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A series of attempted burglaries in the Coxsackie area, and one in Columbia County, with an emphasis on gun shops, is prompting investigators to wonder if the crimes are linked.

The Greene County Sheriff’s Office is investigating two of the break-ins, which occurred at Country Armory and RECON Defense, both in Coxsackie, Undersheriff Adam Brainard said Tuesday.

The incident at Country Armory occurred in the early morning of Feb. 19, and the other break-in took place between Tuesday and Thursday, Brainard said, adding that it was likely the same night.

“The attempt was not noticed immediately,” he said.

It is highly likely the two incidents are related, Brainard said.

Country Armory owner Shane Pilato credited the security measures at the store for thwarting the intruder.

“We are pretty well fortified here,” he said.

Pilato observed the suspect carrying a bag full of tools on the store’s security cameras.

“He was fully masked,” Pilato said.

“He spent almost an hour in the distance looking at where our cameras were.”

At 3:59 a.m., the suspect attempted to

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n REGION Johnson vetoes housing study Hudson Mayor Kamal Johnson nixes a citywide housing study, calling it redundant and ill-advised PAGE A3

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Assemblyman Jake Ashby, R-107, speaking at a press conference at the state Capitol on Tuesday calling for Gov. Andrew Cuomo to restore more than $5.6 million in planned cuts to veterans services in the 2020-21 executive budget.

By Kate Lisa Columbia-Greene Media

ALBANY — Area lawmakers pleaded outside the state Assembly chambers Tuesday

for Gov. Andrew Cuomo to restore more than $5.6 million in planned cuts to veterans services as part of the 2020-21 executive budget.

About $5.68 million that funds veterans programs across the state are on the chopping block in next year’s spending plan, including

money to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Vietnam Veterans of America, American Legion, Helmet to Hardhats and several others. The affected

programs provide services that help vets transition into careers, build professional See VETERANS A8

GOP demands immediate repeal of Green Light

By Kate Lisa Johnson Newspaper Corporation

ALBANY — Senate Democrats rejected a measure Republicans brought to the floor Tuesday to repeal the state’s controversial Green Light law, saying the legislation that allows undocumented immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses is dangerous.

More than a dozen Republican senators stood in front of a large banner with a prominent photo of a bright, red stoplight and the capitalized words “NO DRIVER’S LICENSES FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS” during a press conference at the state Capitol late Tuesday morning.

“We didn’t believe in it then, and we don’t believe in it now,” said State Senate Minority Leader Sen. John

Flanagan, R-2. “New York is the only state that has adopted any kind of policy like this.”

New York is one of 13 states to adopt legislation that allows undocumented immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses. The state’s law was first approved last June, and took effect in mid-December.

Tuesday marked leading Republicans’ second press conference about Green Light this week. Flanagan, Assembly Minority Leader Will Barclay, R-120, and U.S. Rep. Tom Reed, R-23, led a conference about the law’s threat to public safety Monday afternoon immediately following a briefing with the Office of Homeland Security, federal security See GOP A8

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State Senate Minority Leader Sen. John Flanagan, R-2, called for a full repeal of the state’s controversial Green Light law with more than a dozen Republican senators during a press conference at the Capitol on Tuesday.

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If he had to do it again, hockey legend Mike Eruzione said, he would not put on the red “Keep America Great” hat.

He and his teammates from the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey squad hadn’t meant to make a grand political statement when they appeared onstage as President Donald Trump’s surprise guests at a campaign rally in Las Vegas on Friday. They happened to be in town to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the “Miracle on Ice” - their shocking upset of the Soviet Union en route to the gold medal, perhaps the most unifying moment in American sports history - when they got a call from Trump’s campaign inviting them to a private photo line with the president.

The next thing they knew, Eruzione said, Trump was introducing them at the rally and a campaign aide was handing them the caps as they took the stage. Four of the former players chose not to wear them - but 10 others did, prompting a huge backlash on social media from Trump’s critics, who view the distinctive red campaign hats as sharply politicized symbols of hate, racism and xenophobia.

“You going to light into me, too? We’re getting killed!” Eruzione said in an interview. Now serving as the director of special outreach at his alma mater, Boston University, Eruzione said he has received angry calls and messages from the school’s alumni. One said he purchased Eruzione’s new book about the 1980 team but no longer intends to read it. His Twitter mentions are a nightmare.

One message read: “In 1980, you beat the Russians, and yesterday the Russians beat you.”

“If we knew we were going to piss off this many people, we probably would not have put the hats on,” said Eruzione, 65, who served as the team’s captain and scored the gamewinning goal against the Soviet team. “That’s the big question here. A lot of the stuff I got was, ‘You guys said it’s not political, but when you put the hats on, you made it political.’ “ The “Miracle” team is the latest group to become entangled in the fierce cultural fight over the meaning of the Trump campaign’s most successful piece of merchandise, one that has raised tens of millions of dollars since 2016, according to Brad Parscale, Trump’s 2020 campaign manager. Last spring, Parscale said, the campaign surpassed 1 million sales of the $25 red “Make America Great Again” hats, featuring the 2016 campaign slogan in white lettering. That was before Parscale’s team unveiled a 2020 update with the new slogan,

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President Donald Trump gestures during a campaign rally at the Las Vegas Convention Center on Friday, Feb. 21, 2020, in Las Vegas.

“Keep America Great.”

Though Trump campaign officials this week declined to provide an updated tally of how many hats have been sold, their ubiquity was evident at the Las Vegas rally, where it appeared that a majority in the crowd of thousands were wearing them.

Beyond their fundraising prowess, the “MAGA” and “KAG” hats have served as potent marketing for the president’s specific brand of nationalistic, us-versus-them politics, through which he has risen to power by provoking and accentuating the nation’s deep divisions of race, ethnicity and gender.

Over the years, the hats have become suffused with the divisive rhetoric of a president whose campaign rally refrains of “Build a wall,” “Send her back” and “Lock her up” have stirred up his conservative base and outraged his liberal and moderate critics. The MAGA slogan has been impugned by critics as an implicit desire to return to an era in American history when the white male ruling class did not feel threatened by minorities and women.

“It’s hard to believe there are still people who don’t get that it means, ‘Keep America white,’ and ‘Keep America free of Mexican immigrants,’ “ said Matthew A. Sears, a professor of classics and ancient history at the University of New Brunswick in Canada who has written critically about the Trump hats.

“When people say it’s ‘just a hat,’ and you can’t judge a book by its cover and you can’t attribute racism to it - that’s how symbols work,” Sears added.

“It’s basically like a uniform: It’s a way to signal in shorthand something that stands for a whole realm of policies or positions.”

Regardless of the intent of those who wear the Trump hats, they have been at the center of a number of highly charged

incidents.

In November, Washington Nationals catcher Kurt Suzuki enthusiastically donned a MAGA hat during the team’s White House celebration with Trump after winning the World Series, prompting the president to physically embrace him. The scene provoked an outcry on social media from fans pledging to no longer support him, but Suzuki professed he was “just trying to have some fun” and not being political.

Two weeks ago, Trump tweeted a short clip from HBO’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” in which comedian Larry David de-escalates a road rage confrontation with a tough-looking biker by donning a red MAGA hat. “Tough guys for Trump!” the president tweeted, though his critics quickly noted that he appeared to miss the punchline. The episode features a recurring gag in which David employs the pro-Trump accessory as a “great people repellent” in liberal Los Angeles.

Trump’s supporters have accused his critics of overreacting to the hats and, in doing so, demonstrating their own political intolerance. Some Trump supporters have been physically assaulted for wearing MAGA hats, and some restaurant owners have declined to serve anyone wearing them.

In an email, Tim Murtagh, the Trump campaign’s communications director, said: “The 1980 Olympic hockey team reminds us of a time when as a nation we came together to defeat communism. It is a shame that today’s liberals are so intolerant of other political viewpoints that they threaten to cancel such great sports heroes from our history.”

But critics said the hats, which have been worn by farright groups and white supremacists, have made racial and ethnic minorities feel intimidated.

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Alexandre Bissonnette, a Canadian man who reportedly spent hours scouring Trump’s Twitter feed, was sentenced last year to 40 years in prison for killing six Muslims in a Quebec City mosque in 2017; a photograph of him wearing a MAGA hat was found on his computer.

Last summer, Jeffrey Omari, a visiting assistant professor at Gonzaga University School of Law, wrote an essay titled, “Seeing Red: A professor coexists with ‘MAGA’ in the classroom,” in which he explained his reaction to a student wearing a Trump hat.

“I was unsure whether the student was directing a hateful message toward me or if he merely lacked decorum and was oblivious to how his hat might be interpreted by his black law professor. I presumed it was the former,” wrote Omari, who is African American. “As the student sat there directly in front of me, his shiny red MAGA hat was like a siren spewing derogatory racial obscenities at me.”

Omari said that after his piece was published in the ABA Journal, a legal trade magazine, he received so many threatening calls and emails that he stopped answering his phone and engaged campus police.

“I never anticipated the vast amounts of hate mail and threats we received,” he said.

Eruzione also expressed surprise at the outrage provoked by his appearance with Trump. A member of the president’s golf club in Jupiter, Fla., Eruzione, who said he voted for Barack Obama in 2008 and Trump in 2016, once appeared on Trump’s former reality show “Celebrity Apprentice.”

After the team took photos with him backstage in Las Vegas, Trump invited them to join him onstage. “What are you going to say?” Eruzione said. “To us it was, ‘Sure.’ “ When he was handed the red hat, he said, “I just put it on.

I wasn’t thinking. Maybe this shows I’m naive, shows I’m stupid. I don’t know. I don’t follow politics. I know he’s had some issues and said a lot of things people don’t like.”

Eruzione ruefully compared the backlash against the team with the joy in 1980 when they were hailed as heroes amid Cold War tensions. During the interview, he called up his Twitter account and began reading some of the angry tweets over the phone: “Did they have to wear those hats? . . . A shame on all of you for wearing those divisive, racist hats. . . . 40 years ago, you brought joy, but tonight it’s deep sadness.”

“I told my wife, ‘People think we are a disgrace,’ “ he said.

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White police officers use force more than black cops, study says

By Matthew Boesler Bloomberg News (TNS)

White police officers are more likely to use force than their nonwhite counterparts, and especially in minority neighborhoods, according to a new study.

“White officers use force 60% more than black officers, and use gun force twice as often,” Mark Hoekstra, an economics professor at Texas A&M University, and CarlyWill Sloan, a doctoral candidate there, wrote in a paper published Monday by the National Bureau of Economic Research. “While white and black officers use gun force at

similar rates in white and racially-mixed neighborhoods, white officers are five times as likely to use gun force in predominantly black neighborhoods.”

Hoekstra and Sloan used data from over 2 million 911 calls in two U.S. cities, “exploiting asgood-as-random variation in the race of officers dispatched,” to devise their estimates. They found that “regardless of the racial composition of the neighborhood, white officers are more likely to use force than black officers,” which suggests the variations “were not due to differences in racial composition of neighborhoods or

non-random sorting of officers, but instead reflects racial differences in the underlying propensity to use force.”

The findings “provide rigorous evidence in support of the common civilian perception that race is an important determinant of police use of force,” Hoekstra and Sloan wrote. “In addition, this study demonstrates that race matters even in a time and context during which police departments generally, and white officers in particular, know they are under close scrutiny by the media and the public.”

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Mayor vetoes housing study, calling it ‘ill-advised’

By Abby Hoover Columbia-Greene Media

HUDSON — Mayor Kamal Johnson halted plans for a housing vacancy study of Hudson on Friday.

Johnson vetoed a resolution that would have authorized his administration to conduct a study to determine the city’s eligibility to opt into the Emergency Tenant Protection Act of 1974. “I am vetoing this resolution because it is highly unlikely that Hudson’s vacancy rate would qualify the city for participation in the Emergency Tenant Protection Act,� according to Johnson’s veto message.

Johnson cited a preliminary inventory of rent-regulated housing stock prepared for the Housing Task Force in 2018, which estimated 21% of Hudson’s residents are already living in “low-income, permanently affordable, rent regulated housing.�

Sixty-eight percent of the housing units in Hudson were occupied by renters, according to 2018 U.S. Census Bureau data. The Census Bureau also concluded that 21.3% of Hudson residents are living below the federal poverty line.

The Urban Action Agenda Community Profile defines families paying more than 30% of their gross income toward housing as “cost burdened,� and in Hudson, nearly 20% of renters use 50% or more of their income toward rent. “There is a growing perception in the City of Hudson that rental housing is becoming less affordable, especially for lower income residents,� according to the resolution. “Preserving the affordability of rental units and assuring that a sustainable increase in

rents that meets the needs of the entire city should be a goal of the City of Hudson.�

As of June 14, 2019, the geographical restrictions of the ETPA were removed, opening the door for municipalities to opt in, which would allow for establishment of a rental guidelines board to regulate rental rates in buildings with six or more units built before 1974.

If a city’s vacancy rate is under 5%, its rental market is considered stressed, and the city can declare a housing emergency.

Johnson said most buildings with six or more units built before 1974 or financed with federal or state subsidies are already rent-regulated or stabilized, such as Bliss Towers, Hudson Terraces Apartments, Providence Hall and

Crosswinds at Hudson.

The study would exclude those, and Johnson estimated the remaining vacancy rate would be far higher than the 5% maximum required to participate in the ETPA program.

The Common Council passed the resolution at the Feb. 18 meeting, with 1st Ward Alderwoman Jane Trombley and 5th Ward Aldermen Dominic Merante and Eileen Halloran dissenting. “This is not funding it, this is just asking the mayor to commission a survey,� Common Council President Thomas DePietro said at the meeting. “It would still have to come back to us or whatever agency to fund.�

Merante, who was a member of the mayor’s housing task force in 2017, asked the Council to appoint a housing

coordinator to assist in moving the city forward with housing solutions.

Halloran said she thought the committee did not have enough information to move forward with the resolution. “I felt like it was a rushed effort and I think we have to be very careful about how we spend money,� Halloran said. “There are other ways to get the information than paying a consultant to do a vacancy study for us. Some cities are big enough to need consultants for that, but we don’t.�

Trombley said Monday that it was a financial decision on her part, but she was not surprised with the statistics the mayor offered. “I didn’t feel that it was a good use of the city’s resources,� Trombley said, noting that the funds could be put to

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Second Ward Alderwoman Tiffany Garriga, who proposed the resolution, said she brought the process forward because she felt it was the right thing to do. She called for more action and less talking from her fellow council members. “Elected officials from the Democratic party control all levels of government in this city, and say they are for affordable housing and housing justice,� Garriga said at the meeting. “If you are so, then show it.�

Johnson said he could not justify authorizing the expenditure of $15,000 not in the 2020 city budget to document what they already know. “I believe there are other ways to address concerns over affordable housing in Hudson and I am willing to work with the Council on this issue but cannot support this ill-advised use of taxpayer money,� Johnson said.

Johnson and the Galvan Foundation last week announced an 80-unit mixedincome apartment building to be constructed at 100 Depot St. In 2019, Kingston became the first New York community to pursue rent stabilization.

The city set out to prove less than 5% of the specific rental types were vacant for the ETPA to apply. The cost of Kingston’s study was initially estimated at about $32,000, and the city did not qualify. “We should be very careful about every taxpayer dollar that we spend, and I really mean that,� Halloran said. “I think we should take every expenditure seriously.�

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Through expanded marketing efforts, making the Fair more affordable as well as increasing the amount and quality of free or low-cost entertainment, combined with the Governor’s investment of more than $120 million in revitalizing the Fairgrounds, attendance at the nation’s first and oldest state fair has grown by more than 46% in four years. “Admission prices at major fairs across the country continue to rise, which strains the ability of many families on ever-tighter budgets to enjoy a day together. We believe all New Yorkers should be able to come to their state’s fair to enjoy the many free and low-cost activities we provide while spending the money they do have to

make the most of their day,� said Troy Waffner, Fair Director.

To celebrate the lower prices, the Fair will hold a one-day sale of admission tickets for $2 each on Thursday, February 27. The sale will be online only, at the Fair’s official ticket seller, Etix.com. Purchasers may buy up to 8 tickets per person. With fees, each $2 ticket will cost $2.16. Up to 10,000 tickets will be available; the sale will end at 11:59 p.m. or when all tickets are sold.

Regular sales of $3 admission tickets will begin April 1. All sales will be only via Etix’ online channel or by phone to Etix customer support at 1-800-514-3849. Tickets ordered by phone incur a $4.25 delivery charge. The retail sales program has been discontinued. Tickets may be purchased online or by phone through the end of the Fair. Only those buying tickets from a ticket sales booth at an entrance gate will pay

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Will this be the last picture show?

Who remembers going to the movies in the great outdoors at theaters where the screens were the size of railroad cars, the sound was as puny as a squeak, the paper soda cups were mushy and the food, was, well, what do you want for a buck and a half?

Unfortunately, those are the memories flowing this week in Coxsackie with the news that the Hi-Way Drive-In is on the block.

OK, the sound system is better than it was in the 1960s, modern technology makes the images brighter and the hamburgers are beefier today, but the Hi-Way has been a movie lover’s mecca for almost 70 years. A Golden Age of local popular entertainment might be coming to an end.

The Hi-Way, on Route 9W in Coxsackie, brought

movies to a town that didn’t have a theater. The closest cinemas were 10 miles down the road in Catskill or, ironically, another drive-in, the Jericho, 19 miles north in Selkirk.

Like all drive-ins of that period, the Hi-Way had one screen. It was angled to face the 9W and slowmoving drivers could take in a few seconds of the show as they passed.

The fare was typical of the times: a mix of exploitation and cult films, action flicks, low-budget horror movies and important first-run features. The James Bond pictures were a particular favorite.

Moviegoing tastes shifted in the mid-1970s as the exploitation market cratered and was replaced by blockbusters that drew big crowds. As a result, the

Hi-Way added a second screen. The drive-in’s popularity took off and two more screens were added to meet the new demand for movie variety. Digital projectors enabled the drive-in to show movies in the 21st century. In a sense, the Hi-Way became the first outdoor multiplex theater in the region.

Owners Roger and Sharon Babcock are putting the Hi-Way up for sale because they are retiring. The Hi-Way will stay open until the theater is sold, Roger Babcock said Monday. We wish them luck in their new lives. We only hope that they sell this rare and historic theater to someone with a love for movies and the art of screening motion pictures.

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Coronavirus dangers loom.

Complacency is one of them.

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The coronavirus has shown the ability to transmit between people, cause serious illness and jump continents. These three conditions bring the world to the threshold of a pandemic. The word is scary, as Monday’s stock-market plunge reminded us, but most important is what to do about it. China might have blunted the virus with its draconian containment measures, but if containment fails, a host of problems will face every country, and few are ready.

The virus is highly infectious, and an explosion of cases over the weekend in South Korea, Italy and Iran suggests the window of opportunity for containment is “narrowing,” as the World Health Organization’s director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, put it Friday. If the fire starts to burn beyond the firebreak, then strategy shifts to mitigation: helping the sick cope, saving lives, and keeping economic and logistical lifelines open.

So far, the impact in the United States has been small, with 53 cases as of Monday, but the Centers

for Disease Control and Prevention says the potential public-health threat posed by the virus is “high” globally and to the United States. An early challenge if the outbreak produces hundreds or thousands of infections in the United States will be a sufficient supply of diagnostics to identify those who are ill; an early test kit by the CDC had flaws and hopefully will be improved and augmented with commercial test kits. China already has commercial test kits in wide use. A second challenge might be hospital capacity. A surge of thousands of patients would tax facilities everywhere, and plans must be laid for the flood. Also, health-care workers are at the front lines. In China, hundreds have been infected. It might be months or more before a vaccine or antiviral is available. To make sure workers are protected, health-care systems must prepare now with personal protective equipment masks and more.

Just as important is public response. The virus understandably triggers fear.

If the virus begins to spread widely, it will require such

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All of these risks multiply in countries without the existing health-care system and resources of the United States. One of the lessons of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2014-2015 was to pay more attention to weak states. They stand to be overwhelmed.

If the case data from China on Monday is correct, and the epidemic there is easing, then there is hope it will not become a global pandemic. But a moment of optimism should not distract from preparations for a less favorable outcome.

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WASHINGTON — Maybe $64 billion buys you a lot of chutzpah.

The chutzpah, first and foremost, to think that you’re entitled to purchase the presidency. To be clear, I’d be far happier with President Mike Bloomberg than President Bernie Sanders. But Bloomberg has unleashed my inner Sanders. Because the Vermont democratic socialist senator is right: the presidency shouldn’t be for sale. It’s legal, at least under the prevailing interpretation of the First Amendment, for Bloomberg to spend some of his fortune this way. That doesn’t make it good for Democrats or, more important, healthy for democracy.

This is a fundamental point that Democrats have been too willing to suppress, desperate as they are for someone, anyone, who seems capable of defeating President Trump.

In their hearts, they know it’s wrong, but their heads are screaming: Someone must save us from Trump. If it takes a billionaire, so be it.

This is a corrosive approach to politics. Yes, the wealthy effectively buy Senate seats - the polite term is self-financing.

Yes, the wealthy pump millions into politics on behalf of favored candidates and pet causes, and some of those sums are even more dangerous than Bloomberg’s spending because it comes in the form of undisclosed dark money. But the presidency is different; it matters more.

And there is a difference, too, between spending on behalf of others and purchasing for yourself.

Those who suppress their distaste of such checkbook politics have failed to price in both the short- and long-term risks of this practice. In the short term, there is a clear risk that supporters of other candidates would be so turned off by Bloomberg’s nomination that they would stay home or vote

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MARCUS for an alternative in November. In the longer term, the risk is far more grave: this billionaire may be tolerable, but the next one who wants to spend his way into office may be far less so. Having accepted the practice once it will be hard to stop it later.

Eye-popping is too mild an adjective to describe Bloomberg’s spending: more than $400 million through the end of January — more than Trump spent on his entire 2016 campaign. The New York Times usefully calculated the Bloomberg burn rate last month alone at $7 million a day, or “roughly $300,000 per hour, $5,000 per minute and $82 per second.” Bloomberg’s spending so far amounts to more than all his non-billionaire Democratic rivals have spent combined.

It turns out, though, that spending your way to the top is just the beginning of Bloombergian chutzpah.

There is the chutzpah of thinking that your boundless money not only exempts you from competing in the initial contests — it excuses you from much of the rest of the dreary slog of a presidential campaign. Why earn media when you can buy it? Bloomberg has granted relatively few interviews. He has not appeared on a single Sunday show, unlike all of his competitors.

Bloomberg did not deign to sit down with the editorial board of his own hometown newspaper, The New York Times, as it weighed its

presidential endorsement.

A Bloomberg speech comes complete with teleprompter and podium, but without questions from voters, though he chats with them afterward.

Monday will mark his first televised town hall.

Add another layer of chutzpah here: Bloomberg is the newest contender to the race — so new that he says he can’t possibly produce his tax returns for voters to review yet.

After all, he tells us, “the number of pages will probably be in the thousands of pages. I can’t go to TurboTax.” But while voters are supposed to be patient while Bloomberg gets his records in order, Bloomberg’s campaign is advising his rivals to get out of the race, pronto. Just Wednesday, before his stumbling performance in the Las Vegas debate, the campaign was circulating a make-wayfor-Mike memo calling on Biden, Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar to kindly step aside.

“The bottom line is that if Biden, Buttigieg, and Klobuchar remain in the race despite having no path to appreciably collecting delegates on Super Tuesday (and beyond),” the memo argued, “they will propel Sanders to a seemingly insurmountable delegate lead by siphoning votes away from [Bloomberg] with no upside for themselves.”

This from a candidate who had not participated in a single caucus or primary, had not won a single delegate, and had not, at that point, taken part in a single debate.

Running for president takes chutzpah, sure. My point is that it would behoove Bloomberg to dial his chutzpah down. If I may indulge in some of my own, he can’t afford not to.

Ruth Marcus’ email address is ruthmarcus@washpost.com. (c) 2020, Washington Post Writers Group

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Weinstein verdict was singular moment in #MeToo movement The Washington Post

Over a span of nearly three decades, Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein used his money and influence to sexually harass and criminally abuse dozens and dozens of women. He got away with it because a lot of people feared his power or wanted his favor and so just looked away.

On Monday, in a Manhattan courtroom, seven women and five men refused to look away.

They instead looked squarely at Weinstein’s conduct and found him guilty of two felony sex crimes. The jury’s verdict was a singular moment in the #MeToo movement, a statement that any man who sexually mistreats women in the workplace, no matter his wealth or prestige, can be held to account.

After a six-week trial and five days of deliberations, the jury convicted the former producer on two charges: raping aspiring actress Jessica Mann in a Manhattan hotel in 2013 and sexually assaulting former production assistant Mimi Haleyi

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in his New York apartment in 2006. The jury acquitted him of the most serious charges of predatory sexual assault, which carried a possible life sentence. The not-guilty findings on those charges, which would have rested on a pattern of conduct, don’t diminish the importance of the justice rendered in a case that was fraught with legal complexities and social and political overtones.

Prosecutors did not have forensic evidence or corroborating witnesses to any of the assaults. Instead, they relied on the harrowing testimony of a half-dozen women on how Weinstein used his influence and the promise of potential acting roles to coerce them into degrading sexual encounters.

Some of the cases were too old to prosecute or occurred outside New York’s jurisdiction. Weinstein’s defense team had insisted the encounters were consensual. The lawyers sought to discredit Mann and Haleyi by questioning why they continued to stay in touch with Weinstein after the sexual assaults, including even having

consensual sex with him.

It is notable, even cheering, that the jury believed Mann and Haleyi, rejecting the defense’s appeal to old myths about sexual assault victims questioning their choices and their behavior - to paint them as liars or manipulators. The jury seemed to understand that the trauma of sexual assault can result in different reactions and behaviors and that the psychological power Weinstein used to exploit his victims was as real and dangerous as any weapon. The Washington Post hopes the bravery of these women coming forward to tell their stories under terrifying circumstances - and the fact that they were believed - will empower others who have been victimized.

The Post hopes too that the sight of Weinstein, 67, being immediately handcuffed and taken to jail to await sentencing - and he faces up to 29 years - will help deter the next man who thinks he can use his power to assault and abuse women in the workplace.

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Paul J. Masten Paul J. Masten, 76, of Hudson Falls, NY and formerly of Columbiaville and Hudson, died Thursday, February 20, 2020 at Glens Falls Hospital.

Born November 24, 1943 in Brooklyn, NY, he was the son of the late Arthur and Alida (Hebberd) Masten. Paul was a US Army and US Naval Reserves Veteran. He owned the former Masten Construction in Hudson and was a life member and past president of the Stockport Fire Company, a member of the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Disabled American Veterans and the Zion Episcopal Church in Hudson Falls.

He is survived by his wife: Jeanne (Ferguson) Masten, 6 children, Vicki Munholand of Johnstown NY, Paul J. Masten Jr. (Sherri) of Saugerties NY, Hank Masten of Poughkeepsie NY, Roxanne House of Johnstown NY, Allen Masten (Tasha)

of Hillsdale NY and Michael Masten (Richelle) of Craryville NY. 3 stepchildren; Michelle St. Dennis of Hudson Falls NY, Bill St. Dennis and Leigh Harten (Charlie) both of Glen Falls NY and Marc Austin, a brother Frank Masten of Kinderhook NY, a sister Dorothy Jacobs of Schenectady and 35 grand and great grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his son Joseph Masten and siblings Claire Scheriff, Arthur and Raymond Masten.

A celebration of his life will be held Saturday, February 29, 2020, 1-3pm at the Stockport Firehouse. For those who wish, contributions may be made to the Stockport Fire Company, P.O. Box 158, Columbiaville NY 12050. Arrangements are with the Raymond E. Bond Funeral Home, Valatie.

Anna Marie “Nancy” Kleinmeier Anna Marie “Nancy” Klein- at Ranger and Grummans, also meier, loving wife and mother, she was a draftsman during and age 91 years, of Round Top, after the war for Castelli FurN.Y. passed away on February niture in Bohemia. She loved 24,2020, at Columbia Memo- spending time with her family. rial Hospital, Hudson, N.Y. She Relatives and friends are was born on May 10, 1928, in cordially invited to attend callLyndhurst, N.J. and is ing hours at The W. C. the daughter of the late Brady’s Sons, Inc. FuJames and Frances Reneral Home, 97 Mangina (O’Tool) Hall. Besion Street, Coxsackie, sides her parents, Anna N.Y., on Thursday, is predeceased by her February 27, 2020 from son James, her loving 4:00 P.M. – 7:00 P.M. husband George KleinMass of the Christian meier, Sr. who passed Burial will be celebrated away on October 18, on Friday, February 28, Kleinmeier 2019, and also her four 2020 at St. Mary’s R. brothers.

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John served in the US Navy Air Corp during the Korean War as an Aircraft Radar Specialist from 1951-1955. Following his honorable discharge from the

service, he began his career at Rotary Club and the Poughthe New York Telephone Com- keepsie Newyorkers. Once a pany as a linesman, advancing resident of Columbia County, he to a service specialist and into became a member of the Germanagement. He worked for mantown Community Choir.

New York Telephone for over John also served as a mem30 years, until his retirement ber and elder for the Reformed in1985. Following his retire- Church in Germantown. ment, he remained acIn addition to his tive, working as an inloving wife of 64 structor and salesman years, he is survived specializing in electronby his children, Gary ics. He also worked as (Lucy) Privratsky of a service technician at Poughkeepsie, NY, the New York CommuCarol (Michael) Wannications Company (NYyo of LaGrange, NY, COMCO) in Poughkeepand Janine Privratsky sie and at the Baptist of Poughkeepsie, NY; Privratsky Home in Rhinebeck. his grandchildren, John was also a memElizabeth (Patrick) ber of the Dutchess County Tedaldi of Scarsdale, NY, Eric Pistol Association during the Wanyo of LaGrange, NY, and 1960s. He served as mason at Natalie Pritchard of Poughthe Shekomeko Lodge in Pleas- keepsie, NY; a great grandchild ant Valley, as an active member Julia Caroline Tedaldi; his step and master in 1979. John was sister Elizabeth Barabas of Lawalso a member of the New Paltz renceville, GA, along with many

Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s ousted ‘pharoah’ leader, dies at 91

By Tarek El-Tablawy, Alaa Shahine (c) 2020, Bloomberg

Hosni Mubarak, who became Egypt’s longest-serving ruler in more than 150 years before being forced from office by a popular uprising, has died. He was 91.

Mubarak’s passing was announced Tuesday by state media, with the presidency later describing him as a hero of the nation’s 1973 war against Israel.

No cause of death was given, although his family said in January he’d undergone surgery and was in intensive care in the hospital.

Dubbed the “pharaoh” by his detractors, Mubarak had ruled for 30 years and was widely accepted to be preparing his younger son Gamal as successor when the Arab Spring surged into Cairo in January 2011. After 18 days of mass protests, he was gone, his image of an all-powerful ruler shredded.

Mubarak attended his trial for the killing of more than 850 protesters by security forces in the final days of his regime in a hospital bed and faced other serious charges, but was only found guilty of fraud and avoided serving additional time in jail. In photographs, a man famously known for jet-black dyed hair and swagger was seen seated, tired and graying.

The statement by the presidency, and another from the armed forces, were a stark contrast to the response of President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi’s administration to the death of Mubarak’s Islamist successor, Mohamed Mursi, last year.

Mohammed Hosni Said Mubarak was born on May 4, 1928, in Kafr El Meselha in the Nile Delta. Opting for a military career when Egypt was still a monarchy, he entered the Air Force Academy in 1950. Four years later, King Farouk was overthrown in a coup led by Gamal Abdel Nasser.

In 1964, Mubarak was appointed head of the Egyptian military delegation to the Soviet Union, the sole supplier of

weapons to Nasser’s regime.

From 1967 to 1972, he served as air force chief of staff, became deputy minister for military affairs and was promoted to air marshal after the October 1973 Arab-Israel war.

After Nasser’s death, Egypt was led by President Anwar Sadat, who appointed Mubarak as vice president in April 1975, effectively designating him as heir apparent. That succession came earlier than expected, with Sadat gunned down by Muslim fundamentalists on Oct. 6, 1981, during an annual parade marking the 1973 war anniversary. Sadat was killed while Mubarak, seated next to him, escaped with a hand wound.

Mubarak cracked down on violent groups and went on to govern in a low-key, stolid style that contrasted with the glitter of the Sadat years.

“Having Sadat as president was like being married to Miss World,” Layla Takla, an opposition member of parliament, said at the time. “It was great for a while, but then you needed someone to do the cooking and

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of touch with the lives of most Egyptians — embracing the elite while the poor were left to grapple with an inflation rate that reached more than 20% in 2008.

His supporters blamed explosive population growth and the economic mismanagement of past administrations for the ills of a nation that grew to 85 million people by the time of Mubarak’s ouster.

Egypt’s per-capita gross domestic product in 2009 was $2,160, almost identical to $2,155 a decade earlier, according to International Monetary Fund data.

Mubarak never backtracked on the policy of diplomatic rapprochement with Israel, though his only visit to the Jewish state was for the funeral of assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995. He managed to restore links with fellow Arab rulers who were enraged by Sadat’s decision to sign a peace treaty with Israel.

Mubarak is survived by his wife, Suzanne Thabet, and sons Gamal and Alaa.

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I’ll never get over that awful feeling, Though time does have a way of healing.

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look after the children.”

While Mubarak provided some room for dissent — within specific red lines that included no criticism of his family — he failed to follow through on pledges to open the country’s political system. Suppression of a wide array of perceived rivals, under an emergency law promulgated in 1981, marked his years in power and helped fuel the discontent that led to his downfall.

In the late 1980s, the country was on the verge of bankruptcy when it stopped paying its foreign debts. It was only when Mubarak agreed to send forces as part of the U.S.-led coalition to expel Iraqi troops from Kuwait in 1990 that creditors agreed to write off debts.

In 2004, Mubarak appointed a government that revived the sale of state assets. By 2009, it attracted more than $40 billion of foreign direct investment in industries such as oil and gas, and telecommunications. Emirates Telecom Corp. and Italian bank Intesa Sanpaolo SpA were drawn to the country.

But critics saw him as out

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nieces and nephews. In addition to his parents, he was predeceased by his sister, Kristina Moore.

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Windham-Ashland-Jewett Middle/High School second quarter honor roll WINDHAM — WindhamAshland-Jewett announces the second quarter honor roll for the 2019-2020 school year.

PRINCIPAL’S LIST Priya Beckmann, Serena Beckmann, Sophia Dyjak, Ruby Glennon, Monica Glennon, Kimberly Gonzalez, Kameron Greene, Abigail Hammel, Erik Langdon-Potts, Brianna Leishear, Caleb Lendo, Selina Li, Alex Li, Luke Maeurer, Alexis Moss, Charlie Mulholland, Sadie Otten, Rory Pranchak, Liliana Pranzo, Gwaylen Sahner-Stiles, Victoria Shuster.

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Bonnie Caro of the Fortnightly Club of Catskill presents a donation check to Cindy Shanley of the Greene County Youth Fair committee. Also assisting are Matthew, Sloane, Lyndon and Lieve Story and Easton McCarthy. The Greene County Youth Fair will run from July 23 through 26 at the Angelo Canna Park in Cairo and is organized by the Greene County Agricultural Society. The fair celebrates the accomplishments of local youth who will keep the agricultural legacy alive for years to come and introduces agriculture to children from across the area.

HIGH HONOR ROLL

Adrian Aristy, Haley Benson, Paige Brady, Cassandra Coe, Luke Desgaches, Noah Desgaches, Isabella Domena, Kyle Donahue, Emma Drum, Jez Gofmanas, Christian Greene, Nicholas Holmok, Leon Honge, Paris Interdonato-Carreras, Adam Ismail, Rhianna Johnston, Sophia Lane, Joseph Lane, Tyler Lashua, Jazmin Lopez, Jason Maeurer, Gus Mason, Faith Montie, Grace Moran, Rocco Morelli, Amanda Nilsen, Nicole Nilsen, Isabel Pedrick, Olivia Pedrick, Brooke Pennington, Gabrielle Pidgeon, Zeta Pitti, Peter Pranzo,

Hailey Quezada, Stephanie Sandleitner, Devin Schlosser, Alexis Schwarz, Adam Trzepaczka, Ariel Valencia. Alan Valencia.

HONOR ROLL Connor Aplin, Aaron Cohen, Nevaeh Dippold, Christopher Dunham, Emily Eilenberger, Casey Garraghan, John Garzone, Breana Hoyt, Skye Larson, Gabriel Maeurer, Hannah Mattice, Shayna Metzger, Chirstopher Ohl, EJ Pitti, Kayla Rusk, Mathew Simmons, Ben Skilling, Slade Tynan, Brian VanValin, Faith Viola, Chris Viola.

BOB AND DICKIE YAGER CELEBRATE 80 YEARS

Zadock Pratt Museum brunch fundraiser to be held March 29 TANNERSVILLE — The Zadock Pratt Museum’s 2020 brunch fundraiser will be held noon-2 p.m. March 29 at the Washington Irving Inn, 6629 Route 23A, Tannersville.

Looking for something elegant and fun to celebrate? Come to the Zadock Pratt Museum 2020 Springtime Fundraising Brunch Event, spend a leisurely afternoon with old and new friends, enjoy delicious food and fun activities while supporting our local history.

The Zadock Pratt Museum is kicking off its 61st Season with a springtime fundraiser in support of this year’s renovation plans, groundbreaking exhibition dedicated to 19th century itinerant portrait painter Amos Hamlin, and the launch of the Pratt Rock Park restoration project.

The fundraiser is hosted in a charming 19th century setting at the historic Washington

Irving Inn, a gracious and otherworldly jewel of an experience in the Catskill Mountains. Signature homemade food created and served up by hostess and innkeeper Stephanie Jozic, raffle baskets, and Chinese auction will make this an unforgettable experience.

The menu includes scrumptious homemade breakfast and lunch buffet choices: Poached Eggs ~ Washington Irving Inn’s Specialty Home Fries ~ Bacon ~ Sausage ~ French Toast served up with Catskill Mountain Maple Syrup ~ Vegetable Quiche ~ Washington Irving Inn’s Specialty Breakfast Coffee Cake (ingredients include apples, carrots, coconut, buttermilk and whole wheat flour) ~ Washington Irving Inn’s Homemade Scones & Croissants (yes, homemade croissants) ~ Fruit Assortment ~ Coffee ~ Tea ~ Hot Chocolate

~ and of course, Ms. Jozic’s Famous Plum Jam, made annually from Storey’s local plum harvest, and preserved each year exclusively for guests of the Washington Irving Inn. This is your chance to step inside the picturesque 19th century world of the Catskill Mountains, while supporting the history of our region through the Pratt Museum.

For those already familiar with this experience no further enticement is necessary. For those yet to discover it, you’re in for a special treat. Tickets are $40 per person. Reservations must be made in advance due to limited seating. Checks may be made payable to Pratt Museum, and mailed to PO Box 333, Prattsville, NY 12468.

For information, contact Suzanne Walsh at 518-937-6120 or suzanwal5@aol.com or the Museum at 518-299-3395 or prattmuseum@hotmail.com.

Catskill High School announces second quarter honor roll CATSKILL — Catskill High School announces the students named to the honor roll for the second quarter of the 2019-2020 school year.

GRADE 12 High Honor: Iain Alexander, Audra Bogardus-Street, Hunter Brandow, Kiora Christiana, Zachary Ciancanelli, Angelina Colon, Krystia Cook, Romeo Daparma, Lavon Fernandez, Emily Ferrante, Regina Johnson, Emily Kirch, Victoria Legg-Upshur, Erika Lopez, Zachary Lozensky, Jose Mendez, Maci Mosher, Gabriela Munoz, Brianna Newkirk, Ariana Nieves, Alexis Santoro, Storm Slominski, Emma Tuey, Damien Valvo.

Honor: Iram Asif, Lorenzo Bordina, Katie Bulich, Chirstopher Cardinale, Jesse Davies, Logan Denniston, Emily Hendricks, Isabella Kenneally, Ryan LaBarre, Kelsey Lackie, Emanuel McEachern, Seamus Moore, Aizlyn O’Connell, Kendall Pedersen, Maryann Ramos, Shelby Rowell, Brianna Santoro, Samantha Siri, Tameka Taranto.

Merit Roll: Elisha Clause, Christopher Cole, Osvaldo Cruz-Jimenez, Elijah Dedrick, Aricka Graff, Angelo Mancini, Alexis McMullin, Frederick Scism, Dereck Street, Andre White.

GRADE 11 High Honor: Zane Beers, McKenzie Breunig, Matthew Caro, Deandra Catterson,

Brandon Constantine, Serena Craigie-Carter, Alexey Guenthner, Ava Higgins, Paul Jaen, Jonathan Kent, Jacob Mitchell, Sharona Orr, Matthew Rivenburgh, Ashley Shook, Caitlin White.

Honor: Kristina Caraballo, Kimberly Fore, Mya Harvey, Tristan Haskin, Gavin Ingrassia, Leviticus Johnson, Justin Lafleur, Brandon Liardo, Salvatore Mancini, Maximus Marchesani, Perry McArthur Jr., Sydney Moe, Kaitlyn Nearey, Jessica Reagan, Hailey Rowell, Zaida Snyder, Zachary Todriff.

Merit Roll: Stephen Baran, Destiny Durant, Kevin Graham, Mackenzie Krom, Austin Mason, Jillian Murray, Rayden O’Neil-Bailey, Isabella Seeley, Ashley Shook, Katherine Timothy.

GRADE 10 High Honor: Kaelyn Bulich, Jacob Devlin, Elizabeth Finnegan, Nicholas Fusco, Mary Johnson, Hannah Konsul, Daniel Leibowitz, Cassius McCoy, Nathan Riordon, Alexandra Rose, Llanya Schanz Adrianna Sherman, Daniel Smith, Emma Weber.

Honor: Jaden Dedrick, Tyler Duong, Michael Jubie, Samantha Malkowski, Willow Morehead, Tyla Patterson, Ryan Prasenski, Kiana Salierno, Justin Uvino.

Merit Roll: Tristan Arp, Adam Carlson, Andrew Daisernia, Marco Dodig, Richard

Edward, Sianna Gatto, Isaiah Hayden, Josiah Hill, Lucas Konsul, Auna MuscarellaBland, Brandon Phillips, Brianna Stevens, Alivia Westbrooke, Ashley Widener.

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A celebration for the 80th birthday of Bob and Dickie Yager was held Feb. 22 at Rip Van Winkle Country Club. The twins were born in 1940 during a snow storm in Tannersville. Due to the storm their dad delivered the twins before the doctor from Palenville could arrive. Bob Yager is a resident of Haines Falls and Dick Yager lives in Tannersville (both in Town of Hunter).

GRADE 9 High Honor: Emma Brown, Aryanna Burbas, Xiao Chen, Karsen Chiminelli, Ian Ciancanelli, Abigail Cornelison, Christian Davies, Maya Dixit, Charlotte DuBois, Wisqueili Esteviz Ramirez, Harleigh Frascello, Devin Guerrieri, Madison Hallam, Shantalya Hansen, Mason Hendricks, Gerson Hernandez Navarro, Justin Hill, Adam Konsul, Christopher Konsul, Joseph Konsul, Nicholas Konsul, William Konsul, Lauren Liberti, Olivia Mentessi, Kaden Minkalis, Jarin Navarro, Kaylee Nearey, Liliana Seeley, Angelina Shanley, Aaliya Shook, Samantha VanDyke, Maya Weaver.

Honor: Cadence Barreto, Janay Brantley, Guiliana Cary, Cullen Fulling, Hailey Gersbeck, Ella Gille, Mia Glover, Isis Gonzalez, Jenna Graham, Mya Hernandez, Maria LaRosa, Raffale Mancini, Emonnie McGriff, Edward Rogers, John Shook, Melody Stupplebeen, Owen Valentino, Carter Van Etten.

Merit Roll: Cassidy Bridgett, Zachary Dugan, Daniel Forbes, Cristian Guerra, Charlotte LaRocque, Katelynne Reilly, Isabella Shanley, Grace Sullivan, Jack VanGorden.

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Will selling a large asset affect wife’s Social Security?

Dear Rusty: If I have reached full retirement age (FRA) and wish to sell a $500,000 asset, will it affect my wife’s Social Security if we file jointly? I have heard that it will affect my Medicare (the amount withheld each month), but she still has three more years before she can receive benefits. Is it better to liquidate assets before she reaches FRA if we will be penalized? Would her Medicare be affected as well as mine?

Signed: Planning Ahead Dear Planning: Only earnings from working can affect Social Security (SS) benefits, so passive income from selling a large asset won’t affect your wife’s future Social

SOCIAL SECURITY MATTERS

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GLOOR Security benefits (nor yours).

However, if your “combined income” from all sources (your Adjusted Gross Income, plus any other non-taxable income, plus 50% of your SS benefits) exceeds certain levels, your Medicare premium will be subject to the Income

Related Medicare Adjustment Amount (IRMAA) rule, which will add a supplemental amount to your base Medicare Part B premium. If your combined income (including that sold asset) for the 2020 tax year is between $326,000 and $750,000, then your Medicare premium for 2022 will be at least $462.70 (I say “at least” because the Medicare Part B premium can increase each year).

The IRMAA premium increases on a sliding scale starting at $174,001 of combined income for a married couple filing jointly ($87,001 for an individual). If you liquidate that large asset this year, it will be reported on your 2020 income

Senior Briefs GREENVILLE GOLDEN YEARS CLUB

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To send information to be included in Senior Briefs, email to editorial@thedailymail. net; mail to The Daily Mail, Atten: Senior Briefs, One Hudson City Centre, Suite 202, Hudson, NY 12534; fax to 518828-3870. For information and questions, please call 518828-1616 ext. 2490. We would like to have information at least two weeks in advance.

GREENVILLE — The Greenville Golden Club meet at 1:30 p.m. the first Wednesday of the month at the American Legion Hall, 54 Maple Ave., Greenville. The next meeting of the Greenville Golden Years Club will be March 4. Roberta Spring, Reggie Cozzocrea and Evelyn Piston will be the March refreshment committee.

ATHENS SENIOR CITIZENS

MOUNTAIN TOP GOLDEN AGERS

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

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

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

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

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

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

SENIOR RESOURCE DAY CATSKILL — Senior Corps MLK Community Resource Day, sponsored by Greene County Department for Human Services RSVP, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. March 26 at the Robert C. Antonelli Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill. Learn how to save money on Medicare, area vendors, information, giveaways and more.

Admission is free. For information, call Ruth Jones Pforte at 518-719-3555.

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SUPPORT GROUPS

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

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

of a loved one is a common source of grief other reasons include the loss of a job, the death of a beloved pet, experiencing a major health challenge such as cancer and the ending of a relationship.

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

Those who are experiencing grief early on can connect with others in the group who have successfully managed their grief and are further along on their road to feeling happy once again. More information can be found at the face book page at Coxsackie Grief Support Group and also by contacting Jeffrey Haas at 518-478-5414 or jhaasrph@ aol.com.

CATSKILL — The Alzheimer’s Association holds support group meetings at 3 p.m. the first Wednesday of the month at The Pines, Jefferson Heights, Catskill.

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

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

tax return, which will be filed in 2021. That will mean that your Medicare premium for 2022 will be affected by IRMAA, and so will your wife’s if she has enrolled in Medicare at age 65 in 2021 (which she need not do if she has other “creditable” health care coverage through an employer).

So, should you liquidate that large asset before your wife reaches her SS full retirement age? It doesn’t matter for Social Security purposes because that passive income will not affect your wife’s SS benefit. But if your wife enrolls in Medicare at age 65, her Medicare Part B premium, as well as yours, will be subject to IRMAA and, thus, will be

considerably higher than the standard premium of $144.60 (the amount for 2020).

Note that if your combined income for the following year is low enough to reduce your IRMAA premium, the Medicare premium will revert back to the lower level. Medicare typically uses income data from 2 years ago to determine current year premium, so they wouldn’t normally change your IRMAA premium back until they receive your income data for the previous year from the IRS. It is possible for you to contact Social Security earlier and provide them with proof that your income is now lower than reported in a previous year (causing the higher

IRMAA premium) and they will adjust your Medicare premium sooner than they otherwise might.

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

Adult Learning Program announces March programming HUDSON — The Adult Learning Institute has announced its programs for March 2020. All programs are held at Columbia-Greene Community College, 4400 Route 23, Hudson. For information and to register, call or email the ALI office at 518- 828-4181 ext. 3431; ali@ sunycgcc.edu.

Open Pinochle Group 1:30-4 p.m. March 2 and March 16 in the Faculty/Staff Lounge with Madeline Dickerson. Whether you’re a novice, an expert or fall somewhere in between, the Open Pinochle Group welcomes you. This group, which meets the first and third Mondays, provides an opportunity to learn, share and meet new people with a similar interest.

Bridge Group with Bridge Lessons 1-4 p.m. March 3, March 10, March 17, March 24 and March 31 in the Faculty/Staff Lounge with Nancy Feller. The bridge group generally meets every week and is open to all members of ALI. If you are interested in learning to play or refresh skills, a class is offered. Please call Barbara in the ALI Office to register for a beginner or refresher class.

Mahjongg 1:30-4 p.m.

March 4, March 11 and March 25 in the Faculty/ Staff Lounge with Barbara Troy. Mahjongg is a rummylike game played with tiles rather than cards, and the group meets three Wednesdays each month. If you are an experienced player, just call the office and let Barbara know you will be attending.

If you are interested in learning to play Mahjongg, please contact the ALI Office and your name will be placed on the list for the next beginner class.

Booking still available for The Adult Learning Institute and Collette Tours present “Shades of Ireland” Trip Oct. 3 through Oct. 12. Ten days, 13 meals, all transportation included. Accommodations and transportation throughout Ireland. https://event. on24.com/wcc/r/2052486/ B5D1771495808BF68A5B A2D7D19DE115?partnerr ef=984903. Highlights include Dublin Irish Evening, tours of Kilkenny, Waterford, Blarney Castle, Killarney, Ring of Kerry, Farm Visit, Jaunting Car Ride, Limerick, Cliffs of Moher, Galway, Castle Stay and more. The trip is open to all. Reservations/ deposits of $500 are due by March 27. Reservations are made on first come, first serve basis. There are 25 spots available. Final payments are due by Aug. 4. The rate is locked in until April 4. Deposits are refundable up until April 3. If interested or have questions, contact the Adult Learning Institute Office.

Listen and Learn Program, open to the public, 10:30 a.m.-noon March 12 in the Faculty/Staff Lounge.

“Creating a Cutting Garden” with Maureen Peterson. Having fantasies of colorful bouquets in every room of your house? You can create a lowmaintenance garden that will provide you with beautiful blooms from spring to first

frost. Come learn about some of the most popular annuals and perennials to grow. You will learn about growing requirements and resources.

Peterson is a master gardener volunteer with Cornell Cooperative Extension. She has years of experience growing flowers, vegetables and crafting dried flower wreaths. She also has a special interest in organic gardening and horticulture therapy.

Listen and Learn Program, open to the public, 10:30 a.m.-noon March 26 in the Faculty/Staff Lounge.

“Just Do It! A Seminar for Financial Survival” with Paul Stracke, CMFC. This presentation will focus on how we must live to continue making the correct decisions for ourselves and our families.

Knowing the rules can help you avoid tragic consequences — like needlessly losing dollars to taxes, outliving your retirement income or inadvertently making Uncle Sam your primary beneficiary. Stracke is a teacher, businessman, father and spouse.

He has taught at ColumbiaGreene Community College for 20 years, focusing on social security, IRA’s, retirement, and annuities.

Just a reminder, ALI is offering a dues incentive for any new member joining the organization. New members would pay $45 for annual dues and their membership would remain active until Aug. 31, 2021 (an extra six months for $5). Contact the Adult Learning Institute Office for information.

Senior Menu CATSKILL — The following is the weekly nutrition menu offered by the Greene County Department of Human Services’ Senior Nutrition Program. Served daily with each meal are bread or alternative with Promise Spread; low fat milk, coffee or tea.

All persons 60 and older and their spouses are invited.

The suggested donation for each meal is $4.

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

Rivertown Senior Center, 39 Second St., Athens;

518-945-2700.

Acra Community Center, Old Route 23B, Cairo; 518622-9898.

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

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

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

FEB. 26 THROUGH MARCH 4 WEDNESDAY: Linguini with white clam sauce, broccoli, tropical mixed fruit.

THURSDAY: Salisbury steak with gravy, baked potato with sour cream, winter squash, vanilla pudding with fresh strawberries and whipped cream.

FRIDAY: Vegetable lasagna with white sauce, fresh salad, Italian mixed vegetables, fresh fruit.

MONDAY: Chicken divan, rice, garlic carrots, peaches.

TUESDAY: Pork chop with gravy, applesauce, noodles, braised cabbage, peanut butter cookie.

WEDNESDAY: Roast turkey with gravy, mashed potatoes, broccoli, winter squash, blueberry pie.

MARCH 4 THROUGH MARCH 11 WEDNESDAY: Roast turkey with gravy, mashed potatoes, broccoli, winter squash, blueberry pie.

THURSDAY: Sausage and peppers, pasta, broccoli, chocolate mousse.

FRIDAY: Swidd vegetable

frittata, Italian green beans, roasted red potatoes, tomato juice, fresh fruit.

MONDAY: Chicken parmesan, pasta, broccoli, peaches.

TUESDAY: Swedish meatballs, noodles, red cabbage, pears.

WEDNESDAY: Roast pork with gravy, brussels sprouts, sweet potato, apple crisp.

MARCH 11 THROUGH MARCH 18 WEDNESDAY: Roast pork with gravy, brussels sprouts, sweet potato, apple crisp.

THURSDAY: Beef stew, California mixed vegetables, lemon pudding.

FRIDAY: Battered fish, Harvard beets, cole slaw, baked potato, fresh fruit.

MONDAY: Baked chicken with gravy, mashed potatoes,

spinach, peaches.

TUESDAY: Corned beef, cabbage, boiled potatoes, carrots, lime whip.

WEDNESDAY: Sloppy Joes, green beans, cauliflower, pears.

MARCH 18 THROUGH MARCH 25 WEDNESDAY: Sloppy Joes, green beans, cauliflower, pears.

THURSDAY: Turkey salad on greens, potato salad, marinated carrots, oatmeal cookies.

FRIDAY: Cheese ravioli, Italian mixed vegetables, fresh salad, fresh fruit.

MONDAY: Sweet and sour pork, brown rice, broccoli, pineapple chunks.

TUESDAY: Chili con carne, wax beans, tapioca pudding.

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WEDNESDAY: Meatloaf, mashed potatoes, parisian mixed vegetables, birthday cupcake.

MARCH 25 THROUGH MARCH 31 WEDNESDAY: Meatloaf, mashed potatoes, parisian mixed vegetables, birthday cupcake.

THURSDAY: Chicken cacciatore with linguine, fresh salad, spinach, fresh fruit.

FRIDAY: Macaroni and cheese, three bean salad, stewed tomatoes, orange fruited gelatin.

MONDAY: Chicken chow mein, brown rice, Oriental vegetables, pineapple chunks and mandarin oranges.

TUESDAY: Cook’s choice, cauliflower, fruit cocktail.

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break through the front door, bashing the glass with a crowbar nine times, Pilato said.

“The ballistic foam slowed him down,” Pilato said. “He realized he was running out of time.”

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into careers, build professional skills, legal assistance and support, apply for benefits, veterans in the LGBTQ community and more.

Columbia County representatives Assemblyman Jake Ashby, R-107, and state Sen. Daphne Jordan, R-43, led a Voices for Veterans press conference at the state Capitol on Tuesday afternoon to pressure officials to reverse the proposed cuts, which would impact thousands of servicemen and women.

“Our veterans and their families have sacrificed so much to serve and protect our great nation,” said Ashby, who serves as the ranking Republican member on the Assembly’s Committee on Veterans’ Affairs. “Each year, the governor tries to chip away at funding for veterans — funding that provides mental health services and

Deputies from the sheriff’s office were on the scene within three minutes, Pilato said.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives also responded, Pilato said.

“Robbing a gun shop is serious at a federal level,” Pilato said. “We got lucky.”

The shop is still waiting for a new door to be installed and is making do with plywood in

critical help with the transition to civilian life. We won’t let him get away with it. New York must restore its support and commitment to veterans now.”

The Joseph P. Dwyer Veteran Peer-to-Peer Program, which mentors veterans with trained peers who have served in combat, is facing the largest proposed cut at $4.04 million. Columbia County’s program will lose $100,000 and Jefferson County stands to lose $185,000 under the proposed slash, according to the Assembly Minority Conference.

Veterans shouldn’t have to fight to save programs in the state’s budget each year, Jordan said.

“They’ve already done battle for us,” the senator said. “There’s a saying: ‘We don’t know them all, but we owe them all’... Oftentimes, veterans don’t want to speak to just anybody. They want to speak with someone who understands. It’s really the counseling with a peer that

the meantime, Pilato said, but other than that it is business as usual.

A woman who answered the phone at Zero Tolerance Mfg. in Ghent declined to comment on the burglary.

The store was closed Feb. 18 to conduct inventory, according to its Facebook.

The Columbia County Sheriff’s Office did not respond to requests for

comment.

In addition to the gun shops, another break-in occurred in the Coxsackie area last week. The Earlton Hill Country Store was robbed at 3 a.m. on Feb. 19, state police said.

Around 80 cartons of cigarettes were stolen, according to the store’s Facebook page.

“I would like to thank everyone for their continued

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Columbia County Director of Veterans Services Gary Flaherty spoke at the state Capitol on Tuesday urging Gov. Andrew Cuomo to restore more than $5.6 million in planned cuts to veterans services in the 2020-21 executive budget.

helps so much.”

Assemblywoman Didi Barrett, D-106, recently sent a letter to legislative leaders with other Assembly members requesting the state double its Dwyer funding to $8 million.

The planned cuts to veterans services cuts in Cuomo’s

budget are disappointing, Barrett said.

“There is an adage in the world of public policy that ‘budgets are moral documents’ — it means that what we choose to spend our money on is an expression of our values and priorities,” said Barrett, who chairs the

support despite the crazy ups and downs that we have encountered this winter,” CEO Mark Anderson said in a statement. “Our crazy schedule, due to lack of employees, theft and most recently, robbery, has been quite the challenge for my daughter and others that work here...These events may slow us down a bit, but we are much stronger than those that bring them

upon us.”

State police are investigating the incident, Public Information Officer Steven Nevel said Tuesday.

State police responded at 8 a.m. Feb. 19 for an apparent burglary, Nevel said.

“The window of the main door was broken out and items were taken from the store,” Nevel said.

Assembly’s Veterans’ Affairs Committee. “...[The] Dwyer funding supports essential peer-to-peer contact for veterans, helping them reintegrate into the community and connecting them to other key services including mental health, education, housing and employment...

Securing restoration and expansion of these critical funding streams is my No. 1 priority during the remainder of the budget process.”

Columbia County Director of Veterans Services Gary Flaherty, a U.S. Army command sergeant major and Vietnam veteran, spoke at the conference surrounded by a group of fellow veterans.

“This should be a program that we don’t have to ask for every year,” Flaherty, 75, said, adding the peer program has been instrumental in serving Twin County veterans.

Columbia County Veterans Services offers retreats and partners with facilities like Philmont horse ranch High & Mighty Therapeutic

Riding and Driving Center as part of the area’s Joseph P. Dwyer Veteran Peer-to-Peer Program, Flaherty said.

Soon, local veterans will also have the PFC Dwyer Day Room — a physical space veterans can gather, socialize, play pool, use the computer, participate in training or other events. Flaherty said program representatives have worked with Ashby, Jordan and the county to transform a former Girl Scouts camp between Chatham and Valatie into the program’s new brick-and-mortar location, which is set to open by the end of next month.

“It worked for me more than 15 years of counseling or medication for PTSD,” Flaherty said of peer mentoring. “My peers ... and I are very careful for who we select as a mentor. All of them have military experiences that are critical when you meet up with a new veteran.

“Veterans take care of me.

It’s my turn to take care of them.”

Red Cross aids Freehold family after devastating fire

By Nora Mishanec Columbia-Greene Media

FREEHOLD — Five adults and four children are receiving emergency aid from the American Red Cross after a fire destroyed their home in Freehold on Saturday afternoon.

The home is owned by Sheryl and George Henderson, according to Greene County property records.

The Henderson family, which operated Smiley’s Farm and Industrial Equipment on County Route 67, was evacuated by first-responders before flames engulfed the structure, Greenville Fire Chief Wade Davis said Monday leading to a total loss of their house, said Greenville Fire Chief Wade Davis on Monday.

“The fire was ruled accidental at the scene,” Davis said.

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officers and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

Critics of the state’s Driver’s License Access and Privacy Act, nicknamed the Green Light law, have slammed a provision that prevents the Department of Homeland Security and other border protection agencies from accessing the state’s Department of Motor Vehicles records. Earlier this month, DHS suspended New York residents from applying for or renew their enrollment in certain Trusted Traveler Programs like Global Entry because of the law’s block on sharing DMV records.

Federal representatives warned state lawmakers during Monday’s briefing that Green Light has jeopardized the agencies’ abilities to protect the nation and New York, Flanagan said.

“The only thing that gets a Green Light under this bill is lawlessness,” the Senate

Greene County Undersheriff Adam Brainard said the fire was caused by an outdoor wood stove and is not considered suspicious.

He also said the Smiley’s fire is not believed to be connected to the brush fire on Deyo Road in Cairo Saturday afternoon.

DEC confirmed that spill response personnel and state Department of Environmental Conservation police officers were requested by Greene County to contain an oil spill caused by the fire.

Two 275-gallon-capacity aboveground tanks leaked fuel oil that was used to heat the home.

“The tanks were secured after the fire and are not currently leaking any additional fuel oil,” a DEC spokesman said.

DEC is coordinating with the property owner and will oversee a comprehensive cleanup of the

site, the spokesman said.

Warm, dry air last weekend created the ideal conditions for brush fires, said National Weather Service meteorologist Dan Thompson in Albany.

“Snowfall on the ground is below normal in that part of New York, Thompson said. “Typically we still have snow on the ground at this time of year.

“Peak brush fire season is end of March to May, but it’s not unheard of this time of year,” Thompson said. “Then windy conditions help to spread the fire.”

The property contained 300 running tractors, skidsteers and lawn mowers and 1,200 different parts of old tractors, according to the business’ Facebook page.

Greenville Town Supervisor Paul Macko said he thought the tractors and farm equipment on

the property were grandfathered in when Greenville adopted zoning laws in 1987.

“I agree with Mr. Macko’s opinion,” Greenville Code Enforcement Officer Mark Overbaugh said.

The Mid-Hudson Valley Chapter of the American Red Cross is providing financial assistance to the family for shelter, food and clothing. The family’s children are 12, 14, and 16.

Tiffani Koschitzki, owner of the Equestrian Center at Bailiwick Animal Park and a friend of the Hendersons, is offering pony rides for donations to support the family. Koschitzki is also helping to organize a ”filled wagon” Bill Williams/Columbia-Greene Media drop-off point for donations outA fire broke out at a home in Freehold on Saturday. side her barn.

minority leader said. “The lessons of 9/11 led to data sharing between law enforcement agencies, which is now stopped because of Democrats. CBP, ICE and DHS apprehend individuals who commit the worst types of crimes in our country, and yet, they are hindered from accessing a tool that is the first step in every investigation.”

State Sen. George Amedore, R-46, who represents Greene County, attended Tuesday’s press conference to show his support for the law’s repeal, he said.

“There’s extreme consequences the public will have to pay if this law continues,” Amedore said. “This law takes away transparency from our law enforcement officials that prevents them from evaluating, investigating and allowing these professionals to uphold their oath of office and well being to protect all citizens, and that’s a great concern of mine.”

Twin County Republican lawmakers stand in agreement with their colleagues in the Senate minority that Green Light is a public safety

issue.

“I strongly oppose the Green Light law and continue leading the fight in the New York State Senate against it; first as a bad bill, and now as a terrible law,” said Sen. Daphne Jordan, R-43. “The Green Light Law rammed through by Gov. Cuomo and the Albany Democrats gives a green light to danger, voter and ID fraud, and, because New York state refuses to share DMV information with ICE and Customs and Border Protection, puts the lives of our law enforcement officers at risk.”

Jordan said the law must be repealed for the sake of public safety.

“The Green Light Law takes New York state back to a pre-9/11 mentality, which is dangerous and destructive,” the senator said. “We need to repeal this atrocious law in its entirety. While we’re working toward a complete repeal, there is an urgent need to amend the law so New York State DMV information can be shared with ICE and Customs and Border Protection Officers charged with protecting our borders and safeguarding our

homeland.”

Assemblyman Chris Tague, R-102, attended Monday’s briefing with the Office of Homeland Security, federal security officers and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

“It’s appalling,” Tague said.

“I’ve been speaking against this from the very moment

the bill crossed my desk. This is a massive public safety issue. Federal agents who are trying to keep us safe are hamstringed from their mission.

The fact that we are having this discussion while their cases sit cold is honestly deeply troubling. The Democrats who forced this bill through need to step up and come to the

table. Law enforcement’s role is to protect New Yorkers and Americans, and they’re being locked out. Enough is enough.

Stop with the partisan games and let those who protect us do their jobs.”

Assemblywoman Didi Barrett, D-106, did not return multiple requests for comment about the law.

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Brantley earns first Empire 8 Rookie Award Columbia-Greene Media

UTICA — Catskill High scool graduate Justice Brantley of the Utica College men’s basketball team has been named the Empire 8 Conference Men’s Basketball Rookie of the Week.

The honor was announced on Monday by the Empire 8 offices in Rochester.

He wins the award for his efforts in a pair of Empire 8 conference games over the past week.

Brantley averaged 13.5 points per game for the Pioneers as they split their final two regular season games. In Tuesday’s previously rescheduled game against Houghton, he had nine points, five assists, and two steals in a Utica win.

In Saturday’s loss to Sage, he was 7-of-15 from the field and finished with a team-high 18 points in his first career start.

He also added an assist and five rebounds in Saturday’s efforts.

The Pioneers are 18-7 this season, and will be the third seed in the Empire 8 tournament. They will meet St. John Fisher on Friday night in the Empire 8 Semifinals hosted by Nazareth College.

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Despite playing all weekend with just five players, the Hudson Hawks third and fourth grade travel basketball team won all five of its games to win the Kinderhook Basketball Association Spring Classic championship. The Hawks defeated St. Jude’s CYO, 24-21, in the title game. Pictured are (from left): Coach Sean Briscoe, Mason Briscoe, Amarion Perry, Saniul Sihib, Trent Keller, Markel Johnson and Coach Tyrone Hedgepeth.

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Vanessa Bryant’s honest words, emotions connect world to Kobe and Gianna Bill Plaschke Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — For two decades, Kobe Bryant owned the Staples Center court with courage under pressure.

For seven minutes Monday morning, Vanessa Bryant did the same.

Where he once amazingly flew, she stood strongly still. Where he once pumped a fist in triumph, she clutched a tissue in survival.

“I’d like to talk about both Kobe and Gigi,” she said after stepping up as a surprise first speaker at the Kobe and Gianna Bryant Celebration of Life.

What ensued was as compelling as five NBA titles, as inspiring as an 81-point game, as impressive as any last-second shot.

“I’ll start with my baby girl first,” she began.

“My baby girl Gianna Bryant is an amazingly sweet, gentle soul. ... she would always kiss me good night, kiss me good morning.”

Few people thought Vanessa Bryant would talk. She has barely spoken publicly during her 20-year marriage to Bryant. She is extremely private. She was always in the background. She was his silent partner.

“OK, now for my soul mate,” she continued after a few minutes talking about Gigi. “To me, he was Kobe-Kobe, my boo-boo, my bay-boo, my papi chulo.”

It was stunning, such composure coming less than a month since she lost her husband and 13-year-old daughter in a helicopter crash

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Vanessa Bryant looks to the audience before reading her speech during the memorial to celebrate the life of Kobe Bryant and daughter Gianna Bryant at Staples Center on Monday.

that claimed the lives of seven others. How exactly does one speak to a crowd of 19,000 about

that? What does one say?

Her black hair swept into her tear-stained

eyes as she continued to fight back sobs. But, with the same determined grace her late husband repeatedly showed in virtually the same midcourt spot she stood, she pushed through the pain to share intimate stories of laughter and love.

“They were funny, happy silly and they loved life,” she said of Kobe and Gianna. “They were so full of joy and adventure. God knew they couldn’t be on this earth without each other.

He had to bring them home to heaven together.”

In a two-hour event filled with basketball royalty, entertainment icons and 35,000 roses, it was the simple words of this grieving widow and mother that captured the moment.

Beyonce crooned, Michael Jordan wept, Shaquille O’Neal cursed, women’s basketball legends Diana Taurasi and Geno Auriemma inspired, but it was Vanessa Bryant’s honest emotion that truly connected.

She started by describing Gianna not as simply the young basketball star that has been portrayed in the media, but as an ordinary 13-yearold girl.

“Last August, she made a beautiful birthday cake for daddy,” she said. “It had fondant and looked like it had blue agate crystals. ... She made the best chocolate chip cookies. ... She loved watching cooking shows and ‘Cupcake Wars’ with me. ... She loved watching ‘Survivor’ See BRYANT B3

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Transactions BASEBALL AMERICAN LEAGUE Baltimore Orioles - Assigned LHP Zach Muckenhirn, RHP Jay Flaa, and LHP Brian Gonzalez to the Baltimore Orioles.

Boston Red Sox - Assigned LHP Tom Windle, RHP Kevin Lenik, RHP Durbin Feltman, SS Korby Batesole, 1B Pedro Castellanos, C Joe DeCarlo, 3B Tanner Nishioka, RF Johan Mieses, and 1B Joey Meneses to the Boston Red Sox. Chicago White Sox - Assigned 2B Ramon Torres, CF Gorkys Hernandez, SS Laz Rivera, RHP Will Kincanon, SP Konnor Pilkington, 3B Zach Remillard, RHP Zach Thompson, and RHP Lane Ramsey to the Chicago White Sox. Cleveland Indians - Assigned RHP Manuel Alvarez, LHP Tanner Tully, SS Tyler Freeman, 2B Tyler Friis, LF Oscar Gonzalez, CF Trenton Brooks, and LHP Logan Allen to the Cleveland Indians.

Detroit Tigers - Assigned RHP Zack Hess and RHP Elvin Rodriguez to the Detroit Tigers.

Houston Astros - Assigned LHP Brett Adcock and LF Corey Julks to the Houston Astros.

Los Angeles Angels - Assigned LF Jordyn Adams, SS Erick Salcedo, C Alexis Olmeda, SS Kyren Paris, SS Jeremiah Jackson, SS Livan Soto, 3B Kevin Maitan, RHP Ryan Clark, RHP Zac Ryan, RHP Adam Hofacket, and SS Victor Acosta to the Los Angeles Angels.

Minnesota Twins - Assigned RHP Juan Minaya, LF Ernie De La Trinidad, CF DaShawn Keirsey, RHP Casey Lawrence, RHP Jonathan Cheshire, and RHP Austin Adams to the Minnesota Twins.

New York Yankees - Assigned 1B Brandon Wagner to the New York Yankees. Assigned RHP Adonis Rosa, RHP Glenn Otto, RHP Daniel Bies, RHP Braden Bristo, RHP Carlos Espinal, and RHP Matt Wivinis to the New York Yankees.

Oakland Athletics - Assigned RHP Norge Ruiz to the Oakland Athletics.

Seattle Mariners - Assigned RHP Dayeison Arias, RHP Bryan Pall, RHP Nick Duron, 3B Joe Rizzo, C Carter Bins, RHP Darin Gillies, SS Connor Kopach, and C David Sheaffer to the Seattle Mariners.

Tampa Bay Rays - Assigned RHP Brooks Pounders to the Tampa Bay Rays.

Texas Rangers - Assigned RHP Shane Carle, RHP Hever Bueno, RHP Scott Engler, SS Osleivis Basabe, C David Alejandro Garcia, 3B Jonathan Ornelas, C Yohel Pozo, SS Jake Hoover, and 1B Yanio Perez to the Texas Rangers.

Toronto Blue Jays - Assigned RHP Conor Fisk, LHP Jake Fishman, RHP Vinny Nittoli, and LF Brock Lundquist to the Toronto Blue Jays.

Signed LHP Marc Rzepczynski to a minor league contract.

NATIONAL LEAGUE Arizona Diamondbacks - Assigned RHP Cameron Gann, RHP Kevin McCanna, LHP Junior Garcia, RHP Matt Brill, RHP Michael Tonkin, C Michael De La Cruz, SS Galli Cribbs, and RF Dalton Pompey to the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Atlanta Braves - Assigned RHP Claudio Custodio and LHP Jose Manuel Fernandez to the Atlanta Braves.

Chicago Cubs - Assigned LHP Ryan Lawlor, RHP Matt Swarmer, CF Connor Myers, RHP Craig Brooks, and LF Zach Davis to the Chicago Cubs.

Cincinnati Reds - Assigned RHP Austin Orewiler and RHP Jesus Reyes to the Cincinnati Reds.

Signed RHP Jose Adames to a minor league contract.

Colorado Rockies - Assigned LHP Zac Rosscup, 2B LJ Hatch, and RHP Nate Harris to the Colorado Rockies.

Los Angeles Dodgers - Assigned LHP Ben Holmes and SS Victor Acosta to the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Miami Marlins - Assigned RHP Kolton Mahoney, RHP Dustin Beggs, and RHP Brian McKenna to the Miami Marlins.

Milwaukee Brewers - Assigned 1B Jake Gatewood to the Milwaukee Brewers. Assigned LF C Cooper Hummel and CF Joantgel Segovia to the Milwaukee Brewers. Assigned 3B Patrick Leonard, C Max McDowell, RHP Cody Beckman, RHP Phil Bickford, RHP Matthew Hardy, RHP Johan Belisario, RHP J.T. Hintzen, LHP Chris Lee, RHP Robbie Hitt, C Robie Rojas, 1B Luis Castro, C Thomas Dillard, C David Fry, SS Brice Turang, CF Joe Gray, 3B Chad McClanahan, and 1B Weston Wilson to the Milwaukee Brewers.

Philadelphia Phillies - Assigned RHP Carlos Bustamante, 3B Ali Castillo, C Abrahan Gutierrez, LHP Aaron Brown, LHP Jonathan Hennigan, and CF Jhailyn Ortiz to the Philadelphia Phillies.

Pittsburgh Pirates - Announced RF Lonnie Chisenhall has retired. Assigned RHP Samuel Reyes, RHP Beau Sulser, RHP Pedro Vasquez, and RHP Joel Cesar to the Pittsburgh Pirates.

San Diego Padres - Assigned 2B Matthew Batten, LHP Cody Tyler, RHP Jose Quezada, RHP Elliot Ashbeck, RHP Nick Kuzia, and LHP Jerry Keel to the San Diego Padres.

San Francisco Giants - Assigned RHP Solomon Bates, LHP Yapson Gomez, RHP Aaron Phillips, RF Heath Quinn, SS Ghordy Santos, and LF Alexander Canario to the San Francisco Giants.

HOCKEY NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE Anaheim Ducks - Acquired D Christian Djoos from the Washington Capitals for RW Daniel Sprong. Acquired C Andrew Agozzino off waivers from the Pittsburgh Penguins. Recalled RW David Backes from San Diego (AHL).

Arizona Coyotes - Assigned D Aaron Ness to Tucson (AHL), recalled him from Tucson (AHL).

Acquired LW Markus Hannikainen from the Columbus Blue Jackets for a conditional 2020 seventh-round draft pick. Assigned G Adin Hill to Tucson (AHL).

Boston Bruins - Acquired LW Nick Ritchie from the Anaheim Ducks for C Danton Heinen. Assigned RW Karson Kuhlman to Providence (AHL).

Buffalo Sabres - Acquired RW Wayne Simmonds from the New Jersey Devils for a conditional 2021 fifth-round draft pick.

Calgary Flames - Acquired D Erik Gustafsson from the Chicago Blackhawks for a 2020 thirdround draft pick. Acquired D Derek Forbort from the Los Angeles Kings for a conditional 2021 fourth-round draft pick. Assigned RW Buddy Robinson and D Alexander Yelesin to Stockton (AHL).

Carolina Hurricanes - Acquired C Vincent Trocheck from the Florida Panthers for C Erik Haula, C Lucas Wallmark, D Chase Priskie, and C Eetu Luostarinen. Acquired D Sami Vatanen from the New Jersey Devils for D Fredrik Claesson, LW Janne Kuokkanen and a conditional 2020 fourth-round draft pick. Acquired D Brady Skjei from the New York Rangers for a 2020 firstround draft pick.

Chicago Blackhawks - Acquired D TJ Brennan from the Philadelphia Flyers for C Nathan Noel.

Acquired G Malcolm Subban, D Slava Demin and a 2020 second-round draft pick from the Vegas Golden Knights.

Colorado Avalanche - Acquired C Vladislav Namestnikov from the Ottawa Senators for a 2021 fourth-round draft pick. Assigned G Hunter Miska to Colorado (AHL).

Columbus Blue Jackets - Acquired LW Devin Shore from the Anaheim Ducks for LW Sonny Milano. Recalled C Calvin Thurkauf from Cleveland (AHL).

Dallas Stars - Announced LW Scottie Upshall has retired.

Detroit Red Wings - Acquired LW Dmytro Timashov off waivers from the Toronto Maple Leafs. Assigned D Gustav Lindstrom to Grand Rapids (AHL).

Edmonton Oilers - Assigned D William Lagesson to Bakersfield (AHL), recalled him from Bakersfield (AHL). Acquired LW Andreas Athanasiou and LW Ryan Kuffner from the Detroit Red Wings for C Sam Gagner, a 2020 second-round draft pick, and a 2021 second-round draft pick.

Acquired G Angus Redmond and a conditional 2022 seventh-round draft pick from the Anaheim Ducks for D Joel Persson. Acquired D Mike Green from the Detroit Red Wings for C Kyle Brodziak and a conditional 2020 fourth-round draft pick. Acquired RW Tyler Ennis from the Ottawa Senators for a 2021 fifth-round draft pick.

Assigned LW Tyler Benson to Bakersfield (AHL).

Florida Panthers - Acquired D Emil Djuse from the Dallas Stars for a 2020 sixth-round draft pick.

Los Angeles Kings - Assigned G Kevin Poulin to Ontario (AHL).

Minnesota Wild - Assigned C Gerald Mayhew and D Louie Belpedio to Iowa (AHL). Placed D Carson Soucy on IR. Nashville Predators - Acquired D Korbinian Holzer from the Anaheim Ducks for D Matt Irwin and a 2022 sixth-round draft pick. Signed RW Rocco Grimaldi to a two-year, $4 million contract extension.

New Jersey Devils - Assigned RW Nicholas Merkley to Tucson (AHL).

New York Islanders - Recalled LW Otto Koivula from Bridgeport (AHL), assigned him to Bridgeport (AHL). Acquired C Jean-Gabriel Pageau from the Ottawa Senators for a conditional 2020 first-round draft pick, a 2020 secondround draft pick, and a conditional 2022 thirdround draft pick, signed him to a six-year, $30 million contract extension. Assigned LW Kieffer Bellows to Bridgeport (AHL). Recalled LW Andrew Ladd, RW Cal Clutterbuck from Bridgeport (AHL).

New York Rangers - Assigned LW Brett Howden to Hartford (AHL). Signed LW Chris Kreider to a seven-year, $45.5 million contract extension.

Ottawa Senators - Acquired C Matthew Peca from the Montreal Canadiens for C Aaron Luchuk and a 2020 seventh-round draft pick, recalled him from Laval (AHL). Announced RW Bobby Ryan has returned from his leave of absence. Recalled LW Rudolfs Balcers from Belleville (AHL).

Philadelphia Flyers - Acquired C Derek Grant from the Anaheim Ducks for C Kyle Criscuolo and a 2020 fourth-round draft pick. Acquired C Nate Thompson from the Montreal Canadiens

for a 2021 fifth-round draft pick. Assigned C Connor Bunnaman and LW Joel Farabee to Lehigh Valley (AHL).

Pittsburgh Penguins - Acquired LW Evan Rodrigues and LW Conor Sheary from the Buffalo Sabres for LW Dominik Kahun. Acquired LW Patrick Marleau from the San Jose Sharks for a conditional 2021 third-round draft pick. Assigned RW Anthony Angello and C Sam Lafferty to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton (AHL).

San Jose Sharks - Acquired D Brandon Davidson from the Calgary Flames for future considerations. Recalled D Dalton Prout from San Jose (AHL).

Tampa Bay Lightning - Acquired RW Barclay Goodrow and a 2020 third-round draft pick from the San Jose Sharks for a 2020 first-round draft pick and RW Anthony Greco. Assigned D Cameron Gaunce and C Mitchell Stephens to Syracuse (AHL).

Toronto Maple Leafs - Recalled D Kevin Gravel from Toronto (AHL), assigned him to Toronto (AHL). Acquired LW Matt Lorito from the New York Islanders for D Jordan Schmaltz. Acquired a 2020 fifth-round draft pick from the Vegas Golden Knights. Acquired D Calle Rosen from the Colorado Avalanche for G Michael Hutchinson. Signed D Jake Muzzin to a four-year, $22.5 million contract extension.

Vancouver Canucks - Acquired G Louis Domingue from the New Jersey Devils for G Zane McIntyre.

Vegas Golden Knights - Acquired G Robin Lehner and LW Martins Dzierkals. Acquired C Nick Cousins from the Montreal Canadiens for a 2021 fourth-round draft pick. Assigned C Gage Quinney, C Patrick Brown, C Nicolas Roy, and D Zach Whitecloud to Chicago (AHL). Signed D Nick Holden to a two-year, $3.4 million contract extension.

Pro hockey NHL Eastern Conference Atlantic Division GP W L OT SO Pts Boston 63 39 12 5 7 90 Tampa Bay 62 40 17 5 0 85 Toronto 63 32 23 4 4 72 Florida 62 32 24 3 3 70 Buffalo 62 29 25 6 2 66 Montreal 64 29 27 7 1 66 Ottawa 63 21 30 7 5 54 Detroit 64 15 45 3 1 34 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT SO Pts Washington 62 38 18 4 2 82 Pittsburgh 61 37 18 6 0 80 Philadelphia 62 35 20 2 5 77 NY Islanders 61 35 20 4 2 76 Columbus 64 31 19 10 4 76 Carolina 61 35 22 4 0 74 NY Rangers 61 33 24 2 2 70 New Jersey 61 24 27 4 6 58 Western Conference Central Division GP W L OT SO Pts St. Louis 63 36 17 7 3 82 Colorado 61 36 18 6 1 79 Dallas 62 36 20 4 2 78 Winnipeg 64 32 27 4 1 69 Nashville 61 30 23 5 3 68 Minnesota 61 29 25 4 3 65 Chicago 62 27 27 4 4 62 Pacific Division GP W L OT SO Pts Vegas 64 34 22 6 2 76 Edmonton 62 33 22 5 2 73 Vancouver 61 33 22 3 3 72 Calgary 63 32 25 5 1 70 Arizona 65 31 26 4 4 70 San Jose 62 26 32 3 1 56 Anaheim 62 24 30 7 1 56 Los Angeles 63 22 35 3 3 50 Monday’s game Columbus 4, Ottawa 3, OT Today’s games Calgary at Boston, 7 p.m.

Vancouver at Montreal, 7 p.m.

Toronto at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m.

NY Rangers at NY Islanders, 7 p.m.

San Jose at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.

Winnipeg at Washington, 7 p.m.

Dallas at Carolina, 7 p.m.

New Jersey at Detroit, 7:30 p.m.

Chicago at St. Louis, 8 p.m.

Ottawa at Nashville, 8 p.m.

Columbus at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

Florida at Arizona, 9 p.m.

Edmonton at Anaheim, 10 p.m.

Wednesday’s games Buffalo at Colorado, 8 p.m.

Edmonton at Vegas, 10:30 p.m.

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

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

Milwaukee at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Chicago, 8 p.m.

Detroit at Denver, 9 p.m.

New Orleans at L.A. Lakers, 10 p.m.

Boston at Portland, 10 p.m.

Sacramento at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.

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NBA roundup: Bucks overcome Wizards, Beal in OT Field Level Media

Khris Middleton scored 40 points as the visiting Milwaukee Bucks overcame Bradley Beal’s career-high 55-point performance to earn a 137-134 overtime victory over the Washington Wizards on Monday.

Middleton shot 15 of 28 from the floor to excel in his second contest this season against the Wizards. He erupted for a career-high 51 points in Milwaukee’s 151-131 win over Washington on Jan. 28. Giannis Antetokounmpo recorded 22 points and 14 rebounds before fouling out for the NBA-best Bucks, who have won 17 of their past 19 games.

Beal followed a 53-point performance in the Wizards’ 126117 setback at Chicago on Sunday by making 19 of 33 shots – including 8 of 13 from 3-point range – against Milwaukee. Beal scored 47 points in the previous meeting with the Bucks.

Shabazz Napier scored 27 points off the bench for Washington, which has dropped three in a row after entering the All-Star break with five wins in its previous seven games.

Rockets 123, Knicks 112 James Harden paired 37 points with nine assists while Ben McLemore and Austin Rivers added valuable doubledigit scoring production off the bench as Houston cruised to a victory over visiting New York.

Harden, Westbrook and P.J. Tucker arrived just over an hour prior to tipoff after taking a private jet from Los Angeles following the memorial service for Lakers legend Kobe Bryant.

McLemore scored 17 points on 4-for-9 3-point shooting while Rivers chipped in 14 points, including nine in the third quarter.

Rookie RJ Barrett paced the Knicks with 21 points while Julius Randle added a doubledouble (17 points, 12 rebounds).

Dennis Smith Jr. tallied 15 points and a career-high seven steals for the Knicks.

Magic 115, Nets 113 Aaron Gordon scored 12 of his 27 points in the fourth quarter and hit two clutch shots in the final two minutes as Orlando rallied from a 19-point deficit and posted a victory over Brooklyn in New York.

Reserve Terrence Ross added 13 of his 21 points in the final quarter for the Magic, who shot 59.1 percent in the final 12

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Milwaukee Bucks forward Khris Middleton (22) reacts after making a three-point shot during Monday’s game against the Washington Wizards at Capital One Arena.

minutes. Evan Fournier contributed 21 points while Vucevic totaled 16 points and 10 rebounds as Orlando improved to 5-11 in its last 16 games.

Spencer Dinwiddie led the Nets with 24 points but missed all four of his shots in the fourth.

Caris LeVert added 19 while Garrett Temple contributed 18 for Brooklyn.

Mavericks 139, Timberwolves 123 Luka Doncic scored 10 of his 20 points in a 41-point, firstquarter explosion that propelled host Dallas to a victory over Minnesota.

Despite playing just 25 minutes, Doncic also found time for a game-high-tying nine rebounds and seven assists, while Tim Hardaway Jr. scored a team-leading 23 points for the Mavericks. Dallas rebounded from a 111-107 loss at the Atlanta Hawks on Saturday, a game in which Doncic and Kristaps Porzingis did not play.

D’Angelo Russell led all scorers with 29 points for the Timberwolves, who lost their ninth straight on the road and 18th in their last 19 games overall.

Clippers 124, Grizzlies 97 Kawhi Leonard had 25 points and eight rebounds to help Los Angeles crush visiting Memphis. Leonard, who rested in the fourth quarter, connected on 10 of 17 shots from the floor in 25 minutes.

Montrezl Harrell contributed

22 points, while JaMychal Green and Marcus Morris chipped in 13 points apiece. Clippers forward Paul George, who missed Saturday’s loss to the Sacramento Kings with a strained hamstring, returned but managed just seven points on 3-for-11 shooting in 21 minutes.

Rookie point guard Ja Morant led the Grizzlies with 16 points, but Memphis’ four other starters combined to produce only 15 points. Josh Jackson came off the bench to score 14 points, and Gorgui Dieng added 14 points, 10 rebounds and four blocks for the Grizzlies.

Suns 131, Jazz 111 Devin Booker recorded 24 points and 10 assists to help Phoenix post a victory over Utah at Salt Lake City.

Ricky Rubio added 22 points, 11 assists, six rebounds and a season-best seven steals to help the Suns defeat his former squad. Kelly Oubre Jr. scored 18 points, Deandre Ayton had 16 on 8-for-9 shooting and Dario Saric made all five of his shots en route to scoring 14 points.

Donovan Mitchell scored 38 points for Utah, which lost its third straight game, all at home.

The Jazz allowed their secondmost points of the season.

Cavaliers 125, Heat 119 (OT) Rookie Kevin Porter Jr. scored a career-high 30 points to help Cleveland overcome a 22-point, second-half deficit and rally past visiting Miami in overtime.

Top 25 roundup: New No. 1 Kansas clobbers Oklahoma State Field Level Media

Udoka Azubuike continued his surging stretch run Monday, recording 19 points and 16 rebounds for his 13th double-double of the season as No. 1 Kansas trampled Oklahoma State 83-58 at Lawrence, Kan. The Jayhawks, who won their 13th straight, climbed to the top of the polls on Monday, overtaking Baylor after beating the Bears on Saturday and forging a first-place tie in the Big 12 Conference. Kansas (25-3, 14-1 Big 12) was previously ranked No. 1 for one week in midDecember.

Azubuike, who erupted for 23 points and 19 boards in the Baylor showdown, became the 62nd player at Kansas, and the 17th coached

by Bill Self, to reach the 1,000-point milestone.

Kansas’ Devon Dotson, the Big 12’s leading scorer, started 1-for-10 but still contributed 11 points, and Ochai Agbaji added 15. Oklahoma State (14-14, 4-11) got 16 points from

Cameron McGriff.

No. 6 Florida State 82, No. 11 Louisville 67 Trent Forrest scored 14 of his 16 points in the second half as the Seminoles rallied from a 12-point second-half deficit to knock off the Cardinals in Tallahassee, Fla., and move into first place in the Atlantic Coast Conference.

Devin Vassell had 10 of his 12 points in the second half, and M.J. Walker overcame a leg injury to also finish with 12 for the Seminoles (24-4, 14-3 ACC), who used a 15-0 run and held the Cardinals (23-6, 14-4) without a field goal for more than nine minutes of the second half. It was the 22nd straight home win for Florida State, which also swept the season series from Louisville.

Ryan McMahon had 14 points, and freshman David Johnson scored 13 for the Cardinals, who shot 51.6 percent and went 4 of 9 from 3-point range in the first half. However, they made 32.1 percent of their shots while

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Cleveland’s late-game heroics were led by Larry Nance Jr., who had 16 points, including 14 after the third quarter. Cavaliers power forward Kevin Love, who missed two of the past three games due to a foot injury, returned and provided 17 points and 14 rebounds.

Heat center Bam Adebayo narrowly missed a triple-double with 22 points, 13 rebounds and nine assists. He also blocked four shots and had three steals but committed six turnovers.

Goran Dragic also had 22 points for the Heat, and Kendrick Nunn added 21.

76ers 129, Hawks 112 Joel Embiid scored a careerhigh 49 points and grabbed 14 rebounds to lift host Philadelphia over Atlanta.

Embiid produced 22 points in the fourth quarter and shot 14 of 15 overall from the free-throw line as the Sixers improved to a league-best 27-2 at home. It was also their 13th consecutive home victory. Tobias Harris added 25 for the Sixers, who won again without injured All-Star guard Ben Simmons (back).

Trae Young paced the Hawks with 28 points and 10 assists while De’Andre Hunter added 22 points. John Collins had 21 points and nine rebounds while Bruno Fernando and Cam Reddish came off the bench to score 10 points.

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going 1 of 12 from distance in the second half.

Louisville is 2-3 since winning 10 straight league games.

Texas 67, No. 20 West Virginia 57 Andrew Jones scored 22 points, 16 in the first half, and Courtney Ramey added 21 as the Longhorns dominated the Mountaineers in Austin, Texas, to win their third consecutive game.

Texas (17-11, 7-8 Big 12) led by six points at halftime and was up 52-43 after a layup by Ramey at the 9:06 mark of the second half. Matt Coleman III added 13 points for the Longhorns, who played without four injured or sick players who have started games this season.

Oscar Tshiebwe led the Mountaineers (199, 7-8) with 14 points while reserves Sean McNeil and Derek Culver scored 13 and 12, respectively. Culver was just 2 of 8 from the foul line, and West Virginia finished 10 of 21 from the charity stripe.

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NHL trade notebook: Blackhawks, Knights swap goalies Field Level Media The Chicago Blackhawks were very busy with last-hour deals before Monday’s NHL trade deadline, sending goaltender Robin Lehner to Las Vegas, defenseman Erik Gustafsson to Calgary and prospect Nathan Noel to Philadelphia.

In the Lehner deal, the Golden Knights sent goaltender Malcolm Subban (a pending restricted free agent), defenseman prospect Slava Demin and a second-round pick to Chicago and received Lehner and unsigned Toronto forward prospect Martins Dzierkals. The Maple Leafs received a fifth-round pick in 2020 for their part in the deal but will also retain a portion of Lehner’s salary.

Lehner signed a one-year, $5 million contract with Chicago in July. He has posted a 16-10-5 record with a 3.01 goals-against average and a .918 save percentage in 33 appearances (31 starts) this season.

Chicago sent Gustafsson, 27, to the Flames for a thirdround pick. Gustafsson has six goals and 20 assists in 59 games this season after producing 17-43-60 (all career highs) last season.

In exchange for the 22-year-old Noel, the Blackhawks received defenseman T.J. Brennan from the Flyers.

Calgary also sent a 2021 fourth-round pick to Los Angeles for Kings defenseman Derek Forbort before trading defenseman Brandon Davidson to the Sharks for future considerations.

• The Carolina Hurricanes made a series of moves to improve both its offense and defense, first receiving forward Vincent Trocheck from the Florida Panthers in exchange for forwards Erik Haula and Lucas Wallmark and prospects Eetu Luostarinen and Chase Priskie.

Then the Hurricanes traded a first-round pick to the New York Rangers for 25-year-old defenseman Brady Skjei. Carolina also sent forward Janne Kuokkanen and defenseman Fredrik Claesson to New Jersey for blue-liner Sami Vatanen. The Devils also got a conditional fourth-round pick in the deal.

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New York Rangers left wing Chris Kreider (20) scores a goal on Chicago Blackhawks goaltender Robin Lehner (40) during their recent game at United Center.

• The Pittsburgh Penguins acquired Patrick Marleau from the San Jose Sharks for a conditional 2021 third-round pick, then added fellow forwards Conor Sheary and Evan Rodrigues from the Buffalo Sabres in exchange for forward Dominik Kahun.

Marleau, 40, has 10 goals and 10 assists in 58 games this season. He is set to become an unrestricted free agent after the season.

• The Anaheim Ducks made a whopping six trades, most notably sending center Derek Grant to Philadelphia in exchange for forward Kyle Criscuolo and a fourth-round pick in the 2020 NHL Draft, and trading forward Nick Ritchie to Boston for fellow forward Danton Heinen.

The Ducks also sent center Devin Shore to the Columbus Blue Jackets for winger Sonny Milano; traded right winger Daniel Sprong to the Washington Capitals for defenseman Christian Djoos; acquired defenseman Matt Irwin and a 2022 sixth-round pick from the Nashville Predators in exchange for defenseman Korbinian Holzer; and received defenseman Joel Persson from the Edmonton Oilers for minor league goalie Angus Redmond and a conditional 2022 seventh-round pick.

• The Oilers also acquired three other players in three

separate trades: The club acquired speedy forward Andreas Athanasiou and veteran defenseman Mike Green from the Detroit Red Wings in a pair of trades earlier in the day, then added forward Tyler Ennis from the Ottawa Senators in exchange for a fifthround draft pick in 2021.

Detroit got back center Sam Gagner, forward Kyle Brodziak, two second-round picks and a conditional thirdor fourth-round pick in exchange for Athanasiou and Green while also shipping minor league forward Ryan Kuffner to Edmonton.

• The New York Islanders acquired forward JeanGabriel Pageau from Ottawa in exchange for three draft picks (2020 conditional first-rounder, 2020 second, and 2022 conditional third).

Pageau then agreed to a sixyear, $30 million contract extension with their new acquisition.

• The Montreal Canadiens traded forward Nate Thompson to the Flyers for a fifthround draft pick in 2021.

Thompson, 35, has four goals and 10 assists in 63 games this season and is set to become an unrestricted free agent after the season.

• New Jersey traded forward Wayne Simmonds to Buffalo for a conditional fifth-round draft pick in 2021 that can become a fourth-rounder.

• The Senators sent forward Vladislav Namestnikov (13 goals, 12 assists in 56 games this season) to the Colorado Avalanche in exchange for a fourth-round draft pick in 2021.

• Toronto traded goaltender Michael Hutchinson to the Colorado Avalanche in exchange for defenseman Calle Rosen.

• The Vancouver Canucks swapped goalies with New Jersey, acquiring Louis Domingue for minor-leaguer Zane McIntyre.

• The Islanders acquired defenseman Jordan Schmaltz from Toronto Maple Leafs in exchange for forward Matt Lorito.

• The Arizona Coyotes traded for forward Markus Hannikainen, sending Columbus a conditional 2020 seventhround pick.

• The Tampa Bay Lightning sent a 2020 first-round pick and forward Anthony Greco to San Jose for forward Barclay Goodrow and a 2020 third-round pick.

• The Golden Knights received forward Nick Cousins from Montreal for a 2021 fourth-round pick.

• The Panthers got defenseman Emil Djuse from the Dallas Stars for a 2020 sixthround pick.

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Is UGA’s Anthony Edwards worthy of the No. 1 pick?

Mark Bradley The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Short answer: no. Longer answer follows.

A gentle reminder: The NBA doesn’t care what a player’s college team does.

We note again that the No. 1 picks in 2016 and 2017 — Ben Simmons of LSU and Markelle Fultz of Washington — didn’t grace the NCAA tournament.

(Fultz’s Huskies went 9-22, if you can believe that.) The No. 1 pick in 2018, the massive DeAndre Ayton of Arizona, played on a team that lost its first NCAA game by 21 points to Buffalo.

In this century, here’s the complete list of No. 1 picks who played in that

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and NBA games on TV with her daddy. ... She also loved watching Disney movies with her sisters.”

She talked about Gianna’s “secret talent.”

“She had Kobe’s ability to listen to a song and have all the lyrics memorized after listening to the song a couple of times,” she said, adding, “And Gigi loved her TikTok dances.”

At certain points when Vanessa was describing her daughter, the crowd quietly gasped.

How difficult this must have been. How did she find the strength? Could this brave woman have been the long-hidden source of Kobe’s strength?

She talked about her daughter’s brains as only a

year’s Final Four: Greg Oden in 2007, Anthony Davis in 2012, Karl-Anthony Towns in 2015. All big men.

Edwards is a guard. At his listed 6-foot-5, he’d be the second-shortest No. 1 (after Fultz) since Kyrie Irving in 2011. We note the obvious: Edwards wouldn’t be the presumptive top pick were Zion Williamson in his class, but Zion was the best collegiate player in a generation. We also note that, seeing as how the NBA gets smaller every year, there’s a higher priority on perimeter players in 2020 than there was way back in ... oh, 2018.

The first two draftees two years ago were Ayton and Marvin Bagley, both

wonderfully bragging mother can do.

“Gianna was smart,” she said. “She knew how to read, speak and write Mandarin. She knew Spanish.”

She also talked about her daughter’s appearance, as if Gianna were standing right there, a description only a carefully attentive mother could give.

“Wearing a white tee, black leggings, a denim jacket, white high-top Converse, and a flannel tied around her waist, and straight hair was her go-to style,” she said.

She concluded her love letter to Gianna with words that brought many in the crowd to tears.

“She gave the best hugs and the best kisses,” she said. “She had gorgeous soft lips like her daddy. She would hug me and hold me so tight. I could feel her love me.”

The crowd could feel that

big men. Neither has disappointed — Ayton averages 19 points for the Suns, Bagley 14.2 for the Kings — but if the teams were asked to re-draft today, there’s a chance they’d have taken Luka Doncic No. 1 and Trae Young No. 2.

Doncic is 20, Young 21; both are newly minted All-Stars.

We can’t point to one team and say, “Those guys changed pro basketball,” but we’d start with the Suns of Mike D’Antoni/Steve Nash and continue with the title-winning Warriors and move to the Rockets. Using reality, which tells us there are more good little men available than good big men, and analytics, which hold that the

love, and that feeling continued when she talked about her husband not as a basketball player, but as a partner and father.

“He was my sweet husband, and the beautiful father of our children,” she said. “He was mine. He was my everything.”

Earlier in their marriage, their relationship endured tough times that included Bryant’s public confession of cheating, rape charges that were eventually dropped, and a divorce filing by Vanessa that was later withdrawn. To hear her speak of him in such glowing terms was powerful and healing. It completed the narrative that Bryant’s life had a fulfilling second chapter. It delivered a compelling message about the strength of forgiveness.

“I was his first girlfriend, his first love, his wife, his best friend, his confidant and his protector,” she said. “Kobe loved me more than I could ever

only shots worth taking are layups and 3-pointers, the NBA has morphed into something that scarcely resembles the basketball with which we were once familiar.

In olden days, you drafted a center.

The Bucks landed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (nee Lew Alcindor) in 1969 after an expansion season that saw them win 27 games. Their win totals over the next five years: 56, 66, 63, 60 and 59. If you didn’t have a big-time big man, you didn’t win championships. From 1959 through 1977, every NBA title save one was taken by a team with either Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, Willis Reed, Abdul-Jabbar, Dave Cowens or

express or put into words.”

She said he was “truly the romantic one in our relationship” and then told the story of an iconic anniversary gift.

“He gave me the actual notebook and the blue dress Rachel McAdams wore in ‘The Notebook’ movie,” she said. “When I asked him why he chose the blue dress, he said it was the scene when Allie comes back to Noah. We had hoped to grow old together like the movie.”

Since Bryant’s death, considering the way he doted over his four daughters, there has been much public admiration about Bryant’s role as a “Girl Dad.” In words that should resound with every girl’s dad, Vanessa wonderfully detailed that role.

“Kobe was the MVP of girl dads, or MVD,” she said. “He never left the toilet seat up. He always told the girls how beautiful and smart they are. He taught them how to be brave

Bill Walton — all of whom were NBA MVPs. That, however, was then — before Nash won consecutive MVPs; before the Splash Brothers took Golden State to five consecutive NBA finals; before Houston decided to dump Clint Capela, a perfectly serviceable big man, on the Atlanta Hawks because Daryl Morey and D’Antoni determined he was superfluous to requirements, size no longer among them. In such an era, would you rather have Edwards, who can play anywhere, than James Wiseman, the 7-foot-1 center who took and missed his only 3-pointer over three games at Memphis? Yep.

and how to keep pushing forward when things get tough.”

Vanessa also marveled over how Kobe did the hands-on work of a dad, even claiming he showed up an hour and 20 minutes early to be first in the kids’ school carpool line.

“He helped me bathe Bianka (3) and Capri (8 months) almost every night,” Vanessa said. “He would sing the silly songs in the shower and continue making them laugh and smile as he lathered them with lotion and got them ready for bed. He had magic arms that could put Capri to sleep in only a few minutes. He said he had it down to a science, eight times up and down our hallway.”

Vanessa was not only revealing about the intimate past moments, but also the horrors of her present reality. Through her words, a city was reminded that this is about far more than the loss of a celebrity athlete and his

daughter, it’s about the gaping hole in a family’s future.

About Kobe, she said, “He isn’t going to be here to drop Bianka and Capri off at pre-K or kindergarten. ... He isn’t going to be able to walk our girls down the aisle or spin me around the dance floor while singing ‘PYT’ to me.”

She concluded with the words of grief, yet another statement of incredible strength.

And here’s hoping this is not the last Los Angeles hears from Vanessa Bryant.

“Babe, you take care of our Gigi, and I got Nani, BB and Koko. We are still the best team.

We love and miss you Boo Boo and Gigi. May you both rest in peace, and have fun in heaven until we meet again ... forever and always, Mommy.”

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Zack Wheeler’s early-career hype with Mets will help him handle being Phillies’ $118 million man Scott Lauber The Philadelphia Inquirer

CLEARWATER, Fla. — Eleven months after surgery to reconstruct a ligament in his right elbow, Zack Wheeler arrived at spring training in 2016, dressed in full uniform, grabbed a ball, and posed on the mound for photos with the other studly New York Mets pitchers who were supposed to make up baseball’s next super-rotation.

Cue the hype machine.

They were billed as the next “Generation K,” a nod to the Mets’ mid-’90s prospect trio of Bill Pulsipher, Jason Isringhausen, and Paul Wilson. Injuries kept that group from achieving its collective potential. But nothing could stop Matt Harvey, Noah Syndergaard, Jacob deGrom, Steven Matz, and, yes, Wheeler, who had such promise that he got traded in 2011 in a one-for-one deal for All-Star outfielder Carlos Beltran.

“That was pretty cool to be a part of,” Wheeler said Monday, reminiscing about the Mets’ can’t-miss rotation. “It gave the fans a lot of excitement and a lot to look forward to. Going into cities to play teams, they knew what was coming.”

Four years later, we know what happened.

Harvey flamed out, derailed by injuries and ineffectiveness; Matz has been good but never great. Even Syndergaard is a few notches below the elite level that only deGrom has reached.

Wheeler? At 29 — and, as Mets general manager Brodie Van Wagenen recently noted, on the heels of consecutive stellar halfseasons — he’s about to begin the second act of his career after signing with the Phillies in December for five years and $118 million.

The contract brings a different kind of hype for Wheeler. It’s the third-largest free-agent deal in franchise history behind Bryce Harper (13 years, $330 million) and Cliff Lee (five years, $120 million). Never mind that Wheeler has not been an All-Star or pitched 200 innings in a season. The only Phillies pitchers who made more than his $23.6 million average annual value were Lee ($24 million from

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Philadelphia Phillies starting pitcher Zack Wheeler (45) throws during workouts at Spectrum Field.

2011-15) and Cole Hamels ($24 million from 2013-15).

No pressure.

“Just the type of guy I am, I’ve never really felt pressure,” said Wheeler, who was the sixth player picked in the 2009 draft, by San Francisco. “People have higher expectations for you, and that’s perfectly fine. That pushes you and motivates you to be that good or better. You could put a ton of pressure on yourself and underperform, or choke, or whatever. With me, I want to go out and do the best I can no matter what. It’s all a mindset.”

Besides, photographers haven’t exactly been clamoring this spring to get glamour

shots of the Phillies’ rotation.

Phillies starters ranked 11th in the 15-team NL last season with a 4.64 ERA and 13th with 1.366 walks/hits per inning pitched. (The league averages were a 4.33 ERA and 1.299 WHIP.) Save for the notable addition of Wheeler, the rotation is unchanged, with familiar questions looming like storm clouds over the heads of Jake Arrieta, Zach Eflin, Nick Pivetta, and Vince Velasquez.

Wheeler figures to help. He had a 3.65 ERA and 1.194 WHIP over the last two seasons with the Mets and threw the sixth-most innings (377 2/3) of any NL pitcher. Most significantly, he said he has discovered his identity

The Mets are motivated by the defending champion Nationals’ journey to World Series Deesha Thosar New York Daily News

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — The Mets’ Cinderella playoff run came down to three games.

After a resilient second-half finish, just three games separated the Mets from sneaking into the postseason last year. That three-game difference is what held them back from a Wild Card spot, and what cost them the chance to try to win their first championship in over 30 years.

To make matters more cruel, the Mets were eliminated from playoff contention during the final outing of what would become Jacob deGrom’s second Cy Young season. The Mets offense, historically allergic to scoring runs for their ace, tallied double-digit runs that night against the Marlins. But there was little to celebrate after falling short of the postseason for the third straight year.

In another clubhouse in a different city, the Nationals soaked their surroundings in champagne and beer. They celebrated a Wild Card berth that didn’t seem possible in the earlier part of the year, and it was especially bitter for the team watching from Flushing.

The Mets went 12-7 against the Nationals and outscored them 109-96 last season. So when Washington celebrated on a parade float after beating the Astros for the championship, it stung the Mets to see the World Series unfurl in the Nationals’ favor from the comfort of their homes instead of the finish line.

Now, the Amazin’s are motivated by the Nationals’ journey to the World Series. If Washington — a team the Mets had

as a pitcher.

After years of being told by the Mets to throw two-seam fastballs down in the zone — a game plan that was emphasized early last season by new catcher Wilson Ramos — Wheeler realized that elevating his power four-seamer is the better way to go.

At 97 mph, Wheeler had the fourth-highest average fastball velocity in the majors last year. Opponents slugged .337 and had a 27.1% strikeout rate against his four-seamer compared to .488 and 15.9% against his twoseamer, according to Statcast.

“With Ramos, we had a little bit of a problem at the beginning of the year,” Wheeler said. “I wanted to go up there (with high fastballs) but he wasn’t calling it, so I didn’t throw it up there. Nothing on him. He was getting used to us also. But I knew I needed to go up there a good bit, even early in the count.

“Second half, he made an adjustment and started calling up, and it was like, ‘Wait, why are guys swinging so early in the count?’ We saw the results.”

Indeed, after posting a 4.69 ERA through the All-Star break, Wheeler had a 2.83 mark in his last 12 starts. So, while Nola, Arrieta, and Eflin have emphasized keeping the ball down this spring, Wheeler is working on climbing the ladder.

“You’ve got to pitch down, you want to pitch to contact, but my thinking is different,” Wheeler said. “Some things may work better for certain guys than others. I have a fastball that’s alive. It rides a bit, so my ball plays really well (up in the zone). That’s a fact.”

The way Phillies officials see it, Wheeler has finally figured out his strengths. There’s still time, too, for him to fulfill all of that early-career hype — only with a different team.

“We were all younger, we were all under (club) control, nobody was leaving for a while, and everybody had really good stuff,” Wheeler said. “I wish I could’ve stayed healthy. I wish Harv could’ve stayed healthy and see what we really could’ve done together. But this is where I chose to be, and I’m excited to be here with this group of guys.”

Derek Jeter says Miami Marlins are ‘layered with talent’ and ready to make big strides Greg Cote Miami Herald

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New York Mets catcher Wilson Ramos (40) heads back to the dugout after hitting a home run against the Washington Nationals on Monday at FITTEAM Ballpark of the Palm Beaches.

no problem handling in 2019 — could go all the way, what’s stopping the Amazin’s from accomplishing the same triumph? “(The Nationals), they got hot and they played really well in the postseason and they found a formula that worked and I think we could have easily done the same thing,” Brandon Nimmo said Monday after the Mets beat the Nationals, 2-1, in their first exhibition game against the defending champs. “So I think that’s the motivation for us. We were literally three games away last year from almost doing the exact same thing as them.”

Monday’s game was the team’s first Grapefruit League win of the year, behind a twoinning start from 24-year-old

left-hander David Peterson.

It was the first of six matchups between the two teams this spring, with 19 more games on deck in the regular season.

Monday’s lineup included a handful of Washington starters in Trea Turner, Adam Eaton, Yan Gomes and former Met Asdrubal Cabrera.

In a competitive NL East division where three games can separate playoff duds and winners, the Mets will take any first looks at the Nationals that they can get before the 2020 season kicks off.

“Just playing in this division is going to get you playoff ready,” Nimmo said.

Wilson Ramos, after spending seven seasons behind the

plate for the Nationals, said he has good memories of playing for Washington. He feels extra motivated when the opposing team’s fans are on his side — cheering the catcher on when he gets to the field in appreciation for the years he spent with the Nationals.

Ramos provided the power with his first spring training home run of the year in Monday’s win and he’s working on lifting the ball in the air this season to help give the Mets an offensive edge.

“I’m very happy for (the Nationals) to win the World Series,” Ramos said. “Now it’s time to give 100% to my team and try to get that trophy too.”

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JUPITER, Fla. — Derek Jeter is this kind of guy. On a casual walk Monday at the Miami Marlins’ spring training facility, he asks how I’m doing, and without giving it a thought I say, “Couldn’t be better.”

He smiles, clasps me on the shoulder and and says, “Oh, you can always be better.”

Think of athletes whose careers are synonymous with success, with winning, and you would be hard-pressed to nominate a better one than Jeter. His 20 New York Yankees seasons included 17 postseason appearances (13 in a row), seven World Series and five championships.

His two seasons presiding over and part-owning the Marlins have produced records of 63-98 and 57-105 with two last-place finishes.

His Yankees career could hardly have been better.

His Marlins era might finally be heading in that direction.

It is time to turn a corner.

Nobody knows it better than Jeter as the franchise begins Year 3 of the regime of majority owner Bruce Sherman and Jeter.

“I think we’re in a lot better shape as an organization now than when we took over,” Jeter said Monday, in his first spring training appearance of the budding season. We should be a lot better this year than last year. We have a lot more talent. We have an organization that’s layered with talent.”

Jeter took a moment to blast the Houston Astros for their sign-stealing scandal, when asked, noting that looking for an edge is a long-standing baseball tradition but that “they took it too far.” He called it a black eye for the sport, likening it to PEDs and the steroids era. “You never forget it,” he said.

The controversy is a cloud

across the sport, though in Jupiter, optimism bubbles.

It isn’t enough, of course.

So prove it. Let’s start to see it — to see a competitive won-lost record reflect the increased young talent and newfound optimism.

It has been a running theme of this 2020 camp.

“The time now is to be much better this year,” Jeter’s ownership partner, Bruce Sherman, said.

President of baseball operations Michael Hill referred to “a lot more talent — upperlevel talent.”

Manager Don Mattingly: “I keep coming back to, ‘It’s time.’ Time to kind of get this thing up the hill. We’re going to be a disappointment if we don’t make significant strides.”

Jeter was pounding the same theme. That has been a difference this spring. Expectations were very reserved the first two years of the new regime. Now they are out there — the Marlins publicly challenging themselves to start justifying the fragile faith of those fans who get why Sherman/Jeter traded all the top players for prospects in a farm-first reboot.

“We’ve got to make progress,” Jeter said. “We’ve got to get better. We’ve got to improve.”

The team’s Marlins Park FanFest in Year 1 of Sherman/ Jeter drew a paltry 5,000 fans.

Last year it drew 12,000. This year’s FanFest attracted just more than 17,000.

That’s anecdotal, but there seem to be indications the faith of fans is being restored by degrees.

“We have to earn the trust of the fan base,” as Jeter put it. “It takes a little time.”

It has taken two years of a lot of losing.

Time for the reward to start showing itself.

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Create Collective Hudson, LLC. Filed with SSNY on 1/28/2020.

Office: Columbia County. SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 52 Corporate Circle Ste 207 Albany NY 12203.

Purpose: any lawful Hubbell Inc. is currently accepting proposals for materials and subcontractors for work pertaining to the Big Pond Road Culvert Replacement Project in the Town of Hardenburgh, Ulster County, NY. MBE, WBE, and Section 3 firms are encouraged to respond and will be given first priority. Please call Laurissa Vanoni at 845-586-2707 or email LAURISSA.VANONI@HUBBELLS.COM for details.

Hudson Housing Authority Regular Board Meeting The Hudson Housing Authority Board of Commissioners will hold its regular board meeting on Wednesday, March 11, 2020 at 6:00pm in the Bliss Towers Community Room located at 41 North Second Street, Hudson, NY 12534.

Hudson Housing Authority Administration Office 41 North Second Street Hudson, New York 12534 518-828-5415 Persons with special needs relating to handicapped accessibility, hearing or vision impairment or foreign language shall contact the Hudson Housing Authority Office at (518) 828-5415 prior to the date above.

LEGAL NOTICE AIMM Property Services, LLC Arts of Org. filed with Sec. Of State NY(SSNY) 10/07/2019.

Office Location: Greene County. SSNY is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against may be served. SSNY shall mail copy of process to: 3195 Sleepy Hollow Rd. Unit 2037, Athens NY 12015 MVW Enterprises LLC, Art. of Org. filed with SSNY on 11/12/19.

Off. loc.: Greene Co. SSNY designated as agent upon whom process may be served & shall mail: 35 Billingswood Pt., Athens, NY 12015. Purp.: any lawful purp.

NOTICE OF ORGANIZATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY FIRST: The name of the Limited Liability Company is Quality Q Holdings, LLC (hereinafter referred to as the “Company�)

SECOND: The Articles of Organization of the Company were filed with the Secretary of State on February 3, 2020.

THIRD: The County within the State of New York in which the office of the Company is located is Columbia.

FOURTH: The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process against the Company may be served. The post office address to which the Secretary of State shall mail process is P.O. Box 658, Claverack, NY, 12513.

FIFTH: The Company is organized for all lawful purposes, and to do any and all things necessary, convenient, or incidental to that purpose.

Dated: February 3, 2020 FREEMAN HOWARD, P.C. 441 East Allen Street P.O. Box 1328 Hudson, New York 12534

ary, 2020. The period of time has elapsed for the submission and filing of a petition for a permissive referendum and a valid petition has not been submitted and filed. The validity of the obligations authorized by such resolution may be hereafter contested only if such obligations were authorized for an object or purpose for which the Town of New Lebanon is not authorized to expend money or if the provisions of law which should have been complied with as of the date of publication of this notice were not substantially complied with, and an action, suit or proceeding contesting such validity is commenced within twenty (20) days after the date of publication of this notice; or if such obligations were authorized in violation of the provisions of the Constitution of New York.

Marcie Robertson, Town Clerk Town of New Lebanon BOND RESOLUTION DATED JANUARY 21, 2020 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE ACQUISITION OF A 2015 JOHN DEERE MOTOR GRADER FOR HIGHWAY PURPOSES AT AN ESTIMATED MAXIMUM COST OF $162,900, THE ISSUANCE OF SERIAL BONDS OF THE TOWN OF NEW LEBANON, COLUMBIA COUNTY, NEW YORK, IN AN AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $142,900 PURSUANT TO THE LOCAL FINANCE LAW TO FINANCE A PORTION OF THE COST THEREOF, PROVIDING THAT THIS RESOLUTION SHALL BE SUBJECT TO A PERMISSIVE REERENDUM AND DELEGATING CERTAIN POWERS IN CONNECTION THEREWITH TO THE TOWN SUPERVISOR Objects or purposes: The Bond Resolution authorizes the acquisition of a 2015 John Deere motor grader for highway department purposes, at an estimated maximum cost of $162,900.

The aforesaid purpose constitutes a Type II action as defined under the State Environmental Quality Review Regulations, 6 NYCRR Part 617, which has been determined under SEQRA not to have a significant impact on the environment.

Period of Probable Usefulness: Ten (10) years, pursuant to subdivision 35 of paragraph a of Section 11.00 of the Local Finance Law. The obligations authorized by the Bond Resolution will be in excess of five years from the original date of issuance of such obligations.

Maximum Amount of Obligations to be issued: The Town Board plans to finance a portion of the total cost of said purpose by the issuance of serial bonds of the Town in an amount not to exceed $142,900, hereby authorized to be issued therefor pursuant to the Local Finance Law. The remaining cost of the project is expected to be financed from other available funds.

Delegation: The power to authorize bond anticipation notes in anticipation of the issuance of the serial bonds authorized by this resolution, determine the form and terms of said serial bonds, and take certain other actions is delegated to the Town Supervisor, as Chief Fiscal Officer.

A complete copy of the Bond Resolution summarized above is available for public inspection during normal business hours at the office of the Town Clerk, located at the Town Hall, 14755 Route 22 North, New Lebanon, New York.

Dated: February 21, 2020 New Lebanon, New York

NOTICE OF BOND RESOLUTION NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the resolution published herewith has been adopted by the Town Board of the Town of New Lebanon, Columbia Notice of Formation of County, New York on Bellamy Wood Studio the 21st day of Janu- LLC. Arts of Org. filed

with New York Secy of State (SSNY) on 2/10/20. Office location: Columbia County.

SSNY is designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail process to: POB 77, N. Chatham, NY 12132.

Purpose: any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of BRASSERIE REALTY LLC Art. of Org. filed w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 12/23/2019.

Location: Greene County. SSNY designated as agent for service of process. SSNY shall mail process to 567 Hale Road, Rensselaerville, NY 12147.

Purpose: Any lawful activity Notice of Formation of Current Cassis LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 9/30/19. Office location: Greene.

SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 391 Main St., Catskill, NY, 12414. Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Leam Mountain Properties 2, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/23/19. Office location: Greene. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 1129 Northern Blvd., Manhasset, NY, 11030.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of Leam Mountain Properties 1, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/23/19. Office location: Greene. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 1129 Northern Blvd., Manhasset, NY, 11030.

Any lawful purpose.

Notice of Formation of MOUNTAIN VIEW BRASSERIE OF GREENVILLE LLC Art. of Org. filed w/Secy. of State of NY (SSNY) on 11/21/2019. Location: Greene County. SSNY designated as agent for service of process.

SSNY shall mail process to 567 Hale Road, Rensselaerville, NY 12147.

Purpose: Any lawful activity.

Notice of Formation of SDWT, LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY on 12/23/19. Office location: Greene. SSNY desg. as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY mail process to 1129 Northern Blvd., Manhasset, NY, 11030.

Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF NAME CHANGES Notice is hereby given that an order entered by the County Court, Greene county, on the 4th day of February, bearing Index Number 19-0972, a copy of

which may be examined at the office of the clerk, located at Catskill, grants me the right, effective on the 16th day of March, 2020, to assume the name of Sister Mary Alphonsus Chapin. My present address is 1275 Hearts Content Road, Round Top, New York 12473; the date of my birth is April 28, 1984, the place of my birth is Midland, Michigan; my present name is Emily Rose Chapin.

Notice is hereby given that an order entered by the County Court, Greene County, on the 4th day of February, 2020, bearing Index Number 19-0972, a copy of which may be examined at the office of the clerk, located at Catskill, grants me the right, effective on the 16th day of March, 2020, to assume the name of Sister Mary Anthony Clark.

My present address is 1275 Hearts Content Road, Round Top, New York 12473; the date of my birth is November 1, 1956, the place of my birth is Colorado Springs, Colorado; my present name is Helen Elizabeth Clark.

Notice is hereby given that an order entered by the County Court, Greene County, on the 4th day of February, 2020, bearing Index Number 19-0972, a copy of which may be examined at the office of the clerk, located at Catskill, grants me the right, effective on the 16th day of March, 2020, to assume the name of Sister Elizabeth Marie DeGregory.

My present address is 1275 Hearts Content Road, Round Top, New York 12473; the date of my birth is July 2, 1985, the place of my birth is Huntington, New York; my present name is Christina Marie DeGregory.

Notice is hereby given that an order entered by the County Court, Greene County, on the 4th day of February, 2020, bearing Index Number 19-0972, a copy of which may be examined at the office of the clerk, located at Catskill, grants me the right, effective on the 16th day of March, 2020, to assume the name of Sister Maria Rosaria DeGregory.

My present address is 1275 Hearts Content Road, Round Top, New York 12473; the date of my birth is February 23, 1981, the place of my birth is Huntington, New York; my present name is Francesca Maria DeGregory.

Notice is hereby given that an order entered by the County Court, Greene County, on the 4th day of February, 2020, bearing Index Number 19-0972, a copy of which may be examined at the office of the clerk, located at

Catskill, grants me the right, effective on the 16th day of March, 2020, to assume the name of Sister Mary Monica Erickson. My present address is 1275 Hearts Content Road, Round Top, New York 12473; the date of my birth is May 25, 1981, the place of my birth is St. Paul, Minnesota; my present name is Sarah Jane Erickson.

Notice is hereby given that an order entered by the County Court, Greene County, on the 4th day of February, 2020, bearing Index Number 19-0972, a copy of which may be examined at the office of the clerk, located at Catskill, grants me the right, effective on the 16th day of March, 2020, to assume the name of Sister Maria Immaculata Fantz. My present address is 1275 Hearts Content Road, Round Top, New York 12473; the date of my birth is December 8, 1970, the place of my birth is Castro Valley, California; my present name is Mary Therese Fantz.

Notice is hereby given that an order entered by the County Court, Greene County, on the 4th day of February, 2020, bearing Index Number 19-0972, a copy of which may be examined at the office of the clerk, located at Catskill, grants me the right, effective on the 16th day of March, 2020, to assume the name of Sister Maria Magdalena Goldade.

My present address is 1275 Hearts Content Road, Round Top, New York 12473; the date of my birth is June 28, 1969, the place of my birth is Bismarck, North Dakota; my present name is Nancy Ann Goldade.

Notice is hereby given that an order entered by the County Court, Greene County, on the 4th day of February, 2020, bearing Index Number 19-0972, a copy of which may be examined at the office of the clerk, located at Catskill, grants me the right, effective on the 16th day of March, 2020, to assume the name of Sister Margaret Mary Hanisch. My present address is 1275 Hearts Content Road, Round Top, New York 12473; the date of my birth is October 2, 1960, the place of my birth is Tulsa, Oklahoma; my present name is Donna Kathleen Hanisch.

Notice is hereby given that an order entered by the County Court, Greene County, on the 4th day of February, 2020, bearing Index Number 19-0972, a copy of which may be examined at the office of the clerk, located at Catskill, grants me the right, effective on the 16th day of March, 2020, to assume the name of Sister Marie

Desales Hovestadt. My present address is 1275 Hearts Content Road, Round Top, New York 12473; the date of my birth is April 9, 1966, the place of my birth is Islip, New York; my present name is Patricia Ann Hovestadt.

Notice is hereby given that an order entered by the County Court, Greene County, on the 4th day of February, 2020, bearing Index Number 19-0972, a copy of which may be examined at the office of the clerk, located at Catskill, grants me the right, effective on the 16th day of March, 2020, to assume the name of Sister Mary Veronica Regan. My present address is 1275 Hearts Content Road, Round Top, New York 12473; the date of my birth is February 7, 1980, the place of my birth is Broadwater County, Montana; my present name is Staci Ann Regan.

Notice is hereby given that an order entered by the County Court, Greene County, on the 4th day of February, 2020, bearing Index Number 19-0972, a copy of which may be examined at the office of the clerk, located at Catskill, grants me the right, effective on the 16th day of March, 2020, to assume the name of Sister Mary Teresa Santay.

My present address is 1275 Hearts Content Road, Round Top, New York 12473; the date of my birth is July 28, 1965, the place of my birth is Chicago, Illinois; my present name is Suzanne Marie Santay.

Notice is hereby given that an order entered by the County Court, Greene County, on the 4th day of February, 2020, bearing Index Number 19-0972, a copy of which may be examined at the office of the clerk, located at Catskill, grants me the

right, effective on the 16th day of March, 2020, to assume the name of Sister Regina Maria Schappacher.

My present address is 1275 Hearts Content Road, Round Top, New York 12473; the date of my birth is April 12, 1967, the place of my birth is Butler County, Ohio; my present name is Ann Louise Schappacher.

Notice is hereby given that an order entered by the County Court, Greene County, on the 4th day of February, 2020, bearing Index Number 19-0972, a copy of which may be examined at the office of the clerk, located at Catskill, grants me the right, effective on the 16th day of March, 2020, to assume the name of Sister Maria Savio Skierka.

My present address is 1275 Hearts Content Road, Round Top, New York 12473; the date of my birth is January 30, 1983, the place of my birth is Blythe, California; my present name is Martina Marie Skierka.

Notice is hereby given that an order entered by the County Court, Greene County, on the 4th day of February, 2020, bearing Index Number 19-0972, a copy of which may be examined at the office of the clerk, located at Catskill, grants me the right, effective on the 16th day of March, 2020, to assume the name of Sister Mary Clare Whall.

My present address is 1275 Hearts Content Road, Round Top, New York 12473; the date of my birth is December 5, 1969, the place of my birth is St. Paul, Minnesota; my present name is Regina Kathleen Whall.

Charles H. Schaefer, Esq. Deily & Scahefer P.O. Box 489 One Bridge Street Catskill, New York 12414 (518)943-6632

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON SITE PLAN FOR A FOOD TRUCK Notice is hereby given that the Planning Board of the Town of Cairo, Greene County, will meet at the Town Hall, 512 Main Street, Cairo, New York 12413, on the 5th day of March, 2020, at 7:00 PM, prevailing time, for the purpose of conducting a public hearing upon a site plan to operate a food truck by Charles Donahue relating to property located at Route 84 and Malmstrom Drive, Cairo, New York, Tax ID #83.04-3-5. The Planning Board will hear all persons interested in the subject.

By Order of the Planning Board of the Town of Cairo, New York Diane M. Newkirk Planning Board Clerk of Cairo

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON SITE PLAN FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SOLAR FARM Notice is hereby given that the Planning Board of the Town of Cairo, Greene County, will meet at the Town Hall, 512 Main Street, Cairo, New York 12413, on the 5th day of March, 2020, at 7:00 PM, prevailing time, for the purpose of conducting a public hearing upon a site plan to construct a solar farm by Lumens Holdings 3, LLC and George Henderson relating to property located at County Route 67 and Maiorana Lane, New York, Tax ID #51.00-7-38. The Planning Board will hear all persons interested in the subject.

By Order of the Planning Board of the Town of Cairo, New York Diane M. Newkirk Planning Board Clerk of Cairo

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PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC) The name of the LLC is 648 RTE 203, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on October 3, 2019. New York office location: 238 Schoolhouse Road, Town of Ghent, County of Columbia and the State of New York. SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is: c/o 648 RTE 203, LLC, 238 Schoolhouse Road, Ghent, NY 12075. Purpose/Character of business: Any lawful business purpose permitted under the New York Limited Liability Company Law. This notification is made pursuant to Section 206 of the Limited Liability Company Law.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON SITE PLAN FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A 40’ X 65’ MORTON BUILDING Notice is hereby given that the Planning Board of the Town of Cairo, Greene County, will meet at the Town Hall, 512 Main Street, Cairo, New York 12413, on the 5th day of March, 2020, at 7:00 PM, prevailing time, for the purpose of conducting a public hearing upon a site plan to construct a 40’ x 65’ Morton Building for equipment storage

by Melinda Watts and Sherry B. True relating to property located at 1184 Mountain Avenue, Purling, New York, Tax ID #100.0005-43. The Planning Board will hear all persons interested in the subject.

By Order of the Planning Board of the Town of Cairo, New York Diane M. Newkirk Planning Board Clerk of Cairo

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that pursuant to New York State Energy Law, Article 6, and as detailed in the State Register Notice (January 29, 2020)*, the New York State Energy Planning Board (Board) hereby gives notice of a public hearing at the Building Energy Exchange, Inc., 31 Chambers Street, Suite 608, New York, NY on Monday, March 2, 2020, commencing at 3:00 p.m. to gather comments to inform the Board’s consideration of the State Energy Plan Draft Amendment (Draft Amendment).

Preregistration is not required. A transcript of the hearing will be posted afterward on the State Energy Plan website at https://energyplan.ny.gov/.

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC) The name of the LLC is Nutten Hook Living, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on January 15, 2020. New York office location: 578 Route 9J, Town of Stuyvesant, County of Columbia and the State of New York.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is: Nutten Hook Living, LLC; 578 Route 9J, Stuyvesant, New York 12173. Purpose/Character of business: Any lawful business purpose permitted under the New York Limited Liability Company Law. This notification is made pursuant to Section 206 of the Limited Liability Company Law.

NOTICE TO BIDDERS Notice is hereby given that the Town of Cairo will accept sealed bids for: Cairo and Greenville Pedestrian Improvement Project.

The project consists of the construction of sidewalks along County Road 23B in the Town of Cairo and sidewalks along NY Route 81 and NY Route 32 in the Town of Greenville. Project work includes sidewalks, curbing, full depth shoulder reconstruction, closed drainage, and pedestrian signals.

Contract will be awarded based upon the lowest qualified bid. Contract Documents, including Invitation to Bidders, Instructions to Bidders, Wage Rates, Bid Documents, Agreement, Special Notes, Specifications, Contract Drawings and any Addenda, may be examined at no expense at the office of Creighton Manning Engineering, 2 Winners Circle, Albany, NY 12205 or at the Office of the Town of Cairo Town Clerk’s Office, 512 Main Street, Cairo, NY 12413.

USB drives containing electronic Plans and specifications may be obtained at the Town of Cairo Town Clerk’s Office during business hours. There is no charge for USB drives.

The Town will not mail Plans and/or Specifications.

Bids to be considered must be received in a sealed envelope at the office of Kayla Warner, Town Clerk, Town of Cairo, 512 Main Street, Cairo, NY 12413 by 10:00 AM, local time, on March 13, 2020 at which time and place they will be publicly opened and read aloud. Bids received after the above noted time will not be accepted. All sealed envelopes should be clearly labeled "BID FOR CAIRO AND GREENVILLE PEDESTRIAN IMPROVEMENT PROJECT". The sealed bids shall include the completed Bid Form, Non-Collusive Bidding Certification (as required by chapter 956 of the Laws of New York State), and Bid Bond.

Octagon House, LLC, Arts of Org. filed with Sec. of State of NY (SSNY) 1/8/2020. Cty: Columbia. SSNY desig. as agent upon whom process against may be served & shall mail process to 1029 Country Rte.7A, Hillsdale, NY 12529. General Purpose.

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC) The name of the LLC is Valatie Hotel, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on January 15, 2020. New York office location: 3015 Main Street, Village of Valatie, County of Columbia and the State of New York. SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is: Valatie Hotel, LLC; 3015 Main Street, Valatie, New York 12184. Purpose/Character of business: Any lawful business purpose permitted under the New York Limited Liability Company Law. This notification is made pursuant to Section 206 of the Limited Liability Company Law. PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC) The name of the LLC is Lentz Russell, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on February 4, 2020. New York office location: 44 Church Street, Village of Chatham, County of Columbia and the State of New York. SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is: Lentz Russell, LLC; 44 Church Street, Chatham, New York 12037. Purpose/Character of business: Any lawful business purpose permitted under the New York Limited Liability Company Law. This notification is made pursuant to Section 206 of the Limited Liability Company Law.

Owner’s Contact Louann Arp Town of Cairo Bookkeeper Phone: 518-622-3120 ext.115 Email: bookkeeper@townofcairo.com Contact Tony Christian, P.E Creighton Manning En- Public Notice The Stockport Fire Disgineering, LLP trict will be holding a (518) 689-1880 public referendum on March 10,2020 at the Stottville Firehouse from 6 to 9PM for the NOTICE purpose of approving VILLAGE OF ATHENS There will be a joint the purchase of a new Town and Village pumper for the StottMeeting held on March ville Fire Company and 5, 2020 from 6:30PM borrowing an amount to exceed to 8:00PM at the E.J. not Arthur Elementary 400,000.00 this new School Cafeteria, lo- truck will be replacing current trucks cated at 51 Third two Street in the Village of which are 30 years old.

By order of the Board Athens.

The purpose of the of Fire Commissioners meeting is for govern- Stockport Fire District ment officials to dis- Columbia county NY cuss the Comprehen- Michael Briscoe District secretary sive Plan update.

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC) The name of the LLC is Rail Trail Depot, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on January 15, 2020. New York office location: 3001 Main Street, Village of Valatie, County of Columbia and the State of New York.

SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is: Rail Trail Depot, LLC; 3001 Main Street, Valatie, New York 12184.

Purpose/Character of business: Any lawful business purpose permitted under the New York Limited Liability Company Law. This notification is made pursuant to Section 206 of the Limited Liability Company Law. PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF FORMATION OF A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC) The name of the LLC is Beaver Hill, LLC. Articles of Organization filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on January 15, 2020. New York office location: 3041 Main Street, Village of Valatie, County of Columbia and the State of New York. SSNY has been designated as agent of LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The post office address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her is: Beaver Hill, LLC; 3041 Main Street, Valatie, New York 12184. Purpose/Character of business: Any lawful business purpose permitted under the New York Limited Liability Company Law. This notification is made pursuant to Section 206 of the Limited Liability Company Law. West Ghent Cemetery Association will hold its Annual Directors Meeting Thursday, March 5, 2020 at 7:00 pm in the Ghent Reformed Church on County Rte 22, Ghent, N.Y. Meeting open to all lot owners.

Lot owners advised to remove any arrangements or decorations from plots they want to save before April 1st for spring cleanup.

Plots for sale to anyone - for information cal (518) 751-0428

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated May 22, 2019, and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Greene, wherein TOWD POINT MORTGAGE TRUST 2015-6, U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS INDENTURE TRUSTEE is the Plaintiff and ANN V. STANCARONE; ET AL. are the Defendant(s). I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the GREENE COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 320 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL, NY 12414, on March 18, 2020 at 11:00 am, premises known as 601 CAIRO JUNCTION ROAD, CATSKILL, NY 12414: Section 136.00, Block 5, Lot 7: PARCEL I ALL THAT PIECE, PARCEL AND LOT OF LAND, SITUATE IN THE TOWN OF CATSKILL, GREENE COUNTY, NEW YORK PARCEL II ALL THAT PIECE, PARCEL AND LOT OF LAND, SITUATE IN THE TOWN OF CATSKILL, GREENE COUNTY, NEW YORK Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 17-0864. Aaron A. Louridas, Esq. Referee. RAS Boriskin, LLC 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff.

SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK - COUNTY OF GREENE U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO BANK OF AMERICA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO LASALLE BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR MORGAN STANLEY MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2007-1XS, V. LAURA ROSS; ET. AL. NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated January 07, 2020, and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Greene, wherein U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION AS TRUSTEE SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO BANK OF AMERICA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO LASALLE BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR MORGAN STANLEY MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2007-1XS is the Plaintiff and LAURA ROSS; ET AL. are the Defendant(s). I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the GREENE COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 320 MAIN STREET, CATSKILL, NY 12414, on April 1, 2020 at 9:00 am, premises known as 625 RT 32 A, PALENVILLE, NY 12463: Section 199.8, Block 4, Lot 9: ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND SITUATE AT PALENVILLE, IN THE TOWN OF CATSKILL, COUNTY OF GREENE AND STATE OF NEW YORK Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 11-1289. Henry R. Bauer, Esq. - Referee. RAS Boriskin, LLC

900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff.

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Mobile, Modular, Mfg. Homes

MOBILE HOME in Dutch Village Hudson #46, $49,500 negotiable. 2 bdr, 2 bath, kitchen, dinning area, central A/C, propane heat forced hot air. BONUS propane paid until August 2020 included.

Call 413-2308430 or 413-212-2487.

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Lake George Region 20 acres approved building site and attractive wooded setting. Nice deal from Ridge top camping spot.

Close to state land. $69k, Call 518-624-6055.

TUG HILL PlateauBarnes Corners NY. FSBO- 78 acres, wooded, borders state land. 315783-9720.

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Apts. for Rent Columbia Co.

CATSKILL LARGE modern 2 bdr apt. all new appliances, completely renovated. heat/hot water, garbage removal, snow plowing & maintenance incl. $950.

Laundry on premises. No dogs. 518-943-1237.

CLAVERACK, Unfurnished 2nd floor, 1 bdr., $800/mo. $800 + elect., sec dep. reqd. Mo. to mo. lease. NO PETS, NO SMOKING. Quiet cul de sac area. NO 3RD PARTY REIMBURSEMENT. ref req. 518-851-7062/ 914474-5176 leave msg.

HUDSON- SPACIOUS 2 bdr apt. close to shopping.

Call (914)227-5688

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DENTAL INSURANCE from Physicians Mutual Insurance Company. NOT just a discount plan, REAL coverage for [350] procedures.

Call 1-866-679-8194 for details. www.dental50plus.com/416118-0219

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26TH ANNUAL Saugerties French Club Flea Market this Saturday, February 29, 2020 from 10am-3pm.

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The Town of Greenport is seeking applications for parttime Park maintenance workers for 10-15 hours per week from April 1-November 1. Nights & Weekends required.

Salary is $13.07/hour. Obtain and return applications to the Greenport Town Clerk, 600 Town Hall Drive, Hudson, NY, no later than March 6, 2020. Questions call 518-828-3400.

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The Heermance Memorial Library’s Board of Trustees plans to meet on the following dates in 2020: Jan. 16, Feb. 20, Mar. 19, Apr. 16, May 21, Jun. 18, Jul. 16, Aug. 20, Sept.

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Husband is unsettled by his attraction to another man Dear Abby, I am a 57-year-old married man. I share a house with my wife and daughter. After dinner last month, my wife and I had a big fight. I can’t believe the things we said. In 30 years, it has never gone that far.

I left the house and went to a bar. A slightly older man sat DEAR ABBY down next to me, and we talked for a long time, about the Beatles, hockey, science, evolution and the universe. Conversation just flowed.

I decided to tell him about the fight with my wife. He told me he lived in the building and had a vintage vinyl collection. If I wanted, we could go up and listen to some records. I said yes. We had a few drinks, listened to some great music and talked some more. He was so smart and so cool.

Then I caught myself looking at him with more than just admiration for his intellect, if you know what I mean. It scared me.

I didn’t know what to do, so I apologized and excused myself, hastily and rudely, I’m sure.

I don’t know if he had any intentions other than listening to old records. He didn’t say, and I didn’t stick around long enough to find out. But I remember that feeling. All day long I remember it.

My wife and I have made up. We both regret the fight. But, Abby, I think about him every day. I’ve considered going back and knocking on his door, but I can’t. I never imagined I’d feel

JEANNE PHILLIPS

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this way at my age. What can I do?

Twisted Up In The South I’ll be frank. Sexuality is not necessarily black and white; there are shades of gray. You met this person at a time when you were emotionally vulnerable. The best thing you can do for your marriage would be to talk about this with a licensed mental health professional. The most destructive thing you could do for your marriage would be to knock on that person’s door at this time.

Dear Abby, I recently received an email from the grade school-aged son of a close friend, which included a link requesting funding to support his school sports program. My friend told me to expect such an email.

I’m not certain how to respond, as I always encouraged my children to communicate faceto-face when soliciting funds for their school programs, but that was years ago, and I realize this is a new era. It just seems so impersonal to ask for money electronically, especially when I barely know the young man. Are my expectations wrong? How would you handle this?

Check’s In The E-Mail

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Despite how the request was made, if you want to support the program, do so. If not, then don’t.

Personally, I would ignore the email, and if I was asked about it, I would politely decline.

Atrial fibrillation discovered during routine colonoscopy I recently had a colonoscopy and was told I was in atrial fibrillation. I’m 71 years old and have never had this before. I was told to see a cardiologist ASAP. I called my doctor, who put me on Eliquis without seeing me because it was going to be a month before the heart doctor was available.

When I saw him, I was fine and TO YOUR had no atrial fibrillation, but GOOD HEALTH he said I should stay on Eliquis.

It sounds like I’m stuck taking this very expensive medicine for the rest of my life. What would you recommend?

DR. KEITH ROACH

Atrial fibrillation is a common abnormal heart rhythm that is of major concern because it increases the risk of a blood clot forming in the heart and going to the brain, causing a stroke.

When AFib comes and goes, it is called “paroxysmal atrial fibrillation”; however, it is still dangerous and nearly as likely to cause strokes as AFib that is there all the time. I suspect that you have been in and out of atrial fibrillation for a long time, and they only caught it during the colonoscopy because they were monitoring you with the EKG during the procedure.

There is a risk score for stroke in people with AFib, called the CHA2DS2-VASc score, and you have at least two points due to your age and sex. People with a score of two or higher are generally recommended for anticoagulation treatment. Apixaban (Eliquis) is a common anticoagulant used for AFib, and although it is expensive, it has the benefit of not requiring blood testing. Warfarin (Coumadin) is much less expensive but requires periodic blood testing and a careful diet to be as safe and effective as possible.

Everyone who’s prescribed anticoagulation should receive a thorough review of the costs and benefits.

It was with some sadness that I read your letter from M.K. regarding her husband who won’t take his mobile oxygen tank when he leaves the house. Ten years ago on Christmas Eve, this same sort of vanity killed my wonderful mother-in-law. Too vain and stubborn to listen to those around her, she left the house on a cold day to do some shopping. No one was there to see it happen, but she evidently collapsed in her car because she did not bring her oxygen into the store with her. She was revived a couple of times, but died almost at the stroke of midnight Christmas Eve. It was a loss that impacted all those who loved her, particularly her husband. She suffered from emphysema from years of smoking. Though she had quit quite a few years before the incident, the damage was done.

This was a tragedy that did not have to happen. I hope your encouragement to M.K.’s husband will be sufficient to make him accept that he is putting himself at great risk if he leaves his oxygen behind. It is definitely not a risk worth taking.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — You’ve been resistant to what someone has been telling you of late, but today you’ll come to an understanding that puts you on board.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — The talents you put on display today will be appreciated by almost all — but there is someone you must deal with who is not enthusiastic.

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Thank you for writing. I am very sorry for your mother-in-law. While there is no guarantee the oxygen would have prevented her passing, oxygen does help people with COPD, like emphysema, live longer and with a better quality of life.

Horoscope

By Stella Wilder Born today, you go about your business without giving much thought at all to what other people think of you, your endeavors or the overall impact you may or may not have on the world at large. You believe that to base your contentment, whether personal or professional, on what other people think is simply foolishness, and you will live your life free of those kinds of ties and limitations.

You can at times be guilty of overindulgence, for you like all that is considered the “best” in life and will do all you can to provide yourself with it again and again. This can result in all manner of setbacks if you are not careful, and you must always guard against doing damage to your body or your mind by giving yourself too much of that which, in moderation, poses little danger at all.

Also born on this date are: Johnny Cash, singer and songwriter; Erykah Badu, singer; Michael Bolton, singer; Jackie Gleason, actor and comedian; Fats Domino, musician; Victor Hugo, author; Buffalo Bill Cody, Wild West showman.

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

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27

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Baby Blues TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — Events of the day are likely to reshape your thinking on a certain issue. From here on out, things are likely to be quite different.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You’ll be able to give someone else a chance at redemption. He or she will show appreciation in a way that means a lot — but only to you.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — You can have what you want today, but you may have to get it in a manner you’re not exactly proud of. You’ll have a choice next time.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — You may have to throw your lot in with someone you don’t exactly admire — but after a little collaboration today, you’ll see something you didn’t.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You can minimize the long-term effects of a disappointment today by focusing on a few things that give you strength — both inside and out.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — A little rest and relaxation can go a long way today as you recover from something that was more of an effort than you anticipated.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — You may have to come to terms with what someone has been saying if you’re going to make your way through a tricky personal situation.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — What develops today is worth exploring very carefully when you have the time, but today you’ll have to focus on a previous commitment.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You may be nervous about what may be expected of you today, but you should be able to navigate anything that arises with confidence and style.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — You’re likely to receive a compliment today that means more than most, given the source. This will mean much to you for some time to come.

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SUPER QUIZ

THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME

By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek

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

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

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

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Yesterday’s

Jumbles: INPUT LOFTY SAILOR AGENDA Answer: The pessimist had such a negative attitude, that everyone considered him to be a — “NO”-IT-ALL

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Solution to Tuesday’s puzzle

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

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(e.g., Usagi Tsukino is this Japanese superheroine. Answer: Sailor Moon.)

Freshman level 1. What line precedes “I’m strong to the finich, cause I eats me spinach”?

2. Captain Queeg faces rebellious sailors in this book and film.

3. Complete the saying: “Red sky in the morning ...”

Graduate level 4. These mythological creatures lured sailors to shipwreck with their enchanting voices.

5. Sailor’s slang for the bottom of the sea is this man’s “locker.”

6. This Portuguese sailor became the first to round the Cape of Good Hope.

PH.D. level 7. Sailors have long been superstitious about killing this bird.

8. This short, warm, double-breasted coat of heavy wool is traditionally worn by sailors.

9. This fictional sailor made seven fantastic voyages.

SUPER QUIZ ANSWERS 1. “I’m Popeye the sailor man.” 2. “The Caine Mutiny.” 3. Sailors take warning. 4. Sirens. 5. Davy Jones’ locker. 6. Bartolomeu Dias. 7. Albatross. 8.

Pea jacket (coat). 9. Sinbad (the sailor).

18 points — congratulations, doctor; 15 to 17 points — honors graduate; 10 to 14 points — you’re plenty smart, but no grind; 4 to 9 points — you really should hit the books harder; 1 point to 3 points — enroll in remedial courses immediately; 0 points — who reads the questions to you?

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Crossword Puzzle Mother Goose & Grimm ACROSS 1 Relaxation 5 Go by 9 “One __ Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” 13 Stomach woe 15 Public uprising 16 Coty or Russo 17 Go down a fire pole 18 Emergency vehicle 20 Storm center 21 11/11 honoree 23 Made coins 24 Racket 26 U.K. network 27 Tin & bronze 29 Snoozes 32 Identical 33 Salesman’s pitch 35 Like chafed skin 37 Peat __; garden soil additive 38 Raises, as kids 39 Garb for Caesar 40 To the point 41 Fruit salad ingredients 42 Wanderer 43 Hold in high regard 45 Perplex 46 Obi-__ Kenobi 47 Hut 48 Like a no-nonsense teacher 51 Neighbor of Mex. 52 “I __ Rhythm”; Gershwin song 55 Unfinished business 58 Prince Harry’s mum 60 As blind as __ 61 Chess piece 62 Change slightly 63 Marries 64 Stick around 65 In case DOWN 1 Trick 2 Soprano Ameling 3 Chemists & biologists 4 Kennedy or Danson

Bound & Gagged

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5 Babble 6 Shoot carefully 7 Cry 8 Trips 9 Neighbor of Belgium 10 Season that begins today 11 Suffix for confer or insist 12 Garden intruder 14 Denounce harshly 19 Written slander 22 English letter 25 Sturdy trees 27 One of the Three Bears 28 Wed secretly 29 Gentlemen 30 Make known to the public 31 Long narratives 33 Stitched joining 34 Golf term 36 Get one’s feet wet 38 Goes in again 39 Heavy volume 41 Hippie’s greeting

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Non Sequitur

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42 “The Silver State” 44 Removes a jar lid 45 Derek & others 47 Sled dog 48 Cabbage dish 49 “O, __ in England…”

(Robt. Browning)

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50 Rocky __ ice cream 53 Small numbers 54 Little fruit pie 56 As often as __; usually 57 __ slow burn; seethe 59 Under the weather

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