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The Columbia County Department of Health and CMH will team up to conduct drive-thru testing by appointment in the ColumbiaGreene Community College parking lot on Friday.

GREENPORT — Prioritized residents showing symptoms of COVID-19 will have a chance to be tested Friday at the first of several planned clinics at Columbia-Greene Community College.

The Columbia County Health Department will test 100 members of the public for COVID-19 at a drive-thru clinic organized in cooperation with Columbia Memorial Health, county officials announced in a statement.

Only pre-selected individuals who self-report symptoms such as fever, cough and difficulty breathing will be tested. Priority will be given to Columbia County residents, Columbia County Department of Health Director Jack Mabb said.

Individuals selected for testing on Friday will be assigned an appointment time and personal identification number, and are expected to bring identification, officials said.

Anyone who wishes to be tested is being asked to

complete a Google form, which asks for a phone number, email address, county of residence, occupation and a description of symptoms, including the date the symptoms began.

Columbia County Department of Health staff members will evaluate the applicants and notify selected individuals.

The application to be tested can be found at https://forms. gle/afxfrFaDkrV7m1DF6.

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COURTESY OF GOV. ANDREW CUOMO’S OFFICE

Seven states will work together to purchase three months of personal protective equipment and medical supplies from local suppliers in preparation of a second surge of COVID-19 and to boost the economy, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said during a pandemic briefing Sunday afternoon.

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ROCHESTER — No region of New York is safe to start reopening based on current COVID-19 numbers, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday after announcing additional reopening guidelines.

Regions of the state will reopen in four phases with two weeks between each phase. Construction, manufacturing and curbside pickup retail will open first.

Phase II businesses include professional services, finance and insurance, retail, administrative support and real estate, with restaurants and hotels set to reopen in Phase III. Arts, entertainment, recreation and educational facilities will open in the final stage, or Phase IV, of reopening.

“You open businesses that are the most essential and pose the lowest risk,” Cuomo said Monday during a coronavirus briefing from the Wegmans

Conference Center in Rochester. “Density is not your friend here. Large gatherings are not your friend.”

The state will monitor a region’s new coronavirus infections and its health care, diagnostic testing and contact tracing capacities to determine when a region can start reopening.

No region of New York met the state’s guidelines to reopen as of Monday afternoon. The Capital Region has not seen a 14-day decline in hospitalizations and does not meet the state’s new testing capacity requirements.

Regions must have appropriate testing and contact tracing to restart the economy. An area must have 30 tests for every 1,000 residents per month and a baseline of 30 contact tracers — or people who track who infected New Yorkers have been in contact with — for every 100,000 residents to start the reopening process.

Regions will calculate their COVID-19

rate of transmission with a formula using virus hospitalization, diagnostic testing and contact tracing rates. To reopen, a region’s infection rate, or rate of transmission, must be 1.1% or lower, meaning a person with COVID-19 is infecting one other person or fewer.

“If you do those things, you will help control the spread of the virus, which is everything,” Cuomo said.

Regions must have at least a 14-day decline in total COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths on a three-day average, per CDC guidelines. Regions with few virus cases cannot exceed 15 new cases or five deaths on a three-day average.

A region must admit fewer than two new COVID-19 patients per 100,000 residents per day to monitor the spread of infection. Regions must have at least 30% total hospital and intensive care unit beds available.

New York hospitals, which include 20 public and 176 private institutions, must

have a 90-day supply of PPE in preparation for a second COVID-19 surge.

New York’s COVID-19 fatalities reached 19,368 Monday — up from 18,862 Saturday and 19,142 Sunday. The state saw 226 virus-related deaths Sunday, its lowest daily death toll in more than a month, including 193 in hospitals and 33 in nursing homes. The death rate continues a slight decline from 280 Saturday, 299 Friday and 289 Thursday.

The state tested 1,007,310 people as of Sunday, revealing 318,953 total positive cases of COVID-19. Monday marked 65 days since New York’s first confirmed case. New York’s hospitalization rates also continued a downward trend to 9,647 patients Monday from 9,786 Sunday, down 139 patients. The state reported 315 newly admitted virus patients Sunday.

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Jobless impact hits close to home

By Sarah Trafton Columbia-Greene Media

Greene and Columbia county hope unemployment numbers improve as summer approaches, although unemployment filings appear to be tapering off nationwide, according to a report from the U.S. Department of Labor.

For the week of April 20-25, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 3,839,000, a decrease of 603,000 from the previous week’s revised level. New York leads the nation with the largest decrease in filings, a decline of 189,517.

The state has experienced fewer layoffs in retail, accommodation and food services and construction, according to the report.

“The advance seasonally adjusted insured unemployment rate was 12.4% [nationwide] for the week ending April 18, an increase of 1.5 percentage points from the previous week’s revised rate,” according to the report. “This marks the highest level of the seasonally adjusted insured unemployment rate in the history of the seasonally adjusted series.”

Although the rate of unemployment filings seems to

be slowing in May, data from March show alarming figures.

New York’s unemployment rate increased from 3.7% to 4.5% in March — the largest monthly increase since 1976, according to the report. Albany, Columbia and Dutchess counties rank among the top 10 counties in the state with the lowest unemployment rates at 3.9%, 4% and 4%, respectively. Greene County’s unemployment rate was 5.2%.

Columbia Economic Development Corporation President F. Michael Tucker has noticed the increase in filings locally, he said.

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Columbia County residents filed for unemployment in a single week. Only 14 filed for benefits in the same period in 2019, Tucker said.

“Clearly the unemployment statistics show the impact of COVID-19 on Columbia County’s workforce in terms of comparative data to last year,” he said. “We must begin to plan the reopening of businesses, while continuing to prioritize public health and safety. It will be a long process but by working together we can begin to rebuild the county’s economy.”

Greene County was in good shape before the pandemic,

Economic Development and Planning Director Karl Heck said.

“The world has changed,” Heck said. “None of us are immune. Millions of people filed for unemployment and that will reflect in the unemployment numbers.”

Tourism is one of the industries that has been most impacted, Heck said.

Because Greene County is more of a day-trip or drivable destination, Heck said the tourism industry will bounce back.

“We are optimistic we may

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SAN DIEGO — Novel coronavirus outbreaks aboard three Navy warships have taught the military service valuable lessons that enabled it to respond quickly in late March when a sailor started displaying symptoms of COVID-19 on the guided-missile destroyer Kidd, a vice admiral in charge of the Navy’s surface force said last week.

The Kidd was conducting counter-drug operations in the eastern Pacific near South America when a sailor began showing symptoms of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, on April 22.

Less than a week later, the ship was moored at Naval Base San Diego, with 243 of its roughly 330 sailors evacuated from the vessel.

Vice Adm. Richard Brown, commander of the Naval Surface Force Pacific in San Diego, said Friday that quick action by the Navy to bring the Kidd into port soon after its first case was reported likely prevented a broader outbreak among the crew.

“This virus is insidious,” Brown said during a conference call with reporters. “If we had left her out there, the entire crew would have got infected.”

Brown said that after outbreaks on other ships _ amphibious assault ships Essex and Tripoli, littoral combat ship Coronado and aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt — the Navy knew that from the first case on the Kidd, the clock was ticking.

“You can stop the spread of the virus, but it takes a huge effort and urgency to do that,” Brown said.

That lesson came from the Tripoli, a ship recently built in Mississippi. According to Brown, the ship was set to be delivered to the Navy and hundreds of sailors moved aboard in mid-March, just when broad community spread of the coronavirus was picking up nationwide.

The Essex and Coronado, two San Diego ships, were among the first in the Navy to report cases of the coronavirus. Brown said the Essex, while in port, started rotating its crew day to day by duty section — allowing for social distancing onboard.

The number of cases initially rose slowly but soon flattened and eventually stopped.

“That almost became the model, but that was the first week of the Navy crisis — when

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Alex Millar/TNS

The guided-missile destroyer USS Kidd (DDG 100) arrives in San Diego, Calif. on April 28, 2020, as part of the Navy’s aggressive response to the COVID-19 outbreak on board the ship, which includes medical care for the crew and cleaning and disinfecting the ship.

Tripoli hit a month later, we were ready,” Brown said.

When the virus began spreading on the Tripoli, the decision to move crew members off was made within a day of the third confirmed case, Brown said. About 630 sailors were moved off the ship and, as a result, the outbreak was limited to around about a couple dozen sailors.

That number has since gone down, he said.

One of the most valuable lessons the Navy has learned about the virus is how it can spread between people who do not appear ill, known as asymptomatic spread.

The Coronado had its first positive COVID-19 case on March 17. The Navy, for the first time, tested the entire crew — now a standard practice aboard ships leaving for deployment.

“That’s the evolution,” Brown said. “We did not know a lot about the virus back in the middle of March. It’s amazing what we learned. When you do 100% testing, that’s when you find the asymptomatic sailors.”

Asymptomatic carriers of the virus have prolonged the quarantine period for some sailors on the Roosevelt.

The first known coronavirus cases on the Roosevelt emerged in late March. Two days after the Navy announced the outbreak, the San Diego aircraft carrier pulled into Guam. Initially, the Navy said sailors would remain on the ship and be restricted to the pier.

Days later, the ship’s thencommanding officer, Capt.

Brett Crozier, sent a letter to Navy captains and three U.S. Pacific Fleet admirals warning that the only way to get the outbreak under control — and save sailors’ lives — was to move 90% of the crew off the ship.

Crozier was fired by acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly after a copy of that letter was leaked to the media. Modly then resigned less than a week later after a profanity-laden speech he delivered to the Roosevelt’s crew was also leaked.

The ordeal is the subject of an ongoing Navy investigation.

Crozier’s proposal was adopted by Navy leaders and sailors began moving off the ship.

Eventually, more than 4,200 who tested negative for the virus were moved to hotels on the island. Those with positive tests were placed in isolation on base.

However, as the Navy began to bring sailors back the ship after at least 14 days in quarantine, some tested positive for the virus, despite having no symptoms.

On Friday, Jonathan Hoffman, a Pentagon spokesman, said the Navy will no longer routinely release specific coronavirus case numbers on ships.

The last official numbers from the Roosevelt, released Thursday, said 1,102 sailors have active cases of the virus — an increase of 162 from two days prior. The Navy attributed that surge to asymptomatic sailors coming out of quarantine.

In order to return to the Roosevelt, which has been sterilized bow to stern, sailors must now

test negative on two successive tests, the Navy says.

That policy will apply to Kidd sailors now in quarantine in San Diego, Brown said. The last numbers released by the Navy said 78 sailors had tested positive — a number Brown said will likely rise or fall over the next couple of weeks.

“Even though a sailor tested negative on the day of arrival, there was crew interaction on the ship,” Brown said, adding that it took about six days for the ship to get to San Diego after its first case. “They might not be at a viral load that they’re showing (right now).”

Brown said he is confident the Navy has learned from what’s happened on the Roosevelt and that those lessons are minimizing the virus’ effect on the Kidd.

“There’s not a massive breakout because we acted so fast,” Brown said.

An industrial cleaning company has been brought aboard to sanitize the Kidd — another lesson from the Tripoli, he added.

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SEATTLE - A well-regarded software engineer and vice president quit Amazon on Friday over the e-commerce giant’s firing of warehouse workers and climate activists.

Tim Bray, who also held the title of distinguished engineer, wrote in a blog post that he was giving up his job, and forgoing a paycheck that could top $1 million, because he no longer felt comfortable working for a company that’s comfortable firing whistleblowers with legitimate concerns.

“It’s evidence of a vein of toxicity running through the company culture,” Bray wrote.

“I choose neither to serve nor drink that poison.”

Bray cited the recent firings of warehouse workers including Chris Smalls and Bashir Mohammed, as well as tech staffers Maren Costa and Emily Cunningham, who have criticized

the company’s climate policies, among others. Bray said he raised his concerns through the proper channels, but declined to disclose those conversations in his blog post.

“That done, remaining an Amazon VP would have meant, in effect, signing off on actions I despised. So I resigned,” Bray wrote.

Bray couldn’t be reached for comment. Amazon declined to comment, but said the other workers weren’t fired for whistleblowing, but rather violating company policies.

(Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.)

Bray is a well-known name in the geeky developer world. He is one of the creators of XML, a coding language that’s a key underpinning of the Internet.

Bray worked at Sun Microsystems, and later for Google. He joined Amazon at the end of 2014, working in Amazon Web

Services, the cloud-computing division that offers technology to let companies rent computing web-based infrastructure on-demand.

Amazon’s fired warehouse workers had pressed the company to better treat employees during the coronavirus pandemic. They sought paid time off for those who feel sick or need to self-quarantine, as well temporary closure of warehouses for cleaning where workers test positive.

The two tech employees who were fired were outspoken critics of Amazon’s climate policies.

They more recently publicly

denounced the conditions at Amazon’s warehouses, and stood alongside warehouse colleagues who pressed for change.

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Tuesday, May 5 n Catskill Town Board 6:30 p.m. Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill n Durham Town Board workshop meeting 7:30 p.m. at Town Hall, 7309 Route 81, East Durham

Wednesday, May 6 n Greene County Economic Develop-

ment Corporation 4 p.m. via Zoom meeting instead of a public meeting open for the public to attend in person. Members of the public may view all meetings on the Greene County YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0mwTvjUz_XyhJ83epMPFpQ/. Minutes of will transcribed and posted on the Greene County Economic Development Corporation website, www.greenecountyedc.com, upon completion n Greene County Legislature special gov ops; special finance; special legislature meeting no. 3; health services; county resources & public safety 6 p.m. via zoom – instructions for audio/video conferencing are on county website

Thursday, May 7 n Ashland Planning Board 6 p.m.

Town Hall, 12094 Route 23, Ashland n Cairo Town Planning Board 7 p.m.

Town Hall, 512 Main St., Cairo n Coxsackie-Athens CSD, special Board of Education virtual meeting 6 p.m. n Coxsackie Village Workshop 6 p.m.

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Monday, May 11 n Ashland Town Board 7:30 p.m.

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

Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie 518-731-2718 n Greene County Legislature 6 p.m. county services and public works via zoom – instructions for audio/video conferencing are on county website

Tuesday, May 12 n Catskill Town Planning Board 7 p.m.

Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill n Coxsackie Village Historic Preservation Committee 6 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie 518-731-2718

Wednesday, May 13 n Athens Village Board 6:30 p.m.

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

Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill n Jewett Town Board 7 p.m. Jewett Municipal Building, 3547 County Route 23C, Jewett

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Grant to help local advertisers through the COVID-19 crisis

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Downtown Digital Group, an advertising and marketing solutions company, and Johnson Newspaper Corp. are launching “A Hand Up Marketing Grant” program to give area businesses help in promoting — and reintroducing — their business to the community following weeks of closures or limited operations due to the COVID-19 crisis.

“Everyone who owns a business is eager to get things rolling again and we want to help local businesses recapture the attention of local consumers,” said Michael Messerly, vice president of advertising and digital revenue for the Downtown Digital Group and the Johnson Newspaper Corp.

“Soon, people are going to be out and about and we want to help business owners reintroduce themselves and the products and services best offered by local businesses,” Messerly said.

With many businesses forced to close because of government mandates, many consumers have shifted their spending to online only businesses.

“It is time to bring those local dollars back into local businesses,” Messerly said.

The “A Hand Up Marketing Grant” will serve as a booster to business marketing plans. Grants of up

to $5,000 per business may be used to assist businesses marketing through Johnson Newspaper Corp. publications and digital platforms, including the Register-Star, The Daily Mail and HudsonValley360.com.

“When receiving the grants, local businesses will be able to do more with advertising budgets that have been compromised by the pandemic,” Messerly said.

Businesses in Columbia and Greene counties are eligible for the program as are businesses in Albany, Dutchess, Ulster, Berkshire, Jefferson, Lewis, St. Lawrence, Oswego, Oneida, Onondaga, Franklin, Clinton, Genesee, Livingston, Orleans and Wyoming counties.

Other participating media include the Watertown Daily Times, Courier Observer, (Lowville) Journal and Republican, Oswego County News, The Oswego Shopper, (St. Lawrence County) Advances News, the NNY360.com website, The Malone Telegram and MyMaloneTelegram.com, The (Batavia) Daily Mail and the TheDailyNews.com.

The advertising management of the Downtown Digital Group will review all applications and forward them on to the respective publications, which will reach out and design a marketing plan with each grant recipient to maximize the

Wakefern Food Corp. announces donation to support food banks KEASBEY, NJ – Wakefern Food Corp., along with its cooperative members – who own and operate supermarkets across nine states – announced it will donate one million dollars to regional food banks to help meet the dramatic increase in demand for food and essentials during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The donation will be divided among 30 food banks across the nine-state trading area of supermarket banners ShopRite, Price Rite Marketplace and The Fresh Grocer.

“It’s so important for us to support the food banks

that are experiencing increased need and demand during this crisis,” said Joe Colalillo, chairman and CEO of Wakefern Food Corp. “In these uncertain times our members remain committed to supporting the communities our stores serve and will continue to help in the fight against hunger by working with our food bank partners.”

The $1 million donation is the continuation of Wakefern and ShopRite’s long history of addressing food insecurity through its support of regional food banks and those in need.

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grant value to its fullest extent.

A representative from Downtown Digital Group will follow up with each business that applies for “A Hand Up Grant.”

“We will be working with each ‘A Hand Up Grant’ winner to design a marketing plan that reaches the right audience at the right time with the right message,” Messerly said. “Online only businesses have created a new foothold in local consumers’ wallets and checkbooks. We will work with our local businesses to remind local consumers that it’s actually more enjoyable to be out of the house and out shopping again.”

Applications are available online only due to COVID-19 concerns. The application process begins immediately, and the marketing will be used throughout May to get a stronger jump start on the summer to get business as close to normal again as possible.

“We don’t have a limit on the number of grants awarded, we want to be there for as many local businesses as possible,” Messerly said.

Applications may be found online at HudsonValley360.com.

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Partners In Caring Fund, a community-based, hunger-fighting initiative, has donated $50 million to more than 2,200 charities over the last two decades.

In response to the COVID-19 epidemic, Wakefern also donated ShopRite trailers to help move hospital equipment to pop-up field hospitals in the state, and this week the company donated respiratory protective masks to New York and New Jersey hospitals to provide much needed protection to medical personnel on the front lines.

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Firefighters at the scene of a water rescue in Claverack.

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CLAVERACK — A Hudson man was rescued safely Saturday afternoon after a boating accident in Claverack, Claverack Fire Chief Brennan Keeler said.

Columbia County 911 received a call around 12:05 p.m. from a friend of a man who reported he had a boating accident and was trapped in the middle of Taghkanic Creek, in the area of Holmquest Farms on Spook Rock Road in Claverack, Keeler said.

Columbia County 911 dispatched Claverack firefighters to the farm and police began searching in an area off Fingar Road in Greenport, Keeler said.

The trapped 55-year-old man was able to take pictures of his location with his cell phone and send them to dispatchers at Columbia County

911 to help pinpoint his exact location, Keeler said.

Firefighters used an allterrain vehicle to get to the man’s location and used a 12-foot ladder to reach the man, who was on top of a fallen tree in the middle of the creek, Keeler said.

The man, who has not been identified, was canoeing on Taghkanic Creek when he came upon the fallen tree, Keeler said. As the canoe became tangled in the tree, the man pulled himself up on the tree and the canoe floated downstream, leaving the man trapped in the middle of the fast-moving creek.

The man was rescued without injury, Keeler said.

He was brought back to Holmquest Farms, where he was met by friends, who gave him a ride home.

The Columbia County Sheriff’s Office and state police assisted at the scene.

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Food for thought Nobody would believe three months ago that restaurant workers in May would be on the frontline, masked and gloved, risking their lives serving food in take-out lines as a pandemic raged around them.

Yet this is what happened, said U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., at a virtual roundtable discussion Friday about changes the food-service industry must undergo as states across the country plan to reopen businesses.

At a time when restaurants in the Hudson Valley are normally gearing up to welcome back tourists, pack their patios and offer happy hour specials, this year is much different. Bars and restaurant dining rooms across the state were closed due to health concerns from the coronavirus.

Restaurants capable of making the transition to take-out and delivery menus did so.

But many closed completely.

Up to 30% of the nation’s restaurants are not expected to return in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Eater, a restaurant trade journal.

Saying restaurant workers don’t get their due is an understatement. Studies show that a majority of tipped workers cannot obtain unemployment benefits because they received a subminimum wage, plus tips, that did not total enough income to qualify for benefits, according to the research group

Data for Progress.

Before the public-health crisis, nearly 1 in 10 workers in New York were employed in food service. Approximately half of working Americans have been employed in the foodservice industry at some point in their lives.

Yet the federal minimum hourly wage for tipped employees is $2.13, based on the Fair Labor Standards Act. Gillibrand said small businesses such as restaurants are the lifeblood of the economy.

Because the food-service industry will not be the same as it was before, Gillibrand said now is the time to decide what the future should look like. “‘Normal’ wasn’t working for most working people before the crisis, and it’s not going to work after,” Gillibrand said. “This is the time for bold, transformative policies that reshape our workplaces and our country. We cannot ask people to go back to work for as little as $2.13 an hour.”

Gillibrand called for eliminating the tipped minimum wage and increasing the minimum wage to $15, which she said will be good for all workers, their families and for the health of the economy.

Food-service workers are risking their health, and possibly their lives, dealing with hungry members of the public for hours each day. They should earn what they deserve without delay.

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Lockdown protesters do not care about lives

By James Downie

acknowledge that the protesters pushing cops and toting rifles into the Capitol were Social media and cable news lit up Thurswhite. As marketer Frederick Joseph pointed day with images from Lansing, Michigan, out on Twitter, had black protesters tried where armed protesters descended on the that, “we’d be dead.” Different Americans Capitol to demand an end to the state’s coro- have different First Amendment rights. navirus lockdown. “I have never appreciated Consider too what the protesters in Michiour Sergeants-at-Arms more than today,” gan and elsewhere are saying. Some demtweeted state Sen. Dayna Polehanki, as right- onstrators do challenge the official death wing groups screamed in the faces of Michitolls and downplay the virus’s lethality, but gan State Police officers. that hasn’t been their biggest focus. (That At the federal level, the response to the Trump is president and has largely refused to protests has been muddled. President Donchallenge the death count has complicated ald Trump urged Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, right-wing efforts to portray the virus itself a Democrat, to “make a deal.” But his coroas a conspiracy.) Instead, most are arguing navirus task force coordinator, Deborah that it’s worth the death toll, with messages Birx, tried to guilt the protesters into backing like “freedom isn’t free” and “I want my job down. “It’s devastatingly worrisome to me back.” personally because if they go home and inThese value judgments have been echoed fect their grandmother or their grandfather

by Republican officials. On ABC’s “This who has a comorbid condition and they have Week” on Sunday, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, a serious . . . or an unfortunate outcome, they a Republican, said he had to reverse his order will feel guilty for the rest of our lives. So we mandating face masks in stores - a measure need to protect each other at the same time that could have saved lives - because it was a we’re voicing our discontent,” Birx said on “bridge too far.” People, it turned out, “were “Fox News Sunday.” not going to accept the government telling Birx’s worry is personal: As she described them what to do,” DeWine said. Texas Lt. it at a White House briefing, her greatGov. Dan Patrick, a Republican, infamously grandmother died of the 1918 flu after Birx’s told Fox News last month that the country grandmother brought the disease home from needed to reopen because “there are more school. Birx said her grandmother lived the important things than living.” rest of her life with that guilt. But Birx’s exhorSo no, those protesting stay-home orders tation misses what underlies these protests: in Michigan are not going to be persuaded by not individual morality but political power. guilt. Lives saved is not a metric that will sway Consider first the fact that the protesttheir minds. The more officials understand ers were armed. Given the lack of threat to that, the better they’ll be able to deal with protesters’ safety, the only reason to conthese protests in the future. spicuously display weapons was to project James Downie is The Washington Post’s Digital Opinstrength beyond their small numbers. (Note ions Editor. He previously wrote for The New Republic that nearly 80% of Michiganders support and Foreign Policy magazine. continuing the stay-home order.) Let’s also

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Two questions about Biden and Reade that we should grapple with now WASHINGTON — What if you were convinced — or even thought it was more likely than not — that Tara Reade is telling the truth about whether Joe Biden sexually assaulted her? If you are a Biden supporter, should this change your vote, or cause you to call for the Democratic Party to come up with a replacement nominee?

These questions are admittedly premature; evidence is still unfolding. It was an important step for Biden on Friday to ask for a review of Senate archives to determine whether Reade, as she claims, filed a complaint about his behavior in 1993. If no such complaint is found, that is compelling, if not dispositive.

It was a mistake, and I suspect untenable, for Biden to resist a review of his own archives at the University of Delaware for any information relevant to Reade and her allegations. That it is unlikely such documents will be among Biden’s papers does not mean they are not worth searching for. There is little downside in terms of trying to get closer to the truth, and questions will persist until this happens.

In the interim, it is worth engaging in the uncomfortable thought experiment.

As I analyze it, there are two separate strands of this inquiry: first, if true, how to assess Biden in relation to President Trump; second, how to assess Biden against the larger backdrop of the #MeToo movement and previous claims of sexual misconduct.

The difficult part, for me at least, is that the answers to these questions tug in painfully contradictory directions.

First, and far easier, Biden vs. Trump. Trump has a lengthy, amply documented and repulsive history of bad and assaultive conduct toward women. Indeed, he incriminated himself with his vulgar “Access Hollywood” remarks. The list of women who have alleged unwanted sexual comments, touching or worse by Trump is in the mid-20s.

By contrast, some women

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MARCUS have complained that Biden’s hands-on style of personal interaction made them feel uncomfortable. Fair enough.

But in nearly 50 years in public life, there has not been, before Reade, any similar allegation of sexual assault against Biden. In assessing the veracity of assault claims, such prior history, or the absence thereof, matters.

Biden also has a lengthy and admirable history of championing legislation to protect women against sexual violence and abuse. That does not prove that he did not assault Reade, but it is a mark on Biden’s behalf.

If the 2020 campaign were a contest over who has a better history when it comes to the treatment of women, whether on a personal or a policy level, there is no equivalence, none, between the two candidates.

The more difficult issue — if you get to the point of crediting Reade’s account over Biden’s strenuous, and now in-person, denial — is grappling with where that should lead. If you are among those who have previously demanded that such misconduct be taken seriously, should you now insist that the Democratic Party find a mechanism for replacing Biden as its presidential nominee?

To put a finer point on it: If you thought that the evidence against Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh was sufficient to deny him confirmation to a seat on the Supreme Court, are you a hypocrite if you don’t think the Reade allegations are enough to mean that Biden should not be president? One man is in a job for the rest of

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his life and the other is running for a four-year term, but that cannot be a sufficient answer. We are talking about the president of the United States, after all.

If — underscore, if — it becomes clear or even likely that Biden engaged in the behavior that Reade alleges, there must be a serious conversation about whether he can be the Democratic nominee.

What would make this decision, if it comes to that, so difficult is that the imperative of defeating Trump is so powerful. This is not an ordinary political contest against an ordinary incumbent. Ensuring that Trump does not enjoy another four years in office may be enough to justify egregious hypocrisy, but it would be hypocrisy, nonetheless. Democrats and feminists should be hesitant to expose themselves, once again, to accusations that their horror over sexual harassment and assault is purely situational.

This is why the facts, and as much factual development as possible, matter so much. As Biden said in his statement on Friday, when women “step forward they should be heard, not silenced.” But the other element of that equation is equally important: “their stories should be subject to appropriate inquiry and scrutiny.”

Biden’s senior aides, to whom Reade has said she brought her complaints about mistreatment, have said they have no recollection of such allegations, and that they would remember such an event. If the complaint that Reade says she filed cannot be located, that would be highly significant, particularly if other records from that period have been archived.

If Reade’s complaint is unearthed, that does not necessarily make it true. But it would mean Biden has a huge problem, one that cannot be conveniently ignored.

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Leonard (Lenny) Vandyke Knott February 28, 1936 April 30, was preceded in death by 2020 Leonard (Lenny) Knott, 84, his parents George and Edith of Angleton, TX passed away Sanford Knott, his wife Margie in the early morning hours of and his brothers Donald Knott, Thursday April 30, 2020 in Dan- Chester Knott, Bernard Knott, bury, TX surrounded by local Raymond Knott, George Knott family. Lenny was born Febru- and Harold Knott. ary 28, 1936 in Stockport, NY Lenny is survived by his chilto George and Edith Sanford dren Jackie Penn (Cindy) of Knott. Lenny joined the US Air Angleton, TX, Wanda Oakes Force in the mid-50s and while (Danny) of Ravena, NY, Lenny enlisted met Margie Nell Polk, Jr (Cissie) of Fuquay-Varina, who he married on NC, Doyle (Elaine) of September 7, 1958.

Spokane, WA, Bobby They raised their famExtrom (Pam) of Lewily in Stuyvesant Falls, isville, NC, Glynn (BobNY and then moved to bie) of Angleton, TX, Angleton, TX in 1978.

Norma LoStracco (Roy) Lenny was a man of Danbury, TX, daughwith a heart of gold. ter-in-love Sue SaHe would not pass up vosky Powell (Richard) an opportunity to help of Danbury, TX; sisterKnott someone. He loved in-law Juanita Knott of classic country music Stuyvesant, NY ; twenand enjoyed listening to it with ty-one grandchildren and thirtyhis family and friends. Also, he five great grandchildren. had a love for cars and workDue to the pandemic a meing on cars was his life. Lenny morial service will be held at a worked at the Ragland’s dealer- later date. Lenny and Margie’s ship in Angleton, TX for over 20 ashes will be joined together years. He helped many people at Grandfather Mountain, NC. start their careers in the auto In lieu of flowers please make care business. Lenny’s great- donations to Northway Baptist est joy in his life was his family Church, 1421 Buchta Road, and helping others. He was a Angleton, TX 77515 Online member of the Northway Bap- condolences for the family may tist Church. Many of Northway be sent to www.PalmsFuneralmember’s vehicles are still run- Home.com ning because of Lenny. Lenny “Rest in Peace Daddy”

Catherine P. Arsenault Catherine P. Arsenault, 76, of Stacey Trigger Brian and Tracey Ghent passed away Saturday, Trigger King and her husband May 2, 2020 at Columbia Me- Brian; two siblings, MaryJane morial Hospital after a coura- Tersigni and Thomas Pike and geous battle with COVID-19. wife Debi; four grandchildren, Born in Dannemora, David M. Brian and NY, on January 30, Amanda Brian, Mi1944, she was a retired chelle Hurtienne SampSecretary from Green son and husband Tyler Haven Correctional Faand Aubrey King; four cility in Stormville, NY. great-grandchildren; She was a loving mothher companion Leser, grandmother and lie Wescott and many great-grandmother. nieces and nephews.

She was a member of The family would like Arsenault the Eastern Star, Presito extend their thanks dent of CSEA, Gathering of the and gratitude to the doctors and Tribes, Chatham/Ghent Seniors nurses at Columbia Memorial and St. James Catholic Church Hospital ICU for the compasof Chatham, NY. She was pre- sionate care they provided. ceded in death by her husband, A memorial service will be Henry Arsenault; parents, Ray- held at a later date, at the conmond and Cecile Briere Pike; venience of the family. Memorisiblings, Betty Miner and Wil- als in Catherine’s name may be liam Pike. She is survived by made to the American Heart Asher three children; Raymond sociation. Condolences may be M. Trigger and his wife Rhonda, conveyed at frenchblasl.com.

J. Crew files for bankruptcy protection Rick Green and Shannon D. Harrington Bloomberg

J. Crew Group Inc. filed for bankruptcy, unable to revive flagging sales of its preppy clothing line amid the coronavirus pandemic and crushed by debt rooted in a long-ago leveraged buyout.

The retail chain reached a deal with a majority of its lenders to convert $1.65 billion of debt into equity, J. Crew said in a statement Monday.

Lenders led by Anchorage Capital Group, Blackstone Group Inc.’s GSO Capital Partners and Davidson Kempner Capital Management are providing $400 million of financing that will allow the company to maintain operations during the Chapter 11 restructuring, according to the statement.

The bankruptcy filing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Richmond, Virginia, allows J. Crew to stay in business while cutting its borrowings. Normally that would include keeping the doors open for its J. Crew and Madewell stores, but sales at those outlets vanished when the coronavirus forced shoppers to stay home and nonessential businesses to shut.

Even before the virus spread, the company was struggling because shoppers were defecting

to online merchants and consumer tastes were changing. J. Crew had been trying to rebound from some fashion misses and complaints of poorquality clothing.

The company managed to sidestep default once before in 2017, with a financial overhaul that included shuffling assets in a way that moved fast-growing Madewell out of reach of creditors.

The change did little to reverse the company’s fortunes, but it irked creditors and turned J. Crew’s name into a synonym on Wall Street for lopsided debt deals that leave lenders with weaker claims on company assets.

J. Crew was relying on an initial public offering of Madewell to raise capital and ease its heavy debt load, a legacy of the 2011 leveraged buyout by current owners TPG Capital and Leonard Green & Partners. The turmoil in financial markets put an end to that option.

Madewell will remain part of J. Crew as part of the transaction support agreement the company reached with its lenders, according to the statement. About 71% of the company’s term loan lenders and 78% of its so-called IPCo notes agreed to the deal, the company said.

Coronavirus pushes Supreme Court to allow first-ever live broadcast of arguments

By David G. Savage Los Angeles Times (TNS)

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court undertook its own version of a partial reopening Monday and gave the public its first chance to listen to a live broadcast of oral arguments.

And within the first minutes, the public heard another rarity — a question from Justice Clarence Thomas, who usually sits silently through the courtroom arguments.

Though the court releases audio recordings of oral arguments after they have ended, but it has never before allowed a live broadcast.

But at 10 a.m. Monday, Americans nationwide could listen via CSPAN as Chief Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/TNS Justice John G. Roberts Jr. introduced Justice Depart- View of the Supreme Court on Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2018, in Washington, D.C. The Supreme Court ment attorney Erika Ross undertook its own version of a partial reopening Monday and gave the public its first chance to who was representing the listen to a live broadcast of oral arguments.

Patent and Trademark Office. a 130-year old case. though for high-profile case, returns.

She was given two minutes Justice Thomas was recjustices sometimes have alThey began on Monday to introduce her argument, lowed the release of record- morning with a more rouognized next and asked sevdefending the government’s decision to refuse to register a eral questions. He is by far the ings on the same day. Tran- tine business dispute over trademark for the travel web- most silent justice during oral scripts are published in the whether Booking.com can site Booking.com because its arguments. When he asked afternoons.

Most of the justices have registered its name as an ofa question in 2016, it was the name is generic. been working at home and ficial trademark, even though first time in a decade.

The justices quickly connecting with their col- its words are generic and not CSPAN, which has long plunged into the details of the leagues remotely. sought the court’s permission legal dispute. Unlike during distinctive.

The justices will hear arin-person arguments, when to televise the arguments, justices interrupt freely and agreed to post the live audio. guments via telephone in 10 (c)2020 Los Angeles Times frequently, during the remote The justices have steadily re- cases over the next two weeks, argument they took turns fused to allow cameras in the including a high-stakes Visit the Los Angeles Times at asking questions in order of courtroom or to even permit constitutional dispute between President Trump and www.latimes.com a live audio of its arguments. seniority.

A recording of each week’s three Democratic controlled Roberts spoke first and questioned why the govern- arguments is posted on the House committees that have Distributed by Tribune Content ment’s lawyer was relying on court’s website on Fridays, demanded access to his tax Agency, LLC.

Fears mount about inflation returning with a vengeance Catherine Bosley and Anchalee Worrachate Bloomberg

Even a calamity of disease, death and economic destruction afflicting the world all at once isn’t enough to suppress the notion in some quarters that inflation could return with a vengeance.

The coronavirus crisis has killed hundreds of thousands, incapacitated millions and affected the livelihoods of billions -- prompting policymakers to fear a deflation spiral reminiscent of the Great Depression. But economists including former Bank of England official Charles Goodhart, and investors such as BNP Paribas Asset Management, are asking if a different phenomenon lurks in the wreckage of global growth.

Such contrarians wonder if an environment of ultra-loose monetary and fiscal easing, commodity shortages, frayed supply chains and braking globalization might be fertile ground for surging consumer prices. Reinforcing that shift, monetary authorities could face pressure to keep interest rates low, capping the cost of servicing ballooned government debt while allowing inflation to erode it too.

Even some traditionally deflation-wary thinkers have begun pondering that outcome. Former International Monetary Fund Chief Economist Olivier Blanchard recently wrote that high inflation is “unlikely but not impossible,” a sentiment echoed by former European Central Bank policy maker Peter Praet.

“I wouldn’t say that it’s a given that we’re going to be in a longer-term inflationary environment,” said Karen Ward, chief market strategist EMEA at JPMorgan Asset Management. “But I wouldn’t say it’s going to be a negligible probability either.”

A limited dose of inflation might be welcome to central bankers who have spent trillions of dollars over the years in stimulus to achieve that.

But such a prospect is far from their minds at present as they try to help economies facing eye-watering increases in unemployment. Almost half of the world’s workforce is in danger of losing livelihoods from the crisis, according to

the International Labour Organisation.

“The deflationary shock is dominating, that’s absolutely clear,” Praet said in an interview. “There’s a collapse of demand.”

Markets reflect that view, in tune with the oil slump and the prevailing perspective of weak prices sapped by adverse demographics, new technologies and globalization. Inflation expectations, as proxied by fiveyear, five-year forward swap rates, are near record lows in the U.S. and Europe. The U.K. 10-year breakeven rate is down nearly three quarters of a point below last year’s peak.

Some investors see things differently. BNP Paribas Asset Management, which oversees more than $450 billion, has started building an overweight position in commodities for the first time in four years, while going underweight bonds. Ardea Investment Management, a Sydney-based fixed income asset manager, said it “materially” added inflation exposure from late March after the collapse in market expectations of price growth.

“In terms of tail risks not being focused on, inflation is definitely one of them,” said Gopi Karunakaran, a money manager at Ardea.

That narrative diverges from another argument over the years -- for example from Germany’s Bundesbank -- that underlying conditions in some economies have long supported a pickup in prices.

One strand emphasizes the synchronized stimulus -- with monetary easing supercharged by fiscal largess -- as opposed to the asymmetric response during the financial crisis, when central banks cut rates and started quantitative easing, but governments reined in budgets.

“What we are doing is creating a policy framework that has an inflation bias in it, which is the first time we’ve had that in generations,” said Dario Perkins, chief European economist at TS Lombard in London and a former U.K. Treasury official. “The policy response is a war-time policy response.”

That conflict theme is one that Goodhart finds apt. In a March 27 paper with Manoj Pradhan, founder of Talking Heads Macroeconomics, he

wrote that commodity costs will rebound with an economic recovery after lockdowns are lifted and stimulus takes effect.

Inflation could exceed 5% in 2021, and perhaps even reach 10% -- outcomes resembling the aftermaths of World Wars I and II. “The monetary and fiscal expansion is aimed at, and will succeed at, putting money in the hands of people,” Goodhart, a BOE rate setter from 1997 until 2000, said in an interview. “There will be some degree of pent-up demand.”

Goods disruptions caused by the virus -- for example with Brazilian farmers unable to harvest coffee beans -- might also linger. Colin Harte, a multi-asset portfolio manager at BNP Paribas Asset Management, warns that the supply side “could be more damaged than we realized.”

The further consequences of a potential unwinding of globalization, and a renewed focus on local production, builds on that narrative.

“In the latter stages of the recovery, amid continued deglobalization in goods trade and less elastic global supply, fiscal policies may begin to stoke inflation,” Berenberg Senior Economist Kallum Pickering said.

Some economic data might already point to price pressures. U.S. money supply is surging, and Tim Congdon, a longtime watcher of such data, anticipates it will see its largest increase in peacetime this year — followed by an “inflationary boom.”

For some analysts however, the prospect of inflation is seriously remote in a world where unemployment is going through the roof.

“It is naive to think everyone is going to get their jobs back when this pandemic virus goes away,” said Chris Rupkey, chief financial economist at MUFG Union Bank NA. “Massive job losses mean price declines for many goods are on the way.”

For Goodhart’s thesis of “double-digit” inflation to unfold, Perkins reckons authorities would need to succeed relatively quickly in limiting deaths and shoring up growth, which isn’t a given. He isn’t worried.

Blanchard, in an April 24

article for the Peterson Institute for International Economics, also sees a far greater probability of low inflation. But a combination of swelling public debt, a jump in real interest rates, and deliberately loose monetary policy to aid government financing, could produce a different outcome.

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Windham-Ashland-Jewett announces the 2020 valedictorian and salutatorian WINDHAM - WindhamAshland-Jewett Central School District announces the valedictorian and salutatorian for the Class of 2020. The valedictorian is Victoria Shuster, daughter of Drew and Natasha Shuster, and the salutatorian is Kimberly Gonzalez, daughter of Karl and Gabrielle Gonzalez.

During her high school career, Victoria has been a member of the National Honor Society and held positions of leadership in that organization including president, vice president and treasurer. Victoria has also been a member of the Student Council and a class officer working with the administration to advocate for the student body, as well as working with her peers to plan fundraisers and assemblies to benefit the school.

Victoria has been an active athlete for WAJ, participating in freestyle ski, alpine ski, cross country, track and field, and cheerleading. Further, Victoria has participated in numerous extracurricular events including Mock Trial, Jazz Band, Outdoor Club, and Science Club. Her work ethic extends to the family business, where Victoria serves as a waitress on weekends and school breaks.

She is no stranger to altruistic endeavors, volunteering locally and around the world. Victoria devotes her

Americans strike positive note amidst the pandemic

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spare time working with the Adaptive Sports Foundation and the Jewett Food Pantry.

In 2018, Victoria volunteered at the Children’s Education and War Conservation in Fiji, teaching children English and building rainwater catchment systems.

In the fall, Victoria will attend Middlebury College, a private liberal arts college in Middlebury, Vermont.

Kimberly Gonzalez is a driving force of positivity within her school and a mentor for her peers and younger students. Kim has led by example and has been devoted to pursuing her goals, while also working to help those around her. She has held the office of historian for the National Honor Society as well as assembly chair for the Student Council.

Additionally, Kim’s dedication is shown through her active participation in

extracurricular activities such as Mock Trial, Outdoor Club, Jazz Band, and Acapella Club.

Kimberly’s talents as an athlete are demonstrated as a member of the varsity soccer team, track and field, and cheerleading. Kimberly was awarded the Joe Beck Scholarship in February for high academic achievement, athletic participation, and civic-minded involvement.

Throughout high school, Kimberly has worked at the Club at Windham Mountain Resort in childcare. She has also been active in her community, volunteering at the Adaptive Sports Foundation, the Windham Chamber of Commerce, the Hope Restoration Church, and Sugar Maples Art Camp.

Kimberly will pursue a degree in biochemistry this fall at Siena College, a private Franciscan liberal arts college in Loudonville.

As we New Yorkers and the nation continue to wrestle with the ever-changing landscape that has become our new reality, there are heartwarming signs of appreciation springing up all over the country.

Despite our collective anxiety over an uncertain future and the daily struggle to survive, many of our fellow citizens strive to make a difficult situation bearable, even better for others. Our health care workers and first responders have demonstrated courage, strength and compassion putting their lives in jeopardy for the sake of their fellow man. Doctors and nurses have responded to the call for help abandoning retirement to volunteer for this hazardous work.

Heath care encompasses a wide variety of services.

Counselors continue supporting those in recovery using technology to provide virtual meetings and private sessions. Psychologists are working to provide the stabilizing support for mental health patients and those experiencing stress. Stress and anxiety are everywhere, especially in hard-hit areas where employment is rampant and food deprivation is a fact of life. Researchers work feverishly to learn more about this new illness and to develop an antidote.

All this while primary care physicians care for the rest of the population’s needs and pharmacists fill prescriptions. Teachers provide online learning. Thousands of working men and women are keeping this country going while thousands more work from home. Whether on the job or working from home, we are all working together to make life possible.

Despite the hardships, the human spirit rises to the occasion. Positive thinking and actions are an important part of the prevention lessons taught in schools. Positive attitudes enable people to weather difficult periods in life, build self-esteem, and aid in managing emotions.

Positivity is a powerful survival tool. The following are examples of positivity in action. At 7 p.m. every day, people in New York City, in a collective effort to demonstrate their appreciation for all the work being done by health care workers, go to their windows, doors, balconies or rooftops and applaud.

It’s reassuring to see and hear people acknowledging the sacrifices of others. People across the country have begun to follow this evening ritual as a way of acknowledging the heroism that is evident throughout the nation and the world. Last week on a trip to Beacon my son noticed many houses had Thank You posters in their windows.

These were handmade posters expressing gratitude for

the sacrifices so many are making for the sake of us all.

Many of our friends and neighbors from the city have relocated to their second homes during the lockdown.

As a result, the Windham Path, a beautiful walking/biking path that meanders along the Batavia Kill, has seen an increase in use. About four weeks ago during my daily walk I noticed small rocks with inspirational messages painted on them scattered strategically along the path.

As I read each I was overwhelmed by the outpouring of empathy, understanding and compassion these simple but profound statements expressed. Their messages became subject matter for contemplation. More rocks began to appear. Some were pictures of a sunrise, a mountain scene, a rainbow, but each created a sense of serenity and peace we desperately need now. The children’s contributions featured hope for a brighter future. Messages of caring, comfort and strength uplifted the spirit.

Easter Sunday saw colorful plastic eggs nestled in the grass, crocks of trees and tucked under. benches.

An open egg revealed a small paper with the word “Love” in childish handwriting. Strength, tenacity, love, endurance, courage, and support resonate. Simply put, “We’re all in this together.”

Reach Helen Exum at helene@ twincountyservices.org.

American Cancer Society announces Alone Together Virtual 5K series SUNY Empire State College ALBANY – Join the American Cancer Society for a socially-distant Alone Together 5K series on May 9 and 16.

Participants from across the country will walk, run, roll, or hike in a virtual 5K series to show cancer patients and their families that we are still there for them, even when we’re apart.

Due to the pandemic, many of the American Cancer Society’s spring and summer events were postponed or cancelled. “Cancer won’t stop; neither can we,” said Lizzie Hunter, senior manager of community development for the American Cancer Society. “We need everyone’s help to keep fighting.”

How to get involved in the virtual 5K series: 1. A one-time donation of any amount registers you for the entire Virtual 5K Series.

Link to register: https://acsedwc.ejoinme.org/aboa5k 2. Once you have registered, you will receive an email confirmation that will direct you to all of your virtual 5K resources (packet, bib, etc.)

3. Each Saturday, there will be a different theme for race day. We encourage you to have fun with it! But, you won’t be judged on creativity so just make sure to get out and complete the 3.1 miles in any way you choose (run, walk, bike, roller blade, hike, etc.)

4. Flood social media with support for cancer patients

and their families! Suggestions of what to post will be included in your virtual 5K packet. Be sure to tag the American Cancer Society so we can see and share your photos.

Instagram: @AmericanCancerSocietyEvents Facebook: Alone Together Virtual 5K Series!

Hashtag: #5kAloneTogether #CancerHasntStopped In early April, co-chairs from the American Cancer Society’s Capital Region Associate Board of Ambassadors saw a need for fundraiser to take the place of spring and summer events that would not be happening due to the pandemic. The volunteers worked closely with the ACS staff and felt strongly that an Alone Together Virtual 5K will be a great way for us to come ‘together’ while still practicing social distancing. Patients are still in need, and they wanted to do what they could to help raise funds and show support for their fight. That first virtual Alone Together 5K registered more than 150 participants across 14 states and raised over $4,000.

Participants across the country enjoyed it so much we decided to expand with support from volunteers and staff leading the charge across Upstate New York. Our shared goal: to fill the map with 5K participants who will be staying active and doing whatever they are able to do in the fight

against cancer and showing cancer patients everywhere that we are NOT stopping the fight against cancer, not even during this global pandemic.

During this unprecedented time, the American Cancer Society is serving isolated and anxious cancer patients -- answering tough questions and solving complex problems related to access to treatment.

“Luckily, being a national organization with a strong local presence we are able to continue our commitment to be there for cancer patients and their families in our own community whenever when they need us, how we are doing that just looks different right now” said Hunter.

In March, when the pandemic hit, the Society has received more than 25,000 calls to the 24/7 cancer helpline, 80% of them were COVID-19 related questions. As the pandemic continues, the American Cancer Society continues to provide comprehensive information about increased risk and precautions necessary for patients and their families to consider during these challenging times. This life saving information can be accessed 24/7 on Cancer.org or by calling 1-800-227-2345.

For event details and to register for the Alone Together Virtual 5K, visit https://acsedwc.ejoinme.org/aboa5k .

For questions about the 5K please contact Amanda Lee at Amanda.Lee@Cancer.org

awarded $45,000 grant NEW YORK - SUNY Empire State College announced it has been awarded a $45,000 grant from New York City’s largest poverty fighting organization, Robin Hood’s Relief Fund. The Robin Hood Relief Fund was reactivated in response to COVID-19 to alleviate some of the financial difficulties vulnerable New Yorkers are experiencing, including SUNY Empire students in need of technology to successfully complete their studies at home.

Last month, SUNY Empire State College, in partnership with the Empire State College Foundation, established a fund to provide grants of up to $500 to assist currentlyenrolled students with educationally-related financial hardships. To date, of the 992 students who have applied

to SUNY Empire’s COVID-19 emergency fund, 33 percent are currently living in New York City. Robin Hood’s generosity will ensure 90 more students are awarded the maximum amount.

“On behalf of the entire SUNY Empire community, I’d like to thank Robin Hood for this generous contribution,” said SUNY Empire State College President Jim Malatras. “Robin Hood was quick to identify and respond to the challenges so many are facing in New York City, and for that we are grateful. This additional support means that dozens more hardworking SUNY Empire students will get the tools they need to continue their studies and rise above this pandemic.”

“Education is critical to economic mobility and we

have a responsibility to lessen the shock of COVID-19 on the remarkable students who are working hard to open the door of opportunity for themselves and their families,” said Emary Aronson, Chief Knowledge Officer and Senior Advisor to CEO, Robin Hood. “We are proud to stand alongside SUNY Empire and their students during this unprecedented crisis.”

There are currently 4,385 students representing every borough in metro New York enrolled at SUNY Empire State College. Overall, 64 percent of students qualify for state and federal financial aid. SUNY Empire State students, and anyone interested in contributing to the COVID-19 emergency funds, can click here to learn more.

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Mortgage rates are down, should you refinance?

For today’s homebuyer, mortgages are cheaper than ever. The average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage fell to 3.29% in early March, the lowest level recorded in almost 50 years. And 15-year mortgage rates came in even lower, averaging a mere 2.79%.(1) These exceptionally low rates are tempting many homeowners to refinance their existing mortgages. In fact, refinance applications jumped almost 80% from a year earlier, their highest level in over 10 years.(2) But there are a number of factors you’ll want to take into consideration before deciding if refinancing is worthwhile for you.

RATE DIFFERENTIAL The old and arbitrary rule of thumb said that a refi only makes sense if you can lower your interest rate by at least two percentage points - for example, from 6% to 4%. But what really matters is how

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ARMSTRONG long it will take you to break even. In other words, make sure you understand - and are comfortable with - the amount of time it will take for your overall savings to compensate for the cost of the refinancing.

Consider this: If you had a 30-year $100,000 mortgage with a 5.5% interest rate, your monthly payment would be $568. If you refinanced at 3.5%, your new monthly payment would be $449, a savings of $119 per month. Assuming that your new closing

Source: DST Retirement Solutions, LLC, an SS&C company. Based on a 30-year, fixed-rate, $100,000 mortgage, including principal and interest.

costs amounted to $2,000, it would take about 17 months to break even ($2,000/$119 = 16.8). If you planned to stay in your home for at least 17 more months, then a refi might be appropriate. For most people, however, the rate differential -- and monthly savings -- are likely to be less dramatic: (see chart)

HOW LONG YOU EXPECT TO OWN THE PROPERTY How long you plan to live in your home is a key variable that should influence whether you refinance your mortgage. It’s only worthwhile if

you expect to remain in your home long enough to recoup the cost of refinancing.

CLOSING COSTS When you refinance, you’re likely to incur a number of different closing costs. You may pay a mortgage broker fee (assuming you do not go directly to a bank or other lender), a title insurance premium, a commitment fee, points, attorney or settlement fees, an appraisal fee, and other costs that add up quickly. So you’ll need to determine whether the savings from a lower rate justify the closing costs.

Here’s a summary of possible closing costs you might encounter: n Appraisal fee ($300-$400) n Home inspection ($300$500) n Application fee (varies) n Attorney’s fee (hourly) n Origination fee (about 0.5% of loan amount) n Discount points (1 point costs 1% of the loan amount) n Mortgage broker fee (0.50% to 2.75%) n Mortgage insurance application fee (varies) n Upfront mortgage insurance (0.55% to 2.25%) n FHA, VA and USDA fees (1% to 3.3%) n Title search fee (about $200) n Lender’s title insurance (varies) n Owner’s title insurance (0.5% to 1% of purchase price)

STICK WITH WHAT YOU KNOW? Finally, keep in mind that your current lender may make it easier and cheaper

to refinance than another lender would. That’s because your current lender is likely to have all of your important financial information on hand already, which may reduce the time and resources necessary to process your application. But don’t let that be your only consideration. To make a well-informed, confident decision you’ll need to shop around, crunch the numbers, and ask plenty of questions.

Notes 1Source: Yahoo Finance, U.S Mortgage Rates Fall to Record Lows. The Year of Record Breaking May Well Continue, March 7, 2020.

James J. Armstrong is an Accredited Portfolio Management Advisor, Investment Executive, and Managing Partner at Hudson Financial LLC with offices at 1 Hudson City Centre in Hudson NY. Comments and questions are always welcome at 518-828-6123 or visit us at www.hudsonfinanicalllc.com.

Local insurance agent honored for 15 year commitment to quality education

Laberge Group hires Jenna Brown as administrative assistant

CLAVERACK - Robert (Bob) Weinman, CIC, of Frank W. Starkes Insurance Agency, Claverack, was recently recognized for professional leadership and advanced knowledge by the Society of Certified Insurance Counselors (CIC), a leading national insurance professional organization.

Weinman was awarded a certificate marking more than 15 years of participation as a designated CIC, which requires annual completion of advanced education and training.

His ongoing allegiance and support of the CIC Program

ALBANY – Laberge Group welcomes Jenna K. Brown to the firm as an administrative assistant.

Brown brings more than six years of experience and a pertinent skill set that includes the preparation of proposals, contracts, and construction management documentation.

She is a notary public with additional experience in event planning and public hearing coordination.

Her efficiency, attention to detail, and commitment to excellent internal customer service will be

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is a testament to the value he places on “real world” education and customer satisfaction. “Your clients, associates, and the insurance profession as a whole will benefit from such dedication and

leadership,”cited Dr. William T. Hold, CIC, President of the Society of CIC. The Society of CIC is a notfor-profit organization of The National Alliance for Insurance Education and Research, which is respected throughout the insurance industry for the high standards maintained in the hundreds of institutes conducted annually in all 50 states and Puerto Rico.

Weinman lives in Hudson with his wife Judy. He also owns a home inspection company called Hudson Home Inspections.

Mount welcomes six new trustees NEWBURGH – Mount Saint Mary College welcomes six new members to its Board of Trustees. Joining the board recently were Philip J. DeAngelo, Christofer Guarino, Jake Kosack ’18, Sr. Catherine McDonnell ’69, OP, Ann Marie Murray ’70, and Jeremey Smith ’06.

Philip J. DeAngelo is the owner and managing director of Focused Wealth Management, an SEC registered investment advisor headquartered in Newburgh. He is a registered principal with Securities America Inc. and serves as chairman of Focused Wealth Management’s Investment Committee. He also is cofounder of Green Hook Ginsmiths and St. Agrestis Importers, beverage companies based in Brooklyn. DeAngelo graduated from Pace University with a bachelor’s degree in Economics. He completed and received a certificate from the Wharton School of Business Aresty Institute of Executive Education. Among other service activities, he is on the Mount’s President Advisory Council and is a co-founder of the Mount Saint Mary College Invitational Tennis Tournament.

Christofer Guarino is director and senior relationship manager for Citigroup in New York City. He is honored to be the youngest Senior Relationship Manager on his team.

Guarino is also a member of a new global unit at Citigroup tasked with improving and devising new solutions for wealth management institutions, including a joint venture with Citi’s own Private Bank and Wealth Management Division. In addition, he is a fellow of the Economic Club of New York. He earned a bachelor’s degree in International Studies with a minor in Political Science and History

from Fordham University in 2010. In addition to other service activities, Guarino has volunteered with Capuchin Youth & Family Ministries for 16 years.

Jake Kosack, a 2018 graduate of Mount Saint Mary College, is an associate field producer and reporter for the news website TMZ. He has conducted hundreds of interviews with actors, musicians, politicians, athletes, and other high-profile individuals.

In addition, he has ranked in the top five reporters at TMZ every month since he began working for the company, taking top honors several times.

Kosack is also the founder of Get Better Motivation, a brand that encourages positivity and inspires everyone to be physically and mentally healthy. He was very involved as a Mount student, including serving as junior and senior class president and speaking at the 2018 Mount Commencement, among many other activities. In addition, he has volunteered with the Hudson Valley Autism Society for nearly 20 years.

Sr. Catherine (Cass) McDonnell, OP is Prioress of the Dominican Sisters of Hope and a 1969 graduate of Mount Saint Mary College. Before being named Prioress last year, she was vice chancellor for Urban Ministry and Planning for the Diocese of Paterson, N.J. Sr. McDonnell has a long history as an educator, including in elementary and secondary schools from New Jersey to Puerto Rico. She specialized in Chemistry. In addition to earning a bachelor’s degree in Elementary School Education from the Mount, she also earned a master’s degree in Secondary School Science/ Chemistry from Villanova University, and a master’s degree in Religious Studies from

Catholic University.

Ann Marie Murray, a 1970 graduate of Mount Saint Mary College, is associate provost for Program Development and Strategic Initiatives, as well as a service professor for the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, at the University at Albany. She has enjoyed a long and fruitful career in higher education before this, including serving as president of Herkimer County Community College and, before that, as vice president for Academic Affairs at Broome Community College. In addition to earning a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from the Mount, she also earned a doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction, a master’s degree in Instructional Technology, and a master’s degree in Advanced Classroom Teaching, all from the University at Albany.

Jeremey Smith, a 2006 alumnus of Mount Saint Mary College, is director of Digital Workspace Engineering at Travelers Companies Inc. During his career at Travelers, Smith has assisted in many aspects of the company’s Information Technology department, including managing server and parts repairs, triaging software issues, designing and implementing automated solutions, and cloud services.

Smith started his career at Travelers Companies in 2005, when he worked as an intern with the company. He was hired full-time in June 2006.

Smith is also the founder of SKYWIREme, a mass electronic messaging company.

At the Mount, Smith earned a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science with a minor in psychology, and was recognized as a Ralph Scholar, an honor reserved for the top 5 percent of the sophomore class.

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an asset both to Laberge Group and to the clients we serve.

Brown obtained a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University at Albany.

Laberge Group has provided engineering, architecture, surveying and planning services since 1964.

The firm’s diverse portfolio of completed projects and community plans, coupled with an experienced core of project management and design staff, provides clients with creative, integrated and distinctive solutions, according to a statement from the firm.

For information on Laberge Group, visit www. labergegroup.com.

Dunkin’ Joy in Childhood Foundation awards grants ALBANY – The Dunkin’ Joy in Childhood Foundation, an independent organization powered by Dunkin’, is awarding $85,000 in emergency response funding to health and hunger relief organizations in upstate New York to assist in coronavirus (COVID-19) response efforts.

The donation comes as many health and hunger relief organizations are experiencing a significant increase in the volume of clients they serve and unprecedented and costly challenges in the wake of the pandemic. The emergency grants from the Dunkin’ Joy in Childhood Foundation are designed to provide flexible funding for organizations as they provide critical care to their communities.

“One of our most important missions during this health crisis has been to provide assistance to the communities we serve. During these unprecedented times, we want our community partners to know that we’ll always be there for them,” said Dunkin’ Field Marketing Manager New York Region Eric Stensland. “I’m extremely proud that the Dunkin’ Joy in Childhood Foundation is making a difference when

needed the most.”

The following health and hunger relief organizations have been awarded funding: - $20,000 to Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York: The Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York will utilize the funding to hire additional staff to help meet growing needs in their efforts to collect and distribute food to nearly 1,000 charitable agencies across 23 counties in New York.

- $20,000 to Food Bank of Central New York: Food Bank of Central New York will use the funding to create and distribute emergency food boxes for children and families in need. Each box is intended to provide enough meals for a household for up to five days.

Boxes contain a variety of non-perishable staple food items, such as rice, cereal, peanut butter, jelly, orange juice, canned fruits and vegetables, and macaroni and cheese.

- $15,000 to Delaware Opportunities Inc.: Delaware Opportunities Inc. provides a variety of emergency services to people in Delaware County. The funding will be used to offer food, transportation and grants to individuals with urgent household bills.

- $10,000 to Lowville Food Pantry Inc.: Lowville Food Pantry Inc. will use the funding to purchase additional food through Food Bank of Central New York to stock its emergency pantry.

- $10,000 to Veterans & Community Housing Coalition Inc.: Veterans & Community Housing Coalition Inc. will use the funding to provide food to homeless veterans and their families.

- $5,000 to Senior Services of Albany: Senior Services of Albany will use the funding to redeploy and mobilize staff to open three senior assurance centers in Albany, Cohoes, and Watervliet, where daily and weekly outreach calls will be made to nearly 700 older adults.

- $5,000 to Rome Rescue Mission: Rome Rescue Mission will use the funding to continue aiding families, the elderly and veterans. Currently, their mobile mission is delivering meals, clothing, blankets and other necessities in the community.

Donations to the Dunkin’ Joy in Childhood Foundation’s COVID-19 Emergency Fund can be made at www. joyinchildhoodfoundation. org.

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perform the diagnostic testing, collecting nasopharyngeal swab specimens that will be sent to Albany for analysis.

The decision to begin community testing comes as Columbia County officials say two more people died in care facilities, bringing the county’s nursing home death toll to 15.

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intubations was down 78 fewer patients to 2,743 total, according to the governor’s office. New hospitalizations average about 900 cases daily statewide.

New York’s National Guard made nearly 300,000 testing kits.

About 60,000 of the testing kits were sent Monday to labs and hospitals statewide.

Most international flights from Asia to the U.S. land at West Coast airports, Cuomo said, adding European travelers — most likely from Italy — brought COVID-19 to the East

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attract some people we don’t normally attract,” he said. “At least in the beginning people may take baby steps before they start flying around the world again.”

Heck is hopeful numbers will improve as summer draws near, he said.

“We’re hoping as we get to June things will start to reopen and we’ll see a reversal of some of [those numbers],” he said.

The number of private sector jobs took a big cut in March, dropping by 42,900 — the state’s steepest monthly employment drop since April 2009, according to the report. Of these jobs, 23,300 were in the leisure and hospitality sectors, and 23,000 were in accommodation and food services.

The number of New Yorkers on unemployment increased by 73,900 during the month of March, while the labor force decreased by 132,300 — also new monthly records.

“While these data broadly reflect the impact of the coronavirus pandemic and related public health efforts on the state’s labor market, it is important to note the March reference period for this survey occurred before many coronavirus-related business and school closures were implemented,” according to the report.

“In addition, data collection rates were lower than normal due to coronavirus-related challenges, according to the report.

Center died Sunday and a resident of The Grand Rehabilitation and Nursing at Barnwell died Monday, both after being hospitalized with the virus, Mabb confirmed.

Columbia County saw a spike in COVID-19 positives after health officials conducted testing at The Grand at Barnwell last week. A total of 39 Barnwell residents have tested positive, surpassing Pine Haven to become the largest nursing-home outbreak in the region. Thirty-seven Pine Haven residents have tested positive and 13 have died since the pandemic began.

Columbia County officials are capping the Friday clinic at 100 tests, due to limitations on processing the tests at the Wadsworth Center, Mabb said. The Wadsworth Center is a diagnostic laboratory in Albany operated by the state Department of Health.

A total of 1,510 Columbia County residents and 1,239 Greene County residents have shown positive diagnoses for COVID-19 since testing began in March, but the majority of those individuals were tested at clinics in Albany and Ulster counties, officials said.

More than 13% of Greene County tests and 14% of Columbia County tests came back positive, but only a small percentage required hospitalization, according to the Columbia and Greene county department of health websites.

Both counties ramped up efforts to obtain commercial testing kits after quickly depleting kits supplied by the state.

Greene County officials placed an order for 1,000 testing kits, which the manufacturer reduced to 700, Greene County Legislature Chairman Patrick Linger, R-New Baltimore, said.

Columbia County ordered 2,000 commercial testing kits from Thermo Fisher Scientific using donated funds. The county has received 1,000 kits so far, with an additional 1,000 kits expected in the coming weeks, Mabb said.

“Many of these kits have been provided to nursing homes, CMH rapid care and first responders for employee testing,” according to the Columbia County Health Department.

Columbia County officials plan to conduct more testing in the coming weeks, said Mabb.

The first order of 1,000 kits

was expected to arrive April 17, but was delayed several weeks by the supplier.

The county is using the University of Albany testing site as a model for the clinic, Columbia County Health Department Public Information Officer Patricia Abitabile said when the clinic was first announced April 16.

The county has been working closely with CMH to plan and carry out the clinic, said Abitabile.

Coast this winter. Officials are studying reports the virus strain that has ravaged New York is more lethal, or severe, than the strain that originated from Wuhan.

The state reported 2,758 European flights landed at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens between Feb. 5 and March 16. During that same period, 1,200 European flights landed in Newark and 773 landed in Chicago — each major U.S. coronavirus hotspots.

At the time, officials were not watching Italy or Europe.

“The China travel ban may have been helpful, but the horse was out of the barn,” Cuomo said. “Today, we must consider an outbreak anywhere is an

outbreak everywhere.”

New York had an estimated 10,700 COVID-19 cases in February — weeks before the state’s first official confirmed case March 1, Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa said Sunday.

U.S. airports screened passengers arriving from Wuhan, China, starting Jan. 16. President Donald Trump’s executive order blocking travel from China went into effect Feb. 2.

Trump restricted most European travel March 11, expanding the ban to all European travelers March 16.

Cuomo reminded New Yorkers on Sunday and Monday the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic struck the nation in three waves

over two years, with the second wave more devastating than the first. States must learn lessons from other countries, such as China, Germany and Singapore, which experienced a surge in virus infections over the last two weeks after relaxing socialdistancing measures.

“We expect experts to know so we push them to know,” Cuomo said. “Sometimes the answer is, ‘I don’t know.’ Sometimes that’s the honest answer.”

New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Rhode Island and Massachusetts will work together to develop a regional supply chain of personal protective equipment — gloves, gowns and face masks — testing and

other medical supplies, including ventilators, through the pandemic and in preparation for future outbreaks.

States will procure a threemonth PPE and medical equipment supply for the seven-state region by finding local suppliers, which Cuomo said will boost economic development while nonessential businesses remain closed.

“The COVID-19 pandemic created a mad scramble for medical equipment across the entire nation,” Cuomo said. “As a state and as a nation, we can’t go through that again.

“Why are we buying billions of dollars of PPE from China? Let’s do the purchasing in this country,” he added. “...

Whatever help [the federal government] gives us is great, but they’ve made it clear it’s up to the governors. Whatever we can do on our own is best.”

Cuomo reiterated the need for New Yorkers to wear face masks or coverings to protect others, saying it’s disrespectful not to.

“You wear the mask not for yourself — you wear the mask for me,” Cuomo said. “Be responsible and show respect. Is that too much for us to ask one another? It’s such a little thing to ask of people when people are doing so much.”

“As a result, the scope of coronavirus-related unemployment from March is not fully reflected in these figures.”

The state Department of Labor has received unemployment applications from more than 1.4 million residents and has distributed $3.1 billion in benefits between March 9 and April 22, according to the Labor Department.

For the week of April 6-11, the department processed 399,015 applications and another 207,172 the following week.

About 26 million Americans have submitted claims nationwide, according to the statement, dated April 25.

J.T. Shaw, a tattoo artist and body piercer at Fawn’s Leap Tattoo, has been trying to file for unemployment since March 25.

“I don’t know a single tattooer that has gotten anything,” Shaw said. “We’re lucky we got a stimulus check.”

Shaw said he calls the unemployment office every day.

“For the first four weeks we were calling multiple times a day,” he said. “The phone would say everyone’s busy and then it hangs up on you.”

Shaw said he has received a call back from the department once, on Easter Sunday.

“A lady called to confirm my information and said they would call back within 48 hours,” he said.

Shaw did not receive another call.

Prompts on the website now say filers will receive a phone call to complete their application, Shaw said.

“Now I’m still waiting for that

call,” he said.

Shaw said he does not see the shop being able to open until mid-July.

“We are scrounging pennies,” he said. “I was prepared for two weeks, a month. I was not prepared for four months.”

Alison Curless, a hairstylist at Doreen’s Family Hair Care Salon in East Durham, has also had difficulty getting her application filed.

Curless began trying to file in early April.

“Two weeks ago I got a phone call back on a Sunday,” she said. “He told me my application went through. Everything was OK but he wanted me to go back into my account because I needed to file for self-employment.”

Curless had worked part of the year as an employee of the

salon and part of the year selfemployed and booth-renting at the salon.

Now her account is giving her incomplete messages, she said.

“It says a live representative is going to call because my application is not complete,” she said. “That’s not true because my application is complete.”

Curless has found the process frustrating.

“There is no way to get a hold of anyone to help you,” she said.

“The call number tells you they will call you or they are busy, experiencing a high call volume and hangs up. There is no way to get through to a live person through email, phone, nothing.”

State Department of Labor Commissioner Roberta Reardon acknowledged the great volume of applications the

department has been receiving in a statement dated April 25.

“Every state is facing major challenges when it comes to unemployment, but in New York we are upgrading our systems in real time while delivering benefits to New Yorkers faster and more aggressively than any other state,” Reardon said.

“I’ve been unemployed myself — I know that losing your job is one of the most trying situations someone can face — and while there is more work to do, we have connected over one million New Yorkers with billions of dollars in benefits in just six weeks. We will keep working around the clock seven days a week to ensure every single New Yorker gets every single dollar they deserve.”

In addition to traditional unemployment insurance, other

options are available, including Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation.

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

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

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

Hudson fire leaves six families homeless

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HUDSON — A fire Saturday afternoon in the city of Hudson left six families homeless, Hudson Fire Chief Anthony Demarco said.

Hudson and Greenport firefighters were dispatched by Columbia County 911 to 225 Allen St. around 4:10 p.m. for a reported structure fire.

Heavy smoke could be seen coming from the third floor and firefighters requested mutual aid from Catskill and Claverack fire companies, Demarco said.

Firefighters gained access to the roof, venting it to relieve smoke and heat from inside the building, fire officials said.

Other firefighters entered the three-story building to search for anyone still inside and announced the building was clear, Demarco said.

A second mutual aid call was put in, and firefighters from Stottville and Germantown responded.

The fire was reported to be out around 5:30 p.m., according to Hudson fire officials.

Firefighters then began checking for hot spots that could reignite, the chief said.

The building sustained heavy fire damage on the second and third floors and in the attic. The apartments next door, at 223 Allen St., sustained fire damage to the third floor, and smoke and water damage on the first and second floors, Demarco said.

No injuries to residents were reported, but two firefighters suffered minor injuries fighting the blaze, Demarco said.

The Red Cross is assisting the victims, Demarco said. Several fundraisers have been started by community members, including the Hudson Salvation Army, Director Darcy Connor said.

Hudson Police are handling the fire investigation. The cause has not been determined yet, but it’s possible electrical, Chief Edward Moore said. Athens firefighters were on standby at the Hudson Central firehouse.

Greenport Rescue, National Grid and the Hudson Department of Public Works assisted at the scene.

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Former Miami Dolphins head coach Don Shula looks on prior the the game between the Miami Dolphins and the Tennessee Titans at Hard Rock Stadium. Shula died on Monday at the age of 90.

Legendary Colts, Dolphins head coach Don Shula dies at 90 Armando Salguero Miami Herald

MIAMI — Don Shula, the steel-jawed son of Hungarian immigrants who rose from tiny Painesville, Ohio, to carve his name in professional football’s record books and become both a national figure and a South Florida icon, passed away Monday morning.

The cause of death was not immediately known, but a source has confirmed it is not related to the coronavirus pandemic.

Shula, an NFL head coach for 33 years and coach of the

Miami Dolphins for 26 of those seasons, was 90 years old. He is the winningest coach in NFL history with a regular-season record of 328-156-6 and a postseason record of 19-17.

Shula was a father.

A grandfather.

A husband.

And while his family remembers him as a success at all three, Shula was recently asked what legacy he wanted to leave once he was gone.

The man who always fiercely protected stood up for his children and players and records didn’t mention any of those.

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Yankees provide optimistic but vague updates on Aaron Judge’s health Kristie Ackert New York Daily News

TAMPA, Fla. — Twice in the last week, the Yankees have given very optimistic but also very vague updates on Aaron Judge. The Yankees slugger missed all of the shortened spring training because of a confusing injury that turned out to be a partially punctured lung and a broken rib.

Over a month after the season was supposed to

have started, even with the extra down time because of the delayed season due to the coronavirus pandemic, there is no solid idea if Judge will be ready to play.

This is a concerning trend for the 28-yearold, who hasn’t played a full healthy season in the big leagues yet. The Yankees are protective of his health issues and Judge See YANKEES B3

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New York Yankees fans await the start of the Baseball Hall of Fame induction ceremony at Clark Sports Center on July 21, 2019, in Cooperstown.

Canceling Baseball Hall of Fame induction weekend deals an ‘earth shattering’ blow to Cooperstown Kristie Ackert New York Daily News

This was supposed to be the big one, the grand slam of a doubleheader. Five years ago, Tim Gould started planning for it. This winter, Tim Haney began buying up wood and supplies in preparation and Art Boden was wondering how much staff he would need to handle it. A year after huge crowds had descended on Cooperstown to see Mariano Rivera inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, they would have Derek Jeter, the last true crossover star that baseball has had, going into the Hall of Fame at the end of July.

“Five years ago, when Jeter retired after Mariano, we said 2020 is going to be it, it’s going to be two big years in a row,” said Gould, who has owned and operated Cooley’s Stone House Tavern on Pioneer Street in Cooperstown, N.Y., for almost 16 years. “This was going to be a year that was bigger than the record years, we were all looking forward to 2020.

“Now, we have to hope 2021

can be even bigger.”

The hospitality industry across the country has been decimated by the coronavirus shutdowns. Bar and restaurant workers accounted for over half of the newly un-

however, the economic hits are multiplied by the loss of baseball as well. Wednesday, when the Hall of Fame announced that it would not hold its induction weekend this year because of the pan-

“Five years ago, when Jeter retired after Mariano, we said 2020 is going to be it, it’s going to be two big years in a row. This was going to be a year that was bigger than the record years, we were all looking forward to 2020. Now, we have to hope 2021 can be even bigger.”

— TIM GOULD, OWNER AND OPERATER OF COOLEY’S STONE HOUSE TAVERN ON PIONEER STREET IN COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. employed in March, according to the U.S. Department of Labor’s latest report. Tourism is expected to take a similar hit even as we emerge from the strictest regulations of the shutdowns.

For Gould and other businesses in Cooperstown,

demic, it was a huge blow to the village, its businesses and its people.

Louie Rollo, a Bronx native whose father worked at Yankee Stadium back in the 1950s, has sold hot dogs on Main Street for induction weekend for over a decade.

“My mother asked ‘What do you want to be when you grow up,’ and most kids would say they wanted to be a cop or a fireman or an astronaut, I said I want to sell hot dogs,” said Rollo, who made his living driving trucks. “So after I retired up here, I said I was going to do it.”

Once a year, he sets up a hot dog wagon on Main Street, enjoying interacting with the fans and earning enough to help him out the rest of the year.

“That’s usually my tax money,” Rollo said.

For most, Cooperstown is some mythical baseball mecca in a timeless village. It’s a slice of baseball Americana. But, it’s an actual community surviving the struggling upstate New York economy. The region has lost more people moving to other states than any other in the country over the last decade while manufacturing jobs and businesses, like the Beech-Nut factory in nearby Canajoharie, have closed.

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Baseball haven Williamsport braces for a summer without the game and all it brings Frank Fitzpatrick The Philadelphia Inquirer

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — As the Allegheny foothills that frame Williamsport turned green this April, the COVID-19 outbreak sparked an unrelated anxiety, one that spread quickly through the aging mansions of Millionaires Row, the turreted minor-league ballpark alongside Lycoming Creek, the hilltop fortress of Little League baseball.

That unease, as raw as the wind that throughout this unusually cold spring swept off the Susquehanna River and whistled eerily through a suddenly deserted downtown, could be condensed into a single question: What if there’s no baseball in Williamsport this summer?

With May’s arrival, the city, whose historic connection to the summer game has provided civic balm during its long winter of economic and population decline, may soon find out.

On Thursday, expressing concern for the safety of players and spectators, Little League officials canceled August’s World Series. “This is a heartbreaking decision for everyone,” said Stephen Keener, the organization’s president and CEO Major League Baseball responded by calling off its Little League Classic, a nationally televised Red Sox-Orioles game that was to be

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Fans filled the hillside and stands at Lamade Stadium in South Williamsport, Pa., before the start of the Mid-Atlantic versus Great Lakes game at the 2011 Little League World Series on Friday, Aug. 19, 2011.

played Aug. 23 at historic Bowman Field here.

If that weren’t sobering enough, the

pandemic could cause baseball to red-line the 2020 season of Williamsport’s Crosscutters, the

Phillies’ single-A short-season affiliate which since 1994 has provided summer diversion at Bowman, the nation’s second-oldest minorleague park.

And even if, as seems increasingly unlikely, the Cutters’ season is somehow salvaged, they might no longer exist in 2021.

The coronavirus hasn’t hit north-central Pennsylvania nearly as hard. There have been just 68 confirmed cases in Lycoming County, and no related deaths. But the bad baseball news has been a profound punch in the gut for a city that, maybe more than anyplace but Cooperstown, N.Y., has its identity and economy wound around the game.

“The reality is nobody knows about Williamsport other than baseball,” said Mitch Rupert, a Williamsport Sun-Gazette sportswriter. “That’s the brand. Everything here is tied to baseball.

To not have that identity for a summer, I don’t know what that would look like. I do know it would be devastating economically.”

Over its 11-day span, according to the Williamsport/Lycoming Chamber of Commerce, the annual Little League event attracts between 350,000 and 500,000 spectators who spend an estimated $30 million. To put that number in context, the City of Williamsport’s budget for See BASEBALL B3

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Kobe Bryant’s sincerity turned him from Michael Jordan’s ‘little Laker boy’ to friend Bill Plaschke Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — In February, while delivering a stunning eulogy at Kobe Bryant’s memorial service, Michael Jordan cried.

On Sunday, in an equally revealing moment involving the two NBA legends, Michael Jordan ripped him.

It was in a video from 1998, in New York’s Madison Square Garden, before the only NBA All-Star game featuring both men. Jordan, sitting in the East locker room, was chasing down his sixth championship. Bryant, sitting down the hall in the West locker room, was a 19-year-old prodigy whose self-assurance was resented by his peers.

In a striking scene that leads off the fifth episode of ESPN’s “The Last Dance” — a documentary series on the final season of Jordan with the Chicago Bulls — Jordan openly mocks the new kid.

“That little Laker boy’s gonna take everybody one-on-one,” he says to big laughs.

(Yes, Jordan once referred to Bryant as a “little Laker boy.”)

“He don’t let the game come to him ... he just go out there and take it,” said Jordan, who then imitated Bryant by saying with an expletive, “ ‘I’m gonna make this ... happen, I’m going to make this a oneon-one game.’ “ (Yes, Jordan actually imitated him.)

Another voice in the locker room is heard from an unseen person, apparently talking about a previous experience with Bryant, saying, “I figured after the first four attempts didn’t go in, he was gonna chill.”

This really got Jordan going, and he profanely exclaims, “After the first four attempts? If I was his teammate, I wouldn’t pass him the ... ball.

“You want this ball again, brother,” he added, “you better rebound.”

(Yeah, he actually said he would never pass him the ball.)

The disrespect continued during the All-Star game, as the cameras caught Jordan trashing Bryant on the bench to teammates during a timeout.

“He just wants to go to the offensive end and go one-on-one,” Jordan announced. “I’m gonna make his ass work down there.”

After the game, during which Jordan was the MVP and outscored Bryant 23-18 while playing 10 more minutes, the two men briefly hugged with Jordan saying pleasantly, “I’ll see you down the road.”

But by then, the curtain had been pulled back and the message was clear.

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The Los Angeles Lakers’ Kobe Bryant, left, and the Chicago Bulls’ Michael Jordan talk during a free-throw attempt on December 17, 1997, at the United Center in Chicago.

Jordan was not willing to share the road with Bryant. Jordan was not his friend.

The video revealed Jordan greeting Bryant’s debut with the same mean-spirited pettiness that marked his treatment of anyone he considered a challenger to his status. Jordan simply didn’t like him, and wasn’t going to easily accept him.

Jordan was far from alone — most of the NBA’s veterans resented Bryant’s confidence and mocked him behind his back — but it was Jordan who cruelly set the tone for what became a career of near-isolation for Bryant.

So how, in 22 years, did Bryant go from being the object of Jordan’s ridicule to the focus of Jordan’s tears? How can a “little Laker boy” become someone about whom Jordan later said, “When Kobe Bryant died, a piece of me died?”

It was all Kobe. It was quietly, almost secretly, one of his greatest accomplishments. It epitomized his evolution as a person and led to the general outpouring of affection upon his death.

Instead of pushing back against Jordan, Bryant reached out. Instead of showering him with bitterness, Bryant showed only respect. It was eventually how he treated many of those whom he admired throughout his life. If he thought he could learn from you, despite your criticisms of him, he would seek you out and embrace your wisdom and grow

from his mistakes.

Jordan was the first and prime example of this underrated willingness of Bryant to humble himself. Even as Jordan was surely ripping him around the NBA, Bryant was coming to him for help, asking for advice on everything from footwork to shot selection to strategy. Even as Jordan showed little interest in mentoring or tutoring anyone who might one day surpass him. Bryant continued to bug him, so much that he actually started imitating him. Look at old videos, listen to the old interviews — Bryant not only shoots and moves like Jordan, sometimes he even sounds like him, complete with the cursing.

Bryant countered Jordan’s resentment with deference and admiration, and eventually he forged a brotherhood whose powerful existence was a testament to Bryant’s resilience as a person. In trying to be like Mike, he finally won over Mike.

Their hidden connection first came to light during February’s Staples Center memorial service for Bryant, who was killed in a Jan. 26 helicopter crash that also took the life of his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, and seven others.

In an event in which neither Magic Johnson nor Phil Jackson nor Jerry West spoke, Jordan surprisingly took the podium, to a standing ovation from a shocked

crowd, and he quickly broke the secret.

“Maybe it surprised people that Kobe and I were very close friends, but we were very close friends,” Jordan said. “Kobe was my dear friend. He was like a little brother.”

Jordan then explained the germination of their friendship, which basically involved Bryant asking and Jordan answering.

“He used to call me, text me, 11:30, 12:30, 3 in the morning talking about post-up moves, footwork and sometimes the triangle,” he said. “At first it was an aggravation but then it turned into a certain passion.”

Jordan talked about eventually buying into the idea of being Bryant’s big brother because Bryant was so sincere in his journey.

“And as I got to know him, I wanted to be the best big brother I could be,” he said. “To do that, you have to put up with the aggravation, the late night calls or the dumb questions ... we talked about everything. He was just trying to be a better person.”

In this era of Twitter fights and trash talk, it is hard to imagine a young Kobe Bryant stepping over the insults to embrace one of his tormentors, but, truly, he was just trying to be a better person. Furthermore, when Bryant had a chance to lash back at Jordan’s locker-room banter in an interview that was shown Sunday as part of the documentary, he was just as classy.

“It was a rough couple of years for me coming into the league because at the time the league was so much older; it’s not as young as it is today, so nobody was really thinking much of me,” he told the interviewer. “I was a kid that shot a bunch of air balls.”

Then he talked about how he approached Jordan anyway.

“At that point, Michael provided a lot of guidance for me,” he said. “Like, I had a question about shooting his turnaround shot so I asked him about it and he gave me a great, detailed answer but, on top of that, he said if you ever need anything, give me a call.”

He then said something he’s never said publicly, acknowledging Jordan’s role in a way few ever imagined.

“He’s my big brother,” he said. “I truly hate having discussions about who would win one-on-one ... I’m like, ‘Yo, what you get from me is from him.’ I don’t get five championships here without him because he guided me so much, he gave me so much great advice.”

And they said that “little Laker boy” would never pass the ball ...

As ‘Last Dance’ captivates the nation, Geno Auriemma reflects back on his visit to the Chicago Bulls Alexa Philippou The Hartford Courant

Each of the three days that Geno Auriemma observed the Chicago Bulls’ training camp back in 1996, Michael Jordan — already with multiple NBA titles and MVP trophies in tow — was the first on the floor before 10 a.m. practice, his shirt tucked in, his socks fitted perfectly. The consummate competitor, Jordan wanted to win every drill, and the expectations for his teammates were just as high.

The trip to Chicago, a birthday gift for Auriemma’s son, didn’t just leave the younger Auriemma in awe. Auriemma the Coach was soaking in everything he could from having a front row seat to the inner workings of arguably the greatest basketball player of all-time and one of basketball’s greatest dynasties. “(Jordan looked) like the picture of ‘draw the greatest basketball player,’ what you think it would look like. It was unbelievable,” Auriemma said. “I was like a little kid — forget what my son was doing — I was like a little kid sitting there watching.”

The country is getting a closer look than ever before at Jordan’s intensity and the brilliance of the ‘90s Bulls thanks to ‘The Last Dance,’ ESPN’s 10-part documentary series on Jordan focusing heavily on his final year in Chicago (the fifth and sixth episodes air on Sunday). Much of what Auriemma’s seen from the series reflects what he witnessed those three days over 20 years ago at Bulls training camp.

Auriemma returned to Storrs with more than a newfound appreciation for Jordan. The trip was a learning opportunity for

the then up-and-coming coach.

Though the Bulls may have made it famous, Auriemma grew up watching teams play with the triangle offense, which revolves around moving and cutting without the ball. Heading into the 1994-95 season, he thought he might have the right personnel — posts who were strong passers in Kara Wolters and Rebecca Lobo as well as guards Jen Rizzotti and Nykesha Sales who could dribble-penetrate — to use it himself.

The team’s trip to Europe during the summer provided the perfect opportunity to test out the new offense. “It worked like a charm,” Auriemma recalled, in what ended up being the prelude to UConn’s 35-0 run and the program’s first national title.

Looking to perfect what he was doing in Storrs, Auriemma showed up to Bulls camp eager to learn all the offense’s nuances. After consulting with Tex Winter, then an assistant coach in Chicago and the scheme’s foremost expert, Auriemma developed a deeper understanding on how his team could most effectively bring the ball up the floor and take away ball pressure and double-teams. UConn used a version of the triangle offense all the way through 2004, Auriemma estimates, though he’s held onto parts of it to this day.

“My son came out with incredible pictures of the cars Jordan was driving every day and the fish that were inside this giant tank that was in the Bulls practice facility,” Auriemma said, “so we each got what we were looking for.”

But as the documentary

showcases, the mastery of the triangle offense was only part of what made the Bulls’ dominance possible. Most evident in the episodes centering around Dennis Rodman, Chicago coach Phil Jackson managed his players’ often discordant personalities and needs while uniting them together around a common goal, a challenge he’d face years later with Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal in Los Angeles.

“From what I’ve been able to gather from people that have been in that world, that’s the major part of why some professional coaches are so successful, is the way they manage it,” Auriemma said. “How they handle every situation that comes up and how they can get the most out of each player, allowing that player to be who they are while at the same time conforming to what the goals of the team are.

“And Phil Jackson probably is as good as anybody who ever lived at that.”

Auriemma got a glimpse of

this at camp, too. There wasn’t any drama or antics, he recalls.

The Bulls just did their work and looked like the best team in the world doing it.

“It didn’t look like (Jackson) went around stressing ‘We want to win again,’” Auriemma said.

“It’s almost like ‘This is what we do. Everybody’s got their job to do. Everybody’s got their role to play. Everybody understands who Michael Jordan is, everybody understands who Rodman is.’”

Auriemma had been watching Jordan since both of their ACC days — Auriemma was an assistant coach at Virginia when Jordan played at North Carolina. What impressed Auriemma most about seeing Jordan’s work firsthand was his intensity toward what most others would view as seemingly insignificant drills and how he elevated everyone around him. At one of the practices, Jordan was working with Scottie Pippen and Ron Harper on one end of the floor but yelled at a teammate at the

other end when he missed a layup in a way that suggested ‘You better not miss a layup that costs us a NBA title.’

But Jordan didn’t just hold his teammates accountable — he made those around him better and believe they were better.

That’s something all great players do, Auriemma says, each in their own ways.

“You have to have people that you can inspire to come along with you,” Auriemma said.

“You’ve got to get the best out of them, too, not just the best out of yourself.”

Jordan and the Bulls won six NBA titles in eight years. At UConn, Auriemma has added another 10 of his own. Jordan would retire for good in 2003, and Auriemma has gotten to know him more over the years through basketball circles. Both gave eulogies at Bryant’s memorial in February.

Through it all, time has only made clearer the significance of what Auriemma saw in Chicago back then.

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Established in 1786 by the father of “The Last of the Mohicans” author James Fenimore Cooper, Cooperstown had just 1,852 full-time residents according to the latest census in a town that is quiet during the notoriously long and cold Central New York winters. In the summer, however, the village grows exponentially.

Otsego Lake and the Farmers Museum draws vacationers. The Glimmerglass Opera House draws fans from across the Northeast. The 110-year old Otesaga Hotel was named one of the Top 50 Golf Resorts in the nation by Conde Nast Travel and draws a steady clientele for its pristine New York

Leatherstocking course.

But the town is able to remain the gem of Central New York, drawing tourists from across the world, because it is synonymous with baseball.

During induction weekend, the Otesaga, which is suffering like other resorts because of the lack of travel, is shut down to host just the Hall of Famers and their families.

“We will certainly miss them,” Otesaga GM John Shideler said, “it’s right in the middle of our season, but that weekend right now is just a part of the overall problems for other upscale resorts globally because of the pandemic.”

Each week 104 youth baseball teams come into town with families in tow to play at Dreams Park, a 23-field complex just five miles south of Main Street that has combined

the explosion of youth travel baseball with the tradition of the Hall of Fame. Future big league stars like Mike Trout and David Price were once among the 14,000 players and coaches that played in the 13-week summer Dream Park season.

Visitors to the Hall of Fame provide a steady stream of traffic up and down Route 28 all summer long, but one weekend a year the village really explodes. In 2007, when the Hall inducted Cal Ripken and Tony Gwynn an estimated 82,500 poured into the tiny village to see history and spend money locally.

The first and biggest blow to Cooperstown merchants came in early March, when the Cooperstown Dream Park announced it was canceling its 2020 season due to health

concerns about the national coronavirus crisis.

And then the hammer dropped on the small town on Wednesday, when the Hall of Fame announced it would not hold its induction ceremony this year.

“With Jeter going in, we were expecting numbers rivaling what Cal Ripken had back in 2007. So we were thinking that it was going to be this huge year and we prepared for that,” said Haney, who along with his wife Connie owns the Cooperstown Bat Company.

They make commemorative bats, including those for the Hall of Fame, but are also a small bat manufacturer who produces for high school, college and professional players.

With the shut down of all those seasons, they lost 70% of their business in April. They hoped

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is understandably frustrated with the injuries that have keep him out of the lineup — or limited him — over the years.

The beloved face of the Yankees’ new generation of stars, Judge would seem like an ideal candidate for an extension. This winter, the Yankees agreed to pay him $8.5 million to avoid arbitration.

But, first, the Yankees understandably would like to see him get through a season healthy. With the weeks of added rest, which come from the national crisis, Judge has a chance to put that history behind him.

The Yankees seem to be giving him every chance to do that.

“It’s been very productive to have this time to allow that rib to heal, and that is happening,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said on the team’s YES Network. “As to where he’s at exactly, we don’t have anything for you on that yet.”

Yankees president Randy Levine seemed just as optimistic — and just as vague.

“He’s getting better. He’s getting much, much better.

Last I looked he was healing really well, but I haven’t gotten

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2019 was $27 million.

“It will be a big hit,” said Jason Fink, the chamber’s CEO. “It’s not only the hotels, it’s the restaurants, the other shops, the gas stations. And you’re looking at a hospitality sector that’s already been devastated

by COVID-19 restrictions.”

It could get worse if persistent reports about the Cutters prove accurate. According to various news accounts, as part of a new agreement between minor- and major-league baseball, Williamsport’s franchise, as well as 41 other teams in similarly tiny markets, could disappear next year.

“Like all minor-league teams, we await word as to what is happening with the 2020 season and if it will be delayed and/or canceled due to COVID-19,” Gabe Sinicropi Jr., the Cutters’ public relations executive, said in an email. “As for 2021 and beyond, we await details.”

Principal owner Peter Freund questioned MLB’s purported rationale, that travel and facilities expenses were rising too fast. The real reason it wants to shrink the minor leagues, Freund told a banquet audience here this winter, was that there will be “fewer players they have to pay.”

The Crosscutters began their existence in ‘94 as the Cubs and acquired their current name five years later. The Phillies affiliation began in

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New York Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge (99) waits for a fly ball during a spring training practice session on Feb. 19 at George M. Steinbrenner Field.

a report in I would say in about a week, but he’s feeling very good,” Levine said earlier this week on Fox News Radio.

That echoes the last we had heard from Judge himself.

As he was driving out of the

Yankees spring training complex, after having done a rehab session, Judge told us his last exam showed he was healing.

He was not specific about how much the broken first right rib had healed, which the Yankees

only announced as the issue that had been holding back Judge weeks into spring training and after numerous exams and tests.

He did, however, reveal that part of the issue that had been

2007. Their demise would end a longtime summer tradition here – evenings spent watching baseball at 94-year-old Bowman Field, a throwback ballpark surrounded by a city park and a broad branch of the Susquehanna. For the last several seasons, the team has averaged nearly 2,000 fans a game.

“This is where it’s pure,” said Lee Miller, a mechanical contractor who volunteers at the Little League World Series, hosts minor-leaguers in his home, and regularly attends Cutters games. “This is where fans are made. Kids from Williamsport, they might drive down to Philly to watch a game once or twice a year, if their dad can afford it. But they’ll go every day to the Crosscutters.

I don’t understand what baseball is thinking.”

Watching a game at Bowman, said James Quigel, a Williamsport native and minor-league historian, was like “stepping back in time.”

“People marvel at it,” Quigel said. “They say, ‘Wow, this is the way baseball used to be.’ It doesn’t have all the bells and whistles, but there’s a sense of history you can’t duplicate.

And this is one of the last places in Williamsport where people gather as a community.”

Should the worst happen, it’s possible an independent or college-summer league club could replace the Cutters. Bowman would be a step up for most. MLB replaced its surface in advance of the first Little League Classic in 2017.

Built in 1926, the photogenic, city-owned ballpark,

located just across West Fourth Street from where Stotz staged the first Little League Series in 1947, might end up being the savior for minor-league ball here.

“As long as MLB wants to play the Little League Classic here every summer, they’re probably going to want a team in the stadium so that it’s kept up,” said Rupert. “MLB invested $1.5 million in that surface, and without a baseball team to play there, what incentive would the city have to keep it up?”

Baseball took hold here at the end of the 19th century, when Williamsport was a boom town. At one point, the city had the most millionaires per capita in America. Williamsport High adopted the Millionaires as its nickname.

And the stretch of West Fourth Street where timber barons built their Gothic and Victorian mansions became Millionaires Row. Those wealthy businessmen invested in the game, forming teams and building stadiums. In the late 1800s, there were several town and independent-league clubs.

Then, for most years between 1923 and 1976, Williamsport was represented in the double-A Eastern League.

But ever since the lumber industry moved elsewhere, the city has slumped. Its population, near 46,000 in 1950, has plunged to 29,381. Its median family income of $35,818 is far below the national average of $60,905. The Millionaires Row mansions still stand, but many have been converted

into offices or housing for college students at Lycoming and Penn Tech.

“When Williamsport got involved with the New YorkPenn League, it was relatively mid-sized,” said Quigel. “Now probably only Batavia and Auburn are smaller. And you’re seeing short-season teams in bigger cities like Brooklyn and Burlington.”

Baseball’s impact here extends beyond economics.

Thousands of residents volunteer at the Series or the Classic.

Dozens of families annually host minor-leaguers. A Cutters game is a summer ritual for most.

For 17 years, Ron Frick, a native Philadelphian who’s the CEO of the Lycoming County United Way, has been a World Series “uncle” — a combination concierge and surrogate parent for visiting Little Leaguers. His downtown office looks out on Market Square, where a giant Little League logo is surrounded by statues of baseball-playing youngsters and Carl Stotz, the Williamsporter who founded the organization in 1939.

“People here all have a story about the Series, about seeing Jason Varitek or some other major-leaguer as a kid,” Frick said. “It’s such a great experience for so many. I come back to work the week following the Series and it’s like withdrawal. It’s a little depressing.

Working as an uncle you get attached to them. Two years ago, a kid from 2001 invited me to his wedding in Florida.”

Miller, 59, who has two sons who played college baseball,

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tourism would help.

“We do a lot with Cooperstown Dreams Park and the Hall of Fame. The powers that be just keep giving us midlevel gut shots over and over again. We’re still in the ring, we haven’t been knocked out but we’re definitely hurt. ... I don’t think any business like ours could ever plan for something like this.”

The impact on this tiny town will be enormous.

According to the New York State Association of Counties, the economic impact to local governments on sales tax could mean a blow of $50 million to $150 million to Cooperstown’s economy for this year.

Haney owns the mill where the wood for the bats is manipulated and he has gone back to feeding the fires there every morning after he had to

make furloughs. He had already bought wood for the expected number of bats for the season and souvenirs for the big weekend.

Boden, the general manager of Upstate Bar and Grill and two other family-owned restaurants in Cooperstown, hasn’t had to let people go yet, but he will probably only be able to employ 50 people over the three restaurants, which includes N.Y. Pizzeria and Bocca Osteria.

“So we will probably have to cut our workforce in half by not living our normal life here at Cooperstown and a big part of that is the Hall of Fame and induction weekend,” Boden said “We were expecting to have 70,000 to 100,000 people coming into town that weekend, so that’s earth shattering to Cooperstown.”

causing him discomfort was the partially collapsed lung — which had completely healed last month.

In his three previous big league seasons, Judge has never put together two healthy or strong halves.

He ended his 2016 season in mid-September because of a right oblique strain, which maintained his rookie status for ‘17. He set expectations high in his “rookie” season, hitting .329 with 30 homers in 84 games in the first half of 2017.

Judge went to the All-Star Game and won the Home Run Derby, then immediately began to struggle. He was 1 for 21 in his first five games following the All-Star break and in his first 55 hit .185 with 11 homers and 84 strikeouts over 189 atbats from July 14 to Sept. 12.

It was not until the next spring he admitted a shoulder injury that required offseason surgery had affected him.

Of course in 2018, Judge lost most of the second half of the season to a fractured wrist.

After hitting 25 homers and driving in 60 runs in the first 93 games of the season, he only played in 19 in the second half.

He hit two homers and drove in seven runs.

In 2019, Judge missed 54 games after straining his oblique in April.

His latest injury stems from

a diving attempt to catch an Albert Pujols fly ball on Sept.

18, 2019. Judge said he received a shot and managed to play through discomfort the rest of the year.

He hit .264 (9 for 34) in the playoffs with one home run as the Yankees lost to the Astros in six games in the ALCS. That loss and Judge’s frustration — flamed also by the reports of how the Astros had cheated in the 2017 ALCS against the Yankees — may have contributed to this nagging injury. Judge admitted he did not give his body much rest this winter, wanting to get back to work and try to get to a World Series in 2020.

“I think the consistent swinging and weightlifting throughout the whole offseason really didn’t give it the chance to (heal). If somebody breaks their leg and they’re in a cast, they’re immobilized for a couple weeks or months ... You give the bone a chance to heal,” Judge said when the broken rib was finally announced in March. “But me, pissed about how the season ended last year, and the changes I wanted to make, I felt right back to it. We’ve all been through pain, bumps and bruises. In my head, I felt like it was something that I could fight through and I think that kind of cost me a little bit there.”

is another Series “uncle.”

Among the players he has shepherded was the Phillies’ Scott Kingery. He has also annually housed and fed Cutters players in his home, including Rhys Hoskins.

“I remember coming downstairs one Saturday and Rhys and the other guys who were staying with us that summer were standing at the stove in the kitchen with my wife,” Miller said. “She was showing them how to make an omelet.

“It’s a joy to watch them at this level. They’re just starting.

They all have the same dream.

Everything is ahead of them.

And they become part of your family. They let the dogs out when we’re not home. They take care of the house. Without them, it would be a real empty summer.”

Whatever happens to the Cutters, the World Series and the Classic will likely be back next summer. And Williamsport residents can get back to the summers they’ve known.

“We take pride in baseball and especially the World Series,” said Fink. “It’s a good thing. It’s not something that makes you whisper where you’re from. You’re proud to say you’re from Williamsport.

There are a lot of communities like us throughout the world that are very similar but don’t have Little League baseball.

It’s something that evokes positive, warm feelings about your youth.

“But I guess the cold reality will come this August when there’s no World Series,” he said. “That’s when we’ll be reminded of what we lost.”

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Office: Greene Co. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: PO Box 68, Prattsville, NY 12468. Purpose: General LEGAL NOTICE The Taconic Hills Central School District requests sealed bids for Planned Maintenance Service and Repair on 3 Hydraulic Dover Elevator Systems for the 2020-2021 school year.

Specifications and bid forms may be obtained at the office of the District Clerk of the Taconic Hills Central School District, Route 11A, Craryville, NY 12521, any day except Saturdays, Sundays or holidays, between the hours of 9:00 A.M. and 3:00 P.M. (EDST).

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These sealed bids must be in the hands of the District Clerk before 3:00 P.M. (EDST).

Sealed bids will be publicly opened and read aloud at 3:00 P.M. (EDST) on May 22, 2020 at the District Office, Route 11A, Craryville, New York.

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Melissa Layman District Clerk Dated: May 5, 2020 LEGAL NOTICE The Taconic Hills Central School District requests seals bids for Custodial Supplies for the 2020-2021 school year.

Specifications and bid forms may be obtained at the office of the District Clerk of the Taconic Hills Central School District, Route 11A, Craryville, NY 12521, any day except Saturdays, Sundays or holidays, between the hours of 9:00 A.M. and 3:00 P.M. (EDST).

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Sealed bids will be publicly opened and read aloud at 3:00 P.M. (EDST) on May 22, 2020 at the District Office, Route 11A, Craryville, New York.

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Melissa Layman District Clerk Dated: May 5, 2020 LEGAL NOTICE The Taconic Hills Central School District requests sealed bids for Garbage/Trash Disposal for the 2020-2021 school year.

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LEGAL NOTICE The Taconic Hills Central School District requests sealed bids for Pumping Septic Tanks and Grease Traps for the 2020-2021 school year.

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Melissa Layman District Clerk Dated: May 5, 2020 LEGAL NOTICE The Taconic Hills Central School District requests bids for Pool Chemicals for the 2020-2021 school year.

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Melissa Layman District Clerk Dated: May 5, 2020 LEGAL NOTICE The Taconic Hills Central School District requests sealed bids for PM Service & Safety Inspection on Electrically Operated Gym Partitions and Baskets for the 2020-2021 school year.

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Office in Columbia Co. SSNY design. Agent of LLC upon whom process may be served.

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NOTICE OF COMPLETION OF TENTATIVE ASSESSMENT ROLL (Pursuant to Section 506 and 1526 of the Real Property Tax Law) Notice is hereby given that as of May 1, 2020, the Assessor of the Town of Hunter, County of Greene, has completed the Tentative Assessment Roll for the current year, and that a copy has been filed with the Hunter Town Clerk’s Office. Due to Covid-19 restrictions (Executive Order 202.22), the tentative assessment roll is available for viewing until Grievance Day online, on both the Town of Hunter website (townofhuntergov.com) and the Greene County w e b s i t e (www.greene.sdgnys.c om). The assessor will be available only by phone or email (mhommel@townofh u n t e rg o v. c o m ) .

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The Secretary of State of New York shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, at 300 Allen Teator Rd. Durham, NY 12422 Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, the Town Board of the Town of Hunter will hold a Public Hearing for a Scrap Processing license renewal at 6:45 PM on Tuesday, May 12, 2020.

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His answer was all about integrity.

“I want them to say that he won within the rules,” Shula said. “That he had players that took a lot of pride in playing within the rules. And that his teams played an exciting brand of football, wide open football, that made it exciting for the fans.

“I want them to say that his players loved it, the coaches loved it, the fans loved it and I loved it — when we won. I want them to say that we did it all the right way. Always the right way.”

Shula began his coaching career in 1963 as the NFL’s youngest coach. By the time he retired after the 1995 season, he was the league’s winningest coach.

He is in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

He was a pitchman for Ford cars, NutriSystem diet foods and the name behind an expanding Shula’s Steakhouse empire. State Road 874, a seven-mile road in South MiamiDade, is named after him. He even once appeared in a government campaign asking Americans to sign up for Medicare Part D. But despite his national prominence, Shula adopted South Florida in 1970 when he was “traded” from the Colts to the Dolphins as the head coach and never left. He lived in Miami Lakes in the 1970s and ‘80s with his first wife Dorothy and his family. After Dorothy died, Shula moved to Indian Creek on Miami Beach with his second wife Mary Anne.

“This is a great place to live and raise a family,” said Shula, who later in life nonetheless spent part of the summers in North Carolina and California.

“The people down here adopted me when I became the Dolphins coach. This place, the Dolphins, the fans ... it’s all just part of me. Always will be.”

Shula grew up in Painesville, a small and unremarkable Lake Erie fishing village where work ethic and family values were simply more important than sports. Shula’s father, Dan, was born in Hungary and immigrated to the United States at age six. He changed his surname from Sule to Shula while in school to better fit the American pronunciation.

Dan and Mary Shula had twins Joe and Josephine in 1922,

Irene in 1926, Don in 1930, and triplets in 1936.

Shula’s first job was baby sitting — a practice he joked became useful later in life as a coach when he had to deal with a petulant player or reporter.

“I had to make sure they got to school on time and got home on time and did the things they should be doing for school,” Shula said. “It’s kind of like dealing with some wide receivers.”

Shula’s first job outside the home came at age 12 at the same rose bush nursery where his father worked. He made about $1 per day performing odd jobs. He later worked at his grandparent’s grocery store, stocking shelves and carrying supplies. And he also worked at Kishman’s and Grow Brothers fisheries while he was in high school.

Yes, Don Shula learned about work ethic early.

“You learn pretty quickly that nothing is handed to you,” Shula said. “You learn that if you want honest results you have to put in an honest day’s work.

That time taught me there were no shortcuts. You believe in God, you work hard and that gets results. What they said back then was true, there were no free lunches.”

Football was always important for Shula but at age 11 when he suffered a gash on his face — “because I led with my head,” Shula joked — his parents responded by forbidding him from playing the sport.

The hiatus didn’t last very long at all.

Shula was fascinated by football and learned how to play it from Joe Jenkins, who was the head coach of the team at St. Mary’s middle school when Shula was in fifth and sixth grade.

The lessons Shula learned from Jenkins apparently stuck because 56 years later, in August 1997 when he was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Shula spoke fondly of Jenkins.

Shula had invited his teacher to attend the induction and asked Jenkins to stand and be recognized during his speech.

“An honor of a lifetime,” Jenkins said then.

Shula’s budding athletic career earned him 11 varsity letters at Harvey High School in Painesville. His high school classmates dubbed him “best body” in the 1947 yearbook.

“A distinction I carried throughout my life even to this day,” Shula joked in 1995.

“Can’t you tell?”

Shula played collegiate football at John Carroll University in

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Ohio. At 5-10 and 185 pounds, the future coach was sometimes a halfback, sometimes a defensive back, sometimes a starter, and sometimes a reserve.

But he was seemingly always a coach-in-the-making.

“Don was a fun-loving guy,” teammate and friend Lenny Soder once told the Cleveland Plain Dealer. “He was always honest, always had a lot of integrity, he was a gentleman.

“Don was always the leader of the group. Even on the field he always had suggestions for the coaches, especially the defensive coaches. We always called him ‘The Coach’ in a kidding way.”

His time at the Jesuit university made a profound impact on Shula in other ways.

Shula says he seriously considered joining the priesthood during a retreat at John Carroll.

Ultimately, however, thoughts of a professional football career kept him out of the clergy. But he was bound to his Catholic faith the rest of his life.

Shula says he usually started his day, “everyday,” he said, by attending church even when the duties of coaching were competing for this time.

When Dorothy Shula, the coach’s first wife, became ill with breast cancer in the 1980s, the couple and 10 fellow parishioners of Our Lady of the Lakes Catholic Church in Miami Lakes trekked to Croatia hoping to find a cure for the disease by way of a miracle from God. Like many great coaches, Shula was not a great player.

But he was good enough to be the lone rookie in Hall of Fame coach Paul Brown’s lineup for the defending NFL champion Cleveland Browns in 1951.

Two years later, Shula was part of the largest trade in NFL history when he was one of 15 players the Browns and Baltimore Colts exchanged. He later played with the Washington Redskins and retired with 21 career interceptions in seven seasons.

Then lightning struck.

In 1958, Shula married Painesville native Dorothy Bartish. And he got his first coaching job at the University of Virginia. Shula would coach at Virginia, Kentucky, and with the Detroit Lions. Then he became the head coach of the Baltimore Colts in 1963.

He was only 33 years old and a handful of his players were older than the new, young coach. That didn’t stop Shula from winning 71 of 94 games (a

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.745 winning percentage) and advancing to two Super Bowls in seven years.

Throughout those years while Shula’s reputation as a coach grew, the Shula family grew as well.

Dave Shula was born in 1959, Donna Shula in 1961, Sharon Shula in 1962, Anne in 1964 and Mike in 1965.

It was a big family and although Shula credited Dorothy with raising the kids while he attended to coaching football teams, the family was a great joy for the coach.

“During those years I had two priorities and that was my family and winning football games and it wasn’t always in that order,” Shula said after his retirement. “Looking back, there are some things I might change.

You have to make adjustments as a coach. But Dorothy did a great job with the kids and I benefited from that.”

Shula was a staunch defender of his children, particularly his sons. When Mike was fired as the Alabama coach in 2006, Shula went public to criticize the school for the decision. He also later had harsh words for the manner Nick Saban left the Dolphins that same season.

Saban left Miami to replace Mike Shula as the Alabama coach.

Shula also had tunnel vision of sorts for football. Even as the Dolphins’ fortunes ebbed and flowed in the 1980s and early 1990s, his attention to his work never waned.

Once, after a 1980s victory in the Orange Bowl, actor Don Johnson came by the Miami locker room to meet the coach and some players. It was the height of the Miami Vice television craze and the actor introduced himself as “Don Johnson, from Miami Vice.”

Shula shook Johnson’s hand and remarked about the “great job” Miami Vice was doing, thinking Johnson was actually a local vice cop.

But against that stereotype as a driven, yelling, player-andreferee-intimidating-robot, Shula often let his humanity show.

In the early 1980s he was doing an interview with reporter Andy Cohen, who had covered the team a long time and continues to cover them now.

And Shula noticed Cohen seemed distracted so he asked if anything was wrong. Cohen told the coach his father was soon going in for open heart surgery and he was concerned about it.

“He asked me if my father

was a Dolphins fan, which he was,” Cohen said. “So he asked what hospital he was in and immediately asked his secretary Anne to make the call. He talked to my father and told him he just wanted him to know Don Shula was thinking about him.

“My father used to tell the story of being the only person ever to go into an operating room with a smile on his face.

It showed me a different side of Don Shula.”

Shula made football something of a family affair. Both David and then Mike were immersed in the family business by working with the Dolphins — as ballboys, keeping track of play-calls, helping with equipment, absorbing information and later following their father’s coaching footsteps.

David would become the Dolphins offensive coordinator and eventually the head coach of the Cincinnati Bengals. Mike spent time as the Dolphins quarterback coach, became the head coach at the University of Alabama, and today is the offensive coordinator for the Carolina Panthers.

Mike Shula even interviewed for the Dolphins head coach opening in 2007.

In retirement, Don Shula invested the precious time on his children and grandchildren he didn’t have during his coaching career.

He flew from California to Alabama to watch Mike’s first two games coaching the Crimson Tide. He attended St. Thomas High School games to watch grandson Chris Shula play. He bragged about grandson Danny’s exploits as a young quarterback at Dartmouth and another grandson Alex’s exploits as a pole vaulter at St. Thomas.

“When I left coaching I said I was going to get to know my kids and my grandkids and that’s what I tried to do,” Shula said. “I’ve been watching high school football, college football and the spectacle that it is, and the NFL. I enjoy it.”

After Dorothy Shula passed away in February 1991, Don Shula lost his biggest fan.

Shula has never shied from discussing his Super Bowl losses — he had two including the memorable (forgettable for Shula) upset loss to the New York Jets in 1969 that Joe Namath guaranteed for the Jets.

But discussing the loss of Dorothy this day in 2014 was not something he wanted to do.

“Painful,” Shula said succinctly. “Let’s not bring that up.”

Shula denied that anything was different in his approach with football and his personal life after Dorothy’s death but those close to him noticed a change.

“He was never the kind of father who could tell you he loved you who would hold or kiss you,” Donna told Sports Illustrated in 1993. “It was real awkward for him. But these days he’s very connected. He tells us he loves us a lot more.”

Said then assistant coach and confidant Monte Clark at the time: “He’s still working the same hours. He’s still demanding. He still wants it. But he is more understanding, it seems to me. He has what he calls courage of conviction. But he’s more willing to think of options before he arrives at that conviction.

“Something’s definitely changed.”

There was no doubt about that. Shula hired a clothier to update and match his wardrobe. He met the former Mary Anne Stephens at a private 1992 New Year’s Day party. The two were introduced by golfer and friend Raymond Floyd.

The couple’s connection was unmistakable the remainder of Shula’s life.

It took Shula two months after they met to ask Mary Anne out. But it wasn’t long before Shula realized he had found “another love of my life,” as he put it and they were married.

“When I married Mary Anne, I married way out of my league,” Shula said. “When Bob Griese first met Mary Anne he said to me, ‘Coach, you outkicked your coverage.’”

Shula and Mary Anne spent a lot of his days after retirement traveling, enjoying life and each other.

“Somebody’s got to do it,” Shula would joke of his leisurely retirement.

Throughout his professional life filled with constant change both privately and publicly, one thing remained constant: Don Shula won football games.

A lot of them.

More than anyone ever had and perhaps more than anyone ever will, given today’s highly pressurized, win-now-or-else fire that owners light under coaches.

His 347 career victories is 136 victories ahead of Bill Belichick, who is the closest active coach to Shula’s victory mark with 211 wins.

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While many of the facilities are closed at state parks, many remain open to visitors. Kids can still enjoy hiking in nature safely if they follow safe social distancing practices. Pexels

Explore New York’s great outdoors safely with these helpful tips Times staff report

If you aren’t fortunate enough to live on a large plot of land or near places to explore, getting out into nature might seem difficult.

The New York Department of Environmental Conservation offers several ways to enjoy the north country while staying safe. You can still walk, jog, hike, ride a bicycle, fish or visit a park or state lands.

You can keep healthy if you follow some important guidelines.

HOW TO PRACTICE SOCIAL DISTANCING OUTDOORS n While many public parks and lands are open, visitors are encouraged to stay local, and keep visits short. n If a parking lot or trail is crowded, choose an alternative location to explore or return later. n Don’t linger in places where people tend to congregate, such as overlooks.

Playgrounds, fire towers and indoor facilities at parks remain closed for this reason. n Visit with immediate household

family members instead of larger groups of friends. You should keep 6 feet away from others, even when outside. n Do not share items such as balls, bikes, frisbees or walking sticks. n Avoid unnecessary contact with surfaces that are often touched, such as doorknobs and handrails. n Stay home if you are sick, or showing or feeling any COVID-19 symptoms, such as fever, coughing or troubled breathing.

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Some stellar facts about our moon Staff reports

How many of these facts about the moon have you heard before? Quiz yourself and then share what you learned with a friend or family member. n Only 12 people in history have ever walked on the moon, and all of them were from the United States. The first to walk on the moon was Neil Armstrong in 1969, and the last person was Gene Cernan in 1972. n Unlike the earth, the moon has no atmosphere. This means the surfaces is unprotected from the sun’s rays and there are huge temperature variations.

Additionally , the lack of atmosphere means the sky on the moon always appears black, and no sound can be heard on the moon. n The force of gravity is much weaker on the moon compared to earth due to its smaller size. You would be about six times less heavy on the moon that earth. n The moon is about 25% the size of earth. n It takes the moon about 27 days to circle the earth. However, scientists say the moon is slowly drifting away from the earth at a rate of about 1.5 inches per year. After billions of years, it could take as much as 40 days to circle the earth. n The shadow from earth causes the moon to appear to change shape from a circle, called a full moon, to a cresent shape. When the size of the moon’s visible cresent is getting bigger, the moon is said to be waxing. After it reaches a full moon, the size of the cresent will slowly get smaller, and it is said to be wanning.

When the moon disappears in the earth’s shadow, it is called a new moon.

Information from space-facts.com

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Churlish customers make life more stressful for clerk Dear Abby, I work in the deli department of a grocery store and have been struggling lately. With everything that is going on, people are overwhelmed and have been taking it out on us.

I asked one person, “How DEAR ABBY are you doing today?” The response I got was, “I’m not interested in conversation.

Just feed me!” Another who came to the register didn’t utter a single word except to exclaim, when I offered her a bottle opener for her soda, “I’ve got it!” Then she snatched her change out of my hand. I don’t even get the brunt of it; the cashiers have to handle the worst of it.

We employees are stressed out about the same things everyone else is. We are struggling to get the same products everyone else is searching desperately for. I had to shop at five different stores to get what I need and still haven’t found many things.

Between the stress of the virus and the stress of being treated so rudely, my mental health is running low. I have struggled on and off with depression and anxiety, and many of my coping methods are unavailable to me due to closures. Could you please remind your readers that we are all in the same boat and need to be kind to one another, and direct those of us who are struggling emotionally to resources we can access during this time of panic?

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I agree that many people react badly when under stress, as the customers you described have done. But many others respect and appreciate the efforts you and so many others in the food supply chain make every day — at some risk to your own health. I am one of

them.

Because you have had issues with depression and anxiety in the past, consider contacting the therapist you worked with and ask if the person is doing online sessions. These days, many of them are. Just talking with someone — friends or likeminded co-workers — about what you are experiencing could bring some relief.

However, if that isn’t possible, consider exploring whether there are online support groups for retail workers such as you. If there aren’t, consider starting one so you and others can exchange ideas about coping with these extremely stressful circumstances in which we all find ourselves.

Dear Abby, My husband loves our cat too much. He buys “Miss Kitty” special treats, pets her, talks nicely to her, plants quick kisses on the top of her head and lets her sit on his lap while he watches TV for hours. It’s like I’m nonexistent. I wish he would be that nice to me.

He’s a good provider and, when we are away from the house, I have his full attention. I’m resenting this queen of our home.

What should I do? I’d like to take her back to the animal shelter. It was my sorry idea to adopt her.

In Second Place My first suggestion is to find reasons to spend more time with your husband away from the house. The second would be to adopt a dog. And if you do, make sure YOU are the one who feeds and walks it, unless your husband has such an affinity for pets that adopting another one isn’t worth the risk.

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Is there danger lurking in your turkey on wheat?

Recently, a well-respected consumer organization ran an article asserting that hundreds of thousands of people die every year just from eating deli meat! The problem is supposedly that the nitrates and/or nitrites in the meat combine to make nitrosamines, which are supposedly carcinogenic.

TO YOUR Just what evidence is there GOOD HEALTH that nitrosamines cause cancer in humans? Is the case based on enormous doses given to animals? I don’t have to worry about stuff like hot dogs, bologna and salami. I hate these meats and never eat them. But deli turkey is a great food. Low in calories, almost no fat, a great source of protein. It can be a little high in salt, but if you watch your salt intake the rest of the day, it’s OK. Most of us don’t have time to roast a turkey breast and slice it up. Are these low-fat turkey sandwiches really life threatening? Or is this advice like everyone should drink eight glasses of water a day or everyone over 50 should take a baby aspirin — both thoroughly debunked. What is the truth please, Dr. Roach?

DR. KEITH ROACH

The truth is that there is pretty solid evidence that some types of processed foods, especially those made with nitrites, increase the risk of colon and stomach cancers. These data come

from human studies, not animal studies, from the World Health Organization. They were confident enough in the data in 2015 to label processed meats as “carcinogenic.”

The magnitude of the risk is small. It’s estimated that eating a moderate amount of processed meat (about 2 ounces a day) will increase the lifetime risk of bowel cancer from 4.8% to 5.6%.

That’s enough for me to recommend against making processed meats a regular part of your diet.

However, not all deli meats are processed using nitrites, and it’s not 100% clear that the nitrites are the sole or even the main cause of the increase in risk. Some of the foods you mention are made minimally processed, with very little if any ingredients that might increase the risk of bowel cancer. It takes some perseverance, but you can find out what your deli is serving and check to see how it is made.

Occasional amounts of these kinds of products are not very dangerous. A mostly plantbased diet has many benefits, including lower cancer risk. Having bacon every day is not a good idea for health, but adding in an occasional deli lunch is not a big risk.

The “hundreds of thousands” number seems more hyperbole than science to me.

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By Stella Wilder Born today, you are nothing if not thoughtful, and you know how to work with familiar tools and materials to create something entirely new. You are not one to allow yourself to be locked into commonly held views; you are never interested in doing what you are told “should” be done — nor will you tell others to do anything but what comes naturally to them.

When it comes to love, you are nowhere near as understanding and forgiving as you are in other aspects of daily life; indeed, you can be downright impossible when the green-eyed monster has you in its grip.

Also born on this date are: Adele, singer; Karl Marx, political philosopher; Tammy Wynette, singer; Brian Williams, TV news anchor; John Rhys-Davies, actor; Tyrone Power, actor; Pat Carroll, actress; Michael Palin, actor, writer, comedian.

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.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 6 TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — A shock to the system needn’t have lasting effects. You can get over it quickly if your attitude remains positive and your outlook clear.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — Why stop with one when you can enjoy two, three or more? There’s a limit to how much you can take, of course — but you haven’t reached it yet.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — Focus on those things that are right in front of you today, and let peripheral issues be sorted out by others before

you have to deal with them.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — You can work quickly and efficiently today so long as you know exactly what it is you’re trying to accomplish. Do you need a reminder?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You may begin to doubt your inner strength today as you give way to someone who shouldn’t hold such sway over you.

Find the reason why!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — An answer to a “random” question points you in a surprising direction, but once you begin moving that way, the reasons will become clear.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Pay attention to any and all instances when “if” plays a role today.

This is the one thing that can work against you — if you let it.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — You’re likely to catch a glimpse today of something you’ve wanted to get your hands on for some time — but for now it’s only a glimpse.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You may or may not want to share a secret with a loved one, but know that if you do, you will be opening the door to a new opportunity.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — You must watch the clock today to ensure that everything you do is completed on time. If you have time to spare, you can use it for fun!

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — Watch your temper, as a flare-up will be harmful only to you today.

Someone who has been helping you touches you in an unexpected way.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Guard against overreacting to what people say to you today, as they likely do not mean what you think they mean.

Consider your intentions.

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

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Freshman level 1. William Shakespeare wrote a comedy titled “The Taming of the ____.”

2. Arthur Miller won a Pulitzer Prize for his “Death of a ____.”

3. Tennessee Williams catapulted to fame with his “The Glass _____.”

Graduate level 4. Eugene O’Neill’s “Long Day’s Journey Into ____” is considered his best play.

5. Oscar Wilde penned the play “Lady Windermere’s ____.”

6. In this Samuel Beckett play, Didi and Gogo do the waiting: “Waiting for ____.”

PH.D. level 7. Anton Chekhov’s last play is titled “The Cherry ____.”

8. George Bernard Shaw’s “Arms and the ___” was one of his first commercial successes.

9. Neil Simon’s first Broadway play was “Come Blow Your ____.”

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8. Man. 9. Horn.

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

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Bound & Gagged

Created by Jacqueline E. Mathews

3 “True __”; John Wayne film 4 Come into view 5 Dad’s dad 6 One of Columbus’ ships 7 Correct a manuscript 8 Withdrawing from a group 9 Actress Jacqueline 10 Repeated sound 11 Quickly glance Monopoly through a book 12 Sharon’s “Cagney & Lacey” costar 14 Stows away 21 Deafening 25 Rile didn’t lag behind 26 Blue ribbon 27 Scoundrel 28 Twitter post 29 Cooked in oil 30 Come to shore 31 Crawling vines 32 Family tree member 33 Krypton & radon 35 Like anybody’s grandbaby

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38 Company rep 39 Liberace or Elton John 41 Christmas tree, often 42 Donahue or Hartman 44 Indifference 45 AKC dog’s proof 47 Yearned

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48 Envelop 49 Munich señor 50 “__ in Love With Amy” 52 “A __ of Two Cities” 53 Hitchhiker’s hope 54 Alcove 55 Fence opening 59 Trigger’s rider

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