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Chatham man injured in Exit 24 crash

By Bill Williams Columbia-Greene Media

ALBANY — A Columbia County man was injured Thursday morning in a headon crash on the New York State Thruway between Exit 24 and Exit 25 that killed an Albany County woman, said Tara L. McCormick, public information officer for state police Troop T on Friday.

Albert (Skip) P. Kastner, 50, of Chatham, who was a passenger in a tractor-trailer, was taken to Albany Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries, McCormick said.

A Latham woman was

killed in the crash between the tractor-trailer and a sport utility vehicle, according to state police.

Bernice A. Rostocki, 58, suffered fatal injuries in the crash and was pronounced dead at the scene by the Albany County Coroner’s Office, McCormick said.

The driver of the tractortrailer, Jesula Estivente, 28, of Uniondale, was taken to Albany Medical Center where she was evaluated by a drug recognition expert and later released, McCormick said.

At about 10:12 a.m., a 2021 Freightliner owned by Werner

Enterprises was traveling east in an area near Exit 24 at mile marker 149.8, when Estivente attempted to change lanes.

As the truck moved from the center lane to the left lane, it crossed the rumble strips and Estivente overcorrected, causing the vehicle to lose control, according to state police.

The tractor-trailer crashed through the median and center guardrail and entered the westbound lanes where it struck a 2019 Toyota Rav4 driven by Rostocki, head on, according to state police. The See CRASH A2

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A Chatham man was injured, and a woman was kiilled, in an accident on Thursday, on the Thruway in Albany.

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Multiple fire companies were on the scene of a mobile home fire in Stockport on Friday.

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A mobile home burns on Southers Road in Stockport on Friday morning.

By Bill Williams Columbia-Greene Media

STOCKPORT — A suspect has been taken into custody, in connection with a mobile home fire Friday morning in

Stockport, said Beau Duffy, director of information for state police.

State Police did not identify the person or the charges against them on Friday

afternoon.

An investigation determined that the fire, at the abandoned home, was intentionally set, Duffy said.

When troopers searched

the woods that surrounded the home, they located the suspect, Duffy said.

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Multiple fire companies line Southers Road, at the scene of a mobile home fire in Stockport on Friday.

Social worker field team eyed to handle police call overload

By Sam Raudins HUDSON — Hudson Police Chief L. Edward Moore is making progress on addressing the number of calls for “emotionally disturbed” individuals in the city, he said.

At the Common Council’s informal meeting Oct. 12, Moore said he is working with Columbia Memorial Health to explore the possibility of creating a field team to handle the calls.

“There has to be some kind of

other resolution to this matter to improve the quality of life not only for our citizens but for the people affected themselves that need treatment,” Moore said.

A field team would consist of social workers who can proactively confront these individuals, he said.

Moore said due to Hudson’s small size, a team should be able to handle the task. But larger cities implementing similar systems get more money.

“The bad news is that we don’t get a lot of that funding. But the

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Moore said at the September Common Council informal meeting the department gets routine calls for “emotionally disturbed” people for the same six individuals, and often the people — who Moore said are frequently under the influence of substances — request an ambulance for a physical injury.

He said for the entire month of September, the department

good news is because we’ve done case studies on about six to eight of these folks that we think it’s a number that we can manage with this team. And with the right application of resources that we might be able to make an actual improvement that people can see,” Moore said.

Moore said the team has continued its work in October.

“We’ll carry on in the month of October with the idea about forming a field team to go out and address these people’s needs, especially with the cold

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truck came to rest after it jackknifed and hit an embankment on the north shoulder.

An autopsy on Rostocki is scheduled to take place at Ellis Hospital in Schenectady.

The westbound lanes of the Thruway were shut down for approximately five hours,

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received 18 calls for emotionally disturbed individuals.

“Eighteen is a lot for one month,” Moore said.

They are often immediately discharged from the hospital or leave on their own, Moore said.

The issue is primarily in Oakdale Park but rings true across the city, he said.

The repeat callers are generally not homeless people, Moore said.

“They have a place to go where it’s warm, and they can have a shower, but they decide not to, sometimes sleeping all night in the park or in an alleyway,” he said.

while fire and rescue crews worked, and for the accident investigation, McCormick said.

All westbound traffic was diverted off the Thruway at Exit 24, and the eastbound left lane was closed until the accident reconstruction was completed.

The detours created huge traffic backups for hours on roads throughout Colonie, as drivers attempted to find alternate routes.

All lanes were reopened by 3:30 p.m.

State police were assisted on the scene by the Troop G Collision Reconstruction Unit, Troop T Bureau of Criminal Investigation, and Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Unit, Troop G BCI and Victim Advocate, Albany Fire Department and Rescue, as well as Thruway Traffic Safety and Maintenance, McCormick said.

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arrived on the scene, they reported the mobile home was engulfed in flames. Fire officials then requested mutualaid assistance from neighboring fire companies.

Hoses were connected to fire hydrants on county Route 22 that ran up the hill to the fire scene as volunteers began pouring water on the blaze.

The fire was reported to have been brought under control at 11:38 a.m. Firefighters then began checking to make sure the fire was put out throughout the structure.

Fire police closed Southers Road to traffic while crews

worked.

National Grid was requested to the scene to disconnect power to the mobile home.

There were no reported injuries, Stockport Fire Chief Jeff Seymour said.

The state police Bureau of Criminal Investigation from Livingston and Columbia County fire investigators remained at the scene through Friday afternoon, gathering evidence in the case.

Fire companies that assisted at the fire were Stuyvesant, Stuyvesant Falls, and Hudson.

Also assisting at the scene were Greenport Rescue

Squad, state police, the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office, and Columbia County Fire Coordinator’s Office.

All firefighters were back in service about 3:30 p.m.

Mobile homes burn at more than two and a half times the rate as manufactured homes, according to the National Fire Prevention Association.

“The metal siding on a mobile home heats the structure like an oven, the NFPA said.

“With a mobile home and the metal siding, if it doesn’t melt, it’s going to hold the heat more and that’s why it tends to burn faster,” NFPA said.

Paramedics and ambulances in the area don’t have the capacity to regularly respond to these calls, Moore said.

“The concern here at public safety is that multiple ambulances have been dispatched for emotionally disturbed people that really don’t require medical treatment. And then that’s tying up valuable ambulance time, police time, that might be called away for more serious accidents,” Moore said.

The issue came to head in late August, Moore said. One person had 13 ambulance dispatches but walked out of the hospital each time.

Moore said in September, he became part of an interdisciplinary team to develop solutions to the problem, and he met with Columbia County

Emergency Medical Services Coordinator P.J. Keeler, Columbia Memorial Health Chief Financial Officer Brian Mahoney, CMH Psychiatry Program Director Brian Stewart and team members from the Mobile Crisis Assessment Team at the Neighborhood Center.

He said leaving these meetings, the group discerned that there hasn’t been any progress made since the same situation arose last year.

The Columbia County EMS system includes all municipal agencies, Columbia County EMS Coordinator P.J. Keeler said. This allows the 911 center to move people around from area to area as needed. Columbia County shares something in common with many places: A shortage of EMS workers, as

the COVID-19 pandemic put a pause on emergency training.

“That has really saved us,” Keeler said. “Because we’ll find one agency may be having a difficult time staffing, or people call in sick, other agencies can chip in when their call volume dictates it. We do have the county covered, but we could use more EMTs and paramedics, not just in Columbia County, but regionally and nationally as well.”

Keeler, who is also the county treasurer, said although the idea is in the early stages, the county is looking for ways to fund the team. Stimulus money is an option, he said, and so is support from the city of Hudson.

“Hopefully we can move forward in the not too distant future,” Keeler said.

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PHILADELPHIA — Controversial as they are in some quarters, COVID-19 vaccine mandates appear to encourage more people to get the shots, a new study from University of Pennsylvania researchers suggests.

The study, published in Scientific Reports, synthesized research from four surveys in which 1,300 participants were asked about their intentions to get the vaccine -- and compared how those intentions changed when participants were told the vaccine was mandated.

At the heart of the study is the theory of psychological reactance -- “the tendency to want to do the opposite of what we’re told,” said Dolores Albarracin, a social psychologist at Penn and the study’s lead author. (Albarracin is a Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor with appointments at the Annenberg School for Communication and the School of Nursing.)

The study authors wanted to address concerns that psychological reactance might undermine vaccine mandates -- and the overall vaccine campaign -- in the United States.

“All in all, our results suggest that fears about a mandate

backfiring may be unfounded,” they wrote.

In the study, researchers found that people were more likely to say they would get a vaccine if they were told the vaccine was mandated than if they were told they were free to choose to get vaccinated. This held true across racial and ethnic groups. Even people with a tendency toward psychological reactance -- people who tend to balk at being told what to do -- were more likely to say they’d get the shot if they were told it was mandatory.

The study was released as vaccine mandates around the country, and in the region, are beginning to take effect.

Philadelphia mandated that health-care workers be vaccinated by Oct. 15.

Penn’s health system required employees to be vaccinated by Sept. 17, and last month said that 99% of staffers had complied. At Temple Health, 98% of employees had complied with the city’s mandate by last Friday; 160 holdouts without vaccine exemptions were set to be placed on unpaid leave. If they’re not vaccinated by Oct. 29, they’ll be fired, officials there said.

At the beginning of October, representatives for the city’s home health aides said that they estimated about half of

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Philadelphia’s 50,000 aides were unvaccinated. Days later, with a mandate deadline looming, about 79% of city nursing home staff were vaccinated. Some nursing homes told the Inquirer that their vaccination rates had increased after announcing the mandate.

While conducting the study, Albarracin said she was surprised by how “consistently positive” mandates were received among survey participants. “Even those whose personality makes them more likely to be disagreeable about the vaccine3/8 formed stronger intentions to vaccinate in a situation that requires it for work.”

It may seem logical that people would get a shot in order to keep their job, but in the current employment climate, many workplaces are worried about recalcitrant employees taking their skills to a position where vaccines aren’t mandated. This new study suggests the mandate actually legitimizes the vaccine decision for some people.

“For people with lower tendency to react against

being controlled, the mandate makes them feel that the vaccine will have positive benefits, that they will be better received by others, and even that the vaccine is less risky,” she said. “For those who have a tendency to experience psychological reactance, they just comply and get vaccinated.”

(Staff writers Stacey Burling and Jason Laughlin contributed to this report.)

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Give COVID booster shots a chance Columbia and Greene counties are marshalling their health care forces to administer COVID-19 booster shots. We hope there is a flood of demand for them and not the trickle that concluded the first and second round of vaccinations.

Columbia County health officials expect to administer COVID-19 booster shots from Moderna and Johnson & Johnson to as many as 700 eligible residents Friday, pending final federal and state approvals.

Meanwhile, Greene County officials are looking to put plans in place to make COVID-19 booster shots available for some recipients of the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines.

The preparations follow on the heels of authorization for booster shots from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday, but approval from the federal Advisory Committee on Im-

munizations, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the state Department of Health’s Clinical Advisory Task Force are also required before the counties can take action.

Each county is determining the inventory of inoculations that are expected to be provided by the state. The first step will be to register homebound patients first, then other individuals over age 65 who are susceptible to the virus due to medical conditions. Booster shots were authorized by the FDA for individuals ages 65 and older, and people of any age who are immunocompromised, who had received the Moderna or Johnson & Johnson inoculations. To be eligible for the booster, the individual must have completed the Moderna vaccination series at least six months ago, or the Johnson & Johnson singledose inoculation at least two months ago.

The pandemic continues to have an impact on this area. New cases have slowed, but hospitalizations and deaths are still with us. We know science has shown vaccination is the safest and most effective way to prevent COVID-19, including the most serious consequences of the disease. The available data suggest waning immunity in some populations that are fully vaccinated.

Availability of these authorized boosters is important for continued protection against COVID-19 disease.

Will the booster shots reduce the number of positive cases?

Will they save lives?

Ten new positive cases and 11 hospitalizations were reported Thursday in Greene County. In Columbia County, 17 new positives and three hospitalizations were reported Thursday. The combined death toll from COVID in both counties is 185. There’s your answer.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Support for Rick Werwaiss for Chatham Town Board To the editor: Rick Werwaiss has been a good neighbor and active member of our community for more than 20 years. We know him as a devoted and nurturing father of his two daughters, Abby and Willa, and a dedicated community builder — the first person to reach out and welcome each new resident moving into our hamlet. As President of the North Chatham Free Library, for 25 years, he has shown that he is a practical problem-solver and visionar — able to see what’s possible for organizations and find ways to fulfill important goals. These qualities and his professional

background and skills, particularly in nonprofit management, will serve him well on the Chatham Town Board.

One important area for our rural community is Rick’s knowledge and love of nature and the environment. He is dedicated to conservation and sustainable agriculture and worked for thirty years with organizations including National Audubon Society, Wildlife Conservation Society, and American Farmland Trust, among others. Locally as a committee volunteer, he helped bring the Keep Farming program to Chatham, which led to the Chatham Ag Partnership.

Local voters should know that in every aspect of life, Rick takes his responsibilities seriously. He has outlined clear goals for the Town of Chatham – among them, affordable housing, broadband connectivity, and an open space plan for future development. We know he will involve the wider community in the planning process because this is what he always does.

We enthusiastically ask you to VOTE for RICK WERWAISS for Chatham Town Board.

JULIE KABAT AND WAYNE SHELTON CHATHAM

Support for Rebecca Schroeder Harcleroad To the editor: Livingston is ready for change and Rebecca Schroeder Harcleroad is ready to serve.

I have known Rebecca for a number of years and I cannot think of anyone more ready and able to represent the citizens of Livingston. As the manager of a Livingston horse farm for many

decades, Rebecca successfully combines her business acumen with her love of animals and nature.

A lifelong Livingston resident, Rebecca is able to connect and inspire voters because of her long-standing views to protect our beautiful town with common sense ideas and a

willingness to work with everyone. She is also a hard headed business person who is great at saving money and letting nothing go to waste. Rebecca has my vote. She and the rest of the Democratic ticket will bring the change Livingston is ready for!

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Don’t let Trump’s ‘privilege’ claim thwart the Jan. 6 investigation WASHINGTON — For four years, Donald Trump’s interpretation of his powers made up in pithiness what it lacked in nuance: “I have an Article II, where I have the right to do whatever I want as president.”

Now, having refined his jurisprudential thinking, he proposes an expansive wrinkle on his already capacious conception of presidential prerogatives: He should have the power, unconditionally and forever, to invoke executive privilege regarding communications — documents and conversations — he had with others while in office, regardless of who seeks access to them, or the reasons for so seeking. His motive in resisting inquiries from the House select committee investigating events that culminated in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol is, he says, a selfless one: “defense of the Office of the Presidency.”

The power of executive privilege is not mentioned in the Constitution. Although the first president sometimes withheld information from Congress, a “privilege” to do so was first named and forthrightly asserted (by another general turned president) in mid-20th century. And although the Supreme Court has acknowledged its existence, its nature and scope have not yet been satisfactorily articulated by the few judicial examinations of particular presidents’ denials of information to Congress.

There is a common-sensical consensus that presidents while in office need some secrecy to encourage candid advice. And sitting presidents, probably with their post-presidencies in mind, have supported some predecessors’ claims of executive privilege.

Stanford law professor Michael W. McConnell, in “The President Who Would Not Be King: Executive Power Under the Constitution,” writes that James Madison considered what presidential privileges were proper because he worried that the executive branch

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WILL might “be at the mercy of the legislative.” This is hardly germane today, with a frequently supine Congress eagerly shedding discretion to the executive.

McConnell says that because the Constitution gave Congress no enumerated power to compel testimony, Madison’s remarks about explicit presidential privileges were set aside. McConnell notes that early executive-legislative skirmishes over information were couched in language about congressional “requests” for information that implicitly acknowledged presidential authority, not subpoenas that derogated it.

University of Virginia law professor Saikrishna Bangalore Prakash argues (in “Imperial from the Beginning: The Constitution of the Original Executive”) that although there is no constitutional privilege of presidential privacy, neither is there a constitutional authority for Congress to demand information. In his “The Living Presidency: An Originalist Argument Against Its Ever-Expanding Powers,” Prakash says one purpose for the increasing frequency of executive refusals to comply with congressional demands for information and testimony is “stymieing congressional investigations of the executive”: President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who invented the phrase “executive privilege,” did so to thwart Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s reckless rummaging in Eisenhower’s administration, including the Army.

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judiciously reluctant to referee tussles between the political — the legislative and executive — branches. And there are different considerations when the issue is compromising presidential privacy by subpoenas from courts in criminal proceedings, and by subpoenas from congressional committees performing oversight with possible legislative outcomes.

But that judicial reluctance, reflecting a Madisonian assumption, is outdated. Madison assumed that a powerful human constant, ambition, would result in creative tension — and, ideally, equilibrium — between the political branches: “Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place.” (Federalist 51) Madison’s assumption has been largely nullified by party loyalties: Most members of Congress subordinate their institution’s interests and prerogatives to those of a president from their party.

Given today’s political tribalism, were both houses of Congress controlled by the previous president’s party, there would be no Jan. 6 investigation. And there will barely be an investigation if the judiciary allows Congress to be neutered by an ex-president’s successful assertion of a presidential “privilege” so sweeping that it even shields Stephen Bannon. His seven months on the president’s staff ended almost 41 months before the events of Jan. 6, in the run-up to which he seems to have been involved.

If there is to be a timely and thorough investigation of the Jan. 6 assault on Congress’ constitutional function of certifying electoral votes, and of Trump’s role before and during this, congressional committees should have what private parties have — standing to seek judicial enforcement of compliance with subpoenas.

George Will’s email address is georgewill@washpost.com.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Support for Destiny Hallenbeck for Chatham Town Board To the editor: I am writing in support of Destiny Hallenbeck for Chatham Town Board. I was a teacher at Chatham High School for 24 years and have known Destiny as a student and now as a fellow Chatham Democrat. The two words that come to mind when I think of Destiny are competent and passionate.

Destiny is competent; she knows how to get things done.

She has demonstrated this first as a Chatham student, then as a college student,

President of College Democrats and member of the Chatham Central Schools Board of Education. When she sets her mind to something, it happens. She researches the issue, involves the stakeholders, develops a solution and then takes action.

Destiny is passionate about keeping the Town of Chatham a livable, vibrant community which welcomes citizens of all ages, backgrounds and financial means. This means that we must have a variety of housing and employment

options. Destiny knows the community and is willing to work hard to ensure that Chatham maintains its character while still allowing for growth.

I am enthusiastically supporting Destiny Hallenbeck for Chatham Town Board.

I know that she will bring a fresh new voice to the Board and a willingness to serve the community. Please join me in voting for Destiny on Election Day, Nov. 2.

JUDITH MATTHEWS OLD CHATHAM

Kinderhook residents urged to vote yes on Proposal 6 To the editor: On Nov. 2, the residents of Kinderhook and Stuyvesant will have the opportunity to support continued excellence in library service by voting YES on Proposal 6.

The COVID-19 pandemic made clear how vital the Kinderhook Memorial Library is to the community when it adapted and added services to enable residents to

safely access materials and programming to meet their needs. The library has not requested a tax increase since 2018, and the 4.6% increase requested for the 2022 budget, which would amount to just pennies per week per household, is targeted for replacement of the library’s public access computers and enhancement of online digital services such as Overdrive

and Hoopla which have seen a 41% increase in usage in the past year.

On Election Day, I urge the residents of the Towns of Kinderhook and Stuyvesant to turn the ballot over (the Proposal appears on the reverse) and vote YES on Proposal 6.

MARIE ORLANDO, CHAIR FRIENDS OF THE KINDERHOOK MEMORIAL LIBRARY KINDERHOOK

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Four on ballot for two Claverack council seats

By Melanie Lekocevic Columbia-Greene Media

CLAVERACK — There is a four-way race for two seats on the Claverack town council.

On the ballot will be Douglas Colwell, Stephen “Hookie” Hook, Brenda Shufelt and Brian Yorck.

Candidates were asked to complete a questionnaire and their responses are presented in alphabetical order.

Name: Douglas Colwell Age: 48 Family: Wife, Darcie; daughter, Alexandra, and son, Zachary How long you have lived in the county: Entire life, 48 years Occupation: Retired NY State Trooper Are you an incumbent: No Party line on ballot: Republican and Conservative College: SUNY New Paltz (bachelor’s degree) and Columbia-Greene Community College (associates degree) What do you think is the top issue facing your community?

What would you do to address this issue if elected?

Affordable housing, especially for our young families trying to establish themselves and our seniors who deserve to remain in their community that they help build.

As a town council member, I would seek out builders and encourage them to invest in Claverack. Claverack offers several areas that would provide an excellent opportunity for home development. This development could include townhouses, small homes in a cul de sac setting and/or apartments offering multiple sizes. Our town is situated in a great location close to the city of Hudson and just off of the Taconic Parkway. We also have a great little village, Philmont, and the hamlet of Claverack located in the vicinity of state Routes 9H and 23B. Why do you think you will be a good trustee? What are you most proud of accomplishing if you hold office?

If you are a newcomer, what are you looking forward to accomplishing if elected?

I believe my problem solving, organizational and planning skills that I have developed over the years from my life experiences and previous employment have prepared

me to work for the people of Claverack.

This is my first run for public office and if elected I would not Douglas Colwell only work to encourage affordable home development (previously stated), I would grow Claverack’s youth and senior programs. I would promote programs that would have seniors work with our youth. There are many talented seniors in our community from different backgrounds that should be treasured and shared with Claverack’s youth.

I believe our seniors would also benefit by knowing that they have passed on their skills and knowledge to future generations.

Finally, as a lifelong county resident and homeowner, I realize the everyday financial burden of the continuous rising costs. I would work hard to continue to keep taxes down in Claverack so our families can continue to stay in our community.

Name: Stephen “Hookie” Hook Age: 68 Family: Wife, Diane; three grown daughters, Tracy, Kimberly and Jamie How long you have lived in the county: Since 1986 Occupation: Retired Are you an incumbent: Yes Party line on ballot: Republican, Conservative What do you think is the top issue facing your community?

What would you do to address this issue if elected?

The cost of living has made it very difficult if not impossible for local kids to buy homes and raise families here. It’s not just Claverack, it’s the entire county and beyond. It’s taking its toll on our community. Businesses find it difficult to fill vacancies as the workforce becomes more and more depleted. The kids that years ago would live locally after high school and become life members of their volunteer fire departments, now move to more affordable areas of the state and country, robbing the local fire service of desperately needed volunteers. As town councilman, my number one mission has

been to keep spending in check and taxes as low as possible.

Our town budgets have cut taxes the past five Stephen Hook years in a row. I will continue to fight for taxpayers and to safeguard the town’s financial position.

Why do you think you will be a good trustee? What are you most proud of accomplishing if you hold office?

If you are a newcomer, what are you looking forward to accomplishing if elected?

I believe my years of experience serving as town councilman and deputy town supervisor, coupled with my years of management experience working for Columbia County, make me uniquely qualified for this position. As deputy town supervisor I am intimately familiar with all aspects of our town government: policies and procedures, budget and payroll, personnel and human resources, the various town departments and services provided. It’s all very important and a lot to keep on top of.

Since being elected in 2013, I have proven my ability to respond to and effectively address issues as they arise, and do so in a timely manner. I work for all town residents, regardless of who they are or what their issue may be.

Day and night, weekdays and weekends (holidays too), it doesn’t matter. I’m proud to serve as the people’s representative on the town board and do so on a near full-time basis.

Name: Brenda Shufelt Age: 60 Family: Wife, Lynda Akerman, and our extended family of siblings, nieces, nephews and cousins How long you have lived in the county: I was born and raised in Columbia County and have lived in Claverack for the past 12 years Occupation: History room coordinator, Hudson Area Library Are you an incumbent: No Party line on ballot: Democratic Party, Working Families Party College: BA, Spanish Literature, CUNY Hunter; MS,

Elementary Education, CUNY Hunter; MS, Library Science, SUNY Albany What do you think is Brenda Shufelt the top issue facing your community?

What would you do to address this issue if elected?

Growing up in Columbia County I saw my parents, aunts and uncles build their own homes on their own land with help from family and friends.

Weekends were spent playing with my brother and cousins while our family took down a barn to salvage the wooden beams or poured the foundation of one of their homes.

And they all worked hard at local jobs or their own local businesses; my dad owned Shufelt’s Body Shop on 9H in West Ghent, a business he created from a former gas station.

However, now in our county, and very much in the town of Claverack, there are not the opportunities there once were to work, to own a business, or to have a home for your family.

Real estate prices have gone through the roof in our area, but economic development has not followed suit. Finding a living-wage job in our area is difficult, and finding a home for a new family that is affordable is almost impossible.

Our town board needs to address this issue by getting resident input, planning smartly, and seeking federal and state funding as well as public/private partnerships. This will help build the infrastructure to develop our economy and provide opportunities for affordable housing.

Why do you think you will be a good supervisor/trustee?

What are you most proud of accomplishing if you hold office? If you are a newcomer, what are you looking forward to accomplishing if elected?

I am running for town board of Claverack because I know there is so much more our government can do to meet the needs of our residents. I know the importance of working together. As a librarian in a high poverty school, I brought in programming and construction grants that transformed

our school.

We partnered with community and faithbased organizations and local businesses, Brian Yorck and I learned the importance of collaboration, shared services, and community trust. I used this same model to bring in grants and leverage partnerships and collaborations at the Hudson Area Library in my job as program director.

This collaborative model is a unique vision that I have.

I want to work not only within our town board but also with other local governments and organizations to make broadband accessible for all, develop affordable housing for seniors and young people, and encourage economic opportunities for our town that will translate into jobs. I have the experience necessary to bring needed funds and resources into our town to serve the needs of all Claverack’s constituents.

Claverack is about to construct a new town hall. I will work with our residents, including the resident-led Climate Smart Committee, in the planning process to develop a green sustainable plan. With my skills as a grant writer, I will seek out federal and state infrastructure money available for this project. There is so much more the town board can do with hard working, engaged leadership that listens to its constituents.

Name: Brian Yorck Age: 66 Family: Wife, Diane BoiceYorck; adult daughters, Amanda and Elizabeth; 10-year-old twin grandchildren, Warren and Sylvia How long you have lived in the county: All my life Occupation: Retired administrator Are you an incumbent: No Party line on ballot: Democrat and Working Families Previous elected offices: Ancram town justice, eight years College: Graduated Career Academy School of Broadcasting, Boston, MA What do you think is the top

issue facing your community?

What would you do to address this issue if elected?

Rating a single issue as the most import issue currently facing Claverack, is akin to telling some that their concerns do not matter as much as the concerns of others. In 2008 a comprehensive plan developed by a town committee, advised by professional planning and environmental consultants and assisted by various citizen focus groups, was submitted to the town board. That plan, which represented the issues and concerns of Claverack residents, deserves further attention. It can be a working guide toward addressing jobs, the environment, housing, broadband, traffic and housing needs. My aim would be to revisit that document, listen to the needs expressed by the people and work to develop a board that works for all the people of Claverack!

Why do you think you will be a good town council member?

With my career experience in human resources, my service as a town justice and my years serving New York State’s Emergency Management Office, (SEMO) my skill set enables me to work with diverse personalities, values and beliefs to achieve common goals, even during a crisis. This, combined with my knowledge about the community and its people, makes me an ideal candidate for town council member.

What are you looking forward to accomplishing when elected?

Town government is the level of government closest to the people, where they can have the most impact on what gets done, how and when. I intend to promote clear and open communication between the town board and the town’s citizens. Claverack has an amazingly diverse and talented pool of people. By sharing knowledge, through an open exchange of ideas between elected officials and town residents, we can step into the challenging future with confidence. Local government must be of, by and for the people.

Three face off for 2 Clermont council seats

By Melanie Lekocevic Columbia-Greene Media

CLERMONT — Three candidates will be on the ballot Nov. 2 seeking two seats on the Clermont Town Council.

Candidates Susannah Bradley, Robert Desmond and Kris Gildersleeve were asked to complete a questionnaire on their candidacy.

Their responses are presented in alphabetical order.

Name: Susannah Bradley Age: 36 Family: Patrick Dougherty and our daughter (toddler age) How long you have lived in the county: Three years (10-plus in the Hudson Valley) Occupation: Marketing director Are you an incumbent: No Party line on ballot: Democrat College: Bard College What do you think is the top issue facing your community? What would you do to address this issue if elected?

Clermont, like many Hudson Valley towns, is growing and changing.

Whether it’s new folks moving to our area, new developments and building, or climate change, our community is changing. As stewards of our community, Susannah it’s our responsi- Bradley bility to set the tone and plan of that change. I envision a welcoming town that grows responsibly with the input of all who live here. Increased transparency makes it easy to understand what is being proposed and how to weigh in. And passionate citizen-led communities mean we have access to free resources to nurture our community assets as well as mitigate and prepare for climate change.

Why do you think you will be a good trustee? What are you looking forward to accomplishing if elected?

I have 15 years of corporate experience leading teams, planning projects, managing budgets, and

building consensus and community among diverse groups. I look forward to applying that experience toward improving transparency, bringing more Robert people into town Desmond government, and tackling environmental projects, which will help us be more resilient and save the town money. There’s so much we can do at a local level when we work together for shared goals. I often find that national politics don’t have a lot to do with what’s happening at the local level. It’s more important to bring in multiple viewpoints from the whole community and create solutions building toward a shared vision.

Name: Robert Desmond Age: 82 How long you have lived in the county: 48 years Occupation: Retired from IBM Are you an incumbent: Yes

Party line on ballot: Republican, Conservative Military service: U.S. Army Security Agency, five years What do you think is the top issue facing your Kris community? What Gildersleeve would you do to address this issue if elected?

Good fiscal management. No long-term debt.

Why do you think you will be a good trustee? What are you most proud of accomplishing if you hold office?

- Bi-partisan cooperation.

- Planned equipment purchases to avoid long term debt.

- Lowest town tax rate in Columbia County.

- Incremental improvements to town parks with minimal use of taxpayer funds.

Name: Kris Gildersleeve Family: Married with four adult children.

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How long you have lived in the county: Lifetime Occupation: Information technology Are you an incumbent: Yes Party line on ballot: Republican, Conservative College: B.A. in Computer Science and A.A.S. in Electrical Engineering Technology Why do you think you will be a good trustee? What are you most proud of accomplishing if you hold office?

- Lowest town tax rate in Columbia County.

- Supporting and sustaining the rural and agricultural character of Clermont.

– By supporting and volunteering for town park improvements as we continue to add enhancements.

– By introducing legislative proposals, opening the conversations to the public and inviting the public into these conversations.

- Making fiscally responsible decisions that make sense.

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Thomas S Drahushuk December 24, 1942 - October 16, 2021 Thomas S Drahushuk, 78, of Tivoli, NY and former Hudson, NY resident, passed away on Saturday, October 16th, 2021.

Born on December 24th, 1942, in Hudson, NY, he was the son of the late Michael and Olga (Kozub) Drahushuk.

A graduate of Hudson High School, Thomas went on to matriculate from Albany College of Pharmacy.

Thomas married the former Marisa Basso on November 3rd, 2001 at the VanWyck Hall in Fishkill, NY. Marisa survives at home in Tivoli, NY. As a Pharmacist, and until his retirement, Thomas was the owner and operator of Westerman’s Pharmacy, Waidles Pharmacy, and McKinstry Pharmacy all in Hudson, NY. Thomas was a longtime member and Past President of the Hudson Rotary Club, a former active member of the Greenport Rescue Squad and Greenport Fire Company, a founding member and former quarterback for the Twin County Vikings- semi pro football team, and also coached youth baseball in the Hudson area for many years.

He was a communicant of St. Christopher’s/St. Sylvia’s Parish in Red Hook, NY, and a former member of St Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Church in Hudson, NY In addition to his loving wife, Marisa Drahushuk of Tivoli, NY, Thomas is survived by his children, Adam Drahushuk of Michigan, Melissa (Gus) Ellsworth of Hudson, NY, and Rebecca (Joel) Funk of Hudson, NY; his loving sister, Nancy Randall of Hudson, NY; a stepdaughter, Devan (Brian) Reid of Gardiner, NY; his grandchildren, Kimberly Drahushuk, Padric Drahushuk, Levin Broccolo, and Kristen Ellsworth; his nephews, Jake Watts of Hudson, NY, and Dr. Mike “Micah” Watts of Haddonfield, NJ; along numerous extended family and friends.

His stepdaughter, Aubry Hasson predeceased him.

Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 11:00 AM on Tuesday, October 26th, 2021 at St. Christopher’s Church, 7411 S. Broadway, Red Hook, NY. Interment will be private.

Memorial donations may be made in Thomas’s memory to the Tivoli Fire & Rescue Company, PO Box 486, Tivoli, NY 12583.

Arrangements are under the direction of Burnett & White Funeral Homes 7461 S. Broadway, Red Hook, NY. For directions, or to sign the online guest book, please visit www.Burnett-White.com.

Toni Ann Caroline White June 20, 1961 - October 18th, 2021 Toni Ann Caroline White, 60, of Germantown, NY, passed away on Monday, October 18th, 2021 at Vassar Brothers Medical Center in Poughkeepsie, NY. Born on June 20th, 1961, in White Plains, NY, she was the daughter of the late Patrick R. and Julia (Gatto) Rosino. Toni Ann married David White on June 8, 1986 at St. Bartholomew’s Church in White Plains, NY, and he survives at home in Germantown.

In addition to raising her family, Toni Ann was a longtime active member of the American Red Cross and was a CPR Instructor. Her passion was for baking and would often create cakes and sweets for all family events.

Toni Ann is survived by her loving husband, David White of Germantown, NY; her children, Margaret Caroline White of Germantown, NY and David (Brianna) White of Red Hook, NY; a sister, Ann Marie (Paul) Smith of Elizaville, NY; two nephews, Dennis Embree and Matthew Smith; one niece, Juliann Smith ; along with extended family and friends.

A brother, Patrick Rosino predeceased her.

Friends may call at the Burnett & White Funeral Homes on Sunday, October 31, 2021 from 1 - 3 PM. Memorial donations may be made in Toni Ann’s memory to the American Red Cross- https://www.redcross.org/donate/ donation.html/.

Arrangements are under the direction of Burnett & White Funeral Homes 7461 S. Broadway, Red Hook, NY. For directions, or to sign the online guest book, please visit www.Burnett-White.com.

Hochul rallies with VP Harris for social spending plan

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NEW YORK — Vice President Kamala Harris rallied with state and federal leaders Friday as House Democrats push to pass a multi-trilliondollar bill to transform the nation’s social systems and combat climate change in the coming weeks.

The Build Back Better Act, a major item on President Joe Biden’s agenda, would prioritize job creation, affordable child care, a national paid leave policy, higher wages for care workers, a pathway to citizenship for immigrants and making new monthly child tax credit payments permanent. The measure, initially pushed by Biden and Democrats as a $3.5 trillion bill over 10 years, is expected to cost between $1.75 trillion and $1.9 trillion.

“The United States Congress right now, in their hands, within reach, has an opportunity to lift up our families and our children, to see and acknowledge with humility what has not been working and with excitement to do something about it,” Vice President Harris said at the Northeast Bronx YMCA on Friday. “I’m here today to ask people to see this moment for what it is and to step up. We can do this. It is the right thing to do.”

Harris also detailed the administration’s plans to revamp national infrastructure. A $550 billion, multiyear bipartisan infrastructure bill that passed the Senate earlier this month also awaits adoption by the House.

In the middle of the vice president’s remarks, one man in the crowd stood and shouted about the dozens of New Yorkers who drowned in their basement apartments or cars in historic flooding from Hurricane Ida last month, citing failing infrastructure.

“You are right, brother,” Harris responded. “You know what, you and I will talk after I give my comments.

“And I’m happy to talk with you, but right now, let’s talk about the agenda, that will include speaking to all people and allowing everybody to be heard,” she added as the man was escorted from the room.

Progressive Democrats are fighting for the Build Back Better plan includes a wide range of social programs and measures to combat climate change, including major immigration reform to give legal status to more than 10 million undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. without a pathway to citizenship.

The Democrats’ legislation would raise revenue over the next decade to fund programs for a short-term few years, leading to future fiscal fallout and unfunded mandates, some economists have warned.

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The U.S. Capitol Building. Vice President Kamala Harris rallied in New York City on Friday for Congress to pass President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better Act, spending up to $2 trillion on social programs and measures to combat climate change.

make community college tuition-free for two years nationwide, but will likely be replaced by a cheaper, narrower scholarship program.

Gov. Kathy Hochul, Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin, Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, DBronx; Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, D-Yonkers; U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, other members of congress, state and New York City officials attended the event to show their support for the infrastructure deal and Build Back Better Act. “How cool is this that she could have been anywhere in the country, anywhere in New York, and she’s right here in the Bronx?” Hochul said as she introduced Harris.

Hochul added that she was proud to have the support of both Harris and President Biden.

The child tax credit — part of the pandemic relief bill Democrats passed in March — has sent families monthly payments of $250 to $300 per child since July. The payments are slated to end in December.

“Unless Congress acts, these monthly checks will stop coming after December,” Harris said. “One in 3 children would no longer be covered by the full tax credit ... that incudes half of Black and Hispanic children in America. Needless to say, we cannot let that happen, and we will not let that happen. That is why together we are fighting to pass our Build Back Better agenda.”

After lengthy meetings with Biden on Tuesday, Democrats are reportedly considering extending the child tax credit for one or two years to cut costs of the $3.5 trillion proposal, which extended the benefit through 2025.

Centrist Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin, of West Virginia, also proposed cutting its cost by adding a work requirement and making it available only to families earning up to about $60,000 a year.

Biden has pledged the bill will be paid for with revenue measures, paid for by raising taxes on large corporations and the wealthiest

Americans.

“We will not allow anyone who makes less than $400,000 a year go up,” Harris said Friday afternoon. “This plan cuts taxes for working families and it makes corporations pay their fair share.

It’s just simply not right that a nurse, or a teacher or a firefighter pays more in taxes than a hedge fund manager.

“This is about what we value as a nation — about who we value. The president and I value working families.”

Republicans universally oppose the Democrats’ legislation, which would partially roll back some of the tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy they passed in 2017.

State Republican Party Chairman Nick Langworthy railed against Harris’s visit to the state in an attempt to sell the Democrats’ social spending bill.

“New Yorkers aren’t buying the lies the Biden administration is trying to sell them on their multi-trillion socialist spending boondoggle,” Langworthy said in a statement Friday. “It’s no surprise why President Biden is under water with independents in New York and a visit from Kamala Harris or anyone else in this failing administration will not help his sinking poll numbers. Instead of gaslighting, they should spend their time explaining how they plan to fix surging food and gas costs that are crushing low and middle-income New Yorkers.”

Other members of the president’s cabinet accompanied Harris to the Bronx.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra introduced Harris on Friday and said the social spending priorities outlined in the Build Back Better plan will lead to better and safer neighborhoods, and therefore, better U.S. citizens in future generations.

“President Biden’s Bulid Back Better agenda takes America in to the 21st Century,” Becerra said. “Give workers access to fair paid leave, we need quality access to affordable, community-based care ... we need to increase

Police said bystanders saw a rape on the train but failed to stop it. The DA now says that didn’t happen.

Jessica Lipscomb The Washington Post

For several days now, news outlets across the country have reported updates about an alleged rape that took place last week on a train car outside of Philadelphia. Police said other riders had witnessed the attack but not intervened, with some even filming the incident.

At a news conference Thursday afternoon, Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer said that claim - that train riders callously ignored a violent crime as it unfolded before their eyes - is “simply not true.”

“There is a narrative out there that people sat on the El train and watched this transpire and took videos of it for their own gratification. . . . It did not happen,” Stollsteimer said.

The alleged sexual assault took place

on Oct. 13 after 9 p.m. According to investigators, surveillance footage showed a man getting onto the train around 9:15 and harassing the victim for about 40 minutes before ripping off her pants and raping her.

Officers intervened around 10 p.m. after being contacted by an employee of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA).

Police charged 35-year-old Fiston M. Ngoy with rape, aggravated indecent assault and nine other criminal charges related to the assault. He is due back in court on Monday.

Over the weekend, Upper Darby Township Police Department Superintendent Timothy Bernhardt and SEPTA spokesman Andrew Busch had told news outlets that bystanders watched what happened but took no action.

Both expressed dismay.

“I don’t know where we are in society that people can’t help other people out in a time of need,” Bernhardt said.

“If you see something horrendous like this horrible incident, you have to do something, you have to intervene.”

“If somebody who witnessed this had called 911, it’s possible that we would have been able to intervene even sooner,” Busch said.

But on Thursday, Stollsteimer said there was no evidence to suggest any of the riders understood what was taking place.

“This is the El, guys - we’ve all ridden it. People get off and on at every single stop. That doesn’t mean when they get on and they see people interacting that they know a rape is occurring,” he said at the news conference. Stollsteimer added that while at least two people had filmed portions of the encounter,

one of them had shared the video with police, contributing to the investigation.

One reporter pushed back at Stollsteimer’s claim that the media was to blame for the narrative of the indifferent bystanders, pointing out that it was police who had provided those statements.

“You’re saying it’s the media’s narrative, but if I’m not mistaken, the narrative comes from the [police] superintendent making statements about . . .”

Stollsteimer interrupted and seemed to implicate train authority personnel: “No, it’s not from the superintendent . . . I think you’re really thinking of SEPTA officials.”

Earlier in the week, Bernhardt had suggested that the witnesses could be criminally charged for failing to intervene.

the strength of critical programs like Medicaid, Medicare and the cost of the childcare formula.”

The Congressional Budget Office, the nonpartisan arm of the legislature, penciled in a $1.15 trillion deficit for 2022 in a July report. The CBO had estimated a $3 trillion gap for this year.

President Biden’s $1.9 trillion pandemic-relief bill, enacted in March, provided households and businesses, along with state and local governments, a fresh round of assistance. With that aid fading, the budget deficit is seen narrowing in the coming year.

“While the nation’s economic recovery is stronger than those of other wealthy nations, it is still fragile,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said. “In order to build upon the progress that has been made and to ensure the success of our businesses, productivity of our workers, and inclusiveness of our system, Congress should pass President Biden’s Build Back Better plan.”

Historically low borrowing costs have helped the Treasury avoid an even bigger borrowing need. Ten-year government bond yields have averaged about 1.42% this year, compared with 2.39% over the decade through 2019.

Democrats aim to agree on a framework for the Build Back Better Act on Friday and could pass the bill by the end of October. With the GOP united in opposition, nearly all House Democrats and all 50 of their Senate counterparts would need to vote for the bill.

Tribune News Service contributed to this report.

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MAKE AN OFFER SALE ELIZAVILLE — The Elizaville United Methodist Church will hold a “Make An Offer Sale” 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

Oct. 23 at the Church, Routes 2 and 19, Elizaville. This will be a tagless tag sale where you can make an offer on the items. No reasonable offer will be refused. For information, call 845-756-2338, or on the day of the event, call the Church Hall at 845-7565602.

TURKEY DINNER SCHODACK LANDING — The Reformed Dutch Church of Schodack at Muitzeskill, 902 Schodack Landing Road, Schodack Landing, will serve a take out only version of its annual turkey dinner Oct. 23.

Three pick up times are being offered starting at 4, 4:45 and 5:30 p.m. The cost is $15 for adults and $7 for children, 12 and younger. The dinner will include turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, squash, green beans, cranberry sauce, a roll and a piece of pie, for dessert. No special requests please, with the exception of gluten-free.

Reservations are required; call 518-732-7345 or 518732-7500 to reserve dinners.

If no answer, leave a message.

FREE DRIVE-THRU COMMUNITY LUNCH GHENT — The Ghent Reformed Church, 1039 County Route 22, West Ghent, hosting a drive-thru luncheon, “hot” turkey dinner, beginning at noon until gone Oct. 23. We had hoped to be able to do a community dinner, but due to the present COVID uncertainty, we’re going with safer.

TRUNK OR TREAT SCHODACK LANDING — The Reformed Church of Schodack at Muitzeskill, 902 Schodack Landing Road, Schodack Landing, will be hosting a Trunk or Treat 4-6 p.m. Oct. 31.

Check out the Halloween decorations while enjoying some cider and donuts, and candy, of course. All are welcome.

We will be collecting canned goods/dry food items for our local food pantry, The Anchor. Due to COVID, donuts and candy will be pre-bagged.

VALATIE — Tri-County Lutheran Parish will hold a Saints and Sinners Trunk or Treat 2-4 p.m. Oct. 31 at St. Luke’s Church parking lot, 101 Kinderhook St., Valatie.

Costumes are welcome for all spirits young and old.

ELECTION DAY LUNCHEON ANCRAM — St. John’s Lutheran Church will hold an Election Day Luncheon 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Nov. 2 at the Ancram Fire House, 1306 County Route 7, Ancram.

Take out only.

Clam chowder, $5; hot turkey sandwich, $8; soda and water, $1; dessert, $3. No reservations, first come, first served.

ELECTION DAY CAFETERIA GHENT — The Ghent Reformed Church, 1039 County Route 22, West Ghent, is having its annual Election Day Cafeteria on Nov. 2. Due to COVID everything will be sold as to-go and there are changes in times.

There will be no breakfast served. Lunch will be from 11 a.m.-3p.m. There will be 2 or 3 sandwich choices and a couple of soups. A roast beef dinner will be served from 4-6 p.m. Call Dick Leggett to reserve tickets for the dinner

at 518-392-2062.

CHRISTMAS & MORE TAG SALE STUYVESANT — St. John’s Lutheran Church, 159 Route 26A, Stuyvesant, Christmas & More Tag Sale will be held 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Nov. 5 and Nov. 6. There is a large inventory since it has been two years since the last sale. There will also be some regular items to choose from. Lunch will be take out only, homemade soups and pieces of pie.

Masks required.

FOOD SALE HUDSON — St. Michael’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church, 59 Partition St., Hudson, holds a food sale noon-1 p.m.

Sundays in the Church’s Hall. Potato and cheese pierogies are available each Sunday. Sauerkraut pierogies, Borscht and Stuffed Cabbage available but must be pre-ordered by Friday afternoon, and picked up on Sunday. Call 518-506-4288 to place order or for more information. Free delivery within 10 mile radius on orders of $50 or more. While visiting, browse our Handmade Orthodox Prayer Ropes.

FOOD PANTRY VALATIE — The Seventhday Adventist Church, 3266 Route 9, Valatie, will be offering boxes of free food from its food pantry 2-4 p.m. Nov. 20. Individuals will be served on a first come, first serve basis. For information or if you have any questions, contact the church office at 909-7844400 or check the church web site at https://www.kinderhooksda.org/

ROAST BEEF DINNER LANESVILLE — A roast beef dinner will be served 4-8 p.m. Oct. 30 at the Lanesville UMC, Route 214, Lanesville, take out only. The cost is $15.

THANKSIGVING DINNER WINDHAM — The 22nd Annual Free Thanksgiving Dinner sponsored by the Hope Restoration Church, 117 Route 296, Windham, will be held 4:30-7 p.m. Nov. 5. Due to COVID restrictions this will be drive through take out only. Same gourmet chefs and same delicious meal.

SOUP KITCHEN OPEN CATSKILL — The Camp Grace Inc. Soup Kitchen, located at the First Reformed Church of Catskill, 310 Main St., Catskill, is open noon-1 p.m. Tuesday through Friday. For information, call Director Lamont Taylor at 518249-7009.

CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL HUDSON — Christ Church Episcopal, 431 Union St., Hudson, worships at 9 a.m. Sundays in person and live online.

Social distancing and face masks required. Live broadcast at 9 a.m. on facebook. com/ChristChurchEpiscopalHudson or at christchurchepiscopalhudson. org. For information, call 518-828-1329 or email christchurch1802@gmail. com.

SAINT PAUL’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH KINDERHOOK — St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 8 Sylvester St., Kinderhook, Holy Communion in person at 8 and 10 a.m. Sundays.

Face masks and distancing required regardless of vaccination status.

For information and news, www.saintpaulskinderhook.org/ or follow us on Facebook. Subscribe to our newsletter: http://eepurl. com/cG4YSv; 518-758-6271 or saintpaulskinderhook@ gmail.com. Office open 1:304:30 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday and by appointment.

KINDERHOOK REFORMED CHURCH KINDERHOOK — The Kinderhook Reformed Church, 21 Broad St., Kinderhook,

will have in person and live online Sunday worship at 9:30 a.m. Face masks and social distancing required.

Live broadcasts at 9:30 a.m. on https://www.facebook. com/KinderhookReformed Church or https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCTUNikeMHshkf_mqhM NxCw. For information, call 518-758-6401 or kinderhookreformedchuch.com.

CLAVERACK REFORMED DUTCH CHURCH CLAVERACK — The Reformed Dutch Church, 88 Route 9H, Claverack, worships at 9:30 a.m. Sundays in the sanctuary with coffee hour following the worship service. The mission project changes often, depending on need. For information, call 518-851-3811.

GHENT REFORMED CHURCH GHENT — The Ghent Reformed Church, 1039 County Route 22, Ghent, worships at 9 a.m. Sunday. The church is complying with the required safety requirements.

The first Sunday of the month is Communion Sunday. Bonnie Pflegl is the preaching elder and will be conducting services on Sundays. The church follows CDC recommendations. No coffee hour after worship at this time. Sunday School will be at 10:15 a.m., masks mandatory.

There is instruction available for children 3 through the 8th grade. If you would like more information, leave a message on the Church phone at 518-828-5946.

TRI COUNTY LUTHERAN PARISH VALATIE — The following is the worship schedule for the Tri County Lutheran Parish. Visit TCLParish.org website for weekly Zoom worship schedule and link.

Columbia County: Emanual Lutheran Church, 506 County Road 46, Stuyvesant Falls, worships at 8:30 a.m.

Sunday. St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, 1010 Kinderhook St., Valatie, worships at 10:30 a.m. Sunday with Sunday School also at 10:30 a.m. on Sunday. Emanuel/St. John’s Lutheran Church, 20 South Sixth St., Hudson, worships at 11 a.m. Sunday.

Greene County: Zion Lutheran Church, 102 North Washington St., Athens, worships at 9 a.m. Sunday.

St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, State Route 81, Oak Hill, worships at 11 a.m. Sunday.

Rensselaer County: Trinity Lutheran Church, 68 Green Ave., Castleton, worships at 9 a.m. Sunday. St. Stephen’s Lutheran Church, 751 County Route 7, East Schodack, worships at 11 a.m. Sunday.

GRACE BIBLE FELLOWSHIP CHURCH RHINEBECK — Grace Bible Fellowship Church, 6959 Route 9, Rhinebeck, worships at 10:45 a.m. and 6 p.m. Sunday. Sunday School for all ages meets at 9:30 a.m.

Women’s bible study and Grace Bible Institute meets at 7 p.m. Mondays. Midweek prayer meeting is at 7 p.m. Wednesdays. For information, call 845-876-6923 or cdfcirone@aol.com.

LUTHERAN PARISH OF SOUTHERN COLUMBIA COUNTY GERMANTOWN — The following is the worship schedule for the Lutheran Parish of Southern Columbia County, Rev. Jacqueline Jefferson, Pastor.

St. Thomas Lutheran Church, Churchtown, 11 a.m. Sunday; Christ Lutheran Church, Germantown (Viewmont), 9 a.m. Sunday October and December; St. John Lutheran Church, Elizaville (Manorton), 9 a.m.

Sunday November and January.

St. Peter’s weathervane is jeweler’s inspiration SPENCERTOWN — This year marks the 250th anniversary of St. Peter’s Presbyterian Church on the Green in Spencertown. The Committee formed to plan events to celebrate this anniversary considered ways to involve the community-at-large and perhaps introduce newcomers to the Church as a beautiful, historic building in our midst, as well as potential worship site.

Spencertown resident Rita Van Alstyne, proprietor of R.H. Van Alstyne Jewelry Store on Main Street in Chatham for the past 30 years, jumped at the opportunity to participate in the 250th celebration. Inspired by the church’s distinctive weathervane, Rita created two pendants featuring designs of the sun and the moon that are part of the weathervane.

Van Alstyne enlisted longtime colleague Angelo Gassoso to develop her designs into finished pieces. Gassoso came to America from Italy at the age of 16 — decades ago — and began his career in the jewelry busines in New York City as a hand engraver. He advanced through the business, working at several highend stores in New York City, including Cartier, where he managed its workshop for a time. He has since fulfilled his lifelong dream of having his own business in Manhattan.

For this project, Gassoso carved the wax models developed from Rita’s designs,

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Rita Van Alstyne’s jewelry.

made the molds, and enlisted a casting company to prepare the 14-karat gold sun and moon pendants. Diamonds in the designs have added special sparkle.

A search of Church records and local newspapers turned up no information on when or why St. Peter’s chose the design for the weathervane that sits atop its steeple.

However, when the Friends of Historic St. Peter’s Church oversaw major restoration work about 15 years ago, one of the targets was the weathervane, which had suffered significant deterioration (see photo); it has been restored, including gilt on the images.

The 250th Anniversary Committee expressed its

delight and gratitude at Rita’s generosity in designing and overseeing the creation of these pieces. One hundred raffle tickets will be sold for $25 a ticket, with two winners to be selected in December, just in time for holiday giftgiving.

Raffle tickets will be available at the RH Van Alstyne Jewelry Store on Main Street in Chatham, or tickets may be purchased by mailing your check to the Friends of Historic St. Peter’s Church, PO Box 278, Spencertown, NY 12165. You may also visit the Friends’ website (www. friendsofsaintpeters.org) to purchase raffle tickets.

Changing the world, one podcast at a time

By Thomas Christopher For Columbia-Greene Media

Jennifer Jewell bristles at the low status of gardening. A radio host and podcaster with a national following – “Cultivating Place” has attracted devoted listeners far beyond its northern California broadcast area — Jewell has also written two influential books on gardens and gardening. She told me recently that this field is often understood as minimumwage workers driving mowers or a frivolous pastime of the well to do. In contrast, she sees gardens as places of power, connectors of people and their landscape, with a potential to change for the better our relationship to nature.

Jewell’s audio work began as what a young friend of mine describes as “a passion project.” Indeed, Jewell produced her program for five years for Northern State Radio gratis before the station management realized what they had, and she then began to receive compensation. She describes her program in the podcast and broadcast title as “conversations on natural history & the human impulse to garden.” It is the caliber of the guests, who range from internationally renowned horticulturists and garden designers to those with less expertise but special gifts, and Jewell’s insightful conversational style, that make “Cultivating Place” so absorbing.

Her books are equally powerful and complement each other very neatly. The first, published in 2020, was titled The Earth in Her Hands: 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants. As the title indicates, this is a series of portraits of women, a group long excluded from the horticultural and botanical professions, who are now making their mark. More broadly speaking, though, it presents a comprehensive picture of what motivates such gifted

gardeners, and how this impulse expresses itself.

Jewell’s second book, published in the spring of this year, is Under Western Skies: Visionary Gardens from The Rockies to the Pacific Coast.

Centering on photographic portraits of 36 remarkable gardens by Caitlin Atkinson, this book features personal stories, but it focuses as well on how the character of the local landscapes helped to shape the gardens that grew from them.

As Jewell puts it, “it’s important for us as gardeners to actually know our places. To know our watershed, to know our latitude and longitude, to know [about] the native peoples who lived on the land prior to our living here. Those are all elements that add to our gardens and to our ability to garden as thoughtfully as possible.”

This two-way exchange, between the gardener and the land, makes gardening more than a hobby or pastime.

Jewell defines it rather as “a calling,” or “a practice” like meditation or yoga or learning music. It is also “one of those common ground activities… it’s like food, or literature, or music, it is one of those things that transcend all of those [differences] that might divide us.”

Specifically, Jewell has found that converting her own front yard to a pesticide-free, pollinator-friendly place of climate-adapted native plants has started so many friendly and constructive conversations with neighbors. “Gardening creates all these intersections for making our world slightly more hopeful, and that is not to be underestimated.”

Jewell’s state of California, and the West more broadly, have so often been an exemplar of what is new to America, a peek into our future. Over the last few years, it has provided a sobering perspective, with its wildfires and water

shortages, of the challenge climate change will bring to the rest of the country as well.

Jewell doesn’t overestimate gardening. Transformations of our personal landscapes won’t, by themselves, cure our environmental ills. But by changing our understanding of nature and our role in it, gardening can have a potent impact on what we do and start a new and healthier pattern of behavior.

To learn more about Jennifer Jewell and her work, join her at the Berkshire Botanical Garden’s sixth annual Rooted in Place Ecological Gardening Symposium on Nov. 14 at the Mahaiwe Theater in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. This day-long program will feature talks not only by Jewell, but also Rebecca McMackin, Director of Horticulture at Brooklyn Bridge Park, who will discuss the park’s 85 acres of “Built Ecology;” Sam Hoadley, Horticultural Research Manager at Mt. Cuba Center will focus on knockout native species and cultivars researched at Mt. Cuba’s display garden; and Pete Grima, a Service Forester with the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation who will describe the process of envisioning and transforming an old field into a forest for carbon storage and climate resilience. For more information, or to purchase tickets, log onto berkshirebotanical.org.

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

Thomas Christopher is a volunteer at Berkshire Botanical Garden and is the author or co-author of more than a dozen books.

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Greenville’s Ella Mulholland (23) controls the ball during Thursday’s Section II Class B girls soccer first-round game against Catholic Central at Greenville High School.

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Spartans roll CCHS in opening sectional match-up Matt Fortunato

Four-time Section 2 Class B champion Ichabod Crane defeated Class C/D champion Schoharie, 4-1, on Thursday to qualify for the NYSPHSAA State Tournament.

In the match of the day, the Riders’ Gianna Sandagato trailed Schoharie’s Alaina Sholtes 6-4 and 5-0 before rallying to win the second set, 7-6 and the third, 10-4.

The Riders will play Oneida of Section 3 on Saturday in Utica.

Results Singles: Elise Brennan (Ichabod Crane) defeated Margot Williams (Schoharie) 6-1, 6-0; Gianna Sandagato (Ichabod Crane) defeated Alaina Sholtes (Schoharie) 4-6, 7-6, 10-4;

Samantha Lantzy (Ichabod Crane) defeated Misha Cater-Smith (Schoharie) 6-1, 6-3.

Doubles: Maya Brennan & Zoe Geiger (Ichabod Crane) defeated Mary Palmieri & Skyler Willard (Schoharie) 6-3, 6-1; Allison Gallagher & Camille Robison-Parisi (Schoharie) defeated Amara Gabriel & Shannon Ingham (Ichabod Crane) 6-2, 6-3.

VOLLEYBALL COLONIAL CCHS 3, ICC 0 For the first time this season the Ichabod Crane girls volleyball team has dropped two consecutive games.

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GREENVILLE — The Greenville Spartans defeated the Catholic Central Crusaders 4-0 Thursday afternoon in the opening round of the 2021 Section 2 Class B Girls Soccer Playoffs.

With the victory the Spartans advance to the quarterfinals and will host Holy Names on Saturday.

The Spartans were in control from the start and put quality shots on the net early.

Ella Grupe was all over the box on offense for the Spartans, putting four shots on goal in the first few minutes of the game.

The Crusaders had a few breakaway opportunities to follow up the Spartan attack, but they only managed to get one shot off and it went wide of the goal.

Greenville earned a free kick midway through the first half and Cameryn Childs sent a shot out of bounds thanks to a diving Crusaders keeper that forced the shot away. Two consecutive corner kicks went unsuccessful for the Spartans with under

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Evan Fournier’s introduction to New York couldn’t have gone better Stefan Bondy New York Daily News

NEW YORK — In the words of Paul Pierce, who once shouted after hitting a playoff dagger for the Brooklyn Nets, “That’s why they got me here.”

Evan Fournier was signed to big money for the reasons he displayed in Wednesday’s season-opening victory, when he dropped 12 of his 32 points in the two overtimes and wasn’t shy about firing away.

“We’ve seen him do that,” Tom Thibodeau declared, “that’s who he is.”

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CHATHAM — In a No. 5 vs.

No. 12 matchup, Chatham clashed with Berlin/New Lebanon on Thursday in a match filled with adrenaline, passion, and nerves.

Chatham earned a 3-1 victory and will play at No. 4 Waterford on Saturday at 7 p.m.

For the first 15 minutes the game was back and forth with Chatham having the slight advantage with possession and opportunities.

Halfway through the half, Banks Wyatt Powers would attack the 18 with a vengeance and work his way through a group of Panthers to slot it into the net and give Berlin/New Lebanon the lead, 1-0.

Chatham would really start putting it together after that they spent the majority of the rest of the half attacking and it would pay off when Miguel Casarrubias created some space and hit a nice shot far net to tie the game

up, 1-1.

Chatham’s pressure nearly paid off again when Miguel was able to hit a brilliantly struck ball towards the back post but Berlin New Lebanon keeper Kevin Chittenden made an outstanding leap and tipped the ball with his fingertips which resulted in the ball hitting the back post, going across the goal line, and hitting the opposite post before going out.

In the second half, the Panthers would keep up the pressure and have the better run of play but a turnover in midfield and a great service through would spring B/NL’s Chris Shorter in on goal.

A clumsy attempt at a tackle from Chatham would result in a yellow card and a penalty kick but the shot would sail high. There was an audible sigh of relief from the Panther faithful, who came out in numbers.

See CHATHAM B6

Joe Judge takes full responsibility for fixing Giants Pat Leonard New York Daily News

If the Giants’ players aren’t pointing fingers, it’s because their head coach isn’t, either.

“The fish stinks from the head down,” Joe Judge said Thursday before practice.

“I’m the head coach. It’s my responsibility. Point blank.

Every player on this field, every position group, the execution, it all comes down to me...

There’s no excuses, no exceptions. It starts and ends with me.”

The spotlight is on Judge in particular this week because the visiting Carolina Panthers (3-3) are led by Matt Rhule, whom the Giants coveted in January 2020 but never even

got the chance to interview.

Instead, Giants ownership hired Judge, the impressive disciple of Bill Belichick and Nick Saban, and entrusted him with a rebuild of their program.

An accelerated attempt to win in Year Two so far has flamed out. The Giants are 1-5 this season and 7-15 in 22 games under Judge.

But players and assistant coaches seem to appreciate Judge’s accountable, consistent and level-headed approach.

“You’ve got to respect that,” defensive captain Logan Ryan said of Judge’s fish analogy.

“You’ve got to respect when people take ownership. Finger

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Head coach Joe Judge of the New York Giants reacts during the first half against the Los Angeles Rams at MetLife Stadium on Sunday in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

pointing and blaming is an easy thing to do. And I think

you’ve got to respect a coach who says it starts with him to

get the team prepared. I agree, it does start with him.

“But it starts with me to lead my unit, as well,” Ryan added.

“I think all of us are standing up here and taking ownership.

At the end of the day we need more positive results, and I think that starts with people taking ownership.”

Senior offensive assistant Freddie Kitchens said Judge has “done a tremendous job” of being “the same person every day.” He said coaches can’t ask players to have short memories play-to -play in games if their coaches dwell on positives and negatives themselves.

“Joe’s our leader,” special teams coordinator Thomas

McGaughey said. “We all look to our leader for strength. He’s done a hell of a job I think of keeping the team moving forward. ... Joe is a tough guy, Joe’s mentally tough, and he’s doing a great job with... the leadership part of it and keeping us pressing and... staying focused on the task at hand and that’s to win today.”

Offensive coordinator Jason Garrett, a longtime head coach with the Dallas Cowboys, said it’s “not really my place to comment on Coach Judge.

“I think the biggest thing we all try to do when you have some tough times is See GIANTS B6

COLUMBIA-GREENE MEDIA

B2 - Saturday - Sunday, October 23-24, 2021

Pro hockey NHL Eastern Conference Atlantic Division GP W L OT SO Pts Florida 4 4 0 0 0 8 Buffalo 3 3 0 0 0 6 Detroit 4 2 1 1 0 5 Toronto 4 2 1 1 0 5 Ottawa 4 2 2 0 0 4 Tampa Bay 4 2 2 0 0 4 Boston 2 1 1 0 0 2 Montreal 5 0 5 0 0 0 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT SO Pts Washington 4 3 0 1 0 7 NY Rangers 5 3 1 1 0 7 Carolina 3 3 0 0 0 6 Columbus 4 3 1 0 0 6 Pittsburgh 4 2 0 1 1 6 Philadelphia 3 2 0 0 1 5 New Jersey 3 2 1 0 0 4 NY Islanders 4 1 2 1 0 3 Western Conference Central Division GP W L OT SO Pts St. Louis 3 3 0 0 0 6 Minnesota 3 3 0 0 0 6 Dallas 4 2 2 0 0 4 Winnipeg 4 1 2 1 0 3 Nashville 4 1 3 0 0 2 Colorado 4 1 3 0 0 2 Arizona 3 0 2 0 1 1 Chicago 5 0 4 1 0 1 Pacific Division GP W L OT SO Pts San Jose 3 3 0 0 0 6 Edmonton 3 3 0 0 0 6 Vancouver 5 2 2 0 1 5 Anaheim 5 2 3 0 0 4 Calgary 3 1 1 1 0 3 Seattle 5 1 3 1 0 3 Los Angeles 3 1 2 0 0 2 Vegas 3 1 2 0 0 2 Wednesday’s games Philadelphia 6, Boston 3 St. Louis 3, Vegas 1 Thursday’s games Carolina 4, Montreal 1 San Jose 2, Ottawa 1 Florida 4, Colorado 1 Washington 4, New Jersey 1 Columbus 3, NY Islanders 2, OT Calgary 3, Detroit 0 NY Rangers 3, Nashville 1 Winnipeg 5, Anaheim 1 Vancouver 4, Chicago 1 Edmonton at Arizona, 10 p.m.

Friday’s gmes San Jose at Toronto, 6 p.m.

Boston at Buffalo, 7 p.m.

Los Angeles at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

Edmonton at Vegas, 10 p.m.

GF GA 18 7 12 4 13 12 8 7 8 9 12 17 6 7 4 19 GF GA 16 7 11 11 13 6 14 9 16 11 16 9 9 9 10 15 GF GA 15 8 11 8 8 9 14 15 8 11 11 17 7 17 9 21 GF GA 11 4 14 9 14 16 14 16 7 8 11 19 9 7 7 12

1 0

0 1

2 — 0 —

3 1

First Period—No scoring.

Second Period—1, NY Islanders, Mayfield 1 (unassisted) 10:35. 2, Columbus, Jenner 3 (Bjorkstrand, Voracek) 18:00 (pp). 3, Columbus, Sillinger 1 (Gavrikov, Bjorkstrand) 18:33.

Third Period—4, NY Islanders, Barzal 2 (Dobson, Martin) 5:03.

Overtime—5, Columbus, Laine 2 (Werenski, Bjorkstrand) 1:49.

Shots on Goal—NY Islanders 10-16-8-2—36. Columbus 11-8-11-2—32.

Power-play opportunities—NY Islanders 0 of 3.

Columbus 1 of 4.

Goalies—NY Islanders Sorokin 1-2-1 (32 shots-29 saves). Columbus Merzlikins 3-0-0 (36-34).

A—12,937 (18,144). T—2:21.

Hurricanes 4, Canadiens 1 Carolina 0 2 2 — 4 Montreal 0 1 0 — 1 First Period—No scoring.

Second Period—1, Carolina, Aho 1 (Teravainen, DeAngelo) 0:23 (pp). 2, Carolina, Svechnikov 4 (Necas, Trocheck) 2:12. 3, Montreal, Toffoli 1 (Suzuki, Drouin) 17:57 (pp).

Third Period—4, Carolina, Kotkaniemi 1 (Skjei, Aho) 9:23. 5, Carolina, Aho 2 (Teravainen, Trocheck) 19:21 (en).

Shots on Goal—Carolina 10-10-12—32. Montreal 5-12-11—28.

Power-play opportunities—Carolina 1 of 1. Montreal 1 of 6.

Goalies—Carolina Andersen 3-0-0 (28 shots-27 saves). Montreal Allen 0-4-0 (32-29).

A—19,174 (21,273). T—2:29.

Captials 4, Devils 1 1 0

1 — 1 —

4 1

First Period—1, Washington, Mantha 2 (Sprong, van Riemsdyk) 4:14. 2, Washington, Orlov 1 (Ovechkin, Kuznetsov) 9:33.

Second Period—3, Washington, Sprong 1 (unassisted) 9:56.

Third Period—4, Washington, Kuznetsov 3 (Wilson, Ovechkin) 9:16. 5, New Jersey, Kuokkanen 1 (Severson, Sharangovich) 13:18 (pp).

Shots on Goal—Washington 13-7-7—27. New Jersey 8-7-10—25.

Power-play opportunities—Washington 0 of 3.

New Jersey 1 of 1.

Goalies—Washington Vanecek 2-0-1 (26 shots-25 saves). New Jersey Wedgewood 0-1-0 (27-23).

A—12,377 (17,625). T—2:21.

Sharks 2, Senators 1 San Jose Ottawa

0 1

2 0

0 — 0 —

2 1

First Period—1, Ottawa, Batherson 1 (Tkachuk, Zub) 10:06.

Second Period—2, San Jose, Couture 1 (Burns, Meier) 1:58. 3, San Jose, Labanc 2 (Karlsson, Eklund) 14:36 (pp).

Third Period— Shots on Goal—San Jose 9-12-4—25. Ottawa 7-13-11—31.

Power-play opportunities—San Jose 1 of 3. Ottawa 0 of 3.

Goalies—San Jose Reimer 1-0-0 (31 shots-30 saves). Ottawa Murray 0-1-0 (24-22).

A—8,994 (17,000). T—2:28.

Panthers 4, Avalanche 1 Colorado Florida

1 1

0 2

0 — 1 —

1 4

First Period—1, Florida, Reinhart 1 (Marchment, Lundell) 14:32. 2, Colorado, Rantanen 2 (Girard, MacKinnon) 19:06.

Second Period—3, Florida, Bennett 4 (Ekblad, Huberdeau) 9:04 (pp). 4, Florida, Verhaeghe 3 (unassisted) 19:13.

Third Period—5, Florida, Lundell 2 (Marchment, Gudas) 18:47 (en).

Shots on Goal—Colorado 11-12-8—31. Florida 6-23-9—38.

Power-play opportunities—Colorado 0 of 3. Florida 1 of 5.

Goalies—Colorado Johansson 0-1-0 (37 shots-34 saves). Florida Bobrovsky 3-0-0 (31-30).

A—11,245 (19,250). T—2:34.

Flames 3, Red Wings 0 Calgary Detroit

2 0

0 0

1 — 0 —

3 0

First Period—1, Calgary, Lindholm 3 (Gaudreau, Gudbranson) 10:06. 2, Calgary, Mangiapane 2 (Gudbranson, Dube) 14:33.

Second Period—No scoring.

Third Period—3, Calgary, Tkachuk 1 (Gaudreau) 17:42 (en).

Shots on Goal—Calgary 11-4-14—29. Detroit 1214-7—33.

Power-play opportunities—Calgary 0 of 2. Detroit 0 of 3.

Goalies—Calgary Markstrom 1-1-1 (33 shots-33 saves). Detroit Nedeljkovic 0-1-1 (28-26).

A—14,241 (20,000). T—2:17.

ML Baseball MLB POSTSEASON LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) American League Houston 3, Boston 2 Friday, Oct. 15: Houston 5, Boston 4 Saturday, Oct. 16: Boston 9, Houston 5 Monday: Boston 12. Houston 3

200 000 000 — 2 031 020 14x — 11

IP H R ER BB SO

0 1 1 0 — 2 0 2 0 1 — 3

2 0

LAD AB R HBI Betts rf 511 0 Turner 2b 4 1 3 1 Seager ss 5 1 1 0 Smith c 400 0 Pllock lf 533 4 Pujols 1b 4 2 2 0 Taylor 3b 5 3 4 6 Bllngr cf 4 0 3 0 Kelly sp 000 0 Phllps rp 0 0 0 0 Souza ph 1 0 0 0 Vesia rp 000 0 Burns ph 1 0 0 0 Gratrl rp 1 0 0 0 Treinen rp 0 0 0 0 Beaty ph 1 0 0 0 Knebel rp 0 0 0 0 Jansen rp 0 0 0 0 31 2 5 2 Totals 40111711

LOB—Los Angeles 8, Atlanta 2. 2B—E.Rosario (1).

HR—Freeman (3), Pollock 2 (2), C.Taylor 3 (4). SB— Bellinger (5), Betts (6). CS—E.Rosario (1).

Blue Jackets 3, Islanders 2 (OT)

Washington New Jersey

ATL AB R HBI Rsario lf 40 20 Albies 2b 4 1 1 0 Freemn 1b 4 1 1 2 Riley 3b 40 00 Duvall cf 3 0 0 0 Pdrsn rf 30 00 Swansn ss 3 0 1 0 dArnud c 3 0 0 0 Fried sp 10 00 Martin rp 0 0 0 0 Adrinz ph 1 0 0 0 Lee rp 00 00 Soler ph 10 00 Webb rp 0 0 0 0

Atlanta LA Dodgers

First Period—1, NY Rangers, Chytil 1 (Blais, Lafreniere) 2:12.

Second Period—2, Nashville, Tomasino 1 (Johansen, Fabbro) 7:01.

Third Period—3, NY Rangers, Lafreniere 2 (Blais, Fox) 10:53. 4, NY Rangers, Goodrow 1 (unassisted) 19:54 (en).

Shots on Goal—NY Rangers 10-12-8—30. Nashville 12-12-5—29.

Power-play opportunities—NY Rangers 0 of 4.

Nashville 0 of 3.

Goalies—NY Rangers Shesterkin 3-0-1 (29 shots-28 saves). Nashville Saros 1-3-0 (29-27).

A—17,159 (17,113). T—2:41.

NY Islanders Columbus

Dodgers 11, Braves 2

Totals

Rangers 3, Predators 1 NY Rangers Nashville

Tuesday: Houston 9, Boston 2 Wednesday: Houston 9, Boston 1 Today: Boston at Houston, 8:08 p.m. x-Saturday: Boston at Houston, 8:08 p.m.

National League Atlanta 3, Los Angeles 2 Saturday, Oct. 16: Atlanta 3, Los Angeles 2 Sunday, Oct. 17: Atlanta 5, Los Angeles 4 Tuesday: Los Angeles 6, Atlanta 5 Wednesday: Atlanta 5, Los Angeles 2 Thursday: Los Angeles 11, Atlanta 2 Saturday: Los Angeles at Atlanta, 5:08 p.m. x-Sunday: Los Angeles at Atlanta, 7:38 p.m.

WORLD SERIES (Best-of-7; x-if necessary) Tuesday, Oct. 26: Boston-Houston winner vs Los Angeles-Atlanta winner Wednesday, Oct. 27: Boston-Houston winner vs Los Angeles-Atlanta winner Friday, Oct. 29: Boston-Houston winner vs Los Angeles-Atlanta winner Saturday, Oct. 30: Boston-Houston winner vs Los Angeles-Atlanta winner x-Sunday, Oct. 31: Boston-Houston winner vs Los Angeles-Atlanta winner x-Tuesday, Nov. 2: Boston-Houston winner vs Los Angeles-Atlanta winner x-Wednesday, Nov. 3: Boston-Houston winner vs Los Angeles-Atlanta winner

Atlanta Fried L, 1-1 4 2/3 8 5 C.Martin 1/3 2 1 Lee 2 3 1 J.Webb 1 4 4 LA Dodgers J.Kelly 2/3 2 2 Phillips W, 1-0 1 1/3 0 0 Vesia H, 1 1 1 0 Graterol H, 1 2 0 0 Treinen 2 1 0 Knebel 1 1 0 K.Jansen 1 0 0

5 1 1 4

2 0 0 0

3 1 2 2

2 0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 0 0 0 0 0

0 3 1 2 0 3 0

Inherited runners-scored—C.Martin 1-1. HBP—T. Turner (by Fried).

T—3:33. A—51,363 (57,099)

Pro basketball NBA Eastern Conference Atlantic W L Pct New York 1 0 1.000 Philadelphia 1 0 1.000 Boston 0 1 .000 Toronto 0 1 .000 Brooklyn 0 1 .000 Central W L Pct Chicago 1 0 1.000 Milwaukee 1 1 .500 Indiana 0 1 .000 Detroit 0 1 .000 Cleveland 0 1 .000 Southeast W L Pct Miami 1 0 1.000 Washington 1 0 1.000 Charlotte 1 0 1.000 Atlanta 1 0 1.000 Orlando 0 1 .000 Western Conference Northwest W L Pct Utah 1 0 1.000 Minnesota 1 0 1.000 Denver 1 0 1.000 Portland 0 1 .000 Oklahoma City 0 1 .000 Pacific W L Pct Golden State 1 0 1.000 Sacramento 1 0 1.000 L.A. Clippers 0 0 .000 L.A. Lakers 0 1 .000 Phoenix 0 1 .000 Southwest W L Pct San Antonio 1 0 1.000 Memphis 1 0 1.000 Houston 0 1 .000 New Orleans 0 1 .000 Dallas 0 1 .000 Central Wednesday’s games Charlotte 123, Indiana 122 Chicago 94, Detroit 88 New York 138, Boston 134, 2OT Washington 98, Toronto 83 Memphis 132, Cleveland 121 Minnesota 124, Houston 106 Philadelphia 117, New Orleans 97 San Antonio 123, Orlando 97 Utah 107, Oklahoma City 86 Denver 110, Phoenix 98 Sacramento 124, Portland 121 Thursday’s games Atlanta 113, Dallas 87 Miami 137, Milwaukee 95 L.A. Clippers at Golden State, 10 p.m.

Friday’s games Charlotte at Cleveland, 7 p.m.

New York at Orlando, 7 p.m.

Indiana at Washington, 7 p.m.

Brooklyn at Philadelphia, 7:30 p.m.

Toronto at Boston, 7:30 p.m.

New Orleans at Chicago, 8 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Houston, 8 p.m.

San Antonio at Denver, 9 p.m.

Phoenix at L.A. Lakers, 10 p.m.

Utah at Sacramento, 10 p.m.

Saturday’s games Atlanta at Cleveland, 6 p.m.

Miami at Indiana, 7 p.m.

Dallas at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.

Detroit at Chicago, 8 p.m.

New Orleans at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

Milwaukee at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m.

Phoenix at Portland, 10 p.m.

Memphis at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.

GB — — 1.0 1.0 1.0 GB — .5 1.0 1.0 1.0 GB — — — — 1.0 GB — — — 1.0 1.0 GB — — .5 1.0 1.0 GB — — 1.0 1.0 1.0

Heat 137, Bucks 95 MILWAUKEE (95) G.Allen 5-11 2-2 14, Connaughton 3-6 0-0 6, Middleton 4-14 1-1 10, G.Antetokounmpo 4-11 6-10 15, G.Hill 3-7 0-0 8, J.Robinson 1-7 2-2 5, Mamukelashvili 4-9 2-2 12, Nwora 3-12 3-5 11, T.Antetokounmpo 2-2 2-3 6, Kalaitzakis 3-5 1-4 8.

Totals 32-84 19-29 95.

MIAMI (137) Ji.Butler 6-10 9-11 21, Lowry 1-8 2-2 5, D.Robinson 3-10 0-1 8, Adebayo 9-13 2-5 20, Tucker 3-4 0-0 8, Herro 10-18 3-4 27, Strus 2-4 0-1 5, Ma.Morris 3-10 0-0 7, Dedmon 5-6 2-2 13, Vincent 3-3 0-0 7, Okpala 1-2 0-0 3, Yurtseven 4-6 0-1 8, Ca.Martin 1-1 2-4 5, Garrett 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 51-96 20-31 137.

Milwaukee Miami

17 26 26 26 — 95 40 32 33 32 —137

3-Point Goals—Milwaukee 12-42 (G.Hill 2-4, Mamukelashvili 2-4, Nwora 2-6, G.Allen 2-8, Kalaitzakis 1-2, G.Antetokounmpo 1-3, Middleton 1-6, J.Robinson 1-6, Connaughton 0-3), Miami 15-35 (Herro 4-8, Tucker 2-3, D.Robinson 2-8, Dedmon 1-1, Ca.Martin 1-1, Okpala 1-1, Vincent 1-1, Ma.Morris 1-3, Strus 1-3, Lowry 1-6).

Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Milwaukee 49 (G.Antetokounmpo 10), Miami 69 (Adebayo 13).

Assists—Milwaukee 19 (Connaughton, Middleton 4), Miami 28 (Ji.Butler, Lowry 6). Total Fouls—Milwaukee 26 (T.Antetokounmpo, J.Robinson 4), Miami 26 (Adebayo, Ji.Butler, Vincent, Ma.Morris, Tucker 3). A—19,600.

Hawks 113, Mavericks 87 DALLAS (87) Doncic 6-17 4-4 18, Porzingis 4-13 2-2 11, FinneySmith 2-12 0-0 5, Hardaway Jr 4-9 4-4 14, D.Powell 1-5 2-3 4, Brunson 7-13 0-0 17, Kleber 1-4 0-0 3, Bullock 1-4 0-0 3, Cauley-Stein 1-4 0-0 2, S.Brown 1-5 0-0 3, Burke 2-3 0-0 5, Jo.Green 1-2 0-0 2, Ntilikina 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 31-93 12-13 87.

ATLANTA (113) Tr.Young 6-16 5-5 19, J.Collins 7-11 0-0 16, Hunter 5-11 0-0 11, Bg.Bogdanovic 4-8 0-0 11, Capela 6-6 0-1 12, Huerter 3-8 0-0 6, Reddish 7-15 3-3 20, Wright 0-4 0-0 0, S.Hill 0-1 0-0 0, Dieng 4-5 0-0 9, Mays 1-1 0-0 3, Jl.Johnson 2-4 0-0 6, Cooper 0-3 0-0 0, Luwawu-Cabarrot 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 45-94 8-9 113.

Dallas Atlanta

20 24 20 23 — 87 22 29 35 27 —113

3-Point Goals—Dallas 13-43 (Brunson 3-5, Hardaway Jr 2-6, Doncic 2-7, Burke 1-1, Bullock 1-3, Kleber 1-4, Porzingis 1-4, S.Brown 1-5, Finney-Smith 1-6, Ntilikina 0-1, D.Powell 0-1), Atlanta 15-35 (Reddish 3-4, Bg.Bogdanovic 3-5, J.Collins 2-3, Jl.Johnson 2-3, Tr.Young 2-5, Mays 1-1, Dieng 1-2, Hunter 1-3, Luwawu-Cabarrot 0-1, Cooper 0-2, Huerter 0-3, Wright 0-3). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Dallas 54 (Doncic 11), Atlanta 59 (Capela 13). Assists—Dallas 16 (Doncic 7), Atlanta 31 (Tr. Young 14). Total Fouls—Dallas 21 (Finney-Smith 4), Atlanta 16 (Bg.Bogdanovic, J.Collins, Hunter 3).

A—17,162.

Pro football NFL American Football Conference East W L T Pct PF Buffalo 4 2 0 .667 203 New England 2 4 0 .333 125 N.Y. Jets 1 4 0 .200 67 Miami 1 5 0 .167 99 South W L T Pct PF Tennessee 4 2 0 .667 166 Indianapolis 2 4 0 .333 139 Jacksonville 1 5 0 .167 116 Houston 1 5 0 .167 92 North W L T Pct PF Baltimore 5 1 0 .833 170 Cincinnati 4 2 0 .667 148 Cleveland 4 3 0 .571 173 Pittsburgh 3 3 0 .500 117 West W L T Pct PF Las Vegas 4 2 0 .667 147 L.A. Chargers 4 2 0 .667 148 Kansas City 3 3 0 .500 185 Denver 3 4 0 .429 140 National Football Conference East W L T Pct PF Dallas 5 1 0 .833 205 Philadelphia 2 4 0 .333 137 Washington 2 4 0 .333 136 N.Y. Giants 1 5 0 .167 114 South W L T Pct PF Tampa Bay 5 1 0 .833 195 New Orleans 3 2 0 .600 127 Carolina 3 3 0 .500 143 Atlanta 2 3 0 .400 105 North W L T Pct PF Green Bay 5 1 0 .833 144 Minnesota 3 3 0 .500 147 Chicago 3 3 0 .500 98 Detroit 0 6 0 .000 109 West W L T Pct PF Arizona 6 0 01.000 194 L.A. Rams 5 1 0 .833 179 San Francisco 2 3 0 .400 117 Seattle 2 4 0 .333 140 Week 7 Thursday’s game Cleveland 17, Denver 14 Sunday’s games N.Y. Jets at New England, 1 p.m.

Carolina at N.Y. Giants, 1 p.m.

Kansas City at Tennessee, 1 p.m.

Washington at Green Bay, 1 p.m.

Atlanta at Miami, 1 p.m.

Cincinnati at Baltimore, 1 p.m.

Detroit at L.A. Rams, 4:05 p.m.

Philadelphia at Las Vegas, 4:05 p.m.

Houston at Arizona, 4:25 p.m.

Chicago at Tampa Bay, 4:25 p.m.

Indianapolis at San Francisco, 8:20 p.m.

Monday, Oct. 25 New Orleans at Seattle, 8:15 p.m.

Week 8 Thursday, Oct. 28 Green Bay at Arizona, 8:20 p.m.

Sunday, Oct. 31 Cincinnati at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m.

Tennessee at Indianapolis, 1 p.m.

L.A. Rams at Houston, 1 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Cleveland, 1 p.m.

Philadelphia at Detroit, 1 p.m.

San Francisco at Chicago, 1 p.m.

Carolina at Atlanta, 1 p.m.

Miami at Buffalo, 1 p.m.

New England at L.A. Chargers, 4:05 p.m.

Jacksonville at Seattle, 4:05 p.m.

Washington at Denver, 4:25 p.m.

Tampa Bay at New Orleans, 4:25 p.m.

Dallas at Minnesota, 8:20 p.m.

Monday, Nov. 1 N.Y. Giants at Kansas City, 8:15 p.m.

PA 98 127 121 177 PA 161 131 172 172 PA 123 111 165 132 PA 144 150 176 127 PA 146 152 186 177 PA 144 91 121 148 PA 136 137 124 172 PA 109 127 119 149

Browns 17, Broncos 14 Denver Cleveland

0 0 7 7 — 14 10 0 7 0 — 17

First Quarter CLE—De.Johnson 4 yard rush (McLaughlin kick), 12:20.

CLE—McLaughlin 52 yard field goal, 3:09.

Third Quarter DEN—Gordon III 8 yard pass from Bridgewater (McManus kick), 7:48.

CLE—Stanton 1 yard pass from Keenum (McLaughlin kick), 0:27.

Fourth Quarter DEN—Jv.Williams 10 yard pass from Bridgewater (McManus kick), 5:17.

A—67,431.

TEAM STATISTICS DEN CLE First Downs 15 23 Total Net Yards 223 376 Rushes-Yds 14-41 33-182 Passing 182 194 Sacked-Yds Lost 2-5 1-5 Comp-Att-Int 23-33-1 21-33-0 Punts 4-50.5 3-51.7 Punt Returns 2-16 2-13 Kickoff Returns 3-56 1-26 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 1-0 Penalties-Yards 2-15 9-60 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 0-0 Time of Possession 23:09 36:51 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-DEN, Jv.Williams 4-20, Gordon III 8-18, Bridgewater 2-3. CLE, De.Johnson 22-146, J.Kelly 2-13, Felton 2-13, Keenum 4-7, Stanton 2-5, Schwartz 1-(minus 2).

PASSING-DEN, Bridgewater 23-33-1-187. CLE, Keenum 21-33-0-199.

RECEIVING-DEN, Jv.Williams 6-32, Co.Sutton 5-68, N.Fant 5-39, T.Patrick 2-16, Hinton 2-15, Gordon III 2-14, Saubert 1-3. CLE, Landry 5-37, Felton 3-21, Hooper 2-42, Beckham Jr. 2-23, De.Johnson 2-22, Schwartz 2-22, Njoku 2-18, Ha.Bryant 1-15, Stanton 1-1, R.Higgins 1-(minus 2).

MISSED FIELD GOALS-DEN, None. CLE, McLaughlin 1

College football Friday’s games EAST Middle Tennessee at Connecticut, 6 p.m.

SOUTH Memphis at Central Florida, 7 p.m.

WEST Colorado State at Utah State, 9:30 p.m.

Washington at Arizona, 10:30 p.m.

Saturday’s games EAST Illinois at Penn State, Noon Wake Forest at Army, Noon Cincinnati at Navy, Noon Syracuse at Virginia Tech, 12:30 p.m.

Clemson at Pittsburgh, 3:30 p.m.

Georgia Tech at Virginia, 7:30 p.m.

SOUTH Massachusetts at Florida State, Noon Kansas State at Texas Tech, Noon Texas State at Georgia St., 2 p.m.

Louisiana State at Mississippi, 3:30 p.m.

Rice at UAB, 3:30 p.m.

Mississippi State at Vanderbilt, 4 p.m.

Liberty at North Texas, 4 p.m.

East Carolina at Houston, 4 p.m.

W. Kentucky at Florida International, 7 p.m.

Texas-San Antonio at Louisiana Tech, 7 p.m.

Temple at South Florida, 7 p.m.

South Alabama at UL Monroe, 7 p.m.

South Carolina at Texas A&M, 7:30 p.m.

NC State at Miami, 7:30 p.m.

West Virginia at TCU, 7:30 p.m.

MIDWEST Arkansas-Pine Bluff at Arkansas, Noon Northwestern at Michigan, Noon Oklahoma at Kansas, Noon Eastern Michigan at Bowling Green, Noon Northern Illinois at Central Michigan, Noon Kent State at Ohio, 1 p.m.

Wisconsin at Purdue, 3 p.m.

Maryland at Minnesota, 3:30 p.m.

Oklahoma State at Iowa State, 3:30 p.m.

Miami (Ohio) at Ball State, 3:30 p.m.

Western Michigan at Toledo, 3:30 p.m.

Buffalo at Akron, 3:30 p.m.

Boston College at Louisville, 4 p.m.

Tennessee at Alabama, 7 p.m.

Southern California at Notre Dame, 7:30 p.m.

Ohio State at Indiana, 7:30 p.m.

WEST Colorado at California, 3:30 p.m.

Oregon at UCLA, 3:30 p.m.

BYU at Washington State, 3:30 p.m.

New Mexico at Wyoming, 3:30 p.m.

San Diego State at Air Force, 7 p.m.

Nevada at Fresno State, 7 p.m.

Utah at Oregon State, 7:30 p.m.

New Mexico State at Hawaii, 11:59 p.m.

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Miami Heat guard Tyler Herro (14) dribbles the ball around Milwaukee Bucks guard Pat Connaughton (24) during the fourth quarter of the game at FTX Arena on Thursday.

NBA roundup: Heat start with a bang, blow out Bucks Field Level Media

The Miami Heat, setting a franchise record for most points in a season-opening game, rode a 262 first-quarter run and 27 bench points from Tyler Herro to a 13795 win over the visiting Milwaukee Bucks on Thursday night.

Miami also got 21 points from Jimmy Butler and 20 points and a game-high 13 rebounds from Bam Adebayo.

Milwaukee, which went nine minutes without a field goal in a brutal first quarter, was led by superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo, who had 15 points and 10 rebounds. Khris Middleton was held to 10 points.

The Bucks played without two starters: center Brook Lopez

(back spasms) and Jrue Holiday (bruised heel).

Warriors 115, Clippers 113 Stephen Curry capped a 45-point performance with two late 3-pointers, allowing host Golden State to spoil a valiant effort by Los Angeles.

Curry scored 25 points in the first quarter. He wound up 8-for13 on 3-pointers and completed a double-double with a team-high 10 rebounds. Andrew Wiggins added 17 points and Damion Lee 11.

Paul George paced the Clippers with 29 points, shooting 5-for11 on 3-point attempts, and had team highs of 11 rebounds and six assists. Bledsoe finished with 22

points.

Hawks 113, Mavericks 87 Trae Young, who had 28 double-doubles last year, picked up where he left off by recording 19 points and 14 assists as Atlanta ruined the debut of Dallas coach Jason Kidd.

Cam Reddish came off the bench to lead the Hawks with 20 points on 7-for-15 shooting and three 3-pointers. John Collins tallied 16 points and nine rebounds, and Clint Capela had 12 points, 13 rebounds and two blocks.

Luka Doncic recorded 18 points, 11 rebounds and seven assists for Dallas. Jalen Brunson came off the bench to score 17 points.

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Patrik Laine scored 1:49 into overtime Thursday night as the host Columbus Blue Jackets beat the New York Islanders 3-2.

With Islanders captain Anders Lee trying to poke the puck free from behind, Laine fell as he fired a shot under the arm of Ilya Sorokin and into the far corner of the net. It was the second overtime goal of the season for Laine, who also scored the game-winner in a 2-1 victory over the Seattle Kraken on Saturday.

Boone Jenner and Cole Sillinger scored 33 seconds apart late in the second for the Blue Jackets, who are 3-1-0 for the first time since the 2018-19 season. Goalie Elvis Merzlikins made 34 saves.

Scott Mayfield scored in the first and Mathew Barzal collected the tying goal early in the third for the Islanders, who have opened the season by losing three of four (1-2-1). Sorokin recorded 29 saves.

Rangers 3, Predators 1 Alexei Lafreniere scored the tiebreaking goal with 9:07 remaining in the third period and visiting New York earned a spirited victory over Nashville.

The Rangers won their third straight game and are 3-0-1 since opening the season with a 5-1 loss at Washington on Oct. 13.

Filip Chytil scored, Barclay Goodrow tallied into an empty net in the final seconds and Sammy Blais set up both goals for the Rangers, who survived going 0-for-4 on the power play and hitting three posts in the opening 40 minutes.

Oilers 5, Coyotes 1 Connor McDavid scored twice in a three-point game and Zach Hyman also scored twice to lead visiting Edmonton past Arizona.

Warren Foegele also scored for the Oilers, who received a 27-save performance from goaltender Mikko Koskinen to earn their fourth victory in as many games this season. Ryan Nugent-Hopkins collected three assists.

Dysin Mayo scored in his NHL debut for the Coyotes, while goalie Karel Vejmelka stopped 26 shots. Arizona has lost all four of its games this season.

Canucks 4,

Blackhawks 1 Brock Boeser scored his first goal of the season as visiting Vancouver defeated winless Chicago.

Jason Dickinson, Tanner Pearson and Conor Garland also scored for the Canucks, who improved to 2-2-1 on their season-opening six-game trip that concludes Saturday in Seattle.

Goaltender Thatcher Demko made 29 saves.

Alex DeBrincat scored a powerplay goal for the Blackhawks, who dropped to 0-4-1. Goalie Kevin Lankinen stopped 21 of 24 shots.

Jets 5, Ducks 1 Kyle Connor had two goals and an assist to help Winnipeg win its home opener against Anaheim.

Pierre-Luc Dubois had a goal and an assist, Andrew Copp and Josh Morrissey also scored and Connor Hellebuyck made 38 saves to help the Jets post their first victory in four games this season.

Troy Terry scored, and John Gibson made 22 saves for the Ducks, who have lost two in a row after winning the opener of the four-game road trip on Monday against the Calgary Flames.

Hurricanes 4, Canadiens 1 Sebastian Aho recorded two goals and an assist as visiting Carolina earned a victory over Montreal.

Andrei Svechnikov and Jesperi Kotkaniemi also scored for the Hurricanes, who improved their record to a perfect 3-0-0. Vincent Trocheck and Teuvo Teravainen each notched two assists. Aho collected a power-play goal early in the second period, then clinched the Hurricanes’ win on an empty-net score with 39 seconds remaining in the game. Aho has five points (two goals, three assists) over Carolina’s first three games.

The Canadiens are now 0-50, losing their first five games of a season for the first time since the 1995-96 campaign. Tyler Toffoli scored Montreal’s lone goal, a power-play marker at 17:57 of the second period. Toffoli’s score ended Montreal’s season-opening 0-for-17 drought on the power play.

Flames 3, Red Wings 0 Jacob Markstrom made 33

saves and visiting Calgary scored two first-period goals against Detroit and collected its first victory of the season as it kicked off a fivegame road trip.

Markstrom recorded his ninth career shutout and fourth in a Flames uniform. Elias Lindholm, Andrew Mangiapane and Matthew Tkachuk scored for Calgary.

Erik Gudbranson supplied two assists.

Alex Nedeljkovic made 26 stops for the Red Wings, who lost for the first time in regulation. They were playing the finale of a seasonopening four-game homestand and will now play seven of their next eight games on the road.

Panthers 4, Avalanche 1 Anton Lundell had a goal and an assist, Sergei Bobrovsky made 30 saves and Florida beat visiting Colorado in Sunrise, Fla. Sam Bennett, Sam Reinhart and Carter Verhaeghe also scored goals and Mason Marchment had two assists for Florida, which has started the season with four straight wins for the first time in franchise history.

Mikko Rantanen had a goal and Jonas Johansson stopped 34 shots in his first start of the season for the Avalanche, who have dropped three straight after winning their opener.

Sharks 2, Senators 1 James Reimer made 30 saves to help visiting San Jose beat Ottawa.

Logan Couture and Kevin Labanc scored for the Sharks, who won their third straight game to open the season.

Drake Batherson scored and Matt Murray, in his first game of the season, made 22 saves for the Senators.

Capitals 4, Devils 1 Evgeny Kuznetsov and Daniel Sprong each had a goal and an assist as Washington defeated New Jersey in Newark, N.J. Kuznetsov has eight points (three goals, five assists) through four games. Anthony Mantha and Dmitry Orlov also scored for Washington, which has collected seven of a possible eight points.

Vitek Vanecek made 24 saves for the win.

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The Village of Coxsackie is accepting applications for a laborer in the Dept. of Public Works. The position is a full-time union position, starting immediately with benefits. Normal work hours are Monday-Friday 7 a.m.-3 p.m., with after hour call-ins anticipated. The pay scale is $15.81/hr. - $20.13/hr. depending on qualifications. Applicants must be at least 21 years of age and hold a valid and acceptable driver’s license and be physically capable of performing the job duties. Applicants must submit to a background check and physical. A job description and application is available on the website, www.villageofcoxsackie.com.

Applications may be downloaded and accepted by mail to the Village of Coxsackie, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie, NY 12051, or by email to clerk@villageofcoxsackie.com. Applications will be accepted up until Wednesday, November 3rd.

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Sixers are complicit in the Ben Simmons mess — The burden is on them to get out of it Jerry Brewer The Washington Post

For as much as Ben Simmons enjoys playing the role of obstinate NBA star, he forgot to master one key part of the performance: an actual love of basketball. He loves to look like a player - no shooting photos, though, please - but he has shown little interest in sweating through the game.

The biggest problem for Simmons and the Philadelphia 76ers isn’t that he wants out and seems willing to ruin what’s left of his character to do so. The complication lies in the inescapable, bothersome reality that Simmons isn’t just demanding a trade; he’s running from a situation in which he has been exposed as unworthy of coddling.

What’s the proper trade value for a gifted athlete who technically plays point guard while standing 6-foot-11 but who shrinks from even the basic responsibilities of stardom? Simmons epitomizes the kind of mesmerizing talent who’s only good enough to get the people who believe in him fired. He’s a unicorn for underachievers. It’s hard to find ‘em that big, mobile and disappointing.

In recent years, plenty of notable players have acted up and forced messy exits. It’s unfortunate, and there is no denying NBA teams have an embarrassing trend to curb in dealing with mercurial spoiled stars. But movement is inevitable in professional sports, and there’s a bit of fairness with the power structure shifting in a manner that makes the transience a twoway street. There’s always a good, justifiable trade that can be made because talent is scarce.

However, Simmons differs greatly from the other marquee names who pushed their way out of town.

Simmons is a poor facsimile of those stars.

He’s nothing more than a copycat, a karaoke singer sort of franchise player. He’s too busy playing pretend to show the type of baller he really is. He’s not like Jimmy Butler, who burned to win and be around winners when he pushed Minnesota to trade him. The Timberwolves dealt Butler to Philadelphia, where he learned all about the immaturity of Simmons and the 76ers before he fled to Miami in free agency.

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Philadelphia 76ers guard Ben Simmons warms up before game seven of the second round of the 2021 NBA Playoffs against the Atlanta Hawks at Wells Fargo Center on June 20.

Simmons is not like Kawhi Leonard, Anthony Davis or James Harden, either. The drama of their departures damaged their reputations temporarily, but they left with a vision and a passion to advance their careers by showing how their games could translate. None of them pouted the way Simmons has since the 76ers and the entire basketball world found out he’s so frightened by his free throw shooting limitations that he passed up a dunk attempt in a playoff game.

No doubt, egos spawn trade demands, but for most players, competitiveness fuels the desire to go elsewhere, challenge themselves anew and enhance their chances to win. If Simmons thrived on pressure, if the game meant more to him than status, he would have returned to Philadelphia this season prepared to show off new skills and do his part to lift the 76ers from a great regular season team to a true title contender. Instead, it seems he would rather escape to a rebuilding or stuck-in-place

situation than continue the grind with a team that had the best record in the Eastern Conference last season.

He would rather be free of all-NBA center Joel Embiid than embrace the challenge of altering his game to fit better alongside him. He would rather find a coach with naive giddiness about having him than learn from Doc Rivers, who covered for Simmons all last season until it became absurd to cover for him.

The 76ers tried during the offseason to lower the temperature with Simmons. He has remained steadfast that he’s done in Philadelphia. He agreed to report to the team recently, but his motivation is to make things more uncomfortable. He went through one practice with his cellphone in his pocket. Then, in the next workout, Rivers kicked Simmons out for his unwillingness to participate. The team suspended him for its season opener against New Orleans, a game that it won easily. And now the staring contest continues.

The burden is on Philadelphia, led by Rivers and top executive Daryl Morey, to get out of this predicament as quickly as possible. The 76ers can’t be a great team without Simmons. Then again, they didn’t qualify as great with him.

Still, they are competitive and interesting as long as Embiid stays healthy.

Because they consider themselves contenders, they don’t want to trade Simmons for younger, developmental pieces, and they aren’t much interested in a collection of role players. The problem is, Simmons is more of a luxury role player than a franchise star. His résumé suggests he is more than that: three allstar appearances, two all-defensive team nods, one third team all-NBA selection. The big moments tell another story.

He makes almost no impact in the fourth quarter. He’s a non-shooter better suited to operate as a versatile power forward, but he’s obsessed with being labeled a point guard. And in the playoffs, he operates at only about 75% of the frustrating star he normally is. While Morey can’t panic and give Simmons away, he also should realize there are smart, underrated packages to pursue that still make the team better and don’t require winning any battles of perception.

Last season, when Morey and Rivers were new, the 76ers made the mistake of patience with Simmons. They should have traded him high. They should have put more into making a Simmons-for-Harden trade package work. But they were fooled by his height and special skills.

It’s understandable. For the past six years, since Simmons graduated high school and went to LSU for one season, many have wanted to be a part of the Ben Simmons experience. We have yet to see someone come out better for it.

Still, he’s 25 and different, hard to duplicate.

And teams gets bored and feel the need to sell something new. So a market for Simmons exists, even though his warning label is easy to read.

When presented with a solid offer, Morey would be wise to do what Simmons has long refused to do: shoot. Let it go. Let him go. Get rid of him before that trade partner has a chance to really think about what it’s about to do.

Chris Taylor belts three homers as Dodgers extend NLCS Doug Padilla Field Level Media

LOS ANGELES — Cornered, desperate and with everything to lose, the Los Angeles Dodgers had everything the way they like it Thursday with their season on the line.

Chris Taylor allowed the Los Angeles Dodgers to survive another day, unloading with three home runs and six RBIs, as the Dodgers pulled off a decisive 11-2 victory over the Atlanta Braves in Game 5 of the National League Championship Series.

AJ Pollock added two home runs and drove in four, and seven Dodgers pitchers shut down the Braves, who still lead the best-of-seven series 3-2.

The Dodgers are 4-0 in elimination games this postseason and have won seven consecutive going back to 2020.

“For us, it’s always just about winning just one game,” Taylor

said of the Dodgers’ clutch tendencies. “We have tried to keep that mentality all year and try to do everything we can to win tonight and take it from there.”

Taylor became just the 12th player in major league history to go deep three times in a playoff game.

He became the first player to hit three home runs in a postseason game since Enrique Hernandez did it for the Dodgers in Game 5 of the 2017 NLCS against the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field. Current Dodger Albert Pujols did it in the 2011 World Series for the St. Louis Cardinals.

“It’s definitely surreal for me,” Taylor said. “I never thought I was going to hit three homers in a game, much less a postseason game. It still hasn’t really sunk in.”

Taylor, who went 4-for-5, struck out in the eighth inning in his bid for a fourth home run.

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Los Angeles Dodgers left fielder Chris Taylor (3) celebrates with manager Dave Roberts (30) after hitting a solo home run in the seventh inning against the Atlanta Braves during game five of the 2021 NLCS at Dodger Stadium on Thursday.

Freddie Freeman hit a tworun home run for the Braves, who have two more chances to advance to their first World Series since 1999. Game 6 is scheduled for Saturday in Atlanta, which would be the site

of Game 7, if necessary, on Sunday.

The Braves also held a 3-1 NLCS lead on the Dodgers last season but failed to pull off one more victory. Los Angeles advanced and eventually won the

World Series. The Braves have flamed out in the playoffs 12 times since last playing in the Fall Classic.

“It’s going to be the narrative every day it’s brought up so I don’t think we have a choice (to avoid it) until we kill that narrative,” Freeman said, when asked about the long wait between World Series appearances for the Braves. “But we’re up 3-2 and going home. It’s a great position to be in.”

Freeman’s first-inning home run came off Joe Kelly, who was opening a Dodgers bullpen game. Kelly did not finish the half-inning, leaving after 28 pitches due to a biceps strain, with Los Angeles manager Dave Roberts saying the right-hander is done for the remainder of the postseason.

The Dodgers answered in the second inning, first on a solo home run from Pollock. After a single by Pujols, Taylor gave the

Dodgers a 3-2 lead with a home run to left off Braves left-hander Max Fried.

Taylor boosted the Dodgers’ lead to 4-2 in the third inning with an RBI single. After Pujols walked in the fifth inning, ending Fried’s night, Taylor went deep again, this one to center field off right-hander Chris Martin.

Fried gave up five runs on eight hits over 4 2/3 innings with two walks and three strikeouts. It was just the second time the Braves lost a Fried start since the beginning of August, with the other coming Sept. 1 at Dodger Stadium.

“I felt great, it was just a really good, aggressive lineup that hit some pitches out over the middle,” Fried said. “I wasn’t executing on the corners like I normally do, and when you leave the balls over the middle, you give them a chance.”

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the keeper and sailed high over the goal in the first few minutes.

Spartan attacker Emma Haller took it into the box for a shot as well, and after being blocked by the keeper, Ella Mulholland put

it into the empty net after the goalie could not recover after the save.

With 28 minutes left in the game Greenville was up comfortably 3-0 and did not let up

on the intensity. A few minutes later LaManda needed to be helped to the bench after an apparent leg injury as she hopped off the field.

The Crusaders had a free kick on the Spartans’ side of the field, but their goalie came all the way up to take the kick and it did not make it through for any teammates and she had to get all the way back.

Greenville had yet another corner kick with about eight minutes to play, and Ella Grupe’s pass across the field was deflected by teammate Cameryn Childs off of her stomach and into the net for the score.

Up 4-0, the Spartans kept their foot on the gas to run the clock down, and they earned the win at home to move on to the quarterfinals of the Section II Playoffs.

half and scored a quick goal to make it 2-1. After that Germantown played strong defense lead by sweeper Nate McCarthy. Lucas Hoffman and Mike Stagno also contributed to the Clippers strong defensive play in the second half.

In the middle of the second half Germantown’s third goal was poked in on a hustle play

by Jonathan Mollo. The Clippers fourth and final goal was scored off of shot by Owen Watson that deflected off Mason Ferrer. Kaelin Platt had a

great game in the midfield and controlled the Clippers attack.

Clippers keeper Riley Jennings had six saves.

Germantown will play at No. 1 Northville on Saturday at 2 p.m.

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14 minutes before the break as they inched closer to scoring that first goal.

With less than ten minutes before halftime, Emersyn Grupe passed it into the box and after the goalie missed on an attempt to clear, Taryn Silk was there to tip it into the net for Greenville.

Ahead 1-0 with just a few minutes remaining in the half, the Spartans looked to add to their lead before the break.

Greenville had one last corner kick with just over two minutes on the clock, and Emersyn Grupe found her sister Ella who buried the shot in the back of the goal to extend the lead to 2-0.

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The missed penalty shot seemed to give Chatham a little bit more focused energy and not too long after Tobias Jeralds would play a great ball into Casarrubias who would find the net again giving him his second of the night and putting Chatham ahead, 2-1.

With 12 minutes to go, Chatham’s Elliott Bailey would find the back of the net after

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of settle back into what you need to do each day to coach your best and to play your best,” Garrett said. “Collectively as an organization that’s what we’re trying to do. Every coach, every player and Joe, our leader, has done a really good job of that.”

Defensive coordinator Pat Graham said Judge is a good leader because “whether we win, lose, whatever, Joe’s

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Frenchman assured his growing pains would ease once the games mattered.

Then he drained six treys on 13 attempts against Boston, outshining the other newest Knick, Kemba Walker, who managed just 10 points and was benched in the second overtime. “(Fournier) came up super clutch in overtime, hit some big shots, so I just had to keep finding him,” Julius Randle said. “We talked after the game, there’s things we feel like we can do better, work on. He has an extremely high IQ. He’s a really good player, but he has a really high IQ. I’m excited to start that chemistry with him.”

Fournier’s chemistry with Randle is among the most significant elements to New York’s success this season. It’s no secret Randle enjoyed playing alongside last year’s starting two-guard, Reggie Bullock, who left for the Mavericks in free agency. Their connection extended beyond the court, and that was also true for point guard Elfrid Payton, who signed with the Suns.

“Two of Julius’ good friends on that team,” was how one source described the relationships.

Whether Fournier and Randle meet for dinner on the road is less important than the

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Greenville’s Emma Haller controls the ball during Thursday’s Section II Class B girls soccer first-round game against Catholic Central at Greenville High School.

Greenville still dictated the pace as the second half began, keeping the pressure on Catholic Central to play tighter

defense or be left behind.

Jessica LaManda and Caroline Kosich both took shots on the net that were stopped by

some good combination play and a great set-up ball by Casarrubias for the final score of the game.

For Berlin-New Lebanon, Wyatt Powers, Gage Willis, and Chris Shorter were dangerous all over the field and keeper Kevin Chittenden played fantastic in the net.

Chatham continued its positive play, winning for the sixth consecutive time in advancing to the quarterfinals.

Chatham held a 22-7 edge in shots on goal and took eight corner kicks to B/NL’s five.

Class D Germantown 4 Spa Catholic 2 Germantown defeated Spa Catholic 4-1 in the Section 2 Class D Boys soccer tournament on Thursday.

Germantown struck first when Jonathan Mollo scored from the top of the box early in the first half. Germantown’s next goal was scored off of a corner kick by Mason Ferrer.

Germantown was up 2-0 at the half.

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going to correct us and there’s a standard he has.”

“I think the beauty of Joe is... consistency,” he said.

“The emotional consistency, the stamina, the emotional stamina to be the same every day. I think Joe -- that’s why he’s a good leader ... Joe is as consistent as I’ve ever seen him. Never too up, never too down.”

Judge’s message to the team this week has been to take care of individual assignments and details better, because that’s the only way the larger issues get fixed.

“A lot of people want to talk about games before this, games after this,” Judge said of outside criticism. “This is the only game we can do anything about right now.”

“To me,” Judge said, “the only time you really feel any pressure or nerves is when you’re unprepared.”

Preparation hasn’t been the Giants’ problem, but Judge is taking ownership of his team’s losing regardless. And he knows it’s on him to fix it starting Sunday, going up against a coach pursued for the same job Judge now holds.

on-court partnership. As two playmakers working around perimeter screens, they want to establish the type of telepathic connection enjoyed by longtime teammates. It looked good Wednesday after disjointed moments in preseason.

“It takes time to not even think about it and just act on what you know,” Fournier said. “It’s going to come and the good news is it could only get better from here.”

Fournier will be in the spotlight for Friday’s game against the Magic, which represents his second return to Orlando since being traded by the Magic last season.

Orlando had been home to Fournier for the best seven seasons of his career, but it dealt him to Boston for second-round picks as the Magic barreled toward a full-blown tank job/rebuild.

Fournier noted the coincidence of playing his two former teams in the opening games of the season, but clearly the Orlando matchup is the more meaningful.

“My situation for Boston was really unfortunate. I got there and after four games I got COVID,” Fournier said of his brief stint with the Celtics.

“Then after COVID I was feeling awful for like two, three weeks. I played there like 15 or 20 games, max.

“From my perspective Orlando has more meaning. I played there for seven years. It’s just funny that it’s

back-to-back.”

After his Celtics career ended quickly, the Knicks made Fournier their biggest signing in free agency. They hope to see more of what transpired in Game 1.

“It felt great. There’s nothing else to say,” Fournier said.

“I’m really happy with the win and with the way we fought, competed. I just wish I got those wide open corner shots knocked down but it is what it is.”

scores were 25-22, 25-14 and 25-20.

Catholic Central was led by setter Kacey Monahan who dished out 10 assists to go along with 6 digs. Hope Wilk had 14 digs and 3 kills. Delaney Pratt had 8 digs, 6 kills and 5 aces. Angelina Giuliano had 3 blocks and 3 kills.

For the Riders Emma Scheitinger had 9 kills and 8 digs.

Delaney More had 6 kills, 6 assists and 8 digs. Clare Knapp had 8 assists and 10 digs.

Greenville’s Caroline Kosich (29) has her shot blocked by the Catholic Central goalkeeper during Thursday’s Section II Class B girls soccer first-round game at Greenville High School.

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Wife in new marriage seeks balance with mom Dear Abby, My mom and I have always been close, but since I got married, I have been having a hard time setting boundaries. My parents divorced when I was 12, and Mom went through a string of boyfriends.

My father is a pilot. While I was DEAR ABBY growing up, it was mostly Mom who raised me. It was the two of us against the world, until I met my husband, “Eric.” We started dating four years ago and were married last summer.

Eric knows Mom and I have always considered ourselves to be each other’s best friend. He also knows we have taken many trips together.

It’s a tradition Mom was hoping we’d continue after my wedding. She has recently begun discussing a vacation, and Eric wants to tag along.

She, however, wants it to be a “just us girls” trip.

I’m not sure how to handle this. Mom and Eric are the most important people in my life. Must I really choose between one or the other? Who comes first? And how do I break the news to whoever comes second?

Torn In Illinois

JEANNE PHILLIPS

You are a newlywed, married only a short time.

For your mother to expect you to leave your husband and vacation with her at this point is insensitive and unrealistic. When people marry, their spouse is supposed to take precedence. Tell your mother you would love to take girls trips with her in the future, but not during the first year of your marriage.

Dear Abby, Can you help to illuminate people on what is proper etiquette after the passing of a loved one? We recently had a death in our family. As we were trying to say our goodbyes and get in touch with immediate family, the word got out.

Within an hour of the passing, the news was all over social media. We barely had time to react, let alone inform all our family members.

Many of them learned about it from these posts.

Imagine finding out a loved one passed away from a non-family member’s social media posting. People were hurt that they weren’t informed before it was plastered all over the internet.

Could you ALSO point out that if you are the person who made the post, rather than get defensive and say, “I’m not the only one who posted it!” or, “I wasn’t the first to say something,” just kindly offer your condolences and maybe an apology.

Mourning In Michigan Please accept my sympathy for your loss. I am sure that feelings are raw because people are hurting, but please realize that because of social media, news travels like wildfire. For a friend to be told and then to post the sad news wouldn’t be unusual these days. However, to head something like that off before it happened, the person who spilled the beans should have asked the friend to keep the news private until all family members were personally informed.

That said, since there were hurt feelings, apologies are in order.

Dear Abby, Is it appropriate to use dental floss in public?

When my mom eats out, she uses dental floss while she is still at the table or while walking out of the restaurant. She thinks she’s being discreet, but what she’s doing is obvious.

When I ask her to stop, she says she can’t stand having food in her teeth. I tell her to go into the restroom or do it outside, but she does neither and continues to floss.

Ellen In The USA

Pickles

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Garfield

I agree that flossing one’s teeth in public is unsightly and something that should be done in private. If it becomes necessary, it should be done in the restroom.

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Dark Side of the Horse

By Stella Wilder Born today, you are sure to be remembered for your remarkable contributions not only to your chosen profession, but also to the overall state of the world itself — for you are always determined, above all, to leave the world a better place! Like so many Scorpio natives, you are fierce in your pursuit of personal goals, but for you it is most important to have a clear and specific idea of what those goals really are.

You are known for being stylish and even romantic in your everyday affairs, and those people who don’t want to be you most certainly want to be like you — or near you, which is even better. You’re sure to attract a great many people into your orbit, and you will learn to bask in the praise and enjoyment of those around you — though your privacy, too, is always quite important to you!

Also born on this date are: “Weird Al” Yankovic, singer and satirist; Pele, soccer player; Michael Crichton, writer; Johnny Carson, TV talk show host; Ryan Reynolds, actor; Ang Lee, filmmaker; Lincoln Peirce, cartoonist.

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.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24 SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — You may be expected to team up with someone who doesn’t at first seem like the right fit — but give it a moment, and all will be clear.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — Stick to your job today, and resist the temptation to tell someone how to do theirs. Specialization becomes a key issue right now.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Your work with someone may just begin to pay off today —

but not in the way you had hoped. Perhaps your expectations need adjustment.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — You’re ready and willing to do all you can for someone, but you must be sure that a third party isn’t going to take this the wrong way.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — Your reaction to another’s behavior is sure to say more about you than it does about the behavior itself. Some self-assessment may be in order.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — You face a few very clear choices today, but none of them really strikes your fancy. That may not matter at all; time is the key issue.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — Someone is expecting you to do something that you are loath to do, but after some honest talk, you may be able to reach a compromise.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You can offer much of value today, but finding the right time and the best method of delivery may be rather difficult. Wait your turn!

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — You can avoid any undue tension today by letting others do what they will without imposing any kind of judgment on them. Do your own thing!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Your expertise may be challenged by someone who hasn’t yet gotten up to speed — so proving your status shouldn’t be difficult.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You should be able to keep a promise today despite another’s warnings of surprises and difficulties. You’re actually in your element right now.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Your judgment of a certain past endeavor may be changing, as you consider its long-term effects — which you are certainly feeling today.

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10/23/21 Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit, 1 to 9.

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Bound & Gagged

Created by Jacqueline E. Mathews

DOWN 1 Post-wedding abbr.

2 Dobbin’s dinner 3 Discharge, as fumes 4 Give confidence to 5 Lounges around 6 Thought 7 Nav. bigwig 8 Highly respected 9 Finicky 10 Cut of pork 11 Competent 12 Velvety ground cover 14 Like a rosebush 21 Window shopper’s milieu 25 Scouring pad brand 26 Groucho’s prop 27 Do penance 28 Jacks & jokers 29 Builds up a nest egg 30 Experts 31 King’s decree 32 Actor Willem

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33 Tarnish another’s reputation 35 Matching twosome 38 Land & buildings on it 39 Chance to get rich 41 Half-pint 42 Part of the leg 44 Bing __

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45 Tidbit 47 TV’s Milton 48 Get your feet wet 49 Haughtiness 50 Show approval 52 Vegan’s no-no 53 Knight’s gofer 54 “Groovy!”

55 Caesar’s garb 59 Passing craze

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

Answer here:

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ACROSS 1 Larry, __ & Curly Joe 4 Linda Lavin role 9 Boston __ chowder 13 Freeway entrance 15 Malt shop orders 16 Vagabond 17 Mix in a bowl 18 Dozed 19 Essential __; aromatherapy bottles 20 Enliven; energize 22 Snake eyes, in a casino 23 Train units 24 Suffix for count or baron 26 Hen’s noise 29 Some sled dogs 34 “The Thrill of __”; Doris Day film 35 Walks the floor 36 Hoover or Grand Coulee 37 Bloody 38 Laid concrete 39 Classic board game 40 “War __ Peace” 41 Bawls 42 Comforting drink 43 Lifesavers 45 As a __ of fact; actually 46 Record speed letters 47 Thick metal fastener 48 City in Texas 51 Flawed 56 Needs medical help 57 Largest U.S. retailer in the 1980s 58 Santa’s landing place 60 Dull in color 61 Bird of prey 62 Meditative exercise 63 Get a glimpse of 64 Iron alloy 65 Young fellow

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Smash Mouth’s Steve Harwell retires at 54 Singer cites ‘physical and mental health issues’

‘The Rescue’

By AUGUST BROWN Los Angeles Times

Smash Mouth singer Steve Harwell announced his retirement following the uproar over a concert performance that one attendee described as “the most chaotic show I’ve ever seen in my entire life.”

Representatives for Smash Mouth said that Harwell, 54, has left the band to focus on what they described as longstanding medical issues.

“Despite Steve’s best efforts to work through these ailments, he is heartbroken to share that it has become impossible for him to continue doing what he loves most, performing in front of the band’s millions of fans around the world,” they said.

“I’ve tried so hard to power through my physical and mental health issues, and to play in front of you one last time, but I just wasn’t able to,” Harwell added in a statement, saying he expects the band to continue without him. “I cannot wait to see what Smash Mouth accomplishes next.”

Video of the concert showed Harwell slurring words, threatening audience members (“I’ll f-- kill your whole family, I swear to God,” he told one fan) and giving what appeared to be a Nazi salute to the crowd.

A spokesperson for the group said Harwell “has suffered profusely over the years with several types of addiction leading to medical and mental health issues,” including cardiomyopathy and Wernickes encephalopathy, a condition that “has greatly impacted his motor functions including speech and impaired memory.”

Regarding the apparent Nazi salute, they said that the singer “regrets his actions, but this Tik Tok video is not an accurate representation of the man Steve is.”

Eve 6 singer Max Collins, a contemporary of Smash Mouth’s, said on Twitter Monday that “i just want this guy to get clean cuz this is sad pull him off the road 90 meetings in 90 days or ur gonna have another dead rockstar on ur hands.”

Smash Mouth is best known for hits “All Star” and “I’m a Believer,” a cover of the Monkees’ classic.

isn’t just

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cave diving The documentary “The Rescue,” a reveals more about the efforts to save a youth soccer team stranded in a cave in Thailand for 28 days in 2018.

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Documentary about a trapped soccer team reveals the triump of the human spirit

By MICHAEL O’SULLIVAN Washington Post

B

oy, have Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi ever found their filmmaking groove. In the excellent mountain-climbing documentaries “Meru” and “Free Solo” — the first, a 2015 Sundance winner, and the latter their breakthrough 2019 Oscar winner — the husband-and-wife filmmakers told stories about a niche sport and its practitioners that were not just hair-raising, immersive and visually stunning, but insightful and emotionally stirring. (Chin is a climber.)

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Diver Rick Stanton appears in “The Rescue.” Greenwich Entertainment/National Geographic Documentary

‘THE RESCUE’ 4 stars out of 4 INDUSTRY RATING: PG, for mature thematic material involving peril and some strong language.

RUNNING TIME: 1 hour, 47 minutes WHERE TO WATCH: In theaters. In English, Thai, Korean and Norwegian with subtitles.

Thai rescue team arranges a water pumping system at the entrance to a flooded cave complex where 12 boys and their soccer coach were trapped in Chiang Rai province, northern Thailand. Royal Thai Navy, Harwell

Weirdness, beauty on an Icelandic farm Supernatural thriller ‘Lamb’ is an oddly touching folk tale about grieving

By ADAM GRAHAM Detroit News

It’s tough to talk about “Lamb” without giving away the surprise of “Lamb.” And that surprise is worth experiencing for yourself, as is this strange, delicate and oddly touching

Icelandic folk tale about grieving, healing and the laws of nature.

Noomi Rapace (the original “Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”) stars as Maria, a sheep farmer in rural Iceland along with her husband, Ingvar (Hilmir Snaer Gudnason). They’re a quiet, unassuming couple living a quiet, unassuming life, and an innocuous conversation about time travel over breakfast one morning hints at a traumatic loss in their past.

One day while tending to their sheep, they take a particular liking to a newborn lamb, bringing it into their home, raising it as their own and calling it Ada. It’s fair to say that from that point on, weirdness ensues.

But director Valdimar Johannsson, who co-wrote the screenplay with Bjork collaborator Sjon (if it’s Iceland, there’s gotta be a Bjork connection) has an incredible handle on

tone, and what could be outrageous or uproarious is handled in a disarmingly tender manner. At its core “Lamb” is a human story, and Johannsson never falls out of rhythm with its beating heart.

“Lamb’s” sparse look and washed out visuals recall the minimalist horror of “The Witch,” and Johannsson doles out several reveals that send shock waves without overwhelming the balance of his universe. At

‘LAMB’ GRADE: B+ MPAA RATING: R (for some bloody violent images and sexuality/nudity) RUNNING TIME: 1:46 WHERE TO WATCH: Now playing in theaters

its center is Rapace, who gives a remarkable performance, playing strong-willed yet vulnerable, hopeful yet hesitant. She makes this curiosity of a film something relatable and something special.

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‘Ghosts’ make for strange bedfellows in CBS sitcom New series based on BBC show of the same name

By KATE FELDMAN New York Daily News

As 2022 inches closer, take a look at these 10 ways to celebrate and honor the ones who have kept you going these last few years.

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Get cozy with these personalized party themes

By ERIN THORBURN Tribune News Service

It’s an understatement to say the last couple of years have been stressful, unpredictable and tumultuous. But if anything, it’s taught us the value of comfort and consistency. And who better to keep us grounded in those things than the people we know — and rely upon? It’s no wonder that in light of this, personalization is one of the more trending ways to entertain these days.

Now, as this year approaches its end, it’s all about smaller, more intimate venues.

As 2022 inches closer, take a look at these 10 ways to celebrate and honor the ones who have kept you going these last few years.

PICTURE PERFECT Selfies are fun. But if you’re looking for a way to capture memories that doubles as a gift, consider the professional route. Think about hiring a professional photographer with custom backgrounds and props or a photo booth. Another option is to invest in instant cameras and set up your own themed stations. And don’t forget to provide a collection of frames. Many people have surpluses of forgotten or vacant picture frames that can be repurposed. Encourage friends to bring their leftovers to your candid camera event.

TEA FOR TWO OR THREE Ritualistic and routine in many cultures, tea time beckons a moment to slow down and converse over a hot cuppa. To make a tea party particularly cozy, provide a takeaway cup and saucer for your guests (antique malls and sellers often sell unique sets for reasonable prices). Pick a set

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The couple’s latest documentary, “The Rescue,” is a bit of a departure in one way. It’s about a different elite community: cave divers, not climbers.

But it’s true to form where it counts. Focusing mainly on Brits Rick Stanton and John Volanthen — who were among the crew of highly skilled recreational divers recruited to assist the Thai Navy and a host of other international volunteers in the 2018 rescue of a team of

that best reflects your friends’ personalities. Include bitesized sandwiches and mini desserts you know are top favorites and make extra for your guests to take home with their porcelain teacup takeaway.

MONOGRAMMED MEMENTOS Rather than using your own personal monogrammed stationery to invite friends and family to an occasion, flip the script and send them personalized invites with their initials. After the party, the take-home gift is the remaining monogrammed stationery bearing their initials or the first letter of their name.

COOKIES WITH CHARACTER Is one of your besties Harry Potter-obsessed? Or a fall season fanatic? Take inspiration from Sweet Seeker Cookies (check out sweetseekercookies on Instagram) to see how to curate collections of delectable sugar cookies with your favorite people in mind. Throw an appreciation party with your cookie collection as the centerpiece. Think about featuring an autumnal selection with its variety of pumpkins, “thankful”labeled, and seasonally-colored, leaf-shaped cookies.

BASKETS OF BOUNTY Do you have a friend who swoons over Sunday night football? Or goes nuts for goofy socks? Loves any kind of bath bomb or shower scrub?

To show you know your buddies, invite them over and present each with a specialized gift basket or box with some of their favorite things.

If you lack the time, creativity or desire to compile your own goodies, take a look on Etsy for “Gift Baskets for Friend.”

12 youth soccer players and their coach from a flooded cave in rural Thailand, and who first found the team — the film spins a yarn that is equal parts gripping and inspirational, even if you know the outcome from news reports.

Like Alex Honnold, the subject of “Free Solo,” the subjects of “The Rescue” are a special breed. They become calm and more focused while doing what would petrify or panic most other people: Jump into water that is muddy, cold and sometimes rushing like a white water rapid, and swim forward through cracks barely

This will provide you with a menagerie of options from color-coded “Sending you Sunshine,” (HeartTalkCompany) packages to fuzzy socks that resemble cupcakes (HappytoGiveBotique).

CULINARY CUSTOMIZATION Many of us have spent the pandemic with either really good or hideously bad cooking skills. For those of us who perfected the culinary arts, this theme is for you. Showcase your new (or refined) cooking prowess by sharing your kitchen with those you love most.

Make a shared meal, or encourage friends and family to prepare a favorite quarantine discovery alongside you. To make the occasion extra special, splurge on an engraved cutting board for each chef you host (you can get a reasonably priced wooden option on weddingcollectibles. com).

WINTER WONDERS Before we know it, winter will be upon us. To help your inner circle feel cozy and festive, invite them for a preholiday soiree. Prior to serving seasonal soups, hot chocolate, homemade bread and other cooler weather options, adorn each guest’s plate with a mini stocking stuffed with your winter-themed menu. For literary hosts, write a poem or words of thanks in place of a menu. Or top place settings with personalized dreidels engraved with the name of each friend (check out Engravablez on Etsy).

sending them home with a coffee caddy. Start by stocking up on a few craft organization bins with handles (check out the Design Plastic Portable Craft Storage Organizer Caddy Tote on Amazon.com).

Rather than filling it yourself, entreat your friends to bring their favorite K-cups, ground coffee, creamers and other accompaniments (i.e cinnamon, nutmeg, mocha and vanilla powder, etc.). After everyone shares conversation and a cup (or two) of coffee, have friends pick their favorite coffee items to fill their take-home, carryand-go coffee container.

GRATITUDE GIFTING At the heart of all preceding ideas on this list is gratitude. Why not take it a step further by hosting an event with thankfulness as its foundation? For each friend you invite, provide a journal, pen and any other creative elements such as stickers or page markers. Encourage each person to write down what they are grateful for.

Or have each person scribe what they appreciate about the person on their right.

When everyone is done writing, pass the journal to the person on their right. Then, everyone has a keepsake and reminder of how supported they are as well as how good it feels to be grateful.

Rose McIver describes her new sitcom as a little like moving into a college dorm room — if only your roommates happen to be ghosts.

“Ghosts,” based on the BBC sitcom of the same name and premiered last Thursday on CBS, is about just that: a group of spirits trapped in a rundown country estate in upstate New York who suddenly find themselves with new neighbors when Samantha (McIver) and husband Jay (Utkarsh Ambudkar) inherit Woodstone Manor and move in.

At first, the ghosts — including a Prohibition-era lounge singer (Danielle Pinnock), a hippie (Sheila Carrasco), an ‘80s scout troop leader (Richie Moriarty); a Viking explorer (Devon Chandler Long); a ‘90s finance bro (Asher Grodman) and the wife of an 1800s robber baron — try to drive Samantha and Jay out of the house.

Then, after Sam falls down a flight of stairs, briefly dies and can suddenly see her otherworldly housemates, the dynamics change.

The premise, McIver said, “reminded me of ‘What We Do in the Shadows’ — that unlikely roommate dynamic, with a bit of ‘The Good Place’ thrown in and that heightened, stylized goodness,” she said referring to the FX vampire comedy and the NBC sitcom.

Just like the FX vampire comedy and the NBC sitcom, there’s almost immediate buy-in on “Ghosts.” Sure, you’re in the Bad Place. Sure, there are ghosts living in your house that only you can see.

“That’s the difference between doing a CBS show and an HBO show. It’s CBS, baby,” Ambudkar laughed. “We gotta get right to the point. We’re not answering questions. It’s all action.

We’re not thinking about our moves, we’re just making them.

What’s that? We’re moving to a haunted house? We’ve got 22 minutes, we’d better go. What’s that? We’re already moved into a haunted house before the cold open? Let’s do this.”

Ambudkar, though, said he

wants “Ghosts” to be a hangout comedy like “Friends” or “Seinfeld.”

“A show the whole family can sit down and watch and really enjoy and engage in. It’s been a very difficult 18 months for a lot of people and our goal is to create an environment of joy and fun and heart,” the 37-year-old actor told The News.

The beauty of the show, McIver said, are the endless plot possibilities. Each ghost brings something new to the table for her to bounce off of. The overly optimistic troop leader reminds her of herself. The Wall Street golden child repulses her. There are endless new ghosts the writers could bring into the world as they see fit.

“Finding the nuances between Sam and each of the ghosts is something I’m looking forward to playing with,” the “iZombie” alum, 32, told The News.

Jay, on the other hand, doesn’t get to see the ghosts.

That’s where years of D-minuses at Tisch pay off, Ambudkar joked.

“It’s pretty much just me saying lines. He likes toys. He likes Dungeons and Dragons.

He likes comic books. He likes food. And he’s generally just flabbergasted by what’s going on around him at all times.

There’s a general state of sarcastic confusion, which is me, not going to lie,” he said. “Some of us get hired to act. Some of us get hired to say the words we were going to say anyway.”

“Ghosts” isn’t reinventing the wheel, Ambudkar added.

It’s a silly CBS sitcom with no stakes and no cliffhangers.

“It’s not rocket science,” he said. “It’s just some innocent, good, clean fun.”

FARAWAY FEELS

Who doesn’t love a hot cup of java? OK, some people don’t. But for those who do, make them feel special by inviting them for coffee and

Whatever personal touches you choose to honor the ones you care for most, don’t forget about those who are far away.

Remote friends can be appreciated with a mailed care package and note of gratitude.

These ideas work best with a small group. Gather three to five of your closest friends to keep costs and coziness at a perfect level.

“Ghosts,” based on the BBC sitcom of the same name, premiered last Thursday on CBS and is about a group of spirits trapped in a rundown country estate in upstate New York who suddenly find themselves with new neighbors who inherited the manor and move in. CBS

big enough to wriggle through under 1,000 claustrophobic feet of rock. And they do all this after Thai Navy SEALs have largely given up, and the Thai government has doubts about their competence.

The film includes many details you may not know, whether you pored over the round-the-clock news coverage of the 17-day operation at the time, as many across the globe did. That’s because, in addition to some of that news footage — artfully contextualized by new interviews with Stanton, Volanthen and the other mostly British divers — Chin

and Vasarhelyi use reenactments with the original volunteers, shot in a pool in England’s Pinewood Studios. Perhaps most importantly, after two years of negotiations, the filmmakers finally obtained a trove of GoPro and other footage shot by the Thai Navy that only became available this May, after the film had been, in effect, finished. “We thought it would be 90 minutes of stuff,” Vasarhelyi told the Wrap, “but it turned out to be 87 hours of footage.”

Produced by National Geographic, “The Rescue” is not your garden variety documentary, and that’s not only

because of the feel-good nature of the story, but to its subjects, who could not be more appealing if they had been chosen by Central Casting. Wryly self-deprecating — one of the volunteer divers describes his cohorts as a bunch of “scruffy, middle-aged men” — Stanton, Volanthen and their colleagues belie the Hollywood stereotype of the hero: They’re relatably balding, slightly geeky, a tad socially awkward and a bit paunchy. You don’t just root for them; you feel like you’re there with them.

Ignore any instinct you may have to pass up this

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movie because it sounds too hyper-specific: an activity you’re not really that interested in, and a story whose ending you’ve already heard.

“The Rescue” isn’t just a movie about cave divers, or a recap of a well-reported humanitarian operation. It’s ultimately a film about the triumph of altruism, ingenuity and perseverance in the face of almost impossible odds, by the very people you might initially have dismissed as not up to the task. In short, as cliche as it sounds, it’s about the triumph not just of the nerd, but the human spirit.

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Picking perfect apple Slice jalapeños into rounds. You could pluck out the seeds, but I leave them in for extra heat. Rey Lopez/ Washington Post

Heat that’s tasty, easy to make Homemade quick-pickled jalapeños aren’t as difficult as you may expect

By G. DANIELA GALARZA Washington Post

There’s nothing like the slap of heat and bracing acidity of a pickled pepper. “Pickling mellows the grassiness that fresh peppers can sometimes have,” my Washington Post colleague Aaron Hutcherson wrote recently in an appreciation of pickled jalapeños, noting that the brine lends a puckery pep to the pickled vegetable’s warmth.

While you can buy a jar for a few dollars at any supermarket, I’ve gotten into the habit of quick-pickling my own jalapeños. It takes only a few minutes, lets me support my local farmers and gives me room to play around with the easy recipe.

Here’s the process: Slice jalapeños into rounds. You could pluck out the seeds, but I leave them in for extra heat.

Put the slices into a clean jar, add vinegar, water, salt and — if you want to tame the chiles’ spice — a bit of sugar, though this is optional. Seal the lid tight, and shake it up, to give the salt and sugar a chance to dissolve. Then, leave the jar in your fridge for around 8 hours. That’s it.

After you’ve made them once, the method becomes second nature.

And, you can use it on any kind of pepper or vegetable. The most important part is that you store the jar in the refrigerator.

That’s why it’s not necessary to boil anything — these are refrigerator pickles.

“Basically, all you’re trying to do is let the

spices and vinegar infiltrate the vegetable, and you don’t have to boil anything to do that,” says Julie Garden-Robinson of the National Extension Association of Family & Consumer Sciences, who regularly advises home canners on best practices.

“These are fridge pickles, so it’s totally safe.” Plus, if you pour boiling liquid over the vegetable, they’re more likely to soften and turn a muddy shade of green. That’s what happens with the grocery store’s shelf-stable pickled jalapeños.

If you’re like me and go through pickled jalapeños quickly, you might want to give this formula a shot. As Aaron described, they’re great on so many things, including salads, sandwiches, pizza, dips and tacos.

I make them so often, I’ve memorized the recipe. I’ve also tweaked it endlessly. I like my pickles on the salty side, so I use 1 tablespoon of salt and skip the sugar.

But why stop at salt when you have a whole cabinet of spices and seasonings right there? I almost always add sliced onion or cloves of garlic to each jar.

While sugar tames the heat, a pinch of red pepper flakes will increase it.

Whole cumin seeds, coriander pods or bay leaves can add extra flavor. Use the leftover brine for marinades and dressings, so not even a drop of the zippy green heat goes to waste.

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These are best varieties to use in making pie

By AARON HUTCHERSON Washington Post

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ou can use any apple to make an apple pie.

Full stop. However, some are better than others when it comes to flavor and texture.

And instead of choosing just one type of apple, a combination of at least two or three is a smart way to get more complex flavors and textures into your pie.

There are thousands of varieties of apples across the globe — so which are best when it comes time to slice or dice them into a pie filling?

For starters, you don’t want an apple that’s soft or mealy, because it might break down too much and turn into something resembling the texture of baby food. (For example: McIntosh apples are great for eating out of hand, but they don’t hold up well when it comes to baking.) And then there are others that are either lacking in the flavor department completely or simply one-dimensional. (Red Delicious, we’re looking at you.)

Thankfully, there are plenty of other options. Below are 10 we recommend you seek out the next time you’re ready to bake an apple pie.

Braeburn — This apple is a descendant of Granny Smith, but slightly sweeter. Some say it tastes almost like a pear when cooked.

Cortland — Some might shun Cortlands for baking because they can get a little soft compared to others, but in pies, they hold their shape decently and can be a great textural addition when used with firmer apples.

Crispin (Mutsu) — Introduced in 1949, Crispins are a cross between Golden Delicious and Indo cultivars. They have a nice tartness that works well to

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balance the sweetness of desserts.

Golden Delicious — If you had to pick just one apple, this is the variety many would recommend. My colleague Becky Krystal likes it for its accessibility and reliability, and J. Kenji López-Alt found it had the best flavor when used as the sole cultivar in an extensive apple pie test for Serious Eats.

Granny Smith — Firm and very tart, this variety is the go-to for many when it comes to pie because it keeps its shape extremely well. But it isn’t exactly known for its flavor, so Granny Smiths are best used in conjunction with sweeter and/or more flavorful apples.

Honeycrisp — These apples can be a little pricey at times because they’re more difficult to grow and have a lower yield, but as Krystal said, “The flavor can be hard to beat.”

Jonagold or Jonathan —Crunchy and sweet-tart, Jonagolds are a cross between Jonathan and Golden

Delicious apples. They’re one of pastry chef Paola Velez’s favorite apples to use in pie along with Granny Smith and Honeycrisp.

Northern Spy — Not always the easiest to find, but when you do, these beauties will have you wanting to grab a bushel or two. My colleague Daniela Galarza says this is one of her favorites.

Pink Lady — This super crisp apple certainly is sturdy enough to hold its shape when baked. It’s a nice mix of sweet and tart and boasts a vibrant pink skin (hence the name).

Winesap — This heirloom cultivar is said to have been around for centuries. “Winesap apples are highly aromatic with a balanced sweet-tart taste and get their name due to their distinctive spicy wine-like flavor,” per the store Specialty Produce in San Diego.

Now, the only question that remains is: Who’s getting the vanilla ice cream to scoop on top?

PILLSBURY’S PERFECT APPLE PIE CRUST: 1 box of prepared pie crust FILLING: 6 cups thinly sliced, peeled apples (6 medium) 3/4 cup sugar 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg 1 tablespoon lemon juice Heat oven to 425 degrees. Place 1 pie crust in ungreased 9-inch pie plate and press against side and bottom.

In large bowl, mix filling ingredients and spoon into the crust-lined pie plate. Add a top crust and wrap the excess under bottom crust edge, pressing edges together to seal; flute.

Cut slits or shapes in several places in top crust.

Bake 40 to 45 minutes or until apples are tender and crust is golden brown. Cover edge of crust with 2- to 3-inch wide strips of foil after first 15 to 20 minutes of baking to prevent excess browning. Cool on cooling rack at least 2 hours before serving.

Pillsbury’s Perfect Apple Pie is easy to make by using prepared pie crust.

Use one variety of apple or mix it up by using two or more. Pillsbury

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Read the books that inspired your on screen screams Get ready for Halloween with these movies based on literature

Ichabod and Mr. Toad” on Disney+. Purchase the story via Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Target and more.

Kathleen Christiansen

‘THE MIST’

By KATHLEEN CHRISTIANSEN, AMY DREW THOMPSON, PATRICK CONNOLLY & TREVOR FRASER Orlando Sentinel

With so many spooky and scary movies out there, it’s hard to decide what to watch when October rolls around. But why limit yourself to just viewing creepy content? Instead, not only watch but also read as you enjoy these movies based on literature.

‘CANDYMAN’ (1992) The works of British horror author Clive Barker have an uneven history of success, but few villains are as enduring or iconic as Tony Todd’s titular Candyman. Based on Barker’s short story “The Forbidden,” the movie moves the original setting of the slums of Liverpool to the storied Cabrini-Green housing projects in Chicago, yet maintains the themes of the power of folklore and poverty tourism.

Grad student Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen) is interested in local urban legends when she comes across stories of The Candyman, a hook-handed, bee-covered ghost who might be the embodiment of historic evils. Director Bernard Rose and a score from minimalist composer Philip Glass elevate the material beyond the typical slasher fare to keep the intelligent meditation of the story.

But don’t worry, gore fans. This is still from Barker’s “Books of Blood” series, so there is plenty of horror to be found.

The film spawned a couple of tepid sequels over the decades until this year, when director Nia DaCosta’s sequel of the same name returned the original social commentary and creepiness to the screen. This is a good year to get reacquainted with the original.

Watch the original “Candyman” on Tubi. Purchase “Books of Blood, Volume 5” (which contains “The Forbidden”) via Amazon, Barnes &

Virginia Madsen and Tony Todd in a scene from “Candyman.” POLYGRAM/Album/Zuma Press/TNS

Noble and more.

Trevor Fraser

‘I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER’ “I Know What You Did Last Summer” begins with a group of high school seniors — Ray, Julie, Barry and Helen — as they party and celebrate their summer together. Later that night, Barry’s car strikes a pedestrian on the road. In the book, it’s a young cyclist, and in the film, Ray is driving and hits a fisherman. They agree to hide the body and never speak of the incident again.

The following summer, as the quartet of young adults are ravaged with guilt, they are

haunted by somebody who claims to know what they did last summer. This shows up in notes, photographs and appearances by a mysterious stalker. In the movie, it’s a fisherman in a slicker who uses a hook to commit nearly a halfdozen murders. The slasher film isn’t a cinematic masterpiece, garnering ratings in the 40% range on Rotten Tomatoes, but it has a dedicated cult following and can be fun to watch.

The end is ambiguous, leaving the door open for two sequels released in 1998 and 2006.

The details differ between the book and film adaptation, but the premise remains the same: Teens with guilty consciences

run from their actions as somebody seeks revenge.

Watch it on Amazon Prime Video. Purchase the book via Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Target and more.

Patrick Connolly

‘SLEEPY HOLLOW’ No matter what version — short story, movie or show — “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” has always fascinated me. Perhaps because I grew up in New York, not far from the village.

Yes, it’s real — an argument I had to settle with many friends in college. There’s even a haunted attraction near Sleepy Hollow called Headless Horseman Hayrides and Haunted Houses, which derives its name from the

story’s chief spook.

Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” tells of a village haunted by spirits — most notably, the Headless Horseman who is the ghost of a Hessian soldier who lost his head to cannon fire during the Revolutionary War. Superstitious schoolmaster Ichabod Crane moves to the town and charms the villagers but becomes Brom Bones’ rival as the two seek to win the favor of Katrina Van Tassel. Crane is attacked one night by the Horseman and disappears. But was it truly the mythical figure or a jealous Brom Bones?

Tim Burton’s adaptation titled “Sleepy Hollow” is loosely based on the story. However, instead of a schoolmaster, Crane (Johnny Depp) is a New York City police constable investigating several murders in Sleepy Hollow. Fans of Burton’s gothic film style are sure to appreciate this reimagining of Irving’s tale.

But if the scary version isn’t for you, there’s also the delightful Disney cartoon that will have you singing along with “It’s the new schoolmaster. What’s his name? Ichabod. Ichabod Crane.” It cleverly tells the classic tale in a kid-friendly manner with slight scares. “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” short is part of “The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad,” so you might as well watch the wild adventures of J. Thaddeus Toad in the “Wind and the Willows” segment while you’re at it.

Watch “Sleepy Hollow” on Starz or “The Adventures of

Mystery and monsters loom large in “The Mist,” a film adapted from the Stephen King novella of the same name, first published in 1980 but then included in a 1985 collection called “Skeleton Crew,” where it became one of the snacks of my voracious-for-King teenage years. (I have a clear memory of finishing my library-leased copy of “Pet Sematary” very late at night and tossing it into my bedside drawer with fearsome speed; that epilogue was a true creeper!)

“The Mist” is, as is the case with much of the King I’ve enjoyed, a solid, Serling-esque showcase of the monsters people become when faced with, well, monsters. And the monsters said people encounter in the mist were well paired with the burgeoning CGI of the aughts and director Frank Darabont’s grim vision.

Darabont had brought other King books to life with phenomenal results before making this film (“The Shawshank Redemption” and “The Green Mile”) and though I wouldn’t put “The Mist” at that level, the director’s talent for bringing societal breakdown to life — something he’d develop phenomenally before bringing “The Walking Dead” to the small screen years later — is evidenced here in comparative infancy.

There are things “The Mist” does quite differently on the screen versus the page. And I can’t reveal these spoilers. But I can tell you that the most startling of them — some fans loved it, others not so much — was 100% King-approved.

And that the monsters that creep therefrom are the stuff the Halloween season is made of.

Watch it on AMC+, FuboTV, Philo or Sling. Purchase the book via Amazon, Barnes & Noble and more.

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In praise of the other heroes of the coronavirus crisis: Central bankers

By STEPHANIE MEHTA Washington Post

Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World’s Economy

By Adam Tooze Viking. 354 pp. $28 “Shutdown:”Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World’s Economy” is among the first of what is sure to be many books that will attempt to recount and analyze the coronavirus pandemic and its aftershocks.

But this is not a book about the health crisis, the staggering loss of life or even the devastating toll the titular economic shutdowns have had on communities already struggling to make ends meet.

Adam Tooze instead measures the impact of lockdowns in declines in credit card spending in Spain, increases in unemployment-benefit applications in the United States and drops in passenger throughput at Heathrow Airport.

So it should not be surprising that Tooze’s COVID crisis heroes are not frontline health-care workers or

scientists racing to find a vaccine but central bankers. Jerome Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve, emerges as a pragmatic and decisive protagonist. The once-embattled former investment banker who had drawn the ire of President Donald Trump, who claimed he wasn’t doing enough to help boost the U.S. economy, led a series of monetary and fiscal interventions that ultimately helped prop up the global economy.

Tooze briskly and expertly recounts the tense weeks in March 2020 when the Fed shored up the Treasury market with collateralized short-term loans, dropped interest rates to zero and announced backstops for commercial paper — promissory notes that companies issue to fund short-term obligations. The moves paved the way for other reserve banks to act and for governments to approve emergency relief. By the end of 2020, lawmakers and central banks had pledged nearly $20 trillion to “put a floor under the world economy,” in the words of the

International Monetary Fund.

(There was, however, no discernible ceiling on wealth creation: U.S. households added $13.5 trillion in wealth in 2020, according to the Federal Reserve, with about a third of that going to the top 1 percent, mostly in the form of gains when the stock market rallied in response to the various stimuli.)

The success of these state interventions helps bolster Tooze’s central thesis, which is that the great neoliberal experiment — favoring market-driven policies such as globalization and privatization — has failed. “The idea that the natural envelope of economic activity could be ignored or left to markets to regulate was clearly out of touch with reality,” he writes. “So too was the idea that markets could self-regulate in relation to all conceivable social and economic shocks.”

As one piece of evidence of neoliberalism’s demise, he cites the speed and equanimity with which Congress passed the Cares Act, whose $2.7

trillion final appropriation was “nigh on three times” the hard-fought Obama stimulus package aimed at stabilizing the U.S. economy in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis.

Tooze routinely compares the coronavirus shutdown to the 2008-2009 financial crisis, in no small part because his last book, “Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World,” chronicled the lead-up to and fallout from the Great Recession. It also happens to make for apt comparisons, as few previous economic and health disasters can match the scale and global reach of this pandemic.

Still, Tooze scarcely dives into any other health-related calamities or major financial scares. He dedicates just a few paragraphs to the flu pandemic of 1918, noting that “it stopped ordinary life in some cities for a matter of months, causing closures of businesses and social distancing.” While there may be few lessons for central bankers or fiscal policymakers to learn from 1918,

one would think that Tooze, a professor of history at Columbia University, would be well positioned to research and detail how politicians addressed the hardships brought on by the last pandemic or how some of the world’s most enduring corporations managed through it.

Tooze’s book offers readers a comprehensive and smartly written summary of the economic impact of the coronavirus. I marveled at how he included data points from

Turkey, Trinidad and a range of small countries. I can see myself using this book as a reference guide, turning back to highlighted passages — and the extensive footnotes — to remind me of key moments and announcements in 2020.

The biggest shortcoming of “Shutdown” is that historian Tooze’s subject is far from history. The book ends in May 2021, before global health organizations started warning about the rise of variants and breakthrough infections, and before companies pressed pause on ambitious return-towork plans.

Meanwhile, the new era of government spending championed by Tooze is hardly a fait accompli. As this review went to press, President Biden was struggling to win bipartisan support for a $2 trillion infrastructure plan, and lawmakers seemed to have little inclination to spend tax dollars to address climate change, a crisis that by many accounts dwarfs the pandemic. Neoliberalism isn’t history yet, and neither, it seems, are shutdowns.

Publisher’s Weekly best-sellers Tribune News Service

Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Oct. 1, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by NPD BookScan (C) 2021 NPD Group.

HARDCOVER FICTION 1. The Wish. Nicholas Sparks. Grand Central 2. Cloud Cuckoo Land. Anthony Doerr. Scribner 3. Apples Never Fall. Liane Moriarty. Holt 4. The Jailhouse Lawyer. Patterson/Allen. Little, Brown

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

4. The High 5 Habit. Mel Robbins. Hay House 5. American Marxism. Mark R. Levin. Threshold 6. Trisha’s Kitchen. Trisha Yearwood. Mariner 7. Unrequited Infatuations. Stevie Van Zandt.

Hachette 8. No Cure for Being Human. Kate Bowler. Random House 9. Crazy Faith. Michael Todd. WaterBrook 10. The Baseball 100. Joe Posnanski. Avid Reader

1. Peril. Woodward/Costa. Simon & Schuster 2. Feeding the Soul (Because It’s My Business).

Tabitha Brown. Morrow 3. Vanderbilt. Cooper/Howe. Harper

1. Mile High with a Vampire. Lynsay Sands. Avon 2. Lightning Game. Christine Feehan. Berkley

5. The Last Graduate. Naomi Novik. Del Rey 6. The Santa Suit. Mary Kay Andrews. St. Martin’s 7. Harlem Shuffle. Colson Whitehead. Doubleday 8. The Man Who Died Twice. Richard Osman.

Viking/Dorman 9. Billy Summers. Stephen King. Scribner 10. Bewilderment. Richard Powers. Norton

MASS MARKET

3. Arctic Witness. Heather Woodhaven. Love Inspired Suspense 4. Missing and Endangered. J.A. Jance. Morrow 5. Before She Disappeared. Lisa Gardner. Dutton 6. The Unknown. Heather Graham. Mira 7. A Country Affair. Debbie Macomber. Mira 8. Walk the Wire. David Baldacci. Grand Central 9. The Perfect Christmas. Debbie Macomber. Mira 10. Keep Me Warm at Christmas. Brenda Novak.

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TRADE PAPERBACK 1. Where the Crawdads Sing. Delia Owens. Putnam

2. A Gambling Man. David Baldacci. Grand Central 3. The Return. Nicholas Sparks. Grand Central 4. Deadly Cross. James Patterson. Grand Central 5. If God Is Love, Don’t Be a Jerk. John Pavlovitz.

Westminster John Knox 6. People We Meet on Vacation. Emily Henry.

Berkley 7. The Book of Two Ways. Jodi Picoult. Ballantine 8. The Dressmakers of Auschwitz. Lucy Adlington.

Harper 9. My Hero Academia, Vol. 29. Kohei Horikoshi. Viz 10. Talking to Strangers. Malcolm Gladwell. Back Bay

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Horoscope

By Stella Wilder Born Sunday, you are a rather quiet, mild-mannered and easygoing individual, but that overall description belies a tremendous current of passion that runs fiercely beneath your seemingly still and unruffled exterior. This is a current of energy that you always have access to, and you are able to use it to full advantage when you apply it to the work you do — provided, of course, it is work that inspires you in its demands and potential rewards.

Trouble is likely to come to you in the form of rivals, but that can be minimized by adjusting your own attitude to make room for those who would, like you, stake a claim to greatness. You must not be too concerned with what others do; what you are doing, day after day, is and must be your primary focus if you’re going to fulfill your tremendous promise.

Also born on this date are: Kevin Kline, actor; F. Murray Abraham, actor; Moss Hart, playwright; BD Wong, actor; Eric Hosmer, baseball player; Shenae Grimes, actress; Lamarcus Tinker, actor.

To see what is in store for you Monday, find your birthday and read the

Last week’s puzzle answers corresponding paragraph. Let your birthday star be your daily guide.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 25 SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — You’re trying to do more than you have promised, but today may not be the day for that. Do precisely what is required of you, first.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — A message comes to you today from an unusual source, and you’ll have good reason to react in a manner that takes even you by surprise.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You must say what’s on your mind today, but you don’t have to say it the way you first want to. That would be imprudent, and you know it!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — You’re likely to be inundated with new information today, but you may be able to use only a small fraction of it right away.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — Others will likely urge you to do something you’ve long been considering — but resisting. Today may be the day for you to give it a try.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — No one doubts that you are dedicated to certain ide-

als, but you may want to prove where you stand by doing something out of the ordinary.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — The support system you usually rely on may not be available to you in its entirety. You will want to correct yourself as you go.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You’re used to getting your way, but today you may run up against someone whose will in this regard is even stronger than your own.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — You don’t want to make an awkward situation even worse today by suggesting a way forward that no one wants to take. Try not to intrude!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Your willingness to do what someone desires is likely to cause you some grief today, as your scales of right and wrong may not match.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Something comes your way today that you feel would be more suited to someone else — so pass it along! The gesture will be appreciated.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You’re likely to finish something that has been on the docket for quite a while waiting for you to locate a lost piece of the puzzle.

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Add pumpkin to tomatoes for creamy, warming soup Caribbean flavors add an extra dose of comfort

By ELLIE KRIEGER Washington Post

With all the fuss over pumpkin spice, it’s easy to forget that the orange squash is a nutritious vegetable that can also lean savory. Pumpkin can be used just like any other winter squash, cut into wedges or cubes and roasted, or simmered for side dishes salads and soups. Just don’t bother cooking that big carving pumpkin. I learned the hard way, when I was just out of college, that the flesh of that variety is bland, watery and fibrous.

Instead, get the smaller kind labeled “sugar” or “pie” pumpkin, which cooks up creamy and dense with a delicate sweetness.

Those qualities are brought into play in this velvety tomato soup, adding a dynamic layer of interest to a pot that’s brimming with warming flavors. While you can certainly use fresh-cooked, pureed pumpkin to make it, taking advantage of canned pumpkin works, too, and it makes the soup a completely pantryfriendly recipe.

First, a trio of aromatics — onion, garlic and ginger — are sauteed in a little oil. Then, broth (chicken or vegetable), canned diced tomatoes and pumpkin puree are added to the pot, along with ground cinnamon and allspice, and are simmered until their flavors come together and the soup thickens a bit.

Finally, a touch of honey and a splash coconut milk are added and everything is pureed until luxuriously smooth.

The cinnamon and allspice coax out the sweet undertones of the tomatoes and squash and add a warm coziness to the pot, while the coconut

Creamy Tomato Pumpkin Soup. Tom McCorkle/Washington Post.

milk brings a rich layer of creaminess.

Together with the ginger and garlic, the seasonings give the soup Caribbean flair, where, by the way, a variety of pumpkin (Calabaza) is commonly used in savory dishes.

CREAMY TOMATO PUMPKIN SOUP Active time: 20 minutes | Total time: 35 minutes 4 servings In this velvety tomato soup, pumpkin puree, coconut milk, cinnamon, nutmeg and ginger provide layers of dynamic, warming flavor that ring of Caribbean cuisine. Taking advantage of canned pumpkin makes it a completely pantryfriendly recipe.

1 tablespoon neutral oil, such as canola, grapeseed or safflower 1 small-to-medium onion (about 5 ounces), diced 2 cloves garlic, minced or finely

grated 2 teaspoons finely grated fresh ginger 2 cups low-sodium vegetable or chicken broth One (15-ounce) can no-saltadded diced tomatoes with their juices 1 cup pumpkin puree 1/2 teaspoon table salt or fine sea salt 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon ground allspice 1/2 cup plus 2 teaspoons light coconut milk, divided 2 teaspoons honey or maple syrup Freshly ground black pepper (optional) In a medium pot over medium heat, heat the oil until shimmering. Add the onion and cook, stirring occasionally, until softened, about 3 minutes. Stir in the garlic and ginger and cook until aromatic, 30 seconds.

Add the broth, tomatoes, pumpkin, salt, cinnamon and allspice and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to low and simmer, uncovered, stirring occasionally, until the flavors have melded, about 15 minutes. Stir in ½ cup of the coconut milk and the honey, and remove from the heat. Using an immersion blender, puree until smooth. (Alternatively, let cool slightly and puree in batches in a regular blender.) Divide among 4 bowls, garnish with a drizzle of coconut milk and pepper, if using. Serve hot.

Nutrition information per serving (1 1/4 cup ), based on 4 | Calories: 117; Total Fat: 6 g; Saturated Fat: 3 g; Cholesterol: 0 mg; Sodium: 368 mg; Carbohydrates: 15 g; Dietary Fiber: 3 g; Sugar: 7 g; Protein: 2 g From cookbook author and registered nutritionist Ellie Krieger.

What the ads and salespeople don’t tell you about car buying

By CARLA FRIED Rate.com

Your car may drive like a dream, but in reality it’s pretty much a guaranteed financial sinkhole.

Sure, right now we have a weird situation where some used cars are selling for more than their purchase price, but that’s due to COVID supplydemand issues that are not expected to persist much longer.

And the main personalfinance law of cars is that every extra dollar you spend on a car is a dollar blown. Yet that can be hard to heed when you’re up against billion-dollar marketing campaigns and smooth-talking salespeople.

Here are some all too common car-buying come-ons, and the messaging that is left out.

What they say: Leasing a car is cheaper than buying.

What they don’t tell you: To be clear, the monthly cost to lease a car will indeed typically be less than the monthly payment to buy the same car with a loan. But a lease is for three years. You either have to buy it or, as most people do, just lease another new car. Keep leasing, and you will be making lease payments in perpetuity, which is why leasing is a four-wheel money pit.

If you buy a car with a fiveyear loan, you’ll own that car outright at the beginning of year six. No more payments for as long as you keep driving the car. That can mean years of not having to shell out a monthly car payment, which gives you the cash-flow breathing room to use that money for other financial goals.

Given the average car payment is now north of $500 (and more than $400 for a used car) that’s a mighty big opportunity to build up emergency savings, pay down student loans at a faster pace or tuck away money for a down payment on a home. But only if you don’t fall for the lease.

What they say: Between trade-in values, low interest rates and eager lenders, we definitely can get you in that new car.

What they don’t tell you: If you instead opt for used cars throughout your driving days, you could put yourself in an excellent position to retire with a whole lot more saved up. The opportunity cost of buying a new car or buying a new pickup truck that is tricked out with upgrades can be tens of thousands of foregone retirement dollars.

What they say: Low interest rates and easy financing make it a great time to buy a new car.

What they don’t tell you: Buy new, and you are agreeing to be the financial chump who pays for the biggest chunk of the car’s depreciation. Buy a three-year-old used car (or older), and you effectively let the seller take the big depreciation hit for you.

What they say: Our dealership will even arrange financing for you. It couldn’t be easier.

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Put this on your plant list Supertunia Picasso in Purple is a masterpiece for your garden

By NORMAN WINTER Tribune News Service

Homemade quick-pickled jalapeños are easy to make. Rey Lopez/ Washington Post

Jalapeños From C3

QUICK-PICKLED JALAPENOS 5 minutes, plus 8 hours’ pickling time 12 servings (makes about 2 cups of pickled jalapeños) Make Ahead: The jalapeños must be pickled at least 8 hours in advance.

Storage Notes: The pickled jalapeños can be refrigerated in a covered container for up

to 1 month.

4 medium jalapeños (about 8 ounces total), sliced into 1/8- to 1/4-inch thick rounds 1/2 cup white vinegar, plus more as needed 1/2 cup water 1 teaspoon to 1 tablespoon fine sea salt or table salt 1 teaspoon to 1 tablespoon granulated sugar (optional) STEP 1 In a clean 16- to 20-ounce jar with a tightfitting lid, combine the jalapeño slices, ½ cup vinegar, water, salt and sugar, if using. If necessary, use a fork to help the jalapeño slices fit tightly into the jar. If the liquid doesn’t completely cover the jalapeños, add more vinegar until it does.

STEP 2 Tightly seal the jar and give it a few good shakes. Refrigerate the pickled jalapeños for at least 8 hours before using.

Naming a petunia “Picasso” gives clear indication this plant is something special. That is precisely what I thought the first time I saw Supertunia Picasso in Purple in plant trials. I actually felt a little intimidated as I started thinking what would I do with this beautiful flower in containers or in the landscape.

Oddly, my opportunity came in October 2020. This is probably not your first thought when it comes to planting petunias. It is even an aggressive thought in zone 8a West Georgia. But that is precisely what happened.

This unique petunia is a rich purple color with what Proven Winners describes as mint green edges — but I promise plenty of times the mint green leans toward chartreuse, which is even more riveting.

So right there you have two color choices of incorporating into the design. In fact, a Proven Winner combination named “Breathless” may be the perfect partnership.

Breathless uses Angelface Perfectly Pink angelonia as the thriller. Though called pink, it echoes the color of Picasso in Purple to perfection. But it is the ornamental Sweet Caroline Light Green Sweet Potato Vine that is the finishing touch, as it picks up the green in the petunia.

The first week of October 2020 I planted my Picasso in Purple in the landscape and in a prized container I had reserved for such an occasion. In the landscape I obviously used it as a groundcover flower and

This container in Old Town of North Columbus shows the summer blooms of Supertunia Picasso in Purple with the white blooms of Diamond Snow euphorbia. James Winter/TNS

partnered it with Firelight Tidbit hydrangea paniculata that was planted a week earlier.

The purple flowers made a magical partnership with the hydrangea blossoms as they turned from white to various shades of pink. All the Supertunias lasted until the end of June. This was nine months, right at 270 days, which was beyond my wildest dreams.

The Garden Guy is a sucker for containers that are made out of recycled or reconstituted material and my lavender purple container made out of bamboo was about to be put to the test with Supertunia Picasso in Purple petunia also planted in October.

I chose Superbells Yellow Calibrachoa and White Knight Lobularia, or Sweet Alyssum,

as partners. Again, I was probably even more surprised when everything — including the pot — survived the long winter. While we did not have the record cold of Texas and Louisiana, we did have a lot of nights in the mid-20s. By April this was like the picture of a spring bouquet.

Like the other Supertunias I was growing, Picasso in Purple surprised me with frequent visits of the yellow eastern tiger swallowtail butterfly. It was like nature was doing its part to enhance the color scheme. So it is deja vu as I have planted the partnerships again in the bamboo container.

The White Knight Sweet Alyssum that survived the winter also survived the summer

and is starting to flush with blooms. This year I have added Lemon Coral Sedum to echo the green in the Supertunia Picasso in Purple petunia. The Superbells Yellow Calibrachoa is much underused and is a container wonder.

Supertunia Picasso in Purple gets about 12 inches tall with a spread of 2 feet, which is perfect for containers. Son James used them and they were the stars of the show in the containers of the Old Town community of North Columbus.

Like all other petunias, it needs fertile, well-drained soil and plenty of sunlight. If you live in the South and find it now, give it a chance. Otherwise, come spring, be the first in line.