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ATHENS — A former Greene County coroner candidate was arrested Thursday on numerous felony charges including forgery, according to state police.

Robert J. Gaus, 62, of Athens, was charged with three counts of second-degree forgery of a deed/will/contract and two counts of second-degree forgery of a public record, both class D felonies, first-degree falsifying business records and two counts of issuing a false certificate, both class E felonies, fifth-degree life settlement fraud and two counts of official

An investigation revealed that a forged signature on a document resulted in a life insurance payment going directly to the funeral home to cover the funeral costs, instead of to the beneficiary.

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misconduct of a public servant, both class A misdemeanors.

On Jan. 16 state police received a forgery complaint involving a funeral conducted in December 2019 by Millspaugh Camerato Funeral Home in Catskill, according to state police.

An investigation revealed that a forged signature on a document resulted in a life insurance

payment going directly to the funeral home to cover the funeral costs, instead of to the beneficiary, according to state police.

Gaus is scheduled to appear in court March 12.

Gaus has been the licensed manager of Millspaugh Camerato Funeral Home since May 2013, according to the funeral home’s website.

A 1977 graduate of SUNY

Farmingdale, Gaus has worked at the funeral home since May 2013, according to its website.

A man who answered the phone at the Millspaugh Camerato Funeral Home on Friday morning did not give his name and declined to comment on the arrest.

Gaus ran for county coroner with Joshua Lipsman in 2018.

Lipsman had no knowledge

of the arrest on Friday morning.

“We ran together but other than that we don’t have a lot in common,” Lipsman said.

Lipsman was surprised by the news.

“Bob is a very popular and social person,” Lipsman said.

“This news will come as a shock not just to me but to many others.”

Democratic Chairwoman Carolyn Riggs said she was unaware of the arrest Friday morning.

Gaus is active in many local organizations, according to the funeral home’s website, See CHARGED A2

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Riders battle until the end Ichabod Crane girls basketball team — a rough start followed by a strong finish.

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AS SOLAR FARMS GROW, LOSS OF HOME RULE FEARED Courtesy of Tribune News Service

Greene and Columbia county officials fear that Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s budget amendment to do away with the state Siting Board will eliminate local control over siting solar farms.

Proposed gun laws stir debate Gun control legislation unveiled in the state Assembly inspires hope and skepticism PAGE A3

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Local officials are concerned that Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposed budget amendment to overhaul the permitting process for solar

farms will leave them out of the picture.

The amendment, announced Feb. 21, would create a new Office of Renewable Energy Permitting, replacing the current Siting Board process

known as Article 10.

This could accelerate the development of solar farms across Greene and Columbia counties, including Hecate Energy’s proposed 700-acre facility in Copake and the Flint

Mine solar project in Coxsackie.

Under the Article 10 review process, each project’s review board includes two local representatives appointed by their communities.

But those local representatives would be eliminated in the proposed permitting process, instead leaving decisions to the new office, which would See SOLAR A2

Heritage to play key role in C&D proposal

By Sarah Trafton Columbia-Greene Media

ATHENS — Residents and village officials will gather Sunday to discuss a proposed construction and demolition debris processing facility.

The meeting, hosted by Keep it Greene in partnership with Friends of Athens, will include guest speakers such as Riverkeeper President Paul Gallay and local geologist David Walker of Catskill. The event will take place from 1-3 p.m. at the Athens Firehouse.

The project, proposed by Athens Stevedoring & Environmental Development LLC involves importing 8,400 tons of C&D materials each week to a 6.1-acre site off North Washington Street, according to the

Melanie Lekocevic/Columbia-Greene Media

Land near the site proposed for a construction-and-demolition debris terminal in the village of Athens.

developer’s application to the state Department of Environmental Conservation on Jan. 3.

The materials would come

from DEC Region 2, which is Long Island City, according to the application.

After processing in Athens,

the materials will be exported by truck to locations in state Department of Environmental Conservation Region 3, which

includes Ulster, Dutchess, Sullivan, Orange, Putnam, Westchester and Rockland counties; Region 4 which includes Delaware, Greene, Columbia, Rensselaer, Schenectady, Albany, Schoharie, Montgomery and Otsego counties; Region 5 which includes Saratoga, Washington, Fulton, Hamilton, Essex, Franklin and Clinton counties; Region 6 which includes Oneida, Herkimer, Lewis, Jefferson and St. Lawrence counties; and Region 7 which includes Oswego, Onondaga, Madison, Cortland, Cayuga, Tompkins, Tioga, Broome and Chenango counties, according the application.

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“The governor wants to speed up his plan but he is steamrolling local communities,” Coxsackie Town Supervisor Richard Hanse said.

“I am very concerned that it takes away virtually all municipal input. The communities affected by the solar projects will have no say, no representation, as we do with the Siting Board,” he said.

Hanse is concerned about how solar farms will be decommissioned at the end of Courtesy of Tribune News Service their 20-year or 30-year lifesGreene and Columbia county officials fear that Gov. Andrew pan.

“What do we do at the end Cuomo’s budget amendment to do away with the state Siting Board will eliminate local control over siting solar farms. of that time if there is no obligation on the part of the operators to decommission? proposal would do just that, speed up the permitting and Will the local community I have many questions and construction of renewable have to pay?” Hanse said. energy projects” and would concerns,” Mettler said.

Hanse is in favor of renewGreene County has re- “consolidate the environable energy, but proper siting ceived applications for thou- mental review and permitand planning are necessary, sands of acres of solar farms, ting of major renewable enhe said. said county Administrator ergy facilities,” according to “My hope is that more sen- Shaun Groden. “There’s a a statement from the goversible minds in the Legislature proper place to put their nor’s office. will realize what a travesty units, but it’s not necessarily In July 2019 the governor this is to take local govern- in the middle of villages,” he signed into law a climate bill, ment out of the picture,” he said. which set targets for the state said.

Cuomo’s plan takes away to obtain 70% of its electricity Copake Town Supervi- local authority, local zoning from renewable sources by sor Jeanne Mettler echoed and local planning, Groden 2030.

Hanse’s comments. said.

In addition to eliminating “We are still studying the “It takes the local commu- local representatives, the governor’s proposal, but I nity out of the picture, and proposed streamlined solar am opposed to any effort to that’s what I object to,” he farm review process would diminish the ability of towns said. also reduce input from the to determine their own fuIf passed, the fast-track state Department of Enviture. To the extent that this process would “dramatically ronmental Conservation.

in Kingston.

Over the years he has performed with Ars Choralis in Woodstock, the Mendelssohn Club of Kingston, and Coach House Players, according to the website.

An honorary member of the Chevra Kadisha of Greater Kingston, an honorary member of St. Mary’s Benevolent Society and former board member of Ulster County Hospice and later Hospice, Inc., Gaus owned and operated the Simpson-Gaus Funeral Home in Kingston from 1981 until November 2011.

Some environmental advocates are concerned about the ecological impact of more solar farms in Columbia and Greene counties.

“A lot depends on the location and size of the facilities,” said ornithologist Richard Guthrie of New Baltimore.

Solar farms have the potential to destroy essential habitat for various bird and wildlife species, he said.

“Projects that chop up, break up the continuity of habitats, can have disastrous effects for hawks and owls that need larger areas to forage,” Guthrie said.

“These are complex questions that deserve complex answers,” he said.

The proposed amendment will include upfront mitigation measures to address environmental impacts of solar and wind farms, according to the governor’s press office.

“As long as the state Department of Environmental Conservation plays a strong and equal role in developing said standards and mitigation measures, this legislation could be a positive action to ensure that birds, other wildlife and their habitats receive necessary and adequate protections,” said Larry Federman, president of the Northern Catskills Audubon Society.

Nora Mishanec is a reporter for Columbia-Greene Media.

Contact her at (518) 828-1616 ext. 2495 or nmishanec@columbiagreenemedia.com

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Carole had no knowledge of the arrest she said, adding that she was out of state.

Gaus is listed as the Community Service Director for the club on www.portal.clubrunner.ca Gaus also served as a former member and past president of the Lions Club and member and past board chairman of the Ulster County Chamber of Commerce, according to the funeral home’s website.

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including secretary and past president of the Dutchess, Putnam, Ulster Funeral Directors Association.

He is an active member of the New York State Funeral Directors Association and the National Funeral Directors Association.

A parishioner of St. Patrick’s Church in Athens and Catskill, Gaus occasionally sings with the church choir, according to the

website.

He serves on the agency board of the ARC of Ulster Greene, participates in Greene County interfaith events, and sings in the Catskill Glee Club, according to the website. Gaus has served as vice president and president of the Catskill Rotary Club and, through Millspaugh Camerato, belongs to the Greene County Chamber of Commerce.

A woman who identified herself as Carole answered the line listed for the Rotary club. Carole Pouliot serves as the club’s treasurer.

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not require a permit from the DEC and is not subject to state environmental quality review, according to DEC. Gallay has serious concerns about the project.

“This proposal involves so many significant potential impacts on the river, roads, community character and quality of life, air quality, recreation, habitat and waterfront revitalization,” he said.

The project requires a full environmental impact statement, Gallay said, “before any agency could possibly make an intelligent decision.”

“We urge people in the community to become involved,” he said. “The only way to assure a decision is to show up and demand one.”

Walker agreed that public review is essential.

“Metropolitan waste stream management is contentious along the whole length of the tidewater Hudson,” Walker said. “The Athens C&D terminal proposal is the most recent example of an attempt to concentrate environmentally questionable waste streams into Greene County. It is important that this attempt be given public scrutiny.”

Some residents worry the project may alter the character of the community.

“Athens is cherished for historic charm and the natural beauty of its setting along the Hudson River, Friends of Athens President Catherine Censor said. “Our health, our businesses and our heritage all depend on responsible stewardship of the riverfront. Although the residents of Athens have a heightened interest in the protection of the waterfront, it is not our concern alone. The Hudson River waterfront, which welcomed the Half Moon and inspired the likes of Thomas Cole, is part of our shared national heritage.

We all have a stake in its care.”

The village board is learning more about the project, Trustee Joshua Lipsman said.

“We’re following it very closely,” Lipsman said. “It is a matter of deep concern for us. We will be working diligently to get the right outcome for our community and treat all parties with respect and equal consideration.”

Mayor Stephan Bradicich agreed.

“My official position is that we’re going to review it — once we have a permit before us — in accordance with all local laws,” he said.

Bradicich and other board members will be in attendance at Sunday’s meeting to answer legal and comprehensive-related questions, he said.

The village is in the midst of updating its 13-year-old comprehensive plan.

Depending on the nature of the project, it may go before

the village’s Waterfront Advisory Committee or the planning board, Lipsman said.

“We can’t be a lead agency until, a) we know it’s going to happen and, b) we know what it is,” Lipsman said.

Multiple requests for further information on the project were made to Nadine Shadlock, the attorney representing Athens Stevedoring Development. No response was received by press time on Friday.

In a letter dated July 29, 2019 included with the January application, R. Daniel Mackay, deputy commissioner for Historic Preservation with the state Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Office, determined that no significant archaeological or historic resources would be impacted by the project.

“These comments are those of the Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation and relate only to historic/cultural resources,” Mackay wrote.

“They do not include potential environmental impacts to New York Parkland that may be involved in or near your project.

Such impacts must be considered as part of the environmental review of the project pursuant to the State Environmental Quality Review Act and its implementing regulations.”

The developer has also set up a meeting with Bradicich to discuss the details of the project.

“Once we get the details, I will start looking at our concerns in terms of local and

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environmental impact,” Bradicich said. “Other than that there’s not much I can do until they apply for a permit.”

Although DEC is not requiring a state environmental quality review for the project, the village will require one, Bradicich said.

The village attorney has advised the developer of the applicable local laws and that the village intends to designate itself lead agency on the project, he said. Because the proposed project is adjacent to the Athens Boat Launch, a state park, the environmental review will be considered a Type I action.

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

Town Hall, 2 First St., Athens 518-9451052

Tuesday, March 3 n Catskill Town Board 6:30 p.m.

Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill n Durham Town Board workshop meeting 7:30 p.m. at Town Hall, 7309 Route 81, East Durham

Wednesday, March 4 n Catskill Central School District

BOE budget workshop 6:30 p.m. High School Library, 341 West Main St., Catskill n Greene County Legislature health services; county resources and public safety 6 p.m. Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill

Thursday, March 5 n Ashland Planning Board 6 p.m.

at the Town Hall, 12094 Route 23, Ashland n Coxsackie Town Planning Board 7 p.m. Town Hall, 56 Bailey St., Coxsackie n Coxsackie Village Workshop meeting 6 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

Monday, March 9 n Ashland Town Board 7:30 p.m. at the Town Hall, 12094 Route 23, Ashland n Catskill Village Planning Board 7 p.m. Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill n Coxsackie Village Board 7 p.m.

Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie n Greene County Legislature county services and public works 6 p.m. Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill

Tuesday, March 10 n Cairo Public Library Board of Trustees at 3:30 p.m. at the Library, 15 Railroad Ave., Cairo 518-622-9864 n Catskill Town Planning Board 7 p.m. Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill n Coxsackie Town Board 7 p.m.

Town Hall, 56 Bailey St., Coxsackie n Coxsackie Village Historic Preservation Committee 6 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

Wednesday, March 11 n Athens Village Board 6:30 p.m.

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Gun legislation inspires optimism, skepticism

By Kate Lisa Johnson Newspaper Corporation

ALBANY — Antonius Wiriadjaja thought he was hearing fireworks.

It would make sense — it was the day after Independence Day: July 5, 2013.

The next thing the Brooklyn man knew, a stray bullet collided with his chest and he watched blood pour from the critical wound.

“It missed my heart by a mere inch,” Wiriadjaja recounted during a press conference Wednesday in Albany’s Legislative Office Building. “The shooter was aiming for a pregnant woman. I didn’t know either of them.”

Wiriadjaja was walking toward a subway stop at 2 p.m. about one block from his apartment when he was unexpectedly shot. A local barber heard the noise and came to his aid — holding a hand over the gushing wound to prevent him from bleeding out.

The pregnant woman was shot in the legs, but Wiriadjaja received medical treatment and was placed in a medically induced coma.

“I woke up four days later and was the happiest person on earth,” he said.

The heroic barber was later shot and killed while visiting family in South Carolina.

“He saved my life, but I couldn’t save his,” Wiriadjaja said.

Wiriadjaja was one of several members of New Yorkbased lobby group Gays Against Guns who joined assistant Assembly Speaker Felix Ortiz, D-51, Wednesday to unveil new gun-control legislation in the state Assembly.

“Every day, we hear about gun violence in our neighborhood and our community,” Ortiz said. “Tragedies are happening, and it has to stop.

These bills are important to save lives.”

Ortiz detailed six bills as part of his gun control legislation package, two of which are new. Bill No. A.8931 would require GPS tracking on guns to locate firearms that have been lost or stolen.

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Survivor Antonius Wiriadjaja tells the story of the day he was shot one block from his Brooklyn apartment in 2013. Wiriadjaja joined Assemblyman Felix Ortiz, D-51, at a press conference Wednesday to introduce new gun control legislation in the state Assembly.

Introduced Dec. 30, the measure is in the Assembly’s Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee.

Wiriadjaja was shot by a person who used a stolen firearm, he said, adding the legislation requiring GPS tracking could have prevented the incident. Police arrested a suspect in connection with the 2013 Brooklyn shooting, but the weapon was never found.

“Knowing that gun is potentially still out there on the streets keeps me awake at night,” Wiriadjaja said. “Each person has a name, each is a human being. Each is worth protecting. Please consider all the lives you can save when you put these bills to a vote.”

The other recent legislation, bill No. A.9783, was introduced Feb. 11 and remains in the Codes Committee. The bill proposes to create a “smart gun” commission to authorize safety and performance standards for personalized pistols and would mandate firearm sellers to sell at least one personalized pistol.

The other four proposed gun control bills are: • A.3152: Legislation prohibiting the creation of “ghost guns” by requiring manufactured

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or assembled guns to have serial number engraved or affixed to the gun and its component parts • A.3779: Legislation that would require ammunition manufacturers to use the Ammunition Coding System (ACS) on all handguns and assault weapons sold in New York State.

• A.3258: The Handgun Trigger Safety Act” is legislation that would create a fund to develop “personalized pistols” or “smart guns” technology in New York State. “Smart” technology can prevent accidental shootings and stop stolen guns from being used in crimes.

• A.2847: Legislation that requires owners of firearms to obtain a minimum liability insurance of $250,000.

Ortiz is prepared for backlash from the National Rifle Association, and will not give up on getting the bills passed,

he said.

“I’ve had a lot of resistance from the NRA, nasty emails and even threats,” the assemblyman said. “I have very tough skin. We have a majority, and I think they’re very straightforward bills. There’s nothing complex here ... they’re common sense, but sometimes, common sense doesn’t work when it comes to politics.”

Assembly Minority Leader Will Barclay, R-120, said he does not support any of the gun control bills as they stand.

“This is appears to be just another attack on law-abiding gun owners, manufacturers and the Second Amendment,” Barclay said in a statement Thursday. “At this point, these proposals seem completely unrealistic. Does this technology even exist and what are the privacy, reliability and safety concerns that go along with it? It’s the typical kind of big-government overreach that Albany liberals are so fond of.”

Assemblyman Chris Tague, R-102, said he is

always skeptical of gun-control legislation packages that reach his desk.

“We already have some of the most stringent gun laws in the country,” Tague said.

“While I’m sure the bill’s sponsor is well intentioned, and I can agree that common-sense gun control is a must, this package is a huge overreach of constitutionally guaranteed rights. If we wanted to tackle one of the primary firearm issues, it would be to solve the illegal handgun epidemic that has crept into our communities.

That’s not even beginning to talk about fixing the mental health system that sorely needs revisiting.

“We cannot burden lawabiding citizens with more fees, red-tape and invasive regulations.”

Assemblywoman Didi Barrett, D-106, and Assemblyman Jake Ashby, R-107, did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

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A film about addiction and how to fix it The new documentary “Uprooting Addiction,” premiering Sunday at the Crandell Theatre in Chatham, will likely earn film festival engagements in other parts of the nation and, maybe, around the world. But the film, which is getting good reviews and advance buzz, is not about winning the approval of festival judges. It confronts an essential question: When all conventional addiction therapies are exhausted, where do you turn?

“Uprooting Addiction” explores the connection between trauma and addiction, a technique pioneered by Hope Payson of Connecticut, the film’s coproducer, a licensed clinical social worker and an alcohol and drug counselor in Connecticut. The form of the documentary is traditional: six people from a variety of

backgrounds, each affected by childhood trauma, come together at an innovative retreat to share their stories.

The content is revolutionary.

The film breaks the documentary mold by using the personal stories to explore the root causes of addiction, the transformational power of recovery, and how compassion, understanding and access to evidence-based trauma treatment are more effective interventions than incarceration or exile. Payson uses the metaphor of a tree with a network of roots to help them recognize the foundation of their trauma and how it manifests and permeates through life to lead to fundamental healing, hence the film’s title.

“If you don’t understand the root of your pain, then you’re just working on the problem superficially, from

the top,” Payson said in an interview this week.

“Uprooting Addiction: Healing from the Ground Up” will be shown at noon Sunday at the Crandell. The theater will host a questionand-answer session about opioid addiction and recovery following the screening.

The Q&A session will feature Chatham Police Chief Peter Volkmann, founder of Chatham Cares 4 U, director Tory Estern Jadow and executive producer Edie Schechter. The film is relevant to the local opioid crisis. It offers a method to halt and possibly reverse the addiction trend in Greene and Columbia counties. At its heart it is a call for treating addicts as patients, not criminals. If you can, make an attempt to see this eye-opening film.

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Virginia finally recognizes that children jailed for life deserve at least a chance for parole The Washington Post

After the Supreme Court ruled in 2012 that it is unconstitutional to impose mandatory life-without-parole sentences on anyone under 18, a number of states acted to bring their practices in line with the court’s requirement that judges consider the unique circumstances of each juvenile offender. More states took action after the court four years later applied the ruling retroactively. Virginia, much to its discredit, was not one of those states.

Instead, it chose to try to deny relief to juveniles who had been locked away for decades. So it is welcome news that Virginia has finally recognized the imperative to respect court jurisprudence, treat juveniles differently and adopt a law that will allow for a more just treatment of these fraught cases.

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, a Democrat, this week signed a measure that

will make anyone convicted of an offense committed before the age of 18 eligible for parole after 20 years in prison. The law, which becomes effective July 1, essentially does away with sentences of life without the possibility of parole for minors, making Virginia the 23rd state in the country (in addition to the District of Columbia to abolish the draconian practice.

The United States has been an international outlier in its enthusiasm for sentencing people to prison for the rest of their lives for crimes they committed before 18. As in many areas of criminal justice, this misbegotten practice disproportionately has affected African Americans.

Reform began with the Supreme Court understanding that children, their brains and character still forming, are constitutionally different from adults in their level of culpability and capacity for growth. That understanding

led first to a 2005 decision that a death penalty for a crime committed by minor violates the Eighth and 14th Amendments, then to the rulings on life without parole. Children, as Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in 2016, deserve to have “hope for some years of life outside prison walls.”

That doesn’t mean all such children will eventually win release; it certainly does not entail the glossing-over of horrible crimes. “Children must be held accountable,” said Jody Kent Lavy, executive director of the Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth — but in an age-appropriate way, with an opportunity for rehabilitation and reintegration into society.

The Virginia law, approved with bipartisan support, will give more than 700 inmates the opportunity to go in front of a parole board that will review their cases.

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Trump attacks a private citizen for doing her civic duty WASHINGTON — President Trump attacked the federal prosecutors in the Roger Stone case, calling them “these corrupt people.” He went after the judge who oversaw Stone’s prosecution. But these assaults, unwarranted as they are, pale by comparison to Trump’s unprecedented and unceasing assault on the jury forewoman.

Even as U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson was holding a hearing Tuesday on Stone’s allegations of jury bias, Trump was tweeting - again, this time from India - about the juror. “There has rarely been a juror so tainted as the forewoman in the Roger Stone case,” Trump asserted. “Look at her background. She never revealed her hatred of ‘Trump’ and Stone. She was totally biased, as is the judge. Roger wasn’t even working on my campaign. Miscarriage of justice. Sad to watch!”

Yes, sad to watch a president so out of control. As Jackson noted at Tuesday’s hearing, “Any attempt to harass or intimidate jurors is completely antithetical to our system of justice.” Not that Trump has any understanding of, or respect for, our system of justice.

Jury service is a solemn, onerous and sometimes scary obligation. The identity of the Stone jurors was kept secret - not from prosecutors or defense lawyers but from the public, a reflection of how ordinary people summoned for jury duty can find themselves in the crosshairs of social media fury, or worse.

The reason we now know the identity of the forewoman, previously identified only as Juror 1261, is that she outed herself with a Facebook post defending the Stone prosecutors after Trump said the case “was totally out of control” and, referring to the prosecutors, asserting that “people were hurt

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MARCUS viciously and badly by these corrupt people.”

The forewoman — and I see no reason to further intrude on her privacy by naming her here - wrote on her Facebook account that she had “kept my silence for months” about the Stone case, initially “for my safety,” then “out of fear of politicizing the matter.”

But, she said, “I can’t keep quiet any longer” after the four prosecutors withdrew from the case when their sentencing recommendation was overturned by officials in the Justice Department. “It pains me to see the DOJ now interfere with the hard work of the prosecutors,” she wrote. “They acted with the utmost intelligence, integrity, and respect for our system of justice.”

And with that, precisely what she had feared occurred.

Stone’s defenders went after her record, scoured her social media accounts — and flayed her as an anti-Trump, partisan Democratic lawyer who had no doubt bullied her fellow jurors into unfairly convicting Stone.

The case against the juror was that she had run as a Democrat for political office, was a Democratic activist and contributor and had posted comments highly critical of Trump, including referring to him with the hashtag #KlanPresident and exclaiming, “Gotta love it!” when a profanity was projected onto the front of Trump’s D.C. hotel.

It didn’t take long for Trump

to get in on the act. “Now it looks like the fore person in the jury, in the Roger Stone case, had significant bias,” he tweeted the day after the Facebook post. “Add that to everything else, and this is not looking good for the ‘Justice’ Department.”

A week later, after Stone was sentenced to 40 months in prison, the president returned to the attack. “It’s my strong opinion that the forewoman of the jury, the woman who was in charge of the jury, is totally tainted,” he said in Las Vegas.

“When you take a look, how can you have a person like this?

She was an anti-Trump activist. Can you imagine this?”

In fact, the juror’s identity and background were known to defense lawyers, who could have asked the judge to disqualify her; they didn’t. In fact, the judge did question the juror about whether she could put aside her partisan leaning to give Stone a fair trial; she said she could. In fact, the forewoman had just one, equal vote out of 12. As another juror in the case, Seth Cousins, described the deliberations, “Our foreperson oversaw a rigorous process, slowing us down on several occasions and advocating for the rights of the defendant.”

Whether the juror engaged in misconduct is not relevant to my argument, which is that there are right ways and wrong ways of dealing with such claims. The right way is to leave it to the judicial system. The wrong way is to make her the target - yet another target - of presidential bullying.

Any of us could be Juror 1261, called to serve — only to end up in Trump’s crosshairs.

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

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Appalled by smoking mail carrier To the editor: I was recently walking in my neighborhood in downtown Hudson when I noticed a United States Postal Service mail carrier emptying a mail box while taking puffs on a cigarette. Incredulous, I called the Hudson post office and was told by a supervisor that mail carriers were allowed to smoke while on duty as long as it was not

inside a USPS vehicle. Imagine that — practically the entire world is waking up to the horrors and costs of smoking tobacco and most wise employers are trying to get their employees to quit smoking while some aren’t even hiring tobacco users. Yet, in the year 2020 our USPS is perfectly fine with their employees walking their routes while puffing away on as

many cancer sticks as they please. No wonder the USPS continues to lose billions of dollars annually — they seem to have their heads in the sand. The optics of a mail carrier smoking a cigarette and the impact it might have on children both leave a lot to be desired, too.

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Cecelia Gallagher Cecelia Gallagher(nee Davitt) or Sheila as she was fondly called by her family and friends, formerly of Palenville, NY, and recently a resident of Newton, NJ passed away peacefully on February 27,2020 at the Karen Ann Quinlan Home for Hospice at 99 years of age.

Cecelia was born in Derrycorrib, Belmullet, County Mayo, Ireland to Anthony and Mary Davitt on August 30, 1920. Like so many other immigrants, she longed to come to the United States, but the war detained her. She arrived in New York City just prior to Christmas, 1947. She worked as a secretary for the Boys Scouts of America as a secretary before she stayed home to raise her children. In the mid 1960s, she returned to work as a bank reconcilator for Citibank , a position that she held until her retirement in 1983.

She was active in her church and enjoyed cooking and entertaining her children, grandchildren, and friends at her home in the Catskill Mountains.

With Irish warmth and hospitality, Sheila welcomed everyone to stay for a cup of tea and a slice of her homemade Irish soda bread.

Cecelia is survived by her children, Francis Gallagher and his wife Peggy of Secaucus, NJ; her daughter Mary Fox and her husband James of Newton, NJ; her daughter Geraldine O’Connell and her husband William of New Windsor, N; and her son John Gallagher and

his wife Sonni of Watervliet, NY. She is also survived by her beloved grandchildren, Katie, James, Thomas, Tara, Brian, Megan, Carly, Justin, Joshua and her great grandchildren, Tess, Maggie, Emma, Chloe, Francis, Lourdes and Connor.

Additionally, she is survived by her dear sister, Nora of Ballina, County Mayo, Ireland and many nieces and nephews both in the United States and across the pond in Ireland and England. She is preceded in death by her husband, Francis, and her brothers Patrick, John, Michael, Anthony, James, Laurence, and William and her sisters Molly, Helen, and Bridget.

Funeral service will be held at Sacred Heart Church, Palenville, NY on Monday, March 2, 2020 at 11:00 am with Reverend Jay Atherton officiating.

Burial will follow at the Palenville Cemetery in Palenville.

Visitation will be held at Traver-Mc Curry Funeral Home, 234 Jefferson Hts., Catskill NY 12414, Phone: (518) 943-3211 on Sunday, March 1, 2020 from 2-6 pm. Memorial donations may be made to Karen Ann Quinlan Memorial Foundation, Newton, NJ, 07860 or Sacred Heart Church, Palenville, NY 12463.

The family wishes to extend their gratitude to the staff of Karen Ann Quinlan Home for Hospice for the compassionate care they extended to our mother over the last two months .

Michael James Hall Jr. Michael James Hall Jr., age 43, of Leeds, died suddenly February 26, 2020. He was born January 16, 1977 in Brockport, NY, the son of Christina Martin and Michael J. Hall Sr. Michael is also survived by his adoring wife, Annmarie Hall and daughter Laila; a son, Jus-

tin T. Hall of Pennsylvania; and leaving to cherish his hilarious memories are his siblings, family, and friends.

Please join us for a Celebration of Life on Friday, March 6th from 4-6 PM at Community Life Church 20 West Main Street, Catskill.

Patricia Robertson Patricia Robertson, Born service, retiring as a food serMay 06 1937. 82, died 22nd vice supervisor at Eden park.

February 2020 at her home Making sure people were fed surrounded by her loved ones. was always very important to Predeceased by her her. She loved to fill parents Casmir and special request and Elsie Yasinski, and make her children and brother William. She grand children there is survived by her favorite dishes. She Husband of 65 years was a friend to all who George (Joe) Robertknew her. She always son Jr, Her 6 children, had kind words to say James, Steven, Frank, to make you feel speMartin, Roberta (Fincial and loved. No Robertson kle), and George III, services have been and there spouses. arraigned, if you would like to Her 14 Grandchildren and 13 send your condolences to the Great Grandchildren.

She grew up in Stottville and Family Address 1921 County graduated from Hudson high Route 11 Craryville, N.Y 12521 A celebration of life party will school. She worked for many years in the Nursing Home food follow in a few months.

Americans really dislike socialism.

Can Bernie Sanders overcome that?

Scott Clement The Washington Post

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., currently leads in the Democratic presidential race, but has faced increasing criticism from competitors for the nomination over whether his identity as a democratic socialist will hamper his ability to beat President Donald Trump in a general election.

When former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg predicted in Tuesday’s debate that Sanders would lose to Trump, WASHINGTON POST PHOTO BY SALWAN GEORGES Sanders offered a simple counter-argument: “Of the last 50 Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., greets supporters after speaking polls that have been done na- during a rally at the Myrtle Beach (South Carolina) Convention tionally, Mr. Bloomberg, I beat Center on Feb. 26, 2020.

Trump 47 of those 50 times.” support would withstand sus- political party. Being a socialist Sanders did not specify what tained general election attacks was the least acceptable of 12 list of polls he was referring to, but he is correct that surveys calling him a socialist. (Sanders traits measured in the poll - 60 have generally shown him typically identifies as a demo- percent said they would vote holding at least a slight advan- cratic socialist, but in the past for an atheist, 69 percent for tage over Trump in hypotheti- he has identified as simply a so- someone who is over age 70, cal general election matchups. cialist.) While other Democrat and 93 percent for a woman.

This month, an NBC NewsA Washington Post-ABC News candidates also have not faced Wall Street Journal poll found the same level of scrutiny of poll this month found Sand46 percent of registered vottheir records as a presidential ers at 51 percent to Trump’s 45 percent among registered nominee would get, polling is ers saying they would be “very voters, similar to Biden’s 52 crystal clear about Americans’ uncomfortable” with a socialist candidate for president, percent to Trump’s 45 percent negativity toward socialism. and another 21 percent saying A January Gallup poll found when voters are asked who they would support if the gen- fewer than half of Americans, they “have some reservations 45 percent, said they would about” that attribute. eral election were held today.

On a basic measure, a DeThat polling suggests Sand- vote for a socialist for presiers’ image today is not a liabili- dent, even if they were well cember Fox News poll found ty, but there is no guarantee his qualified and from their own 31 percent of registered voters

saying they have a favorable view of socialism, while 53 percent were unfavorable. Ratings of socialism were up from 25 percent in early 2019, but ratings of capitalism remained far higher, with 57 percent rating it favorably, the same as last year.

It’s hard to know just how vulnerable Sanders would be to attacks on socialism if he became the nominee, with many voters locked into supporting or opposing Trump no matter what. Trump and Republicans seem eager to use the label against Sanders or whoever the nominee is.

One critical question for Sanders’ electability is how much public opinion of his democratic socialist identity is “baked into” his reputation already, given that he has over 90 percent name recognition in national polls. If so, additional criticism of him on this front may limit impact.

At the same time, Hillary Clinton had near-universal name recognition since her time as first lady, but her unfavorable ratings grew from the high-40s when she launched her second presidential campaign in 2015 to the mid-50s in fall 2016.

The Washington Post’s Emily Guskin contributed to this report.

Death toll of the opioid epidemic is higher than originally thought, researchers say Meryl Kornfield The Washington Post

Opioid-related overdoses could be 28 percent higher than reported due to incomplete death records, researchers found in a study published Thursday.

More than 400,000 people in the United States have died from opioid overdoses since the turn of the century, a quarter of whom were killed in just the last six years. But University of Rochester researchers found that between 1999 and 2016, about 100,000 more people died from opioids who were not accounted for - potentially obscuring the scope of the opioid epidemic and affecting funding for government programs intended to confront it, Elaine Hill, an economist and senior author of the study, told The Washington Post.

The discrepancies were most pronounced in several states, including Alabama, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Louisiana and Indiana.

“We thought we would find underreporting, but we were definitely not prepared to find how spacially determined it is,” Hill said.

The federally funded study, published in the medical journal Addiction, used data

on death rates per county and state from an agreement that Hill and co-authors Andrew Boslett and Alina Denham have with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

(The Post has the same arrangement with CDC.) The researchers found the records were least consistent in poorer communities. On average, the people whose records were not counted were white females in the 30 to 60 age range.

The incorrect records could be attributed to several factors, Hill said. Limited resources in counties can delay toxicology reports, limit drug testing and even prevent the completion of autopsies.

Counties can opt to appoint medical examiners, while others elect coroners.

Coroner positions do not require professional training, whereas medical examiners are appointed and have board certification in a medical specialty, according to the National Academy of Medicine.

Hill said the team is not the first to notice how death records are not always wellkept in the United States.

In the midst of the researchers’ year-long look at death data, comedian John

Oliver aired a segment on coroners and medical examiners on his late-night HBO program. Oliver argued that coroners were too inexperienced to deal with the influx of bodies including overdose victims, citing an Atlanta Journal-Constitution investigation that found coroners who were grocers, farmers, handymen and hairdressers.

“In an ideal world, no one would die. I’m certainly never going to, and at the risk of sounding too prescriptive, I don’t think you should, either,” Oliver joked. “But in a slightly less ideal world, we’d phase out coroner’s offices and replace them with medical examiners.”

Some coroners may not even rule overdose deaths as drug-related, Stanford University professor Keith Humphreys, citing a USA Today investigation in 2015 that found at least one Tennessee county that reported when people overdosed as “natural causes.”

“Every coroner is a king and a queen with how they report overdose deaths,” Humphreys said in an interview.

Humphreys said previous studies have found deviations in reporting but that

Gold joins the virus sell-off with biggest slide since 2013 Justina Vasquez and Ranjeetha Pakiam Bloomberg

With stocks in freefall, investors usually turn to gold as a haven of last resort. On Friday, things got so bad that they had to cash in on the metal to cover losses in other markets, spurring its biggest drop since 2013.

Gold has now joined the global asset sell-off as investors unload the metal to cover margin calls. It also plunged as concern mounted over how the coronavirus outbreak will weaken demand in China for everything from crude to copper to gold.

The Asian nation is among the biggest consumers of bullion.

Gold reached a seven-year high just this week on demand for havens as the virus spooked investors, with a spectacular collapse on Wall Street.

While bullion has rallied amid both risk-on and risk-off episodes, it could BLOOMBERG PHOTO BY ANDREY RUDAKOV suffer from further profit-taking as Gold refining at the JSC Krastsvetmet non-ferrous metals plant in Krasnoyarsk, it’s used to meet the margin calls Russia, on Nov. 5, 2019. amid the sharp declines in stocks, Suki Cooper, a precious metals ana- analyst Carsten Fritsch said by cover their losses in equities and also lyst at Standard Chartered Bank, said phone Friday. “It first started with to cover margin calls. Gold invesforced selling from equity investors tors don’t want to sell but are forced in a note.

“It’s bloodshed,” Commerzbank who also sold their gold positions to to cover the losses in other asset

classes.”

Spot gold fell as much as 4.5%, the most intraday since June 2013, according to Bloomberg generic pricing. The metal was down 3.2% at $1,592.04 an ounce at 11:52 a.m. in New York.

“The possibility that China may be using less is hurting commodity accounts and therefore you’re going to see margin calls,” George Gero, a managing director at RBC Wealth Management, said by phone Friday.

Still, barring near-term profittaking, risks for prices remain to the upside amid expectations that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates twice this year, Standard Chartered’s Cooper said. This month, bullion is little changed, bringing gains in 2020 to almost 5%, and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has said it may hit $1,800 in 12 months.

“We think that there will be opportunities to continue to add to long exposure,” Cooper said in a Bloomberg TV interview. “You might see a little bit of a sell-off, so there might be better entry levels. But beyond that, we think that upside risks still linger for gold.”

researchers are still working on quantifying the consequences of those disparities.

In addition to varied investigative methods, inaccurate data can also come from the stigma associated with drug use, Hill said. Grieving families can decline an autopsy.

Officials tracking the crisis have also faced difficulties, as the type of opioids causing the most deaths has changed over the years.

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Where does maple flavor come from?

First of all, I want to thank all the readers who updated me on when the red-wing blackbirds will return to our region.

It seems a major migration happened sometime around Feb. 20 in the Hudson Valley, but I also heard a report from the town of Westkill, in the mountains of Greene County, where they had been spotted as well. In general I think this event is occurring somewhat earlier each season.

Most of this week’s column was written by Professor Brian Chabot at Cornell University, who is now retired. The maple season has begun in earnest this past week as the weather is finally cooperating, with warm days above freezing and cold nights!

New York maple syrup must meet exacting standards for purity. The only ingredient allowed is maple sap that has been concentrated to have a minimum of 66% sugar.

Syrups are classified according to their color, with the darker syrups having stronger flavors. Maple syrups have a complex set of flavor components, some of which come from concentration and some from chemical reactions during the heating and evaporation process.

The most common flavors are maple, sugars (white sugar, brown sugar, molasses, etc), vanilla and empyreumatic.

That is a 50-cent word that means “smells like burnt organic matter.” Less common are woody, herbaceous, fruity and floral flavors. All of these flavors come from the way the trees are grown and the syrup is produced and make each syrup a unique flavor experience.

The flavors in maple syrup come from three sources: the tree and its environment, the way the sap is handled, and the way it is processed.

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BEYFUSS The tree produces the sucrose, which is the main ingredient in maple syrup. Maple sap is mostly water with only about 2% sucrose. In addition to sucrose, there are minerals taken up by the tree from the soil. Maples absorb a lot of calcium, but the unique mineral composition of different soils will have some impact on the flavor profile. There are also tiny amounts of organic compounds produced by the tree: proteins, amino acids, amines, organic acids and phenolic compounds. These vary in quantity between trees, locations and time of year. These organic compounds are not strongly flavored themselves, but can contribute to a flavor fingerprint when they are concentrated or chemically combined with sugar.

Natural bacteria and yeast consume some of the sucrose in sap in a fermentation process and are essential to the flavors present in maple syrup and sugar. They convert some of the sucrose into glucose and fructose, sugars that are more chemically reactive than sucrose. They also add their own chemical byproducts to the sap. The activity of microbes is directly dependent on temperature, so the reactive sugars and other products are low early in the sap season when temperatures are cold, but increase at higher temperatures later in the season.

Removing water from the sap makes maple syrup and sugar. Some producers use reverse osmosis to squeeze some water out of sap through a membrane under high pressure. This is more energy efficient than boiling, which is the main concentration process in all sugaring operations.

The heating during boiling is essential to producing the most important flavors in maple syrup. Some of the sugars are changed through oxidation to produce different sugar flavors (white to brown sugars, caramel, molasses, etc.). The reactive sugars, which are present in greater amounts later in the sap season, are more likely to produce these flavors.

Syrup color is derived from these compounds.

In another important chemical change, the reactive sugars, especially glucose, combine with nitrogen compounds (especially amino acids) to produce distinctive flavor compounds such as maple, chocolate, coffee, floral and nutty flavors. Vanilla, which is present in many maple syrups, probably develops during this stage of processing. These flavor compounds require both heat and time to develop, so the amount of heat and time spent boiling are ways that producers can affect flavor.

Maple syrup is a natural product. But as is the case for many of the products we enjoy, such as coffee, tea, chocolate and wines, the actions of skilled producers are essential to bring out the complex flavor chemistry. It is worth taking the time to sample different syrups from different producers and at different times of year to learn to appreciate the flavor richness and complexity of pure maple syrup.

Reach Bob Beyfuss at rlb14@cornell.edu.

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The Hudson River Bells will perform Spring Ring at 3 p.m. March 1 at the First Reformed Church, 18 North Church St., Athens. The 16-member group of English handbell ringers, directed by Kathy Boyer, will offer a lively program that is free to the public. The members are, from left, front row, Pat DeLucia, Jeanne Oliveira, Annie Drewello, Meghan Saulpaugh, Molly Oliveira, Karyna Stroud, Jana Miller, Joanne Sammon. In the back are Julie Carney, Jeff Barrett, Patty McIntyre, Sally Sharkey, Peggy Phillips, Janis Pforsich, Lisa Lydon, Stephanie Wood, and director Kathy Boyer.

Registration open for annual spring gardening day HUDSON — The Master Gardener Volunteers of Cornell Cooperative Extension of Columbia and Greene Counties invite the public to attend this year’s Spring Gardening Day event 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. April 4 at Columbia-Greene Community College, 4400 Route 23, Hudson.

Eighteen one-hour classes will be offered in three concurrent sessions, covering a wide range of gardening topics.

Adam Wheeler is the keynote speaker for Spring Gardening Day. Wheeler is the horticulture manager at Broken Arrow Nursery in Hamden, Conn., a past recipient of the Young Nursery Professional Award from the New England Nursery Association, and current vice president of the North American Maple Society. His presentation will

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be “Thinking Outside the Box: Using Excellent Plants in Creative Ways.”

The day includes three break-out sessions on a variety of gardening topics, including Creating a Cutting Garden; Container Gardens; Designing Your Front Yard; Herb Gardening; Vegetable Gardening; Deer Proofing, and more, presented by master gardeners.

The Garden Marketplace features a variety of local gardening and related vendors.

Time has been apportioned during the day to visit the marketplace. Food and beverages will be available for purchase throughout the day in the cafeteria. Detailed information about the event is at ccecolumbiagreene.org/spring-gardening-day-2020.

Space is limited, so register

to secure your place. Take advantage of the early registration price of $30 if payment is received prior to March 6. After March 6, the fee is $35. Note that registration is complete only upon receipt of payment.

The fee of $35 is all-inclusive for one, two or three sessions, including the keynote speaker.

Class and room assignment will be available for pick up between 8:30-9 a.m. on the day of the event. Registration fees are non-refundable.

To register, go to ccecolumbiagreene.org/spring-gardening-day-2020 and pay with a credit card or contact Emily at 518-318-1210. The deadline for registration is March 27. In case of inclement weather, tune to WHUC Radio (1230 on the AM dial) regarding possible cancellation.

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Church Briefs GENEALOGICAL WORKSHOP ALBANY — Jewish Genealogical Workshop will be held 10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. March 1 at the Jewish Federation of Northeastern New York, 184 Washington Ave. Ext., Albany.

This meeting will be in a workshop format for members of the public seeking hands-on assistance in conducting Jewish genealogical research. For information, contact David Barnet at crjgs1@gmail.com or 518-573-8966.

WINTER TAG SALE CATSKILL — Temple Israel of Catskill, 220 Spring St., Catskill, annual winter tag sale will be held 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m.

March 1. Included will be lots of costume jewelry, furniture, household items, collectibles, some winter clothing, lamps, lamp shades, yarn and various items too numerous to mention. All items are price to sell. A soup lunch will be served from noon-2 p.m. for $6. Choice of three soups, with various accompaniments and beverage included. Bake sale will take place all day during the tag sale. Soup will be available to go from noon-2 p.m. To go soups priced accordingly.

Gift baskets will be raffled off and there will be a 50/50 drawing. Tickets are 10/$5 or 1 ticket for $1. For information, contact the temple office at 518-943-5758.

PIZZA TAKE OUT GREENPORT — Sacred Heart Mt. Carmel Shrine, 442 Fairview Ave., Greenport, pizza takeout noon-6 p.m. March 6. Pizza is $10, extra toppings, $1 each. Call 518-828-8775.

Pick up between 3:30-6:30 p.m.

Bake at home also available.

FOOD AND FELLOWSHIP LUNCHEON NEW BALTIMORE — The New Baltimore Reformed Church, 52 Church St., New Baltimore, Food and Fellowship Luncheon Program noon-2 p.m. March 11. The menu (subject to change) is corned beef and cabbage, carrots, potatoes, Irish soda bread, pistachio and lemon cake. Following the meal there will be Irish music by Hilary Schrauf and George Ward.

This luncheon is open to all members of the community.

To facilitate planning, reservations are encouraged by the Sunday before the luncheon.

To make reservations, call the church at 518-756-8764 or email them at nbrchurch@aol. com. Include your name, contact number and the number of reservations you are making for this meal. If you need transportation or physical assistance, leave that information as well. Dining space is limited to 60 seats. Free will offerings are graciously accepted to offset food costs.

CHICKEN BARBECUE EAST BERNE — Helderberg Christian School, 96 Main St., East Berne, will hold a Brooks House of Barbecue fundraiser 4-6:30 p.m. or until sold out March 12. Drive through, take out only. Chicken dinner, $12 pre-ordered; $13 day of. Call 518-499-5416 by March 11 to preorder.

OPEN HOUSE EAST BERNE — Helderberg Christian School, 96 Main St., East Berne, will hold an open house 5-7 p.m. March 13 and 10 a.m.-noon March 14. Meet staff, visit classrooms, preview curriculum and preregister for the 2020-2021 school year. For directions and information, call 518-499-5416.

CORNED BEEF AND CABBAGE DINNER SOUTH BETHLEHEM — The South Bethlehem United Methodist Church, 67 Willowbrook Ave., South Bethlehem, will hold serve a corned beef and cabbage dinner with bake sale 4:30-7 p.m. March 13. Eat in or take out. Adults, $10; children 6-12, $5; children 5 and younger, free. For information, call Emily Shutter at 518-8130661.

SPRING/EASTER CRAFT FAIR SOUTH BETHLEHEM — The South Bethlehem United Methodist Church, 67 Willowbrook Ave., South Bethlehem, will hold a Spring/Easter craft fair 9 a.m.-3 p.m. March 28.

Join us for the Vendor Craft Fair. Breakfast and lunch will be available plus a bake sale to support our Church Women United. The Thrift Shop ‘Boutique’ will be open as well.

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business, shop, and eat. Contact Emily Shutter at 518-8130661 for further information.

NICKEL SOCIAL COXSACKIE — St. Mary’s of Coxsackie Youth Ministry annual Nickel Social will be held April 4 at the Hose Company 3, 218 Mansion St., Coxsackie. Doors open at 5 p.m. and drawings will begin at 6 p.m.

There will be Specialty Tables, Door Prizes, and a 50/50 raffle.

Refreshments will be available for purchase. Proceeds will benefit St. Mary’s Youth Ministry. Every other year, St. Mary’s sends youth to the National Catholic Youth Conference (NCYC), which will be held in Indianapolis, Indiana in November 2021.

CRAFT FESTIVAL SEEKING APPLICANTS RICHFIELD SPRINGS — Applications are currently being accepted for the 41st Annual Friendship Craft Festival sponsored by the Church Of Christ Uniting in Richfield Springs.

It will take place 9 a.m.-3 p.m.

June 13 in Spring Park on Scenic US Route 20. For information, an application and festival details go to www. rschurchofchristuniting.com or call Carla at 315-858-1451 or Sue at 315-858-2681.

SCREENING OLD CHATHAM — The Old Chatham Meetinghouse, 539 County Route 13, Old Chatham, presents a screening of “Respect for All” March 14. Potluck at 6 p.m., film at 7 p.m. Respect For All, by awardwinning filmmaker, John Pritchard, celebrates respect for all of humanity and the natural world. Respect For All promotes the end of racism and climate change by caring more for each other and our earth.

Free and open to the public.

Refreshments will be served and a moderated discussion will follow. For information, call 518-610-3735.

We have met the mischievous imp and he is Nobody As I gracefully mature, I find that routines are something I’m starting to find comfort in. I’m not getting set in my ways — that’s something old people do — but I’m beginning to understand why that may happen.

Most mornings are pretty much the same. I open my eyes and lie still in bed for a moment running down a checklist of my major body systems to see if they are still functioning, sort of like a pilot’s pre-flight checklist. If all systems are go, it’s off to the bathroom.

After dressing there’s the navigation of the staircase to the first floor, which tells me the condition of my old football knee for the day. Downstairs one more time and it’s into hat and jacket and time for a sniff-and-tinkle tour of the boundary lines of our castle’s property with my faithful canine companion.

Back inside for breakfast, conversation with The Queen and coffee. We see the Queen off for her busy day and do our morning chores — first the breakfast dishes, then we suit up again and go feed the outside cats, fill the bird feeders and take another tinkle tour.

Back inside, we get another cup of coffee and retire to the recliner to plan the day’s adventures.

After having mapped out our day, I try to take a few moments for a small ponder.

This is one of my favorite parts of the morning routine.

Telly, my faithful canine companion, lies on the floor close to the side of my chair since he knows I think best while rubbing a round, fuzzy tummy. It’s sort of like meditation for me and he always wants his belly patted.

WHITTLING AWAY

DICK

BROOKS It’s during this time that we have solved some of the major problems facing the human race. This morning’s topic dealt with one of the mysteries of life that seems to happen to all people of all races in every country on Earth — who does all the dumb stuff that happens every day? I think there must be a spirit of some kind, a mischievous imp or poltergeist, a house elf or troll that inhabits our dwellings and has since the beginning of time.

Case in point — the Queen couldn’t find her keys this morning. She knew she had put them in her purse as usual but they weren’t there. I knew I hadn’t seen them. Telly or Peanut, the cat, had no use for such things so no living being in the house had seen or touched them. They were finally located in the Queen’s coat pocket. That mischievous little spirit had struck again!

I’m not sure exactly what it is, but I do know its name.

I learned it in those not so far-away days when the human population of the castle was greater because of smaller versions of us running around.

When asked about the cause of one minor disaster or another, no one would own up to having done the dirty deed.

Nobody had done it.

The broken window was Nobody’s fault. Nobody had forgotten to feed the cat. Nobody had watered the plants.

Nobody had left the hose turned on. Nobody had tossed their coat onto the kitchen chair and left it there. Nobody had eaten the last cookie. Nobody had used the last sheet of toilet tissue and left the empty roll for the next person.

The name of the spirit of mischief is Nobody, and Nobody is us. I explained this to Telly, who gave me his “I’m proud of you” look, and then went and stood by the kitchen door asking for another yard tour and the day began.

Thought for the week — “The early bird may get the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese.” — Steven Wright.

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

Reach Dick Brooks at Whittle12124@yahoo.com.

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Germantown’s Rece Rifenburgh (13) drives to the basket during a recent game against Bishop Maginn. The Clippers play Hartford in the Section II Class D quarterfinals today at 1 p.m. at Stillwater High School.

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DEC announces 2019 bear harvest totals

By Larry DiDonato For Columbia-Greene Media

DEC recently announced the bear take for the 2019 hunting season. Hunters in New York harvested a total of 1,505 black bears statewide. The report noted a vast disparity in the bear take between the Northern and Southern Zones.

In the Southern Zone, a record 1,179 bears were taken, far exceeding its five-year average of 1,022 taken per year. In stark contrast, just 326 bears were taken in the Northern Zone, the fewest killed in the North Country since 2011, and well below the five-year average take of 498.

Biologists attribute the record Southern Zone harvest to the below average take in 2018 of just 804 bears. This left more bears on the landscape to harvest in 2019.

In 2018, early snow and cold caused bears to den early allowing more bears to survive the hunting season and winter. Hunters in the

Southern Zone took advantage of the opportunity this year resulting in the record 2019 annual harvest.

to the historic trend during such years of keeping the bear harvest to a minimum in the North Country.

Closer to home in Greene County, a total of 70 bears were reported taken. The Town of Hunter had the most in the county with 13 bears harvested. The Town of Catskill was the runner up with 9 taken, and Durham and Windham sharing third place with 8 bears taken in each of those towns.

Columbia County reported a total of 14 bears harvested with the Town of Hillsdale leading with 6 reported taken and the Town of Chatham reporting a total of 4 bears harvested this year.

The Northern Zone was quite another story. During the early season in 2019, the abundance of both soft mast (cherries, berries, and apples), and hard mast (acorns and beech nuts), lived up

Only 64 bears were taken in the early season in the Northern Zone, leaving the majority of northern bruins, (213), to be taken during the regular season.

With plenty of local food

sources, bears didn’t have to travel far to forage successfully, limiting their potential exposure to hunters.

Biologists, said, ”Bear harvest in the Northern Zone tends to alternate between strong harvests during the early season if natural foods are lacking and strong harvests during the regular season if natural foods are abundant.”

That certainly held true in 2019. Those seeking to increase their odds of connecting with a North Country black bear should have a much better chance next year.

Closer to home in Greene County, a total of 70 bears were reported taken. The Town of Hunter had the most in the county with 13 bears harvested. The Town of Catskill was the runner up with 9 taken, and Durham and Windham sharing third place with 8 bears taken in See BEAR B6

Ichabod Crane’s Abigail Dolge in action during a recent Section II Class B playoff game against Corinth.

Riders battle until the end

By Tim Martin Columbia-Greene Media

VALATIE — Wednesday’s Section II Class B quarterfinal game wth Mechanciville played out pretty much the way the entire season did for the Ichabod Crane girls basketball team — a rough start followed by a strong finish.

The No. 12 Riders fell short in their bid to upset the No. 4 Red Raiders, but it couldn’t diminish all that Adam Vooris’ young squad had accomplished over the course of the season.

In the first six games of the year ICC averaged only 35 points per game and went 0-6. In its final 17 games, the Riders scored 52 points per game and compiled a 13-4 record.

So why the dramatic turnaround?

“I think we just needed some time to develop,” Vooris said. “The skill and ability was always there.

The coaching staff just had to bring it out of them. Our break over Christmas really helped. Whether it was then or a little later, we knew what we had and knew we were going to finish strong.

“We’ve been very resilient all year long. I think that can be contributed to how tight this group is. They believe in each other and have each other’s backs. I’m so proud of this group of girls. With three sophomores and three freshmen who had very little experience on varsity we had our work cut out for us.”

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Yankees’ Frazier doing his best to attract attention for the right reasons David Lennon Newsday

TAMPA, Fla. — Clint Frazier’s feet usually are magnets for attention based on his street-style cleats, notably some variation of tricked-out Jordans, customized for baseball use.

This year, however, Frazier is doing more with his feet than making a fashion statement — and the impact was on display Thursday when he pulled a long, loud home run over the 30-foot-high concourse at Steinbrenner Field.

Frazier’s DNA is loaded with power, and remember it was GM Brian Cashman who famously described his bat speed as “legendary” upon getting him from the Indians in the Andrew Miller swap. But Frazier felt at times as if he wasn’t maximizing that ultra-hyped potential, like “trying to fire a gun with the safety on.”

So Frazier made a few tweaks this winter, revisiting some foot-related mechanics he picked up from Matt Holliday during his ‘17 pinstriped tenure. Frazier opened up his stance, moving his front foot more toward the left edge of the batter’s box, with an exaggerated inward bend to that leg, up on his toes.

“He said to point your left pocket at the pitcher,” Frazier said, recalling Holliday’s advice.

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New York Yankees left fielder Clint Frazier (77) rounds the bases after his solo homerun against the Tampa Bay Rays during Thursday’s Spring Training game at George M. Steinbrenner Field.

The desired effect helps Frazier keep his weight back longer, then gives him the ability to better uncoil his hips, with better timing, on the swing. He pulverized a 91-mph

fastball for Thursday’s homer in the Yankees’ 7-1 victory over the Rays, and also smashed a hard grounder to third that was nearly too hot to handle.

It worked for Holliday, who finished as a career .299 hitter with 316 homers over 15 years, and Frazier already is a big believer in his new stance this spring, which is turning into a huge one for both him and the Yankees.

Even if the mechanics are sound, Frazier is benefiting just as much from the confidence boost.

“Your body speaks feel, it doesn’t speak English,” Frazier said. “So whatever feels right, I want to keep doing. It feels right, it feels strong, so it’s like, why not?”

It’s not only Frazier’s feet that are well-adjusted at the moment. His head is, too. Frazier realizes the opportunity that’s in front of him, especially with Giancarlo Stanton (calf strain) doubtful for Opening Day and Aaron Judge returning slowly from a sore shoulder.

He’s never had a better shot to go north with the Yankees straight out of Tampa, but Frazier isn’t looking too far ahead.

“I knew that it was going to be an uphill battle to try to win a spot on the team,” Frazier said, “and a few things have happened since I got here to probably make it maybe a little bit more attainable. But I still have to finish the camp healthy. I still have to go out there and perform and ultimately show them that I might be able to play the position the way they want me to if called upon.”

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Pro basketball NBA Eastern Conference Atlantic W L Pct Toronto 42 16 .724 Boston 41 17 .707 Philadelphia 37 23 .617 Brooklyn 26 31 .456 New York 17 42 .288 Central W L Pct Milwaukee 50 8 .862 Indiana 35 24 .593 Chicago 20 39 .339 Detroit 19 41 .317 Cleveland 17 41 .293 Southeast W L Pct Miami 36 22 .621 Orlando 26 32 .448 Washington 21 36 .368 Charlotte 20 38 .345 Atlanta 17 43 .283 Western Conference Northwest W L Pct Denver 40 18 .690 Oklahoma City 37 22 .627 Utah 36 22 .621 Portland 26 34 .433 Minnesota 17 40 .298 Pacific W L Pct L.A. Lakers 44 12 .786 L.A. Clippers 39 19 .672 Sacramento 24 34 .414 Phoenix 24 35 .407 Golden State 12 46 .207 Southwest W L Pct Houston 38 20 .655 Dallas 36 23 .610 Memphis 28 30 .483 New Orleans 25 33 .431 San Antonio 24 33 .421 Wednesday’s games Charlotte 107, New York 101 Cleveland 108, Philadelphia 94 Washington 110, Brooklyn 106 Orlando 130, Atlanta 120 Minnesota 129, Miami 126 Houston 140, Memphis 112 Dallas 109, San Antonio 103 L.A. Clippers 102, Phoenix 92 Boston 114, Utah 103 Thursday’s games Philadelphia 115, New York 106 Indiana 106, Portland 100 Oklahoma City 112, Sacramento 108 L.A. Lakers at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.

Friday’s games Minnesota at Orlando, 7 p.m.

Brooklyn at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m.

Charlotte at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.

Dallas at Miami, 8 p.m.

Sacramento at Memphis, 8 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Milwaukee, 8 p.m.

Cleveland at New Orleans, 8 p.m.

Detroit at Phoenix, 9 p.m.

Washington at Utah, 9 p.m.

Denver at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.

Saturday’s games Chicago at New York, 5 p.m.

Portland at Atlanta, 7:30 p.m.

Brooklyn at Miami, 7:30 p.m.

Indiana at Cleveland, 8 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Memphis, 8 p.m.

Houston at Boston, 8:30 p.m.

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

Golden State at Phoenix, 9 p.m.

GB — 1.0 6.0 15.5 25.5 GB — 15.5 30.5 32.0 33.0 GB — 10.0 14.5 16.0 20.0 GB — 3.5 4.0 15.0 22.5 GB — 6.0 21.0 21.5 33.0 GB — 2.5 10.0 13.0 13.5

Pro hockey Eastern Conference Atlantic Division GP W L OT SO Pts Boston 65 40 13 5 7 92 Tampa Bay 64 40 19 5 0 85 Toronto 65 34 23 4 4 76 Florida 64 33 25 3 3 72 Montreal 66 29 28 8 1 67 Buffalo 63 29 26 6 2 66 Ottawa 65 22 31 7 5 56 Detroit 66 15 47 3 1 34 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT SO Pts Washington 64 39 19 4 2 84 Pittsburgh 62 37 19 6 0 80 Philadelphia 63 36 20 2 5 79 N.Y. Islanders 63 35 20 6 2 78 Columbus 65 31 20 10 4 76 Carolina 62 35 23 4 0 74 N.Y. Rangers 63 35 24 2 2 74 New Jersey 62 25 27 4 6 60 Western Conference Central Division GP W L OT SO Pts St. Louis 65 38 17 7 3 86 Colorado 62 37 18 6 1 81 Dallas 64 37 21 4 2 80 Nashville 63 32 23 5 3 72 Winnipeg 66 33 27 4 2 72 Minnesota 63 31 25 4 3 69 Chicago 64 28 28 4 4 64 Pacific Division GP W L OT SO Pts Vegas 65 35 22 6 2 78 Vancouver 63 34 23 3 3 74 Edmonton 64 33 23 6 2 74 Calgary 65 33 25 6 1 73 Arizona 66 31 27 4 4 70 Anaheim 63 25 30 7 1 58 San Jose 63 26 33 3 1 56 Los Angeles 64 23 35 3 3 52 Tuesday’s games Calgary 5, Boston 2 Vancouver 4, Montreal 3, OT Toronto 4, Tampa Bay 3 N.Y. Rangers 4, N.Y. Islanders 3, OT Philadelphia 4, San Jose 2 Washington 4, Winnipeg 3, SO Dallas 4, Carolina 1 New Jersey 4, Detroit 1 St. Louis 6, Chicago 5 Nashville 3, Ottawa 2 Minnesota 5, Columbus 4 Florida 2, Arizona 1 Anaheim 4, Edmonton 3, OT Wednesday’s games Colorado 3, Buffalo 2 Vegas 3, Edmonton 0 Los Angeles 2, Pittsburgh 1 Thursday’s games N.Y. Rangers 5, Montreal 2 Chicago 5, Tampa Bay 2 Toronto 5, Florida 3 Boston 4, Dallas 3 Ottawa 5, Vancouver 2 Minnesota 7, Detroit 1 Winnipeg 3, Washington 0 St. Louis 3, N.Y. Islanders 2, OT Nashville 4, Calgary 3. OT New Jersey at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.

Friday’s games N.Y. Rangers at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.

Minnesota at Columbus, 7 p.m.

Colorado at Carolina, 7 p.m.

Buffalo at Vegas, 10 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Anaheim, 10 p.m.

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Transactions BASEBALL American League Cleveland Indians - Assigned CF Austen Wade to the Cleveland Indians.

Houston Astros - Assigned RHP Devin Conn and RHP Joey Gonzalez to the Houston Astros.

Los Angeles Angels - Assigned C Anthony Mulrine and RHP Austin Krzeminski to the Los Angeles Angels.

Minnesota Twins - Assigned C Trevor Casanova, RF Matt Wallner, and RF Willie Joe Garry Jr. to the Minnesota Twins.

New York Yankees - Assigned 2B Ezequiel Duran, LF Everson Pereira, and LHP JP Sears to the New York Yankees. Assigned RHP Jhony Brito to the to the New York Yankees.

Seattle Mariners - Assigned 2B Chris Mariscal, 3B Jake Scheiner, C Miguel Perez, LHP Steven Moyers, SS Mike Salvatore, 1B Nick Zammarelli, LHP Nate Fisher, RHP Michael Stryffeler, RHP Ryne Inman, RHP Louis Head, 3B Austin Shenton, CF Connor Lien, SS Patrick Frick, RHP Juan Then, and 1B Robert Perez to the Seattle Mariners.

Tampa Bay Rays - Assigned RHP Easton McGee, SS Wander Franco, RHP Jack Labosky, LHP Michael Plassmeyer, LF Garrett Whitley, 3B Connor Hollis, 3B Jim Haley, SS Seaver Whalen, LHP Matt Krook, 2B Jake Palomaki, LF Moises Gomez, RF Nathan Lukes, RHP Chandler Raiden, and LHP Kenny Rosenberg to the Tampa Bay Rays.

Texas Rangers - Assigned C Joshua Morgan to the Texas Rangers. Assigned 1B Josh Altmann to the Texas Rangers.

Toronto Blue Jays - Assigned CF Dominic Abbadessa to the Toronto Blue Jays.

National League Arizona Diamondbacks - Assigned C Alberto Rosario to the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Los Angeles Dodgers - Assigned LHP Tyler Gilbert and SS Drew Jackson to the Los Angeles Dodgers.

San Diego Padres - Assigned 2B Ethan Skender to the San Diego Padres.

San Francisco Giants - Assigned LF Jairo Pomares and RHP Ben Madison to the San Francisco Giants.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL East Carolina - Named Steve Ellis cornerbacks coach.

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NHL roundup: Rangers rally to defeat Canadiens Field Level Media

Mika Zibanejad scored the tying goal and Adam Fox the game-winner in a span of 75 seconds as New York rallied from a two-goal deficit to defeat host Montreal, 5-2, on Thursday.

The Rangers extended their team-record road winning streak to nine games, having not lost on the road since Jan. 11.

Ryan Strome scored two goals and Phillip Di Giuseppe also tallied for New York, and Alexandar Georgiev made 32 saves.

Max Domi and Tomas Tatar scored for Montreal, which has allowed seven third-period goals in two home meetings against the Rangers this season.

The Canadiens’ Carey Price stopped 30 of 34 shots.

Blues 3, Islanders 2 (OT) Colton Parayko scored a wraparound goal in overtime to lift St. Louis over visiting New York.

The Blues won their sixth consecutive game after rallying from a 2-0 deficit to force the extra time. Brayden Schenn and Vince Dunn also scored for the Blues, and goaltender Jordan ERIC BOLTE/USA TODAY Binnington made 15 saves.

New York Rangers forward Mika Zibanejad (93) takes a shot on net and Montreal Canadiens forward Phillip Danault (24) defends during Jean-Gabriel Pageau and JorThursday’s game at the Bell Centre. dan Eberle scored for the Islanders and Thomas Greiss, making Roman Josi also scored for the 11:24 of the second period. Kre- a three-game losing streak (0-2Kevin Fiala supplied a goal his first start in seven games, Predators, who improved to jci, in just the third fight of his 1). It was Hellebuyck’s 19th ca- and two assists for the Wild. Rystopped 29 of 32 shots.

6-1-1 in their past eight games. 14-year career and first since reer shutout. an Hartman and Ryan Donato Sharks 3, Devils 2 (OT) Goaltender Juuse Saros made 36 February 2011, landed several Ilya Samsonov made 29 saves each contributed a goal and an Logan Couture scored the saves. blows to Pavelski’s helmet be- for the Capitals, who were shut assist. Jordan Greenway and overtime game-winner in his Mikael Backlund had a goal fore the two were separated. out for just the second time this Eric Staal also scored for Minnesecond game back from injury and two assists, and Rasmus An- Pavelski logged his fourth NHL season and remain four points to lift San Jose over visiting New dersson and Andrew Mangiap- fight, first since November 2017. in front of Pittsburgh for the sota, while Alex Stalock stopped 25 shots.

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Maple Leafs 5, Panthers 3 ane also scored for the Flames, Anthony Mantha scored for Couture, who returned Tues- who had their two-game winSenators 5, Canucks 2 William Nylander scored the Detroit, which has dropped day from a broken ankle suf- ning streak snapped. David Rit- go-ahead goal with 11 minutes Bobby Ryan recorded a hat fered Jan. 7, helped his team tich stopped 34 of 38 shots. eight of its last nine games. Jimleft in the third period as Toron- trick in his first home game snap a five-game losing streak. my Howard was pulled after alMangiapane gave the Flames to rallied from a two-goal deficit since November, and Ottawa The Sharks’ losing streak includ- a 3-2 lead with 43 seconds left in to defeat Florida in Sunrise, Fla. snapped a four-game losing lowing five goals on 17 shots. ed a 2-1 loss to the Devils on Feb. the third period. But in the final Toronto also got goals from streak with a win over VancouBlackhawks 5, Lightning 2 20. seconds of regulation, Nash- Zach Hyman, Kasperi Kapanen, ver.

Rookie Dominic Kubalik netEvander Kane, who got the ville’s Filip Forsberg got the Auston Matthews and Justin On a night that could not have ted his first career hat trick, and puck to Couture in overtime, puck behind the Calgary net and Holl (empty-netter). For Mat- been scripted better, Ryan, an Chicago scored five times in the had two assists, while rookie found Granlund at the top of the thews, who also had an assist, it Ottawa favorite, played his secMario Ferraro and Marcus So- crease, from where he shoveled was his 44th goal of the season. ond game since missing a little third period to rally past host rensen each scored once for the the puck under Rittich’s right Frederik Andersen made 24 more than three months after Tampa Bay. Brandon Saad and Slater Sharks. Travis Zajac and Nikita pad just before the buzzer. saves for Toronto. He was flaw- entering the NHL’s Player AsGusev had the goals for the DevBruins 4, Stars 3 less after allowing three goals in sistance Program while deal- Koekkoek – a 2012 first-round ils, who saw their win streak end Brad Marchand, David Pas- the first 12-plus minutes. ing with alcoholism. It was the draft pick by Tampa Bay – also at three games.

Florida got goals from Mark first time he skated on home ice scored for the Blackhawks, who trnak and Nick Ritchie each had Predators 4, Flames 3 a goal and an assist and Boston Pysyk, Mike Hoffman and Noel since Nov. 15. improved to 8-2-1 against the Mikael Granlund scored with held off visiting Dallas as Charlie Acciari. Hoffman has a teamRyan, who had one goal in Atlantic Division this season. one-tenth of a second remain- Coyle also scored, and Jaroslav high 26 goals. Sergei Bobrovsky 17 games entering this con- Goalie Corey Crawford stopped ing in regulation and then net- Halak stopped 31 shots in net.

(24 saves) took the loss. test, scored in the first and then 36 of 38 shots. ted the winner 1:20 into overJets 3, Capitals 0 John Klingberg, Denis Guiced the game with two late in Brayden Point and Nikita time as the Nashville Predators rianov and Miro Heiskanen Connor Hellebuyck made 34 the third period. It was his first Kucherov each recorded a goal defeated the visiting Calgary scored for the Stars, who lost for saves for his fifth shutout of the hat trick since December 2014, Flames 4-3 Thursday night. just the third time in their last 10 season, and Winnipeg defeated helping Ottawa snap an 0-3-1 and an assist for the Lightning, who lost a season-long fourth In overtime, Granlund took games (7-2-1). Ben Bishop made visiting Washington. slide. consecutive game. Kucherov a pass from Ryan Ellis between 24 saves.

Mark Scheifele and Kyle ConWild 7, Red Wings 1 the bottom of the faceoff circles Matt Dumba scored two goals has 29 points in his last 18 The score was tied 1-1 when nor each had a goal and an asand floated a shot over Rittich’s Boston’s David Krejci dropped sist, and Dmitry Kulikov also and added an assist, and Minne- games. Curtis McElhinney blocker. Colton Sissons and the gloves with Joe Pavelski at scored for the Jets, who snapped sota rolled at Detroit. stopped 22 of 26 shots.

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Tobias Harris scored 34 points to go with seven rebounds and seven assists to lift the short-handed Philadelphia 76ers past the visiting New York Knicks, 115-106, on Thursday.

Al Horford had 15 points, nine assists and seven boards, and Shake Milton scored 19 points as the Sixers improved to a league-best 28-2 at home. Milton hit all five of his 3-point attempts, while Horford hit all four.

Josh Richardson and Furkan Korkmaz had 11 each for the Sixers, who played without injured All-Stars Joel Embiid (shoulder) and Ben Simmons (back). The 76ers swept the four-game season series from the Knicks.

Julius Randle paced the Knicks with 30 points and 10 rebounds, while Maurice Harkless scored 17 points, RJ Barrett added 15 and Elfrid Payton had 18 points and 12 assists. The Knicks have lost six in a row.

Pacers 106, Trail Blazers 100 Domantas Sabonis overcame early foul trouble to collect 20 points and 11 rebounds as Indiana recorded a victory over Portland in Indianapolis.

Sabonis, whose father, Arvydas, played for the Trail Blazers, posted his 45th double-double of the season after BILL STREICHER/USA TODAY playing just eight minutes in the first Philadelphia 76ers forward Tobias Harris (12) shoots past New York Knicks forward Julius Randle (30) during Thursday’s game half. Sabonis picked up his third foul at Wells Fargo Center. early in the second quarter on a charge against forward Caleb Swanigan.

Sacramento. points and nine rebounds, Buddy Hield giving LeBron James the night off to Indiana’s Malcolm Brogdon had 17 Chris Paul added 17 points and seven had 15 points on five 3-pointers while rest a sore groin. Kyle Kuzma scored 18 points, and Victor Oladipo added 15 in assists, and Steven Adams contributed Bogdan Bogdanovic and Alex Len add- points, and Dwight Howard finished his return from a two-game absence 15 points and seven rebounds. The ed 11 points apiece. with 13 points and nine rebounds for due to a back injury. T.J. Warren also Thunder won their fifth straight game the Lakers.

Lakers 116, Warriors 86 had 15 points for the Pacers, who have and 14th in the past 17. Dennis SchrodRookie Eric Paschall had 23 points Rajon Rondo scored eight of his won four of their past five contests fol- er recorded 13 points and seven assists, 12 points during a third-quarter run- for Golden State, which played withlowing a season-long six-game losing and Nerlens Noel had 10 points and away, allowing visiting Los Angeles to out Andrew Wiggins, bothered by back streak. break open a close game en route to a spasms, before losing Draymond Green seven rebounds for the Thunder.

Thunder 112, Kings 108 to a two-technical-foul ejection in the Harrison Barnes scored 21 points, blowout win over Golden State.

Danilo Gallinari scored 24 points, and Harry Giles III added 19 as SacraAnthony Davis went for a game- second quarter. Jordan Poole scored 16 and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander added mento had a three-game winning streak high-tying 23 points for the Lakers, points, and Damion Lee chipped in 15 20 as Oklahoma City beat visiting halted. Nemanja Bjelica recorded 18 who won their seventh straight despite points.

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TAMPA, Fla. — Aaron Judge is doing well, but he is still not hitting on the field.

That means the Yankees slugger is not likely to make his Grapefruit League debut until the end of next week.

Yankees manager Aaron Boone said Thursday he isn’t sure if the outfielder will take the next step in the return from rehabbing a sore right shoulder.

“I know he hit the cage today ... I don’t know his exact schedule through the weekend, but he’s doing well,” Boone said.

Still, Judge is now almost two weeks behind and the Yankees outfield could start the season with both Aaron Hicks (Tommy John rehab) and Giancarlo Stanton (strained right calf) down.

Boone, however, said earlier this week that he is not worried about Judge ramping up in time.

“I don’t envision us having to squeeze into two, twoand-a-half weeks but if you had to do that and you built up ... back to backs and all that you could probably do that,” Boone said. “I think, ideally, you know you’re talking somewhere between 30 and 60 at-bats you typically like to have. I don’t envision it. I feel like he’ll have plenty of time based on what we’re seeing day in and day out right now.”

Thursday, Judge threw at 120 feet and continued his hitting work (soft toss) in the cages.

J.A. Happ allowed one run on two hits over three innings of work against the Rays Thursday. He struck out two, throwing 40 pitches, 20 for strikes.

Boone liked what he saw.

“Just watching from just from the side and then, after his first one I actually watched most of the outing, the game footage of it. Later

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New York Yankees right fielder Aaron Judge (99) fields a ball during spring training at George M. Steinbrenner Field.

that night, and kind of confirming just the life on his fastball and the crispness of that pitch which, which I think a little bit was part of his inconsistency in the first half last year,” Boone said.

“I think he started to get that back later in the year and that’s what we’re seeing. Ultimately that’s his bread and

butter and his strength and he looks that part right now.”

Happ was stung by baseballs that were livelier in 2019 than any previous year. Happ pitched to a 4.91 ERA in 30 starts and one appearance out of the bullpen. He struck out 140.

Happ allowed a careerhigh 34 home runs in 161 1/3

innings pitched and across baseball, hitters crushed a record-busting 6,776 homers.

Right-hander Michael King threw two scoreless innings in the Yankees 7-1 over the Rays at George M. Steinbrenner Field. Top pitching prospect Clarke Schmidt also threw two scoreless innings in the game, giving the Yankees a glimpse at their future.

King scattered three hits, Schmidt gave up two.

“I mean that’s, you know, one of my favorite things about this camp is the amount of talented young pitchers that we have that are, you know, starting to knock on that door a little bit,” Boone said.

Schmidt is not on the 40man roster and not a realistic candidate for the fifth starter spot that is open, but he is impressive.

“Schmidt’s breaking ball is nasty, pure power and sharp,” one scout said. “He

has a chance to be an elite pitcher. He’s got a fourseamer and a two-seam fastball that he had troubled finding his release point on today. I think the two-seamer is the better of the two but he should use both. Just seemed to struggle turning the sinker over. Obviously a good arm.”

Friday, Boone will get his first chance to see another in Deivi Garcia, who will start against the Braves.

Aroldis Chapman has yet to appear in a Grapefruit League game this spring, but the Yankees closer was tuning up against live hitters in batting practice on the back field Thursday.

“He was great. I mean the command was there. I mean, he threw a number of sliders where and how he wanted to,” Boone said. “He was in the mid-90s with his fastball, was competing a little bit too with the guys. I thought he was really efficient.”

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Under Chambers, Nittany Lions enter March on a mission John Feinstein The Washington Post

It was early Thursday morning and Penn State Coach Patrick Chambers’ voice was still hoarse, which was understandable. The night before he had watched his team turn an 18-point halftime lead over Rutgers into a twopoint deficit in the final minute before a late three-point shot by sophomore Myles Dread allowed the Nittany Lions to escape with a 65-64 win.

“I’m tired, but it’s amazing how much more adrenaline you have the next day after a win than a loss,” Chambers said with a laugh. “It was good that we pulled it out. We needed it.”

Need is a relative word this time of year in college basketball. The win left Penn State tied for second place in the Big Ten standings at 11-6 and at 21-7 overall. The Nittany Lions will be in the NCAA tournament field when the brackets are unveiled in two weeks.

But they had lost two in a row and, even though it has been nine years since they saw their name on the board on Selection Sunday, Chambers has loftier goals than just being one of the 68.

“Honestly, I thought coming into the season that the sky was the limit for this team,” he said. “We had a horrible January last year [0-8] but came back to play well the rest of the way [7-4]. I thought with [Lamar] Stevens and [Mike] Watkins being seniors and MATTHEW OHAREN/USA TODAY some of our younger kids having gotPenn State Nittany Lions forward Lamar Stevens (11) drives the ball to the basket as Rutgers Scarlet Knights guard Ron ten some experience, that this could be Harper Jr (24) and guard Paul Mulcahy (4) defend during Wednesday’s game at Bryce Jordan Center.

- should be - our year.”

Chambers is in his ninth season at might outdraw an entire home basket“Pat’s done a great job there,” Izzo Twice in the last four seasons, Penn State, having succeeded Navy ball season. The 0-8 January a year ago Chambers convinced other Big Ten said. “I mean, we’re a football school Coach Ed DeChellis, who went 19-15 was a step back. Now, the Lions are in coaches to move a game scheduled but they’re a football school. Convincin 2011 and took the school to its first a place they have rarely been: ranked for the rarely full Bryce Jordan Center ing kids that Penn State basketball NCAA tournament in 10 years before most of the winter and not at all con- to the Palestra, where he often played can matter can’t have been easy. But departing. If you are getting the imwhile in high school. Michigan State’s he’s done it. He’s gotten good players. cerned with the word “bubble.” pression that Penn State hasn’t had a Chambers is another in a long line Tom Izzo did it in 2017 and lost. Iowa’s They’ve become a very tough out for plethora of NCAA tournament-worthy seasons, you’d be right. Since joining of Philadelphia-born-and-raised bas- Fran McCaffery, also a Philly guy, did it everyone in the league.”

Chambers gives a lot of the credit the Big Ten in 1992, Penn State has ketball coaches. He played for Hall of this season and also lost.

The Jordan Center was built with too for the team’s success to Athletic DiFamer Herb Magee at what was then made three appearances: in 1996; in 2001, when the Lions upset North Car- Philadelphia Textile and then coached many seats (15,261), and even when rector Sandy Barbour. “I think people olina in the second round to reach the under Magee and Villanova’s Jay the Nittany Lions are good, it sells out might want to look at the way she’s Wright. It’s no surprise that this team’s only on rare occasions. The atten- handled our program,” he said. “Our Sweet 16; and in 2011.

The Lions won the NIT and finished leading scorer, Stevens, and leading re- dance for the Rutgers game was 8,345, results on the court weren’t great, but 26-13 in 2017-18, no small feat for a bounder, Watkins, are from Philadel- though, in a sign of progress, it was at she liked what she saw in the locker room and with the kind of kids we were least a loud 8,345. school where one home football game phia.

Chris Kreider ‘incredibly happy’ to get contract extension done with Rangers Colin Stephenson Newsday

MONTREAL — Chris Kreider, who’s been slowed by the flu all week, spoke Thursday for the first time about the contract extension he signed with the Rangers on Monday.

“It’s a thrill really,” he said after the Rangers’ morning skate prior to Thursday’s game against the Canadiens. “This is the only team I’ve ever known, the only place I’ve really wanted to play; an organization, front office and a team that gave me an opportunity to live out my dream playing the NHL. So I’m just incredibly happy to be here.”

Kreider, who said he was so sick this week that he probably shouldn’t have played in Tuesday’s 4-3 overtime win over the Islanders, had steadfastly denied all season long that he was thinking about his contract season. On Thursday, though, he admitted that keeping the contract out of his mind was “a little tough” in the final few days before the trade deadline, when his agent, Matt Keator, and Rangers GM Jeff Gorton began negotiations in earnest.

The Rangers would have traded Kreider before Monday’s trade deadline if the sides didn’t agree on a new deal, and the 28-yearold power forward was considered all season to be the top player most likely to be dealt before the deadline. But the two sides reached agreement

on a deal Monday morning, when the Rangers agreed to give Kreider a seventh year and Kreider agreed to take an average salary of $6.5 million – less than the $7 million or more he likely would have earned had he made it to free agency.

Kreider said the fact that the team was in a heated battle to try and make the playoffs helped him keep his focus on the ice as negotiations went on and the trade deadline drew nearer.

“We had a big stretch of games, a big stretch of important games,” he said. “So it was really easy to take one day at a time.”

At no point, he said, did he ever imagine himself playing for another team.

“Maybe the position we’re in helped me, and helped my mental makeup, and made it pretty much impossible to look at anything else,” he said.

“Because we’ve been in the thick of things.”

Pavel Buchnevich, who was involved in a car accident with teammate Igor Shesterkin on Sunday, will miss his second straight game, though he did take part in the optional morning skate.

Coach David Quinn said the 24-year-old right wing is “getting back to his old self and he’ll be back soon.” Buchnevich declined to talk to reporters at the morning skate, but posted a message on Instagram thanking Rangers fans for their good wishes and reminding them to wear a seatbelt.

recruiting. She stayed the course and now, it’s paying off.”

Penn State has played its last six games without sophomore Myreon Jones, its second-leading scorer at 14.1 points per game. Even though the graduation of Stevens and Watkins will clearly leave a void, Chambers likes his underclassmen and thinks the program has reached a point where it will be able to consistently recruit good players.

“Jay Wright taught me to always look at the big picture,” he said. “You focus first and foremost on the team you’re coaching but be aware that things change all the time and you have to be ready for change. And you treat each kid a little bit differently because each kid is a little bit different.”

Chambers is also a big believer in trying to make things fun as often as possible. Two days after his team lost late to Illinois on Feb. 18, he took his players to a downtown restaurant that had a pool table and they had a pool tournament while having dinner.

“Of course, we got 19 down to Indiana a couple days later,” he said with a laugh. “But we came back and almost won the game. I liked the resiliency.”

Rutgers was 180 degrees different from Indiana. This time it was Penn State with the huge early lead (40-19) and the opponent rallying to almost win the game.

“I told the guys at halftime that there was no way Rutgers wasn’t going to come back at us, punch us in the mouth,” Chambers said. I coached against Steve [Pikiell] in the America East and I know what kind of coach and competitor he is. That’s the way this whole season’s been in the Big Ten. No lead is safe. The key is how you react after you take the punch.”

Chambers won’t have much time to get his voice back. Penn State travels to Iowa Saturday and then finishes with Michigan State and Northwestern.

But when March 15 rolls around there won’t be any talk of the NIT, the CIT or the CBI. Selection Sunday will be fun in State College. And, Chambers hopes, it won’t be a climax, but a beginning.

Road to the Kentucky Derby: Top contenders as prep season hits a crucial stretch Ben Roberts Lexington Herald-Leader

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Two weeks ago marked the beginning of the 50-point prep races for the Kentucky Derby, and the next three Saturdays should further establish the true contenders on this year’s trail.

Next up is the Fountain of Youth Stakes — headlined by the return of last year’s Breeders’ Cup Juvenile favorite Dennis’ Moment — with the Gotham Stakes, San Felipe Stakes, Tampa Bay Derby and Rebel Stakes to follow over the next two weekends.

These 50-point races are basically winand-you’re-in events for the Kentucky Derby, a victory in any of them likely enough to secure a spot in the top 20 of the points standings.

Here’s an updated look at 10 top contenders (with additional info on 10 more promising 3-year-olds). The William Hill sportsbook has provided its latest futures odds, and the Herald-Leader will continue to update this top-10 list as the road to the 2020 Kentucky Derby continues.

AUTHENTIC William Hill odds: 12-1.

Why he’s here: He’s trained by five-time Kentucky Derby winner Bob Baffert — like many of this year’s top contenders — and he’s still perfect, if lightly raced. Authentic is 2 for 2 for his young career, highlighted by a nearly 8-length victory in the Grade 3 Sham Stakes last month. The runner-up in that race, Azul Coast, came back to win the El Camino Real Derby a couple of weeks ago. There are questions as to whether Authentic can go the Kentucky Derby distance of 1 ¼ miles, but he’s done no wrong so far.

What’s next? The San Felipe Stakes at Santa Anita Park on March 7.

DENNIS’ MOMENT William Hill odds: 8-1.

Why he’s here: Dennis’ Moment looked destined to be the 2-year-old champion until he stumbled badly out of the gate in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile last fall, a terrible start that ended with a last-place finish. He hasn’t raced since, so his return to competition this weekend will be one of the most-anticipated moments of the entire prep season. He’s won a graded stakes at Churchill Downs before and, if he returns to his old form Saturday, he’ll solidify his status as one of the biggest threats for this year’s Derby. His trainer — Louisville native Dale Romans — has never had a winner in his hometown classic in 10 previous attempts.

What’s next? The Fountain of Youth Stakes at Gulfstream Park on Saturday.

ENFORCEABLE William Hill odds: 20-1.

Why he’s here: He now has just two wins in eight career starts following a runnerup finish to Mr. Monomoy in one of the Risen Star Stakes divisional races, but the son of three-time leading sire Tapit has the bloodlines to thrive at the classic distances. Enforceable also has the same mother, Justwhistledixie, as 2013 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile champion New Year’s Day, now better known as the sire of Maximum Security, who crossed the finish line first in last year’s Kentucky Derby. Enforceable finished well in his Risen Star defeat and has the look of a colt who could be in the mix in the Kentucky Derby stretch for trainer Mark Casse. If he continues to progress between now and Derby Day — when he should get a quicker pace better suited to his running style — watch out.

What’s next? The Louisiana Derby on March 21.

GOUVERNEUR MORRIS William Hill odds: 15-1.

Why he’s here: An intriguing colt who’s taking an interesting path to a possible Kentucky Derby start, Gouverneur Morris is coming off a solid victory in an allowance race a couple of weeks back, and trainer Todd Pletcher has said he’s likely to give him just one opportunity in a Derby points race this year to prove he belongs in the starting gate. The son of a top emerging sire (Constitution) placed second in the Grade 1 Breeders’ Futurity at Keeneland last fall despite a less-than-ideal trip.

The decision to start his 2020 campaign in a non-points race means that Gouverneur Morris will need a win or runner-up finish in his first real Derby prep — or Pletcher will have to change the plan — to make the big race in May. What’s next? There’s been no confirmation as to where the Gouverneur will run next, and all options appear to be on the table for what’s likely to be his one shot at Derby points.

MR. MONOMOY William Hill odds: 20-1.

Why he’s here: The Risen Star Stakes — split into two divisions this year — is the only 50-point Derby prep race that has been run so far, and Mr. Monomoy’s victory in the first division was the more impressive. He broke his maiden last year at Churchill Downs, and if the name sounds familiar, that’s because he’s a half-brother to the great Monomoy Girl, who won the Kentucky Oaks and Breeders’ Cup Distaff in 2018, among other Grade 1 victories.

Like his sister, Mr. Monomoy is trained by Louisville native Brad Cox, who has never

had a Derby starter. Mr. Monomoy’s sire is 2013 Belmont Stakes winner Palace Malice.

What’s next? Cox could keep Mr. Monomoy at Fair Grounds for a run in the Louisiana Derby (March 21) or ship him to Lexington for the Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland (April 4).

NADAL William Hill odds: 10-1.

Why he’s here: Bob Baffert has several talented contenders for a record-tying sixth Derby victory, but it’s this colt — Nadal, who didn’t make his debut until last month and still hasn’t entered a Derby points race — that many see as the trainer’s best chance. Nadal ran a 98 Beyer speed figure — second-fastest among the top Derby contenders — in his debut Jan. 19 before coming back three weeks later to win the Grade 2 San Vicente at 7 furlongs.

The biggest tests are still ahead for Nadal, who will face a loaded field and a longer distance (1 1/16 miles) in his next start.

What’s next? The Rebel Stakes at Oaklawn Park in Arkansas on March 14 will mark the expected return of Nadal, who has never raced outside of Santa Anita Park.

SILVER PROSPECTOR William Hill odds: 30-1.

Why he’s here: He won the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes at Churchill Downs last fall but finished fourth in last month’s Smarty Jones Stakes, his 2020 debut. Silver Prospector came back to win the Grade 3 Southwest Stakes last week in impressive fashion — earning a 97 Beyer figure — with jockey Ricardo Santana Jr. aboard. Hall of Fame trainer Steve Asmussen has 20 career Kentucky Derby starters but is still looking for his first victory, the highest total in Derby history without a win.

What’s next? The Rebel Stakes at Oaklawn Park on March 14.

SOLE VOLANTE William Hill odds: 12-1.

Why he’s here: Sole Volante announced his presence as a legitimate Derby contender with a sensational victory from well off the pace in the Grade 3 Sam F. Davis Stakes this month. He earned a 96 Beyer figure for that effort, but, more importantly, it was a visually stunning run that showed a tremendous turn of foot and generally checked the boxes of what a Kentucky Derby winner is supposed to look like. The Kentucky-bred — trained by Patrick Biancone — is the son of Karakontie, a former Breeders’ Cup Mile winner who had multiple Group 1 wins in Europe.

What’s next? The Tampa Bay Derby on March 7.

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Tom Brady reportedly unlikely to return to Patriots

By Mark Daniels The Providence Journal

INDIANAPOLIS — The “Tom Brady 2020 watch” took a different turn on Thursday. All of a sudden, it appears the quarterback could be done with the Patriots.

According to the Boston Herald, as of Thursday, the Patriots still haven’t reached out to Brady. The Herald cited a source who said, “it’s not looking good.” That report is similar to the one by ESPN’s Jeff Darlington who said, “I’m now at the point where I would be stunned if Tom Brady went back to New England” on ESPN’s Get Up. Brady’s agent Don Yee was at the Indiana Convention Center on Thursday morning. He met with a group of local reporters, The Providence Journal included, but politely declined to comment on Brady and the reports about the quarterback. Bill Belichick landed in Indy on Wednesday, so there’s still time for a meeting to happen.

The NFL combine has been the place where deals come together. Here in Indy, is where the markets are set.

This year, however, things are a little different due to the ongoing collective bargaining agreement negotiations. Combine that with a later start to free agency (March 18) and a lot of things are in a holding pattern when it comes to teams, players and their agents. That certainly could be the case with Brady, Belichick and the Patriots.

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each of those towns.

Columbia County reported a total of 14 bears harvested with the Town of Hillsdale leading with 6 reported taken and the Town of Chatham reporting a total of 4 bears harvested this year.

DEC provided the following “Notable Numbers” regarding the 2019 Bear Take: 2.9: the number of bears harvested per 10 square miles in Wildlife Management Unit (WMU) 3K, which includes southern Sullivan County and a portion of Orange County.

WMU 3K had the greatest bear harvest density of any unit, but the town of Tusten in Sullivan County yielded 4.0 bears for

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31-12 by halftime and were down by as much as 23 late in the third quarter against last year’s Class B winners.

“Most teams would have thrown in the towel,” Vooris said. “The girls gave one last push and brought the lead down to nine.”

The valiant comeback effort fell short as Mechanicville went on to post a 62-48 victory.

“All year this group has battled right to the end and Wednesday night it was no different,” Vooris said.

“We’ve always emphasized the way we play is more important than the final outcome. When we play our hardest, it helps deal with the losses, knowing we gave our opponent everything we could offer.”

Vooris praised Mechanicville for keeping it together while the Riders were making their move.

“They (Mechanicville) are a great team so we have to give them credit,” Vooris said. “We had a bunch of possessions in a row where we missed some shots we

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For all the defensive work Frazier did during the offseason, he knows there’s still a lot left to prove in the outfield. On Thursday, Frazier played a big-hop double off the rightfield wall, but

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New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady (12) smiles during his press conference following their playoff loss to the Tennessee Titans at Gillette Stadium.

However, it’s clear that Brady will have multiple suitors in free agency.

Teams like Tennessee, Las Vegas, Tampa Bay and the Los Angeles Chargers are expected to show interest and pursue Brady.

This week in Indy has been full of rumors and speculation regarding the Patriots and their list of upcoming free agents.

According to a source, there is mutual interest between the Patriots and safety Devin McCourty.

The two parties plan to meet to talk about a contract extension in the near future. It’s possible that McCourty still hits free agency due to the list of teams that are interested, but the Pats will get first crack.

It’s still unknown if the Patriots will pick up

Jason McCourty’s contract option for 2020, per a source.

There’s been some contact between linebacker Jamie Collins and the Patriots, per source. Collins is expected to have several teams interested in his services.

According to USA Today’s Patriots Wire, the Pats have had “minimal contact” with Kyle Van Noy. He is expected to land a big deal come March.

There’s been plenty of buzz around the combine about Joe Thuney. The guard is expected to set the market for his position and the market is expected to be robust. It wouldn’t be a surprise if the Patriots need to fill his left guard spot next year.

The same goes for Ted Karras. He’s viewed as one of the best centers available in free agency and is expected to have a laundry list of teams interested in his services.

According to NESN, Phillip Dorsett’s camp has multiple meetings set up with prospective teams.

It does seem likely, at this point, the receiver will be elsewhere next season.

Adam Butler will be a restricted free agent come March. It seems more than likely that he’ll be tendered by the Patriots, playing in Foxborough next season and then look for a new deal as an unrestricted free agent come 2021.

Of course, the Patriots plans could change depending on Brady.

season. He suggests you call 518-488-0240 to make sure someone is at the shop to provide bait when you need it.

Greene County Chapter Ducks Unlimited Annual Dinner/Auction March 21: Mark your calendars for this event. It will be held at Anthony’s Banquet Hall in Leeds on Saturday, March 21st. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. with dinner at 7. There will be a live as well as a silent auction after dinner with plenty of gun giveaways and other prizes.

Tickets are available online; just search using key words, “Greene County NY Ducks Unlimited Banquet.” For further information, call Dana Hanusik at 518-943-2729, Jeff Holiday at 518-943-1986, or Bob Sager at 518-731-6353.

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every 10 square miles.

157: the greatest number of bears reported taken on any one day. It happened on November 16 – the opening day of the regular firearms season in the Southern Zone.

643 pounds: the heaviest dressed-weight bear reported to DEC in 2019, taken in the town of Thompson, Sullivan County. Scaled weights of dressed bears were submitted for 30 percent of bears taken in 2019.

17: the number of tagged bears reported in the 2019 harvest. These included six bears originally tagged in Pennsylvania, one from Massachusetts, and one from New Jersey. The remainder were originally tagged in New York for a variety of reasons, including research, nuisance response, relocated urban

bears, or released rehabilitated bears.

855: the number of hunterkilled bears from which DEC collected teeth for age analysis in 2019. Hunters who reported their harvest and submitted a tooth for age analysis will receive a 2019 Black Bear Management Cooperator Patch.

Results of the age analysis is expected to be available by September 2020.

13 percent: the proportion of bears taken by non-resident hunters. Successful non-resident bear hunters hailed from 19 states.

A complete summary of the 2019 bear harvest with results and maps by county, town, and WMU is available on DEC’s website.

Happy Hunting, Fishing and Trapping until next time.

are capable of making. They turned those missed opportunities of ours into made baskets and pulled away.”

During the Riders’ rally, Adelphi-bound senior Madison Graham caught fire with four consecutive 3-pointers. Graham finished with 22 points in what turned out to be her final game in an Ichabod Crane uniform.

Graham finishes her career as one of the best 3-point shooters in Section II history. Her 188 career 3-pointers made ranks 12th on the All-Time list, according to section2girlsbasketball.com, and her 67 on the season is ranked 15th.

“She was brought up to varsity as a freshman,” Vooris said. “She had the experience of making that adjustment to varsity as a young player. She knew what they were going through and helped them a lot. She kept things positive and was really an extension of the coaching staff.

“The girls on this team really look up to Madie. She has been a great leader all year long.”

Graham earned her teammates’ respect along the way.

“We are so lucky to have played with her for a year,” freshman forward Delaney More. “We got to see how to

prepare in practice and bring it into the game.”

More’s classmate Abigail Dolge agreed.

“She’s been our leader and, more importantly, she’s our friend,” Dolge said.

Graham feels the same way about her young teammates.

“Not going to lie, things were rough in the beginning,” Graham said. “We came together and played some really great basketball.

I’m so proud of them and can’t wait to see what they do next.”

Vooris said the team took the loss hard, but realizes the future is extremely bright.

“We shared lots of tears in the locker room after the game, not because we lost, but because the season came to an end,” Vooris said. “ When you put so much heart and soul into it, it becomes one of those seasons you remember forever.

“The future is bright. Between the group on varsity and a very talented JV group we have a lot of nice pieces.

The rest of the Colonial is young also. The top teams don’t have many seniors, so it is going to be a battle for these girls for the next 2-3 years still. What it will come down to is putting the work in during the off season.”

Ichabod Crane’s Madie Graham (15) finished her varsity career with 188 three-pointers.

his throw to second was nowhere near the bag. He’s trying to get his feet moving before the pitch now — “revving my engine,” he says — in order to go from 30 to 100 rather than starting at a flatfooted zero.

The Yankees don’t need Frazier to be a Gold Glover out there. If he can hit to his lofty projections, they’ll be thrilled with adequate, or

something closer to it than Frazier was last season.

While his outfield antics, and dust-ups with the media, got most of the headlines, Frazier still smacked 12 homers in only 69 games. The Yankees could use a weapon like that again, particularly if they can’t rely on Stanton to stay healthy, and manager Aaron Boone notices the progress from Frazier this spring.

“I like what I’m seeing, I’ll say that,” Boone said. “With Clint, I think we sometimes in the past assume the negative on work things. He’s had some bumps along the way, but I’ve never questioned how hard he’s worked. I will say there’s been a real level of focus and professionalism, and he’s in a really good place physically, mentally and just how he’s approaching

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Hudson Fish & Game Club Fundraiser: The Hudson Fish and Game Club is holding an indoor cornhole tournament at their clubhouse at 293 Fish & Game Road in Hudson on Saturday, March 7. Check-in is at 3 p.m. and the games begin at 3:30 p.m. Cost is $25.00 per team paid at the door.

There will be cash prizes and refreshments will be available.

For more information call Ed at 518-821-4306. BTW, Ed reminds you to BYO chair.

There’s a New Bait Shop in Town: “Jake’s Bait” is now open for business on the mountain top. Proprietor Bob Monteleone said he is fully licensed by DEC to sell bait and is currently selling minnows for $5.00/dozen at his location on County Route 25 in Haines Falls. Minnows will be available throughout the ice fishing

Class Schedule: Ron Alund will be at Shooters Sports in Valatie buying fur at the store on March 14th and April 11th 2020 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Proprietor, Chris Nastke said pistol permit classes are held at the store with instructor Lew Hatch every third Saturday of the month from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm. Call the store at 518-758-1488 for more information on how to sign up.

Remember to report poaching violations by calling 1-844-DEC-ECOS. You can share any comments with our sports desk at sports@registerstar.com *If you have a fishing or hunting report, photo, or event you would like to be considered for publication, you can send it to: huntfishreport@gmail.com

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things.”

That’s the kind of attention Frazier is seeking now. Not for his haircut, or Instagram posts, the sideshow stuff that always seemed to drag him down, whether it was unfair or not. There is a clearer path now to helping the Yankees, and Frazier is doing everything possible to make sure he can.

“I think that all eyes are

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on me in the outfield for the right reasons, obviously — or I guess the wrong reasons,” Frazier said, smiling. “But I know that it’s not just about defense. I’ve got to show that I can still hit at the majorleague level and do it on a consistent basis.”

This spring, in Frazier’s mind, he’s perfectly positioned to do just that.

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Daughter finds happiness by ghosting mother, siblings Dear Abby, I’m in my mid-30s and about a year ago I went from limited contact to no contact with two siblings and my mother. No single incident caused this, nor was there any history of childhood abuse, etc. I just find I am much happier without their presence in my life.

DEAR ABBY I am married, content, take joy in my job and am otherwise fulfilled. I do not miss their general negativity, peevish behavior or critical comments. My question is this: Do I owe them an explanation or a place in my life?

I am generally an unsentimental person. I try to be fair. After years of not enjoying our contact, is it OK to finally end it once and for all?

Detached In Texas

JEANNE PHILLIPS

I’m glad you asked me to weigh in on this. You do owe your mother and siblings an explanation.

Because what has caused you to withdraw is their “negativity, peevish behavior and critical comments,” say so. Turning your back on your family with no explanation at all is cruel, punishing behavior and cowardly.

Dear Abby,

I have a co-worker with a troubling psychosis that has left me afraid to wear certain colors or say certain words around him. He has allowed a college football rivalry to impact his relationship with co-workers.

I would really like to wear my maize and blue sweater, but I’m fearful of his reaction. He’s from Ohio and is negatively obsessed with Michigan. I understand rivalries, but when you won’t acknowledge another co-worker from that state and require all your co-workers to refer to Michigan as the “M-State” or you storm off in anger, there is an issue. What should I do?

Should I recommend counseling?

Afraid In New Mexico

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I agree that your co-worker may be off the deep end. You should not recommend counseling for this obsessive and immature individual, but someone in authority should. Depending upon how large a company your employer is, discuss what has been happening with human resources or your boss. This is a textbook example of bullying and creating a hostile work environment. Your clothing choices should not be dictated by a fellow employee.

Garfield

Should you take sleeping aids for continuous sleep?

All of the latest information states that an adult needs seven to nine hours of sleep a night.

Is this “unbroken” sleep? For example, I sleep for four hours, wake up for one to two hours, and then sleep three to four more hours almost every night. If the sleep is to be continuous, is it better to take a sleeping aid or continue with TO YOUR the current pattern? Nothing I GOOD HEALTH read indicates if sleeping seven to nine hours with a sleeping aid provides the same benefit as not sleeping continuously for that time period.

DR. KEITH ROACH

While it is true that people who sleep seven to nine hours per night tend to live longer than those who sleep less (or more), it is likely that there are some people who need more or less sleep than the average. Further, it isn’t clear whether the apparent improvement in longevity is due to better sleeping, or whether people who don’t sleep well have an underlying medical condition that is really responsible for the harm seen.

As far as whether continuous sleep is better than interrupted sleep, there isn’t good evidence to compare the two. There is strong historical evidence that prior to artificial lighting, two distinct sleep periods separated by an hour or so was considered normal.

If interrupted sleep is working for you, I’d recommend continuing versus using a sleeping pill.

I’m allergic to all antibiotics. Three months ago, I was diagnosed with a urinary tract infection and have been drinking cranberry juice and eating garlic. The UTI remains and doctors have no answers. Can you help?

There are a LOT of antibiotic classes, and I would be sure that you really had tried all the antibiotics out there. For example, Fosfomycin, a

rarely used antibiotic, is not chemically similar to any other antibiotic, and might be a good choice for urine infections. It would be unusual to be allergic to it.

If you have already tried and been unable to take that, then it might be time to think outside the box a little bit.

One choice is an antiseptic, not antibiotic, for the urinary system.

D-mannose and methenamine are examples and are occasionally used to prevent urine infections.

The only time I have used them is in people with severe allergy to multiple classes of antibiotics.

Finally, why did you get a urine infection? In men, prostate enlargement is a predisposing factor that can be treated; in women, loss of estrogen can predispose women to UTIs, which can be greatly reduced by topical estrogen.

Blondie

Hagar the Horrible

What’s the latest approach to wound care? I was told by my doctor to clean my small wound twice a day and apply Aquaphor wound cream with a cotton swab to protect it and to keep it moist. My friend was told to clean her wound but to keep it dry without any ointment. Her wound was slightly larger than mine. Could that be the reason for differing approaches?

The standard approach, as I was taught 30 years ago and my wound care colleagues still confirm, is that a moist, protected wound heals much faster than a dry wound. There are many brands of wound dressings, mostly based on petrolatum, such as the Aquaphor you were prescribed. The cells that repair wounds need moisture until there is an outer layer to hold the moisture in. The ointment also helps keep dirt and germs out when protected by a bandage. Unfortunately, there are still laypeople and medical professionals alike who mistakenly believe a wound “needs air.”

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Horoscope

By Stella Wilder Born today, you consider yourself one of the most responsible and upstanding individuals born under your sign — and so you are, in many ways. Your word is your bond, and you will never go back on a promise once it is given — even if it means you must endure a great deal of hardship as a result. Highly principled, your actions are always a reflection of how you think and what you believe; you never do anything that is not, in some way, connected to the basics of your well-crafted ethics.

When it comes to personal challenges, you are not to be trifled with, and you will stand your ground whenever you are threatened in any way — or whenever someone under your care is threatened. You know what it means to be the underdog, and you will always do what you can to lend your support to those who go by that moniker.

Also born on this date are: Gioachino Rossini, composer; Mark Foster, singer; Rakhee Thakrar, actress; Jessie Usher, actor; Jimmy Dorsey, musician and bandleader; Dinah Shore, singer and actress.

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

SUNDAY, MARCH 1 PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — The plans you’ve been making will be ready to implement very soon, but you must take care that you’re not rushing anyone in your care.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — You’re likely to go farther today than expected, which means in the coming days you’ll have less road to travel to reach your destination.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — A memory inspires you to try something you’ve not enjoyed

for quite some time. Before the day is out, an old friend contacts you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You’ll want to make your presence known today without actually encroaching on anyone’s territory. Guidance is all you have to provide.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — You may be feeling responsible for something that happened to a friend or loved one — but in fact, your involvement was only indirect.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22 — You receive advice today that you can begin to use almost immediately — if you are willing to let go of some outdated notions of propriety.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — As you strategize today, you’ll want to keep someone’s opinions squarely in mind. You ignore what others think and feel at your peril.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You can prove to someone that you are, indeed, the right person to be dealing with a certain complicated issue. Take the reins today!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — You risk letting a personal situation get out of control today. Listen to what someone is telling you, and respond accordingly.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — You may be feeling closer to someone whose influence on you has been quite profound. It may be time to make direct contact.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Protect your privacy today, and don’t let anyone tell you that what you are doing isn’t right for you. You know best what will win results.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — The ideas you’ve been toying with during the past few days may come together today in a manner that accelerates your personal progress.

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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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Each answer is a three-letter word that starts with “f.” (e.g., Obese. Answer: Fat.) Freshman level 1. An enemy.

2. A fixed sum charged.

3. Make less visible or unclear.

4. An ardent follower.

5. An intravenous injection of a narcotic drug.

Graduate level 6. A craze.

7. A strong, sudden physical reaction you cannot control.

8. Extremely good.

9. An area of wet flat land.

10. A five dollar bill.

PH.D. level 11. A small, round red hat with a flat top and no brim.

12. A very common infectious disease that lasts a short time.

13. A man who thinks too much about his clothes and appearance.

14. A trivial lie.

15. A short chain attaching a pocket watch to a man’s vest.

SUPER QUIZ ANSWERS 1. Foe. 2. Fee. 3. Fog. 4. Fan. 5. Fix. 6. Fad. 7. Fit. 8. Fab. 9. Fen. 10. Fin. 11. Fez. 12.

Flu. 13. Fop. 14. Fib. 15. Fob. 24 to 30 points — congratulations, doctor; 18 to 23 points — honors graduate; 13 to 17 points — you’re plenty smart, but no grind; 5 to 12 points — you really should hit the books harder; 1 point to 4 points — enroll in remedial courses immediately; 0 points — who reads the questions to you?

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‘CALL of the WILD’ Harrison Ford and Buck in the movie “Call of the Wild.” Twentieth Century

Human performances bring dog film to life ‘CALL OF THE WILD’: CGI canine gets help from the rest of

the cast in classic adventure tale

By KATIE WALSH Tribune News Service

M

uch like our furry friends, movies about man’s best friend come in all shapes and sizes: lost dog movies, talking dog movies, military dog movies, reincarnated dog movies.

“The Call of the Wild,” directed by Chris Sanders and based on the classic novella by Jack London, is what one might call a literary dog movie, even if there is technically no actual dog in it. The star of “The Call of the Wild,” Buck, is a CGI creation. And it’s only through the technology that his dangerous and harrowing adventures in the Alaskan wilderness during the Gold Rush, as outlined

by London, could be realistically

‘THE CALL OF THE WILD’ 2½ stars out of 4

brought to the big screen, for better or for worse.

Known for his work on the most recent “Planet of the Apes” films (and who thrilled and terrified in an ape-inspired performance art piece in “The Square”), accomplished motion capture performer Terry Notary brings Buck’s movements to life, and it’s a truly skilled performance.

But Buck’s digital nature is noticeable right away. It’s initially off-putting, and something you can never quite shake throughout the film.

The computer-generated creation doesn’t have the weight, the heat, the feel of a real dog (or any creature for that matter), though the movements, gestures and expressions are accurate.

CAST: Harrison Ford, Omar Sy, Bradley Whitford, Terry Notary, Cara Gee. DIRECTOR: Chris Sanders RUNNING TIME: 1 hour 40 minutes.

INDUSTRY RATING: PG for some violence, peril, thematic elements and mild language.

Fortunately Buck plays opposite several solid human actors who can hold up their end of the tale. After the rambunctious Buck is kidnapped from his comfortable family home and sold as a sled dog in Alaska, he luckily finds himself in the employ of Perrault (Omar Sy), who teaches Buck the way of the sled while delivering mail across the Yukon. Sy brings a warmth and joy to the role that’s infectious and a necessary

element in the otherwise terrifying story.

Writer Michael Green has streamlined “The Call of the Wild” into something simpler and more manageable for the film, flattening characters into hero/villain caricatures and relying on cliche, both cutesy and otherwise. A “spirit wolf” guides Buck’s way on the journey, and although he encounters saviors in the form of Perrault and the gruff and craggy John Thornton (Harrison Ford), who serves as the narrator, he also meets some truly nefarious and greedy humans.

Dan Stevens, bedecked in a red plaid three-piece suit and Snidely Whiplash mustache, is especially over the top as the gold-hungry Hal, who drives Buck near death searching for the shiny stuff.

What you’re left with is a story that essentially asserts “dogs rule, humans

Dorothea Lange’s photography made an ugly world beautiful

By PHILIP KENNICOTT Washington Post

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NEW YORK — The woman in Dorothea Lange’s most famous photograph, often labeled simply “Migrant Mother,” is, among other things, rather beautiful. Her face may be weathered and lined with care, but it also suggests sensitivity and intelligence. She is tired but handsome, rather like the man in the 1940 photograph “Migratory Cotton Picker,” which opens the exhibition “Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures” at the Museum of Modern Art. Their beauty isn’t often remarked on. Rather, these photographs are bound up with words, with their captions and with a larger cultural conversation about poverty and despair in America during the

WHAT: “Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures” WHEN/WHERE: Through May 9 at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

INFORMATION: moma.org

Depression and after. “Migrant Mother” was made in 1936 but wasn’t known by that title until 1952, and the woman in the image, Florence Owens Thompson, remained anonymous to the larger public until 1978. She is an icon of American suffering and perseverance, and she is also Cherokee, another word not appended to the image until decades after it was taken.

It may seem obvious, even uninteresting, to mount an exhibition about how words are

attached to photographs. This happens all the time, so often that we don’t think about it. In newspapers, every image is captioned. When we read biographies or history, we reflexively turn to the photographs in the middle of the book to attach images to the words we have absorbed. We are fast approaching the two-century mark in the history of photographs, and we have never been more suspicious and verbal in our relationship to them: What does this image show? Where was it made? Can I trust it?

But that hasn’t always been the case. Throughout the history of photography, especially among photographers who began making photographs as art, there has been a contrary argument about words and images:

A good photograph shouldn’t need explaining. If photography is art, and art is self-sufficient, then photographs should stand alone and convey their meaning through the image, not its description.

Lange made some of the most compelling images of the past century, but she had no problem with words, and would have been impatient with any discourse that abstracted photography from the larger world.

“All photographs — not only those that are so called ‘documentary’ ... can be fortified by words,” she said. It’s a curious choice of words. “Fortified” means strengthened, in particular against any effort to assault or dismantle the image. Lange’s See LANGE C2

drool,” which is hard to argue with.

Buck is the hero of the story, saving even the cranky Thornton, played by Ford with his signature gravelly gravitas. The two lost souls, far from home, find each other for an epic Alaskan adventure. They’re not looking for gold, and what they ultimately find is more precious than that: a little bit of grace, and a closer connection to the wilderness and their roots. You know, the old call of the wild.

There isn’t much nuance or complexity to be found in “The Call of the Wild,” but it’s an old-fashioned animal-friendly adventure flick for kids, a modern-day and high-tech “Benji” based on a classic piece of literature.

Although it’s hard to buy the animated Buck, the human performances save it, proving that even the most realistic technology will never replace the real thing on screen.

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By TIM CARMAN Washington Post

Standing in a field of California strawberries, under a curtain of clouds so impenetrable that it has turned the sky gray in the Salinas Valley, Andrew Zimmern looks every inch the TV personality America has come to know and embrace over the past 14 years. Jeans.

Blue shirt with an open collar. A white cowboy hat hugging his shaved head. Glasses perched near the tip of his nose.

Yes, Zimmern’s presence is familiar on his new MSNBC series, “What’s Eating America,” which debuted Sunday, but his words and actions are not. He quotes statistics. He interviews migrant laborers from Mexico who pick ripe strawberries under the H-2A program for temporary agricultural workers.

He parses President Donald Trump’s seemingly contradictory stance on immigrants. He, in short, behaves more like a newsman than an entertainer.

“Studies show that the average American worker doesn’t want to do this kind of work,” Zimmern says to Jackie Vazquez, director of operations for Good Farms, in the first episode on immigration.

Zimmern is employing a classic journalism trope: the question presented as a sweeping statement. But the research behind Zimmern’s question is solid.

“I fully agree,” responds Vazquez, knee-deep in strawberry plants that will remain unpicked without migrant farmworkers. “In my tenure, I have not seen an average American come apply.”

“What’s Eating America,” a five-part series in which the host looks at some of the country’s most pressing problems through the lens of food, presents another side of Zimmern. As the face of the “Bizarre Foods” empire, Zimmern often wore multiple hats: historian, travel guide, cultural anthropologist and surrogate American tourist, registering his disgust and quipping to the camera when confronted with foods that disagreed with his Western palate. But whether he loved the food (roasted guinea pig in Ecuador) or hated it (“old cold toad” in Bangkok), Zimmern was always a good-humored host, sometimes teasing, always playful.

With his new series, Zimmern hasn’t exactly transformed himself into an investigative journalist, but he’s had to adopt some of the rigorous practices of one. And yet: Over the course of the first

Andrew Zimmern visits a farm outside Corpus Christi, Texas, as part of the “What’s Eating America” episode on health care. Hollie Tracz/ NBCUniversal

few episodes of “What’s Eating America,” Zimmern uses the information that he and his Intuitive Content crew unearth not as a traditional journalist would — merely to inform the public — but to shape public opinion. He has a point of view on each of the subjects he covers: immigration, climate change, addiction, voter suppression and health care.

Call him a journalist-advocate. In a sense, he had to adapt to fit his new home on the cable news channel, but he didn’t have to remake himself completely. Some things carried over from the Travel Channel, Zimmern’s longtime home, which dropped him when the network shifted its programming to focus on the paranormal. Zimmern’s natural affability seems to make people comfortable. They tell him their stories, a key to any journalism enterprise.

“I know how to talk to an audience. I know where the camera is and all that other kind of stuff. So you don’t start over from scratch,” Zimmern said in a phone interview. “But I certainly had to stretch and adapt and do a different kind of storytelling, and I think the place that I had to learn the most ... was having conversations with people who were on different sides of the issue than I necessarily was.”

Zimmern is not trying to make himself out to be the

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images were often confrontational — calls to conscience and part of a lifelong interest in social justice, fairness and decency — so they needed to be fortified against indifference or cynicism.

Many of her photographs also appeared surrounded by words, in such popular magazines as Life and Look, and in books known as phototexts, with accompanying poems or poetically evocative statements culled from conversations with the people depicted. Lange also took extensive field notes while photographing, and, working in the 1930s with her husband, the economist Paul Schuster Taylor, she contributed images to extensive government reports documenting social conditions during the Depression.

Her images also inspired words from others, including John Steinbeck. In 1938, poet Archibald MacLeish used “Migrant Mother” in a phototext called “Land of the Free,” where it appears opposite a line from a poem he wrote to “illustrate” images made by photographers working for the Farm Security Administration and other government agencies: “Now we don’t know,” which was an enigmatic way of suggesting a creeping anxiety that had infected the American Dream. The same image

next Mike Wallace. But when your topics include immigration and voter suppression in America, you’re bound to have some confrontational interviews. For example, in the voter suppression episode (which is the subject least connected to food, Zimmern notes), the host talks to legislators who have worked to pass bills that could limit voter turnout in lowincome neighborhoods and communities of color.

“I had to make sure that I’m not just sitting there, nodding my head in understanding,” Zimmern says, “and making sure that I am presenting either a set of arguments that are typically made against those people or things that I fervently believe in.”

“And that skill set is one that

needs to be practiced, right?” he adds. “I think I was pretty decent at it.”

If a show on MSNBC is something new for Zimmern, then Zimmern’s show is something new for MSNBC, too. “What’s Eating America” is one of only a handful of series that MSNBC has green lit, says Phil Griffin, president of the network, and arguably the first one to be hosted by a full-blown TV personality. The comparisons to Anthony Bourdain are inevitable: Both men cut their teeth with food-oriented travel shows, only to make the jump to news cable networks, Bourdain to CNN. Griffin will be the first to acknowledge that MSNBC was on the hunt for a big personality to drive a show, but he says

Andrew Zimmern at a farm in Crooks, S.D., in the series’ health care episode. Hollie Tracz/NBCUniversal

also appeared in Nazi propaganda in 1943, with a mocking reference to President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal.

The range of ways that single image has been used and abused helps one understand why many photographers are wary of using words to define images. But limiting oneself to the image alone doesn’t fix its truth any more than a good or bad caption. When “Migrant Mother” was reproduced in a bulletin for MoMA’s first photography exhibition in 1940, it was printed much lighter than other versions, so that the woman appears not just white, but pale, her arms almost bleached out, and the hair of the two children who hide their faces behind her is almost blond. It feels like a racial erasure, with any hope of seeing her as Native American effectively whitewashed.

More fundamentally, thinking about photographs without words is essentially impossible, and ignoring the larger, word-based context of their appearance limits their richness. When Lange’s photographs of Mormon communities appeared in Life magazine in 1954, the article began opposite an advertisement for a consumer object unlikely to be found in traditional Mormon communities — a GE coffee maker — with the company’s tagline, “Progress is our most important product,” creating an ironic contrast to the isolation and insularity seen in Lange’s images.

The beauty of many of Lange’s

subjects, including Florence Owens Thompson, isn’t accidental. Lange began her career as a portrait photographer, and she had an intuitive sense of what makes a face compelling. But the beauty also creates a spark, a desire to know more and interrogate the image. Like the woman in “Migrant Mother,” the man in the 1940 “Cotton Picker” has a face that seems young and old at the same time, a contradiction that starts the mind working, keeping it engaged with the image. It may be a primitive appeal to emotion — why is this beautiful person in such an ugly place? — but it is a powerful invitation to want to know more, to reach out, to demand a better world.

And beauty, for Lange, was fundamental to photography. For as much as she embraced words for their fortifying power, she was compulsive about finding images that spoke sharply, clearly and with purely visual power. In one of the exhibition’s most haunting photographs, “Tractored Out, Childress County, Texas,” a lone house, not much more than a cabin, sits forlorn and abandoned in a field whose machine-made furrows have consumed any yard or grass or other signs of humanity that might have once graced it. It is a devastating image of the Dust Bowl, but also a perfectly, beautifully made image.

In a documentary film included in the exhibition, showing Lange late in life as she prepared for a major retrospective, the camera captures

he was also impressed by Zimmern’s knowledge and passion and had little concern about Zimmern’s slim résumé as a journalist.

“We went over the fact that we have rigorous fact-checking and everything else in terms of our standards,” Griffin says.

“But I had total confidence in him because I think what he’s done has always been legit, and I think he understands this industry about as well as anybody.”

For the series, Zimmern digs deep into his Rolodex (well, OK, his contacts list) for a few high-profile cameos: José Andrés, the chef, restaurateur and humanitarian, shows up in the immigration episode to talk to a former Trump banquet chef, Jesus Lira, who alleges that a Trump Organization accountant coached him on how to secure better fake documents.

(The Post published a similar account last year.) Incidentally, Andrés is also executive producer of the first episode. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and restaurateur Stephen Hanson both appear in a latter episode, a painfully raw and often moving hour in which Zimmern lays out his own battle with drugs and alcohol.

“There’s nothing that I won’t talk about in relationship to my sobriety because the honesty has to be complete and total,” says Zimmern, now 28 years sober. “I’ve long since

moved past that point where Icarry shame about things in my past.”

At 58 years old, Zimmern says he wants to make a different kind of statement on television. He doesn’t want to do a game show, talk show or any other type production that network executives seem to crave (though he’s not ruling any out in the future). During the 2016 presidential election, he noticed how little the candidates discussed food, despite the fact that our food (and the price we pay for it and the access we have to it) is affected by many factors, including immigration, climate change, income inequality and more.

“What’s Eating America” is Zimmern’s attempt to rectify the situation and perhaps add some gravitas to his still-evolving legacy, which was complicated in 2018 when he insulted Chinese-American food in an interview with Fast Company.

“When you die, someone’s going to write down, he was a dad. He was a son. He was an employee. He was an employer. He was a chef. He was a writer, etc.,” Zimmern says. “But I’m also hoping somewhere in there it says, ‘He tried to do the right thing, and he provided inspiration and learning.’ The stuff we’d rather be remembered by.”

Zimmern is acutely aware that MSNBC can be polarizing to his more conservative fans.

Some have already told him that “that channel doesn’t exist in my house.” But Griffin, who dislikes the “left-leaning” tag often applied to MSNBC, says he doesn’t think Zimmern will be preaching to the converted.

“I disagree with the notion that you’re talking to just the people who want their ideas reflected back at them,” Griffin says. “If the public were that smart, I think we’d be in a lot better place. Most people don’t have the time to study up on any of these topics.”

Regardless, Zimmern is prepared for the blowback. In fact, he’ll be encouraging it. Just the other night, Zimmern says, people were hating on a particular post on his Twitter feed, a timeline generally filled with progressive thought and commentary. His approach to the haters, he says, is to pose questions. “I ask lots of ‘Help me understand this’ from my followers who support the president.”

“Of course, I’m going to engage because I remember the prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi, who said, seek to understand rather than be understood.”

“Migratory Cotton Picker, Eloy, Arizona” (November 1940) by Dorothea Lange.

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“Tractored Out” as Lange says: “I’m just really beginning to sense what’s in this medium.” The ambivalence and modesty in that statement, made by one of the great photographers of the age, is touching. But it also suggests her genuine uncertainty about the tension between an abstract, formal beauty and the larger social context of photography.

Lange once said, “The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera,” which is probably the best way to understand how she understood the dynamic between art and documentary value

in her work. She could make images that are as perfect and self-contained as anything by Edward Weston or Walker Evans. But the image always pointed beyond the image. The camera could help one see both beauty and ugliness in the world, refining our sense of both social and artistic vision.

There were plenty of photographers who feared that words might take you outside of the image, and it is a reasonable fear. Lange understood that was exactly the point. A good photograph must deposit you in the world.

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Food Using a sheet pan to make chicken paprikash updates the dish’s flavor and makes clean-up a snap. Abel Uribe/ Chicago Tribune

SHEET-PAN PAPRIKASH Try this modern spin on a cozy classic

By JEANMARIE BROWNSON Chicago Tribune

t this time of the year, leaving the house proves challenging. Best to stay in and cook. Smell the goodness, feel the coziness.

My favorite comfort foods tend to be close to my roots.

I get nostalgic for simple suppers at my gram’s, the flavors she coaxed from just a few ingredients. Potatoes and noodles to fill us up. The Hungarian paprika my grandfather brought home from the butcher in a brown paper sack, smelling of earthy, sweet chiles.

A cut-up chicken, or chunks of pork, would simmer to tenderness with that paprika, a few cloves of fresh garlic and water. We’d play card games until dinner was ready. Nothing to fuss over as the combination was ladled into flowered porcelain bowls.

What lingers is the desire to gather with family at the table with no real agenda, with food that nourishes, tastes delicious, but causes no stress for the cook. To impart to the children the beauty of generations dining together: That’s the true benefit of home cooking.

This winter, I’m paying tribute to the gone, but never forgotten, family elders with an oven-roasted version of chicken paprikash — the classic dish from Hungary. Similar to goulash in that paprika-seasoned beef, chicken or veal simmers to tenderness in water, paprikash has the distinction of a sour cream

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Skillet apples with whipped cream - something akin to a crustless strudel - is an ideal dessert for your paprikash dinner. Abel Uribe/ Chicago Tribune

finish. My mother preferred to make paprikash, while her mother mostly made a brothy goulash.

I like making sheet-pan paprikash. The hot oven and a large rimmed baking sheet allow me to reduce cooking time, concentrate flavors and improve texture more in line with today’s tastes.

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Classic combo of red sauce and pasta gets attention in new book

By SHARYN JACKSON Star Tribune (Minneapolis)

MINNEAPOLIS — A few months ago, Tim Niver brought his mother into the kitchen of his restaurant, Mucci’s Italian, for a sort of staff training.

A descendant of Italian immigrants, Niver grew up eating classic ItalianAmerican dishes with his family. He thought his mother could infuse a bit of that “spirit” into the restaurant’s kitchen, which was staffed by mostly non-Italian chefs.

Niver’s mother oversaw the making of a humble chicken liver dish. At one point, Niver messed something up.

“She spat out this Italian phrase, that translates to, ‘Who put on your shoes today?’” Meaning: What are you doing?

Niver wasn’t embarrassed, but proud. His mother had more to teach his staff than a recipe.

“That’s the essence,” he said.

“There’s a spirit behind this food. It’s not just a cuisine, it’s an idea.”

The staples of Italian-American food — think spaghetti and meatballs, fettuccine Alfredo, lasagna, chicken Parmesan — make this a fare all its own. It’s more American than Italian, though its roots are in the late 19th- and early 20th-century Italian

immigrants who brought over their ability to stretch the simplest ingredients available to them. As generations continued making those marinara-enrobed dishes, these foods became woven into restaurant menus and family dinners across the country.

“Even if you don’t have an Italian grandmother, whether it’s pizza or lasagna, it brings back happy memories of food that you may have grown up with, that you’re always happy to see again,” said Jack Bishop, chief creative officer of America’s Test Kitchen and one of the originators of Cook’s Country magazine, which just published a cookbook on Italian-American cuisine.

Minnesota didn’t see the same influx of Italian immigrants that cities like New York and Chicago did. Still, many families who settled here entered the restaurant business, from St. Paul to Hibbing, introducing their own spins on Italian food to a wider audience.

Local ingredients influenced dishes that are now linked to certain cities and neighborhoods across the U.S. Cioppino, a fish stew, grew out of San Francisco’s seaside location. St. Louis pizza is topped with the smoky, local Provel cheese. And thanks to its

turn-of-the-century wave of Italianborn miners, Minnesota’s Iron Range is home to porketta, the fennel-encrusted pork roast inspired by Italy’s porchetta.

These regional specialties are all featured in the new book by the editors of America’s Test Kitchen, “Big Flavors From Italian America: Family-Style Favorites From Coast to Coast.”

“Italian immigrants were responding to what was here and what wasn’t here,” Bishop said. “They were thinking of what was available, and how to translate that.”

Because Italian immigrants came from a large country with strong regional identities, their food traditions could vary widely within the same city.

Fred Yarusso, the third-generation owner of Yarusso Bros. restaurant in St. Paul, remembers roaming through the different enclaves in his city when he was a child, and seeing “who was cooking what.” When his church attempted to put together a cookbook,” they had to stop because nobody got along,” he said. “All they did was argue, because they all cook a little different.

Every family thinks they have something tricky.”

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How do you solve a whodunit when the accused has multiple personalities?

By MAUREEN CORRIGAN Washington Post

Hi Five

By Joe Ide Mulholland. 352 pp. $27.

A deadly storm isn’t the only danger for a Scandinavian community

By BETHANNE PATRICK Washington Post

“The Mercies”

By Kiran Millwood Hargrave Little, Brown. 352 pp. $27 Captain Ahab famously pursued his white whale Moby Dick, the elusive object of his obsession. There’s a white whale, too, on the cover of “The Mercies” by Kiran Millwood Hargrave, its fluke breaching from the waves of a woman’s long hair. Fitting, since the characters in this startling, dramatic and relevant novel all have their own obsessions, most of them centered on a woman’s place in 17th-century Europe.

The whale we meet on page one of the historical fiction novel is helpless and close to death, washed up on the shore of a Danish-Norwegian island called Vardø. It’s 1617, and the area known as Finnmark lies under control of Danish King Christian IV. Maren Magnusdatter, a young woman of the local, largely Christian community, wraps her arms around the great beast, affording it some dignity as the men of her community rush to butcher it before its last gasp.

Maren, at that instant, is betrothed to Dag; her brother Erik is married to Diinna, an indigenous Sámi woman, who is pregnant. In the next instant, both Maren and Diinna will lose their futures, as will most of the other women of Vardø.

“The storm comes in like a finger snap,” the women say. Forty men died, leaving their wives and daughters along with a pastor, a few young boys and three elders.

The women must cope. To keep from starving, one faction begins to mend the nets and take out the fishing boats.

A few of the church-y (“kirke”) types, as well as Maren’s mother, are shocked.

But Maren’s friend Kirsten, who chooses to wear men’s trousers, rallies those who care less about traditional roles and more about survival. At the same time, Diinna and others connected to the Sámi ways begin to resurrect rituals that bring them comfort.

Enter Scottish Absalom Cornet, newly appointed Lensmann for the island, and his Bergen-raised bride Ursula, known as Ursa. The book’s three sections are “Storm,” “Arrival,” and “Hunt;” it is the last one that defines Cornet’s purpose. Having already put witches to death at home, here he means to ferret out anyone, Sámi or not, who defies the church’s dicta.

Unfortunately for Cornet, Ursa and Maren nurture a bond from the moment they meet at the island’s harbor.

The young wife hires her new friend to help her learn housekeeping, and the more time the two spend together, the greater their friendship grows, turning to passion as naturally as the tides change.

Hargrave, a poet, playwright and prizewinning children’s book author, takes a little-known historical event and expands it not just into a compelling story but into a matriarchal tragedy. Maren, Ursa, Diinna, Kirsten are constrained by time and circumstance, yet they are still defined on their own terms. Writing a feminist historical novel always involves a delicate tightrope walk between modern ideas and cultural reality. “The Mercies” succeeds in that walk, and on finishing you may find that you’ve been holding your breath in hopes that Maren will survive.

Patrick is the editor, most recently, of “The Books That Changed My Life: Reflections by 100 Authors, Actors, Musicians and Other Remarkable People.”

The cardinal sin in mystery reviewing is revealing too much of the plot. That’s not a danger with Joe Ide’s crime novels. It is humanly impossible to summarize his teeming, dizzying, ricocheting, madcap (and somewhat mad) story lines.

Ide’s much lauded crime series features private eye Isaiah Quintabe — “IQ” for short — an African American investigator living in East Long Beach, California. As he’s discussed in interviews, Ide, who is Japanese American, grew up in East L.A., where many of his friends were African American and his favorite books were Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories. Out of this boundarycrossing background, Ide has fashioned a crime series that itself crisscrosses lines of identity, genre and tone.

On the surface, the IQ novels appear to have little in common with Doyle’s tales that turn on the power of deduction. Unlike Holmes, Isaiah sometimes has to get physical with evildoers and he also enjoys “getting physical” with beautiful women. Still, as an operative working on a shoestring budget and shut out of law enforcement databases, Isaiah’s greatest asset is, like Holmes’s, his brainpower. (His second greatest resource is the erratic assistance of a Watson-like sidekick named Dodson.) And, because Isaiah

dropped out of high school, he, again, like Holmes, is mostly an autodidact, relying on his own scattershot reading and his firsthand knowledge of the streets for his continuing education.

But, even the smartest detective can get stumped. The bizarre mystery that kicks off “Hi Five,” the fourth novel in the IQ series, is so complicated that it strains what Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot called his “little grey cells.”

The gist of the case is this: An arms dealer named Angus Byrne reaches out to Isaiah because his daughter, Christiana, is accused of killing a customer in her Newport Beach made-to-order clothing store. (That customer is Tyler, her boyfriend who also worked for Angus.) Isaiah refuses the job because he despises Angus. With his signature linguistic gusto, Isaiah thinks to himself : “The man

was pestilence, a virus, a stinking glob of human offal. Making the smallest effort on his behalf would be like burying yourself under an outhouse. You’d never get the filth off.” Angus, however, threatens to break the hands of Isaiah’s new girlfriend, a violinist in the Long Beach Symphony Orchestra. Seeing no way out, Isaiah drives to Christiana’s condo, a journey that inspires a sharp riff on the social geography of Southern California: “The drive [to Newport Beach] from Long Beach was depressing, the transition from want to bountiful, from struggle to ease, from peril to relative safety. Isaiah wondered what algorithm of race, history, economics, politics, and law had led to a divide so deep and insoluble. Experts had explanations, but it was like describing the universe. Whatever your vantage point, there was so much more to wrap your head around.”

When Isaiah arrives, he discovers that Christiana is dealing with more problems than a looming murder charge. She suffers from what’s now called dissociative identity disorder. Christiana harbors multiple personalities, five of them to be exact: Jasper, for instance, is a tough teenager from Arizona; Marlene is a “party girl”; Pearl is so shy that when Isaiah questions her she reminds him of a “peasant girl questioned by the gestapo.” No one of her “alters” was present throughout the entire time the murder took place; therefore, Isaiah must corral all of these disparate — and, in some cases, feuding — personalities to cooperate in reconstructing what

happened the night that Tyler was murdered.

This is but the central conundrum in a novel that’s bristling with them. In trademark style, Ide cultivates a variety of subplots: Isaiah’s romantic life grows vexed when the love of his life — Grace, an artist — returns to town; two vicious hit women — one, a former circus acrobat — begin trailing Isaiah, as does a stiletto-wielding goon nursing a grudge. Not only do story lines proliferate, but so, too, do points of view. What does it mean, for instance, when Christiana, after her initial meeting with Isaiah, thinks to herself: “If Isaiah succeeded one way, they [the alters] were home free. If he succeeded another way, they were doomed”? And, further thickening the narrative of “Hi Five” is that Ide, like one of his acknowledged mentors, Chester Himes, often presents events simultaneously, so chapters of this novel don’t always progress in time, but, rather, layer atop one another.

Whew!

The end result of all Ide’s frenetic literary machinations, however, is a crime novel that gives readers a sense of the totality of life in all its possibility: comedy, violence, irrationality and heartbreak. It’s no longer a fresh observation to say that Ide is an original as a suspense writer, but, certainly, every novel he writes — including “Hi Five” — feels like a new invention.

Corrigan, who teaches literature at Georgetown University, is the book critic for the NPR program “Fresh Air.”

New thrillers and mysteries to help escape reality — or see it in another light

By RICHARD LIPEZ Washington Post

As the winter chill sets in, it’s a perfect time to cozy up with books that will give you a whole other kind of shiver.

Here are five of the best new and upcoming thrillers and mysteries that deliver action, suspense and intrigue — all the way to that very last twist.

WESTWIND

By Ian Rankin (Little, Brown) This techno-actionthriller with its rippedfrom-today’s headlines plot was actually first released in Britain back in 1990. An early effort by the author of the esteemed Inspector Rebus mysteries, “Westwind” is about a total withdrawal of U.S. troops from Europe and the United Kingdom, and “how the USA is going to pull up its drawbridge and let everyone outside the moat rot.” A secret counterplot to the ensuing “complete chaos” is uncovered by British communications-satellite techy Martin Hepton after a U.S. space shuttle crashes and burns. Deadly perfidy is everywhere, while Russia is “just sitting back and enjoying the bloody show.” Uncanny.

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Here are the bestsellers for the week that ended Saturday, Feb. 15, compiled from data from independent and chain bookstores, book wholesalers and independent distributors nationwide, powered by NPD BookScan.

HARDCOVER FICTION 1. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse. Charlie Mackesy. HarperOne 2. American Dirt. Jeanine Cummins.

Flatiron 3. Golden in Death. J.D. Robb. St. Martin’s 4. Snug. Catana Chetwynd. Andrews McMeel 5. Crooked River. Preston/Child. Grand Central 6. Lost. Patterson/Born. Little, Brown

THE BURN

By Kathleen Kent (Mulholland) This deeply satisfying follow-up to last year’s Edgar-nominated “The Dime” has Dallas Police narcotics detective Betty Rhyzyk messed up with PTSD, the result of her captivity and grotesque torture in the series debut. Her fed-up girlfriend, Jackie, tells her to move out. Betty’s cranky supervisor grounds her, too, but that’s no obstacle for this obsessive, borderline unstable, fascinating, Brooklynborn seeker of truth as she tangles with the Sinaloan drug cartel and the gnawing likelihood that a fellow police officer is bent. Raymond Chandler praised Dashiell Hammett for taking crime

fiction out of the drawing rooms and into the streets.

With Betty Rhyzyk, Kathleen Kent brings those mean streets to life as excitingly as anybody has in years.

drollery. A visiting American detective tells Lenox he only eats brown bread and milk.

Lenox’s pal Lady Jane Grey asks, “Is he four?”

TROUBLE IS WHAT I DO

By Janelle Brown (Random House, available April 21) It’s “Dynasty” meets Patricia Highsmith in Janelle Brown’s crazy-family potboiler. If this turbulent saga about a mother-daughtercon man grifter team preying on the least nice people in the economic one percent were a Netflix series, viewers would spend a lot of time yelling at the screen: “Don’t believe him! Can’t you see he’s a manipulative jerk?”

Rich, emotionally unstable Vanessa Liebling has a huge following as an “Instagram fashion influencer.” Nina Ross was an art history major who took up the only vocation her education apparently prepared her for: theft.

Duplicity abounds when two messed-up clans collide, and Brown’s final multiple twists are doozies.

By Walter Mosley (Mulholland, available Feb. 25) Walter Mosley’s sixth Leonid McGill P.I. novel is so short, it almost seems like a throwaway. It’s not. This gifted raconteur of the African American experience has produced an absorbing noir beauty of a tale about a 94-year-old Mississippi blues man, aptly named Philip “Catfish” Worry, bent on a good deed that could get him killed. He hires McGill to inform the daughter of a billionaire white racist that the bigot is actually Catfish’s offspring from a long-ago affair.

Part of McGill’s fee will be a bottle of 147-year-old bourbon that “was so smooth that I imagined a green snake slithering across an emerald lawn” — a fitting description for the entire novel.

THE LAST PASSENGER: A CHARLES LENOX MYSTERY

By Charles Finch (Minotaur) No mystery writer

PRETTY THINGS

except perhaps Anne Perry is as successful as Charles Finch at evoking the atmosphere of Victorian London — and not just the physical fragrances and stenches but the sociopolitical ones, too.

In this 13th Charles Lenox mystery, the dapper, inquisitive young amateur investigator assists Scotland Yard in its inquiries into an unidentified man who turns up dead on a train in Paddington Station. Peculiarly, the labels have been snipped out of his jacket and trousers. It’s 1855, and social conflicts in both England and the United States soon emerge as disturbing factors in the crime.

It’s a dandy plot, and it unfolds with Finch’s signature

Publisher’s Weekly best-sellers 7. Strange Planet. Nathan W. Pyle.

Morrow Gift 8. The Guardians. John Grisham.

Doubleday 9. The Dutch House. Ann Patchett.

Harper 10. When You See Me. Lisa Gardner.

Dutton

HARDCOVER NONFICTION 1. Open Book. Jessica Simpson. Dey Street 2. A Very Stable Genius. Rucker/ Leonnig. Penguin Press 3. Profiles in Corruption. Peter Schweizer. Harper 4. Get Out of Your Head. Jennie Allen.

Waterbrook 5. Built, Not Born. Tom Golisano.

HarperCollins Leadership 6. Floret Farm’s A Year in Flowers. Erin Benzakein. Chronicle 7. Talking to Strangers. Malcolm Gladwell. Little, Brown 8. Dangerous Prayers. Craig Groeschel. Zondervan 9. Why We’re Polarized. Ezra Klein.

Avid Reader 10. Becoming: A Guided Journal for Discovering Your Voice. Michelle Obama. Clarkson Potter

MASS MARKET 1. Blessing in Disguise. Danielle Steel.

Dell

2. Ambush. Patterson/Born. Grand Central 3. The Oysterville Sewing Circle. Susan Wiggs. Avon 4. Unspoken. Lisa Jackson. Zebra 5. Country Strong. Linda Lael Miller.

HQN 6. Vendetta Road. Christine Feehan.

Berkley 7. The Night We Met. Macomber/ McClain. Mira 8. Shot to Hell. William W. Johnstone.

Pinnacle 9. Hunting for a Highlander. Lynsay Sands. Avon 10. Vendetta in Death. J.D. Robb. St. Martin’s

Lipez writes the Don Strachey PI novels under the name Richard Stevenson.

“Killer Reunion” is the latest.

TRADE PAPERBACK 1. Little Fires Everywhere. Celeste Ng. Penguin Books 2. One Good Deed. David Baldacci.

Grand Central 3. Unsolved. Patterson/Ellis. Grand Central 4. Before We Were Yours. Lisa Wingate. Ballantine 5. The Populist’s Guide to 2020. Ball/ Enjeti. Strong Arm 6. Summer of ‘69. Elin Hilderbrand.

Back Bay 7. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek. Kim Michele Richardson.

Sourcebooks Landmark 8. Official SAT Study Guide (2020 ed.).

College Board 9. Outfox. Sandra Brown. Grand Central 10. The Outsider (TV tie-in). Stephen King. Gallery

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Goren bridge WITH BOB JONES ©2020 Tribune Content Agency, LLC

TRICK ONE Both vulnerable, South deals NORTH ♠A2 ♥ AK873 ♦2 ♣ A 10 8 7 6 WEST EAST ♠9753 ♠ K 10 4 ♥ Q 10 6 ♥ J952 ♦5 ♦ Q83 ♣QJ952 ♣K43 SOUTH ♠QJ86 ♥4 ♦ A K J 10 9 7 6 4 ♣ Void The bidding:

SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST 1♦ Pass 1♥ Pass 1♠ Pass 2♣* Pass 3♦ Pass 6♦ All pass *Fourth-suit forcing, artificial game force

Opening lead: Queen of ♣ North’s two-club bid was artificial, creating a game force. After a game force is established, a jump is no longer needed to create a force.

South’s jump to three diamonds showed a massive suit. It carried this message: “Look for slam if you want

to, but we are playing in diamonds wherever we end up”. North believed him!

When this deal was played in a money team game in South Florida, South won dummy’s ace of clubs at trick one and played the ace and king of diamonds. That was the right play in the suit, but the queen didn’t fall. The losing spade finesse cost him a lot of money, as the opponents had stopped in game at the other table. There is a better line of play available, and we don’t mean taking the diamond finesse. Can you spot it?

South should not play the ace of clubs at trick one, but rather ruff in his hand. The ace-king of diamonds would reveal the trump loser. South can now cash the ace and king of hearts, discarding a spade, and ruff a heart. A trump to East’s queen now seals the deal. A spade or a heart from East ends the matter quickly, so East must play a club. South wins in dummy and ruffs a heart, establishing the fifth heart. The ace of spades is an entry to the heart and South has 12 tricks. We’re sure you played it just that way!

(Bob Jones welcomes readers’ responses sent in care of this paper or tcaeditors@ tribpub.com)

By Stella Wilder Born today, you consider yourself one of the most responsible and upstanding individuals born under your sign — and so you are, in many ways. Your word is your bond, and you will never go back on a promise once it is given — even if it means you must endure a great deal of hardship as a result. Highly principled, your actions are always a reflection of how you think and what you believe; you never do anything that is not, in some way, connected to the basics of your well-crafted ethics.

When it comes to personal challenges, you are not to be trifled with, and you will stand your ground whenever you are threatened in any way — or whenever someone under your care is threatened. You know what it means to be the underdog, and you will always do what you can to lend your support to those who go by that moniker.

Also born on this date are: Gioachino Rossini, composer; Mark Foster, singer; Rakhee Thakrar, actress; Jessie Usher, actor; Jimmy Dorsey, musician and bandleader; Dinah Shore, singer and actress.

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

SUNDAY, MARCH 1 PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — The plans you’ve been making will be ready to implement very soon, but you must take care that you’re not rushing anyone in your care.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — You’re likely to go farther today than expected, which means in the coming days you’ll have less road to travel to reach your destination.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — A memory inspires you to try something you’ve not enjoyed for quite some

time. Before the day is out, an old friend contacts you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — You’ll want to make your presence known today without actually encroaching on anyone’s territory. Guidance is all you have to provide.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — You may be feeling responsible for something that happened to a friend or loved one — but in fact, your involvement was only indirect.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22 — You receive advice today that you can begin to use almost immediately — if you are willing to let go of some outdated notions of propriety.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — As you strategize today, you’ll want to keep someone’s opinions squarely in mind. You ignore what others think and feel at your peril.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — You can prove to someone that you are, indeed, the right person to be dealing with a certain complicated issue. Take the reins today!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — You risk letting a personal situation get out of control today. Listen to what someone is telling you, and respond accordingly.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — You may be feeling closer to someone whose influence on you has been quite profound. It may be time to make direct contact.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — Protect your privacy today, and don’t let anyone tell you that what you are doing isn’t right for you. You know best what will win results.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — The ideas you’ve been toying with during the past few days may come together today in a manner that accelerates your personal progress.

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It won’t cure you, but you’ll feel better HOT TODDY: Here is

why some call it the chicken soup of the cocktail bar

By ZAK STAMBOR Chicago Tribune (TNS)

Last winter I had a dreadful cold. The type of cold that seems to never end. The type of cold where your body aches, your head throbs, you can’t ever seem to rid your nose of mucus and a restful night of sleep seems impossible. The type of cold where leaving the house is the last thing you’d ever want to do.

Nevertheless, I dragged myself to the pharmacy down the street and bought just about any over-the-counter remedy I could find. Nothing seemed to work except the passage of time.

When I returned to work a few days later, a colleague asked how I was feeling.

“Not good, but much better than I was,” I replied.

“Next time, try a hot toddy,” he said.

“Isn’t that an old wives’ tale?” I asked.

“Try it,” he said.

The hot toddy — the simple hot cocktail consisting of hot water, honey, lemon and brown liquor — like chicken soup, has long been touted as a remedy for the common cold. But when I’m feeling awful, alcohol is the last thing I want to consume. That’s why I had never tried a hot toddy when feeling under the weather — until I got another cold a few months later.

Before I had another restless night, I decided to give the hot toddy a try. I pulled out a mug, poured in 2 ounces of bourbon, a tablespoon of honey and 2 teaspoons of

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The chicken skin crisps, the potatoes and onions brown to golden, and the paprika’s natural sweetness intensifies with the dry heat. After everything is cooked, I deglaze the pan with water and then swirl in a bit of sour cream for a simple sauce to spoon over the chicken or buttered noodles.

For the fastest dinner, I choose bone-in, skin-on, chicken thighs. They’re easy to serve and always stay moist.

Bone-in pork loin chops are great here too; 1-inch-thick chops will cook in about the same time as the chicken thighs. Whole roasted chicken is synonymous with comfort cooking, so I’ve included for it as well; it typically requires 20 extra minutes of oven time.

Paprika is made from ripe, red chile peppers that are dried and powdered. In the United States, sweet paprika is an underrated spice because it’s often stale and flavorless. We tend to keep a jar for years, but the powder stales quickly and the color fades.

If you don’t know how old your paprika is, taste it. If it’s

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Tina Suglia sees those squabbles play out today in Italian-American Facebook groups. “Is it ‘sugo’ or is it ‘gravy’?” she said. “It’s a sensitive spot. You get all these Italians arguing about what

The hot toddy is the simplest of drinks: Combine your choice of brown spirit, such as bourbon or rum, with lemon juice, honey and hot water. Abel Uribe/Chicago Tribune/TNS

lemon juice, then topped with a quarter cup of hot water and stirred.

My skepticism quickly faded. It seemed to work better than any of the over-the-counter products I had tried before.

I slept through the night.

While it was no cure, it temporarily relieved my symptoms, which may make some sense, says Donald Hensrud, a

physician in internal medicine who also serves as an associate professor of nutrition and preventive medicine at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science.

After all, even though there are few “good studies” on the hot toddy, if you look at the individual elements you can understand why the cocktail offers some relief.

pale orange and flavorless, start over. Fresh paprika is a deeper, darker red color than the ripest tomatoes. The aroma should be sweet and a bit musky.

Most supermarkets carry sweet paprika. I like the Szeged brand imported from Hungary. Or, order Hungarian or Spanish paprika on the internet from spice shops. If you like heat, try subbing in some “half-sharp” (spicy) paprika for the sweet. Or swap in a teaspoon or so of smoked paprika for a different take. Of course, don’t confuse paprika with cayenne pepper, that superhot chile powder.

I like to take advantage of the flavors in the pan drippings and boil water in the pan to make a fast sauce. This boiling works to dissolve all the stuck-on bits, so clean-up is a snap!

For dessert, I suggest sauteing apples in butter with raisins and cinnamon — sort of like a crustless apple strudel.

Top it with a dollop of lightly sweetened whipped cream, flavored with just a smidge of smoke or sweet paprika for intrigue.

I believe comfort food means not focusing on calories and carbs. Of course, you

can skip eating the chicken skin and opt out of the sour cream and pan juices if you have concerns. Otherwise, gather the family and friends and enjoy the warmth.

to call it.”

Suglia is the owner of Nonna Rosa in Robbinsdale, with her husband, Francesco Suglia. Her family came from Calabria (the boot’s toe), and her husband is from Bari (the heel). Though not far from one another, the two areas have distinct cuisines that merged at their 10-year-old restaurant.

“There are so many variations, and everybody wants to be right, but really, it’s about where your family’s from,” she said.

Still, there are constants in much of Italian-American cuisine — specific ingredients, whole dishes, or simply a feeling.

“A lot of it is the sauce,” said Mike Latuff, owner of the 48-year-old Latuff’s Pizzeria in Plymouth.

“I think there’s a lot of garlic, there’s a lot of cheese,

SHEET-PAN CHICKEN PAPRIKASH WITH POTATOES Makes: 6 servings Use absolutely fresh paprika here; it should be bright red with a rich aroma.

6 bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs, about 2 ¼ pounds total 5 to 6 medium-size yellow roasting potatoes, about 1 ¼ pounds total, scrubbed 1 medium-large (8 ounces) sweet onion, halved, thickly sliced in wedges ¼ cup Hungarian sweet paprika 1 ½ teaspoons salt 1 teaspoon dried oregano ½ teaspoon garlic powder ½ teaspoon hot paprika or ¼ teaspoon cayenne 3 tablespoons olive oil ¼ cup water 2 to 3 tablespoons sour cream or creme fraiche Flat-leaf parsley Buttered noodles (optional), see recipe 1. Heat oven to 400 degrees on convection setting or 425 degrees on conventional.

Pat chicken dry and place on 16-by-12-inch (or larger)

“The warmth of the drink may provide symptomatic comfort,” he says. That explains the effectiveness of other traditional remedies that also provide fluids, such as chicken soup, which also supplies nutrients, and tea, which also contains antioxidants.

Then there’s hot lemon water with honey, which has long been used to soothe a sore throat and to act as a cough suppressant.

One study, which gave children who had upper respiratory tract infections and were at least 2 years old up to 2 teaspoons of honey at bedtime, found that the honey seemed to improve sleep and reduce nighttime coughing. In fact, it was just about as effective as the common cough suppressant ingredient dextromethorphan that’s found in Robitussin.

While some have suggested the alcohol has medicinal benefits — such as its ability to fight infection — Hensrud is skeptical, noting that it can actually cause some congestion and may affect immune function.

But those negative effects may not matter in limited amounts. And there may actually be another effect: Like Nyquil, it can help you get to sleep.

And rest, along with fluids, are the key ingredients to cold relief.

HOT TODDY Makes: 1 drink 1 ounce brown spirit (I prefer bourbon) 1 tablespoon honey 2 teaspoons lemon juice ¼ cup hot water Pour ingredients in a mug and stir until the honey dissolves.

Looking for a way to reduce work stress?

STUDY: Getting a plant may help workers keep calm

By KIERSTEN WILLIS The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (TNS)

If work has you stressed out, there may be a simple solution to reducing it — by staring at a plant.

Researchers in Japan conducted a study of electric company workers and found there were changes in the stress felt pre- and post-plant-staring.

“At present, not so many people fully understand and utilize the benefit of stress recovery brought by plants in the workplace,” lead author Dr. Masahiro Toyoda of the University of Hyogoin said a press release.

“To ameliorate such situations, we decided it essential to verify and provide scientific evidence for the stress restorative effect by nearby plants in a real office setting.”

The study was conducted in two phases. One was a control period sans plants and the other was an intervention period when the participants were able to view and look after a small plant. Researchers measured psychological stress in participants through the State–Trait Anxiety Inventory, which is a commonly used measure of anxiety arising from adverse situations and personality.

There was a definitive ratio of participants who had a significantly lowered pulse rate after three-minute rest while interacting with their plant. The participants chose from six plants, including foliage plants, cactus and bonsai plants, to keep at their desks next.

Researchers discovered that people who reported high anxiety levels before looking at a plant slightly lowered their scores after doing so, CNN reported. An additional 27% of

rimmed baking sheet. Cut potatoes lengthwise into quarters. Arrange potatoes and onion slices around the chicken.

2. Mix sweet paprika, salt, oregano, garlic powder and hot paprika in small bowl.

Sprinkle chicken, potatoes and onion on all sides with the paprika mixture. Drizzle everything with olive oil.

3. Roast for 20 minutes. Stir vegetables well. Continue roasting until chicken juices run clear and potatoes are fork-tender, 20 minutes more.

4. Transfer chicken and vegetables to serving platter.

Set baking sheet over a burner and turn heat to medium.

Stir ¼ cup water into the pan.

Heat to a boil and scrape up all the browned bits from the bottom of the pan. Remove pan from heat. Stir in sour cream and season with salt.

5. Drizzle pan sauce over the chicken and vegetables.

Garnish with parsley and serve.

Whole roasted chicken: Use a 4- to 5-pound whole broiler chicken and remove the giblets and extra pockets of fat. Tuck the wings behind the back. Place chicken on a 16-by-12-inch baking sheet.

Rub chicken on all sides with

half of the seasoning mixture.

Roast, breast side up, at 400 degrees on convection setting or 425 degrees on conventional for 20 minutes. Add potatoes and onions to pan; toss with remaining seasoning mixture and drizzle with oil. Continue roasting, stirring vegetables once or twice, until potatoes are fork-tender and chicken juices run clear, 35 to 40 minutes more. Let chicken rest 10 minutes before carving. Make pan sauce as directed in step 4.

Buttered noodles: Heat a large pot of salted water to boil. Add 1 bag (12 ounces) extra broad egg noodles to the water. Cook, stirring occasionally, until nearly tender, 7 to 8 minutes. Drain off the water. Return the noodles to the pot and add 2 tablespoons butter. Toss to melt the butter.

Season with salt.

Nutrition information per serving: 395 calories, 23 g fat, 6 g saturated fat, 132 mg cholesterol, 22 g carbohydrates, 3 g sugar, 26 g protein, 695 mg sodium, 4 g fiber

there’s a lot of comfort in this food,” said Niver. “It’s napinducing.”

“It’s basically red sauce and spaghetti,” said Mike DeCamp, chef at the Minneapolis modern Italian restaurant Monello, and its Sunday-only Italian-American counterpart, Mama DeCampo’s.

DeCamp’s heritage is Norwegian, but he grew up eating in Twin Cities Italian family restaurants, of which fewer and fewer remain. His Sunday supper is an homage to them.

“To me, Italian-American food kind of means my childhood,” he said. “It’s a good history. I don’t want to see it go away.”

spices to do their magic.

From “Big Flavors From Italian America,” by America’s Test Kitchen.

IRON RANGE PORKETTA SANDWICHES Serves 8.

Note: Plan ahead as this takes at least 6 hours for the

SKILLET APPLES WITH SMOKED-PAPRIKA WHIPPED CREAM Makes: 6 servings

3 tablespoons fennel seeds, cracked 1 tablespoons salt 2 teaspoons pepper 2 teaspoons granulated garlic 1 (5-pound) boneless pork butt roast, trimmed 1 fennel bulb, stalks discarded, bulb halved, cored, and chopped 8 crusty sandwich rolls Combine fennel seeds, salt, pepper and granulated garlic in bowl.

Slice through pork parallel to counter, stopping ½ inch from edge, then open meat flat like a book. Cut ¼-inch-deep slits, spaced 1 inch apart, in crosshatch pattern on both sides of roast.

Rub roast all over with spice mixture, taking care to work spices into crosshatch. Wrap

Researchers found a reduction in anxiety after participants looked at a plant. Pexels

employees had a significant drop in their resting heart rates.

The study, published by the American Society for Horticultural Science, confirmed the effect of gazing onto plants for a few moments and actively caring for it when an employee felt tired.

“It’s something we inherently knew, but has suddenly been quantified. And so now, we’re seeing the numbers behind the reasoning,” Dr. Charles Hall told CNN. Hall is the Ellison chair of international floriculture at Texas A&M University.

Still, looking at and taking care of plants didn’t reduce anxiety in everyone.

Some saw their pulse rate and anxiety increase while others witnessed no significant change.

“I think the anxiety among those in the study where their anxiety increased, it was because of that particular phenomenon that all of a sudden they’re responsible for taking care of a plant and then all of a sudden the plant’s not doing well and they have some anxieties from that,” Hall said.

5 small Honey Crisp apples, about 1 ½ pounds total 3 tablespoons butter ¼ cup each: packed dark brown sugar, raisins ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon 1 cup heavy whipping cream 2 tablespoons confectioners’ sugar ¼ teaspoon smoked or sweet paprika Spice cookies or shortbread cookies 1. Peel apples; cut into quarters. Remove the core and cut each apple quarter into 3 slices.

2. Heat a large, well-seasoned cast-iron or nonstick skillet over medium heat.

Reduce heat to medium-low; add butter and apples. Cook and stir for 5 minutes.

3. Stir in sugar, raisins and cinnamon. Cook and stir until apples are fork-tender, 4 to 5 minutes. Remove from heat.

4. In a small bowl, beat cream until soft beaks form.

Beat in confectioners’ sugar and paprika just to mix.

5. Serve warm apples with their pan juices in small bowls. Top with a dollop of whipped cream. Pass cookies.

Nutrition information per serving: 295 calories, 20 g fat, 13 g saturated fat, 60 mg cholesterol, 29 g carbohydrates, 25 g sugar, 2 g protein, 15 mg sodium, 2 g fiber roast tightly with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 6 hours or up to 24 hours.

Adjust oven rack to middle position and heat oven to 325 degrees. Unwrap meat and place in roasting pan, fat side down. Spread chopped fennel evenly over top of roast.

Cover roasting pan tightly with aluminum foil. Roast until meat registers 200 degrees and fork slips easily in and out of meat, 3 to 4 hours.

Transfer pork to carving board and let rest for 30 minutes. Strain liquid in roasting pan through fine-mesh strainer into fat separator; discard solids.

Shred pork into bite-size pieces, return to pan, and toss with ½ cup defatted cooking liquid. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Divide meat among rolls and serve.