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CATSKILL — Demolition of the former Greene County Jail on Bridge Street in Catskill will have no adverse impacts on the environment, Greene County lawmakers agreed Monday, but the Legislature has to deal with lead and asbestos in the jail building and the historic effects of the project.

The Legislature issued a negative declaration based on the state environmental review of the demolition project.

But the environmental review indicated that the demolition is expected to have moderate to large historical impacts.

During a special Public Safety Committee meeting on Monday night, Deputy Greene County Administrator Warren Hart went over the extensive review with the board.

The county has reserved $500,000 for the demolition of the former sheriff’s office and jail complex, located at 80 Bridge St. in the village. The historic carriage house will remain intact. Decisions must be made on how the county wants to deal with the lead and asbestos inside the jail and if any historic materials such as the Ohio sandstone that makes up the facade of the jail should be

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The former Greene County Jail on Bridge Street in Catskill. A state review found demolition would have no adverse impacts on the environment, but the Greene County Legislature has to solve the problem of lead and asbestos in the jail building.

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Kicking off the second week of public hearings of the impeachment inquiry, two White House experts testified Tuesday morning that President Donald Trump’s conduct with Ukraine was “inappropriate” and “unusual.”

Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the top Ukraine expert on the National Security Council, and Jennifer Williams, the special adviser on Europe and Russia for Vice President Mike Pence, both listened in real time to Trump’s infamous July 25 See TRUMP A8

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Panel OK’s office acquisition in 5-4 vote

By Sarah Trafton Columbia-Greene Media

CATSKILL — Controversy over Greene County’s acquisition of the temporary sheriff’s office in Coxsackie one year after the county began renting it continued Monday night.

The proposed $400,000 purchase passed the Greene County Legislature’s Finance Committee in a 5-4 vote.

In October 2018, the Legislature approved an agreement to lease a building at 370 Mansion St., Coxsackie, for three years so the sheriff’s office would have a place to process inmates while the new jail was being constructed.

At the Public Works Committee meeting eight days ago, Greene County Administrator

Shaun Groden informed the legislators about an opportunity to purchase the building.

“We paid $3,800 a month plus tax, which is another $1,000 for the first year,” Groden said. “In the second year it will go from $3,800 to $4,200 and then to $4,300 in the third year.”

By purchasing the property instead of renting it, the county potentially could save money, Groden said.

“If we acquire it now, we save $125,000,” Groden said.

“We have to sell it for $400,000 in order to save the $125,000.”

Legislators Michael Bulich, R-Catskill; Linda Overbaugh, R-Catskill; and Gregory Davis, See PANEL A8

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The temporary Greene County Sheriff’s Office, at 370 Mansion St. in Coxsackie, pictured in October.

The Legislature’s Finance Committee approved the county’s proposed purchase of the building in a close 5-4 vote.

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WASHINGTON — Crowds flocked to the National Zoo over the weekend to bid their final goodbyes to Bei Bei, the giant panda cub, as he prepares to leave the only home he has known for China.

Zoo officials have had a week of special activities for humans at the zoo - along with frozen fruit cakes for Bei Bei - as keepers prepare to fly the 240-pound panda to China on Tuesday as part of a deal between the two countries. China owns all giant pandas and leases them to U.S. zoos; they have to go to China when they turn 4 so they can be bred.

Bei Bei was born at the zoo in 2015 and is the last of the zoo’s three giant panda cubs to go. His name means “precious treasure.”

His leaving comes at a time of uncertainty for pandas at the zoo, where they have been a nearly constant - and popular - attraction for the last 47 years.

Mei Xiang, his mother, had a “false pregnancy,” where female pandas can show signs of being pregnant but aren’t really pregnant, in March. That followed two other false pregnancies in the last few years.

For now, it’s not known whether the zoo will get any new giant panda cubs. And it’s also unclear whether China will want back Mei Xiang and Bei Bei’s father Tian Tian, who were both born in China and have been on a long-term leases to the United States. Their lease expires next year on Dec. 7.

Bei Bei is the third giant panda to have been born at the zoo and moved to China. Tai Shan moved in 2010, and Bao Bao moved in 2017.

A week of events has marked Bei Bei’s imminent departure.

Visitors over the weekend were served dumplings, courtesy of the Chinese Embassy. In turn, they wrote postcards and made

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Bei Bei, the giant panda, munches bamboo in his yard at the National Zoo on Tuesday before his 16-hour flight to China.

friendship bracelets for the panda.

Bei Bei got treats, too, including ice cakes filled with frozen juice, sweet potato and sugar cane.

Over the last week, the zoo has been putting up messages on its social media accounts that read like a walk down memory lane of Bei Bei’s four years at the facility, using the hashtag #ByeByeBeiBei. It has shared the first ultrasound showing the panda and images of the cub playing in the snow at his enclosure.

The zoo shared that pandas spend 10 to 16 hours a day eating about 20 to 40 pounds of bamboo each day. Some might be surprised to know that although pandas may look fluffy, their fur is “very coarse and dense like wool,” the zoo said on Twitter. That fur “acts as a cushion when cubs tumble and fall.”

There have also been some reminders of how cute and

entertaining Bei Bei has been.

One video from the panda cam at his exhibit showed Bei Bei doing two of his favorite things: climbing and tumbling.

The zoo also encouraged panda fans to make a mix tape of music that the panda might want to listen to on his long flight to China.

Over the weekend, zoo officials said they saw an uptick in visitors, with more than 12,700 coming Saturday and Sunday, compared with 5,500 during the same weekend in 2018. Some visitors this weekend came from Massachusetts, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Florida, New York and New Jersey, according to zoo officials.

On Tuesday morning, Bei Bei will be taken from his enclosure at the zoo and put in a crate and driven to Dulles International Airport, where he’ll be put on a FedEx plane with keepers for a 16-hour nonstop flight to China.

Zookeepers said Bei Bei was

doing well on Monday, and they were “sticking to his regular schedule” through Tuesday morning. He has been training with his keepers the last few weeks on getting into - and staying in - the crate. A spokeswoman for the zoo said his crate training has “gone very well and easily.”

Pamela Baker-Masson, a spokeswoman for the zoo, said Monday in an email that “Bei Bei willingly goes into the crate, enjoys his treats,” and “is comfortable with the doors closed.”

Zoo officials said that once they get Bei Bei off, they’ll focus on an agreement with the Chinese in 2020 regarding pandas.

“Bei Bei is just one of many conservation successes,” Baker-Masson said. “There is still a lot of conservation work to be done and for all the right and important reasons, we want to continue our giant panda program.”

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WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump lashed out at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., in a tweet early on Tuesday morning, misquoting her while characterizing the ongoing impeachment inquiry as a ploy to skirt the 2020 election because “she thinks I will win.”

Trump weighed in on whether voters, rather than Congress, should decide his fate after Pelosi addressed that same argument against impeachment - a favorite among Republican lawmakers - in a statement earlier Monday.

Stressing the importance of the impeachment hearings, Pelosi had written in a “Dear Colleague” memo, “The weak response to these hearings has been, ‘Let the election decide.’

That dangerous position only adds to the urgency of our action, because the President is jeopardizing the integrity of the 2020 elections.”

Tweeting after midnight Tuesday, Trump attributed a quote about the 2020 election to the House speaker - but it appears the quote actually came from a Fox News reporter in a broadcast an hour earlier.

Alluding to Fox, Trump wrote: “Nancy Pelosi just stated that ‘it is dangerous to let the voters decide Trump’s fate.’ @ FoxNews In other words, she

thinks I’m going to win and doesn’t want to take a chance on letting the voters decide. Like Al Green, she wants to change our voting system. Wow, she’s CRAZY!” Trump was referring to Texas Rep. Al Green, among the first Democrats to push for impeachment.

White House spokespeople did not immediately respond to a request for comment early Tuesday morning about Trump’s attribution or how impeachment could change the voting system. Media watchdogs such as CNN’s Brian Stelter and other political reporters pointed out the president’s apparent misquote.

Trump appeared to be taking his quote from not Pelosi but Fox News chief congressional correspondent Mike Emanuel. Just after 11 p.m. Monday, Emanuel said, “House Speaker Nancy Pelosi circulated a memo to Democrats tonight telling them it would be dangerous to let voters decide President Trump’s fate when it comes to the Ukraine investigation.”

“Letting voters decide” has emerged as one of the loudest arguments against impeachment as public hearings take center stage on the cusp of an election year. Democrats are investigating whether Trump abused his power in allegedly pressuring the Ukrainian

president to pursue investigations of Trump’s political rivals at the expense of national security.

Republicans, however, have argued that voters should be the ones to decide at the polls whether Trump did anything wrong. “To my colleagues on the other side, I say this: Give the people back their power,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said just before the House voted to formalize the impeachment inquiry last month. “Let them choose the next leader of the free world.”

In fact, New Jersey Rep. Jeff Van Drew, one of only two Democrats to vote against launching the impeachment inquiry, said “let the people choose” was his rationale for his nay vote.

Pelosi has fired back by arguing that lawmakers are fulfilling their constitutional duty to launch an impeachment inquiry when evidence of a possible impeachable offense has come to light.

During an Oct. 17 news conference, a reporter asked Pelosi, “How important is it for impeachment to bleed over into an election year?”

Pelosi responded that “impeachment is about the truth and the Constitution,” whereas elections should deal instead with policy issues like gun control and climate change.

“That has nothing to do with what is happening in terms of our honoring our oath of office to protect and defend the Constitution and the facts that might support,” Pelosi said.

Pressing Pelosi, the reporter asked: “At what point might you say, let’s just let the voters decide?”

“No, no. The voters are not going to decide whether we honor our oath of office,” Pelosi said. “They already decided that in the last election.”

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CALENDAR Wednesday, Nov. 20 n Catskill Library Board 6:45 p.m. at

either the Catskill Library, 1 Franklin St., Catskill or Palenville Library, 3303 Route 23A, Palenville n Catskill Town Board committee meeting 6:30 p.m. Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill n Greene County Legislature public hearing (Greene County AFSCME, AFLCIO, Council 66 collective bargaining agreement County Office Building Board Room) 6 p.m. followed by Legislature Meeting No. 11 6:30 p.m. Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill

Thursday, Nov. 21 n Coxsackie Village Planning Board 7

p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

Monday, Nov. 25 n Catskill Village Planning Board 7 p.m. Catskill Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill

Tuesday, Nov. 26 n Catskill Town Planning Board 7 p.m.

Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill

Wednesday, Nov. 27 n Catskill Town Offices closed in ob-

servance of Thanksgiving

Thursday, Nov. 28 n Catskill Town Offices closed in ob-

servance of Thanksgiving n Catskill Village Offices will be closed in observance of Thanksgiving n Coxsackie Town Offices closed in observance of Thanksgiving n Coxsackie Village Offices closed in observance of Thanksgiving n Greene County Office Building closed in observance of Thanksgiving

Friday, Nov. 29 n Catskill Town Offices closed in ob-

servance of Thanksgiving n Catskill Village Offices will be closed in observance of Thanksgiving n Coxsackie Village Offices closed in observance of Thanksgiving

Monday, Dec. 2 n Athens Town Board 6:45 p.m. Town

Hall, 2 First St., Athens n Cairo Town Board 7 p.m. Town Hall, 512 Main St., Cairo

Wednesday, Dec. 4 n Greene County Economic Develop-

ment Corporation 4 p.m. Greene County Economic Development, Tourism and Planning Conference Room (Room 427), 411 Main St., Catskill.

Thursday, Dec. 5 n Athens Town Planning Board 7 p.m.

Town Hall, 2 First St., Athens n Cairo Town Planning Board 7 p.m.

Town Hall, 512 Main St., Cairo n Coxsackie Village Workshop Meeting 6 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

Monday, Dec. 9 n Catskill Village Planning Board 7

p.m. Catskill Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill n Coxsackie Village Board 7 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

Tuesday, Dec. 10 n Coxsackie Village Historic Preserva-

tion Committee 6 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

Wednesday, Dec. 11 n Athens Village Board 6:30 p.m. Vil-

lage Hall, 2 First St., Athens n Catskill Village Board 7 p.m. Dec. 11 Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill

Thursday, Dec. 12 n Windham-Ashland-Jewett CSD BOE audit finance committee 5:15 p.m. in superintendent’s office; regular meeting 6 p.m. in the School Library, 5411 Route 23, Windham

Demagall pleads in murder case

By Amanda Purcell Columbia-Greene Media

HUDSON — A Massachusetts man pleaded not responsible by reason of mental disease or defect in the 2006 killing of a Hillsdale teacher.

William Demagall, 34, formerly of Berkshire County, Massachusetts, entered the plea Monday in Columbia County Court.

Demagall was charged with second-degree murder, a class A felony, in the death of 56-year-old teacher George Mancini. Mancini was bludgeoned, stabbed 37 times and set on fire in his own home by Demagall, state police investigators said.

Demagall’s third and most recent trial, in 2015, ended in a mistrial after the jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict after four days of deliberations.

After entering the plea on the record Monday, Columbia County Judge Jonathan Nichols said, “I am convinced that the outcome of the plea is in fact in the interest of the public and the administration of justice with respect to this particular case, perhaps the most difficult case I have ever had.”

Nichols ordered Demagall to undergo a psychiatric evaluation before he is committed to a secure facility.

Demagall will undergo evaluations every two years and could spend the

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Defendant William Demagall appears in Columbia County Court in 2011.

rest of his life under state-sponsored psychiatric care, Nichols said.

Both defense and prosecution said that he committed the killing, but differed as to his responsibility.

Defense attorney Cheryl Coleman of Albany has maintained her client was incapable of committing the crime because he did not know what is morally wrong.

“We do agree it is a just result,” Coleman said. “It is the result my client and his family sought going through the three separate trials at immense expense.”

Special prosecutor Timothy Shevy reviewed thousands of pages of documents and testimony before reaching his decision.

Demagall told state police that he had visited Mancini before and had a vision that he had to kill him on a “mission from God.” He told psychiatrists that he was in the Court of King Arthur and identified with one of the Knights of the Roundtable in search of the Holy Grail, Shevy said.

“The defendant was absorbed by this,” Shevy said. Doctors said

Demagall suffered from permanent psychosis, schizophrenia and delusions at the time of the killing, Shevy said.

The prosecution’s own psychiatric physician in the case has since moved to California and would not make himself available to participate further in the proceedings, Shevy said.

A new doctor would need to be hired to render an expert opinion on Demagall’s mental state during the killing by reviewing old documentation or a new interview 13 years later.

“There are serious significant appellate issues created by bringing in an expert 13 years later,” Shevy said.

Demagall escaped a secure mental-health wing at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield, Massachusetts three days before Mancini’s death and received a ride to the teacher’s address.

Nichols addressed the Mancini family after Demagall entered the plea.

“I realize you may not agree with this result, but hopefully you can understand even if you don’t agree as to why this plea was accepted by me,” Nichols said.

Columbia County District Attorney Paul Czajka served as judge during Demagall’s first trial and was recused by the court as prosecutor in the case.

GREENE COUNTY POLICE BLOTTER Editor’s Note: A charge is not a conviction. All persons listed are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

Charges can be amended or dismissed.

STATE POLICE n Brian J. Gutwein, 46, of Palenville, was arrested at 9:45 p.m. Nov. 12 in Saugerties and charged with aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, an unclassified misdemeanor, and unlawful possession of marijuana, a violation. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Shanice A. Jackson, 26, of Freehold, was arrested at 8:11 p.m. Nov. 12 in Cairo and charged with petty larceny, a class A misdemeanor. She was issued an appearance ticket. n Joel H. Dubois, 45, of Catskill, was arrested at 1:10 a.m. Nov. 14 in Catskill and charged with driving while intoxicated, an unclassified misdemeanor; unlawful possession of marijuana, a violation; and refusing to take a breathalyzer, an infraction. He was issued an appearance ticket.

n Calvin J. Blowers, 22, of Coxsackie, was arrested at 4:27 p.m.

Nov. 13 in Catskill and charged with endangering the welfare of a child, a class A misdemeanor. He was released on his own recognizance. n Angela M. Devito, 21, of Catskill, was arrested at 1:05 a.m.

Nov. 4 in Catskill and charged with driving while intoxicated, an unclassified misdemeanor, and seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a class A misdemeanor. She was issued an appearance ticket. n George M. Esther, 37, of Woodstock, was arrested at 3:17 a.m. Nov. 16 in Catskill and charged with operating a motor vehicle with a bloodalcohol content greater than 0.08% and driving while intoxicated, both unclassified misdemeanors. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Michael Martinez, 44, of Catskill, was arrested at 12:58 p.m. Nov. 16 in New Baltimore and charged with seventh-degree

criminal possession of a controlled substance, a class A misdemeanor.

He was issued an appearance ticket. n Tommas J. Lifgren, 42, of Hudson, was arrested at 12:58 p.m. Nov. 16 in New Baltimore and charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a class A misdemeanor; fifth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a class D felony; and tampering with physical evidence, a class E felony. He was held. n Nicholas A. Primiano, 49, of Staten Island, was arrested at 2:30 p.m. Nov. 16 in Lexington and charged with a violation of fish and wildlife law, an unclassified misdemeanor. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Deborah A. Flaherty, 50, of Round Top, was arrested at 5:13 p.m.

Nov. 17 in Cairo and charged with petty larceny, a class A misdemeanor. She was issued an appearance ticket. n Shannon L. Vladich, 24, of

Kingston, was arrested at 10:24 p.m.

Nov. 15 in Catskill and charged with driving while intoxicated, an unclassified misdemeanor. She was released to a third party. n Peter D. Bistrian, 62, of New Baltimore, was arrested at 5 p.m.

Nov. 17 in New Baltimore and charged with operating a motor vehicle while impaired by drugs, an unclassified misdemeanor. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Arcel C. Simon, 59, of Albany, was arrested at 7:45 p.m. Nov. 17 in Catskill and charged with driving while intoxicated, an unclassified misdemeanor; aggravated DWI with a child, a class E felony; unsafe tires, having a backseat passenger in the age 4-6 with a restraint violation, having a backseat passenger age 7-15 with a seat belt violation and having a front-seat passenger age 4-6 with a restraint violation, all infractions. He was held in lieu of a bail bond.

Delgado announces November mobile office hours KINGSTON — Each month, the office of U.S. Representative Antonio Delgado (NY-19) hosts mobile office hours where constituents can meet with the Congressman’s staff and receive assistance with constituent services. This includes any type of support with federal services, from seniors having issues with their Social Security benefits, to veterans needing more information on VA benefits and services, to organizations applying for grants. In October, Delgado’s office held mobile office hours

at locations in Rensselaer, Greene, Delaware, Otsego, Sullivan and Ulster Counties.

“I am continuing to uphold my commitment to be accessible, accountable, and transparent to everyone in the district. That’s why I’ve opened five district offices, held twenty-six town halls, and created in-district advisory committees focused on the priorities important to NY-19 including Health Care, Veterans, Small Businesses, and Agriculture.” Delgado continued, “I’m proud to

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announce mobile office hours with members of my staff this November to continue bringing the resources and services from my office directly to the communities I represent. There are a number of ways my office can help cut through red tape and resolve issues tied up in federal agencies. Last month my office enjoyed meeting new folks at mobile

office hours and hearing about the issues important in communities across our district. We are looking forward to meeting more folks in November — hope you’re able to come by!”

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These questions need to be answered When the question, “Who is the hardest-working congressman in Washington?” comes up, the answer very well might be U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado, at least within the borders of his 19th District.

The Democratic representative from Rhinebeck on Saturday drew a standing-room-only audience to Copake Town Hall. The town hall was Delgado’s 29th since taking office and his third in Columbia County.

It’s likely that the people who turned out were eager to hear what Delgado had to say about the impeachment inquiry. They didn’t have to wait long to find out.

As the second round

of impeachment public hearings enter midweek, Delgado said he has a few questions of his own about President Donald Trump’s dealings with Ukraine.

Delgado said Saturday that the investigation is inexorably leading to the revelation of critical facts, facts that will prove to be alarming to Congress and the American people.

By his own admission Saturday, Delgado told the crowd he was not one of the members of Congress who spoke out early on the issue of impeachment.

His reason? “I was trying to do this in a way where we could pursue truth and understanding what is going on, particularly when it

comes to Russia’s meddling, in a fashion that would be as nonpartisan as possible,” Delgado said.

If there were a request line to Congress for asking questions, this would be Delgado’s list: Why and for what purpose? Who was put in harm’s way? Was money withheld? How many people were fired and moved as a result? And how long did it date back to? And how much was the power of the presidency used for this personal gain?

These questions cannot be ignored. The committee holding the public hearings needs to introduce them and get answers. We only wish Delgado were there to ask them himself.

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Republicans’ defense of Trump is full of holes The Washington Post

The first week of impeachment hearings produced powerful testimony about President Donald Trump’s pressure on Ukraine to investigate his political opponents, but also a number of defensive arguments by Republicans. Unfortunately for Trump, none of them is consistent with the facts.

Here’s a review of the various excuses and their flaws.

No harm, no foul.

Republicans say that, since Ukraine eventually received the military aid that Trump withheld, and never launched the investigations he demanded of former vice president Joe Biden and Ukraine’s role in the 2016 election, there was no offense. That’s like arguing that, if an armed robber flees the bank he is holding up before getting any money, he should be excused. Trump released the hold on aid to Ukraine only after Congress announced an investigation.

Moreover, there was harm. The episode damaged U.S.-Ukrainian relations. Instead of supporting Ukraine’s new president, Volodymyr Zelensky, as he sought to fend off Russian aggression, Trump signaled to both the Ukrainians and Vladimir Putin that the United States was an unreliable ally.

The Ukrainians never felt pressured.

Republicans base this claim on a statement Zelensky made as he sat alongside Trump at the United Nations in September. But considerable evidence suggests it was a diplomatic white lie.

Reporting by the Associated Press shows the Ukrainian president was concerned about the pressure for investigations as far back as May. Testimony by U.S. diplomats and text messages they exchanged with Zelensky’s aides show the Ukrainians’ deep unease about being drawn into U.S. politics.

The acting chief of the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, William Taylor, testified that Zelensky had reluctantly agreed to give an interview announcing the investigations in September and did not do so only because Trump released the aid first.

Trump was genuinely concerned about Ukrainian corruption.

Republicans say the president was looking for proof that the new Ukrainian administration would promote the rule of law. But Trump never used the word “corruption” in two phonecalls with Zelensky. When the Ukrainians offered a statement pledging corruption probes, it was rejected by Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani. Instead, he insisted specifically on the investigation of Biden and the 2016 election.

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There was good reason to seek an investigation of Ukraine’s role in the election and of Hunter Biden’s board membership in a Ukrainian gas company.

Republicans have cited reports that Ukrainian officials sought to damage Trump’s campaign. But three senior U.S. officials have testified that there is no evidence to back the allegations.

Ukrainian and U.S. officials have also said there is no evidence of wrongdoing by the Bidens. The conspiracy theory raised by Trump, about Ukraine rather than Russia hacking the Democratic National Committee, was promoted by Putin; it was debunked by Trump’s own homeland security adviser.

Trump signed off on weapons deliveries that President Barack Obama refused to approve.

Republicans claim that Obama provided Ukraine only with “blankets.” In fact, he approved extensive non-lethal military aid, such as counter-battery radars.

While Trump authorized a limited supply of anti-tank missiles, when Mr. Zelensky asked to buy more, Trump responded, “I would like you to do us a favor though,” and then demanded the investigations.

White House policymaking was too chaotic to seek a specific quid pro quo.

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Mueller did his job. Now others need to do theirs.

Daniel W. Drezner The Washington Post

As the impeachment inquiry has built momentum, there have been not-so-subtle comparisons between the Ukraine scandal and the Russia investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller. Several House Republicans have referred to the impeachment inquiry as a low-rent sequel to the underwhelming Russia investigation.

It’s a cute line, but 70% of the country thinks that Trump’s actions toward Ukraine were wrong, so that dog won’t hunt.

The more interesting comparisons come from the mainstream media, who make the opposite point: The Ukraine scandal demonstrates the shortcomings of Robert Mueller’s investigation. Chuck Todd of “Meet the Press,” for example, has suggested that the political failure of the Mueller probe haunts the impeachment inquiry: Democrats “are so afraid of the politics of the Mueller report that I think they’re avoiding what are obvious issues with Russia.”

An even better example is the New York Times’ David Leonhardt, who has argued repeatedly that “Mueller’s convoluted report was a gift to Trump.

Mueller’s long investigation uncovered extensive evidence of a president who had broken the law and abused his power, but Mueller did almost nothing to hold the president accountable.” In Leonhardt’s eyes, Mueller pulled his punches because he “prized his reputation for floating above partisan politics.” He therefore compares unfavorably to the more courageous trio of Marie Yovanovitch, Bill Taylor and George Kent. Leonhardt is hardly the only commentator to perceive Mueller and his report as producing a “swing and miss on Russia.”

None of this makes any sense to me.

Bob Mueller was never going to swoop into 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. and put the cuffs

on Donald Trump. As a Department of Justice employee bound by department guidelines that affirm a sitting president cannot be indicted, Mueller never had the authority to do that. Furthermore, Mueller was never going to go beyond what the evidence said, which was why he did not conclude that the Trump campaign conspired with a foreign power to influence the campaign.

What Mueller did do, under intense political pressure, was his job. He reported out what he learned, which was significant.

He successfully prosecuted a number of Trump officials, including the 2016 campaign manager, deputy campaign manager, and national security adviser. He farmed out investigations peripheral to his remit to other elements of the DOJ so as to avoid accusations of overreach. He assembled a pretty overwhelming case that Trump repeatedly and knowingly attempted to obstruct justice by interfering in the investigation.

He pushed back when Attorney General William Barr mischaracterized the conclusions in his report. He did all of this in under two years, which is quicker than the average length of a special counsel/special prosecutor investigation.

Mueller perfectly fits the mold of public servants that New York Times columnist David Brooks described as “generally not all that interested in partisan politics but are deeply committed to the process and substance of good government.” Indeed, Mueller proved himself to be far better at draining the swamp than Trump ever was.

Leonhardt and others seem to believe that had Mueller been more forceful, perhaps that would have swayed Congress and the public to support impeachment sooner. This was never Mueller’s job, however, just as it was not the job of Marie Yovanovitch, George Kent or Bill Taylor to lobby for impeachment. Mueller gave Congress a road map for what it could do

in response to Trump’s transgressions; he was never going to drive the car as well.

In retrospect, Chuck Todd is incorrect to say that the Mueller probe has hamstrung the impeachment inquiry - or, rather, his analysis is incomplete. Mueller’s report softened the ground - it made it more conceivable to believe that Trump would abuse his power in other parts of his presidency.

As Quinta Jurecic noted in the Atlantic last week, “the Ukraine scandal is a thematic sequel to the Russia investigation, as well as a chronological one. ...

The stories of greed and abuse of power are the same. And so, too, is the stolid sincerity of the civil servants who have found themselves cast opposite the president in this national drama.” Indeed, the Mueller probe continues to tie the president up in knots of his own making.

Jurecic concluded her essay by noting, “The only answer to these problems is the work of what civil servants such as Mueller and Taylor reject: politics. This is frustrating and unsatisfactory. But it is the only answer there has ever been.”

She is correct. The best and most proper way for Donald Trump to exit the White House is through political means. Leonhardt blasts Mueller because he “tossed the hard decisions to Congress.” Mueller had no authority or legitimacy to do anything else.

Expecting bureaucratic saviors like Mueller to do the necessary political work excuses Congress and the citizenry from doing their jobs. Mueller pretty much did what he had to do. If there is anything the Age of Trump should teach us, it is not to take politics for granted.

Both the Mueller probe and the Ukraine scandal remind us that the primary responsibility for coping with Trump lies with Congress and the voters.

Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

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Ursula Erika Irmgard Beinkampen Ursula Erika Irmgard and helpful nature.

Beinkampen, of Park VillageIn 2010, Ursula moved to Southside Nursing Home, New Ohio, first residing at Walnut Philadelphia, OH passed away Hills Retirement Community in on November 17, 2019 at the Walnut Creek, and later movage of 94. ing to Park Village-Southside Ursula was born to parents in New Philadelphia. Ursula is Marta (Nickig) and Otto Reich- survived by her beloved son stein on October 11, 1925 and daughter-in-law, Klaus in Lomnitz Krs. Hirschberg, and Karen Beinkampen of Schlesien, Germany (presently New Philadelphia, OH; grandJelenia Góra, Poland). She daughter Kara (John) Leck of had many fond memoNew Philadelphia; five ries growing up in the great-grandchildren, quaint German riverJohn, Susannah, town, surrounded by Rosemary, Ezra, and farmland, hills, and Aidan Leck also of beautiful mountains.

New Philadelphia; and She enjoyed singing several nieces and in the Lutheran church nephews in Germany. choir, biking to and She was preceded in hiking in the moundeath by her parents, tains, skiing, sledding, Beinkampen Marta and Otto; her and picking wildflowhusband Egon; and ers in the nearby fields. her older sister Dorothea Thiel.

During World War II, for her The family would like to own safety, she fled her beau- thank all the compassionate tiful homeland to Wilhelm- doctors, nurses and staff of shaven, on the north coast Cleveland Clinic/Union Hosof Germany. There, she met, pital, Park Village-Southside and in 1948, married her hus- and Community Hospice for band of 46 years, Egon Karl the loving care that she reBeinkampen. In 1949, a son, ceived.

Klaus, was born. In 1954 the In keeping with Ursula’s Beinkampen’s immigrated to wishes there will be no public the United State, settling in visitation or services. CremaCraryville, New York. There, tion care will be handled by they worked hard to establish Smith-Varnes Funeral Home themselves in their newly ad- of Sugarcreek, OH. Memorial opted country. Ursula found contributions in Ursula’s name employment as a waitress and may be made to Community dental hygienist. She attend- Rescue Squad, 283 Mouned the Craryville United Meth- tain View Road, Copake, NY odist church and was a mem- 12516, Craryville United Methber of the UMW, and also the odist Church, PO Box 473, Roeliff Jansen Central School Craryville, NY 12521 or ComPTA. Ursula was known for munity Hospice, 716 Commerher delicious German cooking, cial Ave. SW, New Philadelas well as her hard-working phia, OH 44663.

Marie Theresa Guzzi (Dede) Marie Theresa Guzzi (Dede), hairdresser. Marie and Al were 98, of Livingston, passed away the proud owners of Almars of natural causes on Novem- Country Road Meat Market, ber 17, 2019. She was the be- which operated for many years loved wife to the late Alfonso in the town of Livingston. She (Al) Guzzi who preceded her enjoyed most of all being surin death on Novemrounded by her family, ber 13, 1991. Marie to her this was numwas Born on April 16, ber 1 priority. She also 1921 in Brooklyn NY enjoyed roller skating to the late James and and roller skate dancJessie Dede and was ing, knitting, sowing, the middle of three snowmobiling, motorchildren, Grace Monticycling, mini biking, cello and the late Marfour wheeling, campgaret Monticello. ing, boating and makShe is survived ing the most of every Guzzi by two loving sons, moment of her life.

James (husband of Tina) Visitation hours will be SatGuzzi, and John (husband of urday November 23 2019 from Theresa) Guzzi, two grand- 10am-noon at Bates and Anchildren, Angela Guzzi and derson funeral home in HudAnthony Guzzi, all of whom re- son with a prayer service at side in Livingston. Many niec- noon. Marie will be buried in es and nephews also survive. the Long Island National CemMarie graduated from cosme- etery next to her husband and tology school and became a daughter.

Anna M. King (Egan) Anna M. King (Egan), 99, of Cornwallville, NY passed away on November 19, 2019 at her home surrounded by her loving family.

Anna was born on September 6, 1920 in Straduff, County Offaly, Ireland to parents John and Catherine Egan. In addition to her parents Anna is predeceased by her husband John J. King and her son Maurice (Kim).

Survivors include her children: Colman (Susan), Sean (Teresa), Ann (Carl), Michael (Katherine), and Helen (Peter); grandchildren: Dawn, Mary, Catherine, Sean Paul, Patrick, Gavin, Megan, Thomas, and Erin; and great-grandchildren: Brady, Jeanette, and Bennett.

Anna was a communicant of Our Lady of Knock Shrine in East Durham and a devoted

member of the Durham Council Knights of Columbus Ladies Auxiliary, Ancient Order of Hibernians, and the Greenville Irish American Club.

Relatives and friends are invited to attend calling hours on Thursday, November 21, 2019 from 4-7pm at Richards Funeral Home of the Mid-Hudson Valley Inc., 29 Bross St., Cairo, NY. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Friday, November 22, 2019 at 11am at Our Lady of Knock Shrine, East Durham. Interment in the family plot will immediately follow at the Cornwallville Cemetery. In lieu of flowers memorial donations may be made to Community Hospice, 47 Liberty St., Catskill, NY 12414.

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Dan Blake Dan Blake passed November 13, 2019. A celebration of his life will take place on December 7th at Jackson’s Old Chatham House from noon to three. Military Honors will be presented at 1pm. www.facebook.com/ HudsonRegisterstar www.facebook.com/ CatskillDailyMail

Esther Lou Wengenroth Esther Lou Wengenroth- November 9, 2019. of Cairo and New York City passed away peacefully at her home in Acra with her husband and children at her side after a brief illness. The cause of death was leukemia.

She was born in 1929 in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania to George and Anne Weiford, the youngest of five children. Raised in Morristown, NJ, she was active in woman’s athletics during high school. She attended Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio where she continued her athletic activities earning an all state record in swimming. She was elected to the Senior Woman’s Honorary and was awarded a B.F.A. degree in Visual Arts in

1952; that same year she married in 1968 where they founded and Richard Wengenroth and follow- developed an arts apprenticeing a summer in Mexico settled ship program for students from a in Delaware, OH where her hus- 12 college consortium in the midband taught at Ohio Wesleyan west. For the next three decades University. From 1953 they were immersed in through the sixties she arts education and the studied modern dance New York art world. with Sue Cary, Martha She was a lover of Graham, Merce Cunpeople, nature and aniningham, Alwin Nikolai, mals and volunteered Hanya Holm and during in many programs a residency in Germany, throughout her life: met and visited the legRed Cross, Gay Men’s endary Mary Wigman at Wengenroth Health Crisis, ASPCA her studio in Berlin. She and in Greene County as taught dance as an instructor in a driver for the Department of the the Physical Education Dept. Aging. She touched people, she at Ohio Wesleyan and privately. loved their stories an was genuThe Wengenroths, now a fam- inely curious. She made them ily of four, moved to Manhattan feel special and like they mat-

tered.

She is survived by her husband of 67 years, Richard, two daughters, Gretchen Wengenroth of Piacifica, California and Raychel of Saugerties, NY, one grandson Miles Witting, and an extended family of friends and relatives. The family is grateful to Community Hospice of Columbia and Greene Counties. In lieu of flowers, donations in her memory may be made to Community Hospice, 47 Liberty Street, Catskill, NY 12414. ( please put Columbia/ Greene on the memo line or make a note of it when donating) A remembrance and celebration of her life will be announced at a later date.

Vindman reveals that he told an intelligence official about Trump’s call with Ukrainian leader Carol D. Leonnig The Washington Post

WASHINGTON - Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman told a House investigative committee Tuesday that he spoke to an intelligence official about President Donald Trump’s July 25 request that Ukraine investigate his political opponents, but he declined to identify the official when pressed to do so.

His refusal came as Rep. Devin Nunes of California, the House Intelligence Committee’s ranking Republican who kicked off the hearing by calling for the testimony of the whistleblower whose complaint launched the impeachment investigation - asked witnesses to identify anyone outside the White House with whom they shared details of Trump’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Republicans used the exchange to raise questions about whether Vindman was the source for information that ended up in the whistleblower’s complaint, which alleged that Trump appeared to have abused his public office for personal political gain.

Vindman, a national security aide who listened with other officials to the July 25 call, told lawmakers during Tuesday’s House impeachment hearing that he believed Trump’s request for a foreign government to investigate a U.S. citizen was “improper.”

He said he provided a readout of the call to two individuals outside the White House as part of his responsibility to coordinate U.S government policy with multiple agencies.

One was George Kent, a deputy assistant secretary at the

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Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman and Jennifer Williams appear before the House Intelligence Committee on Nov. 19, 2019.

State Department, who testified last week, and the other was an individual in the intelligence community, whom Vindman declined to name.

Vindman said both were “cleared U.S. government officials with the appropriate need to know.”

Growing frustrated when Vindman declined to provide a name of the second person, Nunes told Vindman he had a duty to either identify the people he spoke with or he would have to cite his Fifth Amendment right not to answer due to concern he would incriminate himself.

Citing the advice of his attorney, Vindman said he would not answer.

“Per the advice of my counsel, I’ve been been advised not to answer the specific questions about members of the intelligence community,” Vindman said.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., sought to halt the questioning, saying it was an effort to identify the whistleblower.

“We need to protect the

whistle-blower,” Schiff told Nunes. “Please stop. I want to make sure that there is no effort to out the whistleblower through these proceeding. If the witness has a good faith belief that this may reveal the identify of the whistleblower, that is not the purpose that we’re here for.”

Nunes noted that Vindman he had testified in a closeddoor deposition that he didn’t know the identity of the whistleblower.

“How is it possible for you to name the people and then out the whistleblower?”

Nunes asked.

Vindman confirmed that he does not know the identity of the whistleblower and said he has been advised by his attorney not to answer questions about the members of the intelligence community.

He said he first learned of the whistleblower’s complaint when the news media reported on it in September.

His attorney, Michael Volkov, said there was no need for Vindman to invoke his Fifth Amendment rights.

He said that in refusing to

Tropical Storm Sebastien forms in the Atlantic northeast of Leeward Islands Matthew Cappucci The Washington Post

Thought we had closed the books on Hurricane Season 2019? Think again. Tropical Storm Sebastien has formed in the open Atlantic well northeast of the Leeward Islands.

And while it’s predicted to remain entirely out at sea, forecasters are abuzz over the lateseason cyclone.

Sebastien isn’t long for this world. With winds of 45 mph, it’s just above the 39-mph threshold for tropical storm classification. But Sebastien is expected to maintain its status through Thursday, possibly strengthening before transitioning into an extratropical (nontropical) cyclone late in the workweek. By then, it will still be close to 500 miles southeast of Bermuda, with no prospects of hitting land.

Sebastien is nestled within a metaphorical island of favorable atmospheric conditions amid a sea of hostile winds.

Strong winds aloft in the upper atmosphere are working to knock Sebastien’s circulation off kilter, the bulk of its thunderstorm activity drifting to the east of its exposed lowlevel center. On satellite, you can see a pinhole eye-like feature developing in the shallow low-level clouds near the sea

surface. The system is overall ragged, rather limp and not at all symmetric.

November cyclones aren’t as unusual as one may think. In fact, since 2000, more than half of all Novembers have featured at least one tropical cyclone in the Atlantic. Some have had multiple. Only eight out of the past 20 years have gone without a tropical cyclone in November. (One of the years - 2003 - skipped through November without a tropical storm but ended up with a tropical storm in December.

Odette formed on Dec. 4 and made a deadly landfall in the Dominican Republic on Dec. 6.)

During the record 2005 hurricane season, so many storms formed that the National Hurricane Center ran out of names and had to borrow from the Greek alphabet. Hurricane Epsilon reached Category 2 strength over the open Atlantic in December after forming in November. One cyclone - Zeta - formed so late in December that it even lasted into the next year.

Ordinarily, any systems that form in November or beyond are on the weaker side. That’s because of dropping sea-surface temperatures and, more important, a dramatic increase

in the magnitude of wind shear over the Atlantic. Chaotic changes of wind speed/direction with height can effectively tear apart a fledgling storm as it develops. With the jet stream shifting south after its summertime retreat toward the Arctic, stronger winds at the upper levels can spill over the tropical and mid-latitude Atlantic. In addition, the location and strength of several largescale weather features tend to change.

But that’s not to say an occasional strong November system is unheard of. In 2001, Category 4 Michelle made a November landfall in Cuba with 140 mph winds. It was the strongest storm to strike the nation in more than 50 years.

Hurricane season is advertised to end on Nov. 30. Anything thereafter is typically a fluke. But oddities can and occasionally do happen. While the United States has never seen a December hurricane landfall, it’s possible one may have occurred in 1925.

In any case, it’s probably safe to say that the United States is out of the woods this year. But anytime something forms in the Atlantic, it’s important to pay close attention.

answer, Vindman was following a rule set by Schiff regarding discussions that could implicate the whistleblower.

Vindman is the first person known to have sounded an alarm about Trump’s comments on the call. Immediately afterward, he told deputy White House Counsel John Eisenberg thatthe president had crossed a “disturbing” line in asking Zelensky to investigate former vice president Joe Biden, and said it was improper to ask a foreign government to investigate an American citizen. Eisenberg then instructed that the records of the call be placed on a secure server, telling Vindman he wanted to prevent leaks.

A few days later, Eisenberg confronted Vindman, saying he had just learned of an anonymous complaint from a CIA employee about the call, and wanted to know if Vindman had discussed the call with anyone else, according to a person familiar with his account.

Vindman said he had discussed it with two colleagues with whom he normally works on national security matters, and Eisenberg told him not to talk to anyone else about it in the future.

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A short history of the town of Lexington

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By David n Dorpfeld, Greene County Historian For Columbia-Greene Media n week I wrote a few paraLast graphs about the history of the town of Ashland. Lexington is n another Greene County town that adjoins Ashland on the north and also has an interestn ing past.

While there are no villages in the town, it encompasses n the following place names that every local would know: Lexington, n North Lexington, West Kill, Spruceton, Beach Ridge, Little West Kill, Bushnellville andnBroadstreet Hollow.

Land in the township was originally part of the Hardenburgh patent and for a period also part of the town of Windhamn until it was separated in 1813. It was first called New Goshen after the Connecticut n where many of the early town settlers came from. According to former town historian Karen Deeter, just a few months later a settler from Massachusetts was instrumental in n having the name changed to Lexington. Deeter organized n a wonderful year-long bicentennial commemoration in 2013. I was pleased to play a n part in the celebration. small Lexington is noted for the two separate valleys that run through it. Each is cut through by an stream — the Schoharie and the West Kill. Initially settlersn were drawn to the town because of the availability of water power, timber and furs.

As the n trees were harvested for tanning and lumber, smallscale farming took over, followed n by boarding houses to accommodate tourists.

Like Ashland, Lexington hadna thriving dairy industry well into the mid-20th century. The town of Lexington n website says the following about the industry: “The birth of the Lexington n Co-operative Creamery Association in 1899 provided an income for many in this comn munity. During the butter production years they produced eight tons of butter every 24 hours and required 15 men per shift around the clock. Land O’ n Lakes was their biggest buyer. These machines were replaced by sealing machines when Redi-Whip production replaced the butter production in the mid-’50s. The Lexington Creamery closed in 1959 when Redi-Whip moved out and the building burned to the ground in 1961.”

Another business that had a great impact on the town starting around the turn of the 20th century was the Fenwick

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Coxsackie Athens Rotary honored the Coxsackie-Athens Middle School student of the month Brooke Kelly. Principal Dave Proper praised her for her kindness and overall willingness to help others in need. Pictured here from left are Brooke’s father Mathias Kelly, Principal Dave Proper, mother Monica Kelly, Brooke, Rotary President Denise Murphy and High School teacher Moria Quackenbush.

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Headquarters of the Lexington Historical Society and former St. Francis De Sales Catholic Church.

Lumber Company. Part of the company’s operations were located at the head of West Kill Valley. Much can be said its operations. Suffice it to say, it had a great impact on Lexington and Greene County for a time and more detail will be provided in a future column.

Many fairly well-known people called Lexington their home for a period of time. One was Levi Hill, now considered by many to be the father of color photography for his work in the mid-19th century. Another is the western painter and sculptor Charles Schreyvogel. He was a contemporary of Charles Russell and Frederick Remington. Not to be forgotten is Art Flick, author and dedicated conservationist and sportsman. Through his writing on fly fishing he introduced generations of fly fishers to the joys of imitating trout stream insects. For those that have more interest in these individuals, much more can be found on the internet and elsewhere.

I am somewhat limited by space here. Suffice it to say,

the town of Lexington has seen many changes over the last 200 years. It developed into a self-sufficient community with tanneries, stores, saw mills, grist mills, a creamery, hotels and boarding houses.

Most of those things are gone now, but the town still retains many aspects of pleasant country life. Current residents have a strong sense of community and are proud of their town and history.

As I wrote this column my thoughts turned to Karen Deeter many times. She passed a little over two years ago. In her capacity as Lexington Town Historian, I came to consider her a friend and colleague. She took her responsibilities very seriously and never stopped being a great cheerleader for her adopted town.

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Cairo-Durham Elementary held its annual Veterans Day Breakfast on Nov. 7 to honor their friends and family members who served in the military. Student performances included patriotic songs and poems, an Irish step dance and a brief presentation on the history of Veterans Day. The performances were inspiring and the CDE Student Council did a great job hosting. CDE would like to thank Assemblyman Chris Tague for delivering thoughtful remarks as well as Big Top Rentals for donating the tables. Most of all, thanks to all our local veterans for their service.

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CAIRO — A Christmas bazaar and bake sale will be held 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Nov. 22 and Nov. 23 at South Cairo United Methodist Church, 25 County Road 67, Leeds. Cookies, coffee and tea will be served.

CATSKILL — Hearthstone Cafe, 1187 Route 23A, Catskill, will host a nutrition cooking workshop 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Nov. 20. Sponsored by Hearthstone and Cornell Cooperative Extension in connection with Greene County Rural Health Network.

NOV. 21 COXSACKIE — The Athens Community Garden Club annual holiday luncheon and auction will be held at noon Nov. 21 at Pegasus Restaurant, 10885 Route 9W, Coxsackie. With Chinese and Silent Auction tables available from 11:30 a.m. and the Holiday Auction of famous baked goods, custom designed gift baskets, hand-crafted items and more beginning at 12:30 p.m. This is a great opportunity for holiday shopping. The

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Using a restricted application to maximize benefits Dear Rusty: I was born on 1/14/1953, and my wife was born on 6/27/1954. I will have the largest Social Security benefit by two or three to one. She has been retired for a year or so, but I am working part-time.

We planned on not taking our SS until 70, since my IRA and Social Security will cover us until 90 plus. I want to maximize my SS benefit in case we live past then. I have read about a restricted application and file and suspend, but I get conflicting information on who must be born before 1/2/54. Is there anything we can do besides wait to 70 to maximize our benefits?

Signed: Wanting to Maximize Dear Wanting: How you, as a married couple, should plan your Social Security depends largely upon

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GLOOR whether your wife will be eligible for a spousal benefit from you and, if so, how much her spousal benefit will be. Your wife will get a spousal benefit from you if her own benefit amount at her full retirement age (66) is less than half of your benefit amount at your full retirement age (66). The difference between those two amounts will be added to your wife’s own benefit (from her own work record) to become

her spousal benefit. At her full retirement age (FRA) she would get 50% of the amount you were eligible for at your FRA, which you reached in January 2019. If your wife’s benefit at age 70 will be more than her spousal benefit will be, then it would be prudent for her to delay claiming until age 70 when her benefit will be 32% more than it would be when she turns 66. However, if her spousal benefit will be more, it could make sense for your wife to file for her own benefit first, which would allow you to file a “restricted application for spousal benefits only.” Your wife cannot file a restricted application because she was born after Jan. 1, 1954, but you can file the restricted application because you were born before that (the “file and suspend” option which allowed your wife to collect

spouse benefits while your benefits are suspended is no longer available).

Provided your current finances, as well as your health and expected longevity suggest you can delay, it would be a wise strategy for you to delay claiming until age 70 because it will provide you with the maximum possible monthly benefit and also the most in cumulative lifetime benefits if you attain at least “average” longevity (about 84). This would also give your wife the highest possible survivor benefit should you predecease her (as your widow, your wife gets 100% of the benefit you were receiving at your death). Your wife cannot collect a spousal benefit from you until you start your own benefits, but if she were to choose to claim her own Social Security retirement benefit from her own

work record first (so you could file the restricted application), she would switch to her higher spousal benefit when you claim.

So, if your wife’s spousal benefit will be her highest benefit, as a couple you may wish to consider your wife filing for her own benefit to start in January (will be reduced by about 3.3%) and, at that time, you file a “restricted application for spousal benefits only” which means you will collect 50% of your wife’s (unreduced) FRA benefit amount while your own Social Security benefit continues to earn delayed retirement credits (DRCs).

DRCs are given at the rate of two-thirds of 1% per month of delay (8% per year of delay), up until age 70 when your benefit will be 24% more than it would be at age 67. Then, at age 70, when you switch from

Strategies 10:30 a.m. Nov. 25 at the Greenville Public Library, 11177 Route 32, Greenville. Join us to explore how communication changes when someone is living with Alzheimer’s, learn how to interpret the verbal and behavioral communication, and identify strategies to help you connect and communicate at each stage of the disease. Light refreshments will be served.

For information, call 518-8674999.

conversation over coffee and pie 2-4 p.m. For information, or to donate to help offset costs, contact the Department of Human Services at 518-7193555 and ask to speak to Ken.

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

the spousal benefit from your wife to your own SS retirement benefit, your wife can file for her spousal benefit from you.

If you are, indeed, fortunate enough to live well into your 80s, the above will provide you with considerably more in lifetime benefits than any other strategy you might consider.

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 or email us.

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ATHENS SENIOR CITIZENS 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.

CAIRO GOLDEN AGERS CAIRO — The Cairo Golden Agers meet at 1:30 p.m. the second and fourth Wednesday of the month at the Acra Community Center, Route 23, Acra.

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.

COXSACKIE AREA SENIORS 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.

SENIOR CITIZENS OF COXSACKIE COXSACKIE — The Senior Citizens of Coxsackie meet at 1:30 p.m. the first and third Monday of the month at the Coxsackie Senior Center, 127 Mansion St., Coxsackie.

GREENVILLE GOLDEN YEARS CLUB 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.

MOUNTAIN TOP GOLDEN AGERS 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.

WAJPL GOLDEN AGERS HENSONVILLE — The WAJPL Golden Agers meet at 1:30 p.m. the first and third Monday of the month at Hensonville Town Building, 371 Route 296, Hensonville.

ALZHEIMER’S COMMUNICATION STRAGEGIES GREENVILLE — Alzheimer’s Association, Northeastern New York presents Effective Communication

THANKSGIVING DINNER COXSACKIE — The Coxsackie United Methodist Church, 103 Mansion St., Coxsackie, will serve a Thanksgiving dinner noon-2 p.m. Nov. 28. The menu includes turkey, stuffing, corn, sweet potato casserole, green beans, mashed potatoes, gravy, pumpkin and apple pie. No charge, come as you are.

COMMUNITY THANKSGIVING DINNER ATHENS — The Senior Angels’ fourth annual Community Thanksgiving Dinner will be held Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28 at the Rivertown Senior Center, 39 Second St., Athens.

Open to all seniors 60 and older. Doors open 11 a.m.; lunch served noon-2 p.m. There will be music, door prizes and

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, 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.

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

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.

SHOPPING BUS CATSKILL — The Greene County Department of Human Services offers a shopping bus to Greene County residents 60 and older, living in the towns of Ashland, Athens, Cairo, Catskill, Coxsackie, Greenville, Hunter, Jewett, Prattsville and Windham. Seniors are picked up at their door, driven to Catskill for shopping and then have lunch at a local senior center before returning home. Special trips are scheduled periodically.

Monday: Mountain Top/

Catskill (Windham, Ashland, Prattsville, Jewett and Hunter).

Tuesday: Cairo/Greenville/ Catskill.

Wednesday: Athens/Coxsackie.

The Shopping Bus does not run on the following holidays: New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Presidents’ Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Election Day (November), Veterans Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas.

The trip to Colonie Center will be Dec. 20.

The following is the 2019 trips to Colonie Center. Trips are the third Thursday of the month. The cost is $10. Payment is due at time of departure/boarding. Nov. 21, Dec. 19. Reservations must be made no later than 3 p.m. of the Wednesday before the trip.

In addition, during snow or ice storms, it may be necessary for us to close our senior service centers because of hazardous driving conditions.

When we close the centers, we also cancel our transportation services for the day, which includes the Shopping Bus. Advance notice/reservation required for all shopping bus transportation. For information or to reserve a seat, call Janet at 518-719-3559.

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.

NOV. 20 THROUGH NOV. 27 WEDNESDAY: Roast turkey with gravy, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, carrot coins, pumpkin pie.

THURSDAY: Broccoli and cheddar quiche, green beans, hash brown potatoes, fruited gelatin.

FRIDAY: Seafood scampi over linguini, Italian mixed vegetables, orange juice, fresh fruit.

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

TUESDAY: Baked chicken with gravy, mashed potatoes, California mixed vegetables, chocolate mousse.

WEDNESDAY: Apple glazed pork chops, brussels sprouts, winter squash, spice cake.

NOV. 27 THROUGH DEC. 4 WEDNESDAY: Apple glazed pork chops, brussels sprouts, winter squash, spice cake.

THURSDAY: Closed.

FRIDAY: Turkey burger with peppers and onions, carrots, fresh salad, scalloped potatoes, fresh fruit.

MONDAY: Sweet and sour pork, brown rice, broccoli, tropical mixed fruit.

TUESDAY: Crab topped cod, beets, sweet potatoes, mandarin oranges.

WEDNESDAY: Meatloaf with gravy, green beans, mashed potatoes, oatmeal

raisin cookie.

DEC. 4 THROUGH DEC. 11 WEDNESDAY: Meatloaf with gravy, green beans, mashed potatoes, oatmeal raisin cookie.

THURSDAY: Chicken divan, rice, wax beans, fresh salad, tomato juice, pumpkin pudding.

FRIDAY: Chef’s choice, cauliflower, grape yogurt parfait.

MONDAY: Spaghetti with sausage, Italian mixed vegetables, lemon mousse.

TUESDAY: Barbecue chicken, mashed potatoes, spinach, fruited gelatin.

WEDNESDAY: Beer battered fish, rice pilaf, broccoli, birthday cupcakes.

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.

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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.

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salvaged, Hart said.

Based on the environmental review, the demolition will have moderate to large historic impacts, Hart said.

“Both the jail and the sheriff’s office are part of the Eastside Historic District,” Hart said.

The State Historic Preservation Office asked the county to come up with “prudent and feasible” alternatives to demolition, Hart said.

The county hired the engineering firm Barton & Loguidice of Albany to evaluate the current building conditions and alternative uses.

The county also explored whether there were potential buyers interested in the property, Hart said.

Barton & Loguidice drafted estimates on three different uses for the property, Hart said.

To renovate the sheriff’s office and demolish the main jail complex and the newest section of the jail known as D-Block, the

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call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in which Trump asked Zelensky to do him a “favor” and investigate his political opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden and Biden’s son, Hunter, in connection with Hunter serving on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma.

Vindman, a career U.S. Army officer, decorated Iraq veteran and Purple Heart recipient, testified that he was so disturbed by the call that he reported it to the council’s top lawyer, John Eisenberg.

“It is improper for the president of the United States to demand a foreign government investigate a U.S. citizen and political opponent,” Vindman

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R-Greenville voted against the purchase. William Lawrence,

cost would be $4.8 million, Hart said.

The renovations included bringing the office up to current American Disabilities Act and fire code standards, Hart said.

To renovate all three spaces — sheriff’s office, main jail complex and D-Block — and repurpose them as general office space, it would cost $10.7 million, Hart said.

Finally, Barton & Loguidice estimated that to demolish all three buildings and develop a new 5,000-square-foot office building would cost between $1.13 million and $1.2 million, Hart said.

“Rehabilitation of the buildings is not economically feasible given the substantial cost of remediation,” Hart said. “There are no other alternatives that meets the county’s needs.”

Barton & Loguidice has also designed two different parking lot options for the site, with either 23 or 41 parking spots.

The estimate for the project is between $1.33 million and $1.9 million.

The Unified Courts System, which is a direct neighbor of

the former jail, has expressed concern about the safety of the building, Hart said.

The village of Catskill has no interest in any of the buildings and supports the demolition, Hart said.

The Legislature entertained a proposal from a group in July, he added.

“This individual has stated their interest in rehabilitating the jail complex but has provided no budget and no plan to provide compensation to the county for purchase,” Hart said.

“This individual had an architect come to assess the jail who was familiar with this style of construction and indicated that the structurally compromised sections of the jail could not be repaired, that it would require a complete renovation.”

Because the project will have historic impacts, the county is exploring mitigation measures, Hart said.

One measure is that the carriage house is being preserved.

The county can also look into salvaging the Ohio sandstones, Hart said.

About 200 to 240 tons of

sandstone were used in the jail, Hart said. This would cost $12,000 to $20,000 to haul away.

“They are beautiful stones,” Legislator Michael Bulich, RCatskill, said. “But what are we going to use them for? The anchoring system is not compatible with modern buildings.”

The work would be labor intensive and probably expensive, Bulich added.

Legislator Thomas Hobart, RCoxsackie, expressed concern over the logistics of getting the stones off the jail.

“I don’t want to see anybody get hurt for a couple bricks,” he said.

Other mitigation efforts include adding a plaque to the jail site that will feature the history of the jail and its sheriffs and donating the findings of the structural analysis performed by Birchwood Archaeology to the Vedder Library, Hart said.

The report includes photos of the jail and information on previous uses of the buildings, he said.

Catskill resident Pat Ruck inquired about the method of demolition that will be used.

“So this will either be a wet demo, which is toxic, for lack of a better word, or abatement,” Ruck said. “Will this be a dollarand-cents decision or a healthand-safety decision?”

The contractors will either perform a controlled demo, where they will continually spray the construction site to keep the dust at bay, or preabatement, where the hazardous substances are removed before demolition, Hart said.

“Either way, standards are in place at the state level,” he said.

Bulich expressed concern that because of how unstable it is in the main jail complex, it might not be safe for the workers to remove the asbestos prior to demolition.

“What about the safety of the residents?” Ruck said.

Ruck wanted to know when a decision will be made and if notice will be given to neighbors.

The county will need another month to develop bid specs, Hart said, adding there will be two sets of bid specs. The Legislature will then have to review the two different routes of demolition.

“There will be public meetings and ample opportunity to discuss which option will be taken,” he said.

Legislature Harry Lennon, D-Cairo, said he thought the decision should be more than financial.

“Health and safety have to be the most important factors here.

Period,” he said.

Greene County Administrator Shaun Groden said he thought the numbers may support pre-abatement.

“The tipping fee of the entire rubble being contaminated is astounding,” Groden said.

The demolition will not have an impact on the groundwater, surface water, flooding, air, plants and animals, agricultural resources, open space and recreation, critical environmental area and energy and community plans, according to the state review.

It will have a small impact on aesthetic resources, transportation and noise, order and light; and a moderate to large impact on land, human health and community character.

said during his opening testimony. Later on, he said he couldn’t believe what he heard on the call.

“It was probably an element of shock that in certain regards, my worst fear of how our Ukraine policy could play out was playing out,” he said. “This was likely to have significant implications for U.S. national security.”

Williams testified that she found the call unusual because it discussed a “domestic political matter.”

The call came one week after the U.S. froze nearly $400 million in military aid to the Ukraine, a move both experts testified Tuesday was not supported by a single national security officer and raised concerns about defending Ukraine from Russian aggression. Additional testimonies demonstrated the aid freeze, as well as

a potential Oval Office meeting that was communicated to the Ukraine, were understood by the Ukraine to be accessible depending on a public statement that they would investigate Biden.

While Democrats first categorized Trump’s behavior as quid pro quo, they have recently started classifying it as bribery, which is an impeachable offense in the Constitution.

Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-21, who has been garnering national attention throughout the impeachment inquiry, shifted the narrative to the Bidens during her line of questioning.

She criticized Adam Schiff, a California Democrat and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, for barring Hunter Biden from being brought in to testify.

Stefanik also argued that Trump’s involvement in

Ukraine was an attempt to expel corruption in the country.

Democrat representatives, including fellow New York Rep. Sean Maloney, D-18, refuted Stefanik, citing a reconstructed memo of the July 25 call released by the White House in September.

“There’s no evidence of the president trying to fight corruption. The evidence points in the direction of the president inviting Ukraine to engage in the corrupt act of investigating a U.S. political opponent,” Maloney said. “If this president had such a deep interest in rooting out corruption in Ukraine, surely he would have brought it up in the call, but of course now we know he did not.”

Vindman quickly became the focus of attention throughout the hearing, particularly for Republicans and the White House, who launched attacks

questioning his loyalty to the U.S. and his qualifications for his position.

In the afternoon, the White House Twitter account — funded by taxpayer dollars — tweeted a critical comment about Vindman from Tim Morrison, his former boss at the NSC, who said he “had concerns about Lt. Col. Vindman’s judgment.”

Multiple Republican representatives cited the same quote to Vindman while questioning him.

Steve Castor, Republican laywer for the House Intelligence Committee, also asked Vindman — who was born in Ukraine and immigrated to the U.S. with his family at the age of 3 — about a job offer he received to be the defense minister in Ukraine, and whether Vindman thought it could “create at least the perception of a conflict.”

“I’m not sure if you meant it as a joke or not, but it’s much more important what my civilian, White House National Security Council chain of command thinks, more so than anybody else,” Vindman responded. “Frankly, if they were concerned about me being able to continue my duties they would have brought that to my attention.”

Democratic representatives criticized Republicans for smearing Vindman, while many of them used their time to highlight Vindman’s honorable military career. After one such speech, Vindman wiped a tear from his eye.

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R-Cairo was absent. Absences are recorded as negative votes.

Legislature Chairman Patrick Linger, R-New Baltimore, and legislators Harry Lennon, D-Cairo; Larry Gardner, D-Hunter; Charles Martinez,

R-Coxsackie; and Thomas Hobart, R-Coxsackie, voted in favor of the resolution.

Bulich urged the county not to delve into the real estate business at the Public Works Committee meeting.

“I don’t think the county

should be in the business of buying and selling property,” Bulich said.

Legislator Matthew Luvera, R-Catskill, expressed some reservations about the deal.

“I’m afraid we’re going to

sit on it,” he said. “Look at the Rite Aid building in Catskill.

Acquiring commercial property is a gamble.”

Overbaugh agreed.

“I’m squeamish about buying commercial property,” she said. “We’re shelling

out $400,000 but we don’t know what the market is going to do in Greene County.”

The proposed acquisition will be back on the agenda Wednesday night for the full board meeting.

Climate change stands to affect a key Trump priority: The Superfund program

By Dino Grandoni (c) 2019,The Washington Post

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration can’t seem to escape the topic of climate change.

President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency has made it a key priority to focus on cleaning up toxic Superfund sites across the country, rather than policies to slow down global warming. But it turns out that at least 945 such waste sites face escalating risks from climate-fueled disasters.

A new study from the Government Accountability Office found that climate impacts threaten 6 in 10 Superfund sites. GAO investigators said the agency needs to take more aggressive action to acknowledge risks facing some of the nation’s most polluted sites — and to safeguard them amid a changing climate.

Even as they agreed with the congressional investigative office on certain points, Trump administration officials formally rejected a recommendation to clarify how preparing toxic sites to withstand the impacts of climate change is part of the EPA’s mission.

“The EPA strongly believes the Superfund program’s existing processes and resources adequately ensure that risks and any effects of severe weather events, that may increase in intensity, duration, or frequency, are woven into risk response decisions at non-federal [National Priorities List] sites,” EPA Assistant Administrator Peter Wright said in a statement Monday.

The disagreement marks the latest instance of the Trump administration rejecting the warnings from independent

researchers about the extent of the risk that rising global temperatures pose. Previously, the administration has downplayed government research about the potential severity of climate impacts in coming decades and aggressively rolled back Obama-era regulations aimed at reducing emissions of carbon dioxide.

The most common risk identified in Monday’s GAO report is flooding. At least 783 sites around the country were found to have a great risk of inundation due to rainier conditions brought about by warming temperatures. Another 234 toxic sites are at high risk from wildfires, including a half dozen in California, where devastating blazes have become a deadly annual occurrence. And at least 187 properties in coastal states are vulnerable to storm surges brought by Category 4 and 5 hurricanes.

The GAO conducted the analysis at the behest of a group of mostly Democratic lawmakers, including presidential candidates such as Sens. Bernie

Sanders, I-Vt., Kamala Harris, D-Calif., and Cory Booker, DN.J., who asked the congressional investigative arm to look into the issue in 2017.

After the release of the report, Senate Democrats sent a letter to EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler demanding an explanation for agency leaders’ “failure to embrace addressing climate change as a strategic objective.”

“We believe that EPA’s refusal to implement GAO’s recommendations could result in real harm to human health and the environment as the effects of climate change become more frequent and intense,” the lawmakers told Wheeler.

In 2014, the Obama-era EPA issued an agencywide plan for adapting to climate change that included steps to be taken by the Superfund program.

Since then, the agency has offered optional trainings on integrating climate change into the cleanup of sites. But on the ground, regional offices have inconsistently taken climate change into account. For

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example, EPA managers in the New York City area incorporated potentially stronger storm flows in the Passaic River in the remediation of a site in Newark.

Yet regional EPA officials in Dallas, by contrast, told GAO they do not incorporate potential climate impacts into their assessments.

EPA spokeswoman Molly Block said the agency is in the process of implementing a “climate resilience action plan” at Superfund sites and has encouraged approaches that would allow specific sites to adapt to new and changing risks.

“The EPA recognizes the importance of ensuring Superfund

site cleanups are resilient in the face of existing risks and extreme weather events and the agency has taken measures to include vulnerability analyses and adaptation planning into Superfund activities,” the agency wrote in response to the GAO’s findings.

Wheeler and his predecessor, former EPA chief Scott Pruitt, have sought flip the adminisitration’s usual industryfriendly script by reinvigorating the Superfund program. Pruitt told agency employees in staff memos that Superfund cleanup efforts would be “restored to their rightful place at the center of the agency’s core mission”

and at times even sided with environmental groups over polluting companies on Superfund issues.

As a result, dozens of sites have been removed from the EPA’s National Priorities List, and the agency maintains an ongoing “priority list” for sites most in need of attention.

Dino Grandoni is an energy and environmental policy reporter and the author of PowerPost’s daily tipsheet on the beat, The Energy 202. Before The Post, he was the climate and energy reporter at BuzzFeed News, where he covered the intersection of science, industry and government.

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Hudson, ICC players earn Reinfurt Division honors Columbia-Greene Media

HUDSON — Hudson senior Zyonn Clanton was named a first-team Class B Reinfurt Division All-Star, Bluehawk coach John Davi announced on Tuesday.

Clanton averaged seven yards per carry this season, finishing with 650 yards and nine touchdowns for the Bluehawks. He also snagged six receptions for 61 yards.

Hudson’s Brock Saunders earned honorable mention status as an offensive lineman.

Ichabod Crane was represented on the Reinfurt Division first-team by Haydon Broockmann and Joe Penzabene. Broockmann was named to the team as a defensive lienman and Penzebene was recognized for his play at linebacker.

Cobleskill-Richmondville running back Hunter Edwards was named the Reinfurt Division Most Valuable Player. Holy Trinity quarterback Joe Tortello was the Offensive Player of the Year, David Leon of Schalmont was the Defensive Player of the Year and Noah Foster of Holy Trinity was recognized as an All-Purpose player.

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The 2020 Baseball Hall of Fame Ballot: Derek Jeter and Co. Tyler Kepner The New York Times News Service

The Baseball Hall of Fame announced its 2020 ballot Monday, and one name should be surrounded by neon lights: Derek Jeter, the former New York Yankees captain, who might follow Mariano Rivera as the second unanimous inductee when results are revealed in January.

The other 17 newcomers on the ballot might have to wait awhile, and some will get no votes at all from the hundreds of baseball writers who cast ballots. But each had significant influence in his own way, even if their paths do not all lead to Cooperstown.

Bobby Abreu: 18 years, 2,470 hits Though he spent most of his career with the Philadelphia Phillies — nine years with an on-base plus slugging percentage of .928, better than Mike Schmidt — Abreu pulled off a neat trick late in his career: He played for the Yankees, the New York Mets, the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Los Angeles Angels. Only three others have played for all four current teams in the New York and Los Angeles markets: pitcher John Candelaria, infielder/catcher Bill Sudakis and Hall of Fame outfielder Rickey Henderson.

Josh Beckett: 14 years, 2003 World Series MVP Since baseball expanded the playoff field in 1995, Josh Beckett is the only pitcher to throw shutouts in a division series, a league championship series and a World Series.

Two of his gems came for the Florida Marlins in 2003 — against the Chicago Cubs in the NLCS and the Yankees in the World Series — and the other for the Boston Red Sox in the 2007 division series opener against the Angels. Beckett tossed only six shutouts in his 14 regular seasons, but the last was a no-hitter for the Dodgers in 2014.

Heath Bell: 11 years, 168 saves

The last time the San Diego Padres finished with a winning record, Heath Bell saved more than half of their victories. That was in 2010, the second of his three seasons as an AllStar. For his last appearance in the All-Star Game, the next summer in Phoenix, Bell did his customary sprint to the mound from the bullpen — but just before he got there, he slid on the grass. Breathing heavily, with a grass stain and a small tear in his pants, Bell retired Jhonny Peralta on a pop-up. “I got to do something at the All-Star Game that nobody’s ever done before,” Bell said later.

“I really wanted to have a good time.”

Eric Chavez: 17 years, six gold gloves The Yankees’ dynasty hung in the balance before the decisive game of their 2000 division series in Oakland. They had won three of the past four World Series, but the young A’s were ascending. “They’ve won enough times,” Eric Chavez said of the Yankees in a news conference before Game 5. “It’s time for some other people to have some glory.” Chavez didn’t know it, but a live feed of his interview was playing on the Coliseum scoreboard while the Yankees took batting practice, and they noticed. The Yankees would score six times in the first inning and win, 7-5, with Chavez making the final out. “You can’t beat us with your mouth,” Derek Jeter said after the game. “You have to beat us on the field.” All was forgiven a decade later; the Yankees signed Chavez after the 2010 season, and he helped them win two division titles.

Adam Dunn: 14 years, 462 home runs On Aug. 10, 2004, Adam Dunn swung a bat in Ohio and hit a ball to Kentucky.

Dunn, a supersize slugger for the Cincinnati Reds, launched a 535-foot rocket over a center-field deck at Great American Ball Park.

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Maple Hill’s Caleb Svingala commits to Buffalo

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CASTLETON — Local wrestling prodigy Caleb Svingala of Maple Hill High School signed his letter of intent Monday night to attend the University of Buffalo.

Svingala finished second in the state last year and has his sights set on college as he begins his senior season.

“I believe Buffalo is kind of like the perfect fit for me,” Caleb says, “and I just think they really care about the sport a lot, and especially their athletes.”

This isn’t the first time a state champion wrestler in the Svingala family has had some decisions to make about college either.

“It probably helped out having gone MATT FORTUNATO/COLUMBIA-GREENE MEDIA through a lot of this last year with my other son Trent,” Caleb’s father Tom Maple Hill wrestler Caleb Svingala (center) signs a letter of intent to attend the University of Buffalo during a ceremony on Monday night as his father Tom (left) and

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CATSKILL — Catskill Central School District Athletics held its 2019 Fall Sports Awards Banquet recently.

Receiving awards were: Varsity Volleyball: Most Improved — Kendall Pederson, Coaches Award — Krystia Cook; JV Volleyball: Most Improved — JaDavia McGriff, Coaches Award — Emma Weber.

Varsity Boys Soccer: Defensive Player

of the Year — Daniel Leibowitz, Offensive Player of the Year — Eddie Rogers; JV Boys Soccer: Coaches Award — Owen Valentino, Coaches Award — Nick Konsul.

Varsity Girls Soccer: Leadership Award — Laura Christman, Most Valuable Player — Katie Bulich, 60 Career Goals — Maci Mosher; JV Girls Soccer: Teammate Award — Abigail Cornelison, Coaches Award — Jillian Devlin.

Tennis: Most Valuable Player — Audra Street, Coaches Award — Emma Brown; Golf: Most Valuable Golfer — Dylan Osswald, Most Improved Golfer — Storm Hicks.

Boys Cross Country: Most Valuable Player — Nathan Riordon, Team Player Award — Griffin Fisher; Girls Cross Country: Most Valuable Player — Sammie VanDyke, Team Player Award — Sarah Davies.

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Pro football NFL American Football Conference East W L T Pct PF PA New England 9 1 0 .900 287 108 Buffalo 7 3 0 .700 211 170 N.Y. Jets 3 7 0 .300 164 255 Miami 2 8 0 .200 139 305 South W L T Pct PF PA Indianapolis 6 4 0 .556 194 193 Houston 6 4 0 .600 245 232 Tennessee 5 5 0 .500 203 197 Jacksonville 4 6 0 .400 189 222 North W L T Pct PF PA Baltimore 8 2 0 .778 300 189 Pittsburgh 5 5 0 .500 200 202 Cleveland 4 6 0 .400 192 228 Cincinnati 0 10 0 .000 147 276 West W L T Pct PF PA Kansas City 7 4 0 .636 308 256 Oakland 6 4 0 .600 225 250 L.A. Chargers 4 7 0 .364 224 218 Denver 3 7 0 .300 172 197 National Football Conference East W L T Pct PF PA Dallas 6 4 0 .600 286 197 Philadelphia 5 5 0 .500 234 230 N.Y. Giants 2 8 0 .200 203 289 Washington 1 9 0 .100 125 253 South W L T Pct PF PA New Orleans 8 2 0 .778 204 182 Carolina 5 5 0 .556 225 228 Atlanta 3 7 0 .222 191 259 Tampa Bay 3 7 0 .333 260 279 North W L T Pct PF PA Green Bay 8 2 0 .800 250 205 Minnesota 8 3 0 .727 289 205 Chicago 4 6 0 .400 169 174 Detroit 3 6 1 .350 244 272 West W L T Pct PF PA San Francisco 9 1 0 .900 295 155 Seattle 8 2 0 .800 275 254 L.A. Rams 6 4 0 .600 243 198 Arizona 3 7 1 .318 248 317 Week 11 Thursday, Nov. 14 Cleveland 21, Pittsburgh 7 Sunday’s games Baltimore 41, Houston 7 Indianapolis 33, Jacksonville 13 Atlanta 29, Carolina 3 New Orleans 34, Tampa Bay 17 Dallas 35, Detroit 27 Minnesota 27, Denver 23 N.Y. Jets 34, Washington 17 Buffalo 37, Miami 20 San Francisco 36, Arizona 26 Oakland 17, Cincinnati 10 New England 17, Philadelphia 10 L.A. Rams 17, Chicago 7 Monday’s g ame Kansas City 24, L.A. Chargers 17, at Mexico City, 8:15 p.m.

Chiefs 24, Chargers 17 (at Mexico City)

Kansas City L.A. Chargers

0 10 14 0 — 24 3 6 8 0 — 17

First Quarter LAC—Badgley 27 yard field goal, 9:31.

Second Quarter KC—L.McCoy 6 yard rush (Butker kick), 8:45.

LAC—Badgley 26 yard field goal, 5:01.

KC—Butker 41 yard field goal, 1:43.

LAC—Badgley 49 yard field goal, 0:00.

Third Quarter KC—Dr.Williams 6 yard rush (Butker kick), 9:29.

KC—T.Kelce 23 yard pass from Mahomes (Butker kick), 4:56.

LAC—Ke.Allen 7 yard pass from P.Rivers (H.Henry pass from P.Rivers), 1:44.

A—76,252.

TEAM STATISTICS KC LAC First Downs 18 23 Total Net Yards 310 438 Rushes-Yds 27-130 19-93 Passing 180 345 Sacked-Yds Lost 1-2 2-8 Comp-Att-Int 32-19-1 52-28-4 Punts 6-40.0 3-47.7 Punt Returns 2-22 2-0 Kickoff Returns 0-0 2-44 Interceptions Ret. 4-35 1-2 Penalties-Yards 8-102 9-60 Fumbles-Lost 1-0 3-0 Time of Possession 28:58 31:02 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-KC, Mahomes 5-59, Dr.Williams 1135, L.McCoy 7-29, Dm.Williams 4-7. LAC, Gordon III 14-69, Ekeler 5-24.

PASSING-KC, Mahomes 19-32-1-182. LAC, P.Rivers 28-52-4-353.

RECEIVING-KC, T.Kelce 7-92, L.McCoy 4-28, S.Watkins 2-26, Hardman 2-13, Dr.Williams 2-8, Pringle 1-9, Dm.Williams 1-6. LAC, Ekeler 8-108, Ke.Allen 8-71, H.Henry 6-69, Gordon III 3-21, Mi.Williams 2-76, V.Green 1-8.

MISSED FIELD GOALS-KC, None. LAC, Badgley 1 (Sundays’ games)

Bills 37, Dolphins 20 Buffalo Miami

6 17 7 7 — 37 0 14 0 6 — 20

First Quarter BUF—Hauschka 51 yard field goal, 12:04.

BUF—Hauschka 34 yard field goal, 4:29.

Second Quarter BUF—Jo.Brown 40 yard pass from Js.Allen (Hauschka kick), 13:09.

BUF—Hauschka 21 yard field goal, 7:41.

MIA—Ballage 3 yard rush (J.Sanders kick), 3:39.

BUF—Da.Knox 23 yard pass from Js.Allen (Hauschka kick), 1:23.

MIA—J.Grant 101 yard kickoff return (J.Sanders kick), 1:09.

Third Quarter BUF—Js.Allen 8 yard rush (Hauschka kick), 6:55.

Fourth Quarter MIA—J.Grant 7 yard rush (R.Fitzpatrick pass from Hurns - failed), 14:35.

BUF—Jo.Brown 9 yard pass from Js.Allen (Hauschka kick), 10:38.

A—64,187.

TEAM STATISTICS BUF MIA First Downs 22 19 Total Net Yards 424 303 Rushes-Yds 34-168 13-23 Passing 256 280 Sacked-Yds Lost 0-0 7-43 Comp-Att-Int 21-33-0 32-45-0 Punts 5-43.6 6-43.7 Punt Returns 3-21 0-0 Kickoff Returns 1-44 5-198 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 0-0 Penalties-Yards 5-50 6-44 Fumbles-Lost 2-0 1-1 Time of Possession 30:09 29:51 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-BUF, Singletary 15-75, Js.Allen 7-56, Gore 11-27, McKenzie 1-10. MIA, Ballage 9-9, J.Grant 1-7, Laird 1-7, Gaskin 1-0, R.Fitzpatrick 1-0.

PASSING-BUF, Js.Allen 21-33-0-256. MIA, R.Fitzpatrick 32-45-0-323.

RECEIVING-BUF, Jo.Brown 9-137, Beasley 4-38, McKenzie 3-21, Da.Knox 2-32, Gore 1-18, Kroft 1-6, Singletary 1-4. MIA, D.Parker 7-135, Laird 6-51, Ballage 5-8, Hurns 4-53, Gesicki 4-18, J.Grant 3-32, A.Wilson 3-26.

MISSED FIELD GOALS-BUF, None. MIA, None

Jets 34, Redskins 17 N.Y. Jets Washington

6 14 0 14 — 34 0 3 0 14 — 17

First Quarter NYJ—Da.Brown 20 yard pass from Darnold(Kick failed), 11:50.

Second Quarter NYJ—Rb.Anderson 6 yard pass from Darnold (Ficken kick), 14:01.

WAS—Du.Hopkins 44 yard field goal, 9:05.

NYJ—R.Griffin 16 yard pass from Darnold (Ficken kick), 0:36.

Fourth Quarter NYJ—Crowder 29 yard pass from Darnold (Ficken kick), 13:11.

NYJ—L.Bell 1 yard rush (Ficken kick), 12:15.

WAS—Guice 45 yard pass from Haskins (T.Quinn pass from Haskins), 9:59.

WAS—Sprinkle 1 yard pass from Haskins (Hentges pass from Haskins - failed), 1:11.

A—56,426.

TEAM STATISTICS NYJ WAS First Downs 23 13 Total Net Yards 400 225 Rushes-Yds 33-115 20-54 Passing 285 171 Sacked-Yds Lost 2-8 6-43 Comp-Att-Int 19-31-1 19-35-1 Punts 4-42.0 6-52.8 Punt Returns 3-43 2-9 Kickoff Returns 2-40 6-143 Interceptions Ret. 1-9 1-26 Penalties-Yards 6-55 11-66 Fumbles-Lost 2-1 3-0 Time of Possession 32:19 27:41 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-NYJ, L.Bell 18-59, Bi.Powell 7-42, T.Montgomery 2-11, Jo.Adams 4-6, Darnold 2-(minus 3). WAS, A.Peterson 9-25, Guice 7-24, Haskins 4-5.

PASSING-NYJ, Darnold 19-30-1-293, Bi.Powell 0-1-0-0. WAS, Haskins 19-35-1-214.

RECEIVING-NYJ, R.Griffin 5-109, Crowder 5-76, Dm.Thomas 4-44, L.Bell 2-33, Da.Brown 1-20, Rb.Anderson 1-6, Bi.Powell 1-5. WAS, K.Harmon 5-53, T.McLaurin 3-69, Sprinkle 2-16, T.Quinn 2-9, Sims Jr. 2-6, A.Peterson 2-5, Guice 1-45, Smallwood 1-11, Hentges 1-0.

MISSED FIELD GOALS-NYJ, Ficken 1. WAS, Du.Hopkins 1

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USA TODAY COACHES POLL Record Pts Prv 1. Duke (25) 4-0 786 4 2. Louisville (1) 4-0 744 5 3. Michigan St (4) 2-1 705 1 4. North Carolina (0) 3-0 644 11 5. Kansas (1) 2-1 634 3 6. Virginia (0) 3-0 625 9 7. Maryland (1) 3-0 619 8 8. Gonzaga (0) 4-0 588 7 9. Ohio St (0) 3-0 502 16 10. Kentucky (0) 2-1 498 2 11. Oregon (0) 4-0 484 14 12. Texas Tech (0) 3-0 466 12 13. Seton Hall (0) 3-1 403 13 14. Arizona (0) 4-0 382 17 15. Villanova (0) 2-1 276 10 16. Utah St. (0) 4-0 248 19 17. Tennessee (0) 3-0 247 25 18. Auburn (0) 4-0 242 23 19. VCU (0) 4-0 210 NR 20. Memphis (0) 3-1 194 15 21. Xavier (0) 4-0 187 21 22. Texas (0) 4-0 118 NR 23. Baylor (0) 2-1 111 18 24. Washington (0) 2-1 102 NR 25. Colorado (0) 2-0 51 NR Others receiving votes: Oklahoma 47, St. Mary’s 46, Florida 40, Marquette 25, Florida State 22, LSU 20, Purdue 19, Michigan 15, Kansas State 14, Butler 11, Vermont 10, Penn St. 9, Arkansas 9, Evansville 8, Wisconsin 7, Dayton 7, Utah 5, Creighton 5, Syracuse 3, San Diego St. 3, USC 2, Missouri 2, Mississippi 2, Tulane 1, Oklahoma State 1, Cincinnati 1.

College football USA TODAY COACHES POLL Record Pts Prv 1. LSU (55) 10-0 1,615 1 2. Ohio State (6) 10-0 1,550 2 3. Clemson (4) 11-0 1,513 3 4. Georgia (0) 9-1 1,383 5 5. Alabama (0) 9-1 1,366 4 6. Oregon (0) 9-1 1,301 6 7. Oklahoma (0) 9-1 1,219 8 8. Utah (0) 9-1 1,177 9 9. Penn State (0) 9-1 1,081 11 10. Florida (0) 9-2 1,031 12 11. Minnesota (0) 9-1 899 7 12. Michigan (0) 8-2 851 14 13. Baylor (0) 9-1 841 10 14. Wisconsin (0) 8-2 786 15 15. Notre Dame (0) 8-2 760 16 16. Auburn (0) 7-3 614 13 17. Cincinnati (0) 9-1 566 17 18. Memphis (0) 9-1 539 18 19. Boise State (0) 9-1 469 19 20. Iowa (0) 7-3 434 22 21. SMU (0) 9-1 341 20 22. Appalachian State (0) 9-1 224 24 23. Oklahoma State (0) 7-3 212 NR 24. Texas A&M (0) 7-3 101 NR 25. San Diego State (0) 8-2 47 NR Others receiving votes: Virginia Tech 46, Air Force 43, Indiana 39, Navy 25, Virginia 20, Louisiana Tech 10, UL Lafayette 8, Pittsburgh 7, USC 3, Wake Forest 2, Temple 1, Kansas State 1.

Pro basketball NBA Eastern Conference Atlantic W L Pct Boston 11 2 .846 Toronto 9 4 .692 Philadelphia 8 5 .615 Brooklyn 5 8 .385 New York 4 10 .286 Central W L Pct Milwaukee 10 3 .769 Indiana 8 6 .571 Detroit 4 9 .308 Cleveland 4 9 .308 Chicago 4 10 .286 Southeast W L Pct Miami 9 3 .750 Orlando 6 7 .462 Charlotte 6 8 .429 Atlanta 4 9 .308 Washington 3 8 .273 Western Conference Northwest W L Pct Denver 9 3 .750 Utah 8 5 .615 Minnesota 8 6 .571 Oklahoma City 5 7 .417 Portland 5 9 .357 Pacific W L Pct L.A. Lakers 11 2 .846 L.A. Clippers 8 5 .615 Phoenix 7 5 .583 Sacramento 5 7 .417 Golden State 2 12 .143 Southwest W L Pct Houston 11 3 .786 Dallas 8 5 .615 Memphis 5 8 .385 San Antonio 5 9 .357 New Orleans 4 9 .308 Monday’s games New York 123, Cleveland 105 Indiana 115, Brooklyn 86 Toronto 132, Charlotte 96 Milwaukee 115, Chicago 101 Houston 132, Portland 108 Dallas 117, San Antonio 110 Boston 99, Phoenix 85 Minnesota 112, Utah 102 Oklahoma City at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.

Today’s games Golden State at Memphis, 8 p.m.

Portland at New Orleans, 8 p.m.

Phoenix at Sacramento, 10 p.m.

Oklahoma City at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m.

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Pro hockey NHL Eastern Conference Atlantic Division GP W L OT SO Pts Boston 20 12 3 1 4 29 Montreal 20 11 5 3 1 26 Florida 20 10 5 2 3 25 Buffalo 20 10 7 2 1 23 Toronto 22 9 9 2 2 22 Tampa Bay 17 9 6 2 0 20 Ottawa 20 8 11 0 1 17 Detroit 22 7 12 2 1 17 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT SO Pts Washington 23 16 3 3 1 36 NY Islanders 18 14 3 1 0 29 Carolina 20 12 7 1 0 25 Pittsburgh 20 11 7 2 0 24 Philadelphia 20 10 6 0 4 24 NY Rangers 18 8 8 1 1 18 Columbus 19 7 8 3 1 18 New Jersey 19 7 8 1 3 18 Western Conference Central Division GP W L OT SO Pts St. Louis 21 12 4 3 2 29 Colorado 20 12 6 2 0 26 Winnipeg 21 12 8 0 1 25 Dallas 21 11 8 1 1 24 Chicago 20 9 7 2 2 22 Nashville 19 9 7 1 2 21 Minnesota 20 7 11 2 0 16 Pacific Division GP W L OT SO Pts Edmonton 22 13 6 2 1 29 Arizona 22 13 7 2 0 28 Vancouver 21 10 7 3 1 24 Vegas 22 10 9 3 0 23 Calgary 23 10 10 3 0 23 Anaheim 22 10 10 2 0 22 San Jose 21 10 10 1 0 21 Los Angeles 21 8 12 1 0 17 Monday’s games Washington 5, Anaheim 2 Arizona 3, Los Angeles 0 Today’s games Minnesota at Buffalo, 7 p.m.

Philadelphia at Florida, 7 p.m.

Boston at New Jersey, 7 p.m.

NY Islanders at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.

Montreal at Columbus, 7 p.m.

Ottawa at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.

Tampa Bay at St. Louis, 8 p.m.

Winnipeg at Nashville, 8 p.m.

Carolina at Chicago, 8:30 p.m.

Vancouver at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

Colorado at Calgary, 9 p.m.

Toronto at Vegas, 10 p.m.

Edmonton at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.

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NEW ORLEANS — As Stephen Curry addressed the media with an amalgamation of bandages and braces around his hand, he recalled his rookie season, when he led an injury-plagued, 26-win Warriors team in minutes.

“I think it’s the best thing in the world for a young player to come in and get the opportunity to just play every single night,” Curry said. “You learn so much through these experiences. Especially when I was a rookie when we had nothing to play for and, when we looked at the standings, we were only playing for (former head coach) Don Nelson’s (all-time wins) record. But every night it was always ‘How can we get better and take a step in the right direction?’”

Like in Curry’s rookie season, injuries have opened up opportunities for Golden State’s young players. Two-way contract player Ky Bowman, originally intended to spend most of his time in the G League, has spent all of one morning in Santa Cruz this season. Rookie forward Eric Paschall has become a go-to scorer. Rookie guard Jordan Poole, despite a slump, is being given the runway to shoot his way out of it.

However, there’s a key difference between the 2009-2010 Warriors and the 20192020 Warriors. The former had made the playoffs just once in the previous 15 years and didn’t have the championship experience of the current edition. Those Warriors had no way to anticipate the success that would eventually come their way.

These Warriors can confidently look forward to being contenders when they are healthy next season. The young players getting an opportunity now can only hope to be a part of it.

With Curry (hand surgery), Klay Thompson (knee surgery), Kevon Looney (neuropathic condition), Jacob Evans (adductor), Alen Smailagic (ankle), Damion Lee (hand) and D’Angelo Russell (thumb) all out, coach Steve Kerr’s Warriors aren’t far from the status of Nelson’s 2010 squad. The Warriors (212) are limping through a season struggling to win games and stay healthy.

The Warriors have just nine healthy players, and won’t know more about potential reinforcements until Wednesday. In the midst of a four-game trip, Kerr doesn’t even have enough players for a five-on-five scrimmage, instead having to insert assistant coaches to run drills in practice.

The league requires teams to dress eight players for games. A couple more nicks and bruises could put the Warriors in a tough position, but one they’ve been in before.

On April 14, 2010, Nelson’s Warriors were in Portland to play the final game of a season derailed by injuries and resulting in a draft lottery appearance.

The Warriors had only six players available for the season finale against the Trail Blazers, two fewer than the league minimum. So injured players Ronny Turiaf and Anthony Morrow dressed and sat on the

EZRA SHAW/GETTY IMAGES Stephen Curry of the Golden State Warriors grimaces after he was injured in the second half against the Phoenix Suns at Chase Center in San Francisco on Oct. 30.

bench, technically active, but with no intent to play. The plan was for the five starters to play the entire game. That plan didn’t last long.

Five minutes and 27 seconds into the game, starting center Chris Hunter hurt his knee and went to the bench. Golden State’s sixth player, forward Devean George, checked in. Midway through the first quarter, the Warriors had no more room for error. No foul outs, no ejections, no more injuries.

Somehow, the Warriors played a competitive game against the 50-win Trail Blazers. The rookie Curry would finish with 42 points and guard Monta Ellis 34. With five minutes left in the game, the Warriors led 108-104. That’s when things got weird.

With 4:47 left, George fouled Portland forward Martell Webster. It was his sixth and final foul, an automatic disqualification.

Only, the Warriors had no healthy players who could play. The other three players on the bench were all injured — Turiaf and Morrow were listed as active, but they were actually injured, while Hunter got hurt in the first quarter.

NBA rules dictate “if a player in the game receives his sixth personal foul and all substitutes have already been disqualified, said player shall remain in the game.”

Nelson pleaded with the officials to allow George to stay in the game under this rule. However, the officials disagreed with Nelson’s interpretation, and forced Nelson to substitute a player. Hunter entered the game but limped badly. After drawing a charge, he could hardly get up and walk.

Nelson took him out of the game and pleaded with the officials again, to no avail. So he got creative.

Turiaf checked in for all of seven seconds before committing a foul and claiming an

injury. He went to the locker room. Then Morrow checked in, playing nine seconds before claiming his own injury and leaving the game. That allowed George, who had fouled out, to check back into the game.

With the bench emptied the Warriors went on a 14-4 run in the final 3:19, with Curry scoring 11 of those points. They won 122-116.

Should any of the nine healthy players — Bowman, Glenn Robinson III, Draymond Green, Poole, Alec Burks, Omari Spellman, Marquese Chriss, Paschall and Willie Cauley-Stein — get hurt, the Warriors would be in an even more difficult position than when they were in Portland in 2010.

Because of the hard cap triggered due to the sign-and-trade for Russell, the Warriors have carried 14 players — not counting the two two-way contract players — on the roster all season, one shy of the maximum 15.

Normally when missing half the roster due to injury, a team could apply for the NBA’s hardship exception in order to temporarily create an additional roster spot.

However, because the Warriors technically have an open roster spot but don’t have room under the hard cap to sign another player, the exception would not apply to them. This situation is unprecedented.

Should the Warriors be short of the eightplayer minimum, general manager Bob Myers would have to talk to the league office and ask for an exception to the hard-cap rule.

Losers of seven straight games, the injury-plagued Warriors are headed to a similar fate as they were a decade ago.

“I’ve never seen one team as banged up as we are,” Kerr said. “Counting our twoway guys, we have 16 roster players, and only nine available, so seven guys unavailable to play. That’s almost unheard of.”

Randle makes a statement in Knicks’ throttling of Cavs Stefan Bondy New York Daily News

NEW YORK — The Knicks gave $63 million to Julius Randle to be their star this season.

On Monday, he played like it.

The power forward, who mostly struggled to begin his Knicks career, dropped 30 points in a 123-105 breeze over the Cavaliers, shooting 12-for-17 in his statement performance.

Randle came into the contest on a stretch of inefficiency. His scoring and shooting percentage were way down from the previous season in New Orleans. His turnovers were way up.

Still, Fizdale has allowed Randle to run the offense as the point-forward, a move that absorbed lumps. But the coach was rewarded for his faith on Monday. Randle, who represented the consolation prize this summer after the Knicks struck out on star free agents, had 23 points at the break and finished with four assists and one turnover.

New York took a 20-point lead in the second quarter and never took its foot off Cleveland’s throat.

“I think it’s just (Randle’s) overall decision-making is getting better. He’s starting to let the game come to him a little bit more instead of trying to press, press, press. Again, we’re asking him to do something different, and be a different player than he’s been from the standpoint of being the guy that’s relied on to score. He’s relied on now to make other people better. I really think he’s taking that to heart. Every day he comes in, he watches his film and we specifically watch where his opportunities are to help other people.”

Fizdale said he pored over tape on Randle from his time with the Pelicans and Lakers, hoping to find a strategy to unlock the 24-year-old. Ultimately, the coach determined the struggles were more about comfort than schemes.

“I dug deep into a lot of his stuff, and I think a lot of it is just getting comfortable with his teammates,” Fizdale said. “Taking pressure off himself to will the Knicks (to be a great team). And once he settles in and starts to relax and play I think we’re going to

see more good games from him.”

Of course, Randle needs this consistently to shake the reputation of being an empty-calorie stat machine. Big numbers with zero playoff games have defined the early part of Randle’s career.

And Monday night was, in many ways, a schedule win for the Knicks at MSG. The Cavaliers, projected as one of the league’s worst, were in the second night of a back-to-back and rested their best player, Kevin Love.

They were on a three-game losing streak.

But the Knicks (4-10) aren’t in a position to take anything for granted. About a week prior, Cleveland obliterated the Knicks

at MSG, with Cavs’ guard Collin Sexton running amok. The Knicks’ effort, or lack thereof, prompted Steve Mills to hold a surprise press conference to voice its displeasure for the start of the season.

The temperature on Fizdale’s seat was turned up.

Since that impromptu presser from Mills, the Knicks are 2-2 and could easily be 3-1. The schedule turns daunting with 11 straight games against playoff teams from last season, starting Wednesday in Philadelphia.

Regardless of the opponent, the Knicks will be in a much better position to win if Monday night’s Randle shows up.

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It landed on a street, bounced for a while and settled onto a piece of driftwood in the Ohio River — which, technically, is part of Kentucky. “When you hit it out of the state, you’re a modern-day Paul Bunyan,” his teammate Sean Casey said years later. “That’s the stuff of legends.” Dunn belted 462 home runs in his career, and while he never appeared in the postseason, he did appear in an Oscar-nominated film, “Dallas Buyers Club,” in BARTON SILVERMAN/THE NEW YORK TIMES 2013. Dunn was an investor in New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter during a game against the production company and the Los Angeles Angels at Yankee Stadium on Aug. 10, 2011. played a bartender.

Chone Figgins: 12 years, playing for Cleveland at 43 no walks in 10 innings for years old with a grizzled gray the Phillies in a no-decision 1,298 hits Chone Figgins and Juan beard, he switched to No. 72 against the San Francisco GiPierre were teammates in the — the same number he wore ants. That is the only game Colorado Rockies’ farm sys- for the A’s in that first spring since 2007 in which a pitcher has worked 10 innings, and tem, and though they played training.

Raul Ibanez: 19 years, 2,034 Lee needed just 102 pitches for different teams in 2010, to do it. they were roommates in Ari- hits The Seattle Mariners draftCarlos Pena: 14 years, 286 zona for spring training. That season, the duo completed a ed 35 players in 1992 before home runs In Game 5 of the 2008 seven-year stretch in which taking Raul Ibanez from Mithey both tallied at least 300 ami Dade College. He clawed World Series, Carlos Pena stolen bases, a figure also his way to the majors — even saved baseball from a thorny reached in that span by Carl playing catcher for a while problem. The Phillies were Crawford and Jose Reyes. In — but was so lost in a crowd trying to close out Pena’s the past seven years, no play- of sluggers that his manager Tampa Bay Rays, and led by er in the majors reached 300 at the time, Lou Piniella — a run in the top of the sixth insteals, and baseball would be though fluent in Spanish ning. The game was therefore more fun if it still had a place — called him “eye-BAN-ez” official, but a driving rain had instead of “ee-BAHN-yez.” invaded Philadelphia and for guys like Figgins.

Rafael Furcal: 14 years, Three years in Kansas City would not let up for days. At established Ibanez as an ev- the time — in a monumen1,817 hits The 2000 National League eryday player, though, and he tal oversight — there was Rookie of the Year Award stayed in the majors through no rule that said postseason went to Rafael Furcal, then 2014. Ibanez now works in games must be played to their the Atlanta Braves’ short- the Dodgers’ front office and completion. Could the Philstop, with the Cardinals lefty would make an excellent lies actually win the World Rick Ankiel finishing as the manager if he ever wants that Series in a rain-shortened runner-up. In the third in- job; he is one of the most re- clincher? Commissioner Bud ning of the opening game of spected and genuine people Selig said he would not have allowed that, but, luckily, he the playoffs in St. Louis that in the game.

Paul Konerko: 18 years, 439 never had to make the decifall, Ankiel retired Furcal on sion: With two outs, Pena a routine foul pop to first. home runs Paul Konerko hit a grand singled home the tying run, It was the last batter Ankiel ever faced as that version of slam in the World Series and and the game was mercifully himself. He threw two wild made the final putout to end suspended. The Phillies won pitches while facing the next a perfect game. He set the to- two nights later in crisp, clear hitter, Andruw Jones, and tal bases record for the Chica- weather delivered to them by has traced the Jones at-bat go White Sox, who retired his a rival.

Brad Penny: 14 years, 121 to the moment his control No. 14 and built him a statue. abandoned him forever. An- Konerko was not fast and was wins The ring is nice, for sure, kiel reinvented himself as an not a great fielder, so Baseball outfielder, and Furcal found Reference credits him with but Brad Penny also should himself at Busch Stadium just 27.7 wins above replace- have an MVP trophy for his again for the highlight of his ment, fewer than Von Hayes, work in the 2003 World Series career: a victory in Game 7 of Martin Prado and Rondell for the Marlins. Penny beat the 2011 World Series, as the White. But never mind that: the Yankees in both of his Cardinals’ starting shortstop. His was an extraordinary ca- starts, and the actual MVP, Jason Giambi: 20 years, 440 reer that inspired the Mets’ Josh Beckett, was 1-1. Penny Pete Alonso, himself a right- even drove in two runs with home runs As an Oakland Athlet- handed, slugging first base- a single in Game 5, providics farmhand in 1994, Jason man. “The way that he was ing the margin of victory to Giambi reported to spring clutch and was such a great send the Marlins back to the training and found his lock- leader and did everything Bronx with a three-gameser next to Goose Gossage’s. the right way — that’s some- to-two lead. Beckett twirled a It took weeks for Giambi to one who I wanted to be like,” shutout on short rest in Game summon the courage to talk Alonso said during the sum- 6, but Penny — a towering to Gossage, the salty veteran mer. “He had a fantastic ca- right-hander who would later reliever, but they soon bond- reer, and I think he’s a Hall of start an All-Star Game for the Dodgers — deserved better. ed over baseball history: 13 Famer.”

J.J. Putz: 12 years, 189 saves Cliff Lee: 13 years, 143-91 years earlier, when he was How badly did the Mets 10, Giambi had seen Gos- record The same pitcher won want J.J. Putz at the 2008 winsage pitch for the Yankees in the World Series at Dodger the first regular-season and ter meetings? They traded Stadium. “He just thought it World Series games at Yankee seven players in exchange for was kind of cool that a young Stadium — and it wasn’t even him and two others in a wild kid knew about the game,” a Yankee. It was Cliff Lee, who three-team deal with Seattle Giambi said. “With skate- beat CC Sabathia to open the and Cleveland. None of the boarding and video games park in April 2009 as a mem- seven became superstars, but and everything, a lot of guys ber of the Indians, then did it the group has combined to didn’t watch the game when again that October as a mem- play 47 major league seasons they were kids. But back then, ber of the Phillies. Lee was a since the trade, and pitchers study in efficiency; he led the Joe Smith and Jason Vargas you lived the game.”

Giambi had an eventful majors four times in fewest are still active. Putz played career, to put it mildly. At walks per nine innings, and just one season for the Mets, the very end, when he was on April 18, 2012, he issued with a 5.22 ERA, but had

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Brian Roberts: 14 years, 1,527 hits Four players who started in the final game at the old Yankee Stadium appear on this ballot: Abreu, Giambi, Jeter and Brian Roberts, who bounced Rivera’s pitch toward first baseman Cody Ransom for the last out at the old shrine. Roberts was a star then for the Baltimore Orioles, but injuries — notably a long struggle with concussions — derailed the latter part of his career. He finished with the Yankees in 2014.

Alfonso Soriano: 16 years, 412 home runs, 289 stolen bases Few can match Alfonso Soriano for notable experiences. He played in Japan for the Hiroshima Carp when he was 21. He hit a home run in Game 7 of the World Series for the Yankees, who eventually traded him to the Rangers for Alex Rodriguez. He was the most valuable player of the 2004 All-Star Game for Texas, had a 40-40 season (home runs and steals) for the Washington Nationals and signed a nine-figure contract with the Cubs. He might not make it to Cooperstown, but Soriano was one of the best power and speed players ever. He hit 412 homers and stole 289 bases, and only five players exceed him in both categories: Barry Bonds, Willie Mays, Rodriguez, Andre Dawson and Carlos Beltran.

Jose Valverde: 12 years, 288 saves Jose Valverde’s nickname was Papa Grande, which translates to Big Potato, matching his lumpy physique. In his five-year prime (2007-11), Valverde had more saves than Rivera. While his career postseason ERA was 9.82, Valverde came through for Detroit in the division series clincher in the Bronx in 2011. Called in to protect a one-run lead, he retired Curtis Granderson and Robinson Cano on flyouts, then blew a 94-mph fastball past Rodriguez to end the Yankees’ season.

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Maple Hill wrestler Caleb Svingala is flanked by his father Tom (left) and Maple Hill wrestling coach Tom Gibbons (right).

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Svingala remembers.

“He (Caleb) has had it a little bit easier because he has had his brother Trent kind of blaze the trail for him, and he’s gotten to see what goes in the process.

So I think that made it easier for all of us.”

Caleb is going into a program that already has some momentum, as Buffalo wrestling coach John Stutzman just won 2019 Coach of the Year for the MAC Conference.

As for his coach now, Tommy Gibbons, there

seems to be little doubt of Caleb’s future success among his peers.

“He’s always trying to better himself by going to camps, or going to clinics,” Gibbons says, “everything he was good at before, he’s even better at now. He sets goals, he achieves them, he’s a good team leader, I think he’s going to have a great year this year.”

Caleb echoes this in his own words as well, as he looks to what the future holds.

“I’m looking forward to seeing myself progress as an athlete and becoming better, pushing my limits, and ultimately winning as a team and as an individual in this sport.”

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On New Year’s Eve 1972, an old cargo plane was taking off from Puerto Rico with relief supplies for earthquake victims in Nicaragua. On board were five people, including Roberto Clemente, the Pittsburgh Pirates’ charismatic star outfielder.

His wife, Vera Clemente, went to see him off. She didn’t like the look of the plane and thought it was overloaded.

In addition, the pilot was late, which annoyed her. She thought her husband should wait until the next day.

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He introduced himself to her inside the drugstore, but Zabala didn’t give him the time of day. Besides, her father was strict and kept her on a short leash.

Clemente, who was several years into his Hall of Fame career, pursued her by calling her friends and neighbors.

She kept turning him down but eventually relented.

He told her that he was in a hurry to have a family because he was going to die young but that God had a plan for him, according to Duane Rieder, founder and executive director of the Clemente Museum in Pittsburgh. Rieder quoted her as saying, “I felt God’s plan for me was to assist Roberto.”

They were married on Nov. 14, 1964, in Carolina, where Roberto Clemente was born, just east of San Juan, with hundreds of people in attendance, including the governor and several of Clemente’s fellow ballplayers.

Clemente was killed just eight years later, and his widow stepped into the role of humanitarian.

Every year, she took an active part in choosing the winner of the Roberto Clemente Award, an honor given since 1973 to the player who “best represents the game of baseball through extraordinary character, community involvement, philanthropy and positive contributions, both on and off the field.”

After Hurricane Harvey, she flew to Houston during the 2017 World Series to present the award to Anthony Rizzo, the Chicago Cubs’ first baseman, who was a cancer survivor and who had established a foundation to help children with the disease.

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As Carlos Beltran settles into his new life as Mets manager, it’s unclear how much input he will have as the team fills out the rest of his coaching staff. But Beltran did disclose his preference for an experienced group to supplement his novice managerial background at his introductory press conference earlier this month.

“I do need experience, there’s no doubt about that,” Beltran said on Nov. 4 in the Foxwoods Club at Citi Field. “We are reaching out. We’re going to reach out to coaches that have experience.”

Beltran is being fair. For a first-year skipper who has never before been a manager or a coach at any level of the game, the request for a staff with years of training in the dugout and bullpen is hardly a big ask. And he doesn’t necessarily want to bring in recognizable names in the league. The 42-yearold’s description of what a seasoned staff looks like includes “guys that are passionate, guys that are willing to work hard and have the same passion I have,” he said.

Mets general manager Brodie Van Wagenen fielded tons of questions

with regard to the empty chairs on the staff at the GM Meetings in Scottsdale last week. Even though Van Wagenen was quintessentially coy when he said the Mets will “wait to roll out our coaching staff until we’ve completed it,” the GM did indicate that Beltran’s classic definition of experience may not match his own.

“Experience comes in a variety of different forms,” Van Wagenen said on Beltran’s preference for a veteran bench coach. “We’re going to find the right guy for him and it’s going to have to be the right guy that he feels comfortable with.”

Chili Davis enjoyed a sitdown with Van Wagenen, Allaird Baird and other Mets officials in Scottsdale before reports confirmed he will return as the Mets hitting coach in 2020. Davis, who debuted as an outfielder for the Giants 38 years ago and has been on a Major League coaching staff for the better part of this decade, brings with him those key ingredients Beltran talked about when he described an ideal staff.

As for the other names being reported to fill out the Amazin’s coaching staff, at least one is already familiar with both the Mets and Beltran.

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Now the Jets face a real test against the much-improved Raiders Bob Glauber Newsday

The Jets have stepped back from the abyss and avoided complete misfortune by following a three-game meltdown against the Patriots, Jaguars and previously winless Dolphins with back-to-back victories for the first time in more than a year.

So at least there’s that.

At 3-7, there’s no realistic path to the playoffs, but there is still meaning to the Jets’ last six games. With a newly issued vote of confidence from CEO Christopher Johnson, Adam Gase can continue to prove that Johnson didn’t err by taking his coach off the hook so quickly. And with recently hired general manager Joe Douglas eventually working on an offseason roster reconstruction, he can get a better read on exactly what he needs based off how his team performs the rest of the way.

But let’s not get ahead of ourselves here. The Jets did win two games, yes.

But they beat two of the worst teams in football, getting past the 2-8 Giants in a 34-27 win and beating the Redskins, 34-17, Sunday afternoon at FedExField. The Redskins are a burned-out shell of a team that is 1-9 and lurching toward one of the worst records in franchise history.

So the winners ought not get too full of themselves, even if Sam Darnold did have a splendid game with a career-high four touchdown passes and the defense had its way with overmatched rookie quarterback Dwayne Haskins.

Unlike the previous week against the Giants, when Darnold suggested the Jets were capable of getting on a roll and even thinking about a playoff run, he returned to his one-week-ata-time mantra after routing the Redskins.

The Jets made the mistake after

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New York Jets wide receiver Jamison Crowder (82) is congratulated by running back Le’Veon Bell (26) after scoring a touchdown against the Washington Redskins during the second half at FedExField.

beating the Cowboys last month in believing that perhaps they had produced a franchise-defining moment.

A week later, they were smacked back into reality by the Patriots in a humiliating 33-0 home loss. That was the start of a three-game slide that culminated with a low moment in franchise history in Miami, where the Jets couldn’t even beat a winless team.

But if they want to believe that they have begun to right the ship with back-to-back wins over teams with a combined record of 3-17, then let’s see what happens when they face a more competent opponent

on Sunday at MetLife Stadium. The Raiders (6-4) are very much in the AFC playoff mix, and while they may not be as good as some of the Raiders teams of old, they pulled into a firstplace tie with the Chiefs in the AFC West by virtue of Sunday’s win over the Bengals. Kansas City played the Chargers Monday night in Mexico City.

That the Raiders are even thinking about the playoffs this season is a monumental surprise. They were horrendous last season in Jon Gruden’s return to the sideline, they were lambasted for trading valued

pass rusher Khalil Mack, and they swung and missed — so, so badly — by acquiring mercurial wide receiver Antonio Brown from the Steelers. Brown never even made it to the regular season before being released, and it appeared the team was in utter disarray.

But Gruden has done a terrific job in keeping this team competitive, and there is a legitimate chance for them to compete for a postseason spot, if not the AFC West title.

If the Jets can beat the Raiders, then maybe these wins over the woebegone Giants and Redskins

were a legitimate harbinger of better days ahead. If Gase gets the better of Chucky, then the Jets can start believing in themselves much more than simply by beating two teams that were done by the halfway mark of the season.

Darnold won’t look too far ahead.

“For us, it’s continuing the process,” he said Monday. “All the guys came in today and put some really good work in, like we have the last couple of weeks. It’s continuing our routine and making sure we don’t break from that and understanding it’s another opponent and we’ve got to come out with the right mindset.”

A win over the Raiders would put the Jets at 4-7, with very winnable games against the winless Bengals on the road and the Dolphins at home.

Win them all, then the Jets would go into a Thursday night matchup against the resurgent Ravens at 6-7, having won five straight.

There’s no way the Jets beat the Ravens in Baltimore if Lamar Jackson plays like he has through most of the season, so it’s unrealistic to think they’d get very far against a legitimate Super Bowl contender. But confidence is contagious, and the Jets would at least go into that game looking at themselves a lot differently than when they were 1-7 and teetering on the brink of collapse.

Gregg Williams’ defense is playing inspired football and Darnold has recovered from his midseason wobble with two straight quality performances. It’s still not going to be good enough for a playoff run this year, but it does lay an important foundation for next year and beyond.

The Jets will find out soon enough if beating a couple patsies is the start of something meaningful, or whether the Raiders will make them realize their ceiling is mediocrity.

Giants return from bye week with few changes but high hopes Tom Rock Newsday

It’s been over a week since the Giants played in a game and it will be almost another week before they play in their next one. In the nearly never-ending grind that is an NFL schedule — whether a team is winning or, like these Giants, not — that’s a fairly long respite.

But the idea that the bye week provides teams with an opportunity to overhaul their schemes and systems, to implement personality transplants, or make drastic changes in how they operate, well, that’s a bit of a myth.

So as the Giants returned from their bye on Monday, they took to the practice field somewhat refreshed and gathered again in their meeting rooms a bit refocused. As for drastic changes, though, don’t expect to see a lot of them.

“There’s not as much time as everybody thinks to make these wholesale changes that sometimes people think may happen,” coach Pat Shurmur said on Monday. He noted that between the review of the loss to the Jets early last week and the mandated days off for the players, there hasn’t really been time to alter the essence of the team.

Oh, there will be a few tweaks and probably a couple of personnel shifts. The overarching change that Shurmur wants to institute, though, didn’t really need a week away from football to evaluate and fix.

“Along the way, you’re playing good football and all of a sudden, you give up a third down,” Shurmur said of what has flummoxed the Giants to their 2-8 record. “Or you’re playing good football and you give up a big play. Or all of a sudden, you’re moving the ball and somebody

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New York Giants head coach Pat Shurmur leaves the field after losing to the New York Jets at MetLife Stadium.

misses a block and you have a sack-fumble.

Those are the kinds of things you have to clean up.”

In other words, the Giants don’t have to

necessarily play differently.

They just have to play better.

They have six games to show they can do so, starting Sunday against a 4-6 Bears team that

is limping into the contest with or without its starting quarterback, Mitchell Trubisky.

Of course, with six straight losses tailing them, the Giants aren’t exactly a daunting opponent either.

There is no mulligan for the first 10 games, but the Giants did appear to have taken advantage of the restart.

“I think we all needed to just kind of hit the reset button, refocus, kind of evaluate what we all individually can do better,” wide receiver Golden Tate said. “Just try to go on a run.”

For defensive lineman Leonard Williams, this was his second bye of the season. He had one earlier with the Jets before he was traded to the Giants.

“I was impressed with how the guys came out here ready to go for practice,” he said on Monday. “You could tell guys weren’t holding their head down or coming out here lackadaisical or lazy. It seemed like guys were ready to finish the season strong, and they came back with the intention and it showed in practice.”

Off the field, the Giants’ deep dive into their demise so far this season yielded some predictable results.

“I see what I’ve been talking about all along,” Shurmur said of his self-scouting over the past few days. “There are stretches of games where there’s a lot of really good football that we’re playing, and then there are mistakes that we make and for a team like us, mistakes that cost you to lose games. The challenge is to become more consistent in all areas.

“That’s sort of what I saw.”

What we’ll see the next few weeks won’t be structurally different. The Giants simply hope the results are.

Pulling Trubisky was solely because of his hip injury, Nagy says Colleen Kane Chicago Tribune

Chicago’s most debated hip injury occurred with 30 seconds to play in the second quarter Sunday night at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

Bears quarterback Mitch Trubisky took off while trying to move the Bears into fieldgoal range on third down. He charged to his right to make one would-be tackler miss and danced backward as another fell at his feet, but finally Rams cornerback Troy Hill and defensive end Michael Brockers closed in. Trubisky awkwardly twisted to the ground as Brockers fell down with him, kneeing the quarterback’s right side.

That, Bears coach Matt Nagy told reporters Monday at Halas Hall, was the start of the injury that ultimately ended with Trubisky sidelined for the end of the Bears’ 17-7 loss.

After much uncertainty surrounded the injury following a chaotic postgame atmosphere

Sunday night, Nagy attempted to set the record straight Monday with a lengthy description of events.

Trubisky suffered a right hip pointer on that play. He was tended to by the Bears trainer at halftime and was ruled OK to play. But the hip tightened as the second half wore on, and the Bears saw it affect Trubisky’s play as he tried to make several passes with just his arm and had trouble with his follow-through.

After it became so serious Trubisky couldn’t even sit on the bench, Nagy turned to backup quarterback Chase Daniel with just more than three minutes to play. Nagy told Trubisky why they needed to pull him in an emotional conversation caught by the NBC broadcast.

The move, Nagy said, was purely about the injury. It was not a sign the Bears were ready to move on from their embattled third-year quarterback,

as many began to speculate on social media when NBC’s Al Michaels and Cris Collinsworth weren’t immediately provided a reason for Daniel’s entrance on “Sunday Night Football.”

“There’s nothing but pure honesty in all of this,” Nagy said. “Literally, everything that I just told you conversationwise, every decision that was made, it had zero to do with his play. It was completely based off of the injury that he had last night and where he’s at, 100%.”

Nagy said he was made aware of the skepticism surrounding the injury.

He attempted to end that Monday by saying Trubisky “absolutely” still will be the Bears starting quarterback if he is healthy and noting the Bears do not want to shut Trubisky down for the season if they don’t have to. He wouldn’t say, however, whether he thinks Trubisky will practice this week as the Bears prepare to host the

Giants on Sunday at Soldier Field.

“As we go here the next couple days, we’ll see where he’s at, but (shutting him down) is not what he wants and that’s not what we want,” Nagy said.

“We want to keep growing.”

Trubisky’s inconsistent play in his second season under Nagy has been a major reason — though far from the only one — the Bears offense has been among the worst in the league.

He has completed 176 of 282 passes for 1,580 yards, nine touchdowns, four interceptions and an 82.2 passer rating in nine games.

So the public furor over Trubisky’s possible benching came after weeks of debate about whether he still has a future as the Bears starting quarterback beyond this season.

The speculation ramped up after the game when the accounts of how the injury unfolded from Nagy and Trubisky didn’t exactly match up,

something Nagy chalked up to postgame commotion and emotion. People also studied the clip of Nagy’s sideline talk with Trubisky — their heads huddled together, Nagy covering his face with his call sheet and Trubisky looking upset — to see if it was really the type of conversation that would be had about an injury.

“The thing that you love about Mitch is that he’s extremely tough,” Nagy said. “I love that about him. But at the same time, he was at a point where you could see that it was painful. So what I had to do was I wanted him to know coming from me that he needs to be brutally honest with me in regard to his pain and where he’s at. And that’s exactly what (the sideline conversation) was.

“I sat there and I told him, ‘Listen, man. We appreciate your toughness. We appreciate you being as tough as you can possibly be and wanting to stay in the game. But I need to

be able to make a decision because there’s a fine line of that pain to where it affects how you play or decisions that you make because of being injured.’”

Trubisky said afterward he didn’t remember much about the conversation because he was so frustrated and disappointed he couldn’t finish the game. He then left a small media tent where he did his interview and headed up a ramp buzzing with people.

Media members watched from behind as he walked with what appeared to be a slight limp to meet a group of family and friends. It was a walk as scrutinized as any of his other moves Sunday night because of its implications about what the rest of his season will look like.

The mystery of whether there was an injury may have been solved, but Trubisky’s next steps remain in question.

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Patron is bruised and battered in altercation with waitress Dear Abby, My husband and I were getting ready to leave after dinner at a restaurant we’ve patronized for 15 years. I went to the ladies’ room and was washing my hands when a waitress I don’t care for came barging in, got in my face and DEAR ABBY started yelling at me. I tried to leave, but she wouldn’t let me out of the restroom. I asked her several times to let me out, and she kept telling me no. When she finally let me go, I told the man in charge what she did.

My husband called him later, but the manager believed the waitress, who said that I started it.

The restroom encounter left red marks all over my arm, but the manager didn’t care.

I’m 74 and was tempted to go to the police but didn’t. Now I wish I had pressed charges.

Should I have?

Beaten Up In California

JEANNE PHILLIPS

There is probably more to this story than what you have written, but yes, you should have notified the police. You were assaulted and falsely imprisoned in that restroom. Had you contacted the police and gone to an emergency room about the marks on your arm, you would have had proof about what the woman did to you.

Dear Abby, My older sister has just been diagnosed with cervical cancer. The HPV vaccine might have protected her from it, had it been available to our generation.

A few of us were out to lunch recently, and

when I asked a younger sister if her granddaughter had received the vaccine, she went off on me like I had asked something terrible.

Do you think I was wrong for asking? I have grandkids and would not be offended if someone asked me that question.

Concerned Sister If you and the younger sister are close, then I don’t think your question was offensive. However, if you are not, because it was asked in front of friends, she may have interpreted it as an implication that her granddaughter is sexually active, which made her defensive.

Dear Abby, My husband of more than 20 years just purchased plane tickets to India. It’s a 24-hour trip from the USA. My problem is, he is sitting in business class, while I’m in economy. We have plenty of money, but he simply doesn’t want to spend it.Am I right to feel hurt and consider his love of money may be stronger than his love for me? Or should I be content and happy I’m going to a beautiful country?

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Upgrade your seat! You have a right to put your foot down

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Aortic abnormality may have been cause of lifelong chest pains Our mother passed away at 91, after decades of medical problems. She had complained over the years to many doctors of chest pains, difficulty breathing and difficulty swallowing. After she passed, we saw in her medical records the diagnoses of “Kommerell diverticulum” and “excavatum deformity.” Can you explain these?

Are these hereditary?

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I am sorry to hear about your GOOD HEALTH mother.

A Kommerell diverticulum is a congenital abnormality of the arch of the aorta. “Congenital” means she was born with it. The aorta is the largest blood vessel in the body, and it takes the blood directly from the left ventricle and supplies the entire body with oxygenated blood from the lungs. As a large vascular structure, this defect can compress the airway, causing shortness of breath. It also can affect the esophagus, causing swallowing difficulties.

Chest discomfort is frequently associated with this structure. It is certainly possible that your mother’s symptoms were due to her Kommerell diverticulum. In 2019, Kommerell’s diverticula are sometimes operated on, depending on their size and the symptoms they produce.

One concern is that they can have a dissection, which is a defect in the wall of the blood vessel, tearing two layers apart. They can even rupture if they are large enough.

Pectus excavatum — Latin for “caved-in chest,” also called “funnel chest” — is another congenital abnormality, this time of the chest wall, giving a sunken appearance of the midchest.

Pectus excavatum may occur by itself, but is

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associated with Marfan syndrome. There are also other, less common syndromes.

Marfan syndrome and Kommerell’s diverticula can occur together. Given the presence of both the pectus excavatum and the Kommerell’s diverticulum, I would have expected the physicians to consider the diagnosis of Marfan syndrome.

Unfortunately, the genetics of Marfan syndrome are complex and the role of genetic testing is more complicated than simply wondering whether you and your siblings should be tested for Marfan. Even a positive result on genetic testing does not guarantee a diagnosis of Marfan syndrome.

I can’t give you a clear recommendation beyond the advice to find a physician with expertise in Marfan syndrome. A careful exam is necessary to make the diagnosis. A genetic counselor may also be of value.

Given that your mom lived to 91 — and you and your siblings are presumably in your 50s or older — the likelihood that any congenital condition your mother may have had will cause you medical problems is small and getting smaller over time.

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By Stella Wilder Born today, you are never one to look back on your past — either days past or years past — with anything like regret. You do, however, take the time to assess your progress, and to study the path you’ve taken over days, weeks, months or years in order to determine, as best you can, the path you should take in the future. You enjoy all that brings you pleasure in life, and yet you understand that hardship is very much a contributor to that which you call “you.”

You are sometimes quite old-fashioned in your tastes and outlook, and others tend to see you as quaint and amusing, if not downright eccentric. You don’t mind being entertaining to others, so long as it means you are able to be true to yourself.

Also born on this date are: Bo Derek, actress; Veronica Hamel, actress; Joe Biden, U.S. senator and vice president; Dick Smothers, comedian; Richard Dawson, actor and game show host; Estelle Parsons, actress; Robert F. Kennedy, U.S. attorney general and senator; Edwin Hubble, astronomer.

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.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — You’re wanting to put the blame on someone who is utterly blameless in this certain situation. It’s time to look at your own track record.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — You must work your day rather like one would play a chess game, considering every move and its consequences well in advance. Anticipate!

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — You have something waiting for you that you are not all that eager to attend to at this time. You receive a reminder of a coming event.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — You may fear something that has only been hinted at by others.

Focus on what is real and clear to all, and not what you may only be imagining.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — It may fall to you today to put an end to something that has been quite enjoyable for you and others for quite a while.

It’s time to move on.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — You receive a shock today that has you putting a certain plan in motion more quickly than you had anticipated. A friend raises concerns.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — You can do a job with your usual expertise today and still there will be those who choose not to support you. Pay them no mind!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Your inner confidence allows you to address a certain situation with just the right balance of urgency and grace. You impress the boss.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Someone you know isn’t playing by the rules, but there is little you can do about it — unless you’re willing to open Pandora’s box.

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SUPER QUIZ

THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME

By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek

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

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Unscramble these Jumbles, one letter to each square, to form four ordinary words.

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

Answer here: Yesterday’s

(Answers tomorrow) Jumbles: FILLY TWINE FORGOT TEACUP Answer: The experience of using his first batteryoperated toothbrush was — ELECTRIFYING

Solution to Tuesday’s puzzle

11/20/19 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., What are the three spring months in America? Answer: March, April, May.) Freshman level 1. The expression “You’re no _____” means you are old or getting old.

2. The fictional home of “The Simpsons.”

3. Alice Springs is roughly in the geographic center of this country.

Graduate level 4. This English city in Somerset is known for its hot springs.

5. Rachel Carson is known for this environmental book.

6. This spring festival is 40 days before Easter.

PH.D. level 7. “Born to Run” is a studio album by this rock star.

8. “Tel” means “hill.” The name of this Israeli city means “hill of spring.”

9. Title of an Igor Stravinsky ballet and orchestral concert.

SUPER QUIZ ANSWERS 1. Spring chicken. 2. Springfield. 3. Australia. 4. Bath. 5. “Silent Spring.” 6.

Carnival. 7. Bruce Springsteen. 8. Tel Aviv. 9. “The Rite of Spring.”

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 Mother Goose & Grimm ACROSS 1 Graduate, for short 5 Utters 9 Purina Dog __ 13 One for whom there is no hope 15 Stumble 16 “Mine eyes __ seen the glory…”

17 Sidestep 18 Cuts off a limb 20 ABC followers 21 Bandleader Calloway 23 Feel insulted about 24 Astaire & Savage 26 __ race; daily grind 27 Artificial; fake 29 Cut in half 32 Aunt’s hubby 33 747 or 737 35 Bottom edge of a dress 37 Spouse 38 Object 39 One of the Three Bears 40 “Roses __ red, violets…”

41 Conceit 42 Stubborn beasts 43 Murphy & Cibrian 45 Earls & barons 46 “Snakes __ Plane”; scary movie 47 Employee’s delight 48 Valuable things 51 Overnight stop 52 Major TV network 55 Consoled 58 Poe’s first name 60 Seagull’s cousin 61 France’s Coty 62 Elvis’ “Blue __ Shoes” 63 Very short play 64 Arden & Plumb 65 Make ale DOWN 1 No longer young 2 Strong emotion

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3 __ by; immune to 4 TV’s “Chicago __” 5 Pierces 6 Give a gun to 7 Short sharp cry 8 __ on; goading 9 Virtuous; pure 10 Detest 11 Hotpoint appliance 12 __ Virginia 14 Flow back 19 Razz 22 Hustle and bustle 25 Regulation 27 Dangerous cat 28 Catch in a trap 29 Source of woe 30 Ill-fated space shuttle 31 Cone-shaped home 33 Fraternity letters 34 Trash can top 36 Church service 38 Hidden __; valuable find 39 British bars

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41 Half-and-half cartons, often 42 Des __, Iowa 44 “Alice __ Live Here Anymore”; 1974 film 45 Pelosi, to friends 47 Hitchhikers’ hopes

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48 Carney & others 49 Try to find 50 Calcutta dress 53 Ordered 54 Rowing team 56 Last biblical book 57 90 degrees from NNW 59 Give a moniker to

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