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CAIRO — Town officials passed a resolution Monday establishing their intent to protect the prehistoric forest located behind the highway garage for future generations.

A research team from Binghamton University was sifting through fossil soils at a quarry behind the Cairo Highway Department when they discovered the root system of trees thought to be 385 million years old, dating back to the Devonian age,

according to a release from Binghamton University. Their discovery was published in the scientific journal Current Biology in December.

“The Town of Cairo will work collaboratively with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Greene and Columbia counties to protect, preserve and promote this unique and valuable natural resource, by developing and encouraging educational opportunities, examining our ancient past and predicting future environmental changes while welcoming visitors to our area

to appreciate this site,” according to Monday’s resolution.

A proposal that the town has been working on with Assemblyman Chris Tague and state Sen. George Amedore Jr. includes estimates for fencing to protect the site, Town Supervisor John Coyne said.

“This is the first step that we’re going to take,” Coyne said Wednesday, adding that the chain-link fencing would cost about $1,500.

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Eleven positive cases of coronavirus in New York, all but one stemming from a 50-year-old man who contracted the illness, were confirmed Wednesday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

On Tuesday, the governor revealed that a Westchester man, an attorney in his 50s who works in Manhattan, had

been hospitalized with the virus. At a press conference Wednesday, Cuomo announced the illness had spread to the man’s close contacts.

“The case in Westchester, which was a 50-year-old attorney — his wife has tested positive, his 20-year-old son has tested positive, his daughter tested positive, and his neighbor, who drove him to the hospital, also tested positive,” Cuomo

said Wednesday.

Only the attorney, who has an underlying respiratory illness, has been hospitalized, Cuomo said. The others are in quarantine at home.

A New Rochelle family of six: five are positive. There are four children in that family with three boys and one girl. One of the boys tested negative. The rest are positive.

The father from the family is close friends with the 50-year-old New Rochelle attorney. It was the state’s first known community spread of the virus The 50-year-old man remains in the Intensive Care Unit in critical but stable condition. He is the only person with the virus who is in the hospital.

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Catskill lantern festival operators fined $7,000

By Sarah Trafton Columbia-Greene Media

CATSKILL — Organizers of a holiday light show cut short due to code violations paid a $7,000 court fine, according to town officials.

The Hello Panda Lantern Festival was scheduled to take place from Dec. 20 to March 29 at the former Friar Tuck Inn. With more than 120 lantern exhibits, the festival is considered the largest of its kind in North America, according to hellopandafest.com.

The Greene County Planning Board disapproved the festival request, citing poor and potentially dangerous property conditions. The town Planning Board voted to override the county’s recommendation in December.

A complaint was called in to the town Code Enforcement Office in late January, Code Enforcement Officer Elliot Fishman said Tuesday.

Fishman visited the site on Jan. 24 and confirmed the complaint, he said, and issued a cease and desist order.

Both Friar Tuck Inc. and Lantern Festival Inc. were charged with violations under the state property maintenance code, according to the town court office.

The violations were related to installation of deficient electrical equipment, according to the town court office.

Part of the conditions for the festival’s special-use permit that applicant Lily Li agreed to in December was to have all electrical work performed by a See LANTERN A2

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licensed Greene County master electrician and inspected by a licensed Greene County thirdparty inspector.

“The problem occurred because the scope of the work given to the master electrician was not the full scope of work that the electrician was supposed to take responsibility for,” Fishman said. “The electrician only did part of the job he

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with Assemblyman Tague and Senator Amedore to attempt to secure funds to secure this location.”

The area is about 2-acres in size, Coyne said.

Both Tague and Amedore have introduced legislation on behalf of the historic forest.

“This is a monumental discovery for the Catskills and the town of Cairo,” Tague said in a statement. “Having the world’s oldest fossilized forest in our backyard is a remarkable opportunity to look into the past. It’s a treasure trove of valuable scientific data and needs to be protected for future research. This forest is another gem for Greene County, let’s preserve it for everyone to enjoy and study for years to come.”

Amedore agreed.

“This was truly an amazing and historic discovery, and I commend the research team who devoted so much time and effort to examining this site,” Amedore said in a statement. “It’s an exciting designation for the town and the region. We know the entire Catskill Region has such a rich history, and this provides more insight and knowledge into the topographical and environmental history of the area. It was a pleasure to work

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The schools the man’s two children attend — Yeshiva University in Manhattan and SAR Academy in the Riverdale section of the Bronx — have been temporarily closed in an effort to stem the spread of the disease. Young Israel of New Rochelle, a synagogue the man attends, is also closed through March 8 and congregants who attended several events have been asked to self-quarantine.

Several employees at the man’s law firm, the man’s neighbor’s children and eight employees at Lawrence Hospital in Bronxville where he was initially taken, have undergone testing, but as of Wednesday none had tested positive.

One other New Yorker with coronavirus — a 39-year-old health-care worker who had traveled to Iran — is also quarantined at home and her condition is improving, Cuomo said.

Her husband has tested negative for the virus.

The governor urged New Yorkers to remain calm as the virus has stoked fears both in New York and globally.

“We know what this coronavirus is — it is easily transmitted, but 80% of people who get the virus will self-resolve,” Cuomo said.

“It has nothing to do with the time you started testing, “Cuomo said. “That’s an artificial line you were drawing. The coronavirus was here already, and it was spreading already and people just didn’t distinguish

was supposed to do based on the property owner’s direction.

The rest of the work was done by non-licensed electricians.”

The wires were not in proper conduits and were running along the ground, and the joints of the conduits were not properly sealed, Fishman said.

“The festival was held the following weekend in defiance of the order,” Fishman said. “The property owners were invited to court.”

The owners claimed misunderstandings, Fishman said.

“Those are excuses that I didn’t buy,” he said.

The case was adjourned Feb. 13 and settled two weeks later with the $7,000 fine.

Fishman said he does not believe the festival will reopen.

“They can’t reopen until a new [building] permit is pulled and the electrical work is done to code,” he said.

The festival’s website does not indicate the event will reopen.

“Due to weather conditions and safety reasons, Catskill Lantern Festival will be terminated,” according to the festival website. “Unscanned tickets will be refunded, please wait for

further notice.”

In addition to paying the court fine, the property owners have squared up with the county on back taxes, Greene County Treasurer Peter Markou said Tuesday.

“They are in compliance as of a couple days ago,” Markou said, adding that the amount, spanning three to four years, totaled over $749,000.

“There was some consideration of the county taking the property for the tax auction,” Markou said.

with Assemblyman Tague on this resolution to honor and recognize this momentous discovery.”

The site holds unlimited educational opportunities, Coyne said.

“We reached out to [Cornell Cooperative Extension] and they are very exicted about working with the town to preserve it and to use it for future generations,” he said.

Research at the site began more than a decade ago, said Dr. Christopher Berry, senior lecturer of paleobotany at Cardiff University.

“I believe that it was Charles VerStraeten at the New York State Museum who found [the roots] originally,” Berry said.

“Back in 2007 I asked the paleontologists at the NYSM to take me to Cairo as there was a report of a tiny little plant there that I wanted to follow up, and so we worked in a corner of the quarry for a couple of days over the next two years.”

VerStraeten discovered the roots in 2009, Berry said, which is when William Stein, professor emeritus of biological science at Binghamton University, became involved.

“The New York State Museum invited me to come out and take a look at something they had found,” Stein said in December. “They thought it might be of interest to me.”

Stein and his team were called away from 2010 to 2012 to work at a quarry in Gilboa,

which had formerly been the home of the world’s oldest forest.

The Cairo site is about 2 to 3 million years older, Stein said.

Researchers identified three unique root systems at the site: a palm-like tree called Eospermatopteris that grew opportunistically like weeds, Archaeopteris that foreshadowed seed-bearing plants to come 10 million years later and a tree belonging to the class Lyscopsida, which was previously thought to have originated during the Carboniferous period, according to the university.

“What we have at Cairo is a rooting structure that appears identical to great trees of the Carboniferous coal swamps with fascinating elongate roots,” Stein said. “But no one has yet found body fossil evidence of this group this early in the Devonian. Our findings are perhaps suggestive that these plants were already in the forest, but perhaps in a different environment and earlier than generally believed. Yet we only have a footprint, and we await additional fossil evidence for confirmation.”

The Archaetoperis was also a significant find, Berry said.

“It is the massive branching woody roots of the Archaeopteris tree, found at Cairo but not at Gilboa, which are the really important thing here,” Berry said. “This is the first time that such vast

underground rooting structures are seen in a fossil forest. Archaeopteris also had a woody trunk and flat green leaves, unlike the Gilboa tree.

It seems to have worked at a different physiological level.”

The research helps scientists have a better understanding of past environments, Stein said.

“It gives us a sense of the ecology of what Catskill delta forests were like,” Stein said.

“Who was living with whom, what the spatial relationships were like. It’s not a matter of size, but a matter of which trees were doing what with who.”

The team’s findings can also be put into a more modern context of climate change, Berry said.

“The interactions of plant roots with soils, and the creation of wood, are both waysin which CO2 can be removed from the atmosphere on a long term basis,” Berry said. “This is important because over the course of the Devonian era, atmospheric CO2 levels fell from perhaps 10 times the level today to the same as today, and long-lived ice caps formed at the South Pole because of this.

Many scientists believe that the rise of forests contributed greatly to this drop in CO2. Today we cut down forests, and let them burn, which is having the opposite effect.”

between the coronavirus and the flu. You wouldn’t without a test .”

“This test allows us to see who had it already. It may very well have been here and been spreading and now youre just discovering it “ The virus shares some common characteristics with influenza, Cuomo said, including similar symptoms, transmission and duration.

More cases are expected, Cuomo said, especially as the number of people tested rises.

“There are going to be many, many people who test positive,” he noted. “By definition, the more people you test, the more you will find positive.”

Greene County Administrator Shaun Groden said no one in the county has been tested, but officials are monitoring the situation.

“We have been watching this for weeks and there has been a slew of information from the state Department of Health,” Groden said. “There are 11 airports in the nation that have been deemed the point of entry if you are coming in from an area with high exposure rates.

Depending on your home address in New York, we would get a notification. If you have been exposed but not diagnosed, you will be self-quarantined for 14 days. If you are diagnosed, they won’t even let you out of the airport — you will be brought to a quarantine facility in the city.”

People who are asked to selfquarantine in Greene County would be monitored by county officials, Groden said. They will be given a kit with a thermometer to self-monitor their

temperature, and county employees have personal protective equipment — including a medical gown, booties, and a mask to cover the face and hair — to gear up in the event they need to visit a home.

So far, there have not been any such cases.

“If you do develop symptoms, we will arrange transport to CMH (Columbia Memorial Health),” Groden said, adding that the person can request another hospital if they wish.

There are certain populations that are more vulnerable to coronavirus, specifically the elderly and those with underlying respiratory conditions.

Whittier Place, an assisted-living facility in Ghent, is asking visitors to take extra precautions.

“We are asking visitors to refrain from visiting if they have flu-like and/or respiratory symptoms such as fever, cough, sore throat, headaches or muscle aches, and we ask that they limit visiting if they have traveled abroad or if they are immunocompromised, and any children under the age of 14,” Whittier Place Administrator Meghan Kelley said. “This is typical during flu season, other than the traveling abroad.”

The facility also asks that visitors and residents take additional precautions.

“We encourage everyone to wash their hands frequently or use alcohol-based hand sanitizers,” Kelley said.

On Wednesday, Cuomo said several tests have come back negative in other areas of New York state, in Buffalo, Oneida and Suffolk counties.

Students who are studying abroad in China, Italy, Japan, Iran and South Korea through the State University of New York and City University of New York are being recalled immediately and study-abroad in those countries is being suspended, Cuomo said.

Three hundred students will return on a chartered airplane that will land at Stewart International Airport in Newburgh, and they will be quarantined for 14 days in college dormitories.

None of the students attend Columbia-Greene Community College, said Jaclyn Stevenson, director of marketing and communications for the college.

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CALENDAR Thursday, March 5 n Ashland Planning Board 6 p.m. at the Town Hall, 12094 Route 23, Ashland n Coxsackie Town Planning Board 7 p.m. Town Hall, 56 Bailey St., Coxsackie n Coxsackie Village Workshop meeting 6 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

Monday, March 9 n Ashland Town Board 7:30 p.m. at

the Town Hall, 12094 Route 23, Ashland n Catskill Village Planning Board 7 p.m. Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill n Coxsackie Village Board 7 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie n Greene County Legislature county services and public works 6 p.m. Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill

Tuesday, March 10 n Cairo Public Library Board of Trust-

ees at 3:30 p.m. at the Library, 15 Railroad Ave., Cairo 518-622-9864 n Catskill Town Planning Board 7 p.m.

Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill n Coxsackie Town Board 7 p.m. Town Hall, 56 Bailey St., Coxsackie n Coxsackie Village Historic Preservation Committee 6 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

Wednesday, March 11 n Athens Village Board 6:30 p.m.

Village Hall, 2 First St., Athens 518-9451551 n Catskill Town Zoning Board 6 p.m.

Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill n Catskill Village Board 7 p.m. Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill 518-9433830 n Greene County Legislature workshop 6 p.m. Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill n Jewett Town Board 7 p.m. at the Jewett Municipal Building, 3547 County Route 23C, Jewett

Thursday, March 12 n Greene County Legislature finance audit 4 p.m. Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill n Windham-Ashland-Jewett CSD BOE audit finance committee 5:15 p.m. in superintendent’s office; regular meeting 6 p.m. in the School Library, 5411 Route 23, Windham

Survivors speak out to combat opioid abuse

By Kate Lisa Johnson Newspaper Corporation

ALBANY — If he were alive today, Linda Ventura’s son, Thomas, would be 29 years old.

In eight years, the Long Island native has missed a lot: The birth of his niece and nephew, dozens of photographs with family and friends and countless smiles in between.

Thomas Ventura died March 14, 2012, from an overdose one day after returning home from a 21-day rehabilitation center. He was 21.

“He had failed at outpatient,” his mother, Linda Ventura said from The Well of the Legislative Office Building in Albany on Tuesday. “He failed, but rock bottom is not rock bottom. Rock bottom is death. There’s no coming back from death.”

Ventura joined Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul, Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal, D-67; Sen. Pete Harckham, D-40; and John Coppola with Alcoholism & Substance Abuse Providers of New York State Inc. for a rally Tuesday afternoon to highlight state efforts to combat opioid abuse.

Coppola introduced each of the speakers from a podium at the front of The Well, which was filled with people listening from chairs on the floor to the large staircase at the back of the room. About a dozen tables with representatives from various recovery, rehabilitation and substance abuse organizations surrounded the crowd.

“We are here to advocate for resources, prevention, treatment — any kind of support to help people find recovery in their lives,” Coppola said.

“What do you think kind of work could be done with additional resources?”

Representatives called on state officials to increase the amount of money in the 202021 proposed executive budget to address the state and nation’s opioid epidemic by investing in community-based programs.

Coppola outlined the group’s current mission: Fighting for 3% additional support for communitybased drug and substance abuse organizations for the next five years.

The state had 3,224 overdose deaths in 2017 — a rate of 16.1 deaths per 100,000 people compared to the average national rate of 14.6 deaths per 100,000 people, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

The epidemic has swept the state and nation with increasing numbers over the last decade. The greatest rise occurred among synthetic opioid-involved deaths, predominantly fentanyl, with 2,238 deaths reported in 2017, up from 210 fatalities in 2013.

More funds are necessary across the board for outreach, recovery, education and prevention programs, Coppola said.

“We really need robust resources so the work can be done,” Coppola said. “There are some programs in New York state funded with rates they got 12, 13 or 14 years ago. No one can pay bills today with rates they got 15 years ago.”

The lieutenant governor shared her personal experience with addiction, saying many addicts are born outside of stereotypical circumstances. In high school, Hochul’s

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Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul speaks to a crowd Tuesday afternoon about the need for the state to invest in opioid and substance abuse recovery and education programs at a rally at The Well in Albany’s Legislative Office Building.

nephew sustained a hand injury and became addicted to opioids after his doctor prescribed them for the pain.

“My nephew struggled with addiction because he listened to his doctor... he just followed his doctor’s orders,” Hochul said. “He struggled for years to fight back and he hit rock bottom.”

When Hochul’s nephew went to get support, he was met with roadblocks to get the treatment he needed because of Medicaid paperwork and financial hardship, she said, adding that’s what has to change.

“He went back to the streets, and it wasn’t long

before they found a needle in his arm,” Hochul recalled. “It has to end now. We’ve lost too many lives — precious lives.

“It doesn’t come from that we didn’t have enough capacity to take care of you. Never again in the state of New York.”

The stigma surrounding drug use and addiction is the No. 1 barrier holding back officials and organizations working to combat the opioid crisis, Harckham said.

“The stigma of people to seek help — the stigma for families to come forward... to adequately fund the services you provide,” he said. “Stigma is a big part of that, and if we’re

trying to fight that stigma, we cannot stay anonymous anymore.”

Ventura agreed: The path to recovery includes ending stigma, and doing that requires survivors and families to share their stories.

“We need to stand united,” said Ventura, who is the founder of Thomas’ Hope Foundation, which raises awareness and prevention to combat drug addiction.

“We’re in the trenches every single day. When the door opens, we have to get that patient through to recovery. We will pick you up wherever you are and make things happen for you.”

Monday, March 16

Landscape paper collage with Ruth Leonard

n Athens Town Board 6:45 p.m. Town

Hall, 2 First St., Athens 518-945-1052 n Greene County Legislature economic development; Gov. Ops.; finance; and Rep. and Dem caucus 6 p.m. Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill n Greenville Town Board 7 p.m. at the Town Hall, 11159 Route 32, Pioneer Building, Greenville

Tuesday, March 17 n Athens Village Planning Board 6:30

p.m. Village Hall, 2 First St., Athens 518945-1551 n Durham Town Board 7:30 p.m. at Town Hall, 7309 Route 81, East Durham n Hunter Town Board 7 p.m. at the Town Hall, 5748 Route 23A, Tannersville

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

Thursday, March 19 n Coxsackie Village Planning Board 7

p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

Monday, March 23 n Catskill Village Planning Board

CAIRO — The Cairo Public library, 15 Railroad Ave., Cairo, will host Landscape Collage with Ruth Leonard 10 a.m.noon March 21, March 28 and April 4. Landscape college is a workshop that uses paper and glue as a medium. The workshop’s imagery will come from the library windows, or a short walk into the town. We will initially take notes, photographs and sketch simplified shapes of the town landscape.

The workshop will provide the time to sketch a landscape composition and experiment with a range of juxtaposing

papers. The paper edge is a consideration when creating a shape, with various methods of cutting or tearing.

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This mission is not impossible Thomas Ventura had everything that counts in life: a loving and supportive family, enough friends to fill a photograph album and that one intangible, happiness. Thomas Ventura died March 14, 2012, from an overdose, ironically one day after returning home from a three-week stint at a rehabilitation center. He was 21.

“He had failed at outpatient,” his mother, Linda Ventura, said at the Legislative Office Building in Albany on Tuesday. “He failed, but rock bottom is not rock bottom. Rock bottom is death. There’s no coming back from death.”

Ventura joined Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul, Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal, D-67; Sen. Pete Harckham, D-40; and John Coppola, executive director of Alcoholism & Substance Abuse Providers of New York State

Inc. for a rally Tuesday afternoon to highlight state efforts to stop opioid abuse and underscore what is still needed to combat the epidemic.

The group advocated for resources, prevention, treatment — any kind of support to help people find recovery in their lives. Coppola asked the audience to think of how much work could be done with additional resources.

The speakers called on state officials to increase the amount of money in the 2020-21 proposed executive budget to address the state’s opioid epidemic by investing in community-based programs.

The group’s current mission: Fighting for 3% additional support for community-based drug and substance abuse organizations for the next five years.

New York had 3,224 overdose deaths in 2017 — a rate

of 16.1 deaths per 100,000 people compared to the average national rate of 14.6 deaths per 100,000 people, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

The crisis has swept the state, including Columbia and Greene counties, with increasing numbers over the last decade.

The greatest rise occurred among synthetic opioidinvolved deaths, predominantly caused by fentanyl, with 2,238 deaths reported in 2017, up from 210 fatalities in 2013. More funds are necessary across the board for outreach, recovery, education and prevention programs. This will start by returning to the concept that addiction is an illness, not a crime, and the foundation for helping addicts is support and treatment.

This mission is not impossible.

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Coronavirus is a reminder that Fed independence is vital (c) 2020,The Washington Post

Deficit control has gone out of fashion in policy circles. Liberal Democrats tend to see it as a fuddy-duddy concern that obstructs ambitious new programs; the Republicans under President Donald Trump have shed the fig leaf of fiscal rectitude in favor of allout tax-cutting. And it’s true that short-term threats from huge federal borrowing — $984 billion in fiscal 2019 — have mainly failed to materialize.

Except in one crucial sense: The coronavirus, and the global economic downturn it seems to be triggering, shows the wisdom of those analysts who have repeatedly warned that giant deficits deprive the United States of “fiscal space” with which to respond to a sudden, unforeseen crisis. With federal fiscal policy already expansionary, the obvious alternative at hand is monetary policy; yet there is only so much that can be accomplished by interest-rate cuts, as the volatile response on financial markets to the Federal Reserve’s half-point reduction in rates Tuesday suggests. The central bank’s stroke was bold, but, for all that, managed to signal alarm as well as resolve. Markets understand that the coronavirus disrupts not only demand but also supply, by making it harder for companies to produce and move products to markets — whereas interest rate cuts largely work by goosing demand.

On balance, though, it was probably the right call. The Fed and its fellow central banks could not stand by idly when there was anything they could do to prevent the inevitable shock to global growth — now estimated at half a percentage point by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and

Development — from getting worse. This is true even though Trump loudly demanded the Fed rate cut before it occurred. That sequence of events may create the impression of a Fed that acts on his instructions, rather than independently, as it should and, we are confident, still does. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell, as he has before, must hope that his own steady demeanor and the policy arguments he offers cancel out the pernicious appearances the president recklessly generates. With the federal government’s cost of borrowing now below 1% a year for 10-year obligations — the lowest rate ever — there is also a case to be made for at least some extra federal borrowing to help weather the crisis, preferably targeted at defraying the direct costs, both to patients and to the medical system, of coping with the pandemic.

Congress will need time to craft any such response. There is one thing it can do to shore up economic confidence in the short run, however: deny confirmation to Trump’s poorly qualified nominee to the Fed’s board, Judy Shelton. Her fate is up to the Republican-controlled Senate Banking Committee, where, unfortunately, key members may be wavering. Sen. Patrick Toomey, R-Pa., has just dropped his objections; Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., has said he would vote yes if all other GOP members did. That leaves the matter up to a handful of uncommitted Republicans such as Sens. John Neely Kennedy of Lousiana and Martha McSally of Arizona.

This crisis is a reminder that central bank competence and independence are vital national resources; these senators must behave accordingly.

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY ‘If we neglect our privileges, the gods take them from us.’

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A new report shows freedom is declining in established democracies, including ours

By Max Boot (c) 2020, The Washington Post ·

When critics of President Donald Trump argue that he is a threat to democracy, his supporters tell us to relax.

No one is being exiled to Alaska or locked up for criticizing the supreme leader.

The courts, Congress and the media all continue to function. Elections aren’t being canceled.

All true, but it offers scant comfort given the historical experience of how other countries have lost their freedom. There is seldom a moment of clarity, at least not early on, when a dictator announces that democracy has been abolished. Much more common is for aspiring autocrats to chip away at the foundations of liberal democracy — judicial independence, freedom of the press, minority rights, an apolitical civil service and so on - while maintaining its facade.

Unfortunately, this type of democratic erosion is now the norm across the world. The “Freedom in the World 2020” survey, released Wednesday by Freedom House, reports that 2019 saw the 14th year in a row of political deterioration, with 64 countries experiencing a loss of liberties, while only 37 experienced improvements.

Some of the worst repression is occurring in China as a result of what the report rightly describes as “the Chinese Communist Party’s ongoing campaign of cultural annihilation in Xinjiang.”

But you expect repression from a communist regime.

What is truly disheartening is to read that during the past year, “25 of the world’s 41 established democracies experienced net losses” of freedom.

The worst offender is the world’s largest democracy, India. The recent anti-Muslim pogroms in New Delhi — which killed 46 people and were carried out with the connivance of senior police officers — are sadly indicative of the country’s illiberal direction under Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist party, the Bharatiya Janata

Party (BJP). As Freedom House notes: “While India continues to earn a Free rating and held successful elections last spring, the BJP has distanced itself from the country’s founding commitments to pluralism and individual rights, without which democracy cannot long survive.”

Less dramatic but nevertheless depressing is the erosion of U.S. democracy.

Since 2009, the United States has fallen eight points on Freedom House’s 100-point scale. With a score of 86, we are now ranked behind countries such as Greece, Slovakia, Italy and Mauritius.

Freedom House points out some alarming trends of late, which include “an ongoing decline in fair and equal treatment of refugees and asylum seekers,” Trump’s declaration of “a national emergency in order to redirect Defense Department funds to the construction of a wall along the southern border,” his attempt to “extract a personal political favor from Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky,” and his orders to “current and former officials to defy all congressional subpoenas for document and testimony about the matter.”

This is only a small part of Trump’s efforts to undermine checks and balances, which include an ongoing purge of officials deemed traitors to Trumpism, blatant political interference with the administration of justice, and frivolous libel suits against The Post and the New York Times intended to silence critics.

Similar erosion is occurring in one of the United States’s closest allies, Israel, where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has emerged from the latest election on Monday in a strong position to form a new government despite his indictment on corruption charges.

Freedom House notes that “Netanyahu has taken increasingly drastic steps to maintain the loyalty of farright groups, entrenching and expanding West Bank settlements at the expense

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There is a real danger that countries such as India, the United States and Israel may now be going down the same road that Hungary and Poland have already traveled.

Under Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Hungary has lost 20 points in the Freedom in the World survey over the past decade and become the first European Union member to be classified as only “Partly Free.” Under the Law and Justice party, meanwhile, Poland’s freedom score has fallen nine points since 2015.

The good news is that, just as there is nothing inevitable about democracy’s triumph, so too there is nothing inevitable about its demise. As Freedom House notes: “The mass protests that emerged or persisted in 2019 in every region of the world are a reminder that the universal yearning for equality, justice and freedom from oppression can never be extinguished.”

To prevent further erosion of freedom, it is imperative to remove anti-democratic leaders from power. While that requires a revolution in China, here it only requires high voter turnout. The United States, which has joined the retreat from democratic ideals in the past three years, can now take the lead in renewing democracy by voting Trump out of office. If we fail to seize this opportunity, the erosion of our democracy will only accelerate.m Max Boot, a Post columnist, is the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick senior fellow for national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and a global affairs analyst for CNN. He is the author of “The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam,” a finalist for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in biography.

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Robert Dewey Carl Robert Dewey Carl, age 81 Greene County Historical Sociyears, of Earlton, N.Y. and Etero, ety, and a Life Member with the FL. Passed away on Thursday, NYS Blue Bird Society. He was February 27, 2020. Bob was active with Greene County Exborn in Catskill, N.Y. on July 5, tension and a Master Gardener.

1938, youngest son of John L. He retired from the American Carl and Dorothy E. (Baker) Carl Red Cross Volunteer Disaster who predeceased him.

Relief, both local and national, Bob attended the one room a member of the American Leschoolhouse in Jefferson gion Post # 983, Cairo, N.Y. He Heights until its closing in 1948. as a past member of the Gold He attended Irving School and Wong Road Riders of American, Junior/Senior High in Chapter L in CoxsackCatskill School District, ie, N.Y. Bob enjoyed graduation gin 1956. gardening, growing Bob served his country garlic and then giving in The U.S. Navy from most of it away, riding 1958-1962 serving his motorcycle, travelaboard the USS Naning in his RV with his tahala (A060) Fleet Oiler loving wife, Joan. Bob as Electrician’s Mate and Joan spent their 2nd Class (E-5). He was winters at Riverwoods Carl employed for B & G Plantation RV Resort contractors in plumbin Estero, FL, where ing and heating from 1962until he was very active in the park’s 1966. Bob was retired from New activities. He enjoyed spendYork Telephone, (NYEX-Veri- ing time with his children and zon) as Lineman Outside Plant grandchildren, playing tennis Technician, Business Group when he could find the time, and working on PBX’s and Special enjoyed feeding and watching Service technician from 1966- the birds around his house.

1994.

Bob is survived by his loving Bob was dedicated for years wife of 29 years Joan Gouldto the Greenville Volunteer Fire ing Carl, son Robert A. Carl and Company, joining in 1963, serv- wife Diane, daughter Elizabeth ing as a life Member, Pat Chief, Ann Carl Phillips and husband Past President, and Past Chair- Kurt, and daughter Denise Carl man of the Fire commissioner. Hughes and husband Scott.

He was one of the organiz- Grandchildren Daniel and ers, Past Captain, and Char- Heather Carl, Hunter (Finacee ter Member of the Greenville Sadie), Dalton, and Kolby PhilRescue Squad. Bob served lips, and Sarah (Mike) Brennan, as Chairman of the Greene Emma, and Noah Hughes, sisCounty Fire Advisory Board, ter Pearl Carl Smith and several Past President and Treasurer of nieces and nephews in Greene the Greene County Fire Chiefs and Columbia Counties. BeAssociation. Bob was also a sides his parents, Bob was premember of the Greene County deceased by his brother John Volunteer Firemen Association L. Carl Jr. and sisters Loraine since 1963-1967. Bob was a Carl Osborn and Mary Lou Carl life member of the Telephone Lampman.

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Iconic book publisher Simon & Schuster is on auction block

By Meg James Los Angeles Times (TNS)

Legendary book publisher Simon & Schuster is for sale.

Just three months after the merger of Viacom and CBS, the new leadership has concluded that the New York publishing house, known for the works of such authors as Stephen King, Susan Orlean, Bob Woodward and Hillary Clinton, no longer is a core part of the company. ViacomCBS Chief Executive Bob Bakish made the announcement Wednesday morning at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media & Telcom Conference.

Bakish said that he’s fielded several unsolicited requests about whether the company would sell the iconic publisher, and the answer is “yes.”

It is unclear how much ViacomCBS might fetch from the sale. Book publishing is no longer a growth business but its revenue has been relatively stable in recent years, and Simon & Schuster has some of the world’s most recognizable authors, including Mary Higgins Clark and Doris Kearns Goodwin.

The publishing house probably will be sold to another publishing firm looking to merge assets and create cost savings.

When CBS controlled Simon & Schuster, the company created synergies by booking its authors on “60 Minutes,” which explored timely and provocative subject matter. But now the publishing house is part of a larger corporation that

is eager to sell assets to pay down debt.

Simon & Schuster was founded in 1924 by Richard L. “Dick” Simon and M. Lincoln “Max” Schuster. Their initial project was a crossword puzzle book, which was a roaring success. The company has since grown to become a diverse house that publishes approximately 2,000 titles a year. It divisions include Simon & Schuster Publishing, Scribner Publishing Group, Atria Publishing Group and Gallery Publishing. Simon & Schuster and its imprints have won 56 Pulitzer Prizes and numerous National Book Awards and Newbery and Caldecott Medals.

ViacomCBS’ stock has been bludgeoned since the merger was announced in August. The combination was completed in early December.

The company previously announced the sale of the landmark CBS headquarters building in Midtown Manhattan, known as Black Rock.

The company plans to use the proceeds from the two sales to pay down debt, pay dividends to shareholders and buy back stock.

“It’s a tremendous value creation opportunity,” Bakish said. (c)2020 Los Angeles Times Visit the Los Angeles Times at www.latimes.com Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

The long-awaited murder trial of Robert Durst, subject of ‘The Jinx,’ unfolds in Los Angeles

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LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles prosecutors will begin presenting their case Wednesday against eccentric New York real estate heir Robert Durst, alleging he killed his best friend, Susan Berman, in her Benedict Canyon home to prevent her from incriminating him in his wife’s disappearance.

But in a murder trial expected to play out over several months, jurors will hear more than just evidence in the execution-style shooting of Berman, who was found dead on Christmas Eve in 2000.

Deputy District Attorney John Lewin and his team of prosecutors have painstakingly assembled a web of evidence that spans decades, with more than 100 witnesses, dozens of hours of video and reams of documents that shed light on three crimes they say Durst committed.

There is the 1982 disappearance of his wife, Kathleen McCormack Durst, in New York. Durst waited five days to report her missing and misled authorities about the nature of their relationship, according to prosecutors. Central to this ruse was Berman, who prosecutors allege gave Durst a “false alibi” by impersonating Kathleen Durst in a call to her medical school and giving authorities the impression that she was still alive.

The case grew cold until 1999, when Durst learned New York authorities had reopened it, prosecutor say.

That prompted Durst to

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New York real estate scion Robert Durst appears in the Los Angeles Superior Court Airport Branch on Jan. 6, 2017. Durst is admitting he wrote the ‘cadaver note.’

silence Berman forever, they contend.

In the prosecution’s telling, the 2001 shooting and dismemberment of elderly neighbor Morris Black in Galveston, Texas, marked “the violent climax of his nearly year-long effort to conceal himself from New York authorities.”

Durst was acquitted in Black’s death in 2003 after claiming self-defense. The same attorneys who represented him in Galveston will defend him in Berman’s killing.

Lead defense attorney Dick DeGuerin and his team will attempt to chip away at the prosecution’s theory, which links the disappearance of Durst’s wife with the deaths of

Black and Berman.

As Chip Lewis told The Times, despite a thorough investigation in New York that has lasted years, no one has ever been charged in Kathleen Durst’s disappearance.

Further, defense attorneys argue that paltry physical evidence exists linking Durst to Berman’s killing.

“Bob Durst did not kill Susan Berman and doesn’t know who did,” DeGuerin told The Times last year.

In the defense view, the killing of Black in Galveston is an irrelevant “emotional hijacking” aimed at covering up for paltry evidence, Lewis said.

“Black died several months after Susan Berman was shot,” Lewis said in a

statement. “The beyond gruesome nature of the dismemberment and the disposal of Black’s body are solely designed to predispose the jury to find Bob guilty of Susan Berman’s murder, despite the lack of evidence that he actually committed the crime.”

Prosecutors have said that Durst has confessed and done so with frequency. He admitted writing the so-called “cadaver note” that was sent to Beverly Hills police the day before Berman’s body was found. The note contained the word “cadaver” and had Berman’s address on it. It included the same misspelling of “Beverley” as that in a letter he had written to Berman.

A close friend, Nick Chavin, has testified that over dinner in 2014, Durst said, “I had to.

It was her or me” — words Chavin said he took to be a confession.

It’s unclear whether Durst, who turns 77 next month, will take the witness stand as he did in Galveston.

Now ill and with limited mobility, he has attended each day of jury selection, rising at 4 a.m. In court, he has signaled defiance, fist-bumping attorneys and once flexing both arms above his head and looking to the audience as he slowly walked to his chair. (c)2020 Los Angeles Times Visit the Los Angeles Times at www.latimes.com Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

Congressional negotiators reach deal on roughly $8 billion in emergency coronavirus funds Erica Werner and Mike DeBonis The Washington Post

WASHINGTON — Bipartisan congressional negotiators reached agreement Wednesday on a roughly $8 billion emergency spending bill to combat the coronavirus, racing to send it to President Donald Trump’s desk by the end of the week. The deal must still be voted on by the House and Senate, but bipartisan support is expected.

The package would include more than $3 billion for the research and development of things like vaccines, according to a House Democratic aide. Other parts of the deal include $2.2 billion in new public health funding, close to $1 billion for medical supplies, health care preparedness, and Community Health Centers, among other things. It would also appropriate $1.25 billion to address coronavirus risks in other countries, and allow $7 billion in low-interest Small Business Administration loans for companies impacted by the outbreak.

House leaders were aiming

for a vote later Wednesday as urgency mounted to address the crisis with growing numbers of cases reported from coast to coast.

The final pricetag on the bill dwarfed a $2.5 billion spending proposal the White House presented last week, which was divided between $1.25 billion in new funds and $1.25 billion taken from other accounts, such as an Ebola response fund. By contrast, the congressional bill is all new money.

Lawmakers of both parties viewed the initial White House spending proposal as inadequate to address the crisis at hand, in terms of both the monetary commitment and the public perception of how Congress and the White House were responding. Subsequently, Trump has said repeatedly that he’s open to signing off on however much money Congress sends him.

“We’re doing very well in terms of getting the funding we need, the necessary funding.

I asked for X and they want to give us more than X and that’s

OK,” Trump said Tuesday during a visit to the National Institutes of Health.

Intense negotiations have been under way for days among members of the Appropriations Committees in both chambers to finalize the spending bill. Last-stage talks got hung up over language Democrats sought to include to address vaccine affordability, which some Republicans viewed as inappropriate price controls. The issue was finally resolved on Wednesday.

The quick action on Capitol Hill underscores mounting concerns among lawmakers of both parties who are confronting growing alarm from their constituents and health care providers in their districts who are reporting inadequate testing ability. There are currently more than 100 coronavirus cases in the United States and nine deaths, all in Washington State. But some experts say the numbers of infections could be much larger if more people were being tested.

Democratic senators confronted Vice President Mike

‘Jeopardy!’ host Alex Trebek offers uplifting update on cancer fight

By Rob Tornoe The Philadelphia Inquirer (TNS)

“Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek had an uplifting message for fans as he marked the one-year anniversary of being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

“The one-year survival rate for Stage 4 pancreatic cancer patients is 18%,” Trebek said in a video shared on social media Wednesday morning.

“I’m very happy to report I have just reached that marker.”

The last year has been brutal at times for the 79-yearold game show host, who has remained on-air throughout treatments that often leave him in “great pain” and led to days where “certain bodily functions no longer functioned.”

Trebek also admitted to suffering from bouts of depression so severe, he questioned whether it was even worth going on. It’s something he hasn’t been shy about, revealing last year to “Good Morning America” co-host Robin Roberts — herself a cancer survivor — that there are times sudden sadness “brings tears to my eyes.”

But Trebek said giving up would’ve been a betrayal of his faith in God and of his wife, Jean, who has “given her all to help me survive.”

He also said it would’ve been a betrayal to cancer patients across the globe who look to him as an inspiration “and at times a cheerleader.”

“My oncologist tried to cheer me up the other day,”

Trebek noted. “He said, ‘Alex, even though the two-year survival rate is only 7%,’ he was certain one year from now the two of us would be sitting in his office celebrating my second anniversary of survival.”

“If I ... no. If we — because so many of us are involved in this same situation. If we just take it just one day at a time with a positive attitude, anything is possible,” Trebek added. “I’ll keep you posted.” (c)2020 The Philadelphia Inquirer Visit The Philadelphia Inquirer at www.inquirer.com Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

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By Abby and Gabby For Columbia-Greene Media

PRATTSVILLE — Remember to spring ahead one hour this weekend — March 7/8.

Hate to lose the hour but it signals spring and it is something we welcome.

And mentioning spring, heard from Mossy Stone Farms, Route 10 just past Dent Road, and they wanted all to know that they have opened their “CSA” for the season.

That stands for Community Supported Agriculture and they are selling shares in this season’s harvest. You get a bag of organic veggies (grown right here on the mountaintop!) every week for the share price. See more at https:// www.mossystonefarm.com.

They are a local “green” business and can vouch for their produce. They were set up on the Prattsville Town Green last summer.

As follow up to Albert O’Hara’s letter from France, circa 1919, heard from his granddaughter Erin O’Hara Meyer. “Thank you for posting this letter from Grandpa O’Hara. I have seen a couple of his letters that were posted in the newspaper at the time, but I think this is a different one. I got tears in my eyes as I read it. I can’t quite imagine the horror they experienced

— it’s amazing any of them returned. Great Uncle Tom’s grave is in Suresnes American Cemetery just outside of Paris.

We visited him this summer, as you mentioned, and it was a somber and emotional experience. He’s been there 100 years, dying just after the war ended in 1919. We learned that there were many soldiers who were kept overseas for “clean up” duties and many then died from the Spanish Flu/pneumonia. It was hard to hear that he had survived the war and then died of sickness — seems unfair. He does have a beautiful resting spot in the world — 1,500 men and women on a hillside overlooking Paris and the Eiffel Tower……

I’ll print this article and keep it in my files with all my other family history. I’ll pass my thanks on to Danny for sharing it.” We will be glad to share any family mementoes you have in your keepsake boxes.

Mason and Reese Chase, sons of Bonnie and Lester Chase, are fine example of our young men. Mason made the Dean’s List at RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology). His major is Civil Engineering and you know that status does not come easy. He will be serving an internship this summer in Mt. Pleasant and will complete his course with the 2020

fall semester. In the meantime, brother Reese has qualified to be the delegate for Boys State sponsored by the American Legion Virgil E. Deyo Post 1327, Prattsville. David Matteson, Gilboa, will also be attending. Every young man and young lady who has attended Boys State or Empire Girls State say it is one of the best experiences of their life. Reese and David join Ava Gockel as representatives from our area to these two special events sponsored by Post 1327 and Unit 1327, Prattsville.

Next weekend it is PETER PAN Jr. presented by the Gilboa Drama Club. Curtain times are 4 p.m. March 14 and 2 p.m. March 15 at the Gilboa Auditorium. $10 adult/$5 students and senior citizens.

The plays are funded separate from the school budget and donations are always welcome and needed. Booster $10-$25/sponsor $26-$50/patron-$50+. GCCS Drama Club, ATTN: Darcy Jaeger-Brand, 132 Wyckoff Rd, Gilboa, NY 12076.

March 7 it is Happy Birthday to two special ladies, Joan Lane Ehlers and Bonnie Chase. Scott Haskin is wished Happy Birthday on March 10.

Happy Birthday on March 12 to Brandon Grant Jr., Sandi Rion’s grandson.

Continuing the walk up Main Street

By Lula Anderson For Columbia-Greene Media

March blew in over the weekend. Blustery doesn’t even begin to describe the day.

It was so deceptive. Looking through my windows I saw blue skies and wonderful sunshine. Outside was a different story. It was even too cold to fly a kite. The great news is Daylight Savings Time starts next weekend. I can go back to my Thursday night meals with Rosie.

Ash Wednesday started the beginning of 40 days of Lent — a time of reflection and meditation. Maybe some of you would like to return to church for the season. The Windham Hensonville UMC has started daily prayer services at 7 a.m. Monday through Saturday. Prayer, meditation and a peaceful start to the day.

God is looking for you to come home.

What happened to my mother’s schoolhouse in East Windham in Harriet Ferrez yard. One day it was there, and next day gone. Has it been torn down? Moved? It just disappeared.

Take out your calendars and mark April 4 as a red letter day.

That’s the day of the WAJPL Golden Age Club Chinese Auction. This year it will be held at the VFW building on Route 23 the west side of Windham.

Doors open at 10 a.m., drawing starts at 2 p.m.

The WAJPL Golden Age Club is hosting a 5 day-4 nights May 11-15 trip to Williamsburg and Charlottesville with Berkeley Plantation and Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello. The package includes 4 breakfasts, buffet lunch at a historic tavern and 3 dinners. Plus guided tours.

Price is only $689 pp double occupancy. Limited availability so if interested, call MaryLouise at 518-622-3397.

The date of the Ashland Church ALL YOU CAN EAT BREAKFAST has been changed to March 28, due to the Fire Department’s chicken barbecue on March 21. Now you have 2 weeks that you don’t have to cook.

CARES AND CONCERNS Sympathy to Marie Cross on the loss of her daughter.

Condolences to the family of Rick Grinnell. Coralee is in the Pines after surgery. Prayers for George Clark, brother of

Nellis. Prayers for Ruth Christman and family of Helga Eisenlauer.

COMING EVENTS March 6 Fish Fry Hensonville Hose March 6-8 WAJ production “HONK.” March 8 Maple Fest breakfast at Christman’s Windham House.

March 13 Corned Beef sandwiches Windham UMC starts at 11 a.m.

March 21 BBQ Chicken Ashland Fire House starts at noon halves only.

March 28 All you can eat breakfast Ashland Church at the Ashland Town Hall 7-11 a.m.

March 31 Ecumenical Stations of the Cross Ashland Church 11 a.m. covered dish.

April 11 Pork dinner Prattsville Fire House $12.

April 25 Roast beef dinner Ashland Firehouse.

May 8 Pulled pork dandwiches Windham UMC 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

May 28 CommUnity dinner at St. Theresa’s.

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

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

AS I REMEMBER IT As I continue my walk up Main Street, I remember Merrill Austin having a red barn.

Oh, by the way, names are my nemisis. Last week I thought of Peg S, and immediately put in Scarey, knowing full well that Peg Sokoll was their daughter. Sorry for the mixup.

Any way, continuing, the next house, large, white, beautiful,

house, was Dora and Ernest Andrus with children Biff (Clifford), Clinton, Madeline and Donovan. The house then was owned by Dr. and Mrs. Haner, then Dianne Reynolds. I sit and ponder, wondering why I can’t think of first names, but at the time, all adults were Mr. and Mrs. We NEVER called anyone our parents age and older by their first names.

Next up the line was Crandell’s Garage (now the site of the Windham Fire Dept), Don was not just the owner, he was the go to guy. Need gas?

Don came out and pumped it, cleaned your windshield, checked the oil and other fluids, air pressure in your tires — if low, you pulled to the garage and he put air in for you.

All for free. Remember, gas at the time was 3 gallons for $1.

Need your car repaired? Oil changed? Just go on in and Don did the work in a jiffy.

He also sold Buicks. In 1957, I bought one from him. I had not been driving very long, and always counted on Don to keep an eye on things for me.

My first oil change, I got in the car to back it out of the garage, and never made it through.

I wound up taking the door frame with me. From then on, when my car was done, Don backed it out and parked it so I could just drive away.

The Quinn family lived next door with parents Dolly and Dick who had four children.

They also had a service station.

The Garden of Stone was their office and gathering place.

More memories next week.

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Upcoming fundraiser for the Zadock Pratt Museum

By Christine Dwon For Columbia-Greene Media

Our deepest sympathy and condolences to all the family and friends on the passing of Melissa Soule on Feb. 27.

The Ladies Auxiliary of the Town of Lexington Fire Company does not meet in March. Meetings second Tuesdays of the month will resume in April.

JoEllen Schermerhorn and George Slauson attended the Blue Men performance in Proctor’s on Feb. 29. After the show, they had a visit with JoEllen’s brother, Steve Van Etten.

Before heading back to Lexington, JoEllen and George enjoyed a delicious dinner in Albany.

Happy birthday wishes to Carol Constable on March 7. Also celebrating birthdays on March 7 are Michael Barcone and Glenn Ralph Hapeman. March 8 is Brian Wilson’s birthday. Diane Clarke celebrates her birthday on March 9. March 11 it’s happy birthday to Katelyn Dwon. Birthday wishes to Thelma Nelson March 12.

Best wishes to everyone.

A chicken barbecue by the Ashland Fire Department will be held beginning at noon March 21, takeouts only. Chicken halves for $7, first come, first served, no reservations. All proceeds from this event will be donated to the family of Deputy Kevin Haverly.

The first Greene County Public Health Department Rabies Clinic for 2020 will be held 6-8 p.m. March 25 at the Medway-Grapeville Firehouse, Route 51, New Baltimore. Public Health Law requires all cats, dogs and ferrets to be vaccinated for rabies starting at 12 weeks old (three months).

Bring record of pet’s previous vaccination to receive a three-year certificate. If no record is presented, pet will be given a one-year certificate. Dogs should be on a leash, cats and ferrets in a carrier. Please call ahead for ferrets. If you are feeding a stray cat or dog, please be sure to bring it for vaccination. Clinics are free, however, donations will be

accepted to defray program cost. Requested donation is $5 per animal. Veterinary services provided by New Baltimore Animal Hospital.

Please call Greene County Public Health Department at 518-719-3600 if you have questions.

The next Lexington Non-Partisan meeting will be held 6-7 p.m. March 28 in the Lexington/West Kill UMC Church, Route 13A, Lexington. JoEllen Schermerhorn will discuss the town government; get an update on the status of the Comprehensive Plan; find out about the progress of the reshaping of the website; get an update on the rehab center application and discuss town current events. All welcome.

Prayers for the family and friends of Melissa Soule, the Simpfenderfer family, the family of Rick Grinnell, the family of John Grinnell, Pastor Bob and Kate Barnum, Ellouise Cole, Marilyn and Nancy Dippold, Donna Falke, Betty Hapeman, Martha Hartman, Sally Hildebrand, Dale Klein, Janice Maben, Barbara and Bill Mead, Jannel Mellott, Pastor Bob and Diane Nash, Ellis and Betty Potter, Stephanie Pushman, Joan Rappleyea, Ann Robinson, Art and Joyce Rood, Ann Shoemaker, Clarence and Jeanne Soule, Tom Soule, Don and Diane Strausser, Dr. Dan Sullivan, Gladys Van Valkenburgh, Annette Waller, Debbie Wandursky, Mary and Ron Westman, Mickie Winters, our country, our government, our military and their families and all others in need of prayer.

The Springtime Fundraiser Brunch Event for the Zadock Pratt Museum will be held noon-2 p.m. March 29 at the Washington Irving Inn, 6629 Route 23A, Tannersville. Signature homemade food created and served up by hostess and innkeeper Stephanie Jozic, raffle baskets and Chinese Auction will make this an unforgettable experience.

The Zadock Pratt Museum is kicking off its 61st season with this Springtime Fundraiser in support of this

year’s renovation plans, groundbreaking exhibition dedicated to 19th century itinerant portrait painter Amos Hamlin and the launch of the Pratt Rock Park restoration project.

Tickets are $40 per person.

Reservations must be made in advance due to limited seating. Checks may be made payable to Pratt Museum and mailed to P.O. Box 333, Prattsville, NY 12468.

For more details, contact Suzanne Walsh at 518-9376120 or suzanwal5@aol. com, or the Museum at 518299-3395 or prattmuseum@ hotmail.com.

The Greene County Children, Youth and Community Advisory Board is again sponsoring the annual Greene County Youth Awards (Youth of the Year, Chairman’s Choice and Director’s Choice). The purpose of the awards are to recognize the outstanding contributions and achievements of Greene County youth who have made outstanding contributions in serving his/her community through leadership, knowledge, skill and/or service.

The dedication of these young people help make Greene County a better place for us all.

If you know a young person in Grade 9-12 who deserves this recognition, you can find a nomination form available on https:// www.greenegovernment. com/departments/humanservices/youth or you can contact the Greene County Department of Human Services at 518-719-3555. From the nominations received, the youth will be evaluated by the selection committee to determine this year’s winner. Any inquires for further information may also be directed to the department. Deadline for entries is March 31.

Daylight Saving Time starts March 8. Remember to turn your clocks AHEAD one hour.

Fourteen more days till Spring — maybe — according to the calendar.

Until next week take care, be thankful and please be kind to one and all.

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‘South of the Border’ Concert March 8

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BENNINGTON, Vt — On Sunday, March 8, at 4 p.m., Sage City Symphony will present its annnual Youth Concert at Greenwall Auditorium in the VAPA Building at Bennington College.

Admission is free and open to all.

The Youth Concert is part of Sage City Symphony’s Young Composers Project, in which a mentor works with college or high school students to write original compositions and score them for performance by the symphony. This year, new works by student composers

from Bennington College will be featured: “Romance and Desire” by Dre James, “Obani Pollux” by Sebastian Greer, and “Thimbo” by J. H. White.

Themed “South of the Border,” the program also will include “Kora Saba” (2014) by Michael Wimberly, “Danzón” by Robert Zimmerman, “Danzón No. 2”

by Arturo Márquez, and “Dances from Estancia” Op. 8a by Alberto Ginastera.

The final concert in Sage City Symphony’s 2019-20 season is the Spring Concert, followed by the Symphony’s Annual

Dinner, on May 17. The concert, as always, is free and open to all.

Reservations for the dinner - a full BBQ meal with all the trimmings for $25.00 per person, plus a cash bar - can be made by email at SageCity802@gmail. com.

About Sage City Symphony Led by music director Michael Finckel for the past 25 years, Sage City Symphony was founded in 1972 as a community and college orchestra with close ties to Bennington College. In addition to performing traditional classical repertoire

as well as contemporary music, the symphony commissions and premieres new pieces each year.

Information about joining the symphony is available at www.SageCitySymphony.org.

Sage City Symphony is a registered federal non-profit organization in the State of Vermont that relies entirely on generous donations, gifts in kind, grants, and volunteer services from individuals, local foundations, businesses, and sponsors. Concerts are always free and open to all.

15TH ANNUAL HANNAFORD KIDZ EXPO TO FEATURE BLACK PANTHER, CAPTAIN AMERICA, AND THE SMURFS FREE FAMILY EVENT AT THE EMPIRE STATE PLAZA ON SATURDAY, MARCH 7 ALBANY — New York State Office of General Services Commissioner RoAnn M. Destito today announced the 15th annual Hannaford Kidz Expo will take place on Saturday, March 7, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free for this event, which attracts thousands of children and parents to the Empire State Plaza.

Kids will find activities galore – many of them focusing on a healthy and active lifestyle. There will be meet and greets with characters from Star Wars, theater performances, a planetarium, arts and crafts, mini-golf, bounce rides, and even reptiles. Parents will find information from dozens of their favorite vendors in one convenient location: summer camps, photographers, and college savings plans, to name a few.

Also, a variety of food options will be available.

Exciting Activities for All Ages Among the new and featured attractions for the 2020 Hannaford Kidz Expo are: Meet and Greets with Black Panther and Captain America (The Egg’s Swyer Theatre) — A

superhero fan’s dream come true. Here is your chance to take pictures with and hang out with two of your favorite Avengers: Black Panther and Captain America.

The Smurfs: A Musical Playdate (Meeting Room 6) — A fun, interactive live show with three of your favorite Smurfs: Papa Smurf, Smurfette, and Clumsy Smurf! For over 60 years, The Smurfs have become a global phenomenon – their series, movies, and comic books have been translated in over 40 languages spanning 90 countries. Make sure you save the date for singing and dancing with The Smurfs and a chance to meet them up close and personal!

Hannaford Supermarkets Farmstand (Base of The Egg) — Fuel up with FREE Healthy Snacks at the Hannaford Supermarkets Farmstand.

STARLAB Planetarium presented by National Grid (North Concourse) — View the night sky and all its wonders with an astronomer.

Mountain Ridge Adventure Zipline (Convention Hall) — The Capital Region’s only treetop challenge course and

zip line park will be setting up an exciting zip line to try on the Convention Hall stage.

Country Karaoke with WGNA (Meeting Room 2) — Sing a country song, participate in a scavenger hunt, and win prizes with your favorite WGNA on-air talent.

Reptile Adventure (Meeting Rooms 3 – 4) — Stop by for a hands-on education and adventure with friendly animals and stranger-than-fiction facts.

Meet Our Heroes (North Concourse) — A chance to meet and learn about the people and programs that keep our communities safe, including a New York State Police interactive drone display, a New York State Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Services Special Ops utility task vehicle and interactive display, and the Albany Police Department Safe Child ID program.

Ninja Lab (Meeting Room 1) — Find your inner Ninja at this indoor obstacle course.

A great deal of entertainment and activities at the 2020 Hannaford Kidz Expo will be provided by performers and

organizations from the Capital Region community, including the Albany Berkshire Ballet and the Albany Charter School Drill Team.

Also, the Empire “Skate” Plaza Ice Rink will be open for free skating, weather permitting, and every Saturday at the rink is Hannaford Free Skate Rental Saturday. There will also be free learn-to-skate clinics presented by BlueShield of Northeastern. Pre-registration at empirestateplaza.ny.gov is required.

Paid visitor parking will be available in the visitor lot under the Empire State Plaza for $5, and free parking will be available in the East Garage on Philip Street off Madison Avenue.

For more information about this year’s Hannaford Kidz Expo and other events at the Empire State Plaza, visit us online at empirestateplaza. ny.gov and follow @PlazaEvents on Twitter and @EmpireStatePlaza on Facebook, or call the OGS Convention & Cultural Events Office at (518) 474-4759.

An imposter priest turns the other cheek

By Raymond Pignone Columbia-Greene Media

An extraordinary but problematic exercise in suffering and redemption, “Corpus Christi” presents life in Poland’s ravaged, economically dislocated youth population.

The story is told through the haunting eyes of Daniel (newcomer Bartolz Bienemia in a vivid, intense performance), a 20-year-old inmate of an isolated youth detention center hundreds of miles from Warsaw.

“Corpus Christi,” directed

by Jan Komasa and written by Mateusz Pacewicz, is a laborintensive movie that opens in a dingy, dusty sawmill where the young inmates work and, sometimes, take revenge on a rival.

Shot by talented American cinematographer Piotr Sobocinski Jr. in pallid greens and browns, the visual scheme emphasizes the purgatory-like quality of life in Poland’s draining, dead-end youth culture.

Daniel is released on parole and ordered to report to another sawmill some miles away for work and counseling. When

Bartolz Bienemia

he gets there, however, he despises what he sees and simply walks away. He drifts through the countryside until he arrives at a small village.

A chance encounter with a pretty teenage girl changes Daniel’s life. Their easy banter is one of the film’s virtues as they walk through the streets.

Daniel wanted to be priest, but no seminary will accept a young man with his record. So he jokes with the girl that he is a priest.

To Daniel’s surprise, she takes him seriously and brings him to the local church, where Father Tomasz, the real parish priest, invites Daniel to fill in for

him while he’s away. Relieved but frightened, Daniel accepts the invitation and impersonates a man of the cloth.

His free-spirited style and natural charm and generosity win over most of the villagers, and they, in turn, raise him up spiritually. The exception is a sorrowful handful of villagers (including his wary housekeeper) who still feel the pain of a tragedy that resulted in the deaths of six promising young people. Curious about the nature of the tragedy, Daniel investigates. He is rebuffed by the suffering villagers and the mayor, and the masquerade

starts to unravel.

“Corpus Christi” is marred by a talky middle section that sags while we spend much film time waiting for Daniel’s adversary to arrive, for the mayor to wise up to what’s happening and for Daniel to be exposed as a charlatan. It’s the modest visual palette that actually sharpens the contrast and movement from scene to scene.

The script reveals a few weaknesses as well. Daniel is presumably a member of a gang, but it is not explicit in the drama. The mystery of the makeshift shrine to the tragedy’s victims takes a bit too long to solve. And a few characters are either dramatically unclear or interchangeable. More successful is the film’s dry wit, best expressed when Daniel studies how to say a Mass by the light of his cell phone.

But the flaws don’t detract from the movie’s casual tone and calamitous sights — from the attempted torture of a boy in the sawmill to the astonishing final apocalypse of fire, smoke and screams.

TSL MOVIES MARCH 5 MARCH 12 n The Cordillera of Dreams — Winner of the Best Documentary award at the Cannes Film Festival.

Master filmmaker Patricio Guzmán investigates the relationship between historical memory, political trauma, and geography in his native country of Chile. The film centers on the imposing landscape of the Andes that run the length of the country’s Eastern border. At once protective and isolating, magisterial and indifferent, the Cordillera serves as an enigmatic focal point around which Guzmán contemplates the enduring legacy of the 1973 military coup d’état which overturned the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende. In Spanish with subtitles. 2019. 1h25m. n Fantastic Fungi — When so many are struggling for connection, inspiration, and hope, Fantastic Fungi brings us together as interconnected creators of our world.

A consciousness-shifting film that takes us on an immersive journey through time and scale into the magical earth beneath our feet, an underground network that can heal and save our planet. Through the eyes of renowned scientists and mycologists like Paul Stamets, best-selling authors Michael Pollan, Eugenia Bone, Andrew Weil, and others, we become aware of the beauty, intelligence, and solutions the fungi kingdom offers us in response to some of our most pressing medical, therapeutic, and environmental challenges. 2019. 1h21m. n Vitalina Varela — Winner of the Golden Leopard for Best Film and Best Actress prizes at the Locarno Film Festival, and an official selection of the Sundance, New York, and Toronto Film Festival, Vitalina Varela is the masterful new film from Pedro Costa. Vitalina Varela, 55-year-old, Cape Verdean, arrives in Lisbon three days after her husband’s funeral. She’s been waiting for her plane ticket for more than 25 years.

In Portuguese with subtitles. 2019.

2h4m. n Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint — Before Kandinsky, Mondrian, and Klee made a name for abstraction in visual art, another artist had already beat them to their discovery. Until recently, her name was absent from the history books.

Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (18621944) painted her first abstract canvas in 1906, four years before Wassily Kandinsky, thought to be the movement’s pioneer. It would be more than a century before she would receive the same acknowledgment and acclaim as her male peers. This absorbing documentary explores how such an exceptional woman could be erased from the art world, written out by an industry dominated by the idea of male “genius.” Af Klint may not have exhibited during her lifetime, but a recent retrospective of her paintings broke the Guggenheim Museum’s sixtyyear attendance record, suggesting that the world may finally be ready to rewrite history. In English, German, and Swedish with subtitles.

2019. 1h33m. n Mr. Klein (1976) — Directed by Joseph Losey (The Servant, The Go Between). In Occupied France, Mr. Klein (Alain Delon) exploits the situation of the Jews by buying and selling their works of art. When a Jewish man of the same name surfaces in Paris, Klein comes under suspicion and experiences the persecution of his countrymen firsthand. In French with subtitles. 1976. 2h3m. n Incitement — For the first time on screen and based on true events, acclaimed writer-director

Yaron Zilberman (A Late Quartet) chronicles the disturbing descent of a promising law student into a delusional ultranationalist obsessed with murdering his country’s leader, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

Incitement is a gripping and unnerving look through the eyes of a murderer who silenced a powerful voice for peace. In Hebrew with subtitles. 2019. 2h3m. n Balloon — Coinciding with the 30th anniversary of Germany’s reunification, Balloon is based on the true events of one of the most daring escapes of the Cold War. In the summer of 1979, the Strelzyk and Wetzel families try to flee East Germany in a self-made hot-air balloon. But after the balloon crashlands just before the West German border, the Stasi find traces of the attempted escape and immediately launch an investigation. In a nervewracking race against the clock, the two families attempt to build a new escape balloon as the Stasi get closer and closer each day. In German with subtitles. 2019. 2h5m.

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MARCH 5 Acting Classes for Ages 6 - 18 Columbia County Youth Theatre announces its Spring Enrichment schedule. The classes are activity based and focus on acting. Children’s Intro to Acting (ages 5 – 8) is presented in five sessions. Classes are held on Thursdays, from 5 p.m. to 6:15 p.m., and begin March 5th.

Physical Acting is a four-session program held on Wednesdays from 6:00pm to 8:00pm. Classes for ages 9-12 begin March 12, and classes for ages 13-18 begin April 22nd. All classes are held in Chatham.

For dates, times and an in-depth description of each class please visit ccyt.org or contact Edgar Acevedo at edgar@ccyt.org or at (518) 8212136.

MARCH 6 Peter Asher & Jeremy Clyde Friday, March 6, 8 PM Peter Asher of Peter & Gordon joins forces with Jeremy Clyde of Chad & Jeremy for an evening of music and memories featuring songs by their respective British Invasion duos “Distant Shores”, “Yesterday’s Gone” “Willow Weep For Me”, “Before and After”, “A Summer Song,” “Woman”, “I Go To Pieces”, “I Don’t Want To See You Again”, “Lady Godiva”, “A World Without Love.”

PURCHASE TICKETS ONLINE http:// www.theegg.org/event/peterasher-jeremy-clyde Opening Reception Friday, March 6, 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm Hilma af Klint — Af Klints exhilarating and mysterious work sets itself apart immediately from other contemporaries because it originates in a vibrant spiritual practice and an obvious clairvoyance that can draw on other sources of inspiration than the gaze out into just physically visible reality. Although highly skilled in representational painting, her defining life’s work comes from deep inner stirrings first initiated through seances, then through her study of Theosophy and finally Rudolf Steiner’s Anthroposophy. Af Klint’s artistic work derives from a wellspring of spiritual study, meditation and immersion in the larger ideas of existence, the universe and our place in it. Her paintings are not selfexpression, but an artistic language to make spiritual realities visible to others and possibly serve as a visual teaching tool.

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Charge up your car battery knowledge Vehicles consist of many essential components to keep them running efficiently and effectively. Car and truck owners should have an understanding of how their vehicles function so they can diagnose and address problems as they arise.

Car batteries are an important component of any vehicle. Even though engines are the powerhouse of any car or truck, without a battery, the engine wouldnÕt be able to work. According to Firestone Complete Auto Care, car batteries work by providing a jolt of electricity necessary to power all the electrical components of the vehicle. This is achieved through a chemical reaction that changes chemical energy into the electrical energy needed to deliver voltage to the starter. In addition to initially starting the car, the battery also keeps electric cur-

rent steady to keep the engine running.

The battery also works in conjunction with the alternator to power the electronics in the car, according to the automotive information blog Autosessive. While the car is running, the alternator reverses the current produced by the battery, recharging it as a result. This happens during long journeys, so people who drive for short bursts of time may find that their batteries will not have a chance to recharge and may not have the longevity desired.

There is quite literally a lot riding on a functioning battery. No one wants to be caught stranded by a dead battery, so drivers may wonder if there are any indicators that may signal the battery needs replacement. n Slow turnover: If a vehicle does not immediately start or

the fluid level is below the energy conductor inside, it is often indicative of overcharging and excessive heat. n Corrosion: Corrosion buildup, dust, dirt, and grime on battery connections may cause performance problems.

Inspecting and cleaning the terminals can prolong the battery life. n Odors and leaks: Battery leaks can produce a sulfur odor similar to the smell of a rotten egg. This can become problematic over time, and leaks may indicate an aging or damaged battery.

Learn the function of a car battery and how to keep it operational. if the cranking is sluggish and takes longer to start, it may mean the battery is starting to fail. n Frequent, short trips: Drivers who make frequent, short trips may find their car

batteries do not have time to fully recharge. This, coupled with overtaxing thanks to a lot of accessory use, may cause the battery and the alternator to have shortened life spans. n Low battery fluid levels: If

Wash your car like a pro to protect its value Vehicle owners know maintaining a vehicle can be a lot of work. Taking the time to properly care for a vehicle can prolong its life expectancy and help owners avoid breakdowns and other issues along the way.

Regular washing is an aspect of vehicle maintenance that some may classify as a purely cosmetic benefit.

Certainly a car wash can keep the vehicle looking its best, but there are other advantages to washing as well.

Washing offers preventative maintenance for the carÕs paint and can help prevent rust and corrosion resulting from dirt, acid rain and road salt. Rust can compromise hydraulic brake and fuel lines, as well as many moving parts in the chassis and frame. Corrosion of electrical connectors and other parts under the hood can lead to leaks, electrical shorts and a host of additional problems.

ItÕs easy to see how washing the car is more essential than one might have suspected.

If you live in an area with a high amount of dust or industry, you may need to wash your car as frequently as once a week. Drivers who live along or near coastal areas may need to wash their vehicles frequently to combat sea salt buildup. Garage-kept vehicles may be able to go longer between washes, but in general washing a vehicle every two to three weeks is a good rule of thumb. In addition, a good sealant will protect the paint and other trims throughout the year.

The following are some other car-wash tips to follow. n Always use a proper washing soap solution. This will preserve the carÕs finish better than other homemade soaps. Avoid using dishwashing liquid, which can strip protective wax coatings. n Be prompt when cleaning off bugs, sap and bird droppings that may stick to the paint and become difficult to remove over time. n Wait until a car has cooled down before washing. Heat speeds up the drying of soap and water and can make it more difficult to clean. n Always use a clean, non-abrasive sponge. Resist the urge to move the sponge in circles as you clean. Doing so can create noticeable swirl scratch marks. Instead, move the sponge lengthwise across the body panels and hood. n Keep a separate rinsing

bucket to clean the sponge or washing mitt so that dirt is not mixed into the clean, sudsy water. n Consumer Reports suggests using a soft squeegee to remove most of the water on the body of the car after washing and rinsing. Blot up any extra water with a chamois.

n Wax the car every season to ensure it has maximum protection. In between, apply a liquid spray wax to touch up spots. Water beading is not an ideal indicator of whether or not the car needs a coat of wax. n Don’t forget to pay attention to the interior. Vacuum the carpets regularly to

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Greenville’s Cullen Brothers make mark at States Columbia-Greene Media

GREENVILLE — Two years ago, Aidan Cullen became the first Greenville wrestler to qualify for the State tournament as a wild-card.

Last year he pinned his way through the section 2 regional qualifier to earn his first Sectional title. In 2020, he became a two-time Section Champ and had the privilege of bringing his brother and co-captain Kieran Cullen to the State Tournament as a wild-card.

These two brothers and teammates of Greenville Wrestling have been grappling together across the East coast for the past 10 years.

They joined Journeymen Wrestling when Aidan was eight and Kieran was four years old.

Prior to that they got their start wrestling with the Greenville Youth Club run by local pharmacist Marty Kelly.

That’s where they got hooked on the sport. Marty made it fun and inspired and encouraged them to get to the next level.

Greenville wrestling wouldn’t be where it is today if it hadn’t been for Marty

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Greenville’s Aidan Cullen finished fourth in the 132-pound weight class of Division II at this past weekend’s New York State Wrestling Championships in Albany.

who purchased the first wrestling mat and eventually donated it to the school.

Both boys would go on to compete in hundreds of local, regional and national

level tournaments where they worked to perfect their craft. Aidan would

eventually win a Gene Mills National title and Kieran became a NYWAY States finalist

as well as take third at Journeymen Nationals.

On Wednesday, February 18, the Cullens were advised that Kieran would be joining his older brother at States for his final season. That Saturday they would learn that Aidan would be the No. 5 seed at 132 pounds while Kieran would be the No. 6 seed at 1068 lbs. Greenville would have 2 State Qualifiers for the 1st time in school history.

In the 1st round Kieran came out on a mission and pinned the No. 11 seed in 1:29 sending a message that he was here for the podium.

He battled hard in the quarterfinals versus the No. 3 seed coming up short and sending him down into wrestle backs.

He made quick work with the 12 grader from Pearl River by pinning him and guaranteeing Kieran All-State status.

Aidan, who was in his brothers corner all day, went to work in the first round, pinning his opponent in 1:42.

His quarterfinal match would be against a Saranac wrestler that gave him his first loss of the season a month prior.

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Boone still hoping Judge will be ready for Opening Day Kristie Ackert New York Daily News

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Taconic Hills’ Delana Bonci signs a letter of intent to continue her academich and athletic career at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy as Titans girls track coach Paula Voight-Jause (far left), field hockey coach Angela Webster (second from left) and her Mom Judi and Dad Eric look on.

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CRARYVILLE — Mid-Hudson Athletic League field hockey Most Valuable Player Delana Bonci of Taconic Hills signed a letter of intent to continue her academic and athletic career at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on Monday.

Bonci, a four-year varsity player and team captain, tallied 15 goals this year

and assisted on 14 others. For her career, she scored 45 goals and collected 45 assists.

Along with being the 2019 MHL MVP, Bonci was the Titans’ two-time MVP and a first-team MHAL All-Star in 2018 and 2017.

“Delana has tremendous knowledge of the game and excellent decision making

skills under pressure,” Taconic Hills field hockey coach Angela Webster said. “Her love of the game is evident due to the amount of work and effort that she puts into each season.

“It has been a pleasure to coach, Delana, a player that is eager to learn and work

TAMPA, Fla. — Aaron Boone is still holding out hope that Aaron Judge will be in his lineup on Opening Day — even after Brian Cashman said it would be unlikely at this point. The Yankees manager said that he will not rule out Judge until they know what is ailing his right shoulder or pectoral area.

“I just, I don’t know. I mean, I think we’re gonna sit here and speculate.

I think it’s premature,” Boone said after the Yankees’ 9-1 win over the Red Sox at George M. Steinbrenner Field. “I understand you want the answer on it but, you know, the bottom line is (he’s) been doing better the last few days so until we get to the bottom of what exactly is going on. If anything, then we’ll have a better idea.”

Boone has been encouraged throughout this process that Judge is close to returning to baseball activities. Tuesday,

however, the slugger was not active. Instead, Judge had two more medical tests and by early evening, the Yankees were not revealing the results.

“I think most of the tests are being finished up today,” Boone said.

Earlier, before the game, Cashman has said it would be hard with just three-and-a-half weeks left in spring training to expect Judge to be ready for the March 26 opener in Baltimore.

“I don’t see it right now,” the GM said. “It’s more likely than not, I don’t see him ready by Opening Day, because of the time frame.”

Boone said that players can ramp up at different paces.

“I think it depends year in, year out, you know ... there were years where I felt great and it came kind of quick. There were other times where it took all the spring training and kind of searching for it,” Boone said. “You know, See BOONE B6

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Slow-starting Dellin Betances targeting Opening Day to be ready for Mets Anthony Rieber Newsday

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — In spring training 2019 with the Yankees, Dellin Betances downplayed a mysterious lack of velocity. Said he felt fine.

Ended up facing two batters all season, first because of a shoulder injury, and then because he blew out his Achilles.

Slow-forward to spring training 2020 with the Mets. Betances is trying to make it back in time for the March 26 season opener, but he hasn’t appeared in a game yet.

Betances pitched in a simulated game on Tuesday against Mets personnel, including Tim Tebow. Betances’ velocity was down, but this time it’s not much of a mystery why.

“I’m trying to throw a little more heaters so I can get the arm going the way I want to,”

Betances said. “Just trying to clear every hurdle before I get into games ... I’m trying to build up. I’m a slow starter, regardless. Also, I didn’t really pitch last year, so I’m kind of building up. But we have enough time for that.”

One of those hurdles is showing his once-crackling fastball is ready to get out big-league hitters. That didn’t appear to be the case on Tuesday, but Betances said: “I don’t think it matters. I’m going just try to build off every outing. But I know myself for a long time. I ANDY MARLIN/USA TODAY know right now it’s not coming out the way it would come out Former New York Yankees injured relief pitcher Dellin Betances in the season. It takes me a little (68) warms up prior to game one of a May 2019 doubleheader bit to get that going, but I feel against the Baltimore Orioles at Yankees Stadium. like everything’s been good.”

“You’ve just got to trust the what they have for you. They The Mets haven’t decided process, the plan,” Betances have a program built in. Just trywhen Betances will make his said.

“For me, I would have ing to clear every hurdle before spring training debut. It’s hoped to have pitched last they put me out there.” something he would have liked to have done already.

And Opening Day? week, but you’ve got to trust

“Yeah, that’s the goal,” Betances said. “That was my goal all offseason. I’ve worked really hard to get to this point, so I don’t see why it wouldn’t be realistic.”

Betances, 31, signed a oneyear contract worth a guaranteed $10.5 million (with various incentives and options) that could be worth as much as $14.5 million.

In 2018, his last full season, Betances went 4-6 with a 2.70 ERA and four saves in 66 games for the Yankees. In 66 2/3 innings, he struck out 115.

The Mets would like to add that kind of stuff to the back of their bullpen — if Betances’ stuff comes back. On paper, the bullpen crew of Edwin Diaz, Betances, Jeurys Familia, Seth Lugo, Robert Gsellman, Brad Brach and lefthander Justin Wilson could be as good as any in baseball.

Betances, as the only new addition, could be the biggest difference-maker.

“So much depth in our bullpen with guys that have closing experience,” manager Luis Rojas said. “It’s just options to have guys like that pitching earlier in games. He would be another guy with that experience, so, yeah, it would be definitely of a lot of value if he breaks with the team.”

Lugo hasn’t pitched in a spring training game yet after breaking his toe last month in a freak hotel room accident, but he is hopeful he’ll make his debut soon.

Gsellman threw two innings and allowed one run on Tuesday in the Mets’ 6-1 loss to the Marlins at Clover Park. Familia and Brach each threw a scoreless inning to continue their unblemished springs.

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Pro hockey Eastern Conference Atlantic Division GP W L OT SO Pts Boston 67 42 13 5 7 96 Tampa Bay 66 41 20 5 0 87 Toronto 66 35 23 4 4 78 Florida 66 33 26 3 4 73 Montreal 68 31 28 8 1 71 Buffalo 66 29 29 6 2 66 Ottawa 67 23 32 7 5 58 Detroit 68 15 48 3 2 35 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT SO Pts Washington 65 40 19 4 2 86 Philadelphia 65 38 20 2 5 83 Pittsburgh 65 38 21 6 0 82 NY Islanders 65 35 22 6 2 78 Columbus 67 32 21 10 4 78 Carolina 64 35 24 5 0 75 NY Rangers 66 35 27 2 2 74 New Jersey 65 26 27 6 6 64 Western Conference Central Division GP W L OT SO Pts St. Louis 67 40 17 7 3 90 Colorado 65 40 18 6 1 87 Dallas 66 37 21 5 3 82 Winnipeg 68 34 28 4 2 74 Minnesota 66 33 26 4 3 73 Nashville 66 32 26 5 3 72 Chicago 66 30 28 4 4 68 Pacific Division GP W L OT SO Pts Edmonton 67 36 23 6 2 80 Vegas 67 36 23 6 2 80 Calgary 67 34 26 6 1 75 Vancouver 65 34 25 3 3 74 Arizona 67 32 27 4 4 72 San Jose 65 28 33 3 1 60 Anaheim 66 26 32 7 1 60 Los Angeles 66 25 35 3 3 56 Monday’s games Colorado 2, Detroit 1 Edmonton 8, Nashville 3 Tuesday’s games Montreal 6, NY Islanders 2 St. Louis 3, NY Rangers 1 Pittsburgh 7, Ottawa 3 Boston 2, Tampa Bay 1 Minnesota 3, Nashville 1 Winnipeg 3, Buffalo 1 Chicago 6, Anaheim 2 Edmonton 2, Dallas 1, OT New Jersey at Vegas, 10 p.m.

Toronto at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.

Wednesday’s games Philadelphia at Washington, 7 p.m.

Columbus at Calgary, 8:30 p.m.

Anaheim at Colorado, 9:30 p.m.

Arizona at Vancouver, 10:30 p.m.

Thursday’s games Pittsburgh at Buffalo, 7 p.m.

Montreal at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m.

Boston at Florida, 7 p.m.

Washington at NY Rangers, 7 p.m.

Carolina at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.

NY Islanders at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m.

Dallas at Nashville, 8 p.m.

Edmonton at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.

Toronto at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.

Minnesota at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.

GF GA 220 168 231 185 233 218 224 224 209 209 189 208 181 231 136 257 GF GA 226 199 220 190 211 181 183 181 175 179 207 183 218 206 177 216 GF GA 216 185 223 173 178 170 204 199 209 207 208 215 201 209 GF GA 214 205 216 202 201 206 214 204 187 178 169 209 170 211 164 206

Pro basketball NBA Eastern Conference Atlantic W L Pct Toronto 43 18 .705 Boston 41 19 .683 Philadelphia 37 24 .607 Brooklyn 27 33 .450 New York 19 42 .311 Central W L Pct Milwaukee 52 9 .852 Indiana 37 24 .607 Chicago 21 40 .344 Detroit 20 42 .323 Cleveland 17 44 .279 Southeast W L Pct Miami 39 22 .639 Orlando 27 34 .443 Washington 22 37 .373 Charlotte 21 40 .344 Atlanta 19 44 .302 Western Conference Northwest W L Pct Denver 41 20 .672 Utah 38 22 .633 Oklahoma City 37 24 .607 Portland 27 35 .435 Minnesota 18 42 .300 Pacific W L Pct L.A. Lakers 46 13 .780 L.A. Clippers 42 19 .689 Sacramento 26 34 .433 Phoenix 24 38 .387 Golden State 14 48 .226 Southwest W L Pct Houston 39 21 .650 Dallas 37 25 .597 Memphis 30 31 .492 San Antonio 26 34 .433 New Orleans 26 35 .426 Monday’s games Utah 126, Cleveland 113 New York 125, Houston 123 Portland 130, Orlando 107 Memphis 127, Atlanta 88 Miami 105, Milwaukee 89 Chicago 109, Dallas 107 Indiana 116, San Antonio 111 Tuesday’s games San Antonio 104, Charlotte 103 Brooklyn 129, Boston 120, OT Minnesota 139, New Orleans 134 L.A. Clippers 109, Oklahoma City 94 Golden State 116, Denver 100 Toronto 123, Phoenix 114 Philadelphia at L.A. Lakers, 10 p.m.

Washington at Sacramento, 10 p.m.

Wednesday’s games Boston at Cleveland, 7 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Detroit, 7 p.m.

Indiana at Milwaukee, 7 p.m.

Orlando at Miami, 7:30 p.m.

Memphis at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m.

Utah at New York, 7:30 p.m.

Chicago at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

New Orleans at Dallas, 9:30 p.m.

Washington at Portland, 10 p.m.

Thursday’s games Denver at Charlotte, 7 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Houston, 8 p.m.

Philadelphia at Sacramento, 10 p.m.

Toronto at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.

GB — 1.5 6.0 15.5 24.0 GB — 15.0 31.0 32.5 35.0 GB — 12.0 16.0 18.0 21.0 GB — 2.5 4.0 14.5 22.5 GB — 5.0 20.5 23.5 33.5 GB — 3.0 9.5 13.0 13.5

Transactions BASEBALL AMERICAN LEAGUE Minnesota Twins - Assigned CF Lane Adams to the Minnesota Twins.

Tampa Bay Rays - Assigned LF Carl Chester to the Tampa Bay Rays.

Texas Rangers - Assigned 2B Derwin Barreto, 1B Tyreque Reed, and RHP Austin Bibens-Dirkx to the Texas Rangers.

NATIONAL LEAGUE Arizona Diamondbacks - Assigned RHP Justin Donatella to the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Chicago Cubs - Assigned RHP Lincoln Henzman to the Chicago White Sox. Miami Marlins - Assigned SS Joe Dunand to the Miami Marlins.

San Diego Padres - Assigned C Jose Lezama to the San Diego Padres.

FOOTBALL NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE Carolina Panthers - Named Sean Padden vice president of football operations.

Cleveland Browns - Named Ben Bloom senior defensive assistant.

Washington Redskins - Signed TE Marcus Baugh.

NCAA FOOTBALL Alabama - Named David Ballou strength & conditioning coach.

Alabama - Named Matt Rhea director of performance science.

Kansas - Announced RB Dom Williams left the program and will transfer to Northern Iowa.

Mississippi - Named Matt Lindsey general manager.

Nevada - Signed head coach Jay Norvell to a five-year, $3.125 million contract extension.

BASKETBALL NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Charlotte Hornets - Signed PG Joe Chealey to a second 10-day contract.

Golden State Warriors - Signed PG Chasson Randle to a 10-day contract.

Oklahoma City Thunder - Recalled SG Isaiah Roby from Oklahoma City (NBAGL).

Orlando Magic - Assigned SG Melvin Frazier Jr. to Lakeland (NBAGL).

NCAA BASKETBALL California - Announced F Jacobi Gordon has left the program and is expected to transfer to another school.

HOCKEY NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE Dallas Stars - Recalled G Jake Oettinger from Texas (AHL).

Detroit Red Wings - Assigned D Dennis Cholowski to Grand Rapids (AHL).

Edmonton Oilers - Activated LW James Neal from injured reserve.

NBA roundup: LeVert scores 51 as Nets top Celts in OT Field Level Media

Caris LeVert scored a career-high 51 points, 37 from the fourth quarter on, as the Brooklyn Nets rallied from 21 points down to stun the host Boston Celtics 129-120 in overtime Tuesday.

LeVert shot 17 of 26 from the field and scored all 11 of the Nets’ points in the extra period as they overcame 21 turnovers to snap a four-game losing streak.

Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot added 16 points off the bench for Brooklyn.

Jaylen Brown had 22 points, and Kemba Walker scored 21 in his return from five games missed with a knee injury for the Celtics, who have lost backto-back games for the first time since Jan. 16-18.

The Nets scored a franchise-record 51 points in the fourth quarter to overcome a 71-50 deficit with 6:28 left in the third quarter. They entered the fourth down 84-67.

Lakers 120, 76ers 107 Anthony Davis had 37 points, 13 rebounds and four steals as Los Angeles defeated Philadelphia, who lost its ninth consecutive road game.

Davis converted 13 of 19 shots from the floor, including 4 of 5 from 3-point range. LeBron James contributed 22 points for the Lakers, who have won nine of their last 10 games. The 76ers lost their ninth straight road game.

Glenn Robinson III scored 25 points to lead the 76ers, and Tobias Harris added 18. The Lakers outshot the Sixers 53.5 percent to 44.7 percent from the floor.

Clippers 109, Thunder 94 Kawhi Leonard scored 25 points to lift Los Angeles to a win at Oklahoma City.

The victory was the fifth consecutive for the Clippers, their second-longest winning streak of the season. During the streak, Los Angeles has averaged 120.6 points per game.

The Thunder have dropped back-toback games. Dennis Schroder led Oklahoma City with 24 points, including 13 in the first half.

Timberwolves 139, Pelicans 134 Malik Beasley scored 28 points and D’Angelo Russell added 23 to lead eight Minnesota players in double figures during a win at New Orleans.

James Johnson scored 19, Juancho Hernangomez had 16, rookie Naz Reid had his first double-double with 13

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Brooklyn Nets guard Caris LeVert (22) drives against Boston Celtics point guard Carsen Edwards (4) during Tuesday’s game at TD Garden.

points and a career-high 14 rebounds for Minnesota, which made 14 of 34 3-point attempts and shot 55.7 percent from the floor. Jordan McLaughlin scored 13 points, and Jarrett Culver and Josh Okogie had 11 each.

Jrue Holiday had 27 points and 12 assists, Lonzo Ball scored 26, rookie Zion Williamson scored 25, Brandon Ingram had 24, Josh Hart 11 and Derrick Favors contributed 10 apiece for the Pelicans.

Spurs 104, Hornets 103 San Antonio overcame a horrid beginning without its coach and then held on without scoring in the final two minutes of a narrow victory over host Charlotte.

With Spurs coach Gregg Popovich missing the game, the Spurs received 21 points from Dejounte Murray to win a night after a home loss to Indiana.

Terry Rozier topped the Hornets with 20 points.

Popovich was absent from the game due to what the team termed as personal business. Assistant coach Tim

Duncan, a legendary former player for San Antonio, directed the Spurs.

Raptors 123, Suns 114 Pascal Siakam scored 33 points, and visiting Toronto rallied past Phoenix to end a three-game losing streak.

The Raptors trailed by 17 points during the second quarter and were behind by seven at halftime before taking a one-point lead into the fourth quarter.

Kyle Lowry added 28 points for the Raptors, who have won six straight meetings with the Suns. Devin Booker scored 22 points for Phoenix, who have lost four straight.

Warriors 116, Nuggets 110 Andrew Wiggins had 22 points and 10 assists as visiting Golden State beat Denver.

Eric Paschall also scored 22 while Marquese Chriss scored 16 points, Mychal Mulder and Jordan Poole had 15 apiece, and Dragan Bender added 14 for Golden State. The Warriors outscored Denver 67-36 to end the game to get just their seventh road win of the

season.

Denver’s Paul Millsap had 18 points and nine rebounds in his return to the lineup after sitting out one game due to an ankle injury. Will Barton also had 18 points. Nikola Jokic finished with 16 points and 13 rebounds.

Kings 133, Wizards 126 Harry Giles III broke a late tie with consecutive baskets as host Sacramento beat Washington.

De’Aaron Fox had a team-high 31 points for the Kings, who led by as many as 28 points in the second quarter before blowing it in a third period that saw Sacramento head coach Luke Walton ejected.

The Wizards used a 46-point thirdquarter explosion to rally into a 95-all tie and the game was deadlocked at 97 and 99 before Giles’ two big baskets gave the Kings the lead for good. Washington’s Bradley Beal finished with 35 points and eight assists.

NHL roundup: DeBrusk, Bruins edge Lightning Field Level Media

Boston’s Jake DeBrusk scored the game-winning goal in his 200th NHL game Tuesday night, sending the Bruins to a 2-1 win over the host Tampa Bay Lightning in a matchup of the Eastern Conference’s top two clubs.

Brad Marchand notched his 28th marker, and Torey Krug, David Pastrnak and Charlie Coyle assisted on goals for Boston, which earned its league-best 42nd victory and has won 14 of 17, including three in a row.

Tuukka Rask stopped 20 of 21 shots to go to 12-3-1 in his last 16 games.

Tampa Bay’s Mitchell Stephens scored, and Tyler Johnson and Barclay Goodrow recorded helpers. Goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy posted 33 saves for the Lightning, who fell to 1-5-1 in their past six games KIM KLEMENT/USA TODAY since an 11-game win streak. Tampa Bay Lightning defenseman Zach Bogosian (24) defends Boston Bruins left wing Jake DeBrusk Canadiens 6, Islanders 2 (74) during Tuesday’s game at Amalie Arena.

Brendan Gallagher scored to start a first-period flurry period and an assist for St. first shutout of the season, assists from Adam Boqvist. for visiting Montreal, which Louis. Schwartz added an and William Karlsson and Corey Crawford, who has alcruised past New York. empty-net goal with six sec- Max Pacioretty each had a lowed two goals or fewer in 11 Jeff Petry and Charles onds left. Mika Zibanejad goal and an assist to lead Ve- of his past 16 starts for ChicaHudon also scored in the scored a power-play goal in gas to a victory over New Jer- go, made 37 saves for the win. first period, and Paul Byron the first period for the Rang- sey in Las Vegas.

Anaheim’s John Gibson scored in the second. Jordan ers, who dropped their third Ryan Reaves also scored a stopped 19 of 24 shots before Weal and Joel Armia added straight game. goal for Vegas. It was the ninth Ryan Miller entered in relief goals late in the third for the Penguins 7, Senators 3 win in the past 10 games for and stopped 15 of 16 shots.

Canadiens, who have won Bryan Rust had a hat trick the Golden Knights. Lehner, The Ducks started a twotwo straight and four of six (4- as Pittsburgh topped visiting playing in his 300th career game road back-to-back with 1-1). Goalie Carey Price made Ottawa to end a six-game los- NHL game and second with their sixth loss in eight games.

20 saves. ing streak.

Vegas after being acquired Jets 3, Sabres 1 Brock Nelson and Ryan PuPittsburgh’s top line com- from Chicago at the trade Kyle Connor recorded two lock scored in the third period bined for eight points: Sid- deadline, finished with 27 goals and an assist to lead for the Islanders, who have ney Crosby and Jason Zucker saves for his 15th career shut- Winnipeg over visiting Buflost four straight (0-2-2) and each had a goal and two as- out. falo. eight of 10 (2-6-2). sists, and Conor Sheary had Mackenzie Blackwood Connor’s 34th and 35th Blues 3, Rangers 1 a goal and an assist. Crosby’s made 29 saves for the Dev- goals of the season set a caBrayden Schenn scored the second assist made him the ils, who had a six-game point reer high for the Winnipeg tiebreaking goal with 10:04 sixth fastest in NHL history to streak snapped, tied for their forward, who has scored in remaining in the third period, 800, in 980 games. longest of the season. each of his past four games. and surging St. Louis extendJohn Marino also scored Blackhawks 6, Ducks 2 Tucker Poolman scored a ed its winning streak to eight and Evgeni Malkin had four Dylan Strome had two short-handed goal for the games with a win over host assists for Pittsburgh. Goal- goals and an assist, and Pat- Jets, and Connor Hellebuyck New York. tender Matt Murray made 23 rick Kane and Alex Nylander saved 25 of 26 shots to earn Schenn scored for the fifth saves. Jayce Hawryluk, Brady each had a goal and an assist the win. straight game and reached 25 Tkachuk and Connor Brown as host Chicago earned its The Sabres, who got a goal goals for the fourth time in his scored, and Craig Anderson third straight victory with a from Rasmus Ristolainen, career by scoring on a fluky made 28 saves for Ottawa, rout of Anaheim. have lost four consecutive play. which had won two straight.

David Kampf and Drake games, all during a nightColton Parayko had a powGolden Knights 3, Devils 0 Caggiula also scored for the marish road trip. Buffalo has er-play goal in the second Robin Lehner notched his Blackhawks, who got two been outscored 15-7 over that

0-4-0 stretch.

Wild 3, Predators 1 Kevin Fiala had a goal and an assist for his fifth straight multi-point game, and Zach Parise scored in his third straight as Minnesota beat Nashville in Saint Paul, Minn.

Luke Kunin returned from a five-game injury absence to score his 14th of the season for the Wild, who have won six of eight and are amid a 104-1 stretch while moving one point ahead of the Predators in the race for playoff position in the Western Conference.

Alex Stalock made 37 saves for his fifth victory in his last six starts for Minnesota. The Predators have dropped three straight following a 6-11 stretch since last March.

Craig Smith scored for Nashville.

Oilers 2, Stars 1 (OT) Alex Chiasson scored 1:08 into overtime to lift visiting Edmonton to a victory over Dallas.

Ryan Nugent-Hopkins celebrated his 600th NHL game by scoring a power-play goal, and Mikko Koskinen made 42 saves for the Oilers, who have won three in a row.

Defenseman John Klingberg scored a power-play goal and Anton Khudobin finished with 25 saves to fall to 6-1-1 at home this season for the Stars, who have dropped three in a row following a 7-11 stretch.

Sharks 5, Maple Leafs 2 Evander Kane scored two goals, and San Jose stretched its winning streak to three games with a victory over visiting Toronto.

Antti Suomela and Stefan Noesen each had a goal and an assist, and Martin Jones made 25 saves for the Sharks, who have won three in a row for the first time since November. Radim Simek contributed an empty-net goal.

The Maple Leafs got a goal and an assist from Auston Matthews plus a goal from Mitchell Marner. Jack Campbell stopped 33 shots.

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James Dolan vs. Spike Lee is a battle the Knicks can’t win Stefan Bondy New York Daily News

NEW YORK — Welcome to the Knicks, Leon Rose. This is what you’re dealing with.

To be fair, Rose should’ve known about the operating procedures at MSG, having represented Carmelo Anthony for all the years of dysfunction and sideshows. It’s not a normal NBA franchise. Eventually, it crushes all that is promising.

And no matter what is woven into PR-crafted letters to season ticket holders, there’s really only one goal at the Madison Square Garden Company: protect James Dolan and bend to his illogic.

That’s it.

It’s why Steve Mills was allowed to lose one billion games as an executive but couldn’t survive the fans chanting “Sell the Team.” It’s why Marv Albert isn’t invited to the 50th anniversary celebration of the 1970 championship, and why Charles Oakley was dragged out of the arena in handcuffs.

It’s why the Knicks, despite all that seems rational and competent

about brand building, are at war against Spike Lee. “I’m being harassed by James Dolan,” Lee said Tuesday on ESPN’s “First Take.” “I don’t know why.”

Here’s what set off the latest embarrassing chain of events: Lee arrived for Monday night’s game against the Rockets through the employee entrance. The franchise’s most prominent fan has always used that entrance, but said he was told by security he needed to leave the arena and go another way. An argument ensued and Lee shouted, among other things, “If you want to arrest me like Oakley, go ahead. ... “ It was caught on camera and turned viral. Lee said he was escorted to another floor before taking his seat and watching the Knicks beat the Rockets, 125123.

Lee claimed he was ready to drop the whole incident. But then he caught wind of the Knicks’ version of the events through the media — specifically that Dolan resolved the issue by speaking with Lee at

halftime — and called ESPN. “This is Garden spin,” Lee said.

So what happened with the owner at halftime?

“Dolan comes up to me, I said, ‘Mr. Dolan, I don’t want to talk about nothing. I’ve been coming through this entrance for 20 years,’” Lee said. “He said we have to talk. I said, ‘Talk about what?’

I have been coming here for 20 years? Why was I not notified (that I couldn’t)?.’

“He says, ‘Now you know.’”

Lee took umbrage with the story that he shook hands with Dolan at halftime. His interview prompted a biting statement Tuesday afternoon from the Knicks, along with a photo of Lee shaking hands with Dolan on the court: “The idea that Spike Lee is a victim because we have repeatedly asked him to not use our employee entrance and instead use a dedicated VIP entrance — which is used by every other celebrity who enters The Garden — is laughable,” the statement read. “It’s disappointing that Spike would create this false

spending $300,000 on tickets this season). If Spike Lee’s not feeling respected at Madison Square Garden, there’s an image problem.

“This doesn’t happen to Jack Nicholson (in L.A.),” Lee said. “This doesn’t happen to Drake (in Toronto).”

No matter the circumstances, a back-and-forth with Lee, the most accomplished of all African-American filmmakers, is a nonsensical battle for the Knicks. Whereas Monday there was goodwill due to Rose’s first official game being an upset victory over the Rockets, Tuesday became a reminder on national TV that the Knicks are a train-wreck and James Dolan is the owner.

“In my heart I’m still the kid that was sneaking in the Garden. I love the Knicks,” Lee said. “It’s a shame.

You look up and see the banner from 72-73. That’s the last time we had a banner. Am I going to die before we get another banner? Is my son going to die before we get another banner?”

controversy to perpetuate drama.

He is welcome to come to The Garden anytime via the VIP or general entrance; just not through our employee entrance, which is what he and Jim agreed to last night when they shook hands.”

It’s hard to believe Lee is making ALL this up. What would be his purpose? To sabotage his beloved team? The Knicks, on the other hand, have a long history of spinning tales to suit their narrative. (A Knicks spokesman once told me that Joakim Noah, a noted pacifist, wasn’t wearing the team-issued ‘Military Appreciation Day’ socks because they didn’t have his size).

But let’s say Lee was out of line Monday night and unnecessarily turned combative with security.

It’s certainly possible. Rich celebrities have a tendency of acting entitled.

With that being said, Lee is not the average fan — not even the average celebrity fan — after 20-plus years as a season-ticket holder and serving as the franchise’s unofficial spokesman (Lee estimated

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

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

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

Purpose: To engage in any lawful activity.

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

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

Purpose: Any Lawful Purpose.

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

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

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

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

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LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of process to: Imaginary Artisans LLC, 30 Liberty Street Apt 2R Catskill, NY 12414. Purpose: Any lawful acts or activities. Latest date upon which LLC is to dissolve: No specific date LEGAL NOTICE to the residents of the Catskill Central School District TRANSPORTATION REQUESTS Requests for transportation to non-public/private, parochial schools and child care centers for the 20202021 school year must be completed and returned to the Catskill Central School District no later than April 1, 2020. Separate request forms must be completed for each school. State law requires submission of requests for transportation by April 1 of each year. If a child’s placement or acceptance at a particular school has not been finalized, return a completed request form in anticipation of attendance. Late submittal could jeopardize your child’s right to transportation. New residents must submit a written request within 30 days of establishing residency in the district. Questions may be directed to and forms obtained from Catskill Central School District Transportation Office 347 West Main Street, Catskill, NY 12414.

(518)943-2300 x1472 By order of the Board of Education Catskill Central School District Holly Sanford District Treasurer Notice of Formation of 335 Main Street LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 8/10/18. Office location: Greene County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: c/o The LLC, 550 Biltmore Way, Ste 1110, Coral Gables, FL 33143. Purpose: any lawful activity.

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

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NOTICE CONCERNING THE EXAMINATION OF ASSESSMENT INVENTORY AND VALUATION DATA (Pursuant to Real Property Tax Law section 501) Notice is hereby given that assessment inventory and valuation data is available for examination and review.

This data is the information that will be used to establish the assessment of each parcel, which will appear on the Tentative Assessment Roll for the TOWN OF STUYVESANT which will be filed on or before May 1, 2020.

The information may be reviewed by appointment in the Assessor’s office at 5 Sunset Drive, Stuyvesant, NY on March 13, 2020, between the hours of 9 am and 12 pm, and on March 20, 2020, between the hours of 9 am and 12 pm. An appointment may be made to review the assessment information by telephoning the Assessor’s office at 518-758-6248.

Dated: February 8, 2020 Lynn C. Hotaling Assessor NOTICE CONCERNING THE EXAMINATION OF ASSESSMENT INVENTORY AND VALUATION DATA (Pursuant to Real Property Tax Law section 501) Notice is hereby given that assessment inventory and valuation data is available for examination and review.

This data is the information that will be used to establish the assessment of each parcel, which will appear on the Tentative Assessment Roll for the TOWN OF GHENT which will be filed on or before May 1, 2020.

The information may be reviewed by appointment in the Assessor’s office at 2306 State Rte. 66, Ghent, NY on March 11, 2020 between the hours of 9 am and 1 pm, and on March 18, 2020 between the hours of 9 am and 1 pm. An appointment may be made to review the assessment information by telephoning the Assessor’s office at 518-392-4644 Dated: day of February 5, 2020 Lynn C. Hotaling Assessor Index No. 9495 – 15 STATE OF NEW YORK, COUNTY COURT : COLUMBIA COUNTY PETITION AND NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE In the Matter of the Foreclosure of Tax Liens by Proceeding In Rem pursuant to Article Eleven of the Real

Property Tax Law by the County of Columbia PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on the 6th day of February, 2020, Paul J. Keeler, Jr., County of Columbia Treasurer, hereinafter, the “Enforcing Officer� of the County of Columbia, hereinafter, the “Tax District,� pursuant to law, filed with the Clerk of the County of Columbia, a petition of foreclosure against various parcels of real property for unpaid taxes. The above-captioned proceeding is hereby commenced to enforce the payment of delinquent taxes or other lawful charges which have accumulated and become liens against certain property. The parcels to which this proceeding applies are identified on Schedule A of this Petition, which is annexed hereto and made a part hereof.

This document serves both as a Petition of Foreclosure and a Notice of Foreclosure for purposes of this proceeding. Effect of filing: All persons having or claiming to have an interest in the real property described in this petition are hereby notified that the filing of this petition constitutes the commencement by the Tax District of a proceeding in the court specified in the caption above to foreclose each of the tax liens therein described by a foreclosure proceeding in rem. Nature of proceeding: This proceeding is brought against the real property only and is to foreclose the tax liens described in this petition. No personal judgment will be entered herein for such taxes or other legal charges or any part thereof. Persons affected: This notice is directed to all persons owning or having or claiming to have an interest in the real property described in this petition. Such persons are hereby notified further that a duplicate of this petition has been filed in the office of the Enforcing Officer of the Tax District and will remain open for public inspection up to and including the date specified below as the last day for redemption. Right of redemption: Any person having or claiming to have an interest in any such real property and the legal right thereto may on or before said date redeem the same by paying the amount of all such unpaid tax liens thereon, including all interest and penalties and other legal charges which are included in the lien against such real property, computed to and including the date of redemption. Such payments shall be made to Paul J. Keeler, Jr., Columbia County

Treasurer, 15 North 6th Street, Hudson, New York 12534. In the event that such taxes are paid by a person other than the record owner of such real property, the person so paying shall be entitled to have the tax liens affected thereby satisfied of record.

Last day for redemption: The last day for redemption is hereby fixed as the 8th day of May, 2020. Service of answer: Every person having any right, title or interest in or lien upon any parcel of real property described in this petition may serve a duly verified answer upon the attorney for the Tax District setting forth in detail the nature and amount of his or her interest and any defense or objection to the foreclosure. Such answer must be filed in the Office of the County Clerk and served upon the attorney for the Tax District on or before the date above mentioned as the last day for redemption. Failure to redeem or answer: In the event of failure to redeem or answer by any person having the right to redeem or answer, such person shall be forever barred and foreclosed of all his or her right, title and interest and equity of redemption in and to the parcel described in this petition and a judgment in foreclosure may be taken by default.

Dated: February 6, 2020 Enforcing Officer: Paul J. Keeler, Jr., Columbia County Treasurer State of New York, County of Columbia: I, Paul J. Keeler, Jr., being duly sworn, depose and say: I am the Enforcing Officer for the County of Columbia. I have read this Petition which I have signed, and I am familiar with its contents.

The contents of this Petition are true to the best of my knowledge, based upon the records of the Columbia County Treasurer’s Office. I do not know of any errors or omissions in the Petition.

Paul J. Keeler, Jr., Columbia County Treasurer Sworn to before me this 6th day of February, 2020.

LISA R. BRIGHTLY Notary Public • State Of New York, No. 01BR6068994, Qualified in Columbia County, Commission Expires January 22, 2022 Attorney for the Tax District: Christopher J. Watz, Esq., Assistant County Attorney, Columbia County Attorney, 401 State Street, Hudson, New York 12534 SCHEDULE A, Index #: 9495 – 15

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Town of Austerlitz, TM #: 102200 87.-1-46.12, Robert Pearson, P.O. Box 8015, Pelham, New York 10803 Town of Chatham, TM #: 102689 36.-1-65, James Bashford, P.O. Box 147, East Chatham, New York 12060 Town of Copake, TM #: 103200 186.-1-87, Richard Lichtenberg, et al, Chrysler Pond, Copake, New York 12516 Town of Hillsdale, T M # : 104200 104.-1-11, James V. Polvere, P.O. Box 37, Rock Hill, New York 12775 Town of Kinderhook, TM #: 104489 23.16-2-9, Mathew Powell, 11 Wood Drive, Niverville, New York 12130 Town of New Lebanon, TM #: 104800 20.1-1-12, Charles Tomlinson, Jeanne R. Tomlinson, 14710 Route 22, New Lebanon, New York 12125 Notice of Formation of Appleton Lane Holdings LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 3/10/16. Office location: Columbia County.

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

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

Purpose: any lawful activity.

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

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

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

Purpose: any lawful activity.

LEGAL NOTICE OF ESTOPPEL The bond resolution, a summary of which is published

herewith, has been adopted on February 27,2020, and the validity of the obligations authorized by such resolution may be hereafter contested only if such obligations were authorized for an object or purpose for which the CoxsackieAthens Central School District, Greene County, New York, is not authorized to expend money, or if the provisions of law which should have been complied with as of the date of publication of this notice were not substantially complied with, and an action, suit or proceeding contesting such validity is commenced within twenty days after the date of publication of this notice, or such obligations were authorized in violation of the provisions of the Constitution.

Such resolution was adopted after approval of a proposition at the Special School District Meeting duly called held and conducted on October 17, 2019. A complete copy of the resolution summarized herewith is available for public inspection during regular business hours at the Office of the School District Clerk for a period of twenty days from the date of publication of this Notice. Dated: Coxsackie, New York, March 3, 2020. /s/ Judith Zoller, School District Clerk BOND RESOLUTION DATED FEBRUARY 27, 2020.

A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE COXS A C K I E - AT H E N S CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, GREENE COUNTY, NEW YORK, TO PAY THE COST OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF IMPROVEMENTS TO AND RECONSTRUCTION OF VARIOUS SCHOOL DISTRICT BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES AT A MAXIMUM ESTIMATED COST OF $3,775,000 AND AUTHORIZING THE IS-

SUANCE OF $3,600,000 SERIAL BONDS OF SAID SCHOOL DISTRICT TO PAY A PORTION OF THE COST THEREFOR. CLASS OF OBJECTS OR PURPOSES: CONSTRUCTION OF IMPROVEMENTS TO AND RECONSTRUCTION OF VARIOUS SCHOOL DISTRICT BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES. PERIOD OF PROBABLE USEFULN E S S : 30 YEARS. MAXIMUM ESTIMATED COST: NOT TO EXCEED $3,775,000\ AMOUNT OF OBLIGATIONS TO BE ISSUED: $3,600,000 BONDS CAPITAL RESERVE FUND MONIES: $175,000 SEQRA S T A T U S : TYPE II ACTION. 6 NYCRR PART 617.5(C)(1),(2) AND (10). SEQRA COMPLIANCE MATERIALS ON FILE IN OFFICE OF SCHOOL DISTRICT CLERK WHERE THEY MAY BE INSPECTED DURING REGULAR OFFICE HOURS. MIRAHOL BOOKS AND PUBLISHING LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 01/24/20. Office: Columbia County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 87-2 Burma Road, Kinderhook, NY 12106.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE CONCERNING THE EXAMINATION OF ASSESSMENT INVENTORY AND VALUATION DATA (Pursuant to Real Property Tax Law section 501) Notice is hereby given that assessment inventory and valuation data is available for examination and review. This data is the information that will be used to establish the assessment of each parcel, which will appear on the Ten-

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COLUMBIA-GREENE MEDIA tative Assessment Roll for the Town of Livingston which will be filed on or before May 1, 2020. The information may be reviewed by appointment in the Assessor’s office at Livingston Town Hall, 119 County Route 19 Hudson NY 12534 on April 6th, 2020 from 9am-4pm as well as April 13th from 9am-4pm. An appointment may be made to review the assessment information by telephoning the Assessor’s office at 518-851-9441 Ext. 313. March 2nd, 2020 Justin Maxwell Assessor NOTICE CONCERNING THE EXAMINATION OF ASSESSMENT INVENTORY AND VALUATION DATA (Pursuant to Real Property Tax Law section 501) Notice is hereby given that assessment inventory and valuation data is available for examination and review. This data is the information that will be used to establish the assessment of each parcel, which will appear on the Tentative Assessment Roll for the Town of Clermont. N.Y. which will be filed on or before May 1st 2020. The information may be reviewed by appointment in the Assessor’s office at 1795 Route 9 on March 10th between the hours of 10:00 A.M. and 12:00 P.M. And on March 17th between the hours of 10:00 A.M. and 12:00 P.M. An appointment may be made to review the assessment information by telephoning the Assessor’s office at 518-537-6928.

Dated 10th day of February, 2020. Cheryl Kaszluga Assessor NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY FIRST: The name of the Limited Liability Company is John Mahoney LLC (hereinafter referred to as the “Company”).

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

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

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

FIFTH: The Company is organized for all lawful purposes.

DATED: February 7, 2020 GUTERMAN SHALLO & ALFORD, PLLC 21 North Seventh Street Hudson, New York 12534 (518) 828-5400 Notice of Formation of GO WITH THE FLOW LLC. Articles of Organization filed with NY Secy. of State on 02/21/2020. Office location: Columbia County. SSNY designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail process to: P.O. Box 152, Kinderhook, NY 12106. No registered agent. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Flint Law Firm P.C., 75 Main Street, P. O. Box 363, Chatham, NY 12037, (518) 392-2555

NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF RESOLUTION SUBJECT TO PERMISSIVE REFERENDUM NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that at a special meeting held on the 2nd day of March, 2020, the Town Board of the Town of Chatham, Columbia County, New York, duly adopted a bond resolution entitled “BOND RESOLUTION DATED MARCH 2, 2020; A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE ACQUISITION OF EQUIPMENT FOR HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT PURPOSES AND THE ISSUANCE OF SERIAL BONDS OF THE TOWN OF CHATHAM, COLUMBIA COUNTY, NEW YORK IN AN AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $362,000 PURSUANT TO THE LOCAL FINANCE LAW TO FINANCE THE COST THEREOF, PROVIDING THAT THIS RESOLUTION SHALL BE SUBJECT TO A PERMISSIVE REFERENDUM, AND DELEGATING CERTAIN POWERS IN C O N N E C T I O N THEREWITH TO THE TOWN SUPERVISOR”, an abstract of which follows, which resolution is subject to permissive referendum pursuant to Section 35 of the Local Finance Law and Article Seven of the Town Law of the State of New York.

Said resolution authorizes the acquisition of an Asphalt Roller and a Grader for Highway Department purposes, having an estimated aggregate maximum cost of $362,000, and a period of probable usefulness of 15 years. The resolution further authorizes the issuance of serial bonds of the Town of Chatham, Columbia County, New York, in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $362,000 pursuant to the Local Finance Law to finance the cost thereof, with a proposed maturity in excess of 5 years and delegates certain powers to the Town Supervisor. It has been determined that such purpose constitutes a Type II action as defined under the State Environmental Quality Review Regulations, which will not have a significant effect on the environment. Said resolution shall take effect thirty days after adoption, unless there shall be filed with the Town Clerk a petition signed and acknowledged by the electors of the Town qualified to vote upon a proposition to raise and expend money, in number equal to at least five percentum of the total vote cast for governor in the Town at the last general election held for the election of State officers, protesting against the resolution and requesting that the matter be submitted to the qualified electors of the Town at a referendum in the manner provided by the Town Law. A copy of the resolution is available for public inspection during normal business hours at the Office of the Town Clerk, located at the Town Hall, 488 State Route 295, Chatham, New York 12037. Dated: March 2, 2020 Beth Anne Rippel Town Clerk NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: Buddy's Place, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York on Janu-

ary 1, 2020 Office location: 518 Cairo Junction Rd Catskill, NY 12414 Greene County. The Secretary of State of New York has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Secretary of State of New York shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, at PO Box 569 Leeds, NY 12451 Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: Spray 'N Shine Car Wash & Self Storage, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York on January 1, 2020 Office location: 354 Main St. Cairo, NY 12413 Greene County. The Secretary of State of New York has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Secretary of State of New York shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, at 354 Main St Cairo, NY 12413 Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

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

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

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

Purpose: any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Town of Catskill Zoning Board of Appeals will hold a Public Hearing pursuant to Article 160-10 of the Town of Catskill Zoning Laws to allow Renovation of dwelling on lands owned by Paul Strait located at 285 Hamburg Rd. Application Area Variance V-1-2020 Tax Map # 156.02-2-12 The Public Hearing will be held on the 11th day of March, 2020 at 6:00 PM , at the Town Hall located at 439441 Main Street, Catskill, NY. to allow public comment on the application.

The above application is open for inspection at the Office of the Zoning Board of Appeals located at 439 Main Street, Catskill, New York between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m., or by appointment.

By order of Gary Harvey Chairman, Zoning Board of Appeals, Town of Catskill Public Notice The Stockport Fire District will be holding a public referendum on March 10,2020 at the Stottville Firehouse from 6 to 9PM for the purpose of approving the purchase of a new pumper for the Stottville Fire Company and borrowing an amount not to exceed 400,000.00 this new truck will be replacing two current trucks which are 30 years old.

By order of the Board of Fire Commissioners Stockport Fire District Columbia county NY Michael Briscoe District secretary NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Town of Catskill Zoning Board of Appeals will hold a Public Hearing pursuant to Article 160-12 of the Town of Catskill Zon-

ing Laws to allow Addition to single family dwelling on lands owned by Geralyne Mahoney located at 16 wildwing Park Application Area Variance V-3-2020 Tax Map # 155.12-1-17 The Public Hearing will be held on the 11th day of March , 2020 at 6:00 PM , at the Town Hall located at 439-441 Main Street, Catskill, NY. to allow public comment on the application.

The above application is open for inspection at the Office of the Zoning Board of Appeals located at 439 Main Street, Catskill, New York between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m., or by appointment.

By order of Gary Harvey Chairman, Zoning Board of Appeals, Town of Catskill NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Town of Catskill Zoning Board of Appeals will hold a Public Hearing pursuant to Article 160-10 of the Town of Catskill Zoning Laws to allow Construction of garage on lands owned by Tim Stack located at 1087 Bogaret Rd. Application Area Variance V-4-2020 Tax Map # 169.00-1-19 The Public Hearing will be held on the 11th day of March , 2020 at 6:00 PM , at the Town Hall located at 439441 Main Street, Catskill, NY. to allow public comment on the application.

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By order of Gary Harvey Chairman, Zoning Board of Appeals, Town of Catskill NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURTCOUNTY OF COLUMBIA SPECIALIZED LOAN SERVICING, LLC, Plaintiff, AGAINST P.J. KEELER AKA PAUL J. KEELER, JR., COLUMBIA COUNTY TREASURER, AS ADMINISTRATOR OF THE ESTATE OF LARRY JENNINGS, et al.

Defendant(s) Pursuant to a judgment of foreclosure and sale duly entered on August 6, 2019.

I, the undersigned Referee, will sell at public auction at the Columbia County Courthouse, 401 Union Street, Hudson, NY 12534 on March 12, 2020 at 12:00 PM premises known as 423 VIEWMONT ROAD, GERMANTOWN, NY 125260000.

All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Germantown, County of Columbia and State of New York.

Section 159, Block 1 and Lot 50.

Approximate amount of judgment $171,792.87 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment.

Index #7962-14.

JONATHAN COHEN, ESQ., Referee, Aldridge Pite, LLP - Attorneys for Plaintiff 40 Marcus Drive, Suite 200, Melville, NY 11747

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

Michael C. Howard, Esq., Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 430-4792 Dated: February 14, 2020

The Residence At Hunter LLC. Filed 3/13/19.

Office: Greene Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: C/O Legalinc Corporate Services Inc., 1967 Wehrle Drive Suite 1 #086, Buffalo, NY 14221. Purpose: General.

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF GREENE Bank of America, N.A., Plaintiff AGAINST Paul T. Behan a/k/a Paul Behan, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Mary E. Lyons a/k/a Mary Lyons; James Behan; Daniel Behan; Gerard J. Behan a/k/a Gerard Behan; Kathleen Hargrove; Veronica Gregorio; Vincent D. Behan a/k/a Vincent Behan; Joan M. Behan a/k/a Joan Behan; Michele L. Behan a/k/a Michele Behan; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated December 19, 2019 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Greene County Courthouse, 320 Main Street, Catskill, New York on March 16, 2020 at 9:00AM, premises known as 862 Sunny Hill Road, Freehold, NY 12431. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Greenville, County of Greene, State of NY, Section 51.00 Block 3 Lot 50.

Approximate amount of judgment $347,091.82 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 180763.

Angelo Scaturro, Esq., Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 430-4792 Dated: February 4, 2020

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Red Sox ace Chris Sale undergoes MRI for elbow soreness Bill Koch The Providence Journal

The Red Sox received some discouraging news on Tuesday regarding Chris Sale.

The left-hander will undergo an MRI on his left elbow and make another visit to see renowned orthopedic surgeon Dr. James Andrews.

What promised to be a start to 2020 on the injured list due to an illness could soon become something much worse.

“Obviously we’re concerned about it,” Red Sox manager Ron Roenicke said.

Sale reported soreness to Boston medical staff two days after throwing only 15 pitches in a live batting practice session on Sunday. It was

his first time facing hitters since his final start of 2019, a 7-6 win over the Indians at Progressive Field on Aug. 13. Sale was shut down due to left elbow inflammation and received a platelet-rich plasma injection from Andrews.

“There’s some concern, knowing how his 2019 went and knowing how important he is to us,” chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom said. “But we also know that in the course of building up, when you do hit these milestones, sometimes you can get sore.

“He hasn’t faced hitters in a long time,” Bloom said. “Everything has gone so well to this point. This is our first bump in the road. Hopefully it’s just a bump in the road,

but you can’t help but be somewhat concerned.”

Sale, who will turn 31 on March 30, endured his worst season as a starter since he joined the White Sox rotation in 2012. He took the mound just 25 times, a career-low, and posted a 4.40 earned-run average that stands as his highest. Sale finished outside the top six of the American League Cy Young voting and was not named an A.L. All-Star for the first time in seven years.

Sale is in the first year of a fiveyear, $145 million extension he signed with the Red Sox late in spring training last season. Should the test results confirm the worst and force Sale to have Tommy John surgery, he would miss all of

2020 and perhaps some of 2021.

He counts for $25.6 million against Boston’s Competitive Balance Tax. Sale’s first season with the Red Sox was arguably the best of his career. He posted a 2.90 ERA over 32 starts and struck out 308 in just 214 1/3 innings. Sale’s starts, innings pitched and strikeouts have all declined in each of the last two years and bottomed out in 2019. He completed just 147 1/3 frames and fanned 218.

Even a short-term absence for Sale would deal a serious blow to what is a thin Boston rotation. Eduardo Rodriguez, Nathan Eovaldi and Martin Perez are the only real proven major-league starters on the Red Sox’ 40-man roster. It’s

almost a certainty Boston will employ the opener at least once every five days and could turn to the likes of Triple-A starters Ryan Weber, Kyle Hart and Mike Shawaryn in an attempt to fill innings.

The Red Sox have already shed one member of their rotation from last season, dealing David Price to the Dodgers along with Mookie Betts in a trade that returned outfielder Alex Verdugo and prospects Jeter Downs and Connor Wong.

Boston is now roughly $16.5 million below the first threshold of the CBT per Cot’s Contracts and could add salary in a trade.

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B6 Thursday, March 5, 2020

Sam Farmer’s first 2020 NFL mock draft Sam Farmer Los Angeles Times

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Taconic Hills’ Delana Bonci, the 2019 Mid-Hudson Athletic League field hockey MVP, signed a letter of intent to attend Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the Fall.

Bonci From B1

hard at achieving her goals. I have no doubt that she will be successful as a student and athlete at RPI. You have made TH proud.”

Paula Voight-Jause, the

varsity girls track and field coach at TH, also had words of praise for Bonci.

“Delana’s work ethic and focus, applied to the mastery of any activity, has made her a successful competitor,” Voight-Jause said. “She is an extremely coachable, hard working and strong athlete who I believe will be a valuable asset to the RPI program.”

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Delana Bonci of Taconic Hills signs a letter of intent to continue her academic and athletic career at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy as her Dad Eric, Brother Aaron and Mother Judi look on.

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Greenville eighth-grader Kieran Cullen finished eighth in the 106-pound weight class of Divisiion II at this past weekend’s New York State Wrestling Championships in Albany.

Cullen From B1

Aidan would take an early 4-0 lead and secure his spot in the semi-finals with an 8-5 victory.

In the semi-finals match Aidan would take a 3-2 lead against the eventual State Champ and lose a nail-biter, 5-3.

Both boys would regroup and come back fighting. Kieran would eventually take eighth place after some hard fought battles against some tough upper class men.

Aidan would battle for the podium with a dominating performance over the N0.

7 seed securing him a spot in the 3/4 match against a returning state champ and friend Marek Bush. He eventually lost a hard fought match for 4th place in the State.

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especially as a hitter. Those are things that can kind of come and go a little bit.

“As far as, then it’s building up getting the reps of building up where you’re playing nine innings back to back, and getting your body used to handling that,” Boone continued.

“That’s the thing that becomes the biggest challenge.”

Judge has not swung on the field yet this spring. He felt shoulder discomfort and was sent to New York when he

Both boys have helped to create a winning environment in Greenville that has become contagious. Aidan would finish his high school career at 205-35 (school record), 43-4 on the season (school record), two-time Class C champ, two-time Section II Champ, three-time NYS Qualifier and fourth in New York State (first-ever for Greenville).

Kieran is continuing his high school career at 7814, 43-9 on the season (tied school record with his brother), two-time Class C Champ, two-time Section II Finalist and eighth in New York State.

Aidan is the first wrestler in school history to 100, 150 and 200 wins as well as 100 pins.

His brother Kieran is on his way to attaining these high marks thanks to their teamwork. This young Greenville team is strong and dedicated looking to always improve and put their name on the State wrestling mat. first started swinging in January. He was shut down after an MRI and just began ramping up again when he felt the discomfort behind his right pectoral muscle.

While Aaron Boone said Sunday it was the same issue, Cashman made clear on Tuesday the discomfort has moved.

“Before it was the shoulder now it’s moved on down towards the pec,” Cashman said.

“So it’s different.”

First the Yankees have to diagnose what is happening with Judge and then figure out how to get him ready. With 23 days until Opening Day, the deadline for him to get back on the field is closing quickly.

Two words sum up The Los Angeles Times’ first mock draft of the 2020 NFL season: Roll Tide.

This scenario features six Alabama players — two on defense and four on offense, including the receiving tandem of Jerry Jeudy and Henry Ruggs III — in the first 23 selections.

Coach Nick Saban has more first-round picks (26) than career losses (23) at the school.

Six University of Miami players were selected in the opening round of 2004, setting the record for the most firstrounders by a school in a draft.

Alabama, which has had at least three first-round picks in each of the past three drafts, figures to threaten that record this year.

1. CINCINNATI: QB Joe Burrow, Louisiana State — The Bengals are moving on from Andy Dalton, and the Heisman-winning Burrow is coming off a 5,671-yard, 60-touchdown season.

2. WASHINGTON: Edge rusher Chase Young, Ohio State — The bookends of Young and Montez Sweat could conjure those old Washington days of Dexter Manley and Charles Mann.

3. DETROIT: CB Jeff Okudah, Ohio State — Some see Okudah as a generational talent. Lions could have a smothering tandem if he were paired with Darius Slay.

4. N.Y. GIANTS: DT Derrick Brown, Auburn — Giants have taken an interior defensive lineman among top three rounds of three straight drafts, but Brown is too tempting.

5. MIAMI: QB Tua Tagovailoa, Alabama — There’s a chance the jockeying for Tagovailoa has him going in the No. 2 slot. Dolphins have the ammunition to trade up if required.

6. CHARGERS: QB Jordan Love, Utah State — If Chargers don’t address QB in free agency, they need to take advantage of this high pick. Love might be best fit for Anthony Lynn’s scheme.

7. CAROLINA: OT Mekhi Becton, Louisville — Panthers need help all along the offensive line, but this is too early for a guard. The 6-foot-7, 370-pound Becton is a good start.

8. ARIZONA: WR CeeDee Lamb, Oklahoma — The sun is setting on Larry Fitzgerald’s career, and Kyler Murray already has started to lobby for his old college teammate, Lamb.

9. JACKSONVILLE: LB Isaiah Simmons, Clemson — Simmons ran a scorching

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Alabama Crimson Tide wide receiver Jerry Jeudy (4) makes a catch against the Michigan Wolverines during the Camping World Stadium.

4.39-second 40, so he might not last this long. But Jaguars would love to have him as a defensive cornerstone.

10. CLEVELAND: OT Tristin Wirfs, Iowa — Even if the Browns were to trade for Trent Williams, they would still be short on solid tackles. The explosive Wirfs was Big Ten Offensive Lineman of the Year.

11. N.Y. JETS: OT Jedrick Wills, Alabama — In the past, when there are a few elite offensive tackles, they have gone off the board in quick succession. Jets need one badly.

12. LAS VEGAS: WR Jerry Jeudy, Alabama — The Raiders need a No. 1 receiver for Jon Gruden’s offense, and they would be delighted to get the playmaking Jeudy at this spot.

13. INDIANAPOLIS: DT Javon Kinlaw, South Carolina — The Colts are hungry for a 3-technique defensive tackle to wreak havoc up the middle.

Kinlaw is an ideal candidate to do that.

14. TAMPA BAY: QB Justin Herbert, Oregon — The Buccaneers are ready to move on from Jameis Winston. Herbert could go to the Chargers, but Love might be more of a fit.

15. DENVER: CB C.J. Henderson, Florida — Chris Harris was Denver’s only bright spot among last year’s corners, and he’s about to become a free agent. Even if the Broncos sign Byron Jones, Henderson would be a big help.

16. ATLANTA: RB D’Andre Swift, Georgia — Swift averaged 6.2 yards per carry last season and would plug right in to Atlanta’s offense with Devonta Freeman probably heading elsewhere.

17. DALLAS: CB Trevon Diggs, Alabama — The Cowboys want help at safety too,

but their corner need is big if Byron Jones leaves. Diggs’ older brother, Stefon, is a Minnesota Vikings star.

18. MIAMI: WR Henry Ruggs III, Alabama — Receiver isn’t Miami’s top need, but Ruggs would be great value here, and this team is severely lacking offensive playmakers.

19. LAS VEGAS: LB Kenneth Murray, Oklahoma — The Raiders need an enforcer in the middle of their defense and in this scenario opt for Murray over Louisiana State’s Patrick Queen.

20. JACKSONVILLE: LB Patrick Queen, Louisiana State — Quincy Williams struggled last season in moving to middle linebacker, and it was a bumpy year for Myles Jack too. Enter Queen (or Murray).

21. PHILADELPHIA: WR Brandon Aiyuk, Arizona State — This draft is rich with receivers, so the Eagles might wait.

But they need a burner like Aiyuk who can stretch a defense.

22. BUFFALO: Edge rusher A.J. Epenesa, Iowa — With Shaq Lawson headed for free agency, the Bills need someone who can come off the edge and get to the quarterback. Not a loaded draft in that regard.

23. NEW ENGLAND: S Xavier McKinney, Alabama — Even if the Patriots re-sign Devin McCourty, and it appears they will, they need to start thinking about the player who will replace him.

24. NEW ORLEANS: WR Justin Jefferson, Louisiana State — Jefferson excelled in former coordinator Joe Brady’s offense, and Brady ran the system he learned with the Saints. Drew Brees needs more receiving targets.

25. MINNESOTA: S Grant Delpit, Louisiana State — With

Anthony Harris on his way to becoming a free agent, the Vikings could use last season’s Thorpe Award winner to shore up the back end of their defense.

26. MIAMI: OT Andrew Thomas, Georgia — This might be too late for Thomas, who some see as a premier tackle, so the Dolphins would be thrilled to get him at this point in the first.

27. SEATTLE: Edge rusher Yetur Gross-Matos, Penn State — With Jadeveon Clowney heading toward free agency, and Ziggy Ansah a disappointment, Gross-Matos could fill a Seahawks need.

28. BALTIMORE: LB Curtis Weaver, Boise State — Queen or Murray would fit here too, but the Ravens are looking to generate pressure off the edge.

Weaver had 13 ½ sacks in 2019.

29. TENNESSEE: CB A.J. Terrell, Clemson — The Titans need to fortify their pass defense. They have Adoree Jackson and Logan Ryan at the corners, but need more than that.

30. GREEN BAY: WR Tee Higgins, Clemson — The acrobatic, playmaking Higgins would be a solid complement to Davante Adams, and just what Aaron Rodgers needs.

31. SAN FRANCISCO: WR Laviska Shenault, Colorado — A string of injuries have suppressed Shenault’s draft stock, yet this Deebo Samuel type could thrive in the 49ers’ system.

32. KANSAS CITY: RB Jonathan Taylor, Wisconsin — Somehow, the Chiefs reached the mountaintop by cobbling together scraps for a running game. Taylor would be a welcome workhorse.

Tim Cowlishaw: Why Tony Romo’s massive payday is good news for everyone around the NFL

By Tim Cowlishaw The Dallas Morning News (TNS)

DALLAS — Tony Romo only thought he broke the bank in 2013 when the Cowboys signed him to a six-year, $108 million contract. Relatively speaking, that turned out to be peanuts compared to his latest deal, the one CBS will pay him a reported $180 million over the next 10 years.

That’s right. Romo is now paid substantially more money to talk about football than he ever was to throw one, and he threw it pretty well in Dallas for a decade.

Shouldn’t this be a feel-good story? If people have any emotion at all about how this played out, why would that emotion be anger?

I understand jealousy, and that’s part of our world. You’re perfectly content with the money you make until you find out the guy in the next cubicle makes $10,000 more. This isn’t much different from that except that in the NFL broadcast world, a whole bunch of zeroes get attached to these figures.

For some reason, wide receivers took the most offense to this news. Odell Beckham Jr. tweeted, “I’m done playin football. I just wanna be an announcer now.”

He was joking. Some Browns fans thought he might have been done last season, anyway.

But it was New Orleans’ Michael Thomas who was most incensed in a since-deleted tweet stating this is why NFL players should not sign the latest CBA proposal from owners, that no announcer should make more than 90% of the players.

This is the same Thomas who signed a

$100 million extension before last season (fully deserved) and seemed happy with it.

Maybe Thomas needs to be aware that in 1994, Fox paid John Madden $8 million to switch from CBS. At that time, no player in the league was making that annual salary.

About half the quarterbacks in the league will make more than Romo in 2020.

More importantly, it’s deals such as Romo’s that make one realize exactly why players should sign a 10-year collective bargaining agreement that provides all kinds of new money for younger players and slightly higher revenue percentages throughout. Labor peace in the NFL means more television money for everyone. And by more I mean much more.

In 2013, each NFL club got roughly $100 million from the networks before the season began. In 2019, that figure was $255 million. That allows every club to pay all of its players, coaches and staff before selling that first ticket. The NFL is the cash cow of all cash cows, and the players are feeling the effects.

If you want to be upset about a Romo contract, make it that one back in 2013.

The Cowboys negotiated as if Romo had them backed into a corner, as if they had no choice but to throw $108 million in his direction. We don’t need to argue all the pros and cons of that deal, just that those kinds of contracts have an impact on a team’s salary cap. The Cowboys got one more great season (2014) out of Romo, and he was done.

In this case, CBS was battling ESPN for his services. There was a possibility ESPN would move Monday Night Football back

to ABC, perhaps getting back into the Super Bowl rotation that currently includes Fox, NBC and CBS. If Romo’s presence is a difference-maker in that discussion, then he becomes a bargain at $18 million per year.

Remember there are no salary caps in play here, and this is TV money. Romo might be paid more than twice what Troy Aikman is getting at Fox, but I wouldn’t weep for Troy for too long. His contract will expire at some point and he will have plenty of negotiating power on his side.

Katy Perry makes $25 million for a season of American Idol. I don’t know the ins and outs of that show, but I’m guessing she doesn’t have to study a lot of tape of the performers each week. Megyn Kelly makes $23 million per year basically not to appear on NBC these days. Network TV money — it’s pretty good if you can get it.

Ultimately, what CBS pays Romo has no impact on our lives, not even in the way that a Dak Prescott contract will alter the Cowboys’ salary cap for 2020. Discussions on that front will heat up in the next few days before the league’s franchise tag deadline comes into play on March 12.

But more money for Romo is just more money for Romo. An undrafted player who might never have had an NFL career has made creating leverage a lifelong hobby. Good for him. I don’t see any downside to this deal other than the fact football analysts at every level, hoping to make themselves into the next Romo, will be predicting plays like crazy in 2020.

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Best friend can’t suppress his crush on gay woman Dear Abby, I am a gay woman. My male best friend has had a crush on me for more than a year.

It is so intense that he is almost delusional.

We have talked extensively about it. He knows where I stand and that it will never happen, and he says he accepts that. But he DEAR ABBY can’t stand the thought of me spending time with a woman, even if it’s just a friend. He wants all of my time and doesn’t want to share me, even with mutual friends.

Here’s the kicker: I had invited him to move back to my college town with me. We both thought that moving to a big city would open up more dating opportunities for us and help him get over me. It was an ordeal for him, but he put in a ton of work to be able to move. We planned to be housemates. This happened during a time when we thought he was feeling more resolved about our relationship.

We have been staying with my relative while we search for a house in the big city, so we are trapped in the same space, and he has nowhere else to go. Since moving in together, his feelings for me have resurged.

JEANNE PHILLIPS

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I no longer want to be roommates because of his possessiveness. But it would devastate him if I left him alone here, especially since it was my idea to go, and I was meant to be his support system. I feel like I am trapped in his drama and cannot live my life without ruining his. Please help!

Trapped Lesbian In The West Do not rent an apartment with him or buy a house! To do so would be an expensive mistake. You cannot fulfill his needs. If you allow this to continue, he will destroy every opportunity that comes your way because it will be a threat to his fantasy.

He needs to find other living arrangements NOW, and you and your relative should insist upon it. This is not going to have a fairy-tale ending, and you probably will not remain friends as you move along with your life. But move along is what you must do, for both your sakes.

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Yes, get the second shot for hepatitis A protection Last July, I ate at a beach restaurant in Florida and shortly afterward was advised to get a hepatitis A shot, which I did. They also said to get the second shot in January 2020. Now I’m hearing that there may be complications with the second shot causing health problems and also that health insurance and/or Medicare TO YOUR won’t pay for it. I have schedGOOD HEALTH uled an appointment to receive the second shot at the end of January through my county health department.

Are these just scare tactics, or do you believe that the second shot is necessary? The health department said that since I didn’t pay for the first shot, I will not be charged for the second one, so that’s good.

DR. KEITH ROACH

Florida is experiencing a large outbreak of hepatitis A, which causes an acute illness. It is occasionally severe but always unpleasant.

Fortunately, hepatitis A does not have a chronic form the way hepatitis B and C do. Hepatitis A is spread by contaminated food and water. There were numerous outbreaks reported through restaurants, not just in Florida, but also in Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee and other states.

The hepatitis A vaccine is recommended for people who might have been exposed. The first dose should be given as soon as possible after exposure, and the second dose six to 12 months later.

I was not able to find any indication that there have been health problems related to the second dose, and I urge you to complete the two-dose series to give you long-lasting protection for the future.

Two months ago, I had an upper respiratory infection that lasted for a long time, and now I suffer from fatigue. My sister suffered

for a long time with the same symptoms. She took CBD and says she feels better and stronger. I had open heart surgery to replace my mitral valve, and I take metoprolol and warfarin. Is it safe for me to take CBD? Cannabidiol, a nonpsychoactive component of cannabis (hemp), is marketed for many conditions. The scientific knowledge about its effectiveness and possible toxicities is quite limited. Similarly, the potential drug interactions are not known with certainty. Warfarin (Coumadin) is one of the most common drugs to cause concern, for both drug and food interactions. It is highly bound to proteins, and other drugs that compete with warfarin for protein binding can significantly change drug levels and small changes in drug levels can make the drug either useless or toxic. It also is metabolized by three different enzymes, one of which is commonly sped up or slowed down by other medicines, including CBD. Although I could not find any published cases of harm from people taking both CBD and warfarin, CBD can affect the platelets, which could lead to increased bleeding risk in people taking warfarin. I would recommend against CBD oil in people on warfarin. If you did want to take it, you should have frequent checks of the warfarin effect by an INR test.

I couldn’t find any good studies to show CBD is effective for frequent colds or fatigue. One study suggested cannabinoids such as CBD may worsen acute infection but may be beneficial for persistent respiratory infections. Fatigue was among the most common side effects noted with the use of CBD for a type of epilepsy, the only use approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

Finally, CBD is not regulated, and its purity is not guaranteed.

Horoscope

By Stella Wilder Born today, you are one of the most visible individuals born under your sign, the kind that attracts attention — both positive and negative — no matter what you are doing or where you may be. In fact, you must be cautioned against doing anything to distract others from yourself, for that is only likely to do the opposite, and put yourself more squarely in the spotlight. You feel generally most fulfilled and content when you are serving others in some way — but that doesn’t necessarily mean taking a supporting role and doing things for others directly.

You enjoy family gatherings, but you never feel as though you are completely in sync with family members; there is always a feeling that you are something of an outsider, for you have a very different personality, different likes and dislikes, different talents and different overall life goals. Still, you know how to maintain close ties with family members.

Also born on this date are: Eva Mendes, actress and model; Joel Osteen, evangelist; Andy Gibb, singer; Teena Marie, singer; Jack Cassidy, actor; Dean Stockwell, actor; Rex Harrison, actor; Neil Jackson, author and writer; Paul Blackthorne, actor.

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

FRIDAY, MARCH 6 PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — You may have to overlook some unpleasantness today in order to work well with another and work out a mutually beneficial arrangement.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — There is some risk that you may be derailed today, but if it happens, you shouldn’t stay off the tracks for long. Keep your

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Baby Blues eyes forward!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — You may have to come out of hiding today and reveal something you’ve been trying very hard to keep under wraps.

Others will respond favorably.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You can expect a minor setback today, but as you bounce back, you’re likely to come up with one or two improvements to your overall approach.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — The more you try to see through someone’s eyes today, the more you’ll realize about your own situation. You two have much in common.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — You won’t be able to fix everything today, so you must adopt an attitude that allows you to recognize what is wrong without overreacting.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You are working very hard to align yourself with others at this time.

Once you are in sync with a certain friend, progress picks up.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You may be thinking you’re making too much of a sacrifice, but this is not the case. Indeed, your contributions will turn into personal rewards.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — You may have trouble understanding what someone is trying to tell you — until you realize that you are in the same boat.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — You may not be able to clean up a certain mess without making another. Soon others will get involved, easing your burden somewhat.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — The information you seek is available to you today, but you may have to pay for the privilege of receiving it. It’s a worthwhile investment.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — You come to a greater understanding of your current situation today, thanks to a friend who is willing to tell you the unvarnished truth.

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SUPER QUIZ

THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME

By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek

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

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

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One-syllable cities Level 1

2

3

4

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

Answer here: Yesterday’s

(Answers tomorrow) Jumbles: GEESE ENTRY HERBAL OUTLET Answer: Anacondas feel at home in tropical South America because they — BELONG THERE

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Solution to Wednesday’s puzzle

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

For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit

Heart of the City

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Each answer is the name of a city that consists of one syllable. (e.g., The largest city in Western Australia. Answer: Perth.)

Freshman level 1. “The Eternal City.”

2. French city known for its annual film festival.

3. Morocco’s second largest city after Casablanca.

Graduate level 4. Finish the expression to find the name of the French city. “Have a ___ day.”

5. Finish the name of this dessert to find the Croatian city: “banana ____.”

6. The name of this German city is also the name of small, elongated creatures.

PH.D. level 7. Beethoven spent his childhood and teenage years in this German city.

8. This city hosted the 1988 Summer Olympics.

9. This city is referred to by the Swiss as their “federal city.”

SUPER QUIZ ANSWERS 1. Rome. 2. Cannes. 3. Fez. 4. Nice. 5. Split. 6. Worms. 7. Bonn. 8. Seoul. 9.

Bern(e).

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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Pickles For Better or For Worse

Get Fuzzy

Hi & Lois

Crossword Puzzle Mother Goose & Grimm ACROSS 1 A-E connection 4 Red tree 9 Foot part 13 “If __ a Hammer” 15 Sifting device 16 Hatchets 17 Actor Hackman 18 Lost color 19 Stack 20 Scold 22 Williams or Griffith 23 Broadcasts 24 In one __ and out the other 26 “The __ of the Light Brigade” 29 Highest point 34 Stops walking 35 Intertwined 36 Gun the engine 37 Needs a doctor 38 Looked toward 39 Key __ pie 40 Tomorrow: abbr.

41 Yearned 42 Bit of gossip 43 Item in a makeup kit 45 Mom or dad 46 Ring of flowers 47 Juvenile delinquent 48 “Jeremiah __ bullfrog…”

51 Spending lavishly 56 Apple sampler 57 Basketball rims 58 At no time, to a poet 60 Actress Turner 61 Miss __; role on “Dallas” 62 Celebration 63 Caustic soap components 64 Great buys 65 File drawer, perhaps DOWN 1 Oversized 2 Sonny’s ex 3 Hans Christian Andersen, for one

Bound & Gagged

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4 Have high hopes 5 Neeson’s namesakes 6 Boxer Oscar __ Hoya 7 Like 2, 4, 6 and 8 8 Blushed 9 World’s largest hot desert 10 Plow pullers 11 Go before others 12 Notice 14 Leaves 21 Big __; semis 25 Common conjunction 26 Rub enough to make sore 27 As __ as an ape 28 Pitcher Reynolds 29 Many a racehorse 30 Like petits fours 31 Arson or burglary 32 Yellow fruit 33 Chris of tennis 35 Path 38 Concluded

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Wednesday’s Puzzle Solved

Non Sequitur

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39 Lying furtively in wait 41 Dessert choice 42 Pealed 44 Camels’ smaller cousins 45 Handbags 47 Student 48 Mural surface

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49 Call it __; quit & go home 50 Rational 52 Mast 53 Actress Falana 54 __ miss; close call 55 Becomes firm 59 Traitor

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