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Greene COVID cases tick up among children By Ted Remsnyder
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Greene County has 52 active positive COVID-19 cases with 18 new cases confirmed Wednesday.
Groden said that five school-age children over the age of 5 were included in the recent batch of confirmed positives. Greene County Public Health also announced Tuesday that 18 new cases had been confirmed, but the current number of positive cases in the county stood at 52, down nine from the previous days. The
County Administrator Shaun Groden said should be taken with a grain of salt. “We had some holdovers that came in late,” Groden said. “So it is up a bit. It’s up with kids. But of those 40 (new cases), I believe 25 of them were from the last week. So I’m not really concerned with that number, but I’m concerned about the number of kids that are being identified.”
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CATSKILL — COVID-19 numbers ticked up in Greene County this week as county officials monitor the emerging BA.2 variant. Greene County Public Health announced Tuesday that 40 new virus cases has been identified, a number that Greene
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Dog recovering from alleged attack still homeless
Pauline Waldron, 67
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After nearly losing her life last summer, Peaches is still looking for her forever home, as she waits at CGHS/SPCA.
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HUDSON — Nine months after a dog in Cairo was allegedly attacked and nearly killed by her owner, staff and management at the Columbia-Greene Humane Society continue to
search for a forever home for her. Peaches, as she was named by the shelter, was saved after numerous surgeries. The female Australian Cattle Dog/Mix was 2 years old, when Pauline Waldron, 67, of Cairo, allegedly
attempted to decapitate the animal with a sword, and then stabbed the dog several times before leaving the animal for eight hours to die without seeking medical care, Capt. Tracey Quinn of the Greene County Sheriff’s Office said.
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Peaches is pictured with CGHS/SPCA Animal Care Technician Alexa Caunitz in a recent contributed photo.
The incident took place last June 29. Waldron was charged with one count of aggravated cruelty to animals, a felony.
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Greenville superintendent adjusts to new role By Ted Remsnyder Columbia-Greene Media
GREENVILLE — Two weeks into his new job, Greenville Central School District Superintendent Michael Bennett is already finding his footing in the district. Bennett started in his new position in Greenville on March 7 after serving as the assistant superintendent in the Schodack Central School District in Rensselaer County for the past eight years. Bennett previously served as the middle school principal in the Schodack district from 2008 to 2012 and was a special
education teacher in East Greenbush Central School District from 1998 to 2006. Bennett said transitioning from the assistant superintendent post in Schodack to the top seat in Greenville has included a learning curve in his first weeks in office. “I think one of the benefits of coming from another small school district that’s much like Greenville, so that’s given me an opportunity to learn a lot about the budget side of things and the capital projects and some of the facilities things we have to take care of,” he said Tuesday. “That to me
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has been the bigger adjustment for me. I’ve had some exposure to capital projects in Schodack and budget- Michael ary things in Bennett Schodack, but having to be the guy to oversee all of that is a bit more daunting than being a part of it. Kind of overseeing it and leading it has been a big adjustment. But I’m happy to say that (former Superintendent) Tammy Sutherland developed
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a really good team here to kind of help me to ease into this position.” Sutherland retired this month after serving 36 years in the district, including six years in the superintendent’s chair since 2016. Bennett took office five days after Gov. Kathy Hochul lifted the school mask mandate, making face coverings optional for students and teachers in schools statewide. On Feb. 14, more than 50 students walked out of Greenville classrooms to protest the mask mandate and some students declined to wear masks
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in school the following day, leading the district to move to remote learning for the next three school days. Bennett arrived in the district days after the issue had been settled, clearing the issue from the decks in time for the start of the new administration. “I was certainly helped out by the mask restrictions going away right when I started,” Bennett said. “It allowed us to get back to some type of normalcy. So we’ve had some evening events with music in
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Nestle, the world’s largest food maker, said it’s suspending the vast majority of its manufacturing in Russia amid growing pressure on multinationals to fully exit the country following its invasion of Ukraine. The Swiss company is stopping the sale of brands like KitKat and Nesquik and will focus on essential foods including baby food and medical nutrition, it said in an emailed statement Wednesday. The company is in the process of identifying solutions for its factories and employees in Russia, who will continue to be paid, a spokesperson said, adding the move means Nestle will suspend most of its pre-war sales volume and production
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volume in Russia. “As the war rages in Ukraine, our activities in Russia will focus on providing essential food, such as infant food and medical/hospital nutrition - not on
making a profit,” Nestle said in the statement. “This approach is in line with our purpose and values. It upholds the principle of ensuring the basic right to food.”
Shares in Nestle were down 1.3% early Wednesday afternoon. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky criticized Nestle for still conducting business in Russia in a streamed speech to thousands of protesters in Switzerland’s capital of Bern on Saturday. Last week, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal sent a tweet saying Chief Executive Officer Mark Schneider has shown no understanding and that he hoped he would soon change his mind. Nestle has been gradually reducing its footprint in Russia since the war began, first halting advertising and capital investments, and then earlier this month stopping shipments of non-essential products like Nespresso coffee capsules and San Pellegrino water.
watch all of the time,” Groden said. There have been 10,139 confirmed COVID cases in Greene County since the pandemic began and 122 deaths in the county linked to the virus. Groden said the county is observing the rising COVID numbers across the country that might be connected to the BA.2 variant. “I think that’s what we have to keep an eye on,” he said Wednesday.“It appears to be
happening nationally.” There have been no COVIDrelated deaths announced in the county since March 4. Greene County Legislature Vice Chairman Matthew Luvera, R-Catskill, said lawmakers are monitoring the COVID situation in the county as it evolves. “Our county administrator continues to receive regular updates on our numbers and keeps the Legislature informed of any developments,” Luvera said Wednesday. “I
think the numbers will continue to reflect that COVID isn’t something that will go away easily. It’s something that we’re living with and those in the medical field will need to continue to look for treatments to help us deal with it. I don’t think our current numbers are alarming at this point.” As of Monday, the rate of COVID tests in the county that returned positive results stood at 6.5% with a seven-day rolling average of 2.9%.
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number of active positive cases in the county Monday fell to a yearly low of 26. Eight county residents are hospitalized due to COVIDrelated illnesses, a figure that Groden said was encouraging. At the height of the omicron variant surge, 44 residents hospitalized Jan. 6. “That’s a big number that I
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Court Calendar, Greene County District Attorney Joseph Stanzione said. “I have every confidence that the Greene County district attorney will prosecute this woman to the full extent of the law,” Perez said. Peaches would make a great pet for any home that does not already have a pet, said Ron Perez, President and CEO at the shelter. Peaches does not get along well with other animals, so a home where she receives all the attention would be best for her, Perez said. “If I didn’t already have dogs, I’d snatch her up immediately for myself,” Perez said. Peaches will not require any further surgeries. Her scars are healing nicely, Perez said. An Australian Cattle Dog is a working dog. They need activity and a lot of exercise. That’s possibly a home where she has a place to run, Perez said. Peaches is bright and gets
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our schools at the high school level. It’s really given me the opportunity to meet and greet more of the parents, which has been wonderful. I’ve gotten to see our kids in action with some of the things that they’ve been doing. I also caught a boys basketball game as we made it into sectionals.” The new superintendent said he was well-versed on the issues some district parents and students had with the mask mandate. “I happened to be at the Feb. 14 board meeting where the community came out and a lot of people asked me how I felt about it,” Bennett said. “I said that I like to see the passion and families have the things that they care about and that came out in that board meeting. I think there’s
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CGHS/SPCA president Ron Perez sits with Peaches, who is available for adoption.
along well with humans, Perez said. Following her surgery last June, Peaches was placed at an undisclosed foster home, while she recovered from her ordeal. She arrived at the Humane Society in late summer. When she first came here, Peaches was “hand shy,” Perez said. She tended to back off when staff attempted to put a leash on her. “She has recovered and has
done pretty well since then,” Perez said. The staff at the shelter would also love to see Peaches find a forever home. “She’s very affectionate with people she knows, very smart, and playful, adoption kennel supervisor Kayla Shea said. “Peaches loves playing with her toys, especially the ones that squeak. She loves exercise, and running around outdoors,” said shelter office manager
an opportunity to listen to voices and listen to opinions. I know that there were some community forums that took place afterwards and I was able to log on to a couple of those and really listen to what some of the concerns were. So that was helpful.” Bennett said things have gone smoothly in the district in the wake of the lifting of the mask mandate. “Obviously, we don’t need students protesting in the hallways and causing a disruption and those types of things,” he said. “I think people understood that. I think with the lifting of the mandates, that has pretty much gone away. We still have some students and faculty and staff who, for their reasons, continue to wear their masks. Our big concern was that there was nothing that was going to happen to those folks who wanted to continue to wear those masks and our kids have been great and our adults have been
wonderful.” Bennett said the district is looking to open up the schools to more parent volunteers being allowed in district buildings as COVID-19 regulations recede. Bennett added that part of his philosophy in taking on the Greenville superintendent’s post is opening up a direct line of communication with the community. “I think that the biggest part of who I am is being transparent and communicative and a collaborator,” he said. “I want to make sure that as we move forward as a district that we’re all moving in the same direction. Our faculty and staff and our school community all have a vision of where we want to get to. I really want to open up the communication lines to allow for dialogue to make sure that we’re moving in the right direction. We’re here to serve our kids and families, so we want to make sure that as we move forward that we’re
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Katie Pratt. In an effort to find forever homes for all the animals at the Columbia-Greene Humane Society, they have waived all adoption fees through the end of the month. The shelter lists 11 dogs and 54 cats on their website. Potential adopters are encouraged to fill out an adoption application online to be preapproved for adoptions at cghs. org. For more information, please email the shelter at info@ cghs.org or call at 518-828-6044, ext. 100. New York Penal Law describes aggravated cruelty to animals as: with no justifiable purpose, he or she intentionally kills or intentionally causes serious physical injury to a companion animal with aggravated cruelty. Aggravated cruelty means conduct which is intended to cause extreme physical pain or is done or carried out in an especially depraved or sadistic manner. If Waldron is convicted, she could face a maximum sentence of 2 years in prison. doing it in the best interests of not only our kids, but the school and the community.”
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Thursday, March 24 n Coxsackie Village Board 7 p.m.
Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie 518-731-2718
Monday, March 28 n Catskill Village Planning Board 7
p.m. Robert C. Antonelli Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill 518-943-3830
Thursday, March 31 n Coxsackie Village Board Budget
Work Session 6 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie 518-731-2718
Monday, April 4 n Athens Town Board 7 p.m. Athens Volunteer Firehouse, 39 Third St., Athens 518-945-1052 Changes will be on the Town of Athens web page n Cairo Town Board 7 p.m. Town Hall, 512 Main St., Cairo n Coxsackie Village Organizational Meeting 7 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie 518-731-2718 n Greene County Board of Electrical Examiners 1 p.m. at the Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., 4th Floor, Room 469, Catskill
Tuesday, April 5
8 local troopers graduate from State Police Academy By Bill Williams Columbia-Greene Media
ALBANY — Eight freshly minted troopers from Columbia, Greene, Ulster, Dutchess and Rensselaer counties were among 227 graduates of the New York State Police Academy on Wednesday. The new state troopers graduated from the 210th session State Police Academy in a ceremony at the Empire Plaza Convention Center in Albany. Six of the eight local graduates will serve with Troop K. They include Nicholas J. Arre of Hillsdale, Bryon E. Ayers of East Nassau, Terry R. Cooper Jr. of Red Hook, Brian R. Gauthier of Chatham, Patrick J. Ohlerich of Hudson and Kyle 0. Preusser of Ghent. Troop K serves the counties of Columbia, Dutchess, Putnam and Westchester. One graduate from Greene County, John R. Caramanica of Greenville, will serve with Troop F. Troop F serves a five-county area including Greene, Ulster, Orange, Rockland and Sullivan. A graduate from Saugerties, Kyle M. Haller, will serve with Troop G. Troop G serves a 10-county area in the Capital Region. Gov. Kathy Hochul gave the keynote speech in which she congratulated the new 227 state troopers.
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Gov. Kathy Hochul addresses the graduates at the New York State Police Academy in Albany on Wednesday.
“These men and women we welcome into the New York State Police today have worked and trained extremely hard for six months and have dedicated themselves to protecting the people of New York state,” Hochul said. “I commend these new troopers for their commitment to public service and making our state a safer place for those who live, work and travel through New York. I wish them luck as they start their careers and continue the 105-year-long tradition of the New York State Police.” The ceremony included a video presentation of the expansive training
conducted by the members of the 210th Basic School Session. The graduates, who were selected from a list of more than 1,700 candidates, will report March 31 for field duty. For the following 10 weeks, the new troopers will be evaluated under a field-training program supervised by senior field training officers. “To our graduates, today is a recognition of the hard work and perseverance you have shown during your 26 weeks of difficult training. It is also a testament to your continued dedication, as you waited years before your name was called
to join the long gray line. I congratulate and welcome all of our new Troopers to one of the most prestigious and wellrespected law enforcement agencies in the nation,” State Police Superintendent Kevin P. Bruen said. The diverse Class of 2022 will join the ranks of 4,500 veteran troopers. Also on Wednesday, as part of Women’s History Month, Hochul announced that state police have joined other police departments across the country by signing the “30x30 Pledge,” a commitment to increase the representation of women in state police ranks and improve the experiences of women in law enforcement. The central commitment of the pledge is for women to be 30% of recruit classes by 2030 and to ensure that law enforcement agencies are truly representative of the jurisdictions and communities they serve. The pledge is part of state police efforts to diversify its membership. “The future success of our agency will rest on our ability to attract the most talented and diverse group of candidates possible to become New York state troopers,” Bruen said. “We are proud to stand alongside the dozens of other law enforcement agencies that have made a commitment to the 30x30 Initiative.”
n Durham Town Board workshop
meeting 7:30 p.m. Town Hall, 7309 Route 81, East Durham
Wednesday, April 6 n Catskill Central School District 2022 budget workshop 7 p.m. High School Library, 341 West Main St., Catskill n The sole member and the board of directors of the Greene Tobacco Asset Securitization Corporation respective Annual Meetings 2 p.m. 411 Main St., Room 469, Catskill
Thursday, April 7 n Ashland Town Planning Board 6
p.m. Town Hall, 12094 Route 23, Ashland n Coxsackie Village Board Budget Work Session 6 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie 518-731-2718
Monday, April 11 n Ashland Town Board 7:30 p.m. Town Hall, 12094 Route 23, Ashland n Coxsackie Village Board 7 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie 518-731-2718
Tuesday, April 12 n Catskill Central School District Board of Education special meeting 6:30 p.m. High School Library, 341 West Main St., Catskill n Coxsackie Village Historic Preservation Committee 6 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie 518-731-2718
Wednesday, April 13 n Athens Town Zoning Board of Ap-
peals 7 p.m. Athens Town Hall, 2 First St., Athens
Correction In the story “DA: Video key to Myers murder case” in the Tuesday, March 22, 2022, edition of The Daily Mail, a conference was held Monday in the courtroom of Greene County Judge Terry J. Wilhelm.
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Gillibrand pushes for Rural Prosperity office By Natasha Vaughn-Holdridge Columbia-Greene Media
WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., is pushing for legislation that would create a federal office to assist rural communities. Gillibrand held a virtual press conference Wednesday announcing the bipartisan, bicameral Rural Prosperity Act, which is designed to streamline hundreds of federal programs dedicated to helping rural communities, making it easier for those communities to utilize federal programs. “The federal government has a host of programs and grants for rural communities to make use of,” Gillibrand said. “The challenge is that those recourses are hidden in an ineffective and distributed bureaucracy in which programs are siloed and inflexible, making it difficult for small communities in rural areas to identify programs that meet their needs.” Too often these areas do not have the resources or the dedicated staff to navigate the federal bureaucracy, Gillibrand said. “There are more than 400 federal programs dedicated to helping rural communities, spread across 13 departments, and more than 50 offices and subagencies,” Gillibrand said. “All of which can
create duplicative and ineffective bureaucracy. That’s why I’ve joined a bipartisan group of my colleagues to rethink the way our government can serve rural communities.” If the Rural Prosperity Act becomes law, it would create a “one-stop shop” for rural communities to get the resources they need to be able to carry out their economic development plans, Gillibrand said. The legislation would create a permanent new office in the White House, the Office of Rural Prosperity, which would be dedicated to coordinating federal efforts to support and connect rural communities throughout the country to the federal programs and resources. “The office would also be responsible for establishing a comprehensive plan for strategic economic development across the Executive Branch,” Gillibrand said. “And it would work to coordinate, streamline and leverage existing federal investments to address challenges faced by rural areas.” The office would be led by a chief rural adviser, who would be appointed by the president, Gillibrand said. The adviser would approve access to federal services. “The adviser would also serve on the National
Economic Council, signaling the importance of rural communities to our national economy, Gillibrand said. “Our bill would also create a Rural Prosperity Council consisting of the heads of Executive Branch departments, agencies and offices that have programs that serve rural areas.” The challenges facing rural communities can be complex, and can require the support of several agencies to address Gillibrand said. “This legislation would end the days of local officials needing to go back and fourth between the USDA, EPA, Commerce, Transportation and other agencies just to find programs that can help their communities.”
These rules and regulations are put in place for the safety of our visitors and staff, and to keep our cemetery beautiful for all. Thank you for your understanding. Decoration clean-up for our cemetery will begin on March 28, 2022. Lot owners are requested to remove any Fall or Winter decorations they wish to save before March 28, 2022. Fresh cut flowers in a floral cone or basket are always permitted, provided they are in good condition. Artificial flower saddles secured on top of the monuments are permitted. All other decorations will be removed during the cleanup. During the cleanup cemetery staff removes and disposes of all items not permitted from graves. Groundskeepers are instructed to leave any permitted new seasonal decorations that appear to be newly placed and are in accordance with the current cemetery Rules and Regulations.
Items not permitted include, but are not limited to: Glass urns Corner posts Glass of any kind Flags and flag holders Toys or stuffed animals Solar lights Plantings of any kind
Flower planters, boxes & pots Trellises Wooden or plastic crosses Shepherd hooks Crushed stone or wood chips
Items not permitted or in disrepair may be removed and discarded at any time by cemetery staff. For more information please visit our website at https://stpatrickathenscatskill.org/ for more information regarding our cemetery decoration regulations.
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Time to support nursing home workers State Attorney General Letitia James wants to increase funding and offer greater protections for the state’s nursing home workers including those in Columbia and Greene counties. It’s about time.
With state budget negotiations in full swing, James appeared Monday at a press conference at the headquarters of 1199 SEIU, the union that represents nursing home employees. The attorney general called for the end of a pause on a pair of bills that would address staffing levels in nursing homes statewide and cap profits for nursing home owners. Gov. Kathy Hochul suspended the state’s two new nursing home laws in January. The first would have mandated nursing home facilities to provide each
resident with 3 1/2 hours of direct care per day. The second would have stipulated that nursing homes spend 70% of their revenue on direct patient care with at least 40% earmarked for salaries of nursing home workers. James also called on the state Legislature to provide the nursing home workers with additional resources so New York can avoid short staffing issues and failure of nursing homes to comply with infection control protocols that were identified in a report that James’ office released last January. New Yorkers may not fully grasp the tragedy the COVID-19 pandemic wrought on nursing homes. Setting aside the Cuomo administration’s bungling for the moment, nursing home employees fought
on the front lines of the coronavirus battle from the start. They risked their lives during a time when little was known about the virus. Many worked day and night shifts in understaffed facilities that lacked proper infection protocols. They often were not paid overtime. More often they felt disrespected or ignored. Nursing home workers are waiting for full implementation of reforms to bring them the relief that is due them. Nursing home owners must be held accountable to basic standards of care or residents and staff face further risk. There were critical failures of the industry during the pandemic and, starting with adjusting our priorities to put people’s health ahead of profits, there is still a lot of work to be done.
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Nearly 6,500 people mostly Black men, Black women and Black children - were brutally murdered between 1865 and 1950 by white Americans who saw it as a way to terrorize, control and subjugate them after slavery and during the Jim Crow era. Local, state and federal officials ignored, tolerated and even approved the racial violence. Lynching’s stain will never - can never - be cleared away, but now there will be no more looking away. A bill making lynching a federal crime is finally headed to the White House to be signed into law. The Senate this month gave unanimous consent to legislation that would designate lynching a hate crime punishable by up to 30 years in prison. President Joe Biden promised to sign the bill, approved earlier by the House. The action, of course, comes far too late. Scandalously, more than a century too late. The first anti-lynching legislation was introduced in 1900 by Rep. George Henry White, R-N.C., then the only Black representa-
tive. The bill never made it out of committee, and over the years and then decades, there were 200 unsuccessful attempts to criminalize lynching. In 1922, the House passed an anti-lynching measure, but a bloc of Southern segregationists in the Senate mounted a filibuster that effectively killed off the bill. Similar anti-lynching bills were introduced, only to meet the same fate. In 2005, the Senate passed a resolution expressing remorse for failing to pass anti-lynching legislation but still couldn’t muster the votes to amend federal law. The Senate came close in 2020 to passing an anti-lynching bill that had bipartsian support in the wake of the murder of George Floyd, by but at the 11th hour, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., blocked it. Paul signed on to the new legislation, saying his concerns about it being too expansive - allowing prosecutions when only minor injuries were involved - were resolved. The legislation passed by Congress and soon to be signed into law is named in memory of Emmett Till, the
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14-year-old boy from Chicago who was visiting relatives in Mississippi in 1955 when he was lynched after being accused of leering at a white woman. Not only did the two white men who killed him get acquitted, but they openly bragged about how they killed the young boy. If only there had been a federal law that could have been used to try to hold them to account. Thankfully, the large, public lynchings in which white people sipped lemonade as they and their children watched Black people being killed are a thing of the past. But America kids itself if it thinks that such heinous hate crimes don’t still exist today. Witness the modern-day lynching of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia. Enactment of the Emmett Till Antilynching Act might be mostly symbolic - Arbery’s killers will go to prison after their convictions on state and federal charges - but it is important that this country make clear that the lynching of Black people is not and never was - acceptable.
In the Jackson hearings, Republicans prefer to whine about history WASHINGTON — William Faulkner was not writing about Supreme Court confirmation hearings when he observed that “the past is never dead,” but he might as well have been. Increasingly, the sessions have become open season for relitigating nominations past. Grievances, ancient and recent, are endlessly exhumed and renewed, reduced to their most cartoonish dimensions in pursuit of political advantage. So go the Ketanji Brown Jackson hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee this week — a cavalcade of complaints about the treatment of conservative nominees past, from Robert H. Bork to Clarence Thomas to Brett M. Kavanaugh. “We started down this road of character assassination in the 1980s with Judge Bork’s hearings, and senators have been engaged in disgusting theatrics ever since,” Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., said in his opening statement Monday. But the Jackson hearings feature a new leading character: Janice Rogers Brown, a former judge on the federal appeals court in Washington where Jackson now sits. Why Brown, whose experience was invoked by four Republican senators during opening statements? Because like Jackson, she’s a Black woman. Democrats want to see Jackson confirmed, so the Republican argument goes, but they were only too happy to beat up on Brown when she was nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit by President George W. Bush in 2003. It took two years and a showdown over the filibuster, but Brown was eventually confirmed, and served for a dozen years. In the GOP telling, Democrats tried to block Brown from getting the D.C. Circuit credential to forestall her further rise to the Supreme Court. As Sen. Ted Cruz, RTex., put it, Democrats “happily filibustered” Brown “and they did so precisely because they wanted to prevent Judge
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MARCUS Brown from becoming Justice Brown, the first African American woman.” Sen. Lindsey O. Graham, R-S.C., raised the issue in his opening statement and returned to the subject during his questioning Tuesday, taking the time to go through Brown’s biography -- as if she were the nominee. “She was the daughter and granddaughter of sharecroppers,” Graham recited. “She was raised in Alabama under Jim Crow. Despite this adversity, she put herself through law school as a single working mother. . . . If family mattered, we would not have done to her what was done to her here in the United States Senate.” What was done to her? Give me a break. Recall, Brown was confirmed. Democrats specifically provided for her confirmation with the Gang of 14 bipartisan agreement not to filibuster judicial nominees except in “extraordinary circumstances.” Sen. Graham, you might want to consider what was done to Merrick Garland, who didn’t get a hearing on his Supreme Court nomination, much less a confirmation vote. Certainly, Democrats aren’t above playing judicial politics. You’d have to be deliberately naive to believe that the unjustified filibuster of Miguel Estrada’s nomination to the D.C. Circuit from 2001 to 2003 had nothing to do with the prospect of his becoming the first Hispanic justice. (Estrada ended up withdrawing after his nomination languished for 28 months.) No doubt Democrats didn’t want Bush to reap the political benefit of naming a Black woman to the appeals court. But the GOP talking points
this week on Janice Rogers Brown are glaringly incomplete, omitting that Brown, as a California Supreme Court justice, had a record of extremism that fully justified Democrats’ opposition. She advocated a return to the discredited Lochner era, when an overreaching U.S. Supreme Court claimed the Constitution restricts federal and state government power to enact economic regulation; she described 1937, when the court backed off its legal assault on the New Deal, as “the triumph of our own socialist revolution.” In October 2003, The Post’s editorial page, which supported Estrada’s confirmation, called Brown “one of the most unapologetically ideological nominees of either party in many years.” A June 2005 editorial headlined “Reject Justice Brown” described her as a judge “who has been more open about her enthusiasm for judicial adventurism than any nominee of either party in a long time,” adding, “No senator who votes for her will have standing any longer to complain about legislating from the bench.” Conservative Post columnist George F. Will described Brown as “out of that mainstream” of “conservative jurisprudence,” adding, “That should not be an automatic disqualification, but it is a fact.” When you don’t have the facts, argue the law. When you don’t have the law, argue the facts. When you don’t have either, whine about history. The judicial wars are neverending. Each side will nurse and rehearse its perceived injuries and the other side’s perceived abuses. But it needs to be said: Democrats’ different treatment of Janice Rogers Brown and Ketanji Brown Jackson isn’t evidence of Democrats’ situational commitment to diversity. It’s evidence that — guess what — all Black female judges aren’t the same. Ruth Marcus’ email address is ruthmarcus@washpost.com.
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COMING UP ASHLAND — The Windham Rotary, through their foundation, The Windham Rotary Foundation, is hosting the Cancer Patient Aid Car Show Aug. 14 at the Ashland Town Park, 12187 Route 23, Ashland. Pre-registration is $10 now through April 15. Day of show registration is $15. The show is will be held rain or shine. For information, call 518-7347303 ext. 2 or 518-291-0883 or https://www.facebook.com/ events/676104473772374. Pre-registration forms can be printed off the GCWL website at http://greenecountywomensleague.com/2022/01/cancer-patient-aid-car-show-2/
MARCH 24 HUNTER — The Mountain Top Historical society presents “Three Extraordinary Ordinary Women of the Mountain Top” at 7 p.m. March 24 via Zoom. In celebration of Women’s History Month, join the Mountain Top Historical Society for an evening on Zoom to celebrate three exceptional Mountain Top women: Justine Hommel, Hunter Historian for three decades and co-founder of the MTHS; Bernadine Wesley, engineer and civil rights activist, as well as a member of the Hunter Planning Board for 10 years; and Sidonia Palace, managing editor of the Windham Journal for 28 years and a community volunteer extraordinaire. Deborah Allen, Johanna Titus and Cyndi LaPierre will speak about these three Mountain Top women from very different backgrounds whose leadership, accomplishments, and legacy helped to make the Mountain Top what it is today. Admission is free. Register in advance for this webinar at mths.org/events. HUDSON — Community members are invited to participate in an engaging in a discussion about Ukraine’s history and culture 12:301:30 p.m. March 24 via Zoom. Distinguished guests include Very Reverend Dr. Ivan Kaszczak, pastor of the Holy Trinity Ukrainian Catholic Church in Kerhonkson, NY; and Father Janusz Jedrychowski of St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church in Hudson, NY. The discussion is presented as part of the College’s Western Civilizations and U.S. History classes, and is facilitated by Associate Professor of History Nicole Childrose, Ph.D. This online event is open to all students, employees, and interested community members. Contact Mary Garofalo at 518-697-6325 or garofalo@
sunycgcc.edu for information on accessing the Zoom presentation.
MARCH 26 COEYMANS HOLLOW — Trinity United Methodist Church, 1313 Route 143, Coeymans Hollow, will serve a baked ham dinner, take out only, 4-6 p.m. March 26. The menu will include baked ham, potatoes, vegetable, applesauce, rolls, and pie. Adults, $13; children, $6. Reservations suggested by March 23 by calling 518-756-2629. You may check the day of the dinner to see if there are extra dinners available at 518-7562091. OAK HILL — The Oak HillDurham Volunteer Fire Company, 103 County Route 22, Oak Hill, will serve a spaghetti and meatball dinner 4-7 p.m. March 26 to benefit Charles ‘Charlie’ Fremgen, eat in or take out. The cost is $12. For information and to schedule take out, call 518-239-4837. KINGSTON — The Cornell Master Gardeners will host a Seed Swap 1-3 p.m. March 26 at Cornell Cooperative Extension Ulster County, 232 Plaza Road, Kingston. Gardeners can share seeds they’ve harvested from their own plants, seeds from crops they no longer care to grow, or leftover seeds they don’t have time to use. The seed swap is a great opportunity to exchange your extra viable seeds and seek new varieties of vegetables and ornamentals. Many of our perennials and native plants are best sown in late winter and early spring. Bring your extra seeds in envelopes labeled with the type, variety, if it was purchased or saved yourself and any helpful growing instructions. We will have extra envelopes at the swap. Some seed varieties may be limited but as we have found out from our plant swap, we never know in advance what is coming in. Don’t have any seeds to swap? No problem, we are just asking for a fifty cent donation for each pack that you take (cash only). The Master Gardeners will be on hand to answer questions. The event is free but registration is required since space is limited. You can review the Seed Swap Guidelines and register on our website. COVID-19 is still a risk, all attendees must wear a mask. ALBANY — The Capital District Genealogical Society will meet at 1 p.m. March 26 via Zoom. CDGS meetings are presently held on Zoom. Registration is free and will open to the public on March 26. See www.CapitalDistrictGenealogicalSociety.org under meetings and events. There is a 100-person limit. “Write As You Go” by Elissa Powell is the topic. The “write as you go” method has become an efficient and popular process to
gain insights, stay organized and create a work product as you do research. Adopters of the method state that their time is used more efficiently and they can pickup the research with minimal lost time if it should be interrupted.
MARCH 27 ATHENS — TGM American Legion Post 187 Post Commander Gordon Mosher invites all local female veterans to dinner at 4 p.m. March 27 at the Athens American Legion Post, 94 Second St., Athens. As this is a plated dinner, and the menu will be decided based on demand, the Post is asking that attendees RSVP by March 18. Female Veterans eat for free and all others are $10 per person. For information or to RSVP, contact Gordon Mosher at 518-567-5529.
APRIL 2 ATHENS — HVVFA HazMat, Homeland Security and Training Committee with the Fire and Accidental Prevention Committee present the annual Bill Eck and John J. Mulligan Haz-Mat, Homeland Security and Fire Training Seminar 8 a.m.-2 p.m. April 2 at the Athens Volunteer Fire Department, 39 Third St., Athens. If a date change is needed due to gathering restrictions, it will be announced by March 26. Pre-registration is requested by email to Fred Pettingell at fpettingell@aol.com. Note April 2, 2022 registration on the subject line. Registration begins at 7 a.m. on the morning of the seminar. Registration fee of $10 will cover all seminar needs. Certificates will be issued following the seminar. Pre-register as seating may be limited. HUDSON — ColumbiaGreene Community College is opening its campus to prospective students and their families 9 a.m.-1 p.m. April 2. Ten faculty members will be giving overviews of their programs that include Art, Automotive Technology, Business, Construction Technology/Preservation Carpentry, Criminal Justice, Education, History, Psychology/ Sociology, Math/Science, and Nursing. Register now at sunycgcc. edu/2022-open-house, or call 518-697-6500.
APRIL 5 CATSKILL — Greene County Women’s League Cancer Patient Aid (GCWL) will meet for their first Membership Meeting for 2022. The meeting will be held April 5 at the Creekside Restaurant, 160 West Main St., Catskill with lunch beginning at noon and the meeting called to order at 1 p.m. Yearly membership to GCWL is $25/year. New members are welcome. For information, call 518819-1249 or e-mail greenecountywomensleague@ gmail.com.
PRATTVSILLE — To all residents near and far who supported our Ukrainian family and friends, locally and in Ukraine, at the recent fundraiser, THANK YOU. If there was any doubt as to who we support and are willing to put our money where our mouths are, it has been banished. Pierogis and Borscht sold out within 15 minutes and those waiting in line wound from St. John’s Ukrainian Church to Route 23A. Absolutely amazing and so heartwarming. Monetary support for Ukraine is still being accepted. Checks made out to Ukrainian American Freedom Foundation, mailed to Lana Breigle, 588 Cozy Hollow Road, Prattsville, NY 12468. Mary Reilly of East Durham was the winner of the quilt and she graciously donated the quilt back to be raffled off at the next fundraiser. Thank you Mary and it was an experience to talk with you. She asked to be informed of the next Ukrainian fundraiser, and she will be duly notified. We are now bona fide pierogi assemblers — not chefs — we left that up to the professional Ukrainian chefs, and those ladies are perfect. We are better than when we started and will improve yet
again at the next fundraiser. Will have to be really prepared for the expected crowd. It was heartwarming to work for the good of so many. Got to see Charlene Mabey and Louise LeBrun — hadn’t seen them in about two years. Both doing well and friendly as ever. Commander Chris Tompkins of American Legion Virgil E. Deyo Post 1327 is giving everyone an alert for the Veterans Honor Banners for the Main Street, Prattsville. If you are interested, go to militarytributbanners.org, enter Prattsville as the participating town. Just follow the instructions. If any questions you can contact Chris at crt2572@yahoo.com or call 518-795-5425. Early is better — like now. The Prattsville Easter Egg Hunt sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary Virgil E. Deyo Unit 1327, will be held at the Prattsville Fire Hall so generously made available by the Prattsville Volunteer Fire Company. The Easter Egg Hunt will be held at 11 a.m. April 16. Donations for candy and goodies are being accepted. The auxiliary ladies assisted at the fundraiser for Ukrainian aid on Friday and Saturday. Auxiliary members Lana Breigle and her daughters Laura and Adrianna were front and center leading the group and showing us all how
to do it. Newbies were Shelly Brainard, Nancy Kizyma (made not), Pat Bifolco, Marianne Krauss, Anita Creazzo, Mary Cline and Ginny Gurley. Kevin “Bucky” Simmons was bragging that he had eliminated 7 squirrels only to be topped by Bob Gurley’s total of 16. Regardless of who has the largest total, the squirrels have been a nuisance this year. Kelly and Adam Brainard were on the mountain top for the fundraiser in support of Ukrainian relief. Kelly wants their residence to be classified as a farm, not a ranch, because of her beloved chickens. Her words not mine. They have goats and kids and know at one time they had a turkey, cattle and llamas. Kelly there are hundreds of other animals to adopt to make it a true farm. On March 27 it is Happy Birthday to Peggy Rappleyea, Eugene Rappleyea and Bob Hermance. March 28 it is Happy Birthday to Desmond Petrioni. Happy birthday to Sarah Armlin, daughter of Debbie Ballard Armlin. Mary McGlynn gets Happy Birthday greetings on March 30. Haley Benson is wished a very Happy Birthday on March 31. Happy Birthday to Randy Briggs on April 1. Send your news to gurleyrv@ gmail.com or 518-299-3219.
2022 rabies clinic schedule CAIRO — The 2022 Rabies Clinics are drive-up only clinics at the Angelo Canna Town Park, Joseph D. Spencer Lane, Cairo. All clinics are held 5-7 p.m. May 18, June 15, Aug. 17, Sept. 14. Call to pre-register at 518-719-3600.
This is a DRIVE-UP ONLY clinic; you must wear a face mask and remain inside your vehicle at all times. Bring a record of the pet’s previous vaccination for a 3-year certificate; if no record is present, the pet will be given
1-year certificate. Public Health Law requires all cats, dogs, and ferrets to be vaccinated for rabies starting at 12 weeks old. If you are feeding a stray, please bring them to be vaccinated.
On-Ti-Ora Chapter DAR meets CATSKILL — Peter Whiteley shared information on the American Indian Iroquois Nation which supported the American Patriots during the American Revolution at the March meeting of the On-Ti-Ora Chapter National Society Daughters of the American Revolution. In his
presentation, he cited Lt. Colonel Louis Cook’s service during the Revolution. Lt. Colonel Cook was an Iroquois leader and a commissioned officer in the Continental Army. The Lt. Colonel’s father was African and his mother was an Abenaki. Whiteley is Curator of North American
Ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Also present at the meeting was Jane Campbell, Chair of the New York State DAR Committee on American Indians. For information on membership in DAR, visit the website www. dar.org.
West Kortright Centre annual meeting/membership gathering ANDES — The West Kortright Centre will have its annual meeting and membership gathering 3-6 p.m. March 27 at The Andes Hotel, 110 Main St., Andes. It will feature a pasta dinner with dessert along with live jazz music by the Alan Palmer Jazz Trio. Meet the Centre’s new Executive Director, Saira McLaren, and say goodbye to the outgoing Executive Director Patrick Barnes. The annual meeting agenda includes the presentation of the Dorothy Kelso Henderson Award for distinguished, long-term service to The Centre, a discussion about the past, present, and future of the organization, and the election of new members to the Board of Directors. Tickets for the event are
$25/person (members); $30/ person (non-members). Reservations are required; RSVP by March 25. West Kortright Centre membership is encouraged, but not required; Tickets as well as 2022 memberships can be purchased online, by phone, or in person. See www.westkc.org for details or call 607-278-5454 for more information. Pianist, composer and educator Alan Jay Palmer aka BAP (Bad Alan Palmer) is the founder of the United Institute of Music Science & Arts, as well as the leader of the BAP TRIO and THE NEW SOIL SHIP (9 piece Go-Go/ Jazz Band). He was born in Washington D.C. and attended the Duke Ellington School of the Arts. Palmer was exposed to jazz piano
through his first teacher John Malachi and listening to Thelonious Monk, Minugs, and John Coltrane recordings. As a teen, Alan began to play around D.C. with different Go-Go bands, as well as with Fred Foss, Webster Young and other jazz legends. After high school, Alan attended the famous Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz, formerly known as The African American Music Department at The University of Hartford. Palmer’s mentor, Jackie McLean offers this praise: “Alan is a very talented composer, his songs are beautiful and original. His piano style is fresh yet you can hear his heroes Monk, Bud and Ellington whispering in his ear”.
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Debra K. LaRosa April 22, 1954 - March 21, 2022 ASHLAND- Debra K. LaRosa died on Monday, March 21, 2022. She was born in Cambridge, England on April 22, 1954 to Kenneth and Jean Casazza. Deborah was employed with Lowes in Catskill, NY. She is survived by her husband Frank LaRosa, Jr. ; her children Lita, Lance, Frank (Chich) and Alexis; her brother David Casazza. She was predeceased by her brother Wayne Casazza. Calling hours will be held on Saturday, April 2, 2022 from 5 to 8 PM at Decker Funeral Home , 5312 Main St., Windham, NY.
Frederica Poucher September 6, 1941 - March 22, 2022 Frederica Poucher, 80, of Ghent passed away Tuesday, March 22, 2022 at her home. Born September 6, 1941 in Copake, NY, she was the daughter of the late Floyd and Thelma (Miller) Edelman. Frederica was the owner of Charter City Auto Sales in Greenport for many years. She was an avid gardener and loved her flowers. She especially enjoyed “hanging out” and spending time with her grandsons. She is survived by her husband: Berton Poucher, two daughters; Deanna Crabtree of Ormond Beach Fl, and Wendy Rybka of Valatie, a brother Roger Edelman of Copake, four grandchildren; Darren Jr. and Steven Rybka, Joshua McDermott, Jessica Heermance and one great grandson. She was predeceased by her daughter Terri Gilligan. At Frederica’s request there will be no services. For those who wish, contributions in her name may be made to Columbia County Humane Society, 111 Humane Society Rd., Hudson, NY 12534 or AnimalKind Inc., 721 Warren St., Hudson, NY 12534. Arrangements are under the direction of the Raymond E. Bond Funeral Home, Valatie.
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On July 1, 1948, the body of a man the Army identified as Sgt. Leonard J. Moynihan was buried in St. Mary’s cemetery, in South Glens Falls, N.Y., after funeral services in his hometown church. Moynihan had been killed during a Japanese air raid on the island of Biak in the South Pacific in 1945, and the Army was just now sending him home. Or so it believed. But the body buried that day in the small Hudson River town 50 miles north of Albany was not that of Moynihan. Instead, the Defense Department revealed this month, it belonged to Army Air Forces Pfc. Edward H. Benson Jr., of Roanoke, Va. The mistake was detailed when the Pentagon announced March 10 that it had finally identified Benson’s remains, 77 years after his death. Benson, who was 22 when he was killed on March 22, 1945, is scheduled to be reburied May 14, near his parents and siblings in a Roanoke cemetery. He was in Moynihan’s grave for three years before the Army realized the mistake, removed him and buried the real Moynihan there in 1951. Benson’s body was taken to a military cemetery in the Philippines, where it lay unidentified for 71 years. His case illustrates the chaos in the aftermath of World War II as the government, working with limited technology, tried to recover, identify and bury the war’s dead - a process that continues today with more sophisticated tools. Benson and Moynihan were both stationed near an airstrip just off the beach on Biak, now part of Indonesia. Biak had been seized from the Japanese in 1944. But a surprise nighttime raid on the airstrip killed Benson, Moynihan and more than 38 others, according to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA.) The Japanese planes bombed and strafed enlisted men’s tents, the mess hall, warehouses and the air traffic
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Army Air Forces Pfc. Edward H. Benson Jr., of Roanoke, Va., whose remains were recently identified 77 years after he was killed on Biak during a Japanese air raid in 1945.
control center. U.S. planes were destroyed. The dead from the raid were initially buried on Biak. After the war, they were exhumed and reburied in a large cemetery 900 miles away in New Guinea. It’s not clear how Benson’s body became identified as Moynihan’s, according to a recent DPAA report on the case that sifted through a tangle of old records. But in April 1951, questions were raised about the identification, the report says. A mix-up was suspected, and in September 1951, an unidentified soldier buried in the New Guinea cemetery was exhumed and examined. Using dental records, experts realized that this was Moynihan. In November 1951, an Army official traveled to Glens Falls with the real body of Moynihan, according to the DPAA and the Binghamton Press. Benson’s body was exhumed and taken away by the official, the newspaper reported. Benson’s unidentified remains were shipped to the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial, where other U.S. soldiers were buried. He was declared “nonrecoverable.” In 2003, Benson’s son, retired Marine Corps Col. James H. Benson of Little River, S.C., began a series of inquiries with the Defense Department about the possibility of accounting for his father.
“I started tracing him,” he said in an telephone interview. “It was off and on for ... years.” James Benson was 2 when his father was killed. “I never knew him,” he said. “I wanted to know more about him: how he got killed, why can’t we get him home. He was an unknown.” Edward Benson was known as “Pete,” his son said. According to his draft registration card, he was of modest stature: 5-foot-6 and about 130 pounds. He worked in a large Norfolk and Western Railway yard in Roanoke. The younger Benson said his father came home to visit at least once. “We have pictures of him holding me when I was 2 years old,” he said. “I just remember the talk, and all the good things,” he said. “He had three sisters and his mother. His father died before he went overseas. They raved about Pete: Everything Pete did was good; Pete was a good boy.” Despite the passage of so much time, he praised the DPAA and the Army. “When you consider that our government tracks down soldiers that have been dead for 77 years, there are a lot of good things to be said,” Benson said. “They did a great job.” Through the early 2000s, James Benson conducted research and continued to ask the Defense Department to look into the possibility that the body in Manila that had
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President Vladimir Putin plans to attend the Group of 20 summit hosted by Indonesia in the fourth quarter, Russia’s envoy to the Southeast Asian country said, brushing off talk of excluding him due to the war in Ukraine. Russia appreciates Indonesia not bowing to pressure to shift the G-20’s focus away from economic recovery, Ambassador Lyudmila Vorobieva said at a briefing Wednesday in Jakarta. Her announcement came a day after German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called for a discussion over whether Russia should be excluded from the grouping of major economies, as the West strives to turn Putin and his government into international pariahs in response to his invasion of Ukraine. However,
China signaled it stands by Russia’s continued G-20 membership, saying the bloc needs to work together on issues from global economic growth to recovery from the pandemic. “Russia is an important member” of the grouping, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said Wednesday at a regular press briefing in Beijing. “No member has the right to remove other countries.” Poland floated the idea of replacing Russia in the G-20 during meetings last week with U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, according to Development Minister Piotr Nowak. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov suggested Wednesday that the U.S. was behind pressure to exclude Russia from the organization.
“The G-20 is a multilateral format, there are different points of view,” Peskov said on a conference call with reporters. “It is clear that the Americans will continue to put pressure on different countries, but, as we see, a number of states still prefer to adhere to their independent, sovereign point of view.” Russia was suspended from the Group of Eight industrial countries in 2014 after Putin’s annexation of Crimea from Ukraine and withdrew from the intergovernmental organization permanently in 2017. The G-20 is a larger grouping that includes many developing economies. (C)2022 Bloomberg L.P. Visit bloomberg.com. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.
been in Moynihan’s grave might be his father’s, according to the DPAA report. That body was the only one of the three unknowns from the Biak raid that was still unidentified. And Benson was the only soldier from the raid whose body had never been officially located. But the DPAA’s predecessor agency was reluctant to do exhumations to investigate cases, the report said. Plus, it did not agree with James Benson’s theory that the body in Manila might be his father’s. The quest stalled. With creation of the DPAA in 2015, exhumation policy changed, with the aim of identifying more missing or unidentified service members. The Benson family submitted DNA samples, and in January 2020, the body in Manila was exhumed and sent to a government laboratory at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii for analysis. Last month, James Benson got a call from an Army official. “Jim, I got great news,” he said the caller told him. “They’ve identified your father.” “That caused a big gulp,” he said. “It’s hard to explain. ... It was such shock after all these years.” The DPAA said dental and anthropological analysis, circumstantial evidence and DNA were used to make the identification. “Pete” Benson is to be buried in the family plot in Roanoke’s Evergreen cemetery, his skeletal remains in full Army uniform, Benson said. “There are eight spaces there, and one left for him,” he said. Michael E. Ruane is a general assignment reporter who also covers Washington institutions and historical topics. He has been a general assignment reporter at the Philadelphia Bulletin, an urban affairs and state feature writer at the Philadelphia Inquirer, and a Pentagon correspondent at Knight Ridder newspapers.
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Diane Gold Koenig, a founding faculty member of ColumbiaGreene Community College, passed away early Wednesday morning, March 23, 2022 with her son and daughter-in-law, Michael and Julie Koenig, by her side. She was 81. Diane was a native Hudsonian through and through. She was born in Columbia Memorial Hospital, graduated from Hudson High School, and returned to Hudson after college at the University of Rochester and receiving her Masters in Education at Columbia University. In 1967, she began her 35-year career as an English professor when Columbia Greene first opened its doors. First and foremost, Diane considered herself a teacher, not of English, as she would say, “but of students who happened to be taking English.” She received numerous awards for her teaching skills, including the prestigious SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. In addition, she served for many years as Chairperson of the Arts and Humanities Department, and led the opening of the College’s Arts and Science Building. An illness forced her to prematurely retire in 2002, after which she was granted Professor Emeritus status and continued to proudly lead the faculty procession at graduation until Covid hit. Other than teaching, the love of Diane’s life was her family. Her husband Edmund, a beloved teacher and later vice principal at Hudson High school, sadly passed away in 1971. With determination, strength and toughness, Diane raised her then three-year old son, Michael, on her own. Her family life took on renewed meaning when Michael married Julie, and even more so with her three grandchildren, Emily (22), Sam (20) and Callie (16). Anyone who ran into Diane over the past 20+ years would know all about her grandchildren, including activities, grades, and pictures. She loved her grandchildren in ways words cannot describe, and the feeling was mutual. Diane was the daughter of the late Toby and Irving Gold, and was particularly close with her sister and brother-in-law, Carole-Beth and Lewis Goldberg, and her nephews, Eric and Jeffrey Goldberg. Diane was active in many community organizations, including Congregation Anshe Emeth, where she served on the Board for a period of time; Sisterhood, including on its Board and as a past president; Hadassah; the American Cancer Society; and the Hudson Area Library Association. Diane loved baseball (including the old Brooklyn Dodgers, Reggie Jackson, and Shea Stadium) and tennis (including Jimmy Connors, Chris Evert, and the US Open). Her favorite hobbies were reading, reading, and reading, and she loved watching NCIS and classic movies on television. After mom’s illness in 2002, she moved into the Massry Residence in Albany. She hated leaving “her Hudson,” but with the care and help of an outstanding Administration and staff, she made the Massry her home for almost 20 years. A special thanks to those incredibly dedicated and compassionate people. Diane lived her life by the words on the necklace she wore every day: “Live, Love, Laugh.” She also proved her favorite poet, William Faulkner, correct when he said in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech that “Mankind will not merely endure, it will prevail.” When faced with challenges at points in her life, Diane did not merely endure, but she prevailed. Funeral services will be held at Bates & Anderson-Redmond & Keeler Funeral Home , 110 Green St. Hudson, NY 12534 on Friday, March 25th at 11:00, followed by internment at Cedar Park Cemetery, 20 Columbia Turnpike, Hudson, NY 12534. The family will be observing the traditional Jewish Shiva period, with family and friends welcome, on Friday following the internment, and Saturday and Sunday between 5:30 and 8:30 at the home of Michael and Julie Koenig, 4 Joshua Road, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Daughters of Sarah Jewish Foundation at www.daughterofsarah.org/donate, or the Columbia-Greene Community College Foundation by visiting www.sunycgcc.edu.
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‘TOGETHERNESS’ TO HUDSON HALL HUDSON — March 21, 2022: Following two immensely popular productions in 2018 and 2019, Hudson Hall is thrilled to welcome back integrated theater company Camphill Hudson Players to perform Togetherness, an original multimedia production about navigating the surprising and oftentimes hilarious ups and downs of just being together. Togetherness is directed by Jody Brookes and premieres April 8 & 9 at 7pm. Tickets are free and can be reserved at hudsonhall.org or by phone at (518) 822-1438. With a series of humorous and colorful vignettes interspersed with music, dance, physical theater and video, Togetherness asks questions many of us have pondered since before the pandemic, yet are even more pertinent now – How can we come together when each of us feels like the center of our own universe? Can we build a bridge, press on together and celebrate our unique points of view? The Camphill Hudson Players are an integrated theater company of people of all abilities. Touring locally and
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regionally, the Players have performed their original productions in Camphill communities, local schools and at other community organizations. The Players offer a message of inclusion, acceptance and positivity that is suitable for all ages. “Camphill Hudson Players’ productions never fail to delight and inspire,” says Hudson Hall Executive Director, Tambra Dillon. “We can’t wait to welcome the Players back to Hudson Hall for another
thoughtful and highly entertaining show for our community.” Director Jody Brookes says: “The inspiration, this extraordinary year, is to spread joy, light, humor and fun! The Camphill Hudson Players guarantee a feel-good, highspirited performance - a homage to what it is to be uniquely human with each other. We can’t wait to see you - we’ve missed you all so much!” Please see Hudson Hall’s COVID-19 Safety Policy at
ABOUT HUDSON HALL Hudson Hall (www.hudsonhall.org) is a cultural beacon in the Hudson Valley, offering a dynamic year-round schedule of music, theater, dance, literature, exhibitions, workshops for youth and adults, as well as family programs and largescale community events such as Winter Walk. Located in a historic landmark that houses New York State’s oldest surviving theater, Hudson Hall underwent a full restoration and reopened to the public in April 2017 for the first time in over 55 years. In 2019, through an extensive program encompassing live performance, art exhibitions, city-wide festivals, free community events and workshops, Hudson Hall served an audience of 50,000 and employed over 400 artists and skilled technicians, making it a valuable contributor to Columbia County’s $8 million creative economy. Approximately 70% of Hudson Hall’s programs are free of charge or subsidized to ensure equitable access to the arts.
Albany Film Festival spotlight:
Novelist Wally Lamb and director Derek M. Cianfrance
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Join us at the Albany Film Festival for a conversation with novelist Wally Lamb and director Derek M. Cianfrance discussing their collaboration on the HBO production of Lamb’s novel I Know This Much is True. 1 to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 2, at the Albany Film Festival Albany Film Festival “With I Know This Much Is True, there’s a lot of grief in this story, but you can’t have grief without love. Just like you can’t have sorrow without joy.” Derek M. Cianfrance, director
The Albany Film Festival Saturday, April 2, 2022University at Albany Free and open to the public www.albanyfilmfestival.org Based on the bestselling novel by Wally Lamb, written and directed by Derek Cianfrance, and starring Mark Ruffalo, the HBO series “I Know This Much is True” — a 2021 Golden Globe nominee — follows Dominick Birdsey as he struggles to care for his twin brother, Thomas, while discovering the truth about his own family history. A picture containing text, person, person, posing Description automatically
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Wally Lamb is the author of six New York Times best-selling novels: I’ll Take You There, We Are Water, Wishin’ and Hopin’, The Hour I First Believed, I Know This Much is True, and She’s Come Undone, and was twice selected for Oprah’s Book Club. Lamb also edited Couldn’t Keep It to Myself and I’ll Fly Away, two volumes of essays from students in his writing workshop at York Correctional Institution, a women’s prison in Connecticut, where he volunteered for 20 years.
Rylance extraordinary in crafty thriller ‘The Outfit’ By Raymond Pignone Columbia-Greene Media
What you wouldn’t give to be a fly on the wall when Graham Moore, writer-director of “The Outfit,” pitched his idea for the movie. The hero is a tailor but he’s also a World War I medic. He knows a few things about espionage. And then there’s a nasty noirish mobster plot. And lots of stuff about tapes and snitches, hidden corpses and briefcases filled with money. So it’s basically a character study slash bloody mobster picture slash Hitchcock-style thriller, set mostly in one room of a suit-maker’s shop in 1956 on a snowy Chicago street. Except it ends with a sharp left turn. Just because. The result is one of the weirder mash-ups offered to moviegoers since “The Usual Suspects” in 1995. Here’s the weirdest thing of all about “The Outfit”: It works despite the story lapses and MacGuffins. The tailor is Leonard Burling (Mark Rylance), a reserved, selfeffacing London expatriate who fled to the states, he claims, because “bluejeans” took over the British fashion market. His jobs are to make or repair suits for the
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city’s “gentlemen” and look the other way when the local mobsters use his store as a collection point for mysterious packages. One such mobster is Richie (Dylan O’Brien), the dashing but dim son of the big boss (Simon Russell Beale). Richie has eyes for Leonard’s pretty assistant Mabel (Zoe Deutch) and a friendly rivalry with enforcer Francis (Johnny Flynn) that turns unfriendly and violent. When Richie takes a bullet (“marble” in the film’s vernacular), Leonard demonstrates his
skill with needle and thread goes beyond sewing garments and “The Outfit” is off and running in several directions at once. If Moore, who won a writing Academy Award for “The Imitation Game,” wanted merely to unveil a fresh take on the gangster film, he wouldn’t be the first director to be galvanized by the possibilities of the genre. In “The Outfit,” though, the clothes are codes for what Moore doesn’t show us. As Leonard explains, wearers blame ill-fitting suits on the shoulders, but the problem
is really the sleeves. When Leonard adjusts the sleeves, he tells the wearer he fixed the shoulders. The customers, pleased and satisfied, are hoodwinked. The impression left by this passage and a great many more is familiar. We are back in the “rumpus” that nearly subsumes the hero of the Coen brothers’ “Miller’s Crossing” (1990) as he navigates a thicket of treacheries and double-crosses. As Leonard, Rylance is extraordinary to watch, aloof, diffident and flickering. His quiet intensity leaves space for fine work from the supporting actors including Beale, whose phlegmatic presence, albeit brief, assumes command. “The Outfit” bears all the signs of art-house decorum pushed and prodded into popular genre forms, with burnished color photography and a stagy visual scheme. After a while, though, Moore’s camera style turns fluid befitting a filmmaker having a winking good time sharing tricks and artifice with his audience. This confounding yet crafty picture takes risks, but it succeeds in compelling and intriguing ways.
CALENDAR LISTINGS TSL * COVID 19 Guidelines * TSL will require you to provide proof of vaccination for entry to the theater. You may view the complete monthly calendar at the link above. Movie tickets available for purchase at the door only. Cash, credit card, and check accepted. Special Ticket Pricing on Mondays: Friday & Weekend Admission: $12.50 general / $10 membersand students. Monday Admission: $7 general / $5 members and students. n Great Art On Screen’s, BOTTICELLI: FLORENCE AND THE MEDICI (2020) — Florence in the era of the powerhouse Italian statesman, politician, and patron, Lorenzo de’ Medici, was the heart of Renaissance art and culture. One artist, above all others, evoked the lights and shadows of this unforgettable era: Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510). Experience Medici’s Florence and its workshops through Botticelli’s life, his collaborations, his challenges and successes. From the outset of his career under the wing of the Medici family, Botticelli established himself as the inventor of an ideal beauty. After the death of Lorenzo de Medici, Botticelli was destined to be forgotten for over three centuries, but the rediscovery of Botticelli by the Pre-Raphaelites re-ignited a genuine fascination with the artist and sparked a Botticellimania which continues to this day. 2020. 1h30m. Saturday, March 26 at 1 p.m., Sunday, March 27 at 1:45 p.m. n Michelangelo Antonioni’s, L’AVVENTURA [1960] — Michelangelo Antonioni invented a new film grammar with this masterwork. An iconic piece of challenging 1960s cinema and a gripping narrative on its own terms, L’avventura concerns the enigmatic disappearance of a young woman during a yachting trip off the coast of Sicily, and the search taken up by her disaffected lover (Gabriele Ferzetti), and best friend (Monica Vitti). Antonioni’s controversial international sensation is a gorgeously shot tale of modern ennui and spiritual isolation. Italian with English subtitles. 1960. 2h23m. Saturday, March 26 at 4:45 p.m., Sunday, March 27 at 1:15 p.m. n Ida Lupino’s, THE HITCH HIKER (1953) — Beyond its obvious cultural significance as the only classic film noir directed by a woman (actress Ida Lupino), the film is perhaps better remembered as simply one of the most nightmarish motion pictures of the 1950’s. Inspired by the truelife murder spree of Billy Cook, The Hitch Hiker is the tension-laden saga of two men on a camping trip (Edmond O’Brien and Frank Lovejoy) who are held captive by a homicidal drifter (William Talman). He forces them, at gunpoint, to embark on a grim joyride across the Mexican desert. Renegade filmmaking at its finest, the film was independently produced, which allowed Lupino and ex-husband/producer Collier Young to work from a treatment by blacklisted writer Daniel Mainwaring, and tackle an incident that was too brutal for the major studios to even consider. 1953. 1h11m. Saturday, March 26 at 5:45 p.m., Sunday, March 27 at 4 p.m. n Exhibition on Screen, FRIDA KAHLO (2020) — Who was Frida Kahlo? Everyone knows her, but who was the woman behind the bright colors, the big brows, and the floral crowns? Take a journey through the life of a true icon, discover her art, and uncover the truth behind her often turbulent life. Making use of the latest technology to deliver previously unimaginable quality, the film takes an in-depth look at key works throughout her career. Using letters Kahlo wrote as a guide, this definitive film reveals her deepest emotions and unlocks the secrets and symbolism contained within her art. Directed by Ali Ray; produced by Phil Grabsky. 2020. 1h30m. Saturday, March 26 at 2:45 p.m., Sunday, March 27 at 3:30 p.m. n Jean Cocteau’s, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1946) — TSL Presents a special screening of Jean Cocteau’s sublime adaptation of Mme Leprince de Beaumont’s fairytale masterpiece, accompanied by an in house LIVE MUSIC performance. This landmark of motion picture fantasy still beguiles and enchants seventy years after its release. French with English subtitles. B/W. 1946. 1h33m. Sunday, March 27 at 6 p.m. n Jan Ole Gerster’s, A COFFEE IN BERLIN (2012) — Jan Ole
Gerster’s wry and vibrant feature debut paints a day in the life of Niko, a twenty-something college dropout going nowhere fast. Niko lives for the mo- ment as he drifts through the streets of Berlin, oblivious to his growing status as an outsider. Then, one fateful day everything changes: his girlfriend dumps him, his father cuts off his allowance, and a strange psychiatrist dubiously confirms his ‘emotional imbalance’. Meanwhile, a former classmate insists she bears no hard feelings toward him for his gradeschool taunts when she was “Roly Poly Julia,” but it becomes increasingly apparent that she has unfinished business with him. Niko finally concludes that he has to engage with life. Shot in timeless black and white and enriched with a snappy jazz soundtrack, this slacker dramedy is a love letter to Berlin and the Generation Y experience. German with English subtitles. 2012. 1h28m. Sunday, March 27 at 5:30 p.m. TIME & SPACE LIMITED 434 COLUMBIA STREET, HUDSON, NY | (518) 822-8100 | FYI@TIMEANDSPACE.ORG
MARCH 25 HIERBA BUENA TACO POP UP! Friday, March 25, 5 p.m. - 9 p.m. Hierba Buena, a mother-daughter team, is back for a taco pop up! Their delicious food is a reflection of traditional Mexican dishes. (V + GF options). Enjoy with one of our mocktails! Friday, March 25, 5 p.m. - 9 p.m., https://www.facebook.com/ events/1287898711680384 Cooper’s Daughter Spirits at Olde York, 284 State Rouite 23, Claverack, 845-480-1237 “FUN HOME” Friday, March 25, 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. $12 – $28 Winner of the 2015 Tony Award for Best Musical and adapted from the graphic memoir by Alison Bechdel. This groundbreaking play reveals memories of Bechdel’s dysfunctional family, as she tries to unlock the mysteries of her father’s past, while discovering her own sexuality. A refreshingly honest, wholly original musical about seeing your parents through grown-up eyes. Written by Lisa Kron, Jeanine Tresori and Alison Bechdel; Directed by Michael McDermott and Michael C. Mensching; Musical Direction by Joanne Mensching Friday, March 25, 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m., $12 – $28, https://www. ghentplayhouse.org/fun-home The Ghent Playhouse, 6 Town Hall Place, Ghent, 800-838-3006
MARCH 26 MAPLE WEEKEND Saturday, March 26, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Come join us for Maple Weekend and learn how maple syrup is crafted! During this family friendly event, you will take a short walking tour, see how sweet sap is made into high-quality syrup and enjoy complimentary samples of our delicious products. Saturday, March 26, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., https://www.facebook. com/events/4754470114682415 Maple Leaf Sugaring, 93 Dupier Road, Ghent, 518-929-0484 THE MET OPERA LIVE IN HD: VERDI’S DON CARLOS Saturday, March 26, noon - 5 p.m. $25 – $35 For the first time in company history, the Met presents the original five-act French version of Verdi’s epic opera of doomed love among royalty, set against the backdrop of the Spanish Inquisition. Yannick Nezet-Seguin leads a cast of opera’s leading lights, including tenor Matthew PoIenzani in the title role, soprano Sonya Yoncheva as Elisabeth de Valois, and mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton as Eboli. Bass-baritones Eric Owens and John Relyea are Philippe II and the Grand Inquisitor, and baritone Etienne Dupuis rounds out the all-star principal cast as Rodrigue. Verdi’s masterpiece receives a monumental new staging by David McVicar that marks his 11th Met production, placing him among the most prolific and popular directors in recent Met memory. This live cinema transmission is part of the Met’s award-winning Live in HD series, bringing opera to movie theaters across the globe. Saturday, March 26, noon - 5 p.m., https://timeandspace.org/ calendar/the-met-opera-live-inhd-verdis-don-carlos/ Time & Space Limited, 434 Columbia Street, Hudson, 518-8228100
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Ulster and Delaware Railroad Book — 1901 By Dede Terns-Thorpe For Columbia-Greene Media
With the weather like summer this week, I thought it was a perfect time to remind us of what people already knew so many years ago. I’d like to share a parts of a 1901 Ulster and Delaware Railroad book, “The Catskill Mountains, The Most Picturesque Mountain Region on the Globe.” It talks about vacations, with no clocks striking, or gongs sounding, just listening to the trees, bees, babbling water, crickets, birds or katydids. (Sometimes, we need to be reminded of these treasures right in our back yards). The book notes that in the United States, the vacation habit has now grown chronic
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Interesting Tidbit about horse and wagons. Up until 1836, a stagecoach traveled at an average speed of five miles per hour. This means that travel from Catskill to the Mountain House took about four plus hours. After 1836 the travel time doubled, reducing it to about three rough hours.
and confirmed among all classes. It said, “It is a restless energy that pervades this land of ours, and we rarely spare the time to look into the faces of our neighbors.” There must be periods of relaxation, recreation, and absolute rest. (This would apply today, still). The book talks about how the Catskill Mountains came to be, and at what period of the earth’s history these massive crags were formed? It tells us it still needs to be questioned by the Geologist of the Future. The theory of a high plateau is still adhered to by the best authorities, including Professor Arnold Guyot, the learned scientist.
It’s also been the frequent theory mentioned by two area geologists, Bob and Joanna Titus, authors of numerous books and geological articles. Sadly, the book tells us that much of the early records (as we know) are lost. It tells us about the difficult ride to the northern part of the Catskills, our neck of the woods. Until the “Iron-horse began to sniff the air of the hills,” there was little access to Hunter. It wasn’t until 1881 that the trains ventured to our side of the mountain, so it was a rough stagecoach ride until then. It was explained like this. “For some fifty years after
its summer charms were first discovered, the region remained practically inaccessible.” (This would most likely mean the fifty years after the building of the Catskill Mountain House in 1823-1824.) It noted the long and tedious stage-ride from the river, over an atrocious road, and up the steep mountainside at a snail’s pace, often involving danger. The steep and stony miles, the tired horses, and the lumbering old stages left time to view or enjoy the mountain grandeur. It reminded us that until the arrival of the railroad, our area was a charming summer resort wholly undeveloped.
How to make maple syrup West Kill/Lexington Maple By Lula Anderson For Columbia-Greene Media
I want to thank all who missed me last week, and sent inquiries about my well-being. I am fine, but with the snow last Saturday, it started a messed up week. I had to bake for the bake sale for the Ashland Church, so could not sit and think. Wednesday, Rosie and I had an eye appointment in Albany. Since it was such a beautiful day, we stopped and ate out, then went grocery shopping in Cairo. Didn’t get home until after 5. Now I really had to get my act together and bake which I did on Thursday and Friday. I want to thank the men who set up my tables inside so I didn’t need to set up my tent on a wet lawn. Life was so much easier for me and I could spend more time baking. Thank you to the few, non-church members, who contributed baked goods and to all who bought and donated to the church. Birthday wishes go out to Wally Thompson who will be 89, and to Josephine Tompkins and to my good friend Tommy Bristol. Have you heard that WRIP is moving their studio to the Bently House. Heard there might be other businesses opening around there soon, too. Let’s see what is really going to open and what is just idle gossip. Keep your eyes and ears open. Please keep Opal DeLong, Lenore Radlivich, Barbara Thompson Tully and Karl Oliver in your prayers as they recover. Sympathy to the family of Patrick Kenny. The long awaited return of the Ashland Fire Department roast beef dinner will be held on April 30 at the Fire House on Route 23, Ashland. Take outs start at 4:30 p.m. or starting at 5 p.m. you can come in, have a seat and be served while you enjoy the company of friends you haven’t seen for awhile. Get a full belly for only $15 adults; children 5–12 $6; under 5 free. Living In Truth meeting will be held on the second Tuesday every month at Living Faith CC Maplecrest. Contact Charmaine.Rusin@gmail.com for information. Fish fry continues at the Hensonville Fire Department located at 432 Route 296 in Hensonville every Friday until Good Friday, April 15 the hours are from 4–8 p.m. Menu includes fish, chicken tenders or fried clams; French fries or baked potato; coleslaw, dinner roll and a brownie or cookie for dessert (while supplies last). All this for only $10/ meal. Take outs only. Pick up at the truck bay to allow for social distancing. No pick ups at the kitchen door. Call 518-734-3040 to preorder and the wonderful staff will
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AS I REMEMBER IT Spring is here, officially, and with spring comes Maple Syrup season. Did you know it takes approximately 40 gallons of sap to make a gallon of syrup. When the farming was done, and we no longer had Angus cows to chase, my father, Leslie Holdridge, decided we needed to make maple syrup. We converted one of the unused houses on the farm into a sap house, which meant adding a stove to cook down the sap and ventilation for the steam produced. Sugar Maple trees produce usable sap only during the spring, if conditions are right. It must be below freezing at night with day temperatures around 40. The idea is for the sap to start up the tree during the day to start producing buds, but back down at night so the buds don’t come out. The farmer had to know when the conditions were just right to start tapping the trees. S piels would be gathered, buckets would be rinsed and covers matched, then all would be loaded onto a wagon drawn by a team of horses and trekked out into the bush. The sugar bush is the name given to the stand of maples that were tapped for the sap. Each tree has to be drilled, some multiple times according to its girth, and a spiel inserted. A bucket was hung from the spiel to collect the sap, then a cover was put over to keep the sap as clean as possible, (dust, insects,) and the rain out. Rain doesn’t hurt the syrup, it just adds to the time boiling it down. Most years, the men tapped and gathered in the snow which was good for the tree, as the roots were protected, but hard on the men and horses. Twice a day the buckets had to be emptied into a larger vat on the back of the wagon, which was taken to the sap house and poured into another holding tank. A wood stove held the arc which was a series of
pans. The raw sap was poured into the first part of the arc, then when that boiled down some, was sent into the second pan, and then to the finish pan. Hours would pass while the water boiled out of the sap. The sap house was steamy, and hot as the men kept adding wood to keep the fire hot enough to boil the water out. Now comes the critical part. The finish. Close watch had to be kept on the final pan until the proper color and consistency was reached. How many pans were lost because, within minutes, the syrup burned. If you were riding around the mountain top back then, you would see, in the woods, little cabins that were constantly steaming from all cracks and roofs. The air would smell sweet as the sticky water was being sent into the atmosphere. I know many a woman who would have her own set of trees by the house that would be tapped for home use. The summer kitchen stove would be used to boil the syrup down to a consistency of candy and sometimes whipped into butter. Most syrup makers today use a hose line which goes from tree to tree into a collection barrel, which is emptied into the sap house. The sap is put through a reverse osmosis filter which removes much of the water before boiling. Gas or oil burning stoves are used instead of wood so the men can turn off the heat if they want to go get dinner or some sleep. It’s still a long process, but not as bad as the old times. The first run syrup is generally very light in color, and deepens as the sugar content rises in the sap as the trees get ready to use the sugar to make leaves. The last boil is very dark, almost black, and that’s the stuff that is shipped up to Vermont. Yes, the price of real New York State, Catskill Mountain syrup is very high but when you consider all you have to do, and the conditions that must be met, is it really out of range? You can always make it yourself.
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Deepest sympathy to all the family and friends of Candice Boyle who passed away on March 11. The turnout for the Pierogi, Borscht and Bake Sale at the St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Church, Route 23A, Jewett on March 19 was incredible. Proceeds will go directly to the Ukrainian American Freedom Foundation for civil resistance. The last Friday and Saturday of every month is a book sale at the Hunter Public Library, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday. Fill a paper bag with books for $5. Every Friday during Lent the Hensonville Firehouse holds “Fish Fry” dinners. Take out only and dinners are $10 from 4-8 p.m. Dates remaining for the dinners are March 25, April 1, 8, 15 (Good Friday). Orders will be picked up in the truck bay so there is space to social distance. Your dinner choices are fish or clams or chicken tenders with French fries or baked potato, coleslaw, dinner roll, brownie or cookie while supplies last. Call 518-734-3040 to place your order. Happy birthday to Peggy Rappleyea on March 27. Also celebrating a birthday on March 27 is Eugene Constable. Bob Hermance’s birthday is March 27. March
29 is Paul Dwon’s birthday. Happy birthday to Louise Van Etten on March 31. Best wishes to all of you. The following is the weekly nutrition menu offered by Greene County Department of Human Services Senior Nutrition Program for the week of March 28 – April 1: Monday—Chicken and biscuits, California mixed vegetables, mashed potatoes, lemon pudding with graham cracker crumbs; Tuesday—Taco bake, corn, tomatoes and Lima bean medley, Spanish rice, butterscotch pudding; Wednesday—Turkey burger with peppers and onions, carrots, scalloped potatoes, fruited Jell-O; Thursday—Chicken Parmesan, tossed salad, Italian mixed vegetable, rotini and fresh fruit; Friday—Fish Florentine, green beans, rice pilaf, fresh fruit. The menu will be the meal that is delivered to all Greene County homebound meal clients. All persons over the age of 60 can receive a meal. Meals served at noon for a suggested donation of $4 per meal. Those wishing to receive a meal are required to call the respective location at least a day in advance: Jewett Municipal Building, Route 23C, Jewett, 263-4392; Acra Community Center, Old Route 23B, Cairo, 622-9898; Rivertown Senior Center, 39 Second Street, Athens, 9452700. If you wish to pick up a
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Julius Randle (30) of the New York Knicks reacts during the second half against the Utah Jazz at Madison Square Garden on Sunday.
Knicks’ Randle fined for ‘directing hostile language at a referee’ Stefan Bondy New York Daily News
NEW YORK — Julius Randle has been very charitable with his anger. The Knicks forward was fined yet again Tuesday for “directing hostile language at a referee,” according the NBA, which docked Randle $40,000. It was the fourth time the hot-tempered Randle was punished this season by the league, with fines totaling $130,000. The Knicks were fined $25,000 separately in January because Randle didn’t want to talk to the media. Fines levied by the NBA are donated to anonymous charities. The latest incident was bizarre. Randle, clearly frustrated at the end of a miserable performance in Sunday’s loss to the Jazz, shoved opposing center Rudy Gobert and left the court in a rage. Strutting on his way out, Randle, who missed 15 of his 22
shots, gestured angrily at a referee as a security guard tried to usher him away. Randle’s miserable season has been defined not only by his faltering jumper (30.7% on 3-pointers), but also by his open hostility towards the opponent, the fans and the referees. “You don’t want to repeat the same mistakes over and over,” Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau said. “And I don’t want frustration to get in the way of — you’re human, there’s emotions involved in it. But we have to make sure we’re controlling our emotions.” Perhaps related, Randle sat Tuesday’s game against the Hawks. He was officially ruled out with a sore right quad, which Thibodeau called a pain “that’s been there and hasn’t gone away. ..So we’re trying to clear that up.” It set up Obi Toppin with a rare opportunity. See KNICKS B3
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Ashleigh Barty of Australia hits to Shelby Rogers of the USA on day six of the 2021 U.S. Open tennis tournament at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on Sept. 4.
Top-ranked Ashleigh Barty announces retirement from tennis at 25 Des Bieler The Washington Post
Ashleigh Barty, the Women’s Tennis Association’s top-ranked player and the winner of this year’s Australian Open, announced that she is retiring. “Today is difficult and filled with emotion for me as I announce my retirement from tennis,” Barty, a 25-year-old
Australian, wrote in an Instagram post Wednesday. “. . . I am so thankful for everything this sport has given me and leave feeling proud and fulfilled. Thank you to everyone who has supported me along the way, I’ll always be grateful for the lifelong memories that we created together.” In her post, Barty shared an interview with Australian tennis broadcaster Casey
Dellacqua, a former player and Barty’s onetime doubles partner, who asked why Barty made the decision to retire now. Barty said she was “spent” and wanted to “chase other dreams.” “I’m fulfilled; I’m happy; and I know how much work it takes to bring the best See TENNIS B3
Mets’ deGrom sharp in spring debut Deesha Thosar New York daily News
PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — As batters are just getting used to seeing live pitching again, facing Jacob deGrom continues to be unfair. The Mets ace hurled two shutout innings and struck out five of the seven batters he faced in his Grapefruit League debut against the Astros on Tuesday at Clover Park. His fastball topped out at 99 mph and he was finished after 30 pitches in his first time facing another team in over eight months. “I was nervous to be honest with you,” deGrom said after his outing. “First time facing another team, guys in another uniform, I was a little nervous. The main thing I worked on this offseason, I feel like it See METS B3
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New York Mets starting pitcher Jacob deGrom (48) delivers a pitch in the first inning of the spring training game against the Houston Astros at Clover Park on Tuesday.
Sweet 16 power ratings: Where teams fit within the collection of teams still standing Jon Wilner Mercury News
UCLA was good. Arizona was good and lucky. The former played with the precision of a No. 1 seed in dispatching Saint Mary’s while the latter looked like a No. 4 in its overtime escape against TCU. And as of today, that role reversal means nothing. All that matters is the Pac-12’s top basketball programs have advanced to the Sweet 16, giving the conference multiple paths to the Final Four and its first national championship in 25 years. Where do the Bruins and Wildcats fit within the Sweet 16 hierarchy? Having watched both -having watched dozens of
hours of Madness over the past week -- we re-ranked the 16 teams still standing. (We included each team’s true seed in the No. 1-68 format, as determined by the NCAA selection committee prior to the bracket reveal.) 1. Gonzaga True seed: No. 1 overall Next up: vs. Arkansas (Thursday) Comment: The Zags were wobbly against Memphis ... right up until they weren’t. Feel free to poke holes. We prefer to focus on the fact that they advanced even though their top two NBA prospects, big man Chet Holmgren and forward Julian Strawther, scored a combined 15 points. With each passing round, the need for playmakers
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St. Peter’s Peacocks head coach Shaheen Holloway reacts to ally in the first half against the Murray State Racers during the second round of the 2022 NCAA Tournament at Gainbridge Fieldhouse on Saturday.
increases. The Zags have plenty of them. 2. Kansas
True seed: No. 3 overall Next up: vs. Providence (Friday)
Comment: Sure, the Jayhawks had to dig deep to escape Creighton, but match that result against those of the other No. 1s: Baylor got bounced; Gonzaga beat Memphis by four points; and Arizona required overtime against TCU. On a comparative basis, KU’s seven-point, regulationtime victory over Creighton qualifies as a blowout. Also, Remy Martin’s performance off the bench bodes extremely well for KU this week. 3. Arizona True seed: No. 2 overall Next up: vs. Houston (Thursday) Comment: The Wildcats needed a career game from Christian Koloko and a dominant finish from Bennedict Mathurin to repel TCU. The
mayhem that unfolded late Sunday night in San Diego was either an indication of weakness that better teams (hello, Houston) will exploit or a coming-of-NCAA-age for an inexperienced team that now understands what it takes to survive. We have no idea which. 4. Duke True seed: No. 8 overall Next up: vs. Texas Tech (Thursday) Comment: The victory over Michigan State was all the more impressive considering MSU made 11-of-22 shots from 3-point range and couldn’t have played any better. (Counterpoint: Duke’s wayward defense allowed an opponent to shoot 50% from See RATINGS B3
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NCAA MEN’S TOURNAMENT EAST REGIONAL At Wells Fargo Center Philadelphia Regional Semifinals Friday Purdue vs. St. Peter’s, 7:09 p.m. UCLA vs. North Carolina, 9:39 p.m. Regional Championship Sunday, March 27 UCLA-N. Carolina winner vs. Purdue-St. Peter’s winner, TBA SOUTH REGIONAL At AT&T Center San Antonio Regional Semifinals Thursday Villanova vs. Michigan, 7:29 p.m. Arizona vs. Houston, 9:59 p.m. Regional Championship Saturday Arizona-Houston winner vs. Villanova-Michigan winner, TBA MIDWEST REGIONAL At United Center Chicago Regional Semifinals Friday Kansas vs. Providence, 7:29 p.m. Miami vs. Iowa St., 9:59 p.m. Regional Championship Sunday, March 27 Kansas-Providence winner vs. Miami-Iowa St. winner, TBA WEST REGIONAL At Chase Center San Francisco Regional Semifinals Thursday Gonzaga vs. Arkansas, 7:09 p.m. Duke vs. Texas Tech, 9:39 p.m. Regional Championship Saturday Gonzaga-Arkansas winner vs. Duke-Texas Tech winner, TBA
MEN’S NIT First round Tuesday, March 15 (1) Oklahoma 89, Missouri St. 75 (3) VCU 90, Princeton 79 (4) Vanderbilt 82, Belmont 71 (2) North Texas 67, Texas St. 63 (2) Xavier 72, Cleveland St. 68 Oregon 83, (4) Utah St. 72 (1) Texas A&M 74, Alcorn St. 62 St. Bonaventure 76, (4) Colorado 68 (4) Washington St. 63, Santa Clara 50 Wednesday, March 16 (1) Dayton 74, Toledo 55 (3) Wake Forest 74, Towson 64 Virginia 60, (3) Mississippi State 57 Northern Iowa 60, (3) Saint Louis 68 (1) SMU 68, Nicholls 58 (3) Florida 79, Iona 74 (2) BYU 93, Long Beach State 72 Second round Saturday, March 19 (1) Texas A&M 75, Oregon 60 (2) Wake Forest 80, VCU 74 (2) BYU 90, Northern Iowa 71 Sunday (2) Xavier 72, Florida 56 (4) Vanderbilt 70, (1) Dayton 68, OT (4) Washington State 75, (1) SMU 63 Virginia 71, (2) North Texas 69, OT St. Bonaventure 70, (1) Oklahoma 68 Quarterfinals Tuesday St. Bonaventure 52, Virginia 51 Xavier 75, Vanderbilt 73 Wednesday (2) Wake Forest at (1) Texas A&M, 7 p.m. (4) Washington State at (2) BYU, 9 p.m. Semifinals at Madison Square Garden Tuesday, March 29 TBD
NCAA WOMEN’S TOURNAMENT GREENSBORO REGIONAL Second Round Sunday At Colonial Life Arena Columbia, S.C. South Carolina 49, Miami 33 At James H. Hilton Coliseum Ames, Iowa Iowa St. 67, Georgia 44 At Carver-Hawkeye Arena Iowa City, Iowa Creighton 64, Iowa 62 Monday At McKale Center Tuscon, Ariz. North Carolina 63, Arizona 45 At Greensboro Coliseum Greensboro, N.C. Regional Semifinals Friday South Carolina vs. North Carolina, 7 p.m. Iowa St. vs. Creighton, 9:30 p.m. Regional Championship Sunday, March 27 South Carolina-North Carolina winner vs. Iowa St.-Creighton winner, TBA WICHITA REGIONAL Second Round Sunday At KFC Yum! Center Louisville, Ky. Louisville 68, Gonzaga 59 At Ferrell Center Waco, Texas South Dakota 61, Baylor 47 Monday At Thompson-Boling Arena Knoxville, Tenn. Tennessee 70, Belmont 67 At Crisler Center Ann Arbor, Mich. Michigan 64, Villanova 49 At Intrust Bank Arena Wichita, Kan. Regional Semifinals Saturday Louisville vs. Tennessee, 4 p.m. Michigan vs. South Dakota, 6:30 p.m. Regional Championship Monday Louisville-Tennessee winner vs. MichiganSouth Dakota winner, TBA SPOKANE REGIONAL Second Round Sunday At Maples Pavilion Stanford, Calif. Stanford 91, Kansas 65 At Xfinity Center College Park, Md. Maryland 89, Florida Gulf Coast 65 At Frank C. Erwin Jr. Center Austin, Texas Texas 78, Utah 56 Monday At Pete Maravich Assembly Center Baton Rouge, La. Ohio St. 79, LSU 64 At Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena Spokane, Wash. Regional Semifinals Friday Texas vs. Ohio St., 7 p.m. Stanford vs. Maryland, 9:30 p.m. Regional Championship Sunday, March 27 Stanford-Maryland winner vs. Texas-Ohio St. winner, TBA BRIDGEPORT REGIONAL Second Round Monday At Reynolds Coliseum Raleigh, N.C. NC State 89, Kansas St. 57 At Lloyd Noble Center Norman, Okla. Notre Dame 108, Oklahoma 64 At Assembly Hall Bloomington, Ind. Indiana 56, Princeton 55 At Harry A. Gampel Pavilion Storrs, Conn. UConn 52, UCF 47 At Total Mortgage Arena Bridgeport, Conn. Regional Semifinals Saturday NC State vs. Notre Dame, 11:30 a.m. UConn vs. Indiana, 2 p.m. Regional Championship Monday, March 28
NBA Eastern Conference Atlantic W L Pct Philadelphia 44 27 .620 Boston 45 28 .616 Toronto 40 32 .556 Brooklyn 38 34 .528 New York 30 42 .417 Central W L Pct Milwaukee 45 27 .625 Chicago 42 30 .583 Cleveland 41 31 .569 Indiana 25 47 .347 Detroit 19 53 .264 Southeast W L Pct Miami 47 25 .653 Charlotte 37 35 .514 Atlanta 36 36 .500 Washington 30 41 .423 Orlando 20 53 .274 Western Conference Northwest W L Pct Utah 45 27 .625 Denver 42 30 .583 Minnesota 42 31 .575 Portland 27 44 .380 Oklahoma City 20 52 .278 Pacific W L Pct Phoenix 58 14 .806 Golden State 47 25 .653 L.A. Clippers 36 37 .493 L.A. Lakers 31 41 .431 Sacramento 25 48 .342 Southwest W L Pct Memphis 49 23 .681 Dallas 44 28 .611 New Orleans 30 42 .417 San Antonio 28 44 .389 Houston 18 54 .250 Monday’s games Charlotte 106, New Orleans 103 L.A. Lakers 131, Cleveland 120 Portland 119, Detroit 115 Philadelphia 113, Miami 106 Brooklyn 114, Utah 106 Chicago 113, Toronto 99 Houston 115, Washington 97 Boston 132, Oklahoma City 123 Dallas 110, Minnesota 108 Tuesday’s games Orlando 94, Golden State 90 Atlanta 117, New York 111 Milwaukee 126, Chicago 98 L.A. Clippers at Denver, 10 p.m. Wednesday’s games New York at Charlotte, 7 p.m. Atlanta at Detroit, 7 p.m. Sacramento at Indiana, 7 p.m. Utah at Boston, 7:30 p.m. Golden State at Miami, 7:30 p.m. Brooklyn at Memphis, 7:30 p.m. Phoenix at Minnesota, 8 p.m. Orlando at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m. Houston at Dallas, 8:30 p.m. Philadelphia at L.A. Lakers, 10 p.m. San Antonio at Portland, 10 p.m. Thursday’s games Cleveland at Toronto, 7:30 p.m. Indiana at Memphis, 8 p.m. Washington at Milwaukee, 8 p.m. Chicago at New Orleans, 8 p.m. Phoenix at Denver, 9 p.m.
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Pro hockey NHL Eastern Conference Atlantic Division GP W L OT SO Pts Florida 62 42 14 2 4 90 Tampa Bay 62 39 17 2 4 84 Toronto 62 39 18 4 1 83 Boston 63 39 19 3 2 83 Detroit 63 26 30 5 2 59 Buffalo 63 22 33 7 1 52 Ottawa 63 22 36 4 1 49 Montreal 63 17 36 9 1 44 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT SO Pts Carolina 63 42 15 5 1 90 Pittsburgh 64 39 16 4 5 87 NY Rangers 64 40 19 3 2 85 Washington 65 35 20 8 2 80 Columbus 64 32 29 1 2 67 NY Islanders 61 27 25 3 6 63 New Jersey 63 23 35 1 4 51 Philadelphia 63 20 32 7 4 51 Western Conference Central Division GP W L OT SO Pts Colorado 63 45 13 4 1 95 St. Louis 62 35 18 6 3 79 Minnesota 61 37 20 0 4 78 Nashville 63 37 22 2 2 78 Dallas 62 35 24 1 2 73 Winnipeg 64 30 24 6 4 70 Chicago 63 22 32 7 2 53 Arizona 62 20 38 0 4 44 Pacific Division GP W L OT SO Pts Calgary 62 38 16 8 0 84 Los Angeles 64 34 22 6 2 76 Edmonton 64 35 24 5 0 75 Vegas 66 34 28 3 1 72 Vancouver 64 30 26 5 3 68 Anaheim 65 27 27 6 5 65 San Jose 62 27 27 6 2 62 Seattle 63 19 38 5 1 44 Monday’s games Boston 3, Montreal 2, OT Minnesota 3, Vegas 0 Colorado 3, Edmonton 2, OT Nashville 6, Anaheim 3 Tuesday’s games New Jersey 7, NY Rangers 4 Pittsburgh 5, Columbus 1 St. Louis 5, Washington 2 Carolina 3, Tampa Bay 2 NY Islanders 3, Ottawa 0 Detroit 6, Philadelphia 3 Winnipeg 4, Vegas 0 Dallas 5, Edmonton 3 San Jose at Calgary, 9 p.m. Seattle at Arizona, 10 p.m. Nashville at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m. Wednesday’s games New Jersey at Toronto, 7 p.m. Pittsburgh at Buffalo, 7:30 p.m. Vancouver at Colorado, 9:30 p.m. Chicago at Anaheim, 10 p.m. Thursday’s games Tampa Bay at Boston, 7 p.m. Florida at Montreal, 7 p.m. Dallas at Carolina, 7 p.m. Detroit at NY Islanders, 7:30 p.m. Philadelphia at St. Louis, 8 p.m. Vancouver at Minnesota, 8 p.m. Ottawa at Winnipeg, 8 p.m. San Jose at Edmonton, 9 p.m. Nashville at Vegas, 10 p.m. Chicago at Los Angeles, 10 p.m.
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ML Baseball SPRING TRAINING Tuesday’s games Atlanta 4, Minnesota 0 Philadelphia 7, Detroit 2 Baltimore 10, Pittsburgh 9 St. Louis 4, Miami 3 Boston 4, Tampa Bay 2 Toronto 9, N.Y. Yankees 2 Cleveland 6, San Diego 1 Cincinnati 10, L.A. Dodgers 8 Kansas City 5, Oakland 3 Texas 4, Arizona 1 L.A. Angels 7, Colorado 4 Chicago White Sox 4, Milwaukee 3 Chicago Cubs 5, Seattle 5 N.Y. Mets 2, Houston 0
Transactions BASEBALL AMERICAN LEAGUE Minnesota Twins - Activated SS Royce Lewis. Assigned C Chris Williams, SS Wander Javier, SS Kevin Merrell, and RF Matt Wallner to the Minnesota Twins. Claimed RHP Jhon Romero off waivers from the Washington Nationals. Placed RHP Randy Dobnak on the 60-day IL. Signed SS Carlos Correa to a three-year, $105.3 million contract. Tampa Bay Rays - Assigned 2B Curtis Mead to the Tampa Bay Rays. Assigned RP Sean Mullen to the Tampa Bay Rays. Assigned RHP Sean Hunley, LHP Dalton Moats, and 2B Connor Hollis to the Tampa Bay Rays. Texas Rangers - Activated RHP Dennis Santana. Assigned SP RHP Cole Winn and RHP Juan Mejia to the Texas Rangers. Assigned RF Elier Hernandez, C Matthew Whatley, and C Jack Kruger to the Texas Rangers. Optioned RHP Ricky Vanasco to Frisco (AA-Central). Optioned 3B Sherten Apostel and C Sam Huff to Round Rock (AAAWest). NATIONAL LEAGUE Miami Marlins - Signed LHP Richard Bleier to a two-year, $6 million contract extension.
NBA roundup: Young hangs 45 on Knicks in Hawks’ victory Field Level Media
Trae Young collected 45 points and eight assists in his return to Madison Square Garden to fuel visiting Atlanta’s comefrom-behind 117-111 victory over New York on Tuesday. Young overcame a sluggish start to make 13 of 25 shots from the floor, including 7 of 15 from 3-point range. His point total served as a career high at the Garden, eclipsing his 42 points in December 2019. Bogdan Bogdanovic scored a season-high 32 points and New York native Kevin Huerter added 14 for the Hawks, who have won five of their past seven games. Atlanta also averted a sweep in the four-game season series. Magic 94, Warriors 90 Mo Bamba hit a go-ahead 3-pointer with 52.2 seconds left and the host Orlando Magic handed the Golden State Warriors their third straight loss with a 94-90 comeback victory on Tuesday night. Following the Warriors’ unsuccessful coach’s challenge for a shooting foul, Franz Wagner hit three free throws with 13.2 seconds remaining for a 92-88 lead for the Magic. The rookie out of Michigan added a dunk off an inbounds play moments later to complete the scoring. Wagner finished with 18 points. Wendell Carter Jr. recorded 19 points and eight rebounds for the Magic, who won their second straight. Cole Anthony added 14 points, five rebounds and five assists. The Warriors’ Jordan Poole scored 12 of his game-high 26 points in the third quarter to go
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Atlanta Hawks guard Trae Young (11) dribbles against New York Knicks center Mitchell Robinson (23) and forward Obi Toppin (1) during the first quarter at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday.
with six assists, and Otto Porter Jr. contributed 14 points and 15 rebounds. Klay Thompson made a pair of 3-pointers and scored 15 points for the Warriors, who were playing their second game since star guard Stephen Curry sprained his left foot. Bucks 126, Bulls 98 Jrue Holiday finished with a game-high 27 points as Milwaukee earned a win over visiting Chicago to record its fifth consecutive home win. Holiday added seven assists
and cashed in on 12 of his 17 field-goal attempts to lead the Bucks over their division rival for the third time this season. Giannis Antetokounmpo supplied 25 points and 17 rebounds, and reserve Pat Connaughton chipped in 14 points. Nikola Vucevic finished with a team-high 22 points and seven rebounds on 9-of-15 shooting for Chicago. DeMar DeRozan and Zach LaVine each added 21 points, and Ayo Dosunmu tallied seven off the bench. Nuggets 127, Clippers 115
Nikola Jokic had 30 points and 14 rebounds, Aaron Gordon, Jeff Green and Bones Hyland scored 16 apiece and host Denver beat Los Angeles. Monte Morris finished with 15 points, Austin Rivers had 11 and Will Barton added 10 for the Nuggets, who had lost four of their previous six games. Terance Mann scored 24 points and four Clippers had 14 points each – Isaiah Hartenstein, Marcus Morris Sr., Reggie Jackson and Robert Covington. Los Angeles has lost four straight.
NHL roundup: Sharks hand Flames rare home loss Field Level Media
Alexander Barabanov and Logan Couture each scored within a 28-second span in the third period to spark a 4-3 comeback win for the San Jose Sharks over the host Calgary Flames on Tuesday. It was a rare home loss for the Flames, who were 15-1-2 in their previous 18 home games. The Sharks have won all three games against Calgary this season. San Jose has dominated the rivalry in recent years, with a 12-3-0 record over the last 15 meetings. Marc-Edouard Vlasic and Timo Meier scored San Jose’s other goals. Meier left the game with an apparent leg injury late in the third period. Johnny Gaudreau had a goal and an assist for Calgary, Mikael Backlund and Dillon Dube also scored, and Matthew Tkachuk had two assists. Stars 5, Oilers 3 Roope Hintz and Denis Gurianov scored 24 seconds apart in the third period, and host Dallas rallied past Edmonton for its third win in four games. Tyler Seguin, who assisted on Gurianov’s goal, then scored into an empty net for his 300th career goal. Jason Robertson and Joe Pavelski also scored for the Stars, who moved into playoff position in the Western Conference. Dallas goalie Jake Oettinger made 22 saves. Kailer Yamamoto scored for the sixth time in seven games, Evander Kane and Leon Draisaitl also scored, and Connor McDavid recorded two assists to extend his point streak to seven games. Mikko Koskinen made 23 saves. Kraken 4, Coyotes 2 Carson Soucy scored twice as Seattle broke a tie with Arizona for last place in the NHL’s Western Conference, defeating the Coyotes in Glendale, Ariz. Daniel Sprong, acquired a day earlier from the Washington Capitals at the NHL’s trade deadline, also tallied for the Kraken, who have won three of their past four games. Seattle’s Morgan Geekie added a goal and an assist, and Philipp Grubauer made 24 saves. Nick Schmaltz and Nick Ritchie scored for Arizona, which was trying to complete a three-game sweep of the season series with the Kraken. Karel Vejmelka stopped 35 of 39
shots. Kings 6, Predators 1 Quinton Byfield had two goals and an assist for the first multi-point game of his NHL career as Los Angeles defeated visiting Nashville. Adrian Kempe scored two goals, Trevor Moore had a goal and an assist and Arthur Kaliyev added a goal for the Kings, who had lost four of their previous six games (2-3-1). Jonathan Quick made 24 saves for the victory. Philip Tomasino scored and David Rittich stopped 29 shots for the Predators, who were coming off a 6-3 road win over the Anaheim Ducks on Monday, their fourth victory in five games. Jets 4, Golden Knights 0 Connor Hellebuyck made 42 saves for his fourth shutout of the season as host Winnipeg beat Vegas for the fifth straight time and the seventh time in the past eight meetings. Nikolaj Ehlers and Mark Scheifele each had a goal and an assist and Pierre-Luc Dubois and Neal Pionk also scored goals for Winnipeg. It was the 28th career shutout for Hellebuyck, who improved to 6-0-1 in his last seven starts against Vegas. Kyle Connor extended his point streak to eight games with two assists and Blake Wheeler also had two assists for the Jets. Rookie Logan Thompson, making his fourth consecutive start, stopped 22 of 26 shots for Vegas, which extended its franchise-record road losing streak to seven. Blues 5, Capitals 2 Brayden Schenn recorded a goal and two assists as visiting St. Louis beat the Capitals to snap a three-game losing streak. Brandon Saad and David Perron each had a goal and an assist for the Blues, who had won just two of their previous nine games (2-4-3). Ryan O’Reilly and Nathan Walker also scored, and Ville Husso made 19 saves for the victory. Tom Wilson logged a goal and an assist, Evgeny Kuznetsov scored and Vitek Vanecek stopped 33 shots for the Capitals, who have lost two in a row after a 7-0-1 stretch. Penguins 5, Blue Jackets 1 Radim Zohorna and Jake Guentzel scored
36 seconds apart during a four-goal second period as Pittsburgh trounced visiting Columbus. The goal was the first of two for Guentzel. Bryan Rust and Evgeni Malkin each added a goal and an assist, and Sidney Crosby had three assists for the Penguins. Crosby’s first assist of the night was his 879th of his career. It pushed him past Nicklas Lidstrom for 22nd in NHL history. Gustav Nyquist scored for the Blue Jackets, who had won four of their last five. Islanders 3, Senators 0 Scott Mayfield snapped a scoreless tie just before the midway point of the third period and goalie Semyon Varlamov stopped all 24 shots in his first shutout of the season as host New York beat Ottawa. The shutout was the first for Varlamov since May 1, 2021. The 33-year-old was bandied about in rumors prior to Monday’s trade deadline but stayed put for the Islanders, who were the only NHL team not to make a move on Sunday or Monday. Anders Lee scored with 2:35 left and Zach Parise, who signed a one-year extension Monday, added an empty-netter with 46.9 seconds left for the Islanders, who have won seven of their last 10 (7-2-1). Red Wings 6, Flyers 3 Jakub Vrana scored two goals to lift Detroit to a home win over Philadelphia. Joe Veleno, Lucas Raymond, Oskar Sundqvist and Tyler Bertuzzi also scored for Detroit. Joel Farabee, Oskar Lindblom and James van Riemsdyk scored for Philadelphia. Hurricanes 3, Lightning 2 Frederik Andersen stopped 27 shots and Carolina scored twice on power plays to snap a four-game winless streak by defeating Tampa Bay in Raleigh, N.C. Martin Necas, Tony DeAngelo and Sebastian Aho had the Carolina goals. The first two came on what have become rare power-play tallies for the Hurricanes, who had been 0-3-1 across their previous four games. Nick Paul scored in his first game with the Lightning and Alex Killorn added the second goal with 59.3 seconds remaining when the Lightning went with an extra skater.
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College football’s latest scam: Getting fans to pay players via NIL collectives Mike Bianchi Orlando Sentinel
Can you imagine if the Cleveland Browns asked its fans in the “Dawg Pound” to ante up $230 million so the team could sign controversial quarterback Deshaun Watson to the largest guaranteed contract in NFL history? Can you imagine if Jacksonville Jaguars “boosters” were asked to pool their money so the team could overpay for former Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Christian Kirk, who just signed a four-year deal worth up to $84 million? Could you imagine if Orlando Magic “donors” were
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carried over pretty well today. It was just being really smooth down the mound. That was the main concern today, and everything felt good. Felt like I was in-sync and I was able to locate the ball pretty well, so I was happy with how the day went.” Since Tuesday’s exhibition game against Houston was a night game, starting pitchers typically leave the park whenever their work is finished. But this wasn’t just any nightcap for one such starter. Max Scherzer was asked on Monday, after his five-inning outing against the Marlins, whether he would stick around to watch deGrom’s spring debut. Scherzer said
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Toppin, 24, the NBA’s Slam Dunk champion, started Tuesday at power forward after playing sparingly for two seasons as Randle’s backup.
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behind the line.) Few teams are as skilled as the Blue Devils. A duel with Gonzaga in the Elite Eight could produce the finest display of offense we see in the tournament. If it happens, first team to 85 wins. 5. Houston True seed: No. 18 overall Next up: vs. Arizona (Thursday) Comment: No other top team experienced a greater disparity between its NET ranking and NCAA seed: The Cougars were No. 3 in the NET but handed a No. 5 seed by the committee because of their lack of quality wins. They proceeded to spend the opening weekend making that decision look silly, easily handling No. 12 UAB and No. 4 Illinois. If the Cougars continue to shoot well from the perimeter, a return to the Final Four will follow. 6. North Carolina True seed: No. 30 overall Next up: vs. UCLA (Friday) Comment: The Tar Heels were good enough to build a 25-point lead on Baylor and resilient enough to repel the
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out of yourself,” she said. “I’ve said it to my team multiple times - it’s just, I don’t have that in me anymore. I don’t have the physical drive, the emotional want and everything it takes to challenge yourself at the very top level anymore.” The January win in her home country gave Barty three Grand Slam titles, along with the 2019 French Open and 2021 Wimbledon. She said in the interview that winning Wimbledon meant she attained her “one true dream” in
expected to foot the bill for Jonathan Isaac’s $17.4 million-a-year salary even though he has missed the last two seasons due to injury? A professional sports owner would be laughed out of town if he asked his fans to pay the salaries of the team’s athletes, but in college football that’s exactly what’s happening. Exhibit A: Last week, according to a published report in the Athletic, a 5-star recruit who is now a high school junior signed an agreement with a school’s Name, Image and Likeness (NIL) collective that could pay him more than $8 million by the end of his junior
year of college. The unnamed player will paid $350,000 almost immediately, followed
he would, and on Tuesday he stuck to his word. Scherzer leaned on the dugout railing and intently watched the Mets ace do his thing, making sure to tap deGrom’s back and exchange a few words when his outing was over. “We were laughing,” deGrom said of his pregame conversation with Scherzer. “He said, ‘How about you flip in a first-pitch curveball?’ I did it, and looked over at him and laughed. It’s fun. I’ve enjoyed the time I’ve been around him and already learning from him, picking his brain. He’s been in this game a long time and he’s going to be a Hall of Famer, so anytime you can be around guys like that, it’s awesome.” Much like Scherzer, Mets fans -- even though this was a spring training game -- were hanging on every deGrom
by monthly payouts escalating to more than $2 million per year once he begins his college
career. There have been other rumors and rumblings about these “collectives” promising recruits massive amounts of NIL money to sign with a particular school. On National Signing Day, for instance, Texas A&M coach Jimbo Fisher angrily addressed a report that an enormous $30 million NIL fund run by Aggies boosters was used to bring in the No. 1 recruiting class in the country. Don’t get me wrong, I say more power to those fans or fan collectives if they want to pay college athletes to make public appearances, interact with them on social media,
come to little Billy’s birthday party, whatever. My issue is that college football programs are now essentially asking and expecting fans and boosters to foot the bill for player compensation via NIL deals. College coaches and athletic directors have made it clear to their fan bases and booster networks that it’s up to them to dig deep into their pockets and come up with NIL money to make sure their favorite team can land Freddy Fivestar -- the stud middle linebacker from Yeehaw Junction. Seriously, don’t fans and donors already pay enough?
pitch. The anticipation in the stadium was palpable as the crowd roared and applauded after each strikeout. After all, fans waited longer than the usual offseason to watch the two-time Cy Young winner return to the hill and flummox opposing batters. DeGrom last year dealt with a variety of injuries that caused him to miss time. Elbow inflammation was the one injury that kept him out after July 7, which deGrom said last week is completely behind him now. And some of his 2021 injuries, deGrom said last year, he thought were caused by taking hacks at the plate. So the Mets can certainly find solace in the universal designated hitter being implemented this year because it means their most valuable player will be limited to the job at which he’s best: pitching. Mets pitching coach Jeremy
Hefner said he would be looking for one thing from deGrom in his spring debut: making sure he came out of it healthy. Hefner said he doesn’t necessarily care about the results or how hard he’s throwing at this time of the year. But looking forward, Hefner doesn’t exactly expect deGrom to dial it back, though it’s a point of discussion between the pitching coach and Mets ace. The two-time Cy Young winner has been throwing harder as he gets older; he eclipsed 103 mph on his fastball in his age-33 season in 2021. But Hefner mentioned that deGrom averaged 96 mph on his fastball during both of his Cy Young seasons in 2018 and 2019, so he’s certainly capable of success without hurling one of the fastest heaters batters have ever seen. “With any pitcher that gets older, making sure you’re
able to play as long as long as you possibly can, dialing it back3/8 is certainly a conversation,” Hefner said. “I mean, he won a Cy Young when he was pitching 96 mph3/8 right? I think he’s aware of that. As long as he knows he has that in his back pocket, where he can pull out 100 mph3/8 in a big spot, and he pitches at 96, I’m certainly comfortable with that. “Obviously competitive juices are going to start flowing, we’ll see where he’s at. But I think that’s a valid and reasonable conversation to have and a reasonable thought to have because he’s obviously a very valuable piece to us. So whatever we can do to keep him on the field, we’re going to try to do it.” DeGrom on Tuesday said he was intentionally trying not to throw as hard as he could. As he looked at video of his
outings in previous seasons, he noticed his velocity was lower when nobody was on base, and it was up a tick with a baserunner behind him. This year, deGrom said he will continue to observe the situations when he’s throwing his hardest. Generally, deGrom indicated he has realized he can be effective even when his fastball is sitting 96-99 mph. Even though Mets fans may miss 103 mph flashing across the jumbotron, deGrom said he has enjoyed the results more when he dials it back at least a little bit. “I’m sure there will be times when I throw as hard as I can,” deGrom said. “When I’m really in-sync and smooth, it feels like it’s coming out better than when I actually try to throw really hard.”
Toppin entered the night averaging just 14.8 minutes in 61 games this season, demonstrating elite tendencies in transition but struggling on defense and shooting just 23.6% from beyond the arc. “You don’t replace a guy like Julius individually, we have to
do it collectively,” Thibodeau said. “So how do you do it collectively — it’s your team defense. Getting stops, rebounding the ball, push the ball up floor , rebound the ball. ... When you have guys out, you’re margin of error is small.”
Randle has been extremely durable with the Knicks and entered Wednesday ranked 15th in the league in total minutes played. He led the NBA last season. Toppin, meanwhile, hadn’t logged more than 20 minutes in a game since January. He
started twice earlier in the season when Randle was out with COVID-19, but the Knicks were blown out by the Thunder and Raptors. “Just play well when you’re on the floor. Have the team function well,” Thibodeau advised. “Play to your strengths,
cover your weaknesses. This team (the Hawks) poses some different problems obviously with Trae (Young) and the things he does. So be locked into the appropriate help and you’re going to have to do more than one thing.”
defending champs in overtime. The roster isn’t loaded with first-round picks, but the pieces fit nicely around forward Armando Bacot. We’re reminded of the 2000 NCAA Tournament, when the Tar Heels were a No. 8 seed, took out No. 1 Stanford in the second round and reached the Final Four. 7. Villanova True seed: No. 7 overall Next up: vs. Michigan (Thursday) Comment: In Collin Gillespie, the Wildcats possess the most important ingredient for success in the NCAAs: an elite point guard. They also shoot 82.3% from the foul line as a team. That’s a winning combination in the final minutes of a close game. Our question: Do they have what it takes to force a close game against the Wolverines and their Elite Eight opponent (Arizona or Houston)? We’re skeptical. 8. Michigan True seed: No. 42 overall Next up: vs. Villanova (Thursday) Comment: The surprise isn’t that Michigan advanced to the Sweet 16. It’s that the Wolverines did so as an 11th seed. Juwan Howard’s team was No. 6 in the AP preseason
poll, possesses one of the nation’s top big men in Hunter Dickinson and has former five-star recruits in the rotation. In other words, the foundation exists for UM basketball to duplicate the football program’s feat and reach its sport’s final four. 9. UCLA True seed: No. 13 overall Next up: vs. North Carolina (Friday) Comment: A team built for the rock fights of March showed its NCAA savvy with the second-round thumping of Saint Mary’s. Guards Tyger Campbell and Jules Bernard are capable of making big shots, but the Bruins will need 35 combined points each game from Johnny Juzang and Jaime Jaquez Jr. the rest of the way. Also, they have struggled against size, and North Carolina has plenty of it. 10. Purdue True seed: No. 11 overall Next up: vs. St. Peter’s (Friday) Comment: An impressive second-round Texas takedown sent the Boilermakers into the most coveted pairing in the Sweet 16. Only the 15thseeded Peacocks stand in the way of another trip to the Elite Eight for the Boilermakers. Time for star guard Jaden Ivey to lead the way, and for
Purdue’s defense to rise to the occasion against the dazzling St. Peter’s attack. 11. Texas Tech True seed: No. 12 overall Next up: vs. Duke (Thursday) Comment: A fabulous contrast in styles and strengths looms in the West. The Red Raiders own the No. 1 defense in the country (per Pomeroy efficiency ratings), while Duke claims the No. 4 offense. One team is loaded with inexperience and future NBA draft picks, the other with savvy, bruising role players. Easy to see the Red Raiders taking Duke to the wire but not having quite enough offense to make the play that puts them over the top. 12. Miami True seed: No. 38 overall Next up: Iowa State (Friday) Comment: The Hurricanes dispatched two higher seeds (No. 10 USC and No. 2 Auburn) despite making 4 of 29 shots from 3-point range. How? They committed just seven turnovers in 80 minutes and claim scoring balance that would be the envy of many teams. Pac-12 fans might remember Miami point guard Charlie Moore, who began his career at Cal during the Obama Administration, then
played for Kansas and DePaul before settling in with the Hurricanes. 13. Arkansas True seed: No. 16 overall Next up: vs. Gonzaga (Thursday) Comment: Razorbacks coach Eric Musselman is in the Sweet 16 for the third time in the past four tournaments (with two different teams). His Hogs are long on grit and athleticism but are challenged offensively (30.7% from 3-point range). We’re intrigued by the potential matchup of Gonzaga 7-footer Chet Holmgren facing Arkansas’ 7-foot-3 Connor Vanover (another former Cal Bear). But Vanover hasn’t played in months, so the odds of a string bean battle seem slim. 14. Providence True seed: No. 15 overall Next up: vs. Kansas (Friday) Comment: The Friars advanced to their first Sweet 16 in a quarter-century with victories over No. 13 South Dakota State and No. 12 Richmond. Now comes a leap in class. Ed Cooley is one of the few who can mount a credible challenge to Arizona’s Tommy Lloyd for national Coach of the Year honors. At this point in the tournament, you need high-level talent to advance.
Providence doesn’t have enough. 15. Iowa State True seed: No. 41 overall Next up: vs. Miami (Friday) Comment: The 11th-seeded Cyclones were one of the last teams in the field but made the most of facing an opponent without a head coach (LSU) followed by an opponent without an offense (Wisconsin). Now, they’re involved in just the fourth No. 10 vs. 11 matchup in tournament history. With a victory, they likely would face Big 12 rival Kansas in the Elite Eight. 16. St. Peter’s True seed: No. 60 overall Next up: vs. Purdue (Friday) Comment: The third No. 15 seed to reach the Sweet 16 has a reasonable chance to become the first to make the Elite Eight, for Purdue hardly possesses overwhelming talent. The Peacocks will need a big game from guard Daryl Banks III, who shredded Kentucky for 27 points, and a few fortunate bounces. But a school that had never won an NCAA Tournament game before last week is a few steps away from being a few steps away from the Final Four.
tennis and that it changed her perspective. However, Barty said she still wanted more and got it with an Australian Open victory that she described as “my perfect way to celebrate what an amazing journey my tennis career has been.” She became Australia’s first Australian Open singles champion since 1978. Barty began playing professionally in 2010. After finding success in doubles, she announced following the 2014 U.S. Open that she was taking a break from the sport to pursue playing cricket. She returned to the WTA Tour in 2016 and won her first singles title the following year. In all, she has won 15 WTA singles
titles and 12 doubles titles, and she finished as the year-end No. 1 from 2019 through 2021. After winning the French Open, Barty said her Grand Slam breakthrough would not have happened had she not stepped away from tennis. “I needed time to step away, to live a normal life, because this tennis life certainly isn’t normal,” Barty said then. “I needed time to grow as a person, to mature.” In her interview with Dellacqua, she said her new goals “don’t necessarily involve traveling the world, being away from my family, being away from my home, which is where I’ve always wanted to be.”
Barty also took advantage of the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020, which largely shut down sports around the world, to sit out WTA events even after the tour returned from a five-month hiatus. After a nearly 11-month break, Barty rejoined the tour and immediately won a tuneup event in Melbourne ahead of the 2021 Australian Open, where she lost in the quarterfinals. She went on to win four more events last year, including Wimbledon, and reached the final of another. At this year’s Australian Open, Barty was almost untouchable. She didn’t drop a set and was rarely tested
before American Danielle Collins pushed her to a tiebreak in the second set of the final. Another special moment awaited Barty after her win when Evonne Goolagong Cawley, Australia’s previous winner of the event with whom Barty shares an Indigenous heritage, presented her with the trophy. Barty has been the WTA’s No. 1 player for 114 weeks, the fourth-longest streak in tour history. According to the WTA, the only other of its players to retire while ranked No. 1 was Justine Henin in 2008. “With her accomplishments at the Grand Slams, WTA Finals and reaching the pinnacle ranking of No. 1 in the world, she has clearly
established herself as one the great champions of the WTA,” WTA Chairman and CEO Steve Simon said in a statement. “We wish Ash only the very best and know that she will continue to be a tremendous ambassador for the sport of tennis as she embarks on this new chapter of her life. We will miss her.” Barty said in her Instagram post that she would reveal more at an upcoming news conference. “I’m so happy, and I’m so ready [for retirement],” she told Dellacqua. “I just know at the moment, in my heart, for me as a person this is right. . . . It’s something I’ve ben thinking about for a long time.”
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Mikaela Shiffrin’s nine-hour drive from the end of an Alpine ski season that was equal parts crushing and revitalizing came Monday with her boyfriend at the wheel, her mother in the car behind them, and three trophies stuffed into the luggage. Aleksander Aamodt Kilde, the Norwegian champion who is Shiffrin’s partner, put the crystal globes he claimed for winning the season-long World Cup titles in both downhill and super-G in his car. Shiffrin put the larger globe in the car driven by her mother. “I really don’t know if we actually have a plan to get that thing home,” she said by phone, somewhere on the route between Courchevel, France, where her season ended, and Munich, where a flight home to Colorado awaited. Shiffrin has experience with such hardware, and it hasn’t always been positive. On one trip with another overall globe - these things are both massive and fragile - the ball snapped off the stem. It’s now glued back together and in a museum in Vail, Colo. “The big ones are hard to transport,” she said. “It doesn’t count as carry-on luggage, but you definitely don’t want to check it. It gets a little complicated. But that’s OK.” There’s Shiffrin’s season: a little complicated, but ultimately okay. The overall championship is the fourth of her career but first since 2019, and it matches her with Lindsey Vonn for the most by an American. It is an accomplishment Shiffrin called “my big dream as a little girl, even more than
Olympic medals.” It represents superior skiing across four disciplines, and for ski racing junkies, the owner of that gigantic orb has a claim to being the best racer on the planet in that year. In that sense, it’s appropriate that she blew open a tight race with Slovakia’s Petra Vlhova by winning the season’s final downhill last week, then clinched the title by placing second in the final super-G the following day. Shiffrin has 74 World Cup victories and 120 podium finishes in her career, but only seven of the wins and 15 of the top-threes have come in Alpine’s fastest two disciplines. That she put the title away in events that are far from her slalom specialty shows an overall evolution. There is a lot to process in this achievement, because it is her first championship since her father, Jeff, died in an accident just more than two years ago, a tragedy so unsettling that Shiffrin would find herself blacking out during training runs. “I feel like this overall represents a journey that’s not just this season, but actually a twoyear-long journey,” Shiffrin said. “It’s sort of fighting back from everything else that has happened that kind of knocked me off a bit. . . . For a while, I was just trying to find my way.” Shiffrin is aware of the caveats that will arise, the giant “Yeah, but . . .” reaction that a sports-consuming culture could bring up - and fairly when assessing her season in total. This was an Olympic year, and the woman who was just crowned the best skier on the planet went
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wrapping up a season-long championship that means so much to her and to the people in her sport. “[The Olympics are] the one where everybody tunes in, and that’s the one where it all went wrong,” Shiffrin said. “I’ll be held to that. I’ll hold myself to it. But those people out there who tune in to watch the Olympics and then don’t care about the rest of the World Cup season, I know they can be like, ‘Well, it’s nice that you’re doing this now, but why couldn’t you have done it over the course of the Olympics?’ It’s a question I ask myself, too. I don’t really have an answer for that.” For now, and for the next three years, she doesn’t have to answer those questions. There will be mileposts along the way. Vonn holds the record for most World Cup race wins by a woman with 82, a mark Shiffrin trails by just eight. Ingemar Stenmark’s record for either gender is 86. Given that Shiffrin has averaged nine victories a season over the course of her career - and that, even as she dealt with her father’s death and a balky back and a case of covid, she has won 14 races over the past three seasons those marks seem attainable. Not a given. But also not farfetched. Two more overall titles would tie her with Austria’s for the most ever by a woman. She also has a structure she lacked in those days following her father’s death, back when she was blindly wandering through the wilderness. Kilde speaks skiing, for sure; he’s a World Cup overall champion in his own right. But he also seems to speak Shiffrin. Her answer to whether her relationship with Kilde had an impact on her ability to move past the Olympics and achieve a primary goal: Undoubtedly. “He helps in finding a way to get a little bit more positive outlook,” she said. “I need that. Especially the last couple years, my tendency is to be negative and to get down, and I don’t do that when I’m with him. Maybe I rely on it a little bit too much, but I’m trying to bring that back into my own personality.” She is 27, no longer the teen who won gold in the slalom in Sochi, no longer the unburdened machine who cranked out World Cup titles and looked like she would never stop. Mikaela Shiffrin is an adult who has lived - who is living - life. The Milan-Cortina Olympics of 2026 are distant. Keep them there. Disappointment is part of her story. But so is success - and success in the face of such disappointment makes her a richer, more interesting character whether it’s an Olympic year or not.
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Freddie Freeman singled in his first at-bat in a Dodgers uniform, and he finished 1-for-2 as Los Angeles lost 10-8 to the Cincinnati Reds on Tuesday in Phoenix. Freeman, the 2020 National League MVP and a World Series winner with the Atlanta Braves last year, signed a six-year, $162 million free agent contract with the Dodgers last week. Cincinnati’s Kyle Farmer hit a game-tying, three-run homer in the sixth inning, and Jake Bauers’ three-run blast later in the frame put the Reds on top to stay. Matt Beaty, Will Smith and James Outman homered for the Dodgers. Orioles 10, Pirates 9 Ramon Urias and Rylan Bannon each had two of Baltimore’s 16 hits in a win over Pittsburgh at Bradenton, Fla. Ke’Bryan Hayes and Ben Gamel had two hits apiece for the Pirates. Red Sox 4, Rays 2 Starter Rich Hill tossed two scoreless innings as Boston beat Tampa Bay in Port Charlotte, Fla., to improve to 6-0 on the spring. The Rays stranded 13 baserunners while falling to 0-4. Phillies 7, Tigers 2 Johan Camargo hit a three-run double to power Philadelphia past Detroit at Clearwater, Fla. Jonathan Schoop and Dustin Garneau homered for the Tigers. Braves 4, Twins 0 Max Fried threw three scoreless, hitless innings as Atlanta topped Minnesota at Fort Myers, Fla. Jordan Cowan’s two-run double in the seventh inning broke a scoreless deadlock. Cardinals 4, Marlins 3 Nolan Arenado and Brendan Donovan homered for St. Louis in a victory over Miami at Sarasota, Fla. Marlins
starter Jesus Luzardo fired three perfect innings. Blue Jays 9, Yankees 2 Vladimir Guerrero Jr. went 3-for-3 with two RBIs as Toronto routed New York at Dunedin, Fla. Gleyber Torres had two of the Yankees’ six hits. Royals 5, A’s 3 Angel Zerpa and Austin Cox each threw two scoreless, hitless innings to help Kansas City beat Oakland at Surprise, Ariz. Frankie Montas tossed 2 2/3 shutout innings for the A’s. Guardians 6, Padres 1 Jose Ramirez homered and Oscar Mercado hit two doubles as Cleveland defeated San Diego in Goodyear, Ariz. Guardians pitchers struck out 13, with starter Zach Plesac fanning four in two scoreless innings. Angels 7, Rockies 4 Jared Walsh and Jo Adell hit back-to-back homers in the sixth inning as Los Angeles downed Colorado in Tempe, Ariz. The Rockies’ Bret Boswell had two hits. Mariners 5, Cubs 5 Spencer Packard’s single with two outs in the ninth inning lifted Seattle to a tie with Chicago at Peoria, Ariz. The Cubs’ Ildemaro Vargas and the Mariners’ Mike Ford homered. Rangers 4, Diamondbacks 1 Nick Solak and Eli White hit second-inning homers to guide Texas past Arizona in Scottsdale, Ariz. Carson Kelly collected two of the Diamondbacks’ four hits. White Sox 4, Brewers 3 Lucas Giolito struck out four in three scoreless innings, sparking Chicago’s win over Milwaukee in Phoenix. Eloy Jimenez hit a two-run double for the White Sox.
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Kentucky Derby Watch: Ranking the top 10 contenders heading into the biggest prep races Ben Roberts Lexington Herald-Leader
LEXINGTON, Ky. — The most important stretch of prep races for the 2022 Kentucky Derby is finally here. Starting with the Louisiana Derby on Saturday, the calendar over the next few weekends will be filled with win-and-you’re-in showcases featuring the top 3-year-olds in the country. In all, eight races over the next three Saturdays will deliver 100 Kentucky Derby qualifying points to the winner, with 40 points going to second place, 20 to third, and 10 to fourth. Traditionally, the first- and second-place finishers of each of those races accumulate enough points to make the Derby starting gate, and a third- or fourth-place showing can often be enough to boost contenders into that top-20 range in the standings. The Louisiana Derby will be the first major prep race, followed by the Florida Derby and Arkansas Derby next weekend, then the Blue Grass Stakes, Santa Anita Derby and Wood Memorial on April 9. The UAE Derby on Saturday and next weekend’s Jeff Ruby Steaks at Turfway Park will also deliver 100 points to the winner and could produce a Kentucky Derby starter or two. And the Sunland Derby this Sunday will offer 50 qualifying points to its winner. So, this will be the stretch when that Kentucky Derby field gets straightened out. Going into these major prep races, here’s a look at the top 10 contenders for the Kentucky Derby on May 7 — featuring the first rankings of our 2022 Derby Watch series — with the latest futures odds from the Caesars Sportsbook. 1. SMILE HAPPY Caesars Odds: 10-1. Trainer: Kenny McPeek. Why he’s here: Smile Happy hasn’t won a race in 2022, but he still holds the top spot on this list heading into the prep season’s most important stretch. Trained by Lexington native Kenny McPeek, the son of sprint champion and fan favorite Runhappy broke his maiden at Keeneland last fall, then won the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes — the premier 2-year-old race at Churchill Downs — in November. In that one, Smile Happy beat Classic Causeway, White Abarrio and Call Me Midnight, three horses that have won big Derby preps this year. Smile Happy finished second in his only start of 2022 to date, a runner-up showing to Epicenter in the Risen Star Stakes in New Orleans. It was still a great effort off a nearly three-month layoff, and he looked every bit a top Derby contender who could be trending toward a peak at just the right time, rallying up for second between horses after a less-than-ideal trip. Smile Happy fired off a bullet work at Gulfstream Park over the weekend, going 5 furlongs in :58.81. What’s next? McPeek revealed Monday that he will run Smile Happy in the Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland on April 9. 2. EPICENTER Caesars Odds: 8-1. Trainer: Steve Asmussen. Why he’s here: Epicenter, who broke his maiden at Churchill Downs in November, was nipped at the wire by Call Me Midnight in his 2022 debut after setting the early pace and dueling with Pappacap in the stretch. Next time out — in the Risen Star Stakes, against arguably the best Derby prep field yet — Epicenter was able to rest a little easier on the lead, run clear of his rivals, and romp home for a decisive, 2 3/4-length victory. The son of Not This Time earned a 98 Beyer Speed Figure for that run, which is third only to the Bob Baffert-trained Messier and Taiba among 3-year-olds so far this year. There’s still some question on how he’ll handle the competition if he’s challenged early on Derby Day — or if he can be as effective from just off the pace — but that Risen Star run was certainly one of the best prep performances so far. Epicenter has achieved bullet works at Fair Grounds in each of the last two weeks before a warm-up over the track Monday morning, and he could be the colt who finally delivers a first Kentucky Derby victory for Hall of Fame trainer Steve Asmussen, who is a record 0 for 23 with starters in the race. What’s next? He’ll stay home in New Orleans as the favorite in this weekend’s Louisiana Derby, which will feature a rematch with Call Me Midnight. 3. FORBIDDEN KINGDOM Caesars Odds: 11-2. Trainer: Richard Mandella. Why he’s here: Forbidden Kingdom looked like an absolute star in the San Vicente Stakes on Jan. 29, but that race was only 7 furlongs. Could he win at two turns? The answer was a resounding “yes,” with the son of Triple Crown champ American Pharoah dominating the San Felipe on March 5, turning in a 98 Beyer in the process. In that one, he ran the first half-mile in :45.90 and the first 6 furlongs in 1:10.46, opening up a lead of 7 lengths relatively early in the race. If he does that on Derby Day, he’s liable to get swallowed up in the Churchill Downs stretch. How that style will play — and whether he can back off the pace a little in the early going — is one of a few questions still worth asking. Can he get the 1 1/4 miles? How will
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Medina Spirit, with John Velazquez up, crosses the finish line to win the 147th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs on May 1, 2021 in Louisville, Kentucky.
he do in Louisville after racing exclusively in southern California so far? And how will he fare against top competition? He has Hall of Fame trainer Richard Mandella in his corner, and that last question should get a clearer answer in a couple of weeks when Forbidden Kingdom faces Messier in the most-buzzedabout matchup on the 2022 prep calendar. What’s next? The Santa Anita Derby on April 9. 4. SIMPLIFICATION Caesars Odds: 8-1. Trainer: Antonio Sano. Why he’s here: Simplification missed the start in the Holy Bull Stakes in early February, then ran wide all the way around before making a move and staying up for second behind White Abarrio. Things ended better in the Fountain of Youth Stakes last month, when the son of Not This Time settled into the middle of the pack before making another wide move and impressively running away with the victory, winning by 3 1/2 lengths as the 5-2 favorite in what looked to be a strong field coming in. (That race was marred by an incident in which two horses went down, so be prepared if you watch the replay. Thankfully, neither suffered any injuries). Not being forwardly placed on Derby Day always brings a risk of a bad trip, but Simplification has shown he can overcome adversity and looked great in the Gulfstream Park stretch last time out. Going into the Kentucky Derby, all seven of his career starts will have come at Gulfstream. What’s next? The Florida Derby on April 2, when he’ll get another shot at White Abarrio. 5. CLASSIC CAUSEWAY Caesars Odds: 12-1. Trainer: Brian Lynch. Why he’s here: Last fall, Classic Causeway finished third in the Breeders’ Futurity — the top 2-year-old race at Keeneland — then finished second in the Kentucky Jockey Club, the premier juvenile race at Churchill Downs. This year, he was the king of the Tampa Bay prep circuit, winning the Sam F. Davis Stakes and Tampa Bay Derby to put himself atop the Kentucky Derby points standings heading into the biggest part of the prep season. The son of Giant’s Causeway absolutely exploded out of the gate in both starts this year — always helpful in the crowded field on Derby Day — but he didn’t exactly put his competition away in the Tampa Bay Derby, and his speed figures (an 84 that day) have been a cut below the top contenders in this group. Still, you can’t argue with the final results. Looking forward to the matchup with a little better competition next time out. What’s next? The Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland on April 9, a race that regains Grade 1 status this year and should draw one of the top fields on the prep calendar. 6. ZANDON Caesars Odds: 15-1. Trainer: Chad Brown. Why he’s here: Zandon finished second to Mo Donegal in the Remsen Stakes last December following a thrilling stretch duel that led to an inquiry and appeal (but no change in results). Following an 11-week layoff, the son of Upstart returned for his 3-year-old debut in the Risen Star Stakes, where he missed the break and didn’t have the best of trips after that but still managed to get third place behind Epicenter and Smile Happy, the two top Kentucky Derby contenders on this list. Four-time Eclipse Award winner Chad Brown remains high on Zandon, who has turned in nice workouts in Florida over the past two Saturday mornings. If he makes the Derby field, he’ll go into Churchill Downs with four starts at four different tracks: Belmont Park, Aqueduct, Fair Grounds and Keeneland. What’s next? He’s being pointed toward the Blue Grass Stakes on April 9. 7. WHITE ABARRIO Caesars Odds: 15-1. Trainer: Saffie Joseph Jr. Why he’s here: White Abarrio ran a great race and had everything break his way in the Holy Bull, winning that by 4 1/2 lengths after
never being challenged in the stretch. The son of Race Day is now 3 for 3 at Gulfstream Park, with his only career defeat coming at Churchill Downs: a third-place showing behind Smile Happy and Classic Causeway last fall. Trainer Saffie Joseph Jr., who had Ny Traffic in the Kentucky Derby two years ago, decided to skip the Fountain of Youth and go straight to the Florida Derby with White Abarrio, who will likely need at least a thirdplace finish (and possibly a runner-up) to get enough points for the Derby on May 7. The gray colt’s grandsire is Tapit, and his damsire is Into Mischief, three-time reigning leading sire in North America and the father of the last two Derby winners — Mandaloun and Authentic. What’s next? The Florida Derby on April 2. 8. MO DONEGAL Caesars Odds: 15-1. Trainer: Todd Pletcher. Why he’s here: Mo Donegal won that battle with Zandon in the Remsen Stakes at Aqueduct late last year and turned in a mildly disappointing third-place finish as the 8-5 favorite in the Holly Bull two months later. In that 3-year-old debut, he was slow on the break and bottled in at a key moment in the race. He got going much too late, especially in the short stretch at Gulfstream Park, but he looked terrific once he found that full head of steam and almost caught Simplification for second place. Two-time Derby winner Todd Pletcher scratched him from the Fountain of Youth with a fever — but an outside draw and some hesitancy to run him back at Gulfstream likely would’ve resulted in a scratch anyway — and the trainer instead decided on a trip to the Wood Memorial, basically giving Mo Donegal one last chance at the Derby field. His sire, Uncle Mo, was the father of Kentucky Derby winner Nyquist, and Mo Donegal certainly has the look of a top Derby contender. We’ll see what happens in a couple of weeks. What’s next? The Wood Memorial at Aqueduct on April 9. 9. RATTLE N ROLL Caesars Odds: 25-1. Trainer: Kenny McPeek. Why he’s here: We’ll give Rattle N Roll another chance in the top 10 after a sixth-place finish in the Fountain of Youth Stakes to begin his 3-year-old campaign. The son of Connect broke his maiden at Churchill Downs and won Keeneland’s top 2-year-old race for Kenny McPeek last fall, but the Fountain of Youth was his first start since then — a layoff of nearly five months. Rattle N Roll clearly needed that race, but he was never really a factor. There’s obviously a ton of talent here, however. He returned to the track Saturday morning at Gulfstream Park, firing off a joint bullet work — 5 furlongs in :58.81 — with McPeek stablemate Smile Happy. What’s next? After that long layoff, McPeek is wheeling Rattle N Roll right back in the Louisiana Derby at Fair Grounds this weekend, giving him three weeks between starts. 10. SECRET OATH Caesars Odds: 15-1. Trainer: D. Wayne Lukas. Why she’s here: Not crazy about anyone else for a top-10 spot at this point in the prep calendar, so let’s take a longer look at the filly. That’s right, Secret Oath — one of the top Kentucky Oaks contenders this year — is being considered for a run against the boys on the first Saturday in May. The daughter of the great Arrogate — champion 3-yearold in 2016 — Secret Oath broke her maiden at Churchill Downs in October and has won three straight races at Oaklawn Park in the past three months. She turned in one of the best Beyer Speed Figures of any 2-year-old in 2021, and her 92 Beyer in the Honeybee Stakes last month was considerably better than Un Ojo’s 84 in winning the Rebel Stakes on the same card. All of this has led legendary trainer D. Wayne Lukas, still going strong at 86 years old, to point Secret Oath to the Arkansas Derby, where she just might be the favorite. There are no guarantees that Secret Oath
would go to the Kentucky Derby even with a win against the boys in Arkansas. She already has the points to make the Oaks starting gate, and her connections haven’t made any final decision on which race she’ll run in May. It’s been 12 years since Devil May Care finished 10th for Todd Pletcher as the last filly to run in the Kentucky Derby. The most recent filly to win the race was Winning Colors — also trained by Lukas — in 1988. What’s next? The Arkansas Derby on April 2 at Oaklawn Park. A DOZEN MORE TO WATCH A quick look at 12 other Kentucky Derby hopefuls to keep an eye on (with the latest Caesars sportsbook futures odds): — Barber Road (25-1) has finished second and third in the first two Oaklawn Park preps and will be one to watch in the Arkansas Derby for trainer John Ortiz. The son of Race Day has the look of a colt who could make some serious noise in the Kentucky Derby stretch (possibly at long odds). — Call Me Midnight (35-1) won the Lecomte Stakes at Fair Grounds — following a very favorable pace scenario — and trainer Keith Desormeaux decided to point the son of Midnight Lute directly to this weekend’s Louisiana Derby, where he’ll need to show more to be seriously considered a top Kentucky Derby contender. — Charge It (14-1) broke his maiden at Gulfstream Park last month and has just two career starts. The son of Tapit is trained by Todd Pletcher and earned a 93 Beyer in that win. The Florida Derby is next. — Cyberknife (30-1) is trained by Louisville native — and now Kentucky Derby winner — Brad Cox, who watched the son of champion Gun Runner finish a head-scratching sixth in the Lecomte Stakes before rebounding for a big allowance win last month. He’ll get one more chance in the Arkansas Derby — Early Voting (16-1) won the Withers Stakes on Feb. 5 for trainer Chad Brown, who opted to skip the Gotham Stakes at Aqueduct and go straight to the Wood Memorial with the son of Gun Runner. He’s 2 for 2 in his young career, and some others from that Withers field have gone on to good performances since. — Emmanuel (20-1) was the “it” horse for the Fountain of Youth Stakes, where he finished fourth for Todd Pletcher in his debut against top competition. The son of More Than Ready didn’t have the greatest trip in that race, however, and did show some mettle at the end. The setting for Emmanuel’s next start has not been confirmed. — Ethereal Road (35-1) is trained by fourtime Derby winner D. Wayne Lukas and looked good as the runner-up to Un Ojo in the Rebel Stakes (even if the final speed numbers weren’t much). The son of Quality Road goes to the Blue Grass Stakes next for the 86-year-old trainer. — In Due Time (16-1) should have been DQ’d for a dangerous move in the Fountain of Youth Stakes under jockey Paco Lopez, which led to two horses going down and a 14-day suspension for the rider. (Thankfully, all the horses came back fine). The secondplace result held for In Due Time, who clearly has talent. Trainer Kelly Breen is likely to send the son of Not This Time to the Florida Derby next. — Messier (8-1) might be the most talented 3-year-old in the country, but he’s trained by Bob Baffert, who’s currently suspended from the Kentucky Derby. Baffert’s challenges to that ban seem to be going nowhere, and Messier’s owners have made no moves to switch trainers with the Santa Anita Derby now less than two weeks away. If nothing changes on either front, Messier won’t be able to accumulate any Derby qualifying points, and, therefore, won’t be in the race. The son of Empire Maker ran a 103 Beyer in winning the Robert B. Lewis Stakes by 15 lengths last month. He’ll face Forbidden Kingdom, among others, in the Santa Anita Derby. — Morello (14-1) won the Gotham Stakes earlier this month for trainer Steve Asmussen, and the son of Classic Empire is now 3 for 3 for his career heading into the Wood Memorial. He has impressive speed figures and is likely to be on a lot of top-10 lists at this point in the prep calendar, but he’s yet to go longer than 1 mile and still has some questions to answer. — Slow Down Andy (75-1) is the only horse to beat Messier since last summer, but he finished sixth with no real excuses against a talented field in the Risen Star Stakes, his first start this year. He deserves another shot, and he’ll get one Sunday in the Sunland Derby for trainer Doug O’Neill, who won the Kentucky Derby with I’ll Have Another and Nyquist (sire of Slow Down Andy). — Un Ojo (75-1) is the one-eyed gelding who won the Rebel Stakes at 75-1 odds for first time graded stakes winning-trainer Ricky Courville, who will send the son of Laoban out in the Arkansas Derby next. Un Ojo’s numbers are a cut below the top Kentucky Derby contenders, but the Rebel win gave him enough points for the starting gate, so he’s already in for May 7.
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Fiance’s aversion to pets plants small seed of doubt Dear Abby, My boyfriend and I have gotten engaged and we are being married in a year or so. Everything about him is wonderful, and I’m excited to share my life with him — DEAR ABBY except for one worry. I have been an animal lover my entire life. After living with him this past year with my two cats, I have slowly come to the realization that he absolutely loathes the idea of pets. Besides my inability to understand this (he has never had a bad past experience with an animal), it makes me question his compassion (or lack thereof) for all things living. Should this be a red flag, worthy of reconsidering our engagement? Critter Lover In New England
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Perhaps. Not everyone is an animal lover, but it’s usually because they haven’t had pets or been exposed to them. This does not mean they lack compassion for all things living. It simply means they haven’t interacted with different species. However, you say your fiance absolutely “LOATHES” pets. If you plan to have animals in your household in the future, you MUST have some serious discussions about it and lay your cards on the table. If you don’t deal with this NOW, it could be a deal-breaker in the future. Dear Abby, As a frequent traveler, there is the inevitability of being seated near children on airplanes. I can’t blame kids for becoming a little bit fussy. Often, they seem miserably bored. My sad observation is their parents seem to be unprepared to engage their kids. When I traveled by plane with my
children, I always planned ahead. I packed plenty of healthy snacks, a few surprise treats and games, books and art supplies to engage them. I also talked to them in advance about the trip, the plane, who we were going to visit and what we were going to do after we arrived. Strangers would thank me at the end of the flight for my children’s good behavior. Time on a plane is a perfect opportunity to forgo the hustle and bustle of a typical day. Use the downtime to have fun and enjoy special bonding time with your kids and, hopefully, give the other passengers a break. Mile-High Play Time I’m printing your intelligent suggestions in the hope that as families travel in the coming months, they will be taken to heart. I’m not doing this for the benefit of airline passengers, but rather the comfort of the children involved. Thank you for sharing your thoughts with my readers and me. You may not be an angel, but today you have earned your “wings.” Dear Abby, I find myself depressed 90% of the time because I’m afraid of death. Do you think LGBTQ individuals are doomed after death? Will we go to hell? I’m gay and I worry every day about it. Please settle my nerves. Stressed-Out In Georgia
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I’m glad you asked. Please stop worrying, because you are making your own hell right here on Earth. LGBTQ individuals are no more “doomed” after death than are straight people. The misguided individual who planted that idea in your head deserves that fate, not you.
Horoscope By Stella Wilder Born today, you want to be the best — period. At what, you may ask — and that can prove a difficult question for anyone to answer who isn’t close to you and doesn’t know the deep, dark secrets that you harbor within your soul. For the truth is that you look like you could do just about anything, and you have been endowed with a great many talents to explore in your lifetime. You love to play games, solve puzzles and have a good time with friends and family members. You can be rather mischievous, and while you are never one to injure another intentionally, it may happen on rare occasions because you simply take some kind of joke too far — or because it happens occasionally in your chosen line of work. Also born on this date are: Peyton Manning, football quarterback; Harry Houdini, magician and escape artist; Steve McQueen, actor; Jessica Chastain, actress; Louie Anderson, comedian and actor; Kelly Lebrock, actress and model. 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 25 ARIES (March 21-April 19) — The promise of a handsome reward is likely enough to get you to step out of your comfort zone today and try something very unusual. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — You may be expecting something from someone today for which there has been no evidence or advance notice whatsoever. Why is that? GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — It’s a good time to revisit something that, in the past, gave you a
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Zits great deal of pleasure. You know someone who will share this with you. CANCER (June 21-July 22) — You must resist feeling competitive toward someone who is only trying to help you. Instead of being defensive, why not invite cooperation? LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — A misconception of some sort has you preparing for something that is not likely to happen. This is a “no harm, no foul” situation, however. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Someone may be expecting too much of you today, and you must say so before you find yourself in a situation that is too much to handle alone. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You know very well who is responsible for the mess that you are left with at this time, so why not insist on getting the help you need? SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — You can take full advantage today of a situation you were not even aware of yesterday. Progress is made very swiftly at this time. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — You may wonder at the treatment you receive at the hands of someone who thinks they’re in charge. It’s surely time to speak up. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You may have gotten along so far by pretending to be this, that or the other thing — but today you must be genuine in all interactions. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — A personal sacrifice may be necessary today before you are able to make any more measurable progress, but this shouldn’t be too difficult. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — The time for exploration and experimentation may be coming to a close; today, you will want to narrow down your choices significantly.
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IMPROBABLE? Both vulnerable, North deals NORTH ♠ A 10 ♥ AK54 ♦ J743 ♣ A 10 6 WEST EAST ♠Q8 ♠9652 ♥2 ♥ Q83 ♦ K Q 10 9 8 ♦ 65 ♣J9542 ♣KQ87 SOUTH ♠KJ743 ♥ J 10 9 7 6 ♦ A2 ♣3
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Sometimes, when problem-solving a bridge hand, you have to imagine a lie of the cards that will allow your contract to succeed. That lie of the cards might be improbable, but you have to play for it anyway or face certain defeat. South won the opening diamond lead with his ace and cashed dummy’s ace and king of hearts. This aggressive slam would have romped home had the queen of hearts fallen, but it appeared to be doomed when East had a trump trick. To succeed, declarer would have to discard all three of dummy’s diamonds on the spades. A 3-3 spade split wouldn’t help, as East would be able to ruff the fourth spade and lead a diamond. South needed for West to hold precisely the queen doubleton of spades. South ruffed a club back to his hand, took a deep breath, and led a spade to dummy’s 10. The ace of spades dropped the queen and declarer started to smile. Another club ruff got declarer back to his hand and he cashed three spade tricks, discarding diamonds from dummy. East ruffed the last spade, but it was too late to get a diamond trick. Making six! Well done!
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49 Word with Crosby or cherries 50 Quit, in poker 52 J’s forerunners 53 __ down; deposits 55 Motorist’s aid 56 Kick oneself for 57 Nitrogen or neon
Now arrange the circled letters to form the surprise answer, as suggested by the above cartoon.
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ACROSS 1 Feeling __; in a funk 5 Hard to climb 10 Salad type 14 Costa __ 15 Chavez or Romero 16 Center 17 Rainbow shapes 18 Stands for 20 Aberdeen refusal 21 Quite a few 22 Uneasy feeling 23 Annual dances 25 “__ Baba and the Forty Thieves” 26 Part of GM 28 Pants 31 Up in arms 32 Berate 34 VP Rockefeller’s initials 36 Takes into custody 37 Rather plump 38 Actress Rogers 39 Sick 40 Bench-__; exercise with weights 41 Esau’s twin 42 “__ with a Kiss”; 1962 song 44 Lively dances 45 Edison’s initials 46 European language 47 Monastery head 50 Aluminum wrap 51 Org. for Texans & Titans 54 Wedding VIP 57 Lady __ of the music world 58 Come to shore 59 Vital sign 60 “__ Breaky Heart” 61 __ Benedict; fancy breakfast 62 Meal with matzo 63 Does the slalom
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Unscramble these Jumbles, one letter to each square, to form four ordinary words.
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