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Farmers assail proposed 40-hour work week

By Kate Lisa

Johnson Newspaper Corp.

ALBANY — Hundreds of letters were hand-delivered Wednesday to the Executive Chamber to Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office from anxious farmers and farm laborers pleading against the state Wage Board’s pending decision to lower the agricultural overtime threshold to 40 hours.

The Wage Board must vote

by Dec. 15, or within the next two weeks, to lower the current 60-hour threshold standards.

Carlos Lopez, who works on a farm in the state, was one of hundreds of workers to write a letter to the governor to request the 60-hour agricultural work week remain intact.

“It gives us the opportunity to work longer and thus produce more money for our family here and our family at home apart from the farm,” Lopez wrote.

Lopez’s letter was one of several letters written to the governor in Spanish.

About 400 additional farm workers sent Hochul a letter by email to discourage lowering the threshold.

Farmers and assemblymembers rallied at the Million Dollar Staircase in the state Capitol on Wednesday before delivering the letters, urging the Wage Board to reject the lower threshold they say would be financially detrimental to the industry.

“You don’t see any other business that has a 40-hour threshold giving people more than 37 hours, so that’s what we’re facing here,” said New York Farm Bureau Board of

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New York Farm Bureau Board of Directors Vice President Eric Ooms, who owns Ooms Farms in Kinderhook, Columbia County, speaks against the proposed 40-hour work week for farmers in front of the Million Dollar Staircase in the state Capitol on Wednesday.

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Assemblymember Billy Jones, D-Plattsburgh, rallied Wednesday with farmers in the state Capitol against the Wage Board’s pending decision to lower farmers’ overtime threshold to 40 hours.

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Child care under scrutiny

By Ted Remsnyder Columbia-Greene Media

HUDSON — State Sen. Michelle Hinchey, R-Saugerties, visited Columbia County on Wednesday accompanied by an influential colleague from New York City to discuss the ongoing issues the county has with providing affordable, reliable child care.

Hinchey and state Sen. Jabari Brisport, D-Brooklyn, who chairs the Senate’s Committee on Children and Families, arrived at a Hudson strip mall to hear from child care providers and local officials at the Child Care Connections day care facility.

Brisport spent the day with Hinchey touring the state, including a child care site in Tannersville, as his committee prepares to introduce a child care bill in the upcoming legislative session.

“We were in Columbia County and we were hearing from Columbia County providers but we were also hearing from Greene and Ulster County providers, which are two counties that I represent,” Hinchey said on Thursday morning. “It was meant to be a broad conversation, specifically about upstate child care. The senator who chairs the Committee on Children and Families represents Brooklyn, and while we heard many of the same challenges that child care providers face across the state, our challenges are different in more rural communities.

Whether that means providing services on a literal mountaintop or the general nature of distance to get to child care providers. There are so many challenges, so it’s really important for me as the senator See CARE A2

Legislation would aid vets, first responders, with PTSD

By Kate Lisa

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Christopher Dick, a lifemember of the East Greenbush Fire Department, became emotional during a forum at the American Legion Melvin Roads Post 1231 in Rensselaer on Wednesday recalling his struggles with PTSD and getting mental health treatment as an emergency responder.

Christopher Dick was at home enjoying a weekend evening cocktail with his wife when 35 years of buildup of emotion from responding to emergency incidents unraveled.

Dick, a lifetime member of the East Greenbush Fire Department, was diagnosed with severe posttraumatic stress disorder two years ago.

“I absolutely lost it,” he said.

“Thirty-five years of emergency services — fire service, ambulance — literally came flooding out in an hour-and-a-half. It was extremely

difficult for me.

“Those that are in emergency services, fire service, we’ve always held it within us that we are the tough guys,” Dick continued. “We are the ones that are out there to help someone. We hold it within us and there’s a point where you just can’t hold it anymore.”

Dick did not have suicidal thoughts, as is common for veterans and emergency personnel suffering from PTSD, but was at a loss about how to get help.

The fire department Board of Commissioners told Dick the department’s insurance did not cover any type of mental health or PTSD

treatment. He was forced to use his own personal time and medical insurance.

“I had to take time off — I had many doctor’s appointments,” the lifetime emergency volunteer recalled, adding he took off at least six weeks, at first.

“My employer wanted to know what was wrong with me and I couldn’t explain it to them,” Dick said. “Fortunately, I’ve gotten to the point now where it’s a lot better. I do have days, I do have moments.”

Dick is not alone. He is one of thousands of first responders in the See PTSD A2

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from the 46th District, and the only more rural upstate member of our conference, to bring the chair to hear directly from providers of more rural communities.”

The senators hosted a roundtable discussion on Wednesday evening, hearing from providers about the problems they’re currently facing on the ground. A common theme among the participants was the long wait times parents are facing in applying for care for their children.

“I have a waitlist that’s two and a half years out,” group family child care provider Heidi Brandt told the senators. “My parents are having their pregnancies around my openings so they can stay in care and keep

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circumstances faced by those in the sector.”

Several seasonal workers left the state after farmers reduced the number of hours available for employees in early 2020, financially injuring the workers the measure was intended to help, Tague said.

Migrant farm workers are seeking employment to maximize their earning potential, he added.

“If the overtime threshold is lower, as fewer laborers are available to provide the scraps locally, the accessibility of your foods will continue to decline,” the assemblyman said.

Assemblymembers Carrie Woerner, D-Round Lake; and Billy Jones, D-Plattsburgh, also rallied Wednesday with the farmers.

Jones was raised on a dairy farm and worked on a vegetable farm as a teenager and through college.

“They’re already paying more than almost any other state in the union for farm labor, so when you’re going out there and asking them when they have a very, very thin margin, to put one of these regulations on them, they’re just not going to do it — they just can’t do it,” Jones said. “This will be the death nail for many of our farms.”

their children together.”

Robert Weickel of Child Care Connections in Ulster County noted that the parents he assists are facing multiple roadblocks in obtaining child care for their kids.

“I just had a client who called looking for child care and just received housing and is trying to go back to work,” he explained.

“She found a daycare program but because her child’s medical records were done in the city she had to wait a week to start care and so she wasn’t able to start her job on time.”

Kira Pospesel, the Greene County Commissioner of Social Services, said that many parents had given up on the public sector to help them obtain care.

“The problem is that there’s no waitlist because people are not asking,” she told the group.

“They’re able to get ‘illegal’ child care, which we don’t want to see happen. But since it’s been so overregulated, just the plan that

I need to submit takes about 24 hours for me to get approval from the state. The public is done with us. They want somebody else to solve this problem.

They’re looking for safe, normal care.”

Hinchey said the next step in solving the myriad issues that the senators heard about in their listening session is to craft child care legislation when the 2022 legislative session begins in a matter of weeks.

“They’ve already started on that, that’s part of the reason why we did this tour and asked Sen. Brisport to come to our communities,” she said. “We wanted to make sure that he could see the challenges facing our area are reflected in that legislation. The next step will be to take all of these findings and have the committee sit down and put together legislation that we will all react to. Sen. Brisport and I have had a great working relationship for years and they

know that we’re a resource to make sure our communities are reflected appropriately and we’ll be looking out for that too.

Legislation will be next and we’ll look to address those concerns.”

Hinchey pinpointed the proposed federal Build Back Better legislation as another potential source of funding for child care in the state.

“It’s important to reiterate how hard our childcare providers work,” the senator noted.

“It’s really difficult when you have to take care of your own child, let alone many children at once and to make sure that their diets are taken care of and everyone feels nurtured, supported and that they’re learning at the rate that they can. Every child is an individual and every child learns a little bit differently. To have really dedicated child care providers that understand that and know that every child needs a valuable experience is really important.”

families, through our friends, through the organizations that are involved.”

Ashby on Wednesday hosted a two-hour forum with veterans and first responders from around the Capital Region — the first of six regional roundtables to be held around the state raising awareness for the No Surrender Veteran Initiative.

Many veterans and emergency personnel shared personal stories or asked questions about PTSD and related treatment with Ashby, Assemblyman Matthew Simpson, R-Horicon; and retired Col. Peter Goebel, director of the Rensselaer County Veterans Services.

Ashby sponsors four of 11 proposed bills supported by the Assembly Republican Conference as part of a PTSD-fighting initiative.

The assemblyman’s bills would establish a peer-to-peer mental health support program for frontline health workers struggling with depression, anxiety or PTSD modeled after the successful Joseph P. Dwyer program for combat veterans; allow first responders with PTSD to request line of duty sick leave; establish tax-free savings accounts to cover the health care costs of certain combat veterans until covered by the federal government; and create a green alert system for missing military members.

Ashby, a captain in the U.S.

Army Reserves, completed a tour in Iraq and Afghanistan as a medical officer during his service from 2006 to 2014, and knows the difficulties of PTSD firsthand.

A friend of Ashby’s who he served with in Afghanistan died by suicide last week. The assemblyman paused, swallowing back tears, when remembering his brother in arms.

“I haven’t been reticent on my own struggles coming back after my deployments,” said Ashby, adding support from his loved ones significantly helped him. “...My friend, Staff Sgt. Parks, didn’t have the great support system I had and, at one point, became lost in ways that I don’t think are familiar with many of the people back home.”

Other bills in the package would require the state Education Department, state Office of Mental Health and Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services to create a website dedicated to information about behavioral health issues including depression, eating disorders, anxiety, schizophrenia, PTSD and bipolar disorder; would expand leave of absence for military spouses, expand benefits for volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers and designates certain emergency and public safety dispatchers and operators as first responders, among others.

“A lot of this legislation I’m

hoping will touch and motivate people to reach out to the people that don’t have those supports that don’t have the people in their lives that they need,” Ashby said.

The bills have growing bipartisan support. Ashby is encouraged they will get the needed backing to pass both houses of the Democrat-controlled Legislature next session.

The next No Surrender Veteran Initiative event will be held on Long Island from 6 to 8 p.m.

Dec. 8 at Nassau Community College in Garden City.

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could be called to reconvene at any date.

“The Farm Laborers Wage Board recommended that the Wage Board be reconvened no later than Dec. 15, 2021,” state Labor Department spokesperson Deanna Cohen said in a statement Wednesday. “We will provide an update when we have one.”

Representatives with Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office would not answer questions about the governor’s stance on the proposed increase or her response to the referred to the Labor Department’s statement.

The current 60-hour threshold was established under the 2019 Farm Laborers Fair Labor Practices Act, and took effect in January 2020.

Farmers and lawmakers were unclear on the details of how the 40-hour agricultural work week was proposed since the act, but said it came about quickly.

“Our farms and agribusinesses are at the mercy of the unpredictable forecast,” said Assemblyman Chris Tague, RSchoharie, who formerly owned a dairy farm. “Differential rains means all hands on deck to save as many crops as possible ... demanding working ‘til after sundown to protect deals and prolong the growing season. We do a disservice to farms when we fail to recognize the unique

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Directors Vice President Eric Ooms, who owns Ooms Farms in Kinderhook, Columbia County. Ooms’ dairy farm has installed robotics to milk their cows, but vegetable growers will not have the same luxury with fewer workers if the 40-hour work week passes, he said.

“When you go to the green markets in Manhattan or Westchester, there will be product there, but it’ll be from Pennsylvania and New Jersey and other states,” he added. “The reality is, we can’t keep having these increases. ...If you do things like this, you’re going to push people to grow more and more cash crops, which requires a fraction of the labor.”

Farmers said Wednesday labor unions have pushed to lower the overtime threshold to 40 hours to be comparable with other industries, and to address inequities burdening minority groups as most farm workers are undocumented people and people of color.

Farmers Wednesday said the agricultural business mode has unpredictable factors that make it near-impossible to change, including perishability of crops and timeliness of

selling products and varying work hours in a season depending on the climate and weather.

“You do your best to make hay when the sun shines,” said Brian Reeves, owner of Reeves Farms in Onondaga County.

“Sometimes, there’s a little more sunshine this week and sometimes not next week, but you have to go when you have to go and the workers on our farms pretty much understand this, too.”

Farmers also do not get to dictate the prices for their product, Reeves said to explain why a 40-hour work week business model is not feasible for the industry, and would likely reduce the type of crops grown in New York that get sold on supermarket shelves.

If approved, the overtime restriction and planned minimum wage hikes would result in a 42% increase in labor costs for small farms, according to a recent Farm Credit East report.

Many expressed concerns Wednesday that overtime restrictions would drive the already dwindling farm laborers to other states with more competitive work schedules.

Officials and farmers did not know the date of the Wage Board’s vote or knew other details of the pending decision.

The vote must take place on or before Dec. 15, but the board

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state to suffer from PTSD and other mental health issues.

Law enforcement officers and firefighters are more likely to die by suicide than in the line of duty, according to a January U.S. Surgeon General’s report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Emergency medical service providers are 1.39 times more likely to die by suicide than the public. Studies have found that between 17% and 24% of public safety telecommunicators have symptoms of PTSD and 24% have symptoms of depression, according to the report.

Assemblyman Jake Ashby, R-Castleton, sponsors several pieces of legislation to make addressing PTSD a priority in the 2022 legislative session, which starts Jan. 5.

“There’s no single remedy for this,” he said. “There’s not one piece of legislation that’s going to fix this. It’s through a combination of efforts and it comes across the scale of government at the federal level, the state level, the county level...and even outside of government. This is not a government-only solution.

“We have to reach out to people in informal ways and informal channels through our

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Millbrook resident winner of Central Hudson’s Fall Foliage photo contest

CALENDAR EDITOR’S NOTE: Most events and meetings are cancelled due to the virus outbreak. Please call ahead to confirm.

Saturday, Dec.4 n Germantown History Department 9 a.m. to noon 1767 Parsonage, 52 Maple Ave., Germantown 518-537-6687 n Stuyvesant Recreation Commission 9 a.m. Town Hall, 5 Sunset Drive, Stuyvesant 518-758-6248

Monday, Dec.6 n Claverack Planning Board 7 p.m.

Town Court Building, Route 217, Mellenville 518-672-7911 n Clermont Town Board 7 p.m.

Town Hall, 1795 Route 9, Clermont 518537-6868 n Germantown Fire District 7 p.m.

Board of Fire Commissioners. Fire House, 181 Main St., Germantown n Hudson Common Council informal meeting at 7 p.m. at City Hall, 520 Warren St., Hudson, 518-828-1030 n Kinderhook Town Board 6:30 p.m. Town Hall, 3211 Church St., Valatie n Red Hook Planning Board 7:30 p.m. Town Hall, 7340 South Broadway, Red Hook 845-758-4606 n Red Hook Village Board 7:30 p.m.

Village Hall, 7467 South Broadway, Red Hook 845-758-1081 n Rhinebeck Town Board 6:45 p.m.

Town Hall, 80 East Market St., Rhinebeck n Webutuck School District Board of Education 7:30 p.m. 845-373-4100

Tuesday, Dec.7

POUGHKEEPSIE — The winner of Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corporation’s ninth annual Fall Foliage Photo Contest’s $750 prize is Luke Kelly of Millbrook, Dutchess County, who submitted his photograph taken from the Ferncliff Forest Fire Tower in Rhinebeck. Kelly will also receive a framed print of his photograph.

Of the 20 finalists, Kelly’s photograph received more than 1,100 votes, the most cast by Central Hudson’s Facebook followers. In total, more than 8,100 votes were cast.

In addition, a second drawing will be held to award a framed print of the winning photo to one lucky voter. The winner will be announced soon.

“We congratulate Luke on his winning photograph, which beautifully showcases the fall colors and inspiring vistas we’re treated to here in the Mid-Hudson Valley,” said Charles A. Freni, President and CEO of Central Hudson. “We were once again appreciative

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Board of Fire Commissioners. Fire House, 67 Route 23, Claverack n Columbia Economic Development Corporation IDA and CRC Boards and Committees 8:30 a.m. One Hudson City Centre, Suite 301, Hudson n Hillsdale Zoning Board of Appeals 7:30 p.m. Town Hall, Main Street, Hillsdale 518-325-5073 n Hudson City School District Board of Education 6 p.m. Hudson High School, 215 Harry Howard Ave., Hudson n Hudson Conservation Advisory Council 6 p.m. City Hall, 520 Warren St., Hudson, 518-828-1030 n Livingston Zoning Board of Appeals 7 p.m. Town Hall, County Route 19, Livingston 518-851-9441 n New Lebanon Central School District Board of Education 7 p.m. Room 3, Walter B. Howard Elementary School, 14665 Route 22, New Lebanon n New Lebanon Zoning Board of Appeals 7:30 p.m. Town Hall, 14755 Route 22, New Lebanon 518-794-8888 n Rhinebeck Village Planning Board 7:30 p.m. Village Hall, 76 East Market St., Rhinebeck 845-876-1922 n Taghkanic Planning Board workshop 7 p.m. Town Hall, Route 82, West Taghkanic 518-851-7638

Wednesday, Dec.8 n Clermont Planning Board 7:30

p.m. Town Hall, 1795 Route 9, Clermont 518-537-6868 n Columbia County Board of Supervisors Full Board 7:30 p.m. 401 State St., Hudson. 518-828-1527

Columbia Economic Development Corporation HIDA 1 p.m. One Hudson City Cenn

tre, Suite 301, Hudson and Zoom n Copake Hamlet Revitalization Task Force 7 p.m. Town Hall, 230 Mountain View Road, Copake 518-329-1234 n Ghent Zoning Board of Appeals 7 p.m. Town Hall, 2306 Route 66, Ghent 518-392-4644 n Hudson Housing Authority 6 p.m. via Zoom n Kinderhook Village Board 7 p.m.

Village Hall, 6 Chatham St., Kinderhook 518-758-9882 n Livingston Free Library Board of Trustees 7 p.m. Livingston Free Library, 90 Old Post Road, Livingston 518-8512270 n Milan Zoning Board of Appeals 7 p.m. Wilcox Memorial Town Hall, 20 Wilcox Circle, Milan 845-758-5133

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The winner of Central Hudson’s ninth annual Fall Foliage Photo Contest, $750 prize and framed picture is Luke Kelly of Millbrook, Dutchess County, who submitted his photograph taken from the Ferncliff Forest Fire Tower in Rhinebeck.

of and amazed by all of the entries submitted this year, as they were truly inspiring examples of region’s spectacular fall season.

We offer our sincere appreciation to the talented contestants who shared their work.

“Thank you also to all who

participated by voting,” said Freni. “We are proud to serve this beautiful and historic part of New York State, and this

annual contest reminds us how fortunate we are to live here.”

The contest opened on Oct. 4, 2021, inviting Central Hudson customers to submit photographs of the region’s fall season taken within the energy company’s service area by Nov. 5. A selection of finalists was posted to Central Hudson’s Facebook page, and voters were asked to “like” their favorite of the finalists. The official voting ended at noon on Nov. 19.

Freni also reminded customers of the benefits of “liking” and “following” Central Hudson on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to receive important safety messages, energy efficiency tips, announcements on new programs and services, updates on severe weather and other helpful information.

To view the images of all the finalists, go to Central Hudson’s Facebook page at www.Facebook.com/CentralHudson.

BBB’s 12 scams of Christmas BUFFALO — It’s that time!

Time for Better Business Bureau’s (BBB) 12 scams of Christmas, the scams that are most likely to catch consumers and donors off guard during this season.

Many of the scams on this list come through emails and social media platforms, however, social media is where most people are vulnerable. Exercise caution when coming across social media ads about discounted items, event promotions, job opportunities, and donation requests, as well as direct messages from strangers. If you are asked to make a payment or donation by wire or e-transfer, through third parties, by prepaid debit or gift cards, treat this as a red flag.

Avoid BBB’s 12 Scams of Christmas: Misleading Social Media Ads: As you scroll through your social media feed, you often see items for sale from a small business. Sometimes the business even claims to support a charity to try to get you to place an order or offer a free trial. BBB Scam Tracker receives reports of people paying for items that they never receive, getting charged monthly for a free trial they never signed up for, or receiving an item that is counterfeit or much different from the one advertised. The 2020 BBB Scam Tracker Risk Report found that online purchase scams were the most common cons reported to Scam Tracker and the category with the most victims. Do your homework and research the company before ordering.

Check out the business profile on BBB.org and read the reviews.

Social Media Gift Exchanges: Each holiday season this scheme pops back up, and this year is no different. A newer

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version of this scam revolves around exchanging bottles of wine; another suggests purchasing $10 gifts online. Another twist asks you to submit your email into a list where participants get to pick a name and send money to strangers to “pay it forward.” There is even a twist about “Secret Santa Dog” where you buy a $10 gift for your “secret dog.” In all of these versions, participants unwittingly share their personal information, along with those of their family members and friends, and are further tricked into buying and shipping gifts or money to unknown individuals. And — it’s an illegal pyramid scheme.

Holiday Apps: Apple’s App Store and Google Play have dozens of holiday-themed apps where children can video chat live with Santa, light the menorah, watch Santa feed live reindeer, track his sleigh on Christmas Eve, or relay their holiday wish lists. This holiday season, like last year when the Pandemic caused children to skip the traditional in-person visit with Santa, apps may play a more important role than ever. Review privacy policies to see what information will be collected.

Be wary of free apps, as they can sometimes contain more advertising than apps that require a nominal fee. Free apps can also contain malware.

Alerts about Compromised Accounts: BBB receives reports on Scam Tracker about a con claiming your Amazon, Paypal, Netflix, or bank account has been compromised. Victims receive an email, call, or text message explaining that there has been suspicious activity on one of their accounts, and it urges them to take immediate action to prevent the account from being compromised. Be extra

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Free Gift Cards: Nothing brings good cheer like the word ‘FREE’. Scammers have been known to take advantage of this weakness by sending bulk phishing emails requesting personal information to receive free gift cards. In some of these emails, scammers impersonate legitimate companies like Starbucks and promise gift cards to loyal customers that have been supporting their business throughout the pandemic.

They may also use pop-up ads or send text messages with links saying you were randomly selected as the winner for a prize.

If you receive an unsolicited email with gift card offers, do not open it. Instead, mark it as Spam or Junk. If you opened the email, do not click on any links.

Temporary Holiday Jobs: Retailers typically hire seasonal workers to help meet the demands of holiday shoppers.

Shippers and delivery services are top holiday employers this year because of the increase in online orders and the need to get most of these packages delivered before Christmas. These jobs are a great way to make extra money, sometimes with the possibility of turning into a long-term employment opportunity. However, job seekers need to be wary of employment scams aimed at stealing money and personal information from job applicants. Keep an eye out for opportunities that seem too good to be true.

Look-Alike Websites: The holiday season brings endless emails offering deals, sales, and bargains. Be wary of emails with links enclosed. Some may lead to look-alike websites created by scammers to trick people into downloading malware,

making dead-end purchases, and sharing private information. If you are uncertain about the email, do not click any of the links. Instead, hover over them to see where they reroute.

Fake Charities: Typically, 40% of all charitable donations are received during the last few weeks of the year. However, because of the pandemic, many organizations had to cancel fundraising events and awareness campaigns and are now inviting donors to support online. Donors are advised to look out for fraudulent charities and scammers pretending to be individuals in need. Avoid impromptu donation decisions to unfamiliar organizations. Responsible organizations will welcome a gift tomorrow as much as today.

Verify a charity at BBB’s Give. org. Where possible, donate to the charity through their website and use a credit card.

Fake Shipping Notifications: More consumers are making purchases online, there is also an increase in the number of notifications about shipping details from retailers and carriers. Scammers are using this new surge to send phishing emails and texts with links that could give unwanted access to your private information or download malware onto your device. They may also try to trick people into paying new shipping fees.

Pop Up Holiday Virtual Events: This year, many local in-person events such as popup holiday markets or craft fairs, have moved online. Scammers are creating fake event pages, social media posts, and emails, charging admission for what used to be a free event.

The goal is to steal credit card information. Confirm with the organizer of the event if there is

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Top Holiday Wishlist Items: Low or ridiculously priced luxury goods, jewelry, designer clothing, and electronics are almost always cheap counterfeits and knockoffs. This year, the Galactic Snackin’ Grogu Animatronic (aka Baby Yoda) and game consoles are some of the items in high demand. Be very cautious when considering to purchase these high-value items from individuals through social sites.

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Secrecy in education teaches nothing If anyone was surprised to hear Tuesday that State Education Department leaders struggled to communicate with, or get a response from, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his top aides throughout the COVID-19 pandemic as they waited for safety guidelines for New York schools, they couldn’t have been keeping up with the news in the last eight months.

It’s just another example of how the Cuomo administration stalled, stonewalled and muted responses that might have helped state colleges climb out of the predicament in which they now find themselves.

Members of the Assembly’s Higher Education Committee, chaired by Assemblywoman Deborah Glick, D-Manhattan, questioned several state

education officials Tuesday during the chamber’s hearing on COVID-19’s impact on the future of higher education in the Legislative Office Building in Albany.

With little doubt, the pandemic combined with executive branch secrecy had a harmful impact on instruction, admissions, enrollment, retention, student life and career services. State schools are now staring down the barrel of additional financial aid, access to mental health services and issues around food insecurity.

State Education Commissioner Betty Rosa testified that the lack of communication from the former Cuomo administration and state Health Department Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker in issuing COVID guidance — or releasing conflict-

ing guidelines — to the Education Department throughout the pandemic constituted a major setback for the SUNY and CUNY and public school systems alike.

Educators are hoping former New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Mary T. Bassett, who became the state’s Health Department leader Wednesday, will help right the ship.

It will be good for parents who have children in higher education — and for all New Yorkers — if Bassett and the Higher Education Committee set the tone for rooting out secrecy and opening up lines of communication. There is a sense now of moving the ship in one direction with consistency — and especially, transparency.

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$3-a-gallon gasoline isn’t as painful as it used to be Liam Denning Bloomberg

Given oil’s sharp drop, gasoline prices should soon fall somewhat. In any case, this most recent bout of pain at the pump was never really very painful to begin with.

Any price per gallon beginning with a “3” tends to provoke panic. But on a number of relative measures, recent gasoline prices don’t look particularly high.

Yes, they’re a lot higher than last year. But that’s no surprise.

And gasoline’s share of the American wallet is lower than it has been.

Another way of looking at this is to tweak the familiar metric of miles-per-hour to miles-per-hour-worked: How much driving distance does an average hour of labor buy at the prevailing pump price?

For October, I calculate an hour’s work was enough to buy 7.3 gallons, on average. The latest data for the U.S. vehicle fleet’s average fuel economy from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics are for 2019; I roll these forward through 2021.

Meanwhile, the latest data on average fuel economy for new vehicles from the

Environmental Protection Agency are for 2020, and I also roll these forward. Using these, we can get a crude measure of just how far the average worker can drive on an hour’s labor, either in their trusty old workhorse or a brand new car. Again, recent history looks similar to the picture before the pandemic.

To make that slightly less abstract, consider the ubiquitous Toyota RAV4 Crossover SUV. The base 2021 model runs about $27,500 and is rated at just more than 31 miles to the gallon. Five years ago, the base 2016 model cost about $24,000 and scored about 26 miles to the gallon. So even though the sticker price was lower and gasoline was cheaper by about 25%, the combination of better mileage and higher wages mean a driver works fewer hours to cover the cost of buying and running a RAV4 today, on average, than back then.

Averages obscure harsher realities away from the mean, of course. And although the recent data don’t look out of the ordinary in terms of their level, they were nearing more dangerous territory. At 59%,

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November’s year-over-year price increase is the sharpest in monthly data going back to the early 1990s. Yes, that reflects the base effect of a year of lockdowns, but it’s for a product of almost mystical importance to the U.S. consumer, who is reminded of its cost regularly.

The desire to blunt that momentum, and signal concern for those harsher realities, figured large in President Joe Biden’s decision to release oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. And he was surely mindful of the inverse relationship between gasoline prices and the prospects for his green-tinged budget package sitting in the Senate. Even though the numbers don’t reveal an actual emergency, their speed and direction portended real trouble.

When I was growing up in the 1940s and ‘50s, it was popular to think of America at large, and New York City in particular, as a melting pot. In fact, that is what I was taught in school.

Like much that we learn in school when we are young, it was wrong. America is not a melting pot and has never been so. These days, we usually see America as “multi-cultural” or “multi-ethnic,” or, in former NYC mayor David Dinkins’ words, “a glorious mosaic.”

Some might disagree about the word “glorious,” but probably none would about the word “mosaic,” at least as a description devoid of adjectives and value judgment.

No topic in school is subject to more distortion or mythologizing than American history.

It is a predictably and understandably important subject to parents and politicians, along with professional educators.

After all, it is the way we learn about ourselves and our past.

In so doing, the history we learn affects the way we think about our present and future, about what is likely, what might be possible, and what is unlikely.

Put another way, history is the story of us.

The problem is that no single such story is wholly true or tells the whole truth. For example, when I was in the 7th and 8th grades, while we were being taught that America was a melting pot, our school was splitting into Black, Puerto Rican, and Italian gangs. The myth and reality were hardly the same. Yet they weren’t entirely untrue either.

For the longest time, one way historians told our story was through great events and great men. Dates and the men (almost exclusively) who were most prominently involved.

Call it the Great Man theory of history, a story almost solely told by white men for the longest time.

Marxism brought a great revolution to thinking about history. Instead of Great Men, it looked at economics, of fluctuations in prices, and the growth or destruction of markets and economic systems. If things happened, they did so because of the ebb and flow of the tides of economic development, and what happened was inevitable and not the doing of any individual. It was a valuable tool for looking back, though I’m not so sure about looking forward.

In the past 50 years or so, we’ve seen our story being told through other lenses, other eyes. For example, history, as seen through the lives of working men and women, is not the same as that history as seen through the lives of society’s movers and shakers.

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SALTZ History can also be seen through the lives of women and their role in society. And indeed, women have always played a more significant role than men were generally willing to acknowledge and less than women were usually anxious to play.

Similarly, at least in America, history can be told through the lives and eyes of Latinos (although different groups of Latinos, Puerto Ricans and Mexicans, for example, might see that history somewhat differently); of Asians (though I wouldn’t be surprised if Chinese and Japanese, for example, might see things differently from each other); not to mention all the individual strands embedded in the LGBTQ communities; and let’s not forget what is now often referred to as the Indigenous community, which, too, is not one community but many. So it wouldn’t surprise me if America’s past can be seen differently by, say, the remaining Cherokees and Mahicans. And it is undoubtedly different than seen by most white Americans.

Every constituent community within America has its own history and lens through which to view America, including whites. Irish, Polish, German, Scandinavian, British, German Jewish, Russian, East European Jewish, and on and on, all have their individual histories. No, there is no “white” history, no single history of America that I know of that serves up equal justice to everyone.

We are a mess of a country. A mosaic, indeed.

Which brings me to the Black community, the descendants of our slave-owning past.

It should come as no surprise to anyone that the descendants of slaves would see the history of America differently than many, if not most whites. Are you surprised that so many Blacks see slavery at the core of America?

That today’s America would not exist if it weren’t for slavery? Are you absolutely positive they are wrong?

Like all monocular views of the past, my inclination is to think it is neither the whole truth nor wholly true. But it is not entirely untrue either. So no matter what it is, it must be taken into account.

Symbolized by the “1619 Project” and Critical Race Theory, the controversy of the day in many schools is what we should teach about the history of slavery and racism in America to our children. The question is rarely did slavery exist in the past or does racism exist today, but how important was it or, should we even mention it? And what does it mean for us in today’s world?

Just as important, how much do parents arguing on any side of this issue actually know about our history? Most parents, like me, were taught some version of an American myth almost guaranteed to be largely false. Unfortunately, that doesn’t make us particularly wise advocates for knowing what our children should learn.

The mythology I was taught in New York was all about a melting pot and Peter Stuyvesant stomping around on one leg. I had to learn as an adult that America is a far more complex place, and Stuyvesant was a terrible bigot. In Texas, children learn about the valiant revolt against Mexico for liberty and freedom. But they are never taught that the rebellion had everything to do with slavery, with the right to buy and sell people.

The larger question is, what is America? How much of what we teach our children should be based on mythology, and how much on fact? And whose mythology and whose facts? I don’t pretend to know the answer, though I heavily veer towards the side that wants more facts. One cannot resolve problems based on mythology because mythology rarely admits the existence of unresolved issues.

While we parents are arguing about what to teach our children, it would behoove us to learn everything we can about what we are arguing about. But, unfortunately, most of us want our children to learn the same mythology that we learned, thus perpetuating our own ignorance and our own inability to resolve American society’s problems. But the history of America, the story of us, is an extraordinary tale. It’s a tale filled with saints and sinners, heroes and cowards, victims and victimizers. It’s a tale filled with people from all over the world struggling to create a better life for themselves and sometimes for others. As Americans, every part of that story is a part of us, whether we recognize it or not. It’s a story we should all try to learn Michael Saltz is an awardedwinning, long time, now retired, senior producer for what is now called ‘PBS Newshour.’ He resides in Hillsdale.

This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners.

Liam Denning is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering energy, mining and commodities.

He previously was editor of the Wall Street Journal’s Heard on the Street column and wrote for the Financial Times’ Lex column. He was also an investment banker.

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Hudson Senior High School announces first quarter honor roll HUDSON — Hudson Senior High School announces the first quarter honor roll for the 2021-2022 school year.

GRADE 12 High Honor: Matthew Antonelli, Ashanti Armstrong (QIII-Career Academy), Jonathan Bernockie, MaKayla Bertoldi-Hogan, Tohidul Bhuiyan, Arianna Camacho, Gabriel Case, Kameron Case (QIII-Career Academy), Vanessa Castellanos, Zoey Catlin, Sydnee Cooley-Grossman, Kyle Farley, Dominique Geer (QIII-Career Academy), Owen Giovannucci, Pauline Hall, Emma Hanley, Refat Hoque, Jacob Hromada, Anneliese Ide, Isaiah Johnson, Jadon Lawrence, Isaiah Maines, Ibrahim Malik, Brady McDonald, Serenity McGriff-Phillips, Elina McKenzie, Lauren Meicht, Nazia Miah, Shami Miah, Jordan Moon, Gerardo OrellanaContreras, Oliver Ortiz, Olivia Plaia, Leo Platti III, Gabriella Popow, Fathema Rahman, Bishwokrit Rayamajhi, Jeremy Reynoso-Alcantara, Thomas

Rice, Simon Rowe, Brandon Scali, Nicolas Scali, Reagan Schlimgen, Zacharius Simmons, Trevor Slowinski, Jamie Smith (QIII-Career Academy), Kameron Tampasis, Rafia Tasnim, Kameron Taylor, Riley Taylor, Peyton Turnquist, Rahim Wali and Larry Walker Jr. Honor: Abid Ali, Christian Burgos, Adam Busta Jr., Hunter DeGraff, McKenzie DePasse, Lucas Gallean, Nicholas Graziano, Bethany Hoffman, Kazi Islam, Gerald Kritzman, Selina Rahman (QIII-Career Academy), Peter Rogers IV (QIII-Sackett Ed Center), Ethan Schwab, Connor Tomaso and Asia Walker.

Merit: Choudmya Box, Alexander Cole, Lebron Frazier, Ethan Garbarini (Tech Valley), Austin Guldenstern (QIII-ALP), Darriell Johnson, Damian Keeler, Kevin Lopez, Karlis Medins, Angel Melendez-Gil (Tech Valley), Devin Middleton, Joseph Occhibove Jr., Maheer Patwary, Kiara Perkins, Riley Quirk, Katarina Stone (QIII-ALP)< Jannatul Tithe and Carly Tkacy.

GRADE 11 High Honor: Marybeth Anderson (Tech Valley), Hamima Anwar, Mouniecia Barnes, Aliyah Camacho, Tuhfatul Chowdhury, Brian Curran, Kelvin Diaz, Amirul Faysal, Antonio Gambino, Alyssa Henderson, Kassidy Hoag, Denver Hopkins, Lina Hutchings, Morgan Konow, Henry Lin, Camren Maikels (QIIICareer Academy), Humyara Nupur, Carlo-Rossi Occeno, Zachary Porreca, Gabrielle Smering, Patrick Tompkins and Bryan Weber.

Honor: Elijah Bruni, Aiden Casivant (QIII-ALP), Kazimier Drabick, Kelly Elie (QIII-Career Academy), Natalie Garcia, Lucas Gohl, Diego GomezHernandez, Chandrice Goode, Starlynn Herrera (QIII-Career Academy), Neshath Khan, Lily Kritzman, Kamryn LaPage, Elyza Medina, Brady Propst, Logan Rowe, Marissa Scali and John Winfield (QIII-Career Academy).

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Honor: Tahfizul Abir, Ischama Box, Richard Chiarito Jr., D’Jahnae Dowding, Amya Givens, Alyssa Harp, Anastasia Hotaling, Elizabeth Jennings, Giovanni Lonigro, Aleyna Parker, Magdalena Ramos, Julianna Weig, Khalil Wilson and Zachary Zibella.

Merit: Mahiul Alam, Dejuan Bailey, Katelyn Bryant, Cooper Casivant, Cruz Cora, Rayvon Foster-Smith, Jackson Fuchs (HVCC/P-Tech), Sara Hanley, Tatyana Harris, Lance Hopwood, Kaden Jennings, Gabriella Logue, Marioum Mamun, William Morrison, Cecilia Perez, Chanelle Perkins, Manuel Ramos, Saima Syeda, Quynn Vertetis and Jacqueline Westfall.

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Russell Huang, Samiha Huda, Moniece Jones, Makayla Kudlack, Eric Le, Amilcar Lopez, Olivia Mann, Alberto Marquillo, Lena Meicht, Sunny Miah, Logan O’Connor, Thomas Orbinski, Melissa QuizhpiZhagui, Ayesha Rahman, Bryton Reed, Kiarra Rivera, Alvira Sarker, Ashley Tampasis, Zeniah Vaughan and Emilie Weig.

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Apple tells suppliers iPhone demand has slowed as holidays near Debby Wu, Takashi Mochizuki and Giles Turner Bloomberg

Apple, suffering from a global supply crunch, is now confronting a different problem: slowing demand.

The company has told its component suppliers that demand for the iPhone 13 lineup has weakened, people familiar with the matter said, signaling that some consumers have decided against trying to get the hard-to-find item.

Already, Apple had cut its iPhone 13 production goal for this year by as many as 10 million units, down from a target of 90 million, because of a lack of parts, Bloomberg News reported. But the hope was to make up much of that shortfall next year -- when supply is expected to improve.

The company is now informing its vendors that those orders may not materialize, according to the people, who asked not to be identified because the

discussions are private.

The company is still on track for a record holiday season, with analysts projecting a sales increase of 6% to $117.9 billion in the final three months of the calendar year. But it won’t be the blockbuster quarter that Apple -- and Wall Street -- had originally envisioned. Shortages and delivery delays have frustrated many consumers. And with inflation and the omicron variant bringing fresh concerns to pandemic-weary shoppers, they may forgo some purchases.

That could mean skipping the iPhone 13 altogether and waiting to upgrade next year, when its successor comes out.

The current lineup, which starts at $799 for the standard model and $999 for the Pro, is considered a modest update from the iPhone 12, which had a whole new design. Bigger changes are expected for the 2022 model, giving some shoppers a reason to wait.

NEW YORK — Former New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Mary T. Bassett publicly addressed New Yorkers for the first time Thursday as the state’s new Health Department chief, hitting the ground running in fighting the newly identified omicron COVID-19 variant.

Bassett, 66, served as the commissioner of New York City’s Health Department and Mental Hygiene from 2014 through summer 2018 and oversaw the department’s response to Ebola, Legionnaire’s disease and other outbreaks.

“This pandemic has really made a strong case for public service and I thank you for the opportunity to answer that call,” Bassett said to New Yorkers during a COVID-19 update Thursday.

A Minnesota man who recently visited New York City for a convention at the Javits Center was diagnosed Thursday as the second case of the omicron variant of COVID-19 identified in the U.S. The unidentified Minneapolis man felt mild flu-like symptoms after he returned home from the Anime NYC 2021 convention at the Javits Center that ended Nov. 21.

Barrett was immediately in contact with the New York City Health Department on Thursday about the potential omicron transmission in the state and vowed to be transparent with the governor and all New Yorkers in combating the pandemic.

“I’m no stranger to crisis,” Barrett said. “When I just finished my medical training, I moved to Southern Africa where the world’s worst HIV AIDS epidemic was unfolding. ... In three decades of public health work, I’ve learned the importance of

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State Health Department Commissioner Dr. Mary T. Bassett, the former New York City health commissioner, addresses New Yorkers as the new Health Department leader for the first time Wednesday in Gov. Kathy Hochul’s Manhattan office about how the state will combat the COVID-19 omicron variant.

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State Health Department Commissioner Dr. Mary T. Bassett, the former New York City health commissioner, made her first public appearance as the new Health Department leader Wednesday in Gov. Kathy Hochul’s Manhattan office about how the state will combat the COVID-19 omicron variant.

truth-telling. I’ll tell the governor what we know, what we don’t know and what our best judgment is, and I’ll tell the public the same thing.”

Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Bassett’s appointment Sept. 29.

“I wanted someone who had the knowledge and the

expertise in particular to be able to handle working side by side with me and addressing the pandemic — I have found that individual,” Hochul said during a COVID briefing Thursday in her Manhattan office. “[Dr. Mary Bassett] is a highly regarded public health expert and an

exemplary public servant.

“I have utmost confidence in her and we will work very closely together.”

Before accepting the position to lead the Health Department in the fall, Bassett worked as the director of François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University and FXB professor of practice of health and human rights in the department of social and behavioral sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Bassett replaced former Health Department Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker, 62, who was a prominent fixture of the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic and Cuomo’s daily briefings in spring 2020.

Zucker, who came under fire by state officials, advocates and New Yorkers for his hand in allegedly misrepresenting the state’s total COVID-19 fatalities in nursing homes and congregate facilities to the public and federal agencies, left the post Wednesday.

The Health Department concealed the total of presumed virus deaths until Jan. 28 — the date state Attorney General Letitia James released a report showing the department published an undercount of New York’s total number of COVID-19 deaths in nursing homes by up to 55%.

Bassett prioritized racial justice while the head of the city Health Department and worked to fight structural racism to address persistent health care gaps between white New Yorkers and people of color, according to the governor’s office.

Tribune News Service contributed to this report.

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A man was ill and couldn’t hang Christmas lights at FUNERAL his home for a food drive. A stranger got the job done. DIRECTORS Cathy Free The Washington Post

For decades, people have come by the carload every December to the Beaverdale community in Des Moines to marvel at the outsize twinkling and blinking holiday displays and Christmas lights.

When Dale and Julie Marks moved into the neighborhood three years ago, they were game to join the festivities and decorate their yard and Tudor-style home from curb to chimney with sparkling candy canes, star-topped trees, a Nativity and, of course, lights.

“It was like a dream come true to buy a house here,” said Julie Marks, 57. “I’ve wanted to live here since I first came through with friends to look at the lights 10 years ago.”

The holiday spectacle goes beyond good cheer. The Markses put bins at the end of their driveway and ask visitors to donate money and food to the Food Bank of Iowa as they drive past.

Last year, with the help of neighbors, holiday visitors who toured the community’s 50 houses gave about $7,500 and 1,500 pounds of food, Julie Marks said.

JULIE MARKS

It took Bob Coffey and his crew about three hours to do the holiday lights at the Marks home in the Beaverdale community of Des Moines, Iowa.

“With so many people hurting out there, we like to use our Christmas lights as an opportunity to make a difference,” she said, adding that she helped collect donations while her husband did most of the outside decorating last year.

They planned to do the same this year, but in September, the couple were hit by health crises.

Dale Marks, 68, suffered two strokes and a heart attack after he and his wife became ill with covid-19, she said.

She recovered with no complications, but he was hospitalized for nearly a month, she said. When Dale Marks came home on Nov. 2 to finish his recovery, he was too weak to haul boxes from the garage and climb a ladder to string lights around the house and trees. She was too busy with his care to take on the job.

“We thought that ours would be the only dark house in the neighborhood this year,” she said. “We were feeling really sad about it.”

Shortly after she brought her husband home from the hospital, she got a phone call from someone she did not know.

Bob Coffey, a Des Moines contractor who goes by the nickname “Bob the Builder,” heard about the couple’s situation and decided to help. He hadn’t met the Markses, but he heard about them from a friend, and he’d always loved the lights in the neighborhood, which are well known in the area.

“I grew up just three miles from where Dale and Julie live,” Coffey said. “When I was a kid, my parents would take me and my siblings to see the lights in their neighborhood every year.”

Man said he’d hang 6 members of Congress who didn’t ‘get behind’ Trump — he got 33 months in prison Gina Harkins The Washington Post

The six voice mails were all left after midnight on Dec. 16, 2020 - two days after the electoral college affirmed President Joe Biden’s victory.

“This is Ryder Winegar,” the first message began, according to court records. The caller left his New Hampshire phone number before telling an unnamed member of Congress to “support Donald Trump” as president.

“There has been massive fraud in this country,” the message continued. “And if

you don’t support it, we’re going to drag you out and we’re going to hang you by your neck to die. Good luck.”

Winegar, 34, of Amherst, N.H., pleaded guilty in August to six counts of threatening members of Congress and one count of transmitting interstate threatening communications. On Wednesday, he was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison.

“This sentence should send a message . . . that those who threaten to commit acts of violence against duly-elected legislators will be held

accountable,” acting U.S. Attorney John Farley said in a statement.

Winegar’s attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment early Thursday.

Investigators did not name the lawmakers who received the threatening messages.

Democrats and Republicans alike have reported receiving death threats in recent months, including Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., who, during a Tuesday news conference, played a voice mail from a man telling her she would “not live

much longer.” Omar received the message after Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., on Monday accused her of “anti-American” and “antisemitic” rhetoric.

Threats against politicians “to prevent them from carrying out their constitutional duties is a federal crime, not protected speech,” Joseph Bonavolonta, the FBI Boston Division’s special agent in charge, said after Winegar’s sentencing.

The sentencing comes as hundreds face charges for their alleged roles in the Jan.

6 Capitol riot, in which a mob attempted to halt the certification of Biden’s victory. Some rioters chanted “Hang Mike Pence!” during the insurrection. A gallows and rope were assembled outside the Capitol.

Three weeks earlier, federal investigators said Winegar called six lawmakers - three in the House and three in the Senate - and left “graphic threats.” He repeatedly said the politicians should back Trump, according to federal transcripts of the messages, while threatening them and their staffs.

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Bridging Divides, Healing Communities Youth Film Challenge Free Screening Saturday, December 4, 11 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

RESERVATIONS The Bridging Divides, Healing Communities Youth Film Challenge is an initiative run by the Berkshire Film and Media Collaborative and the Civic Life Project, and funded by the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation.

Over the past four months, young people ages 14 to 24 throughout Berkshire County, Columbia County, northeast Dutchess County, and northwest Litchfield County engaged with polarizing social issues by making a short film showing how they contend with problems and inequities in the world and in their communities.

Join us in honoring these innovative young filmmakers for a free screening of the winning shorts and panel discussion. Seating capacity is limited, and reservations are required. You can reserve

your seats now on the Crandell Theatre website.

Among the short films that will be shown is “He/She/ They” by Samantha Hoffman, a student at Chatham High School from East Chatham, N.Y., who won an Honorable Mention Award.

PANELISTS Dien Vo is a filmmaker and professor of film and media at Bard College at Simon’s Rock in Great Barrington. He previously taught at the University at Buffalo and Virginia Tech, where he co-developed the filmmaking program.

Vo is board chair at the Post

Growth Institute, a non-profit organization working to enable collective wellbeing beyond economic growth.

Mike Stead is the assistant principal at Chatham Middle School and has served for the past two years as Chatham’s instructional innovation coach, where he worked closely with faculty and students district-wide to find innovative ways to strengthen teaching and learning. Stead was instrumental in helping 4th graders create a 30-second public service announcement on fire exits for the Crandell Theatre.

Carolynn Anklam is Chief Quality Officer for Coarc.

Coarc is an advocate and resource for individuals who experience disabilities and their families in Columbia County, and provides comprehensive services to children and adults. Anklam also serves on the board of Columbia County Habitat for Humanity.

Discussion will be moderated by Catherine Taghe, a filmmaker and co-founder of Civic Life Project whose mission is to provide a nonpartisan platform for youth to tell their stories and effect civic change. The Youth Film Challenge is a yearly event where the best films produced by young filmmakers are screened in communities, libraries and other venues.

All attendees must show proof of vaccination and wear masks.

Sharon Springs Hosts Annual Victorian Holiday Celebration SHARON SPRINGS — The Annual Sharon Springs Victorian Holiday Celebration is set to begin Friday, December 10th through Sunday, December 12th. Festival hours on Saturday, December 11th are from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, December 12th. Visitors are encouraged to come dressed in their Victorian finery, but it is not required.

Friday, December 10th will kick off with a Parade of Lights - sure to be a fun event for the entire family that brings holiday cheer to Sharon Springs and the surrounding community. Parade entry is free. Any type of lighted moving entry can be considered, ranging from lighted tractors, horsedrawn wagons or buggies, horseback riders, antique cars, motorized riding groups, business floats, musical entries, or walkers dressed in their holiday best with lanterns.

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Starting at 6 PM before the parade, there will be a tree lighting in the front yard of the

school, laying of the memorial wreath by the American Legion. Enjoy lighted vehicles,

entertainments and walkers dressed in their Victorian holiday best with lanterns, as the parade winds throughout the upper Village of Sharon Springs. The parade will begin at the Sharon Springs Central School, right on Route 20 to Main Street and follow Main Street down to Park Street, left on Park Street and then right on Beechwood Street to the Fire Station. Hot chocolate and cookies will be served and children can meet Santa Claus and receive gift bags provided by the Fire Department Ladies Auxiliary. Call (518) 860-5513 for more information.

Weekend highlights on Saturday and Sunday include shopping in the Roseboro Ballroom with selected area craftspeople, artisans and vendors. Local shops in Sharon Springs are imbued with holiday cheer and everything you will need to complete your holiday shopping.

The Crandell Theatre presents This week, the Crandell Theatre presents Spencer, directed by Pablo Larraín, and starring Kristen Stewart, in an incredible performance of Princess Diana. Next up is one last chance to see Julia, the new Julia Child documentary directed by Betsy West and Julie Cohen (RBG) on the big screen. On Saturday we are screening the winning short films of the Bridging Divides, Healing Communities Youth Film Challenge and then for a bit of family holiday fun, Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch.

Now available at the Crandell Theatre - popcorn!

Enjoy fresh popcorn, candy, and soft drinks while watching a film on the big screen.

December 2 - 5 showtimes are listed below.

DECEMBER CALENDAR SPENCER

Julia

personal photos, first-person narratives, and cutting-edge, mouthwatering food cinematography, the film traces Julia Child’s 12 year struggle to create and publish the revolutionary Mastering the Art of French Cooking (1961) which has sold more than 2.5 million copies to date, and her rapid ascent to become the country’s most unlikely television star. It’s the empowering story of a woman who found her purpose – and her fame – at 50, and took America along on the whole delicious journey.

DR. SEUSS’ THE GRINCH

Kristen Stuart in Spencer

Thursday, December 2, 7 p.m. Friday, December 3, 4 p.m.

Saturday, December 4, 7 p.m. Sunday, December 5, 4 p.m.

Rated R | 111 minutes Biography, Drama, Romance The marriage of Princess Diana and Prince Charles has long since grown cold. Though rumors of affairs and a divorce abound, peace is ordained for the Christmas festivities at the Queen’s Sandringham Estate. There’s eating and drinking, shooting and hunting. Diana knows the game. But this year, things will be profoundly different. Spencer is an imagining of what might have happened during those few fateful days.

JULIA Friday, December 3, 7 p.m.

Saturday, December 4, 4 p.m.

Sunday, December 5, 1 p.m.

95 minutes Documentary Julia brings to life the legendary cookbook author and television superstar who changed the way Americans think about food, television, and women. Using never-before-seen archival footage,

Dr. Suess’ The Grinch

Saturday, December 3, 1 p.m.

Rated-G | 100 minutes The Grinch (Benedict Cumberbatch) and his loyal dog, Max, live a solitary existence inside a cave on Mount Crumpet. Every year, the Grinch grows even grumpier during Christmastime when his neighbors in Whoville celebrate festively. When the Whos decide to make Christmas even bigger and brighter, the disgruntled Grinch realizes there is one way to gain peace and quiet. With help from Max, the green grump hatches a scheme to pose as Santa Claus, steal Christmas and silence the Whos’ holiday cheer once and for all. “…vibrant, amusing” — Michael Rechtshaffen, Hollywood Reporter

CALENDAR LISTINGS DECEMBER 3 CANDLELIGHT NIGHT Friday, December 3, 5 p.m. - 8 p.m.

Santa and Mrs Claus, DJ StuyveSanta, Wagon Rides & Ponies, Taste & Sip at Village Eateries & Bars, Decorated Doors, Adirondack Barkery, Damsel Garden, Adirondack Kettlecorn, O’Boys Soaps, Bonfire & Hot Cider. Kinderhook Memorial Library Photo Exhibition 5:30-8:30, Rising Star Dance Academy 6:30, Tree-Lighting & Caroling 7pm and OKPantry Opening Night!

Friday, December 3, 5 p.m. - 8 p.m., http://www.kinderhookbusiness. com/ Village of Kinderhook, Kinderhook, Village of Kinderhook, 518-7589882 LIVE: AMY RYAN BAND Friday, December 3, 7 p.m. - 10 p.m.

Pleased to be back at Hudson Brewing for more great food, brews and blues!

Friday, December 3, 7 p.m. - 10 p.m., https://www.facebook.com/ events/1114277702312127/ Hudson Brewing Company, 99 South 3rd Street, Hudson, 518697-5400 THE ANNUAL PANTO “RAPUNZEL: THE TALE OF A QUARAN-TEEN” Friday, December 3, 7:30 p.m. 9:30 p.m. $12 – $28 Now in their twenty-first season, the outrageous Panto Loons’ family-friendly productions have all the elements of a traditional British pantomime: audience participation, local and national politics, great characters and songs, and lots of crossdressing. This year’s twist is on the famous Brothers Grimm fairy tale.

It’s holiday fun for the whole family! Written and directed by Cathy Lee-Visscher.

Friday, December 3, 7:30 p.m. 9:30 p.m., https://www.ghentplayhouse.org/rapunzel The Ghent Playhouse, 6 Town Hall Place, Ghent, 800-838-3006 ARMEN DONELIAN THREE FRIDAYS at 6 p.m.

With Special Guests December 3: DON MIKKELSON, trombone December 10: JASON SCHWARTZ, bass December 17: JASON ENNIS, guitar GATEWAYS INN, 51 Walker Street Lenox, Mass.

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DECEMBER 4 Bindlestiff brings extended Cirkus Family to Sinterklaas! An Old Dutch Tradition in Rhinebeck Saturday, December 4, 2021 Performance Times between 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Event time: 10:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.

FREE Locations: Upstate Films / Starr Cinemas at 6415 Montgomery Street in Rhinebeck; Foster’s Coach House parking lot on Montgomery Street at East Market Street in Rhinebeck Event website: https://sinterklaashudsonvalley.com/performerprofiles/ Bindlestiff contact: Stephanie Monseu Bindlestiff phone: 917-744-6844 Bindlestiff website: http://www. bindlestiff.org AMERICAN GIRL DAY AT CLERMONT Saturday, December 4, 11 a.m. 12:30 p.m. $5 – $10 Bring your favorite 18-inch-tall doll for a fun, history filled adventure at Clermont! AG fans and their grownups will meet dolls styled to represent real girls who lived at Clermont, make dollsized holiday crafts, and leave with a goodie bag of treats! Space limited, reservations required. This program will be hosted in our visitor center, masks strongly recommended.

All adults must be accompanied by a child. Space is extremely limited.

Visitors must register in advance Please note: Unvaccinated visitors should wear a face covering when unable to maintain social distance.

Saturday, December 4, 11:00 a.m. 12:30 p.m., $5 – $10 https://www.friendsofclermont. org/event-details/american-girlday-at-clermont Clermont State Historic Site, 1 Clermont Avenue, Germantown, 518-537-4240 SAMASCOTT’S HOLIDAY WREATH WORKSHOP Saturday, December 4, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. $55 Join us at Samascott’s for our 2nd annual holiday wreath workshop!

What’s included: 14” wreath ring, mixed greens, bow, pinecones and

other embellishments to make your wreath a one of a kind. Step by step instructions. Seats are limited register EARLY! Saturday, December 4, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m., https://www.facebook.com/ events/616293323116936 Samascott’s Garden Market, 65 Chatham Street, Kinderhook, 518758-9292 FREE FIRST WEEKEND WANDERINGS Saturday, December 4, noon - 1 p.m.

FREE Kickstart your month outdoors at Olana! Learn more about Olana and its artist-designed landscape during hour-long walking tours beginning at the Wagon House Education Center at the historic farm complex. Each tour will cover a different portion of Olana’s 250-acre landscape and 5 miles of carriage roads. This gentle walk will cover about 1 mile; please wear weather-appropriate apparel and comfortable footwear.

Limited capacity; all attendants must register in advance.

FREE. This program begins on site at the Wagon House Education Center.

Saturday, December 4, noon - 1 p.m., https://www.olana.org/ programs-events/ Olana, 5720 State Route 9G, Hudson, 518-828-1872

DECEMBER 10 “A Christmas Carol” Reformed Dutch Church in Claverack hosts Master Storyteller, Jonathan Kruk, for an entertaining interactive show of “A Christmas Carol”. Kruk has a way with the spoken word, the telling gesture, the sprinkling of humor and the appropriate costume for portraying the story of “A Christmas Carol”. Performing in 1840’s garb, Kruk quickly transforms into Scrooge, Cratchit, and Tiny Tim. The result is intimate and imaginative; a singular show! Musician, Tom McCoy opens the show with an Overture of carols. During the telling, McCoy delivers a range of sound effects from the ethereal to rattling chains. The event is appropriate for all ages. Venue: Sanctuary of the Historic Reformed Dutch Church in Claverack, 88 NY-9H, Claverack, New York 12513.

Friday, December 10, 2021 at 7:30 p.m.. Cost of attendance: $25.00.

Tickets for will call and R.S.V.P. to office@claverackreformedchurch. org or 518 851 3811.COVOID – 19 Protocols in place.

MEI’S DUMPLINGS POP UP! Saturday, December 4, 1 p.m. - 7 p.m.

Mei’s Farm-to-Table Dumplings is at the distillery! (V options) Saturday, December 4, 1 p.m. - 7 p.m., https://www.facebook.com/ events/1004727620350542 Cooper’s Daughter Spirits at Olde York, 284 State Rouite 23, Claverack, 845-480-1237 CHESTNUT ROAST AT OAKDALE BEACH Saturday, December 4, 2 p.m. - 3 p.m.

Join Emerson Martin of Arthur’s Point Farm to learn all about the ecology and use of chestnut trees while enjoying a toasty treat of chestnuts roasted on an open fire at Oakdale Beach. Emerson’s presentation will focus on the importance of chestnuts as a food source for both humans and wildlife, the successful growth of chestnut trees as a crop, and specific growing patterns for this amazing species. Bare root chestnut trees will also be available for sale. Questions and discussion will follow the presentation.

Event us free but registration is required, please email programs@ hudsonarealibrary.org Saturday, December 4, 2 p.m. - 3 p.m., https://hudsonarealibrary. org/calendar/ Oakdale Lake, 132 N. 6th Street, Hudson, Hudson Area Library, 518-8281792 WINTER WALK 25TH ANNIVERSARY Saturday, December 4, 5 p.m. - 8 p.m.

Winter Walk returns to it’s beloved street festival format to celebrate 25 years as Hudson’s favorite winter celebration!

Winter Walk lights up the early December night once more with stunning storefront displays, roaming carolers, street performers, food, drinks, and a magical fireworks display from the Hudson River.

Saturday, December 4, 5 p.m. - 8 p.m., https://hudsonhall.org/ event/winter-walk-25th-anniversary/ City of Hudson, Warren Street, Hudson Hudson Hall, 518-822-1438

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Ten Broeck Mansion announces its Holiday House 2021 schedule ALBANY — Shimmering lights, festive trees and bright garlands inside and out set the scene at the Ten Broeck Mansion, a historic house museum which welcomes the community as a place to make family memories today. Tours with timed tickets are noon-2:30 p.m.

Saturdays and Sundays Dec. 4 through Dec. 19.

Indoor admission is by timed tickets, advance purchase only. Tickets are available via the ACHA’s website www. tenbroeckmansion.org. Walkthrough tours of groups of 8 or less feature docents to share information about holidays in the past, and the history of the Ten Broeck Mansion. Adults, $5.

Children and ACHA members are free. All visitors must wear facemasks and practice social distancing.

New children’s activities this year include “Indoor Forest” and “Round the World” activities for children, plus free takehome ornament kits.

On Dec. 12 from noon-2:30 Ten Broeck Mansion p.m., “Sinterklaas,” the Dutch St. Nicholas and the patron saint Children must be accompanied of children, is available for free by an adult and wear face masks. family photos outdoors and holiday poem readings on the Man- Free and open to families.

The Ten Broeck Mansion sion’s decorated porch. Learn also features a Wreath Sale and about Dutch and other cultural traditions for the holidays. Museum Shop sale, featuring

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wreaths designed and made by local garden clubs and artisans.

Artisan and Museum Shop hours are noon-3 p.m. Friday through Sunday Dec. 3 through Dec. 19.

The community is invited to bring canned goods or boxed cereal or pasta, which the ACHA will distribute to a local food pantry.

The ACHA thanks the following organizations who generously volunteered to decorate and make wreaths for the Ten Broeck Mansion: Delmar Progress Club, Garden Study Club, Albany County Master Gardeners, Members of the DAR, Members of the Daughters of 1812, Helderview Garden Club, Bethlehem Garden Club, Mohawk-Hudson Weavers’ Guild, Greenville Garden Club, and the Capital District Chapter of the Embroiderers Guild of America.

The Ten Broeck Mansion was built in 1798 for Abraham and Elizabeth Ten Broeck. The ACHA was founded in 1942 and received the 1798 Ten Broeck Mansion as a gift from the Olcott family in 1948. The mission of the ACHA is to preserve, present, promote, and interpret the stories of the rich and diverse history and culture of Albany County. Its four-acre museum site includes the Mansion, gardens, and exhibit and gallery space at King’s Place.

For more information and to reserve tickets, see the ACHA’s website at www.tenbroeckmansion.org.

FREE PROGRAM FOR FAMILIES!

Holiday Puppet Show FREE PROGRAM FOR FAMILIES! Holiday Puppet Show, DECEMBER 11, Show Time: 10:30 a.m.

Join us for the Catskill Puppet Theater’s show The Town That Fought Hate. This special holiday show features original music and almost life-size puppets. It also gently imparts some timeless life lessons, including the importance of

standing up to bullies, the power of community and the power of each of us – including children – to make a difference! After the show, children can complete the holiday scavenger hunt. Can you find all the holiday scenes on the firetrucks? Every child will get a prize just for trying.

It’s a morning of old-fashioned holiday fun at the Museum, so don’t miss it!

Orpheum Film & Performing Arts Center presents

THE NUTCRACKER THE NUTCRACKER Orpheum Film & Performing Arts Center, 6050 Main Street, Village of Tannersville Tickets: $25 General Admission SIX SHOWS Saturday, December 4 @ 2 p.m.

To purchase tickets for this performance: https:// app.arts-people.com/index. php?performance=573954 Saturday, December 4 @ 7:30 p.m.

To purchase tickets for this performance: https:// app.arts-people.com/index. php?performance=573955 Sunday, December 5 @ 2 p.m.

To purchase tickets for this performance: https:// app.arts-people.com/index. php?performance=573956 Saturday, December 11 @ 2 p.m.

To purchase tickets for this performance: https:// app.arts-people.com/index. php?performance=573957 Saturday, December 11 @ 7:30 p.m.

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php?performance=573958 Sunday, December 12 @ 2 p.m.

To purchase tickets for this performance: https:// app.arts-people.com/index. php?performance=573959 The Catskill Mountain

Foundation, in cooperation with former Metropolitan Opera ballerina Victoria Rinaldi and choreographer Margo Sappington, presents the world’s favorite ballet, The Nutcracker!

The CMF Nutcracker, now in its sixth year, has become a holiday favorite of residents of

the surrounding Catskills and Hudson Valley. Featuring ballet stars of the future, this spectacular production has become one of the finest professional Nutcrackers in upstate New York.

In this special holiday production, select guest artists will dazzle in the major dance roles.

Victoria Rinaldi works with the community to stage the party, battle, angels and Mother Ginger. Award-winning choreographer Margo Sappington returns to play Auntie Drosselmeyer.

The Nutcracker is the story of a young girl who dreams of a Nutcracker Prince and his fierce battle against a Mouse King. According to folklore, nutcrackers represent power and strength and bring good luck to your family and protect your home.

The story of The Nutcracker is a dream about good triumphing evil through the goodness of heart of a young child. The Nutcracker is a two-act ballet, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The libretto is adapted by E.T.A. Hoffman’s story “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King”.

The Center for Performing Arts presents Dec. 3 - 19 Go To: https://www.centerforperformingarts.org/whatsplaying/achristmascarol for tickets Fri & Sat @ 7pm (no show 12/17) Sun @ 3pm Tickets: $25 Box Office: boxoffice@centerforperformingarts.org Now in its 16th year, The CENTER is pleased to present Dicken’s classic, A Christmas Carol, adapted and directed by

Lou Trapani.

Starring Rik Lopes as Scrooge.

With Jovan Bradley, Andy Crispell, Ellie DeMan, Joe Felece, Harriet Luongo, Duane Joseph Olson & Jody Satriani.

Directed by Lou Trapani, with musical direction by Paul & JoAnne Schubert.

Information about seating & COVID policies Proof of vaccinations for all patrons 12+ will be required to enter the theatre. Masks are required.

CALENDAR LISTINGS DECEMBER 4 THE ANNUAL PANTO “RAPUNZEL: THE TALE OF A QUARAN-TEEN” Saturday, December 4, 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. $12 – $28 Now in their twenty-first season, the outrageous Panto Loons’ familyfriendly productions have all the elements of a traditional British pantomime: audience participation, local and national politics, great characters and songs, and lots of cross-dressing. This year’s twist is on the famous Brothers Grimm fairy tale. It’s holiday fun for the whole family! Written and directed by Cathy Lee-Visscher.

Saturday, December 4, 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm, https://www.ghentplayhouse.org/rapunzel The Ghent Playhouse, 6 Town Hall Place, Ghent, 800-838-3006 LIVE MUSIC: UNFINISH’D BIZNESS Saturday, December 4, 6 p.m. - 9 p.m.

Come out and enjoy some LIVE music!

Saturday, December 4, 6 p.m. - 9 p.m., https://www.facebook.com/ events/321753816181563 Hudson Brewing Company, 99 South 3rd Street, Hudson, 518-6975400

DECEMBER 5 GRAVESIDE CEREMONY TO COMMEMORATE MARTIN VAN BUREN’S LIFE Sunday, December 5, 11 a.m.

Martin Van Buren National Historic Site, the Friends of Lindenwald, and the Village of Kinderhook invite the community to participate in the annual observance of Martin Van Buren’s birthday.

On December 5, 1782, Martin Van Buren was born in a modest family tavern in Kinderhook and returned to the town following his one term as president in 1841. He spent the next twenty years as a political candidate, an innovative farmer, and an engaged community member. This ceremony remembers not only Van Buren’s contributions in the political realm, but also his experience as a resident of his native town.

Martin Van Buren’s gravesite is located at 2 Kindertree Dr, Kinderhook, NY 12106. Attendees should prepare for an outdoor ceremony in December. Warm clothes, hats and gloves are recommended. We ask that attendees observe New York State guidelines for social distancing and facial coverings to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus COVID-19.

For more information, call Martin Van Buren National Historic Site at 518-758-9689 Sunday, December 5, 11 a.m., https://www.nps.gov/mava/index. htm Kinderhook Reformed Church Cemetery, Albany Ave, Kinderhook, 518-758-6401 2021 CRAFT & SIP WREATH MAKING WORKSHOP Sunday, December 5, 1 p.m. - 3 p.m. $40 Register for a fun & festive day of hands-on wreath making.

You will learn the skills to create a beautiful 12” balsam evergreen wreath.

Ticket includes instruction and supplies to make a hand made wreath (bows & ornaments available for purchase), drink ticket (non-alcoholic beverages available) and light refreshments.

Please dress appropriately….warm layered clothing & sturdy shoes…. bring along your gardening gloves too!

Sunday, December 5, 1 p.m. - 3 p.m., https://www.eventbrite. com/e/2021-craft-sip-wreathmaking-workshop-3-tickets-201071790137 The Greenhouse Cidery, 2309 State Route 203, Chatham, 518-392-4609 THE ANNUAL PANTO “RAPUNZEL: THE TALE OF A QUARAN-TEEN” Sunday, December 5, 2 p.m. - 4 p.m. $12 – $28 Now in their twenty-first season, the outrageous Panto Loons’ familyfriendly productions have all the elements of a traditional British pantomime: audience participation, local and national politics, great characters and songs, and lots of cross-dressing. This year’s twist is on the famous Brothers Grimm fairy tale. It’s holiday fun for the whole family! Written and directed by Cathy Lee-Visscher.

Sunday, December 5, 2 p.m. - 4 p.m., https://www.ghentplayhouse.org/ rapunzel The Ghent Playhouse, 6 Town Hall Place, Ghent, LIVE MUSIC: GORDON ST Sunday, December 5, 2 p.m. - 5 p.m.

Come out and enjoy some LIVE music!

Sunday, December 5, 2 p.m. - 5 p.m., https://www.facebook.com/ events/261025916049411 Hudson Brewing Company, 99 South 3rd Street, Hudson, 518-6975400

DECEMBER 7 OPEN MIC Tuesday, December 7, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.

Join us for Open Mic 1st and 3rd Tuesdays at Hudson Brewery!

Music! Comedy! Spoken word!

Storytelling! Poetry! Let’s come and have a GREAT time! Perform or Listen! You can bring your own mic or use ours.

Tuesday, December 7, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m., https://www.facebook.com/ events/875830979808740 Hudson Brewing Company, 99 South 3rd Street, Hudson, 518-6975400

DECEMBER 8 THE WANDA HOUSTON BAND Wednesday, December 8, 8 p.m. - 10 p.m. $10 – $20 With their dynamic blend of classic jazz, R&B, adult contemporary, and rock, the Wanda Houston Band is one of the most popular musical groups in the Berkshires. Vocal stylist Houston leads the quartet in fresh takes on standards, ranging from Fitzgerald to Sinatra, Aretha to Sam Cook, and the Beatles to Jackson 5.

They recently celebrated their 10th anniversary with the release of their first album, “Lucky So & So,” which showcases their arrangements from the Great American Songbook and music of the Temptations and Gladys Knight and the Pips. In addition to songstress Houston, the group features Rob Kelly on keyboard/bass/ vocals, Jeff Stevens on horns/vocals, and Jay Bradley on drums.

For Covid safety, proof of vaccination will be required for attendance, seating will be distanced and limited, and masks will be required for audience members while in the building. The Academy has installed Blue Pure 211+ air filters in the auditorium.

Wednesday, December 8, 8 p.m. - 10 p.m., https://spencertownacademy. org/event/the-wanda-houstonband/ Spencertown Academy Arts Center, 790 NY-203, Spencertown, (518) 392-3693

DECEMBER 9 2021 CRAFT & SIP WREATH MAKING WORKSHOP Thursday, December 9, 1 p.m. - 3 p.m. $40 Register for a fun & festive day of hands-on wreath making.

You will learn the skills to create a beautiful 12” balsam evergreen wreath.

Ticket includes instruction and supplies to make a hand made wreath (bows & ornaments available for purchase), drink ticket (non-alcoholic beverages available) and light refreshments.

Please dress appropriately….warm layered clothing & sturdy shoes…. bring along your gardening gloves too!

Thursday, December 9, 1 p.m. - 3 p.m., https://www.eventbrite. com/e/2021-craft-sip-wreathmaking-workshop-4-tickets-201076423997 The Greenhouse Cidery, 2309 State Route 203, Chatham, 518-392-4609 HOLIDAY WREATH MAKING CLASS Thursday, December 9, 4 p.m. - 7 p.m. $55 Join Ron to create a beautiful, fresh decorative wreath. All materials included. please bring your own pruning shears Face mask required, Thursday, December 9, 4 p.m. - 7 p.m., https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ holiday-wreath-making-orboxwood-tabletop-tree-classtickets-210336290507 Random Harvest Market, Cafe and Community Space, 1785 CR-23, Craryville, 518-325-9895

DECEMBER 11 Miracle On 34th Street: A Live Radio Play December 11th at 7:30 p.m. and December 12th at 3 p.m.

Freedom Plains United Presbyterian Church Fellowship Hall General Admission Tickets $20.00 Student/Senior $15.00 Call (845) 471-0773 or 452-0684 for information, or see our website, eastsidestudiotheater.com

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GIRLS BASKETBALL:

Brantley’s 35 lead Catskill past Hudson on opening night

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Catskill’s Janay Brantley eyes the basket during Wednesday’s Patroon Conference girls basketball game against Hudson at Hudson High School.

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Hudson’s Chandrice Goode drives against Catskill’s Aaliya Shook during Wednesday’s Patroon Conference girls basketball game at Hudson High School.

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HUDSON — The Catskill Cats opened the 2021-22 Patroon Girls Basketball season with a 70-31 road win over the Hudson Bluehawks. Janay Brantley was dominant on the court with 35 points to lead all players, including a 17-point third quarter that helped the Cats pull away.

“We were a little sluggish from the beginning, I think nerves kicked in right

away until we settled down,” Catskill coach Chris Quinn said. “We all pressed a little bit, but once we settled into our game, we have girls that can make shots and they started doing that. First game out, I’m very pleased with the effort they gave so it’s all good.”

In the opening minute Brantley was involved in a collision with Choudmya Box of Hudson that sent both players See BRANTLEY B6

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Chatham boys roll; Greenville girls top TH Columbia-Greene Media

CHATHAM — Matt Thorsen dropped 23 points to help Chatham top Berlin/New Lebanon, 84-36, in Wednesday’s non-league boys basketball game.

Chatham led 28-3 after one quarter, 51-9 at halftime and 72-26 through three quarters.

Jacob Baccaro scored

19 points for the Panthers. Tate Van Alstyne had 12 and Kyle Jackson 11.

Kristjon Culbertson was Berlin/New Lebanon’s top scorer with 15 points. Mason Stalker added 14.

Chatham travels to Maple Hill on Friday at See CHATHAM B3

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Hudson’s Izabelle Jepsen (4) guards Catskill’s Nadia Pell during Wednesday’s Patroon Conference girls basketball game at Hudson High School.

Catskill’s Kiana Salierno looks for a teamamte while guarded

by Hudson’s Astoria Hampton during Wednesday’s Patroon Conference girls basketball game at Hudson High School.

Max Scherzer begins his new life as a Met Chelsea Janes The Washington Post

The full realization of Max Scherzer as a New York Met will come little by little, with each strange new first - his first spring training start in a Mets uniform, his first start at Citi Field.

As it happens, that first start at Citi Field may also be his first start against his longtime team, the Washington Nationals, who open next season in New York.

Little by little, the once unthinkable - the idea of Scherzer pitching for one of the Nationals’ most hated in-division rivals will start to feel real.

That process began slowly Wednesday afternoon with Scherzer sitting outside a hotel in Dallas where the union and league’s owners are negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement. Scherzer wore a neutral colored polo in a break between meetings, sitting next to his agent Scott Boras, far from the unrelenting chaos of New York.

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Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Max Scherzer (31) throws during the fifth inning against the Atlanta Braves in game two of the 2021 NLCS at Truist Park.

Baseball’s lockout is about economics ... What needs to be fixed is the sport Barry Svrluga The Washington Post

A work stoppage in Major League Baseball doesn’t matter much in December. In all honesty, the issues at stake in a lockout don’t get to the core of what ails the sport. The players want a larger percentage of the money? They want to get some of that money earlier in their careers? They would like teams to be incentivized to compete rather than tank?

Fine, fine and fine.

What can’t happen as MLB and the players’ union negotiate, though, is the actual game they stage being forgotten.

Whatever the flaws in its salary structure and the dispersal of revenue, there’s money to go around. Ask Corey Seager, owner of a new 10-year,

$325 million contract with the Texas Rangers. Ask Max Scherzer, who will earn more than $43 million annually for three years from the New York Mets.

It’s hard for either side to cry poor if they’re giving and accepting those types of deals.

What should matter more than the money, then, has to be the game itself. The game itself is wounded.

In 2021, major league hitters collectively produced a .244 batting average. Now, don’t confuse the citing of that stat as an endorsement of batting average as a savvy way to evaluate a particular player.

It’s not, because it doesn’t account for a player’s ability to reach base by other means or for his power.

What MLB’s batting

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MLB commissioner Rob Manfred before game one of the 2021 World Series between the Houston Astros and Atlanta Braves at Minute Maid Park on Oct. 26.

average can tell you - broadly - is what’s at the core of the

game’s problems. It’s not whether a player is eligible

for salary arbitration after two seasons or three. It’s this: When I buy a seat and sit in the stands or flip on the television and plop down on the couch, how much action is there?

The last time major league hitters produced an average as low as .244 was 1972. The last time the average fell below that was 1968, when Bob Gibson, Luis Tiant, Denny McLain and others defined the year of the pitcher as MLB posted a .237 average. We know what happened then: MLB lowered the mound to a uniform 10 inches and shrank the strike zone to make sure hitters weren’t overpowered.

Voilà! A batting average of .248 in 1969, .254 in 1970. More action in the field. More action on the base paths. More action

- period.

It would be nice if that kind of thought and care about the on-field product was a guiding force for these negotiations. The most recent World Series and All-Star Game drew the second-lowest television ratings of all time. Game 1 of the 2020 World Series, which involved the brand-name Los Angeles Dodgers, was the lowest-rated World Series game in history. Those are data points that should be considered in context. That context would reveal a game that has lost its place in the national sports landscape.

“This is slow, like climate change,” one MLB executive said last month. “We’re on our See BASEBALL B3

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Pro basketball NBA Eastern Conference Atlantic W L Pct GB Brooklyn 15 6 .714 — Boston 12 10 .545 3.5 New York 11 10 .524 4.0 Philadelphia 11 11 .500 4.5 Toronto 9 13 .409 6.5 Central W L Pct GB Milwaukee 14 8 .636 — Chicago 14 8 .636 — Cleveland 12 10 .545 2.0 Indiana 9 15 .375 6.0 Detroit 4 17 .190 9.5 Southeast W L Pct GB Washington 14 8 .636 — Miami 13 9 .591 1.0 Atlanta 12 10 .545 2.0 Charlotte 13 11 .542 2.0 Orlando 5 18 .217 9.5 Western Conference Northwest W L Pct GB Utah 14 7 .667 — Portland 11 11 .500 3.5 Minnesota 11 11 .500 3.5 Denver 10 11 .476 4.0 Oklahoma City 6 15 .286 8.0 Pacific W L Pct GB Phoenix 18 3 .857 — Golden State 18 3 .857 — L.A. Clippers 11 10 .524 7.0 L.A. Lakers 12 11 .522 7.0 Sacramento 8 14 .364 10.5 Southwest W L Pct GB Dallas 11 9 .550 — Memphis 11 10 .524 .5 San Antonio 6 13 .316 4.5 New Orleans 6 18 .250 7.0 Houston 5 16 .238 6.5 Tuesday’s games Brooklyn 112, New York 110 Memphis 98, Toronto 91 Phoenix 104, Golden State 96 Portland 110, Detroit 92 L.A. Lakers 117, Sacramento 92 Wednesday’s games Atlanta 114, Indiana 111 Orlando 108, Denver 103 Washington 115, Minnesota 107 Boston 88, Philadelphia 87 Cleveland 111, Miami 85 Milwaukee 127, Charlotte 125 Dallas 139, New Orleans 107 Houston 114, Oklahoma City 110 Sacramento at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.

Thursday’s games Chicago at New York, 7:30 p.m.

Milwaukee at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Memphis, 8 p.m.

Detroit at Phoenix, 9 p.m.

San Antonio at Portland, 10 p.m.

Friday’s games Miami at Indiana, 7 p.m.

Cleveland at Washington, 7 p.m.

Philadelphia at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m.

Minnesota at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m.

Orlando at Houston, 8 p.m.

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

Boston at Utah, 9 p.m.

Phoenix at Golden State, 10 p.m.

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

Wednesday’s games Celtics 88, 76ers 87 PHILADELPHIA (87) Se.Curry 7-13 1-1 17, Embiid 3-17 6-10 13, Maxey 3-13 0-0 6, T.Harris 4-11 0-0 8, Da.Green 2-6 0-0 6, Milton 6-11 2-2 16, Thybulle 2-6 0-0 5, Niang 4-10 4-4 12, Drummond 2-2 0-0 4, Korkmaz 0-0 0-0 0.

Totals 33-89 13-17 87.

BOSTON (88) Tatum 9-20 5-5 26, J.Brown 3-11 2-4 9, Smart 2-7 1-2 6, Horford 4-6 0-0 10, Williams III 5-7 0-0 10, Schroder 4-12 3-4 13, Richardson 3-7 0-0 7, Freedom 2-7 0-0 4, G.Williams 1-2 0-0 3. Totals 33-79 11-15 88.

Philadelphia Boston

20 20 23 24 — 87 21 23 20 24 — 88

3-Point Goals—Philadelphia 8-31 (Se.Curry 2-3, Milton 2-3, Da.Green 2-6, Embiid 1-3, Thybulle 1-5, Maxey 0-2, T.Harris 0-4, Niang 0-5), Boston 11-28 (Tatum 3-8, Horford 2-3, Schroder 2-4, G.Williams 1-2, Richardson 1-3, Smart 1-3, J.Brown 1-4, Freedom 0-1). Fouled Out—None.

Rebounds—Philadelphia 55 (Embiid 18), Boston 55 (Tatum 16). Assists—Philadelphia 20 (Se.Curry, Embiid 6), Boston 18 (Smart 8). Total Fouls—Philadelphia 17 (Se.Curry 5), Boston 15 (Horford 4). A—19,156.

Hawks 114, Pacers 111 ATLANTA (114) Tr.Young 13-27 4-4 33, Huerter 8-11 0-0 19, J.Collins 5-8 1-2 14, Capela 4-9 0-0 8, LuwawuCabarrot 3-6 0-0 8, Gallinari 3-9 0-0 9, Wright 4-6 2-2 11, L.Williams 4-8 3-4 12, S.Hill 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 44-86 10-12 114.

INDIANA (111) Sabonis 9-10 2-3 22, Brogdon 10-20 6-8 27, Duarte 5-13 0-0 11, Turner 6-9 2-2 17, LeVert 3-12 0-0 6, Brissett 3-6 0-0 8, Wanamaker 3-6 1-1 7, K.Martin 1-4 0-0 2, Lamb 4-8 2-2 11, Craig 0-2 0-0 0, McConnell 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 44-90 13-16 111.

Atlanta Indiana

38 27 22 27 —114 29 28 31 23 —111

3-Point Goals—Atlanta 16-33 (J.Collins 3-3, Huerter 3-4, Gallinari 3-6, Tr.Young 3-10, Luwawu-Cabarrot 2-5, Wright 1-1, L.Williams 1-2, S.Hill 0-2), Indiana 10-33 (Turner 3-6, Sabonis 2-2, Brissett 2-3, Lamb 1-1, Brogdon 1-6, Duarte 1-6, Wanamaker 0-1, Craig 0-2, K.Martin 0-2, LeVert 0-4). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Atlanta 45 (Capela 9), Indiana 48 (Sabonis 10). Assists—Atlanta 24 (Tr.Young 10), Indiana 23 (Brogdon 9).

Total Fouls—Atlanta 15 (Wright 3), Indiana 18 (Sabonis 5). A—12,656.

Mavericks 139, Pelicans 107 DALLAS (139) Porzingis 9-15 1-1 20, Doncic 11-16 4-4 28, Finney-Smith 2-2 0-0 6, Bullock 2-3 0-0 6, D.Powell 3-3 1-1 7, Hardaway Jr 6-9 0-0 16, Brunson 7-9 0-0 17, S.Brown 3-4 0-0 8, Burke 4-7 0-0 9, Kleber 2-4 0-0 5, Marjanovic 4-5 0-1 8, Jo.Green 2-2 0-0 4, Omoruyi 0-1 0-0 0, M.Brown 2-2 1-2 5, Ja.McLaughlin 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 57-83 7-9 139.

NEW ORLEANS (107) Ingram 11-17 4-4 29, Graham 5-12 0-0 13, H.Jones 1-8 1-1 3, Valanciunas 1-8 4-4 6, Temple 3-6 0-0 7, Alexander-Walker 5-13 0-0 12, Murphy III 2-3 0-0 5, Satoransky 2-4 1-2 6, Lewis Jr 5-6 0-0 11, W.Hernangomez 2-4 0-0 4, J.Hayes 1-2 0-0 2, Marshall 0-2 2-2 2, Alvarado 2-4 2-3 7. Totals 4089 14-16 107.

Dallas New Orleans

41 26 35 37 —139 23 23 29 32 —107

3-Point Goals—Dallas 18-34 (Hardaway Jr 4-7, Brunson 3-4, Finney-Smith 2-2, S.Brown 2-3, Bullock 2-3, Doncic 2-5, Burke 1-2, Kleber 1-2, Porzingis 1-6), New Orleans 13-37 (Ingram 3-5, Graham 3-7, Alexander-Walker 2-8, Alvarado 1-1, Lewis Jr 1-2, Murphy III 1-2, Satoransky 1-2, Temple 1-3, J.Hayes 0-1, H.Jones 0-1, Marshall 0-1, Valanciunas 0-4). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Dallas 43 (Porzingis 10), New Orleans 36 (Valanciunas, W.Hernangomez 5). Assists— Dallas 32 (Doncic 14), New Orleans 22 (Graham 6). Total Fouls—Dallas 19 (Marjanovic 3), New Orleans 12 (Murphy III, Temple, Valanciunas, H.Jones, W.Hernangomez 2). A—15,558.

Bucks 127, Hornets 125 CHARLOTTE (125) La.Ball 12-22 4-4 36, Rozier 3-10 3-3 10, Washington 3-9 1-2 9, Ml.Bridges 9-18 1-2 22, Hayward 5-11 7-7 18, Oubre Jr 9-14 2-3 25, Jl.McDaniels 2-3 0-0 5, I.Smith 0-0 0-0 0, Richards 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 43-87 18-21 125.

MILWAUKEE (127) Jr.Holiday 5-11 0-0 11, G.Antetokounmpo 1524 9-13 40, Middleton 6-18 5-5 21, G.Allen 6-9 1-2 16, Portis 4-11 2-2 10, G.Hill 3-7 4-4 11, Connaughton 4-8 0-0 11, Cousins 3-5 0-0 7, Hood 0-1 0-0 0, T.Antetokounmpo 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 46-94 21-26 127.

Charlotte Milwaukee

41 27 27 30 —125 25 35 37 30 —127

3-Point Goals—Charlotte 21-51 (La.Ball 8-15, Oubre Jr 5-9, Ml.Bridges 3-11, Washington 2-7, Jl.McDaniels 1-1, Hayward 1-2, Rozier 1-6), Milwaukee 14-36 (Middleton 4-8, G.Allen 3-5, Connaughton 3-6, Cousins 1-2, Jr.Holiday 1-3, G.Antetokounmpo 1-4, G.Hill 1-4, Hood 0-1, Portis 0-3). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds— Charlotte 49 (Washington 10), Milwaukee 51 (G.Antetokounmpo 12). Assists—Charlotte 30 (La.Ball 9), Milwaukee 29 (G.Antetokounmpo 9).

Total Fouls—Charlotte 21 (La.Ball, Ml.Bridges, Washington, Oubre Jr 4), Milwaukee 20 (G.Allen 4). A—17,341.

Cavaliers 111, Heat 85 CLEVELAND (111) Garland 6-13 0-0 16, Mobley 5-10 5-5 17, J.Allen 7-8 5-5 19, Okoro 4-5 2-2 10, Markkanen 2-8 1-2 6, Rubio 1-5 4-5 6, Stevens 5-9 0-0 12, Love 6-9 4-4 22, Windler 0-0 0-0 0, Pangos 0-0 0-0 0, Valentine 1-1 0-0 3, E.Davis 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 37-68 21-23 111.

MIAMI (85) Herro 9-23 1-1 21, Dedmon 5-13 0-0 11, Lowry

2-9 2-2 7, Tucker 2-6 0-0 6, D.Robinson 0-7 0-0 0, Strus 4-8 0-0 10, Vincent 4-7 0-0 11, Ca.Martin 4-6 2-4 11, Okpala 1-2 4-6 6, Yurtseven 1-4 0-0 2.

Totals 32-85 9-13 85.

Cleveland Miami

31 30 26 24 —111 16 27 20 22 — 85

3-Point Goals—Cleveland 16-31 (Love 6-8, Garland 4-8, Mobley 2-3, Stevens 2-3, Valentine 1-1, Markkanen 1-5, Rubio 0-3), Miami 12-37 (Vincent 3-5, Tucker 2-3, Strus 2-5, Herro 2-7, Ca.Martin 1-2, Dedmon 1-3, Lowry 1-5, Okpala 0-1, D.Robinson 0-6). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Cleveland 52 (J.Allen, Mobley 11), Miami 38 (Dedmon 13). Assists—Cleveland 27 (Garland 7), Miami 21 (Herro 6). Total Fouls— Cleveland 15 (Stevens, Mobley 3), Miami 17 (Strus 4). A—19,600.

Wizards 115, Timberwolves 107 MINNESOTA (107) Russell 3-18 3-4 10, A.Edwards 7-17 7-8 25, Vanderbilt 2-3 0-0 4, Towns 11-25 10-11 34, Prince 2-4 0-1 5, Beasley 3-7 0-0 8, Reid 6-10 0-0 13, Okogie 1-2 2-2 4, Bolmaro 1-1 0-0 2, Nowell 1-1 0-0 2.

Totals 37-88 22-26 107.

WASHINGTON (115) Beal 8-20 2-4 19, Kuzma 2-6 0-0 5, Dinwiddie 1-9 0-0 3, Caldwell-Pope 5-14 1-1 14, Gafford 7-10 4-4 18, Harrell 11-12 5-8 27, Avdija 4-8 0-0 9, Neto 1-3 1-2 3, Bertans 5-6 2-2 15, Kispert 1-3 0-0 2. Totals 45-91 15-21 115.

Minnesota Washington

24 33 31 19 —107 24 29 38 24 —115

3-Point Goals—Minnesota 11-37 (A.Edwards 4-9, Towns 2-4, Beasley 2-5, Prince 1-3, Reid 1-3, Russell 1-12, Okogie 0-1), Washington 1032 (Bertans 3-4, Caldwell-Pope 3-6, Kuzma 1-3, Avdija 1-4, Beal 1-5, Dinwiddie 1-7, Neto 0-1, Kispert 0-2). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds— Minnesota 47 (Vanderbilt 12), Washington 60 (Gafford 10). Assists—Minnesota 15 (Russell 9), Washington 34 (Dinwiddie 11). Total Fouls— Minnesota 23 (Bolmaro 5), Washington 23 (Caldwell-Pope, Harrell 4). A—15,318.

Magic 108, Nuggets 103 DENVER (103) A.Gordon 7-12 2-4 17, Jokic 7-19 4-5 18, Mo.Morris 10-15 1-2 22, Barton 5-13 2-2 14, Je.Green 2-5 3-4 9, Campazzo 2-3 2-2 7, Nnaji 3-3 1-2 9, M.Howard 1-5 0-0 3, Jm.Green 2-5 0-0 4.

Totals 39-80 15-21 103.

ORLANDO (108) Co.Anthony 10-21 3-3 24, G.Harris 4-10 2-2 11, F.Wagner 6-9 2-2 15, Carter Jr 8-11 1-1 18, Bamba 4-9 0-0 9, Ross 4-7 1-2 10, Okeke 1-3 2-2 4, M.Wagner 5-8 2-3 12, Hampton 2-3 1-4 5, Mulder 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 44-81 14-19 108.

Denver Orlando

29 34 20 20 —103 15 32 32 29 —108

3-Point Goals—Denver 10-34 (Nnaji 2-2, Je.Green 2-3, Barton 2-6, Campazzo 1-1, A.Gordon 1-5, M.Howard 1-5, Mo.Morris 1-5, Jm.Green 0-2, Jokic 0-5), Orlando 6-27 (F.Wagner 1-1, Carter Jr 1-3, Ross 1-3, G.Harris 1-4, Co.Anthony 1-5, Bamba 1-6, Hampton 0-1, Okeke 0-2, M.Wagner 0-2). Fouled Out—None.

Rebounds—Denver 44 (Jokic 15), Orlando 45 (Co.Anthony, Carter Jr 8). Assists—Denver 22 (Jokic 7), Orlando 26 (Co.Anthony 7). Total Fouls—Denver 19 (Je.Green 4), Orlando 15 (Carter Jr 3). A—14,191.

Rockets 114, Thunder 110 HOUSTON (114) Mathews 4-7 2-2 14, Tate 11-15 9-10 32, E.Gordon 3-12 0-0 8, K.Porter Jr 3-7 1-2 10, Wood 0-1 0-0 0, A.Brooks 7-10 0-0 18, Theis 0-1 1-2 1, Martin Jr 6-8 0-0 12, Christopher 3-8 3-3 10, House Jr 1-6 2-2 4, Sengun 2-4 1-1 5. Totals 4079 19-22 114.

OKLAHOMA CITY (110) Gilgeous-Alexander 12-26 14-16 39, Dort 7-13 1-2 19, Robinson-Earl 5-9 2-4 12, Tr.Mann 4-13 1-1 11, Bazley 2-6 0-0 4, Watson 1-2 0-0 3, Jerome 5-7 1-1 11, Roby 2-5 2-3 6, Aa.Wiggins 0-0 0-0 0, Pokusevski 2-4 0-0 4, Maledon 0-0 1-2 1. Totals 40-85 22-29 110.

Houston Oklahoma City

24 29 20 41 —114 26 34 21 29 —110

3-Point Goals—Houston 15-37 (A.Brooks 4-7, Mathews 4-7, K.Porter Jr 3-5, E.Gordon 2-7, Christopher 1-2, Tate 1-2, Theis 0-1, Wood 0-1, Martin Jr 0-2, House Jr 0-3), Oklahoma City 8-32 (Dort 4-8, Tr.Mann 2-7, Watson 1-2, GilgeousAlexander 1-8, Jerome 0-1, Pokusevski 0-2, Robinson-Earl 0-2, Roby 0-2). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Houston 48 (Tate 10), Oklahoma City 46 (Robinson-Earl 9). Assists—Houston 25 (Tate 7), Oklahoma City 16 (Dort, Robinson-Earl 4).

Total Fouls—Houston 25 (Sengun, Christopher 4), Oklahoma City 21 (Aa.Wiggins 5). A—13,222.

College basketball WEDNESDAY’S SCORES MEN EAST Boston U 56, George Washington 54 Bowling Green 78, Duquesne 70 Brown 73, Massachusetts Lowell 63 Central Conn. St. 73, Holy Cross 67 Fordham 68, St. Francis (BKN) 46 Hofstra 81, Princeton 77 Iona 78, Marist 71 Loyola (MD) 78, Chicago St. 64 Navy 75, William & Mary 56 Rhode Island 64, Harvard 57 Saint Joseph’s 79, Binghamton 57 Seton Hall 85, Wagner 63 St. Bonaventure 93, Coppin St. 81 St. Francis (PA) 93, Bucknell 67 Stony Brook 80, American U. 57 Temple 73, La Salle 57 UMBC 98, Columbia 60 Vermont 83, Dartmouth 65 Villanova 71, Pennsylvania 56 Virginia Tech 62, Maryland 58 Yale 82, Lehigh 72 SOUTH Abilene Christian 108, Dallas University 65 Appalachian St. 90, Boyce 29 Auburn 85, Central Florida 68 Coastal Carolina 80, South Carolina 56 Florida A&M 76, Fort Valley State 63 Florida Atlantic 83, Stetson 73 Florida International 77, Florida Gulf Coast 61 Georgia 82, Memphis 79 Louisiana State 66, Ohio 51 Louisiana Tech 87, Texas Southern 60 Mercer 73, Kennesaw St. 71 Middle Tennessee St. 73, Tenn-Martin 61 NC State 104, Nebraska 100, 4OT Norfolk State 74, UNC Wilmington 69 North Alabama 72, Mississippi Valley State 58 North Carolina Central 67, South Carolina Upstate 65 Richmond 73, Wofford 64 South Alabama 85, Southern Miss 55 Southern Methodist 83, UNLV 64 Stephen F. Austin 90, Lincoln (CA) 54 Texas A&M-CC 83, Texas Rio Grande Valley 77 Troy 81, Rust College 48 UAB 70, East Tennessee St. 56 UL Monroe 104, Centenary 67 UNC Asheville 65, The Citadel 58 Western Carolina 102, Warren Wilson 47 Winthrop 82, Hartford 75 MIDWEST Akron 88, Marshall 86 Arkansas 97, Central Arkansas 60 Bradley 71, Northern Iowa 69 Cincinnati 59, Miami (OH) 58 Dayton 93, Alabama St. 54 Illinois St. 79, Missouri St. 74, OT Iowa State 83, Arkansas-Pine Bluff 64 Kansas State 71, Albany 43 Loyola-Chicago 88, Indiana St. 76 Michigan St 73, Louisville 64 Morehead St. 59, Georgia Southern 51 Northern Illinois 55, Eastern Illinois 45 Oklahoma 74, Florida 67 Southern Illinois 54, Evansville 52 Western Illinois 93, Ball St. 80 Wichita St. 60, Oklahoma State 51 Xavier 78, Central Michigan 45 WEST Colorado St. 86, Little Rock 55 Dixie State 99, Bethesda 67 Incarnate Word 93, Our Lady of the Lake 66 UC Davis 63, Pacific 57 Washington St. 51, Arizona State 29

Pro hockey NHL Eastern Conference Atlantic Division GP W L OT SO Pts Toronto 24 17 6 1 0 35 Florida 22 15 4 1 2 33 Tampa Bay 21 12 5 2 2 28 Detroit 24 12 9 3 0 27 Boston 19 11 8 0 0 22 Buffalo 22 8 11 3 0 19 Montreal 24 6 16 2 0 14 Ottawa 20 4 15 1 0 9 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT SO Pts Washington 23 14 4 5 0 33 Carolina 21 15 5 1 0 31 NY Rangers 21 14 4 3 0 31 Pittsburgh 22 10 7 1 4 25 Columbus 20 12 8 0 0 24 New Jersey 20 9 7 1 3 22 Philadelphia 21 8 9 2 2 20 NY Islanders 17 5 10 1 1 12 Western Conference Central Division GP W L OT SO Pts

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Minnesota St. Louis Nashville Dallas Winnipeg Colorado Chicago Arizona

22 15 6 0 1 31 22 12 7 2 1 27 22 12 9 1 0 25 20 11 7 1 1 24 22 10 8 2 2 24 19 11 7 1 0 23 21 7 12 2 0 16 23 5 16 0 2 12 Pacific Division GP W L OT SO Pts Calgary 22 13 4 5 0 31 Edmonton 20 15 5 0 0 30 Anaheim 23 12 8 2 1 27 San Jose 22 12 9 0 1 25 Vegas 21 12 9 0 0 24 Los Angeles 21 9 8 3 1 22 Seattle 23 8 13 1 1 18 Vancouver 24 8 14 1 1 18 Tuesday’s games Detroit 2, Boston 1 Florida 5, Washington 4 San Jose 5, New Jersey 2 St. Louis 4, Tampa Bay 3, SO Nashville 6, Columbus 0 Minnesota 5, Arizona 2 Dallas 4, Carolina 1 Wednesday’s games NY Rangers 4, Philadelphia 1 Toronto 8, Colorado 3 Vancouver 6, Ottawa 2 Detroit 4, Seattle 3, SO Vegas at Anaheim, 10 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Edmonton, 10 p.m.

Thursday’s games Colorado at Montreal, 7 p.m.

St. Louis at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m.

Buffalo at Florida, 7 p.m.

Chicago at Washington, 7 p.m.

Ottawa at Carolina, 7 p.m.

San Jose at NY Islanders, 7:30 p.m.

Boston at Nashville, 8 p.m.

New Jersey at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

Columbus at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

Calgary at Los Angeles, 10:30 p.m.

Friday’s games San Jose at NY Rangers, 7 p.m.

New Jersey at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.

Vegas at Arizona, 9:30 p.m.

Calgary at Anaheim, 10 p.m.

Edmonton at Seattle, 10 p.m.

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66 62 63 56 61 64 67 82

GF GA 72 43 77 59 75 65 60 60 66 64 57 59 68 81 59 76

Wednesday’s games Rangers 4, Flyers 1 Philadelphia NY Rangers

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1 1

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1 4

First Period—1, NY Rangers, Trouba 4 (Kakko, Lundkvist) 3:41 (pp). 2, NY Rangers, Hunt 3 (Panarin, Fox) 9:32.

Second Period—3, NY Rangers, Kreider 16 (Kakko, Zibanejad) 0:34. 4, Philadelphia, Frost 1 (Atkinson, Giroux) 9:37.

Third Period—5, NY Rangers, Panarin 6 (unassisted) 19:16 (en).

Shots on Goal—Philadelphia 11-16-7—34. NY Rangers 15-5-8—28.

Power-play opportunities—Philadelphia 0 of 3.

NY Rangers 1 of 2.

Goalies—Philadelphia Hart 5-6-3 (27 shots-24 saves). NY Rangers Shesterkin 12-3-2 (34-33).

A—15,687 (18,200). T—2:26.

Maple Leafs 8, Avalanche 3 Colorado Toronto

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1 2

1 — 3 —

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First Period—1, Toronto, Nylander 10 (Tavares, Kerfoot) 4:31. 2, Toronto, Spezza 5 (Ritchie, Simmonds) 7:57. 3, Toronto, Matthews 11 (Marner, Bunting) 14:24. 4, Colorado, Girard 2 (MacKinnon, O’Connor) 19:58.

Second Period—5, Colorado, Kadri 8 (Johnson, Nichushkin) 11:57. 6, Toronto, Dermott 1 (Nylander, Tavares) 12:44. 7, Toronto, Tavares 11 (Kerfoot, Brodie) 16:28.

Third Period—8, Toronto, Matthews 12 (Marner, Bunting) 0:44. 9, Toronto, Matthews 13 (Muzzin) 8:41. 10, Toronto, Engvall 3 (Bunting, Rielly) 10:08. 11, Colorado, Kadri 9 (Landeskog, MacKinnon) 16:36 (pp).

Shots on Goal—Colorado 11-12-8—31. Toronto 13-11-17—41.

Power-play opportunities—Colorado 1 of 4. Toronto 0 of 2.

Goalies—Colorado Johansson 2-2-1 (41 shots-33 saves). Toronto Campbell 13-4-1 (31-28).

A—18,931 (18,819). T—2:30.

Canucks 6, Senators 2 Vancouver Ottawa

1 1

2 0

3 — 1 —

6 2

First Period—1, Vancouver, Pearson 4 (Garland, Schenn) 1:38. 2, Ottawa, Gaudette 2 (Brown, Tierney) 11:52 (pp).

Second Period—3, Vancouver, Motte 2 (Garland, Burroughs) 2:38. 4, Vancouver, Schenn 1 (Hughes, Miller) 19:31.

Third Period—5, Vancouver, Horvat 7 (Hughes, Demko) 4:02. 6, Vancouver, Chiasson 3 (Miller, Hughes) 7:38 (pp). 7, Ottawa, Tkachuk 5 (Mete, Norris) 13:42. 8, Vancouver, Miller 8 (Pettersson, Hughes) 17:10 (pp).

Shots on Goal—Vancouver 11-10-14—35. Ottawa 11-5-5—21.

Power-play opportunities—Vancouver 2 of 6.

Ottawa 1 of 5.

Goalies—Vancouver Demko 8-10-1 (21 shots-19 saves). Ottawa Gustavsson 3-6-1 (35-29).

A—10,571 (17,000). T—2:28.

Red Wings 4, Kraken 3 (SO) Seattle Detroit

0 2 1 0 — 3 0 2 1 0 — 4

Second Period—1, Detroit, Fabbri 5 (Larkin, Suter) 4:46 (pp). 2, Seattle, Dunn 2 (Johansson, Wennberg) 10:44 (pp). 3, Seattle, Donato 4 (Gourde, Donskoi) 16:04. 4, Detroit, Namestnikov 8 (Oesterle, Seider) 18:18.

Third Period—5, Detroit, Raymond 10 (Larkin, Seider) 6:30. 6, Seattle, Donato 5 (Oleksiak) 14:16.

Shootout—Seattle 1 (Donato NG, McCann NG, Donskoi G, Wennberg NG), Detroit 2 (Fabbri NG, Larkin G, Raymond NG, Erne G).

Shots on Goal—Seattle 7-9-7—24. Detroit 6-137—26.

Power-play opportunities—Seattle 1 of 3. Detroit 1 of 3.

Goalies—Seattle Grubauer 6-9-2 (26 shots-23 saves). Detroit Greiss 5-6-0 (24-21).

A—18,963 (20,000). T—2:38.

NBA roundup: Antetokounmpo nets 40 in Bucks’ comeback win Field Level Media

The Milwaukee Bucks battled back from an 18-point deficit and Giannis Antetokounmpo scored a go-ahead layup with two seconds left in regulation to beat the visiting Charlotte Hornets 127-125 on Monday night.

Milwaukee earned its eighth straight win after outscoring the Hornets 67-57 in the second half to complete the comeback after not holding a lead through nearly 34 minutes of action.

Charlotte’s Miles Bridges threw up a heave at the buzzer, but it did not fall, handing the Bucks their sixth consecutive victory at home.

Antetokounmpo racked up 40 points, 12 rebounds and nine assists. Khris Middleton added 21 points for the Bucks. Charlotte’s LaMelo Ball tallied a career-high 36 points to go along with nine assists and five rebounds. Kelly Oubre Jr. finished with 25 points for the Hornets.

Cavaliers 111, Heat 85 Kevin Love scored a game-high 22 points off the bench as Cleveland broke a 20-game, decadeplus-long losing streak in games played in Miami.

Miami’s Duncan Robinson shot 0-for-7 from the floor and went scoreless. That ended his 69-game streak with at least one three-pointer, which had been the second-longest active streak in the NBA. Prior to Wednesday, Cleveland’s most recent win in Miami was on Jan. 25, 2010.

Cleveland bothered Miami with its height as 6-11 Jarrett Allen had 19 points, 11 rebounds and a game-high five blocks. Evan Mobley, a 7-foot rookie, had 17 points, 11 rebounds and four blocks as Cleveland won its third straight game. Tyler Herro returned from a two-game absence to lead the Heat with 21 points.

Magic 108, Nuggets 103 Cole Anthony had 24 points, eight rebounds and seven assists in a successful return to the lineup and Franz Wagner hit a go-ahead triple with 1:45 left as host Orlando rallied to defeat Denver and end a seven-game losing streak.

Wagner’s 3-pointer gave the Magic their first lead of the game at 106-103. Will Barton missed an off-balanced triple from the left wing, and Anthony sank two free throws after being fouled on the rebound to cap the scoring. Wagner finished with 15 points and was one of six Magic players to score in double figures.

NFL American Football Conference East W L T Pct PF New England 8 4 0 .667 336 Buffalo 7 4 0 .636 326 Miami 5 7 0 .417 234 N.Y. Jets 3 8 0 .273 199 South W L T Pct PF Tennessee 8 4 0 .667 304 Indianapolis 6 6 0 .500 340 Jacksonville 2 9 0 .182 173 Houston 2 9 0 .182 164 North W L T Pct PF Baltimore 8 3 0 .727 263 Cincinnati 7 4 0 .636 309 Cleveland 6 6 0 .500 254 Pittsburgh 5 5 1 .500 224 West W L T Pct PF Kansas City 7 4 0 .636 281 Denver 6 5 0 .545 228 L.A. Chargers 6 5 0 .545 273 Las Vegas 6 5 0 .545 259 National Football Conference East W L T Pct PF Dallas 7 4 0 .636 326 Washington 5 6 0 .455 229 Philadelphia 5 7 0 .417 304 N.Y. Giants 4 7 0 .364 202 South W L T Pct PF Tampa Bay 8 3 0 .727 347 New Orleans 5 6 0 .455 257 Atlanta 5 6 0 .455 199 Carolina 5 7 0 .417 236 North W L T Pct PF Green Bay 9 3 0 .750 283 Minnesota 5 6 0 .455 281 Chicago 4 7 0 .364 179 Detroit 0 10 1 .045 174 West W L T Pct PF Arizona 9 2 0 .818 310 L.A. Rams 7 4 0 .636 299 San Francisco 6 5 0 .545 280 Seattle 3 8 0 .273 209 Week 13 Thursday’s game Dallas at New Orleans, 8:20 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 5 N.Y. Giants at Miami, 1 p.m.

Indianapolis at Houston, 1 p.m.

Minnesota at Detroit, 1 p.m.

Philadelphia at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m.

Arizona at Chicago, 1 p.m.

L.A. Chargers at Cincinnati, 1 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Atlanta, 1 p.m.

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

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

Baltimore at Pittsburgh, 4:25 p.m.

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

Denver at Kansas City, 8:20 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 6 New England at Buffalo, 8:15 p.m.

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Gilgeous-Alexander, who scored a season-high 39 points on 12-of-26 shooting.

Wizards 115, Timberwolves 107 Bradley Beal scored four consecutive points to key a late run and Montrezl Harrell capped a season-best, 27-point night with a pair of dunks as host Washington pulled away from Minnesota.

Beal finished with 19 points, Daniel Gafford 18 and Davis Bertans 15 for the Wizards, who won for the third time in their past four games after losing four of five.

Karl-Anthony Towns put up a 34-point, 10-rebound doubledouble for the Timberwolves, who lost for just the second time in their past nine games.

Mavericks 139, Pelicans 107 Luka Doncic scored 18 of his game-high 28 points in the first quarter as visiting Dallas racked up a season high in points and dominated New Orleans.

Kristaps Porzingis added 20 points and 10 rebounds, Jalen Brunson scored 17 points and Tim Hardaway Jr. had 16 as the Mavericks won for just the second time in seven games. They shot 68.7 percent from the floor, including 18 of 34 on 3-pointers. Dallas used all 15 players, 13 of whom scored, and the bench totaled 72 points.

Brandon Ingram scored 29 points, Devonte’ Graham added 13, Nickeil Alexander-Walker scored 12 and Kira Lewis Jr. had 11 to lead the Pelicans, who entered the game having won three of their last four games in their best stretch of the season.

Kings 124, Clippers 115 Sacramento continued to enjoy its visits to Los Angeles, winning for a second victory at Staples Center in six days, this time convincingly.

De’Aaron Fox poured in a game-high 24 points, Terence Davis posted a season-best 23 and Davion Mitchell added 20 for the Kings, who came away with a 141137, three-overtime win over the Lakers in a trip to Los Angeles last week.

Reserves Luke Kennard and Terance Mann had 19 points apiece while Ivica Zubac put up 17 for the Clippers, who lost their third straight. The Kings’ win over the Clippers was the fourth in the teams’ past five meetings in Los Angeles, whereas the Clippers have prevailed 15 straight times in Sacramento.

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Nikola Jokic had 18 points, 15 rebounds and seven assists for the Nuggets, and Aaron Gordon scored 17 points in his return to Orlando.

Celtics 88, 76ers 87 Jayson Tatum had 26 points and a career-high 16 rebounds as host Boston outlasted Philadelphia for its second straight win and fifth in the last seven.

Dennis Schroder added 13 points off the bench for Boston, Al Horford totaled 10 points and eight rebounds, Robert Williams III added 10 points and Jaylen Brown finished with nine points on 3-of-11 shooting.

Seth Curry led the 76ers with 17 points. Shake Milton contributed 16 points off the bench while Boston-area native Georges Niang added 12 points for Philadelphia, which lost for the ninth time in 12 games.

Hawks 114, Pacers 111 Trae Young scored 33 points, his fifth straight game with 30-plus, and Atlanta defeated Indiana in Indianapolis.

The victory counts as coach Nate McMillan’s 700th career win, although he has self-quarantined because his son, assistant coach Jamelle McMillan, had a positive COVID-19 test earlier in the day. Indiana’s Malcolm Brogdon missed the potential tying shot from halfcourt to end the game.

Young was 13-for-27 from the floor, including three 3-pointers, and added 10 assists and eight rebounds. Kevin Huerter chipped in 19 points, and John Collins supplied 14 points and four blocks. Brogdon led Indiana with 27 points and nine assists, and Domantas Sabonis added 22 points and 10 rebounds. Myles Turner had 17 points, nine rebounds and two blocks.

Rockets 114, Thunder 110 Jae’Sean Tate scored a careerhigh 32 points to lead visiting Houston to a victory over Oklahoma City.

The Rockets extended their winning streak to four immediately following a 15-game losing streak.

The Thunder have lost seven consecutive games and nine of 10.

Tate scored 13 of his points in the fourth quarter, while Armoni Brooks had 10 of his 18 off the bench in the final frame as the Rockets outscored the Thunder 41-29 in the fourth. Houston’s comeback spoiled the big night for Oklahoma City’s Shai

Chris Kreider scored again to continue his hot start, Igor Shesterkin made 33 saves and host New York continued its roll with a 4-1 victory over skidding Philadelphia on Wednesday.

Kreider has nine goals in his past 12 games, and he joined Edmonton’s Leon Draisaitl and Washington’s Alex Ovechkin as the third player to score more than 15 goals so far this season. The Rangers also got goals from Jacob Trouba, Dryden Hunt and Artemi Panarin, and Igor Shesterkin made 33 saves.

Morgan Frost scored for the Flyers, who dropped their seventh straight game. Philadelphia also lost Joel Farabee to an upperbody injury after he slammed into the boards in the opening period.

Carter Hart stopped 24 shots.

Maple Leafs 8, Avalanche 3 Auston Matthews scored three goals, John Tavares had a goal and two assists and the Toronto Maple Leafs defeated the visiting Colorado Avalanche 8-3 on Wednesday.

The hat trick was the fourth of Matthews’ career. William Nylander had a goal and an assist for Toronto, which has won five straight.

Jason Spezza, Travis Dermott and Pierre Engvall also scored for the Maple Leafs. Michael Bunting added three assists and Alexander Kerfoot and Mitchell Marner had two assists apiece. Jack Campbell made 28 saves for Toronto.

Nazem Kadri scored twice and Samuel Girard also scored for the

Avalanche. Colorado’s Jonas Johansson stopped 33 shots.

Ducks 6, Golden Knights 5 Jamie Drysdale had a goal and an assist and Trevor Zegras and Sonny Milano each had three assists to lead host Anaheim to a wild victory over Vegas.

Troy Terry, Rickard Rakell, Josh Manson, Hampus Lindholm and Isac Lundestrom also scored goals for Anaheim, which won at Los Angeles 5-4 in a shootout the previous night. Ducks goalie Anthony Stolarz finished with 34 saves.

Mattias Janmark and Max Pacioretty each had a goal and an assist and William Carrier, Zach Whitecloud and Reilly Smith also scored goals for Vegas, which took its third loss in four games. Robin Lehner made 28 saves.

Oilers 5, Penguins 2 Connor McDavid registered three assists, two on goals by Zach Hyman, and added an empty-netter as Edmonton broke open a tie game in the third period for a victory over visiting Pittsburgh.

With the game tied 2-2 after two periods, Kailer Yamamoto scored 2:53 into the third. Evan Bouchard tapped in McDavid’s pass off a two-on-one a little more than five minutes later to help the Oilers win for the 16th time in 21 games to open the season.

Mikko Koskinen made 32 saves for Edmonton. Jake Guentzel and Teddy Blueger scored for the Penguins, who got 17 saves from Tristan Jarry.

Red Wings 4,

Kraken 3 (SO) Adam Erne scored in the fourth round of the shootout to propel host Detroit past Seattle.

Red Wings captain Dylan Larkin, who had two assists in regulation, scored in the second round of the shootout before Joonas Donskoi answered in the third. Erne beat Philipp Grubauer (23 saves) over his glove in the fourth to put pressure on Alex Wennberg, whose bid to extend the session sailed off the mark.

Rookie Lucas Raymond, Robby Fabbri and Vladislav Namestnikov each scored a goal and Moritz Seider notched two assists for the Red Wings, who have won a season-high four in a row. Ryan Donato scored twice and Vince Dunn also tallied for the expansion Kraken, who were thwarted in their bid for the first three-game winning streak in franchise history.

Canucks 6, Senators 2 J.T. Miller scored a goal in a three-point game while Quinn Hughes collected four assists to lead visiting Vancouver to a victory over Ottawa.

Luke Schenn collected one goal and one assist, while Tanner Pearson, Tyler Motte, Bo Horvat and Alex Chiasson also scored for the Canucks, who have won two in a row. Goaltender Thatcher Demko made 19 saves.

Adam Gaudette and Brady Tkachuk replied for the Senators, who sit last in the league standings and have lost six straight games. Goalie Filip Gustavsson stopped 29 shots.

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Giants cagey about Daniel Jones’ neck injury Pat Leonard New York Daily News

NEW YORK — One Joe Judge comment stood out above all the others Wednesday.

The Giants’ head coach was asked if there is concern Daniel Jones’ neck strain could be a season-ending injury.

“At this moment, no,” Judge said.

The coach’s hedging provided an adequate summary of where Jones’ injury stands: somewhere in the gray.

The third-year quarterback — who is considered week-to-week, according to sources — was limited in a quick walk-through practice.

He conducted his weekly press conference and said he’s “feeling good” and “preparing to play” Sunday against the Miami Dolphins.

But a lot of that felt like gamesmanship.

Judge prefers to keep injury information inhouse. Since Jones’ injury got out, Wednesday felt like the Giants trying to overcorrect and create uncertainty for the Dolphins (5-7).

The Giants even waited longer than usual for the media to leave after the brief viewing period at the start of practice. The offensive huddle stayed on the sideline waiting for reporters to depart so they wouldn’t tip off which players took the field.

Jones always tries to play through injuries. His desire to play isn’t the issue, though.

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way to becoming hockey.”

That’s not a knock on hockey as a sport or the NHL as a league. What it is: an acknowledgment of the reality that baseball, if not tended to and cared for and thoughtfully fixed, could be on a path to becoming a niche sport. Hockey in the United States has pockets of dedicated and passionate fan bases in markets both traditional and not. Rarely, though, does it drive the national sports conversation the way the NFL and NBA can.

Baseball is on the precipice of ending up in the same place, and the way the game is played

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B/NL (36): Culbertson 5-115, Williams 2-0-5, Stalker 5-014, Evans 1-0-2, Doyle 0-0-0.

Totals 13-1-36.

3-pointers: Culbertson 4, Stalker 4, Williams.

CHATHAM (84): Thorsen

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But the process began with a Mets hat, pulled from somewhere off-screen and placed on his head as 100 or so reporters tried to screenshot the picture of one of the best pitchers of this generation beginning what might be the final chapter of his career.

“There you go,” Scherzer said with a smile when he had pulled the hat down, the process complete. The Mets will pay Scherzer a record $43.3 million annually to wear that hat for the next three seasons until the likely future Hall of Famer is 40. And they will do so in the hopes that he and his endless competitiveness will be a stabilizing and galvanizing influence for a franchise and clubhouse that have been consumed by disappointment, infighting, and turnover for years.

“I’ve seen in my time and my career that clubhouses can change. It only takes a few guys to change it,” Scherzer said. “I’ve seen it many times, different guys I’ve played with over the years, when they come in they bring a different energy and the whole kind of vibe changes in the clubhouse.

For me, I feel like the guys we’re bringing in can do that.”

Scherzer’s news conference was the first of two the Mets held Wednesday. The second introduced the trio of versatile veterans the Mets signed in the last week - Mark Canha, Starling Marte and Eduardo Escobar. Scherzer said he heard great things about all of them.

He called ace Jacob deGrom to

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Daniel Jones (8) of the New York Giants runs under pressure from Haason Reddick (43) of the Carolina Panthers during the second half of the game at MetLife Stadium on October 24 in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

Backup Mike Glennon is still expected to start as the Giants (4-7) seek a second straight win.

“There’s a number of things the trainers and doctors want to see,” Jones said of his “sore”

neck. “But my focus is to continue to improve and get better and put that decision3/8 in their hands come this weekend.”

Jones did say he doesn’t believe this is season-ending, although clearly there have been discussions the past couple days about just how bad it was.

“I don’t know,” Jones said. “I think there was obviously a series of tests and conversations with doctors, and I always understood it to be something I could recover from and get back out there.”

Judge said “we’re not gonna rule anything out right now” on Jones’ status for Sunday.

However, the head coach admitted that the timing of Tuesday’s signing of quarterback Jake Fromm off the Buffalo Bills’ practice squad was motivated by Jones’ injury.

“When you first get any kind of flag on any player ... you immediately say, ‘OK, what kind of insurance do we need for the game right now?’ “ Judge said. “And then it was an opportunity for us to add a player we liked in college and the draft.”

Fromm was not available to the media after his first practice with the team.

Jones, despite dealing with his neck injury, surprisingly has not been evaluated for a concussion during or since Sunday’s win over the Philadelphia Eagles, per Judge and the team.

on the field is a far greater factor than how billions in revenue are split between players and owners.

So bicker over whether the competitive balance tax threshold is a de facto salary cap, and debate the merits of a salary floor as a way to ensure teams aren’t tanking. Tie free agency to a player’s service time, as is the case now, or his age, an idea that has been knocked around. Those are line items on a budget. They’re not as relevant to the sport’s health as what’s between the lines.

The negotiations that broke off Wednesday afternoon led to the collective bargaining agreement expiring a minute before midnight. Management then decided to lock out the players, putting a halt

to what had been a frenetic bit of offseason wheeling and dealing. The continuation of those negotiations is of paramount importance because, should a deal be reached in time for spring training to go on uninterrupted, the sport’s record of labor peace essentially will still stretch back to 1995. That’s quite a run, and it should be acknowledged.

The acrimony between the sides, though, matters as well - and that’s coming from discussions with people on all sides of the issues over the past several months. What’s distilled is an environment almost defined by distrust. With tenacious negotiators on both sides, discussions over a particular point don’t begin with, “Is this good for the game?”

They begin with: “Can we win

this issue? And if we give in on this, what might we get in return?”

To an extent, that’s the nature of collective bargaining.

But with so many sharp elbows and tongues so motivated to report back to their sides that they have won a dollar here or a dollar there, there’s no sense that anyone is driven by the sport’s overall health.

The game has no curator. It’s not Commissioner Rob Manfred. It’s not union head Tony Clark. Their allegiance is to their constituents: the owners and the players, respectively.

It’s not to baseball, writ large.

All this doesn’t mean the economics won’t work out, because one way or another, they will. If there was deep concern that revenue would drop, the Rangers wouldn’t

have committed $175 million over seven years to a 31-yearold infielder very few members of the American sporting public could pick out if he was sitting next to them at a restaurant.

Hello, Marcus Semien.

Enough money for the filet, it would seem.

Let’s hope MLB and the players reach a deal well before spring training and that hot stove transactions can resume in time for rosters to be solidified and the season can go off as planned. The sport isn’t in solid enough standing in the public conscious to risk alienating fans who have plenty of other places to turn - even without a true work stoppage.

If a new deal is reached, it behooves both sides to come back together and sit down

again, this time with a clean slate and an open mind. They must look at their game honestly and openly and ask, “How can we, together, get back to the game we once had?”

That will involve creativity and experimentation, which started last year at the minor league level. It could involve pitch clocks and limits on roster construction. It almost certainly will incorporate an automated strike zone.

Move the mound back? Ban infield shifts? Let’s keep the discussion going. There are no bad ideas. The sooner the discourse moves from economics to baseball the better because only then will the issues that truly ail the sport be addressed.

10-1-23, Jackson 4-3-11, Chudy 1-0-2, Van Alstyne 4-012, Tanner 1-0-2, Jeralds 3-0-6, O’Dell 3-0-7, Baccaro 9-0-19.

Totals 28-4-84.

3-pointers: Thorsen 2, Van Alstyne 2, O’Dell, Baccaro.

GIRLS BASKETBALL Greenville 60, TH 8 CRARYVILLE — Bryn Fitzmaurice and Chloe Ross combined for 37 points as Greenville defeated Taconic Hills, 60-8, in Wednesday’s

Patroon Conference girls basketball game.

Fitzmaurice finished with 21 points and Ross had 16 for the Spartans. Taryn Silk added eight.

Taconic Hills visits Hudson on Friday at 6:30 p.m. and Greenville hosts Hudson on Wednesday at 6:30 p.m.

GREENVILLE (60): Smith 0-2-2, Fitzmaurice 9-0-21, Silk 3-0-8, A. O’Hare 1-3-5, Ross 8-0-16, Crawley 2-0-4,

Landversicht 2-0-4. Totals 255,60.

3-pointers: Fitzmaurice 3, Silk 2.

TACONIC HILLS (8): Cooper 1-0-2, Phesay 1-1-3, Keeler 1-0-3, Proper 0-0-0, Waterhouse 0-0-0. Totals 3-1-8.

3-pointers: Keeler.

BOYS VOLLEYBALL Chatham 3, TH 2 CRARYVILLE — Chatham posted a 3-2 win over Taconic Hills in Wednesday’s Patroon

Conference boys volleyball match.

The Titans took the first two games, 28-26 and 25-20, but Chatham fought back to sweep the next three, 25-20, 25-20 and 15-13.

Adonias Mercado had 13 digs and 7 kills for Taconic Hills. Bryce Atwood had 11 digs and 10 kills.

BOWLING C-A 4, Cairo-Durham 1 CATSKILL — Leo

Woytowich rolled a 159-444 to spark Coxsackie-Athens to a 4-1 victory over Cairo-Durham in Wednesday’s Patroon Conference bowling match.

C-A had games of 561, 603 and 698 for a 1,862 total. Cairo-Durham hit a 621, 589 and 549 for 1,759.

Patience DeRose added a 159 single for C-A. Jordan Cody led Cairo-Durham with a 136-382.

get his perspective on the Mets and playing in New York. But all he really needed to hear, he admitted, was polarizing Mets owner Steve Cohen’s pitch in a Zoom call recently.

“When I took the Zoom call with Steve and [newly hired general manager Billy Eppler] and got to know those two, Steve said ‘whatever it takes to win here.’” Scherzer said. “. . .you don’t hear that from owners too much these days. When you finally hear an owner say he wants to do what it takes to win, that obviously piqued my interest.”

Scherzer obviously spent most of seven seasons playing for owners, the Lerner family, who committed $210 million to him over seven years as an eventual World Series winner assembled around him. But he has never encountered anyone quite like Cohen, whose tweets have become the stuff of legend in a baseball world where owners are rarely so publicly inclined - and cringeworthy to people in the organization who wish he would follow other owners’ desire to stay out of the spotlight.

But if there is a trend Cohen doesn’t follow, it is the reluctance to spend. Cohen committed a record-breaking average annual value to Scherzer, giving him $7 million more annually than Yankees ace Gerrit Cole got - though Cohen said Wednesday he doesn’t necessarily see that as an apples to apples comparison given Cole’s deal was a nine-year commitment for an ace in his prime and Scherzer’s just three years for a player who will be 40 when the deal expires. “[We] made a calculation and essentially that was the

value we had put on Max, in that vicinity,” Cohen said on Zoom Wednesday. “I wasn’t going to go over that. That was it for me. Lucky enough, we held our ground and got an agreement.”

That agreement pairs a three-time Cy Young Award winner with one of the more dominant pitchers of the last few years in Jacob deGrom.

Since 2016, deGrom owns the best ERA of any starter in the majors (2.46) and Scherzer the third-best (2.75). Scherzer leads the majors in strikeouts in that time (1423) while deGrom, who was injured for much of last season, is third (1156). Scherzer leads the majors with a .197 batting average against. DeGrom is fifth at .208.

The success and health of that duo will be a key part the Mets’ renewed push to take back the National League East from Atlanta, which has won it for four straight seasons. Before that, the Nationals won it twice. The Mets have not taken the division since 2015, Scherzer’s first year as a National.

Scherzer admitted that it will be “bizarre” to start next season as a Met, and that he wouldn’t have accepted a trade to Queens at the trade deadline, had the Mets been interested. At the time, Scherzer was hoping to move to a warm-weather climate to avoid the risks the cold can pose to sore muscles. Plus, the Nationals didn’t want the Mets to be an option.

“They didn’t want to trade me in division at that time.

I understood it and kind of agreed with it at the time,” he said.

“Facing the Nationals,

that’s going to be a wild experience for myself, but it’ll be fun to compete against them. But you look forward to those matchups, facing your friends.”

Scherzer still doesn’t know exactly what number he

will wear when he takes the mound as a Met for the first time, when he faces those friends he has left with the new-look Nationals early next season. The number he wore in D.C. and with the Dodgers, 31, belonged to Tom Seaver

and is therefore off-limits.

Should he establish himself as one of the Mets’ all-time greats, he will have to choose a new one. The transition will take time, but Wednesday, it began.

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ELIZABETH M. BECKER FEATHERS, COUNTY OF COLUMBIA And "JOHN DOE" (Said name being fictitious it being the intention of the Plaintiff to designate any and all occupants of the premises being foreclosed herein, and any parties, corporations or entities, if any, having or claiming an interest or lien upon the mortgaged premises.)

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Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale executed on October 18, 2021 and filed with the Columbia County Clerk’s Office on October 20, 2021, the Referee, will sell at public auction at the main entrance of the Columbia County Courthouse, located at 401 Union Street, Hudson, New York on December 20, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. the premises known as 4649 County Route 9, Town of New Lebanon, New York and all that certain plot, piece or parcel of land situate, lying and being in the Town of New Lebanon, County of Columbia, State of New York, Tax Map ID No. 8.-2-8. Premises will be sold subject to the terms and conditions of the filed Judgment. Approximate amount of Judgment is $101,879.45 plus, but not limited to, costs, disbursements and attorney’s fees and/or additional allowance, all with legal interest. Max N. Zacker, Esq., Referee. Robert F. McCarthy. Esq., attorney for Plaintiff with a mailing address of P.O. Box 11-383, Albany, New York 12211. 518-785-3841.

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College football coaches once were institutions — Now they’re expensive rentals Adam Kilgore The Washington Post

Over 29 seasons coaching football at Virginia Tech, Frank Beamer had many chances to leave. Some of the schools that wooed him made him think hard. He would have fainted if, as a kid, he’d been told he could coach some of those teams. He turned them all down. He was happy at his alma mater, and he was a man of his time. Coaches became synonymous with their programs, one-name icons who found success and stayed.

“You like the town and like the people and like the school,” Beamer said Tuesday from his Blacksburg, Va., home. “What more is there, really?”

For college football coaches in 2021, there is always more: more money, more variables, more pressure to win. Coaching always has been an itinerant profession, but in the past week the industry crossed a threshold that reflected college football’s changing climate. In dramatic and high-stakes fashion, the destination job became an artifact.

Major college football programs and the coaches who lead them once viewed the sport’s relationships as familial, in which the successful coach would become a patriarch of not just the team but the school, a face as familiar as the colors and the fight song. Lots of forces can tear at the fabric of family, from bad fortune to infidelity, but perhaps none does so as quickly as money.

With the Big Ten and Southeastern Conferences now generating more than $700 million in annual revenue, the geometric rise in the riches of success and costs of failure over the past decade have led colleges and football coaches to ditch loyalty for expedience, less interested in investing in legacy than in cashing in quick. Instead of searching for a long-standing partnership, each side is looking for a weekend Tinder match.

The forces culminated over the past several days and weeks in which the 2019 coach of the year was fired midseason, and was replaced by someone who left behind a viable chance to win a championship for one of the sport’s most pedigreed programs, where he’d spent the past 12 seasons.

On Sunday, Lincoln Riley jettisoned Oklahoma for the fertile recruiting base and navigable conference competition of Southern California. The following day, Brian Kelly bolted from Notre Dame, which requires a realistic chain of events to become a College Football Playoff entrant this month, for a gigantic contract at Louisiana State. That meant there have been 23 coaching changes in the top level of college football this year, up from 18 in 2020.

Their precise motivations differ, but the rattling decisions Riley and Kelly made were united by an overarching cause. An infusion of money into the sport, through both mammoth television contracts and wealthy donors, has distorted the terrain and amplified the

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College Football Hall of Fame coach Frank Beamer looks on during the fourth quarter of the 2018 Orange Bowl college football playoff semifinal game between the Alabama Crimson Tide and the Oklahoma Sooners at Hard Rock Stadium on Dec. 29, 2018.

imperative to win immediately and constantly.

Even coaches at flagship programs may have a wandering eye, and even schools who recently won national championships may boot the coach who won it.

“People get to a certain point in their career, and they don’t want to be Bo [Schembechler] and Woody [Hayes] anymore,” Korn Ferry Vice Chairman and Head of Global Sports Practice Jed Hughes said, referring to the longtime Michigan and Ohio State coaches in the 1970s.

Alabama Coach “Nick Saban is a relic. The landscape has changed.”

The SEC recently received signed a rights contract with ESPN that will begin in 2024 for $300 million per season, up from the $55 million CBS had been paying the conference to broadcast its marquee games. Motivated by the financial benefits of affiliation with the conference, Texas and Oklahoma, two behemoth programs, decided to leave the Big 12 for the SEC. Feeling pressure to attract money from donors and not to be left behind in the churn of conference realignment, schools have grown desperate for coaches capable of winning, quickly firing ones who don’t while offering escalating salaries to ones they hope can.

A spate of midseason firings this year created a frenzy. To keep other schools from poaching Mel Tucker after beginning his second season 8-0, Michigan State, backed by a handful of boosters, gave him a 10-year, $95 million contract extension. At the time, Tucker owned a 15-12 career record as a head coach. His deal reset a market in which schools continued to create openings with midseason firings, leading to a similar extension for James Franklin at Penn State.

“We’re in an unprecedented time because the TV money is so important, and the people’s egos who are connected to these schools are over the top because they want to win, and they want to win now,” Hughes said. “They don’t want to wait.”

Even coaches in lofty situations can fall rapidly. Ed Orgeron, a native Louisianian who spoke with a distinctive Cajun growl, won the national championship at LSU two seasons ago. The school reached a separation with him in mid-October, with the Tigers at 4-3. Athletic Director Scott Woodward said then that “at LSU, we expect to compete for SEC and national championships year in and year out.”

Over 22 years, Gary Patterson shepherded TCU from afterthought to national force, elevating the Horned Frogs into the stratosphere of Power Five teams when the Big 12 plucked it from lower-tier Conference USA. He fended overtures from bigger programs. The school built a statue of him outside Amon G. Carter Stadium. With his record 3-5 in late October, Patterson resigned before TCU could fire him.

On Monday, TCU lowered his replacement, Sonny Dykes, on to the football field in a helicopter.

At the time of Patterson’s departure, one rival coach said: “I don’t know what to think of it, man. I was sick when I heard the news, to be completely honest. I know it’s a tough business. Our jobs are scrutinized and we’re big boys and we can live with big boy decisions. But man, what he did at that place, to not even finish out the year?”

The coach who said that was Lincoln Riley.

Destination jobs become impossible when what makes a destination can shift so suddenly.

Oklahoma, Riley’s former employer, is set to move into the SEC to compete against a gaggle of programs with greater resources than even his own. He could have risked becoming the next Orgeron or Patterson. Or he could have found a place such as USC, where he could coach a program desperate to pay him exorbitantly and where he can assure himself an inherent advantage over conference rivals.

Beamer, whose son Shane once coached under Riley at Oklahoma, noted that Riley would not run from stiff competition and theorized that Southern California’s access to recruiting talent, particularly quarterbacks, drove Riley’s choice. Still, coaches are keenly aware of the landscape.

“The league changes certainly affect coaches,” Beamer said. “The schools that are leaving and the schools that are coming, that landscape has changed and probably figures into some decision-making by some people.”

The forces shaping the sport have consolidated the true powers. The College Football Playoff has redefined success in a sport where boosters once were satisfied with beating the rival or winning a good bowl game. In the College Football Playoff’s seven-year history, four programs - Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State and Oklahoma - have claimed 20 of 28 entries.

Notre Dame twice has reached the playoff, but those appearances only reinforced its notquite-there status. The Fighting Irish lost, 303, to Clemson and 31-14 to Alabama. If Kelly made winning a national title his priority, LSU offered a clearer path: The past three coaches there have all won national titles.

“The one thing that drives a lot of it anymore is money has gotten up there really high,” Beamer said. “The salaries have really continued to go up. But I don’t think money is the issue that drives most college coaches. Opportunity and what they’re looking for is the biggest factor, particularly someone who’s been successful: He’s got opportunities to go to different schools over the years. I don’t think money is the No. 1 reason.”

Just seven of 65 Power Five coaches have been at their school for at least 10 seasons. Of all the coaches who voluntarily switched jobs, spurred by their sport’s whirlwind changes, some may look back with regret. Not many years ago, a coaching friend visited Beamer to ask him what he thought about a job opportunity.

“I said, ‘Well, if you’re happy in your position you’re in, I’d think twice about leaving,’” Beamer said. “If you’re content, you look forward to getting up in the morning and going to work, I’d think twice about moving. Sure enough, he went on and moved. And then he came back in a couple months and said, ‘You were right.

It wasn’t a fit for me.’ That’s the number one thing about a job. You like it, you’re happy, your family is happy, you look forward to getting to work in the morning. I’d think twice before I’d ever leave that job.”

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Hudson’s Amya Moore looks to pass to a teammate during Wednesday’s Patroon Conference girls basketball game against Catskill at Hudson High School.

Catskill’s Aaliyah Shook puts up a shot as Hudson’s Gabby Logue (33) defends during Wednesday’s Patroon Conference girls basketball game at Hudson High School.

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Hudson’s Astoria Hampton brings the ball up the floor during Wednesday’s Patroon Conference girls basketball game against Catskill at Hudson High School.

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to the ground. However they got to their feet after a brief pause and play resumed.

The game got off to a rough start for both teams as they played aggressive from the opening tip. After getting their legs underneath them the teams settled into the game and it was close the rest of the quarter. Brantley beat the buzzer with a layup to give the Cats a 13-11 lead after one.

Brantley hit a perfect floater in the beginning of the second period that banked off the glass and through the net for yet another bucket. Both teams were still a bit shaky in the second quarter with Catskill ahead 17-11.

The Cats then knocked down a few three pointers as their confidence grew and they went up 30-15 at the end of the first half.

Brantley came out of the TIM MARTIN/COLUMBIA-GREENE MEDIA break firing on all cylinders, scoring the Cats’ first eight Catskill’s Nadia Pell drives to the basket during Wednesday’s Patroon Conference girls basketball points of the quarter to jump- game against Hudson at Hudson High School. start their offense. Before the settle down and play her Bluehawks knew it the Cats game,” Quinn said. She can went on a 15-0 run to start the get to the basket at will. The third and were up, 45-15.

Catskill dialed up their de- girls play off her well and the fense in the second half and girls around her have the abilstole a number of inbound ity to score now, which as we passes and pressed Hudson go, is going going to bode well in the backcourt to force turn- for us.

“I’m just glad my girls came overs that led to easy baskets. out and played hard, got over Brantley hit a three-pointer near the end of the third pe- the jitters and then put the riod and the Cats took a 56- foot on the gas pedal a little 23 lead into the fourth after a bit.”

26-point quarter.

Catskill hosts Cairo-DurThe defensive intensity ham on Friday at 5 p.m., while came naturally for Catskill to Hudson entertains Taconic ride out the rest of the game Hills on Friday at 6:30 p.m. as they held Hudson at an CATSKILL (70): Shook arm’s length in the final pe- 4-2-13, Lewis 2-3-7, Salierno riod. The Catskill Cats came 2-0-5, Konsul 2-0-5, Brantley away with a 70-31 over their 16-2-35, Edmonds 0-3-3, Pell rivals the Hudson Bluehawks on the opening night of the 1-0-2. Totals 27-10-70.

3-pointers: Shook 3, Brantseason on the road. ley, Konsul, Salierno.

After scoring 14 points in HUDSON (31): Harp 1-0the first half, Brantley added 21 more in the second for the 2, Box 3-0-7, Johnson 3-0-6, Hampton 1-1-3, Sullivan 1-0Cats.

TIM MARTIN/COLUMBIA-GREENE MEDIA “Tonight, early on, she 2, Logue 3-1-7, Moore 1-0-3, Hudson’s Amya Moore (5) guards Catskill’s Janay Brantley (30) pressed her shot a little bit, Jepsen 0-1-1. Totals 13-3-31. during Wednesday’s Patroon Conference girls basketball game at Hudson High School.

3-pointers: Box, Moore. but at halftime I told her to

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Catskill’s Aaliyah Shook brings the ball up the floor during Wednesday’s Patroon Conference girls basketball game against Hudson at Hudson High School.

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Hudson’s Coudmya Box (15) goes to the basket as Catskill’s Ava Edmonds defends during Wednesday’s Patroon Conference girls basketball game at Hudson High School.

The NBA pitches itself as progressive, but its stars won’t talk about vaccines Matt Sullivan The Washington Post

A few hours before the Los Angeles Lakers took the court on Tuesday night, the National Basketball Association conveniently leaked a study produced by its rigorous coronavirus testing program, which spits out more virus data than most American employers do: 34 vaccinated players and staffers had a breakthrough infection in the last two months, and the antibody levels suggested that everyone - players and fans alike - should get booster shots.

The self-styled league of progressivism knew by then what its testing on Tuesday morning had privately revealed: LeBron James, the vaccinated Lakers superstar and the face of basketball, had tested positive. Twice, it turns out. In the NBA’s obfuscative code of covid, he had merely “entered the health and safety protocols.” But James could miss at least 10 days, which is what’s required of players with a confirmed case.

On the usually hyperactive @KingJames Instagram account, a 23-hourold post promoting the Nike LeBron

9 signature sneakers vanished into the 24-hour cache of IG Stories. There were no selfies from the private jet home to quarantine. None of the usual emoji. Not a re-’Gram in sight from the students at the elementary school that LeBron built.

The silence was yet another potential sign of selective abdication by the king of cultural cachet. Before gametime, anti-vaccine leeches were already crawling into the feeds of fans who might ask themselves: “If even LeBron can still get covid, why do I still need to get a shot?”

As I reported for Rolling Stone in September, the pro-science NBA league office is trapped in a kind of double-blind bind: While only 3 percent of its players remain unvaccinated, many more never wanted to get a shot - and a powerful few made sure in collective bargaining that immunization would not be required.

The league, which reopened its 2020 season in a covid-proof bubble at Walt Disney World after shutting down to prevent an outbreak, would hope that superstars didn’t set a bad example and would pray for the delta

variant to fade away as the 2021 season tipped off. But first, players were confronted about their vaccination status, to which an all-too-common reply - from public figures in the middle of a public health crisis - was to hide behind “a personal choice” and “my own research.”

When asked earlier this season if someone of his stature - by some measures the most influential public figure in America - wanted to encourage fans and followers to get vaccinated, James invented an even more ridiculous excuse: “We’re not talking about something that’s political, or racism, or police brutality, or things of that nature.” Telling people what to do with their bodies, he said, is “not my job.”

But of course the vaccine is “something that’s political.” James, in manicuring his image over the last decade as a competitive progressive who notoriously tweeted “u bum” at Donald Trump, has very much made it his business to talk about things of a political nature. Like the most cunning of centrist politicians, however, he speaks out only when it’s

focus-group-guaranteed to make him look good, without getting in the way of his self-interest: - James posted a photo on Twitter featuring his Miami Heat teammates wearing hoodies in solidarity with Trayvon Martin in 2012. And then two years later, he ignored the family of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, gunned down in a park five miles from where his Cleveland Cavaliers played ball.

When I was reporting my book on the NBA, activism and coronavirus, the boy’s mother told me that James’s billionaire advocacy was “a dangerous game.”

- James said in 2018 that Trump didn’t “give a f--- about the people,” and a Fox News host sneered that he should “shut up and dribble.” By 2020, James tweeted about being “louder than EVER.” Yet when an NBA executive’s 2019 tweet in support of prodemocracy protesters in Hong Kong prompted a Chinese boycott of the NBA, the league could not find a voice in James, who helps drive millions in Nike’s China revenue. “We don’t need to be talking,” multiple people recall him telling NBA Commissioner Adam

Silver in Shanghai.

- James has campaigned for Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden, sought counsel from Barack Obama and shilled for the Affordable Care Act in a 2014 public service announcement that he hoped would better educate young fans and African Americans about their health-care options. But despite his long record of activism that included public health, two league sources involved in this year’s NBA PSAs told me they wouldn’t dare ask James to promote the coronavirus vaccine.

The NBA bills itself as a new American pastime with liberal values. Without men in helmets or hats between the lines. With a 24/7 reality show beyond them. A cultural institution worth $10 billion rides or dies by its personalities. But the league has covered for its megastars one too many times in private to uphold its public ideals. And now people might actually die if the NBA’s role models, thrust into the most urgent new crisis of our time, keep refusing to occupy the leadership vacuum they filled throughout the Trump years.

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Mom dislikes son for his family resemblance Dear Abby, My 25-year-old son is a single father of three boys, 6, 4 and almost 3. They have been living with me, my youngest and my husband in a two-bedroom house for a while now, and I’m not happy with my life.

DEAR ABBY I enjoy my grandkids, but I don’t enjoy my son. He looks and acts like my older brother, who I never liked because he was mean and bullied me even as an adult. What can I say or do to get my son out, and how do I deal with my feelings toward him? I love him, but I don’t really like him.

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If the only thing you have against your son is his strong physical resemblance to your brother — whom you dislike for good reason — you are being unfair to him. However, this is your home, and if the conditions are no longer pleasant for you, you have the right to change them.

Give your son a reasonable deadline to find other living arrangements without alienating him, if that is possible. (Your living conditions ARE crowded right now, so your reason is valid.)

Dear Abby, I am the youngest of eight children. My oldest sibling, “Lois,” is 72. She is in the habit of returning “gifts” she says I gave to her as far back as 40 years ago. (She doesn’t want to deal with getting rid of the items herself.)

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could use or enjoy the item, but she ignores me. How do I get her to stop this?

Give And Take In Texas You can’t get Lois to stop, so stop trying. When it happens again, find the humor in it and donate the item to a thrift shop. (Or rewrap it and gift it to another relative for Christmas or a birthday.)

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The last time she asked, I told her what I was eating, but did NOT offer her any. Was that wrong? Should I be responsible for feeding her every day? Bear in mind that when she does it, she has already eaten her own lunch.

Hungry In The South During the pandemic, food sharing has become a no-no. I wonder where you got the idea that because someone asks you what you’re eating it means you must offer to share it. Now that you know your co-worker is a human vacuum cleaner, continue to just answer her question. If you do, I’m betting she will soon stop asking.

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Horoscope

By Stella Wilder Born today, you are quite adept at navigating all manner of situations, routine and otherwise, and you’re likely to gain a reputation, as a result, as one who has no true alliances. This is nonsense, of course, but there is a grain of truth at the heart of the notion. You are always aware of what you can do to increase your own standing among those on the other side of the fence.

You are never afraid of taking things into your own hands and doing what you can to untie the countless knots that others have tied — but you consider this a strange kind of game, a kind of brainteaser that you come to enjoy merely for its own sake. The fact that you are able to untie them again and again is merely an additional plus!

Also born on this date are: Holly Marie Combs, actress; Daryl Hannah, actress; Julianne Moore, actress; Ozzy Osbourne, rocker; Andy Williams, singer; Bobby Allison, auto racer; Amanda Seyfried, actress; Anna Chlumsky, actress.

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

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You’ve been considering a return to a favorite project, and now’s surely the time.

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Share all you know.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — You’ll have more freedom today than you had yesterday, very likely — and more than you’ll have tomorrow. It’s time to take that risk.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22) — No more talk!

It’s time to do that thing you want to do, no matter what people might say. Someone will likely admire you for taking the risk.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — You’ll have much in common today with those who are similarly on the move, though you may not be able to be in touch — directly, at any rate.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — Any overreaction to what happens today is likely to find you in the doghouse — and you can’t afford to increase your own stress level!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You may not be making the connection that is necessary to draw the correct conclusion from the evidence at hand. You may want to start over.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — You can rise above the fray today and see how things will turn out — if only you can get others to call a truce and work together.

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all time. As we write this, he is recovering from a serious bout with COVID-19. We hear that he is much improved and we wish him the best.

Hamman was South, in today’s deal.

Hamman won the opening spade lead with dummy’s ace. West would surely have led the ace of clubs if he held both the ace and king, so Hamman was sure that West held the king of diamonds for his penalty double, so he eschewed the diamond finesse and led a diamond to his ace. He crossed to dummy with the queen of hearts and ruffed dummy’s remaining spade.

Hamman cashed the ace and king of hearts, discarding a club from dummy, and ruffed his last heart.

West was known to have five or six spades from the bidding and he had shown up with four hearts. There was a very good chance that West had started with a singleton club. Should that singleton be the ace or the king, the contract could be made. Hamman exited with a diamond to West’s king. West could do no better than to cash the ace of clubs before having to yield a ruff-sluff and Hamman had his contract. Very well played! Note that West would have suffered the same fate had he started with the singleton king of clubs.

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