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Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his youngest daughter, Mariah Kennedy-Cuomo, throw a wreath into the Hudson River in honor of Memorial Day before a COVID-19 pandemic briefing at the USS Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in Manhattan on Monday.

NEW YORK — The state will give death benefits for frontline workers who died from COVID-19, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday, before discouraging lawmakers from spending money the state doesn’t have as the Legislature resumes remote session this week.

The state and local governments will provide death benefits for frontline essential workers, such as health care

workers and first responders, who died from COVID-19 during the pandemic. The governor called on the federal government to provide dedicated funding for hazard pay for frontline coronavirus workers, he said.

“You appeared for duty when it was troubling to do so and many people were afraid,” Cuomo said Monday during a pandemic briefing from the USS Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in Manhattan.

“It’s not just words of thanks,

but actions that show our appreciation.”

The governor and his youngest daughter, Mariah Kennedy-Cuomo, threw a wreath into the Hudson River before Monday’s briefing started.

“This Memorial Day, we know something about loss,” Cuomo said. “Today, we honor the service members who have lost their lives. We thank them for their service, their See CUOMO A8

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A ceremonial gun salute honors deceased veterans during the Memorial Day service in Hudson.

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This year’s Memorial Day may look different than the traditional service, with everyone wearing facial masks and coverings, but COVID-19 did not stop veterans and their supporters from honoring the fallen on Memorial Day. Services across the Twin Counties were abbreviated and generally smaller than usual, but many of the traditions remained, including speakers, prayers, wreaths and honorary gun salutes in memory of the deceased.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Friday signed an executive order allowing small gatherings for Memorial Day services as long as masks were worn and social-distancing protocols followed.

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U.S. Army veteran and Greene County Treasurer Peter Markou addresses the crowd during the Memorial Day ceremony held on the steps of the county courthouse in Catskill on Monday.

ultimate sacrifice in service to the nation.

“Normally, we would have hundreds of people come out to pay their respects to our fallen comrades,” Cmdr. Ed Coons said as he opened the ceremony. “These are challenging times.”

Chaplain Rick Howland recited an opening prayer and addressed the group.

“Today we gather here in what are called uncertain times, and ask that you remember us and protect the living as we honor those who made a greater sacrifice,” Howland said. “As uncertain as our lives are, certain is our resolve not to forget, to remember those who died for this republic, one nation under God. That is our tribute on this Memorial Day to those who

Small businesses are facing daunting challenges as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, advocates say.

Retail stores and restaurants are limited to curbside pickup, take-out and home delivery until Phase II and Phase III of the state’s reopening guidelines.

Entertainment and recreation businesses are slated to reopen in Phase IV. All three phases could take weeks and maybe months to complete.

In the meantime, many businesses are turning to the U.S. Small Business Administration for support.

In New York, 281,058 loans totaling $37.8 million have been approved through the SBA, according to data

“More than 90% of small businesses have been negatively impacted by COVID-19 and the resulting economic shutdowns, which have been in place in New York since mid-March. A full quarter are experiencing severe negative impacts.”

— NFIB NEW YORK STATE DIRECTOR GREG BIRYLA released from the SBA on May 16.

A survey conducted by the National Federation of Independent Business found that 80% of NFIB members applied for the SBA’s Paycheck Protection Program, which allows businesses to apply for up to $10 million to cover payroll, rent, utility and mortgage

costs. NFIB received 685 responses to the survey. Of the NFIB applicants, 90% have received their loans, according to a statement from the federation Thursday.

“More than 90% of small businesses have been negatively impacted by COVID-19 and the resulting economic

shutdowns, which have been in place in New York since mid-March,” NFIB New York State Director Greg Biryla said in a statement. “A full quarter are experiencing severe negative impacts.”

“No state has been more affected

by COVID-19 than the Empire State,” Biryla said. “Now, with the day-to-day public-health crisis largely behind us, leaders in Albany and local officials across the state have to be laser focused on ensuring our economy reopens safe, fast and fair. Small businesses are ready to do what they do best: create jobs and reignite local economies.”

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First, there was the Spring of Rebellion, when teens chaffed at their parents’ demands to stay home as the deadly coronavirus pandemic descended.

Next came sullen acceptance, followed by weeks filled with virtual non-learning and video games.

Now millions of American high school and college students have arrived at the Summer of Nothing, a landscape of scuttled internships, summer camps and travel plans that might have been résumé gilders - or at least something to do.

A summer in which paid jobs are scarcer than a Stanford University admission and require something almost as tough to obtain: parental permission.

Ryan Amarillas, a 17-year-old who lives in northern Virginia, had cleared the first hurdle when a friend recommended him for a gig at his local grocery store. His escape from quarantine was near; the outgoing junior from Falls Church could see it. He’d shine at customer service, goof off with his buddies on breaks and before long buy the Ford F150 truck of his dreams. But Ryan could not persuade his parents, who said a job was not worth risking the life of his grandmother, who lives with them.

“It feels like prison, like I’m on house arrest,” he said. His summer would be a lot like his spring.

This was to be the summer of European travel for Maddy Bram, whose mother, Elizabeth, had made extravagant plans. They’d spend a few days in Barcelona and then take a Disney cruise to Rome, Nice and Florence before capping it off with another frolic on the Spanish coast. The 14-yearold from Bay Harbor Islands, Florida, “has really only been to England, with a plane switch in Madrid,” said her mother, an operations manager for an equity brokerage firm. Now Maddy’s travel will take place in a kayak just a few miles from her house, a clear “zero” of a summer, the teen declared.

Yet as unbelievable as a bored teen may find it, this Summer of Nothing might offer some unexpected benefits - like the blue skies over Beijing when industry ground to a halt.

“The primary role of summer is to experience the real world and get away from school,” said Peter Gray, an evolutionary psychologist who writes about the role of free time and play in child development. “It’s a time to explore your own interests and work on your hobbies - the things that poetry tells us are good for the human soul.”

Kristin McGovern had planned to hire professionals to build an entertainment space in her Boston backyard this summer when her son, a rising college junior majoring in mechanical engineering, lost his chance at an internship with the state transportation department due to covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. Her friend had posted photos on Facebook of a patio her three sons had built.

“It looked awesome,” McGovern said, and her mind started spinning. They’d get the materials delivered and pay Conor an hourly rate as project designer and then builder with his brother Aiden, 17. She envisions a patio with a firepit and pizza oven while Conor is contemplating an outdoor bar. If all goes well, it will be a Summer of Initiative and hands-on experience.

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University of Massachusetts at Amherst nursing student Brendan Barrie recently completed his freshman year off-campus due to the coronavirus epidemic. Barrie, who lost his summer nursing internship, is spending his time nursing his uncle, who is dying of cancer.

Brendan Barrie had his internship lined up early. The 19-year-old college freshman from Milford, Massachusetts, would be a summer counselor at the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp for children in need of medical supervision. He had attended the Ashford, Connecticut, camp himself as a high school kid battling leukemia and the experience had inspired him to major in nursing.

The pandemic closed that door, but then opened another.

Barrie decided to spend the summer nursing his 50-yearold Uncle Ken, who was dying of late-stage glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer. He worked 12-hour days helping his uncle get to the bathroom, eat and stay hydrated. He made sure his patient did not fall asleep smoking or wander in confusion through the sliding screen door.

With his dad unemployed, Barrie even applied to get paid as a personal-care assistant under Medicaid, though there was no putting a price on the time with his uncle, who brightened when his nephew walked into the room.

“As hard as it is, it’s very rewarding to care for him,” he said. Then things took a turn for the worse, and Uncle Ken suddenly died with Barrie by his side Friday night. The intimate experience with hands-on nursing “will stay with me my whole career,” the teen said, and has left him with the gift of perspective.

Nate Tinbit, who just graduated from John F. Kennedy High School in Wheaton, Maryland, also sees the summer as a chance to help others.

Tinbit, the student board member for Montgomery County Public Schools, was looking into a job as a community organizer for a nonprofit before leaving for Cornell University to study labor relations.

With that plan defunct, he had at least hoped to keep his parttime gig at Panera to help his parents out. But now that’s gone, too, and Tinbit said he wants to volunteer full-time for a food bank or some other nonprofit “doing anything and everything possible” to ease the

suffering around him.

“This summer is not for me anymore,” he said.

Jobs are much more than résumé builders for many of the low-income teens and young people in the District of Columbia who rely on the Marion S. Barry Summer Youth Employment Program for work.

On Friday, Mayor Muriel Bowser, a Democrat, announced that the summer jobs program will be virtual, with teenagers and young adults providing tech support or teaching children to read remotely. Other cities, including Philadelphia and Chicago, are doing the same.

“We have to be creative,” said Tyon Jones, an Advisory Neighborhood Commission representative. “These jobs can sometimes be the deciding factor in whether employees and their brothers and sisters can eat at night.”

For teens who are not college-bound, the program also provides hands-on training that can lead directly to full-time jobs. Jones, a supervisor in the city’s transportation department, points to one young man he nurtured for two summers before the agency hired him last year to repair and install street signs.

“I love it because you are helping people out and the people you are helping out, they don’t even know you,” Trevon Williams, 21, said. “If I install a stop sign, I can save a thousand people from crashing at that intersection. I’m helping my community.”

The friend who recommended Ryan Amarillas for a job at the grocery store had a different goal in mind when he took a part-time job as a cashier last year at the store in Falls Church.

“I like Harris Teeter cookies,” Ali Nawal, 17, said. “. . . I thought they’d have free cookies all the time, and they do have free

cookies all the time.”

The $10.50 an hour was better than minimum wage, enough to save some money while helping his mom pay the household bills. As schools shut down, Ali became the envy of his cooped-up friends.

Ali’s parents, like Ryan’s, were opposed to his working, preferring he use the time to study and volunteer. “But at the end of the day, they let me make the final decision,” Ali said, because they know he’s responsible and works hard in school.

This spring, Ali made sure to shed the mask, gloves and blue polo he wears as an essential worker before walking in the door. His name tag had a new motto: “We’re all in this together, just six feet apart.”

His twin brother got a job at the grocery store, too. But earlier this month, his brother came down with a sore throat and, on May 16 he tested positive for covid-19. Both teens are now quarantining in their two-bedroom apartment. Ali’s summer is looking very uncertain.

Meanwhile, Maddy has changed her summer fun forecast from zero to eight.

So far that’s included dance, via Zoom lessons, and cooking - she’s made a mean leche frita, a Spanish rice pudding. Even the things that she thought were boring, or at least not special - like sitting near the water watching jet skiers blast by or grabbing a latte - have a strangely new sheen.

“I have just adjusted,” she said. “Everything is special now.

If my mom and I go through the Starbucks drive-through with our little masks, that’s special. If we find a little grassy spot near the water over the bridge, that’s special. They might be things I wouldn’t even do if I weren’t in quarantine, but I value everything more.”

Ryan has been driven by boredom to branch out, too.

He’s become a deep reader of the news, he said, and it makes him think.

He read stories about the disproportionate number of people of color who are dying of covid-19, forced to work without sick leave and proper health care. He raptly followed the news of Ahmaud Arbery, the 25-year-old unarmed jogger in Georgia who was shot to death in February by two white men in a pickup truck, and the three months before authorities filed charges.

Gradually, he said, his perspective has widened - past the grocery store and high school and college. Ryan imagined himself as someone who fights for the rights of others.

The Summer of Something, after all.

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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

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 work-

shop 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

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Town Hall, 2 First St., Athens 518945-1052 n Greenville Town Board 7 p.m. at the Town Hall, 11159 Route 32, Pioneer Building, Greenville

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6:30 p.m. Village Hall, 2 First St., Athens 518-945-1551 n Durham Town Board 7:30 p.m. at Town Hall, 7309 Route 81, East Durham n Hunter Town Board 7 p.m. at the Town Hall, 5748 Route 23A, Tannersville

Wednesday, June 17 n Cairo Town Board workshop meeting 7 p.m. Town Hall, 512 Main St., Cairo n Catskill Library Board 6:45 p.m. at either the Catskill Library, 1 Franklin St., Catskill or Palenville Library, 3303 Route 23A, Palenville

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Delgado: Funding for internet gap on the way

By Abby Hoover Columbia-Greene Media

With many in Columbia and Greene counties working and learning from home because of COVID-19 restrictions, the gap in internet access is more apparent than ever.

On May 15, U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado, D-19, announced that funding for rural broadband deployment in the Twin Counties is on its way.

The Federal Communication Commission (FCC) awarded $640,296 to Mid-Hudson Data Corp. as part of the 12th wave of funding from the Connect America Fund Phase II Auction.

In 2018, the fund allocated $1.488 billion over the next 10 years to expand broadband to more than 700,000 unserved rural homes and small businesses in 45 states.

Providers that receive funds must build out to 40% of the assigned homes and businesses in the areas the provider successfully bid on within three years. Buildouts must also increase by 20% in each subsequent year until the buildout is completed at the end of the sixth year.

In January, the FCC established the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF), for which New York was initially ineligible. New York representatives demanded the FCC reverse the exemption, and were successful in having the decision overturned.

Mid-Hudson will receive the funds later this month. The company will use the funds to provide high-speed broadband service to 459 locations in its service area, including Greene and Columbia counties.

“The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the existing digital divide that leaves so many of our upstate businesses, students, and seniors without access to affordable or reliable broadband internet,” Delgado said in a statement. “With many families spending more time at home and

small businesses moving online, it is unacceptable that so many upstate communities are disadvantaged in this way.”

Delgado has made access to rural broadband a focus during his time in Congress, he said.

“I am glad to see the distribution of these needed FCC funds to our communities in Columbia and Greene counties,” Delgado said. “We have much more work to do to make sure our communities are able to be connected and ensure these technological investments are built to last.”

Last fall, Delgado introduced two bills that empower communities to improve flawed broadband mapping procedures.

The Broadband Speed Act would require internet service providers to report data to the FCC annually that shows the actual speeds they are capable of providing, as opposed to what can potentially be provided within seven to 10 business days.

The act would, in part, demonstrate to the FCC where broadband service is matching the speeds advertised, and where there are gaps in service. It would also require future FCC funding awards be built out at 100 mbps or higher.

The Community Broadband Mapping Act would allow local governments, electric or telephone cooperatives, economic development and community groups and small internet providers to access USDA Rural Utility Service broadband programs for grant funding that would allow them to collect information on local broadband service. It would also allow areas that are incorrectly designated by the FCC as having service to dispute that status, according to a statement from Delgado’s office.

Ghent Broadband Committee Chairman David Berman, co-founder of Connect Columbia and a member of the county’s Broadband Committee,

said he is still waiting on specifics.

“We’d certainly like to know the details of that,” Berman said, adding that he wonders what towns and municipalities will be impacted and what the cost to consumers will be.

Berman said the committees he helped start lobbied carriers to apply for funds to expand service in Columbia County.

He tells people if they can’t get a good connection at home, they should go to Columbia-Greene Community College because it has the “highest speed parking lot,” which picks up a signal from the nearby buildings.

“With everybody trying to stay at home it becomes increasingly important to have internet access,” Ancram Town Supervisor Art Bassin said. “I think this health crisis has just heightened the awareness of how important it is to get this broadband around the county as quickly as we can.”

Bassin said Mid-Hudson does not serve any areas in his town.

“We need to get money allocated not necessarily by corporation, but by location,” Bassin said. “The underserved areas are the ones that really need to be paid attention to.”

Bassin said once unserved areas have the funds, they can divide the money among service providers that are willing to install the necessary infrastructure to wire those communities.

“Nobody’s really stepped up to fill that gap,” Bassin said.

Using census blocks in rural areas creates “weird borders,” leaving some houses on the wrong side of the street or a few houses down from where the wire ends, Berman said.

He noted that if he wanted to see Spectrum’s plans for the town of Ghent as a town official, he would have to sign a nondisclosure agreement for a “competitive” issue.

“If there was tons of competition in Columbia County, every street would

have been covered by now,” Berman said. “They treat us like they would a more densely populated area and we suffer for that.”

Siddhesh Karmali from the Ancram Broadband Committee said the struggle is primarily from falling between the cracks. He said his census track was left out entirely from recent grants funding broadband in the area.

“It’s been a nightmare,” Karmali said. “The [Digital Subscriber Line] is a very poor technology to begin with, and being stuck at home, you’re talking about people streaming videos during their work days, videos during their relaxation time in the evening, the whole thing just falls apart very quickly.”

While Karmali appreciates Delgado’s support for broadband in the county and thinks some money is better than none, he anticipates his area will still be left out this time around.

Delgado said in Hudson’s third virtual town hall meeting, if it becomes law, the HEROES Act has $5.5 billion in funding for broadband for emergency home internet connections and the creation of Wi-Fi hotspots.

“The notion that we have communities that are being expected to sustain themselves during this time without broadband when all the education, all the learning, happens online now,” Delgado said. “All of our businesses are operating online now. Even in the case of our seniors, or those who are suffering from different ailments who want to get treatment, or at least have a visit with a physician, they can do so with telemedicine if they have broadband.”

Delgado called broadband a basic necessity that has been a problem in the district long before the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mid-Hudson Data Corp. did not respond to request for comment.

Abby Hoover is a reporter for the RegisterStar. Contact her at ahoover@registerstar. com.

Canalway Challenge promotes health along New York’s canals WATERFORD — Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor invites New Yorkers to take part in the Canalway Challenge in 2020, tracing history and tracking miles along New York’s canals and Canalway Trail. Part fitness challenge, part journey of discovery, the Canalway Challenge is free and registration is open to people of all ages and abilities.

“Staying healthy is a #1 priority for everyone right now.

The Canalway Challenge is a great way for people to get outside and invest in mental and physical health, while exploring the canals in their local area,” said Bob Radliff, Executive Director of the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor.

Participants register online and choose a mileage goal of 15, 90, 180, or 360 miles; then walk, run or cycle on the Canalway Trail or paddle safe sections of the NYS Canal System to achieve it. The Canalway Challenge can be done in one big trip or many small ones.

This year’s Challenge runs through the end of October, so people have plenty of time to complete it.

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Corporation Director Brian U. Stratton said, “Set alongside our state’s iconic canals, the Canalway Challenge offers participants an opportunity to enjoy the bucolic landscapes of Upstate New York, exercising their minds and bodies, while also practicing safe social distancing.”

Families are encouraged to use the Canalway Challenge to supplement home-based learning about New York State history. Educational worksheets and learning resources are available from the National Heritage Corridor to complement what children will see while on the trail.

Participants in last year’s Canalway Challenge logged 285,000 miles, the equivalent of circling the Earth 11 times.

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Real New Yorkers wear masks Coronavirus transmission may be primarily airborne, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday. That’s not exactly breaking news, but it goes to the heart of public safety, protecting our health and plain old thoughtfulness for your fellow man.

New guidance from the CDC suggests the novel coronavirus, which is thought to have jumped from a Chinese bat to the human lung in December 2019, is spread mainly from airborne sources, including respiratory droplets when an infected person coughs, sneezes or talks. The droplets can land in the mouths or noses of

nearby people, or be inhaled into their lungs.

Which brings us to the most important point: a lot of people aren’t wearing masks in places of gathering and a lot of businesses, which post signs saying no mask, no entry, are letting people in without masks.

Conclusion: People who don’t wear masks and the businesses that enable them are not team players. And they have no consideration for our health and safety.

“If [the CDC] is right and the major transmission source is airborne, it takes you back to wear a mask,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Friday at his daily coronavi-

rus briefing in his Manhattan office. “First responders have a lower infection rate than the general population.

Why? Because they wear the mask and use the hand sanitizer.”

We can’t emphasize strongly enough how urgent it is to practice social distancing and wear masks or facial coverings. To all the people who don’t wear masks in public places and businesses that flout their own rules, we’re calling you out.

Maybe this will help convince you: wearing a mask can mean the difference between life and death.

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U.S. cybersecurity deficiencies can no longer be ignored Hugh Hewitt

What, many readers may be wondering, is a “solariRarely has a bipartisan um”? commission produced its The Roman Catholic findings immediately before Church long invested parthe allocation of trillions ticular gatherings of bishops of dollars in the service of with special status and exnational rehabilitation. The pansive authority by confertiming of the Cyberspace So- ring on their meetings the larium Commission’s report title of “synod.” As the Cold this spring could not have War took hold, President been more perfect. Also forDwight Eisenhower couldn’t tuitous are the profiles of the convene a synod of bishops commission’s co-chairs: An- to help him puzzle through gus King, Maine’s center-left the postwar world that had governor-turned-senator; fallen under the rule, or and Mike Gallagher, a center- shadow, of Joseph Stalin. He right scholar and Marine needed a different signifier of who represents Wisconsin’s importance.

8th District in the U.S. House.

So Ike convened Project The pair radiate goodwill and Solarium in 1953, inviting the seriousness of purpose, a mix capital’s “wise men” to meet that recalls eras when politics and strategize in the White did indeed stop at the water’s House solarium to fashion a edge. national policy addressing Despite its roster of acthe Soviet threat. (How they complished members and did so is chronicled in the senior staffers - including classic “The Wise Men” by Rear Adm. Mark “Monty” Walter Isaacson and Evan Montgomery, a muchThomas.) The work of this respected Pentagon veteran renowned group, which - the commission has had included Secretary of State a hard time gaining public John Foster Dulles and attention amid the chaos famed diplomat George Kenof the pandemic and the nan, ranks as probably the political upheavals of the second-greatest collabora“Trump era.” (Gallagher - af- tive effort by intellectuals in fectionately dubbed “China U.S. history, after the gatherMike” by Robert O’Brien, the ing in Philadelphia in 1787. president’s national security Certainly, Project Solarium adviser, when Gallagher was laid the foundation for U.S. left off the list of elected “Chi- success in the Cold War, na hawks” that the Chinese though the final collapse Communist Party recently of Stalin’s heirs would also threatened with sanctions require President Richard discussed the commission’s Nixon’s breakthrough in China and President Ronald work with me on air last Reagan’s defense buildup week.)

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and, in particular, Reagan’s unwavering commitment to missile defense.

Now, Nixon’s contribution to that victory - a powerful regime in Beijing, so necessary to causing Moscow’s to tumble - has turned on the West. China is the source of the virus that swiftly devastated economies across the planet and that has taken more than 300,000 lives with no end in sight. The Chinese Communist Party has long used dark methods in cyberspace to pilfer from and punish opponents. Similar tactics have been adopted by other regimes, including the remnants of the Moscow menace vanquished in 1989, the mullahs who ascended in Tehran in 1979, and various rogues and rogue states of far less power.

So obvious had these invisible cyberthreats become that the National Defense Authorization Act of 2019 established the commission to “develop a consensus on a strategic approach to defending the United States in cyberspace against cyber attacks of significant consequences.”

Virus-caused crises obscure the urgency of addressing piecemeal U.S. defenses in the virtual world.

A vice president who would help restore adult supervision in Washington WASHINGTON — The smallest state has the smallest governor. Rhode Island’s Gina Raimondo is almost 5 feet 3 inches, about an inch shorter than James Madison. What was said of him is true of her: There is a high ratio of mind to mass.

Unfortunately, a perversity of today’s political culture is that those with the most time and inclination for fulltime self-promotion, such as U.S. senators, eclipse those, such as governors, who are preoccupied with serious responsibilities.

After Harvard (where she played rugby), Oxford (she was a Rhodes scholar) and Yale Law School, she was an early recruit to a venture capital company whose premise was, she says, that “you could find talent all over the country,” not just in hotbeds like Austin and Silicon Valley. Then she founded an affiliated fund specializing in health care.

“My mother actually started crying” when in 2010 Raimondo ran to be treasurer of the state with the nation’s highest per capita unfunded pension debt.

Pensions, which soon would have swallowed 20% of state revenue, were threatening to starve social services. Including the Providence Public Library where her grandfather, who arriving from Italy at 14 with little education and less English, studied to improve his chances. As treasurer, she told “crowded, angry union halls” that cities and towns might go bankrupt and that promised pensions would disappear. Her reforms — pausing cost of living increases; raising the retirement age and the ratio of defined contribution to defined benefit plans — passed Rhode Island’s House 57-15 and the Senate 35-2.

When she ran for governor, Rhode Island had the nation’s highest unemployment rate. The state had been the nation’s — arguably, the world’s — jewelry workshop, until much of the

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WILL manufacturing decamped to China. The exodus included the Bulova watch company, which had employed 1,000, including her father, who became unemployed at 56. She wears a Bulova on her wrist but says that the main reason she ran for governor was that previous administrations had not repositioned Rhode Island for a changed world. She has done this by entrepreneurial federalism — making the state attractive to business, including the nation’s first offshore wind farm.

Raimondo has cut taxes every year and removed 8,000 pages of regulations - 30% of the state’s regulations. Economic dynamism has enabled her to raise the state minimum wage to $11.50, create a sick leave entitlement and finance the largest infrastructure program in the state’s history.

Thanks to the G.I. Bill, her father, the son of a meat cutter, became the first in the family to go to college, and his daughter has delivered tuition-free community college.

Partnering with CVS, the nation’s largest pharmacy chain, headquartered in Woonsocket, her state has achieved one of the nation’s highest per capita level of testing for COVID-19. Her approval rating has soared during the pandemic. An anxious nation longing for competence in the national government might turn its lonely eyes to her, if it knew of her.

There often is, however, a disproportion in the allocation of media attention to political figures: an inverse

relationship between a political person’s substantive achievements and the froth of publicity surrounding her or him. The Senate, the incubator of presidential aspirations, is an arena for the gesture politics of virtue signaling. It encourages the misapprehension that striking poses solves problems, and it develops no skills germane to the executive tasks of managing vast organizations and applying aspirational statutes to recalcitrant reality.

Joe Biden’s choice of a running mate will matter to the electorate’s large moderate majority more than such choices usually do, for two reasons. Biden will be 78 on Jan. 20, 2021. And his choice will indicate whether the trajectory of the world’s oldest party will be determined by its leftwing minority that strenuously opposed his nomination, or by the party’s temperate majority that produced the Democrats’ 2018 success.

The Democratic left, with its addiction to indignation and its aversion to practical politics, might recoil from Raimondo because she understands the enormous financial sector of a nation now chin-deep in red ink.

And because she had the impertinence to persuade crucial Democratic constituencies — public employees unions, including those of teachers — to support difficult choices. After defeating a leftwing primary challenger by 24 points, she was resoundingly reelected in one of the nation’s bluest states, and then became chair of the Democratic Governors Association.

A Biden-Raimondo ticket would achieve the left’s primary goal, the removal of Donald Trump. And the resulting administration would restore adult supervision in Washington.

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President Donald Trump threatened to move the planned Republican National Convention from North Carolina unless the state’s governor can guarantee the party will be allowed full attendance.

Trump took aim at North Carolina’s Governor Roy Cooper, a Democrat, in a series of posts on Twitter Monday, saying he wanted a guarantee that Republicans would be permitted to gather in Charlotte, N.C., at the end of August, despite any coronavirus outbreaks.

“Plans are being made by many thousands of enthusiastic Republicans, and others, to head to beautiful North Carolina in August,” Trump said in the tweets.

“They must be immediately given an answer by the Governor as to whether or not the space will be allowed to be fully occupied.

If not, we will be reluctantly forced to find, with all of the jobs and economic development it brings, another Republican National Convention site.”

The summer conventions have served to highlight differences between the two parties in dealing with the coronavirus and the economic fallout from stay-at-home orders. The Democrats have spoken openly about the possibility of making most of theirs, scheduled to be held in Milwaukee Aug. 17-20, virtual. The Republicans, conversely, insist they plan to hold the multiday event Aug. 24-27 as usual.

“State officials are working with the RNC and will review its plans as they make decisions about how to hold the convention in Charlotte,” Cooper’s spokesperson said in a statement on Twitter Monday. “North Carolina is relying on data and science to protect our state’s public health and safety.”

North Carolina has eased some restrictions, but mass gatherings of more than 10 people indoors or 25 people outdoors remain prohibited.

Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles said in a statement that the city “will continue to follow guidance from Governor Cooper and public health professionals in determining the best and safest way to host the Republican National Convention.”

Charlotte was the only city to officially submit a bid for the Republican convention, though the president’s campaign manager, Brad Parscale, publicly advocated for his hometown of San Antonio to bid for the site. Texas has moved more aggressively to reopen its businesses, with Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, announcing last week that professional sports and summer camps could resume by the end of the month.

But moving the

convention just months before it is scheduled to occur — particularly as the coronavirus continues to complicate travel — could prove a logistical and financial nightmare for the Republican National Committee, particularly with professional basketball and hockey leagues eyeing a late-summer return to games. The committee would need to secure not only an arena or convention center space, but tens of thousands of hotel and meeting rooms for delegates, the press, and other attendees.

Trump’s financial threat against Charlotte may also ring hollow. A study of political conventions between 1972 and 2004 by economists at College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts found no discernible improvement in employment or personal income in host cities.

“We all want to be in Charlotte,” Vice President Mike Pence said in an interview with “Fox & Friends” Monday. He said it was important for the party to know now because of the planning involved and so that they can, if need be, move to a state “farther along” on reopening.

Republican National Committee CEO Marcia Lee Kelly said in a Fox Business op-ed earlier this month that her team had “worked incredibly hard to adapt” to the coronavirus threat and that the first family had already approved design elements including the stage, lectern, and family box.

“As we continue to rebuild our economy and recover from Covid-19, I whole-heartedly believe our convention will take on an even greater role in the civic life of our country,” Kelly said.

Democrats have also been rushing to develop contingency convention plans amid the coronavirus pandemic, with some delegates having signaled their concern over traveling to Milwaukee for the nomination of former Vice President Joe Biden. The Democratic National Committee has already approved a plan to allow delegates to vote remotely, and moved their event from mid-July to the week of August 17.

Biden said an in-person convention was “possible, but it remains to be seen,” in an interview with Wisconsin television station WISN last week, and that Democrats’ decision would be dictated by health policy experts.

“I plan on campaigning in Milwaukee,” Biden said. “And I hope there is a convention in Milwaukee.

It may not be as robust a convention. It may be a social distancing thing. It may be smaller. I don’t know. I can’t ordain what that’s going to be, but I plan to campaign in Milwaukee.”

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The arcs of their careers and personal lives have for years run on parallel tracks, like twin strands of DNA, winding from the military to test pilot school to the same NASA astronaut class, where both met their wives.

Now Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley are about to fly together in one of the most important launches NASA has attempted in years: a crewed test flight of SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station.

The mission would be the first launch of NASA astronauts from U.S. soil since the space shuttle was retired in 2011, and the first by a private company of people to orbit. Scheduled for Wednesday at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, it would be the culmination of a long journey - for NASA, for SpaceX and for a pair of the agency’s most seasoned astronauts, who have marched together in unusual lockstep to get to this point.

Both are former military pilots who achieved the rank of colonel - Hurley in the Marine Corps, Behnken in the Air Force. Both were accepted to the NASA astronaut class of 2000 on their first try. Both have been to space twice before. Both are fathers to a young boy.

Behnken is married to Megan McArthur, a NASA astronaut and oceanographer; Hurley is married to Karen Nyberg, who recently retired from the NASA astronaut corps.

The couples joke that they often thank the head of the astronaut selection committee “for doing a great job of selecting spouses for us,” McArthur said.

In the past, NASA’s astronauts may have been pitted against each other in ruthless competition for flight assignments, preening for the cameras and strutting their ego-fueled “Right Stuff” to orbit and back, always eager to get ahead.

But Behnken and Hurley - Bob and Doug, as most everyone calls them - are more like a couple of self-effacing old pals, with an easygoing relationship shaped by a shared history that includes serving in each other’s weddings and having trained side by side for this mission for five years.

Their rapport, in the cockpit and in training, is fueled by trust and an intimate sense of each other, people who know them say, a sort of fraternal bond that allows them to tease each other as well as finish each other’s sentences. It gives them a late-night-talk-show kind of chemistry, at turns goofy and sincere.

Hurley is the obsessivecompulsive Marine, with a crisp flat-top, a penchant for order and a “repository” of “useless information,” Behnken said. “He’s the trivia master between the two of us.”

“Doug’s worst habits?”

Behnken said during a NASA promo video. “He’s got a tighter sense of hygiene than I do.”

Their bond was evident earlier this month, when the pair, having finished yet another news conference, were sitting through questions asked through NASA’s Instagram account, moving from ribbing to supporting each other in the span of a couple of minutes Hurley held his phone, scrolling.

“How long did it take you to become an astronaut, Bob?” he asked, reading one of the questions.

“Well, I was born in 1970, and I became an astronaut in 2000, so it took about 30 years,” Behnken deadpanned. It was a wisecrack of an answer, a flair of wit after a long day of meetings and a news conference and

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Doug Hurley laughs with Kennedy Space Center director Robert Cabana.

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Bob Behnken puts on his spacesuit at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.

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NASA astronauts Doug Hurley (right) and Bob Behnken arrive at Kennedy Space Center. They’re scheduled to blast off May 27 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, bound for the International Space Station.

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Hurley couldn’t help himself from cracking up in laughter.

“It took Doug longer,” Behnken said, teasing his friend, still straight-faced.

“No!” Hurley said. Then conceded: “Like, two years longer.”

“Yeah, two years is two years.”

Finally serious, Behnken traced his career: test pilot school at Edwards Air Force Base, “I got an engineering education,” he said, “and a degree in physics - “ “You got a PhD from Caltech!” Hurley interrupted.

“I did.”

That kind of connection will serve them well on the upcoming mission, a risky test flight NASA officials say they were made for. The Crew Dragon spacecraft has flown just once before, in an uncrewed mission last year that officials from NASA and SpaceX said went flawlessly.

But then the same spacecraft that flew to the space station and back exploded during a test of its emergency abort engines. It was a fiery setback that drove home the dangers of the mission to NASA as well as SpaceX. “I wanted to make sure everyone at SpaceX understood and knew Bob and Doug as astronauts, as test pilots - badass - but also as dads and husbands,” said Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX’s president and chief operating officer. “I wanted to bring some humanity to this very deeply technical effort as well.”

One of the ways the company has done that, she said, was an idea that came from a technician, who “wanted to make sure that we had pictures of Bob and Doug on the work orders.”

Behnken has said his 6-year-old son, Theo, was nervous about him flying, and his astronaut parents have worked to make their extraordinary lives seem regular.

“We try to make it as normal-seeming as possible,” McArthur said in an interview. “We just talk about it as something that Mommy and Daddy do. This is our job. We’ve shown him videos of people living aboard the space station. We’ve taken him to see rockets launch from the Kennedy Space Center.”

It’s still not clear how long the astronauts will be on the station. NASA has said the mission will last roughly between one month and four.

Behnken flew on the space shuttle twice, once in 2008 and again two years later, spending a total of more than 708 hours in space and performing six spacewalks. In the Air Force, he flew more than 25 different kinds of aircraft, including as a test engineer for the F-22 Raptor.

When he arrived at the Kennedy Space Center last week, he said he was excited by the mission, not just because of its historic significance, but also because it is the first flight of the spacecraft with crews.

“As graduates of military test pilot schools, if you gave us one thing that we could have put on our list of dream jobs that we would have gotten to have someday, it would have been to be aboard a new spacecraft and conduct a test mission” Behnken said.

Being on the ground, however, watching while the engines ignite and fire comes blasting out, will be far more difficult.

“One of the hardest things to do is watch the person that you love launch into space,” McArthur said. “It’s much harder than actually doing it yourself when you’re in the rocket. You have the training. You’re prepared for the mission.

“When you’re watching, you’re just a spectator. And no matter what happens, there’s nothing you can do to contribute to the situation.”

Hurley is also a veteran of two shuttle missions, including the very last one, which brought a 30-year era to an end and signified a moment of transition for NASA. The day after the shuttle landed, hundreds lost their jobs, and NASA was suddenly unable to fly astronauts anywhere.

“I remember when we landed just before dawn, but we were still in the vehicle as the sun came up,” Hurley recalled. “People were walking up to the vehicle, and it was their last day, in many cases, of work. You felt like you had to honor those people.”

Asked on NASA’s promo video what they were looking forward to most, Behnken said he expected the crescendo of their mission to end with a bit of seasickness christening once it’s over and they splash down into the ocean.

“I’m expecting a little bit of vomiting maybe to happen in the end,” Behnken said, “so when we get to do that in the water together it’s kind of a weird thing to say - but I’m looking for that kind of celebratory event.”

Hurley said he was looking forward to just being there in the spacecraft, sitting next to Behnken.

“We’ve been close friends since we started as astronauts almost 20 years ago,” he said, “so being lucky enough to get to fly with your best friend is kind of a I think there’s a lot of people that wish they could do that, and we’re lucky enough to do it.

“We spent a ton of time together. We could have gone two directions with that. We could have gotten to the point where we didn’t want to be around each other, or we’re closer. So I think just the whole experience for me is what we’re looking for.

“And then, yes, the celebratory vomiting at the end of the mission.”

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Hunter-Tannersville Central School announces the class of 2020 valedictorian and salutatorian HUNTER - Hunter-Tannersville Central School District has announced the valedictorian and salutatorian for the Class of 2020.

Valedictorian is Ernest “Ernie” Briskey and salutatorian is Armand Aizstrauts.

Ernest “Ernie” Briskey, the son of Christine Morley of Tannersville and Paul Briskey of Waunakee, Wisconsin, has been named the valedictorian of the Class of 2020 at Hunter-Tannersville Central School District.

While at Hunter-Tannersville, Ernie has attained an overall grade point average of 99.40 and will graduate with a Regents diploma with Advanced Designation with Honors and Mastery in Science.

Ernie has excelled in all academic courses and is a member of the Maude Adams Chapter of the National Honor Society, the Ethel Slutsky Chapter of the Art Honor Society, and is president of the Tri-M Music Honor Society.

He was also selected for and participated in the Rotary Youth Leadership Award (RYLA) Conference.

Ernie has co-directed the student run play and performed in many Drama Club productions.

Additionally, he was captain of the varsity ski team and a valuable member of his

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varsity golf and varsity tennis teams.

Ernie also excelled in music. He participated in chorus and played the French horn in band.

Likewise, he played the French horn and sang in the All-County Music Festival and performed with the John Philip Sousa National High School Honors Band at Faneuil Hall in Boston and at the North East Instrumental Music Festival (NEIMF) at Lake Placid.

Ernie is an active participant in his church, the Immaculate Conception Church in Haines Falls, as both an alter server and lector, as well as being an alter server trainer.

Ernie will be making a decision shortly as to where he will study in the fall.

At this time, he is planning to pursue a degree in premedicine or psychology. Ernie loves to help people and is seeking a career that involves assisting people in need.

Armand Aizstrauts, the son

of John and Gunita Aizstrauts of Elka Park, has earned the position of salutatorian of the Class of 2020 at HunterTannersville Central School District.

During his time at HunterTannersville, Armand has attained an overall grade point average of 96.83 and will graduate with a Regents diploma with Advanced Designation and Mastery in Science.

Armand is an accomplished student who participates and excels in school and community events, including being a member of the Maude Adams Chapter of the National Honor Society and Tri-M Music Honor Society.

Additionally, Armand has been a valuable member of his varsity soccer, varsity basketball and varsity tennis teams throughout high school.

In the fall, Armand will be attending Columbia-Greene Community College. At this time his major is undeclared.

The coronavirus hits close to home Dear Warriors, Coronavirus is real! How do I know this? My brother, who was living in a nursing home, was experiencing an out-of-control fever. He was transferred to the veteran’s hospital (he is a Vietnam vet), where he was diagnosed with the coronavirus! We are now in a wait and see mode.

Now Warriors, I can’t do anything for him, he’s in God’s hands; hopefully I can do something for you. I understand we all have cabin fever. I also understand that people need to get back to work! But there are a few things I don’t understand.

Why would people storm government houses, standing shoulder to shoulder, carrying guns (I guess for intimidation) without wearing protective gear such as masks or gloves? They seem to not give a damn about people they come in contact with who are candidates for this disease because they are over 60, and have diseases such as cancer, diabetes, etc.

Let me explain something to these morons. This is a capitalist society. Governors of states lose financially if people cannot work! They also have “at-risk” people in their own families! Yet people continue to spout conspiracy theories like “coronavirus is fake” or “they are just

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WHITEHEAD-DICKENS doing this to make Trump look bad!” Really! Tell that to my brother, or more important, to the families of the 80,000 people, and counting, who have lost their lives!

Why not protest the fact that Trump is not providing testing kits to jobs to make it safe for people to go back to work.

Employees in meat and poultry factories have tested positive for coronavirus. Would you trust buying meat not knowing how safe the facility was it came from?

Now Trump is encouraging people to take hydroxychloroquine! He claims he takes it every day! Warriors, please don’t do this. Neil Cavuto of Fox News was outraged when he heard this. He said, “If you are in a risky population here, and you are taking this as a preventative treatment ... it will kill you. I cannot stress enough. This will kill you.”

Trump’s response was he

would have to find another news station because Fox is anti-Trump. In other words, “to hell with you” Warriors!

I never thought I would be agreeing with shock jock Howard Stern. He says, “I don’t hate Donald,” Stern said on his Sirius XM Radio show Tuesday, according to Newsweek. “I hate you for voting for him, for not having intelligence. For not being able to see what’s going on with the coronavirus, for not being able to see what the Justice Department is doing….”

“Go to Mar-a-Lago, see if there’s any people who look like you,” he said. “I’m talking to you in the audience.” Stern continued, “The Trump voter who idolizes the guy, he despises you.”

Warriors, demand people wear masks, testing is available on your job site, but do not take hydroxychloroquine as a preventive, it could kill you! https://www.wbtv. com/2020/05/09/wilkesborotyson-chicken-plant-shutdown-after-covid-outbreak/ https://nypost. com/2020/05/13/howardstern-says-he-hates-donaldtrump-voters/ Reach Inez at callherid8@aol. com.

Launching the OLANA EYE Skycam and studio here, and the viewshed is vital to Olana’s integrity as a complete work of art.”

The OLANA EYE can be accessed at OLANA.org/OLANAEYE. We invite everyone to visit OLANA.org and to be captivated by the view which inspired Frederic Church.

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View from the OLANA EYE Skycam.

HUDSON – On the occasion of Frederic Church’s 194th birthday, Olana has launched the OLANA EYE, a live skycam from the artist’s Studio Tower to share the iconic view of the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains, a view that Church painted in the 19th century and that today inspires artists and visitors to Olana State Historic Site. For the first time, this sublime view is now available online to audiences around the world at all times and in all seasons. Olana’s famous Hudson Valley view is known for its dramatic atmospheric effects, including spectacular sunrise and sunset colors, which change throughout the year.

Olana’s Main House and Studio command unparalleled views down the Hudson River and across the Catskills. In 1869, Frederic Church referred to Olana as “the center of the world”. The composed views from Olana convey an American identity tied to ideas of wilderness and scenic beauty.

Olana connects visually to the iconic landscape where a distinctly American art movement was created and continues to be celebrated. David Huntington, the visionary art historian who led the charge to save Olana from destruction in the 1960s, wrote: “Olana is the monument of Emerson’s, Thoreau’s, and Whitman’s America.”

The OLANA EYE skycam continuously captures Olana’s atmospheric and climactic effects, which can be seen for miles across the Hudson River Valley into the Catskill Mountains. Seasonal and sometimes surprising weather patterns, fog and flamboyant sunsets often contribute to the experience of being at Olana. “We are having splendid Meteoric displays,” Frederic Church wrote in 1870. “Magnificent sunsets and Auroras – red, green, yellow, and blue – and such – in

profusion I have actually been drawn away from my usual steady devotion to the new house to sketch some of the fine things hung in the sky.” In 1871, Church wrote to fellow artist Martin Johnson Heade, “I make a study from my studio window of a sunset or twilight nearly every day.” Frederic Church was able to see art in the drama of nature. On canvas and in the creation of Olana’s 250-acre landscape, Church was able to translate nature into an immersive art form.

The Hudson Valley was the birthplace of the Hudson River School movement that was founded by Thomas Cole, Frederic Church’s friend and teacher, whose home is just across the Hudson River and is today connected by the Hudson River Skywalk pedestrian route (HudsonRiverSkywalk. org). Beginning in 1860, Frederic Church carefully composed and designed Olana’s 250 acres over several decades, with an artist’s eye to his property’s borrowed view of neighboring hills and valleys, the Hudson River, and distant mountain ranges. The views beyond Olana - its viewshed - remain an essential part of Church’s original composition. Over the last four decades, The Olana Partnership has collaborated with regional preservation organizations, governmental divisions and private landowners to protect the most important views from Olana.

“With the launch of the OLANA EYE skycam, the whole world can share in Olana’s spectacular, ever-changing views, every day and in real time, and feel themselves immersed in Frederic Church’s vision,” said Sean Sawyer, Washburn and Susan Oberwager President of The Olana Partnership. “Olana’s views are the reason America’s most celebrated artist built his home

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

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

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

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

Together, we can get through this crisis.

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

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What will my wife’s survivor benefit be?

Dear Rusty: I am a 68-year-old retired male and had planned on waiting to collect Social Security benefits beginning at age 70. My wife is currently 53 years old. When I die, would my wife’s spousal benefit at her full retirement age be equal to what I would be receiving at age 70 or be reduced? Also, if I were to die before 70 and before collecting social security, what would be my wife’s survivor benefit at her full retirement age?

Signed: Older Husband Dear Older Husband: Your wife’s survivor benefit as your widow will depend upon two things — the amount you were receiving (or were

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GLOOR eligible to receive) at your death, and the age at which she claims her survivor benefit as your widow.

If you were receiving an increased benefit because you waited until age 70, your wife’s benefit — if she has reached

her full retirement age — will be 100% of the amount you were receiving at your death.

If she hasn’t yet reached her full retirement age when she claims her survivor benefit (she could claim as early as age 60) the benefit will be actuarially reduced according to the number of months prior to her full retirement age (FRA) that she claims it. The amount of reduction for claiming her survivor benefit before her FRA is 0.396% for each full month earlier, which is 4.75% per year earlier than her FRA, to a maximum of 28.5%. And for clarity, your wife isn’t required to take the survivor benefit immediately upon your death; she can wait until the benefit reaches

Senior Briefs We want to hear from you.

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information about the club, call Jim 845-756-2960.

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SHOPPING ASSISTANCE FOR SENIORS

GREENPORT — The Greenport Seniors May 28 and June 25 meetings are cancelled. The picnic planned for July 23 is cancelled as well. No meeting is normally scheduled in August so the next planned meeting will be at 1 p.m. Sept. 24 in the Community Center.

Regarding the trips with the Columbia County Golden Agers several have had to be cancelled. The trips cancelled so far are June 11 to Boston; July 14 to the Log Cabin; Aug. 12 to Westchester Theatre. We are still looking into the remaining trips. Will keep you posted.

Stay home and stay safe.

LEBANON VALLEY SENIORS NEW LEBANON — There will be no meetings of the Lebanon Valley Senior Club during May. The June Perkins Cove, Maine trip has been postponed. Will let everyone know when and if it is rescheduled. Aug. 27, Essex Steam Train ride, steamboat ride on the Connecticut river and lunch included. Price is $60.

For information, call Mary Derfreest at 518-733-0009.

TRI-VILLAGE SENIORS VALATIE — Tri-Village Seniors will keep everyone posted on the status of the Hudson River Cruise trip in June as well as the June meeting when those dates get closer.

HUDSON — Difficult times bring out the best in people and once again, Columbia County residents have stepped up to the challenge.

If you are a Columbia County resident who is over 60 and need assistance and would like someone to shop or pick up prescriptions for you, call the Office for the Aging at 518-828-4258. The Office for the Aging has compiled a list of groups and volunteers throughout the County who will shop and deliver items to your home. The Columbia County Office for the Aging is here to assist you during this difficult time.

FACE MASKS HUDSON — If any senior, 60 and older, is in need of a face mask, they should contact the Columbia County Office for the Aging at 518-828-4258 to make arrangements for pick up or delivery. The office is open 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday through Friday.

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TIVOLI — The Southern Tier Senior meeting planned for June 3 at the Mason’s Hall in Tivoli has been cancelled.

The next meeting is planned for July which will be the annual picnic. If there are still safety restrictions to avoid group gatherings we will have the picnic in August. For

HUDSON — Columbia County Sheriff David Bartlett has established a hotline for the elderly and vulnerable in county, including those with medical conditions or are disabled, who would welcome a deputy checking on their well-being on a daily basis.

The number for the hotline is

518-828-0601 ext. 1400.

VIRTUAL STRENGTH AND BALANCE CLASS COPAKE — The Roe Jan Community Library presents Virtual Strength and Balance Class 9-10 a.m. Thursdays.

Join Dr. Paul Spector for a virtual exercise class from the comfort of your own home via Zoom. All you need is a computer, tablet, or smartphone and an internet connection.

Join the class each Thursday by visiting https://zoom. us/j/759916157, or by going to https://zoom.us/ and typing in this code: 759-916-157.

The same link and code will be used each week.

HUDSON SENIOR CENTER HUDSON — Thank you everyone for your support in following the CDC guidelines and keeping all of us safe and healthy by staying indoors and stocking up on basic necessities.

The Hudson Senior Center is closed and the exercise and meal programs are cancelled until further notice. However, the Senior Center has established a food bank for anyone in need of additional food items. Please call first for a time to pick up and bring your own reusable bags. Someone will come down to meet you at the front door.

Neighbors and friends are calling to volunteer their time to assist seniors in need of grocery pickup or small errands.

If you need someone to assist you in this way, call the Senior Center at 518-828-3200 between 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Monday through Thursday so we can arrange this service for you.

If you have access to the Internet, please follow us on Facebook for updates: City of Hudson Senior Center.

Senior Menu HUDSON — The Columbia County Office for the Aging announces the menu for seniors.

Participants are encouraged to attend any senior nutrition center. For information, call the local senior center or go to www.columbiacountyny. com/depts/ofa/meals.html.

Canaan Area Senior Community Center, Canaan Town Hall, 1647 County Route 5, Canaan. 518-781-3144 ext. 3.

Copake Area Senior Community Center, Copake Town Hall, 230 Mountain View Road, Copake. 518-567-7881.

Greenport Community Center, 500 Town Hall Drive, Hudson. 518-610-0710.

Hudson Senior Community Center, 51 North Fifth St., Hudson. 518-610-0698.

Livingston Area Senior Community Center, Elizaville Firehouse, 1575 County Road 19, Elizaville. 518-828-7538.

Philmont Area Senior Community Center, Albert L. Tripp Center, 93 Main St., Philmont.

518-672-7134.

Stuyvesant Area Senior Community Center, St. Joseph’s Parish Hall, 1820 Route 9, Stuyvesant. 518-751-0267.

Valatie Senior Center, 3302 Williams St., Valatie. 518-5677881.

Due to concerns over the Coronavirus, all Columbia

County congregate meal sites will be closed. For information and updates, go to the website of the Office for the Aging.

This is the menu for Meals on Wheels.

MAY 27 THROUGH MAY 29 WEDNESDAY: Lemon chicken piccata over orzo, broccoli, 12 grain bread, milk, peanut butter cookie.

THURSDAY: Garden Sloppy Joe’s, cauliflower, wheat bun, milk, Bavarian cream.

FRIDAY: Roast turkey with gravy, stuffing, seasoned mashed potatoes, peas, milk, fruit crisp.

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100% at her full retirement age, if desired and if financially feasible.

If your wife is also eligible for a SS benefit on her own work record and you die before she reaches her FRA, she will have the choice to take either her own Social Security benefit or her survivor benefit from you. If her survivor benefit will be her highest possible benefit, she would have the option to take her own SS retirement benefit from her own work record first and delay taking the larger survivor benefit until it reaches maximum at her FRA. Or, if her own benefit at age 70 would be more than her survivor benefit from you, she could take the smaller

survivor benefit first and delay taking her own SS benefit until it reaches maximum at age 70 and switch to her own benefit at that time. The goal is for her to get the highest possible benefit for the rest of her life.

Finally, if you were to die before you started collecting your increased Social Security benefit at age 70, your wife would still have the same options, but her survivor benefit amount would be based upon the amount you were eligible to receive at your death, even though you were not yet collecting. In other words, all those delayed retirement credits (DRCs) you are now earning (and will continue to earn until you are 70) will not

be lost — the benefit you have earned up to the point you die will be what your wife’s survivor benefit is based upon.

This article is intended for information purposes only and does not represent legal or financial guidance. It presents the opinions and interpretations of the AMAC Foundation’s staff, trained and accredited by the National Social Security Association (NSSA). NSSA and the AMAC Foundation and its staff are not affiliated with or endorsed by the Social Security Administration or any other governmental entity. To submit a question, visit our website (amacfoundation.org/programs/socialsecurity-advisory) or email us at ssadvisor@amacfoundation.org.

New York State honors older volunteers during Older Americans Month ALBANY - The New York State Office for the Aging (NYSOFA) is celebrating New York’s older volunteers and the extraordinary value they bring to our state.

“We have highlighted for years the significant contributions older New Yorkers make to their families, communities, and the economy,” said NYSOFA Acting Director Greg Olsen. “This pandemic has demonstrated how critical our network of volunteers is as they put themselves at risk every day to provide critical services to older adults in their homes to slow the spread of the virus. And we recognize how essential our older volunteers are. They are saving lives. I could not be more thankful and proud.”

“During this unprecedented time with the coronavirus pandemic, older adults across the state are continuing to step up in their communities,” said Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul.

“We commend our older New Yorkers for contributing selfless hours of community service and volunteerism to provide critical services to their peers. Without their efforts, many older adults would not have the food, supplies, and medications they need to help ensure their health and safety. On behalf of all New Yorkers, we thank you for your service to others.”

May is recognized nationally as Older Americans Month, where we acknowledge the incredible efforts and diverse contributions older adults make to their communities. In New York, there are almost 1 million volunteers age 55+ who contribute almost 500 million hours of service annually at an economic value of more than $13 billion. This year’s Older Americans Month theme is “Make Your Mark,” which perfectly captures the role older New Yorkers are making during this pandemic.

Their time, experience, and talents benefit family, peers, and neighbors every day.

Communities, organizations, and individuals of all ages are also making their marks.

This year’s theme highlights

the difference everyone can make — for older adults, to support caregivers, and to strengthen communities.

The New York State Office for the Aging and its 59 area agencies on aging across the state honor exceptional individuals, who through their actions, demonstrate the spirit of civic engagement and selflessness. Older New Yorkers who are volunteering are providing essential services during this pandemic as a result of Matilda’s Law by delivering meals, groceries, supplies, and medication; providing transportation to critical medical appointments such as dialysis and cancer treatments; and making phone calls to older adults to combat social isolation.

These volunteers are true heroes who deserve our gratitude for being on the front lines to help others.

Dr. Ann Sullivan, Commissioner of the New York State Office of Mental Health said, “We are proud to stand in partnership with the New York State Office for the Aging in helping older New Yorkers with the emotional distress many are undergoing as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Whether people are experiencing loss, grief, loneliness, isolation, anxiety or uncertainty, the Office of Mental Health has a team of trained volunteers ready to support them through Governor Cuomo’s COVID-19 Emotional Support Helpline.

Just call us at 1-844-8639314.”

Rebecca Preve, Executive Director of the Association on Aging in NY said, “The value of volunteers to the aging network is immeasurable. The delivery of services and supports throughout New York State would not be possible without the selfless dedication of our volunteers.

The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that volunteers are the lifeline for basic human needs, including food, prescription delivery, and transportation. We are so thankful for our volunteers and are proud to highlight them during Older Americans Month.”

This year, NYSOFA is highlighting its traditional volunteers every day during the month of May on our website and through social media. In addition, we will highlight volunteers who are putting themselves at risk to serve their communities and are continuing to work to address the needs of older adults during this pandemic by providing meals, groceries and supplies, medications, transportation, and addressing social isolation.

Older Americans Month shows the true side of aging — that it’s not about artificial numbers that represent age, because how old we are is not what defines us. It is our actions, passions, commitments, perseverance, and goals that define us—and an artificial number can never be placed on these.

The New York State Office for the Aging (NYSOFA) continuously works to help the state’s 4.3 million older adults be as independent as possible for as long as possible through advocacy, development and delivery of person-centered, consumeroriented, and cost-effective policies, programs, and services that support and empower older adults and their families, in partnership with the network of public and private organizations that serve them.

New York is nationally recognized for being the first age-friendly state in the nation. Using the state’s Prevention Agenda as the overarching framework, in 2017, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo launched a Health Across All Policies approach, where public and private partners work together to positively impact population health by marrying health care, preventive health, and community design, in concert with addressing social determinants of health, to improve the lives of all New Yorkers, young and old.

Stay connected — download the NYSOFA mobile app for iOS or Android; visit the NYSOFA Facebook page; follow @NYSAGING on Twitter; or visit aging.ny.gov.

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Cities are closing streets to make way for restaurants and pedestrians Michael Laris The Washington Post

The forced distancing required by the coronavirus prompted several cities to quickly close some public roads to make room so cooped-up residents anxious to get outside for exercise could do so safely.

Now, following moves to shut, narrow or repurpose streets from Oakland to Tampa, cities including Washington, D.C., are seeking to understand how those emergency closures might have lasting impacts on some of urban America’s most important, and contested, real estate.

D.C. lawmakers are drafting legislation to make it easier for shutdownbattered restaurants to space out their tables by putting them on public

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bravery and their sacrifice.”

State Legislature committee meetings are scheduled to take place Tuesday, with session scheduled for the following days to pass legislation related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Cuomo feels the Legislature’s return is a positive thing, he said, but warned lawmakers against spending state money as New York faces a minimum $13.3 billion budget shortfall. The state projects a $61 billion hole over four years because of unforeseen pandemic expenditures.

“There’s nothing we have done I haven’t talked to the Assembly and the Senate about — the question is what they do,” Cuomo said Monday.

“Legislatures tend to spend money. That’s basically the power of the purse. The problem in this situation is, we don’t have any money.”

In recent weeks, officials have said they expect to cut schools, hospitals and local government spending up to 20%. The governor has called on federal lawmakers to pass coronavirus legislation to help close state and local government budget gaps. A fifth, House-passed COVID-19 bill that would provide billions in assistance to states, sits in the U.S. Senate.

“Any additional money we spend increases the cuts to school aid, local governments

roads, parking spaces and sidewalks at least for months, and to give neighborhoods a way to close streets to traffic to make walking and biking safer. A mayoral advisory group made similar recommendations Thursday.

The pandemic “has been terrible.

But there are certain byproducts that, if we take advantage of them, will let us be more of an open city, more of a city that’s usable by all sorts of people, cafes and cyclists,” D.C. Council member Mary M. Cheh said. “It’s an opportunity to stop doing things in the old polluting and unhealthful ways.”

Officials around the country say their moves to change public roadways have been met so far with broad support, though they acknowledge

and hospitals,” Cuomo said.

“It’s a zero-sum game... There are a lot of good work you could do now, but it all takes money... we don’t have it.”

Lawmakers will utilize temporary rule changes adopted in March to hold proceedings with web-based teleconferences and video conferences.

Strict social-distancing measures will be in effect.

Lawmakers must vote to extend session or continue to pass legislation after session is slated to end June 2.

New York’s COVID-19 fatalities reached 22,715 Monday — up from 22,510 Saturday and 22,619 Sunday. Johns Hopkins University & Medicine’s online COVID-19 tracker, which includes probable virus deaths in its tally, listed the state’s virus death toll as 29,141.

The U.S. COVID-19 death toll reached 97,850 as of Monday afternoon.

The state saw 96 virus-related deaths Sunday, including 75 in hospitals and 21 in nursing homes. New York’s COVID-19 death rate is fluctuating, but on a decline after totaling 109 fatalities Saturday, 84 Friday and 109 Thursday.

The state tested 1,739,449 people by Monday, revealing 362,764 total positive cases of the virus. New York’s hospitalization rates continued a downward trend to 4,348 patients, according to the governor’s office.

Residents at the state’s 600-plus nursing homes are regularly tested for COVID-19, but it is not mandated, Cuomo

some early missteps, such as not giving enough emphasis to the specific needs of disadvantaged neighborhoods. Some of the newly closed streets also were underused or met with objections from some businesses.

But cities have taken steps to address those concerns, including reopening some roads and closing others as they seek to get the balance right. Oakland, California, home to one of the earliest and most ambitious “Slow Streets” plans, has also been among the most open about early blind spots, with officials there saying humility and accountability are vital for cementing any such changes.

“While the program overall continues to receive overwhelming support

among survey respondents, those responding to surveys are more likely to be White, have high incomes and live in North Oakland,” a more welloff swath of the city, officials wrote in a recent summary. That’s true even as public health officials say poorer neighborhoods and “people of color are more likely to suffer harm from this pandemic,” the officials wrote.

To address that, Oakland officials on Friday broadened their effort beyond about 20 miles of “soft closures” of neighborhood streets. Those use barriers and signs to bar through-traffic in particular areas, but they allow residents, trash trucks and delivery vans to drive in slowly.

On Friday, as part of an expansion dubbed “Essential Places,” city

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Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo speaks during a pandemic briefing Saturday at the Executive Mansion in Albany.

said. Earlier this month, the governor issued an executive order requiring all nursinghome staff be tested for the coronavirus twice per week statewide.

“I wouldn’t call it a requirement, but we are testing all the people in nursing homes,” Cuomo said, adding residents are tested on an ongoing basis.

“Nursing homes are the prime breeding grounds for this killer.”

State officials continue to study the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, which ravaged the state and nation for more than two years, for lessons about how to intelligently restart the state economy. St. Louis and Denver both experienced sharp increases in deaths after relaxing stay-at-home orders.

In Denver, the deaths spiked worse than the first wave.

Cuomo pointed to a recent study highlighted in The

Washington Post on Sunday that shows 24 states may have uncontrolled COVID-19 growth to reiterate why New Yorkers must continue to wear face masks or coverings in public, wash their hands and remain six feet from other people.

“You look at places that didn’t close, they had a much higher retention rate,” Cuomo said. “It’s not smart, it defies history, it defies everything we know — it defies common sense.”

The North Country, Central New York, the Finger Lakes, the Mohawk Valley and Southern Tier regions started reopening May 15 — the day the state’s NY On Pause order, which mandated the closure of schools and nonessential businesses, first expired. A regional control group of officials continues to monitor virus testing, tracing,

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approved 1,183 applications for the PPP program totaling $97 million, bank Marketing Director Martha Keeler said.

NFIB’S survey found that many businesses are struggling to compete with unemployment benefits.

Almost one in five borrowers find it difficult to meet the forgiveness requirement that the borrower’s employee head count match the pre-crisis employee head count because

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.

War and all subsequent wars, from World Wars I and II to Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq, among others.

“God bless them for their sacrifice, and God bless America,” Markou said.

U.S. Army paratrooper veteran and past commander Salvatore Pusatere was the second guest speaker for the ceremony.

He recalled relatives and friends who saw combat, some who died and some who were grievously wounded.

Joy Andreassen, a member of the Legion’s Auxiliary, said the organization wanted to hold the ceremony despite the pandemic and restrictions.

“It’s just so difficult this year to actually show honor and respect to our fallen heroes,” Joy Andreassen said. “There are so many people who are hurting that have had loved ones that have been killed in the war and even those who came back as wounded warriors. This is a day to take time to think about that, and what they have done, and pray for them and their families.” would be allocated to the program from the state’s Common Retirement Fund.

The Common Retirement Fund is the public pension fund for more than one million state and local government employees and retirees, and their beneficiaries.

Almost one-quarter of those who have taken out either a PPP loan or an Economic Injury Disaster Loan, or both, anticipate they will need additional support, and another 54% do not know yet, according to NFIB. Only 20% of borrowers do not anticipate needing additional support.

and the restrictions that are in place, the members wanted to keep their traditions alive for the holiday, Howland said.

“Regardless of what goes on, America has to continue,” he said. “We are determined to continue — and part of our

charge is to remember, and we

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many businesses have already laid off workers due to slower sales or suspended business activity, according to the NFIB. Another 28% find it somewhat difficult to maintain or return to their pre-crisis workforce levels.

Those who do not qualify for traditional unemployment may apply for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, a program established by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act. Those who qualify are also eligible for Pandemic Unemployment Compensation,

an additional $600 per week available to those receiving benefits through traditional unemployment and 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.

Eighteen percent of small business owners have had an employee decline a job offer because they wanted to stay on unemployment, according to the NFIB. Another 6% of owners have increased salaries to

encourage a worker to come back to their job.

Five percent of small business owners reported that an employee has remained in their job because they also received supplemental unemployment benefits with reduced hours.

With students being transitioned to virtual classrooms and summer programs for youth up in the air, many parents are struggling to find child care.

“I have a huge amount of sympathy for parents in difficult situations, either parents who have lost work or

are working at essential businesses, which makes it difficult for them to supervise their children,” Catskill Community Center Executive Director Margaret Tomlinson said. “We want to do anything we can to help.”

With the immense need of small businesses across the nation, the initial $349 billion for the program ran out within 13 days after the program went live April 3.

Congress approved an additional $310 billion for the program, which resumed April 27 and the state comptroller announced another $50 million

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hospitalization and death metrics each day.

“We’re watching the numbers,” Cuomo said Saturday.

“Two weeks between each phase is a rule of thumb. That’s not a hard-and-fast number. “...Phase II is more a judgment call of when have the numbers stabilized. Can you explain an increase, or is the increase problematic?”

Phase I is easier to implement than phase II, state Budget Director Robert Mujica said, because the required benchmarks were clear-cut.

Phase II businesses include professional services such as hair salons, finance and insurance, retail, administrative support, real estate and rental leasing. The governor’s executive order will be amended and the state will release specific social-distancing guidelines and safety protocols before phase II industries are permitted to reopen in any region, Mujica said.

Campground and RV parks opened statewide Monday. All veterinarian practices are permitted to resume statewide Tuesday.

Metropolitan Transportation Authority employees will thoroughly clean and disinfect every bus and all of its commuter trains daily to curb the virus’s spread — similar to the MTA’s daily cleaning of New York City subways implemented last month.

“We never disinfected trains and buses before,” Cuomo said. “We didn’t think they had to.”

The Long Island Rail Road Honeyford Memorial American Legion Post 110 in Catskill hosted its annual Memorial Day ceremony on the steps of the Greene County Courthouse at 11 a.m. Monday.

“Because of this virus, there is no need for us to not honor those who gave us the freedoms we have today,” Cmdr.

Thomas Andreassen said. “So many people lost loved ones in the war, and it’s our time to honor them. This only happens once a year like this and there is no reason in the world for this virus to shut us down.”

U.S. Navy veteran and Greene County Treasurer Peter Markou was one of the guest speakers addressing the audience. He wanted to ensure those who served and died are not forgotten. He recalled the origins of Memorial Day, originally known as Decoration Day in the years following the Civil War. “The tradition was to decorate veterans’ graves with flowers. Today, we decorate them with flags,” Markou said.

He paid tribute to veterans who died in the Revolutionary

Memorial passed before.”

A military gun salute, the national anthem, taps and the raising of the flag honored deceased veterans.

Coons wanted everyone to remember those who died and honor them despite the virus that has upended the state and nation.

“I want people to know that we cannot forget those who made the ultimate sacrifice,” Coons said.

Eric De Kraai, second vice commander of the Legion, said remembering those who sacrificed is vital.

“I want everybody to remember those who came before us and understand what they did for our country,” De Kraai said.

Hudson American Legion Post 184 predates the national American Legion organization by two months in 1919, Howland said. Despite COVID-19

officials unveiled barriers in less-welloff East Oakland that are intended to thwart speeding and help pedestrians walk and cross a sometimes-treacherous intersection more safely, with more coming soon in other areas.

“The program was not addressing what we would call arterials, the larger streets that carry buses and trucks,” said Ryan Russo, Oakland’s director of transportation. The city is targeting other such places, including those with high numbers of injuries and areas near essential services such as grocery stores, to add barriers and other safety measures for pedestrians. That’s on top of ongoing efforts to close dozens more miles of smaller neighborhood streets to through-traffic.

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Chaplain Rick Howland from American Legion Post 184 in Hudson recites a prayer in honor of service men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in service to the nation.

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is prepared to add additional train cars to ensure riders can maintain social distancing.

Face masks are mandatory in New York when riding public transportation and when it is impossible to remain six feet from others.

New York professional sports league training camps were cleared to restart Sunday.

Leagues must follow mandated state Health Department social-distancing protocols.

The Mid-Hudson region is on track to start reopening nonessential businesses Tuesday under phase I, including construction, manufacturing, forestry, fishing, pickup retail and wholesale trades. Long Island is on track to reopen Wednesday, if the area’s number of virus deaths continues to drop. The region’s contacttracing operation is expected to be completed and online by Wednesday.

Cuomo urged New Yorkers to get a free diagnostic test at one of more than 760 sites statewide. Frontline workers, New Yorkers who come in contact with a COVID-19-positive person or anyone with symptoms should get tested and will be prioritized to receive a diagnostic test.

Repeat diagnostic tests are permitted. To schedule a free COVID-19 test, visit coronavirus.health.ny.gov.

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Last-lap pass gives Busch 97th Xfinity win Field Level Media

In NASCAR’s new normal, with a Memorial Day race in a stretch of four national events in four days, Kyle Busch returned to the old normal – winning.

But for Busch to secure his record 97th victory in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, the driver of the No. 54 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota had to make a last-lap pass of Austin Cindric, who blew past Busch during an overtime restart in Monday’s Alsco 300 at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C. Helped by a spate of cautions over the final 50 laps, Busch survived a pit-road speeding penalty and claimed his first Xfinity win of the season and his ninth at Charlotte. He won for the first time in five national series starts during a stretch of seven races in 11 days, as NASCAR has returned to action after a 10-week hiatus necessitated by the coronavirus pandemic.

After Noah Gragson’s No. 9 JR Motorsports Chevrolet broke loose on a Lap 197 restart, igniting a five-car wreck and causing the 11th caution of the evening, Cindric passed Busch from the inside lane during the overtime restart on Lap 202 and held the top spot when the cars flashed across the start/finish line in front of the white flag.

Busch, however, pulled even on the backstretch, then cleared Cindric in Turn 3. With his momentum stalled, Cindric lost the runner-up spot to Daniel See XFINITY B3

Mike Tyson offered upward of $20M to fight again JOE CAMPOREALE/USA TODAY

Boxing Hall of Fame member Mike Tyson attends the Feb. 22 WBC heavyweight title bout between Deontay Wilder and Tyson Fury at MGM Grand Garden Arena.

Brian Niemietz New York Daily News

For some reason, there are people out there who think it’s a good idea to fight Mike Tyson.

And at least one challenger is ready to put his money where the former champ’s fist might wind up.

“I think I know what we need to do to make this thing happen,” Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship president David Feldman told Bleacher Report, which reported that the organization is set to offer Mike Tyson more than $20 million to come out of retirement.

The 53-year-old Brooklyn native hasn’t

fought in 15 years, but video or recent workouts showing Iron Mike training with the power and speed that once made him the most exciting fighter on Earth has renewed interest in what Tyson might be able to do now.

Tyson concluded one of those videos by throwing a barrage of hooks and uppercuts and saying “I’m back.”

Tyson’s rep told the Daily News on May 12 that the former champ is staying in shape, but has no matches lined up.

The 5-foot-10, 240-pound bruiser said during an interview with rapper TI last month he might lace up the gloves for a good cause. The folks at BKFC trying to bait Tyson reportedly said they

plan to sweeten their eight-figure offer to Tyson with charitable donations.

A boxing insider tells The News there have been at least four offers from fighters looking to challenge Tyson. Evander Holyfield, who beat Tyson twice before, said he’d like to get a piece of the fighter who famously bit off his ear in 1997, according to Reuters.

The 57-year-old Holyfield told the BBC Tyson would have to ask for that fight because otherwise it may look like he’s bullying Iron Mike, who’s 0-2 against him.

Tyson’s reps did not respond to a request for comment.

Georgetown coach is recovering at home after being hospitalized for coronavirus Scott Allen The Washington Post

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Georgetown men’s basketball coach and former New York Knicks star Patrick Ewing is home and recovering after testing positive and being treated at a hospital for the novel coronavirus, according to his son.

“I want to thank all of the doctors and hospital staff for taking care of my father during his stay, as well as everyone who has reached out with thoughts and prayers to us ... since his diagnosis,” Patrick Ewing Jr., who finished his college basketball career at Georgetown in 2008, tweeted on Monday. “We’ll continue to watch his symptoms and follow the CDC guidelines. I hope everyone continues to stay safe and protect yourselves and your loved ones.”

Ewing, 57, announced his positive diagnosis on Twitter on Friday night, along with a statement from Georgetown in which the school said no other members of the program

Georgetown men’s basketball coach Patrick Ewing during a game in March.

had tested positive for the disease.

“This virus is serious and should not be taken lightly,” Ewing said in the statement.

“I want to encourage everyone to stay safe and take care of yourselves and your loved ones. Now more than ever, I want to thank the health care workers and everyone on the front lines. I’ll be fine and we will all get through this.”

The total number of coronavirus infections in the Washington region, one of the hardesthit parts of the country, topped 90,000 Sunday. LaQuandra Nesbitt, director of the D.C. health department, told reporters that data collected over the weekend showed that the number of cases linked to community spread increased from a low of 68 on day 12 to 118 on day 13, breaking a 12-day streak of declines.

Ewing, who led the Hoyas to three Final Fours and the 1984 NCAA tournament title before his Hall of Fame NBA career, has a 4946 record since taking over at Georgetown in 2017.

Will there be an MLB season? Here’s what the players and owners must resolve Bill Shaikin Los Angeles Times

Scott Boras sounded a bit hoarse when he picked up the phone Sunday. He’d been talking with players all weekend, strategizing the next two weeks that could determine whether there is a baseball season in 2020.

Those weren’t the only conversations he’s had recently.

His agency’s Twitter account, for eight years used to offer condolences and share charitable endeavors, has been transformed in the last two months to promote Boras’ appearances on CNBC, MSNBC, NBC Sports Network, ESPN Radio, CBS Sports Radio, Fox Sports Radio and MLB Network Radio.

Boras says he is speaking to fans. As elected officials from

President Donald Trump to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo say the time has come to play ball, Boras is well aware players likely would shoulder the blame if they cannot reach a financial agreement with owners for a 2020 season. The owners say the players need to compromise on salary, and several decorated players have publicly wondered why.

“I want fans, when they think about what players are doing and why, to understand,” Boras said. “They have compromised.”

Q. Boras is a player advocate. When he says players have compromised, is he correct?

A. In March, owners and players agreed that salaries would be prorated for any games played this season. To

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Agent Scott Boras in attendance before the Houston Astros play the Milwaukee Brewers at Minute Maid Park on June 12, 2019 in Houston, Texas.

play roughly 50% of the season, as owners have proposed,

would require a 50% pay cut.

Q. So what’s the issue?

A. The agreement also commits owners and players to negotiate in good faith about the economic feasibility of playing games without fans. The owners say they need additional pay cuts because they would lose more money by playing games without fans than by not playing at all. The players do not believe that and, in any case, say the owners can decide whether to play based on the salaries to which they agreed.

Q. Would the owners really decide not to play?

A. They would rather play.

The majority of national television money comes from the postseason, which the owners propose to expand, starting this year.

Q. That should give the players some leverage, right?

A. The players had little to no leverage heading into the next round of collective bargaining. The owners have manipulated the current labor agreement into a de facto salary cap and have taken advantage of analytic insights to emphasize younger and cheaper players. Now, finally, the owners say they need something from the players.

Q. So why not broaden these negotiations and get the next collective bargaining agreement done as well?

A. No one knows what the economics of baseball might be when the current labor deal expires after the 2021 season.

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

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

NHL SCORING LEADERS THROUGH MARCH 11 GP G Leon Draisaitl, Edm 71 43 C. McDavid, Edm 64 34 A. Panarin, NYR 69 32 David Pastrnak, Bos 70 48 N. MacKinnon, Col 69 35 B. Marchand, Bos 70 28 Nikita Kucherov, TB 68 33 Patrick Kane, Chi 70 33 A. Matthews, Tor 70 47 Jack Eichel, Buf 68 36 J. Huberdeau, Fla 69 23 John Carlson, Was 69 15

A PTS 67 110 63 97 63 95 47 95 58 93 59 87 52 85 51 84 33 80 42 78 55 78 60 75

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

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

NBA SCORING LEADERS Through March 11 G FG 61 603 57 593 57 623 60 546 58 531 54 512 53 568 51 476 55 508 62 544 60 586 60 539 64 560 57 469 53 459 59 499 62 549 61 503 54 437 50 350 55 424 65 513 64 424 50 378 54 328 65 512 64 418

Harden, HOU Beal, WAS Anttkounmpo, MIL Young, ATL Lillard, POR Doncic, DAL Westbrook, HOU Leonard, LAC Davis, LAL Booker, PHX James, LAL LaVine, CHI Mitchell, UTA Ingram, NOR Siakam, TOR Tatum, BOS McCollum, POR DeRozan, SAN Wiggins, GOL Walker, BOS Middleton, MIL Sexton, CLE Dinwiddie, BKLYN Brown, BOS Butler, MIA Jokic, DEN Bogdanovic, UTA

PTS 2096 1741 1690 1778 1677 1549 1456 1370 1467 1619 1544 1530 1525 1358 1253 1390 1395 1352 1175 1060 1159 1349 1318 1022 1093 1313 1275

AVG 34.4 30.5 29.6 29.6 28.9 28.7 27.5 26.9 26.7 26.1 25.7 25.5 23.8 23.8 23.6 23.6 22.5 22.2 21.8 21.2 21.1 20.8 20.6 20.4 20.2 20.2 19.9

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

NASCAR CUP SERIES POINTS LEADERS Through Sunday 1. Kevin Harvick, 291 points 2. Joey Logano, 268 3. Alex Bowman, 266 4. Chase Elliott, 241 5. Brad Keselowski, 235 6. Martin Truex Jr., 235 7. Ryan Blaney, 212 8. Denny Hamlin, 209 9. Kyle Busch, 209 10. Aric Almirola, 208 11. Matt DiBenedetto, 190 12. Kurt Busch, 183 13. Erik Jones, 182 14. Clint Bowyer, 171 15. Jimmie Johnson, 162 16. Tyler Reddick, 162 17. William Byron, 158 18. Austin Dillon, 153 19. Chris Buescher, 148 20. Darrell Wallace Jr., 125 21. Kyle Larson, 121 22. Cole Custer, 119 23. Ty Dillon, 116 24. Ricky Stenhouse Jr., 114 25. John Hunter Nemechek, 114

NASCAR CUP SCHEDULE Today — NASCAR Cup Series at Charlotte, Concord, N.C. May 31 — Kansas 400, Kansas City, Kan. June 7 — FireKeepers Casino 400, Brooklyn, Mich. (TBA) June 14 — Toyota/Save Mart 350, Sonoma, Calif. (TBA) June 21 — Chicagoland 400, Joliet, Ill. (TBA) June 27 — Kids Free 325, Long Pond, Pa. (TBA) June 28 — Worry-Free Weather Guarantee 350, Long Pond, Pa. (TBA) July 5 — Big Machine Vodka 400 at the Brickyard Powered By Florida Georgia Line, Speedway, Ind. (TBA) July 11 — Quaker State 400 Presented by Walmart, Sparta, Ky. (TBA) July 19 — Foxwoods Resort Casino 301, Loudon, N.H. (TBA) Aug. 9 — Consumers Energy 400, Brooklyn, Mich. (TBA) Aug. 16 — Go Bowling at The Glen, Watkins Glen. (TBA) Aug. 23 — Drydene 400, Dover, Del. (TBA)

What we learned from Brad Keselowski’s Coac-Cola 600 win Alex Andrejev The Charlotte Observer

CONCORD, N.C. — Brad Keseleowski, driver of the No. 2 Ford for Team Penske, won his first Coca-Cola 600 early Monday in an overtime race that was determined in the final laps.

Keselowski finished threetenths of a second ahead of Jimmie Johnson, who came in second place until failing his post-race inspection. Chase Elliott, who had a large lead until a caution with two laps to go, crossed the finish line third.

CHASE ELLIOTT FOILED AGAIN Just four days after Elliott ended a race in fury over an incident with Kyle Busch, he nearly returned to the track in redemption. Nearly.

GERRY BROOME/POOL PHOTO VIA USA TODAY With two laps to go and ElNASCAR Cup Series driver Brad Keselowski (2) celebrates winning the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte liott in the lead, Hendrick Motor Speedway on Sunday. teammate William Byron spun out, forcing a caution and an made a statement early. Three Logano. the same speedway. overtime race. Elliot pitted for of the team’s four drivers domMeanwhile, Truex’s Joe Reddick demonstrated he tires before the restart, placing inated the qualifying round Gibbs Racing teammates Kyle could handle the endurance him behind Keselowski and with a top-10 starting spot, Busch and Erik Jones remained test at Charlotte as well. The Johnson. then the one driver who started sprinkled throughout the top No. 8 driver started fifth, and With under 50 laps to go, in 12th place, Alex Bowman, 10 in the first three stages, as raced his way into fourth place Keselowski moved into a first dominated the first two stages did Hendrick drivers Chase El- for Stage 1 points and flirted place position off a critical re- of the race. liott, William Byron and Jim- with the top-10 through the start after a caution flag was Bowman led 338 of the 600 mie Johnson. Truex Jr. finished night. thrown for Joey Gase, who miles, winning Stage Nos. the race sixth (following JohnRookie Christopher Bell also spun off Turn 4 at the back of 1 and 2 handily, and finish- son’s disqualification) and made an appearance in the the field. Elliott’s No. 9 Chevy ing second in Stage 3. He was Bowman placed 19th. top-10. Bell finished ninth. pushed past Keselowski and passed by reigning Coca-Cola STRUGGLES AT CHARROOKIES REMAIN STRONG held the lead for 38 laps of the 600 champion Martin Truex Cup rookie Tyler Reddick LOTTE 405-lap race.

Jr. on Lap 225 after a cat-and- continued to impress with his Hamlin’s dreams of his first A TRUEX-BOWMAN DUEL mouse chase that continued second top-10 finish of 2020. Coke 600 win were dashed be...

He finished in eighth place fore the race began. The No. through the finish.

Epitomized the ToyotaTruex Jr. finished in second (updated result) following a 11 driver lost a ballast under Chevy, JGR-Hendrick battle, behind Bowman in the first seventh place finish last Sun- his car while running pace laps and defined the evening. two stages, and finished fifth in day at Darlington and a 13th just minutes before the green Hendrick Chevrolet drivers Stage 3, which was won by Joey place spot on Wednesday at flag waved, forcing Hamlin to

pit as other drivers started the race. Hamlin entered eight laps down and remained in the bottom half for all 607.6 miles, the longest Cup race ever in mileage.

Hamlin did not finish in dead-last, however. No. 43 driver Bubba Wallace was forced out of the race due to a mechanical issue less than halfway through Stage 2. He returned in the third stage with a penalty and finished in the bottom three.

Like Wallace, No. 14 driver Clint Bowyer suffered a blow early. Bowyer hit the wall just before the end of Stage 1, forcing Bowyer’s car to smoke and sending the driver to the care center, from which he was quickly released.

Hamlin’s error will cost him more than Bowyer’s and Wallace’s, however. According to the NASCAR rule book, “loss or separation of added ballast from the vehicle will result in a four-race suspension of the crew chief, car chief and head engineer.” The ballast is the weight teams add to cars to meet the minimum weight requirement.

Before the race, Hamlin told FOX Sports he had multiple face masks at the ready in his car.

“I have different emotions stored away depending on how tonight goes,” Hamlin said. He finished 29th.

After tonight, Hamlin will need to pull out the frown. Keselowski will be the one smiling.

NASCAR gods are unhappy with Chase Elliott Scott Fowler The Charlotte Observer

Chase Elliott had it.

He was there, speeding to victory in the Coca-Cola 600, so far ahead that even his spotter had gone mostly silent. His crew prepared for celebration. After grinding through nearly six hours worth of racing at Charlotte Motor Speedway, Elliott was a single minute from winning.

And then it happened — again.

For the second time in a four-day span, Elliott got blindsided by a racing incident that wasn’t his fault. This time it actually came from a Hendrick Motorsports racing teammate. William Byron, far back in the field, cut a tire and spun out.

“That’s got to be a joke!” Elliott said on his radio, along with a few unprintable things.

It wasn’t a joke. It meant that Elliott — practically on cruise control until Byron’s wreck brought out the final caution flag and bunched up the field again — had to win the race at Charlotte Motor Speedway all over again.

And he couldn’t.

Hamstrung by a questionable call by crew chief Alan Gustafson to pit for four tires following that last caution, Elliott didn’t restart from the front and couldn’t make up the difference in the two-lap overtime period.

Instead, Brad Keselowski won and Jimmie Johnson finished second (Johnson was later disqualified for failing his post-race inspection). Neither of them had pitted at the end. Elliott was left with a third-place finish and a bushel of whatmight-have-beens. He was moved up to second after Johnson got DQ-ed. That was no real consolation, though. In racing, there is a yawning gap between first place and everything else.

“We were a lap-and-a-half away from winning the Coca-Cola 600,” a downcast Elliott said later.

On Wednesday, Kyle Busch had wrecked Elliott in the final laps at Darlington Raceway. Elliott was contending for the lead when Busch made a nearly inexplicable mistake for a driver of his

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Driver Chase Elliott on the grid prior to the NASCAR Cup Series Toyota 500 at Darlington Raceway in Darlington, S.C. on May 20.

caliber and sideswiped Elliott.

The resulting spin knocked Elliott out of the race. He fired a public middle finger at Busch right after that. But neither flipping the bird nor Busch’s immediate apology for his mistake did Elliott any good.

So Sunday night made two potential wins for Elliott in four days in the Carolinas, both of them swept away by the gods of racing misfortune.

It makes you wonder what the next NASCAR Cup race Wednesday night at Charlotte Motor Speedway will plague Elliott with — locusts, perhaps? Millions of cicadas are emerging in North Carolina after spending the past 17 years underground. Who’s going to be surprised if a few get into Elliott’s engine?

Elliott was asked early Monday morning after the Coke 600 — which was run without fans for the first time in its 60-year history due to COVID-19 — what

he planned to do next.

“Just try again,” he said. “I mean, there is really no other option. I can’t rewind time.”

It is difficult to feel too sorry for Elliott, 24, for too long. He is the son of NASCAR Hall of Fame driver Bill Elliott. Chase Elliott has big-time talent and a famous last name, and the combination of those two factors helped him leapfrog his way to NASCAR’s top level quicker than almost anyone else has. He’s still among the Top 5 in points this year and looks like a real contender for the 2020 championship.

He’s healthy. He makes a whole lot of money.

But still — the guy is having a run of some serious bad luck. You have to feel for him.

About the only thing that Chase’s father Bill never won was the Coca-Cola 600, stock-car racing’s longest race. A win Sunday would have given Chase

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something that “Awesome Bill from Dawsonville” never had.

Gustafson’s decision to pit a driver two laps from the finish line was a curious one. Keselowski was certainly happy to see it, but allowed that it was a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” situation for Gustafson. If Elliott hadn’t pitted, some of the drivers right behind him would have and then tried to chase him down on fresh tires.

“When you are leading the race like that, people behind you are going to do the exact opposite of what you do,” Elliott said.

Elliott wasn’t surprised when the line of cars immediately behind him mostly stayed out on the track. By the time his pit stop was over, he had dropped from first to 11th. He sprinted all the way back to third during the overtime period, but never came close to passing Johnson or Keselowski in overtime. He needed another caution flag to get another chance, but you know how Elliott’s luck is going these days.

Interestingly, Busch was one of the first to console Elliott after the race, saying he felt bad for him. Elliott had raced Busch cleanly for the entire 600-plus miles. With several chances to do so, he never tried to tap Busch into the wall in a “turnabout is fair play” sort of way (although one day, that might still be coming).

On Sunday, though, it was obvious Elliott had decided that the best way to show up Busch and everyone else was simply to beat them all. In a race that started at about 6:30 p.m. Sunday, included a 68-minute rain delay and didn’t end until slightly after midnight Monday, Elliott was seconds away from doing that.

And then Byron spun. Elliott pitted.

Holding 20 in a game of blackjack, Elliott saw the dealer draw a five-card “21.”’

And so Chase Elliott went home again — unable to rewind time, as he said, but undoubtedly wishing he could at least make Wednesday night’s Cup race at Charlotte Motor Speedway hurry up and get here.

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If the MLB wants to save the 2020 season, this will be a makeor-break week Evan Grant The Dallas Morning News

All that matters this week is everything.

If a baseball season is to be saved, if MLB is, as it has often said, to be part of the healing of America, then this is the week to either put up or continue to recede from the nation’s consciousness.

After a month worth of posturing — and some world-class leaking — the league and its Players Association must reach an agreement about the protocols and finances for returning to play. If the sides can’t agree by June 1, which just happens to be a week from Monday, putting together even a half season’s worth of games before an expected fall second wave of COVID-19 hits becomes logistically more difficult. And if the parties haven’t reached an agreement by June 1, then it’s all the more likely it will be because, as usual, their negotiations have bogged down in animosity, mistrust and somebody’s overriding desire to “win.”

There is only one way to win this: To play baseball, providing the coronavirus does not roar back.

In Taiwan, they’ve done it. In Korea, they’ve done it. On Monday, Japan announced it set sights on mid-June.

“I’m optimistic, personally,” Rangers general manager Jon Daniels said last week. “It’s clear there are two major topics that need to be addressed sufficiently. The first is the health and safety of everyone involved. I believe if that one can be met, and I’m hopeful that it can, then I would anticipate everybody involved would work and figure out the second element, which is the financial one.”

What MLB has laid out on health protocols is

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Hemric, who had come to pit road for fresh tires under caution with 21 laps left.

“Those guys put up a whale of a fight tonight on restarts,” Busch said afterward. “I was really surprised by that – I guess I’m not very good at it anymore. ... Pretty cool to score a win here at Charlotte.”

Busch’s Toyota was the class of the field, but that didn’t prevent the Xfinity regulars from challenging the reigning NASCAR Cup Series champion on restart after restart.

“It was interesting, and it was crazy,” said Busch, whose paint scheme honored

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the pandemic mean baseball teams can no longer count on ever-rising riches from regional sports networks? How valuable are streaming rights?

Without those answers, either side would risk making a foolish deal — and the union cannot risk another one.

Q. So the owners still need something from the players this year. What do the owners propose?

A. The owners initially floated a 50-50 split of revenues, for this year only. With the uncertainty of whether crowds of any size might be permitted by October, the owners thought, why not share in the upside or

detailed, ambitious and probably unenforceable across the game. As Elvis Andrus pointed out last week, are you going to eject somebody for giving a high five? The answer: Of course not. These should be treated as guidelines and recommendations, but there will be momentary lapses in the name of emotion and reaction. As long as players are armed with information, they are the ones taking the most physical risk and must be given some leeway to police themselves.

Finances are, in theory, trickier. Billionaires are trying to squeeze out some short-term savings while their long-term investments continue to grow in value. Millionaires are being asked to take pay cuts that amount to more than 50% of their negotiated contracts. The league had previously pitched a 50-50 share of revenues, which the players viewed as a salary cap. The new proposal, which is likely to still include some degree of an additional pay cut or deferral of some 2020 salary is due on Tuesday.

The players can’t win this element of the conversation. Nor should they try to.

Everything they aim for in these negotiations must be geared towards the long game. Such as: Free agency this coming winter and preparation for the next round of collective bargaining negotiations set for after the 2021 season. Their aim should be: Obtaining more useful information from the owners, particularly a clearer definition of what qualifies as teamoriented revenue streams and building solidarity amongst a base that has no conscious recollection of what players had to fight for in previous contentious negotiations.

Rays’ first workout: ‘Good to see some smiling faces’ Marc Topkin Tampa Bay Times

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — More than a dozen players participated in limited, light workouts at Tropicana Field on Monday as the Rays got back to work.

“A step in the right direction,” manager Kevin Cash said. “And it was good to see some smiling faces.”

The sessions, staggered in groups of two, were the Rays’ first at a team facility since March 17. Spring training was suspended, and camps closed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Players were allowed to get on the field to play catch, run, use free weights in “a makeshift gym” and do plyometric jumps and other exercises.

There was no access to the batting cages, bullpen mounds, weight room or clubhouse, though Cash said that could change as soon as next week. The Rays have similar sessions slated for Wednesday and Friday this week, then will discuss allowing additional activity.

Outfielder Austin Meadows said it was “huge” to get to be back at the Trop, see other members of the organization and do some structured workouts, and it was fun.

“It was good to see new

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Tampa Bay Rays manager Kevin Cash on a Zoom call discussing the team’s first workout back Monday at Tropicana Field.

faces,” outfielder Austin Meadows said. “It’s been a while since we’ve got to see each other and hang out and be on a routine. So today was good to have that little change of scenery.”

Players, coaches and the small number of staff in attendance were subject to screening questions and temperature checks on their way into the Trop. All wore masks, Cash said, though players were allowed to remove them for the workouts. There was a hand-washing station near

the entry/exit gate, and hand sanitizer was plentiful.

“Obviously the main priority is being safe and stuff like that,” Meadows said. “We’ll take anything that we need to do, any precaution we need to take just to get out there and play again. I think a lot of guys can say the same thing. ...

I trust MLB, I trust the union just to gather a plan together to keep us safe.”

The players who attended were staying in the Tampa Bay area, Cash said, estimating 14 took part. Infielders

Willy Adames and Jose Martinez, catcher Michael Perez and outfielder Manuel Margot were among others. The workout was not open to the media.

Cash said there were some “odd” elements to the scene, but it was good to have players back on the field.

“I think they were excited to get back to something that was normal or (that they were) used to, given that it was very unusual circumstances,” he said.

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Every pitcher has an ERA of 0.00. Every hitter is batting .000. Every team is in a 30way tie for first place (also last) at 0-0.

Depending on the sport, we’re seeing movement toward the resumption/ commencement of play. We could know something about MLB by week’s end. The NBA and MLS are casting eyes at Disney World as a home base. Tom Brady played golf and split his britches. (Is it just me, or has TB’s brief time in Tampa Bay been the height of goofiness?)

To borrow from Churchill, the Brit equivalent of Yogi Berra when it comes to catch-all quotes: “This is not the end; it is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”

College football is clearing a path for its players to re-gather on campus, even as we’re unsure if colleges themselves

Appalachian State University.

“Earlier in the race, Ross Chastain gave me a hell of a run on a restart, and then right there, Austin gave me a hell of a run on that restart and I thought picking the outside lane would be the sure launch, and those guys would spin their tires down there and not get going.

“It might have been the 8 (Hemric) that helped the 22 (Cindric) stay alongside of me, and he was just able to clear me in (Turns) 1 and 2. Crazy how all that turned out, but really want to say congratulations to the 2020 class at Appalachian State. I know this year is a little different for your graduation and getting your diploma, but still there is a lot ahead of you, and use that as determination to get better like we did every

single restart.”

Busch led eight times for a race-high 94 laps. Pole-sitter

the downside?

Q. Sounds fair. Did the players like that concept?

A. No, they hated it. Revenue sharing is anathema to the union, which believes there is a slippery slope from revenue sharing to a salary cap. More importantly, it could take months of forensic accounting for both sides to determine and define revenue.

Q. ‘Revenue’ is defined as ‘money’ A. Yes, but calculating revenue is complicated. Recall former Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt. He split the Dodgers into a baseball company, a stadium operating company and a parking lot company — and then he charged the Dodgers rent to play in their own stadium. McCourt sold the team and stadium to Guggenheim Baseball

Management, which set up another company to own the Dodgers’ local television rights.

What’s the Dodgers’ revenue? Depends how it is defined.

Q. The players don’t want revenue sharing. The owners want more pay cuts. What happens next?

A. The players asked the owners to share documents to back up claims of potential financial doom without pay cuts. The owners delivered some, but not all, of the requested documents.

On Tuesday, owners are expected to deliver a financial proposal that would not depend upon revenue sharing.

The union is expected to suggest that, if the issue is reduced cash flow, players would be amenable to deferred salaries.

will allow other students to do the same.

Our vice president came to Georgia and lunched with our governor in a restaurant on Atlanta’s west side, neither man wearing a mask nor keeping a social distance. Our neighborhood pool is open for fun and frolic, though the slide remains closed.

For better or worse — or maybe both — we’re moving toward the resumption of normal activities, or at least normal activities in a newly normal way. There’s no COVID-19 vaccine, but there’s growing hope that the virus can be semi-managed if, and this is a monstrous “if”, we avoid super-spreader gatherings. Sporting events fall under that heading, which is why it could be 2021 before any fans get to see any sort of ball played in person.

We mentioned last week how odd the resumption of German soccer, minus supporters, appeared via television. By

the end of July — yes, our sports leagues are moving slowly, and good for them — we could be experiencing the same strange vibes re: MLB/NBA/MLS. Baseball will attempt, or so it’s believed, to play games in home stadiums behind locked gates. Players in all pro sports figure to be under some form of quarantine.

Testing will surely be done on something approaching a daily basis.

Still unknown is whether any of this will work. On the Monday in May when we remember those lost in wars, we note that nearly 100,000 Americans — roughly the combined populations of Marietta and Mableton — have been claimed by the virus. Some of us have gone back to work, and our sports could soon be available to watch/livestream, but never will look back on the first half of 2020 and attach the word “normal.”

Chastain led 68 laps and Cindric 30.

A road-course ace, Cindric

scored his two Xfinity wins back-to-back last year at Watkins Glen and Mid-Ohio, but he’s still looking for victory on an oval.

“It just didn’t work out for us,” Cindric said. “I was on older tires, and everyone else on older tires ended up crashing. It’s hard to beat the best in the business on older tires.

I got a great push from Daniel (on the final restart). I’m shocked the restart zone went as well as it did. That was a big struggle for me all night.

I knew I was going to have to defend in (Turns) 3 and 4 and took the top in (Turns) 1 and 2.

“He just had way more grip than I did. The heat cycles were killer. I never lifted driving into (Turn) 3 on the final lap. I just gave up second but

didn’t really care at that point.

I just wanted to win the race.

Overall, it was a great night, and I’m really proud of my team. I came here with something that we have never come to the race track with. We had to work on it all night. It shows the strength of the team, and I’m really proud of the effort.”

Still seeking his first Xfinity win, Hemric collected his sixth second-place finish in the series.

Behind Busch, Hemric and Cindric, Chastain ran fourth and Justin Allgaier fifth. Brett Moffitt, Michael Annett, Brandon Brown, rookie Harrison Burton and Myatt Snider completed the top 10. Gragson in 11th was the last driver on the lead lap.

Whatever the union might request in exchange for another pay cut this year — a minimum payroll for 2021, say, or the elimination of draft picks as free-agent compensation next winter — might not fly among players who might lose out now. Tony Clark, the union chief, has publicly promised his players that negotiation about 2020 salaries “is over.”

Since the players’ share of postseason money is limited to a percentage of gate revenue, a fan-free postseason could mean yet another pay cut for playoff participants — or a start in bridging the difference between the parties.

Q. Would the players really decide not to play?

A. They would rather play.

No 2020 season means players get only a collective 4% of

their previously guaranteed salaries. No 2020 season also would increase the likelihood of discounting current broadcast deals, which could lead to significant salary depression for years.

Q. Have players and owners agreed on how to keep everyone safe from the coronavirus?

A. No, but that negotiation is further along. Nothing can be risk-free. Players would rather not be quarantined apart from their families, and they hope daily testing could allow them to play something that more closely resembles a baseball game than a social distance festival.

Q. Teams have started to open their training facilities so that players can work out there. Is a deal imminent?

A. No, but there is little time if the parties hope to begin a

second spring training in midJune and the season in early July. The later the start, the fewer the games in an already abbreviated season, and fewer games means less money for everyone.

Q. What is the worst-case scenario?

A. A coronavirus outbreak among the teams, despite health and safety protocols.

Besides that? The NBA, back on the court in late July, with MLB blowing its chance to become the first major sport to return. It would be devastating for baseball if basketball’s billionaire owners and millionaire players could strike a deal, but baseball’s billionaire owners and millionaire players could not.

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Golf’s exhibition season over and the return of competitive golf is next on the tee Garry Smits The Florida Times-Union

The two blockbuster exhibition matches the last two weeks have shown that televised golf at a high level can be safely played — with four competitors.

Now, the PGA Tour has 17 days to continue preparations for two tournaments that will signal a return to full-field golf, in which every shot counts.

The First Coast will play a big part in that re-start.

Tiger Woods and Peyton Manning defeated Phil Mickelson and Tom Brady 1-up on Sunday at the Medalist Golf Club in Hobe Sound in the “Champions for Charity” match that pitted the two major golf champions and the two Super Bowl quarterbacks.

Last week, Rory McIlroy and Dustin Johnson beat Rickie Fowler and Matthew Wolff in a skins game that lasted 19 holes and was won

by McIlroy on a closest-to-the-pin tiebreaker, with six skins on the line.

All told, more than $25.5 million was raised for charity — $20 million of it in the match between Woods-Manning and MickelsonBrady.

CURTIS COMPTON/ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION Ratings will prove to be high for both Tiger Woods, left, and Phil Mickelson share a laugh during a practice round for the 2018 Masters. matches when the numbers for Sunday’s match are released later this week, indicatIf the numerous safety procedures to pro- cautiously scheduled their return to play. ing the public’s hunger for televised golf. tect the players, caddies and tournament The LPGA is planning to play its first event Two iconic golf courses, the Medalist and the staff from being exposed to the COVID-19 since the suspension of play in March with Seminole Golf Club, were revealed through virus are enough, professional golf will last the Marathon Classic July 23-26 in Sylvania, the TV broadcasts. until the week before Christmas, with only a Ohio.

Now it gets real on June 14, when two tour- break for Thanksgiving.

A week later, the European PGA Tour will naments are scheduled to herald the return of The first four PGA Tour and Korn Ferry attempt its first competition with the Britcompetitive tournament golf: the PGA Tour’s Tour events will be played without fans — ish Masters July 30-Aug. 2, at Newcastle-onSchwab Challenge at the Colonial Country and there’s been no guarantee there won’t Tyne, England. One day after that opening Club in Fort Worth, Texas, and the Korn Ferry be more. Much is dependent on the markets round, the PGA Tour Champions will be reChallenge, at the TPC Sawgrass Dye’s Valley the tournaments are scheduled to be played started in Grand Blanc, Mich., with the Ally Course. and what local restrictions remain in place, Challenge.

A week later, the Korn Ferry Tour will re- or may get tougher, if there is a spike in posiThe FedEx Cup Playoffs will begin on Aug. main on the First Coast with the King & tive tests and infections.

20 with the Northern Trust at the TPC BosBear Classic, at the World Golf Hall of Fame Other governing bodies will be watch- ton. The next stop will be Aug. 27-30 with the ing the PGA Tour’s lead closely and have BMW Championship at Olympia Fields in Course.

Chicago, followed by the Tour Championship Sept. 4-7 at Eastlake in Atlanta.

The level of success for those events on five tours will play a huge part in whether the three major championships that were postponed will come off without any hitches The first is the PGA Championship, Aug. 6-9 at the TPC Harding Park in San Francisco.

The U.S. Open — which will be held without qualifiers — is Sept. 17-20 at Winged Foot in Mamaroneck, N.Y. The Masters will be Nov. 12-15 at the Augusta National Golf Club.

In between the U.S. Open and the Masters will be the Ryder Cup at Whistling Straits, in Kohler, Wis. Key dates for the return of professional golf June 5: Final day for players to commit to the PGA Tour’s Schwab Challenge in Fort Worth and the Korn Ferry Tour Challenge at the TPC Sawgrass Dye’s Valley.

June 8-11: Schwab Challenge; Korn Ferry Challenge.

June 15-18: PGA Tour RBC Heritage, Hilton Head Island, S.C.; Korn Ferry Tour King & Bear Classic, St. Augustine.

July 23-26: LPGA Marathon Classic, Sylvania, Ohio.

July 30-Aug. 2: European PGA Tour British Masters, Newcastle-on-Tyne, England.

July 31-Aug. 2: PGA Tour Champions Ally Challenge, Grand Blanc, Mich.

Aug. 6-9: PGA Championship, TPC Harding Park, San Francisco.

Sept. 4-7: Tour Championship, East Lake Golf Club, Atlanta.

Sept. 17-20: U.S. Open, Winged Foot, Mamoroneck, N.Y. Sept. 25-27: Ryder Cup, Whistling Straits, Kohler, Wis. Nov. 12-15: Masters Tournament, Augusta National Golf Club.

Nov. 19-22: RSM Classic, Sea Island Club, St. Simons Island, Ga.

Rory McIlroy says fan-less Ryder Cup isn’t worth holding, predicts move to 2021 Matt Bonesteel The Washington Post

As part of professional golf’s revised schedule, the Ryder Cup will take place Sept. 25-27 at Whistling Straits in Wisconsin. At least that’s the plan amid the uncertainty created by the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Rory McIlroy, the world’s No. 1 golfer, doesn’t think it’s the greatest idea and predicts the event will be postponed by a year.

“My personal hunch is that I don’t see how it is going to happen, so I do not think that it will happen,” he told the BBC. “I think the majority of players would like to see it pushed back until 2021 so that they can play in front

of crowds and have the atmosphere that makes the Ryder Cup so special.

“The players are the ones that make the Ryder Cup. If they are not on board with it and don’t want to play then there is no Ryder Cup. “I see it being pushed back until 2021 and, honestly, I think that will be the right call.”

The thought of a Ryder Cup held without galleries of rowdy fans - a trademark of the biennial competition between a team of American golfers and a team from Europe - has caused consternation in the golf world. Seth Waugh, chief executive of the PGA of America, said last month that the Ryder Cup is “a very unique thing” and that “it’s hard to imagine one without fans.”

Padraig Harrington, captain of this year’s European team, initially agreed with Waugh, telling BBC Radio in early April that “nobody wants to see the Ryder Cup played without the fans being there” and that “the common consensus now is the Ryder Cup will not be played unless the fans are there.”

Harrington’s views have changed, however. In late April, he told the London Times that the Ryder Cup perhaps should be played, even without fans, “for the greater good of sport.”

“It wouldn’t be in the Ryder Cup’s best interests, but it could be in the best interests of enough people who want to see a big sporting occasion on TV,” Harrington said.

World No. 3 Brooks Koepka,

meanwhile, has said he has no interest in playing in a Ryder Cup without fans.

“I personally don’t want to play if there’s no fans,” he said earlier this month. “I don’t see a point in playing it.”

“I get representing your country is an honor and it’s something that’s so much fun,” Koepka continued, “but at the same time, the fans make that event. That’s what we get nervous on the first tee. You hear the chants. You hear everything that’s going on - the ‘USA’ [chant], all that stuff. That’s what makes it fun.”

The 2022 Ryder Cup will be played in Rome and, according to U.S. golfer Kevin Na, the American team is going to have some major

star power at the helm.

“My goal is to make the Ryder Cup team this year, and I know the following Ryder Cup is in Italy and the captain I believe is Tiger Woods, so that’s another thing that I’m looking forward to,” Na told Sky Sports last week with perhaps a bit too much candor, seeing as how no announcement has been made.

Na immediately tried to walk back the somewhat major news he had just broken.

“I heard rumors! Am I starting a rumor? That’s what I heard. Am I not supposed to say anything? I don’t know, I’ve heard rumors!” he said. “I won’t tell you who I heard them from, but it wasn’t from him.

It was from one of his friends!”

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Tom Archdeacon: ‘Trying to bring some good into the world’ Tom Archdeacon Dayton Daily News

In the big leagues he’s known as a dependable reliever.

Once a star pitcher at Wright State and now a stalwart of the Houston Astros bullpen, Joe Smith is awaiting the start of his 14th Major League Baseball season.

He’s appeared in 782 games and is known for his unique delivery, a cross between sidearm and submarine style.

But it’s his pitch – off the mound even more so than on it – that’s especially impactful.

“We’re just trying to bring some good into the world,” he told me the other day when discussing one of his charitable involvements.

Smith and his wife Allie LaForce – the former Miss Teen USA, an Ohio University basketball player and journalism grad and now a TNT sideline reporter known for her coverage of the NBA and college basketball’ March Madness – are the highest profile sports couple in the Miami Valley.

They live in Bellbrook in the offseason, though their careers have them travelling around the country much of the year.

At present they’re ensconced in West Palm Beach. Smith went to Florida for spring training and was joined by Allie when the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the sports world over two months ago.

Since then they have been doing some real relief work.

With the help of the Athletes and Causes, the nonprofit organization that runs their charitable ventures, they became the driving force of the Project FRONTLINE effort that has delivered over 15,000 meals from restaurants struggling through the coronavirus closures to over-taxed doctors, nurses and hospital staff.

“We’re just trying to say a little thank you to those people who are making sacrifices and risking their lives for the rest of us,” Smith said. “At the same time we’re getting local restaurants involved and giving them some revenue so hopefully they can pay some employees and keep their doors open.”

While the couple made a considerable monetary commitment to the venture, they also got support from other pro athletes and celebrities – people like fellow Astro Josh Reddick, former big leaguer Johnny Damon, Cleveland Cavalier Kevin Love, Portland Trailblazer CJ McCollum, Cleveland Indians manager Terry Francona, celebrity chef Michael Symon and others – as well many everyday people.

They’ve helped hospitals in six states and especially in and around Houston and Cleveland, where Joe had two pitching stints and where Allie, who grew up some 40 miles away in Vermilion, once worked as a sports anchor and reporter at Fox affiliate, WJW Channel 8.

Their effort caught the imagination of many and spun off in some unlikely directions.

“A woman from Oberlin called and said, ‘I don’t have a restaurant, but I have 1,000 orchid plants I’d like to donate. Do you think nurses would want one?’” Allie said.

“We had them shipped to our (Athletes and Causes) headquarters in Tampa and they gave them out. And we heard stories how some nurses were in tears knowing someone cared about them.”

While immersed in this project, they’ve continued work with their signature HelpCureHD Foundation.

The HD is for Huntington’s Disease, the

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Joe Smith of the Houston Astros delivers a pitch against the Washington Nationals during Game Five of the 2019 World Series at Nationals Park.

congenital disorder that causes the progressive breakdown of nerve cells in the brain and erodes mental capacity and physical capability.

There is no cure and it is usually fatal.

Joe’s grandmother died from HD complications in 2006 and his mother, Lee, a former elementary school teacher in her early 60s, was diagnosed with it eight years ago and for the past 2 ½ years has lived in an Alzheimer’s facility near Cincinnati.

There’s a 50% chance that Joe and his sister Megan could inherit the disease.

When he and Allie began the foundation, the goal was to raise awareness and provide financial backing for research. In recent years the focus has switched to helping families attempt costly in vitro fertilization with genetic testing that would help them end up with HD-free embryos to be implanted.

That not only would guarantee an HD-free child, but it would stop the devastating disease from continuing its generational chain.

They had planned to do the process themselves in April, but precautions against COVID-19 prevented those medical procedures.

That’s made it especially tough this month since May is Huntington’s Disease Awareness Month.

They want to help families because the costs are steep. Smith said they already have spent $47,000 in their own attempt and it can be $8,000 with every doctor’s visit.

“We’re lucky because I play baseball, but few families can afford that,” he said. “And a lot of it’s not covered by insurance. It’d be emotionally devastating to know you couldn’t help your child or future generations just because of finances.”

He said HD is like a combination of Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and ALS: “It’s the Devil’s Disease.”

And yet something quite angelic has been happening, Allie said: “Joe’s dad can’t get in to see Joe’s mom, so he sits outside of her window every single day just so she can see him. He’s an incredible man and it’s a true love story.

“Joe’s mom really isn’t talking anymore, but she gets up and sees him out there and they have lunch together.”

Although she said Joe’s mom is losing her memory and motor skills, she likes those visits.

Nurses will hold a phone up to her ear and Mike, her husband of 39 years, talks to her.

She always been her son’s biggest fan and over the past couple of years the family has taped his night games and played them for her the next day.

That makes these days without baseball especially tough for her.

Allie said there were times when his mom’s condition first began to worsen that Joe struggled with being away from her to play baseball: “He got to a point where he was questioning: ‘Why am I playing the game?’ He wasn’t feeling any fulfillment at the core of himself.

“But then when he found that our foundation could help families get HD-free babies and change a family’s future, he realized the platform and the financial capabilities he had with baseball. He started to feel a new fulfillment. That made the game worth it again.”

Smith said he knows “some people’s beliefs don’t allow them to go along with this and that’s fine... But for me, this is a chance to get rid of a terrible disease.

“You’re not changing eye color or height or anything else about the human being. You’re just knocking the Huntington’s gene out.”

They had 24 families in their program when the pandemic put everything on hold. But recently they got word that two families – one in Ohio, one in Houston – have HD-free pregnancies.

“That was a really rewarding moment,” Smith said. “That’s what we’re trying to do here. We’re just trying to bring some good into the world.”

With their ‘round-the-calendar careers – she covering basketball and football, he playing baseball – Allie said these have been the first weekends they’ve had off together since they married in 2015.

While she said it was “awesome” for their relationship, they were even more intent on looking out for others.

“I think it has to do with both of our upbringings,” she said. “In my hometown, my parents would run steak fries to raise money if somebody

in our high school or community was in need. I can remember working at them growing up.

“And when I was Miss Teen USA, I was like 16 and went all over the country raising over $100 million for different charities.”

Smith continues to embrace the Wright State program which he joined as a walk-on out of Amelia High School near Cincinnati. He became the Horizon League Pitcher of the Year and in 2006 was a third-round draft pick of the New York Mets.

His career took him to Cleveland, the Los Angeles Angels, Chicago Cubs, Toronto, back to Cleveland and in December of 2017 he signed with the Astros. He suffered a ruptured Achilles in a workout the following December and pitched just 25 innings in the latter part of last season, but still had a 1.80 era.

This past December, three months shy of 36, he re-signed for $8 million over two years.

He said he was impressed with the Astros from the start: “When I walked into that clubhouse in 2018, it was unbelievable. Everybody was looking for ways to give back to the community. A lot of it had to do with the way (Hurricane) Harvey hit the city (in 2017.) They understood what people were going through and tried to help anyway they could.”

Now Project FRONTLINE – which sent hundreds of meals to places like the Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital and Texas Children’s Hospital – is continuing that communal embrace.

And if you want to donate to either Project FRONTLINE or HelpCureHD, go to athletesandcauses.org and follow the prompts.

As restrictions are being eased across the nation, preliminary talks have begun about baseball’s return this season. Last week Major League Baseball presented a 67-page proposal to the Players’ Association that addressed some issues.

“It’s going to be different, but the feeling I get from everybody (players and management) is that they all want to get back on the field and start playing,” Smith said. “But there are so many questions to be answered: “‘What’s spring training going to look like?

And the regular season? Where will teams play?

What will travel be like?’ And then there’s the economic issues.

“And one thing can’t be overlooked here.

It takes a lot more than 25 young guys running around to play baseball.

“We have four coaches who are 70 years old and technically in that high-risk category. There are trainers, front office people and so many others in that group, too. We need to keep them safe.

“And we’ve got guys in our league who are literally taking care of their families. Some have 10 people living with them. Some have their parents living with them. God forbid, you bring the virus home because one of your teammates was careless.”

But on the flip side, there’s also a woman in her early 60s for whom he’d certainly like to be back on the field.

For all her physical struggles and cognitive issues, his mom knows exactly what he’s doing, Allie said: “She knows if he had a good game or a bad one. She knows how many batters he faced.

How many strikeouts he got. She loves her son so much. She knows just what he’s doing.”

She knows his pitch.

She knows, in so many ways, he and his wife Allie are “just trying to bring some good into the world.”

Jeanie Buss reveals dreams about Kobe Bryant that let her know ‘he’s OK’ Tania Ganguli Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — About midway through a wide-ranging podcast interview, Jeanie Buss was asked about Kobe Bryant — about how proud she must be of the way the Los Angeles Lakers franchise handled his sudden death and how the team responded to it.

“I would give anything to go back and have Jan. 26 never take place,” the Lakers’ governor and controlling owner said.

Then she told a personal story about another star. When her dad, Jerry Buss, bought the Lakers in 1979, they drafted Magic Johnson and became the NBA’s premiere franchise. It ended suddenly when Johnson had to retire in 1991 because of an HIV diagnosis.

“I prayed to the skies above and I said if we ever get a player on our team like Magic Johnson again, I will never ever, ever take that player for granted,” Buss said, her voice catching. “And then we got Kobe. As heartbroken as I am, one comfort that I have is that Kobe knew how much we loved him and we told him and we retired his

numbers. He never doubted that we were behind him 100%.

That gives me some comfort.

We never held back the celebrating the greatness that was Kobe.”

It was one of the heavier subjects she discussed on the Daddy Issues podcast with Joe Buck and Oliver Hudson, which included many lighter subjects: her family dynamics, her relationship with Phil Jackson and her much-talked-about Twitter photo.

Buss talked about her experience as a child when her parents were going through a divorce. She was asked if that brought her siblings together and said it didn’t.

“When everybody’s in that kind of anxiety I think it doesn’t lend itself to being supportive,” she said. “At least in my case.”

Buck mentioned the pressure involved in following his own father’s footsteps and said he’s always had a nagging feeling that he wouldn’t have had the broadcasting career he has without his father. He asked if Buss ever felt the same.

“Absolutely,” she said.

She then detailed the

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Los Angeles Lakers owner Jeanie Buss revealed she often dreams about her father, Jerry, and sometimes Kobe Bryant when she feels stressed.

succession plan her father put in place and how he told her he wanted her running the business and her brother Jim running basketball, but gave her the final say in how things would go. In discussing her disappointment in the Lakers losing their winning ways during the next few years, Buss said the team changed coaches and

styles so often that it became difficult for it to have an identity.

Buck asked how often Buss dreams of her father.

“There have been moments in the last seven years that I’ve had these very visceral dreams where either I’m going through some stress or I feel I’m not confident in a decision or whatever

and there’ll be an appearance,” Buss said. “Or sometimes out of nowhere I’ll run into a person or see somebody and they’ll come up, share a story about my dad that I’ve never heard. Or they’ll send me a picture or something.

It’s like a trigger that then the good feelings come back. This is what it was like when he was around. How important that is for me.”

She added later: “I’ve had a couple dreams about Kobe too and it’s like, those make me feel like he’s OK. Like it’s gonna be OK.” The explanation of her Twitter avatar — a photo of her with no clothes visible, upside down and holding two basketballs in front of her chest — came near the end. Buss, 58, had been hearing comments for years from people who felt it was inappropriate and assumed it came from her 1995 photo shoot with Playboy. So she shared the story behind the photo.

When a photographer arrived at her home for a 1998 Sports Illustrated story about the Buss family, he pitched an idea that horrified her. She told

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the photographer he was mocking her and she didn’t even know what the story would be.

“And he’s like, ‘I’m really sorry. I don’t know who you are,’ “ Buss recalled, chuckling. “ ‘I’m not a sports fan. I do fashion photography and for whatever reason they hired me to take your picture. The only requirement they gave me was that I had to have basketballs in the picture.’ “ He proposed a photo that would have her looking like a pinup in the style of a mermaid, and Buss was on board.

“It was kind of like I was like a mermaid underwater with a blue backdrop,” Buss said.

“They used to show mermaids holding pearls ... and so instead of the pearls I got basketballs.

And I’m not naked but I might look like I’m naked. I get people (who say), ‘How dare you put a naked picture of you on Twitter.

It was in Playboy.’ And it’s not. It was from Sports Illustrated!

“Yes, do I have to talk about the Playboy and the decision (to pose). Yes, I’m still explaining it 20 years later. They want to judge and put me in a category.”

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Man’s serious health issues dominate marriage Dear Abby, I married my husband 40 years ago. A few years later, he was diagnosed with diabetes. He refused to take care of himself and ended up with double leg amputations 13 years ago. He had prosthetics but wouldn’t use them. I stood by him and was his advocate, but he DEAR ABBY blamed me!

He has major health issues now, but I’m not too concerned.

According to him, it’s “none of my business.”

I have had enough of trying to help a man who doesn’t want help. This is a loveless marriage and has been for years. He’s also addicted to computer porn. He stays at a computer for hours, even when people are around. He broke his computer recently, and I have refused to allow him on mine, so he is angry at me for that too.

Please advise me what I can do.

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JEANNE PHILLIPS

What you can do depends upon what you WANT to do. There must be a reason why you have remained in this loveless marriage as long as you have.

Since you asked, I do have a word of advice.

Help your husband to get another computer. If you do, it may lessen some of the hostility that is ruling your household. He will be occupied, and you can do whatever you need to do to keep yourself sane.

Dear Abby, My husband and I are dealing with a terminal health condition, and many folks have offered to help, particularly in the area of providing meals, which we really appreciate. Recently, a family from our church brought us over a meal that included a nice entree, dessert, bread and breakfast pastries, all homemade. We enjoyed the entree, but quickly lost our appetites after opening the dessert to find a hair of unknown origin in it.

My dilemma is how to handle this with the family. I’m sure we will see them at church, and they have already reached out asking when they can bring us another meal. I don’t want to embarrass anyone, but neither do I think I can

consume another one from them.

For what it’s worth, we have someone who comes in weekly who prepares meals for us (whom we pay). I work full time as well as care for my husband. How can I tactfully decline this family’s kind offers without coming right out and saying why we don’t want their food?

Grossed Out In The West It should not embarrass those nice people if you thank them for offering to send you more food, and tell them you no longer need food because you have hired someone who comes in and cooks for you. It’s short, sweet and it’s the truth.

Dear Abby, I was a professional musician most of my life and loved every second of it. While I still do production work and an occasional performance, I no longer tour.

I own several instruments that are my most prized possessions, and have many precious memories associated with them. They are worth several thousand dollars. I cannot think of anyone to leave them to who might appreciate them.

None of my heirs are musical, and I’m estranged from my only child, a son in his early 40s. If he inherited them, he’d sell them and squander the money before the last chorus. The same is true of my only grandchild.

I’m in my early 60s, healthy, active and don’t plan on going anywhere anytime soon. But eventually — when I do — I want these most important items to go where they will be played well and appreciated.

Quarter Note Quandary in California How about donating your instruments to a program that keeps music alive in schools with underfunded music programs nationwide? An organization to consider is the Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation. It gives economically disadvantaged youth access to the benefits of music education. The foundation also has a fund called Music Rising that helps school music programs after natural disasters. The website is mhopus. org.

Healthy food has all the vitamins your body needs I follow you regularly, but I haven’t heard one word on ways to build your immunity.

Supplements abound, offering strength for the immune system. For me, some have been a tremendous support. I’m 65 and thankfully healthy, but I TO YOUR take vitamin Bs and Ds, and GOOD HEALTH many other body-support supplements. Why no mention of supplements? Surely you believe in commonsense vitamins and nutritional supplements. Of course, I also eat lots of fruits and vegetables, etc., but our foods simply do NOT provide enough.

DR. KEITH ROACH

I don’t recommend vitamins or supplements to build the immune system because I disagree with you that our foods don’t provide enough.

I am all for common sense, but what one generation considers common sense can be proven completely wrong in another generation. I believe in data, and there are now strong data

showing that additional vitamin supplementation in people who consume a healthy diet provides no benefit. There is also not much evidence that dietary supplements lead to any measurable improvements in healthy people.

For people with an unhealthy diet, efforts to make their diet healthier are more likely to result in a better outcome than supplements. The immune system cannot be boosted through supplements.

It may work poorly through frank deficiencies, but this is uncommon.

I may well be proven wrong. If good data show that nutritional supplements improve the function of the immune system, or any other significant health outcome in a well-done trial, I’ll publish it in my column.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You’re coming to a very clear turning point today, and once you say what you have to say, you have no choice but to move in a new direction.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — It’s a good day to go with the flow. Take care that you don’t pay too much attention to what is going on beneath the surface.

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Horoscope

By Stella Wilder Born today, you are nothing if not original — in thought, action and personality. It is very much as if the stars had set aside all that is different, fascinating and somewhat odd or unconventional to bestow upon you when your turn came — and so you are different, fascinating and somewhat odd or unconventional in almost all things.

Like so many born under your sign, you are sure to be widely admired — but you may also attract more criticism than many other Gemini natives. The reason for this may never be clear to you, but you suspect it has to do with your penchant for dismissing those who are unable to live as you live — and you recognize that doing so is not always fair. Still, it’s what you do — and you’re not likely to stop soon.

Also born on this date are: Christopher Lee, actor; Louis Gossett Jr., actor; Cilla Black, actress; Todd Bridges, actor; Vincent Price, actor; Cynthia McFadden, journalist; Henry Kissinger, statesman; Wild Bill Hickock, Old West lawman; Paul Bettany, actor.

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

THURSDAY, MAY 28

Family Circus

Baby Blues LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Work with what you have today, and don’t expect anyone to give you anything more. This will work well for you; you’re in a very good headspace.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — The decisions you make today are going to affect many people outside your immediate circle. A mistake is made, but by whom?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You can explain things in more than one way today, but only one explanation really suits where you are at present. A friend knows what’s up.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — You’re likely to stumble on a solution to a problem that hasn’t been available to you before. You must take advantage of it right away!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — The steps you take toward a certain goal today can be measured very clearly, but they won’t amount to as much distance as you had hoped.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Don’t try to force anything to happen today. Sit back, and let things evolve organically. You know someone on the edge right now.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — You mustn’t let your feelings for someone get in the way of what you have to do today. Much depends on making all the progress you can.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — Freeing yourself of a perceived restriction may be more difficult than expected today. Perhaps you are not seeing things clearly.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Whether you consider yourself more or less fortunate than another isn’t the issue today. What’s important is how your actions measure up.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — You are likely to realize today that you’ve been comparing yourself to another for far too long. Free yourself from that way of thinking.

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B8 Wednesday, May 27, 2020 Close to Home

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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“mm” in the middle Level 1

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Each answer is a six-letter word. The two middle letters are “m.” (e.g., One of the four seasons. Answer: Summer.)

Freshman level 1. Edmund Hillary reached the ____ (top) of Mount Everest in 1953.

2. Song lyrics: “I’d rather be a ____ than a nail.”

3. There is much talk about the rights of the “____ (ordinary) man.”

Graduate level 4. A vertebrate animal that produces milk to feed its young.

5. Pharaoh will ____ (to bid to come) his advisers.

6. “Relax, ____ (become calm) down.”

PH.D. level 7. The raised part at the front of a horse’s saddle.

8. Commandment: “You shall not ____ adultery.”

9. The British call this switch for lowering a car’s highlights a “dip switch.”

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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: FILTH KOALA DEGREE BUZZER Answer: Getting Penny Marshall to direct and Tom Hanks to star in the 1988 film was a — BIG DEAL

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Solution to Tuesday’s puzzle

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

For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit

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SUPER QUIZ ANSWERS 1. Summit. 2. Hammer. 3. Common. 4. Mammal. 5. Summon. 6. Simmer.

7. Pommel. 8. Commit. 9. Dimmer.

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?

Mutts

Dilbert

Pickles For Better or For Worse

Get Fuzzy

Hi & Lois

Crossword Puzzle Mother Goose & Grimm ACROSS 1 __-fetched; preposterous 4 Shot carefully 9 Lasting mark 13 Star’s car 14 __ ear and out the other 15 __ shirt; golf attire 16 Catch sight of 17 Rockets 19 Request for silence 20 Woodwind instrument 21 Uptight 22 Narrow waterway 24 On a __ with; equal to 25 Newborns 27 Profession 30 “__ Blue Gown” 31 Mustang & Taurus 33 Brewer’s barrel 35 Breakfast __; kitchen alcove 36 Actress Claire 37 Behrs of TV’s “2 Broke Girls” 38 Horned animal 39 Large parrot 40 Shriver or Bello 41 Accompany to a party 43 Deep narrow valley 44 Polished off 45 Give fresh life to 46 Supermarket 49 Speak one’s mind 51 “__ Just Not That Into You”; 2009 film 54 Beside the point 56 Healthy 57 Reclines 58 In a __; sort of 59 Military force 60 British restrooms 61 Scornful look 62 TV’s “Say __ to the Dress” DOWN 1 Carp or flounder 2 Able to live on land or water 3 Singer Orbison

Bound & Gagged

Created by Jacqueline E. Mathews

4 Theater walkways 5 Two cents’ worth offered 6 Castle surrounding 7 Suffix for confer or refer 8 Billy __ Williams 9 Globe 10 Nickel or dime 11 “Heidi” setting 12 “A __ by any other name…”

13 “__ Miserables” 18 Marquee names 20 Get away 23 Furniture ding 24 Hippie homes 25 Gunshot sound 26 By yourself 27 Rowing team 28 In all places 29 Numerical comparison 31 In __; actually 32 __ pedestal; lovingly honored 34 Other __; besides 36 Show boldness

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Tuesday’s Puzzle Solved

Non Sequitur

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37 Source of misery 39 Traveler’s stop 40 Horse hair 42 Hug 43 Middle 45 Dishwasher cycle 46 Window ledge 47 Singing group, perhaps

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48 Nabisco snack 49 GE appliance 50 Rectangular piece of glass 52 Fast-growing trees 53 __ as a fox 55 Suffix for giant or govern 56 All the __; fully

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