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Man dies in Ghent crash Police are investigating the cause of a crash that killed Rodney Abele, 76, of East Greenbush PAGE A3

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WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado, D-19, hopes to make moves toward stemming the spread of Lyme disease with postage stamps, according to a new bill he introduced last week.

The Stamp Out Lyme Disease Act is a bipartisan bill that would fund the National Institutes of Health’s research of treatment for Lyme and other tick-borne diseases through the sales of a postage stamp, in addition to congressionally appropriated research funding.

“Lyme and tick-borne diseases are deeply prevalent in my district, NY-19, and across the country,” Delgado, who is a member of the Lyme Disease Caucus, said on the House floor last week. “Our bill would create a postage stamp to raise awareness about the disease and directly support medical research to treat and cure tick-borne illnesses.”

From 2011 to 2015, the Capital District area had 11,500 Lyme disease cases, according to data from the state Department of Health. Last

Lindsay Morris/The New York Times/File

A lone star tick seen under a magnifying glass, at a hospital in Southampton, N.Y., July 6, 2017. Columbia County saw 248 cases of Lyme disease in 2017, 211 cases in 2016 and 215 cases in 2015.

Greene County saw 316 cases of Lyme disease in 2015, 245 cases in 2014 and 326 cases in 2013, according to the state Department of Health.

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School vaccination lawsuit dismissed

By Massarah Mikati Johnson Newspapers

ALBANY — A lawsuit challenging New York’s ban on religious exemptions from vaccinations has been dismissed.

The lawsuit was initially filed in July on behalf of more than 50 families whose children had religious exemptions from vaccinations, before the state Legislature banned the provision in June. The families lost their case in August, but filed an appeal soon after, which was dismissed by Acting Supreme Court Justice Denise Hartman.

“Vaccines ensure the health and safety of our children, our families, and our communities,” Attorney General Letitia James said in a statement.

“This law will help protect New Yorkers from experiencing any additional public health crises, which is why we vigorously defended it.”

The law was passed in the midst of a measles outbreak in New York, largely concentrated in New York City’s Hasidic Jewish communities. From October 2018, when the outbreak started, to November of this year, New York City had nearly 650 measles cases, and areas outside the city had 426, according to the state Department of Health. Influenza has also been on the rise in recent years, peaking at more than See LAWSUIT A8

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Joel Friedman gets an MMR (measles-mumps-rubella) vaccination from Dov Landra, a physician assistant, at the Quality Health Center in New York, Feb. 23, 2010. Adults born after 1957 who have not been vaccinated, as well as all infants and children, should get the measles vaccine, public health officials said.

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A vaccination is prepared at a pharmacy in Northvale, N.J., Sept.

30, 2009. Immunity to the flu virus may wane over the course of the flu season.

The songs, if not the festival, remain the same

By Sarah Trafton Columbia-Greene Media

HUNTER — Taste of Country Music Festival, a mainstay at Hunter Mountain for seven years, will be getting a makeover, a new name and new management in 2020.

Live Nation, the promoter of the event, announced last week that the three-day country festival, formerly managed

by Townsquare Media, will be known as TrailBlazer Music Festival.

Scheduled for June 12-14, 2020, the festival will feature Luke Bryan, Thomas Rhett and Dierks Bentley as headliners.

“We are beyond thrilled to welcome TrailBlazer into our family of world class country

music festivals in 2020,” said Brian O’Connell, President of Live Nation Country Touring.

“Our team has been working for months getting to know this festival, and we are looking forward to showing the great Country music fans in New York what we have up our sleeves!”

Other artists scheduled to appear at this time include Kelsea Ballerini, Gabby Barrett, Blanco Brown, Clare Dunn, Hardy, Jon Langston, Dylan Scott, Matt Stell, Cole Swindell and The Cadillac Three.

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For centuries - and long before Mount Doom drew Tolkien’s heroes to Mordor - New Zealand’s explosive geology has awed and terrified the island’s residents.

Volcanoes, including the one immortalized in film adaptations of the Lord of the Rings, created the archipelago that is home to the Kiwi country. And one day, they may wipe it out.

The Monday eruption of White Island, New Zealand’s most consistently active volcano, killed at least six and injured over two dozen people. It was a painful reminder of the danger behind the country’s stunning, and sometimes surreal, landscapes: the ever-present possibility of another eruption.

“It’s not a matter of if, it’s a matter of when and where,” said Janine Krippner, a volcanologist and New Zealand native who works with the Smithsonian Institution’s Global Volcanism Program. “Having a true respect for all the hazards we have and how they contribute to society is really important.”

New Zealand has volcanoes aplenty, Krippner said, especially considering its size and geologic age. It lies along the volatile Ring of Fire, the belt of tectonic boundaries responsible for most of the world’s earthquakes and eruptions, and experts consider it a very active corner of the planet. As with so many of nature’s most powerful forces, it is both boon and burden.

“New Zealand, especially its North Island, is just riddled with volcanoes,” said volcanologist and science journalist Robin Andrews. “They’ve carved out one of the most naturally beautiful places on Earth, but at the same time, it’s prone to

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Steam comes from White Island from the Bay of Plenty coastline on Monday, Dec. 9, 2019 in Whakatane, New Zealand. As many as 13 people may have died following a volcanic eruption on New Zealand’s White Island, while dozens more were injured.

devastating earthquakes and horrific volcanic eruptions. It’s the price tag of that.”

That White Island, known also by its indigenous Maori name, Whakaari, erupted is not surprising, Andrews and Krippner both said. The island, which is the tip of an undersea volcano, has seen similar explosions in recent years, but they happened to be at times when tourists and guides were not visiting the uninhabited destination, located in the Bay of Plenty off the North Island’s northeast coast.

The outsize impact of the relatively small eruption underscored the unpredictable perils future events may pose.

Volcanic activity in New Zealand significantly predates human life, but in the past several hundred years, eruptions have wrought destruction across the country. In 1886, all three peaks of Mount Tarawera, on the North Island, erupted in the middle of the night, in a violent phantasmagoria of intense lightning, earthquakes, fountains of lava and a cloud of ash stretching six miles high.

The eruption was New Zealand’s deadliest, killing at least 120 people and burying settlements and villages.

Thirty years later, the White Island surprised a group of sulfur miners after a crater wall collapsed and sent a molten mudflow, known as a lahar, streaming over the miners, killing 10. The only survivor, historians say, was a camp cat discovered weeks later and known thereafter as Peter the Great.

On Christmas Eve in 1953, a lahar from Mount Ruapehu swept away a bridge, causing an express train to run off the tracks. The train, traveling roughly the length of the North Island, from Auckland to Wellington, was a little over halfway to its destination, when several of its cars plunged into a river below. More than 150 were killed in what the Auckland Star called the “Nation’s Greatest Rail Disaster” in a front-page story on Boxing Day. The disaster, the paper reported, “has cast the deep shadow of grief over the whole country’s observance of Christmas.”

In recent years, eruptions at Ruapehu and Mount Tongariro, also near the center of the North Island, have jolted New Zealanders, but haven’t led to additional casualties.

Volcanoes have helped shape the country - in more ways than just its topography. In Maori

tradition, volcanoes, including Ruapehu and Tongariro, are sacred, former gods and warriors.

They’ve also left very fertile soil, Krippner said, leading to thriving farming and agriculture.

They also attract tourists and filmmakers such as Peter Jackson, who used Mount Ngauruhoe as a stand-in for Mount Doom in his three Lord of the Rings movies.

“It has a lot of influence, not only on the landscape, but on how our country has shaped its economy,” Krippner said.

“Having a nation that is prepared, and there are a lot of people working very hard toward that happening, is incredibly important,” Krippner said.

Yet, when a pyroclastic flow - a devastatingly hot and fast wave of rock and gas - is barreling toward a population center, there’s really only one viable option: “The best thing you can do is just tell people to get out of the way,” Andrews said.

But, scientists have said, there is still much to learn about volcanoes, and forecasting eruptions remains difficult, further complicated by the vast span of geological time.

“It could be tens of thousands of years before anything happens again,” Andrews said, speaking about future eruptions at New Zealand’s Lake Taupo, a supervolcano known to be one of the most violent in the world. “It could happen tomorrow, or never. Everyone wants certainty in life, but when it comes to things like volcanoes, the inherent rule is: We don’t know.”

But at least one thing, he conceded, is known.

“Volcanism in New Zealand will continue beyond human life,” Andrews said. “We are the window dressing for them, it’s not really the other way around.”

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A transport plane bound for Antarctica on a maintenance mission at a Chilean base went missing Monday evening, the Chilean Air Force said.

The plane, a C-130 Hercules, was carrying 38 people, including 17 crew members and 21 passengers, the air force statement said.

They were flying to Base Antarctica Presidente Eduardo Frei Montalva, a key Chilean outpost on King George Island, off the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula.

President Sebastian Piñera of Chile said

in a statement that he was filled with anxiety over the plane’s disappearance. The president said a search and rescue mission had begun.

The plane was transporting crew members to inspect a floating pipeline that helps keep the base powered, the air force said.

The plane left the Chabunco Air Base in Punta Arenas, near Chile’s southern tip, at 4:55 p.m. and lost radio contact at 6:13 p.m.

Gen. Eduardo Mosqueira, an air force commander, told reporters that the plane might have attempted to land somewhere.

Chilean military aircraft were dispatched to search for the missing plane. The plane would have been about 450 miles into a

journey of about 770 miles when contact was lost, according to an air force statement. If it was flying on its intended course, that would put it in the middle of the Drake Passage.

The Drake Passage connects the South Atlantic and South Pacific oceans between the southern tip of South America and the Antarctic Peninsula. It has some of the world’s worst weather, and is known for its frigid temperatures and powerful storms.

Chile has four permanent bases in Antarctica that support scientific research on issues including biodiversity and climate change.

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Gunman kills 6 in Czech hospital, then shoots himself Loveday Morris The Washington Post

BERLIN — At least six people were shot dead at close range in a hospital waiting room in the Czech Republic on Tuesday before the gunman escaped and then turned his weapon on himself, in a rare mass shooting in this eastern European country.

Police hunted for the suspect for several hours before they tracked him down to his vehicle, where he had shot himself in the head. Two other people were injured in the attack at a hospital in the eastern city of Ostrava.

The director of the hospital, Jiri Havrlant, told the CTK news agency that the gunman entered the waiting room and started shooting people at a close range. He said one of the wounded is not yet out of danger.

The motives for the shooting remained unclear and police said they had strengthened security at “selected soft targets” across the country.

It marked the country’s worst mass shooting since 2015, when a gunman shot eight people and himself in a restaurant in the town of Uhersky Brod.

The Czech Republic has some of the least restrictive gun laws in Europe with firearms available to anyone that obtains a license. Gun owners can also apply for a concealed carry permit.

The country launched a legal battle against European Union regulations introduced in the wake of the 2015 Paris attacks, which made it harder for Europeans to buy semiautomatic rifles. Prague’s legal challenge was dismissed last week.

The Washington Post’s Ladka Bauerova in Berlin contributed to this report.

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p.m. Village Hall, 2 First St., Athens n Catskill Town Board 6 p.m.

Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill n Catskill Village Board 7 p.m.

Dec. 11 Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill n Greene County Legislature public hearing (LL2 of 2019-superseding public officers law section 3(1)residency; special legislature meeting No. 5; county services; public works 6 p.m. Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill n Jewett Town Board 7 p.m. at the Jewett Municipal Building, 3547 County Route 23C, Jewett

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E. Greenbush man dies in crash

By Amanda Purcell Columbia-Greene Media

GHENT — Police are investigating the cause of a crash that claimed the life of a Rensselaer County man Monday, according to Columbia County Sheriff David Bartlett.

In their preliminary investigation, police said a 2013 Toyota Sienna driven

by Rodney W. Abele, 76, of East Greenbush, was traveling north when his vehicle veered off the eastern shoulder of the road and struck a tree head-on, police said.

After striking the tree the minivan continued on and rolled down an embankment, where it stopped.

Abele was the only person in the vehicle at the time, police said. He had to be extricated from the vehicle by Ghent and Chatham fire departments. Abele was pronounced dead at the scene, the sheriff’s office said.

Bartlett said that sheriff’s patrols were dispatched

by Columbia County 911 to a one-vehicle accident on

COURTESY OF THE COLUMBIA COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE

The Columbia County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a fatal one-vehicle crash on County Route 21B in Ghent.

County Route 21B, just north of Shufelt Road, at about 10:14 a.m.

The accident remains under investigation by sheriff’s deputies and investigators,

according to police.

Columbia County Coroner Michael Blasl is assisting

with the investigation.

County Route 21B was closed for around two hours as the sheriff’s office conducted its investigation.

Bartlett, Undersheriff John Davi, Capt. John DeRocha, Lt. Wayne Lopez, Investigator Reagan Anderson, Sgt. Brian Molinski, Sgt. Jeffrey Hofstetter, and Deputy Jordan Brahm investigated the scene for the sheriff’s office.

Chatham Rescue Squad and Ghent and Chatham fire departments assisted at the scene.

The tree was the site of another crash on Oct. 21. A pickup truck struck the base of the large tree which was at the white line. The crash victim at that time also had to be extricated and transported

by Chatham Rescue Squad to the hospital, but the driver survived.

To reach reporter Amanda Purcell, call 518-828-1616 ext. 2500, or send an email to apurcell@ thedailymail.net, or tweet to @ amandajpurcell.

Proud Drug Court grads end journey

By Amanda Purcell Columbia-Greene Media

HUDSON — The challenging journey made by the graduates of the Columbia County Adult Treatment Court was evident Friday from the proud smiles of family and friends as they watched many of their loved ones accept their diplomas signifying they graduated from the program.

As part of their Treatment Court, participants entered an intensive monitoring program, an alternative to prison that allows them to grow emotionally, psychologically and spiritually and overcome substance abuse.

For their hard work, the participants were congratulated in a special ceremony. Four graduates received diplomas Friday at Columbia County Adult Treatment Court, 401 Union St. by County Treatment Court Judge Jonathan Nichols.

“It’s been a long, long road,” Brandon Fielder, 31, of Ghent, said after he received his diploma.

Fielder, like many graduates in the program, started on a path of destruction. He was arrested on attempted drug sales, a class B felony, in 2015. He was using heroin, marijuana and cocaine. It was either drug court or prison.

Fielder chose drug court.

“I had two children and they needed me in their life,” he said.

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Brandon Fielder graduated from Columbia County Adult Treatment Court on Friday at Columbia County Court, 401 Union St. Also pictured are Gwendolyn Avent, who heads the program, and County Judge Jonathan Nichols.

Fielder was put on a strict schedule.

He was placed in halfway houses and given attentive care. The strict daily regimen gave him structure and discipline and kept his mind off drugs. He made his bed military-style. He washed the halfway house dishes everyday. He found his faith. But he was not allowed to see his kids for six months, which woke him up,

he said.

“Now I feel amazing,” Fielder said. “I went from being homeless, to having a job and a house and having my kids back in my life. Now, I just need a car. I am working on that. But now I have money in my pocket.”

The length of recovery differs for each participant. Fielder, like many

graduates, suffered a brief relapse after the loss of his father, which he took hard.

As part of his recovery, Fielder was asked to write a goodbye letter to his father and share it.

“It just took something out of me (reading the letter),” Fielder said. “My grief was over after that. It was an amazing feeling of release.”

About 40 people are currently enrolled in the program and they were present to watch their classmates graduate. Among the spectators were addiction recovery advocates, mental health advocates, members of the Columbia County Probation Department and representative of the Columbia County Public Defenders Office and Columbia County Sheriff’s Office.

Past graduates also attended to cheer on the new graduates, with the hope that those who graduate will become role models to others suffering from substance abuse.

Gwendolyn Avent, who oversees the treatment court, handed out coins to each of the members. The coins were inscribed with the words, “Change Attitude. Change Thinking. Change Behavior.” She asked the graduates to carry the coins with them every day.

“You carry this with you everyday and read it,” Avent said. “It may help you get through what you are going through.”

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n Clayton M. Allen, 20, of Ravena, was arrested at 4:15 a.m. Dec. 12 in Coxsackie and charged with second-degree criminal contempt and seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, both class A misdemeanors. He was held. n Joshua D. Lucente, 28, of Catskill, was arrested at 1:30 a.m. Dec. 6 in Catskill and charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a class A misdemeanor, and having a controlled substance in a nonoriginal container. He was issued an appearance ticket.

n Berger C. Hansen, 70, of Gardiner, was arrested at 1:45 p.m. Dec. 6 in Catskill and charged with operating a motor vehicle while impaired by drugs and driving while ability impaired by drugs and alcohol, both unclassified misdemeanors; unlawful possession of marijuana, a violation; operating an unregistered vehicle and speeding, both infractions.

He was issued an appearance ticket. n Crystal L. Salisbury, 35, of Cairo, was arrested at 9:05 p.m.

Dec. 6 in Coxsackie and charged with driving while intoxicated with a prior conviction and first-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, both class E felonies; using a vehicle without an interlock device, a class A misdemeanor; unlawful possession

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Where it is not possible to remove ice it should be thoroughly covered with sand, salt or cinders.

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of New York, was arrested at 8:25 p.m. Dec. 7 in Cairo and charged with second-degree strangulation, a class D felony; criminal obstruction of breathing and seventh-degree

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He was held in lieu of $500 bail.

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Winter Walk was a winter wow Mr. and Mrs. Claus waved as they were chauffeured down Warren Street in a horse and carriage, passing by windows decked out with dazzling displays. Some of the windows came to life, including the window of Second Show, 519 Warren St., which featured ballroom dancers in the forms of Guy Apicella and Rachael Kappel.

The show went on despite the season’s first major winter storm Dec. 1-3. The storm threatened Winter Walk after it buried Warren Street under almost two feet of snow, but the city’s Department of Public Works and the Air National Guard, dis-

patched on Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s order, cleared the street for the night’s festivities. Fittingly, the Winter Walk judges voted to give a special Most Heroic Award to the DPW and National Guard crews.

Add to this the area’s musical talent from jazz ensembles, marching bands and carollers, like Victorian Voices of Athens, who all spread holiday cheer through song, and it was a fabulous day for everyone. Congratulations to the Winter Walk Committee for doing an extraordinary job under extraordinary conditions.

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President Donald Trump’s reaction to the murderous rampage in Pensacola, Florida, on Friday by an officer of the Royal Air Force of Saudi Arabia was insensitive and grossly insufficient.

Three American servicemen lost their lives and eight were wounded by a Saudi wielding a 9mm Glock 45 pistol in a killing rampage that the FBI says is being investigated as terrorism.What does the president say? He finds it “shocking” and conveys the condolences of “very, very devastated” King Salman of Saudi Arabia and his son, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and adds that the kingdom will “help out the families very greatly.”

Not a word from Trump about the threat of terrorism, or a shred of curiosity about motives and whether the Saudi officer was radicalized and by whom, or a thought about what Saudi Arabia could do to help investigate the shooter, or perhaps a lament that a pilot, a guest of the United States, would carry out such a horrific assault on his hosts, or even a worry about where the

21-year-old officer got the weapon. Trump quickly pivoted to say there were a lot of countries participating in the aviator training program. He often performs this pivot, a telltale dodge. “There are a lot of killers,” he said once when asked about a leader who dispatches assassins abroad. “I think there is blame on both sides,” he said after the 2017 violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Trump has an inexplicable blind spot for Saudi Arabia. He has no trouble insulting in the vilest way people from other Muslim countries. He is hostile generally to people from “shithole” countries.

After a terrorist attack in London, he said on Twitter, “These animals are crazy and must be dealt with through toughness and strength!” But when a Saudi carries out an attack on a U.S. military base, Trump becomes a spokesman and apologist for the king.

King Salman has assured Trump, according to an Embassy news release, that he has “directed Saudi security services to cooperate with the relevant American agencies to uncover information

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The crooning of a saxophone in the streets of Hudson could be heard as mothers, fathers and their children weaved in and out of the little shops and restaurants Saturday.

It was Winter Walk 2019, and the sax, played by Santa Claus (who else?) got visitors in the right mood.

Cool jazz on a chilly winter night.

Santa’s Parade began the day at City Hall, 520 Warren St., where Hudson’s mayors, past, present and future, gathered to honor Ellen Thurston, the “Queen of Winter Walk,” who took over organization of the annual Hudson tradition in 2001.

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that will help determine the cause of this horrific attack.” Perhaps Trump thinks Americans have forgotten that when Post contributing columnist Jamal Khashoggi was dismembered in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Trump and members of his administration vowed, as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo put it, to pursue “a thorough, transparent and timely investigation, including accountability for those responsible for the killing.” This promise remains unfulfilled.

The king’s promises of cooperation might be more credible if he would direct his intelligence service, and the crown prince to whom it reports, to pay more attention to cases of radicalization and less to what seem to be the prince’s top priorities: silencing peaceful dissent, torturing women who campaigned for the right to drive, surveilling the relatives of the murdered Khashoggi. Trump might ask the king to make public who really ordered that murder and to free the writers and activists the regime has thrown into prison. That is, if Trump could see beyond his blind spot.

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We learned Monday of the death of Paul Volcker, the towering - in all senses of the word, especially given that he stood 6-foot-7 - chair of the Federal Reserve from 1979 to 1987.

Much has changed since Volcker strode the halls of the Federal Reserve.

While today’s central bankers face a different task than the one Volcker took on, they would be well advised to pursue their goals with the same relentless commitment he brought to the Fed. To understand why Volcker looms so large in the history of not only American, but also global, economics, you must start by wrapping your head around two numbers: 11.6 percent and 1.3 percent. The first number - the big one - is the rate that inflation peaked at in the third quarter of 1980, a few months after Volcker was appointed Fed chair. The other number is the most recent value of the same variable.

Consider that a rate of inflation running at 11.6 percent cuts the buying power of your paycheck in half in about six months. At 1.3 percent, that takes more than four years.

As Bin Appelbaum shows in his recent (and compelling) history of economic policy, “The Economists’ Hour,” Volcker was born to take on inflation.

Appelbaum recounts that when Volcker’s older sister went to college in the late 1930s, their parents gave her a stipend of $25 a month. Ten years later, when Volcker went to Princeton University, his parents gave him the same stipend. He argued that the dollar had lost 40 percent of its purchasing power, a fact that failed to change their minds. But as the story reveals, the extent to which inflation erodes buying power was always personal to him.

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and that of African Americans peaked at a stunning 21 percent. Confronted with jobless rates of that magnitude, Carter was far from able to “take care of the politics.”

Did a fifth of the black labor force really need to be unemployed to bring down inflation?

Volcker believed the economic damage resulting from his program was necessary, and he wasn’t alone. From today’s perspective, in an economy where interest rates and inflation have become remarkably insensitive to the pressures that once prevailed, what Volcker did looks awfully extreme - and terribly costly to vulnerable populations.

But this is not the time to litigate that question. Instead, let’s consider how the job of central bankers has taken a 180-degree turn. Instead of soaring inflation, we’ve got sagging inflation. For almost a decade, inflation has been running far below the Fed’s 2 percent target. As I recently wrote, Volcker-era economics was “obsessed with preventing inflation.” Today’s economics is, or at least should be, “obsessed with getting to and staying at full employment.”

In that regard, our Fed officials would do well to act in the spirit of Volcker, even in pursuit of a goal antithetical to his life’s work of choking inflation.

Remember, today low inflation is occurring even as the jobless rate has fallen to lows - 3.5 percent last month - that predate Volcker’s reign. Such a weakened correlation between unemployment and prices gives our monetary authorities the opportunity to pursue maximum employment with the same single-minded vigor with which Volcker pursued low inflation. And they should do so with the unyielding spirit of the big man we just lost.

Bernstein, chief economist to former Vice President Joe Biden, is a senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

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In 2013, a federal probe exposed a sophisticated drug-smuggling and moneylaundering scheme between correctional officers and gang members at the staterun Baltimore City Detention Center in Maryland. In 2016, another federal investigation uncovered massive corruption at Maryland’s largest prison, in which guards smuggled in narcotics, cellphones, pornographic videos and tobacco in exchange for money and sex with inmates. Now, three years later, comes the indictment of more than two dozen state corrections officers on charges of excessive force, assault and conspiracy. The question that needs to be asked is what will it take for Maryland to finally clean up its troubled prison system.

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Attorney Marilyn Mosby on Tuesday announced that 25 members, or about half, of an elite tactical unit tasked with maintaining order in state-run jails faced charges that they assaulted and threatened detainees at correctional facilities, tampered with evidence and falsified documents. The indictment portrays the officers who worked in Baltimore facilities as operating as a “criminal gang” that used violence and threats to maintain “dominance of its operational territory.”

The indictment brings to more than 200 the number of Maryland corrections officers, inmates and civilian accomplices who have been criminally charged in prison corruption cases in the past four years. It is good that law enforcement authorities have been aggressive in going after wrongdoing. But

the challenge confronting the state is how to change a system and a culture that have given rise to rampant criminality.

A spokesman for Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican, told the Baltimore Sun that the administration has made prison a priority since his first days in office, pointing to the decisions to close the “scandal- riddled” Baltimore City Detention Center and provide funds for more prosecutors, investigators and corrections officers. “Changing any entrenched culture takes time,” said spokesman Mike Ricci.

There is no question that corrections officers have extremely hard jobs. Those in Maryland have long complained about understaffing, forced overtime and low pay given the dangerous conditions they work in.

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Harvard, Volcker “got a full dose of Keynesianism,” Appelbaum reports. According to Keynesian thinking, the central economic problem is not inflation, but weak demand, too few jobs and persistent unemployment.

Those lessons did not resonate with Volcker, who claimed that while his professors were opining that a bit of inflation helps grease the wheels, the word that went through his mind was “bulls---.”

Volcker made no secret of these feelings. So, when President Jimmy Carter appointed Volcker to chair the Fed, the president knew what he was getting. In fact, when Volcker warned him that what he was about to do about spiraling inflation “is not going to be popular at all,” Carter fatefully responded: “I need to get somebody in here who will take care of the economy - let me take care of the politics.”

Volcker did just that, by using the tools of the Fed to generate an increase in interest rates that would be unimaginable today. The “fed funds rate” - the central bank’s main tool to manage inflationary pressures - went from about 5 percent in the mid-1970s to 20 percent at its peak in the early 1980s.

Those of us who were around then remember something else about that period: the doubledip recessions, 1980-1982. Volcker successfully slew the inflation dragon, but he came close to breaking the economy in the process. He didn’t just step on the brakes. He slammed them, yanked up the emergency brake and shifted the car into reverse.

As the dust cleared, inflation fell steeply, as it had to, given what Volcker and the Fed had done to the cost of borrowing.

People stopped borrowing to buy homes, cars and pretty much anything else that required credit. As demand collapsed, so did inflation. And so too did jobs. Overall unemployment reached 11 percent,

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Patricia (McElroy) Brand Patricia (McElroy) Brand (Gigi/ (Michael Toole); and Jennifer Packy), 75, of Catskill, NY died Stabile (Mark Wanzer); grandDecember 7, 2019, in Boston, daughter Avery Wrinn Toole; sisMA, with her family at her side, ters Mary Anne Templeton (John after a brief and heroic battle with Fowler); and Roberta DiSpigna cancer.

(Vito DiSpigna); brother Edward Packy was born on March McElroy; 7 nieces and nephews; 3, 1944 in Augusta, Georgia, to and cat, Louie (Crookshanks) Velma (DeWitt) McElroy and Pat- Brand. She was pre-deceased by rick McElroy. She grew up in NYC her parents. The family would like and spent summers in Palenville, to thank the nurses and doctors NY where she eventually mar- at Dana Farber Cancer Institute ried Robert Stabile and and Brigham and Womdedicated her life to en’s Hospital in Boston raising her three girls. as well as the Catskill In mid-life, she studied Elementary school staff to become an RN, and and all the children who worked full time as a sent handmade cards, school nurse at Catskill along with everyone Elementary. She loved who reached out during her job, and was equally her illness. beloved by the chilServices will be held dren she cared for, who Brand at Traver and McCurry found any excuse under Funeral Home, 234 Jefthe sun to visit her in the nurses ferson Heights, Catskill, NY. Calloffice. ing hours Sunday, December 15, Gigi’s interests revolved from 2-6 pm, and mass at the fuaround family, especially her neral home on Monday, Decemgranddaughter and best friend, ber 16 at 1 pm.

Following mass, Avery, with whom she spent as much time as possible. Travel ad- friends are invited to join the famventures, (most recently to Lon- ily for a celebration of Packy’s life, don), Harry Potter, and watching location to be announced at the movies were among their favor- service and on social media. In ite shared pastimes. Packy was lieu of flowers, please consider an amazing sister, a loyal friend donating to Boston Children’s and an extraordinary mother who Hospital Heart Center — a cause loved family gatherings of any near and dear to Packy’s heart. kind, and whose presence would Contributions can be made at light up a room and guarantee bostonchildrens.org/givenow or fun, silliness, immense laughter checks can be mailed to Boston and her one-of-a-kind shenani- Children’s Hospital Trust, 401 Park Drive Suite 602, Boston gans.

She is survived by her three MA 02215-5301. Please include daughters: Kerri Stabile (Michael “CICU Toole Family Fund” in the Sarraino); Cheryl Stabile-Toole memo/for line.

Nicholas F. DeWald Nicholas F. DeWald, age 28, of Syracuse died on December 2nd.

He was the son of Colette and Lawrence DeWald of Ashland.

Nick was a graduate of Windham-Ashland-Jewett Central School. He is survived by brothers F. Robert DeWald (Kimberly), Matthew DeWald (Tiffany), Edward DeWald, Terence DeWald (Veronica) and sisters Rebecca DeWald, and Liza DeWald as well as a niece and three nephews..

He was predeceased by sister Elizabeth DeWald and brother

Michael DeWald. Nicholas enjoyed the relationship of a score of aunts and uncles and dozens of cousins. He is survived by his companion Ashley LoPiccolo.

Calling hours will be 6:00PM to 8:00PM on Wednesday, December 11th. at Decker Funeral Home, Windham. A funeral Mass will be offered at 11:00 AM on Thursday, December 12th at St. Theresa of the Child Jesus Church, Windham. Internment will take place the Spring.

Virginia Ann (Zelman) Little Virginia Ann (Zelman) Little, 69, law Ira J. Perlow of Waltham, MA of Stockport, and lifelong area as well as her nephew Michael J. resident passed away Monday, Perlow. She was pre-deceased December 9, 2019 at Albany St. by her husband Donald Murray Peters Hospice Inn. Born Little in 2005.

May 11, 1950 in Hudson, Calling hours will be she was the daughter of Saturday, December the late Mitchell Zelman 14, 2019 from (10:30AM and Evelyn (Mazure) Zel- 12:30PM)at Sacco Fuman. neral Home; 700 Town Ginny was a member Hall Drive, Hudson, NY. of the Church of St. JoA mass of Christian buriseph in Stuyvesant Falls, al will follow at 1:00PM she was the Chief Court at the Church of St. JoClerk and was assigned seph, Stuyvesant Falls.

Little to the Hudson City Court To continue her passion for over 25 years. She will be and love for all animals, in lieu of greatly missed by her loving son, flowers, Memorial contributions Donnie Little and daughter-in-law in Ginny’s memory are requested Becca (Petrucci) Little of Middle- to: www.worldwildlife.org. To town, NY, her sister Carol Jean leave online condolences visit: (Zelman) Perlow and brother-in- www.saccofuneralhome.com

Norman K. Sutherland Norman K. Sutherland, of Catskill, known to everyone as “Chick”, passed away peacefully on December 10, 2019 at the age of 91. A Catskill native, he was born on August 8, 1928 to Simon and Laura (Wood) Sutherland.

Chick served in the Korean War as an Army Medic, discharged as a Sergeant FC, and was awarded the Bronze Star.

He was an employee of Marquette, Lone Star, Independent Cement and retired in 1990 from St. Lawrence Cement. Chick was a Life Member of Catskill Elks Lodge 1341; Life Member of Catskill Fire Company; 50 year active member of the former Citizens Hose Company #5; Life Member of Hudson Valley Fireman’s Association; member of Fireman’s Association of the State of New York; and member of the Catskill United Methodist Church.

Chick will be greatly missed, but always remembered by his

family and friends. He was able to connect with anyone and everyone through conversation, a smile, and a hearty handshake.

Chick is survived by his loving wife and best friend, the former Dolores O’Grady of Catskill. On October 8, 2019 they celebrated 69 years of marriage. He is also survived by a son, Wayne Sutherland (Diana); a daughter, Jo Ann Handy (Gilbert); a grandson, Cory Sutherland; a granddaughter, Samantha Sutherland; a brother, Percy Sutherland; a sister, Thelma Sutherland; and many nieces and nephews.

Relatives and friends may call 4-7 PM Thursday at Traver & McCurry Funeral Home, 234 Jefferson Heights, Catskill. Funeral services will be held 11 AM Friday at the funeral home.

Reverend Catherine E. Schuyler will be officiating. Interment will be at the Town of Catskill Cemetery.

House Democrats unveil articles of impeachment against Trump Nicholas Fandos The New York Times News Service

WASHINGTON — House Democrats announced Tuesday that they would move ahead this week with two articles of impeachment charging President Donald Trump with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, as they accused him of violating the Constitution by pressuring Ukraine for help in the 2020 election.

Speaking from a woodpaneled reception room just off the floor of the House, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and leaders of six key committees said that Trump’s actions toward Ukraine, and his efforts to block Congress’ attempt to investigate, had left them no choice but to pursue one of the Constitution’s gravest remedies.

The move will bring a sitting president to the brink of impeachment for only the fourth time in American history.

“Today, in service to our duty to the Constitution, and to our country, the House Committee on Judiciary is introducing two articles of impeachment charging the president of the United States, Donald J. Trump, with committing high crimes and misdemeanors,” said Rep. Jerrold Nadler, DN.Y., the panel’s chairman.

He stood before four American flags and a portrait of George Washington.

“Our president holds the ultimate public trust,” Nadler said. “When he betrays that trust and puts himself before country, he endangers the Constitution, he endangers our democracy, and he endangers our national security.”

The announcement comes a day after Democrats summed up the central allegations in their impeachment case against Trump:

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that he pressured Ukraine to announce investigations into his political rivals while withholding as leverage a coveted White House meeting for its president and $391 million in critical security assistance. His actions, they argued in a lengthy hearing at the Judiciary Committee, had placed the president’s personal political interests above those of the country, threatening the integrity of the election and national security in the process.

After more than two months of investigating the Ukraine matter, and a year of confrontation between the Democratic House and Trump, the impeachment process is now likely to unfold quickly. The Judiciary Committee plans to promptly begin debating the articles as soon as Wednesday, and could vote by Thursday to recommend them to the full House of Representatives for final approval. If the House follows through as expected next week, Trump could stand trial in the Senate early in the new year.

Rep. Adam Schiff, DCalif., the chairman of the Intelligence Committee who oversaw the House’s Ukraine investigation,

sought to forcefully dismiss complaints that the House was moving too quickly toward impeachment, a little more than two months after opening their inquiry.

“The argument ‘why don’t you just wait’ amounts to this: Why don’t you just let him cheat in one more election? Why not let him cheat just one more time? Why not let him have foreign help just one more time?”

The Democrats indicated that they would forgo another possible article under discussion in recent weeks that would have charged Trump with obstruction of justice based on his attempts to thwart Robert Mueller’s investigation into his campaign’s ties to Russian election interference in 2016. That decision reflected a calculated move by Democrats to push forward with a narrow case against Trump based on his dealings with Ukraine, after some of their moderate lawmakers in conservative-leaning districts signaled they would not support a broader set of charges.

Though the details differ substantially, the articles of impeachment Democrats outlined Tuesday echo those the Judiciary Committee

approved in 1974 charging President Richard M. Nixon with abuse of power, obstruction of justice and contempt of Congress. Nixon resigned before the full House had a chance to vote on the articles, amid clear indications that the charges had broad support from members of both parties.

There is less overlap with the other modern presidential impeachment. In 1998, the House approved impeachment articles charging President Bill Clinton with perjury and obstruction of justice. Two other counts, of perjury and abuse of power, failed in votes on the House floor.

With all but a handful of House Republicans firmly united behind Trump, the charges they have settled on are all but certain to face monolithic Republican opposition. If that does not change, and Trump continues a defiant defense, the impeachment vote against him could take place strictly along party lines, save for one independent, Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan, who has signaled he will join Democrats.

The impeachment effort would also face an uphill battle in the Republicancontrolled Senate, where it would take the support of two-thirds of the chamber to convict Trump and remove him from office — a highly unlikely scenario, particularly in an election year.

A little more than an hour before Democrats’ announcement, Trump declared on Twitter that it was “sheer Political Madness” to impeach a president who has done “NOTHING wrong” and overseen “perhaps the strongest economy in our country’s history.”

Middle school girl arrested after FUNERAL posting ‘death list’ to Snapchat DIRECTORS Lateshia Beachum The Washington Post

A 12-year-old Florida girl is in custody for posting threats to her classmates on Snapchat, authorities say.

The girl was arrested on Friday evening when another student at Falcon Cove Middle School and her parent alerted the Broward County Sheriff’s Office Weston district of the Snapchat threat.

The preteen’s snap included a “death list” of other students at her middle school, police say. A later post indicated that her schoolmates weren’t safe and would be killed on Dec. 9.

Detectives from the Broward Sheriff’s Office Threat Management Unit and Real Time Crime Center tracked down the girl, who they said admitted to making false threats.

She faces two counts of written threat to kill and false reporting concerning a firearm.

The middle school student’s arrest is part of an alarming number made over the past week when Broward County Public Schools students have found themselves under threat of violence from other pupils.

On Monday, police arrested a 16-year-old boy for sending texts and emails threatening a shooting to school employees at Cypress Bay High School in Weston, Florida, authorities said.

The school was placed on a code-red alert on Friday after the messages were sent, and detectives searched the premises in an attempt to find the sender, according to law enforcement.

Faculty and students continued to receive threats until Monday that prompted a code-yellow status.

The high school junior, who was a student at the school, was sent to the Juvenile Assessment Center and faces two counts of making a false report concerning the use of a firearm and two counts of writing threats to kill.

Last Thursday, Broward County, Florida, officers arrested a 14-year-old high school student accused of making bomb threat phone calls to an elementary school and a middle school that morning.

Both schools had to be evacuated as deputies searched for the threats, which were later found to be false.

The teen admitted to making the false alarms to

authorities once she was identified as the caller, they said. She was arrested and taken to the same juvenile intake center before being released to her parents.

She faces two counts of false reporting of a bomb threat.

The motives for all three incidents are being investigated, said Broward Sheriff’s Office public information officer Robyn Hankerson.

Broward County Public Schools didn’t immediately return a request for comment.

Florida lawmakers have made school threats a second-degree felony in the aftermath of the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, that killed 17 people, the Associated Press reported. Parkland also is in Broward County.

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I imagine many people don’t give a lot of thought to hown Greene County got its name.

Some people might think it is because we have so much n forested land that it makes us green with an extra “e.” A recent internet search disn closed 13 other states that have Greene counties including nAlabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Mississippi, Missouri, North n Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Virginia.

These counties — including our own — are all likely named in honor of the famous n Revolutionary War General, Nathanael Greene. As a matter of fact, n in Greeneville, Tennessee, there is even a Nathanael Greene Museum. It is unlikely Nathanael Greene ever visited any of the states not included in the original 13. We also lack anynhard evidence that he ever visited Greene County, New York. But we do know he spent n time in the state. So, why was General Greene so important thatnso many places decided to name counties after him?

Fortunately, quite a bit is known about Nathanael Greene.

He was born to a n Quaker family in Rhode Island in 1742 and was largely selfn educated.

In his early adult life he operated a mill owned by his father and in his spare timen read and studied books on military tactics. Despite the fact that the Quakers were n pacifists, Greene also joined and drilled with a local militia known as the Kentish Guards n when difficulties began to arise between England and the n colonies.

After the battles of Lexington and Concord, the Rhode Island General Assembly n named Greene a MajorGeneral and ordered a force n of 1,600 men be formed under his command. By June 1775, Greene had his troops

General Nathanael Greene (1742-1786)

in position around Boston and in July, George Washington arrived. Now, being part of the Continental Army, his rank was reduced to brigadier-general. He served General Washington on Long Island, in New Jersey and at the battles of Brandywine and Germantown in Pennsylvania during 1777.

During the winter of 1777 and 1778, General Greene was with Washington at Valley Forge and was appointed Quartermaster General of the army. He reluctantly agreed because he wanted to be in active service as a line officer taking the battle to the British.

After General Gate’s severe defeat at Camden, South Carolina, General Greene was appointed by Washington to take over the southern command, which stretched from Delaware to Georgia. Greene took command at Charlotte, North Carolina on December 2, 1780.

Over the next two years, the General successfully led his troops in several battles that ultimately drove the British from the Carolinas and aided the American cause in Georgia. Greene, always short of men, money and supplies, frustrated the British General Cornwallis to the point that he no longer headed an effective fighting force. When Greene heard that Washington had Cornwallis trapped in Yorktown, he wrote: “We have been beating the bush and the General has come to catch the bird.”

Nathaniel Greene and George Washington are the only two Continental Army generals to serve throughout the Revolutionary War. Greene was also considered by many as Washington’s successor to lead the army should Washington fall in battle. The southern states were so grateful for Greene’s efforts that the legislatures awarded him the following: South Carolina 10,000 guineas (equal to about 1 British pound), North Carolina 5,000 guineas and Georgia 24,000 acres of choice land. In addition, Greene was the recipient of one of only six gold medals struck in Paris under the supervision of Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin to honor significant actions in the Revolutionary War. Nathanael Greene resigned his commission in August 1783 and moved to Georgia in 1785 to develop a plantation there. Unfortunately, he died suddenly from what may have been a heat stroke on June 12, 1786, at the age of 44. We will never know what heights he may have reached had he lived a longer life. His remains and those of his son, George Washington Greene, rest beneath an obelisk in Johnson Square in Savannah, Georgia.

Several years ago, Raymond Beecher, former Greene County historian, was instrumental in acquiring a magnificent oil painting of General Greene, which now hangs in the main reading room at the Vedder Research Library in Coxsackie. A photographic copy of the painting was made by the Greene County Historical Society and presented as a gift to the Greene County Legislature. It now hangs on the fourth floor of the new Greene County Office Building on Main Street in Catskill.

To reach columnist David Dorpfeld, e-mail gchistorian@gmail. com or visit him on Facebook at “Greene County Historian.

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The Bank of Greene County’s Charitable Foundation is now accepting grant requests from eligible organizations through Jan. 15, 2020. The Foundation supports qualifying non-profit organizations that foster education, health and wellness, social and civic services, culture and the arts, and affordable housing. Since its inception in 1998, the Foundation has awarded grants totaling $1.5 million. Approved grant applicants can expect to receive their grant money after June 1, 2020. Interested organizations can obtain more information on the grant application process from the Bank’s website, www.tbogc.com. Pictured are Foundation Board Members.

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WAJ students, Liliana Pranzo, Brianna Leishear & Paris Carreras performed at the Zone 10 Area All State Festival held Nov. 22 and Nov. 23 at the NYSSMA Zone 10 Area All State Festival at Hudson High School.

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DEC. 13 CATSKILL — Hearthstone Care, 1187 Route 23A, Catskill, will hold the Safeguarding Your Personal Information to Prevent Identity Theft workshop 10:30-11:30 a.m. Dec. 13. Sponsored by Hearthstone Care and Cornell Cooperative Extension.

NEW BALTIMORE — The Food and Fellowship Luncheon Program will be held CATSKILL — Catskill Elks Let p.m.

UsDec. Make Your EZ-er... noon-2 11 at the LodgeLife will serve a roast pork New Baltimore Reformed dinner 5-7 p.m. Dec. 13 at the Church, 52 Church St., New lodge, 45 North Jefferson Ave., Baltimore.

Catskill. Eat in or take out. Eat The menu (subject to in, $12; take out, $12.50. For change) is baked ham, escal- information and reservations, loped potatoes, French style call Robyn at 518-894-0271. green beans and bread pudDEC. 14 ding.

SOUTH BETHLEHEM — Following the meal, ShanThe South Bethlehem United non Friel (harpist) will be Methodist Church, 67 Wilperforming. This luncheon lowbrook Ave., South Bethleis open to all members of the hem, Winter Craft Fair will be community. held 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Dec. 14.

To facilitate planning, resBreakfast and lunch will ervations are encouraged by be available, plus a bake sale the Sunday before the lunto support Church Women cheon. To make reservations, United. Thrift Shop ‘Boucall the church at 518-756tique’ will be open as well. For 8764 or nbrchurch@aol.com. information, call Emily ShutInclude name, contact ter at 518-813-0661. number, and the number of reservations being made for CATSKILL — Cub Scouts this meal. If transportation or Pack 44 2019 Annual “All You physical assistance is needed, Can Eat” Pancake Breakfast leave that information as well.

Fundraiser will be held 8-11 Dining space is limited to 60 a.m. Dec. 14 at the Robert C. seats. Free will offerings are Antonelli Senior Center, 15 graciously accepted to offset Academy St., Catskill. food costs.

Breakfast includes panDEC. 12 cakes, eggs, bacon, sausage, CASTLETON — The Rens- coffee, tea, juice and milk. Eat 828-1616 Ext 2415 selaer-Columbia-Greene in(518) or take out, snow or shine.

Counties Board of Coopera- Tickets are $8. tive Educational Services will Holiday music playing in meet at 7 p.m. Dec. 12 at the the background and the large Central Office Conference holiday raffle tables will be set Center, 10 Empire State Blvd., up with gifts donated from

local community businesses.

Raffle tickets are available to purchase right at the front door.

Tickets for the annual “Parent Sponsored” 50/50 cash raffle will be available. Tickets are $10 each with a maximum of 300 being sold. There will be 2 drawings at 7:30 p.m.

Dec. 20 for two cash prizes.

The first drawing will be for a grand prize of $1,000 and the second drawing will be for a prize of $500.

CATSKILL — The Catskill United Methodist Church, 40 Woodland Ave., Catskill, fourth annual Homemade Cookie Sale and handmade

craft fair will be held 10 a.m.2 p.m. Dec. 14, snow or no snow. For information, call 518-943-2042.

DEC. 15 WEST ATHENS — Breakfast with Santa will be held 8 a.m.-noon Dec. 15 at the West Athens Firehouse 2, LeedsAthens Road, Athens.

Breakfast includes pancakes, French toast, eggs, sausage, home fries and beverage. Freewill offering accepted. There will be a 50/50 drawing to benefit Town of Athens Fire Service Drum Line.

KINGSTON — The Immaculate Conception Church in

Kingston presents The Singing Anchors Benita Zahn and Jerry Gretzinger of WNYT Channel 13, performing a cabaret of Holiday Tunes Dec. 15 at The Venue Uptown in the Best Western Plus, 503 Washington Ave., Kingston.

Coffee, desserts and cash bar starting at 12:30 p.m. with show to follow. Tickets are $30. For reservations, call Gerard at 845-514-0327.

DEC. 18 CATSKILL — Hearthstone Care, 1187 Route 23A, Catskill, will host a holiday open house 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Dec. 18. Gather and celebrate the upcoming holidays with games, music and more. For information,

call 518-678-2030.

DEC. 21 WOODSTOCK — Edie’s Fairytale Theatre presents Party At The North Pole at 2 p.m. Dec. 21 in the Mountain View Studio, 20 Mountain View Ave., Woodstock.

A charming story about an elf, a Polar Bear, a toy soldier and a reindeer who meet and learn the importance of sharing as they celebrate this festive time of year.

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About survivor benefits, my own benefits and taxes Dear Rusty: I am 67 and still working full time but plan to retire after June of next year. Because of my income I have not been drawing my Social Security benefits; however, my income will not be a tax issue in 2020 with my planned retirement.

If I begin drawing my SS when I’m 68 next June, can I draw it retroactively to the first of the year at that rate? Or, beginning Jan. 1, 2020, can I draw on my deceased wife’s SS and then switch to my higher rate upon my birthdate in June?

Signed: Exploring My Options Dear Exploring: Since you are eligible for both a survivor benefit from your wife and your own SS retirement benefit you have a choice of which one to choose and when to claim.

You can choose the survivor benefit first and continue to

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GLOOR delay your own SS benefit, thus allowing your own benefit to continue to earn delayed retirement credits. You can delay until you are 70 years old or, depending upon your financial needs, you can claim your own benefit at any time, including June of next year.

Your survivor benefit from your wife will be 100% of the benefit your wife was receiving (or entitled to receive) at her death. You could have

started that benefit when your wife passed, but it would have been reduced if that was before you reached your full retirement age (66). Survivor benefits reach maximum at your full retirement age (FRA), and at FRA you get 100% of your deceased wife’s SS benefit. You can restrict your application to your survivor benefit if you choose to do so, and you can request up to six months in retroactive survivor benefits if you wish. By doing that, you are delaying the claim for your own benefit so it continues to grow in value.

Since you have not yet claimed your own SS retirement benefit, you have already been earning Delayed Retirement Credits (DRCs) at a rate of two-thirds of 1% per month past your FRA of 66.

DRCs accumulate until you are 70 years old, when your monthly benefit would be 32%

more than it would have been at your FRA and 16% more than it will be when you turn 68 in June 2020. If, instead of continuing to delay, you decide to claim your own SS benefit in June of next year, you can claim up to six months retroactive benefits, but doing so will move your effective claim date back six months and your monthly benefit amount will be permanently reduced by about 3.3%.

So, to answer your two specific questions: yes, you can claim your SS retirement benefit in June 2020 and get six months of retroactive benefits but your benefit will be reduced as explained above.

And yes, you can claim your survivor benefit from your deceased wife in January 2020 and then switch to your own SS retirement benefit in June.

From a purely financial standpoint, the latter method would

give you some extra money starting in January without reducing your own SS retirement benefit. And it would also give you the option of delaying your claim for your own benefits beyond June 2020 and continuing to earn DRCs until a later time, up to age 70 if you wish. Doing so would give you a substantially higher SS retirement benefit for the rest of your life.

But in either case, the SS benefits you collect will only become part of your taxable income if your “combined income” exceeds $25,000 (assuming you file your income tax as “single”). Your “combined income” is your normal Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) for income tax purposes, plus 50% of the SS benefits you received for the tax year, plus any non-taxable interest you may have. If your combined income exceeds $25,000 then

1:30 p.m. the first and third Monday of the month at the Coxsackie Senior Center, 127 Mansion St., Coxsackie.

Monday of the month at Hensonville Town Building, 371 Route 296, Hensonville.

GREENVILLE GOLDEN YEARS CLUB

CATSKILL — Hearthstone Care, 1187 Route 23A, Catskill, will hold the Safeguarding Your Personal Information to Prevent Identity Theft workshop 10:30-11:30 a.m. Dec. 13. Sponsored by Hearthstone Care and Cornell Cooperative Extension.

experiencing a major health challenge such as cancer and the ending of a relationship.

Grief is a very personal and individual emotion. Support groups provide many benefits to those who are grieving.

Those who are experiencing grief early on can connect with others in the group who have successfully managed their grief and are further along on their road to feeling happy once again. More information can be found at the face book page at Coxsackie Grief Support Group and also by contacting Jeffrey Haas at 518478-5414 or jhaasrph@aol. com.

up to 50% of the SS benefits you received in the tax year becomes part of your overall taxable income; if your combined income exceeds $34,000 then up to 85% of your SS benefits becomes part of your taxable income.

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

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second and fourth Wednesday of the month at the Acra Community Center, Route 23, Acra.

ATHENS SENIOR CITIZENS

CATSKILL SILVER LININGS SENIORS CATSKILL — The Catskill Silver Linings Seniors meet at 1 p.m. the second Thursday of the month at the Robert C. Antonelli Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill.

GREENVILLE — The Greenville Golden Club meet at 1:30 p.m. the first Wednesday of the month at the American Legion Hall, 54 Maple Ave., Greenville.

COXSACKIE AREA SENIORS

MOUNTAIN TOP GOLDEN AGERS

ATHENS — The Athens Senior Citizens meet at 1:15 p.m. the second and fourth Monday of the month at the Rivertown Senior Center, 39 Second St., Athens.

COXSACKIE — The Coxsackie Area Seniors meet at 1:30 p.m. the second and fourth Wednesday of the month in Van Heest Hall, Bethany Village, 800 Bethany Village, West Coxsackie.

TANNERSVILLE — The Mountain Top Golden Agers meet at 1:30 p.m. the fourth Thursday of the month at Tannersville Village Hall, 1 Park Lane, Tannersville.

CAIRO GOLDEN AGERS

SENIOR CITIZENS OF COXSACKIE

CAIRO — The Cairo Golden Agers meet at 1:30 p.m. the

COXSACKIE — The Senior Citizens of Coxsackie meet at

HENSONVILLE — The WAJPL Golden Agers meet at 1:30 p.m. the first and third

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IDENTITY THEFT WORKSHOP

SUPPORT GROUPS COXSACKIE — A grief support group will start meeting at 6 p.m. the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month at the Bethany Village in Coxsackie.

While the loss of a loved one is a common source of grief other reasons include the loss of a job, the death of a beloved pet,

CATSKILL — The Alzheimer’s Association holds support group meetings at 3 p.m.

the first Wednesday of the month at The Pines, Jefferson Heights, Catskill.

COXSACKIE — The Alzheimer’s Association holds support group meetings at 6 p.m. the third Thursday of the month at Heermance Memorial Library, 1 Ely St., Coxsackie.

CATSKILL — The Pines at Catskill and Columbia Memorial Health will host a Stroke Survivor and Caregiver monthly support group at 3 p.m. the second Wednesday of the month at The Pines at Catskill Center for Nursing & Rehabilitation, 154 Jefferson Heights, Catskill. For information, call 518-943-5151.

Senior Menu CATSKILL — The following is the weekly nutrition menu offered by the Greene County Department of Human Services’ Senior Nutrition Program.

Served daily with each meal are bread or alternative with Promise Spread; low fat milk, coffee or tea.

All persons 60 and older and their spouses are invited. The suggested donation for each meal is $4.

The menu will be the meal that is delivered to all Greene County home bound meal clients. Those wishing to receive lunch at a center are asked to call the respective location at least a day in advance.

Rivertown Senior Center, 39 Second St., Athens; 518-9452700.

Acra Community Center, Old Route 23B, Cairo; 518-6229898.

Jewett Municipal Building, Route 23C, Jewett; 518-2634392.

Washington Irving Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill; 518-943-1343.

Town of Coxsackie Senior Center, Mansion Street, Coxsackie; 518-731-8901.

DEC. 11 THROUGH DEC. 18 WEDNESDAY: Beer battered fish, rice pilaf, broccoli, birthday cupcakes.

THURSDAY: Fresh ham with gravy, applesauce, brussels sprouts, sweet potatoes, ambrosia.

FRIDAY: Chef’s salad, beet salad, fresh fruit.

MONDAY: Macaroni and cheese, 3 bean salad, stewed tomatoes, fruit cocktail.

TUESDAY: Taco bake, Spanish rice, corn, lima beans and carrot mix, pears.

WEDNESDAY: Beef pot roast with gravy, mashed potatoes, spinach puff, apple pie.

DEC. 18 THROUGH DEC. 25 WEDNESDAY: Beef pot roast with gravy, mashed

potatoes, spinach puff, apple pie.

THURSDAY: Chicken cacciatore, linguini, Italian mixed vegetables, tiramisu.

FRIDAY: Pulled pork, beans and rice, green beans, cole slaw with carrots, fresh fruit.

MONDAY: Stuffed shells with sausage, Italian mixed vegetables, mandarin oranges and pineapple.

TUESDAY: Baked chicken with gravy, brussels sprouts, mashed potatoes, vanilla pudding with nutmeg topping, eggnog.

WEDNESDAY: Closed.

DEC. 25 THROUGH JAN. 1 WEDNESDAY: Closed.

THURSDAY: Beef burgundy, buttered noodles, broccoli, white cake with crushed candy cane on top.

FRIDAY: Pepper steak, zucchini, fresh salad, baked potato, fresh fruit.

MONDAY: Vegetable lasagna, Italian beans, broccoli,

peaches.

TUESDAY: Meatloaf with gravy, carrots, mashed potatoes, yogurt parfait.

WEDNESDAY: Closed.

JAN. 1 THROUGH JAN. 8 WEDNESDAY: Closed.

THURSDAY: Baked ham, fresh salad, au gratin potatoes, glazed carrots, chocolate mousse.

FRIDAY: Beef stew, brussels sprouts, coleslaw, fresh pears.

MONDAY: Macaroni and cheese, stewed tomatoes, broccoli, rice pudding.

TUESDAY: Crab topped cod, green beans, rice pilaf potato, fruited gelatin.

WEDNESDAY: Chicken piccata, orzo, asparagus, mandarin oranges.

JAN. 8 THROUGH JAN. 15 WEDNESDAY: Chicken piccata, orzo, asparagus, mandarin oranges.

THURSDAY: Oven barbecue pork chop, fresh salad,

braised cabbage, sweet potato, apricot cobbler.

FRIDAY: Hungarian goulash, buttered noodles, California mixed vegetables, fresh fruit.

MONDAY: Chicken Dijon, rice pilaf, brussels sprouts, ice cream.

TUESDAY: Broccoli cheddar quiche, green beans, hash brown potatoes, pineapple chunks.

WEDNESDAY: Salisbury steak with gravy, mashed potatoes, spinach puff, birthday cupcake.

JAN. 15 THROUGH JAN. 22 WEDNESDAY: Salisbury steak with gravy, mashed potatoes, spinach puff, birthday cupcake.

THURSDAY: Linguini with white clam sauce, Italian green beans, fresh salad, fresh fruit.

FRIDAY: Roast pork with gravy, applesauce, braised cabbage, winter squash,

chocolate mousse.

MONDAY: Closed.

TUESDAY: Baked chicken with gravy, mashed potatoes, carrots, tropical mixed fruit.

WEDNESDAY: Sweet and sour pork, rice, broccoli, blondie.

JAN. 22 THROUGH JAN. 30 WEDNESDAY: Sweet and sour pork, rice, broccoli, blondie.

THURSDAY: Cranberry chicken salad, fresh greens and cucumbers, potato salad, yogurt parfait.

FRIDAY: Salmon with dill sauce, cole slaw, California mixed vegetables, baked potato, lemon mousse.

MONDAY: Chili con carne, brown rice, wax beans, fruit cocktail.

TUESDAY: Cook’s choice, California mixed vegetables, chocolate mousse.

WEDNESDAY: Roast turkey with gravy, brussels sprouts, sweet potato, pears.

Adult Learning Institute December programming HUDSON — The Adult Learning Institute has announced its programs for December.

All programs are held at Columbia-Greene Community College, 4400 Route 23, Hudson.

For information and to register, call 518-828-4181 ext.

3431 or email ali@sunycgcc. edu.

Open Pinochle Group, 1:30-4 p.m. Dec. 16 in the Faculty/Staff Lounge with Madeline Dickerson.

Whether you’re a novice, an expert or fall somewhere in between, the Open Pinochle

Group welcomes you. This group, which generally meets twice a month on the first and third Monday, provides a wonderful opportunity to learn, share and meet new people with a similar interest.

Bridge Group with Bridge Lessons, 1-4 p.m. Dec. 17 in the Faculty/Staff Lounge with Nancy Feller.

The bridge group generally meets every week and is open to all members of ALI. If you are interested in learning to play or refresh skills, a class is offered. Call Barbara in the ALI Office to register for a beginner or refresher class.

Mahjongg 1:30-4 p.m.

Dec. 11 in the Faculty/Staff Lounge with Barbara Troy.

Mahjongg is a rummy-like game played with tiles rather than cards and the group meets three Wednesdays each month. If you are an experienced player, just call the office and let Barbara know you will be attending. If you are interested in learning to play Mahjongg, contact the ALI Office and your name will be placed on the list for the next beginner class.

“Columbia County before the Revolution” 10:30 a.m.noon Dec. 12 in the Faculty/

Staff Lounge with Ruth Piwonka.

Seventeenth and eighteenth century discovery and settlement of Columbia County was led by continental Europeans.

The place and effect of enslaved African-Americans is part of the region’s story. The gorup will consider the social, cultural and geographic trajectories their migrations put into place, which altered the lives of the Mahican people who lived here first, while also altering the landscape itself.

This non-British background has had post-Revolutionary

national significance.

Ruth Piwonka has a lifetime of expertise in local and regional history as a researcher, author and historian in the town of Kinderhook.

She has a B.A. and an M.A., with experience at DePauw and Indiana universities, both of which honed her research and interpretive skills, which have been useful with Hudson Valley research and scholarships.

Exploring Your Family History with Glenn Fisher Dec. 16 in Room 109 and Dec. 18 in the Faculty Staff Cafe.

Three individual consultations each day, 1-2 p.m.; 2-3 p.m.; and 3-4 p.m. Learn about your family history, local history and/or cultural heritage without expensive online subscriptions, expense or travel by scheduling a consultation with ALI member Glenn Fisher.

Advance registration is required as this program is restricted to one person per session.

One-time trial consultation for non-ALI members is also encouraged.

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year, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle reported the number of Lyme disease cases across the state increased 16 percent from 2017 to 2018. In Delgado’s district, Lyme disease cases rose by 78 percent from 2007 to 2017, he said.

The Hudson Valley and Catskills have the highest rates of cases, according to the state Health Department. In 2016, Columbia County had a rate of 635 cases per 100,000 people.

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1,800 cases across the state in February 2018.

Michael Sussman, the attorney representing the families in the suit, argued that the Legislature’s repeal was a violation of the constitutional right to freedom of religion. In her initial decision, Hartman agreed that the repeal would create a difficult situation for religious families, but refuted the allegation that they solely were being persecuted.

“While many do hold genuine and sincere religious beliefs, it cannot be denied that there are individuals who have

By contrast, the disease is much more rare in Western New York. Columbia County’s rate is nearly 80 times greater than Allegany County, where the rate is just 8.4 cases per 100,000 people.

New York state is second only to Pennsylvania with the highest number of reported Lyme disease cases in the nation in 2018, according to the Lyme Disease Association.

Delgado was joined by Lee Zeldin, R-01, and other bipartisan House representatives in sponsoring the legislation.

“Having contracted Lyme Disease myself, I can tell you

that it is a very serious matter which requires our immediate attention,” Zeldin said in a statement. “We must do more to advance prevention and recovery efforts for Lyme Disease, which is why I’m proud to come together with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to continue to provide the National Institutes of Health with resources for their important Lyme Disease research.”

Delgado has been focused on Lyme disease since he took office.

The freshman congressman has already funneled an

addition $1 million annually, starting in Fiscal Year 2020, to Lyme disease research during the appropriations process.

He has also co-sponsored the National Lyme and TickBorne Disease Control and Accountability Act of 2019, which allows for more collaboration between government departments and organizations to oversee tick-borne diseases.

Massarah Mikati covers the New York State Legislature and immigration for Johnson Newspaper Corp. Email her at mmikati@columbiagreenemedia.com, or find her on Twitter @massarahmikati.

attempted to assert religious exemptions when they, in actuality, disagree with the prevailing scientific and medical consensus that vaccines are safe for their children and are a highly effective way to protect public health,” she wrote.

Sussman called Hartman’s decision erroneous in a Facebook post Monday.

“She should have denied the motion and provided us the opportunity to further develop a record establishing the profound religious hostility which underlay this legislative action and other arguments we advanced,” Sussman wrote.

He added that he expects to appeal Hartman’s decision a second time.

Hartman’s dismissal of the case came the day after antivaccination protesters took to Warren Street in front of the office of Assemblywoman Didi Barrett, D-106. More than 20 protesters came from Philmont, Livingston, Ghent and other Columbia County communities to urge Barrett to vote against an array of new proposed bills that would tighten vaccination requirements for children.

Two of the protested bills would mandate human papillomavirus, or HPV, and flu shots for children in certain age groups, another would allow practitioners to treat sexually transmitted infections for minors without parental or guardian consent and a third

allows children ages 14 and older to authorize vaccinations for themselves, regardless of parental consent.

To the protesters, these new bills rubbed salt in the wounds of New York’s revocation of religious exemptions for vaccinations this year.

“We’re against mandating anything that takes our choice and our ability to decide out of our hands,” said Christa Stosiek, of Hillsdale.

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announced in the coming months, according to a statement from Live Nation.

Live Nation manages other country music festivals throughout the nation including Watershed in George, Washington; Faster Horses in Brooklyn, Michigan; Seven Peaks in Buena Vista, Colorado, and Tortuga Music Festival in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

The three-day Mountain Jam, a four-day festival showcasing alternative rock, classic rock and funk ended its run at Hunter Mountain last year and moved to Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, near Woodstock.

Mountain Jam organizers announced Jan. 24 that the event, one of the nation’s top summer rock festivals, was moving out.

“The organizers of Mountain Jam, which is now under new ownership, informed us that after 14 years the festival will not take place at Hunter Mountain in 2019,” according to a statement released Feb. 1 by Hunter Mountain.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers played one of their final concerts at Mountain Jam. Beck, Alabama Shakes and the Black Keys exemplified contemporary rock’s diversity and virtuosity there.

And breakout acts such as the Record Company, Alice Merton and Portugal the Man found new listeners there.

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Tuesday.

Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. and can be purchased at trailblazerfest.com.

Pre-sale prices for admission start at $199 for general admission, $550 for Empire VIP passes and $1,525 for Empire VIP Reserved passes.

Both VIP passes include VIP entry; a VIP viewing area; VIP only performances; Wi-Fi; charging stations, games and activities; private restrooms; complimentary massage and hair-braiding stations; a complimentary buffet; coffee bar; and nonalcoholic beverages.

The VIP Reserved passes additionally have covered reserved seating with an elevated view of the stage, a gift pack and a catered dinner and all inclusive bar with beer, wine and spirits.

Pre-sale camping options include tenting starting at $50, car camping starting at $150 and RV camping starting at $370.

A new option for next year’s festival are the Kaatskill Deluxe Tents. These preset tents can be equipped with queen, twin or cot bedding.

Another new addition is a second stage, known as “Next From Nashville.” The lineup for the second stage will be

Michael Bloomberg is widely unpopular following campaign launch, poll finds Scott Clement and Emily Guskin The Washington Post

Electability is a central pillar of former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s newly launched presidential campaign, but a poll released Tuesday finds he is deeply unpopular with voters nationwide.

A Monmouth University poll found about twice as many registered voters rated Bloomberg negatively as positively -- 54% unfavorable, 26% favorable. That margin was significantly worse than for five other Democratic candidates, as well as for President Trump. That same measure hampered Hillary Clinton’s campaign in 2016.

Bloomberg garnered 5% support nationally for the Democratic nomination, narrowly higher than some other recent polls.He was in fifth place behind former vice president Joe Biden (26%) and Sens.

Bernie Sanders of Vermont (21%) and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts (17%). Bloomberg’s support is within the margin of error of South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg at 8%, Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota at 4%, businessman Andrew Yang at 3% and Sen. Corey Booker of New Jersey at 2%.

Yet the negative favorability ratings are a sign Bloomberg may struggle to grow his

support among both among Democrats the broader electorate. Since its launch last month, his campaign has spent more money on ads than all the toppolling Democrats combined and is simultaneously building out ground operations in 27 states.

“Bloomberg said he got into this race because he wants to defeat Trump, but his campaign kicks off with even lower ratings than the incumbent,” said Monmouth polling director Patrick Murray. “That is not the most auspicious start, but views of Bloomberg are not as deeply held as they are for Trump, so he has room to shift those opinions,”

The Monmouth poll found leading Democratic candidates also have net negative images but by smaller margins than Bloomberg. Biden was rated favorably by 43% of all registered voters and unfavorably by 50%, a “net favorability” of minus-7 percentage points. Warren’s net favorability was minus-10 (40% favorable vs. 50% unfavorable), while Sanders’s net favorability was minus-13 (41% favorable vs. 54% unfavorable).

Buttigieg fared slightly better on this question with minus-1 net favorability (34% favorable vs. 35% unfavorable), as did Yang at minus-3 (25% favorable vs. 28% unfavorable). Both Buttigieg and Yang are less

well-known, with more than one-third of voters saying they haven’t heard of them or have no opinion.

Democratic voters are roughly split in their views of Bloomberg, with 40% favorable and 39% unfavorable, while all six other Democratic candidates tested in the Monmouth poll are rated more positively than negatively. Warren’s net favorable-unfavorable rating is plus 61 among Democratic voters, with Biden at plus 56, Sanders at plus 53, Buttigieg at plus 5 and Yang at plus 25.

Trump’s favorable rating was narrowly negative in the Monmouth poll, with 46% of all registered voters favorable and

52% unfavorable. The result is more positive than some other recent national polls, which have shown negative favorable ratings of Trump outpacing positive ones by double digits.

The Monmouth poll is not alone in finding Bloomberg is unpopular with the broader electorate. A Dec. 1-3 Economist-YouGov poll found 22% of U.S. adults had favorable views of Bloomberg and 47% were unfavorable, while another 31% said they didn’t know.

Democrats were split: 36% were favorable and 37% were unfavorable, with another 27% saying they didn’t know.

Bill Cosby loses bid to overturn his sexual assault conviction

By Jeremy Roebuck and Laura McCrystal The Philadelphia Inquirer (TNS)

PHILADELPHIA — A Pennsylvania appellate court rejected Bill Cosby’s efforts to overturn his sexual assault conviction Tuesday, finding that five additional accusers allowed to testify at his trial did not improperly influence the jury’s decision.

Lawyers for the 82-year-old comedian had maintained that the testimony, alleging assaults that in some cases had occurred decades ago, had unfairly prejudiced jurors weighing whether Cosby had committed a specific 2004 assault.

But in its unanimous opinion Tuesday, a three-judge panel of the Pennsylvania Superior Court, ruled that the testimony was properly included under a state law that allows prosecutors to introduce evidence of uncharged crimes to establish a “signature pattern.”

“Here, the evidence established (Cosby’s) unique sexual assault playbook,” the court said. It added that the testimony “tended to undermine any claim that (Cosby) was unaware of or mistaken about the victim’s failure to consent.”

In Cosby’s case, Montgomery County prosecutors alleged that those earlier assaults — on accusers ranging from aspiring actresses to supermodel Janice Dickinson — showed the comedian had a long history of drugging and molesting women aspiring to careers in the entertainment industry.

That made it all the more likely, they contended, that Andrea Constand, the central accuser in Cosby’s case, was telling the truth.

Cosby was convicted last year of drugging and assaulting Constand, a former Temple University employee, during a 2004

visit to his home in Cheltenham, near Philadelphia.

Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele said he was pleased with the Superior Court decision, and hoped it would allow Constand to “finally put this assault behind her and move on with her life,” nearly 15 years after she first reported the crime to law enforcement.

“The world is forever changed because of Andrea’s bravery,” Steele said in a statement. “With this decision, it has been affirmed that no one is above the law.”

Cosby’s publicist, Andrew Wyatt, called the court’s decision “appalling and disappointing” and vowed to appeal to the state Supreme Court.

In a statement, Wyatt decried what he described as “the level of corruption that resides in the Judicial System of Pennsylvania.”

Of the decision, he said, “We’re not shocked because it shows the world that this isn’t

about justice, but this is a political scheme to destroy America’s Dad.” In a 93-page ruling that noted the case has a “tortured procedural history,” the Superior Court detailed its reasoning for rejecting eight different arguments from Cosby’s lawyers that the conviction should be overturned.

The issues under appeal included whether it was appropriate for jurors to hear Cosby’s testimony in a civil lawsuit deposition that he has given Quaaludes to women he wanted seduce. The court said the evidence was relevant.

The court also rejected Cosby’s argument that a 2006 promise from then-District Attorney Bruce Castor that he would never be prosecuted over Constand’s allegations should have been binding.

“Only a court order conveying such immunity is legally binding in this Commonwealth,” the court said.

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In an interview earlier this month with Black Press USA, he referred to himself as a “political prisoner.”

“When I come up for parole, they’re not going to hear me say that I have remorse,” he said. “I was there. I don’t care what group of people come along and talk about this when they weren’t there. They don’t know.”

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Bill Cosby departs the Montgomery County Courthouse on the first day of sentencing in his sexual assault trial on Sept. 24, 2018, in Norristown, Pa. A state appellate court has rejected Cosby’s efforts to overturn his sexual assault conviction.

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Maple Hill’s Svingala stars at Mohonasen Tournament Columbia-Greene Media

SCHENECTADY — Maple Hill’s Caleb Svinagala took first place in the 126-pound division at this past weekend’s Mohonasen Invitational wrestling tournament.

Svingala, who finished second in the state in the 106-pound division a year ago, is competing at 120 pounds this year, but wrestled up one class to test himself and he passed with flying colors.

Svingala started the day by pinning Filip Carroll of Albany Academy in 26 seconds.

He went on to pin Zoey Lints of Duanesburg in 1:09, then pinned Alex Martin of Ausable Valley in 1:30.

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Maple Hill’s Caleb Svingala (top) in action during a 126-pound match at Saturday’s Mohonasen Invitational.

The Eagles tried to lose the game, but the Giants didn’t let them

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Fiducia drops 31 as Spartans roll

By Tim Martin Columbia-Greene Media

EAST DURHAM — Damien Fiducia poured in 31 points to lead unbeaten Greenville to a 6949 victory over Cairo-Durham in Monday’s Patroon Conference boys basketball game.

Fiducia hit six threepointers for the Spartans 3-0, 4-0), who pulled away from a 27-23 halftime edge with a 26-13 run in the third quarter.

Tim Biernack contributed nine points to the Spartans’ cause. James Mitchell had seven.

Ethan Phillips scored 15 points for Cairo-Durham (0-3, 0-4). Alek Wagor added nine and Armando Salvatore had eight.

GREENVILLE (69): Fiducia 9-7-31, Weiss 2-05, Nicosia 0-2-2, Mitchell 2-2-7, Benning 1-0-2, Smith 1-0-3, Makely 0-44, Biernacki 4-1-9, Lewis 1-2-4, O’Connor 1-0-2.

Totals 21-18-69.

3-pointers: Fiducia 6, Weiss, Mitchell, Smith.

CAIRO-DURHAM (49): Doble 1-0-2, Handel 2-0-4, Morgan 2-2-6, O’Connell 1-0-2, Phillips

4-5-15, Rivera 1-0-3, Salvatore 3-0-8, Wagor 4-0-9.

Totals 17-9-49.

3-pointers: Phillips 2, Salvatore 2, Rivera, Wagor.

GIRLS BASKETBALL PATROON Cairo-Durham 58, Greenville 27 EAST DURHAM — Arianna Myers scored 30 points to help Cairo-Durham post a 58-27 victory over Greenville in Monday’s Patroon Conference girls basketball game.

The Mustangs led 14-7 after one quarter of play and widened the gap to 31-17 and 47-25 through three quarters.

Anna James had 10 points for Cairo-Durham.

Mikayla mudge chipped in with eight.

Natalie Krasney and Caitlyn Silk each had six points for Greenville.

GREENVILLE (27): Haller 0-2-2, Krasney 3-06, Misuraca 1-1-3, O’Hare 2-0-4, Petit 1-0-2, Rauf 1-0-2, SanEmeterio 1-0-2, Silk 2-1-6. Totals 11-4-27.

3-pointers: Silk.

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Maple Hill’s Caleb Svingala stands on the podium after winning the 126-pound weight class at Saturday’s Mohonasen Invitational.

Bob Ford The Philadelphia Inquirer

PHILADELPHIA — The NFC East being what it is this season – the division where hope is eliminated, but teams rarely are – you still can’t stick a fork in the Eagles.

Well, maybe a salad fork, but not the big one. After all that it took for them to beat the dreadful New York Giants in overtime on Monday night at Lincoln Financial Field, the Eagles are still avoiding death by cutlery, and they could even wiggle free like a limp piece of escarole to make the playoffs.

The Giants had lost eight straight before taking a 14-point lead against the Eagles in a game during which Eli Manning looked less rusty than Carson Wentz in the first half. That disparity lasted nearly into the fourth quarter, when the Eagles mounted two touchdown drives to tie the game and force the overtime.

Manning last played Sept.

15, and the Giants last won on Sept. 29. The New York Mets have won a game more recently than the Giants. At least the Eagles are ahead of the Phillies.

After losing to the bottomfeeding Dolphins the week before, coming back against the Giants prevented a total organizational meltdown but doesn’t change their eventual fate this season.

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New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning (10) passes the ball against the Philadelphia Eagles during Monday’s game at Lincoln Financial Field.

They are still alive in the division race because the Dallas Cowboys have been as bad or worse in the second half of the season. No matter how often the two of them lose, or to whom, they remain on a collision course for their Dec. 22 showdown, which will end in a tie if there is any justice in the world.

The Eagles are still alive, and that means they can’t be embarrassed, even after following

up a loss to a 2-9 team with the need for overtime against a 2-10 team.

It was a strange team that began the night for the Eagles, and a stranger one that ended it, after injuries removed receiver Alshon Jeffery and offensive tackle Lane Johnson in the first half, and cornerback Jalen Mills in the second half.

Any time an NFL team dresses the same number of quarterbacks as wide

receivers, it is an odd night.

That was the case, however, for the Eagles. That must mean Mack Hollins was released last week so Nate Sudfeld could be the third quarterback In any case, only Jeffery, J.J. Arcega-Whiteside, and Greg Ward were active receivers, with hybrid tight ends Zach Ertz and Joshua Perkins available as targets, along with See EAGLES B3

Burrow named Heisman finalist, along with Hurts, Fields and Young Des Bieler The Washington Post

The four finalists for the Heisman Trophy were announced Monday.

Or, to recognize widespread expectation and put it another way, three people were invited to New York to sit next to LSU quarterback Joe Burrow before he wins the Heisman Trophy.

In fairness, Oklahoma’s Jalen Hurts and Justin Fields and Chase Young, both of Ohio State, have all had excellent seasons and are deserving finalists. It’s just that Burrow appears to have so cemented his status as the overwhelming favorite that it would be a shock were he to fall short Saturday, when the winner is announced.

Oddsmakers appear to be of that opinion.

In fact, the wagering website BetOnline.ag stopped taking bets on Burrow altogether, according to The Advocate, while FanDuel.com had him at a staggering -50,000, with bettors getting +3,000 odds on the field - i.e., any of the other three winning.

Before the season, anyone could have gotten 200-to-1 odds on Burrow winning the Heisman - at least one LSU fan did just that and now stands to win $10,000 on his $50 wager while the major favorites were another pair of quarterbacks, Alabama’s Tua Tagovailoa and

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LSU Tigers quarterback Joe Burrow (9) celebrates his fourth passing touchdown against Georgia Bulldogs in the 2019 SEC Championship Game at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

Clemson’s Trevor Lawrence, with Fields and Hurts among those close behind.

Burrow, though, followed up a relatively

humdrum debut last season as LSU’s starter (a 57.8 completion percentage for 2,894 yards, 16 touchdowns and five interceptions) by taking

full advantage of his team’s switch from a power-running attack to one much more willing to throw and incorporate spread-offense concepts.

The result was an onslaught in which Burrow completed 77.9% of his passes, on pace to set a Football Bowl Subdivision record, for 4,715 yards and 48 touchdowns, both SEC records, with six interceptions. The fifth-year senior also ran for 289 yards and another three scores, but more importantly, he has led LSU to a 13-0 record and the No. 1 seed in the College Football Playoff.

College Football Playoff teams will also be well represented with the other three finalists, given that Ohio State is seeded second and Oklahoma fourth, with Clemson squeezing in at No. 3 in the four-team derby for the national championship. Burrow left Ohio State to transfer to LSU after he lost the Buckeyes’ starting job to Dwayne Haskins, while Hurts transferred earlier this year from Alabama, following Tagovailoa’s emergence for the Crimson Tide.

Should Hurts, another fifth-year senior, spring the upset Saturday to win the Heisman, he would be the third straight Oklahoma quarterback to be so honored, following Baker Mayfield and Kyler Murray. Hurts led this See BURROW B3

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Pro football NFL American Football Conference East W L T Pct PF PA New England 10 3 0 .769 338 168 Buffalo 9 4 0 .692 274 212 N.Y. Jets 5 8 0 .385 226 301 Miami 3 10 0 .231 221 399 South W L T Pct PF PA Tennessee 8 5 0 .615 318 255 Houston 8 5 0 .615 317 309 Indianapolis 6 7 0 .462 296 295 Jacksonville 4 9 0 .308 230 337 North W L T Pct PF PA Baltimore 11 2 0 .846 430 236 Pittsburgh 8 5 0 .615 259 242 Cleveland 6 7 0 .462 273 291 Cincinnati 1 12 0 .077 198 325 West W L T Pct PF PA Kansas City 9 4 0 .692 371 281 Oakland 6 7 0 .462 258 366 L.A. Chargers 5 8 0 .385 289 251 Denver 5 8 0 .385 236 261 National Football Conference East W L T Pct PF PA Dallas 6 7 0 .462 334 267 Philadelphia 6 7 0 .462 297 301 Washington 3 10 0 .231 188 310 N.Y. Giants 2 11 0 .153 247 362 South W L T Pct PF PA New Orleans 10 3 0 .769 344 296 Tampa Bay 6 7 0 .462 378 381 Carolina 5 8 0 .385 300 360 Atlanta 4 9 0 .308 300 343 North W L T Pct PF PA Green Bay 10 3 0 .769 309 270 Minnesota 9 4 0 .692 339 249 Chicago 7 6 0 .538 243 232 Detroit 3 9 1 .269 287 335 West W L T Pct PF PA San Francisco 11 2 0 .846 397 229 Seattle 10 3 0 .769 341 321 L.A. Rams 8 5 0 .615 311 262 Arizona 3 9 1 .269 272 374 Week 14 Thursday’s game Chicago 31, Dallas 24 Sunday’s games Atlanta 40, Carolina 20 Tampa Bay 38, Indianapolis 35 N.Y. Jets 22, Miami 21 San Francisco 48, New Orleans 46 Minnesota 20, Detroit 7 Denver 38, Houston 24 Green Bay 20, Washington 15 Baltimore 24, Buffalo 17 Cleveland 27, Cincinnati 19 L.A. Chargers 45, Jacksonville 10 Tennessee 42, Oakland 21 Kansas City 23, New England 16 Pittsburgh 23, Arizona 17 L.A. Rams 28, Seattle 12 Monday’s game Philadelphia 23, N.Y. Giants 17 Week 15 Thursday’s game N.Y. Jets at Baltimore, 8:20 p.m.

Sunday’s games Seattle at Carolina, 1 p.m.

Philadelphia at Washington, 1 p.m.

Houston at Tennessee, 1 p.m.

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

Denver at Kansas City, 1 p.m.

Chicago at Green Bay, 1 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Detroit, 1 p.m.

New England at Cincinnati, 1 p.m.

Jacksonville at Oakland, 4:05 p.m.

Cleveland at Arizona, 4:05 p.m.

Minnesota at L.A. Chargers, 4:05 p.m.

Atlanta at San Francisco, 4:25 p.m.

L.A. Rams at Dallas, 4:25 p.m.

Buffalo at Pittsburgh, 8:20 p.m.

Monday’s game Indianapolis at New Orleans, 8:15 p.m.

Ravens 24, Bills 17 Baltimore Buffalo

3 7 7 7 — 24 0 6 3 8 — 17 First Quarter BAL—Tucker 36 yard field goal, 4:56.

Second Quarter BAL—N.Boyle 3 yard pass from L.Jackson (Tucker kick), 13:31.

BUF—Hauschka 36 yard field goal, 8:20.

BUF—Hauschka 47 yard field goal, 0:25.

Third Quarter BAL—H.Hurst 61 yard pass from L.Jackson (Tucker kick), 13:34.

BUF—Hauschka 48 yard field goal, 11:26.

Fourth Quarter BAL—Snead IV 4 yard pass from L.Jackson (Tucker kick), 9:49.

BUF—Beasley 3 yard pass from Js.Allen (Beasley pass from Js.Allen), 7:00.

A—69,134.

TEAM STATISTICS First Downs Total Net Yards Rushes-Yds Passing Sacked-Yds Lost Comp-Att-Int Punts Punt Returns Kickoff Returns Interceptions Ret. Penalties-Yards Fumbles-Lost Time of Possession

BAL 18 257 33-118 139 1-6 16-25-1 7-44.1 1-1 0-0 0-0 9-99 0-0 32:49

BUF 16 209 23-104 105 6-41 17-39-0 7-42.9 2-22 5-82 1-0 5-49 2-1 27:11

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-BAL, Ingram II 15-50, L.Jackson 11-40, G.Edwards 4-20, Ju.Hill 3-8. BUF, Singletary 17-89, Js.Allen 2-9, Gore 4-6.

PASSING-BAL, L.Jackson 16-25-1-145. BUF, Js.Allen 1739-0-146.

RECEIVING-BAL, H.Hurst 3-73, Ingram II 3-29, Snead IV 3-13, Mr.Brown 3-(minus 2), N.Boyle 2-10, M.Andrews 1-14, S.Roberts 1-8. BUF, Singletary 6-29, Beasley 4-29, Jo.Brown 3-26, McKenzie 3-25, Da.Knox 1-37.

MISSED FIELD GOALS-BAL, None. BUF, None

Jets 22, Dolphins 21 Miami N.Y. Jets

3 6 3 9 — 21 0 16 0 6 — 22 First Quarter MIA—J.Sanders 22 yard field goal, 3:06.

Second Quarter NYJ—Rb.Anderson 26 yard pass from Darnold(Kick failed), 13:45.

NYJ—Ficken 37 yard field goal, 11:01.

MIA—J.Sanders 25 yard field goal, 5:41.

NYJ—Dm.Thomas 14 yard pass from Darnold (Ficken kick), 1:55.

MIA—J.Sanders 28 yard field goal, 0:19.

Third Quarter MIA—J.Sanders 31 yard field goal, 10:43.

Fourth Quarter MIA—J.Sanders 53 yard field goal, 10:52.

MIA—J.Sanders 47 yard field goal, 6:59.

NYJ—Ficken 42 yard field goal, 4:05.

MIA—J.Sanders 37 yard field goal, 1:33.

NYJ—Ficken 44 yard field goal, 0:00.

A—78,523.

TEAM STATISTICS First Downs Total Net Yards Rushes-Yds Passing Sacked-Yds Lost Comp-Att-Int Punts Punt Returns Kickoff Returns Interceptions Ret. Penalties-Yards Fumbles-Lost Time of Possession

MIA 22 362 26-122 240 2-5 21-37-1 1-45.0 1-7 1-13 1-35 5-48 3-0 30:06

NYJ 22 374 32-112 262 1-8 20-36-1 3-41.7 1-12 4-90 1-0 5-88 2-0 29:54

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-MIA, R.Fitzpatrick 7-65, Laird 15-48, Gaskin 4-5, Walford 0-4. NYJ, Bi.Powell 19-74, T.Montgomery 9-31, Rb.Anderson 1-4, Darnold 3-3.

PASSING-MIA, R.Fitzpatrick 21-37-1-245. NYJ, Darnold 20-36-1-270.

RECEIVING-MIA, I.Ford 6-92, Hurns 5-68, Laird 4-38, D.Parker 2-28, Gaskin 1-6, Gesicki 1-6, A.Wilson 1-5, Smythe 1-2. NYJ, Rb.Anderson 7-116, Crowder 3-30, T.Montgomery 3-30, Dm.Thomas 2-28, Bi.Powell 2-14, V.Smith 1-37, R.Griffin 1-8, Da.Brown 1-7.

MISSED FIELD GOALS-MIA, J.Sanders 1. NYJ, None

Eagles 23, Giants 17 N.Y. Giants Philadelphia

0 17 0 0 0 — 17 0 3 7 7 6 — 23 Second Quarter NYG—Slayton 35 yard pass from Manning (Rosas kick), 14:52.

PHI—Jk.Elliott 34 yard field goal, 9:33.

NYG—Rosas 34 yard field goal, 5:30.

NYG—Slayton 55 yard pass from Manning (Rosas kick), 0:27.

Third Quarter PHI—B.Scott 2 yard rush (Jk.Elliott kick), 1:28.

Fourth Quarter PHI—Ertz 2 yard pass from Wentz (Jk.Elliott kick), 1:53.

Overtime PHI—Ertz 2 yard pass from Wentz, 5:10.

A—69,796.

TEAM STATISTICS NYG

PHI

First Downs Total Net Yards Rushes-Yds Passing Sacked-Yds Lost Comp-Att-Int Punts Punt Returns Kickoff Returns Interceptions Ret. Penalties-Yards Fumbles-Lost Time of Possession

11 276 20-73 203 2-21 15-30-0 9-46.1 2-11 0-0 0-0 7-54 2-0 21:59

27 443 32-118 325 3-25 33-50-0 8-48.4 3-23 1-28 0-0 4-30 2-1 42:51

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-NYG, S.Barkley 17-66, S.Shepard 1-8, Manning 2-(minus 1). PHI, B.Scott 10-59, M.Sanders 15-45, Wentz 5-9, Ajayi 2-5.

PASSING-NYG, Manning 15-30-0-203. PHI, Wentz 3350-0-325.

RECEIVING-NYG, Slayton 5-154, S.Shepard 4-28, S.Barkley 3-1, Ka.Smith 2-9, G.Tate 1-11. PHI, Ertz 9-91, B.Scott 6-69, Perkins 5-37, G.Ward 4-34, M.Sanders 4-24, Goedert 3-41, Arcega-Whiteside 2-29.

MISSED FIELD GOALS-NYG, None. PHI, Jk.Elliott 1

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New Jersey at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

Carolina at Edmonton, 9 p.m.

Calgary at Arizona, 9 p.m.

Toronto at Vancouver, 10 p.m.

Chicago at Vegas, 10 p.m.

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New York Islanders center Brock Nelson (29) is congratulated as he scores a goal against the Tampa Bay Lightning on Monday at Amalie Arena.

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Brock Nelson scored twice in New York’s three-goal third period to carry the Islanders past host Tampa Bay, 5-1, on Monday night.

Ross Johnston and Josh Bailey scored goals less than two minutes apart in the second period, and Anders Lee added a late power-play marker as the Islanders won for the fourth time in six games.

New York stymied all three power plays by Tampa Bay, which came into the game leading the NHL with 36.5-percent efficiency with the man advantage on home ice. The Lightning are 2-4-1 in their last seven.

Senators 5, Bruins 2 Anthony Duclair scored two goals and added an assist as Ottawa defeated visiting Boston.

Chris Tierney added a goal and two assists, Artem Anisimov and Jean-Gabriel Pageau also scored, and Vladislav Namestnikov had two assists for the Senators, who won for just the second time in their past eight games. Anders Nilsson made 38 saves.

NY Rangers at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.

Patrice Bergeron, making his return after missing the previous seven games with a lower-body injury, and Jake DeBrusk scored for the Atlantic Divisionleading Bruins, who failed to win for the third straight game (0-2-1). Brad Marchand and David Pastrnak each had two assists, and Tuukka Rask stopped 23 of 26 shots.

Flames 5, Avalanche 4 Sean Monahan scored in overtime and the Calgary Flames overcame blowing a two-goal lead in the third period to defeat the Colorado Avalanche 5-4 in Denver.

Andrew Mangiapane and Michael Frolik had goals in the first 1:39 of the third period to give the Flames a 4-2 lead. But Nathan MacKinnon and Joonas Donskoi each scored in the third to even the game and ultimately send it to overtime.

Matthew Tkachuk had a goal and an assist, Derek Ryan also scored and David Rittich stopped 28 shots for the Flames, who have won five straight under interim head coach Geoff Ward. Mark Giordano,

Elias Lindholm and Dillon Dube had two assists each for Calgary.

MacKinnon and Donskoi each added an assist, as well, and Valeri Nichushkin and Ryan Graves also scored for Colorado, which had won six in a row. Pavel Francouz had 28 saves.

Blue Jackets 5, Capitals 2 Cam Atkinson scored two goals, one early and one late, as visiting Columbus defeated Washington to snap a fourgame losing streak. The Capitals’ sixgame winning streak ended, too.

Atkinson scored the game’s first goal, 3:27 into the first period, and added another one into an empty net with 1:48 to play to give the Blue Jackets some insurance. Columbus goalie Joonas Korpisalo wound up with 37 saves as the Capitals turned up the heat in the final two periods.

Ryan Murray, Riley Nash and Oliver Bjorkstrand also scored for Columbus.

Alex Ovechkin had a goal and an assist for Washington, as did Nicklas Backstrom in his return after missing eight games due to an upper-body injury.

Transactions BASEBALL National League New York Mets - Named Hensley Meulens bench coach.

Named Jeremy Accardo assistant pitching coach.

Named Jeremy Hefner pitching coach. Named Tony Defrancesco first base coach.

Washington Nationals - Signed RHP Kyle Finnegan.

FOOTBALL National Football League Detroit Lions - NFL fined the Detroit Lions $110,000 for not properly updating the injury status of a player.

NCAA Football Arkansas - Named Sam Pittman head coach.

Florida State - Named Mike Norvell and Mike Norvell head coach.

Rutgers - Named Francis Brown secondary coach.

Virginia Tech - Promoted safeties coach Justin Hamilton to defensive coordinator.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association Oklahoma City Thunder - Assigned PG Deonte Burton to Oklahoma City (NBAGL).

Pro basketball NBA Eastern Conference Atlantic W L Pct Boston 17 5 .773 Philadelphia 17 7 .708 Toronto 16 7 .696 Brooklyn 13 10 .565 New York 4 19 .174 Central W L Pct Milwaukee 21 3 .875 Indiana 15 9 .625 Detroit 10 14 .417 Chicago 8 17 .320 Cleveland 5 18 .217 Southeast W L Pct Miami 17 6 .739 Orlando 11 12 .478 Charlotte 9 16 .360 Washington 7 15 .318 Atlanta 6 17 .261 Western Conference Northwest W L Pct Denver 14 7 .667 Utah 13 11 .542 Oklahoma City 11 12 .478 Minnesota 10 13 .435 Portland 9 15 .375 Pacific W L Pct L.A. Lakers 21 3 .875 L.A. Clippers 18 7 .720 Phoenix 11 12 .478 Sacramento 10 13 .435 Golden State 5 19 .208 Southwest W L Pct Dallas 16 7 .696 Houston 15 8 .652 San Antonio 9 14 .391 Memphis 6 16 .273 New Orleans 6 18 .250 Monday’s games L.A. Clippers 110, Indiana 99 Boston 110, Cleveland 88 Toronto 93, Chicago 92 Sacramento 119, Houston 118 Milwaukee 110, Orlando 101 Detroit 105, New Orleans 103 Phoenix 125, Minnesota 109 Oklahoma City 104, Utah 90 Memphis at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.

Tuesday’s games Washington at Charlotte, 7 p.m.

Denver at Philadelphia, 8 p.m.

Atlanta at Miami, 8 p.m.

New York at Portland, 10 p.m.

Wednesday’s games Houston at Cleveland, 7 p.m.

Boston at Indiana, 7 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Orlando, 7 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Toronto, 7 p.m.

Charlotte at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m.

Atlanta at Chicago, 8 p.m.

Utah at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

Memphis at Phoenix, 9 p.m.

New Orleans at Milwaukee, 9:30 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Sacramento, 10 p.m.

New York at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.

Thursday’s games Philadelphia at Boston, 8 p.m.

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

Dallas vs Detroit, at Mexico City, Mexico, 9 p.m.

Portland at Denver, 10:30 p.m.

GB — 1.0 1.5 4.5 13.5 GB — 6.0 11.0 13.5 15.5 GB — 6.0 9.0 9.5 11.0 GB — 2.5 4.0 5.0 6.5 GB — 3.5 9.5 10.5 16.0 GB — 1.0 7.0 9.5 10.5

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Nemanja Bjelica drilled a 3-pointer at the buzzer, and the Sacramento Kings claimed a 119-118 victory over the host Houston Rockets on Monday.

Bjelica drilled a 33-footer off an inbound pass from Cory Joseph to answer a driving layup from Rockets guard Russell Westbrook on the preceding possession.

Bjelica scored over PJ Tucker to cap his 17-point performance as the Kings finished 20 of 45 from behind the arc.

Westbrook scored a season-high 34 points, primarily on driving layups as the Kings offered scant rim protection. His basket countered a game-tying 3-pointer from Kings guard Buddy Hield (teamhigh 26 points), whose trey matched a 3-pointer from Ben McLemore with 22.7 seconds left.

The Rockets had won 18 of 20 meetings against the Kings, who received 19 points and eight rebounds from Harrison Barnes. James Harden paired 27 points with 10 assists for the Rockets while Tucker grabbed a career-high 19 rebounds Detroit Pistons 105, New Orleans Pelicans 103 Derrick Rose scored a team-high 21 points, capped by a last-second, gamewinning jumper as Detroit won at New Orleans.

The Pistons inbounded the ball with 14.7 seconds left and cleared out for Rose, who dribbled down the clock, penetrated and hit a jumper from just inside the foul line. The Pelicans called timeout with 0.3 seconds left, but their subsequent pass was deflected, and they lost their ninth straight game.

Langston Galloway added 16 points, Luke Kennard scored 14 and Andre Drummond had 13 points and 10 rebounds for Detroit. Brandon Ingram scored 31 and Jrue Holiday scored 20 to lead New Orleans.

Milwaukee Bucks 110, Orlando Magic 101 Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 32 points and grabbed 15 rebounds as Milwaukee extended its NBA-best winning streak to 15 games with a victory over visiting Orlando.

Khris Middleton scored 20 points and Donte DiVincenzo added 12 as the Bucks improved to 11-1 at home and matched

the Los Angeles Lakers for best record in the NBA at 21-3.

Evan Fournier scored 26 points and Terrence Ross added 23 as the Magic saw their season-best four-game winning streak come to an end, but not before putting together a late run.

Toronto Raptors 93, Chicago Bulls 92 Pascal Siakam scored 22 points, and visiting Toronto overcame an eight-point fourth-quarter deficit to defeat Chicago and end a three-game losing streak.

Kyle Lowry added 11 points and made the go-ahead layup with 50.9 seconds remaining for the Raptors, who have won 11 in a row against the Bulls. Norman Powell had 17 points, Serge Ibaka had 11 points and 14 rebounds, and OG Anunoby scored 10 for Toronto.

Zach Lavine scored 20 points – all in the first half – and grabbed 11 rebounds for the Bulls, who have lost three straight.

Boston Celtics 110, Cleveland Cavaliers 88 Kemba Walker scored 22 points, Gordon Hayward had 14 in his return from a hand injury, and Boston beat visiting Cleveland.

Jaylen Brown added 20 points, Jayson Tatum 19 and Daniel Theis 10 as all five Celtics starters scored in double figures.

Boston improved to 10-0 at home and won for the sixth time in its past seven games.

Jordan Clarkson had 19 points and Tristan Thompson 17 for the Cavaliers, who lost their seventh straight and fell for the 13th time in their past 14 games.

Los Angeles Clippers 110, Indiana Pacers 99 Paul George made seven 3-pointers to highlight a 36-point performance against his former team as Los Angeles held on to beat Indiana in Indianapolis.

George was booed by the crowd in his third game back at Bankers Life Fieldhouse after requesting a trade from Indiana, with which he spent his first seven NBA seasons. George was sent to Oklahoma City in exchange for Victor Oladipo and Domantas Sabonis in July 2017 before the Thunder traded him to the Clippers in the latest offseason.

Montrezl Harrell had 26 points and eight rebounds for the Clippers, who played without Kawhi Leonard (left knee

soreness). Leonard sat out the latter half of a back-to-back set with a Wednesday showdown looming against his former team in Toronto, marking his first return to the city since he led the Raptors to the NBA title in June.

Oklahoma City Thunder 104, Utah Jazz 90 Dennis Schroder scored 27 off the bench to lead Oklahoma City to a win over Utah in Salt Lake City.

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander added 20 points and Chris Paul had 16 points and seven assists for the Thunder, who overcame 26 points from Utah’s Donovan Mitchell.

The Thunder played without a pair of starters. Terrance Ferguson missed his third straight game due to right hip soreness while Danilo Gallinari missed a game for the first time this season after sustaining a left ankle sprain.

Phoenix Suns 125, Minnesota Timberwolves 109 Devin Booker had 26 points and three 3-pointers, and Kelly Oubre Jr. scored 24 points on his 24th birthday as host Phoenix pulled away from Minnesota.

Dario Saric had 20 points and was a rebound short of his fifth double-double in the last eight games, and Ricky Rubio added 16 points and 14 assists for the Suns, who beat Timberwolves for the second time in 17 days to get within one game of .500.

Karl-Anthony Towns had 33 points and 15 rebounds, Andrew Wiggins put up 23 points, and Jeff Teague had 16 points and four assists off the bench for the Timberwolves, whose season-high losing streak reached five games.

Memphis Grizzlies 110, Golden State Warriors 102 Memphis used six 3-pointers to bolt to a 24-11 lead in the first 7:19 of the game, then never trailed thereafter in a victory over Golden State in San Francisco.

Rookie star Ja Morant returned from a four-game layoff caused by back spasms to lead the way with a game-high 26 points and seven assists. He helped the Grizzlies win for just the second time in their last 10 games.

D’Angelo Russell and Alec Burks shared team-high scoring honors for the Warriors with 18 points.

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NFL notebook: Multiple contenders lose players for season Field Level Media

Week 14 proved to be a particularly painful one in the NFL, as numerous players went down with season-ending injuries. And contenders weren’t immune from the damage – particularly in the NFC West.

San Francisco starting center Weston Richburg will miss the rest of the season after sustaining a torn right patellar tendon in his team’s 48-46 road win over the New Orleans Saints, coach Kyle Shanahan announced Monday afternoon.

Richburg, in his second season with the 49ers after agreeing to five-year deal in March 2018, has started all 13 games for the 49ers this season. He sustained the injury during a play early in the third quarter when his leg was

Roundup From B1

CAIRO-DURHAM (59): Bruck 1-0-2, Ivery 2-0-4, James 3-4-10, Mudge 3-0-8, Myers 13-4-30, Woldcott 2-0-4. Totals 24-8-58.

3-pointers: Mudge 2.

Rensselaer 60, Taconic Hills 30 CRARYVILLE — Mechelle’s Cancer’s 23 points effort highlighted Rensselaer 60-30 Patroon Conference girls basketball victory on Monday.

Burrow From B1

year’s Sooners to a 12-1 record and a Big 12 title, and he punished defenses both with his arm (3,634 passing yards for 32 touchdowns and seven interceptions) and legs (1,255 rushing yards with 18 more

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running backs Miles Sanders and Boston Scott. It was a thin group – not that Hollins would have improved it that much – and made the Eagles look a quart low on preparation.

By the fourth quarter, Sanders had also left the field briefly for evaluation, and cornerback Jalen Mills went in to keep him company. The Eagles had to attempt their late comeback as a patched-up team playing in front of a disgruntled, drenched stadium of fans.

Down by 14 at the half, the Eagles got things going with a

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Fonda-Fultonville in the championship match and the Maple Hill standout had little trouble in earning a 12-0 major decision victory.

The four victories in the tournament improves

entangled with guard Mike Person on a running play.

Shanahan also said that cornerback Richard Shanahan likely will miss two weeks and that defensive end Dee Ford probably will be out at least three weeks, both with hamstring injuries.

In Seattle, coach Pete Carroll confirmed that running back Rashaad Penny will miss the rest of the season with an ACL injury. NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport reported Penny sustained additional damage to his left knee.

Penny left Sunday’s 28-12 loss to the Los Angeles Rams after being injured on a 16-yard reception on Seattle’s first drive, immediately grabbing the knee after planting his leg before going down.

More season-ending injuries

–Indianapolis placed veteran kicker Adam Vinatieri on ending injured reserve with an ailing left knee, ending his 24th season – though the 46-yearold impending free agent reportedly said he hopes to have “another chapter left” in his career.

–Atlanta wide receiver Calvin Ridley, who collapsed, then was carted off the field with abdominal pain against the Carolina Panthers, announced on social media that he is out for the rest of the season. He has 63 catches for 866 yards and seven touchdowns in 13 games this season.

–Oakland rookie tight end Foster Moreau will miss the rest of the season after sustaining a knee injury against Tennessee, head coach Jon Gruden announced. Moreau leads all rookie

tight ends with five touchdown catches.

–Chicago linebacker Roquan Smith will miss the remainder of the season with a torn pectoral muscle, coach Matt Nagy announced. The 22-yearold finishes the season with a teamleading 101 tackles to go along with two sacks and an interception.

More injury news –Baltimore quarterback and leading NFL MVP candidate Lamar Jackson was limited at practice, though coach John Harbaugh said Jackson’s quadriceps injury is not serious and his star is receiving treatment.

–Kansas City quarterback Patrick Mahomes is dealing with a bruised right hand, coach Andy Reid told reporters, though X-rays came back

negative. He sustained the injury Sunday against New England.

–Tampa Bay quarterback Jameis Winston will see a specialist after fracturing the thumb on his throwing hand on Sunday, Buccaneers coach Bruce Arians said. Also, Arians called star receiver Mike Evans “very doubtful for this week” after he pulled his hamstring Sunday.

–Washington interim coach Bill Callahan said he does not know the severity of Derrius Guice’s knee injury, but he did rule the running back out for Sunday’s home game against Philadelphia. Callahan also said linebacker Ryan Kerrigan won’t play this week after he suffered a calf injury against Green Bay on Sunday.

Ichabod Crane 3, Hudson 0 VALATIE — Ichabod Crane remained unbeaten in Patroon Conference boys volleyball action with a 3-0 victory over Hudson on Monday.

The Riders won by scores of 25-13, 25-13 and 25-8.

For ICC, Harrison Puckett had 6 assists, 5 kills and 1 ace; Dean Warner 6 kills and 1 ace; Jim Konderwich 3 kills and 1

block; Jake Siter 2 kills, 2 aces and 1 dig; Trevor Wolfe 11 assists and 3 aces; Ryan Tricozzi 1 kill; Cam Ames 2 kills; Paul Zietsman 1 kill; Luke Dee 1 kill; Logan Groat 1 kill.

The Riders host New Lebanon on Monday.

New Lebanon 3, Chatham 0 CHATHAM — Chatham boys varsity volleyball team lost to New Lebanon on Monday, 3-0.

The Tiders posted winning scores of 29-27, 25-21 and 2518.

“Mental errors hurt

tonight,” Chatham coach Matt Torrey said. “We’re a young team that isn’t thinking volleyball right now.”

For the Panthers, M. Roblez 6 service points,9 kills, 1 block and 3 digs; S. Pechacek 6 service points, 3 aces and 18 assists; Ethan Boyle 3 service points,3 kills and 5 digs; W. Hogancamp 4 digs,4 kills and 1 service point; and V Marasco 2 service points, 5 kills and 4 digs.

Taconic Hills 3, Germantown 1 CRARYVILLE — Taconic

hills earned a 3-1 victory over Germantown in Monday’s Patroon Conference boys volleyball match.

The Titans took the first two games, 25-16 and 25-18, dropped the third, 25-22, then took the fourth, 25-20, to close out the match.

For Taconic Hills, Adonias Mercado had 12 digs, 7 kills and 2 aces; Kris Gardella 6 aces, 5 digs and 5 assists; Izac Jennings 5 digs, 3 kills, 3 aces; Ryan Wilson 4 kills, 3 assists and 2 aces.

touchdowns).

A true sophomore, Fields also switched schools this year, going from Georgia to Ohio State rather than continue to sit behind Bulldogs quarterback Jake Fromm.

Taking over from Haskins, he impressed through the air (2,953 yards passing for 40 touchdowns and one interception) and on the ground

(471 rushing yards with 10 more touchdowns) while helping the Buckeyes go 130.

Young was a dominant force of the other side of the ball for Ohio State, leading the FBS with 16.5 sacks despite playing in 11 games.

A true junior, Young is just the fourth defensive lineman to be named a Heisman

finalist, following Washington’s Steve Emtman (1991), Miami’s Warren Sapp (1994) and Nebraska’s Ndamukong Suh (2009).

Only once in the Heisman’s 85-year history, with Michigan’s Charles Woodson in 1997, has a primarily defensive player won the honor. Quarterbacks have taken 16 of the past 19 awards.

Three quarterbacks are vying for this year’s honor, but it appears that Burrow is all but a lock to bring it back to LSU. That would make him just the second player from the program to win the Heisman, following running back Billy Cannon in 1959, and it would more than please LSU Coach Ed Orgeron.

“In my opinion, he should

win it,” Orgeron said of Burrow on Saturday, according to ESPN. “In my opinion, he’s going to win it. The best thing about Joe is he’s a team player. All he wants to do is win this game. Individual awards are not high on his list. That’s what makes him such a great team player.”

touchdown run by Scott near the end of the third quarter, then took their next possession and sprinted down the field, with Scott providing the excitement, and Perkins coming through with a first-down catch.

When Doug Pederson challenged a no-call on possible pass interference near the end zone, the Eagles were one referee’s decision away from being goal-to-goal to tie the game. It wasn’t going to be an easy kind of night, however.

Pederson didn’t get the interference call, Ward dropped a pass in the end zone on the next play, and Jake Elliott followed up by missing a 47-yard field goal.

Just like that, what could have been a 17-17 game with

momentum for the Eagles was still a seven-point deficit and decent field position for New York with less than 10 minutes to go.

Maybe Jeffery catches the ball. Maybe Nelson Agholor catches the ball. Maybe Mack Hollins catches the ball. We don’t know. But Ward didn’t catch it. We know that.

The Eagles got the ball back and didn’t get traction right away, with the protection spotty and the talent spottier.

They needed a 4th-and-1 conversion at their own 29-yard line, and they needed a couple of holding penalties against the Giants, but they got across midfield, and then Wentz found Dallas Goedert for a big gain, and Ward for a reception near the end zone. They finally

tied it with a pass to Ertz, and the game lurched into overtime.

New York was gassed by that point, and Wentz used the unlikely combination of Perkins and Scott to rumble

down the field on the opening possession. They won it on another pass into the back of the end zone to Ertz, and the fireworks roared, and the fans who remained through the deluge shook their fists at

the sky as if beating the Giants meant something.

It does, of course. It means the Eagles, as always in the NFC East, are still alive. No forking around.

Svingala’s record to 5-0.

Three of Svingala’s teammates advanced to the tournament semifinals. Thomas Merhige lost to Clayton O’Connor of Mohonasen by pin in 1:43 in the 106-pound division.

Reese Steele lost an 11-7 decision to Jarrett Thayer of Unatego in the 160-pound division and Adrian Delfavero was pinned in :43 by Unatego’s

Sam Cole in the 182-pound division.

Maple Hill placed fifth in the team standings with 124.5 points. Mohnasen was first with 197.5, followed by Saratoga (195.5), Schalmont (140) and Saratoga (140).

Maple Hill returns to action on Thursday when it hosts Taconic Hills in a Patroon Conference match.

Arianna Vogel added 14 points for the Rams. Jasmine Allert and Emma Endres both had six.

Macayla Sparacino and Sydney cooper each had six points to lead Taconic Hills.

RENSSELAER (60): Allert 3-0-6, Brown 2-0-4, Cancer 103-23, Endres 3-0-6, Jones 1-24, Lopez 1-0-2, Van Wie 0-1-1, Vogel 6-2-14. Totals 26-8-60.

TACONIC HILLS (30): Cooper 2-2-6, Davis 1-0-3, Kernan 2-0-4, Mottoshiski 1-0-2, Perry 2-0-5, Shumsky 2-0-4, Sparacino 2-1-6. Totals 12-3-30.

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EXHIBIT A NOTICE OF SPECIAL SCHOOL DISTRICT MEETING AND ELECATTENTION VILLAGE OF COXSACKIE RESIDENTS Owners and occupants are reminded to remove all snow and ice from all sidewalks bordering any street in the Village of Coxsackie within 24 hours.

Where it is not possible to remove ice it should be thoroughly covered with sand, salt or cinders. Any person, firm or corporation in violation of these provisions shall upon conviction, be punishable by a fine of not more than $250.00 or by imprisonment for not more than 15 days or both.

COLUMBIA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING Please take notice that there will be a meeting of the Columbia Economic Development Corporation Board on December 18, 2019 at 8:30am at One Hudson City Centre, Suite 301, Hudson, NY 12534 for the purpose of discussing any business presented to the Corporation for consideration.

Dated: December 11, 2019 Sarah Sterling CEDC Secretary Columbia Economic Development Corporation LEGAL NOTICE 2019-2020 District Special Transportation Run The Catskill Central School District requests sealed bids for a 2019-2020 Out of District Transportation Run. Sealed bids should be submitted to the Transportation Coordinator, William Muirhead, Catskill Central School District, 347 West Main Street, Catskill, New York 12414 until 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, December 11, 2019 at which time and place they will be publicly opened and read.

Specifications will be available on December 4, 2019 and may be obtained from the Business Office by calling 943-2300 ext.

1472 or 1413. The Board reserves the right to reject any and all proposals.

By order of the Board of Education Catskill Central School District William Muirhead, Transportation Director Amanda McCabe, District Treasurer The Board Of Education of the Hunter-Tannersville Central School District is accepting sealed bids for: Transportation for one student from Haines Falls, NY to Ulster County Boces, Port Ewen, daily, for the remainder of the 2019-20 School Year, in accordance to bid specifications.

Bid specifications will be available from the Tannersville High School District Office (518-589-5400 X 1000). Sealed bids must be submitted to the Tannersville High School District Office, attention Amy Sylak, Transportation Supervisor, by Tuesday, December 17, 2019 at 10:00am at which time they will be publicly opened in the Superintendent's Office. No faxed bids will be accepted. Final approval will be at 6:30pm on Thursday, December 19, 2019 at the BOE Meeting. The BOE reserves the right to waive any informalities and to reject any or all bids.

The Village of Catskill Housing Authority Board of Commissioners will be holding a special meeting Tuesday, December 17, 2019 at 4:15pm. The board will go immediately into Executive Session and no action will be taken at this time. The meeting will be held at 32 Bronson Street, Catskill, NY. by Order of Board of Commissioners, Catskill Housing Authority

TION ABSENTEE BALLOTS AND PERSONAL REGISTRATION Coxsackie-Athens Central School District Greene County, New York PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a Special School District Meeting and Election of the Coxsackie-Athens Central School District, Greene County, New York, will be held on December 17, 2019 (the "Election Date") at the Coxsackie Elementary School, in Coxsackie, New York and the Edward J. Arthur Elementary School in Athens, New York, at 1:00 o'clock P.M. and the polls shall be kept open for voting by electronic voting machine between the hours of 1:00 o'clock P.M. and 9:00 o'clock P.M. Prevailing Time, for the purpose of voting upon the following proposition: BOND PROPOSITION: IMPROVEMENTS TO SCHOOL DISTRICT BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES Shall the following resolution be adopted, towit: RESOLVED, that the Board of Education of the Coxsackie-Athens Central School District, Greene County, New York, is hereby authorized to construct improvements to and reconstruct various School District buildings and facilities (including installation of generators at the Coxsackie and Athens Campuses, replacement of roof at the Middle School and construction of a tennis court at the High School), including original furnishings, equipment, machinery, appurtenances, apparatus, and incidental improvements and expenses in connection therewith, at a maximum estimated cost of $3,775,000 and to expend $175,000 Capital Reserve Fund monies to pay a portion thereof and that the remaining $3,600,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be raised by the levy of a tax upon the taxable property of said School District and collected in annual installments as provided

by Section 416 of the Education Law, and in anticipation of such tax, obligations of said School District shall be issued.

SEQRA DETERMINATION: The action herein authorized has been determined to be a Type II Action pursuant to 6 NYCRR Part 617.5(c)(l), (2) and (10) of the regulations of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation promulgated pursuant to the State Environmental Quality Review Act ("SEQRA"), the implementation of which as proposed, such regulations provide will not result in any significant adverse environmental impact.

QUALIFIED VOTERS: The qualified voters of the School District shall be entitled to vote at said special election. A qualified voter is one who is: (1) a citizen of the United States of America, (2) eighteen (18) years of age or older, and (3) resident within the School District for a period of thirty (30)

days preceding the special election, and not otherwise prohibited from voting (i.e. mentally incompetent or convicted felon). Qualified voters must be registered voters in order to vote at said Special District Meeting.

ADDITIONAL PERSONAL REGISTRATION: NOTICE IS HEREBY ALSO GIVEN that pursuant to Section 2014 of the Education Law and Article 5 of the Election Law, personal registration of voters is required for said Special District Meeting and Election and no person shall be entitled to vote thereafter whose name does not appear upon the register of the School District or on the permanent personal registration lists of the County of Greene.

Persons otherwise qualified to vote, who have been previously registered for School District voting and voted during these last four (4) calendar years, need not personally register for this special election.

Persons who have registered to vote in town, county, or national elections pursuant to Section 352 of the Election Law need not personally register for this special election.

All other persons who wish to vote must register.

Any person eighteen years of age or over, and a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the School District for thirty (30) days next preceding the day for voting (and not otherwise prohibited from voting) is entitled to register and vote. Voters may register at the District Office at 24 Sunset Boulevard, in Coxsackie, New York, during regular business hours between the hours of 8:00 A.M. to 3:30 P.M. Monday through Friday on days when school is in session until the date five days prior to the Special District Meeting and Election, at which time any person will be entitled to have his or her name placed on such Register, provided, that he or she is known or satisfactorily proven to be then or thereafter entitled to vote at such election for which the Register is prepared. Such registration is also scheduled for the following dates: (1) December 3, 2019 Coxsackie Elementary School 5:30P.M. to 6:30P.M. (2) December 9, 2019 E.J. Arthur Elementary School 5:30P.M. to 6:30P.M.

Such registration shall not take place less than five days preceding the date of the Special District Meeting and Election.

The Register of the School District so prepared and the permanent personal registration lists for the County of Greene will be filed in the office of the School District Clerk, located at 24 Sunset Boulevard, Coxsackie, New York, where the same will be open for inspection by any qualified voter of the District, between the hours of 8:00A.M. to 3:30 P.M. Prevailing Time, beginning five days prior to such election on weekdays and each day prior to the day set for the election except Sunday, and at the polling places on the date of the vote.

ABSENTEE BALLOTS: NOTICE IS ALSO HEREBY GIVEN that applications for absentee ballots may be applied for at the office of the School District Clerk. Any such application must be received by the District Clerk at least seven days before the date of the aforesaid Special District Meeting and Election if the ballot is to be mailed to the voter, or the day before such Special District Meeting and Election, if the ballot is to be delivered personally to the voter.

Absentee ballots must be received by 5:00 P.M. on the date of election in the office of the School District Clerk. A list of all persons to whom absentee voter's ballots shall have been issued shall be available for public inspection in the office of the School District Clerk, 24 Sunset Boulevard, in Coxsackie, New York not less than five days prior to the date of the Special District Meeting and Election (excluding Saturdays and Sundays) during regular office hours that are between 8:00A.M. and 3:30 P.M. until the date of the aforesaid Special District Meeting and Election. In addition, such list shall also be posted conspicuously at the place of voting during the hours of such Special District Meeting and Election.

Any qualified voter may, upon examination of such list, file a written challenge to the qualifications of any person whose name appears on the list of absentee voters and provide reasons therefore known to

the District Clerk prior to the election for transmittal to the Inspectors of Election before the close of the polls or directly to the Inspectors of Election on the day of the vote before the close of the polls.

ELECTION DISTRICTS: AND FURTHER NOTICE IS GIVEN that the election districts and places of voting shall be located as follows: Election District #1 shall constitute the area of the School District that lies within the Town of Athens inclusive of the Village of Athens, Town of Cairo.

Election District # I shall vote at the Edward J. Arthur Elementary School, 51 Third Street, Athens, New York.

Election District # 2 shall constitute the area of the School District that lies within the Town of Coxsackie inclusive of the Village of Coxsackie, Town of New Baltimore. Election District# 2 shall vote at the Coxsackie Elementary School, 24 Sunset Boulevard, Coxsackie, New York.

Please check with the School District Clerk if you have any question as to the election district in which you should vote.

Dated: Coxsackie, New York, October 21, 2019.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE COXS A C K I E - AT H E N S CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT, GREENE COUNTY, NEW YORK. Judy Zoller, School District Clerk Harts Arts LLC, a domestic LLC, filed with the SSNY on October 31, 2019. Office location: Columbia County, NY. SSNY is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to PO Box 495, Ghent, NY 12075.

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The Village of Catskill Housing Authority Board of Commissioners will be holding their monthly meeting on Wednesday, December 18, 2019 at 4:15pm. The meeting will be held at 32 Bronson Street, Catskill, NY. by Order of Board of Commissioners, Catskill Housing Authority State of New York Office of the State Comptroller NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE FISCAL AFFAIRS OF THE Town of Cairo FOR

THE PERIOD BEGINNING ON Jan. 1, 2018 AND ENDING ON March 21, 2019 HAVE BEEN EXAMINED BY THE OFFICE OF THE STATE COMPTROLLER AND THAT THE REPORT OF EXAMINATION PREPARED

BY THE OFFICE OF THE STATE COMPTROLLER HAS BEEN FILED IN MY OFFICE WHERE IT IS AVAILABLE AS A PUBLIC RECORD FOR INSPECTION BY ALL INTERESTED PERSONS. PURSUANT TO SECTION THIRTY-FIVE OF THE GENERAL MUNICIPAL LAW, THE GOVERNING BOARD OF THE Town of Cairo MAY, IN ITS DISCRETION, PREPARE A WRITTEN RESPONSE TO THE REPORT OF EXAMINATION PREPARED BY THE OFFICE OF THE STATE COMPTROLLER AND FILE ANY SUCH RESPONSE IN MY OFFICE AS A PUBLIC RECORD FOR INSPECTION BY ALL INTERESTED PERSONS NOT LATER THAN (LAST DATE ON WHICH RESPONSE MAY BE FILED - 90 DAYS AFTER PRESENTATION OF REPORT TO GOVERNING BOARD).

Kayla Warner, Town Clerk Note: General Municipal Law, §35 provides that this notice must be given within 10 days after the filing of the report of examination with the clerk or secretary.

If the board has made a decision to respond to the report prior to publication of this notice, the following sentence may be substituted for the last sentence of the above notice:

PURSUANT TO SECTION THIRTY-FIVE OF THE GENERAL MUNICIPAL LAW, THE GOVERNING BOARD OF THE Town of Cairo HAS DETERMINED TO PREPARE A WRITTEN RESPONSE TO THE REPORT OF EXAMINATION PREPARED BY THE OFFICE OF THE STATE COMPTROLLER AND WILL FILE SUCH RESPONSE, WHEN COMPLETED, IN MY OFFICE AS A PUBLIC RECORD FOR INSPECTION BY ALL INTERESTED PERSONS NOT LATER THAN (LAST DATE ON WHICH RESPONSE MAY BE FILED - 90 DAYS AFTER PRESENTATION OF REPORT TO GOVERNING BOARD).

SUMMONS & NOTICE Index No. 19-0771; Filed September 18, 2019 STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT: COUNTY OF GREENE HUNTER MOUNTAIN BASE LODGE, INC., Plaintiff, vs. EMMA J. ROBB, if living; or if Emma J. Robb is dead, then RAYMOND W. ROBB, LAURA ROBB ROGERS, and EDWARD B. ROBB, if any of said defendants are living; or if Emma J. Robb and any of the other above-named defendants are dead, then JOHN DOE #1 through #100 and JANE DOE #1 through #100, said names being fictitious and being intended to designate and represent persons unknown who are, or may claim to be, the heirs at law, next of kin, devisees, distributees, grantees, legal representatives, executors, administrators and successors in interest of Emma J.

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To the above named defendants: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED and required to serve upon plaintiff's attorney an answer to the complaint in this action within twenty (20) days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the day of service, or within thirty (30) days after service is complete if this summons is not personally delivered to you in the state of New York. In case of your failure to answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint. The basis of venue is the location of the subject property in Greene County.

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Gerrit Cole now has free agent pitching market all to himself Dave Sheinin The Washington Post

SAN DIEGO — Throughout this baseball offseason, the free agent campaigns of Stephen Strasburg and Gerrit Cole have been spoken of as a single, two-headed entity. That owed to the similarities between the superstar pitchers, who hit the marketplace at the same time: They’re both right-handed starters at the height of their powers, coming off historic postseason performances and represented by the same agent. If a team was going to be in on one of them, the thinking went, it might as well be in on both.

But now, with Strasburg having landed a massive, seven-year, $245 million contract to remain with the Washington Nationals and with Cole’s market suddenly coming into clearer view, we are about to see how different their cases were at their cores all along.

Strasburg’s new deal with the Nationals which sent a jolt through baseball’s annual winter meetings Monday - set a record for a TONI L. SANDYS/WASHINGTON POST pitcher, blowing away David Price’s $217 million deal with the Boston Red Sox in 2015. But Gerrit Cole’s impressive postseason will only help his case as he seeks a record-setting contract. when Cole signs his contract in the coming days - perhaps by the end of the meetings, themselves untold tens of millions of dollars Boras said Monday. “But in Stephen’s case, with the New York Yankees and Los Angeles with their performances this October, with and in the Nationals’ case, they have this Angels the front-runners - it will almost cer- Strasburg going 5-0 with a 1.98 ERA on his bridge of trust and understanding that was tainly put Strasburg’s deal in a distant second way to winning World Series MVP honors and based from long ago.”

Cole going 4-1 with a 1.72 ERA. Cole, by contrast, is a free agent in the purplace. est sense of the term, his market wide open, But even more than their respective talents No one knows precisely what Cole’s price tag will end up being, but given Strasburg’s and track records, Cole’s market, it is clear stretching from coast to coast and involving stunning terms, few in the industry would be now, was different than Strasburg’s from the some of the game’s deepest-pocketed teams.

Despite his decided geographical bent - he, start. shocked if it started with a three. like Strasburg, was raised in Southern CaliWhile Strasburg took meetings this winCole, 29, has the benefit of being two years ter with the Yankees, Angels and Los Angefornia - he has made it clear that while his younger than Strasburg, with nearly 250 fewles Dodgers, there was never any indication choice might be informed by geography, it er big league innings and none of the injury baggage of the latter - which would make it he was seriously contemplating leaving the won’t be decided by it.

Cole’s market is believed to include not reasonable to expect his new contract to ex- Nationals, nor any indication the Nationceed the seven years Strasburg received from als were seriously considering a different only the Angels and Yankees but the Dodgfree agent starting pitcher. His remaining in ers and perhaps the Philadelphia Phillies the Nationals.

Cole is also seen throughout the industry Washington - his adopted hometown, hav- and Texas Rangers as well. We are also at the as the slightly more dominant pitcher of the ing moved his family there a year ago from his point - with the offers beginning to arrive at two, with his 2019 numbers for the Houston native San Diego - was the closest thing to a the table - where, frequently, a Boras negotiaAstros - a 2.50 ERA, 13.8 strikeouts per nine fait accompli as is possible in the high-stakes, tion is all of a sudden said to be joined by a “mystery team” or three. innings and 7.4 wins above replacement (per high-dollar world of elite free agency.

Yet it is difficult not to see the Yankees as “I think some players would want to listen FanGraphs) - beating Strasburg’s single-season career bests. Both undoubtedly earned more” to other teams’ pitches, agent Scott the clear front-runners now, after various

reports said they are preparing, or have already delivered, a mammoth offer for Cole whom they have coveted since at least 2008, when they drafted him out of Orange Lutheran High only to see him honor a commitment to UCLA instead.

Having largely sat out the past few free agent markets while focusing on re-signing their own players and trading for other significant pieces, the Yankees are both highly motivated (by having gone 10 years without an American League pennant) and financially positioned (with only $89.7 million committed toward their 2021 payroll and $51.3 million toward 2022) to make a significant investment this winter.

When the Yankees went to great lengths to get their payroll below the luxury-tax threshold in 2018, thus resetting their tax rate to the lowest level, it was widely viewed as a precursor to a major play for one of the premier members of the storied 2018-19 free agent class headed by Bryce Harper and Manny Machado. Instead, after they largely ignored Harper and Machado - both of whom waited until late February to sign - it now appears the Yankees were merely marshaling their resources ahead of Cole’s initial foray into free agency.

It has been nearly six years since the Yankees signed a free agent to a nine-figure deal - Masahiro Tanaka in January 2014. Tanaka was also the last free agent pitcher they committed to for seven years. They have never gone to eight. A deal for Cole, clearly, would require General Manager Brian Cashman who has preached financial restraint and efficiency in recent years - to go well beyond his point of comfort.

A few days before departing the East Coast for the winter meetings, Cashman was rappelling down a 22-story building in Connecticut - a December tradition he started several years ago - when he saw a sign in an office window, positioned so that Cashman couldn’t miss it: “Sign Gerrit Cole,” it said.

As this free agent market begins to pick up speed and momentum in a way unseen in many Decembers, that is precisely what Cashman is trying to do.

Strasburg contract — and how it’s viewed — shows how far he has evolved Barry Svrluga The Washington Post

This feels right. This is how it should have ended. Merry Strasmas, all these years later.

World Series winners don’t stay together fully intact, and understandably so. But Stephen Strasburg, World Series MVP, couldn’t leave the stage after the parade and re-emerge in another team’s uniform. It would have felt . . . wrong. Sports is a business, sure. We just didn’t need such an in-your-face reminder, not after all that October brought.

A decade ago, Strasburg became one of the first reasons to be at all optimistic about the Washington Nationals. There were times he tested your patience, sure.

How distant does that seem?

It’s a measure of his transformation, more than complete now, that his seven-year, $245-million contract signed Monday is reason for optimism in 2020, and well beyond.

There are cautionary notes, for sure, and we’ll get to them.

But what should be heartening to Nationals fans still reveling in the World Series glow is that their club identified its top target, pursued him aggressively and reeled him in with a massive deal that is simultaneously fair market value and a record total for a pitcher.

Monday arrived because Strasburg opted out of the seven-year, $175-million extension he signed in May 2016

- a deal that worked out well for the Nats, who watched him blossom from fragile to fearsome under the security the deal provided, and brilliantly for Strasburg, who used the first of two opt-outs to cash in on his dominant postseason. Entering free agency was a business decision, and a sensible one. The Nats were neither surprised nor offended.

If you think that decision brought with it trepidation for fans - could the Nats really lose Strasburg? - remember the reactions to the original extension, which came more than a year and a half before Strasburg was due to be a free agent. In the weeks following the deal, I talked to two rival general managers about it.

Because Scott Boras, Strasburg’s agent, so rarely agrees to extensions before his clients reach free agency, the two execs said some version of the exact same thing then: You have to wonder about Strasburg’s health.

It’s one of so many measures that demonstrate how far Strasburg has come, not as much on the mound as in our eyes. Since May 9, 2016 - the day Strasburg walked off the mound at Nationals Park and news of the extension broke - here are the pitchers who have accumulated more wins above replacement (WAR), according to FanGraphs, than Strasburg: teammate Max Scherzer, Jacob deGrom of the New York Mets, Boston’s

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Washington Nationals starter Stephen Strasburg re-signed with the World Series champions.

Chris Sale, Houston’s Justin Verlander and Gerrit Cole, who remains on the free agent market and certainly will outdo Strasburg’s deal soon.

There’s no one else.

Strasburg’s numbers before he agreed to the extension: a 3.07 ERA and 1.09 walks and hits per innings pitched over 825 2/3 innings.

Since he signed the extension: a 3.29 ERA and 1.08 WHIP over 613 innings pitched. We know who he is. And there’s a good bet on who he will be unless he gets better.

Oh, and in the postseason: When he signed the original deal, he had pitched in just one playoff game, the opener against San Francisco in 2014, which he lost. Since: 50 1/3 postseason innings across seven starts and one relief appearance. The results: a 1.43

ERA, a .197 batting average against with 69 strikeouts and seven walks. The Nats’ record in those games: 7-1.

They weren’t going to let this guy go.

But what’s next for him?

Baseball, we’re told over and over, is getting younger.

That’s true - for position players. But Verlander and Scherzer are prime examples of how velocity is carrying into pitchers’ mid-30s, and performance hasn’t waned. Yes, Sale broke down last year, and Boston’s $217-million deal for David Price hasn’t been a success. These are individual humans, after all.

But Strasburg, by now, has command of his body. He has adjusted his training, not to mention his in-game routines (such as throwing exclusively from the stretch). He

just led the National League in innings pitched for the first time. His stuff remains ridiculous. His change-up will be devastating in 2020 - and, in all likelihood, 2025.

The cautionary notes, of course, are not only about deals such as those for Price and Sale, but for the later years of long contracts for pitchers. Might the last two seasons of Scherzer’s sevenyear deal not match up to the first five? Completely possible, even likely considering his Cy Young finishes have been fifth, first, first, second and second. But there’s nothing in Strasburg’s physical or mental makeup that would indicate he’s in decline. Not yet, anyway.

So with Priority No. 1 achieved, what’s next for the champs? The winter meetings in San Diego just started. Whatever happens now, don’t buy what Mark Lerner said about being unable to afford both Strasburg and Anthony Rendon, another in a long list of postseason heroes.

In an interview last week with NBC Sports Washington, the Nationals’ managing principal owner said, “We really can afford to have one of those two guys.”

Uh, no. Let’s be clear: They can afford to have whomever they want. To say, “We already have a large payroll to begin with,” as Lerner did, can be simultaneously true and irrelevant.

Keep in mind: Strasburg

had been on the books at an average annual value of $25 million. He will now be on the books at an average annual value of $35 million. That’s not nothing. But it’s not everything, either.

Will Rendon come in at a similar number? Probably, but it’s not like he played for free a year ago. In his final season before free agency, the third baseman made $18.8 million. So the two of them together might cost, say, $2627 million more per year than they did in 2019.

Is that prohibitive? Well, there’s no salary cap in baseball. The threshold to go over the competitive balance tax in 2020 is $208 million. Ryan Zimmerman made $18 million in 2019. If they re-sign him for 2020, which is likely, he’ll come in, say, $12 million-14 million less than that.

The Nationals won the World Series in a year in which they shed payroll. They have room to add, and not adding - or making an offer Rendon would consider competitive is a choice, not a burden.

But Rendon’s future is for another day. The holiday season got less stressful because Strasburg is signed. Maybe five years ago, you couldn’t envision being thrilled to welcome back Stephen Strasburg for $245 million. But maybe five years ago, you couldn’t envision trying to hold a World Series champ together, either.

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Every college football bowl game ranked Patrick Stevens The Washington Post

The 2019 bowl season won’t get underway for nearly two weeks, but one element of it already removes something for people to complain about: For the first time since 2013, there isn’t a matchup of 6-6 teams in a postseason game. Every game has at least one team with a winning record, though there are still plenty of .500 teams scattered across the bowl landscape (13, to be precise).

This is well-trod ground at this point, but it bears repeating from time to time: Yes, some of the three dozen-plus postseason games exist primarily as television inventory (not that there’s anything wrong with that).

And, yes, from a mathematical perspective, a far greater percentage of teams at college football’s highest level earn bowl bids than, say, 20 or 30 years ago (not that there’s anything wrong with that, either).

There are 78 teams with (at least) another game to play, and a total of 40 contests populating the postseason between Dec. 20 and Jan. 13.

Those who wish to be Scrooge-like in their feelings toward the remaining college football feast are welcome to ignore it. For everyone else, here’s THOMAS J. RUSSO/USA TODAY a 1-to-39 look at the entire bowl schedule. (All Ohio State quarterback Justin Fields (1) rolls out of the pocket to throw for a touchdown against the times EST.) Wisconsin Badgers in the 2019 Big Ten Championship Game at Lucas Oil Stadium.

1. Fiesta Bowl: Clemson vs. Ohio State, Dec. 28, close-but-not-quite team. Notre Dame chugs inthe chasm between the two programs.

8 p.m., ESPN 9. Cheez-It Bowl: Air Force vs. Washington to Orlando with a 10-2 record but was a national It’s the only game with two undefeated teams afterthought after a late-October blowout loss at other than a possible national title game between State, Dec. 27, 10:15 p.m., ESPN What a delightful clash of contrasts. Air Force Michigan. the winner of this game and Louisiana State. Ohio 18. Belk Bowl: Kentucky vs. Virginia Tech, Dec. State finally looked somewhat mortal in the Big (10-2) ranks third in the country in rushing ofTen title game, while it’s a 50-50 bet Clemson fense, while Washington State leads the FBS in 31, noon, ESPN Two teams revitalized by rush-oriented quarCoach Dabo Swinney will claim his Tigers are passing. Both teams have quirky coaches (Air 50-point underdogs to the Buckeyes. This will Force’s Troy Calhoun and the Cougars’ Mike terbacks who took over at the position in the rightfully be the prime-time game on Semifinal Leach), and last year’s edition of this game was a middle of the season. Kentucky’s Lynn Bowden glorious absurdity, with Cal and TCU combining began the year as a wideout before injuries forced Saturday.

2. Peach Bowl: Louisiana State vs. Oklahoma, for nine interceptions in the Horned Frogs’ 10-7 him to shift to QB and enjoy a stellar season as a overtime win. It’s all enough to help you ignore runner. Hendon Hooker helped the Hokies get Dec. 28, 4 p.m., ESPN on track after an ugly opening month. A perfectly The reimagined SEC champion Tigers rarely Wazzu’s 6-6 record.

10. Liberty Bowl: Kansas State vs. Navy, Dec. solid matchup. were slowed during the regular season; even 19. New Orleans Bowl: Appalachian State vs. when they edged Auburn 23-20, they piled up 508 31, 3:45 p.m., ESPN This game looks better than it does at first UAB, Dec. 21, 9 p.m., ESPN total yards. Now, Coach Ed Orgeron, quarterback Appalachian State, the Sun Belt champions, Joe Burrow and the rest of the LSU program en- glance. K-State owns the season’s lone victory counter an old foe: Former Alabama quarterback over Oklahoma, is coming off a Farmageddon de- go for their fifth consecutive bowl victory while Jalen Hurts, who led Oklahoma to its third con- feat of Iowa State and settled in nicely under first- facing the 9-4 Blazers. UAB is in its third consecyear coach Chris Klieman. Quarterback Malcolm utive postseason, and it never gets old pointing secutive playoff berth.

3. Rose Bowl: Oregon vs. Wisconsin, Jan. 1, 5 Perry and Navy, which still has Army to come, has out what a near-miracle that is after the school enjoyed one of the country’s best bounceback shelved the program for two seasons. p.m., ESPN 20. Gator Bowl: Indiana vs. Tennessee, Jan. 2, 7 There’s something just right about the Pac-12 seasons.

11. Holiday Bowl: Iowa vs. Southern California, p.m., ESPN vs. Big Ten matchup in Pasadena on New Year’s It’s the first January bowl game for Indiana Day. Both the Pac-12 champion Ducks and the Dec. 27, 8 p.m., Fox Sports 1 There’s nothing sneaky good about the match- since the 1987 season, and the Hoosiers’ first trip Big Ten West-winning Badgers have top-25 defenses and offenses built around stars who stuck up, just a solid pairing of teams that largely have to Florida for the postseason. Tennessee, left for around the Heisman conversation for much of played well during the back half of the season. dead after early home losses to Georgia State and the year: Oregon QB Justin Herbert and Wiscon- Trojan freshman quarterback Kedon Slovis get- Brigham Young, regrouped to go 7-5. Both prosin RB Jonathan Taylor. It lines up as the best bet ting a shot at Iowa’s capable defense is a fine grams should feel good about themselves, and showcase. that counts for something at the midpoint of the of the non-playoff matchups.

12. Las Vegas Bowl: Boise State vs. Washington, rankings.

4. Cotton Bowl: Memphis vs. Penn State, Dec. Dec. 21, 7:30 p.m., ABC 21. Military Bowl: North Carolina vs. Temple, 28, noon, ESPN The Chris Petersen Bowl. The former Boise Dec. 27, noon, ESPN There are coaches staying (Penn State’s James Mack Brown got North Carolina back in the Franklin) and going (Memphis’ Mike Norvell, State coach has spent the last six seasons at Washwho left for Florida State but still could be on the ington, but is stepping aside after this game. His postseason in his first year back in Chapel Hill.

Tigers’ sideline in this one) in the game featuring Huskies are a disappointing 7-5, but their losses Next stop: Trying to finish with a winning record the Group of Five’s entry into the New Year’s Six came by a combined 26 points. Meanwhile, 12-1 against the rock-solid 8-4 Owls, who beat a pair of schedule. Can Memphis, with its top-10 offense Boise State just missed out on a Cotton Bowl nod. power conference teams (Maryland and Georgia 13. Orange Bowl: Florida vs. Virginia, Dec. 30, 8 Tech) this season. and plethora of offensive weapons, do damage to 22. LendingTree Bowl: Miami Ohio vs. UL-Laa Penn State team whose only losses came in No- p.m., ESPN There’s no doubting the quality of the coaching fayette, Jan. 6, 7:30 p.m., ESPN vember against Minnesota and Ohio State?

The former Mobile Bowl pairs the Mid-Amer5. Boca Raton Bowl: Southern Methodist at in this game with Florida’s Dan Mullen and Virginia’s Bronco Mendenhall. Virginia (9-4) joins ican champions (Miami) and the Sun Belt runFlorida Atlantic, Dec. 21, 3:30 p.m., ABC It won’t decide a national title, but it sure 2016 Auburn and 2018 Texas as the only four-loss ners-up (UL-Lafayette). It’s the last of the nonchampionship postseason games, and at least it should be fun - even with Florida Atlantic coach teams to earn New Year’s Six invitations.

14. Texas Bowl: Oklahoma State vs. Texas pits two league contenders.

Lane Kiffin off to Ole Miss. The host Owls crushed 23. New Mexico Bowl: Central Michigan vs.

UAB to win Conference USA, while SMU has won A&M, Dec. 27, 6:45 p.m., ESPN The former Big 12 South rivals meet for the first San Diego State, Dec. 21, 2 p.m., ESPN 10 games for the first time since 1984 - and last San Diego State ranks fifth nationally in total won 11 in the Eric Dickerson/Craig James “Pony time since Texas A&M bolted for the SEC. It’s not Aggies-Longhorns deep in the heart of Texas, but defense and 115th in total offense, and the Aztecs Express” era in 1982.

6. Sugar Bowl: Baylor vs. Georgia, Jan. 1, 8:45 it will have to do. Oklahoma State tailback Chuba have played exactly one game all season in which Hubbard needs 64 rushing yards for a 2,000-yard both teams scored 20 points. Central Michigan is p.m., ESPN 8-0 when it scores 38 or more points and 0-5 when The question of who actually wants to be in a season.

15. Alamo Bowl: Texas vs. Utah, Dec. 31, 7:30 it doesn’t. Chances are, the Chippewas won’t get bowl game is an annual theme, and it will be reto their magic number in this one. peated again further down these rankings. Geor- p.m., ESPN There’s no better time for Texas to proclaim 24. Hawaii Bowl: Brigham Young vs. Hawaii, gia is back in the Sugar Bowl (and outside the playoff) for the second year in a row. Compared “Wait until next year” (again!) than on New Year’s Dec. 24, 8 p.m., ESPN Ah, an old-school Western Athletic Conference to Baylor, which was 1-11 just a couple years ago, Eve. Plenty of Longhorn fans will probably make this could be a far-from-excited Bulldogs bunch the trip to San Antonio for the game against the matchup to enjoy on Christmas Eve and edge out - and that’s not even factoring players likely to be 11-2 Utes, who have to be deeply disappointed in “A Christmas Carol” as a viewing option. A related first- and second-day NFL draft picks who might their Pac-12 title game no-show. Both teams are note: The Alastair Sim version of the film was reon the “will they really want to be here” watch list. leased in 1951, making it closer in time to BYU’s choose not to play.

16. Gasparilla Bowl: Central Florida vs. Mar- 1984 national title than the present day. Yes, you 7. Outback Bowl: Auburn vs. Minnesota, Jan. 1, are old.

1 p.m., ESPN shall, Dec. 23, 2:30 p.m., ESPN 25. Bahamas Bowl: Buffalo vs. Charlotte, Dec. Wherever Auburn goes, wackiness usually Central Florida won’t make any national title follows. It’s also a chance for Minnesota to cap proclamations after losing three games (by a 20, 2 p.m., ESPN its breakout season with a flourish as it seeks its combined seven points) this season, but the 26. Cure Bowl: Georgia Southern vs. Liberty, fourth consecutive bowl triumph. The Gophers Knights have a long-term answer in freshman QB Dec. 21, 2:30 p.m., CBS Sports Network are playing a January postseason game for just Dillon Gabriel. Marshall (8-4) won six of its past A pair of first-time bowl teams are lumped tothe fourth time. seven, but few noticed outside of West Virginia gether. Charlotte went 7-5 under first-year coach 8. Citrus Bowl: Alabama vs. Michigan, Jan. 1, 1 since no one from Conference USA was a nation- Will Healy and now gets the challenge of slowp.m., ABC al factor this season. ing down Buffalo’s Jaret Patterson, whose 298 Not one but two teams that could either be ul17. Camping World Bowl: Iowa State vs. Notre rushing yards in the Bulls’ season finale was the most of any FBS player in a game this season. Libtra-engaged or ready to move onto the 2020 sea- Dame, Dec. 28, noon, ABC son. Both are coming off rivalry losses; Alabama It’s hard for Iowa State to be disappoint- erty (7-5) faces Georgia Southern in Orlando in at Auburn that ended its playoff hopes, and Mich- ed in a 7-5 season, but four one-possession a matchup of programs that aren’t far removed igan in a rout at Ohio State that further validated losses make it seem like the Cyclones were a from their FCS days.

27. Music City Bowl: Louisville vs. Mississippi State, Dec. 30, 4 p.m., ESPN A matchup between Louisville and Tennessee, which seemed likely until some last-second finagling, would have bumped up this game a few spots. Nonetheless, the Cardinals (7-5) had a fine season under first-year coach Scott Satterfield and return to the site of their last postseason victory, the 2015 Music City Bowl when Louisville was led by a freshman quarterback named Lamar Jackson.

28. Sun Bowl: Arizona State vs. Florida State, Dec. 31, 2 p.m., CBS ACC teams have not done well in El Paso this decade, running up a 2-7 Sun Bowl record. That may not improve with a wobbly 6-6 Florida State team that saw its coach fired in the middle of the season. Then again, 7-5 Arizona State is anything but a consistent force.

29. Redbox Bowl: California vs. Illinois, Dec. 30, 4 p.m., Fox It’s a shame this game isn’t being played a few days closer to Christmas. It would provide Illinois Coach Lovie Smith a chance to show off his magnificent beard and wear a Santa hat on the sideline. Not that he shouldn’t after delivering the Illini’s first bowl trip since 2014 to all the good boys and girls in the Land of Lincoln.

30. Birmingham Bowl: Boston College vs. Cincinnati, Jan. 2, 3 p.m., ESPN 31. Independence Bowl: Louisiana Tech vs.

Miami, Dec. 26, 4 p.m., ESPN The 6-6 ACC teams vs. more-than-capable Group of Five schools portion of the festivities.

Cincinnati’s only losses have come against Memphis (twice) and Ohio State, while Boston College is playing for an interim coach after firing Steve Addazio last week. Here’s hoping the Eagles and star tailback A.J. Dillon actually get to finish their bowl game this year.

In Shreveport, Louisiana Tech gets a de facto home game against Miami, which sputtered to the end of the regular season with losses to Florida International and Duke.

32. Camellia Bowl: Arkansas State vs. Florida International, Dec. 21, 5:30 p.m., ESPN One good reason to take a peek: Florida International’s sixth-ranked pass defense (and No. 19 pass efficiency defense) must contend with the nation’s No. 2 receiver in Arkansas State’s Omar Bayless (84 catches, 1.473 yards, 16 TDs).

33. Armed Forces Bowl: Southern Mississippi vs. Tulane, Jan. 4, 11:30 a.m., ESPN About 115 miles separate these old Conference USA rivals, who had a traveling trophy (the Battle for the Bell) last decade and a four-game series schedule for the 2020s. At the very least, there should be some excitement from fans of both schools.

34. First Responders Bowl: Western Kentucky vs. Western Michigan, Dec. 30, 12:30 p.m., ESPN It’s been quite the season for Western Kentucky, which improved by five games in Tyson Helton’s first season as coach and crushed Arkansas on the road in November. Now, the Hilltoppers get a shot at the other “Western” directional school at the FBS level.

35. Arizona Bowl: Georgia State vs. Wyoming, Dec. 31, 4:30 p.m., CBS Sports Network It’s a matchup of 7-5 teams that bagged early defeats of SEC East teams (Georgia State over Tennessee and Wyoming over Missouri). Unlike last year, the end of this game won’t go head to head with one of the playoff semifinals, so at least there’s a chance someone sees it.

36. Quick Lane Bowl: Eastern Michigan vs.

Pittsburgh, Dec. 26, 8 p.m., ESPN Pittsburgh was good enough to beat Central Florida and put a scare into Penn State. It also limped home with a lifeless showing at Virginia Tech and a home setback against Boston College.

Eastern Michigan is 6-6, but it has stunned Big Ten schools in each of the past three years (Rutgers in 2017, Purdue in 2018 and Illinois in 2019).

37. Idaho Potato Bowl: Nevada vs. Ohio, Jan. 3, 3:30 p.m., ESPN Nevada would have taken a four-game winning streak into the postseason had it defeated UNLV for the Fremont Cannon. It didn’t, but it still can win bowl games in back-to-back years for the first time ever if it can slow down the Bobcats, who scored 118 points in their past two games to get to 6-6.

38. Pinstripe Bowl: Michigan State vs. Wake Forest, Dec. 27, 3:20 p.m., ESPN Michigan State just isn’t much fun to watch most of the time, and Wake Forest lost its best defensive player (linebacker Justin Strnad) and one of the ACC’s top wideouts (Sage Surratt) to season-ending injuries. If there’s a spot to pace yourself, this is it with the playoff semifinals scheduled for the next day.

39. Frisco Bowl: Kent State vs. Utah State, Dec. 20, 7:30 p.m., ESPN2 Neither team ranks in the top 50 nationally in offense, though it is possible porous defenses (Utah State is 96th and Kent State is 120th) contribute to a somewhat entertaining game.

Yankees reportedly shopping Happ to clear salary, sign Cole Field Level Media

Focused on signing Gerrit Cole to a massive contract, the New York Yankees are actively pursuing trades to unload salary from their current 2020 roster.

According to MLB Network, lefthanded starter J.A. Happ is being shopped aggressively by the Yankees.

Unloading Happ’s $17 million salary for next season opens more than a

spot in the rotation, as it also gets the Yankees halfway to what is expected to be Cole’s annual average salary.

The Washington Nationals set a new landmark for starting pitcher salaries on Monday with a sevenyear agreement with Stephen Strasburg valued at $35 million annually.

Although some of the money in the $245 million contract with Strasburg is deferred per reports, the total set

a new salary standard for starting pitchers.

The 37-year-old Happ also holds a $17 million option for 2021. The vesting option automatically triggers if Happ makes 27 starts or pitches 165 innings in 2020. Last season, Happ started 30 games and pitched 161 1/3 innings.

Cole, 29, was 20-5 last season, leading the AL with a 2.50 ERA and the

majors with 326 strikeouts. He was an All-Star for the third time, finished second to teammate Justin Verlander in Cy Young voting, and helped lead the Astros to within a game of winning their second World Series in three seasons.

According to reports, the Los Angeles Angels are preparing for a bidding war with the Yankees for Cole’s services. The Los Angeles Dodgers also

have interest in Cole, among other pricey targets, per the report.

Cole is 94-52 with a 3.22 ERA in 192 games (all starts) in seven seasons. He has 1,336 strikeouts in 1,195 innings pitched. He spent five seasons with Pittsburgh after the Pirates drafted him No. 1 overall in 2011. The team traded him to the Astros in January 2018.

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Childhood abuse led woman to long life of promiscuity Dear Abby, I was molested by my sister’s husband in 1959.

I was 5 years old. Growing up in the late ‘50s and ‘60s, sexual abuse was never discussed in my parents’ home. It just wasn’t done then. Of course, my brother-in-law told me it was “our little secret.”

This has affected my entire DEAR ABBY life. I didn’t get counseling for it because I didn’t remember it. I became promiscuous at a young age, but I cannot remember any of the sexual episodes. I have been with several thousand men and don’t remember any of them.

I came up with a theory that each time, I went into a “fugue state.” I understand it’s common in children who are molested young. I am horribly ashamed of my behavior, and I beg God nightly for forgiveness.

I’m married with a 29-year-old son, and my husband and son know all about my activities during our entire marriage. I have been chaste now for more than a year and doing my best to not “fall off the wagon.”

My sister and her husband are now elderly, but I still want to tell her that he abused me. He also abused his adopted daughter, who ran away when she was 14. Should I tell my sister about what he did to me, or must I take it to my grave?

(We are already estranged.)

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JEANNE PHILLIPS

I am truly sorry for what you experienced and how it has affected your life, and I congratulate you for your year of sobriety. That said, I think you would benefit from talking to a mental health professional about this before deciding whether to tell your sister. I say this for your sake, not hers.

If she remained with her husband after he assaulted her young teenaged daughter (!), it won’t come as a total shock to her. However, she may be

so calloused or deeply in denial that she won’t react or apologize, so do not expect it.

My husband wants us to go to nudist resorts.

We are both in our 70s and very out of shape. He is extremely overweight and old looking. Everything hangs. He has been rude and nasty to me because I always say no. I’m too old to leave him. We can’t keep fighting over this. He is also very unhealthy. Help! Please give me some advice.

Clothing Not Optional I’ll try. Naturist or clothing-optional resorts are not what you may think they are. They are patronized by families and individuals of every shape, size and age.

In the interest of peace in your household, please do some research. Your husband is unwell, and you belong with him. You will not be the exception, you will be the norm and you will not be judged. Try it once and you will see that when the clothes come off, we are all variations on one grand design — even if some of the moving parts sag a little.

My husband left me stranded at the train station with no way to get home as a punishment for my daughter’s behavior. He said it was because I never take him seriously, and I should live with the consequences. I feel he crossed a very big boundary with this, and I’m considering leaving him. Am I wrong?

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DR. KEITH ROACH

Any kind of surgery can lead to a temporary decline in cognitive abilities. The umbrella term “perioperative neurocognitive disorders” is used to describe the spectrum of changes that can occur.

A sudden change in mental function is termed “delirium” when there is a fluctuation in mental status — that is, attention and/or awareness — in addition to changes in thinking. This is different from dementia, which is a slower, usually progressive, loss of cognitive abilities and usually other abilities, depending on the type of dementia.

Temporary loss of cognitive abilities is much more common in older people. While changes within the first 24 hours are extremely common, 12% of people were found to have post-operative cognitive dysfunction three months after surgery in a group where the average age was 68. Older age, lower baseline level of education and use of sedatives were found to be risk factors in an analysis of many studies. Your age and education did not put you at high risk. Further, prolonged symptoms past a year, such as you describe, are less common.

Having a degree of cognitive impairment, such

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I don’t think so. But before visiting a divorce lawyer, it might be better to consult a licensed marriage and family therapist to see if you and your husband can find a more effective way to communicate.

Cognitive impairment after surgery is not uncommon in seniors I am a 67-year-old estate planning attorney.

Last year I had back surgery and experienced substantial cognitive impairment immediately after.

It has been over a year, and I have recovered perhaps 80% of my prior mental function. I would appreciate your thoughts on this issue, as many of my elderly clients have also experienced dementia symptoms following surgery and most have TO YOUR not fully recovered.

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as dementia, prior to surgery is a major risk factor as well. Many very high-functioning patients can develop some degree of dementia without their or their family’s realizing it, since their cognitive abilities are so superior that some loss is hard to notice.

Regardless of risk factors, some people never recover 100% of their function, and we have no good way of identifying who will have permanent problems. Although the published literature isn’t as bad as what you have seen with your clients, up to 40% of older people who develop post-operative delirium never recover to where they were before surgery. There are no known treatments for delayed recovery of the type you are describing.

Given how serious the diagnosis is, prevention strategies have been developed. The best measures are to avoid sedatives; get cognitive stimulation in a reassuring environment; maintain visual and auditory aids for sensory input (that means glasses and hearing aids); get moving early; and avoid becoming dehydrated. These are particularly important for people with risk factors for developing cognitive decline after surgery. So far, these expensive interventions have been done only in a handful of centers, but I hope that they will become more routine.

I honor your willingness to bring up this important issue, and I wish I had more optimistic news for you. For many surgeries, there is no choice involved. For elective surgeries, however, I would recommend that seniors keep the possibility of cognitive decline in mind when deciding whether to proceed.

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Horoscope

By Stella Wilder Born today, you are a team player and exactly the kind of individual others want with them as they tackle the big challenges in life. You are quite affable and maintain a positive, upbeat attitude even when faced with the most difficult of circumstances. You are able to outfox even the cleverest of rivals, not because you are always so clever yourself, but because you are able to remain calm under pressure and envision all possible outcomes — and this allows you to maneuver nimbly and change course whenever necessary.

You have a fine memory and are especially keen when it comes to things you have done before. You remember where you were and what you were doing at almost any previous time — and this gives you a uniquely accurate view of the past.

Also born on this date are: Nikki Sixx, musician, author, fashion designer; Monique, actress and comedienne; Jermaine Jackson, singer; Rita Moreno, actress; Brenda Lee, singer; Mos Def, actor, rapper, activist; Donna Mills, actress.

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

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12 SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — You can shower those you love with all that you have today — and you’ll not be lacking anything when all is said and done.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You risk much today by being oversensitive. Criticism is unavoidable, and you must take it in stride. Give another a piece of advice.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — You may not be able to progress as expected today, but a few moments of thought will allow you to come up with an

even better plan of action.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — Showing someone what you’re made of doesn’t have to involve aggression of any kind. Indeed, a “soft pedal” approach wins the day.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — You can be quite inventive today as you approach a problem that others cannot solve. Indeed, thinking out of the box is a virtual requirement!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — You are eager to find an outlet for your growing creative energy.

Look no further than what a friend offers — it will take you by surprise.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You cannot afford to let your mind wander today. Stick to the problem at hand, and don’t let anyone tell you that a solution can’t be found.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — Others are organizing a contest of sorts that you simply must participate in, as you’ll have a chance to right a past wrong in the process.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — Be sure to make time for the unexpected today; despite your many appointments and responsibilities, you must be ready to face a few surprises.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Repetition allows you to get something right that has taken quite some time to comprehend in the first place. You want to score a win!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Your imagination is likely to lead you down some winding paths today — but what you discover along the way gives you a distinct advantage.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — You may be the only person who knows how to solve a certain problem today — and others are almost certain to give you the freedom to get it done.

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SUPER QUIZ

THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME

By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek

LSSOH DICEH RALLUP CASCUT

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

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Unscramble these Jumbles, one letter to each square, to form four ordinary words.

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

(Answers tomorrow) Yesterday’s

Jumbles: TURBO WAGER PUDDLE ORNERY Answer: The bottom of the valley was a little further — DOWN THE ROAD

Solution to Tuesday’s puzzle

12/11/19 Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit, 1 to 9.

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(e.g., In 1955 this princess announced that she would marry Peter Townsend. Answer: Princess Margaret.)

Freshman level 1. Princess Fiona marries this ogre.

2. This American film actress became Princess of Monaco.

3. In which TV series was the Pacific Princess featured?

Graduate level 4. Which princess said, “Aren’t you a little short for a Stormtrooper”?

5. She was Disney’s first indigenous American princess.

6. Elton John changed “Candle in the Wind” to honor this princess.

PH.D. level 7. Lucy Lawless is best known for portraying this princess.

8. The 1939 film “The Little Princess” was her last major success as a child star.

9. In the ballet “Sleeping Beauty,” this princess pricks her finger on a spindle.

SUPER QUIZ ANSWERS 1. Shrek. 2. Grace Kelly. 3. “The Love Boat.” 4. Princess Leia. 5. Pocahontas.

6. Princess Diana. 7. Xena: Warrior Princess. 8. Shirley Temple. 9. Princess Aurora.

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

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Crossword Puzzle ACROSS 1 Tic __; breath mint 4 Think the world of 9 Matterhorn’s range 13 Lung disease 14 Ride a Schwinn 15 Cowboy’s shoe 16 Faith, __ and charity 17 Cutlass maker 19 “__ Be Seeing You”; Billie Holiday song 20 Lock horns 21 Refresh 22 Palermo’s nation 24 Oxygen or argon 25 Actor Al 27 WWI president 30 John Quincy __ 31 Treble __; musical symbols 33 Solemn promise 35 Saloons 36 Group of ships 37 Phi __ Kappa 38 “__ rise”; bailiff’s command 39 Like a school uniform skirt 40 Exposed 41 Monotony 43 Totie or Kim 44 Candle material 45 Passover bread 46 “The Beverly Hillbillies” star 49 Add booze to the punch 51 Take __; depart 54 Gift basket wrapping 56 One-scene play 57 Pelts from above 58 Harshness 59 Buffalo group 60 Time-__; brief game breaks 61 “__ Which Way but Loose” 62 Begley & his dad DOWN 1 Hammer or saw 2 To the point 3 B-F connection 4 Famed Harlem theater 5 Stall

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6 Horse race bettor’s concern 7 Shingles symptom 8 Tree that can grow to 100 feet 9 Convent superior 10 Roasted pork __; entrée choice 11 Mast 12 Worry; fret 13 Part of the Greek alphabet 18 Some grad tests 20 Pantry stackables 23 Allen & Curry 24 Present 25 Traditional breadwinner 26 Man or woman 27 Garden intruder 28 Didn’t notice 29 Renowned 31 __ up; say no more 32 Maui accessory 34 Fistfuls of cash 36 State of constant change 37 Folk singer Joan

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Non Sequitur

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39 Elton John’s instrument 40 Fisherman’s hope 42 __ in; inhabits 43 Phoniness 45 Trivial 46 Repeat a sound 47 Jeff Bridges’ brother 48 Thin cut

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49 Prison knife 50 Summon with a beeper 52 Forest trees 53 Flower delivery co.

55 Prefix for occupied or med 56 Feminine pronoun

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