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Nursing homes in the area reeling from the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic are being asked to ramp up testing on their employees.

All nursing homes are responsible for conducting twice-weekly COVID-19 testing on their workers beginning next week, according to an executive order signed May 7 by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

Nursing homes are scrambling to meet the new mandate, Columbia County Department of Health Director Jack Mabb said Wednesday. Mabb expressed doubt that

the facilities would be able to meet the standards set forth by the state.

Greene County Public Health Director Kimberly Kaplan did not respond to repeated requests for comment on the state’s new testing policy.

The governor’s order comes after months of limited testing capacity caused by supply chain breakdowns, which public officials say hampered their ability to halt the spread of COVID-19.

Nursing home operators, not the state, are responsible for buying kits and carrying out the

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo shares a laugh with his mother, 88-year-old Matilda Cuomo, Sunday afternoon during the governor’s daily coronavirus briefing in the state Capitol.

Cuomo and his three daughters wished the family matriarch a happy Mother’s Day with a socially distanced video call.

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PHILMONT — A Philmont woman died in a fire Wednesday evening, state police Public Information Officer Aaron Hicks confirmed Thursday.

Jacquline Strobino, 56, was pronounced dead at the scene

by Columbia County Coroner Daniel Herrick, according to state police.

Strobino, one of three residents living in the building at 137 Main St., got out of the home when the fire broke out, but went back into the burning structure for unknown reasons, Hicks said.

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More than half a dozen fire companies respond to the Philmont fire.

SYRACUSE — COVID-19 complications in children impact young people of all ages, and local governments must enforce business compliance with state reopening guidelines as regions prepare to restart the economy, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said.

Dozens of medical officials continue to study 110 reported cases of virus complications in New York children — up from 102 cases Wednesday — causing inflammation of blood vessels and extremities, mimicking symptoms similar to severe illnesses such as Kawasaki disease and toxic-shock syndrome.

The complications are affecting young New Yorkers from infants through age 21, Cuomo said Thursday. Health professionals initially thought the complications were predominantly in toddler to elementary school-age children.

“It is a very frightening development,” Cuomo said Thursday afternoon during a briefing at SUNY Upstate Medical University. “I expect this issue is only going to grow... Parents should be aware. It tends to present in children who were exposed to the COVID virus or still test positive.”

Sixteen other states and six European countries have reported similar cases in children, which does not present as a normal COVID-19, or respiratory, case.

Medical attention should be sought immediately when a child has a fever lasting more than five days, severe abdominal pain, diarrhea or vomiting, a change in skin color, such as turning pale or blue, trouble breathing, decreased amount or frequency of urination, racing heart rate or infants having difficulty feeding or drinking fluids, according to the governor’s office.

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twice-weekly testing, health officials said.

The testing mandate will be “logistically challenging and quite expensive,” said Geoff Thompson, spokesman for Pine Haven Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Philmont, the site of the first major COVID-19 outbreak in Columbia County.

Pine Haven and Greene Meadows Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Catskill, which are owned by the same company, will each receive minimally invasive oral swab tests that provide results in 24 to 72 hours, Thompson said.

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fatalities reached at least 21,436 Thursday — up from 21,2179 Wednesday. Johns Hopkins University & Medicine’s online COVID-19 tracker, which includes probable virus deaths in its tally, listed the state’s virus death toll as 27,567 Thursday.

The state saw 157 virus-related deaths Tuesday, including 157 in hospitals and 36 in nursing homes. The death rate remains flat after 166 fatalities Tuesday, 195 Monday and 161 Sunday.

The state tested 1,298,757 people as of Thursday, revealing 343,051 total positive cases of COVID-19. New York’s hospitalization rates continued a downward trend to 6,706 patients Thursday, down 240, according to the governor’s office.

“Today is day 75 — it feels like a lifetime, but it’s been 75 days since we had our first case,” Cuomo said.

The state will increase manufacturing medical supplies, such as masks, gowns, testing materials and ventilators, through partnerships with New York companies and corporations. Interested businesses are encouraged to contact Empire State Development “We should never again as a nation have to scramble the way we scrambled,” the governor said of the state and U.S.’s dependence to purchase critical medical supplies from China.

Central New York is ready to start reopening Friday after meeting seven criteria about an area’s coronavirus hospitalization, infection and death rates, available hospital beds, testing and tracing capacity.

Half of the state’s 10 regions are ready to start reopening Friday when the governor’s NY On Pause executive order expires at 12:01 a.m. Regions will resume construction and manufacturing industries first with phase I of the state’s four-phase reopening plan.

accordance with the state regulations, Greene Meadows Administrator John Edwards said.

“The [employees] understand it is regulatory and they are OK with it,” Edwards said. “It is not the nasal swab where they are basically poking your brain and it hurts. This is just an oral swab that is painless and they want to do it so they can continue to provide great care for our residents.”

Full-time Greene Meadows employees will be tested twice weekly and part-time employees will be tested once a week.

The facility has 125 employees, Edwards said.

Nursing home operators are expected to shoulder the cost of testing their employees, but counties may make some testing kits available to nursing homes to comply with the state mandate.

The Columbia County Department of Health is distributing a shipment of 1,080 testing kits to nursing homes for staff testing, Mabb said.

Mabb said the volume of testing kits required, combined with the high demand for kits, could present problems for nursing homes attempting to implement Cuomo’s mandate.

Testing kits ordered by Columbia County took five weeks to arrive, he said.

In the absence of state funding or state-provided tests, nursing home operators could incur hefty costs.

Testing the 120 Pine Haven employees twice a week could cost the facility about $16,000 a month, said Thompson, whose calculations account for 120 employees tested using kits that cost about $16 each.

Nursing homes statewide were required to submit testing plans to the state Department of Health by Wednesday.

The Eliot at Catskill, which has 40 employees, submitted its plan for testing and is awaiting state approval, said Colleen Vincent, The Eliot’s executive director. The Department of Health requested information on the

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fire, state police said.

Flames and smoke could be seen engulfing the second floor and attic area, state police said.

As firefighters began attempting to extinguish the fire, a request was made for mutual-aid assistance from neighboring departments, according to fire officials. More than half a dozen fire companies responded to Main Street.

Three families were left homeless and are being assisted by the Red Cross, Philmont Fire Chief Mark Beaumont said.

All three floors of the

building sustained damage from fire, smoke or water, according to Beaumont. Firefighters were still on the scene several hours after the initial call.

A preliminary investigation suggests the cause of the fire was accidental, Hicks said.

The state police Bureau of Criminal Investigation, New York State fire investigators, the Columbia County Cause and Origin team and Philmont police are continuing their investigation of the fire scene, state police said.

Main Street was closed

between Maple Avenue and Railroad Avenue while fire crews worked.

Other fire companies that responded to the scene, or were placed on standby at their firehouse, included Claverack, Greenport, Chatham, Hudson, Churchtown, Ghent and Craryville, according to Columbia County 911.

Assisting at the scene were Greenport Rescue, the Columbia County Fire Coordinator’s Office, Columbia County Sheriff’s Office and New York State Electric and Gas.

Businesses must submit a detailed plan to the state about their social-distancing protocols and how they will reduce density to curb the virus spread and follow state guidance to keep workers safe. The plan could assist in the case of potential liability if a COVID-19 death or outbreak originates from a reopened business, Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa said. Federal legislation is pending about liability issues and the novel coronavirus.

“You have to attest to the guidelines,” DeRosa said of business owners and state regulations. “If they don’t do that, they do that at their own peril.

It’s a way to hold them accountable.”

The Capital Region satisfied five of the state’s criteria as of Thursday afternoon. To reopen, the state mandates an area must have a three-day average of a 14-day decline in net COVID-19 hospitalizations or under 15 new virus patients. After increased hospitalizations Wednesday, the region was setback from starting the eight-week-minimum reopening process by at least two more weeks, or May 27.

Each area of the state has a regional control group comprised of local elected officials and administrators to monitor virus hospitalization numbers, deaths and infection rate to prevent a second wave.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority will receive an expedited $3.9 billion in federal aid. Cuomo spoke to President Donald Trump on the phone Thursday morning requesting funding for state and local governments.

“The president cut the red tape an sent the first installment today, and for that, I thank him,” Cuomo said.

The House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on its fifth coronavirus package, named the Heroes Act, on Friday. As it stands, the bill is expected to give $34.4 billion to New York, including $17.2 billion for New York City and $15.1 billion for other municipalities.

The bill provides funding for COVID-19 testing and repeals the State And Local Tax deduction, which allowed taxpayers of high-tax states to deduct local tax payments on their federal tax returns. Cuomo praised the proposed SALT repeal again Thursday, saying it costs the state $29 billion and increases federal taxes on New Yorkers by $12 to 15 billion.

For the third day in a row, Cuomo said the state needs close to double that amount and requested $61 billion in federal support to fund things like school districts, hospitals, police, firefighters and other essential services.

“Why would you ever want to cut essential frontline personnel at this time?” the governor asked.

The National Governors Association renewed its bipartisan request for the third time Wednesday for $500 billion from the federal government to rebuild state economies. Cuomo first issued the joint statement with association Chairman Maryland Larry Hogan, a Republican, on April 12 and again April 17.

“There’s no red or blue here,” the governor said. “It’s red, white and blue.”

Members of the state Assembly minority requested a hearing to review and investigate New York’s policies, decisions and protocols in response to COVID-19’s impact on state-regulated nursing homes after more than 5,000 reported deaths.

Twenty-five percent of COVIDrelated fatalities have occurred in state nursing homes, according to a Tuesday statement from Assembly Minority Leader Will Barclay, R-120. Several Assembly Republicans made the

request in a letter to the chairmen of the Committees on Aging, Health, and Oversight, Analysis and Investigations earlier this week.

Cuomo addressed the request for an investigation at the end of his Thursday briefing.

“I would hope we are enlightened enough where we don’t play gratuitous politics, but everyone makes their own decision,” the governor said.

New Yorkers must remain vigilant with social distancing, wearing masks or face coverings in public, washing their hands and taking precautions against COVID-19 — especially as regions start to reopen, Cuomo said.

“The facts of this virus have changed and I believe they will continue to change,” Cuomo said. “Do not underestimate this virus. It has beaten us at every turn. It’s your job to understand and protect yourself and I just urge caution.”

facilities’ number of employees and history of COVID-19 testing, Vincent said.

The Greene County Public Health Department previously conducted voluntary testing on employees of The Eliot, an assisted-living facility, but all tests came back negative, Vincent confirmed.

The Eliot will conduct all testing in-house using kits provided by the corporation that owns the facility, Vincent said. “[The employees] are all not excited about getting tested, but they realize it is to protect the people that they care for,” she said. “They do have the option if they choose not to, but it is required for employees.”

Cuomo has previously said that any nursing home worker who refuses testing could lose their job.

To see where each region stands on reopening and the complete county breakdown of COVID-19 cases and deaths statewide, view the COVID-19 map and tracker at hudsonvalley360.com/site/covid19.html.

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Monday,May 18 n Athens Town Board 7 p.m. Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87 646306916?pwd=LzNQU2Q0WU5hW HhwT0pTSUFuWG0vdz09 Meeting ID: 876 4630 6916 Password: 803033 For phone in: 1 929 205 6099 US(New York) n Greene County Legislature 6 p.m. economic development and tourism; gov. ops. and finance via zoom – instructions for audio/video conferencing are on county website n Greenville Town Board 7 p.m.

Town Hall, 11159 Route 32, Pioneer Building, Greenville

Tuesday,May 19 n Athens Village Planning Board

6:30 p.m. Village Hall, 2 First St., Athens 518-945-1551 n Durham Town Board 7:30 p.m.

Town Hall, 7309 Route 81, East Durham n Hunter Town Board 7 p.m. Town Hall, 5748 Route 23A, Tannersville

Wednesday,May 20 n Cairo Town Board workshop

meeting 7 p.m. Town Hall, 512 Main St., Cairo n Catskill Central School District BOE 6:30 p.m. virtual meeting check website for details 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 Town Board Committee 6:30 p.m. Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill n Greene County Economic Development Corporation 3 p.m. via Zoom The public may view all meetings on the Greene County YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0mwTvjUz_XyhJ83epMPFpQ/.

Minutes of All Meetings will transcribed and posted on the Greene County Economic Development Corporation website, www.greenecountyedc.com, upon completion n Greene County Planning Board 4:30 p.m. via Zoom Meeting open for the public to attend in person. Members of the public may view all meetings on the Greene County YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/ UC0mwTvjUz_XyhJ83epMPFpQ/ Minutes will transcribed and posted on the Greene County Planning Board web page https://www.greenegovernment.com/ departments/planning-and-economicdevelopment/greene-county-planningboard n Greene County Legislature 6:30 p.m. regular legislature meeting No. 5 via zoom – instructions for audio/video conferencing are on county website

Thursday,May 21 n Coxsackie-Athens CSD Regular

Board of Education meeting 6:30 p.m.

Remote meeting, for further information go to www.cacsd.org. n Coxsackie Village Planning Board public hearing and meeting 7 p.m. 270 Mansion St., Coxsackie 518-731-2718

Monday,May 25 n Catskill Town Offices closed in ob-

servance of Memorial Day n Coxsackie Village Offices closed in observance of Memorial Day n Greene County Office Building closed in observance of Memorial Day

Tuesday,May 26

Community salutes resilient Catskill teen

By Bill Williams Columbia-Greene Media

CATSKILL — The community came out in full force Wednesday evening to show their support for a Catskill teen who is undergoing her fifth surgery in her fight against bone cancer.

Fire companies, rescue squads, police, motorcycle groups and about 75 community members in their cars and trucks paraded past Taylor Block’s home on Old Kings Road in Catskill, many with signs of encouragement, and all honking their horns for the Catskill High School 10th grader.

Taylor, 16, is undergoing two surgeries this month at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City to repair a metal plate that is supporting her tibia and fibia bone in her leg.

The plate broke loose earlier in the month, according to Taylor’s sister Marina.

It was in November 2018 when Taylor was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a cancerous bone tumor in her left shin, Marina said.

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Taylor Block enjoys the community support ahead of surgery.

Since then, she has had four surgeries, chemotherapy treatments and physical therapy.

The couple of weeks leading up to the time the plate broke loose, Taylor was doing her own physical therapy at home and was beginning to use just one crutch when getting around.

Her leg was getting

Wednesday,May 27 n Athens Village Board 6:30 p.m.

Village Hall, 2 First St., Athens 518-9451551 n Catskill Central School District public hearing on budget 6 p.m. virtual meeting check website for details

Monday,June 1 n Athens Town Board 6:45 p.m.

Town Hall, 2 First St., Athens 518-9451052 n Cairo Town Board 7 p.m. Town Hall, 512 Main St., Cairo

Thursday,June 4 n Cairo Town Planning Board 7 p.m.

Town Hall, 512 Main St., Cairo n Coxsackie Village Workshop 6 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

Saturday,June 6 n Coxsackie Village Clean-Up Day 8

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Monday, June 8 n Catskill Village Planning Board 7 p.m. Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill n Coxsackie Village Board 7 p.m.

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Tuesday,June 9 n Catskill Central School District

board member/budget vote absentee ballot only n Coxsackie Village Historic Preservation Committee 6 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

Wednesday,June 10 n Athens Village Board 6:30 p.m.

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improving and had just started sketching as a new hobby and was beginning to get more motivated before she got the news,” her sister said.

The setbacks have been tough, Marina said, but she knows her sister is tougher.

“My mom has been having a tough time since hearing the news, as she has been Taylor’s primary caregiver,

while my stepfather kept working in order to cover the bills. The rest of us all know that Taylor is tough and although we are sad and anxious to find out the extend of the damage caused by the broken plate after the surgery, we know Taylor will come out on top” Marina said.

NYSUT opens up Disaster Relief Fund for donations ALBANY — New York State United Teachers announced that it has begun accepting donations to the union’s Disaster Relief Fund to purchase and provide personal protective equipment, food and other supplies to dedicated health care professionals across New York state.

“The heroism of NYSUT’s health care professionals and their colleagues working on the front lines during this crisis is as inspiring as it is remarkable,” NYSUT President Andy Pallotta said. “It is incumbent upon all of us to show our support and gratitude as these professionals very literally put their own lives on the line to care for us. Donating to the NYSUT Disaster Relief Fund will help enhance the safety and security of our brave and selfless health care professionals.”

The NYSUT Disaster Relief Fund, a 501(c)3 charitable organization, depends on voluntary donations. Information about how to make a donation can be found at nysut.org/disasterrelief.

The fund is an important component of NYSUT’s social justice work to assist communities in need. Since its creation in 2005, the fund has

issued more than 4,200 grants totaling $2.3 million to assist with disaster relief efforts in communities in New York and around the country.

“Improving unsafe working conditions is a social justice issue. And social justice work is union work,” said NYSUT Secretary-Treasurer J. Philippe Abraham, who leads the union’s social justice work and chairs the Disaster Relief Fund. “We need to do our part to help right the wrong of our health care workers risking their lives because they do not have adequate access to the personal protective equipment they need. By donating to the fund, we can help improve the working conditions of our members and their colleagues during this extremely difficult and dangerous time.”

To further show support for health care professionals, the union also has launched the #HealthCareHeroes campaign in support of those on the front lines of the coronavirus epidemic. The union is calling on its members and the public to take a photo of themselves with a short message for health care professionals and post it to social media to reach these hardworking men and women not

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stronger and there were a few times when she took up to two steps on her own without any support or crutches, her sister said.

“The plate must have broken the weekend of May 1,” Marina said. “We found out on May 6 during a routine x-ray that the plate was broken,” Marina said.

“Taylor was really

The community showed its support Wednesday night for Catskill teen Taylor Block.

Glenmont Job Corps Center offering virtual training ALBANY — Glenmont Job Corps Center is now offering virtual training for all students.

Starting on May 11, students will have access to virtual training for each of the Center’s six trades, academics, employability skills, career readiness skills and Driver’s Education.

Instructors will be able to provide grades and other feedback in real time, just as if a student were in a physical class.

Our use of Google G Suite allows our instructors to share entire online classroom content with other instructors and even co-teach lessons. Instructors can also make their classes stand out by uploading personalized content for their classrooms in addition to the base curriculum.

“The Glenmont Job Corps Center is so proud to be able to continue the training of our young people. We are dedicated to the youth that we serve!” from Center Director, Erin Ferguson.

Job Corps is a no-cost federal education and career technical training program administered by the U.S. Department of Labor. Job Corps helps youth ages 16 to 24 improve the quality of their lives through career technical and academic training.

The Glenmont Center is operated by Adams & Associates.

For information on enrollment at Job Corps, contact 1-800-733-JOBS. If you would like to learn more about the Glenmont Job Corps Center, contact Lisa Hall, OA/CTS Director at 607-376-6820.

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only in their areas, but across New York state.

Those interested in getting involved with the #HealthCareHeroes campaign should: Write a message of thanks and/or encouragement for health care professionals on a note card and take a selfie with it.

If you’re a parent who is home with your children, have them write their own notes. It’s a great way for them to practice their writing skills and their handwriting, as well.

Post messages of gratitude to Facebook, Twitter and/ or Instagram, along with the hashtag #HealthCareHeroes, and tag @nysut.

Get creative. Have fun. It’s a simple message, but an important one.

The union has created a web portal for these supportive posts and for union members to share their own stories about how they’re getting involved during this pandemic.

More information can be found here.

“The sacrifice on the part of our health care members and their fellow professionals has been limitless,” said NYSUT Second Vice President Paul

Pecorale, who oversees the union’s health care professionals. “They need our support now, more than ever.”

NYSUT also has issued information regarding how to donate personal protective equipment to the health care institutions that so desperately need masks, surgical gowns and other essential items right now. NYSUT members interested in collecting such items from their school or university are urged to first connect with school administrators and then connect with county officials to determine where donations can be distributed properly. More information can be found here.

“As unionists, helping working people in need is what we do,” NYSUT Executive Vice President Jolene T. DiBrango said. “We’re incredibly proud of the NYSUT

members who already have begun organizing PPE donations and encourage others to join them to assist our brothers and sisters in health care who need our help.”

NYSUT represents more than 16,000 health care professionals, including registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, certified nursing assistants, clinical instructors, psychologists, guidance counselors, school counselors, physical therapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists, physicians, pharmacists and lab technicians.

These professionals are employed in public and private sector schools, hospitals, universities, visiting nurse associations, private practice, and residential and day treatment facilities.

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Seven keys to restart the economy We understand if you have had enough bad news these days. If it feels as if March has dragged on for another two months, you’d be right.

But it’s May and there is still snow around. We’re winter-weary in the spring and the COVID-19 lockdown is easing but still holding a tight grip.

So the news Wednesday that New York’s North Country region will start to reopen at the end of the week, but the Capital District, meaning Greene and Columbia counties, will not be ready after a spike in COVID-19 hospitalizations, was not greeted warmly.

The North Country is the state’s fourth region cleared to start reopening businesses Friday when the NY On Pause executive order expires. Officials greenlighted the Finger Lakes,

Southern Tier and Mohawk Valley regions to start reopening earlier this week.

Regions are cleared to open after meeting seven criteria about an area’s coronavirus hospitalization, infection and death rates, available hospital beds, testing and tracing capacity.

We missed on one major factor, and it’s a critical one. The rising death toll in nursing homes is keeping the Capital District from reopening its economy at this time. Rest assured, this news was not greeted warmly, either.

But much of the data that support the state’s guidelines indicate the region may be seeing light at the end of the tunnel.

One encouraging sign is health care workers having a lower infection rate than the general popula-

tion proves correctly that wearing and using personal protective equipment, such as face masks, gloves or gowns, reduces the virus’s spread.

“You know what that means? That means PPE works,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said. “Masks work.”

Four regions have met all seven metrics required to begin reopening. New York is doing something that many other states are not doing: Taking as much time as is needed to start resuming something like normalcy and not rushing into quick fixes that risk a new and deadly surge of the virus. This is going to work only if the seven steps toward reopening are taken slowly and patiently. With luck and sound judgment, the worst of this siege may be over.

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Put Rand Paul in the penalty box called to testify. But it was especially rich to hear Paul lecIt’s too bad the Senate, ture anyone else on the need unlike a hockey rink, doesn’t for “a little bit of humility.” have a penalty box.

Paul, who is a physician in Because that is where Ken- addition to being a politician, tucky Republican Rand Paul is thus far the only member would be sitting, rather than of the Senate known to have in a hearing room lecturing tested positive for the virus, the nation’s leading infecand fortunately, appears tious-disease expert that he to have made a splendid isn’t the “end-all.” recovery. He was worried When Anthony Fauci, enough about his potential director of the National Insti- exposure to covid-19 to have tute of Allergy and Infectious been tested for it. But while Diseases, testified this week he was waiting for the results, before the Senate Health, Ed- Paul went about his business ucation, Labor and Pensions in the Capitol, potentially Committee, Paul recited data exposing everyone around that he claimed suggests the him. He even took a dip in government’s response to the Senate pool. Two of his the the novel coronavirus Republican colleagues selfpandemic has been too cau- quarantined as a result. tious.

The senator’s attack on And then Paul decided Fauci echoes a lot of what to make things personal: “I we are hearing on conservathink we ought to have a little tive media, where Fauci is bit of humility in our belief increasingly being portrayed that we know what’s best for as an unaccountable, tythe economy. And as much rannical mastermind who as I respect you, Dr. Fauci, I somehow has President don’t think you’re the endDonald Trump under his all. I don’t think you’re the control. So it was great to one person that gets to make hear Fauci defend himself a decision. We can listen to and explain his role. He said your advice, but there are that others should be asked people on the other side say- for their judgments on, say, ing there’s not going to be a the economy. surge and that we can safely “I’m a scientist, a physiopen the economy, and the cian and a public health facts will bear this out.” official,” Fauci said. “I give Fauci’s advice, of course, advice according to the best was exactly what he had been scientific evidence. There are a number of other people asked to give when he was

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who come into that and give advice that are more related to the things that you spoke about, about the need to get the country back open again and economically.”

Paul has a point: The decision to reopen this country should be made with many factors in mind, including the economy, and probably should be done at different rates in different states. But whatever moves are made in that direction should also be done with public concerns in mind, and right now, polling clearly shows the vast majority of Americans want to see reopening conducted cautiously.

His attack on Fauci won Paul plaudits from the fan base on Fox News, which no doubt was the point from the beginning. For instance, Fox News’s Laura Ingraham, who only weeks ago was touting the supposedly miraculous benefits of hydroxychloroquine, tweeted: It is true, as Paul suggested, that some of the assumptions that people made at the outset of the pandemic will be proved wrong as we learn more about it. But that only strengthens the argument to move carefully. Paul, of all people, should know that impetuous decisions can put a lot of others at unnecessary risk.

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Obama’s plain talk wasn’t ‘classless’

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has bestirred himself, finally, to speak out against a president whose behavior has gone too far. Unfortunately, he went after the wrong president.

A sense of shame is not in the McConnell playbook. After all, this is the man who denied even a hearing to Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland — and now proclaims his intention to fill a high court vacancy if one arises before the election.

For years, McConnell has rigorously suppressed his evident distaste for Donald Trump in the service of the twin imperatives of what passes for his moral universe: retaining power and confirming judges. No presidential tweet, no presidential utterance, it seems, requires even the gentlest of pushbacks.

Now comes Barack Obama, with private comments critical of his successor, and McConnell is suddenly worked up about presidential decorum.

Obama, in a certain-to-leak call with thousands of administration alumni, described the Trump administration’s response to the pandemic as an “absolute chaotic disaster.”

He lambasted the Justice Department’s move to dismiss charges against former national security adviser Michael Flynn and said the “rule of law is at risk.”

This, of all things, was too much for McConnell to bear. “I think President Obama should have kept his mouth shut,”McConnell told Trump’s daughter-inlaw Lara Trump in an online campaign event. It’s “understandable” if Obama “doesn’t like much” what the Trump administration is doing, McConnell allowed. “But I think it’s a little bit classless, frankly, to critique an administration that comes after you. You had your shot, you were there for eight years.”

Classless? Really? This is what he finds classless?

Not — and I’m going to limit myself to the excesses of just the past few weeks here — the actual president baselessly suggesting that MSNBC anchor “Psycho Joe Scarborough” might have murdered an aide in his congressional office. “Did he get away with murder?” Trump tweeted.

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Not accusing Obama of “illegal activities” or overseeing “the most corrupt administration in history,” feverishly tweeting the hashtag, “Obamagate!” Not lashing out at George W. Bush after the former president called for national unity to combat the pandemic: “He was nowhere to be found in speaking up against the greatest Hoax in American history!”

Not Trump snapping at an Asian American reporter, Weijia Jiang of CBS News, who asked him a general question about his focus on the United States’ supposedly superior testing numbers — only to be greeted with an unmistakable jab at her ethnicity: “Maybe that’s a question you should ask China.”

You might have thought McConnell, whose wife, Elaine Chao, was born in Taiwan, would bristle at that one — but you would be underestimating McConnell’s capacity to sublimate ethics to political expediency.

If anything, Obama’s failure is not that he has criticized Trump too much — it is that he has spoken out too little, given the excesses of this president. If anything, his comments about Flynn and Trump’s handling of the pandemic were mild.

McConnell is correct in noting that it has been customary in recent years for former presidents not to explicitly criticize their successors.

“Generally former presidents just don’t do that,” he said.

Obama himself, reentering the political fray in advance of the 2018 midterms, said he had been “intent on following a wise American tradition of ex-presidents gracefully exiting the political stage.”

But nothing about this president is customary, and his egregious behavior in office amply justifies a departure

from the norm. By one count, Trump has tweeted well over 400 attacks on Obama during his presidency. In the face of those juvenile provocations, Obama didn’t respond in kind.

That made sense. Obama has little to gain by mud-wrestling with Trump over whether he had the “wires tapped” in Trump Tower or whether his book deal should be investigated. He can leave to others substantive defenses in the face of Trump attacks on things such as the Affordable Care Act and the Iran nuclear deal, or whether the Obama administration did enough to prepare for a pandemic.

But there are moments that cry out for a presidential voice — the voice of a real president, with moral authority and dignity. Moments such as Charlottesville, when the sitting president praised “very fine people on both sides.” Moments such as the sitting president’s statement that four nonwhite Democratic congresswomen should “go back” to “the crime infested places from which they came.”

In both instances, Obama responded with deliberate and perhaps excessive understatement, tweeting a quote from Nelson Mandela in the aftermath of Charlottesville, retweeting an op-ed from former advisers decrying Trump’s “go back” comments.

The power of the bully pulpit necessarily fades when its occupant leaves office, and Obama has strategically conserved the resource of the attention he can draw, saving it for the occasions that matter — in particular, for elections. Kicking off a campaign for Democrats in September 2018, Obama assailed Trump as a “threat to our democracy.” Now, with voters choosing between a Trump second term and electing Joe Biden, Obama’s vice president, is the time for Obama to let it rip.

Because speaking truth about this dangerous president is not classless. It is compulsory — for all of us, not least his predecessor.

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Hearings/inquiry needed re U.S. coronavirus approach To the editor: Dr. Anthony Fauci is head of NIAID, the U. S. infectious disease bureauracracy. Attempting to minimize illness and death, his lockdown strategy has created Depression-level unemployment.

Sweden has followed a different, more traditional strategy: Have the most vulnerable, often the aged, minimize contact until immunity spreads through the population. Most acquire immunity without being sick. Some do become sick, and a few die. With general immunity, the vulnerable can again resume contact.

Sweden has kept its

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economy going, with coronavirus deaths no worse than ours, and far better than in many of our states.

Some speculate deaths from the economic collapse will exceed any coronavirus deaths avoided by the lockdown.

Dr. Fauci, now 79, has been the head of NIAID since 1984, 36 years. Was there no one else who could have brought a fresh view, and perhaps an audit, during all that time?

One thing that has happened during his time overseeing infectious diseases - we have spent a lot more money on prescription drugs – up 850% since 1990,

while population grew only 30%, and overall prices were up just 95%.

One might hope our health would improve with all that spending, but U.S. life expectancy has decoupled from other developed nations since the mid1980s, now three years less.

Before continuing down the current coronavirus road, there should be federal hearings open to a variety of views. Maybe Sweden has a better idea. Answers might be more forthcoming with Dr. Fauci’s retirement and replacement.

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Virginia Bagshaw Calvo CATSKILL - Virginia Bagshaw Calvo, 96, of Catskill, died, after a brief illness, on Tuesday, May 12, 2020, while in the loving care of family members under the guidance and support of Hospice.

She was the adored wife of Manolo “Manny” Calvo who predeceased her in April, 2004.

Virginia Louise Hoffman “Ginny” was born October 30, 1923, in Kingston, NY, she was the daughter of Frances and Frederick Hoffman. The Ulster County Apple Blossom Queen graduated from Kingston High School, 1941 and Syracuse University, 1945. While attending University she met fellow student James R. Bagshaw. They were married in 1944. In 1942 James chose to serve his country. Lt. Bagshaw, a US Naval test pilot, died when his plane crashed on Dec.9, 1944.

Ginny returned to Kingston with her 5 very young children; Barbara (Ned), Jim (Maureen), Bill, Mike (Donna) and Steve (Jacque).

Always an adventurer and a believer in living life she was determined not to spend another “cold winter” in New York. Her solution was to pack up her five children, a steamer trunk and on October 1953 they sailed for the Island of Mallorca. There in the city of Palma she met Manolo who fell deeply in love with Virginia as well as her 5 children.

They married in June 1954. Over

the coming years the family grew and welcomed Juana Maria Blauberg “Nita” (Chris), Manolo “Nito” (Debbie) and Fred (Renee).

They returned to the US in November, 1955; eventually settling in Catskill, in 1956. Virginia led a busy life caring for and guiding her 8 children to a life of independence. As her children grew she became a familiar face at CHS working as a substitute teacher and then as co-owner of Greene County Travel.

Upon retirement in 1981 Virginia and Manolo once again avoided those “cold winters”. Their adventures led them to Altata, Mexico, which they claimed had “the best fishing in the world”.

There they built an apartment to which they returned annually until Manolo’s death in 2004.

In her widowed years she was kept busy by her numerous children, grandchildren and 28 great grandchildren. The Gold Star Mother filled her days with her love of cooking, traveling, her bookclub, being with friends and especially playing Bridge which introduced her to many new cherished friendships.

This strange time in which we find ourselves does not permit a memorial service. Enjoy your warm memories of Ginny. She led a brilliant life. Donations maybe made to St Jude, Shriners Hospital or Hospice.

John ‘Garv’ L. Garvey, Jr. John “Garv” L. Garvey, Jr. 71 hours spent working at the driving passed away on Saturday, May 9, range. He also enjoyed harness 2020 in Orlando, Florida with his races, casinos, garage sales and wife, Gail and daughter, Wendy flea markets. He was also an avid by his side. He was preceded NASCAR fan. in death by his parents, John L. In addition to being active in Garvey, Sr. and Alice K. (Luckey) his Orlando community in VenGarvey. tura Country Club, he was a John graduated from Ichabod past member of Winding Brook Crane High School in 1967. After Country Club in Valatie, NY. He graduation, he was drafted into was a lifetime member of both the US Army, and went the Fire Company and to Vietnam, and spent the VFW Post #9593 in three years serving his Stuyvesant Falls, NY. country. After leaving He acquired many good the Army, John began friends throughout his dirt modified racing, and life, both in New York raced for many years at State and Florida.

Lebanon Valley SpeedJohn is survived by way in New Lebanon, his wife, Gail (Secovnie) NY. He still enjoyed folGarvey; his daughter, lowing the races today.

Wendy Willis; his sibGarvey, Jr. John worked at Price lings, Carol (Jack) QualChopper Supermarket for over teri, Karen (William) Vick, Gail 20 years. His last position was (Dennis) Reutzel, and his sister-inProduce Manager. Due to ex- law Peggy (Lee) Shannon; along tenuating circumstances he left with many nieces and nephews. the workforce in 1992. He and Contributions in his name Gail traveled to Orlando, where can be made to the Stuyvesant they began spending their winter Falls VFW Post #9593, 845 Hudseasons. John loved fishing and son Ave, Stuyvesant Falls, NY golfing at Ventura Country Club 12174. A celebration of life will be in Orlando and was nicknamed planned at a later date for all of his “The Pickinator”, due to the many many friends and family.

Chester ‘Chet’ Marcy Chester “Chet” Marcy, 84, of and cruises to Jamaica and Nova Claverack, NY, passed away on Scotia. The couple celebrated May 11th due to complications their 65th wedding anniversary from congestive heart failure. in 2019, and spent their married Chet was born on June 1, 1935, life enjoying their close relationin Sharon, CT, to Beulah Haga- ship as a couple and as a family. dorn and Chester Marcy. A life- Chet is survived by his wife, Doris long resident of Smithfield, Chet Marcy; son and daughter in law, married Doris Burdick in 1954. Dennis and Susan Marcy, Milan; The couple resided in Smithfield, daughter and son in law, Sandra where Chet worked with his father and Randolph Reuter, Craryville; on Heathcote Farm. Chet and beloved granddaughter, Mercay Doris raised their chilReuter, Boston; his sisdren, Denny and Sandy, ter and brother in law, in Smithfield and later, Janet and Peter Zito, Millerton. Chet was a The Villages, FL; nieces member of Smithfield Lisa Dean and Holly Presbyterian Church.

Driscoll; and cousin Jeff Chet was the service Hagadorn. manager for George A memorial service M. Taylor & Son, Dover will be held in the near fuPlains, for 26 years until ture. The family wishes to Marcy his retirement in 2000. thank the medical staff at He and Doris enjoyed Albany Medical Center watching auto racing at Leba- in both the ER and on the Cardiac non Valley Speedway, following Unit for their care and kindness to UConn girls’ basketball, travel- the family during this time. A speing, raising/showing sheep with cial thank you to Chet’s longtime their family, going to plays, and cardiologist, Dr. William Alderisio, spending time together as a fam- who’s taken care of Chet’s heart ily, especially their granddaugh- for 25+ years. Thank you also to ter Mercay. When they moved the team at Ghent Assisted Livfrom Millerton to Dutch Village in ing Facility for making Chet’s last Claverack, they enjoyed watch- days more comfortable. ing all of Mercay’s soccer games In lieu of flowers, the family and attending her school events. requests donations be made to Chet and Doris were members of St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital.

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Some colleges push viral testing for reopening; others worry about deepening health crisis Nick Anderson and Susan Svrluga The Washington Post

One afternoon this week, Celeste Torres, a sociology student at the University of California at San Diego, stopped by a self-serve testing station to perform a five-minute ritual that could hold the key to reopening college campuses nationwide amid the deadly coronavirus pandemic.

Torres, who’s 27 and identifies with plural pronouns, used a cellphone to scan a code on the testing kit and link their name to it. Then Torres swabbed inside their nose to obtain a secretion sample, put the swab into a tube, slipped the tube into a plastic bag and dropped the whole into a collection bin. From there, the contents would be sent to a laboratory to check for the virus.

Torres wants the university to teach in person in the fall and has no problem with taking viral tests to help make that happen. “If they give us a little peace of mind, that kind of helps,” Torres said.

Many colleges and universities are pushing to bring students back to campus in the fall, pledging an all-out effort to overcome the extraordinary challenges of housing and teaching them during a public health crisis. The UC-San Diego experiment is one of many data-gathering initiatives advocates say are needed to reopen.

But the movement to resume higher education in person, after a rocky spring term of remote teaching and canceled commencements, is colliding with concerns that schools could deepen the health crisis if they act too quickly.

California State University, the nation’s largest four-year public system, became the most prominent voice of caution when it announced this week that most classes in the fall term would be delivered online to its 480,000 students.

“I want nothing more than for us all to stay well and be together,” Lynn Mahoney, president of the system’s San Francisco State University, wrote to her campus. “The COVID-19 pandemic sadly, however, does not allow us to have both . . . for now.”

Getting schools at all levels back to normal operations, or close to it, is viewed as crucial not only for education but also for the staggering economy.

Colleges also sorely need tuition dollars to continue operating. But there are clear tradeoffs. Gathering students in classrooms and residence halls could accelerate transmission of the novel coronavirus even if schools can persuade students to wear masks and maintain a protective distance from faculty and classmates.

Health experts fear some schools may be moving too fast to reopen. “There’s a huge push,” said Jean E. Chin, an associate clinical professor of medicine at the University of Georgia, who chairs a covid-19 task force for the American College Health Association.

“I think probably much of it is revenue-driven.”

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University of Arizona President Robert Robbins, shown in April 2020, says the public university aims to bring students back to Tucson but with extensive public health measures.

As scientific data on the pandemic develops, Chin said schools should have a better idea by July of whether campuses can safely reopen, and where. As of now, she said, the nation lacks adequate testing for the virus and adequate capacity to trace the contacts of those who are infected. There are also shortages of protective gear for doctors, nurses and others in health-care fields.

Opening campuses poses still more risks. Residence halls and classrooms bring together, in close quarters, students and scholars from all over the world. All potential carriers.

Trying to enforce social distancing anywhere on campus will be difficult. “Any time you bring young people back together again - oh my gosh,” Chin said. “There’s just going to be commingling. They can’t help themselves. They won’t be six feet apart wearing a mask.”

Chin said flexibility is crucial. Colleges that can pivot rapidly to online teaching if outbreaks intensify are going to be better prepared, she said.

“Those that have only a single plan - I think they’re going to be in trouble.”

With so many variables, some schools are loath to make decisions. Princeton University President Christopher Eisgruber warned on May 4 that it was too early to know whether 5,400 undergraduates could return to campus. He pledged a decision by early July. “I appreciate that this uncertainty can itself add to the distress of this pandemic, but I am convinced that it is the most responsible way for Princeton to proceed,” he wrote.

But political pressure to act is mounting.

On Wednesday, Vice President Mike Pence held a conference call with 14 college and university presidents to learn about their reopening plans.

“The discussion provided insight into a new chapter of reopening America,” the White House said in a statement.

There appears to be growing momentum at many colleges toward bringing students back, albeit with major limits.

To avoid crowding in halls, lectures may go online or be broken into small-group discussions. Parties and spectator sports may be severely curtailed.

Of dozens of schools that have shared fall plans with the Chronicle of Higher Education,

65 percent as of Thursday say they are aiming for in-person instruction, while just 8 percent are planning to be online.

Others are contemplating hybrid models or waiting to make decisions.

Some schools are blunt. “I am pleased to announce we are planning to have in-person classes on our beautiful campus this fall,” Oklahoma State University President Burns Hargis wrote on May 1. His school has about 25,000 students.

University of Arizona President Robert Robbins declared on April 30 that the 44,000-student public university aims to bring students back to Tucson but with extensive public health measures. Robbins wants to test nearly everyone on campus for the coronavirus and for the presence of antibodies that would indicate whether they had carried the virus at some point. Masks will be the norm for students, faculty and staff, he said. He will wear one himself “to set the tone.”

He envisions setting aside housing for those who need to be quarantined and using infirmaries to treat those who fall ill.

He doesn’t want to send them home because that might hasten the spread of infection elsewhere. Professors and students with certain health vulnerabilities would be urged to stay away from the campus. But others would be welcomed.

“I’ve heard from enough students and faculty members and parents and alumni,” Robbins said. “The demand is here for this on-campus - although modified - experience. They want to be here.”

Robbins, a heart surgeon and former president and chief executive of the Texas Medical Center in Houston, has medical credentials that lend authority to his views on reopening. He waves off questions about whether Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, R, or other powerful politicians have influenced his thinking.

“I feel absolutely zero pressure from anybody to open the campus up,” Robbins said in a recent telephone interview.

“I’m taking all the information in and processing it. I’m doing it with shared governance, with my leadership team. But at the end of the day, I’m the one making this decision.”

Like many higher education leaders, Robbins

Delta Air Lines to retire Boeing 777 jets, sees up to $1.7 billion charge Brendan Case Bloomberg

Delta Air Lines will retire its Boeing 777 jetliners, a mainstay of its long-distance fleet, as the carrier rushes to cut costs amid the unprecedented collapse of travel demand.

Removing the 18 twinaisle behemoths by year-end, along with the previously announced retirement of smaller planes, will force an accounting charge of as much as $1.7 billion, Delta said in a regulatory filing Thursday.

The airline will rely on its “more fuel-efficient and costeffective” Airbus SE A350-900 and A330 planes to serve long routes.

“Retiring a fleet as iconic as the 777 is not an easy decision,” Delta Chief Executive Officer Ed Bastian said in a memo to employees. “The 777 played an important role with Delta since 1999, allowing us to open new longhaul markets and grow our international network as we transformed into a global airline.”Bastian said the retirement of the big Boeing jets would further Delta’s “principal financial goal” of slashing its daily cash burn to zero by year’s end from the current level of $50 million. In another cost-cutting effort spurred by the Covid-19 pandemic, the company said the number of employees who have

agreed to take voluntary leave has now surpassed 41,000.

Delta fell 4.4% to $18.56 at 9:40 a.m. in New York as stocks slumped broadly in the U.S. for the third straight day. The airline’s shares tumbled 67% this year through Wednesday, while the S&P 500 dropped 13%.

The same week that five U.S. senators introduced legislation to give customers full cash refunds for any flight canceled during the coronavirus outbreak, Delta said it had returned more than $1.2 billion to passengers since the pandemic began. The amount includes $160 million so far this month, Delta said.

acknowledged financial worries. Continuing remote instruction in the fall could draw fewer students to enroll. Public universities are especially hungry for out-of-state students who pay higher rates. Robbins has his eye on Californians and Texans who are a core constituency for his university. They pay $36,600 a year in tuition $24,000 more than Arizonans.

Fiscal pressures leave many colleges deeply vulnerable if they hint at a likelihood that campuses will remain closed.

Some families could balk at paying up to $60,000 a year for an online education that was supposed to be a full residential experience. Many parents “would say, ‘Why would we do that?’ “ said William G. Tierney, an education professor at the University of Southern California. “ ‘If my kid is still going to be upstairs in his room, why would I pay full tuition?’ “ Yet colleges still must pay faculty and staff salaries, among many other expenses.

Or else they must furlough employees or lay them off. “If they lose 50 percent of tuition in the fall, they’re doomed,” Tierney said.

UC-San Diego Chancellor Pradeep Khosla insists everyone’s safety is “priority one, two and three.” But he also has to balance the books in a bleak budget year. That means, in part, instilling confidence where there is fear.

To guide decision-making, the 38,000-student university is developing an early warning system that relies on fast, simple and voluntary testing for the virus. Ideally, Khosla would want to know every day who is infected and who is not. But that is impossible.

Instead, the university will use frequent sampling at various locales to monitor for virus hot spots. The hope is to reach at least 60 percent of the campus population each month. The cost could exceed $10 million a year, but Khosla says it would be worth it if testing helps the campus remain open.

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Dig for victory: Planning a Victory Garden

By Thomas Christopher For Columbia-Greene Media

“Dig for Victory” was the watchword of the old-time Victory Gardeners, and that’s just what I’m going to do at this time of challenges and insecurity.

I’m planning my own, modern-day Victory Garden. On the advice of Christie Higginbottom of Old Sturbridge Village, I’m going to plant many garden standbys, the heirloom vegetable varieties that filled the gardens of the original victory gardeners. I’m not doing this from nostalgia. As Christie points out, these survivors of a pre-hybrid era offer many advantages to home gardeners.

Christie has more experience with heirloom plants than anyone I know. Old Sturbridge Village in Sturbridge, Mass., where she has worked for more than 35 years, is a living museum designed to recreate the lifestyles and daily routines of America’s past, specifically focusing on the 1830s, a half-century after the United States became a nation. Back then, virtually anyone with a scrap of land planted a kitchen garden, and largely fed themselves with its

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Early Blood Turnip-rooted beet.

produce. Although Christie has stepped back since retiring from full-time work, for a long time she coordinated the historical horticulture program at the village, planning and managing what went into the recreated gardens there. In doing this, she became familiar with not only traditional ways of designing and cultivating a garden, but also the “living artifacts” with which she stocked the gardens — types of vegetables, flowers, herbs, and fruits that originated before the advent

of modern hybrids after World War II. Besides their historic interest, these heirlooms have some special advantages.

Home gardeners were the bulk of the market for seeds before Americans moved to the cities and agribusiness took over supplying our food, so old-time seed marketers paid more attention to their needs. For example, home gardeners commonly do not harvest all of a crop at once.

Whereas modern farmers typically want all of their beets

to mature at once so that they can be dug mechanically, a home gardener is more likely to pick a pot’s worth at a time, preferring a more prolonged, gradual harvest. That’s just what you get, too, if you plant the heirloom ‘Early Blood Turnip-Rooted’ beet, an 1820s-era variety grown at Old Sturbridge Village. Likewise, this lack of uniformity makes the harvest more versatile in its uses. Your heirloom onion variety, for example, is likely to produce smaller as well as big bulbs. The big bulbs you can braid and hang up in a cool, dark spot for storage, and you can pickle the smaller ones.

The big selling point for heirlooms is superior flavor, and that, too, is no accident.

Modern marketers need crops that are not only uniform in size but will stand up to packaging and long-distance shipping. That disqualifies heirloom tomatoes such as ‘Brandywine,’ a 19th century variety that produces extraordinarily delicious fruits too delicate to ship without damage.

Another advantage of the heirloom vegetables, Christie emphasized, is that

commonly, they were developed in a particular locale and are especially well adapted to a specific soil and climate. She cites as an example the ‘Danvers Half Long’ carrot. Unlike many other carrots, it thrives in heavy or clay soils such as are common in its birthplace, Danvers, Mass., and its shorter roots are adapted to shallower soils. Such heirlooms also have the advantage that typically, they come true from seed. That is, seed harvested from the current year’s crop will produce the same type of plant and crop the following year. This is not true of modern hybrids, whose seed must be purchased anew every year.

Seed saving by home gardeners preserved the heirloom vegetables when they were pushed out of catalogs and seed stores a couple of generations ago by the newly popular hybrids. Seed saving organizations such as the Seed Saver’s Exchange of Decorah, Iowa (www.seedsavers.org ), remain a good source of heirloom vegetable seeds. Monticello and its Thomas Jefferson Center for Historic Plants (www.monticelloshop.org) also offers a good selection of

are a limited number of seedlings so it is a “first-come-firstserved” situation. Donations are accepted. Distribution will be from 10 a.m.–1 p.m. May 16 at 238 Pitcher Lane, Red Hook.

Residents are asked to wear a mask.

CRAFT FAIR AND PLANT SALE

of plants, all sizes and all kinds.

There will be inside and outside booths and plenty of onsite parking. The grange is also planning to have food, depending on Covid-19 guidelines, wanting to keep everyone safe.

Wear face masks if still required

by Gov. Cuomo.

SELKIRK - The Bethlehem Grange Hall, 24 Bridge St., Selkirk, will hold a craft fair and plant sale 9 a.m.-4 p.m. May 23. There will be lots of crafters with lots of items for sale, lots

COPAKE - The Roe Jan Community Library presents Virtual Storytime with Ms. Haylee 10:30-11:30 a.m. Saturdays. Ms. Haylee will be holding a virtual

heirloom vegetable varieties by mail order. There are commercial seed companies that specialize in heirloom varieties, such as Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds ([http://www.rareseeds.com)]www.rareseeds. com), which offers 1,350 varieties of heirloom vegetables, fruits and flowers.

I’ll be digging for victory this spring, and the vegetables I plant will be, at least in part, ones my grandfather would have recognized and relished.

For more information about heirloom vegetables, and to listen to an interview with Christie Higginbottom, log on to thomaschristophergardens.com/podcast.

Thomas Christopher is a volunteer at Berkshire Botanical Garden and is the author or co-author of more than a dozen books, including Nature into Art and The Gardens of Wave Hill (Timber Press, 2019). Be-a-Better Gardener is syndicated in 19 print and online publications, reaching 250,000 readers. Tom’s companion broadcast to this column, Growing Greener, streams on WESUFM. org, Pacifica Radio and NPR and is available at his website, https:// www.thomaschristophergardens. com/podcast.

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RED HOOK - The Town of Red Hook Tree Preservation Commission was unable to have its traditional Arbor Day celebration this spring at the town hall because of Covid-19 restrictions. However, the group would like to distribute free tree seedlings to Red Hook citizens.

The choice of one free seedling per household includes the following: Elderberry, White Flowering Dogwood, Native Paper Birch, Spicebush, Witch Hazel and White Spruce. There

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storytime each Saturday via Zoom, a webcam app that can be downloaded for free on your smartphone, or accessed online. To join us for storytime, all you have to do is visit this link: https://zoom.us/j/806577651.

Patrons can also tune in to storytime by going to https:// zoom.us/ and clicking ‘Join a Meeting,’ and then typing in this code: 806-577-651. We will be using the same link and code each Saturday.

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This pretty spring daffodil landscape located at 1378 Honey Hollow Road, Climax, was chosen as May’s Garden of the Month

by Clematis Garden Club. This rocky and treed yard has daffodils, hyacinths, snowbells and other wild flowers blooming to brighten spring days. Clematis Garden Club, centered in Greenville, has 50 members from Greene, Albany and Schoharie counties. For information, call 518-966-4260.

MEETINGS HUDSON - The Board of Trustees of the Hudson Area Library will meet via video conference at 10:15 a.m. May 16. The Friends of the Hudson Area Library will hold its meeting via video conference at 6:30 p.m. May 20. Both meetings are open to the public and will be held via Zoom. To receive meeting access information, email info@hudsonarealibrary. org or leave a voicemail message with your name and number at 518-828-1792 ext. 102.

COPAKE - The Roeliff Jansen Community Library Board of Trustees will meet at 4 p.m.

May 19 via Zoom, a free video service that can be accessed online or downloaded as an app. The Roe Jan Community Library Board of Trustees normally meets on the third Tuesday of each month. All meetings are open to members of the public. If you would like to attend this meeting, email Tamara Gaskell at director@roejanlibrary.org to receive the login information.

CHATHAM - The first and third Wednesday of each month for the duration of the pandemic, NAMI Columbia County will be hosting a Zoom Family Support Group meeting for those interested. The next meeting is May 20. This is mainly to help parents and friends of individuals with mental illness - all are welcome whether a NAMI member or not. At this time family and friends can be under additional stress trying to care for their loved one with mental illness. There is no cost, and it is run by trained facilitators. Sign up can be done

at www.NAMIcolumbiacountyny.org or on the NAMI-CC Facebook page a few days prior to each meeting. Anyone with questions can contact NAMI at namiccny@gmail.com.

CAIRO - The Greene County Women’s League Cancer Patient Aid is welcoming new members. Membership meetings are held the first Tuesday of the month June through December, with the exception of August and December, at Angel’s Family Restaurant, 4385 Route 23, Cairo. Lunch is at noon and meeting is called to order at 1 p.m. 2020 meeting dates are July 7, August, Fundraising Luncheon (special ticket purchase required), Sept.

8, Oct. 6, Nov. 3. The Christmas part is held in December, special ticket purchase required.

Greene County Women’s League (G.C.W.L.) is a 501(c) (3) non-for-profit organization whose mission is to provide Greene County Cancer patients with assistance in paying medical expenses resulting from the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. 100% of donations are committed to patient care.

For information, call 518-8191249 or visit G.C.W.L. at www. greenecountywomensleague. com/become-a-member/

VETERANS SERVICE CATSKILL - American Legion Post 110 of Catskill will still be having the recently deceased (within last 12 months) Catskill Veterans service at 1 p.m.

May 16 at the Catskill Cemetery, North Jefferson Avenue, Catskill. Family members and friends may attend since it is outdoors and social distancing will be in effect.

ARBOR DAY

The global pandemic has left businesses of all types and sizes staggered by its impact on people’s lives and the economy.

Any investment or expense at this time can be a challenge and yet is necessary to bring in as much revenue as possible during these unprecedented times.

Recognizing the challenges facing each business, the Downtown Digital Group in association with the Register Star, The Daily Mail, and HudsonValley360.com is introducing A HAND UP MARKETING GRANTS for local businesses headquartered in the Register-Star and The Daily Mail’s coverage area. We know local businesses would rather have a hand up than a hand out, so in May, we’re offering a matching grant program of up to $5,000 per business for marketing solutions with the Register-Star and The Daily Mail.

To apply for A HAND UP MARKETING GRANT, go to https://www.hudsonvalley360.com/handup and fill in the required information. We will follow up with your application quickly and be back in contact with you about how we can help your business.

Together, we can get through this crisis.

All we need is the willingness to give each other A HAND UP when needed, and that time is now.

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Catskill Mountain Region Guide The Guide magazine will operate in a virtual format until it is safe to print and distribute a hard copy version... in the meantime, please go to: https://www.catskillmtn. org/files/guide-magazine/ issues/May2020GuideWeb. pdf to download a PDF! Featured in this Issue: AN UPDATE FROM YOUR FRIENDS AT THE CATSKILL MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION QUARANTINE COPING STRATEGIES FROM THE STAFF AT THE CATSKILL MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION HUDSON VALLEY COMMISSION STREAMFEST SUPPORT THE ARTS HOME COOKING IN THE CATSKILLS POETRY Poems by Carlo DeVito, Rodney Alan Greenblat, Philip X. Levine, Raphael Moser and Sean Springer,

Crandell Theatre Friday-Thursday, May 15-21 Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint /Capital In the Twenty-First Century /On a Magical Night The first hints of spring have sprung (almost in time for summer), and while organizers are eager to see you in real life again, they are emboldened to see everyone doing their part to keep the most vulnerable among us safe and sound.

Stay strong, Chatham.

This week in stay-athome cinema, the Crandell presents a captivating portrait of an abstract art pioneer in Beyond the Visible: Hilma af Klint, holdovers of last week’s Capital In the Twenty-First Century and the fantastical French

Curated by Robert Tomlinson STORYMATIC PROJECT: Fun for the Whole Family!

A GREENE COUNTY GARDEN IN MAY By Margaret Donsbach Tomlinson A CATSKILL MOUNTAIN BOOKSHELF CATSKILL MOUNTAIN REGION GUIDE PHOTOGRAPHY PORTFOLIO Photos by Robert Hsu KAATERSKILL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH THRIFT SHOP By Christie Pierce THE GREAT OUTDOORS IN THE CATSKILLS By Jeff Senterman PLEASE SUPPORT OUR ADVERTISERS

comedy “On a Magical Night,” plus a brand new selection of Crandell’s Kanopy favorites. You can purchase a virtual ticket today through one of the links offered on the website — with a full 50% of the box office benefitting the continued operations of the Crandell Theatre.

Your continued patience with all the technical hurdles the Virtual Screening Room may have presented in your homes is appreciated. This is new for all everyone, and they understand your frustrations.

Please refer to the distribution partners’ technical support links for any issues that might arise — located on each of the film pages.

The Sharon Historical Society

THANK YOU ESSENTIAL WORKERS!

THE CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS AT RHINEBECK

SPECIAL EVENT

Creativity blooms in June NEW Virtual classes start in June!

Fun-filled classes for kids through adults!

RE-VAMPING YOUR AUDITION SONGBOOK JUNE 1-12 Meet with Instructor Kevin Archambault to revamp your audition vocal book. With oneon-one instruction, actors/ singers will discuss roles that they have portrayed or can see themselves performing and songs currently in their audition book.

Kevin will help you find those hidden treasures of songs that aren’t overused in the audition room, fit your voice, and will have casting directors commenting about your unique choice!

MASTERING THE MONOLOGUE

JUNE 15-26 Participants will build their confidence in finding, preparing, and performing monologues under the guidance of The CENTER’s Artistic and Managing Director, Lou Trapani. Through online discussions, coaching and shared performances, students will learn key elements about finding the perfect monologue, analyzing and preparing texts, and sharpening their delivery skills.

SIBLING SCENE STUDY JUNE 15-26 Young actors will be provided scenes to work through with a partner at home. Throughout the course, actors will meet with Cheyenne and be provided with critique and techniques to improve scenes and individual acting skills. This course will touch on the importance of basic acting technique such as diction,

volume, and character development.

TEEN VIRTUAL SCENE STUDY JUNE 15-26 The CENTER’s Technical Director and show director, Patrick McGriff leads a new virtual acting workshop for young actors ages 11-16 to refine theater skills through scene study, character development, story interpretation and vocal & physical delivery.

DYNAMIC DUETS JUNE 15-26 With instructors Kevin Archambault and Olivia Michaels, students will learn a new duet with a “mystery” partner in a fun step by step process. Songs will be selected for students and then each partner will be coached through acting choices, performing a song, vocal tips,

camera angles and how best to perform your half of the duet for the camera. Then instructors will edit it for a finessed final video performance that students can download to keep.

YOUNG PLAYWRIGHTS 2 JUNE 1-JULY 3 In this introductory course, students ages 10-17 will experience the entire process of a play, including conception, writing, auditioning, casting, directing, rehearsal and production.

Through readings, exercises, videos and interactive discussions, students will explore the most effective way to tell stories in dramatic form as they develop a 10 minute play. Students who successfully complete the course will be invited to participate in The CENTER’s new Young Playwrights festival this summer!

Children’s Author and Illustrator Samatha Cotterill A new #indiebookstoreboost post to help support the Capital Region’s independent booksellers A screenshot of a cell phone Description automatically generatedAuthor and illustrator Samantha Cotterill wishes there were picture books when she was growing up four decades ago that depicted someone like her. She was picked on by other children and bullied in school because she was on the autism spectrum.

Now the mother of two teenage sons, Samantha has created the Little Senses series that will allow kids on the spectrum to recognize themselves in a playful, fun, and therapeutic way.

Samantha, who lives in Niskayuna, has joined the Writers Institute and WAMC collaboration #IndieBookstoreBoost to support her favorite local independent bookstore, The Open Door in Schenectady. She was scheduled to do an in-store event, but

The 25th anniversary Sharon Treasure Sale New Date: Friday & Saturday, September 4-5th The event will begin with a cocktail gathering and early buying on Friday from 4-7 pm.

Invitations will be sent over the summer.

LECTURES An Online Lecture and Tour of Steeples of Litchfield County Saturday, May 16th from 4-5 pm, and Saturday, May 23rd from 4-5 pm Steven M. Goldberg, FAIA and Alexander H. Ellis, Curator, Sharon Historical Society & Museum, will tour viewers through the exhibition, discuss architectural motifs, and share stories of how the architecture has changed over time.

No registration required. Please join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/6312716761 Or, one tap mobile: +16465588656,,6312716761# US (New York) +13017158592,,6312716761# US (Germantown) Meeting ID: 631 271 6761

GALLERY SHS SPECIAL EVENT Invitation to Participate in Sharonathome2020 The Sharon Historical Society & Museum invites you to share images about how your life has changed during this unique time in our history.

Please see terms and conditions at sharonhist.org/artgallery/exhibiting-shs/

GALLERY SHS ART SHOWS Northlight Art Center 10th Annual Student Show On View through Friday, June 26th Please visit our Instagram and Facebook to view images of the art work.

the store was forced to shut down as a precaution against the COVID-19 outbreak.

Watch her interview with Writers Institute Director Paul Grondahl at The Conversation: https://www.nyswritersinstitute. org/post/indiebookstoreboost-featuringchildren-s-author-illustrator-samantha-

cotterill You’ll also find information on how to order a signed copy — personalized with a sketch — of new book titled Can I Play Too? Thank you for your continued support of the NYS Writers Institute and the region’s independent booksellers.

Group Show Honoring the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment Opening Reception September 19th from 5-7 pm On view through November 7th Juried show: Rhythm, Pattern, and Repetition Opening Reception Saturday, November 14th from 5-7 pm On view through December 18th

Around the remote: Chuck Barney’s TV and streaming picks for May 17-23

By Chuck Barney East Bay Times

DON’T MISS: “Taylor Swift City of Lover Concert” _ The mega pop superstar delivers hit after hit in this concert special filmed in September at L’Olympia Theatre in Paris.

Swift performs songs from her award-winning album “Lover” in front of an intimate crowd of fans from 37 countries. The musical event, airing right after the “American Idol” finale, gives fans unprecedented access to behind-the-scenes moments with the artist and marks the only chance to see Swift in concert this year, after her Lover Fest tour was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (10 p.m.

Sunday, ABC).

Other bets:

SUNDAY: Set on Cape Cod, “Hightown” is an eight-part drama series that follows a hard-partying National Marine Fisheries Service agent (Monica Raymund) who has her life thrown into disarray when she discovers a body on the beach _ another casualty of the region’s opioid epidemic. The ensuing trauma pushes Jackie to take the first steps toward sobriety _ until she becomes convinced that it’s up to her to solve the murder. (8 p.m., Starz).

SUNDAY: Daveed Diggs and Jennifer Connelly lead the cast in “Snowpiercer.” a postapocalyptic sci-fi saga inspired by the film directed by Oscar-winner Bong Joon Ho (“Parasite”). Set after the world has become a frozen wasteland, the series focuses on the remnants of

humanity who inhabit a perpetually moving train, with 1001 cars, that circles the globe. Class warfare, social injustice and the politics of survival play out along the way. (9 p.m., TNT).

MONDAY: When Joe Biden, now running for president, swore in Clarence Thomas to begin what became an epic confirmation hearing, no one knew what was coming. The new documentary, “Created Equal: Clarence Thomas In His Own Words,” traces the life story of the Supreme Court justice and provides some insight into one of the nation’s most enigmatic public figures. (9 p.m., PBS).

TUESDAY: Can you handle another superhero series? “DC’s Stargirl” follows Courtney Whitmore (Brec Bassinger), a high

school sophomore who inspires an unlikely group of young peers to stop the villains of the past. (8 p.m., The CW).

TUESDAY: “The Genetic Detective” is a new series that follows real-life investigative genetic genealogist CeCe Moore and her team as they work with police departments and accessible crime scene DNA to help trace the path of a criminal suspect’s family tree, uncover their identity and bring them to justice. First up: the 1987 murders of a young couple found miles apart. (10 p.m., ABC).

WEDNESDAY: “Ultimate Tag” is a turbo-charged new competition game show. Contestants must vault, dodge, tumble and dive their way through epic, three-dimensional

courses _ all while being chased by super-buff and athletic “taggers.” (9 p.m., Fox).

THURSDAY: The sixth annual “Red Nose Day Special” brings a vast array of celebrities together to raise awareness of, and funds for, children who are living in poverty. Performers include Blake Shelton, Gwen Stefani, OneRepublic, Ellie Goulding, Sam Smith, James Taylor, Meghan Trainor and more. (9 p.m., NBC).

FRIDAY: Julia Roberts isn’t back for season two of “Homecoming,” but the stylish thriller returns with a fresh mystery and a new star in Janelle Monae. She plays a military veteran who wakes up in a rowboat adrift on a lake, with no memory of how she got there _ or even who she

is. Creepy twists ensue. (Amazon Prime).

SATURDAY: Feeling a little nostalgic for our old pals Buzz and Woody? The first three chapters of Pixar’s beloved “Toy Story” franchise will take you to infinity and beyond as they play out in back-to-back-to-back fashion. (4:55 p.m.. Freeform).

(Email Chuck Barney at cbarney@ bayareanewsgroup.com.) (c)2020 East Bay Times (Walnut Creek, Calif.)

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Tank Masters Series Ida Toninato We Become Giants

Hand Made Movies Saxophonist, composer and improviser Ida Toninato

Montréal-based saxophonist, composer and improviser Ida Toninato has an ear for the unknown and a history of exploring reverberant spaces. She came to the Tank in September, 2018, to make this album, We Become Giants, which was beautifully post-produced at Studio

Makina in Montréal by sound artist Blaise Borboën-Léonard.

This Week We Become Giants Ida Toninato We Become Giants was released this year on the

Dragon’s eye Recordings, a Los Angeles-based label curated by Yann Novak.

“Powerful sonic ideas have stemmed from the magnificent reverberation of the Tank, a former water cistern located in the high desert, its magical vibe,” Ida notes.

Exclaim! magazine called

the record “a marvel of technique and emotion, of patience and careful postproduction, combining long near-silences with beautiful and terrifying reverberant tones that multiply in fractal form, each detail as rich and intense as its source.”

SCOOBY-DOO INVITES YOU TO THE

Virtual Pride events in June!

#SCOOBMOVIENIGHT Pawtastic premiere event on TWITTER, featuring STARS, MUSIC AND FUN!!!

“SCOOB!” AVAILABLE ACROSS NORTH AMERICA TO RENT OR OWN ON FRIDAY, MAY 15 BURBANK, CA – May 15 – Ruh-Roh! Break out the popcorn and the chew toys, grab a comfy seat and get ready to connect with friends and family because Scooby-Doo and the whole Mystery Inc. gang are bringing the party to your house. On Friday, May 15 everyone is invited to the Twitter #ScoobMovieNight premiere event, hosted by the big dog himself, to celebrate the release of the brand new, fully animated, full-length action adventure feature “SCOOB!” on Premium Video on Demand or Premium Digital Ownership.

The Conversation: UAlbany faculty member Sheila Curran Bernard and UAlbany alum Kenn Rabin

Kenn Rabin and Shiela Curran

UAlbany, she is a tenured associate professor in the Department of History and the Documentary Studies Program and director of the

short by social distancing measures — along with a program of other works of experimental hand crafted films introduced by filmmakers from across the globe. https://us02web.zoom. us/j/88295473766?pwd=SjF4 MUtna3oraFg5dHd4Tjc4SVpIUT09

We hated to have to cancel our in-person Pride March and Festival, but we are happy to announce a month long series of

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UAlbany faculty member Sheila Curran Bernard and UAlbany alum Kenn Rabin (Class of ‘74) co-authored Archival Storytelling: A Filmmaker’s Guide to Finding, Using, and Licensing ThirdParty Visuals and Music, 2nd ed, to be published this month.

Kenn, a two-time Emmy Award nominee, is an internationally-recognized expert on the use of archival materials in film storytelling, with credits on projects including Selma, and Milk.

Sheila is fan Emmy and Peabody Award-winning writer and filmmaker and writer whose credits include Documentary Storytelling and the film Slavery by Another Name, shown at the Writers Institute in 2012. At

FILMont Media Project is proud to announce its inaugural virtual screening event, HAND MADE MOVIES! Join in on Zoom from 7-9 p.m. Eastern Time (U.S. and Canada) as we screen work from the Media Project’s month long hand-painted film workshops--sadly cut

Institute for History and Public Engagement.

Read more about Sheila and Kenn and their work in The Conversation: https://

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A small step: Heat reopen practice facility to players ValleyCats mourn loss of owner Gladstone to COVID-19

By Matt Fortunato Columbia-Greene Media

TROY — Bill Gladstone, Principal Owner and Chairman of the TriCity ValleyCats in Troy, passed away on April 30, from COVID-19 complications. He was 88 years old.

Bill was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. He joined Arthur Young & Company after graduating with honors from Lehigh University in 1951.

He also earned a Bachelor of Laws in 1955 from Brooklyn Law School and was admitted to the New York State Bar. Except for time spent serving in the U.S. Air Force as a Second Lieutenant during the Korean War (1952-53), Gladstone spent his entire business career at Arthur Young, becoming a partner in 1963, managing partner in 1981 and chairman in 1985. He became a Co-Chief Executive of Ernst and Young in 1989 after playing a key role in the merger of Arthur Young & Company with Ernst and Whinney.

In 1970, he graduated from the Harvard University Advanced Management Program and in 1992, he received an Honorary Doctor of Law from Lehigh University.

At Lehigh, he endowed the William L. Gladstone Scholarship Fund in 1972 and was part of the campaign for endowment of the Arthur Young-William L. Gladstone section

of the Lehigh Library Accounting Collection.

Gladstone was a cornerstone in the New York-Penn League since 1992, when he bought the ValleyCats, then the Pittsfield Mets, before they became a part of the Houston Astros organization in 2001. During his tenure, the team won three New York-Penn League Championships, the most previous of them in 2018.

“Bill left an indelible mark on the game of baseball and the ValleyCats organization,” said ValleyCats President Rick Murphy. “Bill was an inspirational leader, partner, and fan of the game.

His passion for the game was evident in the ValleyCats’ motto, ‘Fans For Life.”

Former Tri-City manager Jason Bell offered his condolences on Twitter, upon hearing the announcement. “I always appreciated his belief in me,” Bell remembered, “and the meeting we had after I managed my first professional game where he gave me entree tickets as a memorable souvenir.

I’m glad I could be a part of his last championship and I will never forget the amount of joy that brought him.”

Gladstone was elected to the board of directors for the National Baseball Hall of Fame See GLADSTONE B5

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A view of the AmericanAirlines Arena in Miami on May 8.

Anthony Chiang and Barry Jackson Miami Herald

MIAMI — For forward Udonis Haslem, the decision to enter the Miami Heat’s practice facility for a Wednesday afternoon workout was a fairly easy one.

The Heat began allowing players Wednesday to participate in voluntary individual workouts at the team’s AmericanAirlines Arena practice facility under strict NBA guidelines. Haslem, who has served as a Heat captain in 13 consecutive seasons, was among those who took advantage on the first day the downtown Miami facility was

open to players since NBA facilities were ordered closed to players and staff on March 20 amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

“From a leadership standpoint,” Haslem said Wednesday after handing out groceries to families who have recently lost their jobs because of the economic fallout from COVID-19, “the fact that we’re opening up and we have an opportunity to kind of get our feet wet a little bit in the process, I have to take advantage of it and show these young guys the next step and the new phase of how we’re going to be doing things and what we need to do to

stay safe and stay protected, but also be able to get a little work in. It allows me to be on the frontline as a leader in showing those guys how it’s going to be done during the next step and next phase.”

The league began permitting teams to open practice facilities for workouts on Friday as allowed per local orders.

For now, the Heat plans to limit workouts at its AmericanAirlines Arena practice facility to three days per week.

The Heat said it will not disclose the identity or number of players participating since the workouts are See HEAT B5

Universal DH might be here to stay Ryan Lewis Akron Beacon Journal

While Major League Baseball’s owners and the players union negotiate financial terms for a potential, shortened season in 2020, a number of alterations will be made to the league itself to facilitate such a scenario.

Divisions are likely to be realigned. Fans likely won’t be at any games early on, if not for the entirety of 2020.

Some teams, if not all, could be playing at different locations, including their spring training homes in Arizona or Florida (particularly if their respective governors don’t allow for pro sports to return on time). The postseason could stretch deep into November. Rosters See BASEBALL B5

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New York Mets designated hitter J.D. Davis (28) hits a single in the second inning against the Minnesota Twins at Target Field.

Giants’ Jones adjusts to Year 2 online with new playbook Field Level Media

Like every other player in the NFL, New York Giants quarterback Daniel Jones is adjusting to football practice on the computer screen in preparation for the 2020 season.

Unlike most other players, however, Jones is preparing for his second season – first as the opening-day presumptive starter – with a whole new coaching staff and offensive system, too.

Gone are head coach Pat Shurmur and Hall of Fame quarterback Eli Manning. In are head coach Joe Judge and offensive coordinator Jason Garrett, the former head coach of the Dallas Cowboys.

“It’s definitely different. We’re doing the Zoom meetings ... so it’s definitely different than being in person,” Jones said. “We’re adjusting to the different circumstances. I think guys are really picking up the system, are able to learn and be like we would in person. We’re able to get together, ask questions, converse with each other and our coaches.

“I’m trying to stay on top of it. It’s a whole new system. I’m trying to work at the pace we’re asked to and understanding as much as I can thoroughly and fully before trying to jump ahead and it’s not taught completely.”

Jones is riding out the coronavirus pandemic at his parents’ home in Charlotte, N.C., working out to keep his body and right arm in shape by “throwing with a small group of guys.” He’s also working with a quarterback coach to drill

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New York Giants quarterback Daniel Jones (8) throws a pass against the Philadelphia Eagles on Dec. 29, 2019 at MetLife Stadium.

on the chief bugaboo from his rookie season – fumbles.

“I think the biggest thing is ball security, and

particularly in the pocket, protecting the ball,” Jones said. “That’s a fundamental skill that for the quarterback position, that’s something

that’s crucial but also to me a fairly simple fix in that it’s a mindfulness, being intentional with securing the ball, having two hands on it.”

Jones led the league with 18 fumbles last season. He lost an NFL-high 11 fumbles in his 13 games (12 starts) and threw 12 interceptions.

He completed 61.9 percent of his passes for 3,027 yards and 24 touchdowns, having replaced Manning in Week 3.

For his part, Manning said recently he thinks things will be easier for Jones this year without him in the locker room.

Jones said, “I think looking back, it probably was a little bit awkward at certain times, but we did a good job working together. I know I enjoyed working with him and certainly learned a ton from him and appreciate everything he did during that year.”

Jones indicated that he’s ready to step up and be a part of the leadership group of the team.

“I certainly feel the responsibility of being a leader,” he said. “That’s something I take seriously. But it’s our team. I don’t know if it’s one guy’s team. It’s not coach’s team, it’s not my team, it’s not (Saquon Barkley’s) team or anyone else’s. It’s our team, and I understand that.

Leadership-wise, I’m going to do my best to, at first, take care of what I’m doing, take care of my responsibility, be prepared and playing at a high level.

“Hopefully that rubs off on guys, and try to do my best to help guys and work with guys as best I can.”

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Pro football NFL WEEKLY SCHEDULES WEEK 1 Thursday, Sept. 10 Houston at Kansas City, 8:20 p.m. (NBC) Sunday, Sept. 13 Seattle at Atlanta, 1 p.m. (FOX) Cleveland at Baltimore, 1 p.m. (CBS) N.Y. Jets at Buffalo, 1 p.m. (CBS) Las Vegas at Carolina, 1 p.m. (CBS) Chicago at Detroit, 1 p.m. (FOX) Indianapolis at Jacksonville, 1 p.m. (CBS) Green Bay at Minnesota, 1 p.m. (FOX) Miami at New England, 1 p.m. (CBS) Philadelphia at Washington, 1 p.m. (FOX) L.A. Chargers at Cincinnati, 4:05 p.m. (CBS) Tampa Bay at New Orleans, 4:25 p.m. (FOX) Arizona at San Francisco, 4:25 p.m. (FOX) Dallas at L.A. Rams, 8:20 p.m. (NBC) Monday, Sept. 14 Pittsburgh at N.Y. Giants, 7:15 p.m. (ESPN) Tennessee at Denver, 10:10 p.m. (ESPN) WEEK 2 Thursday, Sept. 17 Cincinnati at Cleveland, 8:20 p.m. (NFLN) Sunday, Sept. 20 N.Y. Giants at Chicago, 1 p.m. (CBS) Atlanta at Dallas, 1 p.m. (FOX) Detroit at Green Bay, 1 p.m. (FOX) Minnesota at Indianapolis, 1 p.m. (FOX) Buffalo at Miami, 1 p.m. (CBS) San Francisco at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m. (FOX) L.A. Rams at Philadelphia, 1 p.m. (FOX) Denver at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m. (CBS) Carolina at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m. (FOX) Jacksonville at Tennessee, 1 p.m. (CBS) Washington at Arizona, 4:05 p.m. (FOX) Baltimore at Houston, 4:25 p.m. (CBS) Kansas City at L.A. Chargers, 4:25 p.m. (CBS) New England at Seattle, 8:20 p.m. (NBC) Monday, Sept. 21 New Orleans at Las Vegas, 8:15 p.m. (ESPN) WEEK 3 Thursday, Sept. 24 Miami at Jacksonville, 8:20 p.m. (NFLN) Sunday, Sept. 27 Chicago at Atlanta, 1 p.m. (FOX) L.A. Rams at Buffalo, 1 p.m. (FOX) Washington at Cleveland, 1 p.m. (FOX) Tennessee at Minnesota, 1 p.m. (CBS) Las Vegas at New England, 1 p.m. (CBS) San Francisco at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m. (FOX) Cincinnati at Philadelphia, 1 p.m. (CBS) Houston at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m. (CBS) N.Y. Jets at Indianapolis, 4:05 p.m. (CBS) Carolina at L.A. Chargers, 4:05 p.m. (CBS) Detroit at Arizona, 4:25 p.m. (FOX) Tampa Bay at Denver, 4:25 p.m. (FOX) Dallas at Seattle, 4:25 p.m. (FOX) Green Bay at New Orleans, 8:20 p.m. (NBC) Monday, Sept. 28 Kansas City at Baltimore, 8:15 p.m. (ESPN) WEEK 4 Thursday, Oct. 1 Denver at N.Y. Jets, 8:20 p.m. (NFLN) Sunday, Oct. 4 Arizona at Carolina, 1 p.m. (FOX) Indianapolis at Chicago, 1 p.m. (CBS) Jacksonville at Cincinnati, 1 p.m. (CBS) Cleveland at Dallas, 1 p.m. (FOX) New Orleans at Detroit, 1 p.m. (FOX) Minnesota at Houston, 1 p.m. (FOX) Seattle at Miami, 1 p.m. (FOX) L.A. Chargers at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m. (CBS) Pittsburgh at Tennessee, 1 p.m. (CBS) Baltimore at Washington, 1 p.m. (CBS) N.Y. Giants at L.A. Rams, 4:05 p.m. (FOX) New England at Kansas City, 4:25 p.m. (CBS) Buffalo at Las Vegas, 4:25 p.m. (CBS) Philadelphia at San Francisco, 8:20 p.m. (NBC) Monday, Oct. 5 Atlanta at Green Bay, 8:15 p.m. (ESPN) WEEK 5 Thursday, Oct. 8 Tampa Bay at Chicago, 8:20 p.m. (FOX/NFLN/ Amazon*) Sunday, Oct. 11 Carolina at Atlanta, 1 p.m. (FOX) Cincinnati at Baltimore, 1 p.m. (CBS) Jacksonville at Houston, 1 p.m. (CBS) Las Vegas at Kansas City, 1 p.m. (CBS) Denver at New England, 1 p.m. (CBS) Arizona at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m. (FOX) Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m. (FOX) Buffalo at Tennessee, 1 p.m. (CBS) L.A. Rams at Washington, 1 p.m. (FOX) Miami at San Francisco, 4:05 p.m. (FOX) Indianapolis at Cleveland, 4:25 p.m. (CBS) N.Y. Giants at Dallas, 4:25 p.m. (CBS) Minnesota at Seattle, 8:20 p.m. (NBC) Monday, Oct. 12 L.A. Chargers at New Orleans, 8:15 p.m. (ESPN) WEEK 6 Thursday, Oct. 15 Kansas City at Buffalo, 8:20 p.m. (FOX/NFLN/ Amazon*) Sunday, Oct. 18 Chicago at Carolina, 1 p.m. (FOX) Cincinnati at Indianapolis, 1 p.m. (FOX) Detroit at Jacksonville, 1 p.m. (FOX) Atlanta at Minnesota, 1 p.m. (FOX) Washington at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m. (FOX) Baltimore at Philadelphia, 1 p.m. (CBS) Cleveland at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m. (CBS) Houston at Tennessee, 1 p.m. (CBS) Miami at Denver, 4:05 p.m. (CBS) N.Y. Jets at L.A. Chargers, 4:05 p.m. (CBS) Green Bay at Tampa Bay, 4:25 p.m. (FOX) L.A. Rams at San Francisco, 8:20 p.m. (NBC) Monday, Oct. 19 Arizona at Dallas, 8:15 p.m. (ESPN) WEEK 7 Thursday, Oct. 22 N.Y. Giants at Philadelphia, 8:20 p.m. (FOX/ NFLN/Amazon*) Sunday, Oct. 25 Detroit at Atlanta, 1 p.m. (FOX) Pittsburgh at Baltimore, 1 p.m. (CBS) Cleveland at Cincinnati, 1 p.m. (CBS) Green Bay at Houston, 1 p.m. (FOX) L.A. Chargers at Miami, 1 p.m. (CBS) Carolina at New Orleans, 1 p.m. (FOX) Buffalo at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m. (CBS) Dallas at Washington, 1 p.m. (FOX) Seattle at Arizona, 4:05 p.m. (FOX) Kansas City at Denver, 4:25 p.m. (CBS) San Francisco at New England, 4:25 p.m. (CBS) Tampa Bay at Las Vegas, 8:20 p.m. (NBC) Monday, Oct. 26 Chicago at L.A. Rams, 8:15 p.m. (ESPN) WEEK 8 Thursday, Oct. 29 Atlanta at Carolina, 8:20 p.m. (FOX/NFLN/Amazon*) Sunday, Nov. 1 New England at Buffalo, 1 p.m. (CBS) Tennessee at Cincinnati, 1 p.m. (CBS) Las Vegas at Cleveland, 1 p.m. (FOX) Indianapolis at Detroit, 1 p.m. (CBS) Minnesota at Green Bay, 1 p.m. (FOX) N.Y. Jets at Kansas City, 1 p.m. (CBS) L.A. Rams at Miami, 1 p.m. (FOX) Jacksonville at L.A. Chargers, 4:05 p.m. (CBS) New Orleans at Chicago, 4:25 p.m. (FOX) San Francisco at Seattle, 4:25 p.m. (FOX) Dallas at Philadelphia, 8:20 p.m. (NBC) Monday, Nov. 2 Tampa Bay at N.Y. Giants, 8:15 p.m. (ESPN) WEEK 9 Thursday, Nov. 5 Green Bay at San Francisco, 8:20 p.m. (FOX/ NFLN/Amazon*) Sunday, Nov. 8 Denver at Atlanta, 1 p.m. (CBS) Seattle at Buffalo, 1 p.m. (FOX) Baltimore at Indianapolis, 1 p.m. (CBS) Houston at Jacksonville, 1 p.m. (CBS) Carolina at Kansas City, 1 p.m. (FOX) Detroit at Minnesota, 1 p.m. (CBS) Chicago at Tennessee, 1 p.m. (FOX) N.Y. Giants at Washington, 1 p.m. (FOX) Las Vegas at L.A. Chargers, 4:05 p.m. (FOX) Miami at Arizona, 4:25 p.m. (CBS) Pittsburgh at Dallas, 4:25 p.m. (CBS) New Orleans at Tampa Bay, 8:20 p.m. (NBC) Monday, Nov. 9 New England at N.Y. Jets, 8:15 p.m. (ESPN) WEEK 10 Thursday, Nov. 12 Indianapolis at Tennessee, 8:20 p.m. (FOX/ NFLN/Amazon*) Sunday, Nov. 15 Tampa Bay at Carolina, 1 p.m. (FOX) Houston at Cleveland, 1 p.m. (FOX) Washington at Detroit, 1 p.m. (FOX) Jacksonville at Green Bay, 1 p.m. (FOX) Philadelphia at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m. (FOX) Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m. (FOX) Buffalo at Arizona, 4:05 p.m. (CBS) Denver at Las Vegas, 4:05 p.m. (CBS) N.Y. Jets at Miami, 4:05 p.m. (CBS) Seattle at L.A. Rams, 4:25 p.m. (FOX) San Francisco at New Orleans, 4:25 p.m. (FOX) Baltimore at New England, 8:20 p.m. (NBC) Monday, Nov. 16 Minnesota at Chicago, 8:15 p.m. (ESPN) WEEK 11 Thursday, Nov. 19 Arizona at Seattle, 8:20 p.m. (FOX/NFLN/Amazon*) Sunday, Nov. 22 Tennessee at Baltimore, 1 p.m. (CBS) Detroit at Carolina, 1 p.m. (FOX) Philadelphia at Cleveland, 1 p.m. (FOX) New England at Houston, 1 p.m. (CBS) Green Bay at Indianapolis, 1 p.m. (FOX) Pittsburgh at Jacksonville, 1 p.m. (CBS) Atlanta at New Orleans, 1 p.m. (FOX) Cincinnati at Washington, 1 p.m. (CBS)

L.A. Chargers at Denver, 4:05 p.m. (CBS) Dallas at Minnesota, 4:25 p.m. (FOX) Kansas City at Las Vegas, 8:20 p.m. (NBC) Monday, Nov. 23 L.A. Rams at Tampa Bay, 8:15 p.m. (ESPN) WEEK 12 Thursday, Nov. 26 Houston at Detroit, 12:30 p.m. (CBS) Washington at Dallas, 4:30 p.m. (FOX) Baltimore at Pittsburgh , 8:20 p.m. (NBC) Sunday, Nov. 29 Las Vegas at Atlanta, 1 p.m. (CBS) L.A. Chargers at Buffalo, 1 p.m. (CBS) N.Y. Giants at Cincinnati, 1 p.m. (FOX) Tennessee at Indianapolis, 1 p.m. (CBS) Cleveland at Jacksonville, 1 p.m. (CBS) Carolina at Minnesota, 1 p.m. (FOX) Arizona at New England, 1 p.m. (FOX) Miami at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m. (CBS) New Orleans at Denver, 4:05 p.m. (FOX) San Francisco at L.A. Rams, 4:05 p.m. (FOX) Kansas City at Tampa Bay, 4:25 p.m. (CBS) Chicago at Green Bay, 8:20 p.m. (NBC) Monday, Nov. 30 Seattle at Philadelphia, 8:15 p.m. (ESPN)

Making the call on college football will be the hardest decision in sports

WEEK 13 Thursday, Dec. 3 Dallas at Baltimore, 8:20 p.m. (FOX/NFLN/Amazon*) Sunday, Dec. 6 New Orleans at Atlanta, 1 p.m. (FOX) Detroit at Chicago, 1 p.m. (FOX) Indianapolis at Houston, 1 p.m. (CBS) Cincinnati at Miami, 1 p.m. (CBS) Jacksonville at Minnesota, 1 p.m. (CBS) Las Vegas at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m. (CBS) Washington at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m. (FOX) Cleveland at Tennessee, 1 p.m. (CBS) L.A. Rams at Arizona, 4:05 p.m. (FOX) N.Y. Giants at Seattle, 4:05 p.m. (FOX) Philadelphia at Green Bay, 4:25 p.m. (CBS) New England at L.A. Chargers, 4:25 p.m. (CBS) Denver at Kansas City, 8:20 p.m. (NBC) Monday, Dec. 7 Buffalo at San Francisco, 8:15 p.m. (ESPN) WEEK 14 Thursday, Dec. 10 New England at L.A. Rams, 8:20 p.m. (FOX/ NFLN/Amazon*) Sunday, Dec. 13 Denver at Carolina, 1 p.m. (CBS) Houston at Chicago, 1 p.m. (CBS) Dallas at Cincinnati, 1 p.m. (FOX) Green Bay at Detroit, 1 p.m. (FOX) Tennessee at Jacksonville, 1 p.m. (CBS) Kansas City at Miami, 1 p.m. (CBS) Arizona at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m. (FOX) Minnesota at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m. (FOX) Indianapolis at Las Vegas, 4:05 p.m. (CBS) N.Y. Jets at Seattle, 4:05 p.m. (CBS) Atlanta at L.A. Chargers, 4:25 p.m. (FOX) New Orleans at Philadelphia, 4:25 p.m. (FOX) Washington at San Francisco, 4:25 p.m. (FOX) Pittsburgh at Buffalo, 8:20 p.m. (NBC) Monday, Dec. 14 Baltimore at Cleveland, 8:15 p.m. (ESPN) WEEK 15 Thursday, Dec. 17 L.A. Chargers at Las Vegas, 8:20 p.m. (FOX/ NFLN/Amazon*) Saturday, Dec. 19 TBD, 4:30 p.m. (NFLN) TBD, 8:15 p.m. (NFLN) Saturday, Dec. 19 Carolina at Green Bay, TBD (TBD) Houston at Indianapolis, TBD (TBD) N.Y. Jets at L.A. Rams, TBD (TBD) Detroit at Tennessee, TBD (TBD) Sunday, Dec. 20 Tampa Bay at Atlanta, 1 p.m. (FOX) Jacksonville at Baltimore, 1 p.m. (CBS) New England at Miami, 1 p.m. (CBS) Chicago at Minnesota, 1 p.m. (FOX) Cleveland at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m. (CBS) Seattle at Washington, 1 p.m. (FOX) Philadelphia at Arizona, 4:05 p.m. (FOX) Kansas City at New Orleans, 4:25 p.m. (CBS) San Francisco at Dallas, 8:20 p.m. (NBC) Monday, Dec. 21 Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, 8:15 p.m. (ESPN) WEEK 16 Friday, Dec. 25 Minnesota at New Orleans, 4:30 p.m. (FOX/ NFLN/Amazon*) Saturday, Dec. 26 TBD, 4:30 p.m. (NFLN) TBD, 8:15 p.m. (NFLN) Saturday, Dec. 26 San Francisco at Arizona, TBD (TBD) Tampa Bay at Detroit, TBD (TBD) Denver at L.A. Chargers, TBD (TBD) Miami at Las Vegas, TBD (TBD) Cleveland at N.Y. Jets, TBD (TBD) Sunday, Dec. 27 N.Y. Giants at Baltimore, 1 p.m. (FOX) Cincinnati at Houston, 1 p.m. (CBS) Chicago at Jacksonville, 1 p.m. (FOX) Atlanta at Kansas City, 1 p.m. (FOX) Indianapolis at Pittsburgh, 1 p.m. (CBS) Carolina at Washington, 1 p.m. (CBS) L.A. Rams at Seattle, 4:05 p.m. (CBS) Philadelphia at Dallas, 4:25 p.m. (FOX) Tennessee at Green Bay, 8:20 p.m. (NBC) Monday, Dec. 28 Buffalo at New England, 8:15 p.m. (ESPN) WEEK 17 Sunday, Jan. 3 Miami at Buffalo, 1 p.m. (CBS) New Orleans at Carolina, 1 p.m. (FOX) Green Bay at Chicago, 1 p.m. (FOX) Baltimore at Cincinnati, 1 p.m. (CBS) Pittsburgh at Cleveland, 1 p.m. (CBS) Minnesota at Detroit, 1 p.m. (FOX) Tennessee at Houston, 1 p.m. (CBS) Jacksonville at Indianapolis, 1 p.m. (CBS) L.A. Chargers at Kansas City, 1 p.m. (CBS) N.Y. Jets at New England, 1 p.m. (CBS) Dallas at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m. (FOX) Washington at Philadelphia, 1 p.m. (FOX) Atlanta at Tampa Bay, 1 p.m. (FOX) Las Vegas at Denver, 4:25 p.m. (CBS) Arizona at L.A. Rams, 4:25 p.m. (FOX) Seattle at San Francisco, 4:25 p.m. (FOX) * NFL Network and Amazon simulcast subject to change.

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Quarterback Trevor Lawrence (16) of the Clemson Tigers drops back to pass during the PlayStation Fiesta Bowl against the Ohio State Buckeyes at State Farm Stadium on December 28, 2019 in Glendale, Arizona.

John Romano Tampa Bay Times

TAMPA, Fla. — So Major League Baseball is willing to cut its season in half and play without fans in stadiums.

Seems prudent, even if it is sad and unprecedented. And you can bet a nation of baseball fans will solemnly nod their heads in agreement. They react this way because they are nerdy. And old. I know this because I am one of them.

At the same time, word is spreading that college football is also in danger of dramatic alterations.

Too many governors and university presidents seem inclined to severely curtail or even postpone the season. And you can bet a nation of college football fans will lose their freakin’ minds. They’ll react this way because they are passionate. And nuts. I know this because I’ve spent 40 years watching them tailgate.

A plague ain’t got nothing on these people. Just you watch. If football is played in the fall, Auburn fans will happily empty their hoard of toilet paper just to throw it at Toomer’s Corner.

That fanaticism is what’s going to make the next few weeks so interesting. And potentially nasty. The dynamics in college football will make it far more difficult to navigate during a pandemic than the NFL, NBA or NHL. For one thing, colleges are in a much more tenuous position financially than pro sports leagues. Football programs provide the cash needed to support nearly every other NCAA sport. So while a shortened MLB season may eat into an owner’s profits, a drop

in football revenues could completely wipe out a school’s athletic program.

On top of that, there is no centralized source of power. The NCAA may be the umbrella organization, but the major conferences actually wield the most influence.

Which sets up the possibility that the Southeastern Conference could go one direction, and the Big 10 could go a completely different way. Or 10-league teams could decide to play a full schedule, while two other programs choose to postpone the season.

“There will be great disparity in this.

The NCAA will do what it can to regulate it, but you will have certain instances where schools aren’t open and others are, or states haven’t reopened and some have,” Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick said in a recent Zoom call with reporters. “What’s the record consequence of someone deciding they can’t play or having a week they can’t play because of an outbreak?

“Very different circumstances than the pro sports, who I think can figure out how to begin all at once despite state differences.

Most of our members are state institutions.”

It’s not unrealistic to think this might break along geographic and cultural lines.

Political leaders in California and Washington seem to be re-opening more cautiously than, say, the governors of Georgia and Alabama.

So what does that look like on university campuses in mid-July, when coaches seem to agree that preseason workouts must begin if the season is to start on time? Are some schools going to get an early start, while others wait for students to be welcomed back in classrooms?

And will some conferences limit travel to

neighboring states, or limit games to league opponents? What about proposals to have a shortened season that doesn’t even begin until after the Super Bowl in February?

And how much input will boosters have, considering how cash-strapped athletic budgets may be?

SEC commissioner Greg Sankey recently told Jacksonville radio station 1010 XL that he is hopeful member institutions will continue to work together but didn’t seem confident it would happen.

“There is room for different conferences to make different decisions,” he said. “If there’s a couple of programs that aren’t able, does that stop everyone? I’m not sure it does.”

Because the college football season is nearly four months away, conference commissioners and university officials have a little more cushion than baseball owners.

They can continue to monitor the spread of the coronavirus and the progress of available tests and vaccines.

But that also means they could face more pressure from fans to open up stadium gates, and play a full schedule. College football isn’t just the lifeblood of athletic departments, it’s also a major economic driver for university towns.

At this point, even the politicians are unsure of what direction they will go. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine recently told the Paul Finebaum show on ESPN radio that he wasn’t sure if college football would be played in his state in 2020.

“I don’t think we know,” he said. “And anyone who tells you they know is making it up.”

Jarrett Stidham and the Patriots offense are bad enough to miss the postseason Charles McDonald New York Daily News

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Transactions FOOTBALL NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE Arizona Cardinals - Cut DB Andre Chachere.

Baltimore Ravens - Cut WR Sean Modster.

Carolina Panthers - Signed DT Derrick Brown to a four-year, $23.62 million contract.

Indianapolis Colts - Signed DB Isaiah Rodgers to a four-year, $3.44 million contract.

Jacksonville Jaguars - Signed RB Chris Thompson to a one-year contract.

Miami Dolphins - Signed DB Brandon Jones to a four-year, $4.87 million contract.

BASKETBALL NCAA BASKETBALL Chattanooga - Announced G Maurice Commander has left the program and will transfer to Illinois-Chicago.

Chattanooga - Announced F Rod Johnson has left the program and will transfer to Western Illinois as a graduate.

Georgetown - Announced G Mac McClung withdrew from the NBA draft.

James Madison - Announced G Darius Banks has left the program and will transfer to Chattanooga.

Rice - Announced F Zach Crisler has left the program and will transfer to Fairfield.

On paper, the Patriots appear to have the worst quarterback situation in the league.

A quarterback situation that’s bad enough to tank their entire season.

New England has been arguably the most successful sports franchise in the world over the past two decades, but that doesn’t mean they’re infallible. Just because Bill Belichick and the rest of the organization seem to be confident in Jarrett Stidham as the starting DOUGLAS DEFELICE/USA TODAY QB doesn’t mean it’s actually a New England Patriots quarterback Jarrett Stidham (4) warms up sound plan. prior to the Sept.

29, 2019 game between the Buffalo Bills and the Stidham very well may be the next under-drafted gem New England Patriots at New Era Field. at quarterback in the league. competition for Stidham out- Thuney, their franchise player However, he hasn’t done any- side of Brian Hoyer seems like that’s counting roughly $14.8 thing to suggest that he can be a bigger risk than we’re used million against the cap, this is that guy. The last time Stidham to New England taking. It’s the quarterback situation New got meaningful in-game reps not like Stidham was seen as a England is stuck with. was in a Week 3 blowout win can’t-miss prospect in the 2019 Luckily for Stidham, the over the Jets. Stidham went NFL draft — or even a highly cupboard isn’t completely into the game for Tom Brady, touted one. He had a modest bare for the Patriots on ofthrew a pick-six on his third collegiate career, was drafted fense. Thuney is a Pro Bowl throw of the game, and was in the fourth round, and now level offensive guard when promptly benched in favor of he’s being thrust into a posi- healthy, and Shaq Mason, Brady. tion that has demanded excel- Isaiah Wynn, David Andrews If the Patriots weren’t in a lence for 20 straight years. and Marcus Cannon make up position to compete this seaPart of why Stidham is be- the rest of a talented offensive son, maybe rolling into the ing handed the starting job is line (when healthy). If all those season with Stidham would be the Patriots’ cap situation. Ac- guys can avoid injury, Stidham more defensible. But New Eng- cording to Over The Cap, New will at least have the protection land’s defense should still be England has just a little more he needs to throw the ball. among the best in the league than one million dollars in cap Unfortunately, that’s where this year, led by a veteran sec- space right now. That’s not the positivity within the Paondary that allowed just 6.0 enough to sign someone like triots’ supporting cast stops. yards per pass attempt last Cam Newton and fit their new- Running back Sony Michel has year, second in the NFL. ly drafted rookies underneath been a bust since the Patriots Not having any legitimate the cap. Unless they trade Joe drafted him one pick before

Lamar Jackson in the 2018 NFL draft. N’Keal Harry caught 12 passes for 105 yards during his rookie year. Mohamed Sanu averaged 25.9 yards per game in eight games with the Patriots after they acquired him from Atlanta for a secondround pick. Matt LaCosse and a gang of rookies will hold down the tight end spot.

Outside of Julian Edelman and James White, New England’s offensive supporting cast is barren. Having Belichick and offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels to scheme players open will help, but the offensive talent is severely lacking. That doesn’t bode well for Stidham’s chances this season.

After years of waiting for the Patriots to fall off, this seems like the first time New England isn’t a serious contender in two decades. Their offensive supporting cast is weak and they have an unproven commodity at quarterback who wasn’t highly valued coming into the NFL. Of course, if there’s any coach that could figure out how to guide this offense to the postseason, it’s Belichick.

Or maybe they’ll be so bad they get their hands on Trevor Lawrence or Justin Fields in the 2021 draft and continue their reign of dominance over the NFL.

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My dad and my uncle from Syracuse go fishing almost every day and catch a lot of fish. My mom and I help babysit my nephew during the day while my brother and his wife are working.

My nephew is 2 months and 8 days old today. He smiles a lot and he loves to play. My mom and I have also been making different kinds of Asian desserts like boba. My brothers always play video games and play basketball outside.

My brother also helped me set up a hammock, but we had to take it down because of the dreary weather. When the hammock was up I would lay there, read my book, nap and just lay in the sun.

My grandparents are taking walks with me and by themselves. We live near the country so it’s peaceful and a good place to take walks. I have a long-haired calico cat and she loves to play fetch which a cat normally does not. She also loves to be petted and she loves to lie underneath things and in corners. She sheds a lot so you find cat hair everywhere.

For my birthday, my sister-in-law and I made three Chinese birthday cakes. It took the whole day but it was worth it.

Quarantine isn’t great but my family and I are trying to make the best out of it like the other families in quarantine.

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By ROGER STOCKTON Sixth Grade, H.T. Wiley Intermediate School

What I thought wasn’t going to be fun turned out to be one of the best times ever. For instance, my family and I have a lot of fun spending time together in a way we didn’t have time for before.

My siblings and I have fun making up games on the trampoline and we have mostly friendly competitions in Just Dance. My family and I also love to play Telestrations which brings a lot of laughs and family memories. We also love to go outside during the day and play basketball games such as horse, knockout and two-vs.-two games. Despite all the little fights and sibling rivalry my family has gotten closer over this time.

On the first day of online school, I didn’t know what to expect. As the weeks went by I began to love online school. My teacher has given us fun assignments where they are challenging but they are a lot of fun to do.

I also get to go to a daily Zoom meeting where I get to connect with my teacher and classmates. I didn’t know if I was going to learn new things, but I definitely have. At some points I have a hard time staying focused, but I have found methods that help me stay focused, such as listening to music, finding a room where no one is, and just taking a 5 minute break when I need it. Even though school has been challenging it has been fun at the same time.

I was unsure how I was going to keep up on my gymnastics skills and learn new skills at the same time. I learned later into quarantine that I would be given a list of exercises to complete every week to keep up on my strength.

I will have two Zoom meetings a week with my teammates and coaches. Also, my friend’s dad made me a mushroom (which is one of the events) so I can keep up on that as well.

On top of that, I have learned to rollerblade and only fell once while going down a hill. I have also been doing some dancing with the help of Just Dance and Tik Tok. In summary, quarantine has not been as bad as I thought it would be. I have had a lot more family bonding time, I have stayed connected with my schoolwork, and have been keeping up on my gymnastics skills and learning new skills.

Even though some days seem hard and long most days I look on the bright side.

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MLB will have to do anything it can think of to make a shortened season a reality and to cram in as many games as possible. That way, there’s at least some baseball (and to put it in terms that would likely motivate the league further: there’s some TV money to recoup).

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heavily involved in the baseball industry for the last 30 years. Bill was a member of Minor League Baseball’s Board of Trustees for 12 years, while also serving on the board of directors and

executive committee for the New York-Penn League.

Bill is survived by his daughter, Susan, son, Doug, their spouses, and his beloved grandchildren. His wife of over 60 years, Millie,

passed away in 2018. Bill and Millie seldom missed a ValleyCats game and could almost always be found taking in the action behind home plate in Section 100. Together they owned a significant

collection of baseball art and artifacts, parts of which have been displayed at a number of museums.

Tri-City will now try to keep moving forward, while they await a resolution from

the Major League owners and the Major League Baseball Players’ Association, as they continue to negotiate proposals to start the 2020 season in these unprecedented times.

For Haslem, the workout started well, but he felt the effects of the time off toward the end of the session.

“I felt great at the beginning,” Haslem said in a video released by the Heat on Wednesday afternoon.

“I started off making all my shots, everything felt good.

Like riding a bike. Toward the end, my legs got a little fatigued. My wind was good.

Just definitely the legs being fatigued. No matter how hard you work out or what you do, you can never simulate game legs and getting up shots and repetition.

“It’s not every day that we take this much time off. I’ve never went this long without playing the game of basketball in my life. Not having shot the ball for a long period of time, haven’t competed on the court for a long period of time.”

The reopening of the AmericanAirlines Arena practice facility comes with new rules the Heat must follow. Here are the strict guidelines the NBA has implemented for all teams in hopes of preventing the spread of COVID-19 ...

— No more than four players are permitted at a facility at any one time. Heat players have to schedule workouts to make sure they all don’t show up at once.

— Group activity remains prohibited, including practices or scrimmages. One

player is allowed at each basket and each player also has his own sanitized ball.

— A total of six assistant coaches/player development personnel will be allowed to supervise workouts, but no more than four at one time.

Head coaches are not allowed to be at workouts.

— The practice facility is the only arena space players are permitted to work out at. Areas such as the weight room and locker room remain closed, which means players have to arrive for workouts with their own gear and have to leave the arena without showering.

— Players have to wear face masks inside the facility except when working out.

And any staff members present have to wear face masks and gloves.

— Staff present, except for medical and athletic training personnel, must stay at least 12 feet from players.

— Players and staff entering and exiting the arena will be subject to temperature checks.

— Players remain prohibited from using non-team facilities such as public health clubs, fitness centers or gyms.

In addition, NBA teams have to designate a staff member as a “facility hygiene officer” to oversee these new policies. For the Heat, longtime athletic trainer Jay Sabol has been given that title.

“It’s going to be a learning process,” Haslem said of using the practice facility under these restrictions. “We talked about it, we Zoom called about it (as a team). But it’s going to be a work in progress, man. It’s going to be a work in progress and we’re going to take it one day at a time. We’re going to be safe ... and we’re going to move accordingly.

“We listened to the doctors, the medical staff and everybody about the precautions that we need to take. As a team collectively, we got to commit to an oath because we all have to protect each other in this process.”

It’s unknown how many Heat players will consistently use the practice facility for workouts once it opens under such strict restrictions.

But the thinking is, especially with a number of players living in condominiums, the opening of the arena practice facility provides a controlled and monitored environment for basketball workouts to those who are interested.

The Heat officially received local clearance to open the AmericanAirlines Arena practice facility with an amendment to MiamiDade County Emergency Order 15-20 that allows “the use of facilities owned or leased by a professional sports franchise, solely by employees of such franchise for training purposes.”

During a Wednesday morning radio appearance on The Joe Rose Show, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez said: “The Heat submitted a plan of how they’re going to do these individual workouts with individual basketballs, towels, drinks and everything, and how they’re going to segregate them. They’re not going to use any of the gym equipment, they’re not going to go in the weight room. Those things are not going to be used. They’re basically going to go in, do their workout by themselves and I guess with some staff. Everybody is going to maintain at least 12 feet apart. They’re going to wear a mask until they’re actually working. So that’s fine.

“You can control that a heck of a lot better because you’re talking 12 to 15 people versus hundreds and hundreds when they’re playing basketball. But they’re not going to do any contact stuff.

They’re going to do individual workouts, that’s all. So they submitted that plan and it seemed fine and it seemed safe.”

While practice facilities are starting to open around the NBA for individual workouts, it’s still unknown whether the remainder of the 2019-20 season will be played. In last week’s conference call with players, Silver reportedly told players that a decision on whether to complete the

2019-20 season could come as late as June.

But things seem to be trending toward a restart of the season, with play suspended since the night of March 11. ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported that participants on a Board of Governors call with Silver on Tuesday left the discussion “increasingly positive about the league’s momentum toward a resumption of play this season,” and Silver reportedly said on the call that he’s hoping to make a decision about whether to resume play within the next two-to-four weeks.

For Haslem, though, just getting an opportunity to work out at the same time and in the same facility as a few of his Heat teammates was enough Wednesday.

“It felt good to have a couple guys around,” Haslem said in the video released by the Heat. “Obviously, me being a leader that I am, but I’m a guy that’s always going to be a little funny, throw a couple jabs and shoot it up a little bit. I was talking crap and getting the competitive juices flowing from the threepoint line. Just getting guys going, having guys smile. It has been so long since we’ve had the opportunity to smile collectively like that, even if it was just a small group.”

greatest baseball highlight there ever was or will be. Josh Tomlin could hit a little, too.

But, it doesn’t seem prudent to give up one of the nine spots to a group of players who are having to focus all of their time on other skills.

Over the last three years, among pitchers with at least 100 plate appearances, Zack Greinke has the best wRC+ in the league — at 64, meaning he’s 36% below league average. He’s the only pitcher who has a wRC+ above 40. Only 15 pitchers have a wRC+ that is even a positive integer, with 100 being league average.

Among qualified hitters last year, how many had a wRC+ below 64? One. Milwaukee’s Orlando Arcia, a shortstop not known for his bat, at 61. To put it another way: Baltimore’s Chris Davis, over the last three years — which includes arguably the worst stretch for a regular hitter in history when he at one point went 0 for 54 — has a wRC+ of 65, still one notch ahead of the best pitcher over that same timeframe.

A few laughs might be had by teammates when an American League pitcher with little or no experience hitting in the last decade or so has to pitch in a National League park and therefore take batting practice. Meanwhile, the managers

are holding their breath, just hoping that prized pitcher eventually returns to the dugout without injuring himself.

And it isn’t to say pitchers are fragile or aren’t athletic enough to hit or run the bases.

It simply requires movements they aren’t normally trying to make. Pitchers are on regimented throwing routines.

Suddenly trying to crush a ball over the Green Monster at Fenway Park or tagging and scoring from third isn’t on that list. Some pitchers, especially those on AL teams, have only swung a bat once or twice in a decade and are suddenly taking up one of the nine spots in the lineup.

Indians manager Terry Francona has spoken on the topic for years. His point of contention with the DH only being in the AL is that the leagues primarily play with the same set of rules all year — until the World Series, the four to seven most important games of any year. Then, all of a sudden, the AL has to reconfigure their lineup. The Indians, for example, in 2016 had to have Carlos Santana in left field at Wrigley Field, with Francona’s blood pressure likely rising any time a ball was hit that way.

“I don’t think it makes it a bad game,” Francona said

before Game 3 of the 2016 World Series. “I just don’t necessarily agree with this. I just think you set your team up the way you set it up and then you get to the most important games and you’re doing something different.”

Last year, the Indians entered the final series of the season still alive for a playoff spot. That series took place in Washington D.C., under NL rules. It put the Indians in a situation of having to adjust their lineup at a crucial time.

“I wish that would get changed,” Francona said last September. “I really think it would benefit the game and it would be more fair. But I doubt if they’re going to do it by next weekend.”

Max Scherzer, Jacob deGrom, Masahiro Tanaka, Chien-Ming Wang, Adam Wainwright, Carlos Zambrano and Mark Prior are among the list of pitchers to be hurt while batting or running the bases.

Scherzer is perhaps a prime example as one of the premier pitchers of the last decade.

He’s won three Cy Young Awards in seven seasons. And yet, because he has to bat for some reason, he’s been hurt while in the batter’s box multiple times, both in games and during batting practice. Those are injuries that don’t need to

be incurred. The players have generally been in favor of the universal DH anyway, considering it could lengthen the careers of some sluggers with 15 additional DH spots open in lineups.

The extra, strategic demands of the National League can be fun. It does put even more pressure on managers late in games. But it also means that, if we’re talking about a World Series game and likely one of the team’s best relievers pitching late in the game, for example, either the pitcher — one of the worst “hitters” in the league — has to bat in a key situation, or one of the team’s best pitchers has to be taken out of the game in favor of a pinch-hitter. Instead of getting the dramatic decision of whether the manager will pinch-hit or save the pitcher, let’s skip that altogether and see the best possible pitcher vs. batter matchups in the game’s biggest moments. It just makes more sense to allow the best pitchers to pitch as much as they can without having to worry about sacrificing outs for their offense.

It’s not even just about that one spot in the lineup, either.

It’s the previous spot or even two spots that are negatively affected. There’s no way Batter No. 8 will get to see many

hittable pitches in any key, early-game situations when the pitcher is waiting on deck.

Look at Cesar Hernandez, signed by the Indians for the 2020 season (if there is one).

While Hernandez was in Philadelphia, he had a couple of strong seasons batting at or near the top of the lineup. He was then moved down the order, closer to the pitcher’s spot, and had to then change his approach from one based on patience to one of aggressiveness. He now had to be the one to drive in runs. He couldn’t get on base to keep the lineup moving, he had to swing at anything close. He struggled, he was non-tendered, and it was a key reason why he was available to the Indians this winter at all.

The counterargument against the DH simply because that’s how the NL has operated for more than century isn’t really a valid point. Just because that’s how things were in the beginning isn’t a reason to keep them around. Half the sport adjusted in 1973. It’s time for the Senior Circuit to finally follow suit. Let’s see the best pitchers face the best batters one-through-nine.

This is one change MLB can keep.

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Inside one collectors quest to own all 6,000 Michael Jordan cards Phil Thompson Chicago Tribune

CHICAGO — Often you’ll read about a Michael Jordan or Babe Ruth trading cards selling at headline-grabbing prices and being let go for hundreds of thousands of dollars at auction, yet you might never know the identity of the reclusive bidder.

Not so with Nat Turner.

It’s no secret that the co-founder and CEO of New York-based Flatiron Health has what’s believed to be the world’s most prolific collections of Michael Jordan cards and one of the most impressive assortments of sports cards known to exist. His Instagram account, which features front-and-back snapshots of many of his prized picks, has about 8,000 followers.

“I’d say he ranks right at the top of modern collectors, probably by far,” said Nick Cepero, an independent sports collectibles expert.

“I know his collection is extensive throughout everything.

“Especially with Jordan, (it’s) probably one of the best.”

But the question was put to the man himself: Are you the Jordan collector?

“Well, yeah, probably,” Turner finally adCHICAGO TRIBUNE HISTORICAL PHOTO mitted with a laugh. “I don’t like to be cocky about it because it’s not my goal. But yeah, I Michael Jordan takes a break in 1984 while a member of the U.S. Olympic Team. have a lot.”

I had a lot of Michael Jordan baseball cards wants to be private it about. But I have seen Turner, who along with longtime friend and partner Zach Weinberg amassed a for- — but I found my stack, my binder of them them in person. It’s unbelievable. The other tune starting and selling a variety of busi- the other day. None of them are very (valu- four, I don’t know where they are.

— Do you have any friendly or not-sonesses, is unique among top collectors in that able) — actually now, if you’ve followed it, some of these ‘90s baseball cards of Jordan friendly rivalries within the hobby? he doesn’t just pursue high-end Jordan cards are like $1,000 if they’re gem mint. There are — Oh, yeah. I’m friends with the guy. I’m a but low-end ones as well.

He estimates that there are about 6,000 tens of thousands of them and all of a sudden nice guy, I think. I don’t hold grudges. I can’t say his name, but there’s a guy in New Jersey Jordan cards and he has about 4,000 of them. they’re worth something.

It still blows my mind.

I found my binder of who, in 2003 and ‘04 ... unbeknownst to each But he’s not out of the Jordan acquisitions Jordan and (Scottie) Pippen.

I had them orother, (we both) wanted to have a gem-mint business just yet.

“My goal is to have one of every Jordan ganized by player. ... I had them with stickers BGS (Beckett Grading Services) 9.5 of every card,” said Turner, who made Forbes’ 30 un- over them with what Beckett said they were copy of LeBron James’ rookie card, of which worth at the time. there are 175 different ones. At the time there der 30 list in 2015. “And I’m pretty close.”

— Which Jordan card makes you most was only one or two (of each type). ... IneviTurner talked with the Tribune about his tably he and I would be bidding against each hobby. Some questions and answers were ed- proud to own?

— You actually wrote about it: the Precious other on eBay, and at the time you could see ited for clarity and brevity.

— Why collect Jordan cards rather than an- Metal Gems green from ‘97. I also bought the the user names of who won. ($900,000) dual Logoman with LeBron (James Finally I sent him a message. ... We met at other sports icon? and Jordan) that came out. ...

I have that one a Starbucks one day (in 2010) and we had like — I grew up watching Jordan. It’s pretty 20 different stories of cards I wish I had won simple. I was a big baseball fan too. I actually too.

So Jordan ... also had one with Kobe, and that he won, and vice versa. But he actually do collect baseball as well.

I have that one too. ... There’s actually a sold me three cards that I wanted that he had I got back into card collecting right after Lebron-Kobe (and a Jordan-Kobe). I have all duplicates of. I actually just bought a card I graduated college, which is 2008. I started from him last week that I just got today that trying to buy the cards that I wanted as a kid. I three, which I’m really proud of those.

As far as Michael Jordan cards, I would say he was able to get a better copy of and he sold had a job at that point, more money, so I was able to. As a kid I knew who Babe Ruth was that the Metal green that you wrote about is me the lesser copy of LeBron James’ rookie but I wasn’t watching him on TV like I did Jor- my favorite; that I’m most proud of. That’s card.

And of course the guy with PMG green Jordan. That’s why. For me, it was Jordan and the one I wanted as a kid.

— You knew even back then that you want- dans. ... I’ve been to his house, had dinner Kobe (Bryant). ed it? with his family, great guy.

— Have you ever met Jordan?

— I was 11 (or 12) years old when that card — How did he get five Jordan PMG greens?

— No, I never have. I’m a big golfer, and came out.

I always liked the best players — That’s insane.

I think my best chance will be if I ever hap— He’s smarter than all of us. ... So I’m an pen to be at the same golf course as him. He Jordan was my guy.

When Kobe was a rookie, which is the year example of a collector who wants one of evprobably would think I’m weird. I’m one of those superfans that the celebrity thinks is before, ‘96, I really got into him. And I remem- erything. He’s the opposite. He has very few ber going through the Beckett (guide) looking cards he cares about but he wants as many psychotic, but whatever. for Kobe Bryant rookie-card prices because I copies as he can (get) of those cards. And — What was your first sports card?

— My dad gave me a 1975 Topps Hank had gotten a Bowman’s Best Refractor Kobe there’s like 16 of those cards that he wants as Aaron (when he was 6 or 7 years old, which rookie (card). And then I saw that green (Jor- many of as he can get. And one of them happens to be the PMG green Jordans. He’s a Turner uses as his Instagram avatar). My dan) card.

About two weeks later I pulled a green big Ken Griffey Jr. fan and Derek Jeter fan, so dad’s from Atlanta, Ga. (Aaron is a Hall of Fame Braves legend). It was really beat up. He Precious Metal Gems Kerry Kittles, unfortu- there’s five or six Derek Jeter and Ken Griffey was always away on work — he’s in the en- nately (Turner laughs). But it was still a very Jr. cards that he similarly probably has half of ergy industry — and he went to a card shop rare card — it was only 10 of each of them (for the print run of each of them. There are four each player’s set). And the card shop game or five other Jordan cards where he has half of somewhere and he brought that home.

And he gave me a Hank Aaron-signed base- me 50 bucks for it in credit that I used to buy the known production.

— Was there any sniping with the PMG ball when I was a kid too. He had three of packs.

So I saw that Jordan in Beckett, and having green Jordan auction? them. He had sent them off to Hank Aaron — — I don’t actually remember the final minthat was his favorite player. As a kid he sent that Kerry Kittles for a brief period of time, that was like a mythical card to me even back ute. ... (Typically) I have a piece of software him three baseballs, and Hank Aaron sent all that automatically bids for me. In the case of three back signed. I still have it. I have one then.

(Note: In February, Turner bought the Jor- the PMG green, I was really nervous because in my office. He has one in his office. I don’t know where the third one is. My sister prob- dan PMG green for $350,100, setting an eBay that software doesn’t always work. It’s not auction record.) foolproof. ably has it.

— Do wish you had kept that Kerry Kittles And so in the case of the (Jordan) green, I — Do you remember your first Jordan card? made sure I want to be at my computer dur— I do. I found it the other day. It was a card?

— I do. I own one now. My other goal is I’m ing the closing. And it wasn’t that dramatic.

1995 Topps Finest Mystery card.

I’m at my parents’ home in North Carolina, collecting that whole green set. There’s 123 ... It ended up the final price increased, but and my mom found (it). ... I have like boxes cards in the set (of 1997-98 Skybox Metal Uni- the amount I was willing to pay wasn’t surupon boxes of cards from when I was a kid. verse Precious Metal Gems cards, which in- passed. But I didn’t snipe that. I was sitting at Most of them are in really bad shape. They’re cludes the rare green-foil and more common my computer intent on winning the auction.

— Did you expect it to go higher than not necessarily valuable. ... Not all of them, red-foil versions), and I have 110 of them. but like maybe 1 percent are in plastic sleeves There’s 10 of each (NBA player’s green ver- $300,000?

— Yeah, I did. No one really remembers or binders. It’s just interesting to see what I sion) in the world. It’s really hard, I’ll probably never complete it. this: That auction, it was listed the week prithought was valuable back then.

I got to 100 of them pretty quickly in five or. But then (PWCC Marketplace) closed it These Jordan cards obviously were in plastic. This is like a really thick 1-inch plastic years, and it’s taken me another five years to because it had an open-bidder list (on eBay). screw-downs. It was probably like a $5 card get another 10. And Jordan was one I needed, You didn’t have to qualify to be a bidder. ... back then, but to me, that was, you know, and so I got it. I wish I had kept the Kittles on- So the first auction actually went up to, like, the card. ... For me the chase really was more ly because, yeah, it’s sentimental. But I have $600,000, but it was very obviously from fake valuable than the card ownership at the time. the Kerry Kittles now just because it’s part of bidders — we call that shill bidding — people bidding with no intent to pay, just to (mess) I’d rather have pulled the card than owned that set I’m collecting.

— Do you feel as if you’ve come full circle with the auction. the card, if that makes any sense.

PWCC actually took the auction down and — How did you find that Jordan ‘95 card since discovering that first Jordan card?

— It’s like this weird disease (that) you can relisted it. But in that process I got to look when you were a kid?

— I pulled it in a pack at (Houston card never fully satisfy. Like any collector, there’s in that auction history and I saw some user shop) The Dugout. ... You couldn’t see the an endless number of boxes (on a list) you names that I recognized, that were legit bids, card. It was like a mystery, right? It was like a want to check, and once you check a set of and they were pretty high.

— Do you know what it’s valued at now? black peel on the front of it. You had to peel it boxes and you think you’re done, you’re like, — I don’t. You probably have as good of away to see which player you got. I peeled it ‘Oh, I should really (find more).’ ... When I got the green Jordan, it definitely checked a a guess as I do. ... I’m on eBay two or three and it was Michael Jordan.

It was amazing. I mean, Jordan was my fa- very important box in my head; my nostalgia- hours a day, (and) Jordan rookie cards have doubled at all grades. ... I saw a card the other vorite by far. He was everything. (The Bulls) card-collecting psyche, for sure.

— Have you ever met another Jordan PMG day that you could’ve bought for $500 two or won the championship that year, man. ... I three years ago sold for $8,000 last night. It’s wasn’t buying boxes. I was buying a pack or green owner?

— I know where six of them are, including pretty remarkable. two here or there, so it was really rare to pull I don’t think PMG green has gone up by something big; the odds were never in my fa- my own. There’s a guy in California with five vor. of them. I can’t tell you who it is because he eight (times) like some of the other cards. The

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cards that have a lower starting value probably have more room to grow. ... The PMG is definitely worth more than what I paid for it, thankfully. But I wouldn’t sell it, so I have no idea.

— Do you think about how “The Last Dance” has boosted demand for Jordan and ‘90s Bulls memorabilia?

— I am 34 years old. A lot of guys my age and women you start to hit your stride in your career at some point in your thirties, late twenties, forties. Not right away after you graduate college. It takes 10 or 20 years to really build up your career, right? ... The special moments in sports were actually when I was a kid watching. Like when I’m watching the Rockets win those championship, watching Jordan three-peats, watching Kobe, watching LeBron — that’s when I was in high school and (James’) high school game was televised.

And that nostalgia is what drives a lot of collecting in my opinion.

— I see on your Instagram there are lot of Jordan and Pippen sets and cards featuring other Bulls teammates.

— I’m not mostly Jordan now. I probably have one of the larger Jordan collections but I have just as many Kobe and LeBron cards as I do Jordan and I also collect a lot of sets.

I have a ton of vintage baseball too. Jordan is probably 25 percent of my total collection if I had to guess.

— And you have a Steve Kerr in there too?

— That’s just because I was watching “The Last Dance” at the time and he was being interviewed on there from when he was a player. The only reason I have that card is I collect the 1996-97 Topps Chrome Refractor set, which is Kobe Bryant’s rookie year and Allen Iverson’s rookie year. ... I bought the Kobe, and that’s a really hard card to get, and I remember like, wow, I have the hardest card to get from that set, so I might as well get the set.

So then I started buying Antonio Davis and all these Random refractor $50 cards. I never thought as a kid that an Antonio Davis card would be 50 bucks. Whatever.

And that Steve Kerr card was like 300 bucks.

That’s because it’s a PSA 10 gem mint.

— How are you storing or displaying these cards? Is it a James Bond-type security system?

— Yeah, it’s like that. I don’t want to get into it too much, but it’s in a very secure (area). They’re not on display. They are in highly secure, fireproof, theft-proof, many different safes, basically, that are behind other safes with cameras and all sorts of stuff.

So I take a high-resolution scan of every card I own. It’s very time consuming. I do that because for some reason looking at picture of the card to me is similar to holding the card if I own it. ... Sharing it on Instagram is just as satisfying to me, knowing that I own it.

And the other thing, too, is you don’t want the card displayed because of light exposure (the ultraviolet rays fade the colors) and humidity. So you can control the elements in the card more so if they’re kept in a dark, safe, (temperature-controlled) place. That’s how I do it.

— Have you ever had to go to extreme lengths to get a card, or do you have cards with a funny back stories?

— Oh yeah, there’s ton. I’ve flown all across the country to do transactions in lobbies of banks because that’s the only place you consider safe. I’ve done transactions over Instagram with kids in Korea who have cards that they’ve pulled (from packs). The collecting world is highly global.

One of the funnier ones, I was buying a pretty rare Michael (Jordan) card, an autograph card from 1997, pretty valuable, worth thousands of dollars at the time — this was 2010. ... But this guy on Long Island contacts me through email, saying he has this card, saying he’s going to sell it to me. ... I didn’t know him at all, so I was like, we’ve got to meet up in person or you’ve got to send the card to me first before I pay. I’m just not going to send you money.

So we met Starbucks, and I sat there for an hour thinking he hadn’t arrived. And he was 14 years old. And his dad was waiting there with him, and I just couldn’t imagine that that was the person I was going to be buying this card from.

I handed this 14-year-old $2,000 in cash for this Jordan card. The kid had pulled it from a pack and didn’t like Jordan and wanted to buy Steph Curry or something like that. I was like, “All right.”

I remember the dad saying, son, “Count the money.” ... He made the son sit there in Starbucks and count out the bills.

— What’s left on your wish list?

Well, I want to finish the PMG green set.

The two superstars I’m missing are Kevin Garnett and John Stockton. There are a lot of LeBron cards I still want that I don’t have.

From the 1997 Flair Showcase ... I have three of the four (“masterpiece” cards) and I want the fourth one that I’m missing. So that’s another card that I really want.

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Wife resists husband’s plan to cut ties with his family Dear Abby, My mother-in-law is the WORST! She has no respect for me. She has stolen, lied and gossiped about me numerous times. Each time, I chose to forgive and move on.

DEAR ABBY Recently, my husband made clear that he wants to cut ties with his mother and siblings because they constantly belittle his success and ask to borrow money. My problem is, I can’t agree to it. I despise his mother, but I was raised to believe families should never sever ties. I believe every family has its ups and downs.

My husband and I constantly argue because I continue to communicate with his mother and extend invitations to her.

Abby, I just want to do the right thing, but I can’t seem to figure out what the right thing to do is.

S.O.S. In Guam

JEANNE PHILLIPS

Your husband’s family is a threat to your financial stability and emotional health.

Unless you want continuing discord in your marriage, respect your husband’s wishes.

Recognize that his family is extremely dysfunctional and do as he asks. If you don’t, the arguments will escalate until they damage your relationship with him.

Dear Abby, After being in a bad marriage for 40 years, I finally left my husband in 2011.

After two years of separation and therapy, we reconciled. During the time I was gone, he leaned on his longtime friends for support and shared lots of personal information about me, some of which was untrue.

The other evening while we were having dinner and drinks, a mutual friend and I were talking about health, and I told him I was hiding a certain hip problem from my husband.

He asked why, because my husband had told him about it years ago. (I can’t imagine why.)

The reason I left was my husband’s anger at me over a hospital emergency room bill.

I told this friend that my husband’s concern for my health is not sincere because he had recently blown up at me for mentioning an upcoming doctor visit. I am on Medicare. Now I’m worried that I may have wrecked their friendship by revealing how uncaring a husband he really is. How did I get here?

Questioning Myself How did you get here? You got here by remarrying a man who has such a big issue with spending money on health. If you stay with him, it could be catastrophic.

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Pneumonia vaccine still a good idea, even if ineffective against coronavirus Many seniors, like myself, have received pneumonia shots within the past five years.

Since the flu and coronavirus can result in a form of pneumonia in a severe case, would these shots be helpful to prevent or treat this virus even slightly? If seniors are most vulnerable, then maybe those who may not have received these shots should. Is my conclusion too simple?

TO YOUR Pneumonia is a term for an GOOD HEALTH infection of the lung. There are many different causes. The pneumonia vaccines — Prevnar (PCV13) and Pneumovax (PPSV23) — protect against the most common bacterial cause, streptococcus pneumoniae, also called pneumococcus. Unfortunately, it does not protect against the lung infections caused by viruses, like influenza or coronavirus.

However, a bad viral infection, especially flu, can put a person at high risk for pneumonia.

Post-flu pneumonia has a very high mortality rate, and many, but not all, are caused by pneumococcus. So, I agree with you that anyone over 65, and many people with chronic heart or lung conditions even if under 65, should get vaccinated against pneumonia.

DR. KEITH ROACH

I had a half knee replacement nine years ago with nerve damaged on the side that was not replaced. The only pain relief that would work was the Tylenol 3 with codeine. Last October, I had back surgery, and I also had nerves damaged on the left side above the hip, including the thigh and the same knee. My surgeon has me on 900 mg gabapentin to take with 600 mg ibuprofen every eight hours to contain the pain. Sometimes I cannot make it eight hours. When the pain is too severe, I use the Tylenol 3 with codeine between the doses of gabapentin.

A very popular and effective painkiller now is tramadol. I asked my primary care physician if I could try the tramadol in replacement of Tylenol with codeine, and she refused. I wonder why, since the codeine is so bad. Her only answer is that tramadol has been a controlled substance in New York for the past four years. I believe she is afraid that I might take the Tylenol with codeine at the same time. What is your opinion of tramadol? It has a nice review on the internet.

Codeine and tramadol (Ultram and others) are relatively short-acting synthetic opioids with similar structures. Although tramadol was originally marketed as being safer, they both have the potential for habituation. Neither of these drugs is a good choice for long-term use in people with chronic pain, although if used cautiously at reasonable and stable doses, it might be reasonable in combination with the gabapentin. Opioids are not appropriate for people at high risk for substance misuse, such as people with a personal or family history of alcohol or drug use disorder.

Your primary care doctor is wise to be concerned about concomitant use — taking them both at the same time — of codeine and tramadol. Their toxicities overlap. Further, some preparations of tramadol come with acetaminophen (Tylenol). If taken in combination with Tylenol with codeine, the excess Tylenol can be potentially deadly.

Internet reviews for restaurants can be misleading. For medications, they are worse than useless, as the safety and effectiveness of a medication depends entirely on the highly specific nature of a person and the person’s medical issues.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — Many around you are taking shots in the dark, unaware of where the target really lies. You, however, hit it right on the nose almost immediately.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You have more to offer today than you suppose, and once you engage that which lies deep within, you’ll surely succeed at almost any undertaking.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — You may feel unusu-

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By Stella Wilder Born today, you live a vibrant, colorful and adventurous life — though often only in your dreams. When and where the world is unable to provide you with what you need to feed your soul, you are perfectly equipped to provide it for yourself — through flights of fancy, creative expression and all manner of endeavors that spring from your rich and fertile imagination. You are just the kind of person that can lead others to the “promised land” — if they are willing to believe what you believe and follow you faithfully.

You are comprised of one part intellect, one part imagination and one part emotion — but this equilibrium may at times be skewed when you become unduly emotional about some issue or another that is affecting you in your private life.

At such times you must use great care not to let all that you are working for be sacrificed.

Also born on this date are: Andy Murray, tennis player; Emmitt Smith, football player; James Mason, actor; George Brett, baseball player; Eddy Arnold, country singer; Chazz Palminteri, actor; Joseph Cotten, actor; L. Frank Baum, author.

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

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ally flirtatious today, but even as you send out signals to that special someone, you must limit your vulnerabilities.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — What is virtually useless to others may prove quite useful to you today, in a way that may surprise you. Be creative as you assess its value.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You’ll receive nourishment today through means that you have not accessed in quite some time. You must feed your soul as well as your body.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Don’t be too quick to judge that which you suppose to be of little value today. Explore it closely and your senses will be stimulated.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — You may be surprised at how quickly a loved one can have you responding to his or her every whim. Are you giving as well as receiving?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — You’re going to have to stand up to those who would challenge you today. You can impress many with what’s commonly called “backbone.”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — A difference of opinion needn’t be allowed to escalate and become an outright clash. You’ll recognize that it’s all a matter of taste.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — Going without something that someone would take from you may be like trying to live without a major organ: It’s not something you should try!

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — Breathe and relax today, and you’ll come to see that everything is, for now at least, exactly as it should be. It’s time for reflection.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — You have something that sets you apart from those around you — and today you can use it to make clear your superiority.

Hold on tight.

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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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Identify the male film star by the nickname. Initials are provided. (e.g., “The Singing Cowboy” (G.A.). Answer: Gene Autry.)

Freshman level 1. “The Little Tramp” (C.C.) 2. “The Italian Stallion” (S.S.) 3. “The Great Profile” (J.B.) Graduate level 4. “King of the Cowboys” (R.R.) 5. “The King of Hollywood” (C.G.) 6. “Duke” (J.W.) PH.D. level 7. “The Great Stone Face” (B.K.) 8. “The Baron of Beefcake” (R.H.) 9. “The Man of a Thousand Faces” (L.C.)

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

Answer here: Yesterday’s

(Answers tomorrow) Jumbles: TEPID LANKY ISLAND TIRADE Answer: When they settled west of the Mississippi, their new homestead was — IN PLAIN “SITE”

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Solution to Thursday’s puzzle

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

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SUPER QUIZ ANSWERS 1. Charlie Chaplin. 2. Sylvester Stallone. 3. John Barrymore. 4. Roy Rogers.

5. Clark Gable (Douglas Fairbanks). 6. John Wayne. 7. Buster Keaton. 8. Rock Hudson. 9. Lon Chaney.

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

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Crossword Puzzle ACROSS 1 Minor squabble 5 Take a __ at; attempt 9 TV’s “The __ Doctor” 13 Word in a bowling alley’s name 15 “To __ a Mockingbird” 16 __ up; form a queue 17 Group of eight 18 Back talk 20 Split __ soup 21 Past one’s prime 23 __ sore; mouth ulcer 24 Seizes 26 Aunts, uncles, cousins, etc.

27 Hollers 29 Kit or Johnny 32 Evergreens 33 Sink stoppers 35 Girl’s nickname 37 Like die-hard rooters 38 Not all __; crazy 39 Reach across 40 “Oui!” 41 Idaho’s largest city 42 __ firma; dry land 43 Walk slowly for pleasure 45 Least loony 46 Ram’s mate 47 Large hospital rooms 48 Stimulating drink 51 Isn’t __ to; probably won’t 52 Cutting tool 55 Large terriers 58 Heed one’s alarm clock 60 Troubles 61 Tidy 62 Competitor 63 Thirteen popes 64 Michelin product 65 Repair DOWN 1 Pig’s lunch 2 __ oneself; work steadily

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Bound & Gagged

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3 Novel bad guy 4 Ball holder 5 Loses traction on ice 6 Fruitcake container 7 Roker & Gore 8 Bowel obstruction 9 Ford & Close 10 Sty cry 11 Fairy tale opener 12 Graceful animal 14 Short-tailed weasels 19 Wild animal dens 22 Scale units: abbr.

25 Felt remorse for 27 ASPCA advice 28 Allergic skin disorder 29 Remedy 30 Harsh; tyrannical 31 Approaches 33 Golfer Mickelson 34 Frenchman’s article 36 Small fly

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Thursday’s Puzzle Solved

Non Sequitur

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38 Open-minded; lenient 39 __ away; dismiss 41 Curtsied 42 __ sauce; white condiment 44 Court trial break 45 Maple tree secretion

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47 Spend foolishly 48 Arrestee’s hope 49 Irk 50 Singer Guthrie 53 As strong __ ox 54 Unite by heating 56 Luau ring 57 Hearing organ 59 Basketball hoop

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