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Local senior service providers are taking precautionary measures in the face of rising coronavirus infections statewide and nationwide.

Columbia County’s Meals on Wheels program is preparing extra meals for seniors to save in the event of a delivery stoppage, said Office for the Aging Administrator Kevin McDonald.

The reserve meals are being assembled gradually at the Meals on Wheels kitchen in Philmont and will be delivered with a note instructing seniors to save them in case of emergency.

Around 225 seniors will receive the meals, which will contain shelf-stable foods such as tuna, stew, crackers, raisins and juice boxes, McDonald said.

The Office for the Aging is also promoting preventive handwashing and frequent disinfecting of surfaces. All senior community center employees, volunteers and Meals on Wheels clients have received an informational manual from the Centers for Disease Control called “Stop the Spread of Germs.”

“We are trying to be very careful with what we are doing,” McDonald said. “We don’t want to

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While the coronavirus most frequently spreads among close contacts via respiratory droplets and transmission to persons from contaminated surfaces has not been documented, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, health officials encourage cleaning and disinfecting frequently touched objects and surfaces because the virus can remain viable for hours to days on a variety of materials.

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Fate of ‘The Shacks’ The future of the historic Furgary fishing village is under scrutiny to become waterfront park PAGE A3

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Tuesday the state will deploy National Guard troops to a 1-mile containment zone around the city of New Rochelle for two weeks to limit the spread of the potentially lethal illness in Westchester County. The governor discussed the details of the containment area and gave an update at a coronavirus briefing inside the state Capitol on Tuesday afternoon.

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By Kate Lisa and Melanie Lekocevic Johnson Newspaper Corporation

County as coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, continues to spread, especially in the state’s largest outbreak cluster downstate.

The 1-mile containment area will close down major

gathering places in the city of New Rochelle — home to the highest number of reported cases in the country — from March 12-25, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday.

A single case of the virus

that started with a 50-yearold attorney spread quickly through New Rochelle over the last two weeks, infecting dozens of residents.

“This is unique in the United States of America,” Cuomo

said during a press conference Tuesday at the state Capitol.

“New Rochelle has more than double the number of cases than New York City. It is a

The state Public Service Commission fell short in monitoring area internet providers PAGE A3

ALBANY — National Guard troops will be deployed to monitor a two-week containment zone in Westchester

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COPAKE — The Copake Town Board drafted a resolution to oppose Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s 30-day state budget amendment that local officials fear would take away local control over renewable energy projects.

Announced Feb. 21, the proposed 30-day amendment to the 2020 proposed budget would create a new state agency, the Office of Renewable Energy Siting.

The amendment was drafted with the intention of speeding up progress toward the state mandate to obtain 70 percent of electricity from renewable sources by 2030.

Hecate Energy is seeking a Certificate of Environmental Compatability and Public Need for a solar project in Copake. The 700-acre project, Shepherd’s Run, is slated for areas of pasture on Route 23 and Route 7 in the hamlet of Craryville, connecting to the existing substation.

The new office would eliminate or substantially restrict the Town of Copake’s ability to regulate renewable energy projects, the proposed resolution said.

In 2011, the town of Copake adopted a comprehensive plan and enacted revised zoning regulations consistent with that plan.

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In this 2019 file photo, Joe Kenneally inspects solar panels on the Hudson-Athens Lighthouse.

Opposition to a state budget amendment that would create a new state agency regulating siting of renewable energy facilities is growing as officials fear the amendment would cost them home rule over siting.

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more low-profile examples of this at the state level. One is former senator Bob Corker, R-Tenn., who was the only Republican to vote against Trump’s tax cut package.

After that happened, a Mason-Dixon poll of Tennessee voters found 49 percent of Democrats approved of him vs. just 36 percent of Republicans. Corker eventually voted for the final package, but he opted not to seek reelection.

Ditto former senator Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., who delayed a final committee vote on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh to give the FBI another week to investigate decades-old allegations of sexual assault. A poll of Arizona voters at the time showed 59 percent of Arizona Democrats had a favorable view of him, as compared with just 20 percent of Republicans. Flake took the same exit ramp as Corker, acknowledging he couldn’t win a GOP primary.

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Romney, it’s that he hasn’t seen quite as much erosion among his home-state Republicans as he has nationally. But even there, he’s not in a great position. A poll last month showed 40 percent of Utah Republicans approved of him, while 49 percent disapproved. His overall approval rating was 50 percent, again indicating he was more popular outside his party than in it.

(Romney doesn’t face reelection until 2024, though.)

Distilling each of these into a mere response to a single vote is an oversimplification.

In each of these instances, these GOP senators at times found themselves being critical of Trump and his behavior as president. Romney’s vote, for instance, was the culmination of many comments that were critical of Trump’s actions vis-a-vis Ukraine.

Romney was also perhaps the most vocal GOP establishment critic of Trump during the 2016 campaign, delivering

an indictment of Trump and his moral character in a March 2016 speech. As you can see in the chart above, even back then, his approval ratings among Republicans and Democrats were somewhat similar.

But the bottom didn’t fall out until Romney cast the historic vote against Trump on impeachment. And as with many of these previous examples, that’s when Trump truly trained his fire on his fellow Republican. In this and these other cases, Trump did so as a means of enforcing a code of behavior inside the GOP and discouraging future apostasies. He has even gone so far as to repeatedly criticize McCain even after his death.

And it has arguably worked - so much so that the conservatives that Republicans made their nominees in 2008 and 2012 were suddenly outcasts in their own parties, less than a decade later.

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You’d be hard-pressed to find a better example of the Republican Party’s transition to Trumpism than this: Both of President Donald Trump’s two predecessors as the Republican presidential nominee voted against him on a key vote, and each found himself suddenly less popular with Republicans than Democrats.

A new Gallup poll Tuesday showed the U.S. senator from Utah’s support among Republicans cratering following his vote to remove Trump from office in his impeachment trial. Romney became the first member of a president’s party to vote to remove him.

For his trouble, Romney is something amounting to a pariah in the national Republican Party. Gallup pegged his approval among Republicans and Republican-leaning voters at 84 percent when he was the GOP nominee in November 2012. Now it has it at just 23 percent.

In contrast, Romney’s approval rating has surged among Democrats and Democratic leaners. It’s at 56 percent - more than twice his approval among his party’s base.

The situation is a more-pronounced version of what happened to the late senator John McCain, R-Ariz. After he voted against the Republican replacement for Obamacare, effectively killing the legislation, his approval dropped among Republicans and rose among Democrats.

Gallup at the time also found more Democrats who approved of him (71 percent) than Republicans (51 percent).

And there are two other

Harvard University advised its students not to return to campus after spring break and to expect to complete classwork remotely “until further notice,” in an effort to avoid the further spread of covid-19.

The change marked another sign of the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on even the most iconic institutions, as a growing number of universities known for their intense classroom debates, crowded events and hands-on research are now moving to empty their campuses as much as possible.

Amherst College, Princeton University,

Stanford University, New York University, the University of Washington and others have announced dramatic changes in recent days in an effort to prevent infections by limiting the communal gatherings that have been central to campus life and learning at many schools.

Harvard is beginning to transition to virtual classes and hopes that transformation will be complete by March 23, the first day of classes after spring break, the school’s president announced to campus Tuesday.

Graduate students will transition to online work wherever possible, and students who must remain on campus will be taught remotely “and must prepare for severely

limited on-campus activities and interactions,” the university’s president, Lawrence Bacow, wrote.

Non-essential gatherings of more than 25 people on campus are strongly discouraged, he wrote.

In his letter, Bacow spoke to the fundamental change about to occur: He acknowledged to students, especially graduating seniors, that this was not how they expected their time at Harvard to end.

He acknowledged to faculty that they were asking them midway through the semester to completely rethink the way they are teaching.

Vladimir Putin sets path to stay on as Russia’s president to 2036

By Henry Meyer and Ilya Arkhipov Bloomberg News (TNS)

MOSCOW — Vladimir Putin set the stage to stay on as Russia’s president for potentially another 16 years, saying the Constitutional Court should decide whether lawmakers can scrap the constitutional term limit that prevents him from ruling beyond 2024.

“In principle, this option may be possible but on one condition — that Russia’s Constitutional Court give an official ruling that such an amendment wouldn’t run counter to the fundamental provisions of the constitution” Putin said Tuesday in an unscheduled speech before the State Duma lower house of parliament. He spoke in response to an earlier

surprise plea by ruling United Russia lawmakers for him to stay on as president.

The court ruling — along with national vote in support of the plan that Putin also set as a condition — is all but certain to go the Kremlin’s way in Russia’s tightly-controlled political system. It opens the way for Putin, 67, to serve up to two more six-year terms that would take his rule potentially to 2036, even as he said he was formally against lifting term limits completely.

The president came to the Duma after Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin suspended debates on the Kremlin’s planned constitutional amendments, saying lawmakers wanted to consult Putin on

the plan to lift the term limit.

Earlier, Valentina Tereshkova, a respected United Russia lawmaker who was also the first woman in space, had urged support for the proposal, saying “Putin needs to be there — in case something goes wrong” amid global political and economic turbulence.

Putin, who is already the longest-serving Kremlin leader since Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, has previously repeatedly rejected the idea of scrapping presidential term limits, including as recently as last week.

His supporters, though, argue that constitutional changes currently being adopted mean that Putin’s existing terms shouldn’t count under the country’s new basic law.

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CALENDAR Wednesday, March 11 n Athens Village Board 6:30 p.m. Village Hall, 2 First St., Athens 518-945-1551 n Catskill Town Zoning Board 6 p.m. Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill n Catskill Village Board 7 p.m.

Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill 518-943-3830 n Greene County Legislature workshop 6 p.m. Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill n Jewett Town Board 7 p.m. at the Jewett Municipal Building, 3547 County Route 23C, Jewett

Thursday, March 12 n Greene County Legislature

finance audit 4 p.m. Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill n Windham-Ashland-Jewett CSD BOE audit finance committee 5:15 p.m. in superintendent’s office; regular meeting 6 p.m. in the School Library, 5411 Route 23, Windham

Monday, March 16

Audit faults PSC oversight

By Kate Lisa Johnson Newspaper Corporation

Area internet providers met or exceeded their commitments to increase broadband speeds after state comptroller Thomas DiNapoli released an audit claiming the state Public Service Commission fell short in monitoring them, company representatives said Monday.

Auditors with the state comptroller’s office found regulators lacked the equipment to measure internet speeds, used inaccurate data to track service reliability and imposed only four penalties in four years, according to a statement from DiNapoli’s office.

“When New Yorkers flip on the lights, log in or make a call, they should be confident that

someone is making sure these service providers are living up to their promises,” DiNapoli said. “My auditors found the state Public Service Commission was not doing enough to make sure utilities are holding up their end of the deal. PSC lacked critical equipment to do its job and rarely inflicted financial consequences when companies did not deliver.

This has to change.”

The audit examined how the commission is overseeing utility compliance with commission agreements and orders, some stemming from mergers and acquisitions, from Jan. 1, 2015 to July 10, 2019, by four utility companies: Charter, Altice USA, FairPoint Communications Inc. and Rochester Gas & Electric Corporation.

“Until 2019, the department [PSC] did not have equipment to measure internet speeds, despite setting minimum speeds in orders to be implemented as early as the end of 2017,” according to the audit’s key findings. “Some order conditions lack interim measures of performance and consequences for noncompliance. The department lacks policies and procedures for staff to follow when monitoring Orders for compliance, and, rather than imposing penalties, prefers to work with utilities on compliance, creating little incentive for utilities to meet all order conditions.”

In some cases, utility companies are submitting inaccurate data the commission is using — without verification

— to calculate electric reliability, gas safety and utility service quality. The information was not used to determine utility rates, but the data is often used to determine fines and decisions, according to the audit.

The commission completely disagreed with three of the auditors’ four findings: Improper monitoring of network expansion, speed enhancement and customer service.

It partially disagreed with the audit’s claim it did not properly monitor utility companies’ requirement for free broadband expansion.

“In recent years, including during the audit period, the department has vigorously exercised its investigatory and enforcement powers against

regulated entities consistent with the New York Public Service Law,” according to a Dec. 9 letter from the Department of Public Service sent to DiNapoli’s office in response to the audit. “The department pursued focused and escalating enforcement action against Charter Communications following the January 2016 merger order. The department ... has worked to ensure compliance by Altice and FairPoint Communications.

Collectively, these investigations and enforcement actions have protected New York ratepayers and citizens and made clear the department’s willingness and ability to hold regulated entities accountable to omission orders, regulations and laws.”

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Town Hall, 2 First St., Athens 518945-1052 n Greene County Legislature economic development; Gov. Ops.; finance; and Rep. and Dem caucus 6 p.m. Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill n Greenville Town Board 7 p.m. at the Town Hall, 11159 Route 32, Pioneer Building, Greenville

Tuesday, March 17 n Athens Village Planning Board

6:30 p.m. Village Hall, 2 First St., Athens 518-945-1551 n Durham Town Board 7:30 p.m. at Town Hall, 7309 Route 81, East Durham n Hunter Town Board 7 p.m. at the Town Hall, 5748 Route 23A, Tannersville

Wednesday, March 18 n Cairo Town Board workshop meeting 7 p.m. Town Hall, 512 Main St., Cairo n Catskill Library Board 6:45 p.m. at either the Catskill Library, 1 Franklin St., Catskill or Palenville Library, 3303 Route 23A, Palenville n Catskill Central School District BOE 6:30 p.m. High School Library, 341 West Main St., Catskill n Catskill Town Board Committee 6:30 p.m. Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill n Coxsackie Village Election Day 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie n Greene County Legislature public hearing 6:25 p.m. followed by meeting No. 3 6:30 p.m. economic development; Gov. Ops.; finance; and Rep. and Dem caucus 6 p.m. Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill

Thursday, March 19 n Coxsackie-Athens Central School District BOE meeting 6:30 p.m. High School Library, 24 Sunset Blvd., Coxsackie n Coxsackie Village Planning Board 7 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

Monday, March 23 n Catskill Village Planning Board 7 p.m. Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill n Greenville CSD BOE/Budget 4 Meeting 6 p.m. MS/HS Library, 4976 SR 81, Greenville

Tuesday, March 24 n Catskill Town Planning Board 7 p.m. Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill

Wednesday, March 25 n Athens Village Board 6:30 p.m. Village Hall, 2 First St., Athens 518-945-1551 n Catskill Village Board 7 p.m.

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DRI ponders future of Furgary Fishing Village

By Abby Hoover Columbia-Greene Media

HUDSON — The Downtown Revitalization Initiative Committee discussed the future of the historic Furgary Fishing Village and a draft Request for Proposals at its March 4 meeting.

“As part of the Downtown Revitalization Initiative, the city will preserve and redesign the Furgary Fishing Village as a public park,” according to the City of Hudson website. The public can submit comments on the draft RFP to Mayoral Aide Michael Chameides at mayoralaide@ cityofhudson.org through March 16.

The draft RFP requires the master plan to identify shortterm and long-term recommendations and actions for site cleanup, design and site preparation.

The Furgary Fishing Village, also known as “The Shacks,” is a cluster of 17 hunting and fishing cabins on 1.75 acres of riverfront at Dock Street and North Front Street.

The DRI Committee wants to repurpose the historic fishing village as a city park with $150,290 in DRI funding.

According to a 2015 state Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Resource Evaluation, the property meets eligibility criteria because it is “associated with events that have made a significant contribution to the broad patterns of our history” and “embodies the distinctive characteristics of a type, period or method of construction; or represents a significant and distinguishable entity whose components may lack individual distinction.”

Hazardous materials, including lead-based paint and asbestos were found in the shacks, according to a Sept.

17, 2015, report submitted to city Department of Public Works Superintendent Rob Perry by Ambient Environmental Inc. Community members with various concerns about the project attended the meeting.

Hudson resident Timothy O’Connor, who was part of the group who worked to get the site eligible for historic listing cited Hudson City Code Chapter 148, Flood Damage Prevention, which was used when he and his colleagues wrote the original proposal for the DRI. O’Connor said that if the city wants to create a park, that’s a long-term project.

The intention when the group submitted it for the DRI was to “shore up” the worthy shacks at the riverfront and have them sealed off.

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The DRI Committee discussed the future of Hudson’s historic Furgary Fishing Village at its March 4 meeting.

“We didn’t propose a giant thing,” O’Connor said. “I’m a little worried about mission creep here and interpretive things.”

O’Connor said if the committee took into account during the RFP process what he and his group have already figured out, it would save money on the project. “[The code] really fixes a limited vision for what can be done with the shacks,” O’Connor said. “I wanted to keep it to that so we could use as much money as possible for shoring them up.”

Resident Dylan Meyer said there is an abundance of people who will volunteer time and energy to the project to avoid having to use taxpayer dollars.

“If we harness that, we would have to pay very little to anybody to do this work,” Meyer said. “If we find it in our city — which, it’s there, it’s completely there — just to gather together and put it to good use.”

Perry said the work of tearing down the unsaveable shacks will have to be contracted out for environmental issues because the Public Works Department does not have the qualifications.

Meyer also advocated for a parks and public land department. Other attendees requested boat access at the site as part of the plan.

“I’m definitely in favor of increasing boat access, and the fishing village site should have access,” Chameides said Monday. “At the same time, there are other locations to access the water and other locations that are easier and safer to use.”

In other DRI project news, at the last meeting of the Common Council, Starr Whitehouse was accepted as the Promenade Hill Park project’s developer. Since then, the New York Citybased company has submitted a revised timeline for completion of the project.

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An anticipated 8-month Interest on March design period will include Dunn Warehouse community and stakeholder outreach, concept and cost analysis and presentation of materials to the DRI and stakeholders.

Construction is slated to take 12 months, includg cceptin Now A atients! ing bid advertisement and New P awarding. Starr Whitehouse plans to begin construction at the site in October 2020 and finish in October 2021.

The renovation of Promenade Hill Park is planned to provide ADA access while preserving historic features, according to the 2019 DRI Annual Report. Of the $10 million DRI award, $1.1 million is reserved for the proj- W. COXSACKIE ect.

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reuse project. The city wants to increase revenue, employment opportunities and quality of life through the project, according to the City of Hudson website.

Project Manager Chris Round of Chazen Companies worked with the committee to draft the REI, which was distributed to a list of over 20 firms and posted on the city’s website Thursday.

Responses to the REI are due by April 10, and the committee will have until April 24 to score bids.

At the Feb. 18 meeting, the committee selected a bid from Tecta America Weatherguard LLC for $25,725 for short-term roofing repairs.

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Joe Biden’s big vision for America: He wants to restore faith in government Gabriel Glickman The Washington Post

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Give a hand to NYS Clean

It’s become a ritual as hardened as the daily press briefings in the 1979 Iran hostage crisis. Each day for the last two weeks, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has held a “Red Room”: a news conference to update the public on the seemingly inexorable spread of coronavirus.

The number of confirmed cases has grown considerably since the virus made its presence known in New York state. Each case has followed another at a steady pace, steady enough for the governor to declare a state of emergency after two people in Saratoga County tested positive.

The pattern of inexorability was broken Monday when Cuomo announced the state was going into the

hand-sanitizer business. In these turbulent times, it was still something of a shock to hear that a crew of prison inmates at Great Meadow Correctional Facility in Comstock, Washington County, will manufacture state-sanctioned hand sanitizer with the brand “NYS Clean.”

The state will produce up to 100,000 gallons of the sanitizer each week to slow the spread of COVID-19, Cuomo said. The sanitizer will be distributed to schools, municipalities, prisons, government agencies and the state’s most impacted or high-risk communities free of charge.

But don’t expect to see it on the shelves of your favorite grocery store or phar-

macy. NYS Clean will not be available to the public. And that should not sit well with the public in the face of reports about hand-sanitizer shortages and growing demand for the gel.

Like the rest of the world, New York state is struggling to contain and mitigate coronavirus, but is competing with the companies that make hand sanitizer an answer? NYS Clean probably looks good on paper.

It might be good for the inmates. Indeed, we hope it’s one of those Cloud-8 concepts that somehow works.

But the term “last-ditch effort” feels close behind. And some thought should be given to selling the product to the public. The Red Room is running out of ideas.

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Trump is endangering lives with his contempt for truth The Washington Post

China’s failure to respond promptly to the covid-19 outbreak in Wuhan in December revealed a weakness of authoritarian rule. News was stifled, honest doctors were punished, and the Communist Party allowed illness to spread in a vain attempt to protect its image.

Now we are seeing that democracy can produce its own version of leadership failure, when the person in charge is ignorant, dishonest and more concerned with his own image than the well-being of the nation.

President Donald Trump has spent three years demeaning and weakening the U.S. government. Now that the United States desperately needs that government to function well, we are paying a steep price.

The failure to produce sufficient test kits early in the epidemic squandered an opportunity to contain the virus. But the problem was not simply the faulty kit. More telling, as The Washington Post’s Ashley Parker, Yasmeen Abutaleb and Lena H. Sun showed in their dissection of the administration’s flailing response, was the backbiting, finger-pointing and overall lack of urgency that ensued.

That flailing should come as no surprise. Virtually every federal agency should

be responding as part of a team to this crisis, either to help contain and treat or to figure out how to continue serving the public in difficult conditions. But Trump derides these agencies as a hostile “deep state” and defunds branches that gather data. Many agencies suffer from an absence of leaders.

Here are a few positions that should be responding to the virus but have no Senateconfirmed appointees, and haven’t for more than a year: secretary of homeland security; deputy secretary of homeland security; undersecretary of homeland security for science and technology; assistant secretary of state for oceans and international, environmental and scientific affairs; USAID assistant administrator for global health; the director and deputy director of the National Science Foundation; at the Office of Science and Technology Policy, the associate directors for science, for national security and international affairs, and for technology; at the Transportation Department, the assistant secretary for aviation and international affairs; and on and on.

Most notoriously, Trump in 2018 abolished the directorate for global health security and biodefense on his own National Security Council. “Who would have

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thought we would even be having the subject?” the president said in apparent amazement while touring the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last week. But this epidemic was not just predictable, it was predicted. Preparing for it was the purpose of the office that he shut down.

Ignorant statements such as that, along with his falsehoods about test kits being widely available and his constant minimizing of the seriousness of the crisis, are damaging in their own right.

But they are especially damaging because those who work for him know their jobs are at risk if they do not back up his lies. Trump not only denies established facts, he fires people, such as acting director of national intelligence Joseph Maguire, who contradict his falsehoods. Of course aides hesitate to surface bad news.

Even this week, as officials everywhere began calling for precautions, Trump continued his wrongheaded public relations campaign. “Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on,” he tweeted.

As public health officials belatedly stress the importance of social distancing, Trump’s countermessaging does more than cause confusion.

It will cost lives.

Joe Biden wants voters to trust him as a leader who will help restore America’s moral compass. As Sen. Cory Booker, a former rival who has now endorsed Biden, termed it at a rally on Monday, Biden is “the best one to restore the soul of America. He is the best one to bring dignity back to that office.” This platform stands out today, in stark contrast to Elizabeth Warren’s carefully laid out plans and Bernie Sanders’s plethora of policy statements, for not really articulating much of a substantive agenda. But Biden isn’t running on policy, he’s trying to gain the public’s trust and restore Americans’ faith in the political system - an aspect of his agenda from the very beginning of his Senate career.

Biden entered Washington in 1973, as Watergate unfolded, precipitating debates over campaign financing and other ethical issues. The Vietnam War and Watergate scandal had created a credibility gap and left Americans lacking faith in their government. Biden saw himself as the antidote to such distrust.

He wasn’t naive. He freely acknowledged the capacity of political leaders to abuse their power. “[W]heather you like it or not, young lady,” he said to a young female journalist, interviewing him in 1974, “us cruddy politicians can take away that First Amendment of yours if we want to.”

But Biden had pursued a political career because the corruption of Richard Nixon and other unscrupulous politicians necessitated good, honest people to enter government. Only that would prevent a country led by “men worse than themselves,” as Biden put it. As the Watergate investigation intensified from 1973 to 1974, and scholars began to write about an “imperial presidency” under Richard Nixon, Biden painted himself as an alternative to unscrupulous politicians - they were the type to trample over cherished rights, not him.

Like today, Biden was a part of the center-left back then and offering an alternative to the polarizing politics of his age. In the early 1970s, he rejected the efforts of progressives in his own party, dubbed the “New Left,” to create a new social order. Rather than participating in the culture wars at the time, Biden chose to focus on bread-and-butter issues like Social Security and the income tax. At the same time, he was also winning-over Southern

segregationist senators in his party, including James Oliver Eastland, who was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and, unlike Biden, did not believe in civil rights, but eventually gave Biden a seat on the committee. This helped Biden serve as a bridge between the disparate elements within the Democratic Party, whose internal divisions at times appeared to be more stark than those of the two major parties.

And when there was a growing political divide between the left and right, Biden refused to tear down Republicans, even during Watergate when it became clear that key GOP leaders had behaved like the unscrupulous politicians he so strongly detested. Instead, Biden saw politics as the driving force behind American greatness, and saw it as essential to prevent cynicism from destroying the system. For, without its political system, there was no America. “We are a product of our political system,” he said in 1973. “What holds us together as a nation are not cultural ties as in other countries, but political ties.” Crucially, he added in reference to the Republican Party: “If we bring down a great political party, we bring down our political system.”

This was not a solipsistic attempt to make friends on the other side of the aisle to advance his political career. Instead, Biden was acting on his deeply held belief that politics is a noble pursuit, one worthy of veneration from the country.

His solution for elevating the status of politicians in American society included raising their salaries. “I don’t know about the rest of you [senators] but I am worth a lot more than my salary of $42,500 a year in this body,” he said in 1973, only a month after Nixon told the public that he wouldn’t comply with a subpoena to hand over tapes relating to Watergate. “It seems to me that we should flat out tell the American people we are worth our salt.” Biden had good reason to appear contemptuous of the precarious financial situation he found himself in after only securing campaign financing by taking out a second mortgage. He even pointed out, at the time, that other senators were personally wealthy and didn’t have to make the same personal sacrifices. Many of them also used their elected office for personal benefit.

But Biden also had a broader cause: professionalizing politics. Doing so would create a class of morally upstanding

leaders. And so, amid the larger debate about reforming campaign finance procedures - the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971, the creation of the Federal Election Commission in 1974 and then the landmark Supreme Court case in 1976, Buckley v. Valeo, which struck down spending limits in politics - Biden advocated for public financing of federal campaigns and co-sponsored legislation to do just that in 1973.

So as a young centrist, what exactly did Biden believe in?

Honesty. “The central issue of my campaign,” Biden said at the time, “and I used all the issues from busing to the war to the economy, crime, and prison reform - was to convince the people that I was intelligent and to convince them that I was honest.” According to Biden, policies could be figured out on the job. What voters really wanted to understand was whether they could trust a politician. Would s/he abuse power?

Today, Biden is running on that same platform. Even his foreign policy envisions a restoration of America’s trust in the international scene. As he recently declared, the United States must be “prepared to lead again - not just with the example of our power but also with the power of our example.” Of course, Biden has a troubled past when it comes to presidential campaigns and the issue of trust. His campaign in 1987 came to a grinding halt after it came to light that he had used the words of other politicians in a few of his campaign speeches and even at one of the debates. But that’s not the type of trust Biden was emphasizing in the 1970s or today. For him, a trustworthy politician is one that won’t wield power for personal gain - like Nixon with Watergate.

To be sure, Biden’s views from the 1970s - notably those on abortion, legalization of marijuana, and same sex marriage - have undergone significant transformations. But one aspect that hasn’t changed over the years is his emphasis on trust in politics. That’s important, because it’s the very issue at stake in the 2020 election.

And it’s also poetic, because it means this is Biden’s last chance to fight for the very issue that brought him into politics.

Gabriel Glickman is an adjunct professor of history and is writing a world history book provisionally titled, “The Rise and Fall of World History: Avoiding Historical Amnesia in 21st Century Classrooms.”

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June G. Bain June G. Bain 94, beloved mother and friend, passed away on February 28, 2020. Born June 30, 1925 in Meredith, NY, she was the daughter of Morris and Beatrice Padovani, and the wife of Ralph James Bain.

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Two Marines killed in action while battling Islamic State militants Justin Wm. Moyer The Washington Post

Capt. Moises Navas, a Special Operations officer from Germantown, and Gunnery Sgt. Diego Pongo, a critical skills operator from Simi Valley, California, were killed Tuesday in Iraq while accompanying Iraqi security forces during a mission to eliminate an Islamic State stronghold in a mountainous area of northcentral Iraq, military officials said in a statement. Both men were 34.

Navas, known as “Mo,” was born in Panama and grew up in Maryland, according to the Department of Defense. He joined the Marine Corps in 2004 and was assigned for the past four years to the 2nd Marine Raider Battalion, Marine Capt. Moises A. Navas, left, and Gunnery Sgt. Diego D. Pongo.

Forces Special Operations He is survived by his wife, a daughter and parents.

Command, at Camp Lejeune daughter, three sons, his parIn a statement, Marine Raidin North Carolina. er Regiment commanding ofA scout sniper, martial arts ents and a brother.

Pongo also enlisted in 2004, ficer Col. John Lynch said “the instructor and combat diver, Navas was recently selected for deploying to Iraq and Afghani- loss of these two incredible promotion to major, the state- stan, and was awarded a Purple individuals is being felt across ment said. His commenda- Heart, among other commen- our organization, but it cannot tions include a Purple Heart. dations. He is survived by his compare to the loss that their

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families and teammates are experiencing.”

“Both men epitomize what it means to be a Marine Raider,” the statement said. “They were intelligent, courageous, and loyal.”

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PG&E strikes deal with FEMA over $3.9 billion in fire claims Mark Chediak and Steven Church Bloomberg

PG&E Corp. reached a deal with the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency over $3.9 billion in relief Washington provided after the utility’s power lines sparked devastating wildfires.

A lawyer for PG&E announced the agreement during a hearing Tuesday before a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge in San Francisco. The utility also reached a deal with California’s emergency services office over additional claims.

Details will be filed with the court in the coming days, the lawyer, Stephen Karotkin said.

The deal over emergency

aid brings PG&E one step closer to emerging from Chapter 11, which the company entered last year facing $30 billion in claims from fires blamed on its equipment.

Victims of those blazes had been fighting the payments to FEMA in court, saying the agency would be taking money from a $13.5 billion pot PG&E set aside for them.

PG&E shares rose 6.9% at 1:21 p.m. in New York.

The federal agency argued it had an obligation to recover costs of critical services it provided in the aftermath of blazes in 2015, 2017 and 2018, including medical expenses and home repairs.

Tear gas fired in Caracas as opposition resumes protests Alex Vasquez and Nicolle Yapur Bloomberg

Venezuelan security forces fired tear gas at supporters of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido as they marched down a main avenue in eastern Caracas on Tuesday morning, hoping to inject new life into a campaign to oust President Nicolas Maduro.

Women and men wearing white T-shirts and Venezuelan flags draped over their shoulders chanted and held signs that said “no more torture, no more deaths.” The group planned to reach the National Assembly downtown, where a rival march organized by Maduro loyalists is also headed, raising the possibility of clashes with armed government supporters, known as colectivos.

Police in anti-riot gear stood on the sidelines of the opposition’s gathering.

“I like to see the streets full of police, military and colectivos, that means that the dictatorship is afraid of us,” said Gustavo Giraud, a 72-year-old university philosophy professor, who held a cardboard skeleton with the words “we are hungry.”

He earns 2 million bolivars a month, or about $27.

“I’m not afraid anymore,” he said.

Guaido enjoys the backing of Washington and its allies, who recognize him as the nation’s legitimate leader, but he has so far failed to make much headway back home. Last April, Guaido tried to lead an uprising,

which collapsed after most of the armed forces declined to join. Despite this, the government has refrained from arresting Guaido, possibly fearing the international reaction.

“We’ve achieved our goal and made our plight visible,” Guaido told the crowd. Guaido, speaking later in a webcast, said the opposition plans another protest on March 12.

Hundreds of opposition supporters also rallied in other major Venezuelan cities such as Maracaibo, San Cristobal and Barquisimeto.

In downtown Caracas, Maduro supporters and government workers clad in red danced to a live salsa band, where a large inflatable bust of late President Hugo Chavez bobbed in the wind. They held signs that said “sanctions are a crime,” and “Guaido is a traitor.”

While Guaido recently returned from an international tour where he met with President Donald Trump in the White House and took the stage at the World Economic Forum in Davos, protests back home have been muted this year. His momentum has been slowed by fatigue among ordinary citizens struggling to survive dayto-day, and skepticism that he can oust Maduro.

The colectivos were accused of pointing a gun at Guaido and injuring a protesters in a rally two weeks ago held in the western city of Barquisimeto.

Putin, Saudi prince draw Donald Trump into grudge match for oil supremacy Javier Blas and Jack Farchy Bloomberg

There’s a battle of economic might in the global oil patch, and it’s rapidly turning into a tussle of wills between the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Russia and the U.S. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, 34, escalated an oil-price war on Tuesday with a move to flood the market with crude, a day after the oil market suffered its deepest rout since 1991.

Russian President Vladimir Putin helped kick off the fight in the first place to inflict a PAUL HENNESSY/SOPA IMAGES/ZUMA PRESS/TNS blow on the U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he arrives on an Air Force At stake is the future of the One at Orlando Sanford International Airport on March 9, 2020 oil market and the U.S. shale in Sanford, Fla. industry, and President DonFor Riyadh and Moscow, hurt his popularity in Texas, ald Trump’s next move could on the other hand, it’s life and which his Democratic oppobe key.

The U.S. has become the death. Saudi Arabia depends nents are eyeing as a potenworld’s biggest oil producer, on oil for nearly 70% of its tial battleground state. The making it a target for the Sau- fiscal income, according to price plunge is ricocheting dis and Russians, who rank the International Monetary across U.S. financial markets just below. Trump, whose No- Fund. For Russia it’s 40% -- -- a potential soft spot given the president’s own touting vember re-election bid gets including gas.

Both Prince Mohammed of high stock prices as ratiotougher with the spread of coronavirus and each down- and Putin have taken mea- nale for his re-election.

“The trigger for the U.S. to ward tick of key economic in- sures to strengthen their audicators, promised Monday thoritarian holds on their get involved is if this oil-price to help struggling U.S. shale countries. Prince Moham- drop endangers financial drillers. He could still exert med had two senior mem- stability,” said Bob McNally, influence over Saudi Arabia, bers of the Saudi royal family founder of oil consultant which benefits from Ameri- rounded up over the week- Rapidan Energy Group and a end on the grounds they were former official in the George can military support.

Trump called the prince on plotting a coup. Putin is over- W. Bush administration.

Indeed, despite Trump’s Monday to discuss the price hauling the Russian constituwar, according to two people tion in a move seen as paving tweet on Monday, several the way for him to retain in- U.S. officials indicated they familiar with the situation.

“It’s no longer about eco- fluence after his current term were far from happy with the nomics,” said Chris Weafer, -- his last under existing limits oil price war that triggered the sharpest drop in equity chief executive officer of -- ends in 2024.

If the price war persists for markets since 2008.

Macro Advisory, a MoscowIn a statement Monday, based consultancy. “All three months, economic resilience of them are hurting at this would determine the winner. the U.S. Energy Department Here, Saudi Arabia appears referred to “attempts by price.”

At first glance, the U.S. in be in a weaker spot. Riyadh state actors to manipulate should be the loser. Drilling needs more than $80 a barrel and shock oil markets.” U.S. in the Permian Basin of West to balance its budget, higher Senator John Cornyn, who Texas and New Mexico is far than at almost any other time represents Texas and its shale more expensive than in Sibe- in the past 20 years. If it comes drillers, suggested the Trump ria or the Saudi desert. Perm- to tapping the piggy bank, the administration get tough ian shale producers need an kingdom’s cash reserves are with the Saudis.

“I hope there will be direct average of $40 to $50 a barrel $500 billion -- down a third communication with the to break even, according to from their peak in 2014.

Russia, on the other hand, kingdom and with the crown Rystad Energy. That’s well above current prices. Produc- has spent the past five years prince about what they’ve ers have already been weak- resetting its economy to a done, because they depend ened by lenders reluctant lower oil price and rebuilding on us for their security in to finance their drilling and reserves to $570 billion. While large part from Iran,” Cornyn the coronavirus, which has sustained economic pain said. “I just think they didn’t squeezed demand around the would come at an awkward recognize the consequences time for the Kremlin, as Pu- of what they’ve done and world.

But the grudge match is tin has promised to improve what the impact might be.” less about oilfield economics living standards, the budget And U.S. Treasury Secrethan it is about raw power. On has some resilience built in. tary Stephen Mnuchin met that measure, Trump might After the shock of the oil-price Monday with the Russian seem to be in a more comfort- slump and U.S. sanctions in ambassador to Washington able position. While the price 2014, Moscow has lowered and “emphasized the imporwar launched by Riyadh and the price at which its bud- tance of orderly energy marMoscow is feeding directly get breaks even to about $50 kets,” according to a stateinto their own oil revenues, a barrel from $115 in 2013. ment.

With economic pain beit’s likely to help U.S. motor- (Russian companies can turn ists who are the world’s single at profit at a much lower oil ing felt in all three countries, some traders are speculating price.) largest source of oil demand.

Trump cheered on the fall Trump, in contrast, may darkly about the potential for in prices on Monday, tweet- feel the impact soonest in the escalation in the war of wills. ing that the drop in oil prices domestic political arena. The Trump has already shown his was “good for the consumer.” U.S. oil industry’s pain could willingness to use tariffs and

sanctions to achieve his political aims, while Russia and Saudi Arabia are engaged in political and military power struggles across the Middle East and beyond.

“If this was President [Barack] Obama, you’d have more confidence that the administration would do nothing and would let the oil price find its own level,” Weafer said. “With President Trump, you simply don’t know what he’s going to do.”

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Odds and ends from Greene County’s past

By David Dorpfeld, Greene County Historian For Columbia-Greene Media

After being away for almost a month, I am still getting my feet back on the ground. I thought today might be a good time for some odds and ends I have been accumulating.

A news clipping from 109 years ago heralded the opening of a new theater in Coxsackie as follows: The old Second Reformed Church, recently purchased by Eugene Leigh, has been fitted for a motion-picture show. The place is named the ‘Ideal’ and will seat 200 people.”

I don’t recall ever seeing any other promotion for the theater and speculate it was short lived. The popular Coxsackie movie venue for many decades was the theater on the second floor of what is known

as the Dolan Block on South River Street. The building is currently slated for extensive renovation. The old church that housed the “Ideal” is in dilapidated condition on Ely Street.

Also from Sept. 17, 1911, it was reported that the ice houses were nearly empty due to an unusually hot summer and despite the fact that the houses were full after the last winter. I wonder what the intrepid ice harvesters would do today. It seems the river seldom freezes enough to “cut ice.” Accounts indicate that ice harvesting sometimes began as early as December.

Have you ever wondered how the town of Jewett got its name? It was named for the chief judge of the NYS Court of Appeals Freeborn G. Jewett (1791–1858) upon its founding

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Label from for a bottle of “Old Catskill Brand Straight Apple Brandy.”

on Nov. 16, 1849. Jewett was born in Sharon, Connecticut, and died in Skaneateles, New York, where he lived most of his adult life. He served as chief judge from 1847 until

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COLUMBIA COUNTY Germantown Town Hall, 50 Palatine Park Road, Germantown, 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

March 28.

Hudson High School, 215 Harry Howard Ave., Hudson, 8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. March 11.

DUTCHESS COUNTY Lewis Thompkins Hose, Lewis Thompkins Hose, 13 South Ave., Beacon, 1-6 p.m.

March 31.

East Fishkill Senior Friendship Center, 890 Route 82, Hopewell Junction, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. March 14.

Millbrook Fire House, 20 Front St., Millbrook, 2-7 p.m.

March 13.

Mills Athletic Center, Millbrook School Road, Millbrook, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. March 31.

Town of Pleasant Valley, 1554 Main St., Pleasant Valley, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. March 14.

Poughkeepsie Galleria, 2001 South Road, Poughkeepsie, 1-6 p.m. March 20.

GREENE COUNTY Catskill Elks Lodge Hall, 45 North Jefferson Ave., Catskill, noon-6 p.m. March 16.

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June 1853, when he resigned on account of ill health. I have found no evidence of why Jewett’s founding fathers chose his name for their new town or that he ever set foot there. As an aside, Janet Nichols, Jewett town historian, passed along an article a few years back about a Jewett car. It was made in Detroit from 1923 to 1926.

Family connection?

Apple Brandy, made in Greene County, is a topic that may merit further research.

A copy of a liquor bottle label was found in the archives of the Vedder Research Library in Coxsackie. Here is the gist of the information: “OLD CATSKILL BRAND STRAIGHT APPLE BRANDY Distilled by Greene County Fruit Distillery Inc., Bottled by Laird & Co., Inc., Catskill, N.Y.” In the center of the label is a depiction of

Rip Van Winkle. I found that the label was copyrighted in 1934, the year after the end of Prohibition.

A smaller label says the brandy “is distilled in the Catskill Mountains, in the heart of the Famous Apple Region, where the finest traditions of Apple Jack Brandy Distilling have been handed down from the days of Rip Van Winkle.”

And finally another variation on the old chicken story.

No, this is not about which came first. It involves the oft told tale of the origin of the Hotel Kaaterkill. As the story goes, George Harding was staying at the Catskill Mountain House when he was refused a chicken dinner he had ordered. As a result of the presumed affront, Harding built his own hotel, the Kaaterskill.

In this version found in an undated article from The Daily Mail, Mrs. Mary Van Wagonen, whose father and grandfather owned and conducted the Catskill Mountain House for many years has this to say: “It was capon (a castrated male chicken fattened for eating) over which the dispute arose. The capon had been ordered from Philadelphia, but had not arrived…

Mr. Harding was vexed when he ordered some for his dinner and was told that the birds had not been received.”

Hope you have enjoyed these odds and ends. Perhaps a full column on one of them at a later date.

Reach columnist David Dorpfeld at gchistorian@gmail.com or visit him on Facebook at “Greene County Historian.”

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MARCH 12 EAST BERNE — Helderberg Christian School, 96 Main St., East Berne, will hold a Brooks House of Barbecue fundraiser 4-6:30 p.m. or until sold out March 12. Drive through, take out only.

Chicken dinner, $12 preordered; $13 day of. Call 518499-5416 by March 11 to preorder.

CASTLETON — The Rensselaer-Columbia-Greene Counties Board of Cooperative Educational Services will hold a board meeting at 6:30 p.m. March 12 at the Central Office Boardroom, second floor, 10 Empire State Blvd., Castleton and via videoconference at 223 Bethel Ridge Road, Catskill.

MARCH 13 EAST BERNE — Helderberg Christian School, 96 Main St., East Berne, will hold an open house 5-7 p.m.

March 13 and 10 a.m.-noon March 14. Meet staff, visit classrooms, preview curriculum and preregister for the 2020-2021 school year. For directions and information, call 518-499-5416.

MARCH 14 ROUND TOP — The Round Top Volunteer Fire Dept.

Ladies Auxiliary will serve a corned beef and cabbage dinner 3-6 p.m. March 14 at the Round Top Firehouse, Route 31, Round Top. The menu includes corned beef, cabbage, red potatoes, carrots, rye bread, soda bread, beverages and dessert. Eat in or take out.

The cost is $12.

CATSKILL — The Catskill Fire Co. Ladies Auxiliary will be holding a Hot Sub Sale 4-6:30 p.m. March 14 at the firehouse, 422 Main St., Catskill.

There will be choice of Pepperoni, Sausage & Pepper or Meatball Subs. The cost is $8 each. Eat in or take out.

VOORHEESVILLE — Paint a Serene River Scene 10 a.m.3:30 p.m. March 14 at Thacher Nature Center, 87 Nature Center Way, Voorheesville.

Create an oil painting of a serene river scene with local accomplished artist and teacher Karen Woodin.

Participants of all skill levels will receive instructions on various oil painting techniques and complete their own 18 x 18 oil painting to take home. Course fee of $75 includes all materials.

Registration and prepayment are required. Bring a bag lunch, light refreshments will be provided. Space is limited, call 518-872-0800 to register.

DELMAR — The Albany Figure Skating Club will hold its annual Spring Ice Show 4-6 p.m. March 14 at the Bethlehem YMCA, 900 Delaware Ave., Delmar.

This exhibition will feature solo, group, and synchronized skating performances by figure skaters from all over the Capital District. A bake sale will also be held, with all proceeds supporting the Albany Figure Skating Club’s activities and programs.

Admission is $5; $3 for seniors and students; and free for children 5 and younger.

For information about the Spring Ice Show, contact Elissa Baker at 518-441-7978 or info@albanyfsc.org, or visit the Club’s website at www.albanyfsc.org.

CATSKILL — Catskill Elks

Lodge, 45 North Jefferson Ave., Catskill, will be hosting a Corn Hole Tournament March 14. Registration begins at noon. The entry fee is $20.

There will be cash prizes for first and second place winners. For information, call 518-947-1080.

MARCH 15 ATHENS — The West Athens Firehouse No. 2, 933 Leeds-Athens Road, Athens, will serve an all you can eat breakfast 8 a.m.-noon March 15 at the firehouse. Freewill offering accepted.

SOUTH BETHLEHEM — The South Bethlehem United Methodist Church, 67 Willowbrook Ave., South Bethlehem, will hold serve a corned beef and cabbage dinner with bake sale 4:30-7 p.m. March 13. Eat in or take out. Adults, $10; children 6-12, $5; children 5 and younger, free. For information, call Emily Shutter at 518-813-0661.

MARCH 16 TREADWELL —Seeing Things: An Intensive Poetry Workshop with Robert Bensen, will be offered in 10 sessions 7-9 p.m. Mondays March 16 through May 18 that Bright Hill Press and Literary Center of the Catskills, 94 Church St., Treadwell.

Cost is $225. Financial scholarships are available for those in need. To register, email info@brighthillpress.org or call 607-829-5055.

MARCH 17 EAST DURHAM — The Durham Task Force Parade Committee will host a Saint Patrick’s Day Dinner 4-7 p.m.

March 17 at The Shamrock House, 2388 Route 145, East Durham.

Dinner includes corned beef and cabbage with dessert. Eat in or take out.

Suggested donation, $12.

There will be a reading room raffle and soda bread.

Easter Services PUBLISHING: APRIL 9, 2020 Church Services in Columbia & Greene County

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Tom Andreassen, American Legion Post 110 commander and Joy Andressen, media relations for post, are pictured with Vivian Shepherd, niece of Sam Shepherd. They attended the dedication of a monument in Tavares Florida, to honor the Groveland Four on Feb. 21. In 1949, four AfricanAmericans — Walter Irvin, Charles Greenlee, Sammy Shephard and Ernest Thomas — were accused of raping a white woman. Gov. Ron DeSantis, in his second month in office, pardoned the Groveland Four and remarked at this dedication the horrific event never should have happened and now move forward to ensure this will never happen again. Tavares Sheriff Willis McCall had the boys beaten unmercifully, shot and killed two, and incarcerated the other two for life. The family is now looking toward complete exoneration. Approximately 100 family members were in attendance along with

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Will taking my benefit early affect my widow’s benefit?

Dear Rusty: My husband is 70 and has been taking Social Security for several years. His benefit is $2,100 per month. I am 60 and will turn 61 in March. I have very little built up and my expected SS benefit at my full retirement age is $1,163 and $829 if I choose to take it at age 62. We are comfortable with our current income, but the benefit at 62 is enticing. I want to know how taking it at 62 would affect my situation if my husband predeceases me. Would I then be able to exchange my benefits for his?

Please advise.

Signed: Planning Ahead Dear Planning: Taking your own SS benefit early (before your full retirement age) won’t affect

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GLOOR the amount of your survivor benefit should your husband predecease you. The only thing that would affect your survivor benefit is the age at which you claim it. So yes, you could claim your own benefit first and then switch to your survivor benefit later without hurting your eventual survivor

benefit. If you have reached your full retirement age (FRA) when your husband passes, your survivor benefit will be 100% of the amount your husband is receiving at his death, instead of your own smaller benefit. But if you take the survivor benefit before your FRA, it will be actuarially reduced according to the number of months prior to FRA it is claimed. To be clear, if your husband were to pass before you reached FRA, you have the option to wait until your FRA to claim the survivor benefit (so you can get 100% of his benefit). In other words, you could continue to collect your own benefit until your survivor benefit reached 100% at your FRA (a survivor benefit reaches maximum at FRA).

Be aware, though, that there is another consideration if you claim your own SS benefit before you reach your full retirement age. If you are still working and claim your benefit before your FRA, you’ll be subject to Social Security’s “earnings limit” which, if exceeded, will cause SS to take back future benefits equal to 50% of the amount you exceeded the limit by (the 2020 limit is $18,240, but it changes annually). If you have substantial earnings from working, that could mean you will go some number of months without benefits (depending upon your earnings level). In the year you reach your FRA (but prior to your FRA) the earnings limit goes up by 2.6 times and the penalty is less,

and once you reach your FRA there is no longer an earnings limit. But, I want to make sure you’re aware that collecting early and exceeding the earnings limit will affect your benefits. If you go months without benefits because you exceeded the earnings limit, SS will give you time credit for those months when you reach your FRA, which will result in a small increase in your own SS benefit at that time.

But the bottom line is that collecting your own Social Security benefit early will not affect your eventual survivor benefit. Only the age at which you claim it, if earlier than your FRA, will affect the amount of your survivor benefit. And, by the way, your FRA as a widow is 4 months less than your

is doing well. Payments are needed this month. Those on the list will be called to make sure they are still interested in going. There is a back up list of people who are interested in going. Greenville Town Supervisor Paul Macko informed the members of all the happenings in the town.

The next meeting will be a covered dish on April 1. Lunch will be served at 12:30 p.m. followed by the meeting at 1:30 p.m.

10 a.m.-2 p.m. March 25.

There will be games, music and more.

counseling session with an attorney.

SENIOR RESOURCE DAY

CATSKILL — The Senior Angels Program will hold a bake sale for Easter 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

April 9 in the Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill.

normal FRA because SS takes 2 years off of your birth year to determine your “widow’s FRA.” This article is intended for information purposes only and does not represent legal or financial guidance. It presents the opinions and interpretations of the AMAC Foundation’s staff, trained and accredited by the National Social Security Association (NSSA). NSSA and the AMAC Foundation and its staff are not affiliated with or endorsed by the Social Security Administration or any other governmental entity. To submit a question, visit our website (amacfoundation.org/programs/socialsecurity-advisory) or email us at ssadvisor@amacfoundation.org.

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For information and questions, please call 518-828-1616 ext. 2490. We would like to have information at least two weeks in advance.

ATHENS SENIOR CITIZENS ATHENS — The Athens Senior Citizens meet at 1:15 p.m. the second and fourth Monday of the month at the Rivertown Senior Center, 39 Second St., Athens.

CAIRO GOLDEN AGERS CAIRO — The Cairo Golden Agers meet at 1:30 p.m. the second and fourth Wednesday of the month at the Acra Community Center, Route 23, Acra.

CATSKILL SILVER LININGS SENIORS CATSKILL — The Catskill Silver Linings Seniors meet at 1 p.m. the second Thursday of the month at the Robert C. Antonelli Center, 15 Academy St.,

Catskill.

COXSACKIE AREA SENIORS COXSACKIE — The Coxsackie Area Seniors meet at 1:30 p.m. the second and fourth Wednesday of the month in Van Heest Hall, Bethany Village, 800 Bethany Village, West Coxsackie.

SENIOR CITIZENS OF COXSACKIE COXSACKIE — The Senior Citizens of Coxsackie meet at 1:30 p.m. the first and third Monday of the month at the Coxsackie Senior Center, 127 Mansion St., Coxsackie.

GREENVILLE GOLDEN YEARS CLUB GREENVILLE — The Greenville Golden Club meet at 1:30 p.m. the first Wednesday of the month at the American Legion Hall, 54 Maple Ave., Greenville.

The Greenville Golden Years Club met March 4. Reggie Cozzocrea led us in prayer for our members. Phyllis Wissert read the minutes from the Feb. 5 meeting. A get well was sent to Sonia Greiner. There were 19 members in attendance. The trip to the Brownstone to see Sonny and Cher Variety Show

MOUNTAIN TOP GOLDEN AGERS TANNERSVILLE — The Mountain Top Golden Agers meet at 1:30 p.m. the fourth Thursday of the month at Tannersville Village Hall, 1 Park Lane, Tannersville.

WAJPL GOLDEN AGERS HENSONVILLE — The WAJPL Golden Agers meet at 1:30 p.m. the first and third Monday of the month at Hensonville Town Building, 371 Route 296, Hensonville.

SPRING OPEN HOUSE CATSKILL — Hearthstone Care, 1187 Route 23A, Catskill, will hold a spring open house

CATSKILL — Senior Corps MLK Community Resource Day, sponsored by Greene County Department for Human Services RSVP, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. March 26 at the Robert C. Antonelli Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill. Learn how to save money on Medicare, area vendors, information, giveaways and more.

Admission is free. For information, call Ruth Jones Pforte at 518-719-3555.

SENIOR CITIZENS’ LAW DAY ALBANY — Senior Citizens’ Law Day will be held 8:45 a.m.3:30 p.m. March 28 at Albany Law School, 80 New Scotland Ave., Albany. Albany Law professors, attorneys and other experts will conduct workshops such as health care decision making, protecting against scams, estate planning, Medicare and Medicaid and charitable giving. No registration is required for workshops. Register the day of the event for a free one-on-one

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SUPPORT GROUPS COXSACKIE — A grief support group will start meeting at 6 p.m. the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month at the Bethany Village in Coxsackie.

While the loss of a loved one is a common source of grief other reasons include the loss of a job, the death of a beloved pet, experiencing a major health challenge such as cancer and the ending of a relationship.

Grief is a very personal and individual emotion. Support groups provide many benefits to those who are grieving.

Those who are experiencing grief early on can connect with others in the group who have successfully managed their grief and are further along on their road to feeling happy once again. More information can be found at the face

book page at Coxsackie Grief Support Group and also by contacting Jeffrey Haas at 518478-5414 or jhaasrph@aol. com.

CATSKILL — The Alzheimer’s Association holds support group meetings at 3 p.m. the first Wednesday of the month at The Pines, 154 Jefferson Heights, Catskill. For information, call 518-867-4999 ext.

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COXSACKIE — The Alzheimer’s Association holds support group meetings at 6 p.m. the third Thursday of the month at Heermance Memorial Library, 1 Ely St., Coxsackie. For information, call 518867-4999 ext. 224.

CATSKILL — The Pines at Catskill and Columbia Memorial Health will host a Stroke Survivor and Caregiver monthly support group at 3 p.m. the second Wednesday of the month at The Pines at Catskill Center for Nursing & Rehabilitation, 154 Jefferson Heights, Catskill. For information, call 518-943-5151.

Senior Menu CATSKILL — The following is the weekly nutrition menu offered by the Greene County Department of Human Services’ Senior Nutrition Program.

Served daily with each meal are bread or alternative with Promise Spread; low fat milk, coffee or tea.

All persons 60 and older and their spouses are invited. The suggested donation for each meal is $4.

The menu will be the meal that is delivered to all Greene County home bound meal clients. Those wishing to receive lunch at a center are asked to call the respective location at least a day in advance.

Rivertown Senior Center, 39 Second St., Athens; 518-9452700.

Acra Community Center, Old Route 23B, Cairo; 518-6229898.

Jewett Municipal Building, Route 23C, Jewett; 518-2634392.

Washington Irving Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill; 518-943-1343.

Town of Coxsackie Senior

Center, Mansion Street, Coxsackie; 518-731-8901.

MARCH 11 THROUGH MARCH 18 WEDNESDAY: Roast pork with gravy, brussels sprouts, sweet potato, apple crisp.

THURSDAY: Beef stew, California mixed vegetables, lemon pudding.

FRIDAY: Battered fish, Harvard beets, cole slaw, baked potato, fresh fruit.

MONDAY: Baked chicken with gravy, mashed potatoes, spinach, peaches.

TUESDAY: Corned beef, cabbage, boiled potatoes, carrots, lime whip.

WEDNESDAY: Sloppy Joes, green beans, cauliflower, pears.

MARCH 18 THROUGH MARCH 25 WEDNESDAY: Sloppy Joes, green beans, cauliflower, pears.

THURSDAY: Turkey salad on greens, potato salad, marinated carrots, oatmeal cookies.

FRIDAY: Cheese ravioli, Italian mixed vegetables, fresh salad, fresh fruit.

MONDAY: Sweet and sour pork, brown rice, broccoli, pineapple chunks.

TUESDAY: Chili con carne, wax beans, tapioca pudding.

WEDNESDAY: Meatloaf, mashed potatoes, Parisian mixed vegetables, birthday cupcake.

MARCH 25 THROUGH APRIL 1 WEDNESDAY: Meatloaf, mashed potatoes, Parisian mixed vegetables, birthday cupcake.

THURSDAY: Chicken cacciatore with Linguini, fresh salad, spinach, fresh fruit.

FRIDAY: Macaroni and cheese, three bean salad, stewed tomatoes, orange fruited gelatin.

MONDAY: Chicken chow mein, brown rice, Oriental vegetables, pineapple chunks and mandarin oranges.

TUESDAY: Cook’s choice, cauliflower, fruit cocktail.

WEDNESDAY: Beef and peppers, Harvard beets, sweet potato, apple cake.

APRIL 1 THROUGH APRIL 8 WEDNESDAY: Beef and

peppers, Harvard beets, sweet potato, apple cake.

THURSDAY: Pulled pork, baked beans, cole slaw, collard greens, fresh fruit.

FRIDAY: Crab topped cod, green beans, fresh salad, roasted red potatoes, chocolate mousse.

MONDAY: Italian sausage tortellini, Italian mixed vegetables, peaches.

TUESDAY: Baked chicken with gravy, mashed potatoes, carrots, pear crisp.

WEDNESDAY: Spinach quiche, bean salad, cauliflower au gratin, fruit cocktail.

APRIL 8 THROUGH APRIL 15 WEDNESDAY: Spinach quiche, bean salad, cauliflower au gratin, fruit cocktail.

THURSDAY: Sweet and sour chicken, brown rice, broccoli, Chinese almond cookie.

FRIDAY: Battered fish, fresh salad with chickpeas and carrots.

MONDAY: Chicken Dijon, mashed potatoes, pineapple chunks with mandarin oranges.

TUESDAY: Beef stew, broccoli, roasted winter squash cubes, rice pudding with raisins.

WEDNESDAY: Meatloaf with gravy, green beans almandine, scalloped potatoes, apple crisp.

APRIL 15 THROUGH APRIL 22 WEDNESDAY: Meatloaf with gravy, green beans almandine, scalloped potatoes, apple crisp.

THURSDAY: Low sodium baked ham with pineapple sauce, baked potato, carrots, fruited gelatin.

FRIDAY: Eggplant Parmesan, pasta, Italian green beans, fresh salad with chickpeas, fresh fruit.

MONDAY: Beef strips and broccoli, brown rice, mixed vegetables, pears.

TUESDAY: Chicken and biscuits, mashed potatoes, carrots, peach crisp.

WEDNESDAY: Salisbury steak with gravy, beet salad, broccoli, baked potato, tropical mixed fruit.

APRIL 22 THROUGH APRIL 29

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WEDNESDAY: Salisbury steak with gravy, beet salad, broccoli, baked potato, tropical mixed fruit.

THURSDAY: Roast turkey with gravy, mashed potatoes, Monaco mixed vegetables, cherry cheesecake.

FRIDAY: Whole wheat lasagna, fresh salad with carrots and chickpeas, Italian mixed vegetables, fresh fruit.

MONDAY: Quiche Lorraine, quinoa, hash browns, California mixed vegetables, fruit cocktail.

TUESDAY: Baked chicken quarters with gravy, mashed potatoes, Monaco mixed vegetables, pumpkin pudding with granola topping.

WEDNESDAY: Shrimp scampi, brown rice, broccoli, pineapple delight.

APRIL 29 AND APRIL 30 WEDNESDAY: Shrimp scampi, brown rice, broccoli, pineapple delight.

THURSDAY: American goulash, fresh salad with chickpeas, wax beans, oatmeal raisin cookie.

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panic anyone,” McDonald said.

Some senior living facilities in the region are taking precautions to screen and limit visitors.

The Firemen’s Home in Hudson is asking residents’ families to defer visitation and is temporarily postponing outside trips.

“We are moving into being more isolated and protective of our residents,” Administrator Bob Sussingham said.

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phenomenon.”

Schools, temples and other facilities with large gatherings in the Westchester County site will be affected, but grocery stores will remain open.

The containment area is not a quarantine, and will not prohibit people from leaving their homes or walking the street, Cuomo said, adding officials will clean the schools and facilities and assess the situation during the two-week period.

“This will be a period of disruption for the local community — I understand that,” the governor said. “It is dramatic action, but it is the largest cluster in the country and this is literally a matter of life and death. That’s not an overly

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In 2017, Copake enacted a solar law having “determined that comprehensive zoning regulations regarding the development of solar energy systems are necessary to protect the interests of the town, its residents, its farmland and its businesses.”

As proposed, Shepherd’s Run exceeds the town of Copake’s 10-acre limit on utility-scale solar energy systems.

The state Constitution and Municipal Home Rule Law grant local autonomy to

A fish fry for Firemen’s Home residents at a local fire department, scheduled for Friday, has been postponed, as have all other activities with the community, Sussingham said.

Therapy dogs and other activities have been postponed at Rivertown Housing in Athens, said Site Manager Amanda Rose.

“This was a decision made jointly between Rivertown and those activity providers,” she said.

Other than the activity cancellations, Rose said the facility is following standard

operating procedures.

“We are taking the same precautions we take all flu season, making sure everything is wiped down and disinfected,” she said.

Visitors to The Eliot, an assisted living facility in Catskill, are required to answer a comprehensive questionnaire about their health and recent travels, said Andrea Davis, director of compliance for Polaris Healthcare, which manages The Eliot.

“If they refuse to answer or if they fail the questionnaire, they are refused entry,” Davis said.

All outings have been canceled, but recreational activities in the facility are carrying on as usual.

“We are not going to stop them from going out, but it’s not recommended,” she said.

“Residents are on board with everything we are doing to maintain their safety.”

Residents of Rivertown Housing in Athens continue to come and go as usual, Rose said.

“I can’t hold them all hostage. It’s an independent living facility,” she said. “We are doing our due diligence.

Hopefully no one comes into

contact with it and brings it back here.”

A sign on the door of Whittier Place in Ghent asks visitors with flu-like symptoms to refrain from visiting. The facility may begin screening visitors in the coming days, Administrator Meghan Kelley said.

Seniors at Whittier Place are remaining calm about the risk of coronavirus.

“There’s no hysteria present at this facility,” Kelley said.

All senior living facilities contacted for comment said they are taking extreme care to disinfect surfaces and implement proper hand-washing

among employees.

An infection control procedure, which requires staff members to wipe down all door handles, railings and surfaces is being conducted twice daily at Home Sweet Home in Athens, registered nurse administrator Dawn Lapp said.

The procedure is normally conducted once daily during flu season, but was increased to twice daily with the outbreak of coronavirus in New York.

“It may be excessive, but we want to keep our residents safe,” Lapp said.

rhetorical statement.”

The CDC reported 647 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States as of Tuesday afternoon and 25 deaths in 36 states and the District of Columbia. The state’s number of positive cases of COVID-19 soared to 173 Tuesday with 14 people hospitalized.

Of the New Yorkers with the illness, 36 live in New York City, 108 in Westchester County, 19 in Nassau County, six in Rockland County, two in Saratoga County and one each in Ulster and Suffolk counties.

There is no truth to a report Tuesday that a man with coronavirus is being treated at Columbia Memorial Health in Hudson, according to the Columbia County Health Department.

“We have to report to the state every day,” Pat Abitabile said Tuesday afternoon. “The New York State Department of

Health is tracking it. We track everything every day. We work cooperatively with the hospital. To my knowledge, at this phone call, we do not have a 50-year-old man with coronavirus at the hospital.”

Cases announced Monday include Rick Cotton, the executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Cotton is symptomatic, but is recovering at home, state Health Department Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker said Tuesday.

Zucker recommended the emergency measure as a public health strategy.

“As we see the number of cases continue to rise based upon close contacts with persons who are positive for COVID-19, there is a particular need to reduce the opportunity for further close contacts,” Zucker said. “Although we believe that the risk generally

to New Yorkers is low, I have recommended this strategy to reduce opportunities for further spread with the goal of reducing the number of new cases we are seeing in New Rochelle.”

The state will work with impacted schools to ensure any child who depends on food assistance programs will continue to receive those benefits during the two-week period. Cuomo also asked the National Guard to assist with food delivery, transportation and cleaning.

Cuomo asked state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli for input about how the virus could affect the state and local economy because conventions, restaurants and tourism are experiencing downturns.

The proposed 2020-21 executive budget was put together with estimates and projections that will have to be

recalculated because things have changed, Cuomo said.

It is unclear how long the crisis will last, officials said, and it’s unclear how long the virus survives on a hard surface, which could be two days or more.

The state announced a new regulation for school districts Monday that a school must close for at least 24 hours if a student tests positive for COVID-19. Cuomo implemented a cleaning protocol for schools, public transportation and other agencies to use bleach and other strong cleaners.

Protesters gathered outside the governor’s chambers Tuesday morning, shouting about Cuomo’s choice to use inmates to make stateproduced hand sanitizer to combat the product’s high demand and price gouging.

Maximum security inmates at Great Meadow Correctional

Facility in Comstock, Washington County, are producing the state’s sanitizer — called NYS Clean — through CorCraft, or the brand name for the Division of Correctional Industries entity within the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.

The state is not making a profit on the hand sanitizer, Cuomo said Tuesday. The product is not available for public sale, and is issued to schools, prisons, buses and other governmental agencies.

“This can’t be a political decision — this is a public health decision,” Cuomo said. “Let the science drive the decision.

When you politically interfere in science, that’s when you tend to make a mistake.”

The Tribune News Service contributed to this report.

municipalities, particularly with respect to local land use regulation.

According to the act, the new office would work in consultation with the state Energy Research and Development Authority, the Department of Environmental Conservation, the Department of Public Service, the Department of Agriculture and Markets and other relevant state agencies and authorities with subject matter expertise.

The Alliance for Clean Energy New York supports the amendment to the budget, adding that it takes five to 10 years for a solar project to be built under current

regulations.

“Renewable energy needs to be sited, interconnected, and permitted more rapidly if the State of New York is to meet these nation-leading standards,” according to the ACE NY memorandum of support.

In Coxsackie, the Flint Mine solar project is underway. Town Supervisor Richard Hanse said the board and constituents have been contacting their state representatives, state Sen. George Amedore Jr., R-46, and Assemblyman Chris Tague, R-102, to voice their opposition to the budget amendment.

The proposed amendment

was introduced in a manner that effectively precludes municipalities from analyzing and commenting on the matter, according to the resolution.

The prior regulation to authorize construction and operation of major electric generating facilities, Article 10, was enacted in 2011 as part of state Public Service Law. Article 10 creates a siting board for application review, consisting of five permanent members and two ad hoc public members, appointed from a list of nominees provided by the project’s local government.

The two ad hoc members are appointed “for the special

purpose of providing a local voice in each proceeding conducted to consider specific individual applications for candidates,” according to the state Article 10 website.

“It respects local control with a one-year permit approval timeframe, the same provision for projects to comply with local laws as Article 10 and sets aside intervenor funds for governments to hire the experts they need to establish their community norms,” according to the ACE NY memorandum.

With the passing of the resolution, the Town of Copake would formally object to the establishment of major state policy initiatives through the

state budget process.

The town board “opposes the proposed budget amendment and any attempts to diminish Copake’s authority to establish and enforce its land use regulations,” according to the resolution.

Copake Town Supervisor Jeanne Mettler said the town board will discuss the proposed resolution at its March 12 meeting at 7 p.m. At that time, the public will also be able to make comments.

Abby Hoover is a reporter for the Register-Star. Contact her at ahoover@registerstar.com or (518) 828-1616 x 2500.

Congress wins ruling giving it access to Mueller records

By Bob Van Voris Bloomberg News

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Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller testifies before the House Judiciary Committee about his report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election in the Rayburn House Office Building on July 24, 2019, in Washington, D.C.

House Democrats won a victory in a court fight to unlock records from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s 22-month probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

A federal appeals court in Washington ruled Tuesday that congressional impeachment proceedings met the legal standard for access to confidential materials and

transcripts associated with the investigation.

The information at issue had been gathered by the Mueller probe through the grand jury process. Such records typically remain sealed to protect the identity of those who are investigated but not charged, as well as details of ongoing investigations.

The House Judiciary Committee sued to force the records’ release in July, claiming it sought access to

the information to better understand President Donald Trump’s knowledge of and role in events chronicled in Mueller’s 448-page report.

U.S. Disrtrict Judge Beryl Howell said in her Oct. 25 ruling, that the judicial nature of the proceeding warranted unsealing a limited range of grand jury information, over the Justice Department’s objection.

Joining the 2-1 appeals court decision to affirm

Trump lobbies skeptical Republicans on economic stimulus to combat coronavirus fears

By Jennifer Haberkorn and Eli Stokols Los Angeles Times (TNS)

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump traveled to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to discuss steps to protect Americans from the spreading coronavirus and press Senate Republicans to pass an economic relief plan to address its impact.

Trump said he would pitch “very, very strong steps for people coming into our country,” but provided no other details of his proposal while speaking to reporters during a White House meeting with health insurance industry executives.

He said he is working with the travel sector, after his aides earlier suggested its industries may need tax relief.

“We are working very, very closely with the cruise industry,” Trump said, noting that the airline industry could also get

some help from Washington.

“We’ll be helping them through this patch.”

In a press conference Monday, Trump said he would be discussing a possible payroll tax cut or another form of “very substantial relief.”

Republicans on Capitol Hill have so far been cool to the idea of an immediate economic stimulus package, saying that it is too soon to know exactly which policies are warranted or to what extent.

Democrats have their own ideas, such as requiring employers to provide paid sick leave and additional unemployment insurance. In the House, Democrats have made preparations to enact legislation as soon as this week, although House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has not committed to a timetable.

So far, there is no sign of the

parties working together on any kind of bipartisan measure, and for now, Congress is scheduled to be on recess next week.

Republicans have said they would listen to the White House’s pitch with open minds and have widely accepted that an economic stimulus will likely be needed eventually.

Trump will be joined in the Senate GOP closed-door lunch meeting by Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin and economic advisor Larry Kudlow.

Trump on Monday promised there would also be help for hourly wage earners “so that they can be in a position where they’re not going to ever miss a paycheck.” Kudlow last week suggested that the administration supports tax deferments for the tourism sector, an idea that Democrats on Capitol Hill have protested.

Howell’s ruling were U.S. Circuit judges Thomas Griffith, a nominee of President George W. Bush and Judith Wilson Rogers, who was named to the court by President Bill Clinton. Trump appointee Neomi Rao dissented. (c)2020 Bloomberg News Visit Bloomberg News at www. bloomberg.com Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

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FIRST-TEAM Phil Decker/Cairo-Durham/198 Zach Porreca/Hudson/189 Andrew Duso/Chatham/187 Matt Bowes/Hudson/187 Tim Foust/Rensselaer/185 Kevin Ackerman/Maple Hill/183

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HIGH SINGLE: Zach Porreca/Hudson/298 Michael Jubie/Catskill/277 Kevin Ackerman/Maple Hill/267

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Cairo-Durham High School recently celebrated the accomplishments of its Winter Sports Athletes at a ceremony held in the High School Auditorium.

Student/Athletes from 10 different teams were given certificates for their participation and 21 athletes were given plaques for being their team’s MVP or Coaches Award Winner.

Pictured are: Top Row: Phillip Decker (Varsity Bowling MVP), Laney Bruck (Varsity Girls Basketball Coaches Award), Arianna Myers (Varsity Girls Basketball MVP), Ethan Handel (Varsity Boys Basketball MVP).

2nd Row: Aaron Decker (Varsity Bowling CA), Dean Parmelee (Boys JV Basketball CA), Mike Geno (Varsity Wrestling MVP), Ethan Phillips (Varsity Boys Basketball CA), Kyan Bujak Harrington (Boys JV Basketball MVP), Connell Deyo (Boys Varsity Volleyball CA).

3rd Row: Dante DiGiovanni (Boys Varsity Indoor Track and Field MVP), Christina Markiewicz (Girls Varsity Indoor Track and Field CA), Joe Arp (Boys Varsity Volleyball MVP), Mckayla Mudge (Girls Varsity Basketball MVP), Olivia MacGiffert (Girls Varsity Indoor Track and Field MVP), Brina Halvorsen (Girls JV Basketball CA), Jordan Cody (Girls JV Basketball MVP)

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New York Yankees third baseman Gio Urshela (29) singles during a recent spring training game against the Atlanta Braves at George M. Steinbrenner Field.

Off Yankees’ radar last spring, Gio Urshela plans to exceed expectations again in 2020 Pete Caldera The Record

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New York Giants tight end Rhett Ellison (85) on a reception against the Jets on Nov. 19, 2019 at MetLife Stadium.

Giants TE Rhett Ellison retires at 31 after concussion

By Pat Leonard

and just the lessons they taught me, the tools they gave me for my life after football.”

Giants veteran tight end Rhett ElEvan Engram on Monday called Ellison announced his retirement from lison “the best teamthe NFL on Monday afmate I ever had.” ter missing the final six “The past few weeks, it’s kind of been an emotional That was a common games of 2019 due to a concussion sustained in among rollercoaster. But the overwhelming feeling I have is sentiment Week 10 against the Jets. players the past few Ellison, 31, a consumgratitude. Just thinking back to all the people in my seasons. A couple mate pro who teammates said Ellison life, even before I put pads on, that were able to nur- Giants consistently called one of was one of the most the most admirable veter- ture and grow the gifts God put into me and make this disciplined and ans and examples on the eaters they’d career possible. I think that was the biggest thing that healthy roster, played eight NFL ever seen. seasons: five for the Min“I was kind of was the fun part about the retirement process, which nesota Vikings and three weird in that I loved is reflecting on those people, thanking those people, the physical prepafor the Giants. His blocking ability made him the reaching out and just the lessons they taught me, the ration before the Giants’ most useful allseason,” Ellison tools they gave me for my life after football.” around tight end. said. “My favorite He and his wife, Raina, time of year was — GIANTS VETERAN TIGHT END RHETT ELLISON have a two-year-old training camp. I was daughter and a son who just a little bit off that was born last month. So it’s difficult for and grow the gifts God put into me way. But that’s what I think I will miss him to step away, but it’s what he felt he and make this career possible. I think the most, my teammates and just the must do to prioritize his family and life. that was the biggest thing that was the physical preparation.”

“The past few weeks, it’s kind of fun part about the retirement process, Ellison wasn’t much of a talker in been an emotional rollercoaster,” Elli- which is reflecting on those people, See GIANTS B3 son said in a statement released by the thanking those people, reaching out New York Daily News (TNS)

team. “But the overwhelming feeling I have is gratitude. Just thinking back to all the people in my life, even before I put pads on, that were able to nurture

CLEARWATER, Fla. — At this time last year, Gio Urshela had no path to the Bronx as a nonroster infielder, toiling under the radar at Yankees camp.

But every so often, as a third baseman, Urshela would effortlessly rob some batter of a hit – a play that would command attention during an otherwise sleepy exhibition game.

At the plate, Urshela was really forcing decision-makers to take notice.

Urshela barreled up pitches and chipped away at the conventional thinking that he was a defensive specialist who’d never become a regular Major League player.

“I already knew I was going to start (2019) in the minor leagues,” Urshela said. “I was just waiting for an opportunity.”

That chance came in early April, when Miguel Andujar banged up his right shoulder – an injury that would soon require season-ending surgery.

After a stunning all-around performance in 2019, Andujar’s placeholder has become the Yankees regular third baseman — forcing the 2018 AL Rookie of the Year runner-up to find atbats as a novice left fielder.

“I’m confident what we saw was real,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said of Urshela’s .314/.355/.534 slash line in 132 games last season, with 21

home runs and 74 RBI in 442 atbats and an .889 OPS. Urshela, 28, became one of just 10 AL hitters last season to hit at least .300 (400 minimum at-bats) and collect 50 extrabase hits.

This, from a player with a pedestrian .270 batting average and .705 OPS in 880 career minor league games over parts of 11 seasons.

“Confidence. For me, that’s the No. 1 thing I’ve got to say,” Urshela said of what changed for him in 2019. That, and “mechanically we do a lot of stuff in the cage to be consistent, too.”

Urshela has never publicly delved deeply into those mechanical changes, but he’s compacted his swing – a shorter-to-the-ball approach that has yielded dramatic results.

And the only change to his offseason routine was not playing Winter League Baseball; he spent most of his winter at home in Colombia.

“I try to be better than last year,” Urshela said of his personal sights for 2020. “Everything I did last year, do it better this year.”

These days, Boone wouldn’t be shocked if Urshela exceeded his All-Star type level of 2019.

“He’s got a knack for hitting the ball off the barrel,” something that “probably partly attracted us to going after him,” said Boone, referencing the See YANKEES B3

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Pro basketball NBA Eastern Conference Atlantic W L Pct Toronto 46 18 .719 Boston 42 21 .667 Philadelphia 38 26 .594 Brooklyn 29 34 .460 New York 20 44 .312 Central W L Pct Milwaukee 53 12 .815 Indiana 39 25 .609 Chicago 21 43 .328 Detroit 20 45 .308 Cleveland 19 45 .297 Southeast W L Pct Miami 41 23 .641 Orlando 29 35 .453 Washington 23 40 .365 Charlotte 22 42 .344 Atlanta 20 46 .303 Western Conference Northwest W L Pct Denver 43 21 .672 Utah 41 23 .641 Oklahoma City 40 24 .625 Portland 28 37 .431 Minnesota 19 44 .302 Pacific W L Pct L.A. Lakers 49 13 .790 L.A. Clippers 43 20 .683 Sacramento 28 36 .438 Phoenix 26 38 .406 Golden State 15 49 .234 Southwest W L Pct Houston 39 24 .619 Dallas 39 26 .600 Memphis 32 32 .500 New Orleans 28 36 .438 San Antonio 26 36 .419 Sunday’s games Brooklyn 110, Chicago 107 New Orleans 120, Minnesota 107 L.A. Lakers 112, L.A. Clippers 103 Oklahoma City 105, Boston 104 Phoenix 140, Milwaukee 131 Miami 100, Washington 89 Indiana 112, Dallas 109 Orlando 126, Houston 106 Cleveland 132, San Antonio 129, OT New York 96, Detroit 84 Toronto 118, Sacramento 113 Monday’s games Atlanta 143, Charlotte 138, 2 OT Denver 109, Milwaukee 95 Toronto 101, Utah 92 Tuesday’s games Boston at Indiana, 7 p.m.

New York at Washington, 7 p.m.

Cleveland at Chicago, 8 p.m.

Minnesota at Houston, 8 p.m.

Orlando at Memphis, 8 p.m.

Dallas at San Antonio, 8 p.m.

Phoenix at Portland, 10 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.

Brooklyn at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m.

GB — 3.5 8.0 16.5 26.0 GB — 13.5 31.5 33.0 33.5 GB — 12.0 17.5 19.0 22.0 GB — 2.0 3.0 15.5 23.5 GB — 6.5 22.0 24.0 35.0 GB — 1.0 7.5 11.5 12.5

Pro hockey NHL Eastern Conference Atlantic Division GP W L OT SO Pts Boston 69 43 14 5 7 98 Tampa Bay 69 43 20 5 1 92 Toronto 69 35 25 4 5 79 Florida 69 35 26 4 4 78 Montreal 70 31 30 8 1 71 Buffalo 69 30 31 6 2 68 Ottawa 69 25 32 7 5 62 Detroit 70 17 48 3 2 39 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT SO Pts Washington 69 41 20 5 3 90 Philadelphia 68 41 20 2 5 89 Pittsburgh 68 39 23 6 0 84 Columbus 70 33 22 11 4 81 Carolina 67 37 25 5 0 79 NY Islanders 67 35 23 7 2 79 NY Rangers 68 36 28 2 2 76 New Jersey 68 28 28 6 6 68 Western Conference Central Division GP W L OT SO Pts St. Louis 70 41 19 7 3 92 Colorado 68 41 19 7 1 90 Dallas 68 37 23 5 3 82 Winnipeg 70 36 28 4 2 78 Minnesota 69 35 27 4 3 77 Nashville 68 34 26 5 3 76 Chicago 69 31 30 4 4 70 Pacific Division GP W L OT SO Pts Vegas 71 39 24 6 2 86 Edmonton 70 37 24 7 2 83 Calgary 70 36 27 6 1 79 Vancouver 68 35 27 3 3 76 Arizona 70 33 29 4 4 74 Anaheim 69 28 32 8 1 65 San Jose 69 29 35 4 1 63 Los Angeles 68 27 35 3 3 60 Sunday’s games Carolina 6, Pittsburgh 2 Detroit 5, Tampa Bay 4, SO Vegas 5, Calgary 3 St. Louis 2, Chicago 0 Minnesota 5, Anaheim 4, OT Columbus 2, Vancouver 1 Colorado 4, San Jose 3 Monday’s games Buffalo 3, Washington 2, SO Winnipeg 4, Arizona 2 Florida 2, St. Louis 1 Vegas 3, Edmonton 2, OT Colorado at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.

Tuesday’s games Tampa Bay at Toronto, 7 p.m.

Nashville at Montreal, 7 p.m.

Pittsburgh at New Jersey, 7 p.m.

Boston at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.

Carolina at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.

NY Rangers at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

NY Islanders at Vancouver, 10 p.m.

Ottawa at Anaheim, 10 p.m.

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Auto racing MONSTER ENERGY CUP SERIES FanShield 500 Sunday At Phoenix Raceway Avondale, Ariz.

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Spring training roundup: Jays take advantage of Snell’s wildness Field Level Media

Danny Jansen smacked a grand slam and Riley Adams hit a three-run homer as a Toronto Blue Jays split squad rolled to an 8-3 victory over the visiting Tampa Bay Rays on Monday at Dunedin, Fla. Left-hander Blake Snell started for Tampa Bay, and the 2018 American League Cy Young Award winner retired just one batter and walked four to force in Toronto’s first run. Right-hander Trevor Richards replaced Snell, and Jansen slugged the second pitch over the fence in left to give the Blue Jays a 5-0 firstinning lead.

Left-hander Hyun-Jin Ryu struck out four and gave up three hits in 4 1/3 innings for Toronto. Adams’ blast in the seventh inning gave the Blue Jays an eighth-run lead.

Tampa Bay scored three runs in the ninth. Joey Roach and Dalton Kelly had runscoring singles and Brett SulREINHOLD MATAY/USA TODAY livan notched an RBI double. Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Justin Miller throws a pitch during Monday’s spring training game against Phillies 3, Yankees 1 the Tampa Bay Rays at TD Ballpark.

Christian Bethancourt hit a tiebreaking two-run homer Joe Panik raised his spring Felix Hernandez, the former ended up tied in Scottsdale, in the eighth inning to lift the average to .375 with two of Cy Young Award winner who Ariz. Each team scored single host Phillies over the Yankees Toronto’s five hits as the vis- pitched 15 seasons for the Se- runs in the eighth and ninth at Clearwater, Fla. Erik Kratz iting Blue Jays knocked off attle Mariners, went five in- innings, with a solo home had a run-scoring single for Pittsburgh at Bradenton, Fla. nings, allowing one run, six run by the Diamondbacks’ New York.

Oneil Cruz delivered a run- hits and two walks. He struck Trayce Thompson creating Astros 2, Tigers 1 scoring double for the Pirates. out six. the tie in the bottom of the Stephen Wrenn delivered Indians (ss) 11, Angels 10 Mets 1, Marlins 1 ninth. Arizona starter Madithe game-winning single with Franmil Reyes hit two son Bumgarner pitched 3 2/3 Right-hander Elieser Hertwo outs in the bottom of the nandez struck out five and home runs, and Yu Chang and scoreless innings, striking out ninth inning to give Houston gave up two hits over four Miguel Jerez also homered as four. the victory over Detroit at scoreless inning to help Mi- Cleveland clipped Los AngeDodgers 14, Padres 2 West Palm Beach, Fla. Willi ami tie visiting New York at les in Tempe, Ariz. Justin UpChris Taylor drove in three Castro had an RBI double for Jupiter, Fla. Jake Marisnick ton homered among two hits runs in Los Angeles’ win over tripled and scored the lone and scored twice, and Jason San Diego in Peoria, Ariz. the Tigers. run for the Mets.

Castro also had two hits and Taylor hit a two-run home Cardinals 3, Twins 0 drove in two runs for the An- run as the Dodgers scored Red Sox 2, Braves 1 Austin Dean went 2-for-4 four runs in the sixth inning, Right-hander Ryan Weber gels. with a homer to help St. Louis Royals 4, Diamondbacks 4 and they scored seven more blank host Minnesota at Fort pitched four scoreless innings Ryan O’Hearn hit his fourth runs in the seventh, including Myers, Fla. The Twins had six with four strikeouts as Boston edged Atlanta in North home run of the spring as three on a double by Terrance hits, all singles.

Port, Fla. Braves right-hander Kansas City and Arizona Gore. Dodgers left-hander Blue Jays (ss) 3, Pirates 1

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Dominik Kahun scored in the seventh round of a shootout to give the Buffalo Sabres a 3-2 victory over the visiting Washington Capitals on Monday.

Sabres goalie Linus Ullmark stopped 33 of 35 shots during open play and then made six more saves during the shootout. It was an impressive return for Ullmark, who was playing for the first time in 18 games after recovering from a lower-body injury.

Victor Olofsson and Jack Eichel scored in regulation for Buffalo, which snapped an 0-6-0 streak.

Alexander Ovechkin had two points, including his 48th goal of the season to tie Boston’s David Pastrnak for the TIMOTHY T. LUDWIG/USA TODAY league scoring lead. Dmitry Buffalo Sabres goaltender Linus Ullmark (35) makes a save on Orlov also scored for the Capi- Washington Capitals left wing Alex Ovechkin (8) during Monday’s tals. game at KeyBank Center.

Golden Knights 3, Oilers 2 for just the second time in Division.

(OT) Quick has allowed one goal their last 11 games.

Defenseman Shea TheoJets 4, Coyotes 2 dore scored 2:13 into over- or fewer in five of his past six Winnipeg native Cody Eatime to lift Vegas over host Ed- starts, going 5-0-1 in that monton in a matchup of the span. Mikey Anderson scored kin scored the go-ahead goal top two teams in the Pacific his first NHL goal in his fifth in the third period – his first game, and Austin Wagner and goal for his hometown club Division.

Jonathan Marchessault Alex Iafallo also scored for the – to lead the host Jets to a 4-2 forced a turnover in the offen- Kings, who hadn’t won six in a comeback win over Arizona. sive zone and alertly fed The- row since an eight-game win- The Jets’ season-high sixth odore, who wired a shot from ning streak in 2017. straight home victory bumped Pierre-Edouard Bellemare Winnipeg into the top wildthe high slot that beat Mikko Koskinen. Marchessault and scored, and Pavel Francouz card spot in the Western ConNicolas Roy each scored, and made 32 saves for the Ava- ference.

Marc-Andre Fleury finished lanche.

Nikolaj Ehlers notched a Panthers 2, Blues 1 with 22 saves for first-place goal and two assists, TuckBrett Connolly scored the Vegas. er Poolman had a goal and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and go-ahead goal in the third pean assist, and Mark ScheifAlex Chiasson scored, and riod, and Florida prevailed at ele scored for the Jets. ConKoskinen turned aside 45 St. Louis, earning its second nor Hellebuyck stopped 36 shots for Edmonton, which consecutive victory.

Mike Hoffman also scored of 38 shots. Winnipeg’s Paul now trails Vegas by three points in the Pacific Division. for the Panthers, and Chris Maurice coached his 1,599th Driedger made 26 saves. game, breaking a tie with Ken Kings 3, Avalanche 1 Jonathan Quick made 21 Driedger has stopped 85 of 89 Hitchcock for the fifth-most saves, and host Los Angeles shots in his past three starts NHL games behind the bench.

The Coyotes’ Nick Schmaltz extended its season-high win- while filling in for the injured scored two first-period goals, ning streak to six games by Sergei Bobrovsky.

Colton Parayko scored, and Phil Kessel contributed two defeating Colorado, which missed a chance to tie St. Lou- Jordan Binnington made 32 assists, and Darcy Kuemper is for first place in the Central saves for the Blues, who lost made 30 saves.

Alex Wood and Padres righthander Garrett Richards each allowed one unearned run over 3 1/3 innings with four strikeouts.

Indians (ss) 11, Giants 7 Tyler Krieger capped a six-run eighth inning with a grand slam as Cleveland outscored San Francisco in Goodyear, Ariz. Zach Green hit a three-run homer and Alex Dickerson added a solo shot for the Giants. San Francisco right-hander Trevor Oaks pitched three scoreless innings and struck out three.

Reds 3, White Sox 3 Yermin Mercedes’ home run in the bottom of the ninth allowed Chicago to tie Cincinnati in Phoenix. Yasmani Grandal also hit a solo home run for Chicago. Nick Senzel opened the game with a homer for the Reds. Right-hander Anthony DeSclafani threw four innings for Cincinnati, allowing one run on three hits with two strikeouts.

Brewers 2, Mariners 1 Lorenzo Cain and Luis Castro hit home runs, the latter the game-winner in the bottom of the ninth, and righthander Corbin Burnes allowed one run in four innings as Milwaukee edged Seattle in Phoenix. Kyle Lewis homered for the Mariners. Seattle right-hander Taijuan Walker gave up one run and struck out four over three innings.

Athletics 5, Rangers 0 Right-hander Chris Bassitt pitched three scoreless, hitless innings, and four relievers kept the shutout intact while allowing only one hit in Oakland’s win over Texas in Surprise, Ariz. Sean Murphy had two hits for the A’s, including a two-run homer.

NBA roundup: Nuggets send Bucks to third straight loss Field Level Media

Jamal Murray scored 21 points, including Denver’s first nine to start the fourth quarter, Paul Millsap had 20 points and 10 rebounds, and the host Nuggets beat the short-handed Milwaukee Bucks 109-95 on Monday night.

Jerami Grant added 19 points for Denver, and Gary Harris had 15. Will Barton scored 13 points and Nikola Jokic had 10 points, nine rebounds and seven assists for the Nuggets, who swept the season series from the NBA leaders.

Milwaukee played without reigning MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo (left knee injury) and nearly the entire starting lineup to end an 0-3 road trip. Also out were Eric Bledsoe (knee), George Hill (groin), Khris Middleton (rest), Brook Lopez (rest) and Donte DiVincenzo (rest), leaving them without their top six scorers.

Kyle Korver led the Bucks with a season-high 23 points, Sterling Brown had 16 points, Robin Lopez scored 11 and D.J. Wilson contributed 10 points and nine boards.

Hawks 143, Hornets 138 (2OT) De’Andre Hunter gave host Atlanta the lead by making three free throws with 13.3 seconds left in the second overtime, and the Hawks held on to defeat Charlotte.

Atlanta was led by Trae Young with 31 points and

16 assists. John Collins had 28 points on 12-for13 shooting and grabbed 11 rebounds, and Cam Reddish, who returned after exiting the previous game due to leg cramps, had 22 points. The Hawks set a season high with 21 3-pointers (on 43 attempts).

The Hornets got a career-high 40 points from Terry Rozier, 27 points and 10 rebounds from Devonte’ Graham, and a career-high 23 points from rookie Caleb Martin, who entered the game averaging 4.3 points.

Raptors 101, Jazz 92 Serge Ibaka scored 27 points and grabbed 13 rebounds as Toronto defeated Utah in Salt Lake City to extend its winning streak to four games.

Pascal Siakam added 27 points, 11 rebounds and eight assists, and Kyle Lowry had 21 points for the Raptors, who finished a 4-1 road trip.

Joe Ingles had 20 points off the bench – 10 in the fourth quarter – for the Jazz, who had their winning streak end at five. Royce O’Neale added 15 points, Mike Conley had 13 and Donovan Mitchell scored 11 for Utah. Mitchell and Conley combined to his 8 of 28 field-goal attempts.

The Raptors lost guard Norman Powell 95 seconds into the first quarter with a sprained left ankle after he collided with teammate OG Anunoby on a defensive play under the basket.

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Aug. 4, 2018 trade that brought Urshela to the Yankees organization from Toronto.

Urshela finished that year batting .307 in 27 games at Class AAA Scranton/WilkesBarre.

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open locker rooms. He was more of a doer. But I’ll never forget the topic I broached in 2018 training camp that excited Ellison most in my experience: I asked him about his former Vikings teammate Teddy Bridgewater’s return from injury and preseason success with the Jets, which prompted a trade to the Saints and a second chance.

Ellison had seen Bridgewater tear his ACL in 2016

“Even before we got him, there were conversations about him early in ‘18 as being a guy that maybe we should be interested in,” Boone said of Urshela, who spent a decade with the Cleveland Indians organization.

But that was mostly based on Urshela’s Gold Glove-caliber defense at third base.

The strong arm, the soft

hands, the backhand toward the line, the ability to charge and throw off balance — Urshela plays a quick-reaction position with a normal pulse.

Urshela made the latter play to rob Rhys Hoskins on Wednesday afternoon, during the Phillies’ 3-1 exhibition win at Spectrum Field.

“Like he’s slipping into a warm bath,” said Boone, a

former big-league third baseman, reissuing one of his quotable chestnuts from 2019.

“He plays the position with ease,” though Urshela could also turn in “great plays in some big spots ... that just got you off your feet,” Boone said.

Last March, “I remember ... thinking even in spring training, ‘Man, this guy can play.’ But there just wasn’t (an

immediate path) to make the team.”

Now, third base at Yankee Stadium is Urshela’s domain, though he’s one of the few Yankees who still flies under the radar in a lineup of stars.

Equally low key on Twitter, Urshela’s second most recent post to date was this quote in January: “Without discipline, no matter how good you are,

you are nothing!”

“Gio’s just got an easy way about him,” Boone said.

“There’s a joy to the way he kind of lives life and plays the game that’s infectious.

“And that is, frankly, no different than who he was last spring,” Boone said. “He’s the same all the time. I love being around him.”

training camp in Minnesota.

The normally reserved Giants tight end smiled.

“Teddy, I’m just so happy for him that he’s successful,” Ellison told me in Aug. 2018.

“I’m just happy to see him back on the field. He’s one of my favorite guys I’ve ever played with. The bigger the game, the more pressure on the line, the calmer and better he played. He’s one of those types of guys.

“And he’s a great guy in the locker room,” Ellison added.

“He’s a great guy, so I’m really happy, especially after seeing his injury in person and seeing him rehab and come back from that, it’s pretty

miraculous. But for a kid with his work ethic and his drive and passion for the game, I’m not surprised that he’s come back and also been successful.”

Then there was Ellison’s sneaky good deed at the end of a Week 4 home win over Washington. For the Giants’ final two snaps in victory formation, Ellison ran to the sideline on his own and waved backup lineman Nick Gates on in his place.

Why? The NFL’s performance-based pay distribution system pays players a bonus on top of their salaries on a per-snap basis. The lower a player’s salary, the higher the

per-snap amount.

Ellison had a $4.475 million base salary last season. Gates’ was only $495,000.

“It’s free money for those guys,” Ellison told the News.

“It means a lot more to them than it does to a vet like me.”

Gates, a second-year undrafted free agent, was extremely grateful.

“I told him I owe him something,” he said with a laugh.

Off the field, Ellison and his wife are active in their local community in north Jersey, particularly with Project Kind, an organization that provides aid to the homeless. And on Monday he promised they would continue their work.

“First and foremost, we’re just going to take our time,” Ellison said. “It’s going to be fun just getting more quality time with my family, with my extended family, and just getting to be at holidays for the first time in probably a decade. Just enjoying my family and friends and reflecting on everything. But the number one thing for us is service. How can we find ways to serve? So we’re going to take our time figuring that out.”

Ellison had one year remaining on the four-year free agent contract he signed with the Giants in 2017. The Giants save $5 million against their 2020 salary cap due to

Ellison’s retirement and incur a $2.1 million dead money charge.

Ellison played in 113 career regular season games and one playoff game. The Giants’ four remaining tight ends have played in 51 regular season games and zero playoff games combined: Evan Engram (34), Kaden Smith (nine), Garrett Dickerson (eight) and futures signee C.J. Conrad (zero).

Engram is dynamic when healthy. And the organization is very high on the 22-year-old Smith. But Ellison is a big loss, on the field and in the locker room.

Coronavirus fears beginning to impact the major sports leagues Helene Elliott Los Angeles Times

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New York Yankees starting pitcher J.A. Happ (33) fires a pitch against the Philadelphia Phillies during Monday’s spring training game at Spectrum Field.

J.A. Happ’s work this spring has been paying off Kristie Ackert New York Daily News

J.A. Happ has things in line.

The veteran lefty worked on keeping his body aligned properly during his delivery this year.

It has so far resulted in a very solid spring training. Happ gave up a home run — just the second run he has allowed in four starts this spring — Monday in another strong outing.

Happ struck out five in four innings and did not walk a batter. Over 13 innings this spring, Happ has allowed just those two runs, struck out 16 and walked one batter.

“I think you start with the crispness of the fastball, which was there (in 2019) a little more sporadic, and I think definitely returned to some degree late in the year,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. “That’s been there the whole (spring).

“I think he’s doing a better job with his secondary pitches. ... So I feel like his pitch mix is a little tightened up. But delivery wise and everything, he’s in a good spot.”

Happ, 37, spent all winter working at the Yankees complex all winter, trying to bounce back after a horrible 2019 in which he was stung by the home run. Part of that was keeping his body properly aligned during his

delivery to make better use of his bottom half.

It’s paying off.

Monday, Happ said he felt himself falling off line at time, but was able to quickly correct himself. He is pleased with the progress but knows that the real test is once the regular season starts.

“I don’t know if you know how to predict those type of things but it can certainly give us some confidence going into the season,” Happ said. “You try to flush it if it’s bad and take the positive it’s if it’s going well. But, you know, we do have two weeks to go so hopefully the progression continues, but overall I felt like I lost it at times today but was able to kind of rein back in my delivery. And, you know, rather quickly so that was good, making some adjustments.”

Maybe you can’t predict how it will carry into the season, but there might be an indicator. Last spring, Happ allowed six homers in 11.1 innings pitched.

Happ was stung by baseballs that were more lively in 2019 than any previous year. Happ pitched to a 4.91 ERA in 30 starts and one appearance out of the bullpen. He struck out 140.

Happ allowed a career-high 34 home runs in 161.1 innings pitched and across baseball,

hitters crushed a record-busting 6,776 homers.

“I think he was searching a little bit the first half. I think he was trying really hard to find it because he wasn’t quite where he wanted to be,” Boone said. “And again, I don’t think he was far off.

But I think it was a challenge for him kind of grinding through getting there, and I think late in the year he got there. And then I know he worked really hard in the winter to kind of find that. He came in having already thrown some ‘pens, and he’s really hit the ground running. He looks great.”

MLB commissioner Rob Manfred was scheduled to hold a conference call with all 30 team owners at 5 p.m. Monday. They would discuss their plans for dealing with the growing concern about the virus, which has forced the Japanese professional baseball league to postpone it’s season.

Happ said the union is working with the league on how to proceed.

“Everybody’s trying to work, on both ends, to come together to figure out the best way to go about this, it’s potentially scary,” Happ said. “But, you know, other than that, like doing due diligence to try to figure out the best way to go about it.”

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North America’s major sports leagues have crossed the next fearful frontier in fighting the incursion of the coronavirus.

A ban on gatherings of more than 1,000 people was issued by the Santa Clara County Public Health Department late Monday, leaving the NHL’s San Jose Sharks with the possibility of playing their next three home games in an empty SAP Center, playing at a neutral site or postponing those games until public health officials deem it safe for large crowds to assemble again.

The ban will take effect Wednesday and last three weeks, affecting the Sharks’ games March 19 against Montreal, March 21 against Boston and March 29 against Arizona. Arena officials said in a statement they will review each event scheduled at SAP Center and provide an update “in the coming days.”

Some college basketball and college hockey games have been or will be played in arenas without fans in an effort to keep players safe, but this is the first time a major professional sports team has been affected by extraordinary actions intended to minimize the spread of COVID-19. Sadly, it won’t be the last of measures that were considered unthinkable not so long ago.

Earlier on Monday, the NHL, NBA, Major League Baseball and Major League Soccer announced they will temporarily ban media from locker rooms before and after games and will limit locker-room access to essential personnel. Although the media corps is small compared with the number of fans in an arena or stadium, reporters and videographers often are within arm’s distance of players. Frequently, at the end of that arm is a germ-bearing cellphone that’s recording players’ comments from the distance of a foot or two.

The reasoning behind the ban is simple: These leagues can imagine the ugly magnitude of what could happen if merely one player were to test positive for COVID-19, and the intrusion of the media is one risk that’s easily diminished.

The disruption of a positive test in any league would be immense, resulting in quarantines of players — as well as those who are in close contact with them — and interruption of the season. If the player’s home arena is shared by NHL and NBA teams, as many are, the other league would feel the impact as well. It’s a nightmare no one wants to experience.

Every league must plan ahead and anticipate the worst, while hoping for the best. That’s the way we all have to think.

As of Monday afternoon, there were 133 confirmed coronavirus cases in California. On Saturday, signs were posted at the entrance to Chase Center in San Francisco to warn people to not enter the building if in the previous two weeks they had experienced fever, dry cough, aches and pains, nasal congestion, runny nose, sore throat or diarrhea or had traveled to any location subject to Level 1, 2, or 3 travel notices by the Centers from Disease Control, such as Iran, China, Italy, South Korea, Japan or Hong Kong.

When Stephen Curry was held out of Saturday’s game the Warriors, knowing speculation about his health would spiral out of control, posted a tweet that quoted team physician Robert Nied as saying Curry had been diagnosed with influenza A, or seasonal flu, by positive viral testing. The tweet added, “He has no specific risk factors for COVID-19.”

Until Monday’s announcement that locker rooms will close, the NHL and NBA had simply advised players to avoid close contact with fans such as high-fiving them or accepting pens to autograph items. A few NHL teams closed their locker rooms to the media after games and practices last week, but others had opted to leave their rooms open. The choice isn’t theirs to make anymore.

“After consultation with infectious disease and public health experts, and given the issues that can be associated with close contact in pre- and postgame settings, all team locker rooms and clubhouses will be open only to players and essential employees of teams and team facilities until further notice,” the leagues’ joint statement said. “Media access will be maintained in designated locations outside of the locker room and clubhouse setting. These temporary changes will be effective beginning with (Tuesday’s) games and practices.

“We will continue to closely monitor this situation and take any further steps necessary to maintain a safe and welcoming environment.”

The leagues’ announcement came a day after organizers of the prestigious BNP Paribas Open at Indian Wells announced the tournament would not be held as scheduled because the Riverside County Public Health Department had declared a public health emergency for the Coachella Valley following a confirmed case of coronavirus. Many players had arrived on site and were surprised by the news. On Monday, some practiced on sunny courts with no fans watching, an eerie sight at a place where the closeness of fans to the practice courts was an attraction.

Playing in front of empty stands, while drastic, still wouldn’t remove all the risks to baseball, basketball, hockey or soccer players because equipment managers, medical staff, security staff, stat crews and camera operators would have work in the building. The step after that is postponing or canceling games, which would be an annoying inconvenience for fans but potentially devastating for arena and stadium employees and those who work in restaurants and bars near arenas and stadiums.

Any venture out in public carries some risks, whether the destination is a grocery store or a game. We take risks without thinking, and we can minimize some of those risks. Drive sober.

Don’t text and drive. Now, add wash your hands frequently and stay home if you’re sick. Staples Center has installed hand sanitizing stations. Use them. And hope the people sitting next to you used them too. This is a strange new world we’re entering with no path to guide us.

Tread carefully.

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CATSKILL HOUSING AUTHORITY REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RFP) 2020 CYCLE PAINTING SERVICES DATE ISSUED: March 4, 2020 TYPE OF PROJECT: The Catskill Housing Authority (CHA) is seeking proposals from qualified individual(s)/firm(s) to provide Cycle Painting Services for 30 Public Housing Units and six (6) Kitchen LVT Flooring work. CONTACT PERSON: Timothy Mattice, Interim Executive Director, tmattice.catskillha@gmail.com SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 3:00pm Friday April 3, 2020 (CST) Single copies of the RFP package may be obtained, at no cost by: 1. Requesting via email to tmattice.catskillha@gmail.com 2. Copies may also be picked up in person at: Catskill Housing Authority, 32 Bornson Street Catskill NY 12414. SUBMISSION ADDRESS: Catskill Housing Authority Administrative Office Catskill Housing Authority 32 Bronson Street, Catskill, NY 12414 518-943-2900 The responsibility for submitting a response to this RFP at the Catskill Housing Authority on or before the stated time and date will be solely and strictly the responsibility of the respondent. The Authority is not liable for any costs incurred by the offeror prior to issuance of a contract. The offeror shall wholly absorb all costs incurred in the preparation and presentation of the proposal.

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Hubbell Inc. is currently accepting proposals for materials and subcontractors for work pertaining to the Big Pond Road Culvert Replacement Project in the Town of Hardenburgh, Ulster County, NY. MBE, WBE, and Section 3 firms are encouraged to respond and will be given first priority. Please call Laurissa Vanoni at 845-586-2707 or email LAURISSA.VANONI@HUBBELLS.COM for details.

LEGAL NOTICE 2019-2020 District Special Transportation Run The Catskill Central School District requests sealed bids for a 2019-2020 Out of District 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 Friday, March 13, 2020 at which time and place they will be publicly opened and read.

Specifications will be available on March 6, 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 LEGAL NOTICE AIMM Property Services, LLC Arts of Org. filed with Sec. Of State NY(SSNY) 10/07/2019.

Office Location: Greene County. SSNY is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: 3195 Sleepy Hollow Rd. Unit 2037, Athens NY 12015

Create Collective Hudson, LLC. Filed with SSNY on 1/28/2020.

Office: Columbia County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 52 Corporate Circle Ste 207 Albany NY 12203. LEGAL PUBLIC NOTICE Purpose: any lawful The Greene County Industrial Development HARUKI CONSUL- Agency will hold their TANTS LLC Articles of Regular Board Meeting Org. filed NY Sec. of on Thursday, March State (SSNY) 26, 2020 at 8:00 am, 03/09/2020. Office in followed by a Greene Columbia Co. SSNY Local Development desig. agent of LLC Corporation meeting if whom process may be needed. served. SSNY shall The location of this mail process to 20 Hill meeting will be at the N Dale Rd., German- Greene IDA office, town, NY 12526, which Training Room, in Coxis also the principal sackie, NY. Please business location. Pur- park in rear of building pose: Any lawful pur- and use back door. pose.

Respectfully Submitted: Rene VanSNotice of Formation of chaack, Executive DiLeam Mountain Prop- rector erties 1, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY NOTICE OF A PUBLIC on 12/23/19. Office lo- HEARING ON A SITE cation: Greene. SSNY PLAN REVIEW desg. as agent of LLC Public Notice is hereby upon whom process given that the Town of against it may be Durham Town Board served. SSNY mail will hold a Public Hearprocess to 1129 ing on a Site Plan ReNorthern Blvd., Man- view Application for hasset, NY, 11030. Stickler/Queen on the property located at Any lawful purpose.

CORNED BEEF & CABBAGE 442 FAIRVIEW AVE HUDSON SACRED HEART - OUR LADY MT CARMEL SHRINE TAKE-OUT LUNCH AND DINNER $12.00 EACH TUESDAY, MARCH 17TH PICKUPS NOON - 6PM ADVANCE TICKETS CALL 518-828-0342 DAY OF EVENT 518-828-8775

7842 Route 81, Oak Hill, NY. The hearing will be held at the Town Building in Oak Hill on Tuesday, March 17th, and will start at 7:30 P.M. All interested persons desiring to be heard will be heard at that time.

By order of the Town Board Janet Partridge, Town Clerk Notice of Formation of Bellamy Wood Studio LLC. Arts of Org. filed with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/10/20. Office location: Columbia County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: POB 77, N. Chatham, NY 12132.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of Current Cassis LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/30/19. Office location: Greene.

SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 391 Main St., Catskill, NY, 12414. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Leam Mountain Properties 2, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/23/19. Office location: Greene. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 1129 Northern Blvd., Manhasset, NY, 11030.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of SDWT, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/23/19. Office location: Greene. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 1129 Northern Blvd., Manhasset, NY, 11030.

Any lawful purpose.

Please Take Notice The Greenport Town Planning Board will be holding a Public Hearing on the Greylock Federal Credit Union for a Site Plan Review to establish a financial institution on a parcel located in the Widewaters Complex at 464 Fairview Avenue, Hudson, New York. (Tax Parcel #100-1-95).

Said public hearing will be held on Tuesday, March 24, 2020 at 7:35 p.m. in the Greenport Town Offices located at 600 Town Hall Drive, Hudson, NY. All interested persons will be given the opportunity to be heard.

By Order of the Greenport Planning Board Laurie Smith Secretary NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY FIRST: The name of the Limited Liability Company is

Grange Upstate, LLC (hereinafter referred to as the “Company�)

SECOND: The Articles of Organization of the Company were filed with the Secretary of State on February 5, 2020.

THIRD: The County within the State of New York in which the office of the Company is located is Greene. 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 P.O. Box 1328, Hudson, NY 12534.

FIFTH: The Company is organized for all lawful purposes, and to do any and all things necessary, convenient, or incidental to that purpose. Dated: February 28, 2020 FREEMAN HOWARD, P.C. 441 East Allen Street P.O. Box 1328 Hudson, New York 12534 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Village of Coxsackie will hold a Public Hearing on April 9, 2020 at 6:30 p.m. at the Village of Coxsackie Hall, 119 Mansion Street, Coxsackie, NY 12051 to present the Proposed Tentative Budget for 2020-2021.

PLEASE TAKE FURTHER NOTICE that at such Public Hearing any and all persons shall be heard.

Nikki Bereznak, Clerk Public Sale LLC a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 2/27/20.

Office location: Columbia County, NY. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. SSNY shall mail process to 90 Green St., Hudson, NY 12534. Purpose: Auction; General business purposes.

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF GREENE Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee, on behalf

of the holders of the J.P. Morgan Mortgage Acquisition Trust 2007CH3, Asset Backed Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2007CH3, Plaintiff AGAINST Debra Murphy; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated January 24, 2020 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Greene County Courthouse, 320 Main Street, Catskill, New York on April 8, 2020 at 9:00AM, premises known as 53 Elks Drive, Acra, NY 12405. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Cairo, County of Greene, State of NY, Section 82.00 Block 3 Lot 53. Approximate amount of judgment $155,865.12 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 18-0999. Monica Kenny-Keff, Esq., Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 430-4792 Dated: February 28, 2020 68505 Octagon House, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 1/8/2020. Cty: Columbia. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 1029 Country Rte.7A, Hillsdale, NY 12529. General Purpose.

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC) The name of the LLC is 648 RTE 203, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on October 3, 2019. New York office location: 238 Schoolhouse Road, Town of

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The City of Hudson is seeking Expressions of Interest in the adaptative reuse of the former Dunn Warehouse located on the corner of Broad and Water Streets adjacent to the Hudson Amtrak station. The warehouse is approximately 5,500 SF and is located in a prime waterfront location. The City has conducted extensive planning exploring the reuse of the site and has significant incentives to offer to the right partner/developer.

For a complete package of information, see cityofhudson.org/dunn

REFEREE'S NOTICE OF SALE IN FORECLOSURE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF GREENE BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., Plaintiff - against - ADRIAN D. DEVISSER, et al Defendant(s).

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered on January 3, 2020. I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the front vestibule, Greene County Courthouse, Main Street, Village of Catskill, Greene County, New York on the 1st day of April, 2020 at 12:30 p.m. All that certain lot, piece or parcel of land situate, lying and being in the Town of Cairo, County of Greene, State of New York.

Premises known as 970 Route 67, Leeds, (City of Leeds) NY 12451.

(Section: 85.00, Block: 4, Lot: 22 and 21) Approximate amount of lien $73,205.30 plus interest and costs.

Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed judgment and terms of sale.

Index No. 18-0401.

Jon Kosich, Esq., Referee.

Davidson Fink LLP Attorney(s) for Plaintiff 28 East Main Street, Suite 1700 Rochester, NY 146141990 Tel. 585/760-8218 For sale information, please visit Auction.com at www.Auction.com or call (800) 280-2832 Dated: February 7, 2020

Three Black Rabbits LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on 2/24/2020. Office location: Columbia County. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to 2681 PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF FORMA- Route 23, Hillsdale, NY TION OF A LIMITED 12529. Purpose: real LIABILITY COMPANY estate and general business purposes.

(LLC)

Sealed bids will be received as set forth in instructions to bidders until 10:30 A.M. on Thursday, April 09, 2020 at the NYSDOT, Contract Management Bureau, 50 Wolf Rd, 1st Floor, Suite 1CM, Albany, NY 12232 and will be publicly opened and read. Bids may also be submitted via the internet using www.bidx.com. A cer-

Ghent, County of Columbia and the State of New York. SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is: c/o 648 RTE 203, LLC, 238 Schoolhouse Road, Ghent, NY 12075. Purpose/Character of business: Any lawful business purpose permitted under the New York Limited Liability Company Law. This notification is made pursuant to Section 206 of the Limited Liability Company Law. PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC) The name of the LLC is Nutten Hook Living, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on January 15, 2020. New York office location: 578 Route 9J, Town of Stuyvesant, County of Columbia and the State of New York.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is: Nutten Hook Living, LLC; 578 Route 9J, Stuyvesant, New York 12173. Purpose/Character of business: Any lawful business purpose permitted under the New York Limited Liability Company Law. This notification is made pursuant to Section 206 of the Limited Liability Company Law.

The name of the LLC is Lentz Russell, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on February 4, 2020. New York office location: 44 Church Street, Village of Chatham, County of Columbia and the State of New York. SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is: Lentz Russell, LLC; 44 Church Street, Chatham, New York 12037. Purpose/Character of business: Any lawful business purpose permitted under the New York Limited Liability Company Law. This notification is made pursuant to Section 206 of the Limited Liability Company Law.

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Where will Tom Brady play next year?

Here are seven possible destinations John Clayton The Washington Post

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New England Patriots wide receiver Phillip Dorsett II (13) catches a touchdown pass against New York Jets cornerback Trumaine Johnson (22) during their Oct. 21, 2019 game at MetLife Stadium.

Jets inform cornerback Trumaine Johnson he is getting cut Manish Mehta New York Daily News

The Jets’ busy offseason ToDo list will include finding a true No. 1 cornerback.

The Daily News has learned Gang Green informed Trumaine Johnson he will be cut before free agency. The veteran cornerback’s $11 million salary for 2020 becomes fully guaranteed on the third day of the new league year (March 20). However, the Jets have conveyed to the player he will be gone before that happens, according to a team source.

A new Collective Bargaining Agreement would give the Jets flexibility to spread Johnson’s $12 million cap hit over 2020 and 2021. Players have until midnight Saturday to vote on the new proposal. If ratified, the Jets have the option to designate Johnson as a post-June 1 cut to lessen the cap charge in 2020. If the new CBA proposal is rejected by players — a simple majority is required to adopt it — then the Jets would carry a $12 million dead money charge in 2020. (The option for a post-June 1 cut doesn’t exist in the final year of the CBA).

Johnson disappointed after signing a blockbuster

five-year, $72.5 million deal two years ago. The veteran made $34 million in two seasons with the Jets after playing on the franchise tag for two consecutive years with the Rams. Johnson, 30, made an eye-opening $64.7 million over the past four seasons despite never having made the Pro Bowl in his eight-year career.

The Jets were cautiously optimistic last offseason that Johnson would get back on track with new defensive coordinator Gregg Williams, who got the best out of the cornerback when they were together with the Rams from 2014-16.

Johnson had career-highs in interceptions (seven) and passes defensed (17) in 2015.

“He understands me, I understand him,” Williams said last offseason. “It’s my job to help him be the best he can be.

He and I had some really good moments together.”

However, they couldn’t replicate those moments last season. Johnson was benched after the season opener due to ineffectiveness only to regain his starting job a couple weeks later. The News reported in September that people on One Jets Drive questioned Johnson’s dedication and desire.

“Of course I love football,” Johnson told the News at the time. “I’ve been doing it all my life. I’m passionate about it. It’s my life. It’s not a job to me. I love what I do.”

Johnson had five interceptions and seven pass breakups in just 17 games with the Jets.

He missed time in 2018 with a lingering quad injury before getting suspended for the season finale due to repeated tardiness and team violations.

He suffered a hamstring injury in training camp last year before ultimately being placed on season-ending Injured Reserve with a pair of ankle injuries.

The Jets will free up $3 million by cutting Johnson.

Gregg Williams found some semblance of success on the back end with a patchwork group of corners, but the organization will need to find at least one new starting piece this offseason. The Jets have expressed some level of interest in the perceived top corners in free agency (Byron Jones and James Bradberry). The draft is also a viable option.

Regardless, Johnson’s time with the Jets is over.

Tom Brady’s first taste of free agency has the potential to turn into a feast. On Monday, NFL teams can begin talking with Brady about a possible contract offer when the league’s legal tampering phase goes into effect at noon Eastern time.

Brady has been angling for this opportunity since he signed a contract extension in August that would give him the chance to test free agency this winter. As difficult as it is to believe, Brady, despite having spent his entire career with the New England Patriots and Coach Bill Belichick, could leave for another team. The odds still favor him staying in New England, where his run has included nine Super Bowl appearances and six championships, but everything will come down to that two-day legal tampering window.

Let’s take a look at eight possible outcomes and how each of them could play out: • Brady re-signs with the Patriots before free agency opens.

The Patriots will have to move more quickly than they have so far to make this happen, although they have been held back by not knowing the salary cap number, which is dependent upon whether the players’ union ratifies the new proposed collective bargaining agreement recently approved by the owners.

Additionally, the Patriots are already on the hook for $6.75 million against the salary cap this year because of Brady’s contract, and that will grow to $13.5 million if a new CBA isn’t in place. (If there is a new CBA, that second $6.75 million cap charge rolls over to next year.)

Players have until 11:59 p.m.

Saturday to vote, so we will know by then whether the deal goes into effect. At that point, the Patriots can be more realistic about what they can offer Brady.

• Brady tests free agency but re-signs with the Patriots.

If Brady isn’t re-signed

by New England before free agency opens at 4 p.m. March 18, the odds of him returning would drop below 50%. Not only would the team need to know whether he’ll be back or if it’ll need to pursue other quarterback options - it will be interesting to see if the Patriots talk with other QBs during the legal tampering period - but it would make things more difficult in terms of upgrading the offensive supporting cast around Brady, which presumably is high on his wish list if he is to return.

By March 17, Brady will know how much other teams are willing to pay. On the open market, Brady could get as much as $34 million per year on a short-term deal. He could bring a contract offer to the Patriots to see if they will match it or let him go.

• Brady signs with the Tennessee Titans.

Titans Coach Mike Vrabel is a former teammate and a friend.

Case in point: Brady and wide receiver Julian Edelman FaceTimed him from a Syracuse basketball game last weekend.

General Manager Jon Robinson also knows Brady from his time in New England.

Perhaps more importantly, the Titans have a playoff-ready roster, having advanced to last season’s AFC championship game after defeating the Patriots and then the Baltimore Ravens on the road in back-toback weeks. Quarterback Ryan Tannehill came off the bench midseason to lead that playoff run, but, like Brady, he is a free agent.

That combination of factors - including offensive playmakers such as running back Derrick Henry and wide receiver A.J. Brown - makes Tennessee the leading candidate outside of New England to land Brady.

• Brady signs with the Las Vegas Raiders.

Even though Raiders GM Mike Mayock said good things about Derek Carr during the scouting combine, you get the feeling the Raiders would

explore an upgrade at quarterback if the right opportunity came along.

From their time as television commentators, Mayock and Jon Gruden have talked to Brady before games more than almost any other front-office executive or coach. They know him. They’ve watched him practice. It’s easy to see why they would be intrigued by the idea of signing him.

Brady probably would know that Mayock and Gruden would be aggressive in adding talent around him, particularly on an offense that already has rising stars in running back Josh Jacobs and tight end Darren Waller. But would Las Vegas have enough on defense, particularly in a division with Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs?

• Brady signs with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

This one is intriguing. Coach Bruce Arians didn’t hide the fact that he’s interested in Brady when asked about free agent quarterbacks at the combine, and he has plenty to pitch to Brady. Mike Evans and Chris Godwin are the best wide receiver duo in the NFL, O.J. Howard is a talented tight end, and coordinator Todd Bowles has improved the defense.

With Jameis Winston a free agent, the Bucs could make a run at Brady, or they could opt for Teddy Bridgewater or Philip Rivers.

• Brady signs with the Los Angeles Chargers.

At the beginning of the offseason, the Chargers looked like the leading team for Brady. The Chargers are moving into a new stadium, and Brady could help sell tickets. The draw of playing in L.A. could help the team’s sales pitch.

But the latest rumblings are that the Chargers’ preference is to draft a quarterback with the sixth pick - possibly Oregon’s Justin Herbert - and let Tyrod Taylor run the offense until the rookie is ready. We’ll see if they end up talking to Brady.

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Matt Doherty knows why Roy Williams’ UNC Tar Heels are so bad this year Scott Fowler The News & Observer

If there is anyone who understands what it feels like to coach a losing North Carolina basketball team, it’s Matt Doherty.

“Listen, I can relate to this,” Doherty said when we spoke Saturday by phone. “I was 8-20 as a head coach there — the worst record in the history of Carolina.”

Doherty was talking about the 2001-02 season, when his second Tar Heel team had a similar year to the one UNC is now having.

The current Tar Heels were picked to finish second in the conference in the ACC media’s preseason poll. Instead, UNC enters this week’s ACC tournament with a 13-18 overall record and seeded dead last — 14th out of the 14 participating teams.

The Tar Heels play No. 11 seed Virginia Tech at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Greensboro in a firstround ACC tourney game. Their only chance at making the NCAA tournament: Win five games in five days.

Doherty, 58, lives in Mooresville, about a 30-minute drive north of Charlotte. He speaks frequently about leadership to corporations, occasionally serves as a TV analyst for the ACC Network and has a couple of regular local radio gigs in Charlotte. While no longer a college basketball coach, he is the father of two college athletes — a son on the Bellarmine lacrosse team in Louisville, Ky., and a daughter who attends UNC and competes on the rowing team.

Doherty started for UNC’s 1982 national championship basketball team alongside Michael Jordan and coached the Tar Heels from 2000-03, taking the job after Roy Williams, then at Kansas, initially turned it down. Doherty resigned under pressure at UNC after going 19-16 in his third season. But the freshmen he recruited to that squad (Raymond Felton, Sean May, Rashad McCants) were the core of UNC’s 2005 national championship team under Williams, who accepted the job the second time around and has been the Tar Heels’ head coach since.

Here are excerpts from our interview, when Doherty talked about everything from Williams’ “least gifted” comment this season to the opponent that used to make him most nervous when he was UNC’s head coach. I’ve lightly edited Doherty’s comments for clarity

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North Carolina Tar Heels head coach Roy Williams reacts in the first half at Dean E. Smith Center.

and brevity.

Q: How did UNC wind up last this season in the ACC? Doherty: First of all, injuries have played a factor ... And they rely heavily on some inexperienced players. Cole Anthony at the point — as good as he is, he’s still inexperienced, and even when he’s healthy, he’s played very average at times ... Christian Keeling is just now coming into the player they thought he could be. ... Justin Pierce is not a normal-level talent for a UNC rotation player.

I also think sometimes the half-court offense gets a little jammed up ... Everybody is playing four out (players on the offensive perimeter) and one in now. But Coach (Williams) has his style and has won national championships with it. For Cole, whose biggest strength is driving the ball, you’ve got two bigs in there (Garrison Brooks and Armando Bacot) and it’s sort of jammed up. When Pierce is in there instead of Bacot and floats to the three-point line, the spacing is better.

Q: You worked under Coach Williams for

COLLEGE BASKETBALL: Do conference tournaments matter?

Mark Bradley The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Then we check the Mountain West, which staged its final Saturday.

Had Utah State finished 259 instead of 26-8, it might have missed the Big Dance.

But Sam Merrill, among the better players in the land, hit a nerveless 23-footer over San Diego State’s KJ Feagin with 2.5 seconds left in the title game, and now there’s no question.

Utah State is an automatic qualifier, which means the bracket has shrunk for N.C. State and its ilk. San Diego State will also make it, though maybe not as a No. 1 seed, which might be a better deal. Owing to this season’s westward lean, at least three of the top seeds could hail from the far side of the Mississippi. That would have meant uprooting Gonzaga or San Diego State and making it No. 1 in the East. As is, both Zags and Aztecs could start in Spokane/Sacramento and stay west for the Anaheim regional. Sometimes geography trumps seeding.

The beneficiary of San Diego State’s loss stands to be Dayton, which this space has been hyping since New Year’s. The Flyers rolled through the Atlantic 10 unbeaten. They’ve won 20 games in succession. They haven’t lost since Dec. 21.

They haven’t lost in regulation this season. They haven’t had a truly close game in almost a month, and that’s not always a good thing. A conference tournament loss can refocus a team for the tournament that matters. Then again, the Flyers might be too strong to lose to anybody anywhere.

Regarding other conference convocations: ACC: Nobody who works in any other league would believe it’s possible

to remain underrated in the conference that trumpets itself to the heavens.

But consider Florida State, which finished first over the ACC regular season and was clearly the class of the Tiffany League. No Seminole made first-team all-conference, though two Duke players did; 18-loss Carolina had as many players on the three all-league teams as did 26-win FSU. To be fair, Leonard Hamilton was voted coach of the year, not that there was any real competition. Factoid: The Ham, as he was dubbed in his younger days as a Kentucky assistant, is fifth among ACC coaches in victories.

The top four — Krzyzewski, D. Smith, R. Williams, G. Williams — are in the Naismith Hall of Fame. FSU doesn’t really need to prevail in Greensboro, but it’s feisty enough to do it anyway.

SEC: Georgia finished its flop of a regular season by losing at home to Florida by 14 and by 30 in Baton Rouge. This wouldn’t seem to presage an extended stay in Nashville. The Bulldogs will open against Ole Miss, to which they lost by 10 in Oxford. If they survive, they’ll face No. 5 Florida, which would have been the No. 2 seed had it not blown an 18-point lead against Kentucky. Then would come No. 4 Mississippi State, which must win twice this week to have any NCAA hope. Then, in the semis, would surely come the Big Blue. It’s possible Anthony Edwards will turn Bridgestone Arena into his personal playground; it’s more likely he’ll be free to prep for the NBA draft by sundown Thursday.

Big Ten: The conference has 14 members. (So much for truth in labeling.) Ten are projected to make the NCAA tournament. Even

Purdue, which is 16-15, is No. 33 in the NCAA’s NET rankings. So now we ask: Is this the greatest conference ever? The answer: probably not. Only two Big Tenners have fewer than 10 losses.

Maryland is 24-7 but enters the league tournament having lost three of five. The only potential national champ apt to emerge from this conference is same team that topped the Associated Press preseason poll. Michigan State wobbled all over creation, even falling from the Top 25 in February, but it closed the way Tom Izzo’s teams invariably do. It won its final five games to tie for first in the league standings.

It should prevail in Indianapolis.

Big 12: Baylor is still projected as an NCAA No. 1 seed, but the Bears lost three of their final five and needed overtime to shade Texas Tech in Waco. A loss in Kansas City this week could mean a slippage to No. 2 come Sunday night.

Kansas has established itself as the overall No. 1, which doesn’t mean that the Jayhawks will win it all.

(They’re great at not winning it all.) But they haven’t lost since Jan. 11, and they look to be the nation’s best team by some distance.

Pac-12: Had UCLA beaten USC on Saturday, the Bruins would have tied Oregon at the top of the league. These are the same Bruins who went 7-6 in nonconference play and were 12-11 on Feb. 6. This is the same Pac-12 that managed three NCAA berths, the best of those a No. 9 seed, last year. Now this conference could send seven to the Dance, though UCLA could go either way. The Bruins are 76th in NET, four spots behind Georgia Tech. They need to win the tournament in Las Vegas to be sure. They probably won’t.

seven years at Kansas as an assistant. What did you make of your former boss’s comment midway through the season that this was the “least gifted” UNC team he has ever coached?

Doherty: That’s where the frustration came out. I think if he had to do it again, he probably wouldn’t say it. As much as he loves Dean Smith, Coach Smith would never have said that ... As a player, as a parent, that’s an “Ouch.”

Q: UNC went 6-14 in conference play, but has gone 3-1 over its past four ACC games.

What would it take for the Tar Heels to make a run in this tournament?

Doherty: Cole Anthony has to continue to take care of the basketball. His assist/turnover ratio needs to be good. They need to have consistent outside shooting to open up the floor for Garrison Brooks, who is really good. They actually can beat anybody in the ACC tournament — I know I wouldn’t want to be playing them in the first or second round.

An official calls a technical foul on UNC coach Matt Doherty in 2001. Doherty says now he didn’t know himself well enough when he

was the Tar Heels’ head coach.

Q: You have often noted that confidence is a delicate thing for players or coaches. When were you most jittery before a game?

Doherty: I joke about that. People say you must be really nervous before a Duke game, and I say, ‘No, not really. I’m really nervous before the Clemson game at home.’ (Editor’s note: One of the few streaks left intact after Doherty’s three-year tenure was UNC’s undefeated home record against Clemson — the Tigers finally ended that streak in Chapel Hill this season.)

Q: Where did you think UNC would finish in the ACC before the season began?

Doherty: I didn’t make a pick. But I did see them practice in November and I didn’t think they were that talented. Then again, the league is not that talented. The good thing is that help is on the way — they have some really good players coming in. But that doesn’t matter for these players or these coaches at this time. It’s been a tough year.

Q: In the 2001-02 season, when you coached that 8-20 UNC team, I’d say the cupboard you had inherited by that point was pretty bare.

For instance, you were starting Adam Boone at point guard. How would you rank that team’s talent compared to this one?

Doherty: There’s not much comparison.

Cole Anthony is a lottery pick.

Q: When you do these leadership talks to corporations, what do you tell them you wish you had done differently as UNC’s head coach?

Doherty: I didn’t really know myself then. I knew I was intense and driven and all that stuff, but I thought everyone could be like that. ... It turns out, 98% of people don’t think like me.

That’s where Coach Smith was so great — treating everyone fairly, but not treating everyone the same.

I also did not manage change properly. Your reputation is going to be made in the first 90 days on the job, and you get defaulted to your first impression. The day after the press conference, I went to go see Carmelo Anthony (Doherty was trying to recruit him; Anthony ended up going to Syracuse). Looking back, I should have stuck around. Talked to the secretaries. Talked to the staff. Managed change better.

FSU hoops enjoying view from ACC mountaintop Gene Frenette The Florida Times-Union

As Leonard Hamilton stepped down from the ladder Saturday at the Donald L. Tucker Center, wearing a basketball net like a necklace over his suit, nobody looked at that visual of the Florida State basketball coach with more satisfaction than Trent Forrest.

Not that this represented the end of his grueling four-year journey at FSU, but winning the regular-season ACC championship was a historic milestone that Forrest, a senior point guard, intended to savor.

“I definitely enjoyed that,” Forrest said in a Monday phone interview. “In the recruiting process, that’s what coach Ham preached to me, that our class could come in and compete for that.”

Hamilton’s ambitious sales pitch didn’t necessarily mesh at the time with reality. The Seminoles never had a winning ACC record the previous four seasons before Forrest’s arrival, nor did they make the NCAA Tournament.

And with Forrest being the lone holdover from a stellar recruiting class – Jonathan Isaac and Mfiondu Kabengele left early for the NBA, C.J. Walker transferred to Ohio State and P.J. Savoy used up his eligibility – the makeup of FSU’s roster in preseason didn’t suggest this was a team about to make a monumental breakthrough.

Do you have any idea how hard it is for any hoops program outside of Tobacco Road to win an outright ACC regular-season championship? The Seminoles became only the third school to do it in the last 20 years, joining Miami in 2013 and Maryland in 2002.

“The media has coined this phrase that (elite teams with rich history) are bluebloods,” Hamilton said after Saturday’s ACC-clinching 80-62 win over Boston College. “We’ve coined our own phrase. We’re newbloods.”

It’s a refreshing story, and one vastly underrated by the

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Florida State Seminoles head coach Leonard Hamilton during a recent game at Littlejohn Coliseum.

national media. There’s a preconceived notion that ACC titles are the exclusive property of Duke and North Carolina, with Virginia as their primary antagonist.

But if you look at what’s transpired the last four years, with FSU going 50-24 in ACC play, the Seminoles have elevated into the league’s upper crust. They just haven’t gotten a whole lot of credit for making that push.

FSU can’t be ignored now. It has reached the Elite Eight and Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament the past two years, and the Seminoles’ No. 4 ranking in the latest AP poll makes it harder to keep Hamilton’s team out of the conversation as a Final Four contender.

“We’re proud of the ACC championship, that was one of our goals, but we still feel like we have more to do,” Forrest said. “We definitely enjoyed it on Saturday because it’s never been done, and we were able to make history, but we’re over it already.

“We want to get to the (NCAA) tournament and go to the Final Four. We’ve been so close the last few years, so the story for us now is getting to the Final Four.”

If that actually transpired, Hamilton would go down as one of the most unlikely success stories in college basketball’s modern era. For the first

six years of his 18-year FSU tenure, the ‘Noles were 37-59 in the ACC and only once finished better than seventh, also the program’s same sorry state in the previous decade.

But instead of firing Hamilton, which many FSU fans thought would be an inevitable consequence, former athletic directors Dave Hart and Randy Spetman stood by him. The ‘Noles responded with four consecutive top-four ACC finishes, then won the league tournament crown in 2012.

Hamilton, 71, endured more criticism the next four years when FSU failed to reach the NCAAs, but his teams have followed with the greatest fouryear stretch in school history.

FSU’s winning percentage of .753 (104-34) since Forrest’s freshman season is fifth-best among Power 5 schools, behind only Virginia (.823), Kansas (.815), Duke (.794) and Kentucky (.790).

At this point, it’s hard to imagine FSU not letting Hamilton coach deep into his 70s, just like ACC colleagues Jim Boeheim (75) and Mike Krzyzewski (73) are doing at Syracuse and Duke, respectively.

In the meantime, as ACC champions, the Seminoles deserve to enjoy the view from the mountaintop. It’s been a long time coming.

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Man gets angry when wife resists catering to his libido but the price seems exorbitant to me.

Dear Abby, I have been married for 30 years. I still work full time, and my husband is now retired. We have had issues during most of our marriage, mainly concerning his not getting enough sex.

A couple of times a week isn’t sufficient.

In the past, he looked at porn DEAR ABBY a lot. He likes to take pictures of me that he stores on his phone, wants me to wear seductive clothing when we go out and demands that I send him naked pictures of myself from work.

It makes me very uncomfortable, but he gets angry when I don’t play his game.

He tells me often that I am no fun. When he gets angry, he says I am not sexy enough, too fat, not smart enough, etc. Yes, we have gone to marriage counseling in the past, and I have gone to counseling alone.

I’ve tried to learn to cope with living with him because I really don’t want to divorce and destroy our family unit. We have three grown children.

I would like to retire soon, but now I wonder if he expects me to be his entertainment once I do.

He has no hobbies. Do you have any advice?

Plaything In Texas

Dear Abby, I have a very close friend, “Sandy.” Sandy and I talk about everything. She suffers from bi-polar disorder, which, for the most part, is controlled. A few months ago, she volunteered to start babysitting my child, one evening a week for a few hours. Sandy has never had the first complaint about my child or her behavior. Recently, she came over for a visit and unloaded on me. She said she finds my child annoying, that my child has a problem listening and constantly interrupts and complains. I was completely taken aback. Abby, I have never received complaints about my child’s behavior, and over the course of the months, Sandy never indicated that something was wrong.

I have been a great friend to her, always welcoming her in my home and helping however I can. I am hurt and angry. I’m no longer sure I want to remain close to her because of this. Is this characteristic of bi-polar disorder? How do I express my feelings to her without risking having her fly off the handle? Please help!

Harsh Words In The South

I am amazed you were willing to tolerate your husband’s criticism and abuse for the length of time you have. Not once in your letter did you mention a single positive trait in the man.

My first tidbit of advice is this: Go back to counseling! If you actually plan to live out your life this way, you will need every ounce of support you can pay for. My second tidbit would be to talk to a lawyer. You may want to keep the family unit intact,

Not having met your child, I am not going to weigh in on whether what Sandy said was a slight.

She may have been conveying something she thought you needed to know.

That said, because Sandy finds your child annoying, she should no longer babysit for you.

I hope you won’t take what Sandy told you as an insult worthy of ending a longtime friendship over, particularly knowing the woman has mood swings

JEANNE PHILLIPS

Nocturnal hypertension is experienced by some ‘nondippers’ I’m the only person in the history of mankind whose blood pressure goes up when I sleep.

There seems to be no cause. In addition, I’m resistant to medication; I’ve tried 21 different kinds. All give me terrible side effects and don’t bring my blood pressure down.

The only one that works is clonidine. The side effects are TO YOUR terrible — sleepiness and no GOOD HEALTH motivation — but at least I can deal with that.

Recently clonidine stopped working, and I went from 0.1 mg per day up to 0.4 mg per day in a matter of six weeks after being on it for two to three years. A month ago, I was put on a 0.4 mg weekly patch. This has been much better, as it’s removed about 50% of the sleepiness.

I’m 69 and a nationally ranked senior singles tennis player. I have a good diet and am in good shape. My blood pressure usually spikes between 1:30 to 3:30 at night. It even goes up when I take a 40-minute nap. I’ve been tested for everything: heart, renal artery, carotid artery, kidney, tumors, etc. I sure would like to know the cause of these spikes when my body is completely relaxed and experiencing no emotional triggers. Have you or any of your associates ever heard of such a thing?

DR. KEITH ROACH

The blood pressure normally goes down 10% to 15% on average when a person is asleep, a phenomenon called “dipping.” This is found by measuring someone’s blood pressure very frequently over 24 hours with a blood pressure monitor.

There are people who do not dip, called appropriately enough, “nondippers.” Some people (you

are NOT the only one) experience a blood pressure increase at night, called nocturnal hypertension. There have been studies showing worse outcomes, including a higher risk for heart disease and stroke, in both nondippers and those with nocturnal hypertension.

It is not always clear what is causing people to have this condition. Kidney disease and previous heart problems are associated with dipping. That’s why you were tested for those, along with some others. The recent dramatic increase in blood pressure medication need is concerning, and a comprehensive look for any unusual causes was certainly indicated.

Treatment for nondippers often includes giving blood pressure medication at nighttime. This is not available for you, since a clonidine patch gives medication at a continuous level. Melatonin has also been tried to alleviate nondipping, although there has not been any clear benefit to this approach yet proven.

Clonidine works at the level of the brainstem, so it is ideal for blood pressure that is mediated by brain issues. One potential cause for which you have not mentioned being checked is obstructive sleep apnea, where people stop breathing at night for a few seconds (or even longer). Sleep apnea often causes difficult-to-manage high blood pressure, and may cause nocturnal hypertension or nondipping. The most effective drug is often clonidine. If you have not had an evaluation for OSA, your physicians should consider it. Sleepiness during the day is a cardinal symptom of obstructive sleep apnea.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — Repetition is likely to be frustrating to you at first — until you realize that you’re getting invaluable experience that will pay off handsomely.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — When you have trouble telling truth from fiction, you can go to a certain someone and he or she will straighten you out almost immediately.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — You and a friend

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By Stella Wilder Born today, you are the kind of person to attract a great deal of attention whether you like it or not — but as you mature, you’re sure to learn how to use that attention to your advantage, and to cultivate it so that it is always yours when you want it. This doesn’t mean that you’ll completely abandon the more private self that is likely to dominate your youth; on the contrary, you will always cherish your privacy and insist on having a safe place — with a few safe people — that you can go to escape the kind of clamor you usually attract.

Among all those people who are pulled into your orbit throughout your lifetime, there are sure to be those who form a romantic attachment to you — or would like to.

Also born on this date are: Terrence Howard, actor; Lawrence Welk, bandleader and TV personality; Rupert Murdoch, media mogul; Bobby McFerrin, vocalist; Sam Donaldson, journalist; Lisa Loeb, singer.

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

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Family Circus

are not seeing eye to eye on a certain key issue — but it needn’t be cause for trouble. Explore each other’s points of view!

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You’re eager to see someone else succeed today, but you’re certainly not willing to come in second place. This is a tricky situation, surely.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — You have news to tell today, and the best way to tell it is simply, quickly and honestly. You’ll likely get the reaction you’re after.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — If you want it and it’s available, you can have it today — even though the cost may be higher than expected. This is not a real problem.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — It’s a good day to put a new strategy into place — but you don’t want to leave it at that, surely. Try it out, see where it can be improved.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You have much more to offer others today than that for which you have been sought out. Feel free to share all you can of yourself in new ways.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — News comes to you today through back channels, and you’ll have to react swiftly if you’re going to take advantage of a short-lived trend.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Someone may be trying to take your place in some way, but today you’ll make it clear very quickly that you’re not going to budge.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Your creative juices are flowing today, and you’ll be able to make something of nothing in more than one instance. A new job may be yours.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — You’re eager to find out what your destiny really is — or if the one you thought was yours has changed. This will require some careful studying.

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SUPER QUIZ

THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME

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

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One-word film titles: women Level 1

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Name the actress who starred in both one-word-title films. Initials are provided. (e.g., “Arbitrage” & “Twilight” (S.S.). Answer: Susan Sarandon.)

Freshman level 1. “Judy” & “Chicago” (R.Z.) 2. “Maleficent” & “Alexander” (A.J.) 3. “Genius” & “Destroyer” (N.K.) Graduate level 4. “Gravity” & “Crash” (S.B.) 5. “Catwoman” & “Boomerang” (H.B.) 6. “Amelia” & “Insomnia” (H.S.) PH.D. level 7. “Closer” & “Wonder” (J.R.) 8. “Heights” & “Hamlet” (G.C.) 9. “Rage” & “Iris” (J.D.)

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

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Ans. here:

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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Solution to Tuesday’s puzzle

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

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SUPER QUIZ ANSWERS 1. Renee Zellweger. 2. Angelina Jolie. 3. Nicole Kidman. 4. Sandra Bullock.

5. Halle Berry. 6. Hilary Swank. 7. Julia Roberts. 8. Glenn Close. 9. Judi Dench.

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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Hi & Lois

Crossword Puzzle Mother Goose & Grimm ACROSS 1 Insincerely smooth 5 Swiss skier’s milieu 9 Cellphone problem 13 Appointed 15 Fisherman’s need 16 Finish third 17 More than sufficient 18 Surgery 20 Undersized 21 TV’s “__ and Stacey” 23 Make __; beg pardon 24 Cacophony 26 Anguish 27 Prickly shrubs 29 All __; klutzy 32 State-run game 33 Clip wool 35 “__ a Small World” 37 Ice __; cold periods 38 Sheep’s cry 39 “Fiddlesticks!”

40 Hot dog holder 41 Smooth & shiny 42 Terra-__; orangish clay 43 Engraved 45 One of Santa’s reindeer 46 __ Angeles 47 Mountaineer’s safeguards 48 Finds appalling 51 Name for a candy bar 52 Little child 55 Gorgeous 58 Ruth’s motherin-law 60 Come to shore 61 Boxer’s target 62 Pyle or Kovacs 63 On pins and needles 64 __ up; prepare 65 New York team DOWN 1 Chew like a beaver 2 Cripple

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3 Not a bit sorry 4 TV’s “The Fresh Prince of __-Air” 5 Dwelling 6 Drink like Rover 7 Lemon meringue __ 8 Panama 9 Respect highly 10 Goatee’s place 11 Parka feature 12 Possesses 14 Actor Robert __ 19 Parisian love 22 Curvy mountain road 25 Cheerios ingredients 27 Spill the beans 28 Scoundrel 29 Good wood for ships 30 One’s special gem 31 Virginia, for one 33 Winter toy 34 TV’s “__ Haw” 36 Guide for the Magi 38 Consecrating 39 Rx label info

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Tuesday’s Puzzle Solved

Non Sequitur

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41 __-tempered; irritable 42 Gangster known as “Scarface” 44 Weather forecast 45 Adams or Johnson 47 Measuring stick 48 Isn’t __ to; can’t 49 Rosary piece

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50 __ around; stay for awhile 53 Leave out 54 __ up; evens the score 56 Enemy 57 3rd most populous nation: abbr.

59 Phonograph part

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