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COXSACKIE — Nearly 200 people spoke with one voice in Coxsackie on Sunday as they demanded justice for George Floyd, the unarmed, handcuffed black man who died while in the custody of Minneapolis police on Memorial Day. “I am here to protest police brutality, spurred by the death of George Floyd,” Sunny South, from Coxsackie, said.

Protesters carried signs and

chanted “Black Lives Matter,” “No Justice, No Peace” and other slogans at the intersection of Route 9W and Route 385 on Sunday.

“Racism isn’t new, and it is something that should be more brought to light so we can fix things, along with police brutality,” Coxsackie resident Jordan Keller said.

Floyd, 46, died after a police officer, Derek Chauvin, allegedly knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes while Floyd was being arrested and

pleaded with the officers, claiming he could not breathe.

Floyd later died.

Chauvin and the other three officers were fired and face charges in Floyd’s death.

Chauvin, 44, was charged with second-degree murder without intent, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter. The other three former officers — J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao — have been charged as See 200 A8

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Nearly 200 protesters turned out on Route 9W in Coxsackie on Sunday to call for justice in the case of George Floyd and similar cases.

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reforms that will empower New Yorkers, improve transparency and help save lives.

The legislation that will be passed over the coming days will help stop bad actors and send a clear message that brutality, racism, and unjustified killings will not be tolerated.”

Heastie said in a statement

CATSKILL — Local restaurants and other businesses reopened with modifications, including patio dining.

Seven regions, including the Capital District, are in phase 2, with others expected to follow

by Wednesday. Phase 2 allows offices, salons, car dealerships and other businesses to open their doors, with mandated changes such as social distancing and face coverings.

Spring Kelsey, owner of Salon 255 in Coxsackie, said her business reopened with the required modifications.

“There are a lot of restrictions and guidelines we are required to do, but despite all of that, we had a great week and everybody has been very supportive,” Kelsey said. “It’s been much better than I expected.”

Hair salons and barbershops are required to operate at 50% capacity, and customers must wait outside or in their cars for their appointment, Kelsey said.

“They have to log in and we can’t use our waiting room,” she said. “Obviously, everyone wanted to get in yesterday, but it has worked out,” she said.

“The phone hasn’t stopped ringing since we reopened.

Even though we may not be essential, we are doing very important work.”

The Columbia County Chamber of Commerce has been working with the county’s tourism department and the Columbia Economic Development Corporation to promote the reopening of businesses of all kinds in the county, Chamber of Commerce President Jeffrey Hunt said.

“There are more businesses reopening and efforts to encourage people to shop local,” Hunt said. “We have started a Shop Local campaign and purchased over 100 yard signs to encourage people to shop locally.”

The restrictions have led to some confusion for many businesses, Hunt said. But

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo delivers a coronavirus COVID-19 briefing at the state Capitol on Saturday.

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NEW YORK — The state Legislature is expected to pass 10 police reform bills this week as New York lawmakers and congressional representatives took steps toward legislation Monday to address the nationwide pattern of law enforcement brutality and improve the policing relationship with minority communities.

State Democrats negotiated 10 bills this weekend as part of the state’s Say Their Name reform agenda. Gov. Andrew Cuomo praised Democratic majority leaders Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, D-83, and Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, D-35, for their work.

“I think we have an agreement,” the governor said of the expected reform legislation Monday afternoon during a pandemic briefing at his Manhattan office. “I hope we have a good, productive week this week.”

The state’s Say Their Name reform agenda, which Cuomo announced Friday, would allow for transparency of prior disciplinary records of law enforcement officers by reforming 50-a of the civil rights law, ban police from using

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Marchers in Catskill protest the death of George Floyd and the presence of systemic racism in the United States at a peaceful rally last Thursday.

chokeholds, make false racebased 911 reports a crime and designate New York’s attorney general as an independent prosecutor for matters relating to the deaths of unarmed civilians caused by law enforcement.

Senate Democrats advanced the policing reforms Monday and is expected to

advance both legislative chambers, according to a statement from the state Senate Democratic Majority office.

“Black New Yorkers, like all residents of this state, deserve to know that their rights, and lives, are valued and protected by our justice system,” Stewart-Cousins said. “The senate is stepping up to advance

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WASHINGTON — House Democrats on Monday unveiled a legislative blueprint for reforming policing policies, responding to the nationwide protests calling for change after the death of George Floyd.

The bill, led by Congressional Black Caucus Chairwoman Karen Bass, D-Calif., and Sen. Kamala Harris, DCalif., includes reforms making it easier to sue police officers for misconduct in civil court.

It would also prohibit the use of chokeholds by police nationwide, require a national database of police misconduct and give the Justice Department civil rights division subpoena power to Yuri Gripas/Abaca Press/TNS investigate local police de- Thousands of demonstrators march from Capitol Hill during a protest against the death of George partments.

Floyd in Minneapolis police custody, in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, June 6, 2020.

“Never again should the world be subjected to wit- face charges in his death. laws and systems of account- said Democrats aren’t going nessing what we saw on the Before unveiling the po- ability. We must pass legisla- to let the issue fade away. streets in Minneapolis: the lice reform bill at a press tion that makes our common Bass said the national proslow murder of an individual conference, House and Sen- values and our common tests give Democrats conby a uniformed police offi- ate Democrats met in the ideals real in the law of our fidence that legislation can cer,” Bass said.

Capitol’s Emancipation Hall land.”

Video showed the white for eight minutes and 46 secWithout significant sup- pass at this time. officer, Derek Chauvin, with onds of silence. port from Senate Repubhis knee on Floyd’s neck for “Empathy and sympathy licans, who control that (c)2020 Los Angeles Times more than eight minutes as and words of caring for those chamber, any legislation the unarmed black man was who have died and suffered passed by House Democrats Visit the Los Angeles Times at handcuffed and saying he are necessary. But it is not is unlikely to reach President www.latimes.com could not breathe. The four enough,” Sen. Cory Booker, Donald Trump’s desk.

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Shutdown orders prevented about 60 million novel coronavirus infections in the United States and 285 million in China, according to a research study published Monday that examined how stay-at-home orders and other restrictions limited the spread of the contagion.

A separate study from epidemiologists at Imperial College London estimated the shutdowns saved about 3.1 million lives in 11 European countries, including 500,000 in the United Kingdom, and dropped infection rates by an average of 82%, sufficient to drive the contagion well below epidemic levels.

The two reports, published simultaneously Monday in the journal Nature, used completely different methods to reach similar conclusions. They suggest that the aggressive and unprecedented shutdowns, which caused massive economic disruptions and job losses, were effective at halting the exponential spread of the novel coronavirus.

“Without these policies employed, we would have lived through a very different April and May,” said Solomon Hsiang, director of the Global Policy Laboratory at the University of California at Berkeley, and the leader of the research team that surveyed how six countries - China, the United States, France, Italy, Iran and South Korea - responded to the pandemic.

He called the global response to covid-19, the disease caused by the virus, “an extraordinary moment in human history when the world had to come together,” and said the shutdowns and other mitigation measures resulted in “saving more

lives in a shorter period of time than ever before.”

The two reports on the effectiveness of the shutdowns come with a clear warning that the pandemic, even if in retreat in some of the places hardest hit, is far from over.

The overwhelming majority of people remain susceptible to the virus. Only about 3% to 4% of people in the countries being studied have been infected to date, said Samir Bhatt, senior author of the Imperial College London study.

“This is just the beginning of the epidemic: we’re very far from herd immunity,” Bhatt said Monday in an email. “The risk of a second wave happening if all interventions and precautions are abandoned is very real.”

In a teleconference with reporters later, Bhatt said economic activity could return to some degree so long as some interventions to limit viral spread remain in place: “We’re not saying the country needs to stay locked down forever.”

The Berkeley study used an “econometric” model to estimate how 1,717 interventions, such as stay-at-home orders, business closings and travel bans, altered the spread of the virus. The researchers looked at infection rates before and after the interventions were imposed.

Some of these interventions were local, and some regional or national. The researchers concluded that the six countries collectively managed to avert 62 million testconfirmed infections.

Because most people who are infected never get tested, the actual number of infections that were averted is much higher - about 530 million in the six countries, the Berkeley researchers estimated.

Timing is crucial, the Berkeley study found. Small delays in implementing shutdowns can lead to “dramatically different health outcomes.” The report, while reviewing what worked and what made little difference, is clearly aimed at the many countries still early in their battle against the coronavirus.

“Societies around the world are weighing whether the health benefits of anticontagion policies are worth their social and economic costs,” the Berkeley team wrote. The economic costs of shutdowns are highly visible - closed stores, huge job losses, empty streets, food lines. The health benefits of the shutdowns, however, are invisible, because they involve “infections that never occurred and deaths that did not happen,” Hsiang said.

That spurred the researchers to come up with their estimates of infections prevented. The Berkeley team did not produce an estimate of lives saved.

One striking finding: School closures did not show a significant effect, although the authors cautioned that their research on this was not conclusive and the effectiveness of school closures requires further study. Banning large gatherings had more of an effect in Iran and Italy than in the other countries.

In discussing their findings Monday with reporters in the teleconference,

leaders of the two research teams said challenges exist in crafting their models and thus there are uncertainties in the final estimates.

Bhatt, for example, said the model used by his team is highly sensitive to assumptions about the infection fatality rate, estimates for which have varied among researchers and from one country to another. He said his team was heartened to see that its estimates for the number of people infected so far is generally consistent with antibody surveys that attempt to calculate the attack rate of the virus.

Ian Bolliger, one of the Berkeley researchers, acknowledged the difficulty in obtaining reliable numbers for coronavirus infections given the haphazard pattern of testing for the virus. Both research teams said the peer review process had made their findings more robust.

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Robert C. Antonelli Senior Center, Academy Street., Catskill 518-943-2141 n Coxsackie Town Board 7 p.m. Town Hall, 56 Bailey St., Coxsackie n Coxsackie Village Historic Preservation Committee 6 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

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Bears find city to their liking

By Bill Williams Columbia-Greene Media

HUDSON — Three bear sightings kept police busy in Hudson over the weekend, said Hudson Police Chief L. Edward Moore.

The first bear was reported by residents on Tanners Lane after 10 a.m. Saturday, police said.

The bear attempted to get into a home in the area of Union and South 1st Street by banging on a back window, according to witnesses.

The bear made its way over 1st Street to an area near Prison Alley, where it climbed a weeping willow tree, police said.

Police believe the black bear estimated to weigh about 250 pounds is the same bear that spent several hours in Hudson earlier in the week, going through dumpsters in Rope Alley before he returned to the woods in Greenport.

Hudson Police and state Department of Environmental Conservation officers remained on the scene in an area cordoned off by police tape, until the bear came down from the tree after 9 p.m. and followed him until the bear crossed the city line into Greenport.

A small crowd remained on 1st Street most of the day, trying to catch a glimpse of the bear.

While police were keeping an eye on the bear in the tree on 1st Street, Hudson Police began getting calls from residents in the area of Union Street and Worth Avenue, where another bear was spotted walking through backyards, police said.

They tracked that bear through the Hudson City Cemetery before it headed

into the woods in Greenport, police said.

The second bear was most likely another young male, Moore said, adding that this is mating season.

Late Sunday morning, residents of Hudson Garden Apartments on Harry Howard Avenue reported a bear on their property, police said.

They kept an eye on the bear until it returned to Greenport, Moore said.

The bear on Sunday is believed to have been one of the two from Saturday, Moore said.

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against a bear was if it became aggressive to humans, DEC officers said.

Bears eat nearly anything: grasses, berries, fruits, nuts, seeds, insects, grubs and carrion, as well as human sources of food such as corn, honey, bird seed, trash and pet food when available, according to the Department of Environmental Conservation.

Bears learn from experience. If an activity results in food, they will repeat that activity. If an encounter with a human is negative, they learn to avoid humans. If an encounter with a human does not result in getting food, they will not have any reason to have contact with humans, DEC officials said.

To avoid conflicts with

bears, remove bird feeders, garbage should be kept in sealed garbage cans inside a sturdy building, mask garbage odors with ammonia-soaked rags, remove the grease can from grills after every use, do not place food outside to attract wildlife, and do not feed pets outside, DEC officials said.

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OUR VIEW

COVID-19, delays make school elections unique Voters in 12 school districts in Greene and Columbia counties will have an extra week to approve or reject budget proposals and elect candidates to their boards of education.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo over the weekend ordered the deadline for return of absentee school district ballots from June 9 to June 16 because of mass delays in deliveries of ballots and envelopes to school districts last week.

This election is unlike any other we have ever seen. This year, voters will mail in their ballots from home because large gatherings, such as those at the polls, are banned due to the coronavirus pandemic.

As if that weren’t enough drama, deliveries of absentee ballots and, in some cases, envelopes to put them in, were delayed by days or weeks. Some area school districts couldn’t mail ballots out until Tuesday or Wednesday of last week with voters already facing a tight deadline of 5 p.m. June 9 — the day of the elections — to fill them out and return them. Some districts made drop boxes available to voters to return ballots immediately. Drop box or mail, the ballots would not count if they arrived later than the 5 p.m. deadline.

One noticeable development can be seen in the low number of candidates running for school board seats. This year in Greene County, 19 candidates in six school districts tossed their hats into the ring. Coxsackie-Athens accounted for nearly half that total, with eight candidates

competing for three open board seats. In Columbia County, a total of 19 candidates from six school districts are vying for seats with Ichabod Crane accounting for five candidates, the highest total.

In the COVID-19 era, the day when the position of school board member was the most thankless elected office in the land has given way to public-spirited candidates who don’t mind long hours, high stress and zero pay. Instead, they are accepting the challenge of governing districts whose schools closed months ago and whose students spent their time in kitchens transformed into classrooms. But will voters support school budgets in districts where deep cuts loom as a dire possibility in 2020-21? That is the question.

In other ways, this year’s elections are not so different from those in past years.

School district candidates should reflect diversity. This year’s contenders do that.

They represent a broad range of experience and occupations. They also have deep roots in the community. Some candidates said they attended their hometown schools and enrolled their children there, too. Add the coronavirus lockdown to the mix and, more than ever, education is a family affair.

We encourage you to fill out your absentee ballots as soon as they arrive and either mail them back immediately or drop them off in person at your earliest opportunity.

Vote in your local school budget and school board elections.

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Barr’s backpedaling tour continues

A 1946 lynching is still haunting us WASHINGTON — To place today’s racial tensions in perspective, you must remember this: Back in the day, post-lynching souvenir hunting — fragments from the hanging tree; victims’ body parts — was a hobby for some. A student who found a victim’s tooth at Moore’s Ford Bridge in July 1946 gave it to his girlfriend for her charm bracelet. The past really is another country.

On July 25, 1946, Roger Malcom, a black 24-year-old, was released from jail on bail after the charge against him was reduced from murder to attempted murder because the white man he had stabbed during an altercation was going to live. Malcom, his wife and another black couple were being driven home by the white farmer who had posted the bail, and who before the lynching was heard to say, “All these damn [N-word] been to the army and come back and think themselves something.” The car was stopped by more than 20 armed white men, none of them masked, at the bridge over the Apalachee River about 50 miles from Atlanta. The mob evidently planned to murder only Malcom until his wife called out the name of someone in the mob, which then took both couples to the riverbank and shot them all at least 60 times.

The South was simmering in 1946, as nearly half a million African American soldiers returned to the region with uniforms, decorations and attitudes dangerous to social norms of subjugation. On Feb. 12, Sgt. Isaac Woodard Jr. was blinded by a South Carolina police chief who slammed his nightstick into Woodard’s eyes, news of which horrified President Harry Truman. On Feb. 25, a veteran’s insufficient deference ignited a riot that destroyed the black business district in Columbia,

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On May 9 in Georgia, the Ku Klux Klan staged a mass cross-burning on Stone Mountain. After a 1944 U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning all-white primaries, black Georgians were eligible to vote on July 17, and Eugene Talmadge, who bragged of flogging his black farm workers, was campaigning (successfully) for a fourth term as governor, warning that if he lost, white politicians would henceforth have to “go to [blacks’] homes and knock on their doors with hat in hand, shake hands with all of them, and kiss the babies.”

FBI agents questioned 2,790 locals in the Moore’s Ford killings, filled 10,000 pages of investigative reports and issued 106 subpoenas to a December grand jury (21 white men; two black men).

It concluded: “We have been unable to establish the identity of any person” in that mob of undisguised men who called one another by their names, and whose leader, according to the driver of the car, said, “Git them women. Bring ‘em over here. They know too much.”

This story, or as much of it as can presently be known, is meticulously told in “Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America” (2003)

by Laura Wexler, who picked up the baton of the late historian Anthony Pitch. Wexler is supporting the effort of Joseph J. Bell, a New Jersey lawyer, to make public the only extant information

about this atrocity: the grand jury records. In 2017, a federal court ruled that those records should be unsealed.

In March, however, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit held that federal courts have no authority over district courts’ supervision of grand jury proceedings.

There is, however, disagreement among the circuits, so there will be an appeal to the Supreme Court.

Government secrecy is essential to protect the sources, methods and fruits of intelligence-gathering, and to facilitate deliberative processes. But all government secrecy is, as Daniel Patrick Moynihan said, regulation.

Most regulations tell us what we cannot do; secrecy tells us what we cannot know.

Regarding Moore’s Ford, we cannot know about the social dynamics that obstructed justice in the most lurid crime in the year that lit the fuse that blew up Jim Crow.

In 2011, Attorney General Eric Holder’s Justice Department recommended amending the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure “to allow district courts to permit the disclosure, in appropriate circumstances, of archival grand-jury materials of great historical significance.”

The reasons for grand jury secrecy are compelling, Holder said, but “do not forever trump all competing considerations.” And “most other categories of historically significant federal records, including classified records, eventually become part of the public historical record.”

Today, Bell, Wexler and others ask about the Moore’s Ford lynching: When is a cold case that should be, but is not, part of our national memory too cold to learn more about? Their correct answer: never. (c) 2020, Washington Post Writers Group

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of bringing the races together and providing equal opportunity. I think law enforcement Attorney General William Barr began his has been going through the same process.” backpedaling public relations tour Friday, Barr couldn’t bring himself to say law enwhen he told The Associated Press that - deforcement used to be racist; but he did admit spite The Washington Post’s reporting - he it’s something police departments struggle had not personally ordered Monday’s Lawith. fayette Square advance on protesters with Barr’s credibility dimmed again when he tear gas and horses. It was a surprising claim, disputed the very nature of pepper spray. given that White House press secretary Kay“Pepper spray is not a chemical irritant,” leigh McEnany had confirmed Barr’s role on Barr insisted. “It’s not chemical.” That will no Wednesday. But the attorney general opted doubt come as news to manufacturers such to shelter in a meaningless distinction: that as PepperBall, which advertises its products “my attitude was get it done, but I didn’t say, to law enforcement as “the most effective ‘Go do it.’ “ chemical irritant available.” The active ingreIt was not a profile in personal responsibil- dient in pepper balls, pepper spray and the ity. But that was just the start of the weasellike? Capsaicin, with the chemical formula ing; Barr’s Sunday interview with CBS’s “Face C18 H27 NO3. Barr might as well have argued the Nation” was more like a tour de force in water isn’t a compound. bobbing and weaving.

Misrepresentation has long been standard The interview kicked off with host Maroperating procedure for America’s top law garet Brennan asking Barr whether the enforcement officer. This is the same atpresident had indeed demanded that 10,000 torney general who claimed that dismissing active duty troops be deployed against procharges against former national security adtesters. “No, that’s completely false,” Barr viser Michael Flynn “upheld the rule of law” replied. But that number had been reported - even as key former FBI and Justice Departby The Post’s David Ignatius on Friday and ment officials disputed the facts in the DOJ’s confirmed by the AP, CBS and CNN since. motion. And it’s the same AG who twisted the Barr continued to dodge as the converfindings of special counsel Robert Mueller’s sation shifted to systemic racism in law report before its publication, to the point that enforcement. “I think there’s racism in the a Republican-appointed judge demanded United States still, but I don’t think that the access to the full report because Barr’s dislaw enforcement system is systemically ractortions damaged the Justice Department’s ist,” said Barr, echoing the views expressed credibility. the previous Sunday by national security In another administration, such behavior adviser Robert O’Brien. Barr and O’Brien’s would be grounds for resignation. In the views contradict the overwhelming eviTrump White House, it’s par for the course. dence. And like O’Brien, the attorney general undercut his own argument. “The military James Downie is The Washington Post’s Digital Opinused to be an explicitly racist institution,” he ions Editor. He previously wrote for The New Republic offered, “and now I think it’s in the vanguard and Foreign Policy magazine.

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There is no excuse To the editor: What we see going on in our country, the protests, willingness to be exposed to Covid19 because the rage is so deep, is not a Black problem but a White problem. I am a senior, white woman.

I have witnessed enough hatred, evil treatment onto death of our Black citizens to last a thousand lifetimes.

There is no excuse. Whites are just taking their frustration and pain out on the weak. And this is the coward’s way. Feeling emboldened by fat-pocketed friends and leaders that would use them, they hurt the closest at hand.

It is like the man who feels mistreated by his boss who then comes home to take it out on his dog and his wife.

We Whites have lost our way.

We may not have personally perpetrated a harmful act or

even thought about doing one but our silence and sense of propriety, perhaps fear of being ridiculed, has gone on so long now that we have become the problem. We talk about it in protected circles when we should be shouting it out from the rooftops.

There was Black slavery at the hands of Whites at our country’s beginning.

But the sensitive among our race, those who looked for fairness, and saw that all of God’s children are the same, and refused to just say it without acting upon it, were also a force for seeing that right was done. We no longer have slavery. But we have had continued disparity in opportunity and treatment since the abolition of slavery. The wealthiest and most powerful among our race at the moment do not care

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any more about us, the average Whites, than they do the Black, Brown, Yellow or Red people. But they are using those among us who would look down into the muck and rather have our feelings of frustration and victimhood stroked than look up into the light where one can see clearly. We Whites are the problem. It is time that we get out of our self-centered bubbles and behave with dignity, worth and purpose for clean air and water for all and good citizenship toward others. Otherwise, all of us are doomed together, Black, White, Brown, Yellow and Red. Our country is far from being a place that is a bright, shiny star. Its ugly and we Whites are the problem.

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Edward Joseph Pulver Edward Joseph Pulver, tor to St. Vincent de Paul. After 72, husband of Peggy Pulver, moving, Ed became a faithful died Thursday, June 4, 2020. member of St. Mary Magdalene He passed away peacefully at Catholic Church in Simpsonhome with his loving family by ville, South Carolina. A lover of his side. Born in Hudson, NY, he music, Ed was a member of the was the son of the late Charles Choral Society of West Georand Amelia Kitchie Pulver. In ad- gia, of which he served a term dition to his wife, he is survived as president. After moving to by his son, Matthew Pulver and Simpsonville, he continued his wife, Leslie Gal; daughter, Mela- love of singing as a member of nie Hendrix and husband, Matt; the Fountain Inn Chorale. Ed’s grandchildren, Chase steadfast dedication Hendrix, Calvin Henextended to his career, drix, Hampton Pulver, working more than 40 and Huey Pulver; and years for Zep. In his free sisters, Gail Howard time, Ed loved sports, and husband, Roger, especially playing golf. sister Abby Shook and He is with his best husband, Jerry, Anne friend, the late Dave Shepard and husGreen, and father-inband, Chris, and Maura law playing a round.

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Self-identified Ku Klux Klan leader arrested after car drove through protesters in Va. The Washington Post

A self-identified leader of the Ku Klux Klan was arrested after driving through peaceful protesters in Richmond on late Sunday afternoon, prosecutors said.

The man, Harry H. Rogers, 36, of Hanover County, has been charged with assault and battery, attempted malicious wounding and destruction of property with intent, according to online court records and prosecutors.

He is being held without bond. There were no fatalities reported as a result of the incident. One man who suffered injuries that did not appear life threatening was checked on the scene and refused further treatment, police said. The incident

remains under investigation.

Police said the incident occurred around 5:45 p.m. on Sunday, when protesters were marching on Lakeside Avenue near Vale Street over the death of George Floyd, a black man killed while in custody of law enforcement in Minneapolis.

Witnesses told police that Rogers revved his engine and drove through the protesters on the roadway, according to a statement released by the Henrico County Police Division.

Rogers reportedly admitted to being a Ku Klux Klan leader and “propagandist for Confederate ideology,” Taylor said in the statement.

Rogers’s attorney could not be reached immediately for comment.

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TROY — About 3,000 Black Lives Matter protesters who rallied and marched through city streets calling for justice in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd on Sunday remained peaceful, city police said.

Diverse protesters of all ages marched together to the Troy police station on State Street starting at 3 p.m. Sunday. The event, organized by the progressive activist group Citizen Action of New York, started with a 2 p.m. rally outside the Rensselaer County Courthouse on Third Street. Most demonstrators wore masks or facial coverings to protect against the spread of the coronavirus.

Thirteen-year-old Aayden Green, of Speigletown, held a hand-drawn “NO JUSTICE NO PEACE” sign at Sunday’s rally, standing with his family in front of a Third Street business.

“I think it’s wrong they’re killing black people — we all bleed the same blood,” he said. “If we don’t get justice, we’re never going to stop protesting.”

As a young person, Aayden said it’s inspiring to be part of a movement and feel like the message is getting out to the world, adding he does not understand people who say they don’t support the Black Lives Matter movement.

“What’s not to understand?” he said. “We should all treat each other the same.

How can you not like other people because of the color of their skin?”

The crowd engaged in back-and-forth chants, including cries of: “What do we want?” “Justice!” and “When do we want it?” “Now!” Demonstrators held a variation of Black Lives Matter signs and other slogans, such as “Land of the free, home of the slaves” and “Racism is a pandemic, too.”

White marchers gathered at the front of the crowd to shield protesters of color as the crowd marched down Third, State and Congress streets and Fifth Avenue.

The city protest was wellattended and remained peaceful, Troy Deputy Police Chief Daniel DeWolf said in a statement Sunday.

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Thirteen-year-old Aayden Green, of Speigletown, holds a protest sign on Third Street in Troy during the city’s Black Lives Matter march Sunday seeking justice.

safe today,” he said.

Police investigated one incident after reports of suspicious people wearing fatigues, or casual military clothing. Police found some members of the group were armed with handguns, according to city police.

An investigation into their motives and legal possession of the firearms is continuing.

The Troy event came on the heels of 13 days of Black Lives Matter demonstrations and events around the world this weekend.

Floyd, 46, died facedown on a Minneapolis street on Memorial Day when a white police officer kneeled on his neck for more than eight minutes.

Claudia Kavenagh, of Petersburg, shows support for NY expected repeal of 50-a, which would release police disciplinary records. The state Legislature is expected to pass a bill to repeal section 50-a of the state Civil Rights Law this week.

Some demonstrators, like Kavenagh and a few others in her group, held signs in support of the legislation at Sunday’s event.

“Police misconduct should not be kept confidential,” she said. “There are a small number of police who

are doing horrible things, an they must be held accountable.”

The protester added it’s important for people of all races to support the Black Lives Matter movement.

“It is so important we show people of all colors stand with this moment,” Kavenagh said.

Dozens of Third, Congress and State streets businesses were boarded up with plywood, including small and corporate-owned establishments, to protect against possible looting or vandalism that was rampant in New York City last week before city police deployed enough officers to control criminal activity.

Bruce Margolis, of Watervliet, held a sign up from the lined sidewalks encouraging white people to listen to black Americans and their stories about police brutality and systemic racism.

“As I’m coming to understand, the job of white allies is not to take the lead,” said Margolis, who works as a social worker in the Troy City School District. “We need to listen to [people of color’s] sorrow to get an accurate picture of what it’s actually like....A lot of white people don’t listen. They don’t listen because of racism.”

Margolis was inspired to march and be an ally to the black community especially because of his students, he said.

“This is history in the making,” he added.

Several business owners handed out free water bottles and snacks to protesters.

A Black Lives Matter march was planned for 2 p.m. Monday in Clifton Park at Clifton Commons Soccer Fields along Route 146 to the state police station.

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$1.25 million bail set for Derek Chauvin at his initial court appearance

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MINNEAPOLIS — Unconditional bail for former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin was raised to $1.25 million Monday afternoon.

Chauvin made his first court appearance by video feed, handcuffed in an orange jumpsuit sitting at a small conference room table.

Prosecutor Matthew Frank argued that the “severity of the charges” and the strength of public opinion against Chauvin made him a more likely flight risk. Frank asked Circuit Court Judge Jeannice Reding to raise bail from $1.25 million from $1 million without conditions, and to $1 million from $750,000 with conditions.

Chauvin and his lawyer, Eric Nelson, did not object in the short hearing, which lasted 15 minutes.

Chauvin, 44, of Oakdale, faces charges of second-degree murder without intent, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter.

Chauvin did not enter a plea.

His next court appearance was set for June 29.

First appearances are typically procedural: The charges can be read to a defendant, although most attorneys waive the reading, bail is argued and another hearing date is set.

Chauvin was charged four days after his encounter with Floyd, a 46-year-old black man from St. Louis Park, on May 25.

He is being held on $1 million bail at the state prison at Oak Park Heights.

Chauvin’s former colleagues, J Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao are charged as accomplices.

A video recorded by a bystander showed Chauvin kneeling on Floyd’s neck as he told the officers he couldn’t breathe and warned them that he was going to die. Lane and Kueng were out of view restraining Floyd’s body.

The video also showed bystanders begging the officers to stop, and Thao standing watch nearby dismissing witnesses’ concerns.

All four were fired days after Floyd was killed on Memorial Day.

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Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin.

Kueng, Lane and Thao are each charged with one count of aiding and abetting seconddegree murder and aiding and abetting second-degree manslaughter.

The three are being held at the Hennepin County jail on $1 million bail without conditions or $750,000 bail with conditions.

Attorneys for Kueng and Lane told a judge during their clients’ first appearances last week that they were rookies and looked to Chauvin, the most senior officer, for guidance at the scene.

“At all times Mr. Kueng and Mr. Lane turned their attention to that 19-year veteran,”

Kueng’s attorney, Thomas Plunkett, said last week. “(Kueng) was trying — they were trying to communicate that this situation needs to change direction.”

Lane’s attorney, Earl Gray, argued last week that his client asked two times if they should roll Floyd onto his side but was rejected by Chauvin.

“What was (Lane) supposed to do ... go up to Mr. Chauvin and grab him and throw him off?” said Gray, who plans to argue at a future hearing that there’s not enough evidence to prosecute his client.

Lane and Kueng had responded about 8:08 p.m. to a call that a man used a counterfeit $20 bill at the Cup Foods on the corner of Chicago Avenue and East 38th Street. They found Floyd sitting in a car nearby, handcuffed him and attempted to put him in their squad car.

Chauvin and Thao arrived to assist.

While charging documents said Chauvin pulled Floyd out of the squad, Gray said last week that Floyd resisted arrest, “asserted himself” and later “flew

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Lane restrained Floyd’s legs, Kueng held onto his back and Chauvin knelt on his neck as he lay in the street.

Lane twice asked if they should roll Floyd onto his back but Chauvin told them to keep him in the position, the charges said.

At one point, Kueng took Floyd’s pulse and told his former colleagues he couldn’t detect one. Chauvin is accused of keeping his knee on Floyd’s neck for about two minutes after Kueng’s statement.

Chauvin’s knee was on Floyd’s neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds total, according to the complaint.

Kueng, Lane and Thao are scheduled to make their next court appearance on June 29.

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JUNE 12 CATSKILL — Catskill Elks Lodge, 45 North Jefferson Ave., Catskill, will hold a special fish fry, take out only, June 12. Pick up times will be between 5-7 p.m. The menu includes fried haddock, shrimp or clam dinner for $12. Choice of fries or mac and cheese. Must pre-order at 518-945-1179.

JUNE 13 LEXINGTON — The Town of Lexington Fire/Rescue Company will be holding a Drive-Thru Chicken barbecue beginning at 3 p.m. until sold out on June 13 at the Town of Lexington Municipal

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TANNERSVILLE — Invasive Species Virtual Walk online presentation will be held 1011 a.m. June 13 through the Mountain Top Arboretum, 4 Maude Adams Road, Tannersville. Admission is free.

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JULY 7 CAIRO — The Greene County Women’s League Cancer Patient Aid is welcoming new members. Membership

meetings are held the first Tuesday of the month June through December, with the exception of August and December, at Angel’s Family Restaurant, 4385 Route 23, Cairo.

Lunch is at noon and meeting is called to order at 1 p.m. 2020 meeting dates are July 7, August, Fundraising Luncheon (special ticket purchase required), Sept. 8, Oct. 6, Nov. 3.

The Christmas part is held in December, special ticket purchase required.

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College Corner SUNY ONEONTA COXSACKIE — Zack Peterson of Coxsackie was recently recognized for attaining leadership milestones through SUNY Oneonta’s LEAD (Leadership Education and Development) program.

LEAD@Oneonta is a comprehensive leadership program based on current research and guidelines from the Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education. All students can choose to participate in the LEAD program, which aims to better prepare them for life after college by providing a comprehensive picture of leadership and the skills needed to be a good leader.

Students can attain a silver, gold or platinum level. To attain each level, students must meet a mix of programmatic

and experiential leadership requirements, including completion of online courses, attendance at educational events, and membership and leadership in one or more of SUNY Oneonta’s 100+ student-run clubs and organizations.

Peterson, who is studying Dual major in Chemistry and Biology, earned Platinum and Gold Levels.

GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GREENVILLE — Olivia Gorneau of Greenville earned the distinction of Faculty Honors for Spring 2020 at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Ga. This designation is awarded to undergraduate students who have earned a 4.0 academic average for the semester.

THE UNIVERSITY OF SCRANTON SAUGERTIES — Shannon R. Bannen of Saugerties was among the more than 875 candidates whose bachelor’s degrees were conferred at The University of Scranton’s virtual undergraduate celebration ceremony on May 31. Degrees were conferred to graduates in a group who had completed their academic degree requirements in August and December of 2019, as well as January and May of 2020. A formal commencement ceremony, at which graduates will be individually recognized, will take place on Oct. 25 at the Mohegan Sun Arena at Casey Plaza, Wilkes-Barre. Bannen earned a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from the University of Scranton in Scranton, Penn.

The many healthy benefits of turmeric For centuries the culinary spice turmeric has been used for cooking in Indian, African and Asian cuisines, as a disinfectant and treatment for diabetes and laryngitis. And today, just like bone broth and ancient grains, turmeric has graduated from a Stone Age staple to a superfood with impressive benefits that include; improving your skin, mood and your heart plus it speeds up weight loss.

According to Elizabeth Ann Shaw, RDN, the natural antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties found in curcumin also has the potential to slow down the aging process, prevent Alzheimer’s disease and improve symptoms of depression and arthritis.

Mildly aromatic, turmeric is a yellow pigment that is extracted from the ground up roots of the curcuma longa plant. Curcumin is a naturally occurring chemical compound found in turmeric and today’s post highlights curcumin’s ability to help you lose weight.

Scientists believe that chronic, low grade inflammation (caused by a diet high in sugar and processed food) plays a major role in diseases including; cancer, metabolic syndrome, obesity, Alzheimer’s and other degenerative conditions. Without getting into the details (inflammation is extremely

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SCHOEPE complicated) the key takeaway is that curcumin is a bioactive substance that fights inflammation.

And when your body doesn’t have to fight inflammation, it’s much easier for it to focus on weight loss. When taken in capsule form, the orange spice suppresses fat tissue growth, regulates blood sugar levels and prevents insulin resistance according to a study conducted at Tufts University. This results in excess fat that is not retained in the body.

Plus numerous, high quality scientific studies have found turmeric matches the effectiveness of some over the counter anti-inflammatory drugs, minus the side effects!

Another benefit that turmeric has on weight loss is through its natural cleansing ability. When taken daily, it aids in flushing out toxins that have built up in your liver. And since the liver plays

an important role in metabolizing fats, it can help increase your chances of weight loss when it functions at its best.

So will eating curry once a month help you lose weight?

The short answer is no and here’s why.

According to Dana Angelo White, RD, having turmeric and curcumin once a month in curry is unlikely to give you the desired anti-inflammatory, antioxidants and other benefits. In order to reap the benefits found in the research, you’ll have to turn to a turmeric supplement.

And of course not all turmeric supplements are created equal. There are a few things to keep in mind when looking for the most effective curcumin supplement.

High quality turmeric supplements will include black pepper to help with absorption into your bloodstream. Each capsule must contain a minimum of 500 milligrams of curcumin and 95% curcuminoids, be certified organic, made in the USA and have a Certificate of Analysis which means it is 3rd party lab tested.

As you can see turmeric is a safe and effective supplement that can aid in the weight loss process by improving your overall health.

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Fifth annual Learning in Technology conference moved online SARATOGA SPRINGS — SUNY Empire State College announced it will transfer the fifth annual Learning in Technology (LIT) conference from its traditional in-person gathering to a series of online sessions in response to ongoing concerns about COVID-19, as well as adding a track focused on remote learning during the COVID-19 response.

Scheduled for July 10, the single-day, free conference is a collaborative partnership between the School for Graduate Studies at SUNY Empire State College and the Saratoga City School District. It provides K-12 teachers and higher education instructors an opportunity to explore new classroom technologies and share their experiences using, and mastering, these emerging learning tools.

Last year’s conference drew more than 400 educators from 150 educational institutions across New York State and beyond, evenly divided between higher education and K-12.

“With schools across New York State shifting suddenly to remote learning in response to COVID-19, the majority of them for the first time, this conference provides an excellent opportunity for educators to come together and share

best practices,” said SUNY Empire State College President Jim Malatras. “In just the past three weeks we’ve seen how important it is to advance quality online learning initiatives for students of all ages.

SUNY Empire’s LIT conference will spotlight the best of what online education can offer and help educators across the state deliver a better experience for their students.”

“There’s an ever-increasing number of educational technologies available to instructors at all levels of education,” said SUNY Empire State College Dean of the School for Graduate Studies Nathan Gonyea. “The goal of the LIT conference is to bring teachers, scholars, and practitioners together to share their knowledge, and provide attendees with an enriching, engaging experience.”

Conference participants can receive Continuing Teacher and Leader Education (CTLE) hours for attending the full day.

Organizers are currently accepting proposals through June 1 at https://www.esc. edu/lit/proposals/ and would like to acknowledge Cisco Webex, which is donating use of its web conference platform.

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

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Bank of Greene County Hudson Hall sources PPE creates new position equipment for Hudson CATSKILL — Donald E. Gibson, President & CEO of the Bank of Greene County, announced that “due to the continued growth and success of our Bank, we have created a new management position in our Information Technology Department. Over the last several years our Bank has slowly and steadily expanded into new markets, and we are planning to open a new branch office on Wolf Road in Albany in September. Therefore, we feel it is essential that we continue to maintain a world class Information Technology Team!”

Nathan Jones has joined the Bank in a newly created position of Manager of IT Infrastructure. Jones has more than 20 years of experience providing technical support and network administration. Gibson said, “We are extremely pleased to add someone with Nathan’s experience and skill set. For the last eight years Nathan worked for Kinderhook

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Bank as their Senior Network Administrator. In that position Nathan designed, deployed, and managed IT infrastructure for all of the Kinderhook Bank branch network and administrative centers.”

Jones lives in East Greenbush, is a PC hardware enthusiast, and also enjoys weight training and fitness,

competitive volleyball, and mogul skiing.

Headquartered in Catskill, the Bank of Greene County is the only locally based Bank with offices in Ulster, Greene, Columbia and Albany counties and has proudly served the Hudson Valley and Capital District for more than 130 years.

CEDC and BTCF announce additional grants recipients HUDSON — Columbia Economic Development Corporation (CEDC) and Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation (BTCF) on April 24 announced the award of 92 grants to local businesses through the Columbia County Business Continuity Fund.

This joint effort with the Columbia County Chamber of Commerce and the Hudson Business Coalition was launched March 30 to raise new resources in support of small businesses during the COVID-19 crisis.

Generous individuals, foundations and businesses made this fund possible. Major gifts came from BTCF’s Community Fund and CEDC, BTCF’s Fund for Columbia County, the Hudson River Bank and Trust Foundation, Martha McMaster and Sheldon Evans, Berkshire Bank, Henry J. Kimelman Family Foundation, Stephen Mack and Brian Schaefer, Susan Danziger and Albert Wenger/ The Spark of Hudson, Linda

Gatter/Max Dannis Fund and the Arthur and Eileen Newman Family Foundation. In addition, more than 50 individuals made online gifts totaling over $22,000.

The businesses receiving grants were spread out across Columbia County and met key grant making criteria, including being located in city, town or village centers, open to the public and reliant on foot traffic, and having fewer than 10 full-time employees and less than $1 million in annual revenue. An independent, volunteer committee of local business leaders reviewed and rated each application based on these criteria.

The committee had representation from throughout the county and from women- and minority-run businesses.

Award amounts varied based on the criteria established and total resources available, with nine of out 10 grants sized at $1,500 or $2,500. These one-time, rapid response grants were

designed to help cover costs such as retaining employees, rent and other fixed operational costs.

As a handful of businesses declined their awards and asked for their funds to be reinvested in the community, the independent review committee for the CCBCF is pleased to award grants to additional eligible businesses to close-out this cycle of the CCBCF grant: CrossRoads Food Store; DMC Racing Products; Iron Horse Cigar Depot; Sadhana Center for Yoga and Meditation, LLC; and Tommy’s Salon.

Future grant rounds and funding opportunities are contingent on the donation of new funds. Should funding become available, additional grant rounds will be announced separately through the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation and Columbia Economic Development Corporation channels and may have different eligibility criteria.

Bard College names director of Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON — Bard College announces the appointment of Hannah Barrett as director of the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. Prior to this appointment, Barrett, an award-winning artist and educator who has taught, lectured, and exhibited widely, was the international program coordinator at Bard College Berlin. Barrett succeeds Arthur Gibbons, who served as director of the Bard MFA program since 1990. Gibbons will continue teaching at Bard as professor of sculpture in the College’s Division of the Arts.

“I am delighted that Hannah Barrett has accepted the appointment as the new Director of the MFA program, one of Bard’s most distinguished graduate programs and one of the finest MFA programs in the country,” said Bard College President Leon Botstein. “She has been a terrific colleague and is uniquely suited to take this vital task on. She follows the remarkable, long, and distinguished

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tenure of Arthur Gibbons, who led the MFA to achieve its international renown. I thank Hannah and the faculty in the MFA program for their cooperation in finding a path to continue the excellent and innovative work of the MFA in this challenging time.”

Barrett is a Brooklyn and Hudson Valley based artist.

The portrayal of gender ambiguity has driven her painting for over a decade, which has led to the current exploration of dandy monsters in domestic space. Recent exhibitions include a 2020 retrospective at Childs Gallery, Boston, a twoperson invitational in 2019 at

La MaMa Galleria, and a solo at Yours Mine and Ours Gallery in 2018. Selected group shows include Spring Break 2020, Platform Project Space, Dumbo NY, Kate Werble and Calicoon galleries in NYC, Mother Gallery, Beacon NY, and September Gallery in Hudson NY. Museum Shows include the Decordova Museum, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and National Museum of Women in the Arts. Her work has been written about in Art Forum, Time Out New York, and Modern Painters. Barrett is on the curatorial staff of Soloway Gallery in Williamsburg. Barrett is also the illustrator of a vegan and lesbian themed children’s book “Nuts in Nutland”. Prior to coming to Bard, Barrett taught painting and drawing for 18 years and was on the faculty at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and the Pratt Institute Brooklyn. Barrett holds a BA in studio art and German literature from Wellesley College and an MFA in painting from Boston University.

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HUDSON — To help businesses safely and successfully reopen in alignment with New York State’s reopening guidelines, Hudson Hall is working to source bulk PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) items for the Hudson business community (including nonprofits) at cost. Items include face shields, masks, infrared thermometers, locally made hand sanitizer and wipes, with other items to be added based on demand.

Orders can be made online at hudsonhall.org, with curbside pickup from Hudson

Hall (327 Warren Street). For more information, visit hudsonhall.org or email hello@ hudsonhall.org.

Supply for all items is on a first-come, first-served basis to the Hudson Business Coalition community and small businesses in the 12534 zip code (with items intended for individual business use only and not for resale).

“Hudson Hall’s mission has always been to serve and connect our community and be an economic driver for the City of Hudson,” says Hudson Hall’s Executive

Director, Tambra Dillon.

“With our mainstage season postponed until Phase 4 of New York State’s reopening plan, we felt that supporting Hudson businesses to reopen safely and reduce the cost of essential PPE, both in time sourcing the items and the savings in purchasing in bulk, was a positive and productive way to fulfil that mission. We are grateful to the Hudson Business Coalition and the Columbia County Economic Development Corporation for their ongoing support of this initiative.”

Stuyvesant Plaza details safety precautions and social distancing measures ALBANY — Stuyvesant Plaza announced a series of new safety precautions and social distancing measures in place as the outdoor lifestyle shopping center welcomes the return of shoppers in conjunction with the Phase 2 resumption of retail in the Capital Region.

Beginning June 3, Stuyvesant Plaza’s retail tenants will open their doors to shoppers for the first time since mid-March, while the Plaza’s restaurants will continue to serve guests with delivery and take-out service. Dinein service at restaurants will resume with Phase 3 of New York’s reopening guidelines.

“We are thrilled to welcome our shoppers back to Stuyvesant Plaza, which features enhanced health and safety protocols,” said Stuyvesant Plaza President Ed Swyer. “We are engaged in regular conversations with our tenants to share best

practices that are informed through recommendations from the New York State Department of Health and the International Council of Shopping Centers. Our top priority is to ensure the health and safety of our guests, employees and tenants as we take this next step forward to reopen the Plaza and our community.”

All shoppers at the Plaza are strongly encouraged to wear face coverings and to maintain a 6-foot distancing rule. Common areas will feature additional benches for shoppers to use while waiting to enter stores due to social distancing requirements and store occupancy limits, which are temporarily reduced based on the store’s square footage to ensure safety.

The Plaza has implemented enhanced cleaning protocols and procedures, including regularly wiping down

benches, trash cans and high touch areas in the public restrooms and customer service office with increased frequency.

New curbside pickup parking spots will be available to allow for convenient and efficient service from shops and restaurants. Select retailers will also offer private shopping appointments.

Stuyvesant Plaza’s current operating hours are 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday through Saturday and noon-5 p.m. Sunday.

Hours and policies for individual tenants will vary during this time. Shoppers should contact each store or restaurant for details. A list of current operating plans for each tenant and their contact information is available at StuyvesantPlaza.com.

Shoppers are encouraged to follow Stuyvesant Plaza on Facebook, Instagram or on Twitter for regular updates.

New York Apple Association earns Gold and Silver Telly Awards ALBANY — The New York Apple Association’s (NYAA) series of videos featuring New York apple growers and Kelly Springer, registered dietitian for NYAA have won two prestigious Telly awards.

The New York Apple Association is pushing the boundaries for video and television innovation and creativity at a time when the industry is both rapidly changing and heavily impacted by the current crisis,” said Sabrina Dridje, Managing Director of the Telly Awards. “ Our theme for this season, Telly Award Winners Tell Great Stories is a true reflection of the diversity of stories the community is skillfully able to tell. Now, more than ever, do we need to celebrate them and those that bring global stories to our attention. This award is a tribute to the talent and vision of these creators.”

The series of apple grower videos were recognized for Social Video and earned the Gold Telly Award in the Food & Beverage: Growers category. The winning series of New York nutritious apples earned the Silver Telly Award in the Food & Beverage: Nutrition category.

“We are thrilled with this news,” said NYAA President & CEO Cynthia Haskins.

“The twelve grower and five nutrition videos are popular

on social media platforms and we are making them available for all of our growers, retailers, and other outlets to be used on their websites and social media programs.”

The Telly Awards is the premier award honoring video and television across all screens. Established in 1979, The Telly Awards receives over 12,000 entries from all 50 states and 5 continents.

Entrants are judged by The Telly Awards Judging Council — an industry body of over 200 leading experts including advertising agencies, production companies, and major television networks, reflective of the multi-screen industry. This year’s winners not only represent a further broadening of the online landscape to embrace more documentary, scripted and even episodic pieces, but an increased focus on Branded Content and innovative new platforms like VR and Social Streaming.

“The videos are an excellent addition to our portfolio for retailers’ social media programs,” said Retail Account Manager Cailin Kowalewski. “We’re honored to receive these awards and can’t wait to share these videos with our partners.”

The videos were created to showcase NYAA’s apple

orchards and growers along with delivering facts about New York apple production and nutrition. The videos were produced by Rochester-based creative agency Dixon Schwabl. During the filming, shots of individual growers were captured and edited into the series of videos. Clips from these individual interviews appeared on NYAA’s Facebook page and will be used this fall in support of the 2020 apple harvest.

The winner’s announcement caps a year-long celebration of creators around the globe and across all screens. This year also saw the continued expansion of new categories further to the awards’ recent initiative to rebuild the honors for the multi-screen era. New categories included serialized Branded Content and expanded Social Video and Immersive & Mixed Reality categories, alongside new categories honoring important work in Social Impact and Diversity & Inclusion.

Last year, The Telly Awards attracted entries from top video content producers including Adult Swim, the BBC, Condé Nast, Complex Networks, Netflix, Refinery29, Radical Media, T Brand Studio and Ogilvy & Mather.

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accomplices. Each faces one count of aiding and abetting second-degree murder and aiding and abetting seconddegree manslaughter.

The incident was recorded by a bystander and led to violent and peaceful protests and looting in cities around the country.

Hundreds took part Thursday in a peaceful protest in Catskill. The protests this weekend spread to cities around the world.

In Coxsackie, protesters demanded change in the criminal justice system.

“I am protesting police brutality and trying to fight for justice and equality,” Peyton Vanderheyden, of Ravena, said Sunday.

One driver stopped at the traffic light and called out to the protesters that he never would have thought such a protest would take place in Coxsackie.

“Good on you,” the driver called out, and the crowd erupted in cheers.

David Bruce, of Coxsackie, learned about the rally through his son, who heard about it on Facebook, and decided to come out and show his support.

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economic activity appears to be picking up.

“I rode down Warren Street on Saturday and Sunday and I saw a lot of people visiting businesses, so I think people are beginning to come back to work and shop a little more,” Hunt said.

Although restaurants were not scheduled to open for onpremises service until phase 3 and were limited to delivery and takeout, beginning last week these businesses were permitted to offer patio dining.

Outdoor tables must be spaced six feet apart, all staff must wear face coverings and customers must also wear face coverings when not seated.

Barnwood Restaurant owner Carol Blaes said the six outdoor tables at the Catskill restaurant were full all weekend. “We brought in six vinyl ones with umbrellas,” Blaes said. These tables are easier to clean than the wooden type.

Barnwood is not offering table service outside, but patrons

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Monday the assembly will pass the legislation package this week. Cuomo said he intends to sign the legislation as soon as it reaches his desk.

“The assembly majority has fought tirelessly over the years to deliver meaningful and necessary criminal justice reforms for our state. This week, we will continue to build on those reforms answering the calls of people from across New York and the country,” Speaker Heastie said. “We have accomplished a lot, from Raising the Age to reforming speedy trial, discovery and the bail system, but we know our work is not yet finished. We will continue fighting this week and beyond to improve police and community relations and to create a more fair and equitable system for all people.”

The governor delivered his daily briefing Monday in New York City, which was the last of the state’s 10 regions to start reopening the local economy Monday.

“Congratulations, we are back — we are back,” he said.

Monday marked the 100th day since New York reported its first COVID-19 case. The governor reminisced about the projections and pandemic fight, especially in hardest-hit New York City, in the period. Statewide landmarks were lit in blue and

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Sunday’s protest drew people from Coxsackie, Athens, Ravena and beyond, in a call for reforms to the criminal justice system.

Southern Co.’s longtroubled project to expand its Vogtle nuclear plant in Georgia is “highly unlikely” to meet state deadlines and is apt to face additional budget overruns, according to a local monitor.

The company is no longer on pace to complete the two reactors by November 2021 and November 2022 deadlines approved by the Georgia Public Service Commission, Don Grace, a vice president of engineering for the Vogtle Monitoring Group, said in filed testimony. He also estimated that the project’s cost would exceeded its current $17.1 billion target.

The monitoring group’s analysis doesn’t even take into account the impact of the coronavirus.

“I personally believe the only thing that is going to change some white people’s minds are white people, so that is why we are here,” Bruce said.

He pointed out a sign carried by a protester.

“One sign read, ‘Once black lives matter, all lives matter,’ and that is very true,” Bruce said.

The rally remained peaceful, and protesters called for a change in both the justice

system and in the way people think.

“I am here because racism is an absolute disease and it can be cured by waking up and making it not a reality anymore because it can be fixed,” MaryKate Ames, of Athens, said. “Ideals of racism are a thing of the past and they need to be changed.”

The Tribune News Service contributed to this report.

Protesters carried signs and chanted slogans to show their support for the Black Lives Matter movement at the intersection of Routes 9W and 385 on Sunday.

who purchase takeout can enjoy their meals outside, Blaes said.

The restaurant is still offering its full menu and operating from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., with the exception of Sundays, which has been reduced to 2-8 p.m., Blaes said.

“We don’t have the church crowd anymore on Sundays,” she said.

The adjustment for Barnwood has not been as difficult as it has been for other businesses, Blaes said.

“We’ve always done takeout and delivery anyway,” she said.

“For us it’s just normal.”

Casa Latina, 78 Green St. in Hudson, opened its doors Saturday for patio dining for the first time since the shutdown.

“We are doing pretty good.

We have four tables with four chairs at each table, and the tables are separated by six feet each,” said Casa Latina manager Javier Romero. “On Saturday all four tables were filled and people were waiting.”

All employees are wearing mandated face masks, Romero said.

During the statewide shutdown, Casa Latina remained open with pick-up service

available.

Ca’Mea Restaurant, on Warren Street in Hudson, is waiting to offer full service until the anticipated start of phase 3 of the reopening when both indoor and outdoor dining will be possible, manager Janet Ashley said, though customers can order a drink at an outdoor table while they wait for their take-out meal. The restaurant has also been working on relocating from 333 Warren St. to 214 Warren St. The relocation is unrelated to the coronavirus shutdown.

Ca’Mea will continue with take-out service until June 16, when phase 3 — which would allow socially distanced indoor and outdoor dining — is expected to begin in the Capital Region, Ashley said.

“We are not open for full service at this point because we just found out. We are pulling our staff in tomorrow for a full staff meeting and then to make a plan on reopening and giving them all the restrictions and the things we have to do to keep everybody safe,” Ashley said Monday. “We have been doing take-out curbside only, but we do have about six tables that fit outside on the patio, so people

have been taking out food and they will sit at one of our tables, of course with social distancing, making sure there is at least eight feet between chair back to chair back. If someone wants to have a drink, we don’t have full service, but we can accommodate them with a glass of wine or a cocktail.”

Opening up outdoor dining is critical to restaurants, Friedman said.

“It’s very important and helpful to our restaurants,” he said.

“It gives them greater capacity to serve, since they can’t do any indoor seating right now. Hopefully it will increase sales. It’s a bit of a game changer; it gives restaurants a two-week head start on phase 3.”

Friedman urges patrons to follow precautions when dining.

“We strongly encourage everyone to follow each restaurant’s safety guidelines: wearing masks while not seated, maintaining social distancing with anyone not in your party,” he said. “The last thing we want to do is have a spike in cases and have our businesses be forced to shut down again.”

Catskill’s outdoor guidelines require any new or additional

outdoor seating to comply with state building code, fire code and department of health regulations, cannot result in a total restaurant capacity greater than the restaurant’s currently approved occupancy limit, cannot block exits from any building or access routes to and from the building, cannot block fire lanes or hydrants and have at least one fire extinguisher for outdoor operations.

All sidewalks must maintain a minimum width of three feet; a minimum distance of six feet must be maintained between outdoor tables; groups with more than 10 people will not be permitted and new seating that requires construction or electrical work will still require a building permit.

If outdoor dining occurs after daylight hours, adequate lighting must be provided, and if the outdoor dining space is near parking spaces, a visual barrier must be placed to alert drivers.

The guidelines are in effect through Oct. 31.

In the village, a proposal to close Main Street to increase outdoor dining and retail space for the duration of the summer, has been dropped.

“Street closing is off the

table,” Village President Vincent Seeley said. “We are offering businesses to expand seating out into the sidewalk.”

Other businesses opened their doors during phase 2.

Car dealerships were able to do business online prior to phase 2, but now customers can come inside as well.

“Everyone is required to wear a mask when they walk in the dealership and if you don’t have one we provide masks at the front door,” Sawyer Chevrolet manager Stephanie Siracusano said. “We are leaving it up to the customer if they feel comfortable entering. We can do everything outside that we can do inside.”

The flow of customers to the dealership has been steady both when doing business online and now at the dealership, Siracusano said.

Test drives have been allowed both during the shutdown — when car dealerships were considered essential businesses — and during the reopening.

“We wipe down the vehicle both before and after a customer takes a test drive,” Siracusano said.

gold — New York state’s colors — and projected the New York Tough slogan in celebration of the entire state beginning a phased reopening.

“It was frightening, but New Yorkers did it,” Cuomo said.

“We’re not out of the woods, but we’re on the other side, certainly.”

U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado, D-19, joined as a co-sponsor of the House’s Justice in Policing Act of 2020 — comprehensive police reform legislation that would amend the federal criminal statute to prosecute police misconduct from “willfulness” to a “recklessness” standard; reforming qualified immunity so people are not entirely barred from recovering damages when police violate their constitutional rights.

“No single policy will undo centuries of systemic racism, but today the House and Senate are taking an important step to increase transparency and accountability in policing,” Delgado said in a statement Monday afternoon. “Today, I am joining as an original co-sponsor of the Justice in Policing Act, which will implement needed reforms around law enforcement.”

The federal legislation would also create a National Police Misconduct Registry and require state and local law enforcement agencies to report use of force data disaggregated by race, sex, disability, religion and age. The bill includes police training and practices to end racial and religious profiling, mandating training on racial

bias and the duty to intervene, banning no-knock warrants, banning chokeholds and carotid holds and changing the standard to evaluate law enforcement use of force.

The bill limits the transfer of military-grade equipment and requires federally uniformed police officers to wear body cameras, according to a statement from Delgado’s office.

The Justice in Policing Act of 2020 makes lynching a federal crime under federal hate crime laws.

The proposed measure would also grant the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division subpoena power and incentivize state attorneys general to conduct and improve federal pattern and practice investigations and grants for states to create independent investigative structures for policeinvolved deaths.

The state will allow socially distanced outdoor high school and university graduation ceremonies up to 150 people starting June 26 because New York’s coronavirus hospitalization, death and infection rates continue to decline.

New York had 702 new COVID-19 cases Sunday, or about 1.2% positive of the state’s 58,054 conducted diagnostic tests. About 1% were positive of 60,435 diagnostic tests Saturday. The state opened 14 new temporary testing sites at churches in the city’s highestimpacted Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens neighborhoods to reduce the coronavirus spread in

low-income and communities of color.

The state will perform 35,000 coronavirus COVID-19 tests in New York City each day as the city starts reopening the local economy Monday. It is the last of the state’s 10 regions to resume Phase I businesses, including construction, manufacturing, forestry and curbside pickup retail industries.

Officials remain concerned about a COVID-19 resurgence in New York after two weeks of protests and instances of civil unrest following the death of 46-year-old George Floyd, who died facedown on the street on Memorial Day, May 25, when a Minneapolis police officer kneeled on his neck for more than eight minutes.

Hundreds of thousands of protesters across the world marched or rallied in Black Lives Matter weekend protests and demonstrations, including overnight.

New York City protests, and others statewide in Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Albany, remained mainly peaceful for the fourth and fifth consecutive nights, with scattered arrests for looting or violence. In the Capital District on Sunday, thousands of protesters peacefully rallied in Saratoga Springs and Troy.

Cuomo stands with the protesters’ message, he has repeatedly said, but stressed his worry over an increase in virus spread because of the mass gatherings, citing rolling outbreaks across California, Texas, North

Carolina and other parts of the Southeast.

The state’s coronavirus numbers may not reflect a spike for several days as symptoms may not begin for two to 14 days after a person becomes infected.

Any New Yorker who attended a protest is eligible, and encouraged, to get a COVID-19 test.

“We don’t know what the effect of those protests are,” Cuomo said. “If I go to a protest, assume I am positive for the virus. Get that test.”

To schedule a COVID-19 at one of more than 750 testing sites across the state, visit coronavirus.health.ny.gov Medical experts and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the COVID-19 can survive in the air for up to three hours.

“If I’m speaking...it could linger for three hours,” Cuomo said Saturday. “That is a frightening fact.”

The virus survives on all types of hard surfaces, officials have said since the pandemic began in March, but it may not survive on those surfaces as easily or for as long as medical experts thought. Initially, officials said COVID-19 could survive on all hard surfaces for up to nine hours.

Churches, temples, mosques and houses of worship statewide can resume services and ceremonies with 25% capacity when a region has entered phase II of the state’s four-stage reopening plan.

“Be smart — it doesn’t mean

you sit right next to a person,” Cuomo said, warning worshipers not to congregate at entrances or exits.

“This is an acceleration for us because we have done so well on the metrics.”

The North Country, Finger Lakes, Central New York, Mohawk Valley, Southern Tier, Western New York and the Capital District regions have each started phase II. The Mid-Hudson Valley region is on track to start phase II Tuesday.

Long Island is expected to enter the second phase Wednesday.

The state will deploy more than 1 million masks and 25,000 gallons of hand sanitizer to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority as New York City reopens.

New York City was cleared Monday to resume elective surgeries and ambulatory services.

New York’s COVID-19 fatalities reached 24,299 Monday — up from 24,212 on Saturday and 24,259 Sunday. Johns Hopkins University & Medicine’s online COVID-19 tracker, which includes probable virus deaths in its tally, listed the state’s virus death toll as 30,407.

New York reported 2,371 virus patients statewide Sunday, down 56, according to the governor’s office.

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

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Coxsackie-Athens’ Aiden Boehm (left) and coach Dennis Kiefer display the plaque Boehm received for being named the Patroon Conference and Section II Class B Top Scholar-Athlete for boys basketball at the Section II Scholar-Athlete Awards Breakfast in Troy on Saturday. Boehm finished second in a class of 98 at Coxsackie-Athens with a GPA of 98.67 and scored 1430 on his SAT. Other Patroon Scholar-Athletes honored were Thomas Van Tassel (Chatham), Armando Salvatore (CairoDurham), Joseph Nicosia (Greenville), Rian Jewett (Maple Hill), Patrick Sullivan (Rensselaer) and Ryan Nowak (Taconic Hills).

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Former New York Mets outfielder Cleon Jones.

Mets legend Cleon Jones knows the America that is being protested all too well

By Deesha Thosar New York Daily News (TNS)

When Cleon Jones first heard about George Floyd’s killing by police, he was transported back to Mobile, Alabama, in 1977. The former Mets outfielder was driving home while his wife, Angela, was doing so in another car. She made it home safely.

Jones was stopped by a white police officer who claimed

his turn signal was broken.

“Thank you officer, but I didn’t know it wasn’t working,” Jones said.

“Where’s your license?” the officer asked.

“In the other car,” Jones told him.

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When the NBA Board of Governors voted Thursday on a plan to resume the season, the Knicks, along with the other seven teams left out of the picture, did not vote against the plan and try to force their way into the bubble in Orlando. For the Knicks, there was a willingness to officially end this season and move on to the future.

While Leon Rose has made additions to his front office in his first official moves as team president, the real task is to find a coach to lead the franchise. While there will be arguments about defensive-minded coaches, offensive gurus and analytical geniuses, what the Knicks need most of all is someone who will last.

Consider this: RJ Barrett has not completed his rookie season yet and he is heading to his third head coach.

It’s not an accident that continuity and stability lead to success. So as names are tossed out, maybe the most obvious choice is the best choice, and not just because he has a track record of success. Tom Thibodeau is the front-runner for the job, and of all the items on his resume, perhaps his relationship with Rose is the most important of all.

There are other names in the mix and you can make an argument for them. The

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Knicks are expected to begin interviews next week and hope to complete the process by the end of the month. They would like to get a coach in place before some other teams that could be in the mix with better rosters, such as Philadelphia and Houston, even get a shot to make an offer.

Kenny Atkinson, let go by the Nets just ahead of the suspension of the season, also is expected to interview for the job. Interim coach Mike Miller will get a chance to lobby to keep the job. SNY reported that former Knicks coach Mike Woodson will interview, although one person familiar

with the situation said he most likely would be considered for a lead assistant role.

You don’t get to be an NBA coach without knowing the X’s and O’s. Some are better than others, and there is a solid history that shows Thibodeau is as good as they come on the defensive end and underrated on the offensive end. He has taken teams to the postseason, has overachieved with outmanned squads in Chicago and Minnesota as head coach and has a long lineage as an assistant with Jeff Van Gundy in New York and Doc Rivers in Boston.

But with the notion that he

not only is qualified but could be part of a like-minded pairing with Rose, the Knicks finally could end their constant shuffling of coaches and game plans.

When Phil Jackson took over as team president in 2014, he sought to bring in Steve Kerr as coach. Maybe, even if it would not have brought the championship rings that Kerr won with the Golden State Warriors, that would have provided a semblance of stability to the organization.

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Like normal times at AMS — Harvick wins Folds of Honor Quiktrip 500 Steve Hummer The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

The first major league sporting event held in Atlanta since the great coronavirus shutdown dealt in large part in the gripping drama of tire tread wear. Traffic in the Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 on Sunday was for the most part spread out all over Atlanta Motor Speedway and minded its manners far more than it does on any other stretch of asphalt in this town.

There would be no live audience; it’s still too early in the pandemic for that. But there would be a winner, which is a good first step: Kevin Harvick, the guy who so owns the bottom groove of this track he might as well build a condo on it, collected his third career victory in Atlanta in a runaway.

It was business as unusual — Harvick winning at one of his favorite joints but without the benefit of Fan One in the seats to cheer him. As he ran a backward victory lap flashing the same BRYNN ANDERSON/POOL PHOTO VIA USA TODAY three-finger salute he uses after every victory NASCAR Cup Series driver Kevin Harvick (4) celebrates winning the Folds of Honor Quik Trip 500 at here lately, it was only for the benefit of televi- Atlanta Motor Speedway. sion.

OK, so not every race has to be yet another day featuring 301 of 325 laps run under green, interrupting a lovely Sunday drive.

“Fast & Furious” remake — this most tame there being only a couple minor spinouts Such comfort does Harvick find here that it

confuses his origin story. He is, for the record, from California. Yet, when second-place finisher Kyle Busch described his challenge in chasing Harvick on Sunday, he said, “It’s hard to beat him when he’s on his ‘home’ turf.” Busch finished more than three seconds behind Harvick, which at these speeds is a yawning gap.

Martin Truex was in the lead at the first two stages, but didn’t win the most important one, the last. Truex came in a distant third.Ryan Blaney was fourth and Denny Hamlin fifth.

Although you couldn’t tell it, Harvick said, “It was a battle today.”

“The car didn’t really handle like we wanted it to most of the day. They made some great adjustments at the end of the race, and we were able to get the car right when it counted there at the end.”

The start of this race held a whole different level of meaning and significance than anything that occurred after the drop of the green flag.

First, it was left to Jimmie Johnson to bellow out the command of “Start your engines!” to See HARVICK B3

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Pro basketball NBA Eastern Conference Atlantic W L Pct Toronto 46 18 .719 Boston 43 21 .672 Philadelphia 39 26 .600 Brooklyn 30 34 .469 New York 21 45 .318 Central W L Pct Milwaukee 53 12 .815 Indiana 39 26 .600 Chicago 22 43 .338 Detroit 20 46 .303 Cleveland 19 46 .292 Southeast W L Pct Miami 41 24 .631 Orlando 30 35 .462 Washington 24 40 .375 Charlotte 23 42 .354 Atlanta 20 47 .299 Western Conference Northwest W L Pct Denver 43 22 .662 Utah 41 23 .641 Oklahoma City 40 24 .625 Portland 29 37 .439 Minnesota 19 45 .297 Pacific W L Pct L.A. Lakers 49 14 .778 L.A. Clippers 44 20 .688 Sacramento 28 36 .438 Phoenix 26 39 .400 Golden State 15 50 .231 Southwest W L Pct Houston 40 24 .625 Dallas 40 27 .597 Memphis 32 33 .492 New Orleans 28 36 .438 San Antonio 27 36 .429 Season suspended

GB — 3.0 7.5 16.0 26.0 GB — 14.0 31.0 33.5 34.0 GB — 11.0 16.5 18.0 22.0 GB — 1.5 2.5 14.5 23.5 GB — 5.5 21.5 24.0 35.0 GB — 1.5 8.5 12.0 12.5

NBA SCORING LEADERS Through March 11 G FG Harden, HOU 61 603 Beal, WAS 57 593 Anttkounmpo, MIL 57 623 Young, ATL 60 546 Lillard, POR 58 531 Doncic, DAL 54 512 Westbrook, HOU 53 568 Leonard, LAC 51 476 Davis, LAL 55 508 Booker, PHX 62 544

PTS 2096 1741 1690 1778 1677 1549 1456 1370 1467 1619

AVG 34.4 30.5 29.6 29.6 28.9 28.7 27.5 26.9 26.7 26.1

Pro hockey STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS Date and Location TBD EASTERN CONFERENCE Qualifying round No. 12 Montreal vs. No. 5 Pittsburgh No. 11 N.Y. Rangers vs. No. 6 Carolina No. 10 Florida vs. No. 7. NY Islanders No. 9 Columbus vs. No. 8 Toronto TOP 4 SEEDS (seeds will be determined by round-robin) Boston Tampa Bay Washington Philadelphia WESTERN CONFERENCE Qualifying round No. 12 Chicago vs. No. 5 Edmonton No. 11 Arizona vs. No. 6 Nashville No. 10 Minnesota vs. No. 7 Vancouver No. 9 Winnipeg vs. No. 8 Calgary TOP 4 SEEDS (seeds will be determined by round-robin) St. Louis Colorado Vegas Dallas

Sports Flashbacks BASEBALL 1908 — Detroit executes a triple play in a 9-5 loss to Boston — the second triple play in as many days for the Tigers.

1911 — The Cubs’ Heinie Zimmerman and Al Kaiser both steal home in the seventh inning of a 5-3 loss to the Brooklyn Robins.

1929 — Detroit second baseman Charlie Gehringer drives in a career-high seven runs in a 1711 slugfest over Washington.

1947 — Warren Spahn goes the distance on a three-hitter as the Braves blank the Reds, 9-0.

He finishes the season with a league-high seven shutouts.

1952 — Cleveland signs left-handed pitcher Herb Score as an amateur free agent. He wins the 1955 Rookie of the Year award, and makes two All-Star appearances.

1966 — The Mets select catcher Steve Chilcott with the first pick in the amateur draft. He spends six years in the minor leagues and never plays a game in the majors.

1968 — Baltimore’s Davey Johnson singles with two outs in the ninth inning to break up Oakland pitcher Blue Moon Odom’s no-hid bid. The A’s win, 6-1.

1973 — Texas snags high school pitcher David Clyde with the No. 1 pick in the draft.

Dave Winfield is selected fourth overall by San Diego; he is also taken in the NBA and NFL drafts.

1977 — New York Mets ace Tom Seaver throws a complete-game shutout, striking out 10 in an 8-0 win over Cincinnati. Eight days later, he is traded to the Reds in a stunning five-player deal.

1982 — First baseman Steve Garvey plays in his 1,000th straight game. He goes 0-for-4 as the Dodgers fall, 4-3, to the Braves.

1989 — Toronto uses its new retractable roof at SkyDome for the first time in a game. The roof is closed in the fifth inning of the Jays’ 4-2 win over the Brewers.

1994 — Oakland’s Rickey Henderson steals his 1,100th career base in a 6-5 win over Milwaukee.

1999 — Atlanta right-hander John Smoltz records his 2,000th career strikeout in a 9-5 win over Tampa Bay. 2001 — Brothers Cesar and Felipe Crespo hit home runs in San Diego’s 10-7 win over San Francisco. Cesar hits a solo home run in the seventh inning for the Padres, while Felipe belts a pair of homers for the Giants.

2007 — Tampa Bay make left-hander David Price the first pick in the amateur draft. He signs more than two months later for $8.5 million.

BASKETBALL 1990 — Clyde Drexler scores 33 points and hits two free throws with 2.1 seconds left in overtime to give the Portland Trail Blazers a 106-105 victory over the Detroit Pistons to tie the NBA Finals at 1-1.

1991 — Michael Jordan has 29 points, nine rebounds and nine assists and sinks the game-tying 15-footer with 3.4 seconds left in regulation as the Bulls go on to a 104-96 overtime win over the Lakers to take a 2-1 lead in the NBA Finals.

1993 — New Jersey Nets star Drazen Petrovic is killed at age 28 in an auto accident in Germany.

1995 — Kenny Smith forces overtime by sinking his seventh 3-pointer with 1.6 seconds left in regulation and Hakeem Olajuwon tips in the winning basket with three-tenths of a second left in overtime as Houston earns a 120-118 win over Orlando in Game 1 of the NBA Finals.

1998 — The Chicago Bulls roll up the largest winning margin (42 points) in NBA Finals history and limit the Utah Jazz to the fewest points in playoff history while rolling to a 96-54 victory to take a 2-1 series lead.

2000 — Shaquille O’Neal dominates with 43 points and 19 rebounds and the Lakers defeat the Pacers, 104-87, in the opening game of the NBA Finals.

2002 — O’Neal has a brilliant all-around contest with 40 points, 12 rebounds and eight assists as the Lakers rout the Nets, 106-83, to take a 2-0 lead in the NBA Finals.

2009 — Orlando’s Courtney Lee misses a lastsecond layup in regulation and the Lakers go on to a 101-96 overtime win to take a 2-0 lead in the NBA Finals.

2011 — Dirk Nowitzki plays through a sinus infection and scores 10 of his 21 points in the final quarter as Dallas posts an 86-83 win over Miami to tie the NBA Finals at 2-2.

2017 — The Golden State Warriors become the first team to win their first 15 playoff games as they come from behind to beat the Cleveland Cavaliers, 118-113, in Game 3 of the NBA Finals.

HOCKEY 1967 — The NHL amateur draft is held in Montreal. The expansion Los Angeles Kings select defenseman Rick Pagnutti first overall.

1970 — Mike Modano is born in Dearborn, Mich. Modano, drafted first overall in 1988, records 1,374 career points and wins a Stanley Cup with the Dallas Stars in 1999.

1989 — The Hartford Whalers name former player Rick Ley head coach, replacing Larry Pleau. Ley spends exactly two years at the helm before being let go in favor of Jim Roberts.

Will the Travelers Championship finally catch a Tiger?

The Hartford Courant

When it comes to Tiger Woods, golf’s best known and most polarizing figure, one phrase is always in play: Anybody’s guess.

This month, that’s especially true when it comes to the longheld hope of convincing Woods to give the Travelers Championship a try. Is this the year?

“I will say, we talk to Tiger every year,” said Nathan Grube, the Travelers tournament director. “We have a great relationship with Joey (LaCava), his caddie, he’s a Connecticut guy, and his agent. But if there is one player who keeps his schedule to himself better than the average player, it’s Tiger.”

Boisterous crowds have costarred in the Travelers Championship’s signature moments. So MIKE EHRMANN/GETTY IMAGES FOR THE MATCH how will Sunday drama look and Tiger Woods looks on from the 10th tee during The Match: Champions For Charity at Medalist Golf feel without them? “ It’s not uncommon, for in- Club on May 24 in Hobe Sound, Fla. stance, for Woods to wait until creature of habit and I don’t see efforts on COVID-19-related schedule resumes with the PGA the Friday before a tournament that changing at 44 years old, es- causes. The tournament won Championship in August, the — the PGA Tour deadline — to pecially when he needs to man- the Players’ Choice Award in U.S. Open in September and the tell organizers he plans to play. age his surgically repaired body 2017 and ‘18, and players, such Masters in November.

So the Travelers, which is slated in a year in which the end of the as Rory McIlroy, tournament Most agree Woods, as a creato go June 25-28, without spec- calendar is packed with majors organizers say, have touted the ture of habit, will play in Jack tators and within the tour’s and other big tournaments. event to Woods. This year will Nicklaus’ Memorial Tournaand state’s social health safety “It’s a shame, too, because it not have the usual throngs of ment at Muirfield in Dublin, guidelines, could learn as late as would seem to fit his schedule, fans, as many as 300,000, that Ohio July 16-19, an event he has June 19 if this would be the year it’s a course I think he’d like and make the experience unique, won five times.

Tiger comes to the TPC for the do well on and it’s a tournament but the course figures to be in “It comes down to how many first time. players seem to universally love, tip-top shape and now has five rounds can he get in before the It may make sense, but ana- which explains why it always of the top 10 players in the world Memorial if he skips the Travellysts are far apart as to whether it gets a strong field.” committed. ers,” Eaves said. will happen.

Woods, coming off knee surGenerally, Woods’ strategy, After the Travelers, he would “Honestly, I would be especially as he has been fight- gery, has said he would have have two opportunities, first stunned if he doesn’t play at ing various injuries, has been to defended his Masters champi- the Rocket Mortgage Classic in River Highlands,” said Michael pick his spots, give himself the onship had it been played on Detroit July 2-5. The John Deere Eaves of ESPN. “He has been best chance to be healthy for schedule in April, and he looked Classic in Illinois has been canoff so long. I don’t think he’s go- the major championships and good in the televised exhibition celed, replaced by a one-time ing to play at Hilton Head (June selected non-majors. He will with Phil Mickelson, Peyton tournament at Muirfield, July 18-21). If he skips the Travelers, not play in the first tour event Manning and Tom Brady on 9-12, so golfers would be in place that’s three weeks off from com- of the post-coronavirus season, May 24, Woods’ first action in 98 for the regular Memorial, which petitive golf while others will be the Charles Schwab Challenge days. could allow fans. competing. It’s going to have in Fort Worth, Texas, this week, Out of that came some specu“My guess is he returns at the a strong field, which he likes to an event he has played only lation as to when Woods would Memorial, which he plays every see.” once, in 1997. It does not appear join the tour, and how he will year,” Wacker said. “It is Jack Said Brian Wacker of Golf he will play the following week manage his schedule to best be (Nicklaus’) place and he has Digest magazine: “I’d put the in the RBC Heritage at Hilton ready for the three major tour- won five times. From there, it rechances of Tiger playing Trav- Head, S.C., either. naments, with guesses all over ally becomes about the majors elers somewhere around ‘nonNow, about the Travelers, the map. While the British Open and to some extent the Playoffs.”

The PGA is scheduled for Aug. existent.’ He’s an enormous which will be focusing charitable has been canceled, the major

6-9, the U.S. Open is Sept. 17-20 and the Masters Nov. 12-15.

“It will be interesting to see if Tiger looks at the (shortened) season as a washout,” said ESPN’s Matt Barrie, “and just gets out there a few times and if he plays well, great, and if not he’s had a year to get healthy.”

Kyle Porter of CBSSports. com, in predicting Woods’ schedule, lists the Travelers as a “maybe.”

“The Travelers would be a good reentry point,” he writes.

“It’s a top-notch regular event and normally has a stellar field.”

Meanwhile GolfChannel.com lists the Travelers in its “not much of a chance” category.

This is likely the best positioned the Travelers will ever be to get Woods to Cromwell, with the long layoff and the limited opportunities to play during this part of the year. When the Travelers was moved to the weekend following the U.S. Open, many believed it would be an insurmountable detriment. It has not been, but it may be a traditional obstacle for getting Woods, despite other top players coming.

“I tend to fall in the ‘Tiger is a creature of habit’ thinking,” Barrie said, “but these are unprecedented times, and there are not going to be a lot of opportunities for the top players who want to get some tournament golf in. ...

It would make a lot of sense, Tiger wouldn’t have to leave the Eastern Time Zone, he could just fly in from Florida.”

Brooks Koepka, ranked No. 3 in the world, committed to play at Cromwell on May 21, joining No. 1 McIlroy, No. 4 Justin Thomas, Patrick Cantlay and Patrick Reed, who are tied at No. 7. The organizers haven’t heard from Tiger yet, but will they? It’s anybody’s guess.

“It’s going to be the strongest field we’ve ever had,” Grube said. “We have five of the top 10, most of the top 20. It’s going to be different, but it’s exciting.”

When Drew Brees uses the American flag to virtue signal, he ignores black contributions to the military Deantae Prince Chicago Tribune

Saints quarterback Drew Brees stands for the national anthem, hand over heart, eyes fixed on the American flag.

He is nearly brought to tears when he hears “The Star-Spangled Banner.”

Every Sunday that Brees takes the field and peers up at those 13 stripes and 50 stars, he does so from a place of privilege many black Americans never will understand, including his teammates and former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Brees can look at that flag with conviction and know his ancestors never served as slaves while it waved in the distance. He can sing Francis Scott Key’s words without considering the third verse, which references the killing of Colonial Marines, two units of former slaves who joined British forces and fought in the War of 1812. He can remember the precious lessons learned from two grandfathers who put their lives on the line in World War II. On an even simpler note, Brees can trace his family lineage, which is not a given for every black family. Just as slavery started in the Colonies in 1619, so too did the splintering of African families. Relatives have been separated by the slave trade, mass incarceration and gun violence for centuries, along with shorter life expectancy because of fewer healthy food options and less access to health care. In the wake of the police killing of George Floyd and nationwide protests, the threat of law enforcement has also come to the attention of the public.

Some in the black community, myself included, live with incomplete family trees and stories yet to be unearthed.

Through the years, as elders were lost, more family history was erased with each new generation. And, to be honest, I haven’t always been the most diligent about filling in the blanks. My maternal grandfather, Eddie Thompson, died when my mother was young, and my paternal grandfather left the family. For a long time, the buck stopped there for me. That changed only recently.

In the days before Brees’ comments

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New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees speaks onstage during day three of SiriusXM at Super Bowl LIV on Jan. 31 in Miami, Fla.

about disrespecting the flag outraged black people across the country, my great uncle, Henry Thompson, the first journalist in the family, boarded his boat for a celebratory ride and posted it on Facebook. A St. Louis native who enjoys coasting on the Illinois River, it was no surprise he recreated this familiar Memorial Day scene.

The imagery was typical, a day complete with family and a spell-casting sunset. It all seemed innocuous enough, but the deeper I dove into the Facebook post, the more startled I became. The sound of soft jazz was cut as my uncle, a radio man, said in a booming voice, “Did you see that boat with the confederate flag? I tell you man, this ignorance is pervasive.”

Little did I know that second sentence applied to my family in a different way.

I finally made it to the meat of the post and read the text: “Remembering my

brother Samuel Thompson, killed in Vietnam at age 19 on November 1965.” I never had heard the name before.

Digging deeper still to find information, I inquired with family about the name Samuel Lee Thompson, hoping the generation before me simply neglected to mention it. They were just as clueless.

I always had known it was a privilege to have a long family lineage, one that outstretched America’s original sin. But here we were allowing the erasure of a relative who was a living, breathing human only 55 years ago.

So I finally picked up the phone to call Uncle Henry, the older brother of my grandfather, Eddie. I caught him in what he described as “black man heaven” as he sat on an Illinois patio and listened to Miles Davis’ “Sketches of Spain.”

With a recorder in hand, as a 33-yearold adult, I learned about my family, that

generations of Thompson men joined the military, serving in World War II, the Korean and Vietnam wars and returning to a different America, one with racial discrimination that wasn’t welcoming to black veterans. Or not returning at all.

“We were all in the service,” Uncle Henry said. “It was just a tradition — everybody joined the service.” This included my great uncle Sam, who left high school track and the comfort of his parents’ home to become a combat medic in Vietnam. He would die there, in Da Nang, at 19 years old, never fathering children or carving out a career — forever young.

His father, my great grandfather Henry, who was a sergeant in World War II — the war in which Brees’ grandfathers fought — received news that Sam died when military men showed up at his doorstep.

Uncle Henry remembers that day as the moment his father, whom he called a pillar in the St. Louis community, finally broke down after years of being a stoic, hard-driving man who raised five children. It figures that one of those five children became a pillar in the family, completing lost parts of our history.

“Every time I’m in Chicago and I’m with your aunts and your mother,” Uncle Henry said, “I’m with my brother and I’m pleasing my father. My father would want me to do that, and that’s important to me.”

What I learned from Uncle Henry is that we need to protect black stories the same way our ancestors protected the United States. I learned that American families, of all racial backgrounds and economic stations, put their lives on the line.

Brees might have learned something too. He has apologized three times this week and improved with each attempt.

The first featured a halfhearted Instagram post, complete with a stock photo taken from Google Images. The second, a straight-to-camera video seemed more contrite, and the third was an impassioned letter addressed directly to Donald Trump.

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Four things we learned from Kevin Harvick’s victory Alex Andrejev The Charlotte Observer

Kevin Harvick ran away with the final stage of the Folds of Honor QuickTrip 500 race Sunday evening to claim his second win of the 2020 season and his third career Cup win at Atlanta Motor Speedway.

“This place is pretty special just because of the fact that this is where I got my first win,” Harvick said. “For me, coming back here, it brings back a lot of memories.”

Harvick’s first win at the Atlanta track came in 2001, three races after he replaced the late Dale Earnhardt after the Cup driver was killed in a last-lap accident at the Daytona 500 that year. Just as he did in 2001, Harvick held three fingers out the window and drove a lap in the opposite direction to honor Earnhardt on Sunday.

“This is just a track I’ve taken a liking to,” Harvick said on the FOX

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waited until finally I asked, ‘What’s going on? How long do you want me to wait?’ A couple of seconds later, more police vehicles showed up and another officer approached me,” Jones said.

“We’re going to whoop your ass,” the officer said.

Moments later, a brawl ensued. Jones, a year after he retired from baseball, wrestled with police officers on the ground in his own neighborhood when suddenly, he was hit with a club.

“Finally, my mind said get away from here,” Jones recalled in a phone conversation with the Daily News. “I was right in front of my place of business at that time, so I ran around the block.”

Except, that didn’t work.

The police trailed Jones and soon, began beating him up again. His neighbors came out of their homes and started shouting Jones’ name. Eventually, the officers stopped.

“They didn’t realize who I was at the time,” Jones said.

“When people started calling my name, the white officers realized they picked the wrong individual. And this happened in 1977! God knows what happened before then, because I know for a fact it happened to other folks.”

Jones, the 1969 Mets batting leader who hit .340 and famously caught the final out of the franchise’s first world championship, grew up in the

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the field before starting what is believed to be his final ride at Atlanta Motor Speedway. The seven-time Cup champion, who was honored here this week by having a grandstand named after him, has announced he will retire at season’s end.

Second, mindful of the fact this is also first major sporting event in the nation since the death of George Floyd the protests it ignited, NASCAR was compelled to comment.

One lap from going green, the field came to a stop at the AMS frontstretch. Each race

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the Warriors jumped in and grabbed him, leaving the Knicks with a Plan B, Derek Fisher, that turned into a short-lived failure.

It has been followed quickly by a procession of swings and misses — Kurt Rambis, Jeff Hornacek, David Fizdale and likely Miller — who were unable to last long enough to make a difference.

“Well, I feel a little uncomfortable talking about a situation that is fluid and they have

broadcast after his 51st Cup Series race win, which puts the driver ahead of Junior Johnson and Ned Jarrett on the list of all-time race winners.

Harvick also further climbed the 2020 points ladder, which he has dominated this season, after leading the most laps (151) of the 325-lap race and finishing in the top five in the first two stages.

Although during the race Harvick said he struggled with his Ford Mustang, he said his team was able to make the necessary adjustments before the final stage, allowing him to jump ahead on the restart and sail to Victory Lane.

TRUEX JR. GETS EARLY LEAD But Harvick still finished behind No. 19 driver Truex Jr. in Stages 1 and 2. Truex Jr. was sixth in the points leading up to Atlanta and didn’t have a top-five finish prior to dominating Sunday’s race. He finished in third place behind Joe Gibbs Racing

teammate Kyle Busch in second.

“We were really strong the first two stages and I was really happy with the car,” Truex Jr. said after the race. “We just got too tight there at the start of stage three (and) made some adjustments on the pit stop. It just wasn’t enough.”

Truex Jr. started 11th and led 65 laps, the second-most laps led behind Harvick.

JGR DRIVERS PULLING AHEAD In addition to Truex Jr. and Busch, JGR’s Denny Hamlin notched another top-five finish. The No. 11 driver finished in fifth place behind Team Penske’s Ryan Blaney. After Bristol last weekend, JGR is showing its strength.

“Atlanta and Homestead are pretty significant high downforce tracks and we tend to run well here,” Busch said about his Toyota teammates after the race. “Truex definitely tends to run well here. He did last year, and

I think Denny has won here a couple times, so it’s a place that we should have good results at.”

Busch called it a “good, solid run” for his No. 18 team.

“Hopefully we can keep that momentum rolling,” Busch said after the race.

BOWYER’S SEASON STARTING STRONG After a second-place finish last week at Bristol, Clint Bowyer had a solid showing at Atlanta. Bowyer finished in the top-10 in the first stage and was able to jump to the lead off the restart in stage two, passing thenleader Truex Jr. Trouble with his right rear tire, however, forced the No. 14 driver to to pit with the green flag out, but he was able to briefly reclaim the lead in the second stage.

But tires continued to be a problem for Bowyer. With under 15 laps to go, the Ford Mustang driver was again forced to pit under green for his right

rear tire. By that point, Bowyer didn’t have a chance to get back to the top10. He finished 20th. Still,Bowyer led 58 laps and finished in the top-10 in the first two stages.

BIGGER THAN RACING A different type of “race” was NASCAR’s focus before the Sunday Cup event kicked off. NASCAR president Steve Phelps addressed those standing at the track and the FOX broadcast audience about the protests raging across the nation in response to recent instances of racial injustice and police brutality.

“Our country is in pain and people are justifiably angry demanding to be heard,” Phelps said. “The Black community and all people of color have suffered in our country and it has taken far too long to hear their demands for change.”

“Our sport must do better,” Phelps continued. “Our country must do better.”

Jim Crow South under legal segregation. Racism, inequality and injustice were unrelenting issues in Mobile, the destination of the last known illegal shipment of slaves to the United States from Africa.

Jones’ 1977 altercation with the police is just one of several racist incidents from his youth.

“We as black folks have been crying foul for years,” Jones said. “I know a lot of good people — white and black — that are against this kind of action.

But you have a group of people who think that every time a black man moves up, he has to move down; that we are taking something from that particular group of people.

“So I know for a fact that there are groups and police departments that work in unison to create this attack on black folks.”

Throughout his professional playing days, a big-league career that spanned across 13 years, Jones remembers how difficult it was to push himself to play baseball. He was called several racial epithets by Mets fans; he was spit on; things were thrown at him. None of this was easy for Jones, a black athlete in the 1960s and ‘70s playing baseball for a majority-white audience. Jones took society’s hatred of him, however short-sighted and foolish it was, to heart.

“I wanted to go up in the stands and just cry, just feel bad,” Jones recalled of the pain he felt then.

Jones joined the major leagues in the era of Hank Aaron and Willie Mays. Even though they were the biggest

stars in the game, they were viciously attacked by racists.

Days before Aaron broke Babe Ruth’s all-time home run record in 1974, he was faced with some of the toughest moments in his life.

“You can’t imagine what (Aaron) went through and the hate mail that he got,” said Jones, who was good friends with the Hall of Famer. “It was just appalling what was happening. He couldn’t even stay in the same hotel with the team. He had to stay in a different hotel where nobody knew where he was.

“He just wanted to retire, not because he feared for his life, but when you’re about to break records — and records are made to be broken — people ought to be happy for you.

People ought to be jubilant for you, not try to piss on you on every corner and diminish what it is that you’re doing.

You can be complacent and feel rejected.”

During moments like those, when it took all his strength to show up to the ballpark, Jones prayed to God and relied on one person to help him fight through identical injustices.

“Hit it Jackie! Watch out Jackie, they’re throwing at you!”

Those were the words of Jones’ grandmother, who he will always remember as a devoted Jackie Robinson fan.

She would gather Jones’ family — his great-grandmother, his brother, his cousins — and have them sit down and listen to Brooklyn Dodgers games.

“We actually watched the radio,” Jones recalled. “As if we had a TV and we were looking

at it. So when she found out that her grand baby talked to Jackie and sat down and saw him and touched him, oh man. She was really proud of her grand baby.”

When Jones thinks about race relations, he draws on four powerful black men that changed his life: boxer Joe Louis, four-time Olympic gold medalist Jesse Owens, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Jackie Robinson. While he is in awe of all four of those individuals for their sacrifices in defending their country, no person or player made a larger impact on Jones than his friend Jackie Robinson.

“Jackie Robinson was on an island that I don’t think that I could’ve endured,” Jones said. “You can’t play baseball and have other things on your mind. Each and every day — all day — you’re dealing with race relations and how you fit in and how many times you’re going to be called a racial slur today and how many times you’re going to be spit on ... and then you try to get a hit against Sandy Koufax or Bob Gibson, it’s not that simple a job.

“People have to understand that we live in a world that gives and it takes but in our case, it’s giving just a little bit and taking a great deal.”

Jones loved Robinson because he was smart and courageous, he was good at baseball, he had a temperament and he was proud. Robinson fought for black athletes and defended people like Jones, so that they too, could play baseball. Had Robinson failed, Jones said, it likely would have

taken another 20-30 years before black people could play.

“When you’re fighting for people, I mean a whole race of people, that’s on your back each and every time you go to the ballpark or when you’re lying in your bed or taking a shower,” Jones said. “You can’t get that out of your mind, what you’re fighting for. You’re not playing just for Jackie, you’re playing for a whole race of people. You’re fighting for that. And you can’t begin to think that you can let those people down.”

Any given moment Jones felt unwanted, he would think of Robinson. Jones would say to himself: Look, Jackie went through this. I can do it.

“My salvation came through Jackie and the Lord,” Jones said. “I could reach back and always think of Jackie to push me forward. Had it not been for Jackie Robinson, I don’t know where I would’ve gotten the willpower to move forward, to even get in the big leagues. That’s it. I would pray and I would think about Jackie Robinson.”

Jones, 77, now spends his retirement refurbishing homes with his wife, Angela, for senior neighbors in Africatown, the historic district in Mobile where he was raised.

They clean abandoned lands and parking lots, paint homes, replace floors, repair electrical work and repaint schools in the community while making sure to social distance and take other precautions against the coronavirus.

“We realized the significance of the history of this area,” Jones said of Africatown.

“We felt like we could lend a hand and try to reshape and rebuild the community that lives here.”

In order to reshape and rebuild professional sports institutions to begin uplifting black communities, Jones said he doesn’t have all the answers.

He’s not sure there’s any one solution to the country’s current unrest following the killing of Floyd, an unarmed black man, by a white police officer.

But he knows that communities must come together with a common goal.

“Current players, owners and fans have got to come together to try to work out a solution, how to move forward,” Jones said. “There’s going to have to be a joint effort to make it work and make it sustainable so that sports can retain this meaningful place in the world. It’s necessary. All of us miss it.

“We can’t do without it because it breaks all the tension that we go through every day to come home and watch a baseball, basketball or football game. It takes you to another place, gets you out of your misery for at least three hours.”

Jones understands the complexity of the situation better than most. He believes that people have to reflect on the source of their actions in order to create change. “Nobody’s born to hate,” Jones said.

“Hate is being passed down from generation to generation. Until we can break that cycle, we’re going to have situations like we had with George Floyd.”

crew lined up atop the pit wall, one crew member for Bubba Wallace, the only African American driver in the field, holding out the Black Lives Matter T-shirt that Wallace was wearing pre-race.

During the pause, NASCAR President Steve Phelps spoke, saying in part: “Our country must do better. The time is now to listen, to understand and to stand against racism and racial injustice. We ask our drivers ... and all our fans to join us in this mission, to take a moment of reflection, to acknowledge that we must do better as a sport.” Following was a video presentation featuring a tapestry of drivers condemning racial injustice.

Wallace, who as the only African American driver on this

circuit has had a draining and emotional week, appeared to faint at the end of a very hot race. He was taken to the speedway’s infield care center where he was treated and released, according to NASCAR. Fellow driver Josh Bilicki also required aid after the race.

Once the racing began, it was pole-sitter Chase Elliott setting the early pace. The first 26 laps he led represented the first Cup Series laps he has ever led on his home-state track in five races here. But he could never quite recapture the speed of the beginning and came in eighth. No siren would sound up the road at the Dawsonville Pool Room this night, so sleep tight residents.

This race would shake out

into another Kevin Harvick testimonial. He has been a big headliner since racing was restarted, also winning the first race back at Darlington.

Put Harvick in the lead in Atlanta, and it’s almost unfair from there. It’s like some guy named Slim getting dealt three aces. There is little else for the rest of the poor lads to do but eat Harvick’s exhaust.

He led for 151 of the 325 laps run Sunday, including the final 55. That pushed his total of laps led in Atlanta over his past seven races to 1,111, or more than 1,700 miles of lead. This was where Harvick won his first NASCAR Cup race in 2001, three weeks after taking over for Dale Earnhardt who had died at Daytona. Hence the No. 3 salute for each victory

here — he also won in 2018 — that being Earnhardt’s number.

“For me, this place is pretty special just because of the fact this is where I got my first win,” said Harvick, who with his 51st career win Sunday moved into 12th place on NASCAR’s all-time list. “For me coming back here it brings back a lot of memories. We really didn’t know how to celebrate that particular day (back in 2001),

and as you look at being able to go back and win another race here and celebrate the life of Dale Earnhardt and everything he meant to the sport the right way is obviously pretty special.”

More celebrations — perhaps next time with fans — are likely when the 44-year-old Harvick no doubt wins his last race here as well.

a coach in place that I worked with in USA Basketball in Mike Miller, who’s an absolutely fantastic basketball coach,” Van Gundy said on SiriusXM NBA Radio Thursday. “But irrespective of the Knicks, Tom Thibodeau is a great, great basketball coach. Like, great.

“And I think unfortunately for him, the perception of him on the sidelines as this gruff, nasty dude is not even close to who is he personally. Like, he is a great guy. He’s fun to be around. He’s enjoyable to be around, and he loves basketball. He loves NBA basketball and he works at it and he is elite in his profession. I hope

he gets another opportunity to be a head coach, because if you look at his body of work, he certainly deserves it, and any team that may interview him or hire him would be very fortunate to have him as a head coach.”

While Thibodeau has been successful as a head coach, he has been criticized for burning out players. There was some grumbling among young players in Minnesota before that situation fell apart a year after the Timberwolves made the playoffs for the first time in 14 years.

“He gets thought of as a defensive coach, but if you look

at his best teams in Chicago and in Minnesota, they were very high-level statistically speaking offensive teams, and I think it’s been overlooked when people try to evaluate Tom from the outside,” said Van Gundy, who was the last Knicks coach to last at least four full seasons (five between 1995-2002). “Tremendous, well-balanced, good player development — he’s gotten young players much, much better. So not speaking about the Knicks’ job, but speaking in general, Tom Thibodeau is one of the best coaches in the world and I hope to see him get another head job.”

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Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Blueberry Felicidade LLC a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on May 27, 2020. Office location: Columbia County, NY. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 13 Gypsy Trail, Weston, MA 02493. Purpose: real estate and general business purposes.

CITY OF HUDSON INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING Due to public health and safety concerns related to COVID-19, the City of Hudson Industrial Development Agency Board will not be meeting in-person.

In accordance with the Governor's Executive Order 202.1, the Tuesday, June 16, 2020 Board meeting will be held at 1:00pm. The meeting will be by Google Meet with additional access via telephone. The public will have an opportunity to hear the meeting live and provide comments. Comments can be provided via email before and during the meeting to mtucker@columbiaedc.com.

Please check the meeting agenda posted on the HIDA's website http://www.cityofhudson.org/board and committees/industrial developmentagency for further instructions to access the virtual meeting and for updated information.

The meeting will be held for the purpose of discussing any matters that may be presented to the Agency for consideration, including the 620 Hudson House LLC project.

Dated: June 9, 2020 Tiffany Garriga Chair City of Hudson Industrial Development Agency E&C Xpress LLC. Filed 3/19/20. Office: Columbia Co. SSNY desig. as agent for process & shall mail to: 146 Footbridge Rd Ext, Hudson, NY 12534.

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

NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY FIRST: The name of the Limited Liability Company is Happy Clown Ice Cream and Bake Shop, LLC, (hereinafter referred to as the “Company�).

SECOND: The Articles of Organization of the Company were filed with the Secretary of State on May 20, 2020.

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

FOURTH: The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process against the Company may be served. The post office address to which the Secretary of State shall mail process is 225 Fairview Avenue, Hudson, New York 12534.

FIFTH: The Company is organized for all lawful purposes.

DATED: May 20, 2020 GUTERMAN SHALLO & ALFORD, PLLC 21 North Seventh Street Hudson, New York 12534 (518) 828-5400

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2315 INVITATION TO BID: R E F R I G E R AT I O N SERVICE AND MAINTENANCE BOILER CONTRACT SERVICE AND MAINTENANCE AIR CONDITIONING CONTRACT SERVICE AND MAINTENANCE The Board of Education of the Germantown Central School District invites sealed bids on the following: Refrigeration Service and Maintenance; Boiler Contract Service and Maintenance; Air Conditioning Contract Service and Maintenance Bids will be received until 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, June 17, 2020, in the District Office located at the Germantown Central School, 123 Main Street, Germantown, New York 12526, at which time and place they will be opened and read aloud by the District Clerk, or, her designee. The Board of Education reserves the right to waive any informality in the bidding, and to reject any or all bids received.

Specifications and bid forms and additional information on exact services included in this bid are available between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. from James Palmieri, Head Custodian.

Attention is called to the requirement that a Non-Collusive Bidding Certificate accompany each bid. Bids should be submitted to the District Office in a sealed envelope, clearly marked on the outs i d e , “ R E F R I G E R AT I O N SERVICE AND MAINTENANCE�, and/or “BOILER CONTRACT SERVICE AND MAINTENANCE�, and/or “AIR CONDITIONING CONTRACT SERVICE AND MAINTENANCE�. Any person submitting bids by mail or public/private carrier (such as UPS or Federal Express) must assume the risk of any delay in the mail or in the handling of the mail. All bids received after the designated time will be returned unopened.

LEGAL NOTICE 2020-2021 Summer Food Distribution Transportation Run The Catskill Central School District requests sealed bids for a 2020-2021 District Food Distribution Transportation Run. Sealed bids should be submitted to the Transportation Coordinator, William Muirhead, Catskill Central School District, 347 West Main Street, Catskill, New York 12414 until 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, June 10, 2020 at which time and place they will be publicly opened and read.

Specifications will be available on June 2, 2020 and may be obtained from the Business Office by calling 943-2300 ext. 1472 or 1413. The Board reserves the right to reject any and all proposals.

By order of the Board of Education Catskill Central School District William Muirhead, Transportation Director Holly Sanford, District Treasurer NOTICE OF FORMATION of Scrollathon, LLC. Articles of Org were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 5/26/20. Office location: Columbia County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served and shall mail a copy of process to the LLC mailing address, 526 W. 26th Street #1004, New York, NY 10001. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

LEGAL NOTICE PURSUANT TO SECTIONS 4-118 & 4-122 OF THE NEW YORK STATE ELECTION Germantown Central LAW, THE GREENE COUNTY BOARD OF School District ELECTIONS HEREBY 123 Main Street Germantown, New CERTIFIES THAT THE PRIMARY ELECTION York 12526

WILL BE HELD ON JUNE 23, 2020 AND THAT ALL POLLING SITES WILL BE OPEN FROM THE HOURS OF 6AM – 9PM ON THAT DAY FOR THE PURPOSE OF VOTING FOR THE FOLLOWING OFFICES: (D=Democratic R=Republican) DEMOCRATIC PARTY: PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES (VOTE FOR ONE) Pete Buttigieg Amy Klobuchar Joseph R. Biden Tulsi Gabbard Bernie Sanders Michael R. Bloomberg Tom Steyer Michael Bennet Elizabeth Warren Andrew Yang Deval Patrick DELEGATES TO NATIONAL CONVENTION 19TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT (VOTE FOR ANY SIX) Jill G. Fieldstein (F) Wally Rubin (M) Tara L. Langworthy (F) Aidan S. O'Connor, Jr. (M) Jane A. Eckert (F) Beau Loendorf (M) Donna J. Schick (F) Michael P. Hein (M) Doreen P. Davis (F) Frank L. Cardinale (M) Elaine Sosnicki (F) Frederick E. Kowal (M) Cari Gardner (F) Kelleigh McKenzie (F) Rebecca Rojer (F) Jeff Cohen (M) Mark A. Vian (M) Lanny Walter (M) Melissa J. Servant (F) Daniel J. Torres (M) Jennifer J. Fuentes (F) Gregory V. Pasquale (M) Erin E. Stamper (F) MacGuire M. Benton (M) Keiko Sono (F) Roger Green (M) Cynthia Welch (F) Brian Welch (M) Shaye Chaim (F) Koichiro Y. Kleps (M) REPUBLICAN PARTY: Representative in Congress 19th District (Vote for One) Ola Hawatmeh Kyle Van De Water ALL POLLING SITES WITHIN GREENE COUNTY WILL BE OPEN ON PRIMARY DAY & ARE ACCESSIBLE TO THE HANDICAPPED. ADDRESSES OF CANDIDATES ARE AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. IF YOU REQUIRE ANY FURTHER INFORMATION REGARDING YOUR POLLING SITE OR OBTAINING AN ABSENTEE BALLOT, PLEASE CONTACT OUR OFFICE AT 518-719-3550.

RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED, MARIE METZLER, ELECTION COMMISSIONER BRENT E. BOGARDUS, ELECTION COMMISSIONER GREENE COUNTY POLLING SITES TOWN LOCATION Ashland Town Board & Justice Room Athens 1 & 3 Rivertown Bldg 2nd & Warren

Athens 2 & 4 West Athens Lime Street Fire District Office 921 Schoharie Tpk, Athens Cairo 1, 2, 3, 4 Cairo Public Library- 15 Railroad Ave, Cairo Cairo 5, 6, 7 Cairo Town Hall- 512 Main St, Cairo Catskill 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Washington Irving Sr. Center Catskill 7, 8, 13 Catskill Firehouse 1 Central Av, Catskill Catskill 9 & 14 Kiskatom Firehouse Rt 32, Palenville Catskill 10 Palenville Firehouse Rt 32A, Palenville Catskill 11 & 12 Leeds Firehouse Rt 23B, Leeds Coxsackie Coxsackie Village Hall 1, 2, 3, 5 & 6 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie Coxsackie 4 Earlton Firehouse Rt. 81 Durham 1 & 2 E. Durham Firehouse Rt. 145 Greenville 1-3 St. John the Baptist Church Hall 4982 State Route 81 Halcott Grange Hall Rt. 3 Hunter 1 & 4 Tannersville Village Hall Main St. Hunter 2 Hunter Village Hall Main St. Hunter 3 Haines Falls Firehouse Rt. 23A Jewett Jewett Municipal Bldg. Rt. 23C Lexington 1 & 2 Lexington Municipal Bldg.

Rt. 42 New Baltimore 1 N. Baltimore Firehouse Gill Rd New Baltimore 2 & 4 N. Baltimore Town Hall Rt. 51 Hannacroix New Baltimore 3 Medway Firehouse Rt. 51 Prattsville Prattsville Town Hall, 14517 Main St Windham 1 & 2 Windham Water Treatment Plant, South St. MO SADA ENTERPRISE, LLC Articles of Org. filed NY Sec. of State (SSNY) 4/16/20.

Office in Columbia Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to The LLC 950 Fulton St #380921 Brooklyn NY 11238.

Purpose: Any lawful activity Notice of formation of JEC STUDIO LLC. Art. Of Org. filed with the Sect’y of State of NY (SSNY) on 04/29/20.

Office in Columbia County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to the LLC, 77 Vandenburg Rd Canaan, NY, 12029. Purpose: Any lawful purpose New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Notice of Complete Application Date: 06/05/2020 Applicant: TACONIC SHORES PROPERTY OWNERS ASSOC INC 53 LAKE SHORE DR COPAKE, NY 12516-0025

Facility: TACONIC SHORES - ROBINSON POND CO RTE 7A (LAKE VIEW RD) COPAKE, NY 12516 Application ID: 4-1032-00003/00058 Permits(s) Applied for: 1 - Article 24 Freshwater Wetlands Project is located: in COPAKE in COLUMBIA COUNTY Project Description: The Taconic Shores Property Owners Association (TSPOA) and Solitude Lake Management are proposing to treat approximately 5-acres of Robinson Pond and NYS Freshwater Wetland CO-3 with the aquatic pesticide Clipper (flumioxazin) to manage excessive growth of duckweed.

The applicant proposes to isolate the treatment area by installing limnocurtains for a minimum of five (5) days, which will also maintain concentrations levels for effective treatment. The proposed treatment area is west and east of the Island Drive bridge on Robinson Pond in the Town of Copake.

Availability of Application Documents: Filed application documents, and Department draft permits where applicable, are available for inspection during normal business hours at the address of the contact person. To ensure timely service at the time of inspection, it is recommended that an appointment be made with the contact person.

State Environmental Quality Review (SEQR) Determination Project is an Unlisted Action and will not have a significant impact on the environment. A Negative Declaration is on file. A coordinated review was not performed.

SEQR Lead Agency None Designated State Historic Preservation Act (SHPA) Determination The proposed activity is not subject to review in accordance with SHPA. The application type is exempt and/or the project involves the continuation of an existing operational activity.

DEC Commissioner Policy 29, Environmental Justice and Permitting (CP-29) It has been determined that the proposed action is not subject to CP-29.

Availability For Public Comment Comments on this project must be Contact Person no later than 07/03/2020 or 30 days after the publication date or 30 days after the publication date of this notice, whichever is later.

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1130 N Westcott Rd S c h e n e c t a d y, N Y 12306 (518) 357-2069 Notice of Formation of Art 12534 LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/21/20. Office location: Columbia County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: Deborah D’Arcy, PO Box 326, Hudson, NY 12534.

Purpose: any lawful activity Notice of Formation of Hudson General LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 4/21/20. Office location: Columbia County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: Deborah D’Arcy, PO Box 326, Hudson, NY 12534. Purpose: any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF Formation of Ringmanref LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 02/21/2020.

Office location: Greene County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: David Dwinell 26 James Road Catskill NY 12414. Purpose: any lawful activity Notice to West Athens Lime Street Fire District Residents The regular meeting of the West Athens Lime Street Fire District will be held at 6 pm on Tuesday, June 9th 2020 at Station #2, located at 933 LeedsAthens Road, due to the requirements of social distancing.

Chairman John P. Farrell NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY FIRST:The name of the Limited Liability Com-

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a regular public hearing will be held by the Historic Preservation Commission of the City of Hudson, NY on June 12, 2020 at 09:30 AM. for the purpose of receiving public comment regarding an application to restore and do other work on the premises commonly known as 620 Union Street in Hudson.

All interested persons are welcome to comment, however due to COVID 19 and NYS/local regulations participation will be by Zoom link and dial in only. Instructions for Zoom login and dial in will be posted on the City of Hudson Meeting Calendar for the meeting date of June 12 two days prior to the meeting.

Phil Forman Chairman Historic Preservation Commission for the NOTICE OF OR- City of Hudson GANIZATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY FIRST:The name Notice of Public Hearof the Limited Liability ing, Village of Chatham Company is The Main Planning Board.

Street Property Group Take notice that the LLC (hereinafter re- Planning Board of the ferred to as the "Com- Village of Chatham, pany") SECOND:The New York, will hold a Articles of Organiza- public hearing on an tion of the Company application by Milap were filed with the Seema Realty CorpoSecretary of State on ration (Charron’s), for a May 07, 2020. site plan review in relaTHIRD:The County tion to the installation within the State of New of a fence on property York in which the of- located at 2 Church fice of the Company is Street in the Village of located is Columbia. Chatham. Such hearFOURTH:The Secre- ing will be held on tary of State has been Monday, June 22, designated as agent 2020 at 7:30 PM, via upon whom process WebEx. All interested against the Company persons shall be given may be served. The the opportunity to address to which the speak at such hearing.

Secretary of State shall Please contact the Vilmail process is 711 Ei- lage Deputy Clerk at chybush Road, Kinde- 518-392-5821 ext. 2 rhook, NY 12106. for an invitation to the FIFTH:The Company is meeting. organized for all lawful Patricia DeLong, purposes, and to do Deputy Clerk any and all things necessary, convenient, or incidental to that pur- Notice of Qualification pose. Dated: May 28, of DOORSTEP MARKET LLC 2020 pany is The Rivers Edge Group LLC (hereinafter referred to as the "Company") SECOND:The Articles of Organization of the Company were filed with the Secretary of State on May 15, 2020.

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

FOURTH:The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process against the Company may be served. The address to which the Secretary of State shall mail process is 711 Eichybush Road, Kinderhook, NY 12106.

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

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LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 04/23/20.

Princ. office of LLC: 21 North 7th St., Hudson, NY 12534. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to the LLC at the princ. office of the LLC. DE addr. of LLC: 251 Little Falls Dr., Wilmington, DE 19808. Cert. of Form. filed with DE Secy. of State, Div. of Corps., John G. Townsend Bldg., 401 Federal St., Ste. 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Qual. of The Hao Life, LLC. App. for Authority filed with the Secretary of State of NY (“SSNY”) on 4/10/2020.

LLC formed in DE on 4/9/2020. Office location: Columbia County.

SSNY desig. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to P.O. Box 249, Austerlitz, NY 12017. Cert. of Form. on file: DE SOS, Delaware Div. of Corporations, P.O. Box 898, Dover, DE 19903. Purpose: any lawful business.

Pleasant Vale Properties LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 4/21/2020. Cty: Columbia. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 430 W. Kerley Corners Rd, Tivoli, NY 12583. General Purpose.

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MLB draft cost cuts will create shallower talent pool of prospects Michael Cunningham The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

ATLANTA — The Braves selected and signed 23 players from the 1981 June amateur draft. None of them played in the major leagues.

It was an extreme example of how hard it can be for MLB teams to determine which young prospects one day will be good enough to play in the major leagues.

It will be even harder over the next two years. In response to the novel coronavirus pandemic, MLB and the players’ union agreed to reduce the number of rounds in Wednesday’s draft from 40 to five. Undrafted players can receive a maximum $20,000 signing bonus and the 2021 draft is set to be cut to 20 rounds with the same bonus limit for players not selected.

The moves will save each MLB team only about $1 million this year, but that’s part of a bigger picture. MLB reportedly wants to eliminate 42 of 162 minor-league affiliates. Franchise owners are facing a class-action lawsuit for paying minor players below minimum wage. It’s inevitable MLB will have to increase those salaries, so reducing the number of minorleague players lessens the coming financial hit.

Baseball teams already are saving money by manipulating service time for prospects. Now they also want to squeeze more of them on the front end. Like many of baseball’s cost-saving moves, this latest scheme is short-sighted.

In each of the past 15 seasons more than 40 million people attended minor league baseball games. An affordable night at the ballpark is a way for fans to connect to the game. They can watch young players who one day will become major leaguers.

Baseball develops fans along with players in the minor leagues.

But the bigger impact from cutting signing bonus money will be on the quantity of talent on the farm.

In last year’s draft, nearly 400 players selected after the sixth round received signing bonuses of at least $100,000.

The $20,000 maximum bonus for undrafted players this year and next is a number that more athletes will reject.

They’ll decide it’s better to join the workforce or play another sport rather than sign for $20,000 and make a paltry wage in the minors.

MLB teams are more confident than ever in the efficiency of their scouting and player development departments. FiveThirtyEight’s Travis Sawchik makes the case that technological changes make teams better at identifying and developing lowerlevel prospects who are on the MLB track. Sawchick argues those players need to spend less time (or maybe no time) playing on minorleague teams filled with prospects who won’t sniff the majors. Better to focus more resources on the best prospects.

I’m skeptical of the wisdom of that approach. There are

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Evan Gattis of the Atlanta Braves reacts after striking out in the ninth inning against the Philadelphia Phillies at Citizens Bank Park on September 28, 2014 in Philadelphia.

intangible benefits to prospects playing on teams in real competition. It also might be the case that MLB teams are over-confident in their ability to develop prospects.

In 2017, Baseball America studied drafts from 1981 to 2010. In that sample, about 70% of first-round picks and 55% of supplemental picks went on to play in the majors.

The next three rounds got good returns: 50% of prospects selected in the second round made it, 40% in the third round, and roughly 30% in the fourth and fifth rounds.

It gets more difficult to find future major leaguers in the later rounds, but teams hit on a significant number of them.

More than 20% of players in Baseball’s America sample drafted in rounds 5-7 played in the big leagues. About 20% of prospects selected in rounds 8-10 did so.

The Braves have had some luck with late-round draft picks over the years. According to my research of Baseball Reference data, from 1981 to 2011 the Braves drafted and signed 89 players later than the fifth round who made it to the majors.

Most of those players were with the Braves for a short time. Others had brief stops in the majors with other teams after the Braves traded them, released them or left them unprotected to be

selected in the Rule 5 draft.

But a few players the Braves drafted after the fifth round produced a huge return on investment by becoming reliable MLB regulars or standouts.

You may recognize the names: — Infielder Mark Lemke (27th round, 1983) played 10 of his 11 MLB seasons with the Braves and was one of their best hitters during the 1991 World Series.

— Reliever Mike Stanton (13th round, 1987) pitched for the Braves for seven of his 19 years.

— Kevin Millwood (11th round, 1993) was a great starter for the Braves in 1999 and pitched in the majors until 2012.

— Mark DeRosa (seventh round, 1996) was a Braves utility man for four seasons before becoming a good regular with the Rangers and Cubs.

— Marcus Giles (53rd round, 1996) was a Braves AllStar in 2003.

— Left-hander Jonny Venters (30th round, 2003) was an All-Star in 2011 and good again during a 2018 comeback after three Tommy John elbow surgeries.

— Tyler Flowers (33rd round, 2005) broke in the majors with the White Sox before returning to become a regular catcher for the Braves over the past four seasons.

— Tommy Hanson (22nd round, 2005) appeared headed for stardom before health issues derailed his career.

— Right-hander Kris

Medlen (10th round, 2006) came back from elbow surgery to have two very good years as a Braves starter.

— Catcher Evan Gattis (23rd round, 2010) was a Braves folk hero before going on to win a (since tainted) World Series with the Astros.

Those players are outliers among late-round draft picks. The vast majority of such players never make it to the majors or don’t stay there if they do. But more lateround picks stick in MLB than you may think.

In 2017 the Society for American Baseball Research studied how many players drafted and signed from 1996 to 2011 played in MLB for more than three years.

About 10% of players drafted in rounds 6-8 did so. Roughly 8% of players selected in rounds 9-10 and 5% of players picked in rounds 11-20 played in MLB for three-plus years.

MLB teams eliminated those rounds in this year’s draft. Players who would have been drafted that late will be offered much smaller signing bonuses. Next year, players who aren’t selected in 20 rounds also will be offered bonuses of no more than $20,000.

Those signing restrictions for two waves of prospects likely will create a shallower talent pool. Expect that trend to continue given MLB’s desire to have fewer minor league players on payrolls.

Teams will save money but hurt baseball’s growth.

What you need to know about the 2020 MLB Draft happening this week Deesha Thosar New York Daily News

There remains a chance that baseball will not be played in 2020 as Major League Baseball and the Players’ Association continue to lumber through labor strife without haste. While the absence of the sport during these uncertain times is daunting, it’s time to look forward and direct our attention to the next generation of athletes striving to become the game’s biggest stars.

The 2020 MLB Draft — though it will look and feel different than previous versions — gives us that

opportunity. Here’s an outline of what you need to know.

This year’s draft will take place virtually — on June 10 and 11 — and air on ESPN2 and MLB Network.

Wednesday (beginning at 7 p.m.) will feature the first 37 picks and then the remaining picks will come Friday (5 p.m. start).

The Mets and Yankees have the 19th and 28th overall picks, respectively. The Mets will receive an extra pick (69th overall) as compensation for Zack Wheeler signing with the Phillies.

The format will be shorter than previous years, with rounds

trimmed from 40 to five. Despite objection from front-office officials, MLB owners reportedly pushed for fewer rounds to save costs during the coronavirus pandemic.

Not only does this assert that the league’s financial position is grimmer than the players’ union is ready to believe, but it impacts the future of the sport in a major way.

Each team will receive an allotted bonus pool equal to the sum of the values of its selections in the draft.

The more picks a club has, and the earlier it picks, the larger the pool.

This year all signing bonuses of

drafted players will apply toward the bonus pool total, with a $20,000 limit on bonuses for non-drafted free agents. Teams do not have a limit on the number of undrafted players they can sign.

Eliminating the sixth through 10th rounds will save teams a combined $29,578,100 in slot value — less than $1 million per team and less than $500,000 in actual cash with the new signing-bonus rules, according to ESPN. MLB teams will draft a total of 160 players instead of the usual 1,200. Many of the biggest stars in the game, including Hall of Famers,

were picked in the sixth round or later (Jacob deGrom was drafted by the Mets in the ninth round of the 2010 Draft).

Of the 1,410 players who played at least one major-league game in 2019, 1,046 entered the league through the draft and 483 of those, or 46%, were taken in the sixth round or later, according to The Athletic. As a result, club farm systems will also shrink.

In 2019, the Mets picked third baseman Brett Brady in the first round (12th overall) and the Yankees selected shortstop Anthony Volpe (30th overall).

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Former NFL player Reche Caldwell shot and killed in Tampa Cindy Boren The Washington Post

Former NFL wide receiver Reche Caldwell was shot and killed Saturday in an attempted robbery, his girlfriend and mother told TMZ. A “couple of people” jumped from the bushes and “ambushed” Caldwell, his girlfriend said, as he went back inside his home to grab a jacket before the two went out on a date. His mother told TMZ that the 41-year-old Caldwell, who was shot in the leg and chest, died in the ambulance taking him to the hospital.

Tampa authorities have not responded to a request for comment. The University of Florida and New England Patriots, for whom he played, shared the news of Caldwell’s death on Twitter.

“He was a good person who smiled all of the time,” Deborah Caldwell told TMZ. “He tried to help everyone he could. He was the type of guy who would take his shirt off his back and give it to you.”

A second-round NFL draft pick out of the University of Florida by the San Diego Chargers in the 2002 NFL draft, Donald Reche Caldwell FILE PHOTO spent four seasons with the Chargers and one Former New England Patriots wide receiver Reche Caldwell was killed Saturday night in his each with the New England Patriots and Washhometown of Tampa, Fla. He was 41. ington Redskins. He was the leading receiver on the Patriots team that lost to the Indianapo- contagious!” former Patriots receiver Wes at Jefferson High School, told the Tampa Bay lis Colts in the AFC championship game follow- Welker tweeted about the Tampa native. “My Times that Caldwell was “a tremendous athing the 2006 regular season. He went to train- thoughts and prayers go out to Bubba Caldwell lete. I mean, he had it all. If he had decided to go ing camp with the St. Louis Rams in 2008. In and his family!” baseball, he would’ve played in the big leagues, 71 games, he caught 152 passes for 1,851 yards Caldwell was a standout baseball player there’s no question about it. Every year he got and 11 touchdowns. growing up, and in 1998 he was drafted by better and better.”

Life after the NFL was difficult for Caldwell.

“Reche’s smile and attitude were the Cincinnati Reds. Ron Cuesta, his coach

Michael Jordan pledged $100 million to improve social justice Cindy Boren The Washington Post

It is uncertain just how Michael Jordan and his Jordan Brand will spend the $100 million he has pledged over the next 10 years to improve “racial equality, social justice and greater access to education,” but after the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody, Jordan decided he had to do something.

“We have been beaten down [as African Americans] for so many years. It sucks your soul,” he told the Charlotte Observer. “You can’t accept it anymore.

This is a tipping point. We need to make a stand. We’ve got to be better as a society regarding race.”

The announcement of Jordan’s pledge Friday came five days after the Hall of Fame basketball player and majority owner of the Charlotte Hornets condemned the killing of Floyd, a black man who died May 25 after a white officer knelt on his neck for nearly nine minutes as three other officers looked on. All four officers have been charged in Floyd’s death. A week of protests around the globe and

a growing awareness of the need for systemic change followed his death.

“We haven’t yet figured which vehicles to utilize,” Jordan said. “But it’s first about making an effort. It’s not just [donating] money.

It’s the act of calling on all of us to take a look at ourselves.

That’s an important start.”

One of the biggest criticisms of Jordan over the years has been his neutrality on social and political issues, but he has become more outspoken recently.

He spoke up when Donald Sterling, the Los Angeles Clippers’s owner at the time, made racist comments in 2014, and he did so again in the summer of 2016 when he condemned the killing of African Americans by police.

When NFL players chose to make a statement during the national anthem in the fall of 2017 and President Donald Trump “uninvited” the NBA champion Golden State Warriors to the White House, Jordan added his voice.

“One of the fundamental rights this country is founded on was freedom of speech, and we have a long tradition of nonviolent, peaceful protest. Those who

exercise the right to peacefully express themselves should not be demonized or ostracized,” he said then in a statement. “At a time of increasing divisiveness and hate in this country, we should be looking for ways to work together and support each other and not create more division.”

This also isn’t the first time Jordan has donated to support a cause. In 2017, Jordan gave $7 million to create two health clinics in Charlotte’s underserved communities. That year, he voiced displeasure over North Carolina’s “bathroom bill” that led the NBA to move the All-Star Game out of Charlotte. In 2016, he gave $1 million each to the International Association of Chiefs of Police’s Institute for Community-Police Relations and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. In a statement to The Undefeated that year, he wrote of his desire to “find solutions that ensure people of color receive fair and equal treatment AND that police officers - who put their lives on the line every day to protect us all - are respected and supported.”

He was arrested in 2014 for drug possession and intent to sell nearly five pounds of MDMA (a pure form of ecstasy with the street name “Molly”) and was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison and three years probation. At the time of his drug arrest, he was awaiting trial on charges of running an illegal gambling ring.

“Reche was ill-equipped to handle life outside the NFL,” his attorney, Nicholas Matassini, told ESPN The Magazine in 2016. “He was jobless, he was bored, he had a bunch of money, and he didn’t know what to do with himself.”

Caldwell’s brother, Andre, a former Florida and NFL receiver, he told ESPN that his brother was particularly haunted by the AFC championship game in which he dropped two passes and the Patriots lost, 38-34. “He heard all the jokes and criticisms, and it broke his heart,” Andre Caldwell said in 2016. “The way the game kicked him to the curb like an unwanted stepchild hurt him mentally and haunted him.

Reche got a little bit of a selfish attitude out of it, like, ‘Forget everybody else, I’m gonna start worrying about me.’”

This month, Caldwell was to be sentenced after pleading guilty in January to one charge of conspiracy to commit health care fraud. He and several other former NFL players allegedly filed nearly $4 million in false insurance claims over an 18-month span.

“All of us are imperfect people, but he’s perfect to me,” his mother told the Tampa Bay Times. “He was my hero.”

Costas on baseball’s return: ‘I’ll believe it when I see it’ Dan Caesar St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Bob Costas has covered Major League Baseball at the network television level for 40 years, watching the sport go through labor strife, the steroids era and the current transformation of the game from traditional strategy to defensive shifts, a “swing for the fences” mentality and meandering play.

Now, with MLB players and owners feuding over money amid a pandemic that has led to record unemployment in America and the shutdown of all major U.S. sports leagues since mid-March, he sounds frustrated by the lack of progress between the sides in baseball.

“I’m less optimistic today than I was a few days ago,” he said this week about an agreement being reached. In fact, he said he has reached the “I’ll believe it when I see it” stage.

While the NHL, NBA and Major League Soccer in recent days have outlined plans to return now that the number of coronavirus cases are subsiding, baseball still is bogged down on a squabble over money dividing the players and owners. The latest major development came Wednesday, when owners rejected the players’ proposal for a 114-game season. Owners have pitched a much shorter schedule.

Consider that the NHL and NBA could be having their

marquee events, the playoffs, in high gear at what normally would be the heart of the baseball season. And baseball would be idle, entirely ceding a stage it normally would have held exclusively.

“If they can’t start at all — not because of extenuating circumstances (such as a large rise in COVID-19 infections) — but if baseball is off the radar screen for 18 or 19 months until returning next year, that’s going to really hurt” the game, Costas said. “The resentment would be legitimate.”

Costas’ broadcasting career began in St. Louis, where he continued to live for many years after relinquishing his job at KMOX (1120 AM) when he became established, then later flourished, at NBC. He keenly is aware of the relationship between the Cardinals and the region, and says whenever baseball returns, how it does in this market will be an important indicator of the sport’s health.

“St. Louis will be a very good test case,” he said, noting that “baseball is close to primacy” in a market that has only one other major pro sports team — albeit the reigning Stanley Cup champion Blues.

He said there will be three key factors in St. Louis to measuring how baseball’s return will be gauged.

— Public opinion, including talk shows.

— Ticket sales, once fans are allowed to attend.

— Television ratings.

Meanwhile, Costas has a recommendation to the players and owners — stop leaking information, which sometimes is done to try to make the other side look bad.

“They’ve got to keep a lid on this,” he said. “ ... You can win the battle but lose the war.”

Costas has homes in his native New York City as well as Newport Beach, Calif., and has been at the latter since the virus-fueled shutdown hit.

“We didn’t have to figure out whether to stay or leave,” he said. “We’re waiting it out.”

Although he hasn’t had any baseball games to call on MLB Network, for which he was supposed to be doing about one a week, he has been active on the airwaves. He has made appearances on ESPN and CNN in addition to MLB Network, and is popular on the radio and podcast interview circuit.

“I’ve been busy,” he said, but adding that the amount of “work” he puts in for these appearances does not approach the level of preparation he does for a game broadcast.

He also has been passing time like many of us have done — channel surfing on television. But unlike most of us, he occasionally stumbles onto prominent games he has broadcast as networks have been going to the archives to help fill the vast amount of airtime that would have been occupied by live events.

NFL again fails initial test as it confronts racism, Black Lives Matter movement Bryce Miller The San Diego Union-Tribune

If we needed a reminder that the NFL cares most about protecting its bulging bottom line and little about leading real change, the league was more than happy to provide a stunner.

The tardy, disconnected, ineffectual response five days after the killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer and the raging Black Lives Matter movement was so distant and deaf that it caused one of its own employees, a social media staffer, to go “rogue” and reach out to Saints receiver Michael Thomas on Instagram.

That triggered other players — stars like Patrick Mahomes, Saquon Barkley and more — to give voice to a powerful video that calmly eviscerated the impotent and insufficient reaction of its ridiculously rich employers in a league ruled by white men.

The NFL’s initial reaction was so hollow, clearly, that several players criticized it on social media, including

Vikings linebacker Anthony Barr.

Why did it come to that?

Why not do the right thing the first time? Why not lead instead of meekly tap dancing around the thorniest issues of the day? Because it’s the NFL, that’s why. The Shield, doing what The Shield does. Talk the talk, but rarely if ever walk the credibility-building walk.

Remember how long it took to admit or address the reality of concussions and CTE, until it became impossible to ignore? Remember players like Paul Lowe, the electric running back who became an AFL MVP for the Chargers in the 1960s? He, along with countless others, waited years for promised concussion settlement support as age and health conspired to compound the ringing in their collective ears. Remember the uneven, flawed and sometimes unfathomable reactions to domestic abuse cases involving its stars?

The passive, conflict-avoidance techniques on issues that matter most make the NFL continually complicit. When a

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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell looks on before Super Bowl LIV between the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers on Feb. 2 at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, Fla.

bold stand is required, publicrelations smoke screens and word salad follow.

Rock the bank-filling boat?

Not if the NFL can help it.

The NFL lost control in this case because it became futile to remain in the shadows as its stars and own staffers amplified the absurd decision making. Control slipped away because cellphone video and social media accounts made it impossible to mute the

conversation.

People understand the difference between principled stands, dependable action plans and bull droppings.

Why does the NFL constantly need to be dragged to such obvious finish lines, again and again? Why can’t the league actively lead — rather than resist, cave and suddenly develop amnesia about how it got there?

When the conversation

involving (black)listed quarterback Colin Kaepernick and other players kneeling during the national anthem was real and raw, the league and owners stubbornly protected their bulging profits.

A moral compass is easier to find when you run out of options and know the villagers are storming the castle drawbridge.

Goodell and the NFL only stepped up when it became impossible to continue stepping away. They engaged when the narrative became too problematic. Still, not a peep about kneeling as Kaepernick remains on the outside looking in nearly four years later.

If you don’t get why this is so meaningful for black players, ask Saints teammates of Drew Brees why they felt hurt, betrayed and angry when their quarterback initially refused to support a form of peaceful protest or at least acknowledge the reasons and thinking behind it.

Consider the words of Texas football coach Tom Herman in the Austin

American-Statesman, planting a bull’s-eye on double standards: “We’re going to cheer when they score touchdowns and we’re gonna hug our buddy when they get sacks or an interception. But we gonna let them date our daughter? Are we going to hire them in a position of power in our company? That’s the question I have for America.

We can’t have it both ways.”

The fact that the NFL failed to understand that from the jump should alarm, but hardly surprise.

Yes, Goodell eventually addressed the points of players who forced him into an uncomfortable spotlight.

He admitted wrongdoing by the league, through its weakkneed inaction. He condemned racism and its ugly impacts, leaving players shaking heads about why something so simple and obvious had not come sooner.

In Goodell’s 81-second video, he vowed: “We are listening. I am listening.” Given the NFL’s history, I sadly doubt it.

Never first. Not when it matters. Again.

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Triangle full of drama started as a young crush Dear Abby, In middle school, I had a crush on a boy. He didn’t even know I existed. Through a chance meeting many years later, he noticed me, but there were complications. He didn’t know how to tell his ex it was too late for her, and it DEAR ABBY became a love triangle. She saw the error of her ways and left. He and I have been together ever since. He still talked to her as they had been friends forever, but two months ago he stopped.

Meanwhile, through all of this, she has been cyber-stalking and manipulating me. She has created multiple Facebook accounts to torture me, sent me a video of my boyfriend doing sexual things and tried to make me believe it was current. (It was five years old.)

He cut off contact with her, and it was glorious until last week, when she helped him get back in touch with his son, whom he hasn’t seen in 10-plus years. I see it for the manipulation it is, but he sees it as her redemption.

I don’t think he should expect me to be OK with this or for him to even WANT a person like that in his life. How do I get him back to that person? I miss him so much!

Anguished In Arizona

JEANNE PHILLIPS

Let me get this straight. This man cheated on his ex with you, and you expected her to play fair?

I wish you had mentioned why your boyfriend hasn’t seen his son in more than 10 years. It might have been the most interesting paragraph in your letter. Were he and his ex married? Just living together while she was “in denial”?

From where I sit, she is doing everything she can to fight for “her man.” He appears to have fences to mend with his son and with her, and you may have to accept it. It looks like he has already made up his mind about that, and unless you can accept it, your romance will be over.

Dear Abby, My sister-in-law moved into the house next door three years ago. While I enjoy her company and like her as a person, I’m having difficulty expressing my frustration with one particular issue.

I have a beautiful hedge that separates our driveways and provides privacy. She regularly leaves her garbage can lids on top of my hedge as well as various other things she’s discarding (eventually). Today I noticed a large portion of the shrub showing what appears to be a chemical burn. (She has been known to use toxic chemicals to rid her yard of weeds, etc.) I don’t want to offend her, but at the same time, I’m struggling to find the words to properly address my desire for her to mind the property line.

Help!

Related To My Neighbor This is something you should have addressed when the problem started. Approach her calmly and say something like this: “It bothers me that you leave your trash can lids and other items on my hedge. When you do, it makes me feel disrespected. Something you left on the hedge has damaged it. My hedge was expensive to install, and this is upsetting me. Please don’t do it again.”

Cardiac calcium score is a screening test for artery disease A friend suggested I get a cardiac calcium score test to measure the amount of plaque in my heart. What is your opinion of this test?

He said since plaque is 20% calcium, the test just measures the amount of calcium in coronary arteries.

Can you have coronary artery TO YOUR plaque without calcium? If so, GOOD HEALTH would it make this test inaccurate?

DR. KEITH ROACH

The coronary calcium score is a screening test for coronary artery disease. It is not appropriate for everyone, but it is a useful test for men and women at higher risk. Doctors often order it when they are uncertain whether to recommend treatment to combat risk factors for blockages in the arteries, such as people with high cholesterol. I order a few such tests a year; some of my colleagues in cardiology order many more.

People with a calcium score of zero are at very low risk for developing a heart attack in the three years after the test. However, it is possible to have blockages in the arteries without calcium, as you have suggested. This is probably why there is a small risk of heart attack with a normal calcium score.

If a blockage is still suspected despite a normal calcium score, it may be diagnosed by cardiac catheterization and angiography. A CT scan with dye (computed tomography angiogram) can find blockages even without calcium. Finally, if the blockage is large enough, a stress test will be abnormal.

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My husband successfully completed 45 days of radiation for prostate cancer. His last PSA was non-detectable. He has to take medication for two years as part of the cure. However, it is causing him to have horrible hot flashes and night sweats.

The usual over-the-counter solutions for women do not seem to be helping at all. Would you suggest something designed for a male?

The first effective treatment for prostate cancer was depriving the cancer cells of androgens, which was initially done surgically, by removing the testes. It is done now with medications that act like gonadotropinreleasing hormone. Although these initially stimulate testosterone production, their continued use causes lower levels of testosterone, and within a month testosterone levels drop to the same levels as in men who have had surgery to remove their testes.

Hot flashes occur in 80% of men and can be very disruptive. Treatments that are effective for women are often not effective in men, as you observed. The best-studied and most effective treatments in men were medroxyprogesterone (a hormone that opposes some actions of estrogen) and cyproterone (an antiandrogen available in Canada, but not the U.S.). It reduced hot flashes by 84% to 95% in men. Venlafaxine, normally used as an antidepressant, reduced symptoms by 50%, and gabapentin, used for epilepsy or for nerve pain, reduced symptoms by about 45%.

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By Stella Wilder Born today, you are one of the most outspoken, original and unabashed individuals born under your sign. Indeed, there are times when you may push the notion of “original” to extremes and say and do things that are intended to challenge, or even shatter, the status quo. The truth is, of course, that your primary motive is not to be different so much as to be yourself — and whether the “real you” is different from others or similar to them is simply incidental, and not something you think about.

Some may call you “immature” and others “childish” — and depending on your mood at the time, you may actually agree with those assessments. You prefer, however, to use the term “childlike,” because you’re one of those who maintains a great deal of your childhood self even as you grow into both personal and professional maturity.

Also born on this date are: Johnny Depp, actor; Natalie Portman, actress; Michael J. Fox, actor; Les Paul, guitarist; Cole Porter, songwriter; Jackie Mason, comedian; Jackie Wilson, singer; Robert Cummings, actor; Robert McNamara, statesman; Gloria Reuben, actress.

To see what is in store for you tomorrow, find your birthday and read the corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your daily guide.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10 GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — A little nostalgia can work wonders today, especially where your perspective is concerned. Don’t get carried away, however!

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — You’re on the verge of an important discovery that can change the trajectory of your career — and perhaps your life. Be ready for anything.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — The ball will be in your court today after someone close to you comes clean. The decisions you make now affect many for some time to come.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You mustn’t let that certain someone slip from your mind today. Stay focused on what you can do to strengthen your relationship.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Waste no time or energy trying to hide how you feel about a certain issue. Expressing yourself openly and honestly is the best course.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — The possible proves impossible today for a variety of reasons — but conversely, that which was impossible yesterday is possible today.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Your readiness for a certain endeavor may be doubted by some, but that’s just because you’ve not been tooting your own horn — yet.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You have a surprise in store for a loved one who fears that you’ve forgotten something he or she has been anticipating for some time.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Sharing your opinions with another means offering more than mere criticism. You must be willing to offer praise where it is deserved.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — You and a rival must come to terms with a certain issue that has made things much more combative between you lately. It’s your move.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — An accident proves fortuitous today — but it’s not something you really want to repeat. You must take extra precautions at this time.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — You’ve been ignoring someone’s behavior long enough; today you must be willing to step in and work toward a necessary change.

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SUPER QUIZ

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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Each answer is a seven-letter word that begins with “pot.” (e.g., A hole in a road surface. Answer: Pothole.)

Freshman level 1. An informal meal to which guests bring food.

2. Objects such as plates and cups that are made out of clay.

3. Any liquid suitable for drinking.

Graduate level 4. This river forms the boundary between Maryland and Virginia.

5. Someone who smokes a lot of marijuana.

6. The strength of a medicine or drug.

PH.D. level 7. A small, nocturnal rat-kangaroo native to Australia.

8. A stew of vegetables and sometimes meat.

9. Criticism aimed at an easy target, made without careful consideration.

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

Print answer here: Yesterday’s Saturday’s

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

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SUPER QUIZ ANSWERS 1. Potluck. 2. Pottery. 3. Potable. 4. Potomac. 5. Pothead. 6. Potency. 7.

Potoroo. 8. Pottage. 9. Potshot.

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 Injure 5 Rounded roofs 10 Messy person 14 __ with; done 15 Dodge 16 Hired vehicle 17 Parts of eyeglasses 18 Tormented for one’s beliefs 20 “Much __ About Nothing” 21 Crud; grime 22 Unlocks 23 Angry speeches 25 Male sib 26 Lose 28 Sentries 31 Proficient 32 “Seek and ye __ find” 34 North Pole toy maker 36 NFL officials 37 Ability; talent 38 Cowboy boot spike 39 __ Claire, WI 40 Water park attraction 41 Blacksmith’s furnace 42 Pack animals 44 Most uncontaminated 45 Bone in a cage 46 Public transports 47 Escargot 50 Walk by 51 Long sandwich 54 Guffaw 57 Hanger material 58 In times gone by 59 See eye to eye 60 Takes more than one’s share 61 Fling 62 Universe 63 Cash register stack DOWN 1 Bat mitzvah dance 2 Fervent 3 Repentant

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