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Greene and Columbia county officials fear that Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s budget amendment to do away with the state Siting Board will eliminate local control over siting solar farms.

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A proposed budget amendment that would cut local voices out of the solar permitting process is moving forward despite pushback from Greene and Columbia county officials.

Negotiations are continuing on the proposed changes to siting solar and wind energy, known as the Accelerated Renewable Energy Growth and Community Benefit Act, said Jordan Levine, deputy communications director for

the energy and environment in the office of Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

“It is impossible to say if anything outside the normal will get done, but renewable energy siting is still on the table,” he said.

Since the budget amendment was announced on Feb. 21, local officials have warned that changing solar siting laws to abolish the existing review process would violate home rule and diminish local authority over land use.

“We would be powerless

against the state if it passes,” said Coxsackie Town Supervisor Rick Hanse.

“We are at the mercy of the state whether they take it out of the budget, and should it pass, the state will have complete authority to override town zoning laws,” he said. “If you take away a town’s right to have charge of zoning, you have taken away a good portion of the town’s reason to exist.”

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NEW YORK — Gov. Andrew Cuomo called for political and national unity Monday to fight the coronavirus after President Donald Trump said over the weekend he may order an enforceable quarantine for New York and surrounding areas in New Jersey and some parts of Connecticut as the pandemic continues to spread.

The state’s first Columbia County resident died of COVID-19 on Saturday, according to a statement from the county health department. The elderly resident had COVID-19 with multiple underlying conditions. Albany County also had its first virus-related death, according to a statement from County Executive Dan McCoy’s office. An elderly man with several underlying

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo demonstrates how to circulate oxygen flow with a bag valve mask during a COVID-19 press briefing in the state Capitol on Saturday afternoon.

conditions and COVID-19 died Saturday at St. Peter’s Hospital.

Columbia County had 36 positive cases of the virus as of Monday

afternoon. Six remain hospitalized with two patients in intensive care. Sixty-nine people are under mandatory quarantine and 17 under precautionary quarantine. Nine residents have suspected cases, but have not been tested.

Greene County has 20 positive cases of COVID-19 in Windham, Durham, Greenville, Hunter, Cairo, Catskill, Athens and Coxsackie as of Monday afternoon. One person was hospitalized, but was released. Four cases have been cleared and discharged, with 16 remaining active cases, according to a statement from Greene County Public Health. Eighty-seven people remain under precautionary quarantine being self-monitored for possible exposure.

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Waste disposal can pose COVID-19 risks

By Melanie Lekocevic Columbia-Greene Media

Everyone is aware by now of mandates to practice social distancing, hand hygiene and other ways of preventing transmission of the coronavirus, but here’s a possible danger you may not have thought of — spreading the virus through your trash.

Trash disposal was deemed an “essential” service by Gov. Andrew Cuomo when he put strict regulations in place in the battle against COVID-19.

But waste-disposal experts say there are risks if garbage is not handled and packaged properly — and that is a concern for them.

Mary Barbato, vice president of marketing and communications for Carmen Barbato, Inc., a waste disposal COURTESY OF TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE company serving Greene, Columbia Trash and recyclables are another front in the battle against the coronavirus, and Berkshire counties, said there are waste disposal experts say. things everyone should be doing to People who are infected, or may be, protect both sanitation workers and prevent the spread of the coronavirus through the trash. are asked to take extra precautions to the community at large, Barbato said.

“If you have the coronavirus or suspect you do, we ask that you don’t put your garbage out until a week after you have been cleared by your doctor,” she said.

But everyone is asked to take steps to prevent possible transmission, infected or not.

“To keep our drivers and the community safe, we ask that households please make sure they are bagging all garbage so it makes it to its destination, and refrain from overflowing your totes,” said company owner Carmen Barbato Jr. “As we know, the virus remains on household garbage for days, depending on the carrier material. For that reason, together we need to minimize the amount of ‘touch’ our drivers have on garbage.”

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The Pentagon is struggling to stay ahead of the widening coronavirus pandemic as early missteps start piling up, a scattershot response sows confusion and the Navy is forced to sideline an aircraft carrier.

The USS Theodore Roosevelt, a 5,000-person aircraft carrier meant to be patrolling the Pacific and South China Sea, is instead sitting dockside in Guam indefinitely as the number of infected sailors rises daily. Infections started cropping up after an early March port call in Vietnam, which Pentagon leaders say had about 16 known virus cases at the time.

Defense Secretary Mark Esper says he’s leaving key decisions about how to address the outbreak to local commanders. But as infections mount and more warriors are sidelined, Pentagon leaders will face difficult questions about how to stay fully ready to confront rivals from North Korea to Iran and how to signal unflagging resolve to such adversaries.

“The military is torn between its need to maintain operations, which cannot be done with ‘social distancing,’ and the need to restrict interactions to inhibit infections,” said Mark Cancian, a military analyst with the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington who’s a retired Marine Corps colonel. “It has still not figured out how to strike that balance.”

The piecemeal approach means that, in some cases, basic precautions that prevent troops from being put at risk are being ignored. Across the U.S., civilian barbers are still driving onto military bases to give Marines buzz cuts. That was a decision the top Marine struggled to explain at a news briefing Thursday.

“Everybody’s still getting their heads shaved as long as the barbers come to work,” said General David Berger, the Marine Corps commandant. “Things like grooming standards -- barber shops in one area may be open, and in another base they may be closed. So we very much trust the leaders to make those calls, and we’ve given them the latitude to waive requirements where it’s not practical to meet them.”

As of Friday, the Pentagon said there have been 309 confirmed cases of coronavirus among active military personnel, a small fraction of the force. But the case of the USS Roosevelt encapsulates how quickly a seemingly minor problem can hamper one of the world’s biggest warships.

After the first three sailors on the carrier were evacuated, Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly projected confidence about the ship’s status, saying it would continue sailing.

“This is an example of our ability to keep our ships deployed at sea, underway even with active Covid-19 cases,” Modly said March 24. But two days later, the carrier was sidelined indefinitely in Guam as the Navy tries to contain the outbreak.

Emma Moore, a researcher on military and veterans issues at the Center for a New American Security, said the virus outbreak has resulted in some “cringe-worthy” decisions being made as the military sorts out which personnel

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The U.S. Naval Hospital Ship Mercy arrives at the Port of Los Angeles on Friday morning, Mar. 27, 2020.

and missions are more essential than others.

“Ultimately this public health crisis has shown that the military has gaps to fix in areas it would have considered itself an expert: communication, fast response, logistics, and organization,” Moore said, citing how the Navy continued crowded meetings in close quarters on ships and the barbers still are coming on to bases to give Marines buzz cuts.

Like many states and cities, the military’s ability even to test for the virus is limited.

Modly said in an interview Friday with Hugh Hewitt that the Roosevelt can test about 200 sailors per day, meaning it would take more than three weeks to test everyone on board. But he disputed the idea that the ship would be out of action if major hostilities erupted.

“If there was a reason for her to go into action she would just go,” Modly said. “She’s close enough to some trouble spots that she could mobilize and go quickly.”

There have been other missteps. The Army briefly stopped most training exercises only to restart them days later. And the service waited until Thursday to raise its health protection status to “D,” the highest level, for critical rapid-response forces that would be deployed in a national security crisis, in order to keep those troops isolated and ready to fight.

“All the chiefs are wrestling with the same issue or same challenges,” General James McConville, the Army chief of staff, said in a press briefing on Thursday. “They want to protect the force, but at the same time they know they have a mission to protect, and that’s the balance.” He added that “we need to do more to limit exposure, especially for those who are not doing mission essential tasks.”

It wasn’t until March 13 that the Pentagon established a coordination task force to work closely with Office of the Secretary of Defense, Joint Staff, the military services and other agencies to develop policy documents and provide recommendations to senior leadership, according to a memo signed by Navy Captain Oliver Lewis, the Defense Department’s executive secretary.

At the same time, the Pentagon has earned praise for ramping up to help in the national fight against the virus, deploying two hospital ships

to hard-hit New York City and Los Angeles and picking up all the costs for National Guard troops deployed to help stem the crisis, instead of requiring cost-sharing from cashstrapped state governments.

It also closed recruitment centers.

Before Congress managed to draft an economic stimulus bill to help workers and businesses impacted by the pandemic, the Pentagon moved quickly to accelerate payments to contractors to help ensure they keep production lines open.

Military leaders also have praised General Robert Abrams, the commander of U.S. forces in South Korea, for taking drastic measures to prevent troops from being exposed to the coronavirus by locking down bases in February, as that country’s outbreak exploded.

“Where the threat was most acute, the leadership acted the quickest and most decisively,” said Thomas Spoehr, a retired Army lieutenant general and director of the Center for National Defense at the Heritage Foundation.

Some military leaders concede the scope of the virus threat wasn’t fully understood before it took root globally.

“We started putting some of these data points together and trying to string it together over the course of February,” Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy, who visited South Korea to see the situation firsthand in February, said at the Pentagon Thursday. “It’s just been a very, very complex issue that’s taken time to get the data points together.”

Pentagon leaders have warned that adversaries will seek to take advantage of any weakness, real or perceived, in the U.S.’s focus or military strength because of the pandemic. Since the outbreak started, North Korea has launched short-range ballistic missiles in defiance of international sanctions, while Iranian proxies have staged attacks on bases in Iraq where the U.S. has troops.

Such threats are also why some things won’t change unless the outbreak in the military gets far worse.

Berger, the Marine commandant, signaled as much when he was asked about the wisdom of large-scale formations at rifle ranges and training exercises that are continuing. “The Marine Corps is unique,” he said Thursday.

“We are mandated by law to be the nation’s most ready

force, and that’s what I think you expect us to be.”

But epidemiologists have warned countries against an uncoordinated response to the pandemic, saying strong measures in one area can be undermined by weaker responses elsewhere. Nations like Italy and Iran that have reacted slowly, or in a haphazard fashion, have had some of the highest infection and death rates.

While the Pentagon isn’t a nation-state, it operates like one. In addition to 1.3 million active-duty service members, the military runs fleets of planes and ships, operates grocery stores, staffs recruitment centers in strip malls and functions as the chief employer in many communities.

For now, the Pentagon is sticking with its position that local commanders are bestsuited to make the right decisions, and warning that disruptions from the virus could last for months.

“I trust upon our commanders and our senior enlisted personnel to do the right thing particular to your unit, to your situation, to your mission,” Esper said during a virtual town hall on Tuesday.

“It’s up to the commanders and senior NCOs to make the right calls relevant to their situation to ensure that we protect our people while at the same time maintaining mission readiness.” (c)2020 Bloomberg News Visit Bloomberg News at www. bloomberg.com Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

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State reps rail against proposed Medicaid cuts

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ALBANY — Democratic legislators blasted Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Sunday for proposing historic budget cuts to state health care and hospitals that would make New York ineligible for up to $6 billion in federal aid for coronavirus.

The state’s second Medicaid Redesign Team voted on proposed Medicaid cuts to eligibility, service levels and more March 18, which included provisions that would slash millions of dollars to hospitals across the state.

“It is appalling that in the middle of this emergency when we’re seeing more positive cases, the governor’s office sent my district an email saying that they’re going to cut nearly $10 million to Woodhull, the public safety net hospital in our district,” Brooklyn Sen. Julia Salazar, D-18, said during a video press conference Sunday about the proposed cuts.

The hospital cuts, which were announced in an email late last week, include additional cuts to Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Bushwick, the senator said.

“Where the first reported coronavirus death was,” she added. “It’s absolutely insulting.”

President Donald Trump signed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act into law March 18, which includes a provision to allow states to draw down a significant chunk of cash for Medicaid — the public health insurance program for lowincome people — during the national health emergency.

The provision increases the Federal Medical Assistance Percentage, or FMAP, to 6.2%.

New York would receive up to $6 billion under the emergency aid bill on the condition the state does not impose Medicaid cuts or changes to the program.

In January, Cuomo convened the state’s second Medicaid Redesign Team to help close a projected $4 billion gap in the 2020-21 executive budget, which deadlines April 1. The team was tasked to find ways to scale back $2.5 billion in Medicaid spending and voted on the recommended changes March 19.

If New York implements Medicaid cuts as planned, the state would be ineligible to receive federal aid from the Legislature’s first COVID-19 relief bill. The state

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo plans to move forward with the state’s plans to cut $2.5 billion to its Medicaid program and forego up to $6 billion in COVID-19 relief from the federal government, he said Sunday afternoon during a coronavirus COVID-19 press briefing at the state Capitol in Albany.

projects a $10 billion to $15 billion budget shortfall because of the pandemic’s devastating impact on local and national markets.

“How do you do a budget with that big a hole?” Cuomo asked Sunday. “We all believed [the bill] was going to have money to help us with the revenue shortfall, and then it didn’t. Now we have to do the budget next week...

Now we have to make drastic cuts from the budget like you have never seen.”

Cuts are slated for Medicaid and state education, which makes up one-third of New York’s fiscal plan.

The governor said Sunday he has no choice but to go forward with the state’s planned Medicaid cuts and forgo the federal government’s $6 billion, arguing a recurring savings of $2.5 billion in the budget each year would be more than the onetime payout.

“I have no choice,” Cuomo said. “$2.5 billion per year recurring is worth more than $6 billion one-shot. I’d rather have 2.5, 2.5, 2.5 than $6 billion today. I called every congressional representative and told them ‘Why would you want to stop a Medicaid redesign that’s been going on since January?’

“I don’t know what their political calculus was... but it didn’t represent the people of the state. I don’t know what political interests

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they’re trying to protect.”

State Budget Director Robert Mujica argued the state would likely receive about $4 billion compared to the federal government’s projected $6 billion under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, and only if the national emergency remains in place for a full year.

“We can’t get to the $6 billion number no matter how you estimate those numbers,” Mujica said, adding much of the relief would go to the state’s local governments. “It [the relief funding] will end as soon as the president declares the emergency is over. That could happen at any time.

“If it’s only half a year, you’re left with a number that’s under $2 billion, which you’re saying is a one-shot of these funds, you don’t reform the Medicaid system and spend the money inefficiently on a system everyone unanimously understood was not working properly.”

Several lawmakers in New York’s congressional delegation and other federal legislators debated a technical fix in its $2.2 trillion economic recovery bill to give Cuomo the flexibility to change the state’s Medicaid program.

The final bill, which the House passed Friday, did not include the provision.

Cuomo criticized U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., on Sunday and several others

days earlier for voting in favor of the legislation.

“It’d be nice if he passed a piece of legislation that helped the state of New York,” Cuomo said. “The piece of legislation he passed stopped the state from a process that was happening for six months, which was redesigning the Medicaid program to make it more efficient and more effective. It takes waste and fraud and inefficiency in the system.”

Schumer’s spokeswoman said Friday the bill would benefit both New York state and its localities by adjusting the formulas that determine federal Medicaid funding.

“The coronavirus response bill passed a few weeks ago provided $6.7 billion in annual emergency Medicaid aid for New York,” said Allison Biasotti, Schumer’s spokeswoman. “The funds are flowing to New York and there is no legal barrier to them being put to good use ASAP.” Democratic sources on Capitol Hill said the provision to allow states to make changes to Medicaid was omitted for good reason, according to Tribune News Service.

The change would have allowed cash-strapped governors to enact deep cuts in Medicaid nationwide during a pandemic when lowincome people cannot afford to lose their health care, the

Democratic sources said.

In addition, congressional Democrats feared including the language Cuomo wanted might have forced them to make other concessions to Republicans in the bill.

New York’s state government will receive about $5 billion from the latest federal emergency bill, Cuomo said, which can only be used for COVID-19 response efforts and does not help the projected $10 billion to $15 billion budget shortfall.

Sens. Robert Jackson, D-31; Gustavo Riveria, D-33; and Salazar joined representatives from lobby groups in a video press conference Sunday to rail against the governor’s plan to cut state education and Medicaid and their plans to fight it.

“The governor is suggesting that the same system that is going to keep people alive and healthy during this crisis, immediately afterward should be hit on the back of the head with a two-byfour,” Rivera said. “Every time the governor gets up from that table, after he talks about not attaching a dollar figure to peoples’ lives, he stands up and goes into a back room to negotiate with the Legislature and says he wants to continue his mission to cut Medicaid.”

State lawmakers are prepared to fight against the proposed Medicaid cuts.

“The people elected us and we are here to represent them,” Jackson said. “The governor may say he’s doing that, but if you ask the people I represent, he is not. I have to stand up and fight. We have to be willing to stand up and say no. I was sent to Albany to advocate for the people I represent, and that’s what I’m going to do.”

State legislators returned to session Monday. Assemblymembers are expected to pass a resolution providing special, temporary procedures during a declared state of emergency to allow lawmakers to vote remotely and continue the legislative process and pass the state budget by Wednesday’s deadline.

The Tribune News Service contributed to this report.

Kate Lisa covers the New York State Capitol and government for Johnson Newspaper Corporation. Contact her at klisa@columbiagreenemedia.com or follow her on Twitter @KaitlynnLisa

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Stimulus package spells relief, not cure For several days, Gov. Andrew Cuomo criticized federal lawmakers for passing a bipartisan $2 trillion bill to fight the coronavirus pandemic. The governor said the bill will provide insufficient aid to state governments.

New York state’s government will receive about $5 billion from the federal emergency bill, Cuomo said, which can be used only for COVID-19 response efforts and is off-limits to help defray the state’s projected $10 billion to $15 billion budget shortfall.

It will have to do, for now.

But Cuomo is right when he said the stimulus package is not exclusively for people who contracted the

virus. It is a prescription intended to strengthen an economy knocked flat on its back by it and, for cruel irony, by the very steps governments took to stop its progress.

The bill, as Cuomo accurately states, is dedicated to economic aid. It includes direct payments of up to $1,200 per person, $2,400 per couple and $500 per child. But this is a drop in the bucket compared to what Denmark is doing by paying 75% of workers’ salaries or Sweden, which is paying 80% of its workers’ salaries. Models like these are worth exploring.

The coronavirus presents a challenge unlike anything our nation has seen before.

But the stimulus package — although it supports every American worker, expands unemployment insurance, much-needed child nutrition and funding to support hospitals, as well as health care and other essential workers — is simply not enough.

President Donald Trump and Congress have to do more, much more, to stave off nationwide financial ruin for millions of Americans.

The House of Representatives took important, bipartisan steps to support physical and financial recovery, but Congress has to remember that Friday’s action is only a baby step on the road to getting America off the sickbed and back on its feet.

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Coronavirus has made digital divide more dangerous than ever at home; 44% of adults in Living indoors to slow the households making under spread of the novel corona- $30,000 don’t have home virus, millions of Americans broadband; and, even when controlling for inare turning to the Internet to meet their most pressing come, black and Hispanic Americans still lag behind needs. their white counterparts in Online grocery delivery broadband adoption. services are overwhelmed The disconnectedness by orders from those shelmay force individuals to tering at home. Last week, a record 3.3 million Ameri- make devastating decisions and undermine the fight cans filed unemployment against the coronavirus. claims, crashing benefits Low-income patients are websites in several states. visiting clinics in person, Telehealth services, which have already seen a surge in and increasing the risk demand, are poised to play of virus spread, because a critical role in containing they “could not afford to the coronavirus by keeping use voice minutes to call infected patients away from ahead.” Fortunately, the Federal Communications hospitals. This massive shift online poses troubling Commission has eased the barriers to the least digitally strain on some by temporarily waiving certain rules connected Americans. on Lifeline, a program that These barriers aren’t subsidizes broadband new, of course. As opporand voice services for tunities in education, emlow-income consumers. ployment and health care The FCC also led the Keep have migrated online over the past decades, the “digi- Americans Connected tal divide” has increasingly Pledge, through which burdened Americans with- more than 550 companies have promised for 60 days out access to high-speed broadband. These burdens not to terminate phone and broadband services of any are concentrated among low-income, rural and non- consumers who are unable white Americans: Over 31% to pay their bills. of rural Americans do not These initial steps are have access to broadband welcome but insufficient

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in a time when the strength of an Internet connection mediates access to critical information, remote work opportunities, remote health services and more.

Perhaps most concerning is the homework gap, which penalized millions of students without computers or speedy WiFi at home even before the onset of this pandemic. As schools across the country shutter for weeks or months, these children - disproportionately poor and nonwhite - cannot employ the imperfect solutions they have relied on until now, such as using the WiFi in parking lots of fast-food restaurants to finish homework. In the emergency coronavirus relief bill, Congress ignored calls to appropriate sufficient direct funds for schools and libraries to provide WiFi hotspots for students without Internet access at home. More legislation is likely to follow; funding these hotspots for students should be a priority.

For social distancing to work, at-home isolation has to be bearable for everyone.

Nurses and doctors are the heroes of this moment WASHINGTON — Every crisis has its heroes, every disaster its displays of selflessness and sacrifice. Firefighters race into burning buildings. Police officers place themselves in the line of fire. Soldiers march into war.

And now, amid the coronavirus pandemic, our health care workers, doctors, nurses, EMTs and support staff who risk becoming infected themselves — who risk infecting their own families — are making extraordinary sacrifices to care for the rest of us. They do so, most infuriatingly, even as they have been put at greater risk than necessary by the avoidable shortages of masks, face shields and other personal protective equipment.

Their stories — the nurses who have resorted to wearing garbage bags as protective gear, the doctors banished to the basement for fear of infecting their spouses and children — are at once maddening, heartbreaking and inspiring.

As are, most of all, the deaths, beginning with Dr. Li Wenliang in Wuhan, China, an ophthalmologist who warned his medical school classmates about this strange new virus and was reprimanded by Chinese authorities — only to later contract the virus himself and die.

Now, Li’s counterparts in overcrowded and under-resourced hospitals around the world have given their own lives to save others.

In Italy, more than 40 health care workers have died. In France, at least three doctors. In the United States, the toll is beginning to mount: In New York on Tuesday, 48-year-old Kious Kelly, an assistant nursing manager at Mount Sinai who suffered from severe asthma, died. “I’m okay,” he had texted his sister only the week before, letting her know he had tested positive and was on a ventilator. “Don’t tell Mom and Dad. They’ll worry.”

A grim report by The Washington Post’s Rachel Siegel

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MARCUS featured the emergency medicine doctor who wrote out her funeral playlist; the dual-physician family who found backup guardians for their backup guardians, in case of the worst.

Is this what they signed up for? There is some danger inherent in the ordinary practice of medicine, but not this much.

I confess: I do not know that I would do the same in their circumstances; I am not sure I am so generous or so brave. If my child were graduating from medical school, how would I deal with her being sent, inadequately protected, into an emergency room? If my husband were a physician, would I send him off to the hospital — or let him back into the house in the interim?

What is fascinating about the selflessness of health care providers in the current pandemic is that their ethical obligations are not absolute. During the influenza pandemic in 1918, when more than 600 physicians died, the American Medical Association’s code of ethics mandated that physicians continue caring for patients “without regard to the risk to [their] own health,” according to a 2018 article, “The Physician’s Duty to Treat During Pandemics,” by David Orentlicher in the American Journal of Public Health.

In subsequent years, that strict ethical standard was first relaxed and then, if only in the aftermath of debates over the duty of health care providers to treat AIDS patients, restored,

although not quite as strictly.

The current version of the code obliges doctors to “provide urgent medical care during disasters,” and “this obligation holds even in the face of greater than usual risks to physicians’ own safety, heath, or life,” Orentlicher writes.

But at the same time, according to an AMA ethics opinion, “Physicians also have an obligation to evaluate the risks of providing care to individual patients versus the need to be available to provide care in the future.” Similarly, according to the American Nursing Association, “Nurses are morally obligated to care for all patients.”

However, the group’s ethics code advises, “in certain situations the risks of harm may outweigh a nurse’s moral obligation or duty to care for a given patient. ... Accepting personal risk exceeding the limits of duty is not morally obligatory; it is a moral option.”

As Orentlicher observes, the duty to provide care cannot be absolute: “It would not make sense to expect physicians to treat patients who cannot be saved but would readily transmit their deadly infection to their care providers.” Orentlicher argues for imposing on physicians a more stringent requirement to treat than does the AMA, but he also notes, “We cannot ask physicians to assume risks to their health unless we do all we can to reduce the risk.”

Which, of course, we didn’t.

Not enough, and not in time.

And that is what makes the heroism of the health care workers even more extraordinary. This is their version of running into a burning building. It is what they do — what they do for us.

We must be forever grateful, and we should not fail them again.

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Marilyn A. Noonan Marilyn A. Noonan, 77, of bany in 1988. As the daughter Bethel Ridge Rd., Catskill went and sister of New York City proto be with God on Saturday, fessional firefighters, Marilyn March 28, 2020. knew first-hand the risks of the She was born in Brooklyn, profession and the anxiety of the daughter of the late John P. those who wait at home. She and Florence H. Mitchell and the brought her passions to that sister of John H. Mitchell (Gar- work in helping to create workden City, NY). Marilyn gradu- place protections and in assistated from James Madison High ing families whose firefighter School, Brooklyn, and then made the ultimate sacrifice. earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Marilyn adored the home she English and Geography and Richard created from Brooklyn College on Bethel Ridge. She in 1963. She was her loved gardening and family’s first female colflowers as well as the lege graduate. Marilyn wildlife and her view of married Richard Noonthe Catskill Mountains. an on January 23, 1965 Her perfect start to the and they moved to their day was sitting at the Catskill home in Octokitchen table with a cup ber of that year. of tea and seeing what Noonan Marilyn was the birds were using the proud mother of three bird feeders around the propsons: her biological children, erty. And perhaps she found her John Christian and Timothy greatest joy in being Grandma Paul, and her “adopted” child, to Sean Thomas, Grady McPaul McKinney. She made the choice to stay home and raise Guire, and Patrick David. Given them through their formative current social distancing meayears. In 1977, Marilyn joined sures, private prayers were ofthe Catskill School Board and fered by The Reverend Martin began her public commitment Yost, Rector of St. Luke’s, folto the education of all children. lowed by cremation. The famAs well as her service to Catskill, ily is planning a public memoshe served on the boards of rial and celebration of life when Questar and Tech Valley High larger gatherings are permisSchool, providing continuous sible.

In lieu of flowers, her family leadership and insights over the course of those 43 years. asks that you consider a donaShe was also resolute in her tion in memory of Marilyn to the faith. She was a lifelong Epis- Journeys Palliative Care Procopalian and longtime member gram at Albany Med. Attn: Dr. of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church Porter at 43 New Scotland Avin Catskill. She served on their enue, Albany NY 12208. This Vestry and Altar Guild, creating local program helps to support wonderful floral arrangements cancer patients and their families. Cremation arrangements to give glory to God. After raising her children, are by Millspaugh Camerato FuMarilyn went to work as the Ex- neral Home, Catskill. Messages ecutive Assistant for the NYS of condolence may be made to Professional Firefighters in Al- MillspaughCamerato.com.

Patrick Joseph Neville DURHAM – Patrick Joseph steps.

Neville, 80, passed away peacePat is survived by his loving fully on Friday morning, March and devoted spouse, Maryanne 27, 2020 at his residence, sur- Neville; caring stepsons, Burke rounded by his family.

Armstrong, and Austin ArmPat was born on May 14, strong and his spouse, Jacque1939 in County Cork, line; two granddaughIreland, a son of the late ters, Avery and Tristan Patrick Joseph Neville Armstrong; sisters and and Catherine “Kitty” brothers, nieces and McCarthy Neville. He nephews, both in Irecame to America and land and America. Pat resided in Queens, bewas predeceased by fore making Durham four brothers and one his home. Pat retired sister. from Liberty Transit in Out of concern for Neville Westchester, where he the health and wellbewas a bus driver and past chair- ing of family and friends, memoman of his union local. Pat loved rials will be held at a later date Irish football and hurling, and when restrictions have been was forever proud of his County lifted. Memorial donations to Cork teams. He was an expert Community Hospice, 47 Liberty on all things Cork, both history Street, Catskill, NY 12414 will of the county, and history and be appreciated as expressions stats of the teams! Pat enjoyed of sympathy. Condolence page dancing – waltzes and quick- at ajcunninghamfh.com.

Robert A. Blakeslee, Jr. MEDUSA – Robert A. with his family, especially his Blakeslee, Jr., “Get-R-Done grandchildren. He also enjoyed Guy”, age 55, passed away at fishing, grilling and cooking, and home on Wednesday, wrestling. Most of all, March 25, 2020. RobRobert loved spendert is predeceased by ing time with his man’s his mother, Harriett best friend, “Holy MolBlakeslee, and father, ey”!

Robert A. Blakeslee, Sr. Robert has been creHe is survived by his mated privately. Mespouse of 31 years, Virmorial donations to the ginia Neiss; two daughAmerican Lung Assoters, Destiny Blakeslee ciation, 418 Broadway, Blakeslee, Jr. and Amanda Anderson; Albany, NY 12207 will two grandchildren, Kamari and be appreciated. Condolence Nyla. Robert enjoyed his time page at ajcunninghamfh.com.

Rosemarie Post Rosemarie Post, 84, of Potic Mountain Rd., Catskill passed away on March 27, 2020.

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Stephanie Lowe Stephanie Lowe passed away Saturday, March 28th, 2020 surrounded by her loving family, after a courageous battle with cancer.

Stephanie was born on January 30th, 1957 in Catskill, NY to Joan Clark DiStefano and the late Joseph Peter DiStefano. Stephanie married Brian Lowe on September 19, 1999 at St. Anthony’s Friary in Catskill, NY. In addition to her loving husband, and mother, she will be missed by her loving sister and brother in law, Deidre DiStefano and Denis Mosley of Bethlehem, NY; her loving brother and sister in law, Peter and Pamela DiStefano of Catskill, NY; her nephew and nieces, Joseph and Caronia DiStefano and Julia and Victoria Mosley; along with her extended family and countless friends.

Stephanie started her education at St. Patrick’s school graduating Class of 1975, she continued on to attend Stony Brook University of Long Island, NY and Emerson College of Boston, MA majoring in Sports Broadcasting and Journalism. Living in Boston for 17 years, many of Stephanie’s experiences became some of her best memories. Her love for clothes and make-up led her to the cosmetic and sale indus-

tries where she worked for many hungry. As a fantastic cook and years in New York and Boston baker, she made each holiday for companies such as Guerlain special for her family. Stephanie Cosmetic and Neiman Marcus. was dedicated to making herself After marrying the love of her life, everyone’s go-to person. As a deStephanie assisted her husband voted wife, sister, aunt, godmothBrian with marketing and sales at er, and friend, Stephanie showed Catskill Golf Resort and Windham her love to every person she came Country Club, where he served as in contact with including all of the the PGA Pro. She put on tremen- family pets. She loved showering dous golf tournaments people with generous and fundraising events gifts and gratitude on where she showed her any and every occasion. skills in presentation Stephanie’s contagious and creativity by her smile, bubbly personalspectacular gift basity, and warm-hearted, kets. Stephanie enjoyed welcoming spirit filled shopping, collecting every room she walked from flea markets, and into. design. All of her many Stephanie’s famhomes and pro shops ily was her life, which Lowe were pristine with her is shown through her beautiful decorating and her love loyalty to each and every famfor style on display. Her style was ily member. She loved her aunts, unmatched. She always had the uncles, and cousins greatly. Her perfect accessory for every outfit love for her nephew, Joey and and the perfect aesthetics in ev- nieces, Julia, Caronia, and Victoery room. She also loved her jew- ria fueled her life. She was preselry and eBay businesses where ent for each and every milestone. she was able to share only a few Her presence, love and supof the special touches that made port will continue to transcend her unique. throughout their lives. Her love Stephanie’s life-long gift was for her husband Brian showed no taking care of people. She loved bounds. He presented her with making sure everyone was hap- unmatchable love, resilience, py, healthy, and certainly not and experiences. She lived to

care for him, be a part of all of his travels, and work from Florida to New York. Together they share so many memories of concerts, golfing, baseball games, shelling, fruit picking, traveling, and all the comforts of home. The love Stephanie showed for her family and friends will forever radiate through the memories and lessons she shared with all of us as she touched so many lives.

Due to the current restrictions in place, services and interment will be private and intimate for her family. A memorial service celebrating Stephanie’s beautiful life will be announced once restrictions have been lifted. Memorial donations may be made in Stephanie’s memory to the Fort Nightly Club of Catskill c/o The Joe Boy Memorial Fund, Catskill, NY, 12414 P.O. Box 21, The Greene County Women’s League Cancer Patient Aid, P.O. Box 341 Round Top, NY, 12473, and The Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center though giving.mskcc.org for melanoma cancer research.

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Justice Department examining Sen. Richard Burr for stock dump

By Chris Marquette

$50,000 and $100,000 in Intuit Inc., Danaher Corporation and Brookfield Asset Management. Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican, also sold between $50,000 and $100,000 in Brookfield Asset Management on Feb. 20, when it was $68 a share. It is now worth $43 a share.

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WASHINGTON — Stock transactions Sen. Richard Burr made after private congressional briefings and before the coronavirus pandemic sent the markets plummeting are being examined by the Department of Justice as part of a broader probe into additional lawmakers.

The inquiry, first reported

by CNN, is being conducted in concert with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Burr, a North Carolina Republican and chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, dumped between $628,000 and $1.72 million in his securities holdings on Feb. 13, after the committee began receiving daily coronavirus briefings, ProPublica reported. Prior to that story, NPR obtained a recording in which Burr offered a bleak, private evaluation of the grave economic impact the coronavirus would bring on Feb. 27. That analysis was in contrast to his previous, more upbeat public comments on the matter.

Burr said he used public information to make his trades, but still asked the Senate Ethics Committee to look into his situation after the public outrage that erupted from the appearance of him trading on inside information.

A request for comment to Burr’s congressional office was returned with a statement from Alice Fisher of Latham & Watkins, which is advising Burr: “The law is clear that any American — including a Senator — may participate in the stock market based on public information, as Senator Burr did,” Fisher said. “When this issue arose, Senator Burr immediately asked the Senate Ethics Committee to conduct a complete review, and he will cooperate with that review as well as any other appropriate inquiry.

Senator Burr welcomes a thorough review of the facts in this matter, which will establish that his actions were appropriate.”

Judith Burns, a Securities and Exchange Commission spokesperson, declined comment. The DOJ did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Burr was one of three senators who voted against the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act, which became law in 2012. The vote was 96-3, with former Sens. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma and Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico also voting nay.

The law prohibits members of Congress from trading

Loeffler, Feinstein, Johnson and Inhofe all denied any impropriety.

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Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on April 12, 2018. Burr sold up to $1.5 million in stocks in mid-February, weeks before he warned a private group that the coronavirus was “akin to the 1918 pandemic” and warned it to rethink European travel.

on nonpublic information derived from their official duties for personal enrichment.

Further, the STOCK Act also requires lawmakers to publicly report their stock trades within 45 days of the execution. These are called periodic transaction reports.

The Senate Ethics Committee is not known for enforcing strict disciplinary measures.

The panel’s most recent formal act of discipline was a public letter of admonition in April of 2018 regarding Sen. Bob Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, for accepting impermissible gifts. He was ordered to repay fair market value for the gifts and was publicly reprimanded. Before that, the most recent public letter was issued in 2012.

Several other senators dumped stock before the pandemic crushed the financial markets.

Sen. Kelly Loeffler, a Georgia Republican who is married to the chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, Jeffrey Sprecher, also unloaded more than $1 million in stock after a private briefing with top administration health officials

on the coronavirus, the Daily Beast reported.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s husband sold between $1 million and $5 million in Allogene Therapeutics Inc. on Feb. 18 at $24 a share. It has since dropped to $20 a share.

Her husband also sold between $500,000 and $1 million in the stock on Jan. 31, when it was at $21 for a share.

Feinstein, a California Democrat, sits on the Intelligence Committee and was previously its chairwoman.

Sen. Ron Johnson sold off millions in securities of Pacur LLC, a Wisconsin-based plastics company he used to run before taking office. On March 2, Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican, sold between $5 million and $25 million in the company.

Sen. James M. Inhofe, who serves as an ex-officio member on the Intelligence Committee, sold between $180,000 and $400,000 of his stock holdings on Jan. 27. That includes between $15,000 and $50,000 in Apple Inc. and PayPal Holdings Inc. each. That transaction report includes sales between

In Loving Memory of

Jeffrey A. Engelmann November 25, 1955 – March 31, 2017 The moment that you left us, our hearts split in two.

One side filled with memories, the other side died with you.

We often lay awake at night when the world is fast asleep, and take a walk down memory lane with tears upon our cheeks.

Remembering you is easy, we do it everyday, but missing you is a heartache that never goes away.

We hold you tightly within our hearts and there you will remain.

You see life has gone on without you, but will never be the same.

We love and miss you every day, Jae! Carola, Christie, Carra, Carly, Op, Caytie, Michael, Tristan, Garrett & Babyface

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Recognize and combat the symptoms of the coronavirus Dear Warriors, A friend of mine passed on some valuable information to help recognize and combat the symptoms of the coronavirus. Before I give you the “common sense list,” I would like to add my own two cents.

President Donald Trump said in a briefing that some companies tell him they do not know how to make a ventilator. Really! How about looking at the name of the manufacture on a ventilator? He could enact the Defense Production Act. This act, passed in 1950 as a response to the Korean War, gives the government more control during emergencies to direct industrial production. He is hesitant about enacting it, saying, “I only sign the Defense Production Act to combat the Chinese Virus should we need to invoke it in a worst case scenario in the future.”) Didn’t he say we were at war with this virus?

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, along with other governors, both Democrat and Republican, are begging him to sign this into law to get the vital equipment we need.

He was even thinking about lifting the recommendation of social distance at the urging of the business community to put money back into the economy. The economy won’t be worth a plug nickel if people

CANCER KICKIN’ WARRIOR

INEZ

WHITEHEAD-DICKENS die from social interaction.

Democrats, stop holding up the bill in order to get things in the bill that have NOTHING to do with coronavirus!

Here are my friend’s recommendations: 1. If you have a runny nose and sputum, you have a common cold.

2. Take your temperature; if elevating take Tylenol and check every four hours!

3. This new virus is not heatresistant and will be killed by a temperature of just 26/27 degrees. It hates the sun.

4. If someone sneezes with it, it takes about 10 feet before it drops to the ground and is no longer airborne.

5. If it drops on a metal surface it will live for at least 12 hours, so if you come into contact with any metal surface, wash your hands as soon as you can with a bacterial soap.

6. On fabric it can survive for 6-12 hours. normal laundry

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detergent will kill it.

7. Drinking warm water is effective for all viruses. Try not to drink liquids with ice.

8. Wash your hands frequently as the virus can only live on your hands for 5-10 minutes, but a lot can happen during that time —you can rub your eyes, touch your nose unwittingly, and so on.

9. You should also gargle as a prevention. A simple solution of salt in warm water will suffice.

THE SYMPTOMS 1. The coronavirus will first infect the throat, so you’ll have a sore throat lasting three to four days.

2. The virus then blends into a nasal fluid that enters the trachea and then the lungs, causing pneumonia. This takes about five to six days.

3. With the pneumonia comes high fever and difficulty in breathing.

4. The nasal congestion is not like the normal kind. You feel like you’re drowning. It’s imperative you then seek immediate attention. https://cnsnews.com/article/washington/susan-jones/ trump-reluctant-nationalizeus-industry-https://www.cnn. com/2020/03/18/politics/whatis-defense-production-act/ index.htmlwhen-companiesare. Reach Inez at callherid8@aol. com.

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Caitlyn has exhibited the trait of consistency in that she also received Student of the Month last year in February. Her diligence and dedication have been recognized by her teachers, club advisers, and coaches. Caitlyn is a member of the Junior Honor Society and has demonstrated the four pillars of the society through her respectful and admirable character, excellent academic record, participating in the Yearbook Club and on the Junior Varsity basketball team, and working within the community at the Children’s Learning Center at Windham Mountain. Not only has she played for the C-D basketball team, but she enjoys playing basketball in her free time as well.

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Hannaford Supermarkets Store Manager Bill Marinello, left, speaks with Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York Executive Director Mark Quandt, right, in front of cases of food delivered to the food bank’s headquarters in Latham on Feb. 26. The donation is the result of the annual Hannaford Helps Fight Hunger campaign, which generated 29,431 pounds of food valued at $47,678 for the Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York.

Climate Stewards volunteer programs developed KINGSTON — Climate change is affecting communities across New York state, yet many communities lack the resources needed to adequately prepare for climate change even if they have the knowledge of what they should do, advocates say. To address this need, the Cornell Climate Smart Solutions Program is partnering with New York Sea Grant to develop a Climate Stewards volunteer program modeled after the successful Cornell Cooperative Extension Master Gardener program.

Efforts are underway to develop the Climate Stewards curriculum with continued input from relevant stakeholders. Jessica Kuonen, Hudson Estuary specialist for New York Sea Grant, based in the Cornell Extension office in Ulster County, is currently working on a portion of the curriculum that teaches the basics of climate science and impacts.

“I’m most excited to help bring together a network of volunteers that are passionate about helping their communities, and that we’ll be addressing a real need when it comes to climate action,” said Kuonen.

Jim O’Connell, senior agriculture resource educator for Cornell Extension of Ulster County, is a member of the Cornell Climate Smart Farming Team and the team tasked with reviewing the curriculum. Previously, he had worked with Susan Hereth, an adjunct professor of geography at SUNY New Paltz and education director

of the Kingston YMCA Farm Project, seeking input from her students on climate change. O’Connell suggested that Kuonen reach out to the class to do the same.

On March 2, Kuonen visited Hereth’s class at SUNY New Paltz to receive preliminary feedback.

“When communicating new information to diverse audiences it’s always important to test your messaging,” says Kuonen. “I’m hoping to gain feedback from the students about whether the content is clear, interesting, and engaging.”

Kuonen anticipates that many of the future Climate Steward volunteers may not have a background in science.

“It will be important for them to learn the basics so they can understand how the actions they are taking will benefit their communities,” she said.

The class is a senior seminar for geography students who are working as interns around the county. The students are interning for municipalities and organizations such as the Kingston Land Trust, Woodstock Land Conservancy, Mohonk Preserve, Department of Environmental Protection, City of Kingston, and Ulster County Planning Department.

The students were asked to share why they had decided to pursue environmentally conscious careers. Most students said they wanted to feel like they are making an impact. Greg, a student from Rockland County who’s

interning with the Ulster County Long Range Planning Committee, responded, “Because it’s economically viable (laughs). But really… working with the county feels like I’m in charge of something that could potentially help the area and that’s important to me. It’s not robots or going to the moon, but it’s still changing things for the better.”

The goal of Climate Stewards volunteers is to support their communities in planning and implementing climate change adaptation, education, and mitigation projects at the local level.

Climate Stewards volunteers will complete a 12-week course through their local Cornell Cooperative Extension office, implement a project in their community, and serve as outreach to the general public.

The Climate Stewards volunteer curriculum will be completed for a train-thetrainer summit in the Hudson Valley in late summer 2020 and the first cohort of Climate Stewards training is planned for spring 2021.

For more information on the Climate Smart Stewards program, contact Jessica Kuonen at jak546@cornell. edu or 845-340–3983. More information on the Climate Smart Solutions Program at Cornell can be found at climatechange.cornell.edu.

For information about Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County’s community programs and events go to ulster.cce.cornell.edu/.

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through this crisis. Funds will be released as early as next week to the local non-profits who had previously applied to the foundation. Our goal is to have the entire $250,000 disbursed by the end of April.”

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grants previously applied to the Charitable Foundation, and include food pantries, hospitals, rescue squads, fire companies, etc. A complete list of local organizations receiving grants, including past recipients, is available at www.tbogc.com.

Wakefern Food Corp. announces programs to enhance benefits and compensation KEASBEY, NJ – Wakefern Food Corp., the retailerowned cooperative, announced two programs for its cooperative members’ retail store associates that provide a temporary wage premium and enhanced sick and leave benefits.

The program would impact tens of thousands of dedicated associates working across ShopRite, The Fresh Grocer, Price Rite Marketplace, Dearborn Market and Gourmet Garage stores during the COVID-19 public health emergency.

“Our associates have always been the heart and soul of our business and in the wake of this current crisis, we want to thank them, and their family members that support them, for the incredible commitment they are showing to our customers,” said Joe Colalillo, chairman and CEO of Wakefern Food Corp. “They work tirelessly on the front lines to provide an essential service to our communities; we hope these steps will assist

them with their immediate financial and health concerns.”

The temporary wage premium, which went into effect March 22, increases pay by $2 per hour. The enhanced sick leave and attendance policy will also assist associates with immediate financial and health concerns.

As a result of the dramatic increase in demand and volume across its stores, Wakefern and its members have kicked off a hiring push to fill a variety of positions across its warehouses and stores.

The goal is to keep stores fully staffed during this challenging time and continue to provide the best possible customer service to shoppers and the communities where stores operate.

Individuals interested in joining the team are encouraged to visit: ShopRite Career Center Price Rite Marketplace Career Center Wakefern Careers Members of the Wakefern cooperative employ nearly

80,000 people between them across eight states and represents one of the largest employers in New Jersey. The retailer-owned cooperative is made of 51 family-owned businesses, many who have been in the grocery industry for generations. Colalillo, Wakefern’s chairman and CEO, is a second-generation grocer who owns and operates five ShopRite stores in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

“We see our customers – many of whom are also our friends, family and neighbors – turning to us for the food, supplies, and reassurance they need during this difficult time. Our associates are providing that support as they work hard to keep all our stores’ shelves stocked with fresh produce, meat, seafood and fresh baked goods so people can care for their families the way they always have,” added Colalillo. “We are grateful and inspired by their work during this challenging and unprecedented time.”

Flint Mine Solar, LLC (“Flint Mine Solar” or “Applicant”) is proposing to construct a 100 megawatt-AC (MW-AC) major solar electric generating facility in the Towns of Athens and Coxsackie, Greene County, New York (“Flint Mine Solar Project” or “Facility”). To construct and operate the Facility, Flint Mine Solar must obtain a Certificate of Environmental Compatibility and Public Need (“Certificate”) from the New York State Board on Electric Generating Siting and the Environment (“Siting Board”) pursuant to Article 10 of the Public Service Law and the Siting Board’s rules (16 NYCRR Part 1000). This notice announces that on or about April 17, 2020, the Applicant will file an Article 10 Application seeking a Certificate from the Siting Board.

The Flint Mine Solar Project is a proposed zero-emission solar energy facility that will assist the State in meeting the goals of the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA), which include obtaining 70% of the State’s energy generation from renewable sources by 2030 and significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

The 100-megawatt Facility would consist of solar photovoltaic (PV) panels, electrical inverters and collection lines, collection and point of interconnection (POI) substations, access roads, and construction-related work areas. The Facility may also include energy storage components. The Facility is proposed to interconnect with the State’s electric grid along the National Grid 115 kV LaFarge to Pleasant Valley line and the National Grid 115 kV Feura Bush to North Catskill line. Following construction, ownership of the POI switchyard would be transferred to National Grid.

A map of the project is attached to this notice.

Positive impacts of the Facility include diversification of the State’s energy supplies, new employment opportunities (both temporary construction employment and full-time jobs), and increased revenues to county and local tax bases, payments to the local hospitality industry, and purchase of local supplies and goods. The Applicant has attempted to minimize impacts to land associated with the Facility by limiting the disturbance to forested lands and wetlands to the maximum extent practicable, and by proposing to set aside at least 250 acres of lands to be conserved as habitat for protected grassland bird species. The construction and operation of the Facility may result in minor environmental impacts as more fully described in the Application, including, but not limited to: impacts on terrestrial ecology; impacts to forested land, wetlands and agricultural lands; and impacts to people, including noise, traffic and visual impacts.

The State’s Article 10 process requires that a prospective Applicant complete several steps prior to submission of an Application and dictates the materials which must be included in an Article 10 Application. These regulations can be found at 16 NYCRR 1001.1 et seq. Prior to submission of the forthcoming Application, Flint Mine Solar filed a Preliminary Scoping Statement (PSS) on November 2, 2018 with the Siting Board and, following a public comment period, prepared a response to material comments submitted January 11, 2019. On January 3, 2019, a pre-application conference to consider intervenor funding requests was held and the scoping stipulation process was ordered to commence. Stipulations were negotiated with parties, filed for public comment, and executed by the parties. The Applicant is now ready to file an Application. The Applicant also intends to submit a request for a Water Quality Certification (WQC) under Section 401 of the federal Clean Water Act. The WQC is necessary to obtain a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for the minor disturbance to federally regulated wetlands required to construct the Facility.

The forthcoming Application includes, among other things: studies and analysis of the environmental setting of the Facility; maps and visual simulations of the proposed Facility, including preliminary design drawings and related information; copies of reports, studies and plans submitted in support of the Application; and an assessment of impacts of construction and/or operation of the Facility relating to land use; consistency with State energy planning objectives, including climate change and renewable energy goals; public health and safety; terrestrial ecology, water resources and aquatic ecology, including avian habitat and wetlands; communications, transportation and utilities; cultural, historical and recreational resources; visual and noise impacts; electric magnetic fields; and impacts on the statewide electrical system.

A copy of the Application will be served on the Chief Executive Officer of each municipality in which any portion of the Facility is located, as well as those persons and agencies enumerated in 16 NYCRR 1000.6. The record of this proceeding, including the Application, may be examined during normal business hours at the Offices of the New York State Department of Public Service (DPS) at 3 Empire State Plaza, Albany, NY 12223, and may also be viewed at the following public repositories: Heermance Memorial Library, 1 Ely Street, Coxsackie, NY; D.R. Evart Library, 80 Second Street, Athens, NY; Coxsackie Town Hall, 56 Bailey Street, Coxsackie, NY; Athens Town Hall, First Street, Athens, NY. Libraries often have free internet access.

Once an Application is filed and determined by the Siting Board to be complete, the Siting Board will schedule a public hearing on the Application. The Siting Board will also issue a notice of availability of application intervenor funds that are available to be used by parties to participate in formal review of the Application. A pre-hearing conference will be scheduled by the Hearing Examiner to identify intervenors, award intervenor funds, identify issues for the hearing, and establish a case schedule. Additional hearings regarding the application and project impact assessments will be scheduled by the Hearing Examiner as needed. After hearings, the stakeholders may brief their positions and the Hearing Examiner will issue a recommended decision upon which the Siting Board will base its decision. Article 10 requires that all proceedings on the Application, including a final decision by the Siting Board, must be completed within 12 months of when the Application is determined to be complete.

Upon filing the Application, the Applicant will provide funding in the amount of $100,000 to be disbursed by the Siting Board to municipalities and other local parties to help pay expenses, including attorneys and consultants, associated with participating in the Article 10 process during the application review phase. By law, fifty percent (50%) of these intervenor funds are reserved for municipalities. Following the filing of an Application, the Hearing Examiner or the Secretary will issue a notice of availability of application intervenor funds that provides a schedule and related information describing how interested members of the public may apply for application funds. Requests for application funds must be submitted to the Hearing Examiner within thirty (30) days after the issuance of the notice of the availability of application intervenor funds. Following the submittal of any intervenor funding requests, the Hearing Examiner may schedule a pre-hearing conference to consider fund requests.

Contact Information Flint Mine Solar LLC Patrick Doyle 2021 Western Ave. Albany, NY 12203 Toll Free Number: 1-866-218-0658 info@hudsonenergydev.com

NYSDPS Article 10 Coordinator James Denn 3 Empire State Plaza Albany, NY 12223 Tel No. (518) 474-7080 james.denn@dps.nygov

The Application will also be available at the Siting Board’s website at (http://www.dps.ny.gov/). To access documents, go to “Search” on the top of the webpage and search using the Case Number 18-F-0087, or visit the Project-specific website maintained by the Applicant: http://www.hudsonenergydev.com/flint-mine-solar.html.

File a Request for Notices Any interested member of the public may file a request with the DPS Secretary to receive copies of all notices concerning the Project. Written requests should be sent to the DPS Secretary at secretary@dps.ny.gov or sent by mail to the following address: Honorable Michelle Phillips Secretary to the Commission NYS Public Service Commission Empire State Plaza Agency Building 3 Albany, New York 12223-1350

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during the year, we are able to publish quarterly data and capture seasonal variation,” said Pautler. “This approach reduces the number of times we ask farm operations to respond to surveys while ensuring that accurate and timely data are available for anyone conducting research or analyses.”

NASS will compile, analyze, and publish survey results in the May 28 Farm Labor report. All previous Farm Labor publications are available online at: www.nass.usda.gov/ Publications/Reports_by_Release_Day. For more information on NASS surveys and reports, call the NASS Northeastern Regional Field Office at 1-800498-1518.

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USDA and the U.S. Department of Labor will use statistics gathered in the Agricultural Labor Survey to establish minimum wage rates for agricultural workers, administer farm labor recruitment and placement service programs, and assist legislators in determining labor policies.

In the survey, NASS asks participants to answer a variety of questions about hired farm labor on their operations, including total number of hired farm workers, hours worked, and wages paid for the weeks of Jan. 12-18 and April 12-18. For their convenience, survey participants have the option to respond online.

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“Labor data are critical to farming operations and data about the use of hired workers helps administer farm labor programs,” explained Kevin Pautler, deputy director of the National Agricultural Statistics Service, Northeastern Regional Field Office. “The data that farm operators provide through NASS’s Agricultural Labor Survey help leaders, associations, and farmers themselves make decisions based

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CATSKILL – The Bank Of Greene County Charitable Foundation announced it will immediately provide $250,000 in cash grants to support local non-profit organizations affected by the COVID-19 outbreak.

Donald Gibson, president and CEO of the Bank of Greene County Charitable Foundation, said, “The impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak on our community are far reaching and continuing to develop. Local non-profit organizations often rely on public events such as galas, auctions, dinners, and many other fundraising events… many of which have been either postponed or cancelled.

“In response, we are awarding $250,000 in grants to local non-profit organizations to help support their short- and long-term viability

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have been lobbying lawmakers to debate the proposed amendment separate from budget negotiations, a move supported by state Sen. Daphne Jordan, R-43.

Changes to the solar siting process do not belong in the state budget, Jordan said.

“I have serious concerns about the governor’s topdown plan for the solar siting process, as do many local stakeholders,” Jordan said.

“Taking power away from municipalities and local residents to shape and plan their own

environment is a top-down, Albany-driven approach that will cause more harm than good. I oppose the governor’s plan.”

Assemblyman Chris Tague wrote a letter urging Gov. Cuomo to reconsider the proposed amendment in favor of a more inclusive, locally controlled siting process on Mar. 23.

“Our local governments are well-positioned to know what is best for their residents and the future of their communities and therefore need to have more input in the decision-making process, not less,” Tague wrote. “Simply put, New York state should be taking steps to incorporate

communities into the siting of renewable energy facilities, not circumventing municipal review and home rule under the guise of more efficient development.”

Stuyvesant Town Supervisor Ron Knott authored a resolution in opposition to the proposed budget amendment, which was adopted by the Columbia County Board of Supervisors and several towns, including Stuyvesant, Copake and Hillsdale.

Officials are concerned that the proposed changes could accelerate the development of solar farms across Greene and Columbia counties, including Hecate Energy’s proposed 700-acre facility in Copake

and the Flint Mine solar project in Coxsackie.

“The new law would further accelerate the process of review and further tilt the process against the town,” said Copake Town Supervisor Jeanne Mettler.

Under the current review process, each solar project’s review board includes two local representatives appointed by their communities.

But those local representatives would be eliminated under the proposed permitting process, instead leaving decisions to the new Office of Renewable Energy Permitting, which would be part of the state Department of Economic Development.

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Greene County extended its emergency orders Monday declaring a state of emergency and closing all schools and senior centers through midnight Saturday, April 4.

Cuomo called for unity to combat the pandemic Monday, saying Trump referred to COVID-19 as “a war.”

“This is not a time for politics, partisanship or division,” Cuomo said. “If there is division at this time, the virus will defeat us.

“The virus doesn’t discriminate — it attacks everyone, and it attacks everywhere.

There are no red states, and there are no blue states, and there are no red casualties and there are no blue casualties. It is red, white and blue. If there was ever a moment for unity, this is it.”

Meanwhile, a quarantine of some kind is being weighed for New York City and parts of the surrounding region.

“We’re looking at it and will be making a decision,” Trump told reporters Saturday before boarding Air Force One to Norfolk, Virginia, to visit the a U.S. Navy hospital ship the USNS Comfort before it departed for New York. “A lot of the states that are infected... they’ve asked me if I’d look at it so we’re going to look at it.

“It would be for a short time,” he said. “This would be an enforceable quarantine.

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo plans to move forward with the state’s plans to cut $2.5 billion to its Medicaid program and forego up to $6 billion in COVID-19 relief from the federal government, he said Sunday afternoon during a coronavirus COVID-19 press briefing at the state Capitol in Albany.

And, you know, I’d rather not do it, but we may need it.”

The 1,000-bed USNS Comfort ship arrived at Pier 88 in New York Harbor on Monday morning. The state’s first temporary medical center at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in Manhattan, which has 2,500 beds, opened Monday afternoon.

The additional 3,500 beds will not be used to treat COVID-19 patients, but will assist with anticipated hospital overflow, Cuomo said.

“It will be a relief valve for hospitals that are struggling now that are over capacity all across the city,” the governor said from Pier 88 on Monday with the vessel behind him.

“About 3,500 beds to relieve the stress that our hospital system is facing.”

Cuomo announced a statewide public-private hospital plan to fight COVID-19 on Monday from the Javits Center. As part of the plan, public and private hospitals from across the state agreed to implement a balanced approach to fight the virus where hospitals approaching or exceed capacity can transfer patients to other hospitals that are not as full. The hospital systems across the state have also agreed to share supplies, staff and other resources.

Cuomo issued an executive order Saturday to delay New York’s presidential primary

from April 28 to June 23 with the congressional and legislative primaries amid the spreading pandemic.

Earlier this month, village elections were postponed statewide to April 28. Originally scheduled for March 18, the village races will also take place June 23.

The governor issued another executive order to move the state’s personal and corporate tax filing deadline to July 15.

Cuomo extended Sunday the executive order to require all nonessential employees to stay home through April 15.

The order will be reassessed every two weeks.

Cuomo was surprised by Trump’s suggested travel

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trash can. There should be no loose garbage, no loose tissues or paper towels included with recyclables, and trash cans should not be overflowing.

Drivers will only collect trash that is stored in the tote, Carmen Barbato said.

All recyclables should also be rinsed clean, and all liquids should be emptied before being placed in the garbage.

Customers are asked to wear gloves when handling their trash cans, and sanitize them regularly.

“People are not bagging their garbage — there are loose things like tissues and paper

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towels in with recyclables,” Mary Barbato said. “That is not sanitary, and it doesn’t belong with recyclables. People are overstuffing their totes

— please refrain from doing that, and refrain from having extra bags outside the tote.”

Trash bags should be filled, not loose or overfilled. Loose

bags are in danger of getting blown over by the wind and then tearing, spreading garbage onto the street or lawn, she said. That’s another

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Opposition to the proposed amendment was strong before COVID-19 pushed government into crisis mode and officials say siting laws are too important to be changed now.

“It is never appropriate to commingle state finances with public policy, that is doubly true now as we’re dealing with the coronavirus crisis and working to help communities, workers, small businesses and colleges that are being impacted,” Jordan said.

“Especially in the midst of this public health crisis, as Copake, like every small town, is struggling to keep town government open and responsive, there is something especially wrong about passing a law

which disregards the towns’ local laws, process and input,” Mettler said.

Three-way budget negotiations between the Senate, the Assembly and the governor’s office are ongoing amid the COVID-19 shutdown, with Cuomo telling lawmakers to “do their jobs” at a press conference on Mar. 23.

The governor’s decision to move forward on the proposed solar siting changes comes after he said he would not pursue policies that require detailed negotiations in the upcoming budget.

Assemblyman Jake Ashby, R-106, did not provide comment at press time.

restrictions and immediately expressed disapproval of the idea.

“I don’t know how that could be legally enforceable,” Cuomo said during a press conference Saturday afternoon in the state Capitol in Albany. “...Not even understanding what it is, I don’t like the sound of it.”

Trump added he would not order the closure of the subway system in the nation’s largest city, which is home to 8.6 million people, reflecting the quarantine would be aimed at stopping the spread beyond the tri-state area.

“Some people would like to see New York quarantined because it’s a hot spot — New York, New Jersey maybe one or two other places, certain parts of Connecticut quarantined,” Trump said at the White House before boarding Marine One. “I’m thinking about that right now. We might not have to do it, but there’s a possibility that sometime today we’ll do a quarantine — shortterm — two weeks for New York, probably New Jersey, certain parts of Connecticut.”

Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo announced Friday police would stop motorists with New York license plates and force them to self-quarantine for 14 days.

Cuomo asked Raimondo to reconsider the order directed to New Yorkers on Saturday and threatened legal action.

“I don’t think the order was called for,” Cuomo said during a press briefing in Albany

on Sunday. “I don’t believe it was legal. I don’t believe it was neighborly. I understand the point, but I thought there were different ways to do it. The governor of Rhode Island was very receptive and I thank her very much for reconsidering her position.”

Raimondo amended the order Sunday to include all 49 other states.

At 66,497 positive cases Monday, New York has roughly half of the nation’s confirmed cases of the coronavirus that has swept the globe.

Just over 14% of positively infected New Yorkers are hospitalized, or 9,517 people, with 2,352 patients in the intensive care unit.

The state reported a total of 1,218 virus-related deaths Saturday afternoon — up from 965 Sunday and 519 Friday.

The state’s most dense virus hot spots have remained downstate and in New York City. As of Sunday, the virus has been detected in 55 counties, including the city, with 33,768 positive cases in New York City, 8,519 cases in Westchester County, 6,445 in Nassau County, 5,023 cases in Suffolk County, 2,209 in Rockland County and 199 in Albany County.

To see the complete county breakdown of positive COVID-19 cases and deaths statewide, view the COVID-19 map and tracker at hudsonvalley360.com/site/covid19. html.

reason to double-bag everything.

Studies done on how long the virus can survive on various surfaces differ, but some surfaces can hold the virus for as long as several days, Mary Barbato said.

“There are people on the front lines that are not glamorous, but people need to think about it,” Barbato said. “There is a huge problem with garbage and coronavirus — it’s becoming a big problem that people need to think about before it becomes a bigger problem. That is our concern — we are trying to keep the community safe through educating people about it.”

Robert Van Valkenburg, director of Greene County Solid Waste, said employees at the

transfer stations in Greene County do not handle trash directly because it is brought in to the facility by the customers themselves, but workers do use gloves and hand sanitizer, and are directed to wash their hands if exposed to the garbage.

“Most of the garbage that comes in is bagged — we don’t handle it,” Van Valkenburg said. “The customers place it into bins and then it is handled mechanically. We don’t have our employees handling the garbage because there are a lot of other pathogens that could be there anyway — that is normal practice for us, not to touch the garbage.”

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The Chicago Bulls’ Michael Jordan (45) shoots over the New York Knicks’ John Starks (3) on April 16, 1995, at the United Center in Chicago.

The double-nickel! 25 years later, Jordan’s 55-point masterpiece is still remembered Dan Wiederer Chicago Tribune

“Every New Yorker was there when Bobby Thomson hit his home run to win the pennant, when Bill Buckner let the ball go through his legs in Game 6, when Roger Maris got No. 61, when the Rangers finally got the Stanley Cup. So they’ll say. And now they’ll say they were there the night Michael went for double nickels in the Garden.

And Jordan isn’t even theirs, though he is everyone’s, really. If his comeback has meant anything, it is that.” — Chicago Tribune columnist Bernie Lincicome (March 29, 1995) Barely two breaths after the final buzzer, TNT’s Craig Sager swept in to intercept him. Near midcourt of a basketball shrine, with an entire building still catching

its breath and the buzz from the previous 2 ½ hours pulsating, the night’s headliner was asked how he felt about the performance he had just given.

Michael Jordan, with his hands on his hips, began to answer with a most self-assured and infectious grin.

“It’s starting to come back to me a little bit,” Jordan said.

Bulls fans everywhere knew that grin, that look in Jordan’s eyes, what it all signified.

“I felt very good tonight,” he continued. “I shot the ball very well. I felt myself in great rhythm.”

Zero arguments. Not with Jordan’s stat line that Tuesday night in New York City: 37 shots taken, 21 made.

James Dolan has coronavirus, Knicks say he has ‘little to no symptoms’ Stefan Bondy New York Daily News

NEW YORK—New York Knicks owner James Dolan has tested positive for the coronavirus.

The 64-year-old billionaire is exhibiting “little to no symptoms,” according to the team, and remains in isolation while overseeing MSG’s business operations. Dolan lives in Oyster Bay on Long Island but it’s unclear where he’s

self-quarantining.

The diagnosis was disclosed on the same day Dolan pledged to pay the salaries of event staff in all of MSG’s venues through at least May 3, despite the COVID-19 pandemic shutting down his arenas indefinitely.

Dolan represents the first known NBA owner to contract the coronavirus after several players — most notably Brooklyn’s Kevin Durant

— tested positive. Ironically, the Knicks reportedly decided against testing their players because they, like Dolan, exhibited no symptoms. Many of the Knicks have left the New York area during coronavirus shutdown.

Access to tests for asymptomatic and healthy people has been controversial, as most of the NBA players who’ve tested positive said they don’t have symptoms.

Health officials are generally recommending that tests be saved for the sick.

New York City is the world epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, with more than 30,000 cases out of America’s more than 124,000 and the world’s nearly 700,000. The virus has killed at least 672 people in the city, including 222 on Saturday alone.

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Mets pitcher Michael Wacha learns to embrace technology with help from his dad Deesha Thosar New York Daily News

For Michael Wacha and his offseason transformation, it all started with videos, mechanics and his dad.

Wacha, 28, signed as a free agent with the Mets in December on a one-year, $3 million deal. But, well before that, his dad, Tom, pulled up videos of Wacha’s starts from his 2019 season with the Cardinals. Together, they looked at his release point, spin rate, arm slot and other mechanics as Wacha welcomed the use of analytics into his groundwork

for the upcoming season.

“I’ve always just been like, I’m going to out-compete this guy,” Wacha said earlier this month. “I usually take it on myself and not really understand — OK, that’s a bad pitch because of this, and maybe this will work better because of the spin rate or the ride on this pitch.”

The former NLCS MVP is not one for “analytics stuff,” as Wacha described it.

His dad had always been “way more interested” in technology-based training, but that changed this past winter.

After his seventh season in the big

leagues, when Wacha went 6-7 on a 4.76 ERA and 1.563 WHIP over 24 starts, he admitted his mechanics had been getting “a little bit out of whack” over the years. A career-low -0.2 fWAR after bouncing back and forth from the rotation to the bullpen last season was, in Wacha’s mind, reversible. So he set out to learn more about himself from that final year in St. Louis.

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State of the Yankees: Gerrit Cole’s anticipated pinstriped debut on hold Pete Caldera The Record

NEW YORK — Sensing the void in Yankees Universe, Aaron Boone was struck by an idea while visiting Gerrit Cole’s new home last week.

That’s when the Yankees manager posted a cellphone video of Cole having a backyard catch with his wife Amy – a 30-second snapshot of life in a COVID-19 world, with players and fans waiting a little longer for opening day.

Boone’s new Connecticut neighbor is also the Yankees’ most exciting addition to a club with championship aspirations, now on hold.

So, the manager has made plans to catch his new ace periodically, until the all-clear is sounded and an abbreviated second spring training is underway.

In the meantime, Cole will undoubtedly find ways to keep up constant conversations about two distinct passions — the craft of pitching and his appreciation for certain Italian red wines.

How do you put yourself in position to command a $324 million, nine-year contract in free agency?

Here’s what Cole did from 2018-19, his two seasons with the contending Houston Astros: 35-10 record, 2.68 ERA, 602 strikeouts in 412.2 innings covering 65 starts.

Cole was 20-5 in his free-agent walk year, leading the AL in ERA (2.50) and strikeouts (326) for the pennant-winning Astros and finishing second behind teammate Justin Verlander for the AL Cy Young award.

And he doesn’t turn 30 until this September.

“I truly believed, unlike some other top free agents in years past, that he would be a gamechanger for us,” Yankees managing general

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New York Yankees starting pitcher Gerrit Cole (45) throws a pitch during a spring training game against the Detroit Tigers at Publix Field at Joker Marchant Stadium.

partner Hal Steinbrenner said during Cole’s introductory press conference at Yankee Stadium.

“He wants to win world championships,” Steinbrenner said. “He puts very high expectations on himself and you can’t ask for more than that from a player.”

Spring training provided a window into Cole’s exactness when it comes to his preparation and knowing his body, mechanics and the feel for his

pitches.

Cole had one rocky outing, yielding four homers on a windy afternoon at Lakeland against the Detroit Tigers.

He bounced right back in his next outing, a solid 3.1 innings against the Toronto Blue Jays.

On that day at Steinbrenner Field, Cole’s fastball twice registered 100 mph and he used his arsenal in a more “game-like” fashion.

“I think we’re moving in the right direction, just getting a little bit better every start,” Cole said on March 10, what turned out to be his last Grapefruit League outing.

He’d been due for two more appearances leading into the opening day assignment on March 26.

Now, Cole is throwing in the backyard to stay in shape.

And it’s an odd place to be for any MLB starter, creatures of habit and routine who can’t look on a calendar yet and know they’re gearing up for a certain date.

That’s especially true for Cole.

Hal? “We need to win some world championships and I believe we’re going to do that,” Steinbrenner said on the day Cole’s signing was official.

Steinbrenner emphasized championships, plural, and added his anticipation of parading through the Canyon of Heroes “sooner rather than later.”

Cole carries that last-piece-to-the-puzzle weight, as the expensive key addition to a championship-caliber club.

And there’s a daily drumbeat about the Yankees – a club with an annual mission statement about winning World Series – having been absent from the Fall Classic since 2009.

“I love it,” Cole said of shouldering a large portion of that responsibility. “It’s what you play for.”

Cole grew up as a Yankees fan in Newport Beach, Calif., so the yearly expectation of getting to the World Series “doesn’t scare me,” he said in December.

“It’s kind of what I dreamed of.”

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Sports Flashbacks BASEBALL 1933 — A year after missing half the 1932 season with a broken leg, Chicago Cubs outfielder Kiki Cuyler breaks his other leg, knocking the future Hall of Famer out of action for another three months.

1935 — Pitcher Dazzy Vance is released by the Cardinals. He will pitch his final MLB campaign for the Brooklyn Dodgers before retiring at season’s end.

1944 — Oakland lends Los Angeles five players for a minor-league exhibition game after several Los Angeles players were injured in a car accident. The extra players help Los Angeles to a 6-2 win.

1948 — An exhibition game between the Red Sox and Yankees is called after 17 innings with the score tied at 2-2 in order to allow the Red Sox to catch their return bus.

1954 — Phil Cavarretta becomes the first manager to lose his job during spring training after he tells reporters his Chicago Cubs have little chance of finishing in the top half of the National League.

1973 — The A’s and Indians use orange-colored baseballs during an exhibition game at the suggestion of A’s owner Charles Finley. The idea is scrapped after Cleveland’s 11-5 win.

1975 — Mel Stottlemyre is released by the Yankees after tearing his rotator cuff. The team’s future pitching coach finishes his career with a 164-139 record and a 2.97 ERA. 2001 — Todd Helton becomes the highest-paid player in Colorado Rockies history when the first baseman signs a nine-year, $141.5 million contract extension.

2002 — The Boston Red Sox add future Hall of Fame outfielder Rickey Henderson to their opening-day roster, purchasing the contract of the 43-year-old from Triple-A Pawtucket.

2007 — Ria Cortesio becomes the first female umpire to work a major league exhibition game since Pam Postema in 1989. Cortesio had worked the previous five seasons at the DoubleA level.

2008 — Playing in front of the largest crowd to watch a baseball game, the Boston Red Sox defeat the Los Angeles Dodgers in an exhibition contest before 115,300 fans at the Los Angeles Coliseum.

2009 — The Yankees dedicate a permanent September 11 memorial at the entrance of George Steinbrenner Field, their spring training home in St. Petersburg, Florida.

2009 — Former major league reliever and St. John’s alumnus John Franco throws out the first pitch for the first game at Citi Field, a college game between St. John’s and Georgetown.

2009 — The Tigers put Dontrelle Willis on the 15-day DL after the pitcher was diagnosed with an anxiety disorder.

2010 — Commissioner Bud Selig announces that President Obama will throw out the ceremonial first pitch when Washington hosts Philadelphia on Opening Day. President Taft started the annual tradition exactly 100 years earlier.

2018 — In a 14-7 win over the Royals, Chicago White Sox designated hitter Matt Davidson goes 4-for-4 with three home runs and five RBIs. Davidson joins George Bell (1988), Tuffy Rhodes (1994) and Dmitri Young (2005) as the only players to swat three homers on opening day.

BASKETBALL 1952 — George Mikan of the Minneapolis Lakers tallies a then-playoff record 47 points, but the Rochester Royals win the opener of the Western Division finals, 88-78.

1960 — Boston’s Bill Russell sets a still-standing NBA Finals record with 40 rebounds in the Celtics’ 113-107 loss to St. Louis in Game 2. Bob Pettit has 35 points and 22 rebounds for St. Louis.

1962 — Elgin Baylor scores 45 points and Jerry West adds 41 to become the first pair of teammates to score 40 or more points in a playoff game but the Los Angeles Lakers fall, 118-117, to the Detroit Pistons in Game 4 of the Western Division finals.

1964 — Cincinnati’s Oscar Robertson scores 32 points and the Royals post a 130-124 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers to advance to the Eastern Division finals.

1970 — Earl Monroe scores 25 points to help the Bullets to a 127-113 win over the Knicks to snap an 11-game playoff losing streak dating back to 1965. The skid is currently tied for thirdlongest playoff losing streak in NBA history.

1983 — Wayne “Tree” Rollins blocks 10 shots as the Atlanta Hawks down the Cleveland Cavaliers, 95-82.

1990 — Hakeem Olajuwon records one of four quadruple-doubles in NBA history with 18 points, 16 rebounds, 10 assists and 11 blocked shots as the Houston Rockets rout the Milwaukee Bucks, 120-94.

1996 — Alonzo Mourning scores 50 points to lead the Heat to a 112-93 win over the Bullets.

1998 — The Indiana Pacers set a then-record for fewest points scored with a 74-55 loss to the San Antonio Spurs. The Chicago Bulls broke the mark by tallying just 49 against the Miami Heat on April 10, 1999.

Pro hockey NHL Eastern Conference Atlantic Division GP W L OT SO Pts Boston 70 44 14 5 7 100 Tampa Bay 70 43 21 5 1 92 Toronto 70 36 25 4 5 81 Florida 69 35 26 4 4 78 Montreal 71 31 31 8 1 71 Buffalo 69 30 31 6 2 68 Ottawa 71 25 34 7 5 62 Detroit 71 17 49 3 2 39 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT SO Pts Washington 69 41 20 5 3 90 Philadelphia 69 41 21 2 5 89 Pittsburgh 69 40 23 6 0 86 Carolina 68 38 25 5 0 81 Columbus 70 33 22 11 4 81 NY Islanders 68 35 23 7 3 80 NY Rangers 70 37 28 3 2 79 New Jersey 69 28 29 6 6 68 Western Conference Central Division GP W L OT SO Pts St. Louis 71 42 19 7 3 94 Colorado 70 42 20 7 1 92 Dallas 69 37 24 5 3 82 Winnipeg 71 37 28 4 2 80 Nashville 69 35 26 5 3 78 Minnesota 69 35 27 4 3 77 Chicago 70 32 30 4 4 72 Pacific Division GP W L OT SO Pts Vegas 71 39 24 6 2 86 Edmonton 71 37 25 7 2 83 Calgary 70 36 27 6 1 79 Vancouver 69 36 27 3 3 78 Arizona 70 33 29 4 4 74 Anaheim 71 29 33 8 1 67 Los Angeles 70 29 35 3 3 64 San Jose 70 29 36 4 1 63

GF GA 227 174 245 195 238 227 231 228 212 221 195 217 191 243 145 267 GF GA 240 215 232 196 224 196 222 193 180 187 192 193 234 222 189 230 GF GA 225 193 237 191 180 177 216 203 215 217 220 220 212 218 GF GA 227 211 225 217 210 215 228 217 195 187 187 226 178 212 182 2

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

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

Even if the NCAA grants spring sport seniors another season, there are tough decisions to make Barry Svrluga The Washington Post

Had Friday been a normal Friday, which it decidedly was not, Reilly White would have been with her teammates on the University of Virginia women’s crew team at the Rivanna Duals, staged north of Charlottesville. It was to be her final season of rowing, and instead she’s running in solitude, riding a Peloton with a virtual class, trying to find routine when hers is broken.

“I miss my team,” she said.

If this Sunday had been a normal Sunday, which it decidedly is not, Meghan Doherty would have been with her teammates on the University of Maryland women’s lacrosse team, preparing to host James Madison. It was to be her last season with the Terrapins, the defending national champions. Instead, the lacrosse she plays is with Olive, her sister’s pit bull, in their Baltimore backyard.

“Oh, my God,” she said. “I miss it so much.”

But what if the end is not the end? What if the NCAA considers all the seasons of all the seniors that were wiped out by the novel coronavirus pandemic and grants them another chance at closure by giving them another year of eligibility?

“My team and even other teams, we feel like we have a little bit of unfinished business,” White said. “But there’s just so many things you have to consider.”

“It’s kind of hard to process all of that,” Doherty said. “I’ve been trying not to think about it, because then I’d just overthink it.”

The NCAA and its schools, though, are giving it thought.

It goes without saying that there are more pressing, more important issues than whether Reilly White ever rows again for her Cavaliers or Meghan Doherty ever scoops up another groundball for her Terrapins. Each is highly aware of that.

“The rowing being canceled was everything to me,” White said. “But now, if you look at the world, it was so small in the grand scheme of things.”

But they also know what it felt like to be in the midst of their final seasons, only to have them screech to a halt.

The lives of college athletes are built on routine and balance.

Now, those commodities are among those in short supply.

The pandemic is bigger than us all. That doesn’t mean the pain of losing a season wasn’t raw.

“We almost knew in the back of our head it was going to happen, but no one was ready to admit it,” White said.

“And then when we heard, it was just devastating. Completely devastating.”

“We’re performing on such a high level, at the top platform that we can reach,” Doherty said. “It was definitely heartbreaking for us athletes.”

Take those emotions and apply them to thousands of athletes across all the spring sports whose seasons were canceled because of the spread of the coronavirus.

The most recent NCAA data shows that 5,472 women were members of Division I rowing teams in 2018-19, and another 3,661 women played lacrosse.

Back-of-the-envelope math would show that, if those numbers were roughly steady this year and a quarter of those students were in their final year of eligibility, nearly 2,300 athletes from those two sports alone would be wondering whether they might have another season ahead next spring. And that doesn’t address the men’s versions of those sports, nor baseball and

softball, track and field, and all the other athletes in all the other divisions across all the other spring sports.

On Monday, a group called the NCAA Division I Council will meet, remotely, to discuss and vote on what it is calling “eligibility relief” for students whose careers ended prematurely.

“In principle, the coordination committee agrees relief should be extended to spring sport student-athletes and supports providing schools with a framework in which they have the autonomy to make their own decisions in the best interest of their campus, conference and studentathletes,” the group said in a March 20 news release.

A committee already has granted extra eligibility for Division II athletes, and that might be a precursor. There are, of course, impacts on athletic programs and schools, because coaches have recruited incoming athletes to replace those who are graduating, and scholarship limits mean the pool of money available would either have to be increased or spread over more people. For the NCAA, for its schools and conferences, it’s complicated, for sure.

But it’s not simple for the athletes, either. Both White and Doherty, for instance, were on partial scholarships.

So, the upshot: Coming back to school for another season of competition would mean laying out more money to make it happen.

“It’s definitely hard to ask your parents to give you more than they’ve already given you,” said Doherty, the youngest of six children.

There is, too, the matter of futures planned that would have to be delayed. White and Doherty will graduate this spring. Would they enroll in graduate courses? Doherty figured she would be logging hours for a future as an occupational therapist, for which she would need graduate school. But White expected to take a job in finance. College - and college sports - was slipping into the past.

“It’s hard because it’s so uncertain,” White said. “Especially entering the finance industry because there’s so much uncertainty surrounding that. I’m still so excited for that opportunity.”

She sighed.

“I think, for me, I just need to know,” she said. “I don’t like to play around with the theoretical. I like tangible things that I can put down on paper and look at.”

By Monday night, the NCAA should have something for White and the thousands of athletes like her to look at.

But that won’t be the end of it. Individual conferences - for White, the ACC; for Doherty, the Big Ten - will have to consider how any framework fits their schools. Schools and athletic departments, in turn, would have to figure out how the finances would work - not just for the upcoming year, but for the years that follow.

For now, there are only the games that aren’t being played. When they returned to school after winter break, their springs were planned - practice and train, compete, go to class, get fitted for that cap and gown. Now there is only a dull lament for experiences that might never happen - or could be delayed.

“I miss it all,” Doherty said.

“The competition - even just in practice. Being able to be with your teammates. We made the best memories on the field and off the field. I miss seeing them every day and being able to laugh everything off.”

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A view of the UCLA campus.

Football expert Tom Lemming on how the business of recruiting has been temporarily grounded Mark Gonzales Chicago Tribune

Tom Lemming fell 2,000 miles short of his average of 60,000 miles driven around the United States, interviewing the top college football prospects for his annual yearbook.

After interviewing 75 recruits in Chandler, Ariz., and at UCLA, Lemming realized two weeks ago that the coronavirus pandemic was too much of a health threat for him to continue planned visits to the Bay Area, Oregon and Washington.

Lemming changed course instead and headed East, where he made a brief pit stop at the Billy the Kid grave in Fort Sumner, N.M., before eventually returning to his Chicago-area home.

“I noticed the expressways were empty,” said Lemming, a history buff who also plans summer trips that coincide with home games at a Cubs minor-league affiliate or near the home of a former Cubs great, such as Don Kessinger in Oxford, Miss., between player interviews in Memphis, Tenn., and Starkville, Miss.

Fortunately for Lemming, who has produced his Prep Football Report since 1979, he already met his top 100 prospects in person and estimated he has spoken to 295 of the top 300 players who will be featured in his 2020 book, which likely will fill 270 pages and include bios on each prospect and their favorite colleges.

But his last large organized

gathering March 14 at the famed Janss Steps on the UCLA campus was an omen.

After arriving from Arizona — where he caught up with longtime friend and third-base coach Brian Butterfield after watching an Angels game in Tempe — Lemming arrived on the spacious UCLA campus at 6 a.m. with his questionnaires and clipboards.

Two hours later, about 60 invited players and their parents arrived, but that was the extent of movement on the spacious campus.

“I’d never seen a campus look like a ghost town,” said Lemming, adding the campus was virtually empty as he and two friends completed their interviews around 11 a.m.

During the UCLA trip, Lemming noticed several parents started to greet him with elbows instead of handshakes.

The largely barren campus convinced Lemming it would be wise to bypass the bulk of his remaining journey as well as a scheduled lunch in Westlake Village, Calif., with Dick Butkus, White Sox announcer Ed Farmer and actor Jim Caviezel, who wanted to meet the Hall of Fame Bears linebacker.

As a consolation to his postponed trip, Lemming said he already visited the Bay Area, Oregon and Washington last fall and eventually called the players he planned to meet in person. Concerns regarding the virus and a potential snowstorm also

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swayed him from a side trip to Colorado.

Lemming estimates he already has interviewed 75% of the top players for the 202122 class.

“I don’t want to take a chance” on catching the virus, said Lemming, who estimates he has suffered food poisoning five times in his 41 years of traveling through thousands of towns around the US. If the coronavirus subsides to the point that people can resume their normal lives, Lemming plans to make separate trips to Michigan and South Carolina.

The latter visit is extremely important to Lemming because he often watches Cubs prospects when his schedule permits.

For instance, Lemming hopes he can watch Class A Myrtle Beach before stopping in Columbia, S.C., and then make a stop near Knoxville, Tenn., to see top pitching prospect Brailyn Marquez and prized catcher Miguel Amaya for Double-A Tennessee.

Lemming was one of the first to find out the Cubs agreed to terms with sixthround pick Ethan Hearn, the top high school catcher in the 2019 draft.

It turned out Lemming had a longtime association with Ronnie Cottrell, who helped build Florida State into a national football power in the 1990s as chief recruiter and happened to coach Hearn, a linebacker, at Mobile (Ala.) Christian.

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dad that he realized how beneficial technology can be in his routine.

“They said my mechanical changes that I made over the offseason were exactly what

they were going to be telling me,” Wacha said of his early conversation with Hefner and Accardo. “Exactly the same type of information or helpful tips that they were trying to get

me into, I already made them on my own.”

Despite the head start, this spring featured Wacha’s first time throwing in front of cameras. The Mets recently

employed advanced technology — like Edgertronic, TrackMan and Rapsodo — in hopes of it leading to better results from their pitching staff. Wacha, across a few Grapefruit League starts, quickly noticed a difference.

For the first time in his career, Wacha went into the video room after bullpen and live batting practice sessions during spring camp. If he threw a bad curveball during a bullpen, he’d make a note of it so he could go back into the video room and inspect why it slipped out. He found it easy to adapt to a new process of correcting his mechanics.

“Those changes have definitely been a success so far,” Wacha said. “I feel like the ball’s coming out really nice.

Arm and body have been feeling great.”

Wacha arrived at Mets camp in competition with Steven Matz and Rick Porcello for a spot in the rotation. That changed when the club announced Noah Syndergaard will miss the 2020 season with a torn UCL that forced him to

record for points scored by a Knicks opponent at Madison Square Garden.

Perhaps most remarkable, he broke a 111-111 tie in the closing seconds with — what else? — an assist, an absolute dime around a Knicks doubleteam. To Bill Wennington. For a dunk.

Ballgame.

“As you look up in the stands, people are high-fiving. And we’re in New York.”

— TNT color analyst Hubie Brown Poor John Starks. One of the league’s grittiest, most fearless defenders never had a chance that night. That should have been apparent in the opening minute. On Jordan’s first shot.

With the Bulls in transition, Toni Kukoc hit Jordan on the left wing. One dribble, left elbow pull-up. Good.

Next possession? Jordan again, near the top of the key.

Another silky jumper. Good.

The blitzkrieg kept coming.

Six of Jordan’s first seven shots went down.

Starks had been eager for this challenge. He never wanted much help defending Jordan. And Knicks coach Pat Riley was reluctant to give him much anyway, afraid of the Bulls’ spacing and the ability of Jordan’s teammates to make open shots. But no one had anticipated this, the flicker of a flame becoming an inferno so quickly.

Post up, drop step, lightning-quick drive to the bucket.

Post up, turnaround, another easy J. The decisive drives. The poised pullups.

At the end of the first quarter, Jordan coaxed Anthony Bonner onto his heels, pulled up from the right wing and buried a 3 over the outstretched reach of Anthony Mason.

Twenty points at the end of the first quarter, 13 more in the final 4 minutes, 45 seconds before halftime, pushing him to 35.

Late in the second quarter,

Jordan stole an errant Patrick Ewing pass and bolted out for a 2-on-2 transition opportunity. Starks tried to slow his penetration. But with his eyes up and his tongue out, Jordan got deep into the lane, drew a bump, double-pumped and banked home a layup while being fouled.

The aahs crested around the arena. Courtside, TNT playby-play announcer Bob Neal bellowed his excitement.

“It feels like Beethoven has come back to write his 10th and 11th and 12th and 13th symphonies.”

“This is one of those nights in the place we know as biggame New York. Jordan comes back to the Garden for a game that will feel more like a concert, or a show, as if the sports arena has turned into Carnegie Hall, or Radio City, or the biggest theaters on Broadway. ... There are no easy Knicks tickets anymore. Tonight’s ticket is impossible: There have even been 100 more requests for media credentials than is normal. Jordan changes everything, the game and the way the Garden will feel, even the way the sidewalks around the Garden will feel an hour before the game starts. These things still happen in sports. The marquee on Seventh Avenue should read ‘Michael Jordan Tonight.’ Just that.” — Mike Lupica, New York Daily News columnist No wonder this had been such a hot ticket.

As that Tuesday night approached — Jordan’s first game back in New York since an unforgettable 97-94 Bulls win in Game 5 of the 1993 Eastern Conference finals — the anticipation continued escalating. Even in New York, where Jordan had been such a damn thorn in the Knicks’ side, the appreciation of his greatness proved irresistible.

The cheap seats for Jordan’s return to Madison Square Garden were going for $300 on the secondary market, the premium tickets demanding $1,500.

The occasion was being likened to Frank Sinatra’s unforgettable out-of-retirement concert at Madison Square Garden in 1974. There were allusions to the event being, perhaps, bigger than the second Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier fight there.

This wasn’t just a regularseason game between old rivals. It was first-class theater.

NBA Commissioner David Stern was in the sixth row that night, enamored himself with Jordan’s presence. “He reminds us of something,” Stern told Newsday. “He reminds us how we want our sports to be.

He is back to expanding the possibilities.”

That’s what basketball fans always had been drawn to — the expanded possibilities.

When the fourth quarter began, Knicks legend Earl “The Pearl” Monroe remained riveted in his courtside seat with actor Peter Falk to his left.

Monroe was asked how he would have guarded Jordan.

“First of all,” he said, “I’d make sure he didn’t get off the bus to get in the building.”

Spike Lee was nearby. Phil Donahue and Diane Sawyer too. Renowned violinist Itzhak Perlman was in attendance, as was Ed Bradley from “60 Minutes.”

Oh, and actor-slash-Chicago sports fanatic Bill Murray was courtside wearing a “World Championship Goat Roping” hat from Ozona, Texas.

No one was leaving the building. No one was going to miss Jordan getting past 50, which he did with a pull-up over Starks at the free-throw line with 3:35 remaining.

No one was going to miss the fantastic finish, with the Knicks erasing all of a ninepoint fourth-quarter Bulls lead and setting up one last spurt of suspense.

The bright lights. The big stage. The late-game pressure.

“Hey, don’t count on me to shoot it every time. I can pass.” — Jordan immediately

following the win Jordan’s penultimate bucket came with just more than 2 minutes left, yet another offthe-dribble pull-up that was followed by a ferocious glare and that familiar nod of competitive intensity.

“It was like Starks wasn’t even there,” Brown noted on the broadcast.

Jordan’s final points came with a nasty pump fake. Starks bit and was now up in the air, Jordan had his space and the hang time to fade right for a go-ahead bucket.

The Bulls led 111-109.

No one had scored more points in an NBA game all season.

Fifty-freaking-five.

Still, the Bulls needed even more, and so in a timeout of a tie game with 14.6 seconds left, was there any question where Phil Jackson’s markerboard directed the ball? To Jordan, of course, on an inbounds pass from Scottie Pippen.

Do your thing, M.J. Jordan dribbled the length of the floor, accelerated right, then stopped on a dime so abruptly that Starks rolled his left ankle. Jordan changed direction to his left as Starks recovered. Then Jordan spun quickly back right and was in the lane for a potential gamewinning jumper. Only Ewing and his 8-foot wingspan had come to help.

Jordan’s dart to Wennington came with the swiftness and ferocity of a cobra strike.

Uncontested jam. Just 3.8 seconds left.

Bulls 113, Knicks 111.

Wow, what a show.

“I’d be lying if I say I came out to pass the ball,” Jordan said after the game. “I wanted to make them stop me from scoring. Which they did.”

Around the same time, Starks was in the home locker room with an ice bag around his sprained ankle. He probably could have used one for his head too.

“That’s why Jordan is the best,” he said.

recently into live event venues, and currently owns Madison Square Garden, the Hulu Theatre, the Chicago Theatre and Radio City Music Hall.

He has arenas opening soon in Las Vegas and London. He also just sold The Forum in Inglewood to Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer for $400 million.

Despite his vast business success, Dolan’s Knicks have long been a mess. The franchise owns the NBA’s worst record in the last 20 years and

is riding a six-year streak without the playoffs.

This season — which is postponed indefinitely because of the coronavirus outbreak — was another disaster and Dolan often took center stage. After a blowout November defeat at home, he persuaded team president Steve Mills and GM Scott Perry to hold an impromptu news conference that sent coach David Fizdale to the hot seat. Fizdale was fired in December, then Dolan dismissed Mills in

February.

Dolan also reportedly ordered the ejection of a young fan when the Garden crowd chanted, “Sell the team.” Just this month, the owner was accused by Spike Lee of harassment after the Knicks superfan got into an argument with Garden security.

According to court documents, Dolan is scheduled to participate in a conference call Tuesday with Charles Oakley to mediate their civil lawsuit.

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some websites — I don’t even know where he looks it up.

He’s got my release points at certain times during the year when I’m not pitching good.

He was definitely getting into it this offseason and passing along some information to me. I think it was very helpful for sure.”

Wacha didn’t know it yet, but he was creating an advantage for himself before even signing with the Mets.

By the time Mets pitching coach Jeremy Hefner and assistant pitching coach Jeremy Accardo approached Wacha about his mechanics in spring training, the right-hander already had a head start. Hefner and Accardo looked at video of Wacha’s outings and prepared instructions for him to implement as soon as they got word that he was joining the club.

It wasn’t until Wacha told his pitching coaches about his offseason schooling with his

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Three 3-pointers. Ten free throws added on 11 attempts.

That one spectacular number bursting from the points column of the box score: 55.

Fifty-freaking-five!

Bulls 113, Knicks 111.

The double-nickel.

Wow, what a show. What a reminder of all that Jordan had once been and a foreshadowing of all the possibilities that were still ahead.

It has been 25 years since that March masterpiece at Madison Square Garden, a full quarter-century since Jordan’s comeback from his first retirement awoke those feelings of invincibility in Chicago.

Jordan’s legendary fax had been sent 10 days earlier, triggering “incoming” beeps at the Berto Center with a landmark announcement crawling out on Falk Associates Management Enterprises letterhead.

I’m back.

By the time the Bulls made it to the Big Apple a week and a half later, Jordan had played four games in his return, four games in that unfamiliar new jersey number: 45. The hype built with his first game back against the Pacers, then another road test in Boston plus his first contest ever played at the United Center.

Heck, three nights earlier Jordan had been Jordan in Atlanta, rising for a pull-up 17-foot jumper at the buzzer and burying it for a 99-98 Bulls win.

Still, make no mistake, this gem on Broadway? This was the true “I’m back” moment, the reminder of Jordan’s scoring prowess, of his big-stage allure, of his remarkable competitiveness.

For the 34th time in his career, Jordan scored at least 50 points. He broke his own

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Dolan is a recovered alcoholic who inherited MSG from his father and took over the Knicks in 1999. He has been wildly unpopular and unsuccessful as a basketball owner, but his other team — the Rangers — has experienced more positives recently. Dolan has poured much of his attention

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New York Mets pitcher Michael Wacha (45) pitches against the Houston Astros on March 6 at FITTEAM Ballpark of the Palm Beaches.

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undergo Tommy John surgery. Following Syndergaard’s injury, Wacha cemented his role in the team’s five-man rotation, but he had already impressed the Mets in backfield simulation games and exhibition outings.

“I’ve really enjoyed watching (Wacha) pitch,” manager Luis Rojas said. “I liked the plane on his fastball and touch on his change-up. It looked like he was creating some contrast with his changeup, so when you get velo, you get swings and misses with your changeup like he did and I think he was pretty firm and had a good angle at the plate.”

Major League Baseball is preparing for the possibility of a shortened or altogether cancelled season due to the coronavirus pandemic. Pitchers are expected to have a tough time adjusting to a new schedule, so it’s beneficial that Wacha already picked up on his previous flaws and learned to trust his mechanical changes.

Now he just needs to translate those results into the regular season.

For the Bulls at that time, the win was exhilarating but hardly seismic. They improved to 37-33 on the season, still 15 ½ games behind the conference-leading Magic and clawing just to climb up from the East’s No. 6 slot.

Still, so much of that night in New York was vintage ‘90s Bulls. All those moments of Jordan dominance. Pippen flashing his versatility and mixing in a first-quarter dunk that’s as vicious as any highlight reel finish anywhere. The Bulls struggling to slow Ewing and having extreme difficulty shaking the Knicks. Then in the end? Well, they dug deep and shook the Knicks as they so often had.

The teams met again three weeks later in Chicago — Jordan dropped 28 in a 21-point Bulls win. But there was no postseason rematch.

The Bulls fell to Shaquille O’Neal and the Magic in six games in the Eastern Conference semifinals. The Knicks lost in the same round, in seven games to the Pacers.

Yet on one March Tuesday night in New York City, something important was reawakened. Perhaps it was a foreshadowing of where Jordan and the Bulls were again headed — to an NBA-record 72 wins the next season, to three more NBA championships, to unquestionable dynasty status.

The hoopla around the Bulls was rising rapidly again. The team again was being mobbed getting in and out of hotels on the road. That powerful Jordan aura had returned. His sense of ease, he said, had too.

“Once I’m on the basketball court,” Jordan told Sager, “the rest of the stuff doesn’t make a difference to me. Because I’m in my dream land. This is what I enjoy doing. I love playing the game of basketball. And once I’m out here, no one can really do anything but let me play the game of basketball.”

It was indeed starting to come back to him a little bit.

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SSNY shall mail process to 427 West 21st Street Apt. ž, New York, NY 10011. Purpose: real estate and general business purposes.

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NOTICE OF FILING OF ARTICLES OF ORGANIZATION IN NEW YORK BY A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY Name: Palenville Property, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with sec. of state of NY(SOS) on 3/13/20.

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Notice of Formation of 711 CR3 LLC Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of N.Y. (SSNY) on 02/20/2020. Office location: Columbia County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: 22 Park Row , Chatham, NY 12037.

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SSNY has been designated as the agent of the PLLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to the PLLC, 194 Nevis Rd, Tivoli, NY 12583.

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Index #18-844 RJI #19-18-0241 THE BANK OF GREENE COUNTY, Plaintiff, -againstDONALD R. CRALL and ERNEST N. PALMER, JR. Defendants.

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly made and entered in the above-entitled action, bearing date the 17th day of December, 2019, I the undersigned, the Referee in said judgment named, will sell at public auction in the first floor lobby of the Greene County Courthouse at 320 Main Street, in the Village of Catskill, County of Greene and State of New York, on the 7th day of April, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. o'clock in the forenoon on that date, the premises directed by said judgment to be sold and therein described as follows: All that certain tract, piece or parcel of land, lying and being in the Town of Greenville, County of Greene and State of New York, more particularly bounded and described as PARCEL A on a survey map entitled “Survey and Subdivision Map for Ernest N. Palmer, Jr.�, filed in the Greene County Clerk’s Office as Map No. EASI-E 2005-106; and ALSO ALL THAT certain piece or parcel of land, lying and being in the Town of Greenville, County of Greene and State of New York, more particularly bounded and described as “REMAINDER PARCEL, Area 19.971 Acres� on a survey map entitled “Survey and Subdivision Map for Ernest N. Palmer, Jr.�, filed in the Greene County Clerk’s Office as Map No. EASI-E 2005-106.

The above two parcels together containing a total of 26.62 acres, more or less.

And the Referee is hereby directed to sell said premises as described above.

Dated: March 5, 2020 s./ J. Theodore Hilscher J. Theodore Hilscher, Referee DEILY & SCHAEFER Attorneys for Plaintiff One Bridge Street Catskill, NY 12414

SUPREME COURT – COUNTY OF COLUMBIA LAKEVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC, Plaintiff against TYLER HEIMROTH A/K/A TYLER V. HEIMROTH, et al Defendant(s).

Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered on August 8, 2019.

I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the lobby of the Columbia County Courthouse, 401 Union Street, Hudson, N.Y. on the 17th day of April, 2020 at 9:30 a.m. premises described as follows: All that certain plot. Piece or parcel, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate. Lying and being in the Town of Kinderhook, Columbia County, New York.

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

(Section: 23.12, Block: 2, Lot: 58).

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

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

Index No. 13935-19.

Albert P. Kolakowski, Esq., Referee.

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Khabib Nurmagomedov is stuck in Russia, putting UFC 249 main event in doubt Matt Bonesteel The Washington Post

Last week, UFC President Dana White was adamant that UFC 249 was going to take place and that he had “99.9 percent” confirmed the location. If it does go forward, however, the card might be missing its main event.

Speaking Monday on an Instagram Live chat, UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov said he was stuck in his native Russia, which has suspended all flights to and from the country and closed its borders amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Nurmagomedov was scheduled to fight Tony Ferguson at UFC 249, which originally was to take place in Brooklyn, N.Y., on April 18 before New York banned large gatherings. Up until last week, he had been training at American Kickboxing Academy in San Jose before flying home to Russia.

“Currently I am in Dagestan and I am training and preparing every day. Although I don’t know what am I preparing for,” Nurmagomedov said, per RT’s translation. “Because after we came to Russia we also learned that the borders are going to be locked. Same like in the States, same like in Europe, Emirates, everywhere. The whole world is in quarantine right now.”

White declined to say where UFC 249 would take place last week, though he

had said previously that it would not take place in the United States. On Monday, Nurmagomedov said UFC had given him “99 percent” assurance that the card would go on in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, though that country also has restricted travel because of coronavirus.

Now, according to Nurmagomedov, UFC might be looking to stage UFC 249 without him.

“So now I am hearing that they are looking to organize it with or without me. Okay, go ahead,” he said.

“Everyone should follow the laws. I am not against it, I know that fighters need to feed their families and pay their bills. I know how hard it is for the fighter. Unless they fight they aren’t getting any money.

“I am even hearing that they are looking for an opponent for Tony, because he is in the States and I am here in Russia. But I am here not on my own will.”

Early Monday morning on Twitter, Ferguson accused Nurmagomedov of “hiding in Russia” and said he was using the pandemic “as an excuse to back out.”

“You Have Been Sent Many Locations, Send Us 1,” he wrote.

UFC has canceled the three cards that were scheduled to take place before UFC 249, but White has been adamant that UFC 249 will go on with a full card of bouts but without fans present.

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The NFL draft is going to be very different as teams, agents, and prospects try to work through a pandemic Les Bowen The Philadelphia Inquirer

PHILADELPHIA — Temple center Matt Hennessy expected to meet with a number of NFL teams in preparation for next month’s entry draft.

What Hennessy didn’t foresee was that those visits would take place in his mother’s living room in Bardonia, N.Y., with Hennessy staring into his laptop’s camera.

The league has shut down all team facilities because of the coronavirus pandemic, and has forbidden teams from holding their usual 30 prospect visits, which usually are supplemented by visits from local prospects who don’t count toward the 30. Hennessy had planned to meet with Howie Roseman, Doug Pederson and the Eagles as a local prospect. Now he’s a virtual prospect instead. As is the case with hundreds of other draft hopefuls nationwide.

The NFL has scrapped plans for its usual glitzy draft festival, which was to be Las Vegas’ welcome to the league, as the Raiders move into their new home. The April 23-25 draft will be held remotely, with details to come.

Football is the only major sport that hasn’t completely shut down so far, the league having determined that it could hold free agency and the draft without violating any quarantining procedures. Some people welcome the diversion, others think trying to carry on with business as usual is unseemly.

There were reports this week that a committee of general managers wanted to postpone the draft. This led to commissioner Roger Goodell’s declaring that the draft would go on as scheduled, Goodell then threatening to punish anyone who spoke out against the decision.

Goodell’s letter to teams said in part: “Public discussion of issues relating to the draft serves no useful purpose and is grounds for disciplinary action.”

Teams, agents and prospects are worried about more than just the optics of taking part in such an exercise in a time of crisis. Teams are working with less information on prospects than in recent memory. Evaluators always say they base their decisions mostly on a prospect’s game film. This year, that might be more true than at any time in the past few decades.

“It’s so far less than ideal, I can’t tell you,” said agent Brett Tessler, who is based in South Florida, and whose clients include a lot of selfmade players who weren’t high picks.

Will less-well-known prospects suffer from this truncated process? “It’s your non-combine, diamond-in-the-rough type guy who’s really going to get screwed the most,” Tessler said.

Another agent, who didn’t want to be quoted by name in the wake of Goodell’s dictum, said he had spoken to a number of general managers and personnel people on this issue.

“They should not have the draft,” the agent said. “Nobody wants the draft to go on in four weeks. Nobody is prepared.”

Agents and team officials interviewed for this story all mentioned the inability of teams to have their doctors look at prospects who didn’t get examined at last month’s scouting combine, or whose exams raised questions.

“I talked to an NFL general manager yesterday, and he said that in all his years, 20-plus years in the business, his organization and other organizations have never drafted a player that did not get a physical,” said Richborobased agent Ed Wasielewski. “The medical component of this process is going to be missing for a lot of prospects.

“Maybe they’ll get information from their schools ... but a lot of teams take the approach that they want (a prospect to) get in front of their doctors for an actual physical examination, and have their doctor clear a player.

There’s different standards for each team.”

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Wasielewski has done what he can to vet his players medically, but teams don’t usually get their medical information from the player’s agent.

“I’m not a medical professional,” Wasielewski noted. “They trust their own medical teams.

They grade you on your medicals.”

An AFC personnel source agreed.

“The big impact on this draft involves the medical,” he said. “The NFL has shut down the medical rechecks,” – a weekend in Indianapolis where team doctors gather and players whose exams raised questions at the combine are reexamined.

“There’s going to be a lot of pressure on the (team) medical staff this year to gather as much information as possible. ... Small school players and mid-to-late-round prospects will be at a huge disadvantage if those players didn’t go to the combine.”

Temple’s Hennessy did go to the combine, has no medical issues, and participated in the Senior Bowl. His draft status probably won’t change.

“I’m happy to stand on that. I got a lot of exposure to the teams,” Hennessy said.

What is it like, interviewing with a team over the internet?

“The sessions are usually anywhere from 45 minutes to an hour. It’s one thing when you get on with somebody from the front office who wants to talk background and stuff, that’s pretty easy,” Hennessy said. “It’s more challenging when you get on with a coach who wants to talk scheme as well, because then they have to pull up the whiteboard for Face Time. ... Things will be flipped through the camera. “Communication becomes a little more difficult. I guess overall, it’s not too much different from doing it in person, there’s just that barrier.

“I’m in my living room and the coach is at his house, too, so it seems like a casual setting, but at the same time, it’s still a job interview.”

Hennessy’s Temple teammate, wide receiver Isaiah Wright, is in a tougher spot. Wright played in the East-West Shrine Game, so teams saw him there, but Wright was really gearing toward running the 40-yard dash at Temple’s canceled pro day. At 6-foot-2, 220 pounds, he is a bigger receiver, and he wanted to post a 40 number that would keep him from being stereotyped.

“I have decent film, but the question was lingering, ‘Am I a fast guy,’ “ Wright said. He said he doesn’t have a timed 40 for teams to evaluate.

“I was shooting for 4.46, 4.47 (seconds). ... I wanted to show that I was faster than 4.5,” he

said.

Wright hopes to run a 40 on March 31 at his high school, Kingswood-Oxford in West Hartford, Conn. Wasiliewski, his agent, plans to have a video made of Wright running drills, which he will send to teams.

That’s a tool lots of agents and prospects are using in lieu of the pro days. Some of the big draft training facilities took care of this for their clients, but not everyone can afford those places.

“We told each one of the players to get someone from the school to do it,” said St. Louisbased agent Harold Lewis. “Some hired people who actually do it for the universities, some of them just got their friend to do it on the phone. ... If (teams) can’t come to us, we’ll bring it to them.”

Lewis has a client, Akron linebacker John Lako, who like Wright, doesn’t have a timed 40.

Lewis said Lako has been assigned an estimated time of 4.9, but in workouts, he has been as fast as 4.5.

“Estimated 4.9 means priority free agent. If he comes in and runs a 4.5, all of a sudden, he’s on everybody’s draft board in the fifth, sixth round,” Lewis said.

A big question there is, how will teams look at a Lako 4.5 that was taped and sent to them by his agent?

“It puts a little bit more of a challenge on you as an agent to do a good job, and I think also, your credibility becomes much more of a factor with teams now, because they’ve gotta trust the information you’re sharing with them, that it’s credible and legitimate,” said agent J.R. Rickert, a South Jersey native now based in upstate New York. “I’m telling my guys, I don’t see this as anything that’s going to change our focus, or what our goals are. We just have to be a little more proactive about getting the information to the teams.”

There might be more involved from the team’s end than whether it trusts the agent, though.

Wasiliewski noted that in a video workout, “there’s no NFL scouts present ... scouts still want to be on the field, they want to see if there’s windy conditions, they want to see what the turf’s like, they want to measure the 40 (to make sure the distance is correct). They want to run the (position) drill.”

Lewis mentioned another difference.

“There’s no question it’s always better when they can do it in person ... they can look around to their right and left, look at the other scouts and go, ‘Oh boy, this team over here is going to be fighting to get him.’ ... You can take the

temperature of everybody in the room, when you’re all there, 32 teams, watching the same player at the same time.”

For the prospects, staying in shape is an unexpected hurdle with a lot of training facilities closed. Michigan offensive tackle Jon Runyan Jr. is glad he lives in South Jersey, and that he signed with agent Ken Sarnoff, based in Chicago, who represents Eagles right tackle Lane Johnson.

Johnson dresses in the same NovaCare locker room stall once occupied by Runyan’s dad, who preceded Johnson as a standout right tackle. Runyan Jr. is training at Johnson’s elaborate South Jersey barn/gym, while Johnson is home in Oklahoma.

“I’ve been really enjoying it. I’m lucky,” Runyan Jr. said. “If I wasn’t with him, I really don’t know what I’d be doing. I’d just be sitting around trying to do these home workouts in a carpeted basement. It’s an unbelievable resource.”

Runyan took part in the combine and played in the East-West Shrine Game. He has done the internet interviews with teams he would otherwise have visited.

“I feel pretty confident in how I’ve represented myself,” he said. “I have a feeling about how teams perceive me, and it’s overall really good.

I’m just happy to be in this position. I feel bad for the guys on my team who didn’t get the opportunity to go to (the combine or an all-star game) and especially pro day.”

Roseman said teams are working harder than usual to get around this year’s limitations.

“The one benefit we have right now is that (scouts and personnel people) are willing to work and dig deeper and spend more time than ever on these guys and try to figure them out,” the Eagles’ general manager said. “But there are situations where guys didn’t run at the combine because they were anticipating running at their pro day, or you have a guy that wasn’t invited to the combine that we were interested in, and maybe you don’t ever have testing numbers on that guy.

“So I think you’re going to have to balance the risk/reward in the draft process. For us, we view it like a seesaw. We like the subjective and the objective to kind of match up, and we feel really good about that decision. And when there’s less on one side, then you want to take out some of the risk, to the extent that you can.”

In addition to all the upheaval surrounding the draft, the prospects face the matter of what comes next. NFL team sources don’t think OTAs and minicamp will go on as planned. This is where rookies traditionally learn the offense or the defense. Who knows if training camp will start on time, or ultimately, if there will be a 16-game NFL season?

“That spring developmental period is extremely important, especially for the rookies,” Hennessy said. “The draft is still on; I guess a month from now, I’ll know which team I’m with, and if we’re still working remotely at that point, just trying to get everything installed as quickly as possible.”

All of this stuff is a big deal to the people involved, but they seem to understand the larger context; when the Eagles and Steelers had to merge into the Steagles during World War II, that probably upended the lives of a lot of players, coaches and fans. But World War II was kind of a bigger problem.

Tessler, the South Florida agent, said he tries to keep perspective, is “careful not to say, ‘Oh, man this is the worst thing ever,’ because a lot of people out there are in positions where their businesses are DONE. ... Everything you’ve worked for, everything you’ve invested, all done. ... People have died, people are going to die.

“I don’t want to start crying and moaning about how my guys can’t get their physical to get their million-dollar bonus.”

WrestleMania lineup in Orlando changes in wake of coronavirus fears, illness Jay Reddick Orlando Sentinel

ORLANDO, Fla. — The city of Orlando is making professional wrestling history this week — but not the kind of history it wants, thanks to the coronavirus.

At least five WWE wrestlers were sidelined or refused to participate in WrestleMania 36 because of illness or COVID-19 fears, according to numerous published reports, and more are unhappy the event wasn’t postponed or canceled.

There have been no reports of wrestlers testing positive for COVID-19.

However, The Miz came to the WrestleMania taping while displaying symptoms of an undetermined illness and spent time around other wrestlers and staff members before being sent home, according to PWInsider.

Roman Reigns, who had been scheduled for one of WrestleMania’s main events, voluntarily withdrew from the show. According to a report in Pro Wrestling Sheet, he was upset that Miz was allowed in the building with

his illness and no longer felt comfortable wrestling in a compromised environment. In 2018, Reigns had a widely publicized bout with leukemia, which is now in remission.

Three other wrestlers who had been scheduled to appear — Rey Mysterio, Buddy Murphy and Dana Brooke — are self-quarantining at home; their conditions are not known. A sixth, Andrade, is off the show with a slight rib injury.

According to PWInsider, pressure to move forward with WrestleMania while so many other sports and entertainment events were being canceled came from the top — WWE chairman Vince McMahon. The recording of the show ended Thursday, just before Orlando mayor Buddy Dyer’s order to close non-essential businesses went into effect.

“There is only one person who felt that they should have went forward with WrestleMania and that’s why they’re going forward with WrestleMania and that’s Vince,” PWInsider reported.

WrestleMania, which was expected to draw tens of thousands of fans to Raymond James Stadium in Tampa next month, was moved to the WWE Performance Center in east Orlando, where it was recorded Wednesday and Thursday in front of an empty arena.

WWE has not officially confirmed any absences or changes to the WrestleMania lineup — some changes are expected to play out in TV storylines during the next week.

The show, which had been set for April 5 in Tampa, will air April 4 and 5 on the streaming WWE Network. Orlando becomes the third city, after New York and Los Angeles, to host three WrestleManias. The first two, in 2008 and 2017, drew more than 70,000 fans each to Camping World Stadium.

Other main events for the show, including Brock Lesnar vs. Drew McIntyre, Edge vs. Randy Orton and Charlotte Flair vs. Rhea Ripley, remain unchanged.

Below are spoilers for the WrestleMania lineup, but no match results are revealed.

With Reigns out, Goldberg faced Braun Strowman for the WWE Universal championship, according to WrestlingInc. Dana Brooke had been scheduled to compete in a six-way match for the Smackdown women’s title; that became a five-way match.

With Andrade’s injury, tag-team partner Angel Garza teamed with NXT’s Austin Theory to challenge the Street Profits for the Raw tag-team championships, according to the Wrestling Observer.

Murphy was removed from his role accompanying Seth Rollins to the ring for his match against Kevin Owens.

Miz had been scheduled to join John Morrison for a Smackdown tag-team title defense; Morrison reportedly faced either Jimmy or Jey Uso in a singles match Mysterio was set for a match at WrestleMania, but it was never revealed before his decision to pull out of the show last week.

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Revenge on fiance delivered on wedding day Dear Abby, This is an open letter to all those women who write to you knowing their men cheated on them and then ask, “Should I marry him?” In their hearts they already know the answer; they just want YOU to tell them DEAR ABBY “NO!” My mother saw my fiance’s car around town, parked at various churches and parking lots. He parked there so I wouldn’t see his car at “the other woman’s” house. Well, I showed up unexpectedly at his place one night and saw them both asleep in his bed. In a way, I felt relieved.

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So don’t get mad, ladies. Do what I did — dry your tears and get even.

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While I don’t normally recommend revenge, I think in this case, the man had it coming.

Dear Abby, We’re a senior couple who have been together 20 years. My wife and I have a date night twice a week. I feel our physical intimacy melds our spirits and souls together.

But lately my wife’s new rule is, “Don’t bother me while my TV programs are on!”

When I told her I feel her programs are more important to her than I am, she got upset. So did I. Nothing’s been the same since. What’s your take on this?

Old Gulf Coast Lover My take is that you should reschedule your date nights to ones that don’t conflict with your wife’s favorite TV shows, or invest in a digital video recorder so your wife doesn’t miss her programs and you don’t miss a trick.

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Elderberry syrup and allergy I am a 66-year-old male who lives in Louisiana. I have suffered seasonal allergies all my life. They seem to be present almost yearround as I get older. I have tried every overthe-counter medication I can find and some prescription TO YOUR medications, with little longGOOD HEALTH term relief.

The new rage here to combat these allergies is elderberry syrup. It combines elderberries, echinacea, cinnamon, clove, ginger and local honey.

I have Type 2 diabetes controlled by oral medication and only have to check my A1C every three months. It is usually no higher than 6.2. I would like to know if this combination of ingredients would work to combat my allergies and, secondly, if taking a tablespoon a day five days a week would negatively affect my diabetes.

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A recent study showed that elderberry syrup was substantially more effective than placebo at reducing respiratory symptoms from the cold or flu. It is possible but unproven that it might be helpful in seasonal (or even perennial) allergy symptoms. The study used a commercial extract, which did not include the other substances you are finding in Louisiana.

Moreover, elderberry syrup is not easy to prepare, and homemade elderberry syrup might not be made properly. Failure to cook the elderberries adequately will cause the toxins sambunigrin and sambucine to be present in the extract, potentially causing nausea and vomiting, sometimes severe enough to require hospitalization. Commercial products precisely regulate the amount of active ingredients, which is not possible with homemade.

The amount of honey in the syrup will

determine its effect on your diabetes; however, a tablespoon a day is not likely to have a significant effect on your very well-controlled diabetes. Incidentally, an A1C level of 6.2% is so well-controlled that I wonder if you need the oral medication you are taking. Many experts would reduce or eliminate oral medication in a 66-year-old with your A1C. Why do we wake up with “sleep” in our eyes?

“Rheum” is the technical term for the mucus discharged from the eye when we sleep. As it dries, the mucus, along with dead cells and eye irritants like dust, collects in the corners of the eye. It can be very heavy in people with allergic or infectious conjunctivitis.

It doesn’t accumulate during the day because the material is mostly washed away with tears through the lacrimal duct when we blink.

Dr. Roach writes: About two years ago, I wrote a column on the promise of intravenous vitamin C along with steroids to treat septic shock. Initial trials had suggested a large benefit in mortality with minimal risk. I had promised to follow up when more information was available. A study was just published that, unfortunately, showed no benefit at all to adding vitamin C (and the B1 vitamin thiamine) to steroids in people with septic shock.

It happens all too often that a promising therapy in early trials fails when subjected to the most rigorous kind of larger trial. This is unfortunate, since sepsis urgently needs better treatment options.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — You may be quite “dialed in” today and feeling as though you can tackle anything — which is a good thing, since anything may well arise!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — You aren’t able to address all of your concerns entirely on your own today. You must be willing to include an expert in your explorations.

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Horoscope

By Stella Wilder Born today, you are not always the kind to ask for help; in fact, assistance of any sort is often the last thing you want — even when it is clear that you need it. You can be somewhat haughty and aloof, but this is not without reason, for in many situations that arise on a daily basis, you are far more capable than most — but is that really any reason to think too much of yourself?

For that is the reality: If you are not careful, your opinions of yourself will grow to unrealistic proportions, and you certainly remember the warning adage “the bigger they are, the harder they fall.”

You are suspicious of anyone who spouts wild or unorthodox opinions as if they were facts, and you will go to great lengths to prove that what you think is mere fiction is, indeed, no more than that.

Also born on this date are: Johann Sebastian Bach, composer; Ewan McGregor, actor; Christopher Walken, actor; Shirley Jones, actress and singer; Cesar Chavez, labor leader; Rhea Perlman, actress; Jessica Szohr, actress.

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

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Baby Blues GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You may not be able to eradicate all of your fears today, but you can work with those that remain and do something productive with them.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — Someone expects you to step up and win the day — and so you can, provided you’re not diving into something for which you are unprepared.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — What you want is also desired by others, and you can expect the competition to heat up very soon. Preparations you make today count for much.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You’ve got what it takes — but so does someone else. How are you going to persuade a third party that you are the right person for the job?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Those little voices in your head aren’t always welcome, but today you’ll surely want to heed any warnings they give. Someone offers you a choice.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — You must be ready with an alternative today when what you and others try first doesn’t work out as planned. Guesswork isn’t effective.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — You’re going to have to give way to someone today when it is discovered that his or her methods are more effective than yours.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You can introduce others to a new way of tackling stress. They will trust you as long as what you offer continues to get results.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — You may have trouble focusing and getting started as the day begins, but later on necessity itself will help pull you together.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — You can explore many options, some of which you’ve overlooked in the past. You may find that something works today that didn’t yesterday.

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SUPER QUIZ

THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME

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

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

Quotes from Shakespeare Level 1

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Identify the speaker. (e.g., “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” Answer: Jaques.)

Freshman level 1. “To be, or not to be. That is the question.”

2. “Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?”

3. “Is this a dagger which I see before me?”

Graduate level 4. “Now is the winter of our discontent.”

5. “Et tu, Brute?”

6. “Out damned spot.”

PH.D. level 7. “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!”

8. “If you prick us, do we not bleed?”

9. “One that loved not wisely but too well.”

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

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(Answers tomorrow) (Answers tomorrow) Jumbles: VENOM HUMOR WEAKEN CANDID MESSY SENSE UNEASY GALLOP teacher used taughtSydney’s subtraction metro to the to get Answer: When the tourists students,they it was a— LESSON around, were —LESSEN DOWN UNDER

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Solution SolutiontotoSaturday’s Monday’s puzzle

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

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SUPER QUIZ ANSWERS 1. Hamlet. 2. Juliet. 3. Macbeth. 4. Richard III. 5. Julius Caesar. 6. Lady Macbeth. 7. King Lear. 8. Shylock. 9. Othello.

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

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Crossword Puzzle Mother Goose & Grimm ACROSS 1 Use a drill 5 Funt of “Candid Camera” 10 Sleeve fillers 14 Committed perjury 15 Depart 16 Enticement 17 Troubles 18 Largest city in Morocco 20 Letter for Plato 21 “Hogwash!”

22 Playful swimmer 23 Word with Korea or Carolina 25 Corn’s place 26 Declare not guilty 28 At __; haphazardly 31 Skydiver’s need 32 Tangy 34 Actor Diesel 36 Muumuu accessories 37 Hasty 38 Post-it Note message 39 Start of a navy ship’s name 40 Intended 41 Day or Roberts 42 Unproven explanation 44 Bring up, as a subject 45 Verb on a tube of Bengay 46 France’s dollar, once 47 Colorado resort 50 Black card 51 Apex 54 Indirect 57 Costa __ 58 Lawn mower brand 59 Actress Burke 60 Kitchen appliance 61 Fret; worry 62 Train track material 63 Knight & Koppel DOWN 1 Radar screen image

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2 Manet’s paintings 3 Hand over 4 Sullivan’s namesakes 65 Prefix for nutrition “Little Women” author 6 Fido’s restraint 7 Word attached to whip or eye 8 Sra. Perón 9 Lincoln’s place: abbr.

12 Small outbuilding 10 Eased up 11 Go on a tirade 12 Mickey & Minnie 13 Play the lead role 19 Nuts 21 Soft cheese 24 Pitcher’s delights 25 Diplomacy 26 Rights org.

27 Storage trunk 28 Geologist’s fault?

29 Hyper 30 Make fun of 32 Convince 33 Clothing fastener 35 Have a snack 37 Belgrade native

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Non Sequitur

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38 Night light 40 Small hill 41 Dull in color 43 Prior to today, in poetry 44 Ruthless 46 Musical instrument 47 Ballet & painting

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48 Chimney residue 49 Unsullied 50 “Old King __ was a merry…”

52 Frosted 53 Cookware 55 Commercials 56 Gamble 57 Deteriorate

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