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CAIRO — A Cairo woman is dead and a Saugerties woman is being held on murder charges following a stabbing early Friday morning in Cairo, Steven Nevel, public information officer for state police Troop F, said.

Crystal L. Borne, 39, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Amber C. Akins, 40, has been charged with second-degree murder, a class A-1 felony, Nevel said.

Akins and Borne knew one another, Nevel said, but provided no further details.

At about 1:02 a.m., state police responded to the Lake Mills Apartments, at 53 Lake Mills Road, after they received a report that a woman had been stabbed, Nevel said.

Cairo Ambulance and Greene County Paramedics were also requested to the scene and performed life-saving measures on Borne, but attempts to resuscitate her were unsuccessful, Nevel said.

A preliminary investigation indicated that Akins stabbed Borne during a brief altercation

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One woman is dead, and another charged with murder, following an altercation Friday morning at an apartment complex in Cairo

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HUDSON — COVID has impacted businesses and industries differently, and several businesses have had to make changes to their model throughout the pandemic.

In the earlier days of the pandemic the state placed different restrictions on the reopening of certain types of businesses and certain capacity limitations on others based on how safe and essential the state deemed those businesses.

Greene County Chamber of Commerce President Jeff Friedman said some of the industries hit hardest during the pandemic were bars, restaurants and those in the hospitality industry.

Friedman said bars and restaurants have had their capacity limitations changed

several times throughout the pandemic, and many had to adapt to becoming primarily a take-out-based business when restrictions did not allow for indoor dining.

During COVID, Chris’ Cafe in Valatie switched to a more take-out-based type of restaurant. Owner Nick Jennings said they have switched from having table service and a waiter bringing food and drink refills, to a new system where all of the food is ordered at the counter and packaged in to-go boxes and customers have the option to eat it at a table or take it home.

By using a more cafe-type method of selling food they do not need as much staff to wait on tables or wash as many dishes Jennings said.

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From a flower shop-restaurant fusion to a gym that welcomes all, Columbia and Greene counties have seen new storefronts and emerging Twin County business owners pop up throughout the pandemic.

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Jason Denton speaks to kitchen staff at Feast and Floret.

Jason Denton wanted to move with his family from New York City to Hudson one day, and seeing the former Fish and Game restaurant for sale at 13 South 3rd St., in Hudson fastforwarded his plans.

“I always loved the bones of this space,” the New York City restaurateur said, pointing to the wood-burning grill, ovens and fire places in his flower shop-restaurant fusion, Feast and Floret.

Denton co-owns the

business with Lavinia and Patrick Milling-Smith. Feast and Floret opened in October.

Denton appreciated the quiet-dining scene when the restaurant opened, he said, calling the opportunity for a soft opening a luxury. “It gave us an opportunity to kind of open under the radar and gradually build,” he said.

Fish and Game was “iconic,” so the new owners wanted to recreate the space, making it lighter and more feminine, Denton said.

A large table covered with flowers was placed between dining tables to create social distancing between patrons, but Denton loves the layout and wants to keep it beyond COVID-19 times, he said. The flowers began as “eye candy,” but have gradually became See GRIT A8

Firm proposes warehouse and a light industrial park

By Melanie Lekocevic Columbia-Greene Media

NEW BALTIMORE — A new warehouse and light industrial park could be coming to Route 9W in the town of New Baltimore.

Dan Hershberg of the Albany-based engineering firm Hershberg & Hershberg presented preliminary plans to the New Baltimore Planning Board on Thursday for a development that would construct five warehouses to store products and potentially light industrial work such as the assembling of products.

The company filing the application is U.S. Route 9W,

LLC, with partners based in Long Island and Westchester County.

“The project is a 25-acre project on Route 9W right next to Kreitmeier Road,” Hershberg told the board. “The applicant would like to build a warehouse or light industrial park for up to 100,000 square feet worth of space.”

The site is currently vacant.

The area is zoned for commercial use.

The five proposed warehouse buildings would be about 30 feet tall and would be built one or two at a time.

No tenants have signed on to populate the warehouses at

this time.

“My client does not have any tenants yet,” Hershberg said. “It’s very hard to get tenants on a project like this because we have to give them an idea of when we will be done with it and this process will take a while to go through to get approvals, building takes a while, so we are talking about occupancy in maybe 2024.”

Planning Board Chairman Robert Van Etten asked about what types of products would be stored in the warehouses.

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Dan Hershberg from the engineering firm Hershberg & Hershberg presents preliminary plans for a warehouse and light industrial park in the town of New Baltimore.

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Biden officials steadfastly have refused to characterize the surge in crossings as a crisis, and in recent weeks, they have largely overcome the one thing that met that definition - the scenes of children and teens without parents jam-packed into Border Patrol tents.

Six weeks ago, the administration had more than 5,700 unaccompanied minors in CBP facilities ill-suited for teens and children, but after opening 14 emergency shelter sites run by the Department of Health and Human Services, the number of minors in Border Patrol custody has dropped more than 90%.

The change has allowed Biden officials to pivot from a defensive posture to a more confident tone, even as critics point out the government now has more than 20,000 migrant teens and children in shelters, many of which are unlicensed.

The cost of caring for record numbers of minors this year is projected to reach at least $3 billion.

Rep. Nanette Diaz Barragán, D-Calif., the chair of the House Homeland Security Committee’s border security subcommittee, was among five congresswomen who praised the administration’s progress after she visited CBP’s Donna, Texas, tent facility last week with DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

The site’s holding pens were so stuffed in March that teens and children barely had room to lie down, but CBP photos released last week showed them nearly empty.

Barragán called the turnaround “a huge win,” adding she did not view high numbers of migrant teens and children crossing the border as something inherently negative.

“The alternative is to put them on the Mexican side and deliver them to the cartels,” Barragán said in an interview.

In March 2020, Trump an emergency order under the Title 42 public health code to rapidly return most unauthorized border-crossers to Mexico, sending unaccompanied minors to their home countries on repatriation flights. The Biden

administration opted to exempt minors from the policy, allowing them to make humanitarian claims under U.S. law. Record numbers of teens and children have arrived this spring, the vast majority to reunite with parents or relatives already in the United States.

Last month 17,171 unaccompanied minors were taken into custody, the latest CBP figures show, down 9% from March’s record total of 18,890. In recent days the number of teens and children arriving has dropped even lower, bringing more relief to the Biden administration, which has been urging Mexico to beef up enforcement along its border with Guatemala.

One border-state lawmaker whose criticisms have stung the administration, Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, was not willing to join the chorus of praise from others in his party. He referred to the transfer of minors from CBP to HHS as a “shell game.”

“I’m a big supporter of Biden, but the numbers are still large, and just because we’re able to manage kids by moving them from one tent to another tent doesn’t mean the problem is under control,” Cuellar said in an interview.

“The GOP always wants to talk about the pull factors, and Democrats want to talk about push factors,” Cuellar added, referring to the array of forces that prompt someone to head for the U.S. border, from desperation in Central America to changes in U.S. immigration enforcement that diminish the risk of deportation. “I think we need to address both.”

Under Trump, the release of CBP data became a monthly Washington ritual, often carefully coordinated with DHS and White House public relations officials to mitigate damage or claim policy success. But the enforcement statistics are not a comprehensive migration census. They offer a snapshot of changing enforcement activity, tallying the number of arrests and detentions made by Border Patrol agents and the CBP officers who staff ports of entry.

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WASHINGTON - When it came time this week for the Biden administration to release April enforcement data showing illegal migration at a 20-year high, U.S. Customs and Border Protection slipped the news in an after-hours newsrelease.

There was no public briefing, no questions from reporters and little evident urgency.

It was a departure from the Trump administration approach. President Donald Trump treated CBP monthly enforcement data as a stock index for his Homeland Security team’s performance, and the calculus was simple: Higher border enforcement numbers were bad; lower numbers were good.

Nearly four months into President Joe Biden’s term, and as his administration settles into a new normal of superlative border numbers, he and his top officials are looking to break with Trump’s measurement standards, even as immigration ranks as one of their worst-polling issues.

U.S. agents are making about 6,000 arrests and detentions along the Mexico border each day, a level of law enforcement intensity that has no recent precedent. Family groups and children needing care remain a major challenge for CBP, while growing numbers of adult migrants are trying to sneak past them and evade capture. Border state lawmakers from both parties fault the White House for doing too little.

Rather than attempting to drive down migration through more stringent enforcement, Biden officials in recent weeks have been seeking to change the perception that high border numbers equate to a crisis, a failure, or even something manifestly negative.

“Apprehensions don’t tell the full story, and getting to zero is not a measure of success,” Tyler Moran, one of Biden’s top immigration policy advisers, said in an interview. She and other Biden officials have urged patience with their policies and plans to address the “root causes” driving Central American emigration, while blaming the Trump administration for handing them an immigration system with a myopic focus on keeping border numbers low.

“We’re moving toward a fair, orderly and humane system,” Moran added. “We’re increasing and improving legal migration, and deterring irregular migration. We have put in place a number of policies creating legal pathways to migrate and seek protection, and we see that as a metric of success.”

The president’s Republican critics have seized on the border influx to hammer Biden and redirect attention from his

- they don’t accurately capture the nature of different flows of people or whether the system is orderly and fair,” said Kerri Talbot, deputy director of Immigration Hub, an advocacy group influential with the administration. “Border management requires a deeper look at who is coming to the border and why so that we can truly address the root causes of the migration and fairly and adequately deal with the impact at our border.”

What the CBP data does show, however, are changes in migration patterns among demographic categories - adults, family members and unaccompanied minors - as well as their nationality and whether they are returned under Title 42.

“The monthly numbers are the best measure of what’s going on at the border,” said Paul Beeson, a retired Border Patrol official who was chief of the agency’s Tucson sector. “They show what’s happening month to month, what the level of activity is like and how many people are trying to sneak in.

“If you’re not going to measure that, what are you going to measure?” he said.

The monthly apprehension numbers plummeted last spring after Trump implemented the Title 42 expulsions, and when they began rising again, his administration also argued they were a deficient metric.

Because most border-crossers were returned to Mexico under Title 42, they argued, rising apprehension numbers weren’t a problem.

The Biden administration has advanced a similar argument, noting that more than 62% of the 178,662 migrants taken into custody last month were promptly returned under Title 42.

When Mayorkas testified before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee Thursday, he said the effort to move minors into HHS shelters had produced “dramatic” results. Republicans bristled.

“I must admit I have found this hearing to be stunning,” said Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, one of only six Republican senators who voted to confirm Mayorkas in February. “It seems, Mr. Secretary, you’re proud of the progress being made by the administration, that things are going well at the border.”

“I see an extraordinary crisis,” he said, flanked by postersize charts with CBP enforcement numbers in towering red columns. “The questions is: do you have plans to do something dramatically different, so those numbers come down to an acceptable level?”

“We are addressing the numbers consistent with the law,” Mayorkas said. “They have a claim under the law. We can in fact meet the challenge.”

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Gas shortages persist as operations resume at downed pipeline Jacob Bogage The Washington Post

Fuel shortages persisted Friday as gas stations throughout the Southeast awaited deliveries after the region’s main pipeline resumed operations following a cyberattack.

The Biden administration warned Thursday that it could still take days for the oil industry to return to full operations after last week’s ransomware hack on Colonial Pipeline, the passageway that provides the Southeast nearly half its fuel.

Consumers continued feeling that shortage Friday.

Nearly 9 in 10 gasoline stations in Washington, D.C.,

were shuttered as of 6:30 a.m., according to tracking service GasBuddy, and nearly 7 in 10 in North Carolina were closed.

Of the 15 states, plus Washington, affected by the outage, more than 50% of service stations in five of them - the District of Columbia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Virginia - lacked any fuel.

At least 30% of fueling stops in Maryland, Tennessee and Florida were without gas. Supply issues in Alabama, Mississippi, West Virginia, Kentucky, New Jersey, Delaware, Louisiana and Texas were nearly resolved.

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Report: Housing market continues to surge

By Aliya Schneider Columbia-Greene Media

First-quarter data shows the housing market spike in Columbia and Greene counties has yet to reach its peak.

Pattern for Progress’ Center for Housing Solutions and Community Initiatives, of Newburgh, released a report with first-quarter housing market statistics for the region. The study has data for Columbia, Greene, Dutchess, Orange, Putnam, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster, Westchester counties and the Hudson Valley region as a whole.

Columbia and Greene counties both saw an increase in closed sales and median sales price and decrease in homes for sale and new listings from the first quarter last year to this year.

The median sales price in Columbia County was $280,000 in the first quarter last year and $329,000 in the first quarter this year, a 17.5% increase. In Greene County, the median sales price was $207,000 during the first quarter last year and $267,000 this year, a 29% increase.

Every county in the region saw an increase of at least $49,000 in median sales price from the first quarter last year to this year.

“With new listings down and the inventory further constricted in the first quarter of 2021, buyers remain in a highly competitive real estate market in the Hudson Valley, creating significant upward pricing pressure,” according to

the report.

The shift to remote work culture and historically low interest rates, as well as movement out of New York City has continued to push median prices beyond the peak of the mid-2000s housing market, with the exception of Putnam and Westchester counties. The median prices will continue to rise through the year, according to the report.

In Columbia County, out of 632 homes for sale with 300 new listings in quarter one last year, 131 sales closed. Out of 354 homes for sale in the first quarter this year, with 228 new listings, 189 sales closed. There was a 24% decrease in the number of new listings, 44% decrease in homes for sale and 44.3% increase in the number of closings from last year to this year in the first quarter in Columbia County.

Greene County had 611 homes for sale during the first quarter last year, with 287 new listings. The county saw 141 sales close. During the first quarter this year, there were 338 homes for sale this year with 272 new listings and 196 closed sales. There was a 5.2% decrease in new listings, 44.7% decrease in homes for sale and 39% increase in closed sales.

New listings in the Hudson Valley were down 7.5% during the first quarter this year compared to the first quarter of 2020, according to Pattern for Progress. Closed sales throughout the valley saw a 43.2% increase and the number of homes for sale had a decrease of 41.5% in

the region from the first quarter last year to this year.

Both Columbia and Greene counties saw over 50% decreases in supply from the first quarter last year to this year.

Columbia and Greene showed some of the sharpest declines in supply in the region, according to the report.

Columbia County had 10.7 months of inventory supply in the first quarter last year and had 3.9 months of inventory supply in the first quarter this year, a 63.6% decrease. Greene County had 9 months of inventory supply in the first quarter last year and has 3.7 months supply in the first quarter this year, a 58.9% decrease.

Six months of inventory is considered a balanced supply in the real estate industry, according to the report. Fewer than six months is considered a seller’s market and more than six months is considered a buyer’s market “Every county in the region is now in a sever Seller’s Market, showing less than 3 months of inventory available for Buyers, with the exception of Sullivan County, which is considered a Balance Market at 6.3 months of inventory available,” according to the report.

From 2017 to 2021, there has been a 50.3% decrease and 58.3% decrease in number of single family houses, condos and town homes available in Columbia and Greene counties, respectively.

In order to increase the number of homes for sale, more owners would have

to sell their homes or more homes have to be built, according to the report. The local approval process for developers “is very long and expensive,” and its unlikely there will be a significant increase in available homes this year.

“Coupled with the rising cost of land, materials, a lack of a skilled labor force and supply chain issues, the inventory of new homes is not likely to significantly increase for the balance of 2021,” according to the report. “Therefore, the lack of inventory creates a vicious cycle; the existing homeowners who want to remain in the Hudson Valley are looking to downsize to a smaller home or become a renter, or they may want to upgrade and purchase a larger or more modern home. But they can’t - there is no inventory.”

There are no signs from the first quarter this year that show the surge that began in June has reached its peak, according to the report.

The pandemic has changed the types of homes being sold in the first quarter this year in comparison to last year because the pandemic drove an increase in buyers coming from Manhattan and Brooklyn, which tend to be higher-income individuals. Meanwhile, entrylevel homes have faced a negative impact because the buyers for those homes were more likely to face economic issues from the pandemic, according to the report.

Site plan for former motel conversion approved

By Melanie Lekocevic Columbia-Greene Media

NEW BALTIMORE — The site plan application for the conversion of the former Budget Motel into housing units was approved by the town planning board Thursday night.

The building will not be designated a 55-and-older living community, which earlier presentations by the developer to the planning board had specified.

The approval comes following two public hearings after the first hearing, held April 8, was adjourned when questions remained about the plan and the application that were filed with the town.

Developer Stefan Sanzi revised the plans and application and resubmitted them to the town, detailing the updated information about the project.

Sanzi and business partner Gregory Berardi purchased the Route 9W property March 31, paying about $800,000 for the site, including the motel, which consists of two buildings; a onefamily house and office; and a building behind the motel where families currently live.

The plan is to convert the former motel, which has been largely vacant for years, into

apartments.

“There are 28 current rooms and we are going to consolidate them into 12 one-bedrooms and four studios or efficiencies,” Sanzi said.

Studio apartments will be rented for between $700 and $800 a month, and one-bedroom units will go for about $900, which includes utilities, Sanzi said in a March interview.

The original plan filed with the town did not include studio units and was one of the reasons the April public hearing FILE PHOTO was adjourned.

The site plan application for the conversion of the former Budget Each studio unit will be 225 Motel on Route 9W was approved by the New Baltimore Planning square feet and conforms with Board on Thursday. state law.

“We don’t have anything just completed five renovations Orlando told the applicant. specific in our guidelines so we there and we are putting them “There are no restrictions ungo with the state regulations,” up for rent,” Sanzi said. “I just less you put them yourselves, planning board chairman Rob- rented the house to a family that which I don’t think you can do is going to help with the general by law.” ert Van Etten said.

Sanzi said market research State regulations on studio grounds for us and once this is apartments require them to be approved, I will start this (mo- indicated there was a need for a minimum 150 square feet, tel) project, probably within a senior housing in the area, but it month.” will not officially be designated Sanzi said.

While earlier presentations as such.

Of the remaining buildings “The word ‘senior’ was conon the site, the building behind to the planning board indicated the motel — which does not the former motel would be des- fusing as far as there aren’t any need site plan approval because ignated for tenants ages 55 and services like nurses or pharmaits use is not changing — is be- older, that is no longer the plan. cy needs or anything like that,” “This was billed as senior liv- Sanzi said. ing renovated and the house Depending on how the units ing from the day they walked will soon be occupied.

“There were five vacancies in in here and now it’s not that,” are filled, Sanzi said he may be the 12 units in the back and we planning board member Frank able to market it as 55 and older

Greenhouse blooms as a new business

By Sarah Trafton

it was never open. I’m glad to see this couple purchase it and get it going. I think they are going to do very well there.”

Cairo Town Supervisor John Coyne expressed his support for the business.

“I think it’s just great,” he said. “It’s another business opening in town and it’s just a benefit for everyone in our community and surrounding communities.”

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CAIRO — After sitting vacant for more than a decade, the greenhouse at the intersection of Route 23 and Silver Spur is coming back to life.

Trish Schneider Delaney and her husband John Delaney felt the community was missing something, after Greenery and Hartmann’s Kaffee Haus closed. Their new business, Greenhaus, will function as both a nursery and a bakery.

“It was my husband that wanted to start it — I’m not the green thumb here,” Trish Schneider Delaney said. “We were driving by there all the time and saw it shut down.”

The pair stopped in to purchase some materials from the greenhouse when they learned the entire property was for sale. Delaney said.

“We decided to take it and open it again,” she said, adding that it had been closed for about 14 years.

Trish Schneider Delaney, who works as an attorney, will be handling the bakery side of things.

“I’m doing the bakery part, he’s doing the plants and shrubs,” she said. “I’m an attorney, I have a full-time job, and he’s actually a stone

housing.

“By law, if it’s 80% over, we can market as a 55 and older living community,” he said, adding the remaining 20% of apartments can be rented to tenants of any age.

New Baltimore resident Ellie Alfeld said there is a clear need for senior housing.

“When we first heard of this project, people were really excited because we have such limited senior housing here,” Alfeld said. “I don’t know if people’s minds were changed into thinking now it will be a general public type of apartments.”

The site plan approval includes several conditions. All existing signage for the “Budget Motel” will be removed, with replacement signage required to comply with town codes.

“We also talked about the dumpster being right in the front of the property,” planning board member Michelle Stefanik pointed out.

Sanzi agreed he would have the blue dumpster, currently in front of the motel on Route 9W, moved to the rear of the building and enclosed by a privacy fence.

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Greenery and Hartmann’s Kaffee Haus flowers anew as Greenhaus, a combination greenhouse and bakery.

mason, so it kind of ties in.”

The bakery will have cookies, pastries, cakes, breads and rolls, Delaney said.

The bakery is open Wednesday through Sunday, while the greenhouse is open seven days a week from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Delaney said.

“We were missing Hartmann’s, so that’s how the bakery part of it came about,” she said.

The Delaneys had a soft opening Mother’s Day weekend, and will have a more formal grand opening at a

later date, Delaney said.

Legislators Harry Lennon, D-Cairo, and Matt Luvera, RCatskill, toured the business.

“It’s nice to see another new business in Greene County,” Luvera said.

Legislator William Lawrence, R-Cairo, agreed.

“The location was the former greenhouse owned by Mike Valentine years ago,” Lawrence said. “He was really prosperous there. It was one of the few places in Cairo you get plants, shrubs and hanging baskets. I thought

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Vote in Tuesday’s school elections Tuesday, voters in 12 school districts in Columbia and Greene counties will go to the polls to approve or reject budget proposals and elect candidates to their boards of education, all in the shade but not the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This year, the elections to watch take place in the Cairo-Durham, CoxsackieAthens and Ichabod Crane school districts, where multiple candidates are competing for a handful of open seats.

Drama surrounds Hudson City School District’s election for the opposite reason: A shortage of candidates.

One person filed an election petition in a district with three vacant seats, opening the door for a flood of writein candidates.

Drama of a different sort has played out in all districts as school officials held their breath awaiting how much state aid they will get and the amount property taxes might increase as bills from COVID come due.

Six candidates are run-

ning for three open seats in Coxsackie-Athens, five are seeking three seats in Ichabod Crane and five are vying for three seats in CairoDurham.

Candidate deficits created an interesting and disturbing development this year.

Six boards of education elections are contested, but another six are unopposed.

Blame it on COVID, if you will. Potential candidates might not be ready or willing to spend night after night sitting around a table at social distances and wearing required masks in the coronavirus era.

For example, Catskill will field four candidates running for four available board seats and Hudson has one candidate for three seats. It is noteworthy Hudson and Catskill are the Twin Counties’ two biggest school districts in terms of budget.

But one constant is many public-spirited candidates who don’t mind the long meetings, high stress and unpaid hours. Instead, they welcome the challenge of governing districts with bud-

gets in the millions of dollars.

School board candidates should reflect a cross-section of their communities and that has not changed this year. Challenged or unopposed, they represent a broad range of youth and age, experience and occupations.

They also have deep roots in their communities. Many candidates attended their hometown schools and enrolled their children in those same schools. Their reason for running strikes a common chord. Education and community service are legacies.

For more information about your school district budget and the candidates running for your school board, check your district’s website. Many contain budget breakdowns and the names of board candidates.

Polls will be open until 9 p.m. in most school districts. We encourage you to vote Tuesday in your school budget and school board elections.

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Democrats must not chip away at Biden’s tax plans The Washington Post

President Joe Biden has followed his one-year, $1.9 trillion covid-19 economic recovery program with two new spending plans totaling about $4 trillion for infrastructure, education, child care and other domestic policy goals. Unlike the first of these, the American Rescue Plan, the latter two, the American Jobs Plan and the American Families Plan, would take effect over multiple years and would be funded mostly by new taxes, primarily on corporations, whose top rate would hit 28%, and upper-income individuals, who would face a 39.6% maximum.

Biden should have included additional revenueraisers, such as a carbon tax, both to reduce the need for borrowing and in recognition that a truly sustainable plan to “build back better” and fight climate change will require the middle class, too, to pitch in. Still, his tax plans did strike a blow for two important principles: fiscal

responsibility and distributional fairness.

The Republican backlash against Biden’s tax ideas was as predictable as it is hypocritical - but now comes Democratic quibbling.

As The Washington Post’s Jeff Stein and Tyler Pager reported, objections from lawmakers in Biden’s own party range from the categorical Sen. Joe Manchin’s D-W.Va., objection to lifting the tax rate on any corporation beyond 25% - to the parochial - blue-state Democrats’ demand for expanded deductibility of the high state and local taxes their upper-income constituents pay. The most recent development in this vein was an appeal from farm-state Democrats led

by Rep. Cindy Axne, D-Iowa, seeking protection against Biden’s plan to eliminate a huge loophole in the capital gains tax. Closing the loophole would increase what people owe the government when they inherit appreciated assets such as stocks, bonds - or agricultural land.

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Biden has appropriately declared himself willing to negotiate, but he and congressional leaders must stand firmly against special pleading from within their own party, lest his plans become bogged down or fail altogether. This will be difficult, given the Democrats’ razor-thin majorities in both houses, which means tiny handfuls of lawmakers, or individual ones, can exercise decisive leverage.

Biden’s best bet is to articulate broad principles, such as pay-as-you-go and taxcode equity, and reject any and all ideas inconsistent with them. Undoing the limitation on state and local tax payment deductibility, and thereby undoing one of the few progressive features of the 2017 Republican tax law, would fail this test. Depending on the details, Manchin’s 25% corporate tax rate could pass, since it represents a 4 percentage point increase over the 21% established in 2017.

Jack Reed is crucial to our national security. How will he handle it?

WASHINGTON — After graduating from West Point in 1971, Sen. Jack Reed, the Rhode Island Democrat now in the first year of his fifth term, jumped out of airplanes for the 82nd Airborne. Today he is the most important person concerning the nation’s increasingly imperiled security. As chairman of the Armed Services Committee, he must plan for the increasing speed of change in military technologies, including cyber, and precise and maneuverable hypersonic (speeds more than Mach 5) weapons.

These make parachutes, and even the planes that Reed jumped from, seem as prehistoric as spears.

Today’s most expensive U.S. weapons platform, the F-35 strike fighter, of which the Defense Department currently plans to purchase almost 2,500 in the next halfcentury, was conceived, Reed says, in the 1990s. It has a projected 66-year service life. Really? Granted, the B-52, which came into service in 1955, is still flying, some with crews a third of the age of their aircraft. But is this a template for 21stcentury defense planning, given the velocity of change?

What Reed requires of his congressional colleagues, and of military and defense industry planners — particularly those who author projections encompassing more than half a century — is imagination. James Stavridis understands this.

A retired four-star admiral and former supreme allied commander at NATO, Stavridis says he chose to make his just-released warning as fiction — “2034: A Novel of the Next World War,” co-written with Elliot Ackerman — because today, as usual, the challenge for policymakers is to imagine how events can surprise and cascade. Europe’s leaders in 1914 could not imagine how a pistol fired in Sarajevo could ignite four years of civilization-wrecking

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WILL bloodshed. Americans in 1941 could not imagine a stealthy attack on Pearl Harbor, or in 2001 how 19 terrorists could yank the nation into several wars. So, Stavidris’ novel imagines how a war begun and waged with cyberattacks could shove a defeated United States out of the western Pacific and of great-power status.

Reed must imagine configuring U.S. forces for this world that Stavridis describes: In 2011, there were 7 billion people and 7 billion devices connected to the Internet. Ten years later, he says, there are still about 7 billion people but 40 billion connected devices. Imagine the U.S. vulnerability, Stavridis says, to cyberattacks that “blind the elephant.”

Writing in Foreign Affairs, Michèle Flournoy, a former undersecretary of defense for policy, says Pentagon war games “reportedly show that current force plans would leave the military unable to deter and defeat Chinese aggression in the future.” She says, “U.S. warfighting concepts can no longer rely on attrition-based warfare” because “U.S. forces are likely to be outnumbered and under persistent attack in any conflict.” This is so, she writes, because China and Russia have developed “cyber, electronic, and kinetic weapons designed to disrupt the ability of U.S. forces to deploy, navigate, communicate, and strike, as well as layer upon layer of defenses to shoot down U.S. aircraft and sink U.S. ships before

they can get within range of their targets.”

In the 1950s and 1960s, Reed says, U.S. spending on defense research and development was a larger portion of GDP than today, when systems are more complex and more vulnerable to obsolescence. There are, he says, possibilities for electronically disguising the “signature” of aircraft carriers and using quantum computing to locate deeply submerged submarines. The first phase of any conflict will involve, he says, “cyber and space.” Hence, it will involve domains and weapons hardly imagined when Reed left West Point.

All this is expensive. Reed, who also has degrees from Harvard’s law school and John F. Kennedy School of Government, has one of the Senate’s most liberal voting records. His party is spending lavishly on almost everything (President Joe Biden’s 2022 budget proposes increases for the Education Department and Health and Human Services of 41% and 23%, respectively) except the military (1.6%). Perhaps Reed’s role is as successor to Democratic Sen. Henry M. Jackson, a liberal Cold Warrior.

Reed is noncommittal about Ukraine joining NATO, and he is, if not sanguine about, at least measured in his assessment of, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s menacing behavior toward Ukraine. Reed interprets this as Putin sending to the world the message that he must be reckoned with, and to his restive nation the message that it matters because he does. Reed notes that there are U.S. “tripwire” forces in the Baltics.

Reed will, however, not be startled if he is surprised.

“The unexpected,” he says, almost laconically, “occurs with great regularity.” Imagine that.

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Bonnie Lee Feller Bonnie Lee Feller was called to husband Michael, her sister Pauthe Lord on May 12, 2021 after a la Melnick (Bob), and her beloved courageous fight with complica- grandchildren Connor and Kaytions resulting from a second car- leigh McCagg.

She was extremely proud of diac bypass surgery.

Born April 23, 1947 in Hudson, her grandchildren and could NY, she was the daughter of the often be seen at their sporting late Margaret “Peggy” Yost Mel- events, dance recitals or connick and Harold Yost and the certs. She was the rock of her stepdaughter of the late Anthony family and friends, often giving her last ounce of energy to help “Punch” Melnick.

She was a 1965 graduate of and support them.

A devout Christian, she beHudson High School and a 1983 lieved that her ultimate graduate of the Columreward in life awaited her bia Memorial Hospital in Heaven. She asked School of Nursing. She that people not mourn was a Registered Nurse her loss, but celebrate at the Fireman’s Home her life and memory. in Hudson at the time In lieu of flowers, the of her death and owner family asks that donaof Taconic Orchards, tions be made to the which she operated Activities Fund of the with her husband of 52 Feller Fireman’s Home of the years Arnold Feller Jr. When not practicing nursing at Fireman’s Association of the the Fireman’s Home or her pre- State of New York or to St. Mark’s vious places of employment at Lutheran Church in Hudson.

Calling hours will be from 4 to Pine Haven, Columbia Memorial Hospital or the Adventist Home, 7 p.m. Monday at Bates and Anshe could be seen smiling bak- derson Funeral Home located at ing pies and apple cider donuts at 110 Green St in Hudson. A celebration of her life will be held her farm store.

Besides her husband Arnold, Tuesday at 1 p.m. at St. Mark’s she is survived by her daugh- Lutheran Church located at 8 ter Alicia Feller McCagg and her Storm Ave, Hudson, NY 12534.

BETSY PIERSON BETSY PIERSON died tuesday 5/12/2021 in Bristol NH. She was born in Hudson, NY Febuary 1953 to William M and Betsy L Pierson. Raised on Fish and Game Road in Claverack.

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NH. She is survived by her husband Christopher Finer, daughters Terry Finer of Rutland and Katey Kiefor of Gilford NH. She was the sister to William G Pierson of Claverack, Ben Pierson of Glenmont NY and Carol Hahn of Plymouth NH.

Marathon Petroleum plans buyback after Speedway sale Gerson Freitas Jr. Bloomberg

Marathon Petroleum plans to repurchase as much as $10 billion of stock after the U.S. oil refiner completed the sale of its Speedway fuel retail chain.

Marathon said Friday it will

begin a cash tender offer to buy as much as $4 billion of its shares.

Marathon agreed in March 2020 to sell Speedway 7-Eleven Inc, a unit of Japan’s Seven & i Holdings Co., . for $21 billion.

Cuomo casts doubt on gas tax bill

By Kate Lisa Johnson Newspaper Corp.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo cast doubt Thursday the state will adopt a law to combat climate change that would exponentially increase the price of gas for all New Yorkers.

The Climate and Community Investment Act would create a new climate pollution fee or carbon tax on fossil fuel companies to act as an incentive to reduce carbon emissions statewide and reinvest the money in a fund to rejuvenate New York’s green energy economy.

If passed, the measure could increase gasoline prices 55 cents per gallon and heating costs by more than 25% by more than doubling New York’s current gas tax rate.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo shot down the idea at a briefing Thursday at a senior center in the Bronx.

“You can’t do it that way,” Cuomo said as Democrats have pushed the new carbon tax. “I understand the concept, and the concept, it makes sense. But how does it work?

What’s the economic impact?

You’d have to ask all those questions.”

Sen. Kevin Parker, D-Brooklyn, sponsors the Climate and Community Investment Act S4264A/A6967, which would amend state Environmental Conservation, Executive, Labor, Public Authority and Tax laws to address climate change by expanding clean and renewable energy sources and projects, establishing a climate pollution fee and household or small business energy rebate, creating a climate pollution community just transition program and the Climate and Community Investment Authority.

The measure has 27 sponsors in the Senate and dozens of others in the Assembly.

Democrats who support the measure are pushing to pass the bill before the end of legislative session June 10.

“We are pushing hard toward the end and trying to work on this legislation,” Parker said during a virtual press conference about the bill Wednesday. “It’s gaining momentum by the day.”

Funding from the tax will be evenly split with one-third to moderate- and low-income families, one-third to

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The Climate and Community Investment Act, proposed in the state Legislature, would create a new carbon tax to combat climate change, but could increase New York’s gas prices up to 55 cents per gallon.

environmental justice communities and one-third to support green energy projects. The bill creates the Climate and Community Investment Authority, which will distribute the payments.

The new fee would fund a rebate as a direct tax credit for low- and moderate-income families and small businesses created under the measure.

Upstate families who make under the state median income of $70,000 would receive a rebate of $1,100 each year. New York City households would receive an annual rebate of $700 annually, as energy costs are lower in the city.

Any household that filed state taxes is eligible and automatically opted-in for the credit. No paperwork is required to receive the benefit.

New Yorkers who are eligible, but do not file taxes, would fill out an online form to receive the credit.

Rebates will be distributed at least quarterly.

The state Department of Taxation and Finance will collect polluter penalty funds and be given to the authority.

Senators and assemblymembers in the Environmental Conservation committees continue to negotiate the bill.

“There are conversations about moving the bill forward — we’re not quite ready as a conference yet,” said Parker, adding he expects amendments to the legislation.

“Staff are going through it with a fine-toothed comb, and we are working with legislators to address some of their concerns.”

Critics have raised issues about efficacy of the state mailing rebate payments, families having the money in time to offset higher energy expenses.

“All of these things are being raised by my colleagues or other groups,” Parker said. “We are in the midst of negotiating the bill. We hope to be able to address many of the things people are [concerned] with.”

Senate Republicans railed against the measure and drew attention to the proposed gas tax increases at the end of April.

Other downstate Democrats have spoken out against the Climate and Community Investment Act. The state has the nation’s seventh-highest gas tax at 43.12 cents per gallon, according to the Tax Foundation.

California has the highest rate at 62.47 cents per gallon.

The state’s gas tax would swell to 98.12 cents per gallon under the Climate and Community Investment Act — an increase of more than 127%.

Activists argue fossil fuel companies’ pollution rates and deciding increasing costs to consumers will cost New Yorkers more in the long run than a higher state gas tax.

Parker said the Republicans’ criticism of the bill is out of hand.

“They have not even acknowledged climate change is a real issue,” Parker said.

“They really have no moral platform to stand on to talk about regressivity or to talk about how we should be addressing climate change. I’m happy to have conversations with them, many of them are members of my committee.

County fairs expected to resume this summer

By MATT SURTEL and KATE LISA Johnson Newspaper Corp.

For a beloved New York summer tradition, it all comes down to state guidelines.

Planners of county fairs across the state are proposing socially distant and other creative safety protocols for local fairs to return this summer as the coronavirus pandemic winds down.

At a COVID-19 briefing in Buffalo on Wednesday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said state Health Department guidelines for county fairs will be released within the week. How the local fairs will look — and what they’ll offer — will largely depend on rules municipal leaders are waiting for state executives in Albany to release the details.

“It’s not dragging your feet,” Cuomo said of the state’s delay in releasing additional guidelines for fairs.

At the end of April, the governor announced the New York State Fair in Syracuse will resume this summer at 50% capacity.

“It’s that the situation changes so quickly we want to open at the greatest capacity and at a capacity that makes it economic,” he said. “If you can’t bring in enough people, then the vendors don’t want to show up.”

Cuomo and the administration’s Coronavirus Task Force members continue to study and amend the State Fair guidelines for smaller, county fairs next season.

After its cancellation last year, Columbia County Fair planners are waiting on state guidance to officially announce it will return.

Preparations are underway in anticipation of COVID safety protocols. The 2021 fair is scheduled for Sept. 1 - 6.

“The Board of Directors of the Columbia County Agricultural Society is hopeful that it will be able to hold the 2021 Columbia County Fair,” according to a statement posted to columbiafair.com.

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The carousel at the 2017 Columbia County Fair.

“The board, in cooperation with state and county health and safety officials is working hard on the plans for the fair.

The board hopes to be able to see all of its patrons, volunteers, and supporters of the fair at that time.”

The Columbia County tradition was first held in October 1841.

The Dutchess County Fair will return this August, Fair President/CEO Andy Imperati said Wednesday.

The fair will take place at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds in Rhinebeck Aug. 24-29.

Fair organizers continue to await state guidance.

“We are still waiting for COVID-19 guidelines from Albany and have been actively working with our county executive and his team, as well as the Dutchess County Department of Health to have a plan in place to safely open our gates,” Imperati said. “As we get closer to the fair, we will look at what protocols will need to be in place for us to have a fair.”

The first Dutchess County Fair was held in Washington Hollow in 1842. It was moved to Rhinebeck in 1919. This

year marks the fair’s 180th year.

This year’s fair may look a little different to adjust to the pending COVID-19 guidelines, Imperati said, but organizers are excited to bring people back together.

Fairgoer favorites, including the midway, fun fair food, animals and free entertainment will all be part of the 2021 event.

For updates, check dutchessfair.com and the fair’s social media pages. Tickets and other information should be available in June.

The state economy has continued to reopen and increase capacity in businesses as New York’s COVID-19 positivity rate decreases from the peak of the virus surge.

The announcement came as plans remain touch-and-go for fairs statewide — the lack of state guidance being a key issue to proceed with large events.

Public safety issues and making a profit at a reduced capacity remain ongoing concerns, including for the expansive highly popular Erie County Fair.

“And that has been a problem,”

Cuomo said. “ We could not say to the vendors we can get you ‘X’ percent capacity and the vendors have said to us if we cant get ‘X’ percent we’re not coming.

As our positivity rate has come down we have been increasing the capacity.”

Increasing capacity makes an attraction more economically viable, the governor added.

“That’s true in baseball that’s true in music theaters that’s true for Broadway,” Cuomo continued. “If you can’t increase the capacity to their economic threshold, it doesn’t work. Up until now for many venues we’ve been below the economic threshold they have said, “If I can only have 25% people I can’t open.

I don’t have enough people to make it economically viable.”

Given current COVID-19 positivity and death rates, Cuomo said, he believes the state can make opening economically viable for any venue, including fairs.

About 50% of eligible New Yorkers ages 16 and older have received at least one dose of the COVID vaccine.

The state’s vaccination rate will serve as another factor in how to resume local fairs.

“If I’m a stadium owner, or I’m an arena owner, or if I’m a county fair, I say, ‘Look, I can get more people if I increase the percentage of vaccinated,” Cuomo said.

If 100 percent of the people at a venue are vaccinated, it can operate at full capacity, he said, using a large sporting event as an example.

“Well, we only have 50% of the people vaccinated right now and you don’t want to say only vaccinated people go to the game, but as that vaccine number goes up and you have a larger vaccinated population you’re going to get closer and closer to 100% [capacity],” Cuomo said.

Bill Williams contributed to this report.

[They] did not come up with anything that has been either helpful or instructive, and if they have real critiques on the bill, they should come forward with amendments and the conversation the CCIA is moving forward to address instead of standing on the sidelines heckling.”

Republican senators argue Parker is unwilling to listen to their input, adding he struck down their request this week to hold a public hearing on another proposed measure that could increase New Yorkers’ energy utility costs.

“It is not strictly Republican criticism, and Sen. Parker knows that; the bottom line is this out-of-touch proposal will harm every family and business in this state — regardless of political affiliation — at a time when we are struggling to recover from the economic devastation from the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Senate Minority Leader Rob Ortt, RNorth Tonawanda.

The bill is the next step to implement the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act passed in 2019, which mandates a 40% reduction of statewide greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and a 85% emissions reduction by 2050, Parker said.

The CCIA will create an estimated 160,000 green energy jobs. Activists in favor of the bill say the authority will help the state transition to a renewable economy, reduce vehicles and public transportation’s dependence on fossil fuels and create energy-efficient schools and public housing.

“We think this does that in a very effective and efficient manner, and we don’t think this creates any kind of division,” Parker said. “It’s really just a Republican talking point that looks to divide the state.

We’re looking at this as a one New York strategy with emphasis of helping moderateand low-income New Yorkers.”

The measure remains in the Environmental Conservation Committee in both chambers.

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DUNKIN’ PRESENTS DONATION TO REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK

Catskill High School announces 2020-2021 third quarter honor roll CATSKILL — The third quarter honor roll for the 2020-2021 school year has been announced for Catskill High School.

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In honor of National Volunteer Week, Dunkin’ and its franchisee network Westside Donuts present a $40,000 donation to Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York on April 21 at their headquarters in Latham. The donation is the result of a recent ‘30 Days of Giving’ charitable campaign conducted by Westside Donuts, which welcomed Dunkin’ guests to give back to the Regional Food Bank by making donations at numerous Dunkin’ restaurants in the greater Capital Region. Dunkin’ also supported the volunteers at the food bank today by delivering coffee and donuts. Pictured from left are Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York Volunteer Paul Konecnik; Westside Donuts Director of Operations Gretchen Cantwell; Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York Executive Director Mark Quandt; Westside Donuts District Manager Kelly Koepp; Westside Donuts District Manager Renee Petroni; and Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York Volunteer Liz Konecnik.

Give blood and make it a summer full of life POUGHKEEPSIE — The American Red Cross along with actor James Van Der Beek and his wife, Kimberly, have joined together to urge all who are healthy to make this a summer full of life for patients by scheduling an appointment to give blood or platelets.

As the nation transitions to a new, hopeful phase of this devastating pandemic and people begin to return to some of their favorite activities, the Red Cross is concerned about the impact this could have on blood donor turnout and the blood supply this summer. The need for lifesaving blood transfusions never takes a break. It’s critical to have blood ready to go when every second counts.

The Van Der Beek family knows firsthand how important blood donations are in a health crisis. In the past year, Kimberly Van Der Beek experienced back-to-back pregnancy losses. Each time she needed emergency hospital care and blood transfusions to save her life.

“Donating blood is something that I’ve always done throughout my life,” said James Van Der Beek. “It seemed important. But I never knew how important until the woman I love most was in a situation where that much blood made the difference between life and death. It just brought it home in a very real way.”

Hemorrhaging is the leading cause of pregnancy-related complications that can occur anytime during pregnancy. “In instances of severe bleeding, blood transfusions often play a lifesaving role,” said Dr. Ross Herron, divisional chief medical officer for the Red Cross.

“For mothers with complicated pregnancies or deliveries, generous donors are the only source of the transfusions they may need to survive.”

“If you’ve never given blood before, allow this to be your formal invitation. Will you please give blood?,” added Kimberly Van Der Beek.

Individuals of all blood types are urged to schedule an appointment now to give blood, and in most cases, those who have received a COVID-19 vaccine can donate.

However, knowing the name of the manufacturer of the vaccine they received is important in determining donation eligibility. Appointments can be made by downloading the Red Cross Blood Donor App, visiting RedCrossBlood. org, calling 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767) or enabling the Blood Donor Skill on any Alexa Echo device.

In thanks for making it a summer full of life, those who come to give blood, platelets or plasma in May will

automatically be entered for a chance to win a travel trailer camper that sleeps five*, powered by Suburban Propane, via their SuburbanCares initiative. The Red Cross is also thanking those who come to donate May 28-June 13 with a limited-edition T-shirt, while supplies last.

“Suburban Propane is honored to partner with the American Red Cross and actor James Van Der Beek on their summer campaign to help bring attention to the need for blood donations,” said Nandini Sankara, Spokesperson for Suburban Propane. “Our SuburbanCares corporate pillar highlights our continued dedication to giving back to our local communities and through this platform, we support a host of community outreach initiatives throughout the nation; including our national partnership with the American Red Cross. It is our hope that this promotion for a chance to win a travel (trailer) camper will encourage donors to show their support and to help fulfill the need for blood collection.”

The Red Cross is testing blood, platelet and plasma donations for COVID-19 antibodies. The test may indicate if the donor’s immune system has produced antibodies to this coronavirus, regardless of whether they developed symptoms. Testing may also identify the presence of antibodies developed after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine.

Plasma from routine blood and platelet donations that test positive for high levels of antibodies may be used as convalescent plasma to meet potential future needs of COVID-19 patients.

Convalescent plasma is a type of blood product collected from COVID-19 survivors who have antibodies that may help patients who are actively fighting the virus.

The Red Cross is not testing donors to diagnose illness, referred to as a diagnostic test.

To protect the health and safety of Red Cross staff and donors, it is important that individuals who do not feel well or believe they may be ill with COVID-19 postpone donation.

At a time when health information has never been more important, the Red Cross is also screening all blood, platelet and plasma donations from self-identified African American donors for the sickle cell trait.

This additional screening will provide Black donors with an additional health insight and help the Red Cross identify compatible blood types more quickly to help patients with sickle cell disease. Blood transfusion is an essential

treatment for those with sickle cell disease, and blood donations from individuals of the same race, ethnicity and blood type have a unique ability to help patients fighting sickle cell disease.

Donors can expect to receive antibody test and sickle cell trait screening results, if applicable, within one to two weeks through the Red Cross Blood Donor App and the online donor portal at RedCrossBlood.org.

Each Red Cross blood drive and donation center follows the highest standards of safety and infection control, and additional precautions – including temperature checks, social distancing and face masks for donors and staff — have been implemented to help protect the health of all those in attendance. Donors are asked to schedule an appointment prior to arriving at the drive and are required to wear a face mask while at the drive, in alignment with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention public guidance.

COLUMBIA COUNTY Immaculate Conception Church, 732 Route 20, New Lebanon, 1-5:30 p.m. May 18.

Chatham Firehouse, 10 Hoffman St., Chatham, noon-6 p.m. June 9.

Hudson Elks Lodge No. 787, 201 Harry Howard Ave., Hudson, 1-6 p.m. June 10.

DUTCHESS COUNTY Boardman Road Branch Library, 141 Boardman Road, Poughkeepsie, 2-7 p.m. May 20.

Grace Bible Church, 158 Myers Corners Road, Wappingers Falls, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. May 20.

The CENTER for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, 661 Route 308, Rhinebeck, 8 a.m.-3 p.m.

May 21.

LaGrange Fire Co No 2, Rt. 55, 504 Freedom Plains Road, Poughkeepsie, 1:30-6:30 p.m.

May 27.

Freedom Plains United Presbyterian Church, 1168 Route 55, Lagrangeville, 1-6 p.m. June 3.

Grace Bible Church, 158 Myers Corners Road, Wappingers Falls, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. June 4.

Poughkeepsie Galleria, 2001 South Road, Poughkeepsie, 1-6 p.m. June 8.

Millbrook Fire House, 20 Front St., Millbrook, 2-7 p.m.

June 9.

Moose Lodge 904, 1273 Route 9G, Hyde Park, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. June 10.

GREENE COUNTY Windham Wastewater Treatment Plant, 491 South St./County Road 12, Windham, 2-6 p.m. May 27.

High Honor: Taylor Block, McKenzie Breunig- Smith, Kristina Caraballo, Matthew Caro, Deandra Catterson, Serena Craigie-Carter, Madison Delavega, Sianna Gatto, Alexey Guenthner, Ava Higgins, Christopher Hogan, Paul Jaen, Little Leviticus Johnson, Jonathan Kent, Kaitlyn Knapp, Sara Leipman, Brandon Liardo, Destin Ly, Salvatore Mancini, Maximus Marchesani, Grace McCulloch, Jacob Mitchell, Sydney Moe, Jillian Murray, Kaitlyn Nearey, Sharona Orr, Alexis Ranzer, Jessica Reagan, Machardo Rhymaun, Matthew Rivenburgh, Hailey Rowell, Jayden Salter, Ashley Shook, Jesse Simmons Jr., Zaida Snyder, Anna Sweeney, Katherine Timothy, Jessica Vieta, Caitlin White.

Honor: Desean Beezer, Brandon Constantine, Alexandra Espel, Madison Fratus, Kevin Graham, Tristan Haskin, Barry Hill Jr., Mackenzie Krom, Cameron Lyles, Dylan O’Connell, David Robinson, Emily Rosenberg, Amaia Sisto, Brandon Tedford, Casey Whittaker.

Merit Roll: Zane Beers, Paige Buchinger, Sarah Davies, Kathleen Glass, Mya Harvey, Austin Mason, Rayden O’Neil-Bailey, Logan Scott.

GRADE 11 High Honor: Serena Adsit, Tristan Arp, Michael Boan, Chante Bordina, Kaelyn Bulich, Adam Carlson, Patrick Darling, Jacob Devlin, Marco Dodig. Elizabeth Finnegan, Nicholas Fusco, Michael

Jubie, Hannah Konsul, Daniel Leibowitz, Cassius McCoy, Willow Morehead, Auna Muscarella-Bland, Bridgette Reilly, Nathan Riordon, Alexandra Rose, Kiana Salierno, Llanya Schanz, Brianna Stevens, JeromeDavid Van Alstyne, Emma Weber.

Honor: Joshua Buffa, Nahviya Chapple, Andrew Daisernia, Richard Edwards, Stephen Forbes, Marissa Gardella, Garrett Haskin, Josiah Hill, Deresa Johnson, Michael Keck, Steven Keifer, Lucas Konsul, Aidan Leipman, James Ogden, Keaton Quinn, William Rogers, Leonard Signoretti III, Justin Uvino, Jessi Watts, Imani Young.

Merit Roll: Scott Baker, Thomas Birk, Kaleyah Blanks, Azar Brantley, Ayanna Curless, Alyssa Deck, Jaden Dedrick, AnnaLishia Hall, Isaiah Hayden, Sean Haye, Andrew Jones, Caden Legg, Samantha Malkowski, Andre McCann, Ryan Prasenski, Colin Ramos, David Whittaker.

GRADE 10 High Honor: Emma Brown, Xiao Chen, Karsen Chiminelli, Ian Ciancanelli, Christian Davies, Maya Dixit, Charlotte DuBois, Harleigh Frascello, Mia Glover, Jenna Graham, Cristian Guerra, Devin Guerrieri, Madison Hallam, Mya Hernandez, Adam Konsul, Christopher Konsul, Joseph Konsul, Nicholas Konsul, William Konsul, Lauren Liberti, Emonnie McGriff, Olivia Mentessi, Kaden Minkalis, Kaylee Nearey, Ciara Peden, Nicholas Place, Edward Rogers, Liliana Seeley, Angelina Shanley, Aaliyah Shook, John Shook, Ella Souza, Carter VanEtten, Maya Weaver, Serena White.

Honor: Aryanna Burbas, Marisabella Caraballo,

Guiliana Cary, Abigail Cornelison, Gavin Dixit, Micah Doig, Daniel Forbes, Cullen Fulling, Isis Gonzalez, Hudson Kuter, Darina Lacayo, Raffaele Mancini, Dakota O’Brien, Zander Schanz, Isabella Shanley, Cristina Signoretti, Melody Stupplebeen, Grace Sullivan, Aiden Varade, Merit Roll: Austin Baker, Janay Brantley, Matyas Brodowski, Ayden Cappello, Osmaril Cruz-Jimenez, Meeghan Darling, Mariana Garcia, Mackenzie Phillips, Samantha Scalera, Dakota Stein, Zyheir-Junique Woodhouse.

GRADE 9 High Honor: Trujillo Aguilar, Jack Alexander, Chase Allen, Emily Allen, Stevenson Arp, Brooklyn Benjamin, Lucian Benjamin, Charles Bertelle, Madison BreunigSmith, Rogan Byrne, Ryan Carter, Jillian Devlin, Lincoln Dixon Hailey, Xavier Engelin, Savannah Ferretti, Lucas Fisher, Devin Fitzmaurice, Ian Fitzmaurice, Lily Gallagher, Henry Goodell, Mia Gottesman, Grace Guenthner, Nixon Hawksby, Andrew Holliday, Adrianna Jenes, Shawn Johnston, Madison Jones, Dominic Lanuto, Carlos Lemus Argueta, Angelika Lopez, Zachary Maccaline, Dasean McGriff, Kyle McNevin, Robert Moore, Avery Riordon, Maeli Robinson, Maya Segura, Kayleigh Timberger, Isabella Woods.

Honor: Gabriel Sanchez, Lincoln Simmons, Cheyenne Teater, Karen Valentin.

Merit Roll: Joseph Curless, Elizabeth DuBois, Logan Hough, Etienne LaFleur, Kaitlyn Leombruno, Catherine Malkowski, Jessie Phillips, Kye Rivera, Zoe Synan, Cyprus Thibeault, Michael Vazquez.

2020-2021 third quarter honor roll announced at Catskill Middle School CATSKILL — Catskill Middle School announces the third quarter honor roll for the 2020-2021 school year.

Keck, Layyla Lavoie, Emanuel Sanchez, Shantia Scofield, Westley Shanley, John Signoretti, Tempess Strong, David Tedford,

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Honor Roll: Kaylee Boan, Chelsey Carlson, Will Cummings, Julia Davies, Anson Deosaran, Ava Edmond, Roman Gonzalez, Tazyiah Green, Anthony Hoke, Sebastian Jones, Justen Lindsay, William McMullen, Geoffrey Osborn, Ryan Romaine, Christian Slauson, Alora Stiles, Dylan Wamsley, Paige Yungandreas.

Merit Roll: Hayleigh Denniston, Yazmine Diaz, Skyla Hutchings, Brian

Honor Roll: Adriana Aguilar, Marcello Buono, Mariah Campbell, Emma Cassidy, Jameson Dedrick, Gabriella Engelin, Tyrell Green Jr., Bryan Jackson, Aubree Kelly, Sasha Lemus, Benjamin Mahoney, Brandon Martin, Kobe Neilsen, Cameron Newkirk, Owen O’Rourke, Lucas Paquette, Caleb Saulpaugh.

Merit Roll: Jaheem DiNardo, Julian Haight, Leslie Lemus Argueta, Benjamin

Munoz, Cassen Sickler, Makayla Woolsey.

GRADE 6 Honor Roll: Sha-Aysia Boone, Nolan Byrne, Parker Craig, Thomas Doig, April Lindsay, Janessa Miller, Civana Morales, Grace Mosher, Ezra Nunez, Keira Oliver, Kennedy Ormerod, Audrey Peters, Joshua Phelan, Quinton Pumilio, Camden Shutter, Adrane’ Small.

Merit Roll: Jonah Beck, Vincent Curry IV, Layla Duff, Michelle Gabrielle, Viktor Gonzalez, Kaeleigh Greene, Xiomyra Marquart, Cameron Moore, Vanity Nicola, Kezia Tyler.

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Canalway Challenge kicks off along New York’s canals WATERFORD — Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor invites New Yorkers to take part in the Canalway Challenge in 2021 and enjoy the great outdoors along New York’s canals and Canalway Trails. Participants choose a mileage goal of 15, 90, 180, or 360 miles. They then walk, run or cycle on the Canalway Trail or paddle on the NYS Canal System to achieve it. People with disabilities are welcome to participate in a 1st Mile Challenge by completing one mile.

“As New York begins to open more, the Canalway Challenge is a great way for people to get outside and discover all they can do along the canals and Canalway Trail,” said Bob Radliff, Executive Director of the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor.

“The range of mileage options is suited to people of all ages and abilities, from those who are just taking their first steps toward fitness to more experienced athletes.”

The Canalway Challenge is free and registration is open to individuals and teams. People can complete their miles in

one big trip or many small ones.

The 1st Mile Challenge offers people with disabilities and their family and friends opportunities to recreate together and build more active lifestyles. There are numerous places along the canals and Canalway Trail that are accessible and several that offer adaptive bikes and kayaks.

New York State Canal Corporation Director Brian U. Stratton said, “New York’s Canals and adjoining trails offer unparalleled opportunities for safe, socially-distanced outdoor recreation. The Canalway Challenge showcases the tremendous investments made in both our canalside communities through Governor Cuomo’s Reimagine the Canals program, and in opening of the 750-mile Empire State Trail – the longest multi-use trail in the nation.

As we continue to seek new and engaging ways to get outdoors while remaining safe and responsible, the Canal Corporation is thrilled to support this initiative and to invite all New Yorkers to experience the unmatched history and

natural beauty of our magnificent Canalway Trail system.”

New York State Executive Director of Tourism Ross D. Levi said, “With more New Yorkers looking for ways to safely recreate outside and experience parts of the state they haven’t previously visited, the Canalway Challenge is the perfect opportunity for people of all ages and abilities to explore the state’s canal system and the Erie Canalway Trail.”

The Canalway Challenge is funded with support from the National Park Service, the NYS Canal Corporation, and Market New York through I LOVE NY/New York State Division of Tourism as a part of the State’s Regional Economic Development Council initiative.

Participants should follow all New York State Department of Health guidelines for COVID-19 safety while on the Canalway Trail and while visiting state parks, historic sites, and communities.

This year’s Challenge runs through the end of October.

Sign up at www.canalwaychallenge.com.

Home Heating Assistance extended again through Aug. 31 POUGHKEEPSIE — Income qualified households may now apply for grants towards their utility bills through Aug. 31, through the Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP), a federally funded program that provides both reg ular and emergency financial assistance to help pay heating bills. In addition, a third heat and heat-related HEAP Emergency benefit will be available to eligible households who have exhausted all available HEAP benefits. Originally set to expire on March 15 and extended to April 30, the program has been extended once again to August 31, 2021, to assist households, renters and families during the economic challenges caused by the pandemic.

The grants are available through local Department of Social Services (DSS) offices and Offices for the Aging. Customers of Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp. who receive a HEAP benefit toward their account will also be issued a monthly credit on their utility bill for a maximum of 12 months based on service type and amount of HEAP benefit.

“We’re pleased this program has once again been extended to offer additional assistance to families who may be struggling, and encourage all eligible households to apply,” said Charles A. Freni, President and CEO of Central Hudson.

Freni explained that qualified families using electricity or natural gas as their primary heating source may receive a regular HEAP benefit of $350 or more, depending on family income and size guidelines, applied toward their Central Hudson account.

Eligible customers will also receive a credit on their Central Hudson bills that provide further assistance in lowering their energy costs, based on the type of heating source and income level. As an example: A Central Hudson customer who qualifies for a Tier 1 HEAP grant and uses natural gas for heating is eligible for bill credits of up to $49 per month; while a Tier 1 customer who has electric heating can receive a credit of up to $22 each month. Customers who qualify for higher tiers could be eligible for larger bill credits.

Qualified households receiving a HEAP benefit for non-utility heating fuels such as oil, propane, wood/wood pellets, kerosene, coal or corn are also eligible for a monthly credit on their electric or non-heating gas bill. For example, a Tier 1 customer who uses non-utility heating fuels could receive up to $22 per month on their electric bill through these credits. To receive the bill credit, customers should email their HEAP Notice of Decision Letter to Central Hudson at CareUnit@ cenhud.com to be enrolled.

An additional benefit, the Heating Equipment Repair or Replacement (HERR) program, is available to assist income qualified homeowners in repairing or replacing their primary heating equipment when the systems are inoperable or unsafe. As the warm weather approaches, incomequalified customers may also be eligible for a Cooling Assistance Benefit for the purchase and installation of an air conditioner or a fan to help the home stay cool during the summer months. Cooling

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Assistance benefits are available for HEAP eligible households containing at least one individual with a documented medical condition that is exacerbated by extreme heat.

Applications for HERR are accepted through Sept. 30, 2021, or until the funding is exhausted.

To apply for HEAP, Cooling, Clean & Tune and HERR benefits, customers may contact their local DSS office, call (800) 342-3009, or visit www.mybenefits.ny.gov. Individuals who are 60 and older and do not receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits may contact their local Office for the Aging to learn of the eligibil ity requirements by calling (800) 342-9871 or by visiting www.aging.ny.gov.

In addition to bill discounts for HEAP benefit recipients, Central Hudson offers other customer assistance and payment programs, including Central Hudson’s Good Neighbor Fund that provides “last resort” grants to help pay the energy bills of local residents in need who have exhausted all other forms of public and private utility assistance and Deferred Payment Agreements that extend past due amounts over time while allowing customers to stay current with future bills.

For more information on HEAP eligibility requirements and benefits, visit www.

CentralHudson.com/HEAP or http://otda.ny.gov/programs/heap/program.asp; and for more on all of Central Hudson’s assistance and billing programs, visit www.CentralHudson.com, and click on “My Account.”

College Corner HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY FREEHOLD — Alexandra Whitbeck of Freehold graduated from Hofstra University in December 2020, earning a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism.

THE HONOR SOCIETY OF PHI KAPPA PHI WINDHAM — Colleen Weiman of Windham was recently initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective all-discipline collegiate honor society.

Weiman was initiated at Arcadia University.

SAUGERTIES — Allison Curtis of Saugerties was recently initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective all-discipline collegiate honor society.

Curtis was initiated at Fordham University.

SUNY ONEONTA CLIMAX — Hanna Boehm of Climax was recently recognized to have attained leadership milestones through the college’s LEAD (Leadership Education and Development) program.

Boehm, who is studying Biology, earned a Silver Level.

ONEONTA — A total of 318 students received the SUNY Oneonta 2020-2021 Susan Sutton Smith Award for academic excellence. To be eligible for the award, a student must be a freshman, sophomore or junior with a grade-point average of 3.9 or higher.

Cali Ely of Round Top, Childhood Education (1-6); Lauryn Williams of Earlton, Art and Design.

ONEONTA — SUNY Oneonta recognized more than 50 outstanding students with its 2021 Academic Achievement Awards.

One to three students were chosen from each of the college’s academic departments and programs.

In addition to their excellent work in the classroom, students were honored for distinguishing themselves in many ways, including research, activism, mentoring, athletics, involvement in campus activities and volunteerism.

Olivia Smith of Catskill recognized by the Women’s & Gender Studies department; Paul Wais of Athens recognized by the Earth &

Atmospheric Sciences department.

PHI THETA KAPPA ACADEMIC HONOR SOCIETY TROY — More than 80 students from Hudson Valley Community College were recently inducted into the Alpha Xi Sigma chapter of Phi Theta Kappa, the international academic honor society for students at twoyear colleges.

Local students include: Benjamin Lafountain of Athens, Tracy Lee of Cairo, Mark Lewis of Coxsackie, Brianna Osborn of Coxsackie.

ELMIRA COLLEGE COXSACKIE — Erin Marafioti of Coxsackie has been named to the Elmira College Dean’s List for the Winter 2021 Term.

THE HONOR SOCIETY OF PHI KAPPA PHI PURLING — Kain Coffey of Purling was recently initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest and most selective all-discipline collegiate honor society. Coffey was initiated at State University of New York at Oswego.

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at the apartment complex, Nevel said.

A neighbor, who requested anonymity, was awakened by the altercation.

“I heard screaming and banging, and when I opened the door, Crystal was sitting on the floor screaming for help and the suspect was just standing there,” the neighbor said. “My roommate called 911 while I stayed in the hallway trying to help her, but was not able to. There was too much blood. I couldn’t see where the wound was.”

Borne was pronounced dead at the scene by Greene County Coroner Gerard Buckley.

Police tape surrounded the scene, but was removed by late morning, after the investigation concluded.

Akins was arraigned in

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One woman is dead, and another charged with murder, following an altercation Friday morning at an apartment complex in Cairo

Catskill Town Court before Justice William R. Jacobs and was turned over to the custody of the Greene County Sheriff’s Office. She is being held without bail, Nevel said.

State police were assisted

in the investigation by The Greene County Sheriff’s Office, Greene County District Attorney’s Office, Greene County Coroner’s Office, and Troop F Forensic Investigation Unit.

Western Governors University announces scholarships and free professional education program for New York educators JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Western Governors University (WGU) announces two special programs for New York teachers. The first program offers up to 500 scholarships (totaling $2MM) for current and future education professionals who wish to pursue bachelor’s or master’s degree programs in WGU’s Teachers College.

The second is a free, online Character Education Professional Learning (CEPL) program that is free to the first 100 school principals that sign-up.

Each WGU Loves Teachers scholarship is valued up to $4,000 and designed to help current teachers improve their skill set in the classroom, move into administration, or assist in obtaining the required credentials. Average tuition at WGU is approximately $7,000 per year and through its competency-based model delivered in successive six-month terms, the average time to complete a bachelor’s degree program is two and a half years. This scholarship provides students with significant assistance as they pursue an affordable, high-quality

degree.

Funded through the generosity of The Kern Family Foundation, the CEPL program begins July 13 and will provide a robust curriculum around character education. There are two tracks focused on PK-12 classrooms: the CEPL-T program for teachers and the CEPL-E program for educational leaders like principals. It is designed to help principals and teachers create a school culture that promotes the character and well-being of their staff and students.

Teachers and educational leaders will learn how to implement character development content in their own classrooms and schools and will earn a series of microcredentials.

“At a time when students need inspiring and innovative educators more than ever, we offer these programs to help professionals pursue their academic dreams,” said Mark Milliron, Ph.D., executive dean of WGU’s Teachers College. “We’re incredibly honored to support the continued learning and hard work of next-generation teachers and leaders.”

By providing

competency-based, flexible, online degree programs, and low, flat-rate tuition, all WGU’s Teachers College students progress through their courses as soon as they demonstrate mastery. This enables them to learn while working and graduate with less debt than their peers.

“Principals and teachers have shown their leadership, resilience, and dedication to students’ success countless times during the past year,” said Rebecca Watts, Ph.D., WGU regional vice president. “We are glad to be able to give back with meaningful opportunities to change lives for the better.”

New and enrolling WGU students may apply for the scholarship now through June 30 at wgu.edu/teacherappreciation. Scholarships will be awarded based on a candidate’s academic record, financial need, readiness for online study at WGU, current competency, and other considerations.

Registration is now open for the CEPL program at https://www.wgu.edu/ online-teaching-degrees/ cebs.html.

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a regular source of business, “slowly and surely,” Denton said.

Taylor Bagley, known at Feast and Floret as the “flower wrangler,” picks flowers with Lavinia Milling-Smith and arranges them for customers. One of Bagley’s regulars was waiting outside as she hand-picked a bouquet for him, paying attention to the angle of each petal.

Like Denton, Bagley was a Hudson regular and fantasized about making the move. She moved from New York City with her dog shortly before the pandemic begun.

Bagley has known the Milling-Smiths for 13 years, but it wasn’t until Feast and Floret opened that Bagley became a flower gathering apprentice.

Lavinia Milling-Smith, who owns a flower farm, took Bagley under her floral wing and taught her all about flowers.

Bagley has also learned from Rebecca O’Donnell, who owns the Quiet Botanist at 445 Warren St., in Hudson. O’Donnell’s dried flowers can be seen hanging around the bar at Feast and Floret, as well as for sale.

Bagley described her first night arranging flowers for the restaurant as refreshing.

“I’ll never forget the first night when I started in October and it was a friends and family thing to get our feet wet,” she said. “Then I started arranging (flowers) and my heart was beating out of my chest. I was so nervous in such an unexpected and refreshing way.”

Denton wants Feast and Floret to be a comfortable spot locals can come to a few times a week for a snack and drink and also the place they host friends visiting town, he said.

Denton is appreciative of both the restaurant’s consistent clientele and its staff.

“We’ve got a great crew here that works here,” he said. “The crew here makes people feel really welcome and that is probably the most important thing.”

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some of the financial burden of paying extra employees,” said Jennings.

He said he is not sure when, or if, the restaurant will be returning to how it ran before COVID with table service and food packaged to dine-in.

“I’ll say there’s a number of people who want me to go back to the traditional way we ran,” Jennings said. “But depending on where my finances are or if I can find good help, because that was one of my biggest stresses was people who can do the job well. Because people are even less happy if you have somebody who is bringing the wrong food to the wrong tables, or running around like a chicken with their head cut off.”

Owls Hoot Barn in West Coxsackie is a wedding and events space. Gathering size restrictions severely limited how many people could attend weddings during COVID, said Kerri Corrigan, the owner of Owls Hoot Barn.

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warehousing?” Van Etten said.

The applicant does not know what products would be warehoused, but Hershberg assured the planning board they would not be toxic or dangerous chemicals.

“There are certain limits on what you can warehouse, for both fire protection and everything else,” Hershberg said.

“There are certain things you wouldn’t allow.”

There has been interest in the site from several potential clients, but the project is too preliminary and a completion date is too far in the future for anyone to sign on, Hershberg said.

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KT HAIR STUDIO, VALATIE Katie Shaw had plans to open her own hair salon with coworker Tina Harp starting in January 2020. Shaw thought she would open her new Valatie salon in May, but the two stylists left Mane Street, their former salon at 532 Warren St., in Hudson, earlier than expected, leading to a March opening.

Little did they know they would be closing their newly opened doors after two days.

KT Hair Studio, 3039 Main St., Valatie, opened March 19, 2020.

Two days later, hair salons were instructed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to close. The salon was shut until June 3, 2020.

Shaw and Harp took advantage of the extra time to prepare the salon, which needed finishing touches anyway, like a reception desk and decorations.

They had the supplies to style hair by opening day, and that’s about it, Shaw said.

“We were ready enough, literally, just to do hair in there,” she said.

Regular clients followed them from Hudson to Valatie and the new storefront brought new customers, too. Less than a year after opening, the two stylists were booked months out.

Shaw was at Mane Street for 10 years and Harp was there for 30 years.

“It’s really crazy, it’s like one of those things where the pandemic has been terrible but it brought out a positive for us, because we got to go out on our own, we were able to adjust things and do things the way we want to and I think that has made adjusting a lot easier for us,” Shaw said.

The stylists prepared COVID-19 precautions. Shaw purchased vinyl sheets to separate hair stations and a sneeze guard for the desk. Brushing hair off the chair has turned to spraying it down, and they spend more time between clients cleaning everything.

“We already took such sanitation precautions before the pandemic, now it’s just to another level,” Shaw said.

At this point, the precautions feel normal, she said.

Earlier during the pandemic gathering sizes were limited to 10 people. Last month the state announced wedding halls and event spaces could have up to 50% capacity or up to 150 people.

A lot of people had chosen to postpone their events instead of canceling them, Corrigan said. She said a lot of couples have postponed their weddings about a year in the future.

“That just presents other issues, because you would have booked that date to a different person, so you would technically lose the money for that year,” Corrigan said. “And they would be taking a new date that could have been used for another couple.”

There are some people who still want to have larger weddings and say they will wait until they are allowed to do that before they get married, Corrigan said.

She said some couples have opted to have their special day be a “micro-wedding.” They had hosted some micro-weddings that were as small as 15 people during the pandemic.

She said Owls Hoot Barn has railroad line and the New York state Thruway drew the company to New Baltimore, Hershberg said.

The company is seeking an easement from a neighboring property owner to gain access to the railroad tracks for deliveries, but if that does not come through, the company is still interested in the project.

“This is also very convenient for truck traffic, for the Thruway — it’s not more than five minutes from the Thruway exit,” Hershberg said.

Resident Ellie Alfeld asked how the project will affect the neighborhood.

“How will this impact Kreitmeier Road and the people that live there?” Alfeld said.

Fifty feet of buffer trees would be retained and areas of the site would remain undeveloped, Hershberg said.

The Columbia Economic Development Corporation helped Shaw start her business with a financial planner, business loan and grant, she said. “I can’t give them enough praise because I definitely would have probably not been able to do this if it wasn’t for them,” Shaw said.

STACY’S NEW DAY FITNESS, KINDERHOOK Stacy Newkirk noticed a need for a more inclusive local gym and started preparing Stacy’s New Day Fitness at 2532 Route 9H in Kinderhook in August.

Newkirk grew up in Kinderhook and lived here most of her life, she said. She lived in Greene County and worked as a hair dresser for a couple of years before moving back to Kinderhook.

“I’m a lifer,” she said.

Newkirk was uncertain when she would be able to open because of the COVID-19 pandemic. “We just took our time working in here until we thought things would get better,” she said.

She opened Jan. 13, 2021, but Newkirk expected COVID-19 would be more under control than it was.

The uncertainty of a business during the pandemic has been scary.

“It has definitely been a scary undertaking because one day I feel like the business is doing well and the next week I feel like we start to struggle a little bit, so it has been up and down,” she said.

Newkirk felt the gym options in the area were limited, and the options focused more on younger people.

“I wanted to focus on older folks who were recovering from surgeries, hip replacements, joint replacements, things like that,” she said. “I wanted to open a gym that was friendly to everyone.”

The gym counts about 80 members with different backgrounds and abilities. Regulars range in age from 4 years old to around 80.

The gym has children’s workout videos, so kids work out at the same time as their parents.

on-site accommodations which has been good for microweddings because everybody has been able to stay there for the wedding.

“I think we’re all looking forward to just a really great 2021 and moving past this, and staying safe and hosting great events for people,” Corrigan said. “So I’m trying not to focus on what’s happened in the past and look forward to the future. I think the bigger impact of this is going to be on those large, large venues that can’t operate the way they would.”

She said Owl’s Hoot Barn has benefited from not having in-house catering as some wedding venues do.

Kent Sammons, owner of KS Fitness in Hudson said he’s owned a fitness business in Hudson since 2015, but they had only just moved to their current location six months prior to the pandemic hitting last March. New York state required its bars, restaurants, movie theaters, casinos and gyms to shut down on March 16.

“When we found out we were going to be closing down we thought like everybody else

“They’re getting a workout and they just don’t realize it,” she said. “It makes it fun.”

The gym also has dirt bike racers and soccer players, and 11- and 15-yearolds learning to power-lift.

Visitors like the one-on-one attention they get at the gym.

“We try to make it so it’s a nice, happy place and we can address issues they might be having, so we basically go out of our way so people feel welcome here so they want to be here,” she said.

The gym community is small, so people know each other and help each other, she added.

Gymgoers have been good about following COVID-19 precautions from cleaning down machines to wearing masks, she said.

“Everyone has been considerate of one another,” she said.

“It’s very good the way the community treats one another. ...

I’m very lucky at this point.”

Newkirk is looking forward to hosting more outdoor classes to be more visible in the town and have more community members come in, she said.

LEFT BANK CIDERS, CATSKILL Tim Graham, Anna Rosencranz and Dave Snyder opened Left Bank Ciders, 150 Water St., in Catskill, in July 2020.

Graham’s friend Ben Fain bought the building in 2018 to restore it. Graham, his wife Rosencranz and friend Snyder anticipated opening in March 2020 but were delayed by the pandemic. The owners planned to prepare the building’s patio for outdoor seating a year after opening, but the pandemic changed their priorities, and the patio was ready for summer 2020.

The trio makes and serves the cider in the same building, with a cellar in the back and tap room in front. Customers sat outside on the patio into winter, until the business closed for a few months as a response to COVID-19 spikes in the county and to do more work on the building.

Graham is thankful for the community supporting the new cidery during a pandemic, he

we’d be closed for a couple of weeks, maybe a month at most,” said Sammons. “And then the news broke that we wouldn’t be opening for a while and it was heartbreaking,” KS Fitness was able to hold fitness classes outdoors this past summer, Sammons said.

New York allowed gyms to open at 33% capacity on Aug. 24 with masks and social distancing in place.

“It was rough at first not really knowing are people going to come into a gym, are people going to come back to classes inside, because we try to do as much as we can outside, but then fall hit. But our members have been absolutely amazing.”

Membership at KS Fitness has increased from its numbers prior to the pandemic, Sammons said. His business has seen an increase in younger people coming to the gym who were not been able to participate in school sports.

“It’s been one of the most trying times, it really has,” Sammons said. “Like every other business we tried to get our PPP. We weren’t able to keep much in the beginning but we’ve been

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Preliminary plans for a warehouse/light industrial park on Route 9W in the town of New Baltimore.

“Warehouses are a strange animal — sometimes they are very good neighbors, some are very active, but my guess is the

great majority of these won’t be one tenant taking 20,000 square feet,” he said. “It will be four or five tenants taking smaller

said.

“We feel extremely fortunate to have such a great community and so much support even in the middle of this pandemic and to have been able to open and have customers and sales and to survive and actually thrive because the people of the town were so willing to support us,” he said.

Snyder has followed Graham’s “early experiments with cider making” over the years.

He has since learned all he knows about cider-making from Graham, he said.

Snyder echoed Graham’s gratitude for the local community.

“I think it was such a scary time to open a business but I think we’ve been incredibly lucky and we’ve gotten so much support from the community,” Snyder said. “I think people in not just Catskill but the whole region are just excited to see new businesses doing something a little bit different.”

Left Bank Ciders is the cidery and bar debut for the three owners. “We all learned basically on opening night how to bartend,” Graham said.

As well as serving from its tap room, the business sells cider at local merchants in Columbia and Greene counties, including Kitty’s, 60 South Front St., in Hudson; Grapefruit Wines, 127 Warren St., in Hudson; Hudson Wine Merchants, 341 Warren St., in Hudson; and Solo Vino, 354 Main St., in Catskill, Graham said.

Wayne and Kerry Flach, both from Coxsackie, started experimenting with espresso in 2012 with hopes of having better coffee, and after finding a knack for roasting, the couple started selling at the Coxsackie Farmers Market in 2018. Wayne Flach completed a coffee roasting certification program under coffee expert and Vermont Artisan Coffee founder Mané Alves in 2019.

The couple is this year preparing for their fourth consecutive farmers market and also

running their new coffee shop, Greater Things Roasters, at 10 Hope Plaza in Coxsackie.

The coffee shop opened Feb. 24, 2021, adding a hip coffee spot to Hope Plaza.

The couple roasts their coffee about five miles up the road from their shop in Ravena and are planning on moving the roastery to the Coxsackie waterfront in the fall. Eventually, they plan to open a brunch spot at the roastery.

The couple is eying more for their former hobby-turnedsidegig than the two locations in Coxsackie. They plan to ultimately open three to five locations throughout the Hudson Valley, Wayne Flach said.

The couple, parents to four children, renovated the space, which they say housed a former sign shop.

Wayne Flach has a background in construction and while Kerry Flach does not have a background in design, she knew exactly how she wanted the coffee shop to look.

She wanted to soften and embrace the industrial space, using greenery and rustic elements from the region, like metal farm signs, she said.

“It was a lot of fun to design,” she said. “I think everybody can appreciate it. It’s not too heavy in one area where a certain demographic would maybe feel excluded, I think. It’s great that everyone feels comfortable there.”

The new coffee spot has been a meeting place for locals and new residents alike, she said. “I really want it to feel like home to everyone,” she said.

The coffee shop sells local pastries too, with gluten-free and vegan options, she said.

The majority of the shop’s food and drink is locally sourced, including the baked goods, grab and go items and the milk for the coffee, Wayne Flach said.

“Our goal is to have a really high product quality and experience for when you’re in our shop, just from the food or beverage that you order, the atmosphere and the interior of the shop itself,” Wayne Flach said.

able to add jobs back into our business, which is nice. We lost monetarily, but we gained a community.”

Love Apple Farm in Ghent saw an upsurge in customers when restrictions were first being lifted, said Diane LaConte.

“Then when we kind of went back towards the winter time we saw a decline in foot traffic in the store and now its kind of quiet, it’s been an up-anddown for us,” LaConte said.

The state Department of Agriculture was very strict even before COVID about handwashing and taking precautions, LaConte said.

“To be compliant with the guidelines was fairly easy for us,” LaConte said. “The New York State Department of Health and Department of Agriculture are pretty strict as far as handwashing and taking precautions, being a food service store, we already followed a lot of their guidance already anyway, except for the masks.

It wasn’t a hard transition at all because we do it anyway.”

The cafe portion of the business had to be closed during COVID because of the

restrictions, LaConte said, and that had an impact on the business.

Usually during its peak season, they employ around 25 employees, LaConte said, and during their off-season they have about 10. She said there has been some difficulty being able to find people to work, which she said is likely because of the unemployment money that people are able to receive.

She said the hardest part during COVID has been customers who do not want to follow mask policies. She said it is her store policy to ask people to leave who are not complying with mask requirements.

“That’s the only complaint I have, and the majority of our customers have been very compliant and very understanding, but of course there’s going to be some people who feel that it doesn’t apply to them,” LaConte said. “And that’s the most difficult thing, trying to keep your staff safe, and healthy, and prevent anybody from getting sick and then you have people that basically don’t care.”

areas. Some are people who just need a storage space and they work out of it and make maybe one or two trips there to pick stuff up. The International Traffic Engineering group has taken a look at warehouse projects and they find that they are not big traffic generators.”

Relatively few employees work in warehouses and the number of trucks is a function of the types of tenants and the products they store, Hershberg said.

A couple of prospective tenants who have expressed interest in the project would store products that are sold in drug stores or supermarkets, Hershberg said. He declined to be more specific.

Planning board member Frank Orlando asked about hours of operation.

“We talked about normal

business hours of maybe 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. We don’t want to be working there in the middle of the night,” Hershberg said.

If the warehouse obtains access to the CSX railroad for deliveries, the schedule should be limited, he added.

“I doubt very much we would need more than one or two train dropoffs in a week, Hershberg said. “My guess is probably one, if they arrange it properly.”

The project is a Type 1 action under New York state law and will require an Environmental Impact Statement under State Environmental Quality Review regulations, Hershberg said.

The project will require approval from state agencies including the Department of Transportation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers due to impacts on less than a half acre of wetlands, he added.

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YARD SALE AND BAKE SALE SAUGERTIES — The Katsbaan Ladies Aid Society will hold a Yard Sale & Bake Sale, rain or shine, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

May 15 in the Katsbaan Reformed Church Hall, 1801 Old Kings Highway, Saugerties.

Household items, toys, books, jewelry and delicious homemade baked goods. Something for everyone. Masks required and social distancing, seven guests at a time.

HAM DINNER SOUTH BETHLEHEM — The South Bethlehem United Methodist Church, 67 Willowbrook Ave., South Bethlehem, will serve a ham dinner 3:306:30 p.m. June 4. Dinner is $12 and includes dessert. Take out only and by reservation. Reservation cut-off date is June 2. Call/text Emily Shutter at 518-813-0661 or Cathleen McCullough at 518-265-8684.

Visit South Bethlehem United Methodist Church on Facebook and leave a message with your reservation.

THRIFT SHOP SIDEWALK SALE SOUTH BETHLEHEM — The South Bethlehem United Methodist Church, 67 Willowbrook Ave., South Bethlehem, will hold their second Thrift

Shop Sidewalk Sale 9 a.m.-2 p.m. June 19. A few of the most popular vendors will be back, locally grown flowers, and handmade birdhouses made by one of our church members. Breakfast and lunch will be available, and a small sitting area will be set up. All social distancing protocols will be followed for the safety of our community.

Some of the monies raised from this sale will go to support our United Methodist Women’s local missions, Brown Bag-It Program sponsored through the RavenaCoeymans-Selkirk School District, Capital City Rescue Mission, Interfaith Partnerships for the Homeless, and the Venture Food Bank.

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 518-2497009.

PLANT SALE VALATIE — The Presbyterian Church, 3212 Church St., Valatie, annual Plant Sale will be held 9 a.m.-noon May 15. Many plants including annuals, perennials, vegetables, shrubs, ground covers and houseplants will be available.

If you have any plants to donate, contact firstpresbyterianvalatie@gmail.com.

FOOD PANTRY

VALATIE — The Seventhday Adventist Church, 3266 Route 9, Valatie, will be offering boxes of free food from its food pantry once every three months. This year, those dates fall on the following Saturdays May 15, Aug. 21 and Nov. 20.

The drive-through food pantry will be open from 2-4 p.m. on those dates and individuals will be served on a first come, first serve basis. For information or if you have any questions, contact the church office at 909-784-4400 or check the church web site at https:// www.kinderhooksda.org/

ROAST BEEF DINNER ANCRAM — St. John’s Lutheran Church, 1273 County Route 7, Ancram, annual Roast Beef Dinner will be held May 22, take out only. The menu includes Roast beef, gravy, baked potato, coleslaw, green beans, roll and dessert. Pick ups 4:30-6 p.m. The cost is $15.

To reserve tickets, call Jim at 518-789-4769; Cindy at 518329-0038; Debby at 518-3297594; Robin at 518-398-5200.

CLOTHING BARN NORTH CHATHAM — The Clothing Barn at the North Chatham United Methodist Church has opened. After taking a “COVID hiatus” in 2020, we look forward to seeing our loyal customers once again.

The hours will be the same, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. on Saturdays and masks and social distancing will be required. In order to allow a new group of volunteers to get organized for this year, we are asking that no

donations be brought to the church until after June 1.

For information on the North Chatham United Methodist Church, call 518-7663535 or visit northchathammethodistchurch.org.

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.

TRI COUNTY LUTHERAN PARISH VALATIE — The following is the worship schedule for the Tri County Lutheran Parish.

The churches will be following all safety recommendations such as wearing masks properly, social distancing, contact tracing, no singing and no touching.

Visit TCLParish.org website for weekly Zoom worship schedule and link.

Emanual Lutheran Church, 506 County Road 46, Stuyvesant Falls, worships at 8:30 a.m. Sunday. Christ Our Emmanuel, 19 Park Row, Chatham, worships at 9:30 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.

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.

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.

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_mqhMNxCw. For information, call 518-758-6401 or kinderhookreformedchuch.com.

CLAVERACK REFORMED DUTCH CHURCH CLAVERACK — The Reformed Dutch Church, 88 Route 9H, Claverack, worship at 9:30 a.m. Sundays in the sanctuary and live-streaming to the Facebook page where it

can be viewed live or later. The mission project this month is Mercy Ships, an organization that provides health care for the needy. They also support many local food pantries. For information, call 518-8513811.

OLD CHATHAM QUAKER MEETING OLD CHATHAM — Old Chatham Quaker Meeting is currently meeting for worship at 11 a.m. Sundays only via Zoom. For information, visit http://www.oldchathamquakers.org/.

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. 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 518828-5946.

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. Mid-week prayer meeting is at 7 p.m. Wednesdays.

For information, call 845-8766923 or cdfcirone@aol.com.

School budget development process is uniquely challenging this year

By Dr. Gladys I. Cruz For Columbia-Greene Media

Residents across the twin counties and state will vote on school district budgets and elect school board members on May 18. This vote — held on the third Tuesday each May — comes as districts respond to updated state guidance on distancing and year-end events as well as plan for the 2021-22 school year.

The budget development process — much like the past 15 months — has been unique and challenging.

While districts are receiving a significant influx of funds from the state and federal government, there remain several unanswered questions about the future, including: n What will next school year look like? n What is the economic

outlook of the region and state short term and long term? n How will we fully support our students to accelerate learning as more students return to in-person instruction?

While these questions cannot be answered at this time, the flow of additional money provides schools with additional capacity and flexibility to plan for various scenarios and to support expanded student needs.

The state is providing school districts across the state with a record $29.5 billion in school aid and a promise to make good on a deal to fully fund Foundation Aid, which is the state’s largest aid category to schools, by 2024.

The Foundation Aid formula was created in response to a 2006 court ruling.

As you consider your district’s proposed budget for 2021-22, please note that any federal stimulus funding will supplement state aid to your district, but must be treated as a grant, not part of the general fund. There are specific uses for or restrictions on how this aid can be spent through September 2024.

This includes learning loss (or accelerating learning), social-emotional needs, summer programming and afterschool programming.

At this time, we should not expect the federal government to provide additional money beyond what was already allocated. As a result, school leaders must treat this federal aid as one-time funds and carefully and thoughtfully plan for how to best spend this money over the next four years – and in a way that enhances programming

but does not commit the district to long-term expenses that cannot be sustained over time.

School districts are required to seek public comment from parents, teachers, and other stakeholders as they plan to use these funds – and post plans on their websites by July 1, 2021.

It is important to note that each of our local school districts have different circumstances and situations impacting their specific budget proposals for next school year.

Please look for more information in the mail, in this newspaper, and on your district’s website.

School districts will hold a budget hearing between May 4-11 and mail a budget notice to eligible voters no later than six days prior to the vote, in accordance with

state law.

Some school districts are seeking to preserve programming and staffing while others may need to plan cuts.

All districts must plan for the uncertainty of what school operations may look like through June 30, 2022.

This includes additional public health protections/ expenses and the possibility of remote learning as well as greater academic and socialemotional needs for students due to the pandemic.

At this time, we do not know what the state will require of schools reopening in September.

In recent years, New Yorkers have supported school budgets in record numbers.

Last year, voters approved 99 percent of school budgets during a public health and economic crisis, which shows how much they value

and support public education.

Residents will have the opportunity to have their voices heard again on May 18.

We encourage everyone to learn more about their district’s spending proposal and to vote. Remember, every vote counts. A few votes can decide the outcome of a local budget vote or school board election.

For more information, please visit your district’s website. A full listing of local websites can be accessed at www.questar.org/about/ component-districts.

Dr. Gladys I. Cruz is the district superintendent of Questar III, the Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) serving school districts in Rensselaer, Columbia and Greene counties.

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News & Services Trinity United Methodist 1311 Rte. 143, Coeymans Hollow | NY 12046 • 756-2812

Pastor Paul Meador • Sunday Worship 11:00am (all are welcome) • Church School: “Faith Builders Kids Christian Education” Wednesday at 7pm • Wednesday, Bible Study & Prayer - 7-8:30pm (all are welcome) • Food Pantry, Last Saturday of the month, 10-11am and last Monday of the month, 5-6pm, or by appointment • Thrift Shop Open April 12 - Mid Oct., Thursdays 10 - 4 Saturdays 10 - 2 and when Food Pantry is open. (Handicap Accessible) • Youth Group - Grades 6 - 12 2nd and 4th Thursdays @ 6:30pm

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Janine O’Leary, Parish Life Coordinator Fr. Michael Melanson, Parochial Vicar Saturday* 4:00 p.m. *1st / 3rd Athens and 2nd / 4th Catskill Sunday 8:45 a.m. Catskill / 10:45 a.m. Athens

All Are Welcome!

New Baltimore Reformed Church 518 756 8764 • Rt. 144 and Church St. NBRChurch@aol.com • www.nbrchurch.org

Rev. Rick L. Behan, Pastor Sunday Worship - 9:30 AM Communion First Sunday every month Fellowship before and after worship Thursday - Choir Rehearsal 4:45 PM Tuesday - Bible Study 10:00 AM 2nd Sunday - Helping Hands 10:30 AM Come to the Church in the Hamlet! Working together since 1833

Church of Saint Patrick 21 Main Street, Ravena, NY 12143 • (518) 756-3145

Pastor: Fr. Scott VanDerveer Weekly Mass: 9:00 a.m. Wed & Thurs Saturday Vigil 4:30 p.m. Sunday 9:30 a.m.

Food Pantry Hours: Tues & Thurs 10-11 a.m.

Wednesday 6-7:00 p.m.

Thrift Shop Hours: Wed. 6:00-7:00 Thurs, Fri. & Sat. 1:00-3:00 p.m.

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DON’T HESITATE. VACCINATE. Together we can end the pandemic.

“The COVID-19 vaccine is safe. It’s authorized by the FDA. It can’t cause the virus, and it doesn’t alter your DNA.”

“The vaccine protects you and others from COVID-19.

The more people who get the vaccine, the safer we all are.”

Dennis P. McKenna, MD President and CEO Albany Med

“The vaccine is free; it doesn’t cost anything.

Please, don’t hesitate, vaccinate.”

Brenda Robinson, DNP, MSN, RN CEO and Founder Black Nurses Coalition

Matt Pender, MD Primary Care Provider Cambridge Medical Center – Glens Falls Hospital

“The vaccine will be available to everyone.

Everyone who wants a vaccine will receive one.”

“No one will be left behind. Please, let’s join together and do it right.”

“We can recover from the pandemic if everyone is vaccinated.”

Joanne McDonough, MD Malta Med Medical Director Saratoga Hospital

Ruth Mahoney Market President and Regional Retail Leader KeyBank

J. David Brown President and CEO Capital District YMCA

“Until enough people are vaccinated, please continue social distancing, wearing your mask and washing your hands.”

“When it is your turn, don’t hesitate, vaccinate.”

Mary Gooden President Glens Falls NAACP

John D. Bennett, MD President and CEO CDPHP

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4-H member awarded Jersey calf COXSACKIE — Kasey Purdy of Coxsackie is the lucky recipient of a donated Jersey calf that she will use for her dairy cattle 4-H project this year.

Kasey is the daughter of James Purdy and Alisha Schmidt and is a member of the Greene Earth 4-H Club.

4-H alumnus Ben Gardner received a Jersey calf through a calf award program of the Niagara County 4-H program in 2008. Since then, that one calf has now become a string of nine cows. He chose to pay it forward by gifting a Jersey calf born last fall to an interested local youth — so he/she may begin to grow their own herd.

Applications were received from local 4-H members and FFA members.

This year’s calf was born Aug. 24, 2020. Her dam is Red Pine Louie Rosemary and her sire is J-Kay Tequila Fizz.

Kasey has named her new calf Buttermilk.

In her application Kasey noted a family history of dairy farming, although she does not currently live on a dairy farm. “I have dreamed of owning a calf since I was eight years old. My grandparents own an 800 cow dairy farm in Canandaigua and I love

By Dick Brooks For Columbia-Greene Media

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Ben Gardner and Kasey Purdy with Buttermilk, the Jersey calf Kasey received from Ben.

visiting the calves and taking care of them. Jerseys are special to me because their milk has a high percentage of butterfat, protein and calcium and they have a low rate of dystocia”, shared Kasey.

Kasey is an active member of the Columbia and Greene 4-H dairy project. She has participated in 4-H dairy bowl for the past six years and was team captain for the district junior team last year. She is a member of the local 4-H dairy work group and has participated in the 4-H veterinary

science program. She will be showing Buttermilk at the Greene County Youth Fair this summer.

Cornell Cooperative Extension is an employer and educator recognized for valuing AA/EEO, Protected Veterans, and Individuals with Disabilities and provides equal program and employment opportunities. The programs provided by this organization are partially funded by monies received from the Counties of Columbia and Greene.

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thru only chicken barbecue beginning at 4:30 p.m. May 20. The cost is $13 for a half chicken, baked potato, baked beans, cole slaw and dessert.

Must pre-order by May 16; call Robyn at 518-894-0271.

MAY 15

WINDHAM — Mountain Top Cares Coalition in Windham is hosting its monthly virtual Narcan Training at 7 p.m.

May 20. Help us defeat opioid use disorder by volunteering for training and distribution of Narcan. Register by going to mountaintopcarescoalition. com.

TANNERSVILLE — Attracting Beneficial Insects to Your Garden at Mountain Top Arboretum webinar will be held 10-11 a.m. May 15. Hawthorne Valley Farmscape Ecology Program recounts their adventures in on-farm and in garden habitat management to encourage beneficial insects.

They will discuss flowers and their insect visitors. For information, email info@mtarboretum.org or call 518-589-3903.

LEXINGTON — Lexington Garden Day will be held 9 a.m.noon May 15 at the Lexington Municipal Building, 3542 Route 42, Lexington. Rain date May 16. Spend some time outdoors with friends and make some new friends. You can help spruce up the community gardens at the Municipal Building, Lexington Post Office and the Town Park. Bring gardening tools but there will be extras to share. Experience not required. Social distancing will be practiced. This is a project of the Lexington Non-Partisan Group. If you have any questions, call Lynn Byrne at 518894-4429 or lynnbyrn@gmail. com.

MAY 16 ATHENS — The Athens Republican Committee will be holding a take out only chicken barbecue 1-4 p.m. May 16 at the Athens American Legion, 94 Second St., Athens. Tickets are $13. For tickets, call Ed at 518-945-1622.

MAY 18 CAIRO — The Cairo-Durham Booster Club is sponsoring a Frese’s Barbecue Chicken, Ribs and Pulled Pork Dinner to benefit the Class of 2023 2-6 p.m. May 18 take out only. For information, go to cairodurham.org or call Bridget at 518-821-3364.

MAY 20 CATSKILL — The Knights of Columbus of Catskill will hold a take out only chicken barbecue 3-6 p.m. May 20. Pick up will be at the parking lot of St. Patrick’s Church parking lot in Catskill. Cost is $13 per person and includes half a chicken, baked potato, ear of corn, cole slaw, buttered roll and dessert.

Reservations can be made by calling 518-943-5235.

CATSKILL — Catskill Elks Lodge, 45 North Jefferson Ave., Catskill, will hold a drive

Springtime brings new furry friends

MAY 21 COXSACKIE — The Coxsackie-Athens Drama Club will be performing “You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown” at 7 p.m. May 21 and 22 in the Coxsackie-Athens High School Auditorium, 24 Sunset Blvd., Coxsackie. Tickets will be sold at the Coxsackie-Athens High School Auditorium. Adults, and seniors, $10; students, $6.

MAY 22 HUDSON — The ColumbiaGreene Humane Society/SPCA (CGHS/SPCA), in partnership with Message in a Bottle Can and Bottle Redemption Center, will be holding a bottle and can drive to benefit the shelter on May 22. New York 5-cent redeemable bottles and cans will be collected between 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at 9 Healy Blvd., Suite 3, Hudson, with redeemable proceeds going to CGHS/ SPCA. Items being dropped off must not be crushed, cut, missing labels, or containing liquid.

Glass should be separated from other donations. Message in a Bottle will also keep an open account for CGHS/SPCA in the future so that bottles and cans may be dropped off yearround, with funds going to support the shelter’s programs and services. For questions, call CGHS/SPCA at 518- 828-6044 or Message in a Bottle at 518929-9418.

SELKIRK — Bethlehem Grange 137, 24 Bridge St., Selkirk, will be holding a craft fair and plant sale 9 a.m.-3 p.m. May 22. Outside and inside vendors as well as Chef Jon’s food truck for your convenience. Social distancing observed and masks required and we have handicapped accessible ramps. Bring along your cans for the donation box, clothes for the clothing drop box (stuffed toys, linens etc. as well). The group also collects food for a food pantry and used eye glasses and hearing aids for the Lions Club. Tabs from cans, soda, soup, pet food are also collected and donated to the Ronald McDonald Charity. For information, call Jackie at 518-810-6031 or Charles at

518-227-8954.

CATSKILL — The Catskill Elks Lodge, 45 North Jefferson Ave., Catskill, will be holding an indoor yard sale open to the public 10 a.m.-2 p.m. May 22.

Eight foot tables for rent, $15 for one; $25 for two. To reserve ASAP, call Robyn at 518-8940271.

There are signs that spring is really here. The flocks of birds chowing down in the back yard have changed from sparrows and chickadees to goldfinches and red winged blackbirds. The winter sleepers are up and about as evidenced by the fresh road kill. Opossums and skunks now join the suicide squads of squirrels, increasing the highway carnage.

The flattened skunks sadden me. I like skunks. It may be because they remind me of the fifth graders that I taught for so many years. They’re curious, absolutely fearless and cute in a smelly sort of way.

Being a Disney sort of guy, whenever I come across one, an image of Flower, the cute little skunk in Bambi comes to mind and brings forth an automatic “Ahhhh.” Most of my encounters with the furry little scent buckets have been pleasant. One did kill a batch of baby chicks I was attached to long years ago back in my distant childhood. I forgave him shortly after I shot him.

The only other encounter that could have gotten me into trouble occurred a couple of years ago.

There was a thaw that occurred in January. Skunks aren’t deep sleepers and during a warm spell will often awake and wander around looking for a snack. I was doing some cooking in the kitchen and looked out the

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BROOKS window to see a cute black and white critter ambling down the walk leading to our back door. He branched off onto the path leading through the snow to the birdfeeders. He stood there blinking and eating sunflower seeds.

I had some chicken skin that I had just stripped off the bird I had placed in the soup pot and thought that he might enjoy it. I went out the back door and said “Hi.” He wasn’t alarmed at all, still being half asleep. I moved slowly forward and put the skins down where he could see them and stepped back.

He enjoyed them and we had a nice conversation then both went on our separate ways.

The next day was also warm and my new friend appeared again, only this time he skipped the bird feeder and waddled up to the back door.

I gathered up some left over chicken, went to the door, talked to him a bit then cautiously open the door and put his snack down. He enjoyed it

as he had the day before, we chatted and he departed. The next day (also warm) saw me running around on errands so I returned home just before dark.

My Queen met me at the door with big eyes and told me about her wild life adventure. It seems that when she came home from work, there was a skunk sitting on the back step in front of the door.

She yelled at it, thinking to scare it away, it didn’t move.

She went to the car and blew the horn, it didn’t move. She finally had to walk through knee deep snow to the front door and pry it open to gain the safety of the house. The only reason she could come up with for this unorthodox behavior was rabies. She wanted to call in an air strike or at the very least a SWAT team of conservation department agents. I calmed her, pointed out that the wild, foaming at the mouth beasty was gone and that I was there to protect her.

I never told her about my potential pet, I haven’t lived to be this old by being stupid.

Thought for the week — One of the great mysteries in life is how that idiot who married your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchildren in the world.

Until next week, may you and yours be happy and well.

Reach Dick Brooks at Whittle12124@yahoo.com.

MAY 29 TANNERSVILLE — Bird ID Walk with Larry Federman 8 a.m. May 29 at the Mountain Top Arboretum, 4 Made Adams Road, Rain date is May 30.

Tannersville. Non-members, $10; members, free. No reservations necessary. Larry Federman is a former Audubon Society Education Coordinator and President of the local Audubon Chapter, Northern Catskills Audubon. Larry leads our annual guided tour through the Arboretum’s birdrich habitats. We’ll look for warblers, bluebirds and other migrating birds as they build their nests and start families or pass through to their northern nesting sites. Bring binoculars, boots, attentive eyes and ears.

Register inside the Education Center. This is an in-person program. It is only open to fully vaccinated people may attend, masks must be worn, and groups are limited to 10. For information, info@mtarboretum.org or 518-589-3903.

MAY 31 CATSKILL — Commander Tom Andreassen of Honeyford Memorial American Legion Post 110 of Catskill has scheduled a Memorial Day Service at 11 a.m. May 31 on the steps of the Greene County Courthouse, Main Street, Catskill.

Guest speaker will be Catskill native retired Army Ranger Lieutenant Colonel Cornell A. Morris. Service will take place outside.

JUNE 5 GREENVILLE — The Annual Plant Sale sponsored by Clematis Garden Club will be held 9 a.m.-noon June 5 outside in the parking lot at GNH Lumber, 11513 Route 32, Greenville. A large selection of easy to grow plants dug from members’ own gardens at reasonable prices will be offered. A white elephant Flea Market sale of useful and collectible indoor and outside items will also be available in a trunk sale setting. This sale is a great chance to pick up unique and easily grown plants by local gardeners along with great flea market finds. Clematis Garden Club members will be happy to answer gardening questions. Look for the cars with plants spilling out of their trunks in the GNH Parking lot and the Plant Sale will be held rain or shine. For information, call Jean Horn at 518-966-4260.

The arrival of spring means outdoor chores

By Bob Beyfuss For Columbia-Greene Media

The extended cool, wet, weather continues as I write this column on May 12. I could use some sunshine and temperatures in the 70’s right now, instead of overnight temperatures in the upper 30’s and low 40’s.

I have recorded more than 4 inches of rain since May 1, as well. My garden soil is still much too cold and wet to plant or transplant anything right now and I have yet to harvest any asparagus.

On the plus side, this weather, has extended the bloom period for our spring flowering trees and shrubs.

Crabapples, other wild fruit trees, pears and plums and cherries are putting out a spectacular display right now as are ornamental shrubs and early blooming perennials. It is a great season for lilacs, azaleas, redbud, and just about every other plant that flowers in April and May. Remember that most of these spring bloomers are best pruned immediately after the flowers fade. It is not necessary to “deadhead” (remove spent flowers) shrubs like Lilac and Rhododendrons, but this practice will often lead to more flowers next season.

If your flowering tree or shrub has gotten overgrown, you can safely cut it back by about one third right now, but it might take two seasons to flower again.

Cutting lilacs back hard, right now will usually result in new shoots arising from the roots. If these shoots are topped at about 3 feet in height, they will branch and within two seasons they should bloom nicely on those new shoots. Lilacs are best enjoyed when the flowers are produced at nose height! There are dwarf lilacs available that rarely exceed four or five feet tall.

Yesterday I visited a friend

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BEYFUSS whose home was beautifully landscaped by Story’s nursery about 25 years ago. Many of the original plants still remain, but some of them have just outgrown their space, despite good pruning and maintenance. I see this often in suburban landscapes where the foundation plantings now obscure the doors and windows.

At some point it is time to bite the bullet and yank the overgrown plants out.

It may seem a shame to replace a heathy, beautiful, 7 foot tall evergreen or rhododendron, but if the shrub is blocking windows or doors, or if the roots are under the foundation, it may be time to replace it with a smaller specimen.

Of course, you must be prepared to pay a whole lot more for these replacement shrubs than the previous ones cost! I have been unpleasantly surprised at the prices of all sorts of plants this spring.

Even annual herb garden plants like basil, thyme, rosemary and oregano are selling for almost double the prices of two years ago.

I don’t think I will pay $7 for a 4 inch potted basil plant. I am pleased to see that seed packets have once again returned to the store shelves and I plan to start many more plants from seed than I have in previous years.

Some things I will just grimace and buy since I don’t have time to grow them from seed. As my late friend,

Lester, used to say, when we complained about the price of a six pack of beer, rising to $3 or so, “Let’s face if Bob, if it cost $10 a six pack, we would still buy it.” He was right of course.

Most of you have had to mow your lawns at least twice, since northern turf grasses love this cool, wet weather and are growing accordingly.

Set your mower to 3 inches and mow when the grass is about four inches tall. It is still too early to fertilize, or apply broad leaf weed killers right now, with the exception of crabgrass preventers.

An organic, crabgrass preventer is corn gluten meal and that can be applied now. It will suppress these annual weeds next spring, as well as acting as a slow release fertilizer.

Normally, crabgrass begins to grow when forsythia is in full bloom, but this year it seems like they are no longer on the same page, phenologically speaking. I have not seen any sign of crabgrass even in place where the forsythia has been done for weeks.

Sharpen your lawnmower blades, clean and oil your hand tools and make sure you clean out your bird nesting boxes. Spray some disinfectant in the boxes to kill any mites that may remain. Bluebirds have already taken up residence in the south, but other songbirds are still looking for nest sites.

If you still have bird feeders up, take them down every single night, or be prepared for a visit by your local black bear. Hummingbirds have retuned and once a bear has snacked on your bird seed, it may very well return to trash your hummingbird feeder as well.

To reach Bob Beyfuss, email rlb14@cornell.edu.

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H.S. SOFTBALL:

Mesick stars in Panthers’ win over Bluehawks

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Longtime Hudson River angler Bill Muirhead of Germantown, caught this nice striper about a week ago on live herring. Bill’s take is the fishing’s been good so far this season; A view shared by many a successful river striper angler.

OUTDOORS: Comment period opens for striped bass circle hook requirement Larry DiDonato For Columbia-Greene Media

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Hudson shortstop Abby Jepsen leaps to avoid a sliding Hannah Kelly of Chatham during Thursday’s game at Hudson High School.

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HUDSON — Emily Mesick fired a twohit shutout as Chatham won its sixth game without a loss, defeating Hudson, 11-0, in Thursday’s Patroon Conference softball game.

Mesick struck out nine and walked two in going the distance for the win.

Abby Taylor had three singles for the Panthers (6-0). Olive Mountain doubled and drove in a run, Allyson Engel had two singles and an RBI, Adryanna Jennings singled and drove in two runs, Hannah Taylor and Hannah Kelly both singled and drove in a run, Mesick singled and Erin Madsen had three RBI. Lindsay Martin and Aaliyah Camacho both singled to account for Hudson’s only hits.

Olivia Plaia and Lily Kritzman handled the pitching duties for Hudson, See SOFTBALL B6

Anglers in NY have been required to use nonoffset (inline) circle hooks when recreational fishing for striped bass with bait since April 21, 2021. That was the date the emergency circle hook regulation went into effect.

This week, DEC stated the in their Saltwater Fishing and Boating Newsletter: A non-offset (inline) circle hook means the point and barb of the hook are in the same plane as the shank and the tip of the hook is turned perpendicularly back toward the shank.

Bait is defined as any whole or part of a marine or aquatic organism or terrestrial invertebrate, both live or dead.

Circle hooks are not

required when fishing with an artificial lure, whether or not they are tipped with bait as previously described.

Some examples of artificial lure exemptions include pork rinds on bucktail jigs, eel skin plugs, tube and worm, and any man-made flies.

The full text of the regulation is available on DEC’s website at www. dec.ny.gov.

If you would like to view all Recreational Saltwater Fishing Regulations in effect, type that moniker in the search bar on DEC’s website.

Word on the river is circle hooks, when used properly, do a good job hooking stripers in the corner of the mouth solidly in the jawbone. The See BASS B4

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Chatham’s Amanda Robert slides safely in to second base ahead of the tag of Hudson shortstop Abby Jepsen during Thursday’s game at Hudson High School.

H.S. BASEBALL:

Catskill holds off Maple Hill at home Matt Fortunato Columbia-Greene Media

CATSKILL — The Catskill Cats defeated the Maple Hill Wildcats 6-3 at home on Thursday afternoon. Adam Carlson and Cody Young combined for a strong seven innings for the Cats, besting their counterparts Gavin Van Kempen and Jack Wildermuth of the Wildcats.

Carlson struck out the first two batters of the game but he found himself in a jam shortly thereafter with runners on first and second. He gritted his teeth and struck out his third Wildcat of the inning to end the top of the first. Van Kempen fired back in the bottom half, retiring the side in order with two strikeouts and a groundout.

Ahead in the bottom of the second, Catskill looked to score first and take control of the game. Cullen Fulling came to the plate with the bases loaded and no outs for the Cats, and he ripped a two

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New York Knicks’ Julius Randle (30) is defended by San Antonio Spurs’ Keldon Johnson (3) during the first half at Madison Square Garden on Thursday.

Knicks’ Randle says Hawks would be a ‘nice’ playoff matchup Stefan Bondy New York Daily News

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Catskill’s John Shook awaits a pitch during Thursday’s game against Maple Hill at Ricky Cramer Field.

run double down the first base line to give Catskill an early 2-0 lead.

Carlson did his part on the mound in the top of the third, putting the Wildcats down in

order. He now had six strikeouts over three innings of work. Carter VanEtten and Eddie Rogers hit back-toback doubles to lead off the bottom half of the third and

add to the lead to make it 3-0.

Rogers scored an at-bat later on a wild pitch to extend the lead to 4-0. Jack See CATSKILL B4

Looking at the numbers, the Knicks and Julius Randle have the most reasons to root for a playoff matchup with the Hawks.

“That’d be nice. It’d be nice. They’re a team we’ve beaten every time this year,” Randle said on “Victory the Podcast.” “But they’re also a team that’s really good, so you can’t take them for granted.”

Not only did the Knicks

sweep Atlanta, Randle posted ridiculous numbers in those three games -- 37.3 points, 12.3 rebounds and 6.7 assists while shooting 58%.

Randle similarly welcomed a series against the Heat, but that shouldn’t be so appealing. Miami swept the Knicks in the regular season and Randle struggled, averaging 20 points while shooting under 40% with nearly as many turnovers See KNICKS B4

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Major League Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE East W L Pct GB 23 16 .590 — 20 16 .556 1.5 20 17 .541 2.0 20 19 .513 3.0 16 21 .432 6.0 Central W L Pct GB Chi. White Sox 22 13 .629 — Cleveland 20 14 .588 1.5 Kansas City 16 20 .444 6.5 Detroit 13 24 .351 10.0 Minnesota 12 23 .343 10.0 West W L Pct GB Oakland 23 16 .590 — Houston 20 17 .541 2.0 Seattle 18 19 .486 4.0 Texas 18 20 .474 4.5 LA Angels 16 20 .444 5.5 Wednesday’s games Detroit 4, Kansas City 2 Oakland 4, Boston 1 NY Yankees 1, Tampa Bay 0 Houston 9, LA Angels 1 Chi. White Sox 13, Minnesota 8 Thursday’s games Detroit 4, Kansas City 3 Chi. White Sox 4, Minnesota 2 Tampa Bay 9, NY Yankees 1 Boston 8, Oakland 1 Texas at Houston, 8:10 p.m.

Cleveland at Seattle, 10:10 p.m.

Friday’s games Kansas City (TBD) at Chi. White Sox (Giolito 2-3), 3:10 p.m.

NY Yankees (Kluber 2-2) at Baltimore (Kremer 0-3), 7:05 p.m.

LA Angels (Canning 3-2) at Boston (Pivetta 5-0), 7:10 p.m.

Texas (Benjamin 0-1) at Houston (Greinke 2-1), 8:10 p.m.

Oakland (Montas 4-2) at Minnesota (Shoemaker 2-3), 8:10 p.m.

Kansas City (TBD) at Chi. White Sox (Kopech 2-0), 8:10 p.m.

Cleveland (Civale 5-0) at Seattle (Flexen 3-1), 10:10 p.m.

Boston Toronto NY Yankees Tampa Bay Baltimore

NATIONAL LEAGUE East W L Pct GB NY Mets 18 13 .581 — Philadelphia 20 18 .526 1.5 Atlanta 17 20 .459 4.0 Miami 16 20 .444 4.5 Washington 14 19 .424 5.0 Central W L Pct GB St. Louis 23 15 .605 — Milwaukee 20 18 .526 3.0 Cincinnati 17 17 .500 4.0 Chi. Cubs 17 19 .472 5.0 Pittsburgh 15 22 .405 7.5 West W L Pct GB San Francisco 23 14 .622 — San Diego 21 17 .553 2.5 LA Dodgers 20 17 .541 3.0 Arizona 17 20 .459 6.0 Colorado 13 24 .351 10.0 Wednesday’s games Cincinnati 5, Pittsburgh 1, 10 innings San Diego 5, Colorado 3, 7 innings Colorado 3, San Diego 2, 8 innings Philadelphia 5, Washington 2, 10 innings Milwaukee 4, St. Louis 1 Miami 3, Arizona 2 Thursday’s games Washington 5, Philadelphia 1 St. Louis 2, Milwaukee 0 San Francisco 3, Pittsburgh 1 Cincinnati at Colorado, 8:40 p.m.

Miami at Arizona, 9:40 p.m.

Friday’s games San Francisco (Gausman 3-0) at Pittsburgh (Anderson 3-3), 6:35 p.m.

Atlanta (Smyly 1-2) at Milwaukee (Houser 3-3), 8:10 p.m.

Cincinnati (Miley 4-2) at Colorado (Marquez 1-4), 8:40 p.m.

Washington (Scherzer 2-2) at Arizona (TBD), 9:40 p.m.

Miami (Alcantara 1-2) at LA Dodgers (Kershaw 5-3), 10:10 p.m.

St. Louis (Oviedo 0-1) at San Diego (Musgrove 2-4), 10:10 p.m.

Interleague Wednesday’s games NY Mets 7, Baltimore 1 Cleveland 2, Chi. Cubs 1, 10 innings Toronto 4, Atlanta 1 LA Dodgers 7, Seattle 1 Thursday’s game Toronto 8, Atlanta 4 Friday’s games NY Mets (Peterson 1-3) at Tampa Bay (Glasnow 4-2), 7:10 p.m.

Chi. Cubs (Arrieta 3-3) at Detroit (Skubal 0-5), 7:10 p.m.

Philadelphia (Velasquez 1-0) at Toronto (Matz 5-2), 7:37 p.m.

Rays 9, Yankees 1 NYY AB R HBI LMahiu 2b 4 0 0 0 Stantn dh 4 0 1 0 Judge rf 30 10 Gardnr cf 2 0 0 0 Urshla ss 4 1 1 0 Sanchz c 3 0 2 0 Ford 1b 30 00 Frazier lf 3 0 0 0 Andujr 3b 4 0 0 0 Totals 30 1 5 0 NY Yankees Tampa Bay

TB AB R HBI Arozrn lf 3 2 1 3 Mdows dh 5 1 3 4 Margt rf 5 1 1 0 Lowe 2b 4 1 1 0 Diaz 1b 302 2 Brssau 3b 4 1 0 0 Wndle ss 3 1 0 0 Smith c 321 0 Phllps cf 4 0 1 0 Totals 34 910 9

000 000 001 — 1 202 003 02x — 9

E—G.Sanchez 1. LOB—Tampa Bay 7, New York 7. 2B—Y.Diaz (4), Judge (5), B.Lowe (5), Meadows (10), G.Sanchez (2). HR—Arozarena (4), Meadows (8).

IP H R ER BB SO NY Yankees Taillon L, 1-3 M.King Wilson Tampa Bay R.Hill W, 2-1 Head Strickland

4 2/3 6 4 2 1/3 2 3 1 2 2

4 3 1

2 2 1

9 6 1

6 2/3 3 0 1 1/3 0 0 1 2 1

0 0 1

3 0 1

9 1 0

HBP—Judge (by R.Hill). WP—Taillon (2).

T—3:05. A—6,229 (42,735)

Red Sox 8, Athletics 1 OAK AB R HBI Canha lf 50 10 Morlnd dh 4 1 2 0 Laurno cf 4 0 1 0 Olson 1b 3 0 0 1 Lowrie 2b 2 0 1 0 Kemp 2b 0 0 0 0 Chpmn 3b 3 0 0 0 Machin ph 1 0 0 0 Brown rf 4 0 0 0 Murphy c 2 0 1 0 Garcia c 10 10 Andrus ss 3 0 1 0 Totals 32 1 8 1 Oakland Boston

BOS AB R HBI Chavis 2b 5 2 2 0 Verdgo cf 5 0 0 0 Martnz lf 4 1 3 1 Bogrts dh 3 1 3 3 Devers 3b 4 0 0 0 Vzquez c 4 1 1 0 Rnfroe rf 4 1 2 0 Dalbec 1b 4 1 2 2 Arauz ss 2 1 0 0

Totals

35 813 6

000 000 010 — 1 331 001 00x — 8

E—M.Chapman 1. LOB—Boston 6, Oakland 9. 2B—Bogaerts (12), Canha (6), Chavis (2), Ar.Garcia (1), Lowrie (11), Moreland (3). HR— Bogaerts (8), Dalbec (3).

IP H R ER BB SO Oakland Manaea L, 3-2 D.Guerra Kolarek Guduan Boston Richards W, 3-2 Whitlock S, 1

2 3 1 2

10 1 2 0

7 0 1 0

7 0 0 0

1 0 1 1

2 3 0 1

6 5 0 3 3 1

0 1

3 1

4 2

HBP—S.Murphy (by Whitlock).

Blue Jays 8, Braves 4 TOR AB R HBI Semien 2b 5 1 2 0 Bichtt ss 52 23 Gurrr 1b 5 0 1 0 Hrndz rf 42 21 Biggio 3b 3 1 2 2 Gurrl lf 40 11 Davis cf 50 11 McGuire c 2 1 1 0 Grichk ph 1 0 0 0 Bergen rp 0 0 0 0 Romano rp 0 0 0 0 Strplg sp 1 0 0 0 Tellez ph 1 0 0 0 Mayza rp 0 0 0 0 Paymps rp 0 0 0 0 Jansen c 1 1 1 0

37 813 8 Totals

Toronto Atlanta

ATL AB R HBI Acuna rf 4 1 1 1 Mintr rp 0 0 0 0 Jcksn rp 0 0 0 0 Smith rp 0 0 0 0 Biddle rp 0 0 0 0 Freemn 1b 4 1 1 0 Ozuna lf 3 1 1 0 Albies 2b 3 0 1 0 Adrnz 3b 4 0 1 1 Swansn ss 4 1 1 2 Mathis c 4 0 0 0 Pache cf 1 0 0 0 Riley 3b 300 0 Morton sp 1 0 0 0 Webb rp 1 0 0 0 Martin rp 0 0 0 0 Camrgo ph 1 0 0 0

33 4 6 4

010 020 014 — 8 200 002 000 — 4

LOB—Atlanta 4, Toronto 8. 2B—Bichette (8), Biggio (3). HR—Acuna Jr. (12), D.Swanson (5).

SB—Albies (2).

IP H R ER BB SO Toronto Stripling 5 4 2 2 1 9 Mayza BS, 1 1 2 2 2 0 2 Payamps 1 0 0 0 0 1 Bergen W, 1-0 1 0 0 0 1 0 J.Romano 1 0 0 0 0 3 Atlanta Morton 4 2/3 7 3 3 2 4 J.Webb 1 1/3 0 0 0 0 1 Martin H, 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 Minter BS, 4 2/3 1 1 1 1 1 Jackson 1-3 0 0 0 0 0 W.Smith L, 0-3 1/3 5 4 4 0 0 Biddle 2/3 0 0 0 0 0 HBP—McGuire (by Morton). WP—Biddle (3).

T—3:14. A—21,653 (41,500)

Nationals 5, Phillies 1 PHI AB R HBI McCthn lf 3 1 1 0 Segura 2b 4 0 0 0 Harper rf 4 0 1 0 Hoskns 1b 4 0 0 0 Moore rp 0 0 0 0 Bohm 3b 4 0 1 0 Hrrera cf 4 0 1 0 Knapp c 40 00 Maton ss 3 0 1 0 Eflin sp 20 00 DLSnts rp 0 0 0 0 Miller ph 1 0 1 0 Totals 33 1 6 0 Philadelphia Washington

WAS AB R HBI Turnr ss 400 0 Hrrisn 2b 4 0 1 0 Soto rf 421 0 Schwrbr lf 4 1 2 2 Castro 3b 3 1 2 1 Bell 1b 311 2 Gomes c 2 0 0 0 Corbin sp 3 0 0 0 Rainey rp 0 0 0 0 Hudsn rp 0 0 0 0 Voth rp 000 0 Robles cf 3 0 0 0 Totals 30 5 7 5

100 000 000 — 1 400 001 00x — 5

LOB—Washington 3, Philadelphia 6. 2B—S.Castro (8), McCutchen (3), B.Miller (1). HR—Bell (4), Schwarber (4). SB—Harper (4), McCutchen (3).

IP H R ER BB SO Philadelphia Eflin L, 2-2 De Los Santos M.Moore Washington Corbin W, 2-3 Rainey Hudson H, 5 Voth

6 7 5 1 0 0 1 0 0

5 0 0

2 0 0

9 1 1

7 1/3 2/3 1

1 0 0 0

0 1 0 0

9 0 1 1

5 1 0 0

1 0 0 0

T—2:38. A—8,710 (41,888)

Cardinals 2, Brewers 0 STL AB R HBI Edman ss 4 1 1 0 Carlsn rf 40 10 Glschmt 1b 3 0 1 0 Arendo 3b 5 0 3 1 Crpntr 2b 4 0 1 0 Reyes rp 0 0 0 0 O’Neill lf 4 0 0 0 Bader cf 30 00 Kniznr c 40 10 Flhrty sp 2 0 0 0 Wllims ph 0 0 0 0 Gllgos rp 0 0 0 0 Cbrera rp 0 0 0 0 Thomas ph 0 1 0 0 Sosa ss 00 00 Totals 33 2 8 1 St. Louis Milwaukee

MIL AB R HBI Wong 2b 4 0 0 0 Cain cf 400 0 Vglbch 1b 3 0 1 0 Shaw 3b 4 0 1 0 Garcia rf 3 0 0 0 Suter rp 0 0 0 0 Perdmo rp 0 0 0 0 Pina ph 000 0 Nrvaez c 3 0 0 0 Brdly lf 400 0 Urias ss 402 0 Burnes sp 0 0 0 0 McKny ph 1 0 1 0 Rsmsn rp 0 0 0 0 Taylor rf 1 0 0 0 Totals 31 0 5 0

100 000 001 — 2 000 000 000 — 0

E—Perdomo 1. LOB—Milwaukee 9, St. Louis 12.

2B—T.Shaw (7), Vogelbach (3). SB—Edman 2 (7), Goldschmidt (2), Thomas (1).

IP H R ER BB SO St. Louis Flaherty W, 7-0 Gallegos H, 7 G.Cabrera H, 6 A.Reyes S, 11 Milwaukee Burnes L, 2-3 Rasmussen Suter Perdomo

6 1 1 1

4 0 0 1

0 0 0 0

0 0 0 0

2 1 0 1

6 1 1 3

5 1 2 1

5 1 2 0

1 0 0 1

1 0 0 1

1 2 2 3

9 1 1 0

T—3:31. A—10,554 (45,808

Pro basketball

0-0 3, Scott 1-1 0-0 3, Reed 2-2 0-0 4, Tolliver 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 36-78 15-20 94.

MIAMI (106) Adebayo 9-13 0-0 18, Ariza 4-9 0-0 10, Butler 6-10 5-5 21, D.Robinson 1-7 0-0 3, Nunn 6-9 0-0 13, Herro 6-13 2-2 18, Dragic 5-12 4-4 15, Iguodala 0-0 0-0 0, Dedmon 2-4 0-0 4, Haslem 2-2 0-0 4, Okpala 0-0 0-0 0, Vincent 0-1 0-0 0, Achiuwa 0-0 0-0 0, Strus 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 41-81 11-11 106.

Philadelphia Miami

3-Point Goals—Philadelphia 7-25 (Da.Green 3-5, Se.Curry 2-4, Scott 1-1, Joe 1-2, Milton 0-1, Tolliver 0-1, Embiid 0-2, Maxey 0-2, Korkmaz 0-3, T.Harris 0-4), Miami 13-35 (Butler 4-4, Herro 4-7, Ariza 2-5, Nunn 1-4, Dragic 1-6, D.Robinson 1-7, Strus 0-1, Vincent 0-1). Fouled Out—Dedmon. Rebounds— Philadelphia 60 (D.Howard 7), Miami 94 (Adebayo 12). Assists—Philadelphia 20 (Simmons 6), Miami 26 (Adebayo 8). Total Fouls—Philadelphia 18 (Simmons 4), Miami 15 (Dedmon 5). A—NA.

Bucks 142, Pacers 133 MILWAUKEE (142) G.Antetokounmpo 14-18 11-16 40, Jr.Holiday 8-14 4-5 20, Middleton 9-17 2-2 22, DiVincenzo 2-5 2-2 8, B.Lopez 9-15 3-4 21, P.Tucker 1-3 1-2 3, Connaughton 2-4 0-0 6, Portis 5-6 0-0 12, Forbes 1-6 0-0 2, Teague 3-6 0-0 8. Totals 54-94 23-31 142.

INDIANA (133) McConnell 10-19 2-3 23, Ju.Holiday 9-14 0-0 26, Brissett 5-12 4-4 19, D.McDermott 8-15 0-0 19, Sabonis 5-19 0-0 10, K.Martin 5-13 0-0 12, Bitadze 2-5 4-6 10, Sampson 6-10 2-2 14, Stanley 0-3 0-0 0. Totals 50-110 12-15 133.

Milwaukee Indiana

Pro hockey NHL East Division GP W LOT SO Pts GF y-Pittsburgh 56 37 16 2 1 77 196 x-Washingtn 56 36 15 3 2 77 191 x-Boston 56 33 16 5 2 73 168 x-Islanders 56 32 17 4 3 71 156 N.Y. Rangers 56 27 23 4 2 60 177 Philadelphia 56 25 23 4 4 58 163 New Jersey 56 19 30 2 5 45 145 Buffalo 56 15 34 4 3 37 138 North Division GP W LOT SO Pts GF y-Toronto 55 35 13 7 0 77 185 x-Edmonton 55 35 18 2 0 72 182 x-Winnipeg 55 29 23 1 2 61 166 x-Montreal 56 24 21 8 3 59 159 Ottawa 56 23 28 4 1 51 157 Calgary 52 23 26 2 1 49 138 Vancouver 51 21 27 2 1 45 135 Central Division GP W LOT SO Pts GF y-Carolina 56 36 12 6 2 80 179 x-Florida 56 37 14 3 2 79 189 x-Tampa Bay 56 36 17 1 2 75 181 x-Nashville 56 31 23 2 0 64 156 Dallas 56 23 19 8 6 60 158 Chicago 56 24 25 5 2 55 161 Detroit 56 19 27 7 3 48 127 Columbus 56 18 26 9 3 48 137 West Division GP W LOT SO Pts GF x-Vegas 56 40 14 0 2 82 191 x-Colorado 55 38 13 3 1 80 192 x-Minnesota 56 35 16 4 1 75 181 x-St. Louis 56 27 20 6 3 63 169 Arizona 56 24 26 4 2 54 153 Los Angeles 55 21 27 6 1 49 142 San Jose 56 21 28 4 3 49 151 Anaheim 56 17 30 7 2 43 126 y-Clinched division title x-Clinched playoff berth Wednesday’s games Edmonton 4, Montreal 3, OT Ottawa 4, Toronto 3, OT St. Louis 4, Minnesota 0 Vegas 6, San Jose 0 Colorado 6, Los Angeles 0 Thursday’s games St. Louis 7, Minnesota 3 Vancouver at Calgary, 9 p.m.

Los Angeles at Colorado, 9 p.m.

Today’s game Toronto at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.

Saturday’s game Vancouver at Edmonton, 3:30 p.m.

GA 156 163 136 128 157 201 194 199 GA 144 150 152 168 190 149 169 GA 136 153 147 154 154 186 171 187 GA 124 132 160 170 176 165 199 179

Blues 7, Wild 3 GB — 1.0 8.0 12.0 20.0 GB — 12.0 15.0 23.0 25.0 GB — .5 6.5 7.5 18.5 GB — 4.0 9.0 28.0 29.0 GB — 1.5 8.5 11.5 17.5 GB — 1.5 8.5 11.5 17.5

Knicks 102, Spurs 98 SAN ANTONIO (98) DeRozan 10-18 7-9 27, D.Murray 7-18 0-1 14, Poeltl 4-7 0-0 8, K.Johnson 5-11 1-1 13, Walker IV 5-13 0-0 12, Mills 1-5 3-3 6, Gay 2-10 3-3 8, Eubanks 3-7 2-2 8, Vassell 1-2 0-0 2. Totals 38-91 16-19 98.

NEW YORK (102) J.Randle 7-21 10-10 25, Barrett 8-19 3-3 24, Bullock 3-9 0-0 8, Noel 2-3 2-2 6, Payton 0-4 0-0 0, Burks 11-20 3-3 30, Gibson 3-5 0-0 6, Quickley 0-4 0-0 0, Ntilikina 1-1 0-0 3, Toppin 0-0 0-0 0.

Totals 35-86 18-18 102.

San Antonio New York

39 30 40 33 —142 38 28 30 37 —133

3-Point Goals—Milwaukee 11-30 (Portis 2-2, Teague 2-2, Connaughton 2-3, DiVincenzo 2-5, Middleton 2-7, G.Antetokounmpo 1-1, B.Lopez 0-1, P.Tucker 0-1, Forbes 0-4, Jr.Holiday 0-4), Indiana 2143 (Ju.Holiday 8-12, Brissett 5-8, D.McDermott 3-7, Bitadze 2-3, K.Martin 2-5, McConnell 1-2, Stanley 0-1, Sampson 0-2, Sabonis 0-3). Rebounds—Milwaukee 58 (G.Antetokounmpo 15), Indiana 53 (K.Martin 9). Assists—Milwaukee 34 (Jr.Holiday 14), Indiana 34 (Sabonis 14). Total Fouls—Milwaukee 10 (B.Lopez, Middleton 3), Indiana 22 (Bitadze 5). A—NA.

NBA Eastern Conference Atlantic W L Pct x-Philadelphia 47 23 .671 x-Brooklyn 46 24 .657 x-New York 39 31 .557 Boston 35 35 .500 Toronto 27 43 .386 Central W L Pct y-Milwaukee 45 25 .643 Indiana 33 37 .471 Chicago 30 40 .429 Cleveland 22 48 .314 Detroit 20 50 .286 Southeast W L Pct x-Atlanta 40 31 .563 x-Miami 39 31 .557 Charlotte 33 37 .471 Washington 32 38 .457 Orlando 21 49 .300 Western Conference Northwest W L Pct y-Utah 50 20 .714 x-Denver 46 24 .657 Portland 41 29 .586 Minnesota 22 48 .314 Oklahoma City 21 49 .300 Pacific W L Pct x-Phoenix 48 21 .696 x-L.A. Clippers 47 23 .671 L.A. Lakers 40 30 .571 Golden State 37 33 .529 Sacramento 31 39 .443 Southwest W L Pct Phoenix 48 21 .696 L.A. Clippers 47 23 .671 L.A. Lakers 40 30 .571 Golden State 37 33 .529 Sacramento 31 39 .443 y- clinched division x-clinched playoff bert Wednesday’s games Atlanta 120, Washington 116 Brooklyn 128, San Antonio 116 Cleveland 102, Boston 94 Dallas 125, New Orleans 107 Portland 105, Utah 98 L.A. Lakers 124, Houston 122 Thursday’s games L.A. Clippers 113, Charlotte 90 Milwaukee 142, Indiana 133 Atlanta 116, Orlando 93 Miami 106, Philadelphia 94 New York 102, San Antonio 98 Chicago 114, Toronto 102 Denver 114, Minnesota 103 Memphis 116, Sacramento 110 Portland at Phoenix, 10 p.m.

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

Denver at Detroit, 8 p.m.

Orlando at Philadelphia, 8 p.m.

Utah at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.

Toronto at Dallas, 9 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Houston, 9 p.m.

Sacramento at Memphis, 9 p.m.

New Orleans at Golden State, 9:30 p.m.

22 19 26 27 — 94 38 22 29 17 —106

18 25 34 21 — 98 20 26 27 29 —102

3-Point Goals—San Antonio 6-21 (K.Johnson 2-4, Walker IV 2-6, Mills 1-4, Gay 1-5, D.Murray 0-1, Vassell 0-1), New York 14-35 (Barrett 5-9, Burks 5-10, Bullock 2-8, Ntilikina 1-1, J.Randle 1-5, Quickley 0-2). Rebounds—San Antonio 56 (Eubanks, D.Murray, Poeltl 9), New York 51 (Burks 10). Assists—San Antonio 22 (D.Murray 7), New York 23 (J.Randle 9). Total Fouls—San Antonio 16 (Poeltl 4), New York 19 (Bullock 5). A—1,981.

Heat 106, 76ers 94 PHILADELPHIA (94) T.Harris 8-17 5-6 21, Simmons 3-6 2-2 8, Embiid 3-9 0-1 6, Se.Curry 3-6 0-0 8, Da.Green 4-7 0-0 11, Milton 4-8 4-7 12, Korkmaz 1-6 1-1 3, Maxey 3-8 0-0 6, G.Hill 1-3 3-3 5, D.Howard 2-2 0-0 4, Joe 1-2

Minnesota St. Louis

3 0 0 — 0 4 3 —

3 7

First Period—1, Minnesota, Sturm 11 (Bonino, Bjugstad) 3:23. 2, Minnesota, Suter 3 (Foligno) 4:06. 3, Minnesota, Foligno 11 (Cole, Greenway) 16:04.

Second Period—4, St. Louis, Sanford 10 (Clifford, Mikkola) 5:16. 5, St. Louis, Schenn 15 (O’Reilly, Hoffman) 8:29 (pp). 6, St. Louis, Perron 18 (Barbashev, Faulk) 11:33. 7, St. Louis, Schenn 16 (Perron, Hoffman) 14:03 (pp).

Third Period—8, St. Louis, Perron 19 (Hoffman, Krug) 5:50 (pp). 9, St. Louis, Kyrou 13 (Kostin, Scandella) 6:33. 10, St. Louis, Kyrou 14 (Bortuzzo, Santini) 15:29.

Shots on Goal—Minnesota 11-6-3—20. St. Louis 7-11-9—27.

Power-play opportunities—Minnesota 0 of 2.

St. Louis 3 of 4.

Goalies—Minnesota Kahkonen 16-8-0 (27 shots-20 saves). St. Louis Binnington 18-14-8 (20-17).

T—2:19.

STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS FIRST ROUND (Best-of-7) Saturday Boston at Washington, 7:15 p.m.

Sunday N.Y. Islanders at Pittsburgh, 12 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Florida, 7:30 p.m.

Auto racing NASCAR Cup Series Next Race: Drydene 400 The Place: Dover International Speedway The Date: Sunday, May 16 The Time: 2 p.m. ET TV: FS1, 12:30 p.m. ET Radio: MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Distance: 400 miles (400 laps); Stage 1 (Ends on Lap 120), Stage 2 (Ends on Lap 240), Final Stage (Ends on Lap 400) What To Watch For: Dover International Speedway has hosted 102 NASCAR Cup Series races. ... The first Dover race was won by NASCAR Hall of Famer Richard Petty driving a Petty Enterprises Ford (115.772 mph, 02:35:28). Petty actually won the first two Cup events at the track (1969, 1970). ... In total, the 102 NASCAR Cup Series races at Dover have produced 42 different pole winners and 38 different race winners. ... NASCAR Hall of Famer David Pearson leads the series in poles at Dover with six (1969, 1973 sweep, 1974, 1975, 1981). ... Ryan Newman (2003, 2005, 2006, 2007) and Denny Hamlin (2012, 2013, 2015, 2019) lead all active series drivers in poles at Dover with four poles each. ... Recently retired driver Jimmie Johnson holds the series record for the most wins at Dover with 11 victories (2002 sweep, 2005 Playoffs, 2009 sweep, 2010 Playoffs, Spring 2012, 2013 Playoffs, Spring 2014, Spring 2015 and Spring 2017). ... Of the 38 different NASCAR Cup Series winners at Dover International Speedway, nine are active this weekend. ... Four drivers are tied for the most wins at Dover among active competitors – Kevin Harvick, Martin Truex Jr., Kyle Busch and Ryan Newman – each have three wins. ... The youngest Cup race winner at Dover is Chase Elliott (10/07/2018; 22 years, 10 months, 9 days) and the oldest winner is Harry Gant (05/31/1992; 52 years, 4 months, 21 days).

NASCAR Xfinity Series Next Race: Drydene 200 The Place: Dover International Speedway The Date: Saturday, May 15 The Time: 1:30 p.m. ET TV: FS1, 1 p.m. ET Radio: MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Distance: 200 miles (200 Laps); Stage 1 (Ends on Lap 45), Stage 2 (Ends on Lap 90), Final Stage (Ends on Lap 200) What To Watch For: Dover International Speedway has hosted 74 NASCAR Xfinity Series races – tied with Richmond for third-most behind Bristol (77) and Charlotte (75). ... The first Xfinity Series race at Dover was on May 15, 1982, and the event was won by Joe Ruttman, driving for Butch Mocks in the Pontiac (111.679 mph; 01:46:47). ... The 74 NASCAR Xfinity Series races have produced 48 different pole winners and 50 different race winners. ... Harry Gant (1982, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1994) and Joey Logano (2009, 2012 sweep, 2013 sweep) lead the series in poles at Dover with five each. ... Of the 50 different winners, only one is entered this weekend – Justin Allgaier, with two Dover career wins (2018, 2020).

JOE CAMPOREALE/USA TODAY

Phoenix Suns guard Devin Booker (1) shoots over Portland Trail Blazers forward Robert Covington (23) during the second half at Phoenix Suns Arena on Thursday.

NBA roundup: Suns get by Blazers on Devin Booker’s late FTs Field Level Media

Devin Booker made two free throws with 2.4 seconds left as the Phoenix Suns edged the Portland Trail Blazers 118-117 on Thursday night.

Chris Paul recorded 26 points and seven assists and Mikal Bridges added 21 points and 11 rebounds for the Suns, who moved one game behind the Utah Jazz in the battle for the Western Conference’s top seed.

Damian Lillard scored 24 of his 41 points in the fourth quarter for the Trail Blazers, who had a five-game winning streak snapped and failed to clinch a main-draw playoff spot.

Portland is in sixth place in the West, a half-game ahead of the Los Angeles Lakers in its bid to stay out of the play-in round.

CJ McCollum added 27 points for Portland. Lillard scored at least 30 points for the seventh straight game.

Cameron Payne scored 21 points and Booker added 18 for the Suns.

Phoenix center Deandre Ayton (knee) missed a game for the first time this season.

Heat 106, 76ers 94 Jimmy Butler scored 21 points and Miami took a big early lead and never looked back in a win over visiting Philadelphia.

The result kept Philadelphia from clinching the top playoff seed in the Eastern Conference. The Sixers, who took their second loss in a row, would clinch first place with a win over the visiting Orlando Magic on Friday night. Tobias Harris led the 76ers with 21 points.

The Heat earned their fourth straight win and prevailed for the seventh time in eight games. Miami, tied for fifth in the East with the New York Knicks, has two games left as it tries to climb past the fourth-place Atlanta Hawks. The Heat got 18 points apiece from Bam Adebayo and Tyler Herro. Adebayo added 12 rebounds and eight assists.

Hawks 116, Magic 93 Bogdan Bogdanovic scored 27

points as Atlanta continued its home dominance with a victory over Orlando.

Bogdanovic, who was questionable to play because of a hamstring injury, made 9 of 12 shots from the floor and sank four 3-pointers. Trae Young added 18 points and seven assists for the Hawks, who have won 10 in a row at home.

R.J. Hampton collected 18 points and eight rebounds off the bench for the Magic, who have dropped five in a row.

Bucks 142, Pacers 133 Giannis Antetokounmpo’s 40 points, 15 rebounds and six assists led visiting Milwaukee to a win in Indianapolis and its first season sweep against Indiana since 2010.

Khris Middleton scored 22 points and Brook Lopez had 21 points and eight rebounds for the Bucks, who pulled to within one game of the second-place Brooklyn Nets in the Eastern Conference.

Justin Holiday led the Pacers with 26 points, hitting eight 3-pointers. Indiana remained tied with the Charlotte Hornets for eighth place in the East.

Grizzlies 116, Kings 110 Kyle Anderson ignited a 12-0 finish with a pair of hoops, including a 3-pointer, and Jonas Valanciunas posted a double-double as Memphis formally eliminated visiting Sacramento from playoff contention.

Dillon Brooks scored a team-high 30 points and Valanciunas recorded 24 points and a game-high 13 rebounds for the Grizzlies, who assured that their position in the NBA play-in tournament – either eighth or ninth – will be determined in the season finale Sunday at Golden State.

The Kings, a play-in longshot whose hopes were kept alive when the San Antonio Spurs were beaten by the New York Knicks earlier Thursday, came up short despite a career-best 31 points from Justin James.

Nuggets 114, Timberwolves 103 Nikola Jokic helped his cause in the Most Valuable Player race with 31 points and 14 rebounds, leading Denver to a win over Minnesota in Minneapolis.

The Timberwolves’ Anthony Edwards strengthened his bid for NBA Rookie of the Year with 29 points, seven rebounds and five assists.

Karl-Anthony Towns wound up with 20 points and 11 rebounds for Minnesota, which cut a 13-point, third-quarter deficit down to three heading into the final period.

Denver got a balanced scoring effort, with six players recording at least 12 points. Markus Howard and Vlatko Cancar both scored career highs off the bench with 15 and 14 points, respectively.

Bulls 114, Raptors 102 Zach LaVine scored eight of his 24 points in the fourth quarter as Chicago defeated visiting Toronto.

The Bulls overcame a career-best 35 points by Toronto’s Stanley Johnson, who also had 10 rebounds. The depleted Raptors, who already were eliminated from playoff contention, have lost five in a row.

Lauri Markkanen added 20 points off the bench and Nikola Vucevic tallied 16 points and 16 rebounds for the Bulls, who kept their faint chances for the play-in tournament alive.

Clippers 113, Hornets 90 Paul George amassed 20 points and 10 rebounds, and Los Angeles put together an overwhelming second-half stretch to beat host Charlotte.

Reggie Jackson poured in 19 points, Kawhi Leonard posted 16 points with nine assists and Marcus Morris Sr. scored 15 for the Clippers, who improved to 2-0 midway through a four-game road trip to complete the regular season.

LaMelo Ball racked up 18 points and Bismack Biyombo had 13 points for the Hornets, who took their third loss in a row.

Alec Burks helps Knicks beat Spurs, keep pace in playoff seeding race Stefan Bondy New York Daily News

NEW YORK — Tom Thibodeau never skips a step. He often speaks as if giving a play-by-play of a staircase ascension.

“The first part was clinching the play-in, then the playoffs, and now the highest seed possible,” the coach said.

Thursday night was a horizontal movement in Step 3. The Knicks handled their business by beating the Spurs, 102-98, with Alec Burks re-emerging for a spectacular season-high 30 points.

But the teams directly ahead in the standings — the Hawks and Heat — also won Thursday, so the Knicks needed to topple Gregg Popovich’s squad to keep pace. They recovered from a 17-point third-quarter deficit and needed four clutch foul shots from Burks and RJ Barrett to seal the win in the final eight seconds.

Another gritty victory for the Knicks (39-31) in a season full of them.

Their ideal playoff matchup, just based on history, is the Hawks. Julius Randle labeled that potential series “nice” and has good reason after his team swept the Hawks over three

games this season and he averaged 37.3 points, 12.3 rebounds and 6.7 assists while shooting 58%.

“It’d be nice. They’re a team we’ve beaten every time this year,” Randle said on ‘Victory the Podcast.’

“But they’re also a team that’s really good, so you can’t take them for granted.”

That’s still a possibility after Thursday’s comeback but the Knicks need help. The Hawks (4031), who’ve won three straight, only need to beat the league-worst Rockets in their season finale Sunday to clinch the fourth or fifth seed. If the Heat (39-31) beat the Bucks and the terrible Pistons in its last two games, the Knicks are assured sixth seed and a first-round matchup against the Bucks or Nets.

That’s also assuming the Knicks win their two final games against the Hornets and Celtics.

In other words, the Knicks needed a victory Thursday and Burks came through. The backup guard, who missed the last three games with an ankle sprain, scored 16 in the fourth quarter, including consecutive treys after San Antonio tied the game at 90 with 3:36 remaining.

Burks’ performance was

especially important because Derrick Rose, the team’s super sub, was a surprise scratch with a sprained ankle after being upgraded to probable earlier in the day. He was coming off Tuesday’s overtime loss to the Lakers, when Rose logged his most minutes in over two years.

But the Knicks always seem to plug the holes.

No matter how the playoff seeding shakes out, this is mostly just gravy — icing on the surprise part cake. The Knicks were never supposed to be in this position, not with their roster and history. They’ve exceeded all expectations while securing the franchise’s first playoff appearance since 2013, with Thibodeau righting James Dolan’s Titanic.

That’s also worth acknowledging again — that the Knicks have gotten to Step 3.

“Having grown up in Connecticut and being here in the 90s with the Knicks and knowing what basketball means to this city, it’s great,” Thibodeau said. “I think the type of guys we have reflects what this city is all about. And so we try to make them proud and give them something they can cheer about.”

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Rich Hill went 6 2/3 shutout innings, Austin Meadows produced four RBIs, and Tampa Bay walloped the New York Yankees, 9-1, in St. Petersburg, Fla. on Thursday to salvage the finale of a three-game series.

Hill (2-1) allowed three hits and three walks while striking out nine. Meadows had two doubles and a homer, and Randy Arozarena went deep for Tampa Bay. Yandy Diaz added two hits and two RBIs for the Rays, who won for the second time in six games.

Gary Sanchez had two of the five hits for the Yankees, whose four-game winning streak ended.

Cardinal 2, Brewers 0 Nolan Arenado had three hits and drove in a run as the visiting St. Louis Cardinals posted a 2-0 win over the Milwaukee Brewers in the rubber match of a three-game series on Thursday.

Arenado’s two-out single off right-hander Corbin Burnes (2-3) in the first inning scored Tommy Edman, who singled to lead off the game.

Burnes set the all-time record for consecutive strikeouts without a walk, extending his run to 58 before issuing his first free pass of the season in the fifth inning. The old mark of 56 was held by Gerrit Cole (2021) and Curt Schilling (2002), with Cole’s streak still active.

The old record for strikeouts without a walk to begin a season was 51, held by Kenley Jansen (2017).

Jack Flaherty (7-0) struck out six and gave up four hits over six innings for St. Louis, which won for the 15th time in its last 20 games.

Rockies 13, Reds 8 Josh Fuentes homered among his three hits and drove in a career-high four runs, Garrett Hampson also went deep, and host Colorado beat Cincinnati.

Chi Chi Gonzalez threw seven shutout innings, Yonathan Daza had three hits and Ryan McMahon, Connor Joe and Raimel Tapia had two hits each for Colorado.

Jonathan India had two hits in the eighth inning, including a three-run homer, while Tyler Stephenson also homered for the Reds.

Cincinnati center fielder Nick Senzel left in the third inning with a left heel contusion and Mike Moustakas left in the fifth inning with an apparent hand injury.

Astros 4, Rangers 3 (11) Myles Straw scored on a wild pitch with two outs in the 11th inning as Houston claimed a walk-off victory over visiting Texas.

With the bases loaded and Chas McCormick facing a 1-2 count, Texas left-hander Brett Martin uncorked a curveball that handcuffed catcher Jonah Heim and allowed Straw to score from third base.

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Tampa Bay Rays starting pitcher Rich Hill (14) throws a pitch in the first inning against the New York Yankees at Tropicana Field on Thursday.

Houston managed just three runs in five innings off Mike Foltynewicz, all of them coming on a bases-clearing double by Jose Altuve with one out in the second inning. Foltynewicz gave up eight hits and three walks while striking out three.

Red Sox 8, Athletics 1 Xander Bogaerts hit a two-run home run and finished with three RBIs as host Boston snapped a three-game losing streak and avoided a three-game sweep by Oakland.

Bobby Dalbec added a two-run homer and J.D. Martinez had his team-leading 33rd RBI for the Red Sox. Boston reclaimed a share of the major league lead in wins with 23.

Ex-Red Sox first baseman Mitch Moreland went 2-for-4 for the A’s and Matt Olson drove in the lone run for Oakland, which had won four of five and seven of its last 10.

Giants 3, Pirates 1 Steven Duggar homered and Anthony DeSclafani allowed one hit over five scoreless innings as visiting San Francisco downed Pittsburgh in a series opener.

Mike Yastrzemski added an RBI triple for the Giants, who have won three games in a row.

DeSclafani (3-1) walked one and struck out five.

The only hit he gave up was Jacob Stallings’ single in the first.

Will Craig homered for the Pirates, who are 3-11 in their past 14.

Indians 4, Mariners 2 Zach Plesac pitched eight innings of two-hit,

two-run ball as Cleveland won at Seattle. The right-hander, who had been on the losing end of two no-hitters this season, held the Mariners hitless through the first seven innings.

Plesac (3-3) walked three and struck out two.

Emmanuel Clase got two outs in the ninth but then walked the next three batters to load the bases. Bryan Shaw came on to strike out Luis Torrens for his first save of the season.

Franmil Reyes and Jose Ramirez hit home runs for the Indians, who spoiled the major league debut of Logan Gilbert (0-1). The Seattle right-hander allowed four runs on five hits in four innings, with no walks and five strikeouts.

The Mariners got a two-run homer from Dylan Moore in the eighth.

White Sox 4, Twins 2 Tim Anderson and Jake Lamb each hit solo home runs and Chicago held on for a win to complete a three-game sweep over visiting Minnesota.

Andrew Vaughn and Yermin Mercedes also drove in one run apiece for Chicago, which won its sixth game in a row. After losing eight of their first 14 games, the White Sox now have the best record in the major leagues at 22-13.

Max Kepler homered to lead the Twins at the plate. Jorge Polanco and Trevor Larnach each doubled for Minnesota, which has lost four straight games and seven of its last eight.

Blue Jays 8, Braves 4 Bo Bichette drove in three runs, including two on a double that fueled a four-run ninth, to

Gleyber Torres eighth Yankee to test positive for coronavirus Krstie Ackert New York Daily News

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Gleyber Torres has a confirmed case of breakthrough COVID-19, the Yankees announced before the game.

The shortstop is the first player to test positive during the team’s recent outbreak.

“The Yankees can today confirm that INF Gleyber Torres has received a positive COVID-19 diagnosis. He was

fully vaccinated and previously had COVID-19 during the most recent baseball offseason,” a team statement read.

Torres, who was held out of Wednesday night’s game while the MLB/MLBPA joint committee reviewed his results, was placed on the COVID-19 list and the team recalled Miguel Andujar before Thursday night’s game against the Rays at Tropicana Field.

He joins seven other confirmed cases with the team’s traveling party, which include three coaches. Third base coach Phil Nevin, first base coach Reggie Willits and pitching coach Matt Blake are in quarantine after positive tests. So are four unnamed support staffers.

The Yankees said six of the seven are asymptomatic and the seventh is experiencing mild symptoms.

give visiting Toronto a come-from-behind win over Atlanta.

Danny Jansen and Marcus Semien set the table with soft singles against closer Will Smith (0-3), and Bichette drove both in with a double to right. Cavan Biggio drove in Bichette with a double and Teoscar Hernandez scored on a sacrifice fly by Lourdes Gurriel Jr. Atlanta right fielder Ronald Acuna Jr., the major league home run leader, had to leave the game in the seventh inning with an ankle injury. Acuna fell awkwardly trying to beat out an infield hit. Acuna led off the game with a 442-foot home run, his 12th and the 21st leadoff homer of his career.

Nationals 5, Phillies 1 Patrick Corbin pitched seven strong innings and Washington defeated visiting Philadelphia to salvage the finale of the three-game series.

Kyle Schwarber and Josh Bell each hit tworun, first-inning homers for Washington, which had lost four straight and seven of its previous eight. Starlin Castro extended his hitting streak, which started on May 1, to 11 games. He is hitting .500 (11-for-22) over his last six games.

Philadelphia starter Zach Eflin (2-2) gave up five runs on seven hits and two walks while striking out nine over six innings.

Marlins 5, Diamondbacks 1 Trevor Rogers, the reigning National League Rookie of the Month, pitched six effective innings to lead Miami to a win over Arizona in Phoenix. The teams split the four-game series, with Miami taking the last two contests.

Rogers (5-2) allowed four hits, two walks and one run in six innings while striking out seven.

Jesus Aguilar led Miami’s offense, going 3-for5 with an RBI. Miguel Rojas, Adam Duvall and Corey Dickerson each had two hits and one RBI. In addition to dropping the game, Arizona lost first baseman Asdrubal Cabrera to a strained right hamstring. Cabrera, who went 2-for-3 and raised his batting average to .289, singled in the sixth, but he then got hurt while stealing second.

Tigers 4, Royals 3 Spencer Turnbull pitched 6 1/3 strong innings and host Detroit scored four runs in the second to hand Kansas City its 11th consecutive loss.

Turnbull (2-2) held the Royals to one run on six hits while striking out seven with one walk.

The Tigers, who were swept in a four-game series against the Royals earlier this season, completed a three-game sweep while extending their win streak to four games.

Rookie Daniel Lynch (0-2), making his third career start, gave up all of Detroit’s runs on seven hits in 2 2/3 innings. One of the runs was unearned. Salvador Perez had two hits and an RBI.

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striking out eight, walking three and allowing 11 runs and 10 hits.

Taconic Hills 8, Maple Hill 4 CRARYVILLE — Emily Mottoshiski had a triple and two singles with four RBI and turned in a complete game performance on the mound as Taconic Hills defeated

Maple Hill, 8-4, in Thursday’s Patroon Conference softball game.

Macayla Sparano collected four singles for the Titans. Kailey Proper added a double and two singles, Autumn Sachs had a double and single with three RBI, Grace Alvarez had two singles and Skyler Waterhouse singled.

Alexis Tedford had three singles for Maple Hill.

Mottoshiski struck out four, walked two and allowed four runs and 13 hits.

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Chatham’s Olive Mountain (6) takes a lead off of first base as Hudson first baseman Lindsay Martin watches the pitch during Thursday’s game at Hudson High School.

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Though vindicated by his two Super Bowl victories with the New York Giants, it’s still not clear exactly what Eli Manning had against the San Diego Chargers when he asked them not to draft him first overall in 2004.

Manning, revisiting his anti-Chargers stance after the recent NFL Draft, spoke vaguely of his rationale with Fox Sports’ Trey Wingo.

“I just didn’t know if there was a total commitment to football,” Manning said of the Chargers, never elaborating, “and I heard a lot of rumblings around the organization, so I just felt that in that position, if I had my choice, I’d rather not go there.”

The irony is many of the same San Diegans who derided Manning for rejecting the Chargers would lambaste Dean Spanos 13 years later when he and his three siblings moved the franchise to greater Los Angeles.

For sure, aspects of Chargers history raised plausible concerns circa 2004 — no playoff trips the previous eight years, quarterback Ryan Leaf’s deep struggles after going second in the ‘98 draft, a franchise reputation for cheapness that went back to owners Alex Spanos and Eugene Klein — but in actuality, the Chargers were on the rise.

Playmakers on San Diego’s offense included young stars in running back LaDainian Tomlinson and tight end Antonio Gates. The next five seasons brought four playoff berths.

If Manning guessed Dean Spanos would allow the tense relationship between new General Manager A.J. Smith and coach Marty Schottenheimer to devolve into a toxic brew, as would happen, he had a knack for knowing the future.

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An effigy of quarterback Eli Manning (10) of the New York Giants is thrown around by fans of the San Diego Chargers during the fourth quarter on September 25, 2005 at Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego, California.

In impish Manning fashion, Eli quipped: “If I knew about the New York media and how brutal it can be, I might have just said, ‘You know what, San Diego is the right spot for me.’ “ He added: “It’s a beautiful, beautiful city. Great weather, all year round. The golf and the ocean.”

It took some sand to ask off the No. 1 pick.

“I didn’t feel totally comfortable doing it,” said the Ole Miss alum, “but I felt it was the right decision. It was my future, and I had some leverage

and I decided to use it.”

Smith did a nifty judo move, drafting Manning while knowing the Giants were eager to get him.

Announced as the No. 1 pick, a glum-looking Manning pulled on a Chargers cap and held a Chargers jersey after Commissioner Paul Tagliabue coaxed him onto the stage at the Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York.

Meantime, Smith and Giants GM Ernie Accorsi resumed trade talks.

Heading to a room behind the draft stage after doing an interview with Chargers reporters, Manning learned of the trade when a boy at the draft site ran by him while hollering, “Manning’s been traded to the Giants.”

Smith’s haul: Philip Rivers — drafted fourth by the Giants — and three draft picks, one of which became Shawne Merriman.

Rivers never missed a start with the Chargers after replacing Drew Brees, whose agent represented Manning.

Under Rivers, who went to eight Pro Bowls, the Chargers reached six Super Bowl tournaments.

Not only did Manning survive the New York microscope — which Rivers said he had no desire to endure — he showed a knack for big-game success.

His Super Bowl victories came opposite Tom Brady (who went 8-0 against Rivers-led Chargers teams). An Eli-led playoff upset of Aaron Rodgers and Green Bay, then 15-1, sent Manning toward his second Super Bowl.

Of the two, Rivers was clearly the better passer.

He assembled a much better career passer rating — 95.2 to 84.1 — that can’t wholly be ascribed to Manning playing home games in a notoriously windy stadium.

In the end, Manning’s power play worked out for both organizations (though the Spanoses couldn’t have enjoyed Cheryl Bosa famously declaring “We wish we pulled an Eli Manning” when contractual talks between Team Spanos and her son, Joey, went far off the rails after Bosa went third to San Diego in 2016.

For Chargers fans, the payoff included four victories in four games against Eli’s Giants.

Attorney: Deshaun Watson accusers won’t settle Field Level Media

The attorney for the 22 women accusing Texas quarterback Deshaun Watson of sexual misconduct said they won’t accept a financial settlement in exchange for dropping their lawsuits.

Attorney Tony Buzbee told FOX 26 in Houston in a phone interview Wednesday night that the women will let the cases play out. The cases are linked to massage sessions.

Buzbee said four of his clients have met with investigators for the NFL and even more have talked with the

Houston Police Department. He praised law enforcement’s interaction with the women but criticized the league.

“Some of the women did not feel like they were being respected,” Buzbee told the station, adding, “Let’s be clear.

Every time these women recount the situation, they have to relive it.”

He said more women have indicated they will cooperate with the league investigation but he isn’t sure he will permit it.

Buzbee did not announce in the

interview what the league did to potentially make his clients feel disrespected.

“The allegations are very concerning and the league immediately began investigating the matter under the NFL’s Personal Conduct Policy,” NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said in an email to ESPN on Thursday. “The investigation includes gathering information, monitoring law enforcement developments and conducting interviews with relevant people willing to participate with counsel present.

“Throughout her decades-long career as the chief of the sex crimes unit in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and most recently as the NFL’s special counsel for investigations for the last six years, Lisa (Friel, the league’s lead investigator) has earned a stellar reputation as a consummate professional who conducts investigations and interviews with compassion and fairness in an effort to determine the truth.”

Watson and his attorney, Rusty Hardin, have denied allegations that

anything inappropriate occurred during the massage sessions. In a news conference on April 9, Hardin acknowledged that Watson had “consensual encounters” with women on some occasions.

“I’m not going into what it is, the nature, the numbers or with whom,” Hardin said. “The question always, that we have always been emphasizing: Never, at any time, under any circumstances ... did this young man ever engage in anything that was not mutually desired by the other party.”

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Line Cook / Sous Chef / Lunch Cafe Cooks Onteora Club is looking for Line Cook / Sous Chef / Lunch Cafe Cooks to join our Culinary team. Savory flavors of locally grown and produced cuisine with a myriad of tantalizing choices with one common goal: to surpass your palate's wildest dreams. Onteora Club is home to a full-service Club with a remote pool kitchen, pub, and full-service restaurant with a full menu selection to our members for takeout and delivery.

Responsibilities: · Set up and stock stations with all necessary supplies · Prepare food for service (e.g. chopping vegetables, butchering meat, or preparing sauces) · Cook menu items in cooperation with the rest of the kitchen staff · Answer, report, and follow executive or sous chef’s instructions · Comply with nutrition and sanitation regulations and safety standards · Maintain a positive and professional approach with coworkers and customers · Competitive pay is dependent on experience.

Requirements: · 2 to 3 years high volume experience · Ability to multi-task · Knowledge of proper cooking for Grill, Saute, Garde Manger · Team player · 5-day work schedule · Willingness to learn · Culinary school training a plus · Has a passion for the industry Compensation - Based on Experience Job Type: Full-time Pay: $ per hour Physical Setting: · Bar · Fine dining restaurant · Upscale casual restaurant Schedule: Line Cook, Sous Chef Wednesday thru Sunday Lunch cafe cook 7 days a week Ability to Commute: · Local would be Tannersville New York Education: · High school or equivalent (Preferred) Experience: · Cooking: 2 years (Required) · Restaurant Experience: 2 years (Preferred) Work Location: · One location To Apply email: mbrereton@onteoraclub.com or chef@onteoraclub.com OFFICE MANAGER CCE of Columbia and Greene Counties. Responsible for overseeing administrative and human resources functions.

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Skilled and semi skilled carpenters wanted.

Year round work. New construction and remodel.

Custom work. Projects in Hudson and the Capital District.

Reliable transportation necessary. $20-$30/hr. Salaried possible, with paid time off and some schedule flexibility.

Contact David - 518-810-6330 or adesignb@gmail.com

Waitstaff / Bartenders Needed Hourly Wage of $18 - $20 for wait staff and bartenders, depending on experience (Onteora is a non-tipping private club).

Our Winning Family Starts With You! Benefits At A Glance: · Flexible schedules to help you balance other life commitments such as school, childcare, family care, etc. · Free Employee Meal! (limited menu) · Weekly pay At Onteora Club, family is not just something. Family is everything. We're All Family Here!

As a server, you will deliver exceptional dining experiences by providing safe, friendly, and attentive service that makes our guests feel welcome and like they are part of our family.

One key to our success is the high standards we set for ourselves and each other. That includes placing the health and safety of our team members and guests as a top priority. We are committed to the highest safety and sanitation practices, including ensuring team member wellness and maintaining a clean restaurant.

We'd love to welcome you home as our newest server!

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The Town of Athens is looking to fill the position of Court Clerk. Salary is contingent on experience.

Applicants can submit letters of intent and resumes to Supervisor Robert F. Butler, Jr at 2 First St., Athens, NY 12015 or contact the office at 518-9451052 for further details.

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Youth Engagement Coordinator Tobacco-Free Action of Columbia & Greene Counties, a program of the Healthcare Consortium, promotes policy changes that prevent teen smoking and vaping, reduce adult tobacco use, eliminate exposure to secondhand smoke, and change social norms around tobacco. The Program is seeking a self-assured, capable person to work collaboratively in its three-person team as the Youth Engagement Coordinator.

The responsibilities of the Youth Engagement Coordinator include: Recruit youth and youth groups in each county to engage in community education and advocacy activities in support of tobacco-related policy change; provide continuous training, guidance and support for all involved youth; conduct presentations and other educational activities in schools and to youth-focused organizations; maintain program social media platforms. Eligible candidates will have a Bachelor’s degree or 3 years of relevant experience. Proficiency with social media essential. Experience working with young people, community organizing, or teaching is a plus.

The position requires some evening & weekend hours and infrequent overnight travel. Candidates must have a car & valid NYS driver’s license. The candidate must also have the ability to work at home when necessary.

Starting wage for this full-time (35 hrs/wk) non-exempt position is $20.75/hr (firm) with a rich benefit package.

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What to know about the 2021 Stanley Cup playoffs Matt Bonesteel and Neil Greenberg The Washington Post

The NHL has seen its share of bumps this season, which was shortened to 56 games because of the coronavirus pandemic. Divisions were realigned, and teams played the same opponents over and over again to cut down on travel. Now for the playoffs . . . they’ll play those same division opponents over and over again for two more rounds before things open up for the Stanley Cup semifinals and finals.

Here is where things stand.

All times Eastern.

How will the 2021 Stanley Cup playoffs work?

Because of pandemic travel restrictions, the league temporarily realigned into four eight-team divisions, including the North Division, which is composed entirely of the NHL’s Canadian teams. The top four teams in each division made the playoffs.

The first two rounds consist of divisional matchups: first place vs. fourth place and second place vs. third place, with the winners squaring off in the second round.

For the playoff semifinals, the remaining team with the best regular season point total will be seeded first and play the remaining team with the worst regular season point total while the remaining team with the secondbest point total will play the remaining team with the third-best point total.

The winners of those two series will play for the Stanley Cup. All playoff series will be best-of-seven.

When do the playoffs start, and what is the schedule?

The playoffs get underway Saturday night, when the Washington Capitals host the Boston Bruins in the East Division semifinals. Some parts of the schedule remain in limbo.

The NHL’s regular season was supposed to end on May 8, but a number of teams dealt with significant coronavirus outbreaks, particularly the Vancouver Canucks, who suffered through one of the more widespread covid outbreaks in professional sports and had most of their April games postponed. The Canucks will not conclude their regular season until May 19, well after most other teams and after the American-based teams have begun their playoff series.

Even though Vancouver has been eliminated from playoff contention,

the North Division playoffs will not begin until May 19, four days after the first playoff game.

Complicating matters for the NHL is the Summer Olympics, which are scheduled to begin July 23 and - like the Stanley Cup finals - will televised

by NBC. The NHL ideally would need to wrap up its postseason before then to ensure that all of the finals games are on NBC and not shunted to a cable network, which would attract far fewer viewers.

Most years, the playoffs take about two months to complete, so the delayed playoff start for some teams could be cutting things perilously close.

How does coronavirus impact the playoffs?

For the first two rounds, the higherseeded team will have home-ice advantage and each team is likely to host games. But the picture still is a little cloudy for the North Division, whose teams all hail from Canada, where more stringent pandemic restrictions remain in effect. Canadian teams also are prohibited from repeatedly traveling back and forth over the U.S. border, which remains closed.

One Canadian team is guaranteed to make the playoff semifinals and unless Canadian coronavirus rules change in the next few weeks, it seems likely that the remaining Canadian team will be forced to establish a U.S. base of operations and play its semifinal “home” games there.

Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly has said the NHL has applied for an exemption with the Canadian government that would allow U.S.-based teams to cross the border into Canada and Canadian teams to return from the United States without quarantining.

On May 8, the NHL and the players’ union announced modifications to the league’s coronavirus protocols for the playoffs. Fully vaccinated players and team officials no longer will have to follow quarantine requirements after exposure to the virus and testing requirements for fully vaccinated people will be lessened. Players and officials who are fully vaccinated also can now gather in larger groups for social functions, meals, commuting and outdoor activities.

First-round matchups and predictions Metrics - both conventional and less traditional - can provide clues

about which teams deserve to be considered contenders, and which are mere pretenders. The chance for each squad to advance are based on each team’s likelihood of winning a sevengame series using four components: their actual win-loss record; their expected win-loss record based on goals scored and allowed (also known as their Pythagorean win percentage); their expected win-loss record based on expected goals for and against (a metric that takes into account the likelihood a shot becomes a goal based on distance, angle and type of shot); and their regressed win-loss record to account for the small sample size of 56 regular season games.

East Division first round No. 1 Pittsburgh vs. No. 4 New York Islanders Game 1: Sunday, New York Islanders at Pittsburgh, noon, NBC Game 2: Tuesday, New York Islanders at Pittsburgh, 7:30 p.m., NBCSN Game 3: May 20, Pittsburgh at New York Islanders, 7 p.m., NBCSN Game 4: May 22, Pittsburgh at New York Islanders, 3 p.m., NBC Game 5: May 24 New York Islanders at Pittsburgh, TBD Game 6: May 26, Pittsburgh at New York Islanders, TBD Game 7: May 28, New York Islanders at Pittsburgh, TBD No. 2 Washington vs. No. 3 Boston Washington has a 53% chance to win the series The Capitals have a lot of question marks heading into the postseason.

Forwards Alex Ovechkin and Nicklas Backstrom and defenseman John Carlson missed several recent games with lower-body injuries, and center Evgeny Kuznetsov and goaltender Ilya Samsonov are on the NHL’s covid-19 list. T.J. Oshie suffered a lower-body injury on Saturday and is day-to-day.

Boston, meanwhile, is on the upswing since the trade deadline after acquiring Taylor Hall and Curtis Lazar from the Buffalo Sabres and Mike Reilly from the Ottawa Senators. The Bruins have gone 12-3-1 since the trades and have gotten a big boost from Hall, whose lack of results earlier this season was almost comical compared to how many scoring chances he generated. The former MVP has eight goals and six assists in 16 games since joining the Bruins. Lazar and Reilly have combined for another 11 points.

Game 1: Saturday, Boston at Washington, 7:15 p.m., NBC

Game 2: Monday, Boston at Washington, 7:30 p.m., NBCSN Game 3: Wednesday, Washington at Boston, 6:30 p.m., NBCSN Game 4: May 21, Washington at Boston, 6:30 p.m., NBCSN Game 5: May 23, Boston at Washington, TBD Game 6: May 25, Washington at Boston, TBD Game 7: May 27, Boston at Washington, TBD North Division first round No. 1 Toronto vs. No. 4 Montreal Game 1: May 20, Montreal at Toronto, 7:30 p.m., NHL Network Game 2: May 22, Montreal at Toronto, 7 p.m., CNBC Game 3: May 24, Toronto at Montreal, TBD Game 4: May 25, Toronto at Montreal, TBD Game 5: May 27, Montreal at Toronto, TBD Game 6: May 29, Toronto at Montreal, TBD Game 7: May 31, Montreal at Toronto, TBD No. 2 Edmonton vs. No. 3 Winnipeg Game 1: Wednesday, Winnipeg at Edmonton, 9 p.m., NBCSN Game 2: May 21, Winnipeg at Edmonton, 9 p.m., NBCSN Game 3: May 23, Edmonton at Winnipeg, TBD Game 4: May 24, Edmonton at Winnipeg, TBD Game 5: May 26, Winnipeg at Edmonton, TBD Game 6: May 28, Edmonton at Winnipeg, TBD Game 7: May 30, Winnipeg at Edmonton, TBD Central Division first round No. 1 Carolina vs. No. 4 Nashville Carolina has a 75% chance to win the series The Hurricanes should have no problem dispatching the Predators.

At even strength, Carolina generates more scoring chances, including those from the high-danger areas like the slot and crease, leading to a higher quality of shot. It’s a slight edge but one that should tilt the ice in Carolina’s favor for most of the series.

On power plays, meantime, there is no question the Hurricanes are the better team. Nashville generates 41 scoring chances per 60 minutes with the man advantage, the eighth-lowest mark in the league this season. Carolina generates 58 scoring chances per 60 minutes of power play time, the

NHL’s fifth-highest rate.

Game 1: Monday, Nashville at Carolina, 8 p.m., CNBC Game 2: Wednesday, Nashville at Carolina, 8 p.m., CNBC Game 3: May 21, Carolina at Nashville, 7 p.m., USA Game 4: May 23, Carolina at Nashville, TBD Game 5: May 25, Nashville at Carolina, TBD Game 6: May 27, Carolina at Nashville, TBD Game 7: May 29, Nashville at Carolina, TBD No. 2 Florida vs. No. 3 Tampa Bay Game 1: Sunday, Tampa Bay at Florida, 7:30 p.m., NBCSN Game 2: Tuesday, Tampa Bay at Florida, 8 p.m., CNBC Game 3: May 20, Florida at Tampa Bay, 6:30 p.m., USA Game 4: May 22, Florida at Tampa Bay, 12:30 p.m., CNBC Game 5: May 24, Tampa Bay at Florida, TBD Game 6: May 26, Florida at Tampa Bay, TBD Game 7: May 28, Tampa Bay at Florida, TBD West Division first round (Note: The first two places in the West standings are still up in the air.

Colorado will win the division with a victory over the Los Angeles Kings on Thursday night.)

No. 1 Vegas or Colorado vs. No. 4 St. Louis No. 2 Vegas or Colorado vs. No. 3 Minnesota What did I miss from the regular season?

The regular season already has had something of a postseason feel, considering the pandemic-related scheduling in which teams often played consecutive games against the same opponent in the same location. Despite these and other measures intended to limit coronavirus spread, a number of teams - the aforementioned Canucks, the Dallas Stars, the New York Rangers - have seen significant outbreaks.

The Toronto Maple Leafs, the NHL’s biggest-city Canadian franchise, haven’t won a playoff series in 17 years, and they haven’t won the Stanley Cup in 54 years. With Auston Matthews and Mitch Marner manning one of the most potent top lines in the league, is this the year the Leafs finally achieve something other than springtime mediocrity?

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Mixed signals frustrate best friend who wants more Dear Abby, I’m a lesbian. There’s a girl I have liked for a little over a month. We are like best friends.

When I told her I was attracted to her, she basically friend-zoned me, which hurt. Then she told a mutual friend she was considering being “friends with benefits” with me, and I got DEAR ABBY excited. Well, she changed her mind again because she was afraid it would be awkward.

I still have a crush on her, but I value our friendship. We spend so much time together, and things are easy but also challenging because I just want to grab her and kiss her. We snuggle all the time, and she gives me hugs every day (we live in the same dormitory). I want to make out with her. These mixed signals are killing me. What do I do?

Dazed & Confused In Florida

JEANNE PHILLIPS

You’re right. This young woman is giving you mixed signals. That’s why you should put her firmly in YOUR friend zone. Stop the hugging and snuggling and move on, so you can find someone who reciprocates your feelings. (Absence has been known to make the heart grow fonder.) Perhaps when she realizes that you are capable of moving on, her feelings for you will change. However, if they don’t, you will have lost nothing but more heartache.

Dear Abby, Recently, my dear mother-in-law passed away. While writing her obituary, it was a challenge to hunt down accurate dates and family information. Many family members chimed in with conflicting information. To prevent this confusion in the future, would it be tactless to ask relatives for some of this information ahead of time? If so, how would you go about writing something on this topic without offending someone?

Wondering In Michigan What you have in mind is practical. If you

have a relationship with these relatives, why not bring some of these questions up in normal conversation? (I assume you know where they were born.) To ask when people graduated from high school or college isn’t intrusive. What year someone was married isn’t classified information either. If you simply start talking, you may find out much of the information you are after.

P.S. If your relatives are willing to make the effort to write down their own stories, it could be compiled into a precious family history.

Dear Abby, Our family just got back from a perfect vacation, which included, in addition to my husband and me, my three adult sons, their wives, two grandchildren and my mom. My husband and I paid to rent a house, and we all chipped in for food.

When we returned, my sister called and said she was jealous, and she wants to be included next time. I love my sister, but that would very much change the dynamics of our vacation. Is it selfish to not want to include her? Is there anything I can say or do to ease the hurt? Due to COVID, we are no longer hosting holidays or other celebrations as we normally do.

Big Family Up North Your sister has a right to her feelings. However, that does not obligate you to change your family vacation plans to suit her. Because you appear to have trouble saying no, tell her you will think about it, which is true and doesn’t obligate you.

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

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By Stella Wilder Born today, you may be misunderstood by those who do not take the time to get to know you well, for you can come across as rather stern and unforgiving among those who do not strive to meet your very high standards — both personally and professionally. And while it is true that you can be, at times, hard and unbending, it is also true that there are moments in which you let your more sensitive side shine through — and those who are privy to that part of your personality are likely to find much in you to connect with, be it in private affairs or professional dealings.

When it comes to your personal relationships, you respond quite favorably to those who earn your respect and loyalty — and you find talent to be almost irresistibly attractive.

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

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

SUNDAY, MAY 16 TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — Your plans are in flux, but you should be able to nail something down by day’s end. The advice of an expert must not be overlooked today.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You’re looking at things from an unusual perspective today — one that you perhaps “inherited” from someone who’s been here before.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — After a brief disconnect, you may be feeling a new urgency

around a certain endeavor. It feels to you like a “now or never” situation, perhaps.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Don’t let the fact that you are feeling out of sorts keep you from honoring your pledge to a friend or loved one. Avoid self-indulgence today.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Once you make your presence known today, you can be sure that your time will be used well and your skills utilized. Speak up if you have to!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You don’t want to let too much more time pass before tending to a piece of business upon which hangs something you’ve long been planning.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Practice makes perfect, or so you’ve heard again and again — but today that elusive perfection may remain elusive until you make an adjustment.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — You’re likely to grasp a complicated concept before anyone else, but this will only be an advantage if you swing into action now!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You may find it difficult to maintain a steady course today, as you’re likely to be buffeted by unexpected, fast-shifting winds.

AQUAIRUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — An obstacle that you put in someone’s path winds up blocking your own way today — at least for a time. You understand how this happened!

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — If you’re going to have to wait, then others are going to have to wait as well, or so you would have it. Others may strongly object to this.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — The casual is likely to become much more serious all at once today, when you do or say something that you thought would go unnoticed.

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Right-hand opponent opens 2D, weak. What call would you make?

Look for answers on Tuesday.

(Bob Jones welcomes readers’ responses sent in care of this newspaper or to Tribune Content Agency, LLC., 16650 Westgrove Dr., Suite 175, Addison, TX 75001.

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We knew that the radio audience skews older and Whiter, and we thought this is important for them to hear, too. These are stories that are really worthwhile no matter where you fit the demographics of the U.S.” RAMTIN ARABLOUEI Host of “Throughline” Rund Abdelfatah and Ramtin Arablouei, hosts of “Throughline,” one of many podcasts that NPR is turning into a radio program. Mike Morgan/NPR

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cabdriver in Tehran helped Ramtin Arablouei crystallize the idea.

“People in the West, they don’t remember anything,” the driver had told him, diagnosing the cultural divide between Iran and the United States. “And people in the East don’t forget anything.”

That inspired his mission when he and fellow NPR producer Rund Abdelfatah launched their history podcast “Throughline” in 2019: to help Americans remember. Their show explored the Sunni-Shia divide, the ruthless beginnings of the banana industry, the invention of race — the kinds of compelling but knotty stories that have fueled a booming market for podcasting among younger listeners.

And after two years, their bosses decided to take “Throughline” to the larger audience of radio.

“We have a really young audience, and that was part of our goal,” said Arablouei. “But then we knew that the radio audience skews older and Whiter, and we thought this is important for them to hear, too. These are stories that are really worthwhile no matter where you fit the demographics of the U.S.” NPR — which this week celebrates the 50th anniversary of its first original radio broadcast — has lately struggled with the need to bolster a listenership that is rapidly aging.

Increasingly, it has branched out into digital media, where younger and more diverse listeners already are, particularly podcasts. Now, programs that have cultivated huge followings in the podcast world are making their way to radio, and to a vastly different group of listeners.

NPR’s podcast-listening audience far more closely mirrors the country’s racial demographics than does its traditional radio audience, according to data compiled by ratings firm Nielsen for NPR and shared with the Washington Post.

People of color make up 42% of NPR podcast listenership,

Gene Demby, top, co-host and correspondent; and Shereen Marisol Meraji, co-host and senior producer of “Code Switch.” Jessica Chou and Nolwen Cifuentes/NPR

compared to 21% of its radio audience. And while the majority of NPR radio listeners are older than 44, the majority of its podcast listeners are between 18 and 44.

Podcasting “helps us reach our number one goal,” said NPR CEO John Lansing, “and that is to reach a younger, See NPR C2

12 new summer films to get excited about

By MOIRA MACDONALD Seattle Times

Emma Stone is the latest incarnation of Cruella de Vil in Disney’s “Cruella,” to be released May 28 in theaters and streaming on Disney+ Premier Access. Disney

Good luck planning ahead to see movies this summer; the schedules (and the theatrical versus streaming strategies) are still changing rapidly. But here are a dozen movies I’m keeping an eye on, and hoping to see on the biggest screen I can find.

“The Dry” (May 21). Based on a wonderfully atmospheric novel by Jane Harper, Robert Connolly’s film stars Eric Bana as an Australian federal agent who reluctantly agrees to investigate a crime in his hometown.

“A Quiet Place Part II” (May 28). The original “A

Quiet Place,” back in 2018, freaked me the hell out, to put it mildly. (Do not watch this film in an empty house; every subsequent noise will terrify you.) Now the sequel to John Krasinski’s very effective horror movie, in which he stars with Emily Blunt as a couple who must fend off apocalyptic monsters who are triggered by sound, is coming up, with even more silence. Yikes.

“Cruella” (May 28, also streaming on Disney+ Premier Access). Do we really need an origin story for “101 Dalmatians” villain Cruella de Vil? Apparently we do!

Two always-splendid Emmas — Stone and Thompson

— appear in this live-action Disney comedy, with Stone as the young title character who dreams of being a fashion designer. The costumes alone, by the great Merchant-Ivory veteran Jenny Beavan, look to be a treat. Craig Gillespie (“I, Tonya,” “Lars and the Real Girl”) directs.

“Vivo” (June 4). It’s the Summer of Lin-Manuel Miranda at the multiplexes! (And after the year we’ve all been through, we deserve all the L-MM we can get.) First up: this animated family comedy about an adventurous kinkajou who travels from Havana to Miami.

Miranda (“Hamilton,” should you need reminding) wrote the

songs; his “In the Heights” collaborator Quiara Alegria Hudes wrote the script with director Kirk DeMicco.

“In the Heights” (June 11, also streaming on HBO Max). A year after it was originally scheduled to be in theaters, the film of Miranda’s hit Broadway musical about a Washington Heights bodega owner is finally hitting the multiplexes. Jon M. Chu (“Crazy Rich Asians”) directs; expect dancing in the streets.

“Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided To Go For It” (June 18). You might know Moreno from “West Side See FILMS C2

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The 13 best travel hacks from TikTok users

By ALENE LANEY Oyster.com

Love a good travel hack?

You’ll catch a bunch of short, easy-to-replicate tips on the social media platform TikTok. TikTok’s fun videos explain how to navigate your way through luxe travel on the cheap. There are tricks you didn’t know you could use, websites you didn’t know existed, things you didn’t know you could say, and moves you didn’t know you could make to upgrade your experience and save tons of money. Take a look at some of the best.

Book first-class tickets a couple of weeks before departure If you’re looking to upgrade your ticket on the cheap, you’ll find more premium seat availability a few weeks before departure. TikTok user Brian Chung (brian——chung) also suggests using Awardhacker. com to find the cheapest firstclass flights on points.

ASK FOR UPGRADES TikTok creators Devon and Betsy Fata (lux—list) have a few tips for travelers looking for hotel upgrades. Their No. 1 rule is to simply ask.

Devon says, “This is obvious, but it works way more often than you’d think.” He suggests phrasing your request so that it requires a no answer, such as, “Would it be too much trouble to see if we could upgrade our stay?” They also suggest asking for a corner unit or offering to leave a review of a new hotel in exchange for an upgrade.

Check to see if it’s cheaper to buy and redeem points over paying cash While most people go the traditional route of earning points via credit card sign-up bonuses and daily spending, few will buy points to redeem.

Much of the time, it doesn’t make sense to buy points to redeem for travel, but there are a lot of scenarios where it will actually make sense.

TikTok user zacharyburrabel said, “It still blows my mind that you can buy hotel points and stay cheaper than what that hotel is going to sell you the room for.” He showed a five-star hotel in Orlando with a cash price of $299 per night plus taxes, which comes out to around $373 per night.

Buying and redeeming points for the same room, however, would only cost $216 per night and taxes are included.

Another user reported using this trick to buy business class seats on flights and saving thousands.

rooms on the express deals section of Priceline.com at steeply discounted rates. Fivestar hotels in the $60 range are not atypical, she reports.

USE COUCHSURFING. COM TO STAY WITH LOCAL PEOPLE FOR FREE TikTok creator Michael McBride (idea.soup) has stayed with random people for free in 18 different countries using Couchsurfing.com. Couchsurfing.com is a platform for hosts to connect with guests from other countries.

Unlike Airbnb, no money is ever exchanged. “You just have to be open to making new friends,” he said, “I have stayed in communist housing in Ukraine, I’ve stayed in the middle of the Sahara Desert in a tent in Morocco and I’ve stayed in a mansion in the mountains of France. It’s been a game-changer for traveling cheaply and traveling locally.”

EARN STATUS FOR FREE UPGRADES ON FLIGHTS

ALWAYS USE INCOGNITO Tiktok user Catarino Mello MODE WHEN SEARCHING (professionaltraveler) gets free FOR FLIGHTS upgrades to business or first

Multiple TikTok creators suggest using incognito mode when you’re looking for flights. Airlines automatically increase the price if they see you’ve been looking for flights.

FIND DEEPLY DISCOUNTED HOTELS FOR LAST-MINUTE STAYS ON PRICELINE.COM EXPRESS DEALS Creator caseyyisfetchh explains hotels list empty hotel

class almost every time she travels. She shares her strategy, which includes choosing one of the airline alliances to stay loyal to and signing up for the loyalty program of the major airline in it. She also uses credit card points to redeem for free business class upgrades.

FIND AN ALTERNATE WEBSITE FOR A PROPERTY LISTED ON

AIRBNB A quick Google search of a property you’ve found on Airbnb can save you hundreds of dollars. TikTok user Kelsewhatelse showed followers how she was able to book a cabin for $300 less by booking directly with the property instead of Airbnb. You’ll save on fees paid to Airbnb and increase the amount of money that goes to the small business owner of the property.

LOOK FOR INTERNATIONAL PLANES ON DOMESTIC ROUTES FOR BETTER SEATS When an international plane services a domestic route, you can get a much better seat. When booking, check the plane and seating configuration to find out if your domestic flight will use an international plane. TikTok creator zacharyburrabel shows how much better an international plane with a lie-flat seat is compared with a standard seat in business class.

USE A VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK (VPN) TO FIND CHEAPER AIRFARE Tiktok creator professionaltraveler showed viewers how to use a VPN to find cheaper airfare. By using a VPN to change countries, and opening a new window in incognito mode, you’ll often see fares much cheaper than if you search from your country of origin.

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more diverse audience, and to expand NPR into parts of the American community that has otherwise not really found maybe so much resonance with NPR.” Part of the reason the podcasting audience is more racially diverse may be inherent to the format itself, which generally attracts a younger audience, a demographic that is more diverse.

Podcasts also generate NPR’s largest chunk of corporate sponsorship dollars, one of the public radio giant’s most important sources of revenue.

The amount that NPR’s podcasts have made through this method has tripled in the past five years, Lansing said.

But radio remains paramount for NPR, which relies even more heavily on the fees it gets from affiliate stations around the country. These local “member” stations get money through various means, such as pledge drives, sponsors and the federally funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The local stations, in turn, pay NPR to broadcast its programs, including flagship shows “Morning Edition” and “All Things Considered,” which Lansing called “the foundation of NPR across the country.”

And twice as many people

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Story,” or maybe from growing up with “The Electric Company,” or maybe more recently from her delightful work on “One Day at a Time” — regardless, the EGOT (Emmy/Grammy/Oscar/Tony) winner is a legend in show business, and has long deserved a documentary of her own.

“Blue Bayou” (June 25).

The latest from filmmaker/ actor Justin Chon (“Gook”) sounds timely and moving; let’s hope it doesn’t get lost in a sea of higher-profile films.

Chon plays a Korean adoptee living in Louisiana with his wife (Oscar winner Alicia Vikander, “The Danish Girl”) who learns that he is facing deportation.

“F9” (June 25). Inject this movie into my veins

Sam Sanders, host of NPR’s podcast-turned-radio show, “It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders.” Kara Frame/NPR

Knowing when to look and book flights can save more of your money. Pexels

Booking too early or too late can be costly. Prices are lowest on domestic flights five to six weeks before departure and two-and-a-half months on international flights, according to kingcredit.

offer up to 50 percent off.

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TikTik user and flight attendant weariwandered suggests flying on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays to get the best deal on a flight. She also suggests checking for student discounts as some airlines

TikTok creator kristinacors says you can save the most money by housesitting. “Housesitting is where a homeowner lets you stay in their house for free in exchange for looking after their pets,” she explains.

The website she uses is called trustedhousesitters. com. She reported being able to stay in San Diego for a week for free in exchange for looking after a few pets.

— which can help when the subject matter is inherently challenging. In the case of “Code Switch,” the hosts and producers found the space to “be as authentic as they needed to be ... without having to wonder, ‘oh, is this going to affect listenership in broadcast?’” said Sangweni.

“So now, by the time they go to broadcast, they’re very clear about their point of view and they want to spread that out to more people that may not necessarily be downloading podcasts.”

The demographic data compiled by Nielsen found 17.8% of NPR podcast listeners are Hispanic, 15.5% are Black and 6.2% are Asian. By comparison, NPR’s radio listeners are 10% Hispanic, 7% Black and 5.1% Asian.

Some of NPR’s podcasts with the most racially-diverse listening audiences have nothing explicitly to do with race or identity. The business show “How I Built This” draws an audience that is just over 19% Black and more than 18% Hispanic.

NPR bosses insist that their podcasts keep their same old sensibility when they jump to radio. Still, “Code Switch” cohost Shereen Marisol Meraji has some anxiety about the response from the radio audience when stations begin airing the show later this summer.

Their current listeners have to actively choose to tune in, she notes: “They want to hear what

we have to say. They want to learn about race and identity and culture.” But that won’t be the case for all radio listeners.

Will they bristle at how “Code Switch” tackles topics ranging from reparations to Karens?

On the flipside, Demby notes, is the opportunity to find more listeners, including people of color who “fortuitously stumble upon us.” That, in turn, could expand the NPR radio audience.

“There is a chance of being pleasantly surprised by people,” he said, “and people being pleasantly surprised by us.”

The podcast-to-radio transition has also helped diversify the ranks on-air hosts.

“We were producers, had never been on air, we were not the traditional-looking hosts — and by that I mean we were not White and we were younger,” said “Throughline’s” Abdelfatah, who is of Middle Eastern descent like co-host Arablouei.

“It’s really powerful and important for people to hear names like ours on the radio, and to see faces like ours.”

The feedback thus far has been reassuring. Teachers and other new listeners have reached out to thank them for creating compelling historical pieces for the radio.

Abdelfatah sees the success of the show “not just for us, I hope. I think it’s proof that people do want different perspectives on air, and to see a different way of looking at the world.”

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listen to NPR content on the radio — an estimated 26.1 million people weekly — than to its 47 podcasts put together.

Those two audiences have little overlap, according to internal figures.

“We’ve got this very core audience that is very loyal to NPR,” said Yolanda Sangweni, NPR senior director of programming. NPR wants to “continue cultivating a deeper sort of loyalty and serving them with our content, but also letting them see that there’s this new, younger audience that we can also bring into the fold.”

Some NPR radio shows have also adapted to podcasting, such as “Up First,” an abbreviated take on “Morning Edition.” But podcasting has also turned into an incubator of sorts for new radio shows, with several now making their way to local airwaves. “Throughline” debuted on radio in January and will be on 81 stations

by June, and culture and news podcast “It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders” is now carried by 409 stations.

Among the next will be “Code Switch,” which Apple Podcasts named its show of the

year in 2020. The show tackles race, identity and culture by putting people of color at the center of the show, though White listeners still make up a slight majority of its audience.

“The White folks who are listening in are eavesdropping.

They’re not the people who are at the center of the conversation, which I think is a more subtle distinction than people often realize,” said co-host Gene Demby.

Starting out as a podcast offers show creators a chance to explore and experiment while also building a following

immediately, please. Dwayne Johnson may have left this fast-driving, insanely fun franchise, but Vin Diesel, Charlize Theron, Michelle Rodriguez and the rest of the gang return — along with Helen Mirren, who according to the trailer gets her own car this time.

Bring it on!

“Black Widow” (July 9, also streaming on Disney+ Premier Access). The 24th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe has at its center one Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson), a former KGB assassin and present Avenger; it takes place after the events of “Captain America: Civil War.” It’s been delayed three times due to the pandemic, but finally hits theaters in midsummer. And sure, you could stream it, but don’t you want to see this one big?

“Cinderella” (July 16). Billy Porter as Fairy Godmother?

Sign me up. This musical version of the familiar fairy tale

also stars recording artist Camila Cabello (in her first feature film) and Idina Menzel as her wicked stepmother.

“Old” (July 23). M. Night Shyamalan’s output has been decidedly uneven since “The Sixth Sense,” but what the heck, we’ve all been missing movies so let’s give this one a go. Gael Garcia Bernal and Vicky Krieps (“Phantom Thread”) play a couple who are horrified when their children begin rapidly aging on a remote tropical beach. OK then!

“Respect” (Aug. 13). Jennifer Hudson was personally chosen by Aretha Franklin, years before the Queen of Soul’s death in 2018, to play her as a young woman in this biopic, which also stars Forest Whitaker, Audra McDonald and Mary J. Blige (the latter as Dinah Washington). And yes, of course Hudson does her own singing.

Jennifer Hudson was hand-picked by Aretha Franklin to portray her in the biopic “Respect,” due out Aug. 13. MGM

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Many have a beef with Epicurious Food website draws fire after dropping beef recipes over environmental concerns

By EMILY HEIL Washington Post

Epicurious drops beef recipes, drawing fire from the pro-burger crowd — and some food activists.

Tom McCorkle/Washington Post

Beef was already the red-hot topic du jour this week when food website Epicurious on Monday made some meaty news: It would no longer publish recipes using beef, citing the environmental harm caused by cattle farming.

“Our shift is solely about sustainability, about not giving airtime to one of the world’s worst climate offenders,” senior editor Maggie Hoffman and former digital director David Tamarkin wrote

in a post announcing the decision.

Reaction was swift, and illustrated the meaning of the metaphor about tossing red meat to a crowd. Some praised the decision, noting that tastes have changed and that readers are looking for more plant-based, less meaty dishes. Others slammed Epicurious for “canceling” beef.

Much of that backlash had to do with the political moment red meat already was having. Over the weekend, conservative media

had pushed stories falsely claiming that the Biden administration’s plan to halve greenhouse gas emissions in a decade would require Americans to drastically reduce their meat consumption.

Fox News ran breathless coverage of it, with chyrons blaring “BYE BYE BURGERS” and “UP IN YOUR GRILL.” A graphic falsely claimed that the Biden plan required people to “cut 90% of red meat from diet, max 4 lbs per year, one burger per month.”

Epicurious declined to comment, but its editors portrayed the choice to eschew beef as a small

but significant step toward a more sustainable food system. “It might not feel like much, but cutting out just a single ingredient - beef - can have an outsize impact on making a person’s cooking more environmentally friendly,” they wrote.

The platform, which is owned

by Condé Nast, had actually stopped publishing new recipes containing beef about a year ago, the editors wrote. They decided to make the announcement now, they said, with beef consumption starting to “creep up” after a long decline. “The conversation about See BEEF C6

New yogurt aimed at people packing in the protein

By KRISTEN LEIGH PAINTER Star Tribune

MINNEAPOLIS — Just when it seemed the yogurt aisle had something for everyone, General Mills found a slice of customers still hunting for the perfect creamy snack.

The Golden Valley, Minn.,based food maker announced Tuesday the launch of a yogurt that will pack more protein per cup than any other on the market.

It’s the latest in a series of yogurt launches at General Mills targeting consumers with very specific dietary or taste preferences, reflecting splintering consumer expectations within this diverse grocery-store category.

The new yogurt, called Ratio: Protein, follows the company’s introduction of Ratio: Keto, which target consumers tracking their three General Mills’ macro nuRatio: Protein trients: fat, protein and carbohydrates. It’s a more “adult-focused” brand for wellness-minded consumers looking to replenish and build muscle following a hard workout or someone just looking stave off hunger for longer, said Doug Martin, president of General Mills dairy unit.

“What we realized is that we did need another brand to talk to a more modern health, wellness or weight manager,” Martin said.

To achieve that whopping 25 grams of protein density in a single, standard-size cup, General Mills uses ultrafiltered milk — a process that strains out lactose sugars, upping the protein concentration — and then mixes in a whey protein.

Yogurt has always been seen as a healthier food choice and food manufacturers are constantly evolving their products to match the health goals and diet trends of the times.

“People are shopping with themselves in mind. They want health for themselves and for members of their family,” Martin said. “They want to find a solution that speaks to them in the aisle and there’s really not a one-sizefits-all anymore.”

Corey Chafin, a principal at consulting firm Kearney with a focus on consumers, food and retail, said 25 grams certainly stands out among its competitors.

“This almost positions it as a post-workout protein supplement,” Chafin said. “The key question will be how quickly until they face a copycat by the other brands.”

Martin noted that about 40% of yogurt consumption is by men.

General Mills has been rolling out a new product or brand on a near-annual basis in recent years.

Oui by Yoplait launched in 2017 aimed at customers seeking a product that tapped into heritage processes or wanting a yogurt to replace their dessert. The brand See YOGURT C6

Cod Fish Cakes. Laura Chase de Formigny/Washington Post

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thrifty throwback Crispy fish and mashed potato cakes are almost like Mom used to make

By ANN MALONEY Washington Post

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ome things our mothers teach us are concrete: How to drive a car, read a W-2 form or hem a pair of pants. Other life lessons sneak up

on us.

My mother taught me to cook almost by osmosis. It was something that happened every day at our house, and I moved so gradually from watching to doing, I can’t remember the moment when I thought, “OK, now I can cook.”

I do, however, have vivid memories of

early mishaps (a tablespoon of salt, not a teaspoon, in a batch of cookies) and triumphs (lifting golden-battered chicken from hot oil).

Self-sufficiency was highly prized in our house. As the youngest of eight, I realize now that each person had to pull his or her own weight to keep the whole thing on track.

As we matured, we assumed more responsibility, and that’s how my mother’s Every Man For Himself Friday dinners were born. My mother had long before created a weekly menu and assigned a night to one of us girls. (Girls cooked,

boys mowed the grass.) The menu would change from time to time, but having a plan made it easier for her to stay within her budget for our once-a-week grocery shopping trips that resulted in three overflowing carts.

When I was around 12, she added EMFH Fridays to the schedule. It worked so well that she wrote a little piece about it that was published in “Women’s Day” magazine in November 1976.

My mother died in August at 97. As I joined my siblings clearing things from See CAKES C6

Vecteezy

Why not a frittata for an easy brunch dish?

Spring produce snags the spotlight in this simple egg dish

By ELLIE KRIEGER Washington Post

You could rightly call this dish the Green Goddess of frittatas.

It’s more than just flecked with a leaf here and there, it’s positively brimming with verdant produce, so much so that the egg takes a shy step back and lets the green be the star, calling to mind kuku, the Persian veggie-filled egg dish.

Besides providing color and nutritional power, that bounty of produce brings layers of flavor, too, with leeks lending their distinctive, aromatic essence,

baby kale adding a savory minerality (you could swap in spinach or Swiss chard), and lots of fresh parsley imbuing the whole dish with an air of freshness.

If you are used to thinking of parsley as a garnish, the full cup called for here might seem like a typo, but go with it. You’ll be amazed at how delightful the tender herb is as a main ingredient.

Like frittatas do in general, this one makes for a light, satisfying meal any time of day, warm or at room temperature, served with a nice hunk of crusty whole grain bread and maybe a crunchy salad or some sliced tomato.

A small slice of it also does the See FRITTATA C6 Green Frittata With Leeks, Kale and Parsley. Tom McCorkle/ Washington Post

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‘We were all grieving’ Anthony Bourdain’s longtime collaborator on compiling his posthumous book

By TIM CARMAN Washington Post

She has been described as his lieutenant, his assistant, his gatekeeper and his co-author.

Now Laurie Woolever has a new duty in the universe of the late Anthony Bourdain: She is a custodian of his memory, and history. It’s a job she takes very seriously.

Her name appears in small print under Bourdain’s on the cover of his new posthumous book, “World Travel: An Irreverent Guide,” even though she was responsible for pulling together its 480 pages, without any new material from the man with the marquee name.

It was a project that she and Bourdain had discussed before his death by suicide in 2018.

During a nearly hour-long interview with The Washington Post, Woolever described working on the book as a form of grieving, which should give you some insight into another aspect of her decade-plus relationship with Bourdain.

She was also his friend.

Woolever started working with Bourdain for his “Les Halles Cookbook,” published in 2004, in which the chef and budding TV host described her as “the lone professional in a monkey house. The book could never have been done without her.” She returned to Bourdain’s employ in 2009 and worked with him right up to his death. Aside from the travel guide, in which she had to rely largely on old shows and transcripts, Woolever has another book in the works, “Bourdain: The Oral Biography,” scheduled to publish this fall.

The interview has been edited for length and clarity.

Q: How should people use “World Travel” until they feel safe to get on an airplane again?

A: A lot of people really loved what Tony did with his writing and with television and were never going to be travelers in that way. But they were able to learn about the world through his travel and storytelling, and I think this book fits that need.

Then for people who have traveled quite a bit and are feeling nostalgic for that travel, there’s something sort of pleasurable

about reading Tony’s experiences. I say this in the introduction: The book is not a comprehensive guide to the world.

Q: The book is almost as much a compendium of Tony’s observations as it is a travel guide, sort of like “The Incomplete Anthony Bourdain.” That idea is reinforced by the way the book is printed.

All of Tony’s words are boldfaced for easy reference.

A: When you’re watching the shows, he’s such a brilliant writer and so brilliant on his feet, and so much of that would go by so quickly as you’re watching the beautiful visuals and the cinematography. So to have the words that he carefully chose, to have them in this format, I think it is a different experience altogether.

Q: I’m curious about the conversation that you had with Tony that served as the blueprint for the book. What was the gist of what he wanted to do?

A: One of our early inspirations for how we wanted the book to feel, beyond just being things that Tony loved or things that were weird, was the “Atlas Obscura” book. That’s a really beautiful book and has maybe one or two attractions from every place in the world. So, you know, there’s plenty of stuff in the book that isn’t weird, that’s very middle of the road.

Q: How did the book evolve

as you went along in the process?

A: On the day we had this conversation, he wasn’t recalling a lot about Lebanon. And, of course, anyone who followed him knows that Lebanon was hugely important to him. He and his crew were caught in a war there in 2006. He went back twice, and it was a place that he loved. Were he around, he would have said, “Listen, we got to do Lebanon,” but I kind of let it go in the service of finishing the whole thing. Then someone from the publisher said, “You have to include Lebanon,” and so I did go back and make a Lebanon chapter. I know that, were he around for this process, it would be a very different book. There would have been much more original writing from him.

Q: Did you come away with new or different insights on Tony as you were reviewing his shows and transcripts?

A: It was interesting to bounce around different time periods — to see him be very young, in his mid-40s and just starting out and the nervousness, and then the next hour watching something from 2017, where he has all this experience and this deeper kind of gravitas. It’s like looking at a photo album of your kid when, day-to-day, you don’t see the changes but then you look and you realize how this person has grown and evolved over the years. It was really striking to

see how much, like any of us, he changed over the course of close to 20 years on television.

Q: What was it like emotionally for you to go through all that?

A: It was a very lonely endeavor, save for all of the conversations I got to have with people who knew Tony. But, you know, we were all grieving.

So it was hard, but I’m really glad that I had a project. Had Tony died and the chapter of my life working with, and for, him ended right there, that would have been a much harder thing than to have this book, and the next book, to kind of slowly disengage from that life of working with him.

Q: Was working on the book, in a way, a grieving process for you?

A: Yeah, absolutely. I was very lucky to have this opportunity, not only to continue to support myself, but also to do so in a way that allowed me to really appreciate who Tony was, the work that he did, his humor. Things that I think I appreciated when he was alive and I was kind of steeped in his everything, but you kind of take for granted. So there was no reason for me, when Tony was alive, to sit down and re-watch a bunch of episodes and read transcripts. He was there.

life, in some ways, a smaller world in part because I’ve just been home writing these books. So things are quieter just because he was a force field of energy, and that’s not here. I don’t mind it. I mean, I would take the excitement back. I would take it all back if Tony were still around. But that’s not a possibility.

Q: What has life been like for you without him around?

A: It feels like a much smaller

Q: So the other book that you’re working on, can you talk about it?

Laurie Woolever, right, sits with Anthony Bourdain. She was his assistant for about a decade, and co-authored his 2016 cookbook “Appetites.” She was responsible for pulling together his work for the 480 pages of “World Travel: An Irreverent Guide.”

A: It’s called “Bourdain: The Oral Biography.” It is exactly that: an oral biography of Tony’s life. I started it at the same time that I really started in earnest on the travel book, interviewing people from all aspects of his life, about 100 interviews, and taking parts of those interviews to tell the story of Tony.

Many people’s story of Tony, from the time he was a little kid, all the way through to the end of his life.

Q: How do you think Tony would have withstood life during the pandemic?

A: It would have been really interesting to see him forced to stay in one place for at least a few months, which was very much not his style. My hope is that he would have written something great. You know, he had so many interests and he did so much reading and research, and one thing he was really interested in was medical oddities. He wrote a whole book about Typhoid Mary.

It sort of kills me that he didn’t survive. As horrible as a pandemic is for so many people, I wish he had had the opportunity to safely live through a global pandemic. I think he would have had a lot to say about it. He was outspoken about politics and people and behavior and things going on in the restaurant world. I would have loved to hear what he would have said about the way people are behaving in all of this.

As the weather warms, these mysteries will give you chills

By MOIRA MACDONALD The Seattle Times

Reading mysteries in the spring always feels pleasantly off-key; disappearing into darkness at a time when things are becoming lighter.

Janelle Brown’s “Pretty Things,” which this month kept my eyes glued to the pages and away from things blooming outside (just as well; spring makes me sneeze), brought some appealing chill. It’s both psychological thriller and oldhouse saga; said house being a rather glorious-sounding mansion at Lake Tahoe that’s the ancestral home of Vanessa, an Instagram influencer/ heiress who is the target of revenge by grudge-holding

con artist Nina. Turns out Nina has reason to despise Vanessa’s family (and reason to need a lot of money, fast), so she poses as sweet yoga

teacher Ashley and rents the caretaker’s cottage at the property, the better to scope out how much Vanessa’s really worth.

Brown spins her who’sconning-whom tale appealingly, playing the author’s shell game of keeping our loyalties shifting, depending on who’s doing the narration. And the house — “an anachronistic stone monolith that rejected any attempts to dress it up as something new” — becomes a character. You shiver in its hallways, revel in the fading grandeur of its decor, and smell its cold, dusty air, wondering if, as Nina does, the enormity of it might be too much for Vanessa. “It feels as if the porch might close round and swallow her whole,” Nina muses, “history eating her alive.”

A while back, a bookseller recommended Stephen

Spotswood’s “Fortune Favors the Dead,” which came out last year — and, having finally devoured it, I’m delighted to learn that it’s the beginning of a series. (“Murder Under Her Skin,” the sequel, arrives in October of this year.) Set in 1942, it features an irresistible heroine: Willowjean “Will” Parker, a former circus knife thrower (!) turned assistant to famous New York detective Lillian Pentecost, whose detection skills are so acclaimed that she’s the one “who Eleanor Roosevelt herself turned to when someone tried to put the squeeze on.”

“Fortune Favors the Dead” is so much fun that I found myself rationing it, saving it

up so as not to leave its world too quickly. The plot is nothing special — your basic mysterious death of a wealthy widow, with a bit of supernatural flair thrown in — but what’s a kick here is the jazzy sense of period, the playful language (a suspect is described as resembling “a sized-up Myrna Loy, but with the sultry edges buffed away”), and especially Will herself, a young lesbian with smarts in her pocket and secrets in her past that we gradually come to understand. “If I just save enough women, help put enough killers behind bars, maybe the guilt will go away,” she muses. I can’t wait to read more of her adventures.

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Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, April 17, 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. Ocean Prey. John Sandford. Putnam 2. The Devil’s Hand. Jack Carr. Atria/Bestler 3. The Four Winds. Kristin Hannah. St. Martin’s 4. The Midnight Library. Matt Haig. Viking 5. The Red Book. Patterson/Ellis. Little, Brown

HARDCOVER NONFICTION

5. Everything Will Be Okay. Dana Perino. Twelve 6. The Pepper Thai Cookbook. Pepper Teigen and Garrett Snyder. Clarkson Potter 7. Broken Horses. Brandi Carlile. Crown 8. Ask Iwata. Sam Bett. Viz 9. Fast Burn! Ian K. Smith. St. Martin’s 10. Women Evolve. Sarah Jakes Roberts. Thomas Nelson

1. The Hill We Climb. Amanda Gorman. Viking 2. On the House. John Boehner. St. Martin’s 3. The Women of the Bible Speak. Shannon Bream.

Broadside 4. The Hero Code. William H. McRaven. Grand Central

1. A Rancher’s Claim. Diana Palmer. Harlequin 2. A Walk Along the Beach. Debbie Macomber.

Ballantine 3. The Wedding Dress. Danielle Steel. Dell

6. The Good Sister. Sally Hepworth. St. Martin’s 7. Win. Harlan Coben. Grand Central 8. The Invisible Life of Addie Larue. V.E. Schwab.

Tor 9. Stargazer. Anne Hillerman. Harper 10. Klara and the Sun. Kazuo Ishiguro. Knopf

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4. Under Currents. Nora Roberts. St. Martin’s 5. The Country Guesthouse. Robyn Carr. Mira 6. Alaskan Rescue. Terri Reed. Love Inspired Suspense 7. Masked Prey. John Sandford. Putnam 8. Camino Winds. John Grisham. Dell 9. Killer Instinct. Patterson/Roughan. Grand Central 10. Catch My Heart. Nora Roberts. Silhouette

TRADE PAPERBACK 1. The Lighter Step-by-Step Instant Pot Cookbook.

Jeffrey Eisner. Voracious 2. Where the Crawdads Sing. Delia Owens. Putnam

3. Later. Stephen King. Hard Case Crime 4. The Rose Code. Kate Quinn. Morrow 5. The Palm Beach Murders. James Patterson.

Grand Central 6. Big Summer. Jennifer Weiner. Washington Square 7. Split Second. David Baldacci. Grand Central 8. Burn After Writing (Pink). Sharon Jones.

TarcherPerigee 9. The Hemingway Stories. Ernest Hemingway.

Scribner 10. My Hero Academia, Vol. 27. Kohei Horikoshi.

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EXPERT PLAY? North-South vulnerable, East deals NORTH ♠ A 10 9 8 3 ♥ Void ♦ J98754 ♣K5 WEST EAST ♠42 ♠ Void ♥ 10 9 7 6 4 3 ♥ AKQJ852 ♦ K32 ♦A ♣98 ♣ A 10 7 4 2 SOUTH ♠KQJ765 ♥ Void ♦ Q 10 6 ♣QJ63 The bidding: EAST SOUTH 2♣ 2♠ Pass 4♥ Pass 5♥ Pass Pass

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NORTH 3♠ 4♠ 6♠ All pass

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Today’s deal is from an all-expert team match. Both East-West pairs bid to the cold six hearts and both NorthSouth pairs judged well to sacrifice in six spades. Six spades doubled has three obvious losers and the best

East-West can do on this deal is to put 500 points in the bank. Accidents, however, can happen on the way to the bank.

North was “walking the dog” in the auction, trying to buy the contract at the lowest level possible. It almost worked, but West saved the day for East-West when he came alive and bid six hearts. North bid what he was always prepared to bid and West wound up on lead.

West knew that a heart lead was pointless and he was hoping to hold the lead after the first trick in case there was some obvious shift once he saw the dummy. He made the “expert” lead of the king of diamonds! He was unable to hold the lead. East overtook the king with the ace perforce. East was reluctant to cash his ace of clubs as that might give away an important trick. There was no immediate danger in the diamond suit, as he “knew” that his partner held the queen. East shifted to a “safe” high heart and the roof fell in. South shed one club from his hand, ruffing in dummy, and three more on the diamonds after drawing trumps. Making six!

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By Stella Wilder Born today, you may be misunderstood by those who do not take the time to get to know you well, for you can come across as rather stern and unforgiving among those who do not strive to meet your very high standards — both personally and professionally.

And while it is true that you can be, at times, hard and unbending, it is also true that there are moments in which you let your more sensitive side shine through — and those who are privy to that part of your personality are likely to find much in you to connect with, be it in private affairs or professional dealings.

When it comes to your personal relationships, you respond quite favorably to those who earn your respect and loyalty — and you find talent to be almost irresistibly attractive.

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

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

SUNDAY, MAY 16 TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — Your plans are in flux, but you should be able to nail something down by day’s end. The advice of an expert must not be overlooked today.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You’re looking at things from an unusual perspective today — one that you perhaps “inherited” from someone who’s been here before.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — After a brief disconnect, you may be feeling a new urgency around a certain en-

deavor. It feels to you like a “now or never” situation, perhaps.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Don’t let the fact that you are feeling out of sorts keep you from honoring your pledge to a friend or loved one. Avoid self-indulgence today.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Once you make your presence known today, you can be sure that your time will be used well and your skills utilized. Speak up if you have to!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You don’t want to let too much more time pass before tending to a piece of business upon which hangs something you’ve long been planning.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Practice makes perfect, or so you’ve heard again and again — but today that elusive perfection may remain elusive until you make an adjustment.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — You’re likely to grasp a complicated concept before anyone else, but this will only be an advantage if you swing into action now!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You may find it difficult to maintain a steady course today, as you’re likely to be buffeted by unexpected, fast-shifting winds.

AQUAIRUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — An obstacle that you put in someone’s path winds up blocking your own way today — at least for a time. You understand how this happened!

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — If you’re going to have to wait, then others are going to have to wait as well, or so you would have it. Others may strongly object to this.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — The casual is likely to become much more serious all at once today, when you do or say something that you thought would go unnoticed.

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our family home, I came across the magazine tucked inside a filing cabinet near a folder of old grocery lists.

She wrote about how the DIY dinner idea was received: “At first the children and my husband were startled, and felt a little abandoned and raw at the prospect of getting it all together. Gradually, after some spilled soup, a few eggs tumbling off the counter, several tough pizzas, they all began to take hold and develop a pattern of operation.”

Why Fridays? Because after a week of teaching public school and, as she put it, “homemaking,” she was tired.

As I recall, my mother’s only kitchen rules on EMFH Fridays were that we had to use what we had on hand, and that we cleaned up after ourselves.

At my parents’ home, we had two refrigerators and a chest freezer that we filled once a week. We rarely ate fresh vegetables. Most were canned or frozen. Canned meats and fish were a big part of our diet, too. One of the old grocery lists I found noted the usual six loaves of bread, six dozen eggs, three gallons of milk — and “6 codfish flakes.”

That notation about cod jumped out at me, perhaps because I made so many of those fried fish cakes. We used cans of flaked cod, which I no longer see available in grocery stores. We made mashed potatoes from a box, then mixed the canned fish with the potatoes, a whisked egg, dried parsley and salt and pepper. We fried the cod cakes in a cast-iron skillet in vegetable oil until brown

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sustainable cooking clearly needs to be louder; this policy is our contribution to that conversation,” Hoffman and Tamakin wrote.

Although Fox News host John Roberts admitted that the graphic that ran during his show was untrue, there was no putting the genie back in the bottle, and it had already taken off on social media, prompting some lawmakers to vow they would defend their beloved steaks and patties from the clutches of the White House.

While many people commenting on the Epicurious move seemed to be motivated by the partisan pro-beef sentiment circulating on social media, the announcement also disappointed many people in the food and animal-welfare world.

“I love Epicurious, but this seems a little short-sighted,” said Danielle Nierenberg, a food activist and the founder of Food Tank, a nonprofit focused on sustainability and equity.

She notes that not all beef is equal, and that there are options for more sustainable beef, including regenerative farming methods and pastureraised cattle. “It might be good to reduce our meat consumption, but it could mislead consumers into thinking that all beef is bad,” she says. “There are small-scale producers who

and crispy on the outside. We would open a few cans of green beans, and dinner was on the table fast and cheap.

For the recipe I’m sharing here, I modernized the dish using fresh poached cod, making mashed potatoes from a couple of russets and mincing fresh parsley. On the side?

Fresh green beans. It still is a thrifty meal. As I reflected on this recipe, which was typical of the kind my mother would make as she pinched pennies to feed us all, I realized that along with teaching me to cook, she snuck in a lesson on how to make-do, to “live within my means,” as she used to put it.

So, when as I was squeaking by on a cub reporter’s salary, I naturally reached for dried black-eye peas, cans of tuna and chicken — if, of course, that poultry was on sale.

For her submission to “Woman’s Day,” my mother earned $25. I wish I knew how she spent that money. I like to think she bought something for herself, but it is more likely she spent it on us.

COD FISH CAKES Active time: 45 minutes | Total time: 1 hour, 15 minutes 4 servings This recipe calls for cod, but these thrifty cakes can be made with any white-fleshed fish, such as scrod or sole. Serve them with a lightly dressed mixed salad or green beans.

The recipe is a great way to use up leftover mashed potatoes or fish. If you want to used boxed mashed potato flakes, like we did back in the day, you’ll need about 3 cups.

Make Ahead: The cakes can be formed, placed in an airtight container and refrigerated up to 1 day in advance. need consumers’ support.”

Others noted that beef isn’t the only food whose farming has environmental costs.

“Factory farming of anything from corn to cattle is environmentally destructive,” one user wrote. “To say beef is bad but chicken is okay is hypocritical.”

In the editors note, Epicurious acknowledged that beef isn’t the only potentially problematic ingredient to be found in recipes. “All ruminant animals (like sheep and goats) have significant environmental costs, and there are problems with chicken, seafood, soy, and almost every other ingredient,” they wrote. “In a food system so broken, almost no choice is perfect.”

And although Epicurious explained its reasoning as purely an environmental one, animal advocates were disappointed that the publication didn’t take other factory farming into account. Lewis Bollard, the farm animal welfare program officer at Open Philanthropy Project, said he welcomes the increasing attention to the environmental impacts of meat, but says he hopes people adopt a more inclusive definition of “sustainability.”

“The broader conception of sustainability is not just about the carbon emissions, it’s ‘is this a socially acceptable system? Is it sustainable for the community, and for animals?’”

He fears that urging people to simply drop beef — instead of reducing their overall consumption of all kinds of meat — will drive more people to simply substitute more chicken, which has environmental and animal welfare costs of its own. “An eat-less-meat message is less controversial and ultimately more productive,” he said. “Because the problem is not the existence of beef but the level of meat consumption.”

Storage Notes: Leftovers can be refrigerated for up to 2 days.

2 large russet potatoes (about 1 pound total), peeled and cut into 1-inch pieces 2 tablespoons unsalted butter 3/4 teaspoon fine sea salt or table salt, divided 5 peppercorns 1 bay leaf 1 lemon, quartered, plus more for serving, if needed 1 pound cod fillets 2 large eggs, lightly whisked 1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley leaves, plus more for garnish 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper 1/2 teaspoon Cajun seasoning (optional) 1/4 cup neutral oil, such as canola oil, plus more as needed In a medium pot over high heat, cover the potatoes with enough water to submerge them by 1 inch. Bring to a boil and then cover, reduce the heat to medium-high and cook until tender, 10 to 12 minutes.

Drain the potatoes and transfer to a large bowl, then add the butter and ¼ teaspoon of salt.

Using a potato masher or fork, mash them until smooth.

While the potatoes are boiling, fill a high-sided skillet or saucepan with about 2 inches of water and set over high heat.

Add the peppercorns, bay leaf, ¼ teaspoon of salt, and squeeze a quarter of the lemon into the pot and then drop the quarter into the pot. Bring to a simmer and reduce heat to medium.

If necessary, cut the fish into small pieces so they fit into the skillet. Transfer the fish to the skillet and simmer until cooked through and white in the center, about 5 minutes. (If the fish is thicker than 1 inch,

it may need to poach longer.)

Using a slotted spoon or spatula, carefully transfer the fish to a plate to cool and then, using a fork, flake the fish, leaving some large pieces.

Line a large, rimmed baking sheet or platter with parchment paper.

Add the flaked fish, eggs, parsley, pepper, the remaining salt and Cajun seasoning, if using, to the mashed potatoes.

Gently stir the mixture just until combined; it will be very soft. Form the mixture into 8 cakes, about 3 inches across and 1 inch thick, and place them on the prepared sheet pan. Cover lightly with a clean towel and refrigerate for about 30 minutes to chill and firm.

When the cakes are chilled, prepare a towel-lined platter and set it next to the stove. In a large skillet over high heat, heat 2 to 3 tablespoons of oil until shimmering. Add the fish cakes, but do not crowd them.

(If cakes are too soft to lift from the sheet pan with your hands, use a thin metal spatula to gently transport them into the skillet.) Fry the cakes, undisturbed, until crisped and browned, about 4 minutes per side. If the cakes lose a bit of their shape when flipped, gently nudge them back together with your spatula. Transfer to the prepared plate and repeat with the remaining cakes, adding more oil as needed.

Sprinkle with more parsley, if desired, and serve with lemon wedges on the side for squeezing.

Nutrition | Calories: 388; Total Fat: 22 g; Saturated Fat: 6 g; Cholesterol: 157 mg; Sodium: 457 mg; Carbohydrates: 20 g; Dietary Fiber: 3 g; Sugar: 1 g; Protein: 26 g.

‘Street Gang’ looks at the ways ‘Sesame Street’ taught youth Film goes back to the beginnings of this iconic children’s show

By ADAM GRAHAM The Detroit News

It’s a show for children that didn’t talk down to its audience, and taught them important lessons on race, tolerance and matters of life and death, while also teaching them their ABCs and how to count.

“Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street” is an enlightening look at the genesis of “Sesame Street” through the eyes of its creative team, who had a visionary idea to make a television show that would love people rather than market to them. The result speaks for itself, and is still an institution more than 50 years after it hit the airwaves.

Marilyn Agrelo directs this unabashed love letter to “Sesame Street” and its inhabitants, based on the 2008 book

by Michael Davis. Through interviews both new and archival, “Sesame Street’s” founders explain how the show was started, the coming together of the talent involved and the magic that has made the show endure for generations.

For those who grew up watching the show and took it at face value, it may come as a surprise how much was going on beneath the surface. Producers explain how the show was specifically targeted to reach inner-city youth, and how the set was modeled after a Harlem

Big Bird makes an appearance during a lighting ceremony for the 50th anniversary of “Sesame Street” at the Empire State Building in New York.

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street corner. The racially integrated cast was a subliminal message in racial equality. And the real-life death of Will Lee, who played Mr. Hooper on the show, presented a challenge to producers: how best to address the loss to the audience? They wound up doing it through Big Bird, who processed the news like a child would, but the straightforwardness with which the show handled the issue was something of a breakthrough for children’s television programming.

“Street Gang” is a warm and often fascinating look at a group of bold visionaries who focused their talents on teaching — and entertaining — the youth. It would take a real Oscar the Grouch to deny its appeal, but then “Sesame Street” taught us that grouches are okay, too.

General Mills will begin selling a new line of protein-rich, low-in-sugar yogurts. General Mills

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has been so successful, with nearly $150 million in annual retail sales, that General Mills has continued to introduce various iterations, including a plant-based version of Oui. YQ

by Yoplait came next, focused on consumers wanting less sugar, more protein in a nonGreek style.

The company found a subset of consumers who still wanted

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trick as an energizing afternoon snack.

GREEN FRITTATA WITH LEEKS, KALE AND PARSLEY 20 minutes 6 servings This spring-y frittata is brimming with green produce, with leeks lending their aromatic essence, baby kale adding a savory minerality (you could swap in spinach or Swiss chard), and lots of fresh parsley imbuing the whole dish with grassy freshness.

more protein and that’s where Ratio: Protein enters.

This consumer segmentation is aided by the rising role data and analytics play in informing how corporations spend their advertising dollars.

Launching a new product used to be a much costlier, long-term decision. But the rise of digital media — specifically, social media sites with algorithms that scrape details and categorize users to a granular level — allows companies like General Mills to experiment, launch and tinker with

its marketing in real-time.

And while the barrier to entry may be lower, the market can only support so many products.

The pandemic’s panic buying triggered a “SKU rationalization” movement — industry parlance for reducing the number of flavors, varieties and options made and sold — across food companies and major retailers. Consumers’ urgent need to stock their pantries and refrigerators to support their 24/7 at-home lifestyles exposed weaknesses in the nation’s food supply chain.

Manufacturers like General Mills and retailers like Target scrambled to maintain food availability. A major result of this was a paring-down of the offerings.

“You won’t see us throwing out brands left and right, it is quite frankly confusing to consumers,” Martin said.

“The truth is this category has a consumer expectation of newness and variety that we will have to meet. And then our job is to do it in a way that makes sense for us and for the retailers.”

If you are used to thinking of parsley as a garnish, the full cup called for here might seem like a typo, but go with it. You’ll be amazed at how delightful the tender herb is as a main ingredient.

Storage Notes: Leftover frittata can be refrigerated for up to 3 days.

coarsely chopped 1 cup finely chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley

around the bottom of the skillet.

Pour the egg mixture over the greens, covering them evenly. Reduce the heat to medium-low and cook until the eggs set around the edges but are still loose in the middle, about 8 minutes.

Position an oven rack 4 to 6 inches from the broiler element and preheat the broiler.

Place the skillet under the broiler and cook for 1 to 2 minutes, or until the surface is set and golden brown. (If your broiler is on the bottom, carefully transfer the skillet to the broiler drawer.) Let rest for 1 to 2 minutes, then cut into 6 wedges.

Serve warm or at room temperature.

6 large eggs 1/4 cup low-fat milk 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 medium leek, white and light green parts, sliced thinly into half-moons (about 2 cups) 3 cups packed baby kale,

In a medium bowl, whisk together the eggs, milk, mustard, salt and pepper until combined.

In a 10-inch cast iron or ovenproof skillet over medium heat, heat the oil until shimmering. Add the leeks and cook, stirring occasionally, until softened, about 4 minutes. Add the kale and cook, stirring often, until wilted, 1 to 2 minutes. At first, the pan will look completely full, but the kale will wilt fast and reduce. Add the parsley, stir to combine and spread the vegetables evenly