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ALBANY — Albany Medical Center could run out of testing kits for COVID-19 in the next few days, health officials said Wednesday.

Representatives from the hospital said they have a 2-to3-day supply of testing kits remaining, in a media briefing Friday afternoon at Albany Medical Center.

“Our current supply is meeting our current need,” Columbia Memorial Health

spokesman William Van Slyke said Wednesday afternoon.

“However, any increase in demand could become problematic if additional supplies are not made available.”

Officials discussed testing priorities in the event that no more kits become available in the next few days.

“If we get to the point where there is an absolute shortage of the testing kits, we are going to take direction from the county. We are going to prioritize those kits for the people

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orders and delivery. The regional order excludes essential businesses like grocery stores, gas stations, banks, pharmacies and hospitals.

Officials did not release the state’s updated number of fatalities Wednesday.

Sixteen New Yorkers have died of the virus as of Wednesday afternoon since the state’s first COVID-19-related death Saturday, according to Johns Hopkins University & Medicine’s COVID-19 live global tracker. At least seven of state deaths were senior citizens with underlying conditions and took place in downstate or New York City hospitals, Department of Health Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker said Monday.

The state had 2,382 positive cases of COVID-19 as of Wednesday afternoon with 549 people, or about 23% of cases, in the hospital — up 19% from Tuesday.

Since the state’s first confirmed case March 1, 108 people have recovered and been discharged from the hospital.

“You do build up an immunity to COVID-19,” Zucker said, adding anyone who has recovered from the illness is considered “out of the woods” to become reinfected a second time.

To date, the virus has been detected in 33 counties and New York City. New York City has 1,339 cases; Westchester County, 538; Nassau County, 183; Suffolk County, 116; Albany County, 41; Rockland County, 30; Dutchess County,

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced President Donald Trump is dispatching USNA Comfort Hospital ship to New York and an executive order restricting no more than 50% of statewide workforce to leave home in a COVID-19 briefing Wednesday in the state Capitol.

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The federal government dispatched the USNS Comfort hospital ship, which has about 1,000 rooms aboard, to the state Wednesday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said during a coronavirus COVID-19 press briefing in the state Capitol. The ship will be docked in the New York Harbor.

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Bear Mountain Bridge. The state Thruway Authority, established in 1954, oversees the 570-mile superhighway, with 814 bridges, 118 interchanges, 11 toll barriers and 27 service areas, according to thruway.ny.gov.

Both the Bridge Authority and Thruway Authority are in the process of converting to cashless tolling.

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who are in-patients and the most at-risk populations,” said Dr. Dennis McKenna, incoming president and CEO of Albany Medical Center.

The low supply of testing kits is being caused by problems in the supply chain, officials said.

“We are constrained, if anything, by our outside resources, not by our internal resources,” said Dr. Fred Venditti, executive vice president

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The Thruway toll plaza at Exit 21B in Coxsackie at sunrise. The Greene County Legislature drafted letters opposing the proposed consolidation of the state Bridge Authority and Thruway Authority.

To leverage their expertise, increase coordination and operate more

efficiently, the proposed 2020-21 state budget merges the Bridge Authority

into the Thruway Authority, according to governor.ny.gov.

With the exception of Legislator Harry Lennon, D-Cairo, who recused himself from the vote, the resolution opposing the governor’s proposed merger received unanimous support.

“There is the potential for neglect on the Bridge Authority,” Legislator Jack Keller, R-Catskill, said. “That bridge [Rip Van Winkle] is the lifeline between Columbia and Greene counties.”

The Bridge Authority has been selfsufficient over the past 88 years, not relying on tax dollars and never running a deficit, according to the resolution.

“The implementation of the governor’s plan would end the state Bridge Authority’s lockbox, opening the door to diversion of funds that currently support its $50 million plus annual expenditures to the statewide Thruway system,” according to the resolution.

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Public health experts worry about spread of COVID-19 misinformation

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U.S. President Donald Trump, joined by members of the Coronavirus Task Force, speaks about the coronavirus in the press briefing room at the White House on March 16, 2020 in Washington, DC.

John Lednicky, a virologist with the University of Florida’s Department of Environmental & Global Health, is worried about the harmful information being put out that is masquerading as legitimate advice from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or other agencies.

“I think the government has been putting out useful and correct information,” said Lednicky. “The problem is that there are bad actors out there who are putting out misinformation, and sometimes people think the information is coming from the government but it’s not.”

Ineffective strategiesA lack of credible, easy-to-access information for individuals has led to some pursuing unorthodox approaches to health care that can be harmful. Stores have been selling out of hand sanitizers that do not meet the CDC’s guidelines and may not be effective, and bad actors have been hawking homeopathic products that could harm unwitting individuals.

Numerous reports have found that individuals have attempted to make their own hand sanitizers with vodka, which experts have warned is unsafe. Vodka does not have a high enough alcohol percentage to be effective. Last week, the top Food and Drug Administration official was unfamiliar with these reports.

Rep. Barbara Lee grilled FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn during a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing about homemade hand sanitizers.

She described a homemade sanitizer recipe she found online and asked about its

efficacy.

“What do we tell our constituents? Do you believe this recipe I laid out serves us well?

Should that be posted as an alternative until our supply is there?” said Lee. “Your question is a good one,” said Hahn. “I don’t know that recipe, and I don’t want to give the American people false information about recipes.”

“Somehow you have got to get the word out to people what to do in lieu of this if in fact it’s not available,” said Lee, holding a bottle of hand sanitizer.

The FDA and CDC did not return requests for comment.

Lednicky has received phone calls asking for advice on homeopathic remedies ranging from sleeping next to a potato to drinking deer placenta — both of which have no medical value and can be dangerous. He has also advised multiple people not to use bleach for gargling or handwashing.

He says it is “unbelievable what people are willing to believe.”

Earlier this month, the Federal Trade Commission and FDA took some steps to crack down on products like teas and essential oils that companies were peddling as cures for COVID-19.

The FTC and FDA issued warning letters that said these products did not have evidence to back their claims. They noted there are not vaccines or other drugs available to treat or prevent the virus.

CDC recommends disinfecting oft-used surfaces, frequent hand-washing, and the use of hand sanitizers when hand-washing is not an option.

Hand-washing is preferred, according to experts, because it loosens and removes dirt, viruses and bacteria. Hand sanitizers with at least 60% alcohol can only kill, but not remove, bacteria and viruses.

Experts are not worried that the overuse of hand sanitizer will have the effect of creating so-called “super bugs,” unlike with the overuse of antibiotics.

Bacteria can develop resistance to antibiotics over time, but since hand sanitizers are alcohol-based, viruses and bacteria will not similarly develop a resistance because of their use. Hand sanitizers do not kill Clostridium difficile, bacteria that are responsible for diarrhea, but are otherwise effective.

Alison Buttenheim, a public health researcher and behavioral epidemiologist at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Nursing, is worried about conflicting messaging from the administration. And she said local and state officials need to be offering scientifically valid information.

“It may be well that we’re worried about what people are saying at the federal level, but that might not be where people are watching,” said Buttenheim.

(Emily Kopp contributed to this report.) (c)2020 CQ-Roll Call, Inc., All Rights Reserved Visit CQ Roll Call at www.rollcall. com Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

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WASHINGTON — Public health experts worry that the spread of COVID-19 could be exacerbated by misinformation, and some say federal agencies should do more to stamp out misconceptions.

Experts worry that false or even dangerous information about what can protect individuals during the pandemic is being disseminated at an alarming rate. Last month, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned about the potential onslaught of fake information related to the new coronavirus-based illness known as COVID-19.

“We’re not just fighting an epidemic; we’re fighting an infodemic,” he said. “We call on all governments, companies and news organizations to work with us to sound the appropriate level of alarm, without fanning the flames of hysteria.”

Tech companies like Apple and Google have taken steps to censor COVID-19-themed apps not run by health organizations or government agencies, and some state attorneys general have put out warnings about false COVID-19 claims regarding cures, but experts are looking for more action to prevent individuals from being duped.

“People are asking what they can do and are not getting much advice from the government,” said Durland Fish, emeritus professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health, who is concerned about the lack of information on what individuals can do to prevent contracting COVID-19.

Fish recommends good practices such as not handling money, carrying a personal pen for signing receipts, using a nondominant hand to open doors, avoiding handrails and using a knuckle to press elevator buttons.

Carolyn Cannuscio, director of research at the Center for Public Health Initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania, said people need to prioritize limiting face-to-face interactions.

“The key message to get across is that people should engage in social distancing now.

Stay home, unless you have an urgent need to leave for medical or caregiving reasons or to provide an essential service,” said Cannuscio. “This will protect you, your community and the health care system. Do your part, and do it now.”

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U.S. jobless claims are poised for historic surge Reade Pickert Bloomberg

As efforts to contain the coronavirus intensify, the number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits is skyrocketing.

In Connecticut, about 30,000 claims have been filed since Friday, about 10 times the average weekly total, according to the Hartford Courant. Ohio received more than 48,000 applications over the past two days, compared to just under 2,000 for the same period the week before, WBNS, a Columbus television station, reported Tuesday.

New York saw an “unprecedented” increase in phone calls and web traffic for unemployment insurance claims and advertised on Twitter more than 50 job positions for immediate hire in the last 24 hours to help process the huge inflow of

claims.

These represent a slice of the hundreds of thousands of Americans -- potentially millions -- who will be put out of work by the coronavirus, which has led to canceled travel plans, conferences and large events.

It’s forced restaurants and bars to close, and of those that remain open, slowed business to a crawl. As more people stay home, a swath of businesses -from coffee shops to dentist offices -- are also laying off workers.

If this handful of states is even somewhat representative of what is happening broadly across the nation, there could be a historic surge in filings for unemployment benefits in the federal government’s report on March 26. The report due Thursday -- which reflects

claims through last Saturday -- may only reflect a fraction of virus-related claims so far.

About a dozen states, including New York, California and Illinois, have turned to more drastic measures in an attempt to contain the virus, including closing restaurants and bars to dine-in customers. One estimate says the U.S. restaurant industry is poised to lose 7.4 million jobs.

Marriott International Inc. has started furloughs that could hit tens of thousands, and the American Hotel & Lodging Association projects the industry will be forced to shed 1 million jobs in the next few weeks.

The surge in jobless claims could put greater strain on state governments that will already be facing a sharp decline in tax revenue.

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GREENE COUNTY POLICE BLOTTER

CALENDAR Editor’s Note: Please call ahead as some of these meetings may be cancelled.

Thursday, March 19 n Coxsackie-Athens Central School

District BOE meeting cancelled n Coxsackie Village Planning Board Cancelled

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 518-9451551 n Catskill Village Board meeting cancelled

Editor’s Note: A charge is not a conviction. All persons listed are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Charges can be amended or dismissed.

STATE POLICE n Jackaline M. Thompson, 28, of Coxsackie, was arrested at 1:06 a.m. March 12 in Athens and charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a class A misdemeanor. She was issued an appearance ticket. n Benjamin B. Morales, 34, of Brooklyn, was arrested at 3:52 p.m. March 8 in Catskill and charged with aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, an unclassified misdemeanor.

He was held. n Anthony S. Biagioni, 49, of Catskill, was arrested at 4 p.m. March 12 in Cairo and charged with second-degree

burglary, a class C felony; third-degree criminal possession of stolen property, a class D felony; and petty larceny, a class A misdemeanor.

He was held. n Michael A. Florak, 48, of Earlton, was arrested at 2:20 p.m. March 12 in Catskill and charged with second-degree menacing, a class A misdemeanor. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Jahni H. McGill, 23, of Albany, was arrested at 8:45 p.m. March 12 in New Baltimore and charged with fourth-degree criminal possession of marijuana, a class A misdemeanor. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Jessica D. Guthrie, 30, of Earlton, was arrested at 4:27 p.m. March 13 in Coxsackie and charged with petty larceny, a class A misdemeanor. She was issued an appearance ticket. n Christian R. Coutu, 25,

of Catskill, was arrested at 9:58 p.m. March 14 in Catskill and charged with driving while intoxicated and aggravated DWI, both unclassified misdemeanors. He was issued an appearance ticket. n A 15-year-old male of Catskill was arrested at 1:45 p.m. March 15 in Catskill and charged with fourthdegree grand larceny, a class E felony; third-degree identity theft, second-degree obstruction of governmental administration and resisting arrest, all class A misdemeanors. He was released to a third party. n Elizabeth V. Beck 25, of Coeymans Hollow, was arrested at 12:33 a.m. March 16 in Greenville and charged with second-degree criminal contempt, a class A misdemeanor. She was issued an appearance ticket. n Gabriel T. Kniffen, 37, of Oak Hill, was arrested at

8:33 p.m. March 15 in Greenville and charged with operating a motor vehicle with a blood-alcohol content greater than 0.08% and driving while intoxicated, both unclassified misdemeanors.

He was issued an appearance ticket.

and operating a motor vehicle with a suspended registration, both unclassified misdemeanors, and failure to use headlights with windshield wipers, an infraction.

He was issued an appearance ticket.

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n Cary L. Andersen, 41, of Athens, was arrested at 7:50 p.m. March 8 in Coxsackie and charged with aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, an unclassified misdemeanor, and operation of an unregistered motor vehicle on a highway, an infraction. She was issued an appearance ticket. n Joseph L. Komaromi IV, 38, of Catskill, was arrested at 9:49 p.m. March 8 in New Baltimore and charged with aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle

n Adrian Gonzalez, 42, of Earlton, was arrested at 10:36 a.m. March 13 in Catskill and charged with first-degree sex abuse, a class D felony, and acting in a manner to injure a child, a class A misdemeanor. He is scheduled to appear in court March 19 at 1 p.m. n Phillip T. Nowicki, 38, of Durham, was arrested at 7:08 p.m. March 15 in Catskill and charged with first-degree criminal contempt, a class E felony. He was held in lieu of $1,500 cash, $3,000 bond or $6,000 unsecured bond.

Thursday, March 26 n Coxsackie Village Budget Work Session Cancelled

Thursday, April 2 n Cairo Town Planning Board 7 p.m.

Town Hall, 512 Main St., Cairo n Coxsackie Village Budget Work Session 6:30 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

Monday, April 6 n Athens Town Board 6:45 p.m. Town Hall, 2 First St., Athens 518-945-1052 n Cairo Town Board 7 p.m. Town Hall, 512 Main St., Cairo n Coxsackie Village Organizational Meeting has been cancelled n Greene County Board of Electrical Examiners 1 p.m. at the Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., 4th Floor, Room 469, Catskill

Wednesday, April 8 n Athens Village Board 6:30 p.m.

Village Hall, 2 First St., Athens 518-9451551 n Catskill Village Board 7 p.m. Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill 518-9433830

Thursday, April 9 n Coxsackie 2020-2021 Proposed

Tentative Budget Public Hearing 6:30 p.m.

Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie n Coxsackie Village Workshop Meeting 6 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

Monday, April 13 n Coxsackie Village Board 7 p.m. Vil-

lage Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

Wednesday, April 15 n Cairo Town Board workshop meet-

ing 7 p.m. Town Hall, 512 Main St., Cairo

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Department of Labor implements a filing system and extends hours ALBANY — Providing Unemployment Insurance benefits is the Department of Labor’s top priority and everyone who is entitled to UI benefits will receive them in a timely manner, according to the department.

To that end a new filing system has been implemented based on the first letter of the applicants last name (alphabetical order).

A-F: Monday G–N: Tuesday O–Z: Wednesday Missed your day: Thursday and Friday Filing later in the week

will not delay payments or affect the date of an individual’s claim, since all claims are effective on the Monday of the week in which they are filed.

Filing hours have also bee extended as follows: Monday through Thursday 8 a.m.-7:30 p.m.

Friday 8 a.m.-6 p.m.

Saturday 7:30 a.m.- 8 p.m.

Due to COVID-19, there is an unprecedented increase in the volume of calls and web traffic for Unemployment Insurance claims.

This massive surge created intermittent interruptions in service. The agency is

continuing to fix the problem as they monitor the situation.

By noon on March 17, there have been 21,000 calls, compared to the 2,000 in total last Tuesday and, 110,000 website visits, compared to 42,000 last Tuesday.

The Department of Labor is adding staff and will be expanding hours to help address the rapid influx.

All benefits will be paid, according to a statement from the Department of Labor.

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Don’t add stress on top of stress As the coronavirus outbreak turns the world upside down, let’s take a closer look at our own corner of that world.

New York state halted collecting medical and student debt for 30 days Tuesday and next year’s proposed state budget is projected to have a $4 billion to $7 billion revenue shortfall. Good news for some, bad news for many others. This is a bad time to hit up debtors for money.

If you’re looking for a silver lining, don’t look at this. The outbreak will likely serve as the catalyst for a mild to deep recession, said state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli. If it

happens, there is no way now to predict how long it will last.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo does not expect lawmakers to delay passing the state’s proposed $178 billion budget by the April 1 deadline, DiNapoli added, or to sacrifice reaching an agreement on major issues such as the recreational legalization of marijuana, bail reform or Medicare.

Not so fast, said one economic expert.

“Given the growing uncertainty, limited information available in the middle of the unfolding crisis and need to support the response, the governor and Legislature

should adopt a crisisresponse ‘bare-bones’ budget for the fiscal year beginning April 1, 2020, recognizing that changes will be needed in the coming months,” Citizens Budget Commission President Andrew Rein said Tuesday.

All of New York is facing an enemy the likes of which has not been seen in the state’s history. This is an unprecedented crisis on many levels, and the state should not pile undue stress on top of an already unpredictable situation or saddle New Yorkers with unnecessary financial burdens.

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Time for swift economic action (c) 2020, The Washington Post ·

A coronavirus epidemic is now inevitable in the United States, but appropriate, large-scale public health measures can still forestall the worst scenarios. Similarly, economic damage is inevitable, yet large-scale monetary and fiscal measures can prevent the worst from happening in that realm.

There are encouraging signs that the national political leadership is stepping up to the task - late, but possibly not quite too late. On Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin backed a plan to get cash to ordinary American households immediately, targeted to those lower on the income scale. In doing so, he abandoned President Donald Trump’s previous insistence on a sloweracting, less-targeted payroll tax holiday, in favor of following what economists from both parties had been recommending for days. Even better, Trump said he is fully on board, in a rare but welcome - if implicit - indication that he can listen to others when it really counts. On Capitol Hill, Democrats and Republicans in the Senate are discussing large-scale

fiscal relief plans, ranging near $1 trillion, in a spirit, so far, of bipartisanship.

Unemployment insurance, Medicaid funds and other aid to the most vulnerable must be part of the plan. Next up will be taxpayer-funded relief for key sectors of the economy - from transportation to energy - that have been particularly hard hit.

It’s important to understand why timely, targeted and - we hope - temporary fiscal intervention of this scale is justified, indeed essential, even at a time of already massive federal debt.

First, the Federal Reserve has nearly maxed out on its ability to help, having cut interest rates to zero, announced at least $700 billion in asset purchases, dollar swaps with other nations’ central banks and extended liquidity assistance to the financial sector. These steps can help prevent financial panic and lay the basis for post-crisis recovery, but their shortrun impact is limited.

Even with the Fed setting the cost of capital at rock bottom, there’s not much incentive for private investment now.

Second, this is not a downturn brought on

by speculation or other forms of business irresponsibility. It is a sudden stop to both production and consumption undertaken at the recommendation of the authorities to help save lives. No one, not even a big business, deserves to be punished for that. To the contrary, many businesses in potential need of assistance now had been well-run and, when healthy, represent strategic assets of the U.S. economy. Federal aid therefore does not represent a reward for “bad behavior,” as, arguably, the 2008 bailout did. And even that was better than the alternative, which was to stand aside and let the economy crash. Government can, and should, place conditions on any aid to industry:For example, companies should have to promise there will be no layoffs and accept limits on executive compensation.

In other words, Congress and the president can act without the usual concerns for budget constraints or the fear of rewarding or encouraging bad behavior. Indeed, they must do so, lest this sudden crisis go from manageably bad to disastrously worse.

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An enlightening lesson from nature WASHINGTON — Today’s ill wind has blown in something good, a renewed interest in a neglected novel by a gifted writer. Albert Camus’ “The Plague” (1947) was allegorical: Europe’s political plague had been Nazism, which Camus had actively resisted in occupied Paris.

But he had been born in French Algeria and surely knew of the 1849 cholera epidemic that ravaged the city of Oran, where “The Plague” is set.

At the novel’s conclusion, as crowds celebrate the infestation’s end, Camus’ protagonist, Dr. Rieux, “remembered that such joy is always imperiled. He knew what those jubilant crowds did not know ... that the plague bacillus never dies or disappears for good; that it can lie dormant for years and years in furniture and linen chests; that it bides its time in bedrooms, cellars, trunks, and bookshelves; and that perhaps the day would come when, for the bane and the enlightening of men, it would rouse up its rats again and send them forth to die in a happy city.”

For Camus, “enlightening” was a double-edged word. Nature, red in tooth and claw, can be brutally didactic, as it was with the 1755 Lisbon earthquake.

This was a chastening reminder, during the Enlightenment’s high tide of confident aspiration, that nature always has something to say about what human beings always prematurely call “the conquest of nature.”

Humanity, which is given to optimism and amnesia (the latter contributing to the former), was nudged toward theological skepticism by the felt contradiction between the fact of Lisbon and the theory that a benevolent God has ordained Earth as a commodious habitat in a congenial universe. But, then, four centuries before Lisbon, the Black Death plague had killed about a third of Europe’s population. Besides, the idea that Earth is miraculously biophilic — designed to enable

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human life to thrive — disregards many inconveniences, from saber-tooth tigers, meteor strikes and typhoons, to volcanoes, insect infestations and multitudes of mutating viruses.

In 1900, about when medicine at last began to do more good than harm, 37% of all American deaths were from infectious diseases.

Today the figure is 2%. By 1940 and the arrival of penicillin, medicine seemed on the verge of conquering infectious diseases, especially smallpox. No human achievement has done as much to lessen human suffering.

In the early 1950s, the Salk vaccine seemed to complete the conquest by banishing childhood polio, which fostered the misconception that pharmacological silver bullets are the key to large improvements in public health. This distracted attention from the staggering costs of lung cancer, coronary artery disease, AIDS, violence, substance abuse, Type 2 diabetes brought on by obesity and other consequences of known-to-berisky behaviors.

In “The Body: A Guide for Occupants” (2019), Bill Bryson notes a milestone in human history: 2011 was the first year in which more people died from non-communicable diseases (e.g., heart failure, stroke, diabetes) than from all infectious diseases combined. “We live,” Bryson writes, “in an age in which we are killed, more often than not, by lifestyle.”

The bacterium that caused the 14th century’s Black Death was in the air, food and water, so breathing, eating and drinking were risky

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behaviors. Today, deaths from the coronavirus are not apt to match what Bryson calls “suicide by lifestyle,” an epidemic that will continue long after the coronavirus has.

Three decades after Jonas Salk’s good deed, AIDS shattered complacency about infectious disease epidemics being mere memories.

AIDS, however, was largely a behaviorally caused epidemic based in the United States primarily in 30 or so urban neighborhoods.

Changes in sexual behavior, and less sharing of needles by intravenous drug users, tamed the epidemic.

Modern medicine, and especially pharmacology, has brought Americans blessings beyond their grandparents’ dreams. Nevertheless, a sour aroma of disappointment surrounds health care, which is the most important policy issue in a nation gripped by political, social and actual hypochondria.

An old axiom (“Eat sensibly, exercise diligently, die anyway”) has become a new grievance: Medicine’s limitations, made more conspicuous by medicine’s successes, are disturbing reminders of the skull beneath the skin of life.

Because epidemics are silent and invisible during their incubation, and are swift and unpredictable in their trajectories, they could be devastating terror weapons — except that, as the coronavirus is vividly demonstrating, no intentional perpetrator could be confident of remaining immune. The connectedness of the modern world, thanks in part to the jet engine’s democratization of intercontinental air travel, deters the weaponization of epidemics that the connectedness facilitates. For now, this must suffice as good news.

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Jurgen Schnackenberg Jurgen Schnackenberg leen), Jurgen and (Melissa), 87, of Claverack died peace- brothers: Friedrich and (Marfully at his home on Tuesday lis), Georg and (Christa) also March 17, 2020. Born in Dein- sisters: Margarete and Walter stedt, Germany on March 14, Wilkens, Maria Neddens, and 1933, he was the son of the his twelve grandchildren: Erlate Friedrich and Anna (Heins) ic, Philip, Theo, Noah, Linda, Schnackenberg.

Tanya, Adam, Ryan, Natalie, Jurgen’s upbringKaterina, Gabriel, and ing on a dairy farm Zackary. He is also instilled in him the survived by five greatstrong work ethic that grandchildren: Connor, allowed him to build a Travis, Tucker, Hannah longstanding business and Emma. He was as a contractor after predeceased by one emigrating to the US brother Ernst, and his in 1953. He was also sister Elisabeth Nibuhr. a devoted member of The family wishes Schnackenberg St. Mark’s Lutheran to thank the dedicated Church in Hudson and a past member of the Chatham Lions staff of Community Hospice Club. Jurgen’s greatest joys who provided such loving care were creating custom homes and support to Jurgen and and tending to his vegetable his family over the last sevgardens and fruit orchards; Ju- eral months. Donations in his rgen was generous with both memory may be made to Comhis knowledge and harvests. munity Hospice, 47 Liberty St., He also greatly enjoyed travel- Catskill, NY 12414.

Calling hours will be on Friing the East Coast with Natalie day March 20, 2020 at Sacco and visiting family in Germany as often as they were able. Ju- Funeral Home 700 Town Hall rgen will be greatly missed by Drive Hudson, beginning at his beloved wife Natalie (Rind- 12:30 pm. Funeral services fleisch) Schnackenberg at will begin at 2:00 pm. Followhome as well as sons: Werner ing cremation his burial will be and (Sabine), Fritz and (Kath- private.

Donald S. Hamm Donald S. Hamm, 92, greatly missed by his two of Hudson, NY, peacefully grandchildren, Donald (Ashpassed away on Saturday, ley) and Christine, who could March 14, 2020 at Albany not have asked for a better Medical Center. Don was born influence in their lives. Wyatt in Hudson, NY to Fred and and Austin, his great-grandEthel (Hobbie) Hamm on April children, loved spending time 28, 1927. with their “Poppy”. Don is He attended Hudson survived by his sister, DoroSchools before enthy Carl, and several listing in the Army. nieces and nephews.

He was a Korean War He was predeceased Veteran. Don worked by his wife, Sarah as a truck driver for (Brandley) and three Stockport Lumber, sisters: Madeline CarAgway, and Main Care le, Hilda Dunbar, and Energy before retirShirley Markessinis. ing in 1989. He was The family would a former member of like to thank the staff Hamm Greenport Fire Comand nurses of the Firepany Pumper #1. Don will al- men’s Home for their wonways be remembered for his derful care. In lieu of flowers, sense of humor, practical donations can be made to the jokes, and ability to make ev- Firemen’s Home in Memory of eryone around him smile and Donald Hamm. laugh. Don was a devoted faThere will be a graveside ther to his two sons, Donald service at Schodack Landing (Suzanne Tolomeo) of Castle- Cemetery for those who wish ton, NY and Richard (Judy) of to attend on Saturday, March Belle Fouche, SD. He is also 21, 2020 at 11:30 a.m. A celsurvived by his daughter-in- ebration of life will be held at a law, Jane Hamm. He will be later date.

James Nero James Nero 67, of Greenport, as a Natural Masters bodyNY died Sunday March 15, 2020 builder. He enjoyed his yearly at Albany Medical Center in Al- cruises to the Caribbean with bany. Born in Hudson on March his family. He will be missed 26, 1952, he was the son of the by his family including brothlate Anthony F. and ers: Anthony and his Bessie L. (Cole) Nero. wife (Jetty), Michael Jim was a 1971 and Thomas, his sister Graduate of Hudson Nancy and her husHigh School and later band (Mike), nieces and served in the N.Y. Army nephew: Nicole, Jason, National Guard from Kimberly and Sarah.

1971-1977. He was an There are no calling employee of Mephisto hours. At his request Tool Co. in Hudson cremation was private Nero for 20 years, and then and a memorial service American Bio Medica in Kinder- will be announced this spring. hook. He was a big N.Y. Giants His ashes will be interred in the and Yankees fan. Jim being a family plot at Cedar Park Cemhealth nut, spent many hours etery. To leave online condoin his basement gym lifting lences visit: www.saccofuneralweights and won many awards home.com

Eugene Masula Eugene Masula, a life-long Francine), sister Michelle Morelli resident of Palenville, NY, died (fiancé Joseph Tramontana), unexpectedly on March niece Carly Masula, 15, 2020 at the age of nephew Joseph Masu51. He is predeceased la, and cousins. Eugene by his mother Teresa loved to fish, snow moCarratelli Morelli, father bile and ski. His passion Pasquale Masula, and was building, being his uncle Eugene Caroutdoors, and creating ratelli. with his hands. He will Eugene is survived be forever missed and by his stepfather Alalways loved. exander Morelli (wife Masula Due to the current Jeanette), his aunt Roberta Carratelli, his sister Carol restrictions on large gatherings, Masula-Lane (husband Scott), services will be postponed until his brother Richard Masula (wife a future date.

Tracey Woolworth Houlihan Tracey Woolworth Houlihan, 47, of Valatie, New York, passed away on March 14, 2020 at St. Peter’s Hospital in Albany, NY, after an heroic battle with pancreatic cancer.

Tracey was born at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City to Sarah W. and John F. Houlihan. She and her family moved to Stockport, NY in 1979 from New York City. She attended Ichabod Crane School from 2nd grade through High School, and graduated in 1990.

From there she went to Columbia Greene Community College where she earned an Associate Degree in Art, and continued her pursuit of an artistic degree at Sage College

of Albany, where she earned a port. They since divorced.

B.A. Degree with honors. While She is survived by her Mothat Sage she pursued art and er, Sarah (Sally) Kleemann, for a short time managed the Stepbrother Gunnar Kleemann, Opalka Gallery there.

Stepsister-in-law Karen She always painted Valdez, Nieces Tara or drew whenever she and Belle Kleemann, could. Her art was quite Aunt Susan W. Stafpolished and we loved ford, Uncle John Stafto get the cards or picford, and cousins David tures that she made for and Jeffrey Stafford family and friends. After and Aunt and Uncle college she travelled Carol Woolworth and across the country to Sandy Woolworth. She Houlihan Lake Tahoe, NV where is predeceased by her she met her husband Dan- father, John Houlihan and Stepiel O’Brien. They married and father Ronald Kleemann. Also moved to Australia, where they deceased are her Grandmothlived for a year before coming ers and Grandfathers Kleemann back to the U.S. to live in Stock- andWoolworth. Tracey had ma-

ny many friends throughout Columbia County – and all over the country. Almost everyone she met immediately became her friend. One of her favorite pastimes was helping out anyone who needed it. She genuinely loved “her” people and they her.

Services will be private. Tracey asked to be cremated and unfortunately, because of the ConaVirus restrictions, there will be no visitation except for the most immediate family (limited to 10 total). However, there will be a Celebration of Life for Tracey this summer when (hopefully) the danger is past, so save up your memories and prayers for her until then. She’ll be watching!

Hand-sanitizer hoarding leaves homeless providers struggling for supplies during coronavirus crisis

By Sydney Brownstone The Seattle Times

SEATTLE — On Monday, Colleen Echohawk, executive director of homelessservices organization Chief Seattle Club, posted a message to Instagram. The moment during the COVID-19 pandemic felt “unreal,” she wrote, “like we’re living out a chapter in a science fiction novel.”

Included in the post was a request: donations for hand sanitizer and cleaning supplies.

As Seattle residents have prepared for increasing social restrictions to halt the spread of the novel coronavirus, store shelves have been swept clear of hand sanitizer and cleaning supplies, leaving some homeless-service providers struggling to keep staff safe and distribute hygiene supplies to their clients.

“We can’t find any, and it’s really vital to have,” said Chief Seattle Club’s deputy director Derrick Belgarde.

“We definitely need more hand sanitizer. We’re running out of disinfectant sprays, and we ran out of wipes a while ago.”

Chief Seattle Club is now renting a hand-washing station for $600 a month, Echohawk said, which it placed in front of the building for everyone who enters to use.

Because of the scarcity of hand sanitizer, a friend of Echohawk’s offered to make her own hand sanitizer to donate to the organization.

Access to hygiene services is already thin for people who live outside. Of the six, 24-hour city-funded bathrooms in Seattle, only three have sinks. Many of the thousands who live in tent encampments, on the streets

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Richard McAdams and Allison Anderson, both with the Union Gospel Mission, mask up before heading upstairs. March 17, 2020.

or in vehicles rely on hand sanitizer not just to wash, but also as fuel for fires to keep warm.

Richard McAdams, who directs outreach at Union Gospel Mission (UGM), said his team had switched to rationing squirts of hand sanitizer when they were unable to find the individual travel-size bottles they normally distribute. As of this week, McAdams’ team has halted outreach to focus on the population within UGM shelters. But the shelter could use more cleaning supplies.

“I don’t think it does the state of Washington any favors,” said UGM safety coordinator William Williams of the public’s rush to stockpile cleaning supplies.

In response to homeless shelters’ need for supplies, King County, the city of Seattle and the United Way of King County combined all

sanitation resources into one warehouse, county spokeswoman Sherry Hamilton said. The county is now taking orders from shelter and service providers for their supply “store.”

So far, the county has distributed four pallets of supplies, including bleach, gloves, masks, garbage bags and more.

But some service providers are still waiting for supplies to come through.

“We are concerned,” said Dr. Maria Yang, medical director of the Downtown Emergency Service Center.

The organization’s usual vendors have run out, she said, “they have nothing.”

As of Monday evening, she hadn’t heard when the supplies would be coming.

“We are still asking various vendors and partners for supplies,” she said. “We are trying to conserve the best that we can while also trying

5.7-magnitude earthquake strikes Salt Lake City area Matthew Cappucci The Washington Post

A 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck near Salt Lake City at 7:09 a.m. local time Wednesday, its epicenter located about four miles westsouthwest of Salt Lake City International Airport. Heavy shaking was felt far and wide across north-central Utah west of the Wasatch mountains.

Many were evacuated from the airport, where the Federal Aviation Administration issued a ground stop for all inbound flights. Social media video emerged of damaged pipes gushing water from the ceiling in the airport.

More than 90 minutes after the quake, the airport tweeted that it is “not currently operational,” writing that “the FAA tower, terminals and concourses have been evacuated.

The road to the airport has been opened, so that passengers can be picked up.”

It was still shut down midmorning. On its website, the airport urged passengers to “not come to the airport until further notice.”

The airport’s phone line notes that officials “do not

have a time frame of when the airport will be opening.”

There were no immediate reports of any serious injuries.

Within three hours of the initial quake, nearly two dozen aftershocks greater than 3 in magnitude struck in the immediate vicinity.

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, there is a roughly 1 in 5 chance of an aftershock greater than 5 in magnitude occurring.

The earthquake was shallow, occurring only about six or seven miles below the surface, which may have maximized shaking at the surface.

According to Utah’s Division of Emergency Management, it was the strongest earthquake to strike the state since 1992.

Rocky Mountain Power reported 55,000 customers without power in the Salt Lake region after the quake.

There were reports of structural damage. Cracked walls, toppled furniture and other minor damage was reported at the homes of many residents across the state capital.

During the quake, the ground accelerated at about

a fifth of the acceleration of gravity. The ground moved about 8 inches in one second.

Initial data suggests that the earthquake was associated with “normal faulting,” which occurs when one tectonic plate or fault slides down the side of another.

In addition, there was probably some strike-slipping, which means one fault slid a bit past the other sideto-side.

The quake is likely to have occurred along the Wasatch fault. It parallels the Wasatch Range, which is no surprise, considering the mountains were formed by it. The plate to the east rises, while that to the west dips below.

According to the USGS, the Wasatch fault zone can be divided into 10 smaller segments of faulting, about half of which have been active for 10,000 years. The USGS estimates that those segments produced quakes reaching 7.0 in magnitude about every 900 to 1,300 years.

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THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 2020

Finishing my stroll down memory lane

By Lula Anderson For Columbia-Greene Media

Have you survived this week? I do hope you all have enough toilet paper to survive. In my list of items, last week, I didn’t even think of including toilet paper. I’m a little worried, all I have is 11 rolls left. Finally found some Lysol spray. New shipment just arrived.

Hopefully all this madness will end soon. There really is no reason to panic. Go outside, take a walk, read a book.

You can even turn on the faucet and have a drink of water.

Don’t have to go out and buy it. Stay healthy, stay safe.

Remember, for the next two weeks, there will be no congregate meals at any of the Greene County Nutrition Centers, including Jewett.

Home-delivered meals will still be delivered, and if you want a meal, you can order the day ahead and pick it up at the center to take out.

Speaking of Greene County,

ASHLAND SPEAKS

p.m. April 25. Cost is $12.50.

CARES AND PRAYERS

LULA

Please pray for all the emergency workers who are called upon to care for those who need assistance. They are always on the front lines and always in danger of picking up an infectious disease. Thank them, and pray for them.

the Senior Recognition Day being held in May is postponed. I will keep you posted about further developments.

My year of being recognized.....Yup, my luck.

Lexington,West Kill United Methodist Church has announced the following activities: May 22, Brooks BBQ, 3-6:30 p.m.; June 12, Strawberry Supper, 3-6:30 p.m.; Nov. 3, Election Day Dinner, 1-6:30 p.m. Please add them to your calendar.

The date of the Prattsville Hose roast pork dinner has been rescheduled for 4:30-7

Due to the large number of closures, please call ahead for events.

April 24 Jewett Rummage sale 4-6:30ish.

April 25 Jewett Rummage sale 9 a.m.-noon.

April 25 Roast Beef dinner Ashland Fire House April 25 Roast Pork dinner Prattsville Hose Co. 4:30-7 p.m. $12.50.

May 8 Pulled Pork Sandwiches Windham UMC 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

May 28 CommUnity dinner at St. Theresa’s.

June 12 Rummage Sale Windham UMC 4-7 p.m.

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COMING EVENTS

June 13 Rummage Sale Windham UMC 9 a.m.-noon.

AS I REMEMBER IT Last week my column stopped after the Windham Journal because I had to reaquaint myself with the area, the one area in Windham that changed because of a devastating fire. One last story about the Windham Journal — did you know Louise McRoberts and Ruthie Cross worked there? It was an actual office; Wendy Wieninger Larson worked there later.

Next came Aunt Norma Purcell’s house. The big house that is there is not original, as that was part of the fire. You might wonder why Dr. Laura’s building has so much land around it, and a large retaining wall behind it. This was the site of Mr. Tibble’s warehouse. Mr. Tibble was the undertaker who lived in the house by the school. He kept all of his supplies in a large building that was later a grain

store, and after that the local laundromat.

Next door to that was Grant Morse’s store and above it his home. Morse’s store was an important part of Windham.

Being right across from the school, they did a lot of business at bus time. The Catholic children had release time religious instruction on Thursdays at the Windham firehouse. A custodian stopped traffic for the little ones to cross, right into the store to pick up their candy before the long walk. You didn’t start cheerleader practice without a visit to Morse’s for a snack.

I had my own personal crossing guard, Billy Newland. He helped me with everything, from putting on my boots to crossing the street.

Imagine my surprise to find out Billy is Judy’s Aunt Peggy’s brother.

The telephone number for Morse’s store was 250. While working for the telephone company, this number would

come up, but you couldn’t understand what the person on the line wanted. I would have to help the operator understand who was calling who.

(Don’t forget at this time, there was no dial service, the operator had to connect the caller with the callee.)

It took time to realize that it was Philip Sullivan who was shopping for his mother, who worked at the law office of his father, Maurice, and he always forgot what he was sent for. Sometimes he just wanted to know if he could buy candy, or something. For those who don’t know, Philip had Down’s syndrome, and would walk around Windham talking to everyone. People looked after him and did their best to help his parents. Philip was best known for attending every outdoor gym class, laughing and joking with the boys. He is missed by all who knew him. I want to wish all of you chicky-turkeys a good week ahead.

We’re all in this together Stay safe and healthy

By Christine Dwon For Columbia-Greene Media

Happy first day of spring!

Congratulations to Katelyn and Matt Dwon on the arrival of Olivia Christine born on March 12. Big sister Emma is very happy, too.

Mary and Steve Palazzolo hosted a delicious dinner of linguini and clam sauce with shrimp and mussels for their friends Amy and Rick Rasmussen and Mike Salica last week.

Lovely evening with good friends.

Happy wedding anniversary to Lori and Skip Dippold on March 19. March 19 is Kevin Aurigema’s birthday. Happy birthday to Joyce Steiner on March 22. Celebrating birthdays on March 23 are Lynn Byrne, Susan Falke Turk and George Dart. Best wishes to all.

Please be advised there will be no indoor meals served at the senior center in Jewett through March. You may call ahead and pick up your meal.

The Greene County Department of Human Services Senior Nutrition program for the week of March 23 – March 27 is as follows: Monday—Sweet and sour pork, brown rice, broccoli, pineapple chunks; Tuesday—Chili Con Carne, wax beans, tapioca pudding; Wednesday—Meatloaf with gravy, mashed potatoes, Parisian mixed vegetables, birthday cupcake; Thursday—National Spinach Day—Chicken

cacciatore, fresh salad, mashed potatoes, linguini, fresh fruit; Friday—Macaroni and cheese, three-bean salad, stewed tomatoes, orange fruited gelatin. To reserve your meal, please call at least a day in advance. Suggested donation for each meal is $4. Call 518-263-4392.

Church services and Bible Study at the Lexington/West Kill UMC are cancelled. I’m going to list upcoming events and meetings that, as far as I know, are still ongoing. Call ahead to make sure events are still being held.

Ashland Fire Department Chicken Barbecue, March 21, halves $7, no reservations, first come, first served. Proceeds will be donated to the family of Deputy Kevin Haverly.

Tai Chi for Health class will start at the Hunter Library at 1 p.m. March 25 at 1 p.m. with instructor Nina Pfeffer. Tai Chi is a gentle form of exercise that combines slow movements with deep breathing. Medical research supporting the health benefit of Tai Chi have fanned its popularity around the world. No need to sign up in advance, class is by donation.

Greene County Public Health Department Rabies Clinic for Greene County cats, dogs and ferrets scheduled for March 25 at the Grapeville Firehouse, Route 51, New Baltimore, has been cancelled.

The clinic scheduled for April 22 in Lexington has also been cancelled. Call 518-719-3600 if you have questions.

Springtime Fundraiser Brunch for the Zadock Pratt Museum at the Washington Irving Inn, Tannersville noon-2 p.m. March 29. Reservations required due to limited seating. Tickets are $40 per person. Contact Suzanne Walsh at 518-937-6120, suzanwal5@ aol.com or the museum at 518-299-3395, prattmuseum@ hotmail.com.

Town of Lexington Fire Company Ladies Auxiliary monthly meetings will resume at 7 p.m. April 14 in the Firemen’s room.

Lexington/West Kill UMC dinner dates to mark on your calendars: Friday, May 22, Brooks’ Chicken BBQ, 3 – 6:30 p.m.; Friday, June 12, Strawberry Supper, 5 – 6:30 p.m.; Tuesday, Nov. 3, Election Day Dinner, 1 – 6:30 p.m. All dinners held at the Lexington UMC church hall, 54 County County Route 13A, Lexington.

Please pray for our nation and all others as we deal with the pandemic. Let’s help each other, be compassionate and considerate. Please be kind.

We are all in this together.

By Abby and Gabby For Columbia-Greene Media

PRATTSVILLE — Stay healthy and safe. Area schools are closed for two weeks. The Gilboa Conesville CS play has been postponed or cancelled according to conditions. All are cautioned to use care when going about your customary activities.

Cough, aches, sore throat, temperature — stay home.

The Stratton VAMC, Albany, is screening all visitors regardless of reason for visit.

Travels, temperature, cough and/or sore throat, and according to your answers will get you an evaluation by a physician before being allowed in the VA. The ninth floor — long-term resident units — are closed to all visitors. This is the floor that our organizations and area residents support all year long and especially at Christmas time.

Our local stores are being visited by out-of-town residents because their stores are out of stock of certain items.

Greetings go out to Lois Jenkins Banks. Lois, you made the Prattsville Scoop, whether you wanted to or not. She was doing her weekly shopping at Jim’s before items were out of stock.

Had a call from New Jersey family offering to mail paper products and sanitizers if we could not get them locally.

Thank you, and let’s keep this type of caring going among our neighbors.

Speedy recovery wishes go out to Arnold Jaeger. Arnold is going through therapy following knee surgery.

Peggy and John Young made a sad trip to Texas in February. Their brother-inlaw Don Friedel passed away.

He was married to Peg’s sister Johanna Wilkens for 38 years.

They lived in McKinney, Texas. For a year-and-a-half he’d been treated for cancer and as a Marine, Once a Marine, Always a Marine, he put up a strong fight. After the funeral they flew to Orlando, Florida. Jim and Peg visited her parents, Peggy and John Wilkens, who live in Ocala.

John and Peggy spend a good part of their day on the front porch watching cars go by, waving and occasionally getting a visit from a passerby.

Both are in good health and enjoying the warm Florida sunshine. Don leaves behind a son and a daughter and three grandchildren. All family members are within a couple hours of Johanna and will bring comfort to all. Our sympathy to all the families in the various states.

Quite an active Prattsville ladies group. They attend yoga, use the gym in Arkville and for fun have a luncheon group. Among those attending all or some of the

activities are Ginny Kennedy, Joanne Dunphy, Carol Landers, Shelly Brainard, Kathy Sherman, Barbara L. and from the Mews, Areta Jaeger, and Mabel.

The American Legion Auxiliary Virgil E. Deyo Unit 1327 held its first meeting of the spring session on March 10.

They welcomed new member Nancy Hermance Kizyma, of Lexington. And she is a very welcome member because she has already volunteered for activities. Nancy is no slouch for volunteering — she has been an active member of her UMC of Lexington for years — working the dining room, kitchen and craft tables. Nancy’s husband, Louie, is also a go-getter. He is Justice of the Peace of Lexington, Postmaster and Adjutant of the American Legion Virgil E. Deyo Post 1327. Conditions willing, the Auxiliary has planned for their annual Easter Egg Hunt at 11 a.m.

April 11 at Youngs’ Ace Hardware, Prattsville.

Happy birthday to Danyelle Ballard on March 24. Eddie Zimmerman is wished a very happy birthday on March 25. On March 25 we send happy birthday wishes to Eugene Constable, Peggy Rappleyea and Bob Hermance. Happy anniversary wishes are sent to Anita and Al Creazzo on March 21.

Railroad through Ashland and Windham

By Dede Terns Thorpe For Columbia-Greene Media

With all the railroad articles I’ve found about the trains in Hunter, I’m happy to share one on the Windham and Ashland areas.

A 1905 Windham Journal article: Railroad Meeting in Ashland.

A railroad meeting was called for Saturday, April 8, at 10 o’clock, in the town hall (Brazee building), in Ashland. The proposed trolley from Oneonta to Catskill needed various rights of way. “All persons through whose premises the survey crosses, and all interested in the proposed road, are requested to be present.” Come and be curious; it is for your interest, BY ORDER OF COMMISSIONERS. A later meeting talked favorably about the April 8 meeting

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run by Mr. Lewis and Mr. Munson All 20+ landowners of beautiful, fertile lands gave their right of way. This meeting proved that Ashland definitely wanted the trolley.

Three cheers for Ashland!

On April 13, 1905, the Windham Journal’s editor wrote the following: Shall We Have a Railroad?

It is up to the people. “If the right of way is received, and the survey paid for, the road will be

in operation on or before October 1, 1908.” If the road is not in operation by then the deed granting a right of way becomes void. Windham and Ashland are financing the “right of way,” without cost, until after the road is in operation.

The projector, Mr. Herbert T. Jennings, told those attending the trolley meeting at Stamford that if he has the “Right of Way” granted at once, he can begin to “throw dirt” within ten days.

“We suggest to our friends in Durham to “get a bustle” on themselves. Durham can secure the same without paying a cent unless they get a road running through that town, - and what will a railroad with over 30 trains a day add to the real prosperity of Durham, and Windham, Ashland, Prattsville, Gilboa, and Conesville. We have been shut in

for so long without railroad benefits.”

East Windham is in the Town of Durham. The proposed road passes through the notch and exposes the finest view in the world. Five states can be seen; the Hudson is outlined, and what a fine location for a cottage park.

That town will thrive and grow in size and value until she rivals the Tannersville section with its mammoth hotels and parks. “ It went on to say that Durham should not let the trolley slip away from them, “Durham had let one of the first roads in the State slip away from them, and had that road been kept, what a rich township she would have been now!” But there had been a long sleep. The year’s taxes will bring in more than we believe the whole roadbed will cost.

“Prattsville is getting on finely

with securing the right of way for the trolley. Won’t it be jolly to ride upon the trolley?”

Mr. Jennings says the trolley will stop on signal to let you on or off cars and will do the same with freight. This will be a great convenience to farmers on this line.

Shall we have a railroad?

YES, if the people want it bad enough!

Being a past postmaster of Windham, this was very interesting to me. Any relevant information found will be shared in another article.

Any comments or concerns please contact hunterhistorian@gmail.com or call, 518-589-4130.

Until next week, take care, be thankful and be kind. You never know how your act of kindness may change someone’s life.

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Good news: No evidence dogs and cats can get coronavirus

By Nancy Clanton The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

It’s natural to worry about those you love during a public health scare, and you love your pets.

The good news is that there is no evidence your dog or cat can contract the coronavirus, the World Health Organization said.

The concern arose after a dog in Hong Kong tested “weakly positive” for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

“The dog has a low-level of infection and it is likely to be a case of human-to-animal transmission,” Hong Kong’s Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department wrote in a fact sheet recently.

Veterinarians and WHO said the virus might have been in the dog’s nose, but that doesn’t mean the dog had the coronavirus. The dog belonged to a coronavirus patient.

Shelley Rankin, a microbiologist at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine whose lab is part of the Food and Drug Administration’s Veterinary Laboratory Investigation and Response Network, told ScienceMag. org: “Samples from the Hong Kong dog had a small number of virus particles present. In an animal with no clinical signs

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A dog in Hong Kong apparently tested “weak positive” for COVID-19, but as the dog had no symptoms, medical and veterinarian experts believe the test results could have been the result of environmental exposure, infection, cross-reaction from other viruses or testing issues. The East Bay SPCA warns that having your dog vaccinated against coronavirus will not prevent COVID-19.

of disease, it’s hard to say what this means. It was a single case, and we learned that we need to do a lot more research into the potential of the human SARSCoV-19 virus to infect animals.”

Will Sander, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Veterinary Medicine, told Business InOne precaution that does make sense, however, is stocking up on pet food, drinking water, supplies, and any medications along with anything else you’ll

need during a quarantine.sider via email: “At this time, people should be minimally concerned about this coronavirus affecting their pets. The virus seems well adapted to spread between people and, therefore, unlikely to jump to dogs or cats.”

WHO’s website states that although SARS-CoV was associated with civet cats and MERS-CoV is transmitted by dromedary camels, possible animal sources of COVID-19

have not yet been confirmed.

There are no reports of animals in the U.S. being infected, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta said.

“While this virus seems to have emerged from an animal source, it is now spreading from person-to-person in China,” the CDC said. “There is no reason to think that any animals including pets in the United States might be a source of infection with this new coronavirus. ... However, since animals can spread other diseases to people, it’s always a good idea to wash your hands after being around animals.”

This means you can feel free to cuddle up with your dog if you’re working from home or pet your cat if it relieves your stress.

One precaution that does make sense, Business Insider wrote, is stocking up on pet food, drinking water, supplies and any medications along with anything else you’ll need during a quarantine. (c)2020 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Atlanta, Ga.) Visit The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Atlanta, Ga.) at www.ajc.com Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

New on DVD: ‘1917’ stunning World War I story

By Katie Foran-McHale Tribune News Service (TNS)

Stuck at home? Take a break from pandemic news and lose yourself in an immersive, Oscar-winning war movie in this week’s top DVD picks.

“1917”: Two young British soldiers fighting in World War I, Lance Corporal Blake (DeanCharles Chapman) and Lance Corporal Schofield (George MacKay), are sent on an deathly dangerous mission: to cross behind enemy lines and deliver the message that the Germans, thought to be retreating, will overwhelm 1,600 men planning to attack. Among them is Blake’s brother, and the attack must be stopped.

The cast is commanding with Chapman and MacKay at the helm (not to mention great cameos by Colin Firth, Benedict Cumberbatch and Andrew Scott, to name a few).

Chapman gives Blake playful charisma and a heartbreaking dedication to his mission and brother, while MacKay instills quiet power in his emotive

expressions. And the story is compelling, based on fragments of a real-life war story of writer-director Sam Mendes’ grandfather.

But cinematographer Roger Deakins steals the show with his technical wizardry of making the film appear to be one continuous shot, giving it an immersive, often video gamelike feel (the movie won best cinematography, visual effects and sound mixing at this year’s Academy Awards).

“The film is a stunning feat of cinematography, production design and performance moving seamlessly as one piece,” wrote Tribune News Service Katie Walsh in her review.

ALSO NEW ON DVD MARCH 24 “Clemency”: A prison warden (Alfre Woodard) grapples with the consequences of carrying out executions.

“The Grudge”: After a series of killings in a haunted house, a detective (Andrea Riseborough) investigates as the curse continues.

“The Song of Names”: Years after his adopted violinist brother disappears, a man encounters a young musician who shares a remarkably similar style. Tim Roth and Clive Owen star.

“Treadstone: Season One”: The USA Network drama follows a black ops program in the Jason Bourne universe.

OUT ON DIGITAL HD MARCH 24 “Birds of Prey”: Reeling from her breakup with the Joker, Harley Quinn (Margot Robie) teams up with three women to take down the evil Black Mask, among others. Costars include Rosie Perez, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jurnee Smollett-Bell and Ewan McGregor. Available on DVD and Blu-ray in May. “Cunningham”: Documentary follows the life of legendary choreographer Merce Cunningham.

“Dolittle”: A quirky doctor who talks with animals (Robert Downey Jr.) races to help save Queen Victoria (Jessie Buckley) from a serious illness. Look for it

on DVD and Blu-ray April 7.

“The Gentlemen”: An expat in London (Matthew McConaughey) faces layers of schemes while attempting to sell off his weed business.

“Hunter’s Moon”: A sheriff (Thomas Jane) meets a malevolent force after responding to an attack on a trio of teenage girls.

“Just Mercy”: Based on a true story, a young defense attorney (Michael B. Jordan) helps Walter McMillian (Jamie Foxx) appeal his murder conviction.

OUT ON DIGITAL HD MARCH 27 “Banana Split”: The summer after her high school graduation, a newly single girl (Hannah Marks) befriends her ex-boyfriend’s new girlfriend (Liana Liberato).

“Vivarium”: A young couple get trapped in a maze of a homogeneous suburban development. Imogen Poots and Jesse Eisenberg star.

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Artist and muse fall in love in exquisite ‘Portrait’

By Raymond Pignone Columbia-Greene Media

In the exquisite and haunting “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” director Celine Sciamma builds considerable suspense by not showing us the face of Heloise (Adele Haenel) for several minutes.

Heloise is the rebellious daughter of a countess (Valeria Golino) in 18th century France.

She was dismissed from the convent for an arranged marriage to a prosperous Italian man she has never met — she is going from one repressive trap to another.

She is required to pose for a portrait that will be sent to her suitor in Milan so he can ascertain her beauty. The problem is that Heloise obliterated her face on the first portrait and nearly drove the artist mad. Her sister killed herself rather than be forced into marriage. To Heloise, a finished portrait means a finished life.

Marianne (Noemie Merlant) is the second artist invited to paint the portrait. But Marianne faces a tougher assignment: She is to pose as a walking

A scene from “Portrait of a Lady on Fire”.

companion for Heloise, study her secretly and paint Heloise without her knowing it.

As they walk along the cliffs, Marianne can see only the back of Heloise’s head as the camera follows from Marianne’s point of view. Heloise, cloaked and hooded, picks up the pace. Her hood flies back, freeing a crown of blonde hair. She reaches the edge, stops and turns around.

Only then do we see her face. “I always wanted to try that,” Heloise says. “Dying?” Marianne asks. “No,” Heloise replies, “Running.”

We can predict these young women will fall in love, even though they don’t know the

power of their passions. The dialogue is minimal yet profound, a bold move considering “Portrait” is a chamber drama with a handful of characters. It’s Haenel and Merlant who carry the movie with remarkable subtlety and empathy.

Sciamma concerns itself almost entirely with subjugated women who create their own private rituals to express their unseen feminine powers. They may be oppressed by family custom and relentless servitude, but they know how to take care of themselves. All of this is conveyed through quiet, thoughtful scenes set on cliffs as waves roar and bellow, kitchens, at bonfires

and the cramped rooms of midwives.

Small gestures achieve great significance, the way hands brush gently together or faint smiles appear and just as quickly vanish.

“Portrait” features an unforgettable sequence of Heloise and Marianne moving through clusters of women at a beach bonfire. Suddenly the women burst into a song that counterpoints melody, lyrics and sirenlike voices. The harmonies are a clarion call, at once sad, exuberant and defiant, sung by women who refuse to surrender to their bondage. It’s a moment of bliss in a movie about suppressed emotions.

Problems are dealt with in the unfussy manner of women who know freedom means nothing more can be taken from them.

Their oppression has made them independent and reliant on each other. Sciamma’s camera takes in Heloise and Marianne’s every tender expression and gesture. “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” is the rare movie that conveys more than meets the eye.

CANCELLATIONS & CLOSINGS The Hudson River Bells ‘Spring Ring’ has been cancelled The Hudson River Bells of Athens NY, have cancelled their English handbell concert performances of “Spring Ring.” These concerts include Saturday, March 21, 3 p.m., at Resurrection Lutheran Church, Cairo, and Sunday.

March 22, 3 p.m., at Asbury United Methodist Church, Greenville.

A fall concert is planned. For more information, contact www. hudsonriverbells.org.

D.R. Evarts Library For the health and safety of our community and staff, D.R. Evarts Library will be closing the library for regular hours starting Thursday, March 19. The library is offering limited curbside delivery service while closed. Please call the library and leave a message at 518-945-1417 or email director@drevartslibrary.org.

Concerts in the Village: Updating the three concerts remaining this season Please visit www.concertsinthevillage.org regarding postponement of these previously scheduled concerts, at dates yet to be determined: - “Singing with Strings” (originally March 22)– The works of Barber, Bond, Butterworth, Golijov, Puccini and Respighi.

- Singers from the Bard Graduate Vocal Arts Program and the Broad Street Chamber Players String Quartet (originally April 5) Haydn’s The Creation, The Broad Street Chorale, the Broad Street Orchestra, and soloists Andrea Bargabos, Stephen Carroll and Charles Martin - Mozart - Excerpts from Cosí fan tutte and The Marriage of Figaro (originally April 26) Singers from the Bard Graduate Vocal Arts Program and the Broad Street Orchestra 15th annual Berkshire International Film Festival moved to fall 2020 In response to rapidly escalating coronavirus concerns, the Berkshire International Film Festival has decided to move its 15th annual festival to Sept. 10, through Sept. 13.

“After thoughtful consideration and in response to the growing uncertainty of the coronavirus outbreak, we have decided to reschedule our 2020 festival to this fall. We are incredibly grateful to our festival partners for their willingness to host the BIFF in September and to all of our patrons for their understanding and ongoing support,” said Kelley Vickery, the festival’s founder and artistic director. “Our hearts go out to our fellow cultural organizations here in the Berkshires and to our colleagues around the world as we navigate this difficult time.”

The festival plans to screen films at the Triplex Cinema, the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, the Phoenix Theatre’s Beacon Cinema, and the Tanglewood Learning Institute. The schedule will continue to include its popular Opening Nights, Tribute Night, Closing Night and Tea Talk events with filmmakers. All pass purchases will be honored in the fall or for spring 2021. www.biffma.org.

Crandell Theatre closing through Thursday, April 16 While there are no known cases of COVID-19 at the Crandell Theatre or in the region, out of caution and with particular concern for at-risk groups and the overall health of our community, Crandell Theatre will close on Monday, March 16, through Thursday, April 16. The reopening on Friday, April 17, will be subject to then-current public health information. All scheduled programming during this time is canceled.

For more information, please visit crandelltheatre.org.

Virtual Writers Institute at the University at Albany Writers are encouraged to submit short reflections on life in a world disrupted by COVID-19 to a new online community bulletin board, The Conversation.

The Conversation will begin by posing the following question, “If you are put under quarantine, which book are you most looking forward to reading?”

Read what Director Paul Grondahl and others have posted and share your thoughts by posting your comment.

Visit https://www.nyswritersinstitute.org/theconversation. No registration or email required.

There will also be a parallel conversation on the organization’s

Facebook page.

Participants should also begin thinking in terms of a personal essay or creative work reflecting on the coronavirus that you will have ready to submit when we there is a call for submissions for the next edition of the online community journal, “Trolley,” at https://www.trolleyjournal. com/, later this spring.

The Institute will be sending weekly emails featuring writing

by NYS Writers Institute visiting authors, past and present, as well as clips and video excerpts from past Writers Institute events preserved in the group’s archive.

Postponed - Woke Baby Book Fair at Hudson Area Library As a precautionary measure, the Hudson Area Library will be postponing Mahogany L. Browne’s Woke Baby Book Fair, originally scheduled for Saturday, April 4, to a later date.

CREATE closed to the public In the interest of public health and safety, CREATE Council For Resources to Enrich the Arts, Technology & Education will be closed to the public through the month of March.

The office at 398 Main St. will operate on a limited schedule until further notice. However, please email rather than come in, unless it is absolutely necessary.

Additionally, the following upcoming events are postponed: - CREATE onsite and offsite exhibitions -Beaux Arts 2020 annual fundraiser - All meetings scheduled to take place at CREATE If you have already donated to the Beaux Arts 2020 fundraiser, there are many details to work out, so please be patient and await further information.

Alon Koppel’s Aerial Abstraction will remain on view at New York Restaurant through April 25 or until further notice.

The CREATE staff will be available remotely during this time to respond to emails: Marline A. Martin executivedirector@greenearts.org; Sharon Shepherd sharon@ greenearts.org; Maeve E. McCool grantsmanager@greenearts.org; Dennis Shaw schohariegrants@ gmail.com and Information gcca@greenearts. org Fishkill Farms The farm store will be closing until further notice. Organic eggs, greens, and apples will continue to be sold through pre-orders, which may be picked up at the farm Friday through Sunday.

Fishkill Farms produce items: • Eco-certified apples • Pink Lady, Mustu, Gala, Jonagold, Red Delicious, Granny Smith, & Winesap • Organic/pasture-raised eggs • Organic mixed greenhouse greens (spinach and claytonia) • Fresh-pressed apple cider • Organic garlic • Organic shallots • Organic onions For the full produce list visit https://www.fishkillfarms. com/visit/store/?mc_ cid=59fc17a298&mc_ eid=8b5b696e23 To order: Call 845-897-4377 to place your order. Item availability is limited. Orders received first, will be reserved first. After orders are placed and payment is received, refunds will not be available.

Steps being taked on the farm” Cleaning and sanitizing routines have been increased throughout the entire farm, paying extra attention to common touch points such as door handles, tables and trays.

Employees are washing hands often for at least 20 seconds.

Several hand sanitizing stations have been installed at points of entry and exit.

All staff in contact with fresh produce are required to wear gloves and practice safe food-handling hygiene.

Any staff member that is feeling ill, has been in contact with anyone feeling ill, or has been traveling is required to stay home for an extended period of time.

Customer visits are being limited currently.

Murder Cafe The performance calendar for Murder Cafe has been cleared for the next eight weeks due to the COVID-19 spread. As soon as the global pandemic subsides and options become clearer, Murder Cafe will announced new dates for planned productions.

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for System Care Delivery and hospital general director.

The hospital is assessing its testing supplies daily, he said.

“If we can’t do walk-up testing, we will notify the public within 24 hours.”

In addition to in-patients and at-risk populations, kits will also be directed toward hospital staff in the event of a shortage. “It is inevitable that a health care provider will get sick,” Director

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Residents could potentially see a toll increase on the bridge to support Thruway needs, according to the resolution.

SOLAR The Government Operations and Finance committees both approved two resolutions to combat the proposed changes to how the state sites solar energy projects.

Article 10, the state siting regulations for solar projects larger than 25 megawatts, streamlines the application process for developers and provides a process for local input, while ensuring environmental and public health laws are followed, according to nyserda.ny,gov.

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20; Orange County, 32; Monroe County, 14; Saratoga and Schenectady counties, 14; Ulster County, 9; Erie County, 7; Rensselaer County, 4; Tompkins County, 3; Allegany, Greene, Onondaga, Montgomery, and Putnam counties, 2; and one each in Broome, Clinton, Chenango, Delaware, Essex, Hamilton, Herkimer, Ontario, Sullivan, Tioga, Warren and Wyoming counties.

Albany County has 41 confirmed cases of COVID-19, County Executive Dan McCoy said in an updated statement Wednesday — up from 25 positive cases Tuesday. The cases span a range of ages and professions, McCoy said, including a 7-year-old and an Albany County Sheriff’s deputy.

Westchester County was the state’s largest COVID-19 “hot zone” for the past two weeks, which mainly spread in the community from a 50-year-old

of Epidemiology Rebecca O’Donnell said.

“If you are working in the hospital, we need to know whether that person has been exposed to the virus or not.

There is no question that we have to use the testing kits to prioritize health care workers,” McKenna said.

The hospital has administered 1,402 tests for COVID-19 at its temporary testing facility — a large tent set up in the parking lot. Hospital staff members are performing tests on both scheduled and walk-in patients.

All COVID-19 testing kits used at Capital Region

hospitals are analyzed at the Wadsworth Center, a public health laboratory administered by the state Department of Health in Albany. Health officials said test results become available within 24 hours.

Albany Medical Center began performing its own tests internally on Tuesday, Venditti said, but the hospital can only perform 300 total tests with the supplies it has available.

As testing kits become scarce, hospitals may begin to share testing regionally. “We will continue to do that testing as we are directed to do

so,” Venditti said. “We’ll work with the local hospitals to try to do that in a coordinated manner.”

Albany Medical Center does not keep track of identifying information about the patients it tests for COVID-19, McKenna said. “We are not tracking the origin of the patients. Wadsworth is able to track the county of origin of the tests.”

The hospital has not changed its privacy policies in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, officials said.

There have been no changes to the HIPAA [Health Insurance Portability and

Accountability Act] rules, McKenna said. “We have to know who among our workforce has been exposed. Our compliance officer has assured us that everything we are doing is within the HIPAA rules,” he said.

HIPAA laws were introduced in 1996 to protect patient privacy and restrict the sharing of health information. The laws permit hospitals to disclose protected health information if a person poses a serious threat to public health. McKenna did not comment on how HIPAA laws might affect disclosure of information regarding

COVID-19.

Ellis Hospital in Schenectady has suspended testing due to a shortage of kits, Ellis officials said Wednesday.

Albany Medical Center is coordinating the response to COVID-19 with area hospitals, including Columbia Memorial Health, St. Peter’s Health Partners, Ellis Medicine, Saratoga Hospital, Glens Falls Hospital and St. Mary’s Healthcare Amsterdam.

Officials from each hospital are in contact daily via conference call.

Columbia Memorial Health is part of the Albany Medical Center network.

The proposed state budget would further diminish local municipalities’ authority over solar projects, Legislator Thomas Hobart, R-Coxsackie, said.

“This isn’t good stuff the governor is proposing,” Hobart said. “He’s looking to take away any representation you have as home rule.”

Under Article 10, the siting board is to consist of seven members: state Department of Public Service CEO John B. Rhodes, Chairman of the state Energy Research and Development Authority Richard L. Kauffman, President and CEO of Empire State Development Eric Gertler, state Department of Health Commissioner Dr. Howard A. Zucker, state Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos and two members of the public from the municipality in which the

project is proposed, according to dps.ny.gov Hobart said that under the new regulations, when the municipality puts the most qualified people forward, the local government will have no say.

Under the proposed law, major renewable energy facilities will not require any “approval, consent, permit, certificate, contract, agreement or other condition for the development, design, construction, operation or decommissioning” from a local municipality.

Municipalities will be able to submit a statement about a proposed project’s compliance or noncompliance with local laws during a public comment period, according to the bill.

“General expressions of disagreement with or general opposition to the siting,

design, construction and/or operation of a major renewable energy facility during the public comment period shall not be considered to be substantive or significant for purposes of this section,” according to the bill.

If the comments raise a “substantive and significant issue,” a hearing will be set, according to the bill.

Judicial review of the issuance or denial of a permit can be requested by a party within 30 days of the issuance or denial by filing a petition, according to the bill.

The new regulations would apply to projects 10 megawatts and above, Hobart said.

“This is not green energy, it’s green dollars,” he said.

“This stuff shouldn’t even be in a budget.”

The applications will cost $1,000 per 1,000 kilowatts, or 1 megawatt, according to the

bill. The funds will be kept in accounts designated to be distributed to the local municipality, according to the bill.

The governor’s proposal to “dramatically speed up the permitting and construction of renewable energy projects,” would replace the current Article 10 process, according to the county’s resolution.

“This amendment will effectively remove any meaningful input from citizens, counties, local environmental groups and community businesses regarding the siting and regulation of renewable energy projects,” according to the resolution.

The state Office of Renewable Energy Siting, which is proposed in the budget, would have a year to approve a project. If no decision is made, the application would

be automatically approved, according to the resolution.

“All of these proposed changes are not only in conflict with our home rule rights, but are also contrary to our obligation to protect the health, safety and welfare of our constituents,” according to the resolution.

The county Legislature formally requested that state lawmakers withdraw the amendment before voting on the budget, according to the resolution.

The second resolution lawmakers passed regarding solar on Monday was in support of an Assembly bill that would require a public referendum for any electric generating project.

The bill, sponsored by Assemblyman Michael Norris, R-144, was referred to the Energy Committee in late January.

attorney who tested positive March 3. The cluster has reduced after efforts to reduce the density with a one-mile containment zone in the city of New Rochelle and the opening of a six-lane, drive-through testing center March 13.

As of early Wednesday afternoon, the state had tested more than 14,000 people for the virus.

COVID-19 tests continue to be prioritized for the most vulnerable members of the population, including senior citizens, people with compromised immune systems or underlying conditions, Cuomo said.

“We know what this virus does,” the governor said.

“What’s worse than the virus is the rumors... [about] quarantine. People will get ill, but they will resolve. People who are vulnerable is where we have to be careful. But the panic and the fear is wholly disconnected from the reality.”

On March 10, Cuomo asked DiNapoli to reassess the state’s proposed $178 billion executive budget after COVID-19 wreaked havoc on the local and national markets. The executive

budget forecast could be $4 billion to $7 billion below the state’s original $87.9 billion projections, DiNapoli said, because the virus will likely serve as the catalyst for a mild to deep recession.

Cuomo does not expect delays in lawmakers amending and adopting the 2020-21 executive budget by the April 1 deadline, he reiterated Wednesday.

“If they want to do it sooner, great, but the date is April 1,” Cuomo said. “Government is functioning. Police officers and nurses are doing their job... A lot of people are putting themselves in harm’s way.

“This is public service,” the governor added. “We’ll be here doing our job. If they want to do the budget early, fine, but April 1 is the deadline.”

For several days, Cuomo has called on President Donald Trump and the federal government to take comprehensive action to maximize hospital beds and available intensive care by deploying the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to leverage its equipment and staff to retrofit existing facilities — such as

military bases or college dormitories — to serve as temporary medical centers.

The federal government neither accepted nor declined the governor’s request to mobilize the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Cuomo issued an executive order Monday to allow the state to increase hospital capacity by constructing temporary medical centers before hospital beds are overwhelmed with

coronavirus patients.

The state, nation and every country across the globe are scrambling for more ventilators, Cuomo said. Officials brought out a ventilator during Wednesday’s COVID-19 briefing.

“This is a respiratory illness,” the governor said.

“The ventilators actually help people breathe... it’s just the number that we need is much

higher. We can create more beds, but it’s literally the supply of ventilators that is a national need.”

Cuomo remained resistant to quarantining cities, geographic areas or adopting shelter-in-place measures.

“I don’t believe any [shelter-in-place] policy works unless the geographic footprint is large enough,” he added.

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C-GCC baseball, softball seasons canceled

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GREENPORT — Because of the rapidly spreading coronavirus, the 2020 season is over before it started for the Columbia-Greene Community College baseball and softball teams.

The National Junior College Athletic Association, which oversees all two-year schools, decided on Tuesday to cancel the spring sports season.

The following statement regarding National Junior College Athletic Association sporting events was released on Tuesday: Following the recent recommendations from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the NJCAA has made the difficult decision to cancel all upcoming basketball championships as well as spring competition, effective immediately.

“In light of the progressive evolvement of the COVID-19 situation, the NJCAA has decided to end all competition for the remainder of the academic year,” stated Dr. Christopher Parker, NJCAA President & CEO. “As an association, the NJCAA exhausted all possible avenues to potentially postpone competition for both upcoming basketball championships and spring sport competition. We believe following the recommendations of the CDC is in the best interest of our member colleges and our student-athletes.”

Spring competition

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The 2020 season for the Columbia-Greene Community College baseball and softball teams was canceled on Tuesday because of the Coronavirus.

includes all practices, regular season, postseason, and national championship play.

Regarding eligibility for spring sports, no spring sport student-athlete who was enrolled at a member college in 2020 will be charged a year of participation.

Along with the cancellation of competition, all on and off-campus recruiting for all sports will be halted until April 15 with further evaluation to be assessed at that point in time.

The NJCAA will explore the opportunity to expand

allowable Letters of Intent for spring sports for both the 2020-21 and 2021-22 academic years under the recommendation of the NJCAA Eligibility Committee.

The NJCAA will continue to monitor the situation and provide updates as more

information becomes available.

C-GCC baseball coach Skip Ingham was saddened by the NJCAA’s decision, but was in complete agreement.

“With the covid 19 pandemic raging through our country at this time I understand the

Kevin Durant among four Brooklyn Nets players to test positive for coronavirus Ben Golliver The Washington Post

The number of NBA players with confirmed cases of the coronavirus rose to seven Tuesday when the Brooklyn Nets announced that four of their players had tested positive. Kevin Durant was one of the four Nets players to test positive.

According to the Nets, only one of the four players, who were not identified by the team, has exhibited symptoms. The Nets have advised all players and members of their traveling party to “remain isolated, closely monitor their health and maintain constant communication” with medical staff, according to a statement.

A source with direct knowledge confirmed Durant’s positive test to The Washington Post, speaking anonymously so as to freely discuss the private medical situation.

“Everyone be careful, take care of yourself and quarantine,”

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Brooklyn Nets small forward Kevin Durant (7) smiles during a time out in a Feb 3 game against the Phoenix Suns at Barclays Center.

Durant told the Athletic, which first reported his diagnosis and that he was asymptomatic.

“We’re going to get through this.”

The four Nets players join

three players - Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell of the Utah Jazz, and Christian Wood of the Detroit Pistons - who had previously tested positive for coronavirus. Gobert’s positive test last

week led the NBA to suspend its 2019-20 season.

In a statement posted to social media, Gobert said that he was “under great care and will fully recover.” Mitchell said in an interview with ABC’s “Good Morning America” that he was “doing well” and asymptomatic. Wood has also been asymptomatic.

The Nets’ positive tests are noteworthy because they cannot be directly linked to the Jazz or the Pistons. Brooklyn and Utah last played on Jan. 14, nearly two months before Gobert’s positive test. Brooklyn last faced Detroit on Jan. 29. By contrast, the Jazz and Pistons played each other on March 7, just four days before Gobert’s test, and the three players who tested positive were on the court together.

In the wake of the Nets’ positive tests, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio criticized the limited availability of testing for the See DURANT B5

Why Brady is headed to Tampa Bay and the Bucs Rick Stroud Tampa Bay Times

TAMPA, Fla. — You are Tom Brady and leaving the New England Patriots after 20 seasons.

You have six Super Bowl rings, one for the thumb, and nine appearances in the NFL title game.

The only NFL head coach you have ever played for is Bill Belichick, a somber savant who drove you to greatness but kept you at an arm’s length each season until the confetti fell.

You sacrificed your body and salary every year to make the Patriots better, but that loyalty wasn’t always reciprocated with an abundance of weapons.

For the first time since you were recruited to the University of Michigan, you have a choice of where to play football. You are 42, with a family and a clock that ticks louder in your helmet every year.

And after meeting the night before with Patriots owner Bob Kraft, who is like a second father, you write a love letter on social media MADDIE MEYER/GETTY IMAGES to Patriots fans telling them why the ride is Tom Brady (12) of the New England Patriots reacts as they take on the Tennessee Titans in the first half of the AFC Wild Card Playoff game at Gillette Stadium on Jan. 4 in Foxborough, Mass.

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decision by NJCAA to shut down the spring season,” Ingham said. “The protection of our athletes as well as coaches are the biggest concern.

“As a coach, I am devastated for my players. They have worked very hard all fall and since January to be prepared for this upcoming season.

Some of them have had two seasons ripped away, both totally out of their control. I have relationships with them that goes beyond being there coach. I can’t say I am sorry enough.”

Twins’ softball coach Peter Dedrick was also saddened by the NJCAA’s announcement.

“Yeah it was a tough day for all college athletes,” Dedrick said. “We all kind of saw the writing on the wall when all NCAA schools canceled their seasons. I did appreciate our region and all of NJCAA taking a step back to access the situation a little more before coming to their conclusion.

“It’s about the safety of the players and if this what they believe is best then it is what it is. I feel for our players who put in all the work just to have to end so abruptly. We as coaches always say play everyday like it could be your last time on the field. This was a scenario where the end came before anyone expected it.

“It’s a tough time but we are built to deal with adversity and our sophomores will move on with their degrees. We as a program will continue to build the program and recruit and be back on the field in the fall.”

Second Yankees minor-leaguer tests positive for coronavirus Erik Boland New York Daily News

TAMPA, Fla. — A second Yankees minor leaguer has tested positive for the coronavirus, the team confirmed Tuesday.

The player, who has not been publicly named, is the second in the team’s minor league system to test positive during the COVID-19 pandemic that has shut down the sports world and much of the world in general.

“While under self-quarantine, the player reported fatigue and an elevated body temperature to Yankees medical personnel,” the team said in a statement. “The test was administered on Sunday, and the player returned to self-quarantine following the positive results. We can also report that within the past 48 hours his symptoms have dissipated.”

The first positive test came back late last week and, as a result, the Yankees minor league complex was immediately closed Friday afternoon and will remain so until at least March 25. All Yankees minor-leaguers and some player development staff are under self-quarantine until March 25.

“You feel for him and his teammates and the organization,” veteran lefthander J.A. Happ said late Tuesday morning as he left Steinbrenner Field after a workout. “You hope that can be an isolated thing, but you just don’t know. From what I’ve heard, he hasn’t been on this side at all, so maybe it won’t spread here.”

That, of course, remains to be seen.

The first minor-leaguer to test positive, general manager general manager Brian Cashman said Sunday, experienced symptoms Friday morning and did not report to the complex that day. The player and his roommate were quarantined Friday and the Hillsborough County Health Department recommended that the complex be shut down and it was.

“We’ve had no other corona testing necessary at this time,” Cashman said Sunday.

“I think just like anybody in society, is that likely to stick? I would say no, it’s not likely to stick.”

And indeed, it did not stick, not a surprise given the large number of players — in the neighborhood of 150 — at the complex during minor league spring training.

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Simulating the 2020 NCAA tournament: An attempt to stave off March sadness Neil Greenberg The Washington Post

With the cancellation of the 2020 men’s and women’s NCAA basketball tournaments due to the covid-19 pandemic, this marks the first year the NCAA tournament has not been played since its inception in 1939. It’s a tough break for the players and coaches who worked hard all season to get a chance to hear “One Shining Moment” as they cut down the nets in Atlanta, the scheduled site of this year’s Final Four.

In the wake of the cancellations, some governing bodies have taken it upon themselves to award the title of “national champions,” as the Florida state senate did in declaring the Seminoles champs. We have a slightly more objective solution.

We have a pretty good sense of which teams were likely to make the field thanks to the Bracket Matrix, which compiles data from 81 different bracketologists, and roughly where each one should be seeded according to Patrick Stevens’ last bracket projection before cancellation. All that’s left is to simulate the What-Might-Have-Been 2020 Bracket.

To make it simple, we’re going to start with an estimated number of possessions for each team using the definition outlined by Nylon Calculus, including any additional possessions to be had via offensive rebounds and turnovers. Then, estimated scores are derived by multiplying those respective possessions by the team’s adjusted offensive rating found at Ken Pomeroy’s site. Once we know the projected scoring margin, we can infer an implied win percentage. For instance, teams that are favored by two points would have an expected win probability of 57%. That rises to 77% if the predicted scoring margin is seven points. Finally, these win rates are then used to decide which team would win in a headto-head matchup with luck factoring into the equation just like it does during March Madness. To simulate luck in this tournament, we are going to compare each team’s expected win rate in a head-to-head matchup to the expected win rate if we based its chances on seed matchup alone. Any team that had a win rate higher than expected for a seed pairing was given a chance at the upset victory. That individual game was then simulated 5,000 times, with the result from the 2,020th game used for this bracket.

A word of caution. Don’t expect many upsets this year. The NCAA’s NET rating, used to rank teams during the regular season and seed them in the tournament, was one of the best predictive measures of 2019-20. The higher ranked team in NET went on to win over 67% of the time. The best ranking system for predictive performance this season, created by Mark Moog, predicted a win 68% of the time.

That’s a difference of less than one game per 68-team field. The average ranking was right 61% of the time.

So, what could have this year’s NCAA men’s basketball tournament looked like? Here’s a region-by-region breakdown.

First Four The First Four teams are the four lowestseeded teams earning an automatic bid to the tournament (North Carolina Central, Prairie View A&M, Robert Morris and Siena) plus the four last at-large qualifiers (North Carolina State, Richmond, UCLA and Wichita State).

The former will be No. 16 seeds and the latter will be No. 11 seeds.

No. 11 Richmond beat No. 11 North Carolina State The Spiders were one of the best shooting teams in the college ranks (effective field goal rate of 53%, 30th) with good discipline and an ability to generate steals (12%, 19th in country) for extra possessions.

No. 11 Wichita State beat No. 11 UCLA A top-10 defense (90.4 points allowed per

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Ohio State Buckeyes head coach Chris Holtmann reacts during the second half of a game against the Michigan State Spartans at the Breslin Center.

100 possessions after adjusting for opponent) centered around rim protection helped Wichita State move on to the field of 64.

No. 16 Prairie View A&M beat No. 16 North Carolina Central Prairie View created turnovers (24%, 10th best) and was aggressive getting to the free throw line (24th in nation), two key ingredients for success in the tournament.

No. 16 Siena beat No. 16 Robert Morris Point guard Jalen Pickett and forward Manny Camper were each above-average players for Siena this year. Pickett led the team in points (15.1) and assists (6.0) per game while Camper cleaned the glass with over 10 rebounds per contest. Robert Morris was overmatched.

East This region was stacked in the aggregated bracket and went largely as expected. The Dayton Flyers, who earned the top seed in the East after winning the Atlantic 10 Conference behind an offense that is the second-best in the nation after adjusting for opponent, beat No. 16 Winthrop. No. 2 San Diego State, the last undefeated team in the country, moved past No. 15 Eastern Washington. No. 3 Duke was the 11th most efficient offense and ninth most efficient defense during the regular season and had no trouble moving past No. 14 Belmont.

The first top seed that ran into trouble was No. 4 Kentucky. The Wildcats lost to No. 13 North Texas in the simulation, and you’d have to imagine senior DJ Draper, one of the best three-point shooters in the country, would have played a key role in the upset. The backup shooting guard hit 42 of 77 three-point attempts this season (55%) and that included 13 for 26 on guarded catch-and-shoot attempts from behind the arc. No. 7 Houston was also sent home early. The Cougars were bested by a No. 10 Texas Tech squad that boasted the ninth-best defense in the county per Pomeroy’s ratings.

No. 6 West Virginia took care of business in the first round against Richmond and then stunned Duke to reach the Sweet 16. That wasn’t a complete surprise, the Mountaineers were the third-best defense in the nation.

North Texas also defeated No. 5 Auburn, one of the luckiest teams during the regular season, to continue a Cinderella run. North Texas couldn’t, however, make it past Dayton in the Sweet 16. West Virginia claimed the other side of the bracket, casting aside San Diego State for an Elite Eight spot.

That left Dayton and West Virginia battling it out for a Final Four berth. Dayton won 71 to

67 in our simulation, giving the school its second Final Four appearance in school history and first since 1967.

Midwest No. 1 Kansas, the top overall seed in the tournament, easily cruised through the first round. As did No. 2 Creighton, No. 3 Michigan State, No. 4 Oregon, No. 5 Ohio State, No. 6 Iowa and No. 7 Arizona. Although not technically an upset, No. 9 Rutgers won over No. 8 LSU 74-72.

The Buckeyes, however, were a sleeping giant. They were the eighth-most efficient team in the country after accounting for strength of schedule, with skilled three-point shooters (37%, 23rd) that could score in bunches. They beat Oregon in the round of 32 and knocked off Kansas 72-65 in the Elite Eight to make this year’s Final Four. The Jayhawks’ defense was stout (second-best in the country) but they allowed way too many shots from behind the arc (41% of all field goals, 288th out of 353 teams).

Once they ran into a team like Ohio State that could make them pay, it caught up to them.

Then Ohio State beat Michigan State to make the Final Four. Pace played a key role in this simulation. The Buckeyes’ slow play (280th in the nation) added emphasis to their three-point shooting. Their rebounding prowess (25.2%) also stopped Michigan State from fully utilizing its own strength on the offensive glass, propelling Ohio State to a 64-52 win.

South Three transfer students helped No. 1 Baylor get its highest seed in the tournament since the Bears’ first appearance in 1988. Point guard Davion Mitchell, center Freddie Gillespie and forward MaCio Teague combined to score 96 points per 100 possessions during the regular season, 11 points per 100 possessions more than the rest of the roster. Gillespie was also stellar on the offensive glass, grabbing nearly 16% of the team’s misses, the 10th highest rate in the country. Baylor moved on easily against No. 16 Boston University and No. 9 Florida (who beat No. 8 Providence).

No. 5 Butler didn’t succumb to No. 12 Stephen F. Austin as many thought (5-seeds are popular picks to fall in the first round) nor did the Bulldogs have trouble with No. 13 New Mexico State, who had upset No. 4 Wisconsin in the round of 64 using extra possessions from offensive rebounds and turnovers, two fingerprints found in many first-round upsets.

Had Butler met Wisconsin the outcome would have been the same. The Bulldogs were the 21st best team in the country per the consensus of dozens of rating systems, including the NCAA’s NET ranking, with an ability to score

around the rim and defend others from doing the same.

On the other side of the South bracket, No. 6 Michigan made its way past No. 3 Seton Hall to gain entry to the Sweet 16 and then No. 2 Florida State for a spot in the Elite Eight. No. 10 Oklahoma, the 39th best team per the consensus rankings, upset No. 7 Illinois, the 28th best, due to not giving away easy points via free throws (Illinois shot an above-average 73% from the line this season). The Sooners were the most-disciplined team of 2019-20 in terms of how often they sent opponents to the free throw line.

Baylor beat Butler 65-59 and then beat Michigan 70-65 to earn the region’s Final Four spot.

West No. 1 Gonzaga boasted a solid resume (52 against Quadrant 1 teams and 30 against Quadrant 2) and the most-efficient offense in the country after adjusting for opponent (120.6 points per 100 possessions). However, on paper, Gonzaga was the most-likely 1-seed to lose in the round of 64, nearly joining Virginia as the only No. 1 seeds to ever lose to a No. 16 seed in the opening round. Luckily for them, Gonzaga narrowly beat Siena 86-83.

No. 10 Arizona State got revenge against No. 7 Virginia for a low-scoring regular season loss (48-45) in November. That would have been the first win for Arizona State in the tournament since the field expanded to 68 teams in 2011.

The biggest surprise was No. 3 Maryland, perhaps the best team Mark Turgeon has coached in College Park. Almost three-fourths of the 62 ratings systems audited by Kenneth Massey had the Terrapins ranked as at least the eighth-best team in the country. Pomeroy’s college basketball ratings estimated the Terps are outscoring opponents by 20.5 net points per 100 possessions after adjusting for strength of schedule, the 13th-best rate in the country. Before this season Turgeon had never seen Maryland rank higher than 22nd, and that was in 2016. You would have to go back to Gary Williams’s coaching days to find a Maryland squad ranked better by Pomeroy’s algorithm than the one Turgeon coached in 2019-20.

Turgeon saw his squad beat No. 14 UC Irvine, No. 6 Penn State and then No. 2 Villanova to face off against Gonzaga in the Elite Eight.

Maryland didn’t have the offense Gonzaga did but the Terps were more balanced, especially on defense, leading to a 91-84 victory to give the school what would be its third Final Four appearance ever in the men’s basketball tournament.

Final Four No. 5 Ohio State (Midwest) beat No. 1 Dayton (East) 80-64 The Buckeyes allowed opponents to shoot just 44% on two-point shots during the regular season, the 17th best rate in the country. That let Ohio State do the one thing better than most against Dayton and Obi Toppin, the best dunker in the nation: defend the rim.

No. 1 Baylor (South) defeated No. 3 Maryland (West) 72-58 Baylor’s ability to own the offensive glass and force turnovers likely would have proven Maryland’s undoing. The Bears forced a high number of turnovers (23% of defensive possessions, 22nd) and grabbed close to 36% of their misses for easy putbacks off offensive rebounds during the regular season. Both served them well in this matchup.

National title game No. 5 Ohio State wins 74-69 over No. 1 Baylor The Buckeyes were the better shooting team all year (effective field goal rate of 52% vs. 49% for Baylor) and close enough defensively to allow Ohio State to win its second national championship and first since 1960.

NASCAR vows to run full season despite coronavirus uncertainty Edgar Thompson Orlando Sentinel

NASCAR is idling in neutral, but once coronavirus fears have passed, the sport plans to get back on track and push hard to the finish line.

The season might be on hold until at least early May, but NASCAR president Steve Phelps remains determined to run the 2020 schedule in full.

A myriad logistics will have to be ironed out once sports — and the rest of society — are given the green light to resume the countless activities canceled by the coronavirus pandemic.

Seven total NASCAR races have been put on hold, with a planned return on May 9 at Martinsville Speedway in Virginia. The sport had run just four of 36 scheduled events prior to postponing last week’s race in Atlanta and this week’s race at

Homestead-Miami Speedway.

“We have a commitment to our fans that we’re going to run all the races,” Phelps said during a conference call Tuesday. “We have a commitment to all our competitors that we run all the races.

We have a commitment to the stakeholders broadly that we’re going to run all the races.

The fact the NASCAR season runs nearly nine months, beginning with the Daytona 500 in mid-February, leaves little wiggle room at either end of the calendar.

Even so, Phelps said he still hopes to conclude the playoffs Nov. 8 in Phoenix, which replaces Homestead as the site of the season finale for the first time following an offseason schedule shakeup.

Phelps said he would consider options that include midweek races and

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An overview of the track during the 70th Annual running of the STP 500 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race on March 24, 2019 at Martinsville Speedway in Martinsville, Va. The NASCAR season might be on hold until at least early May, but NASCAR president Steve Phelps remains determined to run the 2020 schedule in full.

doubleheaders.

“It will require a lot of different opportunities for us to look at,” he said. “We’re in the process of doing that.”

Finding a spot in the

schedule for the seven postponed races prior to the start of the Sept. 6 playoffs could put NASCAR head to head with the Tokyo Olympics. Broadcast partner

NBC Sports originally had requested NASCAR take a break while the Olympics were staged.

“Will it be a crowded landscape, television landscape, with a lot of different sports on? Yes, it’s going to be,” Phelps said “I think, again, we’ll work with our television partners to find the appropriate windows so we can get back racing and make sure our fans get the opportunity to see that racing.”

While facing a national crisis, NASCAR plans to remain on target to make sweeping changes to the sport in 2021.

The rollout of the Next Gen car and a revamped schedule are expected to invigorate the sports, but more immediate concerns face NASCAR. Keeping races teams afloat is a major financial challenge and concern. Teams already struggled with expenses before coronavirus hammered sponsors’ balance sheets.

Sponsors fuel the sport, but they may want back the investments they already made to field cars and pay drivers and staff members since no one will be on the track. Meanwhile, race purses awarded teams are being put on a hold.

Phelps said NASCAR aims to help race teams stay afloat.

One step has been banning car tests, including the use of wind tunnels or manufacturer-owned simulators.

“We are working with our teams closely to have them industry wide to make sure we are all financially viable moving forward during this postponement of our races,” he said. “Are we concerned about teams broadly and their financial health? Of course we are. We want to make sure that each of our teams gets through this, each of our stakeholders in the industry gets through this crisis as well as we all can.”

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Matt Vensel Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

PITTSBURGH — We are going to attempt to talk about hockey today, with a disclaimer that there are more important things to worry about in our world than whether or not Gary Bettman hands somebody the Stanley Cup this spring or summer.

Another disclaimer: There is a legit chance that isn’t going to happen.

Based on the latest recommendation from the Center for Disease Control, that all events with 50 or more people be canceled for the next eight weeks, the NHL has said the best-case scenario for players even being permitted to practice is around May 1.

Again, that’s a best-case scenario. It’s probably unrealistic.

The story of this pandemic is evolving every day, the news seemingly bleaker each time. So let’s indulge the NHL and consider what the playoffs may look like.

Heck, it will give us something else to think about while we stand at least six feet apart in line waiting to get our hands on some pinot grigio before it’s gone.

Bettman, the NHL commissioner, has made the media rounds in recent days to answer questions about the direction of the league. Understandably, he doesn’t want to guess on the record about what the future may hold because he knows the circumstances we face could be much different a week from now.

Remember, a week ago the Penguins played what could be their last game of the season, in a fairly crowded arena in New Jersey. Players got their first glimpse at the league’s new media access policy in the wake of the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, expecting that to be the new normal for the playoff push.

But the NHL, for now, is keeping the doors open for its Zambonis, hoping the U.S. and Canada have done and will continue to do enough to allow sports leagues to resume operations, even if games must be played in empty arenas.

Bettman, in an interview with TSN, estimated that for an NHL game to take place, between 200 and 300 people must be on hand. That includes coaches, officials, training staff, doctors,

maintenance workers, etc. It’s not just 40 players.

Plus, for financial reasons, the NHL really doesn’t want to have to play any games without paying ticket-holders in the barn to buy nachos, an I.C. Light and a Jack Johnson jersey. But the league knows it might have no other choice.

Money will be one of the main considerations if the NHL gets a chance to salvage this season, perhaps behind only the health of the public and NHL family.

Another major factor will be time.

Let’s say the league gets the green light from health experts and government officials three months from now, in the middle of June. That wouldn’t give the NHL enough time to squeeze in the current playoff format, especially when you consider the need for arena availability.

Bettman has also said he hopes to have a normal 2020-21 season, which would put a bookend on how far out the league is willing to push a potential 2019-20 postseason. Talking to TSN, he mentioned going into July, maybe August.

Metropolitan Division behind the Washington Capitals and the Philadelphia Flyers, would just miss out on a first-round bye. They would start with a best-of-three series against the Montreal Canadiens, the last Eastern team above the playoff cut.

From there, given time and scheduling constraints, additional playoff rounds may need to be only three or five games. Maybe it’s best-of-five for the conference finals and then we get back to best-of-seven for the Stanley Cup final.

If and when the league gets the green light to resume will obviously have a major impact on what the playoff format will look like. And that’s not even mentioning where they will be played — maybe even in empty practice facilities.

As Bettman has stressed in interviews, a lot of ideas will be put on the table.

But Bettman also made it clear that, if the NHL ever gets to the point where the season is back on, he wants to ensure the “integrity” of the game is intact.

That would force the NHL to get creative as it looks to determine a Stanley Cup champion while also trying to recoup as many lost millions as possible.

There has been speculation the league could expand the playoff field to 20 or 24 teams, essentially creating a play-in tourney to get into the regular field.

Look, hypothetically speaking, if your favorite team has a .500 points percentage, you shouldn’t cry foul — especially given the backdrop of this pandemic — if the rest of the regular season is called off and your squad doesn’t make the playoff field. From a fairness standpoint, mediocre teams are owed nothing.

But from a financial standpoint, it probably wouldn’t be a bad thing if places such as New York, Chicago, Montreal and Minnesota made it into the field.

That’s why a 24-team playoff format that Sportsnet’s Chris Johnson wrote about, or something similar, could be appealing to Bettman and NHL owners.

Under that proposed format, the Penguins, who are third in the

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Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (“SSNY�) on 02/24/2020. Office location: Columbia County.

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

SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to the LLC to Kristal Heinz, ESQ., P.O. Box 1331, Hudson, NY 12534.

Purpose: To engage in any lawful activity.

ATHENS MEDIA LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 11/26/2019. Office loc: Greene County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: Jonathan Pratt, 339 Sleepy Hollow Rd, Athens, NY 12015. Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

CATSKILL HILLS, LLC, Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 02/24/2020. Office loc: Greene County. SSNY has been designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: C/O Anne Gibbs, P.O. Box 139, Freehold, NY 12431.

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

CHAT BREW, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 02/14/20.

Office: Columbia County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 59-63 Main Street, Chatham, NY 12037. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Golf 8.5, LLC filed with the SSNY on 3/12/20.

Office: Columbia County. The Secretary of State of New York is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to 118 Dermody Road, Canaan, NY 12029. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Homestead RE LLC. Filed 11/25/19. Office: Columbia Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 1008 Kinderhook St, Valatie, NY 12184.

Purpose: General.

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.

Notice of formation of 5354 Route 23, LLC Arts. of Org. filed with the Sect'y of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/29/2020. Office location, County of Greene. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: Condon & Forsyth LLP, Attn: Stuart E. Berelson, Esq., 7 Times Square, NY, NY 10036. Purpose: any lawful act.

Imaginary Artisans LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on 11/25/2019.

Office location: Greene County.

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

SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: Imaginary Artisans LLC, 30 Liberty Street Apt 2R Catskill, NY 12414.

Purpose: Any lawful acts or activities. Latest date upon which LLC is to dissolve: No specific date JULIA RITCHIE CONSULTING, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 01/21/20.

Office: Columbia County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 422 County Route 25, Hudson, NY 12534. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

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 Thursday, March 19, 2020 at which time and place they will be publicly opened and read.

Specifications will be available on March 11, 2020 and may be obtained from the Business Office by calling 943-2300 ext. 1472 or 1413. The Board reserves the right to reject any and all proposals.

By order of the Board of Education Catskill Central School District William Muirhead, Transportation Director Holly Sanford, District Treasurer NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY FIRST: The name of the Limited Liability Company is George White, LLC (hereinafter referred to as the “Company�)

SECOND: The Articles of Organization of the Company were filed with the Secretary of State on March 16, 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 3111 Cobb Hill Road, Cazenovia, NY 13035.

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

Dated: March 17, 2020 FREEMAN HOWARD, P.C. 441 East Allen Street P.O. Box 1328 Hudson, New York 12534 Notice of Formation of GO WITH THE FLOW LLC. Articles of Organization filed with NY Secy. of State on 02/21/2020. Office location: Columbia County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: P.O. Box 152, Kinderhook, NY 12106. No registered agent. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Flint Law Firm P.C., 75 Main Street, P. O. Box 363, Chatham, NY 12037, (518) 392-2555 NOTICE OF BOND RESOLUTION NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the bond resolution, a summary of which is published

herewith, has been adopted by the Town Board of the Town of Kinderhook, Columbia County, New York on the 16th day of March, 2020, and the validity of the obligations authorized by such resolution may be hereafter contested only if such obligations were authorized for an object or purpose for which the Town of Kinderhook is not authorized to expend money or if the provisions of law which should have been complied with as of the date of publication of this notice were not substantially complied with, and an action, suit or proceeding contesting such validity is commenced within twenty (20) days after the date of publication of this notice; or if such obligations were authorized in violation of the provisions of the Constitution of New York.

Kimberly Pinkowski, Town Clerk Town of Kinderhook BOND RESOLUTION DATED MARCH 16, 2020 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE ACQUISITION OF A HIGHWAY MAINTENANCE TRUCK AND THE ISSUANCE OF SERIAL BONDS OF THE TOWN OF KINDERHOOK, COLUMBIA COUNTY, NEW YORK IN AN AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $108,150 PURSUANT TO THE LOCAL FINANCE LAW TO FINANCE THE COST THEREOF, AND DELEGATING CERTAIN POWERS IN C O N N E C T I O N THEREWITH TO THE TOWN SUPERVISOR Objects or purposes: The Resolution authorizes the acquisition of an F550 truck with truck body for highway maintenance purposes, at an estimated maximum cost of $108,150. The aforesaid purpose constitutes a Type II action as defined under the State Environmental Quality Review Regulations, 6 NYCRR Part 617, which has been determined not to have a significant effect on the environment.

Period of Probable Usefulness: Fifteen (15) years pursuant to subdivision 28 of paragraph a of Section 11.00 of the Local Finance Law. The obligations authorized by the Bond Resolution will not be in excess of five years from the original date of issuance of such obligations.

Maximum Amount of Obligations to be Issued: The Town plans to finance the total cost of said purpose by the issuance of serial bonds of the Town in an amount not to exceed $108,150, authorized to be issued therefor pursuant to the Local Finance Law.

Delegation: The power to authorize bond anticipation notes in anticipation of the issuance of the serial bonds authorized by this resolution, determine the form and terms of said serial bonds, and take certain other actions is delegated to the Town Supervisor, as Chief Fiscal Officer.

A complete copy of the Bond Resolution summarized above is available for public inspection during normal business hours at the office of the Town Clerk, located at the Town Hall, 3211 Church Street, Valatie, New York.

Dated: March 16, 2020 Kinderhook, New York Notice of Formation of 335 Main Street LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/10/18. Office location: Greene County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 550 Biltmore Way, Ste 1110, Coral Gables, FL 33143. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of 391 Main Street LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 1/10/18. Office location: Greene County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 550 Biltmore Way, Ste 1110, Coral Gables, FL 33143. Purpose: any lawful activity.

Woody Wu Design LLC. Articles of Organization filed with the SSNY on 02/10/2020.

Office: Greene County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 46 Vista Ridge Drive, East Jewett, NY 12424. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Appleton Lane Holdings LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/10/16. Office location: Columbia County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 550 Biltmore Way, Coral Gables, FL 33134.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of South Front Street Holding LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 6/4/18. Office location: Columbia County.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 550 Biltmore Way, Coral Gables, FL 33134.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF LLC FORMATION: Morris Ardoin Author LLC. Filed 3/3/2020.

Office: Greene Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: c/o Morris Ardoin, 689 Cornwallville Road, Cornwallville, NY Notice of formation of 12418. Any lawful ac77 Route 65, LLC Arts. tivity. of Org. filed with the Sect'y of State of NY STERLING SPORTING (SSNY) on 1/29/2020. KENNEL, LLC. Arts. of Office location, County Org. filed with the of Greene. SSNY has SSNY on 03/05/20.

Columbia been designated as Office: agent of the LLC upon County. SSNY desigwhom process against nated as agent of the it may be served. LLC upon whom proSSNY shall mail pro- cess against it may be cess to: Condon & served. SSNY shall Forsyth LLP, Attn: Stu- mail copy of process art E. Berelson, Esq., 7 to the LLC, 203A HolTimes Square, NY, NY low Road, Stuyvesant, 10036. Purpose: any NY 12173. Purpose: Any lawful purpose. lawful act.

NOTICE OF FORMA- NOTICE OF ORGANTION OF A LIMITED IZATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY LIABILITY COMPANY NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, pursuant to Title 5, Chapter 3, Subchapter 3 of the Administrative Code of the City of New York, a public hearing will be held at 1 Centre Street, 20th Floor Conference Room D, Borough of Manhattan on Wednesday March 25, 2020 at 10:00 a.m. on the following: REAL PROPERTY PUBLIC HEARING in the matter of the acquisition by the City of New York of Fee Simple (Fee) interests, as well as the acquisition by the Village of Tannersville using City funds as part of the City-Funded Flood Buyout Program (FBO-Muni) of the following real estate in the County of Greene for the purposes of providing for the continued supply of water, and for preserving and preventing the contamination or pollution of the New York City water supply system: NYC ID Municipality Type Tax Lot ID Acres (+/-) 8934 Village of Tannersville FBO-Muni 182.05-4-36 0.44 9486 Village of Tannersville FBO-Muni 182.05-2-39 0.40 8899 Town of Jewett Fee 111.00-3-7 14.10 5260 Town of Lexington Fee p/o 159.00-1-5.2 78.50 2944 Town of Prattsville Fee p/o 74.00-4-31 16.50 A copy of the Mayor’s Preliminary Certificates of Adoption and maps of the real estate to be acquired are available for public inspection upon request. Please call (845) 340-7810.

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FIRST: The name of the Limited Liability Company is John Mahoney LLC (hereinafter referred to as the “Company�).

SECOND: The Articles of Organization of the Company were filed with the Secretary of State on February 7, 2020.

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

FOURTH: The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process against the Company may be served. The post office address to which the Secretary of State shall mail process is 93 Harder Road, Hillsdale, New York 12529.

FIFTH: The Company is organized for all lawful purposes.

DATED: February 7, 2020 GUTERMAN SHALLO & ALFORD, PLLC 21 North Seventh Street Hudson, New York 12534 (518) 828-5400

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF COLUMBIA Specialized Loan Servicing LLC, Plaintiff AGAINST Patrick Clarke; Melissa DaMore; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated October 8, 2019 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Columbia County Courthouse, Hudson, New York on April 2, 2020 at 2:00PM, premises known as 5584 Route 9G, Livingston, NY 12541. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Livingston, County of Columbia, State of NY, Section 128. Block 1 Lot 10. Approximate amount of judgment $210,634.81 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 12893-18.

Michael C. Howard, Esq., Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff TOWN OF CATSKILL 175 Mile Crossing PLANNING BOARD Boulevard Rochester, Town of Catskill Town New York 14624 Hall (877) 430-4792 439 Main Street Dated: February 14, Catskill, New York 2020 12414 (518) 943-2141 PLEASE TAKE NO- NOTICE TICE, the Town of Village of Athens Catskill Planning Please take notice that Board will hold a pub- there will be a Public lic hearing in accor- Hearing of the Athens dance with Town Law Village ZBA on Tues§ 276 and the Town of day, March 31st, 2020 Catskill Subdivision @ 6:15pm at the VilRegulations on March lage Clerks Office lo24, 2020 at 7:10 PM at cated on 2 First Street, Town Hall, 439-441 Athens. The purpose Main Street in the of the meeting is to Town of Catskill, to grant an area variance consider a two lot mi- on behalf of APO of nor subdivision of land Sleepy Hollow Lake, located on 5489 Rt 32 Laurel Wolfe, Associa, Catskill, proposed by tion Manager, located Apple Reality Holdings at 194 North WashingCorp. Written and oral ton Street, Athens, NY comments will be ac- 12015. cepted until the close ZBA of the public hearing.

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NOTICE TO BIDDERS Sealed bids for supplying No. 2 Fuel for the period June 1, 2020 to May 31, 2021 to locations in Greene County Government will be received by the Greene County Legislature until 1:30 pm on Thursday April 9, 2020 at which time bids will be opened and publicly read.

All bids shall be contained in sealed envelopes, distinctly marked “FUEL BID� and addressed to: Acting Clerk of the Greene County Legislature 411 Main Street Suite 408 Catskill, NY 12414 Bids shall be submitted on the official bid form available at w w w. g r e e n e g o v e r n ment.com the County website or from the Office of the Acting Clerk at the above address accompanied by the Statement of Service, Certificate of Non-Collusion, Bidders and Vendors Acknowledgement, Title VI and, if required Authorization to Bid. Greene County reserves the right to reject any and/or all bids.

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Baseball, the sport that never really stops, takes its reluctant place on the shelf Ben Frederickson St.Louis Post-Dispatch

JUPITER, Fla. — That’s all, folks.

The sport that never really stops has been told to take its ball and go home.

None of that wink-wink, nudgenudge stuff, either.

Get out of here, baseball. Go on. Get. We knew the COVID-19 pandemic had canceled spring training, and pushed back Opening Day, and put all of our American sports contests on pause indefinitely.

But baseball?

We knew it wouldn’t really stop.

At least we thought we knew.

Major League Baseball was one of the last sports to shutter due to coronavirus concerns, fretting over pulling the plug on meaningless exhibition games while other three-letter leagues grounded regular seasons.

And even when baseball finally did fall in line, canceling the remainder of spring training and announcing the postponement of Opening Day, it did so with the promise that no games would not mean no baseball.

This was especially true for the Cardinals, a team that hoped to find an edge during this unknown. Perhaps they still can. But it will be much harder now.

A big group of Cardinals, 20-25 of them to be exact, was planning on punching the clock at Roger Dean

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over.

“I don’t know what the future holds, but it’s time to open a new stage for my life and my career,” Brady said on Instagram Tuesday.

So why, oh why, did Brady choose to play for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers?

That’s what happened. Can you believe it? The Bucs’ fourdecade search for a franchise quarterback has led them to Brady, the greatest of all time.

Brady chose to play for Bruce Arians over Belichick and pass to Mike Evans and Chris Godwin over Julian Edelman. And, yes, he chose the Glazer family over Kraft.

Brady has agreed to a contract that is expected to pay him $30 million per year.

It’s antithetical to think a quarterback who has

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general public.

“We wish them a speedy recovery,” de Blasio, a

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“Oh for sure,” one minor leaguer said Tuesday via text, asked if players were “freaking out” a bit after the second positive test. “Being in that same clubhouse every single day. Showering in the same facility, sharing the same baseballs all day, the sweat in the clubhouse ... so many

Stadium every weekday. They were not going to all work out at once, but they were going to maximize the time certain groups had together. The team’s entire starting infield was sticking around, for example.

We were planning on staying around a while to cover it, too. Prominent players were going to be in some sort of onfield action. When every other sport is quarantined, Paul Goldschmidt facing Adam Wainwright in batting practice sounds somewhat entertaining, no?

No matter now.

“There should be no organized activities in the camps,” MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred told the PostDispatch on Monday, the day baseball really stopped.

The notion that Roger Dean Stadium was going to become a bastion for Redbirds baseball during our nation’s fight against coronavirus is no more.

We showed up Monday to see what was shaking, and instantly sensed a different tone around The Dean.

Players were packing boxes, not tracking pitches. They were milling about on the parking lot, not the grass.

There were more shoulder shrugs than bullpen sessions.

Cardinals manager Mike Shildt, who had eagerly looked forward to the start of this week just days ago because he hoped it would help shift the conversation back to baseball, politely declined

an interview request because he had been told to sit tight.

News was on its way, and here came the man who was about to deliver it.

Manfred, who lives in the area, briskly walked into the back entrance of the building, where he conducted a teleconference with league owners that pulled the plug on the kind of unofficial camp the Cardinals, Yankees and some others hoped to hold.

“This is a crisis situation in our country,” Cardinals chairman Bill DeWitt Jr. said after joining Manfred for the teleconference. “Both the teams and the commissioner’s office and the players understand we are all in this together.”

Baseball is a sport that lingers. It gets to the ballpark hours before the game.

It hangs around after until the stadium lights go out. It works on its off day.

That’s what made Monday’s hard stop so jarring. Not only has Manfred pushed back Opening Day once more, he has stressed to teams they cannot have players hanging around. Cardinals players are being told to go where they want to be long-term, and hunker down. If that’s in the Jupiter area, so be it. They will be allowed to use the facilities as they please, but not in groups, and only with a small staff available to assist.

Translation: Closing time. No loitering allowed. Baseball is now locked tight, like every other major American

sport.

The only action will be off the field, and plenty is coming. Manfred and the players must decide if rosters are frozen, or if trades are fair game. Owners must decide how to take care of minor leaguers and game-day and stadium staff. The tenor of some of these talks could absolutely affect the negotiation of the upcoming collective bargaining agreement. Will it help or hurt?

Manfred is easy to rip. He waited too long to cancel spring training, but he made the right call Monday. Our national health must be the top priority, and the CDC continues to tell us to avoid groups of any significant size.

Monday’s sentiment stung baseball fans because it was another reality check about the danger of this pandemic, but it was the right move.

Baseball won’t just go home on its own. Manfred was doing his job by chasing it off for a while.

“It’s not a situation you want to be in,” Cardinals lefty Andrew Miller said as he carried a box of baseballs to his Porsche.

If you bought tickets to see the Cardinals play the Cubs in London this season, it’s time to start reading the fine print about cancellations and refunds. Chances are Opening Day will come after that.

“I’ve heard Memorial Day,” Miller said. “Some people think later than

that.”

What does Manfred think?

“We are not going to be playing April 9,” he said. “We are not going to announce an alternate Opening Day at this point. We have to see how things develop.”

Right now things continue to move in one direction. The wrong one.

Confirmed coronavirus cases and virus-related deaths are climbing. The stock market is crashing. Bars and restaurants are closing.

This is real.

So real that a sport we turn to as a way to escape reality just had its last bubble of distraction burst.

There was Wainwright packing his truck instead of pitching, wondering where he should take his family.

There was Shildt leaving for a long walk around the fields. Not to watch Cardinals. For exercise.

There was Kolten Wong rushing home to his bunker. There was Daniel Ponce de Leon wondering where he was going to work out, joking he might start climbing trees. There was Kwang Hyun Kim headed to Starbucks, trying to decide if he should extend his condo lease or move into a hotel.

In the background, groundskeepers pulled a tarp over the practice mounds.

It was a fitting metaphor.

appeared in 11 straight postseasons would go to one that hasn’t appeared in the playoffs in a dozen years.

The most important thing to Brady is winning. But as an elite quarterback, maybe more important than that, is the head coach he will play for.

That’s why Arians may be the biggest reason Brady chose to join the Bucs.

Sure, Tampa Bay has a pair of Pro Bowl receivers in Evans and Godwin, and excellent tight ends with O.J. Howard and Cameron Brate. The young defense has the NFL’s sack leader in Shaquil Barrett, Jason Pierre-Paul, outstanding linebackers and a growing secondary.

There are also family considerations because Brady’s oldest son lives in New York.

But the coach-quarterback relationship in the NFL is the most fragile one in all of sports.

Think about Arians, the self-described quarterback

whisperer. He knows how to manage iconic and future Hall of Fame quarterbacks such as Peyton Manning, Ben Roethlisberger and Carson Palmer.

A two-time NFL coach of the Year, Arians has the resume and longevity in the game to manage a celebrity quarterback. He also would be willing to work with Brady to collaborate on an offensive scheme and game plan to suit his skills.

“I see Tampa Bay of being just that, namely that being Bruce Arians has coached those guys at the very top,” ESPN’s Louis Riddick said.

“Byron Leftwich, Tom Moore and all these guys on at the offensive side of ball have dealt with and been around than bigger than life players.

“That’s a very unique situation for the coaches and Tom Brady himself. As much as he has nothing, and I mean nothing to prove to anyone ... that pressure after 20 years, I don’t care who you are, you may want to change.”

It seems surreal, Brady and the Bucs. The matinee-idol looks. The supermodel wife, Gisele Bundchen. All that.

But if you think about it, this can really work.

Look, there have been a lot of iconic NFL quarterbacks where the second acts fell flat.

Joe Montana took the Chiefs to the AFC Championship game after leaving the 49ers. Brett Favre got just as close with the Vikings. But Joe Namath flamed out with the Rams, and Johnny Unitas did the same with the Chargers.

But this could be more like what Manning experienced when he let the Colts. Bucs quarterbacks coach Clyde Christensen was with Manning in the Colts facility, tears filling his eyes before he walked to the podium to say goodbye.

But Manning had no regrets. Even with diminished skills, he went to the Broncos, loved living in Denver, met new teammates, went to two

Super Bowls and won another ring.

The Bucs organization knows nothing but runaway brides: Bo Jackson, Bill Parcells (twice), Steve Spurrier, Jimmy Johnson, Brett Favre, Jake Plummer, even Chip Kelly. They all left the Bucs at the altar.

Finally, an engagement ended in marriage.

As Tuesday unfolded, the Bucs’ other options at quarterback disappeared one by one.

Teddy Bridgewater reached a deal with Carolina. Philip Rivers joined the Colts. Jameis Winston remained in touch with the Bucs.

But there has been a feeling around the Bucs that this was going to happen all along.

With the Chargers, Brady would be in the AFC West with the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes. He’s not afraid of them, but he would have to go through them.

Ironically, the Bucs play

that division in 2020, but their game against the Chiefs and Broncos will be at Raymond James Stadium.

The Glazers have longed for their team to be relevant again. They haven’t been able to win their way back to the top.

The Bucs have been longing for a culture change. Brady is the culture change. As one coach described it, the organization needed this. Brady will make the players work harder.

The locker room will be cleaner, the hotels will be nicer and the travel will be faster.

Of course, Brady’s legacy is cemented. He has nothing to prove.

But as if this wasn’t a big enough challenge, there is this: No team has won a Super Bowl in its hometown.

Super Bowl 55 is in Tampa this season.

Perfect.

Democrat, wrote on Twitter.

“But, with all due respect, an entire NBA team should NOT get tested for COVID-19 while there are critically ill patients waiting to be tested. Tests should not be for the wealthy, but for the sick.”

Durant, 31, has missed the

entire season as he recovers from an Achilles’ injury suffered last June, but was traveling with the Nets on a recent road trip to California. Durant attended the Nets’ most recent game, a March 10 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers at Staples Center. Brooklyn was

set to visit the Golden State Warriors on March 12, but that game, which was initially slated to be played in an empty arena because of the coronavirus, was ultimately postponed because of the NBA’s suspended schedule.

In response to the Nets’

positive tests, the Lakers plan to test their players Wednesday and have advised them to self-quarantine for the recommended 14-day period. The Nets said they were “notifying anyone who has had known contact with the players, including recent opponents,”

in their statement. Brooklyn faced the Atlanta Hawks, Miami Heat, Boston Celtics, Memphis Grizzlies, San Antonio Spurs and Chicago Bulls in the two weeks before their positive tests.

variables in play.”

Steinbrenner Field, where the big-leaguers train, was a beehive of activity Tuesday morning but it more resembled moving day than anything else.

Yankees on the 40-man roster voted unanimously on Friday to stay in Tampa and continue informal workouts during the crisis but clearly the realities of the situation changed things. Many players arrived at Steinbrenner Field Tuesday morning and

departed soon afterward. In the biggest sign not too many players would be remaining locally to work at Steinbrenner Field – their right under guidelines agreed upon between MLB and the Players Association – manager Aaron Boone left in his car mid-morning and told reporters he was driving home to Greenwich, Conn. Among the group of players spotted at Steinbrenner Tuesday were Gerrit Cole, Aaron Judge, Giancarlo Stanton,

Miguel Andujar, Gleyber Torres, Chad Green, Tyler Wade, Zack Britton, DJ LeMahieu, Masahiro Tanaka, Brett Gardner and Gary Sanchez (Sanchez tested positive for the regular flu last week but has recovered).

The vast majority of them appeared to have collected their things, an indication they would be leaving town.

“I’ve certainly never gone through anything like it, I don’t think many of us have,” said Happ, who lives locally

and occasionally will come

by Steinbrenner to work out and throw. “Again, it’s starting to just hit home a little more every day it seems like.

So we’re just preparing and being as smart as we can and paying attention to the news.”

Outside Steinbrenner Field Tuesday, Cashman declined to comment on the second positive test but said he planned to remain in Tampa.

“I’m not going anywhere,”

Cashman said. “The only way I’m leaving is if things are OK. If they’re not OK, I’m not leaving.”

The Hillsborough County Health Department recommended that the complex quickly be shuttered, which it was. The Yankees said on Tuesday that they would will continue to follow all protocols and recommendations established by local and federal public health experts and Major League Baseball.

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Philip Rivers has a new team — the Indianapolis Colts Tom Krasovic The San Diego Union-Tribune

A scenario that made a lot of sense in December — that Philip Rivers would go from the Bolts to the Colts — apparently will become reality this week.

Rivers and Indianapolis, per ESPN’s Adam Schefter, have reached terms on a free-agent contract that will keep the former longtime San Diego Chargers quarterback in the AFC. The deal, reportedly for only the 2020 season, can’t be made official until Wednesday under NFL rules.

Smart guy that he is, Rivers now gets to work behind a top-notch offensive line. There’s no better run-blocker than Colts left guard Quenton Nelson, an All-Pro in his first two season.

Ryan Kelly, the center, earned Pro Bowl honors last year. Rivers inherits a reliable blindside blocker in left tackle Anthony Castonzo.

Rivers gets an easy learning curve, too, even though he hasn’t quarterbacked an NFL club other than the Chargers since he moved to San Diego in 2004; Colts head coach Frank Reich worked daily with Rivers as a Bolts positional coach and coordinator between 2012-15.

Adding to the familiarity, Colts coordinator Nick Sirianni and Rivers had five years together with the Chargers, and tight ends coach Jason Michael, a former college quarterback, was a Bolts offensive assistant between 2011-13.

Both the Colts and Rivers had a rough ride in 2019, yet have reason to believe they’ll help each other to rebound this year.

Rivers, an eight-time Pro Bowler, ought to be an upgrade on fellow N.C. State alum Jacoby Brissett — if, that is, Rivers doesn’t throw as many unforced interceptions as he did last season.

Brissett got the job amid tough

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Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers (17) reacts after a dropped pass during their Dec. 29 game against the Kansas City Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium.

circumstances, taking over for an injured Andrew Luck last summer and becoming the starter after Luck retired a few weeks before the season. Brissett had good games but found a few ruts, too. He finished with an 88.0 passer rating, while the Colts had an uneven season overall and finished 7-8-1 a year after reaching the playoffs with a 10-6 record.

For Rivers, leaving the AFC West behind and

landing in the AFC South seems a double victory.

AFC West opponents had figured Rivers out, dealing him and the 2019 Bolts an 0-6 intradivisional record. In the six games against West competition, Rivers threw seven touchdown passes and 12 interceptions, plus no fewer than five other passes that a defender dropped. He finished with a 71.1 passer rating.

AFC South defenses appeared far less comfortable defending Rivers, who adjusts plays at the line of scrimmage to an extraordinary degree.

He posted a 118.1 passer rating in the four games, and had 10 touchdown passes with just one interception.

Getting out of the West also means Rivers won’t have to try to leapfrog the Chiefs, who won the recent Super Bowl and bring back quarterback Patrick Mahomes. In the Andy Reid era, the Chiefs were 11-3 against Rivers and Co., no small factor in the mutual decision of the Chargers and Rivers to part ways after the franchise’s 10th consecutive season without an AFC West title.

While Indianapolis is familiar to Rivers, not all of the memories are pleasant; he sustained a knee injury in a January 2008 playoff game against the Colts, in a different domed venue from the team’s current home. After Colts fans chided Rivers while he hobbled off the field, he returned fire in Rivers fashion. He pointed at his hecklers and hollered: “Don’t you worry, I’ll be back.”

Rivers will be wearing a different shade of blue, a royal blue, when Colts see him uniform this time.

Pencil his new team the AFC South’s cofavorite alongside the Tennessee Titans, who reached last year’s AFC Championship Game.

Don’t count out the Houston Texans, despite reports they have agreed to trade star receiver DeAndre Hopkins. Use pen to circle both Colts games against the Jaguars, his favorite opponent.

Coming off such an uneven season, it is no doubt an exciting move for Rivers, who has never reached a Super Bowl but now has a realistic shot at his first divisional title since 2009.

Franchise quarterbacks ending careers with new teams doesn’t always go well Mike DiGiovanna Los Angeles Times

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Dallas Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy speaks to the media during the 2020 NFL Combine at the Indiana Convention Center.

Early free agency returns have left the Cowboys with plenty to fix Kevin Sherrington The Dallas Morning News

Even if you believe Robert Quinn is too old for a five-year deal and it’s ludicrous that Byron Jones is now the league’s highest-paid cornerback, the fact remains they were the two best players on the Cowboys’ defense last season.

Both were also better than any free agents available and probably superior to anyone the Cowboys would be in a position to draft.

So unless Jerry Jones pulls a couple of rabbits out of his hat – Randy Gregory and Desmond Trufant, anyone?

— how do the losses of Quinn and Jones jibe with the Cowboys’ Super Bowl aspirations?

Guess Mike McCarthy’s new staff will just have to coach ‘em up. Good luck with that, fellas.

Look, I hear you: Quinn will turn 30 in May, and in a contract season his 11.5 sacks were the most he’s put up since his career-high 19 in 2013 and nearly double what he did his last season in Miami. And Jones’ only interceptions both came back when he was a safety.

Besides, there’s only so much money to go around under the salary cap and Jerry always spends it on offense, right?

Amari Cooper and Blake Jarwin got paid and Dak Prescott got tagged. Jerry must not have seen Jason Witten and Randall Cobb leaving the building.

Speaking of Witten, here’s to an all-time great and as good a man who ever wore the star on his helmet. Or didn’t wear it at all. Who could forget the immortal sight of a rumbling, stumbling tight end, headgear lost in his wake, finishing what he started? Back in his heyday. Back when he

had hair. Pause here to reflect on a truly indelible memory and the others he created, as well.

Thank you.

Even if it was time for everyone to move on, Witten will be missed. We can take consolation in the fact that he won’t be the only old Cowboy in Las Vegas. Rod Marinelli, Jeff Heath and Maliek Collins are joining him, too. Safe travels, and here’s hoping y’all got a group rate on the moving van.

Collins might not have fit Mike Nolan’s new defense, which calls for bigger, better run-stoppers. But he wasn’t bad. Our film studies major, John Owning, notes that Quinn and Collins accounted for most of the Cowboys’ pressure up front. And from a group that had just 39 sacks last year, 19th in the league.

Without Quinn and Collins, where will the pressure come from this fall? DeMarcus Lawrence needs a big bounce back. Maybe Gregory can finally realize his potential, too. New boundaries under the CBA – only fines for marijuana use, not suspensions – could be a game-changer for a young man who’s tried to deal with anxiety issues in a manner previously frowned upon by the NFL. Jerry has always liked Gregory. Maybe his patience will pay off.

Maybe Will McClay can work some magic in the draft.

He’s found some good ones in the last few years, including a couple who just walked out the door.

Florida cornerback CJ Henderson is a popular pick at No. 17 for the Cowboys in most mock drafts. For that matter, even if Jones were coming back, Henderson might be the best choice.

Dennis Harrah had a lot more fun as Joe Namath’s wingman in the nightclubs of Long Beach, Calif., than the former Los Angeles Rams offensive lineman did trying to block for the broken-down quarterback in 1977.

“I lived next to Joe in Belmont Shore, and we used to go to Bobby McGee’s,” said Harrah, an All-Pro guard who played 13 years (1975-1987) in Los Angeles. “I would go just to be around the girls who wanted to be around Joe. That was one of the highlights of my career.”

Protecting Namath on the field was more of a chore.

Namath was 34 with a pair of balky knees when the Rams signed the 12-year veteran in 1977, hoping the former New York Jets star would give young quarterbacks Pat Haden and Vince Ferragamo room to grow.

The experiment lasted all of four games, Namath completing 50 of 107 passes for 606 yards with three touchdowns and five interceptions before he was benched in favor of Haden in Week 5.

Namath’s Hall-of-Fame career ended on a cold, windy and rainy October Monday night in Chicago, where he took a beating while completing 16 of 40 passes for 203 yards and four interceptions, with a fifth pick nullified by a penalty.

Namath was sacked twice and knocked out of the game in the fourth quarter by Bears linebacker Waymond Bryant, who delivered a punishing blow with which Harrah, then a third-year pro, took exception.

“The guy absolutely buried Joe,” said Harrah, now 67 and living in Paso Robles, Calif.

“I got in a fight with him and punched him in the stomach.

I got ejected — it was the only time I was ever kicked out of a game — and fined $500 because I was trying to defend Joe Namath.”

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who agreed to a deal with Tom Brady on Tuesday, can only hope that the career of the former New England star, who led the Patriots to six Super Bowl championships in 20 years and will be 43 in August, doesn’t end like Namath’s.

The track record for aging Hall-of-Fame quarterbacks who leave the teams they starred for at the end of their careers is mixed.

Of the 26 modern-era

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Former New York Jets quarterback Joe Namath rides in the Pro Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement Festival Grand Parade in downtown Canton, Ohio, on Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013.

quarterbacks in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, only four — Johnny Unitas, Namath, Joe Montana and Brett Favre — played at least 12 years for their main team before finishing their careers elsewhere.

Montana and Favre penned relatively happy endings to their storybook careers compared to Unitas and Namath, who could barely limp across the finish line.

Unitas was 40 when he was traded from Baltimore — where he amassed 39,768 yards passing and 287 touchdowns in 17 years (1956-1972), led the Colts to NFL championships in 1958 and 1959 and started in their Super Bowl V victory — to San Diego before the 1973 season.

The Chargers hoped the legendary Unitas would provide a one-year bridge between departed veteran John Hadl and Dan Fouts, the team’s thirdround pick out of Oregon that year.

Unitas’ creaky legs were not up to the task. In a seasonopening 38-0 loss to the Washington Redskins, Unitas completed six of 17 passes for 55 yards with three interceptions, and he was sacked eight times.

The next two games provided hope, Unitas completing 25 of 49 passes for 390 yards with three touchdowns and two interceptions in a 34-7 win over Buffalo and a 20-13 loss to Cincinnati.

But a nearly immobile Unitas was benched after completing two of nine passes for 19 yards with two

interceptions in a Week 4 loss to Pittsburgh. He threw one more pass that season before retiring.

The Rams signed Namath thinking he would revitalize his career after a 12-year run in New York (1965-1976), in which he passed for 27,057 yards and 170 touchdowns and led the Jets to an upset over Baltimore in Super Bowl III in January 1969.

But injuries — Namath added a sore hamstring to his bad knees — took a toll. Namath never threw another pass after he was knocked out of that Bears game, and retired after the season.

“Joe was the director on the field and we abided by his orders, but we had a limited offense because he couldn’t scramble at all,” Harrah said.

“His mobility was very limited.”

Montana’s career, in which he passed for 35,124 yards and 244 touchdowns and led San Francisco to four Super Bowl wins from 1979-1990, appeared to be on life support when he missed all but one game of the 1990 and 1991 seasons because of an elbow injury.

With Steve Young ready to take over as quarterback, the 49ers traded Montana, then 37, to Kansas City before the 1993 season.

Montana had plenty left in the tank, completing 480 of 791 passes for 5,427 yards with 29 touchdowns and 16 interceptions in 25 starts in 1993 and 1994.

He led the Chiefs to comefrom-behind wins over Pittsburgh and the Houston Oilers in the 1993 playoffs before an AFC championship-game loss to Buffalo. Montana led Kansas City to a 9-7 record in 1994, including a 24-17 win over Young and the 49ers, but the Chiefs lost in the first round of the playoffs.

Favre’s 16-year career with Green Bay, where he passed for 61,655 yards and 442 touchdowns, won three most valuable player awards and one Super Bowl in two appearances, seemed to end with the 39-year-old announcing his retirement in March 2008.

Five months later, Favre filed for reinstatement and was traded to the New York Jets, the Packers having handed the offense to Aaron Rodgers. Favre completed 343 of 522 passes for 3,472 yards with 22 touchdowns and 22 interceptions to lead the Jets to a 9-7 record in 2008.

Favre signed with Minnesota the following summer and completed 580 of 889 passes for 6,711 yards with 44 touchdowns and 26 interceptions in two seasons with the Vikings.

Minnesota went 12-4 in 2009 and advanced to the NFC title game, where the Vikings lost to the eventual Super Bowl-champion New Orleans Saints. Minnesota slipped to 6-10 in 2010, and Favre retired for good after the season.

He was 41 at the time — two years younger than Brady will be in the 2020 season.

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Transgender classmate isn’t ready for romance Dear Abby, I’m 16 and have had trouble with romance for as long as I can remember. I’ve had almost DEAR ABBY 80 crushes since kindergarten.

I counted.

Right now I am close to a relationship with a boy at my school who is a year older. I have had feelings for “Ben” for almost a year, and I found it was mutual a few months ago. He invited me to coffee but later canceled, explaining that he wasn’t emotionally prepared, which was clear. He feels the way he does for a reason. Ben is a transgender male, and his mother disapproves, as do many of our classmates.

Two months ago, we agreed to be “just friends ... for now.” Since then, no feelings have changed for either of us. However, I know Ben still isn’t ready.

I’m getting impatient. I’ve been in relationships before, the middle-school kind, and I know how my brain functions. Right now, I worry obsessively about how he feels. This will subside after a real relationship starts. But before that happens, the issue is all-consuming.

I constantly rehash concerns we need to talk about in my mind, and I don’t know how to ignore them until we can speak again. It makes my grades suffer.

I blame Ben’s mother and classmates for the stress he’s under. They’re the reason for his dysphoria and panic attacks. I’m angry. I want her to leave her son alone. How can I wait peacefully and get over my bitterness toward his mother?

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JEANNE PHILLIPS

Anger, frustration and bitterness can make people sick. You need to find ways to get your mind off this budding romance and channel these negative emotions, if only because Ben isn’t

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ready for what you have in mind. Bear in mind that he is on a long and complicated journey. (Give him props for honesty.) Then buckle down and concentrate on your schoolwork, find a sport or other activity you can involve yourself in and, if your school doesn’t have a Genders and Sexualities Alliance, consider going online to gsanetwork.org and starting one at your school.

Dear Abby, I work in the medical field in a family practice. I love my job and helping people, but the problem is, my boss never tells the truth to our patients and overcharges them anytime he gets a chance. The sicker the patient, the more heartless he is with them. He has told some patients that we, the assistants, told him they owe him money.

It has reached a point where I cannot handle it anymore. Knowing that I see everything he does, he now can’t stand me and constantly criticizes everything I do. He has become verbally aggressive and abusive.

I know this is unhealthy for me. I have insomnia because of it, and when I do get to sleep, I have nightmares about this situation. Abby, please help me because I do not know what service to contact to make a complaint against him.

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Garfield

Document everything you have observed.

Then talk to your local police about possible fraud being committed by your employer. Next, contact your state medical board and report what has been going on at the expense of the patients.

If these patients are senior citizens, reach out to your Area Agency on Aging (aging.georgia.gov/ locations), because the “good doctor” may be committing elder abuse, which could land him in the prison system.

Blondie

Beyond the standard treatments to shrink the prostate gland I am an 83-year-old man who, like most men my age, has benign prostatic hypertrophy causing frequent urination. Tamsulosin, which was prescribed by my doctor, is of questionable help. I see hordes of ads for supplements claiming the ability to shrink the prostate. Do any of them really work? Is there anything other than surgery to ease this TO YOUR GOOD HEALTH problem?

DR. KEITH ROACH

Hypertrophy — from the Greek roots for “too much” and “growth” — of the prostate gland is usually not cancer. Hence the “benign” in “benign prostatic hypertrophy,” or BPH. Symptoms include urinary hesitancy, frequency, urinating at night, a sense of urgency and a weak urinary stream. It is common in men as they age.

Tamsulosin is an effective treatment for many, and it works by relaxing the muscle inside the prostate, allowing urine to flow better.

There’s another treatment that’s commonly used with tamsulosin and similar drugs; it works on the hormone that promotes growth of the prostate. Unlike tamsulosin, which works quickly, drugs like finasteride that block the formation of dihydrotestosterone work slowly, over months. A combination of the two is very effective for most men.

Herbal therapies have been used for decades, and some of them have data to support

their use, although their usefulness and safety are not as well proven as the prescription medications. Saw palmetto, beta-sitosterol, cernilton and Pygeum africanum all have been used. A recent review of previous saw palmetto trials found no benefit to symptoms, prostate size or urinary flow. Smaller studies of the other three supplements have suggested modest benefits.

Doctors sometimes make the diagnosis of BPH without a thorough evaluation. If treatment isn’t effective, it’s worthwhile to reconsider the diagnosis and get a referral to a urologist for additional testing and expertise.

I have seen men treated for BPH when in fact their problem is an overactive bladder. I have learned to consider alternative diagnoses when treatment for BPH isn’t effective.

If the diagnosis is confirmed as BPH, and traditional medicine and supplements have failed, it is worthwhile to consider surgery and related options. There are many, including traditional surgery, laser and microwave treatments, prostate lift procedures, water vapor energy ablation, and photoselective and plasma vaporization procedures. An expert is needed to review the different options, any of which may be beneficial in certain situations.

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

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Horoscope

By Stella Wilder Born today, you are a charismatic, clever and conscientious individual, one who will work tirelessly in support of a cause or never turn down a friend in need. You often get what you want simply by asking — but with you, it’s never just “asking,” because you have the force of your own remarkable personality behind the request. You are also quick-witted and quite able to solve problems for yourself.

You can also be rather forceful when you have to be, and you may surprise those around you on occasion when you shift into high gear and take firm control of a situation — and the people in it with you.

Also born on this date are: Bruce Willis, actor; Glenn Close, actress; Wyatt Earp, lawman; Ursula Andress, actress; Patrick McGoohan, actor; William Jennings Bryan, statesman: Andy Reid, football coach; Maddy Hill, actress.

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

FRIDAY, MARCH 20 PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — The surprises that someone has to offer you today are likely to take you to a whole new realm of understanding. This is a good and bad thing.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — You may fear that someone is trying to deceive you in some way. Your ability to spot a sham will serve you well, but don’t be overly suspicious.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — You may find yourself in hot pursuit of something that you are confident can change your life. Take care: You’re

probably misinterpreting.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Pay particular attention to endings today, as they will tell you much more than any beginnings you might observe. You avoid a fall from grace.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — A complex thread of communication has you nervous about overstepping and revealing too much too soon. Play it safe, today.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — You’re eager to squeeze just a little more enjoyment than usual out of a routine day. In the end, there will have been nothing routine about it!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You are likely to know how to express yourself better than anyone else you encounter today — and the resulting benefits will last a while.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Someone’s contribution to a communal problem may have you bristling today — but later you’ll be able to participate in your own way.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Now is not the time to take sides. See if you can defuse a volatile issue by stating the case of each party in the fairest way possible.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — You want what you do today to be remembered for quite a long time and to matter to those who come after you. The evening brings a surprise.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You will want to be as consistent as possible throughout the workday — but later on, you can cut yourself loose from any such limitations.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Your instincts will serve you well today as you face a situation created by one whom you do not know well. One clever move saves the day.

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SUPER QUIZ

THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME

By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek Get the free JUST JUMBLE app • Follow us on Twitter @PlayJumble

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

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Yesterday’s

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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2

3

4

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

(Answers tomorrow) Jumbles: LOBBY KNOWN CANCEL KOSHER Answer: Being near the expensive door handles meant the low-cost ones were able to — “HOB-KNOB”

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Solution to Wednesday’s puzzle

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

For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit

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(e.g., It is the “original 100% vegetable juice.” Answer: V8.)

Freshman level 1. The varieties of this vegetable include russet and Yukon.

2. What is the main vegetable in coleslaw?

3. Its four-letter name can be preceded by “table,” “garden,” “sugar,” “red,” “dinner” or “golden.”

Graduate level 4. The Walla Walla sweet onion is its state vegetable.

5. This vegetable that resembles cauliflower has a large flower head.

6. The name of this Italian vegetable soup means “thick soup.”

PH.D. level 7. The three main varieties of this vegetable are slicing, pickling and seedless.

8. In North American, the Pascal cultivar dominates commercial production of this vegetable.

9. This Mediterranean thistle-like plant is widely cultivated for its large edible flower head.

SUPER QUIZ ANSWERS 1. Potato. 2. Cabbage. 3. Beet. 4. Washington. 5. Broccoli. 6. Minestrone. 7.

Cucumber. 8. Celery. 9. Artichoke.

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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Dilbert

Pickles For Better or For Worse

Get Fuzzy

Hi & Lois

Crossword Puzzle Mother Goose & Grimm ACROSS 1 Break into tears 4 Male animals 9 Flows back 13 Betty __ of old cartoons 15 Courtroom procedure 16 Feast with a roast pig 17 Wise man 18 Cuban dance 19 1996 GOP candidate 20 Sends away 22 Teary-__; emotional 23 Held on to 24 “Elvis __ left the building!”

26 Speak highly of 29 Hewlett-Packard machines 34 Hits the ceiling 35 $1,000 36 Almost ready for a refill 37 __-the-top; outrageous 38 Mistaken 39 Angelou or Rudolph 40 Franklin or Savage 41 Pass out 42 Hell’s ruler 43 Coming into 45 Fights off 46 Take a load off 47 Pence, for short 48 Tourette’s symptoms 51 Backsliding 56 Circle dance 57 Banishment 58 Time when both hands are straight up 60 “__ in a Manger” 61 Pago Pago’s land 62 Actress Lollobrigida 63 Captures 64 At the head of the class 65 Cartoon dog DOWN 1 ABC competitor 2 Beatles’ “The Long and Winding __” 3 Jellystone Park bear 4 Barber pole feature

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5 Have confidence in 6 Prepares to shoot 7 Actor Kaplan 8 Cutting prices drastically 9 First among siblings 10 Life __; circular floating device 11 Actor Christian 12 Sought legal action against 14 More annoying 21 Military meal 25 “…O’er the land of the free __ the home…”

26 Thorough investigation 27 Bird in a Poe poem 28 Athlete’s negotiator 29 Fork part 30 Angry tirade 31 Make joyous 32 Regal 33 Graceful swimmers 35 Smile 38 One who takes orders

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Wednesday’s Puzzle Solved

Non Sequitur

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39 __ out; planning a route 41 Thanksgiving’s follower: abbr.

42 Notices 44 Prose writings 45 Say again 47 Bravery 48 “Easier said __ done”

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49 Ottumwa’s state 50 __ Louie; “King of Salads” 52 School test 53 __ beans 54 Pinot __; red wine 55 “__, but not forgotten” 59 Girl’s nickname

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