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CAIRO — Two towns are joining forces to save money in the name of pedestrian safety.

Cairo and Greenville are embarking on sidewalk projects simultaneously to increase their efficiency. Cairo’s project will involve installing sidewalks from Cumberland Farms to the Cairo Elementary School, with a section running along the rear of Cumberland Farms, connecting to Dinger Road, then Bross Street and

back to Main Street, creating a loop.

“We have two projects that are really close together,” Cairo Town Supervisor John Coyne said Wednesday. “We can have one staging area and save everybody money. It will be beneficial to both communities.”

Greenville Town Supervisor Paul Macko did not return calls for comment.

The town is changing the scope of the project to increase its savings, Coyne said.

“The previous town board

put this out to bid two times already and it [came back] too high,” he said.

The two p r o j e c t s Cairo Town c o m b i n e d , Supervisor when put John Coyne out to bid in November, came back more than $800,000 over budget, according to meeting minutes from the Greenville Town Board. Cairo’s final share of

the cost won’t be determined until the bids are approved.

The town highway department and parks department will take on the “finish work” for the project, such as planting grass seed and shrubbery, Coyne said.

“I’m glad we are able to revamp the scope of it,” Coyne said. “We will save a considerable amount of money.”

The consultants on the project, Creighton Manning Engineering, are changing the bid package to reflect that Cairo will do the finish work

in-house and the project will go out to bid the middle of next week, Coyne said.

“My goal is to have a shovel in the ground before May 1,” Coyne said.

The town will be responsible for 20% of the cost of the project, with the state Department of Transportation picking up the remainder of the bill. The town will not have final costs until bids have been accepted, Coyne said.

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Chatham Village Police Chief Peter Volkmann joined Rep. Antonio Delgado (NY-19) at the State of the Union Address on February 4.

Local issues on big stage at address

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WASHINGTON — Chatham Village Police Chief and Hudson Police Commissioner Peter Volkmann joined Rep. Antonio Delgado (D-19) at President Donald Trump’s third State of the Union Address on Tuesday night.

“I just want to thank [Delgado] again for the opportunity,” Volkmann said.

“I mean, it’s just an honor to be there and for him to see the opioid crisis as something to continue that community conversation. By asking me as a representative for that conversation is just absolutely important to me and I’m so glad to represent recovery and the hope of recovery.”

Volkmann said the most memorable part of the experience for him was the people there representing America.

“During the speech, I think the most memorable point was the reunion of

the military family,” Volkmann said Wednesday. “It was just amazing, and I think, I believe it got the longest standing ovation. To actually see that, and I

Volkmann described the amazing human effort of democracy behind the event on what he described as the biggest night of the year besides an inau-

“During the speech, I think the most memorable point was the reunion of the military family. It was just amazing, and I think, I believe it got the longest standing ovation. To actually see that, and I don’t know if that’s ever happened on a State of the Union, a military family came together.”

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— CHATHAM VILLAGE POLICE CHIEF HUDSON POLICE COMMISSIONER PETER VOLKMANN

don’t know if that’s ever happened on a State of the Union, a military family came together.”

He said all of Trump’s guests were meaningful to the country.

guration.

“The one thing that really took notice for me was the amount of energy and the support people behind the scenes of this that work real hard, from

law enforcement security, to fire department security, to staff members of congress who work really hard for this night, and that’s just what I saw, and the building maintenance, and there’s so many involved for that one night,” Volkmann said.

Volkmann was included in Delgado’s panel discussion with medical professionals, non-profit organizations, law enforcement and those recovering from addiction throughout the 19th District last fall in Glasco, and has since been working “behind the scenes” with Delgado to make progress in the opioid crisis in New York.

Volkmann said Delgado wants to see programs like Chatham Cares 4 U throughout the nation.

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New Cairo ambulance HQ in the works

By Sarah Trafton Columbia-Greene Media

CAIRO — Officials voted Monday to put construction of the town’s new ambulance building out to bid.

The project involves demolishing a residence at 25 Railroad Ave., behind Cairo Town Hall, that the town purchased in 2017, according to Greene County Property Records.

The board voted to divide the project bidding into three packages: asbestos abatement, demolition and site preparation and construction.

SARAH TRAFTON/COLUMBIA-GREENE MEDIA “By breaking it into smaller parts, it The town of Cairo will be demolishing the blue house, pictured, and building a new will be more possible for local contracambulance headquarters in its place. tors to submit bids,” Councilwoman Mary Jo Cords said. town officials did not receive any reWith the passage of the resolution, The project in its entirety was al- sponses when the bidding period the town’s consultants for the project, Kaaterskill Associates, are dividing the ready put out to bid, Cords said, but closed Jan. 31.

project into the three packages which will be put out to bid.

Coyne is holding hope that contractors will break ground on the new building this year.

The current ambulance building is located on Route 145 near the highway garage, Coyne said.

“The existing building is definitely outdated and in need of significant repairs,” Coyne said. “It is not cost-effective to make the repairs and the board felt it was appropriate to move the location and provide those quarters.”

Because bids have not been accepted yet, the town does not have an exact cost for the project at this time, Coyne said. The town will be taking out a bond to finance the project, he added.

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WASHINGTON — It’s just a fact: President Donald Trump gets a lot of his facts wrong, willfully or not. In his third State of the Union address, he made a number of erroneous or misleading claims.

We’ve fact-checked some of them.

— Jobs and Manufacturing “Since my election, we have created 7 million new jobs,” Trump said, adding that such success was possible because he’d “reversed the failed economic policies” of the Obama administration.

Some 6.7 million new jobs were created during Trump’s first 35 months in office, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That compares with nearly 8 million created in the final 35 months of the Obama administration.

The nation has enjoyed 110 months of job growth, twothirds of them under President Obama. So much for Trump reversing Obama’s “failed” policies.

“We are restoring our nation’s manufacturing might,” Trump also said, adding that 12,000 new factories have been started during his presidency.

The manufacturing sector actually has been in a recession; 12,000 such jobs were lost in December alone.

While 12,000 “factories” might suggest large plants with many workers, many of these so-called manufacturing establishments are small businesses that employ fewer than five people.

Mark Zandi of Moody’s Analytics said the nation has about 290,000 factories, a figure that hasn’t changed appreciably since 2013.

— Income inequality Trump hailed a 47% increase in wealth for the bottom half of American households. That news is not as good as it sounded.

It reflects Federal Reserve data showing that the bottom half’s share of total household wealth grew to just 1.6% in the third quarter of 2019 from 1.1% in the first quarter of 2017, when Trump took office. The 0.5-percentage-point difference is the 47% increase he was talking about.

For perspective, in that same time frame, the share of household wealth held by the top 1% reached more than 32%, the

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U.S. President Donald Trump delivers the State of the Union to a joint session of the U.S. Congress on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2020 in Washington, D.C.

highest share in three decades.

— Trade Trump boasted of a “groundbreaking new agreement with China that will defend our workers, protect our intellectual property, bring billions and billions of dollars into our treasury, and open vast new markets for products made and grown right here in the U.S.A.” The so-called Phase One trade agreement with China did not address America’s most critical concerns, including Beijing’s heavy government subsidies of its industries and policies that discriminate against foreign firms and appropriate their technologies and trade secrets.

— The labor force The president said more than 300,000 working-age people dropped out of the workforce during the Obama administration, while 3.5 million have joined in the three years since he took office.

On this and other economic claims, Trump put Obama’s record in the worst light by attributing to him the Great Recession that Obama inherited. The number of prime-wage workers has risen since hitting bottom in the spring of 2014.

— Health, and preexisting conditions “We will always protect patients with preexisting conditions,” Trump said, calling that “an ironclad pledge.” It is a claim he’s often made despite fact-checkers just as often calling it a lie.

His administration has

undertaken several efforts to undermine or repeal the Affordable Care Act, including its guarantee of insurance coverage for patients with preexisting medical conditions.

After taking office, Trump pushed hard to repeal the law, cheering a Republican effort in Congress to pass a measure that would have eliminated both that guarantee and federal aid that has allowed millions of lowand moderate-income Americans to get insurance coverage.

The administration now is supporting a lawsuit by Texas and other Republican-led states to eliminate the law, often called Obamacare.

Trump made another claim: “A good life for American families also requires the most affordable, innovative and highquality healthcare system on Earth.”

The president has yet to offer the alternative health plan he has promised since before his election, one that would provide better coverage at lower cost, as he’s put it. Instead, the administration has offered plans that are low-cost but have sharply limited coverage and aren’t available to people with preexisting conditions.

— Energy “The United States has become the No. 1 producer of oil and natural gas in the world, by far,” Trump said.

Production was rising steadily before he was elected, and the U.S. has been the leading producer of natural gas since 2009.

— Tree-hugging “To protect the environment,” Trump said, the nation would join the “One Trillion Trees Initiative,” a public-private initiative to plant trees around the world.

Environmental advocates are all for planting more trees, but most agree it’s not the most effective way to prevent the worst effects of climate change. Nor does the administration’s environmental record suggest it is likely to follow through.

Meanwhile, the administration has proposed weakening federal protections for the Tongass National Forest in Alaska, paving roads to allow more logging there.

— Anti-terrorism Trump reiterated that he ordered the killing of Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Suleimani on Jan. 3 because Suleimani “was actively planning new attacks.”

U.S. officials have not provided any evidence of that, and senior members of Trump’s national security team have said they never saw specific intelligence about planned attacks on four embassies, including in Baghdad, as Trump has claimed.

Trump also boasted about the CIA-led raid that left Islamic State founder Abu Bakr Baghdadi dead in Syria, claiming the U.S. operation last year gravely damaged the terrorist group.

Yet the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency and U.S. Central Command, which oversees military operations in the Middle East, have concluded that Baghdadi’s death has not hindered Islamic State operations, according to a report this week by the Pentagon inspector general.

— Trump’s border wall The president claimed that by early next year, he will have built 500 miles of wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, fulfilling part of a key campaign pledge from 2016.

Among the first to fact-check him was Ann Coulter, the conservative pundit. She tweeted even as the president spoke, “Trump’s ‘500 miles’ of wall is really 498 miles of ‘replacement fencing.’” (c)2020 Los Angeles Times Visit the Los Angeles Times at www.latimes.com Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

Bezos sells $1.8 billion of Amazon stock in two days after surge Tom Metcalf Bloomberg

In the 15 years after Amazon. com went public in 1997, Jeff Bezos sold about a fifth of the company for roughly $2 billion.

In just the past week, he sold 0.2% of the retailer for $1.8 billion.

Bezos offloaded 905,456 Amazon shares on Friday and Monday under a pre-arranged trading plan, according to filings. That brings his total stock sales to about $12 billion, with two-thirds of those occurring in the past four years, according to calculations by Bloomberg.

The scale of the recent sales — including $2 billion in 2017 and $2.8 billion in 2019 -- partly reflects Amazon’s soaring valuation, which closed above $1 trillion for the first time on Tuesday. That means Bezos’s remaining 11% stake is worth $116 billion.

Their size and frequency though also reflects the changing needs of his increasingly public profile.

In the past few years, he’s had a style makeover and rarely been out of the headlines since he and MacKenzie Bezos divorced in 2019. That includes hitting the red carpet with girlfriend Lauren Sanchez, hosting a bash at his Washington mansion for the political and financial elite, and even being part of an international controversy after the incendiary claim that the crown prince of Saudi Arabia was involved in hacking his phone.

It’s a far cry from the low profile Bezos cultivated for years.

Like fellow Seattle billionaire Bill Gates, he showed little interest in matching the glitzy lifestyle of other tech titans, such as Oracle’s Larry Ellison, whose purchases have included a Hawaiian island and

super-yacht.

That doesn’t mean Bezos hasn’t spent boatloads of money. As well as properties on both coasts, he has his own rural getaway: 170,000 hectares of desert scrub in Texas, where he indulges his passion for space exploration. He’s previously said that he’s funding rocket company Blue Origin with about $1 billion a year through the sale of Amazon stock.

“The price of admission to space is very high,” Bezos said in 2018, accepting the Buzz Aldrin Space Exploration Award at the Explorers Club Annual Dinner. That still leaves plenty left over for other pursuits, from The Washington Post to a clock built in the Sierra Diablo mountain range in Texas that’s designed to run for 10,000 years. He’s also currently house hunting in Los Angeles, according to the New York Post.

His wealth is still soaring.

The value of his remaining Amazon stock has climbed by $11 billion this year.

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CALENDAR Thursday, Feb. 6 n Ashland Planning Board 6 p.m.

Town Hall, 12094 Route 23, Ashland n Coxsackie-Athens Central School District board of education mid-year workshop 6 p.m. High School Library, 24 Sunset Blvd., Coxsackie n Coxsackie Town Planning Board 7 p.m. Town Hall, 16 Reed St., Coxsackie n Coxsackie Village Workshop meeting 6 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

Monday, Feb. 10 n Ashland Town Board 7:30 p.m.

Town Hall, 12094 Route 23, Ashland n Catskill Village Planning Board 7 p.m. Catskill Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill n Coxsackie Village Board 7 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie n Greene County Legislature county services; public works 6 p.m. Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill n Greenville CSD BOE Business Meeting 6:30 p.m. MS/HS Library, 4976 Route 81, Greenville 518-966-5070

Tuesday, Feb. 11 n Cairo Public Library Board of Trust-

ees 3:30 p.m. 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 workshop 6 p.m. Town Hall, 16 Reed St., Coxsackie n Coxsackie Village Historic Preservation Committee 6 p.m. Village Hall, 119 Mansion St., Coxsackie

Wednesday, Feb. 12 n Athens Village Board 6:30 p.m.

Village Hall, 2 First St., Athens 518-9451551 n Catskill Central School District BOE 6:30 p.m. High School Library, 341 West Main St., Catskill n Catskill Town Zoning Board 6 p.m.

Town Hall, 439 Main St., Catskill n Catskill Village Board 7 p.m. Senior Center, 15 Academy St., Catskill 518-9433830 n Greene County Legislature workshop 6 p.m. Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill n Jewett Town Board 7 p.m. Jewett Municipal Building, 3547 County Route 23C, Jewett

Solar plan in early stages

By Abby Hoover Columbia-Greene Media

COPAKE — Hecate Energy announced Monday a proposed 700-acre installation of solar panels on Routes 23 and 7 in the hamlet of Craryville.

The completed project would generate approximately 110,000 MWh of energy annually, which is enough to power 15,000 homes, according to a statement from Hecate Energy.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed into law the Green New Deal on Jan. 15, 2019.

The law set a deadline for New York State to be powered exclusively by renewable energy by 2040. With the most aggressive timeline in the country, solar and wind farms are being constructed throughout the state.

The proposed project, named Shepherd’s Run Solar, will connect to the existing Craryville substation on Route 23, and the solar electricity will flow to the nearest local points of demand.

In August 2011, Article 10 of the Public Service law was created when Cuomo signed into law Chapter 388 of the Laws of 2011. This created the Board on Electric Generation Siting and the Environment.

The board provides siting review of new and repowered or modified major electric generating facilities in New York State.

In addition to five state

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Hecate Energy, LLC, Development Director Gabriel Wapner at a Coxsackie Town Board meeting in May 2018.

officials, two members local to the project are selected to the committee. Candidates for the two ad-hoc positions on the Siting Board will be nominated by local government, but Copake Town Supervisor Jeanne Mettler said the Town Board will have to review the relevant laws further before selecting nominees.

“We are just in the very earliest stages of this new application, but it is important that the public be aware of this process at every step of the way,” Mettler said.

When a company such as Hecate Energy proposes a major renewable energy project, it is brought to the Siting Board to undergo a sixstep process before becoming a certified project.

Article 10 defines a major

electric generating facility as one that produces 25 megawatts or more and requires environmental and public health impact analyses as part of the process, as well as studies measuring electric system benefits, public safety and consideration for local laws.

“The Town of Copake adopted a Solar Energy Law in 2017,” Mettler said. “In that law, the maximum acreage allowed for any utility-scale solar energy system was 10 acres. This project would greatly exceed that.”

According to a Hecate Energy press release, the 700-acre proposed site will have a smaller footprint, according to Hecate. The project will create over 200 local construction jobs for the duration of the 9 to 12-month

build.

The law also requires a utility security plan reviewed

by Homeland Security, the company said. Hecate has proposed funding training for local emergency response crews that will interact with the site during construction and after completion.

Hecate Project Developer Alex Campbell said the completed project will generate $5 million to $7 million in new revenue for local government.

“That will be through tax payments that we provide to the schools, fire department, libraries and the local county government,” Campbell said.

“It’s basically our propertytax payment.”

The noncontiguous land used for the project will be leased from nearby landowners who are supportive of the project, Campbell said. After the project finishes its useful life, a decommissioning plan will be activated and the land will go back to the landowners, likely in better form after decades of time to recharge, Campbell added.

Hecate Energy’s Public Involvement Program, which was submitted to the Siting Board on Jan. 31 provides for public comment. The PIP lays out how the company will communicate with local government and residents throughout the process. The Copake Town Board will provide further information

when it is available. At this time, no public hearings are scheduled on the project.

“We are very excited about Hecate’s Shepard’s Run Solar facility announcement,” said Anne Reynolds, executive director of the Alliance for Clean Energy New York. “We need more of these largescale, high-quality projects like this one if we hope to come close to the renewable energy goals established to address global climate change.”

Fifty-seven projects are in the Active Article 10 Queue across New York State. Hecate Energy, headquartered in Chicago, was founded in 2012, and is also working on a proposed facility in southern Albany County called Coeymans Solar and the proposed Greene County Solar in the town of Coxsackie.

Those interested can find more information on the project at http://www.shepherdsrunsolar.com/ and more information about Article 10 and the Siting Board at http://www3.dps.ny.gov/W/ PSCWeb.nsf/All/1392EC6DD 904BBC285257F4E005BE810 ?OpenDocument.

Abby Hoover is a reporter at the Register-Star. Contact her at ahoover@registerstar.com or (518) 828-1616 ext. 2500.

GREENE COUNTY POLICE BLOTTER

Thursday, Feb. 13 n Greene County Legislature finance

audit 6 p.m. Greene County Office Building, 411 Main St., Catskill n Windham-Ashland-Jewett CSD BOE audit finance committee 5:15 p.m. in superintendent’s office; regular meeting 6 p.m. in the School Library, 5411 Route 23, Windham

Monday, Feb. 17 n Athens Town Hall Offices closed in

observance of President’s Day n Athens Village Hall Offices closed in observance of President’s Day n Catskill Town Offices closed in observance of President’s Day n Coxsackie Town Offices closed in observation of President’s Day n Coxsackie Village Offices closed in observation of President’s Day n Greene County Office Building closed in observation of President’s Day n Greenville Town Offices closed in observation of President’s Day

Tuesday, Feb. 18 n Athens Village Planning Board 6:30

p.m. Village Hall, 2 First St., Athens 518945-1551

Correction In the story “Cairo residents share water concerns” in the Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020 edition of The Daily Mail, the Greene County Training Center is listed in a lawsuit filed against several chemical companies by state Attorney General Letitia James.

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STATE POLICE n Harold Rivenburgh, 46, of Catskill, was arrested at 1:31 p.m. Jan. 31 in Cairo and charged with third-degree grand larceny and 54 counts of second-degree forgery, both class D felonies, and 54 counts of possession of a false instrument, a class E felony. He was issued an appearance ticket n Joseph A. Mammano, 37, of Saugerties, was arrested at 7:53 a.m. Jan. 31 in Saugerties and charged with second-degree aggravated harassment, a class A misdemeanor. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Justin C. Brickford, 21, of West Hurley, was arrested at 2:22 a.m. Feb. 1 in Hunter and charged with operating a motor vehicle with a blood-alcohol content greater than 0.08% and driving while intoxicated, both unclassified misdemeanors.

He was issued an appearance ticket. n Mark J. Valk, 58, of Palenville, was arrested at 8:25 p.m. Feb. 1 in Saugerties and charged with operating a motor vehicle with a blood-alcohol content greater than 0.08% and driving while intoxicated, both unclassified misdemeanors.

He was issued an appearance ticket. n Edward J. Adkins, 25, of Purling, was arrested at 12:35 a.m. Feb. 2 in Kingston and charged with seventhdegree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a class A misdemeanor. He was issued an appearance ticket. n Patricia C. Davenport, 58, Coxsackie, was arrested at 7:10 p.m. Feb. 1 in Coxsackie and charged with second-degree criminal contempt, a class A misdemeanor. She was issued an appearance ticket. n Mary E. Camera, 65, of Schenectady, was arrested at 7:10 p.m. Feb. 1 in Coxsackie and charged with

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second-degree criminal contempt, a class A misdemeanor. She was released on her own recognizance. n Randall Hoose. 53, of New Paltz, was arrested at 10:24 p.m. Feb. 2 in Hunter and charged with operating a motor vehicle with a blood-alcohol content greater than 0.08% and driving while intoxicated, both unclassified misdemeanors.

He was issued an appearance ticket. n Chiragkumar M. Patel, 30, of Hudson, was arrested at 9:55 p.m. Feb. 2 in Catskill and charged with operating a motor vehicle with a blood-alcohol content greater than 0.08% and driving while intoxicated, both unclassified misdemeanors.

He was issued an appearance ticket. n Guillermo Pena, 49, of Palenville, was arrested at 11:10 p.m. Feb. 3 in Catskill and charged with fourthdegree criminal mischief, a class A misdemeanor. He was released on his own recognizance.

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Water woes have serious implications The presence of PFAS in Cairo’s drinking water supply could have serious implications for residents and businesses now and possibly for years to come.

PFAS, or perfluroalkyl and polyfluroalkyl substances, are a group of contaminants, including PFOA and PFOS, that resist degradation and form conglomorates in the human body. PFAS have been linked to serious illnesses such as kidney and testicular cancer, thyroid disease, liver damage, preeclampsia and other conditions.

Cairo’s public drinking water is supplied by a well at Angelo Canna Town Park, which is fed by groundwater. Results of Cairo’s 2019 water quality report were released Tuesday, with PFOS levels of 8.37 parts per trillion before treatment and 8.51 after treatment. The water is treated with soda ash and chlorine.

The good news is that the report shows a slight decrease in levels from the 2018 report, in which PFOS levels were at 13.3 ppt before treatment and 11.3 after treatment. The bad news: Nobody knows what the long-term effects of these chemicals will be in people who have been drinking the water over five years. This is the length of time the chemicals remain in the body.

Delaware Engineering Project Leader William Bright discussed the findings with the

board. Bright said the town is planning to drill a new well around 100 feet away from the existing well. We’re no experts, but 100 feet seems too close to the current well to make any appreciable change in the PFAS levels.

“It is the most productive site,” Bright said Monday, adding that the plans were approved by the state Department of Health.

Cairo has options, but they are limited, Bright said. Aside from finding additional wells, the town’s other options are to investigate hooking up to the village of Catskill’s water supply or treating its former reservoir.

And when it comes to treating the municipal drinking water at large, the town has four options, Bright said: Granular activated carbon, ion exchange, microfiltration or reverse osmosis.

Bright said the existing well does not have enough volume and the other wells that were explored were unsuitable.

Some options are expensive. Drilling a well alongside the Catskill Creek would cost an estimated $2 million plus an additional $300 per foot for the pipes to transport the water.

Much is at stake for Cairo. Broadband is important for growth but water is the lifeblood.

If the town board acts quickly, officials might be able to restore faith in the town’s drinking water and keep Cairo on track for the future.

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Economy is strong, as Trump says, but at what cost? (c) 2020,The Washington Post ·

As Congress gathered for the annual State of the Union address Tuesday, there was no denying that the state of the national economy is good indeed, though President Donald Trump, predictably, exaggerated how good.

The broadest measures - gross domestic product growth, wages and labor force participation - all point in varying degrees in the right direction, with the most sensitive indicator, unemployment, at a 50-year low of 3.5%. The laws of politics decree that incumbent presidents take the blame for negative economic conditions and the credit for positive ones. In that sense, Trump’s posture, in an election year, is entirely conventional. But the true State of the Union after three years of this otherwise unconventional presidency cannot be measured so straightforwardly.

One question is whether Trump’s policies deserve the credit he axiomatically takes for the economy. On that point, the answer is mixed at best: Economic growth under President Barack Obama after the Great Recession ended in 2009 averaged 2.2% annually, so Trump’s 2.5% annual average is a modest improvement over what he inherited, partially attributable to Federal Reserve policy — and partially to the stimulus from the hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts Trump’s policies created over the past two years. At the same time, the Trump tariff wars with China, Canada, Mexico, South Korea, Japan and Europe (did we miss anyone?) generated countervailing uncertainty that slowed growth. Also, the tax cuts, heavily weighted toward businesses and the well-to-do, probably exacerbated after-tax income inequality, notwithstanding the wage increases

among lower-income workers Trump touts as a “blue-collar boom.”

More consequential is whether the current prosperity has been built on a sustainable basis. Again, the jury is out: Trump’s corporate-tax-rate cut represents a structural change in favor of investment that even many Democrats advocated, albeit not to the degree Republicans have enacted. Nevertheless, productivity growth rates remain stubbornly sluggish, and Trump has failed to deliver on his promises of major new infrastructure spending, which might have enhanced the economy’s growth capacity. The sheer growth of the labor force is another key factor in economic dynamism, but Trump’s anti-immigration stance works against that, too.

Finally, even if the economy were performing as well as Trump says, and even if he deserved all the credit, this unsettling question would remain: At what price? The president, of course, has not only changed economic policy since 2017; he has tried to change the presidency - from a focal point of national unity to a bully pulpit for partisan and personal rancor, up to and including the search for foreign-dug dirt on a political rival for which he faces an impeachment trial in the Senate. Trump overtly asserts his total innocence in all respects, even as he implicitly tempts Americans with a subtly different proposition: to accept his behavior, and his conscious efforts to divide the country, as somehow necessary trade-offs for prosperity. This is as false as it is Faustian; trust and consensus are essential ingredients of a modern, efficient economy, not to mention indispensable to a thriving, durable Union.

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Democrats’ carnival of unintended consequences WASHINGTON — The progressive party’s Iowa caucuses were a hilarious parody — ambitious, complex, subtle and a carnival of unintended consequences.

The party that promises to fine-tune everything, from the production of wealth to the allocation of health care to the administration of education, produced a fittingly absurd climax to what surely was Iowa’s final strut as a national distraction.

Like a toddler trailing a security blanket across Iowa, Elizabeth Warren clung to identity politics with a fervor that suggested desperation and defied caricature.

Eventual autopsies of her campaign, and perhaps of the Democrats’ presidential hopes, should ponder this promise to Iowans: For the purpose of “restoring integrity and competence to government,” she will have “at least 50% of Cabinet positions filled by women and nonbinary people,” and a “young trans person” will vet her secretary of education candidates. In the Democrats’ ideological auction, Warren bested Pete Buttigieg who, in what counts in today’s Democratic Party as Solomonic centrism, promised only that half the members of his Cabinet will have two X chromosomes.

Four days before Iowa Democrats stumbled into futility, Bernie Sanders revealed to The New York Times the genesis of his socialism. Never mind the gulags, famines, Venezuelas and other wreckages, socialism is justified because the Dodgers decamped from Brooklyn to Los Angeles after the 1957 season when Sanders was 16. The Times says “perhaps no single event has proved more enduring in Mr. Sanders’ consciousness — more viscerally felt in his signature fury toward the 1%.”

Well.

In 1955, the Dodgers, with six future Hall of Famers, won the World Series but had an average attendance of just 13,423, barely better than MLB’s worst-drawing 2019 team (Miami, 10,016).

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WILL In 1950, St. Louis, the western-most major-league city, had two teams and Los Angeles had none. In Sanders’ cartoonish understanding of reality, his explanation of everything he finds objectionable — other people’s “greed” — explains the loss of what he still considers his eternal entitlement to the Dodgers being in Brooklyn.

Never mind that many of the Dodgers’ fans left Brooklyn, as did today’s senator from Vermont who, by the way, when playing a like-minded rabbi for a film said that he despises “free agency crap” — the unionized players’ hard-won right to negotiate terms of employment with teams of their choice.

Substituting indignation for information, Sanders’ baseball nostalgia is akin to his claim that the average worker “is not making a nickel more” than 45 years ago. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says that from 1990 to 2016 the average household’s inflationadjusted income after taxes and government transfers increased 46%, and 66% for households in the bottom quintile.

Fortunately, there is something comparatively serious in America’s political future.

Super Tuesday, aka March 3, will allocate 1,357 delegates, 68% of the total needed to nominate. They will come mostly from (never mind American Samoa and Democrats abroad) 14 states that include five that the nominee will lose in November (Alabama, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Utah), three that he or she will win (California, Massachusetts, Vermont), five competitive ones

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If a few early states must initiate the nomination process, they should be unlike Iowa, which has a population just 14% larger than in 1960, compared with North Carolina (130% larger), Georgia (169%), Texas (203%), Colorado (228%) and Florida (334%). Michael Bloomberg, however, is giving a glimpse of another alternative — a national primary, or several regional primaries. His spending — $250 million on television and internet ads in two months; approximately what Anheuser-Busch has spent advertising beer in the same period — will demonstrate either the steeply declining utility of political dollars or the manageable challenge for ordinary candidates to raise large sums from small donors in a nation that spends $8 billion a year on potato chips.

Meanwhile, like startled pheasants flushed from an Iowa cornfield, the surviving Democratic aspirants have fluttered away. The silliest candidates have disappeared (remember Beto O’Rourke? didn’t think so) and Iowa has at least clarified the Democrats’ clashing theories: Americans are angry and hankering for more turmoil (Warren, Sanders), or Americans are embarrassed and exhausted by today’s politics of obnoxious noise (everyone but Warren and Sanders).

Sanders and Warren find billionaires distasteful, and neither they nor their woker-than-thou supporters will graciously accept a rising Bloomberg, so Iowa was just a sample of the Democrats’ coming self-inflicted wounds. Donald Trump’s smiles usually look strained, like grimaces out of context, but perhaps not today.

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Anne Wells Abrams Anne Wells Abrams. 99, year. She loved to cook, and of Latham, NY, passed away most importantly, she loved her peacefully in her sleep on Feb- children, grandchildren and the ruary 1, 2020 of natural causes generations that followed. She at Wingate Nursing Home, is survived by her 2 daughters Highland NY. She was born Linda Mancuso, husband Lou, and raised in New York City on Lisa Morgan, husband Mike, January 16th, 1921...to Oscar son Chris Abrams, 5 grandchiland Emma Wells. She dren, 8 great grandchilmarried the late William dren, as well as many F Abrams of Chatham relatives of Chatham and they settled there, who she held so dear. a place, since childHer last selfless act was hood summers that her wish that her body she always held dear, be donated to Albany later moving to WoodMedical College for stock and finally, after study. her husbands passing, A remembrance Abrams she moved to Latham service will be held at NY for the past 33 years. A life French, Gifford, Preiter & Blasl long fiesty Democrat, in young- funeral home in Chatham at er years, she was active in the a future undetermined date Democratic Party along with her with eventual burial to follow husband. She was employed for at Chatham Rural Cemetery. many years at Kingston Hospital Condolences may be conveyed before retiring in 1987. at frenchblasl.com. The famAnne was a most energetic ily wishes to thank the staff of and remarkable person...de- Wingate Nursing Home for all spite her age, living indepen- their care and concern for Anne dently on her own until this past this past year. GOD BLESS!

Brother Joseph Ash, CSC Brother Joseph Ash, CSC , 77, a member of the Congregation of Holy Cross, passed away January 30, 2020 at St. Joseph Center, Valatie, NY. Born in New York City, he graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx and shortly thereafter became a candidate for the Brothers of Holy Cross at St. Joseph Juniorate in Valatie, NY. He entered the novitiate there in August 1960 and made his first profession of vows on August 23, 1961. At the beginning of his ministry, Brother Joseph spent nearly fifteen years directing food services at various Holy Cross locations. In the process, he also earned a business diploma in 1967 from Hudson Valley Community College in Troy, NY. From his generous kitchen, Brother Joseph served his Brothers and young candidates and novices in formation at Valatie from 1961 through 1970, except for two one-year assignments in Rochester and Flushing, NY. Then, he ventured to Italy to serve as a prefect at Notre Dame International School in Rome. He returned to the United States in 1974 to

direct food services at Pius XII in Chester, NY for a year, and then served at Moreau Hall in North Easton, MA for two years.

While in North Easton, he completed his undergraduate studies at Stonehill College. In 1979, Brother Joseph began a 36-year career as a beloved teacher, dean of discipline, coach and campus minister at St. Edmond’s Academy in Wilmington, DE. For many years, he was director of the local community of religious Brothers. In 2011, Brother Joseph celebrated his 50th anniversary as a Brother of Holy Cross and in August 2016, he retired to St. Joseph Center in Valatie, NY. Funeral services will be held at St. Joseph Center, Valatie, NY. The wake will be held Friday, February 7, 2020 at 7:15 p.m. The Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Saturday, February 8, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. followed by interment at St. Joseph Cemetery and a luncheon. If you plan to attend the luncheon, please call the Center at (518) 784-9481 so there will be plenty– as Brother Joe would want!

Daniel F. Kelleher Daniel F. Kelleher of Paxton MA. passed away on January 29, 2020 with his family by his side.Dan was born in Pittsfield MA. on May 5 1952. He leaves two loving and loyal sons, Curran (Nita) and Sean and granddaughter Kareena.

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Stanley J. Hasbrook., 88, of Embought Rd., Catskill passed away on February 5, 2020. A US Air Force Korean War veteran, he married June Uhlemann on April 12, 1958. Mr. Hasbrook retired from Lehigh/Portland Cement in 1982.

Beloved husband of June Hasbrook, father of Walter Hasbrook and Colleen of Catskill and the late Linda Ann Heim; grandfather of Melanie and

Sarah Hasbrook, father in law of Dan Heim of Clifton Park.

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What did police find in this bag marked ‘Bag Full of Drugs’?

By Tom Jackman The Washington Post

It started, as these stories often do, with a routine traffic stop. When a backup officer arrived, early on Saturday evening, he just happened to be a deputy with a drugsniffing dog. The deputy K-9, “Prince,” smelled trouble.

And as the police in Florida’s panhandle began examining the inside of the Kia sedan, they came across two bags helpfully marked, “Bag Full of Drugs.”

It’s not exactly probable cause, but it’s a lead.

And police say it led to a jackpot: 75 grams (2.6 ounces) of methamphetamine, more than a kilogram (2.2 pounds) of the date-rape drug GHB, 3.6 grams (0.12 ounces) of fentanyl, plus ecstasy, cocaine and assorted paraphernalia. The driver and passenger were both booked on multiple felony drug charges, according to the Florida Highway Patrol, with a hand from Prince of the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office.

“They don’t always make it that easy for us,” said Lt. W. Robert Cannon of the Florida Highway Patrol of the clearly marked drug bags.

“If it weren’t for the fact that we’re talking about date rape drugs, fentanyl, which we all know can be deadly, cocaine and the other drugs, it would be humorous.”

Cannon said Trooper Marlon Boggan was on routine patrol, not targeting drugs or any other special assignment, when he started to run radar on Interstate 10 near Holt, Fla. Boggan reportedly clocked a Kia going 95 mph in a 70 mph zone, and pulled it over.

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Two bags marked “Bag Full of Drugs” were found among the belongings of two Florida men arrested Saturday for drug trafficking. It was as advertised, police say.

Boggan asked for identification from both the driver and the passenger, Cannon said, and the passenger reportedly told the trooper, “I probably shouldn’t give this to you.”

Boy was he right about that.

Boggan ran the license and found the passenger, Joshua M. Reinhardt, 34, of Orlando, had an outstanding felony warrant for probation violation on a grand theft conviction. But the trooper couldn’t just snatch Reinhardt. His dispatcher had to check with Orange County, Fla., to see if they would extradite the prisoner once he was arrested, Cannon said, or else he would be released.

Reinhardt and the driver, Ian C. Simmons, 34, of Windermere, Fla., both started

acting suspiciously, and Boggan had to kill time while his dispatcher checked on extradition, Cannon said. So Boggan called for backup, and a Santa Rosa County sheriff’s deputy arrived with Prince.

The dog took a stroll around the Kia, Cannon said, and “alerted to narcotics in the vehicle.”

Reinhardt and Simmons were removed from the Kia, and the officers found the car to be full of drugs. Well maybe not full, but carefully stashed throughout. “Every corner of the car had drugs in it,” Cannon said the trooper reported.

Of the two bags labeled “Bag Full of Drugs,” one had suspected ecstasy and marijuana, while the other had plastic bags and paraphernalia, Cannon said. The

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estimated street value of the drugs was $15,450. Both men were handed four counts of felony and two counts of misdemeanor drug charges, and were being held in the Santa Rosa County jail on Tuesday night in lieu of $117,000 bond.

A brief review of the Internet finds that a “Bag Full of Drugs” is available in both accessory pouch and tote sizes. “There’s nothing more fun than walking around town with your ironic bag full of drugs,” one vendor notes.

The Santa Rosa sheriff’s office posted on its Facebook page: “Note to self - do not traffic your illegal narcotics in bags labeled ‘Bag Full Of Drugs.’ Our K-9s can read.”

“Self,” sheriff? Now that’s ironic.

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The federal government has issued an emergency order allowing its coronavirus test to be used by state health labs nationwide, speeding up efforts to detect and contain new cases of the mysterious new illness.

Since the first cases of the pneumonialike virus were confirmed in the U.S. last month, the test could only be done at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s own labs.

But the rapidly growing outbreak, which is concentrated in China, has since been declared a public health emergency in the U.S. as officials race to keep the number of cases in this country as low as possible.

“This continues to be an evolving situation and the ability to distribute this diagnostic test to qualified labs is a critical step forward in protecting the public health,” Dr. Stephen Hahn, commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, said in a statement Tuesday.

Test kits were expected to be shipped to more than 100 labs across the U.S. within the next few days. Starting next week, potential new cases will be confirmed by those labs directly, instead of the CDC, the federal agency announced Wednesday.

Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, said the new measures would “greatly enhance” the government’s capacity to test and treat new cases and will set the path for the kits to be available commercially in the near future.

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virus has sickened 11 people across five U.S. states — Arizona, California, Illinois, Massachusetts and Washington. But the number of confirmed cases in mainland China was close to 25,000 on Wednesday, with 490 deaths.

Most of the patients affected so far are from central China’s Hubei province, where the virus-stricken city of Wuhan is located. The first confirmed cases are linked to a large animal and seafood market in that city, though the exact source of the virus remains unknown.

The viral infection can cause respiratory illness and most patients have developed mild symptoms, such as fever and cough.

Even as they declared the outbreak a public health emergency last week, U.S. officials insisted the threat to the general public remains low because there’s no evidence the virus is spreading in this country. Nearly all U.S. patients had recently returned from China when they were diagnosed with the disease.

U.S. travelers returning from China have been quarantined at military bases.

Messonnier on Wednesday said four more planes carrying passengers from Wuhan are making their way into the U.S. Two of those planes are heading to California, one is going to Nebraska and the other is bound for Texas.

“We do not believe these people pose a threat to the community where they’re being held,” Messonnier told reporters in a phone briefing, noting that CDC agents would screen those travelers immediately upon arrival.

As of Wednesday morning, the CDC has tested nearly 300 suspected cases.

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A centrally located school

By Dede Terns Thorpe For Columbia-Greene Media

This is a follow-up to the past few articles of the HunterTannersville-Central School yearbooks. It will travel back to the centralization of our schools.

As told by historian Doris West Brooks in a small (undated) booklet concerning the school’s history, “In 1931 there were 19 small community schools in the townships of Jewett, Hunter and Lexington. Some were located in places most of us have never heard of — Foot-of-the-Ridge, Ingraham and Tannery. These schools went only to the 8th grade. To receive a higher education the children had to be transported to Hunter or Tannersville, both of which had grades 1-12. Some of the students from the out-lying districts even boarded in town during the school year.

The biggest controversy over the new centralization was not whether it should be, but, rather where the new school should be located.”

This letter relates to that controversy, in which we all know the decision.

Our school district encompasses 164 square miles and in the 1930s transportation was not what it is today.

ATTENTION OF OUR CITIZENS FROM THE CITIZENS COMMITTEE OF HAINES FALLS, sent in 1934.

“To our taxpayers, rent payers, and parents with children at school. Serious consideration must be given to an election called for the purpose of voting for a location of a Central School, whether at Tannersville or Hunter.

We should look at this matter in the light of what is best for the interests of our community.

The proposed site at Tannersville is the present High School building where our children in the past have received their high school educations.

Hunter village has two sites proposed, either would be much more costly than the Tannersville site. Tannersville is four or five miles nearer Haines Falls than Hunter, or, a round trip difference of nine miles a day, also a difference in time of forty minutes a day.

In the matter of taxes, a central school building would cost $32,000 (today’s money $620,020) more to build on the proposed sites in Hunter village than the site at Tannersville. A sewerage system of $20,000; land, $10,000; and an extra bus, $2,000; plus, an additional charge of $5,000 maintenance yearly (?) over the Tannersville site. These figures are from the architect and in possession of the Board of Education.

It would be more to our interests to have the school at

Tannersville, as it no doubt would mean the building up of Tannersville towards Haines Falls, whereas a school at Hunter would mean the building up of Hunter towards Tannersville. This is how it has worked out in other communities.

We are taking a step that should be given deep study, a step that will affect our community and its citizens for a great many years.

We strongly urge all our citizens to go to the election polls and vote. The election is to be held on Thursday, April 27th, between 10am and 5pm at the Tannersville Village Hall, located at Main and Railroad Avenue. Transportation, if needed, will be furnished.

Qualifications for voting are a citizen of the U.S., four months in Greene County, thirty days in the election district, a taxpayer, rent payer, or parents with children at school. We consider it our duty to call these pertinent facts to the attention of our friends and neighbors.” Thank you.

The school board members dated September 5, 1933, were J. Frank Lackey, President; Benj. C. Merwin, C. B. Layman, Egbert Dibbell, Robert s.

Tuttle.

Thanks for reading. Please, any corrections or concerns, Hunterhistorican@gmail.com, or call 518-589-4130.

Windham Mountain, still going strong

By Lula Anderson For Columbia-Greene Media

First page of the calendar ripped off. We survived January, now comes the shortest, coldest (?) month of the year. I feel that spring must be on its way as I have been smelling skunk in my office the past few mornings. A couple of years ago we were in the middle of sapping. What will this month bring?

Still going through my mother’s old scrapbooks. Found a picture of the Mustangs, the band my brother, Franklyn, was in, along with Bob Lawrence, Floyd Barlow, Dave Cammer and Tracy Lynn Cornell. On the back was a bit of the Jewett column, written by Violet Osborn and the Maplecrest by Rev. Ray Edwards. We tend to forget that each village had their own reporter for the Windham Journal, and there was enough news to fill each column. People and groups used the paper to spread their news. There was no FaceBook to tell everyone in the world what you were doing, so you called your neighbor to report.

Now I have to pull teeth to get anyone to tell me what is planned.

The Ashland Church will be holding an All You Can Eat Breakfast 7-11 a.m. March 21.

Please come and support us.

It will be held at the Ashland Town Hall/ Community Center. The food is always plentiful, and you are never disappointed in the amount you get.

It is truly all you can eat.

A new rummage sale to look forward to. On Feb. 15, the Greek Church on Route 23 in Windham will start off the season.

On Feb. 21, St. Theresa’s Church presents Irish Night with Andy Cooney and His Band. It will be held at Seasons, Windham Mountain base lodge, 3rd floor. Dinner, dancing, cash bar, raffles, prizes and more. Tickets $50/person. Call 518-734-3352.

I did hear from people about my “cold” column: Janet Armstrong writes, ”Think this was a week for chores that are never seen. Closet cleanout was mine. Took every piece of clothing out of our closets,

keep, donate or toss. Then everything in the keep and donate piles was washed, dried and put away. Must have 50 extra hangers now!”

I can remember having a feather bed mattress, what a blessing on frigid nights. Once in bed you kind of sunk into the mattress and it closed around you to keep you warm. Ed says he put the mattress over him to keep warm. He can remember it being so cold the pee pot under the bed froze and split the pot! Am so glad we don’t have to deal with these things now!

But we all survived.

Ellouise Cole has been reading my column since she moved, and always has a comment. She wrote much this past week, some of which I’ll save for next week. I remember the snow blowing in around the windows and when you jumped out of bed you jumped right in it. The chimney went up through my bedroom so that took the chill off and just think we lived through it. I remember Jimmy Mendenhall.

He lived in Lexington and it is still called Mendenhalls flats.

Ellouise also wrote about my “scrap book” project. She has been going through her mother’s, also. Thankfully, her nephew would like it to be passed down to him. We fear that kids today aren’t interested in things like that. Although with the interest in genealogy, things may be changing.

It seems, according to TV, that more youngsters are becoming interested in where they come from.

Happy birthday wishes to Ariana Creech, who turns 20.

The WAJ Drama Class is busy preparing for this year’s production, “HONK.” The dress rehearsal, Dinner Theater for Senior Citizens will be held on March 5. Opal will be taking reservations, again, which are necessary so the businesses know how much food to donate. If you’re not sure, sign up anyway. One year, reservations were low, and attendance was high. The cast had nothing to eat, after the diners were served. It is a free dinner, but baskets will be passed for donations which go directly to the Drama Club. In the past few years, the donations have been

plus other necessary items.

COMING EVENTS Feb. 14 TGIF Chicken BBQ Lexington UMC 3-6:30 p.m. $12.

Feb. 15 Rummage Sale Greek Church of the Assumption Windham.

Feb. 16 VFW Breakfast Windham.

AS I REMEMBER IT Another night of just a dusting of snow, always reminds me of when snow was measured in inches — 2-3 inches were not even considered a snow fall. We would get up, sweep off the steps and head down the hill for the school bus. No plows, no chains, no studded snow tires. Now we get an inch, and the plows are scraping and sanding.

This weekend the Wounded Warriors were at Windham.

What a successful program.

More than 100 were served dinner at the VFW, including families and caregivers. They learned to ski and snowboard.

Many were returning veterans who enjoy the lessons and the feeling of being able to participate in sports again. Everyone had a great time.

Hunter Mountain held their annual Fire Fighters Race this past week with more than 400 participants. The slopes reported up to 10,000 for the weekend.

It brings to mind the ‘60s, when the ski slopes were just starting. Remember Windham Mountain? It was an A-frame for the lodge, rope tows instead of ski lifts, and the groomers were high school kids who stood in lines and packed down the snow by side stepping up the hills. The snow makers were not much more than hoses connected to a sprayer that made a mist. These were moved from place to place to cover the slopes. Now, with state-of-the-art snowblowers, the entire mountain can be covered overnight.

Hunter Mountain brings in tens of thousands of visitors for music festivals, ensuring business in the village. The scope of the festivals have been changing, but so far, some of them are returning. Sixty years of skiing in Windham. You’ve come a long way, baby.

Celebrating a fabulous birthday

By Abby and Gabby For Columbia-Greene Media

PRATTSVILLE — Can’t wait until I reach Eva Irwin’s age. What a fabulous birthday celebration she had last week and it will continue on into next week.

Started off with multiple trips to Oneonta. Daughter Laurel took her shopping with Vasta’s as the designated dining spot but it was closed so they chose Sundae’s and they were not disappointed.

Had a delicious early dinner.

Then a few days later niece Sylvia and son David and wife Dorothy took her to Oneonta again, this time dining at Panera’s. In the meantime gifts and phone calls poured in. Daughter Tammy and husband John took Eva to dinner at Brandywine while grandsons Collin and Jacob went ski boarding. Then all of them enjoyed a lasagna dinner, with a birthday cake, at Eva’s, the old Truesdell homestead, including son David and wife Dorothy.

Granddaughter Brianna and son Anthony also made birthday visits. Grandsons Joshua and Aaron also made phone calls, visits and sent gifts.

On Sunday, the day after Eva’s birthday, Sylvia and Laurel spent the day with Eva. Nephew Zack Truesdell stopped by with birthday gift of a wall plaque, in memory of

Eva’s late husband Don, and also a pendant with Don’s picture featured. Wow! Niece Gail Peckham, who shares the birthdate with Eva, called to make arrangements for a mutual birthday dinner this week.

Eva enjoys watching the birds and the activity at Rennells’ Bear Pen Ski Bowl. They go by her house in the sled and they have promised to stop by and take her for a ride.

That is on her Bucket List. She received flowers, cakes, fruits, gift cards (looking forward to a visit to Red Lobster) and, most welcome, phone calls.

One such phone call was from Laura Van Valkenburgh Murray in Grand Gorge. Eva and Laura were neighbors in Little West Kill with family farms next door to each other.

What a super birthday and we wish for many more for Eva. You have a wonderful family to be such guardian angels. Eva said it was such a wonderful birthday she wants to live forever. Eva misses Don especially on her special day. She said on her birthday when he was alive, first thing in the morning he would pat her on the head and say “What do you want for your dinner?” She told him, “I want my breakfast first then we will talk about dinner.”

Get-well wishes go out to Randy Briggs. We wish him

speedy recovery and the best of health.

Alan Huggins was not one to let his sister Kathy Sherman get the best of him. He matched her for a heart attack and then one upped her with complications and a flare up of his tick diseases. He spent four days in hospital whereas Kathy only had to spend one night there. Good health Alan and Kathy.

Reminders of upcoming events. Free concert at Proctor’s in Schenectady, at noon Feb. 11, with Claudia Bracaliello as the featured organist, playing the famous Goldie.

Try to attend.

TGIF Brook’s BBQ at the Lexington UMC, 3-6:30 p.m.

Feb. 14. Adults, $12; children 5-10, $5, under 5 no charge.

Great way to shed the winter doldrums and treat your sweetie to a night out.

Happy birthday to Andy Lutz on Feb. 10. Mary Cline is wished a very happy birthday on Feb. 12. Our Stephanie Baker is wished happy birthday on Feb. 14. Great day to have a birthday. Happy anniversary to Donnie and Connie Lane on Feb. 8. And on Feb. 9 we wish Johannes and Marianne Krauss a happy anniversary.

Send news to gurleyrv@gmail. com or call 518-299-3219.

Birthday celebrations and other events out and about

By Christine Dwon For Columbia-Greene Media

Our deepest and heartfelt sympathy to the Eleane Grinnell and family on the passing of John Grinnell on Jan. 29.

Matt, Katelyn and Emma Dwon spent the weekend with Paul, Liza and Abby Dwon. They all enjoyed a lovely walk on the Windham Path, and then we had a birthday celebration for Emma, who will turn three years old on Feb. 4. Watched an animated movie, had delicious food, there were balloons, a beautiful cake and presents.

Great time together.

Happy birthday to Diane Potter on Feb. 7. Feb. 8 is Charlotte Jaeger’s birthday.

Happy 40th wedding anniversary to Debbie and Jim Buscarello on Feb. 9. Skip Dippold’s birthday is Feb. 10. Feb. 11 is Cindy Nelson’s birthday. Best wishes to all of you.

Greene County Senior Nutrition Program menu for the week of Feb. 10–Feb. 14 is as follows: Monday—Sweet and sour chicken, brown rice, Monaco mixed vegetables, mandarin oranges; Tuesday—Meatloaf with gravy, mashed potatoes, California mixed vegetables, pears; Wednesday—Battered fish, peas, beet salad, Au Gratin potatoes, chocolate mousse; Thursday—National Tortellini Day—Italian sausage, tortellini, Italian mixed vegetables, fresh fruit; Friday—Valentine’s Day— Roast turkey with gravy and cranberry sauce, Brussels sprouts, sweet potato, dressing, peanut butter swirl brownie. All persons over 60 and spouses are invited to attend. Meals served at noon for a suggested donation of $4 per meal. Please call at least a day in advance to reserve your meal. Mountain Top Senior Service Center is located in the Jewett Municipal Building, Route 23C, 518-263-4392.

No monthly meeting for the Ladies Auxiliary of the Town of Lexington Fire Company until April.

The Hudson Mohawk Chapter of the American

Theatre Organ Society will have a free program at noon Feb. 11 in the Proctor’s Theater, Main Stage, 432 State St., Schenectady. John Wiesner and Claudia Bracaliello will be playing the three manual Wurlitzer theater organ named “Goldie.” The concert is free and mid-day, so no one has to drive after dark. If you are able to park in the parking garage, there are free passes.

It would be good to see the new seats in the theater more full. These concerts are held once a month until June. The next one will be March 3.

Bring your Valentine to the Lexington/West Kill UMC Trustees TGIF Brooks Chicken BBQ 3-6:30 p.m. Feb. 14 at the Lexington/West Kill United Methodist Church, 54 County Route 13A, Lexington.

Takeouts will be available or you can enjoy your dinners and fellowship in the dining hall. An adult dinner is $12 and includes half a chicken, baked potato, green beans, coleslaw, roll and cupcake.

Children 5–10 are $5 and under five years are free, chicken halves, $7. To reserve your tickets call 518-989-6612.

Most of the parishioners also have tickets available. You can buy tickets at the door, but buying your tickets in advance will reserve your order.

You can have dinner with the Greene Room Players Song Birds at the Tannersville High School 6-8 p.m. Feb. 14.

A spaghetti and meatball dinner with salad, Italian bread, garlic bread and homemade biscotti is $12. Takeouts and table service available. This dinner is sponsored by the HTC Class of 2025.

Alan Winter, a resident of Spruceton Valley, will present a talk on WOLF, at the Golden Notebook in Woodstock at 4 p.m. Feb. 15. WOLF is an historical novel that gives a bird’s-eye view on how the most cultured, educated country in the world gave away their freedom and voted to be ruled by a dictator. Join Alan Winter to hear how he, and former Federal Prosecutor and Judge, Herbert J. Stern, came to write this book and how they reveal secrets that have been hidden behind a curtain of silence by historians for 100 years.

On Groundhog Day, Feb. 2, the furry four-footed forecaster predicated an early spring. His accuracy rate is 39 percent in case you’re keeping track.

Until next week take care, be thankful, humble and take the time to be kind.

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Exhibit: ‘The History of the Census in Hudson’ opens Feb. 6 HUDSON — The Hudson Area Library History Room Committee presents the exhibit “The History of the Census in Hudson,” which will be on display in the library’s Community Room from Feb. 6 until March 31. The public is invited to the opening reception on Thursday, Feb. 6, from 6 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. for shared viewing and conversation with refreshments.

Since ancient times, societies have kept counts of their population for various purposes. The exhibit examines the United States federal censuses that have been taken since 1790, the New York state censuses taken since 1825, colonial censuses that precede the American Revolution, and the upcoming 2020 federal census.

This exhibit focuses on Hudson from its founding and even earlier times, and includes original 1845 census books for the city of Hudson, displayed alongside maps, documents and images that illuminate the area’s growth and history. The exhibit was developed in collaboration with the Jacob Leisler Institute for the Study of Early New York History, an independent, notfor-profit study and research center devoted to collecting, preserving, and disseminating information relating to colonial New York under English rule.

Taking the Census, Francis William Edmonds, 1854, on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY. Gift of Diane, Daniel, and Mathew Wolf, in honor of John K. Howat and Lewis I. Sharp, 2006.

In the years spanning 1664 to 1773, New York province’s diverse European settlements and Native American and African populations fused into a cosmopolitan colonial territory with ties throughout the Atlantic World. The Institute is unique in focusing on this under examined 109-year period in American history.

The Hudson Area Library History Room houses a special

collection that pertains to the history of the city of Hudson, Greenport and Stockport, as well as Columbia County and New York state.

The History Room hours are Tuesdays from 4-6 p.m. and Saturdays from 10 a.m.-noon, during which people visit and browse the extensive collection of city directories, yearbooks and local history books; and research items in the archival

collection. The public can also request information on local history that volunteers will research. Appointments are available upon request.

For more information email reference@hudsonarealibrary. org, call 518-828-1792 x100, or visit the main desk in the library.

The Hudson Area Library is located at 51 N. Fifth Street in Hudson.

ART AMONG THE GOODS:

Mixing contemporary art with antiques HUDSON – For the next few months, an eclectic antique shop in Hudson will have the work of area artists on view amongst the objects.

The antique shop Henry, at 348 Warren St., is announcing a new promotion that began Feb. 1. Called “Art among the Goods,” the shop includes pieces of contemporary art in the assortment of early textiles, furnishings and accessories that have traditionally been for sale.

David Halliday, the first artist to be showcased, is a [mostly] classical photographer represented by local gallerist Carrie Haddad. A Durham, New York, native, he attributes his high school introduction to the arts to have been extremely influential in his pursuit of photography. Other than a 10-year hiatus as a chef in New York City, Halliday has been documenting his vision with an assortment of cameras ever since.

The store, owned and operated by the artist Nancy Shaver since 1999, is an extension of her own art practice. It is a place to find the bizarre and the

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Henry, an antiques shop in Hudson, NY, is presenting the works of a series of artists as part of the promotion, “Art among the Goods.” Photographer David Halliday (left) is the first of several who are participating. His work, including still lives, portraits and abstracts, will be interspersed among the inventory at the store.

mundane — objects of all kinds – from horse and boat weights to hand-crafted lamps to naïve hand-thrown pottery from the 1950s. Shaver, whose own assemblages were recently displayed at the National Gallery in

Washington D. C. as well as the LA Museum of Contemporary Art (LACMA), makes a habit of including the work of her contemporaries in her self-curated shows. That thought process led her to consider adding works

in the antiques shop.

“I find the juxtaposition of others’ works allows me to see my merchandise through fresh eyes,” she explains. “For example, David’s abstract photos (actually closely cropped details from graphic signs), work particularly well with decorative architectural pieces of 19th century cast iron.” Another of Halliday’s photographs depicting an armoire crammed with clothing, is hung next to an equally riotous hooked rug and above a rendition of 18th century toile wallpaper.

“These photos occupied a space in my home,” says Halliday. “Yet weaving them into Nancy’s store created an unexpected symbiosis. There’s a kinship that’s occurred that I didn’t think even existed. It feels like it all moves together very nicely.”

Henry is located at 348 Warren St. in Hudson. The store is open Fridays through Sundays from noon until 7 p.m. Halliday’s works will be on display until the end of February.

For more information, call the store at 518-828-2354.

Desperation and danger in ‘Les Miserables’

By Raymond Pignone Columbia-Greene Media

French-African director Ladj Ly’s debut feature “Les Miserables” gets its title from a line in Victor Hugo’s novel of the same name: “There are no bad plants and there are no bad men. There are just bad cultivators.” And it is set in and around a gang-infested section of Paris where Hugo set part of his story. The bad cultivators are still at work.

The movie has a fairly conventional plot that begins in a way similar to American buddycop movies. A fresh-out-of-thegate officer starts a new job. It’s a routine event, but there are some unexpected differences.

First, this rookie cop looks older than his partners. Second, he gives off a sullen vibe, but then he may be following the rookie playbook of it’s better to be seen and not heard.

The new plainclothes officer is Ruiz (Damien Bonnard). He’s assigned to join a patrol in a section of Paris that is best described as an ethnic powderkeg where tourists don’t visit. The suburb is a melange of Africans,

A scene from “Les Miserables.”

Asians, Muslims and gypsies whose resentments spill over into each other’s territories. And children, mostly pre-teen boys, run like wolf packs in the streets working their own scams.

Ly tells the story from the point of view of Ruiz, whose partners are a white cop named Chris (Alexis Manenti), a hardto-read tough guy sometimes considerate, but other times cruel and racist, and there is Gwada (Djibril Zongo), a tall, lanky black cop who is more sensitive and even-tempered about the ferocities of the community. Ly elicits good

performances from the three actors and they click as an ensemble.

The main section of the movie is essentially a ridealong with the cops as they encounter the dramatic and ho-hum incidents that make up their day.

Then a lion cub is stolen from a traveling gypsy circus, and the confrontations that ensue threaten to ignite a full-blown gang war that will result in the deaths of innocent citizens. The cops know they have a deadline to find the thief and the cub or blood will be shed.

All the characters, apart

from Ruiz, are driven by inner frustrations brought about by living and working in a pressurecooker environment where the smallest argument or challenge can explode into violence. The cops swagger and act with bravado, but the societal forces of pride, poverty and ethnic mistrust constantly flare up and thwart their efforts to control the situation.

The disparate elements of “Les Miserables” cohere into a satisfying whole, but as the movie goes on, its two major weaknesses emerge. First, as Ruiz, Bonnard is mostly inert and inexpressive until he takes charge near the climax. And the movie stops to have two characters sitting and explaining the conditions faced by the cops even though Ly has already forcefully and clearly illustrated them.

By the end, though, in a claustrophobic and horrific shootout in the corridors of a decaying apartment building, “Les Miserables” successfully retains its mood of danger and desperation.

CALENDAR LISTINGS TSL MOVIES FEBRUARY 6 FEBRUARY 13 n What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael — The New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael battled to make her mark – fueled by brilliance, unshakable self-confidence, a complicated past, and a deep love of the arts.

With new interviews and neverbefore seen archival material, What She Said is an unvarnished portrait of a pioneer who was both admired and resented for what she said about art in an era of great moviemaking. “[Director] Rob Garver’s valuable documentary will serve as a primer for those who don’t know about Kael and an evocative reminder of what she meant to those of us who grew up reading her.” – Leonard Maltin. 2019. 1h35m. n 2020 Oscar Shorts: Animation — For the 15th consecutive year, Shorts HD and Magnolia Pictures present the OscarNominated Short Films. This is your annual chance to predict the winners – and have the edge in your Oscar pool! A perennial hit with audiences around the country and the world, don’t miss this year’s selection of shorts. The Academy Awards take place Sunday, Feb. 9th. Estimated run time: Animation 1h20m.

ANIMATED SHORTS Dcera (Daughter) – Daria Kashcheeva, Czech Republic, 15 min.

Hair Love – Matthew A. Cherry, USA, 7 min.

Kitbull – Rosana Sullivan, USA, 9 min.

Memorable – Bruno Collet, France, 12 min.

Sister – Siqi Song, China/USA, 8 min.

PLUS A SELECTION OF ADDITIONAL ANIMATED SHORTS, TBD n Ayurveda Unveiled — In this groundbreaking documentary, filmmaker Gita Desai (Yoga Unveiled) takes us on an immersive journey into India’s eternal wisdom of well-being. At once a stunning cinematic experience and a definitive resource, Ayurveda Unveiled weaves together the history and essence of Ayurveda with a detailed examination of the underpinning philosophy, fundamental principles, and approaches to harmonizing our inner and outer worlds. With contributions from the world’s leading thinkers and practitioners, amid locations of intoxicating beauty.

2019. 2h7m. n Zombi Child — The latest from French master Bertrand Bonello (Nocturama). Haiti, 1962. A man is brought back from the dead only to be sent to the living hell of the sugarcane fields. In Paris, 55 years later, at a prestigious all-girls boarding school, Melissa, a young Haitian teenager, confesses an old family secret to a group of new friends – never imagining that this strange tale will convince a heartbroken classmate to do the unthinkable. In French with subtitles. 2019. 1h43m. n 2020 Oscar Shorts: Live Action — For the 15th consecutive year, Shorts HD and Magnolia Pictures present the OscarNominated Short Films. This is your annual chance to predict the winners – and have the edge in your Oscar pool! A perennial hit with audiences around the country and the world, don’t miss this year’s selection of shorts. The Academy Awards take place Sunday, Feb. 9th. Estimated run times: Live Action 2h.

LIVE ACTION SHORTS Brotherhood – Meryan Joobeur, Tunisia, 25 min.

Nefta Football Club – Yves Piat, Tunisia/France, 17 min.

The Neighbors’ Window – Marshall Curry, USA, 20 min.

Saria – Bryan Buckley, USA, 23 min.

A Sister – Delphine Girard, Belgium, 16 min. n Parasite — 2020 Oscar-nominee: Best Picture, Best International Feature Film, Best Director (Bong Joon Ho), Best Original Screenplay, Best Editing, Best Production Design Bong Joon Ho brings his singular mastery home to Korea in this pitchblack modern fairytale. Meet the Park Family: the picture of aspirational wealth. And the Kim Family: rich in street smarts but not much else. Be it chance or fate, these two houses are brought together and the Kims sense a golden opportunity. Masterminded by college-aged Ki-woo, the Kim children expediently install themselves as tutor and art therapist to the Parks. Soon, a symbiotic relationship forms between the two families. The Kims provide “indispensable” luxury services while the Parks obliviously bankroll their entire household. When a parasitic interloper threatens the Kims’ newfound comfort, a savage, underhanded battle for dominance breaks out, threatening to destroy the fragile ecosystem between the Kims and the Parks. By turns darkly hilarious and heart-wrenching, Parasite showcases a modern master at the top of his game. In Korean with subtitles. 2019. 2h12m. n Fantastic Fungi — When so

many are struggling for connection, inspiration, and hope, Fantastic Fungi brings us together as interconnected creators of our world.

A consciousness-shifting film that takes us on an immersive journey through time and scale into the magical earth beneath our feet, an underground network that can heal and save our planet. Through the eyes of renowned scientists and mycologists like Paul Stamets, best-selling authors Michael Pollan, Eugenia Bone, Andrew Weil, and others, we become aware of the beauty, intelligence, and solutions the fungi kingdom offers us in response to some of our most pressing medical, therapeutic, and environmental challenges. 2019. 1h21m.

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FEBRUARY 7 The Chalk Garden Friday, February 7, 8 p.m.

This psychological chamber piece was revived to critical acclaim on the West End in 2008. In 1955 Sussex, England, a dyed-in-the-wool British dowager and her precocious and equally eccentric granddaughter are about to meet their match in Miss Madrigal, the enigmatic household companion with secrets, who has just been hired. A tantalizing, fascinating and stimulating evening of theatre $10 – $22, Friday, February 7, 8 p.m., https://www.brownpapertickets. com/event/4322193 The Ghent Playhouse, 6 Town Hall Place, Ghent, 800-838-3006 www.ghentplayhouse.org

FEBRUARY 8 The Reverberators Saturday, February 8, 6 a.m. - 9 a.m.

The Reverberators will be at Hudson Brewing playing a great mix of rock classics and original tunes reminiscent of the great vocal groups of the baby boom era! Grab your friends and your dancing shoes and join us for a night of dancing, drinks and fun!

Saturday, February 8, 6 a.m. - 9 a.m., https://www.facebook.com/ events/609773849595516/ Hudson Brewing Company, 99 South 3rd Street, Hudson, 518-6975400 www.hudsonbrew.com Basket Weaving Workshop Saturday, February 8, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Learn the art of basket-making with Wendy G. Jensen, an award-winning basket maker. Make a 25 long Harvest Market Basket to keep! $200 – $225, Saturday, February 8, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m., https://www.facebook. com/events/460302447979437/ Shaker Museum/Mount Lebanon, 202 Shaker Road, New Lebanon, 518-794-9100 x220 www.shakerml.org Book & Bake Sale Saturday, February 8, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.

An opportunity to purchase new and gently used books (most are $1 or less) on a variety of subjects, including art books, as well as CDs and DVDs. In addition, artist Otto Miranda has donated a selection of original watercolors, which will be offered for sale.

Homemade baked desserts and other treats, as well as chocolate bars from Vasilow’s Confectionary , will also be available during this event.

So come out and find that unique book or painting you’ve been looking for and didn’t know it!

Saturday, February 8, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m., http://hudsonarealibrary.org/ calendar/ Hudson Area Library, 51 North Fifth Street, Hudson, 518-828-1792 www.hudsonarealibrary.org Ukulele Jam Saturday, February 8, 10:30 a.m. noon Sing, strum, play! It’s more fun to play in a group. All ages are welcome to the library’s Ukulele Jams, led by Carmen Borgia, singer, songwriter and ukulele player extraordinaire! Leave your inhibitions at home. Are you a novice? The library has ukes you can borrow.

Saturday, February 8, 10:30 a.m.

- noon, http://chatham.lib.ny.us/ calendar/ Chatham Public Library,11 Woodbridge Ave, Chatham, 518-392-3666 http://chatham.lib.ny.us/ The Grange Dance Party Saturday, February 8, 7 p.m. - 10 p.m.

Join us as Electric Blue DJ Service http://www.electricbluedjservice. com/home spins the greatest dance hits of the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s and 90’s $10, Saturday, February 8, 7 p.m. - 10 p.m., https://www.facebook.com/ events/519510145332905/ The Copake Grange, 628 Empire Road, Copake, 518-329-5932

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Teachers deserve higher pay. Should the money come from pension funds?

Jay Mathews The Washington Post

The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University has always seemed to me a conservative think tank, dominated by a 285-foot tower honoring a oneterm president who was born in 1874.

Students are drawn to Stanford not by Hoover but by the university’s involvement in the thrilling innovations of the 21st century.

The Hoover Institution scholars who research education, however, impress me. I can’t call them conservative. That adjective doesn’t apply to arguments over schools. They are unconventional thinkers, and sometimes troublemakers, as is apparent from an education policy analysis they just released.

Their paper, “The Unavoidable: Tomorrow’s Teacher Compensation,” paints the clearest picture I have seen of U.S. schools’ troubles and offers

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expected to cost $982,500, according to town minutes.

Because all expenses must be paid up front and then be reimbursed at 80% by the

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coordination to the federal government level, to see where the federal government can assist in the opioid crisis,” Volkmann said. “He sees how Chatham Cares 4 U and a grassroots-type of response actually is something that needs to be coordinated not just locally, county-wide, but on a federal level.”

Many police agencies are following the Chatham Cares 4 U model already, Volkmann said. Chatham Cares 4 U provides those seeking help with substance abuse an alternative to incarceration. Volkmann received the 2018 Police Assisted and Recovery

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The new building will have two bedrooms, a living room, kitchen, bathroom and an

radical solutions. They want, for instance, to take some of the money going to teacher retirement funds and use it to raise salaries, particularly for the best teachers.

I will describe the research first, and next week the suggested cure. What they propose sounds unlikely, certain to inspire fierce opposition. But parts of the country are experimenting with bits and pieces of what they want.

American schools could be better.

According to the most accepted measuring stick, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP, pronounced “nape”), fourth-graders have made gains, but they disappear later.

The 2019 NAEP report said eighthgrade math scores were stagnant and reading scores falling. Twelfth-grade scores have been essentially flat since the 1970s.

The Hoover researchers, often at odds with teachers unions, agree with them on the need for better pay.

Teachers on average earn 22 percent

less than people with comparable educational attainments, their analysis said. Increasing compensation provides the best leverage available to improve student achievement, the analysis said.

The policy analysis was written by economist Eric A. Hanushek, a prolific senior fellow at Hoover who is an expert on school spending. It is based on background papers by Maria D. Fitzpatrick, Marguerite Roza, Steven G. Rivkin, Ben Ost, Andrew Morgan and Minh Nguyen and funded by the new Hoover Education Success Initiative.

From 2000 to 2016, entry salaries for teachers adjusted for inflation were unchanged and average salaries for all teachers declined slightly. Expenditures per student in 2016 were $13,139, up 35 percent from 1990 when adjusted for inflation.

“For the century before 2008, perpupil expenditures rose steadily, regardless of any other pressures on public budgets,” the analysis said. But

growth sputtered. “Instead, it appears increasingly necessary to trade ineffective old programs for any new programs,” it said.

School board members across the land will nod at the analysis’s conclusion that a key limit on spending in the classroom “is that financial pressures of pension costs and retiree health costs are rising and are being passed along to districts.” School boards prefer to raise pensions rather than pay because the financial hit doesn’t come until later. The current unfunded liability of teacher pensions for the United States is estimated at more than $1 trillion.

States try to improve student achievement, it said, but “we have found that many programs, initiatives, interventions and reforms simply do not deliver the promised gains.”

Requiring teachers to get more training and reducing class size have not worked well. Teachers tend not to improve after their first few years on

the job. Drawing the best people to schools and keeping them there is effective, but that means they have to be paid more.

Hanushek has been seen as a leading advocate of rating teachers on how well their students do on standardized tests. But he told me “one would never want to use just test scores for evaluations.” His analysis suggests looking not only at scores but classroom observations, teacher attendance and student surveys.

The key, he told me, is to have systems that differentiate seriously among teachers on effectiveness, rather then the usual practice of principals keeping the peace by giving high marks to 95 percent of their people.

Then, schools must find ways to reward the best teachers with better salaries, the analysis said. It suggested diverting some money that would otherwise increase pensions to paying teachers more while they are still in the classroom.

state, Greenville authorized a $750,000 bond over a 20-year period for the project, according to meeting minutes.

“This should have been done many years ago,” Coyne said, adding that the project has been in the works since 2008.

“We need to keep people safe,” he said. “Walking in the street is not a safe thing.”

Enforcement at crosswalks along Main Street will be increased, Cairo Police Chief Richard Busch said at Monday’s meeting.

A hairstylist who worked at

The Hair Lab on Main Street in Cairo was struck and killed in a car-pedestrian accident Jan. 3, 2019, while crossing the street.

In addition to increased safety, the new walkway will provide an opportunity for recreation, Coyne said.

The plans include adding a

stone path for bicycling and walking from the back of Cumberland Farms to Dinger Road behind the Cairo Elementary School, he said.

The new loop will also connect to the Angelo Canna Town Park, Coyne said.

“Eventually, I’d like to add

benches along [the path],” he said.

Traffic should not be greatly affected by the project, Coyne said.

“The impact should be very minor because we’re not working in the road itself,” he said.

Initiative Leadership Award for his development and work with the Chatham Cares 4 U through the Chatham Police Department.

“I think it’s community policing at its best,” Volkmann said. “People want to come to us because they trust us and we’re more than willing [to help].”

The initiative has assisted around 240 people, Volkmann said, and has referred hundreds more to other agencies.

Chatham Cares 4 U refers people to agencies and resources that were not available even three or four years ago, Volkmann said.

Volkmann said the proposed detox center in Greenport is just one recovery component for people, but it is not the whole answer. He said the detox center is a huge step as

a county to come together, but there is still a lot more work to do.

“What a detox center does is stabilize a person medically to save their life, but what I don’t want folks to think is that the detox center is there and that’s all we need,” Volkmann said.

“The people who are doing the work in our government and nonprofits, know that, but I still want to acknowledge we’re coming along, but it’s not the sole answer to this crisis.”

Volkmann said the issue is close to his heart because he is in recovery from addiction himself.

“I’ve come out of the shadows to say I’m in long-term recovery to let people know recovery does work, you just have to find your pathway to recovery, and every pathway’s

individualized and different, and there’s hope in that,” Volkmann said. “So, I made that conscious choice of coming out of the shadows to admit that yes, I did have a problem and I received help for the problem and I’m continuing one day at a time.

Mayor Kamal Johnson appointed Volkmann as Hudson police commissioner. In his new position, Volkmann plans to create a Hudson Cares 4 U Initiative under Johnson’s direction, one that expands and adjusts to the needs of Hudson.

“Right now, as commissioner I’m still in the listening stage and, you know, kind of evaluating all that’s happening within the city and the relationship within the

department itself and I will be coming with recommendations for the mayor and the council,” Volkmann said.

Another issue Volkmann is hoping to address is the new bail and discovery reforms that went into effect Jan. 1, 2020.

“With the bail reform, I think it’s a lot of law enforcement, including myself, say it needs to happen, but we need to look at seeing what’s working and what’s not working,” Volkmann said.

While bail reform is taxing on law enforcement, court systems and district attorneys, Volkmann said just as important are the discovery changes that have happened. He said he hopes a conversation is started on where adjustments

can be made.

“I think as a community we kind of need to look at what’s working, what’s not, and being open to adjusting,” Volkmann said. “I think we’re on the either-or, you know, either we have it or we get rid of it. I don’t think that’s the answer.

I think we need to really work together and look towards adjusting it. I think law enforcement can have a great voice in it. I believe even the bail reform affects our society, but I think really the discovery is really taxing on district attorneys all over the state.”

office, Coyne said. A two-bay garage will be used for the ambulances.

In the garage section of the building, there will be a decontamination room and another bathroom, he said.

“We only have two people

on at a time with one ambulance 24 hours a day,” Coyne said.

Staff who are on call for the second ambulance would report directly to the ambulance building if they are needed, Coyne said.

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Catskill’s DeVon Haye defends aainst Greenville’s Ben Lewis (22) during Tuesday’s Patroon Conference boys basketball game.

Catskill wins third straight Patroon title

By Matt Fortunato Columbia-Greene Media

GREENVILLE — The Catskill Cats clinched the Patroon Conference boys basketball championship on Tuesday night, defeating the Greenville Spartans, 93-75.

The title is the Cats’ third straight and eighth in the past 10 years.

DeVon Haye led the Cats (14-0, 16-1) with 27 points, and Lavon Fernandez added 19 of his own. Damien Fiducia

had 19 for Greenville.

Catskill displayed their quickness from the opening tip, hitting a layup mere seconds into the game. The Spartans fooled the Cats in their first few possessions with an increased amount of ball movement and passing, but they could not hit shots consistently enough.

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Dodgers are finally in it to win it Bill Plaschke Los Angeles Times

LOS ANGELES — Sitting on their hands?

The Los Angeles Dodgers just balled those hands into fists and came out swinging.

Afraid to open their wallet?

The Dodgers just climbed up on baseball’s main stage and made it rain.

Their competitiveness questioned, their intentions doubted, the Dodgers turned on a fastball of criticism Tuesday night to crush the biggest hit of the

Guggenheim era.

The resulting sound will fill Dodger Stadium in a summer that suddenly forecasts extremely hot.

Mooooookie In acquiring former American League MVP Mookie Betts and expensively aging pitcher David Price from the Boston Red Sox in a deal that sent outfielder Alex Verdugo to the Red Sox and pitcher Kenta Maeda to the Minnesota Twins, the Dodgers did two things most folks lamented they would never do.

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CATSKILL — Janay Brantley scored 31 points, grabbed 12 rebounds and had six steals to spark Catskill to a 62-56 Patroon Conference girls basketball victory over Greenville on Tuesday.

The Cats led 21-13 after one quarter, 30-24 at halftime and 44-36 through three quarters. Greenville got to within 56-51 in the closing minutes, but four clutch free throws by Brantley and two more by Sara Leipman sealed the deal for Catskill.

Leipman, Aizlyn O’Connell and Kiana Salierno all scored eight points for Catskill. Hannah Konsul had 13 rebounds and four assists.

Bella Trostle had a strong game for Greenville, scoring a game-high 33 points. Molly SanEmeterio added seven.

CATSKILL (62): Brantley 7-17-31, Konsul 1-3-5, Leipman 2-2-8, O’Connell 3-2-8, Salierno 3-0-8, Sisto 1-0-2. Totals 17-24-62.

3-pointers: Leipman 2, Salierno 2.

GREENVILLE (56): Duncan 1-0-3, Haller 2-2-6, Krasney 1-0-2, Petit 1-0-2, Rauf 1-1-3, SanEmeterio 3-1-7, Trostle 11-7-33.

3-pointers: Trostle 4, Duncan.

Chatham 66, Rensselaer 63 CHATHAM — Hannah Taylor scored 28 points to lead Chatham to a 66-63 victory over Rensselaer in Tuesday’s Patroon Conference girls basketball game.

Chatham led 15-13 and 35-28 at the end of the first two quarters, but Rensselaer seized a 53-44 advantage with a quarter to play, thanks to a 25-9 thirdquarter run. The Panthers went on to outscore the Rams 22-10 in the final stanza to earn the victory.

Hailey Cascioli and Paige Eaton each had 14 points for Chatham.

Mechelle Cancer’s 25 points topped Rensselaer. Arianna Vogel had 13 and Jordan Van Wie 11.

RENSSELAER (63): Allert 3-0-6, Brown 3-0-6, Cancer 9-6-25, Gergenti 1-0-2, Van Wie 5-1-11, Vogel 5-1-13. Totals 26-8-63.

3-pointers: Vogel 2, Cancer.

CHATHAM (66): Cascioli 5-2-14, Eaton 5-2-14, Madsen 1-0-2, Morse 2-2-8, H. Taylor 12-2-28. Totals 25-8-66.

3-pointers: Cascioli 2, Eaton 2, Morse 2, H. Taylor 2.

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Catskill’s Janay Brantley (30) drives around a screen set by Aizlyn O’Connell (31) during Tuesday’s Patroon Conference girls basketball game against Greenville.

COLONIAL Ichabod Crane 70, Lansingburgh 51 LANSINGBURGH — A day after scoring 41 points and hitting nine threepointers, Madie Graham came back with a 31-point performance with eight threepointers to help Ichabod Crane take down Lansingburgh, 70-51, in Colonial

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Greenville’s Bella Trostle (11) drives around Catskill’s Kiana Salierno during Tuesday’s Patroon Conference girls basketball game.

The massive four-team, 12-player NBA trade, explained Ben Golliver The Washington Post

What Wednesday’s headline-making NBA trade lacked in star power, it made up for in sheer size and complexity.

The Houston Rockets, Atlanta Hawks, Minnesota Timberwolves and Denver Nuggets have reached agreement on a massive four-team, 12-player deal that meaningfully reshapes at least two of the involved teams and potentially sets up others for subsequent moves before Thursday’s 3 p.m. Eastern time trade deadline.

Here’s a quick-hitting rundown of which teams sent which players where, and why.

• Houston The Rockets, who entered the week as the team most desperate to make a deal, should be viewed as the central actor. Stuck with a flawed roster that possessed insufficient defensive answers for top wings such as LeBron James and Kawhi Leonard, they acquired forward Robert Covington and center Jordan Bell from Minnesota and sent starting center Clint Capela to Atlanta. Additionally, Houston sent veteran center Nene Hilario to Atlanta and shipped injured forward Gerald Green and a first-round pick to Denver.

Swapping Capela for Covington amounts to a game of whack-a-mole, as Houston exchanges one roster hole for another. The 6-foot-7-inch Covington earned all-defensive team honors in 2018, and he gives the Rockets a quality perimeter option to pair with P.J. Tucker, the other defensive stalwart on the roster.

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Houston Rockets center Clint Capela (left) practices as coach John Lucas (right) looks on before a game against the Dallas Mavericks at Toyota Center.

Importantly, Covington is also a career 36% 3-point shooter. His presence will allow Houston to field interchangeable, small-ball lineups that include three perimeter shooters around

James Harden.

Moving on from Capela is a gamble: He was easily Houston’s most established center, and Bell has hardly seen the court this year. Even

so, sticking with Capela was problematic too.

Houston’s trade for Russell Westbrook created issues when he shared the court with Capela, as both are effectively non-shooters who cramped the court for Harden. In playoffs past, the Rockets often pulled Capela, a traditional 6-10 center, in favor of small ball looks that utilized the versatile and undersized Tucker at center.

Houston’s logic boils down to this: Finding a better perimeter answer for James and Leonard was more important than keeping Capela, an above-average center who can be replaced by leaning more heavily on Tucker, scrounging for bargain buyout options or making an additional trade before Thursday.

One other benefit of this deal: It cuts the Rockets’ payroll enough that ownership will likely duck the luxury tax for the second straight season.

• Atlanta The Hawks’ angle is the easiest to digest: They have the league’s worst defense, and Capela is a proven shot-blocker and high-volume rebounder who will fill a clear hole in the middle.

While Capela’s offensive game is far from creative, he is a quality lob finisher who has plenty of experience in pick-and-roll situations. Trae Young has needed more help, and Atlanta’s all-star guard should enjoy having a quality vertical threat to help keep defenses honest.

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Pro basketball NBA Eastern Conference Atlantic W L Pct Toronto 36 14 .720 Boston 34 15 .694 Philadelphia 31 20 .608 Brooklyn 22 27 .449 New York 15 36 .294 Central W L Pct Milwaukee 43 7 .860 Indiana 31 19 .620 Chicago 19 33 .365 Detroit 18 34 .346 Cleveland 13 38 .255 Southeast W L Pct Miami 34 15 .694 Orlando 22 28 .440 Washington 17 32 .347 Charlotte 16 35 .314 Atlanta 13 38 .255 Western Conference Northwest W L Pct Denver 35 16 .686 Utah 32 17 .653 Oklahoma City 30 20 .600 Portland 23 28 .451 Minnesota 15 34 .306 Pacific W L Pct L.A. Lakers 37 11 .771 L.A. Clippers 35 15 .700 Phoenix 20 30 .400 Sacramento 19 31 .380 Golden State 12 39 .235 Southwest W L Pct Houston 32 18 .640 Dallas 31 19 .620 Memphis 25 25 .500 San Antonio 22 27 .449 New Orleans 20 31 .392 Monday’s games Orlando 112, Charlotte 100 New York 139, Cleveland 134, OT Dallas 112, Indiana 103 Golden State 125, Washington 117 Boston 123, Atlanta 115 Brooklyn 119, Phoenix 97 Miami 137, Philadelphia 106 Memphis 96, Detroit 82 Sacramento 113, Minnesota 109 L.A. Clippers 108, San Antonio 105 Tuesday’s games Milwaukee 120, New Orleans 108 Houston 125, Charlotte 110 Denver 127, Portland 99 San Antonio at L.A. Lakers, 10 p.m.

Wednesday’s games Phoenix at Detroit, 7 p.m.

Orlando at Boston, 7:30 p.m.

Golden State at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m.

Indiana at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.

Atlanta at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

Cleveland at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.

Memphis at Dallas, 8:30 p.m.

Denver at Utah, 9 p.m.

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

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

New Orleans at Chicago, 8 p.m.

Philadelphia at Milwaukee, 8 p.m.

San Antonio at Portland, 10 p.m.

Houston at L.A. Lakers, 10:30 p.m.

GB — 1.5 5.5 13.5 21.5 GB — 12.0 25.0 26.0 30.5 GB — 12.5 17.0 19.0 22.0 GB — 2.0 4.5 12.0 19.0 GB — 3.0 18.0 19.0 26.5 GB — 1.0 7.0 9.5 12.5

Pro hockey NHL Eastern Conference Atlantic Division GP W L OT SO Pts Boston 54 32 10 5 7 76 Tampa Bay 53 33 15 5 0 71 Florida 52 29 17 3 3 64 Toronto 53 28 18 3 4 63 Montreal 55 25 23 6 1 57 Buffalo 53 23 23 6 1 53 Ottawa 53 18 24 6 5 47 Detroit 54 12 38 3 1 28 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT SO Pts Washington 54 36 13 3 2 77 Pittsburgh 52 33 14 5 0 71 Columbus 54 29 16 7 2 67 NY Islanders 51 30 15 4 2 66 Philadelphia 53 29 17 2 5 65 Carolina 53 30 20 3 0 63 NY Rangers 51 25 22 2 2 54 New Jersey 52 18 24 4 6 46 Western Conference Central Division GP W L OT SO Pts St. Louis 54 32 14 5 3 72 Dallas 53 30 18 3 2 65 Colorado 51 29 16 5 1 64 Nashville 52 25 20 4 3 57 Chicago 53 25 21 3 4 57 Winnipeg 54 26 23 4 1 57 Minnesota 52 24 22 4 2 54 Pacific Division GP W L OT SO Pts Vancouver 54 30 19 3 2 65 Edmonton 53 28 19 4 2 62 Vegas 55 27 21 6 1 61 Arizona 55 27 21 3 4 61 Calgary 54 27 21 5 1 60 San Jose 54 23 27 3 1 50 Anaheim 53 22 26 4 1 49 Los Angeles 54 19 30 3 2 43 Monday’s games Florida 5, Toronto 3 Dallas 5, NY Rangers 3 Philadelphia 3, Detroit 0 Tuesday’s games Boston 4, Vancouver 0 Colorado 6, Buffalo 1 Tampa Bay 4, Vegas 2 Montreal 5, New Jersey 4, SO NY Islanders 4, Dallas 3, OT Washington 4, Los Angeles 2 Columbus 1, Florida 0, OT Anaheim 3, Ottawa 2, SO St. Louis 6, Carolina 3 Minnesota 3, Chicago 2, OT Nashville 2, Winnipeg 1, OT San Jose 3, Calgary 1 Arizona 3, Edmonton 0 Wednesday’s games Toronto at NY Rangers, 7:30 p.m.

Boston at Chicago, 8 p.m.

Thursday’s games Detroit at Buffalo, 7 p.m.

Anaheim at Montreal, 7 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m.

Vegas at Florida, 7 p.m.

Los Angeles at NY Islanders, 7 p.m.

New Jersey at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.

Colorado at Ottawa, 7:30 p.m.

Winnipeg at St. Louis, 8 p.m.

Vancouver at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

Nashville at Calgary, 9 p.m.

Carolina at Arizona, 9 p.m.

San Jose at Edmonton, 9:30 p.m.

GF GA 181 137 192 147 188 171 191 176 172 170 151 167 144 179 111 207 GF GA 197 160 176 142 144 135 150 139 170 157 169 145 166 166 141 190 GF GA 174 153 142 136 188 150 171 172 160 166 159 166 160 174 GF GA 177 163 170 165 170 166 155 148 147 166 139 178 137 163 133 171

Transactions BASEBALL AMERICAN LEAGUE Texas Rangers - Signed 1B Greg Bird to a minor league contract.

NATIONAL LEAGUE Colorado Rockies - Announced LHP Mike Dunn has retired.

FOOTBALL NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE Arizona Cardinals - Signed QB Chris Streveler.

Carolina Panthers - Announced DE Wes Horton has retired.

Cleveland Browns - Named Chad O’Shea pass game coordinator and wide receivers coach.

Jacksonville Jaguars - Named Trent Baalke director of player personnel.

Kansas City Chiefs - Signed DT Braxton Hoyett, TE Nick Keizer, DB Chris Lammons, DT Devaroe Lawrence, RB Elijah McGuire, QB Kyle Shurmur, LB Emmanuel Smith, and RB Mike Weber Jr..

Los Angeles Chargers - Named Alfredo Roberts tight ends coach. Named David Diaz-Infante assistant offensive line coach. Named James Campen offensive line coach. Named Mark Ridgley running backs coach. Named Rip Scherer senior assistant. Named Ryan Milus defensive quality control assistant. Promoted defensive quality control coach Addison Lynch to defensive backs coach. Promoted interim offensive coordinator Shane Steichen to offensive coordinator. Signed head coach Anthony Lynn to a contract extension.

San Francisco 49ers - Signed LB Joey Alfieri, G Kofi Amichia, DB Jermaine Kelly Jr., G Ross Reynolds, DB Teez Tabor, DB Jacob Thieneman, and WR Chris Thompson.

NCAA FOOTBALL Arizona State - Named Antonio Pierce co-defensive coordinator, associate head coach and linebackers coach.

Arizona State - Named Marvin Lewis co-defensive coordinator.

Fordham - Named Art Asselta wide receivers coach.

Louisiana Tech - Named John Allen wide receivers coach.

Louisiana - Named Andrew Maddox head coach.

Michigan State - Announced head coach Mark Dantonio has resigned.

Michigan State - Promoted defensive coordinator Mike Tressel to interim head coach.

Mississippi State - Named Darcel McBath cornerbacks coach.

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Catskill’s Sara Leipman (right) is closely guarded by Greenville’s Emma Haller during Tuesday’s Patroon Conference girls basketball game.

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Greenville’s Skylar Petit, Meghan Misuraca (14) and Catskill’s Aizlyn O’Connell go after the ball during Tuesday’s Patroon Conference girls basketball game.

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Council girls basketball action on Tuesday.

Graham has now scored 72 points and hit 17 three-pointers in her past two games.

Abigail Dolge added 18 points to the Riders’ cause.

Ashley Ames had nine.

Autumn Anderson paced Lansingburgh with 31 points.

Paulina Siritori contributed 11.

The Riders built quarterly leads of 27-20, 50-28 and 64-35.

LANSINGBURGH (51): Anderson 12-2-31, Genevie 0-11, Losee 3-0-6, Siritori 4-3-11, Taylor 1-0-2. Totals 19-8-51.

3-pointers: Anderson 5.

ICHABOD CRANE (70): A. Ames 3-0-9, H. Ames 1-0-2, Culver 2-0-4, Dolge 7-4-18, Graham 10-3-31, More 3-0-6.

Totals 26-7-70.

3-pointers: Graham 8, A. Ames 3.

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Greenville’s Meghan Misuraca (!4) drives the baseline against Catskill’s Aizlyn O’Connell during Tuesday’s Patroon Conference girls basketball game.

CHVL Germantown 39, Heatly 29 GERMANTOWN — Jen Ljutich scored more than half of Germantown’s points in the Clippers’ 39-29 Central Hudson Valley League girls basketball victory over Heatly on Tuesday.

Ljutich finished with 20 points for the Clippers, who held quarterly leads of 12-5, 21-13 and 30-20.

Kierra Hope and Jordan Ries both scored 10 points for the Hornets.

HEATLY (29): Diaz 0-3-3, Hope 3-3-10, Horton 2-0-4, Ries 2-5-10, Zakrzewski 1-0-2.

Totals 8-1-29.

3-pointers: Hope, Ries.

GERMANTOWN (39): Anderson 1-0-2, Denninger 2-04, Dunn 3-0-6, Gibbons 3-1-7, Ljutich 7-5-20. Totals 16-6-39.

3-pointers: Ljutich.

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COLONIAL Lansingburgh 73, Ichabod Crane 51 VALATIE — Isaiah Knight and Kobi Wallace combined for 40 points as Lansingburgh defeated Ichabod Crane, 7351, in Tuesday’s Colonial Council boys basketball game.

Knight and Wallace each had 20 points for the Knights.

Brett Richards led Ichabod Crane with 23 points. Ed Ogden added 11.

Lansingburgh led 18-11 after one quarter, 29-27 at halftime and 56-39 after three.

LANSINGBURGH (73): Allison 3-0-6, Gerido 1-1-3, Knight 7-5-20, Lapham 2-0-4, Macfarlane 3-0-6, Tario 3-0-8, Teta 2-0-6, Wallace 9-2-20. Totals 30-8-73.

3-pointers: Teta 2, Tario 2, Knight.

ICHABOD CRANE (51): Colwell 1-0-, Kennedy 3-0-8,

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Catskill’s Janay Brantley goes to the basket for two of her 31 points during Tuesday’s Patroon Conference girls basketball game against Greenville.

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Greenville’s Bella Trostle takes aim at the basket during Tuesday’s Patroon Conference girls basketball game against Catskill.

Ogden 4-1-11, Richards 10-323, Vecellio 1-0-2, Walsh 2-1-5.

Totals 21-5-51.

3-pointers: Kennedy 2, Ogden 2.

CHVL Germantown 79, Heatly 15 GERMANTOWN — Bryan Bathrick’s 28 points highlighted Germantown’s 79-15 Central Hudson Valley League boys basketball victory over Heatly on Tuesday.

Germantown jumped out to a 25-2 lead after one quarter and never looked back. they were up 45-5 at halftime and 70-11 through three quarters.

Robbie Eaton had 10 points for the Clippers, who had 11 players reach the scoring column. Rece Rifenburgh added eight.

Evan Boodrow, Aidan Diaz and Chayton Sagendorf all had four points for Heatly.

HEATLY (15): Boodrow 2-04, Carl 0-1-1, Diaz 2-0-4, Nolet 1-0-2, Sagendorf 2-0-4. Totals 7-1-15.

GERMANTOWN (79): Anderson 3-0-6, Bathrick 12-1-28, Delpozzo 2-0-5, Eaton 4-0-10, Hoffman 1-0-2, Hohensheldt 1-0-2, Mayr 2-0-5, Mollo 3-1-7, Quinn 2-0-4, Rifenburgh 4-0-8, Santo 1-0-2. Totals 35-2-79.

3-pointers: Bathrick 3, Eaton 2, Delpozzo, Mayr.

BOWLING Catskill 4, Maple Hill 1 EAST GREENBUSH — Michael Jubie fired a 688 triple and Nick Place added a 681 as Catskill won the Patroon Conference bowling championship with a 4-1 victory over Maple Hill on Tuesday.

The Cats finished a perfect 14-0 in the league (69-1 in points) and Maple Hill is 12-2.

Jubie rolled games of 207,

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204 and 277 for the Cats. Place hit a 190, 235 and 256. David Whittaker contributed a 222567.

Shawn Miller led Maple Hill with a 255-582. Kevin Ackerman added a 225-559 and Austin Smith chipped in with a 191-550.

Catskill tossed games of 1,036, 1,109 and 1,174 for a total pinfall of 3,319. Maple Hill responded with 1,160, 1,066 and 926 for 3,152.

Hudson 5, Cairo-Durham 0 CATSKILL — Matt Bowes rolled a 646 triple with a high game of 241 to lead Hudson past Cairo-Durham, 5-0, in Tuesday’s Patroon Conference bowling match.

Bowes also had games of 185 and 220 for the Bluehawks (77, 39-31). Zach Porreca added a 210-579.

Phil Decker’s 615 (209, 213, 193) led Cairo-Durham.

Hudson had games of 973, 834 and 933 for 2,730, while Cairo-Durham had 779, 811 and 774 for 2,364.

Chatham 5, Rensselaer 0 EAST GREENBUSH — Chatham finished up the Patroon Conference bowling season on a high note, handing Rensselaer a 5-0 setback on Tuesday.

Chatham’s final regular season record is 10-4, 47-23 in overall points.

LJ Morse spun a 214-564 for the Panthers. Andrew Duso added a 189-545, Tyler Beaudry a 206-508 and Mikey Morse a 181 single.

Tim Foust paced the rams with a 186-510. Andrew Dore added a 153-441.

Chatham had games of 840, 1,043 and 887 for 2,770, Rensselaer had 815, 763, 766 and 2,344.

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Alex Ovechkin scored three consecutive third-period goals in less than five minutes as the Washington Capitals rallied for a 4-2 victory over the visiting Los Angeles Kings on Tuesday night.

The Kings held a 2-1 lead before Ovechkin pulled off his quick hat trick, with the last goal being a long empty-netter. Ovechkin has 14 goals in his past seven games, 40 this season and 698 in his career.

Braden Holtby started in goal for the Capitals after sitting the past two games in favor of rookie Ilya Samsonov, who won 11 straight decisions before losing Sunday. Holtby made 29 saves.

Jeff Carter scored the Kings’ two goals, and Jonathan Quick stopped 20 of 23 shots. Los Angeles has lost seven of its past eight games.

Blue Jackets 1, Panthers 0 (OT) Zach Werenski scored 1:54 into overtime as Columbus extended its point streak to nine games with a home victory over Florida.

Werenski, who recorded a hat trick in a 4-1 home win over Florida on Dec. 31, took the puck on the far boards,

skated in and beat ex-Blue Jackets goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky for the game’s lone goal.

Rookie Elvis Merzlikins made 32 saves for his fourth shutout of the season for Columbus, 8-0-1 in its last nine games and 18-2-5 since Dec. 9.

Predators 2, Jets 1 (OT) Mikael Granlund’s one-timer off the post 1:11 into overtime gave Nashville a victory at Winnipeg.

Granlund’s 11th goal of the season gave the Predators their third win in four games, with two of those victories coming beyond regulation.

Nashville’s Juuse Saros stopped 33 of 34 shots while Winnipeg’s Connor Hellebuyck stopped 34 of 36 shots.

The Jets’ Mason Appleton and the Predators’ Nick Bonino scored firstperiod goals.

Canadiens 5, Devils 4 (SO) Ilya Kovalchuk scored the winning goal in a shootout as Montreal overcame a three-goal deficit and bounced back from allowing the tying goal in the final seconds of regulation to edge New Jersey in Newark, N.J. Kyle Palmieri scored the tying goal on a rebound during a scramble in front of the net with 19.4 seconds

remaining on a six-on-four. New Jersey had a power play after Montreal was called for having too many men on the ice, and the Devils pulled goalie Louis Domingue to set up the tying tally.

Canadiens goaltender Charlie Lindgren filled in for Carey Price (flu), who did not make the trip, and stopped 20 saves in the first 65 minutes. He then stopped Nikita Gusev, Palmieri and Jack Hughes in the shootout.

Ducks 3, Senators 2 (SO) Ondrej Kase scored in regulation and a shootout to lift Anaheim to a win at Ottawa.

Nick Ritchie also scored a regulation goal for Anaheim, and John Gibson made 30 saves. Rikard Rakell scored the clincher in the shootout.

The Ducks came up short of winning two straight in regulation for the first time since Oct. 16-18, but they have won five of seven for the first time since starting the season 6-2-0.

Drake Batherson and Artem Anisimov scored power-play goals, Mike Reilly had two assists, and Marcus Hogberg made 26 saves for the Senators.

Avalanche 6, Sabres 1 Andre Burakovsky tied his career high in goals for a season and added three assists as Colorado scored four goals in the second period to win easily in Buffalo.

Valeri Nichushkin added a goal and two assists, and Samuel Girard, Nazem Kadri, Nikita Zadorov and Mikko Rantanen also scored for the Avalanche, who won for the fourth time in their past five games. Kadri and Zadorov also had assists, and goaltender Philipp Grubauer made 23 saves.

Sam Reinhart scored the lone goal for the Sabres, who dropped to 1-4-0 in their past five games. Buffalo goalie Carter Hutton allowed five goals on 13 shots before being replaced at 10:58 of the second period by rookie Jonas Johansson, who was making his NHL debut. Johansson allowed a goal on his first shot faced, then stopped the final 13.

Islanders 4, Stars 3 (OT) Anthony Beauvillier scored his second goal of the game with 2:08 left in overtime as host New York rallied to beat Dallas.

Beauvillier also opened the scoring in the first period. Derick Brassard

and Mathew Barzal added goals for the Islanders, who have earned points in four straight games (2-0-2). Semyon Varlamov recorded 28 saves.

Denis Gurianov, Jason Dickinson and John Klingberg scored for the Stars, who had a two-game winning streak snapped. Ben Bishop made 37 saves.

Wild 3, Blackhawks 2 (OT) Matt Dumba produced the gamewinning goal 2:21 into overtime as Minnesota defeated Chicago in Saint Paul, Minn.

The defenseman took a pass from Mats Zuccarello, skated in close and popped a puck up and in past goalie Corey Crawford. Chicago’s Jonathan Toews hit the crossbar on a two-onone with Patrick Kane earlier in the extra session.

Dumba, who also contributed an assist, scored for the first time in 34 games – his first goal at home this season and just his fourth overall. The Wild’s Kevin Fiala potted two goals to bring his total against Chicago to four in the teams’ two meetings, and Minnesota goalie Alex Stalock stopped 27 shots.

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ARTICLES OF ORGANIZATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY DD GRYPHON, LLC Notice of formation of Limited Liability Company (“LLC�). Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of New York (“SSNY�) on 12/30/2019. Office location: Columbia County.

SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail a copy of any process to the LLC to Kristal Heinz, ESQ., P.O. Box 1331, Hudson, NY 12534.

Purpose: To engage in any lawful activity.

D-FRAME LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 10/31/19. Office: Greene County.

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

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, c/o B. Victor Williams, 340 East 93rd Street, #28G, New York, NY 10128. Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF Henderson Rentals LLC A DOMESTIC LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY (LLC) Articles of Organization filed with the Secretary of State of the State of New York on January 14, 2020. New York Office Location Greene County. Secretary of State of the State of New York is designated as agent upon whom process against the LLC may be served. Secretary of State of the State of New York shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC served upon him/her at: c/o LLC, 149 Bethel Ridge Road, Catskill, NY 12414.

PURPOSE: To engage in any lawful act or activity.

Index No. 9495 – 15 STATE OF NEW YORK, COUNTY COURT : COLUMBIA COUNTY

PETITION AND NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE In the Matter of the Foreclosure of Tax Liens by Proceeding In Rem pursuant to Article Eleven of the Real Property Tax Law by the County of Columbia PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on the 6th day of February, 2020, Paul J. Keeler, Jr., County of Columbia Treasurer, hereinafter, the “Enforcing Officer� of the County of Columbia, hereinafter, the “Tax District,� pursuant to law, filed with the Clerk of the County of Columbia, a petition of foreclosure against various parcels of real property for unpaid taxes. The above-captioned proceeding is hereby commenced to enforce the payment of delinquent taxes or other lawful charges which have accumulated and become liens against certain property. The parcels to which this proceeding applies are identified on Schedule A of this Petition, which is annexed hereto and made a part hereof.

This document serves both as a Petition of Foreclosure and a Notice of Foreclosure for purposes of this proceeding. Effect of filing: All persons having or claiming to have an interest in the real property described in this petition are hereby notified that the filing of this petition constitutes the commencement by the Tax District of a proceeding in the court specified in the caption above to foreclose each of the tax liens therein described by a foreclosure proceeding in rem. Nature of proceeding: This proceeding is brought against the real property only and is to foreclose the tax liens described in this petition. No personal judgment will be entered herein for such taxes or other legal charges or any part thereof. Persons affected: This notice is directed to all persons owning or having or claiming to have an interest in the real property described in this petition. Such persons are hereby notified further that a duplicate of this petition has been filed in the office of the Enforcing Officer of the Tax District and will remain open for public inspection up to and including the date specified below as the last day for redemption. Right of redemption: Any person having or claiming to have an interest in any such real property and the

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legal right thereto may on or before said date redeem the same by paying the amount of all such unpaid tax liens thereon, including all interest and penalties and other legal charges which are included in the lien against such real property, computed to and including the date of redemption. Such payments shall be made to Paul J. Keeler, Jr., Columbia County Treasurer, 15 North 6th Street, Hudson, New York 12534. In the event that such taxes are paid by a person other than the record owner of such real property, the person so paying shall be entitled to have the tax liens affected thereby satisfied of record.

Last day for redemption: The last day for redemption is hereby fixed as the 8th day of May, 2020. Service of answer: Every person having any right, title or interest in or lien upon any parcel of real property described in this petition may serve a duly verified answer upon the attorney for the Tax District setting forth in detail the nature and amount of his or her interest and any defense or objection to the foreclosure. Such answer must be filed in the Office of the County Clerk and served upon the attorney for the Tax District on or before the date above mentioned as the last day for redemption. Failure to redeem or answer: In the event of failure to redeem or answer by any person having the right to redeem or answer, such person shall be forever barred and foreclosed of all his or her right, title and interest and equity of redemption in and to the parcel described in this petition and a judgment in foreclosure may be taken by default.

Dated: February 6, 2020 Enforcing Officer: Paul J. Keeler, Jr., Columbia County Treasurer State of New York, County of Columbia: I, Paul J. Keeler, Jr., being duly sworn, depose and say: I am the Enforcing Officer for the County of Columbia. I have read this Petition which I have signed, and I am familiar with its contents.

The contents of this Petition are true to the best of my knowledge, based upon the records of the Columbia County Treasurer’s Office. I do not know of any errors or omissions in the Petition.

Paul J. Keeler, Jr., Columbia County Treasurer Sworn to before me this 6th day of February, 2020.

LISA R. BRIGHTLY Notary Public • State Of New York, No. 01BR6068994, Qualified in Columbia

County, Commission Expires January 22, 2022 Attorney for the Tax District: Christopher J. Watz, Esq., Assistant County Attorney, Columbia County Attorney, 401 State Street, Hudson, New York 12534 SCHEDULE A, Index #: 9495 – 15 Town of Austerlitz, TM #: 102200 87.-1-46.12, Robert Pearson, P.O. Box 8015, Pelham, New York 10803 Town of Chatham, TM #: 102689 36.-1-65, James Bashford, P.O. Box 147, East Chatham, New York 12060 Town of Copake, TM #: 103200 186.-1-87, Richard Lichtenberg, et al, Chrysler Pond, Copake, New York 12516 Town of Hillsdale, T M # : 104200 104.-1-11, James V. Polvere, P.O. Box 37, Rock Hill, New York 12775 Town of Kinderhook, TM #: 104489 23.16-2-9, Mathew Powell, 11 Wood Drive, Niverville, New York 12130 Town of New Lebanon, TM #: 104800 Charles 20.1-1-12, Tomlinson, Jeanne R. Tomlinson, 14710 Route 22, New Lebanon, New York 12125 MIRAHOL BOOKS AND PUBLISHING LLC. Arts. of Org. filed with the SSNY on 01/24/20. Office: Columbia County. SSNY designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

SSNY shall mail copy of process to the LLC, 87-2 Burma Road, Kinderhook, NY 12106.

Purpose: Any lawful purpose.

Moons Of Aphrodite LLC. Filed with SSNY on 12/16/2019. Office: Columbia County.

SSNY designated as agent for process & shall mail to: 52 Corporate Circle Ste 207 Albany NY 12203. Purpose: any lawful Notice is hereby given that a license, number (“Pending�) for beer, cider, liquor and/or wine, has been applied for by the undersigned* to sell beer, cider, liquor and/or wine, at retail in a restaurant, under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 10697 State Route 32, Town of Greenville, County of Greene, State of New York for on premises consumption. *MOUNTAIN VIEW BRASSERIE OF GREENVILLE LLC Notice is hereby given that a license, pending for beer/wine/liquor has been applied for by the undersigned to sell beer/wine/liquor at retail in a restaurant under the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law at 44 2nd Street, Athens, Greene County, NY

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Food Studio Athens dba Food Studio Athens NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: Buddy's Place, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York on January 1, 2020 Office location: 518 Cairo Junction Rd Catskill, NY 12414 Greene County. The Secretary of State of New York has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Secretary of State of New York shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, at PO Box 569 Leeds, NY 12451 Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

NOTICE OF FORMATION OF LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. NAME: Spray 'N Shine Car Wash & Self Storage, LLC Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary of State of New York on January 1, 2020 Office location: 354 Main St. Cairo, NY 12413 Greene County. The Secretary of State of New York has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. The Secretary of State of New York shall mail a copy of process to the LLC, at 354 Main St Cairo, NY 12413 Purpose: For any lawful purpose.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN Pursuant to Section 601 of the Abandoned Property Law of the State of New York that: The undersigned as Treasurer of the County of Columbia has on deposit or in his custody, certain monies and property paid or deposited in actions or proceedings in the several courts in said County.

The persons whose names and last-known addresses are set forth below appear from the records of the said County Treasurer to be entitled to certain such property in the amount of $50.00 or more.

ACTION # 797 NAME: HSBC Mortgage Corp. vs. Mohammed H. Kabir, et al.

Address unknown.

TAKE FURTHER NOTICE THAT (A) A list of names contained in this notice is on file and open to Public inspection at the office of the County Treasurer.

(B) Any such unclaimed monies or other property will be paid or delivered by him/her, on or before the 31st of March 2020, to persons establishing to his/her satisfaction, their right to receive the same; and (C) In the succeeding month of April, on or before the 10h day thereof, such unclaimed monies, or other property still remaining will be paid or delivered to the Comptroller of the State of New York, and the undersigned shall thereupon cease to be liable thereof.

Dated: February 3, 2020 Paul J. Keeler, Jr. Columbia County Treasurer Columbia County, New York

FIRST RESPONDERS FIRST, LLC FIRST: The name of the Limited Liability Company is FIRST RESPONDERS FIRST, LLC (hereinafter referred to as the “Company�)

SECOND: The Articles of Organization of the Company were filed with the Secretary of State on January 14, 2020.

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

FOURTH: The Secretary of State has been designated as agent upon whom process against the Company may be served. The post office address to which the Secretary of State shall mail process is Justin Frankian, 441 East Allen Street, Hudson, New York 12534.

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

Dated: January 14, 2020 FREEMAN HOWARD, P.C. 441 East Allen Street P.O. Box 1328 Hudson, New York 12534

Notice of Qualification of Old Mill Road Solar A, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 12/30/19.

Office location: Columbia County.

LLC Notice of Formation of formed in Delaware R & R Meadows LLC. (DE) on 12/27/19.

Arts. of Org. filed with SSNY is designated as Secy. of State of NY agent of LLC upon (SSNY) on 1/9/20. Ofwhom process against fice location: Greene it may be served.

County. SSNY desigSSNY shall mail pronated as agent of LLC cess to: 28 Liberty St, upon whom process NY, NY 10005. DE adagainst it may be dress of LLC: 1209 served. SSNY shall Orange St, Wilmington, mail process to: c/o DE 19801. Cert. of the LLC, 900 West End Formation filed with Ave, Apt 16B, NY, NY DE Secy of State, 401 10025. Purpose: any NOTICE OF ORGAN- Federal St. Ste 4, lawful activity.

IZATION OF Dover, DE 19901. PurLIABILITY pose: any lawful acNotice of the Forma- LIMITED tivity. tion of a Limited COMPANY Liability Company (LLC). The name of the LLC is: Demitasse, LLC. Articles of Organization were filed with the Secretary off State of New York (SSNY) office on: November 14, 2019. The county in which the office is to be located: Columbia. The SSNY is designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served.

The address to which the SSNY shall mail a copy of any process against the LLC is: DEMITASSE, LLC 65 County Route 8 Ancramdale, NY 12503 Purpose:any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF NAMES OF PERSONS APPEARING AS OWNERS OF CERTAIN UNCLAIMED PROPERTY HELD BY THE COLUMBIA COUNTY TREASURER

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Town of Catskill Zoning Board of Appeals will hold a Public Hearing pursuant to Article 160-11 of the Town of Catskill Zoning Laws to allow 20' Variance for placement of shed on lands owned by Robert Harkin located at 10 Mill Lane Application Area Variance V-18-2019 Tax Map# 199.07-1-27 The Public Hearing will be held on the 12th day of February , 2020 at 6:00 PM , at the Town Hall located at 439-441 Main Street, Catskill, NY. to allow public comment on the application.

The above application is open for inspection at the Office of the Zoning Board of Appeals located at 439 Main Street, Catskill, New York between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m., or by appointment.

By order of Gary Harvey Chairman, Zoning Board of Appeals, Town of Catskill Notice of Qualification of Old Mill Road Solar B, LLC. Authority filed with NY Secy of State (SSNY) on 12/30/19.

Office location: Columbia County.

LLC formed in Delaware (DE) on 12/27/19.

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

SSNY shall mail process to: 28 Liberty St, NY, NY 10005. DE address of LLC: 1209 Orange St, Wilmington, DE 19801. Cert. of Formation filed with DE Secy of State, 401 Federal St. Ste 4, Dover, DE 19901. Purpose: any lawful activity.

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COLUMBIA COUNTY KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, Plaintiff against

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Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered December 13, 2019, I will sell at public auction to the highest bidder at Columbia County Courthouse, 401 Union Street, Hudson, NY 12534 on February 18, 2020 at 9:30 AM. Premises known as Old Rt. 82 & Water Street, Livingston, NY 12451.

Sec 161. Block 1 Lot 6.111 f/k/a 6.113. All that parcel of land in Town of Livingston, Columbia County, State of New York.

Approximate Amount of Judgment is $307,863.06 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index No 8599-2015.

Ralph C. Lewis, Esq., Referee FKNC2929 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF GREENE Nationstar Mortgage LLC, Plaintiff AGAINST Kenneth B. Winnie; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated August 10, 2015 and the Amended Judgment dated April 1, 2019 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Greene County Courthouse, 320 Main Street, Catskill, New York on February 28, 2020 at 10:00AM, premises known as 1253 Red Mill Road, Greenville, NY 12083.

All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Greenville, County of Greene, State of NY, Section 24 Block 2 Lot 23.

Approximate amount of judgment $140,875.30 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 141225.

Adam T. Mandell, Esq., Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 430-4792 Dated: December 13, 2019 NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF GREENEWells Fargo Bank, NA, Plaintiff AGAINST Richard L. Wright a/k/a Richard Wright; Lynda L. Wright a/k/a Lynda Wright; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated September 10, 2018 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Greene County Courthouse, 320 Main Street, Catskill, New York on February 27, 2020 at 2:00PM, premises known as 4898 Route 145, Durham a/k/a Preston Hollow, NY 12422. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Durham, County of Greene, State of NY, Section 20.00 Block 2 Lot 7.2. Approximate amount of judgment $125,258.89 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 1700713.

Michael Howard, Esq., Referee Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 430-4792 Dated: January 17, 2020 #98272

Notice to bidders.

Please take notice that the Town of Hillsdale highway department is seeking bids for the following materials.

1- # 1 Washed stone 2- # 1A Washed stone 3- # 2 Washed stone 4- Tailings 5- Item 4 gravel 6- Screen fill 7- Stone fill 8- Crusher run gravel 9- Winter snow sand 10- #1 Drainage stone 11- #2 Drainage stone 12- #3 Drainage stone 13- #4 Drainage stone 14- Blacktop The Town of Hillsdale highway department is seeking bids for a fully insured TREE CONTRACTOR. Contractor must have at least three million dollars in liability insurance. All bidders must have a truck with at least 60’ aerial working height.

Bids must be accompanied with an insurance certificate.

Tree contractor must be qualified to work around electric lines.

OSHA certificate must accompany bid.

Tree trimming and removal will be bid by both an hourly rate (on site) and a daily rate (our crews’ hours) Bids will be both with and without a ground man.

Bids will be with and without a chipper.

Bids will be publicly opened at the February 11, 2020 meeting of the Town Board.

Bids must be received by the Town Clerk, at the Town Hall, Route 23 Hillsdale, NY 12529, by 1pm on February 10, 2020 in sealed envelopes and bear on the face the name and address of the bidder. All bids will be for the time period of February 15, 2020 thru February 14, 2021. A non-collusive bidding certificate must accompany all bids. The town board reserves the right to accept or reject any and all bids.

RICHARD BRIGGS, Highway Superintendent 518-325-4744 Please take notice that the Village of Coxsackie Historic Preservation Committee will hold a Public Hearing on February 11, 2020 at 6:00 p.m. at the Village of Coxsackie Hall, 119 Mansion Street, Coxsackie, NY. The subject of the Public Hearing will be to review the proposal received by Empire Riverfront Ventures, LLC. at 52-60 South River Street, Coxsackie, NY bearing Tax Map #56.20-2-11 & 56.20-2-12, to extend the Historic District in downtown Coxsackie River along South Street, which currently ends at 48 South River Street, to include the 52 and 60 South River Street properties. Details of the proposal can be viewed at Flach Development & Realty Inc., 45 Sunset Boulevard, Coxsackie, NY 12051, and asking for Aaron Flach.

Respectfully Submitted, Nikki Bereznak, Clerk

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS ENGINEERING SERVICES The Village of Tannersville is requesting proposals from engineering firms to provide engineering services for study, design, and construction phase services for Village public works projects.

Respondents will be reviewed and selected according to the competitive proposal process based technical skills, relevant experience of the firm and of individual project staff, and experience with agencies who fund municipal public works projects.

Interested parties should contact the Village of Tannersville for a complete copy of the Request for Qualifications at 518-589-5850.

Qualification Statements will be accepted until 2:00 PM, Thursday, February 27, 2020. Women-owned and minority-owned businesses are encouraged to submit responses to the RFQ. Qualification Statements are to be mailed to: Village of Tannersville Robin Dumont, ClerkTreasurer PO Box 967 Tannersville, New York The Residence At 12485 Hunter LLC. Filed 3/13/19.

Office: STATE OF NEW YORK Greene Co. SSNY des- SUPREME COURT : ignated as agent for COUNTY OF GREENE process & shall mail to: SUMMONS WITH NOC/O Legalinc Corpo- TICE rate Services Inc., Index No. 19-0740 1967 Wehrle Drive Hon. Raymond J. ElliSuite 1 #086, Buffalo, ott, III NY 14221. Purpose: Justice of the Supreme General.

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SALVATORE VASSALLO, Plaintiff, -againstMARYLAND BONESTELL VASSALLO, Defendant.

TO: MARYLAND BONESTELL VASSALLO: You are hereby summoned to appear in this action by serving a notice of appearance, on the Plaintiff’s Attorney(s) within 30 days after the service of this summons in complete, and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the complaint filed herein.

Dated: January 31, 2020 TO THE DEFENDANT MARYLAND BONESTELL VASSALLO The foregoing Summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an Order of the Honorable Raymond J. Elliott, III, Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, signed the 28th day of January, 2020 and filed on the 31st of January, 2020 in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Greene.

The object of this action is to obtain a judgment of absolute divorce pursuant to Domestic Relations Law section 170 (7) in that the marital relationship between the parties have been irretrievably broken for a period of more than 6 months immediately preceding the commencement of this action and for equitable distribution of martial property.

Yours etc., RALPH C. LEWIS, JR. Attorney for plaintiff Office & Post Office Address 287 Main Street P.O. Box 383 Catskill, New York 12414 (518) 943-6667 SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK - COUNTY OF COLUMBIA U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR STRUCTURED ASSET INVESTMENT LOAN TRUST MORTGAGE PA S S - T H R O U G H CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-BNC3, V. DAWN MATO, ET AL. AMENDED NOTICE OF SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to a Final Judgment of Foreclosure dated November 13, 2019, and entered in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Columbia, wherein U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR STRUCTURED ASSET INVESTMENT LOAN TRUST MORTGAGE PA S S - T H R O U G H CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-BNC3 is the Plaintiff and DAWN MATO, ET AL. are the Defendant(s). I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the COLUMBIA COUNTY COURTHOUSE, FRONT LOBBY, 401 UNION STREET, HUDSON, NY 12534, on February 14, 2020 at 10:00AM, premises known as 114 COUNTY ROUTE 7A, COPAKE, NY 12516: Section 187.1, Block 2, Lot 20: ALL THAT CERTAIN PLOT, PIECE OF LAND, WITH THE BUILDINGS AND IMP R O V E M E N T S THEREON ERECTED, SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE TOWN OF COPAKE, COUNTY OF COLUMBIA, STATE OF NEW YORK Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 13527-18. Robert Thomas Bugbee, Esq. - Referee. RAS Boriskin, LLC 900 Merchants Concourse, Suite 310, Westbury, New York 11590, Attorneys for Plaintiff THE TOWN OF COXSACKIE ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS WILL HOLD A SPECIAL MEETING ON SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22 AT 2:00 PM FOR THE PURPOSE OF REVIEWING AN AREA VARIANCE APPLICATION FOR PROPERTY OF CAROL M. KEINATH LOCATED AT 11335 ROUTE 9W. THE BOARD WILL ALSO REVIEW THE VARIANCE GRANTED ON DECEMBER 22, 2017 TO FLACH DEVELOPMENT AND REALTY FOR PROPANE STORAGE ON PROPERTY LOCATED AT 200 OLD PLANK ROAD. THE MEETING WILL TAKE PLACE AT TOWN HALL, 56 BAILEY STREET, COXSACKIE.

TOWN OF GHENT PUBLIC NOTICE PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that there will be no Ghent Town Board workshop or regular meeting on February 20, 2020. The next workshop meeting will be held on February 27, 2020 at 6:00 p.m.

The next regular meeting will be held on February 27, 2020 at 7:00 p.m. Both meetings will take place at the Ghent Town Hall, Route 66, Ghent, New York.

Dated: January 16, 2020 s/Michelle Radley Ghent Town Clerk Supplemental Summons and Notice of Object of Action Supreme Court Of The State Of New York County Of Columbia Action to Foreclose a Mortgage The INDEX #: 15016-19 Mortgaged Premises: 21 Richard Lane Niverville, NY 12130 SBL #: 23.16 - 3 - 45 Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Plaintiff, vs Public Administrator Of Columbia County, As Administrator Of The Estate Of Anita M. George, Who Was Surviving Spouse Of Leroy K. George, Kristina M. George, Leroy George, Jr. As Heir To The EsM. tate Of Anita George, Who Was Surviving Spouse Of Leroy K. George, Vincent George As Heir To The Estate Of Anita M. George, Who Was Surviving Spouse Of Leroy K. George, Sharon George-Dupra As Heir To The Estate Of Anita M. George, Who Was Surviving Spouse Of Leroy K. George, Unknown Heirs Of Leroy K. George, If Living, And If He/She Be Dead, Any And All Persons Unknown To Plaintiff, Claiming, Or Who May Claim To Have An Interest In, Or General Or Specific Lien Upon The Real Property Described In This Action; Such Unknown Persons Being Herein Generally Described And Intended To Be Included In Wife, Widow, Husband, Widower, Heirs At Law, Next Of Kin, Descendants, Executors, Administrators, Devisees, Legatees, Creditors, Trustees, Committees, Lienors, And Assignees Of Such Deceased, Any And All Persons Deriving Interest In Or Lien Upon, Or Title To Said Real Property By, Through Or Under Them, Or Either Of Them, And Their Respective Wives, Widows, Husbands, Widowers, Heirs At Law, Next Of Kin, Descendants, Executors, Administrators, Devisees, Legatees, Creditors, Trustees, Committees, Lienors, And Assigns, All Of Whom And Whose Names, Except As Stated, Are Unknown To Plaintiff, People Of The State Of New York, United States Of America Acting Through The IRS, Columbia County Clerk John Doe (Those Unknown Tenants, Occupants, Persons Or Corporations Or Their Heirs, Distributees, Executors, Administrators, Trustees, Guardians, Assignees, Creditors Or Successors Claiming An Interest In Mortgaged Premises.) Defendant(S).

To the Above named Defendant: You are hereby summoned to answer the Complaint in this action, and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the Complaint is not served with this Supplemental Summons, to serve a notice of appearance, on the Plaintiff(s) attorney(s) within twenty days after the service of this Supplemental Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this Supplemental Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York). In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

The Attorney for Plaintiff has an office for business in the County of Erie.

Trial to be held in the County of Columbia.

The basis of the venue designated above is the location of the Mortgaged Premises.

TO Unknown Heirs Defendant In this Action.

The foregoing Supplemental Summons is served upon you by publication, pursuant to an order of HON. Richard M. Koweek, AJSC of the Supreme Court Of The State Of New York, dated the Twenty-Sixth day of December, 2019 and filed with the Complaint in the Office of the Clerk of the County of Columbia, in the City of Hudson.

The object of this action is to foreclose a mortgage upon the premises described below, dated April 22, 2003, executed by Anita M. George (who died on April 27, 2012, a resident of the county of Columbia, State of New York) to secure the sum of $80,000.00. The Mortgage was recorded at Book 449, Page 668 in the Office of the Columbia County Clerk on May 12, 2003. The property in question is described as follows: 21 RICHARD LANE, NIVERVILLE, NY 12130 NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home.

Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property.

Sending a payment to your mortgage company will not stop this foreclosure action.

YOU MUST RESPOND

BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. DATED: January 8, 2020 Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney(s) For Plaintiff(s) 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 Williamsville, NY 14221 The law firm of Gross Polowy, LLC and the attorneys whom it employs are debt collectors who are attempting to collect a debt.

Any information obtained by them will be used for that purpose.

S U P P L E M E N TA L SUMMONS–SUPREM E COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF COLUMBIA, OCWEN LOAN SERVICING LLC, Plaintiff, against ANY AND ALL KNOWN OR UNKNOWN HEIRS, DEVISEES, GRANTEES, ASSIGNEES, LIENORS, CREDITORS, TRUSTEES, AND ALL OTHER PARTIES CLAIMING AN INTEREST BY, THROUGH, UNDER OR AGAINST THE ESTATE OF RANDOLPH MORINI, DECEASED; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ACTING ON BEHALF OF THE SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT, Defendants-Index No. Plaintiff 13773-18.

Designates Columbia County as the Place of Trial. The Basis of Venue is that the subject action is situated in Columbia County. To the above named Defendants–YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the complaint is not served with this Summons, to serve a notice of appearance, on the Plaintiff’s Attorney(s) within 20 days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York); the United States of America may appear or answer within 60 days of service hereof; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. That this Supplemental Summons is being filed pursuant to an order of the court dated November 4, 2019. NOTICE-YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME – If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serving a

copy of the answer on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for further information on how to answer the summons and protect your property. Sending a payment to the mortgage company will not stop the foreclosure action.

YOU MUST RESPOND

BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT. HELP FOR HOMEOWNERS IN FORECLOSURE; New York State law requires that we send you this notice about the foreclosure process.

Please read it carefully.

SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT You are in danger of losing your home. If you fail to respond to the Summons and Complaint in this Foreclosure Action, you may lose your home.

Please read the Summons and Complaint carefully. You should immediately contact an attorney of your local legal aid office to obtain advice on how to protect yourself.

SOURCES OF INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE The State encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. In addition to seeking assistance from an attorney or legal aid office, there are government agencies and non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about possible options, including trying to work with your lender during this process.

To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained by the New York State Department of Financial Services’ at 1-800-269-0990 or visit the Department’s website at http://www.dfs.ny.gov.

FORECLOSURE RESCUE SCAMS Be careful of people who approach you with offers to “save” your home.

There are individuals who watch for notices of foreclosure actions in order to unfairly profit from a homeowner’s distress.

You should be extremely careful about any such promises and any suggestions that you pay them a fee or sign over your deed.

State law requires anyone offering such services for profit to enter into a contract which fully describes the services they will perform and fees they will charge, and which prohibits them from taking any money from you until they have completed all such promised services. We are attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained will be used for that purpose. The foregoing summons is served upon you by publication pursuant to an order of the Honorable Henry F. Zwack, J.S.C. dated November 4, 2019. The object of this action is to foreclose a mortgage and covering the premises known as 40 Petty Road, Ghent, NY 12075 located at Section 92 Block 1 and Lot 3.210 Dated: May 21, 2019 Greenspoon Marder LLP, Attorney for Plaintiff, By: Holly Hamilton, Esq., 590 Madison Avenue, Suite 1800, New York, NY 10022 (212) 524-5000.

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Greenville’s Damien Fiducia drives up the floor while being guarded by Catskill’s Ronnelle Lowe-Scott during Tuesday’s Patroon Conference boys basketball game.

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Catskill’s Lavon Fernandez (23) blocks the shot of Greenville’s Ben Lewis during Tuesday’s Patroon Conference boys basketball game.

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area. Haye showed his versatility in the quarter with a few layups down low, and he also hit a jumper from beyond the arc.

After one quarter of play, Catskill led 25-10 and showed no signs of slowing down.

The second quarter had more of the same domination from Davon Haye, on the offensive boards especially. He was grabbing rebounds with one hand and rolling in easy layups off the glass with the same one before his feet hit the floor.

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They traded the immediate future for now.

They spent bunches of money to make that happen.

They made two championship decisions in a title-chasing shakeup that was hinted by team president Stan Kasten earlier this winter in an interview in this column.

“The team we have now is not going to be the team we have to start the postseason,” Kasten vowed at the time to much disbelief. “I expect that team, this year, it looks like it’s going to be well over the (competitive balance tax), or somewhat over.”

To more disbelief, Kasten added, “There are guys that we think could be difference makers and we have pursued them ... when there is an opportunity we will certainly jump at it.”

Man, did they ever jump,

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in Detroit Pistons center Andre Drummond, but Capela is a better overall player and a cleaner fit with Young. He’s also on a more favorable contract. Capela’s five-year, $90 million deal runs for three more years after 2019-20, whereas Drummond is an upcoming free agent looking to cash in.

Atlanta, which is tied for the East’s worst record, can now view Young, Capela and forward John Collins as their core of the future. That group should compete for a playoff

Catskill took a timeout just for their players to catch their breath, and went back on the attack to take a 48-27 lead into halftime.

The Cats played most of the third period nursing a 25-point lead, but could have easily been up by as much as 40. Fernandez had a steal that led to as smooth a dunk as you might have ever seen.

A huge feel-good moment came when Catskill’s number 24 Ronelle Lowe-Scott hit a fade away jumper as the Catskill fans in the crowd yelled “Kobe!” A perfectly timed tribute to the late great Kobe Bryant, as the ball hit the back half of the rim and went in.

As time was running out for the Spartans, they could only manage to consistently pull within 19 points of the lead.

When the fourth quarter ended, Catskill claimed the victory and left with the Patroon title.

CATSKILL (93): Christian 1-0-2, Donely 4-2-10, Fernandez 8-2-19, Gibbs 4-2-0, Haye 10-6-27, Johnson 4-3-13, Lowe-Scott 2-0-4, Scott 4-0-8.

Totals 37-15-93.

3-pointers: Johnson 2, Haye, Fernandez.

GREENVILLE (75): Benning 6-0-13, Biernacki 2-0-5, Fiducia 7-4-19, Lewis 4-0-8, Makely 2-0-4, Mitchell 1-0-2, Nicosia 3-2-8, O’Connor 5-1-12, Smith 0-2-2, Weiss 1-0-2. Totals 319-75.

3-pointers: Benings, Fiducia, Biernacki, O’Connor.

Catskill’s Lavon Fernandez goes up for a dunk during Tuesday’s Patroon Conference boys basketball game against Greenville.

leaping all the way from February to deep in October.

Start with Betts, the centerpiece of the deal and the corner outfielder of the Dodgers’ dreams.

The Dodgers obtained more than arguably baseball’s second-best player in the last four years behind Mike Trout.

They picked up more than just a hitter who has finished in the top eight in MVP voting for four years, more than just a right fielder who has won four consecutive Gold Glove awards.

They added more than a leadoff hitter in a batting order without one, and a righthanded power hitter in a lineup that needed one.

More important than all that, in Betts they may have finally found their missing championship piece.

It might seem like they’ve made this type of blockbuster addition before, but this time it feels different. This impact feels enormous. This hope feels real.

This is not the 2017 midseason trade for the pressurewracked Yu Darvish. Betts has a championship ring after homering off Clayton Kershaw in the clinching Game 5 of the 2018 World Series.

This is also not the 2018 midseason trade for the selfish Manny Machado. Betts runs out ground balls and everything else, as he led the American League in runs scored in each of the last two years.

As compelling as what they acquired in Betts is what they didn’t acquire. They didn’t get a guarantee that he will be here more than one season. He can be a free agent next winter. He could basically be a rental.

The Dodgers wonderfully didn’t care. They’re going for it now. They’re clearly as desperate to end the 31-year drought as the rest of this town, and it starts with Andrew Friedman.

Friedman gets it. He understands a city’s hunger, perhaps because it now matches his own. He knows the window could be slowly closing on this

seven-division-championship era, and he’s not going to stand for simply winning 95 games and having a great farm system.

Friedman is about late October now — not just October, but late. October — and he showed it earlier this winter with his furious pursuit of pitcher Gerrit Cole.

It wasn’t Friedman’s fault they lost Cole. A spendingconscious ownership group lost him. Yet Kasten and the Guggenheim folks changed their tune Tuesday to make this trade happen.

Betts apparently would not have been traded here if the Dodgers didn’t agree to take on Price and some or all of the $96 million owed him. That’s a lot of money for a declining talent, yet Kasten apparently signed off on it anyway.

Indeed, let the good times roll, a beleaguered fan base has reason to let out a winter howl, their rich team is pouring money back into the product while their smart baseball

boss is maximizing those assets to chase a championship now.

All this and, who knows, maybe the sore-wristed Price can figure it out and again resemble the pitcher who went 2-0 with a 1.98 ERA against the Dodgers in that World Series championship.

As for what the Dodgers gave up, Verdugo could be an impact player one day, he’s no Betts, not right now. While Maeda was a nice regular season starting pitcher, he spent his postseasons in the bullpen, and unhappily so.

Oh yeah, also on Tuesday the Dodgers also reportedly traded away a 36-homer guy in Joc Pederson, but, let’s be honest, in this new outfield he becomes a surplus bat. They traded him to the Los Angeles Angels for valuable young middle infielder Luis Rengifo, who can play a variety of positions and will help them more than Pederson.

On any other day, the Pederson deal would have been

the headlines, but Tuesday was far from any other day. It was a day when the Dodgers finally connected with their fans on their definition of success.

The Dodgers agreed it’s not about every year, it’s about this year, and it’s about time.

Remember when they last made this sort of trade with the Red Sox? It was in August of 2012 when they acquired Adrian Gonzalez, Josh Beckett and Carl Crawford among others in a monumental eightplayer deal. Not coincidentally, the next season they began the current run of seven consecutive division championships.

It’s only fitting, perhaps, that they have turned to the Red Sox again in an attempt to finally complete this long and arduous journey.

Mookie Betts, after all, was acquired to be more than just their new leadoff hitter and right fielder.

He has come to be their closer.

spot next season, and all it cost them was sending a 2020 first-round pick and Evan Turner’s expiring contract to Minnesota.

• Minnesota With its season plagued by Karl-Anthony Towns’ injury issues and a losing streak that has reached 12 games, Minnesota has decided to pull the plug. In mid-January, the Timberwolves traded veteran point guard Jeff Teague to the Hawks. Here, they held a weeks-long auction for Covington, whose 3-and-D game is best suited to a winning team.

In addition to the firstround pick and Turner from Atlanta, Minnesota also received Malik Beasley,

Juancho Hernangomez and Jarred Vanderbilt from Denver. The 23-year-old Beasley has established himself as a valuable contributor over the past two years, and he was set to enter free agency this summer after completing his rookie deal. For the Timberwolves, he arrives either as a helpful piece in a youth movement or as a piece to barter in a forthcoming trade.

The Timberwolves have long pursued Golden State Warriors guard D’Angelo Russell as a complement to Towns. Any deal there would likely involve sending Andrew Wiggins and draft assets, and this trade haul gives Minnesota a needed pick and

a possible Wiggins replacement in Beasley.

This week’s big question now becomes whether the Warriors are willing to move Russell before the deadline or whether they will wait until the summer.

• Denver There wasn’t much to the Nuggets’ side of this: They apparently concluded that they were set to lose Beasley and/or Hernangomez in free agency this summer, so they cashed them in for a firstround pick from Houston.

Hernangomez and Vanderbilt were extraneous pieces on one of the league’s deepest rosters, and their departures cleared the way for the arrivals of Gerald Green from

Houston and Shabazz Napier, Noah Vonleh, and Keita Bates-Diop from Minnesota.

While Green is out for the season with a foot injury and Vonleh and Bates-Diop have played sparingly this season, the 28-year-old Napier is a capable backup point guard and decent 3-point shooter who boasts playoff experience.

Denver, like Minnesota, can also use its incoming first-round pick to pursue additional deals this week.

For example, the Nuggets have been linked in rumors to New Orleans Pelicans guard Jrue Holiday.

Long story short: Was this trade worth it for all parties?

Houston: Yes. The Rockets

weren’t good enough to win the West as is, and Covington addresses their biggest weakness. They still might not be good enough, but they have given themselves a new lease on life and saved some money.

Atlanta: Absolutely yes.

Capela is the best player in the deal, and his strengths align perfectly with the Hawks’ pre-trade weaknesses.

Minnesota: Sure? The jury will be out until the Timberwolves finish tearing things down and begin rebuilding.

Denver: Yeah, why not?

This is hardly a game-changer, but small wins such as getting a pick for Beasley can add up down the line.

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Guest wonders if second shower gift is necessary Dear Abby, My niece on my husband’s side was engaged to be married two years ago. There was a bridal shower, and everyone gave gifts or gift cards. Two weeks after the shower, the wedding was canceled because of the groom-to-be’s inDEAR ABBY fidelities. The shower gifts and gift cards were never returned nor was anyone reimbursed.

The same niece is getting married to someone else now.

Another shower is being given for her. Everyone on her side of the family is invited. Are we required to give gifts again? Can we attend the shower and not give a gift? Should we all just not attend? Please help.

Already gave once

JEANNE PHILLIPS

Any unopened gifts from the first shower should have been returned to the givers. Because they weren’t, you are not “obligated” to give the bride another gift. However, if you plan to attend this shower, in my opinion, you should not go empty-handed.

Dear Abby, Last week, I was in my college’s cafe, minding

my own business and studying for a test. I looked toward a group of guys that hang out there and made eye contact with a guy friend I’ve known since preschool. He made his way to my table, sat down and we started talking about classes and whatnot. Suddenly, he changed the subject and asked me if I was seeing anyone.

I said no, and he blurted out that he’s in love with me! He said he has loved me for a very long time, that I am perfect in his eyes, and that I’m too harsh and doubt myself. Then he said he wants me to give him a chance.

The thing is, I don’t like him that way and never have. He’s not the type of guy I’m attracted to. How do I go about rejecting him without losing him as a friend?

Friend zone in Washington State

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Tell him the truth — that you like him, too, but only as a friend, and hope he will find someone soon who can reciprocate his romantic feelings.

He may not like the message, but he will respect you for your honesty and for not wasting his time.

Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

Garfield

Spinal cord stimulators have high complication rate I am an 83-year-old African American female who is contemplating having a neurostimulator implanted in my back. I am a noninsulin diabetic, and my last A1C was 6.7. I had a laminectomy with fusion 15 years ago. I have researched the procedure and found many TO YOUR cons as opposed to pros. What GOOD HEALTH are the risks and prognosis?

DR. KEITH ROACH

Spinal cord stimulators have moderate effectiveness for people with persistent pain after surgery.

In studies, stimulators were more likely to give significant pain relief than repeat surgery, and were more effective than standard medical therapy, but the studies may not be applicable for your particular reasons for pain.

Approximately 30% of people will have a complication, such as infection, movement or breakage of the electrical leads, and wound breakdown. They can rarely (less than 1% of the time) cause bleeding, which is an emergency since the spinal cord is a very dangerous place for bleeding.

All my patients who have gone through this have had two procedures: a trial placement (ranging from a few days to a week or so) to determine whether it is helpful, followed by permanent placement if it is.

Spinal cord stimulators should be used only in people with severe pain who are not getting good relief with other treatments, and with full understanding of the relatively high complication rate. People should also know that pain relief can wane over time.

As I understand it, the influenza virus nomenclature is H#N#, where the numbers can be 1 through 9. I may have the letters backward but H defines how the virus enters and N defines how the virus exits the cells.

Here is the stupid question: If we get immunized for all the H1 through H9, why is it necessary to get a flu shot every year? Also, if

we have had an H1 flu, aren’t we immune to further H1 strains regardless how they exit? I am tired of being a pin cushion.

It’s a bit more complicated.

There are 18 subtypes of hemagglutinin, a viral protein that lets the influenza virus attach to target cells, and nine subtypes of neuraminidase, which in addition to opening up the infected target cells to let more flu virus out, allows the virus to move through the mucus in your respiratory tract, making it more effective at causing disease. Certain strains of neuraminidase (N1 and N2) are more virulent than others, even though N3 and N7 may also cause death.

Unfortunately, immunity, whether from natural infection (if you survive) or from the influenza vaccine, is not always long-lasting.

Half of people who were infected with the 2009 H1N1 flu lost their antibodies within six months. On the other hand, survivors of the 1918 (Spanish) flu (also H1N1) continued to have protective antibodies 90 years later, and also had immunity to the 2009 strain. It’s not clear why the immunity lasts so long in some strains and not others.

Even within one particular strain of hemagglutinin, the antibodies produced may or may not provide immunity to other strains. The influenza virus is highly adaptable and variable.

There has, however, been promising work on a “universal” flu vaccine that may solve the problem we all have, which is that being a pin cushion year after year is the only way to ensure up-to-date immunity, and even that immunity is not perfect, as the particular strain circulating doesn’t always match the strain the vaccine was made for.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) — You’re ready to get started on something new, but without the guidance of a friend who’s been in your shoes, you won’t progress quickly.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) — Someone is waiting for you to make the first move, but this is news to you. Don’t spend too much time wondering what’s expected of you — yet.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) — Take care that

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Readers may email questions to ToYourGoodHealth@med.cornell.edu.

Baby Blues

Horoscope

By Stella Wilder Born today, you have no equal when it comes to ideology and personal expression, perhaps, for your way with words is something to behold — persuasive, poetic and even at times magical, for you are able to do with the turn of a phrase what has been impossible to do any other way.

Indeed, doing the impossible is what you are all about; you want to challenge yourself and others to seek new ways to do things, new roads to travel and new goals to set.

You have a unique talent for keeping friends.

It is likely you will be quite close to the same people when you are 80 as you were when you were 20 — and you will surely make more friends than that as you go through life.

Also born on this date are: Bob Marley, reggae singer and musician; Babe Ruth, baseball player; Ronald Reagan, actor, California governor and president; Axl Rose, singer; Rick Astley, singer; Natalie Cole, singer; Kathy Najimy, 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.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7

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you’re not expecting others to believe what is simply unbelievable. You must begin dealing once more in truth, not fantasy!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) — You shouldn’t have to worry about certain issues that you’ve put behind you, at least temporarily. A mentor is able to guide you out of danger.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — There’s such a thing as being too confident — and today, you’re nearing that dangerous boundary. You don’t want to get anyone hurt!

CANCER (June 21-July 22) — A little joke can be too much today if the timing is right and you have misjudged your audience. A more serious approach may be required.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — The difference between the literal and the figurative should be abundantly clear to you today, as you are dealing in both simultaneously.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) — You don’t have to like people to work with them. You should be able to maximize returns by avoiding any emotional involvement whatsoever.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) — Cooperation may be hard to come by today, and you are likely to conclude that for the time being you are best to work entirely on your own.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) — Focus on what others are doing for a while, and you’ll see just where you fall in the scheme of things. You cannot avoid making comparisons.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) — A friend or loved one may be looking to you for solace, and you know just what to say or do. You make an offer that surprises even you!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) — You may be slowed by your outdated way of thinking. You will want to gather more up-to-date information and adjust your attitude.

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SUPER QUIZ

THAT SCRAMBLED WORD GAME

By David L. Hoyt and Jeff Knurek

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

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

European countries Level 1

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Each three-letter word is found in the name of a European country. (e.g., Her. Answer: Netherlands.)

Freshman level 1. Ran 2. Key 3. Man Graduate level 4. Tug 5. Ban 6. Ton PH.D. level 7. Old 8. Men 9. Ten

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

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(Answers tomorrow) Jumbles: TEMPT LOFTY POISON LAWYER Answer: After a long day of shopping, the roommates came home — TOTALLY SPENT

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Solution to Wednesday’s puzzle

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

For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit

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SUPER QUIZ ANSWERS 1. France. 2. Turkey. 3. Germany, Romania. 4. Portugal. 5. Albania. 6. Estonia. 7. Moldova. 8. Armenia. 9. Liechtenstein, Montenegro.

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

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Hi & Lois

Crossword Puzzle Mother Goose & Grimm ACROSS 1 Deadly squeezer 4 Singer Lou __ 9 “Get lost!”

13 Thousand __, CA 15 Hatred 16 Bagel’s center 17 Blender speed 18 Fargo or Reed 19 Go upward 20 Worldwide 22 Mysterious sightings 23 Lunch hour 24 DNA analysis site 26 Valuables 29 Cowboy hats 34 Piece of china 35 Picked 36 Police officer 37 Has a bug 38 Most terrible 39 “If the __ fits, wear it” 40 Last biblical bk.

41 Bakery display 42 Honking birds 43 Shook 45 Flew high 46 Inquire 47 TV’s “Let’s Make a __” 48 __ a test; passed easily 51 Horrifying 56 Soft drink 57 Forgo 58 Christmas carol 60 Actor West 61 Prank 62 Hurricane wind 63 Moniker 64 Bread ingredient 65 FDR’s successor DOWN 1 Gift topper 2 Pearl Harbor’s location

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3 Related 4 Cowboy competitions 5 Decorate 6 Takes first prize 7 __ moth; green insect 8 Dinkiest 9 Bushes 10 Hairdo 11 Additionally 12 Golf pegs 14 Small pianos 21 Cast a ballot 25 Dined 26 Take __; disassemble 27 Craftier 28 Healing balm 29 Grate cheese 30 Fling 31 Dark yellow 32 Loop with a slipknot 33 Miles per hour 35 Rum mixer 38 __ with; steal 39 Making airtight

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Non Sequitur

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41 “Survivor” network 42 Hockey score 44 Soissons señora 45 Opt for 47 Bette or Ossie 48 As straight __ arrow

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49 Concluding musical passage 50 Cheese variety 52 Window piece 53 Stuffed bread 54 Webster or Wyle 55 Becomes firm 59 Permit

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