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ALBANY — The state Department of Labor announced Wednesday that its unemployment application backlog has been reduced to 7,580 applications as some Republican lawmakers call for an investigation into the way the department handled claims during the COVID-19 outbreak.

The department has processed more than 2 million applications and awarded more than $10 billion in benefits.

Those who do not qualify for traditional unemployment may apply for Pandemic

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No one could have predicted the wave of unemployment applications that crashed over the United States because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and every state is struggling — but New York has moved faster than any other state to address our backlog and get money into New Yorkers’ hands.

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— Roberta Reardon state Labor Commissioner

Unemployment Assistance, a program established by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act. Some state leaders criticized the Labor Department’s lack of efficiency.

“The State Department of Labor’s continued inability to correct the growing problems within New York’s broken unemployment system is unacceptable and has become a national disgrace,” state Sen.

Daphne Jordan, R-43, said.

“This problem has been ongoing for weeks with still no end in sight. As our economy has crashed, unemployment has now exploded to 1.76 million New Yorkers. Unemployed

workers unsure how they’ll pay for food for their families don’t want to hear more Albany bureaucratic doublespeak and empty promises. This problem needs to get fixed. Now. If there’s time for daily press conferences then there’s time to fix the system and get folks who are unemployed and hurting the help they so desperately need, deserve and have been waiting for.”

Jordan called for an audit of the Department of Labor by the state Comptroller and the formation of a state Legislative See LABOR A2

SUMMER SCHOOL TO BE DONE ONLINE IN NY

By Kate Lisa Johnson Newspaper Corp.

NEW YORK — In-classroom summer school will not take place statewide as cases of COVID-19 complications in children continue to rise, officials said Thursday after extending the state sales tax filing deadline another month.

Summer school will not open in New York for in-class learning and will be conducted through online distanced learning to reduce the risk of virus spread, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said. Meals and child care for essential employees will continue.

The decision comes on the heels of dozens of medical experts studying at least 157 New York children with COVID-19 complications causing inflammation of blood vessels and extremities, mimicking symptoms similar to severe illnesses such as Kawasaki disease and toxic-shock syndrome. Officials initially reported the virus does not primarily affect children.

“It’s quite serious — we’ve lost a number of children,” Cuomo said Thursday during a briefing at his Manhattan office.

“The more they investigated this, the Courtesy of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office more cases they’ve found.”

Summer school will be held online, not in the classroom, statewide while the COVID-19 pandemic continues, Gov. Andrew The governor did not specify the num- Cuomo said Thursday during a COVID-19 briefing in Manhattan. ber of deaths to date, but reported three May 11. As of Thursday, 13 countries and The state saw 105 virus-related The state will issue guidelines in early extended another month to June 22. It 25 states and the District of Columbia, June for schools and colleges to start was first extended to May 19 at the start of deaths Thursday, including 78 in have reported similar cases in children. preparations for socially distanced learn- the crisis in March. hospitals and 27 in nursing homes.

It remains unclear how long it takes New York’s COVID-19 fatalities ing.

Schools must submit plans for state The state’s coronavirus death rate refor symptoms to appear after a child is reached 22,317 Thursday — up from approval in July. mains flat after totaling 112 fatalities exposed to COVID-19. Officials have not 22,212 Wednesday.

Johns Hopkins The state has not released guidance Tuesday, 105 Monday and 106 fatalimade a decision about students returnabout summer camps. Budget Director University & Medicine’s online CO- ties Sunday. ing to classrooms in the fall.

“As the facts keep changing, prudence Robert Mujica said officials are reviewing VID-19 tracker, which includes probThe state tested 1,555,055 people dictates you don’t make a decision until those guidelines and will announce a de- able virus deaths in its tally, listed by Thursday, revealing 356,458 total the state’s virus death toll as 28,636 it’s timely and you have the most recent cision by early June.

See SCHOOL A2 The state’s sales tax filing deadline was Thursday afternoon. facts to make a decision,” Cuomo said.

Ghent administrator defends testing policy

By Nora Mishanec Columbia-Greene Media

GHENT — County officials and administrators at one area care facility are at odds over COVID-19 testing policies.

Ghent Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, formerly known as the Whittier, will test about a third of its residents for coronavirus beginning on Friday, Ghent Administrator Frank K. Yeboah said Thursday.

Ghent Nursing has not performed mass testing on its resident population until now, unlike the other nursing homes in Columbia County, where testing has turned up more than 150 cases.

As the COVID-19 pandemic intensified, widespread testing was conducted at nursing homes around Greene and Columbia counties. Several care facilities, including the FASNY Firemen’s Home in Hudson and The Eliot at Catskill, worked with county health officials to perform proactive testing on residents.

Columbia County health officials are concerned that coronavirus infections may be

lurking undetected at Ghent Nursing.

“Some of the staff from Whittier are going and getting tested and they do have positives there. And I have to think that if they have positive staff, they have positive residents,” Columbia County Department of Health Director Jack Mabb said.

Yeboah called Mabb’s account “totally false” and said no staff members have tested positive.

“I don’t know where they got that information, but not one employee or resident has tested positive,” he said. “If any employees are tested, we have them self-monitor and as a condition to come back, they have to communicate their results to us with evidence that they are negative.”

Ghent Nursing has been absent from the list of local facilities reporting their coronavirus positives and more testing is needed to provide a “complete picture” of the situation there, said Canaan Town Supervisor Brenda See POLICY A2

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Ghent Rehabilitation & Nursing Center in Ghent.

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joint committee to conduct an investigation.

Assemblyman Chris Tague, R-102, also called for an investigation into how the department is handling unemployment claims.

“People are scared and people are hurting, and the problems caused by this pandemic are too complicated for one man to deal with,” Tague said.

“As compassionate as the governor tries to seem during his self-aggrandizing press conferences, he does not know what it’s like to be a small farmer in upstate New York, or someone who has never been on unemployment before, and cannot properly represent and resolve the concerns of all people across this large and diverse state.

There is work to be done on many issues, and to address these issues effectively we need the input of the people who live with them and represent them. I feel it is important to say that these investigations aren’t about politics, they’re about looking into the issues which have brought about financial hardship and loss of life and assuring this never happens again to our people.”

In New York, 562,766 applicants have been received benefits through this program.

Those who qualify are eligible for the program are also eligible for Pandemic Unemployment Compensation, an additional $600 per week available to those receiving benefits through traditional unemployment and

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positive cases of COVID-19.

New York’s hospitalization rates continued a downward trend to 5,187 patients Thursday, according to the governor’s office.

Officials reported 246 virus patients entered hospitals statewide Wednesday — down from an average of about 400 new daily hospitalizations last week and 600 daily the week prior.

New York had 489 COVID-19 patients enter hospitals March 20.

“We’re actually lower than we were when this first started when this COVID crisis hit us,” Cuomo said. “So, that’s really good news. We got over the mountain.”

The state Legislature is looking to reconvene early next week and tackle a host of coronavirus-related measures that have been floated over the past two months.

The state Senate is expected to return to session remotely on May 26 and 27 — the first legislative work for lawmakers since approving a scaled-back state budget April 2, or after the April 1 deadline.

The Legislature has conducted two COVID-19-related hearings since on the pandemic’s impact on small businesses

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Adams, a member of the Columbia County Health and Human Services Committee, on Thursday.

Testing is not mandated by the state and therefore requires the consent of residents, Yeboah said.

Only residents who request testing will receive it, he said.

“I have asked my nurse managers to reach out to family members, proxies, guardians to ask if they want their loved ones tested. The majority say no, under no circumstances do they want their loved ones tested,” Yeboah said.

About 45 residents who opted for COVID-19 testing will be tested using a portion of the 120 testing kits that Ghent Nursing requested and received from the Columbia County Department of Health on May 15, he said.

also through the PUA program, and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation, which extends benefits for an additional 13 weeks for those receiving benefits if the initial 26 weeks have expired.

During the week ending May 2, 27 states reported 6,121,221 individuals claiming Pandemic Unemployment Assistance benefits and 15 states reported 162,727 individuals claiming Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation benefits.

“No one could have predicted the wave of unemployment applications that crashed over the United States because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and every state is struggling — but New York has moved faster than any other state to address our backlog and get money into New Yorkers’ hands. To date, we have paid out over $10 billion during this crisis, compared to just $2.1 billion in total last year,” state Labor Commissioner Roberta Reardon said. “Those claims that have been outstanding for weeks are ones that we simply cannot process — we have already attempted to contact all of these New Yorkers, and we will continue to try get in touch with everyone who applied so we can connect them with the benefits they are eligible for.”

Of the applications that were submitted prior to April 22, 1,194,933 have received benefits, 20,801 are awaiting certification and 7,580 are partial claims missing critical information needed for processing.

“The Department of Labor is unable to process these applications because they either

contained incorrect or missing information, are duplicates, or had been abandoned by the claimant,” according to a department statement. “The Department of Labor has attempted to contact all of these New Yorkers and will continue trying to reach them to complete their application or close out their claim.”

The 20,081 applications that are processed but not paid are awaiting federally mandated weekly certifications, according to the department.

“By law, these certifications must be submitted before benefits are released,” according to the department. “The Department of Labor has proactively emailed hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers reminding them to submit certifications and rolled out a new, secure online system that allows New Yorkers to easily submit prior weeks’ certifications that they had missed.

Over 330,000 New Yorkers have used this new system to unlock more than $400 million in prior weeks’ benefits they had effectively left on the table.”

An additional 15,831 applications are going through the final stages of processing and will either become payable in the next few days or be flagged for further review.

For the week ending May 9, the state’s unemployment filings increased by 1,489% compared to 2019. In each of the state’s 10 labor market regions, the filings increased by at least 734%.

Columbia and Greene counties are part of the Capital Region labor market, which experienced a 1,394% increase

in filings for the week ending May 9 when compared to 2019.

Columbia County’s filings were up 1,643% and Greene County’s increased by 947%, according to the state Department of Labor.

Industries with the greatest increases in filings included “other” services at 3,177%, educational services at 2,531%, accommodation and food services at 2,525%, health care and social assistance at 1,889% and retail trade at 1,869%, according to the state Department of Labor.

On a federal level, the filings for the week of May 16 actually decreased from the previous week by 249,000, bringing the number of claims to 2,438,000, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.

New York ranked among the top states for highest unemployment rate for the week ending May 2, with a rate of 19.6 and among the top states for the largest increase in filings for the week ending May 9 with an increase of 4,309.

On May 8, the state Department of Labor launched a new program enabling applicants to be notified of the status of their claim via text and email.

To combat the high volume, applicants follow an alphabetical system when filing for unemployment according to the first letter of their last name.

Letters A-F can file on Mondays, G-N file on Tuesdays, O-Z file on Wednesdays, and if you missed your day to file, you can file Thursday through Saturday.

The Telephone Claim Center has extended its hours to include 8 a.m.-7:30 p.m. Monday-Friday and 7:30 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

and communities of color across New York. Some lobby groups have called for pay cuts for state lawmakers who would have been in session for most of the last two months.

“I talk to the legislative leaders with every significant thing I do with executive orders, so I’ve been talking to them all along,” Cuomo said.

State legislators have been working hard communicating with people across their districts, the governor said.

“People think ‘well, they’re not in Albany, they’re not working,’” he said. “No, they’re working. I think they’re working harder than they’ve ever worked, by the way, because the demands in the district are very high. They’ve been involved with everything we’re doing. Whatever they plan do, we’ll talk about.”

Both the Senate and Assembly can resume legislative session using remote technology such as video conferencing, allowing lawmakers to vote on bills without entering the building. The current session is slated to end June 2. Lawmakers must pass a measure to extend session or convene a special session into the summer to continue to vote on bills.

State Sen. Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, D-35, and Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, D-83, have expressed a desire to return to work. In recent weeks, representatives

of both legislative leaders said they were waiting for congressional action on financial relief for states and local governments before proceeding with state measures.

Officials have said New York faces a $61 billion budget shortfall over four years, and state education, hospitals and localities should expect cuts up to 20%, which would likely slash spending for schools, health care workers and first responders.

The governor reminded New Yorkers again Thursday the importance of wearing face masks or coverings in public while pointing to a graph showing downstate essential workers — including transit and health care employees, police and firefighters — all had lower COVID-19 infection rates compared to New York City’s general population of 19.9%.

“There’s a message for all of us, which is the PPE actually works,” Cuomo said. “If it will reduce their infection rate for them, it will reduce the infection rate for you. If you wear it — so wear it.”

Businesses must provide face masks and proper personal protective equipment to all employees and enforce socialdistancing measures, including maintaining 6 feet between employees and customers and reducing density, in accordance with state Health

Department guidelines.

To report employers who are not following PPE, hygiene and social-distancing protocols or providing masks to employees, call 1-888-364-3065 to file a complaint with the state.

COVID-19-positive New Yorkers will likely get a call from a regional contact tracer, who helps people remember who they came into contact with and determine potential exposure. The call will appear from “NYS Contact Tracing” on a smartphone.

“You should answer that call,” Cuomo said. “It’s not a hoax. It’s not a scam. It’s not a fraud. It’s for your health ... for your family’s health.”

State beaches and lakefronts will open at 6 a.m. Friday and remain open through Monday through the remainder of Memorial Day weekend. All will operate at 50% capacity with concessions closed and group activities prohibited.

Elective surgery and ambulatory care is set to resume in Rockland County after the area hit the state’s target hospital bed capacity.

Yeboah said any family member of a Ghent Nursing resident can call 518-828-0800 to request testing.

Columbia County officials made 180 testing kits available to the facility earlier this month, but those tests were later refused by administrators, according to a statement released by the county on May 12.

Ghent Assisted Living, located next door to Ghent Nursing, offered testing to all 80 of its residents on May 14, Administrator Meghan Kelley said last Friday.

Kelley requested 20 kits from the Columbia County Department of Health at that time to test residents who requested it.

All the results of those initial tests came back negative, Kelley said Thursday.

Ghent Assisted Living continues to offer testing for its residents by request and has enough testing kits for all 80 residents, Kelley said.

Mabb said he believes the lack of proactive testing at Ghent Nursing and Ghent Assisted

Living is a result of corporate, not local, decision-making.

The facilities are owned by Personal Healthcare LLC, a company that owns and operates more than a half dozen nursing homes in New York and Massachusetts. Whittier Rehabilitation and Skilled Nursing Center was sold to Personal Healthcare for $12 million in 2016, according to state documents.

Attempts to reach Personal Healthcare and its CEO Ephraim Zagelbaum, who is listed as a 50% owner of Ghent Nursing on state documents, were unsuccessful.

be reached at nmishanec@columbiagreenemedia.com or 518-8281616 ext. 2500.

Nora Mishanec is a reporter for Columbia-Greene Media. She can

HUDSON RIVER TIDES High tide: 3:10 a.m. 4.4 feet Low tide: 10:06 a.m. 0.2 feet High tide: 3:41 p.m. 3.7 feet Low tide: 9:59 p.m. 0.4 feet

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 The Tribune News Service contributed to this report.

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Monday, May 25 n Catskill Town Offices closed in observation 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 n Catskill Town Planning Board 7

p.m. Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill

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

Village Hall, 2 First St., Athens 518945-1551 n Catskill Central School District public hearing on budget 6 p.m. virtual meeting check website for details

Chief: Rapid response to Hudson shooting

By Bill Williams Columbia-Greene Media

HUDSON — A squad of Hudson detectives and members of state police major crime units was mobilized immediately following the fatal shooting of a Stottville man Saturday in the city, Hudson Police Chief L. Edward Moore told the Common Council on Tuesday.

The investigation is continuing, Moore said during the Zoom meeting.

The shooting left Terrell J. Starr, 18, dead, and a 30-year-old Albany man in critical condition at Albany Medical Center.

The man, who has not been identified, is in the intensive care unit at Albany Medical Center, according to Hudson police.

“We’re not releasing that name at this time, due to respect for the investigation,” Columbia County District Attorney Paul Czajka said Wednesday.

Police have received information that a May 2 drive-by shooting on North 2nd Street may be related to the one Saturday night, Moore said, but he did not go into detail.

Starr was charged in a March 28 shooting in Cherry Alley in the city, where he allegedly shot at an

unidentified person, Moore told the council.

M o r e than 35 state troopers have been assigned to Terrell J. Starr the case and they have put in hundreds of hours on the investigation, Moore said.

Police are following up on 112 leads that have been developed and have conducted more than 50 field interviews and 12 more at the police station, Moore said.

“We have collected a large quantity of evidence and

have executed search warrants, some outside our jurisdiction, with help from other law enforcement agencies,” Moore told the council.

No motive for Saturday’s shooting has been clearly established, Moore said.

“We are bearing down on several persons of interest in this case,” Moore said. “I do predict that the weight of evidence will eventually lead to arrests, much like in 2017, where we successfully identified the people behind the violence that led to seven residents at the core being arrested, incarcerated, sentenced after trial.”

Saturday’s fatal shooting

could lead to more gun violence, Moore warned the council.

“I will say that there is no guarantee that back-andforth violence will not continue,” Moore said. “Sometimes these things are acts of retribution.”

The Hudson police tip line received three calls in the case, according to Moore.

“There’s usually a lull after these events, a lot of activity upfront, but we’re working around the clock,” Moore told the council. “We’re going to keep the pedal to the metal until we see this thing through.”

GREENE COUNTY POLICE BLOTTER

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

Town Hall, 2 First St., Athens 518945-1052 n Cairo Town Board 7 p.m. Town Hall, 512 Main St., Cairo

Tuesday, June 2 n Durham Town Board workshop

meeting 7:30 p.m. at Town Hall, 7309 Route 81, East Durham

Thursday, June 4 n Ashland Planning Board 6 p.m.

at the Town Hall, 12094 Route 23, Ashland 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 a.m.-3 p.m.

Monday, June 8 n Ashland Town Board 7:30 p.m.

at the Town Hall, 12094 Route 23, Ashland n Catskill Village Planning Board 7 p.m. Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill n Coxsackie Village Board 7 p.m.

Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

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.

Village Hall, 2 First St., Athens 518945-1551 n Jewett Town Board 7 p.m. at the Jewett Municipal Building, 3547 County Route 23C, Jewett

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

STATE POLICE n Matthew W. Weinberger, 52, of Cairo, was arrested at 1:50 a.m. May 11 in Catskill and charged with operating a motor vehicle with a blood-alcohol content greater than 0.08% and driving while intoxicated, both with previous convictions and classified as class E felonies. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Ryan K. Matson, 34, of Coxsackie, was arrested at 8:43 p.m. May 10 in Coxsackie and charged with driving while intoxicated and aggravated DWI, both with previous convictions and classified as class E felonies. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Rebecca F. Austin, 29, of Greenville, was arrested at 3 a.m. May 8 in Cornwall and charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a class A misdemeanor. She is scheduled to appear in court June 10 at 4 p.m. n Alejanro J. Leon, 30, of Leeds, was arrested at 3 a.m.

May 8 in Cornwall and charged with third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell, both class B felonies; tampering with physical evidence, a class E felony; resisting arrest, second-degree criminal

impersonation, second-degree obstruction of governmental administration and seventhdegree criminal possession of a controlled substance, all class A misdemeanors. He was held. n Michael N. Cole, 29, of West Coxsackie, was arrested at 7:30 p.m. May 12 in Coxsackie and charged with criminal mischief, a class A misdemeanor. His arrestee status is unknown. n Linda M. Sloane, 63, of Cairo, was arrested at 5:05 p.m.

May 13 in Cairo and charged with second-degree menacing, a class A misdemeanor.

She was issued an appearance ticket. n Tai Jhon K. Branch, 22, of New Paltz, was arrested at 10:20 p.m. May 13 in Coxsackie and charged with second-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a class A felony. He was held. n Amber M. Cotton, 30, of Saint Johnsville, was arrested at 1:26 a.m. May 14 in Hunter and charged with third-degree grand larceny, a class D felony; criminal mischief, a class A misdemeanor; driving while intoxicated and operating a motor vehicle with a bloodalcohol content greater than 0.08%, both unclassified misdemeanors. She was issued an appearance ticket. n Samantha J. Crosier, 31, of Troy, was arrested at 9:01 p.m. May 13 in Coxsackie and charged with manufacturing drug-related paraphernalia, seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and second-degree

criminal use of drug paraphernalia, all class A misdemeanors; first-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, a class E felony; and operation of a motor vehicle while impaired by drugs, an unclassified misdemeanor.

She was issued an appearance ticket. n Louise B. Rivera, 54, of Cairo, at 3:40 p.m. May 14 in Cairo and charged with operation of a motor vehicle while impaired by drugs, an unclassified misdemeanor. She was issued an appearance ticket. n Andrew Vatier, 60, of Glen Oaks, was arrested at 3:44 p.m. May 14 in Durham and charged with first-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, operation of a motor vehicle with a blood-alcohol content greater than 0.08% with a prior conviction and driving while intoxicated with a prior conviction, all class E felonies, and using a vehicle without an interlock device, a class A misdemeanor.

He was issued an appearance ticket. n Catelynn L. Cline, 20, of Cairo, was arrested at 10:43 p.m. May 14 in Coxsackie and charged with operating a motor vehicle with a bloodalcohol content greater than 0.08% and driving while intoxicated, both unclassified misdemeanors. She was issued an

appearance ticket. n Mark W. Denton, 21, of Greenville, was arrested at 2:45 p.m. May 15 in Greenville and charged with third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, a class D felony, and second-degree menacing, a class A misdemeanor. His arrestee status is unknown. n Ann M. Corbett, 64, of Leeds, was arrested at 8:36 p.m.

May 16 in Catskill and charged with operating a motor vehicle with a blood-alcohol content greater than 0.08% and driving while intoxicated, both unclassified misdemeanors. She was issued an appearance ticket. n Ashawn C. Abbott, 44, of Catskill, was arrested May 14 in Catskill and charged with two counts of third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a class B felony; fifth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell, a class D felony; seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and criminal use of drug paraphernalia, both class A misdemeanors. He was held. n Lucius S. Jenkins, 41, of Athens, was arrested at 5:39 p.m. May 17 in Catskill and charged with false impersonation, a class B misdemeanor; seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a class A misdemeanor; and operation of a

motor vehicle while impaired by drugs, an unclassified misdemeanor. His arrestee status is unknown. n Nathan P. Hernandez, 19, of Catskill, was arrested at 11:13 p.m. May 17 in Red Hook and charged with third-degree criminal mischief, a class E felony. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Toni L. Wood, 47, of Jewett, was arrested at 9:27 p.m.

May 18 in Hunter and charged with driving while intoxicated and aggravated DWI, both unclassified misdemeanors.

She was issued an appearance ticket. n Michael J. Monaghan, 30, of Commack, was arrested at 11:33 a.m. May 18 in Durham and charged with operation of a motor vehicle while impaired by drugs, an unclassified misdemeanor, and resisting arrest, a class A misdemeanor. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Keith E. Sorrentino, 42, of Catskill, was arrested at 8:15 p.m. May 18 in Hudson and charged with fifth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a class D felony. He was issued an appearance ticket.

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A right to know about nursing homes Two months after the lockdown of New York state, we’re learning that a large percentage of positive coronavirus tests and deaths blamed on COVID-19 were spiking in nursing homes statewide and in Greene and Columbia counties.

So when Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, says he welcomes federal or state officials to investigate New York’s COVID-19 nursinghome deaths, even if one detects a note of sarcasm in his response, the idea itself is not a bad one.

U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-21, joined other Republican New York members of the House of Representatives calling for a probe into the state’s adherence to safety and health regulations for nursing homes and longterm care facilities in the midst of the pandemic.

With 5,403 reported deaths at more than 600 nursing home and adultcare facilities in New York,

Cuomo and the state have faced weeks of backlash after COVID-19-positive residents returned to those facilities before they recovered. A March 25 state Health Department memo declared the state cannot discriminate against COVID-19 nursinghome patients and prohibit their return, which potentially infected the most vulnerable New Yorkers — senior citizens and people with underlying conditions.

“This is a political season — I get it,” Cuomo said Wednesday. “Anyone who wants to ask why we would do that with COVID patients in nursing homes ... the state followed President Trump’s CDC guidance. Ask President Trump.” Officials do not regret the way they implemented the CDC guideline, Cuomo added.

Health officials at the time were committed to the issue of hospital capacity. The goal was to free up hospital beds for the tens of thousands of

critically ill patients that were expected to overwhelm New York hospitals in March and April. Cuomo rightly has said nursing homes cannot accept a resident they cannot provide care for, and are required to contact the state Health Department to find a facility to properly quarantine, isolate and treat a viruspositive resident.

If there is a lesson to be learned here, it’s that the coronavirus is insidious and unpredictable; it refuses to obey human laws. For Cuomo or any of the state’s health experts to take the notion of an investigation personally is misguided. An independent — we repeat, independent — investigation into the state’s adherence to nursing home safety regulations in the midst of a pandemic may yield changes in those regulations so this never happens again. Loved ones of nursing-home residents have a right to know.

ANOTHER VIEW

New leadership should reconnect the U.S. attorney’s office in D.C. with its community The Washington Post

“Head-turning.” That is what D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, a Democrat, called the churn in leadership at the U.S. attorney’s office in the District. Other words - like stomach-turning - also come to mind to describe the degradation of this critical office, which both prosecutes federal crimes and serves as local prosecutor for the city. Not only has the once-respected office been politicized in service to the interests of President Donald Trump, but there also seems to be an increasing disconnect with the local community it is supposed to serve.

Trump’s announcement Monday that he plans to nominate Justin Herdman, the U.S. attorney in Cleveland, to take over the role as top prosecutor currently

held by Timothy Shea caps a tumultuous time for the country’s largest U.S. attorney’s office - and one of its most powerful.

First came the departure in January of Jessie Liu, who took office as U.S. attorney in September 2017, but resigned to take a job with the Treasury Department before Trump withdrew her nomination in pique over her handling of cases she inherited from special counsel Robert Mueller. Shea, handpicked to serve on an interim basis

by Attorney General William Barr, got his marching orders: He played a major role in scaling back the sentencing recommendation for Trump crony Roger Stone, and he moved to drop charges against another Trump ally, Michael Flynn.

With that work finished - and any chance of Shea continu-

ing in office seemingly and thankfully doomed by the blowback - Michael Sherwin, another Barr favorite, was selected to serve until Herdman obtains Senate confirmation and takes over permanently.

Under the circumstances, Sherwin and Herdman will have a special responsibility to prove that their commitment is to justice and professionalism, not personal loyalty to Barr or Trump.

The key here is addressing the criminal justice needs of the people of the District of Columbia. Local officials and residents have long felt that their enforcement issues took a back seat to the flashier national and international cases handled by federal prosecutors, but those feelings have intensified during Trump’s administration.

Over the last few months, we’ve seen tremendous displays of bravery, support and selflessness across our region from all corners of our community. However, few groups have inspired us more than our first responders. And with May 18th kicking off National EMS Week, it’s important that we thank them for their service and elevate the fight for better protections as we enter into the next phase of this crisis.

Our first responders risk their lives every day, even forced to work without adequate PPE, because they care about our communities. Many have stayed sheltered away from their families — living in in-law apartments, tents in the backyard, vacation campers, or in the basement — to keep their loved ones safe. Despite the sacrifice of time, of comfort, and any semblance of normalcy, they continue to push forward.

As we begin our slow transition to reopening our economy and start to put the pieces of our

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MICHELLE

HINCHEY lives back together again, it’s important that we remember the challenges they’ve faced.

We must work to make a plan to protect them in the future and understand the trauma that this chapter in our history has caused.

We need to fight for additional resources to support our first responders: n Providing every first responder with adequate hazard pay to compensate them for their risk and sacrifice n Offering free professional courses and tuition at community colleges and SUNY schools n Furthering tax incentives

to ensure they can afford to live in the communities they serve n Ensuring a wide range of free in-person and virtual mental health services to first responders and their families n Conducting a statewide survey of first responders to hear their opinions on how to help them in the future These will help show our appreciation and provide stability in these trying times. This is by no means enough, but it’s a start.

It’s our responsibility now to protect them. To make our first responders feel safe, secure, and remembered. We owe it to them to do our best and fight for their jobs in the face of severe budget cuts and fight for funding to make sure they never walk into a crisis unprepared again.

I promise to advocate for these things and I hope you’ll join me. We’re all stronger when we stand together.

Michelle Hinchey is the Democratic candidate for New York’s 46th State Senate District.

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The voting wars are a danger to our democracy Henry Olsen The Washington Post

President Donald Trump’s threats on Wednesday to hold up federal funds to states such as Michigan and Nevada that expand the use of mail-in balloting are more than wrongheaded. They’re the latest example of the bipartisan, paranoid fears over voting that are undermining American democracy.

Trump’s tweets reflect the Republican side of this coin: fear of voter fraud. Many Republican activists and leaders are convinced that they lose elections because the nefarious Democrats encourage and abet fraudulent voting by undocumented immigrants or college students. They claim that people impersonate others at the polling place, collect blank absentee ballots via ballot harvesting and mark them for Democrats, or simply register people who are ineligible to vote and likely to support Team Blue. These unsubstantiated fears that millions of Democratic votes are obtained this way are behind many efforts to limit same-day registration, mail-in balloting and other approaches to increase voter participation supported by Democrats.

These fears are not new. Republicans believed that the Democratic mayor of Chicago, Richard Daley, had stolen Illinois’s 27 electoral votes for John Kennedy in 1960. Activities in the 1981 New Jersey gubernatorial race led to a consent decree that prevented national Republicans from engaging in “voter security” efforts for more than three decades (the decree was lifted in 2018). The fraud

myth seems to be a way to explain large Democratic margins in cities and neighborhoods where there are small numbers of Republicans.

Democrats, however, have their fictional monsters under the electoral bed. Belief that Republicans engage in widespread and effective “voter suppression” tactics has become dogma for many Democrats.

The epitome of this paranoid tendency in U.S. politics is Stacey Abrams’s claim that she was robbed of the Georgia governorship in part because of a Georgia law that prevented processing of around 53,000 voter registrations (she lost by over 54,000 votes). Even though federal law requires states to remove people who have died or moved from voter registration rolls, progressives now regularly claim that any attempt to do this is an evil scheme to stop Democratic constituencies from voting.

Studies have also tried and failed to find an appreciable effect on turnout stemming from voter ID laws. The weight of the data shows that this is true even when the data are disaggregated by race and age, the two Democratic-leaning demographics progressives often allege are disenfranchised. Nor do the claims pass the simple smell test. Voter turnout remains high in recent elections among all groups compared with the levels seen in the 30 years after voting was extended to all 18 year olds. Variations such as the notable large drops of voting by white, non-collegeeducated voters in 2012 and black voters in 2016 are easily explained by normal considerations such as Mitt Romney’s lack of blue-collar appeal or the

absence of Barack Obama from the ticket.

But these claims do have one big effect: They further increase political polarization and decrease trust in democracy. Democratic transfer of power can work only if the loser accepts the outcome. That, in turn, happens only if it is widely recognized that the process is broadly fair and free from manipulation. Once that trust is gone, the loser increasingly believes they have no chance to gain power through normal means. This radicalizes people and encourages them to do anything possible to keep the other side out of power.

It’s too much to ask for the parties to step back from the brink so close to the election, but it’s not too much to ask for a bipartisan, comprehensive compromise to be hashed out soon thereafter. Both parties should be able to agree on the principle of “one person, one vote.” Democrats will have to give on voter ID requirements to ensure that undocumented immigrants aren’t permitted to vote and that citizens cast only one ballot in each election. Republicans have to give on early or mail-in balloting. Some sort of national voter card tied to E-Verify with a number that voters have to produce to cast a ballot would seem to satisfy GOP concerns while permitting easy access to voting for all.

America’s democracy is imperfect, but it has still been a beacon to the world for more than two centuries. We should not let partisan bickering throw that invaluable heritage away.

Olsen is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

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Mathilda ‘Tillie’ Bontempo Mathilda “Tillie” Bontempo, 88 of Hudson N.Y. passed peacefully on Wednesday May 13, 2020 of natural causes at Columbia Memorial Hospital in Hudson.

Tillie was born on February 1, 1932 to parents John and Frances O’Rourke in Brooklyn, N.Y. She is predeceased by brothers, Edward and James and, sisters Helen and Viola. Beloved wife of the late Mario Bontempo.

Survived by beloved daughter Christine Costa, and son-in-law Joseph Costa: grandsons Mario and Gino Costa and great grandson,

Ezio Costa. She is also survived by sisters Isabel Narbuth of PalmBay, Fl. and Christine Muldoon, L.I. New York. Matilda was an avid painter, specializing in landscapes of her cherished Hudson Valley.

Graveside services will be held on Saturday May 23, 2020 at 10:30 AM in the New St. Bridget’s Cemetery in Copake Falls, NY. Arrangements are with the Peck and Peck Funeral Home of Copake, NY. To send an online condolence please visit www.peckandpeck.net.

Carolyn Hallock Hansen Carolyn Hallock Hansen, 83. of Beloit, WI, passed away on May 8, 2020 in her home while in prayer with her friends. She was born November 2, 1936, only daughter of Betsy Miller Hallock and Cecil C. Hallock, in the hospital in Catskill, NY. She attended Rocky Store School , a one room school, thru 6th grade, and then attended Coxsackie Athens Central School graduating in 1953. She attended Syracuse University on a Regents Scholarchip earning a degree in music education in 1957. Married Carl Balson in 1958 and moved to Beloit, WI. Earned a degree in accounting from Blackhawk Community College in 1974. Divorced from Carl in 1978. Earned an MBA from UW Whitewater in 1984 and married Howard Hansen that year.

She was active as a volunteer and in many civic organizations, particularly with St. Paul’s Episcopal Church of Beloit. Worked as an accountant for several firms in Beloit.

First Treasurer of the Women’s Fund of the Stateline Comunity Foundation. Predeceased by her father, mother,youngest brother Pete, both husbands, son Daniel and stepson Steven Hansen. Survived by brothers Larry (Faye) Hallock, Robert (Ann) Hallock, siste-in-law Doris Hallock all of Hannacroix, NY, daughters Janet Balson of Medford, OR, Sally Balson, of Madison, WI, and granddaughter Beth Balson of Madison.

Memorials to the Women’s Fund of Stateline Community Foundation of Beloit, WI. Memorial service to be held at a later date at St. Paul’s Church.

Wayne ‘Squeak’ Hulbert DURHAM – Wayne “Squeak” Hulbert, 80, passed away on Monday, May 18, 2020 in the Pines at Catskill. Born in Catskill on January 16, 1940, he was a lifelong Durham resident.

Squeaky was a Navy veteran. He worked as a milk hauler, picking up milk cans and driving a bulk tank truck.

He drove for Borwegen Trucking for a few years, and then went into the trucking business with his brother Mert. Squeak then worked for years as a selfemployed carpenter. He and his brother restored antique trucks, and he enjoyed attending antique truck shows around the Northeast.

Squeaky is survived by his wife, Mary Ann Bowman Hul-

bert; children, Wayne Hulbert Jr. (Robin), Wilhelmina Lendin (Richard), Lance Hulbert (late Margaret), Andrew “Pooh” Hulbert (Jessica); 12 grandchildren, 14 great-grandchildren; siblings, Adelaide (Philip) Hulbert, Mert (Kathy) Hulbert, Bernard (Cheryl) Hulbert, Gary (Barbara) Hulbert, Lorraine (Raymond) Pearsall, and the late Glendon Hulbert Jr.; his dearest friend and confidante, Lynda Fuegmann; many nieces, nephews and cousins.

Squeak has been cremated, and burial of his ashes, with military honors, will take place at Saratoga National Cemetery at a later date. Condolence page is available at ajcunninghamfh.com.

Emily Upham Emily Upham, née Weiss, ferent fields. Emily loved music was born on April 21, 1949 and art; she loved animals (her in New Haven, Connecticut, dogs, cats, horses, and goat); and died on April 22, 2020 in she loved to swim, whether Rhinebeck, New York. in the Caribbean, or the Bard Emily grew up in New Ha- pool, or in her pond with the ven, graduated from Sarah 5-foot-long carp who took up Lawrence College, where she residence there; she loved ice studied music and French, cream. And she loved her famand spent 10 years in Paris ily and friends. studying classical piano with Emily’s great gift, after her Nadia Boulanger. When she musical talents, was friendreturned to the United ship. Over the course States, she lived for of a rich and advenmany years on the Upturous life, Emily deper West Side. There, veloped a wide circle she met her husband, of close and devoted George Upham, of friends who relied on Brookline, Massachuher wisdom, compassetts and Claremont, sion, warmth, and New Hampshire. They wonderful sense of moved to Germanhumor. Emily was a Upham town, New York, and rare and beautiful huwere married for 20 man being, a genuine mensch years before George pre-de-a person who will always be ceased Emily in 2017. missed and never be forgotten Emily had a life filled with passions and accomplish- by those who loved her so very ments. She was a classical dearly.

Emily is survived by her pianist, music teacher, and vocal coach. She also worked three siblings, Martha, Lauren, as a French interpreter for and Daniel; her nephews and the State Department, and, in niece, Alexander, Gianmarco, her later years, became a life Daniel, Jason and Carolina; coach. She founded ArtSong and her step-daughter GaNouveau, a group of classical rance and grand-daughter vocal soloists that pushed the Mariame.

When circumstances alboundaries of classical song; and co-edited a book called In low, a memorial will be held to the Fullness of Time, a series celebrate Emily, and our great of reflections on aging by ac- fortune to have had her in our complished women from dif- lives.

Joseph Anthony Cutro Sr., Esq. Kinderhook, NY - Joseph Anthony Cutro Sr., Esq. was born in Manhattan, NYC, on the 5th of January, 1926 to Italian-American parents, Vincenzo (James) Cutro and Flora Mulinio Cutro, both children of Sicilian immigrants through Ellis Island. After his parents divorced in 1933, his time was spent primarily with his father, paternal aunts (Agnes and Mildred) and grandfather (Joseph) in Brooklyn while frequently visiting his mother and her family upstate in Troy, NY. He was close to his grandfather in early childhood, playing cards and helping to crush grapes for wine in his bathtub.

His father remarried and his brother James Jr. was born in 1938.

He attended PS163 Elementary in Brooklyn and was later the only student in his class to pass the entrance exam for Stuyvesant High School (Manhattan) where, among other aspects of an accelerated curriculum, he learned to speak German, a skill he sometimes jokingly referred to as “hedging his bets” in the war against Hitler’s Germany. His German language skills would later prove useful in his military service. An avid fan of baseball and the Brooklyn Dodgers, he threw a mean knuckleball and was an outstanding pitcher for his high school team, as well as for the Kodiaks, a Brooklyn league team. His brother Jim fondly recalls, “He taught me everything I know about sports and competing.” He was also a huge fan of jazz and swing and played the tenor sax in the Stuyvesant band. He loved to recount his notorious jaunts to shows at the celebrated Paramount Theater in Manhattan while his father thought he was in school.

He graduated high school in June 1944 and enlisted in the US Army in July. Driven by his passion to serve, he intentionally hid his missing left kidney during his induction physical.

In November 1944 after basic training, he was deployed to LaHarve, France with the 394th Regiment of the 99th Division. His active combat service would include surviving the freezing conditions at Elsenborn Ridge, arriving at the Battle of the Bulge on January 10, 1945, where his unit was strategic in blocking Nazi access to Belgium in the Ardennes Forest. He served in a machine gun Cutro Sr., Esq. unit and as a password runner. In March 1945, he crossed the Ludendorf Bridge at Remagen between timed sequences of German artillery, which signaled the beginning of the end of World War II and the start of the Allied occupation of Germany. Once inside Germany, while still a teenager, he experienced the horror and pain of witnessing Nazi Death Camps and liberating their remaining survivors. This experience, more than any other from the war, would haunt him for the rest of his life. For the remainder of his tour of duty, his high school German came in handy in connecting with the locals until he was shipped home.

He was honorably discharged from the US Army on July 8, 1946, receiving the Bronze Star, American Campaign, WWII Victory, Army of Occupation and African Middle Eastern Campaign medals for his service.

Upon returning home, utilizing the G.I. Bill, he attended Brooklyn College and St. John’s Law School. His law career included over 20 years of civil service as a NY State Assistant Attorney General under Louis J. Lefkowitz; private sector service for the law firm of Max E. Greenberg in Lower Manhattan; a return to civil ser-

vice as President of the NYS Environmental Facilities Corp., and Town Justice for the Town of Kinderhook, NY and then private practice from his home in Kinderhook until retirement.

His private law career included a multimillion dollar wrongful death judgment for the families of multiple homicide victims, rendered uncollectable by the imprisonment of the responsible party.

Joe was a Cutro Sr., Esq. talented storyteller and had a laugh (and a sneeze) you could hear down the street. His sense of humor and passion for history and politics would always make for compelling conversation and learning.

Having grown up in Brooklyn, he would tell colorful stories of childhood classmates who started with mischief and progressed to infamous careers in organized crime. His war experiences sparked an interest in German automobiles and their design. His first project was the restoration of a 1956 VW followed by a 1959 Mercedes 219 sedan which he owned until his passing. He and his beloved wife Angela (d. 2017) spent much of their spare time restoring, renovating and enjoying their farmhouse in Kinderhook along with entertaining friends, dear neighbors, devoted caregivers and beloved family. He was a great dancer and Angie often said she could dance just fine, but only when he was her lead.

As Town Justice he married many couples, often in his own home with Angie delighted to set the stage for the happy couple. He was always willing to lend a hand to anyone in need and was never afraid to answer the door in the middle of the night.

In adult life, Joe resided

Honeybee swarms take flight in spring

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The rest of the Twin Counties may be staying home, but honeybees are on the move this spring.

As the weather warms up, some honeybee colonies take off in search of a new home, a process known as swarming, said Linda Aydlett, of Catskill, who organizes the Columbia County Beekeepers Club.

“If you have a hive that is exploding in population, half the hive will leave, the queen and the foragers will split,” Aydlett said. “It is a good sign for the bees because it means they are prosperous, but they have run out of room.”

Local beekeepers encourage the public not to panic if they see a swarm of honeybees in their yard or out in nature.

“When bees are in swarm mode, they are not aggressive at all,” said Mike McDowell, a beekeeper and member of the Chatham Police Department. “They are in a docile mode of looking for a home. They don’t have anything to protect and they aren’t really out to sting anybody at that point.”

McDowell encouraged anyone who sees a swarm of honeybees to call a “swarm catcher,” a local beekeeper who is trained to collect the swarm safely.

“We recommend that you call a beekeeper on the swarm list and one of them will come down and grab the bees for free,” he said.

“It’s always a good thing to call them because you are saving a group of bees.”

Honeybee colonies often do not survive in the wild due to a pest known as the Varroa mite, he said.

The Columbia County Beekeepers Club has a list of four local swarm catchers on its website, which can be found at www.ccnybees.org.

Swarming honeybees sometimes land in a tree or stump, where a swarm catcher can easily collect them using a bucket and a

in the Albia area of Troy, NY until 1972 when he moved to Scotch Plains, NJ and then back upstate to Kinderhook in 1977 where he resided until 2015. He then moved to a skilled nursing unit at the VA Hospital in Bedford, MA, where he continued to enjoy outings with family, baseball games at Fenway, live jazz clubs, and dinner dates and movies with Angie until her passing in 2017. Thereafter, he continued to be a cherished and welcome presence in his family’s lives, at family gatherings, sharing holidays at home with his young grandsons and daughter in Somerville, MA, and passing on his stories, love of baseball and jazz to the newest generation.

He passed away from complications of Covid-19 at Lahey Hospital and Medical Center in Burlington, MA. on April 28, 2020.

He was a loving husband, father, brother, grandfather, war hero, and a piece of living history. We, his family, are grateful for his long, loving, and honorable life of service, and we will miss him every day.

He is survived by his 3 loving children, John M. Cutro (m.

Anne Liske), Albany, NY, Janet A. Cutro, Somerville, MA, and Joseph A. Cutro Jr., Issaquah, WA, brother James Cutro Jr. (m. Linda Cutro), Westfield, NJ, 5 grandchildren; Nina Cutro-Kelly, Moriah Cutro-Kelly, Galen Cutro-Kelly, Pietro (Pete) Cutro and Steve Cutro, several nieces, nephews and loving friends and colleagues.

Because of the pandemic, the family was unable to hold visitation hours or funeral services. He is buried with his wife, Angela, the love of his life, at Gerald B.H. Solomon Saratoga National Cemetery.

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If the honeybees settle inside a wall or building, special carpentry skills and tools may be required.

“Everything needs to come out, all the comb, otherwise it will attract mice and be nasty,” said Aydlett.

The month of May is high time for swarms, Aydlett said. That is when the honeybees are focused on raising their young, known as the brood, she said.

Fortified by springtime pollen and nectar, the population of the honeybee colony can expand so rapidly that it outgrows its home inside a beekeeper’s boxes.

The colony will raise a new queen to leave behind and the old queen will take off with half the population in search of a roomier home, said Aydlett.

A watchful beekeeper can thwart the honeybee swarm.

“If you are proactive, you can watch for signs such as queen cells and you can monitor those cells and force an artificial swarm by splitting the hives,” said Aydlett.

If the beekeeper fails to prevent the swarm by dividing the colony in two, the

honeybees take matters into their own six hands.

First, scout honeybees go out in search of a new home.

They return and communicate the location to the other honeybees using complex signaling patterns known as a waggle dance. Then other honeybees go and inspect the proposed locations.

“It is consensus building,” said Aydlett. “The honeybee that converts the most others, that is where they go.

The colony interacts as a superorganism.”

Resources can be found at the following local beekeepers clubs: Columbia County Beekeepers (Hudson, NY), www.ccnybees.org; Catskill Mountain Beekeepers (Durham, NY), www.catskillbees. org; Northern Dutchess County Beekeepers (Rhinebeck, NY), www.northerndutchessbees.org; Ulster County Beekeepers (Rhinebeck, NY), www.ulsterbees. org; Southern Adirondack Beekeepers (Ballston Spa, NY), www.adirondackbees. org; Northern Berkshire Beekeepers (Adams, Mass.), www.northernberkshirebeekeepers.wordpress.com.

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American Legion Honeyford Memorial Post 11, held its annual Armed Forces Day Service on May 16.

Deceased veterans within the last 12 months were honored by the reading of their name and a bell rung. Pictured is guest speaker Peter Markou in the center; Commander Tom Andreassen and Post Chaplain John Rusack.

Epilepsy Foundation of Northeastern New York receives COVID-19 support ALBANY — The Epilepsy Foundation of Northeastern New York has been chosen as a recipient to receive COVID-19 relief support from Stewart’s/Dake Family during this challenging time.

The donation of $4,000 will be used by the foundation to purchase additional laptop computers so staff can continue to work remotely from home and provide the programs and services to the epilepsy population of northeastern New York.

Like many organizations, this year has proved to be a challenge for the Epilepsy Foundation of Northeastern New York. More than 25% of the organization’s budget depends on revenue from special events, most of which will

Shopping for seedlings

By Thomas Christopher Summer is coming fast, but spring isn’t quite over. That means there’s still time to fill the vacant space in your vegetable or flower gardens, or even start a new bed, if you are willing to cut a corner and start with seedlings rather than seeds.

Starting with purchased seedlings is considerably more expensive than starting your own plants from seeds, but if you shop wisely, you’ll more than get your money’s worth.

Years ago, I interviewed a fellow who operated a garden design and maintenance company in Westchester County, about garden shopping. I knew he relied largely on purchased plants and got consistently excellent results, and as I expected, he had several useful bits of advice.

To begin with, he emphasized the importance of patronizing tested and trusted suppliers. That is, he kept track of where he obtained all his plants, and if they performed well, he made a point of going back to the same grower or retailer the following year. This cost him a bit more money — the best sources were rarely the cheapest — but he felt the extra expense was repaid by the superior results. He told me that he would even combine different customers’ orders and drive as far as Rhode Island to purchase from a grower he particularly liked.

Such an expedition would be excessive for the kind of small order you or I might make, but it does underline the importance of starting with quality, well-grown plants.

How do you distinguish healthy plants from their less vigorous relatives? The first thing my shopping mentor told me to look for is a rich green color in the foliage. Pale or yellowing foliage is an obvious sign of distress. It may result from undernourishment or from overwatering, but in either case, you don’t want to start your garden with seedlings that are unhealthy; even if you give them good care, it’s unlikely they will ever recover their vigor.

Purplish foliage can also indicate a problem, unless, of course, it is a regular feature of the type of plant. Otherwise, purplish foliage probably indicates a phosphorus deficiency and that the seedling has endured less than optimal growing conditions.

“Don’t be seduced by oversized seedlings,” was another tip from that helpful garden designer. Ideally, the seedlings should be proportionate to the size of pack or container in which they are grown. Those seedlings that tower above their containers have most likely outgrown them and should have been transplanted into the garden some time ago. If you slip one of these giraffes out of its container, you’ll probably find the roots

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When shopping for seedlings, look for rich green color in the foliage. Pale or yellowing foliage is an obvious sign of distress that a plant might not be able to recover from, even with good subsequent care.

wrapped densely around the ball of potting soil or growing medium. Look instead for compact and stocky seedlings with crisp, white roots still finding their way downward through and around the growing medium. They are at just the right stage for transplanting. Their outsized, potbound neighbors are likely to prove permanently stunted by having been held in the container too long.

Inexperienced gardeners, my friend warned, commonly gravitate toward seedlings that are already in flower. Perhaps they think the existence of blooms promises that those plants will get down to business more quickly once in the garden. In fact, this is a mistake, for premature flowering is another sign that the seedling is pot bound and probably stunted. What you want are seedlings that are still in the early stage that focuses on vegetative growth, the production of new stems and leaves.

A flower bud or two is okay, but pinch these off when you transplant the seedling into your garden. That encourages the youngster to concentrate on growing up before it starts to flower or fruit.

My friend’s final tip was to watch out for hitchhikers.

Look for discolored spots on the foliage, which are symptoms of insect damage. Be sure, too, to check the undersides of leaves, the leaf stems, and along the stems for insects or insect eggs. If you find any sign of infestation, reject that seedling, and shop somewhere else. Otherwise, you might bring home a pest that infests your whole garden. That’s a mistake that can haunt you throughout the rest of the summer, a legacy of careless shopping that you’d probably rather avoid.

Be-a-Better-Gardener is a community service of Berkshire Botanical Garden, located in Stockbridge, MA. Its mission, to provide knowledge of gardening and the environment through a diverse range of classes and programs, informs and inspires thousands of students and visitors each year. 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.

to seizures, and often their many other mental-health challenges.

Epilepsy is a neurological disorder defined as having two or more recurring seizures; it can happen to anyone, at any age, at any time.

One in 26 people will be diagnosed with epilepsy in their lifetime. Epilepsy is more common than cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease combined. Services provided by the Epilepsy Foundation of Northeastern New York include education and training of school personnel and students, public education and awareness, service coordination, advocacy, counseling and first-aid training.

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either not happen this year or be held virtually. The support provided by Stewart’s/Dake Family will allow the foundation to continue to provide uninterrupted services, including an art therapy program on Zoom, monthly support group meetings over the phone, and offering educational webinars and trainings. Service coordination and counseling are provided over the phone as well.

The foundation, board of directors and staff are extremely grateful for support during this unprecedented time. Seizures haven’t stopped, and the demand for the foundation’s services has increased as the population attempts to deal with social isolation in addition

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 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.

TANNERSVILLE — The Native Garden at Mountain Top Arboretum, an online presentation, will take place 10-11:30 a.m. May 23. The weather has warmed and the richness of life is returning to the mountains. Spring wildflowers are near peak bloom and the garden season is getting into full swing. Join us as we get excited about the 2020 season with speaker Kathy Salisbury, an accomplished gardener and teacher. Suggested donation is $5 for members, $15 for nonmembers. No advanced reservations necessary. For information, call 518-5893903; www.mtarboretum.org.

MAY 25 ATHENS — The Memorial Day Parade in Athens has been postponed until later this year. The service for deceased veterans will be held at 9 a.m. May 25 at the Veterans

Triangle, with a prayer, placing of memorial wreaths, honoring those who have passed on, followed by firing squad and taps. All social-distancing rules will be enforced by the members and public, who are requested to come and participate. Color guards are encouraged, as are families of veterans so proper recognition can be given. TGM187, Athens American Legion Post, will honor late member Al Vanschaak and his family.

JUNE 4 CATSKILL — The Catskill Elks Lodge, 45 North Jefferson Ave., Catskill, will hold a drivethru take-out only chicken barbecue beginning at 4:30 p.m. until sold out on June 4.

The cost is $12 and includes half a chicken, baked potato, cole slaw and baked beans.

Face covering required.

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Mark DeGarmo Dance broadcasts its Virtual Salon Performance Series housing and promoting artists and performance events that fully reflect the cultural diversity of the Lower East Side and the city as a whole.”

About the Artists Ilona Bito is a dance artist and educator living in NY since 2006. She is a member of Gamelan Dharmaswara Dance Ensemble and the Bo Law Kung Fu Demo Team Ara Fitzgerald is the granddaughter of a vaudevillian leader of an all girl jazz band.

She creates dance/theatre as a choreographer, writer, improviser and performer.

Callie Hatchett is an NYC based dance artist. She grew up

Mark DeGarmo Dance broadcasts its Virtual Salon Performance Series on May 28 and June 11 at 7 p.m. ET on Zoom: a sharing of works-in-progress with a facilitated audience response curated and facilitated by dancer, choreographer, writer, and researcher, Dr. Mark DeGarmo.

Thursday, May 28 and Thursday, June 11, at 7 p.m.

Mark DeGarmo Dance Zoom: https://zoom. us/j/2123759214 Tickets ($20, $15, $10): Online: www.sps2020. givesmart.com Venmo: Mark-DeGarmo-2 Paypal: paypal.me/markdegarmodance Mark DeGarmo Dance goes virtual by broadcasting its transcultural transdisciplinary Salon Performance Series on Zoom with performances featuring Ilona Bito and Ara Fitzgerald on Thursday, May 28, and Callie Hatchett and José Rivera Jr. on Thursday, June 11 — each at 7 p.m. Each performance includes an audience feedback session curated and facilitated

by Dr. Mark DeGarmo.

Mark DeGarmo Dance recognizes the impact of COVID-19 on global artistic communities and is committed to

offering opportunities for artists to share and develop their work, despite the current circumstances.

Founded in 2010, MDD’s Salon Performance Series provides an opportunity to view and engage with original performing arts and dance worksin-progress of guest artists. The series highlights artists and performing art and dance forms underrepresented in traditional and commercial performing arts venues nationally and internationally.

Dr. Mark DeGarmo curates the series and facilitates audience response sessions during each installment by adapting Liz Lerman’s Critical Response Process. DeGarmo guides discourse among the artists and audience members and encourages the public to actively participate in the development of original works-in-progress.

Usually housed in Mark DeGarmo Dance Studio Theater 310 at The Clemente Center, where MDD has been an anchor resident member nonprofit organization since 2001, MDD’s Salon Performance Series works to support the Clemente’s mission, and its determination “to operate in a multicultural and inclusive manner,

Founded in 1987, Mark DeGarmo Dance is a nonprofit organization that educates New York City communities and children; creates, performs, and disseminates original artistic work; and builds intercultural community through dance arts.

About Mark DeGarmo A graduate with a B.F.A. of the Juilliard School Dance Division and Union Institute & University’s Ph.D. program, DeGarmo has created, performed, and produced over 100 dance-theater works and led his company on 30 international tours to 13 countries. His work has been

MAY 23 Online Estate Auction Saturday, May 23, noon UNRESERVED Estate auction (with selected additions) Featuring Estate fresh 18th and 19th c. furniture, artwork, folk art, period accessories, china, glass, stoneware, primitives & more.

Saturday, May 23, noon, https:// www.copakeauction.com/auction/ estate-auction-2020-05-23/ Your Own Home Double Feature Classic Radio Plays Saturday, May 23, 7 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

Two Classic Radio Dramas as the next installment of our virtual LiveStaged Reading Series.

In TROUBLE AT THE CIRCUS superdetective Dick Tracy investigates the sudden death of a talented elephant trainer who dances with her elephants until the night that she is trampled to death for no apparent reason.

In JUSTICE WEARS A BLINDFOLD dashing & handsome Britt Reid, publisher of the Daily Sentinel Newspaper, learns that a wellrespected local judge is apparently going out of his way to not send a local hoodlum to jail. Donning his alter ego as the stern justice fighter The Green Hornet, Britt and his resourceful assistant Kato intervene to make sure that the trial is fair and the public is protected.

Saturday, May 23, 7 p.m. - 9:30 p.m., https://www.facebook.com/ events/554993518533877/ Your Own Home

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in Alabama studying Vaganovabased ballet under the direction of Meryane Martin Murphy.

She is also a teaching artist for NYC Ballet and MDD. José Rivera, Jr., is a queer, nonbinary, Puerto Rican recording and performing artist.

They create glam electro-pop music and athletic dance for stage and screen. José’s work orients us towards Queer Future - queering narratives of love, power, and vulnerability.

About Mark DeGarmo Dance

recognized with performing arts awards and honors from the Martha Hill Dance Fund, the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program, the U.S. Department of State, and The White House. www.markdegarmodance. org, Follow Mark DeGarmo Dance on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter We are grateful that this program is supported in part by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Poetry in the age of coronavirus, with NYS Poet Alicia Ostriker In today’s post on “The Conversation,” NYS Poet Alicia Ostriker talks with NYS Writers Institute Director Paul Grondahl about poetry in the age of coronavirus and her own quarantine routine.

She also discusses two new projects she has undertaken that celebrate important New York poets: Reviving interest in the poetry of Edna St. Millay, one of her favorites, and translating the Emma Lazarus sonnet “The New Colossus” that is inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty.

Forty translators have translated the Lazarus verse into 40 languages and included personal essays on the dignity and value of immigrants as a reminder that America is a country that was built by immigrants.

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Memorial Day Scavenger Hunt!

Monday, May 25, noon We are hosting a neighborhood scavenger hunt that can be done safely from your car with whomever you’ve been isolated with! Get out of the house and enjoy our beautiful community, compete for prizes and go home with a delicious lunch from the Greens. It’s not our typical Memorial day but still fun!

Register today …..see link below $10 – $20, Monday, May 25, noon, https://www.thegreensatcopake. com/event-details/memorial-dayscavenger-hunt?fbclid=IwAR2buh KirslT4TooIWlYLGfcF6GMVK0HpXgj Wjxk_VolWqo0y4wlQELoX7Q Copake Country Club, 44 Golf Course Rd, Craryville, 518-325-4338 www.copakecountryclub.com Bindlestiff Family Cirkus – Virtual Monday, May 25, 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

A FIRST LOOK AT EMERGING TALENTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD — in the comfort of your own home!

Circus • Sideshow • Vaudeville • Burlesque • Dance • Music

STAY TUNED FOR A LIVESTREAM on Facebook and Youtube on the night of the performance! @facebook.com/Bindlestiff.Cirkus youtube.com/bindlestiffcirkus at 7:30 p.m. EDT every Monday night!

Bindlestiff Open Stage Variety Show is breaking out of the confines of a theater, and coming to you in the comfort of your own home. Jump online for a night of variety that will include much more than a simple song and dance.

Bindlestiffs Open Stage Variety Show is a non-stop variety show experience that may include world famous magicians, gender bending jugglers, circus legends, trained rats, novelty musicians, aerial artists, wire walkers, sideshow performers, puppeteers, living cartoons, physical comedy, contortionists, performance artists, and more.

Hosted by Keith “Bindlestiff” Nelson, the special Quarantine Edition deals with social distance and isolation head on. Using the tools of video conferencing, Bindlestiff’s Open Stage will feature each act live in their own location.

Free, Monday, May 25, 7:30 p.m. 9:30 p.m., https://www.facebook. com/events/278473756508048 Your Own Home

MAY 28 Close Readings in a Virtual Space Thursday, May 28, 4 p.m. - 5 p.m.

A NEW VIRTUAL EVENT! THE FLOWCHART FOUNDATION HAS LINED UP SOME OF THEIR FAVORITE POETS TO LEAD INTIMATE, VIRTUAL GROUP READ-THROUGHS OF SINGLE POEMS FOR THE FEW THURSDAYS. THE POETS—NEITHER TEACHING NOR EXPLAINING— WILL SERVE AS EXPERT TOURGUIDES FOR PARTICIPANTS IN EACH (ZOOM) ROOM TO EXPLORE THE FEATURED POEM AS A GROUP. SIMONE WHITE LEADS A CLOSE READING OF TBD SIMONE WHITE IS THE AUTHOR OF DEAR ANGEL OF DEATH, OF BEING DISPERSED, AND HOUSE OF ENVY OF ALL THE WORLD, THE POETRY CHAPBOOK UNREST, AND THE COLLABORATIVE POEM/PAINTING CHAPBOOK DOLLY, WITH KIM THOMAS. SHE TEACHES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA AND LIVES IN NEW YORK. Free, Thursday, May 28, 4 p.m. - 5 p.m., https://www.eventbrite. com/e/close-readings-in-a-virtualspace-read-a-poem-tbd-with-simone-white-tickets-101928781730 Your Own Home

Sage BFA 2020: Now Online Congratulations to Sage’s graduating Art + Design students!

Visit the online gallery to see work selected for this year’s BFA exhibition.

View the video interview by visiting https://www.

nyswritersinstitute.org/post/ poetry-in-the-age-of-corona-

Art.sage.edu/BFA2020 View the online gallery at Opalka.sage.edu/hsregional STAY CONNECTED

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15th annual Berkshire International Film Festival cancelled, creative alternative programming planned GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — The board of directors of the Berkshire International Film Festival has decided to cancel its 15th annual festival in 2020.

The next film festival will take place June 3 - 6, 2021. Like the BIFF’s fellow cultural organizations, the move was made to ensure the health and wellbeing of the Berkshire community and its visitors, staff and volunteers during this unprecedented time.

The annual festival screens more than 80 films at venues throughout Berkshire County.

More than 70 filmmakers and

industry professionals from around the world attend the event and its annual Filmmakers Summit.

In the coming months, BIFF will continue to present and collaborate on curating new independent film releases with the Triplex Cinema and with our large network of distribution partners. Plans to present “Pop-Up Drive-In” movie theaters in the county later this summer are underway.

In addition, BIFF and Berkshire Bank will continue their 10-year partnership to present the “Next Great Filmmaker Award” for short films which

will run the month of August.

The winner will be announced on Labor Day and will receive a $2500 cash prize to support their filmmaking.

Screenings through a new collaboration with the Palm Springs International Animated Film Festival, which would have been introduced at this year’s festival, will also be presented on Labor Day. BIFF’s collaboration with Tanglewood on “Cinematics” will resume when the TLI opens up to the public. BIFF Selects and the popular Environmental Film Focus series are also planned to resume in 2021.

BIFF’s festival partners will continue to host screenings in 2021 including the Triplex Cinema, the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, the Phoenix Theatre’s Beacon Cinema, and the Tanglewood Learning Institute. The festival schedule will include its popular Opening Night, Tribute Night, Closing Night and Tea Talk events with filmmakers. All pass purchases will be honored for the festival in 2021, but those wishing to receive a refund may do so by calling 413-528-8030 or by emailing lauren@biffma. org. More information can be found at: www.biffma.org.

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Bullets on Broadway May 24 Sunday at 7pm An online murder mystery will be held on Sunday, May 24, at 7 p.m. Here’s the plot: It’s opening night of “Murder in the First” on Broadway, and nerves are high. The cast and crew are all abuzz backstage with the excitement of the lights, the sounds — and the dead body of a big-shot Broadway producer. There lies Jack Bialystock, shot in the

back center stage before the curtain could rise.

Was the murderer a cast member, like Anita Part, who’s making her Broadway debut tonight, or seasoned performer Sienna Stealer? Was it the sleazy casting director Colin Back, or a member of the audience like Megan Phan, who somehow wandered backstage?

There’s only one way to find

out: Play the game Bullets on Broadway! But be careful - the murderer may be YOU! Tickets: $25 Max of 20 players (one person/character per screen - please make sure you have good Wifi and are comfortable in a Zoom setting — they can help talk you through some basics if wanted).

To play: Tickets MUST be purchased by e-mailing

Kathryn at kathryn@centerforperformingarts.org by Friday, May 22. She will contact you to take credit-card payment.

Then look for an e-mail with your character, props to help set the mood, the Zoom link/ password and guidelines.

On Sunday, prepare your favorite drink (or three), log in to the Zoom link and get ready for a killer good time!

The Earth Beneath Their Feet MAY 23 – JUNE 21 AT PAMELA SALISBURY GALLERY

By Laura Moriarty

By Margo Glass

By Ellen Driscoll

HUDSON — The Earth Beneath Their Feet will be on view from May 23 – June 21, 2020 atPamela Salisbury Gallery in Hudson, New York. The four artists in this exhibition, Ellen Driscoll, Margot Glass, Laura Moriarty, and Laura Sharp Wilson, explore themes related to the natural world and its fragility. The exhibition may be viewedin its entirety on our website at www.pamelasalisburygallery.com or by appointment.

Ellen Driscoll’s New Leaf series is represented here by a group of small works created with layers of gold leaf, ink, and printed silk. Her work on all scales revolves around themes of migration, space, and climate change. Driscoll has shown widely nationally and internationally, including The Whitney Museum at Phillip Morris, New-York Historical Society, and Grand Central Terminal, among others. Her work is represented in numerous public and private collections, including the Boston Public Library, Detroit Institute of Arts, Whitney Museum

of American Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Awards and honors include bfellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, NEA, and the Bunting Institute at Harvard University. Ellen is the Director of Studio Arts at Bard College, NY. Using 14 karat gold and graphite, Margot Glass renders closely observed botanicals and insects. Her work speaks to the ephemeral beauty in nature. Glass has shown at the New York Historical Society; Emily Dickinson Homestead, Amherst, MA; Roberson Museum and Science Center, Binghamton, NY; Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh, PA; and REVEAL and Art on Paper international art fairs. Work by Margot Glass is courtesy of Garvey|Simon, New York.

Laura Moriarty makes process-driven sculptural paintings and works on paper with pigmented encaustic. Their form, color, and pattern echo processes that shape and reshape the earth: heating and cooling, erosion, subduction, friction, enfolding, weathering, slippage.

Laura’s honors include grants from the Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, as well as numerous national and international residencies, including the Baer Art Center in Iceland and the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming. She is the author of an artist’s book, ‘Table of Contents’, self-published in 2012.

Using acrylic on mulberry paper mounted on panel, Laura Sharp Wilson creates intricately layered images which reference the natural world and its vulnerability. Recent works describe botanical forms and ephemera from the human experience tethered with tangled knots and stitches, cemented and bound.

Wilson has shown widely in galleries and museums nationally and internationally, and has been reviewed in Hyperallergic and The Los Angeles Times, among others. Work by Laura Sharp Wilson is courtesy of McKenzie Fine Art, New York.

‘… classic radio drama comes to Copake with The Two Of Us Productions! ‘ COPAKE, NY — The Two Of Us Productions, the award winning theater company based in Columbia County NY, is pleased to present Two Classic Radio Dramas on Saturday evening May 23rd 2020 as the next installment of their virtual LiveStaged Reading Series.

In TROUBLE AT THE CIRCUS super-detective Dick Tracy investigates the sudden death of a talented elephant trainer who dances with her elephants until the night that she is trampled to death for no apparent reason.

In JUSTICE WEARS A BLINDFOLD dashing & handsome Britt Reid, publisher of the Daily Sentinel Newspaper, learns that a well-respected local judge is apparently going out of his way to not send a local hoodlum to jail. Donning his alter ego as the stern justice fighter The Green Hornet, Britt and his resourceful assistant Kato intervene to

make sure that the trial is fair and the public is protected.

To learn the rest of these stories you’ll have to R.S.V.P

to www.TheTwoOfUsProductions.org and then see these thrilling dramas in the comfort of your own home on Saturday

night May 23rd, 2020.

TROUBLE AT THE CIRCUS and JUSTICE WEARS A BLINDFOLD will be performed as a virtual staged reading on Saturday May 23rd, 2020 at 7 p.m.

Hurry to R.S.V.P and get your access code by visiting www.

TheTwoOfUsProductions.org .

This performance is free to the public, donations are gratefully accepted.

The Two Of Us Productions is well-known throughout the Hudson Valley for presenting quality theater, both musicals and dramas. Their recent productions of Sweeney Todd, Young Frankenstein, Chicago, Les Miserables, next to normal, Mamma Mia! and Jesus Christ Superstar were all recognized by the Theatre Association of NYS with multiple awards, including outstanding work by the company and outstanding performance by the orchestra.

MAC-HAYDN LAUNCHES ONLINE WEBCAST SERIES, ‘IN THE MEANTIME’ CHATHAM — The MacHaydn Theatre announces the launch of “In the Meantime,” a weekly webcast series hosted by Producing Artistic Director John Saunders, as part of the “MacHaydn Online” virtual programming initiative.

The series will premiere this week and continue throughout the summer on Fridays at 12pm, with episodes appearing on the MacHaydn Theatre online platforms and machaydntheatre. org.

Episodes will showcase notable Mac-Haydn alumni, discussing their artistic endeavors during quarantine as well as their past experiences working at the theatre.

This week’s episode will feature Mac-Haydn favorite Emily Kron, last seen as Audrey in the 2019 production of Little Shop of Horrors. Kron’s past roles at the Mac-Haydn also include

Sally Bowles in Cabaret, Nellie Forbush in South Pacific, Geneviève in The Baker’s Wife, and her Berkshire Theatre Award-winning performance as Mrs. Lovett in Sweeney Todd.

The Mac-Haydn Online programming initiative also includes “Mac-Haydn Mondays,” a weekly live stream from the theatre’s Instagram account (@machaydntheatre) on Mondays at 5pm.

About the Mac-Haydn Theatre Founded in 1969, the Mac-Haydn Theatre strives to present innovative, diverse and professional musical theatre productions to the residents of Columbia County and beyond. We aim to cultivate young talent for careers in theatre and seek to provide a supportive environment for the creation of new musical theatre works.

Nigra Arts Center announces additional changes in schedule due to COVID-19 disruptions GLOVERSVILLE — The Paul Nigra Center for Creative Arts, located at 2736 State Highway 30 in Gloversville, NY, would like to provide an update on changes in their schedule caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. It will no longer re-open in May, as previously announced, due to changed recommendations and mandates from the state.

Following Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s guidelines for New York Forward and information from the Mohawk Valley Regional Economic Development Council, the Nigra Arts Center will be able to reopen on Wednesday, July 1, subject to change if guidelines shift in the future.

Some of the schedule changes and updates for the rest of the spring and summer are as follows: • For the first time, the Nigra Arts Center has released a virtual tour of its current show, “Women’s Movement: Art By, About and For Women,” on its Facebook page for the enjoyment of guests who did not have the chance to see the show in person. This virtual tour can be found at www.facebook.com/PaulNigraCenter.

• The Nigra Arts Center’s next art show will be the 2020 New York State Summer Art Show. This show is expected to be on display July 30 to September 25, and will include the special exhibition of award-winning photographers featured in Adirondack Life magazine.

• The Nigra Arts Center has been exploring ways of offering virtual art classes for its members. Plans should be finalized by the end of the month, and members should watch their email inboxes for more information on how to participate.

• Due to restrictions on travel and social gatherings necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Nigra Arts Center must cancel all

of its remaining bus trips for 2020. Anyone who purchased tickets for these excursions will be contacted for options on refunds or deferment for future trips.

• The Lexington Golf Tournament, originally scheduled for June, has now been tentatively rescheduled to Thursday, August 27, at Hales Mills Country Club in the Town of Johnstown.

The priority of the Nigra Arts Center at this time is establishing new policies and procedures to keep guests, artists, instructors, employees and visitors safe and healthy when the facility does re-open. While the Nigra Arts Center is closed to the public, its staff members remain available to address any questions or concerns the public might have. They may be reached at (518) 6619932 or info@pnarts.org.

Up-to-date news on any further changes to the Nigra Arts Center’s operations can be found on its website, www.pncreativeartscenter. org, and its Facebook page, www.facebook.com/PaulNigraCenter. The Paul Nigra Center for Creative Arts is located at 2736 State Highway 30 in Gloversville.

About the Paul Nigra Center for Creative Arts: The Paul Nigra Center for Creative Arts is a beautiful, year-round arts center open to the public. It houses premium art venues, hosts fun family events and provides educational opportunities for persons of all ages and levels of ability. The Nigra Arts Center also offers exceptional spaces for private parties or business events.

The Nigra Arts Center was founded in 2015 by Lexington, a Chapter of The Arc New York, an accredited, award-winning provider of disability services. For more information, visit www. pncreativeartscenter.org.

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Baltimore Ravens executive vice president Ozzie Newsome.

NFL diversity in leadership roles is still an issue

Mike Preston

The Baltimore Sun

BALTIMORE — Ravens executive vice president Ozzie Newsome has never been impulsive, and when he speaks his words are usually measured and meaningful.

So, when all this talk started last Friday about additions to the Rooney Rule and NFL teams possibly moving up 16 spots in the third round if they hired an African American general manager, Newsome handled it with his usual poise.

“Am I concerned about the lack of hiring?” said Newsome, the NFL’s first African American general

manager when asked about the lack of minorities as general managers, head coaches and coordinators in the NFL. “Yes, I am. But I fully understand there is a sincere effort to change the hiring process.”

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Tom Thibodeau, a Knicks candidate, is bringing new perspective to his next coaching job Stefan Bondy New York Daily News

Tom Thibodeau, a candidate for the Knicks coaching job, said he’s ditched any ideas of holding a dual role as an executive and simply wants to work with aligned and motivated people.

“When you have people that are smart and have character and work well together, good things can come out of that. You want to share the same value system,” Thibodeau said on “The Woj Pod.” “Every situation there’s going to be challenge. When I went to Chicago, basically it was a .500 team. I went to Minnesota, it was a rebuilding team. I’ve been through highs, been through lows. All those experiences have helped me.”

Thibodeau added that he’s learned from his mistakes and talked around some of them that occurred during his stints with the Bulls and Timberwolves. Often criticized for working his players too hard — especially in Chicago — Thibodeau said he spent

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Minnesota Timberwolves head coach Tom Thibodeau reacts during a Jan. 2, 2019 game against the Boston Celtics at TD Garden.

this season touring the NBA and picked up training habits.

“The way everyone’s managing with load management and where

your team is, sports scientists, so it’s different. And if your team is young and you’re in a rebuild, you’re probably practicing more than an older veteran team,” Thibodeau said. “In some cases where the team is mixed, there’s almost two practices going on in one, where your young guys are getting the work they need, and the older vets are in the weight room getting strength and conditioning.”

Thibodeau highlighted his 10-day stop with the Clippers, a team mixed with load management stars (Kawhi Leonard, Paul George) and fresh youngsters. He said the shootarounds were intense but players’ rest was handled with care.

“I couldn’t believe the shootarounds, I was like, ‘If I did that, they’d hang me,’ “ Thibodeau said. “They were phenomenal. But (Clippers coach Doc Rivers) is the best at managing the day before, in between, they

Denny Hamlin, running on worn tires late in Wednesday evening’s Toyota 500 NASCAR Cup Series race, got an assist from the weather gods – an assist that handed him the victory at Darlington (S.C.) Raceway.

Hamlin, whose Joe Gibbs Racing team ran out of new tires and was running on “scuffs” while those pursuing him were on “stickers,” had the lead when rain hit the track with just under 25 laps to go.

NASCAR called the cars onto pit lane with 20 laps to go in the scheduled 228-lap event at the egg-shaped track. After several minutes, NASCAR announced the decision to end it.

“I was pretty happy with how it all turned out,” said Hamlin, sporting a fabric face mask with a likeness of his own face on it. “It’s a driver’s race track. You can move around. You can do different things to make your car handle. We got it right today.”

The victory was the second of the season for Hamlin, who also won the season-opening Daytona 500 in February. It was his 39th career win and third at Darlington in 16 attempts.

Finishing second was Kyle Busch, Hamlin’s teammate.

Busch probably also was glad the rains came because just prior to the storm, he was involved in an incident with Hendrick Motorsports’ Chase Elliott. The incident sent Elliott into the wall but also crushed Busch’s front right fender.

They were running second and third behind Hamlin at the time.

Elliott flashed the universal sign of disrespect to Busch as the cars came back around the track under yellow.

After the race, Busch and Elliott’s crew chief, Alan Gustafson, had heated words in the pits.

“There’s no question, I know I made a mistake,” Busch said. “I just misjudged the gap.”

Asked what he and Elliott talked about, Busch said, “They’re upset. They’re mad.

I’m not just going to fix it and we’re going to have ice cream tomorrow.”

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How MLB proposes to protect players from the coronavirus Maria Torres Los Angeles Times

Major League Baseball’s proposal to players for avoiding the spread of the novel coronavirus during a potential abbreviated season was obtained by The Times last weekend.

The “2020 Operations Manual” is a hefty document but essential in addressing one of the two most crucial issues — money being the other — that the two sides must bridge before teams begin an abbreviated spring training.

Here are the most important takeaways from the manual’s 67 pages: Chemistry-building won’t look the same Athletes are creatures of habit. Some like to arrive at stadiums early to take advantage of the high-end equipment available to them.

Some like to soak in the atmosphere of the clubhouse, cracking jokes or playing cards with teammates and support staff. However difficult it might be to define team chemistry, players see these moments as vital to the team’s success.

And they will pretty much cease to exist in 2020.

JOSE M. OSORIO/CHICAGO TRIBUNE Individual locker stalls will be six feet apart, An empty Guaranteed Rate Field in Chicago, home of the Chicago White Sox on May 8. shrinking the number of people crammed into the space at one time. Physical distance worn except on the field and when engag- Individuals will be instructed to spend as litwill be maintained at all times. Masks will be ing in strenuous activities, such as exercise. tle time indoors as possible.

The plan bans use of saunas, steam rooms, hot and cold tubs, hydrotherapy pools and cryotherapy chambers, all of which players utilize to accelerate muscle recovery. That could put players at greater risk of injury.

And that’s just the beginning — Players will be encouraged to take batting practice outside whenever possible, so indoor batting cages will be off-limits more often than not. That probably means no postgame hitting sessions in the stadium tunnels.

— Buffets and food spreads will be eliminated and group dining will be discouraged.

Teams will provide individually wrapped food directly to players, in take-out form.

— Most meetings will be conducted virtually. If that’s not possible, attendees will be physically distanced in meeting spaces and possibly asked to wear face coverings.

— Showering at the stadium will be discouraged.

— Use of exercise equipment will be staggered to avoid high-density indoor gatherings. MLB recommends teams relocate equipment outside, if possible, so they don’t have to worry about increasing ventilation for highly trafficked indoor spaces.

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Sports Flashbacks BASEBALL 1901 — The owner of the Giants, Andrew Freedman, accuses umpire Billy Nash of incompetence and bans him from the Polo Grounds. One Pirates player and one from the Giants are forced to call today’s game.

1943 — It takes one hour and twenty-nine minutes for the White Sox to defeat the Senators, 1-0. The 89-minute contest is the quickest nine-inning game ever played in the American League.

1947 — Joe DiMaggio and five other Yankees are fined $100 for not fulfilling contract requirements to do promotional duties for the team.

1952 — The Dodgers score a major-league record 15 first-inning runs en route to a 19-1 victory over the Reds at Ebbets Field.

1992 — Manager Buck Rodgers and 11 others are injured when the Angels’ team bus goes out of control on the New Jersey Turnpike and crashes into trees.

1996 — Ken Griffey Jr. hits his 200th career home run at age 26. Only seven other major leaguers have done this more quickly.

2000 — Major League Baseball has its first six grand-slam day. Garret Anderson (Angels), J.T. Snow (Giants), Brian Hunter (Phillies), Jason Giambi (A’s), Adrian Beltre (Dodgers) and Shawn Green (Dodgers) all contribute to the record.

2004 — In his return to Texas, Alex Rodriguez is booed by the patrons at the Ballpark in Arlington. The fans continue to show their displeasure when the Yankees’ third baseman homers during his first-inning at-bat.

2005 — The Rangers establish two team records when the club hits four homers in one inning and goes deep a total of eight times in a 18-3 rout of the Astros.

2005 — Before their interleague contest with the Athletics, the Giants honor Juan Marichal with the unveiling of a nine-foot bronze statue outside SBC Park.

BASKETBALL 1986 — Ralph Sampson hits the buzzer-beating basket to lift the Houston Rockets into the NBA Finals with a 114-112 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers in Game 5 of the Western Conference finals.

1991 — The Chicago Bulls set a postseason record with their 15th consecutive home victory by downing the Detroit Pistons 105-97 in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference finals.

1994 — Dikembe Mutombo of the Denver Nuggets blocks two shots to set a playoff record with 38 rejections in a seven-game series but the Utah Jazz win 91-81 to advance to the Western Conference finals.

1995 — Patrick Ewing misses a layup at the buzzer and the Indiana Pacers prevail 97-95 in Game 7 of the second-round series to advance to the Eastern Conference finals.

1996 — Michael Jordan’s 35 points trumps a 36-point, 16-rebound effort by Shaquille O’Neal as the Chicago Bulls defeat the Orlando Magic 93-88 in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference finals.

2000 — Ewing scores the go-ahead dunk and the New York Knicks register an 83-82 victory over the Miami Heat in Game 7 of the secondround series to advance to the Eastern Conference finals.

2002 — Antoine Walker scores 26 points and the Boston Celtics overcome a triple-double by Jason Kidd (23 points, 16 rebounds, 10 assists) to post a 93-86 victory over the New Jersey Nets in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference finals.

2006 — The Detroit Pistons hold the Cleveland Cavaliers to 23 second-half points and advance to the Eastern Conference finals with a 79-61 victory in Game 7 of the second-round series.

2009 — Carmelo Anthony scores 34 points to lead the Denver Nuggets to a 106-103 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers in Game 2 of the Western Conference finals.

2018 — LeBron James hits a jumper from the right corner in the second quarter of a 111-102 Cleveland Cavalier win over the Boston Celtics, to pass Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s record of 2,356 career postseason made field goals, which has stood since 1989.

HOCKEY 1936 — Alex Faulkner is born in Bishop’s Falls, Newfoundland and Labrador. Faulkner, the first NHL player from Canada’s easternmost province, plays parts of three seasons with the Toronto Maple Leafs and Detroit Red Wings, recording 32 points in 101 games.

1956 — The Toronto Maple Leafs trade right winger Eric Nesterenko and goaltender Harry Lumley to the Chicago Blackhawks for cash.

Nesterenko goes on to enjoy several productive seasons in the Windy City, landing on two All-Star teams and winning the Stanley Cup in 1961.

1974 — The Detroit Red Wings name Alex Delvecchio general manager. Delvecchio, who spent his entire 23-year career in Detroit, serves as GM for nearly three years before being replaced by fellow ex-player Ted Lindsay.

1979 — Jacques Lemaire scores twice, including the game winner, as the Montreal Canadiens secure their fourth straight Stanley Cup title with a 4-1, Game 5 victory over the New York Rangers. It’s the final NHL game for Lemaire, who joins Ken Dryden and Yvan Cournoyer in annoucing his retirement.

1981 — Butch Goring’s two goals lift the New York Islanders to their second straight Stanley Cup championship with a 5-1 win over the Minnesota North Stars in Game 5.

1995 — John LeClair’s hat trick leads the Philadelphia Flyers to a 5-4 victory over the New York Rangers in the opener of their Eastern Conference second-round series.

2001 — Joe Sakic scores 24 seconds into overtime as the Colorado Avalanche reach the Stanley Cup finals for the second time in franchise history with a 2-1 win over the St. Louis Blues in Game 5.

Golf PGA TOUR SCHEDULE End of 2019-20 season June 8-14: Charles Schwab Challenge June 15-21: RBC Heritage June 22-28: Travelers Championship July 2-5: Rocket Mortgage Classic July 6-12: John Deere Classic July 13-19: the Memorial Tournament July 20-26: 3M Open, TPC Twin Cities July 27-Aug. 2: FedEx St. Jude Invitational July 27-Aug. 2: Barracuda Championship Aug. 3-9: PGA Championship Aug. 10-16: Wyndham Championship Aug. 17-23: The Northern Trust Aug. 24-30: BMW Championship Aug. 31-Sept. 7: TOUR Championship Start of 2020-21 season Sept. 7-13: Safeway Open Sept. 14-20: U.S. Open Sept. 21-27: Ryder Cup Sept. 21-27: Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship Sept. 28-October 4: Sanderson Farms Championship Oct. 5-11: Shriners Hospitals for Children Open Oct. 12-18: The CJ Cup @ Nine Bridges Oct. 19-25: Zozo Championship Oct. 26-Nov. 1: HSBC Champions Oct. 26-Nov. 1: Bermuda Championship Nov. 2-8: Houston Open Nov. 9-15: Masters Tournament Nov. 16-22: The RSM Classic Nov. 30-Dec. 6: Mayakoba Golf Classic

WORLD GOLF RANKING Through March 13 1. Rory McIlroy 2. Jon Rahm 3. Brooks Koepka 4. Justin Thomas 5. Dustin Johnson 6. Adam Scott 7. Patrick Cantlay 8. Patrick Reed 9. Webb Simpson 10. Tommy Fleetwood

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Transactions FOOTBALL NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE Cleveland Browns - Signed TE Harrison Bryant and WR Donovan Peoples-Jones to a four-year contract.

Dallas Cowboys - NFL conditionally lifted the suspension on LB Aldon Smith.

Los Angeles Chargers - Signed G Ryan Groy.

New England Patriots - Signed DB Kyle Dugger to a four-year, $8.33 million contract. Signed S Patrick Chung to a two-year, $6.45 million contract extension.

New Orleans Saints - Named Shone Gipson head athletic trainer.

Seattle Seahawks - Re-signed QB Geno Smith to a one-year contract. Waived TE Justin Johnson.

NCAA FOOTBALL Nebraska - Announced OL AJ Forbes has left the program and will transfer to Montana.

South Alabama - Announced TE Khameron Taylor has left the program and will transfer to Indiana as a graduate.

Basketball NCAA BASKETBALL Stephen F. Austin - Announced the program has been placed on three years of probation, forfeited wins and has been fined $5000 for posting a low NCAA Academic Rate.

For baseball’s minor leagues, 2020 seems a major washout Mark Bradley The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

ATLANTA — Nobody’s sure there’ll be a major league season. Everyone assumes there won’t be a minor league season, though no official announcement has been made.

Here’s J.J. Cooper, executive editor of the authoritative Baseball America: “There are three things we know.

One, the current plan at the major league level has a taxi squad, which essentially is saying, ‘We’re not playing minor league baseball.’ Two, minor league operators across the board are adamant: ‘If we don’t play (before) fans, we’re not playing the games. It doesn’t make sense for us.

Why would we carry these expenses with no revenue?’ And three, every issue major league baseball has as far as different jurisdictions is true at the minor league level — but more complicated because they’re in more states. If the Pacific Coast League, which is in seven states, has three states where it’s OK to play games and four where it’s not, what do you do?”

Cooper again: “I haven’t talked to any MiLB (minor league) operator over the last few weeks who realistically expects to have a season.”

The Braves have six minor league affiliates, two based in Georgia — Triple-A Gwinnett and Low-A Rome. Six times 25 gives us 150 players, nearly all of whom are in the developmental stages of their baseball lives. Do such prospects really need to skip a year? Answer: no way. But what to do if the minors don’t play in 2020?

Cooper: “That’s the million-dollar question. Everybody talks about the need of figuring out a way for those players to get at-bats and games. No one wants it to be a lost season — especially for pitchers. No one wants pitchers to throw some bullpens this year on their own and then try to ramp back up next year. (But) no one knows what that means yet. There’s talk about a super-Arizona — whether that’s massive instructs (instructional leagues) or a muchexpanded Arizona fall league — or getting team players together at some point in the complexes.”

Back to taxi squads. The belief is that, if/when the 2020 season starts, major league rosters will be expanded to 50, or twice the normal size. Half that number will be on a practice squad. Cooper’s guess is that those 25 will break into two groups — players who can be summoned to the majors for immediate help and high-end prospects in whom the club has the most invested.

“Obviously you’re going to want your close-to-the-majors top prospects there to make sure they get at-bats and innings,” Cooper said. “It’s not hard to guess that Ian Anderson and Cristian Pache and Drew Waters are going to be there. It’s not hard to say that (Braden) Shewmake and the college guys they went for last season (in the draft) will be there. But how much are they going to balance having guys who are ready to step in and getting top prospects exposure to help their development?”

In other seasons, the second 25 would be scattered among the affiliates. Cooper expects no scattering in our time of pandemic. He anticipates the taxi squad will remain with the 25-man big league roster. (You’ll recall that Julio Teheran was dispatched to Florida to say sharp after he was omitted from the National League Division Series roster last year. He was summoned after Chris Martin was injured in Game 1. If that were to happen this year, such a player might have to undergo a 14-day quarantine, which would defeat the purpose of “staying sharp.”)

“Having one (quarantine) bubble is going to be easier than having two,” Cooper said. “Let’s say the Cardinals are playing the Braves, a four-game series. The Cardinals would bring their 50 players; the Braves would have their 50 there. Think of it like an instructs game: Maybe at noon that day, (taxi squads) play five innings — just to give them at-bats and innings. They’re seeing live pitching; they’re stretched out.”

Then: “Do you want have two places where you’re doing testing? Do you want to have two hotels where you’re getting food shipped in? It just makes it easier to have it all together.”

We pause to note the obvious: Nobody on the periphery, and maybe nobody on the inside, knows exactly what will happen with baseball. MLB and its players must decide about playing before anything else gets addressed.

The scenario described above might or might not approximate reality.

Beyond taxi squads, what might occur? Do the Braves assemble 100 or so non-taxi players somewhere and keep them in place all summer for a few months? Such a gathering would surely mean testing and quarantine, which wouldn’t come cheap.

Cooper: “MLB teams are making every effort to cut costs. In some cases, there are minor league coaches being furloughed. They could bring them back, (or) you could do instructs with less coaches. One question is, are MLB teams willing to bear the expense of bringing these players to the complexes to play intersquad games or whatever? Second part is, can they develop structures for that to be safe? It’s one thing to say we’re going to do these things at the MLB level, but minor league players do not have a union negotiating for them. If MLB and the MLBPA are working out best practices from a health-and-safety standpoint for MLB players, it’d be logical to expect similar practices at the minor league level.”

This uncertainty comes at a particularly anxious moment for minor league baseball. MLB already has proposed cutting 42 of the existing 160 affiliates. Most minor league players don’t have million-dollar contracts, meaning any money they miss will be felt. Minor league owners bank next to nothing in TV money. Then there’s the great unknowable: What happens to a 19-year-old ballplayer who doesn’t get a competitive at-bat over a full year? Is his professional growth stunted?

Not that any of us, as we speak, are in a great place, but baseball has — pun warning — major issues. Its players and owners are again squabbling over money. Even if the 2020 season begins, there’s no guarantee players/managers/staff will stay healthy. With the collective bargaining agreement set to lapse after the 2021 season, the notion of a strike/lockout looms over 2022. The 2020 draft has been shortened from 40 rounds to five. The 2020 minor league season almost certainly won’t happen.

Oh, and the Astros cheated. Other than that, everything’s peachy.

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An umpire wearing a face mask looks on during a preseason baseball game between Seoul-based Doosan Bears and LG Twins at Jamsil stadium in Seoul on April 21.

Masks in the dugout? Is Major League Baseball serious?

David Murphy The Philadelphia Inquirer

PHILADELPHIA — One of the side effects of a relationship that is as transactional as the one between Major League Baseball and its players is that it eventually becomes difficult for an outside observer to take either side seriously.

When the pursuit of money is the only thing that matters to either party, every interaction becomes a negotiation.

Which makes it impossible to ascribe any amount of sincerity to the words and actions of either party. Maybe the historians will look back and realize that American-style capitalism was really late-stage nihilism. But that’s a discussion for another time.

The topical thing here is that, two days ago, news broke that Major League Baseball had put together a 67-page operations manual outlining the various protective and preventative measures that it would require players and teams to abide by in the event of a 2020 season.

Included in that plan are a host of measures that would warrant a raised brow from even the most officious of schoolmarms, let alone a constituency that once counted Jonathan Papelbon among its members. Masks in the dugout, socially distanced infielders, a prohibition on spitting — the only unremarkable thing about the document is that MLB actually printed it on paper, given that paper is a surface that multiple people might touch.

As somebody who is ostensibly paid to have an honest, informed, and illuminating opinion on this sort of thing, I find it difficult to even know where to begin.

Taking the proposal at face value would mean spending the rest of this column constructing an argument that MLB’s proposal could be an example

of the exact sort of over-bureaucratized social engineering that governments and commercial firms should strive to avoid in the coming months as we attempt to cobble together healthy, sustainable lives while also minimizing our risk of exposure to the virus in our midst.

It is a difficult enough argument to elucidate in 800 words, let alone a paragraph, but allow me to try. I believe in science. Science says that physical health is inextricably linked with psychological health, and that psychological health is inextricably linked with one’s sense of self-determination.

I can’t think of a worse way to erode a society’s collective sense of self-determination than to create a world in which every action and interaction is conducted with an explicit reminder that it could result in death. If we are going to create such a world, we’d better be sure that we’ve done a thorough accounting of the costs and the benefits and that the ledger will end up in the black.

Sure, it might seem like a relatively harmless accommodation to ask that a ballplayer covers his mouth and nose in between spurts of anaerobic exercise in 90-degree heat, provided that you aren’t the ballplayer. But what, exactly, is its projected impact on the aggregate life expectancy of those he is ostensibly protecting? And if it isn’t significant, might maskless players be one small piece of normalcy that is worth retaining?

In a perfect world, we could assume that MLB has already asked and answered these questions; and that every guideline included in the reported manual is there because it has a significant chance to save lives.

In reality, we live in a world where MLB and its players are currently engaged in a heated dispute about the amount of

money those players should earn for their participation in any eventual season. And, in this world, one of the players’ most cogent arguments for maximum compensation is that they will be taking the field in spite of the considerable health risk of doing so.

It might sound cynical to raise the possibility that MLB is attempting to put its players in a position where they are forced to argue against provisions that are ostensibly in place to address their ostensible health concerns. It might sound just as cynical to suggest that Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Blake Snell doesn’t really feel he will be risking his life to take the mound, as he stated that week, but that such rhetoric can only help the players’ case in the fight over pay.

One thing I know: If baseball does indeed conduct its 2020 season, it will likely be sharing television time with professional basketball, a sport where social distancing is impossible for anybody who isn’t guarding Ben Simmons behind the threepoint line. One has to imagine that NBA commissioner Adam Silver understands how nonsensical it would be to require players to wear masks on the bench whenever they aren’t out on the court getting doused by opponents’ sweat and breath.

On a recent call with his league’s board of governors, Silver reportedly said that the NBA should not even attempt to reopen if it was not comfortable continuing to operate in spite of a positive COVID-19 test. It was a refreshing dose of pragmatism and an example of the sort of mentality to which all of us are eventually going to need to acclimate in order to make it through this next year with our sanity and bank accounts intact.

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A UFC card on May 30 in Las Vegas is “a go,” UFC president Dana White texted to the Las Vegas Review-Journal early Wednesday.

The event, headlined by former welterweight champion Tyron Woodley opposing Gilbert Burns, would be held at UFC’s Apex facility with no fans in attendance.

According to the newspaper, the card had not yet received the necessary approval from the Nevada Athletic Commission.

The event would be the UFC’s first since a series of three cards May 9-16 in Jacksonville, Fla., all held without fans present due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak’s office replied Wednesday to a query from MMAfighting.com regarding the proposed May 30 event: “As stated last week, the Governor’s Office is working with the Local Empowerment Advisory Panel (LEAP), state agencies, local leaders, public

health experts and the business community to continue developing guidelines for the potential Phase 2 reopening.

“As a reminder, at this time, the State of Nevada is still evaluating the data since Phase 1 reopening began on May 9.”

When UFC 249 was forced to abandon its scheduled April 18 date in New York due to that area’s severe COVID-19 outbreak, White initially floated the idea of moving the card to the UFC’s Las Vegas facility. However, Nevada’s shutdown ended that possibility.

White then discussed hosting bouts on a privately owned “Fight Island,” and he also attempted to move UFC 249 to tribal land in central California.

He finally settled on Jacksonville after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration deemed sports an essential business that could continue amid the pandemic.

The three Jacksonville cards had fighters and their entourages quarantined at a local hotel.

Middleweight Ronaldo “Jacare”

Souza was scratched from UFC 249 when he and two of his cornermen tested positive for the coronavirus, but the event proceeded as planned.

Woodley, a 38-year-old who fights out of St. Louis, has a 194-1 record. In his most recent bout, he dropped a unanimous decision to Kamaru Usman at UFC 235 in March 2019.

Burns, a 33-year-old Brazilian who fights out of Lantana, Fla., owns an 18-3 career mark.

He has won each of his past five fights, mostly recently a technical knockout of Demian Maia in March 2020.

Aside from May 30, the only other upcoming date currently listed on the UFC’s website is June 6, when a card is scheduled to be topped by a bout between featherweight champion Amanda Nunes and Felicia Spencer. The Review-Journal reported that the June 6 event is likely to be held at the same site as the May 30 event.

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Kevin Harvick of StewartHaas Racing – who won Sunday at Darlington – finished third.

Brad Keselowski of Team Penske was fourth while JGR’s Erik Jones was fifth.

The 500-kilometer event marked the first Cup race on a Wednesday since July 4, 1984, when Richard Petty won at Daytona International Speedway.

The Wednesday race was the second event since the coronavirus pandemic caused a suspension of

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had that day off, but everybody came in. And their young guys really work, and the older guys were getting treatment and recovery. So understanding who your team is and what everyone needs. And there’s more to it because you have to be careful

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— Every month, each team’s highest-ranking baseball operations executive and medical staff member will be required to submit a form confirming their team’s cooperation with protocol.

Social distancing means reimagining social life Restrictions will extend beyond the walls of the stadium and encroach on players’ personal lives. When on the road, Tier 1 and 2 individuals (see below), who are the only people allowed to travel with the team, must not ...

— Eat or drink anywhere open to the public.

— Invite to their hotel rooms anyone not a member of the traveling party or an immediate family member.

— Use public hotel amenities.

— Leave the hotel for nonbaseball activities without permission.

Returning home will provide only a limited reprieve.

Tier 1 and 2 individuals will be expected — but not required — to spend as little time as possible in public spaces and around large groups. That means avoiding restaurants, bars, clubs and fitness centers.

Tier what?

The people needed to run a season have been sorted by MLB into tiers and will have varying degrees of access to

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morning, the NFL has expanded the Rooney Rule, adopted in 2003, to now include interviewing at least two external minority candidates for a head coaching position and at least one minority for a coordinator’s job.

One minority or female candidate must be interviewed for all senior-level positions.

That’s all a minority or any candidate ever wants: an opportunity.

The announcements were positive moves by the NFL, but it’s sad and disappointing that this is still an issue in 2020. It appeared the NFL had moved beyond this at the turn of the century but apparently it didn’t, which is why it was offering an incentive for hiring an African American general manager.

That in itself was embarrassing to blacks, and to the NFL.

action in March – four races into the season. NASCAR made its return Sunday at Darlington.

A third Darlington race – its regularly scheduled event – will be held on Labor Day weekend.

An Xfinity Series race rained out Tuesday will be held Thursday afternoon at Darlington.

Racing next moves to Charlotte Motor Speedway, which will host Cup Series events Sunday and May 27 in addition to an Xfinity event Monday and a Truck Series event Tuesday. On May 31, the Cup Series will race at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway.

Stewart-Haas Racing’s Clint Bowyer, who had led just 17 laps in 16 starts at Darlington heading into Wednesday, took the lead during the lap-25 competition pit stop and led the rest of the way in the 60-lap opening stage to get his first stage win of the season.

Bowyer went on to win Stage 2, as well. His chance to win ended late in the race when a flat tire spun him out.

Rain forecast for the area prompted NASCAR officials to move the starting time Wednesday from 7:30 p.m.

ET back to 6 p.m. However, rain that fell in the afternoon forced a two-hour delay of the start.

NASCAR Cup Series driver Denny Hamlin (11) during the Toyota 500.

not to divide your team.”

Thibodeau, according to sources, has been canvassing the league and asking which open coaching job will be the best to take. That doesn’t mean Thibodeau will be offered each job, but he’s culling opinions.

The Knicks, Nets and Rockets are among the expected vacancies.

Thibodeau is a candidate for the Knicks gig, per sources.

Interim coach Mike Miller will

also get consideration after impressing team president Leon Rose. Some around the league believe Kentucky coach John Calipari is a darkhorse candidate due to his longstanding relationship with Rose’s longtime confidant, William Wesley, who is advising the Knicks hirings in an unofficial role.

Thibodeau was highly successful with the Bulls while advancing to the playoffs for five straight seasons, including the

conference finals in 2011. However, he feuded with the front office and was fired in 2015.

Thibodeau pointed to Derrick Rose’s ACL tear in 2012 as the turning point.

The team remained competitive but never again regained the status of title contender.

“I think there were a lot mitigating factors when I look back now. And I feel like having Derrick at that level was so special for us, he was so unique. When

I look back, I’d say 90 percent of my experience was very positive. And then unfortunately when he got hurt, the expectation was the same,” Thibodeau said.

In Minnesota, Thibodeau held the dual role of coach and team president. The results were mixed. The Timberwolves made the playoffs for the first time since Kevin Garnett’s prime, but the contrasting personalities of Jimmy Butler and

Karl-Anthony Towns doomed the sustainability.

Towns, in particular, didn’t mesh well with Thibodeau, who acknowledged that he’s finished being an executive.

“I don’t think I would want to do that again,” he said, adding later, “the thing that’s hard too when you’re in that position is with the agents and with the players and contracts, I think that’s very difficult to do.”

team facilities.

Players and members of the coaching staff, including trainers and bullpen catchers, will belong to Tier 1. So will umpires, though they will not count toward a team’s limit of 66 members in Tier 1. Up to 50 players, a manager, eight uniformed coaches, two bullpen catchers, two trainers, two team physicians and one strength and conditioning coach will be designated in this category.

Tier 2 includes front office and public relations staff, additional coaches and medical staff, video and replay personnel, clubhouse attendants, traveling secretaries, translators, the head groundskeeper and security personnel. No more than 35 individuals will be granted Tier 2 access. Attendants and staff in the visiting clubhouse and umpires’ room will not count toward the limit.

Up to 150 individuals will form Tier 3. The group will comprise, among others, broadcast personnel, groundskeepers, transportation providers, cleaning staff and security detail not assigned to restricted areas.

Those with Tier 1 clearance can access clubhouses, locker rooms, weight rooms, training rooms, batting cages, bullpens, playing fields and dugouts. Tier 2 individuals will also be allowed to enter areas frequented by on-field personnel, but will be encouraged to limit contact with those in Tier 1 and

wear masks around Tier 1 individuals if doing so does not interfere with their job performance. Tier 3 personnel do not require close contact with Tier 1, according to the document, so they mostly will be confined to nonrestricted areas. They can access restricted areas when Tier 1 individuals are not present.

Members of the media will not be permitted to enter restricted areas or have close contact with Tier 1 individuals. MLB has not yet provided information regarding access to players and club personnel for interviews.

Celebrations will have to get more creative The elaborate high-five routine players love to create and fans love to watch repeatedly on their cellphones?

They won’t exist in 2020.

MLB will ban high-fives, hugs, fist bumps and every physical interaction not strictly necessary. Six feet of distance will separate individuals wherever possible.

For instance, players will not stand shoulder to shoulder during the national anthem, the playing of “God Bless America” or any pregame ceremonies.

The in-game restrictions will look strange too. Fielders will be asked to take several steps away from the baserunner when the ball is out of play and between pitches.

Will holding a runner be possible? Base coaches are expected not to approach a runner, fielder or umpire.

Once they reach base, what will hitters do with the shinguards and elbow braces they normally remove?

Pitchers will be encouraged to use their own rosin bags and hitters their own pine tar and batting weights.

Individuals will be instructed not to touch another’s equipment. Any communal equipment must be disinfected regularly throughout each game. The only people allowed in the dugout are Tier 1 individuals “who are necessary and active for the day’s game.” Anyone else can sit in the stands, spaced appropriately.

Basic human behaviors will have to be modified or unlearned — Spitting, chewing smokeless tobacco and eating sunflower seeds will not be allowed.

— Players and other onfield personnel will be encouraged to wash or sanitize their hands after each half-inning or after handling equipment.

— They will be asked to avoid touching their face with their hands, including to give signs, wiping away sweat with their hands, licking their fingers, whistling with their fingers and other such actions.

— Baseballs will be thrown out of play after they are touched by multiple people.

— Teams will be discouraged from throwing the ball around the infield.

Who gets tested? What if they’re positive?

Everyone in the three tiers will be subject to coronavirus and antibody tests before spring training commences, presumably in mid-June.

After that, Tier 1 and 2 personnel will have body temperatures taken at home and when entering the stadium every day.

Players, coaches and umpires will be tested several times a week for the coronavirus, mostly using saliva tests, and occasionally for antibodies. The Sports Medicine Research and Testing Lab in Salt Lake City, which MLB uses for drug testing, will be converted into a COVID-19 testing site and provide test results within 24 hours.

Anyone who reports COVID-19 symptoms or has a temperature above 100 degrees will not be allowed into a team facility. He or she will be directed to self-isolate.

Those who test positive will quarantine, but not necessarily for the 14 days health officials recommended at the start of the pandemic. They will receive remote care from team medical staff. They will be released once they receive negative results from two tests analyzed by MLB’s Salt Lake City facility at least 24 hours apart.

Teams will conduct a contact-tracing investigation for the individuals believed to have been around the person who tested positive and arrange expedited diagnostic testing for them. Anyone exposed to COVID-19 can

continue to work but must be asymptomatic. The individual will undergo more frequent temperature and health monitoring, be asked to wear a mask at all times except while on the field and be tested on a daily basis for at least seven days.

Additionally, anyone identified as high-risk by the team — either a person with underlying conditions or who lives with someone who could suffer severe illness as a result of COVID-19 — will not be allowed to enter any area visited by the person who tested positive without approval from MLB medical advisors.

MLB believes it can avoid a full shutdown in the event of a positive case because it will have been monitoring asymptomatic and symptomatic individuals since club facilities reopened for spring training.

Wait, there’s more — Teams might find themselves trucking their equipment city to city. Doing so would help them avoid touch points such as airport security checks.

— MLB wants individuals to avoid using elevators, so teams will be encouraged to book rooms on the lower floors of hotels and use stairs.

— Travelers will get used to returning to messy hotel rooms. Hotel staff will be expected to refrain from cleaning the interior of rooms during a team’s stay.

“It was offensive, definitely offensive,” said former Ravens defensive coordinator and Cincinnati Bengals head coach Marvin Lewis. “It was like having Jim Crow laws.”

That was as ugly as some of the hiring practices of NFL owners, who still form one of the oldest good-old-boy networks in the country. A league that is composed of nearly 70% African American players has only three black head coaches and two general managers among its 32 teams.

A record number of eight minority head coaches were in the league in 2017. But now there are only three black head coaches and the Washington Redskins’ Ron Rivera is the only Latino head coach.

“We had come a long way as far as assistant coaches, but we never made any inroads in management,” Lewis said.

“This will be a plus requiring more than one minority to be interviewed because it will

cause them to take a deeper dive. This will allow more minorities more opportunities.”

It’s like the civil rights movement where the process has to be forever moving ahead.

Once there is complacency, the old ways and errors start to resurface because the predominantly white owners can’t think outside of the box. For decades, owners put out that the reason African Americans were overlooked as head coaches was that they lacked experience as NFL coordinators.

But yet the Arizona Cardinals hired Kliff Kingsbury out of Texas Tech as their head coach in January of 2019 and the Carolina Panthers signed Matt Rhule out of Baylor as their head coach four months ago. Both are white.

Meanwhile, two top African American NFL coordinators — Kansas City offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy and Bills defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier — can’t get head

coaching jobs.

It’s also no coincidence that a lot of former African American head coaches don’t get second opportunities to be head coaches in the NFL. You can go back as far as Art Shell with the Oakland Raiders and move forward with Lewis and Vance Joseph.

It’s so bad that former Oakland and Cleveland head coach Hue Jackson can’t even get another job in the league as a coordinator despite his reputation as being one of the better offensive minds in the league.

Why not?

Jackson and Lewis are strong-minded individuals. A lot of head coaches fear assistants with strong personalities, especially black ones. They feel threatened especially with so many black players on the roster.

They might have a different opinion if there were more black general managers, but owners won’t rehire them either, guys such as Jerry Reese

or Rick Smith, or new ones with potential such as Vince Newsome.

Part of the problem is the role of sports agents as power brokers in team affairs. Once their client is selected as a president or general manager, then they try to get their other clients named as the head coach and coordinator.

It’s big business in the NFL. “That’s the shame of it all,” Lewis said. “A lot of people are being cut out.”

Lewis and coaches appear to favor another change such as the one that would allow assistant coaches to be interviewed at any time for coordinator jobs because it would allow more opportunities for minorities.

As for providing a draft pick for clubs that hire a minority as a general manager, Lewis only laughed. According to reports that move was tabled by the owners Tuesday.

“Draft picks are like gold,” Lewis said. “That doesn’t make

a lot of sense to me. As a head coach, no one wants to be hired or put in that position.”

This really shouldn’t have gotten this far. The league didn’t make any bold moves Tuesday but at least steps were taken in the right direction. That’s part of the reason Newsome is still with the Ravens. Nearly a year and a half ago he had a chance to retire after 15 seasons as the team’s general manager.

Some say Newsome stayed because of his passion for the game and that he loved the competition.

That’s true, but Newsome also saw that the league had gone away from hiring African Americans and other minorities in key positions. He had worked on numerous committees within the league office over the years to change that, so he knew he had a voice and the fight was still on.

There is still work to be done.

A lot of it.

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If the NBA picks Disney, does the NHL zero in on Las Vegas?

Diana C. Nearhos Tampa Bay Times

TAMPA, Fla. — As the NHL considers its plans to resume the season, “where” has been as big of a question as “how.” If the NBA is zeroing in on a single hub in Orlando, as multiple reports indicate, it may create an opening for the NHL in Las Vegas.

The NBA reportedly has had Las Vegas among its site candidates for resuming its season.

The NHL is still considering many options, but it seems to be leaning toward using a few hub cities. The current talk is to resume with 24 teams playing at two sites (the league’s other seven teams would be done for the year). If that’s the case, one site in the Eastern Conference and one in the West would make sense.

Tampa was originally on the list of cities to consider, along with nearly half the league. The Lightning submitted a proposal and have not been eliminated. But if the league goes with two cities, Tampa appears less likely to be one of them.

Las Vegas checks off most of the boxes under consideration.

The option to have a single resort, connected to T-Mobile Arena, the Golden Knights’ home, dedicated to the NHL is one thing that makes Las Vegas attractive. Also, more than enough hotels are in the arena’s immediate vicinity to put each of 12 teams in one if the league leans that way.

A hub city would need to have space in its arena for multiple teams, which means at least four locker rooms, ideally more. T-Mobile

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The Golden Knights’ practice facility has two full-sized sheets of ice, and at least two other buildings are in the area, for a total of six sheets.

That should be enough for 12 teams to practice.

If teams also hold training camps in the hub cities, six might not be enough, though.

Edmonton, which has many practice rinks and a large arena with six dressing rooms and an attached hotel, is another strong contender in the West. The Alberta government would have to be on board, however.

Options in the East are less obvious, given it has more coronavirus hot spots. Columbus would make a lot of sense: four dressing rooms

at the Blue Jackets’ Nationwide Arena, plenty of practice rinks, no attached hotels but multiple in the immediate area. Toronto has all the necessary amenities but would need the Ontario government to approve.

The NHL still has multiple scenarios on the table for resuming its season, which was put on hold March 12. Chief content officer Steve Mayer, who organizes the league’s big events, told the website The Athletic that he goes to bed with one scenario and wakes up to another. But the idea of 24 teams in two cities does seem to be gaining steam.

Only the Red Wings have been eliminated from playoff contention, but there were about 21 teams in the race when the season was shut down.

Bringing 24 teams back to play is a nice round number and potentially easier to build a season-ending tournament for. There are conflicting ideas about whether “regular-season” games would be played on return or if play would start with the playoffs. Maybe the lower seeds would play a round robin to determine seeding and the top two teams in each conference duke it out for No. 1.

Timing is still very much up in the air for a season resumption. The NHL would like it to happen as soon as is safe, but it already is expecting to push back the start of next season, so isn’t rushing this.

Its plan is still to start with small groups skating in their home arenas, but that doesn’t have a start date. The tentative target is mid June for small groups, then maybe late June for training camps and mid to late July for games to begin.

Rays opening Tropicana Field for light player workouts Monday Marc Topkin Tampa Bay Times

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Rays are taking an initial — and small — step toward returning to action, opening Tropicana Field on Monday for limited and mostly individual player workouts.

This will be the first official action at a team facility since March 17, when about a dozen players took part in a light, optional workout at the Port Charlotte spring facility before it was shut down as a result of the coronavirus pandemic that has delayed the season.

Players will be limited to using the field for playing catch, running and other cardio exercises and some light weight work. They initially will not

be allowed to throw off the mounds, hit in the batting cages or go into the weight room or clubhouse, though those restrictions could be loosened over the next few weeks as the Rays take a cautious approach.

Only players on the 40-man roster are invited, and they will be limited to small groups, essentially to have a private open space to work out. Several coaches and athletic trainers will be there as well, but interaction will be limited and social-distancing protocols in place. Players were notified Wednesday afternoon.

Since the spring shutdown, players have been working out on their own, with some guidance from team officials and some video consultation, but no supervision or direct contact.

Brandon Lowe, for example, takes

swings in his St. Petersburg garage, Kevin Kiermaier runs and does conditioning work in the neighborhood of his Tampa home, Ryan Yarbrough throws in his backyard, and Austin Meadows does jumps onto his truck and curls with his dog.

With owners and players negotiating for a potential resumption of play in July, and the need for a second phase of “spring” training starting several weeks before that, the Rays join other teams in allowing some access to team facilities. The Marlins opened their spring facility in Jupiter on Tuesday for limited workouts.

Spring training was suspended March 12, with the Rays (and Phillies) playing the last game, minor leaguer Ruben Cardenas striking out to end it.

The Rays brought players in for a

NCAA votes to lift moratorium on campus workouts Field Level Media

The NCAA Division I Council on Wednesday voted to allow the resumption of voluntary oncampus workouts for football, men’s basketball and women’s basketball student-athletes beginning June 1.

The NCAA had placed a moratorium on workouts through May 31 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The council chairperson, Penn athletic director M. Grace Calhoun, said in a statement, “We encourage each school to use its discretion to make the best decisions possible for football and basketball studentathletes within the appropriate resocialization framework.

Allowing for voluntary athletics activity acknowledges that reopening our campuses will be an individual decision but should be based on advice from

medical experts.”

According to USA Today, the council also enacted several policy changes to deal with scenarios caused by the COVID-19 outbreak.

Football Bowl Subdivision teams won’t be subject to minimum attendance requirements for the next two years. Normally, FBS teams are required to average 15,000-plus “actual or paid” fans for home games, but at the moment, it is unclear if fans will be allowed to attend games this year, and if they are, how many will be accepted.

The rule requiring FBS teams to play 60 percent of their games against FBS opposition or play five home games against FBS teams won’t be enforced in 2020. Teams’ seasons might wind up being shortened due to the pandemic, which could make reaching the floors for that bylaw difficult.

Division I schools will be allowed to play more games close to home with the NCAA relaxing the rules requiring certain percentages of games to be against Division I opposition.

The change applies to multiple sports, including soccer and women’s volleyball, per USA Today.

The Wednesday move regarding workouts is expected to spur action at the conference level.

Southeastern Conference athletic directors are set to meet with health experts Thursday to make recommendations to university presidents and chancellors, who are then expected to render a decision Friday about whether to allow on-campus workouts or extend the moratorium, ESPN reported.

Other conferences are slated to follow suit with similar meetings.

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brief meeting the morning of March 13 and allowed them to use the facility for optional light workouts through March 17. Plans were abandoned to shift those workouts the next week to Tropicana Field, which was also locked down with all team offices closed.

“Based on CDC guidelines and baseball-specific social distancing recommendations we believe this is the best move for the health and safety of our players and staff,” general manager Erik Neander said at the time.

Though Major League Baseball eventually ordered teams to shut down operations, there was some gray area in the rules about workouts, allowing players who were receiving injury rehab treatment or living near

the facilities to still report, and there has been some broad interpretation by other teams.

Some other teams have organized, or at least allowed, players to work out on the field at team facilities in the interim; the Padres and Rangers host batting practice at their home ballparks.

Teams that train in the Tampa Bay area have had players at their spring facilities.

At least a half-dozen Yankees players report to Steinbrenner Field in Tampa. Blue Jays players go to the Dunedin stadium, catcher Danny Jansen telling mlb.com that he has been catching quick throwing sessions with some of their pitchers: “We use the mound and we’re out of there.”

Former WWE wrestler Shad Gaspard saved his son before being pulled under by a riptide Cindy Boren The Washington Post

The body of former World Wrestling Entertainment star Shad Gaspard was found Wednesday morning at Venice Beach in California, just over two days after he was swept away by a riptide as he and his 10-year-old son swam.

Gaspard, 39, and his son, Aryeh, were swimming Sunday afternoon at Marina Beach in Venice, California, when they were caught by a wave and pulled away from shore by the riptide. Lifeguards sought to save them both, but the wrestler reportedly told them to “take my son.” They did and, when he was safely ashore, they returned to search for Gaspard and were unable to locate him.

The Los Angeles County Fire Department’s Lifeguard Division tweeted Wednesday morning that authorities had answered a call at the Venice Pier to a report of a body “along the shoreline ... that matches the description of Sunday’s missing swimmer.”

Police say the body was identified as Gaspard’s.

A section chief in the Lifeguard Division described the terrifying situation that the Gaspards quickly found themselves in on the first weekend the beaches were reopened to swimmers and surfers during the novel coronavirus pandemic. With swells reaching six feet, a lifeguard tried to get a “rescue can” - a floater used to tow swimmers to shore - to them, but said, “because of the size of the waves, the boy couldn’t secure it.”

“The best way I can describe it,” Kenichi Haskett, the section chief, told ESPN’s Mark Kriegel, “is like being inside a front-loading washing machine. The waves keep crashing on you, pushing you down. ... I’ve been through that, those kind of rescues.

You think you might die.”

Haskett said that the lifeguard faced the reality that he could not save both, particularly because Gaspard was 6-foot-7 and weighed around 270 pounds. “Based on the gentleman’s size and the conditions in the water

...,” Haskett said, “these are choices we do not want to make.”

The Coast Guard tweeted Tuesday that it had suspended the search for Gaspard “after 16.5 hours of searching with multiple rescue assets covering 70 square nautical miles and seven search patterns.”

In an Instagram post Tuesday, the Gaspards’ family expressed gratitude to “the lifeguards, coast guard, divers, fire and police departments for their continued efforts to help find our beloved Shad,” and added: “Shad is a fighter, a warrior and a magical soul.

We are hoping and praying for his safe return. As a family we thank you all for your concern and well wishes. Please continue to keep sending your positivity and prayers to our beloved Shad.”

In the WWE, Gaspard was part of the tag-team group Cryme Time, along with his partner, JTG. He retired in 2010 and had roles on TV and in movies, including Kevin Hart’s 2015 comedy, “Get Hard.”

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How will the NBA resume play? Jared Dudley has some answers Tania Ganguli Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Lakers forward Jared Dudley believes it’s in the best interest of players to resume the NBA season. When he hears the opposing viewpoint from his peers, it concerns him.

“There has been people that have voiced it not only to the media but behind the scenes,” Dudley said. “They haven’t been well educated and gotten the information they needed to be able to make the right, proper statement. That’s for one, on the union, and one, on the league.

Because the league has been so hush hush.”

That lack of transparency, Dudley believes, is causing confusion. So on a Wednesday afternoon video call with reporters, Dudley practiced full transparency about what he and other players have been told about the potential for the NBA’s return to play after the league was shut down March 11 because of the coronavirus pandemic.

During a 25-minute session, Dudley shared ROBERT GAUTHIER/LOS ANGELES TIMES that when the league resumes players won’t ac- Los Angeles Lakers’ Jared Dudley scrambles after a loose ball against the Orlando Magic at Staples tually be confined to isolation, what he imag- Center in Los Angeles on January 15. ines the playoffs will look like and why it’s important to consider that every team has its own that leeway, if you come back with corona you possibly player contracts. “Some fans on Twitcan’t play.” Dudley said there will be constant ter say, ‘Hey, Jared just wants to win a champiversion of a Dennis Rodman.

— In the first week of June, Dudley is expect- testing. While he doesn’t anticipate a league onship,’ “ Dudley said. “Well, yes, that’s true. ing NBA Commissioner Adam Silver to allow rule not allowing players to leave the so-called But it’s also financial. I’m set. It’s not for me, teams to expand use of their facility to small bubble, he thinks teams might implement that it’s (other) guys. I know LeBron and Chris Paul, groups of players, rather than limit the use to rule themselves. “Bron, AD and all the top guys they would lose 10s and 15s millions of dollars. individual workouts. “I don’t think you’re go- we have, we’ll be wrapping them in a bubble And I know people don’t want to hear that ... ing to go from zero to 100. Especially with the and not letting them go anywhere,” Dudley but someone — maybe Talen (Horton-Tucker, politics have gotten so involved with basketball said of All-Star forwards LeBron James and a rookie) — is on a two-way (contract). How do returning, but you can’t just go from that to 10- Anthony Davis. Dudley also expects players you expect him to be able to pay bills?”

— Dudley has heard two possible scenarios on-10 full court. Just your bodywise, so I think to be allowed to have families join them after they’ll give us seven to 10 days of individual a certain period of time. “Some people with for rounding out the playoff field. The first inworkouts, then that next seven days practice newborns, it might be difficult. I know Giannis volves teams playing 5-7 games so they can and then you’ll get your two- to three-week (Antetokounmpo) voiced a concern about that. reach 70 games this season to help satisfy lotraining camp before we head to Orlando or Ve- But I think that once you put it into perspective cal television contracts. The second was havI think everyone wants to finish.” ing play-in games to sort out the eighth seeds gas.”

— Dudley urges players to think about what in each conference. A third option, of course, — The “bubble” won’t really be total isolation. “You will be allowed to leave. (NBPA ex- could happen if the season doesn’t resume is just beginning the playoffs based on the curecutive director) Michele Roberts has said it. and the league is able to call upon the “force rent standings. “There is going to be someEven Adam Silver on a conference call. Now majeure” clause in the collective bargaining one out,” Dudley said. “Technically is it unfair just because you leave, if we’re gonna give you agreement that could void the agreement and that we went straight to playoffs? Is it unfair to

Memphis if we have a play-in game and they’re 3 ½ games up? And so at the end of the day, it’s so much bigger than those teams.”

— What will the playoffs look like? “They will all be seven-game series,” Dudley said. “Adam Silver has already said that. That’s the money winner. When it comes to Disney, that’s why it will be in Orlando. Disney owns ESPN. That’s where they make their money — during the playoffs and Finals. It will all be seven games.

That one I’m almost 100% sure of.”

— For the Lakers, Dudley believes a slow windup to the season will be critical because of the veteran nature of their team. “I ain’t going to lie to you,” Dudley said. “(The layoff) hurts older teams. And even LeBron, I remember hearing an interview when people said, ‘Oh, it’s going to help him because of his body, he gets to rest.’ No. At a certain age, it’s kind of like once those wheels get going, you want them to keep going.”

— Dudley said Silver has told players that the league can only restart if they are at a point where another positive COVID-19 test would not require play to be suspended again. That means the league would have to be comfortable finding a way to contain the illness once it’s discovered and stop the spread among its players. He said there are plans to test players before every game and also to quarantine players who test positive.

— Won’t players police themselves and not put themselves in risky situations to avoid disappointing their teammates? “When you’re dealing with 300 different players — if you’ve seen the Jordan documentary, every team got a Rodman, he just doesn’t have green and blue hair. There’s always someone who’s outside the box, who does that, takes the risk and says, ‘Hey listen, man, I’m healthy and I feel good.’ “ — Dudley has heard that in order to help players stay on the property, Walt Disney World might open restaurants just for players, or have activities available on the grounds that would be secluded. “Maybe someone has a home on Disney,” Dudley said. On that front, the Milwaukee Bucks might have an advantage. Brook Lopez has a home on Disney’s property.

A look back at the 1999 Bulls without Jordan, Pippen and Jackson Jamal Collier Chicago Tribune

CHICAGO — After the Bulls won their fifth NBA championship in 1997, Michael Jordan sat at the postgame news conference and fielded a question about a potential rebuild.

“No one is guaranteed rebuilding in two, three or four years. The Cubs have been rebuilding for 42 years,” he said, referencing their thendrought without a World Series appearance.

A similar quip could be made about the Bulls now: 22 years after Jordan played his final game for the franchise, the team has not returned to the NBA Finals since. The Bulls have been to the Eastern Conference finals only once in that span, getting dispatched by LeBron James and the Heat in five games in 2011.

That “Last Dance” season of 1997-98 produced a sixth championship in eight years with Jordan still at the peak of his powers before the dynasty came to a halt the following season, which didn’t begin until February 1999 because of a lockout. Jordan retired for the second time, Scottie Pippen was sent to the Rockets in a sign-andtrade deal and coach Phil Jackson went on his first sabbatical.

Only a few holdovers remained from the championship team, and the Bulls headed into a certain losing season for the first time since Jordan’s first few seasons in the league.

Toni Kukoc led the team in points (18.8), rebounds (7.0) and assists (5.3) per game. The Bulls, meanwhile, scuffled to just 13 wins (a .260 winning percentage) during a season shortened to 50 games by the lockout, the lowest number of wins in team history.

And that team still holds a dubious place in NBA history — it scored 49 points during an April loss to the Heat, the fewest points by any team in the shot-clock era.

There will be no 10-part documentary on the 1999 Bulls, but here’s a look back at the team charged with following “The Last Dance,” including where they were during the 1997-98 season, whom they replaced and their contributions to the Bulls in the lockout-shortened season: The holdovers Toni Kukoc 1997-98: Started 52 games and was the team’s thirdleading scorer.

1998-99: Led the Bulls in points (18.8), rebounds (7.0) and assists (5.3).

When Jerry Krause first started pursuing Toni Kukoc to come from Europe to the Bulls, he thought about Kukoc as someone who not only could play alongside Jordan and Pippen, but also could lead the team once they moved on. Kukoc was thrust into the leading role in ‘99 after most of the core moved on. Although he was the team’s best player, he wasn’t able to carry a team on its own.

Ron Harper 1997-98: Starting point guard averaged 9.3 points, 3.5 rebounds and 2.9 assists.

1998-99: Starting shooting guard averaged 11.2 points, 5.1 rebounds and 3.3 assists.

Ron Harper joined Toni Kukoc as the only returning starters for the Bulls, starting 35 games in ‘99 and finishing second on the team in scoring with 11.2 points per game. However, at 35 and in his 13th season in the league, his days of being a go-to option had faded.

Dickey Simpkins 1997-98: Played 21 games off the bench.

1998-99: Played all 50

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Chicago Bulls forward Toni Kukoc drives to the basket against the Milwaukee Bucks’ Tyrone Hill at the United Center on Feb. 23, 1999.

games (35 starts).

Dickey Simpkins saw some action during the beginning of the 1998 playoff run, and he saw a bump in playing time after the roster turnover. A former first-round pick by the Bulls in 1994, Simpkins made just 17 career starts before he became a regular starter in ‘99. He was relatively productive, averaging 9.1 points and 6.8 rebounds while leading the team with 2.9 win shares, an advanced metric that estimates the number of wins a player contributed to.

Randy Brown 1997-98: Played 71 games at point guard, mostly as a reserve.

1998-99: Became the primary point guard, starting 32 games.

Randy Brown never was a

scorer coming off the bench for the Bulls during their second three-peat, but he saw increased playing time in 1999. That led to some career-high numbers — 8.8 points, 3.8 assists and 3.4 rebounds per game — as he became the lead guard for the Bulls offense.

Bill Wennington 1997-98: Played 48 games, mostly as a reserve.

1998-99: Played 38 games, mostly as a reserve.

The Bulls kept Bill Wennington in the same role despite not having Luc Longley or Dennis Rodman in the frontcourt.

Keith Booth 1997-98: Played six games.

1998-99: Role player who played 39 games.

The Bulls drafted Booth in the first round in 1997, but

his NBA career spanned just two seasons, getting opposite ends of the experience.

He barely saw the floor in his first season but averaged 3.1 points and 2.4 rebounds in ‘99.

Rusty LaRue 1997-98: Played 14 games.

1998-99: Played 43 games.

Rusty LaRue was undrafted but earned a spot on the Bulls in limited playing time in 1997-98 and saw his playing time increase the next season. He played about 17 minutes per game and hit 33.7% of his 3-pointers off the bench.

The newcomers Coach Tim Floyd 1997-98: Iowa State head coach.

1998-99: Bulls head coach.

General manager Jerry Krause made it very clear that coach Phil Jackson was not going to return, and many believed Tim Floyd had been handpicked as the successor.

Floyd was a fairly successful college coach, but his success did not translate to the NBA. He went 49-190 (.205) in his four seasons with the Bulls.

Brent Barry 1997-98: Averaged 10.9 points and shot 39.3% on 3-pointers for the Clippers and Heat.

1998-99: Signed a six-year, $27 million contract.

Brent Barry was the Bulls’ biggest offseason addition and became the team’s third-leading scorer with 11.1 points per game. But he suffered an injury early in the season that limited him to 37 games (30 starts) while he shot 30.2% from beyond the arc, the worst mark of his career. He lasted only one season in Chicago and was traded to the SuperSonics.

Mark Bryant 1997-98: Played 70 games at center for the Suns.

1998-99: Played 45 games at power forward.

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The Bulls shipped Luc Longley to the Suns for a 1999 first-round pick, Martin Muursepp, Bubba Wells and Mark Bryant before the season. Bryant began the year in the starting lineup and averaged 9.0 points and 5.2 rebounds in about 27 minutes.

He lasted just one year with the Bulls.

Kornel David 1997-98: Played for the Rockford Lightning in the Continental Basketball Association and Alba Fehervar in Hungary.

1998-99: Signed as a free agent.

Before his left his home country, David was advertised as “the Michael Jordan of Hungary.” Once he got on the court, it was clear the comparison was a bit overzealous. David, the first Hungarian to play in the NBA, was in Bulls training camp in 1997 before a stint with Rockford in the CBA and returning to Hungary and helping his national team end a 30-year drought to qualify for the European championship. He appeared in all 50 games for the Bulls in ‘99, playing 18 minutes per game while averaging 6.2 points.

Corey Benjamin 1997-98: In college at Oregon State.

1998-99: Taken with the No. 28 pick in the draft.

Corey Benjamin appeared in 38 games as a reserve for the Bulls, but he is best known for claiming he could beat Michael Jordan one-onone. The boast prompted Jordan, retired and still dealing with a finger injury via cigar cutter, to show up to practice to accept Benjamin’s challenge — and promptly demolish him.

Also on the 1998-99 Bulls roster: Mario Bennett (3 games), Cory Carr (42 games), Charles Jones (29 games) and Andrew Lang (21 games).

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Man’s effort to contact his newfound family is ignored Dear Abby, I recently found out who my biological father is/was. Apparently, my mother and this man had an affair more than 50 years ago.

I have always lived no more than 15 miles from this man and his family.

I tried reaching out to the one half-sibling I am most knowlDEAR ABBY edgeable about. They have made no attempt to contact me.

I don’t know if it’s shame or embarrassment on their part.

I am a respectable man with a great family. Why someone would not want to reach out and at least get to know a brother they supposedly never knew existed is beyond me. My thought is that you can never have too big a family — even if we are only half-siblings. Should I continue attempting to reach them, or just sweep all of this under the rug?

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Not everyone is as open-hearted or inclusive as you. After half a century, your birth father’s family may prefer not to open this chapter of their father’s life, and they should not be forced to. Because you have already reached out to them without getting a response, I don’t think you should push the issue. You wrote that you are a respectable man with a great family. Count your blessings, because not everyone is so fortunate.

Dear Abby, I am a 42-year-old man who lives at home with my parents after getting out of an abusive relationship. A full night’s sleep is important to me and waking up early from avoidable noises is upsetting because I am unable to go back to sleep. My mother’s cellphone is what’s waking me up.

I have asked her numerous times to turn off the ringer at night. She has no reason to be a goto for emergencies, yet she acts as if she is. The last time I asked, she actually told me the phone calls she missed (because she forgot to turn her ringer back on) are more important than my

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sleep.

I have told Mom numerous times to have her hearing checked, too, to no avail. I think that may be why her cellphone ringer blares so loudly. On numerous occasions I have been sitting upstairs and heard Dad ask her a question in the living room, and Mom, who is sitting right next to him, says, “What?” She’s in denial about her hearing.

I would rather not move out, but I am about ready to do it for peace and quiet. Do you have any words of wisdom for me?

Injured Ears In Illinois Yes, I do. Ask your mother to put her phone on vibrate at bedtime or use its do-not-disturb feature between certain hours. If she refuses, then purchasing a white noise machine might be a solution.

Suggest to your father that he inform their doctor about your mother’s hearing problems.

Perhaps if the doctor tells her it’s time to have her hearing checked by an audiologist, she won’t tune out the message.

Dear Abby, My brother and his wife recently had their second child through induced labor. On the delivery day, my mother asked what she could do to help. My brother asked her to go to his home, which is an hour away, sweep and vacuum the house, change the sheets and do the laundry because they didn’t have time.

I feel it was extremely inappropriate. Picking up diapers and making sure the bassinet has clean sheets are acceptable requests; cleaning the house is not. My mother wasn’t bothered by it, but I am appalled. Am I wrong?

Stuck in the middle You are entitled to your feelings. However, because your mother wasn’t bothered by your brother’s request, my advice is to stay out of it because it was none of your business. Please don’t stir the pot more than you already may have because the person who will suffer for it is you.

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Essential oil and immune support: many claims, limited study Many of my friends assert that the use of essential oils “supports” their immune system and reduces their risk of getting sick.

They diffuse them into the air at home, add them to water or tea and apply them to the soles of their feet. Are there studies to back up these claims?

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There are studies that show that, in some cases, essential oils stimulate some of the body’s immune cells. Blood levels of immunoglobulins, cytokines and other molecules that indicate a robust immune response can increase with exposure to essential oils.

However, no studies show what I would want to see before recommending their use in general, which is that people who use essential oils have less infections or less disease than people who don’t. In an ideal world, it would be great to know who should use what essential oils, and under what conditions.

Many sources provide such advice, oftentimes conflicting, but none is supported by the kind of evidence I would accept.

Further, the immune system is not

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something you can dial up or dial down, nor would you want to. There is always a balance between a powerful defense against invaders like bacteria, viruses and cancer cells — things we want our immune system to fight off — and the negative effects of overzealous activity, such as allergies and autoimmune diseases. Science currently lacks the knowledge to precisely improve the good parts of the immune system while at the same time reduce the harm an overactive immune response can cause.

Some essential oils may be absorbed through the skin, but these can have negative as well as positive effects. The ability to use essential oils as medicine is limited. With increasing scientific study, we may learn more about how better to use this large and complex group of compounds.

Essential oils have been shown to have benefits when used as aromatherapy, reducing anxiety in some studies.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You don’t want to pay less attention to a certain issue than it deserves; today a friend will let you know what counts and what doesn’t.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — You will only compound your problems if you insist on ignoring them. You must deal with them directly — and let a friend become involved.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Like others born under

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Horoscope

By Stella Wilder Born today, you are known for doing things in bold and courageous ways, and for demonstrating your numerous talents in ways that simply cannot be overlooked. When young, you may have wandered about, unsure of what course to take in life, but once you discovered your true destiny you almost surely dedicated yourself to it wholeheartedly — and made the decision that nothing whatsoever was going to stand in your way! And that’s how you live your life: dedicated, certain and confident.

You may ultimately prove the leader of some new movement or other in your chosen field, for you are so charismatic that others will follow you without giving it a thought.

Also born on this date are: Naomi Campbell, model; Ginnifer Goodwin, actress; Apolo Ohno, Olympic speed skater; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author and creator of Sherlock Holmes; Harvey Milk, politician and civil rights leader; Richard Wagner, composer.

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.

SATURDAY, MAY 23

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your sign, you will know whom you can trust as soon as the day begins. You learn things later on that may surprise you.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You’re in no mood to take on certain responsibilities entirely on your own, but you may have to work hard to persuade a friend to join you.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Now is the time for you to let someone close to you know just how you feel about a certain topic that has recently been a bone of contention.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Someone who has guided you through troubling times is in need of assistance from you today. Give it freely, with no strings attached.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — You may not understand what is holding back a friend or loved one at this time, but you’re going to have to deal with it head-on today.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You may find yourself waiting for someone close to you to make a difficult decision; you can certainly use the time to your advantage.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — The support you seek is almost sure to be offered, but only just in time. It comes as no surprise that a certain someone is resistant.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — Keep things simple today; you can avoid any sort of confusion by being direct and honest — even about the most personal of personal issues.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — You have what it takes today to lead others over treacherous terrain.

Be sure you let them know where you’re going before you start.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — You’re eager to see what comes of an agreement you hammered out recently, and today the odds are that you’ll get what you want — eventually.

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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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Time’s Person of the Year Level 1

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

Print your answer here: Yesterday’s

(Answers tomorrow) Jumbles: SORRY SNORT HELMET BIRDIE Answer: The 5-foot-2-inch military leader got his troops to stand at attention — IN SHORT ORDER

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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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Identify the Person of the Year. The year and the person’s initials are provided. Each answer is the name of a national leader. (e.g., 1932: F.D.R. Answer: Franklin D. Roosevelt.)

Freshman level 1. 2016: D.T. 2. 2008: B.O. 3. 1980: R.R. Graduate level 4. 1948: H.S.T. 5. 1940: W.C. 6. 1989: M.G. PH.D. level 7. 1942: J.S. 8. 1938: A.H. 9. 2015: A.M.

SUPER QUIZ ANSWERS 1. Donald Trump. 2. Barack Obama. 3. Ronald Reagan. 4. Harry S. Truman.

5. Winston Churchill. 6. Mikhail Gorbachev. 7. Joseph Stalin. 8. Adolf Hitler. 9.

Angela Merkel.

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

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Crossword Puzzle Mother Goose & Grimm ACROSS 1 Your, to Shakespeare 4 Sudden muscle contraction 9 Cemetery purchase 13 Señora in Würzburg 14 Biblical bread from heaven 15 “The Eternal City” 16 __ off; reprimand 17 Sick 19 C’s followers 20 Pasture cry 21 __ up; shares one’s feelings 22 Judge’s mallet 24 Green or gold 25 Glass fragments 27 Looking glass 30 Tropical trees 31 Eyeglasses, for short 33 Pres. Martin __ Buren 35 “For Your Eyes __”; 007 film 36 Newspaper stand 37 Type of sandwich 38 Ring result, for short 39 Amounts owed 40 Plane ride prices 41 Slow-moving creatures 43 Light brief snowfall 44 Head topper 45 Cash, slangily 46 Robards or Lee 49 Window covering 51 Facial twitch 54 Noninvasive medical test 56 Hook, __ and sinker 57 As comfortable __ old shoe 58 TV’s “Kate & __” 59 __ more; again 60 Eggy drinks 61 Word with opposites or bears 62 Grunt of disgust DOWN 1 Larch or laurel 2 Milk carton, often 3 Actor Brynner

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4 Happy expressions 5 Discussion group 6 “…__ partridge in a pear tree.”

7 Sulky mood 8 Mothers 9 Fitting 10 Misplace 11 Eerie sign 12 Knight & Koppel 13 Floral delivery service 18 Rains cats and dogs 20 Some folks’ undies 23 Fighting force 24 Hillbilly 25 Notice 26 Actor Tom __ 27 Clutter 28 Praising too highly 29 More uncommon 31 Bart & Lisa, to Maggie 32 Patio flower container 34 Prying 36 Brown seaweed

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37 U-__; mover’s truck 39 Singer Ross 40 Sheet of ice 42 Items in a fall centerpiece 43 Silo contents 45 Wild enthusiasm 46 San __, Puerto Rico

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47 Hemingway’s “The Sun __ Rises” 48 Male animal 49 Perform alone 50 Ship’s frame 52 Part of a foot 53 Passing grade 55 Maple tree dripping 56 Singer Rawls

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