April — announced it planned to host 10,000 runners in September.

Minutes after the NYRR’s announcement, the Berlin Marathon was canceled. Between New York, Boston, Berlin, and the Olympics, four of the seven major marathons scheduled for 2020 will not be held.

While the London and Chicago marathons have not yet been canceled, both races have admitted that cancellation is a possibility. London was previously postponed from April to October.

LeBron James’ Decision a decade later: Stern’s ire, awkward TV, lessons learned

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New York Jets head coach Adam Gase looks on prior to a game against the Buffalo Bills on Dec. 29, 2019 at New Era Field.

Source: Gase played major role in Jamal Adams’ desire to be traded Manish Mehta New York Daily News

NEW YORK — The fissure between the Jets and Jamal Adams cracked open, thanks in part to a deteriorating relationship between the All-Pro safety and his head coach.

The Daily News has learned that Adam Gase is a major factor why Adams has felt uncomfortable with his long-term future with the team and requested a trade. The News first reported last week that Adams sought permission to seek a trade after no movement toward a contract extension this offseason.

However, Adams’ discontent runs much deeper than simply finances. The Jets’ best player does not want to play for Gase anymore for myriad reasons, according to sources.

The prevailing sentiment in the Jets’ locker room is clear: Players don’t respect Gase, who has rubbed them the wrong way with his inability to lead and lack of support. The mercurial head coach also drew the ire of a litany of players during his tenure with the Miami Dolphins.

Too many people on 1 Jets Drive — including players, coaches and front office members — don’t trust or believe in Gase, whose disingenuous bent hasn’t been lost on people in the organization. They painted a picture of an insecure figure always willing to point the

finger at others for the team’s failings last season. No player, or person, was immune.

Gase’s dislike for long-time trainer John Mellody paved the way for the respected employee’s ouster (aka “reassignment”) last week, according to sources.

Some team sources believe that Sam Darnold and David Fales are among the few returning players that actually tolerate Gase, a stinging indictment of a coach who has been associated with losing cultures for the better part of his football life.

Gase has worked for six teams in 17 NFL seasons. He’s been a part of a team with a winning record in only four of those 17 seasons. Moreover, Gase has been part of a team with a winning record just once in 14 seasons without Peyton Manning on his team. His five offenses without Manning at the helm have finished 21st, 24th, 25th, 31st and 32nd, respectively.

That backdrop has raised plenty of eyebrows on 1 Jets Drive. Gase’s awkwardness and poor communication skills haven’t endeared him to players.

Some simply don’t believe that he’s fit to be a head coach.

He doesn’t comport himself as anything more than a glorified quarterbacks coach, according to some people in the organization.

It has been nearly a decade since a moment in sports like no other, on July 8, 2010, when LeBron James, on the ESPN television special titled The Decision, announced he was leaving the Cleveland Cavaliers in NBA free agency to sign with the Miami Heat.

Now, as part of an ESPN series, “Backstory: The Decision,” which features the investigative reporting of three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Don Van Natta Jr., offers a behind-the-scenes examination of a night that in many ways changed athlete empowerment.

In advance of Sunday’s 9 p.m. ESPN broadcast, the Sun Sentinel was provided an advance screening of the show, which the network said is still being completed.

The line that still resonates from that summer night at the Boys & Girls Club in Greenwich, Conn., is both the famous and infamous, “I’m going to take my talents to South Beach and join the Miami Heat.”

And yet, near the end of the hour-long documentary, it is Van Natta who notes of the understated tack James took through his own media control in 2014 with his free-agency return to Cleveland as well as his 2018 move to the Los Angeles Lakers, “Never again would he be defined by a single poorly chosen phrase.”

In between, with interviews with ESPN executives and others, Van Natta, true to the anthology’s theme, offers a backstory about a single hour, witnessed by nearly 10 million, that changed the NBA, and arguably sports and beyond, with James going on to win 2012 and ‘13 championships with the Heat alongside Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh.

Included in Backstory: The Decision: — Of granting the hour of broadcast time without charge, former ESPN President John Skipper says, “It’s what we had to do to get the show.”

— Van Natta notes of late NBA Commissioner David Stern, “Stern Was. Livid. He demanded that Skipper cancel the show.”

— James’ former agent, current New York Knicks executive Leon Rose, initially was in favor of the production but later expressed second thoughts ahead of the airing.

— The idea for James’ televised announcement came from an idea pitched

by The Ringer’s Bill Simmons, and later

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ESPN’s Jim Gray, left, speaks with LeBron James at the LeBron James Pre-Decision Meet and Greet fundraiser on July 8, 2010 in Greenwich, Connecticut.

advanced by longtime sportscaster Jim Gray.

— Van Atta notes of ESPN that “nobody wanted Gray to do it,” saying the preferences to host were Bob Ley or the late Stuart Scott.

— With Gray taking 21 minutes to ask James to name his destination, Van Natta says someone inside the ESPN production room blurted, “Oh my God, get to it already!”

— James arrived only 15 minute before the show went live, after dinner with Kanye West.

— Of the uneven, stilted interview, Skipper says, “I was surprised, because I thought it would be scripted.”

— Of James’ words to announce the decision, Skipper says, “It was pretty clear immediately that that was an inelegant way to say it.” (The shows notes the wording was eerily similar to the

phrasing the late Kobe Bryant used in 1996 to announce he was going directly from high school to the NBA.) — James then asked Gray to stay for follow up questions for LeBronJames. com, with Gray heard saying in the background, “You really want this?”

— Also included is a review of the letter penned in the immediate wake of the decision by Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert that called James’ departure a “cowardly betrayal.”

— The episode notes that James and his inner circle declined to be interviewed.

(After its initial airing Sunday at 9 p.m. Eastern on ESPN, the program will re-air at 11 p.m. on ESPN2 and will be available for on-demand viewing on the ESPN App. It will eventually be available to stream on ESPN+.)

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doesn’t rise to the level of a hate crime.

As NASCAR’s investigation goes on, the multiple unanswered questions, as well as the intricacies of the sport’s garage stall assignment policy, have sowed broad confusion, deepened skepticism among many and hardened the positions of conspiracists who either reject the FBI’s findings or are convinced Wallace staged the scene.

As many fans struggle to make sense of the sequence of events, several facts are not in dispute, at least in the view of the FBI and NASCAR: There was a noose in Talladega’s No. 4 stall, which Wallace’s team was assigned. The FBI referred to it as a noose four times; NASCAR President Steve Phelps referred to as a noose several times, as well.

It had been there for at least eight months, confirmed by grainy background footage of a video interview shot in the walkway in front of the stall in October 2019, when the Woods Brothers team occupied the spot.

No other Talladega stall had a rope-pull fashioned like a noose.

Wallace, 26, whose call for NASCAR to ban displays of the Confederate flag at its tracks this month was instrumental in Phelps announcing that long-discussed step June 10, issued a statement Wednesday saying he was “relieved” that investigators concluded that what had been feared wasn’t the case. And he vowed that the controversy would not detract from the show of unity by drivers and crew members at the start of Monday’s rain-postponed race or the progress stock-car racing has made to be more welcoming.

Racial tensions already were high when NASCAR’s Cup series turned to Talladega, one hour east of Birmingham, for Sunday’s scheduled race. NASCAR’s biggest and fastest track, Talladega is also the most muscular symbol of stock-car racing’s following in the

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fives, please.

What is the penalty for spitting, exactly? Did the first-base umpire, out of the corner of his eye, just see expectorate leave the maw of the second baseman?

Welcome to the new abnormal.

The NBA plans to resume play in an Orlando bubble, the NHL in two hub cities and MLS also in Orlando. (The reminds me, is Mickey Mouse wearing a protective mask?

Are he and Minnie social distancing?)

Baseball teams, at least, will be at their home stadiums as they report July 1 to prepare for a 60-game

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category were three-time Stanley Cup champion Marian Hossa; defenseman Kevin Lowe, who won six championships with the Edmonton Oilers and New York Rangers; defenseman Doug Wilson, and three-time Olympic women’s hockey gold medalist Kim St-Pierre. Ken Holland, who guided the Detroit Red Wings to four Cup titles as their assistant general manager and general manager, was elected in the builders’ category.

Iginla, best known for his 16 seasons with the Calgary

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alone, he injured his face, shoulder and knee, ultimately opting for surgery to correct his right shoulder impingement.

Spencer Dinwiddie, Caris LeVert, Garrett Temple, Joe Harris and — surprisingly — DeAndre Jordan have assumed the brunt of the Nets’ playmaking in Irving’s absence. G-League call-up Chris Chiozza has also emerged as a spark plug off the bench.

For Marks, it appears the more is truly the merrier. In a guard-powered league, the Nets have doubled-down on their back court, and Johnson — likely on a minimum deal as a free agent — is a low-risk, potentially high-reward pickup

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Former NASCAR driver Richard Petty (cowboy hat) walks alongside as NASCAR drivers push the car of NASCAR Cup Series driver Bubba Wallace to the front of the grid on pit road before the Geico 500 at Talladega Superspeedway on Monday.

Deep South, built on land donated to NASCAR founder Bill France in 1968 by his good friend and Alabama’s then-governor, George Wallace.

It’s also the track where the Confederate flag flies most prevalently in the infield, hoisted by fans who view it as a symbol of a proud, defiant heritage and love NASCAR for much the same reason.

Although 5,000 spectators were admitted Sunday for what was NASCAR’s second race since the Confederate flag ban was announced, several protesters gathered outside

the track to display their flags, and a plane flew overhead toting a Confederate flag banner proclaiming “DEFUND NASCAR.” Before each race, NASCAR assigns garage stalls based on the current season point standings, with the leader getting the most desirable - typically the one closest to the track entrance, for easy access on and off during frenzied practice sessions, the number of which varies from track to track. The secondplace team gets the next stall, the third-place team gets the next stall, and so on.

Wallace was 20th in the standings entering

the race at Talladega, so normally he would have been assigned the stall 19 spots down from points leader Kevin Harvick.

But under coronavirus protocols, NASCAR groups multicar teams together to limit social interaction in the garage.

So Sunday at Talladega, the preferred stall went to Harvick as the points leader, and his three Stewart Haas teammates (Clint Bowyer, Aric Amirola and Cole Custer) were assigned the next stalls in order beside him before Joey Logano, who is second in the standings, and his Team Penske teammates were slotted in.

The domino effect pushed Wallace’s Richard Petty team further back in the pecking order, all the way to Stall No. 4. (At Talladega, the No. 1 stall is near the back of the garage, and thus not desirable.)

When a member of Wallace’s Richard Petty-owned No. 43 team noticed the noose Sunday afternoon amid the charged atmosphere at a venue known for its flag-waving fans, he reported it to the team’s crew chief, who then reported it to NASCAR. Phelps, the NASCAR president, went to Wallace’s infield motor home to inform him.

Wallace hadn’t seen the noose because NASCAR drivers aren’t allowed in the garage under strict social-distancing guidelines.

Hours later, NASCAR issued a statement reporting the finding and condemning the act as “heinous.”

Less than 48 hours later, the FBI concluded its work.

“It’s been an emotional few days,” Wallace said on his social media post Wednesday.

“First off, I want to say how relieved I am that the investigation revealed that this wasn’t what we feared it was. I want to thank my team, NASCAR and the FBI for acting swiftly and treating this as a real threat. I think we’ll gladly take a little embarrassment over what the alternatives could have been.

“Make no mistake, though some will try, this should not detract from the show of unity we had on Monday, and the progress we’ve made as a sport to be a more welcoming environment for all.”

regular season — the longest sport’s shortest ever — with the new opening day set for July 23 or 24.

But what about fans? Stay tuned. Depending on state and local regulations regarding the pandemic, some home stadiums will be empty, others likely will allow a limited number of fans.

Seems patently unfair to those teams with stricter state laws, and an arbitrary advantage to teams, like the Miami Marlins, in states that have dubiously opened up more than some others — the resulting inexorable spike in coronavirus patients an apparent fair tradeoff for the goose to the economy.

Both leagues will use a designated hitter (it’s about time), and extra innings will start with a runner on second base for the batting team (a

fun idea). MLB should use its truncated season as a petri dish for forward-thinking ideas, such as mic’d up players.

Teams will play their four division rivals 10 times each, and five geographically near interleague opponents four times each, in a regular season set to end September 27.

The playoffs will be 10 teams, five per league, as usual.

No expanded playoffs hurts the Marlins. So does being in an NL East where all four other teams are seen as better. Still, the shorter season will mean an increased playoff shot for teams not seen as contenders, like Miami. It’s common sense. You have more of a chance to fool somebody or ride a wave over 60 games than you do over 162. It’s the same theory that

says a No. 16 seed beating a No. 1 in one game is more likely than the underdog prevailing over a seven-game series.

The Marlins are 250-1 long shots to win the World Series, but listen to what Caesars Sportsbook senior oddsmaker Rex Beyers told ESPN. He could have been talking about Miami.

“It would seem plausible to me,” he said, “that there will be money (on) some of the midrange to longer-shot teams that might field young lineups, or hotshot young pitching that the league hasn’t seen much of yet.”

Anyway, at least we’re talking baseball again. At least for now.

Troubling questions hover during the entirety of sports’ restart. The possibility of it turning into one gargantuan,

regrettable mess is real.

Should it be happening at all? In the midst of a pandemic that has taken more than 120,000 American lives and is showing a worrisome uptick in cases?

(Florida on Wednesday confirmed 5,508 additional cases of COVID-19, a state record).

And should sports’ return be happening in the midst of civil unrest and protest in the wake of the George Floyd killing?

Does it feel right? Playing games in all of this?

Nine Philadelphia Phillies and three Colorado Rockies have recently tested positive for coronavirus. Some NBA players already have opted out of their league’s restart.

Surely more in all sports will do the same.

Despite abundant caution

and frequent testing, sports will not be immune from the virus threat moving forward.

Imagine late summer turning into fall. Baseball, basketball, hockey and soccer are all in their playoffs and football is kicking in — all of it surrounded by what is feared to be a late-year recurrence of the coronavirus. As the national cry for social justice continues. And we bear down on a bitterly divisive presidential election that might be the most momentous of our lifetimes.

The new reality is quite unreal.

The new normal is abnormal, indeed.

It will be fun to see how sports plays out the rest of this year.

Fun, though? Maybe a little frightening, too.

Flames, had 625 goals and 1,300 points in 1,554 regular-season games over 22 seasons. He was a first-team All-Star selection three times and won the goal-scoring and scoring titles in 2001-02.

He repeated as the goal-scoring champion in 2003-04. He also won two Olympic gold medals. Iginla, 42, was elected in his first year of eligibility.

“It’s very, very special,” said Iginla, who was born in Canada to an American-born mother and Nigerian father and was named Jarome Arthur-Leigh Adekunle Tig Junior Elvis Iginla. “Later in my career I was definitely hopeful (of being elected). Earlier in my career I was just trying

to stay afloat.”

Iginla is the fourth Black player elected to the Hall, following former goaltender Grant Fuhr, women’s hockey standout Angela James, and Black hockey pioneer Willie O’Ree. Acquired by the Los Angeles Kings from Colorado on March 1, 2017, for a conditional fourth-round pick in the 2018 draft, Iginla had six goals and nine points in 19 games. Iginla retired after that season.

Hossa, a native of Slovakia, played 19 seasons with the Ottawa Senators, Atlanta Thrashers, Pittsburgh Penguins, Red Wings and Chicago Blackhawks and collected 525 goals and 1,134 points in 1,309 games. He was a

member of the Blackhawks’ Cup-winning teams in 2010, 2013 and 2015.

Lowe was a member of the Oilers’ dynasty that won the Cup five times in seven seasons, and he added a sixth title with the Rangers. His teammates were flashy but he was steady, focusing on the defensive aspects of the game. “I think I perhaps represent the next level of guys who helped to win championships,” he told nhl.com. “I appreciate that my contributions to the teams I played on are being recognized in this way.”

Wilson, now the general manager of the San Jose Sharks, won the Norris Trophy as the NHL’s

best defenseman in 1982.

He holds many Blackhawks team records for defensemen, including goals (225) and points (779). “I’m not even a Hall of Famer in my own house, so joining this club means the world to me,” he told nhl.com. “I would like to thank all of the people who have been so good to me in this game.”

St-Pierre was a goaltender who compiled a 1.17 goalsagainst average and .939 save percentage while playing for Canada. In addition to three Olympic gold medals she also won five women’s world championships. “When I was growing up it was only boys, and when that changed my dream was able to come

(true),” she said. “I’m grateful and would like to thank all of my coaches and my family.”

Holland was a goaltender as a player but appeared in only four NHL games, spending the rest of his career in the minor leagues. He fared much better as an executive, using his scouting and managing abilities to build Red Wings teams that won the Cup in 1997, 1998, 2002 and 2008. “I am incredibly humbled by this honor,” he said.

“I am in this game because I loved it as a young man and I am happy to have been able to stay in the game.”

to play amid the coronavirus pandemic will play the next eight opponents on their schedule, provided that team has also been invited to the bubble. The next eight for the Nets, in order, are the: Clippers, Kings, Wizards, Celtics, Magic and Trail Blazers.

No game is an easy win.

The Nets must enter the Orlando bubble with caution. If the ninth seed is within four games of the eighth seed after the eight-game regular season finale, there will be a play-in tournament that’s single-elimination for the eighth seed and double elimination for the ninth. If the ninth seed (contender) beats the eighth seed (defender) twice in a row, they’ll leapfrog their way into the playoffs.

The Nets don’t have Kyrie Irving or Kevin Durant walking through the door, and David Nwaba just signed with

Houston, so he’s not coming back either. Remaining a playoff team will be their toughest challenge yet: Vaughn has only coached two games as Atkinson’s replacement this season.

He won both of them, the last of which was an impressive win in Los Angeles against the Lakers on March 10.

For the Nets, the magic number is five: Five wins get the Nets into the playoffs, which would be a heck of an accomplishment for a team that’s been stricken with injury all season.

The Theo Pinson-Tyler Johnson swap is more evidence proving the Nets are done waiting for their turn to sit at the table.

The team in Brooklyn wants its seat now. It needs to be warm when Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving come to feast.

for the Nets as the season resumes in Orlando.

Johnson found himself buried in the rotation in Phoenix, where Devin Booker reigns supreme in the Suns’ backcourt.

In the minutes he did play, Johnson was inconsistent, shooting below 40% from the field and below 30% from 3.

Another thing to consider: When Marks initially went after Johnson in 2016, Kenny Atkinson was the head coach.

Atkinson and the Nets abruptly split earlier this season with his lead assistant Jacque Vaughn stepping in as interim head coach. Does Vaughn see the same vision Atkinson and Marks did?

It’s fair to say that Vaughn is coaching for his job, and the Orlando bubble will be his showcase. The Nets have eight regular-season games to protect their playoff standing. They currently sit seventh

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Phoenix Suns guard Tyler Johnson (16) dribbles as Dallas Mavericks forward Justin Jackson (44) defends at American Airlines Center on Jan. 28.

in the Eastern Conference, a half-game ahead of the eighthplace Magic and six games

ahead of Bradley Beal’s ninthseeded Washington Wizards.

The 22 NBA teams returning

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Man’s unsure mental health clouds the future encouraged to talk with a licensed mental health professional not only about his depression, but also his glaring lack of self-esteem.

From your description, I would have to say he needs a friend now more than a romance, so take plenty of time if you proceed in this relationship.

Dear Abby, I recently started dating again after ending a very difficult marriage. To say I am guarding my heart for fear of getting hurt would be an understatement.

I have met someone that I can see having a future with, but DEAR ABBY some things concern me. He has been hospitalized for mental health reasons in the past. He mentions his depression almost daily, and he hates being, as he puts it, “messed up in the head.”

He just can’t seem to move past his issues.

I feel like he doesn’t want to move forward and start living his life again. I have lived with depression for most of my life, but it doesn’t define who I am.

My question is, am I being overly cautious based on not wanting to get hurt again, or should I take a step back? I would like to see a future with him, but I’m not sure he is ready to see any kind of a future with anyone.

Guarded Heart

Dear Abby, My husband and I will soon celebrate our 32nd wedding anniversary. It bothers me increasingly that he doesn’t wear a wedding ring. He says a ring bothers him when he is working, but he has been retired for most of our marriage. He wears a chain with two pendants as well as a large gold bracelet every day.

When I bring it up, he says he tells everyone he meets that he’s married or mentions me in conversation. I’m not worried about him being unfaithful. I just like the way a ring looks and makes me feel. Advice?

Symbolic In Florida

You are not being overly cautious. You are asking yourself intelligent, insightful questions about someone who appears not as far along on the path to mental wellness as you are. Is this man still being treated for his issues? If not, he should be

You have been married — I presume happily — for 32 years. Not every man is comfortable wearing a ring. (My husband happens to be one of them.) My advice is to stop obsessing, let it go and let him be himself.

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Exercises for arthritic hands: beneficial or detrimental?

I am a 69-year-old woman developing arthritis in my fingers, especially the middle joints.

I do various finger bending and straightening exercises, and I rub my hands together vigorously to warm TO YOUR them.

GOOD HEALTH I recently visited a hand orthopedist to get a steroid injection into the worst joint.

To my surprise, he advised me to avoid exercising my fingers because it puts extra strain on the joints and may accelerate the symptoms.

Are you aware of evidence for or against hand exercise to keep arthritis in check?

DR. KEITH ROACH

It is true that symptoms of osteoarthritis in the hand, which is by far the most likely cause of hand pain in older women, will often get worse after exercise. So, although the orthopedist’s recommendation makes some sense at first look, I doubt that stretching and straightening exercises are doing harm: It’s high-impact exercises that should be avoided.

Moreover, there is sufficient data from clinical studies to make us reasonably sure that regular hand exercises, done consistently over a period of time ranging from three to six months, reduced hand stiffness and pain, and improved hand function. My advice is to avoid overdoing hand tasks but to discuss a referral to a hand physical or occupational therapist to get exercises.

I have been bothered by the fungi on my toenails — eight of them! I tried every over-thecounter remedy, to no avail. I asked my doctor for an oral medicine that worked for my friend, but then I was hesitant to take it after she said this: I have to take the medicine for six months, and my liver should be tested every month.

That scared me. It must be a dangerous drug to require a liver test every month. Please give me your opinion regarding this. Is it true that only oral medicine cure toenails and not any

of the other medicines I tried? Can you recommend something?

The prescription medication efinaconazole (Jublia) is specifically designed to treat nail fungus, and is applied to the toenails. Trials show it has 15% to 20% effectiveness, which sounds bad, but is much better than the over-thecounter options. Unfortunately, it is very expensive: A bottle (which lasts about a week) costs about $600 at goodrx. com, and treatment is intended to last 48 weeks.

That’s a whopping $28,800 to have a less than 50/50 chance of curing toenail fungus — unless you are lucky enough to have coverage for this new drug.

A second topical medication, tavaborole (Kerydin) has similar effectiveness but is even more expensive.

Oral medications, such as terbinafine (Lamisil) and itraconazole (Sporanox), are more effective than any topical treatment, with cure rates ranging from 60% to over 80%. However, they do have the rare potential to cause liver damage, sometimes permanently, even fatally. Because of this, I recommend against it. I have prescribed it on rare occasion in people who understood and accepted the risks. If knowing this, it is worth it to an individual, he or she can override their physician’s recommendation.

Many readers have written over the years with over-the-counter and home remedies. These include Vicks VapoRub, tea tree oil, Norway spruce resin, acetic acid (vinegar), oregano oil, Listerine and many others. However, data showing effectiveness is minimal or none. Newer treatments being studied include laser and other light therapies.

Even if a treatment is effective, recurrence is common, and many people will use creams indefinitely to prevent reinfection despite absence of evidence that it helps.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — You can give yourself more of what you want and more of what works well for you once you dispense with business you consider in the way.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Take care that you approach those who work longer and harder than you in the right vein. You don’t want to come off as too privileged.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — It’s important for

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By Stella Wilder Born today, you combine the physical, emotional and intellectual in a well-balanced package, and you’re not easily shaken from any stance you may take — for it is carefully built to suit your particular makeup and the circumstances in which you find yourself at any given time. Some may wonder how you are able to anticipate events the way you do, but, in fact, it is less anticipation than acceptance. You will work with what comes your way to make the best of it, especially in situations that would simply be too much for those around you. You love a challenge.

Rare is the man or woman who can plumb your depths with any accuracy whatsoever. He or she is sure to be dear to you from the moment you meet to the end of your lives — and you’re likely to know him or her just as well.

Also born on this date are: Ariana Grande, singer; Derek Jeter, baseball player; Gretchen Wilson, singer; Eleanor Parker, actress; Abner Doubleday, U.S. military leader.

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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you to be a productive member of the team today, even though you’ve lost the interest you once shared with others.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Someone far from home reaches out to you, but you may not be able to provide what is asked of you until you run aground in some way yourself.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Leave nothing undone today that cannot be done any other time.

Once you’ve passed a certain point, opportunities are few and far between.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — You suspect that someone close to you is contributing to a wave of challenges coming your way at this time. Fight back!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Your faith in those around you is likely to wax and wane throughout the day; pay attention to the most reliable performance indicators.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — You can do much more today than you have advertised to others — which is all a part of your master plan to keep them on their toes.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — You may require more than one reminder to “keep it down” today — but what are you to do? There’s much to react to and something to celebrate.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — That which is shocking to someone else seems only slightly outside the realm of the ordinary and routine to you.

Why is this so?

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — Your overall outlook may be changing once again. Someone you know is pushing your buttons. Does that have something to do with it?

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You are trying to do something that no one else has done, but the going may be slow and quite trying during this sometimes difficult day.

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THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME

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

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

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

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(Answers tomorrow) Jumbles: CHILD DOILY HEALTH NAUSEA Answer: When they went hiking on the Alaskan glacier, they — HAD AN “ICE” DAY

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Solution to Thursday’s puzzle

Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit, 1 to 9.

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(e.g., The shortest film (approx. 1 hr. 28 min.) to win the Best Picture Oscar. Answer: “Marty.”)

Freshman level 1. The longest film (approx. 3 hrs. 54 min.) to win the Best Picture Oscar.

2. The woman who has won the most Best Actress Oscars.

3. The oldest man to win the Best Actor in a Leading Role Oscar.

Graduate level 4. The person nominated the most times for Best Director.

5. The man who has won the most Best Actor in a Leading Role Oscars.

6. The person nominated the most times for Best Actress in a Leading Role Oscar.

PH.D. level 7. The oldest person to win the Best Director Oscar.

8. Best Original Screenplay: Most nominated (16), most wins (3) and oldest winner (76).

9. The oldest person to win the Best Actress in a Leading Role Oscar.

SUPER QUIZ ANSWERS 1. “Gone With the Wind.” 2. Katharine Hepburn (4). 3. Henry Fonda (76).

4. William Wyler (12 nominations, 3 wins). 5. Daniel Day-Lewis (3). 6. Meryl Streep (17). 7. Clint Eastwood (74). 8. Woody Allen. 9. Jessica Tandy (80).

18 points — congratulations, doctor; 15 to 17 points — honors graduate; 10 to 14 points — you’re plenty smart, but no grind; 4 to 9 points — you really should hit the books harder; 1 point to 3 points — enroll in remedial courses immediately; 0 points — who reads the questions to you?

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Crossword Puzzle Mother Goose & Grimm ACROSS 1 In style 5 Sticker for a perfect paper 9 Walk with heavy steps 13 Asian capital city 15 Sticky strip 16 Nighttime dance party 17 Fiery felony 18 Blunt 20 Teacher’s favorite 21 Year opener: abbr.

23 Grouchy 24 Cosmetic for the cheeks 26 Fail to keep up 27 Geometric shape 29 Beginning 32 Fortunate 33 Declare 35 VW followers 37 Stable dinner 38 Mary Tyler __ 39 Create 40 Fight result, for short 41 Helsinki folks 42 Competes in a derby 43 Slipping up 45 Most immaculate 46 Spanish cheer 47 Slender candle 48 Arnold with a club 51 Female animal 52 Word of disgust 55 Able and willing to change 58 Escape detection by 60 Walking stick 61 Money borrowed 62 Stringed instrument 63 Watched 64 Gullible fools 65 Post-it note message DOWN 1 Fellow 2 Aesop’s race loser 3 Teacher 4 Dove’s sound 5 Pebble

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6 Aristotle’s “T” 7 Tenement unit: abbr.

8 Determined 9 Fork parts 10 Fishing spot 11 “__ the Rainbow” 12 Declare untrue 14 Wound or fracture 19 Babble 22 Old __; golden years 25 Thousand __, CA 27 __ machines; casino attractions 28 Tremble 29 Doesn’t have both __ in the water 30 Make worse 31 Toddlers 33 Melody 34 Weight unit 36 Gusto 38 Calcium, iron, zinc, etc.

39 Stallion’s mate 41 __ mignon; tender steak

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42 Calcutta cash 44 Frolicked 45 Boxer’s foot 47 Many new drivers 48 Rate of speed 49 “Queen for __” of old TV

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50 “Penny __”; Beatles song 53 West, for one 54 Rescuer 56 Feathery scarf 57 Living in the __ of luxury 59 Vigor

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